The Queen's College Record 2023

THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE 

COLLEGE 

RECORD 2023

THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE 

Visitor 

The Archbishop of York 

Provost 

Craig, Claire Harvey, CBE, MA PhD Camb 

Fellows 

Robbins, Peter Alistair, BM BCh MA 

DPhil Oxf 

Hyman, John, BPhil MA DPhil Oxf 

Nickerson, Richard Bruce, BSc Edin, 

MA DPhil Oxf 

Taylor, Robert Anthony, MA DPhil Oxf 

Langdale, Jane Alison, CBE, BSc Bath, 

MA Oxf, PhD Lond, FRS 

Mellor, Elizabeth Jane Claire, BSc Manc, 

MA Oxf, PhD R’dg 

Owen, Nicholas James, MA DPhil Oxf 

Rees, Owen Lewis, MA PhD Camb, MA Oxf, 

ARCO 

Bamforth, Nicholas Charles, BCL MA Oxf 

O’Reilly, Keyna Anne Quenby, MA DPhil Oxf 

Louth, Charles Bede, BA PhD Camb, 

MA DPhil Oxf 

Norbury, Christopher John, MA Oxf, 

PhD Lond 

Sarooshi, Dan, LLB NSW, LLM PhD Lond, 

MA Oxf 

Doye, Jonathan Peter Kelway, 

BA PhD Camb 

Buckley, Mark James, MA DPhil Oxf 

Aldridge, Simon, MA DPhil Oxf 

Timms, Andrew, MA Camb, MPhil PhD Brist 

Meyer, Dirk, MA PhD Leiden 

Papazoglou, Panagiotis, BS Crete, MA PhD 

Columbia, MA Oxf, habil Paris-Sud 

Lonsdale, Laura Rosemary, MA Oxf, 

PhD Birm 

Beasley, Rebecca Lucy, MA PhD Camb, 

MA DPhil Oxf, MA Berkeley 

Crowther, Charles Vollgraff, MA Camb, 

MA Cincinnati, MA Oxf, PhD Lond 

O’Callaghan, Christopher Anthony, BM BCh 

MA DPhil DM Oxf, FRCP (Lond) 

Phalippou, Ludovic Laurent André, 

BA Toulouse School of Economics, 

MA Southern California, PhD INSEAD 

Gardner, Anthony Marshall, 

BA LLB MA Melbourne, PhD NSW 

Tammaro, Paolo, Laurea Genoa, PhD Bath 

Guest, Jennifer Lindsay, BA Yale, 

MA MPhil PhD Columbia, MA Waseda 

Turnbull, Lindsay Ann, BA Camb, PhD Lond 

Parkinson, Richard Bruce, BA DPhil Oxf 

Hollings, Christopher David, 

MMath PhD York 

Kelly, Steven, BSc Dub, DPhil Oxf, ARIAM 

Metcalf, Christopher Michael Simon, 

MA Edin, MPhil DPhil Oxf 

Whidden, Seth Adam, BA Union College, 

AM PhD Brown, MA Ohio State 

Prout, David, MA Oxf, PhD Lond 

Smith, Michael Ambrose Crawford, 

BA College of William and Mary, MA PhD 

Princeton 

Turner, Jonathan, BA MSt BCL MPhil 

DPhil Oxf, LLB Birkbeck 

Keating, Jonathan Peter, MPhys Oxf, 

PhD Bristol, FRS 

Abell, Catharine Emma Jenvey, BA Adelaide, 

PhD Flinders 

Weatherup, Robert Stewart, MEng 

PhD Camb 

Arnaldi, Marta, BA Turin, MSt DPhil Oxf, 

MA Pavia 

Ariga, Rina, MBBS Imperial, DPhil Oxf 

Muhammed, Kinan, MBBS Imperial, 

DPhil Oxf 

Marinkov, Viktor Vidinov, BSc Utrecht, 

MSc Barcelona 

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Carrillo de la Plata, José Antonio, BA 

PhD Grenada 

O’Brien, Conor, BA Cork, MSt DPhil Oxf 

Rota, Gabriele, BA Padua, MPhil PhD Camb 

Leedham, Simon, BSc MBBS PhD QMUL 

Edwards, Jennifer Jane, BA MA PhD RHUL 

Ono-George, Meleisa Patarica, 

BA MA Victoria, PhD Warw 

Achs, Rachel Erica, BA Yale, MPhil Camb 

Petrov, Jan, BSc Mgr PhD Masaryk, 

LLM NYU 

Al-Hosni, Rumaitha Nasser Ali, BSc Kent, 

MSc UCL, PhD Camb 

Jarrett, Sadie Claire, BA Camb, 

MSc Oxf Brookes 

Leeder, Karen, BA DPhil Oxf, FRSA 

Egger, Dennis, BA Oxf, MSc LSE, 

PhD Berkeley 

Schulman, Bruce, BA Yale, MA PhD Stanford 

Reynolds, Frances Susan, BA PhD Birm 

Ghassim, Farsan, BSc LSC, MA Yale, 

DPhil Oxf 

Khalighinejad, Nima, MD Isfahan, 

MSc PhD UCL 

Perkins, Marina Webster, BA Brown, 

MPhil Camb 

Ditter, Andreas, BPhil Oxf, MA Munich, 

PhD NYU 

Honorary Fellows 

Hoffmann, Leonard Hubert, the Rt Hon Lord 

Hoffmann of Chedworth, Kt, PC, BA Cape 

Town, BCL MA Oxf 

Morgan, Kenneth Owen, Lord Morgan of 

Aberdyfi, MA DPhil DLitt Oxf, FBA, FRHistS 

McColl, Sir Colin Hugh Verel, KCMG, MA Oxf 

Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy John, OM, KBE, 

MA Oxf, FRS 

Kelly, the Rt Hon Ruth Maria, PC, BA Oxf, 

MSc Lond 

Atkinson, Rowan Sebastian, BSc Newc, 

MSc Oxf 

Bowman, Alan Keir, MA Oxf, MA PhD 

Toronto, FBA 

Gillen, the Hon Sir John de Winter, BA Oxf 

Lever, Sir Paul, KCMG, MA Oxf, 

Hon LLD Birm 

Phillips, Caryl, BA Oxf, FRSL 

Stern, Nicholas Herbert, Lord Stern of 

Brentford, Kt, CH, MA Camb, DPhil Oxf, 

FBA, FRS 

Reed, Terence James, MA Oxf, FBA 

Low, Colin MacKenzie, Lord Low of Dalston, 

CBE, BA Oxf 

Beecroft, Paul Adrian Barlow, MA Oxf, 

FInstP 

†Budd, Sir Alan Peter, GBE, BSc Lond, 

MA DPhil Oxf, PhD Camb 

Bogdanor, Vernon Bernard, CBE, MA Oxf, 

FBA 

Eisenberg, David Samuel, AB Harvard, 

DPhil Oxf 

Carwardine, Richard John, MA DPhil Oxf, 

FBA, FLSW, FRHistS 

Hacker, Peter Michael Stephan, 

MA DPhil Oxf 

Margalit, Avishai, BA MA PhD Hebrew 

Laskey, Ronald Alfred, CBE, MA DPhil Oxf, 

FRS, FMedSci 

Barrons, Sir Richard Lawson, KCB, CBE, 

MA Oxf 

Abbott, Anthony John, MA Oxf 

Griffith Williams, the Hon Sir John, MA Oxf 

Turner, the Hon Sir Mark George, MA Oxf 

Donnelly, Sir (Joseph) Brian, CMG, KBE, 

MA Oxf 

Watt, James Chi Yau, MA Oxf 

Booker, Cory, BA Oxf, BA MA Stanford, 

JD Yale 

Garcetti, Eric, BA MA Columbia, MA Oxf, 

PhD LSE 

James, Ioan Mackenzie, MA DPhil Oxf, FRS 

Sloboda, John Anthony, OBE, MA Oxf, PhD 

Lond, FBA, FBPsS 

Wills, Clair, MA DPhil Oxf 

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Madden, Paul Anthony, MA Oxf, DPhil Sus, 

FRS, FRSE 

Barber, Sir Michael, Kt, BA Oxf 

Frood, Elizabeth, BA MA Auckland, 

DPhil Oxf 

Gordon-Reed, Annette, BA Dartmouth, 

JD Harvard 

Ramakrishnan, Venkatraman, Kt, PhD Ohio, 

FRS 

Sillem, Hayaatun, CBE, PhD UCL, 

MBiochem Oxf 

Taylor, Clare, MBE, BA Oxf 

Khan, Asma, PhD KCL 

Emeritus Fellows 

Kaye, John Marsh, BCL MA Oxf 

Dimsdale, Nicholas Hampden, MA Camb, 

MA Oxf 

Foster, Michael Antony, MA DPhil Oxf 

Rutherford, John David, MA DPhil Oxf 

Baines, John Robert, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA 

Pearson, Roger Anthony George, 

MA DPhil Oxf, FBA 

Bowie, Angus Morton, MA PhD Camb, 

MA DPhil Oxf 

McLeod, Peter Duncan, MA PhD Camb, 

MA DPhil Oxf 

Salmon, Graeme Laurence, BSc Tasmania, 

MA DPhil Oxf 

Harries, Phillip Tudor, MA DPhil Oxf 

Rowland, The Revd Christopher, 

MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf 

Ball, Sir John Macleod, MA Camb, MA Oxf, 

DPhil Sus, FRS, FRSE 

Blair, William John, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA, FSA 

Davis, John Harry, MA DPhil Oxf 

Robertson, Ritchie Neil Ninian, MA Edin, 

MA DPhil Oxf, PhD Camb, FBA 

Dobson, Peter James, OBE, BSc PhD S’ton, 

MA Oxf 

Irving-Bell, Linda, MA DPhil Oxf 

Jacobs, Justin Baine, BA Tulsa, 

MPhil PhD Camb 

Browne Research Fellow 

Raoelijaona, Raivoniaina Finaritra, 

BA MA Strasbourg, PhD Bordeaux 

Beecroft Junior Research Fellow 

(in Astrophysics) 

Aurrekoetxea, Josu, BSc Bilbao, MSc Imp, 

PhD KCL 

Laming Junior Fellows 

Jortay, Coraline Isabelle, BA MA ISTI, 

PhD Brussels 

Nicholson, Annalisa Rose, BA MA UCL 

Full-time Lecturers 

Sienkiewicz, Stefan, BA MSt DPhil Oxf 

Chaplain 

Watson, The Revd Alice, BA Oxf, MA Durh 

Supernumerary Fellows 

Maclean, Ian Walter Fitzroy, MA DPhil Oxf, 

FBA, FRHistS 

Constantine, David John, MA DPhil Oxf 


CONTENTS 

From the Provost 6 

Reports and College Activities 9 

Senior Tutor’s Report 9 

News from the Fellowship 12 

Academic Distinguished Visitor 23 

Academic Distinctions 25 

From the Bursar 35 

Outreach 37 

Admissions 38 

A year in the Library 40 

A year in the Chapel 42 

A year in the Archive 44 

A year in the Choir 46 

The Queen’s Translation Exchange 48 

A year in the MCR 51 

A year in the JCR 53 

Student Clubs and Societies 55 

Athletic Distinctions 63 

Old Members’ Activities 64 

Development and Old Member 64 

Relations Report 

From the President of The Queen’s 

College Association 66 

Queen’s Women’s Network 68 

Gaudies 71 

650th Anniversary Trust Fund 72 

Award Reports 

Appointments and Distinctions 81 

Publications 86 

Articles 90 

The Harmsworth Professorship 90 

of American History 

‘Blessings as endless as her line’: 92 

Queen Charlotte as Patroness 

Obituaries 94 

Sir Alan Budd GBE 95 

Mr A C Langford 100 

His Honour Judge I J Dobkin 101 

Dr C M Edwards 103 

Dr D H Taylor 106 

Mr J C Keith 106 

Prof M J Lea 109 

Mr G H Lee 110 

Mr K O Lehmann 113 

Prof D H Lewis 114 

Dr J Mould 116 

Mr K S Roberts 117 

Mr S J Singleton 118 

Mr G H Smyth 119 

Mr D T Wilkinson 121 

Benefactions 124 

Information 133 


FROM THE PROVOST 

From the Provost 

Credit: Tom Weller 

The year 2022/3 needs celebrating for many reasons, but 

one is simply that the College completed its first full 

academic year unaffected by pandemic restrictions, for 

four years. It was a good year for Queen’s. 

The start of the year saw the beginning of the new 

outreach initiative to support disadvantaged young people 

in the North West of England. Work began in schools in 

Dr Claire Craig, Provost Whitehaven and Darwen. This project, as well as being 

an important initiative in its own right, re-invigorates the 

College’s historic links to the homeland of its Founder, Robert de Eglesfield, and is 

entirely due to the generosity of Old Members. Old Members do not contribute only 

through donations of money, however, but also through their time, as 18 also took 

part as mentors and tutors, alongside current students and staff. 

A College like Queen’s, rooted in history, often finds itself taking the long view, 

both backwards and forwards. We own copies of all four of Shakespeare’s folios 

and we took part in the country-wide celebrations to mark 400 years since the 

publication of the First Folio in 1623. In its special carry-box and accompanied by 

its own bodyguards, it travelled to the London Old Members reception as part of 

an evening of meeting friends and hearing from an expert panel that included Old 

Member Alfred Enoch (Modern Languages, 2007), who recently played Orlando in 

As You Like It at Soho Place. 

Continuing the historic themes, the College celebrated 100 years of the Harmsworth 

Visiting Professorship in American History, which was set up by Lord and Lady 

Rothermere in memory of their son Vyvyan, who died in the First World War. It 

welcomed a number of former Harmsworth Professors, who contribute so vibrantly 

to the quality of College life. 

Looking forwards, we elected our very first Visiting Professor in a wholly new 

scheme, again established by generous Old Members, to mark the centenary of the 

introduction of the iconic Oxford PPE degree. The first holder based at Queen’s will 

be Professor Christina Davis, who will be joining us from Harvard in 2024. Meanwhile, 

the College has continued its investment in the tutorial system, which is the heart 

of what we do here, strengthening our presence in Law from one to two Tutorial 

Fellows with the appointment of Prof Emily Hudson. 

The College continued to become more porous, strengthening its connections 

with other places of learning and leading figures outside academia. We welcomed 

the first arrivals under a new Distinguished Visitor scheme, in James Unwin, 


a cosmologist, and Jacky Wright, the former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft. 

Jacky met students and Fellows and discussed matters drawing on her experience of 

leadership in the technology sector, to discuss AI and the future, women’s leadership, 

and diversity. 

For the third annual Provost’s Lecture, we had the immense pleasure of hearing 

from the founder of the World Wide Web, Old Member and Honorary Fellow, Sir 

Tim Berners-Lee (Physics, 1973). Sir Tim, together with his wife Lady Rosemary 

Leith, subsequently founded the World Wide Web Foundation and they continue to 

campaign and to lead the way in thinking about access, equality and safety in the 

use of technology, and the internet in particular. 


Student social activity returned in full force, perhaps with even greater energy than 

before the pandemic as the College echoed to the annual Eglesfield Musical Society 

performances. At least partly because we were able to stop charging a subscription 

to join the Boat Club, the College had a record six crews on the river this year and, 

with the Chaplain, I had the pleasure of christening two new boats donated by 

Old Members. (The champagne had to be poured as, it was explained to me, hitting 

a boat with a bottle would probably break the boat.) The College broke a new record 

at Torpids when the womens’ first boat had its best performance ever, bumping six 

times. Last year the men’s first boat had their best performance since 1840 so we 

hope next year they will both break records at the same time. 

The year’s major improvement to the College’s fabric was the opening of the elegant 

new Porters’ Lodge. This replaced the lean-to that had been in use for over a century 

and, importantly, provides wheelchair accessible access to the College from the 

High Street for the first time. The change in arrangements also opens up the College 

a little, meaning that more members of the public come up the steps and see the 

beauty of Front Quad. 

At the end of the year, we said goodbye and thank you to Paul Newton, President 

of the Old Members’ Association. Paul stood down from the College’s Development 

Committee, where he served invaluably for over 20 years, and our deep thanks go to 

him for all he has done for Queen’s. His final article as President of the Old Members’ 

Association is in this edition of the Record. 

Many Old Members will remember Dawn Grimshaw who, in 20 years as Catering 

Manager enabled the College to feed and look after so many generations of students 

and ran so many Gaudies with superb efficiency and energy. Old Members will also 

remember Tessa Shaw who has retired from her position as Deputy Librarian after 

39 years of working assiduously, with both wisdom and good humour, to help our 

students find the resources they need for their academic studies. We wish them 

both well in their retirements. 



Very sadly we also said goodbye to SCR Butler Robert Saberton-Haynes who 

passed away. Robert was at Queen’s for 21 years and many Old Members will 

particularly recall his understated care and attention at High Table and College 

Gaudies. His funeral was held in the College Chapel. 

Finally, I would like to pay brief tribute to my predecessor but one, Sir Alan Budd, 

whose memorial service was held in the chapel at the start of Trinity Term. Sir Alan’s 

eminence as an economist was demonstrated by the fact that both the current and 

past Governors of the Bank of England attended. One of his many legacies to the 

College was, of course, the way in which he was the first Provost significantly to 

reach out to Old Members and to begin systematically to build the relationships that 

have meant so much to the College since, and which have enabled us to do so much 

more for students and Fellows than we otherwise could. 

Credit: David Olds 

Provost's Lecture 2022 with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Lady Rosemary Leith 


Credit: David Fisher 

SENIOR TUTOR’S REPORT 

Prof Seth Whidden 

The College enjoyed many academic successes this year. 

Too numerous to list in full, some notable achievements 

include the following: 

Professor José Carrillo de la Plata received the 2022 

Echegaray Medal from Spain’s Real Academia de Ciencias 

Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (Royal Academy of Sciences) 

for his work in pure mathematics: on differential equations 

in physics, particularly nonlinear diffusion equations, 

kinetic equations, and the calculus of variations. 

Reports and College Activities 

Professor Karen Leeder, the Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German, was named one 

of the first Einstein Fellows in a new partnership between the University of Oxford, 

the Berlin University Alliance, and the Einstein Foundation. She will collaborate 

with a research group at the Freie Universität Berlin, working on the temporality of 

20th and 21st century German poetry. 

To celebrate Professor Leeder taking up the Schwarz-Taylor Chair, the College 

hosted ‘German in the World’, a special event moderated by Professor Charlie Louth, 

Fellow in German. In addition to Professors Leeder and Louth, the participants 

were writer, translator, and publisher Michael Eskin; Nan Gibson, Senior VP at Lidl 

International; writer Durs Grünbein; and Katharina von Ruckteschell-Katte, Director 

of the Goethe Institute London and regional director for Northwest Europe, focusing 

on the development of the EU in the context of Brexit. 

In the year when we celebrated the 100 th anniversary of the Harmsworth Visiting 

Professorship of American History with a gala event with the Rothermere American 

Institute (see page 91), the College welcomed Harmsworth Professor Bruce 

Schulman from Boston University. His lecture, ‘The Forgotten Constitutional 

Revolution: Amending American Democracy in the Early Twentieth Century’, and 

his ongoing research on the relationship between politics and cultural change, were 

particularly relevant to ongoing global concerns. The next Harmsworth Professor 

will be Professor Elizabeth Varon of the University of Virginia. 

Dr James Unwin, the College’s first Academic Distinguished Visitor, discussed 

theoretical physics as part of the Queen’s College Symposium: QCS continues 

to play a vital role in presenting ongoing scholarship and fostering lively academic 

debates, as do the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures and the translator-inresidence 

programme of the Queen’s Translation Exchange (see pages 48-50). The 

Academic Distinguished Visitor in 2023/4 will be Professor Mary Ann Smart, the 

Terrill Professor in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. 



Her research focuses on social dimensions of opera in nineteenth-century Europe. 

The College also elected five new Fellows who will join us in Michaelmas Term 

2023. The post previously filled with a Career Development Fellowship in Law was 

replaced with a Tutorial Fellowship: Law will once again have two Tutorial Fellows 

in College. This new post will be filled by Professor Emily Hudson, a specialist 

in Intellectual Property Law whose primary research interests include intellectual 

property law, personal property law and trusts, and law as it relates to cultural 

institutions and the creative industries. Professor Hudson joins us from King’s 

College London, where she has been since 2015 after holding academic posts 

at the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland (with whom she 

maintains an association). She holds a BSc, LLB, LLM and PhD from the University 

of Melbourne. 

Dr Jules Salomone-Sehr was elected to a Career Development Fellowship in 

Philosophy. A specialist in ethics, philosophy of action, and social philosophy, he is 

particularly interested in agency and responsibility in the social world. Dr Salomone- 

Sehr has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre de recherche en éthique at 

the Université de Montréal. He holds Masters degrees from the EHESS (École des 

Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 

and a PhD in Philosophy from The Graduate Center (CUNY) and the Institut Jean 

Nicod (École Normale Supérieure). 

Dr Shamara Wettimuny was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in History. 

Dr Wettimuny’s research focuses on identity formation and religious violence, 

specifically as they contributed to the 1915 anti-Muslim pogrom in Sri Lanka (known 

then as Ceylon). During her Fellowship she will continue to interrogate the violence 

of 1915 within the global context and shed light on broader historiographical 

questions pertaining to the history of British colonialism in Ceylon. In addition to a 

DPhil in History from Oxford, Dr Wettimuny holds a BSc and an MSc in History of 

International Relations from the London School of Economics. 

The College also elected Dr Matthew Wright and Dr Paz Fink Shustin to ‘extraordinary’ 

(i.e. non-stipendiary) Junior Research Fellowships, in Materials and Mathematics, respectively. 

Dr Wright is a postdoctoral research associate working on photovoltaics 

and silicon solar cells in the Electronic and Interface Materials Laboratory, which aims 

to understand and develop functional thin-films, device contacts and electrodes, and 

applied nanomaterials that can improve next-generation optoelectronic devices and 

integrated circuits. He holds degrees in Photovoltaic Engineering from UNSW Sydney. 

Dr Fink Shustin comes to us from Tel-Aviv University, where she earned her undergraduate 

and graduate degrees in Applied Mathematics. For her doctorate, she focused on 

semi-infinite linear regression and its applications to machine learning problems; since 

then, she has continued work on regression models: semi-infinite linear regression and 

nonparametric regression models via methods such as Gaussian process regression. 


On the flip side of the ‘comings and goings’ coin, a greater number than usual of early 

career Fellows will be leaving us because they have accepted exciting opportunities 

elsewhere. Dr Rachel Achs (eJRF, Philosophy) will be an Assistant Professor at 

the University of California, Santa Cruz, Dr Marta Arnaldi (Laming JRF, Italian and 

French translation) has taken up a research Fellowship in medical humanities and 

translation studies at the University of Oslo, and Dr Andreas Ditter (CDF, Philosophy) 

has accepted a post at University College London, as Dr Jennifer Edwards (CDF 

in English) has done at the University of Warwick. Dr Sadie Jarrett (CDF in History) 

will be a regulator in compliance and student protection in the Office for Students, 

Dr Coraline Jortay (Laming JRF, Chinese) will be a permanent researcher at the CNRS 

(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Paris, Dr Viktor Marinkov (CDF in 

Economics) has taken a post at the University of Groningen, and Dr Jonathan Turner 

(CDF in Law) will be at the University of Southampton. 


In addition to producing important scholarship, our Fellows remain dedicated tutors; 

there, too, the College continues to enjoy considerable academic success, as the 

list of University and College prizes on pages 33 and 34 details. Averaged over the 

past five years, the College comes 6 th for Final Honour School examination results. 

During the same period, fewer than 4% of our students received a lower secondclass 

degree, and only two out of the College’s 450 students received a degree 

classification below that. As it maintains its commitment to educating keen students 

with tremendous potential from a wide range of backgrounds, the College remains 

committed to helping all students achieve the highest levels of success they can attain. 

I ended last year’s remarks by focusing on the College’s strengths: the personal 

warmth of our close-knit community and our constant striving for academic excellence 

and supporting each other. That tried-and-true recipe will no doubt continue to be 

successful in the coming year. 



NEWS FROM THE FELLOWSHIP 

Links to full lists of Fellows’ publications can be found on their profile pages on the 

College’s website. 

Rina Ariga (Pathology) 

My research focus has been to develop an artificial 

intelligence test that learns patterns from routine ECG 

heart tracings. The AI-ECG tool is the first diagnostic test 

to group patients according to the underlying disease 

mechanism in patients with a serious and common heart 

muscle disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 

when no faulty gene is found. This year, I have obtained 

translational and pump-priming grant funding to further develop our understanding 

of the AI model into recognisable clinical features to explain subtypes of disease 

and ensure the results can be trusted before clinical use. I hope this work will lead 

to new personalised treatments and prevent heart failure. Meanwhile, I have been 

contributing to two important clinical working groups for the BHF CureHeart project: 

a cure for inherited heart muscle diseases and a Novo Nordisk-Oxford Big Data 

partnership project: Artificial intelligence for deep phenotyping and target discovery 

in heart failure. 

I was pleased to have suggested Queen’s first Family Guest Night, a child-friendly 

College dinner which was enjoyed by many families, including my own. 

Josu Aurrekoetxea (Physics) 

Over the last academic year I have continued leading the 

efforts in studying Einstein’s theory of general relativity to 

understand the nature of dark matter and the origin of the 

universe. Using numerical simulations, I have characterised 

the observational signatures of dark matter around the 

collision of binary black holes and the formation of relics 

during processes of the very early universe. This academic 

year has been particularly productive with five publications and over 10 seminars, 

many of which were part of a successful tour across North America. I have also been 

awarded a grant with generous computational resources by DiRAC, the National 

UK Supercomputing Facility, which will play a pivotal role in the research I do over 

the next academic year. 


Rebecca Beasley (English) 

This year has been devoted to working on various 

collaborative projects. I have just completed a Knowledge 

Exchange Fellowship with Menagerie Theatre Company, 

which resulted in the creation of a play about Huntly 

Carter, a founder member of the 1920s Workers’ Theatre 

Movement. The play was performed in Trinity Term in 

the Shulman Auditorium, and a film of the performance 

will soon be up on the project’s website. The performance was one of the events 

organised by the interdisciplinary network ‘Britain and the Soviet Union: Early Cultural 

Encounters’, funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH): 

other events were on dance, socialism, and imperialism (led by Queen’s Politics 

Fellow, Dr Nick Owen)—events devoted to music and film follow in the coming year. 


I’ve also very much enjoyed being involved in a project researching the modern art 

collections of the National Trust, a project to which two recent Queen’s students have 

also been contributing. Dr Sean Ketteringham has been the postdoctoral researcher 

on the project (before taking up his new post at the Henry Moore Institute), and Molly 

Thatcher assisted in our project symposium. We’re working with Dr John Chu, Senior 

Curator of Pictures and Sculpture at the National Trust, to bring the very extensive, 

but relatively little known, modern art collections in National Trust properties to new 

audiences. 

Finally, I’m continuing to work on a co-edited anthology of modernist art and 

literature by the so-called ‘Whitechapel Boys’ and their circle: Whitechapel Moderns: 

An Anthology of Modernist Culture in London’s Jewish East End, forthcoming from 

Edinburgh University Press. 

Jose Carrillo (Mathematics) 

My research in the 2022-2023 academic year has been 

focused on advancing most of the topics of my ERC 

Advanced Grant in its third year with my team of seven 

Post-Doctoral Research Assistants (PDRAs) and six DPhil 

students. We have obtained novel results in nonlocal Partial 

Differential Equations for complex particle dynamics. More 

precisely, we have worked in understanding concentration 

and global existence of aggregation-diffusion equations in the fast diffusion range, 

long time asymptotics in neuroscience models, parameter estimation in tissue growth 

models via adhesive forces, numerical schemes for collisional plasma physics, Cahn- 

Hilliard fourth-order models with competing effects, non-local approximations of 

nonlinear diffusions, and interactive particle systems applied to inverse problems 



and global optimisation among others. The common point of these research topics 

is the description of the collective motion of large ensembles of interacting particles. 

This intensive research period has led to publications of the highest quality in my field 

receiving international attention. This has been recognised by the plenary speaker 

invitation to the International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics 

(ICIAM-2023) that was held in Tokyo in August 2023, the most important international 

event in applied mathematics, organised every four years. But also further recognised 

with the plenary speaker invitation at the SIMAI23, the biannual Italian Conference 

of Applied Mathematics, and the ENUMATH23, the European Conference on 

Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications 2023, the most important event 

in Numerical Analysis and Modelling in Europe, organised every four years, both 

held in early September 2023. My scientific status has also been recognised as a 

recipient of the Echegaray Medal 2022 by the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences; 

the highest scientific honour awarded by the Academy. I was also inducted to the 

Academia Europeaea in 2023 as member of the section of Mathematics. 

I continued my service to the scientific community as vice-president of the ESMTB, 

European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, and Head of the Division 

of the European Academy of Sciences, Section Mathematics. I continued my service 

to the society by participating as the only mathematician at the scientific committee 

of the Spanish Research Agency. I also participated in a scientific project panel in 

Lithuania and the research assessment external evaluation of the Department of 

Mathematics of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 

My dedication to high level teaching has been equally delivered by continuing the 

demanded course in Optimal Transportation at the Mathematical Institute. This is 

a popular topic in mathematical research today, with ramifications in mathematical 

analysis, probability theory, computational mathematics, and many applications in 

stochastic analysis, data science, and optimisation. The fantastic group of PDRAs 

of my ERC and my EPSRC projects: Rafael Bailo, Immanuel BenPorat, Antonio 

Esposito, Gissell Estrada-Rodriguez, Timon Gutleb, William Duncan Martinson, Pierre 

Roux, and Difan Yuan; delivered a superb range of applied mathematics tutorials 

in the College and other colleges, intercollegiate classes, and supervised several 

student summer projects, and master theses at the Mathematical Institute. 


Christopher Hollings (History of Mathematics) 

My research this year has continued along two largely 

separate paths: investigating the place of mathematics 

within university education in nineteenth-century 

Britain (at Oxford in particular), and ongoing work on 

the historiography of ancient Egyptian mathematics, in 

collaboration with Professor Richard Bruce Parkinson. Two 

papers connected with the latter project have appeared in 

print this year. 


With great relief, I have sent off to the publisher the texts of two long-running coeditorial 

projects: Beyond the Learned Academy: The Practice of Mathematics 

1600–1850, co-edited with Philip Beeley (Linacre/History Faculty), and Oxford’s 

Sedleian Professors of Natural Philosophy: The First 400 Years, with Mark McCartney 

(University of Ulster). Both books should come out with OUP by the end of 2023. 

As usual, I co-organised ‘Research in Progress’, the annual postgraduate meeting 

of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM), which took place at 

Queen’s in February 2023. I delivered an invited lecture at the BSHM’s Christmas 

meeting in December 2022, and also in that month attended and spoke at a 

workshop on the history of mathematics held in Germany at the Mathematisches 

Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. 

In outreach work, I contributed to a discussion of the ninth-century Persian polymath 

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi on ABC Radio Adelaide. 

Jon Keating (Mathematics) 

In my research, I have continued to focus on developing 

the theory of random matrices, and on its applications to 

machine learning and number theory. I published several 

papers in this area over the past year. 

My teaching was focused on delivering a course in the 

Mathematical Institute on Random Matrix Theory, and on 

supervising DPhil students. 

I started my term as Treasurer and Vice-President of the Royal Society. 



Karen Leeder (German) 

I very much enjoyed my first year at Queen’s as the new 

Schwarz-Taylor Chair of German Language and Literature. 

It has been a busy year: I took over as Editor of Oxford 

German Studies from my predecessor Jim Reed and I am 

looking forward to shepherding the journal into the future. 

My translation of Volker Braun’s Great Fugue, together with 

former Queen’s tutor David Constantine, appeared, as did 

my translation of Monsters like us by Ulrike Almut Sandig, which was selected as 

one of the best translated books of 2022. Together with her poetry band Landschaft, 

Sandig premiered in the UK to great acclaim at the Old Fire Station and we also 

went to Hay Festival and Ledbury Festival, where a taster-pamphlet of her next book 

appeared translated by me with the striking title --- – – – --- (SOS). My edited book 

Ulrike Draesner: A Companion was published, and we were delighted to welcome 

the writer herself for a remarkable reading here at Queen’s. Trinity Term also saw the 

second part of my inauguration, an event at Queen’s entitled ‘German in the World’, 

with distinguished speakers from various walks of life including Durs Grünbein, with 

whom I also gave a reading. This was my last year as German Sub-Faculty Chair, 

so I am looking forward to having more time for my new project, ‘AfterWords’, on 

forms of afterness and following sponsored by a three-year Einstein Foundation 

Visiting Fellowship in Berlin. 

Simon Leedham (Clinical Sciences) 

I developed a module on molecular pathology for the new 

Genomic Medicine MSc course at the Wellcome Centre. 

