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jesus college • cambridge<br />
<strong>2012</strong><br />
one hundred and eighth annual report
jesus college • cambridge<br />
<strong>2012</strong><br />
one hundred and eighth annual report
ONLINE EDITION<br />
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Contents<br />
Message from the Master 5<br />
Fellows and Other Senior Members 2011-<strong>2012</strong> 7<br />
Articles The Renovations to Chapel Court Nick Ray 13<br />
Understanding Large Scale Structure in<br />
our Universe Bill Saslaw 17<br />
Water, water, everywhere ... Ian Wilson 20<br />
Complex Fluids: Size Matters Stuart Clarke 23<br />
Left-Handed Letters Christopher Burlinson 25<br />
The Unreasonable Effectiveness <strong>of</strong><br />
(Basic Secondary School) Mathematics Dominic Orchard 27<br />
A Taste <strong>of</strong> Cold Steel Lucy Fielding 29<br />
Some Notable Jewish Students at <strong>Jesus</strong> Derek Taylor 31<br />
Life in the Day <strong>of</strong> the Dean <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong> Garth Wells 33<br />
Memoir Science in the Antarctic Stan Evans 37<br />
<strong>College</strong> History Dickens – The <strong>Jesus</strong> Connection Stephen Heath 44<br />
Creator <strong>of</strong> the Modern <strong>College</strong> –<br />
Henry Arthur Morgan 1830-1912 Peter Glazebrook 49<br />
<strong>College</strong> News People 61<br />
Art at <strong>Jesus</strong> 2011-<strong>2012</strong> 66<br />
The Chapel 68<br />
Chapel Music 70<br />
The New Harpsichord 72<br />
The Old Library and Archives 74<br />
The Quincentenary Library 75<br />
Publications and Gifts to the <strong>College</strong> Libraries 2011-<strong>2012</strong> 76<br />
Rustat Conferences 81<br />
Bursary 85<br />
Development Office 87<br />
Parting Impressions <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> 89<br />
<strong>College</strong> Societies 93<br />
Sports Clubs 101<br />
Members’ News People 115<br />
Births 118<br />
Marriages and Civil Partnerships 118<br />
Obituaries 121<br />
Awards and Results 153<br />
Events 161
Message from the Master<br />
Ian White<br />
MESSAGE FROM THE MASTER I <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2012</strong> 5<br />
It is a pleasure to introduce an <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> that<br />
records such success and achievement by so many<br />
associated with the <strong>College</strong> in so many spheres <strong>of</strong><br />
activity. Having completed my first year as Master, I have<br />
much for which to be grateful, particularly as the success<br />
and achievement <strong>of</strong> many has been matched fully by<br />
great kindness shown to my wife and me by members <strong>of</strong><br />
the <strong>College</strong>. The past year has been one in which we have<br />
<strong>of</strong>ten been surprised by how much greater the impact<br />
and importance <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong> has been to so many over<br />
the years than we had previously appreciated, despite<br />
our association with the <strong>College</strong> over many years. We<br />
have come to realise that its value is equally felt by<br />
current student members. Having interviewed final year students and also met with many<br />
graduate students individually, repeatedly I have gained the overwhelming sense that<br />
<strong>College</strong> life has been both important and enjoyable for them. Indeed the attractiveness <strong>of</strong><br />
the <strong>College</strong> has again been manifest in our undergraduate applications having increased<br />
by 16% this year, despite the introduction <strong>of</strong> the new fee system that has led to substantially<br />
fewer students applying to some other universities. Again the <strong>College</strong> has one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
highest levels <strong>of</strong> application per place <strong>of</strong> any <strong>Cambridge</strong> college.<br />
Achievements have been both academic and extra-curricular. We again were ranked<br />
highly in the league tables for Tripos results, and there were some outstanding individual<br />
performances both by undergraduate and graduate students. Music and art continue to<br />
thrive in the <strong>College</strong>, and it was a privilege to attend many outstanding concerts, theatre<br />
performances and exhibitions, both within the <strong>College</strong> and outside, where frequently <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> students were to be found playing leading roles in <strong>University</strong> societies. The <strong>College</strong><br />
chapel choirs have gone from strength to strength, contributing so much to the chapel<br />
services, and also to a range <strong>of</strong> concerts both within the UK and elsewhere, the tours to the<br />
Ukraine and Germany having attracted much praise.<br />
Sporting achievements continue to be most impressive, and indeed <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> was<br />
recognised as the top sporting college overall by Varsity in November 2011. Excellent<br />
sporting performances occurred throughout the year, with several <strong>of</strong> the men’s and<br />
women’s hockey, football, and rugby teams reaching Cupper finals, and with the first boats<br />
moving ahead strongly in the Bumps. I was particularly struck by the range <strong>of</strong> engagement<br />
in sports across the <strong>College</strong>, with, for example approximately 45 students being awarded<br />
<strong>University</strong> blues, half blues or colours.<br />
This form <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong> life <strong>of</strong> course cannot exist on the basis <strong>of</strong> student excellence alone,<br />
and it has been a privilege for me to see the commitment and quality <strong>of</strong> contributions by<br />
fellows, staff, past student members and other supporters to the <strong>College</strong>. It was a pleasure<br />
to rejoice in a range <strong>of</strong> senior appointments and awards made to Jesuans over the past year,<br />
in particular the appointment <strong>of</strong> David Wootton as Lord Mayor <strong>of</strong> London; his hosting <strong>of</strong><br />
the JCCS <strong>Annual</strong> Dinner in the magnificent surroundings <strong>of</strong> the Mansion House proved to<br />
be a most wonderful occasion. The gathering <strong>of</strong> 375 Jesuans and guests, a record for the<br />
JCCS will, for me, form one <strong>of</strong> my happiest memories <strong>of</strong> the year, and special thanks are<br />
due to the JCCS Committee for their impeccable organisation <strong>of</strong> the proceedings.
6 MESSAGE FROM THE MASTER I <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
The devotion <strong>of</strong> our staff to the <strong>College</strong> continues to be exemplary despite the upheavals<br />
caused by our major infrastructure projects, and has helped to maintain that strong sense<br />
<strong>of</strong> collegiality that we value. In addition, it has been a pleasure yet again to celebrate success<br />
within the fellowship, a highlight <strong>of</strong> the year being the award to Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Crawford <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>2012</strong> Manley O. Hudson Medal by the American Society <strong>of</strong> International Law, this medal<br />
having previously been won by Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Sir Robert Jennings. Intellectual initiatives<br />
continued to develop in the <strong>College</strong>; for example, the very successful Graduate Student<br />
Conference for the first time welcomed attendees who had previously been students to the<br />
<strong>College</strong>, this opening up new research collaborations and ideas. In addition special<br />
symposia, in particular the Rustat Conferences and the Symposium on Economic Crime,<br />
continued to flourish. The latter celebrated its thirtieth anniversary this year, and provided<br />
us with an opportunity to reflect on its achievements. This Symposium on Economic Crime,<br />
at <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong>, with its aim <strong>of</strong> promoting economic stability and protecting the integrity<br />
<strong>of</strong> institutions, businesses and economies across the world has never been more important<br />
or relevant. Over the years it has attracted over 16,000 participants including 450<br />
ambassadors and high commissioners, 1,150 <strong>of</strong>ficials <strong>of</strong> ministerial rank and over 47<br />
Governors <strong>of</strong> central banks. It has inspired, supported and involved well in excess <strong>of</strong> 1,000<br />
doctoral research students, and three established scholarly journals are published under<br />
its auspices, including that with the highest academic rating for any publication in the area.<br />
It is <strong>of</strong> course my hope that symposia such as these will continue to flourish within the<br />
<strong>College</strong> and <strong>University</strong>, giving opportunities for wider academic enquiry and engagement<br />
generally, and bringing benefit to current students and long-standing <strong>College</strong> members.<br />
The <strong>College</strong> has <strong>of</strong> course experienced times <strong>of</strong> sadness this year, the most notable being<br />
the passing <strong>of</strong> Sir Alan Cottrell, who was an outstanding Master. He was the pre-eminent<br />
material scientist <strong>of</strong> the 20th Century, described when being awarded an honorary degree by<br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong> in 1996 as the father <strong>of</strong> modern Materials Science whose<br />
scholarship had shaped the whole subject. His leadership <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong> was exemplary, and<br />
<strong>of</strong> course he played a great role in not only shaping Materials Science, but also the <strong>College</strong>,<br />
in particular through his leadership in gaining approval for the admission <strong>of</strong> women.<br />
Over the past year the <strong>College</strong> also has carried out the major refurbishment <strong>of</strong> Chapel<br />
Court and the newly-named Marshall Court in <strong>Jesus</strong> Lane, projects <strong>of</strong> technical complexity<br />
and on a scale, involving the refurbishment <strong>of</strong> approximately 170 rooms, beyond that <strong>of</strong> any<br />
refurbishments in recent years. It is a pleasure to note, that the refurbishments have been<br />
completed on time and to budget, and maintain the traditional atmosphere <strong>of</strong> the buildings<br />
dear to many <strong>of</strong> us, while bringing them in line with the standards expected in the 21st<br />
Century. I am so grateful to the Bursar and his staff for having been successful in delivering<br />
such complex undertakings.<br />
It finally has been particularly humbling to note the generosity <strong>of</strong> so many Jesuans and<br />
other supporters <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong> in the past year. During a time when we have had to make<br />
substantial financial commitments to the <strong>College</strong> infrastructure, we have been very grateful<br />
for the support that has been provided financially, not only to our buildings but also to<br />
student support, to academic support and for special initiatives. In <strong>Cambridge</strong> colleges,<br />
these donations are <strong>of</strong>ten the key to creating the very special sense <strong>of</strong> collegiality valued by<br />
us all, enabling the building <strong>of</strong> understanding, deepening <strong>of</strong> insights, strengthening <strong>of</strong><br />
character and enhancing achievement in our students. And for all <strong>of</strong> that we are immensely<br />
grateful.
FELLOWS AND OTHER SENIOR MEMBERS 2011-<strong>2012</strong> I <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2012</strong> 7<br />
Fellows and Other Senior Members<br />
2011-<strong>2012</strong><br />
Master<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor I H White FREng<br />
Fellows<br />
Dr M R Minden (President) MML (German)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor S C Heath LittD<br />
(Keeper <strong>of</strong> the Old Library) English<br />
Dr S B Hladky (Admissions Tutor) Medicine<br />
Dr D E Hanke Botany<br />
Mr N J Ray MA ARIBA Architecture<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor J B Thompson Social & Political Sciences<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor P H Nolan CBE Chinese Management<br />
Dr J R Howlett (Praelector and Tutorial Adviser) MML (Russian)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor I Paterson FRS Chemistry<br />
Dr M L S Sørensen Archaeology<br />
Dr G T Parks Engineering<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor J M Soskice Theology<br />
Dr M P C Oldham Law<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor P Alexander (Fellows’ Wine Steward) Physics<br />
Dr R Mengham (Curator <strong>of</strong> Works <strong>of</strong> Art) English<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor D A S Compston FRCP Neurology<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor M M Arnot FRSA AcSS<br />
(Graduate Tutor) Education<br />
The Rev’d Dr T D Jenkins Theology<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor J R Crawford, SC FBA International Law<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor R Cipolla FREng Engineering<br />
Dr S Fennell (Financial Tutor) Land Economy<br />
Dr D I Wilson CEng Chemical Engineering<br />
Dr G Kearns Geography<br />
Dr J W Ajioka Medicine<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor S A T Redfern Earth Sciences<br />
Dr J P T Clackson<br />
(Fellows’ Steward and Tutorial Adviser) Classics<br />
Dr M R Laven History<br />
Dr T S Aidt Economics<br />
Dr S T C Siklos (Senior Tutor) Mathematics<br />
Dr T D Wilkinson (Deputy Graduate Tutor) Engineering<br />
Dr V Mottier Social & Political Sciences<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor R J Mair CBE FREng FRS Engineering<br />
Dr P Krishnan Economics<br />
Dr F M Green English<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor J A Dowdeswell<br />
(Brian Buckley Fellow in Polar Sciences) Physical Geography
8 FELLOWS AND OTHER SENIOR MEMBERS 2011-<strong>2012</strong> I <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor M O’Brien FBA History<br />
Dr N G Berl<strong>of</strong>f Mathematics<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor H le B Skaer (Tutorial Adviser) Zoology<br />
Dr S Clarke Chemistry<br />
Dr M F Gill MML (French)<br />
Dr W Federle Biology<br />
Dr B Walton Music<br />
Dr O A Scherman Chemistry<br />
Dr R E Flemming Classics<br />
Dr C E Chambers Philosophy<br />
Mr R J P Dennis MA (Development Director<br />
and Keeper <strong>of</strong> the Records)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor J J Baumberg Physics<br />
Dr G N Wells (Dean <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong>) Engineering<br />
Dr D J Kelly (Keeper <strong>of</strong> the Plate) Social & Political Sciences<br />
Dr C M Burlinson (Vivian Cox Fellow in English<br />
and Tutorial Adviser) English<br />
Dr B M B Post (Admissions Tutor) Linguistics<br />
Dr R J Weir English<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor A H Brand FRS Biology<br />
Dr M J Edwards<br />
(Gurnee F Hart Fellow in History) History<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor H L Moore Social Anthropology<br />
Dr K S Lilley Chemistry<br />
Dr C Mascolo Computer Science<br />
Dr O Caramello Mathematics<br />
Dr S Tor Classics<br />
Dr M V Lombardo Psychiatry<br />
Mr M T Williams MA (Director <strong>of</strong> Chapel Music) Music<br />
Mr S C James MPhil History<br />
Dr A R Tucker Geography<br />
Mr L M Butcher MA Physics<br />
Dr C-B Schoenlieb Mathematics<br />
Rev’d Dr J M D Hughes<br />
(Dean <strong>of</strong> Chapel and Tutorial Adviser) Divinity<br />
Dr N A Rutter Materials Science<br />
Dr R Morieux History<br />
Mrs A Künzl-Snodgrass (Tutorial Adviser) MML (German)<br />
Dr F H Willmoth (Archivist, and Assistant<br />
Keeper <strong>of</strong> the Old Library) History and Philosophy <strong>of</strong> Science<br />
Emeritus Fellows<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor K L Johnson PhD FREng FRS<br />
Dr C J Adkins CPhys FInstP<br />
Dr D S Whitehead<br />
Dr J A Hudson<br />
Dr J E Roseblade<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor M J Waring FRSC ScD<br />
Dr J Cameron Wilson<br />
Dr W C Saslaw
FELLOWS AND OTHER SENIOR MEMBERS 2011-<strong>2012</strong> I <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2012</strong> 9<br />
Mr P R Glazebrook MA (Acting Keeper <strong>of</strong> the Old Library and Fellow Librarian)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor J T Killen PhD FBA<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor P D A Garnsey PhD FBA<br />
Sir Alan Cottrell ScD HonLLD FRS FREng (Honorary Fellow)<br />
Dr S Evans<br />
Dr G C Harcourt AO LittD FASSA AcSS<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor D K Fieldhouse LittD FBA<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor W J Stronge<br />
Dr R D Bowers<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Lord Renfrew <strong>of</strong> Kaimsthorn MA ScD HonDLitt FBA (Honorary Fellow)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor R Freeman ScD FRS<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Sir Bruce Ponder FRCP FRS<br />
Mr A J Bowen MA<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor J C W Mitchell<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor J M Bacon<br />
Mr S J Barton MA<br />
Honorary Fellows<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Sir Denys Wilkinson MA PhD ScD FRS HonFilDr HonLLD<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor P W Anderson MA FRS<br />
Sir Alan Cottrell ScD HonLLD FRS FREng (Emeritus Fellow)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor P Mathias CBE MA DLitt FBA<br />
Sir Samuel Brittan MA HonDLitt<br />
Mr C J H Hogwood CBE MA HonMusD<br />
Miss Jessye Norman MMus HonMusD HonDHL HonRAM<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor A W Cuthbert ScD FRS<br />
The Hon A R Gubbay MA LLM SC HonLLD<br />
Lord Renwick <strong>of</strong> Clifton MA HonLLD HonDLitt FRSA<br />
The Rt Hon Lord Stewartby <strong>of</strong> Portmoak PC MA LittD FBA FRSE<br />
Lord Rees <strong>of</strong> Ludlow MA PhD OM PRS<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor S S Prawer MA PhD LittD HonDLitt Drphilhc FBA<br />
Sir Alistair Horne CB MA LittD<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor R F Tuck MA FBA<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dame Sandra Dawson DBE MA FIPH FCGI HonDSc CIM<br />
Sir David Hare MA HonLittD FRSL<br />
Mr A M D Gormley OBE MA HonLitt D<br />
Reverend Pr<strong>of</strong>essor B W Silverman MA PhD ScD FRS<br />
Lord Watson <strong>of</strong> Richmond CBE MA FRTS<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Lord Renfrew <strong>of</strong> Kaimsthorn MA ScD HonDLitt FBA (Emeritus Fellow)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor L A Jardine CBE MA PhD<br />
Dr P J Hurford OBE MA MusB FRCO<br />
Mr S Chatterjee MA<br />
The Rt Hon Sir Roger Grenfell Toulson PC MA LLB<br />
Mr M Perahia FRCM<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor K E Wrightson MA PhD FRHistS FBA<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor E S Maskin FBAHon MAHon DHL<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor T F Eagleton MA FBA HonDLitt<br />
The Rt Hon Sir Rupert Jackson PC
10 FELLOWS AND OTHER SENIOR MEMBERS 2011-<strong>2012</strong> I <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
St Radegund Fellows<br />
Mr J Hudleston<br />
Mr R Kwok MA<br />
Fellow Commoners<br />
Mr J Cornwell MA HonDLitt FRSL (Editor <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong>)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor B A K Rider PhD Hon LLD<br />
Dr S S Saxena<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor P J Williamson PhD<br />
Mr C L M Pratt MA (Acting Senior Bursar)<br />
Lectrice<br />
Ms A Hamy French<br />
<strong>College</strong> Research Associates<br />
Dr J S Bendall<br />
Dr F Castles<br />
Dr I A Cosma<br />
Dr C J T Farrington<br />
Dr P Figueras<br />
Dr K A Hogan<br />
Dr D B Leith<br />
Society <strong>of</strong> St Radegund<br />
Charles Rawlinson (1952)<br />
Ge<strong>of</strong>frey Granter (1957)<br />
Eric Robinson (1942)<br />
Brian Buckley (1962)<br />
David Bennett<br />
Richard Bawden (1947)<br />
Firdaus Ruttonshaw (1968)<br />
Gurnee Hart (1994)<br />
Andrew Sutton (1965)<br />
Christopher Rodrigues (1968)<br />
Christine Jennings<br />
Alasdair Morrison (1968)<br />
Tomás Carruthers (1986)<br />
Richard Briance (1971)<br />
Michael Marshall (1952)<br />
David Wootton (1969)<br />
Jessica Sainsbury (1989)<br />
Dr R I Mugford<br />
Dr B Perreau<br />
Dr M Pritchard<br />
Dr C Ramalingam<br />
Dr S Vignolini<br />
Dr L Wartosch<br />
Peter Doimi de Frankopan Subic (1990)<br />
Patrick Wilson (1974)<br />
Peter Day (1968)<br />
Charles Hoare Nairne (1989)<br />
Dr David Cunningham<br />
Dr Martin Clarke (1975)<br />
Adrian Frost (1976)<br />
Ron Davies (1953)<br />
Tony Thorne (1958)<br />
Michael Booth (1959)<br />
Paul Burnham (1967)<br />
Christopher Kirker (1969)<br />
Philip Yates (1978)<br />
Joanne Yates (1980)<br />
Albert Goh (1990)<br />
Marshall <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong> Ltd
Articles
The new Yorkstone paving in Chapel Court
The Renovations to Chapel Court<br />
Nicholas Ray<br />
CHAPEL COURT I <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2012</strong> 13<br />
As members old and new will know, Chapel Court is formed on its western side by the<br />
Chapel itself, and the range <strong>of</strong> rooms begun at the foundation <strong>of</strong> the college and<br />
continued northwards, in identical style, in 1822, and even later in the early twentieth<br />
century. The Court was extended on its eastern side, however, by two buildings <strong>of</strong> very<br />
different character, which have now been renovated together as a single contract with a<br />
value <strong>of</strong> about £8 million. The red brick range, a fragment <strong>of</strong> what was intended to form a<br />
whole court, dates from 1884 and was designed by Carpenter and Ingelow. It was<br />
memorably described by the great twentieth-century architectural historian Nikolaus<br />
Pevsner, as “a wholly dull design, red brick with a central gatehouse, as if it were some<br />
kind <strong>of</strong> training college”. This range included 36 sets <strong>of</strong> rooms and a ground floor lecture<br />
room, and was useful enough, though somewhat inefficient. In 1950, its internal planning<br />
was altered to form a further 27 sets, which were described at the time as “something half<br />
way between a normal set and a bed-sitting room”. The new rooms were provided, for the<br />
first time, with hot and cold water to wash-basins in each room. Small gyps were included,<br />
though these were later modified as they presented a fire risk. The second portion <strong>of</strong><br />
Chapel Court was the work <strong>of</strong> Percy Morley Horder, an architect <strong>of</strong> considerable skill and<br />
subtlety, in 1927-30. His intention was to revert to the pattern <strong>of</strong> the earlier college ranges,<br />
using a pale brick and similar window pattern, but he needed to join on to Carpenter and<br />
Ingelow’s building and weave round East House (by the same architects, and placed<br />
awkwardly in relation to Morley Horder’s proposed extension). This he achieved by facing<br />
Morley Horder’s sketch, east side <strong>of</strong> the Angel Arch
14 CHAPEL COURT I <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
Preliminary sketch <strong>of</strong> the angel sculpture attributed to Eric Gill<br />
the southernmost staircases (Chapel Court 6 and 7) with pinkish bricks rescued from a<br />
ruined manor house in Suffolk, and adapting his plan to return to a regular three-sided<br />
court facing north. In the eastern range he placed a new gateway, directly on the axis <strong>of</strong> the<br />
chapel, above which is a carving by Eric Gill, one <strong>of</strong> the most distinguished sculptors and<br />
typographers <strong>of</strong> the early twentieth century. As Arthur Gray’s article in the <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
Review <strong>of</strong> 1931 put it: “The essential character <strong>of</strong> Mr Horder’s work is its grave nobility<br />
contrasting with the florid artifices and cheap materials <strong>of</strong> Victorian builders. Towers,<br />
terricles and ineffective heraldic ornament have no part in it.” Heating was by open fires,<br />
there was hot water to basins in every bedroom, and bathrooms were created in the<br />
basement. Though the college may have approved Morley Horder’s aesthetic judgement,<br />
people complained <strong>of</strong> sound transmission from staircase to room, and the plain brick<br />
facings to the stairs cannot have helped.<br />
The architects appointed to design the current repairs and improvements, Berman<br />
Guedes Stretton, had undertaken similar work in Oxford, most notably at Keble <strong>College</strong>,<br />
upgrading the buildings <strong>of</strong> its High Victorian architect William Butterfield. Here at <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> they are required not only to improve the buildings to the environmental<br />
standards we expect in the twenty-first century, but to deal sensitively with the “wholly<br />
dull” Carpenter building and the “grave nobility” <strong>of</strong> Morley Horder’s extension.<br />
Significant repairs, as one might expect, were necessary to ro<strong>of</strong>s, windows, stonework<br />
and gutters. The planning in both buildings was tortuous in some instances, and<br />
inserting new shower rooms to nearly every room means considerable re-fashioning <strong>of</strong><br />
the internal layouts. Efficiencies must not be achieved at the expense <strong>of</strong> the loss <strong>of</strong><br />
character – certain spaces, such as ‘Boatie Tower’, may have an iconic significance that<br />
should be respected. Heat losses have to be minimised to meet statutory regulations,<br />
which means improved airtightness as well as the addition <strong>of</strong> insulation. But at the same<br />
time, skirtings, architraves and other mouldings need to be protected and retained,
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so that the specific detail <strong>of</strong> the different buildings is respected. How the alterations <strong>of</strong><br />
the twenty-first century should “read” is therefore a major issue. When spaces are<br />
subdivided in new ways, how should the new insertions be expressed? One extreme<br />
would be to replicate the style <strong>of</strong> the two buildings concerned, but <strong>of</strong> course nineteenth<br />
and early twenty-first century college rooms did not have all the small bathrooms we<br />
now demand, so the proportions <strong>of</strong> the rooms were different, and rigidly “period”<br />
detailing would look curious. The other extreme would be to treat new insertions as<br />
entirely distinct: plastic “service pods”, for example. In common with most architects<br />
engaged in such work, BGS have aimed to steer a middle course: the insertions will be<br />
clear to anyone who seeks to discover these things, but unobtrusive enough not to<br />
announce themselves unnecessarily to the majority who do not. The staircases will be<br />
practically unaltered, so that superficially it will seem as if more than £11 million has had<br />
little noticeable effect.<br />
Less obvious still are the efforts the design team have gone to in order to minimise<br />
carbon emissions. Spurred on both by the City <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong>’s planning requirements<br />
and by the college itself, the services consultants, Hoare Lea, assessed the various<br />
options. Those areas <strong>of</strong> the south-facing ro<strong>of</strong> that are sufficiently shielded from view not<br />
to upset the Conservation Officer have had solar panels placed on them, which pre-heat<br />
hot water for showers. An alternative would have been photovoltaic cells and the cost<br />
benefits <strong>of</strong> the two systems are finely balanced; both feed-in tarrifs and manufacturing<br />
costs have changed since the choice was made but the solar-thermal solution is still<br />
reckoned to make a greater contribution to carbon reduction, with a 15-year pay-back<br />
period. In addition, ground-source heat pump technology has been employed. Its<br />
contribution to carbon saving is considerably more than solar-thermal installation, but<br />
the pay-back period is longer because <strong>of</strong> the capital cost <strong>of</strong> sinking 16 bore holes to a<br />
depth <strong>of</strong> 150 metres – about 20 years. GSHPs are most effective at producing low-grade<br />
Eric Gill’s sculpture over the Angel Gate
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Student room, renovated Chapel Court<br />
hot water; consequently the new radiators will be over-sized compared to the usual<br />
twenty-first century fittings, but may be considered all the more suitable in buildings<br />
dating from the 1880s and 1930s.<br />
With the scaffolding down and the buildings in use, it is possible to enjoy again the<br />
calm u-shaped space <strong>of</strong> Chapel Court. Particularly welcome is the removal <strong>of</strong> the<br />
utilitarian concrete path around the perimeter and its replacement by York stone, as a<br />
result <strong>of</strong> a generous benefaction <strong>of</strong> James Hudleston. The final flourish will be to s<strong>of</strong>ten<br />
the walls with planting, which was effectively prohibited in some areas by the previous<br />
concrete, and no doubt the Gardens Committee will be considering the options<br />
carefully. In his characteristically blunt manner, the previous Bursar who initiated this<br />
project explained that it was important that the college should “sweat the asset”<br />
represented by Chapel Court. Where before there were 87 student rooms, and space for<br />
25 fellows (including three flats), the amount <strong>of</strong> fellows’ accommodation has remained<br />
the same while 121 undergraduates will be housed, so the buildings have never been so<br />
spatially “efficient”. The provision <strong>of</strong> en-suite shower rooms has also ensured that the<br />
inhabitants can be better washed than ever before, should they choose to be, but at the<br />
same time the energy use and therefore running cost <strong>of</strong> the building will be not higher,<br />
but lower. Thanks to the design team, the contractors, and the college staff concerned,<br />
this complex project has been achieved with remarkably little disruption to the daily<br />
life <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>, and when it is re-occupied we shall wonder how on earth we<br />
managed without it. The real achievement is to make sweating the asset appear to be no<br />
sweat at all. ■
Understanding Large Scale Structure<br />
in our Universe<br />
Bill Saslaw<br />
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The age-old question “Where are we in our universe?” has been superseded in the 21st<br />
century by asking “Where is everything in the universe?” Nowhere is a special part <strong>of</strong><br />
space singled out for us. Earth is a minor planet orbiting an undistinguished star in an<br />
ordinary spiral galaxy within a typical group <strong>of</strong> three dozen or so other spiral, elliptical<br />
and irregular galaxies. Astronomers have known this for nearly a century.<br />
What is new, however, is a combination <strong>of</strong> conceptual changes and powerful telescopes.<br />
These have revealed the general distribution <strong>of</strong> matter in our universe – its large-scale<br />
structure. The location <strong>of</strong> anything in the universe must be understood relative to the<br />
locations <strong>of</strong> everything else. In the early decades <strong>of</strong> the 20th century, astronomers had a<br />
fairly simple picture in which there was a universal sea <strong>of</strong> galaxies, distributed mostly<br />
uniformly with here and there a huge gravitationally bound cluster. People debated the<br />
percentage <strong>of</strong> galaxies that were clustered versus those distributed more smoothly.<br />
This picture began to crumble about four decades ago. Small galaxy clusters were found<br />
inside larger ones; larger ones <strong>of</strong>ten combined to form irregular superclusters. There is a<br />
whole hierarchy <strong>of</strong> galaxy clustering and it has a very particular continuous structure.<br />
A structure so unexpected that many cosmologists thought it must have arisen<br />
mysteriously in the big bang – the very hot enormously dense stage <strong>of</strong> the early universe<br />
about 14 billion years ago. Astronomers quickly proposed half a dozen or so exotic theories<br />
to account for this structure; most <strong>of</strong> these theories turned out to be more ephemeral than<br />
the big bang itself.<br />
From first principles it was obvious that gravity must play a major role in galaxy<br />
clustering. All matter gravitates. Although gravity is a weak force compared to the nuclear<br />
force and electromagnetism, gravity always attracts and does not saturate. There are no<br />
known local anti-gravity forces. (Interestingly, our own perception <strong>of</strong> gravity is also the<br />
only human sense which does not saturate.) But what was missing in our understanding<br />
<strong>of</strong> gravity was how very large numbers <strong>of</strong> gravitating objects – each <strong>of</strong> them a galaxy<br />
binding billions <strong>of</strong> stars – would behave in an expanding universe. Newton had calculated<br />
how two small masses would orbit each other. His successors had spent more than a<br />
century trying to understand how three or four gravitating point masses would behave.<br />
Now we are faced with understanding the gravitational behaviour <strong>of</strong> billions <strong>of</strong> these<br />
galaxies.<br />
Fortunately we do not need to understand the behaviour <strong>of</strong> systems containing many<br />
objects in such great detail as systems with smaller numbers, like the Sun’s planets.<br />
To ask “Which galaxies are where at a given time?” is sometimes interesting, but not always<br />
as interesting as discovering new unexpected general phenomena that emerge from the<br />
interactions <strong>of</strong> many galaxies. One <strong>of</strong> these general phenomena is their distribution in our<br />
expanding universe.<br />
Calculation, computation and observation combine to lead us to an understanding <strong>of</strong><br />
how galaxies distribute themselves throughout our universe. Calculation, <strong>of</strong>ten called<br />
theory, starts with the known gravitational interactions <strong>of</strong> galaxies, adds their modification<br />
by the expansion <strong>of</strong> space – time, and derives statistical properties <strong>of</strong> their distribution.<br />
Statistical, because that is the best we can do with available mathematical techniques.
