2012 Annual Report - Jesus College - University of Cambridge

jesus college • cambridge
2012
one hundred and eighth annual report

jesus college • cambridge
2012
one hundred and eighth annual report

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Contents
Message from the Master 5
Fellows and Other Senior Members 2011-2012 7
Articles The Renovations to Chapel Court Nick Ray 13
Understanding Large Scale Structure in
our Universe Bill Saslaw 17
Water, water, everywhere ... Ian Wilson 20
Complex Fluids: Size Matters Stuart Clarke 23
Left-Handed Letters Christopher Burlinson 25
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of
(Basic Secondary School) Mathematics Dominic Orchard 27
A Taste of Cold Steel Lucy Fielding 29
Some Notable Jewish Students at Jesus Derek Taylor 31
Life in the Day of the Dean of College Garth Wells 33
Memoir Science in the Antarctic Stan Evans 37
College History Dickens – The Jesus Connection Stephen Heath 44
Creator of the Modern College –
Henry Arthur Morgan 1830-1912 Peter Glazebrook 49
College News People 61
Art at Jesus 2011-2012 66
The Chapel 68
Chapel Music 70
The New Harpsichord 72
The Old Library and Archives 74
The Quincentenary Library 75
Publications and Gifts to the College Libraries 2011-2012 76
Rustat Conferences 81
Bursary 85
Development Office 87
Parting Impressions of Jesus 89
College Societies 93
Sports Clubs 101
Members’ News People 115
Births 118
Marriages and Civil Partnerships 118
Obituaries 121
Awards and Results 153
Events 161

Message from the Master
Ian White
MESSAGE FROM THE MASTER I Jesus College Annual Report 2012 5
It is a pleasure to introduce an Annual Report that
records such success and achievement by so many
associated with the College in so many spheres of
activity. Having completed my first year as Master, I have
much for which to be grateful, particularly as the success
and achievement of many has been matched fully by
great kindness shown to my wife and me by members of
the College. The past year has been one in which we have
often been surprised by how much greater the impact
and importance of the College has been to so many over
the years than we had previously appreciated, despite
our association with the College over many years. We
have come to realise that its value is equally felt by
current student members. Having interviewed final year students and also met with many
graduate students individually, repeatedly I have gained the overwhelming sense that
College life has been both important and enjoyable for them. Indeed the attractiveness of
the College has again been manifest in our undergraduate applications having increased
by 16% this year, despite the introduction of the new fee system that has led to substantially
fewer students applying to some other universities. Again the College has one of the
highest levels of application per place of any Cambridge college.
Achievements have been both academic and extra-curricular. We again were ranked
highly in the league tables for Tripos results, and there were some outstanding individual
performances both by undergraduate and graduate students. Music and art continue to
thrive in the College, and it was a privilege to attend many outstanding concerts, theatre
performances and exhibitions, both within the College and outside, where frequently Jesus
College students were to be found playing leading roles in University societies. The College
chapel choirs have gone from strength to strength, contributing so much to the chapel
services, and also to a range of concerts both within the UK and elsewhere, the tours to the
Ukraine and Germany having attracted much praise.
Sporting achievements continue to be most impressive, and indeed Jesus College was
recognised as the top sporting college overall by Varsity in November 2011. Excellent
sporting performances occurred throughout the year, with several of the men’s and
women’s hockey, football, and rugby teams reaching Cupper finals, and with the first boats
moving ahead strongly in the Bumps. I was particularly struck by the range of engagement
in sports across the College, with, for example approximately 45 students being awarded
University blues, half blues or colours.
This form of College life of course cannot exist on the basis of student excellence alone,
and it has been a privilege for me to see the commitment and quality of contributions by
fellows, staff, past student members and other supporters to the College. It was a pleasure
to rejoice in a range of senior appointments and awards made to Jesuans over the past year,
in particular the appointment of David Wootton as Lord Mayor of London; his hosting of
the JCCS Annual Dinner in the magnificent surroundings of the Mansion House proved to
be a most wonderful occasion. The gathering of 375 Jesuans and guests, a record for the
JCCS will, for me, form one of my happiest memories of the year, and special thanks are
due to the JCCS Committee for their impeccable organisation of the proceedings.

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The devotion of our staff to the College continues to be exemplary despite the upheavals
caused by our major infrastructure projects, and has helped to maintain that strong sense
of collegiality that we value. In addition, it has been a pleasure yet again to celebrate success
within the fellowship, a highlight of the year being the award to Professor Crawford of the
2012 Manley O. Hudson Medal by the American Society of International Law, this medal
having previously been won by Professor Sir Robert Jennings. Intellectual initiatives
continued to develop in the College; for example, the very successful Graduate Student
Conference for the first time welcomed attendees who had previously been students to the
College, this opening up new research collaborations and ideas. In addition special
symposia, in particular the Rustat Conferences and the Symposium on Economic Crime,
continued to flourish. The latter celebrated its thirtieth anniversary this year, and provided
us with an opportunity to reflect on its achievements. This Symposium on Economic Crime,
at Jesus College, with its aim of promoting economic stability and protecting the integrity
of institutions, businesses and economies across the world has never been more important
or relevant. Over the years it has attracted over 16,000 participants including 450
ambassadors and high commissioners, 1,150 officials of ministerial rank and over 47
Governors of central banks. It has inspired, supported and involved well in excess of 1,000
doctoral research students, and three established scholarly journals are published under
its auspices, including that with the highest academic rating for any publication in the area.
It is of course my hope that symposia such as these will continue to flourish within the
College and University, giving opportunities for wider academic enquiry and engagement
generally, and bringing benefit to current students and long-standing College members.
The College has of course experienced times of sadness this year, the most notable being
the passing of Sir Alan Cottrell, who was an outstanding Master. He was the pre-eminent
material scientist of the 20th Century, described when being awarded an honorary degree by
the University of Cambridge in 1996 as the father of modern Materials Science whose
scholarship had shaped the whole subject. His leadership of the College was exemplary, and
of course he played a great role in not only shaping Materials Science, but also the College,
in particular through his leadership in gaining approval for the admission of women.
Over the past year the College also has carried out the major refurbishment of Chapel
Court and the newly-named Marshall Court in Jesus Lane, projects of technical complexity
and on a scale, involving the refurbishment of approximately 170 rooms, beyond that of any
refurbishments in recent years. It is a pleasure to note, that the refurbishments have been
completed on time and to budget, and maintain the traditional atmosphere of the buildings
dear to many of us, while bringing them in line with the standards expected in the 21st
Century. I am so grateful to the Bursar and his staff for having been successful in delivering
such complex undertakings.
It finally has been particularly humbling to note the generosity of so many Jesuans and
other supporters of the College in the past year. During a time when we have had to make
substantial financial commitments to the College infrastructure, we have been very grateful
for the support that has been provided financially, not only to our buildings but also to
student support, to academic support and for special initiatives. In Cambridge colleges,
these donations are often the key to creating the very special sense of collegiality valued by
us all, enabling the building of understanding, deepening of insights, strengthening of
character and enhancing achievement in our students. And for all of that we are immensely
grateful.

FELLOWS AND OTHER SENIOR MEMBERS 2011-2012 I Jesus College Annual Report 2012 7
Fellows and Other Senior Members
2011-2012
Master
Professor I H White FREng
Fellows
Dr M R Minden (President) MML (German)
Professor S C Heath LittD
(Keeper of the Old Library) English
Dr S B Hladky (Admissions Tutor) Medicine
Dr D E Hanke Botany
Mr N J Ray MA ARIBA Architecture
Professor J B Thompson Social & Political Sciences
Professor P H Nolan CBE Chinese Management
Dr J R Howlett (Praelector and Tutorial Adviser) MML (Russian)
Professor I Paterson FRS Chemistry
Dr M L S Sørensen Archaeology
Dr G T Parks Engineering
Professor J M Soskice Theology
Dr M P C Oldham Law
Professor P Alexander (Fellows’ Wine Steward) Physics
Dr R Mengham (Curator of Works of Art) English
Professor D A S Compston FRCP Neurology
Professor M M Arnot FRSA AcSS
(Graduate Tutor) Education
The Rev’d Dr T D Jenkins Theology
Professor J R Crawford, SC FBA International Law
Professor R Cipolla FREng Engineering
Dr S Fennell (Financial Tutor) Land Economy
Dr D I Wilson CEng Chemical Engineering
Dr G Kearns Geography
Dr J W Ajioka Medicine
Professor S A T Redfern Earth Sciences
Dr J P T Clackson
(Fellows’ Steward and Tutorial Adviser) Classics
Dr M R Laven History
Dr T S Aidt Economics
Dr S T C Siklos (Senior Tutor) Mathematics
Dr T D Wilkinson (Deputy Graduate Tutor) Engineering
Dr V Mottier Social & Political Sciences
Professor R J Mair CBE FREng FRS Engineering
Dr P Krishnan Economics
Dr F M Green English
Professor J A Dowdeswell
(Brian Buckley Fellow in Polar Sciences) Physical Geography

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Professor M O’Brien FBA History
Dr N G Berloff Mathematics
Professor H le B Skaer (Tutorial Adviser) Zoology
Dr S Clarke Chemistry
Dr M F Gill MML (French)
Dr W Federle Biology
Dr B Walton Music
Dr O A Scherman Chemistry
Dr R E Flemming Classics
Dr C E Chambers Philosophy
Mr R J P Dennis MA (Development Director
and Keeper of the Records)
Professor J J Baumberg Physics
Dr G N Wells (Dean of College) Engineering
Dr D J Kelly (Keeper of the Plate) Social & Political Sciences
Dr C M Burlinson (Vivian Cox Fellow in English
and Tutorial Adviser) English
Dr B M B Post (Admissions Tutor) Linguistics
Dr R J Weir English
Professor A H Brand FRS Biology
Dr M J Edwards
(Gurnee F Hart Fellow in History) History
Professor H L Moore Social Anthropology
Dr K S Lilley Chemistry
Dr C Mascolo Computer Science
Dr O Caramello Mathematics
Dr S Tor Classics
Dr M V Lombardo Psychiatry
Mr M T Williams MA (Director of Chapel Music) Music
Mr S C James MPhil History
Dr A R Tucker Geography
Mr L M Butcher MA Physics
Dr C-B Schoenlieb Mathematics
Rev’d Dr J M D Hughes
(Dean of Chapel and Tutorial Adviser) Divinity
Dr N A Rutter Materials Science
Dr R Morieux History
Mrs A Künzl-Snodgrass (Tutorial Adviser) MML (German)
Dr F H Willmoth (Archivist, and Assistant
Keeper of the Old Library) History and Philosophy of Science
Emeritus Fellows
Professor K L Johnson PhD FREng FRS
Dr C J Adkins CPhys FInstP
Dr D S Whitehead
Dr J A Hudson
Dr J E Roseblade
Professor M J Waring FRSC ScD
Dr J Cameron Wilson
Dr W C Saslaw

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Mr P R Glazebrook MA (Acting Keeper of the Old Library and Fellow Librarian)
Professor J T Killen PhD FBA
Professor P D A Garnsey PhD FBA
Sir Alan Cottrell ScD HonLLD FRS FREng (Honorary Fellow)
Dr S Evans
Dr G C Harcourt AO LittD FASSA AcSS
Professor D K Fieldhouse LittD FBA
Professor W J Stronge
Dr R D Bowers
Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn MA ScD HonDLitt FBA (Honorary Fellow)
Professor R Freeman ScD FRS
Professor Sir Bruce Ponder FRCP FRS
Mr A J Bowen MA
Professor J C W Mitchell
Professor J M Bacon
Mr S J Barton MA
Honorary Fellows
Professor Sir Denys Wilkinson MA PhD ScD FRS HonFilDr HonLLD
Professor P W Anderson MA FRS
Sir Alan Cottrell ScD HonLLD FRS FREng (Emeritus Fellow)
Professor P Mathias CBE MA DLitt FBA
Sir Samuel Brittan MA HonDLitt
Mr C J H Hogwood CBE MA HonMusD
Miss Jessye Norman MMus HonMusD HonDHL HonRAM
Professor A W Cuthbert ScD FRS
The Hon A R Gubbay MA LLM SC HonLLD
Lord Renwick of Clifton MA HonLLD HonDLitt FRSA
The Rt Hon Lord Stewartby of Portmoak PC MA LittD FBA FRSE
Lord Rees of Ludlow MA PhD OM PRS
Professor S S Prawer MA PhD LittD HonDLitt Drphilhc FBA
Sir Alistair Horne CB MA LittD
Professor R F Tuck MA FBA
Professor Dame Sandra Dawson DBE MA FIPH FCGI HonDSc CIM
Sir David Hare MA HonLittD FRSL
Mr A M D Gormley OBE MA HonLitt D
Reverend Professor B W Silverman MA PhD ScD FRS
Lord Watson of Richmond CBE MA FRTS
Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn MA ScD HonDLitt FBA (Emeritus Fellow)
Professor L A Jardine CBE MA PhD
Dr P J Hurford OBE MA MusB FRCO
Mr S Chatterjee MA
The Rt Hon Sir Roger Grenfell Toulson PC MA LLB
Mr M Perahia FRCM
Professor K E Wrightson MA PhD FRHistS FBA
Professor E S Maskin FBAHon MAHon DHL
Professor T F Eagleton MA FBA HonDLitt
The Rt Hon Sir Rupert Jackson PC

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Mr R Kwok MA
Fellow Commoners
Mr J Cornwell MA HonDLitt FRSL (Editor of the Annual Report)
Professor B A K Rider PhD Hon LLD
Dr S S Saxena
Professor P J Williamson PhD
Mr C L M Pratt MA (Acting Senior Bursar)
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College Research Associates
Dr J S Bendall
Dr F Castles
Dr I A Cosma
Dr C J T Farrington
Dr P Figueras
Dr K A Hogan
Dr D B Leith
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Charles Rawlinson (1952)
Geoffrey Granter (1957)
Eric Robinson (1942)
Brian Buckley (1962)
David Bennett
Richard Bawden (1947)
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Dr C Ramalingam
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Articles

The new Yorkstone paving in Chapel Court

The Renovations to Chapel Court
Nicholas Ray
CHAPEL COURT I Jesus College Annual Report 2012 13
As members old and new will know, Chapel Court is formed on its western side by the
Chapel itself, and the range of rooms begun at the foundation of the college and
continued northwards, in identical style, in 1822, and even later in the early twentieth
century. The Court was extended on its eastern side, however, by two buildings of very
different character, which have now been renovated together as a single contract with a
value of about £8 million. The red brick range, a fragment of what was intended to form a
whole court, dates from 1884 and was designed by Carpenter and Ingelow. It was
memorably described by the great twentieth-century architectural historian Nikolaus
Pevsner, as “a wholly dull design, red brick with a central gatehouse, as if it were some
kind of training college”. This range included 36 sets of rooms and a ground floor lecture
room, and was useful enough, though somewhat inefficient. In 1950, its internal planning
was altered to form a further 27 sets, which were described at the time as “something half
way between a normal set and a bed-sitting room”. The new rooms were provided, for the
first time, with hot and cold water to wash-basins in each room. Small gyps were included,
though these were later modified as they presented a fire risk. The second portion of
Chapel Court was the work of Percy Morley Horder, an architect of considerable skill and
subtlety, in 1927-30. His intention was to revert to the pattern of the earlier college ranges,
using a pale brick and similar window pattern, but he needed to join on to Carpenter and
Ingelow’s building and weave round East House (by the same architects, and placed
awkwardly in relation to Morley Horder’s proposed extension). This he achieved by facing
Morley Horder’s sketch, east side of the Angel Arch

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Preliminary sketch of the angel sculpture attributed to Eric Gill
the southernmost staircases (Chapel Court 6 and 7) with pinkish bricks rescued from a
ruined manor house in Suffolk, and adapting his plan to return to a regular three-sided
court facing north. In the eastern range he placed a new gateway, directly on the axis of the
chapel, above which is a carving by Eric Gill, one of the most distinguished sculptors and
typographers of the early twentieth century. As Arthur Gray’s article in the Cambridge
Review of 1931 put it: “The essential character of Mr Horder’s work is its grave nobility
contrasting with the florid artifices and cheap materials of Victorian builders. Towers,
terricles and ineffective heraldic ornament have no part in it.” Heating was by open fires,
there was hot water to basins in every bedroom, and bathrooms were created in the
basement. Though the college may have approved Morley Horder’s aesthetic judgement,
people complained of sound transmission from staircase to room, and the plain brick
facings to the stairs cannot have helped.
The architects appointed to design the current repairs and improvements, Berman
Guedes Stretton, had undertaken similar work in Oxford, most notably at Keble College,
upgrading the buildings of its High Victorian architect William Butterfield. Here at Jesus
College they are required not only to improve the buildings to the environmental
standards we expect in the twenty-first century, but to deal sensitively with the “wholly
dull” Carpenter building and the “grave nobility” of Morley Horder’s extension.
Significant repairs, as one might expect, were necessary to roofs, windows, stonework
and gutters. The planning in both buildings was tortuous in some instances, and
inserting new shower rooms to nearly every room means considerable re-fashioning of
the internal layouts. Efficiencies must not be achieved at the expense of the loss of
character – certain spaces, such as ‘Boatie Tower’, may have an iconic significance that
should be respected. Heat losses have to be minimised to meet statutory regulations,
which means improved airtightness as well as the addition of insulation. But at the same
time, skirtings, architraves and other mouldings need to be protected and retained,

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so that the specific detail of the different buildings is respected. How the alterations of
the twenty-first century should “read” is therefore a major issue. When spaces are
subdivided in new ways, how should the new insertions be expressed? One extreme
would be to replicate the style of the two buildings concerned, but of course nineteenth
and early twenty-first century college rooms did not have all the small bathrooms we
now demand, so the proportions of the rooms were different, and rigidly “period”
detailing would look curious. The other extreme would be to treat new insertions as
entirely distinct: plastic “service pods”, for example. In common with most architects
engaged in such work, BGS have aimed to steer a middle course: the insertions will be
clear to anyone who seeks to discover these things, but unobtrusive enough not to
announce themselves unnecessarily to the majority who do not. The staircases will be
practically unaltered, so that superficially it will seem as if more than £11 million has had
little noticeable effect.
Less obvious still are the efforts the design team have gone to in order to minimise
carbon emissions. Spurred on both by the City of Cambridge’s planning requirements
and by the college itself, the services consultants, Hoare Lea, assessed the various
options. Those areas of the south-facing roof that are sufficiently shielded from view not
to upset the Conservation Officer have had solar panels placed on them, which pre-heat
hot water for showers. An alternative would have been photovoltaic cells and the cost
benefits of the two systems are finely balanced; both feed-in tarrifs and manufacturing
costs have changed since the choice was made but the solar-thermal solution is still
reckoned to make a greater contribution to carbon reduction, with a 15-year pay-back
period. In addition, ground-source heat pump technology has been employed. Its
contribution to carbon saving is considerably more than solar-thermal installation, but
the pay-back period is longer because of the capital cost of sinking 16 bore holes to a
depth of 150 metres – about 20 years. GSHPs are most effective at producing low-grade
Eric Gill’s sculpture over the Angel Gate

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Student room, renovated Chapel Court
hot water; consequently the new radiators will be over-sized compared to the usual
twenty-first century fittings, but may be considered all the more suitable in buildings
dating from the 1880s and 1930s.
With the scaffolding down and the buildings in use, it is possible to enjoy again the
calm u-shaped space of Chapel Court. Particularly welcome is the removal of the
utilitarian concrete path around the perimeter and its replacement by York stone, as a
result of a generous benefaction of James Hudleston. The final flourish will be to soften
the walls with planting, which was effectively prohibited in some areas by the previous
concrete, and no doubt the Gardens Committee will be considering the options
carefully. In his characteristically blunt manner, the previous Bursar who initiated this
project explained that it was important that the college should “sweat the asset”
represented by Chapel Court. Where before there were 87 student rooms, and space for
25 fellows (including three flats), the amount of fellows’ accommodation has remained
the same while 121 undergraduates will be housed, so the buildings have never been so
spatially “efficient”. The provision of en-suite shower rooms has also ensured that the
inhabitants can be better washed than ever before, should they choose to be, but at the
same time the energy use and therefore running cost of the building will be not higher,
but lower. Thanks to the design team, the contractors, and the college staff concerned,
this complex project has been achieved with remarkably little disruption to the daily
life of the College, and when it is re-occupied we shall wonder how on earth we
managed without it. The real achievement is to make sweating the asset appear to be no
sweat at all. ■

Understanding Large Scale Structure
in our Universe
Bill Saslaw
ASTROPHYSICS I Jesus College Annual Report 2012 17
The age-old question “Where are we in our universe?” has been superseded in the 21st
century by asking “Where is everything in the universe?” Nowhere is a special part of
space singled out for us. Earth is a minor planet orbiting an undistinguished star in an
ordinary spiral galaxy within a typical group of three dozen or so other spiral, elliptical
and irregular galaxies. Astronomers have known this for nearly a century.
What is new, however, is a combination of conceptual changes and powerful telescopes.
These have revealed the general distribution of matter in our universe – its large-scale
structure. The location of anything in the universe must be understood relative to the
locations of everything else. In the early decades of the 20th century, astronomers had a
fairly simple picture in which there was a universal sea of galaxies, distributed mostly
uniformly with here and there a huge gravitationally bound cluster. People debated the
percentage of galaxies that were clustered versus those distributed more smoothly.
This picture began to crumble about four decades ago. Small galaxy clusters were found
inside larger ones; larger ones often combined to form irregular superclusters. There is a
whole hierarchy of galaxy clustering and it has a very particular continuous structure.
A structure so unexpected that many cosmologists thought it must have arisen
mysteriously in the big bang – the very hot enormously dense stage of the early universe
about 14 billion years ago. Astronomers quickly proposed half a dozen or so exotic theories
to account for this structure; most of these theories turned out to be more ephemeral than
the big bang itself.
From first principles it was obvious that gravity must play a major role in galaxy
clustering. All matter gravitates. Although gravity is a weak force compared to the nuclear
force and electromagnetism, gravity always attracts and does not saturate. There are no
known local anti-gravity forces. (Interestingly, our own perception of gravity is also the
only human sense which does not saturate.) But what was missing in our understanding
of gravity was how very large numbers of gravitating objects – each of them a galaxy
binding billions of stars – would behave in an expanding universe. Newton had calculated
how two small masses would orbit each other. His successors had spent more than a
century trying to understand how three or four gravitating point masses would behave.
Now we are faced with understanding the gravitational behaviour of billions of these
galaxies.
Fortunately we do not need to understand the behaviour of systems containing many
objects in such great detail as systems with smaller numbers, like the Sun’s planets.
To ask “Which galaxies are where at a given time?” is sometimes interesting, but not always
as interesting as discovering new unexpected general phenomena that emerge from the
interactions of many galaxies. One of these general phenomena is their distribution in our
expanding universe.
Calculation, computation and observation combine to lead us to an understanding of
how galaxies distribute themselves throughout our universe. Calculation, often called
theory, starts with the known gravitational interactions of galaxies, adds their modification
by the expansion of space – time, and derives statistical properties of their distribution.
Statistical, because that is the best we can do with available mathematical techniques.

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This high-resolution image of the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes and colours. The smallest,
reddest galaxies, of which there are approximately 10,000, are some of the most distant galaxies to have been imaged by an optical
telescope, probably existing shortly after the Big Bang
We cannot follow the exact orbits of many individual galaxies very well. But we can modify
the statistical description to try to answer a range of questions important for our
understanding.
For example, we can ask if the presence of a galaxy in any particular volume of space
increases the probability that there is another galaxy nearby. Since galaxies attract one
another by gravity, the answer, unsurprisingly, is ‘yes’. What was unexpected is the detailed
spatial dependence of this increased probability. It was observed only about forty years
ago. So far, it has been calculated just for the case where the increased probability for
gravity bringing two galaxies close to each other is relatively small. But we know that
clusters form which are very dense, and the corresponding increase in the probability of

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their galaxies being close together is often very large. Numerical computer simulations
which compute the detailed mutual gravitational orbits of galaxies in our expanding
universe can reproduce some of this clustering, but that is not the same as a more
fundamental general theory of clustering.
One of the things that my collaborators and I have been doing in the last two decades
is developing such a fundamental theory. We do this by combining gravity with statistical
mechanics and thermodynamics, theories describing properties of matter microscopically
and in bulk. Originally many astronomers thought this combination would be impossible
because gravity is a long range force which does not saturate and the combined forces of
many galaxies would be infinite in this approach. But we found that the expansion of the
universe can remove these infinities and give a well-defined finite result. When the theory
was first developed, we were not certain it would work. So some colleagues from
Kyoto University tested it with computer simulations of galaxy clustering. They found
very encouraging agreement. To paraphrase Mark Twain, it gratified some people and
astonished the rest.
This suggested that we test its relevance to our universe by comparing its predictions
directly with observations of galaxy clustering. Its most straightforward prediction,
containing no free parameters or “fudge factors”, is the galaxy distribution function. This
is a simple but very powerful statistic which quantitatively describes clusters, filaments,
voids and neighbouring correlations of galaxies. One simply divides space into many
separate volumes with a given size and shape, then counts the number of galaxies visible
in each volume. Plotting the number of volumes having a given number of galaxies
provides an observed histogram to compare with the theoretical prediction. Then one
repeats the analysis for volumes of different sizes and shapes. As this was done for larger
and larger catalogues of galaxies the agreement grew closer and closer. As the numbers of
galaxies in larger catalogues increase, their statistics become more accurate. The theory
works for very strong, as well as for weak, clustering. In the past year we have been able to
use recent catalogues of about 10 million galaxies, and their agreement with the theory is
better than about two or three percent.
This work has indeed been gratifying, and also fun. Over many years, it has been done
by a small group of astrophysicists who have focused several areas of cosmology, general
relativity, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and observational astronomy on the
understanding of large-scale structure in our universe. It is truly international, like much
of modern science, with collaborators in many countries including the UK, the USA, India,
Ireland, Italy, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and China. To range around the universe; it
helps to range around the world. As we answer earlier questions, new ones arise to
fascinate us even further. For example, the theory has also predicted the probability that a
galaxy has a given velocity relative to the expansion of the universe. Observations of these
velocities are not yet developed to the same extent as observations of galaxy positions, but
their preliminary agreement with the theory is promising.
Very recently we have found a way to understand the probability that a cluster of galaxies
has a given shape. It seems unnecessary to hypothesize that observed filaments of galaxies
arose in a mysterious quantum epoch of the very early universe. Rather, they began to form
spontaneously by natural gravitational attraction one or two billion years after the
big-bang. Details of their formation depend on the nature of dark matter and dark energy,
two major components of the universe presently shrouded in mystery. Mysteries of our
universe tend to be related, so our understanding of its large-scale structure may help
clarify our universe ’s other properties and their origins. ■

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Water, water, everywhere
Ian Wilson
Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink wrote one of the best known students of
Jesus College in 1798. The Ancient Mariner was then referring to sea water but the line
is equally appropriate in many parts of the planet today as the stock of potable water comes
under threat from a growing population, changing living standards and pollution. The
future of mankind depends on water. We drink, wash and play with it while industry uses
large quantities of it for transport, power, as a feedstock and a solvent.
One of the everyday chores performed worldwide that consumes large quantities of
water and generates appreciable volumes of waste is cleaning of dishes and utensils used
in preparing food. Dishwashing also consumes considerable amounts of energy, the other
commodity in limited supply. A bowl of water at 50ºC for dishwashing requires around 10
litres of water and about 0.5 kWh of thermal energy, as well as the chemicals (surfactants,
pH adjusters, etc.) we use to help the ‘soil’ detach from our plates. Many of us choose to
use an automatic dishwasher (over 37% of UK households owned one in 2011) and these
use up to 20 litres of fresh, potable water per wash. The latest devices have reduced this to
7 litres per wash by recycling spent water, and there is a clear need to make these machines
as energy and water efficient as possible.
The same concerns apply to industry. The heaters that pasteurise milk have to be cleaned
daily, and the diaries that process roughly 12 billion litres of milk each year in the UK use
around 1 billion litres of water for cleaning. Our group has been working on understanding
cleaning for some time in order to reduce energy, water and chemical consumption. Jesus
College is actually famous across the world of cleaning as it is also a research area of my
predecessor as Fellow in chemical engineering, Peter Fryer (now at Birmingham), and the
College hosts a major international conference in the area every four years. It has been said
that everyone at the College benefits from this activity as the College gets a detailed
inspection from a hundred or so food hygiene experts at regular intervals.
The science of cleaning can be grouped into three mechanisms. We can exploit
thermodynamics to make a ‘soil’ dissolve – basically it prefers to be in the solvent rather than
on your plate. The problem here is when your soil does not like water, as dry-cleaning
dishes is a non-starter. We can trick fats and grease into forming an emulsion and
dispersing into warm water using surfactants (such as soap), but many others would
require rather aggressive chemicals or more exotic, and thus expensive, surfactants.
The second mechanism is to change the adhesion between the soil and the surface of the
cutlery or dish. This is the science of non-stick, where the differences in chemistry mean
that the soiling material forms weak bonds to the surface which can be readily disrupted
by water or surfactants. The soil layer then comes off when contacted with water and some
force applied. One problem here is that a surface can be designed to minimise adhesion
of certain foods but not all the foods in a healthy diet. The other is that the non-stick
functionality is usually imparted by a coating. The coatings are usually mechanically weak
and can be disrupted by the forces and temperatures we use in cooking, eating or cleaning.
This leaves us with cohesive breakdown, aka elbow grease, where we apply forces large
enough to break the material down and cause it to move off the surface and into solution.
There is a limit here, as the forces have to be smaller than those which will damage the
dishes! Detergents help us to do this by promoting changes in the microstructure of many
foods: dishwashing liquids are mildly alkaline as this promotes the swelling (and

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Steel disc of diameter 5 cm with raised letters being immersed in milk prior to FDG measurement. The tube next to the letter F is the
instrument nozzle. Photograph courtesy of PhD students Akin Ali and Patrick Gordon ( former MCR President)
weakening) of most proteinaceous materials. This is why soap hurts when it gets in your
eye. Some formulations use enzymes – lipases to break down fats, proteases for proteins
etc. Leaving dirty dishes to soak for a while allows these agents to penetrate the soil, weaken
it and make cleaning faster. Soils that are hydrophobic (such as burnt on fats) don’t favour
swelling so we have to resort to elbow grease. The morning after a good dinner is then quite
a challenge, particularly as we expect the dishwasher and a single detergent to tackle
different foods and different surfaces all at the same time.
Chemical engineers can help in two ways. The first is in quantifying the changes in
material microstructure and shape as the food reacts with the wash water. Our group works
on the rheology of ‘soft solids’ such as Marmite and pastes, but studying food protein
gels swelling in real time in an opaque liquid represents a challenge because the gels are very
weak (strengths of a few Pascals – that’s not big) and deform if you touch them. We
therefore invented a new technique called fluid dynamic gauging (FDG), which allows us
to track the surface of a soil immersed in liquid without touching it. The photographs show
a steel plate with the letters ‘FDG’ spelled out with plastic sheet of thickness 200 microns
being immersed in milk, and the image generated by the FDG tool scanning the surface
when submerged in this Cleopatran bath. Recently we have used it to study biofilms, which
are notoriously fragile. Procter & Gamble now use one in their research on developing new
detergents.
Reconstruction of letters on steel disc immersed in milk obtained by FDG measurement. Colours indicate height, in mm (see legend).
No fancy reconstruction used. Reproduced from Gordon et al. (2010) Measurement Sci. Tech., 21, 085103

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Flow pattern created by a horizontal
water jet impinging on a vertical glass
sheet, taken from behind the glass.
Ruler tape markings at cm intervals.
Photograph courtesy of final year
MEng research project students
Liam Stevens and David Faria
In addition to knowing how thick and how strong a deposit layer is, we need to be able to
calculate the size of the forces acting on it to cause removal. This is relatively
straightforward for fluids flowing in filled pipes or ducts. Dishwashers and tank cleaning
systems, however, employ jets of liquid which impinge on a surface and drain away as a
thin film. Material is cleaned away quickly at the point of impingement but most of the
surface only sees the draining film. The photograph shows an example of the flow pattern
created by an impinging liquid jet: it involves a transition from turbulent to laminar flow
as well as surface tension shaping the free surface. These are complex flows and we use
experimental as well as computational techniques to calculate the shape and speed of the
flow and thereby determine the stresses imposed by liquid on the soil and its flow path.
Combining this with our knowledge of the soil’s strength with different detergents should
allow us to predict how long it will take to wash the dishes, without having to spend a
lifetime testing it at the sink. This knowledge can be applied beyond designing and
optimising dishwashers to the cleaning of tanks, disinfection systems and (if you think
about it) urinals.
Jesus College has supported this research in many ways, from hosting conferences and
academic visitors to providing able students and occasions for cross-disciplinary
discussions on the ethics of water supply, surfactant chemistry and the physiological
factors affecting the surface tension of urine. ■

Complex Fluids: Size Matters
Stuart Clarke
MATERIALS SCIENCE I Jesus College Annual Report 2012 23
Experimenting with bouncing putty
At the Easter term President’s Evening I introduced the Society to polymers and how
their properties and behaviour are a direct result of the fact they are very long
molecules, rather like string. Like string, polymers are prone to getting entangled,
resulting in slow molecular motion, often making polymer fluids rather thick (‘viscous’).
The exploitation of this behaviour in a range of products was outlined from toys, to food
thickeners to enhanced oil recovery. The President himself helped to demonstrate that he
could successfully race the polymer molecules, by stretching the material faster than the
molecules can respond, leading to the polymers snapping/breaking.
The connection of individual polymers by cross-links to make a single, super large
molecule, or network, was outlined and illustrated with hot and cold jellies. Hot jellies are
networks that are permanent. However, cold jellies have crosslinks that can make and
break reversibly on changing the temperature. Materials similar to cold jellies have a
number of topical applications exploiting the triggered breaking of the networks and
releasing agents such as drugs or other actives. Dr Ian Wilson demonstrated a ‘taste
explosion’ from a collapsing cold jelly network.
Polymers can also be cooled to low temperatures. However, unlike most small
molecules, many polymers don’t form crystals, where the molecules are in perfect
alignment, but they remain highly disordered and form a glass. The contrasting soft
character of a warm polymer (‘melt’) and the brittle nature of a cold polymer glass was

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Tess and John Adkins take a plunge into the cornflour
illustrated with some toffees and a hammer by Dr Garth Wells – the fragments of the
shattered glassy toffee scattered across the Upper Hall.
I also briefly introduced the idea of Colloids, essentially tiny particles of one material
embedded in another. These were illustrated with a number of examples including,
mayonnaise, shaving foam, meringue, bread, soup, perfume and polish. Cornflour
particles dispersed in water were shown to be a liquid you can walk on by the Dean of
Chapel and the rapid formation of gas bubbles in coke and champagne when granulated
sugar is added was used to make a fountain, illustrating nucleation phenomena.
Thanks and compliments go to the Head Chef (David Thomas) and his colleagues for
an excellent meal. David was instrumental in connecting the physical science with the
choice of menu and demonstrated an astounding knowledge and wealth of experience of
unusual foods and their preparation. Lisa Brown and her team helped in setting up the
demonstrations and audio visual components in the Upper Hall, which all worked very
smoothly.
Finally, the speaker would like to thank Dr Seung Lee (2007) in setting up the
demonstrations and the fellowship for being good sports and taking part in so many
demonstrations. ■

Left-Handed Letters
Christopher Burlinson
ENGLISH STUDIES I Jesus College Annual Report 2012 25
O n 3 November 1579, the lawyer and pamphleteer John Stubbs was brought from the
Tower of London to Westminster, where his right hand was publicly chopped off.
Earlier that year, he had published The Discovery of a Gaping Gulf whereinto England is Like to be
Swallowed by an Other French Marriage, an eighty-page pamphlet sharply criticising the
possible marriage between Queen Elizabeth and François, the catholic Duke of Anjou,
which had been under negotiation for over a year. Stubbs’s pamphlet infuriated Elizabeth,
who issued a proclamation condemning it as a “fardel of false reports, suggestions and
manifest lies”. And as he stood on the scaffold awaiting his punishment (alongside
William Page, his bookseller), Stubbs made use of the occasion to deliver a speech
protesting his loyalty to the queen and urging his audience to “use your hands holily”. He
subsequently told Sir Christopher Hatton, of the Privy Council, that after his mutilation
he had cried “God save the Queen” before falling unconscious and being hauled back to
the Tower; this story also appeared, with embellishment, in William Camden’s Annales:
“I can remember that standing by John Stubbes, so soone as his right hand was off, put off
his hat with the left, and cryed aloud, God saue the Queene”.
I became interested in Stubbs in 2008, while studying sixteenth- and seventeenthcentury
student notebooks in the British Library. In one particular book, among scores of
pages of theological notes probably compiled by a Cambridge student during the 1580s,
I came across translations of twenty or so Psalms, apparently written by Stubbs and copied
out about eleven years later, long after his death. They were signed ‘John Stubbs Scaeva’,
a Latin nickname referring to Gaius Mucius Scaevola, a young Roman who in the sixth
century BC had attempted to assassinate the King of the Etruscans, and who, when
captured, had thrust his right hand into a fire to demonstrate his courage and devotion to
Rome. The poems were preceded by a letter written to Stubbs’s brother-in-law, the famous
Puritan divine Thomas Cartwright, who at that time was in Antwerp, taking up a position
as preacher to a church of English merchants.
Stubbs’s Psalm translations are not the most elegant of poems, and it is perhaps for
that reason that they have never yet been studied (and barely even noticed by their
librarians). But as I made the connection with the Stubbs of The Gaping Gulf, it became
clear that they were an exciting find. Scholars of English literary history are currently
fascinated by the various Psalm translations written by sixteenth-century prisoners in the
Tower, to whom this book of the Bible seems to have allowed a shared voice of repentance
and humility. And in spite of Stubbs’s occasional clumsiness, his letter to Cartwright
actually speaks about his own poetry in an extremely thoughtful and self-conscious way,
recalling other Protestant poets of the time – not least Edmund Spenser, who as a
Cambridge student in the 1570s would have heard the Presbyterian lectures that led to
Cartwright losing his university chair in divinity. Stubbs’s poems, then, provide further
evidence about the debates on poetry, nationality, and godliness that were clearly animating
Cambridge circles in the 1570s and 80s.
As I continued to work on Stubbs’s Psalms and letters, in fact, I became even more
interested in what they had to say about his place in those very Puritan circles – about
the peculiar ways in which Protestants and Puritans might have corresponded with
one another, and the place that godly poetry might have had in their exchanges and
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They provide further insight, for example, into the language of Puritan friendship and
brotherhood. In Stubbs’s correspondence with Michael Hickes, for instance, a close
Cambridge friend who had found employment as a secretary to William Cecil, his
mutilation, and the words written subsequently with his left hand, become closely tied up
with the men’s friendship, and with their concern for one another’s godliness. In the
earliest surviving letter written by Stubbs’s left hand, for instance, he asks Hickes to “pray
for your old poor restrained friend that he may never commit any thing unworthy any of
your Godly acquaintances, or that should make you ashamed to acknowledge him to be
that he is your loving and faithful fellow and friend”. Hickes would thank Stubbs for his
godly words and “assure” him that “these few lines, in this ragged piece of paper, and
written with the left hand, do [...] truly declare yow to love me”.
Stubbs, meanwhile, wrote many more letters of the same kind, urging Hickes to
“deplore the folly and idleness of our misspent youth”, and redeem it “by spending the
rest with more conscience to our building up in faith and faithful conversation, whereby
we may in some godly vocation glorify our God and benefit our brethren and withal live like
Adam’s children”. His letter to Cartwright, in which he encloses the copies of his Psalm
translations and urges “those my good brethren with you” to “admonish them frankly”,
shows us that writing and sending poems was an intimate part of that Puritan
conversation.
So too was keeping them safe. Stubbs’s poems were copied into this Cambridge
notebook shortly after 1591, when Cartwright had been prosecuted, tried before the Star
Chamber and imprisoned on charges of sedition (relating to his preaching in England and
the Netherlands). The fact that the poems were copied down at this particular time might
well show us, in a kind of paper chase, how Puritan papers and archives might have passed
from hand to hand at moments of persecution and danger.
Stubbs’s poems were written to be sent across the English Channel to Antwerp, along
the same route (and possibly in the very same ships) as the mercantile traffic passing
between England and the Netherlands at the time, to which Stubbs himself refers to in his
letter to Cartwright: “thank Mr Travers, and warrant unto him that the richest merchant in
Antwerp cannot speed me of such merchandise as his letters contain, so fit for mine use,
and so pleasing mine humour”. That relationship between poetry and merchandise –
traffic and correspondence in godly words and rich merchandise – is something that I will
be working on this Easter Term, in a fellowship funded by the Centre for Research in Arts,
Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). Into this hitherto unappreciated
cross-Channel history of letters and poems, Stubbs’s modest translations give us a piercing
insight. ■

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of
(Basic Secondary School) Mathematics
Dominic Orchard, Jesus Graduate Student
EXPLANATIONS I Jesus College Annual Report 2012 27
They claim it was Einstein, it may have been
Feynman, but whoever said “if you can’t explain it
simply you don’t understand it well enough” really laid
down the gauntlet for us theoreticians. Whilst
sometimes excruciating, I have found that this
process of simplifying and explaining greatly benefits
my understanding of my own work and its place
within the wider research context. This April I had the
fantastic opportunity to once again put myself
through this process at the 5th annual Jesus College
Graduate Conference.
Primarily, my research concerns the design of programming languages for creating reliable
and efficient software. In contrast with natural languages, such as English, Latin, etc.,
programming languages are highly constrained and contain much less ambiguity. They
allow programmers to define complex calculations and manipulations of data which are
then translated into more simple, prosaic instructions understood by computer hardware.
A significant aspect of my research consists of defining the semantics of programming
languages using abstract mathematics. A formal and precise semantics allows
programmers to more accurately reason about the correctness of their programs, which is
especially important in safety-critical systems, such as medical devices and transport.
Faced with just fifteen minutes of air-time I wondered how I could explain any part of
my fairly theoretical research in programming languages. How could I provide any
intuition about what any of it means, particularly the mathematics? Fortuitously, many
concepts in mathematics have the remarkable habit of appearing frequently in a variety of
different contexts. Even more fortuitously for me, the underlying mathematical concepts
of my research appear in a dizzyingly large number of areas, not least of which is in basic
mathematics. The concept is remarkably simple and unknowingly embedded in the minds
of most people with even basic arithmetic knowledge, yet it underpins a vast number of
topics in mathematics, logic, philosophy, physics, and computer science.
Consider the following simple sums:
2 + 2 = 4 3 + 0 = 3 0 + 7 = 7 0 + 0 = 0
The last three have a common form: x + 0 = x or 0 + x = x. These are two simple axioms of
integer arithmetic, where a variable x acts as a place-holder meaning “any number”.
Consider now the following sum of three numbers:
3 + 4 + 2 = 9
The result can be calculated by adding together one pair of numbers at a time, in two
different ways:
(3 + 4) + 2 = 7 + 2 = 9
3 + (4 + 2) = 3 + 6 = 9
where parentheses delimit addition of two numbers. Clearly it is irrelevant which pair of
integers is added first; the final result is the same. This behaviour can be generalised as the
axiom: (x + y) + z = x + (y + z).

