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The Reverend Canon Edwin Hill was born in 1843 at the Collegiate School in Leicester, where his father, the Reverend Abraham Hill, was Headmaster. He matriculated at St John’s in 1862 and graduated BA 5th Wrangler in 1866. He was elected to the Fellowship of St John’s in 1867 serving until 1890. During this time he was a Steward 1874-5 and Tutor 1875-1889, before moving to Cockfield, Suffolk to take up the post of Rector. He held that position for 40 years, including a period 1901-19 as Rural Dean of Lavenham. He was made Honorary Canon of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in 1914 until his death in 1933.

Hill died in June 1933 at home in Bury St Edmunds. He had never married and left a substantial proportion of his estate St John’s College.
Obituary in The Eagle: Vol 48, Mich 1933, p. 67

B.A. 1702, M.A.1705 (St. John's Coll., Oxon.). Headmaster of Marlborough Free School, 1703-1733.

Yeoman of the wardrobe, 1498-1509.

Youngest child of Ernest Bertram and Isabella Hinde, born on 26 October 1923 in Norwich. He was educated at Oundle's preparatory school followed by Oundle senior school. At the start of the Second World War Hinde signed up for the RAF, and following a length training in Africa, Hinde was posted to a Coastal Command, initially on Catalina flying boats, and then Sunderlands, before being promoted to flight lieutenant (1941-5). Following demobilization, Hinde received an exhibition to St John's College, where he read chemistry, physiology, and zoology; achieving a First in Part II of the Zoology Tripos in 1948. On 11 August the same year, he married Hester Cecily Coutts, who had been studying at Newnham College, Cambridge. They then moved to Oxford where Hinde undertook his DPhil at the Edward Grey Institute, and had four children together (two sons, two daughters). In 1950, Hinde returned to Cambridge at the invitation of William Thorpe to take up the position of curator of the Ornithological Field Station at Madingley, which he retained until 1965. Under Hinde's guidance, Madingley field station evolved as an important centre for the study of behaviour. Hester and Robert Hinde divorced in 1970, and on 7 May 1971 Hinde married Joan Gladys Stevenson, an American psychologist. They had two daughters together, and collaborated on the study of child development.

During his career, Hinde published a vast amount of work, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (1974), Honorary Fellow of the British Academy (2002) and the Royal College of Psychiatrists (1988), foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (1978), and an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1974). He also received awards and medals for his various research. Nevertheless, he was always a devoted member of St John's College, being a Fellow (1951-54, 1958-89, and 1994-2016) and, after retiring from his Royal Society Professorship in 1989, serving as Master (1989-94). He was also made an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford (1986), and Trinity College, Dublin (1990), and received honorary doctorates from from the Université Libre (Brussels, 1974), Université de Paris (Nanterre, 1979), Stirling University (1991), Göteborg University (Sweden, 1991), Edinburgh University (1992), University of Western Ontario (Canada, 1996), and Oxford University (1998). In 1988 he was made a CBE and in 1996 was awarded the royal medal of the Royal Society.

Hinde was not only a dedicated academic, but also recognised the need for a responsible society, and was committed to the peace movement. He became chair and president of the British Pugwash Group and president of the Movement for the Abolition of War. He maintained an academically active life long after his official retirement age, during which period he wrote some of his most socially-important books. He died of prostate cancer at the Arthur Rank Hospice in Great Shelford, Cambridge on 23 December 2016. A memorial service was held in St John's College Chapel on 13 May 2017, and a conference in his honour was organised by the college on 1 June 2018.

