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King of Scotland 1153-1165; Earl of Huntingdon 1157-1165.

Vicar of All Saints Church, Cambridge

Rowed number 2 for Cambridge in the 1949 Boat Race. Attended St John's College, Cambridge.

Edward Dacre Mackie was born on 9 April 1868 at Wakefield and attended Harrow school. He came up to Jesus College in 1888 receiving a B.A. in 1890. He became a solicitor in 1894, practising at Wakefield. He served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Pte., Sportsmen's Batt., R. Fusiliers). Of Chelston, Torquay, in 1911.
He died on 27 January 1927.

Rowed Stroke for the Jesus College 1944 Lent Crew.

Kenneth Gerald Powell Mackenzie (“Gerald”) was born on 8 July 1924. His father was Provost of Lewis and worked in the Harris tweed business. A Shrewsbury schoolboy, Gerald studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, and continued his training in medicine at Guy’s. He was resident medical officer at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and then registrar at the National Heart Hospital. He worked in general practice at Bawtry in Yorkshire and at Probus in Cornwall. He was a keen musician, oarsman, fisherman, and antiquary. A contestant of the Mastermind competition, he was chairman of the Mastermind Contestants Association and set questions for the quiz. He married Doreen Inch, and she with their twins, Alasdair and Victoria, and their daughter, Charlotte, survive him. Known as Jock or Doctor Mac, he died on 30 March 2008, and his ashes are interred with those of his parents in Lewis.

Gregor MacGregor was born on 31 August 1869 in Edinburgh. He came up to Jesus College in 1887 and received a BA in 1892. While at College he played cricket and became Captain in 1891, while also playing Rugby. He went on to play Rugby football for Scotland in 1890-91, and cricket for England in 1890. He became a stock broker on the London Stock Exchange and died on 20 August 1919.

Rowed number 4 for the Kent School, Connecticut, 1948 Henley Crew.

Laurie Gwatkin McAlpine came up to Jesus College in 1937 and gained a third class degree in Botany in 1940. After Cambridge, he joined the army as a gunner in the Royal Artillery. He was killed in action on 13 July 1944, aged 26, and is buried in the La Delivrande War Cemetery at Douvres, Normandy.

Rowed number 7 for Cambridge in the 1949 Boat Race.

Odhams, David Valentine Lynch, son of Ernest Lynch Odhams, BBC employee, and Frances Louise, d. of Lancelot Crozier of Delhi; b. 4 Mar. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (R); left July 1939; RNVR 1939-45 (Lieut.); Jesus Coll. Camb., matric. 1946, rowed against Oxford 1949, BA 1949, MA 1953; Bird & Co. Calcutta, later Vancouver Wharves Ltd, BC, Canada; m. 30 Aug. 1952 Fay, d. of Norman Henry Anderson Jordan of Bridlington, Yorks; d. 6 Aug. 2007

Marmaduke Lumley, LL.B., Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1425-1427, later Treasurer of England, Bishop of Carlisle (1430-1449) and Bishop of Lincoln (1449-50)

Bowman for Cambridge in the 1949 Boat Race.

Geoffrey Stuart Stephen Ludford (February 2, 1928 – December 11, 1986) was an applied mathematician who worked in the field of fluid dynamics, combustion and magnetohydrodynamics.

Biography
Geoffrey S. S. Ludford grew up in London. He earned his bachelors degree at the University of Cambridge at the age of 20 in 1948. He started his graduate studies at Cambridge with Leslie Howarth, however moved to Harvard University to work under the supervision of Richard von Mises. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1951 at the age of 23 under the supervision of von Mises, although all his degree were still conferred from the University of Cambridge. After this, he joined the faculty of University of Maryland. In 1961, he moved to Cornell University.

Books
Geoffrey S. S. Ludford completed Richard von Mises book on compressible flow following the death of the latter, along with the help of Hilda Geiringer, a mathematician and the wife of Richard von Mises. His published books are

Richard von Mises, Hilda Geiringer, G. S. S. Ludford (1958). Mathematical theory of compressible fluid flow. Academic press. ISBN 978-0486439419.
John D. Buckmaster, G. S. S. Ludford (1982). Theory of laminar flames. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521091923.
John D. Buckmaster, G. S. S. Ludford (1983). Lectures on mathematical combustion. SIAM. ISBN 978-0898711868.
G. S. S. Ludford (Eds) (1986). Reacting flows: Combustion and chemical reactors Part 1. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0821811276.
G. S. S. Ludford (Eds) (1986). Reacting flows: Combustion and chemical reactors Part 2. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0821811283.
Awards and honours
The NATO advanced research workshop titled Colloque sur la Modélisation Mathématique en Combustion et ses Applications, was conducted in 1986 in Lyon in honor of Geoffrey S. S. Ludford. The workshop contributions are published in a book by Springer in 1988.[4] Some of Geoffrey's awards include

Guggenheim Fellowship (1957) from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Alexander von Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist Award
Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society