Jesus College Record 2022

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RECORD 2022

Contents
The Principal’s Welcome 3
Fellows & College Lecturers 18
Non-Academic Staff List 29
Fellows’ & Lecturers’ News 33
The Fowler Lecture 2022 47
A Time of Celebration and Gratitude 49
Events at the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub 55
Public and Private: The Principal’s Lodgings of Jesus College 59
Cryptocurrencies and Ancient Athens 73
The Descent of Man 77
Coffee with Hitler: The Jesus Connection 78
The ‘Lost’ Islands of Cardigan Bay 84
Chaucer’s Wife of Bath: A New Biography 89
A. F. Pollard: A Historian to Celebrate at Jesus 93
The Lure of Textiles 103
A Tribute to Fred Taylor 106
Shakespeare’s Second Folio at Jesus College 113
The Anthony Pilkington Memorial Bursary 120
If You Think You Can…You Can! 122
Wartime Shakespeare 129
College People 132
The Year in the JCR 136
The Year in the MCR 140
The Year In Access 142
The Year in Development 145
Alumni Events 148
The Year in Chapel 150
Cultural, Sporting and Travel Awards 154
Travel Awards Reports 157
Sports & Club Reports 169
Prizes, Awards, Elections & Doctorates 2021-22 176
Old Members’ Obituaries and Memorial Notices 185
Selected Publications 203
Honours, Awards and Qualifications 211
Appointments, Births, Marriages & Civil Partnerships 212
In Memoriam 216
Useful Information 220
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Photo by Richard Legge
The Principal’s Welcome
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt FRS FREng FBCS
At this time of year, when the
days are short and the
weather cold, it is a comfort
to think back to halcyon
summer months in College
– a time when the cheers of
joyful Finalists celebrating the
end of their exams echoed
through the quads, and our
flowering borders were at
their most beautiful.
It was in the heat of a late July
afternoon that members of
College, past and present,
came together to celebrate
the dedication of the new
Fourth Quad in honour of our
Welsh Access Fund, and the gift to College of £1m by alumnus
Oliver Thomas (2000, Economics and Management) and his
family. As the sun shone brightly over the then nearly completed
Cheng Yu Tung Building, and the Band of The Prince of Wales
played, we welcomed to this wonderful new space many of
those whose generosity to College over the past decade had
helped us reach this momentous day. It was my honour as
Principal to say thank you to our guests, and also to describe the
College’s vision for how the quad, and our new building more
generally, will transform academic life for our community in the
decades to come.
Left: Dedication of the Welsh Access Fund Fourth Quad.
Photo: John Cairns
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In October, I had the pleasure of standing alongside Dr Henry
Cheng Kar Shun whose transformative philanthropic gift of
£15m allowed us to cut the ribbon on the building that is named
in his father’s honour, and the new Digital Hub named after
Dr Cheng himself. As Director of Development Brittany
Wellner James describes on page 49, invited guests enjoyed a
wonderful afternoon of tours, music, canapés, and drinks,
followed by a candlelit dinner in the Hall. It was a truly
memorable occasion, enriched by great company, and the
exceptional hard work of the College’s staff, who made it such a
success.
The ongoing war in Ukraine prompted an exceptional
fundraising effort from the Jesus community in May, when we
launched the Ukrainian Student Support Fund, in partnership
The Principal,
Lady Shadbolt,
and Dr Henry
Cheng Kar Shun.
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with the University’s Graduate Scholarship Scheme for Ukraine
Refugees. The Fund, which quickly exceeded its £25k target,
enabled Jesus to welcome, at the start of Michaelmas, a
Ukrainian graduate student for a one-year Master’s course. As
we witnessed during the pandemic, both the University and the
College demonstrated an ability to respond quickly and
effectively to an emerging crisis, and I extend my gratitude to all
those who gave to this important cause.
Through the British Academy’s Researchers at Risk programme,
Jesus also welcomed an academic from Ukraine. Professor
Svitlana Slava joined us as a Supernumerary Fellow. She was one
of many new Fellows to join College in a year that saw the
Fellowship grow and strengthen across academic disciplines.
Ben Goldacre was elected to a Professorial Fellowship as the
first Bennett Professor of Evidence-Based
Medicine, and amongst those joining our
Ukrainian colleague as Supernumerary
Fellows, we welcomed Roxana Radu,
David d’Avray and Samantha-Kaye
Johnston. Samantha-Kaye’s research
focuses on technology and education,
particularly assessing skills and
dispositions that support digital
intelligence, aptitude, and competence
among young people.
Dr Samantha-Kaye
Johnston, Supernumerary
Fellow in Education.
We were delighted to appoint two new Tutorial Fellows:
Ricardo Rocha in Biology and Matthew Kerry in History, while
John Powell, Tatjana Sauka-Spengler and Catherine Molyneux
were elected as Senior Research Fellows. John is Professor of
Digital Health Care at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care
Health Sciences, and his work examines how digital technology
can be harnessed to improve health and health care. Nadine
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Dr Katharina Ereky-Stevens, Junior
Research Fellow in Education.
Akkerman joined College from
the Leiden University Centre for
the Arts & Society as Visiting
Senior Research Fellow. Her
research explores early modern
manuscript culture and mediated
authorship, and, intriguingly, the
dark world of espionage.
The most significant area of
growth in the Fellowship this
year was the election of five new
Hugh Price Fellows, and seven
Junior Research Fellows (JRF),
covering a range of disciplines
from Materials Science to
Regenerative Medicine, Geography to Neurobiology. Moreed
Arbabzadah joins us as Hugh Price Fellow in Celtic History, and
is working on the Writings of Gerald of Wales project, led by
Thomas Charles-Edwards, Emeritus Fellow and former
Professor of Celtic. Katharina Ereky-Stevens is Sylva-Chan JRF in
Education, a new JRF post made possible by a gift from alumna
Dr Lydia L.S Chan, and named in honour of Emeritus Fellow
Kathy Sylva. Katharina is a member of the Department for
Education’s Child Development and Learning research group.
She’s conducting research to understand the quality of young
children’s relationships and interactions with caregivers, and she
has a particular interest in the provision of support for
disadvantaged families and their young children.
During the year, we shared many stories of Jesus teaching and
research successes, starting in January with the news that our
Jesus Access YouTube channel had become the largest, and
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David Ambler.
most viewed, across Oxbridge. The popularity of the channel is
due in large part to Access Fellow and Tutor in Politics Matthew
Williams, whose engaging and informative videos on student life
at Oxford, the applications and interview process and subject
advice, are helping to demystify the University for a whole new
generation of prospective students. A month later, Matthew
published a new book, Judges and the Language of Law – Why
Governments Across the World Have Increasingly Lost in Court
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), based on his research into the
changing language of legislation over the past century, and why
the judiciary has become more involved in disputes around
public policy and legislation.
Also in February, we launched a Jesus Entrepreneurs Network
(JEN) series titled ‘How we built this’. JEN continues to grow and
innovate, with this popular online series showcasing College
alumni who have created and built successful businesses, and
discussing the entrepreneurial challenges they faced. March
began with news that Standa Zivny, Tutor in
Computer Science, had been awarded a five-year
£2m ERC Consolidation Grant for a research
project on the computational complexity of
constraint satisfaction problems. The month
ended with exciting news when Master’s student
David Ambler was announced as part of the
men’s crew for the Boat Race 2022. I was
fortunate to attend the race and celebrated
with those in College and across the University as
the Isis crew went on to beat Cambridge on
the Tideway.
Patricia Daley was awarded an Honorary
Fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society in
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May, and we announced our participation in the inaugural
Astrophoria Foundation Year (AFY). The AFY is a University
initiative that provides a one‐year residential course to help able
students from disadvantaged backgrounds to raise their
academic standards and apply successfully to Oxford. The
College is delighted to be a part of the new initiative, which
builds on our already exceptional access and outreach work,
and our participation continues in the year ahead.
In June, the NHS Northgate Health Centre opened on the
lower ground floor of our new building. This accessible and
spacious new healthcare centre combines three local GP
practices under one roof, and College staff were delighted to
join the Practice Managers, GPs and staff for its formal opening
in October. August saw the Royal Society recognise two College
Fellows with prestigious awards. Emeritus Fellow Richard
Moxon, founder of the Oxford Vaccine Group, received the
Buchanan Medal for his contribution to the biomedical sciences,
and Professorial Fellow Ray Pierrehumbert received the
Rumford Medal for his “contributions to atmospheric physics,
employing fundamental principles of physics to elucidate
phenomena across the spectrum of planetary atmospheres”.
Elsewhere, Senior Research Fellow Philip Burrows was elected
Chair of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider
Collaboration Board, and Zeitlyn Fellow Caroline Warman was
jointly awarded the Society of French Studies prestigious
R. Gapper Book Prize for her book, The Atheist’s Bible: Diderot
and the Éléments de physiologie (Open Book Publishing, 2020).
In ‘The Year in the JCR’ (page 136), JCR President Eoin Hanlon
reports on the sense of joy and enthusiasm with which our
undergraduates have embraced the return to a more normal
College life after the challenging days of the pandemic. Garden
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Our JCR student ambassadors welcome new Jesubites on Freshers’ Arrival Day
in late September.
parties, cocktail dances and intercollegiate bops returned with
renewed vigour, and the Somerville-Jesus Ball saw the
Somerville grounds transformed into a dreamscape worthy of
an Evelyn Waugh novel. In sports, the JCR and MCR had more
than a dozen Blues in rugby, football and rowing, and new
societies and clubs were created, including the Henry Vaughan
Poetry Society, the Jesus Journalism Society, and the Gardening
Club, founded in collaboration with the MCR.
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In his report (page 140), MCR President Paul Davis echoes his
JCR counterpart in celebrating the richness and variety of
student life this year, with headline events such as exchange
formals, film and board game nights, and welfare teas all back,
and as popular as ever. He writes: “The Jesus MCR continues to
be a resilient, lively community. We are grateful to all the people
in College whose efforts to provide us with spaces, support,
and advice make our activities possible.”
The post-pandemic resumption of normal College life, with its
rich variety of events, has been a joy. It has been exhilarating, if
hectic, to teach and research face to face once again, to attend
Jesus College
Gardening Club
members prepare
the ground for a
new vegetable
plot at Stevens
Close.
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lectures, dinners, sporting events, musical and cultural activities,
or simply enjoy the contemplation afforded by Evensong with
our brilliant choir. Bev and I have been able to welcome
students, fellows, and friends back into the Lodgings, reminding
ourselves of the rich and diverse talents of our community.
It is especially heartening to learn how our students’
commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and
environmental sustainability, reflects that of the wider College
as we begin a new chapter in our history. At the time of writing,
we are finalising Jesus’ new Strategic Plan, and these themes are
integral to our ambitions for the next five years. Our students
led the way in celebrating our diversity, with celebrations of the
Lunar New Year, Nowruz, and Eid ul Fitr. The JCR Equal
Opportunities Officer, Shathuki Perera, organised International
and BME brunches and picnics, and a Sri Lanka-themed
International Hall. During Freshers’ Week, the MCR Equality
and Diversity Officer created safe spaces for new and returning
students from diverse communities to share their experiences.
Academically, our students once again performed incredibly
well, with Han Xian (Chemistry), Zhihe Lei (Chemistry) and
Shucheng Li (Mathematics) all receiving Annual Fund Prizes for
top performance in First Public Examinations, and Alex Tatomir
(Computer Science) nominated for the Davies Prize for the
most outstanding performance in a Final Honours School, and
awarded the Department of Computer Science’s Gibbs Project
Prize for Part C in Computer Science. 27 Jesus Finalists were
awarded Firsts, and 32 undergraduates received Distinctions in
their Prelims. At graduate level, 23 students were awarded
Graduate Distinctions, and 16 were awarded Doctorates. Given
the impact of the pandemic on study over the past two years,
our academic results were truly impressive, and I congratulate
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all Jesus students for their
achievements in spite of the
challenging circumstances
they have faced.
With the term-time ‘Cheng
Kar Shun Digital Hub at
Jesus College’ programme
now fully established, it is
fantastic to see Jesus
students embracing the
opportunity to create and
develop innovative activities
for this dynamic new
College space. As Digital
Hub Coordinator Will
McBain reports (page 55),
the Hub recently opened its
doors for our first public
Psychology undergraduates celebrating the
end of Prelims outside the Radcliffe
Camera.
events. Following the sold-out book launch for Vili Lehdonvirta’s
Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and
how we can regain control (MIT Press, 2022), November saw the
Hub host a unique evening of activities on ‘A History of Gaming’.
The event, led by Paul Davis, included a lively panel discussion
with three gaming industry experts, examining how video
gaming drives technological change, and asked what it can teach
academia, museums and the media. Guests enjoyed the
opportunity to play on a range of consoles and games from the
1970s to the present day, and the pristine white walls of the Hub
became screens onto which the games were projected. The
event proved hugely popular with academics, students, and the
general public alike, and demonstrated our ambition to present
Jesus as an outward-facing Oxford College.
Left: Students enjoyed a range of traditional dishes
at the Sri Lankan International Dinner.
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As well as celebration, this was also a year in which we
experienced profound sadness. The death of Her Late Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II in September, following so closely after the
commemoration of her Platinum Jubilee, was felt deeply by our
community. In College, and across Oxford, Union flags flew at
half-mast, and current members lined up to sign a Book of
Condolence which was placed in the Chapel. The sad news
prompted many recollections from alumni and staff of Her Late
Majesty’s visit to open Stevens Close in March 1976.
This year we also mourned the loss of a number of much-loved
and respected Fellows. Emeritus Fellow John Walsh died in
November 2022. John joined Jesus as a Fellow and Tutor in
MCR President Paul Davis (far right) with History of Gaming speakers (L-R) Patrick Moran (Curator of the
Barbican Centre’s ‘Virtual Realms’ Exhibition), Elle Osili-Wood (Presenter, broadcaster and host of the BAFTA
Game Awards) and Chris Kingsley OBE (Co-Founder of Rebellion Games and Chair of the TIGA Education).
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The late Professor
Fred Taylor,
Emeritus Fellow of
Jesus College.
History in 1958, and was a highly regarded scholar
on the Church of England and Methodism in the
eighteenth century. He also served as Dean, Fellow
Librarian and Editor of the Jesus College Record. He
was an outstanding Tutorial Fellow, and many
former students came forward to share their
memories of being taught by John, remembering
him as a wonderfully kind and inspirational tutor.
The College will fundraise for an endowed
Undergraduate Bursary in History in John’s name in
2023. If you would like to support the bursary or
hear more about this new fund, please email
brittany.wellnerjames@jesus.ox.ac.uk.
In this edition, Jesus colleagues also pay tribute to another
Emeritus Fellow – Fred Taylor – who passed away in December
2021 (page 106). Fred joined the Department of Physics and
Jesus College in 1966 as a DPhil student, under the supervision
of the renowned Sir John Houghton. He was an extremely
gifted and accomplished scientist but, as Rich Grenyer
remembers, he “wore his learning very lightly and was always
delighted to talk about life, the universe and everything else”.
I also extend my condolences to the family of alumnus and
Honorary Fellow Alec Monk (1962, PPE). Alec contributed
greatly to the life of the College, not least during the financial
decision-making process for the purchase of the Northgate site
on which our new building now stands. Alec, alongside fellow
alumnus Rodney Wright, was also at the forefront of the
Ukrainian Student Support Fund campaign. He was a keen and
loyal member of the College, and his presence is missed by us
all, as is that of another Honorary Fellow, Sir Christopher
Foster, who died in February.
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Christopher was a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus from 1959 to
1964, and an Official Fellow & Tutor in Economics from 1964 to
1966. His academic career was spent at Oxford, MIT and LSE,
and he was a consultant at Coopers & Lybrand and PwC. He
was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the College in 1992.
Most recently, we mourned the death of Hamish Scott, Senior
Research Fellow in History, who passed away in December.
Hamish, a brilliant scholar in early modern European history,
was a highly valued member of College and loved equally by
both his students and fellow academics. As one colleague
remarks, “What a loss. He was one of the kindest and most
generous scholars I have known”.
No edition of the Record comes without saying
thank you and farewell to colleagues and
friends whose academic talents reach far
beyond Jesus. I would like to extend my
gratitude and best wishes to a number of
departing Fellows; Patricia Clavin, Marion
Turner, Sarah Rugheimer, Will Ghosh, Paul
Collins, Jacob Currie, Suchandrima Das and
Talita Dias. Both Patricia and Marion have
moved on to Statutory Professorships, the
most senior academic grade at Oxford.
Statutory Professorships are established in the
University Regulations and associated with
specific Colleges. Patricia now holds the
Statutory Chair in Modern History and is
associated with Worcester College, while
Marion has become the JRR Tolkien Professor
of English Literature and Language, a Statutory
Professorship associated with Lady Margaret
Career
Development Fellow
in Engineering
Suchandrima Das.
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Hall. I would also like to thank Rosalyn Green, former Official
Fellow and Director of HR, for all her work in support of our
staff over the past nine years.
Jesus is renowned for its welcoming and friendly atmosphere,
and a highly professional approach to how we look after our
community, our visitors, and how we deliver our academic and
operational services. This reputation is in large part due to
Jesus’ dedicated support staff who once again, across the year,
demonstrated their ability to be agile and responsive to changing
circumstances, particularly with the expansion of the historic
site to include our new building. With an additional 7,900m² of
space to manage, maintain, clean and a range of new activities to
organise and cater for, the staff of the Accommodation,
Catering and Conferencing Office really came in to their own.
I would like to thank each and every one of them for their hard
work, and more widely, all our committed support staff who
continued to ensure the smooth running of the College over the
past 12 months.
The current cost-of-living crisis, caused by both global events
and political disruption on the domestic front, remains a
concern for us all. In considering the year ahead, and the
College’s next five-year strategic plan, we will need to draw on
the strengths and resources that define our community. The
Jesus community is resilient and generous of spirit, and we
perhaps show our greatest strength in the most difficult of
times. Therefore, I end this report by thanking all of you for
your unswerving support to College, now and in the future, and
look forward to welcoming you back soon.
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Fellows and College Lecturers
Visitor
The Rt Hon The Earl of Pembroke
Principal
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, MA (BA Newc; PhD Edin; Hon DSc Nott,
Trinity Saint David), FRS, FREng, FBCS
Fellows
1988 Katrin Kohl, MA (BA, MA, PhD Lond), Vice-Principal and Tutor in
German, Professor of German Literature
1991 Patricia Daley, MA, DPhil (BSc Middx; MA Lond), Equality and
Diversity Fellow, Helen Morag Fellow and Tutor in Geography and
Professor of the Human Geography of Africa
1993 Mark Brouard, MA, DPhil, Helen Morag Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry
and Professor of Chemistry
1999 Andrew Dancer, MA, DPhil, Keeper of the Plate, John Thomason
Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics and Professor of Mathematics
2000 Stuart White, BA, MPhil (PhD Princeton), Nicholas Drake Fellow and
Tutor in Politics
2000 Armand D’Angour, MA (PhD Lond), ARCM, Editor of The College
Record and Communications Fellow, Tutor in Classics and Professor
of Classics
2003 Paulina Kewes, MA, DPhil (MA Gdansk), Helen Morag Fellow and
Tutor in English Literature and Professor of English Literature
2018 Jane Sherwood, MA, DPhil, Supernumerary Fellow
2004 Shankar Srinivas (BSc Hyderabad, India; MA, MPhil, PhD Columbia
University, New York), Zeitlyn Fellow and Tutor in Medicine,
Professor of Developmental Biology
2004 James Tilley, BA, DPhil, Tutor in Politics and Professor of Political
Science
2005 Caroline Warman, MA (MA Cantab; PhD Lond), Welfare Fellow,
Zeitlyn Fellow and Tutor in French and Professor of French Literature
and Thought
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2005 Suzanne Aspden, MA, MSt, DPhil (BA, BMus, MMus Victoria
University of Wellington, New Zealand), Tutor in Music
2021 Graham Taylor, MA, DPhil, Senior Research Fellow and Professor of
Mathematical Biology
2006 Philip Burrows, MA, DPhil, FInstP, Steward of SCR, Senior Research
Fellow in Physics and Professor of Physics
2021 Yvonne Jones, BA, DPhil, FRS, FMedSci, FLSW, Professorial Fellow
and Sir Andrew McMichael Professor of Structural Immunology
2007 John Magorrian, DPhil (BSc Belf), Helen Morag Fellow and Tutor in
Physics
2007 Martin Booth, MEng, DPhil, Senior Research Fellow in Engineering
Science and Professor of Engineering Science
2008 James Oliver, BA, MSc, DPhil, Helen Morag Fellow and Tutor in
Mathematics
2008 Susan Doran, BA (PhD Lond), FRHS, Senior Research Fellow in
History and Professor of Early Modern British History
2013 Kylie Vincent (BSc, BA, PhD Melbourne), Tutor in Chemistry and
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
2009 Samu Niskanen (PhL, MA, PhD Helsinki), Hugh Price Fellow in History
2009 Alexandra Lumbers, DPhil (BA, MA S’ton), Academic Director
2009 Péter Esö (BA Budapest; MA, PhD Harvard), Roger Hugh Fellow and
Tutor in Economics
2009 Edward Anderson, BA (PhD Cantab), Tutor in Organic Chemistry and
Professor of Organic Chemistry
2010 Timothy Palmer, CBE, DSc, DPhil (BSc Brist), FRS, Professorial Fellow
and Royal Society Anniversary Research Professor
2010 Richard Grenyer (BSc, MSc, PhD Lond), Garden Master, Paul
Paget-Colin Clarke Fellow and Tutor in Physical Geography
2010 Georg Holländer (MD Basel), Professorial Fellow and Hoffmann and
Action Medical Research Professor of Developmental Medicine
2011 Simon Douglas, BCL, MPhil, DPhil (LLB Liv), Legal Clerk and Peter
Clarke Fellow and Tutor in Law
2011 Alexandra Gajda, MA, DPhil, John Walsh Fellow and Tutor in Early
Modern History
2011 Paul Riley (BSc Leeds; PhD Lond), FMedSci, Professorial Fellow and
Professor of Development and Cell Biology
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2011 Yulin Chen (BS University of Science and Technology of China; PhD
Stanford), Tutor in Physics and Professor of Physics
2012 Christine Fairchild (BA Connecticut College), Hugh Price Fellow
2012 Paul Goffin, MA (BSc De Mont; MSc Bath), FRICS, Professorial Fellow
2013 Timothy Coulson (BSc York; PhD Lond), Professorial Fellow and
Professor of Zoology
2013 Ruedi Baumann, MA, Director of Accommodation, Catering &
Conferences
2013 Robin Evans (MA, MMath Cantab; PhD Washington, Seattle),
Secretary to the Governing Body, Robert Kay Fellow and Tutor in
Statistics
2013 Stephen Morris (MPhys S’ton; PhD Cantab), Ana Leaf Foundation
Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science and Professor of Engineering
Science
2013 Malcolm John (BSc, PhD Lond), Helen Morag Fellow and Tutor in
Physics
2014 David Stevenson, MA (MSc H-W), FRICS, Property Director
2014 Luca Enriques (LLB Bologna; LLM Harvard; PhD Boconni),
Professorial Fellow and Professor of Corporate Law
2015 Raymond Pierrehumbert (AB Harvard; PhD MIT), FRS, Professorial
Fellow and Halley Professor of Physics
2015 Susan Jebb, OBE (BSc Sur; PhD Cantab), Senior Research Fellow in
Health Sciences and Professor of Diet and Population Health
2016 Dominic Wilkinson, DPhil (BMedSci, MBBS Melbourne; MBioeth
Monash), AMusA, FRACP, FRCPCH, Senior Research Fellow in
Medical Ethics and Professor of Medical Ethics
2015 Stefan Dercon, MPhil, DPhil (BA Leuven), CMG, FRSA, Professorial
Fellow and Professor of Economic Policy
2015 Stuart Woodward, MA, Estates Bursar
2015 Deborah Hay, MA, BM BCh, DPhil, Dipl, MRCP, FRCPath,
Hugh Price Fellow in Clinical Medicine
2016 Matthew Williams, MSc, DPhil (BSc Brist), Access Fellow
2016 Benjamin Williams, MPhys, DPhil, Tutor in Engineering Science
2020 Vili Lehdonvirta (BSc National University of Singapore; MSc TU
Helsinki; PhD Turku), Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and
Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research
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2020 Sam Staton (MA, PhD Cantab), Senior Research Fellow in Computer
Science and Professor of Computer Science
2017 Judith Rousseau (DEA Paris 7; PhD Paris 6), Professorial Fellow and
Professor of Statistics
2017 Miles Jackson, MA, DPhil (LLM Harvard), Dean and Sir David Lewis
Fellow and Tutor in Law
2017 James Naismith (BSc Edin; PhD Manc; DSc St And), FRS, FMedSci,
FRSE, FRSC, FRSB, FAAS, Senior Research Fellow in Structural
Biology
2017 Hamish Scott † (MA Edin; PhD LSE), FBA, FRSE, Senior Research
Fellow in History
2017 Stanislav Živný, MA, DPhil (MSc VU Amsterdam; Magister RNDr
Prague), Computing Officer, Ana Leaf Foundation Fellow and Tutor in
Computer Science and Professor of Computer Science
2017 Brittany Wellner James (BA Wooster; MA SOAS; PhD Cantab),
Director of Development
2017 George Deligiannidis (MSc Edin & H-W; MMath Warw; PhD Nott),
Hugh Price Fellow in Statistics
2017 Jonathan Harris, KC, BCL, MA (PhD Birm), Senior Research Fellow in
Law
2018 Stephen Conway, MA, DPhil, Professorial Fellow
2020 Tom Douglas, BA, DPhil (BMedSc, MBChB Otago), Senior Research
Fellow in Philosophy and Professor of Applied Philosophy
2018 Oiwi Parker Jones, MPhil, DPhil (BA Colorado College), Deputy
Dean of Degrees and Hugh Price Fellow in Neuroscience
2018 Iram Siraj, OBE (BEd Herts; MA Essex; PhD Warw), Senior Research
Fellow in Education and Professor of Child Development and
Education
2019 Dirk Van Hulle (PhD Antwerp), Fellow Librarian, Professorial Fellow
and Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History
2019 Dorothée Boulanger (BA, MSc Sciences Po; MA LSE; PGCE, PhD
KCL), Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages
2019 Kristian Strommen, MMath, DPhil, Thomas Phillips and Jocelyn Keene
Junior Research Fellow in the Science of Climate
2019 Berta Verd MA (BSc Catalonia; MSc KCL; MRes Imp; Phd Pompeu
Fabra), Peter Brunet Fellow and Tutor in Biological Sciences
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2020 Renée Adams (BA UC San Diego; MS Stanford; PhD Chicago),
Senior Research Fellow in Finance and Governance
2020 David Willis, BA, MPhil, DPhil, FBA, Professorial Fellow and Jesus
Professor of Celtic
2020 Daniel Altshuler (BA California, Los Angeles; PhD Rutgers), Tutor in
Linguistics
2020 Nada Kubikova, MSc, DPhil (BSc Nicosia Cyprus), Maplethorpe
Junior Research Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences
2020 Andrew Dunning (BA Ottawa; MA, PhD Toronto), Supernumerary
Fellow in Book History
2020 Milo Phillips-Brown (BA Reed College; PhD MIT), Tutor in Philosophy
2020 Talita de Souza Dias, MJur, DPhil (LLB Pernambuco), Shaw
Foundation Junior Research Fellow in Law
2021 Janina Schupp (BA Canterbury Christ Church; MPhil, PhD Cantab),
SOUTHWORKS Career Development Fellow of the Cheng Kar Shun
Digital Hub
2020 Fabian Grabenhorst, DPhil (Diploma Bielefeld, Germany), Tutor in
Experimental Psychology
2021 Seth Flaxman (BA Harvard; PhD Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh), Tutor
in Computer Science
2021 Rachel Taylor (BA Durh; MA SOAS; MA, PhD Northwestern),
Junior Research Fellow in the Social Sciences
2020 Jean Baccelli (PhilMaster Institut Jean Nicod, Paris; PhD École
Normale Supérieure, Ulm, Paris), Tutor in Philosophy
2021 Geraldine Wright, DPhil (BSc Wyoming; MSc Ohio), Professorial
Fellow and Hope Professor of Zoology (Entomology)
2021 Carina Prunkl, MSt, DPhil (BSc, MSc Freie University, Berlin), Junior
Research Fellow in Philosophy
2021 Nikolaj Roth (BSc, MSc, PhD Aarhus, Denmark), Junior Research
Fellow in Chemistry
2021 Kelsey Sasaki (BA New York; PhD California Santa Cruz), Junior
Research Fellow in Linguistics
2021 Adam Sedgwick (MChem, PhD Bath), Glasstone Junior Research
Fellow in Chemistry
2022 Ben Goldacre, BA (MB BS Lond, MA KCL, MSc LSHTM), Professorial
Fellow and Bennett Professor of Evidence Based Medicine
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2022 Roxana Radu (BA Bucharest; MA Central European University,
Budapest; PhD Graduate Institute of International &
Development Studies, Geneva), Supernumerary Fellow in
Technology & Public Policy
2022 Katharina Ereky-Stevens, DPhil (MagPhil Vienna), Junior Research
Fellow in Education
2022 Frances Williams (BA Oxf Brookes), Human Resources Director
2022 Ricardo Rocha (BSc, PhD Lisbon; MSc Imp), Tutor in Biology
2022 Joshua Phillips, BA (MA York; PhD Glas), Junior Research Fellow in
English
2022 Robert Laidlow (BA Cantab; MMus RAM; PhD RNCM), Career
Development Fellow in Music
2022 Catherine (Sassy) Molyneux (BA Newc; PhD South Bank), Senior
Research Fellow in Global Health
2022 John Powell (MB BChir MA Cantab; MSc PhD LSHTM;
PGCertMedEd Warw), Senior Research Fellow in Digital Health
2022 Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (BA Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina; State
Exam Prague; PhD Paris VII), Senior Research Fellow in
Developmental Genomics
2022 (Ruy) Sebastian Bonilla, DPhil, PGCert (BS The Andes; MPhil
Cantab), Hugh Price Fellow in Materials Science
2022 Betina Ip, DPhil (BA Chelsea College of Arts; MSc UCL), Hugh Price
Fellow in Neuroscience
2022 Filipa Simões (Diploma Lisbon; PhD Coimbra & Oxon), Hugh Price
Fellow in Regenerative Medicine
2022 (Christoph) Charly Treiber, DPhil (MSc Vienna), Hugh Price Fellow in
Neurobiology
2022 David d’Avray, DPhil (BA Cantab), Supernumerary Fellow in History
2022 Kelsey Inouye, MSc, DPhil (BA, JD, Med Hawaii), Supernumerary
Fellow in Education
2022 Samantha-Kaye Johnston (BSc West Indies; MA Liv Hope; PhD
Curtin), Supernumerary Fellow in Education
2022 Andrew Shapland (MA Cantab; PhD UCL), Supernumerary Fellow in
Archaeology
2022 Nicole Eichert, MSc, PhD (BSc, MSc Tübingen), Junior Research
Fellow in Experimental Psychology
2022 Felicia Liu (BA, MA, PhD KCL), Junior Research Fellow in Geography
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2022 Ryan Rholes (BBA BS Texas State; PhD Texas A&M), Junior Research
Fellow in Economics
2022 Nadine Akkerman (Doctoral, PhD Vrije, Amsterdam), Visiting Senior
Research Fellow
2022 Svitlana Slava (BA, Specialist Kyiv National Transport University;
PhD Kyiv National Transport University & National University of
Construction & Architecture), Supernumerary Fellow in Economics
2022 Moreed Arbabzadah (BA, MPhil, PhD Cantab), FSA, Hugh Price
Fellow in Celtic History
2022 Sandra Kiefer (BSc, MSc Goethe; BSc, MEd, PhD RWTH Aachen),
Glasstone Junior Research Fellow in Computer Science
2022 Medwin Hughes, DPhil (BA Aberystwyth), FRSA, Welsh
Supernumerary Fellow
Emeritus Fellows
1994 John Dixon Walsh, MA (MA, PhD Cantab) †
1996 John Graham De’Ath, Air Commodore (retd), MBE, MA
2005 Louis Lyons, MA, DPhil
2005 Donald Andrew Hay, MA, MPhil (MA Cantab)
2005 Colin Edward Webb, MBE, MA, DPhil (BSc Nott), FRS
2005 John Anthony Caldwell, BMus, MA, DPhil, FRCO
2006 Clive Douglas Rodgers, MA (MA, PhD Cantab)
2006 Colin Graham Clarke, MA, DPhil, DLitt
2006 Peter George Beer, Air Vice-Marshal (retd), CB, CBE, LVO, MA
2007 John Nicolas Jacobs, MA, FSA
2008 David John Acheson, MA (BSc Lond; MSc, PhD, Hon DSc East Ang)
2008 Edward Richard Moxon, MA (MA, MB, BChir Cantab), FRS
2009 Peter John Clarke, BCL, MA
2009 Henry Michael Reece, MA, DPhil (BA Brist)
2010 Timothy John Horder, MA (PhD Edin)
2010 Anthony Michael Glazer, MA (BSc St And; PhD Lond; MA Cantab)
2010 Peter Clifford, MA (BSc Lond; PhD California)
2010 David Francis Cram, MA (PhD Cornell)
2010 Mansur Gulamhussein Lalljee, MA, DPhil (BA Bombay)
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2010 Michael John Vickers, MA (BA, DLitt, Wales; Dip Class Arch
Cantab; DUniv (Hon) Batumi), FSA, Dean of Degrees
2010 Kathleen Danaher Sylva, OBE, MA (BA, MA, PhD Harvard), FBA
2011 Felicity Margaret Heal, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Cantab), FBA
2011 Thomas Mowbray Owen Charles-Edwards, MA, DPhil, FRHistS
2013 William Moore, MA, DPhil (BSc Brist; PhD Cantab)
2014 Paul Harvey, CBE, MA, DSc (BA, DPhil York), FRS
2014 Steffen Lauritzen, MA (MSc, PhD, DSc Copenhagen), FRS
2014 Paul Davies, KC (Hon), MA (LLM Lond; LLM Yale), FBA
2015 Christopher Winearls, DPhil (MB, ChB University of Cape Town
Medical School)
2017 Peter Mirfield, BCL, MA
2017 Richard Bosworth (BA, MA Sydney; PhD Cantab)
2018 Pamela Sammons (BSocSci Brist; PhD Council for National
Academic Awards)
2020 Charles Vincent, BA (MPhil Institute of Psychiatry Lond; PhD UCL)
2022 David Barron, MA (MA Cantab; MA, PhD Cornell)
Honorary Fellows
1992 Sir Christopher Foster, MA (MA Cantab) †
1997 The Lord Skidelsky (Robert Jacob Alexander), MA, DPhil, FRSL,
FRHistS, (Hon DLitt, Buck), FBA
1998 The Hon Neal Blewett, AC, MA, DPhil, FRHistS
1998 Sir John Carter, MA, FIA
1998 Sir Geoffrey Cass, MA
1998 Professor Sir Richard John Evans, Kt, MA, PhD (inc), LittD, DPhil,
DLitt, LitD (Hon), DLitt (Hon), LLD (Hon), FRHistS, FRSL,
FLSW, FBA
1998 Professor Nigel James Hitchin, MA, DPhil, FRS
1998 Sir David Thomas Rowell Lewis, MA (Hon DCL City; Hon DCL
Wales)
1998 Edwin Milton Yoder, MA
1999 David Alec Monk, MA (Hon LLD Sheff) †
1999 Professor Derec Llwyd Morgan, DPhil
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2001 Sir Thomas Allen, CBE (Hon MA Newc; Hon DMus Durh), FRCM
2005 Sir Peter Machin North, CBE, KC, MA, DCL (Hon LLD R’dg, Nott,
Aberd, New Brunswick; Hon D Hum Lett Arizona), FBA
2007 William Andrew Murray Boyd, CBE (MA Glas), FRSL
2007 Professor Sir Keith Burnett, CBE, BA DPhil, FRS, FinstP, FLSW
2007 Francine Elizabeth Stock, MA
2008 Professor David Williams, FRS, DPhil
2008 Sir Bryn Terfel, CBE
2010 Professor Elizabeth Helen Blackburn (BSc, MSc Melbourne; PhD
Cantab)
2010 Carole Lesley Souter, CBE, BA (MA Lond)
2012 Professor Alan Grafen, MA, DPhil, FRS
2013 Geraint Talfan Davies, OBE, DL, MA
2013 The Rt Hon Lord Faulks of Donnington (Edward Peter Lawless),
KC, MA, FCIArb
2015 Lord Krebs of Wytham (John Richard), Kt, MA, DPhil, FRS,
FMedSci, ML
2020 Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, MA Status (BSc Glas; PhD
Cantab), FRS
2020 Dame Alison Foster, KC, BA
2020 Thomas Ilube, CBE (BSc Benin, Nigeria; MBA Lond; Hon DSc Lond;
Hon DTech Wolv), FRSA, FBCS
2020 Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe, MA (MB, ChB, MD Cantab), FRS
Chaplain
The Rev Dr Christopher Dingwall-Jones, BA (MSc Edin; PhD Kent)
Queen Elizabeth I Fellows
2012 Sir David Thomas Rowell Lewis, MA (Hon DCL City; Hon DCL
Wales)
2016 Mr André Hoffmann, MBA
2016 Mrs Maria Hugh
2017 Dr Henry Cheng Kar Shun
2017 Ms Rosaline Wong Wing Yue
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2018 Mr Harold Shaw
2020 Mr Oliver Thomas, MA
2021 Mr Peter Bennett
2022 Mr Christopher Richey, MPhil (BA SMU; JD Stanford)
Lecturers
Ms Izar Alonso Lorenzo, Maths
Mr Giancarlo Antonucci, Maths
Ms Francesca Arduini, Economics
Dr Mara Artibani, Biology
Dr Gunes Baydin, Computer Science
Ms Oana Bazavan, Physics
Ms Amelia Brasnett, Chemistry
Dr Lennart Brewitz, Chemistry
Ms Stefanie Burkert-Burrows, German
Dr Michael Burt, Chemistry
Mr Aurelio Carlucci, Maths
Dr Esther Cavett, Music
Dr Aaron Clift, History
Dr Dafydd Daniel, Theology
Dr Alyson Douglas, Geography
Dr Gillian Douglas, Medicine
Dr Aneurin Ellis-Evans, Ancient History
Dr Emre Esenturk, Statistics
Mr Alexander Georgiou, Law
Mr Johann Go, Politics
Mr Michael Hallam, Maths
Dr Ole Hinz, German
Dr Amanda Holton, English
Dr Joshua Hordern, Theology
Dr Matthias Lanzinger, Computer Science
Dr Hannie Lawler, Spanish
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Dr Ayoush Lazikani, English
Dr Pamela Lear, Medicine
Dr Melinda Letts, Classics
Dr Amy Lidster, English
Dr Sam Lipworth, Medicine
Ms Cynthia Liu, Classics
Prof Elena Lombardi, Italian
Ms Ellen Luckins, Maths
Dr Sotiris Mastoridis, Medicine
Dr Keiko Mayazaki, Medicine
Dr Nick Mayhew, Russian
Prof Teresa Morgan, Ancient History
Dr Christopher Nicholls, Engineering
Prof Daniella Omlor, Spanish
Dr Michael O’Neill, Chemistry
Dr Julian Ormerod, Medicine
Ms Helena Pickford, Chemistry
Dr Liam Saddington, Geography
Ms Hannah Scheithauer, German
Mr Philip Schnattinger, Economics
Dr Nir Shalev, Experimental Psychology
Dr Deborah Sneddon, Chemistry
Mr Barnum Swannell, Maths
Dr Brian Tang, Engineering
Ms Cecile Varry, French
Ms Alena Wabitsch, Economics
Mr Timothy Wade, History
Prof Claire Williams, Portuguese
Dr Bryan Wilson Biology
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Non-Academic Staff
1981 Simon Smith, Conference Manager
1996 Beatrice Coleman, Scout
2000 David Mead, Groundsman
2000 Christopher Cox, Lodge Receptionist
2001 Helen Gee, PA to the Principal
2006 Jakub Pawlicki, Junior Sous Chef
2006 Keiron Bennellick, Caretaker
2006 Valdas Joksas, Kitchen Porter
2006 Steven Joseph, Chef
2007 Rosangela Bolonhese, Scout
2008 Laura Katkute, Accounts Clerk
2008 Tahira Marham, Scout
2009 Joan McCoy, Scout
2010 Tomasz Rabeda, Sous Chef
2010 Katarzyna Dubarska, Scout
2010 Owen McKnight, Librarian
2011 Kevin Beynon, Chef de Partie
2011 Stephen Widdows, Food Services Supervisor
2012 Jody Amirthaseelan, Food Services Team Member
2013 Gerard Fegan, Computing Infrastructure Manager
2013 Paul Crowther, Maintenance Manager
2014 Daniel Nolan, Maintenance Team Member
2014 Tania Dandy-Minto, Accommodation Services Manager
2015 Xunqin (Emily) Huang, Graduate Administrator
2015 Maria Ferreira Dos Reis, Scout
2015 Carolyn Ruhle, Nurse
2015 Cathy Lea, DACC Administrator
2015 Gillian Long, Estates & Property Administrator
2016 Michele Turner, Housekeeping Manager
2016 Robin Darwall-Smith, Archivist
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2017 Joanne Bellerby, Scout
2017 Elena Pinte, Scout
2017 Richard Dean, Lodge Receptionist
2017 Neville Fernandes, Kitchen Porter
2017 Gemma Forster, Admissions Officer
2017 Bruno Mollier, Head of Food & Beverage Services
2017 Anand Dube, Head Chef
2017 Bela Valter, Assistant Head of Food & Beverage Service
2017 Martinho Afonso, Scout
2017 James Baxter, Chef de Partie
2018 Edmund Levin, Annual Fund & Giving Programme Manager
2018 Raymond Ridley, Bar Supervisor
2018 Peter Parshall, Chapel Music Co-ordinator
2018 Eve Bodniece, Principal Data Analyst
2019 Peter Sutton, Alumni Engagement Manager
2019 Jolanta Sikora-Marques, Fellows’ Secretary
2019 Cristina Carmona Casado, Lodge Receptionist
2019 Mark Trafford, Sales Ledger Officer
2019 Sandra Marujo, Lodge Receptionist
2019 Melinda Mattu, Accountant
2020 Michael Sixsmith, IT Manager
2020 Jude Eades, Communications Manager
2020 Poh Gan, Breakfast & Commis Chef
2020 Georgina Plunkett, Deputy Director of Development
2020 Tito De Jesus Gutteres, Scout
2020 Sadia (Kirren) Mahmood, Welfare Officer
2021 Colin Beall, Health & Safety Coordinator
2021 Violeta Budreviciute, Accounts Clerk
2021 Arpornthip Burroughs, Scout
2021 Kathrina dela Cruz, Assistant Accountant
2021 Neil Huntley, Lodge Manager
2021 Ellie Hutson, Admin Assistant
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2021 Mary O’ Byrne, Human Resources Advisor
2021 Marina Lazarova, Scout
2021 Rosita Vacheva, Payroll & Accounts Officer
2021 Iwona Pietruszewska, Housekeeping Supervisor
2021 Raquel Hernandez, Catering Supervisor
2022 Josh Brown, Scout
2022 Johnathan Eccles, Maintenance Team
2022 Fisayo Adeleke, Events and Graduation Assistant
2022 Paulina Mascianica, Lodge Receptionist
2022 Yu-Wen Huang, Social Media and Communications Officer
2022 Synthia Barmpa, Conference Assistant
2022 Gabriel Apahidean, Chef de Partie
2022 Lourenco Noronha, Kitchen Porter
2022 Diana Ciolcan, Food Services Team
2022 Gregorio Soares, Scout
2022 Grace Exley, Graduate Library Trainee
2022 Martin Richards, Maintenance Team
2022 Hannah Dowson, Human Resources Advisor
2022 Tahmina Sorabji, Disability and Grants Officer
2022 Megan Lee, Access Assistant
2022 Ximena Garcia Ochoa, Food Services Team
2022 Natasha Ali, Junior Dean
2022 Liza Zillig, Junior Dean
2022 Vanessa Picker, Junior Dean
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Photo by Ed Nix.

