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Magdalene College ( MAWD-lin) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene. Magdalene counted some of the greatest men in the realm among its benefactors, including Britain's premier noble the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Chief Justice Christopher Wray. Thomas Audley, Lord Chancellor under Henry VIII, was responsible for the refoundation of the college and also established its motto—garde ta foy (Old French: "keep your faith"). Audley's successors in the mastership and as benefactors of the college were, however, prone to dire ends; several benefactors were arraigned at various stages on charges of high treason and executed.The college remains one of the smaller in the university, numbering around 400 undergraduate and 200 graduate students. It has maintained strong academic performance over the past decade, achieving an average of ninth in the Tompkins Table and coming second in 2015. Magdalene is home to the Pepys Library, which holds the collection of rare books and manuscripts that belonged to the English diarist Samuel Pepys, an alumnus of the college. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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- Julian Rathbone
- Roger Blandford
- Sheppard Frere
- J. R. Ackerley
- Thomas Cranmer
- Julian Fellowes
- Charles Kingsley
- Charles Kay Ogden
- Igor Judge, Baron Judge
- Stephen Coote
- John McPhee
- Robert Howard
- Charles Madge
- Hugh Broughton
- Leycester Coltman
- I. A. Richards
- Francis Charles Robert Jourdain
- Nicholas Shakespeare
- William Empson
- Robert Keable
- Edward Thurlow Leeds
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