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This high-resolution image <strong>of</strong> the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field includes galaxies <strong>of</strong> various ages, sizes, shapes and colours. The smallest,<br />
reddest galaxies, <strong>of</strong> which there are approximately 10,000, are some <strong>of</strong> the most distant galaxies to have been imaged by an optical<br />
telescope, probably existing shortly after the Big Bang<br />
We cannot follow the exact orbits <strong>of</strong> many individual galaxies very well. But we can modify<br />
the statistical description to try to answer a range <strong>of</strong> questions important for our<br />
understanding.<br />
For example, we can ask if the presence <strong>of</strong> a galaxy in any particular volume <strong>of</strong> space<br />
increases the probability that there is another galaxy nearby. Since galaxies attract one<br />
another by gravity, the answer, unsurprisingly, is ‘yes’. What was unexpected is the detailed<br />
spatial dependence <strong>of</strong> this increased probability. It was observed only about forty years<br />
ago. So far, it has been calculated just for the case where the increased probability for<br />
gravity bringing two galaxies close to each other is relatively small. But we know that<br />
clusters form which are very dense, and the corresponding increase in the probability <strong>of</strong>
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their galaxies being close together is <strong>of</strong>ten very large. Numerical computer simulations<br />
which compute the detailed mutual gravitational orbits <strong>of</strong> galaxies in our expanding<br />
universe can reproduce some <strong>of</strong> this clustering, but that is not the same as a more<br />
fundamental general theory <strong>of</strong> clustering.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the things that my collaborators and I have been doing in the last two decades<br />
is developing such a fundamental theory. We do this by combining gravity with statistical<br />
mechanics and thermodynamics, theories describing properties <strong>of</strong> matter microscopically<br />
and in bulk. Originally many astronomers thought this combination would be impossible<br />
because gravity is a long range force which does not saturate and the combined forces <strong>of</strong><br />
many galaxies would be infinite in this approach. But we found that the expansion <strong>of</strong> the<br />
universe can remove these infinities and give a well-defined finite result. When the theory<br />
was first developed, we were not certain it would work. So some colleagues from<br />
Kyoto <strong>University</strong> tested it with computer simulations <strong>of</strong> galaxy clustering. They found<br />
very encouraging agreement. To paraphrase Mark Twain, it gratified some people and<br />
astonished the rest.<br />
This suggested that we test its relevance to our universe by comparing its predictions<br />
directly with observations <strong>of</strong> galaxy clustering. Its most straightforward prediction,<br />
containing no free parameters or “fudge factors”, is the galaxy distribution function. This<br />
is a simple but very powerful statistic which quantitatively describes clusters, filaments,<br />
voids and neighbouring correlations <strong>of</strong> galaxies. One simply divides space into many<br />
separate volumes with a given size and shape, then counts the number <strong>of</strong> galaxies visible<br />
in each volume. Plotting the number <strong>of</strong> volumes having a given number <strong>of</strong> galaxies<br />
provides an observed histogram to compare with the theoretical prediction. Then one<br />
repeats the analysis for volumes <strong>of</strong> different sizes and shapes. As this was done for larger<br />
and larger catalogues <strong>of</strong> galaxies the agreement grew closer and closer. As the numbers <strong>of</strong><br />
galaxies in larger catalogues increase, their statistics become more accurate. The theory<br />
works for very strong, as well as for weak, clustering. In the past year we have been able to<br />
use recent catalogues <strong>of</strong> about 10 million galaxies, and their agreement with the theory is<br />
better than about two or three percent.<br />
This work has indeed been gratifying, and also fun. Over many years, it has been done<br />
by a small group <strong>of</strong> astrophysicists who have focused several areas <strong>of</strong> cosmology, general<br />
relativity, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and observational astronomy on the<br />
understanding <strong>of</strong> large-scale structure in our universe. It is truly international, like much<br />
<strong>of</strong> modern science, with collaborators in many countries including the UK, the USA, India,<br />
Ireland, Italy, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and China. To range around the universe; it<br />
helps to range around the world. As we answer earlier questions, new ones arise to<br />
fascinate us even further. For example, the theory has also predicted the probability that a<br />
galaxy has a given velocity relative to the expansion <strong>of</strong> the universe. Observations <strong>of</strong> these<br />
velocities are not yet developed to the same extent as observations <strong>of</strong> galaxy positions, but<br />
their preliminary agreement with the theory is promising.<br />
Very recently we have found a way to understand the probability that a cluster <strong>of</strong> galaxies<br />
has a given shape. It seems unnecessary to hypothesize that observed filaments <strong>of</strong> galaxies<br />
arose in a mysterious quantum epoch <strong>of</strong> the very early universe. Rather, they began to form<br />
spontaneously by natural gravitational attraction one or two billion years after the<br />
big-bang. Details <strong>of</strong> their formation depend on the nature <strong>of</strong> dark matter and dark energy,<br />
two major components <strong>of</strong> the universe presently shrouded in mystery. Mysteries <strong>of</strong> our<br />
universe tend to be related, so our understanding <strong>of</strong> its large-scale structure may help<br />
clarify our universe ’s other properties and their origins. ■
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Water, water, everywhere<br />
Ian Wilson<br />
Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink wrote one <strong>of</strong> the best known students <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> in 1798. The Ancient Mariner was then referring to sea water but the line<br />
is equally appropriate in many parts <strong>of</strong> the planet today as the stock <strong>of</strong> potable water comes<br />
under threat from a growing population, changing living standards and pollution. The<br />
future <strong>of</strong> mankind depends on water. We drink, wash and play with it while industry uses<br />
large quantities <strong>of</strong> it for transport, power, as a feedstock and a solvent.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the everyday chores performed worldwide that consumes large quantities <strong>of</strong><br />
water and generates appreciable volumes <strong>of</strong> waste is cleaning <strong>of</strong> dishes and utensils used<br />
in preparing food. Dishwashing also consumes considerable amounts <strong>of</strong> energy, the other<br />
commodity in limited supply. A bowl <strong>of</strong> water at 50ºC for dishwashing requires around 10<br />
litres <strong>of</strong> water and about 0.5 kWh <strong>of</strong> thermal energy, as well as the chemicals (surfactants,<br />
pH adjusters, etc.) we use to help the ‘soil’ detach from our plates. Many <strong>of</strong> us choose to<br />
use an automatic dishwasher (over 37% <strong>of</strong> UK households owned one in 2011) and these<br />
use up to 20 litres <strong>of</strong> fresh, potable water per wash. The latest devices have reduced this to<br />
7 litres per wash by recycling spent water, and there is a clear need to make these machines<br />
as energy and water efficient as possible.<br />
The same concerns apply to industry. The heaters that pasteurise milk have to be cleaned<br />
daily, and the diaries that process roughly 12 billion litres <strong>of</strong> milk each year in the UK use<br />
around 1 billion litres <strong>of</strong> water for cleaning. Our group has been working on understanding<br />
cleaning for some time in order to reduce energy, water and chemical consumption. <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> is actually famous across the world <strong>of</strong> cleaning as it is also a research area <strong>of</strong> my<br />
predecessor as Fellow in chemical engineering, Peter Fryer (now at Birmingham), and the<br />
<strong>College</strong> hosts a major international conference in the area every four years. It has been said<br />
that everyone at the <strong>College</strong> benefits from this activity as the <strong>College</strong> gets a detailed<br />
inspection from a hundred or so food hygiene experts at regular intervals.<br />
The science <strong>of</strong> cleaning can be grouped into three mechanisms. We can exploit<br />
thermodynamics to make a ‘soil’ dissolve – basically it prefers to be in the solvent rather than<br />
on your plate. The problem here is when your soil does not like water, as dry-cleaning<br />
dishes is a non-starter. We can trick fats and grease into forming an emulsion and<br />
dispersing into warm water using surfactants (such as soap), but many others would<br />
require rather aggressive chemicals or more exotic, and thus expensive, surfactants.<br />
The second mechanism is to change the adhesion between the soil and the surface <strong>of</strong> the<br />
cutlery or dish. This is the science <strong>of</strong> non-stick, where the differences in chemistry mean<br />
that the soiling material forms weak bonds to the surface which can be readily disrupted<br />
by water or surfactants. The soil layer then comes <strong>of</strong>f when contacted with water and some<br />
force applied. One problem here is that a surface can be designed to minimise adhesion<br />
<strong>of</strong> certain foods but not all the foods in a healthy diet. The other is that the non-stick<br />
functionality is usually imparted by a coating. The coatings are usually mechanically weak<br />
and can be disrupted by the forces and temperatures we use in cooking, eating or cleaning.<br />
This leaves us with cohesive breakdown, aka elbow grease, where we apply forces large<br />
enough to break the material down and cause it to move <strong>of</strong>f the surface and into solution.<br />
There is a limit here, as the forces have to be smaller than those which will damage the<br />
dishes! Detergents help us to do this by promoting changes in the microstructure <strong>of</strong> many<br />
foods: dishwashing liquids are mildly alkaline as this promotes the swelling (and
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Steel disc <strong>of</strong> diameter 5 cm with raised letters being immersed in milk prior to FDG measurement. The tube next to the letter F is the<br />
instrument nozzle. Photograph courtesy <strong>of</strong> PhD students Akin Ali and Patrick Gordon ( former MCR President)<br />
weakening) <strong>of</strong> most proteinaceous materials. This is why soap hurts when it gets in your<br />
eye. Some formulations use enzymes – lipases to break down fats, proteases for proteins<br />
etc. Leaving dirty dishes to soak for a while allows these agents to penetrate the soil, weaken<br />
it and make cleaning faster. Soils that are hydrophobic (such as burnt on fats) don’t favour<br />
swelling so we have to resort to elbow grease. The morning after a good dinner is then quite<br />
a challenge, particularly as we expect the dishwasher and a single detergent to tackle<br />
different foods and different surfaces all at the same time.<br />
Chemical engineers can help in two ways. The first is in quantifying the changes in<br />
material microstructure and shape as the food reacts with the wash water. Our group works<br />
on the rheology <strong>of</strong> ‘s<strong>of</strong>t solids’ such as Marmite and pastes, but studying food protein<br />
gels swelling in real time in an opaque liquid represents a challenge because the gels are very<br />
weak (strengths <strong>of</strong> a few Pascals – that’s not big) and deform if you touch them. We<br />
therefore invented a new technique called fluid dynamic gauging (FDG), which allows us<br />
to track the surface <strong>of</strong> a soil immersed in liquid without touching it. The photographs show<br />
a steel plate with the letters ‘FDG’ spelled out with plastic sheet <strong>of</strong> thickness 200 microns<br />
being immersed in milk, and the image generated by the FDG tool scanning the surface<br />
when submerged in this Cleopatran bath. Recently we have used it to study bi<strong>of</strong>ilms, which<br />
are notoriously fragile. Procter & Gamble now use one in their research on developing new<br />
detergents.<br />
Reconstruction <strong>of</strong> letters on steel disc immersed in milk obtained by FDG measurement. Colours indicate height, in mm (see legend).<br />
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<br />
water jet impinging on a vertical glass<br />
sheet, taken from behind the glass.<br />
Ruler tape markings at cm intervals.<br />
Photograph courtesy <strong>of</strong> final year<br />
MEng research project students<br />
Liam Stevens and David Faria<br />
In addition to knowing how thick and how strong a deposit layer is, we need to be able to<br />
calculate the size <strong>of</strong> the forces acting on it to cause removal. This is relatively<br />
straightforward for fluids flowing in filled pipes or ducts. Dishwashers and tank cleaning<br />
systems, however, employ jets <strong>of</strong> liquid which impinge on a surface and drain away as a<br />
thin film. Material is cleaned away quickly at the point <strong>of</strong> impingement but most <strong>of</strong> the<br />
surface only sees the draining film. The photograph shows an example <strong>of</strong> the flow pattern<br />
created by an impinging liquid jet: it involves a transition from turbulent to laminar flow<br />
as well as surface tension shaping the free surface. These are complex flows and we use<br />
experimental as well as computational techniques to calculate the shape and speed <strong>of</strong> the<br />
flow and thereby determine the stresses imposed by liquid on the soil and its flow path.<br />
Combining this with our knowledge <strong>of</strong> the soil’s strength with different detergents should<br />
allow us to predict how long it will take to wash the dishes, without having to spend a<br />
lifetime testing it at the sink. This knowledge can be applied beyond designing and<br />
optimising dishwashers to the cleaning <strong>of</strong> tanks, disinfection systems and (if you think<br />
about it) urinals.<br />
<strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> has supported this research in many ways, from hosting conferences and<br />
academic visitors to providing able students and occasions for cross-disciplinary<br />
discussions on the ethics <strong>of</strong> water supply, surfactant chemistry and the physiological<br />
factors affecting the surface tension <strong>of</strong> urine. ■
Complex Fluids: Size Matters<br />
Stuart Clarke<br />
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Experimenting with bouncing putty<br />
At the Easter term President’s Evening I introduced the Society to polymers and how<br />
their properties and behaviour are a direct result <strong>of</strong> the fact they are very long<br />
molecules, rather like string. Like string, polymers are prone to getting entangled,<br />
resulting in slow molecular motion, <strong>of</strong>ten making polymer fluids rather thick (‘viscous’).<br />
The exploitation <strong>of</strong> this behaviour in a range <strong>of</strong> products was outlined from toys, to food<br />
thickeners to enhanced oil recovery. The President himself helped to demonstrate that he<br />
could successfully race the polymer molecules, by stretching the material faster than the<br />
molecules can respond, leading to the polymers snapping/breaking.<br />
The connection <strong>of</strong> individual polymers by cross-links to make a single, super large<br />
molecule, or network, was outlined and illustrated with hot and cold jellies. Hot jellies are<br />
networks that are permanent. However, cold jellies have crosslinks that can make and<br />
break reversibly on changing the temperature. Materials similar to cold jellies have a<br />
number <strong>of</strong> topical applications exploiting the triggered breaking <strong>of</strong> the networks and<br />
releasing agents such as drugs or other actives. Dr Ian Wilson demonstrated a ‘taste<br />
explosion’ from a collapsing cold jelly network.<br />
Polymers can also be cooled to low temperatures. However, unlike most small<br />
molecules, many polymers don’t form crystals, where the molecules are in perfect<br />
alignment, but they remain highly disordered and form a glass. The contrasting s<strong>of</strong>t<br />
character <strong>of</strong> a warm polymer (‘melt’) and the brittle nature <strong>of</strong> a cold polymer glass was
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Tess and John Adkins take a plunge into the cornflour<br />
illustrated with some t<strong>of</strong>fees and a hammer by Dr Garth Wells – the fragments <strong>of</strong> the<br />
shattered glassy t<strong>of</strong>fee scattered across the Upper Hall.<br />
I also briefly introduced the idea <strong>of</strong> Colloids, essentially tiny particles <strong>of</strong> one material<br />
embedded in another. These were illustrated with a number <strong>of</strong> examples including,<br />
mayonnaise, shaving foam, meringue, bread, soup, perfume and polish. Cornflour<br />
particles dispersed in water were shown to be a liquid you can walk on by the Dean <strong>of</strong><br />
Chapel and the rapid formation <strong>of</strong> gas bubbles in coke and champagne when granulated<br />
sugar is added was used to make a fountain, illustrating nucleation phenomena.<br />
Thanks and compliments go to the Head Chef (David Thomas) and his colleagues for<br />
an excellent meal. David was instrumental in connecting the physical science with the<br />
choice <strong>of</strong> menu and demonstrated an astounding knowledge and wealth <strong>of</strong> experience <strong>of</strong><br />
unusual foods and their preparation. Lisa Brown and her team helped in setting up the<br />
demonstrations and audio visual components in the Upper Hall, which all worked very<br />
smoothly.<br />
Finally, the speaker would like to thank Dr Seung Lee (2007) in setting up the<br />
demonstrations and the fellowship for being good sports and taking part in so many<br />
demonstrations. ■
Left-Handed Letters<br />
Christopher Burlinson<br />
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O n 3 November 1579, the lawyer and pamphleteer John Stubbs was brought from the<br />
Tower <strong>of</strong> London to Westminster, where his right hand was publicly chopped <strong>of</strong>f.<br />
Earlier that year, he had published The Discovery <strong>of</strong> a Gaping Gulf whereinto England is Like to be<br />
Swallowed by an Other French Marriage, an eighty-page pamphlet sharply criticising the<br />
possible marriage between Queen Elizabeth and François, the catholic Duke <strong>of</strong> Anjou,<br />
which had been under negotiation for over a year. Stubbs’s pamphlet infuriated Elizabeth,<br />
who issued a proclamation condemning it as a “fardel <strong>of</strong> false reports, suggestions and<br />
manifest lies”. And as he stood on the scaffold awaiting his punishment (alongside<br />
William Page, his bookseller), Stubbs made use <strong>of</strong> the occasion to deliver a speech<br />
protesting his loyalty to the queen and urging his audience to “use your hands holily”. He<br />
subsequently told Sir Christopher Hatton, <strong>of</strong> the Privy Council, that after his mutilation<br />
he had cried “God save the Queen” before falling unconscious and being hauled back to<br />
the Tower; this story also appeared, with embellishment, in William Camden’s Annales:<br />
“I can remember that standing by John Stubbes, so soone as his right hand was <strong>of</strong>f, put <strong>of</strong>f<br />
his hat with the left, and cryed aloud, God saue the Queene”.<br />
I became interested in Stubbs in 2008, while studying sixteenth- and seventeenthcentury<br />
student notebooks in the British Library. In one particular book, among scores <strong>of</strong><br />
pages <strong>of</strong> theological notes probably compiled by a <strong>Cambridge</strong> student during the 1580s,<br />
I came across translations <strong>of</strong> twenty or so Psalms, apparently written by Stubbs and copied<br />
out about eleven years later, long after his death. They were signed ‘John Stubbs Scaeva’,<br />
a Latin nickname referring to Gaius Mucius Scaevola, a young Roman who in the sixth<br />
century BC had attempted to assassinate the King <strong>of</strong> the Etruscans, and who, when<br />
captured, had thrust his right hand into a fire to demonstrate his courage and devotion to<br />
Rome. The poems were preceded by a letter written to Stubbs’s brother-in-law, the famous<br />
Puritan divine Thomas Cartwright, who at that time was in Antwerp, taking up a position<br />
as preacher to a church <strong>of</strong> English merchants.<br />
Stubbs’s Psalm translations are not the most elegant <strong>of</strong> poems, and it is perhaps for<br />
that reason that they have never yet been studied (and barely even noticed by their<br />
librarians). But as I made the connection with the Stubbs <strong>of</strong> The Gaping Gulf, it became<br />
clear that they were an exciting find. Scholars <strong>of</strong> English literary history are currently<br />
fascinated by the various Psalm translations written by sixteenth-century prisoners in the<br />
Tower, to whom this book <strong>of</strong> the Bible seems to have allowed a shared voice <strong>of</strong> repentance<br />
and humility. And in spite <strong>of</strong> Stubbs’s occasional clumsiness, his letter to Cartwright<br />
actually speaks about his own poetry in an extremely thoughtful and self-conscious way,<br />
recalling other Protestant poets <strong>of</strong> the time – not least Edmund Spenser, who as a<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> student in the 1570s would have heard the Presbyterian lectures that led to<br />
Cartwright losing his university chair in divinity. Stubbs’s poems, then, provide further<br />
evidence about the debates on poetry, nationality, and godliness that were clearly animating<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> circles in the 1570s and 80s.<br />
As I continued to work on Stubbs’s Psalms and letters, in fact, I became even more<br />
interested in what they had to say about his place in those very Puritan circles – about<br />
the peculiar ways in which Protestants and Puritans might have corresponded with<br />
one another, and the place that godly poetry might have had in their exchanges and<br />
friendships.
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They provide further insight, for example, into the language <strong>of</strong> Puritan friendship and<br />
brotherhood. In Stubbs’s correspondence with Michael Hickes, for instance, a close<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> friend who had found employment as a secretary to William Cecil, his<br />
mutilation, and the words written subsequently with his left hand, become closely tied up<br />
with the men’s friendship, and with their concern for one another’s godliness. In the<br />
earliest surviving letter written by Stubbs’s left hand, for instance, he asks Hickes to “pray<br />
for your old poor restrained friend that he may never commit any thing unworthy any <strong>of</strong><br />
your Godly acquaintances, or that should make you ashamed to acknowledge him to be<br />
that he is your loving and faithful fellow and friend”. Hickes would thank Stubbs for his<br />
godly words and “assure” him that “these few lines, in this ragged piece <strong>of</strong> paper, and<br />
written with the left hand, do [...] truly declare yow to love me”.<br />
Stubbs, meanwhile, wrote many more letters <strong>of</strong> the same kind, urging Hickes to<br />
“deplore the folly and idleness <strong>of</strong> our misspent youth”, and redeem it “by spending the<br />
rest with more conscience to our building up in faith and faithful conversation, whereby<br />
we may in some godly vocation glorify our God and benefit our brethren and withal live like<br />
Adam’s children”. His letter to Cartwright, in which he encloses the copies <strong>of</strong> his Psalm<br />
translations and urges “those my good brethren with you” to “admonish them frankly”,<br />
shows us that writing and sending poems was an intimate part <strong>of</strong> that Puritan<br />
conversation.<br />
So too was keeping them safe. Stubbs’s poems were copied into this <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
notebook shortly after 1591, when Cartwright had been prosecuted, tried before the Star<br />
Chamber and imprisoned on charges <strong>of</strong> sedition (relating to his preaching in England and<br />
the Netherlands). The fact that the poems were copied down at this particular time might<br />
well show us, in a kind <strong>of</strong> paper chase, how Puritan papers and archives might have passed<br />
from hand to hand at moments <strong>of</strong> persecution and danger.<br />
Stubbs’s poems were written to be sent across the English Channel to Antwerp, along<br />
the same route (and possibly in the very same ships) as the mercantile traffic passing<br />
between England and the Netherlands at the time, to which Stubbs himself refers to in his<br />
letter to Cartwright: “thank Mr Travers, and warrant unto him that the richest merchant in<br />
Antwerp cannot speed me <strong>of</strong> such merchandise as his letters contain, so fit for mine use,<br />
and so pleasing mine humour”. That relationship between poetry and merchandise –<br />
traffic and correspondence in godly words and rich merchandise – is something that I will<br />
be working on this Easter Term, in a fellowship funded by the Centre for Research in Arts,<br />
Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). Into this hitherto unappreciated<br />
cross-Channel history <strong>of</strong> letters and poems, Stubbs’s modest translations give us a piercing<br />
insight. ■
The Unreasonable Effectiveness <strong>of</strong><br />
(Basic Secondary School) Mathematics<br />
Dominic Orchard, <strong>Jesus</strong> Graduate Student<br />
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They claim it was Einstein, it may have been<br />
Feynman, but whoever said “if you can’t explain it<br />
simply you don’t understand it well enough” really laid<br />
down the gauntlet for us theoreticians. Whilst<br />
sometimes excruciating, I have found that this<br />
process <strong>of</strong> simplifying and explaining greatly benefits<br />
my understanding <strong>of</strong> my own work and its place<br />
within the wider research context. This April I had the<br />
fantastic opportunity to once again put myself<br />
through this process at the 5th annual <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Graduate Conference.<br />
Primarily, my research concerns the design <strong>of</strong> programming languages for creating reliable<br />
and efficient s<strong>of</strong>tware. In contrast with natural languages, such as English, Latin, etc.,<br />
programming languages are highly constrained and contain much less ambiguity. They<br />
allow programmers to define complex calculations and manipulations <strong>of</strong> data which are<br />
then translated into more simple, prosaic instructions understood by computer hardware.<br />
A significant aspect <strong>of</strong> my research consists <strong>of</strong> defining the semantics <strong>of</strong> programming<br />
languages using abstract mathematics. A formal and precise semantics allows<br />
programmers to more accurately reason about the correctness <strong>of</strong> their programs, which is<br />
especially important in safety-critical systems, such as medical devices and transport.<br />
Faced with just fifteen minutes <strong>of</strong> air-time I wondered how I could explain any part <strong>of</strong><br />
my fairly theoretical research in programming languages. How could I provide any<br />
intuition about what any <strong>of</strong> it means, particularly the mathematics? Fortuitously, many<br />
concepts in mathematics have the remarkable habit <strong>of</strong> appearing frequently in a variety <strong>of</strong><br />
different contexts. Even more fortuitously for me, the underlying mathematical concepts<br />
<strong>of</strong> my research appear in a dizzyingly large number <strong>of</strong> areas, not least <strong>of</strong> which is in basic<br />
mathematics. The concept is remarkably simple and unknowingly embedded in the minds<br />
<strong>of</strong> most people with even basic arithmetic knowledge, yet it underpins a vast number <strong>of</strong><br />
topics in mathematics, logic, philosophy, physics, and computer science.<br />
Consider the following simple sums:<br />
2 + 2 = 4 3 + 0 = 3 0 + 7 = 7 0 + 0 = 0<br />
The last three have a common form: x + 0 = x or 0 + x = x. These are two simple axioms <strong>of</strong><br />
integer arithmetic, where a variable x acts as a place-holder meaning “any number”.<br />
Consider now the following sum <strong>of</strong> three numbers:<br />
3 + 4 + 2 = 9<br />
The result can be calculated by adding together one pair <strong>of</strong> numbers at a time, in two<br />
different ways:<br />
(3 + 4) + 2 = 7 + 2 = 9<br />
3 + (4 + 2) = 3 + 6 = 9<br />
where parentheses delimit addition <strong>of</strong> two numbers. Clearly it is irrelevant which pair <strong>of</strong><br />
integers is added first; the final result is the same. This behaviour can be generalised as the<br />
axiom: (x + y) + z = x + (y + z).
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In a large variety <strong>of</strong> contexts there exist operations similar to addition which have<br />
axioms <strong>of</strong> the same form as the three axioms for integer addition shown here. These<br />
axioms are generalised to arbitrary operations and domains by the concept <strong>of</strong> a monoid.<br />
A monoid comprises a collection <strong>of</strong> items, an operation that from any two such items<br />
calculates another item, and a special item n, called the neutral item, along with the<br />
following three axioms:<br />
x _ n = x {right-neutral}<br />
n _ x = x {left-neutral} (1)<br />
(x _ y) _ z = x _ (y _ z) {associativity}<br />
The intuition for the neutral item is that it contributes nothing to the result <strong>of</strong> . For<br />
integer addition the collection <strong>of</strong> items are integers, the operation is + and the neutral item<br />
is 0. Another monoid you will be familiar with is integer multiplication with operation<br />
and neutral item 1 where, for example, the right-neutral property is thus x 1 = x. You<br />
might like to convince yourself <strong>of</strong> the truth <strong>of</strong> the remaining axioms.<br />
There are many operations in mathematics that satisfy these axioms but there are<br />
some which do not; monoids are not trivially applicable. For example, integer subtraction<br />
has no neutral item that satisfies the left-neutral property and subtraction violates associativity<br />
e.g. (2 – 3) – 4 ≠ 2 – (3 – 4).<br />
While monoids are relatively basic they are important in many systems, forming the<br />
basis for further simplifications, usually in conjunction with additional axioms or properties.<br />
For example, consider the property: that x + (–x) = 0, describing simplification <strong>of</strong> the<br />
addition <strong>of</strong> a number to its negation. Given a longer sum, e.g. x + y + (–y) + z, this property<br />
can be applied to simplify the sum to x + 0 + z. Because + on integers with 0 is a monoid,<br />
the sum can be further simplified to x + z.<br />
Monoids appear in many contexts other than arithmetic. A fun example I demonstrated<br />
live at the <strong>Jesus</strong> Graduate Conference is the monoid <strong>of</strong> paint mixing. Consider a collection<br />
<strong>of</strong> acrylic paints. There is an operation that takes two colours and calculates a new colour:<br />
mixing them! Mixing is associative: given three paints they can be mixed to the same colour<br />
by first mixing an arbitrary pair <strong>of</strong> paints and then mixing the remaining unmixed paint.<br />
But what is the neutral item? White acrylic paint is not neutral, it lightens the hue <strong>of</strong> the<br />
paint. Instead a substance called base extender is the neutral item. Base extender adjusts the<br />
drying time and consistency <strong>of</strong> acrylic paint whilst preserving its colour. Thus in terms <strong>of</strong> the<br />
colour, base extender is the neutral item <strong>of</strong> the mixing operation, satisfying the left-neutral<br />
and right-neutral properties; it is a monoid! Do try this at home.<br />
In my work with semantics, programs written in some programming language are<br />
described as abstract mathematical objects, representing programs or fragments <strong>of</strong><br />
programs. These objects have a monoid structure whose operation combines two<br />
programs to form another program, similar to constructing a sentence from sub-sentences<br />
and clauses in natural languages. The neutral item for this monoid represents a program<br />
that does nothing. The monoid axioms form the basis for reasoning about the correctness<br />
<strong>of</strong> the programs and correctness <strong>of</strong> the translation between the language and the<br />
underlying instructions <strong>of</strong> computer hardware. Thus, when developing a new semantics<br />
a key question is: what is the monoid for this semantics? This monoidal requirement <strong>of</strong>ten<br />
helps determine the mathematical components needed for a semantics <strong>of</strong> the particular<br />
language. The properties <strong>of</strong> a monoid are certainly not the only interesting properties that<br />
arise, but for a wide variety <strong>of</strong> contexts they appear as basic properties – and they really are<br />
very simple! After all, you already learnt them when you were at school. ■
A Taste <strong>of</strong> Cold Steel<br />
Lucy Fielding, <strong>Jesus</strong> Graduate Student<br />
According to archaeologists, the Iron Age began in 1300 BC and lasted for around two<br />
millennia. Today, steels (alloys <strong>of</strong> iron and carbon) comprise 95% <strong>of</strong> global metal<br />
consumption and this trend shows no sign <strong>of</strong> declining. Glancing at the media, however,<br />
one would be forgiven for assuming that steel is now a has-been. We are bombarded with<br />
stories <strong>of</strong> novel materials: carbon nanotubes, metallic glasses, graphene, carbon fibre,<br />
nickel superalloys . . . all <strong>of</strong> which are “stronger than steel”. “Now we can construct space<br />
elevators!” claim the articles. “Let’s build a climbing frame to the moon! We’ll use this<br />
stuff to make everything!”<br />
The observant among us, however, will note that most cars, trains and buildings still<br />
don’t feature superalloys, metallic glass or magic nanotubes. Neither are they invisible;<br />
nor do they fly; nor do they do any <strong>of</strong> the other things that journalists tend to ‘predict’.<br />
Instead, steels somehow remain the best – and cheapest – materials for the job. Also, they<br />
are stronger than steel. This is because ‘steel’ is a vague construct used by sensationalists,<br />
with an unspecified strength guaranteed to be less than that <strong>of</strong> a novel material.<br />
Metallurgists rarely refer to ‘steel’, just as the Inuit have fifty words for snow, not one <strong>of</strong><br />
which is ‘snow’.<br />
Steels, on the other hand, are alloys with a colourful variety <strong>of</strong> properties: strength,<br />
toughness, hardness, ductility and wear resistance. They are everywhere: railways,<br />
pipelines, bearings, jet engines, armour, nuclear reactors . . . and more. Many <strong>of</strong> these<br />
technologies are cutting-edge in their design, and require highperformance steels to<br />
match. The benefits <strong>of</strong> steels lie first and foremost in their versatility. Iron atoms can ‘stack’<br />
themselves in various distinct configurations (just like a greengrocer stacking oranges –<br />
there are different ways to do it). Each configuration is known as a ‘phase’. As well as the<br />
two main iron phases (austenite and ferrite) there is a carbide phase – a compound <strong>of</strong> iron<br />
and carbon (Fe3C) – called cementite. These phases <strong>of</strong>ten exist in combinations and have<br />
different properties. For example: cementite is strong and brittle, whereas ferrite is s<strong>of</strong>ter<br />
and tougher. If we combine them into a structure called pearlite (consisting <strong>of</strong> alternating<br />
layers <strong>of</strong> ferrite and cementite), we produce a steel that is reasonably strong and tough.<br />
Transmission electron microscope<br />
image <strong>of</strong> superbainite structure.<br />
α = ferrite and γ = austenite.<br />
The inset image is a carbon<br />
nanotube to scale<br />
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The ability to harness the properties <strong>of</strong> different steel phases has been around for<br />
centuries. The temperature and composition <strong>of</strong> the steel determines which phases can<br />
form. By heating and cooling different areas <strong>of</strong> a sword in different ways, ancient Japanese<br />
swordsmiths could produce a steel blade that was s<strong>of</strong>t and tough in the interior, with an<br />
incredibly hard cutting edge. Today, heat treatment is still used to produce phases or<br />
combinations <strong>of</strong> phases with desirable properties. Alloying elements can also modify the<br />
properties: manganese and chromium increase strength; molybdenum prevents<br />
embrittlement. It is the metallurgist’s role to explore new methods <strong>of</strong> heat treatment and<br />
alloying in order to produce novel steels.<br />
‘Superbainite’ is one such alloy. It is designed for high-strength applications and is<br />
currently one <strong>of</strong> the strongest metals in existence. Its strength comes from an incredibly<br />
fine microstructure consisting <strong>of</strong> two phases: ferrite and austenite, and it is the<br />
morphology <strong>of</strong> the phases that is important. The ferrite is in the form <strong>of</strong> plates, separated<br />
by thin films <strong>of</strong> austenite.<br />
In order to deform a metal, it is necessary to force its atoms to change position relative<br />
to each other. However, an interface (such as the boundary between two phases, marking<br />
a change in the atomic arrangement) acts as a barrier to this atomic ‘rearrangement’, and<br />
it becomes harder to deform the material. By refining the microstructure, we can create<br />
more interfaces and increase the strength <strong>of</strong> a metal. The structure <strong>of</strong> superbainite is<br />
unusually fine: the ferrite plates are as thin as 20 nanometres.<br />
This scale is typically difficult to achieve because it requires very low transformation<br />
temperatures (200°C compared to a conventional 400°C). When transforming from one<br />
phase to another, steels can release heat, limiting how much they can be cooled. The<br />
problem was overcome by harnessing a different type <strong>of</strong> transformation – the bainite<br />
transformation – that re-absorbs the heat that is released. The high density <strong>of</strong> interfaces<br />
in superbainite is the origin <strong>of</strong> its strength.<br />
But strength, for all its virtues, is not the only important property <strong>of</strong> a metal. Ductility<br />
(how much the metal can be deformed before it fractures) and toughness (resistance to<br />
crack propagation) are also key. Yet if a steel is very strong, it may have low toughness or<br />
ductility. The real challenge is to obtain an optimum combination <strong>of</strong> several properties.<br />
Some steels make use <strong>of</strong> an unusual property <strong>of</strong> phase transformations. It is possible to<br />
induce a change from one phase to another not by heating but by deforming the metal.<br />
Deformation involves atomic movement, so it is conceivable that the iron atoms can<br />
change configuration, producing a different phase. This can enhance the ductility <strong>of</strong> steels<br />
while retaining their strength, a phenomenon known as transformation-induced plasticity<br />
(TRIP).<br />
Returning to superbainite, we find that the two-phase microstructure is a double-edged<br />
sword. It is suspected that the TRIP effect is converting the s<strong>of</strong>ter austenite into a much<br />
harder, more brittle form <strong>of</strong> iron, resulting in low toughness. If we are to design<br />
superbainitic alloys for applications that require high degrees <strong>of</strong> impact resistance (such<br />
as armour), we must identify and remedy the causes <strong>of</strong> these poor properties, without<br />
losing the strength for which it has become famous.<br />
We must also try to accelerate the transformation. While it is desirable to transform<br />
superbainite at very low temperatures, it can take 10 days or longer to complete the<br />
treatment. A sample <strong>of</strong> the alloy designed to transform at room temperature currently sits<br />
in the Science Museum in London. At the start <strong>of</strong> its 100-year transformation time, it gives<br />
us a glimpse <strong>of</strong> what we may be able to achieve in the future. There are many exciting<br />
advances still waiting to be made. Why pin our hopes on expensive, rare and exotic<br />
alternatives, when we are living in the Steel Age? ■
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Some Notable Jewish Students at <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
Derek Taylor OBE (1951)<br />
Arthur Cohen (Magdalene) was the 5th Wrangler in 1852 and the President <strong>of</strong> the Union<br />
in the same year. He didn’t become an MA, however, until 1871. The probem he had in<br />
graduating was that Jews were not eligible to take degrees until the Universities Test Act<br />
was passed.<br />
In 1871 there were not more than 35,000 Jews in Britain. Today there are no more than<br />
300,000 but we try to punch above our weight. Among the earliest Jews at <strong>Jesus</strong> was<br />
Abraham Levine who came up in 1889, got a first in maths and became a fellow <strong>of</strong> the<br />
college. Mortimer Schiff, Eustace Aron and Maurice Solomons were up around 1910 but all<br />
died in the First World War.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the brightest <strong>of</strong> that group was Rev. Ephraim Levine who got a first in Oriental<br />
Languages. Ephy Levine was a fine Orthodox rabbi and a first class speaker and wit. He was<br />
also passionate about horse racing, which a future Chief Rabbi could not approve. Now<br />
Orthodox Jews observe two days for major festivals where the less observant only keep<br />
them for one. When discussing his hobby, Ephy Levine told the Chief Rabbi “If you can<br />
keep two days for festivals, I can keep four days for Goodwood!”.<br />
Ephy liked to recount the occasion when he came back to the college one year for a<br />
reunion dinner, and the Bursar explained that the main course was pork. As he knew the<br />
rabbi would not eat it, he had had the kitchen specially prepare a ham omelette!<br />
Samuel Benady came up in 1922 and went on to be the Head <strong>of</strong> the Gibraltar Bar for 25<br />
years. Moses Finkelstein arrived in the Thirties and eventually became an Honorary Fellow<br />
The <strong>Cambridge</strong> Jewish Student Centre on Thompson’s Lane
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and Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Ancient History at the <strong>University</strong>. The most famous Jewish <strong>Jesus</strong> man<br />
between the wars was, however, Jacob Bronowski who was came up in 1927. Bronowski<br />
was born in Poland and came to Britain as a refugee in his teens, speaking no English. He<br />
still got into <strong>Jesus</strong>, won a half blue for chess and pursued both an academic and a literary<br />
career when he left. He was particularly well known on early television for a series called<br />
The Ascent <strong>of</strong> Man.<br />
You need 10 men (a minyan) to hold a full Jewish service and in my day, (1951-1954) it<br />
was always said that you could get a minyan at <strong>Jesus</strong>. At that time, as always, there were<br />
men who were going to make their mark in the world, like John Charkham who became<br />
the Chief Adviser to the Bank <strong>of</strong> England in 1985, and Michael Podro who became a<br />
distinguished art historian. You remember your friends, though, for their eccentricities as<br />
well. Like Graham Tayar who played in goal for the soccer team, with his pebble glasses<br />
secured to his head with sellotape. Among the future doctors in my time were Gordon<br />
Cohen and Frank Grossmark, though in those days it didn’t help in the medical world to<br />
have a name like Cohen.<br />
As with all the other men at <strong>Jesus</strong>, we were always treated with the utmost courtesy. In<br />
the first term we were invited to have a cup <strong>of</strong> tea with the Dean individually, but my own<br />
tête-a-tête seemed to me to end rather abruptly when I replied to his enquiry that I was an<br />
Orthodox Jew.<br />
After the State <strong>of</strong> Israel was created, a lot <strong>of</strong> Jews emigrated to build up the country.<br />
Among the Jesuans was Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Vivian Halpern, who was the Head <strong>of</strong> the Physics<br />
Department at Bar Ilan <strong>University</strong>. Still helping back home, though, was Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Maurice<br />
Priestly who became the head <strong>of</strong> Mathematical Statistics at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Manchester.<br />
Academic movement and fields <strong>of</strong> study move both ways though; Francis Landy (1966-9)<br />
went on to be Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Jewish Studies at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Alberta and Philip Selby<br />
(1957-60) became the Executive Director <strong>of</strong> the International Union against Cancer.<br />
Everybody’s favourite don for many years was Freddy Brittain, <strong>of</strong> course, and Simeon<br />
Rydz (1955-8) would have been one <strong>of</strong> his pupils, as he read Modern and Mediaeval<br />
languages. I read history, so when I turned up for a Reunion dinner and found myself<br />
sitting opposite Freddy, I checked my facts. “You taught modern languages, I think”<br />
said I. “No” said Freddy, “I taught mediaeval languages”. “Ah yes” said one <strong>of</strong> his former<br />
pupils sitting on the other side, “but they were modern when you started!”.<br />
Another refugee only reached safety in Britain in September 1939; the late Siegbert<br />
Prawer became an authority on German literature and culture. See his obituary on<br />
page 125. During the war Leonard Michaels (1938-40 and 1945-6) was in operational<br />
Intelligence at the Admiralty.<br />
There was even a Jewish clan at <strong>Jesus</strong>, which was the Cohen family. They provided Bruce<br />
Cohen in 1958 to go with his father, brother, son, two uncles and five cousins.<br />
The first Jewess I have located was Janine Ehrenstein who came up in 1981 (the first<br />
Jewish woman Fellow was Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Lisa Jardine, 1976). There have been many other Jews<br />
who have massively benefited from their time at <strong>Jesus</strong> and it is always a privilege to be able<br />
to say that we were at the college. ■
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Life in the Day <strong>of</strong> the Dean <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Garth Wells<br />
F ortunately, the duties <strong>of</strong> the Dean <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong> do not fill a full day. It would be a concern<br />
if they did. What follows is a collage, or perhaps a term rather than a day in the life <strong>of</strong><br />
the Dean <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong>. It is not a dull college <strong>of</strong>fice to hold.<br />
I usually receive the more interesting emails to the Dean <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong> at around 8:30am.<br />
By this time the Head Porter has vetted any Incident <strong>Report</strong>s from the night before, and any<br />
deemed worthy <strong>of</strong> further attention are sent to me. No two reports are the same, although<br />
some junior members do tend to feature in more than two reports. There can be confusion<br />
with regards to dates as most reports tend to be written either side <strong>of</strong> midnight. When I<br />
receive an Incident <strong>Report</strong> in the morning I will usually take some time to mull over<br />
whether or not action is required, and if action is required whether or not it is urgent. Some<br />
issues require immediate meetings with the protagonists, while in other cases the best<br />
course <strong>of</strong> action can be to leave the perpetrators in uneasy anticipation for a few days.<br />
At any time during the day electronic party permit requests come in. Any gathering in<br />
<strong>College</strong> requires a permit, with the primary concern always being safety. The advice <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Head Porter is invaluable in deciding whether or not to grant a permit – he has a very good<br />
nose for what goes on in <strong>College</strong>. Almost all permits are approved, subject occasionally to<br />
conditions related to safety (usually the presence <strong>of</strong> a sober fire marshal). Some permit<br />
requests do raise eyebrows; memorable recent requests have included a bouncy castle in<br />
a Chapel Court room for a birthday party, a twelve-hour long party and a toasted sandwich<br />
party starting at around midnight. Seeing the permit applications makes me cognisant <strong>of</strong><br />
the remarkable breadth and diversity <strong>of</strong> social, cultural and sporting activities that junior<br />
members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong> engage in.