Fellows’ & Lecturers’ News
Izar Alonso Lorenzo
Lecturer in Pure Mathematics
I am currently finishing my DPhil under the
supervision of Andrew Dancer and Jason
Lotay, having completed a Double Bachelor’s
Degree in Maths and Physics at the
Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a
Master of Advanced Studies in Pure
Mathematics in Cambridge. My research is in
the area of differential geometry and has
connections with geometric analysis and heterotic string theory.
In particular, I study differential-geometric structures in spaces
of dimensions six and seven, which are of special importance in
higher dimensional gauge theories. These structures also play a
key role in heterotic string theory, where they appear in systems
such as the Hull-Strominger and the heterotic G2 system. I use
symmetry reduction and analytic techniques to give a better
understanding of these structures.
David d’Avray
Supernumerary Fellow in History
Joining Jesus as a Supernumerary Fellow has
proved a very positive experience. Though
new to the College, I’m familiar with Oxford;
I did my DPhil at Balliol long ago, and I’ve
lived here for over two decades since my
wife became Fellow Librarian at Merton.
Until I became Emeritus at UCL I commuted
every weekday to London. I’m a historian of
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the Middle Ages, and also of the preceding and following
periods; I enjoy manuscript work and the application of social
theory. At Jesus I will be advising graduate students, and I also
propose to lead informal seminars for members of the College
at all levels, on comparative history, historical argument, and the
history of Ethics.
Talita de Souza Dias
Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow in Law
I qualified as a lawyer in Brazil, and have
taught a range of International Law subjects
at Oxford and elsewhere. My current
research focuses on the application of
international law to new technologies and
the international regulation of information
operations, including disinformation and
online hate speech. In addition to
publications, I’m a founding member of the Oxford Process on
International Law Protections in Cyberspace: I’ve spoken to
United Nations bodies on the application of international law to
cyberspace, and given written and oral evidence to Parliament
for the Online Safety Bill. In December 2022 I took up a post as
Senior Research Fellow with Chatham House’s International
Law Programme.
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Nicole Eichert
Junior Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology
This summer I started a Sir Henry Wellcome
Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Wellcome
Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN).
I am seeking to understand how our brains
evolved to support uniquely human
cognition. I combine magnetic resonance
imaging and histology to investigate how
brain structure and function relate to each
other, and how the anatomical basis differs across the primate
lineage. My focus is the temporal lobe, a part of the brain that
changed significantly during evolution and plays a key role in
cognition. My research programme builds on my PhD project,
which I conducted in Oxford as part of the Wellcome Trust
Programme in Neuroscience, and benefits from close
collaboration with the Montreal Neurological Institute.
Alexandra Gajda
John Walsh Fellow in History
I have produced and published several
articles on disparate topics: on the
relationship of Church, state and subjects in
the Tudor realms, Oxford University and the
Crown in the age of Elizabeth I, the creation
of the legal framework for witch-hunting in
early modern England, the influence of
trading companies on diplomacy in the early
seventeenth century, and the origins of the political ‘apology’ in
public life. I’m now working on a study of the evolution of the
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English and Welsh Parliaments during the Reformation era. I’ve
also acted as a consultant on a major forthcoming BBC
documentary on the nature of the Union of the British Isles, and
appeared on Susannah Lipscomb’s podcast Not Just the Tudors
talking about the last years of the reign of Elizabeth I.
I was recently elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Betina Ip
Hugh Price Fellow in Neuroscience
How does the human brain learn from
experience? I study this question by focusing
on the acquisition of binocular vision, vision
using two eyes. My lab uses advanced
non-invasive MR-imaging and virtual reality
paradigms to investigate if training oneself to
see better using two eyes also relates to
reliable changes in the cortical circuitry.
Knowing where in the brain changes occur, and what they are, is
important for finding better treatments for visual disorders like
lazy eye. I am interested in how we perceive the world around
us, and collaborate with other researchers on topics ranging
from visual hallucinations to viewing landscape art. I combine my
scientific and creative background for the purpose of public
engagement: my children’s picture book, The Usborne Book of
the Brain and How it Works (2021), has been translated into many
languages, encouraging children around the world to be curious
about the squishy matter between our ears.
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Kelsey Inouye
Supernumerary Fellow in Education
I’m a Research Associate at the Department
of Education Centre for Skills, Knowledge
and Organisational Performance. My
research areas include doctoral education,
scholarly writing and publishing, and PhD
career trajectories. I’m currently working on
the ‘Close the Gap’ project, which aims to
transform the PhD selection and admissions
processes at Oxford and Cambridge towards the goal of a more
inclusive research culture. Having obtained my DPhil in
Education in 2020 I worked as a Senior Researcher at the
University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland. I
currently act as the Junior Coordinator for the European
Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
Special Interest Group on Researcher Education and Careers.
Samantha-Kaye Johnston
Supernumerary Fellow in Education
Although being digitally skilled is fundamental
for effectively functioning in society, over
700 million young people continue to lack
digital skills. I seek to combine principles
from education, psychology, user-design, and
engineering, to create safer and more
sustainable digital futures. In a previous
UNESCO collaboration, I spearheaded a
study across 15 countries exploring new uses for technology in
education. My research profile spans a large area covering skills
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Photo: Oxford Latinitas
development, the assessment of dispositions that support digital
intelligence, and ethical engagement with technology. My work,
which employs mixed approaches to studying optimal
environments for fostering digital skills, and participatory
approaches with young people to design digital resources, has
been nominated for various awards including Jamaica’s Prime
Minister’s Youth Award for Excellence in Academics.
Melinda Letts
College Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages
I’m passionate about ensuring the future of
Classics as a discipline, which means making
Classics appealing and accessible to all who
want to study it, no matter what background
they come from and regardless of previous
experience of Greek or Latin. I’ve
spearheaded the introduction at Jesus of
Active Latin and Greek, whereby we teach
grammar and texts by speaking the languages during classes.
I was inspired to learn how to teach this way by attending a
Septimana Latina (Latin Week) in Italy run by the Oxford
Latinitas Project in 2018, and I now chair the board of Oxford
Latinitas Ltd. The Active Greek and Latin programme at Jesus is
supported by a generous donation of £30k over three years
from alumnus John Jagger. The method noticeably speeds up the
process of language acquisition for beginners, offers a route to
real fluency to those who already know the languages, and is
enormously enjoyable for both students and teachers. The first
cohort of Latinists to be taught consistently using the active
method in College sat Mods in 2021: all three achieved Firsts,
with exceptionally high marks in their Latin language papers.
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Catherine (Sassy) Molyneux
Senior Research Fellow in Global Health
I am a social scientist with a background in
human geography and behavioural studies.
My main research areas span health policy
and systems research (system governance,
financing, and responsiveness to patients and
publics) and empirical ethics, including the
everyday ethics of frontline health provision
and of conducting studies in low income
settings. Recent contributions include those focused on
examining vulnerability and agency among research participants
and communities in low resource settings; understanding the
emotional well-being of frontline health and research workers
operating in these contexts; unpacking researchers’
responsibilities; and drawing on patient, provider, and manager
perspectives to design, implement and evaluate systems
interventions aimed at positive change. Other outputs from my
work include a video where frontline research staff share their
experiences, and an animation summarising findings of a realist
review on community engagement.
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Tatjana Sauka-Spengler
Senior Research Fellow in Developmental Genomics
With a background in both physics and
biology, I run an interdisciplinary research
group that seeks to understand the network
organisation of gene regulatory programmes
underlying developmental processes, and to
decipher gene regulatory circuitries that
orchestrate early cell-specification steps
during development. Work on reverse
engineering gene-regulatory circuitry holds high promise for use
in stem cell therapies. To this end my lab has developed
approaches such as integrated single-cell genomics, quantitative
imaging, computational analysis, and machine learning, to tackle
regulatory network detail in developing embryos, using multiple
vertebrate models (zebrafish, chick, lamprey). The lab is
creating new expertise in model-building, integrating multimodal
single-cell analyses, and applying machine learning and
computational genomics to tackle open questions in
development, evolution, and regenerative medicine.
Eva Schlindwein
Stipendiary Lecturer in Management
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Saïd
Business School and Senior Researcher at the
Bern University of Applied Sciences,
Switzerland, and have published in leading
management journals including the Academy
of Management Annals. A researcher of
management and organisations, my work
uses qualitative research methods to focus
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on tensions between business and society. I am investigating the
effects of stigmatisation on the regulation of the cannabis market
in the US, scaling social innovation in refugee integration in
Germany, and the organisational transformation of banks
implementing sustainability for impact in Switzerland.
Andrew Shapland
Supernumerary Fellow in Archaeology
Over the last year my time at the Ashmolean
Museum has largely been spent in
preparation of the exhibition, Labyrinth:
Knossos, Myth and Reality (February–July
2023). It is an exhibition that I pitched at my
interview for the newly-endowed post of Sir
Arthur Evans Curator in Bronze Age and
Classical Greece. Upon starting the job at
the end of 2018 I set about negotiating a list of loan objects with
our partners in Crete: it will be the first time that some of the
finds excavated by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos will have left the
island. In Oxford they will be displayed alongside original
documents from the excavation archive held by the Ashmolean.
In 2022 my book Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete:
A History through Objects (CUP) was published, and I worked
with the Greek Archaeological Service and University of
Toronto as co-director of excavations at Palaikastro in eastern
Crete. There, with a team which included students from
Oxford, we investigated Minoan remains that are becoming
visible along the beach as a result of coastal erosion.
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Filipa Simões
Hugh Price Fellow in Regenerative Medicine
I work at the Institute of Developmental and
Regenerative Medicine, researching how
immune cells, in particular macrophages, can
be programmed by their neighbouring cells
to repair the damage caused by a heart
attack. My team uses genomics, spatial
transcriptomics and functional in vivo and in
vitro assays to dissect the spatiotemporal
dynamics of cellular microenvironments, to identify intercellular
signalling networks, and to decipher how these converge to
define macrophage identity, plasticity, and function in the healthy
and diseased heart. I have identified macrophages as direct
collagen contributors to the forming scar during zebrafish heart
regeneration and mouse heart repair. This work has revealed
insights into the source of collagen deposition during cardiac
scar formation and is likely to be applicable across organ
systems and fibrotic disease.
Svitlana Slava
Supernumerary Fellow in Economics
I completed my PhD at the National
Transport University and defended my thesis
at the National University of Construction
and Architecture, both in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Since then I have been working at Uzhhorod
National University, Transcarpathia, where
I teach courses in Enterprise Economics,
Management and Strategic Management and
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act as scientific advisor for PhD students at the Department of
Economy and Entrepreneurship. My research interests are
strategic and structural transformations, economic adjustments
during and after crises, regional economic and sustainable
development, and the economics of enterprise and innovation.
I have published widely in international journals and carried out
numerous applied projects for governmental bodies,
universities, and businesses in Ukraine. I am a volunteer
member of the Joint Committee for a partnership between two
small towns in Britain and Ukraine, which aims to promote
school students’ cultural engagement and language learning.
Dirk Van Hulle
Professorial Fellow, Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book
History in the Faculty of English
With a team of five researchers I am working
on a bilingual digital edition of Samuel
Beckett’s works as principal investigator of a
three year AHRC project, called ‘Editing
Beckett’. My research focuses on modern
manuscripts and literary writing processes.
I recently completed Genetic Criticism: Tracing
Creativity in Literature (OUP, 2022). I also
direct the Oxford Centre for Textual Editing and Theory
(OCTET). We are organising an international colloquium on
‘Genetic Narratology’ in March 2023, workshops on writers’
libraries and on editing Shakespeare. Other projects include the
digital edition of James Joyce’s unpublished letters, a monograph
on James Joyce’s Library (OUP), and a scholarly edition that
reunites all of Samuel Beckett’s manuscripts and the author’s
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personal library. I am curating an exhibition at the Bodleian
Library which will open in January 2024 about the many
treasures that are crossed out or cut by authors, censors, and
others before they make it into publication. The working title is:
CUT: the cutting room floor of modern literature.
Geraldine Wright
Hope Professor of Zoology (Entomology)
The Oxford Bee Lab has been working
diligently in 2022 to study the importance of
fatty acids and sterols in pollen influence
bees. Sterols such as cholesterol are essential
nutrients in insect diets as insects do not
possess the enzymes required to synthesize
sterols de novo. Instead, they acquire sterols
from diet, and in some cases, post-ingestively
modify them. In collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens at
Kew, we have collected pollen from over 250 species in the UK
and are in the process of analysing our samples for sterols to
identify the nutritional value of the sterols of plants for bees.
The bee lab is also studying how bees adjust their feeding to
acquire the optimal values for fats and proteins when the fatty
acids in diet are unsuitable. Our work will be used to inform
strategies for improving the nutrition of honeybees and wild
bee species.
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Ship meets Turl.
Photo: Bev Shadbolt.

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The Fowler Lecture 2023
Honouring the memory of Don Fowler, former Fellow and Tutor in
Classics at Jesus, the 21st Fowler Lecture will be delivered by
Monica Gale, Professor in Classics at Trinity College, Dublin.
Professor Gale will speak to the title ‘Five Ways of Reading Catullus’
in the lecture theatre of the Stelios Ioannou Classics Centre,
66 St Giles, at 5pm on Thursday 4 May 2023.
Professor Gale graduated from Cambridge and went on to hold
posts at the University of Newcastle and Royal Holloway,
University of London, before joining the staff at Trinity College
Dublin in 1998. Her research centres on the poetry of the Late
Roman Republic and the Augustan period (especially the works of
Catullus, Lucretius, Virgil and Propertius), with a particular focus on
issues of genre and intertextuality. She explores the ways in which
relationships between literary texts serve to create meaning, and is
interested in poetic self-representation with reference both to
literary predecessors and to generic convention. Other areas of
expertise include Greek and Roman didactic poetry and the uses of
myth in ancient literature. In addition to monographs Myth and
Poetry in Lucretius (CUP 1994), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The
Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (CUP 2000), and
Lucretius and the Didactic Epic (Bristol Classical Press 2001), she has
edited Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality
(Classical Press of Wales 2004) and co-edited with David
Scourfield (a former Fowler Lecturer) Texts and Violence in the
Roman World (CUP 2018). She is currently writing a commentary
on the complete poems of Catullus for the Cambridge Greek and
Latin Classics series.
Attendance at the lecture is free, and all are invited to drinks
afterwards in the Classics Centre. Dinner with the speaker in Jesus
afterwards (three courses with wine, at a cost of £50) is available
on application: please email armand.dangour@jesus.ox.ac.uk.
Lesbia and her sparrow by Sir John Poynter.
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The Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub.
Photo: Andrew Ogilvy Photography.

