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Manager of the 1968 Henley Crew for the Kent School

Rowed stroke for the Jesus College 1934 Lent Crew.

John Death was born in 1818 in Lakenheath, the son of Walter (a schoolmaster) and his wife Ann.

In 1841 he married Caroline Apthorpe and by 1851 was living with her in Malcolm Street .

In 1803 the Fellows of Jesus College had built themselves stables in the close which backed onto stables belonging to Beaumont Prior [who had a lease of No. 31 Jesus Lane]. The Fellows didn’t use them for long and soon let them to John Death who ran them and made his fortune. He employed 7 men at the stables and was also a farmer of 150 acres. He later moved to Poplar House, 52 King Street. However, the coming of trams, bicycles and cars saw the decline of the stables and they became derelict remaining so until sold to the Methodist Church in 1922.

John Death was a Parish Councillor and served four terms as Mayor of Cambridge - 1873-74, 1874-75, 1880-81 and 1881-82. During his second term in office he laid the foundation stone for the Cambridge Corn Exchange which was opened on 6 November 1874 and his name is on the building today.

“A promenade concert was held on 8 November featuring the Coldstream Guards and a local choral society. A mistake was made during the playing of the national anthem and later, rioters attacked the mayor’s house. The following trial attracted the world’s press and resulted in crowds of sightseers to the building, interfering with the corn trading.’ [Cambridge Mayors https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/media/j2fotixm/cambridge-mayors.pdf]

He died aged 78, and left an estate valued at £49,298 10s 10d.

De Telegraaf (English: The Telegraph) is the largest Dutch daily morning newspaper. Paul Jansen has been the editor-in-chief since August 2015. De Telegraaf is based in Amsterdam and is owned by the Belgian company Mediahuis.

History

Advertisement poster, 1898
19th century
De Telegraaf was founded by Henry Tindal, who simultaneously started another paper De Courant (lit. 'The Gazette'). The first issue appeared on 1 January 1893.

20th century
Following Tindal's death on 31 January 1902 the printer HMC Holdert, with backing from financiers, took over De Telegraaf and De Courant on 12 September 1902. This proved to be a good investment, particularly with regard to De Courant, enabling Holdert between 1903 and 1923 to take over one newspaper after another, suspending publication as he went. He added the name Amsterdamsche Courant ("Amsterdam Gazette") as a subtitle to De Telegraaf, and Het Nieuws van den Dag ("The News of the Day") to De Courant.

During World War I, when the Netherlands was officially neutral, Holdert's French sympathies and his pro-British standpoint caused De Telegraaf to be the focus of some controversy, as the Netherlands were usually pro-German at the time.

In 1926, Holdert began construction of a new printing facility at the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam, designed by J. F. Staal and G. J. Langhout. Construction was completed and the building occupied in 1930.

During World War II, the Telegraaf companies published pro-Nazi German papers, which led to a thirty-year ban on publishing after the war. The prohibition was lifted in 1949 and De Telegraaf flourished anew to become the biggest newspaper in the Netherlands.

At one point, in June 1966, the Telegraaf building was besieged by angry construction workers and Provo followers, after a false report that a victim of a labour dispute had been killed not by the police but by a co-worker. In 1974, De Telegraaf moved to a new location on the Basisweg.

In 1995–1996 De Telegraaf had a circulation of 760,000 copies, making it the best-selling paper in the country.

De Courant/Nieuws van de Dag ceased publication in 1998. In 1999, the circulation of the paper was 808,000 copies, making it the ninth best-selling European newspaper.

21st century
De Telegraaf was the eighth top European newspaper with a circulation of 807,000 copies in 2001.[5] It added a Sunday edition on 21 March 2004. The Sunday edition was dropped on 27 December 2009. Circulation was 488,902 copies in 2013.[6] De Telegraaf changed from broadsheet to compact format in October 2014. In 2014, was 455,727, dropping to 430,686 in 2015. Distribution had been reduced to 393,537 in 2017.

On 26 June 2018, a delivery van intentionally rammed into the office building of De Telegraaf, catching fire afterwards which was probably started by the driver who made his getaway with another car. The building took considerable damage. Police believe the attack was done within organized crime circles; four days earlier the building of Panorama was also a target, possibly because both publications write about serious crime.

Editorial content
The newspaper contains many sensational and sports-related articles, and one or more pages supplied by the gossip-magazine Privé ("Private"). The financial news coverage is more serious in tone. The paper targets a broad audience, mostly in a conservative and populist style.

Rowed in Number 3 position on the winning team for Kent School, Connecticut, in the Thames Challenge Cup, 1947