My research focusses on the regulation of the intestinal 

stem cell and I published a number of articles in the area of 

colorectal cancer, including three which can be accessed 

for free: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37309673/ 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37495577/ 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35998218/ 

Kinan Muhammed (Clinical Sciences) 

This past year I successfully completed recruitment 

for a multi-site clinical trial in dementia. I was the Chief 

Investigator for this national study and the results are 

now being reviewed. In addition, I have contributed to 

research publications in Brain, Brain Communications and 

Frontiers. These works explored mechanisms of apathy in 


Parkinson’s disease and REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder, as well as 7T MRI imaging 

findings in Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease. 

At the beginning of this year, I co-founded Neu Health, a health technology spin-out 

from the University. The company successfully raised funding and aims to improve 

the care of those with neurodegenerative conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease 

and dementia. We developed a digital platform that allows clinicians to assess and 

monitor disease progression remotely using sensors in personal smartphones, 

improving quality of care. 


Annalisa Nicholson (French) 

I began this academic year with a term abroad in Capd’Ail, 

funded by my research allowance and by an Amy 

Wygant Research Bursary from the Society for Early 

Modern French Studies, working at the archives at the 

Prince’s Palace in Monaco. This work involved transcribing 

and translating letters and documents for my forthcoming 

edition of the correspondence of the Italo-French exile 

Hortense Mancini (1646-1699), which is now close to completion. While there, I also 

wrote the entry on Mancini for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and 

discovered that my article on Mancini’s suicide, which came out last year with Early 

Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, was awarded Honourable Mention for 

the Best Article of 2022 award by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women 

and Gender. The remainder of the year was devoted to various projects. My thesisturned-monograph 

on Mancini’s salon and on the French diaspora more broadly 

in seventeenth-century London is now under contract with Bloomsbury History 

and I am working to finish the manuscript by next summer. I also saw my article on 

satire and humour in seventeenth-century French women’s writing via Madeleine 

de Scudéry published with Australian French Studies. Lastly, I am in the final stages 

of co-editing a special issue of Renaissance Studies on ‘Exile and Innovation’ and 

look forward to its publication at some point next year. 



Credit: John Cairns 

Conor O’Brien (History) 

This summer saw Queen’s say goodbye to most of our 

pandemic crop of undergraduate historians, who, I’m glad 

to say, did amazingly well, with a bumper number of firsts 

announced in July 2023, despite all the disruption those 

students had to put up with. I’m particularly interested in 

this year group because I arrived at Queen’s as a tutor at 

the same time that they arrived as students. Hopefully their 

excellent results bode well for me! 

Certainly, I was glad to see a number of articles published arising from my larger work 

on early medieval Christian political thought: ‘The Christianization of Late Antique 

Political Discourse: Reflections on the Irish Evidence’ appeared in Journal of Late 

Antiquity, 15 (2022), while ‘The Origins of Royal Anointing’ was published in Studies in 

Church History 59 (2023) only a few brief weeks after the first anointing of a monarch 

in many decades. I was very pleased that this article won the Ecclesiastical History 

Society’s President Prize (the second time I have won this prize); it is now free to 

read online via the Cambridge University Press website. 

Chris O’Callaghan (Medicine) 

In the laboratory, we have used a single cell multiomic 

approach to study the effects of oxidised low density 

lipoprotein cholesterol (‘bad’ cholesterol) on the human 

immune cells involved in atherosclerosis. Using this 

experimental approach, we studied thousands of cells and 

determined, for each cell individually, which genes were 

expressed by analysing their RNA, and what changes in 

their genome programming alter their behaviour by analysing their DNA configuration. 

This has generated very interesting data and new hypotheses about disease 

mechanisms that we are starting to test. My colleagues and I were pleased to be 

awarded a large five-year grant to study further metabolic aspects of cellular function 

in atherosclerosis. I published a clinical trial testing whether a set of interventions, 

largely based on simple technology, can empower people with kidney disease to 

reduce their salt intake—it can and it’s cheap, so we aim to roll this out more widely. 

Over the last few years I have had the privilege of editing a textbook of medicine, 

Medicine for Finals and Beyond, and was pleased to see this in print and in use 

by students. 



Richard Parkinson (Egyptology) 

As part of the Bodleian’s exhibition, the anniversary of 

the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun was marked 

with a small ceremony on 4 November 2022 in which the 

Egyptian novelist, Ahdaf Soueif laid a commemorative 

wreath (https://bit.ly/3LD2Ybu). Over 120K visitors saw this 

exhibition during its run, and the Provost hosted a closing 

party at Queen’s for the exhibition and curatorial team. 

Legacy projects include a version of the exhibition on Google (https://bit.ly/3PwZybd), 

but our plans to make the archive more accessible for Egyptian colleagues were 

curtailed when the intended funds were assigned to other purposes by the Faculty. 

Exhibition events included a concert by the counter-tenor Anthony Roth Costanzo at 

Queen’s, entitled ‘Songs for a Young King: Responses to the Tutankhamun Archive’, 

and a conversation at the Bodleian about his interpretation of Tutankhamun’s father 

Akhenaten in Philip Glass’ opera. I subsequently presented (remotely) reflections on 

the anniversary as a keynote lecture of the international colloquium on Tutankhamun 

in Lisbon in February (www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/media), and March saw the world 

premiere in Berlin with the Egyptian soprano Fatma Said of James Whitbourn’s 

‘Zahr al-Khayal’, a setting of my translation of some Late Egyptian love-songs. 


As well as Tutankhamun pieces, publications have included an essay on poetry for 

the catalogue of the British Museum’s Rosetta Stone exhibition, and two articles 

from ongoing research with C. D. Hollings on the historiography of Ancient Egyptian 

mathematics. Work on a commentary on the poem Sinuhe has finally resumed, with 

a contribution to a cross-cultural project on National Epics (nationalepics.com), and 

an article and celebratory lecture in Mainz to celebrate the retirement of a much-loved 

colleague Ursula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen (https://bit.ly/46s8nKl). 


Roger Pearson (French, Emeritus) 

Two highlights of my academic year. One was being 

shortlisted for the R. Gapper Prize for my book The Beauty 

of Baudelaire: The Poet as Alternative Lawgiver (OUP, 

2021) – along with Career Development Fellow in French 

Dr Macs Smith for his brilliant Paris and the Parasite: Noise, 

Health, and Politics in the Media City (MIT Press, 2021). 

Macs should have won but, unaccountably, neither of us 

did. The other highlight was the invitation to deliver a plenary lecture at the annual 

conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, held this year in late March with the 

theme of ‘Magic: Enchantment and Disenchantment’. The venue was Christ Church, 

Oxford (aka Hogwarts), and my bewitching talk was entitled ‘Lyric Spells: The Poet 

as Magus from Staël to Mallarmé’ – which I spent the next three months turning into 



an article for publication (at twice the length. Hey presto!). Now it’s back to work on 

my latest go-to, the Swiss-French poet Philippe Jaccottet (1925-2021). I have begun 

to write a book on him, and I very much hope it will be short. 

Jan Petrov (Law) 

In the second year of my Junior Research Fellowship in 

Law at Queen’s, I continued my research on two issues: 

analysing the role of courts in the context of democratic 

erosion and improving methods of detecting misuses and 

abuses of constitutional law for anti-democratic purposes. 

I worked on a couple of articles addressing the international 

and comparative dimensions of these issues and on a 

book project tracing the developments of East-Central European constitutional 

courts’ treatment of European human rights law. The turbulent developments in the 

real world made the research topical but also intensified the challenges of aiming 

at a moving target. 

While participating in the College and University life in Oxford was a great pleasure, 

I also had the luck to be involved in international academic events and collaborations. 

I benefited from presenting my work at conferences and workshops in Amsterdam, 

Berlin, Cambridge, Chicago (online), London, Oslo, and Prague. Those events led to 

a closer cooperation with colleagues from the Universities of Glasgow and Oslo on a 

project concerning the European Court of Human Rights’ responses to authoritarian 

practices. This project included co-organization of workshops in Oslo and Berlin and 

hopefully a joint publication next year. 

Frances Reynolds (Assyriology) 

Joining the welcoming and vibrant community at Queen’s 

has been an undoubted highlight this year. My OUP book 

publishing an Akkadian treatise on the calendar, rituals, and 

astral mythology has opened up new avenues of research 

(A Babylon Calendar Treatise: Scholars and Invaders in the 

Late First Millennium BC). I have been working on three 

articles on Late Babylonian scholarship related to the Esagil 

temple and on the broader cuneiform reception of the Babylonian ‘Epic of Creation’. 

Research collaborations benefited from a return to more normal conditions. I gave 

invited conference papers in person, with more invited talks planned for next year. 

Consultancy work included advising on etymologies with Akkadian or Sumerian 

content for the Oxford English Dictionary. 


As part of engaging modern audiences with ancient Mesopotamia, I took part in the 

All-Night Epic event, when sold-out performances of the Epic of Gilgamesh ushered 

in May Morning. Adapting and reciting Babylonian poetry under the direction of Tim 

Supple was an exhilarating experience. 

My Faculty post remained busy with teaching, supervising, examining, and committee 

work. One happy development was the appointment of two recent doctoral students 

to university posts in Marburg and Vienna. 


Peter Robbins (Physiology) 

My work has been focussed on some new technology that 

we have developed for making better measurements on 

patients with respiratory, and in some cases, cardiovascular 

disease. Our main publication for the year (https://bit. 

ly/3LF2oKl) has detailed the differences between the lungs 

of patients who have previously had COVID-19 pneumonia 

with those of healthy controls. The lungs of the former 

appear physiologically older and smaller, but we cannot tell whether these differences 

arise as a result of the infection or whether they are simply risk factors for developing 

more serious disease. This year has also been a year for establishing new studies 

with new collaborations, including work at the Hammersmith hospital in patients with 

Pulmonary Hypertension, work at the Royal Berkshire hospital in patients in critical 

care with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, and at the John Radcliffe hospital 

in patients recovering in critical care from heart surgery. 

Ritchie Robertson (German, Emeritus) 

Since retiring in October 2021, I have been busier than ever 

with academic projects, beside sometimes helping to look 

after our two-year-old grandson. I have completed a book 

entitled Machiavelli and German Political Tragedy which 

I hope will be published in 2024. Recently I have published 

an article on a Baroque play: ‘Lohenstein’s Sophonisbe: a 

vindication of the heroine’, Nordic Journal of Renaissance 

Studies, 20 (2023), 165-79; and one on a twentieth-century Austrian novelist: 

‘Bernhard’s Frost and the philosophy of pessimism’, in Katya Krylova and Ernest 

Schonfield (eds.), Thomas Bernhard: Language, History, Subjectivity, Amsterdamer 

Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023), pp. 96-105. 



Christopher Rowland (Theology, Emeritus) 

The Faculty of Protestant Theology of Ludwig Maximilian 

University of Munich conferred on me the degree of Doctor 

of Theology honoris causa on 19 May 2023. 


Macs Smith (French) 

This year, I was honoured to have my book, Paris and the 

Parasite, shortlisted for the Gapper Prize in French Studies. 

I was especially proud to be shortlisted alongside Roger 

Pearson, our Emeritus Fellow in French. The book was 

featured in TORCH’s Book at Lunchtime series, and I did 

a further interview with Ines Ghalia, a finalist in French at 

Queen’s, for OxPods, the student podcast. An article on 

the extreme sport of parkour was published in January, and in Trinity Term I received 

funding through the University›s John Fell Fund to carry out research for my next 

book at the Comédie-Française archive in Paris. On the teaching side, this was year 

two of my French theatre class, which I teach with our lectrice, Ana Stoienescu. Our 

students spent the year performing scenes from Falk Richter’s Ivresse and Play Loud, 

and created their own monologues, music, and dances in response. We hosted Anne 

Monfort for a three-day masterclass in March. Anne is Richter’s French translator 

and was the first director in France to stage his plays. In addition to her work with our 

class, she led an incredible workshop with the Translation Exchange. This program 

will continue to expand next year with visits from the dramaturg Elisa Leroy and the 

Franco-Moroccan playwright Mohamed El Khatib. 

Robert Taylor (Physics) 

I have been lucky enough to be on sabbatical for two terms 

and have managed to get a good deal of research done. 

I gave two invited seminars in Singapore at the National 

University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological 

University. I have also taken the time to write up some 

publications and several are currently under review with 

different journals. 


ACADEMIC DISTINGUISHED VISITOR 

Prof James Unwin 

The College now aims to appoint one academic and one 

non-academic Distinguished Visitor each year. Such 

visitors are leading figures from academia and throughout 

the public and private sectors. During their residency, it is 

expected that they contribute actively to the intellectual life 

of the College at all levels: undergraduate, postgraduate, 

fellowship, and Old Members. Visitors typically give a short 

lecture or presentation to the College community, and they 

write a brief piece about their time in the College for the 

College Record – this is the first such piece. The period of 

residency marks an important part of a lifelong connection 

to the College. 


In the academic year 2022-2023, our academic Distinguished Visitor was Prof James 

Unwin, Assistant Professor in Physics at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Here 

Professor Unwin tells us about his time at Queen’s. 

Oxford is a special place and I return whenever I can. The breadth and depth of 

expertise at Oxford are largely unmatched anywhere in Europe, making a research 

visit always enlightening. Moreover, the university’s college system affords the rare 

opportunity to meet people outside one’s own narrow field of research focus. Such 

cross-disciplinary communication is not only fascinating but has been shown to lead 

to significant discoveries. 

In the first half of 2023, I had the great honour of being the inaugural Distinguished 

Academic Visitor at The Queen’s College. The experience was both delightful 

and productive. As older members know well, but younger members may not yet 

recognise, Queen’s is a rather hidden gem within Oxford. It is among the oldest, most 

beautiful, and friendliest colleges I have had the pleasure of being associated with, 

and I was grateful for the opportunity to count myself among its members for a time. 

I arrived at Queen’s shortly after the pandemic ended. Life was returning to normal, 

and both Fellows and students were embracing it wholeheartedly, which was 

wonderful to witness. Like many, my workflow had been greatly disrupted by the 

lockdowns, so my time in Oxford served as a perfect incubator for restoring my 

research program to its former pace. I am a theoretical particle physicist by training 

and my main research focus is currently on topics relating to dark matter. Although 

technical, I will attempt to offer a glimpse into these ideas. 

Pioneering physicists of the 1960’s discovered the mathematical equations that 

describe the fundamental constituents of the universe. This mathematical structure 



is called the Standard Model of Particle Physics and is much like a periodic table for 

elementary particles. Notably, it has been surprisingly successful in the sense that 

within the realm of particle physics observables it has yet to encounter any robust 

discrepancies from theoretical prediction. 

On the other hand, the Standard Model has a number of theoretical deficiencies, 

for instance its structure is not understood (unlike the periodic table of elements). 

Moreover, observations of our universe reveal that there is seemingly some unknown 

class of particles (or macroscopic bodies) that cannot be understood within the 

Standard Model, so called “dark matter”. The best evidence for dark matter comes 

from the observation that many galaxies would behave quite differently if they didn’t 

have sizeable populations of invisible objects to source new gravitational attraction. 

Little is known about this hypothetical dark matter, but certainly they must not 

interact very significantly with regular particles, or we would be able to observe them 

directly or produce them in the lab. 

With so few observational handles, there are a myriad of possibilities for the nature of 

dark matter. For instance, one might ask if they could be related to other theoretical 

deficiencies of the Standard Model? Perhaps small black holes with masses 

much less than our Sun could be the dark matter, or contribute to the observed 

phenomenon? It is then important to ask what the observable consequences would 

be for each scenario. Most recently my collaborators and I have been thinking about 

how dark matter particles may convert to regular “visible” particles around small 

black holes. We have also been considering how the orbits of exoplanets might be 

tilted or deformed to eclipses if a small black hole flew close to the parent star. The 

aim of such research is to identify new possibilities for discerning the nature of dark 

matter, and thus answering one of the most fundamental questions regarding the 

make-up of our universe. 

One of the most enjoyable aspects of my time in Oxford was interacting with the 

brilliant students. Indeed, I was delighted to get the opportunity to start an ongoing 

collaboration with one graduate student. It is always apparent that many of the Oxford 

students will doubtlessly go on to achieve great things and perhaps even become 

future leaders in my field. I will take these experiences and new collaborations formed 

at Queen’s College back to my home university and they will no doubt enrich my 

research program for years to come. 


ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS (* denotes distinction) 

D.Phil 

Francis R.A Aznaran (Partial Differential Equations) 

Anna C. Booth (Inorganic Chemistry) 

Jonas C. Bozenhard (Philosophy) 

April J. Burt (Plant Sciences) 

Zachary H Chase (Mathematics) 

Jinlin Chen (Zoology) 

Hasith Sachintha M. Dias Mudalige (Law) 

Suzanne E. Engelen (Biomedical Sciences) 

Hannah Fowler (Chemical Sciences) 

Claudia R. Fraser (Oncology) 

Katie L. Gardner (Music) 

Muhammad Hanifi (Synthetic Biology) 

Andreas Heilmann (Inorganic Chemistry) 

Sean D. Ketteringham (English) 

Valeriya Kovaleva (Mathematics) 

Chun Man Kwong (Oriental Studies) 

Iona R. Manley (Biology) 

Benjamin Norbury (English) 

Joseph A.C. Poore (Zoology) 

Shengda Pu (Materials) 

Yikun Qiao (Partial Differential Equations) 

Lara F. Scofano (Pharmacology) 

Ian H.E. Seet (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry) 

Tommaso Seneci (Partial Differential Equations) 

Xuan Shao (Law) 

William J. Smith (Zoology) 

Denise J.B. Swanborn (Zoology) 

Angharad R. Thomas (Music) 

Zixuan Tong (Organic Chemistry) 

Panagiotis Tselekidis (Mathematics) 

Max J. Van Essen (Neuroscience) 

Anna Wang (Condensed Matter Physics) 

Hanna E. Willis (Neuroscience) 

Chao Zhang (Statistics) 

Xiongfei Zheng (Inorganic Chemistry) 


MBA 

Jesus Briseño Gomez España 

Konstantin P. Böttinger 

Ting Hin Chan 



BCL 

Taha T.A. Almasri* 

King-Him Joseph Chu* 

M.Phil 

John F.W Cardell-Oliver (Law) 

MPP 

Aaron Ho* 

Geetika Mantri 

Owen Scott* 

Yi Su 

Sebastián Tagle Ciudad 

M.St 

Srutokirti Basak (History) 

Ciaran J. Donnelly (Ancient Philosophy) 

Charlotte E.I. Edwards (English) 

Yongyi Gao (Chemistry) 

Srishti Gupta (Public Policy) 

May C. La Plante (Music) 

Ibrahim Olabi (Public Policy) 

Samuel E. Oliver (Medieval Studies) 

M.Sc 

Matthew A. Abikenari (Neuroscience) 

Gökçenur Bay (Global Governance) 

Matthew Bilson* (Energy Systems) 

Timothy A Boen (Oncology) 

Mitja Devetak* (Mathematical Modelling & Scientific Computing) 

Olena Didenko (Neuroscience) 

Xiaotong Ding* (Neuroscience) 

Max C. Durrant (Mathematical Sciences) 

Yuxin Jia (Mathematical Modelling & Scientific Computing) 

Emma M. Müller-Seydlitz* (Neuroscience) 

Kevin T. Myers* (Public Policy Research) 

Lara Valentina Ofner (Pharmacology) 

Renee H.L. Ong (Global Governance) 

Madison C. Poe (Global Governance) 

María Nazaret Ramos Rosas (Law and Finance) 

Amit Regev (Neuroscience) 

Tomas Tokovyi (Genomic Medicine) 


BM 

Zahra N. Choudhury 

Beinn S.S.A-A. Khulusi 

Margaret V. Maxim 

Sahara Pandit 

Esme M. Weeks 

Jack M. Wilson 

P.G.C.E 

Stephanie Davis (History) 

Elliott Kensett (Modern Languages) 




FINAL PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS 

Ancient and Modern History 

First Class 

Benjamin Grinyer 

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 

Second Class, Division One 

Daisy E. Paterson 

English and Modern Languages 

First Class 

Katie Belok (French) 

Leonardo Hessian (Spanish) 


Mukahang Limbu (German) 

Samuel H.L. Millward (Spanish) 

Biology 

First Class 

Octavia V.A. Bathurst 

Riccardo G. Kyriacou 

Fred Newbold 


Tal Jeffrey 

Cell and Systems Biology 

First Class 

Hannah C. Sutton 


Evie J. Rosette 

Second Class, Division Two 

Daniel Gunn 

Chemistry 

First Class 

Natascia L. Fragapane 

Jaka Sivavec 

Kyla N. Thomas 

Wei Wu 


Daisy A. Southern 

English Language and Literature 

First Class 

Katie H. Bowen 

Niamh Ward 


Sarah Hutchence 

European and 

Middle Eastern Languages 


Rhiannon L. Abrams 

Experimental Psychology 

First Class 

Jasmine Nieradzik-Burbeck 

Maria Richards-Brown 


Rosie A. Jephson 

Fine Art 

First Class 

Loveday M.P. Pride 


Georgia Salmond 

Classics and Oriental Studies 


Cyrus Tehranchian 


History 

First Class 

Caitlin E. Gill 

Elisabeth E.J Harris 

Katerina Zagurova 


Alexia North 

Henry O’Sullivan 

Omira Pitigala 

Chante D.M. Price 

Evelyn S. Turner 

History and Modern Languages 

First Class 

Olivia Winnifrith 

History and Politics 

First Class 

Daniel F.G Craig-McFeely 

Phoebe Hornor 

Jurisprudence 

Pass 

Irewamide I. Sofela 

Literae Humaniores 


Frederick Foulston 

Mathematics 

Distinction 

Wen Hao Kho 

Fraser A. Sparks 

Kexin Wang 

Merit 

Arthur Carpenter 

Ruiting Jiang 

Mathematics and Philosophy 


Michael E. Mortimer 

Mathematical and Theoretical 

Physics 

Distinction 

Lik Hang H. Shum 

Suat Baris Tuncay 

Medical Sciences 

First Class 

Ibrahem Al-Obaidi 

Sophie A. Payne 

Ciaran Sandhu 


Zahra Alawoad 

Oliver W.A. Meek 

Karthik Saravanan 


Materials Science 

First Class 

Hannah C. Cole 


Nadhanont Kiatkulvanich 

Magnus S.B. Lawrence 

Julian Loncarevic Whitaker 

Griselda Revia 

Wentao Zhang 

Modern Languages 

First Class 

Francis J.G. Lawson 

(Spanish and Russian) 


Annabel Chessher 

(French and Spanish) 

Josephine Kucera (Spanish and Czech) 



Modern Languages and Linguistics 

First Class 

Elizabeth Vineall (German) 

Klara J. Zhao (French) 


Philippa C. Lang (Italian B) 

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 

First Class 

Seren K. Ford 

Music 

First Class 

Isaac J. Adni 

Cormac Diamond 

Alaw G. Evans 

Jemima Kinley 

Philosophy and Modern Languages 


Ines Ghalia 

Philosophy, Politics and Economics 


Ayesha Khan 

Rani J. Martin 

Physics 

First Class 

Harry Turner 


Erin Malinowski 

Sifei Zhang 


FIRST PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS 

First BM 

Neil A. Beaton 

Ziyad Mahmoud 

Daniel McAkea 

Arsh Patankar 

Harry Pratt 

Molly Skeil 

Law 

Ihsan S Hussain-Espinar 

Lwandle T. Ntshangase 

Ella M. Stone 

Rachel W.X. Tan 

Evangelia Tsintza* 


Honour Moderations 

Literae Humaniores 

Eva Boyce 

Katie Mewawalla 

Yun Son 

Preliminary Examinations 

Ancient and Modern History 

Rachael O. Naylor 

James Thatcher 

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 

Aaron Freedman (Japanese) 

Chloe Plummer (Chinese) 

Christian Sanders (Asian and Middle 

Eastern Studies and Classics) 

Biology 

Aidan Hill 

Edmund F.W. Robinson 

Biomedical Sciences 

Amelia Cook 

Carlotta I. Paganini 

Chemistry 

Bowen Guo* 

Sydney Smith 

Maisie I. Wakefield Lambert 

Jefferson Xue 

Yinzhi Zhao 

Yi Zou 

English and Modern Languages 

Marlene G. Favata (Spanish) 

Bryony Fishpool (Spanish) 

Finlay Webb (Spanish) 

Ellie Whelan (French) 

English Language and Literature 

Florence Hall* 

Clara Hartley* 

Danielle Hiles 

European and 

Middle Eastern Languages 

Charity Wren (French and Arabic) 

Experimental Psychology 

Nina Hilton 

Kathrine M. Surgay 

Emma Vestergaard-Poulsen 

Fine Art 

Jarad Jackson* 

Ruthie Y. Liu 

Aparnal K. Mitra 



History 

Sophie Cook 

Benjamin Harcourt Sharpe 

Yu Hang Hui* 

Lily Kinnear 

Megan Swann 

Harvey Turner 

Materials Science 

Devajna K. Gopal* 

James Hopkinson 

Yu Hang Hui* 

Jing Yao Lee 

Ryan Price 

Atila M. Schrieber 

Mathematics 

Vinai D. Bhudia 

Mong Shan Mountain Cheng* 

Jialei Luo* 

Yuhan Ning 

Lila Spencer* 

Ayan Vijaypurkar 

Modern Languages 

Benjamin Walker-Kwantreng 

(French & Russian B) 

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 

Wilfred Asare 

Ellie Dennis 

Iris Ganyushin 

Kyla Murray 

Music 

Edward Freeman 

Felicity Howard* 

Jemima Price* 

Harriet Twigger-Ross 

Philosophy and Modern Languages 

Christina Russell 

Jacob Tidmarsh 

Philosophy, Politics and Economics 

Edua Borbely-Soproni 

Charvi Jain 

Natasha Morrisey 

Joseph Stala-Smith 

Zhihao Wu 

Yineng Xu 

Zhangyue C. Yang 

Physics 

Yijie Chen 

Alika Ho 

Yin Kwan Li 

Jacob Shotton 

Nicholas Woodford 

Physics and Philosophy 

Jiawen Shen 


UNIVERSITY PRIZES 2023 

Armourers and Brasiers’ Company/ 

Rolls-Royce Prize for outstanding 

overall performance in Materials 

Science Prelims: Devajna Gopal 

Davis Prize for performance in First 

Public Examinations: Chloe Plummer 

Departmental Prize for Best 

Practical Portfolio in Experimental 

Psychology: Jasmine Nieradzik- 

Burbeck 

Departmental Prize for Best 

Research Project in Experimental 

Psychology: Maria Richards-Brown 

Departmental Prize for Best Team 

Design Project in Materials Science: 

Ruijie Gu 

Departmental Prize for performance 

in Chemistry Part IA Examination: 

Frederick Simpson 

Edward Gill Prize in Chemical 

Pharmacology: Ciaran Sandhu 

Gibbs Prize for Best Overall 

Performance in Final Honour 

School of Experimental Psychology: 

Jasmine Nieradzik-Burbeck 

Gibbs Prize for top-ranked 

candidate in Biochemistry Part I: 

Magdalena Lechowska 

Gibbs Prize Proxime Accessit for 

Fine Art: Loveday Pride 

Gibbs Research Project Prize for 

highest mark in Biochemistry Part II 

Research Project: Seren Ford 

IMA Prize for performance in 

Mathematics Part B Examinations: 

Hao De 

James Naughton Prize for the best 

performance in Czech (with Slovak): 

Josephine Kucera 

Law Faculty Prize in International 

Law and Armed Conflict: 

Taha Al-Masri 

Pagett Tonybee Prize for the best 

performance in French Paper VI: 

Klara Zhao 

Proxime Accessit Weiskrantz 

Prize for Second-Best Overall 

Performance in Psychology Part I: 

Kylie Li 




COLLEGE PRIZES 

Blake Prize: Katerina Zagurova (History) 

First Bolus Prize: Frederick Foulston (Literae Humaniores) 

Second Bolus Prize: Joseph J. Wald (Classics and Modern Languages 

(German)), Cyrus Tehranchian (Classics with Oriental Studies) 

Third Bolus Prize: Katherine de Jager (Literae Humaniores) 

Jack Wooding Prize (for greatest contribution to the Boat Club by a firstyear 

undergraduate): Charlotte H. Rumney (Jurisprudence) 

Many Prize: Katie H. Bowen (English Language and Literature) 

Markheim Prize: Elizabeth Cowdrey (Modern Languages (French and Russian)), 

Annabel Vago (European and Middle Eastern Languages (French and Arabic)) 

Palmer Prize: Modern Languages (French and Spanish), Megan M. Williams 

(English and Modern Languages (French)) 



FROM THE BURSAR 

Dr Andrew Timms 

Bursar 

The past financial year was dominated by concerns about 

inflation. Energy costs were initially the main worry: they 

had doubled (from roughly £450k to £900k per annum in 

an overall operating budget of nearly £11m), and forecasts 

ranged from the troubling to the terrifying. However, as the 

year wore on it became clear that the budgeted expenditure 

on this front was unlikely to be exceeded. This meant that 

we could get back to a more traditional worry—pay. The 

cost-of-living crisis has bitten the College’s employees 

particularly hard: Oxford is an acutely expensive city in 

which to work and live (particularly in respect of housing 

costs). The College accelerated several pay awards and in particular brought forward 

by several months its implementation of the annual increase in the Oxford Living 

Wage, which is an enhanced version of the national Living Wage Foundation wage 

for those earning the lowest salaries in College. Our lowest-paid workers have 

therefore probably not seen their pay eroded in real terms, but, as is common across 

society as a whole, many other employees are poorer now than they were a couple 

of years ago, and this comes against a particular backdrop of longstanding concerns 

about academic pay and conditions. The challenges on this front are very 

considerable. 


When I became Bursar, my predecessor told me that the College’s financial 

model was well positioned for periods of high inflation. The general idea is that an 

endowment that is heavily invested in equities will retain its purchasing power. This 

sounds plausible but it is not hard to find historical periods when it has not worked 

well. That is one way of introducing the performance of the endowment, which 

generated a total return of around 8%; this return comprised solid equity growth 

(we are almost exclusively a passive investor nowadays: discuss!), a small decrease 

in commercial property valuations, and a notable uplift in agricultural property. 

The latter relates in particular to the disposal of two parcels of land for residential 

development at Keresley, Coventry, which occurred after the year-end and is a 

pleasing conclusion to many decades of careful and patient work by the College and 

my predecessors. My working rule is that if an investment goal takes X decades to 

be achieved, the Fellows will take X minutes to plan to spend it: in that sense it may 

be reassuring that we have maintained our methodical and disciplined approach to 

the financial management of the College, noting that ‘windfalls’ like Keresley (which 

will generate receipts of some £25m) simply increase the amount of income the 

College can sustainably draw from its investments. Slow and steady wins the race. 

The word sustainably in the preceding paragraph points to another growing concern. 

The College does not currently have an express policy on environmental sustainability 



in relation to its investments and we have been notably reluctant to succumb to the 

ESG fund industry. This is not, however, to imply that we are not doing sustainable 

things with the endowment: on our farms we are either already running or looking 

to develop various renewable energy schemes—from an anaerobic digester to 

composting, from battery storage to solar parks. The pace of this work is likely 

to increase, and we are very open to commercially sensible proposals. 

The bigger financial worry prompted by sustainability is the prospect of improving the 

College’s own energy performance. We are in the very early stages of a considerable 

project to assess what can be done (and at what level of cost and disruption). 

Difficult decisions lie ahead for the Governing Body on this front: at one end of the 

spectrum, there is a view that expensive upgrades—heating, insulation, glazing, and 

so on—have to be undertaken (at almost any cost) and can simply be justified morally 

in terms of a wide duty to the planet; others worry about the diversion of charitable 

funds away from their proper purposes. Striking a balance is far from easy. 


OUTREACH 

I’ve had a wonderful year as Schools Liaison, Outreach 

and Recruitment Officer at Queen’s. With the pandemic 

firmly behind us, we have continued but also expanded 

and changed the College’s outreach initiatives. This 

academic year alone, I have delivered outreach sessions, 

workshops, and tours to over 80 different state schools 

across all of our link regions and beyond. 


Lauren Shields, 

Schools Liaison, 

Outreach, and 

Recruitment Officer 

The biggest change to happen to my role this year was 

the new partnership with the charity The Access Project. 

This year, the charity has partnered with schools in the 

Northwest of England – two in Darwen and two in Cumbria. 

The charity provides volunteer-led online tutoring, student 

enrichment activities, and one-to-one mentoring to 40 students in each school. 

In true Queen’s style, the whole College has rallied around this partnership, with 

students, staff, and Old Members giving up their time to become voluntary tutors 

and delivering hundreds of hours of tutorials! We are excited to see how we can 

continue to support the programme in future years. 

Another positive change was the re-introduction of the Northwest Science 

Residential, which hasn’t run since 2019. We welcomed 28 Year 12 students to 

the College for four days in April, and they experienced a full timetable of activities 

including taster lectures, tutorials with our tutors, and touring other colleges. The 

feedback we received following the residential was reassuring and touching, with 

all attendees reporting that the residential made them feel more comfortable and 

prepared to apply to Oxford. I even bumped into a few of the attendees at a UCAS 

Fair in Carlisle, and all were still planning to apply to Oxford for 2024 entry! 