A Time of Celebration and Gratitude
Brittany Wellner James | Director of Development
With the Cheng Yu Tung Building now established as part of the
Jesus estate, College has had a lot to celebrate over the last few
months. The building represents Jesus’ greatest physical
transformation since the early 18th century, and is the
culmination of an ambitious five-year project conducted with
the goal of positioning the College as a leading institution for
digital research at Oxford. The impressive design includes new
teaching and meeting spaces, a raised Fourth Quad, exceptional
postgraduate facilities, a Tower gallery, and a spacious café.
On 22 October Dr Henry Cheng Kar Shun, in the presence of
his friends and family and accompanied by the Principal Sir Nigel
Shadbolt, cut the ribbon to inaugurate the Digital Hub named in
his honour. Around 90 guests including Vice Chancellor
Professor Dame Louise
Richardson attended
the event, during which
guests were invited to
tour the building after
hours to the music of a
jazz quartet in the Hub.
The reception was
followed by a Dinner at
which Dr Cheng was
certified as a Queen
Dr Henry Cheng Kar Shun and Principal Sir Nigel
Shadbolt cut the ribbon to open the new Cheng Yu
Tung Building and Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub.
Photo: Andrew Ogilvy Photography.
Elizabeth I Fellow in
recognition of the great
contribution he has
made to College life.
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In September the College welcomed Queen Elizabeth I Fellow
Chris Richey (1984, MPhil Management Studies) and his wife
Dr Sara Browne for an afternoon tea to dedicate the Buchanan
Tower Room in honour of Jesus alumnus Captain Angus
Buchanan, VC. The Richey family, whose generosity has recently
endowed a graduate studentship at College, donated the plaque
in the Tower to honour Captain Buchanan. College Archivist
Robin Darwall-Smith and Librarian Owen McKnight presented
archive materials about Captain Buchanan, including photos of
the College Boat Club from his time and records of his
undergraduate days. In Robin Darwall-Smith’s words: “Angus
Buchanan came up to Jesus in 1913 on a Welsh Classical
Scholarship. He made his mark in sports, becoming a valued
member of both the College’s rugby team and the Torpid
crew. When World War I broke out, Buchanan joined the
South Wales Borderers. He was noted for his gallantry in
combat, and was quickly promoted to Captain. Further acts of
bravery earned him the Victoria Cross and the Russian Order of
St Vladimir 4th Class. In March 1917, while fighting in Kurt,
Buchanan was blinded by a sniper. This profound injury did not
deter him from returning to
College when the war ended
and restarting his degree. Nor
did it stop him from rowing in
the College First Eight during
Hilary Term 1919.” Mr Richey
was also a member of the Boat
Club as a graduate student at
Jesus, and greatly admired the
story of Buchanan’s bravery and
strength of character.
Dr Grahame
Davies LVO with
his commissioned
Welsh inscription.
Photo: John Cairns.
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Sir Nigel dedicates
the Welsh Access
Fund Quad in
honour of
supporting our
Welsh students.
Photo: John Cairns.
Earlier in July the College invited
alumni donors and friends to
celebrate the opening of the
Welsh Access Fund Quad, and
to express particular gratitude to
the family of alumnus Oliver
Thomas (2000, Economics and
Management) after whom the
new quad is named. The Band of
The Prince of Wales played for
guests as they enjoyed the
sunshine in the College’s newest
outdoor space. Welsh poet and
author Dr Grahame Davies LVO provided a line of poetry to
mark the dedication, which is inscribed on one of the stones of
the quad: Mae seren yn y nos – ac ynomni, ‘There is a star in the
night – and in ourselves’. The line alludes to the College’s Seren
summer school, a programme conducted in partnership with
the Welsh Government now funded in perpetuity by the
Thomas family. The College’s outreach work across Wales has
already had a marked impact on Oxford: it is responsible for
around 20% of the Welsh students now attending the university.
The day was also an opportunity to thank the numerous alumni
who have generously supported both the Cheng Yu Tung
Building and the College’s wider academic and access objectives.
This year also saw the dedication of the Rosaline Wong Gallery
in the Buchanan Tower Room. Rosaline Wong was joined by the
Principal to cut the ribbon to inaugurate the space, which will
exhibit a wide range of art including works by leading
contemporary artists. Rosaline Wong has donated works by
artists Peter McDonald and Marcus Coates, commissioned via
Kate MacGarry of Kate MacGarry Gallery in London, to adorn
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the gallery, and has
also presented the
College with a piece
from her personal art
collection, a lenticular
lightbox portrait of
Her Late Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II by
Chris Levine entitled
Equanimity. The
College is grateful to
Rosaline Wong for
these thoughtfully
curated pieces, which
will form valuable
additions to the College’s art collection.
The College owes a debt of gratitude to the many alumni and
friends who have helped make a huge success of the 450th
Anniversary Campaign and in doing so have opened a new
chapter of College history. Alumni donations have created a
significant new building and spaces, supported the College’s
students and tutorial system, and enriched the community at
Jesus. These beautiful, dedicated spaces are now in active use by
current students, staff, and Fellows, and they are open to be
visited and enjoyed by all alumni and friends. The College will
continue to find opportunities to celebrate all that its friends
and supporters have done to provide such exceptional and
greatly valued benefits.
Peter McDonald,
Kate MacGarry,
Rosaline Wong
and Marcus
Coates open the
Rosaline Wong
Gallery.
Photo: Andrew Ogilvy
Photography.
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The Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub.
Photo: Andrew Ogilvy Photography.

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Events at the Cheng Kar Shun
Digital Hub
Will McBain | Journalist & Digital Hub Events
Coordinator
The first public event in the Cheng
Kar Shun Digital Hub was the launch
in October 2022 of the book Cloud
Empires: How Digital platforms are
overtaking the state and how we can
regain control (MIT 2022) by Professor
Vili Lehdonvirta, Senior Research
Fellow at Jesus. After weeks of
planning, it was heartening to see
audience members walk through the
Will McBain.
Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub’s doors
on Market Street into the College’s new event space. Prof.
Lehdonvirta spoke about how global firms such as Amazon and
Facebook constitute large sections of the online economy and
exert a state-like dominance over our lives. The event was
hosted by science journalist Quentin Cooper, who opened up
the session to lively feedback and questions from the audience.
While the catering team served sparkling wine and canapés,
conversations about how to change the status quo continued
throughout the evening,
This event gave the Hub team important experience in how
best to utilise the space, allowing us to tweak things where
necessary. The Hub’s impressive acoustics mean that sound
easily travels from the main forum in the basement, along the
striking curvature of the staircase, and throughout the three
Left: HerStory Exhibition.
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Archives of the Future.
floors – but just as easily the opposite way. For the remaining
events in Michaelmas, once the talks began – and as staff were
busy setting up drinks, providing security, or ushering
latecomers to their seats – we worked in silent synchronised
coordination, using additional entrances, corridors, and further
rooms in the hub.
Oxford’s senior archivists and interested parties came to listen
to Robin Darwall-Smith speaking on ‘Archives of the Future’;
and when the College hosted the Royal Navy’s annual Hudson
Lecture for the first time, we welcomed five-star ranking NATO
officers and members of the Ukrainian armed forces. The forum
sparkled with soldiers wearing ceremonial dress and medals,
while a projector illuminated the Hub with slides showing
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military statistics and vehicles. As the guests were leaving, news
of a serious military incident (a missile had struck a Polish village)
made us wonder whether the new building might have to
become a command centre for the defence of the Free World.
Four remaining events of term were less dramatic, but no less
impressive, as Jesus’ students came to the fore. Andrzej Stuart-
Thompson, a DPhil student in Modern and Medieval Languages,
hosted two Digital Hub Reading Club events on Artificial
Intelligence, robots, tech, and everything digital in selected
fiction. Graduate Lisa Zillig and undergraduate Shathuki Perera
launched ‘HerStory’, an exhibition of portraits celebrating Jesus’
female alumni. MCR President Paul Davis hosted ‘A History of
Gaming’, a panel discussion with three industry experts
examining how video gaming is driving technological change and
asking what the multibillion-dollar industry behind it can teach
academia. Three hours of sounds from gaming on consoles,
from the 1970s to the present day, reverberated through the
Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub before the curtain came down on
this term of events.
Events in the new year will include a talk on Regenerative
Medicine, and the 2023 Oxford Synthetic Media Forum will
explore how synthetic media, AI, and misinformation are
shaping the world. The Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub is more
than an event space, however, and it has already attracted great
interest and requests for partnerships from computer science
institutions, Metaverse-based NGOs, and Esports societies. It is
exciting to think about how the space will be developed, to look
forward to ideas and solutions to the world’s challenges being
formulated here, and to enjoy the prospect of bringing together
the public and the College community to attend inspiring talks
and exhibitions in future.
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Public and Private:
The Principal’s Lodgings of Jesus College
Robin Darwall-Smith | Archivist
with images by Bev Shadbolt.
People familiar with Jesus College know the elegant entrance to
the Principal’s Lodgings in the north-west corner of First Quad
near the Hall. One hopes that every Old Member reading this
will have been inside the Lodgings at least once, and seen its
beautiful state rooms, especially the drawing room on the
first floor.
The Lodgings at Jesus College stand out among their
counterparts elsewhere by reason of their age. We think of
Jesus as rather a ‘new’ College, being founded in 1571; but our
First Quad, completed in the early 1630s, is one of Oxford’s
older buildings. This is partly because such earlier Colleges as
Univ., Exeter and Queen’s replaced their medieval buildings with
newer ones, and these newer buildings date from after our First
Quad was completed. Other Colleges regularly moved their
heads around from one building to another. An extreme
example is Merton, which still rejoices in its thirteenth-century
architecture, but in 1962 moved its Warden into a brutalist
monstrosity (recently softened with a more traditional façade).
Yet at Jesus the Principal has stayed put. The Lodgings have
certainly been modified and extended, but much of them,
especially on the first floor, have stayed unchanged. Only two or
three other College heads live in lodgings which are older
than ours.
Why should a Principal have lodgings? Even in pre-Reformation
days, when all heads of house were celibate clergymen, a head
Left: The Principal’s Lodgings.
Image: Bev Shadbolt.
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had roles and duties which made it essential to have decent
accommodation. He had to entertain important visitors, who
might want to stay in the College, or needed to arrange private
meetings.
Our Lodgings owe their existence to Sir Eubule Thelwall,
Principal from 1621-30, and one of that remarkable group of
early seventeenth-century heads who established Jesus as a
functioning College. Thelwall was a man of means, and it seems
that he paid for the erection of the Lodgings himself. Writing in
the later seventeenth century, Antony Wood was impressed at
the work, for he declared that Thelwall, “made a very fair dining
room, adorned with wainscot curiously engraven”.
Thelwall’s Lodgings were much smaller than the current ones.
William Williams’s plan of the College in Oxonia Depicta, from
1733, shows that the Lodgings occupied the north-west range of
First Quad and nothing more. However, when we remember
that the College’s first statutes ordered that the Principal remain
a bachelor, this makes sense. Apart from a grand state room or
two for visitors, he only needed accommodation for himself and
his servants. On the other hand, soon after Thelwall’s death his
successor Francis Mansell had ideas for reworking the Lodgings:
£5 was paid to a mason in April 1637 “making 5 studyes & some
other worke in the Lodging” (BU.AC.GEN.1 page 60).
There was another way in which the Lodgings were enlarged. In
the 1740s, the Hall was given a new ceiling, leaving a void
between the ceiling and the roof. At an unknown date
afterwards, this space, as far as the clock, was turned into a set
of rooms accessible only from the Lodgings, which were used
for the Principal’s servants. Also at an unknown date, the rooms
in XIII.5 were incorporated into the Lodgings, effectively
creating a second entrance.
Left: ‘Shadow and Light’ Lodgings Drawing Room.
Image: Bev Shadbolt.
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The earliest significant changes to the Lodgings seem to have
taken place in 1802, when John Nash, no less, was brought in.
His proposals were somewhat utilitarian, intended to create
space for the kitchen and surrounding buildings in the north part
of the Principal’s garden. Nash’s plans show that the room now
used as the Principal’s study was a dining room, and that the
entrance hall was much smaller than it is now, with a parlour to
the left, and a housekeeper’s room beyond that.
The greatest changes in the Lodgings, however, took place in the
mid-1880s, when Hugo Harper was Principal. He will have seen
new, larger lodgings appearing in Oxford, and may well have
wished for something similar for himself. For this project the
architects George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner were
used. Bodley and Garner worked all over Oxford, including on
lodgings for other heads of houses, such as at Univ. and
Magdalen. So they knew very well what to do. Above all, Bodley
and Garner were aiming to enlarge the Lodgings to equip it with
more bedrooms and accommodation, and more space for the
kitchens and the servants.
Governing Body minutes from 1883-4 reveal tensions between
Harper, eager to improve the Lodgings, and the Governing
Body, anxious about the costs of the project. Eventually,
agreement was reached, and over £2,500 spent. Earlier
extensions seem to have been replaced with something much
larger, which increased the number of bedrooms, and created
more space on the ground floor. Meanwhile, in the old part of
the lodgings, the entrance hall was enlarged, and the space to
the left turned into a fine panelled dining room.
This change in the Lodgings at Jesus may not just reflect the
presence of a large Victorian family. Until the later 19th century,
undergraduates rarely saw the inside of their College’s lodgings,
Right: ‘Continuum’ Lodgings Drawing Room.
Image: Bev Shadbolt.
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which remained the private space of a College head. After this
period, however, there is a change in how the head of an
Oxford College – and their family – might see their role. Now
the Lodgings started to become a place of hospitality within a
College, and newly built lodgings, such as at Univ. or Magdalen,
included large reception rooms. Harper’s new dining room was
clearly built with this in mind. Indeed, Harper’s daughter, Mary,
whose memories are quoted in J. N. L. Baker’s 1971 history of
Jesus College, remembered that he aimed to invite every
undergraduate to dinner, doing so in groups of six. Mary Harper
admitted that conversation could be sticky, but the atmosphere
often relaxed when the undergraduates were encouraged to
sing Welsh songs, as she accompanied them. She recalled “It
was very nice to hear them sing ‘Land of my Fathers’ … [or]
‘Men of Harlech’ in their naturally musical voices and often in
parts”. Successive Principals have followed Harper’s example in
opening up the Lodgings to students at the College, be it for
dinners, meetings of societies, or even informal concerts.
The memories of Hugo Harper’s daughter remind us how easy
it can be to discuss the Principal’s Lodgings as if only the
Principal lived there. First of all, there were servants who were
employed directly (and paid) by the Principal, quite separately
from the servants who worked for the College. Very little
information has come down about Principals’ servants, not least
because, whereas the College did keep information about the
wages of servants which it directly employed, no similar records
survive for any of our Principals. We therefore depend on stray
information where we can find it, such as from censuses. Thus
the 1881 census shows Principal Harper, his wife and two
daughters sharing the Lodgings with three women servants,
whose ages ranged from 20 to 44. According to the 1911 census,
Sir John Rhŷs, his wife and two daughters were looked after by a
Left: ‘Delft Blue’ Lodgings Drawing Room.
Image: Bev Shadbolt.
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cook, parlourmaid and housemaid, all women in their twenties,
and a fourteen-year-old page, Bertie Rawlins. Of course, these
were the servants resident in the Lodgings; there may well have
been others who lived outside the College.
In that 1911 census Myvanwy Rhŷs described herself as
‘Researcher in History’ (her sister Olwen, called herself
‘Housekeeper’), and this reminds us that some Principals’
spouses and children could be significant figures. Indeed
Myvanwy and Olwen Rhŷs were keen campaigners for women’s
suffrage. They even won the support of their father, who more
than once spoke publicly in support of votes for women. A few
decades later, there were Sir Frederick Ogilvie and his wife
Mary. In 1949 Sir Frederick died in the Lodgings when only in his
mid-fifties, but Lady Ogilvie managed to rebuild her life, and in
1953 she became Principal of St Anne’s College. I do not know
of any other couple who both became heads of Oxford or
Cambridge Colleges. It is also worth remembering that, before
1974, the women in the Lodgings would be the only women
actually living within the College.
One of the strangest periods in the history of the Lodgings
happened after the death of Sir John Rhŷs in December 1915.
The First World War was still raging, and several Fellows were
away on active service. It was felt impossible to assemble the
Governing Body to elect a new Principal and therefore Jesus
College had an interregnum in its Principalship, whilst the
Vice-Principal, Ernest Hardy, effectively ran the ship.
The College was largely deserted of students during the First
World War, its buildings being occupied by officer cadets.
However, when the war ended, many students descended on
Oxford and its Colleges all at once. Some were young men,
fresh from school, but many more were demobbed ex-
Right: ‘Secret Door’ Lodgings Drawing Room.
Image: Bev Shadbolt.
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servicemen wishing to resume or begin their university careers.
Never before had so many students simultaneously come up to
Oxford.
As the College contemplated this unprecedented demand for
accommodation, eyes turned to a large unoccupied building in
First Quad, and so the Lodgings were used as student
accommodation. Evidence for this can be found in the so-called
‘Coal Books’, which record the quarterly consumption of coal
by everyone living in the College, and are therefore, by accident,
the most reliable source for which members of Jesus occupied
which rooms. These show that nine students were put up in the
Lodgings in Michaelmas Term 1919. Numbers then rose to
twelve in Michaelmas Term 1920 (Coal Books, DO.59-62).
After Trinity Term 1921, however, the Lodgings were returned
to the Principal’s use, because by now Ernest Hardy had been
elected Principal, without doubt out of gratitude for his leading
the College through difficult times. Hardy’s successors have
remained in the Lodgings ever since.
Various little changes were carried out in the Lodgings during
20th century, but the most radical ones took place in the late
1960s. First of all, its ‘annexe’ over the Hall was taken away, as a
passageway was brought through from Staircase V to run all the
way above the Hall ceiling, with no access to the Lodgings any
more. The entrance to the Lodgings from Staircase XIII was also
blocked off. However, the most unusual changes related to the
Principal’s dining room, situated at the left-hand side of the
entrance hall. This was now given a rear entrance from Third
Quad, and became called the Harper Room. This could be
entered either from Third Quad, as if it was an ordinary
College meeting room, or via the Lodgings, as if part of the
private space there.
Left: ‘Fire Dog’ Lodgings Drawing Room.
Image: Bev Shadbolt.
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No doubt the Principal’s Lodgings will see further changes in the
future, but it will always remain a building with two functions,
being partly a private space for heads and their family, and partly
a public place in which they can offer hospitality – and it will
certainly remain one of the most attractive Lodgings in Oxford.
Two important articles from older issues of the Jesus College Record supply more detailed information on
the architectural changes to the Lodgings. They are E. C. Thompson, ‘The Principal’s Lodgings’, JCR 1967,
pp. 23-8, and J. N. L. Baker, ‘The Principal’s Lodgings’, JCR 1968, pp. 20-1.
Right: ‘Friend or Foe?’ Mantlepiece detail.
Image: Bev Shadbolt.
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Cryptocurrencies and Ancient Athens
Vili Lehdonvirta | Senior Research Fellow
“The whole country was in the hands of a few persons, and if
tenants failed to pay their rent they could be haled into slavery,
and their children with them.” Aristotle in his Athenian
Constitution so describes how Athens in the sixth century BC
was ruled by powerful landowners. The situation became
untenable: “Since the many were in slavery to the few, the
common people rose against the upper class. The conflict was
keen, and for a long time the two parties were ranged in hostile
camps against one another.” Finally, a compromise was agreed:
“They appointed Solon to be mediator and Archon, and
committed the whole constitution to his hands.”
Solon set about designing a better system. Instead of requiring
the competing sides to rely on trustworthy officers of state, he
sought a way of making trustworthiness matter less. This
involved a machine called a kleroterion or ‘allotment machine’.
White and black balls were mixed inside the machine until a
mechanism released them. If a black ball landed next to your
plate, you were sent home; if it was a white ball, you were
appointed to office. Magistrates were appointed in this fashion
annually, jurors were reselected daily. The randomly selected
appointees acted as checks on each other.
In 2008, the world was reeling from the effects of the great
financial crisis. Due to inept government and selfish
corporations, many people had lost their jobs, savings, and even
homes. A programmer called Satoshi Nakamoto wanted to
design a better system – a ‘trustless’ financial system in which
trust in governments and banks was replaced with technological
Image: Pete Linforth, Pixabay.
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certainty: “What is needed is an electronic payment system
based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two
willing parties to transact directly with each other without the
need for a trusted third party.” In Nakamoto’s scheme, every
participant would run special peer-to-peer ‘banking software’
on their computers, which communicated directly with other
participants’ computers.
How would such a decentralised network ensure that people
spent only what they owned? Banks are needed precisely
because they keep a check on balances and can validate
transactions. Nakamoto’s idea was that the responsibility for
checking balances could circulate randomly between users, just
as posts had circulated randomly between citizens in ancient
Athens. Where Athenians used the kleroterion to rotate
administrators periodically, Nakamoto’s network used an
algorithm called proof-of-work to rotate the administrator
approximately every ten minutes. The job of the administrator
was to go through recently issued payment instructions, check
that they were valid, and collate them into a record known as a
block: an official record of transactions that could be used to
determine who owned what in the system. Of course, the
administrator would not have to check transactions by hand: the
work would be done automatically by peer-to-peer ‘banking
software’ running on their computer.
After approximately ten minutes, the next randomly appointed
administrator would take over, double-check the previous block
of records, and append their own block to it, forming a chain of
blocks – a ‘blockchain’. The constant circulation of responsibility
meant that the administration would, as in ancient Athens, be
difficult to corrupt. Together the users would be as powerful as
a bank, but individually none would wield power sufficient to
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coerce another. As long as most peers remained honest, the
platform could maintain orderly records without any single
trusted authority. “With e-currency based on cryptographic
proof, without the need to trust a third party middleman,
money can be secure and transactions effortless.” Nakamoto
called his invention Bitcoin.
However, a significant problem remained. What if an attacker
created puppet accounts until their numbers overwhelmed
legitimate users? It was not difficult to create new digital
personas online. The randomly chosen administrator could then
end up being the same person again and again, undermining the
system’s supposed lack of reliance on any single party. This
so-called Sybil attack – named after the Greek pseudonym of a
woman who suffered from multiple personality disorder – had
stumped Nakamoto’s predecessors. Solon had prevented this
eventuality by limiting eligibility to men who could prove that
they owned property in Athens. Nakamoto’s scheme required
would-be administrators to prove that they owned a CPU.
A Central Processing Unit is the part of a computer that makes
calculations. Anyone wishing to have a shot at being selected as
the next administrator in Nakamoto’s scheme had to make their
computer’s CPU try to guess a number that would solve an
otherwise meaningless cryptographic puzzle. Nakamoto called
this ‘mining’. The first participant whose CPU mined the correct
number became the administrator for the next ten-minute
block. Although anyone could create multiple online personas, if
the personas all shared the same CPU, their chance of being
appointed was no greater than the individual’s. Sybil was
thwarted.
Brilliant as Nakamoto was, he failed to realise that, just like gold
mining, bitcoin mining would entail economies of scale. Industrial
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mining operations incurred much lower unit costs than
individual users with PCs. The industrialists quickly
outcompeted the ordinary users whom Nakamoto had
expected to shoulder the system’s administration. Instead of
circulating randomly between thousands of crypto citizens,
Bitcoin’s official recordkeeping gravitated towards a handful of
large corporations.
Solon’s design sought to stave off oligarchy by allocating a
predetermined share of the kleroterion’s slots to each wealth
class in Athens. Every cohort of administrators would include
men from the wealthiest to those less well off (women and
slaves were excluded). Nakamoto built no such checks into
Bitcoin, and by late 2015 just three companies were responsible
for mining 60% of Bitcoin’s blocks. In principle, anyone
controlling over half of Bitcoin’s mining power would have been
able to stop any and all transactions they didn’t like.
At a Bitcoin conference in Hong Kong in December 2015,
managers representing approximately 90% of the Bitcoin
network’s mining power appeared together on a stage. The
corporations sought to assure the crypto citizens that they had
the network’s best interests in mind. ‘Trustless’ recordkeeping
had turned into ‘trust us.’
Excerpted from Vili Lehdonvirta’s book Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State
and How We Can Regain Control, published by MIT Press in September 2022.
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The Descent of Man
After God had created the Plants and the Trees,
there remained a Darwinian niche still to plug;
so then He made Adam and then He made Eve,
since the Trees needed People to give them a hug.
David Cram, Emeritus Fellow
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Coffee with Hitler: The Jesus Connection
Hugh Clayton | 1964 | PPE