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In a large variety of contexts there exist operations similar to addition which have
axioms of the same form as the three axioms for integer addition shown here. These
axioms are generalised to arbitrary operations and domains by the concept of a monoid.
A monoid comprises a collection of items, an operation that from any two such items
calculates another item, and a special item n, called the neutral item, along with the
following three axioms:
x _ n = x {right-neutral}
n _ x = x {left-neutral} (1)
(x _ y) _ z = x _ (y _ z) {associativity}
The intuition for the neutral item is that it contributes nothing to the result of . For
integer addition the collection of items are integers, the operation is + and the neutral item
is 0. Another monoid you will be familiar with is integer multiplication with operation
and neutral item 1 where, for example, the right-neutral property is thus x 1 = x. You
might like to convince yourself of the truth of the remaining axioms.
There are many operations in mathematics that satisfy these axioms but there are
some which do not; monoids are not trivially applicable. For example, integer subtraction
has no neutral item that satisfies the left-neutral property and subtraction violates associativity
e.g. (2 – 3) – 4 ≠ 2 – (3 – 4).
While monoids are relatively basic they are important in many systems, forming the
basis for further simplifications, usually in conjunction with additional axioms or properties.
For example, consider the property: that x + (–x) = 0, describing simplification of the
addition of a number to its negation. Given a longer sum, e.g. x + y + (–y) + z, this property
can be applied to simplify the sum to x + 0 + z. Because + on integers with 0 is a monoid,
the sum can be further simplified to x + z.
Monoids appear in many contexts other than arithmetic. A fun example I demonstrated
live at the Jesus Graduate Conference is the monoid of paint mixing. Consider a collection
of acrylic paints. There is an operation that takes two colours and calculates a new colour:
mixing them! Mixing is associative: given three paints they can be mixed to the same colour
by first mixing an arbitrary pair of paints and then mixing the remaining unmixed paint.
But what is the neutral item? White acrylic paint is not neutral, it lightens the hue of the
paint. Instead a substance called base extender is the neutral item. Base extender adjusts the
drying time and consistency of acrylic paint whilst preserving its colour. Thus in terms of the
colour, base extender is the neutral item of the mixing operation, satisfying the left-neutral
and right-neutral properties; it is a monoid! Do try this at home.
In my work with semantics, programs written in some programming language are
described as abstract mathematical objects, representing programs or fragments of
programs. These objects have a monoid structure whose operation combines two
programs to form another program, similar to constructing a sentence from sub-sentences
and clauses in natural languages. The neutral item for this monoid represents a program
that does nothing. The monoid axioms form the basis for reasoning about the correctness
of the programs and correctness of the translation between the language and the
underlying instructions of computer hardware. Thus, when developing a new semantics
a key question is: what is the monoid for this semantics? This monoidal requirement often
helps determine the mathematical components needed for a semantics of the particular
language. The properties of a monoid are certainly not the only interesting properties that
arise, but for a wide variety of contexts they appear as basic properties – and they really are
very simple! After all, you already learnt them when you were at school. ■

A Taste of Cold Steel
Lucy Fielding, Jesus Graduate Student
According to archaeologists, the Iron Age began in 1300 BC and lasted for around two
millennia. Today, steels (alloys of iron and carbon) comprise 95% of global metal
consumption and this trend shows no sign of declining. Glancing at the media, however,
one would be forgiven for assuming that steel is now a has-been. We are bombarded with
stories of novel materials: carbon nanotubes, metallic glasses, graphene, carbon fibre,
nickel superalloys . . . all of which are “stronger than steel”. “Now we can construct space
elevators!” claim the articles. “Let’s build a climbing frame to the moon! We’ll use this
stuff to make everything!”
The observant among us, however, will note that most cars, trains and buildings still
don’t feature superalloys, metallic glass or magic nanotubes. Neither are they invisible;
nor do they fly; nor do they do any of the other things that journalists tend to ‘predict’.
Instead, steels somehow remain the best – and cheapest – materials for the job. Also, they
are stronger than steel. This is because ‘steel’ is a vague construct used by sensationalists,
with an unspecified strength guaranteed to be less than that of a novel material.
Metallurgists rarely refer to ‘steel’, just as the Inuit have fifty words for snow, not one of
which is ‘snow’.
Steels, on the other hand, are alloys with a colourful variety of properties: strength,
toughness, hardness, ductility and wear resistance. They are everywhere: railways,
pipelines, bearings, jet engines, armour, nuclear reactors . . . and more. Many of these
technologies are cutting-edge in their design, and require highperformance steels to
match. The benefits of steels lie first and foremost in their versatility. Iron atoms can ‘stack’
themselves in various distinct configurations (just like a greengrocer stacking oranges –
there are different ways to do it). Each configuration is known as a ‘phase’. As well as the
two main iron phases (austenite and ferrite) there is a carbide phase – a compound of iron
and carbon (Fe3C) – called cementite. These phases often exist in combinations and have
different properties. For example: cementite is strong and brittle, whereas ferrite is softer
and tougher. If we combine them into a structure called pearlite (consisting of alternating
layers of ferrite and cementite), we produce a steel that is reasonably strong and tough.
Transmission electron microscope
image of superbainite structure.
α = ferrite and γ = austenite.
The inset image is a carbon
nanotube to scale
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The ability to harness the properties of different steel phases has been around for
centuries. The temperature and composition of the steel determines which phases can
form. By heating and cooling different areas of a sword in different ways, ancient Japanese
swordsmiths could produce a steel blade that was soft and tough in the interior, with an
incredibly hard cutting edge. Today, heat treatment is still used to produce phases or
combinations of phases with desirable properties. Alloying elements can also modify the
properties: manganese and chromium increase strength; molybdenum prevents
embrittlement. It is the metallurgist’s role to explore new methods of heat treatment and
alloying in order to produce novel steels.
‘Superbainite’ is one such alloy. It is designed for high-strength applications and is
currently one of the strongest metals in existence. Its strength comes from an incredibly
fine microstructure consisting of two phases: ferrite and austenite, and it is the
morphology of the phases that is important. The ferrite is in the form of plates, separated
by thin films of austenite.
In order to deform a metal, it is necessary to force its atoms to change position relative
to each other. However, an interface (such as the boundary between two phases, marking
a change in the atomic arrangement) acts as a barrier to this atomic ‘rearrangement’, and
it becomes harder to deform the material. By refining the microstructure, we can create
more interfaces and increase the strength of a metal. The structure of superbainite is
unusually fine: the ferrite plates are as thin as 20 nanometres.
This scale is typically difficult to achieve because it requires very low transformation
temperatures (200°C compared to a conventional 400°C). When transforming from one
phase to another, steels can release heat, limiting how much they can be cooled. The
problem was overcome by harnessing a different type of transformation – the bainite
transformation – that re-absorbs the heat that is released. The high density of interfaces
in superbainite is the origin of its strength.
But strength, for all its virtues, is not the only important property of a metal. Ductility
(how much the metal can be deformed before it fractures) and toughness (resistance to
crack propagation) are also key. Yet if a steel is very strong, it may have low toughness or
ductility. The real challenge is to obtain an optimum combination of several properties.
Some steels make use of an unusual property of phase transformations. It is possible to
induce a change from one phase to another not by heating but by deforming the metal.
Deformation involves atomic movement, so it is conceivable that the iron atoms can
change configuration, producing a different phase. This can enhance the ductility of steels
while retaining their strength, a phenomenon known as transformation-induced plasticity
(TRIP).
Returning to superbainite, we find that the two-phase microstructure is a double-edged
sword. It is suspected that the TRIP effect is converting the softer austenite into a much
harder, more brittle form of iron, resulting in low toughness. If we are to design
superbainitic alloys for applications that require high degrees of impact resistance (such
as armour), we must identify and remedy the causes of these poor properties, without
losing the strength for which it has become famous.
We must also try to accelerate the transformation. While it is desirable to transform
superbainite at very low temperatures, it can take 10 days or longer to complete the
treatment. A sample of the alloy designed to transform at room temperature currently sits
in the Science Museum in London. At the start of its 100-year transformation time, it gives
us a glimpse of what we may be able to achieve in the future. There are many exciting
advances still waiting to be made. Why pin our hopes on expensive, rare and exotic
alternatives, when we are living in the Steel Age? ■

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Some Notable Jewish Students at Jesus
Derek Taylor OBE (1951)
Arthur Cohen (Magdalene) was the 5th Wrangler in 1852 and the President of the Union
in the same year. He didn’t become an MA, however, until 1871. The probem he had in
graduating was that Jews were not eligible to take degrees until the Universities Test Act
was passed.
In 1871 there were not more than 35,000 Jews in Britain. Today there are no more than
300,000 but we try to punch above our weight. Among the earliest Jews at Jesus was
Abraham Levine who came up in 1889, got a first in maths and became a fellow of the
college. Mortimer Schiff, Eustace Aron and Maurice Solomons were up around 1910 but all
died in the First World War.
One of the brightest of that group was Rev. Ephraim Levine who got a first in Oriental
Languages. Ephy Levine was a fine Orthodox rabbi and a first class speaker and wit. He was
also passionate about horse racing, which a future Chief Rabbi could not approve. Now
Orthodox Jews observe two days for major festivals where the less observant only keep
them for one. When discussing his hobby, Ephy Levine told the Chief Rabbi “If you can
keep two days for festivals, I can keep four days for Goodwood!”.
Ephy liked to recount the occasion when he came back to the college one year for a
reunion dinner, and the Bursar explained that the main course was pork. As he knew the
rabbi would not eat it, he had had the kitchen specially prepare a ham omelette!
Samuel Benady came up in 1922 and went on to be the Head of the Gibraltar Bar for 25
years. Moses Finkelstein arrived in the Thirties and eventually became an Honorary Fellow
The Cambridge Jewish Student Centre on Thompson’s Lane

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and Professor of Ancient History at the University. The most famous Jewish Jesus man
between the wars was, however, Jacob Bronowski who was came up in 1927. Bronowski
was born in Poland and came to Britain as a refugee in his teens, speaking no English. He
still got into Jesus, won a half blue for chess and pursued both an academic and a literary
career when he left. He was particularly well known on early television for a series called
The Ascent of Man.
You need 10 men (a minyan) to hold a full Jewish service and in my day, (1951-1954) it
was always said that you could get a minyan at Jesus. At that time, as always, there were
men who were going to make their mark in the world, like John Charkham who became
the Chief Adviser to the Bank of England in 1985, and Michael Podro who became a
distinguished art historian. You remember your friends, though, for their eccentricities as
well. Like Graham Tayar who played in goal for the soccer team, with his pebble glasses
secured to his head with sellotape. Among the future doctors in my time were Gordon
Cohen and Frank Grossmark, though in those days it didn’t help in the medical world to
have a name like Cohen.
As with all the other men at Jesus, we were always treated with the utmost courtesy. In
the first term we were invited to have a cup of tea with the Dean individually, but my own
tête-a-tête seemed to me to end rather abruptly when I replied to his enquiry that I was an
Orthodox Jew.
After the State of Israel was created, a lot of Jews emigrated to build up the country.
Among the Jesuans was Professor Vivian Halpern, who was the Head of the Physics
Department at Bar Ilan University. Still helping back home, though, was Professor Maurice
Priestly who became the head of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Manchester.
Academic movement and fields of study move both ways though; Francis Landy (1966-9)
went on to be Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Alberta and Philip Selby
(1957-60) became the Executive Director of the International Union against Cancer.
Everybody’s favourite don for many years was Freddy Brittain, of course, and Simeon
Rydz (1955-8) would have been one of his pupils, as he read Modern and Mediaeval
languages. I read history, so when I turned up for a Reunion dinner and found myself
sitting opposite Freddy, I checked my facts. “You taught modern languages, I think”
said I. “No” said Freddy, “I taught mediaeval languages”. “Ah yes” said one of his former
pupils sitting on the other side, “but they were modern when you started!”.
Another refugee only reached safety in Britain in September 1939; the late Siegbert
Prawer became an authority on German literature and culture. See his obituary on
page 125. During the war Leonard Michaels (1938-40 and 1945-6) was in operational
Intelligence at the Admiralty.
There was even a Jewish clan at Jesus, which was the Cohen family. They provided Bruce
Cohen in 1958 to go with his father, brother, son, two uncles and five cousins.
The first Jewess I have located was Janine Ehrenstein who came up in 1981 (the first
Jewish woman Fellow was Professor Lisa Jardine, 1976). There have been many other Jews
who have massively benefited from their time at Jesus and it is always a privilege to be able
to say that we were at the college. ■

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Life in the Day of the Dean of College
Garth Wells
F ortunately, the duties of the Dean of College do not fill a full day. It would be a concern
if they did. What follows is a collage, or perhaps a term rather than a day in the life of
the Dean of College. It is not a dull college office to hold.
I usually receive the more interesting emails to the Dean of College at around 8:30am.
By this time the Head Porter has vetted any Incident Reports from the night before, and any
deemed worthy of further attention are sent to me. No two reports are the same, although
some junior members do tend to feature in more than two reports. There can be confusion
with regards to dates as most reports tend to be written either side of midnight. When I
receive an Incident Report in the morning I will usually take some time to mull over
whether or not action is required, and if action is required whether or not it is urgent. Some
issues require immediate meetings with the protagonists, while in other cases the best
course of action can be to leave the perpetrators in uneasy anticipation for a few days.
At any time during the day electronic party permit requests come in. Any gathering in
College requires a permit, with the primary concern always being safety. The advice of the
Head Porter is invaluable in deciding whether or not to grant a permit – he has a very good
nose for what goes on in College. Almost all permits are approved, subject occasionally to
conditions related to safety (usually the presence of a sober fire marshal). Some permit
requests do raise eyebrows; memorable recent requests have included a bouncy castle in
a Chapel Court room for a birthday party, a twelve-hour long party and a toasted sandwich
party starting at around midnight. Seeing the permit applications makes me cognisant of
the remarkable breadth and diversity of social, cultural and sporting activities that junior
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I spend most of my day at the Engineering Department and usually come into the
College for lunch, so I send emails to junior members to arrange appointments after lunch
in my College room. Most meetings are to discuss upcoming events at the College, issues
around tenancy agreements, incident reports from the Porters or unpaid bills. I sometimes
meet with the leaders of a society or club to discuss an upcoming event. These meetings
are constructive as we together find arrangements that work for all involved. It is inevitable
that in a community as large as the College there are occasional issues between neighbours
on staircases, and especially so close to the examination period. Usually a conversation
with the parties involved, sometimes apart and sometimes together, is enough to deflate
tensions (although on occasions the end of the academic year cannot come fast enough!).
The contents of Incident Reports are wide and varied, and do usually require attention.
Nowadays, without curfews, the requirement to wear a gown after dark and without
live-in housekeepers to tell tales, a degree of audacity is required for a junior member to
come to the attention of the Dean of College. One of the more memorable Incident Reports
of the past year related to a portable hot tub that was installed in a garden on Jesus Lane.
Following a noise complaint in the early hours of the morning, a Porter investigated and
was greeted by the sight of the naked backsides of junior members exiting the hot tub
leaping over the fences of Jesus Lane gardens.
An important duty of the Dean of College is to deal with junior members who have not
settled their College bill. Usually I will meet each term with all students who have an
outstanding bill and have not reached an arrangement with the College. It is rare that
I meet with a student who is in genuine financial difficulty (the College provides support
mechanisms for such cases); in most cases the cause is junior members still learning to
manage their financial affairs. In many cases, junior members are taking on a financial
obligation for the first time in the their lives and some need guidance, sometimes firm
guidance, on managing and meeting their financial responsibilities.
I attended the Student Welfare event during the past year, which recognises the
contributions that many make to student life, and especially contributions made by a team
of junior members. The Senior Tutor spoke and ran through the various contributions that
those present had made towards students’ welfare. I was feeling overlooked, with
recognition of the Dean of College reserved until the end, at which point the Senior Tutor,
in jest, questioned my presence given my 'negative' contribution to the student welfare
ledger! As Dean of College my task is the dry one of enforcing College regulations and
statutes, but it is certainly necessary in the College community to provide an occasional
reminder of the rules. ■

Memoir

Science in the Antarctic
Stan Evans
On 22 November 1955 I embarked on
MV Tottan, a Norwegian sealer of 500
tons, at Southampton Dock. She was
chartered by the Royal Society to take an
Advance Party of ten men to the Antarctic to
find a suitable location and to build a base hut
for the British contribution to the
International Geophysical Year 1957-8 (IGY).
It was the second exploratory expedition
mounted by the society in its three-hundredyear
history. The first was Captain Cook: the
Transit of Venus Expedition of 1768.
Our prime task was to build the Base Hut
for the Main Party who would follow a year
later but it was thought desirable for a
meteorologist and a physicist to start
scientific work to be included in with the
Advance Party, if only to get a measure of the
conditions. The leader was David Dalgliesh,
Surgeon Commander RN.
My PhD work, at Jodrell Bank, had been in
the radar detection of meteors entering the
Earth’s atmosphere: the properties of the
meteors and the properties of the atmosphere
where the meteor burns up, at about 100 km
height. In just three weeks I had to familiarise
myself with two specialist instruments.
The all-sky camera takes regular
photographs of the aurora (e.g. 10 sec
exposures at 1 min intervals) during the
hours of darkness.
The Dobson spectrophotometer compares
the strength of certain lines in the spectrum
of sunlight; some are absorbed by ozone,
some are not, and from their relative
strengths one computes the total amount of
ozone in the atmosphere at that time and
place. In 1955 Dobson instruments were in
operation at a number of observing stations
in Europe and scattered over the northern
hemisphere, including one in Spitzbergen at
77°N, but only one in the whole southern
hemisphere, at Christchurch N.Z.
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To mark the centenary of Scott’s death, Stan Evans (Fellow 1976, Emeritus
Fellow 1996), remembers his own voyage to Antarctica 57 years ago . . .
With occasional engine breakdowns in the
doldrums of mid-Atlantic, we finally berthed
in the spectacular bay at Rio de Janeiro in mid
December. Amongst other stores, several
carcasses of sheep, a pig, and sides of beef
were purchased, to be slung in the rigging
(until they could be deep frozen) to provide
us with fresh meat in the winter. Thankfully
there were no engine breakdowns in the
much stormier waters ahead and it was
Christmas Eve when we reached the harbour
at Grytviken, South Georgia, a full month
since leaving England.
Shackleton’s Endurance expedition of 1915
revealed that there is a general circulation of
the pack ice in a clockwise direction around
the Weddell Sea, leaving more fragmented ice
and occasional open water leads along the
eastern shoreline. Therefore we approached
the Weddell Sea from the vicinity of Kap
Norvegia, hugging the eastern coastline.
Only one ship had passed this way since 1915:
the Argentinian ice breaker General San Martin
in the summer of 1954-5, just one year ahead
of us. Tottan was not an ice breaker but our
captain, Lief Jacobsen, had one man huddled
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scouting the immediate surroundings for
leads through the ice, and reading the sky for
darker shades where there may be distant
open water. Sometimes we used pick axes
ahead of the ship and – what was much more
fun – dynamite. After several days in the pack
we became beset near 77°S. It was the
furthest south Shackleton had reached, on
this same course, locked in the ice from
which he never recovered the ship. Our
instructions from the Royal Society read:
‘find a site for a fixed observatory south of 75°
in the Vahsel Bay area of the Weddell Sea’.
So no time was lost in setting out extra
charges of dynamite to gain our release from
the ice and to turn back north, searching the
coastline for a landing site.
Pack ice, is the frozen surface of the sea
comprising floes, large and small, with
occasional leads of open water where the floes
part, or pressure ridges where compressive
forces bring the floes together. The outer
parts of the pack break up in the summer,
drift north, and melt. Sea ice which is several
years old may be many metres thick and, if
attached to the ‘land’, is known as fast ice.
Falling snow inland, on the continent,
compacts over many years, forming firn, and
reaching depths in the Antarctic which
completely obliterate the topography of the
native rock. Then the gradual discharge of the
ice from the centre of the continent to the
coastline is on a very broad front in the form
of an ice sheet which thins as it creeps towards
the coast. If this sheet floats out over the sea,
as much of it does in Antarctica, it is known

as shelf ice, typically several hundred metres
thick. The eventual loss of this ice to the
ocean is by calving: with tidal motion, a crack
can grow in the shelf until it extends through
the full thickness and a huge tabular berg
breaks away – dimensions of 100 km have
been reported. The front of the remaining ice
shelf left facing the sea, is then a vertical cliff
perhaps 30m high. This was the sight that
faced us now; we had to be able to land 220
tons of unwieldy stores onto cargo sledges
and up to a chosen base site, about 4 km
‘inland’ on the featureless shelf ice. The
Tottan stayed alongside for two weeks which
was a huge help, both for somewhere to live
and for the help which the crew gave us. She
left on January 23 before the ice closed in on
her.
A meticulous record had to be kept of the
stores depots: building materials, food, fuel,
clothing, etc, so that items could be found in
the order required. All would soon be buried
by drifting snow. Most immediately we
required five two-man tents, with sleeping
bags, primus stove, and ration box installed.
The tents had a single pole (before the
introduction of hoops) and wide ground flaps
onto which snow blocks could be piled for
stability and protection, around the walls. On
top of the ground sheet, which was of rubber,
was a very thick fleece of natural sheepskin
and then goose-down sleeping bags, one
inside another. For the next month or two of
hard outdoor work we needed 4000 k calories
per day and it came in the form of sledging
rations: total sustenance for two men for ten
days packed into a plywood case 2ft long ×
1ft square. The Primus stove had to be
balanced on the ration box between the
sleeping bags, and melting the first snow on
a Primus, without burning the pan, was
tricky. Breakfast was made from porridge
oats, milk powder, and a half pound of butter
melted in to augment the calories; cocoa
followed (from the same pan). At breaks in
the work we would gather in the shelter of an
empty tractor crate, for ship’s biscuits,
raisins, and hot syrupy tea. At the end of the
day’s work it was back to the two-man tent
for supper: pemmican and pea-flour, both
high in protein. One needed a good night’s
sleep to digest that supper.
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As for clothing, the principle was to trap
air between separate layers of materials,
mainly woollen – except for the string vest
(truly coarse string then), and over all, a
wind-proof cotton anorak, woven so tightly
it was truly air-tight. In the first few months
of hut building the full complement of
clothing was rarely required; there was 24
hour daylight, often warm sunlight and, if
not too much wind, shirt-sleeve weather.
Cargo boots, cargo gloves (on a harness) and
a Balaclava helmet were favoured. Snow
goggles must always be worn. Boots and
windproofs would be removed for sleeping
but there was no possibility of a wash or a
change of clothes until, as it proved,
sometime in May when water could be
produced for the hut bathroom. In winter,
boots would be replaced by Eskimo mukluks:
not waterproof, but freely breathable to
prevent build-up of perspiration. Our version
was made of a coarse canvas, laced up the
shins, with space for soft duffle liners.
We lived in tents for five weeks, working 15
hours per day on construction of the Main
Hut, 130ft long by 27ft wide. One towering
character was George Lush, Lieutenant RN,
of limitless practical knowledge, and
authority in controlling the ranks. The plan
was to erect and enclose the first four bays, to
provide a bunkroom and a kitchen (but not
yet the bathroom) allowing us to move in
from the tents. But the race was still on to
enclose the whole of the rest of the structure,
to keep out drifting snow and to avoid wind
damage which could have come at any
moment. The shell was completed by the
beginning of April so that, from that time on,
most work could continue sheltered indoors.
The stores too were brought indoors, except
for an emergency dump 1 km away where
tents, stoves, food, and fuel were kept against
the possibility of there being no relief ship
the next year, and as an insurance against the
risk of fire in the base hut.
Heating, cooking, and water were provided
by anthracite stoves. The kitchen water tank
held 160 gallons, the bathroom 80 gallons
and three 7.5kVA diesel generators provided
electricity, so that a completely new lifestyle
and routine could be established, with
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Hut under construction
galvanised iron, was ready for use in mid May.
It was filled from the adjacent boiler and
emptied into a cavern of its own making in the
porous firn beneath the floor. One bathed
every ten days.
The duty of cook, each man in turn for a
week at a time, was the most exhausting job
of all. Two ‘gash hands’ could be called in for
an hour before the meal (filling the water tank
with snow blocks for example) and for an
hour afterwards, clearing away and washing
up. Feeding ten very hungry men, given a fixed
set of rations issued at the beginning of each
week, taxed ingenuity. If a meal was greeted
in silence, an exhausted cook’s heart sank, but
more often it was a race to get ‘seconds’. Huge
quantities of bread, baked daily, were
consumed. Once a week the carcasses in the
snow tunnel store provided a roast, but no
satisfactory vegetables. Potatoes had to be
reconstituted from dried powder and frozen
peas had not yet been invented.
The Royal Society approved the name for
the Base site – ‘Halley Bay’ to mark the
tercentenary of the birth of Sir Edmund
Halley, the Physical Secretary of the Royal
Society who proposed the first Cook
expedition, and in honour of the then 1955
Physical Secretary, the shelf on this coastline
was named the ‘Brunt Ice Shelf ’. This we
learnt by Morse code and a fickle short-wave
radio link with Port Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Personal telegrams cost 5d (=2p) per word,
but Press telegrams went for 1d per word. So
I would keep my family abreast of our
activities occasionally by writing pieces for the
Manchester Guardian. That contact had been
made because John Maddox (later editor of
Nature but at that time an editor on The
Guardian) had previously been my Tutor, in
Physics, at Manchester University.
We could also begin sending news of
scientific interest. Our meteorologist, David
Limbert, had been able to do rudimentary
observations from early on but now a
demanding routine of 3-hourly observations
started and, most notably, a 12 m
meteorological tower was built. The sun set
for the last time at the end of April so I began
operations with the auroral all-sky camera.
The Dobson spectrophotometer was to wait
until there was some daylight, in September.
The all-sky camera was of an appealingly
simple design. A regular Bolex 16mm ciné

camera in a wooden box was focused to look
vertically downwards at a convex spherical
mirror lying flat on a wooden baseboard and
forming a virtual image of the whole sky,
down to the horizon. Various azimuth and
elevation markers were included in the field
of view. The Bolex clockwork drive was
wound up, not to run at 16 frames per second
but adapted with a simple electromagnetic
trigger to release one frame at a time. Despite
the cold, the Swiss-made camera never gave
any mechanical trouble. There were initial
experiments to decide the exposure and the
repetition rate and it was necessary to develop
the films, 100 ft in length, in total darkness.
We had no suitable apparatus for quantitative
analysis of the resulting records though I
could see enough with a photographic
enlarger to report that we had a continuous
record of the night sky throughout the
winter darkness – unfortunately in black and
white.
In my personal 35mm camera I used
Ferraniacolor positive reversal film
and processed it at the Base. Those
transparencies, colours unfaded, look as
good today as they did 55 years ago.
The Dobson spectrophotometer, about 1m
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long, was mounted on a trolley. Given a hatch
opening in the sloping roof of the hut, the
trolley could be wheeled forward on the loft
floor level so that the objective lens of the
instrument came outside the roofline, with a
clear view of the sky and observations began
in early September. Passing over some quite
sophisticated optical wizardry employed in
this instrument, allow me to describe the
recording technology, which permitted the
observer’s delicate adjustments to be
averaged over a period of several minutes.
The recording arm carried a stylus, which
could write on the surface of a slowly
revolving disc, the disc being prepared by
blackening in the flame of a candle, so that
the stylus may write in the soot! At the end of
August the elevation of the sun was so low
that the values, for the total ozone content,
from top to bottom through the atmosphere,
could not be relied upon. But by the end of
September the conditions had improved, my
skill had improved, and the ozone values
using different techniques were internally
consistent. Summarised data were therefore
passed back to Dobson by telegram; I expect
he thanked me and I expect he questioned me
about some of the calibrations but he did not
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reveal that he was dismayed to see that
something must have gone wrong with the
calibrations; my ozone values were just too
low. They picked up to some extent as the
summer advanced but the values were still
lower, and the overall seasonal variation was
different, from that observed in Spitzbergen
at similar latitude in the north.
Observations in the following few years at
Halley Bay confirmed that, in October in
particular, the values are abnormally low.
You heard it first here. We had to wait until
the 1980s before the full global picture
appeared, showing the ‘ozone hole’
expanding from Antarctica, and later, a
similar process beginning in the Arctic.
The expedition achieved all the objects set
out in the RS plans, on time, and without
loss or damage to persons or goods; 90%
of the credit for this goes to David
Tottan alongside the fast ice
Dalgliesh and much of the remainder to
George Lush.
There were to be two relief ships bringing
in the main party of 20 men in January 1957:
their stores were on the faithful Tottan
with Lief Jacobsen but the personnel were on
the MV Magga Dan (on its maiden voyage),
along with the main party of the Trans-
Antarctic Expedition and their stores.
Our loyalties were with the Tottan so we were
pleased that she arrived first, but pleased also
to have the Danish cuisine for the voyage
home, arriving in the pool of London in
March 1957.
In 1959 I came to the Polar Institute in
Cambridge. During the following 14 years
I made four visits for glaciological
explorations in the Arctic and three more
in the Antarctic – but no more overwintering.
■

College
History

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Dickens – The Jesus Connection
Stephen Heath
It seems appropriate in the bicentenary year
of Dickens’s birth to think about the great
novelist’s connection with Jesus – but what
connection could there possibly be?
Dickens’s relations with Cambridge, let alone
with this College, were limited. He visited the
town for a couple of hours in 1849 on his way
home from a trip to Norfolk, and he gave
public readings in the town in 1859 and 1867.
These were a huge success, the Guildhall
packed full, with hundreds unable to gain
admission. The colleges, Dickens reported,
had ‘mustered in full force from the biggest
guns to the smallest’, so doubtless at least
some Jesuans will have been present, whether
inside or out. The main, direct Cambridge
connection begins in 1868, when his sixth
and youngest son, Henry, won a scholarship
to Trinity Hall. His other sons had been
disappointing - though later the fifth was to
become a Canadian Mountie hero! Of Henry,
however, Dickens was proud, bent on him
achieving distinction: ‘if he fail to set to in
earnest, I shall take him away’. A week after
Henry came up, Dickens sent him 3 dozen
bottles each of sherry and claret, 2 dozen
bottles of port, and 6 bottles of brandy - not
perhaps the most obvious means for
ensuring the required earnestness. Henry
nevertheless did distinguish himself, both in
the University and in his subsequent career:
he was called to the Bar, took silk, was
appointed Common Serjeant, sat as an Old
Bailey judge, and received a knighthood. Of
course, many of the people Dickens knew in
his life in London as a writer and public figure
were Cambridge educated and here it is that
the Jesus connection can be made, since,
happily, two of the most important men in
his life were Jesuans.
The first of these was John Forster, longstanding
friend and adviser on whom
Dickens depended. Born in Newcastle and
educated at the city’s Royal Grammar School,
Forster came up to Jesus in 1828, but found
the expenses at the University to be ‘very
John Forster
great’ and the world of ‘the cloistered
bookworm’ quite out of touch with ‘the real
business of life’. Accordingly, he left after a
few weeks to study law at London’s new
University College. He did not, though,
follow a legal career, choosing instead the life
of a man of letters, writing himself,
contributing to various papers and journals,
and above all providing counsel and practical
help to many of the writers of the day,
Dickens above all. The two met towards the
end of 1836 and from then on Forster was
intimately involved in Dickens’s life and
work, – conducting negotiations with
publishers, looking over in manuscript or
proof everything he wrote, helping in family
crises, in all matters indispensable. The
intimacy survived even the shock of Forster’s
marriage - he the confirmed bachelor, secure
in his chambers at 58 Lincoln Inn’s Fields
(the model for Mr Tulkinghorn’s chambers
in Bleak House); told of the marriage, Dickens
‘lay down flat, as if an Engine and Tender had
fallen on me’. After Dickens’s death Forster

wrote the Life of Charles Dickens, the first and
still invaluable biography.
Perhaps we should not make too much of
Forster in the Dickens-Jesus connection
though it is good to think that the novelist’s
closest friend was briefly a Jesuan and, like
Coleridge thirty years before him, had
enjoyed ‘the fields and groves’ of the College.
The second Jesuan in the connection,
however, is someone to whom we can and
should lay proud claim, both with regard to
Dickens and for his own importance as one
of the most interesting and controversial of
Jesus medical men: John Elliotson MD, FRCP,
FRS.
Elliotson was born in Southwark in 1791,
the son of a wealthy druggist. Educated
privately, he went at an early age, to
Edinburgh University, where he obtained his
MD in 1810. He then spent three years at Jesus
as a Fellow Commoner (the College owned
the Half Moon public house in Southwark
High Street where Elliotson’s father had his
shop and this possibly influenced the choice
of Jesus). He worked indefatigably, reading
extensively and, accumulating a ‘large
amount of curious information’. He took his
Cambridge MB in 1816 and his MD in 1821,
by which time he had begun his medical
career at London’s St Thomas’s Hospital
and was building up a flourishing private
practice. His extensively annotated
translation in 1817 of J. F. Blumenbach’s
classic Institutiones physiologicae was a notable
achievement that subsequently formed the
basis for his own comprehensive Human
Physiology of 1840. He published on a range
of topics including prussic acid in the
treatment of stomach disorders, the
diagnosis of heart diseases, and the
medicinal properties of creosote. He was the
first to use iodine in the treatment of goitre
and to prove that glanders can be transmitted
to humans, as well as being one of the earliest
British physicians to advocate the use of the
stethoscope. The Royal College of Physicians
elected him a Fellow in 1822, the Royal
Society in 1829. In short, he was eminently
successful in his profession and a great credit
to Jesus. His younger brother, Thomas,
followed him here in 1822, like him pursued
a medical career, like him became a Fellow of
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John Elliotson
the Royal Society of Physicians. Unlike his
brother’s, however, Thomas’s career was
nowise remarkable.
Small in stature and large of head,
Elliotson’s appearance was not prepossessing
and George Eliot for one was
disagreeably surprised on meeting him:
‘I had expected a tall graceful man. He is
stumpy in person and abrupt in manner’;
while Elizabeth Barrett Browning was put off
by his ‘great boney fingers’. Nor was he
prepossessing in character: vain, irascible,
overbearing in pushing his ideas, lacking in
tact, somewhat humourless. Yet a friend of
George Eliot assured her that he was ‘the best
man living’, and testimonies abound to his
kindness, goodness, and honesty.
By the time Dickens met him, Elliotson
had moved from St Thomas’s to be Professor
of the Principles and Practice of Medicine at
University College and Senior Physician at the
College Hospital. He was at the height of his
success, recognized as one of the leading
physicians of the day. At the same time, he
stood out for his vigorous progressiveness,
his keenness to espouse new ideas, and his
use of innovative medical procedures.
Innovation, indeed, extended even to matters
of dress, with Elliotson abandoning the
standard physician’s garb of knee breeches
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however, he had made his professional mark
and had a private practice bringing in a very
large annual income. Yet the Elliotson
Dickens came to know in the late 1830s at the
time of the success of Pickwick Papers was now
taking innovation too far: he had espoused
the cause of mesmerism. The creation of the
Viennese society doctor Franz Mesmer in the
latter half of the nineteenth century,
mesmerism involved belief in the existence of
a universally distributed, highly rarefied fluid.
Suffused by this fluid, the human body
suffers from blockages of its ebb and flow,
from imbalance in its circulation through the
body and between body and world.
Mesmerism as a practice, treated the
resulting disorders by intervening to
redistribute the fluid, thereby correcting
imbalance, removing blockages, and
re-establishing harmony. This the
practitioner did by channelling magnetic
fluid from his own body to that of the person
treated, either by touching the affected areas
or by having the person touch things
previously magnetized, or simply by making
gestures – so many ‘passes’ – with the hands.
That all this had nothing to do with any fluid
but rather with forms of hypnotic suggestion,
with the power of the mind over the body,
was only tentatively beginning to be
understood.
In 1837, Elliotson attended demonstrations
of mesmerism in London by a
French practitioner and was enthusiastic as
to its possibilities. So much so that he began
to use it in his hospital wards, himself acting
as mesmeriser. He also gave public
demonstrations, designed to show
mesmerism’s powers and combat the
ignorance of its critics. The demonstrations,
first in the wards themselves and then in the
hospital’s lecture theatre, were attended by a
public that was not confined to medical
practitioners and students; peers of the
realm, bishops, MPs, writers, artists could be
seen in attendance, Dickens among them. In
these demonstrations, as well as in sessions
held in his Conduit Street home, Elliotson
used some of his hospital patients, notably
two young sisters who had been admitted for
epileptic symptoms and were now Elliotson’s
star turns: Jane and Elizabeth Okey.
Mesmerised, the sisters went into
convulsions, fell into somnambulistic states,
became insensitive to pain, did ‘sleep
writing’, and much more. On one occasion
Elizabeth babbled of a man jumping naked
out of bed; on another she plumped herself
on a peer’s lap and tried to run her hand up
his trousers. She was apparently sensitive to
the magnetic condition of the patients
around her and believed by Elliotson to
possess prognostic powers. She would see
‘Jack’, ‘the angel of death’, hovering over
other patients. Disregarding all propriety,
Elliotson took her at dusk into the men’s
wards to get her predictions as to how the
patients there would fare.
Scandal was inevitable. The hospital
authorities were outraged at this bringing of
the hospital into disrepute – unscientific
theories, irregular methods, and potential, if
not actual, immorality, involving practices on
young women put into a state where they lost
control over their actions. The scandal was
fuelled by the Lancet. Founded in 1823 by the
radical ex-surgeon Thomas Wakley, now MP
for Finsbury, the journal was not the
altogether respectable journal of today. It had
gained its success by pirating lectures given
by the hospital teachers, thereby saving
students the fees they would have to pay to
attend them (6 guineas for a course, 6d a
week for the journal). The journal’s
fundamental aim was medical reform and
Wakley pulled no punches in his attacks on
the medical establishment – an annual
lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons was
merely ‘the usual twaddle uttered on such
occasions’, the leading London surgeons
themselves were referred to as ‘the bats’ on
account of their blindness and the damage
done by their claws (Wakley was hot on
bungled operations).
Naturally mesmerism attracted Wakley’s
critical attention. Relatively open-minded
reports of the demonstrations appeared in
1837, but by the following year Wakley had
taken up the topic with his usual vigour,
setting up experimental trials to test the
theory and expose the practice. Mesmerists
believed that the magnetic fluid could be
transmitted through certain especially
receptive conductors – water, for instance, or

metals such as nickel; Elliotson would
magnetize a glass of water or a nickel disc,
contact with which would then produce
mesmeric effects. At his home in Bedford
Square, Wakley put this to the test. In one
experiment, involving Elliotson and the
inevitable Elizabeth Okey, Wakley substituted
unmagnetized discs of another metal for
magnetized nickel ones without it making a
scrap of difference. Lancet editorials
thundered against quackery, and immoral
quackery at that. Wakley hammered home
that mesmerists exploited the excitability of
young females, that mesmerism was no less
than indecent assault (examples were cited of
mesmerisers ravishing unconscious
‘patients’) and heads of families were urged
to look to their womenfolk: ‘What father of a
family would admit even the shadow of a
mesmeriser within his threshold? Who
would expose his wife, or his sister, his
daughter, or his orphan ward, to the contact
of an animal magnetiser?’ For Elliotson’s
hospital to allow mesmerism into its wards,
with wealthy and libidinous men invited to
watch women subject to magnetic
suspension of all restraint, was a breach of
every principle of professional propriety.
Enough was enough: on 28 December
1838 Elliotson was forced to resign from the
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Hospital and his Professorship; thenceforth
‘dead to true medical science’, as a
commentator put it. But this was by no
means the last of Elliotson – his lucrative
private practice remained (in which, he used
both mesmerism and standard medical skills
and treatments), and he continued to defend
the mesmeric cause. The Harveian Oration he
delivered to the Royal College of Physicians
in 1846 was a lengthy enumeration of the
many instances over the centuries of
blinkered opposition to new ideas; the
resistance to mesmerism being, on a par with
the resistance met by Harvey’s account of the
circulation of blood. In 1843 he founded The
Zoist: A Journal of Cerebral Physiology &
Mesmerism, and Their Application to Human
Welfare which carried reports of mesmeric
cures and rebuttals of mesmerism’s critics;
and in 1849 he opened the London Mesmeric
Infirmary, ‘for the treatment of Epilepsy,
Deafness, Rheumatism, and other diseases in
which the ordinary means have failed’. He
continued his private demonstrations and
there were few, indeed, in the literary and
artistic circles of the day who were not
brought in one way or another into contact
with Elliotson and mesmerism. The bestselling
novelist Frances Trollope, mother of
Anthony, was reported ‘a thorough-going
mesmerist, constantly at Dr Elliotson’s’;
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was attracted but
also repulsed, fearing ‘the subjection of the
will & vital powers of one individual to those
of another’ (a fear expressed in Robert
Browning’s poem ‘Mesmerism’, in which a
woman is irresistibly in thrall to the force of
a man using mesmerism to draw her to him).
To many writers Elliotson became doctor and
friend. He was called in when Anthony
Trollope lay in a state that defied other
physicians; despite Elizabeth Okey being
taken into the sick room and seeing ‘Jack’,
Anthony recovered. When Thackeray came
down with cholera and high fever and was
deemed unlikely to live, Forster swiftly
summoned Elliotson to save him. Thackeray
gratefully introduced him into Pendennis, the
novel he was then writing, as Dr
Goodenough who ‘subjugates’ a similar fever
threatening the life of the novel’s eponymous
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Elliotson with thanks for his ‘constant
watchfulness and skill’ (privately Thackeray
expressed doubts as to the quantities of
quinine Elliotson had prescribed).
Criticism of mesmerism went on
unabated. The mighty periodicals – the
Edinburgh Review, the Westminster Review - were
still in the 1850s denouncing it as a harmful
means of disturbing the balance of the
mental powers. ‘Magnetic sensibility’, as
exemplified in the Okeys, was properly to be
understood as an unsound condition of the
mind, indeed as evidence of a person’s below
average physical and moral constitution. That
mesmerism, alarmingly, had by then become
a popular form of entertainment in halls and
fairgrounds and homes around the country
said little for its scientific credibility and
social probity.
The evening of his resignation, Elliotson
dined with Dickens who was now a firm
believer in mesmerism, much taken with its
uncovering of what he called ‘those strange
psychological mysteries in ourselves’. He
himself, it went without saying, was an
exceptional centre of magnetic energy:
‘I have a perfect conviction that I could
magnetize a Frying Pan’. Instead of a fryingpan,
however, he tested his conviction on his
wife Kate in Pittsburgh in 1842: ‘In six
minutes, I magnetized her into hysterics, and
then into the magnetic sleep’. Elliotson, he
proudly reported, held his powers ‘in great
veneration’. With unbounded confidence in
them, during his stay in Italy in the mid-
1840s Dickens undertook mesmeric
treatment of the wife of a Genoese banker.
Inevitably, Kate was deeply upset by the
experience of her husband shutting himself
up with another woman, holding sway over
her and her inmost secrets.
Elliotson was acknowledged by Dickens as
one of his ‘most intimate and valued friends’;
he was godfather to Dickens’s second son
and doctor to the Dickens family. Later years
were not happy. By the 1860s doubts were
being expressed even by Dickens, as to
Elliotson’s continuing medical competence,
as to his mental state. He became an active
believer in spiritualism – in which Dickens
had no belief – and devoutly religious, where
previously he had scorned religion. In 1865
bad investments led to financial failure and
he was forced to give up his Conduit Street
house and live with a former pupil in a less
fashionable area of the city. He fell into
depression, manifested suicidal tendencies,
and saw his health deteriorate. He died in
London in 1868 of what was recorded as
‘natural decay’.
Dickens died two years later, halfway
through the writing of The Mystery of Edwin
Drood. Mesmerism is strongly present in that
novel in the portrayal of the two-faced John
Jasper and the power he exercises over the
terrified young woman Rosa Bud; as though
Dickens’s imagination of mesmerism had
darkened, as though the powers and
mysteries it exploited and explored were now
being seen in a negative light.
Elliotson’s death, however, was perhaps
not final. In 1972, American neurosurgeon
Norm Shealy MD, PhD attended a meeting of
the Neuro-Electric Society in Colorado where
he heard a lecturer mention John Elliotson: it
was ‘as if someone had thrust an iceberg
down my neck’ – ‘“My God, that’s me”, he
exclaimed. Later that year, he visited London
where he had another iceberg experience as
his taxi drove past University College
Hospital. He stopped the cab, entered the
building, and felt immediately at home - this
after all was where, as Elliotson, his office
had been. The evidence of reincarnation was
undeniable: like John, Norm walked with a
limp; John was proficient in Latin,
Norm twice won his high school Latin medal;
Norm too was professionally concerned
with the brain; as a child, Norm refused
to wear knickers, just as John refused to
wear breeches; and so on. To cap it all, no
less than seventy-five reputable clairvoyants
agreed that Norm had been – was – John
Elliotson.
The College has never given due
recognition to John Elliotson, as an alumnus
of distinction and an influential figure in
nineteenth-century Britain. He stands,
indeed, as one of the most fascinating
medical men the College has ever produced.
Possibly though, amends might now be made
by bestowing some appropriate College
honour on him in his reincarnation as Norm
Shealy? ■

