An Amiable Chap, with Many Interests but Few Achievements: Cambridge, October 1909 to June 1912

Tedder went up to Magdalene College, Cambridge, in October 1909, to read History. One of the poorest and smallest colleges (only 90 undergraduates in 1909), Magdalene nevertheless offered two advantages from which Tedder benefited greatly. One was a tradition, as the Master told freshmen on 12 October, ‘that everyone should know everyone else, and there should be no cliques’; the other was the teaching – and better still, the guidance and affection – he received from A. C. Benson and F. R. Salter throughout his four years there.