When Joachim von Ribbentrop was appointed
German ambassador to Great Britain in 1936, he
had more on his mind than diplomacy. One
cherished aim was to win a place at Eton for his
oldest child, Rudolf, then aged 15. But Eton’s strict
entry rules barred him, and Rudolf was sent to
Westminster School instead. The British
intermediary who arranged his entry to
Westminster was a graduate of Jesus College who
styled himself ‘Professor Thomas Conwell-Evans’.
Much about the role of Conwell-Evans (1891-
1968) in Anglo-German relations before the
Second World War remains unexplained. As
Rudolf von Ribbentrop pointed out, he was not a
Professor, but a lecturer who had worked at the
University of Königsberg. He was not ‘Conwell-
Evans’ either, having changed his name from
Conwil Evans sometime after leaving Jesus with a
Second Class degree.
Evans was the second son of Thomas Conwil
Evans, a Carmarthen master tailor. Named in the
College records as Thomas Pugh Evans, he
entered Jesus at the age of 19 to read ‘modern
and mediaeval literature and languages’. When his
name crops up in histories of the 1930s, it is
frequently accompanied by adjectives such as
‘obscure’, ‘mysterious’, and ‘shadowy’: Rudolf von
Ribbentrop wrote that ‘father rated him as fairly
high-ranking in the Secret Service’. Some of his
contemporaries will have come into contact with
Winston Churchill, as he did; few can also have
A still from a film of Lloyd George’s visit to Germany, September
1936, showing Conwell-Evans with Hitler and Lloyd George (with
his back to the camera).
Image courtesy of the Screen and Sound Archive, The National Library of Wales.
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met Adolf Hitler, as Conwell-Evans did, more than once, in the
1930s. ‘Intermediary’ seems the appropriate word for
somebody who was often present at important events but did
not make himself conspicuous.
Charles Spicer’s recent book Coffee with Hitler gives a lively
account of Anglo-German relations in the 1930s. Spicer was
given access to an archive entrusted by Conwell-Evans to a
The College
Register entry
for Thomas
Pugh Evans,
shown top.
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friend, the historian Sir Martin Gilbert. While little is known of
Conwell-Evans’ life during the First World War, in the 1930s he
became part of the group derided as ‘ambulant amateurs’ who
attempted to improve relations between Britain and Germany
outside official diplomatic channels. A lifelong pacifist, he was a
regular visitor to Germany until early in 1939, after which, he
writes, “I could no longer travel safely in that country”.
It is not clear when Conwell-Evans started passing sensitive
information from Germany to the British government. In 1934,
he wrote a ‘personal statement’ in which he claimed that he had
often told Nazi leaders that changes were needed in Germany
“without which good relations with England are scarcely
possible”. These included, he wrote, “the rehabilitation in some
form of the Jews as a race. This is not to ignore the fact that
Germany has a Jewish problem”. Although he had seen no
violence in Germany, it was impossible to deny that ‘much
cruelty has occurred’, in his view involving only ‘a minority of
roughs’. Eight years later he acknowledged “I was sadly late in
perceiving the real nature of the Nazi German menace. My zeal
for peace caused me to turn a blind eye to ugly facts”.
This statement appeared in the preface to None So Blind, a book
co-authored by Conwell-Evans but compiled mainly from
material written by Group Captain M. G. Christie CMG, DSO,
MC. Christie was a much earlier opponent of the Nazis than
Conwell-Evans; he had intended to destroy his personal archive,
but Conwell-Evans persuaded him to let some of it be
published. None So Blind was completed in 1942, but printed
only in 1947 as a single edition of 100 numbered copies: Spicer
traced 26 surviving copies in university and national libraries.
The authors gave instructions that None So Blind should be
distributed only after they were both dead. Powerful forces in
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Britain will have resisted its publication. Christie had served as
an air attaché in Washington and Berlin, and had sent a stream
of reports to London from Germany. His predictions of the
dates of the invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1939
were accurate virtually to the day. Coffee with Hitler highlights
the extent to which his detailed warnings, obtained from
high-level contacts in German military and diplomatic circles,
were ignored in London.
The late 1930s were busy for Conwell-Evans too. He helped to
arrange Lloyd George’s notorious visit to Hitler in 1936, and
acted as interpreter at their private meeting. In 1937 he became
the last Secretary of the Anglo-German Fellowship, a society
that welcomed German tycoons and aristocrats to banquets in
London and lavish weekends in the shires (Spicer advocates ‘a
nuanced interpretation of the Fellowship as being Germanophile
rather than pro-Nazi’). Martin Gilbert told Conwell-Evans’s
niece that he had once believed her uncle had betrayed his
country, but he later changed his mind. The evidence showed, in
his view, that the mysterious Jesus alumnus, in his genuine desire
to preserve peace between Germany and England, “did things
for our country of which no man need be ashamed, and few
could parallel”.
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise
the Nazis by Charles Spicer was published by Oneworld in 2022.
Hugh Clayton is grateful to David Lermon (1964, Law) and archivist
Robin Darwall-Smith for their assistance with this article.
Right: Punts at twilight.
Photo: Chris Dingwall-Jones.
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The ‘Lost’ Islands of Cardigan Bay
Simon Haslett | Honorary Professor | Swansea University
David Willis | Jesus Professor of Celtic
A medieval map held in the
Bodleian Library depicts two
islands in Cardigan Bay (Bae
Ceredigion in Welsh) which
no longer exist. The Gough
Map, the oldest sheet map of
Britain, shows two islands
lying offshore, a southerly
island between Aberystwyth
and Aberdovey (Aberdyfi)
and a northern island
between there and
Barmouth (Abermaw).
We have recently proposed
that these ‘lost’ islands are
the remnants of a low-lying
landscape created by soft
deposits laid down during the
David Willis (left) and Simon Haslett
(right) on the shore of Cardigan Bay at
Aberystwyth.
height of the last ice age (approximately between 35,000 and
10,000 years ago). The deposits will have been dissected by
rivers and truncated by the sea, and their surfaces lowered
through run-off to create the ‘islands’. The southerly island lies
between the mouths of the River Ystwyth (Afon Ystwyth) and
the River Dovey (Afon Dyfi), the northerly island between the
River Dovey and the River Mawddach (Afon Mawddach). These
rivers probably flowed westward between and around the ‘lost’
islands, and as the finer sediments of ice-age deposits were
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Eroding cliffs in
the middle of
Cardigan Bay.
eroded away, the larger gravel and boulder components were
left on the seafloor as a lag deposit.
The position of the islands coincides with the location of
underwater accumulations of gravel and boulders known locally
as sarns. The sarns are considered to have been moraines
(material left behind by moving glaciers), but gravel and
boulders released by the erosion of islands could have
contributed to these accumulations. Removing large volumes of
sediment requires a high rate of erosion – we estimate around
five to ten metres a year. A review of similar coastlines
elsewhere shows that this rate is not unusual. On the more
sheltered North Sea coast of Suffolk, along the same coastline
as the lost medieval port of Dunwich, the erosion rate of cliffs
created from ice-age deposits has been up to six metres a year.
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Along the Atlantic coast of Canada, which may be more akin to
the Atlantic-facing Cardigan Bay, the erosion rate of cliffs made
up of similar deposits has been estimated at over eight metres
a year.
Welsh literary and historical sources preserve a tradition of
places called Maes Gwyddno and Cantre’ r Gwaelod
(‘The Hundred of the Bottom’) in what is now Cardigan Bay.
The location of the mouth of the River Ystwyth indicated
by the 2nd-century AD Greek cartographer Ptolemy suggests
that the coastline at the time may have been some thirteen
kilometres further seaward than it is today. The story of
Cantre’ r Gwaelod, thus, may have its foundations in a landscape
comprised of soft sediments whose margins had been eroded
and surfaces lowered. Medieval Welsh literature and
genealogies also speak of an inundation: a verse from the Black
Book of Carmarthen (around AD 1250) runs “Stand forth,
The medieval
Gough Map,
orientated with
east at the top.
Reproduced under the
Bodleian Library’s terms
of use.
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Extract from the
Black Book of
Carmarthen.
Courtesy of
National Library of Wales.
Seithenhin, and look upon the fury of the sea; it has covered
Maes Gwyddneu.” However, not all the ice-age deposits in
Cardigan Bay have eroded away: fragments persist in lowland
areas around Aberaeron and north along the coast to
Llanrhystud. If these areas were removed by erosion, the
coastline of this part of Ceredigion would become more
indented.
Our research, published in the journal Atlantic Geosciences,
proposes a provisional framework for the evolution of Celtic
coasts along the European seaboard; in addition to Cardigan
Bay, in Cornwall and Brittany the lost lands of Lyonesse and Ys
are referenced in literary sources and popular memory. We
plan to undertake further research to investigate the post-glacial
evolution of Cardigan Bay and what influence the possible ‘lost’
islands may have had. Along the coast of Cardigan Bay, towns
such as Fairbourne are vulnerable to climate and sea-level
change, which could result in some of the first climate change
refugees in the UK. The erosion of islands will have released not
only the boulders that contributed to the sarns, but also large
quantities of finer sediment such as sand and silt. This would
have been deposited on the seabed or driven by waves and
currents landward to the coast, where longshore drift could
have transported it northwards, suggesting an explanation for
why sea access to Harlech Castle was choked by sediment after
the castle was built in the late 13th century.
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Chaucer’s Wife of Bath:
A New Biography
Marion Turner | J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English
Literature and Language
The Wife of Bath: A Biography is the story of Chaucer’s bestloved
character, from her origins in Biblical and patristic texts
through to the present day. Alison of Bath is the first ordinary
woman in English literature: a middle-aged woman who tells
stories, makes mistakes, goes on holiday. Before Chaucer
invented this evidently extraordinary character, women in
literature were generally queens, witches, damsels in distress,
nuns, virginal princesses, or whores. The main source of
Chaucer’s character, La Vielle in Le Roman de la Rose, is a cynical
old bawd; by contrast the Wife of Bath is a (technically)
respectable woman with a moral awareness, a sense of humour,
and a strong understanding of her past and future. She is the
most memorable of all the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales, and
has fascinated readers from Shakespeare and Voltaire to Joyce
and Pasolini.
My book sets the Wife of Bath in her own historical moment,
the late 14th century. The post-plague years were a time of
social mobility and opportunity for women in north-western
Europe. Women moved to towns and became economically
independent. In England and the Low Countries widows
enjoyed legal protections; and marriage patterns and customs
encouraged women to earn and save money. It was also a time
of oppression and misogyny: Alison speaks openly about
domestic abuse and rape, and makes a plea for women’s voices
to be heard. This book weaves the story of the Wife of Bath
alongside the stories of real medieval women such as Margery
Ellesmere Chaucer, EL26 C9 Egerton family papers,
The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 72r.
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Kempe’s maid, who abandoned her employer to carve out her
own successful career as a cellarer in Rome, and Katherine
Neville, the fifteenth-century duchess who married a teenager
when she was in her sixties.
Readers responded to the Wife of Bath with anxiety, outrage,
and fascination. 15th-century scribes wrote more commentary
on the Prologue than on any other part of The Canterbury Tales.
Dryden said he dared not translate the Prologue as ‘tis too
licentious’; and a seventeenth-century ballad, The Wanton Wife
of Bath, was ordered to be burnt and its printers thrown in
prison. Shakespeare responded to her by creating the character
of Falstaff and writing The Merry Wives of Windsor, which I argue
was directly inspired by his reading of the Wife of Bath’s
Prologue and Tale.
In the 20th century, plays about the Wife of Bath were
performed in communist Poland; novels were written that
presented her as a devoted mother in need of being rescued;
and even cheeses and soaps were named after her. In the
21st century Black British writers have adapted her Prologue
and Tale: Patience Agbabi (Telling Tales), Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze
(‘The Wife of Bath in Brixton Market’), and Zadie Smith (The
Wife of Willesden) have all rewritten her story, reimagining her
voice as being that of a woman from the African diaspora. After
all these adventures, Alison of Bath remains alive and well in
2023. My book tells her amazing tale.
The Wife of Bath: A Biography was published by Princeton in
January 2023.
Marion Turner, Professor of English Literature and Tutorial Fellow at
Jesus from 2007-2022, was elected to the J.R.R. Tolkien
Professorship in English Literature and Language, a post attached to
Lady Margaret Hall, in Michaelmas 2022. Her prize-winning
Chaucer: A European Life came out in 2019. She will curate an
exhibition, ‘Chaucer: Here and Now’, at the Bodleian from
December 2023 to April 2024.
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Gargoyle.
Photo: Chris Dingwall-Jones.

Albert Frederick Pollard.
Photo courtesy of National Portrait Gallery.
www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp96214/albert-frederick-pollard

A. F. Pollard:
A Historian to Celebrate at Jesus
Colin Haydon | 1975 | History
The historian most celebrated at Jesus College is John Richard
Green (1837-83), whose Short History of the English People (1874)
was a bestseller in its day. A plaque in Second Quad
commemorates him, and the College’s History Society is named
after him. Yet Green, who matriculated at Jesus in 1855, loathed
what he called ‘that vile place’ and its Welshmen; and the
College numbers many distinguished historians among its alumni
and dons, including Sir Goronwy Edwards (1891-1976), Sir John
Habakkuk (1915-2002), and Sir Richard Evans (1947-) and, not
least, Albert Frederick Pollard (1869-1948).
Born on the Isle of Wight, where his father was a
pharmaceutical chemist, Pollard was educated at Felsted School,
and matriculated at Jesus as an Exhibitioner in 1887. After
reading Classics and obtaining a Second in Mods, he transferred
to Modern History, in which he gained a First in 1891. He
remained at Jesus in 1892, when he won the Marquis of
Lothian’s Historical Prize (later he was to win the Arnold Prize
too). His subsequent career was hugely successful: 1893-1901,
assistant editor of the Dictionary of National Biography; 1903-31,
Professor of Constitutional History, University College, London;
1908-36, Fellow of All Souls; 1920, Fellow of the British
Academy; 1920-39, Founder and Director of the Institute of
Historical Research (IHR) in London; the recipient of numerous
academic honours. He published prolifically, most famously
Henry VIII (1902), The Evolution of Parliament (1920), and Wolsey
(1929), and, astonishingly, some five hundred DNB entries.
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These details give little impression of Pollard as a man.
The Times’ obituary, while noting that his ‘capacity for work
seemed to defy physical or intellectual fatigue’, says little of his
personality. However, the lengthy obituary by Oxford’s V. H.
Galbraith describes a ‘man of somewhat autocratic temper’, his
‘not always sympathetic personality’, and ‘a life full of academic
clashes and antagonisms’. Pollard ruled over UCL’s historians
and the IHR through his ‘dominating personality’, which he
exerted over his colleagues and female assistants, among them
his wife. In his National Portrait Gallery photograph, he appears
precise in every detail, stiff, bespectacled, barely smiling, his pipe
signifying sustained concentration. He had, apparently, a gentler,
more appealing side when relaxing with his juniors; but

according to A. L. Rowse, his personality cost Pollard the Regius
Chair of Modern History at Oxford. There is, however, a case
to be made for a fuller commemoration of Pollard by Jesus
College in particular. First, because as a student at the College
he dutifully and frequently wrote letters to his parents (now
housed in the Senate House Library, London) which give much
useful detail about the late Victorian College; and secondly
because, as the letters show, it was Jesus that laid the
foundations for his considerable achievements.
On arriving at the College, Pollard sent his parents details of his
rooms, with measurements and sketches. He found the food
indifferent, and later claimed that the dinners were ‘sadly
degenerating’, while the coffee was remarkable for its
Felsted School, where Pollard was a pupil, has a room named in his honour.
Photo: Sophy W. CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97230274

Senate House Library where Pollard’s letters are housed.
Photo courtesy of University of London
‘tastelessness and thinness’. He was elected to the Elizabethan
Society, then a serious literary group, and spoke at the Debating
Society (and subsequently the Union). He met dons on social
occasions, made friends and, unlike Green, was not ill-disposed
to his Welsh contemporaries. Initially impressed with
H. D. Harper, Principal from 1877 to 1895, he was later sharply
critical of him. He thought Harper’s likely successor, John Rhŷs,
‘one of the cleverest Professors in Oxford’, but in 1890
commented that he exhibited traces of ‘very boorish manners’.
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Another candidate was dismissed as a great consumer of
College port; Pollard had been raised a teetotaller.
Pollard’s letters do not overburden his parents with accounts of
his studies and reading, though he justified switching from
Classics to History by claiming a disinclination to explore Greats’
‘philosophical quibbles’. He included details which he thought
would interest the family; the Pollards were Liberals, and the
letters comment on political issues. In February 1890, William
Gladstone spoke in Oxford (on Homer and ancient Assyria).
Pollard sat very close, and observed that, although ‘the G.O.M.’
looked old, his eyes were wonderfully brilliant, and his paper,
delivered in a low voice, was humorous and interesting. Pollard
also described his Schools exams at some length. He had slept
badly before the first day, which was intensely hot; and he
gloomily underestimated his performance in seven out of the
ten papers. As an examiner himself later in 1905, Pollard would
be harsh: he describes a Jesus candidate as one of ‘the stupidest
men in the Schools: but industrious’.
Pollard enjoyed vigorous exercise, walking long distances,
running even in the snow, bathing, and skating. He was a
ferociously keen rower, although during his years at Jesus the
crews proved far from successful. He joined the College Boat
Club in his first term and became Captain of Boats in 1890. He
trained hard, even in vile weather: in February 1888 he wrote
‘the snow ugh! cut our necks and hands like needles’. Pollard
disdained rowers who lacked ‘pluck and energy’ or failed to live
healthily: he opined that ‘Jesus men seem absolutely incapable of
any self-sacrifice for the college – or at least the Welsh part of
the community do’ (a rare anti-Cambrian swipe). In his last year,
he trained the Eight vigorously, coaching the crew from
horseback over the Long Course. This was probably foolhardy,
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since he appears not to have ridden before: ‘I’m still very stiff’,
he wrote home.
Rowing with its team activities and meals gave Pollard a large
part of his social life. He also attended Balliol’s concerts and the
Elizabethan Society’s annual dinners. He was invited to social
events, At Homes (What were appropriate clothes?, he
wondered), and picnic and boating trips. He enjoyed teas, but
not dancing, and had an eye for ‘girls’. The young women at
History lectures were, he said, much better looking than those
who attended classical lectures; and, at one evening event, there
were ‘some very nice and pretty girls’. In June 1892 he took
members of the Lucy family, whose wealth derived from
Jericho’s Eagle Ironworks, punting on the Cherwell. In October
1894, he married Katie Lucy.
Pollard had been somewhat disappointed at coming to Jesus,
having wanted a Scholarship at Jowett’s all-conquering Balliol.
Nevertheless, ‘I mean to live with all my power at College’, he
declared after leaving Felsted, ‘and I ought to be happy in the
midst of such congenial surroundings literary, classical and
educational in every way.’ He was receptive to new modes of
thinking: ‘almost all my opinions have changed’, he wrote,
shortly before going up to Oxford. Aside from academic
ambition, there was a strong financial motivation for hard work.
Unlike aristocratic or rich undergraduates’ families, his parents
could not provide a financial safety-net after university. At
Oxford, he wrote, ‘I live much cheaper than any of the other
men I know’; and he spent part of the Lothian prize-money on
new shoes and trousers. He considered other professions but
increasingly wanted a university career and, therefore, a
triumphant Schools result.
His tutors at Jesus were the right people to nurture his talents.
The Classics tutor was Wallace Martin Lindsay, a superb
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Pollard’s History
tutor at Jesus,
Reginald Lane
Poole.
Latinist, philologist, and palaeographer, who gave
Pollard generous coaching before Mods. Pollard’s
History tutor was Reginald Lane Poole, a
medievalist of enormous distinction and editor of
the English Historical Review, Britain’s premier
historical journal. Before Schools Poole arranged
for Pollard to be taught by Charles Firth, then a
lecturer at Pembroke and, from 1904, Regius
Professor. This trio, all educated at the Balliol
powerhouse, enjoyed a valuable knowledge of
Continental universities. They had studied in
Germany; Lindsay and Poole received honorary
degrees from Continental universities; and the
French scholar Charles Bémont numbered Poole
among the foremost British historians. And it was
principally in Germany that the professional
practice, standards, and ideals of nineteenth-century historical
researchers were established by Leopold von Ranke and his
followers: history grounded on a period’s surviving
contemporary sources, scrupulously assessed for reliability;
dispassionate, impartial history, devoid of anachronistic
judgements and the imprint of an author’s times.
Recognising his commitment and potential, Pollard’s tutors
taught him appropriately. Lindsay showed him manuscript
facsimiles, and purchased for the Meyricke Library books for his
two key Schools papers. Firth provided him with quantities of
books. Poole advised him not to attend superficial lectures and
fostered his critical thinking, while supporting his rowing. In
January 1891, Pollard told his parents that he would sit a mock
paper for Poole once a week. Despite some tensions Poole ‘has
been very good to me indeed’, he observed just before leaving
Oxford. After the First, there were further preparations for an
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academic career. Oxford did not then award research degrees,
but a grounding in research was obtainable by writing a prize
essay (as Firth and Poole had done) and publishing it. So that
Pollard could compete for the Lothian, Jesus extended his
funding. He studied gruellingly when preparing the drafts, and
read contemporary sources; for Schools, undergraduates were
required to read overwhelmingly historians’ works. After his
success with the essay, published as The Jesuits in Poland, Pollard
wrote reviews for The St James’s Gazette, attended palaeography
lectures, and prepared for the All Souls Fellowship examination.
He failed to secure a Fellowship, blaming a poor examination
performance and his social class: ‘All Souls is a frightfully
aristocratic place’, he thought.
Jesus prepared the groundwork for Pollard’s scholarship and
career. Principally, it initiated his veneration of sources and the
ideal, albeit not always achieved, of austere impartiality when
investigating the past. The guiding of Pollard’s first steps in
research is thought-provoking. Firth, in his inaugural lecture
delivered in November 1904, advocated a programme of
training in the Oxford History School strikingly similar to that
devised for Pollard during his final two years at Jesus. That
proposal was famously and emphatically rejected by the History
dons, who, eschewing research themselves, saw Oxford’s
History degree as a general course for future politicians and
Home and Empire civil servants, not a training for future
scholars. Thereafter they boycotted Firth for twenty years. Was
Pollard a guinea pig for the reformers, Poole and Firth? And
would he have received such excellent history teaching at almost
any other College but Jesus?
One also wonders if Firth’s débâcle explains Pollard’s
transformation from likeable undergraduate to tyrannical
martinet, resolved that, as a professor, his will would prevail. In
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his inaugural lecture in London, delivered five weeks before
Firth’s inaugural lecture as Regius Professor at Oxford, Pollard
presented his blueprint for historical studies. Undergraduates,
whose number was to increase hugely, were to study a period’s
sources; and documentary source-books were accordingly
produced. More dynamic was Pollard’s plan for fostering
research at London, utilising the state’s archives stored in the
capital: a base for professional historians and a training-school
for research students. It was the origin of the Institute of
Historical Research. In his Thursday ‘conferences’ there, Pollard
copied von Ranke’s renowned seminars at Berlin. International
scholarly cooperation was promoted by the IHR’s Anglo-
American Conference of Historians (which continues to this
day) and the dissemination of researchers’ discoveries by the
Institute’s Bulletin.
Pollard’s conception of academic history was diffused through
London’s external degree programmes for British and colonial
students, overseas candidates, and then the Empire’s and
Britain’s university colleges. The Times’ obituary begins by noting
Pollard’s impact ‘not only in Great Britain but throughout the
English-speaking world and the continent of Europe’. Surely
Pollard deserves to be commemorated properly at Jesus both
as a distinguished scholar who occupies, as The Times noted, ‘a
permanent place among the historians of our country’, and as an
unrivalled student chronicler of the College’s life before the
twentieth century? Felsted School and the Institute of Historical
Research have rooms named in his honour. Should he not be
honoured likewise at Jesus, and perhaps Green made to yield
his place to allow the College’s History Society to be renamed
after A. F. Pollard?
Colin Haydon is currently editing Pollard’s Oxford letters for a volume
to be published by the Oxford Historical Society.
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The Lure of Textiles
Sophie Pitman | 2006 | History & English
In the Hall at Jesus hangs a magnificent
portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. The
Queen’s clothing dominates the canvas,
her skirts exceeding the frame. A
bobbin lace ruff encircles her face, and
her body is covered with engineered
textiles, metals, and jewels. Cage
sleeves studded with pearls and
embroidered with floral slips
emphasise her long slender hands. Her
gown opens at the front to reveal a lush underskirt heavy with
embroidered suns and rosettes rendered in gold, gems, and
pearls. Supporting this clothing we must imagine materials such
as whalebone, card, and a ‘farthingale’ (a cage of hoops). The
painting is both fantastical and documentary, recording the huge
cost and skills invested in clothing in the early modern era.
I must have absorbed this image unconsciously while eating,
drinking, chatting, or sitting collections. Since graduation, I have
devoted my time to thinking about early modern textiles,
clothing, and material culture. It has always been an interest:
I spent hours choosing my interview outfit (a tweed suit, the
only suit I have owned in my life); I adored the clothing culture
of Oxford; and as a Joint Honours student I quickly determined
that English students tended to dress better than Historians.
It was in my final year that I realised that my passion for fashion
could be more than just a pastime: I wrote my undergraduate
thesis on Elizabethan sumptuary law, and took my doctorate at
Cambridge with a thesis on the clothing culture of early
modern London.
Left: Sample with Stags and Hearts, c.1935-43,
Milwaukee Handicraft Project, P.D.US.0467l.
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Now 13 years and 4,000 miles away from Oxford, my work at
Wisconsin-Madison involves examining textiles ranging from
Finnish cotton screen prints with psychedelic shapes to tiny
ancient fragments from Peru painted with purple extracted from
the glands of shellfish. I curate a collection that contains textiles
from almost every continent, time period, and tradition, with
Ikat-dyed kimono fabrics and super-fine Indian muslins stored in
cabinets alongside Swedish table linens and darning samplers
made by American schoolgirls two hundred years ago.
The collection was established by Professor Helen Louise Allen
(1902-1968), who travelled during university breaks to bring
back textiles purchased from dealers and craftspeople from
around the world. It has
grown over the
subsequent half century to
a collection of more than
13,000 objects.
Fragment of cotton painted with shellfish
purple, 200 BCE, Peru, 1997.13.001
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, School of Human Ecology,
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Textiles are a lens through
which one can understand
the world. An art historian
sees human skill in an
elaborately woven silk; a
historian reads economic
and social shifts in the
warp and weft. Botanists
and zoologists can explore
the diversity of plants,
animals, and minerals that
make up the fibres, dyes,
feathers, and furs used to
create hats, pillowcases,
and cloaks; chemists can
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Detail of Songket,
c.2000, gift of
John Jackson,
2021.07.017.
Helen Louise Allen
Textile Collection, School
of Human Ecology,
University of Wisconsin-
Madison.
analyse their origins and date. Mathematicians and computer
scientists will observe patterns, structure, and tension in the
designs, while linguists will read names, prayers, and mantras
embroidered in tiny stitches. My inclination to this
interdisciplinary mode of investigation owes much to my time at
Jesus. I trace it to the linen-fold panels of Hall, where I sat next
to astrophysicists, medics, lawyers, and philosophers, and
chatted with them about their work. Above us hovered the
enigmatic but always well-dressed Virgin Queen. I wonder what
questions she is posing to the next generation.
Sophie Pitman (spitman@wisc.edu) is Pleasant Rowland Textile
Specialist and Research Director of the Helen Louise Allen Textile
Collection (cdmc.wisc.edu/textiles/helen-louise-allen-textilecollection/)
at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is working
on a book about the emergence of London as a fashion city and on
an exhibition of reconstructed Renaissance clothing.
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Memories of Fred Taylor, Emeritus Fellow
24.09.1944 – 16.12.2021
Fred joined Oxford’s Department of Physics and Jesus College in
1966 as a DPhil student under the supervision of Sir John
Houghton. His thesis was on the development of an infrared
radiometer as prototype for an atmospheric temperature
sounder to be launched on the NASA Nimbus satellite. That
instrument would successfully fly on Nimbus 6 and subsequently
on planetary exploration missions to Venus and Mars. He is
remembered here by Jesus colleagues.
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After a DPhil at Oxford and many years at NASA’s Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Fred Taylor returned in 1980 as a
Reader in Atmospheric Physics at Oxford, later becoming the
inaugural holder of the Halley Professorship when the statutory
chair was created. When he arrived, he discovered that he was
Acting Head of a department that did not actually exist in the
Statutes! So his first task was to establish Atmospheric Physics
as a statutory entity. He was in large measure responsible for
the department’s present-day excellence in planetary science,
now expanding into the frontier area of planets around stars
other than our own. He was an engaging conversationalist, with
wide-ranging interests both within and outside science, and was
often accompanied by his wife, Doris (née Buer), his companion
for 52 years of marriage. I enjoyed many stimulating discussions
with Fred during our all-too-brief time of overlap. His life and
works were celebrated at a memorial event at the College and
in a day-long colloquium held in the Physics Department on 1
November 2022. He will be very sorely missed in the College,
the Physics department, and the worldwide planetary science
community.
Ray Pierrehumbert
Fred was one of the first Fellows I spoke to when I arrived at
Jesus in 2013. I sat next to him at my first meal in College, and
he was very welcoming. I always enjoyed hearing his
recollections of space exploration. His enthusiasm for the
subject was boundless, and it was a privilege to have him share
his thoughts with me.
Tim Coulson
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Once at a Governing Body meeting when the Principal (then
John Krebs) asked for corrections to the minutes, Fred noted
that the word ‘whether’ had been misspelt ‘weather’ in one
paragraph, adding wittily that his expertise as a meteorologist
had finally come in use. In addition to his brilliant scientific
achievements, Fred was a kind, modest, and witty colleague,
with infectious enthusiasm and understated humour. He once
explained to the Senior Common Room the idea of
‘terraforming’ – creating Earth-like conditions on other planets
for potential human habitation – and I remain genuinely keen on
his vision for reducing road haulage in the UK by creating
underground tunnels for goods distribution. Fred and Doris
were regular attenders at Guest Night dinners. When I first
joined Jesus I’d invited guests from London only to discover that
the list for SCR Dessert was full. Fred offered to yield his places
to allow my guests to enjoy the full experience. It was a typically
kind and generous gesture. We all deeply miss Fred’s cheerful
and good-natured presence.
Armand D’Angour
Fred Taylor was one of the most comprehensively interesting
people I’ve had the pleasure to talk with. Obviously a hugely
talented and accomplished scientist, he nevertheless wore his
learning very lightly and was always delighted to talk – literally –
about life, the universe and everything else. Coupled with a
genuine interest in other people, and in the mission of the
College and the University, this made for some wonderful
conversations, which I miss very much.
Rich Grenyer
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I had many enjoyable interactions with Fred, but my abiding
memories will be of his appearances at our academic evenings in
the senior common room after his supposed retirement. It
seemed that at each event he would turn up with a new book or
other major piece of work, showing productivity that those of
us pre-retirement could only dream of. It was a pleasure to
observe his enjoyment of his work.
Martin Booth
When I took over as Secretary to the Governing Body around
1995 I didn’t know Fred by sight, and more than once omitted
his name from the list of GB attendees. During one meeting
Fred passed a note to me with ‘FRED TAYLOR’ written in large
letters. I looked up, embarrassed, to see Fred smiling wryly.
Since those early days we must have sat together at dozens of
lunches and dinners, and I came to know Fred’s sense of
humour and other qualities very well. As an experimental
Physical Chemist I was fascinated to hear his accounts of the
instruments that he helped to develop and send into space to
perform experiments on remote worlds that were not dissimilar
to experiments we chemists struggle to make work on terra
firma. Fred will be sorely missed, and College lunches will not be
the same.
Mark Brouard
Fred was a stalwart SCR member and deeply valued the
academic fellowship of the Senior Common Room. Even after
retirement he was a regular attendee at SCR occasions, and
always made time to engage with members both old and new.
He was celebrated for his visionary schemes, two of which
I particularly treasure. One involved knocking through the walls
between the Lower SCR and the Memorial Room to create a
space more fitting to accommodate the SCR membership, now
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more than 100. As attractive as this plan might be, we were not
sure what view English Heritage might take. The other was the
plan (which he’d been invited to present to a Government
panel) to ship goods around the UK using pods speeding on
superconductors through subterranean tunnels.
Philip Burrows
I miss Fred enormously. I knew him not only as a distinguished
physicist, but as a man devoted to his birthplace, its community,
and to his friends and family. His mother came from Newcastle,
and remained devoted to Newcastle Brown and Newcastle
United Football Club. He was born in the fishing village of
Amble, and though his brilliance took him elsewhere in life, he
was intensely loyal to his Northumbrian roots, where the
community were overwhelmingly Brexiters (as was he – a
matter on which we vocally disagreed). For many years he and
I met at the White Horse Pub before going on to dine at
College, where Phil Burrows would greet us saying “The Two
Musketeers have arrived”. Fred met his wife, Doris, when both
were graduate students at Jesus, and they enjoyed a wonderful
marriage of over 50 years; my wife, Marianne, and I shared
many happy occasions with them. I remember a dinner party at
which Fred set out to tell a joke (about the wedding of a crab
and a shrimp) but became incapacitated with laughter, tears of
mirth running down his face; it caused the assembled company
to laugh much more than the denouement might have. We
never got to hear the punchline.
Richard Moxon
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Chapel detail.
Photo: Bev Shadbolt.