Our June 2023 Open Days were yet another great opportunity to welcome 

prospective students from our link areas through the doors. We had close to 100 

students from Cumbria, Lancashire, and Blackburn stay with us this year, taking 

part in not only the Open Day but also a detailed Personal Statement workshop. 

Teachers commented that without our offer of overnight accommodation, they simply 

wouldn’t have been able to bring their students down to see Oxford. This issue of 

geographical distance between us and our link regions is one that we continue to 

grapple with and is something I hope we can continue to address in coming years. 

As well as welcoming schools to Oxford and to Queen’s, I have also travelled to over 

30 different schools in our link regions this academic year. These visits usually involve 

hour-long workshops, delivered to a range of year groups. Depending on the year 

group, these will have a different focus; for Year 12 it may be providing guidance on 



how to approach Oxford-style interview questions, and for Year 7 it may be finding 

out what a university actually is and does! Meeting Headteachers, Careers Leads, 

and parents in schools is something I have found particularly rewarding and inspiring. 

As a college, we continue to collaborate with others to expand the reach of our 

outreach work. Our link with the Queen’s Translation Exchange and Stephen 

Spender Trust is strengthening year on year – their recent Creative Translation 

workshop went down a treat with a group of Year 8 boys when they came to visit! 

This year we have delivered both outreach and inreach support as part of the 

Northwest Consortium, and have supported University-wide programmes such as 

Opportunity Oxford and UNIQ+. 

None of the aforementioned initiatives would be possible without our wonderful 

students here at Queen’s. Student Ambassadors play an integral role in making 

Queen’s feel approachable and achievable. To thank them for their fantastic work, 

I organised the first ever Student Ambassador Celebration Dinner where we 

reminisced about a wonderful year supporting a growing number of students thinking 

about applying to Oxford. 

As much as I have loved my time at Queen’s, I will be leaving at the end of this 

academic year to embark on a PhD at Imperial College, London. Researching the role 

that technology-enhanced assessment can play in supporting students’ transition to 

university, I hope to continue to support universities in attracting (and retaining) the 

best students regardless of their background. I also intend to continue Chemistry 

tutoring with The Access Project – a role I have thoroughly enjoyed! 

ADMISSIONS 

Credit: John Cairsns 

In the past year, the admissions process has followed an 

increasingly well-established new routine, with admissions 

interviews conducted online for the third time. This year’s 

cohort of admitted students have overcome considerable 

disruption to their education during the past several years, 

which makes it all the more exciting to welcome them to 

Queen’s. 

Dr Jennifer Guest 

Tutor for Admissions 

In the spring, the University-wide committee of college 

Tutors for Admissions voted to continue conducting 

admissions interviews online in the future (subject to fiveyear 

review). Consultation on this question was extensive, and a variety of views were 

gathered from prospective and current students, teachers, admitting tutors, and 

administrators; there were strong arguments on both sides, reflecting the continued 


importance of the interview as part of our admissions process and part of students’ 

initial experience of Oxford. Following on from this decision, we are continuing to 

look for even more ways to welcome both prospective students and offer-holders 

to College through combinations of online and in-person events. 





A YEAR IN THE LIBRARY 

Dr Matthew Shaw 

College Librarian 

The anniversary of one of the world’s most famous books 

has provided a thread through much of the Library’s year. 

In 1623 the printers Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount 

released Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & 

Tragedies, seven years after the playwright’s death. Often 

now referred to as the ‘First Folio’ – a reference to the large 

size of its paper – it helped to consolidate Shakespeare’s 

reputation and included 18 of his previously unpublished 

plays, including The Tempest and Macbeth. It is possible 

that without the Folio, these would have been lost to us. 

The College benefits from possessing one of the 235 surviving Folios (along with 

further editions published in 1632, 1664 and 1685), and as such in 2023 joined in 

the celebrations of the 400 th anniversary of its publication with a range of activities. 

Our English Renaissance Literature students were able to examine (with great care) 

the Folio in the Library, with the assistance of the College Librarian and Career 

Development Fellow in English Dr Jennifer Edwards; and the outgoing Artistic 

Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Greg Doran, came to look at it as part 

of his earth-girdling attempt to visit every surviving Folio. On Sunday 21 April, we 

welcomed over 250 visitors to the Magrath Room, where the Folio was on display 

in a wooden case, especially constructed by the College’s joiner, Paul Farnes, to 

mark what is traditionally considered to be Shakespeare’s birthday and declared in 

this anniversary year ‘Folio Day’, in which as many Folios as possible were on public 

display. Later in Trinity Term, the Folio made the unusual journey to Stationers’ Hall 

in the City of London for a memorable Old Members event, where it was displayed 

next to the Company’s register that recorded its publication in 1623. The Folio also 

attended a fascinating translation symposium in the Shulman Auditorium, in which 

junior members worked through various ‘back translations’ (that is, translating back 

into the original language from an existing translation). A display on works identified 

by scholars as source material, ‘Shakespeare’s Books’ opened in the Upper Library 

during the Easter Vacation and runs through Michaelmas Term. 

The library has also shared something of the richness of the College’s textual treasures 

through other exhibitions. ‘Edmund Halley In Print’ celebrated the 350 th anniversary of 

the astronomer’s matriculation at Queen’s, and included the rare – and rarely seen – 

star map of the southern skies, which Halley produced after leaving the College before 

completing a degree. Newly conserved, fewer than 30 copies survive. Bringing some 

cheer into the overcast days of Hilary Term, a lavishly bound New Testament in Greek 

that was once presented to Queen Elizabeth I was displayed in the New Library. Even in 

a gloomy February, light levels meant that this velvet-bound text could only be displayed 

for one week, which did make the display something of an occasion. The case then 


displayed the fruits of the translation symposium mentioned above, followed by works 

related to ‘retellings’, inspired by Polly Barton and Aoko Matsuda’s joint residency with 

the Translation Exchange. Michaelmas and Trinity also saw a series of ‘show and tells’ in 

the Upper Library, offering College members the chance to view and discuss numerous 

College treasures, from medieval manuscripts to Isaac Newton’s Principia and Thomas 

Hardy’s manuscript of Winter Words – the latter also joining the growing number of 

items digitised and available online via our partnership with the Digital Bodleian website. 

Alongside the display cases are, of course, the readers’ desks and bookstacks, and 

these continue to be well-used, notably in Trinity Term. The librarians have devoted 

considerable time to developing the current collections, ensuring that all areas of 

College teaching are well supported, and helping to underpin the College’s pursuit 

of academic excellence. The library remains a popular place of study, even during 

an unwelcome bout of heating issues during the February cold snap, although the 

swift deployment of borrowable blankets helped to mitigate some of the chills. Other 

popular, if perhaps less traditional, items for loan include a collection of board games, 

helping, it is hoped, to aid relaxation and College sociability. Mindful of the holistic 

College experience, the ‘General Collection’ of fiction books have been placed in a 

more prominent place, along with the library’s welfare collection. 


The Library has also ventured out beyond the reading rooms. In Hilary, the Library 

supplied an image of a rare broadside in English, French, and Dutch that welcomed 

immigrants from the Low Countries to Britain to the Queen’s House Gallery, National 

Maritime Museum, for their Van de Veldes exhibition. A heraldic manuscript (MS 72) 

that includes the first official record of the arms of City of London has been added 

to the freely-available digital library on Digital Bodleian, and a rare medieval French 

Legendary (MS 305) has been photographed to join it. The Library also organised 

what now appears to be an annual cycle ride for current and Old Members, arranging 

a geology-themed ride on cycle paths and bridleways to Wittenham Clumps and 

back, taking in Dry Sandford Pits on the way. 

More traditional activity includes a series of additions to the collections, thanks to 

donations and the Ian Drummond bequest. These include correspondence between 

the late Spanish novelist, Janvier Marías and Old Member, Colin Wight, together 

with a copy of Marias’ first appearance in English (in a translation by Colin) and an 

annotated 1533 volume of Lucanus once owned by the College’s ‘Apostle of the 

North’, Bernard Gilpin (1517-1583). 

At the end of Michaelmas, the College said farewell to Tessa Shaw, Deputy Librarian. 

This included a party for colleagues across Oxford and included a welcome surprise 

appearance by the former College Librarian, Jonathan Bengtson. As a consequence 

of Tessa’s retirement, the Library has been pleased to promote Sarah Arkle to the 

post of Deputy Librarian after a competitive recruitment process. Lauren Ward has 

also joined the team as Assistant Librarian. 



A YEAR IN THE CHAPEL 

Revd Alice Watson 

Chaplain 

It’s been a year of change and continuity in the life of the 

Chapel; finally beginning to establish normality after the 

years of the pandemic, cementing ourselves as a highlight 

in the world of the Oxford college choral tradition, but with 

a new Chaplain in place. 

As that new Chaplain, this past year has been a 

rollercoaster; challenging, but full of delights. I came to 

Queen’s from my curacy in Kettering, Northamptonshire, 

a very different world, yet I’ve been reassured by God’s 

steadfastness, and the fact that priesthood, leading 

worship, getting to know people, is much the same no matter where you happen 

to serve. I was so grateful for the warm and caring welcome shown to me over my 

first summer, particularly from the staff of the College as I blundered my way around 

trying to figure out how things worked. I hope I (mostly) have the hang of things now. 

We hit the ground running in Michaelmas, with a full Freshers’ service, quickly followed 

by the daunting task of a live broadcast Radio 3 Evensong, for which the Choir were 

in wonderful voice. A sadder occasion was the funeral of our beloved SCR Butler 

Robert Saberton-Haynes; the sun shone as I led him through a packed Front Quad 

into Chapel for a final goodbye. The term continued apace and ended with a joyful 

carol service, with perhaps slightly more tinsel than has been customary! Throughout 

this year I have been patiently and ably assisted by my two Chapel clerks – Conor 

Boyle and Elizabeth Lee – and a band of readers and sacristans. Their support has 

been much appreciated, as has that of the Choir and the Director of Music. 

One of my hopes when I started this role was to spend each Hilary Term exploring 

a theme, both within Chapel services (particularly during sermons) and outside of 

them, with workshops and events. This Hilary Term set the bar high, with a theme of 

‘exploring the intersections between creativity and faith’. We were treated to sermons 

from creative practitioners and experts in their fields: The Revd Dr Ayla Lepine (Art), 

Jay Hulme (Poetry), and The Revd Dr Jonathan Arnold (Music). Unfortunately, The 

Revd Prof. Steven Shakespeare was prevented from joining us by COVID, but he 

will preach on creativity and liturgy this coming Michaelmas. Musically, we had a 

Cantata service with Instruments of Time and Truth – a particular highlight of the 

term. Outside of Evensong a group of us learnt how to paint icons, led by The 

Revd Charlotte Gibson, and we spent a Saturday walking to Iffley and exploring the 

beautiful stained glass in the church there. 

The Easter break was unusually full, with two weddings, and two memorial services – 

for two Honorary Fellows, former Provost Sir Alan Budd, and former tutor, Professor 


Allen Hill. My thanks go to all who helped with these services, particularly the 

Steward’s team and the Old Members Office. 

During Trinity the Chapel came into its own as a place of stillness and rest as 

exams took hold. The Chaplain’s supply of sweets was much appreciated! Services 

continued, and the number of tourists was particularly high. We had the second of 

two student sermons, a reflection on Pilgrimage by DPhil student Sam Teague (the 

first was in Hilary, by undergraduate Sam Troy). The Choir led Evensong at a Queen’s 

parish, Toot Balding, preceded by a wonderful tea, and followed by an impromptu 

sports day! The Trinity Sunday University Sermon, preached by The Revd Jarel 

Robinson-Brown was a highlight. Exams didn’t completely take over of course, there 

was also rowing, and the honour of blessing two new boats. But all too quickly, it 

was time to say goodbye to our leavers and to reflect on a busy but rewarding year. 


One of the joys of this first year has been getting to know students, through informal 

chats, after services, and at our weekly inter-disciplinary discussion group Temple 

Soc (named for William Temple*, whose portrait looks down on me as I write this 

in my office). It’s been a real privilege to see how today’s young adults engage with 

sometimes difficult and divisive subjects with kindness, sharpness, and humour. 

Seeing students explore and grow in faith (whatever their faith) has also been lovely, 

and the year ended with the baptism of second-year student Antonia Johnson. 

Throughout this year, in times of sorrow and times of excitement, through services, 

silent prayer, and many Trinity Term welfare ice creams, two things have remained 

constant in the life of the Chapel: the love of God, and the faithful presence of the 

two white pigeons above the door. I have come to know and love this pair and I’m 

reminded of one of my favourite verses from the psalms: 

‘The sparrow has found her a house, and the swallow a nest where she may lay her 

young: at your altars, O Lord of hosts’ (84:2) 


My first sermon of my time at 

Queen’s was on the theme of 

home, and the space offered by 

the Chapel as a home in the midst 

of the home of College, to rest, to 

explore, to be challenged, and to 

grow. I hope that this has been the 

case this year, and will continue to 

be, in many years to come. 

* Fellow (1904-1910) and Archbishop 

of Canterbury (1942-1944) 



A YEAR IN THE ARCHIVE 

Michael Riordan 

College Archivist 

Much of the work we do in the Archive contributes to longterm 

projects. I’ve been concentrating on our project to 

recatalogue the entire Archive according to modern 

international standards, whilst our Assistant Archivist, Amy 

Ebrey, has been working on projects that include digitising 

student files and providing archival boxes for the books in 

the Archive. This year we commissioned 48 bespoke boxes 

from the Bodleian; they measure each volume with the 

book equivalent of the device for measuring children’s feet! 

Amongst this routine work there have, however, been a 

few highlights. These include some important and exciting gifts from Old Members. 

Alan Mitchell (Engineering, 1968) has given us two leases that he purchased at 

auction. The first dates from 1592 and is a lease of College land near Newbury. It 

has the signatures of the Provost and senior Fellows and would have been given to 

the tenants. The College once had a counterpart copy signed by the tenants, but 

given that the College also had the lease copied into a ledger (which is still in the 

Archive) the College was unfortunately persuaded to sell its early modern leases in 

1930 and most of them have ended up in the Special Collections department of the 

University of Kansas! 

The other lease dates to 1792 and relates to a house in Southampton. It is signed 

by the tenants Nicholas and Elizabeth de Carteret, though Elizabeth signs with a 

cross, so was presumably illiterate. This was the copy given to the College and so 

must have once been in the Archive; it was presumably part of the leases sold in 

1930, but somehow got separated from the rest of the collection. It’s wonderful to 

have it restored by Alan to the Archive, along with the earlier lease that makes up 

for the loss of its counterpart to the other side of the Atlantic. 

A selection of material presented to the 

College by Paul Jackson 

Another exciting acquisition comes to the 

Archive from Old Member Paul Jackson 

(PPE, 1974), whose extensive personal 

‘archive’ of material includes correspondence, 

lecture cards, buttery tickets, menus, 

ball invitations, photographs, and other 

material, and spans his time as an undergraduate 

at Queen’s from his initial offer 

letter all the way through to invitations to 

post-Finals parties. Paul’s interest and 

participation in student politics and drama 

shine through, and the material offers 


Donations to the College after a fire in 

the Provost’s Lodgings, 1778, recorded 

in the Benefactors’ Book 

particularly rich insight into these and 

other aspects of student life in the 1970s. 

Paul has also been working to organise 

this material in a way that gives further 

insight into its meaning to him, as well as 

his memories of Queen’s. Such a detailed 

record of a student’s life and experiences 

at Queen’s is unparalleled in the Archive, 

and we’re delighted to find a place for it. 

Similarly, Francois Gordon has presented 

us with three Queen’s ball posters from 

the early 1970s. These are all the more 

interesting for the fact that one of them 

never actually happened! We’re rather 

hoping that these two gifts might start 

a trend, and would be very glad to hear 

from other Old Members who have similar 

collections that they would be willing 

to let us add to the Archive. 


Another highlight of the year was our annual ‘pop-up’ exhibition where we put on 

a temporary display of items from the Archive for College members to see in the 

Multi-Purpose Room of the New Library. This year Amy curated an exhibition on ‘The 

Troublous Times’ which, inspired by the pandemic, looked at times of war, plague, 

and strife in the history of the College. The earliest item related to the Black Death, 

and there was also a memorandum about the legal battle with Eton College for Monk 

Sherborne and an appeal to the Visitor by Provost Dennyson against ‘contentious 

persons’ in the College (both of which I’ve written about in previous editions of the 

Record). A splendid page of the Benefactors’ Book, recording benefactions after the 

fire of 1778, shows Front Quad ablaze, and the exhibition ended with a document 

about the rent strikes of the 1970s. Though the exhibition only ran for six hours it 

was seen by 51 members of College – a record number – and was judged by the 

Bursar, no less, to be a ‘blockbuster exhibition’! 

Over the course of the year 26 people visited the College to consult the Archive, 

which is approaching pre-pandemic levels. We received a further 176 enquiries on 

a range of subjects, including College pets, 17 th and 18 th century coffee pots, and 

the age of the old lodge. This, we found, was erected in 1906 and was a good deal 

older than anyone was expecting! 

I’d like to end by congratulating Amy – or, I should say, Dr Ebrey – on her successful 

defence of her doctoral thesis, Mendicant Ecclesiology and the Apostolic Life in the 

Thought of the Oxford Masters, c.1250-1325’, a subject of some relevance to the 

early years of the College. 



A YEAR IN THE CHAPEL CHOIR 

Officers: Organist Prof. Owen Rees; Organ Scholars Isaac 

Adni, Luke Mitchell; Maurice Pearton Choral Scholar and 

recipient of the Hilde Pearton Vocal Training Alaw Evans; 

Hildburg Williams Lieder Scholar Lizi Vineall; Librarians 

Rosanna Milner, Oisin Byrne; Choir Manager Melissa 

Talbot, Jake Sternberg 

Professor O L Rees 

Organist 

During the winter of 1950, Kenneth Leighton – then in 

his final year at Queen’s reading Classics – composed 

the cantata Veris gratia, dedicating it to the then College 

Organist, Bernard Rose and the Eglesfield Musical Society, 

who gave the first performance on 8 June 1951. For our ‘Music for a Summer’s 

Evening’ concert in June 2023 the Choir resurrected this unknown but exquisite 

work, and we went on to record the piece for CD in September, performing it with the 

Britten Sinfonia, an ensemble specialising in modern British repertoire. For the CD 

(to be released next Autumn) we paired Leighton’s cantata with another work which 

received its first performance in the Eglesfield Musical Society’s Trinity Term concert 

(one year later, in 1952): Vaughan Williams’s An Oxford Elegy, a late masterpiece to 

complement Leighton’s early work. The recording sessions were a fitting finale to 

what had been a particularly strong year in terms of the Choir’s musical standards. 

A few weeks before the CD recording sessions, the Choir was on tour in southern 

Germany. We spent six days in Munich (our spirits undampened by continuously wet 

weather), giving concerts to capacity audiences in two of the city’s most impressive 

churches, the Theatinerkirche and the Ludwigskirche, as well as two other recitals in 

the area, before travelling East, to Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (presenting a prequel 

concert to their early music festival), and then to Trier, singing in the breathtaking 

gothic splendours of the Liebrauenkirche. The intensive work together on such a 

tour bears fruit in terms of the ensemble’s disciplined and compelling projection of 

the music, and we were delighted to receive standing ovations at the end of the 

concerts, and likewise a warm reception after singing Mass at the Jesuitenkirche in 

Heidelberg to end the tour. The whole project was expertly organised by the Choir 

Manager, Jake Sternberg, with invaluable assistance from members of the Choir – 

Lizi Vineall and Bastian Bohrmann – with local knowledge. 

In Chapel throughout the academic year the work of the Choir benefitted from the 

warm support of our new Chaplain, Alice Watson. Half way through Michaelmas 

Term the BBC returned to Queen’s to broadcast Choral Evensong on Radio 3, 

with music marking the anniversary of the death of Robert Parsons and the birth of 

Thomas Tomkins, both of which occurred in 1572. Michaelmas Term also saw the 

first annual Queen’s Choir Association lunch and Evensong, an enjoyable opportunity 


to welcome back Choir alumni to College; the next such event is planned for April 

2024. The Trinity Sunday service with University Sermon was greatly enhanced 

by the premiere of new anthem – O lux beata trinitas – composed for the Choir by 

Matthew Owens (who was Organ Scholar at Queen’s in the 1990s), and generously 

commissioned by another Choir alumnus, Cameron Marshall (Molecular and Cellular 

Biochemistry, 1991). At the end of Trinity Term we sang for a service attended by King 

Charles and the President of Portugal, in the Queen’s Chapel at St James’ Palace, 

an event marking the end of the ‘Portugal-UK 650’ celebrations, marking the long 

history of alliance between the two countries. 


Within the Choir’s concert engagements in Oxford during the year, eighteenthcentury 

music featured prominently: a few weeks into Michaelmas Term we 

presented a programme evoking the convivial use of music in the meetings of 

London’s antiquarian musical societies of that period, such as the (original) Academy 

of Ancient Music, and at the end of that term we joined forces with the modern 

Academy of Ancient Music for our now annual performance of Handel’s Messiah in 

the Sheldonian Theatre. During the Easter vacation the Choir returned to Oxford to 

perform Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, once 

again in the Sheldonian. The academic year ended with a weekend trip to perform 

once again in the concert series at Holy Trinity Church, Bramley, Surrey, organised 

by Stuart White (Music, 1975), and to sing for Sunday Eucharist there. 

Warm thanks are due to the entire team that ensures the smooth running of the 

Choir’s activities and its maintenance of high standards. We wish the Choir leavers 

– including Senior Organ Scholar Isaac Adni – all the best for their futures and future 

music-making. 


The Choir in the Fellows’ Garden 




THE QUEEN’S TRANSLATION EXCHANGE 

Dr Charlotte Ryland 

Director of The Queen’s 

Translation Exchange 

From a visit by one of Japan’s leading authors to an 

appearance on Czech national TV, this year the Translation 

Exchange has continued to bring the world into Queen’s 

and Queen’s into the world. We began the year by 

welcoming Old Member Jack Franco (Philosophy and 

French, 2018) to our team, who moved seamlessly from 

graduating with First Class Honours in French & Philosophy 

to joining the Translation Exchange [QTE] as Programme 

Coordinator. 

Having volunteered for QTE throughout his studies, Jack 

has helped QTE to reach new audiences and more young 

people than ever before. 

“When I joined Queen’s as an undergraduate in 2018, I immediately 

volunteered as a Translation Exchange Ambassador, keen to contribute to 

ensuring that every state school student had, as I did, a rich and creative 

experience of language-learning. I was convinced by QTE’s approach, and 

even exported the model to the Marseille school in which I taught during my 

year abroad. The progress we have made this year has only strengthened 

my belief that access to a multilingual education is a social justice issue, and 

that we at QTE are on the right tracks.” 

Jack Franco (Philosophy and French, 2018) 

Our reach has expanded in all three of our areas of engagement: outreach with 

young people; public engagement in research; and advocacy for language-learning. 

Creative Translation Ambassadors 

We trained a lively cohort of student ambassadors from across the University, this 

year with an impressive number of students with Home, Heritage, and Community 

Languages. Raising the profile of all languages and breaking down language 

hierarchies is key to our work, so the fact that our ambassadors represent such a 

range of languages brings a really important dimension to our activities. We were also 

pleased to expand our partnership with the College’s Schools Liaison and Outreach 

work this year, with our ambassadors running workshops in the Shulman Auditorium 

for groups visiting from Lewisham. Lauren Shields, the College’s Schools Liaison 

Officer last year, noted how relevant and accessible the activity is: 

“These sessions are beneficial for all students, not just those studying 

languages. The ability to assimilate complex information and use cultural 


and contextual knowledge are skills any successful researcher uses. 

The accessibility of the session meant that even when the language was 

unfamiliar to the students, they were all really confident with their translations – 

a genius concept!” 

Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators 

Our Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators entered its third year and enthused even 

more young people and teachers for creative translation and international culture, 

with over 15,000 participants right across the UK. By the end of the programme, 

we want our young participants to feel that language learning is relevant to them, 

that studying languages at university is an appealing and viable course for them, 

and that Oxford is open to them too. Numerous applicants to Queen’s and other 

colleges now cite QTE and the Anthea Bell Prize in their personal statements, and 

this teacher’s comment from a state school in Scotland brought that impact home: 


“Pupils really enjoy being able to have access to a competition like this. This 

competition is a huge opportunity for these young people to have a link to 

an institution like Oxford University. One of our pupils last year entered, won, 

and now holds a conditional offer to study at Oxford University after being 

inspired by his own success to apply.” 

Think Like a Linguist 

If the decline in language learning is to be reversed, then we need to collaborate with 

other organisations across the UK as much as possible. To this end, this year we 

launched a major partnership project with Oxford and Cambridge Modern Languages 

faculties, and with Widening Participation at Cambridge. ‘Think Like a Linguist’ 

brought together 30 pupils from six schools in and around Rochdale, for a series of 

events that help pupils aged 12-13 to make informed choices about languages at 

GCSE. Each session focuses on a different aspect of language learning and enables 

students to consider the question What does it mean to think like a linguist? from a 

unique perspective. The programme culminated in a visit to Oxford, which saw the 

pupils attend workshops at St Edmund Hall, before donning graduation gowns and 

mortar boards for a presentation and graduation event in our Shulman Auditorium. 

As the project’s coordinator in Rochdale noted: 

“This project has put languages on the agenda in these schools; it has made 

them visible in a way that is very rare. We expect this to have an impact across 

the whole cohort, to demystify Oxbridge and to enhance the value of studying 

languages at university level.” 

Chris Dobbs, Hollingworth Academy, Rochdale 

The Visible Translator 

Making translation visible and accessible is central to all our activities, but this took 

a new form this year with our residency with award-winning writer and Japanese 



translator Polly Barton. ‘The Visible Translator’ residency was co-funded by the 

Humanities Cultural Programme at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities 

(TORCH), making Polly the first translator to become a Visiting Fellow in Oxford. 

Polly curated an outstanding series of 18 events for University members and the 

public, ran workshops for local school pupils, and organised a series of events with 

Aiko Matsuda, a leading Japanese author who visited Queen’s from Tokyo. My 

personal highlight was a ‘translation duel’ at Oxford Literary Festival. This translation 

match between two stellar Spanish translators, chaired by Polly, attracted a multigenerational 

audience, with many attending a translation/international literature 

event for the very first time. The buzz in the room throughout was palpable, and 

numerous people told me afterwards that it had radically changed how they think 

about translation, about writing, about language, and communication itself. 

The visual also played a role in our partnership with Professor Karen Leeder, now 

based at Queen’s as the new Schwarz-Taylor Professor of German. Karen translates 

the work of German poet and spoken word artist Ulrike Almut Sandig, and at the 

beginning of Michaelmas Term we hosted Ulrike and her pan-European poetry 

collective, Landschaft. On stage Ulrike is joined by Ukrainian poet and rapper 

Grigory Semenchuk and German video artist Sascha Conrad, and together they 

produced a feast of words, video art, and music in an unforgettable performance 

at Oxford’s Old Fire Station. We also partnered with the sub-faculty of Czech and 

Slovak for two very exciting events with visiting authors and translators, including 

leading Czech novelist Jáchym Topol: hence the appearance of the Shulman 

Auditorium on primetime Czech TV! 

Advocacy for Languages 

Making translation and international culture visible and interactive and inviting people 

of all ages into our languages community are key to our wider mission of increasing 

the numbers learning languages across the UK. This year we have taken this work 

a step further by launching a research project on the impact of creative and cultural 

approaches to language learning, and early conversations with policy officials at 

the Department for Education and with the brand-new National Consortium for 

Languages Education have been very promising. We look forward to developing 

these conversations in the year to come, and to involving more Old Members in 

our work as we expand. If you would like to find out more about how you can get 

involved with and support our work at the Translation Exchange, we would love to 

hear from you. 

www.queens.ox.ac.uk/translation-exchange 


A YEAR IN THE MCR 

Kevin Myers (above) 

President; 

Elliott Kensett 

Victualler 

On every metric available, this has been an incredible year 

for the MCR. With the largest Committee in recent memory 

(maxing out at 18 people), we were able to help the MCR 

reach and surpass the levels of activity it saw before the 

pandemic. Socially, engagement with the MCR was at a 

near all-time high. With a dedicated team of Social 

Secretaries and Entz Reps, we hosted over 50 events per 

term. As measured by keycard entrance to the MCR, this 

incredible number of events led to the greatest engagement 

with the physical space of the MCR in years. Furthermore, 

our flagship event, the annual Summer Dinner, where MCR 

members can come together with their guests to celebrate 

the end of a fantastic year at Queen’s, saw a nearly 30% 

increase in membership attendance. 


Outside of these major wins in rebuilding the community, we made long-overdue 

strides in improving the physical space of the MCR. Under the supervision of our 

Victualler, Elliott Kensett, the MCR Room Improvements Subcommittee was hard at 

work all year, selecting items to purchase for the room and bringing the space to life. 

Some of the most important improvements of the year came in fixing the speaker 

system in the MCR, purchasing a new foosball table, and transforming the storage 

room into a study room, fully equipped with shelving, lamps, chairs, and a desk. 

Of note, this study room is currently the only bookable room in College in which 

an individual MCR member can privately take a phone call, providing an essential 

service to MCR members. 

The MCR Committee was also hard at work advocating for the needs of the MCR 

to the College. Working off our collegial relationship with the folks running Queen’s, 

we were able to reopen the MCR as a 24-hr space, partner with the Bursar & JCR 

on a rent proposal that saw Queen’s increase rents by the second lowest amount 

of any college, grant MCR membership to 4 th year Classicists (the last category of 

4 th year BA students who previously did not have MCR access), and settle a yearslong 

dispute over the incredibly important sexual consent and diversity workshops. 

After several years of disagreements within the MCR over whether we should have 

these workshops and if we have the authority to compel members to attend, we 

were able to work with the College to ensure that the workshops will be included 

as a part of the College’s Freshers’ Week induction presentation, paid for by the 

College. Including these workshops during induction guarantees that this vital set 

of lessons will be communicated to our MCR members for years to come. Further, 

the tenuous financial position of the MCR has historically made investments in large 

capital purchases impossible and the hosting of large-scale events unfeasible. 



However, through partnering with the Bursar to increase the MCR’s annual capitation 

from College, and by increasing our own fees to reflect inflationary adjustments 

over the past 15 years, we were able to double the MCR’s operating budget going 

into 2023/2024. This increase will be absolutely essential to the long-term financial 

health of the MCR, enabling potential purchases such as new carpeting, curtains, 

a punt, and anything else a future MCR deems important for community-building. 

Other than our bedrock weekly Monday Guest Night, no two weeks in the Queen’s 

MCR were the same! In Michaelmas Term we hosted a Freshers’ Week that included 

events ranging from a Sunday roast to mini-golf to a night out at Angel’s Cocktail 

Bar. Over Hilary Term, we increased the breadth and depth of our events, hosting a 

Women’s Town Hall, several exchange dinners, a chess tournament, weekly movie 

nights and welfare events, a whiskey tasting, a wine tasting, biweekly socials in 

the MCR, and, my personal favourite, Pancakes with the President. Building off 

this energy, Trinity Term saw even more action, with the Summer Dinner, a hotly 

contested Foosball Tournament, a charity book fair held in the Hall, a discussion 

on sex positivity with famous advocate Seema Anand, a BBQ to celebrate Summer 

Eights, a pottery taster workshop, more exchanges, more Guest Night dinners, and 

many other events. 

The most important thing an MCR can do is provide a home away from home. This 

year, we have done just that. Personally, I have been incredibly proud to contribute 

to the awesome community Queen’s has to offer. I have every confidence in the 

upcoming leadership team’s ability to build on and eclipse the successes of the 

2022/2023 Queen’s MCR. 


A YEAR IN THE JCR 

At the beginning of this year, when asked by the Provost 

what I’d like to achieve for the JCR, I replied: “a sense of 

community”. Through the hard work of the JCR Committee 

this year, I feel this has been achieved. After years of 

recovering from the loss of community because of the 

COVID-19 pandemic, I think this year has turned a page in 

establishing Queen’s JCR as the social hub it once was. 


Róisín Quinn (above) 

President 

Eva Bailey & 

Yu Hang Hui 

Vice President 

Michaelmas started with the first Covid-free Freshers’ 

week since 2020. With this came a host of new events, 

starting the week with an event in the JCR to establish it 

as a space for socialising and mixing. There was also a 

focus on reinstating the importance of JCRT, an essential 

Queen’s tradition of capri-suns and cheese on toast served at 4 pm sharp every 

day in the JCR. 

JCR meetings have been very fruitful this year (after a slightly turbulent beginning 

involving a contentious motion for purchasing an air fryer). They have been the 

key to encouraging and supporting our JCR community at Queen’s. An example 

of this is the newly introduced Arts Fund and Arts Committee. Art is central to the 

JCR community at Queen’s, with a large proportion of our JCR making up much 

of the arts scene at Oxford. In years past, student-run plays and exhibitions have 

come to JCR meetings to request money for their productions, but we felt this year 

that the Arts funding at Queen’s deserved more focus and care. A motion was 

passed in Hilary to set up an Arts Committee and a new Arts Fund in the JCR. This 

committee looks in detail at the distribution of funding to these productions and 

has an increased budget, specifically for the Arts, greater than the JCR meetings 

budget. This has meant we have been able to fund brilliant productions, such as 

the EMS’ 25 th Putnam Annual Spelling Bee and we have sent student-written plays 

to the Edinburgh Fringe, such as Oisin Byrne’s Blue Dragon. 