Born on 26 November 1918 in Walsall, to Thomas Henry and Emma Hinsley. He was educated at the local elementary school, and then at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall, before winning a scholarship to St John's College to read history. He obtained a First in Part I of the Historical Tripos (1939), but never went on to complete a first or any subsequent degree. After the breakout of the Second World War, Hinsley was recruited into the naval section at the Government Code and Cipher School at Bletchley Park. Here, he became the leading expert on decryption and analysis of German wireless traffic and, after the capture of the German Enigma Code machines and materials, played a vital role in supplying the Admiralty with crucial intelligence analysis derived from Admiral Doenitz's signals, which helped to win the battle against U-boats in the Atlantic. In later life he wrote both official and more personal accounts of the work that had been undertaken at Bletchley Park.

At the conclusion of the war Hinsley returned to St John's College, where he had been elected a research fellow in 1944. On 6 April 1946, Hinsley married Hilary Brett Brett-Smith (Goldsmith's reader in English at Oxford 1939-47), with whom he went on to have three children (2 sons, 1 daughter). He became a university lecturer in history (1949-65), tutor (1956-63) reader in the history of international relations (1965-69), and professor of the history of international relations (1969-83). He also served as President (1975-9) and then Master (1979-89) of St John's College, and in the office of University Vice-Chancellor (1981-3). One of his greatest achievements during his time at Cambridge was the establishment of the research school in the history of international relations in the 1960s and 70s. His research and publications, as well as the research and publications of his PhD students changed the way in which both international relations and their history were studied, and the result was an alteration in the intellectual basis of discussion.

Hinsley was made OBE for his work at Bletchley Park in 1946, was awarded an FBA in 1981, and was also knighted in 1985. He was an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (1981), and Darwin College, Cambridge (1987), and was awarded an Honorary DLitt from Witwatersrand (1985) and DMilSci from Royal Roads Military College, Canada (1987). He died of lung cancer at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, on 16 February 1998.

Henry Hornby was secretary, dean of chapel and chancellor to Lady Margaret Beaufort, and a key figure in the foundation of St. John's College, Cambridge. After graduating D.D. in 1495, Hornby was appointed Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He became Master of Peterhouse in 1509. Other notable appointments include Rector of Burton Bradstock, Dorset (1495-1517); Prebendary of Southwell (1496-1518); Prebendary of Lincoln (1501-1518), Dean of Wimborne, Dorset; and Rector of Orwell (1508-1518).

Adm. sizar to St. John's College, 1709; B.A. 1712-1713, M.A. 1716. Headmaster of Shrewsbury School, 1735-1754, and antiquarian.

Matric. at St. John's College, Michaelmas 1900: B.A. 1903, M.A. 1907. Hebrew Lecturer at St. John's College, 1906-1920, and Precentor and Hebrew Lecturer at Trinity College, 1907-1920. Showed sustained interest in missionary work, serving first as Assistant Missioner of Wellington College Mission, Walworth, 1905-1906, then as Treasurer of the St. John's College Mission, c.1908-1909. How later became Diocesan Missioner of Manchester, 1924-1926.

Richard Howland was admitted as a pensioner at Christ's College on 18 March 1558 but migrated to SJC. He graduated B.A. in 1561. He was elected to the felllowship of Peterhouse in 1562 and proceeded to M.A. in 1564. In 1569, he was presented to the rectory of Stathern, Leicestershire by the Master and fellows of Peterhouse. He was appointed Master of Magdalene College by Lord Burghley in 1576. Howland was tipped to replace John Whitgift as master of Trinity upon Whitgift's resignation but the crown had already selected John Still to replace Whitgift. Howland was chosen to take Still's place as the head of St John's.

He was admitted Master 20 July 1577, finding a college full of religious dissensions but with new statutes. The choice of a successor threatened to involve the college in a fierce internal struggle and it was arranged that Howland should continue to hold the mastership with his bishopric (Peterborough); he resigned in February 1586.