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Creator of the Modern College –
Henry Arthur Morgan 1830-1912
Peter Glazebrook
In all weathers and in all seasons countless
Jesuans have rowed to and fro past The
Paddock at Fen Ditton, and in May Weeks still
others have been there watching them. But
only a few have walked the couple of hundred
yards up the lane and into the churchyard
where, in the corner nearest to his beloved
river, Henry Arthur Morgan – ‘Black Morgan’
– the creator of their modern College and its
first Fellow to make being a don a profession,
is buried. The inscription on his gravestone
tells the basic story:
HENRY ARTHUR MORGAN D.D.
BORN AT GOTHENBURG JULY 1ST 1830
DIED AT JESUS LODGE SEPT 3RD 1912
FOR 22 YEARS TUTOR AND FOR 27 YEARS
MASTER OF JESUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE
FAITHFUL TO DUTY, WISE IN
COUNSEL, READY OF WIT,
ABOVE ALL DAUNTLESS IN SUFFERING
AND TENDERLY SYMPATHETIC
MEN FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT
BECAUSE OF HIM
AND LOVING DEEPLY, HE WAS DEEPLY
LOVED
Unlike many epitaphs, this one rings true,
and in this, the centenary year of his death, it
deserves enlarging on. 1 In 1902, when Arthur
Gray, whom Morgan had admitted to the
College in 1870, and whose election in 1876
to a Fellowship, and appointment in 1895 as
Senior Tutor, Morgan had instigated, and
who in 1912 was to succeed him as Master,
published his fine History of the College,
Morgan was still presiding over it. Gray paid
him a charming tribute, and went on to say,
“What the College owes him no Jesus man
needs to be told”. 2 Fifty-eight years later,
when Brittain sought to bring Gray’s History
up-to-date, he both omitted the tribute and
neglected the hint, content to afford Morgan
one desultory paragraph. 3 (He underestimated
Gray, too.) So there is a gap to be
filled.
I n 1830, the year of ‘Black’ Morgan’s
birth, his father, Morgan Morgan, who
came from a long-established family of
Cardigan farmers, was the chaplain to the
British merchants at Gothenburg in southwest
Sweden, where he had met and
married Fanny Nonnen, whose Angl0-
Huguenot family had settled there. Henry
Arthur was their fourth child (of five), and
third son. The first became a Fellow of
University College, Oxford, and then a
lawyer and a politician, and a minister in
Gladstone’s second and third
administrations; the second, Professor of
Medicine at Manchester. Morgan Morgan
returned to his native Wales to be Vicar of
Conwy, and his youngest son who
remembered that when the bishop came
for confirmations there were two sermons
– one in English by the bishop, and one in
Welsh by his chaplain – himself became a
Welsh speaker and remained proud of his
Welsh roots and concerned about Welsh
affairs. He was an early supporter of the
National Eistedfodd, becoming a Bard, and
could always be relied on to enliven a party
with the spirited singing of Welsh songs.
But when, later in life, he published a
pamphlet arguing that the best way to take
the wind out of the sails of the campaign
for the disestablishment of the Welsh
Church was to provide scholarships for the
ablest (and most radical) candidates for the
non-conformist ministry so they could
study at Cambridge and Oxford, where
they would mingle with cultivated English
gentlemen and be tamed, it was apparent
that he had been too long away from
Wales. 4
The Morgan boys spent three years at
Shrewsbury School, then ruled by the
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– it was their first experience of formal
education – and from there, Henry, aged 16,
went to King’s College London, as stoutly
defended a bastion of Anglicanism as any
Oxbridge college. Its poorly regarded medical
school apart, it then functioned, essentially,
as a VIth Form college, with a scholarship
class for those intending to go on to
Cambridge or Oxford to get a degree and seek
ordination. (The other students went, degreeless,
straight into commerce, the professions
or the civil service.) The scholarship class was
notably successful: in the year that Morgan
took the Mathematical Tripos (1853) 13 out
of the 41 Wranglers (the First Class) had
come to Cambridge via KCL (he was the 26th
Wrangler), as had the top six Senior Optimes
(the Seconds), all of them having earlier
obtained the best of their colleges’
scholarships. 5 Among the KCL
contemporaries who came with Morgan to
Cambridge was his life-long friend Leslie
Stephen, the noted Alpinist, father of Virginia
Woolf and founding editor of the Dictionary of
National Biography, who (until he lost his
faith, resigning his Orders and his
fellowship) was to be as charismatic a Tutor
at Trinity Hall as Morgan was at Jesus.
Arriving in the Michaelmas term 1849, the
last of the graceful and respected Dr French’s
mastership, he found the College more or
less full, with 55 students, a third of them,
like him, clergymen’s sons, attracted by the
Rustat and related scholarships. The
restoration of the inner Chapel, guided by
Pugin, was receiving much admiring interest.
In the last hundred or so years most
Cambridge (and Oxford) colleges have, as a
result of the reforms made by the University
Commissions established under the Oxford
and Cambridge Universities Acts of 1877 and
1923, been much of a muchness. Each has,
of course, its own atmosphere and traditions,
and there are some variations (though less
than often thought) in academic reputation,
sporting prowess, and amenities. But, at
bottom, they all have similar academic aims
and policies; the same criteria – of open
competition on merit – are applied to the
admissions of students and elections to
fellowships; and in these smaller
communities they offer their members
comparable benefits within the larger
University. And the University not only
examines, but provides most of the teaching
and nearly all the facilities needed for
advanced study and research. One hundred
and sixty years ago, when Morgan came up, it
was all hugely different.
The University was then little more than an
examining and a police authority linking its
17 Colleges. It had only just acquired an art
gallery and museum, and its library was
struggling to cope with the increased flow of
printed books. Almost all the teaching was
done (at a lowly level) in the colleges or (to a
higher standard) by private tutors, “coaches”,
and the variations between colleges – where
their students came from (regionally and
socially) and the reasons which brought them
to Cambridge (not always to get a degree);
what scholarships and what other help they
offered them; their fees, charges and room
rents; and from whom and by what means
they selected their fellows (all of whom had,
however, to be Anglicans) – were enormous.
Some colleges, notably Trinity and
Emmanuel, chose their fellows by
examination, some only from among their
own scholars, some on the basis of Tripos
performance and general reputation, some
regularly, others when there were casual
vacancies to be filled; and the length and
condition of tenure varied too. Only a small
minority of the fellows were involved in
teaching, and fewer still in advanced study
and research, or were even resident. For the
non-resident, a fellowship was little more
than an annuity payable from a college’s
surplus income. And colleges varied vastly in
size and financial resources. More than half
of all the students in Cambridge belonged to
just two: Trinity and St John’s, which, with
comparably large bodies of resident fellows,
called most of the University’s tunes.
Jesus if, in its own terms, prospering in
1849, was nonetheless one of the smaller and
poorer colleges: in both 1850 and 1851 there
would be deficits. So its sixteen fellowships
were not worth much (and in some years
nothing beyond free board and lodging).
They were, in theory, open to all (male)
British subjects who were members of the
United Church of England and Ireland and

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unmarried, but in practice they were almost
always filled from among its own recent
graduates, one of them (like the Mastership)
by the bishop of Ely in his absolute
discretion. There being no time limit on
tenure, vacancies arose irregularly. Only three
or four Fellows were needed to run the place
and do the basic teaching in Mathematics and
Classics, along with a little Divinity, of those
of its 70 students who were not seeking an
Honours degree. This was all that was
offered. So almost all the other Fellows were
non-resident – their rooms were sub-let –
appearing in the College only occasionally,
though usually for the Audit each December
when they learnt how much their fellowships
had brought them. At Jesus only six of the
Fellows were required to be in Holy Orders,
It was, however, unthinkable that the Tutor,
the College’s main teaching officer, should
not be a clergyman – for he stood in loco
parentis, responsible not only for the students’
studies, but for their finances, their personal
behaviour, and their religious guidance. But
unless a Fellow was in Orders, and so in the
longer run eligible for any of the fifteen
livings in the College’s gift that happened to
fall vacant, there was not much to be gained
from a fellowship beyond some intellectual
kudos, and the maintenance (so long as the
holder remained unmarried) of a pleasant
connection with his student days.
Having performed creditably, if without
great distinction, in the Mathematical Tripos
and fallen hopelessly in love with the river (he
was Captain of Boats in 1851), Morgan did
not at once seek ordination, but remained
living in College as its Sadleirian Lecturer in
Mathematics (an early eighteenth century
benefactress had founded one in each
college: stipend £20 p.a.), and then as a
College Lecturer, helping with the teaching
of the Ordinary degree students. After five
years he was elected (1858) to a Ley Bye-
Fellowship (an early nineteenth century
endowment). He was to be the last Sadleir’s
Lecturer and the last of the Bye-Fellows: all
the lectureships were abolished and the
endowment used for a professorship, while
the bye-fellowships were converted into
entrance scholarships. In 1858 Morgan set
out his (and the College’s) stall with the
publication (by the then local firm of
Macmillan) of A Collection of Problems and
Examples in Mathematics Selected from the Jesus
College Examination Papers. His fellowship
came, eventually and hesitantly, in 1860. 6 His
own teacher (to whom the book was
dedicated) having left Jesus for King’s,
Morgan had become the mainstay of the
College’s Mathematics teaching. Having
been ordained in 1859 on his bye-fellowship,
without serveing a curacy, he was in 1862
elected Dean, and in the following year
appointed Tutor. His predecessor had
married and become the incumbent of a local
parish – the last Tutor of Jesus for whom the
office was but a temporary staging-post in a
clerical career. Morgan was to make it his
life-time’s work.
In 1863 the College was at a low ebb. Over
the last twelve years student numbers
had shrank from 70 to 40: in 1859 there
had been only five freshmen. Whereas in
1851 there had been nine colleges with
fewer students than Jesus, now there were
only five, and since 1860 no Jesuan had
been successful in any Honours
examination.
It is difficult to be sure of the reasons for
this decline. The College, although
previously seen as a place of some interest,
appears now to have been widely regarded as
one of Cambridge’s backwaters. Two of the
moving spirits behind the Chapel’s
restoration – John Gibson, and the
pioneering geophysicist, Osmund Fisher –
had long left their fellowships for College
livings, and their enthusiastic and generous
supporter, Sir John Sutton, the musicologist,
had surrendered his fellow commonership
and charge of the choir school he had
founded and run, on becoming a Roman
Catholic. The restoration programme had
ground to a halt: the outer Chapel still lay as
dreary and desolate as it had been since the
Civil War. To everything those men had stood
for, French’s successor as Master, G.E.
Corrie, was strongly antipathetic. And to
much else too. Both as Master and as Vice-
Chancellor he had refused to have anything
to do with the Royal Commission inquiring
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both the Commission’s requests for
information and its invitations to submit
proposals for making Cambridge more
attractive and accessible to more students,
and for widening its curriculum and putting
its endowments to better use. (His successor
as Vice-Chancellor was more co-operative,
but only one Jesuan broke ranks: Thomas
Gaskin, a former Tutor who, safe in a local
parish, was still teaching Mathematics in
Cambridge). The Commissioners’
recommendation for allowing some
fellowships to be held by married men –
generally considered an essential
precondition for improving the quality of
university teaching by allowing it to become a
life-time career – was spurned by the Master
and Fellows of Jesus, which was one of only
three colleges to remain completely under
this handicap. 7 Nothing, if Corrie could
prevent it, was going to change. While
Norrisian Professor of Divinity (1838-54) he
had declined – claiming to be over-worked –
to participate in the “voluntary” theological
teaching and examining of intending
ordinands on which nearly all diocesan
bishops, hoping for a more theologically
literate clergy, were keen. It was an odd
stance for the Head of a college, the bulk of
whose students were destined for the
Church, and not one calculated to attract the
more serious minded (or their parents) to it,
or offset by the announcement that each Lent
term the Master gave a course of divinity
lectures.
Corrie was, when he appointed Morgan
Tutor, seventy and tired – probably more tired
than when, thirteen years earlier, he had
come to the College from St Catharine’s (even
smaller and poorer than Jesus) where he had
been a Fellow since graduating (as 18th
Wrangler), Dean for 31 years, and Tutor for
28 (eleven of them during his sixteen-year
term as Norrisian Professor). By 1863 he had
settled into the routine of spending the six
summer months at his parish of Newton-inthe-Isle,
on the northern edge of the
Cambridgeshire fens, a living given to him by
his former Tutor at St Catharine’s, and
predecessor as Norrisian Professor, Bishop
Turton. Having appointed his former pupil to
the Mastership he sought to compensate for
its inadequate stipend by presenting him to
“the best living in my gift”. The College was,
while the Master was away, left in the care of
its President, Arthur Westmorland, who also
acted, in effect, as Bursar. Like Morgan he
had come to Cambridge via King’s College
London. 8 A layman, a barrister and a man of
some means, he was prominent in the town’s
political life – in the Conservative interest, of
course – but little involved in academic affairs
or with students. They were Morgan’s
responsibility and though Corrie was, like
many said to suffer from poor health, to live
to a ripe old age (92), he neither opposed nor
interfered with Morgan’s ideas for the
College, little though they can have appealed
to him.
M organ, now 33, was, by contrast, the
very embodiment of the vigorous
masculine Victorian clergyman. He had
rowed in more than a hundred intercollegiate
races, stopping only when rules
about standing were introduced, but then,
with other energetic dons, founding their
own boat club whose name, “The Ancient
Mariners”, revealed its close association
with Coleridge’s old college. 9 In the
previous year he and Leslie Stephen had
been the first climbers to traverse Jungfrau
Joch, and he had toured Sweden, Finland
and Russia, publishing a book about his
trip. 10 He was, too, a keen cyclist. Crucially
for him and the College, he was able,
within two years, to secure the election as
Fellow and Dean (thereby freeing himself
from that office) of another Morgan –
Edmund Henry – but no relation, 24th
Wrangler, and every bit as energetic and
enthusiastic a sportsman, though
preferring land to water, a rougher and less
sophisticated man: to be known as ‘Red’
Morgan, so as to distinguish Dean from
Tutor.
A muscular Christian if ever there was one,
‘Red’ Morgan was a practical, business-like
man, with a sound financial sense – it was he,
not Westmorland, who worked out how the
new buildings that ‘Black’ Morgan wanted
could be paid for, and it was he who oversaw
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Morgan with Ear Trumpet

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Black Morgan: Vanity Fair, 1889
value for its money. 11 It was he too, as Dean,
who had work on the Chapel’s restoration
resumed, appealing for funds and seeing the
outer Chapel transformed with William
Morris’s richly painted nave ceiling, and its
windows filled with as fine a collection of
stained glass – by Morris, William Burne-
Jones and Ford Madox Brown – as can be
found in any church of comparable size. For
thirty years – until ‘Red’ Morgan’s death in
1895 – the two Morgans were to be the closest
of collaborators. They not only ran, they
dominated, the College : they were it, and it
was them. And when ‘Black’ Morgan was
elected Master, it was ‘Red’ Morgan who
succeeded him as Senior Tutor (three were
now needed) while continuing as Dean.
Their partnership’s fame spread well beyond
Cambridge: in 1889 Vanity Fair published
‘Spy’ cartoons of both of them.
Sensing the Victorian middle class’s
growing appetite for university education – to
fill the gap between a young man’s leaving
school and being fit for an appropriate job or
profession – and with the B.A. (though not
the M.A.) degree now open to non-Anglicans,
Morgan’s aim was not just to return student
numbers to 1849-53 levels, but significantly
to increase them. A Tutor’s repute and
prestige – and his income – depended on
how many students he had in his college.
There was no University or (except at Trinity)
college entrance examination and no
educational requirement for matriculation:
Morgan was to oppose their introduction. 12
But if Jesus was to have more students, more
rooms would be needed. In 1863 it was a
college of two-and-a-bit courts – the
attractive Entrance Court dominated by the
Gate Tower, the rather damp and pokey
Cloister Court, and a Pump Court which
extended only to K staircase, and embraced
the College Cook’s vegetable garden.
At the December 1867 Audit meeting, it
was agreed “that power be given to the
resident Society to consider the expediency of
enlarging the present College buildings and
to report thereon to the Society at large”, and
fourteen months later, on 2 February 1869,
the Fellows agreed to Morgan’s proposal –
written into the Conclusions Book in his own
hand – that
“In consideration of the greatly
increased number of undergraduates
admitted of this College and of the
increased number of young persons
generally throughout the country for
whom education at the universities has
become an object of interest and
importance . . . the Master and Fellows
have felt to be necessary to consider
whether or not it be their duty to build a
certain number of additional sets of
rooms within the College precincts for
the accommodation of those students
who are now compelled to occupy
lodgings in the town”
to approve Waterhouse’s plans for 22 (later
increased to 24) sets “and to give the resident
Society authority to raise the necessary funds
to carry out the Designs.” Taking advantage
of recent legislation which had, for the first
time, permitted colleges to borrow, most of
those necessary funds – the builder’s tender
was for £6248 – were found in the Rustat
Trust’s reserves, and were to be repaid over
thirty years. 13
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the College had 104 undergraduates, two and
a half times the number he had inherited five
years earlier, and the 28 freshmen who came
up in 1869, while the Dean was overseeing
the builders, maintained that total, making
Jesus the seventh largest college in
Cambridge: there were now ten smaller than
it. And as if recognising the place he had
gained for himself and his College in
Cambridge, Morgan was this year elected to
the University’s Council, its youngest
member, ready to play his part in all the great
University controversies of the following
decades. He was a vehement critic of the
dominant position of Mathematics in the
Cambridge curriculum, which he thought a
waste of time for all but the really gifted: the
others would be better employed on Natural,
or Mechanical Sciences or on Economics. 14
Indeed, on all the main issues he was on the
side of the reformers: in favour of turning
fellowships from prizes into jobs, in which
he played a leading role – in opposition to
Corrie – in mobilising opinion in
Cambridge, 15 of abolishing the celibacy rule,
and of open competitive entrance
scholarships; he was against compulsory
Greek, 16 and in favour of degrees for women
– though in national politics he was a
Conservative.
By 1874, with 140 students, Jesus was (with
Corpus) the fourth largest college, and in the
ensuing years numbers continued to
increase, until in 1881, with 216 students –
over five times as many as when he became
Tutor – it had become the third largest in
Cambridge, exceeded only by Trinity and
St John’s. These students were, of course,
Morgan’s and not, as Brittain claimed,
Corrie’s undergraduates. 17 It was an
astonishing achievement – the University
itself had only just doubled in size in the same
period. Numbers would later fall: in 1890
Jesus was overtaken by Pembroke, and from
then until 1910 they waxed and waned
alarmingly – in 1901 when there were only 22
freshmen, it was no more than the ninth
largest college, but sixth in 1910 when there
were 80 freshmen, so that by 1912 it again
had 200 undergraduates. 18
Morgan was a man of both great energy
and personal charm, inspiring confidence in
parents and schoolmasters – a popular Tutor
with a gift for managing lively, but far from
studious, young men: a splendid host, at
breakfast as well as at dinner, full of stories
and a marvellous mimic. He gained his
pupils’ life-long affection by his concern for
them, especially when things were not going
well. 19 (He was the effective instigator of the
J.C.C.S., though it was not put on a formal
footing until 1903). 20 Of all this there is, even
after all the usual discounts have been made,
a wealth of evidence – including the elaborate
silver epergnes given the College by a grateful
Mayor of Cambridge. In 1875 his house
(where the Wesley Church now stands) was
besieged, and his family terrified, by rioting
students indignant at the penalties handed
out to disorderly undergraduates by the
town’s magistrates. The Tutor of Jesus
arrived, announced that for five minutes he
would recognise no one: the mob dissolved.
The huge increase in numbers in the
College required the Hall to be enlarged and
a lecture room (‘Small Hall’) built (1875),
services (compulsory for all but non-
Anglicans) to be held in the Outer Chapel
(1886,) for which a second organ was needed
(1887), and another and yet larger new
building (designed by Carpenter and
Inglelow with 36 sets and another lecture
room (1885). It blocked the view eastwards
over open country hitherto enjoyed by rooms
in Cloister and Pump Courts (Victoria Avenue
still lay in the future), and had niches on the
outside which, once Corrie was in his grave,
were filled with statues of the College’s
patron saints: the Virgin (and the Child
Jesus), St John the Evangelist, and
St Radegund. (Morgan thought a Corpus
Christi procession he saw in Brussels,
“gorgeous” 21 ).
B ut what sort of college was it that Tutor
and Dean had created? It was not, it
must be said, a place where higher
learning was much in evidence. In the
twelve years before 1863, although the
number of students in Jesus was small, 7
out of 8 of them (181 out of 206) did take a
degree: a little above the University
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Morgan’s Tutorship (1864-1870) the
number fell slightly to 6 out of 8 (150 out
of 202) which was about the University
average. But in the next fourteen, during its
full-flowering, only 5 in 9 graduated (495
out of 906) whereas the University’s
average was 7 in 9. And, unsurprisingly,
there was little change during the ten years
of ‘Red’ Morgan’s Tutorship (1886 – 1895):
only 3 in 5 graduated, while the University
average was 4 in 5. Not all of those who did
not graduate will have stayed as long as
those who did, so they will not, term by
term, have been quite so large a proportion
of the student body as those bare statistics
suggest. But all a student had to do if he
was to stay beyond his first year was pass
the Previous (‘Little Go’) examination, and
as the 1874 edition of the semi-official
Student’s Guide to the University of Cambridge
said, “being intended for all students alike,
and being placed early in the course, is
necessarily easy. The standard is low . . . .
students often leave school with
knowledge sufficient to pass the
examination, [so] it has been thought
expedient to allow such students to pass
the examination” early in their first year. 22
But it was not only the ratio of graduating
to matriculating students that was low during
Morgan’s Tutorship; so too was the
proportion taking an Honours rather than an
Ordinary degree – “the examination for
which” as that same edition of The Student’s
Guide assured its readers “is in truth not so
difficult but that any person of common
abilities, and common preliminary training,
with tolerable industry at Cambridge, may
reckon with certainty upon passing it.” 23
In the years 1850-1863 1 in every 2 Jesus
graduates obtained Honours, but throughout
Morgan’s Tutorship only about 1 in 4 did (it’s
difficult to be more precise since the able and
ambitious often took more than one Tripos):
an average of 6 a year between 1864 and 1870,
but no more than 9 a year 1871-1885, despite
the great growth in the College’s size, which
was not matched, either, by a significant rise
in the number of scholarships offered.
Seventeen instead of 14 Rustat Scholarships
were now available (and no longer limited to
clergy orphans), and there were two Entrance
scholarships – a novelty – each year, one in
Mathematics and one in Classics. That was
all. The College had not yet started to offer
teaching for the Tripos: those seeking
Honours - the “reading man” – had still to
go and find it for themselves. 24 The College
provided only what was needed for the
Ordinary examinations. (In 1868 Jesus had
agreed with four others on inter-collegiate
lectures for the Classical Tripos, each college
to provide a lecturer on a different subject,
but the scheme was not trouble-free. 25 ) As The
Student’s Guide (speaking of the run of
colleges) said, “Perhaps two hours a day may
be the average of time exacted of a student by
the lecturer. Nor is it to be imagined that by
a lecture is meant a formal and continuous
discourse. . . A lecture at Cambridge is
generally much the same thing as a lesson at
school, it being of course understood that the
lectured are not subject to the restraints and
discipline of schoolboys. If the subject be
classical, an author is read, the students
translating in turns, while the lecturer
interposes his comments as he sees fit. If it
be mathematical, the students are often
occupied during the whole of the hour in
writing answers to written questions or in
solving problems. Where the audience is
large, the lecture sometimes becomes more
formal in its character.” 26
Matters improved somewhat during ‘Red’
Morgan’s Tutorship: 1 in 3 Jesus
undergraduates now took Honours – over
half of them in one of the “new” Triposes :
Natural and Mechanical Sciences, Law,
History, Economics and Theology. It was not,
however, until Arthur Gray became Senior
Tutor in 1895 (the first layman to be a Jesus
Tutor) that there was any real change –
Fellows to teach something other than
Mathematics and Classics began to be
elected, but it was an uphill struggle in the
hard times of the agricultural depression and
the South African war (for which Morgan was
a fervently jingoistic recruiting sergeant) 27
when colleges were competing for a
dwindling number of students. Indeed, it was
only under the impact of the 1944 Education
Act that the present understanding that a
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valuable resource, and that students who
accept one will do their best to get a good
degree, became general. In the two Morgans’
time, the assumptions were that Cambridge
wanted students and it was for the students
to decide how they spent their time. But it was
on the foundations that they laid that Gray
and succeeding generations built. 28
So if, while the Morgans ruled, academic
studies were not a high priority for most Jesus
undergraduates – there were, of course, some
for whom they were – sporting prowess
certainly was. This is a matter that has been
examined in some detail, and there is no need
to go over the ground again here: the eleven
successive years (1876-86) in which the First
Boat was Head of the River, celebrated by a
Grand Ball in the Guildhall, attended by the
Queen’s grandson, the Duke of Clarence, and
all that. 28 ‘Black’ Morgan’s own enthusiasm
for the river was highly infectious – year in
and year out he had coached the Jesus crews
from the towpath, his favourite mount a
white horse called ‘Gehazi’. Convinced that
the shallow, narrow Cam put Cambridge
oarsmen at a disadvantage against their
Oxford rivals, he had led (1868-70) a
successful campaign for its widening and
deepening, managing to extract £100 from
Queen Victoria which she gave in memory of
“her beloved Prince Albert, lately Chancellor
of the University.” Rowing was, he said, “the
ideal [sport], no pots or personal records, all
done for the honour of the College and the
University.” 30 Within the Close, the farmer
and his animals gradually retreated before the
regiments of cricketers, footballers, hockey
and tennis players and athletes – many
undergraduates serving in more than one of
them. This was why they had come to the
College, whose sporting amenities they
could, if they wished, enjoy during “the
Long” as well as in the three University terms.
Much of what present day Jesuans
remember when thinking of their College’s
distinctive characteristics – its clubs, societies
and sports’ teams, the J.C.R. (initially “the
Reading Room”), its colours on scarves, ties,
blazers and other wear, its magazines and
May Balls, its Directors of Studies, the
friendly informal relations between Fellows,
students and staff, even the re-gothicised
appearance of its buildings and their setting
in the park-like Close – has, like Old
Members’ Reunions, its origins in the years
when ‘Black’ Morgan, first as Tutor, and then
as Master, was its dominant personality.
Astonishingly little comes from the College’s
previous three-and-a-half centuries. Rather
similar tales could, no doubt, be told of five
or six of Cambridge’s older colleges, but
Morgan was at the forefront of Cambridge’s
nineteenth-century collegiate revolution,
showing what could be done even when the
starting point was a small, poor, church
institution, with a backward-looking Head.
Amalga-mating with another college,
seriously considered elsewhere, was for him
unthinkable.
T he summer of 1882 was a great one for
weddings – in the wake of the Act of
Parliament which finally freed all
fellowships from the celibacy rule. Arthur
Westmorland (aged 62), ‘Black’ Morgan
(52), and Arthur Gray (only 30) all went to
the altar. Henceforth only one Fellow, the
Dean, had to be in Orders. And to enable
Tutors to continue to keep a close eye on
their pupils, two large family houses –
“East” (now the Bursary) and “North”
(where North Court now stands) – were
built in the Close. An exploration of East
House (even though it has since been
altered internally) gives a good idea of the
social standing of a Victorian Tutor.
Morgan soon had five children, one son,
four daughters. He was a devoted father:
for many years, while Master, he was to be
seen each morning after the Chapel
service, touring the College’s courts – two
of them his own creations – a child in each
hand or, if the weather was wet, making
with them several circuits of the Cloisters.
In was in 1885, on Corrie’s death, that
Morgan had at last come into his inheritance.
The bishop of Ely having surrendered his
right to appoint the Master, he was
unanimously elected by the Fellows, the first
for whom the Mastership was a stand-alone
office. All his precedessors had combined it
with some church post. The Fellows declared
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unsafe and hopelessly inconvenient. It fell
way below the standard set by East and North
Houses. Carpenter came over from Chapel
Court to plan the alterations which produced
the house we know. Morgan himself paid for
the bay windows which greatly enhanced the
dining and drawing rooms, and he lent the
College money to pay for other changes.
Though he had been so active a sportsman,
he was several times, while still Tutor,
seriously ill and at death’s door. 31 By the time
he became Master he was well on the way to
becoming profoundly deaf – his portrait in
Hall catches the characteristic gesture of a
hand raised to his ear – and so it was
impossible for him to be Vice-Chancellor.
(The D.D. gown he wears in that portrait was
of a degree conferred in recognition of his
Mastership, not of any theological learning).
He remained faithful to the causes he had
championed in his prime: it was at his
initiative that the College began to elect
Research Fellows. But in 1907 he had to
accept that he was no longer capable of
acting as Master, and at the request of the
Fellows, all of whom were for the first time in
the College’s history recognisably university
teachers, actual or embryonic, the Bishop (as
Visitor) appointed Arthur Gray Vice-Master. 32
It was from that year, rather than 1912, that
Gray’s mastership really began. ■
1 The author’s speech at the J.C.C.S. dinner on 24
September 2011 was based on an earlier version of
this paper.
2 Jesus College (Cambridge University College Histories)
(London 1902), pp. 222, 227.
3 Arthur Gray and Frederick Brittain, A History of Jesus
College Cambridge (London 1960) p. 189.
4 Church and Dissent in Wales (Cambridge and London
1895).
5 F.J.C. Hearnshaw, Kings College London 1828-1928
(London 1929) p. 182.
6 On 22 February 1859 the College had petitioned the
Bishop to be allowed to defer nominating candidates
for a vacant fellowship on the ground that there were
too few duly qualified candidates: J.C.A. Conclusions
Book.
7 Peter Searby, History of the University of Cambridge (vol.
III) (Cambridge 1997) p. 542
8 As also had Thomas King, Fellow 1863-1904.
9 [Leslie Stephen] Sketches from Cambridge by a Don
(London 1865) pp. 16-17.
10 The Northern Circuit (Cambridge 1862).
11 J.C.A. Conclusions Book. 22 Dec 1870, 19 May and 7
June 1875, 12 March 1887; P.P.3 (E.H. Morgan
scrapbooks).
12 D.A. Winstanley, Later Victorian Cambridge (Cambridge
1947) p. 156
13 J.C.A. Conclusions Books, 22 and 29 April 1869.
14 The Mathematical Tripos: an Inquiry into its Influence on a
Liberal Education (Cambridge 1871); Cf. [Leslie
Stephen] (n.9) p. 50.
15 The Tenure of Fellowships (Cambridge 1871);
Winstanley (n.12) pp. 267-9.
16 Chanticlere 1891. M.T. p. 16.
17 Note 3, chapter 12.
18 Christopher Brooke, History of the University of
Cambridge (vol. IV) (Cambridge 1993 App. 1.
19 Note 2, p. 222; J.M. New Chanticlere, E.T. 1892; W.R.
Inge in F.J. Foakes Jackson (ed.) The Parting of the
Roads (London 1912) p. 3, Charles Whibley,
Blackwood’s Magazine, October 1912; Foakes Jackson,
Cambridge Review 17 October 1912, (reprinted
Chanticlere M.T. 1912).
20 Chanticlere 1904, M.T., p. 476; ibid. Foakes Jackson,
1912 M.T. p. 10.
21 Iris L. Osborne Morgan, Memoirs of Henry Arthur
Morgan (London 1930) p. 116.
22 [J.R. Seeley (ed.)] p. 20.
23 p.3.
24 p.66, cf. E. Sharwood Smith (matriculated 1883) in
Peter Glazebrook (ed.) Jesus: The life of a Cambridge
College (Cambridge 2007) pp. 107-109.
25 Sheldon Rothblatt, The Revolution of the Dons (New
York 1968) p. 230.
26 [Seeley] (n. 22)pp. 64-65.
27 Glazebrook (n.24) pp. 209-10.
28 The data on the matriculation/graduation ratio has
been culled from Cambridge University Book of
Matriculations and Degrees (Cambridge 1902), and
those on Honours and Degrees from Cambridge
University Historical Register 1851-1900 (Cambridge
1904)
29 Notably, J.A. Mangan “Oars and the Man”: Pleasure
and Purpose in Victorian and Edwardian Cambridge,
British Journal of Sports History vol. 1 (1984) pp. 245-
271, an edited version of which is printed in
Glazebrook (n.24) pp. 156-164; and the essays there
by Christopher McDouall and David Wootton on the
Boat Club (pp. 183-190) and by Geoff Parks on
Cricket (pp. 191-194); Percy Melville Thompson,
Some Things We Have Remembered (London 1912) pp.
161-7.
30 Morgan (n.21) p. 236.
31 Cf. the Fen Ditton epitaph.
32 Thomas King, Fellow since 1863, who had spent
much of his life as an Inspector of Schools, died in
1904.

College
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People
Awards, honours, projects, significant lectures
Master and Fellows
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The Master, Professor Ian White, has received the 2011 Aron Kressel Award given by the
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in recognition of his important
contributions to opto-electronic device technology.
Professor Madeleine Arnot and her associates H. Pinson and M. Candappa received
second prize in the 2011 Society for Educational Studies book awards for their study
Education, Asylum and the Non-Citizen Child published by Palgrave 2010.
Dr Christopher Burlinson was awarded a Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library,
Washington DC, to research poetry and social networks in pre-Civil War Oxford
University, as part of work on an edition of Richard Corbett.
Professor Alastair Compston has closed a 36 year gap between describing (with others)
the first genetic association for multiple sclerosis in 1976 and the next 57 genes, which
was finally published in 2011. He also successfully concluded a 21 year programme
introducing Campath-1H (a medicine made in Cambridge in the 1980s) as a treatment
for multiple sclerosis, showing that it is the most effective remedy currently available.
A drug licence is expected in 2013.
Professor James Crawford has been awarded the 2012 Manley O. Hudson Medal by the
American Soceity of Internaitonal Law. The award is the Society’s highest honour and is
given annually to an individual for outstanding scholarship and achievement in the field
of international law; Robbie Jennings was a recipient in 1993. The award ceremony took
place in Washington DC in March.
Mr Peter Glazebrook contributed a paper at the international conference to mark the
centenary of the birth of Glanville Williams (Fellow 1955-1979), at King’s College,
London, 3-4 December 2011.
Dr Geoffrey Harcourt has been elected Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economic
Thought of the Economic Society of Australia. He writes: “I am now a Distinguished
Fellow of 3 continents: US, Europe and Australia (twice as I was elected Distinguished
Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia in 1996)”.
Dr Kathryn Susan Lilley has been awarded a Professorship in the Department of
Biochemistry.
Professor Robert Mair was Chairman of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of
Engineering Committee on Shale Gas Extraction and Hydraulic Fracturing; the report,
commissioned by the Government, was published in June 2012. In November 2011 he
delivered the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Institute of Advanced
Study Distinguished Lecture ‘Advances in Research and Practice in Underground
Construction – the Future of Megacities’.
Dr Cecilia Mascolo has received a Google Research Award for a project called Space,
Time and Social Ties: How Geographic Distance Shapes Online Social Networks.

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Dr Michael Minden has been appointed to a Readership in the Department of German
and Dutch.
Professor Juliet Mitchell has received an Emeritus Leverhulme Award to write a book on
siblings in Shakespeare. Juliet has been 2011-2012 Andrew Mellon Visiting Prof at the
Courtauld Institute of Fine Art where she co-designed and taught a Masters course.
She has given a public lecture for the Freud Museum exhibition on Louise Bourgeois.
Meanwhile she has continued her Mellon Visiting Scholarship at Witswatersrand,
Johannesburg. She has also continued to Direct the PhD Programme in Theoretical
Psychoanalysis which she designed and established in 2010 at University College, London.
Professor Peter Nolan has been elected to the University's newly established Chong Hua
Professor of Chinese Development and appointed first Director of the Centre of
Development Studies. His addresses over the past year include a lecture to the Board of
US-China Business Council, a key-note lecture on ethics and the world economy at the
Vatican before His Holiness Benedict XVI, and a speech at the China Development
Forum for global business leaders in the presence of the Chinese Premier. He has also
become a member of the UK Government's Asia Task Force, chaired by Vince Cable,
Minister of Trade and Industry.
Dr Oren Schermann has been appointed to a Readership in the Department of
Chemistry.
Dr Andy Tucker has been appointed to the post of Deputy Director of the Centre for
Gender Studies.
Dr Garth Wells has been appointed to a Readership in the Department of Engineering.
Dr Tim Wilkinson participated in a successful bid to the EPSRC for funding of over £2m
over four years with a view to increasing the capacity of a single fibre beyond that of
existing fibre communication systems in a cost effective and energy efficient manner.
His Holiness Benedict XVI greets Professor Nolan after Peter’s keynote speech in the Vatican on World Economy

New Fellows
James Purdon grew up just outside Glasgow, and first came to
Cambridge in 2001 to read English at Emmanuel where he was
involved in amateur dramatics and edited the May Anthologies
of new writing. After winning a Herschel Smith Scholarship to
study at Harvard University, he spent a year exploring academic
areas of the humanities outside of English, and first became
interested in the cultural history of technology, which has since
become one of his main academic interests. Returning to
Cambridge in 2005, he studied for an MPhil in Criticism and
Culture, then went to work in London for two years, writing
reviews for The Observer. He is also a contributor to the Times
Literary Supplement and the Literary Review, and more recently, with some of his Cambridge
contemporaries set up an online quarterly magazine The Junket, which has just celebrated
its first full year of publication. He also worked part-time as a committee reporter for
Hansard, the official report of the House of Commons. He started his PhD in the autumn
of 2008, writing about the relationship between early twentieth-century literature and
film and the development of new information management technologies – such as the
law governing official secrets, the documentation of identity in passports, and the
collection of surveillance data in government intelligence dossiers.
Michael Waibel did compulsory military service in the Austrian
army followed by studies in law at the University of Vienna
which he completed in two years, followed by an “Erasmus
Year”. He then enrolled at the LSE for graduate studies in
economics, hoping to write his doctoral thesis in international
economic law. The first year of the transition from law to
economics was difficult. He chose as his PhD topic:
restructuring sovereign debt. While doing his research he
worked for a year at the IMF and the World Bank. In
Washington DC he met his wife Darshini. In the final phase of
his PhD, Michael spent three months in Cambridge as a
Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre. He then rounded off his legal education with
an LLM degree at Harvard Law School where he again served as a teaching fellow in
economics and confirmed his desire to become an academic. A postdoc at the
Lauterpacht was the ideal way of making the dream of an academic career become a
reality. After getting married in 2010, Darshini and Michael escaped for a year to
Switzerland (where Michael taught at St Gallen), before returning to Cambridge in early
2012.
Simone Schnall grew up in Bavaria in the Southern part of
Germany. She did her undergraduate studies at the University
of Trier and then went to Clark University for what was
intended to be a one-year research visit. Rather than returning
to Germany she stayed in the United States for 10 years, first
receiving her PhD in psychology, and then serving as Research
Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia. After a
lectureship at the University of Plymouth, Schnall joined the
University of Cambridge in 2009, where she is currently a
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology. Her research
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involves the interaction of cognition and emotion, with a focus on the influence of
embodied factors on judgment and decision processes. Recent topics have included the
effect of emotion on morality, and the role of physical ability on perceptual judgments.
Findlay Stark read Law at the University of Aberdeen,
graduating in 2007. He becomes the first Yates Glazebrook
Fellow (see page 87). Findlay researched his PhD at the
University of Edinburgh and in 2011 took up a teaching post
in the Faculty of Law with a special interest in criminal law
and procedure. He is particularly interested in the law’s
approach to finding fault elements (mens rea), and criminal
appeals. He is engaged to Fiona Wilson who is researching
for a PhD at Girton College. They are due to be married in
April 2013 in Jesus College Chapel.
Rebecca Reich is a University Lecturer in Russian Literature
and Culture in the Department of Slavonic Studies in the
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. She received her
B.A. from Yale and her Ph.D. from Harvard and is currently
writing a book about the political subtexts of psychiatric and
literary conceptions of insanity during the late Soviet period.
She is particularly interested in how literary writers who
explored the theme of insanity responded to the state’s use
of compulsory psychiatric hospitalization as a means of
political repression. Dr Reich’s wider interests include
twentieth-century Russian literature, music and culture;
intellectual history and cultural studies; the history of
science and medicine; and the history of print culture and law. Beyond her academic
pursuits, she enjoys playing the cello, taking photogaphs, walking, running and
gardening.
Christopher Pratt is elected to a fellowship. He read English
at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge (1961), and was
recruited in 1965, as Assistant Company Secretary at William
Sindall plc, the local building and property company. He
stayed until 1989, having become Company Secretary in 1970
and a Director in 1972, by which time the firm had grown
from a Cambridge only base to have subsidiaries in London,
Norwich, Portsmouth, Oxford and Banbury. Specialities
were hospital and college/university buildings. Christopher
by then had a wide portfolio, including property investment
and development, housebuilding, marketing, HR and (vital
in such a Company) dispute resolution, along with
management of the pension fund and its investment portfolio. Thereafter, Christopher
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sorting out problem contracts at Birmingham International Convention Centre, the
London Ark and EuroDisney, before selling the businesses. In 1993 Christopher became
the first full-time Bursar of Fitzwilliam College. He oversaw the addition of 226 student
rooms plus an Auditorium and a Library/IT Building. The conference income grew from
£225,000 to £1 million, investments from £7.4 million to £26.6 million and the bottom
line of the College Balance Sheet from £6.8 million to £46.5 million. After retiring he
took on a variety of consultancy tasks, and was Acting Bursar for St Edmund’s College in
2010-11, to be followed by a year from 2011 as Acting Senior Bursar at Jesus College. He
has been Chairman of the Cambridge Bursars’ Committee, participating in negotiations
with Government over fees and with the Charity Commission over the change from
Exempt to Registered charity status for the Oxbridge Colleges. Christopher is devoted to
the Colleges he has served, but even more so to Claire and to five children – two boys and
three girls, Emily and Fleur at 14 and 8 being positively the last of the line.
Outgoing Fellows
Dr Rebecca Weir is working on a digital edition of Civil War newspaper poetry,
in collaboration with Dr Elizabeth Lorang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln).
Dr Shaul Tor has been appointed to a Lectureship in Classics and Philosophy at
King’s College, London.
Dr Gerry Kearns has been appointed to a chair in Geography at Maynooth University,
Ireland. ■

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Art at Jesus 2011-2012
Rod Mengham, Curator of Works of Art Emeritus Fellow
We started last year by taking down the very successful ‘Remembering Flanagan’
exhibition, the latest in our ‘Sculpture in the Close’ series. This show attracted
larger than usual numbers of groups requiring guided tours, and this is a feature of our
activities that seems to be intensifying. The Michaelmas term 2011 was memorable for
our superb exhibition of paintings by Humphrey Ocean. At Humphrey’s prompting,
we embarked on an innovative use of both public spaces and rooms inaccessible to the
general public. Our subsequent publication Here and There includes some excellent
photographs showing how various spaces were transformed. An unusual number of
visitors came to the College expressly to view this exhibition.
In June and July 2012, we showed drawings and sculpture by Michael Dan Archer in
the south transept of the Chapel, under the title ‘Tests Trials and Missions’. These works
explored ideas for sculptural installations focusing on the imagery of towers and boats.
Most intriguing of all was a sculpture and several drawings meditating on the interior
chambers of the Red Pyramid at Dahshur.
We are now planning for the forthcoming exhibition in October and November of a
selection of David Mach’s collages responding to the King James Bible. And planning is
well advanced for the next ‘Sculpture in the Close’ in the summer. This will include
sculptures by the internationally renowned artists Doris Salcedo, Miroslaw Balka and
Gabriel Orozco. The funding situation for this ambitious show is now auspicious,
but in the long run, the funding for the general run of our activities remains little short
of perilous.
James Hudleston generously funded the commissioning of a portrait bust of Jacob
Bronowski. This was installed by the artist, Robert Hunt, in the Quincentenary Library
during December. The subject’s daughter, Professor Lisa Jardine, was present at the
ceremony and was delighted by the sculpture. The College Council has recently
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‘Macbeth and the Witches’ by John Wootton, donated by Herbert Lawrence Knill
authorized the commissioning of a portrait of Pofessor Jardine herself as the College’s
first woman fellow. We do not yet know who will be painting the portrait.
We ended the year with the generous donation by Herbert Lawrence Knill (1961)
of a large and dramatic canvas, ‘Macbeth and the Witches’, by the eighteenth century
painter, John Wootton. It is now hanging impressively in the Alcock Room.
In many ways the most significant event of the year was the resignation of Jim
Roseblade from the Works of Art Committee, Jim’s untiring energy and industry
encompassed the business of Treasurer and the organizing of all our exhibition
openings, the design of posters and the hugely demanding task of fund-raising.
He is irreplaceable, so much so that we have decided to replace him by dividing his
various roles among no fewer than three people! He will be missed especially by the
Curator, whose appointment has been renewed recently, for another five years. ■