Beyond JCR meetings, proposals made by the JCR committee this year have also 

meant substantial change, for the better, to life at Queen’s. In particular, the proposal 

(made by Food Reps Ellen Laker and Cameron Hutchinson) to change meal formats 

at Queen’s. Previously all students had to book onto dinners by 11 am on the day 

they wished to dine and had little choice in what they wanted for their dinner. This 

meant that numbers began to dwindle. The sense of community created through 

shared Hall dinners was becoming lost. To save this tradition at Queen’s, the JCR 

introduced a new format for dinner, whereby at 1 st sitting, you now just have to turn 

up with your Bod card and choose what you like and 2 nd sitting has remained in 

the booking format. This new format has meant that dinner in Hall is once again 



popular in the JCR. Students of all years now, once again, sit together and chat 

where in previous years they have eaten alone in their rooms. This has been one 

of the greatest triumphs of this year in re-establishing the community at Queen’s. 

Finally, the most significant change for the JCR this year has been the redecoration 

of the JCR. To create a community, you must offer a friendly, welcoming space for 

that community to interact, and we felt that the JCR did not provide that. Having 

asked many Fellows if they remembered when the JCR had last been decorated, 

it seemed no one in living memory was quite sure when it had last been given a 

facelift. Over the course of the academic year, the Recreation Rep, Gionata Vernice, 

and I worked to make the JCR the beautiful space it could be. With the grand 

reopening in Trinity Term, the common room is now the beating heart of the JCR 

once again. If you pop in at any time, I’m sure you’ll find a group of friends chatting 

in our dedicated socialising area, or you’ll see a heated game of Ping-Pong or chess 

in the new gaming area, or some students enjoying some food they’ve made in the 

JCR kitchen at our new dining tables. This thoughtful design has meant people can 

enjoy the space in various ways, encouraging all types of socialising. 

All in all, this has been a fantastic year for the JCR community. I want to thank 

the JCR Committee, whose work has made this all possible, in particular: Eva 

Bailey, Gionata Vernice (the incoming President), Dan Kelly, William Davis, Ellen 

Laker, Cameron Hutchinson and Yu Hang Hui, who have been vital members of 

the Committee. I’m certain Gionata will continue the great work that he’s achieved 

already this year, and I wish him all the best. 



STUDENT CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 

1341 SOCIETY 

Libby Harris, President 

This year saw a greatly successful year for 

the College’s 1341 Society, a society that 

fundraises for College student funds, 

including the Sports Fund, Hardship Fund, 

and the Book Grant scheme. With a busy 

beginning to Michaelmas Term, a new 

Committee was elected to take up the 

mantle: Libby Harris as President, Evelyn 

Turner as Vice-President, and Sandhya 

1341 Committee 

Das Thuraisingham as Treasurer. Our 

renowned Michaelmas Luncheon saw many guests, new and old, enjoy the fabulous 

food provided by the College catering staff and accompanied by the Eglesfield Music 

Society A cappella group. Our Hilary Term Luncheon entertained 70 guests, returning 

to almost pre-pandemic levels of attendance. Guests at our Trinity Term Garden 

Party in the Fellows’ Garden enjoyed Pimm’s and many afternoon tea treats, and 

the thunderstorm mid-way through made it a truly British garden party! Through 

these events, we are delighted to say that this year we have raised over £2,500 for 

the College’s student funds. 


THE ADDISON SOCIETY 

Freddy Foulston, Co-President 

This year, in accordance with the values of its eponymous founder, the Addison 

Debating Society sought to consolidate its reputation as a bulwark of free speech. In 

the present era of cancel culture, the society endeavoured to confront and challenge 

controversial views rather than shy away from them. This core remit was reflected 

in our guest speakers. 

For our Michaelmas Term dinner, we welcomed backbencher Sir Desmond Swayne 

MP. The initial consternation of the JCR, in part justified by some of Desmond’s less 

attractive media attention in recent years, was swiftly allayed by his enthusiastic 

willingness to engage with (though not necessarily answer) every question that came 

his way during the event. Even the most antagonistic students could not help but 

respect Desmond’s endurance of a three-hour barrage of questioning. It was worldaffirming 

to see Queen’s students jousting with the speaker on such matters as 

the Government’s mishandling of the pandemic, the fallout of Brexit, and the war 

between Russia and Ukraine. 



Our Hilary Term dinner with Sir Jeremy Greenstock was a rather more tame affair, 

though still delving deep into the thornier realms of geopolitics, particularly relating 

to the Iraq War and Greenstock’s role as the UK’s Special Representative for Iraq 

from 2003. The occasion was however less of a debate and more of an opportunity 

to see what we could learn from the wise, softly spoken ex-diplomat. He spoke 

particularly eloquently of contemporary and future threats to British interests and 

security at home and abroad. 

I would like to thank my virtuosic and steadfast co-president Katerina Zagurova, 

as well as Treasurers Martha Rigby and Elias Formaggia for their unrelenting good 

cheer and assiduous organisational efforts throughout. I would also like to thank 

the Catering Team for setting us up in The New Dining Room and for their generous 

provision of wine from the Queen’s cellar. I cannot tell if it was the wine that gave such 

wings to the conversations this year, or the eager participation of so many naturally 

soaring minds. Perhaps a bit of both. 

BASKETBALL 

Thomas Batchelor, Captain 

After the final game of the season in 

Hilary, Queen’s men finished top of the 

table in Division 1 following a dominant 

two terms of basketball. The team took 

down Oriel, Catz, Anne’s, Hugh’s, 

Somerville, New, and Christ Church, 

losing only to Magdalen early in the 

season. 

The excitement of a 1st place finish in 

the league led to an injection of funds 

from the College and a new kit was 

bought for the team. The team won 

its first two matches in the Trinity Term 

cuppers thanks to the help of a returning Basketball Blue but their absence in the 

quarter finals led to a defeat at the hands of St Anthony’s. It was a very strong year 

of Queen’s basketball with at least 15 different players representing the College. 


EGLESFIELD MUSICAL SOCIETY 

Rosanna Milner, President 

Following on from the success of last 

year, the activities of the Eglesfield Musical 

Society flourished this year. Our Saturday 

recital series saw impressive and varied 

performances each week. A personal 

highlight of mine was performing Pergolesi’s 

Stabat Mater with fellow choral scholar 

Members of EMS at the annual EMS dinner Oisin Byrne, accompanied by a string 

quartet and organ scholar Luke Mitchell 

playing the harpsichord. Alongside many students from Queen’s and around Oxford, 

we were pleased to welcome the esteemed pianist Maki Sekiya to perform. My 

thanks go to our Recitals and Concert Managers Henry Coop and Dara Collins for 

putting on these recitals each week. 


In addition to the recital series, our ensembles and concerts thrived. In Michaelmas, 

we introduced a chamber orchestra to complement the work of our non-auditioned 

orchestra. Both were organised by our Vice President, Cameron Hutchinson, and 

conducted by Henry Coop. I had the privilege of leading our A Capella group which 

performed at the 1341 Society Luncheons. All three ensembles performed at our 

end of term concerts, alongside talented soloists and other chamber ensembles. The 

popular Christmas concert featured Tchaikovsky’s Peter and the Wolf, narrated by 

Professor Owen Rees, and a performance of The Beach Boys’ God Only Knows as 

an encore by our A Capella group. Publicity Officer Nicole Tay ran Off-key, an improv 

jazz band, performing at our 5th week blues nights in the Beer Cellar. A massive 

thank you to the band Last Orders for performing in Trinity! Many EMS members also 

took part in the Jesus College Music Society’s Queen’s Greatest Hits Playthrough, 

which was a resounding success for JCMS. The Hilary Term EMS dinner was a lovely 

occasion to look back on and forward to the year’s events, featuring speeches, 

singing, merriment, and nostalgia for the year. 

In addition to these EMS staples, we explored new and exciting concert ideas. 

As part of EMS Fest, a week-long series of EMS events, we put on a chamber 

concert in Chapel, a College BOP and a concert for International Women’s Day. In 

Michaelmas we collaborated with Magdalen College Music Society for an Art and 

Music Installation. Also, we were honoured to be interviewed by Oxford University 

Music Society and look forward to more collaboration between EMS and OUMS. 

Some of our best attended events were our termly musical theatre concerts. We 

gave a platform for Hilary musical productions to perform in the Shulman Auditorium 

as ‘previews’ for their shows. In Trinity, this took the form of a ‘scratch night’ at The 

Mad Hatter, raising money for our Trinity Term musical. 



Last but certainly not least, our Trinity Term garden musical The 25th Annual Putnam 

County Spelling Bee (Rachael Sheinkin and William Finn) was a resounding success. 

The production team was formed largely of the EMS committee, with Treasurer 

Harry Brook leading the production as director. The show received rave reviews, 

complementing the talented performers and ingenuity of the show itself; it was no 

mean feat to feature four ‘audience spellers’ on stage every night! 

Looking back on the year, I am so proud to have achieved so much and grown the 

society. I am indebted to my incredible Committee for making the numerous recitals, 

concerts, and other events run so smoothly and be so well-attended. I wish the 

incoming president Hattie Twigger-Ross and her Committee the best of luck for the 

coming year and look forward to what they will achieve. 

EGLESFIELD PLAYERS 

Luke Nixon, President 

After coming to a halt during the previous academic year (2021-2022), this year’s 

Eglesfield Players Committee was initially faced with deciding what we wanted this 

new society to be, what we wanted to accomplish, and ultimately what we wanted to 

support as a funding body. Although the Committee and I – made up of Harry Brook, 

Eva Bailey, and I-Cenay Trim as Treasurer, Secretary, and Publicist respectively – 

were still finding our feet during Michaelmas of last year, we quickly became one of 

the most successful funding bodies for shows produced by Oxford students. Our 

primary focus (which was maintained across the year) was to financially support the 

theatrical ventures of students at Queen’s; the financial stresses of producing a show 

in Oxford unfortunately continue to be a barrier for students and we are proud to say 

that we have been able to fund a significant number of student productions – both 

in Oxford and further afield! – since we began in October last year. 

Over the course of this academic year, we have been able to fund some of the 

biggest productions in Oxford Drama, including, but not limited to, The Eglesfield 

Musical Society’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in the Queen’s 

College Gardens, 00Productions’ An American in Paris at the Oxford Playhouse, An 

Exciting New Productions’ Posh (directed and produced by our very own Harry and 

Ice), Triple Cheque’s Bare: A Pop Opera, and Sanglots’ Echoes of Paris. These, and 

many more, have exhibited the finest theatrical and musical talent that Queen’s has 

to offer, all of which have been incredibly successful. It has been a privilege to be 

able to support the dramatic endeavours of current and past students of the College. 

What we are most excited about, however, is the continuation of the Society as 

it continues to grow across the coming years and the prospect of continuing our 

support for future students of Queen’s. We are incredibly proud of the work that 

we have put into restoring the Society this year and hope that next year will see a 


continuation (and growth!) in demonstrating how much the Society has to offer artistic 

opportunity at Queen’s. It has been a pleasure to see the Society revive this year, 

with it being one of the reasons I applied to Queen’s in the first place. I wish the best 

of luck to next year’s Committee, headed by Annalise Dodson (President) and Jacob 

Tidmarsh (Treasurer), and I cannot wait to watch the Society’s success continue. 

THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE MEDICAL SOCIETY 

Sophie Payne, President 


This year The Queen’s College Medical 

Society (QCMS) continued its goal to 

provide a space to bring together 

medical students, biomedical students, 

medical graduates, and tutors. To 

augment the QCMS social calendar with 

events suited for everyone, a vote to 

introduce the role of Social Secretary 

was held at the beginning of the academic year, which passed, allowing the position 

to be filled midway through Michaelmas. 

The highlight of the QCMS calendar this year was the annual dinner, hosted in 

Michaelmas. This brought together over 50 current and Old Members, and we were 

joined by guest speaker Dr Karan Rajan. Outside of his clinical work and teaching 

commitments at The University of Sunderland, Dr Rajan has been utilising the power 

of social media to educate and captivate people of all ages – as demonstrated by his 

current five million followers on TikTok. His unique perspective made for an enlightening 

conversation surrounding the interaction between medical sciences, social media, and 

popular culture, which continued into interesting discussions throughout the evening. 

Additional events included a karaoke session at The Mad Hatter, which was well 

attended by members, perhaps owing to the presence of Professor Chris Norbury’s 

impressive vocals. In Trinity Term, a QCMS sports day was also held, which, after a 

resounding success, is likely to be the first of many. 

I feel very lucky to have been President of QCMS this year, alongside such a brilliant 

group of individuals. I am especially grateful for the support of my fellow Committee 

members, Grace Jones and Harry Orwell (Vice-presidents), Oliver Meek (Treasurer), 

and Ciaran Sandhu and Karthik Saravanan (Social Secretaries). I am pleased to say 

that Grace Jones and Harry Orwell will be continuing as Co-Presidents next year, 

alongside Alicja Kwiecinska (Vice-President), Ahmed Hussain (Treasurer), and Ellen 

Laker and Harry Pratt (Social Secretaries). I have no doubt that this Committee will 

produce a glorious year for QCMS and look forward to seeing them continue to bring 

together all those with a passion for the Medical and Biomedical Sciences at Queen’s. 



Credit: Gareth Ardron 

QUEEN’S COLLEGE BOAT CLUB 

Captains: Charlotte Wheatley, Antonia Johnson, Tom Batchelor 

The past academic year was a momentous one for QCBC. It was wonderful to 

see the substantial growth of the club on both the Men’s and Women’s sides. An 

impressive six boats qualified for Summer VIIIs, with over 50 members competing. 

Furthermore, an inspiring dynamic of support between the two sides has been 

cultivated at the boathouse this year, which is sure to lay secure foundations of 

collaboration and friendship between the Men’s and Women’s sides in the years 

to come. 

A standout achievement of this year’s club is the success of the new cohort of 

novices. The Michaelmas Novice Regatta gave them the opportunity to gain race 

experience; by the time Torpids rolled around, many of these rowers and coxes were 

competing in first and second boats alongside the seniors. The commitment of the 

novices stood the club’s second boats in good stead for bumps racing, with M2 and 

W2 both successfully rowing on. It is the first time since 2009 that W2 has qualified 

for Torpids which is a significant achievement in itself, but the crew was not satisfied 

with that alone, so rowed determinedly and went on to go +4 across the week! 

The club’s returning rowers played a pivotal part in the training of new members, 

giving their time to the novices as well as committing themselves wholeheartedly to 

the intensive senior training schedule. Moreover, M1 were successful in maintaining 

their place in the prestigious Second Division in both Torpids and Summer VIIIs. 


The men can be immensely proud both of their performance and of setting a high 

standard for the more novice members of the club to aspire to. 

An honourable mention this year must be given to W1 for breaking two QCBC 

Women’s Side records during their 2023 season. Firstly, they climbed +6 during 

Torpids, not only winning blades and entering the next division but setting a new 

QCBC Women’s record for the number of bumps in one campaign. The crew rowed 

with admirable ferocity and were coxed with calm expertise. W1’s victorious streak 

made a comeback in Summer VIIIs where they broke the second record of their 

season by winning blades twice in one year. This ‘Double Blades’ year is the first in 

the history of the Women’s Side. The club could not be prouder of their achievement, 

made all the more impressive by the fact that a vast majority of this crew learnt to 

row at Queen’s and are still in their first year of the sport – a real testament to the 

talent and hard work of QCBC’s members. 


None of the achievements of the club would be possible without the generous 

support, both financial and moral, of the College and the 1837 Alumni Society. In 

particular, the club is thankful for the two new boats in our fleet, the Queen Elizabeth 

II and the Spirit of ’57. As per tradition, a naming ceremony was held for these boats, 

with the Chaplain coming down to the boathouse to bless them and the Provost 

coming to sprinkle them with Champagne. Having the opportunity to row in boats 

of such high quality is a privilege, and one that the rowers do not take lightly. In fact, 

it could be said that W1 are more often found cleaning their boat than rowing in it! 

This year the club has been lucky enough to venture beyond the parameters of the 

Isis. In Hilary the club went to race in Pembroke College, Cambridge’s annual regatta 

– after which we were kindly invited to attend Pembroke’s celebratory formal dinner. 

Over Easter Vacation a training camp was held in Peterborough in preparation for 

Summer VIIIs. The week started off with an erg test and ended with mix-gendered 

races down the rowing lake; it goes without saying that the rowers took these said 

‘friendly’ races much more seriously than the erg test. 

2022-23 has without doubt been a standout year for QCBC, with profuse thanks 

due to each and every rower, cox, and committee member for giving their time 

and energy to the sport. The members celebrated their successes by holding their 

annual Boat Club Dinner, and then again with a supplementary dinner in recognition 

of W1’s Blades triumph. Seeing everyone come together to celebrate one another 

and enjoy each other’s company perfectly showcases the high levels of success 

and camaraderie the club has to offer. 



RUGBY CLUB 

Louis Simms, Captain 

As per usual for the regular league 

season, Queen’s holds a colourful 

record of victories and losses, 

mostly made up of the latter. 

With many matches played with 

three colleges making up two 

sides we managed remarkable 

consistency through the year: 

Mr Rowan-Hamilton threw up 

after matches almost without fail; Mr Cowen was late almost as much as he was 

unnecessarily penalised; Mr Kyd was more ghost than man (not because he was hard 

to tackle, but because he was simply only there in spirit); Mr Higdon returned as an 

Old Member, every week; Mr Kelly was simply very good at every step; Mr Fraiser 

injured more of our own than the opposition; Mr Butcher took the approach of a 

marathon runner and achieved a (consistent) six mph at almost every point in the 

match; Mr (sticky fingers) Turner caught all balls chucked his direction, and some that 

weren’t. Perhaps the only anomaly in the season was the presence of some new 

recruits, with standout ‘man of the match’ performances going to Mr Craven. All in 

all, we recorded some famous victories against Lincoln, Oriel (if Mr Kyd’s tries in their 

colours are counted as our own), and Wadham. 

However, in a pleasant turn of events, we were fortunate to compete for, and win, 

some silverware this season. The first came during cuppers, where we made a 

historic and gallant jog at the Bowl final, narrowly missing out in a tense final versus 

Christ Church. In characteristic fashion the score was 7-10 to Christ Church with eight 

minutes to go, the final score being 7-31. This gave us a valuable insight into what 

this team could really achieve, and went on to raise silverware at 7s cuppers. Joy of 

joys we heralded in the Queen’s of old, with performances on the day reminiscent 

of our 78-0 victory over Trinity (29/11/2012). 

I’m happy to say that such a successful season was tipped off with an equally 

successful tour to Ghent. With an historic victory over Ghent veterans, the 

difference in score was remarkably like the difference in average age, with a 

20-points between the two teams. With just one loss in the group stages, Queen’s 

went on to (jointly) win the tournament with Wiveliscombe, a team who compete 

in south-west 1st division. Needless to say, the winnings were spent immediately 

at the tournament bar, converted into ‘Ghent-tokens’ which were useful for buying 

beer and chips, and that was all. Other extra-curricular victories go to Mr Fraiser 

for pizza (box) eating contest, Mr Richmond (import) for most pull-ups, Mr Cowen 

for turning the heating off the most, and there were also some stellar sock-off 

performances throughout. 


In what can only be described as a mixed bag season, I will look on with a fond gaze 

to see what this team of (average) athletes and academics can achieve in the coming 

season. What I can say with certainty is that it is left in good hands, with Dan Kelly 

having been effective captain of the side for more of this season than I. 

ATHLETIC DISTINCTIONS 

BLUES 

Corabella Hill (Hockey) 

Elin Isaac (Rugby Union) 

Harry Kyd (Rugby League) 



Old Members’ Activities 


DEVELOPMENT AND OLD MEMBER 

RELATIONS REPORT 

Dr Justin B. Jacobs 

Director of 

Development & 

Supernumerary Fellow 

With the sad news of former Provost Sir Alan Budd’s 

passing in Michaelmas Term, it was fitting that this year 

should also see the welcome return of the full Old 

Members’ events programme. Sir Alan was the driving 

force behind the College’s nascent efforts to reconnect the 

College with its Old Members and Friends and he 

established the Old Members’ Office to maintain this 

connection throughout their lives. As Provost, he also 

championed the College’s active efforts to fundraise – 

something for which he was challenged at the time by 

some who felt it was all a bit ‘too American’. He stayed the 

course, however, and by forming the Appeal Committee 

signalled to the College and its Old Membership the 

important role fundraising must play in sustaining and 

enhancing the Queen’s experience. 

The connections and contributions Sir Alan sought have carried the College steadily 

forward for the past 20 years and Sir Alan’s tremendous legacy was clearly on 

display throughout the 2022-23 academic year. In September the College hosted 

the traditional Old Members’ Dinner and in July over 600 people attended the first 

Garden Party held since 2019. In between, the Boar’s Head and Needle and Thread 

Gaudies happily returned, the Taberdars’ Society met in London and Oxford, the 

College celebrated its own part in the 400 th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio 

at the London Reception held at Stationers’ Hall, and the Queen’s Society was 

welcomed back for a ‘thank you’ reception in the Provost’s Garden. 

This was also the year the College was able to make its first international trip in 

over three years. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, however, and over the first 

week of December the Provost and members of the Old Members’ Office met Old 

Members and Friends over dinner and drinks in Washington, DC, New York City, and 

Boston. Outside of these events, it was also a pleasure to be able to make individual 

visits to meet Old Members based in San Francisco and Palo Alto, Switzerland, and 

at a mountain lodge nestled in the Appalachians of northern Virginia. Wherever we 

met Old Members this year, the welcome we received was warm and gracious and 

we are grateful to all of those who hosted us. 

Further highlights and details from our year of Old Members’ events and relations 

can be found in the report of the President of the Old Members’ Association 

on the following pages. On behalf of the Old Members’ Office, I would like to 

take this opportunity to extend our thanks to outgoing President Paul Newton 


(Chemistry, 1975) for his many years of involvement with the Association, the 650 th 

Anniversary Trust, and the Development Committee. 

The 2022-23 academic year also provided further proof of the continued and 

significant impact donors are having on Queen’s students, the College’s academic 

excellence, and its expanding access and outreach activities. 

Over the course of the year the College received £2,010,430 in gifts and pledges 

from 658 Old Members and Friends. Our total donor number rose from the previous 

year, which increased the cumulative impact of the gifts received, and the median 

gift received over the course of the year was £25. Each gift makes a difference to 

the College and this year this was especially true. 


In what was an economically challenging year for many, the Queen’s community 

nevertheless rallied together, and many were recognised for their support. At the 

year’s end the membership in The Queen’s Society (for monthly/annual donors) 

increased to 526; membership in the Taberdars’ Society (for those who have left a 

gift to the College in their will) increased to 260; and the Governing Body was pleased 

to elect three new Eglesfield Benefactors (lifetime giving in excess of £100,000) and 

15 new Philippa Benefactors (lifetime giving in excess of £10,000).* 

The impact of these gifts on the Queen’s community will be detailed more fully in 

the 2022-23 Impact Report. 

As a preview, this year’s edition will showcase how our donors strengthened the 

College’s academic excellence – primarily through gifts to the Prestwich Fellowship 

in History, the newly created Centenary Visiting Professorship in PPE, and the 

Neumann Fellowship in Maths; how they helped us ensure that our undergraduate 

and graduate students had the support they needed when they needed it; and how 

others supported – through donations and volunteering – the College’s ongoing 

efforts to develop and reinvigorate its historic links to the Northwest as part of its 

partnership with The Access Project. 

This interest in raising educational aspirations was further matched by those Old 

Members who helped take the joy and value of modern language learning to entirely 

new groups of students outside of Oxford via the College’s award-winning Translation 

Exchange programme. 

We look forward to further sharing some of these tremendous stories later this 

year, but for now I would like to say thank you again to all of those who supported 

Queen’s this year. 

*Old Members and Friends interested in their lifetime giving totals can find this out by 

contacting development@queens.ox.ac.uk or by writing to the Old Members’ Office. 



FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE 

OLD MEMBERS’ ASSOCIATION 

Gradually recovering from the disruptions caused by the 

COVID-19 pandemic, the Old Members’ activities have 

evolved into a thriving and stable state. Over the past year 

more than 2,000 Old Members and guests participated in 

15 distinctive events. 

Paul Newton 

President of 

The Queen’s College 

Association 

In the past, many of our gatherings revolved primarily 

around social interaction, marked by good wine and 

stimulating conversations. However, our recent events 

have taken on a more engaging and enriching character. 

For instance, preceding last year’s dinner, the film “The 

Changeling” was screened in the Shulman Auditorium, 

setting the stage for thoughtful discussions. 

The Jubilee Matriculation Gaudy Lunch ventured beyond the College’s walls to explore 

the Tutankhamun exhibition at the Weston Library, a treasure trove of the Bodleian 

Libraries’ special collections. This enlightening exhibition was thoughtfully curated by 

Professor Richard Parkinson, a distinguished undergraduate and Fellow of the College. 

At the London Reception, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio was 

celebrated. Old Member Tim Connell (Modern Languages, 1968) led an engaging 

panel discussion on teaching and performing Shakespeare today, enriched by the 

unique perspective of Old Member Alfie Enoch, drawing from his experience as an 

actor. Notably, the College’s very own copy of the First Folio was available for viewing. 

An event of particular significance was the Taberdars’ Society gathering, held outside 

Oxford, at the Oxford and Cambridge Club, for the first time. Emeritus Fellow in 

History, Dr John Davis, presented his book Waterloo Sunset – London from the Sixties 

to Thatcher, resulting in a sold-out event. Another event that garnered considerable 

attention was the Provost’s Lecture. Old Member and Honorary Fellow Sir Tim 

Berners-Lee (Physics, 1973) and his wife, Lady Rosemary Leith Berners-Lee, engaged 

in a captivating ‘fireside chat’ with the Provost, delving into the origins and future of 

the internet, with a special emphasis on data sovereignty and equitable access. The 

lecture, held in the Shulman Auditorium, attracted an in-person audience of 100 from 

the College community, including students, Fellows, and staff, complemented by 350 

Old Members from around the world who joined online. 

The Boar’s Head and the Needle and Thread Gaudies, along with a PPE Dinner 

commemorating the centenary of PPE as a subject at Oxford, brought nearly 300 

Old Members back to dine within the hallowed hall of the College. 


Our global reach extended further with international events hosted by the Provost, 

including dinners in Washington DC and Boston, as well as a reception in New York 

City. The attendees spanned Old Members from the 1950s to the 2020s, fostering 

a sense of unity across generations. 

The Queen’s Women’s Network continued to flourish, serving as a valuable platform 

for the exchange of career advice and support. 

The grand finale of the year was the College Garden Party and Queen’s Society 

Donor Reception, which welcomed a record-breaking 650 attendees, including 

Fellows, staff, Old Members, and their families. 


As my term as President comes to an end, I reflect on my role in representing 

the views and concerns of generations of Old Members. Times change, opinions 

evolve, and controversies arise. When I assumed this position two decades ago, 

Sir Winston Churchill had just been voted the Greatest Briton. The landscape has 

shifted since then, with the BBC removing that poll, and Churchill now coming with 

a non-negotiable trigger warning for some students and others. We are all acutely 

aware of the complexities of modern discourse. Nevertheless, it is time to move on 

and to look forward with optimism. 

In this regard, I sincerely hope that the open dialogue and intellectual engagement, 

which lie at the heart of a university education and its Old Member community, will 

continue to flourish freely. Above all, may it thrive in a spirit that allows College and 

Old Members across the generations, despite any differing views, to cherish our 

common bond that is Queen’s College. 

Lastly, I would like to express our profound gratitude to the Development Office for 

their exceptional and innovative work during another challenging year. They truly 

deserve our thanks. 


QUEEN’S WOMEN’S NETWORK 


Queen’s Women’s Network 

The Queen’s Women’s Network celebrated its fifth birthday this 

year and we were delighted to be able to celebrate in person at 

our London event in March 2023. The anniversary gave us pause 

to reflect on how far the Network has come since we launched in 

February 2018. 

The QWN is now an established part of College life, complete with 

logo and branding (with those who visited our stand at July’s Garden Party lucky 

enough to have received one of our sought-after bookmarks!). 

The QWN LinkedIn group has doubled in size over the last year with over 170 

members in August 2023 from a range of year groups, including some current 

students. LinkedIn provides an excellent forum for connecting with fellow Queen’s 

women and also gives an insight into possible career options and opportunities. 

The variety of roles undertaken by Queen’s women is quite amazing and changing 

careers was a topic for one of our events this year. We encourage current and Old 

Members to join and to spread the word among fellow Queen’s friends and contacts. 

Events 

Our commitment to running an annual event continues with the aim of bringing people 

together for networking and providing a forum for discussion of a range of issues of 

particular interest to women. We record sessions where possible to build a useful 

and interesting archive. We also aim to provide opportunities for Old Members to 

share their own career stories, as it is something both current and Old Members 

consistently request. 

Our events in 2022-23 were a perfect illustration of this approach: 

In our ‘Going with the Flow’ online event in September we were able to engage 

with a panel of experts about the impact that stages in life such as menstruation, 

pregnancy loss, infertility, and menopause have on the workplace and how best to 

assist and support colleagues who are affected. The session, which was curated 

and chaired by Nathalie Allan (Modern Languages, 1997), provided a sensitive and 

instructive overview of the data and research around women’s health issues and 

employment as well as practical advice and useful resources. Running the session 

online also gave space for questions and individual conversations with specialists 

in the field: Claire-Louise Knox, Business Psychologist; Kate Davies, Fertility Nurse 

Consultant and Coach; and Dinah Tobias, Menopause Mentor and Coach. 


‘Changing paths: Experiences of different career journeys’ featured Old 

Members Katherine Irving (Chemistry 1984), Francine Raveney (English and Modern 

Languages, 1992), and Joanne Robinson (History, 1991) who shared fascinating 

and inspiring stories of their ‘non-linear’ careers in a session chaired by Lauriane 

Anderson-Mair (Modern Languages, 2007). 

Recordings of both events are available on the Queen’s YouTube channel. 

We are grateful to Mark Evans (Modern Languages, 1977) who again kindly facilitated 

the hosting of the event by RSM UK at their London offices, which also allowed for 

networking with RSM colleagues who joined us on the night. This underlines the 

benefits of Old Members supporting the Network by providing venues and helping 

to host events. Early-career Old Members, in particular, are able to gain an insight 

into different working environments and sectors and to broaden their networks. 

Please do let us know if you would be willing to support a future event, either in 

London or elsewhere. 


We enjoyed meeting everyone who visited the QWN stand at the Garden Party 

in July, complete with new banner, branded tablecloth, and bookmarks promoting 

QWN. The purpose was to encourage women to sign up to the QWN LinkedIn group. 

Old Members, College staff, and their families also enjoyed the photo booth and 

bubble entertainer sponsored by us. 

Support for current College members 

The Network has been enjoying developing closer ties with the MCR and JCR 

Women’s Reps this year and looking at ways in which we can provide a forum for 

discussion for current members about issues of particular interest to women, as 

well as practical ways in which we can provide support with careers. In June we 

were invited to give a talk on the QWN to members of the MCR and JCR in College. 

Alison Sanders (PPE, 1979) gave a fun and interesting reflection on life in College 

as one of the first cohort of women, and the inspiring career journey that followed. 

We have increased efforts this year to raise awareness of the Network among current 

members and are grateful to the MCR and JCR Women’s reps for their enthusiasm 

and help with this. Information on the Queen’s Women’s Network has also now been 

incorporated into the College Leavers’ Pack for new graduates. 

We have been discussing with the MCR the possibility of a mentoring scheme 

between the QWN and the MCR. For the moment we have decided that we shall 

foster links organically through our meetings and events, but we always welcome 

ideas on how we can support College members. 


Looking forwards… 


We held a successful QWN Strategy Session in College on Saturday 3 June. This 

generated lots of ideas for widening the range and reach of QWN events and for 

increasing engagement ahead of the 45 th Anniversary of co-education at Queen’s 

in 2024, which will be our major focus in the next academic year. 

And back… 

Many thanks, in particular, to Christine for her invaluable help and support in Jen’s 

absence this year, as well as to Catherine, Heather, Emily and all in the College’s Old 

Members’ Office for their input to all our endeavours in the last year, and for helping 

ensure that everything runs so smoothly. 

Finally, special thanks too to Jane Welsh (PPE, 1979) who stepped down from the 

Committee in April 2023 after six years. Jane is a founder member of the Queen’s 

Women’s Network and was instrumental in its creation and launch in 2018 as part 

of the celebration on the 40 th anniversary of co-education at Queen’s. 