Shakespeare’s Second Folio
at Jesus College
Owen McKnight | College Librarian
Peter Sabor | Professor of English, McGill University |
Visiting Fellow 2022
Shakespeare’s Second Folio in the Fellows’ Library (I Arch.3.18).
2023 marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First
Folio edition of Shakespeare. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies,
Histories, & Tragedies was ‘published according to the True
Originall Copies’ in 1623, seven years after the playwright’s
death. It was the first time Shakespeare’s plays had been
published as a collection and, although the sonnets and narrative
poems are not included, there are sixteen plays which had not
previously been printed individually. It was sold for fifteen
shillings unbound, or about £1 with a plain calf binding. In 2020,
a copy was auctioned at Christie’s, New York, for just under
$10 million.
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The Contents page of Shakespeare’s Second Folio.
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Jesus College does not own a First Folio (though should any Old
Member have one to spare, the Librarian would be pleased to
accept it as a gift to the Fellows’ Library); but the College does
own the ‘second Impression’. Published in 1632, only nine years
after the First, it contains several hundred textual amendments
made by an unidentified editor, as well as a considerable number
of printing errors. It is one of nine copies to be found in Oxford
college libraries (with three more at the Bodleian), and it too is
valuable, if less highly prized than the First Folio.
The College’s Second Folio has a late 19th-century binding in
caramel-coloured leather, decorated with a simple pattern of
intersecting perpendicular lines and small ‘fleurons’ (floral
ornaments) in ‘blind-tooling’ (i.e. without gilt), all somewhat
scuffed around the edges. It was restored by the Oxford
Conservation Consortium in 2017 to make it safe for handling in
student seminars. How did it arrive in College? As it happens,
the Second Folio is dedicated to William Herbert, 3rd Earl of
Pembroke, who was the first Visitor of the College (his stout
bronze statue stands in the Bodleian quadrangle, where it is
sometimes mistaken for Sir Thomas Bodley). It would be
pleasant to speculate that Herbert gave the book to the
College’s newly-built library; but in fact he died in 1630, and the
dedication is simply repeated from the First Folio.
We can trace our copy’s movements in the early catalogues
(whose recent conservation treatment was described in the
Jesus Record 2021). These indicate that it was in the library by
1712, and possibly already present at the completion of the
current Fellows’ Library around 1680. It is not, however,
recorded among the books from the previous library, placed
with Fellows for safekeeping in the 1640s, suggesting that the
College did not acquire it at the time of publication. The Second
Folio is noteworthy for including the first printed poem,
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unsigned, by John Milton, then aged 24; and the copy at Jesus is
noteworthy for two additional verses written on the preliminary
pages by an as yet unidentified reader.
In her 2016 book on the First Folio, Emma Smith of Hertford
College remarks that ‘early modern reading was typically
undertaken with a pen’ and that scraps of poetry were among
the marks that readers (oblivious to the stratospheric prices
that these books would later fetch) left behind. In the case of
the Jesus Second Folio, there are more than scraps. In addition
to minor corrections throughout to the names of parts and
the numbering of scenes, there are two epitaphs to
Shakespeare in what seems to be the same hand. Both are
apparently original, both are written in heroic couplets, and
both bear the initials ‘P.W.’ The verse is accomplished,
suggesting that the author had had experience in writing
poetry.
The shorter of the two epitaphs, consisting of six couplets, has
been heavily scored over (we are grateful to Stephen Clarke,
Amy Lidster, Jim McCue, and Henry Woudhuysen for helping
us with both of the transcriptions). The first epitaph (pictured
overleaf) reads as follows:
Shakespeare thou art not dead, thou do’st but sleepe. /
Thy Lynes both Tune, and due proportion keepe
As did thy pulse and breath as freshe & faire,
As when the Globe was ravish’d wth thy Aire
Had’st thou awak’d till now, and still had writt,
Thou might’st haue left more Lynes, but not more witt.
P.W.
Apparently dissatisfied with this initial attempt, P.W. then wrote
a longer version, (pictured right) expressing similar sentiments
about Shakespeare’s immortality and giving the piece a title,
‘Uppon the ffamous Shakespeare and His Excellent lynes’:
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Rest Princely Poet, This Immortall sleepe
Distemperes not thy machlesse Lynes. / they keepe
There Constant Harmonie, as ffreshe, and ffaire,
As when the Globe Breath’d such Delit’ous Ayre
Wee misse the not, vppon the Publique stage
Thy Rare Conceptions secretly Engage
Judit’ous Eares, and Eyes to Heare, and see
The Lasting straines of Witt, and Poetry. /
Had’st thou more Ages Liv’d, more Vollumes writt }
More Lynes thou might’st haue lefft, though not more witt }
Those first without this Last not worth a Sh—tt. }
P.W. D.P.
In this recension, the scurrilous last line has been added by
another hand, and a bracket added beside the last three lines,
turning what had been a couplet into a triplet. The final word,
‘Sh—tt’, is written thus; the wag who inserted the line used a
dash instead of an ‘i’. The letters ‘D.P.’, in faded ink, can just be
made out next to those of ‘P.W.’, suggesting that someone with
these initials had mockingly responded to P.W.’s efforts.
Who were the reverent P.W. and the coarse D.P.? Who had
access to the Fellows’ Library (then, as now, not customarily
open to students) with the opportunity to annotate the Second
Folio? The style of the handwriting dates to the 17th century, but
without knowing more precisely when the book arrived in
College, we cannot say whether these verses were added before
or after its acquisition. Assuming that P.W. was a Jesus man,
however, there is a candidate: Paul Wonaker (or Woneccer).
Wonaker came from the Rhineland to study at Queens’ College,
Cambridge, before moving to Oxford and taking his BA in
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1623-24. The following year, he contributed a Latin poem to a
University anthology in honour of the marriage of Charles I &
Henrietta Maria. Although he did not become a Fellow after
graduating, might the Fellows have invited him to write a eulogy
for Shakespeare?
As for D.P., he remains a mystery, and perhaps deservedly so.
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The Anthony Pilkington
Memorial Bursary
Georgina Plunkett | Deputy Director of Development
Thanks to the generosity of alumni, Fellows and friends,
£100,000 has been raised to endow in perpetuity an
undergraduate bursary in Modern Languages in memory of
Dr Anthony Pilkington; the College has welcomed the first
recipient this term. The success of the appeal is a mark of the
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espect and affection in which Anthony was held. Alumni not
only of Modern Languages but of many other subjects
contributed to the Fund, indicating a widespread belief that the
study of modern languages and literature should be protected
and enjoyed by future students.
Anthony Pilkington was Zeitlyn Fellow and Tutor in French
Language and Literature at Jesus from 1966 to 2005. He also
served as Acting Principal ‘wholly effectively and with quiet
grace’ (as noted in Jesus College: The First 450 Years) during Sir
Peter North’s Vice-Chancellorship of the University (1993-7).
During his long service to College he touched many lives. His
teaching methods were described as ‘subtle and effective’, his
manner ‘generous and patient’. This did not detract from his
considerable scholarship or the high academic standards he
expected. With his wife, Madeline, he would make students feel
welcome and entertain them in their home, and the tributes to
him printed in the 2021 Record illustrate the impact he had on
both students and colleagues.
The College is grateful to all who have supported the appeal,
and is particularly indebted to Bob Yates (1965) and Tom Brown
(1975) for initiating the Bursary appeal and for energetically
approaching peers and friends to contribute. ‘At a time when
the teaching of Humanities is under pressure at many
universities,’ says Tom Brown, ‘we have been very heartened by
the response from our Jesus friends of all ages and interests’.
The result is a legacy to Anthony’s teaching and a boost to
language provision at Jesus. The Anthony Pilkington Memorial
Bursary will ensure support for bright linguists in perpetuity.
At a time when the high financial cost of undertaking a degree
can be daunting, such support is both necessary and greatly
appreciated.
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If You Think You Can…You Can!
Ed Horne | 1974 | Literae Humaniores
Ed Horne came up to Jesus in October 1974 to read Literae
Humaniores. He represented Oxford in the rugby Varsity match at
Twickenham in 1975, ‘76 and ‘77, and was a member of the Jesus
1976 Summer Ball Committee.
I have carried the Henry Ford quote “if you think you can, you
can. If you think you can’t, you won’t” with me in my diary for
several years as a general mantra. Growing up, I had no great
dream to swim the English Channel. From the age of 11,
swimming had been purely recreational.
Following a prostate cancer scare in the summer of 2011,
I vowed to get as fit as I could. I was already participating in the
occasional open water event. Then, at a dinner I attended,
Professor Greg Whyte, an elite sports endurance coach and
sports psychologist, narrated the story of James Cracknell’s
challenge to row the Channel, cycle across Europe, and swim
The GPS boat
track starting at
Abbotts Cliff and
ending in Wissant.

across the Gibraltar Straits from Spain to Morocco. On the
swim, they were accompanied part of the way by a pod of pilot
whales. As he finished, I turned to friends sitting either side of
me and said, ‘I’m doing that swim’.
Four years and a left hip replacement later, in late June 2017, a
friend and I set off from Tarifa in southern Spain. We crossed
the 10 miles of the Gibraltar Straits to Point Cires in Morocco in
3 hours 36 minutes. Sadly, not a pilot whale was to be seen.
A year later, after completing the 10.25 miles Lake Windermere
end to end swim in 6 hours 22 minutes, the boat pilot turned to
me and said, ‘You know, if you can swim Windermere, you can
swim the Channel!’ The gauntlet had been thrown down.
Although I had a solo Channel slot booked in 2019, a
combination of inclement weather and an untimely boat
malfunction prevented me from swimming. I had begun
fundraising for four charities linked to conditions afflicting my
four siblings. I raised circa £25,000 and hadn’t swum but I was
now honour bound to do so.
In May 2020, I contacted Kevin Murphy, a quirky man in his early
70s known as the ‘King of the Channel’, having swum it
34 times. Kevin was to become my mentor and friend. When
my slot in 2020 came around, the pandemic restrictions meant
that I only had 10 weeks to train in. I packed in as much sea
swimming as was humanly possible and was as ready as I could
be given the time available.
What I wasn’t ready for were the extremely tough sea
conditions. After 13 hours and shortly after reaching French
inshore waters, my breathing became shallow and intermittent.
The excess fluid in my body from involuntarily imbibing sea
water was pressing against my lungs. My crew aborted the
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Kevin Murphy applying a little vaseline around
the neck and under the armpits to avoid
chaffing. No goose fat or lard for insulation
– that’s folklore.
swim. It was the right
decision but it left me
with unfinished business.
In 2021, I made my
second attempt. I turned
into French inshore
waters after 12 hours
and thought I had the
swim under control.
However, I had severe
cramp in both
hamstrings. This slowed
me down and I was no
longer crossing the tide
merely riding it north
towards Calais. After
14 hours, again, the
swim was aborted.
I was determined to try
again. At the beginning of
May 2022, I was back in
the sea and put myself
through a now very familiar brutal 10-week training regime. For
this third attempt, I changed my crew. Kevin Murphy was now
on the boat. There was no way I could fail a man who had swum
the Channel 34 times. I was looking at him throughout the
15 hours and 51 minutes of the swim.
The ‘hard yards’ were hours 9-12. I was in the French shipping
lane and the wind was now in the opposite direction to the
current creating choppy waters. I was occasionally involuntarily
imbibing sea water. Doubts were starting to creep in. Then, at
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Me swimming alongside the boat (called High Hopes).
the 12-hour feed, Kevin shouted down to me “Ed, you are in
French inshore waters and well inside the ZC2 (marker) buoy.
It’s on … go for it”. I could see the lighthouse at the Cap Gris
Nez and from that moment onwards I knew that I could make
it! In the last four hours, I did suffer from cramp and I had some
bloating in my tummy but they were manageable. To keep my
spirits up, the crew read out messages from the small group of
people following the swim. At one feed, Kevin shouted out ‘Ed,
Fizzy (my daughter in North Carolina) says: “You’ve got this
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Dad! I’m so proud of
you.”’ I couldn’t fail.
On reaching terra firma in
Wissant, I stood up,
promptly tripped over a
hidden boulder and cut
my foot. I stood up again,
put my hands in the air,
the klaxon sounded to
signal the swim was
complete and I began to
swim back to the boat.
I was totally oblivious to a
local welcoming party
(including Steve
Stievenart, the number
one French open water
swimmer) carrying a
Union Jack that had
The team just off the boat back in Dover Harbour, post swim. Left
to right, Kathy Batts, me (looking totally spent), Lorraine Mackie
and Kevin Murphy.
assembled on steps 50 metres to the left to greet me. When
I got back to the boat, the crew’s initial reaction was not to
congratulate me but to gently chastise me for ignoring Steve.
I will go back (by ferry) to Wissant for that ‘million dollar’ photo
with him and to grab a pebble from the beach as a memento.
About 2,200 people have ever swum the Channel. The oldest
was 73 years old, only 6 years older than me, and I am probably
in the oldest 15 people in the world ever to complete the swim.
Most people say that swimming the Channel changes your life.
So far, I don’t see that but I have finally scratched the itch.
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Old vs New.
Photo: Eve Bodniece.

Wartime Shakespeare
Amy Lidster | Departmental Lecturer in English
What comes to mind if you think about the use of Shakespeare
during wartime? Perhaps it is Laurence Olivier’s famous 1944
cinematic adaptation of Henry V, prominently dedicated to the
troops of Great Britain. But what is often overlooked is just how
embedded Shakespeare has been in wartime culture, in Britain
and globally, since at least the eighteenth century. He was fought
over on stage and in politics by supporters and opponents of
the French Revolution. He was appropriated as Germany’s third
major dramatist, alongside Goethe and Schiller, propelling his
use during the First World War in both Britain and Germany.
He has been a pivotal writer for resisting Russian imperialism
throughout Ukraine’s history and has been invoked by
Ukrainians, including President Zelenskyy and scholars such as
Nataliya Torkut, during the ongoing Russian invasion.
Since 2018, I have been working on a Leverhulme-funded
project that has sought, through a transhistorical approach, to
examine and theorise some of the ways in which Shakespeare
has been mobilised at times of conflict, with an emphasis on the
use of theatre and performance. This history is not a linear or
neatly progressive one. Rather, it is fragmented, provisional, and
multi-layered. Productions of Shakespeare’s plays, like the texts
themselves, do not have single or fixed meanings, and binary
categorises – pro/anti-war, conservative/radical – are not
typically helpful or accurate. It is the use of Shakespeare that
determines and reveals meaning, and one production context
often brings together conflicting agendas: wartime Shakespeare
can be both radical and conversative at the same time.
Left: WW1 recruitment poster. Image courtesy of McMaster University Library.
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Ruhleben
Concentration
Camp,
[Programmes of
Entertainments at
Ruhleben
Internment Camp],
Ruhleben, 1915,
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During the First World War, for example, Shakespeare’s plays
were performed by civilians interned in Ruhleben, Germany, to
boost morale, entertain, and act as a vehicle for allowed dissent.
Reports of these productions spread outside the camp as part
of a propaganda campaign by German authorities to counter
widely circulating reports of the appalling living conditions in
Ruhleben, and therefore fulfilled a very different set of aims. By
casting a spotlight on complex networks of production and
reception, Wartime Shakespeare: Performing Narratives of Conflict,
my forthcoming monograph with Cambridge University Press,
offers a history of Shakespeare’s malleable contemporaneity in a
number of major conflicts spanning the seventeenth to twentyfirst
centuries. It aims to shed light on the relationship between
theatre and conflict, Shakespeare’s shifting cultural capital for
different communities, and concepts such as propaganda,
patriotism, and wartime commemoration.
Alongside this book, a collection of essays called Shakespeare at
War: A Material History (CUP 2023), co-edited by me and Sonia
Massai from King’s College London, prioritises the materiality of
this history of use, which is often at the brink of loss and elision,
marked by archival and critical selection biases. Each chapter
takes an archival object as its focus, and by exploring the lives of
significant objects – their provenance, uses, and resonances –
aims to recover the polyvocality of wartime Shakespeare. It
brings together Shakespeare scholars, social historians, public
political figures, and theatre practitioners including Nicholas
Hytner and Iqbal Khan, and doubles as a companion for a free
public exhibition at the National Army Museum in London (also
called ‘Shakespeare at War’) that opens in October 2023.
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College People
New Faces at Jesus College
Kathrina dela Cruz | Assistant Accountant
Before I joined Jesus in May 2021 I
worked for a decade at the
International Fellowship of Evangelical
Students in the Philippines. After I
moved to Oxford I thought it would
be pretty cool to work in one of the
colleges of the University, so I’m
grateful for the opportunity to work
in the Accounts Office at Jesus. I have
enjoyed learning about the College’s
structure and have met some wonderful people. In my spare
time I enjoy cooking, travel, and spending time with my
daughter.
Eleanor Hutson | Administrative Assistant |
Academic Office
I joined Jesus College as the
Administrative Assistant in June 2021.
My role involves acting as the first
point of contact for visitors to the
Academic Office and dealing with
undergraduate administration. I help
undergraduates with matters such as
ordering replacement Bod cards,
signing and stamping enrolment
certificates, dealing with vacation
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grants and prizes, as well as organising beginning of term
Collections, end of term Principal Collections, and social events
held by the Principal for Undergraduates. Before coming to the
College I worked in intellectual property services as a proof
reader and translation checker, making use of the language skills
I gained from my BA in Modern and Classical Chinese from the
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Outside of
work, I enjoy travelling and photography, and I volunteer for
some Chinese adoptee organisations across the UK and Ireland.
Megan Lee | Access Assistant
I recently graduated from Hertford
College, completing an undergraduate
degree in History. I specialised in
colonial history, particularly the
history of medicine in early colonial
Spanish America. Studying during the
pandemic was difficult, especially as
we missed out on so much time in
Oxford, so I knew that I wanted to
stay here after I graduated to make
up for some of that lost time. Working as the Access Assistant
at Jesus has been a perfect fit for me, as I am excited to share
my own experiences of studying here with deserving new
students; we have three or four school visits a week, which
keeps us busy. I also have a historical connection with the
college – my grandfather studied here as a mature student after
the Second World War, and met my grandmother here; so
working at Jesus feels like closing the circle. Outside of work, I’m
a keen violinist and lead the Hertford College Orchestra.
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Melinda Mattu | College Accountant
I joined Jesus College in October 2019
as College Accountant managing the
Accounts Department. Life in the
Accounts office is both busy and
varied dealing with College members,
suppliers etc. – just the way we like it!
Born in Nottingham, I moved to
Oxford in 1992 and worked in the
Treasury and subsequently spent a
few years working in the USA. On my
return, I joined St Peter’s College in a role I hugely enjoyed. I am
married with two children, and enjoy walking, reading, and
gardening.
Tahmina Sorabji | Disability and Grants Officer
I’m a Londoner but escaped the inner
city to bring up my daughter in
beautiful green Oxford twenty years
ago: she is now at university herself.
I originally trained as an artist and
graphic designer, and continue to
paint and do a bit of a web building
and design. My background is in
teaching and student support in an
alternative education setting with
neurodiverse young people and students, dealing with mental
health issues. I’ve been working at Jesus since the beginning
of October 2022, and act as a point of contact, information
and support for students who have a disability. This can
include mental or physical health, physical disability,
neurodiversity or a specific learning difficulty. I also provide
information and support to students with regard to grants
and bursaries.
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View from the Cheng Yu Tung Building.
Image: Bev Shadbolt.

The Year in the JCR
Eoin Hanlon | 2020 | English & French
2022 marked the period in which
College life could finally resume.
Halfway hall returned with vigour,
and the Marriage Book was opened
once more for the marriage dinner.
Social Secretary Aram Masharqa
organised a Cocktail Dance with
glittering mirror balls, a pyramid of
pizzas and a Welsh Dragon ice
sculpture that doubled as a vodka
luge; and, in Trinity, we had a
Summer Soirée with candyfloss, a milk chocolate fountain and
Jesus’ own Chilli Garlic Quartet to pack out the dance floor.
Also in Trinity, JCR Secretary Charlie Bircham devised an
inaugural Secretary’s Drinks in Hank’s Bar. The Jesus Garden
Party resumed after a few years’ break, with the BBQ brought
from the boat club to Stevens’ Close so that Jesubites could
enjoy burgers and hot dogs while playing croquet and drinking
Pimms. In addition to undergraduate exchange dinners and
intercollegiate bops, the Somerville-Jesus Ball, with the theme of
‘Dreaming Spires or Spiralling Dreams’, saw the Somerville
grounds converted into a dreamscape with masked jesters on
stilts, a ferris wheel, pink zebras, giant mushrooms, and quilted
elephants. Jesubites celebrated with Brideshead extravagance
what was probably the best ball of the summer.
The term card featured new and revived events. Celtic Cross
(inspired by an event from 1984, mentioned in the 450th
anniversary issue of Jesus News) invited in the University’s Irish
and Welsh Societies, to hear readings of Welsh, Scottish, and
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Irish poems, a Celtic harp, a talk by Professor of Celtic David
Willis, a medley of Welsh songs, and a performance of Beckett.
International reps Sam Zia and Julius Chua brought us
celebrations of Lunar New Year, Nowruz, and Eid ul Fitr. Equal
Opportunities Officer Shathuki Perera organised International
and BME Brunches and picnics, and a Sri Lanka-themed
International Hall. Since the reopening in fifth week of Hilary of
the College bar, Jake Reid has devised some magical occasions,
with bar parties, pub quizzes, jazz nights, open mic nights, bar
exchanges with other colleges, and table football competitions
– best accompanied by the new College cocktail, the Bleed
Green, thanks to resident mixologist Ray Ridley. In Hilary Term,
Aram acted as President of the Turl Street Arts Festival:
activities including printmaking, jewellery-making, and life
drawing culminated in the Jazz Ball in Hall. As the theme was
‘Blue’, some sapphire-coloured cocktails were mixed up by
Mariya Sait and George Woods as the University Jazz Orchestra
served up blue cocktail music that kept us dancing far into
the night.
Meanwhile the JCR was upgraded with a pair of leather sofas
from Halo/John Lewis, and Jesus memorabilia now adorn the
walls: letters from Harold and Mary Wilson, programmes of
plays starring John Wood, original Ackermann aquatints of the
College Chapel and its founder. The true treasure was
something discovered on Etsy: a portrait of the Jesus College
Officer Training Corps in 1914. Robin the archivist has
confirmed that the photo includes Angus Buchanan V.C., adding
to the few precious photos of him during his time at Jesus. We
also sought to celebrate our diverse alumni: in honour of the
60th anniversary of Jamaican independence, the Law Society
was renamed after the National Hero of Jamaica and former
Rhodes scholar at Jesus, Norman Manley.
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This year Jesus was home to a Jewish Society President, the
Welsh Society President, the Sri Lankan Society President, two
American Society Co-Presidents, a Finance Society President,
the Editor in Chief of Cherwell newspaper, the University
Football Club President, the President of the University
Cheerleading Squad, and the President of Oxford Engineers
Without Borders. We had a dozen Blues in rugby, football, and
rowing; and the OU Wild Swimming Society was founded by
two Jesubites, Daniel Bazely and Ellie Ford (the Society’s
President). The Henry Vaughan Poetry Society was created by
Martha Heggs and Edward Launders-Grieve, the Gardening
Club was created in collaboration with the MCR, and the Jesus
Journalism Society was founded by Estelle Atkinson.
With Guy Zilberman at the helm, the undergraduate
community continued its charitable efforts. At the beginning of
the war in Ukraine, the JCR raised £540 in charitable donations,
followed by a charity football tournament, a ‘Charaoke’ event in
the bar, an opt-out battels donation, and a direct gift of £200 to
the British Red Cross Appeal for Ukraine. Money raised through
battels for the Ukrainian Student Support fund has enabled the
College to welcome a Ukrainian graduate in the new academic
year.
I crossed the channel for a year abroad in September, and Vice
President Stephen Eastmond (2020, PPE) took over as JCR
President. He has already successfully lobbied to reduce the fob
replacement price for students from £25 to £5 and changed the
flag protocol to ensure that the Progress Pride flag flies during
Pride month. Under Stephen, Jesus takes over the Oxford ice
rink for a night in November and Dinner Dance returns to the
silver steps of the Randolph.
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Photo: by Ed Nix