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I spend most <strong>of</strong> my day at the Engineering Department and usually come into the<br />
<strong>College</strong> for lunch, so I send emails to junior members to arrange appointments after lunch<br />
in my <strong>College</strong> room. Most meetings are to discuss upcoming events at the <strong>College</strong>, issues<br />
around tenancy agreements, incident reports from the Porters or unpaid bills. I sometimes<br />
meet with the leaders <strong>of</strong> a society or club to discuss an upcoming event. These meetings<br />
are constructive as we together find arrangements that work for all involved. It is inevitable<br />
that in a community as large as the <strong>College</strong> there are occasional issues between neighbours<br />
on staircases, and especially so close to the examination period. Usually a conversation<br />
with the parties involved, sometimes apart and sometimes together, is enough to deflate<br />
tensions (although on occasions the end <strong>of</strong> the academic year cannot come fast enough!).<br />
The contents <strong>of</strong> Incident <strong>Report</strong>s are wide and varied, and do usually require attention.<br />
Nowadays, without curfews, the requirement to wear a gown after dark and without<br />
live-in housekeepers to tell tales, a degree <strong>of</strong> audacity is required for a junior member to<br />
come to the attention <strong>of</strong> the Dean <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong>. One <strong>of</strong> the more memorable Incident <strong>Report</strong>s<br />
<strong>of</strong> the past year related to a portable hot tub that was installed in a garden on <strong>Jesus</strong> Lane.<br />
Following a noise complaint in the early hours <strong>of</strong> the morning, a Porter investigated and<br />
was greeted by the sight <strong>of</strong> the naked backsides <strong>of</strong> junior members exiting the hot tub<br />
leaping over the fences <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> Lane gardens.<br />
An important duty <strong>of</strong> the Dean <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong> is to deal with junior members who have not<br />
settled their <strong>College</strong> bill. Usually I will meet each term with all students who have an<br />
outstanding bill and have not reached an arrangement with the <strong>College</strong>. It is rare that<br />
I meet with a student who is in genuine financial difficulty (the <strong>College</strong> provides support<br />
mechanisms for such cases); in most cases the cause is junior members still learning to<br />
manage their financial affairs. In many cases, junior members are taking on a financial<br />
obligation for the first time in the their lives and some need guidance, sometimes firm<br />
guidance, on managing and meeting their financial responsibilities.<br />
I attended the Student Welfare event during the past year, which recognises the<br />
contributions that many make to student life, and especially contributions made by a team<br />
<strong>of</strong> junior members. The Senior Tutor spoke and ran through the various contributions that<br />
those present had made towards students’ welfare. I was feeling overlooked, with<br />
recognition <strong>of</strong> the Dean <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong> reserved until the end, at which point the Senior Tutor,<br />
in jest, questioned my presence given my 'negative' contribution to the student welfare<br />
ledger! As Dean <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong> my task is the dry one <strong>of</strong> enforcing <strong>College</strong> regulations and<br />
statutes, but it is certainly necessary in the <strong>College</strong> community to provide an occasional<br />
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Memoir
Science in the Antarctic<br />
Stan Evans<br />
On 22 November 1955 I embarked on<br />
MV Tottan, a Norwegian sealer <strong>of</strong> 500<br />
tons, at Southampton Dock. She was<br />
chartered by the Royal Society to take an<br />
Advance Party <strong>of</strong> ten men to the Antarctic to<br />
find a suitable location and to build a base hut<br />
for the British contribution to the<br />
International Geophysical Year 1957-8 (IGY).<br />
It was the second exploratory expedition<br />
mounted by the society in its three-hundredyear<br />
history. The first was Captain Cook: the<br />
Transit <strong>of</strong> Venus Expedition <strong>of</strong> 1768.<br />
Our prime task was to build the Base Hut<br />
for the Main Party who would follow a year<br />
later but it was thought desirable for a<br />
meteorologist and a physicist to start<br />
scientific work to be included in with the<br />
Advance Party, if only to get a measure <strong>of</strong> the<br />
conditions. The leader was David Dalgliesh,<br />
Surgeon Commander RN.<br />
My PhD work, at Jodrell Bank, had been in<br />
the radar detection <strong>of</strong> meteors entering the<br />
Earth’s atmosphere: the properties <strong>of</strong> the<br />
meteors and the properties <strong>of</strong> the atmosphere<br />
where the meteor burns up, at about 100 km<br />
height. In just three weeks I had to familiarise<br />
myself with two specialist instruments.<br />
The all-sky camera takes regular<br />
photographs <strong>of</strong> the aurora (e.g. 10 sec<br />
exposures at 1 min intervals) during the<br />
hours <strong>of</strong> darkness.<br />
The Dobson spectrophotometer compares<br />
the strength <strong>of</strong> certain lines in the spectrum<br />
<strong>of</strong> sunlight; some are absorbed by ozone,<br />
some are not, and from their relative<br />
strengths one computes the total amount <strong>of</strong><br />
ozone in the atmosphere at that time and<br />
place. In 1955 Dobson instruments were in<br />
operation at a number <strong>of</strong> observing stations<br />
in Europe and scattered over the northern<br />
hemisphere, including one in Spitzbergen at<br />
77°N, but only one in the whole southern<br />
hemisphere, at Christchurch N.Z.<br />
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To mark the centenary <strong>of</strong> Scott’s death, Stan Evans (Fellow 1976, Emeritus<br />
Fellow 1996), remembers his own voyage to Antarctica 57 years ago . . .<br />
With occasional engine breakdowns in the<br />
doldrums <strong>of</strong> mid-Atlantic, we finally berthed<br />
in the spectacular bay at Rio de Janeiro in mid<br />
December. Amongst other stores, several<br />
carcasses <strong>of</strong> sheep, a pig, and sides <strong>of</strong> beef<br />
were purchased, to be slung in the rigging<br />
(until they could be deep frozen) to provide<br />
us with fresh meat in the winter. Thankfully<br />
there were no engine breakdowns in the<br />
much stormier waters ahead and it was<br />
Christmas Eve when we reached the harbour<br />
at Grytviken, South Georgia, a full month<br />
since leaving England.<br />
Shackleton’s Endurance expedition <strong>of</strong> 1915<br />
revealed that there is a general circulation <strong>of</strong><br />
the pack ice in a clockwise direction around<br />
the Weddell Sea, leaving more fragmented ice<br />
and occasional open water leads along the<br />
eastern shoreline. Therefore we approached<br />
the Weddell Sea from the vicinity <strong>of</strong> Kap<br />
Norvegia, hugging the eastern coastline.<br />
Only one ship had passed this way since 1915:<br />
the Argentinian ice breaker General San Martin<br />
in the summer <strong>of</strong> 1954-5, just one year ahead<br />
<strong>of</strong> us. Tottan was not an ice breaker but our<br />
captain, Lief Jacobsen, had one man huddled<br />
in the crow’s nest at 70ft above the waterline,
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scouting the immediate surroundings for<br />
leads through the ice, and reading the sky for<br />
darker shades where there may be distant<br />
open water. Sometimes we used pick axes<br />
ahead <strong>of</strong> the ship and – what was much more<br />
fun – dynamite. After several days in the pack<br />
we became beset near 77°S. It was the<br />
furthest south Shackleton had reached, on<br />
this same course, locked in the ice from<br />
which he never recovered the ship. Our<br />
instructions from the Royal Society read:<br />
‘find a site for a fixed observatory south <strong>of</strong> 75°<br />
in the Vahsel Bay area <strong>of</strong> the Weddell Sea’.<br />
So no time was lost in setting out extra<br />
charges <strong>of</strong> dynamite to gain our release from<br />
the ice and to turn back north, searching the<br />
coastline for a landing site.<br />
Pack ice, is the frozen surface <strong>of</strong> the sea<br />
comprising floes, large and small, with<br />
occasional leads <strong>of</strong> open water where the floes<br />
part, or pressure ridges where compressive<br />
forces bring the floes together. The outer<br />
parts <strong>of</strong> the pack break up in the summer,<br />
drift north, and melt. Sea ice which is several<br />
years old may be many metres thick and, if<br />
attached to the ‘land’, is known as fast ice.<br />
Falling snow inland, on the continent,<br />
compacts over many years, forming firn, and<br />
reaching depths in the Antarctic which<br />
completely obliterate the topography <strong>of</strong> the<br />
native rock. Then the gradual discharge <strong>of</strong> the<br />
ice from the centre <strong>of</strong> the continent to the<br />
coastline is on a very broad front in the form<br />
<strong>of</strong> an ice sheet which thins as it creeps towards<br />
the coast. If this sheet floats out over the sea,<br />
as much <strong>of</strong> it does in Antarctica, it is known
as shelf ice, typically several hundred metres<br />
thick. The eventual loss <strong>of</strong> this ice to the<br />
ocean is by calving: with tidal motion, a crack<br />
can grow in the shelf until it extends through<br />
the full thickness and a huge tabular berg<br />
breaks away – dimensions <strong>of</strong> 100 km have<br />
been reported. The front <strong>of</strong> the remaining ice<br />
shelf left facing the sea, is then a vertical cliff<br />
perhaps 30m high. This was the sight that<br />
faced us now; we had to be able to land 220<br />
tons <strong>of</strong> unwieldy stores onto cargo sledges<br />
and up to a chosen base site, about 4 km<br />
‘inland’ on the featureless shelf ice. The<br />
Tottan stayed alongside for two weeks which<br />
was a huge help, both for somewhere to live<br />
and for the help which the crew gave us. She<br />
left on January 23 before the ice closed in on<br />
her.<br />
A meticulous record had to be kept <strong>of</strong> the<br />
stores depots: building materials, food, fuel,<br />
clothing, etc, so that items could be found in<br />
the order required. All would soon be buried<br />
by drifting snow. Most immediately we<br />
required five two-man tents, with sleeping<br />
bags, primus stove, and ration box installed.<br />
The tents had a single pole (before the<br />
introduction <strong>of</strong> hoops) and wide ground flaps<br />
onto which snow blocks could be piled for<br />
stability and protection, around the walls. On<br />
top <strong>of</strong> the ground sheet, which was <strong>of</strong> rubber,<br />
was a very thick fleece <strong>of</strong> natural sheepskin<br />
and then goose-down sleeping bags, one<br />
inside another. For the next month or two <strong>of</strong><br />
hard outdoor work we needed 4000 k calories<br />
per day and it came in the form <strong>of</strong> sledging<br />
rations: total sustenance for two men for ten<br />
days packed into a plywood case 2ft long ×<br />
1ft square. The Primus stove had to be<br />
balanced on the ration box between the<br />
sleeping bags, and melting the first snow on<br />
a Primus, without burning the pan, was<br />
tricky. Breakfast was made from porridge<br />
oats, milk powder, and a half pound <strong>of</strong> butter<br />
melted in to augment the calories; cocoa<br />
followed (from the same pan). At breaks in<br />
the work we would gather in the shelter <strong>of</strong> an<br />
empty tractor crate, for ship’s biscuits,<br />
raisins, and hot syrupy tea. At the end <strong>of</strong> the<br />
day’s work it was back to the two-man tent<br />
for supper: pemmican and pea-flour, both<br />
high in protein. One needed a good night’s<br />
sleep to digest that supper.<br />
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As for clothing, the principle was to trap<br />
air between separate layers <strong>of</strong> materials,<br />
mainly woollen – except for the string vest<br />
(truly coarse string then), and over all, a<br />
wind-pro<strong>of</strong> cotton anorak, woven so tightly<br />
it was truly air-tight. In the first few months<br />
<strong>of</strong> hut building the full complement <strong>of</strong><br />
clothing was rarely required; there was 24<br />
hour daylight, <strong>of</strong>ten warm sunlight and, if<br />
not too much wind, shirt-sleeve weather.<br />
Cargo boots, cargo gloves (on a harness) and<br />
a Balaclava helmet were favoured. Snow<br />
goggles must always be worn. Boots and<br />
windpro<strong>of</strong>s would be removed for sleeping<br />
but there was no possibility <strong>of</strong> a wash or a<br />
change <strong>of</strong> clothes until, as it proved,<br />
sometime in May when water could be<br />
produced for the hut bathroom. In winter,<br />
boots would be replaced by Eskimo mukluks:<br />
not waterpro<strong>of</strong>, but freely breathable to<br />
prevent build-up <strong>of</strong> perspiration. Our version<br />
was made <strong>of</strong> a coarse canvas, laced up the<br />
shins, with space for s<strong>of</strong>t duffle liners.<br />
We lived in tents for five weeks, working 15<br />
hours per day on construction <strong>of</strong> the Main<br />
Hut, 130ft long by 27ft wide. One towering<br />
character was George Lush, Lieutenant RN,<br />
<strong>of</strong> limitless practical knowledge, and<br />
authority in controlling the ranks. The plan<br />
was to erect and enclose the first four bays, to<br />
provide a bunkroom and a kitchen (but not<br />
yet the bathroom) allowing us to move in<br />
from the tents. But the race was still on to<br />
enclose the whole <strong>of</strong> the rest <strong>of</strong> the structure,<br />
to keep out drifting snow and to avoid wind<br />
damage which could have come at any<br />
moment. The shell was completed by the<br />
beginning <strong>of</strong> April so that, from that time on,<br />
most work could continue sheltered indoors.<br />
The stores too were brought indoors, except<br />
for an emergency dump 1 km away where<br />
tents, stoves, food, and fuel were kept against<br />
the possibility <strong>of</strong> there being no relief ship<br />
the next year, and as an insurance against the<br />
risk <strong>of</strong> fire in the base hut.<br />
Heating, cooking, and water were provided<br />
by anthracite stoves. The kitchen water tank<br />
held 160 gallons, the bathroom 80 gallons<br />
and three 7.5kVA diesel generators provided<br />
electricity, so that a completely new lifestyle<br />
and routine could be established, with<br />
several duties on a rota. The bath, a tub <strong>of</strong>
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Hut under construction<br />
galvanised iron, was ready for use in mid May.<br />
It was filled from the adjacent boiler and<br />
emptied into a cavern <strong>of</strong> its own making in the<br />
porous firn beneath the floor. One bathed<br />
every ten days.<br />
The duty <strong>of</strong> cook, each man in turn for a<br />
week at a time, was the most exhausting job<br />
<strong>of</strong> all. Two ‘gash hands’ could be called in for<br />
an hour before the meal (filling the water tank<br />
with snow blocks for example) and for an<br />
hour afterwards, clearing away and washing<br />
up. Feeding ten very hungry men, given a fixed<br />
set <strong>of</strong> rations issued at the beginning <strong>of</strong> each<br />
week, taxed ingenuity. If a meal was greeted<br />
in silence, an exhausted cook’s heart sank, but<br />
more <strong>of</strong>ten it was a race to get ‘seconds’. Huge<br />
quantities <strong>of</strong> bread, baked daily, were<br />
consumed. Once a week the carcasses in the<br />
snow tunnel store provided a roast, but no<br />
satisfactory vegetables. Potatoes had to be<br />
reconstituted from dried powder and frozen<br />
peas had not yet been invented.<br />
The Royal Society approved the name for<br />
the Base site – ‘Halley Bay’ to mark the<br />
tercentenary <strong>of</strong> the birth <strong>of</strong> Sir Edmund<br />
Halley, the Physical Secretary <strong>of</strong> the Royal<br />
Society who proposed the first Cook<br />
expedition, and in honour <strong>of</strong> the then 1955<br />
Physical Secretary, the shelf on this coastline<br />
was named the ‘Brunt Ice Shelf ’. This we<br />
learnt by Morse code and a fickle short-wave<br />
radio link with Port Stanley, Falkland Islands.<br />
Personal telegrams cost 5d (=2p) per word,<br />
but Press telegrams went for 1d per word. So<br />
I would keep my family abreast <strong>of</strong> our<br />
activities occasionally by writing pieces for the<br />
Manchester Guardian. That contact had been<br />
made because John Maddox (later editor <strong>of</strong><br />
Nature but at that time an editor on The<br />
Guardian) had previously been my Tutor, in<br />
Physics, at Manchester <strong>University</strong>.<br />
We could also begin sending news <strong>of</strong><br />
scientific interest. Our meteorologist, David<br />
Limbert, had been able to do rudimentary<br />
observations from early on but now a<br />
demanding routine <strong>of</strong> 3-hourly observations<br />
started and, most notably, a 12 m<br />
meteorological tower was built. The sun set<br />
for the last time at the end <strong>of</strong> April so I began<br />
operations with the auroral all-sky camera.<br />
The Dobson spectrophotometer was to wait<br />
until there was some daylight, in September.<br />
The all-sky camera was <strong>of</strong> an appealingly<br />
simple design. A regular Bolex 16mm ciné
camera in a wooden box was focused to look<br />
vertically downwards at a convex spherical<br />
mirror lying flat on a wooden baseboard and<br />
forming a virtual image <strong>of</strong> the whole sky,<br />
down to the horizon. Various azimuth and<br />
elevation markers were included in the field<br />
<strong>of</strong> view. The Bolex clockwork drive was<br />
wound up, not to run at 16 frames per second<br />
but adapted with a simple electromagnetic<br />
trigger to release one frame at a time. Despite<br />
the cold, the Swiss-made camera never gave<br />
any mechanical trouble. There were initial<br />
experiments to decide the exposure and the<br />
repetition rate and it was necessary to develop<br />
the films, 100 ft in length, in total darkness.<br />
We had no suitable apparatus for quantitative<br />
analysis <strong>of</strong> the resulting records though I<br />
could see enough with a photographic<br />
enlarger to report that we had a continuous<br />
record <strong>of</strong> the night sky throughout the<br />
winter darkness – unfortunately in black and<br />
white.<br />
In my personal 35mm camera I used<br />
Ferraniacolor positive reversal film<br />
and processed it at the Base. Those<br />
transparencies, colours unfaded, look as<br />
good today as they did 55 years ago.<br />
The Dobson spectrophotometer, about 1m<br />
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long, was mounted on a trolley. Given a hatch<br />
opening in the sloping ro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> the hut, the<br />
trolley could be wheeled forward on the l<strong>of</strong>t<br />
floor level so that the objective lens <strong>of</strong> the<br />
instrument came outside the ro<strong>of</strong>line, with a<br />
clear view <strong>of</strong> the sky and observations began<br />
in early September. Passing over some quite<br />
sophisticated optical wizardry employed in<br />
this instrument, allow me to describe the<br />
recording technology, which permitted the<br />
observer’s delicate adjustments to be<br />
averaged over a period <strong>of</strong> several minutes.<br />
The recording arm carried a stylus, which<br />
could write on the surface <strong>of</strong> a slowly<br />
revolving disc, the disc being prepared by<br />
blackening in the flame <strong>of</strong> a candle, so that<br />
the stylus may write in the soot! At the end <strong>of</strong><br />
August the elevation <strong>of</strong> the sun was so low<br />
that the values, for the total ozone content,<br />
from top to bottom through the atmosphere,<br />
could not be relied upon. But by the end <strong>of</strong><br />
September the conditions had improved, my<br />
skill had improved, and the ozone values<br />
using different techniques were internally<br />
consistent. Summarised data were therefore<br />
passed back to Dobson by telegram; I expect<br />
he thanked me and I expect he questioned me<br />
about some <strong>of</strong> the calibrations but he did not<br />
Stan Evans (right), with shipmates on the bridge <strong>of</strong> the Tottan in the South Atlantic
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reveal that he was dismayed to see that<br />
something must have gone wrong with the<br />
calibrations; my ozone values were just too<br />
low. They picked up to some extent as the<br />
summer advanced but the values were still<br />
lower, and the overall seasonal variation was<br />
different, from that observed in Spitzbergen<br />
at similar latitude in the north.<br />
Observations in the following few years at<br />
Halley Bay confirmed that, in October in<br />
particular, the values are abnormally low.<br />
You heard it first here. We had to wait until<br />
the 1980s before the full global picture<br />
appeared, showing the ‘ozone hole’<br />
expanding from Antarctica, and later, a<br />
similar process beginning in the Arctic.<br />
The expedition achieved all the objects set<br />
out in the RS plans, on time, and without<br />
loss or damage to persons or goods; 90%<br />
<strong>of</strong> the credit for this goes to David<br />
Tottan alongside the fast ice<br />
Dalgliesh and much <strong>of</strong> the remainder to<br />
George Lush.<br />
There were to be two relief ships bringing<br />
in the main party <strong>of</strong> 20 men in January 1957:<br />
their stores were on the faithful Tottan<br />
with Lief Jacobsen but the personnel were on<br />
the MV Magga Dan (on its maiden voyage),<br />
along with the main party <strong>of</strong> the Trans-<br />
Antarctic Expedition and their stores.<br />
Our loyalties were with the Tottan so we were<br />
pleased that she arrived first, but pleased also<br />
to have the Danish cuisine for the voyage<br />
home, arriving in the pool <strong>of</strong> London in<br />
March 1957.<br />
In 1959 I came to the Polar Institute in<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>. During the following 14 years<br />
I made four visits for glaciological<br />
explorations in the Arctic and three more<br />
in the Antarctic – but no more overwintering.<br />
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<strong>College</strong><br />
History
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Dickens – The <strong>Jesus</strong> Connection<br />
Stephen Heath<br />
It seems appropriate in the bicentenary year<br />
<strong>of</strong> Dickens’s birth to think about the great<br />
novelist’s connection with <strong>Jesus</strong> – but what<br />
connection could there possibly be?<br />
Dickens’s relations with <strong>Cambridge</strong>, let alone<br />
with this <strong>College</strong>, were limited. He visited the<br />
town for a couple <strong>of</strong> hours in 1849 on his way<br />
home from a trip to Norfolk, and he gave<br />
public readings in the town in 1859 and 1867.<br />
These were a huge success, the Guildhall<br />
packed full, with hundreds unable to gain<br />
admission. The colleges, Dickens reported,<br />
had ‘mustered in full force from the biggest<br />
guns to the smallest’, so doubtless at least<br />
some Jesuans will have been present, whether<br />
inside or out. The main, direct <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
connection begins in 1868, when his sixth<br />
and youngest son, Henry, won a scholarship<br />
to Trinity Hall. His other sons had been<br />
disappointing - though later the fifth was to<br />
become a Canadian Mountie hero! Of Henry,<br />
however, Dickens was proud, bent on him<br />
achieving distinction: ‘if he fail to set to in<br />
earnest, I shall take him away’. A week after<br />
Henry came up, Dickens sent him 3 dozen<br />
bottles each <strong>of</strong> sherry and claret, 2 dozen<br />
bottles <strong>of</strong> port, and 6 bottles <strong>of</strong> brandy - not<br />
perhaps the most obvious means for<br />
ensuring the required earnestness. Henry<br />
nevertheless did distinguish himself, both in<br />
the <strong>University</strong> and in his subsequent career:<br />
he was called to the Bar, took silk, was<br />
appointed Common Serjeant, sat as an Old<br />
Bailey judge, and received a knighthood. Of<br />
course, many <strong>of</strong> the people Dickens knew in<br />
his life in London as a writer and public figure<br />
were <strong>Cambridge</strong> educated and here it is that<br />
the <strong>Jesus</strong> connection can be made, since,<br />
happily, two <strong>of</strong> the most important men in<br />
his life were Jesuans.<br />
The first <strong>of</strong> these was John Forster, longstanding<br />
friend and adviser on whom<br />
Dickens depended. Born in Newcastle and<br />
educated at the city’s Royal Grammar School,<br />
Forster came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1828, but found<br />
the expenses at the <strong>University</strong> to be ‘very<br />
John Forster<br />
great’ and the world <strong>of</strong> ‘the cloistered<br />
bookworm’ quite out <strong>of</strong> touch with ‘the real<br />
business <strong>of</strong> life’. Accordingly, he left after a<br />
few weeks to study law at London’s new<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>College</strong>. He did not, though,<br />
follow a legal career, choosing instead the life<br />
<strong>of</strong> a man <strong>of</strong> letters, writing himself,<br />
contributing to various papers and journals,<br />
and above all providing counsel and practical<br />
help to many <strong>of</strong> the writers <strong>of</strong> the day,<br />
Dickens above all. The two met towards the<br />
end <strong>of</strong> 1836 and from then on Forster was<br />
intimately involved in Dickens’s life and<br />
work, – conducting negotiations with<br />
publishers, looking over in manuscript or<br />
pro<strong>of</strong> everything he wrote, helping in family<br />
crises, in all matters indispensable. The<br />
intimacy survived even the shock <strong>of</strong> Forster’s<br />
marriage - he the confirmed bachelor, secure<br />
in his chambers at 58 Lincoln Inn’s Fields<br />
(the model for Mr Tulkinghorn’s chambers<br />
in Bleak House); told <strong>of</strong> the marriage, Dickens<br />
‘lay down flat, as if an Engine and Tender had<br />
fallen on me’. After Dickens’s death Forster
wrote the Life <strong>of</strong> Charles Dickens, the first and<br />
still invaluable biography.<br />
Perhaps we should not make too much <strong>of</strong><br />
Forster in the Dickens-<strong>Jesus</strong> connection<br />
though it is good to think that the novelist’s<br />
closest friend was briefly a Jesuan and, like<br />
Coleridge thirty years before him, had<br />
enjoyed ‘the fields and groves’ <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
The second Jesuan in the connection,<br />
however, is someone to whom we can and<br />
should lay proud claim, both with regard to<br />
Dickens and for his own importance as one<br />
<strong>of</strong> the most interesting and controversial <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Jesus</strong> medical men: John Elliotson MD, FRCP,<br />
FRS.<br />
Elliotson was born in Southwark in 1791,<br />
the son <strong>of</strong> a wealthy druggist. Educated<br />
privately, he went at an early age, to<br />
Edinburgh <strong>University</strong>, where he obtained his<br />
MD in 1810. He then spent three years at <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
as a Fellow Commoner (the <strong>College</strong> owned<br />
the Half Moon public house in Southwark<br />
High Street where Elliotson’s father had his<br />
shop and this possibly influenced the choice<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>). He worked indefatigably, reading<br />
extensively and, accumulating a ‘large<br />
amount <strong>of</strong> curious information’. He took his<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> MB in 1816 and his MD in 1821,<br />
by which time he had begun his medical<br />
career at London’s St Thomas’s Hospital<br />
and was building up a flourishing private<br />
practice. His extensively annotated<br />
translation in 1817 <strong>of</strong> J. F. Blumenbach’s<br />
classic Institutiones physiologicae was a notable<br />
achievement that subsequently formed the<br />
basis for his own comprehensive Human<br />
Physiology <strong>of</strong> 1840. He published on a range<br />
<strong>of</strong> topics including prussic acid in the<br />
treatment <strong>of</strong> stomach disorders, the<br />
diagnosis <strong>of</strong> heart diseases, and the<br />
medicinal properties <strong>of</strong> creosote. He was the<br />
first to use iodine in the treatment <strong>of</strong> goitre<br />
and to prove that glanders can be transmitted<br />
to humans, as well as being one <strong>of</strong> the earliest<br />
British physicians to advocate the use <strong>of</strong> the<br />
stethoscope. The Royal <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> Physicians<br />
elected him a Fellow in 1822, the Royal<br />
Society in 1829. In short, he was eminently<br />
successful in his pr<strong>of</strong>ession and a great credit<br />
to <strong>Jesus</strong>. His younger brother, Thomas,<br />
followed him here in 1822, like him pursued<br />
a medical career, like him became a Fellow <strong>of</strong><br />
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John Elliotson<br />
the Royal Society <strong>of</strong> Physicians. Unlike his<br />
brother’s, however, Thomas’s career was<br />
nowise remarkable.<br />
Small in stature and large <strong>of</strong> head,<br />
Elliotson’s appearance was not prepossessing<br />
and George Eliot for one was<br />
disagreeably surprised on meeting him:<br />
‘I had expected a tall graceful man. He is<br />
stumpy in person and abrupt in manner’;<br />
while Elizabeth Barrett Browning was put <strong>of</strong>f<br />
by his ‘great boney fingers’. Nor was he<br />
prepossessing in character: vain, irascible,<br />
overbearing in pushing his ideas, lacking in<br />
tact, somewhat humourless. Yet a friend <strong>of</strong><br />
George Eliot assured her that he was ‘the best<br />
man living’, and testimonies abound to his<br />
kindness, goodness, and honesty.<br />
By the time Dickens met him, Elliotson<br />
had moved from St Thomas’s to be Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Principles and Practice <strong>of</strong> Medicine at<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>College</strong> and Senior Physician at the<br />
<strong>College</strong> Hospital. He was at the height <strong>of</strong> his<br />
success, recognized as one <strong>of</strong> the leading<br />
physicians <strong>of</strong> the day. At the same time, he<br />
stood out for his vigorous progressiveness,<br />
his keenness to espouse new ideas, and his<br />
use <strong>of</strong> innovative medical procedures.<br />
Innovation, indeed, extended even to matters<br />
<strong>of</strong> dress, with Elliotson abandoning the<br />
standard physician’s garb <strong>of</strong> knee breeches<br />
and silk stockings. Innovation or not,
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however, he had made his pr<strong>of</strong>essional mark<br />
and had a private practice bringing in a very<br />
large annual income. Yet the Elliotson<br />
Dickens came to know in the late 1830s at the<br />
time <strong>of</strong> the success <strong>of</strong> Pickwick Papers was now<br />
taking innovation too far: he had espoused<br />
the cause <strong>of</strong> mesmerism. The creation <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Viennese society doctor Franz Mesmer in the<br />
latter half <strong>of</strong> the nineteenth century,<br />
mesmerism involved belief in the existence <strong>of</strong><br />
a universally distributed, highly rarefied fluid.<br />
Suffused by this fluid, the human body<br />
suffers from blockages <strong>of</strong> its ebb and flow,<br />
from imbalance in its circulation through the<br />
body and between body and world.<br />
Mesmerism as a practice, treated the<br />
resulting disorders by intervening to<br />
redistribute the fluid, thereby correcting<br />
imbalance, removing blockages, and<br />
re-establishing harmony. This the<br />
practitioner did by channelling magnetic<br />
fluid from his own body to that <strong>of</strong> the person<br />
treated, either by touching the affected areas<br />
or by having the person touch things<br />
previously magnetized, or simply by making<br />
gestures – so many ‘passes’ – with the hands.<br />
That all this had nothing to do with any fluid<br />
but rather with forms <strong>of</strong> hypnotic suggestion,<br />
with the power <strong>of</strong> the mind over the body,<br />
was only tentatively beginning to be<br />
understood.<br />
In 1837, Elliotson attended demonstrations<br />
<strong>of</strong> mesmerism in London by a<br />
French practitioner and was enthusiastic as<br />
to its possibilities. So much so that he began<br />
to use it in his hospital wards, himself acting<br />
as mesmeriser. He also gave public<br />
demonstrations, designed to show<br />
mesmerism’s powers and combat the<br />
ignorance <strong>of</strong> its critics. The demonstrations,<br />
first in the wards themselves and then in the<br />
hospital’s lecture theatre, were attended by a<br />
public that was not confined to medical<br />
practitioners and students; peers <strong>of</strong> the<br />
realm, bishops, MPs, writers, artists could be<br />
seen in attendance, Dickens among them. In<br />
these demonstrations, as well as in sessions<br />
held in his Conduit Street home, Elliotson<br />
used some <strong>of</strong> his hospital patients, notably<br />
two young sisters who had been admitted for<br />
epileptic symptoms and were now Elliotson’s<br />
star turns: Jane and Elizabeth Okey.<br />
Mesmerised, the sisters went into<br />
convulsions, fell into somnambulistic states,<br />
became insensitive to pain, did ‘sleep<br />
writing’, and much more. On one occasion<br />
Elizabeth babbled <strong>of</strong> a man jumping naked<br />
out <strong>of</strong> bed; on another she plumped herself<br />
on a peer’s lap and tried to run her hand up<br />
his trousers. She was apparently sensitive to<br />
the magnetic condition <strong>of</strong> the patients<br />
around her and believed by Elliotson to<br />
possess prognostic powers. She would see<br />
‘Jack’, ‘the angel <strong>of</strong> death’, hovering over<br />
other patients. Disregarding all propriety,<br />
Elliotson took her at dusk into the men’s<br />
wards to get her predictions as to how the<br />
patients there would fare.<br />
Scandal was inevitable. The hospital<br />
authorities were outraged at this bringing <strong>of</strong><br />
the hospital into disrepute – unscientific<br />
theories, irregular methods, and potential, if<br />
not actual, immorality, involving practices on<br />
young women put into a state where they lost<br />
control over their actions. The scandal was<br />
fuelled by the Lancet. Founded in 1823 by the<br />
radical ex-surgeon Thomas Wakley, now MP<br />
for Finsbury, the journal was not the<br />
altogether respectable journal <strong>of</strong> today. It had<br />
gained its success by pirating lectures given<br />
by the hospital teachers, thereby saving<br />
students the fees they would have to pay to<br />
attend them (6 guineas for a course, 6d a<br />
week for the journal). The journal’s<br />
fundamental aim was medical reform and<br />
Wakley pulled no punches in his attacks on<br />
the medical establishment – an annual<br />
lecture at the Royal <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> Surgeons was<br />
merely ‘the usual twaddle uttered on such<br />
occasions’, the leading London surgeons<br />
themselves were referred to as ‘the bats’ on<br />
account <strong>of</strong> their blindness and the damage<br />
done by their claws (Wakley was hot on<br />
bungled operations).<br />
Naturally mesmerism attracted Wakley’s<br />
critical attention. Relatively open-minded<br />
reports <strong>of</strong> the demonstrations appeared in<br />
1837, but by the following year Wakley had<br />
taken up the topic with his usual vigour,<br />
setting up experimental trials to test the<br />
theory and expose the practice. Mesmerists<br />
believed that the magnetic fluid could be<br />
transmitted through certain especially<br />
receptive conductors – water, for instance, or
metals such as nickel; Elliotson would<br />
magnetize a glass <strong>of</strong> water or a nickel disc,<br />
contact with which would then produce<br />
mesmeric effects. At his home in Bedford<br />
Square, Wakley put this to the test. In one<br />
experiment, involving Elliotson and the<br />
inevitable Elizabeth Okey, Wakley substituted<br />
unmagnetized discs <strong>of</strong> another metal for<br />
magnetized nickel ones without it making a<br />
scrap <strong>of</strong> difference. Lancet editorials<br />
thundered against quackery, and immoral<br />
quackery at that. Wakley hammered home<br />
that mesmerists exploited the excitability <strong>of</strong><br />
young females, that mesmerism was no less<br />
than indecent assault (examples were cited <strong>of</strong><br />
mesmerisers ravishing unconscious<br />
‘patients’) and heads <strong>of</strong> families were urged<br />
to look to their womenfolk: ‘What father <strong>of</strong> a<br />
family would admit even the shadow <strong>of</strong> a<br />
mesmeriser within his threshold? Who<br />
would expose his wife, or his sister, his<br />
daughter, or his orphan ward, to the contact<br />
<strong>of</strong> an animal magnetiser?’ For Elliotson’s<br />
hospital to allow mesmerism into its wards,<br />
with wealthy and libidinous men invited to<br />
watch women subject to magnetic<br />
suspension <strong>of</strong> all restraint, was a breach <strong>of</strong><br />
every principle <strong>of</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>essional propriety.<br />
Enough was enough: on 28 December<br />
1838 Elliotson was forced to resign from the<br />
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Hospital and his Pr<strong>of</strong>essorship; thenceforth<br />
‘dead to true medical science’, as a<br />
commentator put it. But this was by no<br />
means the last <strong>of</strong> Elliotson – his lucrative<br />
private practice remained (in which, he used<br />
both mesmerism and standard medical skills<br />
and treatments), and he continued to defend<br />
the mesmeric cause. The Harveian Oration he<br />
delivered to the Royal <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> Physicians<br />
in 1846 was a lengthy enumeration <strong>of</strong> the<br />
many instances over the centuries <strong>of</strong><br />
blinkered opposition to new ideas; the<br />
resistance to mesmerism being, on a par with<br />
the resistance met by Harvey’s account <strong>of</strong> the<br />
circulation <strong>of</strong> blood. In 1843 he founded The<br />
Zoist: A Journal <strong>of</strong> Cerebral Physiology &<br />