QWN Committee 

Nathalie Allen (1997) 

Wendy Burt (1979) 

Janet Hayes (1981) 

Katherine Irving (1984) 

Elizabeth Pilkington (2000) 

Alison Sanders (1979) 


GAUDIES – FUTURE INVITATIONS 

Due to cancellations caused by COVID-19, invitations for the Boar’s Head Gaudy 

and the Needle and Thread Gaudy have been rescheduled as follows: 

Boar’s Head 

Year 

Matric Years 

2024 1988 & 1989 

2025 2000 & 2001 

2026 1990 & 1991 

2027 2002 & 2003 


Needle and Thread 

Year Matric Years 

2024 2006 & 2007 

2025 1978 & 1979 

2026 2008 & 2009 

2027 1980 & 1981 

Jubilee Matriculation Gaudy Lunch 

Year Matric Years 

2024 1974/1964/1954 

2025 1975/1965/1955 

2026 1976/1966/1956 

2027 1977/1967/1957 

Old Members’ Dinner 

Saturday 21 September 2024 All Old Members welcome 



650TH ANNIVERSARY 

TRUST FUND AWARD REPORTS 

650th Award-winners 

There were 27 applications for this year’s awards; 14 were from JCR students and 

13 from MCR students. 14 grants were awarded: nine to JCR members and five to 

MCR members, as follows: 

Elisa Cozzi for her project ‘Inflammable air’: Oxford, Éire, and Air Ballooning, 1784- 

1812, investigating the cultural history of air ballooning in Britain and Ireland in the late 

eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and its connections to Oxford, particularly 

to The Queen’s College. 

David Craven to fund training camps for rowing and gymnastics. 

Cormac Diamond to support performing with The Oxford Gargoyles jazz a cappella 

ensemble at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe festival. 

Alaw Evans to take a recital performed for the EMS and expand it into a theatrical 

show fusing art, jazz, and monologues for the Edinburgh Fringe festival. 

Matilda Evans to participate in an exchange programme with a Japanese sailing 

university. 

Philippa Garbutt for her involvement in Women’s Blues Varsity Hockey, including 

her mentoring role as Vice-Captain. (Pippa Koller Prize) 

Elin Isaac to visit historical and cultural sites in Morocco. 

Tal Jeffrey to support his work with OxPods (co-founded by Tal), a new podcast 

society that aims to communicate cutting-edge research to the broader public. 

Madeleine Ridout to follow the traditional Japanese pilgrimage route of the Kumano 

Kodo. 

Kathryn Smith to support her blues training for pentathalon and fencing. 

Samuel Teague to take a small choir of current and former College members to 

the Lake District to lead services in churches with a historic connection to Queen’s. 

Samuel Troy to attend a Spoken Classical Greek course on Euboea (an island near 

Athens), followed by a couple of days visiting museums in Athens. 

Olivia Winnifrith to take a play originally performed in Oxford (a modern translation 

and feminist interpretation of Molière’s Tartuffe) to the Edinburgh Fringe festival. 

One award was returned by the recipient due to safety concerns about the 

organisation with which he had been hoping to work. 


Selected reports 

David Craven 

Captaining the University Men’s Blues Gymnastics Team 

to Varsity success 

With the funding from the 650 th Anniversary Trust Fund, 

I travelled for extra training sessions and training camps 

for both rowing and gymnastics where I made the 

improvements I needed to achieve beyond what I ever 

thought was possible for just my second year at university. 

In gymnastics at British Universities & College Sports (BUCS) I won the gold medal 

on parallel bars and the gold medal in the all-around competition in grade 2, beating 

all 30 other gymnasts over the six apparatus. Also at BUCS, I captained the Men’s 

Blues to place Oxford 2 nd out of over 25 universities that had entered, which was the 

first time we had placed this high in club record. At Varsity I won gold in the all-around 

competition and in three out of the six events. I also captained the Men’s Blues team 

to beat Cambridge for the first time in over 10 years, with us also beating them on 

all six pieces. Furthermore, all four Oxford teams beat their respective Cambridge 

counterparts which was also a first in club memory. It was an historical year for the 

club and one that I know I will never forget. On top of this, I raced in the College first 

eight for both Torpids and Summer Eights even though I had only first stepped in a 

rowing boat the year before. 


I had grown up a competitive gymnast and diver so was quickly taken in by the 

Gymnastics Club. I had a pretty successful first year, winning a silver medal on 

the parallel bars at BUCS grade 2 and being selected for the Men’s Blues Varsity 

Squad where I went on to win a bronze medal in the all-around competition being 

the highest scoring male Oxford gymnast over all six pieces. However, we had lost all 

four team competitions to Cambridge: Men’s Blues, Women’s Blues, Men’s Seconds 

and Women’s Seconds but I was hooked by the sport and wanted to make sure we 

didn’t repeat this the following year. 

I ran for Men’s Captain the week after Varsity and won unanimously. Alongside the 

Women’s Captain we tried to reinforce a spirit of competitiveness back into the club 

that was picked up strongly by our athletes and we got to work. I had also become 

the Queen’s College Boat Club President at the start of Michaelmas so was having to 

balance training and organisation for both sports alongside studying for my Materials 

Science degree. Thankfully there wasn’t normally timing clashes but it meant that a 

day would often consist of waking up at 5:30am for rowing, a breakfast in Hall that 

often broke 2,000 calories, a race to finish my food and then cycle to lectures at 

9am, either tutorials or labs in the afternoons, and then as much work as I could fit 

into the evening before dinner which almost solely consisted of a microwaved portion 



of pasta Bolognese that I had bulk prepared at the start of the week in the Cardo 

kitchen. Then it was time to head to the bus stop to catch the X40 to gymnastics. We 

trained half the time at a club out in Berinsfield with sessions finishing at 10:30pm and 

with frequent bus delays I would rarely make it back home before 11pm for a second 

dinner. Despite almost burning out in Michaelmas and a short stay in hospital with 

glandular fever over new year, my sights were set on a BUCS all-around medal, a 

Varsity Match win, and a spot in the College first eight in both sets of bumps races. 

Hilary was by far my busiest term for sport with BUCS falling in 4 th week, Torpids in 

6 th Week, and Varsity in 7 th week but with funding from the 650 th Anniversary Trust 

Fund I managed to travel with the gymnastics club to Milton Keynes throughout the 

start of the term to access equipment that we didn’t have at our club in Berinsfield. 

This was vital for learning new skills to put into my routines with the safety of larger 

foam pits. It also helped fund my spot on a training camp that I had organised for the 

boat club over the Easter vac to Peterborough City Rowing Club which allowed me 

to really dial in my technique and secured my spot for in the first eight for Summer 

Eights, following our stroke man who was the University Lightweights most capped 

athlete with five Blue Boat appearances. 

I cannot express how lucky I feel to have managed to achieve all of this and I genuinely 

don’t think it all would have been possible without the funding and support that I have 

received from College along the way. University sport has let me create memories 

I will never forget and meet some of my best friends, alongside providing a vital 

escape from the academic stress that goes alongside an Oxford degree. 

Madeleine Ridout 

An account of my journey along one of Japan’s oldest 

pilgrimage routes, the Kumano Kodo 

The Kumano Kodo exists as a pilgrimage network 

throughout the prefecture of Wakayama, Japan, as 

pathways that once connected the three major shrines, or 

taisha, to each other. These three taisha are called Kumano 

In front of Takahara Lodge Hongu Taisha, Kumano Nachi Taisha, and Kumana 

Hayatama Taisha. They are not the only taisha in Japan, 

but the various hiking routes throughout the mountains in Wakayama prefecture have 

been used for thousands of years to visit these respective shrine complexes. 

I had known about the pilgrimage route since before I came to Japan for my year’s 

study abroad, but the logistics of completing a multi-day hike through rural Japan 

as a solo female traveller was intimidating to say the least. Luckily, during a period 

of university vacation in May, I had the chance to farm-stay at a tea farm near 

Kyoto, and here I met someone who also wanted to complete the Kumano Kodo. 



Nachi Waterfall and Five-story pagoda 

This friend of mine, Yui, worked in an office job normally, and so we planned to hike 

the route over the period of Obon, as her office would let her take time off work at that 

time. However, perhaps because it was the Obon season, we had difficulty finding 

inexpensive places to stay, though we managed to save some money by also staying 

with friends-of-friends etc, and so I used this prize money retrospectively to cover 

the cost of accommodation, and some food, during this time (having completed the 

journey during the summer of 2022). 

On the first day I took the train from Kobe, the city where I was studying abroad, to 

the small city of Tanabe, where I met my friend Yui and where the trail began. On the 

10th, we set off around 6am for Takahara lodge, around 25km away. The pilgrimage 

route was formed originally by a long string of small temples, many of which now 

only have a stone to mark the location. My friend and I would always make a point of 

resting at these sites, admiring the view, and thinking about all the people who had 

rested at this site before us. We started to worry when it was getting dark, as we 

still had a fair distance to cover, and the last bus of the day had already passed us, 

but when we struck up a conversation with a kind old lady who owned the roadside 

cafe where we had just finished eating, she offered to give us a lift to our hostel. This 

was one of my highlights of the trip, and I was always so thankful for the kindness 

I received from others during my time on the trail. The Hostel in Takahara was run 

by a friend of another person I had met while farm-staying, so we were given a 

discounted stay, and a free evening meal! 



The next day, we left the hostel early again, and continued on to Yunomine, a hot 

spring town close to the first Taisha. As we spent most of the day walking, we waited 

until the next day to finish the journey from Yunomine to the Kumano Hongu Taisha. 

Due to the hotsprings, water came out of the ground hot enough to boil eggs, so we 

ate our special onsen eggs with instant ramen for our dinner that day. From there, 

the next day we hiked to Kumano Hongu Taisha, and then on to our next hostel, 

where we spent one day letting ourselves recover from the hiking (and as it was my 

20th birthday, I wanted some time to call my family in the UK). This hostel was also 

located close to a river, and so we joined the locals by swimming in the river in the 

golden twilight. 

On the 13th, we set off on a bus to the Hayatama Taisha, and then a bus to the 

bottom of the mountain beneath Nachi Taisha, in order to complete the shrines 

in order. Hayatama was very quiet, despite being in a large city, compared to the 

Nachi Taisha, which due to its famous large waterfall had many more people there. 

We took a tourist bus from Shingu bus station, close to where the Hayatama Shrine 

was, to the Nachi shrine. However, as Japan was not allowing foreign tourists into 

the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic, every shrine was pretty empty of people. 

Then, as I was catching a ferry from Nagoya on the 14th of August, and my friend 

had to return to Tokyo for her job, we took a five hour coach from the nearest city 

from Nachi Taisha, to the city of Nagoya. 

I was also able to complete Goshuin for each of the shrines. Traditionally, when people 

would go to temples to complete sutras, they would receive a ‘Goshuin’ mark as a 

completion token, and now many people collect these when they visit both shrines and 

temples. I started collecting Goshuin during my pilgrimage, but, in my later journeys 

around Japan, I continued to collect Goshuin from other places as well. It’s also 

traditional to buy good luck charms at shrines, and so I bought a wooden one in the 

shape of a three-legged crow, which is the symbol that represents the Kumano Kodo 

pilgrimage. It is written in the Kojiki, legends that describe the creation of Japan, a 

three-legged crow, or Yatagarasu, was sent by the gods to lead the first emperor of 

Japan to the place where he should found his capital city. Since then, the three-legged 

crow has been associated with finding one’s way, which I thought was an appropriate 

good luck charm to buy before I embarked on the following few weeks of solo travel. 

Altogether, this trip cost about 75,000 JPY, which is about £450. Most of this went 

towards the accommodation, as most people do not hike the route anymore, places 

to stay between the first major shrine, and the place I set off from were expensive or 

difficult to find. Overall, the accommodation costs worked out to about £80 a night, 

and the rest of the budget was spent on food, bus fares and purchasing shrine goods 

such as protection charms, goshuin etc. 

I experienced many positive things because of this trip. First of all, a deeper 

connection and respect for nature through hiking the mountain trails for long 


periods of the day. I also had the chance to meet many people and create deeper 

relationships with those around me; in fact I am still good friends with Yui, and 

I visited her again in Tokyo this year. It also felt good to contribute towards the active 

use of the pilgrimage route. Many Japanese people do not even know the Kumano 

Kodo exists, let alone hike it, and as fewer people use the route, both the physical 

maintenance of the trail, and also the history of the path and stop points risks being 

forgotten about, so it felt good to use the path and follow in the footsteps of all those 

who hiked it before me! 


Samuel Teague 

Lakes mini-tour 

That the historic heartland of The Queen’s College 

is in the North of the country is no secret, and 

it was with this knowledge that myself and a 

few friends first travelled up to the Lake District 

in August 2022. During this short trip, we visited 

St Oswald’s, Grasmere (one of the Church livings 

which the College owns) where we sang a service of Choral Evensong. The response 

to this single service was exceptionally positive and made it clear (alongside the 

explicit invitations to return) that a larger-scale trip was both feasible and desired. 

The trip in 2022 saw only five singers as part of the group – therefore, the first order 

of business was to assemble a quorate ensemble of musicians with links to Queen’s, 

either as current or Old Members of the College, or of the Choir. This was achieved 

fairly quickly and allowed us to the approach the College in order to fund the trip. 

One of two objectives of the tour was to perform outstanding music at these locations 

linked with Queen’s, in order to strengthen/forge new links with the area with which 

the College has historically been associated. The Choir (and its alumni) can serve 

as some of the best outreach for the College, offering an easy way to engage with 

pre-existing communities in the area, as well as to illustrate one of the many facets 

of vibrant college life. The first service (Evensong) was sung at All Saints, Renwick; 

the site of the foundation estate, for which Queen’s has been Lord of the Manor 

since the College was endowed in 1341. This was one of the highlights of the trip, 

as it felt like a pseudo-homecoming, singing on land which (aside from the site in 

Oxford, obviously) has been continuously affiliated with the College for nearly 700 

years. Through contacts made in 2022, we next sang a full concert programme at 

Holy Trinity, Brathay (Ambleside) to a remarkably strong audience, despite biblical 

amounts of rain for the two hours immediately preceding the concert! We spent the 

entirety of the Sunday (9 July) based in Grasmere at St Oswald’s, singing for the 

Eucharist and for Evensong, with both services well attended. 



Bruckner on Windermere 

The second objective of the trip was to engage in some school outreach work, which 

we were able to fulfil on 10 July. We visited Keswick School (with whom the College 

is affiliated) and delivered an abbreviated programme of music to the students in 

Year 12 during a morning assembly, talking about life as a singer and musician at 

Queen’s in between each piece. This seemed to be received well by the students, 

and we have been warmly invited back to do the same in the future. 

I believe the ensemble benefitted well from the tour – travelling and performing with 

small ensembles is always a joy, as you are able to listen and adapt to one another 

far more ably than may be the case in a larger group. I have two personal highlights 

from the trip: the first, singing Bruckner’s Locus iste whilst canoeing on Windermere; 

the second, an incredibly transcendent moment when the Choir burst to life during 

Tavener’s Song for Athene at the concert in Brathay (we had intended to record the 

concert, but alas, this moment will remain a memory). 

However, all this said, I believe the larger benefit was certainly seen by the people to 

whom we performed. We were able to illustrate some of the best aspects of life at the 

College fairly cheaply and easily, and to maximum effect, as all our engagements (bar 

Keswick School) being completely open to the public and free. Some testimonials 

from our trip are as follows: 

“Sam contacted me in February, and we jumped at the idea of having a choir 

representing The Queen’s College to come and sing Evensong. It was a wonderful 

experience and there has been several accounts of how people were ‘moved’ at 

the service. Not only have there been spiritual encounters, but the congregation 

have been so impressed with the friendliness and courtesy of the student choir 

and the way they mingled with us during the refreshments. We would very much 

like the choir to visit us again where we will continue to invite the community as the 

small early Victorian church is being renovated into the local community centre and 

a place of worship.” 


The Revd Canon Katharine Butterfield, Rector of the benefice of Kirkoswald, Renwick 

with Croglin, Great Salkeld & Lazonby 

“It’s been a great delight over the past couple of years, to welcome singers from 

The Queen’s College, Oxford. Queen’s (I have discovered) is recognised as one of 

those institutions which take their patronage of Parish Churches seriously and the 

recent visit of the singers clearly demonstrated this. It was a joy to welcome Sam 

and his friends to sing a setting of the Mass for our morning worship and we were 

even more delighted to see such a large congregation present for Choral Evensong.” 


The Revd David Wilmot, Rector of Grasmere & Rydal and Chaplain at Rydal Hall 

I have already begun to plan a return trip to the area for next summer, which would 

hopefully incorporate further outreach to other schools in the area. The generosity 

of the College—as well as the support of donors and the Old Members’ Office— 

allowed for us to essentially underwrite the entire trip, allowing us to operate without 

any worries about the funding of the trip and to properly focus on providing the best 

service we could. This was particularly important, as we were officially representing 

the College (rather than just on holiday in the Lake District). 

What, I hope, is clear from the content above, is that the opportunity for this form of 

outreach is not only fairly easy to enact but is also possible for a reasonably modest 

investment; I hope that we will be able to coordinate with the Old Members’ Office in 

order to raise funds for the return trip in 2024, with a long-term view to set in motion 

a tradition of choral outreach from the College to the North of England. 

Olivia Winnifrith 

taking a play to the Edinburgh Fringe 

Using the money given to me by the 650 th Anniversary 

Trust Fund, Green Sun Productions, an Oxford-based 

student production company, took their feminist 

adaptation of Molière’s Tartuffe to the Edinburgh Fringe 

festival following a sold-out Oxford run in November. 

Tartuffe the Imposter transplants Molière’s original to a 

corporate London office, where the foolish boss has been taken in by new employee 

Tartuffe who masquerades as the ‘world’s greatest feminist’ although the rest of 

the team are not quite so convinced. In this version of Tartuffe, written by Oxford 

students Flora Davies and Sian Lawrence, the performative feminism exhibited by 

Tartuffe, as well as the opposing attitudes of some of the other characters, explores 

the contradictions and the generational divides within feminism. In particular the 

production focused on the often-neglected themes of sexual assault and misogyny 

present in Molière’s work, Tartuffe tells the character I play, Dorine, to cover up and 



depending on choreography is sexually aggressive towards the boss’s wife Elmire 

which finally leads to his undoing. Sian and Flora’s version blended nods to Molière’s 

original, the Bible became De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex referred to as ‘the Bible 

of Feminism’, with snippets of real-life conversations and experiences. 

Performing in Edinburgh was very different to our previous Oxford run, with no 

chance to rehearse in the venue before the first night and only five minutes before 

every run to set up the stage and props. In addition to the speedy get ins, the 

difference between a nine-night run and the normal Oxford five-night one was 

significant and required a new level of stamina. Yet these challenges allowed the 

play to develop in response to time constraints, which lead to significant script cuts 

or alterations as well as a last-minute cast change halfway through the run. This 

meant that much of the days were spent reblocking scenes or learning new or altered 

lines which, although stressful, felt much more like the day-to-day of a professional 

actor. I played the part of Dorine, who in the original is the scheming maid, but in this 

version is the intern who sees it all and attempts to orchestrate Tartuffe’s downfall. 

I felt that the longer run allowed me to develop my character more fully and find new 

ways of saying lines and practicing movement: I feel I particularly improved on the 

scene I spent snooping from behind a potted plant. 

This year’s Edinburgh Fringe has been much publicised for its increasingly prohibitive 

costs. The money from the 650 th Anniversary Fund allowed me to travel and stay in 

Edinburgh as well as helping with production costs and allowing me to watch other 

shows. I was especially impressed by the quality of many of the solo performances, 

which blurred the genres of cabaret and theatre and left me feeling inspired and 

excited to start my Acting MA in October at East 15. 


NEWS FROM OLD MEMBERS, INCLUDING 

APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS 

1951 

John Hazel 

Awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to education in the 2023 New 

Year’s Honours. 


1961 

Vernon Bogdanor 

Received a knighthood in the 2023 New Years Honours for services to Political 

Science. 

1963 

Tariq Hyder 

Ambassador (Retd) Hyder continued as Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the National 

Defence University, Islamabad, writing on issues of topical, global and national 

concern. In 2022/3 he published in The Nation, Lahore, two op-ed articles: the 

first ‘Fireworks Lit the Sky’ on his involvement as Pakistan’s first ambassador to 

Turkmenistan in facilitating the new nation’s Independence Day commemoration, 

and in initiating the TAPI gas pipeline project through Afghanistan to Pakistan and 

India; and secondly on ‘Turkish Elections and Pakistan’ focussing on a country with 

ties to both Europe and Asia, including close historical, cultural, and defence ties to 

Pakistan, and suggesting peaceful nuclear cooperation. 

1967 

Philip Schlesinger 

Reappointed as Visiting Professor in Media and Communications at the LSE until 

July 2025. Appointed as Creative PEC Fellow at the Creative Industries Policy and 

Evidence Centre, Newcastle University and The Royal Society of Arts, London. Philip 

is also a Professor in Cultural Theory at the University of Glasgow. 

1968 

Julian Jacobson 

Performed a Beethoven Marathon in November 2022 at St John’s Church, Waterloo, 

London. Julian played all 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas from memory, in one day. 



1971 

Anthony Rowlands 

Elected in May 2023 as the new Mayor of the City and District of St Albans for 

2023/24, becoming the city’s 479th Mayor. Anthony has been a District Councillor 

since 1986 (with a short three-year break). He will represent St Albans at events 

(in addition to chairing Full Council meetings), promoting charitable and voluntary 

causes. He chose ‘All Ages Together’ as the theme of his civic year, aiming to work 

towards improving social inclusion, accessibility, and wellbeing across the District 

during his year as Mayor. 

1972 

Edward Astle 

Appointed Honorary Graduate of the University of Manchester in October 2023. 

1976 

Donald Savoie 

Promoted to the rank of Companion of the Order of Canada (C.C.)which was awarded 

in May 2022 by the Governor General of Canada. The C.C. recognises “outstanding 

achievement and merit of the highest degree”, especially in service to Canada or to 

humanity at large. 

1980 

Alan Gillies 

Appointed in 2022 to the position of Professor of Health Care Management at the 

International University of Applied Sciences in Germany (IU Internationale Hochschule 

Fernstudium). He is to carry out his duties half-time, alongside his existing honorary 

appointments as Honorary Professor at UCLAN in Preston and Doctor Honoris 

Causa at the Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca, 

Romania (Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie „Iuliu Hațieganu” din Cluj-Napoca). 

1981 

John Vice 

Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King’s Birthday 

Honours List in June 2023, for services to Parliament. John was Editor of Debates 

at the House of Lords from 2012, until retiring from Parliament in December 2022. 


1982 

Philippa Hird 

Approved by the Cabinet Office in November 2022 as an interim member of the 

Senior Salaries Review Body, which provides independent advice to the Prime 

Minister and senior ministers on the pay of many of the nation’s top public servants. 

The appointment is until 31 July 2023. 

1982 

Christopher Sutton 

Elected as Master of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, serving 

from October 2022 to October 2023. 


1985 

Matthew Pollard 

Licenced and installed as Canon Chancellor at Ripon Cathedral, North Yorkshire 

in September 2022. He took up the post after being rector at Bridlington Priory 

since 2013. 

1987 

Andrew Openshaw 

Moved from Frinton in Essex to Haddenham in Buckinghamshire, to take up a 

new position as Company Secretary and Regional Minister for the Central Baptist 

Association (CBA). The CBA is one of the regions of the Baptist Union of Great 

Britain and along with three colleagues, Andrew has responsibility for serving 

and supporting the ministers and members of all 150 Baptist Churches across 

Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire. 

1991 

John Sorabji 

Appointed by The Lord Chancellor to the Civil Justice Council for a three-year period 

from 1 August 2022 to 31 July 2025. The Civil Justice Council is an Advisory Public 

Body responsible for overseeing and co-ordinating the modernisation of the civil 

justice system. 

1992 

Richard Grayson 

Appointed Professor / Head of School (Education, Humanities and Languages) at 

Oxford Brookes University, in April 2023. 



1998 

Nishi Grose (née Somaiya) 

Promoted to Global Head of Private Banking, Lending and Deposits at Goldman 

Sachs Group Inc., in April 2023 

1999 

Antonio Delgado 

Appointed Lieutenant Governor of New York State, by Governor Kathy Hochul 

in May 2022. He previously enjoyed a career in the music industry focused on 

empowering young people through hip hop; worked as an attorney focusing on 

complex commercial litigation, while dedicating significant time to pro bono work in 

connection with criminal justice reform; and served in the U.S. House representing 

New York’s 19th Congressional District. In June 2023, he was honoured by Queens 

College (Flushing, NY, USA) with the President’s Medal and delivered the keynote 

speech at their 99th Commencement Ceremony. 

2002 

Tony Ruschpler 

Winner at the KangaNews Market ‘People of the Year Awards 2022’. Revealed at a 

Gala Dinner in March 2023, the awards honoured individuals who went above and 

beyond in their roles to contribute to the development of the Australian and New 

Zealand debt markets. The nine award recipients were chosen by vote and were 

those deemed to have contributed most to the market in either 2022 or across the 

span of a career. Tony is Senior Treasury Specialist at Asian Development Bank and 

his KangaNews Award reflected his role in strengthening connections between the 

bank and Antipodean markets. 

2004 

Robert Lepenies 

Featured in the December 2022 edition of ‘Capital Magazine’ (Germany) in the Top 

40 Under 40 as he became one of the youngest University leaders in Germany in 

October 2022. 

2006 

Katie Berridge (née Wrigley) 

Nominated for the Women in Pensions Awards 2022. Katie was promoted to Partner 

at Lane, Clark & Peacock in April 2020, where she manages one of the company’s 

investment teams and advises her clients on investment strategy. 


2012 

Alfred Burton 

Represented Great Britain at the 2022 European Triathlon Championships which 

took place in August, in Munich. 



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ARTICLES 

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The Harmsworth Professorship of American History 

Michael F. Hopkins (1976), Reader in American Foreign 

Policy at the University of Liverpool 

Harold Harmsworth, 1 st Viscount Rothermere, the owner 

of the Daily Mail, lost two sons in the First World War. To 

honour their memory he created two university chairs. In 

1918 he funded the Vere Harmsworth Chair in Naval History 

at the University of Cambridge. In 1920 he endowed the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth 

Professorship of American History at Oxford, the first university chair in American 

history in the UK. Samuel Eliot Morison of Harvard University was the first holder of 

the post, serving from 1922 to 1925. 

The founders had not considered a college affiliation for the Harmsworth Professor. 

Morison did not hold a formal fellowship but became a member of the senior 

common room of Christ Church. In 1923 the Royal Commission on Oxford and 

Cambridge stipulated that all professorships should have a college affiliation and 

in 1924 The Queen’s College agreed to establish a fellowship for the Harmsworth 

Professor. College records do not reveal the reasons behind the decision. When 

Robert McNutt McElroy was appointed in 1925 he became a fellow of Queen’s and 

held the post until 1939. 

The Second World War seriously disrupted subsequent appointments. There was no 

Harmsworth Professor in Oxford for 1939-1940, Michaelmas Term 1940, 1941-1942, 

1943-1944 and 1945-1946. Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker of Princeton University 

was appointed for 1939-1940 but could not travel to Oxford, though he did take 

up the post in 1944-1945. Allan Nevins of Columbia University was appointed for 

1940-1941 but was only able to be in Oxford in January-June 1941, despite the 

best efforts of the Provost of Queen’s, R. H. Hodgkin, to persuade him to remain 

for another year. Nevins, nevertheless, made a major contribution to developing 

American history at the University. 

Morison had made an important start, devising a special subject, “The American 

Revolution and the Formation of the Federal Constitution, 1760-1788 ” and publishing 

a book of documents to accompany it. But American history remained undervalued 

in Oxford and was not prominent in the undergraduate curriculum and examinations. 

Nevins, however, had a greater impact. He proposed a new special subject, “Slavery 

and Secession in the United States, January 1854-January 1863”, which attracted the 

interest of a succession of Oxford students and tutors such as H. G. Nicholas of New 


College and Max Beloff of Nuffield College. It continues as a special subject in revised 

form – “Slavery, Emancipation and the Ordeal of the Union.” The teaching of American 

history had expanded beyond the classes of the Harmsworth Professor and would 

later embrace other topics that Henry Pelling and Kenneth Morgan taught at Queen’s. 

Despite a heart attack, Allan Nevins returned as Harmsworth Professor for 1964-1965 

and played a part in the growing interest in American studies in Oxford and beyond. 

In 1969 Herbert Nicholas became the first Rhodes Professor of American history. 

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Adjusting to a collegiate university and its particular practices was a challenge for 

Harmsworth professors but most of them seemed to enjoy their term of office. While 

some, such as Merrill Jensen (1949-1950), were put off by what they saw as Oxford’s 

odd ways, others agreed with C. Vann Woodward (1954-1955) – “rich fun and rare 

delight.” He noted, “One can write one’s own ticket here as in no other place I know.” 

At Queen’s he enjoyed “pleasant company … Food and wine are excellent. Among 

the very best in Oxford, and I sampled pretty widely.” John Lewis Gaddis (1991-1992) 

also recorded the fun of dining at Queen’s and the other colleges. 

Harmsworth professors were given a room at Queen’s (staircase 1A, room 3), though 

verdicts were mixed about its suitability. A better-appointed office became available, 

following the creation of the Rothermere American Institute in 2001. Accommodation 

was a recurring problem until a house, 14 Dunstan Road, Headington, was purchased 

by the Rothermere Foundation in 1969. It was available rent-free, which helped to 

alleviate the significant disparity between the Harmsworth and US academic salaries. 

In 1977 Willie Lee Rose of Johns Hopkins University became the first female 

Harmsworth Professor, though she was not a fellow of Queen’s, since the college 

was a men’s college until 1979. A hasty arrangement was made for her to become a 

fellow of St Hilda’s College. The first woman to be Harmsworth Professor and a fellow 

of Queen’s was Joyce O. Appleby of UCLA in 1990. The current holder, Elizabeth 

Varon of the University of Virginia, is the ninth woman to hold the chair. 

Credit: Tom Weller 

Harmsworth Professorship Centenary Celebration 2023 


The professorship will move into new territory with the appointment for 2025-2026. 

The centenary of Queen’s association with the chair will see the post being filled not 

by invitation but by formal application. 

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‘Blessings as endless as her line’: Queen Charlotte 

as Patroness 

Dr Amy Ebrey, Assistant Archivist 

For many years remembered as the forbearing wife of 

‘mad’ King George III, Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) has 

recently re-entered the public consciousness as a more 

complex and multifaceted figure. In Bridgerton, that staple 

of lockdown viewing, Charlotte plays a leading role as both powerful matriarch 

and determined young bride, and the series also explores some of the more 

intriguing theories about her racial identity. She has also featured in several cultural 

retrospectives, most notably a 2017 exhibition at the Yale Centre for British Art, which 

presented Charlotte as one of three ‘Enlightened Princesses’ who influenced the art 

and science of the nascent modern era. In a similar spirit of reinvestigation, we might 

also revisit Charlotte in another of her roles: as Patroness of Queen’s. 

Most contemporaries typecast Charlotte in the role of royal wife and mother. In 

the Epithalamia Oxoniensia, an anthology produced by the University of Oxford 

to commemorate Charlotte’s marriage to George in 1761, a Taberdar at Queen’s 

makes plain this expectation when he describes the new Queen as ‘Destin’d to 

share a nobler fate…And deal out blessings endless as her line’. Yet he and other 

Queensmen had reason to hope for additional blessings from Charlotte, for the 

College periodically invited Queens Consort to become Patronesses. This role has 

never been formally defined beyond conferring a ‘special dignity’ on the incumbent, in 

exchange for granting the College’s requests 

for special favour or financial assistance. 

Such invitations have been extended to only 

around half of Queens Consort since 1341 

and Charlotte’s immediate predecessor, 

Queen Caroline, made good her status as 

Patroness by donating £1,000 towards the 

College’s latest project, the construction of 

the grand neoclassical façade of Front Quad; 

and her statue under the cupola still greets 

visitors to Queen’s. 

Queen Charlotte 

Although Charlotte has no comparable statue, 

her full-length portrait in Hall has watched 


over generations of hungry Queen’s students. And a portrait by Henry Morland, 

lent for the exhibition at Yale in 2017, was given to Queen’s in 1765 by Charlotte’s 

chaplain Dr Thomas, an Old Member. Considered ‘a very good likeness,’ this 

charming portrait depicts a youthful Charlotte with an architectural drawing of the 

Library in her hand. While her sumptuous garb and the diamond-studded tiara on a 

side table underline her regal status, this is Charlotte in a more informal mode than 

the much grander portrait in Hall: her smiling face is turned slightly to the side, as 

though listening to someone out of frame – perhaps Dr Thomas himself – extol the 

merits of his old College. 

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The inclusion of the Library drawing hints at Charlotte’s association with the College 

but, for reasons now obscure, she was not invited to become Patroness until 1768, 

three years after the portrait was painted and seven years after her marriage. Thomas 

Fothergill, newly elected Provost and accompanied by two Fellows, grandly presented 

Charlotte with a petition ‘for Her Royal Patronage … written upon Vellum and the 

College Seal annexed to it in a Silver Box, with the College Arms engraved upon the 

Lid of it.’ By her ‘most gracious Answer’ Charlotte agreed to become Patroness. 