The Year in the MCR
Paul Davis| 2021 | Inorganic Chemistry
We marked the apparent end of
the period of lockdowns with a
garden party and a number of
smaller events over the summer.
Freshers’ Week 2022 saw a full
Welcome Drinks Reception in a
church-turned-bar, attended by the
majority of our freshers. The
majority of our headline events
such as Wine & Cheese, Exchange
Formals, bops, Film and Board
Game Nights, and Welfare Coffee and Cake are back and
running as normal. Joint events with St John’s and Worcester
Colleges provided an early start to inter-collegiate activities.
The brand new café in the Cheng Yu Tung Building provided an
ideal venue for a joint JCR-MCR College Freshers’ Fair, with
over 20 societies exhibiting.
Among other initiatives, the Equality and Diversity Officer
provided safe spaces during Freshers’ Week for freshers and
returners from diverse communities to share experiences; the
Environmental Officer distributed a batch of free Jesus MCRbranded
metal water bottles to provide an alternative to
single-use plastics; and the Environmental and Welfare Officers
are collaborating with the College Nurse and their counterparts
in the JCR to provide free menstrual cups upon request. We
also collaborated with the ACC Department to furnish and
finally open the brand new Graduate Study Room on the top
floor of the Cheng Yu Tung Building, with splendid views over
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the top of College towards Radcliffe Square and the city’s
dreaming spires.
Jesus MCR continues to be a resilient, lively community. We are
grateful to all the people in College whose efforts to provide us
with spaces, support, and advice make our activities possible. I
am happy to lead a dedicated Committee that works hard to
ensure our MCR members continue to have an unforgettable
experience at Jesus College.
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The Year in Access
Matthew Williams | Access Fellow
In 2022, another record-breaking year
for the Access Team, we worked with
over 12,000 young people in 176
events in Wales and in the London
boroughs of Lambeth and
Wandsworth. Meanwhile, our
YouTube channel with nearly 14,000
subscribers remains by far the largest
such channel of any Oxford or
Cambridge College.150 new access
videos, another record, were produced by Jesus students and
academics, and attracted over the past year 1.2 million views.
The jump in applications to the College of more than 100 in a
single admissions cycle may be attributed to this digital outreach.
Our flagship summer school welcomed 76 young people from
all over Wales. When asked what they felt the impact of their
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time in Oxford was, the
proportion of respondents
who said they feel ‘quite
confident’ or ‘very confident’
applying to universities like
Oxford rose from 19% before
attending the summer school
to 93% after it. The
proportion of respondents
who said they feel ‘unsure’,
‘less confident’ or ‘not
confident’ decreased from
70% to 0%. As many as 20%
of current Oxford students
from Wales have attended
these summer schools. Jesus hosted four in 2022: three inperson
residential summer schools and one two-week summer
school online. In total there were 450 participants: only the
University’s UNIQ programmes cater for more.
Shelley Knowles, indefatigable Access Assistant for the past four
years, has moved to a new role with the University of Bath.
Megan Lee, a recent graduate of Hertford College, joined in
October and is focusing on engaging Jesus students to deliver a
wider range of access events and produce more digital content.
There is still much more that needs to be done to ensure that
Oxford (and other British universities) admit and nurture the
best and brightest. We continue to expand, using the human
resources all around us: we are committed to professionalising
the work done by students and to pay for their services.
Everything we do is made possible by the generosity of donors,
for which we are endlessly grateful.
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The Year in Development
Brittany Wellner James | Director of Development
After a long Covid hiatus,
the College experienced
the joy of inviting alumni
and donors back to
celebrate the opening of
the Cheng Yu Tung
Building. Several events
marked the opening of
the new building and the
Cheng Kar Shun Digital
Hub, the Rosaline Wong
Gallery within the
Buchanan Tower Room,
and the Welsh Access
Fourth Quad. Students have now moved into their
graduate accommodation and can take advantage of
the new College café, as well as writing their weekly
essays in the Hub’s light-filled study spaces.
This tremendous addition to College’s fabric and
environment is thanks in large part to a philanthropic
gift by Dr Henry Cheng Kar Shun, complemented by
donations from College alumni and friends. Around
2,500 alumni donated to the 450th Anniversary
Campaign over the last decade, and they too will be
celebrated when a recognition wall is unveiled in the
Digital Hub in 2023. Many alumni have said that they
were unprepared for how emotional their first visit to
the new building would be. In summer, the glow of the
Fourth Quad. Image: Bev Shadbolt.
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golden stones of the new Fourth Quad bathed in sunshine feels
almost Mediterranean. During one viewing, an Old Member
stopped on the stone landing between the Fellows’ Garden and
raised quad. “Wow” he exclaimed, needing a moment to
process what he would soon discover was only a small part of
the whole structure. It was wonderful to accompany him up the
remaining stairs and hear him draw an audible breath as he took
in the rest.
The design of the Cheng Yu Tung Building allows it to feel
connected to College’s ancient buildings, while beautifully
integrating something unapologetically modern into the older
site. As College grows accustomed to having a much larger
city-centre footprint, we have been devising ways of welcoming
alumni to this uncharted Jesus territory overlooking
Cornmarket Street. Over the next year, we look forward to
hosting more events in the new building; meanwhile, alumni and
friends are welcome to contact the Development Office for a
personal tour. So far, those who have seen the space marvel at
how lucky the current students are, and say how proud they are
to be part of the Jesus community in what is undeniably an
exciting new age for the College.
As well as offering a programme of diverse events for alumni
(noted by Peter Sutton on page 148), the Development Office
remains committed to supporting all aspects of College life.
Following the success of the 450th Anniversary Campaign,
raising funds for ongoing and new academic priorities continues.
We seek to create opportunities for Tutorial and Early Career
Fellowships, graduate studentship and bursaries, and Research
Associates across a variety of disciplines. We also continue to
work closely with the Jesus Access Team to help support and
subsidise their plans to inspire the next generation of Oxford
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students to raise their ambitions, and to encourage applications
from the most capable students regardless of their background.
These plans include new programmes in undergraduate inreach,
digital outreach, and widening schools participation in
London and Wales.
Another fundraising priority for the Development Office is a
renewed focus on the College estate, with sustainability in mind.
The ambition for a greener Jesus will include projects that
upgrade the College’s historic buildings and make the changes
needed to meet our net-zero pledge. We look forward to
working together as a College community to meet these
academic and environmental objectives. Although Jesus has
grown considerably in size, Alice in Wonderland-style, over the
last few years, it remains at heart the same small College
nestling among the dreaming spires but nurturing big plans for
the future.
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Alumni Events
Peter Sutton | Alumni Engagement Manager
On Saturday 22 October, the College
was delighted to welcome Queen
Elizabeth I Fellow Dr Henry Cheng Kar
Shun, together with members of his
family and friends, to College to
dedicate the Cheng Yu Tung Building,
Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, and
Rosaline Wong Gallery. The building is
a symbol of the success of the 450th
Anniversary Campaign, and has
transformed the Northgate site and Cornmarket Street.
Together with the dedication of the Fourth Quad in July and the
Visiting Day in September, these occasions celebrated donors
whose generosity made the building possible. The Cheng Kar
Shun Digital Hub affords new spaces for a wide range of events,
creating opportunities to rekindle old friendships and create
new connections within the College community.
In 2022 the College re-introduced a full programme of
in‐person events, including gaudies and a record number of nine
graduations (for forthcoming gaudies and graduations see
page 176). The College hosted the St David’s Day Celebrations,
the All Alumni Dinner with Welsh poet Owen Sheers as guest
of honour, the Commemoration of Benefactors, the 1571
Society Legacy Luncheon, and the XL Old Members’ Day.
Rowing returned for the JCBC in May, and the Cadwallader
Club held its dinner in September. In collaboration with the
Access Team, the Shakespeare Project staged The Two
Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew and Henry VI, part
one; warm thanks to Julie Bowdler (1975, Biochemistry) for her
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Hall.
Photo: Andrew Ogilvy
Photography.
generous support. David
Seddon (1961, English)
spearheaded a celebration of
Gilbert and Sullivan
productions put on in the
1960s by the Jesus-St Anne’s
Music Society. Events in
London included a Happy
Hour with alumni in
October, and a return in
November to St George’s
Hanover Square for the
Donor Carol Service and
Reception.
Online events also continue.
Beginning with a
conversation between the
Principal and John Tasioulas,
Director of the Institute of
Ethics in AI at Oxford, the
#JesusFutures series covered
topics such as regenerative medicine, democracy in Wales,
education, business and enterprise, and sustainable diets; the
complete series can be watched on the alumni YouTube
channel. A six-part course on Ancient Greek Literature for
alumni and supporters was run by Classics Fellow Armand
D’Angour; a course on Latin Literature is scheduled for early
2023. A series of Zoom events entitled #JesusInternational,
exploring transnational research projects in which Jesus
academics are involved, began in October; it will be accompanied
by #JENInternational, a series featuring conversations with
alumni around the world about their businesses.
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The Year in Chapel
Chris Dingwall-Jones | Chaplain
Chris at the baptism of Madeleine
Hunt. Photo: Bill Parker
It was with a sense of relief that we
began Michaelmas Term 2021 with
an ‘in person’ Freshers’ Evensong in
Chapel. After the restrictions of
COVID-19, the 2021-22 academic
year was one of rediscovery, a year
to remember old customs and
invent new ones.
A key order of business was to get
back into the swing of Chapel
services. The Choir rose to the
occasion under the leadership of
Peter Parshall and with Organ
Scholars Ollie Edwardes and Himeno Niimi. By Seventh Week
of Michaelmas, the Choir were singing not just Evensong but a
service of Vespers, including the whole of J.S. Bach’s Cantata
BWV 140, ‘Wachet auf’ accompanied by an ensemble of
chamber musicians.
Replacing Evensong with more adventurous repertoire on one
Sunday worked so well that it was reprised in Hilary Term, as
we marked the start of Lent with selections from Handel’s
Messiah, highlighting movements around the Crucifixion. At the
end of Trinity Term, thirty-five of us flew off to a very hot
Florence to enjoy a week of music and culture in the Tuscan sun.
We were privileged to be able to sing at St Mark’s English
Church (twice) and St James’s Episcopal Church in Florence, as
well as providing the music for Evensong at All Saints’ Anglican
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Choristers in the
Piazzale
Michelangelo,
overlooking
Florence.
Church, Rome.
In-person Evensongs also meant the return of visiting preachers.
Our termly themes included ‘Community,’ ‘Visions Glorious:
theology and ways of seeing,’ and (in the light of the conflict in
Ukraine) ‘Peace and Reconciliation’. Highlights included Fr Angus
Ritchie’s reflections on the role of disruption in community
organising, The Revd Dr Ayla Lepine’s tour-de-force exploration
of Raphael and Andy Warhol, and Canon Mary Gregory’s
discussion of Coventry Cathedral’s commitment to
reconciliation. Chapel also hosted talks and events. We enjoyed
a pair of lectures on Medieval Women Saints; Andrew Dunning
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(Supernumerary Fellow in Book
History) explored the links
between St Frideswide,
Oxford’s Patron Saint, and
Jesus; and Visiting Fellow Laura
Miles introduced St Birgitta of
Sweden and her popularity in
England.
In Michaelmas we were visited
by Ahmad AlKhatib, a Sufi
Dancer from Syria. We
partnered with the Silence Hub
to present a discussion on
Silence and Sufism and a
practical workshop on Dervish
dancing at St Hilda’s College;
and we were treated to Ahmad
dancing in the middle of First
Quad. In Hilary we welcomed
Jay Hulme, performance poet,
educator, and author of
The Backwater Sermons. Jay
preached on poetry as
theological reflection, and
Sufi dancer Ahmad AlKhatib from Syria.
offered students a workshop on
careers in the arts that emphasised the value of art beyond
career prospects. In March we celebrated St David’s Day in
traditional style, with Evensong in Welsh led by the Choir and a
sermon by the Revd Dr Manon James, Director of Initial
Ministerial Training at St Padarn’s Institute, part of the Church
in Wales.
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Chapel remains a focus for the joys and sorrows of current and
past students and fellows. During the 2021-22 academic year,
Chapel was the venue for a number of weddings, marriage
blessings, and memorial services. Over the course of the year
we celebrated the lives of Lisa Hirst (2017, DPhil History), Clark
Brundin (Honorary Fellow and former Engineering tutor), Tony
Downs (Emeritus Fellow), Chris Burt (1961, PPE), and Derek de
Sa (1963, DPhil Pathology). We also played host to a bumper
crop of marriage celebrations. Clive and Heather Minihan, and
Marie-Virginie Arras and Nick Jongerius had services of Blessing
after Civil marriage, while wedding services were held for
Juan-Enrique Manosalva Brun and Maria Cielo Linares, Katie
Myint and Timothy Smith, Rhodri Hopes and Rosie Pugh, Olivia
Bushell and Andrew Wilson, and Marcin Śliwa and Elizabeth
Nyikos. The famous punchbowl of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn
was pressed into its occasional service as a makeshift font for
the baptisms of John Nicholas Alban Dunning and Madeleine
Wendy Russett Hunt.
Concerts by international pianists and visiting choirs took their
place alongside the return of ‘Celtic Cross’, which celebrates
Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Culture, and the regular meetings of
the Oxford Interfaith Scriptural Reasoning Society. Chapel
remains a focus for music, the arts, and interfaith discussions
and we look to build on this in the coming year. On behalf of
those of all faiths and none, we look forward to utilising the
Multifaith Room in the new Cheng Yu Tung Building, as well as
taking full advantage of having three organ scholars and a
College full of talented musicians.
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Cultural, Sporting and Travel Awards
Sums of between £59 and £800 were awarded from the
following College funds in the academic year 2021-22.
Ann Ward Award
Hadley Sharman
Bahram Dehqani-Tafti Travel
Award
Alison Middleton
Baron Segal Award
Phoebe Jowett Smith
Bowers Award
Raphael Bradenbrink
Lewis Chinery
Jessica Kindrick
Adedamilola Tariuwa
Charles Green Award
Soraya Asif
Natascha Domeisen
Tabea Anna Elsener
Jeffrey Fasegha
George Kirkham
Christopher Lyes
Vanessa Picker
Johanna Sinclair
Josiah Thiagarajah
David Rhŷs Award
Benedict Carroll
Molly Cressey-Rodgers
Timea Csahók
Lucy Harlow
Jennifer Hunt
Grace Lloyd
Esther Tan
Lisa Zillig
McKenna Award
Nicola Green
Patrick Lynch
Katie Robinson
Johanna Sealey
Zara Siddiqi
Charles West
P.W. Dodd Award
Helena Aeberli
Romi Aggarwal
Angus Alder
Tomer Amit
Lydia Anderlini
Peter Anderson
Estelle Atkinson
Jackson Baida
Zak Ball
Tal Barnea
Jenny Bates
Charles Bircham
Hannah Blackmore
Emily Borghaus
Thomas Cairns
Benedict Carroll
Anna Carse
Gonzalo Castellanos De Campos
Francis Chambers
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Alan Chang
Phoebe Chave
Eleanor Chung
Alfie Cicale
Edward Clark
Emily Cohen
Timothy Collins
Anna Cooper
Chiara Cox
Alexander Crosby
Jack Danson
Jenson Davenport
Alessandra David
Angharad Davies
Daniel Davies
James-Joseph De Costa
Stephen Eastmond
Christina Elliot
Frederick Feltham
Joel Fernandez
Frankie Frazer
Simran Gandhi
Elissavet-Loudoviki Germanidou
Haulwen Goldie-Jones
Megan Goundry-Napthine
Samuel Guatieri
Meron Haile
Eoin Hanlon
Alexander Henderson
Finley Hewitt
Elsa Heywood
Jessica Hillier
Alice Hopkins
Lewis Ince
Claire Johnson
Kriszta Jozsa
Megan Kavanagh
Emilia Keeling
Anna Kotanska
Alice Lasocki
Charlotte Leach
Allegra Levine
Samuel Lewis
Grace Lloyd
Ronan Lunny
Patrick Lynch
Philip Martin
Aram Masharqa
Arnas Vytautas Matulaitis
Alexander Miller
Riana Modi
Emma-Mai Mulvey
Adam Najmudin Hall
Henrietta Nicholls
Ilaria Okusaga
Charles Papworth
Rhiannon Paton
Rebecca Pattenden
Charlotte Pavey
Lily Pitcher
Sophy Popov
Lucas Porfirio
Katie Robinson
Toni Rogers
Charles Rosen
William Rumble
Hazel Rycroft
Mariya Sait
Thomas Sandford-Bondy
Dalveen Sandhu
William Searle
Beatrice Sexton
Zara Siddiqi
Sophie Sieradzan Wright
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James Somper
Selina St John
Ioannis Stamoulis
Marta Stangierska
Adedamilola Tariuwa
Imogen Thomas
Natalie Thomas
Eugenio Toso
Autumn Usher
Gabriela Van Bergen
Gonzalez-Bueno
Alec Wallis
William Watts
Alfie Williams-Hughes
Theodore Wilmot-Sitwell
Minyi Yao
Rayvanth Zama
Vaughan-Thomas Award
Benedict Campbell
Cayla Bleoaja
Gregoire Desclee de Maredsous
Greta Evans
Gregory Herne
Bethan Jones
Arun Joseph
Maya Landis
Edward Launders-Grieve
Sarah Marshall
Himeno Niimi
Mared Owen
Isobel Patterson
Tianyi Pu
Rosemary Richards
Kirsty Smith
Rachel Smyth
Chiara Theimer
Lucas Troadec
Tiffany Walmsley
Chloe Wong
W.E. Nicholson Award
Eleanor Chung
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Travel Awards Reports
Bowers Award
New Orleans
Jessica Kindrick | 2019 | DPhil Biomedical Sciences
In April 2022 I was
invited to present at
the annual conference
for the American
Association of Cancer
Research (AACR)
held in New Orleans,
Louisiana USA.
Because the majority
of my time as a DPhil
student had been
impacted by the
pandemic, this was my first opportunity to present at an
academic conference. Thanks to the Bowers Award I was able
to register for in-person attendance. In addition to my own
presentation, I attended seminars given by internationally
renowned cancer scientists. Some talks contained the most
up-to-date scientific findings relevant to my own project, while
others provided broader insights into a wide variety of cancer
research topics being investigated around the world.
My poster, focusing on my current DPhil research, was entitled
Correlating locus-specific changes in histone trimethylation and gene
expression in hypoxia and exhibited in the ‘Epigenomics to
Molecular Markers’ session. I gained experience speaking about
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New Orleans.
Photo: Jessica Kindrick.

my postgraduate work and received positive feedback from
other researchers in the field. The discussions have sparked new
ideas and informed my plans for future experiments.
During periods of downtime, my colleagues and I were able to
explore the city of New Orleans. We marvelled at the classic
French Quarter architecture, learned about the important
history of Mardi Gras, and enjoyed an evening Jazz Cruise along
the Mississippi River aboard the iconic Steamboat Natchez. I
returned to Oxford even more excited to continue my
research, and grateful to the Bowers Fund for making this trip
possible.
Charles Green Award
Paris
Soraya Asif | 2018 |History & Modern Languages
In March 2022 I visited Paris to
conduct research central to my
studies on 19th-century French
art. It was a period of the
changing of styles, the subversion
of academic conventions, and
new forms of inspiration.
Standard hierarchies were no
longer accepted by artists who
rejected the Academic and
Neoclassical traditions. Seeing the
paintings in person helped me
understand the impact of pieces
and why they revolutionised
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French painting in this period.
Preliminary sketches and
pieces in the Musée Delacroix
demonstrate the
development of Delacroix’s
œuvre, an element often
lacking when one sees his
masterpieces in the Louvre
alone. Early sketches of his
Liberté guidant le peuple
highlight the preoccupations
that were to characterise the
finished piece, such as the
changing of the viewpoint to
place the viewer on the
barricades looking up at the
figure of Liberty.
A trip to the temporary
exhibition of the Morozov
Collection at the Fondation Louis Vuitton gave me the
opportunity to view Impressionist pieces such as Renoir’s
Portrait de Mademoiselle Jeanne Samary, on display outside of
Russia for the first time since they were purchased in the early
twentieth century. The collection also included many mid to late
nineteenth-century landscapes; I could observe how pieces such
as Monet’s Champ de Coquelicots combines plein air painting with
Impressionism. A visit to the Musée d’Orsay allowed me to view
pieces key to the disruption of traditional Academic painting,
such as Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe, a painting that shocked
contemporary critics because of its huge size and mix of genres
– the combination of the nude with landscape and still life.
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Finally, a trip to Versailles allowed me to visit the statecommissioned
Bataille de Zurich by François Bouchot. This was a
particularly important visit for me as Bouchot’s Le Tambour
Blessé (in the Louvre) is what originally aroused my interest in
this period of French art and history.
Zambia
Rebecca Goldberg | 2017 | Environmental Research (Zoology)
In September 2021 I travelled to Zambia for six weeks to carry
out research in Lake Tanganyika as part of my PhD in Zoology.
I had planned this trip for several years, and it was cancelled
twice the previous year. In Zambia I joined up with a team of
researchers from the University of Konstanz, all interested in
understanding the evolution of social behaviour by studying the
diversity of shell-dwelling cichlid fish that are unique to Lake
Tanganyika. These fish use empty shells of the snail Neothauma
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tanganyicense as refuges and nest sites. They aggressively defend
their shells and exhibit a diversity of social structures, from the
small harems of Lamprologus ocellatus to the cooperative groups
of Neolamprologus multifasciatus. My work focused on
L. ocellatus, where competition between females is intense, even
between females mated to the same male. I hoped to
understand how differences in the density of predators that
prey on the offspring of this species might affect competition
between females and the structure of their groups.
We stayed in a lodge right on the shore of the lake just outside
of Mpulungu that has been used by researchers since the 1980s.
For electricity we set up solar panels, and our water source was
filtered lake water. It was a beautiful setting: the lake, the second
largest and deepest lake in the world, feels more like a sea.
Every day we set out on small boats with our dive gear, and
travelled to sites around the lake to collect data under water.
For me this involved observing my species to work out who
belonged in each group, and setting up cameras to video their
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interactions with each other and with intruding predators.
The days were long and there were many challenges. Broken
boat engines, rough weather, injuries and illnesses, dangerous
animals, failing equipment, and lost data were part of daily life.
We formed a strong team, and we could always be cheered up
by the local children who crowded round us at the dive sites and
borrowed our masks to play and catch fish, and by the delicious
food served by our host Celestine. It was fascinating for me to
observe my study species in their natural habitat after three
years of studying them in the lab. I am very grateful for this
opportunity to collaborate with a brilliant team of researchers
and to experience one of Darwin’s ‘dreamponds’ at first hand.
Kerala
George Kirkham | 2021 | Msc Nature, Society and
Environmental Governance
Snakebite is a disease that kills an
estimated 100,000 people per year,
yet remains neglected, with
treatments and prevention having
received relatively little investment.
Snake Awareness Rescue Protection
App (SARPA), ‘the Uber for snake
emergencies’, is a digital platform
designed to prevent snakebites and
support snake conservation in
Kerala, India. SARPA connects users
with local snake rescuers, who are
on hand to safely bag and
translocate venomous snakes that
enter people’s homes.
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Thanks in part to the Charles Green Fund, I was able to travel
to Kerala for my MSc dissertation fieldwork, where I researched
SARPA’s impact on human-snake conflict. I studied how
SARPA’s digital features make it easy for citizens to contact their
local snake rescuer, meaning that they are less likely to attempt
snake removal themselves. This keeps people safe while also
reducing harm to snakes.
Researching SARPA was a fascinating and occasionally
frightening experience: the flared hood and loud hiss of the
spectacled cobra never failed to make my hair stand on end.
Other highlights of the trip included Kerala’s delicious food, its
stunning beaches, and the kindness and generosity of everyone
I met. I feel very lucky to have been able to conduct my
research in such a beautiful place and with such wonderful
people.
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Florence
Hanna Sinclair | 2018 | DPhil History
Thanks to the College and the Charles Green Fund, I was able
to travel to Florence towards the end of Trinity Term 2021 to
undertake archival research towards my thesis. I had the
pleasure of staying at a convent, the Casa per Ferie Suore
Oblate dell’Assunzione, where few of the nuns spoke English.
Their home, a 15th-century former palazzo, is within five
minutes’ walk of the Duomo and ten minutes’ walk from the
The Archivio di Stato, Florence.
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archives. It was quiet and peaceful, with a lovely garden
courtyard that was perfect for going over my notes in the
evenings. The nuns were friendly and patient with my mangling
of their language, and forgiving of my repeated loss of the
room keys.
My project focuses on relations between the Florentine and
French ruling families, as seen during the 16th-century dynastic
marriages between them. This means my sources are primarily
writings by diplomats and other witnesses to the negotiations,
travels, and celebrations of these court alliances.