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The Chapel
John Hughes, Chaplain and Dean Emeritus Fellow
T he year in Chapel began with a series of sermons in the Michaelmas term on
‘Questions about the Bible’ which enabled us to celebrate the 400th anniversary of
the King James Bible while also responding to some of the more basic questions that
today’s students ask about the Scriptures. Old Jesuans were well represented amongst
these preachers, with former Dean Christopher Rowland speaking on The Bible and
Politics, Dr Peter Williams (1989) asking Why do we need the Old Testament?, Fr Ian Paton
(1975) exploring The Bible in the Church, and Steve Midgley (1980) discussing Is the Bible
culturally irrelevant? They were joined by Judith Lieu, the Lady Margaret Professor of
Divinity, and her predecessor Professor Morna Hooker speaking on questions of
historicity and Christian origins, and the Master of the Temple Church in London,
Robin Griffith-Jones, on the popular topic of The Missing Gospels. The series can be read
online on the Chapel’s webpage.
Other Sunday guest preachers this year have included the Bishop of Norwich, the Dean
of St Edmundsbury, the Abbot of Downside, Dom Aidan Bellenger (1969), Professor Tom
Greggs (2004), Fr Alban McCoy (the Roman Catholic Chaplain to the University), the
Van Mildert Professor of Divinity from Durham, Mark McIntosh, Dr Ian Wilson, Fellow
in Chemical Engineering, and Kelvin Woolmer, Chaplain to the Olympics.
Those students who attend Chapel services come from a wide range of Christian
traditions (in addition to those of other faiths or no religious background) so questions
about differences between Christians often come up in conversation. It seemed good
therefore to hold a weekly discussion group in the Lent term exploring recent
ecumenical approaches to questions which have previously divided churches, such as
justification by faith, the Eucharist, and the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the Easter term this
ecumenical conversation continued as the group looked at ways in which faith might be
applied to questions in the world and our own lives, including questions of justice and
poverty, environmental and sexual ethics, war and peace, career and vocation. Students
from very different positions listened very graciously to those of other opinions, making
these discussions easier than I might have imagined.
The annual ‘Exploring the Christian Faith’ course in the Lent term led to two finalists,
Oliver Holbrook and Frances Harris, being confirmed at the University Confirmation in
Trinity College, and both gave excellent nanosermons telling the story of how they came
to this decision. This tradition of ‘nanosermons’ (of no more than five minutes) during
Tuesday Evensongs continues to provide many students (and others such as Dr Rebecca
Weir, Fellow in English) with space to share their own religious opinions and musings
with their peers, often with considerable skill and moving openness.
There has been the usual round of glorious offerings of worship, with accompanying
dinners and parties, to celebrate the various points of the academic and ecclesiastical
year, creating a friendly atmosphere for the whole College community. Ascension Day
Mattins from the roof of N Staircase and the end of year Eucharist in the Fellows’ Garden
were particular personal highlights. The termly more informal Corporate Communion
services with supper have been well attended this year, as have the magical late night
Complines followed by port and cocoa. There were three Evensongs for matriculating
students, one for graduands, and two for old members’ reunions, as well as special
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Choral Eucharists were celebrated for St Luke, All Saints’ (with Westcott House in
All Saints’ Church, Jesus Lane), All Souls’, Candlemas, Ash Wednesday, St David,
Ascension and the Visitation. I generally preach at these services myself and at the
Sunday morning Eucharist, which continues to flourish with a loyal group of regulars
and a small choir directed by our very talented and conscientious organ scholars Robert
Dixon and Ben Morris. All of these services, to say nothing of the four Choral Evensongs
every week, would be considerably more chaotic without all the work and ministry of
welcome offered by the Chapel Secretaries: Tim Middleton, Jenny Leigh, Daniel Taylor,
Max Drinkwater (all of whom have graduated this year and will be much missed), James
Lofthouse, Ella Johnston, Alex Kite, Jon Sanders, and Sarah Woods, and especially our
Chapel Clerks Hanna Weibye and Sarah Dane. I’m also very grateful for the support of
our two ordinands on attachment from Westcott House this year: PhD candidate Ruben
Angelici and Tripos student Dr Rebecca Lloyd. Jesus continues to be one of the principle
Cambridge colleges for training ordinands for the Church of England and I recently had
the pleasure of attending the ordinations of four of them in Southwark diocese (Catriona
Laing, Ben Brown, Greg Cushing, and Catherine Tucker). Those being ordained
elsewhere included Andrew Whitehead, Mark Scarlatta, and Peter Dobson.
The Chapel trip during the Easter vacation consisted of a week on the beautiful island
of Iona off the West coast of Scotland, famous for being the centre from which
St Columba brought the Christian faith to much of Scotland and Northern England.
The group of nine included postgraduates and fellows as well as undergraduates and
stayed in the very comfortable Episcopalian Bishop’s House, having been hosted by Old
St Paul’s Edinburgh on our journey up. The week had more of the feel of a retreat than
previous Chapel trips, with daily services in the Chapel, hearty walks in the rain, and
evenings around the fire. In the Easter term a group of twelve went by minibus on a
daytrip to the St Alban’s pilgrimage where one of our recent confirmees led the
intercessions at a Eucharist in the Abbey before a congregation of 1500 and the
Archbishop of York.
Mark Williams, our Director of Chapel Music, describes the activities of our choirs
elsewhere, but I would like to pay tribute to all his labours in continuing to develop the
superb musical life of the Chapel. The December choir tour to the Ukraine was
particularly enjoyable and provided a thorough introduction to the College Choir for our
new administrator, Alice Johnson. Another happy occasion was the confirmation of two
of our choristers, Alasdair Austen and Edward Bellett-Travers, with Brittany Wellner,
fiancée of one of our fellows, by Bishop Lindsay Urwin of Walsingham in the Easter
term.
In addition to weddings of present students, fellows, and staff, and not a few old
members, the Chapel has this year seen the baptism of Mia Hurst, daughter of one of the
College Chefs, and the funeral of Sir Alan Cottrell, former Master, who was also
commemorated with a memorial service at the University Church. ■

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Chapel Music
Mark Williams, Director of Chapel Music
O n the last day of September 2011, the College Choir welcomed nine new choral
scholars and a new organ scholar. It is a tribute to this year’s talented intake of
musicians that, within a few hours of meeting for the first time, the Choir, with a third
of its membership new to the stalls, sang Evensong for Graduate Freshers with a sense
of ensemble and corporate musicianship worthy of a group with several performances
under its belt. The blend, colour and character of the sound naturally grow over the
course of the year and none of this year’s choral scholars will forget the culmination of
many months of work as they sang their last notes together in the magical setting of the
gallery of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, the very spot on which the St Matthew Passion was
first performed under the direction of J.S. Bach himself.
The Chapel Choir began the year by welcoming Alasdair Austin as its new Head
Chorister with Nico Bryan and Sam Fitzgerald as Deputy Head Choristers, following the
‘retirement’ of Head Chorister Luke Fitzgerald and Deputy Head Chorister Oliver King.
The Feast of All Saints was marked in the church of All Saints on Jesus Lane, whilst
All Souls saw the College Choir sing Victoria’s Requiem as part of a moving service in
Chapel. Visiting choirs from the Leys School, Cambridge and the Grange School,
Cheshire, participated in Chapel services whilst Remembrance and Advent saw large
congregations for key services in the Chapel’s calendar, as did the annual round of carol
services for Fellows and Staff, Chorister parents and Choir Patrons, students and visitors.
Two performances in Ely Cathedral and the Royal Festival Hall of Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast
with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the chapel choirs of Clare, Gonville & Caius, Jesus,
St John’s and Trinity in celebration of the 500th anniversary of St John’s College were
highlights of the Michaelmas Term alongside special events in the Chapel including
performances of Britten’s Ceremony of Carols by the female choral scholars and choristers
and a Christmas celebration with the boy choristers of Jesus College and the girl choristers
of St Catharine’s College in aid of MacMillan Cancer Support. The Mixed Choir also visited
one of the College’s most attractive livings, Cavendish in Suffolk, for a Christmas carol
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December saw the College Choir fly off to Ukraine at the invitation of the Dmitry
Firtash Foundation. Mr Firtash has been responsible for the establishment and
sponsorship of a course in Ukrainian Studies at the University and invited the Choir to
travel to his homeland after hearing them sing at the Senate House earlier in the year.
Two sell-out concerts in Lviv and Kiev were greeted with standing ovations and the Choir
took part in a number of other engagements, including a musical soirée hosted by the
British Council in Kiev and attended by visiting MPs and Peers, the British Ambassador
and members of the Dmitry Firtash Foundation. Keen to encourage cultural exchange
between the UK and Ukraine, the DF Foundation organised a joint musical workshop
with students from the Boris Grinchenko University in Kiev which proved to be a fruitful
and humbling experience. Never shy of publicity, the Choir enjoyed considerable media
coverage with articles appearing in the Ukrainian and Russian press and a notable
appearance on the country’s leading TV chat show.
The Lent Term began with a memorable performance in King’s College Chapel under
the baton of Sir Mark Elder, Principal Conductor of the Hallé Orchestra and Cambridge
alumnus. A week of intensive rehearsals with the maestro and the chorusmaster (none
other than JCC’s own Director of Music) led to a concert which saw CUMS I and CUCO
joined by the chapel choirs of Clare, Gonville & Caius, Jesus, King’s and Selwyn in
Debussy’s La Damoiselle Elue and Act III of Wagner’s Parsifal. Sir Mark insisted on the men
of the chorus singing from memory as they processed through the building, the sound
of the orchestra swelling underneath them, building to a shattering climax that few will
ever forget – it’s not often that choral scholars have the opportunity to sing Wagner! As
usual, the Choir played its part in the College’s celebrations of Candlemas, St Radegund
and St David in addition to special services for Ash Wednesday and the Commemoration
of Benefactors. Joint services with the choirs of Clare College Cambridge, Worksop
College and of Bedford School were much enjoyed by Jesuans and visitors alike, and we
were delighted to welcome Dr Peter Hurford, former Organ Scholar and Honorary
Fellow to Evensong in February to present a set of volumes of the newly-commissioned
‘Choirbook for the Queen’. February also saw Jesus choral scholars draw plaudits for
their organisation, direction and performance in the CUOS production of Die Fledermaus
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and for their contributions to a masterclass with renowned mezzo-soprano Dame Ann
Murray. Together with the choirs of Gonville & Caius College and Ely Cathedral, the
College Choir gave a concert of Music for Passiontide in Ely Cathedral in March and with
a team of distinguished soloists performed Rossini’s playful Petite Messe Solennelle in the
College Chapel in the week following the end of term.
The choirs went into the Easter Term well and truly warmed up by three pre-term days
spent recording a disc of music for Remembrance for release on the Signum label in
2013. The rather cautious approach to extra commitments during exam term paid off
with impressive performances from choral and organ scholars in tripos, including firsts
for more than half of the new first year choir members and a starred first for the talented
Junior Organ Scholar, Benjamin Morris. Nevertheless, the Choir didn’t shirk on its
regular commitments and Evensongs continued throughout exams alongside special
services for Mr Rustat’s Audit, Ascension and the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
in addition to a memorial service for distinguished former Master, Sir Alan Cottrell.
Following the end of term, the Choristers gave a concert in aid of the British Red Cross
in Great Wenham and the Mixed Choir in Arkesden in aid of St Mary’s Church and sang
services for Graduation, for donors to the College and for the Reunion Dinner.
The year drew to a moving and memorable close with a tour to Germany during which
the College Choir gave concerts in Bad Langensalza and Arnstadt and the Combined
Choirs in Halle, all to large and enthusiastic audiences. However, for many the
experience of singing in both the Nikolaikirche and Thomaskirche in Leipzig will be one
of the abiding memories of 2012. To perform in the two churches which employed
Johann Sebastian Bach and in which many of his masterpieces were first heard was an
extraordinary privilege and one which I am delighted was afforded to the Choristers,
Choral Scholars and Organ Scholars of Jesus College. ■
The New Harpsichord
O n 1 June this year, the College took possession of a new harpsichord, commissioned
by Stephen Heath, Fellow of the College, and built by Bruce Kennedy at his
workshop in Tuscany. Kennedy harpsichords have an international reputation; they are
to be heard on numerous recordings and found in conservatoires and concert halls
throughout the world, from New York to Vienna, Tokyo to Prague. There are only two
other Kennedy harpsichords in the UK, one at the Handel House Museum in London,
the other at the Guildhall School of Music.
The Jesus harpsichord, a double-manual instrument featuring two 8’ stops, a 4’ stop
and a buff, is modelled on a 1728 harpsichord by the German builder Christian Zell
(c.1683-1763) now in Hamburg’s Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe. The decoration of
the soundboard by the American artist Pamela Gladding, who has worked with
Kennedy for many years, delicately introduces the College crest within the overall
decoration of the soundboard, which is based on period motifs. Members of the
Society of St Radegund were able to hear the new instrument played by the Director of
Music during a brief interlude in their annual dinner in the College Hall in July. Its
inauguration proper, however, will take the form of a recital to be given in the Chapel on
the 27 of October 2012 by the young, internationally renowned, Iranian-American
instrumentalist Mahan Esfahani, generally regarded as the leading harpsichordist of his
generation. In 2011 he gave the first ever solo harpsichord recital at the BBC Proms.

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Bruce Kennedy in his Castelmuzio workshop, with the Jesus College harpsichord near completion
The recital will also allow the College to welcome Bruce Kennedy who is coming
from Tuscany to hear his instrument in the space for which it was built. An American by
birth, Kennedy’s musical studies led him to historical research into harpsichord
construction and the acquisition of the skills needed to become himself a professional
harpsichord builder. After periods in the Swiss Alpine village of Chateau d’Oex and
Amsterdam, he established his workshop in its current home in the small medieval
Tuscan hill town of Castelmuzio. His harpsichords are built after a range of historic
models – Flemish, French, German, Italian – and the construction of each is carried out
by him more or less single-handedly, with no more than two instruments being built at
any one time. Extreme care is taken to ensure that the materials and methods used are
those of a particular model’s original time and place. ■

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The Old Library and Archives
Peter Glazebrook, Acting Keeper of the Old Library
and Fellow Librarian 2011-2012 and Frances Willmoth, Archivist
The Old Library
Two important projects have been completed, and a third begun, this year. The
Malthus Library has been re-catalogued in digital form and added to the UL’s
Newton Catalogue, which is accessible worldwide. Liam Sims (who worked half the
week for us) brought to light a number of interesting provenances among the older
books and also cleverly identified others (including three once belonging to Rousseau)
that had come (or come back) from Jane Dalton, a cousin of T. R. Malthus’s father and
something of a “blue-stocking”. (She deserves further study.) Our small collection of
oriental MSS and books has also been re-catalogued by an expert (Ignacio Sanchez)
– a very long-standing desideratum: hitherto we have relied on a list made a century ago
by the then fledgling “Year Among the Persians” E. G. Browne. And, while waiting to
take up a full-time appointment in the Rare Books Room of the UL, Sims started on the
digital re-cataloguing of the main Old Library Collection, tackling the 37 incunabula
(books printed before 1500) we still have. Exploiting the most recent work in this
bibliographical field, he confirmed the extreme rarity of several of them. Re-cataloguing
the entire collection (c.9000 volumes) would be a major undertaking, probably requiring
the equivalent of 3 years’ full-time work by an expert cataloguer, and so costing about
£100k (though it could be done in stages). It would undoubtedly be of benefit to the
wider world of scholarship.
The Jesuan Collection (of books by and about members of the College) continues to
grow – happily evidencing much scholarly and literary activity, less happily overflowing
the shelving in the Old Library Annex.
The steady flow of both researchers into our medieval manuscripts and early printed
books and other interested visitors has continued unabated. They have come from an
even wider than usual range of places, including Leiden, Paris, Florence, Jerusalem, and
the Universities of Umeå (Sweden), Tasmania, and Toronto, as well as others in Britain
and the U.S. The Friends of the National Libraries came in May.
Archives
The Archives’ office transferred from a small room at the end of the ground floor
corridor in East House to a much larger one off the hallway (opposite the choir
practice room) in the autumn of 2011. This is a huge improvement over the previously
cramped conditions. It provides working-space for three people, so readers can easily be
accommodated. We have also been able to take on two archives volunteers – Pat Holder
and Kathleen Cann – who lend their assistance one day a week and have already made a
major difference by undertaking the sorting and cataloguing of ephemera and other
documents.
Topics addressed by readers during the year have ranged from the charters of
Countess Constance (twelfth century) to early-twentieth-century friendship networks
between students. An architecture student examined the building of New Square; an
author preparing a biography of the mountaineer Jack Longland came in search of clues
to his activities and friends in his student days (1923-26). Another researcher consulted
papers left by Arthur Gray (Master, 1912-40) and looked at the early career of Frederick

Foakes Jackson (1855-1941, Fellow 1886-1916), because of their suspected association
with particular political networks. Others again came in search of records of former
College properties and church livings.
Robert Athol (also Archivist at Clare, St Edmunds and Trinity Hall) was appointed in
June to a temporary part-time post as Deputy Archivist to provide cover during the
Archivist’s sick leave in the summer and autumn of 2012. ■
The Quincentenary Library
Peter Glazebrook, Fellow Librarian 2011-2012
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Anthony Andreas, Scriptum
Super Logica, St Albans, 1483
(printed by Wynkyn de Worde,
William Caxton’s first apprentice),
Jesus College Old Library
Our students continue to express, principally though not solely, via an annual
user-survey, a notably high degree of satisfaction (over 90% of 142 respondents)
with both the holdings and the various services provided in the library which has,
throughout its life, been in Rhona Watson’s care. There has been a gradual, but notable,
increase in the use of e-books.
The IT security and cataloguing systems which were installed when the Library was
first opened, had come to the end of their useful life, and were no longer compatible with
the UL’s systems, were replaced during the Long Vacation. ■

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Publications and Gifts to the
College Libraries 2011-2012
Books, Published Journal Articles and Chapters by Members
and Old Members
(* Denotes a gift to the college libraries)
The donations acknowledged here are those received before the end of June 2012.
Any items received after that date will be listed in next year’s Report.
* ALEXANDER, R. J. (1964), (i) Aspects of Verbal Humour (G. Narr, Tübingen, 1997); (ii)
Framing Discourse on the Environment: a Critical Discourse approach (Routledge, New York,
2009)
* ALMOND, A. J. (1957), with P. Beale and M. Scott Archer, The Corsini Letters,
ed. by Philip Beale (Amberley Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2011)
ARDITTI, M. J. (1972), Jubilate (Arcadia, London, 2011)
* BECKETT, E. H. L. (1986), The Canonical Understanding of Spiritual Leadership
(Dissertationes, Angelicum University Press, Rome, 2012)
BELLENGER, D. (1969), Downside Abbey: an Architectural History (Merrell, London,
2011)
* BISSELL, C. C. (1969), ed. with C. Dillon, Ways of Thinking, Ways of Seeing:
Mathematical and other Modelling in Engineering and Technology (Automation,
Collaboration, & E-Services Series, Vol. 1; Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg,
2012) [donated to the QL]
* BLAKE, R. J. (1967), (i) A Dark Anatomy (Macmillan, London, 2011); (ii) Dark Waters
(Macmillan, London, 2012)
* BRITTAN, S. (1952), (i) “In Defence of Individualism”, Royal Institute of Philosophy
Supplement 45, (2000) pp. 7-21; (ii) “Keynes and Myself: Lecture given at the Winton
Institute for Monetary History, Oxford, 18 October 2010”, The Political Quarterly 82,
No. 4, (2011) pp. 497-505
* BROWN, S. F. (1992), (i) Future Me (Oberon Books, London, 2007); (ii) The Princes’
Islands, by J. Sartorius – translated by S. Brown (The Armchair Traveller at the
bookHaus, London, 2011)
CHRISTIE, G. C. (1961), Philosopher Kings: the Adjudication of Conflicting Human Rights
and Social Values (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011)
* CLACKSON, J. P. T. (Fw 1998), ed., A Companion to the Latin Language
(Wiley-Blackwell, series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world, 2011)
[donated to the QL]
CLAEYS, G.R. (1978 ), Searching for Utopia: The History of an Idea (Thames and Hudson,
2011)
* CLISSOLD, T. K. (1979), Mr. China: a Memoir (HarperCollins, New York, 2004)

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COLLINGHAM, E. M. (Fw 1998), The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
(Allen Lane, London, 2011)
COLLINI, S. A. (1966), What are Universities For? (Penguin, London, 2012)
* CORNWELL, J. (Fw 1990 FWC 1996) (i) Ed Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Essential
Meditations, (Starhaven, London, 2011); (ii) Literary Review February “Review:
David Holloway’s Leaving Alexandria”; (iii) New Statesman 3 April 2012 “Scruffies
and Straights”; (iv) Financial Times 23 March 2012, “The King and I”; (v) Brain:
International Journal of Neurology September 2012, “Ethics and Neuroscience’;
(vi) The Tablet 18 August 2012 “Where are the Penitents?”; (vii) Financial Times
14 September 2012 “There Would Be Blood”; (viii) Theology September/October 2012,
“Review New Short History of the Catholic Church, Norman Tanner”
* CURTIS, W. J. R. (2003, Slade Professor), Structures of Light (Alvar Aalto Akatemia
Academy, Helsinki, 2007)
* DATE, C. J. (1959),* (i) SQL and Relational Theory: How to Write Accurate SQL Code (2nd
ed, O’Reilly, Farnham, 2012); *(ii) Database Design and Relational Theory: Normal Forms
and all that Jazz (O’Reilly, Farnham, 2012) (iii) Go Faster! The TransRelational Approach to
DMBS Implementation (also available as a free download from
http://bookboon.com/en/textbooks/it-programming/go-faster )
* DURRELL, M. (1991), Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage (5th edn. Hodder
Education 2011) [donated to the QL]
* EAGLETON, C. T. (1995), Monks, Manuscripts and Sundials: The Navicula in Medieval
England (History of Science and Medicine Library, Brill Academic Publishers, 2010)
FYFE, A. K. (1993), Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of
Publishing, 1820-60 (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
HARCOURT, G. C. (Fw 1982), (i) On Skidelsky’s Keynes and other Essays: Selected Essays
of G. C. Harcourt (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2012); (ii) The Making of a
Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2012)
* HARPER, R. (1976), A British Crash (Ladder, Walsall, 2009)
HARRIS, E. L. C. (1997), (i) London’s Churches are Fighting Back: a SAVE Britain’s Heritage
Report (2011); (ii) Moscow Heritage (MAPS, Save Europe’s Heritage, Moscow, revised
edn. 2009)
HENSHER P. M. (1986), Scenes from Early Life (Fourth Estate, London, 2012)
HOLLINDALE, P. (1954), *(i) “Nature”, in Keywords for Children’s Literature, edited by
P. Nel & L. Paul (New York University Press, 2011) pp. 161-164; *(ii) The Hidden Teacher
(Thimble Press, Stroud, 2011); (iii) “Innocence and Experience: the Condition of
Childhood in Graham Greene’s Fiction”, in Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene:
Journeys with Saints and Sinners, eds. Dermot Gilvary and Darren J. N. Middleton
(Continuum, 2011) pp. 79-96
HOSKIN, M.A. (Fw 1956-57), Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel
(Princeton, University Press, Princeton, 2011)
HORNE, A. A. (1948), But What Do You Actually Do - A Literary Vagabondage
(Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 2011)
HORSLEY, D. (1943), Lakeland Geological Locations (Westmorland Geological Society,
2011)

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HOWAT, R. J. (Research Fw, 1979), The Art of French Piano Music (Yale University Press,
2009), chosen as 2009 Book of the Year by International Piano
* KAUDERS, D. J. (1964), The Greatest Crash (Sparkling Books, Southampton, 2011)
MAIR, R. J. (Master 2001-11, Fw 2011), (i) with K. H. Goh,”Building damage
assessment for deep excavations in Singapore and the influence of building
stiffness”, Geotechnical Engineering Journal of the South-East Asian Geotechnical Society,
Vol. 42(3), September 2011, pp. 1-12; (ii) with M. Korff et al, “Building damage and
repair due to leakage in a deep excavation”, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil
Engineers, Forensic Engineering, Vol.164, November 2011, Issue FE4, pp. 165-167; (iii)
with A. M. Marshall, “Tunnelling beneath driven or jacked end-bearing piles in
sand”, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 48 (12), 1757-1771; (iv) with A. M. Marshall
et al, “Tunnels in sands: the effect of size, depth and volume loss on greenfield
displacements”, Géotechnique, Vol. 62, Issue 5, May 2012, 385-399
MITCHELL, J. (Fw 1996), (i) “Delusions, Siblings and “Historical Truth”: Daniel
Paul Schreber and his brother” in Vicissitudes: Histories and Destinies of Psychoanalysis,
eds. Sharon Kiveland and Naomi Segal (Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies,
London, in press); (ii) “War, Siblings and the Law of the Mother” in Psycho-analytical
Psychotherapy in South Africa; (iii) “The sublime Jealousy of Louise Bourgeois” in The
Return of the Repressed, ed. Phillip Larratt-Smith (Violette Editions, London, 2012) [first
published in exhibition catalogue, Louise Bourgeois: the Return of the Repressed,
(Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, 2011)]; (iv) “Yayoi Kusama: Portrait of the Artist as
a Young Flower” in exhibition catalogue Yayoi Kusama – a Retrospective Exhibition (Tate
Gallery, London, 2012)
* MOORE, H. (Fw 2009), Still Life (Polity, Cambridge, 2011) [and see below]
* O’BRIEN, M. (1993, Fw. 2002), (i) ‘‘Afterword’’ in The Old South’s Modern Worlds:
Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Process, eds. L. Diane Barnes et al (Oxford
University Press, Oxford, 2011), pp. 298-308; (ii) “Louisa Catherine Adams:
Travel, Narrative and Gender” in Riding/Writing Across Borders in North American
Travelogues and Fiction, ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (Östereichischen Akademie
der Wissenschaften, 2011), pp. 99-112; (iii) ‘A Response to Trevor Burnard: The
Standpoint of an Editor’, Journal of American Studies 45:3 (2011), pp. 426-30; (iv)
‘No Known Models’, a review of Daniel T. Rodgers – Age of Fracture), Times Literary
Supplement No. 5652 (29 July 2011), pp. 8-9
ONORATO, W. T. (1965), The Viking Sands, [by “Thomas Torrens”] (Publish
Green/Barnes & Noble, 2012; also available as a Kindle edition)
* PATTINSON, J. (1948), LAP: The Life of Air Marshal Sir Lawrence Arthur Pattinson, KBE,
CB, DSO, MC, DFC (privately published, 2011) [“ LAP” was also a Jesuan (1909)]
PECHEY, G. K. (1967) ““Frost at Midnight” and the Poetry of Periphrasis”,
The Cambridge Quarterly, 41:2, 2012
* PERFECT, D. M. R. (1979), with Arnold Hughes, A Political History of the Gambia,
1816-1994 (University of Rochester Press, New York, 2006)
* PICKUP, M. R. H. (1978), Tracing the Origins: The First Ten Years of the Global Food Safety
Initiative 2000-2010 (GFSi, c2010)

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* PRAWER, S. S. (1944), (i) Types and stereotypes: Sigmund Freud’s portrayal of Jews in Greater
Austria (Occasions 12, Austrian Cultural Forum London, 2011; lecture given on 13
May 2010); (ii) Heine, the Tragic Satirist: a Study of the Later Poetry, 1827-56 (Cambridge
University Press, 2010 reprint of 1961 edn.)
SCRUTON, R. (1962), Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet (Atlantic,
London, 2012)
* SHAW, M. A. (1975), translator of (i) From One Palace to Another (Un Hôtel très Particulier):
10 Avenue D’Iéna, Paris (privately printed for a commercial firm, Paris 2011); (ii) China
and Japan: Which Will Lead Asia?, by Claude Meyer (Hurst & Co., London, 2011)
* SLOTKIN, P. (1958), The Enigma of the Suicide Bomber: a Psychoanalytic Essay,
[by] Franco de Masi, trans. by Philip Slotkin, with a preface by Jesuan Daniel Pick
(Karnac Books, London, 2011)
* THEAKSTONE, W. H. (1955), (i) ‘Glacier Changes at Svartisen, Northern Norway,
during the last 125 years: influence of climate and other factors’, Journal of Earth
Science 21 no. 2, pp. 123-36 (2010); (ii) ‘A seven-year study of oxygen isotopes in daily
precipitation at a site close to the Arctic Circle, Tustervatn, Norway: trajectory
analysis and links with the North Atlantic Oscillation’, Atmospheric Environment (2011),
pp. 1-9; (iii) with others, ‘Changes of daily climate extremes in Southwestern China
during 1961-2008’, Global and Planetary Change (2011).

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* THOMPSON, J. B. (Fw 1979), Merchants of Culture: the Publishing Business in the Twenty-
First Century (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2010)
* VAN HENSBERGEN, R. (2008), with L. Kilbride, Paper Nautilus, No.1 (Cambridge,
2011)
* WARING, M. J. (Fw 1965), with eleven others, “Novel DNA-peptide interaction
networks”, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 18 (2010), pp. 2575-2585. (The author
comments that this ground-breaking new insight into the factors that govern the
complicated and biologically important business of peptide-DNA recognition will be
one of the last in a long series of research articles)
* WHEELER, A. R. (1945), What’s in a Name? Origins of Sudbury Street Names (Sudbury
Museum Trust, 2012)
WILLMOTH, F. H. (Fw 2011), (i) ʻRømer, Flamsteed, Cassini og lysets hastighedʼ, in
K. Tybjerg, J. Danneskiold-Samsøe and P. Friedrichsen, eds, Ole Rømer ̶ I kongens og
videnskabens tjeneste, (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2011), 171-194; (ii) ʻRoëmer,
Flamsteed, Cassini and the speed of lightʼ, Centaurus 54 no. 1 (Feb. 2012), pp. 39-57
WILTON-ELY, J. (1958) (i) Prefatory essay, “‘Quella pazza libertà di lavorare a
capriccio’: Piranesi and the creative use of fantasy” in the exhibition catalogue,
The Arts of Piranesi: architect, etcher, antiquarian, ‘vedutista’, designer, ed. Adam Lowe,
(Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 2012) pp. 33-93 (also translated into Italian and
Spanish for other venues). (ii) Prefatory essay, ‘Piranesi and the Tourists’ and 5
entries on works by Piranesi in the exhibition catalogue, The English Prize: The Capture
of the Westmorland. An Episode of the Grand Tour, eds. María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui
and Scott Wilcox (Yale University Press, London and Newhaven, 2012) pp. 137-143,
201-3, 228-29, 210-12, 298-9
Other Donations
C. M. DENT (1970), has donated a copy of his book Protestant Reformers in Elizabethan
Oxford (Oxford University Press, 1983)
D. JONES (1953), has presented the Old Library with a 1585 Bible, formerly owned
by the Rev. I. Jones of Beddgelert
R. MENGHAM (1973, Fw), presented the Old Library with three of J. H. Prynne’s
books – Furtherance (The Figures, 2004), Pearls that Were (Equipage, 1999) and
Red D Gypsum (Barque, 1998)
H. MOORE (Fw 2009), has donated six of her publications to the Jesuan Collection
and the Quincentenary Library: Feminism and anthology (1998), A Passion for Difference
(1994), Anthropological Theory Today (1999), The Subject of Anthology (2007), Space, Text
and Gender, (1996) and Still Life (2011) ■

Rustat Conferences
John Cornwell
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On 17 January 2012 The Master and the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszeck
Borysiewicz, hosted a conference in Upper Hall on the Future of Research Intensive
Universities. The Master’s Executive Summary was as follows:
The last 40 years have witnessed an unprecedented expansion of the university sector
within the UK, not only in terms of its size but also in terms of its range of academic
endeavours, teaching, research, consultancy and contractual work, community
engagement and commercialisation. The academic attainment of applicants has also
broadened hugely, partly due to their much larger numbers and to the changes in school
curriculum. As a result, higher education organisations now not only embrace the
approach outlined by von Humboldt (1810), treating “higher learning in terms of not yet
completely solved problems, remaining at all times in a research mode (i.e. being engaged in an
unceasing process of inquiry)”, but also as conventionally in Schools and Colleges educating
and training students in “closed and settled bodies of knowledge”.
While recognising that both forms of education are important to Society, this Rustat
Conference sought to chart the major issues currently confronting Research-Intensive
universities specifically, paying particular attention to the changing landscape of
government scrutiny and support, and the rapid advances globally in universities.
Throughout the conference, it was recognised that the UK university system includes
internationally leading institutions which surpass those in many competitor nations,
and are seen to be particularly impressive when their performance is assessed in terms
of unit resource. It was agreed that the following factors had been essential in such
success: (i) Institutional Autonomy, a feature that other countries are now introducing in
Honora O’Neill, Henrietta Moore, Nancy Rothwell, David Cleevely, Martin Rees, the Vice-Chancellor and the Master at the
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their sectors, (ii) Institutional Diversity, allowing the widest possible range of
opportunities for students and staff alike, and (iii) above all, a focus on Institutional
Excellence, in teaching, learning, research and reflective enquiry, with this last
endeavour best involving both independent study and collective engagement or
collegiality.
The meeting recognised, however, that such success faces major challenges,
particularly given the continuing global economic environment which is restricting the
financial support and investments that stakeholders can provide to the university
system. The challenge of responding to this was a topic of much debate from which
several points were identified during the meeting as being of importance:
1. Institutional Focus: To deliver excellence and diversity across the UK university
sector, and not least for the sake of students, institutions must focus on areas of
established excellence which have sufficient critical mass to be efficient. It was
therefore proposed certain forms of education be focussed in specific centres, for
example for the PhD degree. Also the Government should develop more specific
metrics for recognising excellence, for example in vocational courses, so that all
students in particular, could determine how well an institution would provide
targeted training and education (and indeed to what extent they meet specific
needs, standards and career opportunities). Entry standards should also be defined
so it is clear what standards are required at school for the student to be sufficiently
qualified to take the course.
2. Global Focus: Research-Intensive universities can only be globally leading if they
outperform international competitors. Despite its success, the UK cannot afford to
be complacent in terms of the standing of its Research-intensive universities, not
least because of the benefits this brings in terms of national reputation and
recognition. Given the large levels of known future investment in research by
Europe, success by UK Universities in obtaining a large proportion of such funding
is crucial. To date, the UK Government has not needed to provide the support that
other countries have implemented to help their universities achieve success in
Europe, but this must be kept under review. UK universities must increasingly
benchmark their standards at international levels, recognising that that the scale of
the university sector, for example the BRICs will dwarf Europe and the USA within
twenty years, and the quality of leading universities elsewhere will be extremely
high. Decisions on Government support for UK Research-Intensive universities
need to take greater account of international competition and collaboration.
3. Recognition of the Benefits of Research-Intensive Universities: It is only right that
universities should accept scrutiny from stakeholders, not least in terms of value for
money, and that this scrutiny typically involves a level of competition. Such scrutiny
must also not only avoid detracting from the core functions of the sector, but rather
reflect them. There was a strong view at the meeting, however, that current
benchmarks for defining the social-economic benefits of universities need to be
improved, and that the university sector needs to communicate more effectively its
benefits, rather than primarily using comparative assessments at local levels such as
in the REF. It was argued that although universities have been most successful in
commercialising their research, the primary economic benefits from universities
were from training students - the financial benefit of trained students is normally at
least 100 times that of commercialisation activities. Also, this benefit arises from a
very wide range of subjects, not least because many disciplines have common
principles and levels of rigour. Impact is undoubtedly important, but should be on
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which might occur for any organisation, and often relies on factors outside and
beyond the university environment and control. Research-Intensive universities
should also place greater emphasis on communicating the main outcomes of this
area with staff, students and the general public.
Among the 50 visiting participants were the following Vice-Chancellors and other senior
figures in higher education:
Professor Janet Beer, Vice-Chancellor Oxford Brookes University; Chair Steering Group for the
National Student Survey, Higher Education Funding Council for England
Baroness Blackstone, Former Vice-Chancellor University of Greenwich; former Master, Birkbeck
College, University of London; former Minister of Education
Sir Graeme Catto, Director, Higher Education Better Regulation Group
Mary Curnock Cook, Chief Executive, Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS)
Professor Dr Kurt Deketelaere, Secretary-General, League of European Research Universities
Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow, Vice-Chancellor, University of Kent
Professor Chris Higgins, Vice-Chancellor, University of Durham
Professor Dr Michael Kämper-van den Boogaart, Vice-President for Academic and
International Affairs, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Professor Alberto Mantovani, Vice-Rector, University of Milan
Professor Calie Pistorius, Vice-Chancellor, University of Hull
Professor Louise Richardson, President, University of St Andrew’s
Professor Krystian Roleder, Vice-Rector, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Manchester
Professor Jürgen Rühe, Vice-Rector for Internationalization and Technology Transfer,
University of Freiburg
Professor Rick Rylance, Chief Executive and Chair, Research Councils UK Executive Group
Lord Sainsbury FRS, Chancellor, University of Cambridge; former Minister of Science and
Innovation
Manufacturing in the UK
On 24 November 2011, the College hosted the Rustat Conference on the state of
manufacturing in the UK. In the wake of recent financial crises, renewed emphasis
has been placed on discussions about the balance of the UK economy, and how much –
if at all – it has become over-dependent on the tertiary or services sector, a sector
characterised by professions such as banking, retail, tourism, and the media. To put the
potential of the UK manufacturing sector in context, it is estimated that a 20% increase
would be enough to remove the current unsustainable trade deficit.
The conference aimed to provide recommendations on how the role and state of the
manufacturing sector might be improved. Chaired by the Master, experts from a variety
of fields – industry, government, professional institutions and academia – covered the
following topics: 1. What is Manufacturing? The Facts versus the Myths. 2. How does
Manufacturing perform in Critical Sectors? 3. Does Manufacturing Matter? 4. The Role
of Universities in the Manufacturing Sector; and 5. What are the Global, National,
Regional and Local Perspectives of the UK manufacturing sector?
Among the speakers and participants were: Jonathan Neale, managing director of
McLaren Racing; Professor Sir Mike Gregory, head of the Institute for Manufacturing at
Cambridge; Jennifer Smookler, deputy head of Foresight at the Government Office for
Science; Sir Alan Rudge, chairman of the ERA Foundation; Dr John F Jungclaussen,
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of UKPIA; Professor Peter Williamson of the Judge Business School; Professor Chris
Lowe, director of the Institute of Biotechnology at Cambridge; and Tim Lawrence, head
of Manufacturing Practice at the PA Consulting Group.
In his executive summary, Professor Ian White said that though the conference
delegates recognised the substantial work that has been done by both governmental and
non-governmental bodies in recent years to support UK manufacturing, a consensus
was reached that further action be required lest the sector be regarded as weak
internationally. A full report of the Rustat Conference on the state of manufacturing in
UK can be found online at www.rustat.org; or by emailing the conference rapporteur,
Nathan Brooker, at ncbrooker@yahoo.co.uk
Oil and Energy
The College hosted the Rustat Conference on Oil and Energy on 4 April 2012.
In the chair’s introduction, the Master likened the debate over the provision and
supply of oil to the dilemma outlined by the famous Jesuan Thomas Malthus
(1766-1834). In what is commonly termed the ‘Malthusian catastrophe’, Malthus
foresaw a world forced to return to subsistence-level conditions on the proposition that
population growth would outpace agricultural production. Though such a catastrophe
has not yet occurred, the supply of fossil fuels from politically unstable areas has
remained a contentious issue within western governments, at least since the end of the
Second World War.
The five topics covered by the conference on oil and energy were as follows: 1. What is
the macroeconomic outlook for hydrocarbons? 2. How important will politics be in the
use of such resources? 3. What can technology be expected to offer and how will this
affect climate change? 4. What might the impact be on governments? 5. What might the
impact be on markets?
Among the speakers and participants were: Stuart Laing, master of Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge, former UK ambassador to Kuwait and former deputy ambassador
to Saudi Arabia; Rosalind Kainyah, Vice-President of External Affairs at Tullow Oil; Fred
Pollack, senior analyst of Energy Security at NATO; Richard Bridge, head of Government
& Political Affairs at BP; Lord Oxburgh, former chairman of Shell; Professor Andy
Woods, Head of the BP Institute at Cambridge; Fergus Macleod, group head of Strategic
Planning at BP; Dr Nazrin Mehdiyeva, principal consultant of Energy and Foreign Policy
at PA Consulting Group; and Terry Macalister, energy editor at the Guardian.
A full report of the Rustat Conference on Oil and Energy is available at
www.rustat.org, or by emailing the conference rapporteur, Nathan Brooker, at
ncbrooker@yahoo.co.uk ■

Bursary
Christopher Pratt, Acting Senior Bursar
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The principal achievements in 2012 have been the completions of Chapel Court and
Marshall Court (as the refurbished 19-22 Jesus Lane is now known), major
improvements in our management accounting and another creditable set of results
for 2011-12. Taking these in turn, I am delighted to report that the refurbishment of Chapel
Court, a major project in any terms, has come in on time and within budget – very satisfying
since both timescale and budget were reduced. Marshall Court, officially opened by Sir
Michael Marshall (1952) on 1 October 2012 was to a horribly tight programme, but also
came in on time and on budget, the combined buildings making the College 137 student
rooms and 25 fellows’ rooms better provided than in 2011-12, with the bonus that almost
all of these are now en-suite, making journeys to distant ablutions a thing of the past and
enhancing future income. It was special to see our Master the most elevated in Cambridge
and learning masonry and carpentry skills as the two Courts were topped out:
The projects have tested our cash-flow management skills, so I am particularly pleased
to say that we have vastly improved our internal reporting as well as needing reduced help
from our auditors. As I write, we are finalising 2011-12 for publication in November, but we
know that, after pay costs reduced by £50,000, we have again held down our operating
expenditure (to only 0.8% above that for 2010-11) and the results will be very close to our
budget. This is how our finances will look in the next published Accounts:
Millions
14,000,000
12,000,000
10,000,000
8,000,000
6,000,000
4,000,000
2,000,000
0
2011-2012
Expenditure Income
Surplus/Endowment
Other
Domus cost/income
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Sir Michael Marshall officially opening Marshall Court
Fees continue to pay only just over half our education costs, but we continued to make
progress in making the Domus (shorthand for housing and feeding members, plus
conference guests) self-supporting. That progress has been suspended in the absence of the
Chapel Court income stream, but will resume from now on. We have, with hugely helpful
input from Jesuans on our Investment Committees, replaced our financial investment
managers and despite unsettled markets can say that the combined financial and property
valuation is above that for 2011, itself at a record level.
There are challenges ahead, of course. We should know in the next year whether we can
re-acquire the Wesley House site, sold in 1922, and resourcing that will test us, as will the
new fee regime, impacting progressively over the next three years and creating a real need
to increase our bursary support.
Senior and junior members alike know how much the College owes to its loyal staff and
those reaching long service milestones in the last year include: chef Shaun Platt (25 years),
cleaner Elaine McNab and maintenance assistant Terry Dellar (both 15 years). Five other
members of staff reached 10 years’ service, and we said farewell to four members of staff
who retired from the College including janitor Charles Hardy who retired after 20 years
and head chef Alf Curtis who retired after an incredible 38 years. ■
Inside the newly refurbished Marshall Court at 19-22 Jesus Lane