The event was formative, doubtless intentionally so: the Fellows’ Memorandum Book 

notes that ‘these particulars … may be of use on future Occasions of this kind,’ and 

indeed a similar formula was used in subsequent petitions to Patronesses. 

It is fitting that Fothergill petitioned Charlotte: he was still Provost when, in December 

1788, a fire broke out in Front Quad and destroyed the Old Lodgings. Though ‘much 

singed,’ Fothergill led efforts to meet the extensive rebuilding costs, which amounted 

to more than £5,000. The Benefactors’ Book commemorates those who donated to 

the rebuilding fund, and Charlotte’s contribution of £1,000 not only secured her place 

at the head of the list but also equalled the benefaction given by her predecessor 

Caroline. Perhaps ‘this most distinguished Mark of Royal Favour and Bounty,’ 

whose value ‘has seldom been equalled,’ was substantial enough to preclude any 

further petitions for financial assistance from Charlotte. Indeed, her association with 

Queen’s has only one further chapter. Fothergill’s successor, Septimus Collinson, 

was presented to Charlotte shortly after his election in 1797, on which occasion he 

requested and received a less tangible gift: ‘the Continuance of her protection and 

favour to the College’. 

These depictions of Charlotte mainly emphasise the generic image of her as mother 

and royal wife, but they are not without value as a means of exploring that most 

ambiguous and ill-defined role of Patroness. Morland’s portrait undoubtedly comes 

closest to encapsulating an idealised vision of the Patroness as eighteenth-century 

Queensmen wished her to be: attentive, regal, and benevolent. In this regard, the 

portrait becomes a snapshot of a past era. For just as conceptions of Charlotte 

herself have changed and developed in the modern day, so too the role of Patroness 

has been – and continues to be – transformed in accordance with the ever-changing 

needs of the College over nearly 700 years. 


OBITUARIES 

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We record with regret the deaths of the following people: 

Old Members 

1939 Mr K O Lehmann 

1942 Mr R Heron CBE 

1943 Prof A Johnston 

1947 Dr J Mould 

Dr J D Craven 

Mr R H Peet CBE 

1949 Mr P J Ridler 

Mr W B Strang 

1950 Mr C R Wellington 

Mr N B Williams 

1952 Mr A Joanes 

The Revd Dr A E M Shorter 

Mr J H Murray 

1953 Mr H J H C Hildreth 

1955 Mr G W C Fee 

Mr A C Langford 

Dr D H Taylor 

1956 Mr T H Beeforth 

Prof W H Bell 

Mr T C Frears 

Dr I Hall 

1957 Mr P Bennett 

Prof D H Lewis 

Mr D T Wilkinson 

1958 Dr R G Kershaw 

Mr K S Roberts 

Mr G C Thornton 

1959 Mr J Geddes 

1960 Mr W S Wheeler 

1961 Prof M J Lea 

Mr M R Pfaff 

Mr A E M Fine 

1963 Mr C M Lamond 

1964 Mr A F H Villeneuve 

1965 Mr P N McCormick 

1966 His Honour Judge I J Dobkin 

Mr J D Perkins 

1974 Prof G Maher KC 

1976 Mr G H Smyth 

1978 Mr T G Briggs 

1981 Mr A P Haughton 

1983 Mrs H F McCall 

Mr S J Singleton 

1988 Dr R D G Brogan 

Honorary Fellows 

Sir Alan Budd GBE 

College Staff 

Mr R J Saberton-Haynes 

Former Academics 

Prof E D P Sanders 

(Dean Ireland Professor, 1984-1990) 

Prof J W Shy 

(Harmsworth Professor 

of History, 1983-1984) 


The news of the deaths of Old Members comes to the notice of the College through 

a variety of channels. The College is unable to verify all these reports and there may 

be some omissions and occasional inaccuracies. 

Credit: Veronika Vernier 

ALAN PETER BUDD 

At one time or another, most of you will have read or sung 

the words from Ecclesiasticus, “Let us now praise famous 

men, and our fathers that begat us”. Sir Alan Peter Budd 

GBE was a famous man. He was a very good economist 

and an outstanding public servant. He belonged, as 

Ecclesiasticus reminds us, to that group of men “giving 

counsel by their understanding, and declaring prophecies. 

Leaders of the people by their counsels”. As an economist, Alan declared many 

prophecies. And his counsel was always wise, from which I and many others 

benefited greatly. 

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But above all Alan was a great man. He set the standard to which all of us aspired. 

His contribution was measured not just by his own achievements, but by the fact that 

he made everyone around him better – a better economist, better student, better 

teacher, better civil servant, a better person. He was that rare person, someone 

you always looked forward to meeting because you knew that you would learn 

something, laugh together, share frustrations at the idiocies in the world, and find 

answers to your questions, whether about high economic theory, which books to 

read or how to grow potatoes. Was there a limit to his wisdom and knowledge? 

I never found it. 

For three decades, Alan was central to British economic policy. In the 1970s, he 

was in and out of the Treasury, and in the 1980s, whether in the Treasury or at the 

London Business School, Alan formed a partnership with Terry Burns, now Lord 

Burns, which helped to transform Britain’s economic fortunes. After the inflation 

and economic disasters of the 1970s, the decade of the 1980s was the period in 

which Britain turned the corner. The Burns-Budd combination, together with Nigel 

Lawson, produced a revolution in British macroeconomic policy. Fiscal policy was 

put on a sustainable path and monetary policy was used to control inflation. Growth 

would be promoted by microeconomic reforms. No major political party today plans 

to reverse that revolution. 

In 1991, I joined the Bank of England as its Chief Economist, and a few months 

later Alan returned to the Treasury as its Chief Economic Advisor and Head of the 

Government Economic Service, succeeding Terry Burns who became Permanent 

Secretary. I was immensely fortunate to have Alan as my opposite number, and later 

colleague, for almost a decade. We worked closely together during an extraordinary 


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period which spanned the UK’s departure from the Exchange Rate Mechanism (the 

ERM), the introduction of inflation targeting, independence for the Bank of England 

and the creation of the Monetary Policy Committee which Alan joined as a founder 

member in late 1997, ending his long Treasury career on a high. 

Relations between the Bank and the Treasury had not always been easy. But in Alan 

I had an opposite number whom I could trust totally. We shared an early experience 

when we were sent in September 1992 to Frankfurt and Bonn to persuade the 

German authorities that 2.95 DM was the right exchange rate for sterling inside the 

ERM. We knew that there was no such thing as the right exchange rate for all time, but 

we dutifully presented our coloured charts and argued the British case. Two days later, 

the UK was forced out of the ERM by massive speculation. Later described as “the 

world’s most unsuccessful diplomatic mission”, our visit to Germany not only brought 

us together but, interestingly, created close ties to the economists in the Bundesbank. 

Departure from the ERM was a blow not just to the Government but to the Treasury. 

Things had to change. But with Alan and Terry in place, the Treasury went out of its 

way to help the Bank come out of the shadows and play a more independent role 

in policy-making. When the Bank’s Inflation Report first appeared in early 1993, the 

tradition of the Treasury editing the Bank’s publications ended. And Alan ensured 

that happened. 

Alan and I would meet often and talk, among other things, about how we might 

suppress what we described as the “forces of darkness”. Alan had no tolerance for 

those people, often intellectually second-rate, who tried to preserve their own power 

by bureaucratic means. Throughout his career, Alan was the scourge of conventional 

wisdom. Our country needs people who think deeply and speak out rather than wait 

to see which way the wind is blowing. I shall always remember Alan’s broad smile 

and chuckle as news arrived of the latest setback for the forces of darkness. 

In the 1997 New Years Honours list, three notable names received knighthoods, 

Alec Bedser, Paul McCartney and Alan Budd. They represented the highest form of 

triathlon: cricket, music and economics. Alan was later promoted to Knight Grand 

Cross of the Order of the British Empire and became a GBE. 

In 1999, to my sorrow, Alan decided to leave the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy 

Committee and the following year became Provost of this College. That did not 

end Alan’s public service. He was a member of the Panel charged with producing 

a formula for funding the BBC, chaired an important committee which reported 

on gambling in the UK, and, perhaps most remarkably of all, Alan was asked to 

investigate the circumstances surrounding the granting of a visa to David Blunkett’s 

lover’s nanny. At the time, Blunkett was Home Secretary, and it is testimony to the 

esteem in which Alan was held that no-one challenged his analysis of events and 

Blunkett duly resigned. What is clear from all this is not only Alan’s extraordinary 


energy and devotion to duty, but the fact that when there was a problem the 

automatic reaction of our masters was to turn to Alan because he epitomised the 

word integrity. 

And amid all this activity, Alan was still involved in advising on the economy – giving 

counsel by his understanding and declaring prophesies. Music and art, sport and 

books, travel and working in his garden and allotment, all took up time and were 

shared with friends and family. 

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After Alan had retired as Provost of Queen’s, the 2010 General Election ushered in a 

new approach to fiscal policy with the creation of the Office for Budget Responsibility, 

or OBR as we now know it. The idea was that an independent group of economists, 

rather than the official Treasury, would produce the economic forecasts that 

accompanied the Budget. It was George Osborne’s creation to partner Gordon 

Brown’s Monetary Policy Committee. But whereas the MPC was established inside 

an existing institution with a well-respected Governor, Eddie George, at its head, 

the OBR was a completely new body with no track record. Who could lead it and 

establish its reputation? The Government turned to Alan to become the OBR’s first 

Chairman. By leading the way, Alan inspired his successors to build up the OBR’s 

reputation as an independent and honest body. Politicians ignore it at their peril, as 

Liz Truss discovered last year. 

The qualities that we all loved and admired in Alan – his intelligence, his compassion, 

his wisdom, his total integrity, his sense of fun, his love of music and art, his deep 

knowledge about almost everything and his talent for friendship – are the reasons we 

have come here today to celebrate and give thanks for Alan’s life. As Ecclesiasticus 

said about famous men: 

“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore”. 

All of us who were privileged to know Alan will remember him for ever. He made us 

all better people. 

Lord Mervyn King, Eulogy at the Memorial Service 

for Sir Alan Budd at Queen’s College, Oxford 24 April 2023 

Alan was appointed Provost in 1999. He came from that distant place that is known 

in Oxford as “the outside world”, and some colleagues were doubtless wary of the 

intruder. Alan of course was well aware of this, and I think rather enjoyed the status 

of being an outsider—an educated vicar amongst the gentry, as he later put it in a 

different context. 

It is fitting, therefore, to remember that one of Alan’s greatest achievements at the 

College was to open it up to that outside world, and to do so in a way that seemed 


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both gentle but inevitable, rewarding as well as necessary. Under his leadership 

the College, which had become known for a certain amount of insularity and 

idiosyncrasy, became a vastly more enterprising and friendly institution. On a local 

level this was achieved through Alan and Susan’s generous hospitality, offered 

unhesitatingly to academics, staff, and students here, and to colleagues in other 

colleges and the University, and to many visitors from elsewhere. At such social 

events Alan would talk and listen to people from all walks of life and flatter them 

with his attention and interest in their passions and their problems. The breadth of 

his knowledge and interests was quite something to behold; he was intense and 

thoughtful even at his most relaxed and gregarious. Conversation with him was very 

rewarding and never idle. 

On a wider stage Alan’s opening-up of the College was accomplished through the 

creation of an office devoted to alumni (or Old Members, as we call them) and fundraising, 

over which he took direct control. The fund-raising in particular cost him a 

lot of energy and caused him a good deal of stress. He used to say to me that for 

all the socialists the College had far too much money and for all the capitalists it 

had not nearly enough, and both groups were therefore unwilling to contribute to it. 

He described these excuses as “feeble” and could write memorably brilliant letters 

urging people to put their hands in their pockets, and memorably terse ones when 

they didn’t. In doing so he laid the foundations for an enterprise which became very 

successful and the College’s relations with its Old Members were utterly transformed. 

Alan of course knew that this was a long game, and he used to say to me, with a 

mischievous smile, “some lucky Provost will take all the credit for this in the future”. 

But everyone knows, or should know, that it all stems from what he did, virtually 

single-handed at times. 

Being the head of an Oxford college is a strange job. You are responsible for almost 

nothing and yet blamed for almost everything, and you have to lead a large and 

unwieldy group of exceptionally difficult people. Alan was not a revolutionary but he 

was certainly a reformer, and reforming a college is like trying to push water up a 

mountain with a sieve. He once strode into my office and announced, in frustration, 

“There is no point whatsoever in being the head of a college”. But he also once 

said “I’ve never let anything in my life beat me, and I’m certainly not letting Queen’s 

College”. And he dealt with the thankless exasperations and frustrations of the role 

with great humour and delicacy. He would approach each challenge as a problem to 

be solved rationally, sometimes with a smattering of economic analysis, sometimes 

not. A lovely example of this analytical thinking is his comparison of evening dinner at 

the High Table with Central Park in New York. Take your friends, said Alan, otherwise 

you will get mugged. 

A list of his achievements would be long. I can mention only a couple of them. 

A particularly powerful one was the attention he gave to the academic endeavour and 

achievements of the College. He was instrumental in setting up an interdisciplinary 


forum in College and was endlessly curious to discuss with Fellows the topics of 

their research, taking real pride in their achievements. This helped to displace an 

older tradition in which to talk of academic matters, or to care about the College’s 

position in the exam-result league-table, was considered almost vulgar. Given his 

interests in art, literature, music, and film, it is perhaps not surprising that he found 

many allies amongst the Fellows in the arts and humanities, and in particular he 

threw his weight and resources behind the Chapel Choir and Professor Rees, which 

helped the Choir develop into the outstanding ensemble that it is today. 

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And of course he helped us financially, helping to craft a financial model which 

has put the College on a strong and sustainable footing. He gently questioned the 

College’s preference for investing far too much money in farms (shares are the only 

game in town, he said), and in particular he wisely advised us not to fix a bank loan 

at around 5% in 2008 when I think every other member of the Finance Committee 

was inclined to do so. That was a good call. In the University, more widely, he played 

influential and greatly respected roles in developing sensible systems of resource 

allocation which still operate to this day. His stock amongst contemporary heads of 

colleges was very high. 

In all of this he was not only authoritative, unpretentious, decent, and kind, but also 

very funny. He had a very sharp sense of humour which he largely kept to himself 

and a small circle of trusted allies. After he retired we stayed in touch—he liked to 

gossip (to use his word). He did not change. In one of our last conversations he told 

me that many of his Old Member friends were complaining about the College to him 

and asking what on earth was happening—this being the result of the drift towards 

what I think is known as wokeness. Alan’s response to them was characteristically 

sharp—”don’t ask me,” he said, “I was just the Provost there once”. 

Well he might have just been the Provost here once, but he was a great and 

inspiring one. 

The College is vastly the richer for its association with him, and much the poorer for 

his passing. We celebrate our extraordinary good fortune in having had him as our 

Provost—and we miss him very much. 

Andrew Timms, Bursar 


ALAN CROSSLEY LANGFORD 

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Alan Crossley Langford was born in Halifax on 28 November 

1933. His parents were Lawrence and Lena. He was 

brought up by his mother and grandparents in Brighouse 

while his father was fighting in the Second World War. 

His family encouraged Alan in his studies, and he was 

a proud alumnus of the prestigious Bradford Grammar 

School. At school he excelled at sport, (notably, cricket and rugby) and at academic 

subjects, securing a scholarship to Oxford University. However, before attending 

university, he had to undertake National Service in the RAF, which he absolutely 

hated – although he got very good at poker!! He would recall being ordered to 

shave his wispy blonde moustache, when he had never shaved before in his life, not 

realising he needed to! After leaving the RAF, he went to Queen’s College, Oxford 

where he read Classics. He had the time of his life at Oxford. He often commented 

that it was magical that a boy from a humble Yorkshire background, could sit and 

study alongside the country’s aristocracy. His time at Queen’s laid the foundations 

for the rest of his life – his love of travel and his drive to understand the people and 

the world around him. 

Throughout his life, my father was a successful linguist. He picked up German when 

he volunteered during university vacations in refugee camps. He would also tell 

stories of his adventures hitchhiking around Europe, including the discovery of apple 

strudel. He was always thirsty for knowledge, right through to retirement achieving 

an A* in Spanish GCSE. He was fond of saying that for him languages were made 

easy because of his grounding in Latin and Ancient Greek. It certainly made family 

holidays in France easier! 

After university he married his first wife Christine, a schoolteacher, whom he met at 

Oxford. My father chose a career in the burgeoning computer industry and enjoyed 

the travel, prosperity, and interesting colleagues of that early computer era. He said it 

was the logic he learnt at Oxford that made computing an obvious choice for him, he 

also said that his Yorkshire roots lent him the ability to work with multiple teams from 

engineers on the ground to the Directors of companies. He met my mother, Jane, his 

second wife, when they both worked at Digital Equipment Corporation in London. My 

brother Philip and I both enjoyed sports with skills passed down from our father who 

was a keen spectator and could always be counted on for his vocal encouragement 

from the side lines. He also supported local Rugby Union and Cricket teams and was 

devastated that COVID-19 paused a number of fixtures (never mind anything else the 

pandemic brought). He proudly claimed to be a tight-fisted Yorkshireman from God’s 

Own Country and was often mock disappointed that his children were not able to 

play cricket for the county – sadly they were both born southerners! 


Alan had an informed and reasoning brain and a good sense of humour. He had 

many interests including visiting stately homes and heritage sites, reading, cooking, 

gardening, and even studying Roman history. Sadly, in later life his mobility was not 

good, and he became increasingly housebound. But he was always surrounded by 

books and with a sports match blaring out from the TV. 

He was a good and highly intelligent man who accrued a great wealth of knowledge 

and enjoyed the company of friends and family. A fellow classmate from university 

described him as a man who helped ten classicists to bond in lifelong friendship. 

I can think of no higher tribute to pay to my father then this. 

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Helen Langwick 

IAN DOBKIN 

His Honour Judge Ian Dobkin died in October 2022, 

aged 73. He had been suffering for a number of years 

from Parkinson’s Disease, which came to limit not only his 

mobility but also his contact with people important to him 

over the years. 

From Leeds, educated at Leeds Grammar School, he 

came up as a Hastings Exhibitioner to read Classics Mods, with the intention of 

changing after that to Law, and graduated in 1970. 

Contemporaries at Queen’s will remember him as outgoing and active in college 

life. One has recalled: ‘he was quite a presence during my time at Queen’s’. Indeed, 

his room was a hub of hospitality. In 1968-9 he captained the College’s University 

Challenge Team, along with Tony Ewin, JC Smith, and Graham Redman who was 

replaced for one contest by Graham Parkes. After winning three rounds they were 

defeated in a quarter-final. 

As a Fresher, he expressed interest in The Eglesfield Players, as had I. So, in days 

we were co-directing the College’s entry for Drama Cuppers. The play was not great 

but for us it was the start of an enduring friendship. In that first year, he was cast in 

the OUDS Summer Major, Aeschylus’s Agamemnon which was taken then to the 

Delphi Festival, of all the more meaning to a classicist. In Trinity 1968 it was again 

Eglesfield Players in the Provost’s Garden with Shaw’s You Never Can Tell; and in 

1969 he directed Anouilh’s Becket there. 

We shared with other friends our enthusiasm for theatre and music. Ian was not a 

performing musician, but it – and especially opera – filled his life. His collection of 

LPs was considerable already as a student. More than one friend has ascribed his 

own discovery of opera to Ian at Queen’s. 


Meantime I, London born and bred, had made my first excursions north to stay with 

the Dobkins. I had my first experiences of Shabbat in an Orthodox Jewish home and 

with the United Hebrew Congregation in Shadwell Lane, Moortown. 

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He had a sense of mission too about showing me Yorkshire, cities, towns, and 

country too – although he was by no means a countryman; music in Leeds and 

Harrogate, the Mystery Plays in York. 

After Queen’s, followed Gray’s Inn, the Bar Examinations, call to the Bar in 1971, 

pupillage in Leeds, and the beginning of a distinguished career practising in criminal 

law as a barrister on the North Eastern Circuit from 1971 to 1995. He was made an 

Assistant Recorder in 1986, Recorder in 1990, and in 1995 became a Circuit Judge. 

His health sadly necessitated his early retirement in October 2010. 

I am grateful to a colleague of Ian’s in the North Eastern Circuit for the following: 

“Ian joined 38 Park Square Chambers and quickly built a reputation as a committed 

defence barrister. He was a fierce cross examiner but he rapidly established himself as 

someone who could deliver a powerful mitigation for a defendant who pleaded guilty. 

In 1982 Ian joined nine others to set up St Pauls Chambers, which is now one of the 

leading sets on circuit. After about 20 years as one of the leading defence juniors in 

Leeds, he decided to go on the bench. As His Honour Judge Dobkin, he was known 

for his sympathetic and compassionate views. Always a favourite at the bar, he was 

sadly missed when he had to retire due to ill health.” 

He was also a politico. He had been already at school, in mock General Elections in 

1964. Although he was a member of OUCA and regular at the Oxford Union, it was 

not to the fore at university. Back in Leeds, however, and established at the bar, he 

became a Conservative Parliamentary candidate, for the Yorkshire constituency of 

Penistone. Labour held and unlikely then to change. But the death of the MP caused 

a by-election in July 1978. Ian had both Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher there 

canvassing. He did not win it then, nor at the General Election in 1979. Many have 

served like this before getting a ‘safer’ constituency. 

Ian did not follow it through. In 1980 he and Andrea were married. Fatherhood 

followed. Neither was he a Thatcherite, probably not ‘one of us’. He was and remained 

opposed to capital punishment when many Tory politicians were not. He never lost 

his interest however; and he and I went on disagreeing. I was worse than wet. 

Other and responsible concerns arose, too, in Synagogue and community. In 

1985 the Moortown Synagogue came together with others in new, larger and welldesigned 

premises in Shadwell Lane beyond the Ring Road. This is a community in 

which through this time Ian was active, and was for a number of years President. It 

was there that my wife and I attended his and Andrea’s sons’ bar mitzvahs. 


He was also a member of the Leeds Moor Allerton Golf Club and Yorkshire County 

Cricket Club. 

For as long as he was able, professionally, and in the Jewish community and beyond, 

Ian was a public actor, for which he was well equipped and which he enjoyed. 

In more recent years, limited by illness, a regular bridge table, and music – his 

collection of CDs, and going to opera and concerts – were particular pastimes. And, 

like others of us, he and Andrea became grandparents, to his joy. 

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He has been a loyal friend, to me and amongst others to James Jolly (History, 1966) 

who died in 2015. 

Ian is survived by his wife Andrea, their two sons, both in the legal profession, and 

three grandchildren. 

Revd Dr Brian Curnew (Modern History, 1966) and friends 

MARTIN EDWARDS 

Martin was born in Wigan, and we all know that although 

he left Wigan, it never left him. His parents, Tubby and Dolly 

Edwards to their friends, were an old-fashioned couple, 

and Martin was their only child. I am sure he was the centre 

of their attention, and spoiled in many ways. Martin told me 

that he and his father were never allowed in the kitchen, 

from where his mother did everything for them. His years at 

Wigan Grammar School must have been very happy for him...a brilliant scholar with 

a regular place in the school teams for cricket and football. All this no doubt helped 

to form the character of the man we remember, very sure of his opinions, his likes 

and dislikes. We all knew where we were with him. 

I first met Martin when I went up to Queen’s, His was already in his 3rd year, and 

working hard for Finals. We were from very different backgrounds, but our competitive 

natures threw us together on the cricket field, the bridge table, the squash courts, 

and even an occasional game of football. We became friends for life. 

Others will recall his different interests, but it was his cricket that affected me most. 

He was, or certainly thought he was, a significantly better player than me. Of course, 

he played a lot more games, indeed once he had graduated (with a top First), he 

played most afternoons of the summer. Different clubs played on different days of 

the week, so the combination of Queen’s, Abingdon, South Oxford Amateurs, and 

even The Southern Electricity Board had at least five days covered. 


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He was principally a batsman in the old-fashioned style, play yourself in carefully, 

don’t give your wicket away. Later he much preferred to watch a slow Test Match 

than today’s 20:20 cricket...not cricket at all. Abingdon became his base for 30 years 

or more. He was a very loyal man. Through his introduction I joined the club, and 

played for three or four seasons with him. Abingdon changed my life, as it was there 

I met Ruth who has been my wife since 1969. 

Rodger Booth (Chemistry, 1962) 

I first met Martin when I came to The Queen’s College as a Fellow three decades 

ago. He made me feel very welcome and put a great deal of effort into explaining 

the proper way to do all sorts of things. It was very helpful and I continued to benefit 

from his ideas and help for 30 years. He was an important person in the lives of 

many members of the College, students, staff and Fellows, as attested by the many 

tributes to him that the College has received. 

Martin first came to the College as a 19-year-old student in 1960 to read 

Mathematics. He achieved a first-class degree but, by all accounts, was clever 

enough to do that whilst spending a large fraction of his time on sports. He then 

immediately became a Junior Research Fellow whilst he did his DPhil during which 

he received a prize for the quality of his work. Without break, he then became a 

Tutorial Fellow in Mathematics in 1966 – a position he only retired from in 2008 

after publishing 70 academic papers on mathematics and developing more than 

20 different undergraduate and graduate lecture courses. He actually continued 

with the College role of supervising sports until Trinity 2020, so a total of 60 years 

at College one way or another. 

He and Peter Neumann, who also had a long career in the College, were a brilliant 

tutorial team – they had a detailed understanding of their tutees which was admired 

by colleagues in the College and they inspired many of their students to achieve 

great success in University Examinations. One of Martin’s tutees told me that 

despite reservations she was persuaded to come to Oxford to study by Martin’s 

straight forward way of talking during a visit, and also how he had supported and 

encouraged her during her studies; eventually to become a mathematician herself. 

He took a real interest in his pupils, not just in their work, but ferrying them to exams 

in Summertown, inviting them to garden parties at his house, and taking a keen 

interest in any sports in which they were involved. He also engaged with students 

after they left, continuing to write to those who contacted him. He was very pleased 

when the young people he had encouraged as students, either in mathematics or 

in other ways, did well in life, particularly if it was sports orientated. 

Martin was known not just to the mathematics students, but to the whole student 

body of the College through his position as Dean, which he held for 34 years from 

1974 to his retirement, and through his role as Senior Treasurer of the Amalgamated 


Sports Clubs which he worked at tirelessly from 1972 until 2020; he was quite proud 

of the fact that he was only the third senior treasurer since the creation of the body 

in 1888. 

As Dean, Martin maintained an oversight of all the students in the College, and he 

seemed to know most of them, and some of them in considerable detail! Martin 

was prone to expressing strong views, but in dealing with student indiscretions 

he was quite lenient unless there was harm or danger involved. He had a good 

understanding of what might be called the inexperience of youth, which I think was 

appreciated by the students and was ultimately very effective in keeping the College 

harmonious. The role of Dean is different now, but it wasn’t really until he retired that it 

was realised what a huge contribution to College Martin made as Dean. For much of 

his era there was a lot less administrative support at College and the Dean did many 

things, such as organising use of rooms by students and explicitly approving parties. 

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Martin also had excellent relations with the College staff, which is what enabled him 

to have his finger on the pulse of student activities. He saw the College rules as 

ways of maintaining a consistent sense of community. The disciplinary side of being 

Dean was moderated by social interaction with the students through the ‘Dean’s 

lunches’, which he hosted, and through his engagement with sporting and other 

student activities. He would step up when the College needed something, so for 

some years he was the senior member of the women’s dining club, Reginae when 

there were no women members in the GB with enough time. The students for the 

most part respected his interpretation of disciplinary matters and welcomed his role 

as their advocate with the senior members of the College and his engagement with 

non-academic activities. 

Sport was very important to Martin, and he saw it, and competition with other 

colleges, as a central theme to hold the College community together with team 

sports as a model for how students should interact with each other. He worked 

tirelessly to support the sports facilities, and for years visited the sportsground daily. 

He was regularly seen on the various touchlines offering personal support when 

College teams were playing. This influence through sport extended in important 

ways outside the College too. He had a very significant role in getting the University 

swimming pool built at Iffley Road; and for 20 years he conducted early morning 

swimming training sessions for children in Kidlington. He himself was a key player 

for Abingdon Cricket Club for several decades. 

Beyond mathematics and sports, for a long time Martin’s thoughts and ideals played 

an important part in shaping how the College approached strategic matters and went 

about its business. He preferred to influence from the sidelines and was close to 

other similarly minded Fellows, like Geoffrey Marshall, Paul Foote, and John Moffatt. 

As Dean, with his daily presence in the College, and with good relations with the 

College staff he had a deep appreciation of internal affairs. He was a regular diner, 


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a stalwart in fact, and a strong supporter of Friday night dining by the Fellows with 

subsequent bridge and other activities. In that era these social activities helped 

to create a sense of cohesion amongst a good portion of the Fellowship, but they 

were also occasions when matters of business and policy were shaped informally. 

This is no longer the way business is done, but it was normal in that era. Martin was 

an important figure in the College decision making processes for a very long time. 

Martin cared passionately about the College and its capacity for changing the lives 

of the students who came to study. He was a great servant of the College and 

its student body. His contribution was far beyond the ordinary. He was a proper 

College Man. 

Dr Richard Nickerson, Eulogy at the funeral service 

for Dr Edwards on 22 November 2021 

DONALD HEDLEY TAYLOR 

Don passed away on New Year’s Day 2023, aged 88, 

after a two-year contest with cancer. His professional life 

was characterised by an interest in making things work. 

He recalled fondly his time as an engineer in the Army 

and his fascination with radio and radar technology; he 

worked as a technician in various roles for many years, 

following with enthusiasm the development of computing 

which spanned his lifetime. His later interest in psychology and counselling perhaps 

followed naturally, transferring from machinery to human minds. He loved to sail and 

sing, performing parlour songs even into the last months of his life. Don spent his 

later years in the New Forest, taking great enjoyment in good food, company, music, 

and his dogs, being cared for magnificently by his wife, Julie Tate (St. Hugh’s, 1969). 

He is survived by Julie and his five children. 

J COLIN KEITH 

In October 1962 J. Colin Keith went up to Queen’s from 

Manchester Grammar School as an Open Exhibitioner 

to read history. Early in his first year he sat his prelims 

in the usual way. However, what followed was virtually 

unprecedented: his papers were adjudged to be of such 

outstanding excellence that he was without further ado 

promoted to be an Open Scholar of the College. Colin thus 

set his stamp on his brief and brilliant academic career. 


In October 1963 Kenneth Prysor-Jones and I arrived in College. We soon became 

friends with Colin, a friendship which lasted 60 years until his recent sad death. 

It was one much treasured by us all. 

At the end of his third year, having completed his Schools, Colin departed on holiday, 

to Germany as I recall. I had stayed up during the early part of the Long Vacation and 

was surprised one day to see him back in College. He was not overpleased to have 

been summoned back by the Examiners to attend the Examination Schools and was 

rather puzzled. “They can’t need to Viva me”, he said. “I answered everything OK, 

I know I must have got my First”, (he was always frank and realistic about his work 

without ever seeming immodest) “so I don’t know what it’s all about”. 

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He duly went over to Schools and was pretty soon back, shaking his head and 

grinning out of the side of his mouth. “Silly boogers” he said. “They never said a 

thing. They just called my name and when I went in everyone stood up and clapped 

and clapped. It was for quite a long time. Let’s have a drink then lad. Then I’m back 

to Germany”. I got the impression that it had been a philandering venture which 

had been so inconveniently interrupted. Thus, Colin’s take on his Laudatory First, 

reputedly the best history first for a decade or so. During his three undergraduate 

years his studies had been supervised by John and Menna Prestwich, Senior History 

Tutors to the College, with whom he worked on terms of great cordiality and mutual 

respect. He always held them in the highest regard, and was grateful to them for 

all they did for him. 

The beginning of the next academic year saw Colin back in Oxford, no longer at 

Queen’s but at Christ Church, where he had been elected to be the Student in 

History – the Christ Church term for a Junior Fellow. During this year he sat the 

annual competitive exam for a Fellowship of All Souls. In the event Colin did not win 

but was placed proxime accessit, while the award went to one X. To say Colin was 

disappointed would be an understatement: but disappointment was utterly eclipsed 

by outrage. “OK, X got a first, but not a first like mine. He is, quite simply, not as good 

a historian as I am”. Again, this is Colin utterly realistic, not immodest. However, X’s 

father was a Bishop and his godfather a well-known Cabinet Minister both, moreover, 

themselves Fellows of All Souls. Colin was convinced, probably correctly, that the 

competition had been judged not on academic grounds alone. He felt cheated – he 

knew what a long way he had already come to arrive where he had; he had come too 

far to be treated like this. “If that’s how they’re going to settle things in the so-called 

Groves of Academe, bugger ‘em. I’m off”. He was as good as his word. Off he went. 

Next stop Harvard Business School on a Harkness Fellowship. 