Mesmerism, and Their Application to Human<br />
Welfare which carried reports <strong>of</strong> mesmeric<br />
cures and rebuttals <strong>of</strong> mesmerism’s critics;<br />
and in 1849 he opened the London Mesmeric<br />
Infirmary, ‘for the treatment <strong>of</strong> Epilepsy,<br />
Deafness, Rheumatism, and other diseases in<br />
which the ordinary means have failed’. He<br />
continued his private demonstrations and<br />
there were few, indeed, in the literary and<br />
artistic circles <strong>of</strong> the day who were not<br />
brought in one way or another into contact<br />
with Elliotson and mesmerism. The bestselling<br />
novelist Frances Trollope, mother <strong>of</strong><br />
Anthony, was reported ‘a thorough-going<br />
mesmerist, constantly at Dr Elliotson’s’;<br />
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was attracted but<br />
also repulsed, fearing ‘the subjection <strong>of</strong> the<br />
will & vital powers <strong>of</strong> one individual to those<br />
<strong>of</strong> another’ (a fear expressed in Robert<br />
Browning’s poem ‘Mesmerism’, in which a<br />
woman is irresistibly in thrall to the force <strong>of</strong><br />
a man using mesmerism to draw her to him).<br />
To many writers Elliotson became doctor and<br />
friend. He was called in when Anthony<br />
Trollope lay in a state that defied other<br />
physicians; despite Elizabeth Okey being<br />
taken into the sick room and seeing ‘Jack’,<br />
Anthony recovered. When Thackeray came<br />
down with cholera and high fever and was<br />
deemed unlikely to live, Forster swiftly<br />
summoned Elliotson to save him. Thackeray<br />
gratefully introduced him into Pendennis, the<br />
novel he was then writing, as Dr<br />
Goodenough who ‘subjugates’ a similar fever<br />
threatening the life <strong>of</strong> the novel’s eponymous<br />
hero. Pendennis, moreover, was dedicated to
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Elliotson with thanks for his ‘constant<br />
watchfulness and skill’ (privately Thackeray<br />
expressed doubts as to the quantities <strong>of</strong><br />
quinine Elliotson had prescribed).<br />
Criticism <strong>of</strong> mesmerism went on<br />
unabated. The mighty periodicals – the<br />
Edinburgh Review, the Westminster Review - were<br />
still in the 1850s denouncing it as a harmful<br />
means <strong>of</strong> disturbing the balance <strong>of</strong> the<br />
mental powers. ‘Magnetic sensibility’, as<br />
exemplified in the Okeys, was properly to be<br />
understood as an unsound condition <strong>of</strong> the<br />
mind, indeed as evidence <strong>of</strong> a person’s below<br />
average physical and moral constitution. That<br />
mesmerism, alarmingly, had by then become<br />
a popular form <strong>of</strong> entertainment in halls and<br />
fairgrounds and homes around the country<br />
said little for its scientific credibility and<br />
social probity.<br />
The evening <strong>of</strong> his resignation, Elliotson<br />
dined with Dickens who was now a firm<br />
believer in mesmerism, much taken with its<br />
uncovering <strong>of</strong> what he called ‘those strange<br />
psychological mysteries in ourselves’. He<br />
himself, it went without saying, was an<br />
exceptional centre <strong>of</strong> magnetic energy:<br />
‘I have a perfect conviction that I could<br />
magnetize a Frying Pan’. Instead <strong>of</strong> a fryingpan,<br />
however, he tested his conviction on his<br />
wife Kate in Pittsburgh in 1842: ‘In six<br />
minutes, I magnetized her into hysterics, and<br />
then into the magnetic sleep’. Elliotson, he<br />
proudly reported, held his powers ‘in great<br />
veneration’. With unbounded confidence in<br />
them, during his stay in Italy in the mid-<br />
1840s Dickens undertook mesmeric<br />
treatment <strong>of</strong> the wife <strong>of</strong> a Genoese banker.<br />
Inevitably, Kate was deeply upset by the<br />
experience <strong>of</strong> her husband shutting himself<br />
up with another woman, holding sway over<br />
her and her inmost secrets.<br />
Elliotson was acknowledged by Dickens as<br />
one <strong>of</strong> his ‘most intimate and valued friends’;<br />
he was godfather to Dickens’s second son<br />
and doctor to the Dickens family. Later years<br />
were not happy. By the 1860s doubts were<br />
being expressed even by Dickens, as to<br />
Elliotson’s continuing medical competence,<br />
as to his mental state. He became an active<br />
believer in spiritualism – in which Dickens<br />
had no belief – and devoutly religious, where<br />
previously he had scorned religion. In 1865<br />
bad investments led to financial failure and<br />
he was forced to give up his Conduit Street<br />
house and live with a former pupil in a less<br />
fashionable area <strong>of</strong> the city. He fell into<br />
depression, manifested suicidal tendencies,<br />
and saw his health deteriorate. He died in<br />
London in 1868 <strong>of</strong> what was recorded as<br />
‘natural decay’.<br />
Dickens died two years later, halfway<br />
through the writing <strong>of</strong> The Mystery <strong>of</strong> Edwin<br />
Drood. Mesmerism is strongly present in that<br />
novel in the portrayal <strong>of</strong> the two-faced John<br />
Jasper and the power he exercises over the<br />
terrified young woman Rosa Bud; as though<br />
Dickens’s imagination <strong>of</strong> mesmerism had<br />
darkened, as though the powers and<br />
mysteries it exploited and explored were now<br />
being seen in a negative light.<br />
Elliotson’s death, however, was perhaps<br />
not final. In 1972, American neurosurgeon<br />
Norm Shealy MD, PhD attended a meeting <strong>of</strong><br />
the Neuro-Electric Society in Colorado where<br />
he heard a lecturer mention John Elliotson: it<br />
was ‘as if someone had thrust an iceberg<br />
down my neck’ – ‘“My God, that’s me”, he<br />
exclaimed. Later that year, he visited London<br />
where he had another iceberg experience as<br />
his taxi drove past <strong>University</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Hospital. He stopped the cab, entered the<br />
building, and felt immediately at home - this<br />
after all was where, as Elliotson, his <strong>of</strong>fice<br />
had been. The evidence <strong>of</strong> reincarnation was<br />
undeniable: like John, Norm walked with a<br />
limp; John was pr<strong>of</strong>icient in Latin,<br />
Norm twice won his high school Latin medal;<br />
Norm too was pr<strong>of</strong>essionally concerned<br />
with the brain; as a child, Norm refused<br />
to wear knickers, just as John refused to<br />
wear breeches; and so on. To cap it all, no<br />
less than seventy-five reputable clairvoyants<br />
agreed that Norm had been – was – John<br />
Elliotson.<br />
The <strong>College</strong> has never given due<br />
recognition to John Elliotson, as an alumnus<br />
<strong>of</strong> distinction and an influential figure in<br />
nineteenth-century Britain. He stands,<br />
indeed, as one <strong>of</strong> the most fascinating<br />
medical men the <strong>College</strong> has ever produced.<br />
Possibly though, amends might now be made<br />
by bestowing some appropriate <strong>College</strong><br />
honour on him in his reincarnation as Norm<br />
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Creator <strong>of</strong> the Modern <strong>College</strong> –<br />
Henry Arthur Morgan 1830-1912<br />
Peter Glazebrook<br />
In all weathers and in all seasons countless<br />
Jesuans have rowed to and fro past The<br />
Paddock at Fen Ditton, and in May Weeks still<br />
others have been there watching them. But<br />
only a few have walked the couple <strong>of</strong> hundred<br />
yards up the lane and into the churchyard<br />
where, in the corner nearest to his beloved<br />
river, Henry Arthur Morgan – ‘Black Morgan’<br />
– the creator <strong>of</strong> their modern <strong>College</strong> and its<br />
first Fellow to make being a don a pr<strong>of</strong>ession,<br />
is buried. The inscription on his gravestone<br />
tells the basic story:<br />
HENRY ARTHUR MORGAN D.D.<br />
BORN AT GOTHENBURG JULY 1ST 1830<br />
DIED AT JESUS LODGE SEPT 3RD 1912<br />
FOR 22 YEARS TUTOR AND FOR 27 YEARS<br />
MASTER OF JESUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE<br />
FAITHFUL TO DUTY, WISE IN<br />
COUNSEL, READY OF WIT,<br />
ABOVE ALL DAUNTLESS IN SUFFERING<br />
AND TENDERLY SYMPATHETIC<br />
MEN FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT<br />
BECAUSE OF HIM<br />
AND LOVING DEEPLY, HE WAS DEEPLY<br />
LOVED<br />
Unlike many epitaphs, this one rings true,<br />
and in this, the centenary year <strong>of</strong> his death, it<br />
deserves enlarging on. 1 In 1902, when Arthur<br />
Gray, whom Morgan had admitted to the<br />
<strong>College</strong> in 1870, and whose election in 1876<br />
to a Fellowship, and appointment in 1895 as<br />
Senior Tutor, Morgan had instigated, and<br />
who in 1912 was to succeed him as Master,<br />
published his fine History <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>,<br />
Morgan was still presiding over it. Gray paid<br />
him a charming tribute, and went on to say,<br />
“What the <strong>College</strong> owes him no <strong>Jesus</strong> man<br />
needs to be told”. 2 Fifty-eight years later,<br />
when Brittain sought to bring Gray’s History<br />
up-to-date, he both omitted the tribute and<br />
neglected the hint, content to afford Morgan<br />
one desultory paragraph. 3 (He underestimated<br />
Gray, too.) So there is a gap to be<br />
filled.<br />
I n 1830, the year <strong>of</strong> ‘Black’ Morgan’s<br />
birth, his father, Morgan Morgan, who<br />
came from a long-established family <strong>of</strong><br />
Cardigan farmers, was the chaplain to the<br />
British merchants at Gothenburg in southwest<br />
Sweden, where he had met and<br />
married Fanny Nonnen, whose Angl0-<br />
Huguenot family had settled there. Henry<br />
Arthur was their fourth child (<strong>of</strong> five), and<br />
third son. The first became a Fellow <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>College</strong>, Oxford, and then a<br />
lawyer and a politician, and a minister in<br />
Gladstone’s second and third<br />
administrations; the second, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
Medicine at Manchester. Morgan Morgan<br />
returned to his native Wales to be Vicar <strong>of</strong><br />
Conwy, and his youngest son who<br />
remembered that when the bishop came<br />
for confirmations there were two sermons<br />
– one in English by the bishop, and one in<br />
Welsh by his chaplain – himself became a<br />
Welsh speaker and remained proud <strong>of</strong> his<br />
Welsh roots and concerned about Welsh<br />
affairs. He was an early supporter <strong>of</strong> the<br />
National Eistedfodd, becoming a Bard, and<br />
could always be relied on to enliven a party<br />
with the spirited singing <strong>of</strong> Welsh songs.<br />
But when, later in life, he published a<br />
pamphlet arguing that the best way to take<br />
the wind out <strong>of</strong> the sails <strong>of</strong> the campaign<br />
for the disestablishment <strong>of</strong> the Welsh<br />
Church was to provide scholarships for the<br />
ablest (and most radical) candidates for the<br />
non-conformist ministry so they could<br />
study at <strong>Cambridge</strong> and Oxford, where<br />
they would mingle with cultivated English<br />
gentlemen and be tamed, it was apparent<br />
that he had been too long away from<br />
Wales. 4<br />
The Morgan boys spent three years at<br />
Shrewsbury School, then ruled by the<br />
redoubtable Dr Kennedy <strong>of</strong> Latin Primer fame
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– it was their first experience <strong>of</strong> formal<br />
education – and from there, Henry, aged 16,<br />
went to King’s <strong>College</strong> London, as stoutly<br />
defended a bastion <strong>of</strong> Anglicanism as any<br />
Oxbridge college. Its poorly regarded medical<br />
school apart, it then functioned, essentially,<br />
as a VIth Form college, with a scholarship<br />
class for those intending to go on to<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> or Oxford to get a degree and seek<br />
ordination. (The other students went, degreeless,<br />
straight into commerce, the pr<strong>of</strong>essions<br />
or the civil service.) The scholarship class was<br />
notably successful: in the year that Morgan<br />
took the Mathematical Tripos (1853) 13 out<br />
<strong>of</strong> the 41 Wranglers (the First Class) had<br />
come to <strong>Cambridge</strong> via KCL (he was the 26th<br />
Wrangler), as had the top six Senior Optimes<br />
(the Seconds), all <strong>of</strong> them having earlier<br />
obtained the best <strong>of</strong> their colleges’<br />
scholarships. 5 Among the KCL<br />
contemporaries who came with Morgan to<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> was his life-long friend Leslie<br />
Stephen, the noted Alpinist, father <strong>of</strong> Virginia<br />
Woolf and founding editor <strong>of</strong> the Dictionary <strong>of</strong><br />
National Biography, who (until he lost his<br />
faith, resigning his Orders and his<br />
fellowship) was to be as charismatic a Tutor<br />
at Trinity Hall as Morgan was at <strong>Jesus</strong>.<br />
Arriving in the Michaelmas term 1849, the<br />
last <strong>of</strong> the graceful and respected Dr French’s<br />
mastership, he found the <strong>College</strong> more or<br />
less full, with 55 students, a third <strong>of</strong> them,<br />
like him, clergymen’s sons, attracted by the<br />
Rustat and related scholarships. The<br />
restoration <strong>of</strong> the inner Chapel, guided by<br />
Pugin, was receiving much admiring interest.<br />
In the last hundred or so years most<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> (and Oxford) colleges have, as a<br />
result <strong>of</strong> the reforms made by the <strong>University</strong><br />
Commissions established under the Oxford<br />
and <strong>Cambridge</strong> Universities Acts <strong>of</strong> 1877 and<br />
1923, been much <strong>of</strong> a muchness. Each has,<br />
<strong>of</strong> course, its own atmosphere and traditions,<br />
and there are some variations (though less<br />
than <strong>of</strong>ten thought) in academic reputation,<br />
sporting prowess, and amenities. But, at<br />
bottom, they all have similar academic aims<br />
and policies; the same criteria – <strong>of</strong> open<br />
competition on merit – are applied to the<br />
admissions <strong>of</strong> students and elections to<br />
fellowships; and in these smaller<br />
communities they <strong>of</strong>fer their members<br />
comparable benefits within the larger<br />
<strong>University</strong>. And the <strong>University</strong> not only<br />
examines, but provides most <strong>of</strong> the teaching<br />
and nearly all the facilities needed for<br />
advanced study and research. One hundred<br />
and sixty years ago, when Morgan came up, it<br />
was all hugely different.<br />
The <strong>University</strong> was then little more than an<br />
examining and a police authority linking its<br />
17 <strong>College</strong>s. It had only just acquired an art<br />
gallery and museum, and its library was<br />
struggling to cope with the increased flow <strong>of</strong><br />
printed books. Almost all the teaching was<br />
done (at a lowly level) in the colleges or (to a<br />
higher standard) by private tutors, “coaches”,<br />
and the variations between colleges – where<br />
their students came from (regionally and<br />
socially) and the reasons which brought them<br />
to <strong>Cambridge</strong> (not always to get a degree);<br />
what scholarships and what other help they<br />
<strong>of</strong>fered them; their fees, charges and room<br />
rents; and from whom and by what means<br />
they selected their fellows (all <strong>of</strong> whom had,<br />
however, to be Anglicans) – were enormous.<br />
Some colleges, notably Trinity and<br />
Emmanuel, chose their fellows by<br />
examination, some only from among their<br />
own scholars, some on the basis <strong>of</strong> Tripos<br />
performance and general reputation, some<br />
regularly, others when there were casual<br />
vacancies to be filled; and the length and<br />
condition <strong>of</strong> tenure varied too. Only a small<br />
minority <strong>of</strong> the fellows were involved in<br />
teaching, and fewer still in advanced study<br />
and research, or were even resident. For the<br />
non-resident, a fellowship was little more<br />
than an annuity payable from a college’s<br />
surplus income. And colleges varied vastly in<br />
size and financial resources. More than half<br />
<strong>of</strong> all the students in <strong>Cambridge</strong> belonged to<br />
just two: Trinity and St John’s, which, with<br />
comparably large bodies <strong>of</strong> resident fellows,<br />
called most <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong>’s tunes.<br />
<strong>Jesus</strong> if, in its own terms, prospering in<br />
1849, was nonetheless one <strong>of</strong> the smaller and<br />
poorer colleges: in both 1850 and 1851 there<br />
would be deficits. So its sixteen fellowships<br />
were not worth much (and in some years<br />
nothing beyond free board and lodging).<br />
They were, in theory, open to all (male)<br />
British subjects who were members <strong>of</strong> the<br />
United Church <strong>of</strong> England and Ireland and
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unmarried, but in practice they were almost<br />
always filled from among its own recent<br />
graduates, one <strong>of</strong> them (like the Mastership)<br />
by the bishop <strong>of</strong> Ely in his absolute<br />
discretion. There being no time limit on<br />
tenure, vacancies arose irregularly. Only three<br />
or four Fellows were needed to run the place<br />
and do the basic teaching in Mathematics and<br />
Classics, along with a little Divinity, <strong>of</strong> those<br />
<strong>of</strong> its 70 students who were not seeking an<br />
Honours degree. This was all that was<br />
<strong>of</strong>fered. So almost all the other Fellows were<br />
non-resident – their rooms were sub-let –<br />
appearing in the <strong>College</strong> only occasionally,<br />
though usually for the Audit each December<br />
when they learnt how much their fellowships<br />
had brought them. At <strong>Jesus</strong> only six <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Fellows were required to be in Holy Orders,<br />
It was, however, unthinkable that the Tutor,<br />
the <strong>College</strong>’s main teaching <strong>of</strong>ficer, should<br />
not be a clergyman – for he stood in loco<br />
parentis, responsible not only for the students’<br />
studies, but for their finances, their personal<br />
behaviour, and their religious guidance. But<br />
unless a Fellow was in Orders, and so in the<br />
longer run eligible for any <strong>of</strong> the fifteen<br />
livings in the <strong>College</strong>’s gift that happened to<br />
fall vacant, there was not much to be gained<br />
from a fellowship beyond some intellectual<br />
kudos, and the maintenance (so long as the<br />
holder remained unmarried) <strong>of</strong> a pleasant<br />
connection with his student days.<br />
Having performed creditably, if without<br />
great distinction, in the Mathematical Tripos<br />
and fallen hopelessly in love with the river (he<br />
was Captain <strong>of</strong> Boats in 1851), Morgan did<br />
not at once seek ordination, but remained<br />
living in <strong>College</strong> as its Sadleirian Lecturer in<br />
Mathematics (an early eighteenth century<br />
benefactress had founded one in each<br />
college: stipend £20 p.a.), and then as a<br />
<strong>College</strong> Lecturer, helping with the teaching<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Ordinary degree students. After five<br />
years he was elected (1858) to a Ley Bye-<br />
Fellowship (an early nineteenth century<br />
endowment). He was to be the last Sadleir’s<br />
Lecturer and the last <strong>of</strong> the Bye-Fellows: all<br />
the lectureships were abolished and the<br />
endowment used for a pr<strong>of</strong>essorship, while<br />
the bye-fellowships were converted into<br />
entrance scholarships. In 1858 Morgan set<br />
out his (and the <strong>College</strong>’s) stall with the<br />
publication (by the then local firm <strong>of</strong><br />
Macmillan) <strong>of</strong> A Collection <strong>of</strong> Problems and<br />
Examples in Mathematics Selected from the <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> Examination Papers. His fellowship<br />
came, eventually and hesitantly, in 1860. 6 His<br />
own teacher (to whom the book was<br />
dedicated) having left <strong>Jesus</strong> for King’s,<br />
Morgan had become the mainstay <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s Mathematics teaching. Having<br />
been ordained in 1859 on his bye-fellowship,<br />
without serveing a curacy, he was in 1862<br />
elected Dean, and in the following year<br />
appointed Tutor. His predecessor had<br />
married and become the incumbent <strong>of</strong> a local<br />
parish – the last Tutor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> for whom the<br />
<strong>of</strong>fice was but a temporary staging-post in a<br />
clerical career. Morgan was to make it his<br />
life-time’s work.<br />
In 1863 the <strong>College</strong> was at a low ebb. Over<br />
the last twelve years student numbers<br />
had shrank from 70 to 40: in 1859 there<br />
had been only five freshmen. Whereas in<br />
1851 there had been nine colleges with<br />
fewer students than <strong>Jesus</strong>, now there were<br />
only five, and since 1860 no Jesuan had<br />
been successful in any Honours<br />
examination.<br />
It is difficult to be sure <strong>of</strong> the reasons for<br />
this decline. The <strong>College</strong>, although<br />
previously seen as a place <strong>of</strong> some interest,<br />
appears now to have been widely regarded as<br />
one <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong>’s backwaters. Two <strong>of</strong> the<br />
moving spirits behind the Chapel’s<br />
restoration – John Gibson, and the<br />
pioneering geophysicist, Osmund Fisher –<br />
had long left their fellowships for <strong>College</strong><br />
livings, and their enthusiastic and generous<br />
supporter, Sir John Sutton, the musicologist,<br />
had surrendered his fellow commonership<br />
and charge <strong>of</strong> the choir school he had<br />
founded and run, on becoming a Roman<br />
Catholic. The restoration programme had<br />
ground to a halt: the outer Chapel still lay as<br />
dreary and desolate as it had been since the<br />
Civil War. To everything those men had stood<br />
for, French’s successor as Master, G.E.<br />
Corrie, was strongly antipathetic. And to<br />
much else too. Both as Master and as Vice-<br />
Chancellor he had refused to have anything<br />
to do with the Royal Commission inquiring<br />
into the <strong>University</strong> and its colleges, declining
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both the Commission’s requests for<br />
information and its invitations to submit<br />
proposals for making <strong>Cambridge</strong> more<br />
attractive and accessible to more students,<br />
and for widening its curriculum and putting<br />
its endowments to better use. (His successor<br />
as Vice-Chancellor was more co-operative,<br />
but only one Jesuan broke ranks: Thomas<br />
Gaskin, a former Tutor who, safe in a local<br />
parish, was still teaching Mathematics in<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>). The Commissioners’<br />
recommendation for allowing some<br />
fellowships to be held by married men –<br />
generally considered an essential<br />
precondition for improving the quality <strong>of</strong><br />
university teaching by allowing it to become a<br />
life-time career – was spurned by the Master<br />
and Fellows <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>, which was one <strong>of</strong> only<br />
three colleges to remain completely under<br />
this handicap. 7 Nothing, if Corrie could<br />
prevent it, was going to change. While<br />
Norrisian Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Divinity (1838-54) he<br />
had declined – claiming to be over-worked –<br />
to participate in the “voluntary” theological<br />
teaching and examining <strong>of</strong> intending<br />
ordinands on which nearly all diocesan<br />
bishops, hoping for a more theologically<br />
literate clergy, were keen. It was an odd<br />
stance for the Head <strong>of</strong> a college, the bulk <strong>of</strong><br />
whose students were destined for the<br />
Church, and not one calculated to attract the<br />
more serious minded (or their parents) to it,<br />
or <strong>of</strong>fset by the announcement that each Lent<br />
term the Master gave a course <strong>of</strong> divinity<br />
lectures.<br />
Corrie was, when he appointed Morgan<br />
Tutor, seventy and tired – probably more tired<br />
than when, thirteen years earlier, he had<br />
come to the <strong>College</strong> from St Catharine’s (even<br />
smaller and poorer than <strong>Jesus</strong>) where he had<br />
been a Fellow since graduating (as 18th<br />
Wrangler), Dean for 31 years, and Tutor for<br />
28 (eleven <strong>of</strong> them during his sixteen-year<br />
term as Norrisian Pr<strong>of</strong>essor). By 1863 he had<br />
settled into the routine <strong>of</strong> spending the six<br />
summer months at his parish <strong>of</strong> Newton-inthe-Isle,<br />
on the northern edge <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>shire fens, a living given to him by<br />
his former Tutor at St Catharine’s, and<br />
predecessor as Norrisian Pr<strong>of</strong>essor, Bishop<br />
Turton. Having appointed his former pupil to<br />
the Mastership he sought to compensate for<br />
its inadequate stipend by presenting him to<br />
“the best living in my gift”. The <strong>College</strong> was,<br />
while the Master was away, left in the care <strong>of</strong><br />
its President, Arthur Westmorland, who also<br />
acted, in effect, as Bursar. Like Morgan he<br />
had come to <strong>Cambridge</strong> via King’s <strong>College</strong><br />
London. 8 A layman, a barrister and a man <strong>of</strong><br />
some means, he was prominent in the town’s<br />
political life – in the Conservative interest, <strong>of</strong><br />
course – but little involved in academic affairs<br />
or with students. They were Morgan’s<br />
responsibility and though Corrie was, like<br />
many said to suffer from poor health, to live<br />
to a ripe old age (92), he neither opposed nor<br />
interfered with Morgan’s ideas for the<br />
<strong>College</strong>, little though they can have appealed<br />
to him.<br />
M organ, now 33, was, by contrast, the<br />
very embodiment <strong>of</strong> the vigorous<br />
masculine Victorian clergyman. He had<br />
rowed in more than a hundred intercollegiate<br />
races, stopping only when rules<br />
about standing were introduced, but then,<br />
with other energetic dons, founding their<br />
own boat club whose name, “The Ancient<br />
Mariners”, revealed its close association<br />
with Coleridge’s old college. 9 In the<br />
previous year he and Leslie Stephen had<br />
been the first climbers to traverse Jungfrau<br />
Joch, and he had toured Sweden, Finland<br />
and Russia, publishing a book about his<br />
trip. 10 He was, too, a keen cyclist. Crucially<br />
for him and the <strong>College</strong>, he was able,<br />
within two years, to secure the election as<br />
Fellow and Dean (thereby freeing himself<br />
from that <strong>of</strong>fice) <strong>of</strong> another Morgan –<br />
Edmund Henry – but no relation, 24th<br />
Wrangler, and every bit as energetic and<br />
enthusiastic a sportsman, though<br />
preferring land to water, a rougher and less<br />
sophisticated man: to be known as ‘Red’<br />
Morgan, so as to distinguish Dean from<br />
Tutor.<br />
A muscular Christian if ever there was one,<br />
‘Red’ Morgan was a practical, business-like<br />
man, with a sound financial sense – it was he,<br />
not Westmorland, who worked out how the<br />
new buildings that ‘Black’ Morgan wanted<br />
could be paid for, and it was he who oversaw<br />
the builders and saw that the <strong>College</strong> got
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Morgan with Ear Trumpet
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Black Morgan: Vanity Fair, 1889<br />
value for its money. 11 It was he too, as Dean,<br />
who had work on the Chapel’s restoration<br />
resumed, appealing for funds and seeing the<br />
outer Chapel transformed with William<br />
Morris’s richly painted nave ceiling, and its<br />
windows filled with as fine a collection <strong>of</strong><br />
stained glass – by Morris, William Burne-<br />
Jones and Ford Madox Brown – as can be<br />
found in any church <strong>of</strong> comparable size. For<br />
thirty years – until ‘Red’ Morgan’s death in<br />
1895 – the two Morgans were to be the closest<br />
<strong>of</strong> collaborators. They not only ran, they<br />
dominated, the <strong>College</strong> : they were it, and it<br />
was them. And when ‘Black’ Morgan was<br />
elected Master, it was ‘Red’ Morgan who<br />
succeeded him as Senior Tutor (three were<br />
now needed) while continuing as Dean.<br />
Their partnership’s fame spread well beyond<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>: in 1889 Vanity Fair published<br />
‘Spy’ cartoons <strong>of</strong> both <strong>of</strong> them.<br />
Sensing the Victorian middle class’s<br />
growing appetite for university education – to<br />
fill the gap between a young man’s leaving<br />
school and being fit for an appropriate job or<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>ession – and with the B.A. (though not<br />
the M.A.) degree now open to non-Anglicans,<br />
Morgan’s aim was not just to return student<br />
numbers to 1849-53 levels, but significantly<br />
to increase them. A Tutor’s repute and<br />
prestige – and his income – depended on<br />
how many students he had in his college.<br />
There was no <strong>University</strong> or (except at Trinity)<br />
college entrance examination and no<br />
educational requirement for matriculation:<br />
Morgan was to oppose their introduction. 12<br />
But if <strong>Jesus</strong> was to have more students, more<br />
rooms would be needed. In 1863 it was a<br />
college <strong>of</strong> two-and-a-bit courts – the<br />
attractive Entrance Court dominated by the<br />
Gate Tower, the rather damp and pokey<br />
Cloister Court, and a Pump Court which<br />
extended only to K staircase, and embraced<br />
the <strong>College</strong> Cook’s vegetable garden.<br />
At the December 1867 Audit meeting, it<br />
was agreed “that power be given to the<br />
resident Society to consider the expediency <strong>of</strong><br />
enlarging the present <strong>College</strong> buildings and<br />
to report thereon to the Society at large”, and<br />
fourteen months later, on 2 February 1869,<br />
the Fellows agreed to Morgan’s proposal –<br />
written into the Conclusions Book in his own<br />
hand – that<br />
“In consideration <strong>of</strong> the greatly<br />
increased number <strong>of</strong> undergraduates<br />
admitted <strong>of</strong> this <strong>College</strong> and <strong>of</strong> the<br />
increased number <strong>of</strong> young persons<br />
generally throughout the country for<br />
whom education at the universities has<br />
become an object <strong>of</strong> interest and<br />
importance . . . the Master and Fellows<br />
have felt to be necessary to consider<br />
whether or not it be their duty to build a<br />
certain number <strong>of</strong> additional sets <strong>of</strong><br />
rooms within the <strong>College</strong> precincts for<br />
the accommodation <strong>of</strong> those students<br />
who are now compelled to occupy<br />
lodgings in the town”<br />
to approve Waterhouse’s plans for 22 (later<br />
increased to 24) sets “and to give the resident<br />
Society authority to raise the necessary funds<br />
to carry out the Designs.” Taking advantage<br />
<strong>of</strong> recent legislation which had, for the first<br />
time, permitted colleges to borrow, most <strong>of</strong><br />
those necessary funds – the builder’s tender<br />
was for £6248 – were found in the Rustat<br />
Trust’s reserves, and were to be repaid over<br />
thirty years. 13<br />
Morgan’s vigorous student-recruitment<br />
campaign had already borne fruit. By 1868
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the <strong>College</strong> had 104 undergraduates, two and<br />
a half times the number he had inherited five<br />
years earlier, and the 28 freshmen who came<br />
up in 1869, while the Dean was overseeing<br />
the builders, maintained that total, making<br />
<strong>Jesus</strong> the seventh largest college in<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>: there were now ten smaller than<br />
it. And as if recognising the place he had<br />
gained for himself and his <strong>College</strong> in<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>, Morgan was this year elected to<br />
the <strong>University</strong>’s Council, its youngest<br />
member, ready to play his part in all the great<br />
<strong>University</strong> controversies <strong>of</strong> the following<br />
decades. He was a vehement critic <strong>of</strong> the<br />
dominant position <strong>of</strong> Mathematics in the<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> curriculum, which he thought a<br />
waste <strong>of</strong> time for all but the really gifted: the<br />
others would be better employed on Natural,<br />
or Mechanical Sciences or on Economics. 14<br />
Indeed, on all the main issues he was on the<br />
side <strong>of</strong> the reformers: in favour <strong>of</strong> turning<br />
fellowships from prizes into jobs, in which<br />
he played a leading role – in opposition to<br />
Corrie – in mobilising opinion in<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>, 15 <strong>of</strong> abolishing the celibacy rule,<br />
and <strong>of</strong> open competitive entrance<br />
scholarships; he was against compulsory<br />
Greek, 16 and in favour <strong>of</strong> degrees for women<br />
– though in national politics he was a<br />
Conservative.<br />
By 1874, with 140 students, <strong>Jesus</strong> was (with<br />
Corpus) the fourth largest college, and in the<br />
ensuing years numbers continued to<br />
increase, until in 1881, with 216 students –<br />
over five times as many as when he became<br />
Tutor – it had become the third largest in<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>, exceeded only by Trinity and<br />
St John’s. These students were, <strong>of</strong> course,<br />
Morgan’s and not, as Brittain claimed,<br />
Corrie’s undergraduates. 17 It was an<br />
astonishing achievement – the <strong>University</strong><br />
itself had only just doubled in size in the same<br />
period. Numbers would later fall: in 1890<br />
<strong>Jesus</strong> was overtaken by Pembroke, and from<br />
then until 1910 they waxed and waned<br />
alarmingly – in 1901 when there were only 22<br />
freshmen, it was no more than the ninth<br />
largest college, but sixth in 1910 when there<br />
were 80 freshmen, so that by 1912 it again<br />
had 200 undergraduates. 18<br />
Morgan was a man <strong>of</strong> both great energy<br />
and personal charm, inspiring confidence in<br />
parents and schoolmasters – a popular Tutor<br />
with a gift for managing lively, but far from<br />
studious, young men: a splendid host, at<br />
breakfast as well as at dinner, full <strong>of</strong> stories<br />
and a marvellous mimic. He gained his<br />
pupils’ life-long affection by his concern for<br />
them, especially when things were not going<br />
well. 19 (He was the effective instigator <strong>of</strong> the<br />
J.C.C.S., though it was not put on a formal<br />
footing until 1903). 20 Of all this there is, even<br />
after all the usual discounts have been made,<br />
a wealth <strong>of</strong> evidence – including the elaborate<br />
silver epergnes given the <strong>College</strong> by a grateful<br />
Mayor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong>. In 1875 his house<br />
(where the Wesley Church now stands) was<br />
besieged, and his family terrified, by rioting<br />
students indignant at the penalties handed<br />
out to disorderly undergraduates by the<br />
town’s magistrates. The Tutor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
arrived, announced that for five minutes he<br />
would recognise no one: the mob dissolved.<br />
The huge increase in numbers in the<br />
<strong>College</strong> required the Hall to be enlarged and<br />
a lecture room (‘Small Hall’) built (1875),<br />
services (compulsory for all but non-<br />
Anglicans) to be held in the Outer Chapel<br />
(1886,) for which a second organ was needed<br />
(1887), and another and yet larger new<br />
building (designed by Carpenter and<br />
Inglelow with 36 sets and another lecture<br />
room (1885). It blocked the view eastwards<br />
over open country hitherto enjoyed by rooms<br />
in Cloister and Pump Courts (Victoria Avenue<br />
still lay in the future), and had niches on the<br />
outside which, once Corrie was in his grave,<br />
were filled with statues <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
patron saints: the Virgin (and the Child<br />
<strong>Jesus</strong>), St John the Evangelist, and<br />
St Radegund. (Morgan thought a Corpus<br />
Christi procession he saw in Brussels,<br />
“gorgeous” 21 ).<br />
B ut what sort <strong>of</strong> college was it that Tutor<br />
and Dean had created? It was not, it<br />
must be said, a place where higher<br />
learning was much in evidence. In the<br />
twelve years before 1863, although the<br />
number <strong>of</strong> students in <strong>Jesus</strong> was small, 7<br />
out <strong>of</strong> 8 <strong>of</strong> them (181 out <strong>of</strong> 206) did take a<br />
degree: a little above the <strong>University</strong><br />
average. In the first seven years <strong>of</strong>
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Morgan’s Tutorship (1864-1870) the<br />
number fell slightly to 6 out <strong>of</strong> 8 (150 out<br />
<strong>of</strong> 202) which was about the <strong>University</strong><br />
average. But in the next fourteen, during its<br />
full-flowering, only 5 in 9 graduated (495<br />
out <strong>of</strong> 906) whereas the <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
average was 7 in 9. And, unsurprisingly,<br />
there was little change during the ten years<br />
<strong>of</strong> ‘Red’ Morgan’s Tutorship (1886 – 1895):<br />
only 3 in 5 graduated, while the <strong>University</strong><br />
average was 4 in 5. Not all <strong>of</strong> those who did<br />
not graduate will have stayed as long as<br />
those who did, so they will not, term by<br />
term, have been quite so large a proportion<br />
<strong>of</strong> the student body as those bare statistics<br />
suggest. But all a student had to do if he<br />
was to stay beyond his first year was pass<br />
the Previous (‘Little Go’) examination, and<br />
as the 1874 edition <strong>of</strong> the semi-<strong>of</strong>ficial<br />
Student’s Guide to the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
said, “being intended for all students alike,<br />
and being placed early in the course, is<br />
necessarily easy. The standard is low . . . .<br />
students <strong>of</strong>ten leave school with<br />
knowledge sufficient to pass the<br />
examination, [so] it has been thought<br />
expedient to allow such students to pass<br />
the examination” early in their first year. 22<br />
But it was not only the ratio <strong>of</strong> graduating<br />
to matriculating students that was low during<br />