Florence has some of the most extensive records, but the
relevant references are dispersed within dense and repetitive
dispacci (ambassadors’ reports) and other accounts. Most of my
time was spent photographing the pages of the twelve most
relevant filze, giving me over 800 pages to transcribe and
translate this summer in addition to the 22,000 words
I transcribed while in the Archivio di Stato. The paleography
didn’t prove to be too difficult, but sometimes navigating the
archive bureaucracy was a challenge!
The archive was open three full days and two half-days per
week, which left me time to revisit old favourite sites as well as
appraise some of the places where the marriages took place.
The Pitti Palace, for example, now a museum and gallery holding
a vast collection of art and objects, was the site of two of the
wedding celebrations I’m studying. Revisiting it in light of the
scholarship I have read on the ceremonies, banquets, and
spectacles helped me understand where and how the social
interactions took place and the scope of the theatrical elements.
Florence is packed with tourists, gelaterie, shops full of tourist
tat, and overpriced restaurants, but it is also a city with priceless
works of art and buildings of historical significance around every
corner. The birthplace of humanism, it was the city of the
Medici, Michelangelo, Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei,
Machiavelli, and innumerable other artists, philosophers,
scientists and writers whose impact reached far beyond the
Renaissance. On the weekends I travelled to Pisa and Siena, two
cities I had not visited before. Siena is a jewel, with all the
elements of the perfect Tuscan city: a stunning cathedral,
historic town square (I hope to return to see the palio
someday), amazing views of the countryside from several sites
around town, and many beautiful restaurants and shops
enclosed in its gold and terracotta-coloured buildings.
Siena. Photo: Hanna Sinclair.
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Sports & Club Reports
Rugby
Charlie Rosen | 2021 | Physics
With such a great success in the Cuppers competition to bring
home the Bowl, JCRFC are expecting big things for this year’s
College rugby. Just as my predecessor Dan Rolles did so well,
the overarching aim for this year is to create a strong team
atmosphere and take the ever hearty nature of the College into
our culture as a club. Each year we welcome a new group of
talented and eager rugby players, and this year has not
disappointed. The team has shown fight and flair to take home
two strong victories – a friendly against Exeter to show that Turl
Street runs green, and our first Cuppers match against a
clinically dispatched Brasenose. Heading into the second round
against St Edmund Hall, we knew we were set to face our
toughest opponent yet. Although true grit shown across the
board, the game was lost. However, our heads stay high, and
our sights are now set on the Plate competition later on this
year. Until then, the focus is to develop both as players and as a
team through the League competition and some great social
occasions.
Football
Oliver Smith | 2021 | Mathematics
Last year we won the College Cuppers competition, crushing
every team in our path on the way to the trophy, and we plan to
do so again this year. Having kept our star players, and with a
couple of great freshers added to the mix, we are again one of
the strongest teams in Oxford. We’ve started this season
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winning 3 games out of 3 (the only team in our League to do
so), so are not only on track to retain the 140-year-old Cuppers
trophy but also to win the League, which would get us
promoted back into the Premier Division where we rightfully
belong. The 2nd team reached the semi-finals of reserve
Cuppers last year and are looking strong once again; led by their
passionate captain Guy Zilberman, they are a formidable team
in their division. With the matches being enjoyed by players and
fans alike, the 2022-23 footballing season is looking like one to
remember for the mighty stags.
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Women’s Football
Noa Alony Gilboa | 2021 | Experimental Psychology
This year we merged with New College to become the Jesus/
New College women’s football team. Following the successes of
the England women’s football team at the Euros and the Jesus
men’s team in Cuppers last year, we wanted to get involved in
bringing success to Jesus. With a wealth of talented players, we
have all the hallmarks of a great team. We now have some
amazing friends from New College, and the team chemistry is
unmatched. Together with my co-captains we are excited about
what the future has in store.
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Mixed Hockey
Izzi Strevens | 2021 | Classics and English
After a slow slide into non-existence last year, Jesus Hockey is
now back up and running. We’ve joined forces with our historic
allies Worcester and added Pembroke to our pact, making a
College name portmanteau nearly impossible (ideas welcome!)
but creating a great team. We’ve made a strong start with a win
against Balliv and a narrow loss to Christ Church x Hugh’s, and
are looking forward to building up momentum in both Cuppers
and League. Stay tuned for the debut Jesus-only team playing in
the Jesus-Jesus Varsity in fifth week.
Rounders
Izzi Strevens | 2021 | Classics and English
Having taken up the mantle from Tomer last year, I’m very much
looking forward to making Jesus Rounders the top sporting
team of the year. We put in a very strong performance in
Cuppers last year, being narrowly beaten by Anne’s in a latestage
round. Now I’m looking to build our performance in what
is, objectively, the best and most fun sport ever. Get ready for
some stellar swings and catches up in Barts, and (hopefully) a
glorious first win against Cambridge in Jesus-Jesus Varsity.
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Netball
Charlie Leach | 2020 | PPE
The Jesus College Netball Club has not stopped these past few
terms. We are loving the rules update, which allows three men
to play on court at once: this has meant we have been able to
introduce more men to the game. In Trinity we battled our way
to the finals of mixed Cuppers and narrowly missed out on the
finals of non-mixed Cuppers. We have had some excellent
League results as well this term, with a 17-7 win over Magdalen
and a crushing 16-1 victory over Brasenose (which turned into a
friendly after half-time because we had to take pity on them).
With League promotion on the cards, we look forward to what
the rest of the season holds.
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Rowing
Martha Heggs | 2021 | English
Toby Kerr | 2021 | Engineering Science
2022 has been a year of growth for the men’s side of JCBC.
Having not competed in any Bumps races in 2021, JCBC men’s
crew made a name for itself securing top 5 finishes in the Isis
Winter League, winning the Collegiate category in the Bedford
Head race, and finishing the term with a strong Torpids
campaign bumping up to third in Division 2. Trinity Term rocked
the boat for the men’s crew, as Finals meant that a lot of seniors
could not row. Fortunately, with several novices stepping up to
the challenge, and returning Blues David Ambler and Luke
Robinson, our Bumps campaign was saved. With M1 bumping
up into the Division 1 sandwich boat (rowing eight times in
4 days), M2 rowing and our Viking boat getting blades, Summer
Eights was a huge success. In November, Jesus won Autumn
Fours as the underdogs, winning by over a length and continuing
the upward trend.
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In last summer’s Eights the W1 crew secured its position in
Division 1, with two rowers trialling for uni squads. Both went
on to compete in December’s Trial Eights and we wish them
well for The Boat Race! The new W2 made their Bumps debut
in Summer Eights 2022 and have a growing cohort, with new
novices joining every week. Our novices got their first taste of
competition in Nephthys Regatta, and were a force to be
reckoned with in the Novice Regatta at the end of Michaelmas
Term. Meanwhile our seniors rowed the Henley trials last
summer and went on to compete in the Fairbairn Cup in
December. Out of term JCBC undertook a charity row to
London raising £1,193 for the Dr Sean McGrady Foundation. It
was lovely to see alumni rowing with current students before
the Cadwallader Club dinner in September. JCBC has had a
great year, and looks forward to an even better year to come.
Are you signed up to Cadwallader Club emails? If not, sign up to hear more about the club’s endeavours
and social engagements like the annual Cadwallader Club dinner in September.
Email: JCBC.Cadwallader@gmail.com. The club welcomes all ex-JCBC members.
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Prizes, Awards, Elections
& Doctorates 2021-22
Annual Fund Prizes for Top
Performance in First Public
Examinations
Han Xian Julius Chua, Geography
Zhihe Lei, Chemistry
Shucheng Li, Mathematics
Davies Prize – nominations
for the most outstanding
performance in a Final
Honours School
Alex Tatomir, Computer Science
FHS First
Helena Aeberli, History & Politics
Romi Aggarwal, Chemistry
Angus Alder, Engineering Science
Samuel Banfield, Mathematics
Joseph Chambers-Graham,
Mathematics & Computer Science
Daniel Davies, Chemistry
Man Hon Fan, Mathematics &
Computer Science
Frederick Feltham, Philosophy &
Theology
Matthew Frey, Law
Lucy Kelly, English & Modern
Languages
Anna Kotanska, Chemistry
Hannah Li, Biology
Joshua Luke, Chemistry
Charlotte Mason, Experimental
Psychology
Charles Papworth, Law
Charlotte Pavey, Economics &
Management
William Rumble, Mathematics (BA)
Hazel Rycroft, Chemistry
Beatrice Sexton, Law
Selina St John, English
Flynn Studholme, English
Alex Tatomir, Computer Science
Eugenio Toso, Modern Languages
Clara Wade, Biology
Matthew Williams, Chemistry
Theodore Wilmot-Sitwell,
Philosophy & Theology
Yining Zhang, Mathematical &
Theoretical Physics
Prelims Distinctions
Lina Alrawashdeh, Philosophy,
Politics & Economics
Megan Bradley, Law
Edoardo Casini, Economics &
Management
Gonzalo Castellanos de Campos,
Chemistry
Yaqing Chen, Experimental
Psychology
Han Xian Julius Chua, Geography
Reuben Cooper, Classics
Joshua Coupar-Evans, Biology
Greta Evans, Modern Languages &
Linguistics
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Jack Forrest, Engineering Science
Lucas Gathercole, Physics
Xiang Yu Han, Economics &
Management
Finley Hewitt, Law
Faith Lee Siew Ling, Experimental
Psychology
Zhihe Lei, Chemistry
Shucheng Li, Mathematics
Weijie Lu, Physics
Sarah Marshall, History & Economics
Dylan Moss, Oriental Studies
Milou Ottolini, Medicine
Katie Robinson, Modern Languages
Thomas Sandford-Bondy, Chemistry
Yuxiang Shen, Mathematics
Oliver Skeet, Economics &
Management
Darcey Snape, Philosophy, Politics &
Economics
Alec Wallis, Classics
Benjamin Wighton, History
Adam Wilson, Classics
Zetai Wu, Chemistry
Chi Zhang, Mathematics
Sam Zia, History & Politics
Guy Zilberman, Geography
Graduate Distinctions
Claudia Barry, Law
Francis Bertschinger, MSt Music
Emilia Blyth, MSt History
Abhinav Chauhan, Law
Nicola Cockerill, MSt Classical
Archaeology
Jian Cui, MPhil Linguistics, Philology &
Phonetics
James Derby, MSc Software &
Systems Security
Talia Gilbey, MSc Psychological
Research
Alexander Goodall, MSc Advanced
Computer Science
Audrey Hagopian, MSc Education
Quinn Higgins, MPhil Development
Studies
Annabel Jackson, MSt English
Katie Jones, MSc Latin American
Studies
George Kirkham, MSc Nature,
Society & Environmental
Governance
Victoria Longhi, MSc Education
Nia Moseley-Roberts, MSt Medieval
Studies
Isabelle Napier, MPhil International
Relations
Lily Pollock, BM Medicine – Clinical
Robert Powell, MSc Water Science,
Policy & Management
Oliver Rausch, MSc Advanced
Computer Science
Jack Stebbing, MSt Music
Jessica Sutton, Law
Lily Watson, BM Medicine – Clinical
With apologies to Myles Preston,
whose 2021 Graduate Distinction
(MSc Learning & Teaching) was
incorrectly listed.
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Subject Prizes
C F Williamson Prize in English
Lucy Kelly, English & Modern
Languages
Selina St John, English
Ernest Ely Genner Prize
William Searle, Classics
D L Chapman Memorial Prize
Chelsea Wallis, BCL
JT Christie Prize
Joel Fernandez, Classics
Riana Modi, Classics
Jagger Prize
Adam Wilson, Classics
College Subject Awards for
Meritorious Work
Zayd Addicott, Biology
Md Alam, Medicine
Lina Alrawashdeh, Philosophy, Politics
& Economics
Tomer Amit, Geography
Megan Bradley, Law
Muxue Chen, Chemistry
Yaqing Chen, Experimental
Psychology
Chiara Cox, Biology
Daniel Davies, Chemistry
Frederick Feltham, Philosophy &
Theology
Haulwen Goldie-Jones, Engineering
Science
Quan Guan, Physics
Finley Hewitt, Law
Si Hui, Medicine
Anna Kotanska, Chemistry
Alice Lasocki, Mathematics
Zhihe Lei, Chemistry
Faith Lee Siew Ling, Experimental
Psychology
Joshua Luke, Chemistry
Seren Marsh, Medicine
Sarah Marshall, History & Economics
Milou Ottolini, Medicine
Charlotte Pavey, Economics &
Management
Sophy Popov, Medicine
Jonathan Powell, Law
Reef Ronel, Medicine
Thomas Sandford-Bondy, Chemistry
Darcey Snape, Philosophy, Politics &
Economics
James Somper, Chemistry
Eugenio Toso, Modern Languages
Sam Zia, History & Politics
Progress Prizes
Alexander Crosby, Chemistry
Niamh Jones, English
College Prize in recognition of
a University Prize
Zhichun Cao, Mathematics &
Statistics
Han Xian Julius Chua, Geography
James Eaton, Chemistry
Greta Evans, Modern Languages &
Linguistics
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Matthew Frey, Law
Faith Lee Siew Ling, Experimental
Psychology
Shucheng Li, Mathematics
Beatrice Sexton, Law
James Somper, Chemistry
Alex Tatomir, Computer Science
Lily Watson, BM Medicine – Clinical
Xiang Yu Han, Economics &
Management
Election to an Open
Scholarship 2021-22
Yaamir Badhe, Classics
Leon Balan-Tribus, Mathematics &
Computer Science
Arion Beckett, Chemistry
Benjamin Biggs, History & Politics
Emily Borghaus, PPE
Ruotong Cao, Mathematics
Ismael Carlosse, Mathematics &
Computer Science
Francis Chambers, Modern
Languages
Alan Chang, Computer Science
Phoebe Chave, History
Samir Chitnavis, Biology
Timothy Collins, History & Politics
Anna Cooper, Modern Languages
David Cowen, Mathematics
Chiara Cox, Biology
Jennifer Crompton, Classics
George Dietz, Geography
Jessica Ebner-Statt, Geography
Alex Hanley, Mathematics
Eoin Hanlon, English & Modern
Languages
Elsa Heywood, Biology
Jessica Hillier, Biology
Georgia Hopwood, Geography
Chenxuan Ji, Physics
Bethan Jones, History
Kriszta Jozsa, Biology
Hannah Li, Biology
Ronan Lunny, Modern Languages
Aram Masharqa, English
Kinga Mastej, Chemistry
Farheen Muhammed, Engineering
Science
Denise Ng, Law
James Perkins, History
Jessye Phillips, Biology
Chiara Pigaiani, Chemistry
Grace Ramsey, Music
Jake Reid, PPL
Max Robertson, Chemistry
William Rumble, Mathematics
William Searle, Classics
Beatrice Sexton, Law
Lloyd Smith, Chemistry
Antoni Strychalski, Computer Science
Chiara Theimer, Biology
Imogen Thomas, Chemistry
Eleanor Tutt, English
Clara Wade, Biology
George Woods, English
Gang Xu, Medicine
Zhiqi Xu, Economics & Management
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Election to an Open Exhibition
2021-22
Bruno Armitage, History Modern
Languages
Charles Bircham, Modern Languages
Benedict Carroll, Modern Languages
& Philosophy
Matthew Frey, Law
Raphael Gaete, History
Haulwen Goldie-Jones, Engineering
Science
Jude Gordon, Medicine
Oliver Hutton, Law
Claire Johnson, Law
Aleksander Kleinszmidt, Computer
Science
Charalampos Kokkalis, Computer
Science
Riana Modi, Classics
Henrietta Nicholls, English Modern
Languages
Adeyinka Okuwoga, Engineering
Callum Pemberton, Physics
Lily Pitcher, Biology
Ifan Rogers, Physics
Lianfeng Shi, Computer Science
Renewal of Scholarship 2021-22
Romi Aggarwal, Chemistry
Angus Alder, Engineering Science
Lucas Bachmann, Mathematics &
Computer Science
Samuel Banfield, Mathematics
Zhichun Cao, Mathematics &
Statistics
Louis Capstick, English
Joseph Chambers-Graham,
Mathematics & Computer Science
Muxue Chen, Chemistry
Yong Sang Cho, Physics
Hou Chua, Computer Science
Marc Cowan, Physics
Calum Crossley, Mathematics
Alessandra David, Geography
Daniel Davies, Chemistry
Susannah Dunn, Modern Languages
Oliver Edwardes, Economics &
Management
Man Hon Fan, Mathematics &
Computer Science
Alexander Henderson, Chemistry
Henrik Holen, Physics
Kaitlin Horton-Samuel, English
Si Hui, Medicine
Lewis Ince, Engineering Science
Claire Irwin, Modern Languages
Anna Kotanska, Chemistry
Daisy Leeson, Geography
Joshua Luke, Chemistry
Charles Papworth, Law
Kush Patel, Law
Rebecca Pattenden, Geography
Charlotte Pavey, Economics &
Management
Joseph Phelps, Physics
Geoffrey Pugsley, Physics
Hazel Rycroft, Chemistry
Fergus Seymour, Geography
James Somper, Chemistry
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Selina St John, English
Alex Tatomir, Computer Science
Siyu Wang, Engineering Science
Charles West, Modern Languages
Matthew Williams, Chemistry
Theodore Wilmot-Sitwell,
Philosophy & Theology
Tianyi Yang, Chemistry
Minyi Yao, Chemistry
Mateja Zdravkovic, Physics
Yining Zhang, Mathematical &
Theoretical Physics
Renewal of Exhibition 2021-22
Helena Aeberli, History & Politics
Md Alam, Medicine
Tal Barnea, Mathematics
Emily Cohen, Mathematics
Bal Gurpreet Singh, Engineering
Consuelo Monson, History &
Modern Languages
Natasha Palfrey, Philosophy &
Modern Languages
Sophy Popov, Medicine
Reef Ronel, Medicine
Samuel Schulenburg, Modern
Languages
Gohar Shafia, Mathematics
Sophie Sieradzan Wright, History
Natalie Thomas, History
Ryan Walshaw, History & Modern
Languages
Rayvanth Zama, History
Thomas William Thomas
Scholarship
Daniel Munks, Philosophy & Theology
Rhiannon Paton, Philosophy &
Theology
Johanna Sealey, Philosophy &
Theology
Chelsea Wallis, Law
Collection Prizes
Lina Alrawashdeh, Philosophy,
Politics & Economics
Otto Arends Page, Mathematics
Edoardo Casini, Economics &
Management
Reuben Cooper, Classics
David Cowen, Mathematics
Molly Cressey-Rodgers,
Mathematics & Philosophy
Joel Fernandez, Classics
Lucas Gathercole, Physics
Alex Hanley, Mathematics
Amy Lamb, Physics
Laureline Latour, Modern Languages
Nathan Lawson, Geography
Shucheng Li, Mathematics
Sarah Marshall, History & Economics
Riana Modi, Classics
Yuxiang Shen, Mathematics
Darcey Snape, Philosophy, Politics &
Economics
Adam Wilson, Classics
Chi Zhang, Mathematics
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Internship Awards
Cassidy Bereskin, Social Science
Chuchu Chen, Education
Chiara Cox, Biology
Saran Davies, Zoology
Theodore Hall, Russian & Arabic
Shathuki Hetti Achchige Perera,
Biology
Quinn Higgins, Development Studies
Kriszta Jozsa, Biology
Laureline Latour, Modern Languages
Allegra Levine, Geography
Arnas Matulaitis, Physics
Alexander Miller, Philosophy &
Theology
Natasha Palfrey, Philosophy &
Modern Languages
Geoffrey Pugsley, Physics
Alexander Rodway, Biological
Sciences
Adedamilola Tariuwa, Engineering
Science
Alfie Williams-Hughes, Modern
Languages
Chi Zhang, Mathematics
Extended Research Project
Awards for Undergraduates
Farheen Muhammed, Engineering
Science
Tianyi Yang, Chemistry
Graduate Scholarships 2021-22
Susannah Bain, DPhil History
Eli Bernstein, DPhil History
Raphael Bradenbrink, DPhil
International Development
John Colley, DPhil English
Lucy Goddard, DPhil Primary Health
Care
Swati Jhaveri, DPhil Law
Isobel Patterson, DPhil Engineering
Science
Yang Pei, DPhil Medical Sciences
Lisa Zillig, Interdisciplinary Bioscience
(BBSRC DTP)
Graduate Scholarship renewals
2021-22
Izar Alonso Lorenzo, DPhil
Mathematics
Nora Baker, DPhil Medieval &
Modern Languages
Benedict Campbell, DPhil
Environmental Research
(NERC DTP)
Saran Davies, DPhil Environmental
Research (NERC DTP)
Bee Jones, DPhil History
Marta Krueger, EPSRC CDT Diamond
Science & Technology
Christopher Lyes, DPhil Classical
Archaeology
Alison Middleton, DPhil Classical
Languages & Literature
Raffaele Sarnataro,
DPhil Neuroscience
Jesus Old Members’
(XL Group) Exhibitions
Xin Shen, Mathematics and Statistics
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Renewal of Jesus Old Members’
(XL Group) Exhibitions
Caitlyn Eddy, Geography
Callum Martin, Chemistry
Flavius Vlasiu, Computer Science
Clarendon/Old Members’
(XL Group) Postgraduate
Awards
Lucas Mangas Araujo,
MSc Mechanical Engineering
Sarah Tan, MSc Nature, Society and
Environmental Governance
Renewal of Clarendon/
Old Members’ (XL Group)
Postgraduate Awards
Benedict Campbell, DPhil Earth
Sciences
Louis Henderson, DPhil History
Rowland Imperial, DPhil Education
Rebecca Kelly, DPhil Population
Health
Joseph McManus, DPhil Physical and
Theoretical Chemistry
Doctorates awarded 2021-22
Ralph Abboud, Learning & Inference
over Relational Data
Mohammad Alsharid, Generating
textual captions for ultrasound
visuals in an automated fashion
Iqbal Bhalla, The ecology & ecosystem
services of insectivorous bats in rice
dominated landscapes
William Brockbank, Conceptions of
Place in Old English Poetry
Jiahe Cui, Adaptive optics & remote
focusing in biomedical microscopy
Natascha Domeisen, Heidin und
Mörin. Zur Materialität, Visualität
und Medialität höfischer Texte im
Spätmittelalter
Janik Festerling, Alexa, ‘How Do You
Change Us?’ Exploring Associations
Between Children’s Exposure to
Digital Voice Assistants & Their
Ontological Understandings of
(Human) Life & Technology
Rebecca Goldberg, Sexual selection
& reproductive trade-offs in caring
parents
Nada Kurdi, Studies towards the total
synthesis of omuralide
Jian Rui Liu, Interplay between oxygen
sensing mechanisms & hepatitis B
virus replication.
Helena Pickford, Heteroatom-
Substituted Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes
Robert Pisarczyk, From causality to
randomness – a quantum
information perspective
Priyav Shah, Novel Capabilities for
Gas-Phase Laser-Induced Gratings
Li Shen, Validation of Flow Simulation
Model using Particle Image
Velocimetry Data & Dimensionality
Reduction Techniques
Jamie Shenk, Democratization from
Below: Citizen-Activated
Participatory Democracy in
Colombia’s Extractive Industries
Esther Turner, A Measurement of
Scattering Characteristics of the
Detection Medium in the SNO+
Detector
Wenyuan Zhang, From local to
global: biodiversity estimation &
implications
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Old Members’ Obituaries and
Memorial Notices
These notices are compiled and edited from various sources, including
external publications and submissions from family and friends.
1940s
BEGG, Ean Cochrane Macinnes (1949)
26.06.1929 – 01.10.2018
After graduating from Jesus in Modern Languages and following
a spell in the British army, Ean Begg undertook a variety of
occupations including wine merchant, Headmaster, and
Dominican friar. Having developed a keen interest in
comparative religion, Gnosticism, and Norse mythology, he
went on to train as an analytical psychologist at the C.G. Jung
Institute in Zurich. On his return to England in the 1970s he
joined the Association of Jungian Analysts (AJA). In 1982 he was
elected chairman of the organisation; but after internal
disagreements he and a number of colleagues left AJA and
formed a new group called the Independent Group of Analytical
Psychologists (IGAP); this became home to Zurich analytical
psychology graduates in the UK. Begg conducted a private
therapy practice in South London, and was a frequent lecturer
until his death in 2018.
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DANIELS FRSC FRSA FInstP, James Maurice (1942)
26.08.1924 – 12.06.2016
Born in Canada, James Daniels graduated with a BA from Jesus
in 1948 and a DPhil in 1952. He served as Professor of Physics at
the University of British Columbia from 1953 to 1960, then
spent a year as a visiting professor at Instituto de Fisica J.A.
Balseiro in Bariloche, Argentina, before being appointed
Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto. He served five
years as Chairman of the Physics department, retiring in the late
1980s to live near Princeton, New Jersey, where he had been a
Visiting Senior Researcher (1984-85).
1950s
DICKEY, John Wallis (1950)
23.12.1927 – 01.06.2022
Born in Springfield, Missouri, John Dickey graduated from the
University of Missouri, where he was a member of the Sigma
Chi fraternity, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study
Law at Jesus; he viewed his studies at Oxford as one of the
happiest times of his life. After graduating in Law from Jesus in
1952, he went on to serve in the United States Army and then
practised law at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and London
for more than forty years, specialising in civil litigation and
among other things appearing before the United States
Supreme Court and the World Court. Numerous partners and
associates paid tribute to his brilliant mentoring, some saying
they had only joined his firm because of his inspiration. He was
an avid reader and book collector, and a lover of ballet, opera,
jazz, old movies, college football, horse racing, and tennis. He
had a lifelong fascination with the Second World War, and he
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travelled widely around Australia, South America, Japan, and
Viet Nam. He returned to his Missouri home in 2011 and
devoted much time and extensive resources to philanthropic
projects, including founding a scholarship at his Springfield high
school and establishing a charitable foundation. He is survived
by his wife, Emilie (née Kiekhofer), whom he married in 1964, as
well as three children, three grandchildren, a great-grandchild,
and many devoted nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Elizabeth Dickey
LLOYD OBE, Howell Arnold (1958)
15.11.1937 – 20.05.2022
Howell Lloyd was born in Carmarthen to a
Welsh-speaking family. His father was
Principal of the Gelli Aur Agriculture
College, Llandeilo, and his mother was a
teacher. Educated at Queen Elizabeth
Grammar School, Carmarthen, he gained
his BA degree from the University of Wales
at Aberystwyth. In 1958 he moved to Jesus
where he completed his doctorate on the
gentry of south-west Wales. While at Oxford he met his wife,
Gaynor, and they were married in 1962. He decided to seek a
history lectureship in the north of England, and moved to the
University of Hull, where he became an avid Hull City
supporter, attending matches with his sons (although he always
supported Wales at rugby). He was appointed Professor of
History at Hull University, with his research bridging the
medieval and early modern periods and covering social,
constitutional, and intellectual history. In 1995 he became
Pro Vice-Chancellor, a position he held for nine years before
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ecoming Senior Pro Vice-Chancellor and eventually Deputy
Vice-Chancellor. In 2004 he was awarded an OBE for services
to higher education.
Howell was fond of calling himself the eminence grise – the
power behind the throne – explaining that ‘Howell’ in Welsh
means ‘eminent’, and ‘Lloyd’ in Welsh means ‘grey’. He was
keen to integrate the University more closely with the City, and
to tap into Hull’s maritime history. When Blaydes House in
Hull’s Old Town was established as the new centre for maritime
history (HMS Bounty of mutiny fame was commissioned there)
Howell energetically raised funds for the Centre. He also found
a home for the Wilberforce Institute for Slavery and
Emancipation in the town centre, and set up a series of seminars
there. He loved the East Riding countryside and coast, and
enjoyed walking with his family in the Yorkshire Wolds and the
North York Moors. On retirement, he published four books
and was an active member of the congregation of Hull Minster,
serving on the Parochial Church Council as well as on the
Development Board and Fabric Committee. He raised funds to
restore the organ and is remembered for his powerful reading
of the lessons, the last time on Palm Sunday 2022. He is
survived by his sister Nansi, his wife Gaynor, their five children
and five grandchildren.
Rebecca Lloyd
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McGUIRE, James Edward ‘Ted’ (1959)
29.10.1931 – 12.05.2022
Ted McGuire held positions at Harvard, Cornell, Leeds,
Leicester, and Oxford before joining the faculty for the history
of philosophy and science at Pittsburgh in 1971. He also held
various visiting positions over the years, including as the Sarton
Chair Holder at the University of Ghent, as a visiting lecturer at
the University of the Bosphorus, Istanbul, and as the Silverman
Visiting Professor at Tel Aviv University. He was known for his
work on time, temporality, and historicity in early modern
thought, particularly his research on Newton and on Descartes’
dualism, and was the author and co-author of numerous books
including Science Unfettered: A Philosophical Study in Sociohistorial
Ontology (with Barbara Tuchanska) and Descartes’s Changing
Mind (with Peter Machamer).
With thanks to the Daily Nous
MOORE, Norman John (1955)
17.04.1934 – 18.04.2022
Norman Moore was born in Evesham,
Worcestershire, and educated at the City of
Oxford School. After completing his
National Service in the Royal Air Force,
where he obtained a Civil Service
Interpreters Certificate in Russian, he
studied Modern Languages at Jesus
(1955-1958), where he was Captain of
Rugby and High Master of the Elizabethan
Society. He also played for the OU Greyhounds, and was an
Elected Member of Vincents Club. His career began in Sales
Management with Hoover plc, and he progressed through
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various divisions of London Brick before establishing his own
sales and marketing consultancy. He is survived by Barbara, his
wife of 63 years, and their children Christina, Valerie, Peter
and Robert.
Val Harris
SHARP CBE, Tom (1951)
19.06.1931 – 20.08.2021
Tom Sharp came from a family of historians:
his mother, the daughter of Manchester
historian T F Tout, taught history at Bristol
University, and his great aunt Hilda Johnston
was a professor of history at Royal Holloway
College. He was educated at Abbotsholme
School in Derbyshire and gained a
scholarship to Jesus to read History at age
17, coming up in 1951 after doing national
service. After graduating with a First he entered the civil service,
where he spent 34 years, mostly in the Board of Trade
(subsequently the Department for Trade and Industry). He
worked on the merging of BOAC and BEA to form British
Airways, was Commercial Counsellor at the British Embassy in
Washington during the Watergate years, and negotiated on
trade policy issues with the EU and GATT. His leading role in
the privatisation of British Telecom earned him the award of a
CBE in 1987. He retired from the civil service in 1987 and
worked for Lloyds of London until 1991. In 1989 he was elected
Liberal Democrat County Councillor for Guildford South, a
position he retained for 16 years; he was also a Guildford
borough councillor for eight years, chair of Social Services on
Surrey County Council for two, chair of the Citizens Advice
Bureau for six, and a long-term governor of two Guildford
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schools. He kept up his interest in history by being on the Board
of the Surrey History Centre, becoming a member of the
Historical Association, and maintaining links with an Anglo-
American group called the Washington Historicals. In 1962 he
married fellow civil servant, Margaret (nee Hailstone), who
became a Liberal Democrat peer in 1998. They were keen
walkers, above all from their second home in the Brecon
Beacons, and they travelled widely and enjoyed many walking
holidays in Europe and America. Tom is remembered for a life
of public service and for his gentleness, sense of fairness, and
sense of humour. He is survived by Margaret and their
two daughters.
Margaret Sharp
SYMES, David Gilyard (1953)
30.07.1934 – 13.01.2022
Born in Bradford, David Symes secured a
King Charles I Scholarship to read
Geography at Jesus, where he was awarded
the Herbertson Memorial Prize. He
graduated in 1956 with a First, and following
a period of postgraduate research on rural
change in western Norway (based at the
Norwegian School of Economics) he was
appointed in 1958 to a teaching post at the
University of Hull. He worked in the Geography department at
Hull for over 40 years until his retirement in 2000. He was one
of Europe’s most renowned social scientists working in the field
of fisheries management, rural development and policy. His
academic career spanned seven decades, and his research had a
major impact on fisheries policy and on the formation of a
European fisheries social science community.
With thanks to Newcastle University’s Centre for Rural Economy
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1960s
COOPER, Christopher Richard Havelock (1964)
13.04.1946 – 05.04.2022
Chris Cooper read History at Jesus, coming
up as an Open Exhibitioner in 1964 when
Richard Grassby and John Walsh ran the
course. He came from Woolverstone Hall,
then an LCC boarding school known in the
popular press as ‘the Cockney Eton’. He had
lived abroad in Germany, Greece, and
Egypt, as his father was an officer in the
Royal Artillery. His historical interests lay in
the early Medieval and Anglo-Saxon periods. On graduating he
was able to follow his inclination to work in archives, and gained
a postgraduate diploma from Liverpool University. He became
keeper of manuscripts at the Corporation of London Guildhall
Library, where he spent 17 years, and then worked for 32 years
until retirement at The National Archives at Kew, where he
finished as Departmental Security Officer, ensuring the security
of the TNA data. His time at Kew was notable for his work
enhancing and enlarging the Archives’ role as a resource for the
public and for developing their facilities. He oversaw the transfer
of the former Family Records Centre to Kew in 2008, and was a
specialist in the records of bankruptcies. He stayed in post until
he was 72, and after retiring continued as a volunteer. An
aesthete and dedicated smoker in the mid-60s, he became a
much respected and skilful administrator in public office, and an
enthusiastic runner in Bushy Park near his home in Teddington.
He favoured the Mediterranean coast and its wines for family
holidays and was teaching himself Italian. He enjoyed opera and
cinema, having had a brief tenure as film critic for Isis magazine;
and he was a keen gardener, novel reader, and visitor to
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London’s art galleries. A family man, he is survived by his wife
Clare (also a distinguished archivist), daughters Lucy, Alice,
Hannah, and Sarah, and grandson Charlie.
Kerry Renshaw (1964)
HARVEY, Julian Edmund (1960)
12.04.1942 – 13.03.2020
Julian Harvey was born in Maidstone, Kent,
