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Magdalen College, Cambridge

Magdalene College
The Second Court of Magdalene College, Cambridge
The Second Court of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Magdalene College heraldic shield
University Cambridge University
Location Magdalene Street (map)
Full name The College of Saint Mary Magdalene
Motto Garde ta Foy (Old French)
Motto in English Keep your faith
Founders John Lytlington, Abbot of Crowland (1428)
Thomas, 1st Baron Audley (1542)
Established 1428
Refounded 1542
Named for Mary Magdalene
Previous names Buckingham College (1428–1542)
Sister college Magdalen College, Oxford
Master Rowan Williams
Undergraduates 339
Postgraduates 230
Website www.magd.cam.ac.uk
JCR jcr.magd.cam.ac.uk
MCR mcr.magd.cam.ac.uk
Boat club www.magdaleneboatclub.com

Coordinates: 52°12′37″N 0°6′58″E / 52.21028°N 0.11611°E / 52.21028; 0.11611

Magdalene College (/ˈmɔːdlɪn/ 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 College has some of the grandest benefactors including Britain's premier noble the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Chief Justice Christopher Wray. However the refoundation was largely the work of Thomas Audley, Lord Chancellor under Henry VIII. Audley also gave the college 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.


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