Morgan’s Tutorship; so too was the<br />
proportion taking an Honours rather than an<br />
Ordinary degree – “the examination for<br />
which” as that same edition <strong>of</strong> The Student’s<br />
Guide assured its readers “is in truth not so<br />
difficult but that any person <strong>of</strong> common<br />
abilities, and common preliminary training,<br />
with tolerable industry at <strong>Cambridge</strong>, may<br />
reckon with certainty upon passing it.” 23<br />
In the years 1850-1863 1 in every 2 <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
graduates obtained Honours, but throughout<br />
Morgan’s Tutorship only about 1 in 4 did (it’s<br />
difficult to be more precise since the able and<br />
ambitious <strong>of</strong>ten took more than one Tripos):<br />
an average <strong>of</strong> 6 a year between 1864 and 1870,<br />
but no more than 9 a year 1871-1885, despite<br />
the great growth in the <strong>College</strong>’s size, which<br />
was not matched, either, by a significant rise<br />
in the number <strong>of</strong> scholarships <strong>of</strong>fered.<br />
Seventeen instead <strong>of</strong> 14 Rustat Scholarships<br />
were now available (and no longer limited to<br />
clergy orphans), and there were two Entrance<br />
scholarships – a novelty – each year, one in<br />
Mathematics and one in Classics. That was<br />
all. The <strong>College</strong> had not yet started to <strong>of</strong>fer<br />
teaching for the Tripos: those seeking<br />
Honours - the “reading man” – had still to<br />
go and find it for themselves. 24 The <strong>College</strong><br />
provided only what was needed for the<br />
Ordinary examinations. (In 1868 <strong>Jesus</strong> had<br />
agreed with four others on inter-collegiate<br />
lectures for the Classical Tripos, each college<br />
to provide a lecturer on a different subject,<br />
but the scheme was not trouble-free. 25 ) As The<br />
Student’s Guide (speaking <strong>of</strong> the run <strong>of</strong><br />
colleges) said, “Perhaps two hours a day may<br />
be the average <strong>of</strong> time exacted <strong>of</strong> a student by<br />
the lecturer. Nor is it to be imagined that by<br />
a lecture is meant a formal and continuous<br />
discourse. . . A lecture at <strong>Cambridge</strong> is<br />
generally much the same thing as a lesson at<br />
school, it being <strong>of</strong> course understood that the<br />
lectured are not subject to the restraints and<br />
discipline <strong>of</strong> schoolboys. If the subject be<br />
classical, an author is read, the students<br />
translating in turns, while the lecturer<br />
interposes his comments as he sees fit. If it<br />
be mathematical, the students are <strong>of</strong>ten<br />
occupied during the whole <strong>of</strong> the hour in<br />
writing answers to written questions or in<br />
solving problems. Where the audience is<br />
large, the lecture sometimes becomes more<br />
formal in its character.” 26<br />
Matters improved somewhat during ‘Red’<br />
Morgan’s Tutorship: 1 in 3 <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
undergraduates now took Honours – over<br />
half <strong>of</strong> them in one <strong>of</strong> the “new” Triposes :<br />
Natural and Mechanical Sciences, Law,<br />
History, Economics and Theology. It was not,<br />
however, until Arthur Gray became Senior<br />
Tutor in 1895 (the first layman to be a <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
Tutor) that there was any real change –<br />
Fellows to teach something other than<br />
Mathematics and Classics began to be<br />
elected, but it was an uphill struggle in the<br />
hard times <strong>of</strong> the agricultural depression and<br />
the South African war (for which Morgan was<br />
a fervently jingoistic recruiting sergeant) 27<br />
when colleges were competing for a<br />
dwindling number <strong>of</strong> students. Indeed, it was<br />
only under the impact <strong>of</strong> the 1944 Education<br />
Act that the present understanding that a<br />
student place at <strong>Cambridge</strong> is a scarce and
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valuable resource, and that students who<br />
accept one will do their best to get a good<br />
degree, became general. In the two Morgans’<br />
time, the assumptions were that <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
wanted students and it was for the students<br />
to decide how they spent their time. But it was<br />
on the foundations that they laid that Gray<br />
and succeeding generations built. 28<br />
So if, while the Morgans ruled, academic<br />
studies were not a high priority for most <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
undergraduates – there were, <strong>of</strong> course, some<br />
for whom they were – sporting prowess<br />
certainly was. This is a matter that has been<br />
examined in some detail, and there is no need<br />
to go over the ground again here: the eleven<br />
successive years (1876-86) in which the First<br />
Boat was Head <strong>of</strong> the River, celebrated by a<br />
Grand Ball in the Guildhall, attended by the<br />
Queen’s grandson, the Duke <strong>of</strong> Clarence, and<br />
all that. 28 ‘Black’ Morgan’s own enthusiasm<br />
for the river was highly infectious – year in<br />
and year out he had coached the <strong>Jesus</strong> crews<br />
from the towpath, his favourite mount a<br />
white horse called ‘Gehazi’. Convinced that<br />
the shallow, narrow Cam put <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
oarsmen at a disadvantage against their<br />
Oxford rivals, he had led (1868-70) a<br />
successful campaign for its widening and<br />
deepening, managing to extract £100 from<br />
Queen Victoria which she gave in memory <strong>of</strong><br />
“her beloved Prince Albert, lately Chancellor<br />
<strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong>.” Rowing was, he said, “the<br />
ideal [sport], no pots or personal records, all<br />
done for the honour <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong> and the<br />
<strong>University</strong>.” 30 Within the Close, the farmer<br />
and his animals gradually retreated before the<br />
regiments <strong>of</strong> cricketers, footballers, hockey<br />
and tennis players and athletes – many<br />
undergraduates serving in more than one <strong>of</strong><br />
them. This was why they had come to the<br />
<strong>College</strong>, whose sporting amenities they<br />
could, if they wished, enjoy during “the<br />
Long” as well as in the three <strong>University</strong> terms.<br />
Much <strong>of</strong> what present day Jesuans<br />
remember when thinking <strong>of</strong> their <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
distinctive characteristics – its clubs, societies<br />
and sports’ teams, the J.C.R. (initially “the<br />
Reading Room”), its colours on scarves, ties,<br />
blazers and other wear, its magazines and<br />
May Balls, its Directors <strong>of</strong> Studies, the<br />
friendly informal relations between Fellows,<br />
students and staff, even the re-gothicised<br />
appearance <strong>of</strong> its buildings and their setting<br />
in the park-like Close – has, like Old<br />
Members’ Reunions, its origins in the years<br />
when ‘Black’ Morgan, first as Tutor, and then<br />
as Master, was its dominant personality.<br />
Astonishingly little comes from the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
previous three-and-a-half centuries. Rather<br />
similar tales could, no doubt, be told <strong>of</strong> five<br />
or six <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong>’s older colleges, but<br />
Morgan was at the forefront <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong>’s<br />
nineteenth-century collegiate revolution,<br />
showing what could be done even when the<br />
starting point was a small, poor, church<br />
institution, with a backward-looking Head.<br />
Amalga-mating with another college,<br />
seriously considered elsewhere, was for him<br />
unthinkable.<br />
T he summer <strong>of</strong> 1882 was a great one for<br />
weddings – in the wake <strong>of</strong> the Act <strong>of</strong><br />
Parliament which finally freed all<br />
fellowships from the celibacy rule. Arthur<br />
Westmorland (aged 62), ‘Black’ Morgan<br />
(52), and Arthur Gray (only 30) all went to<br />
the altar. Henceforth only one Fellow, the<br />
Dean, had to be in Orders. And to enable<br />
Tutors to continue to keep a close eye on<br />
their pupils, two large family houses –<br />
“East” (now the Bursary) and “North”<br />
(where North Court now stands) – were<br />
built in the Close. An exploration <strong>of</strong> East<br />
House (even though it has since been<br />
altered internally) gives a good idea <strong>of</strong> the<br />
social standing <strong>of</strong> a Victorian Tutor.<br />
Morgan soon had five children, one son,<br />
four daughters. He was a devoted father:<br />
for many years, while Master, he was to be<br />
seen each morning after the Chapel<br />
service, touring the <strong>College</strong>’s courts – two<br />
<strong>of</strong> them his own creations – a child in each<br />
hand or, if the weather was wet, making<br />
with them several circuits <strong>of</strong> the Cloisters.<br />
In was in 1885, on Corrie’s death, that<br />
Morgan had at last come into his inheritance.<br />
The bishop <strong>of</strong> Ely having surrendered his<br />
right to appoint the Master, he was<br />
unanimously elected by the Fellows, the first<br />
for whom the Mastership was a stand-alone<br />
<strong>of</strong>fice. All his precedessors had combined it<br />
with some church post. The Fellows declared<br />
the Lodge to be untenantable – dark, damp,
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unsafe and hopelessly inconvenient. It fell<br />
way below the standard set by East and North<br />
Houses. Carpenter came over from Chapel<br />
Court to plan the alterations which produced<br />
the house we know. Morgan himself paid for<br />
the bay windows which greatly enhanced the<br />
dining and drawing rooms, and he lent the<br />
<strong>College</strong> money to pay for other changes.<br />
Though he had been so active a sportsman,<br />
he was several times, while still Tutor,<br />
seriously ill and at death’s door. 31 By the time<br />
he became Master he was well on the way to<br />
becoming pr<strong>of</strong>oundly deaf – his portrait in<br />
Hall catches the characteristic gesture <strong>of</strong> a<br />
hand raised to his ear – and so it was<br />
impossible for him to be Vice-Chancellor.<br />
(The D.D. gown he wears in that portrait was<br />
<strong>of</strong> a degree conferred in recognition <strong>of</strong> his<br />
Mastership, not <strong>of</strong> any theological learning).<br />
He remained faithful to the causes he had<br />
championed in his prime: it was at his<br />
initiative that the <strong>College</strong> began to elect<br />
Research Fellows. But in 1907 he had to<br />
accept that he was no longer capable <strong>of</strong><br />
acting as Master, and at the request <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Fellows, all <strong>of</strong> whom were for the first time in<br />
the <strong>College</strong>’s history recognisably university<br />
teachers, actual or embryonic, the Bishop (as<br />
Visitor) appointed Arthur Gray Vice-Master. 32<br />
It was from that year, rather than 1912, that<br />
Gray’s mastership really began. ■<br />
1 The author’s speech at the J.C.C.S. dinner on 24<br />
September 2011 was based on an earlier version <strong>of</strong><br />
this paper.<br />
2 <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> (<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>College</strong> Histories)<br />
(London 1902), pp. 222, 227.<br />
3 Arthur Gray and Frederick Brittain, A History <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong> (London 1960) p. 189.<br />
4 Church and Dissent in Wales (<strong>Cambridge</strong> and London<br />
1895).<br />
5 F.J.C. Hearnshaw, Kings <strong>College</strong> London 1828-1928<br />
(London 1929) p. 182.<br />
6 On 22 February 1859 the <strong>College</strong> had petitioned the<br />
Bishop to be allowed to defer nominating candidates<br />
for a vacant fellowship on the ground that there were<br />
too few duly qualified candidates: J.C.A. Conclusions<br />
Book.<br />
7 Peter Searby, History <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong> (vol.<br />
III) (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1997) p. 542<br />
8 As also had Thomas King, Fellow 1863-1904.<br />
9 [Leslie Stephen] Sketches from <strong>Cambridge</strong> by a Don<br />
(London 1865) pp. 16-17.<br />
10 The Northern Circuit (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1862).<br />
11 J.C.A. Conclusions Book. 22 Dec 1870, 19 May and 7<br />
June 1875, 12 March 1887; P.P.3 (E.H. Morgan<br />
scrapbooks).<br />
12 D.A. Winstanley, Later Victorian <strong>Cambridge</strong> (<strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
1947) p. 156<br />
13 J.C.A. Conclusions Books, 22 and 29 April 1869.<br />
14 The Mathematical Tripos: an Inquiry into its Influence on a<br />
Liberal Education (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1871); Cf. [Leslie<br />
Stephen] (n.9) p. 50.<br />
15 The Tenure <strong>of</strong> Fellowships (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1871);<br />
Winstanley (n.12) pp. 267-9.<br />
16 Chanticlere 1891. M.T. p. 16.<br />
17 Note 3, chapter 12.<br />
18 Christopher Brooke, History <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> (vol. IV) (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1993 App. 1.<br />
19 Note 2, p. 222; J.M. New Chanticlere, E.T. 1892; W.R.<br />
Inge in F.J. Foakes Jackson (ed.) The Parting <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Roads (London 1912) p. 3, Charles Whibley,<br />
Blackwood’s Magazine, October 1912; Foakes Jackson,<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> Review 17 October 1912, (reprinted<br />
Chanticlere M.T. 1912).<br />
20 Chanticlere 1904, M.T., p. 476; ibid. Foakes Jackson,<br />
1912 M.T. p. 10.<br />
21 Iris L. Osborne Morgan, Memoirs <strong>of</strong> Henry Arthur<br />
Morgan (London 1930) p. 116.<br />
22 [J.R. Seeley (ed.)] p. 20.<br />
23 p.3.<br />
24 p.66, cf. E. Sharwood Smith (matriculated 1883) in<br />
Peter Glazebrook (ed.) <strong>Jesus</strong>: The life <strong>of</strong> a <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 2007) pp. 107-109.<br />
25 Sheldon Rothblatt, The Revolution <strong>of</strong> the Dons (New<br />
York 1968) p. 230.<br />
26 [Seeley] (n. 22)pp. 64-65.<br />
27 Glazebrook (n.24) pp. 209-10.<br />
28 The data on the matriculation/graduation ratio has<br />
been culled from <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>University</strong> Book <strong>of</strong><br />
Matriculations and Degrees (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1902), and<br />
those on Honours and Degrees from <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> Historical Register 1851-1900 (<strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
1904)<br />
29 Notably, J.A. Mangan “Oars and the Man”: Pleasure<br />
and Purpose in Victorian and Edwardian <strong>Cambridge</strong>,<br />
British Journal <strong>of</strong> Sports History vol. 1 (1984) pp. 245-<br />
271, an edited version <strong>of</strong> which is printed in<br />
Glazebrook (n.24) pp. 156-164; and the essays there<br />
by Christopher McDouall and David Wootton on the<br />
Boat Club (pp. 183-190) and by Ge<strong>of</strong>f Parks on<br />
Cricket (pp. 191-194); Percy Melville Thompson,<br />
Some Things We Have Remembered (London 1912) pp.<br />
161-7.<br />
30 Morgan (n.21) p. 236.<br />
31 Cf. the Fen Ditton epitaph.<br />
32 Thomas King, Fellow since 1863, who had spent<br />
much <strong>of</strong> his life as an Inspector <strong>of</strong> Schools, died in<br />
1904.
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People<br />
Awards, honours, projects, significant lectures<br />
Master and Fellows<br />
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The Master, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Ian White, has received the 2011 Aron Kressel Award given by the<br />
Institute <strong>of</strong> Electrical and Electronic Engineers in recognition <strong>of</strong> his important<br />
contributions to opto-electronic device technology.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Madeleine Arnot and her associates H. Pinson and M. Candappa received<br />
second prize in the 2011 Society for Educational Studies book awards for their study<br />
Education, Asylum and the Non-Citizen Child published by Palgrave 2010.<br />
Dr Christopher Burlinson was awarded a Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library,<br />
Washington DC, to research poetry and social networks in pre-Civil War Oxford<br />
<strong>University</strong>, as part <strong>of</strong> work on an edition <strong>of</strong> Richard Corbett.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Alastair Compston has closed a 36 year gap between describing (with others)<br />
the first genetic association for multiple sclerosis in 1976 and the next 57 genes, which<br />
was finally published in 2011. He also successfully concluded a 21 year programme<br />
introducing Campath-1H (a medicine made in <strong>Cambridge</strong> in the 1980s) as a treatment<br />
for multiple sclerosis, showing that it is the most effective remedy currently available.<br />
A drug licence is expected in 2013.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor James Crawford has been awarded the <strong>2012</strong> Manley O. Hudson Medal by the<br />
American Soceity <strong>of</strong> Internaitonal Law. The award is the Society’s highest honour and is<br />
given annually to an individual for outstanding scholarship and achievement in the field<br />
<strong>of</strong> international law; Robbie Jennings was a recipient in 1993. The award ceremony took<br />
place in Washington DC in March.<br />
Mr Peter Glazebrook contributed a paper at the international conference to mark the<br />
centenary <strong>of</strong> the birth <strong>of</strong> Glanville Williams (Fellow 1955-1979), at King’s <strong>College</strong>,<br />
London, 3-4 December 2011.<br />
Dr Ge<strong>of</strong>frey Harcourt has been elected Distinguished Fellow <strong>of</strong> the History <strong>of</strong> Economic<br />
Thought <strong>of</strong> the Economic Society <strong>of</strong> Australia. He writes: “I am now a Distinguished<br />
Fellow <strong>of</strong> 3 continents: US, Europe and Australia (twice as I was elected Distinguished<br />
Fellow <strong>of</strong> the Economic Society <strong>of</strong> Australia in 1996)”.<br />
Dr Kathryn Susan Lilley has been awarded a Pr<strong>of</strong>essorship in the Department <strong>of</strong><br />
Biochemistry.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Robert Mair was Chairman <strong>of</strong> the Royal Society and Royal Academy <strong>of</strong><br />
Engineering Committee on Shale Gas Extraction and Hydraulic Fracturing; the report,<br />
commissioned by the Government, was published in June <strong>2012</strong>. In November 2011 he<br />
delivered the Hong Kong <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Science and Technology Institute <strong>of</strong> Advanced<br />
Study Distinguished Lecture ‘Advances in Research and Practice in Underground<br />
Construction – the Future <strong>of</strong> Megacities’.<br />
Dr Cecilia Mascolo has received a Google Research Award for a project called Space,<br />
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 <strong>of</strong> German<br />
and Dutch.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Juliet Mitchell has received an Emeritus Leverhulme Award to write a book on<br />
siblings in Shakespeare. Juliet has been 2011-<strong>2012</strong> Andrew Mellon Visiting Pr<strong>of</strong> at the<br />
Courtauld Institute <strong>of</strong> Fine Art where she co-designed and taught a Masters course.<br />
She has given a public lecture for the Freud Museum exhibition on Louise Bourgeois.<br />
Meanwhile she has continued her Mellon Visiting Scholarship at Witswatersrand,<br />
Johannesburg. She has also continued to Direct the PhD Programme in Theoretical<br />
Psychoanalysis which she designed and established in 2010 at <strong>University</strong> <strong>College</strong>, London.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Peter Nolan has been elected to the <strong>University</strong>'s newly established Chong Hua<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Chinese Development and appointed first Director <strong>of</strong> the Centre <strong>of</strong><br />
Development Studies. His addresses over the past year include a lecture to the Board <strong>of</strong><br />
US-China Business Council, a key-note lecture on ethics and the world economy at the<br />
Vatican before His Holiness Benedict XVI, and a speech at the China Development<br />
Forum for global business leaders in the presence <strong>of</strong> the Chinese Premier. He has also<br />
become a member <strong>of</strong> the UK Government's Asia Task Force, chaired by Vince Cable,<br />
Minister <strong>of</strong> Trade and Industry.<br />
Dr Oren Schermann has been appointed to a Readership in the Department <strong>of</strong><br />
Chemistry.<br />
Dr Andy Tucker has been appointed to the post <strong>of</strong> Deputy Director <strong>of</strong> the Centre for<br />
Gender Studies.<br />
Dr Garth Wells has been appointed to a Readership in the Department <strong>of</strong> Engineering.<br />
Dr Tim Wilkinson participated in a successful bid to the EPSRC for funding <strong>of</strong> over £2m<br />
over four years with a view to increasing the capacity <strong>of</strong> a single fibre beyond that <strong>of</strong><br />
existing fibre communication systems in a cost effective and energy efficient manner.<br />
His Holiness Benedict XVI greets Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Nolan after Peter’s keynote speech in the Vatican on World Economy
New Fellows<br />
James Purdon grew up just outside Glasgow, and first came to<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> in 2001 to read English at Emmanuel where he was<br />
involved in amateur dramatics and edited the May Anthologies<br />
<strong>of</strong> new writing. After winning a Herschel Smith Scholarship to<br />
study at Harvard <strong>University</strong>, he spent a year exploring academic<br />
areas <strong>of</strong> the humanities outside <strong>of</strong> English, and first became<br />
interested in the cultural history <strong>of</strong> technology, which has since<br />
become one <strong>of</strong> his main academic interests. Returning to<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> in 2005, he studied for an MPhil in Criticism and<br />
Culture, then went to work in London for two years, writing<br />
reviews for The Observer. He is also a contributor to the Times<br />
Literary Supplement and the Literary Review, and more recently, with some <strong>of</strong> his <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
contemporaries set up an online quarterly magazine The Junket, which has just celebrated<br />
its first full year <strong>of</strong> publication. He also worked part-time as a committee reporter for<br />
Hansard, the <strong>of</strong>ficial report <strong>of</strong> the House <strong>of</strong> Commons. He started his PhD in the autumn<br />
<strong>of</strong> 2008, writing about the relationship between early twentieth-century literature and<br />
film and the development <strong>of</strong> new information management technologies – such as the<br />
law governing <strong>of</strong>ficial secrets, the documentation <strong>of</strong> identity in passports, and the<br />
collection <strong>of</strong> surveillance data in government intelligence dossiers.<br />
Michael Waibel did compulsory military service in the Austrian<br />
army followed by studies in law at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Vienna<br />
which he completed in two years, followed by an “Erasmus<br />
Year”. He then enrolled at the LSE for graduate studies in<br />
economics, hoping to write his doctoral thesis in international<br />
economic law. The first year <strong>of</strong> the transition from law to<br />
economics was difficult. He chose as his PhD topic:<br />
restructuring sovereign debt. While doing his research he<br />
worked for a year at the IMF and the World Bank. In<br />
Washington DC he met his wife Darshini. In the final phase <strong>of</strong><br />
his PhD, Michael spent three months in <strong>Cambridge</strong> as a<br />
Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre. He then rounded <strong>of</strong>f his legal education with<br />
an LLM degree at Harvard Law School where he again served as a teaching fellow in<br />
economics and confirmed his desire to become an academic. A postdoc at the<br />
Lauterpacht was the ideal way <strong>of</strong> making the dream <strong>of</strong> an academic career become a<br />
reality. After getting married in 2010, Darshini and Michael escaped for a year to<br />
Switzerland (where Michael taught at St Gallen), before returning to <strong>Cambridge</strong> in early<br />
<strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Simone Schnall grew up in Bavaria in the Southern part <strong>of</strong><br />
Germany. She did her undergraduate studies at the <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Trier and then went to Clark <strong>University</strong> for what was<br />
intended to be a one-year research visit. Rather than returning<br />
to Germany she stayed in the United States for 10 years, first<br />
receiving her PhD in psychology, and then serving as Research<br />
Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Virginia. After a<br />
lectureship at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Plymouth, Schnall joined the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong> in 2009, where she is currently a<br />
Senior Lecturer in the Department <strong>of</strong> Psychology. Her research<br />
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involves the interaction <strong>of</strong> cognition and emotion, with a focus on the influence <strong>of</strong><br />
embodied factors on judgment and decision processes. Recent topics have included the<br />
effect <strong>of</strong> emotion on morality, and the role <strong>of</strong> physical ability on perceptual judgments.<br />
Findlay Stark read Law at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Aberdeen,<br />
graduating in 2007. He becomes the first Yates Glazebrook<br />
Fellow (see page 87). Findlay researched his PhD at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Edinburgh and in 2011 took up a teaching post<br />
in the Faculty <strong>of</strong> Law with a special interest in criminal law<br />
and procedure. He is particularly interested in the law’s<br />
approach to finding fault elements (mens rea), and criminal<br />
appeals. He is engaged to Fiona Wilson who is researching<br />
for a PhD at Girton <strong>College</strong>. They are due to be married in<br />
April 2013 in <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> Chapel.<br />
Rebecca Reich is a <strong>University</strong> Lecturer in Russian Literature<br />
and Culture in the Department <strong>of</strong> Slavonic Studies in the<br />
Faculty <strong>of</strong> Modern and Medieval Languages. She received her<br />
B.A. from Yale and her Ph.D. from Harvard and is currently<br />
writing a book about the political subtexts <strong>of</strong> psychiatric and<br />
literary conceptions <strong>of</strong> insanity during the late Soviet period.<br />
She is particularly interested in how literary writers who<br />
explored the theme <strong>of</strong> insanity responded to the state’s use<br />
<strong>of</strong> compulsory psychiatric hospitalization as a means <strong>of</strong><br />
political repression. Dr Reich’s wider interests include<br />
twentieth-century Russian literature, music and culture;<br />
intellectual history and cultural studies; the history <strong>of</strong><br />
science and medicine; and the history <strong>of</strong> print culture and law. Beyond her academic<br />
pursuits, she enjoys playing the cello, taking photogaphs, walking, running and<br />
gardening.<br />
Christopher Pratt is elected to a fellowship. He read English<br />
at St Catherine’s <strong>College</strong>, <strong>Cambridge</strong> (1961), and was<br />
recruited in 1965, as Assistant Company Secretary at William<br />
Sindall plc, the local building and property company. He<br />
stayed until 1989, having become Company Secretary in 1970<br />
and a Director in 1972, by which time the firm had grown<br />
from a <strong>Cambridge</strong> only base to have subsidiaries in London,<br />
Norwich, Portsmouth, Oxford and Banbury. Specialities<br />
were hospital and college/university buildings. Christopher<br />
by then had a wide portfolio, including property investment<br />
and development, housebuilding, marketing, HR and (vital<br />
in such a Company) dispute resolution, along with<br />
management <strong>of</strong> the pension fund and its investment portfolio. Thereafter, Christopher<br />
joined the Board <strong>of</strong> Freeman Group plc, as Chairman <strong>of</strong> its construction subsidiaries,
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sorting out problem contracts at Birmingham International Convention Centre, the<br />
London Ark and EuroDisney, before selling the businesses. In 1993 Christopher became<br />
the first full-time Bursar <strong>of</strong> Fitzwilliam <strong>College</strong>. He oversaw the addition <strong>of</strong> 226 student<br />
rooms plus an Auditorium and a Library/IT Building. The conference income grew from<br />
£225,000 to £1 million, investments from £7.4 million to £26.6 million and the bottom<br />
line <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong> Balance Sheet from £6.8 million to £46.5 million. After retiring he<br />
took on a variety <strong>of</strong> consultancy tasks, and was Acting Bursar for St Edmund’s <strong>College</strong> in<br />
2010-11, to be followed by a year from 2011 as Acting Senior Bursar at <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong>. He<br />
has been Chairman <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Cambridge</strong> Bursars’ Committee, participating in negotiations<br />
with Government over fees and with the Charity Commission over the change from<br />
Exempt to Registered charity status for the Oxbridge <strong>College</strong>s. Christopher is devoted to<br />
the <strong>College</strong>s he has served, but even more so to Claire and to five children – two boys and<br />
three girls, Emily and Fleur at 14 and 8 being positively the last <strong>of</strong> the line.<br />
Outgoing Fellows<br />
Dr Rebecca Weir is working on a digital edition <strong>of</strong> Civil War newspaper poetry,<br />
in collaboration with Dr Elizabeth Lorang (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Nebraska-Lincoln).<br />
Dr Shaul Tor has been appointed to a Lectureship in Classics and Philosophy at<br />
King’s <strong>College</strong>, London.<br />
Dr Gerry Kearns has been appointed to a chair in Geography at Maynooth <strong>University</strong>,<br />
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Art at <strong>Jesus</strong> 2011-<strong>2012</strong><br />
Rod Mengham, Curator <strong>of</strong> Works <strong>of</strong> Art Emeritus Fellow<br />
We started last year by taking down the very successful ‘Remembering Flanagan’<br />
exhibition, the latest in our ‘Sculpture in the Close’ series. This show attracted<br />
larger than usual numbers <strong>of</strong> groups requiring guided tours, and this is a feature <strong>of</strong> our<br />
activities that seems to be intensifying. The Michaelmas term 2011 was memorable for<br />
our superb exhibition <strong>of</strong> paintings by Humphrey Ocean. At Humphrey’s prompting,<br />
we embarked on an innovative use <strong>of</strong> both public spaces and rooms inaccessible to the<br />
general public. Our subsequent publication Here and There includes some excellent<br />
photographs showing how various spaces were transformed. An unusual number <strong>of</strong><br />
visitors came to the <strong>College</strong> expressly to view this exhibition.<br />
In June and July <strong>2012</strong>, we showed drawings and sculpture by Michael Dan Archer in<br />
the south transept <strong>of</strong> the Chapel, under the title ‘Tests Trials and Missions’. These works<br />
explored ideas for sculptural installations focusing on the imagery <strong>of</strong> towers and boats.<br />
Most intriguing <strong>of</strong> all was a sculpture and several drawings meditating on the interior<br />
chambers <strong>of</strong> the Red Pyramid at Dahshur.<br />
We are now planning for the forthcoming exhibition in October and November <strong>of</strong> a<br />
selection <strong>of</strong> David Mach’s collages responding to the King James Bible. And planning is<br />
well advanced for the next ‘Sculpture in the Close’ in the summer. This will include<br />
sculptures by the internationally renowned artists Doris Salcedo, Miroslaw Balka and<br />
Gabriel Orozco. The funding situation for this ambitious show is now auspicious,<br />
but in the long run, the funding for the general run <strong>of</strong> our activities remains little short<br />
<strong>of</strong> perilous.<br />
James Hudleston generously funded the commissioning <strong>of</strong> a portrait bust <strong>of</strong> Jacob<br />
Bronowski. This was installed by the artist, Robert Hunt, in the Quincentenary Library<br />
during December. The subject’s daughter, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Lisa Jardine, was present at the<br />
ceremony and was delighted by the sculpture. The <strong>College</strong> Council has recently<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Lisa Jardine and Mr James Hudleston at the unveiling <strong>of</strong> the Jacob Bronowski bust, December 2011
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‘Macbeth and the Witches’ by John Wootton, donated by Herbert Lawrence Knill<br />
authorized the commissioning <strong>of</strong> a portrait <strong>of</strong> P<strong>of</strong>essor Jardine herself as the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
first woman fellow. We do not yet know who will be painting the portrait.<br />
We ended the year with the generous donation by Herbert Lawrence Knill (1961)<br />
<strong>of</strong> a large and dramatic canvas, ‘Macbeth and the Witches’, by the eighteenth century<br />
painter, John Wootton. It is now hanging impressively in the Alcock Room.<br />
In many ways the most significant event <strong>of</strong> the year was the resignation <strong>of</strong> Jim<br />
Roseblade from the Works <strong>of</strong> Art Committee, Jim’s untiring energy and industry<br />
encompassed the business <strong>of</strong> Treasurer and the organizing <strong>of</strong> all our exhibition<br />
openings, the design <strong>of</strong> posters and the hugely demanding task <strong>of</strong> fund-raising.<br />
He is irreplaceable, so much so that we have decided to replace him by dividing his<br />
various roles among no fewer than three people! He will be missed especially by the<br />
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The Chapel<br />
John Hughes, Chaplain and Dean Emeritus Fellow<br />
T he year in Chapel began with a series <strong>of</strong> sermons in the Michaelmas term on<br />
‘Questions about the Bible’ which enabled us to celebrate the 400th anniversary <strong>of</strong><br />
the King James Bible while also responding to some <strong>of</strong> the more basic questions that<br />
today’s students ask about the Scriptures. Old Jesuans were well represented amongst<br />
these preachers, with former Dean Christopher Rowland speaking on The Bible and<br />
Politics, Dr Peter Williams (1989) asking Why do we need the Old Testament?, Fr Ian Paton<br />
(1975) exploring The Bible in the Church, and Steve Midgley (1980) discussing Is the Bible<br />
culturally irrelevant? They were joined by Judith Lieu, the Lady Margaret Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
Divinity, and her predecessor Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Morna Hooker speaking on questions <strong>of</strong><br />
historicity and Christian origins, and the Master <strong>of</strong> the Temple Church in London,<br />
Robin Griffith-Jones, on the popular topic <strong>of</strong> The Missing Gospels. The series can be read<br />
online on the Chapel’s webpage.<br />
Other Sunday guest preachers this year have included the Bishop <strong>of</strong> Norwich, the Dean<br />
<strong>of</strong> St Edmundsbury, the Abbot <strong>of</strong> Downside, Dom Aidan Bellenger (1969), Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Tom<br />
Greggs (2004), Fr Alban McCoy (the Roman Catholic Chaplain to the <strong>University</strong>), the<br />
Van Mildert Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Divinity from Durham, Mark McIntosh, Dr Ian Wilson, Fellow<br />
in Chemical Engineering, and Kelvin Woolmer, Chaplain to the Olympics.<br />
Those students who attend Chapel services come from a wide range <strong>of</strong> Christian<br />
traditions (in addition to those <strong>of</strong> other faiths or no religious background) so questions<br />
about differences between Christians <strong>of</strong>ten come up in conversation. It seemed good<br />
therefore to hold a weekly discussion group in the Lent term exploring recent<br />
ecumenical approaches to questions which have previously divided churches, such as<br />
justification by faith, the Eucharist, and the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the Easter term this<br />
ecumenical conversation continued as the group looked at ways in which faith might be<br />
applied to questions in the world and our own lives, including questions <strong>of</strong> justice and<br />
poverty, environmental and sexual ethics, war and peace, career and vocation. Students<br />
from very different positions listened very graciously to those <strong>of</strong> other opinions, making<br />
these discussions easier than I might have imagined.<br />
The annual ‘Exploring the Christian Faith’ course in the Lent term led to two finalists,<br />
Oliver Holbrook and Frances Harris, being confirmed at the <strong>University</strong> Confirmation in<br />
Trinity <strong>College</strong>, and both gave excellent nanosermons telling the story <strong>of</strong> how they came<br />
to this decision. This tradition <strong>of</strong> ‘nanosermons’ (<strong>of</strong> no more than five minutes) during<br />
Tuesday Evensongs continues to provide many students (and others such as Dr Rebecca<br />
Weir, Fellow in English) with space to share their own religious opinions and musings<br />
with their peers, <strong>of</strong>ten with considerable skill and moving openness.<br />
There has been the usual round <strong>of</strong> glorious <strong>of</strong>ferings <strong>of</strong> worship, with accompanying<br />
dinners and parties, to celebrate the various points <strong>of</strong> the academic and ecclesiastical<br />
year, creating a friendly atmosphere for the whole <strong>College</strong> community. Ascension Day<br />
Mattins from the ro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> N Staircase and the end <strong>of</strong> year Eucharist in the Fellows’ Garden<br />
were particular personal highlights. The termly more informal Corporate Communion<br />
services with supper have been well attended this year, as have the magical late night<br />
Complines followed by port and cocoa. There were three Evensongs for matriculating<br />
students, one for graduands, and two for old members’ reunions, as well as special<br />
services for Remembrance Sunday and the Commemoration <strong>of</strong> Benefactors.