Robert Leslie Howland was born in 1905 to Robert Howland and Mary Helen Turner in Watford. In 1913 the family moved to New York, where he attended the Noble School, before returning to Great Britain to attend a Preparatory School in Dundee, followed by Shrewsbury School.
He matriculated at St John’s in 1924 to read Classics, and graduated BA in 1928. He taught briefly at Eton College, before returning to St John’s after being elected to the Fellowship on 1929. He remained a Fellow the rest of his life. He was appointed Tutor in 1932, and began lecturing at the Classical Faculty two years later. He became a Faculty Assistant Lecturer in 1936 and a University Lecturer in 1938. After serving in the Second World War, he returned to the College and became Senior Proctor 1951-52, Senior Tutor in 1956, and was elected President in 1963. Howland served as Warden of Madingley Hall, succeeding Edward Miller, in 1965 and remained in that post until his retirement in 1975.
Howland was an accomplished shot-putter, having competed for the British National Athletic Team from 1927 to 1939, and representing Great Britain at the Amsterdam Olympics in 1928. In 1950, he won the Cambridgeshire title aged 45.
Howland died in 1986 age 80 leaving two sons and one daughter.

Obituary in The Eagle: Vol 71, 1987, p55
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Author, naturalist, and ornithologist. A founding member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Student and subsequent fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1744 and appointed preacher at Lincoln's Inn in 1765, archdeacon of Gloucester in 1767. Hurd became bishop of Lichfield and Coventry in 1774, and was selected in 1776 to be tutor to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. From 1781 until his death in 1808, he served as Bishop of Worcester, residing chiefly at Hartlebury Castle.

John Hussey was born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and was the son of Sir William Hussey (1443-1495), Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. He was first knighted in 1497 at the Battle of Blackheath and was subsequently promoted to Knight Banneret by Henry VIII at Tournai on 16 August 1513, following a string of other appointments, including Sheriff of Lincolnshire (1493); Comptroller of the Household (1509); and custos rotulorum (1513).

Hussey served as Chief Butler of England from 1521 until his death in 1536/7. He was also Chamberlain to King Henry VIII’s daughter, Mary I of England, and a member of the House of Lords. He was elected as a knight of the shire for Lincolnshire and as Member of Parliament on 6 July 1523. In 1529, he was created Lord Hussey of Sleaford by King Henry VIII.

Hussey was implicated in the 1536 Pilgrimage of Grace and accused of conspiracy against the king. Tried on the charge of treason, he was found guilty by the House of Lords and executed at Lincoln in 1536.

The Reverend John Hymers was born in Omersby, Cleveland in July 1803, where his father occupied a farm on an estate. He was elected to Sizar and matriculated at St John’s in 1822; graduated Second Wrangler in 1826, before being elected Fellow a year later. He was appointed Moderator in the University in 1833 and 1834, and Lady Margaret’s Preacher in 1841. Alongside this, at St John’s he became Assistant Tutor in 1829, Tutor in 1832, and President in 1848.
He was well known for being a strong teacher and getting the best out of his pupils academically. He authored several works on mathematics throughout his lifetime.
Hymers was elected to the Rectory of Brandsburton in Holderness in 1852, where he remained until his death in 1887.
On his death he bequeathed a large sum of money for the foundation of a Grammar School in Hull, to enable academically gifted pupils from any background to receive an education. This led to the foundation of Hymers College in 1893, and is still in existence today.

Obituary in The Eagle: Vol 14, 1887, p398

Matric. at St. John's College, Michaelmas 1895: B.A. 1899, M.A. 1905. Served as College Missioner and Vicar of the Lady Margaret Church, Walworth, 1905-1912.

Giovanni Battista Cybo (or ‘Cibo’) was born in Genoa to an eminent Genoese family. His father, Arano Cybo (c.1375-c.1455) was viceroy of Naples and Giovanni Battista was consequently closely aligned with the Neapolitan court for a good part of his early life. He was consecrated as Bishop of Savona in 1467 by Pope Paul II and was made a cardinal by Pope Sixtus IV in 1473. When Pope Sixtus died in 1484, Giovanni Battista succeeded him as Pope Innocent VIII until his own death in 1492.