Development Office
Richard Dennis, Development Director
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It has been a year of considerable change in the Development Office. Miranda Seymour,
Ghizala-Ruth Modood (2009) and Liam Richardson (2005) have all departed for fresh
pastures and been replaced by Hannah Perks, Nikki Williams, Stephen Bland and Natasha
Brice (2008).
Under the leadership of our new Master we are currently re-assessing the College’s
future priorities, but it is already clear that as a result of the new higher fees regime we are
going to have to increase our fundraising efforts for undergraduate bursaries. The levels
of debt that our new undergraduates face are unprecedented. Similarly, the need to be able
to help fund scholarships for graduates is increasing significantly as we strive to ensure
that our graduates gain fully from their time at the College. A particular concern to us is
the plight of UK students already burdened with high levels of debt from their
undergraduate years.
Philip and Joanne (née Moore) Yates (1978 and 1980) have, with outstanding generosity,
endowed a college teaching Fellowship in Law. They were both admitted to read Law when
Peter Glazebrook was Director of Studies in that subject, and the Fellowship is to be known
as the Yates Glazebrook Fellowship. The first holder will be Dr Findlay Stark who, like
Glanville Williams and Peter Glazebrook, is principally interested in Criminal Law. This is
the fourth named Fellowship to be endowed by members of the College in recent years. The
first, in History, was established by Gurnee Hart (1994) and is held by Dr Michael Edwards;
the second, in Polar Sciences, was created by Brian Buckley (1962) and is held by Prof Julian
Dowdeswell; the third, in English, is held by Dr Christopher Burlinson and was funded by
the legacy of Vivian Cox (1934). The endowment of fellowships is of particular value to the
College as we seek to preserve the college-based teaching system in the face of an
undergraduate funding regime that covers only a proportion of the costs of the education
we provide.
I am delighted that so many Old Members have chosen to support the Chapel
Court project. We will continue to accept names for plaques in rooms until the New
Year. We hope to have the plaques installed in time for the Donors’ Garden Party next
summer.
Bequests
The College wishes to record its great gratitude for the following bequests received during
the year 2011-12: Ronald Ray (1950) £100,000; John Steane (1948) £61,317; Kenneth Yates
(1936) £20,000; John Robertson (1938) £3,064; Alan Wood (1943) £10,000; and James
Meadows (1956) £52,840.
Membership of the 1496 Society has now grown to over 150 as evermore Old Members and
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Society of St Radegund
The College marks its gratitude for acts of outstanding munificence with admission to the
Society of St Radegund. Immediately prior to the Society’s annual dinner on 25 June the
Master inducted a new member to the Society, Christopher Kirker (1969), who is endowing
an undergraduate bursary.
Later this summer the College Council was also delighted to invite Marshall of
Cambridge Ltd to become a corporate member of the Society of St Radegund. This was in
recognition of the many links between the Marshall family, and their company, and the
College, including most recently their very generous support for the rebuilding of 19-22
Jesus Lane, the site of their original business premises, as graduate accommodation. As
reported earlier by the Acting Senior Bursar, this is now been named Marshall Court. This
now provides 20 very attractive en-suite graduate rooms and 6 much needed flats for those
graduates with partners. ■
Professor Ian White with Mr Christopher Kirker

Parting Impressions of Jesus
Adrienne Hamy, French Lectrice 2011-2012
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I t would have been proper to start with a powerful sentence from Coleridge, Sterne or
the Earl of Wessex, but I will quote from an open book: Jesus Cloister.
On my first day in Cambridge I was already disorientated. The Chimney had led me to
the Horse, which accompanied me to the Carrollian shrubs in second Court. Attracted by
the Chapel singing walls I rode on sunbeams and arrived in the sunny Cloister. There I
found sapientia in its double sense: that is wisdom and taste buds feast. Peter Glazebrook
showed me the way to High Table delights, Jesuan secret stories, and fellows’ kind
experience.
There began my own Bildungsroman: as a French Lectrice I was there to teach but
actually learnt a great deal about how to teach and learn. Teaching Cantabrigian students
confirmed my desire for a more creative and friendly way of transmitting knowledge,
slightly different from a certain Sorbonagre, Sorbonnicole, authoritative approach I had
sometimes been used to.
My mission was to prepare the Medieval and Modern Languages students for different
exams in French. The first-year Tripos worked on the art of summary, debating, reacting
to the news or big social and cultural issues and analyzing articles. The second-year divided
their time between the joys of FrAV (this unbiblical beast is also called ‘French through
audio-visual media’) and the gymnastics of translating English literature into elegant
French – this implacable notion of linguistic elegance stirred endless and heated
controversies. It was important as well to give some hints on CVs and year-abroad projects,
which led up to long comparative discussions among lakes of tea and cascades of laughter.
The third-year being abroad, I then helped the fourth-year to write French essays on
topics as varied as violence and body language in Zola, religion in XVIIth-century literature,
power of poetry in Sartre and Apollinaire. Those were rich, fertile and passionate sessions.
I could hear ardent love declarations in Marivaux XVIIIth-century style, read extra
translations from Irish contemporary theatre or philosophical essays on theologies of
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Astérix, create live vocabulary lists mimicking all kinds of weapons from tanks to halberds,
recreate Macbeth witches scene while cooking mulled wine for Christmas drinks, sing
Edith Piaf’s incentive song ‘Je ne veux pas travailler’, enjoy knitting and tea farewell moments,
introduce to the concrete variety of French pastries. And I can’t help mentioning guitar
interludes, treasure hunts to find lovely messages and fresh cookies, caricatures, mugs,
ground coffee, assorted tricks and surprise books. May I thank here the unforgettable and
dynamic Mesdemoiselles Holroyd, Hughes, Johnston, Stokeld, Broadbridge, Lane, Sheen,
Arthur, Ghosh and Shahrad, Messieurs Russell, Kemp, Kitching, Wood, Margolin, Hewett,
for all they have taught me.
What struck me most in Cambridge undoubtedly, but at Jesus College especially – apart
from the exoticism, glee and depth of every single element of everyday life – is the strong
and genuine sense of community. The generous staff produced signed mugs, Danish
poetry lines, meteorological jokes and rugby scores. The Fellows showed incredible and
marvellous kindness: exciting life stories, academic advice for my PhD on XIIIth century
Franciscan Homiletics and Mariology, translation works, refined and most interesting and
joyful conversazioni. Pr. Ian and Mrs Margaret White were sincerely welcoming and
thoughtful. It is impossible to thank here all the wise Magi who made this year special,
I cannot avoid however mentioning Peter Garnsey and John Adkins (and Prs Soskice,
Cornwell, Hughes, Morieux, Kelly, Bowen, Williams, Glazebrook, Minden, Arnot,
Clackson, Mottier, Caramello, Burlinson, Wells, Bowers, Killen, Siklos, Flemming, Tor,
Saslaw, Walton, Waring, McIntyre, Perreau, and of course Peter Linehan at John’s for his
wonderful presence).
The MML family was an interesting and colourful mosaic looked after by angels such as
Jana Howlett and Annemarie Kunzl-Snodgrass.
Cambridge at last is the only bubble where one can in the same week caress an albino
python in a master’s garden, eat cheese on a chapel roof, play violin in a Neogothic
refectory while eating strawberries, rebuild a Russian banya, talk among dawn candles
about astrophysics and viols, Golden Rush and Linear B, Soviet spies and purple jackets,
see plays performed in Russian, Ancient Greek, Tennessee slang or XVIIth century French,
mix Mozarabic palaeography and champagne in a tower. A week in those days was worth
a century. Space and Time were others. Remembrance is everlasting. ■

Societies

Societies
Student Union
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This has been another highly successful year for the JCSU and for Jesus College’s
societies. Jesus has consolidated its reputation as the strongest sporting college in
Cambridge with a series of barnstorming performances in rowing, hockey, football,
rugby and other sports. Music in College continues to benefit from large doses of
dedication and talent, and the Jesuan contingent in the University’s theatre scene has
never been more impressive. These extracurricular opportunities, combined with the
College’s friendliness, means that the student experience at Jesus is exceptionally
enjoyable and constructive.
The year began, as always, with a hectic freshers’ week, the aim of which was to best
prepare the incoming students for their undergraduate years in College. The social and
academic mix was such that the freshers found themselves fitting in to College very
quickly. Every year, at the start of Michaelmas, the extraordinary benefits of College life
become apparent – a true community can be formed so easily when staff and students
work to welcome new undergraduates. That Jesus pulls this off with aplomb every year is
the reason, I think, for its continuous successes.
In addition to its ongoing responsibility of keeping the student experience in College
ticking over, the JCSU has organised a range of successful events and schemes in the
past year. Halfway Hall, the Jesus Garden Party in June, the co-ordination of CUSU’s
Shadowing Scheme, the annual accommodation ballot and a range of entertainments
(such as music evenings in the bar) are only some of the things for which the JCSU has
been responsible. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the committee for all
their hard work, and the staff of College for the invaluable help and facilitation they
provide for the JCSU. I feel confident that the coming year will see College’s student
successes strengthened yet again, and the incomparable experience of third-level
education at Jesus continued.
Matt O’Kane
Middle Combinaton Room (MCR)
This year has been a thoroughly enjoyable year for the MCR. Despite the challenges
resulting from the dispersal of graduate accommodation across Cambridge, we have
had a fantastic response from the graduate community. Many graduate events this year
have experienced exceptionally strong attendance, thanks to the outstanding efforts of
the MCR committee. Our newly renovated Grad Room has also been key to this,
providing a comfortable and relaxed meeting place in college and a welcoming venue for
events. Groups of students are to be found using it most evenings and many individuals
find it the perfect quiet working environment during the day.
We have continued our thriving Fellows’ and Graduates’ symposium series, now
following Grad Hall on Wednesday evenings. This year has included highly engaging
and thought-provoking presentations from Drs Clackson (Classics) and Hanke
(Botany). In March we were also delighted to invite Mrs Margaret White to talk at our
Annual Women’s Dinner. She gave a fascinating talk about the introduction of women
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Our major academic event of the year, the Graduate Conference has gone from
strength to strength; last year’s event was the most successful ever, with excellent
attendance and a captivating key note speech from archaeologist Carenza Lewis, most
famous for her work on the Channel 4 programme Time Team. This year the graduate
community welcomed alumni to the event, which led to many stimulating discussions.
We hope to extend this and encourage further involvement from the alumni community
in future years.
In extracurricular activities we hosted a wide range of events from dinners and pub
quizzes to family afternoon teas and debating evenings. We feel very lucky to have such a
sociable graduate group and regularly sell out grad hall each week. One area we are keen
to extend in our social calendar is including students with young families as we feel they
can sometimes become quite isolated. This has been one of the main areas in which our
welfare, women’s and LGBT officers have been working.
Next year will be another exciting year as we will again be able to welcome all
graduate students back to live in college. We have been lucky enough to extend our
accommodation with the recently completed Marshall Court, which will provide en-suite
housing and partner accommodation allowing families and students who desire a little
more privacy a place to stay within the college grounds.
All in all, it has been a busy but thoroughly enjoyable year. It just remains for me to
thank my committee for all their hard work, for which I, on behalf of the graduate
community, am extremely grateful.
Kate Miller
Coleridge Society
In its current incarnation, the Coleridge Society seeks to encourage inter-disciplinary
discussion across history, literature, philosophy, theology and politics, mainly through
organising after-dinner talks by respected thinkers in these fields; these are open to
graduate students and senior members of any College or Faculty. This year three talks
have been held in the Dean's rooms, and all three were well-attended and followed by
vigorous and friendly discussion, testament to the success of both the format and the
space in fostering genuine intellectual exchange. In Michaelmas Term, Dr Duncan Kelly
– a Fellow of Jesus – introduced some thoughts on John Locke, and individual freedom
of action from his recent book, The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions and Political
Judgement. In Lent Term the Society was treated to a consideration of its namesake,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose ideas on metaphor in philosophy were expounded by
Graham Pechey. Then at the Easter Term meeting Professeor Andrew Bowie of Royal
Holloway, University of London, enthusiastically championed the German philsophical
tradition, particularly the work of T. W. Adorno, which led to an extremely lively
discussion with those analytic philosophers present. We are grateful, as always, to all
three speakers, and to the audiences, whose contributions have made this year's
meetings so stimulating.
Hanna Weibye
Engineering Society
The Jesus College Engineering Society is student-run and aims to promote engineering
within the college, and to foster links between Jesuan engineers and industry.
Highlights from this past academic year include a talk by representatives of Atkins

Aerospace on the use of “Materials in Advanced Aerospace Structures”, and a
presentation by Paul McIlroy, the former technical director of Hawk-Eye, about the
technology and its use on the international tennis stage. The society also organised
social events for engineers of the college throughout the year, including a formal dinner
for current students and alumni.
Adrian Lee
Law Society
The year began for the JCLS with the annual Freshers’ Cocktails evening. This was, as
ever, a great opportunity for the incoming freshers and LLM students to meet the rest of
the lawyers at Jesus. A few weeks later, the Christmas party saw the law students regroup
for a chance to catch up about the past term over mulled wine and mince pies.
Lent saw the arrival of a great deal of mooting at Jesus. The first year students took
part in a mooting workshop run by our new teaching officer, Mr Joe McIntyre, and
competed in the traditional Freshers’ Moot, which was won this year by George White.
The competition was kindly judged by Jesuan Rory Brown and his colleagues from
9 Stone Buildings. The Annual Jesus/Magdalene Moot was held at Jesus this year and the
college was represented by Stephen Butler and Rachel Chapman. We are grateful to
4 New Square for their continuing support of this moot. Additionally, several members
of Jesus have mooted on behalf of Cambridge University this year: Frances Harris and
Mark Cullen competed in the WebLegal Education Moot and Stephen Butler and Rachel
Chapman took on Warwick in the inaugural Cambridge/Warwick Moot.
The society’s Annual Dinner was sponsored by Clifford Chance and was a particularly
delightful evening. We enjoyed some of college’s finest food and listened to a
fascinating after-dinner speech from our guest of honour, Lord Justice Jackson.
Additionally, Jesus students have been fortunate enough to attend careers presentations
in college this year, run by Hogan Lovells and Herbert Smith.
The Glanville Williams Society event was kindly hosted by Mr John Wotton, President
of the Law Society, at their buildings on Chancery Lane. As always, it provided a
wonderful opportunity for past and present Jesuan lawyers to meet one another.
The 2012 events calendar was rounded off by the Garden Party: a celebration of the end
of exams with Pimms and strawberries in abundance!
The Law Society has been most grateful this year for the endless support of old
members and sponsors, without whom none of the events, workshops and moots could
run. Sincere thanks are also due to the JCLS Committee, who have worked hard to
organise and run the calendar of events: Tim Worrall (Treasurer), Emma Cridland
(Secretary) and Frances Harris (Mistress of Moots).
Laura Parkman
Music Society
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JCMS enjoyed another busy year, beginning with the Freshers’ Concert which introduced
a number of talented young musicians to the College. Instrumental Awards went to
cellists Hetty Mulhall, Timothy Coombes and Elizabeth Edwards as well as pianists
George Salimbeni, Grace Smith and Kim Chang Liu and violinist Max Wong; these
musicians have contributed enthusiastically to College music throughout the year.
Whilst the Freshers’ Concert is rather intimate internal event, the Michaelmas
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audience, which it did with great success. The programme consisted of Finzi’s A Severn
Rhapsody, Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A major, Britten’s Suite on English Folk Tunes,
and John Williams’ Theme from Jurassic Park, with orchestral items conducted by Josh
Jones and Alex Beetschen.
In the lead-up to Christmas, Alex Beetschen also led a fantastic spectacle, conducting
a semi-staged collection of songs from the Disney classic Beauty and the Beast with a
large orchestra and the College’s non-auditioned choir, the Jesus Singers. This event
continued the legacy of The Lion King and The Nightmare Before Christmas which had been
mounted in previous years, placing a strong emphasis on all-inclusive and
light-hearted music-making. The last week of term also saw the Chapel packed for
late-night Christmas music with the specially-assembled close harmony group Alcock &
Baubles, and a magical performance of Howard Blake’s story The Snowman starring Ben
Atkins, Alex Beetschen and the Chapel Choir’s Head Chorister, Ali Austin, whose
rendition of Walking in the air dressed in pyjamas and dressing gown enchanted the
post-Formal Hall revellers!
2012 brought with it further musical successes for JCMS. The David Crighton Concert
in Lent term, traditionally a more formal affair, featured Handel’s Overture to Saul,
Bruckner's Mass No. 2 in E minor and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor (with Max
Wong as soloist), conducted by Gareth Thomas, Robert Dixon and Colin Danskin
respectively. A number of Fellows said that it was one of the best JCMS concerts they
had attended and the standing ovation given by the entire audience at the end of the
Mendelssohn paid tribute to the hard work of all those involved.
The May Week Concert ‘Music from the Movies’, inspired by the success of Theme from
Jurassic Park in the Michaelmas Term Concert, provided the perfect culmination to the
year’s musical achievements. Although the orchestra featured in items such as Chicken
Run and Prince Ali (conducted and arranged by Alex Beetschen), and the Sinbad Suite and
Tara’s Theme from Gone with the Wind (conducted by Josh Jones), the concert retained its
usual variety-show feel with performances by a number of ensembles and soloists.
A brass quintet played arrangements of two Hollywood classics, Grace Smith and Ben
Morris performed two Debussy piano pieces and the JCMS chorus sang Zadok the Priest
and two movements from Mozart’s Requiem, conducted by Gareth Thomas. The
College’s splendid Big Band entertained the audience in the North Court marquee as
they feasted on strawberries and champagne after the concert.
In addition to these termly events, Louisa Dawes and Colin Danskin have taken
responsibility for organising regular concerts and recitals in the College Chapel. Louisa
has worked hard as Recitals Manager to fix skilled instrumentalists and singers from
within College and around Cambridge to perform during the weekly Saturday recital
series in Michaelmas and Lent terms and the highly-successful May Week lunchtime
recital series. Colin, meanwhile, has been working behind the scenes to mount regular
events as part of the widely-celebrated Chapel Sessions, drawing huge crowds to an
eclectic mix of music in the atmospheric late-night setting of the candlelit Chapel.
With capacity audiences, regular attendance at rehearsals from large numbers of the
orchestra (albeit a bit unpredictable during exam term!), high-quality playing and
glowing feedback after concerts, JCMS has celebrated a bumper year. My thanks go to
the many students who have contributed so much to the musical life of the College over
the course of the past twelve months, to the JCMS Committee members for their hard
work, and in particular to Dr Roger Bowers, Emeritus Fellow, who, after thirty years’
service, stepped down as a committee member this Summer.
Rebecca Burns

Graduate Conference
From Secret Societies to the Science of Songs
For the last 5 years, the Jesus College MCR has organised the Jesus Graduate
Conference, a one day event that showcases the diverse and exciting work being done by
current graduate student in the college. The event, staged at the start of the Easter term
encourages participation from all members of the MCR community covering the full
range of academic interests and degree courses. This year we were also very pleased to
be able to invite undergraduates and alumni of the college to join us and to enjoy
exciting and stimulating discussion with the graduate students about their areas of
research.
For this year’s conference we were thrilled to be joined by Dr Carenza Lewis of the
Department of Archaeology who gave an inspiring and inspirational speech discussing
her career as a founder of Access Cambridge Archaeology and a presenter on Channel
4’s Time Team. In particular, Dr Lewis focused on her experiences of sharing her
academic work with the public and the importance of such access work in the 21st
century. This theme is the key focus of the graduate conference which encourages all of
our students to think about their work and to present it in a way that is accessible and
engaging for everyone.
The ethos of the conference was also reflected in our chosen student speakers who
spoke on subjects as diverse as multilingualism, international law, composite steels and
the mathematics of mixing paints. The audience was taken on a journey through the
history of secret societies of Cambridge, explored our modern multinational culture and
looked ahead to a future of space elevators and high speed computer systems. The
presentations also included many popular and memorable demonstrations including a
mini-choir that illustrated the principles that underlie the science of music and a
mock-up of a cooling apparatus that generates temperatures close to absolute zero.
The majority of our participants presented as part of a poster session that was very
well attended by members of the college who were given the chance to view around 40
different posters on everything from black holes to fruit flies and ancient Latin to the
London riots. The authors of the posters included current MPhil and PhD students at the
college who were on hand to discuss their work and answer questions. Attendees were
even treated to videos, 3D graphics and an interactive computer game-style simulation
that is being used to investigate Huntington’s disease.
The day also included a champagne reception in the Master’s lodge and a conference
dinner which provided plenty of opportunities for attendees to discuss their interests
further and helped to develop new ideas and research directions. The day closed with a
novel element for the conference, a debate. The teams posed arguments for and against
the motion ‘This house would provide alternative medicine on the NHS’ which was well
presented but was eventually defeated by a landslide.
More details of the conference, including a more detailed account and a selection of
the posters shown can be found on the MCR website (mcr.jesus.cam.ac.uk). The day
received excellent feedback from visitors who were very impressed by the diversity of the
subjects represented and the clarity with which students talked about their work.
The Jesus College Graduate conference will return in 2013 and the hope is that it will
be possible to open it to even more members of the college both past and present and so
help to bring together even more people, spark more new ideas and promote even more
exciting and lucrative research by students of Jesus College.
Jonathan Lawson
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Roosters
The 105th year of the Roost saw loquaciousness and superciliousness in equal measure.
Debate Roosts were held in the bar and Marshall Room, since the renovation of Chapel
Court prevented access to anything more suitable. Motions included ‘This Roost
Believes That Freshers Week Is The Best Week Of Your College Life’ and ‘TRBT Fair
Trade Is Just A Fashion Statement’. Motions were passed or rejected by many votes to
few and the winner duly awarded a bottle of the finest, cheapest port offered by Esq.
Sainsbury's. Especially well-received was the speech of Ayaz Manji, highlighting to good
effect the meaning of Fair Trade and its implications for The Simpsons. Amongst other
orators at the Roosts were Jacob Green, Shyam Sakhrani and Ryan Malone.
The Breakfast-at-Lunchtime was honoured by the presence of the Master of The
Worshipful Company of Poulters of London, John Briggs, and his hen. Mr Briggs gave
an eloquent response on behalf of the guests, and was subsequently egged on. Mr and
Mrs Briggs att-hen-ded as guests of Andrew (‘Legs Eleven’ and ‘Long’) Sutton and his
hen, Jane. Andrew generously presented the Roost with a royal epistle from HRH The
Prince of Wales to the Roost. Our heart is too full for words: we thank you.
The year was brought to a close by the spirit of ffreddie Brittain, ably channelled by
Mike ‘ro chip off the old block’ Percival via a skilfully-crafted ffreddie mask, which
enabled ffreddie to be elevated as the 200th President, a tradition honouring his
contribution to the Roost.
Cucurriat Gallinarium et oleat Ordo!
T.W.B. Ben 'Babbling' Brooks, 199th and 201st O.C. ■

Sports Clubs

2011-2012 Reports
Athletics
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This year’s freshers saw a wealth of talented athletes join the large collection of
returning Jesuan Blues and Half-Blues. The first opportunity to demonstrate the strength
of the Jesus team came in October with the Winter Cuppers competiton. Both men’s and
women’s teams put in respectable performances, with Lloyd Hilton’s dominance in the
800m and an impressive triple jump by Ben Lewis helping the men secure 4th, and
Helen Broadbridge’s victories in the throws pushing the women up to 5th.
Both new and old members showed an impressive dedication to training, which paid
off handsomely later on in the year, with a sizable Jesuan contingent being selected to
compete in the 137th Varsity Match.
For the women, Fiona James justified her dedication with convincing performances in
the 2nd team long, triple and high jump. In the Blue’s match, football Blue Katie
Sandford made a keenly anticipated return to athletics, placing 3rd in the 400m hurdles.
In the field events, Helen Broadbridge was once again untouchable in the heavy throws,
comfortably winning the hammer and discus, whilst Jen Lovell capped off an epic year
of athletics at Cambridge with a much deserved win in the pole vault. Having returned to
the sport after a 10 year break, she rapidly found her past form, adding 30cm to the
Cambridge University record with a vault of 3.50m at the County Championships, being
heralded as a ‘superstar’ by the local press.
In the men’s second team match Angus Fitchie secured victory in the javelin with a PB
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safety to beat both Oxford competitors in the pole vault. On the track Sam Ashcroft
placed 2nd in the 5000m whilst Matt Fried recaptured the form of his youth to place 2nd
in the 100m and 200m, helping the Cambridge team to victory over a formidable Oxford
side.
A thrilling men’s Blue’s match ended in a narrow victory for Cambridge, which
wouldn’t have been the case without valiant Jesuan efforts. Ex Jesus Captain Robin
Brown ran in the 5K, whilst Sam Hyatt-Twynam narrowly missed out on victory in the
pole vault. Jon Cook spearheaded a victorious campaign in the middle distance. After
outpacing his competition in the 800m, he went on to complete an epic double victory,
running 4:13.09 in the mile, in one of the most impressive displays of distance running
at Iffley road since Roger Bannister’s breaking of the four minute barrier.
I’m sure the enthusiasm and youthful zeal of next year’s Captains, Zaamin and Fiona,
will take the Jesus Athletics team to unprecedented glory. Good luck!
Sam Hyatt-Twynam
Boat Club
It has been an exciting and challenging year for JCBC that has seen the hard work of
rowers, coxes and coaches pay off. The women had a good number of seniors return so
were in a strong position for Michaelmas term, building on the work of the previous
year. In contrast, the men’s squad retained few seniors therefore had a fantastic
opportunity to create a new squad for the coming year and allow novices to progress
quickly.
Michaelmas term saw a large fresher sign up and both men’s and women’s lower
boats captains worked tirelessly with the novices to get them ready for the term’s races.
At Queen’s Ergs NM1 put in a fantastic performance to finish in 4th place, with one of
the crew pulling the fastest erg of the competition. A large number of novices carried on
rowing throughout the term which culminated in Fairbairns. Our NW1 came 14th and
our NM1 came 9th, showing that whilst there was room for improvement there was
promising talent that would come to help bolster the senior squad. The seniors enjoyed
success in Michaelmas with a win for W1 and M1 coming 5th in the Autumn Head. In
Fairbairns the men achieved a very respectable 6th place; while W1 managed to come
2nd, even though a last minute injury meant a sub had to be found for the race.
Training and racing in Lent term was made difficult by terrible weather giving crews
little racing practice prior to Bumps. Many external pundits predicted JCBC would drop
down the league; however, both M1 and W1 went up two, positioning them for a chance
of head of the river in 2013. W1 spent a fifth day racing, travelling to London to compete
in WEHORR coming 146th even though exhausted after bumps.
Easter term saw the countdown to Mays and the return of Blues rower Caroline Reid to
the women’s side along with triallist cox Ruth Coverdale to the men’s squad. JCBC crews
underwent a gruelling training regime but were rewarded with dramatic technical
breakthroughs. M1 and W1 started in 6th position and dispelled any doubts on the first
day bumping Pembroke and Emma respectively. M1 went on to get two further bumps
and were only denied a final bump by a experienced Downing crew, so finished in 3rd
place. W1 also continued to bump so that only Newnham W1 stood between them and
blades. A strong start set W1 up for a bump by the Plough but drama ensued as a strong
cross wind caused them to crash. However, a superb restart saw W1 push off Pembroke
and back onto chase Newnham. Blades were won on the reach in sight of Jesus Paddock.
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JCBC W1 chasing Newnham for their fourth Bump of Mays
JCBC W1 win Blades in Mays to get 2nd on the river
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returning university rowers, for three days.
It is important to note that the rowers at JCBC could not have achieved all they have
this year without the hard work of Head Coach Charlie Mulholland as well as John
Hutton, Matt Jones and Joe Baddeley (coaching the men) and Will Hardy, Sheena
Cassidy and Chrisi Haberl (coaching the women). The ongoing commitment of the
Trust allows JCBC to maintain its rightful position as one of the top College Boat Clubs.
Special thanks must be given to the Master for his support this year. JCBC is set up for a
fantastic year under the leadership of new captains Ricardo Herreros-Symons and Ellie
Sharp.
Ellie Denny and Stephen Eddison
Boat Club Trust
I submit this brief report as stand-in for David Wootton, Chairman on the Trust, whom
the demands of high office in the City have left with too little time to produce his
customary comprehensive account of the doings of the Boat Club and of the Trust. There
is however one historical point to note, which David himself would surely omit to
mention if he was writing: 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of his holding the office of
Captain of the JCBC. It was also the last year in which the Men’s club rowed Head of the
River in the May races (the Women have of course since achieved that distinction), and
while leading the Club and achieving this feat David also gained a First Class honours
degree.
The purpose of the Trust, founded in the year that David took office as Captain, is to
“apply the entirety of the annual income of the Fund to or for such charitable purposes
connected with the Boat Club or with the College . . . .” The Trust’s financial resources
are derived from donations received over the years, which are then invested; the
investments being managed (as reported in 2010) by Sarasin and Partners. While the
Trustees have discretion to use capital gains as well as income to support the Boat Club,
normally it is the annual dividend yield which is made available for grants to the JCBC.
In this way all donations to the Trust work for successive generations of Jesuan rowers
effectively for ever. Over a hundred old JCBC members now actively follow the progress
of the boat club, enrolled as Friends. The trustees acknowledge with deep gratitude their
continuing support, which is not only financial, which is surely also a recognition of
how much Jesuan oarsmen and oarswomen realise they gained from rowing with the
JCBC in their day.
The value of the Trust’s investments has recovered well after the crash of 2008
(though it fell back slightly in 2011-2012) and now stands at around £0.75 million,
yielding more than £25,000 annually for the Trustees to grant. In this last year the
Trustees decided, exceptionally, to give £5,000 towards the cost of refurbishing Chapel
Court and particularly 4 CC 1, rooms by long tradition allocated to the President for the
time being of the Boat Club. Recently expenditure on buying new boats has been lower,
for two reasons. First, Charlie Mulholland, the Boatman and Head Coach, has proved
adept at maintaining or repairing the stock of boats to keep them serviceable. Secondly,
and more importantly, has been the emphasis the Trustees and the Club have placed on
training. In any case, the cost of a new VIII now absorbs the Trust’s entire annual
dividend income.
More and more crews are rowing on the Cam, time windows for outings are becoming
shorter and shorter, while academic demands increasingly constrain the occasions when

whole crews can assemble. The combined result is that far too often the density of traffic
on the river is such that little or no useful rowing can be done, a dispiriting experience
for all involved. So the Trust has invested extensively in off-river training equipment
such as the latest ergos, and also granted substantial subsidies for out-of-term training
camps – most recently in Spain. Charlie attributes the successes of M1 (three places up)
and W1 (who won blades) in the 2012 May races in large measure to the effectiveness of
this strategy. For those who missed the results, both crews are now within striking
distance of the Headship, starting respectively third and second in their divisions in
2013. The coming year will almost certainly see even more emphasis by the Trust on
supporting effective training.
If you are not yet enrolled as a Friend of the JCBC you are missing the email
newsletters which keep you in touch with the Club, as well as the opportunity to join the
summer barbecue with the crews at the boathouse; and free parking in the Jesus
paddock for the May races. David Reid (d.m.reid.91@cantab.net) is the man for you to
contact!
The Jesus College Boat Club is 185 years old, and today is lively and strong. The
Trustees wish all crews rowing this year every success, and that they will gain as much
from their rowing as their predecessors, down the generations, have gained.
Christopher McDouall, Trustee and Treasurer
Cricket
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Jesus College Cricket Club enjoyed another successful season, building on last year’s
unbeaten campaign and being hampered only by the weather. A substantial early season
fixture list was planned only for every match to fall foul of the weather or the opposition
failing to put out a side.
Jesus were again unbeaten in their Cuppers campaign although poor weather meant
that the semi final and final could not be played. Jesus started off with a win against Fitz,
in what proved to be a sign of things to come Green and Senaratne put on 157 for the
second wicket. Seneratne eventually falling for 63, Green remaining unbeaten on 91 –
Jesus posting a competitive total of 193-2. Fitz chanced their arm with a short boundary
on one side but fell 26 short. Against Selwyn, Jesus posted their highest Cuppers score
of 206-2, including a brilliant 52 ball 100 from Seneratne, ably helped by 52 from Green.
Selwyn never got close finishing on 151with 2 wickets for Pope. Next up were Johns who
fared no better. A devastating spell of new ball bowling from Viljoen and Allan meant
Johns were 29-5 off 8 overs. They failed to recover finishing on 76, which was easily
chased down by Jesus. The quarter final saw Jesus face Trinity. Some tight bowling
throughout meant Trinity struggled to 91-9 which again was easily knocked off by Jesus.
So the side was confident going in to the semi against Christs but poor weather meant
the game did not get played. This means that Jesus still holds the trophy having won the
competition 2 years ago after the Jesus v Christs final was rained off last year.
Although without a shadow of doubt, the highlight of the season was the inaugural
Old Boys Game that saw the Old Boys XI captained by Frankie Brown take on a Jesus XI.
The Old Boys batted first and were 120-2 at lunch with Lee taking 2 wickets including
the important scalp of Grimshaw for 48 to a good stumping from Hulbert. After lunch
Brown and Newman put on runs at a good rate until they fell for 48 and 67 respectively.
The Old Boys finished on 229 with Read picking up 3 wickets. In reply, after the early
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the test. They put on 123 for the second wicket before Pope fell to Hughes for 86. After
his dismissal Senaratne upped the ante before retiring for 89. Allan and Miller saw the
game home for a 5 wicket win for the Jesus XI.
Tom Lee
Rugby
Matching last year’s efforts of League victory and a place in the Cuppers final was never
going to be easy and season 2011-12 ended up as one of near misses for JCRUFC. The
season started brightly enough, with an intake of quality freshers including some much
needed brawn in the pack. However, defeat at Johns quickly put Jesus behind in the race
for the League title. After leading 7-0 at halftime, Jesus tried to protect its lead in the
second half, and lost 7-20. This was not to be the first time that the men in red and black
failed to back themselves, keep the ball in hand, and finish off the opposition.
The early defeat was compounded two weeks later with a resounding loss to Johns at
home (17-36), followed by a further demoralising defeat against Downing in the new
year (10-25). On both occasions, JCRUFC was well beaten. Ultimately, Jesus finished a
distant second, never really hitting our stride. When searching for explanations, two
observations are unavoidable. First, Jesus suffered a horrific injury toll during the
League season, with the casulty list often resembling that of a First World War field
hospital.
Rob Stevens represented the Blues, and Nick Roope and Chris Blucke the Under 21s,
in the annual Varsity match; hopefully more Jesuans will get the opportunity to do so
next year. Second, the team seemed to be missing that indefinable extra ten per cent that
comes from absolute commitment to the cause. On paper, the squad looked stronger
than last year’s, yet the performances, both in quality and in results, were not as good.
Once the Cuppers season began and university rugby abated, the team started to gel
for the first time. A convincing win in the quarter finals against a tricky Emma team was
followed by the best performance of the year, as Jesus produced a polished performance
to outclass a very strong Downing outfit (22-8). Stevens, electifying as ever, managed a
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Thus it all came down to an unforgettable day at a packed Cambridge City Rugby Club
against a St Edmunds team featuring no fewer than five Blues. The match was played in
horrendous conditions, including a strong wind, regular rain, and a solid ten minute
spell of hail. Nevertheless, JCRUFC started strongly, with tries to both Tambara and
Stevens reflecting Jesus’ dominance. With a 17-0 lead just before half-time, Stevens went
down injured, and the tone of the match changed. Suddenly, Jesus appeared unwilling to
keep the ball and put pressure on the opposition. Eddies saw their chance to seize the
initiative and took it. Jesus defended with absolute resolve throughout the second half,
despite two yellow cards, into the teeth of the building wind. In the 80th minute, the
men in red and black cleared their lines far downfield. The match appeared won. But out
of nowhere, Eddies produced a miraculous try from fully sixty metres to snatch the win –
and the Cup.
There were plenty of promising individual performances throughout the year.
Oli Exton won Fresher of the Year, and Ben MacDonald the Player’s Player. Dan Marron
was Most Improved, scoring four tries in Jesus’ victory over the Old Boys in another
successful Wild/Dawson Memorial Match. Nick Roope captained outstandingly under
difficult circumstances. It now remains for next year’s group to bring this individual
brilliance together and render the team more than the sum of its parts.
Jamie Miller
Football
JCFC fielded a new look side this season with the graduation of a generation of
stalwarts, and an influx of freshers keen to return Jesus football to its glory days. The
inexperience of the side showed in the first few matches, however, and matches were
lost despite controlling the games for long periods. The return of Oliver Juggins from
injury proved to be a turning point in the season, however, as he scored a hat-trick in the
5-0 demolition of Tit Hall.
The attacking flair continued up front as new boys Niall Purcell, Harry Roocroft, Tom
O’Loughlin and Juggins dazzled defences all season – particular highlights being the 4-1
win at Trinity, 4-0 defeat of Fitz and the determination shown in twice coming from
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behind to win 3-2 against Selwyn. They were supported by the tireless work of Udi
Gabbai, Will Sheldon and Tom Russell in the centre of midfield. The experience of the
backline gave the side a solid base. Tom Lee and Ben Layer - having forged a fantastic
centre-half partnership over the past two seasons - made life easy for Justin Maini in
goal. Full-backs Jordan Nadian and Kalil Rouse were always quick to turn defence into
attack. Nadian racked up a number of assists over the season and grabbed a goal in his
final game. He would later be named Player of the Season. An unfortunate draw left us
facing Homerton in the first round of Cuppers and a narrow 1-0 loss meant we were
entered for the Plate. Four clean sheets were kept in the run to the final. The Plate was
won in a 5-0 victory over Corpus to bring silverware back to college for the first time in
some years. This experience should leave the side in good stead for next season and new
captain Niall Purcell should look to push for further honours. Thanks to all the Jesus
Rangers and everyone involved with JCFC – it has been a fantastic season.
Justin Maini
Hockey
Last year was once again a successful one for JCHC. Eight members of the club played
for the men or women’s Blues teams, including last years men’s and women’s captains
and this years men’s captain. The support of the Blues provided us with strength in our
Cuppers teams with both the men’s and the mixed side cruising to their respective finals
to face St Catz in both. The mixed final was closely fought coming down to penalties
which Jesus just lost out on. In the men’s final, despite a strong performance the men
lost 5-3.

The men’s 1st XI despite losing 5 players to the Blues side still went on to comfortably
win their league to gain promotion up to the top division. The team remained
undefeated and finishing the season having scored 45 goals and only conceded 7. Once
again JCHC were able to field a men’s 2nd XI who went on to finish second in their
league while maintaining their status as a fun team open to all.
Although suffering from a lack of fresher interest the girls of JCHC still had a strong
season, losing only 2 matches over the season and being the top goal scoring team in
the league. The team remained unbeaten in the league up until their final match against
St Catz, the eventual league winners, leaving us 2nd.
In the cuppers competition after being knocked out in the first round by a strong team
from Murray Edwards the girls went on to win the plate competition, with a 5-2 win over
Girton in the final.
With many players still here next year hopefully JCHC will hopefully continue to go
from strength to strength next season.
Caroline Reid
Badminton
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It has been another successful year for the Jesus college badminton club. The men’s 2nd
and 3rd teams as well as the women’s team finished Michaelmas term at the top of their
respective divisions, resulting in promotion for all three teams. The promoted teams
also managed to maintain strong positions in their new divisions in Lent term. The
men’s first team consolidated their position in the top division.
The return of the Cuppers tournament in Lent term saw the best results in college
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their position as one of the strongest in the league, steaming through to the Final where
a nail biting match resulted in a 2-1 loss to Queen’s. The mixed 1st team also made it
into the Final of their competition, where only a combined Trinity-John’s team were able
to stop them from claiming the trophy.
Special thanks must go to our team captains, Alex Kite, Luke Marris, Andrew Walker,
Emma Cridland and Harshnira Patani. Also to Lee Robinson who has coached the
women’s team.
We are all looking forward to even better results next year!
Anna Quinn
Squash
This year we put two teams, both engaged in weekly training session's and the college
ladder schemes. Our first team this year had to battle up against the rankings from last
year, where a strong team managed to get us into the second division. This year our
team, after coming a close second place in Michaelmas 82-84 points overall, we
managed to clinch the 2 division title in Lent term. Next year we have a strong base,
with all of our player staying on for competing in the first division and for the league
title. Our second team, from previously unsuccessful years, was entered in at division 6.
However this year, by training with the first team and by playing regular ladder matches,
the team grew over the course of the terms. In Michaelmas, our second team won
division 6 by a comfortable margin. In Lent term, our second team won division 5 by a
similar margin. Next year, although the team has lost a couple of it’s players, we are in a
strong position for contending for the division 4 title – one where few second teams are
competing.
The successes of both our first and second team highlight the colleges strength and
depth of strength at squash. This year was a good year, and with the same players
staying on for next year, perhaps we’ll see even more achievement.
Sam Green
Basketball
Jesus College Basketball Club started this year in the second league out of four after a
strong previous season. A new group of players, including many freshers, joined an
already experienced team raring to start a new season.
During Michaelmas they gained confidence and built on their skills during practice
sessions. As the team got to know each other a strong zone defence developed. This laid
the foundations for the team winning three of the five league games. These wins meant
we resulted in a mid-table position, ready for the Lent term league. The league in Lent
term proved unlucky for the club. The strong defence continued but a lack of attacking
power meant many matches were lost by just a few points. Unfortunately this meant that
we were relegated to the third league.
I would like to thank everyone who played a part in the club this year, during both
practices and matches. The captain next year will be Jake Shuter-Ross who I am sure will
lead the team straight back into the second league. During the year, Kaladerhan
Agbontaen, last year’s captain, played for the University first team. His commanding
role as forward helped the team to second place in the BUCS Midland 1A league.
Patrick Jull

Tennis
With 3 members of the team returning from last year and a talented fresher who has
been playing for the University all year, the Jesus girls tennis team was set for a great
season and that was exactly what they had. Matches at the start of term were plagued by
the rain, leaving the majority to be played during the Exam season. Jesus dominated the
Premiership league without losing a single match, meaning that Jesus were crowned
champions.
Unfortunately, we did not have so much luck in Cuppers and had to withdraw at the
Semi-final stage which was delayed due to the rain, and consequently we were unable to
field a team as it clashed with exams.
Alice Bush
Volleyball
The intercollegiate volleyball league takes place during Easter term every year. Despite
the stress of impending exams, the opportunity for some casual mixed volleyball has
continued to be a popular choice amidst the daily grind of exam revision. The Jesus
College Volleyball Club draws on players of all levels from the college, from absolute
beginners to members of the university squad. This year, the team finished in 7th place
overall, qualifying at the top of the second division for next year.
Adrian Lee
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Ultimate Frisbee
At the beginning of this year the club was suffering one of the typical problems with
university societies with many of the members having moved on from the university.
However, an influx of talented and enthusiastic freshers brought the club back to life.
We came 10th out of 14 teams in Michaelmas term college league, an excellent result
for a team half composed of freshers. With the help of a few alumni players we won
Winter Cuppers, dominating all other teams until an extremely tough and hard fought
final against Trinity (who had a large number of university and alumni players).
Victory was a testament both to the talent that has passed though Jesus College over the
years and to the progress of those who only recently joined the team (who did most of
the scoring).
In Lent league we came 13th out of 15 teams and were awarded good spirit scores
by other teams, showing that teams enjoyed playing us and felt we knew the rules
(an important priority in a sport which is self-refereed and often a problem with newer
teams). Poul Alexander played with the second’s team at Regionals. Megan Davies
Wykes played with the University Women’s Team at regionals and nationals (indoors
and outdoors) and Varsity and is to receive a half-blue for Ultimate Frisbee.
The new captain for next year will be Chris de-Leeuwe, who’s commitment in coming
to every match (even when injured) was exemplary. It is hoped that the team will go from
strength to strength, building on the strong sporting heritage of Jesus College.
Megan Davies Wykes ■