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Choral Eucharists were celebrated for St Luke, All Saints’ (with Westcott House in<br />
All Saints’ Church, <strong>Jesus</strong> Lane), All Souls’, Candlemas, Ash Wednesday, St David,<br />
Ascension and the Visitation. I generally preach at these services myself and at the<br />
Sunday morning Eucharist, which continues to flourish with a loyal group <strong>of</strong> regulars<br />
and a small choir directed by our very talented and conscientious organ scholars Robert<br />
Dixon and Ben Morris. All <strong>of</strong> these services, to say nothing <strong>of</strong> the four Choral Evensongs<br />
every week, would be considerably more chaotic without all the work and ministry <strong>of</strong><br />
welcome <strong>of</strong>fered by the Chapel Secretaries: Tim Middleton, Jenny Leigh, Daniel Taylor,<br />
Max Drinkwater (all <strong>of</strong> whom have graduated this year and will be much missed), James<br />
L<strong>of</strong>thouse, Ella Johnston, Alex Kite, Jon Sanders, and Sarah Woods, and especially our<br />
Chapel Clerks Hanna Weibye and Sarah Dane. I’m also very grateful for the support <strong>of</strong><br />
our two ordinands on attachment from Westcott House this year: PhD candidate Ruben<br />
Angelici and Tripos student Dr Rebecca Lloyd. <strong>Jesus</strong> continues to be one <strong>of</strong> the principle<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> colleges for training ordinands for the Church <strong>of</strong> England and I recently had<br />
the pleasure <strong>of</strong> attending the ordinations <strong>of</strong> four <strong>of</strong> them in Southwark diocese (Catriona<br />
Laing, Ben Brown, Greg Cushing, and Catherine Tucker). Those being ordained<br />
elsewhere included Andrew Whitehead, Mark Scarlatta, and Peter Dobson.<br />
The Chapel trip during the Easter vacation consisted <strong>of</strong> a week on the beautiful island<br />
<strong>of</strong> Iona <strong>of</strong>f the West coast <strong>of</strong> Scotland, famous for being the centre from which<br />
St Columba brought the Christian faith to much <strong>of</strong> Scotland and Northern England.<br />
The group <strong>of</strong> nine included postgraduates and fellows as well as undergraduates and<br />
stayed in the very comfortable Episcopalian Bishop’s House, having been hosted by Old<br />
St Paul’s Edinburgh on our journey up. The week had more <strong>of</strong> the feel <strong>of</strong> a retreat than<br />
previous Chapel trips, with daily services in the Chapel, hearty walks in the rain, and<br />
evenings around the fire. In the Easter term a group <strong>of</strong> twelve went by minibus on a<br />
daytrip to the St Alban’s pilgrimage where one <strong>of</strong> our recent confirmees led the<br />
intercessions at a Eucharist in the Abbey before a congregation <strong>of</strong> 1500 and the<br />
Archbishop <strong>of</strong> York.<br />
Mark Williams, our Director <strong>of</strong> Chapel Music, describes the activities <strong>of</strong> our choirs<br />
elsewhere, but I would like to pay tribute to all his labours in continuing to develop the<br />
superb musical life <strong>of</strong> the Chapel. The December choir tour to the Ukraine was<br />
particularly enjoyable and provided a thorough introduction to the <strong>College</strong> Choir for our<br />
new administrator, Alice Johnson. Another happy occasion was the confirmation <strong>of</strong> two<br />
<strong>of</strong> our choristers, Alasdair Austen and Edward Bellett-Travers, with Brittany Wellner,<br />
fiancée <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> our fellows, by Bishop Lindsay Urwin <strong>of</strong> Walsingham in the Easter<br />
term.<br />
In addition to weddings <strong>of</strong> present students, fellows, and staff, and not a few old<br />
members, the Chapel has this year seen the baptism <strong>of</strong> Mia Hurst, daughter <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>College</strong> Chefs, and the funeral <strong>of</strong> Sir Alan Cottrell, former Master, who was also<br />
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Chapel Music<br />
Mark Williams, Director <strong>of</strong> Chapel Music<br />
O n the last day <strong>of</strong> September 2011, the <strong>College</strong> Choir welcomed nine new choral<br />
scholars and a new organ scholar. It is a tribute to this year’s talented intake <strong>of</strong><br />
musicians that, within a few hours <strong>of</strong> meeting for the first time, the Choir, with a third<br />
<strong>of</strong> its membership new to the stalls, sang Evensong for Graduate Freshers with a sense<br />
<strong>of</strong> ensemble and corporate musicianship worthy <strong>of</strong> a group with several performances<br />
under its belt. The blend, colour and character <strong>of</strong> the sound naturally grow over the<br />
course <strong>of</strong> the year and none <strong>of</strong> this year’s choral scholars will forget the culmination <strong>of</strong><br />
many months <strong>of</strong> work as they sang their last notes together in the magical setting <strong>of</strong> the<br />
gallery <strong>of</strong> the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, the very spot on which the St Matthew Passion was<br />
first performed under the direction <strong>of</strong> J.S. Bach himself.<br />
The Chapel Choir began the year by welcoming Alasdair Austin as its new Head<br />
Chorister with Nico Bryan and Sam Fitzgerald as Deputy Head Choristers, following the<br />
‘retirement’ <strong>of</strong> Head Chorister Luke Fitzgerald and Deputy Head Chorister Oliver King.<br />
The Feast <strong>of</strong> All Saints was marked in the church <strong>of</strong> All Saints on <strong>Jesus</strong> Lane, whilst<br />
All Souls saw the <strong>College</strong> Choir sing Victoria’s Requiem as part <strong>of</strong> a moving service in<br />
Chapel. Visiting choirs from the Leys School, <strong>Cambridge</strong> and the Grange School,<br />
Cheshire, participated in Chapel services whilst Remembrance and Advent saw large<br />
congregations for key services in the Chapel’s calendar, as did the annual round <strong>of</strong> carol<br />
services for Fellows and Staff, Chorister parents and Choir Patrons, students and visitors.<br />
Two performances in Ely Cathedral and the Royal Festival Hall <strong>of</strong> Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast<br />
with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the chapel choirs <strong>of</strong> Clare, Gonville & Caius, <strong>Jesus</strong>,<br />
St John’s and Trinity in celebration <strong>of</strong> the 500th anniversary <strong>of</strong> St John’s <strong>College</strong> were<br />
highlights <strong>of</strong> the Michaelmas Term alongside special events in the Chapel including<br />
performances <strong>of</strong> Britten’s Ceremony <strong>of</strong> Carols by the female choral scholars and choristers<br />
and a Christmas celebration with the boy choristers <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> and the girl choristers<br />
<strong>of</strong> St Catharine’s <strong>College</strong> in aid <strong>of</strong> MacMillan Cancer Support. The Mixed Choir also visited<br />
one <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>’s most attractive livings, Cavendish in Suffolk, for a Christmas carol<br />
concert, singing to a delighted capacity audience.
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December saw the <strong>College</strong> Choir fly <strong>of</strong>f to Ukraine at the invitation <strong>of</strong> the Dmitry<br />
Firtash Foundation. Mr Firtash has been responsible for the establishment and<br />
sponsorship <strong>of</strong> a course in Ukrainian Studies at the <strong>University</strong> and invited the Choir to<br />
travel to his homeland after hearing them sing at the Senate House earlier in the year.<br />
Two sell-out concerts in Lviv and Kiev were greeted with standing ovations and the Choir<br />
took part in a number <strong>of</strong> other engagements, including a musical soirée hosted by the<br />
British Council in Kiev and attended by visiting MPs and Peers, the British Ambassador<br />
and members <strong>of</strong> the Dmitry Firtash Foundation. Keen to encourage cultural exchange<br />
between the UK and Ukraine, the DF Foundation organised a joint musical workshop<br />
with students from the Boris Grinchenko <strong>University</strong> in Kiev which proved to be a fruitful<br />
and humbling experience. Never shy <strong>of</strong> publicity, the Choir enjoyed considerable media<br />
coverage with articles appearing in the Ukrainian and Russian press and a notable<br />
appearance on the country’s leading TV chat show.<br />
The Lent Term began with a memorable performance in King’s <strong>College</strong> Chapel under<br />
the baton <strong>of</strong> Sir Mark Elder, Principal Conductor <strong>of</strong> the Hallé Orchestra and <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
alumnus. A week <strong>of</strong> intensive rehearsals with the maestro and the chorusmaster (none<br />
other than JCC’s own Director <strong>of</strong> Music) led to a concert which saw CUMS I and CUCO<br />
joined by the chapel choirs <strong>of</strong> Clare, Gonville & Caius, <strong>Jesus</strong>, King’s and Selwyn in<br />
Debussy’s La Damoiselle Elue and Act III <strong>of</strong> Wagner’s Parsifal. Sir Mark insisted on the men<br />
<strong>of</strong> the chorus singing from memory as they processed through the building, the sound<br />
<strong>of</strong> the orchestra swelling underneath them, building to a shattering climax that few will<br />
ever forget – it’s not <strong>of</strong>ten that choral scholars have the opportunity to sing Wagner! As<br />
usual, the Choir played its part in the <strong>College</strong>’s celebrations <strong>of</strong> Candlemas, St Radegund<br />
and St David in addition to special services for Ash Wednesday and the Commemoration<br />
<strong>of</strong> Benefactors. Joint services with the choirs <strong>of</strong> Clare <strong>College</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong>, Worksop<br />
<strong>College</strong> and <strong>of</strong> Bedford School were much enjoyed by Jesuans and visitors alike, and we<br />
were delighted to welcome Dr Peter Hurford, former Organ Scholar and Honorary<br />
Fellow to Evensong in February to present a set <strong>of</strong> volumes <strong>of</strong> the newly-commissioned<br />
‘Choirbook for the Queen’. February also saw <strong>Jesus</strong> choral scholars draw plaudits for<br />
their organisation, direction and performance in the CUOS production <strong>of</strong> Die Fledermaus<br />
The Dean <strong>of</strong> Chapel meets Dmitry Firtash in Kiev
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and for their contributions to a masterclass with renowned mezzo-soprano Dame Ann<br />
Murray. Together with the choirs <strong>of</strong> Gonville & Caius <strong>College</strong> and Ely Cathedral, the<br />
<strong>College</strong> Choir gave a concert <strong>of</strong> Music for Passiontide in Ely Cathedral in March and with<br />
a team <strong>of</strong> distinguished soloists performed Rossini’s playful Petite Messe Solennelle in the<br />
<strong>College</strong> Chapel in the week following the end <strong>of</strong> term.<br />
The choirs went into the Easter Term well and truly warmed up by three pre-term days<br />
spent recording a disc <strong>of</strong> music for Remembrance for release on the Signum label in<br />
2013. The rather cautious approach to extra commitments during exam term paid <strong>of</strong>f<br />
with impressive performances from choral and organ scholars in tripos, including firsts<br />
for more than half <strong>of</strong> the new first year choir members and a starred first for the talented<br />
Junior Organ Scholar, Benjamin Morris. Nevertheless, the Choir didn’t shirk on its<br />
regular commitments and Evensongs continued throughout exams alongside special<br />
services for Mr Rustat’s Audit, Ascension and the Visitation <strong>of</strong> the Blessed Virgin Mary<br />
in addition to a memorial service for distinguished former Master, Sir Alan Cottrell.<br />
Following the end <strong>of</strong> term, the Choristers gave a concert in aid <strong>of</strong> the British Red Cross<br />
in Great Wenham and the Mixed Choir in Arkesden in aid <strong>of</strong> St Mary’s Church and sang<br />
services for Graduation, for donors to the <strong>College</strong> and for the Reunion Dinner.<br />
The year drew to a moving and memorable close with a tour to Germany during which<br />
the <strong>College</strong> Choir gave concerts in Bad Langensalza and Arnstadt and the Combined<br />
Choirs in Halle, all to large and enthusiastic audiences. However, for many the<br />
experience <strong>of</strong> singing in both the Nikolaikirche and Thomaskirche in Leipzig will be one<br />
<strong>of</strong> the abiding memories <strong>of</strong> <strong>2012</strong>. To perform in the two churches which employed<br />
Johann Sebastian Bach and in which many <strong>of</strong> his masterpieces were first heard was an<br />
extraordinary privilege and one which I am delighted was afforded to the Choristers,<br />
Choral Scholars and Organ Scholars <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong>. ■<br />
The New Harpsichord<br />
O n 1 June this year, the <strong>College</strong> took possession <strong>of</strong> a new harpsichord, commissioned<br />
by Stephen Heath, Fellow <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>, and built by Bruce Kennedy at his<br />
workshop in Tuscany. Kennedy harpsichords have an international reputation; they are<br />
to be heard on numerous recordings and found in conservatoires and concert halls<br />
throughout the world, from New York to Vienna, Tokyo to Prague. There are only two<br />
other Kennedy harpsichords in the UK, one at the Handel House Museum in London,<br />
the other at the Guildhall School <strong>of</strong> Music.<br />
The <strong>Jesus</strong> harpsichord, a double-manual instrument featuring two 8’ stops, a 4’ stop<br />
and a buff, is modelled on a 1728 harpsichord by the German builder Christian Zell<br />
(c.1683-1763) now in Hamburg’s Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe. The decoration <strong>of</strong><br />
the soundboard by the American artist Pamela Gladding, who has worked with<br />
Kennedy for many years, delicately introduces the <strong>College</strong> crest within the overall<br />
decoration <strong>of</strong> the soundboard, which is based on period motifs. Members <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Society <strong>of</strong> St Radegund were able to hear the new instrument played by the Director <strong>of</strong><br />
Music during a brief interlude in their annual dinner in the <strong>College</strong> Hall in July. Its<br />
inauguration proper, however, will take the form <strong>of</strong> a recital to be given in the Chapel on<br />
the 27 <strong>of</strong> October <strong>2012</strong> by the young, internationally renowned, Iranian-American<br />
instrumentalist Mahan Esfahani, generally regarded as the leading harpsichordist <strong>of</strong> his<br />
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 <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> harpsichord near completion<br />
The recital will also allow the <strong>College</strong> to welcome Bruce Kennedy who is coming<br />
from Tuscany to hear his instrument in the space for which it was built. An American by<br />
birth, Kennedy’s musical studies led him to historical research into harpsichord<br />
construction and the acquisition <strong>of</strong> the skills needed to become himself a pr<strong>of</strong>essional<br />
harpsichord builder. After periods in the Swiss Alpine village <strong>of</strong> Chateau d’Oex and<br />
Amsterdam, he established his workshop in its current home in the small medieval<br />
Tuscan hill town <strong>of</strong> Castelmuzio. His harpsichords are built after a range <strong>of</strong> historic<br />
models – Flemish, French, German, Italian – and the construction <strong>of</strong> each is carried out<br />
by him more or less single-handedly, with no more than two instruments being built at<br />
any one time. Extreme care is taken to ensure that the materials and methods used are<br />
those <strong>of</strong> a particular model’s original time and place. ■
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The Old Library and Archives<br />
Peter Glazebrook, Acting Keeper <strong>of</strong> the Old Library<br />
and Fellow Librarian 2011-<strong>2012</strong> and Frances Willmoth, Archivist<br />
The Old Library<br />
Two important projects have been completed, and a third begun, this year. The<br />
Malthus Library has been re-catalogued in digital form and added to the UL’s<br />
Newton Catalogue, which is accessible worldwide. Liam Sims (who worked half the<br />
week for us) brought to light a number <strong>of</strong> interesting provenances among the older<br />
books and also cleverly identified others (including three once belonging to Rousseau)<br />
that had come (or come back) from Jane Dalton, a cousin <strong>of</strong> T. R. Malthus’s father and<br />
something <strong>of</strong> a “blue-stocking”. (She deserves further study.) Our small collection <strong>of</strong><br />
oriental MSS and books has also been re-catalogued by an expert (Ignacio Sanchez)<br />
– a very long-standing desideratum: hitherto we have relied on a list made a century ago<br />
by the then fledgling “Year Among the Persians” E. G. Browne. And, while waiting to<br />
take up a full-time appointment in the Rare Books Room <strong>of</strong> the UL, Sims started on the<br />
digital re-cataloguing <strong>of</strong> the main Old Library Collection, tackling the 37 incunabula<br />
(books printed before 1500) we still have. Exploiting the most recent work in this<br />
bibliographical field, he confirmed the extreme rarity <strong>of</strong> several <strong>of</strong> them. Re-cataloguing<br />
the entire collection (c.9000 volumes) would be a major undertaking, probably requiring<br />
the equivalent <strong>of</strong> 3 years’ full-time work by an expert cataloguer, and so costing about<br />
£100k (though it could be done in stages). It would undoubtedly be <strong>of</strong> benefit to the<br />
wider world <strong>of</strong> scholarship.<br />
The Jesuan Collection (<strong>of</strong> books by and about members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>) continues to<br />
grow – happily evidencing much scholarly and literary activity, less happily overflowing<br />
the shelving in the Old Library Annex.<br />
The steady flow <strong>of</strong> both researchers into our medieval manuscripts and early printed<br />
books and other interested visitors has continued unabated. They have come from an<br />
even wider than usual range <strong>of</strong> places, including Leiden, Paris, Florence, Jerusalem, and<br />
the Universities <strong>of</strong> Umeå (Sweden), Tasmania, and Toronto, as well as others in Britain<br />
and the U.S. The Friends <strong>of</strong> the National Libraries came in May.<br />
Archives<br />
The Archives’ <strong>of</strong>fice transferred from a small room at the end <strong>of</strong> the ground floor<br />
corridor in East House to a much larger one <strong>of</strong>f the hallway (opposite the choir<br />
practice room) in the autumn <strong>of</strong> 2011. This is a huge improvement over the previously<br />
cramped conditions. It provides working-space for three people, so readers can easily be<br />
accommodated. We have also been able to take on two archives volunteers – Pat Holder<br />
and Kathleen Cann – who lend their assistance one day a week and have already made a<br />
major difference by undertaking the sorting and cataloguing <strong>of</strong> ephemera and other<br />
documents.<br />
Topics addressed by readers during the year have ranged from the charters <strong>of</strong><br />
Countess Constance (twelfth century) to early-twentieth-century friendship networks<br />
between students. An architecture student examined the building <strong>of</strong> New Square; an<br />
author preparing a biography <strong>of</strong> the mountaineer Jack Longland came in search <strong>of</strong> clues<br />
to his activities and friends in his student days (1923-26). Another researcher consulted<br />
papers left by Arthur Gray (Master, 1912-40) and looked at the early career <strong>of</strong> Frederick
Foakes Jackson (1855-1941, Fellow 1886-1916), because <strong>of</strong> their suspected association<br />
with particular political networks. Others again came in search <strong>of</strong> records <strong>of</strong> former<br />
<strong>College</strong> properties and church livings.<br />
Robert Athol (also Archivist at Clare, St Edmunds and Trinity Hall) was appointed in<br />
June to a temporary part-time post as Deputy Archivist to provide cover during the<br />
Archivist’s sick leave in the summer and autumn <strong>of</strong> <strong>2012</strong>. ■<br />
The Quincentenary Library<br />
Peter Glazebrook, Fellow Librarian 2011-<strong>2012</strong><br />
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Anthony Andreas, Scriptum<br />
Super Logica, St Albans, 1483<br />
(printed by Wynkyn de Worde,<br />
William Caxton’s first apprentice),<br />
<strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> Old Library<br />
Our students continue to express, principally though not solely, via an annual<br />
user-survey, a notably high degree <strong>of</strong> satisfaction (over 90% <strong>of</strong> 142 respondents)<br />
with both the holdings and the various services provided in the library which has,<br />
throughout its life, been in Rhona Watson’s care. There has been a gradual, but notable,<br />
increase in the use <strong>of</strong> e-books.<br />
The IT security and cataloguing systems which were installed when the Library was<br />
first opened, had come to the end <strong>of</strong> their useful life, and were no longer compatible with<br />
the UL’s systems, were replaced during the Long Vacation. ■
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Publications and Gifts to the<br />
<strong>College</strong> Libraries 2011-<strong>2012</strong><br />
Books, Published Journal Articles and Chapters by Members<br />
and Old Members<br />
(* Denotes a gift to the college libraries)<br />
The donations acknowledged here are those received before the end <strong>of</strong> June <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Any items received after that date will be listed in next year’s <strong>Report</strong>.<br />
* ALEXANDER, R. J. (1964), (i) Aspects <strong>of</strong> Verbal Humour (G. Narr, Tübingen, 1997); (ii)<br />
Framing Discourse on the Environment: a Critical Discourse approach (Routledge, New York,<br />
2009)<br />
* ALMOND, A. J. (1957), with P. Beale and M. Scott Archer, The Corsini Letters,<br />
ed. by Philip Beale (Amberley Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2011)<br />
ARDITTI, M. J. (1972), Jubilate (Arcadia, London, 2011)<br />
* BECKETT, E. H. L. (1986), The Canonical Understanding <strong>of</strong> Spiritual Leadership<br />
(Dissertationes, Angelicum <strong>University</strong> Press, Rome, <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
BELLENGER, D. (1969), Downside Abbey: an Architectural History (Merrell, London,<br />
2011)<br />
* BISSELL, C. C. (1969), ed. with C. Dillon, Ways <strong>of</strong> Thinking, Ways <strong>of</strong> Seeing:<br />
Mathematical and other Modelling in Engineering and Technology (Automation,<br />
Collaboration, & E-Services Series, Vol. 1; Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg,<br />
<strong>2012</strong>) [donated to the QL]<br />
* BLAKE, R. J. (1967), (i) A Dark Anatomy (Macmillan, London, 2011); (ii) Dark Waters<br />
(Macmillan, London, <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
* BRITTAN, S. (1952), (i) “In Defence <strong>of</strong> Individualism”, Royal Institute <strong>of</strong> Philosophy<br />
Supplement 45, (2000) pp. 7-21; (ii) “Keynes and Myself: Lecture given at the Winton<br />
Institute for Monetary History, Oxford, 18 October 2010”, The Political Quarterly 82,<br />
No. 4, (2011) pp. 497-505<br />
* BROWN, S. F. (1992), (i) Future Me (Oberon Books, London, 2007); (ii) The Princes’<br />
Islands, by J. Sartorius – translated by S. Brown (The Armchair Traveller at the<br />
bookHaus, London, 2011)<br />
CHRISTIE, G. C. (1961), Philosopher Kings: the Adjudication <strong>of</strong> Conflicting Human Rights<br />
and Social Values (Oxford <strong>University</strong> Press, Oxford, 2011)<br />
* CLACKSON, J. P. T. (Fw 1998), ed., A Companion to the Latin Language<br />
(Wiley-Blackwell, series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world, 2011)<br />
[donated to the QL]<br />
CLAEYS, G.R. (1978 ), Searching for Utopia: The History <strong>of</strong> an Idea (Thames and Hudson,<br />
2011)<br />
* CLISSOLD, T. K. (1979), Mr. China: a Memoir (HarperCollins, New York, 2004)
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COLLINGHAM, E. M. (Fw 1998), The Taste <strong>of</strong> War: World War Two and the Battle for Food<br />
(Allen Lane, London, 2011)<br />
COLLINI, S. A. (1966), What are Universities For? (Penguin, London, <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
* CORNWELL, J. (Fw 1990 FWC 1996) (i) Ed Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Essential<br />
Meditations, (Starhaven, London, 2011); (ii) Literary Review February “Review:<br />
David Holloway’s Leaving Alexandria”; (iii) New Statesman 3 April <strong>2012</strong> “Scruffies<br />
and Straights”; (iv) Financial Times 23 March <strong>2012</strong>, “The King and I”; (v) Brain:<br />
International Journal <strong>of</strong> Neurology September <strong>2012</strong>, “Ethics and Neuroscience’;<br />
(vi) The Tablet 18 August <strong>2012</strong> “Where are the Penitents?”; (vii) Financial Times<br />
14 September <strong>2012</strong> “There Would Be Blood”; (viii) Theology September/October <strong>2012</strong>,<br />
“Review New Short History <strong>of</strong> the Catholic Church, Norman Tanner”<br />
* CURTIS, W. J. R. (2003, Slade Pr<strong>of</strong>essor), Structures <strong>of</strong> Light (Alvar Aalto Akatemia<br />
Academy, Helsinki, 2007)<br />
* DATE, C. J. (1959),* (i) SQL and Relational Theory: How to Write Accurate SQL Code (2nd<br />
ed, O’Reilly, Farnham, <strong>2012</strong>); *(ii) Database Design and Relational Theory: Normal Forms<br />
and all that Jazz (O’Reilly, Farnham, <strong>2012</strong>) (iii) Go Faster! The TransRelational Approach to<br />
DMBS Implementation (also available as a free download from<br />
http://bookboon.com/en/textbooks/it-programming/go-faster )<br />
* DURRELL, M. (1991), Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage (5th edn. Hodder<br />
Education 2011) [donated to the QL]<br />
* EAGLETON, C. T. (1995), Monks, Manuscripts and Sundials: The Navicula in Medieval<br />
England (History <strong>of</strong> Science and Medicine Library, Brill Academic Publishers, 2010)<br />
FYFE, A. K. (1993), Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business <strong>of</strong><br />
Publishing, 1820-60 (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Chicago Press, <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
HARCOURT, G. C. (Fw 1982), (i) On Skidelsky’s Keynes and other Essays: Selected Essays<br />
<strong>of</strong> G. C. Harcourt (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, <strong>2012</strong>); (ii) The Making <strong>of</strong> a<br />
Post-Keynesian Economist: <strong>Cambridge</strong> Harvest (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
* HARPER, R. (1976), A British Crash (Ladder, Walsall, 2009)<br />
HARRIS, E. L. C. (1997), (i) London’s Churches are Fighting Back: a SAVE Britain’s Heritage<br />
<strong>Report</strong> (2011); (ii) Moscow Heritage (MAPS, Save Europe’s Heritage, Moscow, revised<br />
edn. 2009)<br />
HENSHER P. M. (1986), Scenes from Early Life (Fourth Estate, London, <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
HOLLINDALE, P. (1954), *(i) “Nature”, in Keywords for Children’s Literature, edited by<br />
P. Nel & L. Paul (New York <strong>University</strong> Press, 2011) pp. 161-164; *(ii) The Hidden Teacher<br />
(Thimble Press, Stroud, 2011); (iii) “Innocence and Experience: the Condition <strong>of</strong><br />
Childhood in Graham Greene’s Fiction”, in Dangerous Edges <strong>of</strong> Graham Greene:<br />
Journeys with Saints and Sinners, eds. Dermot Gilvary and Darren J. N. Middleton<br />
(Continuum, 2011) pp. 79-96<br />
HOSKIN, M.A. (Fw 1956-57), Discoverers <strong>of</strong> the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel<br />
(Princeton, <strong>University</strong> Press, Princeton, 2011)<br />
HORNE, A. A. (1948), But What Do You Actually Do - A Literary Vagabondage<br />
(Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 2011)<br />
HORSLEY, D. (1943), Lakeland Geological Locations (Westmorland Geological Society,<br />
2011)
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HOWAT, R. J. (Research Fw, 1979), The Art <strong>of</strong> French Piano Music (Yale <strong>University</strong> Press,<br />
2009), chosen as 2009 Book <strong>of</strong> the Year by International Piano<br />
* KAUDERS, D. J. (1964), The Greatest Crash (Sparkling Books, Southampton, 2011)<br />
MAIR, R. J. (Master 2001-11, Fw 2011), (i) with K. H. Goh,”Building damage<br />
assessment for deep excavations in Singapore and the influence <strong>of</strong> building<br />
stiffness”, Geotechnical Engineering Journal <strong>of</strong> the South-East Asian Geotechnical Society,<br />
Vol. 42(3), September 2011, pp. 1-12; (ii) with M. Korff et al, “Building damage and<br />
repair due to leakage in a deep excavation”, Proceedings <strong>of</strong> the Institution <strong>of</strong> Civil<br />
Engineers, Forensic Engineering, Vol.164, November 2011, Issue FE4, pp. 165-167; (iii)<br />
with A. M. Marshall, “Tunnelling beneath driven or jacked end-bearing piles in<br />
sand”, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 48 (12), 1757-1771; (iv) with A. M. Marshall<br />
et al, “Tunnels in sands: the effect <strong>of</strong> size, depth and volume loss on greenfield<br />
displacements”, Géotechnique, Vol. 62, Issue 5, May <strong>2012</strong>, 385-399<br />
MITCHELL, J. (Fw 1996), (i) “Delusions, Siblings and “Historical Truth”: Daniel<br />
Paul Schreber and his brother” in Vicissitudes: Histories and Destinies <strong>of</strong> Psychoanalysis,<br />
eds. Sharon Kiveland and Naomi Segal (Institute <strong>of</strong> Germanic and Romance Studies,<br />
London, in press); (ii) “War, Siblings and the Law <strong>of</strong> the Mother” in Psycho-analytical<br />
Psychotherapy in South Africa; (iii) “The sublime Jealousy <strong>of</strong> Louise Bourgeois” in The<br />
Return <strong>of</strong> the Repressed, ed. Phillip Larratt-Smith (Violette Editions, London, <strong>2012</strong>) [first<br />
published in exhibition catalogue, Louise Bourgeois: the Return <strong>of</strong> the Repressed,<br />
(Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, 2011)]; (iv) “Yayoi Kusama: Portrait <strong>of</strong> the Artist as<br />
a Young Flower” in exhibition catalogue Yayoi Kusama – a Retrospective Exhibition (Tate<br />
Gallery, London, <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
* MOORE, H. (Fw 2009), Still Life (Polity, <strong>Cambridge</strong>, 2011) [and see below]<br />
* O’BRIEN, M. (1993, Fw. 2002), (i) ‘‘Afterword’’ in The Old South’s Modern Worlds:<br />
Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age <strong>of</strong> Process, eds. L. Diane Barnes et al (Oxford<br />
<strong>University</strong> Press, Oxford, 2011), pp. 298-308; (ii) “Louisa Catherine Adams:<br />
Travel, Narrative and Gender” in Riding/Writing Across Borders in North American<br />
Travelogues and Fiction, ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (Östereichischen Akademie<br />
der Wissenschaften, 2011), pp. 99-112; (iii) ‘A Response to Trevor Burnard: The<br />
Standpoint <strong>of</strong> an Editor’, Journal <strong>of</strong> American Studies 45:3 (2011), pp. 426-30; (iv)<br />
‘No Known Models’, a review <strong>of</strong> Daniel T. Rodgers – Age <strong>of</strong> Fracture), Times Literary<br />
Supplement No. 5652 (29 July 2011), pp. 8-9<br />
ONORATO, W. T. (1965), The Viking Sands, [by “Thomas Torrens”] (Publish<br />
Green/Barnes & Noble, <strong>2012</strong>; also available as a Kindle edition)<br />
* PATTINSON, J. (1948), LAP: The Life <strong>of</strong> Air Marshal Sir Lawrence Arthur Pattinson, KBE,<br />
CB, DSO, MC, DFC (privately published, 2011) [“ LAP” was also a Jesuan (1909)]<br />
PECHEY, G. K. (1967) ““Frost at Midnight” and the Poetry <strong>of</strong> Periphrasis”,<br />
The <strong>Cambridge</strong> Quarterly, 41:2, <strong>2012</strong><br />
* PERFECT, D. M. R. (1979), with Arnold Hughes, A Political History <strong>of</strong> the Gambia,<br />
1816-1994 (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Rochester Press, New York, 2006)<br />
* PICKUP, M. R. H. (1978), Tracing the Origins: The First Ten Years <strong>of</strong> the Global Food Safety<br />
Initiative 2000-2010 (GFSi, c2010)
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* PRAWER, S. S. (1944), (i) Types and stereotypes: Sigmund Freud’s portrayal <strong>of</strong> Jews in Greater<br />
Austria (Occasions 12, Austrian Cultural Forum London, 2011; lecture given on 13<br />
May 2010); (ii) Heine, the Tragic Satirist: a Study <strong>of</strong> the Later Poetry, 1827-56 (<strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> Press, 2010 reprint <strong>of</strong> 1961 edn.)<br />
SCRUTON, R. (1962), Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet (Atlantic,<br />
London, <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
* SHAW, M. A. (1975), translator <strong>of</strong> (i) From One Palace to Another (Un Hôtel très Particulier):<br />
10 Avenue D’Iéna, Paris (privately printed for a commercial firm, Paris 2011); (ii) China<br />
and Japan: Which Will Lead Asia?, by Claude Meyer (Hurst & Co., London, 2011)<br />
* SLOTKIN, P. (1958), The Enigma <strong>of</strong> the Suicide Bomber: a Psychoanalytic Essay,<br />
[by] Franco de Masi, trans. by Philip Slotkin, with a preface by Jesuan Daniel Pick<br />
(Karnac Books, London, 2011)<br />
* THEAKSTONE, W. H. (1955), (i) ‘Glacier Changes at Svartisen, Northern Norway,<br />
during the last 125 years: influence <strong>of</strong> climate and other factors’, Journal <strong>of</strong> Earth<br />
Science 21 no. 2, pp. 123-36 (2010); (ii) ‘A seven-year study <strong>of</strong> oxygen isotopes in daily<br />
precipitation at a site close to the Arctic Circle, Tustervatn, Norway: trajectory<br />
analysis and links with the North Atlantic Oscillation’, Atmospheric Environment (2011),<br />
pp. 1-9; (iii) with others, ‘Changes <strong>of</strong> daily climate extremes in Southwestern China<br />
during 1961-2008’, Global and Planetary Change (2011).