and educated at Sutton Valence School
where his father taught French. At Jesus he
read Modern Languages and, a keen
sportsman, captained the college cricket and
hockey sides. After Oxford he joined
Canada Life Assurance, working for the
company for 25 years in London and then
the North East. In 1969, he married Daphne
Mitchell and brought up his family of two sons and a daughter in
Barnard Castle, Co Durham, while restoring a stunning
Georgian townhouse and garden. His lifelong love of France
prompted his move to a bucolic rural farmhouse in the Gironde
in 1990. He taught at a language school in Bordeaux before
retirement. He relished the wines, cuisine, and landscape of the
Sud-Ouest, where he died, in the same hospital as Daphne,
who predeceased him by two years. He is survived by his two
sons, daughter and six grandchildren.
Alex Harvey (1983)
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OGILVIE, Dr Robert Victor (1962)
01.04.1938 – 11.10.2022
Born in Grenada, West Indies, Robert
Ogilvie attended Grenada Boys’ Secondary
School and completed the Cambridge
Higher School Certificate in 1956. In 1958 he
started a six-year medical programme at the
University College of the West Indies in
Mona, Jamaica, where he won the Walter
Harper Prize in Anatomy and a Medal for
Physiology. In 1962 he was awarded the first
Caribbean Rhodes Scholarship: prior to 1962 only Jamaicans
had been eligible, but a special scholarship was instituted for
students from the other islands. Robert came up to Jesus in
1962 and completed the last two years of his medical training.
After interning and working in Jamaica, he joined the residency
programme in Otolaryngology at the University of Toronto,
Canada. He worked as a surgeon, and subsequently became
Chief of Surgery, at the York-Finch Hospital in West Toronto,
where he remained for 41 years. Outside of work he played
cricket and golf, and sang as a baritone in three choirs: All The
King’s Voices, the Repertory Chorus at the Royal Conservatory
of Music, Toronto, and in his Church choir. He is survived by his
wife Hazel, a son, three daughters and ten grandchildren.
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PIDCOCK, John Nigel Edward (1963)
26.12.1944 – 12.2021
A native of Derbyshire, John attended
Denstone College before reading Modern
Languages at Jesus. There he also rowed and
was a gifted jazz pianist, an activity inspired
by his music-teaching mother and which he
continued with performing groups in later
life. After Voluntary Service Overseas in
Tunisia he moved to Spain. Friends
remember his atmospheric wedding in the
Judería quarter of Seville on a New Year’s Eve. The marriage
ended in divorce and he had no children. Based initially in
Barcelona, John worked for the British Council, also travelling
around Spain and overseas to check standards on behalf of the
Cambridge University programme for teaching English as a
foreign language. He later lived in a hill village in Catalonia’s
Priorat wine region. During retirement he wrote
autobiographical and other factual material as well as fiction,
and was exploring publication possibilities shortly before he
died. A number of Jesus contemporaries with whom he stayed
in touch remember him as talented, courteous, kind, quiet but
fun to be with and possessing a great sense of humour.
Malcolm Campbell
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1980s
BISHOP, Andy (1987)
09.07.1969 – 21.12.21
Andy Bishop was born and educated in
Wokingham and read Maths at Jesus. After
Oxford, he worked for Coopers and
Lybrand, J P Morgan, and Bank of America
before becoming CIO IST and Corporate
Functions for BP. His colleagues compiled a
book of memories of Andy following his
death, which is full of warm tributes: “an
outstanding leader with amazing values”, “he
remained true to himself and lived his values”, “the ultimate
leader.” One of his team said “Everyone I know regarded him as
the exemplar of how to be, in every sense of the word. I feel
much the richer for having known him, and so much the poorer
for the news of his passing.” He was a man of integrity, huge
talent, and a wicked dry wit. We were married in 2001, and in
2012 we decided to move away from the corporate world,
setting up our own holiday business in Cornwall. In typical style,
Andy grasped the Cornish life with both hands, making many
friends here and proving to be a talented ultra-runner. He
would agree that his proudest achievement was being Dad to
our children, Sophia and Sam. They were his pride and joy
every day.
Louise Bishop (1986)
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MURPHY (née Massie), Lynda (1987)
25.01.1970 – 07.12.2021
Lynda Murphy (née Massie) was born in
Falkirk. Scotland, and brought up in Dollar,
attending Dollar Academy and winning her
year’s Milne medal awarded to the top
academic pupil. After studying Mathematics
at Jesus (1987 – 1990) she worked as an
actuarial consultant in London, moving to
Winchester in 2003 and earning a Wildlife
Management degree from Sparsholt College.
She was a popular and passionate campaigner on local and
national issues, including the climate emergency and on
membership of the EU. She was elected to Winchester District
Council in 2018, and led the Council’s environmental portfolio
from 2019 until her death. She stood for parliament for the
Liberal Democrats in 2019. She is survived by her husband
Richard, her two children Alex and Ewan, and by her mother
Jessica Massie.
Richard Massie
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2000s
AGGLETON, Hugh Simon (2003)
28.09.84 – 14.08.22
Hugh Aggleton came up to Jesus to read
Earth Sciences, during which time he
graduated from a complete novice rower to
captain of the 1st Eight, reflecting his
athleticism. To stay fit he began running
regularly, tackling the hills of South Wales
with Mynyddwyr De Cymru. He discovered
a love and aptitude for fell running and went
from strength to strength, competing mainly
in Wales and winning numerous races and setting course
records. He repeatedly represented Wales, and in 2015 Hugh
was the Welsh Fell Runners Association and Welsh Athletics
Men’s Open Fell Running Champion. Other notable
achievements included twice winning the world famous Man
versus Horse race, though he never quite beat the first horse.
He ran multiple marathons, and was the first GBR man home
(out of 477) in the 2016 Athens Authentic Marathon. He also
represented the RAF in road running. In 2019 Hugh was
diagnosed with an incurable aggressive brain tumour. As with his
running, he showed extraordinary fortitude and inner strength
over the time he had left.
John Aggleton (1976)
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Fellows
PHILLIPS, Thomas (JRF, 1963)
18.04.1937 – 06.08.2022
Tom Phillips was born in Watford, England,
outside London. His mother Iris supported
the family by taking in boarders; his father,
Joe, had aspired as a young man to become
a mechanical engineer. From Watford
Grammar School he secured a full academic
scholarship to St Edmund Hall, graduating in
1961 with a First in physics (the most
prestigious degree). He married his first wife
Joy in 1961, and started research towards a DPhil at Oxford.
Early in his career he published research on low-temperature
solid-state physics, and in 1963 was appointed Junior Research
Fellow at Jesus. After obtaining his DPhil in 1964 he won a
postdoctoral position at Stanford University, and in the three
years following his degree he and Joy had two children. In 1968
he took up a research position at Bell Laboratories in Murray
Hill, New Jersey, where he persuaded Nobel laureates Arno
Penzias and Bob Wilson that he could build a more sensitive
instrument to detect new molecules in the galaxy. His
innovations led to the receiver technology that powers
international observatories on mountaintops and satellites in
space, opening the field of submillimeter-wave astrophysics to
the science community worldwide. In 1979 he was appointed
Professor at the California Institute of Technology, where he
taught generations of students. In 1986 Tom married his second
wife, Caltech and JPL astronomer Jocelyn Keene, and they
raised their daughter Elizabeth while researching and building
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new observatories. To win the opportunity to build his own
observatory, he first had to serve as the assistant director of the
Owens Valley Radio Observatory and finish the array of
telescopes there. Having done so he won funding for his own
project, the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) on
Mauna Kea, Hawaii, which made its first observations in 1986.
He also worked closely with NASA, first by placing instruments
on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory and subsequently serving
as the American Principal Investigator for the HIFI instrument
on the Herschel Space Observatory, which was launched in
2009. He was a recipient of the Joseph Weber Award of the
American Astronomical Society, an honorary doctorate from
the Paris Observatory, and the NASA Exceptional Public
Service medal. He is survived by his wife Jocelyn, his three
children, a granddaughter, and his brother Barry.
With thanks to the Los Angeles Times
Thomas Phillips was appointed the College’s first Junior Research
Fellow in 1963. He and his wife, Dr Jocelyn Keene, gifted to the
College funding for a Junior Research Fellowship in Climate Science
2020-2023.
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TAYLOR, Professor Frederic William (Emeritus Fellow)
24.09.1944 – 16.12.2021
Fred Taylor was born in Amble,
Northumberland. His father, William, was
a joiner who had been wounded in World
War II, and his mother, Ena, was a teacher.
In 1949, the family moved to Howick,
Northumberland, and he was educated at
The Duke’s School, then an all-boys school
in Alnwick. After studying Physics at
the University of Liverpool and graduating
with a first class BSc, he obtained his DPhil at Jesus
researching atmospheric physics under the supervision of Sir
John Houghton. His thesis was on the development of an
infrared radiometer as prototype for an atmospheric
temperature sounder to be launched on the NASA Nimbus
satellite. Having successfully demonstrated the performance of
the instrument on a high-altitude balloon system, the instrument
would successfully fly on Nimbus 6 and subsequently on
planetary exploration missions to Venus and Mars.
In 1970 he joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California
Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He worked on a wide range
of planetary missions and was selected as Principal Investigator
of the VORTEX instrument, the first temperature sounder for
planet Venus, launched on the Pioneer Venus mission in 1978:
the first British-built hardware to travel to another planet. He
was also involved in the mission that sent the unmanned
spacecraft Galileo to study Jupiter and its moons. In 1979, he
returned to Oxford as Acting Head of the Atmospheric Physics
Department. He became Reader and Head of Atmospheric
Physics in 1984 and was appointed to the Halley Professorship in
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1990. Under his leadership, the department expanded in size
and significantly broadened the scope of its research into climate
dynamics, physical oceanography and planetary science, building
new links with the Met Office and the Institute for
Oceanographic Sciences. As a result, the department changed
its title in 1990 to Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
(AOPP). He also supervised a large number of DPhil students,
many of whom continue to work in planetary science.
Fred remained Halley Professor until his retirement in 2011,
after which he was a tireless organiser of historic documents
and instruments in the Dobson Room. His group was involved
in space missions to study the atmospheres of Earth, Venus,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Titan, as well as Mercury, the Moon,
and a comet. He was also a prolific writer, publishing twelve
books on atmospheric physics and popular science. His
textbooks touch on virtually all aspects of planetary science, and
he also wrote a very engaging memoir of his life and work.
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Selected Publications
Publications listed here are limited to the two most recent items
submitted by the author or (where relevant) the most recent singleauthored
and the most recent co-authored item. If all publications are
co-authored or (co-)edited, only the most recent item is listed. Where
authors have submitted titles of further publications, [++] is marked after
the final entry.
Principal
SHADBOLT, Sir Nigel
‘“From so simple a beginning”: species of artificial intelligence’ in AI &
Society, special issue of Daedalus 151(2) (2022)
Fellows
ALTSHULER, Daniel
co-author, Co-ordination and the Syntax-Discourse Interface (OUP, 2022)
‘A puzzle about narrative progression and causal reasoning’, in E. Maier
& A. Stokke (editors), The Language of Fiction (OUP, 2021) [++]
ANDERSON, Edward
co-author, ‘Collective synthesis of illudalane sesquiterpenes via cascade
inverse electron demand (4 + 2) cycloadditions of thiophene S,Sdioxides’,
Journal of the American Chemical Society 144 (2022) [++]
BOOTH, Martin
co-author with Stephen MORRIS, ‘Single-mode sapphire fiber Bragg
grating’, Optics Express 30(9) (2022) [++]
BOULANGER, Dorothée
Fiction as History: Resistance and Complicities in Angolan Postcolonial
Literature (Legenda, 2022)
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‘“In the centre of our circle”:
gender, selfhood and non-linear
time in Yvonne Vera’s Nehanda’,
Angelaki 27(3-4) (2022)
BURROWS, Philip
co-author, ‘The AWAKE Run 2
programme and beyond’,
Symmetry 14 (2022) [++]
DANCER, Andrew
co-author, ‘Partial implosions and
quivers’, Journal of High Energy
Physics 7 (2022) [++]
D’ANGOUR, Armand
‘Meter and music’ in Laura Swift
(editor), A Companion to Greek
Lyric (Wiley, 2022)
‘The music of the Orestes chorus’
in Krzysztof Bielawski &
Włodzimierz Staniewski (editors),
Eurypides Innowator (Gardzienice,
2022)
D’AVRAY, David
Papal Jurisprudence, 385-1234
(CUP, 2022)
‘Rationalities and rationalization’,
in Alan Sica (editor), The Routledge
International Handbook on Max
Weber (Routledge, 2023)
DERCON, Stefan
Gambling on Development (Hurst,
2022)
DIAS, Talita de Souza
Beyond Imperfect Justice: Legality
and Fair Labelling in International
Criminal Law (Brill, 2022)
co-author, ‘Drawing the cyber
baseline: the applicability of
existing international law to the
governance of information and
communication technologies’,
International Law Studies 99(4)
(2022)
DORAN, Susan
‘The late raigne of Blessed
Queene Elizabeth: memory and
commemoration of Elizabeth I in
early-Jacobean England’, Groniek
Historisch Tijdschrift 227 (2021)
DUNNING, Andrew
‘Introduzione’ to Il manoscritto
Douce 390 e 390*: atlante nautico
Veneziano (Treccani, 2022)
ENRIQUES, Luca
co-author, ‘Rewiring law for an
interconnected world’, Arizona
Law Review 64 (2022) [++]
HARRIS, Jonathan
co-author, Underhill and Hayton
Law of Trusts and Trustees
(LexisNexis, 2022) [++]
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HOLLÄNDER, Georg
LEHDONVIRTA, Vili
co-author, ‘A circulating subset of
iNKT cells mediates antitumor
and antiviral immunity’, Science
Immunology 7(76) (2022) [++]
HULLE, Dirk van
Genetic Criticism (OUP, 2022)
‘The intertextual condition’ in
Catherine Flynn (editor), The New
Joyce Studies (CUP, 2022) [++]
INOUYE, K.
‘Developing the PhD research
proposal: The role of individual
contexts in PhDs’ approaches to
doctoral research and writing’.
Higher Education (2022)
co-author, ‘Writing across
contexts: Relationships between
doctoral writing and workplace
writing’. Innovations in Education
and Teaching International (2022)
[++]
LANZINGER, Matthias
‘The complexity of conjunctive
queries with degree 2’, ACM
Symposium on Principles of
Database Systems (2022)
co-author, ‘Fast parallel hypertree
decompositions in logarithmic
recursion depth’, ACM Symposium
on Principles of Database Systems
(2022) [++]
Cloud Empires: How Digital
Platforms are Overtaking the State
and How We Can Regain Control
(MIT Press, 2022)
LIDSTER, Amy
Publishing the History Play in the
Time of Shakespeare (CUP, 2022)
MORRIS, Stephen
co-author with Martin BOOTH,
‘Single-mode sapphire fiber Bragg
grating’, Optics Express 30(9)
(2022) [++]
PALMER, Tim
The Primacy of Doubt: From
Climate Change to Quantum Physics
(OUP, 2022)
PHILLIPS, Joshua
‘How should one read “The
Reader”? New approaches to
Virginia Woolf ’s late archive’,
Textual Cultures 14 (2022)
‘Virginia Woolf ’, The Year’s Work
in English Studies, 99 (2021)
PIERREHUMBERT, Raymond
Planetary Systems: A Very Short
Introduction (OUP, 2021)
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RADU, Roxana
co-author, ‘Digital footprints as
barriers for accessing
e-government services’, Global
Policy (2022) [++]
SCOTT, Hamish †
‘Early modern history: its present
and its past’, Canadian Journal of
History 57(2) (2022)
‘Aristocrats and nobles’, in Erin
Griffey (editor), Early Modern
Court Culture (Routledge, 2022)
[++]
SEDGWICK, Adam
co-author, ‘A fluorescent probe
strategy for the detection and
discrimination of hydrogen
peroxide and peroxynitrite in
cells’, Chemical Communications
(2022)
SHAPLAND, Andrew
Human-Animal Relations in Bronze
Age Crete (CUP, 2022)
‘Curating the Macedonian
campaign’ in P. Cornish & N.J.
Saunders (editors), Curating the
Great War (Routledge, 2022)
SIRAJ, Iram
co-author, ‘Exploring children’s
exposure to voice assistants and
their ontological
conceptualizations of life and
technology’ AI & Society (2022)
[++]
WHITE, Stuart
Labour, Pluralism and Creative
Constitutionalism (Compass, 2022)
‘The referendum and the UK’s
constitution: from Parliamentary
to popular sovereignty?’,
Parliamentary Affairs 75(2) (2022)
[++]
WILKINSON, Dominic
co-author, ‘Ethical issues and
decision making for children’, in
Katherine Wasson & Mark
Kuczewski (editors), Thorny Issues
in Clinical Ethics Consultation
(Springer, 2022) [++]
WILLIAMS, Matthew
Judges and the Language of Law
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
WILLIS, David
co-author (with Simon HASLETT,
former Visiting Fellow): ‘The ‘lost’
islands of Cardigan Bay, Wales,
UK’, Atlantic Geoscience 58 (2022)
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‘Welsh and English in Breconshire
from the seventeenth to the
nineteenth centuries’, Brycheiniog
53 (2022) [++]
Emeritus Fellows
BOSWORTH, Richard
‘Benito Mussolini: 100 years on’ in
Andrea Di Michele & Filippo
Focardi (editors), Rethinking
Fascism (De Gruyter, 2022)
CALDWELL, John
Historia de Sancta Mildretha
(Institute of Mediaeval Music,
2021)
CHARLES-EDWARDS, Thomas
‘Origin legends in Ireland and
Celtic Britain’, in L. Brady & P.
Wadden (editors), Origin Legends
in Early Medieval Western Europe
(Brill, 2022)
‘The textual tradition of Llyfr
Iorwerth revisited, or why both J.
Gwenogvryn Evans and Daniel
Huws may be right’, in S.E.
Roberts, S. Rodway, & A.
Falileyev (editors), Cyfarwydd
mewn Cyfraith (Welsh Legal
History Society, 2022) [++]
JACOBS, Nicolas
‘Gort na gCapall’, Oxford
Magazine, 0th Week Trinity 2022
LALLJEE, Mansur
co-author, ‘The Morality-Agency-
Communion (MAC) model of
respect and liking’, European
Journal of Social Psychology 51
(2021)
MIRFIELD, Peter
contributing editor, Hodge M.
Malek (editor), Phipson on
Evidence (Sweet & Maxwell, 2022)
SAMMONS, Pamela
co-author, ‘The art of “being
positive”: narratives of
transcendence and determination
in a comparative study of teacher
professional identities in state and
private schools in mainland
China’, Teachers and Teaching
(2022) [++]
SYLVA, Kathy
co-author with Pamela
SAMMONS, ‘Investigating the
reliability and validity of the
Toddler Home Learning
Environment (THLE) scale’,
Frontiers in Educational Assessment,
Testing, and Applied Measurement
(2021) [++]
VICKERS, Michael
co-editor, Two Cemeteries at
Takhtidziri (Georgia) Late
Achaemenid–Early Hellenistic and
Late Hellenistic–Early Roman
(Archaeopress, 2022)
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Honorary Fellows
LEWIS, Sir David T.R.
The Rhŷs, Rice and Dynevor Families
of Dinefwr Castle and Newton
House (2022)
Visiting Fellows
HASLETT, Simon
co-author (with David WILLIS):
‘The ‘lost’ islands of Cardigan Bay,
Wales, UK’, Atlantic Geoscience 58
(2022)
‘Locating Eglwys-y-rhiw in
Cardigan Bay and its implications
for estimating coastal retreat’,
Ceredigion: Journal of the
Ceredigion Historical Society 19(1)
(2022) [++]
Lecturers
CAVETT, Esther
‘Desire, gratification and the
moment: a music analytical and
psychological enquiry into the role
of repetition in the music of
Howard Skempton’
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
47(2) (2022)
MASTORIDIS, Sotiris
co-author, ‘Visceral-tosubcutaneous
fat ratio exhibits
strongest association with early
post-operative outcomes in
patients undergoing surgery for
advanced rectal cancer’,
International Journal of Colorectal
Disease (2022) [++]
WABITSCH, Alena
co-author, ‘Central bank
communication with non-experts:
a road to nowhere?’ Journal of
Monetary Economics 127 (2022)
WINEARLS, Christopher
co-author, ‘An analysis of vascular
access thrombosis events from
the Proactive IV Iron Therapy in
hemodialysis patients trial’, Kidney
International Reports 7(8) (2022)
[++]
Old Members
CARTY, Roland Kenneth (1966)
The Government Party: Political
Dominance in Democracy (OUP,
2022)
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CHURCH, Michael (1960)
Musics Lost and Found: Song
Collectors and the Life and Death
of Folk Tradition (Boydell &
Brewer, 2021)
CRABB, Steve (1982)
Queen’s Park: A History (History
Press, 2022)
DAVIES, Roy (1959)
co-editor, Advanced Methods and
Deep Learning in Computer Vision
(Elsevier, 2022)
DILNOT, Alan (1960)
‘By me William Shakspeare’:
A Study of Shakespeare’s
Handwriting and Identity
(Grayswood, 2020)
DUTTON, Yasin (1971)
Early Islam in Medina
(Bloomsbury, 2022)
‘The form of the Qur’an:
historical contours’ in Mustafa
Shah & Muhammad Abdel
Haleem (editors), The Oxford
Handbook of Qur’anic Studies
(OUP, 2020)
HARVEY, Alex (1983)
Song Noir (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Essays, London Review of Books
and Los Angeles Review of Books.
JONES, Tobias (1992)
The Po (Head of Zeus, 2022)
LIN, Chia-Shu (2007)
Dental Neuroimaging (Wiley-
Blackwell, 2021)
MASON, Peter (1970)
Ulisse Aldrovandi, Naturalist and
Collector (Reaktion, forthcoming)
MATHIAS, Glyn (1963)
A Last Respect: The Roland Mathias
Prize Anthology of Contemporary
Poetry (Seren, 2020)
MOLONEY, Catherine (1983)
Crime in the Crypt (Joffe, 2021)
MUTTUKUMARU, Christopher
(1970)
‘Two perennial Parliamentary
problems: propriety in public life
and Parliamentary sovereignty’,
Graya 135 (2022)
PALEIT, Edward (1992)
co-editor, Thomas May: Lucan’s
Pharsalia (MHRA, 2020)
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PICKERING, James (2011)
Ultrafast Lasers and Optics for
Experimentalists (Institute of
Physics Publishing, 2021)
PRICE, Huw (1976)
Writing Welsh History (OUP, 2022)
ROACH, Paul James (1970)
Unity and World Religions
(Unity, 2022)
ROBERTS, Gareth Ffowc (1964)
For the Recorde: A History of Welsh
Mathematical Greats (University
of Wales Press, 2022)
Archivist
DARWALL-SMITH, Robin
co-editor, The Unloved Century:
Georgian Oxford Reassessed,
History of Universities 35(1)
(2022)
‘More than Mengs: the chapel
between Thornhill and Scott’ in
Peregrine Horden (editor), The
Reredos of All Souls College, Oxford
(Ad Ilissum, 2021)
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Honours, Awards and Qualifications
1960s
CARTY, Roland Kenneth (1966, PPE)
With his wife, Elaine Carty (CM OBC), granted an Honorary
Doctorate of Letters by the University of New Brunswick.
1980s
PALMER, Richard (1981, Physics)
Highly Commended (runner up) in the British Yachting Awards
Pataenius Sailor of the Year.
2000s
LEWIS, Lly^r Gwyn (2009, Mst Celtic Studies)
Winner of the Ceredigion Eisteddfod Chair.
Fellows
PALMER, Timothy
Inducted into the United States National Academy of Sciences as
International Member.
FLAXMAN, Seth
The SPI-M-O Award for Modelling and Data Support (SAMDS), given
to those in recognition of exceptional contribution to the work of the
Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling outside of their
usual work activity.
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Appointments
1960s
JOHNSON, Roderick Stowers KC (1966, Literae Humaniores)
Appointed joint Head of Goldsmith Chambers, London.
1970s
WARD CBE, Graham (1970, Chemistry)
Elected a Fellow of Goodenough College.
WILLIS, David (1977, Jurisprudence)
Elected a Fellow of Queen Mary University of London.
Principal
SHADBOLT, Sir Nigel
Elected a Fellow of Goodenough College.
Fellows
CLAVIN, Patricia
Appointed to Statutory Chair in Modern History and
Professorial Fellow of Worcester College.
TURNER, Marion
Appointed to the J. R. R. Tolkien Professorship of English Literature
and Language in the Faculty of English Language and Literature.
Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall.
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Marriages & Civil Partnerships
BRADSHAW, Christopher (2007)
to McKAY, Olivia 23.07.2022
BRUN, Juan-Enrique Manosalva (2018)
to LINARES, Maria Cielo 17.06.2022
BUSHELL, Olivia (2012)
to WILSON, Andrew (2012) 17.09.2022
FROST, Natasha Mary (2010)
to CARTER, Samuel John Burnett 23.07.2022
HANSON, Olivia (2009)
to TRAFFORD, Robert (2008) 15.01.2022
JAMES, Christina (1983)
to SMITH, Patrick Michael Bryan 30.10.2021
LIWA, Marcin (2011)
to NYIKOS, Elizabeth 19.09.2022
MacGREGOR, Nicola (2003)
to DAVIES, Philip James 18.04.2022
MORGAN, David (2007)
to MORGAN, Nadine 14.07.2018
MYINT, Katie (2009)
to SMITH, Timothy (2009) 09.07.2022
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NIXON, Rachel (1997)
to NIXON, Lee 12.12.2020
PUGH, Rosie (2011)
to HOPES, Rhodri (2010) 10.09.2022
Blessings
ARRAS, Marie-Virginie (2022)
and JONGERIUS, Nick (2011) 06.08.2022
MINIHAN, Clive (1973)
and MINIHAN Heather 26.03.2022
Births
BLUES, Rebecca (2004, née Rigby) and
BLUES, Richard (2004)
a daughter, Charlotte Minnie 26.04.2017
a son, Max William 01.07.2019
CROW, Robert (1995)
a son, Rohan William Dalzell 30.10.2019
a son, Edward Ethan Dalzell 30.10.2019
JOHNSTON, Katherine (2005) and
NAZARUK, Alexander (2006)
a son, Leonid Lochlan James 30.11.2021
MACGREGOR, Nicola (2003)
a son, Harry Nye MacGregor-Davies 01.04.2019
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MORGAN, David (2007) and Nadine
a daughter, Sofia Mira 27.01.2020
WILSON, Peter (2006)
a son, Kit Bruce Goddard 30.10.2018
a daughter, Sadie Ruth Capell 06.11.2020
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In Memoriam
In cases where the date of death is not publicly available, the date of
notification only is listed below; correspondents are requested to
provide accurate dates where possible.
1940s
BAYLISS, Peter Henry (1948) 17.04.2021
BEGG, Ean Cochrane Macinnes (1949) 01.10.2018
DANIELS FRSC FRSA FInstP, James (Jim) Maurice (1942) 12.06.2016
DAVIS, Alan (1949) 11.2021
EVANS, Robert Glyn (1948) 25.01.2021
JONES, Harry (1946) notified 10.02.2022
LINEKER, Roger Frederick (1947) Jul 2016
LLOYD JONES, Gareth (1944) notified 02.09.2022
MILLER DM FRCP, Graham Austin Herrock (1948) 17.01.2022
THOMAS, Alun Gwyn (1948) 20.11.2022
WILLAN, Richard Lawrence (1947) 08.08.2022
1950s
DICKEY, John Wallis (1950) 01.06.2022
GOUGH MinstP, Dr William (Bill) (1957) notified 21.12.2022
GUINNESS, (Richard) Giles (1954) 01.2021
HODSON, Walter Leighton Ronald (1953) 25.06.2017
HOPSON, David Morgan (1952) notified 04.08.2022
LLOYD OBE, Howell Arnold (1958) 20.05.2022
McGUIRE, James Edward (1959) 12.05.2022
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McMANN, The Revd Duncan (1952) 17.11.2022
MOORE, Norman John (1955) 18.04.2022
MOSELEY, David Victor (1957) 16.07.2021
ROSE, Dennis John (1958) notified 21.09.2022
RUSSELL, Arthur Christie (1953) notified 09.09.2022
RUSSELL, Norman (1954) 16.05.2022
SHARP (CBE), Thomas (1951) 20.08.2021
SYMES, David Gilyard (1953) 13.11.2022
THOULESS, Martin Herbert (1950) 12.12.2021
TIBBOTT, Delwyn (1957) 08.11.2021
TOTTY, Peter Garstang (1958) 03.2022
WAGLAND, Phillip John (1956) 21.03.2022
1960s
COOPER, Christopher Richard Havelock (1964) 05.04.2022
DE SA, Derek (1963) notified 07.03.2022
GEALY, Walford Lloyd (1962) 15.03.2022
GREEN, Trevor (1967) 02.02.2022
HARVEY, Julian Edmund (1961) 13.03.2020
MONK, David Alec George (1962 & Honorary Fellow) 19.06.2022
MURPHY, Christopher Robert (1967) 17.04.2022
OGILVIE, Robert Victor (1962) 11.10.2022
PIDCOCK, John Nigel Edward (1963) 12.2021
SAXON OBE FRSE, David Harold (1966) 23.01.2022
SIMKIN, Alan (1967) 30.11.2022
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1970s
BARRY, Kevin (1979) notified 06.10.2022
WINSTANLEY, Philip John (1970) 20.05.2014
1980s
BISHOP, Andrew John (1987) 21.12.2021
MURPHY, Lynda Jane (1987) 07.12.2021
SHERIDAN, Sean (1987) 01.11.2022
STACEY, Simon Layton (1985) notified 02.08.2022
2000s
AGGLETON, Hugh Simon (2003) 14.08.2022
Fellows and Staff
FOSTER, Sir Christopher (Honorary Fellow) 18.02.2022
PHILLIPS, Thomas Gould (former Junior Research Fellow) 06.08.2022
SCOTT, Hamish (Senior Research Fellow) 06.12.2022
WALSH, John Dixon (Emeritus Fellow) 03.11.2022
John Walsh, Fellow and Tutor in History 1958-1992, Senior Research Fellow
1992-1994, and Emeritus Fellow since 1994, died on 3 November 2022
shortly before this issue of the Record went to print. Tributes will appear in
next year’s Jesus News and a full obituary in the Record. The College will
fundraise for an endowed Undergraduate Bursary in History in John’s name
in 2023. If you would like to support the bursary or hear more about this
new fund please email brittany.wellnerjames@jesus.ox.ac.uk.
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Useful Information
Visiting College
Alumni and their guests are welcome to come and visit College.
However, there are occasions on which College will be unable
to accommodate visits owing to College closures, graduations
etc. In order for us to ensure that we can accommodate your
visit on your intended date, please email alumni@jesus.ox.ac.uk
at least a week in advance to avoid disappointment.
Degree Ceremonies
The University has re-commenced in-person graduation
ceremonies. Our current students are given preference when
booking ceremonies, with alumni who have not yet collected
their degrees being added to a waiting list. To register your
interest in having your degree conferred, or to apply for your
honorary MA either in absentia or in person, please email
degree_day@jesus.ox.ac.uk with your full name at
matriculation, matriculation year and subject, degree to be
conferred, and a current postal address. We try to respond to
all queries within a week.
Alumni Website
The alumni pages of the College website contain information on
all events, ways of keeping in touch, news, useful links and more.
They are updated regularly and are available at
www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/jesus.
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Gaudies
We were delighted to have recommenced our Gaudies in 2022,
and look forward to hosting these much-anticipated occasions
again in 2023. Invitations will be sent via email to those in the
year groups selected. To make sure you don’t miss out on your
Gaudy invitation, please subscribe to our events emails. You
can do this once you have logged in to your alumni account
(www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/jesus/login) or by emailing
events@jesus.ox.ac.uk.
Updating your details
If you have moved or changed your contact details, please email
alumni@jesus.ox.ac.uk, or complete the Update Form on the
website. If you would like your news to go into the next edition
of the Record, the deadline for entries is 31 October 2023.
Transcripts and Certificates
If you require proof of your exam results or a transcript of your
qualifications for a job application or continuing education
purposes and you commenced your course before Michaelmas
Term 2007, please contact the College’s Academic Office by
email at academic.office@jesus.ox.ac.uk. If you commenced
your course from Michaelmas Term 2007 onwards, you will
have received a transcript in the post at the end of your course.
If you need a replacement, please visit the online shop for latest
service updates:
www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/product-catalogue/
degree-conferrals.
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Dining in College
College is delighted to welcome alumni back to College to dine
in Hall on Sunday nights during Full Term time. Please email
alumni@jesus.ox.ac.uk to enquire about availability at least a
week in advance of your intended date.
Bed & Breakfast
College has now re-opened for bed and breakfast bookings.
Old Members can book via the website:
www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/visitors/accommodation. A discounted
rate is available if you enter the promotional code OM1571.
Availability is uploaded three months in advance. If no rooms
are bookable, we are unable to offer accommodation during
this period. Availability during term time is unlikely, owing to the
need to accommodate students. Details of the facilities are
available on the website.
The Chapel
The Chaplain is pleased to welcome Old Members to Chapel
services. A full list of dates and times is included on the Chapel
page of the website www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/about/jesus-collegechapel.
Old Members can also enjoy virtual services on the
Chapel’s new YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Owe0If6rW6RZgMhdmt7vg.
Old Members may be married in the College Chapel under
certain conditions. For information, please read the Marriage
Policy Document available online. The College charges the fee
set by the Church of England for holding marriage ceremonies in
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the Chapel. For enquiries regarding the Chapel, please contact
the Chaplain, Chris Dingwall-Jones, by emailing
chaplain@jesus.ox.ac.uk.
Social Media
Social media provides opportunities for alumni to keep in touch
with the College, and to find out about news and events. To join
Facebook, search on Facebook for Jesus College and click on
‘Jesus College, Oxford – Alumni’ (www.facebook.com/jesus.alumni).
Our Instagram handle is jesuscollegeoxford, and our YouTube
channel is Jesus College Alumni. There is also a group on
LinkedIn: go to www.linkedin.com and search for ‘Jesus College
Alumni’. The College also has a Twitter account
(@JesusOxford).
Merchandise
Current College merchandise is on sale at the Lodge, or via the
College store online:
thecollegestore.co.uk/collections/jesus-college.
Please email alumni@jesus.ox.ac.uk for more details.
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