The following have served as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
- 1544-1546 Robert Evans
- 1546-1559 Richard Carr
- 1559-1576 Roger Kelke
- 1576-1577 Richard Howland
- 1577-1582 Degory Nicholls
- 1582-1593 Thomas Nevile
- 1593-1595 Richard Clayton
- 1595-1604 John Palmer
- 1604-1626 Barnaby Goche
- 1626-1642 Henry Smyth
- 1642-1650 Edward Rainbow
- 1650-1660 John Sadler
- 1660-1664 Edward Rainbow
- 1664-1668 John Howorth
- 1668-1679 James Duport
- 1679-1690 John Peachell
- 1690-1713 Gabriel Quadring
- 1713-1740 Daniel Waterland
- 1740-1746 Edward Abbott
- 1746-1760 Thomas Chapman
- 1760-1774 George Sandby
- 1774-1781 Barton Wallop
- 1781-1797 Peter Peckard
- 1797-1813 William Gretton
- 1813-1853 George Neville Grenville
- 1853-1904 Latimer Neville, later also Visitor
- 1904-1915 Stuart Alexander Donaldson
- 1915-1925 Arthur Christopher Benson
- 1925-1947 Allen Beville Ramsay
- 1947-1966 Henry Urmston Willink,
- 1966-1978 Walter Hamilton
- 1978-1985 Sir Derman Christopherson
- 1985-1994 Sir David Charles Calcutt,
- 1994-2002 Sir John Gurdon
- 2002-2012 Duncan Robinson,
- 2013- Rowan Williams
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, masters, magdalene and/or cambridge:
“Love’s boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it’s useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.”
—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)
“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Ballades by the score with the same old thought:
The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;
And what is love but a rose that fades?”
—Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)
“He is not here; for he has been raised, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 28:6.
Angel to Mary Magdalene and the other Mary.
“If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war?—not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)