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* THOMPSON, J. B. (Fw 1979), Merchants <strong>of</strong> Culture: the Publishing Business in the Twenty-<br />
First Century (Polity Press, <strong>Cambridge</strong>, 2010)<br />
* VAN HENSBERGEN, R. (2008), with L. Kilbride, Paper Nautilus, No.1 (<strong>Cambridge</strong>,<br />
2011)<br />
* WARING, M. J. (Fw 1965), with eleven others, “Novel DNA-peptide interaction<br />
networks”, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 18 (2010), pp. 2575-2585. (The author<br />
comments that this ground-breaking new insight into the factors that govern the<br />
complicated and biologically important business <strong>of</strong> peptide-DNA recognition will be<br />
one <strong>of</strong> the last in a long series <strong>of</strong> research articles)<br />
* WHEELER, A. R. (1945), What’s in a Name? Origins <strong>of</strong> Sudbury Street Names (Sudbury<br />
Museum Trust, <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
WILLMOTH, F. H. (Fw 2011), (i) ʻRømer, Flamsteed, Cassini og lysets hastighedʼ, in<br />
K. Tybjerg, J. Danneskiold-Samsøe and P. Friedrichsen, eds, Ole Rømer ̶ I kongens og<br />
videnskabens tjeneste, (Aarhus: Aarhus <strong>University</strong> Press, 2011), 171-194; (ii) ʻRoëmer,<br />
Flamsteed, Cassini and the speed <strong>of</strong> lightʼ, Centaurus 54 no. 1 (Feb. <strong>2012</strong>), pp. 39-57<br />
WILTON-ELY, J. (1958) (i) Prefatory essay, “‘Quella pazza libertà di lavorare a<br />
capriccio’: Piranesi and the creative use <strong>of</strong> fantasy” in the exhibition catalogue,<br />
The Arts <strong>of</strong> Piranesi: architect, etcher, antiquarian, ‘vedutista’, designer, ed. Adam Lowe,<br />
(Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, <strong>2012</strong>) pp. 33-93 (also translated into Italian and<br />
Spanish for other venues). (ii) Prefatory essay, ‘Piranesi and the Tourists’ and 5<br />
entries on works by Piranesi in the exhibition catalogue, The English Prize: The Capture<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Westmorland. An Episode <strong>of</strong> the Grand Tour, eds. María Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui<br />
and Scott Wilcox (Yale <strong>University</strong> Press, London and Newhaven, <strong>2012</strong>) pp. 137-143,<br />
201-3, 228-29, 210-12, 298-9<br />
Other Donations<br />
C. M. DENT (1970), has donated a copy <strong>of</strong> his book Protestant Reformers in Elizabethan<br />
Oxford (Oxford <strong>University</strong> Press, 1983)<br />
D. JONES (1953), has presented the Old Library with a 1585 Bible, formerly owned<br />
by the Rev. I. Jones <strong>of</strong> Beddgelert<br />
R. MENGHAM (1973, Fw), presented the Old Library with three <strong>of</strong> J. H. Prynne’s<br />
books – Furtherance (The Figures, 2004), Pearls that Were (Equipage, 1999) and<br />
Red D Gypsum (Barque, 1998)<br />
H. MOORE (Fw 2009), has donated six <strong>of</strong> her publications to the Jesuan Collection<br />
and the Quincentenary Library: Feminism and anthology (1998), A Passion for Difference<br />
(1994), Anthropological Theory Today (1999), The Subject <strong>of</strong> Anthology (2007), Space, Text<br />
and Gender, (1996) and Still Life (2011) ■
Rustat Conferences<br />
John Cornwell<br />
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On 17 January <strong>2012</strong> The Master and the Vice-Chancellor, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Sir Leszeck<br />
Borysiewicz, hosted a conference in Upper Hall on the Future <strong>of</strong> Research Intensive<br />
Universities. The Master’s Executive Summary was as follows:<br />
The last 40 years have witnessed an unprecedented expansion <strong>of</strong> the university sector<br />
within the UK, not only in terms <strong>of</strong> its size but also in terms <strong>of</strong> its range <strong>of</strong> academic<br />
endeavours, teaching, research, consultancy and contractual work, community<br />
engagement and commercialisation. The academic attainment <strong>of</strong> applicants has also<br />
broadened hugely, partly due to their much larger numbers and to the changes in school<br />
curriculum. As a result, higher education organisations now not only embrace the<br />
approach outlined by von Humboldt (1810), treating “higher learning in terms <strong>of</strong> not yet<br />
completely solved problems, remaining at all times in a research mode (i.e. being engaged in an<br />
unceasing process <strong>of</strong> inquiry)”, but also as conventionally in Schools and <strong>College</strong>s educating<br />
and training students in “closed and settled bodies <strong>of</strong> knowledge”.<br />
While recognising that both forms <strong>of</strong> education are important to Society, this Rustat<br />
Conference sought to chart the major issues currently confronting Research-Intensive<br />
universities specifically, paying particular attention to the changing landscape <strong>of</strong><br />
government scrutiny and support, and the rapid advances globally in universities.<br />
Throughout the conference, it was recognised that the UK university system includes<br />
internationally leading institutions which surpass those in many competitor nations,<br />
and are seen to be particularly impressive when their performance is assessed in terms<br />
<strong>of</strong> unit resource. It was agreed that the following factors had been essential in such<br />
success: (i) Institutional Autonomy, a feature that other countries are now introducing in<br />
Honora O’Neill, Henrietta Moore, Nancy Rothwell, David Cleevely, Martin Rees, the Vice-Chancellor and the Master at the<br />
Rustat Conference on Research Universities, 29 January <strong>2012</strong>
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their sectors, (ii) Institutional Diversity, allowing the widest possible range <strong>of</strong><br />
opportunities for students and staff alike, and (iii) above all, a focus on Institutional<br />
Excellence, in teaching, learning, research and reflective enquiry, with this last<br />
endeavour best involving both independent study and collective engagement or<br />
collegiality.<br />
The meeting recognised, however, that such success faces major challenges,<br />
particularly given the continuing global economic environment which is restricting the<br />
financial support and investments that stakeholders can provide to the university<br />
system. The challenge <strong>of</strong> responding to this was a topic <strong>of</strong> much debate from which<br />
several points were identified during the meeting as being <strong>of</strong> importance:<br />
1. Institutional Focus: To deliver excellence and diversity across the UK university<br />
sector, and not least for the sake <strong>of</strong> students, institutions must focus on areas <strong>of</strong><br />
established excellence which have sufficient critical mass to be efficient. It was<br />
therefore proposed certain forms <strong>of</strong> education be focussed in specific centres, for<br />
example for the PhD degree. Also the Government should develop more specific<br />
metrics for recognising excellence, for example in vocational courses, so that all<br />
students in particular, could determine how well an institution would provide<br />
targeted training and education (and indeed to what extent they meet specific<br />
needs, standards and career opportunities). Entry standards should also be defined<br />
so it is clear what standards are required at school for the student to be sufficiently<br />
qualified to take the course.<br />
2. Global Focus: Research-Intensive universities can only be globally leading if they<br />
outperform international competitors. Despite its success, the UK cannot afford to<br />
be complacent in terms <strong>of</strong> the standing <strong>of</strong> its Research-intensive universities, not<br />
least because <strong>of</strong> the benefits this brings in terms <strong>of</strong> national reputation and<br />
recognition. Given the large levels <strong>of</strong> known future investment in research by<br />
Europe, success by UK Universities in obtaining a large proportion <strong>of</strong> such funding<br />
is crucial. To date, the UK Government has not needed to provide the support that<br />
other countries have implemented to help their universities achieve success in<br />
Europe, but this must be kept under review. UK universities must increasingly<br />
benchmark their standards at international levels, recognising that that the scale <strong>of</strong><br />
the university sector, for example the BRICs will dwarf Europe and the USA within<br />
twenty years, and the quality <strong>of</strong> leading universities elsewhere will be extremely<br />
high. Decisions on Government support for UK Research-Intensive universities<br />
need to take greater account <strong>of</strong> international competition and collaboration.<br />
3. Recognition <strong>of</strong> the Benefits <strong>of</strong> Research-Intensive Universities: It is only right that<br />
universities should accept scrutiny from stakeholders, not least in terms <strong>of</strong> value for<br />
money, and that this scrutiny typically involves a level <strong>of</strong> competition. Such scrutiny<br />
must also not only avoid detracting from the core functions <strong>of</strong> the sector, but rather<br />
reflect them. There was a strong view at the meeting, however, that current<br />
benchmarks for defining the social-economic benefits <strong>of</strong> universities need to be<br />
improved, and that the university sector needs to communicate more effectively its<br />
benefits, rather than primarily using comparative assessments at local levels such as<br />
in the REF. It was argued that although universities have been most successful in<br />
commercialising their research, the primary economic benefits from universities<br />
were from training students - the financial benefit <strong>of</strong> trained students is normally at<br />
least 100 times that <strong>of</strong> commercialisation activities. Also, this benefit arises from a<br />
very wide range <strong>of</strong> subjects, not least because many disciplines have common<br />
principles and levels <strong>of</strong> rigour. Impact is undoubtedly important, but should be on<br />
the basis <strong>of</strong> genuine academic achievement rather than coincidental circumstance
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which might occur for any organisation, and <strong>of</strong>ten relies on factors outside and<br />
beyond the university environment and control. Research-Intensive universities<br />
should also place greater emphasis on communicating the main outcomes <strong>of</strong> this<br />
area with staff, students and the general public.<br />
Among the 50 visiting participants were the following Vice-Chancellors and other senior<br />
figures in higher education:<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Janet Beer, Vice-Chancellor Oxford Brookes <strong>University</strong>; Chair Steering Group for the<br />
National Student Survey, Higher Education Funding Council for England<br />
Baroness Blackstone, Former Vice-Chancellor <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Greenwich; former Master, Birkbeck<br />
<strong>College</strong>, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> London; former Minister <strong>of</strong> Education<br />
Sir Graeme Catto, Director, Higher Education Better Regulation Group<br />
Mary Curnock Cook, Chief Executive, Universities and <strong>College</strong>s Admissions Service (UCAS)<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dr Kurt Deketelaere, Secretary-General, League <strong>of</strong> European Research Universities<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dame Julia Goodfellow, Vice-Chancellor, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Kent<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Chris Higgins, Vice-Chancellor, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Durham<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dr Michael Kämper-van den Boogaart, Vice-President for Academic and<br />
International Affairs, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Alberto Mantovani, Vice-Rector, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Milan<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Calie Pistorius, Vice-Chancellor, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Hull<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Louise Richardson, President, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> St Andrew’s<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Krystian Roleder, Vice-Rector, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Silesia, Katowice, Poland<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dame Nancy Rothwell, President and Vice-Chancellor, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Manchester<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Jürgen Rühe, Vice-Rector for Internationalization and Technology Transfer,<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Freiburg<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Rick Rylance, Chief Executive and Chair, Research Councils UK Executive Group<br />
Lord Sainsbury FRS, Chancellor, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong>; former Minister <strong>of</strong> Science and<br />
Innovation<br />
Manufacturing in the UK<br />
On 24 November 2011, the <strong>College</strong> hosted the Rustat Conference on the state <strong>of</strong><br />
manufacturing in the UK. In the wake <strong>of</strong> recent financial crises, renewed emphasis<br />
has been placed on discussions about the balance <strong>of</strong> the UK economy, and how much –<br />
if at all – it has become over-dependent on the tertiary or services sector, a sector<br />
characterised by pr<strong>of</strong>essions such as banking, retail, tourism, and the media. To put the<br />
potential <strong>of</strong> the UK manufacturing sector in context, it is estimated that a 20% increase<br />
would be enough to remove the current unsustainable trade deficit.<br />
The conference aimed to provide recommendations on how the role and state <strong>of</strong> the<br />
manufacturing sector might be improved. Chaired by the Master, experts from a variety<br />
<strong>of</strong> fields – industry, government, pr<strong>of</strong>essional institutions and academia – covered the<br />
following topics: 1. What is Manufacturing? The Facts versus the Myths. 2. How does<br />
Manufacturing perform in Critical Sectors? 3. Does Manufacturing Matter? 4. The Role<br />
<strong>of</strong> Universities in the Manufacturing Sector; and 5. What are the Global, National,<br />
Regional and Local Perspectives <strong>of</strong> the UK manufacturing sector?<br />
Among the speakers and participants were: Jonathan Neale, managing director <strong>of</strong><br />
McLaren Racing; Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Sir Mike Gregory, head <strong>of</strong> the Institute for Manufacturing at<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>; Jennifer Smookler, deputy head <strong>of</strong> Foresight at the Government Office for<br />
Science; Sir Alan Rudge, chairman <strong>of</strong> the ERA Foundation; Dr John F Jungclaussen,<br />
London correspondent <strong>of</strong> the German newspaper, Die Zeit; Chris Hunt, director general
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<strong>of</strong> UKPIA; Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Peter Williamson <strong>of</strong> the Judge Business School; Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Chris<br />
Lowe, director <strong>of</strong> the Institute <strong>of</strong> Biotechnology at <strong>Cambridge</strong>; and Tim Lawrence, head<br />
<strong>of</strong> Manufacturing Practice at the PA Consulting Group.<br />
In his executive summary, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Ian White said that though the conference<br />
delegates recognised the substantial work that has been done by both governmental and<br />
non-governmental bodies in recent years to support UK manufacturing, a consensus<br />
was reached that further action be required lest the sector be regarded as weak<br />
internationally. A full report <strong>of</strong> the Rustat Conference on the state <strong>of</strong> manufacturing in<br />
UK can be found online at www.rustat.org; or by emailing the conference rapporteur,<br />
Nathan Brooker, at ncbrooker@yahoo.co.uk<br />
Oil and Energy<br />
The <strong>College</strong> hosted the Rustat Conference on Oil and Energy on 4 April <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
In the chair’s introduction, the Master likened the debate over the provision and<br />
supply <strong>of</strong> oil to the dilemma outlined by the famous Jesuan Thomas Malthus<br />
(1766-1834). In what is commonly termed the ‘Malthusian catastrophe’, Malthus<br />
foresaw a world forced to return to subsistence-level conditions on the proposition that<br />
population growth would outpace agricultural production. Though such a catastrophe<br />
has not yet occurred, the supply <strong>of</strong> fossil fuels from politically unstable areas has<br />
remained a contentious issue within western governments, at least since the end <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Second World War.<br />
The five topics covered by the conference on oil and energy were as follows: 1. What is<br />
the macroeconomic outlook for hydrocarbons? 2. How important will politics be in the<br />
use <strong>of</strong> such resources? 3. What can technology be expected to <strong>of</strong>fer and how will this<br />
affect climate change? 4. What might the impact be on governments? 5. What might the<br />
impact be on markets?<br />
Among the speakers and participants were: Stuart Laing, master <strong>of</strong> Corpus Christi<br />
<strong>College</strong>, <strong>Cambridge</strong>, former UK ambassador to Kuwait and former deputy ambassador<br />
to Saudi Arabia; Rosalind Kainyah, Vice-President <strong>of</strong> External Affairs at Tullow Oil; Fred<br />
Pollack, senior analyst <strong>of</strong> Energy Security at NATO; Richard Bridge, head <strong>of</strong> Government<br />
& Political Affairs at BP; Lord Oxburgh, former chairman <strong>of</strong> Shell; Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Andy<br />
Woods, Head <strong>of</strong> the BP Institute at <strong>Cambridge</strong>; Fergus Macleod, group head <strong>of</strong> Strategic<br />
Planning at BP; Dr Nazrin Mehdiyeva, principal consultant <strong>of</strong> Energy and Foreign Policy<br />
at PA Consulting Group; and Terry Macalister, energy editor at the Guardian.<br />
A full report <strong>of</strong> the Rustat Conference on Oil and Energy is available at<br />
www.rustat.org, or by emailing the conference rapporteur, Nathan Brooker, at<br />
ncbrooker@yahoo.co.uk ■
Bursary<br />
Christopher Pratt, Acting Senior Bursar<br />
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The principal achievements in <strong>2012</strong> have been the completions <strong>of</strong> Chapel Court and<br />
Marshall Court (as the refurbished 19-22 <strong>Jesus</strong> Lane is now known), major<br />
improvements in our management accounting and another creditable set <strong>of</strong> results<br />
for 2011-12. Taking these in turn, I am delighted to report that the refurbishment <strong>of</strong> Chapel<br />
Court, a major project in any terms, has come in on time and within budget – very satisfying<br />
since both timescale and budget were reduced. Marshall Court, <strong>of</strong>ficially opened by Sir<br />
Michael Marshall (1952) on 1 October <strong>2012</strong> was to a horribly tight programme, but also<br />
came in on time and on budget, the combined buildings making the <strong>College</strong> 137 student<br />
rooms and 25 fellows’ rooms better provided than in 2011-12, with the bonus that almost<br />
all <strong>of</strong> these are now en-suite, making journeys to distant ablutions a thing <strong>of</strong> the past and<br />
enhancing future income. It was special to see our Master the most elevated in <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
and learning masonry and carpentry skills as the two Courts were topped out:<br />
The projects have tested our cash-flow management skills, so I am particularly pleased<br />
to say that we have vastly improved our internal reporting as well as needing reduced help<br />
from our auditors. As I write, we are finalising 2011-12 for publication in November, but we<br />
know that, after pay costs reduced by £50,000, we have again held down our operating<br />
expenditure (to only 0.8% above that for 2010-11) and the results will be very close to our<br />
budget. This is how our finances will look in the next published Accounts:<br />
Millions<br />
14,000,000<br />
12,000,000<br />
10,000,000<br />
8,000,000<br />
6,000,000<br />
4,000,000<br />
2,000,000<br />
0<br />
2011-<strong>2012</strong><br />
Expenditure Income<br />
Surplus/Endowment<br />
Other<br />
Domus cost/income<br />
Education/fees
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Sir Michael Marshall <strong>of</strong>ficially opening Marshall Court<br />
Fees continue to pay only just over half our education costs, but we continued to make<br />
progress in making the Domus (shorthand for housing and feeding members, plus<br />
conference guests) self-supporting. That progress has been suspended in the absence <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Chapel Court income stream, but will resume from now on. We have, with hugely helpful<br />
input from Jesuans on our Investment Committees, replaced our financial investment<br />
managers and despite unsettled markets can say that the combined financial and property<br />
valuation is above that for 2011, itself at a record level.<br />
There are challenges ahead, <strong>of</strong> course. We should know in the next year whether we can<br />
re-acquire the Wesley House site, sold in 1922, and resourcing that will test us, as will the<br />
new fee regime, impacting progressively over the next three years and creating a real need<br />
to increase our bursary support.<br />
Senior and junior members alike know how much the <strong>College</strong> owes to its loyal staff and<br />
those reaching long service milestones in the last year include: chef Shaun Platt (25 years),<br />
cleaner Elaine McNab and maintenance assistant Terry Dellar (both 15 years). Five other<br />
members <strong>of</strong> staff reached 10 years’ service, and we said farewell to four members <strong>of</strong> staff<br />
who retired from the <strong>College</strong> including janitor Charles Hardy who retired after 20 years<br />
and head chef Alf Curtis who retired after an incredible 38 years. ■<br />
Inside the newly refurbished Marshall Court at 19-22 <strong>Jesus</strong> Lane
Development Office<br />
Richard Dennis, Development Director<br />
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It has been a year <strong>of</strong> considerable change in the Development Office. Miranda Seymour,<br />
Ghizala-Ruth Modood (2009) and Liam Richardson (2005) have all departed for fresh<br />
pastures and been replaced by Hannah Perks, Nikki Williams, Stephen Bland and Natasha<br />
Brice (2008).<br />
Under the leadership <strong>of</strong> our new Master we are currently re-assessing the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
future priorities, but it is already clear that as a result <strong>of</strong> the new higher fees regime we are<br />
going to have to increase our fundraising efforts for undergraduate bursaries. The levels<br />
<strong>of</strong> debt that our new undergraduates face are unprecedented. Similarly, the need to be able<br />
to help fund scholarships for graduates is increasing significantly as we strive to ensure<br />
that our graduates gain fully from their time at the <strong>College</strong>. A particular concern to us is<br />
the plight <strong>of</strong> UK students already burdened with high levels <strong>of</strong> debt from their<br />
undergraduate years.<br />
Philip and Joanne (née Moore) Yates (1978 and 1980) have, with outstanding generosity,<br />
endowed a college teaching Fellowship in Law. They were both admitted to read Law when<br />
Peter Glazebrook was Director <strong>of</strong> Studies in that subject, and the Fellowship is to be known<br />
as the Yates Glazebrook Fellowship. The first holder will be Dr Findlay Stark who, like<br />
Glanville Williams and Peter Glazebrook, is principally interested in Criminal Law. This is<br />
the fourth named Fellowship to be endowed by members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong> in recent years. The<br />
first, in History, was established by Gurnee Hart (1994) and is held by Dr Michael Edwards;<br />
the second, in Polar Sciences, was created by Brian Buckley (1962) and is held by Pr<strong>of</strong> Julian<br />
Dowdeswell; the third, in English, is held by Dr Christopher Burlinson and was funded by<br />
the legacy <strong>of</strong> Vivian Cox (1934). The endowment <strong>of</strong> fellowships is <strong>of</strong> particular value to the<br />
<strong>College</strong> as we seek to preserve the college-based teaching system in the face <strong>of</strong> an<br />
undergraduate funding regime that covers only a proportion <strong>of</strong> the costs <strong>of</strong> the education<br />
we provide.<br />
I am delighted that so many Old Members have chosen to support the Chapel<br />
Court project. We will continue to accept names for plaques in rooms until the New<br />
Year. We hope to have the plaques installed in time for the Donors’ Garden Party next<br />
summer.<br />
Bequests<br />
The <strong>College</strong> wishes to record its great gratitude for the following bequests received during<br />
the year 2011-12: Ronald Ray (1950) £100,000; John Steane (1948) £61,317; Kenneth Yates<br />
(1936) £20,000; John Robertson (1938) £3,064; Alan Wood (1943) £10,000; and James<br />
Meadows (1956) £52,840.<br />
Membership <strong>of</strong> the 1496 Society has now grown to over 150 as evermore Old Members and<br />
other friends have notified us that they have included the <strong>College</strong> in their Will.