Members’
News

Members’ News for 2012
David Wootton
David Wootton (1969) as 684th Lord Mayor of the City of London has completed an
eventful year in which the City became the focus of global media interest with the Royal
Wedding, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and the Olympics. Among his many initiatives
at home and abroad as Lord Mayor, David visited Beijing and Shanghai to promote the
City as a hub of international renmimbi (the Chinese currency) business. At the Queen’s
Diamond Juibilee Thanksgiving Service, David bore the ceremonial Pearl Sword as he led
the Queen into St Paul’s Cathedral.
Wohl Prize Established
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Earlier this year, Lisa Keller, Professor of History, Purchase College State University,
New York, contacted the College because she wished to establish a prize in honour of
her former Tutor, Professor Anthony Wohl (1955), at Vassar University, Poughkeepsie.
In her words, Professor Wohl was the first to appreciate and encourage her thinking
and laid the foundation for her academic career. By remarkable coincidence, he was
visiting the College in summer 2012 to attend the JCCS Buffet Lunch and we took the
opportunity to enable him to award the first Wohl Prize to Tom Arnold-Forster (2010).
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People
W ALLAN (1968) has been appointed member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
(Edward) L BECKET (1986) has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Canon Law by the
Angelicum University, Rome, and has returned to Ampleforth Abbey.
P BOARDMAN (1982) was awarded the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in
2011 for Services to Heritage in East London.
D DIAS (2010) has been granted a Visiting Scholarship to the Institute of Criminology in
Cambridge.
D G EAVES (2000) received the Whitworth Visionary Award at the Institute of
Mechanical Engineers.
A FERSHT [1969 Fw] has been elected Master of Caius.
A K FYFE (1993) was appointed one of the founding members of the Young Academy of
Scotland and in March this year was elected as one of the co-chairs of the Academy.
E HARRIS [1997] is now Churches Conservation Adviser at the Victorian Society (the
champion of Victorian and Edwardian Architecture).
J E GIMLETTE (1982) was awarded the Dolman Travel Book Prize 2012 for his book
'Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed. Currently you can listen to John on
BBC Radio 4's 'Excess Baggage' on www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xnynh
I HUDSON (1997) is now a partner at Carter-Ruck, the well-known London media
solicitor, and represented some of the core participants at the Levison Iquiry.
N HUDSON (1978) Rector of the Venerable English College in Rome, hosted the
celebrations there marking the 650th anniversary of the founding of the college’s
predecessor, the English and Welsh Hospice, on the same site in 17 January 1362.
The College replaced the hospice in 1579 (see Annual Report 2011 pp 167-169).
J R JAMES (1970) has been installed as an honorary Canon of Chichester Cathedral.
D P MAHER (1977) was appointed Senior Advisor, Tuberculosis, at the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Geneva from July 2011.
M HUNTER (1968) has been awarded the Samuel Pepys Award and the R. G. Neville
Prize for his book Boyle: Between God and Science. He has recently retired as Professor of
History at Birkbeck College, University of London.
G KILLINGWORTH (1968) has retired as Head of English at Caterham School. Flame
Lily Books have just published Mister Misery which is his second novel for children. He is
currently working on a PhD on ‘Rhetorical Performances in the Prose Works of Robert
Green’.
J MORGAN (1992) has been appointed a Recorder in the Crown Court.
A MOURITZ (1987) gained the degree of Doctor of Science (ScD) from the University of
Cambridge in October 2011.
J O’DONNELL (1979) (Hon Fw) Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey, led the
Abbey’s choir to Rome in June where, at the Pope’s invitation, it sang with the Sistine
Chapel Choir at the Papal Mass in St Peter’s on the feast of SS. Peter and Paul – the first
time in 500 years thar the Sistine Choir had been joined with another. The Abbey Choir
also gave a public concert in Santa Maria Maggiore and a private one in the Sistine
Chapel and sang Vespers at Monte Cassion Abbey, the mother house of the Benedictine

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Order to which St Radegund’s Priory, Cambridge, as well as Westminster Abbey, once
belonged.
A J PARKINSON (1966) retired from the active Methodist ministry at the end of August
and is now a supernumerary minister in the Southampton Circuit of the Methodist
Church.
C F M RAWLINSON (1952) has been awarded an MBE. The citation highlighted his
leadership in charitable services to Young People and to Music.
A M D ROBERTSON (1981) continues as a Visiting Lecturer in the Law Faculty of Oxford
teaching the Competition Law course with Dr Ariel Ezrachi of Pembroke College, on the
BCL, MJur and MSc in Law and Finance post-graduate degree courses, combining that
with full time practice in EU and competition law at Brick Court Chambers in London.
J SCRAGG (2001) obtained his PhD degree in 2009 from the University of Bath, and is
now employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the Angstrom Laboratory, Uppsala
University in Sweden.
C TABEART (1958) was awarded an Australian Philatelic Federation Research Medal in
2011 – one of only 18 so far, and the first recipient from the UK.
J J TAYLOR (1999) is currently head of Communications and Public Affairs for Google,
Sub-Saharan Africa, based in Johannesburg.
M F TOMPSETT (1959) was recently awarded a US National Medal of Technology and
Innovation, the highest honour bestowed by the United States government on engineers
and inventors, "For pioneering work in materials and electronic technologies including
the design and development of the first charge-coupled device (CCD) imagers”.
The Medal was presented in a ceremony at the White House in Washington, DC by US
President Obama on 21 October, 2011. He had previously been awarded the Pioneering
Life-time award by the NJ Inventors Hall of Fame in 2010.
C TREACY (1967), a Queen’s Bench judge since 2002, has been appointed a Lord Justice
of Appeal, bringing the number of Jesuan members of the Court of Appeal to three.
(The others are Sir Roger Toulson [1964] and Sir Rupert Jackson [1977]).
P WESTBURY (1988) has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural
Engineers for his exceptional contribution to the structural engineering profession.
The citation for Paul, CEO at Buro Happold, mentions innovation in the structural form,
and design of sports and entertainment buildings; in particular for his leading
contribution to the design and construction of Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium in London,
the 2006 Olympic Speed Skating Oval in Turin, Dublin’s Aviva Stadium and the London
2012 Olympic Stadium. Paul, a former student of Dr Geoff Parks, has also very
successfully promoted structural engineering internationally through his innovative
papers on design and technology.
M WILDER (1993) received an Australian Honour (AM) for services to environmental
law, particularly in the area of climate change through contributions to the development
of law, global regulation, public policy and the promotion of public debate, and to the
community. He has also been made an Affiliate of the Cambridge Centre for Climate
Change in the Mitigation Research Department of Land Economy, Cambridge.
J WILTON-ELY (1958) was historical adviser (and contributor to the catalogue) for the
travelling exhibition, Le Arti di Piranesi, architetto, incisore, antiquario, vedutista, designer,
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, which involved the creation of decorative arts objects
designed by Giambattista Piranesi (1720-78) using advanced laser technology. After the

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initial showing of the exhibition at the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2010, he has been
involved in the exhibition’s showings in Madrid and Barcelona in 2012, with future plans
for North America and Britain.
J A YOUNG (2001) is currently teaching economics and mathematics at the Perse School,
Cambridge where he is he also Head of House.
Births
Nick ARCHER (1990) and Sally Archer (née Maidment, Christ’s, 1990) have a daughter,
Josephine, born on 20 November 2010.
Felicity BARRATT (née Rees, 1999) and her husband Christopher Barratt (Emmanuel
1985) have a son, Edmund John, born 28 July 2011.
Joanne CHOULERTON (1989) and her partner Tim Rumble have a daughter, Lydia
Melanie Rumble, born 8 June 2011, a sister to Euan William.
Kate KANGASLAHTI (née Lonie, 2001) and Vesa KANGASLAHTI (2001) have a son,
Leo Henri Kangaslahti, born 19 April 2012.
Miriam LAMPERT (1995) and her husband Ohad Levin have a son, Yoni, born on
3 May 2012, a brother for Shani.
Aidan Malcolm David ROBERTSON (1981) and his wife Beverley have twins,
James John Maxwell and Elspeth Kathleen Clare, born on 1 August 2012; and Alice,
born 17 November 2010.
Amy WHITING (née Tudor, 2002) has a son, Elijah Mark Whiting, born 30 June 2011.
Marriages and Civil Partnerships
Christina BRATLEY (2002) and Christopher BURNIE (2002) married in the College
Chapel on 17 April 2011 with several fellow Jesuans in attendance.
David Jeffrey HIRSCH (2004) married Hannah Leah Crummé on 27 June 2010 at
Pinewood Studios.
Roy HOWAT (1979) married Emily Kilpatrick.
Paul KEARNS (1985) married Sioned Arbonne Boardman on 9 April 2011 in the Chapel of
Jesus College, Oxford.
Margaret OWEN (1986) had a civil partnership with Dr Victoria Gunn on
17 December 2011.
Felicity REES (1999) married Christopher Barratt (Emmanuel, 1985) on 18 September
2010 in the College Chapel.
Amy TUDOR (2002) married Mark Whiting on 24 April 2010.
Sam VARDY (2001) married Eibhlin Murray (Corpus, 2002) on 24 September 2011.
Rosa WILKINSON (2001) married David Tough on 14 May 2011 in her home town of
Bradford. ■

Obituaries

Obituaries
Honorary Fellows
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Sir Alan Cottrell FRS was born on 17 July 1919 and died on 15 February 2012.
Over a period of some 70 years the impact of Alan Cottrell’s scientific work on the basic
understanding of materials and its practical application to engineering structures, his
academic leadership and his role of Scientific Advisor to the Government has been
immense. How did it come about? After graduating in Metallurgy at Birmingham in
1939 Alan was put on war work, and was introduced to a serious problem of cracking of
armour plating of tanks at electric arc welds, which he solved. This early experience no
doubt influenced his lifelong interest in fracture and structural integrity.
Alan was made Lecturer in 1943 and in 1944 married Jean Elizabeth Harber, a
marriage which lasted happily for 55 years. They had one son, Geoffrey in 1951, and
much later adopted a daughter Ioana. It is said that one of his classic books Dislocations
and Plastic Flow in Metals, published in 1953, was written during sleepless nights with
baby Geoffrey. Towards the end of the war Alan prepared a new lecture course
“Theoretical Structural Metallurgy” (which formed the basis of another classic book he
wrote at this time) in which he discussed the structure and properties of metals in terms
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ahead of its time. It contributed greatly to transforming a hitherto rather qualitative
treatment of the subject into a quantitative and rigorous approach. Alan was a brilliant
lecturer, able to convey quite complex phenomena in simple terms.
After the war Alan started research on the plastic properties of metals. In a series of
penetrating and elegant, now classic, studies he showed inter alia how certain crystal
defects called dislocations determined some important unique features in the ductile
behaviour of structural steels, and how their interactions controlled hardening of metals
by cold working. His contributions in this field are second to none.
Alan’s work contributed much to making the Birmingham Department famous as a
leading centre for the science of metals. Alan was given a personal Professorship in 1949
at the age of 30, and in 1955 was elected to The Royal Society at the early age of 35. In
1955 Alan was invited by Monty Finniston to join him as Deputy Head of the Metallurgy
Division at Harwell. He accepted because he expected to find problems there of national
importance which fell into his field. One of his pioneering researches there, on neutron
irradiated metals, led to a redesign of the fuel rods in Magnox Civil Nuclear Reactors.
On 10th October 1957 a reactor at Windscale caught fire and started a national
emergency. It occurred during a gentle heating to anneal the damage in the graphite
core. Unfortunately, the energy released in this process heated up the graphite so much
that it caught fire. Alan set up a new laboratory in just two weeks and he and his team
unravelled the problem and were able to give an assurance that the Magnox reactors
would be immune to this self heating effect.
In 1958 Alan accepted an invitation to become Head of Department of Metallurgy at
Cambridge. He modernised the Department by bringing in new people (Robin
Nicholson, Tony Kelly, Jim Charles, and later Graeme Davies) and new equipment, and
by teaching the subject from the atomic point of view. He also started two new research
projects, on field-ion microscopy, and on superconducting alloys. His own researches
focussed on brittle fracture of structural steel at freezing temperatures, responsible for
many tragic accidents to ships and bridges, and secondly, with Tony Kelly, on the
physics of fibrous composites. This led to the development of new materials such as
fibreglass and carbon fibre. Alan’s work on fracture identified a toughness parameter
for a metal containing a crack, which was characteristic of the material, and which,
when measured in a test piece, could be used to predict behaviour in a large structure.
This represented an important advance in understanding and in ensuring structural
integrity, and had an enormous impact in this field.
All these changes in teaching and research activities transformed the Department into
a world class institution. It has remained so ever since.
In 1964 Alan accepted an invitation to become Sir Solly Zuckerman’s Deputy in the
Ministry of Defence. Although most reluctant to leave the Department and the
University, he had become concerned with the need to invigorate British Manufacturing
Industry with Scientific Technology, and felt that Whitehall was the place to do this.
Working on Dennis Healey’s defence review, Alan led tri-services studies on the
problems, in particular the excessive cost, of a military presence in the near and far East.
This led to the cancellation of the Government’s East of Suez Policy. In 1966 he followed
Solly to the Cabinet Office as Deputy Chief Scientific Advisor. There he tackled various
problems with scientific aspect, including the brain drain, environment and pollution,
the Advanced Passenger Train and the Torrey Canyon disaster, but efforts to transfer
some government defence research funding to research in civil industry failed, because
the Treasury was interested only in reducing research funding.
In 1971 Alan was knighted and became Chief Scientific Advisor. His position became
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A proposal to make the work of the Research Councils more related to National needs,
while retaining their independence, led to the controversial “Customer-Contractor”
principle. This involved relevant Government Departments appointing Chief Scientist
Advisors to help them to commission research from the Research Councils, and transfer
of some funds from the Research Councils to the Departments. Alan commented that
this scheme attracted an enormous correspondence which rapidly filled his filing
cabinet.
Alan was not very comfortable with the machinations of Whitehall politics. He played
straight, and used his powerful intellect to make his case, however unpopular.
In 1974, in evidence to the Select Committee on Science and Technology, Alan
expressed his concern about the integrity of the steel reactor pressure vessel, which is
critical to the safety of the Pressurised Water Reactor, promoted by Walter Marshall, for
our Civil Nuclear Programme. This caused quite a stir. Walter Marshall set up a High
Level Pressure Vessel Committee which examined the issue in great detail. In the early
1980s, following the Marshall Report, Alan said that he was now satisfied that a
sufficiently robust safety case could be established. The report and Alan’s endorsement
had a major impact on the Sizewell B enquiry and on getting Nuclear Installation
Inspectorate approval, and led more generally to major advances in the requirements for
ensuring the integrity of pressure vessels and other large safety critical structures.
In 1974 Alan accepted an invitation to become Master of Jesus College, Cambridge.
He was glad to return full time to his family and to academic life. Alan had to supervise a
major revision of the College Statutes and prepare for the admission of women. This
proved a great success. As Master, Alan came to know Prince Philip. Through Alan’s
encouragement, Prince Edward became an undergraduate at Jesus.
In 1977 he became Vice Chancellor for two years. He was surprised by the amount
behind the scenes work that was needed, dealing with grievances and settling disputes.
There was a lot of entertaining that had to be done and the Chancellor, Prince Philip,
stayed in the Lodge. Much of the responsibility fell on Jean, who managed it superbly and
with much pleasure.
On returning full time to College his main activity was preparing for the arrival of
Prince Edward who became an undergraduate in the College.
In 1986 Alan retired. He returned to the Department, and researched a new topic:
The application of modern electron theory of metals to metallurgical problems, such as
embrittlement of metals by certain impurities. Alan mastered the quite difficult theory
and published in 1988 an excellent book Introduction to the Modern Theory of Metals. This
was followed by an impressive set of papers and the publication of a book on Chemical
Bonding in Transition Metal Carbides.
In early 1996 Jean fell ill with Parkinson’s disease. Alan looked after her full time, so
that she could stay at home. Sadly, she died in 1999 and Alan was devastated, and only
got through it by strong family support. But he missed her greatly, and never really got
over her loss. During this period he also became very deaf and this ended his enjoyment
in music and lectures. Nevertheless, he continued publishing on plasticity of metals
during the last few years.
Alan was the most outstanding and influential Physical Metallurgist of the twentieth
century. Through his pioneering researches, and as an educator, he has influenced
countless students, scientists, and engineers over the years and will continue to do so.
His papers and books are remarkable for their clarity. In his researches, he always knew
what important questions to ask, and how to answer them. He had a brilliant intellect
which he retained to the end. Alan was a kind, gentle, and sensitive person, with a sense
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working on nuclear fusion, which Alan considered to be an important future energy
source. He was very eminent, but did not realise it, and was very modest. He received
many awards and honorary degrees. At a Metal Society Conference in 1977 Alan received
the Acta Metallurgica Gold Medal and commented that he was suffering from “medal
fatigue”. In 1996 he received The Royal Society Copley Medal, the highest award of the
Royal Society. He was the first metallurgist to receive the medal since it was first
instituted in 1731.
His life time achievement and impact have been immense, and of which his family can
be justly proud, and the rest of us can be grateful for. He will be greatly missed by his
loving family, and by all of us who knew him and whose lives he touched. He will be
remembered with great affection and admiration.
Sir Peter Hirsch
Alan Cottrell: an appreciation
I first met Alan in 1980 when I was taken by Peter Nolan to dinner on Jesus High Table to
see whether my knife and fork work would stand in the way of my election as a Fellow.
I sat next to Alan. My first impression was that he was a kind but shy person who was
hard to get talking until you hit upon a subject in which he was really interested and,
as I was to discover, inevitably well informed. Then the clarity and directness of his
responses were fine witnesses to his outstanding intelligence.
My first years as a Fellow (from October 1982 on) coincided with Alan’s last years as
Master. Nevertheless, I was able to observe his behaviour as Master, not least how he
tackled thorny issues within the college which arose in those years. By temperament he
was naturally averse to conflict but he did not dodge formulating attempts at resolution.
His years as Chief Scientific Officer had made him very sceptical about political
processes and politicians and changed his political views – he was I think moderate
Labour up until then – as he became thoroughly disillusioned with the behaviour of
Harold Wilson and his Ministers. (Jean I suspect had always been a Tory.)
My coming to Jesus coincided with arrival of Prince Edward. The latter was a highlight
for Jean, possibly less so for Alan. The first time I had lunch in the Lodge with them was
just after Varsity carried a headline, “Jesus Don says Prince should not come”, Varsity’s
take on my answer to their query, that he should if he had the qualifications, otherwise,
not. Jean (she and I became great mates even though we rarely agreed) was clearly
agitated about this but Alan merely advised me not to talk to Varsity reporters.
He was a tolerant man, for example, he never hauled me over the coals for my notorious
performance in the Chapel when I was admitted as a Fellow, being I suspect (or at least
hope) rather amused. No more was his basic kindness apparent than in the considerate
and caring ways he looked after spouses of newcomers to the college. Joan really
appreciated the kindly concern he showed her as someone who had left her home
country and three of our four children to come to Cambridge with me. She had the
greatest affection for him, not least because of this.
I mentioned that he was an excellent person to talk to if you touched on something in
which he was interested. He and I shared a mutual passion for cricket. We had in-depth
discussions whenever the Ashes Tests were on. He never held it against me that I had not
passed the Tebbit Test. As conservative cricket tragics we shared a deep contempt for the
pyjama game as opposed to “real cricket”, that is to say, Test matches. I always tried to
have the lunch time scores to tell him whenever a Test match was being played.
Alan had a low opinion of economics and economists (he made an exception of James
Meade, his friend and fellow Fellow of Christ’s). Yet we could always talk in a pleasant
way about economic and political issues.

Alan had a deep, abiding and informed love of classical music. He and Peter Nolan
enjoyed their discussions about the latest recordings of their, often overlapping,
favourites. I thought it a supreme tragedy that Alan became so deaf in his later years that
he could no longer listen to music.
While obviously I could never comprehend the details of his outstanding scientific
contributions, I do remember we discussed a paper he published in his late eighties
when his daily visit to his Department allowed him to think through and ultimately crack
a puzzle, the solution of which had eluded him for many years. He gave me an off print
of the published solution. It was marked by the extraordinary clarity of its powerful
analysis. Even to an outsider it was clearly the work of a rare intellect completely on top
of what it was doing. Alan also had a dry, sometimes quirky, quiet wit which was on
display, for example, in the speech he gave at his eightieth birthday celebration in
college.
Alan and Jean were a great team. She was an unfailing help mate and companion
during his many faceted career. When she became so ill in her last years and withdrew
from all contact with others, Alan nursed her with utter devotion and much patience.
Such old-fashioned verities, especially his love of family, were very much characteristic
of his behaviour.
I count it a great privilege to have known him for nearly 30 years. When he retired as
Master Joan and I took Alan and Jean to lunch at The Old Fire Engine at Ely to say “thank
you”. It was a fun occasion with much laughter, gossip and, of course, good food and
wine. I shall remember him with fondness and admiration, sad at his passing but proud
to have been associated with an outstanding scholar who even more was a man of quiet
integrity and great kindness. He truly was a good man.
Geoff Harcourt
Emeritus Fellow, 1998
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Sir Alan’s interview in the British Library oral history archive of eminent scientists:
Sounds.bl.uk/oral-history/eminent-scientists/021M-C1379XOO46XX-001VO
Siegbert Prawer (1944) was born on 15 February
1925 and died on 25 April, 2012.
The former Taylor Professor of German at Oxford,
and a Fellow and Honorary Fellow of the Queen’s
College, Siegbert was a prominent scholar of
literature and culture. He graduated in English and
Modern Languages from Jesus in 1947 and was
elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 1996. He was
a frequent and popular attender at Jesus feasts and
instituted the annual Marcus Prawer, essay prize
for a Jesus student, in memory of his son, who
died before he could take up a place at Jesus.
He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1981, and was elected to the German
Academy of Language and Literature in 1989.
Born of Jewish parents, a Polish father and German mother, Siegbert escaped from
Cologne in 1939. The family settled in Coventry where he attended the King Henry VIII
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during an air raid. Winning the Charles Oldham Shakespeare scholarship to Jesus, he
read English with E. M. W. Tillyard, then Modern Languages in Part II under Leonard
Forster. Roy Pascal offered him a lectureship in German at Birmingham where he spent
15 years before gaining the chair of German at Westfield College. In 1970 he moved on
to Oxford where he stayed for the rest of his academic career.
His talent for declaiming poetry attracted large numbers to his lectures. Among his
special research and critical interests were the works of Heine, the literary influences on
Karl Marx and Freud, and the Jewish presence in European literature in general.
Throughout his academic life he was fascinated by the art of the cinema and assembled
an enormous personal collection of films, writing many books on various aspects of the
subject. In retirement he wrote a trilogy of books on Thackeray and continued a life-time
hobby of sketching. He would sign off his letters with a miniature self-caricature.
In 1949 he married Helga Schaefer with whom he had two sons and two daughters.
She died in 2002. In the last decade of his life Siegbert suffered from cancer and failing
eye-sight. During this period he made a home with Helen Powell, the former librarian of
the Queen’s college, who cared for him with great devotion.
He was the elder brother of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (born 7 May 1927) the Booker
prize-winning novelist, short story and film script writer.
Old Members
ALMOND, Adrian John (1957) died on 13 May 2012 aged 73.
Adrian Almond was born on 30 May 1938 in Walmer, Kent. Educated at Kent College,
Canterbury, he came up in 1957 to read Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a
doctor. He graduated BA 1960; MB BChir 1963. Following graduation he undertook his
clinical training at St Mary’s, London, before moving into General Practice. In
retirement he continued to draw on his medical expertise for the good of his local
community, serving as a Governor and President of Rowcroft Hospice, Torquay, and
Chairman of Torbay Local Research Ethics Committee. He also had time to spend on his
interest in philately, postal history and maps; he jointly edited The British County Catalogue
of Postal History (1996); co-authored The Corsini Letters (2011) and was a Fellow of the
Society of Postal Historians.
He married Patricia Anne Sterck; they had two daughters and a son.
BATEMAN, Martyn Henry (1951) died on 14 October 2011 aged 80.
Martyn Bateman was born on 21 April 1931 in Beccles, Suffolk. Educated at Felsted
School he became the third generation of his family to come up to Jesus when he
matriculated in 1951; his grandfather was P. E. Bateman, his father was W. E. B. Bateman
(1920) and his uncle was H. F. Bateman (1921). Initially he read Engineering but
following his decision to be ordained he took a special in Geography. He graduated,
BA 1954; MA 1958. Following graduation he pursued his vocation for holy orders. His
ministry centred mainly in Suffolk and Devon; in the early years, however, he also served
as chaplain of the National Iranian Oil Company. He was appointed a canon at Bury St
Edmunds cathedral. He had a keen sense of local history and wrote Lydford Lives (1990).
He married Jane Isobel Campbell in 1955 and they had one daughter and two sons,
including Ian Bateman (1981). In 1994 he married H. F. Bateman’s daughter, his cousin,
Jancis, and in that same year David Bateman became the fifth generation of his family to
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BENSON, Kenneth Michael Langton (1946) died on 10 April 2012 aged 87.
Kenneth Benson was born on 22 March 1925 in Preston. Whilst at Wolverhampton
Grammar School he applied to study at Jesus but was called up to serve in the Royal
Navy. During the war he served in Japan, where he mastered basic Japanese and
developed a lifelong fascination for the country. He later wrote of how disorientated he
felt when, in the autumn of 1946, he left a devastated, humid, Japan and arrived in a
freezing austere Cambridge to immerse himself in Latin and Greek. After three years’
hard work he graduated BA 1949; MA 1955; and embarked on a career as a teacher.
During his career he taught Classics at a number of schools; his final post was at
Lanesborough Preparatory School, where he was Headteacher. In retirement he worked
for the Overseas Missionary Fellowship in Japan.
He married Joy Hitchins in 1962 and they had a son and a daughter.
BERGER, Ralph Jacob (1957) died on 13 March 2012 age 74.
We are grateful to Ralph's family and friends for the following:
“Ralph Berger was born on 16 September 1937 in Vienna. Following attendance at The
Perse School, Cambridge, and two years of RAF National Service he came up to Jesus in
1957 to read Natural Sciences (Psychology). Following his BA Ralph went to the
University of Edinburgh as a Research Assistant, in the Department of Psychological
Medicine under the late Ian Oswald, in the burgeoning field of sleep physiology,
receiving his PhD in 1963 with his dissertation on the “Experimental Modification of
Dream Content by Verbal Stimuli”. His first of many scientific papers was published in
Science in September 1961 and is widely cited as a reference work in the methodology of
sleep measurement. In late 1963, newly married to Gunnela Holmgren, Ralph joined the
US National Institutes of Health, working in Puerto Rico in perinatal psychology. In
1965 he began research at the University of California, initially at UCLA and then, in
1968, at the recently founded campus at Santa Cruz, from which he retired in 1994 as
Emeritus Professor of Biology. He was one of the pioneers of modern sleep research,
known for his exacting methodology and experimental controls in a still evolving field.
An early member of the Association for the Psycophysiological Study of Sleep he was a
long time champion of the theory of energy conservation as the evolutionary basis for
sleep. Throughout his life he was occupied by the concepts of memory, time and the
nature of experience, his book “Psyclosis – The Circularity of Experience” (Freeman
1977) deals with certain aspects of his thinking. Befitting a natural scientist, Ralph was a
committed ecologist and worked constantly to preserve the habitats of the monarch
butterfly; he was a gardener, ornithologist, jazz aficionado and a tennis player, all
activities which he shared with Gunnela, as well as a love of literature, especially Proust.
Ralph shared with his children, Timothy and Michael, perhaps fittingly for an adopted
Californian, a passion for surfing and skiing, which he indulged until quite recently.”
BERMAN, Lawrence (1928) died on 22 March 2012 aged 102.
Lory Berman was born on 7 September 1909 in Brooklyn, New York. Educated at St
Paul’s School, London, he came up in 1928 to read Mathematics and Mechanical
Sciences. He graduated BA 1931; MA 1936.
We are grateful to Lory's family for the following:
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Electric Company, which later became part of the General Electric Company. Lory
worked on the design staff of the diesel engine departments in Rugby, Preston and
Newton-le-Willows. His work sometimes took him abroad, to Malta, Canada, Argentina
and Australia. Lory met Bessie Jonathan at an adult education centre in Rugby. They
married in 1938 and had a daughter, Enid, and a son, Paul. Lory and Bessie lived in
Rugby, Southport, Eccles, Culcheth, Alderley Edge and Sale. He retired in 1974, and
became an active member of his local Probus club and local branch of the University of
the Third Age. Throughout his adult life, Lory attended evening classes in various crafts,
including woodwork, metalwork, pottery and silversmithing, and became a registered
silversmith. He produced some fine work, particularly a silver tea service. Both Lory and
Bessie traveled extensively in their long retirement, visiting friends and relatives
overseas, as well as cruising to many varied locations and caravanning in the UK.
BODLEY, Richard Douglas (1949) died in February 2012 aged 83.
Richard Bodley was born on 13 June 1928 in Cheltenham. Educated at Felsted School he
came up to Jesus in 1949, a year after his cousin Patrick Winterson (1948). He read
History, graduating BA 1952; MA 1962. Soon after graduation he studied Theology at
Westcott House before going on to pursue a career in business. After a brief spell with
the Bank of England he joined the National Coal Board where he remained for nearly
thirty years rising to be Deputy Director of Industrial Relations. After leaving British
Coal, as the National Coal Board had become, he became Senior Partner of the Belgrave
Consultants before semi-retiring in 1991. For the next seven years he continued to serve
on Industrial Tribunals before completely retiring in 1998.
He married Hedvig Kirsten Johannesen in 1958; they had two daughters.
BOOKER-MILBURN, Donald (1962) died on 29 May 2012 aged 72.
Donald Booker-Milburn was born on 20 May 1940 in Dornoch. He attended Trinity
College, Glenalmond, and then read French at Grenoble University before coming up to
Jesus, his father's college, in 1962 to read Modern Languages. The following year he
married Marjorie Burns. After graduation he was a master at Fettes College for three
years. His legal career began with reading law at Edinburgh University followed by
training at Shepherd & Wedderburn and in 1968 he was admitted to the Faculty of
Advocates. By 1980 he had become a sherriff, first of Lothian and the Borders and then
of Grampian and latterly at Inverness and Tain. A keen golfer with a low handicap, he
had been captain of Royal Dornoch Golf Club. He was also a great music lover with a
particular passion for Sibelius. His good friend, Sir Menzies Campbell recalls: "Donald
was a bluff man and a generous host. He was strong minded and he could hit a golf ball
for miles. He loved the North of Scotland and took his duty as a Sheriff seriously but not
so seriously that he could not relax among his friends." Donald had two children, Simon
and Lisa, who report their father's love of his Irish setters and three grandchildren.
BOYES, Simon (1968) died on 25 January 2012 aged 61.
Simon Boyes was born on 11 February 1950 in Wakefield. Educated at Altrincham
Grammar School he came up in 1968 to read Natural Sciences. He graduated BA 1971;

