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| This is a lovely old postcard of Magdalene - no date. |
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| Magdalene College was founded in about 1428 as a hostel for Benedictine student monks on a site just north of the river. For a time it was known as Buckingham College, but after being refounded in 1542 it took the name of the College of St Mary Magdalene. It is one of the smaller colleges of the university, with just over 300 undergraduates. |
| Thomas Cranmer, later Archbishop of Canterbury, was a lecturer at Magdalene in 1515. |
| The Pepysian Library. |
| Samuel Pepys bequeathed his diaries to Magdalene - they are stored in the Pepys Library, which he also donated to the college. Pepys was a student at Magdalene, although his drinking seems to have caused him a problem with the authorities ! |
| Note the incorrect spelling on the postcard above. The final "e" in Magdalene was added in the mid-19th century to distinguish the college from Magdalen College, Oxford. |
| Former Magdalene students include Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, T S Eliot, C S Lewis and Seamus Heaney. |
| As always we welcome your contributions to this page - your memories of Magdalene, facts and figures, and of course old postcards - just email us a good image ! |
| Other notable alumni include Sir Michael Redgrave, actor; George Mallory, the mountaineer who died on Everest; Arthur Tedder, Marshal of the RAF; John Simpson, journalist and broadcaster; Bamber Gascoigne, TV presenter of University Challenge; Norman Hartnell, fashion designer. |
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| A postcard mailed in 1918. |
| Another view of the Pepysian Library. |
| Reproductions of postcards with a (Z) following the description are available to buy from Zazzle - just click on the (Z) ! |