The first of many years in the US behind him, Colin returned to London to be 

employed by the prestigious merchant bank, Warburgs, where he learned the ways 

of investment banking. The lure of opportunities in the US prevailed and he returned 

there in the early 1970’s to join Oppenheimer & Co. where he was soon made partner. 


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These were his days of forging the first leveraged buyouts and what are now IPO’s. 

But corporate structures were not for him personally, so he and another partner 

started their own business buying companies and creating investment opportunities 

for other entities – the first private equity deals. Such transactions formed the basis 

of what became Colin’s fortune, and those involved with him in those endeavours 

hatched new, long-lasting friendships both in the US and England. 

During these years he had married Virginia Decker. Like many eccentric men of 

brilliance Colin could be demanding, cussed and curmudgeonly, but Ginnie handled 

him marvellously. She became a wonderful wife to him in every way and remained 

so his whole life long. She also became a much-loved friend to all of us, his friends. 

Eventually they settled, as far as New York was concerned, on Park Avenue, their 

apartment spacious enough to accommodate, essential for Colin, his library. Not 

surprisingly given his academic prowess he read all the time, a good deal of the 

serious grist necessary for his particular mill being historical. Their second home, 

much loved by them both, was a large, elegant clapboard villa in Newport RI, again 

with the private library. It is a beautiful place with well-timbered grounds, wide sea 

frontage and a private jetty. 

Evelyn Waugh once famously said, “you must always keep your friendships in good 

repair”. Colin and Ginnie always worked hard to achieve exactly that, and far more. It 

has been one of their main preoccupations to do as much as possible to share their 

good fortune with their friends. Their generosity has been legendary. Regularly there 

have been entertainments, parties, even cruises. No-one lucky enough to have been 

on board will ever forget the MV Hallas. This retired and refurbished ex-Bosphorus 

ferry paddle-steamer was hired to celebrate Colin’s fiftieth birthday: visits along the 

coast of Turkey taking in Ephesus and other ancient sites, meticulously researched 

by Colin, and all comforts beautifully overseen by Ginnie. A trip of a lifetime. 

As well as generosity on a personal level, Colin never forgot his debt to his old 

College. Our immediate coterie of friends has always remained staunchly proud 

of being Queensmen. In Colin’s case these feelings have manifested themselves 

under a veil of discretion, if not secrecy, in endowments and gifts to his old College. 

Queen’s always remained in his heart. He was due to return in September 2023 to 

our undergraduate dining club The Queen’s Table, for which he always if possible 

crossed the Atlantic. This year, sadly, this was not to be. To say he was missed is 

an understatement. 

I remember his once telling me at Queen’s where he had just returned after some 

time away, that he heard echoing round the cloister a loud, unmistakably Yorkshire, 

voice shouting to a friend. “Ay oop lad, did y’ ‘ear ‘Aaaaalifax got thraashed....”. 

He never forgot it and he and I used frequently to greet each other when meeting, 


or on the phone, with those typically North Country words “Ay oop lad”. We did so 

lifelong, even when he called me to say goodbye a few days before he died. Ay oop 

lad, farewell, and thank you. 

Stewart Jones KC and Kenneth Prysor-Jones (Modern Languages, 1963) 

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MICHAEL LEA 

Michael went to Kendal Grammar school and in 1961 

obtained a Hastings Scholarship to The Queen’s College 

to read Physics. From an early age he went fell walking 

and rock climbing in the Lake District and here he joined 

and helped to run the mountaineering society. He fell off 

a mountain in Norway while doing a first ascent and this 

put an end to his rock climbing but his love of fell walking 

continued throughout his life. 

On graduation in 1964 he moved back north to be near his beloved Lake District 

and became one of the first Physics postgraduates at the then ‘new’ University 

of Lancaster where he obtained a PhD – Ultrasonic Attenuation in Normal and 

Superconducting Zinc. He built his first Low Temperature laboratory in the city; his 

second on the new campus out at Bailrigg; a third at Bedford College, University 

of London; and a fourth at Royal Holloway, University of London where he was 

appointed Professor of Physics. 

His main research interests continued to be in experimental Low Temperature 

Physics and he published over 150 research papers on Metal and Superconductors; 

Quantum Fluids; Cryogenic Techniques; Piezoelectrics and Semiconductors, 

Particle and Dark Matter Detection; Two-dimensional electrons and Quantum 

Computing. His most recent paper ‘Ripplonic Lamb Shift for Electrons on Liquid 

Helium’, was published in Phys.Rev.Lett. in 2017. He gave invited papers in many 

countries including Japan, Canada, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, the USA, and Europe. 

Colleagues in the UK and overseas have described him as ‘brilliant’, ‘remarkable’, 

and a ‘wonderful individual’ and say that ‘through his important work on electrons 

on helium, and associated international collaborations, he truly paved the way for 

the current resurgence of the topic as a pathway to quantum computing’. Professor 

Mark Dykman (University of Michigan) said ‘he has created a whole area of studies 

in Physics that is admired and deeply respected by many people, and his work is 

broadly cited. His work is fundamentally important, and everybody knows that’. 

On retirement Michael became an Emeritus Professor of the University of London. 

Back in 1964 Michael met his wife Katherine (Kate), one of the first undergraduates 

at Lancaster University, and they married in 1966. Both developed a passion for 


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the Arctic and for nearly 40 years they spent many summers out in the wilds of 

Greenland, Svalbard and Baffin Island making sound recordings of birds and 

narwhal. They visited remote Inuit settlements in North-West Greenland and used 

small inflatable boats to explore the fjords of North- East Greenland. Here they 

rarely encountered anybody else but they had many exhilarating but occasionally 

dangerous encounters and experiences – watching a polar bear enjoy itself bouncing 

on one of their inflatable boats; coming within touching distance of an arctic wolf; 

being chased by a lone musk-oxen; avoiding a collapsing iceberg, and getting 

stuck on the wrong side of a glacial river. Their most memorable boating trip was a 

circumnavigation of Clavering Island in North-East Greenland. This too had its hairy 

moments, particularly trying to find leads through the pack ice towing a second boat 

while being increasingly forced further away from the shore! During this time Michael 

became President of both the Arctic Club and the Scottish Arctic Club. He also 

served on the Gino Watkins Committee which awarded grants to arctic expeditions, 

and set up and maintained the Arctic Club website. 

Eventually Michael and Kate felt their boating days in Greenland were over, but they 

still felt the lure of the arctic, spending one summer on the White Sea and another 

going down the river Lena in Siberia. 

Retiring back to a small village in Westmorland, they branched out and tackled many 

new projects; editing a newsletter for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian 

and Archaeological Society; taking 33 members on a ‘pilgrimage’ round the Saga 

sites of Iceland; publishing a new edition of W G Collingwood’s Letters from Iceland; 

saving and raising the profile of old cast-iron fingerposts in Cumbria; and raising 

money to restore the local tithe barn. 

Michael died on 24 April 2023 after a long illness. He had no children but is survived 

by his wife. 

Kate Lea 

GWANG HOON (JASON) LEE 

My dear friend, Gwang Hoon Lee, died in the early hours of 

19 December 2021. Some may have known him as Jason, 

others as Kwang Hoon, but regardless of how you knew 

him, he left an indelible mark upon the lives he touched. 

Gwang Hoon Lee was born on 20 October 1995 in Seoul, 

South Korea. In his early years, he moved from Seoul to 

Wonju to Jeju then back to Seoul with his family. He was a radiant, energetic young 

boy, who easily made friends in every school he transferred to. At the age of 15, 


a few months after starting out at Mapo High School in South Korea, a family friend 

introduced Gwang Hoon to the Elizabeth Moir School, an international school in 

Sri Lanka. After a conversation with the principal at the school who clearly saw his 

potential, Gwang Hoon made an executive decision to stay and pursue his studies 

in Sri Lanka. 

At the Elizabeth Moir School, Gwang Hoon’s scholarly endeavours knew no bounds. 

The principal of the school was hugely supportive of Gwang Hoon’s admission and 

supported him through his academic journey. With a fervent passion for the sciences, 

he received recognition for his academic achievements through scholarships and 

awards throughout his school years. Yet, Gwang Hoon’s brilliance extended far 

beyond the confines of the classroom. He was a natural leader, being the student 

council president only a few years after coming to a new country. His presence and 

warmth inspired his peers and evoked admiration from both friends and teachers; the 

warmth of his character and the resilience of his spirit were celebrated by everyone 

who knew him. Moreover, Gwang Hoon exhibited unwavering commitment as a 

devoted member of his local church. At the recommendation of Pastor Kwon, who 

was his host family in Sri Lanka, Gwang Hoon wholeheartedly immersed himself in 

church activities. 

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It came as no surprise when he was given an offer to read Materials Science at 

Queen’s College, Oxford, as he was one of the very top students in his school. Gwang 

Hoon won the IGCSE World Prize in Mathematics and Further Pure Mathematics, 

and he achieved a perfect score across six units in A Level Maths. Thoughtful and 

concerned with his family’s financial situation, he was contemplating going to another 

university that would provide him with a full scholarship. However, with the love and 

support from his family, in October 2014, Gwang Hoon travelled all the way from 

Sri Lanka to Oxford to pursue his studies in Materials Science. It was during his 

time at Oxford that I had the privilege of meeting him through the Oxford University 

Korean Society. 

Gwang Hoon possessed immense talent, yet he remained humble. He was brilliantly 

intelligent, yet he never shied away from hard work. He could be the life of the party 

without having a single drink (though he never said no to a pint). He would enjoy a 

wild night, indulging in Domino’s and Hassan’s at 4am, and still manage to be up and 

ready for a 9am lecture the following day. Whenever he took out his guitar, we knew 

we were in for a spectacular performance. We often joked that he was overqualified 

for the Korean Society band, and it was true. 

During his studies, Gwang Hoon engaged in various research internships. In the 

summer of 2016, he worked as a summer research intern at the Interdisciplinary Centre 

for Advanced Materials Simulation, focusing on the modelling of magnetic properties 

of iron. For his final year, he joined the Oxford Micromechanics Group, collaborating 

with Ed Tarleton and Angus Wilkinson on crystal plasticity FEA simulations. His work 


evolved around simulating micro-scale bending experiments conducted by Jicheng 

Gong. After graduating, Gwang Hoon pursued a career as an R&D engineer in 

automotive component manufacturing at a global automotive company. 

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To his family, Gwang Hoon was a steadfast pillar. He perpetually radiated warmth and 

resoluteness, never uttering a complaint to his family in the face of adversity. When 

confronted with academic challenges, he responded with unwavering determination, 

delving into the depths of each subject until he had mastered it. He was diligent 

in the pursuit of his passions, honing his skills to perfection through practice, and 

sharing his heartfelt performances with his family. Regardless of his age, Gwang 

Hoon was a mature, reliable and thoughtful son, and his family members relied on 

him for his guidance. 

Most importantly, he was full of love for his family. He possessed an immeasurable 

affection for his younger sister. When he was living with his family after graduation, he 

would give regular hugs to his mother, cooking for the family whenever he returned 

home. He was his father’s proudest achievement. These endearing qualities remain 

etched in his family’s memories, a testament to the exceptional son he was. 

We could never have conceived that Gwang Hoon would be forever separated from 

us. On 26 September 2019, less than one month into his military service in South 

Korea, Gwang Hoon experienced a severe headache and felt ill. Approximately 12 

hours later, around 3am on 27 September 2019, Gwang Hoon went to the bathroom 

to vomit. It was there that he collapsed, and he was immediately rushed to the 

hospital. Around 6am, Gwang Hoon opened his eyes for the last time before slipping 

into a coma. At the hospital, doctors discovered a massive malignant brain tumour 

measuring around 10 centimetres. It was an unexpected, harsh, and challenging 

time, but Gwang Hoon and his family displayed incredible strength throughout. 

Gwang Hoon passed away in the presence of his family, nearly 27 months after his 

initial collapse, and just two months after celebrating his 26th birthday. He was laid to 

rest at the Seoul National Cemetery, a final resting place reserved for Korean veterans. 

Gwang Hoon was a remarkable son, brother, and friend. For his family, Gwang Hoon 

was a gift bestowed upon them by the heavens. To quote his mother, “we are forever 

grateful for the privilege of nurturing him; even if fate were to grant us another lifetime, 

we firmly believe that we could never be blessed with another son quite like our 

Gwang Hoon.” As we bid farewell to our cherished Gwang Hoon, we find solace in 

the countless memories we shared and the legacy he leaves behind. His unwavering 

determination, infectious laughter, and selfless love will forever reverberate within our 

hearts. We offer our deepest gratitude to the universe for allowing our lives to intersect 

with his, as his radiant spirit has forever touched us. Rest in peace, Gwang Hoon. 

Hyewon Sa 


KARL LEHMANN 

My husband Karl Lehmann died in September 2022 at the 

age of 101 and a half. Going through Karl’s effects, I found 

a stack of his Oxford essays written between 1939 and 

1942 and still held together by 1940s paper clips, now 

badly rusted. Also preserved are the dreams he recorded 

for a few months in 1942: during internment Karl had 

developed an interest in the theories of Carl Jung inspired 

by the late-night discussions of two psychiatrists who had their mattresses close 

to his. Karl was classed as an enemy alien and here is how he described the start 

of his internment: “Early on the 25 th of June 1940, a policeman called at Queen’s 

College and told me to accompany him to Oxford police station. He gave me half an 

hour to pack some clothes and a few books. At the station, other category C aliens 

were assembling during the morning – about 150 in all – and at lunchtime we were 

put onto coaches going to an unknown destination.” Released and back at Queen’s 

early in 1941, he and his fellow students received a note from the Bursar alerting them 

to the bedmaker crisis. Only two regular bedmakers were left and, because of this, 

they should help “by tidying your rooms…putting your clothes away in cupboards 

or drawers and, if you can, by making your beds.” 

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Karl was born in Cologne in 1921. In 1936, as conditions in Germany worsened, 

his parents sent him to school in England – Leighton Park in Reading. The school 

helped him to adapt quickly to a new language and new customs, and the bond 

with LP lasted a lifetime with regular visits to view new facilities or discuss school 

history with the archivist. 

Karl made his career at the BBC Monitoring Service in Reading. This was set up 

as a wartime operation where teams of linguists, many of them refugees, listened to 

foreign broadcasts in order to extract useful information for the government. Karl’s 

time at Monitoring covered World War Two and the subsequent cold war. Two of the 

high points he used to talk about were the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 and the death 

of Hitler. He was on duty in the evening of 1 May 1945 when German radio listeners 

were told to stand by for an important announcement. Preceded by solemn music, the 

announcement, when it came, said that Hitler was dead. As Karl recalled: “They said he 

had fallen fighting Bolshevism. I felt total relief because Hitler had ruined my life. We were 

the first people in Britain to hear the announcement and the entire building cheered.” 

Karl retired as Editor of News and Publications in 1981 and subsequently devoted 

himself to his two main hobbies – tennis and horseracing. He played tennis into his 

nineties – doubles of course – while the horses led to regular outings to Cheltenham, 

Ascot, Newbury. He was not unsuccessful. One of his triumphs was last year’s Grand 

National in which he picked the winner – Noble Yeats – and backed it at 66 to 1. 

Helga Lehmann 


DAVID LEWIS 

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My husband, David Hopkin Lewis, died peacefully in 

Moorland House Residential Care on 18 October 2022 

with complications of Parkinson’s. 

He was born in Neath, South Wales on 20 February 

1937 and was brought up in Glyncorrig, a small mining 

community, where his father, Emlyn, had been billeted, 

following discharge from the RAF with war injuries. 

His mother, Elunid, clearly a woman with determination, opened a tobacco and 

confectionary shop in a front room and by the time David was nine, aware of his 

academic ability, she enrolled him at Colston’s school in Bristol where he made 

good progress. 

A shortage of staff led to the appointment of a temporary chemistry teacher in the 

Sixth Form, Professor Marie Yemm, who was an enormous influence on David’s 

education and he left school with excellent qualifications. National Service followed 

where he was commissioned in the RAF seeing active service in Cyprus during 

EOKA and Suez campaigns, earning promotion to Flying Officer. 

David came up to Queen’s in 1957 on a state scholarship, and read Botany. He 

attained a First in his Finals in 1960, and he then immediately began reading for 

a DPhil in Botany as an Open Scholar of Queen’s, attaining his doctorate in 1964. 

In May 1963, while reading for the DPhil, he was appointed a Browne Research 

Fellow for three years. In 1964-65 David, with his new wife Rachel, spent a year’s 

leave of absence from Oxford with a Fulbright Travelling Scholarship as assistant 

Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Perdue University in Indiana. 

At the conclusion of his Browne Fellowship, in 1966, David secured a lectureship 

in the Botany Department of the University of Sheffield. He and Rachel bought an 

old cottage in the Peak District National Park embarking on a restoration project. 

Moving swiftly up the academic hierarchy, David was awarded a personal chair in 

1993 and became Head of Department in 1987. 

During the 80’s Higher Education underwent some major changes and small 

departments like Botany at Sheffield were deemed “inefficient”. It was decided that 

Botany and Zoology should be merged in 1988 to become the Department of Animal 

and Plant sciences (APS) with David as its Chairman. David created an environment 

whose core values were collegiality and academic excellence. Under his leadership, 

APS emerged as a Biology department with few equals and whose success was 

amply reflected in the National Research Assessment exercise. 


David was appointed Pro Vice Chancellor for Research at Sheffield in 1995. This 

prestigious but responsible position undertaken with typical commitment, required 

long hours of sometimes testing work and diplomacy, and included meeting people 

from all sectors of society at social events. This was supported by Diana who he 

married following divorce in 1988. This was a busy but interesting time. 

David’s scientific passion was the symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi 

and their plant partners and the metabolic pathways by which the fungi obtain 

nutrients from the roots of the host trees. He is one of the pioneers in this area of 

research. One of his many elected positions was President and Chairman of Council, 

British Mycological Society (1989). This happened to overlap with an amateur 

interest in Field Mycology by Diana, and many friends were made worldwide in both 

academic and amateur arenas, the spoils of the latter often ending up in the pot! 

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Serving as the editor (1970 to 1983) and then Executive Editor (1983 to 1995) of The 

New Phytologist, David elevated its status from a national to international journal. 

He was a regular contributor himself; his last paper was published there just two 

years before he died. 

On retirement, David became a Trustee of the Sheffield Botanical Gardens Trust 

and helped to secure a large Heritage lottery fund in 1996 leading to the garden’s 

much-needed restoration. Retirement brought time for gardening, cooking (which 

David enjoyed along with a love of good wine), and travelling. Having acquired a field 

adjoining their garden, David and Diana embarked on a native tree-planting project 

and by latter years were enjoying the biodiversity created by the changed habitats. 

Following his death, it became clear that David, gentle, level-headed, a true 

academic, had had an altruistic and positive influence both on colleagues, family 

and friends. Many have written to tell me that he played a pivotal role in the course 

of their careers and lives. He faced the trials of ill health with calmness and fortitude 

and is missed by all who knew and loved him. 

David is survived by his wife Diana, Katie and Tom, his children, and Catherine, Daniel 

and Ollie, his stepchildren. 

Diana Lewis 


JOHN MOULD 

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John Mould grew up in Stroud. He came up to Queen’s as 

an 18-year-old in 1947 to read medicine. Those were heady 

days to be an undergraduate. Like so many who came 

up after leaving school in those postwar years, John had 

the good fortune to spend his time among former service 

men who were resuming their academic careers following 

demobilisation; and were determined to make the very most 

of them both intellectually and socially. John was caught up in that lively and exhilarating 

milieu. He joined the newly energised Eglesfield Musical Society and Eglesfield Players. 

He remained proud of having played Mr Boniface the innkeeper in one of the first 

(he claimed the first) modern productions of Farquhar’s great comedy The Beaux 

Stratagem. He rowed in the College Eight that achieved four bumps in Trinity 1949. 

During vacations he travelled through Europe with College friends. In the summer of 

1949, he cycled from Stroud to the Scottish Highlands for a tour of the mountains, lochs, 

and glens with another Queen’s contemporary, the late Harvey McGregor. 

John completed his medical training in London at University College Hospital in the 

early 1950s before he undertook national service. He used to say how fortunate he 

was to have done so, since had he gone straight into the army after Oxford, as a 

man of Stroud he would probably have joined the Glosters and found himself at Imjin 

River during the Korean War. As it was, in the mid-50s John was commissioned into 

The Rifle Brigade and spent two years as a medical officer in East Africa and Malaya 

(as it was then known). These were challenging postings for the Brigade, and John 

formed lifelong friendships amongst his fellows. 

Returning to civilian life saw John resume his medical career at Northampton General 

Hospital. There he met and fell in love with a theatre sister, Dorothy Funge. John and 

Dorothy were married at Dallington in August 1959, a happy union of 63 years until 

Dorothy’s death in her 91 st year in March 2022. There were five children and later, 

many grandchildren. 

Meanwhile, John had returned to Stroud to take up general practice. His lifelong 

commitment to the National Health Service was a commitment to his local 

community. In the early 1970s, as senior partner he guided the practice as a founding 

member of the newly opened NHS Health Centre in Beeches Green, where John 

remained until his retirement in the early 1990s. As with many GPs of his time, he 

also undertook clinics at the local community hospital, Stroud General, and the 

Maternity Hospital. During the 1970s he trained in psychiatry and undertook clinical 

work at Coney Hill Hospital in Gloucester. 

John had a lifelong interest in politics and social affairs, stimulated in no small part 

by his friendship during vacations while at Queen’s, with the celebrated social and 


economic historian, R H Tawney, for whom John acted as occasional gardener and 

odd job man at Tawney’s cottage in the Slad Valley. In retirement, John was elected 

to serve as a member of Stroud District Council. He was especially proud of his work 

with the Care and Repair Service and in the restoration of Stratford Park and the 

Stroud Museum. Although a well-travelled man, John’s roots were in Stroud, above 

all he loved Stroud and to walk on its surrounding hills and valleys. 

Obituaries 

John had a fine talent for painting in water colours and oils, which was held dormant 

during his middle years but leapt back to life in retirement. He had a Rumpolesque 

facility for recital from the Oxford Book of English Verse. His connoisseurship of the 

string quartet was remarkable. 

John was a man who brought good cheer into a room. He remained a proud 

Queensman until the end of his life, always relishing the opportunity to visit the 

College when he could. He is much missed by all those who knew him. 

Tim Mould (1978) 

KENNETH STANLEY ROBERTS 

Ken was born in Wallasey, Wirral on 27 August 1939. He 

went to Wallasey Grammar School and then came up to 

Queen’s as a Styring Exhibitioner to read history in 1958. 

Before coming to Oxford, in 1957 Ken went to school in New 

York City, at Horace Mann, for 12 months as an exchange 

student where he established many lifelong friendships. 

At Queen’s he was a keen rower, and a respected cox. 

Ken’s personality shone through at College. He was very amiable, with a wicked 

sense of humour, and enjoyed his college life to the full, though perhaps slightly to 

the detriment of his studies. 

Nonetheless, Ken came down in 1961 with a third-class honours degree in his 

chosen subject. 

He would revisit the College very many times throughout his life. If in town he’d often 

call in to the buttery for a beer in a favourite silver tankard. He always had time for 

a joke or two with College staff. 

Queen’s was firmly part of Ken’s whole adult life. 


If we had visitors Ken would proudly bring them to view College, and especially the 

library which he absolutely loved. He would recite the whole history of Queen’s to 

all, perfectly. 

Obituaries 

Ken became a College benefactor some years back and has left a significant sum 

in trust for Queen’s. 

After College he became a journalist in London for the magazine Business. He prospered 

well, going on to various other publications including The Times. He specialised in 

management and commercial subjects. Ken also became a well-regarded critic of 

the short film. 

He met his life partner in 1966, and together, later on in 1973, they formed the 

boutique business, Oxford Public Relations. Ken was not just a wit, he was a brilliant 

wordsmith. Ken spent the rest of his professional life with the PR consultancy doing 

very good work for the likes of Rolls Royce and GE to name but two clients. 

Ken retired from business life in 2006, spending as much time as possible at his 

favourite home on Miami Beach, until 2017 when ill health forced him back to the 

UK permanently. 

After a number of years of determined fight, Ken sadly succumbed to multiple 

myeloma in January this year. He passed away in University College Hospital in 

London on the 20 January 2023. 

Clive Jones (Wadham) 

STEVEN SINGLETON 

Steven (“Steve”) Singleton (Theology, 1983) died on 11 

October 2022 from pancreatic cancer, having just turned 

60. His journey from grammar school in Lytham St Anne’s 

in Lancashire to his death in Shanghai was complex. 

I met Steve in October 1983, when he was a relatively 

mature undergraduate, about to turn 21. He was 

unmissable; unusual for his sociability, confidence and for his decision to read 

Theology. At this stage he was the embodiment of muscular Christianity, a devout 

Methodist and a notable new student. 

His path through College to marriage and a graduate place at CIBC in the City was 

conventional. But conventional corporate life was not for him. 


His subsequent career path showed a strong entrepreneurial streak. In this Steve was 

made for Africa, and Africa for Steve. His high standards, presence and the natural 

charm of a salesman gave him numerous successful opportunities, including rolling 

out personal credit cards, working to set up new hospitals, and placing students 

into UK universities. 

Steve lived life to the full. His outgoing nature continued through his first marriage, 

divorce, and remarriage. During this time, he had five children. In my 39 years 

of knowing him, I found that his outward confidence hid a sensitive, reflective 

nature. Over time his faith faded, replaced by an informed and warm scepticism. 

His interest in people was genuine and wholly unfiltered, borne out by unlimited 

good-natured questioning of new acquaintances. 

Obituaries 

His second wife’s career took them from Johannesburg to Shanghai, from where 

Steve continued to place students while enjoying the expat lifestyle of the French 

Quarter. 

The cancer struck after the COVID-19 pandemic and they had to manage alone in 

Shanghai through his terminal illness, with no international travel permitted. 

I will remember Steve’s warmth and the fun we had together and greatly mourn his 

early passing. 

Rob Marshall (PPE, 1983) 

GARETH SMYTH 

Our remarkable friend Gareth Smyth, a sensitive and 

cultured Middle East journalist, passed away suddenly in 

January 2023 at the age of 64 whilst out walking, a week 

after he had enjoyed being reunited with the Matriculation 

Class of ’76 at the Needle and Thread Gaudy. Renowned 

for his integrity and decency, Gareth’s career spanned 

various publications, including the Financial Times, The 

Guardian, and BBC radio. He covered Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, and offered 

deep and nuanced insights into the region’s complexities. 

Gareth was raised in Slough and studied PPE with us at Queen’s from 1976-79. He 

wasn’t the picture of an establishment college man; he was tall, skinny, and pale, 

his hair was Haight-Ashbury, and his manner was intense. He was extraordinarily 

clever, though interested in the practicalities of life as much as the metaphysical. 

His tenure as JCR Food President will be remembered for the introduction of mushy 

peas and the quality of prose (and, on occasion, poetry) in the Food Feedback book. 


Obituaries 

Gareth left Queen’s for an MPhil at the University of Kent in Canterbury and worked 

as a supply teacher for several years. He then became an elected (Labour) councillor, 

and housing chair, for Camden council, and subsequently research assistant to Stan 

Newens, MEP, in 1990, and a Labour party press officer. He transitioned to freelance 

journalist and, in 1992 covered the Kurdish elections in northern Iraq for the Financial 

Times. He reported in 1993 on treks in western Iran with Peshmerga guerrillas of the 

Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, which led to positions of Opinion and Features 

Editor of the Daily Star in Beirut and Lebanon correspondent for the FT. In 2003, 

while covering the invasion and occupation of Iraq for the FT, he was appointed chief 

Iran correspondent, based in Tehran. 

Gareth’s independent spirit was never comfortable in an institutional setting, 

however, and in 2009, he relocated to Emlagh, on the west coast of Ireland. Here, 

he combined freelance journalism with his love of the land, nature, and the seasons. 

His study was crammed with books; his garden a testimony to sustainable living. 

During his career, he interviewed countless people, from Tony Blair, Martin 

McGuiness to Rafiq al-Hariri. In 2005-06, he was nominated as Foreign 

Correspondent of the Year in the British Press Awards. More recently, he was 

ghostwriter for Saad al-Barrak’s Passion for Adventure (Bloomsbury 2012) and had 

been editing and annotating a posthumous book in English of Imam Musa Sadr’s 

politico-theological writings. 

Deeply influenced by his family’s Republican Irish background, Gareth always refused 

to conform to a world increasingly defined by binary views. He believed the training 

he received at Queen’s had a profound impact in helping to stay calm in difficult 

circumstances. As he would say: once you had defended your essay on Wittgenstein 

in front of Brian McGuinness, an exchange with your Chief Editor or an Iranian 

Revolutionary Guard held no fears. 

His deeply ingrained, natural humanity meant, wherever he was, he immersed himself 

in local culture, engaging with people from all walks of life – the barber, the café-owner, 

the football player – as well as musicians, writers, and artists. He tried to represent all 

views – including, in Tehran, those of the Iran Government. He saw the grey areas, 

the nuances often missed, and reported on perspectives that are not commonly 

understood. He experienced, first-hand, the horrific and lasting legacy of conflict, and 

was with George Bernard Shaw: “War doesn’t determine who is right, but who is left”. 

He was much more than a political journalist though. His tastes were wide-ranging: 

Bob Marley to Gustav Mahler to Chateau Musar; Myles na gCopaleen to Miles 

Davies. He had many interests: cooking with quality, often home-grown, ingredients; 

Gaelic and association football; photography; and music, which played from 

dawn to midnight in his cottage. He could write about them all with passion and 

deep knowledge. 


And he was impishly funny. Some days after his release from several days in a 

Tehran jail, a minder from the Ministry disingenuously asked if he was encountering 

any difficulties covering the country. Gareth deadpanned, with his trademark granite 

poker face: “Nothing comes to mind, no”. Apart from political counterparts, he could 

make little kids shriek with glee, mentor and inspire young adults, and befriend the 

old, engaging with an ease that was entirely natural. 

Obituaries 

Gareth’s legacy is one of empathy and compassion combined with intellectual 

integrity. He was generous and kind, an interesting and engaging guest and host. 

He leaves behind a close, extended family, his long-time partner Zeinab Charafeddine 

and her son Nader, and many admiring friends worldwide. 

David Donaldson and John Jackson (PPE, 1976) 

DAVID WILKINSON 

David Wilkinson died on 12 July in Dublin after a short 

illness. We had known each other since the day we both 

arrived at Queen’s in the October of 1957. He came up 

from Manchester Grammar School to read Greats and 

joined myself and Dick Williamson as inhabitants of the 

back staircase of the rambling chaos of Queen’s Lane 

under the sometimes bizarre care of Henry, our Scout. 

Queen’s Lane was a friendly place and small enough to have its own micro-culture 

in which David became a prominent and approachable personality. 

Many of us were sporty and David was a talented lacrosse player and swimmer, 

in both of which sports he represented the University. Both his brother and sister 

were international swimmers and David became part of the very successful Queen’s 

Water Polo Team. The College Record announced that he had enhanced his “already 

considerable reputation by scoring goals with a vengeance”. David was a member 

of the College and Chapel in much more than name. He was a Scholar but he wore 

his intellectual capacities lightly; one recalls a heated, doubtless beer-fuelled but 

theoretically interesting discussion, following his claim on the authority of Marcus 

Aurelius Antoninus that the Gods especially rewarded the bodily and mental strength 

of a sound posterior. I was a skinny 440 runner and demurred (possibly on the 

grounds that this sounded more like the Xenophon who had written movingly on 

the sources of equine strength), his answer was an ad hominem gesture indicating 

his own solid rump. This tale of an excursion into the scholarly virtues of Greats has 

the virtue (duly noted by Marcus Aurelius) of being true. 

Our friendship became closer when I got married in the second year and bought a 

house for our little family in Great Clarendon Street in Jericho and David volunteered 


to be our lodger to ease the financial pressures on us, an act that was typical of the 

generosity and straightforward openness with which he tackled things. 

Obituaries 

After graduating from Oxford in 1961, David joined Courtaulds Plc, as a graduate 

management trainee. His rise through the management ranks was rapid, at the age 

of 27 he was appointed commercial director of the Courtelle division. By this time, 

David had married Jetta Nielsen from Denmark. The couple had two daughters, 

Tina and Victoria. 

David moved from Courtelle to Courtaulds Home Textiles where he became 

Chief Executive of their sheeting division. In 1982, he was appointed President of 

Courtaulds Fibres North America. This was a significant promotion and offered 

challenges which he enjoyed. For the next five years, David and his family lived in 

New York. When he left the US fibre division was in a strong market position. 

When David returned to the UK our paths crossed in an unusual manner. I had come 

from a meeting on Euston Road and leapt into a black cab just outside Baker Street 

Station. A big figure was simultaneously bombing into the other door and we met 

on the back seat. After that we were in touch one way and another over the next 

40 years. When I became Director of the Bradford School of Management at a time 

when much support from industry was needed, I refreshed our Advisory Board and 

David was the first name on the list. He was absolutely in his element and his many 

years of Senior Executive leadership made him a valuable member of our team. 