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MA 1975. At college he displayed a gift for communicating his knowledge and
enthusiasm to others and therefore his subsequent career as a teacher seems entirely
appropriate. He took a Certificate in Education at St Martin’s College, Lancaster, but
intermitted his course to do Voluntary Service Overseas in Fiji. From 1973 to 1975 he
taught Chemistry at the Lancaster Royal Grammar School and then spent a year teaching
at Queen’s College, Nassau, Bahamas. He returned to the UK in 1976 and spent the next
thirty four years at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys School, Elstree. He was promoted to
Head of Careers, then to Senior Master and finally he retired as Second Master in 2011.
Described by Haberdashers' as “a model of kindness and efficiency who was always
willing to offer support”, he dedicated his time to assisting colleagues and pupils alike.
A former pupil's parent commented, "his warmth and genuine interest in people
concealed astuteness and intelligence ... I am proud to be able to call him a friend."
Simon remained an optimist to the end despite a nine month battle against colon
cancer.
He married Elizabeth in 1972 and they had a daughter and three sons.
BROWN, Timothy Edward (1962) died on 17 April 2012 aged 68.
Tim Brown was born on 20 October 1943 in Hornchurch, Essex. Educated at Brentwood
School he came up in 1962 to read English; graduating BA 1965; MA 1969. Following
graduation he joined the National Coal Board as a Personnel Officer. He spent the 1970s
working as a Personnel Manager for Foster Wheeler Limited before moving in 1980 to
become Employment Manager at Stone & Webster Limited. In retirement he moved to
France where he enjoyed growing olives and spending time with his wife, Sheila Smith.
CARPMAEL, John William Maurice (1961) died on 16 September 2011 aged 69.
John Carpmael was born on 23 November 1941 at Wolverley, in Worcestershire. He
attended Oundle School where he showed prowess on the playing field as well as early
promise as a leader. Between school and university he joined a friend, Ian McAlpine, on
a trip to the US and Canada visiting McAlpine civil engineering sites in the two
countries. Two of his strongest memories of the trip were walking on the unfinished
43rd floor of the Place Ville Marie building in Montreal and driving 700 miles in the
baking sunshine across the Nevada desert in one day. On returning to England he
followed the family tradition of coming up to Jesus. He matriculated in 1961 to read
Engineering and soon took an active part in sporting life at the college. After two years it
was decided that he should join the family firm of Patent and Trade Mark Attorney,
Carpmaels & Ransford. He left Jesus with the good wishes of the college, many friends
and sufficient grounding in his subject to be responsible for all C&R’s engineering
clients. He remained at the firm, rising to be senior partner, until ill health forced early
retirement in 2002. He was a man of huge energy which he expended in the office, at the
crease or on a shoot; he also had wide interests including architecture, stamp collecting
and wine. He left a considerable mark on the properties he and his wife lovingly restored
and on the friends and family who were proud to have known him.
He married Alexandra Mary Fowkes and they had two sons, including William.
William came up to Jesus in 1990 and was followed by his cousins Chris Fowkes (1992)
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CIVIL, Colin Trevor (1959) died on 5 November 2010 aged 71.
Colin Civil was born on 20 March 1939 in Northampton. He was educated at All Saints'
School, Bloxham. He came up to Jesus in 1959 and read Economics and Law, graduating
BA 1962; MA 1968. He married Bridget and they had three sons. The college has no
further information about his life after college.
CLOVER, Morriss Fairfax (1944) died on 6 March 2011 aged 84.
Morriss Clover was born on 25 August 1926 in Saltash, Cornwall. Educated at
St Edward’s School, Oxford, he came up in 1944 to read Mechanical Sciences.
He graduated BA 1947; MA 1951. Following graduation he undertook National Service in
the Royal Navy. After demobilisation he joined Paxman Diesels Limited; remaining with
the firm for 40 years. Whilst working at Paxman he served in the Royal Navy Volunteer
Reserve rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
He married Shirley Margaret Evans in 1957; the couple had two sons and two
daughters.
CROOK, John Hurrell (1954) died on 15 July 2011 aged 80.
John Crook was born on 27 November 1930 in Southampton. Educated at Sherbourne
School and the University of Southampton, he came up to Jesus in 1954 following
National Service in the Far East. He found his experiences during National Service very
enriching as he was introduced to Buddhism and also experienced the interplay of the
British class system. At Cambridge he undertook a thesis on The Comparative Ethology and
Social Organisation of the Weaver Birds. In his thesis he succeeded in tracing certain
correlations between the type of sexual display shown by each species and its habitat
selection, its sociality and its nest construction. He graduated, PhD 1958. In 1962, he
joined the psychology department at Bristol University, there his studies moved to
primates and he led field trips to Africa.
We are grateful to John's colleague, at Bristol University, Professor Innes Cuthill, for
the following:
"[he was] a pivotal figure in the rise of British primatology and socio-ecology ...
John’s work added ‘ecology’ to ‘ethology’, and he is widely regarded as having
introduced cross-species comparisons to the scientific toolkit of animal behaviour. His
pioneering studies of primates as well as birds had a large influence in the growth of the
fields now known as behavioural ecology ... Tackling one of the biggest questions in
psychology, his 1980 book “The Evolution of Human Consciousness” was also
influential in stimulating a new wave of evolutionary approaches to this age-old
problem. By the start of the 1990s, his attention had shifted to human social behaviour,
studying the polyandrous (‘multi-husband’) marriage system of the hill-tribes of Ladakh
and interpreting this as a social adaptation to the harsh farming conditions in the
Himalayas. However, with a long-standing personal interest in Buddhist philosophy, his
research moved away from ecology towards studying the social and spiritual lives of
these communities. Ultimately he also taught Western practitioners of Zen Buddhism
and wrote several books on Buddhist philosophy and its relationship to Western
humanism.”
From the 1980s he developed a meditation course called the Western Zen Retreat
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Dhama Drum monastery in Taiwan and founded the Western Chan Fellowship.
Amongst his published works are: The Evolution of Human Consciousness (1980);
Himalayan Buddhist Villages with Henry Osmaston (1994); The Yogins of Ladakh with James
Low (1997); and World Crisis and Buddhist Humanism (2009).
He married Eirene Harvalias in 1956 and they had a son and a daughter. The couple
later divorced. John also had a long term partner, Hazel Russell.
CROOK, Peter Morgan (1943) died on 11 December 2011 aged 86.
Peter Crook was born on 24 May 1925 in Horsforth, near Leeds. Educated at Kimbolton
School and Leeds College of Technology he came up in 1943. In the 1950s and 60s he
worked as a chemist, first for Coal Tar Research Association and then for L. B. Holliday
Co. Ltd. Whilst working he studied for a degree with the University of Leeds, graduating
BSc in 1960. In 1971 he became a teacher before returning to Leeds University to work as
a technician. He retired in 1984 and moved to Dorset in 1993 to be close to his family.
He married Hildred Mary Calvert in 1950 and they had one son.
D’ARCY, John Orchard (1964) died on 27 February 2012 aged 68.
John D’Arcy was born on 12 April 1943 in Richmond, Surrey. He attended Welbeck
College before joining the British Army. He came up to Jesus in 1964 from Sandhurst, via
a short spell in Aden. He read Mechanical Sciences and graduated BA 1967; MA 1971.
Following graduation he served in the British Army. After leaving the forces he held
various positions in business including managing a hotel and running a property
development business.
He married Joanne Macdonald in 1966 and they had one son and one daughter. He
divorced in the 1970s; later meeting Sylvia Graham who became his partner in life and
business.
DAVIES, David Thomas Idwal Griffith (1953) died on 10 December aged 77.
David Davies was born on 16 August 1930 in Leeds. Educated at Monmouth School and
Jesus College, Oxford, he came up to college in 1953 to read Architecture. He graduate
BA 1956; Architecture, Diploma 1958; MA 1967. He subsequently studied for a doctorate
at Cambridge whilst also practising as an architect. Following submission of his thesis
he joined the civil service, where he remained for the next thirty-three years; rising to be
Head of Profession at the Department of the Environment. Following retirement from
the civil service he worked as an Adviser to the Stepney Area Churches and was also
Chairman of Crown Housing Association. Outside of work he enjoyed letter carving,
woodwork and sketching.
He married Anne Christina Carmichael in 1957; they had three daughters and a son.
DAVIES, Peter Maxwell (1939) died on 11 May 2011 aged 92.
Peter Davies was born on 10 October 1918 in Liphook, Hampshire. Educated at Eton
College he came up to Jesus in 1939 to read Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a
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We are grateful to Peter’s eldest son for providing the following:
“When the Second World War broke out he gave up his studies and joined the RNVR
where he served on MTBs and had his own command, seeing active service in the
channel, the Mediterranean and Adriatic. Whilst he was based at Littlehampton, he met
Patricia Mary Lynch (née Farrar) and they were married there on 19th May 1944. Their
first son, Christopher Maxwell Davies (1964) was born 11th March 1945. A second son,
Dominic Theophilus Harris Davies was born on 19th March 1952. After the war he
worked in the publishing industry joining Burns & Oates and later Rainbirds,
subsequently starting his own publishing business, Marlon House Ltd in Westminster.
In the 1970s he went into the export business, starting his own company exporting to
Japan which he continued until he was 88. After Patricia’s death on 15th February 2000,
he immersed himself in church work and co-founded the South Coast Meditation Group
in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel, which continues to meet regularly to
meditate on the Word of God.”
DAWSON, John (1944) died on 20 December 2011 aged 85.
John Dawson was born on 15 October 1926 in Rochdale. Educated at Rochdale
Municipal High School he came up to Jesus in 1944 to read History with a scholarship.
Whilst at college he set up, with others, a table tennis club as well as playing for the
cricket XI. He graduated, BA 1947; MA 1951. Following graduation he pursued a career
as a teacher serving as the first head teacher of John Ruskin School, Coniston, for over
twenty years. His connection with Ruskin continued after retirement from the school: he
was honorary curator of the Ruskin Museum, Coniston; and chairman of the Friends of
Ruskin’s Brantwood. He wrote Torver – The Story of a Lakeland Community; Wordsworth’s
Duddon Revisited; A Dream of Eden; Cumbrian Privies as well as numerous topographical and
historical articles for Country Life and Lancashire Life. He had a strong faith and served
as a lay Methodist preacher for almost half a century.
He married Margaret Isobel Shepherd in 1955 and they had two sons and two
daughters.
DAWSON, William John (1971) died on 8 April 2011 aged 58.
William Dawson was born on 14 October 1952 in Birmingham. Educated at the Central
Grammar School, Birmingham, he came up to Jesus in 1971 to read part I Natural
Sciences with part II Philosophy. He graduated BA 1974. His later life was dogged with
ill health and he was therefore unable to realise the potential demonstrated in his youth.
DAY, John Burnham (1945) died on 18 March 2012 aged 85.
John Day was born on 21 September 1926 in Nottingham. He attended a local grammar
school, High Pavement, before coming up in 1945 to read Modern Languages. He
graduated BA 1948; MA 1952. Following graduation he returned to his home city and
trained to be a teacher. His first post was at Forest Fields Grammar School, Nottingham;
he remained at the school throughout his career becoming a well-respected Head of
Modern Languages. Beyond the classroom he served as organist and choirmaster at St
Martin’s Sherwood, Nottingham, and then at St Peter’s Radford Nottingham. He was
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DRACOPOLI, John Lawrence (1939) died in July 2011 aged 89.
Jack Dracopoli was born on 25 September 1921 in Bishops Stortford. Educated at Radley
College, he came up to Jesus in 1939 to read Engineering, graduating BA 1942.
Following college, he served in the RAF working on the development and deployment of
radar. After the war, he started his own electrical engineering company, Hivolt Ltd,
making high voltage generators. One of his customers was the Cavendish Laboratories
who used his equipment in their electron microscopes. He sold his business in 1972 and
retired, first to Tuscany for about 20 years and then moved to Burgundy where he died.
He lived life to the full and made a great impression on those who knew him.
He married Nancy Elizabeth Power during the Second World War and they had a
daughter and a son. Subsequently Elizabeth’s brother, Nigel Power (1947) and the
couple’s son, Andrew Dracopoli (1965) came up to Jesus. Jack and Elizabeth divorced in
1951 and the following year Jack married Felicity Piers in 1952. Jack and Felicity had a son.
EDMONDS, Richard Dallas (1959) died on 24 July 2011 aged 69.
Dallas Edmunds was born on 7 August 1941 in Cheltenham. Educated at Repton he
came up to Jesus in 1959. He read part I History and part II Archaeology & Anthropology
before graduating BA 1962; MA 1966. Following graduation he worked as an interior
designer. He remained fond of the college throughout his life and was particularly keen
to support those finding the transition from adolescence to adulthood difficult.
ELLIS, Martin Franklyn (1944) died on Christmas Day 2009 aged 87.
Martin Ellis was born on 19 August 1924 at Forest Hill, London. Educated at Dulwich
College he served as a Gunner in the Royal Artillery until he was demobilised due to
injury. He came up to Jesus in 1944 reading Modern Languages followed by Economics
and graduating BA 1946; MA 1962. An “affable good chap”, hard-working and full of
common sense his tutors warmly recommended him for a career in business;
employment at a string of blue chip firms followed, including: Philips Electrical Limited
and Standard Telephones & Cables Limited. He moved on to join the British Electrical &
Allied Manufacturing Association before his final role at the Hawker Siddeley Group plc.
In retirement he put his business skills to good use in the service of his local branch of
the National Trust.
He married Jacqueline Mary Hobbs in 1955 and they had one daughter; both
predeceased him but he is survived by his son-in-law and three grandchildren.
EZCURRA, Amanda Perreau-Saussine (1990) died on 1 August 2012.
It was with great sadness that her many friends and admiring colleagues learned of the
death of Amanda Perreau-Saussine Ezcurra (née Hatfield). Amanda was a distinguished
academic lawyer and specialist in historical jurisprudence and international law.
After her first degree in law at Jesus, Amanda worked as a Legal Officer for Amnesty
International before returning to Cambridge for doctoral studies.
As a member of the lay Dominican community at Blackfriars she met her first
husband, Emile Perreau-Saussine, a political philosopher who shared her strong and
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London before returning in 2000 to a Lectureship in Law at Cambridge, becoming first a
Fellow of Newnham and latterly Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Queen’s (2007-), during
which time Emile was a Fellow and Lecturer in political philosophy at Fitzwilliam.
They had two children, Elisabeth and Martin, and between them lead a robust and
active intellectual and personal life with shared interests in religion, politics, philosophy
and the law.
Emile’s sudden death in February 2010 from a ruptured aorta was a devastating blow.
Amanda showed impressive strength through this bereavement, which left her a widow
with two small children. The following summer she herself developed pains which were
attributed to the inevitable stress of her situation, and only the next January diagnosed as
cancer that was already advanced. With supernatural – she would say ‘graced’ –
determination she fought this illness, not least for the sake of her young family. Friends,
especially from her former community at Blackfriars, rallied round as she underwent
punishing treatments. Yet in the midst of this came another dawn of love, when she met
Carlos Ezcurra, an Argentinian political scientist. They married in a joyous nuptial mass
in Queen’s College Chapel on 1 November, 2011 with Carlos becoming at once a
husband and loving father. She died exactly none months later leaving with her friends
and family indelible memories of bravery, honesty, joy and a love that, in her firm
conviction, knows no end.
FENWICK, Thomas Richard Featherstone (1945) died on 20 January 2012 aged 85.
Tom Fenwick was born on 11 December 1926 in Newcastle. He came up from
Charterhouse in 1945 and read Agriculture, graduating BA 1948. We are grateful to
James Fenwick, his son, for providing the following:
“On graduation, he determined to farm and following various stints in Suffolk, the
mid-west of America and Western Australia, he returned in 1952 to take over the family
estate at Wolsingham, Co Durham. A countryman at heart, the estate became his
lifelong project. He farmed cattle and sheep and managed the forestry and shooting
enterprises for more than 50 years. In addition, he ran a forestry company, NFP, for over
20 years. He served as a JP, was High Sheriff of County Durham in 1976, acted as a
Church Warden for 37 years and stood as the Conservative candidate for his home
constituency of North West Durham in the 1979 election. He was married to Sally Page
for 54 years and they had 4 children.”
FINCH, Jack (1942) died on 10 December 2010 aged 86.
Jack Finch was born on 31 January 1924 in Thorpe-next-Norwich. Educated at the City of
Norwich School he came up to Jesus in 1942 to read History with an exhibition. After a
year he commenced his military service which lasted three years and included a period in
Palestine. Following demobilisation he returned to Cambridge and completed his
degree graduating, BA 1948. After a years’ teacher training he began his career as a
teacher which included serving as head of the History Department for thirteen years at
Southampton Totton Grammar School and for fourteen years at Hounsdown
Comprehensive School. He enjoyed music and was a leader of the Southampton Concert
Orchestra.
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GIFFARD, Adam Edward (1954) died on 31 December 2010 aged 77.
Adam Giffard was born on 3 June 1933. He came up to Jesus in 1954 following National
Service. He read Modern & Medieval Languages, graduating BA 1957; MA 1961. His
career included working as a documentary film maker. He returned to education later in
life when he took an Open University degree, graduating BSc in 1995. Upon the death of
his father he succeeded to the title of fourth Earl of Halsbury, but chose not to use the
title.
He married his second wife, Joanna Elizabeth Cole in 1976; they had two daughters.
GLOSTER, John (1940) died on 28 May 2011 aged 89.
John Gloster was born on 23 March 1922 in Coventry, where he attended King Henry VIII
Grammar School. He came up to Jesus, with a scholarship, in 1940 to read Natural
Sciences with the intention of going on to qualify as a doctor. He graduated BA 1943; MB
BChir 1946; MD 1953. After leaving Cambridge he went to St Bartholomew’s Hospital,
London, and completed his training. Early on in his career he established an interest in
ophthalmology whilst working on miners’ nystagmus and retinitis pigmentosa. In 1954,
he joined the Institute of Ophthalmology, then under the guidance of the late Sir Stewart
Duke-Elder, and worked primarily on glaucoma. He worked at the institute until his
retirement in 1982, and served as dean for a period. He was awarded the Sembal Chair of
Experimental Ophthalmology and was also an honorary consultant at Moorfields Eye
Hospital, where he was in charge of the glaucoma clinic.
After retirement he deployed the intelligent, methodical techniques he used in
research to growing and exhibiting auriculas; which he did to a national standard. Aside
from gardening he also loved music, theatre, and ballet.
He married Margery Williams in 1947 and they had two sons.
GODDEN, Brian Thomas (1945) died on 27 December 2009 aged 82.
Brain Godden was born on 30 April 1927 in London. Educated at Battersea Grammar
School he came up to Jesus in 1945 to read Modern Languages. He graduated BA 1948.
In his late teens he developed a deep faith; this lead to his conversion to Roman
Catholicism in 1947. As a recent convert he was required to delay his calling to become
a priest and whilst waiting he taught French at St Aloysius’ College in Highgate.
In 1951 he began training at St. John's Seminary in Wonersh, near Guildford. Six years
later he was ordained at the Franciscan Friary, East Bergholt, near Colchester. He served
as a parish priest in a number of parishes in Southern England including St Ethelbert’s,
Slough. On the modernising wing of the church, he wrote Celibacy & the Catholic Priesthood
– The Case for Change (1993).
He had a wide range of interests including gardening, astronomy and music.
GOUGH, Charles Brandon (1958) died on 26 April 2012 aged 74.
Brandon Gough was born on 8 October 1937 in Wallasey. Educated at Douai School,
Woolhampton, run by the Douai Abbey Benedictine Community in Berkshire, he
retained a strong Roman Catholic faith which was to provide him with the values and
principles which he would retain all his life. He came up in 1958 and read part I and IB
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Coopers & Lybrand; four years later he was a partner and at only 44 he was made
chairman. His appointment reflected the firm’s ambitions to become the UK’s leading
accountancy firm and to develop its international practice. The accountancy world was
changing rapidly during the 1980s and early 1990s and Brandon was able to supply
steady, yet ambitious leadership. All his skills were harnessed to bring about the merger
with Deloittes. After thirty years with the firm, he was happy to move into semiretirement
and use his talents for public service, this included serving as Chancellor of
the University of East Anglia, Deputy Lieutenant of Kent and chair of Yorkshire Water,
the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Review Body on Doctors'
and Dentists' Remuneration. He was knighted in 2002 and received honorary degrees
from the University of Kent and UEA. He enjoyed walking, gardening, opera and singing
in a choir with his wife. He had a keen interest in theatre and was a member of the
Council of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Trust for six years.
He married Sarah Evans Smith in 1961; they had one son and two daughters.
GREEN, Christopher Hewlett (1956) died in December 2010 aged 73.
Christopher Green was born on 15 May 1937 in London. Educated at Sedbergh School he
came up to Jesus in 1956 to read Natural Sciences, graduating BA 1959. At college he
impressed with his all-round abilities; being equally at home on the rugby pitch, singing
with a choir and studying in a lab. After some travelling following graduation, he joined
BP, where he remained throughout his career until retiring in 1992. He was passionate
about music and managed to balance his career with his love of singing with the
Monteverdi and Schutz choirs. Following his retirement he returned to studying another
lifelong passion, archaeology; completing postgraduate studies at Birkbeck College,
London, and Kellogg College, Oxford.
He married Loryn Jean Turner in 1965 and they had two sons and one daughter.
GREEN, Eric James (1945) died on 5 November 2011 aged 85.
Eric Green was born on 15 September 1926 in Birkenhead. Educated at the Royal
Grammar School, Lancaster, he came up to Jesus on a university short course. Following
two years with the Royal Marines, including time with 45 Commando in Hong Kong,
he returned to Cambridge to read History. At Jesus he played rugby and ran with the
Hare and Hounds. After graduation he trained to be a teacher; he taught at the Liverpool
Institute and Belle Vue Grammar School in Bradford before embarking on a career in
education administration. He spent four years in Barnsley Education Department before
moving to be Deputy Chief Education Officer in Chester. From Chester he went to
Bromley, where he was Assistant Director of Education and his responsibilities included
further education in the borough. Following retirement in 1990 he travelled extensively,
volunteered for the Citizens Advice Bureau and led house groups of the University of the
Third Age in the study of History.
He married Janet Hindle in 1967 and they had one son and one daughter.
HARRISON, Alwyne George (1949) died on 27 April 2012 aged 82.
Wyn Harrison was born on 9 January 1930 in Chorley, Lancashire. He attended
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graduated BA 1952, MA 1956; and soon departed for a career in India. He spent his
entire working life in India, rising to become Vice Chairman and Managing Director of
Mather & Platt (India) Limited. His contributions to industry were recognised when he
was appointed O.B.E. in 1987. Following retirement in 1989 he returned to England
making his home in Macclesfield and later in Warrington.
He married Alexandra Edwards in 1955 and they had two daughters and a son.
HARTLEY, John Neil (1933) died on 17 October 2011 aged 96.
John Hartley was born on 28 March 1915 near Burnley in Lancashire. Educated at the
Leys School he came up in 1933 to read Natural Sciences. He served as a flight lieutenant
in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. Following
demobilisation he pursued a career as a pharmacist before moving into business.
HILL, Vyvyan Dudley (1928) died on 19 October 1993 aged 82.
Vyvyan Hill was born on 10 January 1911 in Hawk’s Bay New Zealand. Educated at
Christ’s College, New Zealand, he came up to Jesus in 1929 to read Engineering.
After fighting in North Africa during the Second World War he returned home to take
over the family farm. In the 1960s he converted the farm into an orchard.
He married Elizabeth Beatrice Harvey in 1944; they had two girls and a boy.
HONEY, Christopher Simon (1979) died on 23 May 2012 aged 52.
Chris Honey was born on 21 October 1959 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (then Malaya).
Educated at Eltham College, he came up to Jesus in 1979 to read Architecture,
graduating BA in 1982; MA 1985. He was a keen member of Jesus College Boat Club and
the Cambridge University Officers’ Training Corps (having completed a Short Service
Limited Commission in the Queen's Gurkha Engineers in Hong Kong prior to
matriculating). His sister, Alison, followed him to Jesus in 1982. In 1983, he spent a year
working in Malaysia with the leading Kuala Lumpur firm, BEP Akitek Sendirian before
attending the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College, London,
passing his Diploma in 1985.
After qualifying, Chris spent several years in London working in architectural firms
including Hamilton Associates with Paul Tanner (1966) and GMW. In the late 90s (now
married to Rebecca Williams) he moved back to Asia where he headed an in-house
design office for Michael Tan, a leading Malaysian property developer with whom he
developed a strong friendship. During this time he planned schemes, now executed, in
peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak and Australia as well as viewing sites in China. After some
years in Kuala Lumpur he and Rebecca returned to the UK to live in Hertfordshire and
their sons Sam and Nat were born. Chris continued to keep up his professional links
with Asia but also developed a busy local architectural practice.
Chris had a seemingly unbounded interest in everyone and everything. He was a
natural linguist and maintained an extensive network of friends from all over the world.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1986, loved travel, opera and
Scandinavian design, Arsenal, all things Asian, his family, his friends and his pugs.
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dilated cardiomyopathy. He was an extraordinary patient: he read avidly about his
condition, confronted it head on and was relentlessly optimistic despite frequent
setbacks. In February of 2012 he was admitted to Papworth Hospital and was delighted
to discover that he had the opportunity to reminisce about college life with his
consultant, Clive Lewis (1987). The plan was for Chris to receive an urgent heart
transplant but complications meant this was not to be.
LAMB, Roland Hurst Lowry (1935) died on 23 November 2011 aged 94.
Roland Lamb was born on 27 October 1917 in Kingswood, Surrey. He attended Mill Hill
School, coming up to Jesus in 1935 to read History. He graduated BA 1938; MA 1942. A
man of deep spiritual conviction, following graduation he trained for the Methodist
ministry. He served as a chaplain in the Middle East during the Second World War and
afterwards in churches in South Shields, Walton-on-Naze, Aberystwyth and Cornwall.
In the 1950’s he was seconded to the Inter-Varsity Fellowship (now the Universities and
Colleges Christian Fellowship). In 1967 he left the Methodist church as he had become
increasingly concerned about moves away from literal interpretations of the Gospels.
For the next fifteen years he worked tirelessly for the British Evangelical Council as its
General Secretary as well as serving as Pastor of the Spicer Street Independent Chapel in
St Albans. Many found comfort in his ministry which was always compassionate,
considered and clear.
He married Jill Alicia Morse in 1943 and they had one son and three daughters.
LAWN, Oliver Hugh (1937) died on 3 May 2012 aged 93.
Oliver Lawn was born on 20 November 1918 in Walsall. Educated at Kingswood School,
Bath, he went up in 1937 and read Mathematics, taking part I, II and III. He
distinguished himself as both a mathematician and an oarsman. He graduated BA 1940;
MA 1944. In 1940 he was assigned to Enigma Code breaking at Bletchley Park. There he
met Sheila Isabelle Mackenzie, his future wife, and also qualified as a Methodist Local
Preacher. After the end of the Second World War, he spent a short period lecturing in
Mathematics at Reading University before entering the Civil Service in London. In 1978
he retired and was appointed CBE. He moved to Sheffield where he undertook voluntary
work in the community: co-ordinating the fund-raising to build a day care centre at a
local cancer hospital; serving on several committees of Voluntary Action Sheffield; and
serving as a Non-Executive Director of the Northern General Hospital NHS Trust. His
leisure enthusiasms were wide, including caravanning, hill walking, especially in
Scotland, and orienteering. He took great delight in nature and his family. Sheila reports
that she and Oliver were very happy in Sheffield making friends and enjoying this new
venture.
LAWTON, Paul Ivan Carl (1945) died on 1 June 2012 aged 88.
Paul Lawton was born on 6 April 1924 in Manchester. Educated at Shrewsbury School he
served in the Armed Forces before coming up in 1945. He read English, graduating BA
1948; MA 1952. In 1951 he joined the World Health Organisation. He remained with the
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He enjoyed working with wood, whether making jewellery or practical pieces for his
wife's farm. He loved to spend time in the nearby mountains skiing and climbing and
did the Haute Route (Chamonix-Zermatt) several times. When he retired, he bought
himself a chalet in a ski resort in Le Grand Bornand and settled there. It was in the chalet
he wrote a translation of Franco Fortini’s poems, entitled "Summer is not all", and
produced a translation of "Canti" by Giacomo Leopardi.
He married Catherine Lévy in 1954. Catherine already had a son and the couple went
on to have another boy.
LI, Fook Kow (1957) died on 27 October 2011 aged 89.
Fook Kow Li was born on 15 June 1922 in Hong Kong. He attended Wah Yan College,
Hong King, before studying Metallurgy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
graduating from M.I.T. BSc in 1944; MSc in 1945. After the war, he returned to Hong
Kong, working first as a teacher at St Paul’s Co-educational College. He joined the Hong
Kong Government Secretariat in 1954 and came to Jesus in 1957 to study the Overseas
Services Course. After again returning to Hong Kong he remained with the Secretariat
and served in various posts including as: Secretary for Social Services; Secretary for
Home Affairs; and Chairman of the Public Service Commission before retiring in 1987.
He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1975.
He married Edith Kwong in 1946; the couple had two daughters and two sons.
LUNN-ROCKLIFFE. David Craven (1947) died on 23 August 2011 aged 86.
David Lunn-Rockliffe was born on 28 December 1924 in Southampton. Educated at
Stowe School, he served in Burma during the Second World War. He came up in 1947,
the third generation of his family to do so. He read Economics and Agriculture,
graduating BA 1950; MA 1961. His time at college showed the breadth of his interests,
his considerable charm and his ability in practical affairs; for example he organised the
College May Ball in his final term. After graduation he continued to have wide interests
both in his hobbies and his business life. In business he, in some cases concurrently,
worked as a diary famer, served as development director of the Institute of Corn &
Agricultural Merchants, ran a specialist paint manufacturer, was chief executive of the
Amateur Rowing Association and was founder and chairman of the River & Rowing
Museum Foundation at Henley-on-Thames.
He married Elizabeth Victoria Capron in 1950; they had five daughters.
MALLETT, Hugh Michael Finer (1943) died on 25 February 2012 aged 86.
Michael Mallett was born on 31 March 1925 in Bradford. Educated at Bradford Grammar
School, he came up in 1943 on a RAF short course and caught the rowing bug. After
leaving Cambridge he was posted to Canada until VJ day and then to Egypt; where he
rowed on the Nile. He returned to college in 1947, and continued his rowing and this
time combined it with journalism as rowing correspondent of Varsity writing under the
nom-de-plume “Wash-out”. A photograph of him sat in bed taking his finals graced the
front page of the student rag after he was struck down with shingles. His taste for
writing led to a career as a freelance journalist.
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MANT (née Randall), Frances Joy (1979) died on 7 May 2011 aged 49.
We are grateful to Frances Mant's family for providing the following information:
"Frances Randall was born on 14 May 1961 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, and was brought
up from age 6 in Rugby, Warwickshire. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College,
where she first met her life-long friend Caroline Pack (1980). In 1979, the first year of
female undergraduates, Frances came up to Jesus, following her brother John (1974) to
the college. She read Medicine, and near the end of her 3 years in Cambridge met a
fellow medical student Jonathan Mant (Corpus Christi, 1979), whom she married at
Great St Mary’s in 1983. She completed her medical training at the Middlesex Hospital,
London. She and her husband moved to Devon in 1986, where Frances obtained a
Certificate of Qualification in Social Work from the University of Exeter.”
In 1989 they moved to Oxford, where Frances worked as a specialist social worker at
Ritchie Russell House (1989-94) and as a research associate at the Radcliffe Infirmary
(1994-95).
In 1997, the family moved to the West Midlands. Frances then read for the Ministry at
The Queen’s Foundation, University of Birmingham, graduating with a first in applied
theology, and was ordained at Worcester Cathedral in 2005. She then served as Curate at
All Saints, Bromsgrove (2005-8), Chaplain, Princess of Wales Hospital, Bromsgrove
(2008-09), and Tutor at Westcott House (2010-11). She leaves her husband Jonathan,
Professor of Primary Care Research at the Department of Public Health & Primary Care,
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, their children William and Alice, her parents and brother.
Her funeral was held at Great St Mary’s on 20 May 2011, and conducted by the
Rev Canon Martin Seeley (1972).
MAY, Michael Cedric (1960) died on 1 November 2010 aged 69.
Michael May was born on 25th March 1943 in Paignton, Devon. He attended Harrow
School before coming up to Jesus in 1960 to read Mechanical Sciences and Estate
Management.
He graduated BA 1963; MA 1967. Following graduation he joined a large London firm
of surveyors but always hankered after running his own business and at 23 he set up
Stonecot Contractors, building houses in Reigate. The company became a successful
private building company, developing and building commercial and residential
properties throughout Surrey and south London; listed buildings being his particular
passion.
We are grateful to his family for the following:
"He was an outdoor man and a keen participant in most sports from golf to skiing
although when he was young weekends were taken up with competing in amateur single
seater racing cars. He travelled extensively but was equally content pottering around his
wonderful garden. During winter months he had great fun owning and racing jumps
horses. He was a charming man, a gentleman, and much respected for his advice, both
from friends and employees, but his greatest joy came from his family and
grandchildren and dogs overrunning his garden."
He married Alison Fraser in 1968 and they had two sons and a daughter.
McKINLAY, Timothy Alan (1980) died on 18 January 2012 aged 50.
Tim McKinlay was born on 6 May 1961 in Warrington. Educated at King’s School,
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a scholarship in 1981. After graduating he completed Part III Maths and then went to
work for Deloitte Haskins and Sells as a financial modeller. From Deloittes he joined
Booz Allen Associates. His career then progressed, via a period as a consultant advising
on consumer goods and an MBA from INSEAD, to working for Heinz as Country
Manager for Indonesia and President of Heinz Korea. From Heinz he moved to become
a Partner of Navis, a private equity company where he led the Portfolio Monitoring and
Management Function. He was also active in engaging senior management of many
Navis portfolio companies.
We are grateful to Tim's sister, Sally Elliott, for providing the following:
"Tim was a man with a brilliant mind, a courteous and gentle demeanour. He was an
outstanding father, a man loving of, and loved by, his family. He was an adventurer, an
explorer of different lands and cultures, and was an exceptional photographer. He had a
dry wit, was thoughtful, with inspirational inner strength, and showed a dignity and a
courage that is hard to compare when faced with the battle against an aggressive brain
tumour. He loved life, and strove to make the most of every moment in his quiet and
determined way, providing his two teenage daughters with outstanding experiences and
paved the way for their future."
MEADOWS, James Romulus (1956) died on 30 April 2012 aged 77.
Jim Meadows was born on 7 January 1935 in Nashville. He attended Parmer School in
Nashville, The Webb School in Bellbuckle, Tennessee, and Yale University.
We are grateful to Michael Delahooke (1954), for the following:
"He came up to Jesus in October 1956, armed with an imposing physical presence,
earthy good humour and an all-American determination to succeed. He found the
methods of the CUBC unfamiliar but applied himself vigorously to adapting his rowing
to fit in with this new style, and soon achieved the all important approval of Alf Twinn.
Universally known as ‘Big Jim’ he was awarded his Blue in his second term, and proved
to be one of the driving forces behind the victory in that year’s Boat Race. None of us
who heard it will forget his outburst of old Tennessee expletives at the Mile Post as
Oxford seemed to be slipping away from us, and which so galvanised the crew that we
were in front by Hammersmith!
If he found CUBC methods unfamiliar, those at Jesus must have seemed positively
eccentric, though he was too polite to say so, and instead Jim got his head down and
helped the College to maintain its position as Head of the Mays. In the following year,
1958, he was not selected for the Blue Boat but, nothing daunted, applied himself to
successfully keeping Jesus at the Head of the Mays, and then crowned his Cambridge
rowing career by winning the Ladies’ Plate at Henley for the College.
Jim enjoyed every aspect of Cambridge life, though he found the dinners in Hall to be
somewhat lacking, and regularly visited the Pitt Club for a second meal after the
insubstantial fare at Jesus. He read English Literature, and told amusing tales of sharing
supervisions with future England cricket captain, Ted Dexter, in which they attempted to
deconstruct the finer points of Chaucer. In preparation for his return to the States, he
equipped himself with a Savile Row suit, a bowler hat and tightly rolled umbrella, and
acquired a 1932 vintage 3 ½ litre Lagonda tourer. He drove this remarkable vehicle
round the Highlands of Scotland, and then shipped it back to Nashville, together with
plentiful supplies of Draught Guinness.”
Following graduation he served in the US Army before joining Container
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Inc. By the mid 1980s he had become the president and owner of the company.
Despite the distance, Jim and his wife, Patricia, often returned to Jesus to visit
cherished friends and in 2004 he became a member of the Society of St Radegund.
MEARES, Dennis Neville Frederick (1943) died on 9 October 2011 aged 85.
Dennis Meares was born on 11 December 1925 in Cardiff. Educated at St Edward’s
School, Oxford, he came up to college in 1943. He read Engineering, graduating BA
1946; MA 1950. The highlight of his time at Jesus was rowing in the boats which came
Head of the River in the March Eights in 1944 and 1945.
We are grateful to Peter Meares for the following:
“He joined the Royal Navy as Probationary, Acting Temporary Midshipman (E). After
basic training he served in the submarine branch (it paid more), travelling all over the
world. During this period he married Lesley and they had three children. In 1976 Dennis
left the service having reached the rank of captain, and joined GEC in Melksham, where
he was a contracts manager for baggage handling systems. When he finally retired, he
settled down to his large vegetable plot, and maintaining the family home, which at
600+ years old always kept him busy. In retirement he was a very active member of the
village society, the Meares’ being well known for their hog roast RNLI fund-raising,
and safari supper.”
MILLS, Ronald Gerald (1950) died on 14 November 2011 aged 81.
Gerry Mills was born on 17 May 1930 in Guildford. Educated at the Royal Grammar
School, Guildford, following National Service he came up in 1950 to read Mathematics.
A talented table tennis player he played regularly for the university’s unofficial team.
He graduated BA 1953; MA 1957. Following graduation he worked for Standard
Telephones and Cables whilst also studying part-time for a Masters at London. He
subsequently went on to work for Elliott brothers before setting up Mills Associates Ltd
in 1962. He grew this business into a successful nationwide computer company
employing hundreds of staff over multiple locations. After Mills was sold in 1998,
Gerry became a leading light in the British Go Association, a group set up to promote
the oriental board game, Go. He also continued to walk mountains and was still helping
to build new businesses up to his death.
He married Moira Eileen Johnson in 1952; they had two sons and a daughter.
MURDOCH, James William (1940) died on 11 May 2011 aged 89.
James Murdoch was born on 12 October 1921 in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.
Educated at Epsom College he studied for a year at the East Sussex School of Agriculture
before joining the Royal Engineers. He came up in 1940 to study the Royal Engineers
short course, and following his six months in Cambridge returned to his regiment
serving overseas. After demobilisation he trained in medicine at the London Hospital;
practising over a forty year career in Trinidad, Derby, New Zealand and Hove.
In retirement he enjoyed playing golf.
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PEGLER Alan Francis (1938) died on 18 March 2011 aged 91.
Alan Pegler was born on 16 April 1920 in London, the son of F. E. Pegler (1908).
Educated at Radley College he came up in 1938 to read Law, but never settled into
Cambridge life and determined to leave. During the Second World War he served in the
Fleet Air Arm before injury led to his discharge. In 1946, he joined his father’s firm,
Northern Rubber Co, and served as chairman from 1949 to 1953. His real interest,
however, was in steam trains; his passion took over his life and took all his inheritance,
but more than anyone else he was responsible for saving the Ffestiniog Railway and the
Flying Scotsman. After the money had gone, he reinvented himself as an entertainer and
regaled his audiences with tales of the “old girl”; as the Flying Scotsman was known.
The Chairman of the Ffestiniog Railway Society, Howard Wilson, said of him; “Alan was
a pioneer and an inspiration to the railway preservation movement throughout the
world. We owe him a great debt of gratitude.” He was appointed O.B.E. in 2006.
He married Susan Bendell in 1940 with whom he had a son. The marriage was
dissolved and he married Lois Reith in 1946; Lois died in 1948. He married Pamela
Marshall in 1952, they had a daughter. Pamela died in 1956. He married Pauline Graves
in 1957; the marriage was dissolved. His life-long friend was Petrina Derrington.
PENNY, Thomas Gillard (1954) died on 7 November 2011 aged 77.
Tom Penny was born on 15 April 1934 in Tiverton, the nephew of Penny, W. M. (1903)
and Penny, C. J. (1913). Educated at Winchester College, he served for two years with the
Somerset Light Infantry, one of which was spent as a commissioned officer in Malaya.
He came up to his uncles’ college in 1954 to read History and Law and graduated BA
1957; MA 1961. He joined a Tiverton firm of solicitors in 1960 and later became a
partner. He stepped down from the firm in the early 1980s and worked as a consultant
for Bevan Ashford (now Bevan Brittan). In 1999 he set up in sole practice and was kept
busy serving his local community. He took an active interest in rural life and served as
Clerk to the Tiverton Almshouse Trust, as well as being one time President of the
Mid Devon Show.
He married Joan Elizabeth Alexandra Flower in 1964 and they had three daughters and
one son.
PHILP, Arthur David Trevelyan (1949) died on 26 October 2011 aged 82.
David Philp was born on 15 May 1929 in London. Educated at Clifton College, Bristol, he
came up to Jesus in 1949 following National Service. He read Modern & Medieval
Languages, graduating BA 1952; MA 1957. Whilst at college his courage and capacity for
hard work were noted. After leaving Cambridge he went to Spain for three years where
he taught English and made many friends. When he returned to England he worked for
the Ockenden Trust (the trust brings displaced people to the UK for education, training
and settlement). He then spent a short time sailing, crewing and delivering a boat,
before becoming a farmer in North Cornwall. We are grateful to his wife, Sue, for
providing the following further information:
“While farming he taught French at the local primary school and coached many
children for their O levels and A levels. In the summer the house was full of the children
of our many foreign friends, Spanish, Norwegian, French and German. He taught many
to sail. His main hobbies were piano and bassoon playing, languages and sailing. After

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retiring we travelled to many countries and he added Portuguese and Greek to his
repertoire.”
He married Susan Isabel Mary Jerram in 1964; although the couple never had children
they brought up two nieces from the age of five to 16.
RANDELL, Michael John (1953) died on 14 June 2011 aged 75.
Mike Randell was born on 4 August 1935 in Bristol. Educated at St Brendan’s College,
Bristol, he came up to Jesus in 1953 to read Natural Sciences. He graduated BA 1956; MA
1960. Following National Service he worked as a Chemist for ES & A Robinson for three
years. He spent the rest of his career with Procter & Gamble, retiring in 1994. He had a
great passion for cricket, furthering its interests in the North-East as Assistant Secretary
to Northumberland County Cricket Club and as Chairman of Newcastle Cricket Club. He
also sang in the Choir at St Mary's Cathedral and studied Geology for many years.
He married Moira Baston in 1964 and they had one daughter.
RICHARDS, David Andrew (1952) died in February 2012 aged 83.
David Richards was born on 28 January 1929 in Ashurst, Sussex. Educated at Brockley
County School, he joined the Royal Engineers in 1947, originally to undertake his
National Service but later he joined the regular army. He came up in 1952 to read
Mechanical Sciences, graduating BA 1954; MA 1970. Following graduation he returned
to the Army, serving until 1977 and reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After
leaving the military he taught at Ardingly College until 1989. In retirement he pursued
his interests in music and photography.
He married Lucie Hamilton Langmead in 1955; they had two sons and a daughter.
SIMKIN, Eric Philip (1946) died on 25 January 2012 aged 84.
Eric Simkin was born on 9 September 1927 in Liverpool. He was educated at Liverpool
College before coming up to Jesus in 1946 to read Natural Sciences with a view to going
on to be a doctor. He graduated BA 1949. Following graduation he undertook his clinical
training at the Central Middlesex Hospital and graduated MB BChir 1952. The following
year he took his MA. Following working at the old Liverpool Royal Infirmary he decided
to specialise in anorectal surgery. He opened a specialist anorectal clinic at Sefton
General Hospital and then at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, where he was
consultant from 1978. He loved his work and helping his patients and therefore was sad
when retirement came.
He married Marilyn Wiseberg in 1970 and they had a daughter and a son.
SKINNER, Evelyn George (1946) died on 20 March 2011 aged 90.
Lyn Skinner was born on 23 December 1920 at Bough Beech, near Edenbridge, in Kent.
He attended Sevenoaks School and on leaving school joined the Met. Office based in
Beverley, Yorkshire. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he was seconded
into the RAF as a flying officer. He flew on reconnaissance trips in Flying Fortresses and

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also Halifax aircraft. In 1946, following the recommendation of his friend Ken Lindsay
(1941), he came up to Jesus to read Natural Sciences. At Jesus he coxed and sang in the
college choir. After graduation, he studied at the Institute of Education in London and
gained a diploma. He went out to the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1950 and set up the
first science laboratories in Tamale in the Northern Territories. Later he became a
schools inspector. He also held the post of headmaster at a school in Takoradi in the
south of Ghana. Following Ghana's independence, in 1956, he returned to the UK and
trained as a doctor. He took up his first houseman's appointment at Salisbury General
Hospital where he met his later wife, Maureen, who was senior staff nurse on the
surgical ward. He moved from Salisbury to Dorchester where he did Gynaecology and
then to Southampton where he did Paediatrics. From Southampton he returned to
Ghana and worked as a doctor at the diamond mining company's hospital (the
Consolidated African Selection Trust) in Akwatia. In 1967, he returned to the UK and
worked as a general practitioner; serving as a G.P. in Basingstoke for twenty one years.
He pursued an active retirement: sailing a catamaran round Brownsea Island and at Arne
in Dorset; singing in the church choir; walking the coastal paths of Cornwall and Devon;
playing a mean game of tennis until he was eighty years old; and much to his wife's
dismay, climbing the apple tree in the garden at the age of eighty five.
He married Maureen Coombs in 1966 and they had a son and a daughter.
SPALDING, John Oliver (1942) died on 16 April 2012 aged 87.
John Spalding Law was born on 4 August 1924 in Manchester. He was educated at
William Hulme Grammar School, before coming up to Jesus in 1942 to read Law. Soon
after arriving he was commissioned into the Royal Artillery. After service in Burma,
Singapore and Java with the Indian Army he returned to Jesus to complete his studies.
He graduated BA 1949; MA 1961. His early career was spent as a local government
solicitor originally in his native Manchester but later in Hampshire.
In 1962 he returned north, albeit to the other side of the Pennines, and joined the
Halifax Building Society as an in-house solicitor in 1962. He was appointed chief
executive in 1982 at a time of great change for the financial services sector. As chief
executive of the largest building society he was a leading voice in the call for Building
Societies to be allowed to expand into new areas such as estate agency and insurance.
The government, however, went further than he had argued for and permitted the
demutualisation of building societies.
John retired in 1988 leaving a society that had chosen, for now at least, to remain
mutual. After leaving the Society he served as Chairman of the National House Building
Council for four years before embarking on an active retirement which included sailing a
tall ship to the Canaries and happy days spent on canals.
He married Mary Hull in 1952 and they had a son and a daughter.
STEVENSON, Philip Kenneth (1938) died on 15 March 2012 aged 92.
Philip Stevenson was born in Rochdale on 3 August 1919. Educated at the City of London
School, he came up in 1938 to read Classics taking part I. Following part I, he left
Cambridge on War Service in Africa and Burma, and after being granted an allowance of
terms, graduated BA 1941; MA 1945. He returned to residence to read Archaeology &

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Anthropology, having been inspired by his time abroad. After Cambridge he joined the
colonial service. He was posted to Northern Rhodesia and so he and his pregnant wife,
Ursula (née Carter), set off for Africa.
Their first daughter was born in Lusaka where Philip began teaching Classics at
Munali Secondary school, and a second daughter was born in Northampton on the
family’s first leave back to England.
Having risen to be deputy head he was persuaded to become a schools inspector.
He remained an inspector following Zambia’s independence, and finally left to return to
the UK, in 1969.
Despite his long career in education, his modesty and desire to learn new things led
him to enrol for the P.G.C.E. course at Oxford University. After completing the course he
taught Classics part time until his retirement.
A quiet, considered man, he found expression in playing the piano and photography;
his family have many stunning photographs of their time in Africa.
SUTHERS, John (1957) died on 24 April 2011 aged 72.
John Suthers was born on 7 June 1938 in Manchester. He attended King Edward VI
Grammar School, Birmingham. After a year as an assistant at Birmingham University he
came up to Jesus in 1957 to read Natural Sciences, graduating BA 1960; MA 1964.
Following graduation he remained in Cambridge to study to be a teacher.
He married Alma. We do not have any further information to share about his later life.
SWINDELLS, Julia (1981) died on 29 October 2011 aged 60.
Julia Swindells was born in Macclesfield on 13 August 1951. She undertook her
undergraduate degree at the University of Leeds before moving to Goldsmiths,
University of London, to complete a postgraduate certificate in the teaching of English
and Drama. Four years teaching at Itchen Sixth Form College in Southampton followed.
She returned to London in 1978 to train as a journalist at City University, London.
Her true vocation, however, was in academia and so she came to Jesus in 1981 to
complete her doctorate in Victorian writing. After completion of her thesis she worked
for a number of institutions in adult, community and higher education before joining
Homerton College, Cambridge, in 1989. At Homerton, she was variously director of
studies for English, senior member and fellow. She left Homerton in 2006, after which
she became a Senior Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, where she was made a
Pofessor of English in 2010. Her major publications included Victorian Writing and
Working Women: the Other Side of Silence; The Uses of Autobiography; and Glorious Causes.
Beyond her working life she was a Labour party activist, a passion she shared with her
husband, Ben Bradnack. She had a strong commitment to women’s rights and was
therefore a natural choice to speak at the 25th anniversary of women entering Jesus.
When she spoke, she was standing in for her long-time friend, Lisa Jardine (1976).
Professor Jardine writes: "I had never encountered anyone of such total integrity, such
intensity of commitment and feeling, and such deeply lucid thoughts on politics …
Her sense of humour and her timing for a well-placed piece of irony were impeccable.
Her sense of fun was infectious…"
She and her husband had one daughter.
Professor Swindells took her own life while suffering a period of mental illness.

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TOWNSEND, John David Robertson (1942) died on 2 January 2012 aged 87.
John Townsend was born on 4 May 1924 in Dalhousie, India. Educated at Portsmouth
Southern School, he came up to Jesus in 1942 to read History. He graduated BA 1948;
MA 1950. Following graduation he remained in Cambridge for a year to train to be a
teacher. His first job was at a boys' grammar school in Hull and from 1956 to 1960 he
taught in the Midlands at Oldbury Grammar School. His third and final teaching post
was as Head of the History department and Head of Sixth Form at Thomas Bennett
School, Crawley, Sussex.
Throughout his life he was passionate about the past; following retirement he studied
both his family and local history. Always willing to share his knowledge, he gave talks to
local groups up to 2010 and worked as a guide at Shipley Windmill in Sussex. He also
worked on projects for the local archives office.
He married Joan Ellen Runcorn in 1951. They had a son and daughter together and
many years later divorced.
TROUGHTON, Alan James (1943) died on 7 April 2011 aged 86.
Alan Troughton was born on 2 April 1925 in Coventry. He came up from King Henry VIII
Grammar School, Coventry, in 1943 to read Mechanical Sciences. After two years study
he joined Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Limited where he worked on the
development of new types of aircraft. This work was allocated as National Service by the
Technical and Scientific Register of the Ministry of Labour and National Service, and so
he was granted an allowance of terms and permitted to graduate BA 1946; MA 1950.
Alan spent the next 43 years working on aircraft design as Armstrong Whitworth
merged with Hawker Siddeley which in turn merged with the British Aircraft
Corporation. He rose to become chief designer of the BAe ATP and was ATP Project
Development Executive at BAe Manchester. In his retirement from full-time employment
he was visiting Professor of Aerospace Design at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield.
He also served on the technical committee of the International Federation of
Airworthiness and became its Vice President (Technical) and Chairman in 1991.
He married Elma Doris Liegns in 1956.
TYLER, Robert Reginald (1952) died on 21 March 2011 aged 78.
We are grateful to Bob’s former pupil and colleague, Stephen Wilson (1966) for the
following:
“Bob Tyler was born on 30 April 1932 in Coventry. He was educated at King Henry VIII
School, serving as School Captain in his last year. After national service (which included
18 months in Army Intelligence in North Germany), he came up to Jesus in 1952 to read
Modern Languages; he always recalled studying under Trevor Jones, the outstanding
lexicographer of his generation and the most human of academics. He also sang in the
chapel choir and played sport. He graduated BA 1955; MA 1961. He completed the
post-graduate certificate in education before returning to his old school to teach.
He married Margaret in 1957 and they had a daughter and two sons; family life was
always very important to him. In 1965 Bob became Head of German at Harrow County
Grammar School and six years later moved to a similar position at Haberdashers’ Aske’s
Boys’ School, Elstree, where he subsequently served as a Housemaster and as Head of
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and provided a strong tenor voice in choirs and productions – Gilbert and Sullivan being
a particular favourite. His teaching was inspiring and noted for its clarity and precision.
He served as an O level chief examiner. In pastoral work his advice was wise and
relevant. In everything that he did, he offered hard work, good humour and seriousness,
loyalty and integrity. Bob retired early in 1988 because of sight problems (which were
alleviated by an operation some years later). In retirement in East Devon, he continued
his interests in gardening, crosswords (regularly winning competitions), reading and
music. With Margaret he was much involved in choral singing, and he served his local
community in many roles including Churchwarden of St Mary’s, Aylesbeare, blood
donation organiser, fundraiser and “Probus” Chairman.”
VICKERS, Denys Hedley (1947) died on 28 March 2011 aged 89.
Denys Vickers was born on 25 July 1921 in Goudhurst, Kent. Educated at Harrow he
served with No 4 Commando unit during the Second World War. After demobilisation
he studied at Durham University for a year before coming up to Jesus in 1947.
He left Jesus in 1948 with the good wishes of the college. He married Lyn and had
three children. We do not have any further information to share about his life after
college.
WHEELER, Anthony Reay (1945) died on 8 May 2012 aged 84.
Anthony Wheeler was born on 31 July 1927 in Sudbury. Educated at Sudbury Grammar
School he came up in 1945. He read English and Archaeology & Anthropology,
graduating BA 1948; MA 1952. He later studied for a Geography degree at London
University. Following National Service in the Royal Army Education Corps he joined the
Royal Grammar School, Worcester, as a schoolmaster. He remained at RGS until
stepping down as Second Master in 1987.
An active retirement followed, centred mainly round his church and his interest in
local history. He wrote Royal Grammar School Worcester 1950 to 1991 with Retrospect to 1291
(1990); History of William Wood House 15th Century to Present Day (1992); Sudbury Grammar
School Alumni 1900 to 1972 (1993); Kitchen, Barn & Spite Chapel (1996); What's in a name?
Origins of Sudbury street names (2012) and provided many fascinating talks to local history
groups. He was also a Freeman of Sudbury, Suffolk.
WHEWAY, Robert Alan (1949) died on 10 June 2011 aged 81.
Robin Wheway was born on 15 September 1929 in Walsall, Staffordshire. Educated at
Denstone College, Uttoxeter, he matriculated in 1949. He read Mechanical Sciences,
graduating BA 1952; MA 1956. His principal interest at Cambridge, apart from work,
was rifle-shooting; for which he gained a half-blue for full bore and a half-blue for
match rifle. It was his commitment to shooting which also led to him being the first
person to decline the presidency of the Roosters. The senior tutor described him as
having an “exceptionally attractive character, very easy to get on with and yet not lacking
in perception and discrimination.”
We are grateful to his wife, Gisela, for providing the following information about his
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“He worked in private industry running a chain making factory in Walsall in his early
years where he was also called to the bench as Justice of the Peace. He later served as
Industrial Liaison Officer at Aston University and then took up the post of Industrial
Development Officer for the City and County of West Glamorgan in Swansea until his
retirement in 1991. His lifelong passionate interest was in architecture, first kindled
amid the beauty of the historic buildings of Cambridge, which led him to become a life
member and active supporter of the National Trust. As a chartered engineer he was a
member of the South Wales Branch of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and
represented them on the Court of the University of Wales, College of Cardiff.”
He married Gisela Elisabeth Neven in 1963. They had two sons and a daughter.
WILLSALLEN, Thomas Peter (1933) died on 11 March 2011 aged 97.
Peter Willsallen was born on 9 March 1914 in Sydney, Australia. Educated at King’s
School, Paramatta, New South Wales, Australia, he came up in 1933 and read
Agriculture for two years. On his return to Australia he trained as a “jackaroo” and then
managed a family property “Widgeongully” at Jugiong between Yass and Gundagai in
New South Wales. In 1939, he formed the Jugiong branch of the Light Horse Brigade
and proudly signed up for Army service. Two months later he boarded the troop ship
“Orcades” in Sydney and sailed for action in the Middle East with the 6th Cavalry
Regiment. He was demobilised in 1945, having attained the rank of Major, and returned
to Widgeongully. In 1982, he sold the farm and moved to a nearby town before
eventually moving to Sydney.
We are grateful to Peter’s daughter, Georgina, for providing the following
information: “[my parents] sense of adventure led them, amongst other things, to
obtaining their private pilots licences. In 1970 the purchase of a twin engine Cessna 310
enabled them to fly, with another couple, to England and back to Sydney. On his several
trips to the UK over the years my father kept in touch with his Cambridge friends.
My sister and I were regaled with stories of his Australian friends at [University].”
One of those Australian friends, Hugh MacMaster, became his brother-in-law when
he married Elizabeth Georgina Ann MacMaster in 1943. Peter and Elizabeth went on to
have two daughters.
WOOD, Alan Dudley (1943) died on 30 August 2011 aged 84.
Alan Wood was born on 10 February 1926 in Shenfield, Essex. Educated at City of
London School, he came up in 1943 to read Mathematics, graduating BA 1946. As with
many war time students, he did not complete the usual nine terms but was given an
“allowance of terms” due to being engaged with Pye Limited, a radio company, on work
of National Importance.
We are grateful to Alan’s goddaughters and one of his friends for providing the
following:
“Alan was an enlightening and enthusiastic Maths Teacher from the 1950s to the early
1990’s. He taught at both the Commercial Travellers School in Pinner, and at
Haberdashers, he was also School Choirmaster. Alan had many interests including
choral music, astronomy, long boating, gardening, swimming and walking. He was
a very well-liked and respected man [with a] good sense of humour and cheerful
nature.”