The next significant role David held was as Head of Corporate Communications for 

Courtaulds Plc. After the successful demerger into Courtaulds Plc (the fibre, paint, and 

chemical businesses) and Courtaulds Textiles Ltd in 1990, David remained head of 

Corporate Communications for Courtaulds Plc for another year before returning, in 1991, 

to the US as CEO of the Coating and Filament business based in Martinsville, Virginia. 

This second American adventure was followed by a move to Sydney in 1993 as 

CEO of Courtaulds Australian paint business. In 1996 David returned to London, as 

a main board Director of Courtaulds Plc, responsible for the global fibre business, 

with an emphasis on marketing the new fibre, now branded Tencel. This fibre was 

produced in a much more environmentally friendly manner than other viscose fibres, 

also totally biodegradable and perhaps it is its green qualities that have contributed 

to the success Tencel continues to enjoy today. During David’s period as Director, 

the main thrust of his role was to develop the Tencel brand to establish Tencel as 

the leading cellulosic fibre of the 21st Century. 

Seeking to expand its business, Courtaulds Plc delivered part of its development in 

joint ventures, particularly with the Dutch company, Akzo Nobel. After a successful 

merger with Akzo Nobel in 1999 the name Courtaulds disappeared and Akzo 

combined Tencel with other fibre businesses under the banner Accordis. David 


emained a Director of Accordis until his retirement in 2001. Subsequently, he acted 

as a consultant to Accordis which was eventually sold to a private equity firm CVC 

Capital Partners who eventually sold Tencel to Lenzing, where the success of the 

fibre continues. 

Sadly, Jetta died in the year of David’s retirement. He did, however, enjoy a long 

and happy retirement pursuing his interests in music, the Arts, and travel. In 2019 

he married Helen McAlinden a Dublin-based Fashion Designer. His friends were 

delighted by his new happiness. 

Obituaries 

David was a good man, quiet and unostentatious in his organisational capacities 

but an approachable figure, humane, and collaborative, who remembered his links 

with friends and contemporaries, a man who threw great parties. In many ways he 

was an archetype of the Queensman of that era, competitive but never arrogant, 

embodying in his person the qualities of the North of England Grammar schools to 

which many Queensmen of that era had gone. He will be very much missed. 

David T Weir (PPE, 1957) 


BENEFACTIONS 

Benefactions 

We are delighted to acknowledge the generosity of those donors who made a 

gift to Queen’s in the Financial Year 2022-23 (1 August 2022 – 31 July 2023). All 

care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of this list. However, if you spot 

an error please accept our apologies and notify the Old Members’ Office so 

that we can amend our records for future publications. 

QS: Queen’s Society member 

Eglesfield Benefactors 

Anonymous x 5 

Mr Michael Boyd (1958) QS 

Mr Mike Hawley (1959) 

Dr Ray Bowden (1960) QS 

Mr John Poulter (1961) 

Mr Andrew Parsons (1962) 

Mr Adrian Beecroft (1965) 

Mr Rick Haythornthwaite (1975) QS 

Dr Mel Stephens (1976) 

Mr Nick Train (1977) 

Mr Mark Williamson (1982) QS 

Mr Chris Eskdale (1987) 

Mrs Julia Eskdale (1987) 

Mrs Nishi Somaiya Grose (1998) 

Philippa Benefactors 

Anonymous x 3 

Mr John Palmer (1949) QS 

Dr Bill Parry (1955) QS 

The Revd Canon Hugh Wybrew 

(1955) QS 

Mr Tim Evans (1956) QS 

Mr Barry Saunders (1956) QS 

Mr Martin Bowley (1957) QS 

Mr Gordon Dilworth (1957) QS 

Mr Charles Frieze (1957) QS 

Mr Keith Dawson (1957) QS 

Mr David Wilkinson (1957) QS 

Dr Roger Lowman (1959) QS 

Mr John Rix (1959) QS 

Mr John Price (1960) 

Mr Michael Lodge (1960) QS 

Mr Martin Dillon (1961) QS 

Mr Ron Glaister (1961) QS 

Mr Michael Roberts (1962) 

Mr David Brownlee (1962) 

Dr Ken Morallee (1963) 

Dr Clive Landa (1963) 

Dr Dennis Luck (1963) 

District Judge Chris Beale (1964) QS 

Professor Lee Saperstein (1964) QS 

Professor Rod Levick (1964) QS 

Dr John Baines (1964) QS 

Mr John Clement (1965) QS 

Dr Michael Collop (1966) QS 

Dr Juan Mason (1967) QS 

Mr Paul Clark (1968) 

Dr Howard Rosenberg (1968) QS 

Mr Alan Mitchell (1968) QS 

Mr Jim Gibson (1969) 

Mr David Seymour (1969) QS 

Professor Hugh Arnold (1970) 

Mr Richard Geldard (1972) QS 

Mr Robin Wilkinson (1973) QS 


Mr Tom Ward (1973) QS 

Mr Philip Middleton (1974) 

Mr Stuart White (1975) QS 

Mr Fred Arnold (1976) QS 

Mr Mark Neale (1976) QS 

Mr Gerry Hackett (1977) QS 

Mr Charles Anderson (1978) QS 

Dr Chris Ringrose (1979) QS 

Mr Steve Crown (1980) QS 

Mr John Ford (1980) QS 

Mrs Diana Webster (1980) QS 

Mr Jonathan Webster (1981) QS 

Mr Joseph Archie (1982) 

Mr Alan Leigh (1982) QS 

Dr Krispen Culbertson (1986) 

Mr John Stansfield (1987) 

Mr Bob Burgess (1987) QS 

Mrs Sia Marshall (1990) QS 

Dr Christoph Rojahn (1991) 

Mr Cameron Marshall (1991) QS 

Mr Jonathan Woolf (1991) QS 

Mr Ian Brown (1993) QS 

Mr Marc Kish (1993) 

Mr Nick Stebbing (1994) 

Mr John Hull (1994) QS 

Mr Chris Woolf (1995) QS 

Mrs Anna Hull (1995) QS 

Mr Ahmet Feridun (2003) 

Mrs Jayne Saberton-Haynes 

Mr Robert Saberton-Haynes 

(In memoriam) 

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Anonymous x 23 

Mr Ray Ogden (1944) 

Mr Anthony Gwilliam (1948) 

Mr Graham Lewis (1948) QS 

Mr David Thornber (1948) QS 

Mr Ralph Bullock (1949) 

Dr Duncan Thomas (1949) QS 

Mr Stan Whitehead (1950) QS 

Mr Allan Preston (1951) 

Mr John Hazel (1951) QS 

Dr Keith Jacques (1952) 

Mr Maurice Millward (1952) 

Mr Barry Willcock (1952) 

Dr Tony Lee (1952) QS 

Mr Jim Ranger (1952) QS 

Mr Geoff Peters (1952) QS 

Professor Keith Jennings (1952) QS 

Mr Richard Brimelow (1953) 

His Excellency Michael Atkinson (1953) QS 

Mr Bill Burkinshaw (1953) QS 

Professor Victor Hoffbrand (1953) QS 

Mr Donald Clarke (1954) QS 

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Mr Robin Ellison (1954) QS 

Mr Mike Drake (1954) QS 

Mr David Bryan (1954) QS 

Mr Don Naylor (1954) QS 

Mr Ralph Ellis (1955) 

Dr David Myers (1955) QS 

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Mr Eric Miller (1956) 

Dr John Frost (1956) 

Dr Brian Sproat (1956) QS 

Dr Bill Roberts (1956) QS 

Mr Graham Sutton (1956) QS 

Mr Tom Frears (1956) QS 

Mr Christopher Stephenson (1956) QS 

Dr Brian Salter-Duke (1957) QS 

Professor Laurence King (1957) QS 

Mr Colin Hughes (1957) QS 

Mr Ian Chisholm (1957) QS 

Mr Martin Sayer (1957) QS 

Mr Roger Owen (1957) QS 

Mr Peter Thomson (1957) QS 

The Revd Canon Michael Arundel 

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Dr John Reid (1958) QS 

Mr Nigel Hughes (1958) QS 

Mr Malcolm Dougal (1958) QS 


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Professor David Goodall (1959) QS 

Mr John Foley (1959) QS 

Mr Philip Burton (1959) QS 

Mr Ian Parker (1959) QS 

Professor John Gillingham (1959) QS 

Mr David Beaton (1959) QS 

Mr Michael Allen (1959) QS 

Mr John Seely (1959) QS 

Professor John Matthews (1959) QS 

Professor Peter Williams (1959) QS 

Mr David Foster (1960) QS 

Mr Robert Wilson (1960) QS 

Mr James Robertson (1960) QS 

Mr Robin Bell (1960) QS 

Mr Jim Gilpin (1960) QS 

Dr Norman Diffey (1961) 

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Mr Richard Nosowski (1961) QS 

Mr Godfrey Talford (1961) QS 

Mr Philip Bowers (1961) QS 

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Professor Andrew McPherson (1961) QS 

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Dr Steve Higgins (1962) QS 

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Mr Martin Colman (1962) QS 

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Professor Alan Lloyd (1963) QS 

Professor Ron Laskey (1963) QS 

Mr Rod Hague (1963) QS 

Professor Mike Atkinson (1964) 

Dr Alan Shepherd (1964) QS 

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Mr Philip Wood (1964) QS 

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Mr Tony Turton (1964) QS 

Mr Robin Leggate (1964) QS 

Mr Paul Legon (1964) QS 

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David J. Jeffery (1964) QS 

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Mr John Wordsworth (1964) QS 

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Mr David Matthews (1965) QS 

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Lord Roger Liddle (1965) QS 

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Professor Christopher Green (1965) QS 

Professor John Feather (1965) QS 

Sir Stephen Wright (1965) QS 

Mr Gregory Stone (1966) 

Mr Peter de Moncey-Conegliano (1966) 

The Rt Revd Peter Wheatley (1966) 

Professor Peter Coleman (1966) QS 

Dr Paul Schur (1966) QS 

Mr Andrew Horsler (1966) QS 

Mr Richard Coleman (1966) QS 

Mr Derek Swift (1966) QS 

Mr Roger Blanshard (1966) QS 

Mr John Kitteridge (1966) QS 

Dr George Biddlecombe (1966) QS 

Mr Alan Beatson (1966) QS 

Professor Peter Sugden (1966) QS 

Mr Robin Charleston (1967) 

Mr Richard Atkinson (1967) QS 

Mr Mike Thompson (1967) QS 

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Professor Philip Schlesinger (1967) QS 

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Dr John Windass (1968) QS 

Mr David Hudson (1968) QS 

Mr Peter Burroughs (1968) QS 

Mr Thomas Earnshaw (1968) QS 

Mr Richard Shaw (1968) QS 

Mr Rob Bollington (1968) QS 

Mr Steve Robinson (1968) QS 

Professor Tim Connell (1968) QS 

Mr John Crowther (1968) QS 

Mr Jon Watts (1968) QS 

Mr Robert Hamilton (1969) 

Mr Frederik van Bolhuis (1969) 

Professor Mark Janis (1969) 

The Revd Dr Brian Sheret (1969) 

Mr Nigel Tranah (1969) QS 

Mr Anthony Prosser (1969) QS 

Mr Chris Shepperd (1969) QS 

Mr Neil Boulton (1969) QS 

His Honour Erik Salomonsen (1969) QS 

Mr Alan Sherwell (1969) QS 

Mr Mark Stickings (1970) 

Mr Gordon Kirk (1970) 

The Revd Dr Richard Crocker (1970) 

Mr Jamie Macdonald (1970) QS 

Mr Andy Sutton (1970) QS 

Mr David Stubbins (1970) QS 

Mr Christopher West (1970) QS 

Dr Martin Cooper (1970) QS 

The Revd Canon Peter Wadsworth 

(1970) QS 

Mr Eric Thompson (1970) QS 

Mr Jonathan Hoffman (1971) 

Mr Gary Stubley (1971) 

Dr Ulrich Grevsmühl (1971) QS 

Dr Stephen Wilson (1971) QS 

Professor Christopher Huang (1971) QS 

Dr Michael Hurst (1971) QS 

Mr John Clare (1971) QS 

Mr John Peat (1971) QS 

Mr Anthony Denny (1971) QS 

Mr Alaric Wyatt (1971) QS 

Mr Anthony Rowlands (1971) QS 

Mr François Gordon (1971) QS 

Mr Chris Counsell (1971) QS 

Mr Winston Gooden (1971) QS 

Mr Derek Townsend (1971) QS 

Mr John Pheasant (1972) QS 

Mr Lou Fantin (1972) 

Dr Stephen Gilbey (1972) QS 

Dr Keith Pringle (1972) QS 

Mr Peter Farrar (1972) QS 

Mr John McLeod (1972) QS 

Mr Will Jackson-Houlston (1972) QS 

Dr John Wellings (1972) QS 

Mr Andrew Seager (1972) QS 

Mr David Palfreyman (1972) QS 

Mr Peter Haigh (1972) QS 

Mr Nigel Allsop (1972) QS 

Mr Andrew Barlow (1973) 

Mr Tim Joss (1973) 

Mr David Hawkin (1973) 

Dr Alan Turner (1973) QS 

Mr Peter Richardson (1973) QS 

Mr Tony Middleton (1973) QS 

Mr Robert Perry (1973) QS 

Dr Mark Eddowes (1973) QS 

Mr Dick Richmond (1973) QS 

Mr Martin Riley (1973) QS 

Mr Philip Beveridge (1973) QS 

The Revd Thomas Stadnik (1974) 

Dr Jeffrey Theaker (1974) QS 

Mr Simon English (1974) QS 

Mr Tim Shaw (1974) QS 

Mr Eric Halpern (1974) QS 

Mr Havilland Hart (1974) QS 

Professor Stephen Bell (1975) 

Dr Rhodri Davies (1975) QS 

Dr Chris Hutchinson (1975) QS 

Mr Ian Dougherty (1975) QS 

Mr Oliver Burns (1975) QS 

Mr Nevill Rogers (1975) QS 

Mr Martin Moore (1975) QS 

Professor George Newhouse (1976) 

Mr Raymond Holdsworth (1976) 

Mr Sid Toole (1976) 

Dr Christopher Tibbs (1976) QS 

Mr Brian Stubley (1976) QS 

Dr Nick Hazel (1976) QS 

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Professor Peter Clarkson (1976) QS 

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Dr Michael Cadier (1977) QS 

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Mr Michael Penrice (1977) QS 

Mr Mark Evans (1977) QS 

Mr Francis Grew (1977) QS 

Mr Martin Kelly (1977) QS 

Mr Paul Bennett (1977) QS 

Mr Mike Thompson (1977) QS 

Dr John Morewood (1977) QS 

Mr Paul Godsland (1977) QS 

Dr Mike Fenn (1978) QS 

Dr Simon Loughe (1978) QS 

Mr Jervis Smith (1978) QS 

Mr Jeremy Jackson (1978) QS 

Mr John Gibbons (1978) QS 

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Mr Paul Dawson (1978) QS 

Mr John Keeble (1978) QS 

Mr Steve Anderson (1978) QS 

Mr Nick Beecroft (1978) QS 

Mr Tony Mann (1979) 

Mr Philip Epstein (1979) 

Dr Ron Kelly (1979) QS 

Mrs Isobel Morland (1979) 

Dr Trevor Barker (1979) QS 

Dr Nicholas Edwards (1979) QS 

Professor Cath Rees (1979) QS 

Mrs Alison Sanders (1979) QS 

Mr Gary Simmons (1979) QS 

Mr Simon Whitaker (1979) QS 

Mr Chris Bertram (1979) QS 

Dr Peter Wyatt (1980) 

Mr Tim Stephenson (1980) QS 

Mr Eli Nathans (1980) 

Dr Louise Goward (1980) QS 

Dr Tim Shaw (1980) QS 

Mrs Carrie Kelly (1980) QS 

Mrs Cathy Langdale (1981) 

Dr Mark Byfield (1981) QS 

Professor Marcela Votruba (1981) QS 

Mr Donald Pepper (1981) QS 

Mrs Linda Holland (1981) QS 

Ms Janet Hayes (1981) QS 

Dr Paul Driscoll (1981) QS 

Ms Philippa Hird (1982) 

Mr Ian English (1982) QS 

Mr Tom Webber (1982) QS 

Mrs Janet Lewis (1982) QS 

Mr Richard Lewis (1982) QS 

Mr Mark Pearce (1982) QS 

Dr Francoise Carter (1983) 

Mr Adrian Robinson (1983) 

Dr Neil Tunnicliffe (1983) QS 

Mr Andrew Campbell (1983) QS 

Mr Francis Austin (1983) QS 

Dr Robert Hughes (1983) QS 

Mr Andy Bird (1983) QS 

Mrs Rose Craston (1983) QS 

Ms Justine Watt (1984) 

Mr Cameron Doley (1984) 

Mrs Kathryn Doley (1984) 

Mrs Liz Patel (1984) QS 

Mr Tiku Patel (1984) QS 

Mr Jeremy Tobias-Tarsh (1984) 

Professor Phil Evans (1984) QS 

Dr Nigel Greer (1984) QS 

Dr Katherine Irving (1984) QS 

Dr Jan Pullen (1984) QS 

Dr Miles Benson (1984) QS 

Mr Richard Hopkins (1984) QS 

Mr John Turner (1984) QS 

Mr Mike Cronshaw (1984) QS 

Mr Steve Thomas (1984) QS 

Mrs Rachel Lawson (1984) QS 

Mr Robert Lawson (1985) QS 

Mrs Antonia Adams (1984) QS 

Mr Juan Sepulveda (1985) 

Dr Philippa Moore (1985) QS 

Mr Steve Evans (1985) QS 

Mr Ed Kemp-Luck (1985) QS 

Dr Udayan Chakrabarti (1985) QS 

Mr Martin Riley (1985) QS 

Mr Adrian Ratcliffe (1985) QS 

The Revd Canon Matthew Pollard 

(1985) QS 

Mrs Julie Smyth (1985) QS 

Mr Andrew Mitchell (1986) QS 

Mrs Cathy Sanderson (1986) QS 


Dr Susan Schamp (1986) QS 

Ms Jude Dobbyn (1986) QS 

Mr Gerald Rix (1986) QS 

Mr Rob Tims (1986) QS 

Major Matthew Christmas (1986) QS 

Mr Steve Jones (1986) QS 

Dr Philip Apps (1987) 

Ms Susan Sack (1987) 

Dr Richard Fynes (1987) QS 

Mrs Sarah Kucera (1987) QS 

Mr Philip Sanderson (1987) QS 

Dr John Morgan (1987) QS 

Mr Mark Highman (1987) QS 

Mrs Rachel Thorn (1987) QS 

Mrs Vikki Hall (1987) QS 

Dr Adrian Tang (1988) QS 

Dr Jules Hargreaves (1988) QS 

Miss Celestine Eaton (1988) QS 

Mrs Hilary Corroon (1988) QS 

Mr Alastair Kennis (1988) QS 

Mr Tim Grayson (1988) QS 

Mr John Bigham (1988) QS 

Mr Marc Paul (1989) 

Mrs Ann Marie Dickinson (1989) QS 

Mr Chris Porton (1989) QS 

Mr Ben Green (1989) QS 

Mr James Horsfall (1989) QS 

Mr Matthew Perret (1989) QS 

Mr Jim Kaye (1989) QS 

Mr Ian Tollett (1989) QS 

Ms Hetty Meyric Hughes (1989) QS 

Dr Susan Ferraro (1989) QS 

Dr James Semple (1990) 

Mrs Morag Mylne (1990) QS 

Mr Fabio Quaradeghini (1990) QS 

Mr Keith Hatton (1990) QS 

Mr Jason Hargreaves (1990) QS 

Mrs Penny Crouzet (1990) QS 

Dr Angela Winnett (1990) QS 

Dr Vicki Saward (1991) QS 

Dr Christopher Meaden (1991) QS 

Miss Sarah Witt (1991) QS 

Mr Adam Potter (1991) QS 

Mr Nik Everatt (1991) QS 

Dr Kausikh Nandi (1991) QS 

Dr John Sorabji (1991) QS 

Mr Paul Gannon (1991) QS 

Mrs Kay Goddard (1991) QS 

Mr Dev Tanna (1991) QS 

Dr Jason Zimba (1991) QS 

Professor Mike Hayward (1992) QS 

Dr Nia Taylor (1992) QS 

Dr Rebecca Emerson (1992) QS 

Mr James Holdsworth (1992) QS 

Mr Jonathan Buckley (1992) QS 

Mrs Claire O’Shaughnessy (1992) QS 

Dr Tyler Bell (1993) 

Dr Said Mohamed (1993) QS 

Mrs Helen von der Osten (1993) QS 

Mr Matt Lawrence (1993) QS 

Mr Matt Keen (1993) QS 

Mr Neil Pabari (1993) QS 

Mr Peter Sidwell (1993) QS 

Mrs Jenny Kelly (1993) QS 

Dr Francis Tang (1994) 

Professor Tim Riley (1994) QS 

Mrs Clare Stebbing (1994) 

Dr Jo Nonweiler (1994) QS 

Ms Claire Taylor (1994) QS 

Mr Alistair Willey (1994) QS 

Ms Christine Cairns (1994) QS 

Mrs Makiko Yamamoto (1995) 

Mr Tim Claremont (1995) QS 

Mr Adam Silver (1995) QS 

Mr Torsten Reil (1995) QS 

Mrs Georgina Simmons (1995) QS 

Mr David Line (1995) QS 

Mr Jeremy Steele (1995) QS 

Mr Tim Horrocks (1995) QS 

Mr Paul Sumner (1996) 

Dr Jonathan Smith (1996) QS 

Mrs Helen Geary (1996) QS 

Mr David Smallbone (1996) QS 

Dr Gavin Beard (1996) QS 

Mrs Rachel Taylor (1996) QS 

Dr William Goundry (1997) QS 

Mr James Bowling (1997) QS 

Mr Endaf Kerfoot (1997) QS 

Mr James Taylor (1997) QS 

Mr Gareth Powell (1997) QS 

Benefactions 


Benefactions 

Dr Linda Bamber (1997) QS 

Mr Gonçalo Abecasis (1998) 

Dr Premila Webster (1998) QS 

Dr Martin Birch (1998) QS 

Miss Marie Farrow (1998) QS 

Miss Jacqueline Perez (1998) QS 

Mr James Marsden (1998) QS 

Mr Charlie Sutters (1998) QS 

Mr Matt Henderson (1998) QS 

Mrs Wendy Hansen (1998) QS 

Mr Matthieu Edelman (1999) 

Mr Tahmer Mahmoud (1999) 

Mr Jim Luke (1999) QS 

Mr Michael McClelland (1999) QS 

Mr Gareth Marsh (1999) QS 

Mr Douglas Gordon (1999) QS 

Mr James Levett (1999) QS 

Mr Dan Lynn (1999) QS 

Mr Jim Hancock (1999) QS 

Mrs Kate Cooper (1999) QS 

Dr Brandon Dammerman (2000) 

Dr Cecily Burrill (2000) 

Dr Claire Hodgskiss (2000) QS 

Ms Elizabeth Pilkington (2000) QS 

Mr Andrew Buchanan (2000) QS 

Mr Rory Clarke (2000) QS 

Mrs Laura Andrews (2000) QS 

Ms Cécile Défossé (2000) QS 

Mrs Chrissy Findlay (2001) QS 

Miss Elinor Taylor (2001) QS 

Mrs Cassie Smith (2001) QS 

Matthew Osborne (2001) QS 

Mr Mark Hawkins (2001) QS 

Mr Oliver Leyland (2001) QS 

Mr Nick Kroepfl (2001) QS 

Mr James Klempster (2001) QS 

Mr David Ainsworth (2001) QS 

Mrs Laura Ainsworth (2002) QS 

Miss Alex Mayson (2001) QS 

Mrs Zoe Wright (2002) QS 

Mrs Rhian Screen (2002) QS 

Dr Abigail Stevenson (2002) QS 

Dr Ian Warren (2002) QS 

Mrs Fran Baker (2002) QS 

Mrs Kathryn Aggarwal (2002) QS 

Mr Nikhil Aggarwal (2003) QS 

Mr Matt Allen (2002) QS 

Mr David Richardson (2002) QS 

Mr Christopher Wright (2002) QS 

Mr James Screen (2002) QS 

Ms Ling Zhao (2002) QS 

Miss Sarah Berman (2002) QS 

Miss Elizabeth Meehan (2002) QS 

Mrs Karishma Redman (2002) QS 

Dr Jessica Blair (2003) QS 

Dr Guy Williams (2003) QS 

Dr Enrique Sacau (2003) QS 

Dr Jon Hazlehurst (2003) QS 

Mr Dane Satterthwaite (2003) QS 

Mrs Olivia Haslam (2003) QS 

Ms Rebecca Patton (2003) QS 

Ms Claire Harrop (2004) QS 

Dr Philippa Roberts (2004) QS 

Ms Kate Newton (2004) QS 

Mr Ho Yi Wong (2005) QS 

Mr Daniel Shepherd (2005) QS 

Dr Laurence Mann (2006) 

Dr Matthew Hart (2006) QS 

Sergeant Tom Whyte (2006) QS 

Dr Caitlin Hartigan (2007) 

Dr Bernhard Langwallner (2007) 

Mr Matthew Watson (2007) QS 

Mr Andy White (2007) QS 

Miss Lauriane Anderson Mair (2007) QS 

Mr Tony Hu (2007) QS 

Ms Kat Steiner (2008) QS 

Mr Nicholas Burns (2008) QS 

Mr Chris Lippard (2010) 

Ms Zoë Kelly (2010) 

Mr James Dinsdale (2010) QS 

Mr Tom Mead (2010) QS 

Miss Amy Down (2011) QS 

Mr Tom Nichols (2011) QS 

Mr Andrew Kirk (2012) 

Mr Kenichi Oka (2017) QS 

Mr Aidan Richardson (2020) QS 


Legacy Gifts 

Dr Bill Frankland (1930) 

Mr Ray Ogden (1944) 

Mr Anthony Gwilliam (1948) 

Mr Ralph Bullock (1949) 

Mr Ralph Ellis (1955) 

Dr John Frost (1956) 

Mr Russell Lawson (1962) 

Mrs Beatrice Bromley 

Benefactions 

Within College 

Anonymous x 1 

Professor Sir John Ball QS 

Dr Claire Craig QS 

Dr Charles Crowther QS 

Mr Chris Diacopoulos QS 

Mrs Catherine House QS 

Dr Justin Jacobs QS 

Friends 

1x Anonymous 

Professor Yves Capdeboscq 

Mr David French QS 

Professor Joshua Getzler QS 

Professor Ciara Kennefick 

Mrs Jean Littlewood 

Mrs Christine Mason QS 

Mr Christopher McCall 

Dr Caroline Murie 

Mrs Sri Owen QS 

Professor Cheryl Praeger 

Mr Eric Wooding QS 

Mrs Felicia J. Pheasant QS 

In memoriam 

Dr Ray Bowden (1960) qs In memory of Sir Alan Budd (1937-2023) 

Dr Gregory Camp (2007) In memory of Sir Alan Budd (1937-2023) 

Professor Timothy Congdon qs In memory of Sir Alan Budd (1937-2023) 

Mr Jonathan Davie In memory of Sir Alan Budd (1937-2023) 

Mr Geoffrey Dicks In memory of Sir Alan Budd (1937-2023) 

Mr Lee Ho Chan and Ms Songhee Kim In memory of their son, Gwang Hoon 

(Jason) Lee (Materials Science, 2014) 

Sir John Gieve In memory of Sir Alan Budd (1937-2023) 

Mr Kevin Klock 

In memory of E. P. Sanders, FBA, 

former Dean Ireland’s Professor of the 

Exegesis of Holy Scripture and a Fellow 

of Queen’s College, Oxford (1937-2022) 

Mr Richard Price In memory of Sir Alan Budd (1937-2023) 


Benefactions 

Mr Tony and Mrs Susan Raab In memory of Sir Alan Budd (1937-2023) 

Dr Gill Sutherland In memory of Sir Alan Budd (1937-2023) 

Mr Christopher Pollard In memory of Sir Alan Budd (1937-2023) 

Mrs Sylvia Neumann In memory of Sir Alan Budd (1937-2023) 

Mr Peter Norman In memory of Sir Alan Budd (1937-2023) 

Mr Frank Alexander Vandiver 

In memory of Frank Everson Vandiver, 

Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of 

American History from 1963-1965 

Sir Nicholas Warren In memory of Sir Alan Budd (1937-2023) 

Trusts, foundations and companies 

Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society 

Brighton College 

Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation 

JJC Foundation 

Late Habibur Rahman, Late Rokeya Khanum and Professor A.H. Shamsur Rahman 

Welfare Trust 

Lord Wandsworth College French Department and Lord Wandsworth College 

Enrichment 

North London Collegiate School 

Owl Trust 

Sannox Trust 

Tawny Trust 

The Elba Foundation 

The Margaret Rolfe Charitable Trust 

The Swire Chinese Language Foundation 

Wycombe Abbey 


INFORMATION 

College Record 2024 

Please submit your news and details of any awards or publications for inclusion in 

the 2024 College Record here: https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/update-details-sharenews/. 

Alternatively, you can send this information by post to the Old Members’ Office 

in College. The deadline for entries is 1 August 2024. 

Information 

You are also invited to submit obituaries of Old Members. Please send these to the 

Old Members’ Office. 

Visiting the College 

If you are an Old Member visiting Oxford you are very welcome to visit Queen’s 

during your stay. 

Enter the College via the High Street and report to the Porters’ Lodge. Please note 

that with the new Porter’s Lodge we now have a level-access entrance just along 

from the main wooden door on the High Street. Mention that you are an Old Member 

wishing to visit and say if this visit has been pre-arranged with the Old Members’ 

Office. The Porters will need to check your Old Member credentials, so you can either 

show your University of Oxford Alumni Card (‘My Oxford’ card) or answer a couple 

of questions so the Porters can locate you on their database. 

Do I need to book my visit? 

You do not have to pre-arrange a visit, but we do encourage it, so we can check 

there are no restrictions on the areas you want to see. You can bring friends or 

family with you, including children, but if you are a group of six or more, let us know 

in advance, if you can. 

Generally Old Members are able to walk around the cloisters, quads, gardens, and 

Chapel and Hall, if the spaces are not being used for other purposes. The Lodge 

Porters will advise on which areas are not accessible. 

You will need to let us know in advance if you would like to look around the Library. 

The Library has different visiting times to the main College – as visits can only take 

place when the Library is staffed – and this varies depending on whether you plan 

to visit during term, vacation time, or at a weekend. The Library is also sometimes 

closed for events. Read more about Library access on the Library’s web page. 

When are you open? 

The College is generally open to Old Member visitors most of the year, with the 

exception of the two-week closure period over the Christmas vacation and on 

occasions where there are large events taking place in College, such as the College 


Ball. Visits between 9am-6pm are preferable, and the College is open at weekends 

and on most of the public holidays (except Christmas/New Year). 

Information 

Degree ceremonies 

An MA can be taken by anyone who has completed a BA or BFA, 21 terms after their 

matriculation date. Old Members can either attend a University degree ceremony or 

receive an MA in absentia. To take your MA in person or in absentia, please email 

college.office@queens.ox.ac.uk. 

Transcripts and certificates 

If you matriculated before 2007 and require proof of your exam results, or a transcript 

of your qualifications for a job application or continuing education purposes, please 

contact the College Office on 01865 279166 or college.office@queens.ox.ac.uk. 

If you need a copy of your certificate, or confirmation of your degree if you have 

not attended a ceremony, then all the information on acquiring these can be found 

at the University’s Student Records and Degree Conferrals Office: www.ox.ac.uk/ 

students/graduation/certificates. 

For those who matriculated after 2007, transcripts/proof of degree documents can 

be ordered online: www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/product-catalogue/degreeconferrals. 

Updating your details 

If you have moved or changed your contact details, please complete the online 

update form: https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/update-details-share-news/ or email 

oldmembers@queens.ox.ac.uk. 

Bed and breakfast 

During Term 

We have two Old Member guestrooms that can be booked during term via the Lodge 

or the Old Members’ Office. 

One is a twin room, with en suite in Back Quad; the other is a very basic single 

room, with shared bathroom facilities (NB access is via a steep staircase). The rates 

include breakfast in Hall. 

No payment is required for these rooms when booking, instead you will be invoiced 

the month following your stay for payment via bank transfer, or you can telephone 

the Bursary to pay by credit or debit card. 


During vacation 

College bedrooms are mostly occupied by private function and conference guests, 

including the two Old Member guest rooms. Occasionally student bedrooms (single 

and twin) are available over the Easter and Summer vacations and can be booked 

for bed and breakfast. Old Members are welcome to enquire about room availability, 

but dates are often limited. 

Information 

Email the Old Members Office with your visit dates. If a room is available, we will 

confirm the room rate (commercial rate, with a discount applied for Old Members). 

We will then provide a link to complete your booking and payment online. 

All stays are for a maximum of three nights (unless agreed with the Domestic Bursar) 

and under 18s are not allowed in B&B rooms. 


The Queen’s College 

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www.queens.ox.ac.uk 

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