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YATES, Kenneth Harry Aubert Thomas (1936) died on 22 October 2011 aged 93.
Kenneth Yates was born on 8 December 1917 in Northampton. Educated at
Northampton Town and County School, he came up to Jesus in 1936 to read Natural
Sciences with an exhibition, graduating BA 1939; MA 1943. At college he was hard
working, conscientious and rated highly for all-round capability. After graduation he
taught Chemistry at Stamford School, followed by Wellingborough School, before
moving to The King’s School, Canterbury, as Head of Chemistry in 1949. He remained at
King’s for the rest of his career, becoming Head of Science in 1969, and retiring in 1980.
He was also a Chemistry examiner with UCLES for many years. He had a deep faith and
gave great service to his local Methodist church.
He married Clarice Mary Wood in 1949 and they had one daughter. ■

Awards
& Results

Awards
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University Prizes, Grants and Scholarships, and External Awards
Schiff Studentship in Engineering Tina Schwamb
The Smith-Knight and Rayleigh-Knight Prize 2012 Megan S Davies Wykes
for PhD in Pure Mathematics & Mathematical
Statistics
University Tripos Prizes
The David Roberts Memorial Prize Ben Strak
The PricewaterhouseCoopers Prize Alison R Andrew
The Civil Engineers Prize for Soil Mechanics Clara K Seah
The Anthony Dorrell Prize for Russian Tom H Rothwell
The D. H. Green Prize Daniel Taylor
The BP Prize for Outstanding Performance in Part IB
Chemistry A
Alexandra S Lubin
The Sir Alan Cottrell Prize in Materials Science and
Metallurgy
Thomas E J Edwards
The Junior Scholefield Prize (Theology Part IIA) Rebecca J Lloyd
College Awards, Elections and Prizes
The Raymond and Helen Kwok Research Scholarship:
Mr Xuzhen He to study for a PhD in Engineering, supervised by Dr Dongfang Liang
(2012)
The David M Livingstone (Australia) Scholarship:
Mr David O’Loughlin to study for a Master of Law (LLM) in the Faculty of Law
(from October 2012)
Mr Angus O’Brien to study for a Master of Law (LLM) in the Faculty of Law
(from October 2012)
The inaugural Avago Scholarship:
Mr Liang Geng continues with his studies for a PhD in Engineering, supervised by
Professor Richard Penty (from October 2009)
The Gurnee Hart Scholarship 2011:
Mr Qiaosheng Dong studying for a PhD in Classics (October 2011)
The Goh & Coupe Scholarship 2011:
Miss Kathryn Crowcroft studying for a PhD in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
(October 2011)
The Embiricos Award 2011:
Mr Evangelos Papoutsellis to study for a PhD in Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics
supervised by Dr Carola Schoenlieb
Choral Scholarships:
Jessica L Ballance, Maximillian Cockerill, Elizabeth Edwards, Eleanor C Holroyd,
Toby Miller, Michael Mofidian, Thomas H Rothwell, Andrew Stratton

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Rawlison-Hadfield Graduate Choral Scholarships:
Emma Pauncefort (Fitzwilliam)
Instrumental Exhibitions:
Timothy F Coombes (cello), Elizabeth Edwards (cello), Kim C Liu (piano),
Hester M Mulhall (cello), George Salimbeni (piano), Grace Smith (piano)
Edward Daniel Clarke Travel Bursary:
Sam S F Green
James Baddeley Poole Bursaries:
Simon Banner, Alice F Crocket, James J M E Hooper, Jasmine R Sawyer
Sir Moses and Lady Finley Travel Bursaries:
Julie A Lawrence, Ambroise R D R Fargère
Jesus College Cambridge Society Travel Bursaries:
Christopher T Blucke, Clementine Chambon, Hugo O Jones, Kim C Liu, Kyan M Pucks,
Felix D Styles
Sir James Knott Bursary:
Mark J Cullen
Sir Robbie Jennings Fund:
Alexander Baillie-Hitchcock, Colin R Danskin, Rebecca A Ferriman, András Kapuvári,
Matthew J O’Kane, Christopher P Ruck, George White, Dean Williams
Alan Pars Theatre Fund:
Lauren Stevens, Alexis Kreager
Alan Burrough Grant for Rowing:
Caroline M Reid
Douglas Timmins Grants for Sports:
Kaladerhan Agbontaen (Basketball/Athletics), Samuel Ashcroft (Cross Country),
András Kapuvári (Water Polo), Jade I Lane (Netball), Heather Reynolds (Archery),
Amelia S Tearle (Football), Dawn Wilkinson (Sailing – Team Racing)
Scholarships for Graduate Students (awarded in Michaelmas 2011 for 2010-2011 results):
Neil M Amin-Smith, Nina Andreeva, Maxwell Battle, Dr Maxim G Bloomfield,
Liesbeth Corens, Darren Craig, James A Crawshaw, Rory W Davidson,
Machteld T de Vos, Dexter Dias, Bettina D Dreyer, Madeleine L Geddes-Barton,
Maria Guerra Arias, Renée Hale, John N Harding, James Jiang, Amiel J E Kestenbaum,
Charlotte Langley, Jonathan L D Lawson, Charles R Melvoin, Moreno Mitrovic,
George B Owers, He Qi, Umer Shabbir, Jacqueline Stenson, Derek P Traynor,
Amy E Watson, Daniel N Whitelock, William Y L Wu, Yuan C Zhang
Scholarships:
Rupert C H Allison, Alison R Andrew, Ifedolapo Apampa, Thomas P Arnold-Forster,
Laura T Axinte, David J Barker, Matthew Barr, Christopher J Belfield,
Rowan D Brackston, Alice M R Boughton, Elliott H Bussell, Clementine Chambon,
Rachel Chapman, John L Chen, Madhurima R Chetan, Alexandra R H F Chua-Short,
Jessica M Clough, Mark J Cullen, Ewan Davies, Katie L Davies, Michael J Dawes,
Natalie E Dennehy, Maximillian L D Drinkwater, Thomas E J Edwards, Faith E Ege,
Angharad J T Everden, Tara M Finegan, Donald Futers, Hannah E S Gelbart,
Olivia R Ghosh, Rose I G Gibbins, Anneliese Gilchrist, Matthew M Graham,

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Owen D Graham, Toby J C Green, Christopher Hall, Georgia Haseldine,
Leonard Q Hasenclever, Kristian S Hewett, Thomas R Hill, Megan E Hughes,
Samuel R Hyatt-Twynam, Richard M Johnson, Samuel B Johnston, Hugo O Jones,
Eleanor Kendrick, Haydn J King, Alexandre F Kite, Adam P S Lawrence,
Benjamin G Layer, Adrian L H Li, Timothy Lim, Kim C Liu, Rebecca J Lloyd,
James A Lofthouse, Alexandra S Lubin, Laura L MacLean, Ayaz Manji, Luke C Marris,
Lauren J Matthews, Benjamin McDonald, Juliette M McIntyre, Timothy A Middleton,
Milhan I Mohamed, Alexander B Morris, Natasha Nussbaum, Katherine O’Byrne,
Marie-Louise O’Connor, Nicholas C A Parkes, Laura A Parkman, Daniel J Peacock,
Geoffrey Penington, Oliver Rees, Thomas H Rothwell, Lee Robinson,
Thomas G Russell, Mark A Salmon, Joseph M Sanderson, Katie L Sandford,
Stephanie J Schohl, Clara K Seah, Sapumal J Senanayake, Emily C Sheen,
Maximillian J M Shepherd, Qian Shi, Michael C Simpson, Andrew J Singleton,
Mark Southall, Tanne G Spielman, Harry D Tayler, Daniel Taylor, Mark van der Wilk,
Sarah Vose, Anna R L Wilson, Kieran Wilson, Benjamin J Windsor, Charlotte M Wood,
Thomas J Wood, Edward A S Wyncoll
Exhibitions:
Joseph Baxter, Christopher de Leeuwe, Oliver Exton, Ryo Harada, Lloyd Hilton,
William Jones, Stephen Joseph, Mikolaj A Kowalski, Alexis Kreager, Christopher Lark,
Toby Miller, Michael Mofidian, Lawrence A L Paleschi, Jennifer Parkin,
Amorette Perkins, Gonzalo Ramos, Cai Read, Michael D Rees, Jon Sanders,
Andrew Stratton, Kai Y Tan, Nelson Tang, Oliver M Taylor, Barnabas J Walker,
Hannah F Waxman, Matilda C Wnek, Shang-Wei Ye
Prizes:
Senior Keller Clara K Seah
Timothy Lim
Keller Lee Robinson
Laura A Parkman
Joseph M Sanderson
Sapumal J Senanayake
Benefactor’s (2004) Alison R Andrew
Madhurima R Chetan
Angharad J T Everden
Rebecca J Lloyd
Alexandra S Lubin
Benjamin McDonald
Geoffrey Penington
Kieran Wilson
Sir Leslie Martin (Architecture) Natasha Nussbaum
Farrell (Greek Studies) Maximillian L D Drinkwater
Carruthers (Computer Studies Part IA) Toby Miller
Carruthers (Computer Studies Part IB) David J Barker
Malthus Economics Alison R Andrew
Malthus PPS Ben McDonald
Evans (Engineering Part IA) Andrew Stratton
Engineers’ (Part IB) Adrian L H Li
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English) Donald Futers
Newling (History Part I) Hugo O Jones
Schiff (History Part II) Laura L MacLean

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Glanville Williams (LL.M.) Milhan I Mohamed
Bronowski (Mathematics Part IA) Michael D Rees
Ware (Mathematics Part IB) Edward A S Wyncoll
Sir Harold Spencer Jones (Mathematics Part II) Ewan Davies
R A Watchman (Mathematics Part III) Andrew J Singleton
Eliot (MML Part II) Olivia R Ghosh
James Perrett (Medical Sciences Part IA) William Jones
Hadfield Anatomy (Medical Sciences Part IA) Oliver M Taylor
Duckworth Madhurima R Chetan
Hadfield Medical Sciences (MVST Part II) Laura T Axinte
Roberts (Pathology) Angharad J T Everden
Wellings (Natural Sciences Part IA) Geoff Penington
Longden (Natural Sciences Part IB) Alexandra S Lubin
John Gulland (Natural Sciences Parts IA and IB) Faith E Ege
John Gulland (Natural Sciences Part II) Timothy Lim
Sir Alan Cottrell (Natural Sciences (Physical) Chemistry: Nicholas C A Parkes
Part II or Part III) Physics: Rupert C H Allison
Duncan McKie (Natural Sciences Part II or III) Physics: James A Lofthouse
Geology: Timothy A Middleton
Corrie and Otter (Theology and Religious Studies) Rebecca J Lloyd
Valérie Tyssens (MML Part I: French Language) Thomas G Russell
G F Hart (History Prelims to Part I) Patricia-May Wyllie
Gilbertson Prize Sian K Owen
Hogan Lovells (Law Part IA) Kieran Wilson
Hogan Lovells (Law Part IB) Rachael L Chapman
Glanville Williams (Law Part II) Joseph M Sanderson
Russell Vick Laura A Parkman
Reid-Henry (Geography) Simon D J Pratt
Sir Peter Gadsden Zelie C F Wood
Crighton (Music) Louisa K N Dawes
Gray Reading Prizes Chapel: Timothy A Middleton
Hall: Alexander D Walker
James Hadfield (for contributing most to medical (pre-clinical Medicine):
and veterinary studies in the College) Cyrus Daruwalla
(Clinical Veterinary Medicine):
Josephine E M Brant
Margaret Mair Choral Sapumal J Senanayake
Morgan (English essay) Lucinda E K Higgie
Prawer (Dramatic Criticism) Rachel E Bryan
Edwin Stanley Roe (for an essay on Charles Katherine B Wakely-Mulroney
Dickens)
Sir Denys Page Award (for Classics Benjamin H P Brooks
students to travel to Greece) Maximillian L D Drinkwater
Renfrew (for the most significant contribution Rebecca Burns
to the musical life of the College)
Waring Award (for sporting achievement) Caroline M Reid
Thian Anna R L Wilson
College Prizes:
Archaeology & Anthropology (BA) Part I Hannah F Waxman

Architecture Part II Daniel J Peacock
Chemical Engineering Part IIA Clementine Chambon
Classics Part II Maximillian L D Drinkwater
Economics Part I Oliver Exton
Economics Part IIB Lee Robinson
Engineering Part IIA Rowan D Brackston
Engineering Part IIB Sapumal J Senanayake
English Prelims to Part I Matilda C Wnek
English Part I Alice M R Boughton
Management Studies Charlotte M Wood
MVST Part IB John L Chen
Angharad J T Everden
Anna R L Wilson
Final Veterinary Examination Part III Katie A Curtis
Modern & Medieval Languages Part IA Thomas H Rothwell
Thomas G Russell
Modern & Medieval Languages Part IB Hannah E S Gelbart
Music Part IA Alexander B Morris
Natural Sciences (Physical) Part IA Elliott H Bussell
Natural Sciences (Physical) Part IA Rose I G Gibbins
Natural Sciences (Biological) Part IA Kim C Liu
Natural Sciences (Physics) Part IB Thomas E J Edwards
Philosopy Part IA Alexis Kreager
Philosopy Part IB Ayaz Manji
Politics, Psychology & Sociology Part I Amorette Perkins
Politics, Psychology & Sociology Part IIB Ifedolapo Apampa
Tripos Results
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2012 2011 2010
Number of Examinations taken 499 495 496
Number obtaining First Class (or stars) 117 124 94
Number obtaining Second Class (Upper) 239 219 245
Number obtaining Second Class (Lower) 54 52 56
Number obtaining Second Class (Undivided) 31 30 34
Number obtaining Third Class 7 15 16
This year the college had about 800 students (no two ways of counting them gives the
same number). There were approximately 475 undergraduates in residence, 22 of
whom came from other countries in the European Union and 14 from other overseas
countries. There were around 145 in each of the first three years and 62 in the fourth.
Ten undergraduates were abroad for the year. There were 324 students in the graduate
community at 1 October 2011 of whom 75 PhD students were in their 4th and 5th or
more years who were writing up, preparing for vivas or waiting for degree approval
(‘under examination’).

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PhDs
J T Ansorge, The technics of politics: Information technology in international relations
M R Arbabzadah, Greek-Latin bilingualism in ancient magic
C Bay, Dynamic holographic masks for adaptive optical lithography
S Besemer, Intergenerational transmission of criminal and violent behaviour
R L D Campbell, Thermodynamic properties of a Bose gas with tuneable interactions
Y Chen, Probabilistic frameworks for single view reconstruction using shape priors
L P Collins, Making sense: Art and aesthetics in contemporary French thought
J F K Cooper, Electrodeposition, magnetism and growth studies of colbalt, nickel and copper
P B Cranwell, Towards the total synthesis of leustroducsin B
J M Diego, Mantecón Clarifying the field of student mathematics-related beliefs: developing
measurement scales for 14/15-year-old students across Bratislava, Cambridgeshire, Cantabria,
and Cyprus
M Ganofsky, Night in eighteenth-century French libertine fiction
C M Geissler, 'Die schwarze Ware': Transatlantic slavery and abolitionism in German Writing,
1789-1871
Q Gong, Integrated power conversion circuit for radio frequency energy harvesting
P W Gordon, Development of a scanning fluid dynamic gauge for cleaning studies
S Guldin, Inorganic nanoarchitectures by organic self-assembly
S C Haines, A study of charged B - DK and B - Dpi decays with the LHCb experiment
S L Harding, Azadirachtin: Towards a second generation synthesis
J Hartmann, Transnational counter-terrorism co-operation and world order
L J Henson, Solid oxide fuel cells
P Hiralal Popat, 1-dimensional nanomaterials for energy generation and storage
S R Holmes, Powder metallurgy dual alloy disk solutions
A B Horwath, Epiphytic bryophytes as cloud forest indicators: Stable isotopes, biomass and
diversity along an altitudinal gradient in Peru
N A Jackson, Dialogue and spiritual formations: form and content in early Christian texts
S C James, The "Cambridge School" in the history of political thought, 1948-1979
C H Laing, Print, prayer, and presence: Constance Padwick's model for Christian encounter with Islam
K M Leckie, Collecting Swiss lake-dwellings in Britain 1850-1900
J Li, Use of expended bed adsorption (EBA) to purify natural products from plant scources
S Mahmoud, The Paradigmatic nature of the 'Ritual Prayer' (Salat) in Ibn 'Arabi
P Nahai Williamson, Tuning ordered states in transition metal chalcogenide systems
C P O’Rourke, Models, artistes and photoplayers: The film actor in Britain, 1895-1929
C Ouellet-Plamondon, Characterisation and performance of innovative aluminosilicates for soil
mix technology permeable reactive barriers
J Quintard, Towards a worldwide storage infrastructure
R A V Robison, Turbulence ingestion noise of open rotors
D Santhanakrishnan, An integrated system for conceptional design of space systems
S R L Stacpoole, Generation of human oligodendrocytes from embryonic stem cells: An experimental
tool and potential therapy for Multiple Sclerosis
C Sun, Non-covalent bonding at the solid-liquid interface
B J Tolley, Identifying molecular determinants of C4 photosynthesis
A Tran Viet, Temperature-sensitive polymers in porous media
F Viola, Resolution-independent image models
L S Williams, Analysis of kinesin-1 function in vivo
D J Wilson, Investigating Nd and Pb isotopes as paleoceanographic proxies in the Indian Ocean:
influences of water mass sourcing and boundary exchange
A M Young, Tip-clearance effects in axial compressors ■

Events

Jesus College Cambridge Society
Committee
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1977 Professor I H White (Ian)
(President and Chairman)
Officers First Elected
1960 M R HADFIELD (Trustee) (Max) 2006
1963 J MARSHALL (Jim) 2005
(Hon. Dinner Secretary)
1969 D H WOOTTON (Trustee) (David) 2008
1969 C I KIRKER (Trustee) (Christopher) 2012
1970 A D C GREENWOOD (Adrian) 1998
(Hon. Secretary)
1971 T SLATOR (Hon. Treasurer) (Tom) 2002
1998 Dr J P T CLACKSON (James) 2004
(College Council Rep.)
1999 Dr V MOTTIER (Véronique) 2006
(College Council Rep.)
Year Representatives
1962 J G ROSS-MARTYN (John) 2009-2013
1979 S R DAVIS (Shane) 2009-2013
2001 A R I NEWMAN (Anush) 2009-2013
2001 S L GICK (Sophie) 2009-2013
2000 R S BROWN (Rory) 2010-2014
1976 M P HAYES (Mark) 2010-2014
1997 J P McGINTY (John) 2010-2014
1987 M P VOS (Mariel) 2010-2014
1971 A R C KERSHAW (Alan) 2011-2015
1994 N G BAVIDGE (Nathan) 2011-2015
1999 V A SAXTON (Victoria) 2011-2015
2003 A WATSON (Adam) 2011-2015
1977 R M ALLON-SMITH (Richard) 2012-2016
1980 S J YATES (Joanne) 2012-2016
1987 A H MARTIN (Alison) 2012-2016
2002 V ARMSTRONG (Verity) 2012-2016
2000 R J P DENNIS (Richard) Co-opted
Annual General Meeting 29 September 2012
The Annual General Meeting of the Jesus College Cambridge Society took place on
Saturday 29 September 2012 at Mansion House, London at 6.15pm, courtesy of the Lord
Mayor of London. The Master, Professor Ian White, was in the chair. Some forty-five
members of the Society were present, including the Lord Mayor, David Wootton, plus
guests. Six members of the Executive Committee had sent apologies for absence.
Minutes
The minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 24 September 2011 were approved
and signed as a correct record.

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Matters Arising
The Secretary reported that the 2012 Annual Report was in the course of preparation and
should be distributed in November. It should contain the minutes of this meeting and a
report of the dinner.
Secretary’s Report
The Honorary Secretary reported the details of the six JCCS Travel Bursaries awarded in
2012 and a letter of thanks received from the President of the JCSU for the grant to them.
During the year Mike Fairey had stepped down as Trustee after 9 years in office and had
been replaced by Christopher Kirker. There would be 375 members and guests
attending the 2012 Dinner, a record for a recent JCCS dinner. The meeting agreed to
record a vote of thanks to the Dinner Secretary, Jim Marshall, and his wife Patricia for all
their hard work in preparing for the dinner. Music would be provided during the dinner
by undergraduates of the College playing in the Gallery.
Treasurer’s Report
The audited accounts to 31/12/2011 showed a surplus of £1,557, partly reflecting the
decision in 2010 to increase the life-time subscription of £15. The accumulated fund
stood at £76,007. The Society had been able to award Travel Bursaries of £3,000 as well
as to donate £2,500 to the JCSU. Investments were shown at cost. There had been both
sales and new purchases during the year to increase dividend income at £3,421. The
meeting agreed to receive the accounts.
Appointment of Auditor
The meeting agreed to appoint N. J. Mitchell F.C.A. as auditor for 2012.
Dinner Arrangements for 2013
The Secretary announced that the 2013 Annual Dinner would take place in College on
Saturday 28 September 2013. It would be black tie and would revert to one guest per
member. Tickets would go on sale in May 2013. The Guest of Honour would be the
Rt. Hon. Andrew Mitchell MP (1975).
Election of Officers
The meeting agreed to elect for one year Adrian Greenwood as Honorary Secretary,
Tom Slator as Honorary Treasurer and Jim Marshall as Dinner Secretary.
Executive Committee
The meeting agreed to elect the following as Members of the Executive Committee to
serve for 4 years in succession to those retiring by rotation: Richard Allon-Smith (1977),
Joanne Yates (1980), Alison Martin (1987) and Verity Armstrong (2002). The retiring
members were thanked for their contribution, especially Alice Foster who was
organising the singing of Grace by a volunteer choir of diners at the beginning of the
Mansion House dinner.
Any Other Business
The Honorary Secretary encouraged those present to attend the Spring Dinner at the
Oxford and Cambridge Club on 20 April 2013 and the buffet lunch to be held in the
Fellows’ garden on 15 June 2013. This latter event was well suited to family parties as
there was no limit on the number of guests. The event also coincides with the last day of
the May Races. A Drinks Reception would be organised for November 2013 in London.
Date of next year’s AGM
Saturday 28 September 2013 in College before the Annual Dinner. The University
Alumni weekend would take place on September 27–29.

Reports of JCCS Events 2011-2012
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Reception at the Athenaeum 17 November 2011
The JCCS London Reception took place on the 17 November 2011 at the Athenaeum and
was attended by 102 Jesuans and their guests.
JCCS Buffet Lunch 16 June 2012
The 2012 Buffet Lunch was once again a very enjoyable experience with many heading
afterwards to the river to watch the afternoon’s racing.
JCCS Annual Dinner 29 September 2012
It is a remarkable fact, and one that should cause us no surprise, that three of the
Lord Mayors of London over the last thirty years or so have been Jesuans: the late
Sir Peter Gadsden (1949) in 1980, Sir Alan Traill (1958) in 1985 and, this year,
David Wootton (1969). Like his predecessors, David very kindly invited the Society to
hold our Annual Dinner at the Mansion House and consented to be our Guest of
Honour. This was also the first Annual Dinner at which the Master, Ian White (1977),
President of the Society, presided.
The Egyptian Hall at the Mansion House has nearly 3 times the capacity of the College
Hall where we normally hold the Annual Dinner. Would we be able to fill the Mansion
House? In the event, all the tickets were sold within a fortnight. We sat down 375, the
most popular Annual Dinner on record, and the biggest turn-out for a Mansion House
dinner for some time.
Jesuans from 6 decades were well represented, including 6 from the 1940s. There was
a particularly strong contingent from David Wootton’s generation of rowers – David was
Captain of the 1972 Mays Boat, the last time Jesus men came Head of the River. As many
of David’s fellow crew members as could attend did so. And, as usual, we had the
The JCCS Committee

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pleasure of welcoming many guests. We began with sung grace from the Gallery,
performed by Jesuans attending the dinner. And we were splendidly entertained during
the meal by renaissance and baroque music played by a brass quintet of undergraduate
musicians from the College.
Flowers in Jesus colours adorned the tables, which were lit by massive silver
candelabra. The Mansion House staff served an exquisite dinner with a combination of
awesome efficiency and attentive friendliness.
Proposing the health of the Guest of Honour, the Society’s Secretary Adrian
Greenwood (1970) noted that this had been a remarkable mayoral year, with David
Wootton playing a prominent role in ceremonies accompanying the Queen’s Jubilee,
and subsequently the Olympic Games. In addition to these duties, the Lord Mayor had
been actively promoting the economy, and the City’s role in it, at home and abroad,
making some 700 speeches. Adrian thanked all those who had contributed to making
the dinner such a success, including our sponsors, the School for Creative Startups,
Cubitt Consulting, and Cyance, as well as the Lord Mayor for contributing the port.
In proposing the health of the College, the Lord Mayor recalled his Yorkshire roots
and his time at Jesus, focussing on the importance of rowing. His fellow winning crew
members were compelled to stand and take a bow, to prolonged applause. He
acknowledged the high profile nature of his role, saying that he knew he had arrived
when, as a result of his involvement in the Jubilee, he had appeared in the pages of
“Hello”. The pace was pretty hectic, but it had been a great opportunity to engage with
British businesses and trading partners world-wide, as well as the extraordinary range of
charitable work supported by the City.
In his response, the Master expressed the warm appreciation of everyone present for
having been invited to hold the Annual Dinner at the Mansion House. He went on to give
an insight into the College’s principal activities over the past year, including
achievements both sporting and academic. He was very positive about the College’s
prospects on both fronts in the year to come.
Patricia and Jim Marshall David Wootton

The consensus as we left was that we had had a wonderful and memorable experience.
Not, we confide, a unique one – we all look forward to the election of the next Jesuan
Lord Mayor.
The Society are already planning the next two dinners. The first will be held in London
on Saturday 20 April 2013 when we shall be entertained once more in the glittering
premises of the Oxford and Cambridge Club in Pall Mall. And for our next Annual
Dinner to be held on Saturday 28 September 2013 we shall be making a happy return to
the College. Invitations to apply for these dinners will be sent out by the Development
Office in January 2013 and May 2013 respectively.
Jim Marshall
JCCS Dinner Secretary
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JCCS Travel Bursaries
This year, travel bursaries were awarded to Christopher Blucke, Clementine Chambon,
Hugo Jones, Kim Liu, Kyan Pucks and Felix Styles.
Forthcoming JCCS Events
20 April 2013 JCCS Spring Dinner at the Oxford and Cambridge Club
15 June 2013 JCCS Buffet Lunch on Bumps Saturday
28 September 2013 JCCS Annual Dinner and AGM in College

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College Events
‘50 Years On’ Anniversary Lunch 9 November 2011
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1961 and their spouses to
lunch in college on 9 November 2011. The following accepted this invitation:
S A K Anderson, C J Arnold, M M Austin, P L Brown, M T Coulton, P T C Cox,
M Durrell, M C A Eaton, G J Edwards, D G Fairley, J L Finney, M W Gardiner,
M R Hadfield, D K S Irving, C Johnson, M J Lane, M J Lord, S J Miller, R S Palmer,
R J Pankhurst, R M Potter, A Rae, B J Riley, T M Southern, M J Stevenson,
N A Strauss, M Takahashi, D R Tant, J V Terry, J F J Toye, E P Turney, A R Windows
‘60 Years On’ Anniversary Lunch 23 November 2011
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1951 and their spouses to
lunch in college on 23 November 2011. The following accepted this invitation:
H Butler, R Cutteridge, T C Dann, P A Johnson, B S P Jones, M B R Mathalone,
J A Mathews, M H S Muller, W B Page, M R Pattinson, S J Robinson, J H Rowsell,
R H K Stephens, G J Tayar, D B Wakefield, G C Watson, J M Watt
Reunion Dinner 13 January 2012
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1976, 1977 and 1978 to dine in
college on 13 January 2012. The following accepted this invitation:
D G Jones (1975); N I Ayton, I N Back, R S Bassett, J D Belcher, S J Bending,
P A Bense, D R Bentley, J F Birkett, R J Butter, D M Carrington, D J A Casserley,
J K G Coad, W O A Coales, R A Collins, A R D’Arcy, D C C Dodd, C A Farrell,
N A Fleck, J C Foy, A C Frost, J A Fry, S M Gordon, J P Hancock, M D Harding,
G R Harper, N J W Hartley, M P Hayes, N Hopkinson, A Iles, M Joannes, A R Jones,
H J Lack, R S Lander, S G Leegood, P B Marshall, R G Mescall, J P Midgley,
N Morrison, M Nicholls, J M C Plane, J D Richardson, J P Shinton, R K Stobart,
C H Streuli, P W Swanson, S P Tibble, Robin Tolson, C J Trickey, N S Walker,
C G Ward, P S Woods, S J Wrigley (1976); R M Allon-Smith, J E Atwell, N Barnard,
R H S Birkett, S S Birkett, D H P Brady, N R Britteon, N R Cellan-Jones, S Coltman,
S R Cook, P M Cooper, J F Dean, J M Dickens, J A Dowdeswell, N S Ellis, M D Evans,
M R Fanthorpe, S P Fletcher, A S Frankenburg, C H Gallagher, A T Gilchrist,
C F Gilderdale, C D Goddard, S M D Goodfellow, M J Hall, J P Halsey, D G Heggie,
S N Hillson, J R Hurst, P K James, S R Marriott, R W E Marsh, C H Moore,
S J Mullock, J V Naunton Davies, S J Paget-Brown, K J Poole, D I Rawlinson,
S J Reynolds, H R Shaw, R B Smith, M J A Stafferton, R D Tauwhare, D N Taylor,
M C Taylor, C E Tuckwell, R L Upton, M V Waterman, S I T Waters, A M Wenban,
I H White, J L Whiteman, M J Wilshire, R Withnall (1977); C D Barnard, A T H Brook,
A J Chmaj, J R D Corrie, T S Couzens, J A F Cowderoy, P R Durrant, M H Etheridge,
S R Gales, D M R Gray Stephens, C K Huggins, I C Kemp, B S Knight, T M Lloyd,
A S McClay, S A T McGill, P S Oakes, M J Pavier, A G Phillips, A R Phillips,
M R H Pickup, V T Purton, G W Rees, C M Reily, R W Rogers, Canon M F Rusk,
G K Sankaran, C P Sowden, S R Spindler, A M Teague, E B Tompkins,
C J Wigglesworth, S A Woodward (1978)

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Glanville Williams Society Reception 29 February 2012
The eleventh Glanville Williams Society Reception was held in the Reading Room at the
Law Society on 29 February 2012. The following Jesuans connected with Law attended
the event:
R D Bartle (1949); M J Booth, W G Park (1959); B A Fireman (1963); R M Jackson,
C M Treacy (1967); W Allan, G N Clayton (1968); P Crook, N P Ready (1971);
J P Wotton (1972); G W Hoon (1973); C K Roberts (1974); S M Gordon,
B A K Rider (1976); S J Paget-Brown (1977); R J Cowper (1978); S S Bhakar,
D V Gibbs (1984); R B Ulph (1986); A Kay (1991); R A Stocks (1993); A J Evans (1995);
J J McNae (1996); O K De Groot, J E Doak, N J Mackay, I J Hudson, J A Thackray
(1997); C M Hawes, A E Coultas, K C Wilford (1998); O P Markham, M E Page (1999);
R S Brown (2000); S J Day, R W Turney (2001); H E Burns, R P Hartley,
L A Humphries, J G Macpherson, R C McDougall, C T Singleton (2002); J A Chervak,
A L De Lorenzo, R Evans, M J Naylor, M E Rees, N D J Robinson (2003); E M Davies,
K P Mawdsley, M Thompson (2004); J A Graetsch, D M Jarrett, J P S Newman (2005);
S R Haria-Shah, D J G Hay, D J Sharples, M A Thorne, Y Zhu (2006); A Abraham,
D C M Lafferty, A E Sarvarian, B R H Shanks-St John (2007); M J Cullen, J S M Sinyor
(2008); A Gordon, O F Harris, C Orphanides, L A Parkman, J M Sanderson (2009);
S J Butler, S J Butler, I S M Campion, R L Chapman, E E Cridland, J T R Lai,
K M Pucks, C M Rogers, R S Whittaker, T R Worrall (2010); R A Bhatt,
A R Bulchandani, G Churchhouse, S Y Fan, J Fisher, H Jolliffe, E Mellor, M Pelton,
K Wilson, G White (2011)
MA Dinner 23 March 2012
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 2005 to dine in college on
Friday 23 March prior to their MA ceremony the next day. The following accepted this
invitation:
R H Abbott, A P Acred, R J Amaratunga, R A Armstrong, J S Baddeley,
P W M Benson, A E Bezzer, A Blackadder, F Bowen Day, L D Bowers, A D Boyd,
A G Bradbury, C L A Briance, D V Brudenell, S K Burnand, E J Carter, J R J Charlick,
S T Clemo, C Comberti, N D Cross, W D Crouch, R W L Davies, A C A Dessain,
R Ding, L C D Fielding, C Finneral, A G Golding, J A Graetsch, M D Gregoire,
A J Hackney, J J Hale, N E Hall, G E C Hamilton, W P Harnden, E Hayashi,
M M Hoehl, D J Hollinshead, R A Homer, J H Houghton, F A Hughes,
J F Hutcherson, J L Illingworth, R J Ingham, M Jagger, J W James, D M Jarrett,
C J F Jones, I A S Jones, L K Kelly, D Kelly, C J Kennedy, M J Kim, M J King,
S Kiwanuka, C H J Kurwie, C N Lewis, E P Lowth, A L Mack, G E Mann,
G E Marshall, N Moonka, B G Moores, C J Morris, E K Mottram, J C D Mumford,
J P S Newman, J L Nicholson, C J Nixon, T D O’Beirne, A S O'Brien, W A Okell,
V Parisinou, G M Patton, W D Pearse, J M Pemberthy, L N Rhodes, R L Rhodes,
L A Richardson, A E Ritchie, M P Robinson, E Rouse, K Saigal, R P Saunders,
J C G Savage, B R Sherlock, C C Shotton, C M Sibley, D L Silvester, A Singh,
R Singhal, N J Smith, C Squires, P C Strachan, R I Stuart, S Telalagic, J A Thomas,
T J R Verrill, A Walker, R J Wallduck, T J Walton, A D G Ward, J L Wear,
M A Whittaker, K E Whittaker, D R Wilkins, Z J Williams, S J Wood, N L Wright,
Y Wu, J A G Wyatt, K J Young, A T Zhang

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Reunion Dinner 30 March 2012
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1966, 1967 and 1968 to dine in
college on 30 March 2012. The following accepted this invitation:
D J Alden, R W Allchin, S E Barr, R Billingham, D G R Bussey, K E Crawford,
A W Darby, C R L de Chassiron, D R Drabble, T J Duffy, J R Eborall, R W Evans,
D P Frith, E S Funnell, P Gelling, A B Gillham, N E F Griffiths, Stephen Hockman,
R F W Holder, P M Hollins, R B Huyshe, C L James, W J Jenkins, P G Kauders,
R D Linsell, C Martin, C J M Meade, R E Milne, L I Moody, J D Pike, K P Punshon,
R H Richards, P T Tanner, P M Terry, D A R Williams, S Wilson, K J Wood,
A G P Wright (1966); R Avery, A C G Brown, P Burnham, P J Carr, G L Collins,
J I Dunnett, D M Elliott, S P Ferguson, S I Fitzgerald, S W Gilley, R J Haygreen,
S M Hill, R S Hughes, R M Jackson, K Q F Manning, M F R Martin, J C Mason,
K McGuirk, R A McKee, M R Messham, G L O’Neill, D E Perchard, P J Phair,
N G B Reid, C A P Reynard, G Ritchie, R C Shrimplin, J R S Smith, L Steele, R J Taunt,
S R Tilsley, D Turner, S E Vick, J G Williams (1967); M J Allchin, C C Bradbury,
G N Clayton, J H Connolly, P I Day, A H Dingley, S M Evans, A J Fewster, M W Finnis,
P J Fok, M S Freeland, R D Hull, B V Karp, S J Kern, G C Killingworth, G I Kirkbride,
D J J Mackenzie, W F Mason, R T Nokes, R T Norris, K Penfold, R D Penn,
M N Rossor, F S Ruttonshaw, G R Struthers, R J Sutton, R S Taylor, R F Turner,
J F Wickens, C C Wright (1968)
Anniversary Dinner 30 June 2012
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1972, 1982, 1992 and 2002 to
an anniversary dinner in college on 30 June 2012 to mark their 10th, 20th, 30th and 40th
anniversary. The following accepted this invitation:
N Paterson (1971); J P Ashford, C J Brock, M T Carson, B J Clancy, B C Couzens,
C E S Dickenson, P A Hodgson, N S Hoult, G R F Hudson, S J Irwin, P F Jakeman,
D R Martin, D W Maxwell, J P Wotton, A L Young (1972); D M Ackroyd, J E Ashton,
K E Ashton, W J Averdieck, S Clough, J A Cottrell, B P Davies, J R Edwards,
R J Fountaine, N R Freeman, T M Gadd, B H Gammage, N J Gostick,
N J Granger-Brown, E P Grotefeld, P A Hardy, N B Heath, H J S Hemingway,
A M Honey, J M M Huddy, C R Hunt, G T Jacombs, S R King, S E Knowles,
C T Mocatta, S C Mocatta, J Mocatta, A D Mortimer, T P Murray, S R Penney,
C T Sambrook, J M Sciver, M P F Sutcliffe, R M Walker, J C Walsh, A E B Wright
(1982); L Barber, D W Barnett, S Broadhead, S F Brown, S M Field, M C Green,
S C Hampton, M A Holman, N J Hornung, C W K Hudson, F J B Hudson,
R F Hudson, A J Morgan, J M Oliver, S D E Park, M R Parker, D R Pederzolli,
M J Price, R D Rawlings, S L Rumsby, T E Samuel, E C Seaward, C F Shaw, L Sieh,
K L Slowgrove, L Spanswick, R L Strachan, M J Street, G P L Thomas, F Tinnion,
J G M Traynor, S P Walcot, A R Williams, K A Wood, D M Yates (1992); N Ahmed,
V A Armstrong, T A S Austin, D E Banks, S J Benjamin, E E Blackhurst, I S Blaney,
H E Burns, R M Caulton, R C Charleton, A Choudhry, S K J Cole, A J Darsley,
R J Dimmock, M J Dolman, L D Elgie, J E Falvey, S Furey, A J Gabriel, S D Grimshaw,
R P Hartley, R Hewitt, A W Jamieson, D Kierney, M S Kudari, C R Lewis, J Liddicoat,
B D Maddox, D S Mardell, R McLaughlin, P A Mills, P W Neale, E Neeson,
T M Porter, N Rasiah, R M A Reader, E J Sherwood, K L Smith, S C Tenant,
E C Y U (2002) ■

Note from the Editor
We wish to thank all those who have contributed to this year’s Annual Report, which
depends on its readers for the generous and timely flow of copy and information.
We welcome suggestions for articles from the widest scope of College membership
including Fellows and other Senior Members, students, and Old Members. Ideally,
articles should run to about 1,000 words and be accompanied by a photograph or
illustration. This year we have extended the college history section and added a new
section titled “Memoir” in which Dr Stan Evans has celebrated the centenary of Scott’s
arrival at the South Pole with recollections of his own time wintering in the Antarctic.
We are also grateful to Derek Taylor for his article on some past Jewish students at Jesus.
Readers wishing to offer articles should write to me at jc224@cam.ac.uk
This edition brings news of the year’s three Rustat Conferences, a project founded in
the College in 2009 and which welcomes the interest and participation of Old Members.
Those wishing to participate in future conferences can see notification for future
meetings at www.rustat.org and contact me as above.
Limitations of space meant that we were not able to run the photographic section
“Photo Call” this year; but we are keen to include it next year and welcome good
photographs featuring College-related scenes and people, including sport, music and
celebrations.
Old Members who wish to send notification of births, deaths and marriages, and other
news such as promotions, appointments, awards and other achievements should contact
the Development Office at development@jesus.cam.ac.uk
Students who run our College societies and sports clubs should send their copy to
Nikki Williams in the Development Office in good time. Ideally the deadline for all copy
is 1 July, but the earlier the better.
We welcome suggestions for the improvement and expansion of the Annual Report
which strives to reflect the variety and multidisciplinary scope of College life, past and
present.
John Cornwell
Editor, Annual Report

Calendar of college events 2012-2013
11 January 2012 Reunion Dinner (1997, 1998, 1999)
February 2012 Glanville Williams Society Reception, The Law Society
22 March 2013 MA Dinner (2006)
12 April 2013 Reunion Dinner (1987, 1988, 1989)
15 June 2013 Marquee at the Paddock, Fen Ditton
24 June 2013 Society of St Radegund Dinner
29 June 2013 Annual Fund Donors’ Garden Party
29 June 2013 Anniversary Dinner (1973, 1983, 1993, 2003)
Invitations to all the above events will be posted or emailed to those concerned. If, however, you wish
to attend any of these events but do not receive anticipated postal or email notification, please contact
the Development Office (tel: 01223 339301) or visit the alumni events section of the college’s website
(www.jesus.cam.ac.uk) where details are also posted.
MA dining
Members of MA or similar status are invited to dine at high table free of charge twice a year and to
maintain contact.
Because of staffing arrangements there is no dining on Saturdays but it is usually possible to
accommodate visitors on Sundays during term. The other available days are Tuesday, Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays. It is always advisable to book in good time by phoning the Manciple’s Office
on 01223 339485.

Jesus College Records Update
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Offices and will be treated confidentially and with sensitivity for the benefit of Jesus
College, the University and its members. Data may be used by the College and University
for a full range of alumni activities, including the sending of College and University
publications, promotion of benefits and services available to alumni (including those
being made available by external organisations), notification of alumni events and
fundraising programmes (which might include an element of direct marketing).
Old Members’ contact details may be made available to other current and Old Members
of Jesus College, recognised College and University alumni societies (e.g. JCCS) in the
UK and overseas, to sports and other clubs associated with the College and University,
and to agents contracted by the College and University for particular alumni-related
activities. Under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998, you have the right to object
to the use of your data for any of the above purposes, in which case please write to
The Keeper of the Records, Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL.

JOURNEY INTO LIGHT
Music for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany and Candlemas
The Choirs of Jesus College Cambridge
directed by Mark Williams
1. Jesus Christ the apple tree
2. We wait for thy loving kindness
3. I sing of a maiden
4. Advent Prose
5. There is no rose
6. Hymn to the Virgin
7. Bright star carol
8. In the bleak midwinter
9. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
10. The Shepherd’s Carol
11. I saw three ships
12. The little road to Bethlehem
13. Away in a manger
14. Sir Christèmas
15. The Lamb
16. Paean on ‘Divinum Mysterium’
17. Epiphany
18. Here is the little door
19. Bethlehem Down
20. Nunc dimittis
21. Hymn to the Creator of Light
“graceful, gracious and always beautifully shaped to the sense of the words
and the musical phrase… a gorgeous performance”
John Rutter on Journey into Light
For further information about the Choir and current projects please go to
www.jesuscollegechoir.com or www.jesuscollegechoir.co.uk
where you can also download an order form.
CDs are also available on Amazon and at the Porter’s Lodge. Alternatively please visit
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/journey-into-light-music-for/id487105589

Reconstruction of The Priory of
St Mary and St Radegund
This drawing was commissioned by the College Council at the suggestion of the
Revd. Dr John Hughes in June 2011. It is the product of a week’s visit to Jesus in
November of that year by Richard W. Parker, during which time research in the
College Library and Archives, site survey and observation and discussions with
interested parties were utilised to interpret the development of the buildings and
produce a rough sketch drawing for comments. The sketch was then worked up
into a finished pen-and-ink drawing during the spring of 2012.
This reconstruction of St Radegund’s Priory is designed to show clearly those
parts of the medieval complex about which the College has knowledge and to
suggest the possible layout of lost buildings. The view is fom the south east, with
the priory church in the foreground and First Court in the middle background.
The view shows the priory in the 15th century, during a period of increasing
poverty and dilapidation which ended in 1496 with the dissolution of the nunnery
and the foundation of Jesus College.
Richard Parker is a professional archaeologist, research and writer,
based in Exeter. After completing a degree in the History of Art at the
University of East Anglia, he worked for Exeter Museums Archaeological Field
Unit (later Exeter Archaeology) as an historic buildings specialist, producing a
range of historic buildings surveys and reconstruction drawings for both public
and private clients. Since 2010 he has operated freelance as an archaeological
consultant, working to support postgraduate research on the subject of
19th-century church furnishings in Devon.
If you wish to purchase one of these limited edition prints,
please send a cheque for £12.50 (including postage & packing)
made payable to Jesus College Cambridge
to The Development Office, Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL

I am eligible for Gift Aid, please send me a form to complete.

Jesus College's hospitality goes from strength to strength and the
college regularly hosts both residential and non-residential functions
of all sizes, from private celebrations to club meetings to major corporate
and international events.
Old Members are warmly encouraged to discuss any such
requirements with a member of the conference & events team, by post,
email (conference@jesus.cam.ac.uk) or telephone (01223 339485).
Further information on the facilities available is obtainable
on the college conference & events website:
http://conference.jesus.cam.ac.uk

Designed by Nikki Williams, Jesus College
Printed by Swan Print Ltd www.swanprint.co.uk