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Society <strong>of</strong> St Radegund<br />
The <strong>College</strong> marks its gratitude for acts <strong>of</strong> outstanding munificence with admission to the<br />
Society <strong>of</strong> St Radegund. Immediately prior to the Society’s annual dinner on 25 June the<br />
Master inducted a new member to the Society, Christopher Kirker (1969), who is endowing<br />
an undergraduate bursary.<br />
Later this summer the <strong>College</strong> Council was also delighted to invite Marshall <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> Ltd to become a corporate member <strong>of</strong> the Society <strong>of</strong> St Radegund. This was in<br />
recognition <strong>of</strong> the many links between the Marshall family, and their company, and the<br />
<strong>College</strong>, including most recently their very generous support for the rebuilding <strong>of</strong> 19-22<br />
<strong>Jesus</strong> Lane, the site <strong>of</strong> their original business premises, as graduate accommodation. As<br />
reported earlier by the Acting Senior Bursar, this is now been named Marshall Court. This<br />
now provides 20 very attractive en-suite graduate rooms and 6 much needed flats for those<br />
graduates with partners. ■<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Ian White with Mr Christopher Kirker
Parting Impressions <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
Adrienne Hamy, French Lectrice 2011-<strong>2012</strong><br />
FAREWELL LETTER I <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2012</strong> 89<br />
I t would have been proper to start with a powerful sentence from Coleridge, Sterne or<br />
the Earl <strong>of</strong> Wessex, but I will quote from an open book: <strong>Jesus</strong> Cloister.<br />
On my first day in <strong>Cambridge</strong> I was already disorientated. The Chimney had led me to<br />
the Horse, which accompanied me to the Carrollian shrubs in second Court. Attracted by<br />
the Chapel singing walls I rode on sunbeams and arrived in the sunny Cloister. There I<br />
found sapientia in its double sense: that is wisdom and taste buds feast. Peter Glazebrook<br />
showed me the way to High Table delights, Jesuan secret stories, and fellows’ kind<br />
experience.<br />
There began my own Bildungsroman: as a French Lectrice I was there to teach but<br />
actually learnt a great deal about how to teach and learn. Teaching Cantabrigian students<br />
confirmed my desire for a more creative and friendly way <strong>of</strong> transmitting knowledge,<br />
slightly different from a certain Sorbonagre, Sorbonnicole, authoritative approach I had<br />
sometimes been used to.<br />
My mission was to prepare the Medieval and Modern Languages students for different<br />
exams in French. The first-year Tripos worked on the art <strong>of</strong> summary, debating, reacting<br />
to the news or big social and cultural issues and analyzing articles. The second-year divided<br />
their time between the joys <strong>of</strong> FrAV (this unbiblical beast is also called ‘French through<br />
audio-visual media’) and the gymnastics <strong>of</strong> translating English literature into elegant<br />
French – this implacable notion <strong>of</strong> linguistic elegance stirred endless and heated<br />
controversies. It was important as well to give some hints on CVs and year-abroad projects,<br />
which led up to long comparative discussions among lakes <strong>of</strong> tea and cascades <strong>of</strong> laughter.<br />
The third-year being abroad, I then helped the fourth-year to write French essays on<br />
topics as varied as violence and body language in Zola, religion in XVIIth-century literature,<br />
power <strong>of</strong> poetry in Sartre and Apollinaire. Those were rich, fertile and passionate sessions.<br />
I could hear ardent love declarations in Marivaux XVIIIth-century style, read extra<br />
translations from Irish contemporary theatre or philosophical essays on theologies <strong>of</strong><br />
Marxism, arbitrate hilarious debates on the existence <strong>of</strong> Marie-Antoinette, steack-frites and
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Astérix, create live vocabulary lists mimicking all kinds <strong>of</strong> weapons from tanks to halberds,<br />
recreate Macbeth witches scene while cooking mulled wine for Christmas drinks, sing<br />
Edith Piaf’s incentive song ‘Je ne veux pas travailler’, enjoy knitting and tea farewell moments,<br />
introduce to the concrete variety <strong>of</strong> French pastries. And I can’t help mentioning guitar<br />
interludes, treasure hunts to find lovely messages and fresh cookies, caricatures, mugs,<br />
ground c<strong>of</strong>fee, assorted tricks and surprise books. May I thank here the unforgettable and<br />
dynamic Mesdemoiselles Holroyd, Hughes, Johnston, Stokeld, Broadbridge, Lane, Sheen,<br />
Arthur, Ghosh and Shahrad, Messieurs Russell, Kemp, Kitching, Wood, Margolin, Hewett,<br />
for all they have taught me.<br />
What struck me most in <strong>Cambridge</strong> undoubtedly, but at <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> especially – apart<br />
from the exoticism, glee and depth <strong>of</strong> every single element <strong>of</strong> everyday life – is the strong<br />
and genuine sense <strong>of</strong> community. The generous staff produced signed mugs, Danish<br />
poetry lines, meteorological jokes and rugby scores. The Fellows showed incredible and<br />
marvellous kindness: exciting life stories, academic advice for my PhD on XIIIth century<br />
Franciscan Homiletics and Mariology, translation works, refined and most interesting and<br />
joyful conversazioni. Pr. Ian and Mrs Margaret White were sincerely welcoming and<br />
thoughtful. It is impossible to thank here all the wise Magi who made this year special,<br />
I cannot avoid however mentioning Peter Garnsey and John Adkins (and Prs Soskice,<br />
Cornwell, Hughes, Morieux, Kelly, Bowen, Williams, Glazebrook, Minden, Arnot,<br />
Clackson, Mottier, Caramello, Burlinson, Wells, Bowers, Killen, Siklos, Flemming, Tor,<br />
Saslaw, Walton, Waring, McIntyre, Perreau, and <strong>of</strong> course Peter Linehan at John’s for his<br />
wonderful presence).<br />
The MML family was an interesting and colourful mosaic looked after by angels such as<br />
Jana Howlett and Annemarie Kunzl-Snodgrass.<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> at last is the only bubble where one can in the same week caress an albino<br />
python in a master’s garden, eat cheese on a chapel ro<strong>of</strong>, play violin in a Neogothic<br />
refectory while eating strawberries, rebuild a Russian banya, talk among dawn candles<br />
about astrophysics and viols, Golden Rush and Linear B, Soviet spies and purple jackets,<br />
see plays performed in Russian, Ancient Greek, Tennessee slang or XVIIth century French,<br />
mix Mozarabic palaeography and champagne in a tower. A week in those days was worth<br />
a century. Space and Time were others. Remembrance is everlasting. ■
Societies
Societies<br />
Student Union<br />
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This has been another highly successful year for the JCSU and for <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
societies. <strong>Jesus</strong> has consolidated its reputation as the strongest sporting college in<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> with a series <strong>of</strong> barnstorming performances in rowing, hockey, football,<br />
rugby and other sports. Music in <strong>College</strong> continues to benefit from large doses <strong>of</strong><br />
dedication and talent, and the Jesuan contingent in the <strong>University</strong>’s theatre scene has<br />
never been more impressive. These extracurricular opportunities, combined with the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s friendliness, means that the student experience at <strong>Jesus</strong> is exceptionally<br />
enjoyable and constructive.<br />
The year began, as always, with a hectic freshers’ week, the aim <strong>of</strong> which was to best<br />
prepare the incoming students for their undergraduate years in <strong>College</strong>. The social and<br />
academic mix was such that the freshers found themselves fitting in to <strong>College</strong> very<br />
quickly. Every year, at the start <strong>of</strong> Michaelmas, the extraordinary benefits <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong> life<br />
become apparent – a true community can be formed so easily when staff and students<br />
work to welcome new undergraduates. That <strong>Jesus</strong> pulls this <strong>of</strong>f with aplomb every year is<br />
the reason, I think, for its continuous successes.<br />
In addition to its ongoing responsibility <strong>of</strong> keeping the student experience in <strong>College</strong><br />
ticking over, the JCSU has organised a range <strong>of</strong> successful events and schemes in the<br />
past year. Halfway Hall, the <strong>Jesus</strong> Garden Party in June, the co-ordination <strong>of</strong> CUSU’s<br />
Shadowing Scheme, the annual accommodation ballot and a range <strong>of</strong> entertainments<br />
(such as music evenings in the bar) are only some <strong>of</strong> the things for which the JCSU has<br />
been responsible. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the committee for all<br />
their hard work, and the staff <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong> for the invaluable help and facilitation they<br />
provide for the JCSU. I feel confident that the coming year will see <strong>College</strong>’s student<br />
successes strengthened yet again, and the incomparable experience <strong>of</strong> third-level<br />
education at <strong>Jesus</strong> continued.<br />
Matt O’Kane<br />
Middle Combinaton Room (MCR)<br />
This year has been a thoroughly enjoyable year for the MCR. Despite the challenges<br />
resulting from the dispersal <strong>of</strong> graduate accommodation across <strong>Cambridge</strong>, we have<br />
had a fantastic response from the graduate community. Many graduate events this year<br />
have experienced exceptionally strong attendance, thanks to the outstanding efforts <strong>of</strong><br />
the MCR committee. Our newly renovated Grad Room has also been key to this,<br />
providing a comfortable and relaxed meeting place in college and a welcoming venue for<br />
events. Groups <strong>of</strong> students are to be found using it most evenings and many individuals<br />
find it the perfect quiet working environment during the day.<br />
We have continued our thriving Fellows’ and Graduates’ symposium series, now<br />
following Grad Hall on Wednesday evenings. This year has included highly engaging<br />
and thought-provoking presentations from Drs Clackson (Classics) and Hanke<br />
(Botany). In March we were also delighted to invite Mrs Margaret White to talk at our<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> Women’s Dinner. She gave a fascinating talk about the introduction <strong>of</strong> women<br />
to <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong>.
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Our major academic event <strong>of</strong> the year, the Graduate Conference has gone from<br />
strength to strength; last year’s event was the most successful ever, with excellent<br />
attendance and a captivating key note speech from archaeologist Carenza Lewis, most<br />
famous for her work on the Channel 4 programme Time Team. This year the graduate<br />
community welcomed alumni to the event, which led to many stimulating discussions.<br />
We hope to extend this and encourage further involvement from the alumni community<br />
in future years.<br />
In extracurricular activities we hosted a wide range <strong>of</strong> events from dinners and pub<br />
quizzes to family afternoon teas and debating evenings. We feel very lucky to have such a<br />
sociable graduate group and regularly sell out grad hall each week. One area we are keen<br />
to extend in our social calendar is including students with young families as we feel they<br />
can sometimes become quite isolated. This has been one <strong>of</strong> the main areas in which our<br />
welfare, women’s and LGBT <strong>of</strong>ficers have been working.<br />
Next year will be another exciting year as we will again be able to welcome all<br />
graduate students back to live in college. We have been lucky enough to extend our<br />
accommodation with the recently completed Marshall Court, which will provide en-suite<br />
housing and partner accommodation allowing families and students who desire a little<br />
more privacy a place to stay within the college grounds.<br />
All in all, it has been a busy but thoroughly enjoyable year. It just remains for me to<br />
thank my committee for all their hard work, for which I, on behalf <strong>of</strong> the graduate<br />
community, am extremely grateful.<br />
Kate Miller<br />
Coleridge Society<br />
In its current incarnation, the Coleridge Society seeks to encourage inter-disciplinary<br />
discussion across history, literature, philosophy, theology and politics, mainly through<br />
organising after-dinner talks by respected thinkers in these fields; these are open to<br />
graduate students and senior members <strong>of</strong> any <strong>College</strong> or Faculty. This year three talks<br />
have been held in the Dean's rooms, and all three were well-attended and followed by<br />
vigorous and friendly discussion, testament to the success <strong>of</strong> both the format and the<br />
space in fostering genuine intellectual exchange. In Michaelmas Term, Dr Duncan Kelly<br />
– a Fellow <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> – introduced some thoughts on John Locke, and individual freedom<br />
<strong>of</strong> action from his recent book, The Propriety <strong>of</strong> Liberty: Persons, Passions and Political<br />
Judgement. In Lent Term the Society was treated to a consideration <strong>of</strong> its namesake,<br />
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose ideas on metaphor in philosophy were expounded by<br />
Graham Pechey. Then at the Easter Term meeting Pr<strong>of</strong>esseor Andrew Bowie <strong>of</strong> Royal<br />
Holloway, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> London, enthusiastically championed the German philsophical<br />
tradition, particularly the work <strong>of</strong> T. W. Adorno, which led to an extremely lively<br />
discussion with those analytic philosophers present. We are grateful, as always, to all<br />
three speakers, and to the audiences, whose contributions have made this year's<br />
meetings so stimulating.<br />
Hanna Weibye<br />
Engineering Society<br />
The <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> Engineering Society is student-run and aims to promote engineering<br />
within the college, and to foster links between Jesuan engineers and industry.<br />
Highlights from this past academic year include a talk by representatives <strong>of</strong> Atkins
Aerospace on the use <strong>of</strong> “Materials in Advanced Aerospace Structures”, and a<br />
presentation by Paul McIlroy, the former technical director <strong>of</strong> Hawk-Eye, about the<br />
technology and its use on the international tennis stage. The society also organised<br />
social events for engineers <strong>of</strong> the college throughout the year, including a formal dinner<br />
for current students and alumni.<br />
Adrian Lee<br />
Law Society<br />
The year began for the JCLS with the annual Freshers’ Cocktails evening. This was, as<br />
ever, a great opportunity for the incoming freshers and LLM students to meet the rest <strong>of</strong><br />
the lawyers at <strong>Jesus</strong>. A few weeks later, the Christmas party saw the law students regroup<br />
for a chance to catch up about the past term over mulled wine and mince pies.<br />
Lent saw the arrival <strong>of</strong> a great deal <strong>of</strong> mooting at <strong>Jesus</strong>. The first year students took<br />
part in a mooting workshop run by our new teaching <strong>of</strong>ficer, Mr Joe McIntyre, and<br />
competed in the traditional Freshers’ Moot, which was won this year by George White.<br />
The competition was kindly judged by Jesuan Rory Brown and his colleagues from<br />
9 Stone Buildings. The <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>/Magdalene Moot was held at <strong>Jesus</strong> this year and the<br />
college was represented by Stephen Butler and Rachel Chapman. We are grateful to<br />
4 New Square for their continuing support <strong>of</strong> this moot. Additionally, several members<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> have mooted on behalf <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>University</strong> this year: Frances Harris and<br />
Mark Cullen competed in the WebLegal Education Moot and Stephen Butler and Rachel<br />
Chapman took on Warwick in the inaugural <strong>Cambridge</strong>/Warwick Moot.<br />
The society’s <strong>Annual</strong> Dinner was sponsored by Clifford Chance and was a particularly<br />
delightful evening. We enjoyed some <strong>of</strong> college’s finest food and listened to a<br />
fascinating after-dinner speech from our guest <strong>of</strong> honour, Lord Justice Jackson.<br />
Additionally, <strong>Jesus</strong> students have been fortunate enough to attend careers presentations<br />
in college this year, run by Hogan Lovells and Herbert Smith.<br />
The Glanville Williams Society event was kindly hosted by Mr John Wotton, President<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Law Society, at their buildings on Chancery Lane. As always, it provided a<br />
wonderful opportunity for past and present Jesuan lawyers to meet one another.<br />
The <strong>2012</strong> events calendar was rounded <strong>of</strong>f by the Garden Party: a celebration <strong>of</strong> the end<br />
<strong>of</strong> exams with Pimms and strawberries in abundance!<br />
The Law Society has been most grateful this year for the endless support <strong>of</strong> old<br />
members and sponsors, without whom none <strong>of</strong> the events, workshops and moots could<br />
run. Sincere thanks are also due to the JCLS Committee, who have worked hard to<br />
organise and run the calendar <strong>of</strong> events: Tim Worrall (Treasurer), Emma Cridland<br />
(Secretary) and Frances Harris (Mistress <strong>of</strong> Moots).<br />
Laura Parkman<br />
Music Society<br />
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JCMS enjoyed another busy year, beginning with the Freshers’ Concert which introduced<br />
a number <strong>of</strong> talented young musicians to the <strong>College</strong>. Instrumental Awards went to<br />
cellists Hetty Mulhall, Timothy Coombes and Elizabeth Edwards as well as pianists<br />
George Salimbeni, Grace Smith and Kim Chang Liu and violinist Max Wong; these<br />
musicians have contributed enthusiastically to <strong>College</strong> music throughout the year.<br />
Whilst the Freshers’ Concert is rather intimate internal event, the Michaelmas<br />
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audience, which it did with great success. The programme consisted <strong>of</strong> Finzi’s A Severn<br />
Rhapsody, Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A major, Britten’s Suite on English Folk Tunes,<br />
and John Williams’ Theme from Jurassic Park, with orchestral items conducted by Josh<br />
Jones and Alex Beetschen.<br />
In the lead-up to Christmas, Alex Beetschen also led a fantastic spectacle, conducting<br />
a semi-staged collection <strong>of</strong> songs from the Disney classic Beauty and the Beast with a<br />
large orchestra and the <strong>College</strong>’s non-auditioned choir, the <strong>Jesus</strong> Singers. This event<br />
continued the legacy <strong>of</strong> The Lion King and The Nightmare Before Christmas which had been<br />
mounted in previous years, placing a strong emphasis on all-inclusive and<br />
light-hearted music-making. The last week <strong>of</strong> term also saw the Chapel packed for<br />
late-night Christmas music with the specially-assembled close harmony group Alcock &<br />
Baubles, and a magical performance <strong>of</strong> Howard Blake’s story The Snowman starring Ben<br />
Atkins, Alex Beetschen and the Chapel Choir’s Head Chorister, Ali Austin, whose<br />
rendition <strong>of</strong> Walking in the air dressed in pyjamas and dressing gown enchanted the<br />
post-Formal Hall revellers!<br />
<strong>2012</strong> brought with it further musical successes for JCMS. The David Crighton Concert<br />
in Lent term, traditionally a more formal affair, featured Handel’s Overture to Saul,<br />
Bruckner's Mass No. 2 in E minor and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor (with Max<br />
Wong as soloist), conducted by Gareth Thomas, Robert Dixon and Colin Danskin<br />
respectively. A number <strong>of</strong> Fellows said that it was one <strong>of</strong> the best JCMS concerts they<br />
had attended and the standing ovation given by the entire audience at the end <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Mendelssohn paid tribute to the hard work <strong>of</strong> all those involved.<br />
The May Week Concert ‘Music from the Movies’, inspired by the success <strong>of</strong> Theme from<br />
Jurassic Park in the Michaelmas Term Concert, provided the perfect culmination to the<br />
year’s musical achievements. Although the orchestra featured in items such as Chicken<br />
Run and Prince Ali (conducted and arranged by Alex Beetschen), and the Sinbad Suite and<br />
Tara’s Theme from Gone with the Wind (conducted by Josh Jones), the concert retained its<br />
usual variety-show feel with performances by a number <strong>of</strong> ensembles and soloists.<br />
A brass quintet played arrangements <strong>of</strong> two Hollywood classics, Grace Smith and Ben<br />
Morris performed two Debussy piano pieces and the JCMS chorus sang Zadok the Priest<br />
and two movements from Mozart’s Requiem, conducted by Gareth Thomas. The<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s splendid Big Band entertained the audience in the North Court marquee as<br />
they feasted on strawberries and champagne after the concert.<br />
In addition to these termly events, Louisa Dawes and Colin Danskin have taken<br />
responsibility for organising regular concerts and recitals in the <strong>College</strong> Chapel. Louisa<br />
has worked hard as Recitals Manager to fix skilled instrumentalists and singers from<br />
within <strong>College</strong> and around <strong>Cambridge</strong> to perform during the weekly Saturday recital<br />
series in Michaelmas and Lent terms and the highly-successful May Week lunchtime<br />
recital series. Colin, meanwhile, has been working behind the scenes to mount regular<br />
events as part <strong>of</strong> the widely-celebrated Chapel Sessions, drawing huge crowds to an<br />
eclectic mix <strong>of</strong> music in the atmospheric late-night setting <strong>of</strong> the candlelit Chapel.<br />
With capacity audiences, regular attendance at rehearsals from large numbers <strong>of</strong> the<br />
orchestra (albeit a bit unpredictable during exam term!), high-quality playing and<br />
glowing feedback after concerts, JCMS has celebrated a bumper year. My thanks go to<br />
the many students who have contributed so much to the musical life <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong> over<br />
the course <strong>of</strong> the past twelve months, to the JCMS Committee members for their hard<br />
work, and in particular to Dr Roger Bowers, Emeritus Fellow, who, after thirty years’<br />
service, stepped down as a committee member this Summer.<br />
Rebecca Burns
Graduate Conference<br />
From Secret Societies to the Science <strong>of</strong> Songs<br />
For the last 5 years, the <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> MCR has organised the <strong>Jesus</strong> Graduate<br />
Conference, a one day event that showcases the diverse and exciting work being done by<br />
current graduate student in the college. The event, staged at the start <strong>of</strong> the Easter term<br />
encourages participation from all members <strong>of</strong> the MCR community covering the full<br />
range <strong>of</strong> academic interests and degree courses. This year we were also very pleased to<br />
be able to invite undergraduates and alumni <strong>of</strong> the college to join us and to enjoy<br />
exciting and stimulating discussion with the graduate students about their areas <strong>of</strong><br />
research.<br />
For this year’s conference we were thrilled to be joined by Dr Carenza Lewis <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Archaeology who gave an inspiring and inspirational speech discussing<br />
her career as a founder <strong>of</strong> Access <strong>Cambridge</strong> Archaeology and a presenter on Channel<br />
4’s Time Team. In particular, Dr Lewis focused on her experiences <strong>of</strong> sharing her<br />
academic work with the public and the importance <strong>of</strong> such access work in the 21st<br />
century. This theme is the key focus <strong>of</strong> the graduate conference which encourages all <strong>of</strong><br />
our students to think about their work and to present it in a way that is accessible and<br />
engaging for everyone.<br />
The ethos <strong>of</strong> the conference was also reflected in our chosen student speakers who<br />
spoke on subjects as diverse as multilingualism, international law, composite steels and<br />
the mathematics <strong>of</strong> mixing paints. The audience was taken on a journey through the<br />
history <strong>of</strong> secret societies <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong>, explored our modern multinational culture and<br />
looked ahead to a future <strong>of</strong> space elevators and high speed computer systems. The<br />
presentations also included many popular and memorable demonstrations including a<br />
mini-choir that illustrated the principles that underlie the science <strong>of</strong> music and a<br />
mock-up <strong>of</strong> a cooling apparatus that generates temperatures close to absolute zero.<br />
The majority <strong>of</strong> our participants presented as part <strong>of</strong> a poster session that was very<br />
well attended by members <strong>of</strong> the college who were given the chance to view around 40<br />
different posters on everything from black holes to fruit flies and ancient Latin to the<br />
London riots. The authors <strong>of</strong> the posters included current MPhil and PhD students at the<br />
college who were on hand to discuss their work and answer questions. Attendees were<br />
even treated to videos, 3D graphics and an interactive computer game-style simulation<br />
that is being used to investigate Huntington’s disease.<br />
The day also included a champagne reception in the Master’s lodge and a conference<br />
dinner which provided plenty <strong>of</strong> opportunities for attendees to discuss their interests<br />
further and helped to develop new ideas and research directions. The day closed with a<br />
novel element for the conference, a debate. The teams posed arguments for and against<br />
the motion ‘This house would provide alternative medicine on the NHS’ which was well<br />
presented but was eventually defeated by a landslide.<br />
More details <strong>of</strong> the conference, including a more detailed account and a selection <strong>of</strong><br />
the posters shown can be found on the MCR website (mcr.jesus.cam.ac.uk). The day<br />
received excellent feedback from visitors who were very impressed by the diversity <strong>of</strong> the<br />
subjects represented and the clarity with which students talked about their work.<br />
The <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> Graduate conference will return in 2013 and the hope is that it will<br />
be possible to open it to even more members <strong>of</strong> the college both past and present and so<br />
help to bring together even more people, spark more new ideas and promote even more<br />
exciting and lucrative research by students <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Jonathan Lawson<br />
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Roosters<br />
The 105th year <strong>of</strong> the Roost saw loquaciousness and superciliousness in equal measure.<br />
Debate Roosts were held in the bar and Marshall Room, since the renovation <strong>of</strong> Chapel<br />
Court prevented access to anything more suitable. Motions included ‘This Roost<br />
Believes That Freshers Week Is The Best Week Of Your <strong>College</strong> Life’ and ‘TRBT Fair<br />
Trade Is Just A Fashion Statement’. Motions were passed or rejected by many votes to<br />
few and the winner duly awarded a bottle <strong>of</strong> the finest, cheapest port <strong>of</strong>fered by Esq.<br />
Sainsbury's. Especially well-received was the speech <strong>of</strong> Ayaz Manji, highlighting to good<br />
effect the meaning <strong>of</strong> Fair Trade and its implications for The Simpsons. Amongst other<br />
orators at the Roosts were Jacob Green, Shyam Sakhrani and Ryan Malone.<br />
The Breakfast-at-Lunchtime was honoured by the presence <strong>of</strong> the Master <strong>of</strong> The<br />
Worshipful Company <strong>of</strong> Poulters <strong>of</strong> London, John Briggs, and his hen. Mr Briggs gave<br />
an eloquent response on behalf <strong>of</strong> the guests, and was subsequently egged on. Mr and<br />
Mrs Briggs att-hen-ded as guests <strong>of</strong> Andrew (‘Legs Eleven’ and ‘Long’) Sutton and his<br />
hen, Jane. Andrew generously presented the Roost with a royal epistle from HRH The<br />
Prince <strong>of</strong> Wales to the Roost. Our heart is too full for words: we thank you.<br />
The year was brought to a close by the spirit <strong>of</strong> ffreddie Brittain, ably channelled by<br />
Mike ‘ro chip <strong>of</strong>f the old block’ Percival via a skilfully-crafted ffreddie mask, which<br />
enabled ffreddie to be elevated as the 200th President, a tradition honouring his<br />
contribution to the Roost.<br />
Cucurriat Gallinarium et oleat Ordo!<br />
T.W.B. Ben 'Babbling' Brooks, 199th and 201st O.C. ■
Sports Clubs
2011-<strong>2012</strong> <strong>Report</strong>s<br />
Athletics<br />
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This year’s freshers saw a wealth <strong>of</strong> talented athletes join the large collection <strong>of</strong><br />
returning Jesuan Blues and Half-Blues. The first opportunity to demonstrate the strength<br />
<strong>of</strong> the <strong>Jesus</strong> team came in October with the Winter Cuppers competiton. Both men’s and<br />
women’s teams put in respectable performances, with Lloyd Hilton’s dominance in the<br />
800m and an impressive triple jump by Ben Lewis helping the men secure 4th, and<br />
Helen Broadbridge’s victories in the throws pushing the women up to 5th.<br />
Both new and old members showed an impressive dedication to training, which paid<br />
<strong>of</strong>f handsomely later on in the year, with a sizable Jesuan contingent being selected to<br />
compete in the 137th Varsity Match.<br />
For the women, Fiona James justified her dedication with convincing performances in<br />
the 2nd team long, triple and high jump. In the Blue’s match, football Blue Katie<br />
Sandford made a keenly anticipated return to athletics, placing 3rd in the 400m hurdles.<br />
In the field events, Helen Broadbridge was once again untouchable in the heavy throws,<br />
comfortably winning the hammer and discus, whilst Jen Lovell capped <strong>of</strong>f an epic year<br />
<strong>of</strong> athletics at <strong>Cambridge</strong> with a much deserved win in the pole vault. Having returned to<br />
the sport after a 10 year break, she rapidly found her past form, adding 30cm to the<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>University</strong> record with a vault <strong>of</strong> 3.50m at the County Championships, being<br />
heralded as a ‘superstar’ by the local press.<br />
In the men’s second team match Angus Fitchie secured victory in the javelin with a PB<br />
<strong>of</strong> 48.65m, and Zaamin Hussain used his speed, aggression and disregard for his own
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safety to beat both Oxford competitors in the pole vault. On the track Sam Ashcr<strong>of</strong>t<br />
placed 2nd in the 5000m whilst Matt Fried recaptured the form <strong>of</strong> his youth to place 2nd<br />
in the 100m and 200m, helping the <strong>Cambridge</strong> team to victory over a formidable Oxford<br />
side.<br />
A thrilling men’s Blue’s match ended in a narrow victory for <strong>Cambridge</strong>, which<br />
wouldn’t have been the case without valiant Jesuan efforts. Ex <strong>Jesus</strong> Captain Robin<br />
Brown ran in the 5K, whilst Sam Hyatt-Twynam narrowly missed out on victory in the<br />
pole vault. Jon Cook spearheaded a victorious campaign in the middle distance. After<br />
outpacing his competition in the 800m, he went on to complete an epic double victory,<br />
running 4:13.09 in the mile, in one <strong>of</strong> the most impressive displays <strong>of</strong> distance running<br />
at Iffley road since Roger Bannister’s breaking <strong>of</strong> the four minute barrier.<br />
I’m sure the enthusiasm and youthful zeal <strong>of</strong> next year’s Captains, Zaamin and Fiona,<br />
will take the <strong>Jesus</strong> Athletics team to unprecedented glory. Good luck!<br />
Sam Hyatt-Twynam<br />
Boat Club<br />
It has been an exciting and challenging year for JCBC that has seen the hard work <strong>of</strong><br />
rowers, coxes and coaches pay <strong>of</strong>f. The women had a good number <strong>of</strong> seniors return so<br />
were in a strong position for Michaelmas term, building on the work <strong>of</strong> the previous<br />
year. In contrast, the men’s squad retained few seniors therefore had a fantastic<br />
opportunity to create a new squad for the coming year and allow novices to progress<br />
quickly.<br />
Michaelmas term saw a large fresher sign up and both men’s and women’s lower<br />
boats captains worked tirelessly with the novices to get them ready for the term’s races.<br />
At Queen’s Ergs NM1 put in a fantastic performance to finish in 4th place, with one <strong>of</strong><br />
the crew pulling the fastest erg <strong>of</strong> the competition. A large number <strong>of</strong> novices carried on<br />
rowing throughout the term which culminated in Fairbairns. Our NW1 came 14th and<br />
our NM1 came 9th, showing that whilst there was room for improvement there was<br />
promising talent that would come to help bolster the senior squad. The seniors enjoyed<br />
success in Michaelmas with a win for W1 and M1 coming 5th in the Autumn Head. In<br />
Fairbairns the men achieved a very respectable 6th place; while W1 managed to come<br />
2nd, even though a last minute injury meant a sub had to be found for the race.<br />
Training and racing in Lent term was made difficult by terrible weather giving crews<br />
little racing practice prior to Bumps. Many external pundits predicted JCBC would drop<br />
down the league; however, both M1 and W1 went up two, positioning them for a chance<br />
<strong>of</strong> head <strong>of</strong> the river in 2013. W1 spent a fifth day racing, travelling to London to compete<br />
in WEHORR coming 146th even though exhausted after bumps.<br />
Easter term saw the countdown to Mays and the return <strong>of</strong> Blues rower Caroline Reid to<br />
the women’s side along with triallist cox Ruth Coverdale to the men’s squad. JCBC crews<br />
underwent a gruelling training regime but were rewarded with dramatic technical<br />
breakthroughs. M1 and W1 started in 6th position and dispelled any doubts on the first<br />
day bumping Pembroke and Emma respectively. M1 went on to get two further bumps<br />
and were only denied a final bump by a experienced Downing crew, so finished in 3rd<br />
place. W1 also continued to bump so that only Newnham W1 stood between them and<br />
blades. A strong start set W1 up for a bump by the Plough but drama ensued as a strong<br />
cross wind caused them to crash. However, a superb restart saw W1 push <strong>of</strong>f Pembroke<br />
and back onto chase Newnham. Blades were won on the reach in sight <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> Paddock.<br />
M2 also deserve special mention after holding <strong>of</strong>f Eddies, whose crew boasted multiple
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JCBC W1 chasing Newnham for their fourth Bump <strong>of</strong> Mays<br />
JCBC W1 win Blades in Mays to get 2nd on the river<br />
JCBC M1 bump their way to 3rd on the river in Mays
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returning university rowers, for three days.<br />
It is important to note that the rowers at JCBC could not have achieved all they have<br />
this year without the hard work <strong>of</strong> Head Coach Charlie Mulholland as well as John<br />
Hutton, Matt Jones and Joe Baddeley (coaching the men) and Will Hardy, Sheena<br />
Cassidy and Chrisi Haberl (coaching the women). The ongoing commitment <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Trust allows JCBC to maintain its rightful position as one <strong>of</strong> the top <strong>College</strong> Boat Clubs.<br />
Special thanks must be given to the Master for his support this year. JCBC is set up for a<br />
fantastic year under the leadership <strong>of</strong> new captains Ricardo Herreros-Symons and Ellie<br />
Sharp.<br />
Ellie Denny and Stephen Eddison<br />
Boat Club Trust<br />
I submit this brief report as stand-in for David Wootton, Chairman on the Trust, whom<br />
the demands <strong>of</strong> high <strong>of</strong>fice in the City have left with too little time to produce his<br />
customary comprehensive account <strong>of</strong> the doings <strong>of</strong> the Boat Club and <strong>of</strong> the Trust. There<br />
is however one historical point to note, which David himself would surely omit to<br />
mention if he was writing: <strong>2012</strong> marks the 40th anniversary <strong>of</strong> his holding the <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong><br />
Captain <strong>of</strong> the JCBC. It was also the last year in which the Men’s club rowed Head <strong>of</strong> the<br />
River in the May races (the Women have <strong>of</strong> course since achieved that distinction), and<br />
while leading the Club and achieving this feat David also gained a First Class honours<br />
degree.<br />
The purpose <strong>of</strong> the Trust, founded in the year that David took <strong>of</strong>fice as Captain, is to<br />
“apply the entirety <strong>of</strong> the annual income <strong>of</strong> the Fund to or for such charitable purposes<br />
connected with the Boat Club or with the <strong>College</strong> . . . .” The Trust’s financial resources<br />
are derived from donations received over the years, which are then invested; the<br />
investments being managed (as reported in 2010) by Sarasin and Partners. While the<br />
Trustees have discretion to use capital gains as well as income to support the Boat Club,<br />
normally it is the annual dividend yield which is made available for grants to the JCBC.<br />
In this way all donations to the Trust work for successive generations <strong>of</strong> Jesuan rowers<br />
effectively for ever. Over a hundred old JCBC members now actively follow the progress<br />
<strong>of</strong> the boat club, enrolled as Friends. The trustees acknowledge with deep gratitude their<br />
continuing support, which is not only financial, which is surely also a recognition <strong>of</strong><br />
how much Jesuan oarsmen and oarswomen realise they gained from rowing with the<br />
JCBC in their day.<br />
The value <strong>of</strong> the Trust’s investments has recovered well after the crash <strong>of</strong> 2008<br />
(though it fell back slightly in 2011-<strong>2012</strong>) and now stands at around £0.75 million,<br />
yielding more than £25,000 annually for the Trustees to grant. In this last year the<br />
Trustees decided, exceptionally, to give £5,000 towards the cost <strong>of</strong> refurbishing Chapel<br />
Court and particularly 4 CC 1, rooms by long tradition allocated to the President for the<br />
time being <strong>of</strong> the Boat Club. Recently expenditure on buying new boats has been lower,<br />
for two reasons. First, Charlie Mulholland, the Boatman and Head Coach, has proved<br />
adept at maintaining or repairing the stock <strong>of</strong> boats to keep them serviceable. Secondly,<br />
and more importantly, has been the emphasis the Trustees and the Club have placed on<br />
training. In any case, the cost <strong>of</strong> a new VIII now absorbs the Trust’s entire annual<br />
dividend income.<br />
More and more crews are rowing on the Cam, time windows for outings are becoming<br />
shorter and shorter, while academic demands increasingly constrain the occasions when
whole crews can assemble. The combined result is that far too <strong>of</strong>ten the density <strong>of</strong> traffic<br />
on the river is such that little or no useful rowing can be done, a dispiriting experience<br />
for all involved. So the Trust has invested extensively in <strong>of</strong>f-river training equipment<br />
such as the latest ergos, and also granted substantial subsidies for out-<strong>of</strong>-term training<br />
camps – most recently in Spain. Charlie attributes the successes <strong>of</strong> M1 (three places up)<br />
and W1 (who won blades) in the <strong>2012</strong> May races in large measure to the effectiveness <strong>of</strong><br />
this strategy. For those who missed the results, both crews are now within striking<br />
distance <strong>of</strong> the Headship, starting respectively third and second in their divisions in<br />
2013. The coming year will almost certainly see even more emphasis by the Trust on<br />
supporting effective training.<br />
If you are not yet enrolled as a Friend <strong>of</strong> the JCBC you are missing the email<br />
newsletters which keep you in touch with the Club, as well as the opportunity to join the<br />
summer barbecue with the crews at the boathouse; and free parking in the <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
paddock for the May races. David Reid (d.m.reid.91@cantab.net) is the man for you to<br />
contact!<br />
The <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> Boat Club is 185 years old, and today is lively and strong. The<br />
Trustees wish all crews rowing this year every success, and that they will gain as much<br />
from their rowing as their predecessors, down the generations, have gained.<br />
Christopher McDouall, Trustee and Treasurer<br />
Cricket<br />
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<strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> Cricket Club enjoyed another successful season, building on last year’s<br />
unbeaten campaign and being hampered only by the weather. A substantial early season<br />
fixture list was planned only for every match to fall foul <strong>of</strong> the weather or the opposition<br />
failing to put out a side.<br />
<strong>Jesus</strong> were again unbeaten in their Cuppers campaign although poor weather meant<br />
that the semi final and final could not be played. <strong>Jesus</strong> started <strong>of</strong>f with a win against Fitz,<br />
in what proved to be a sign <strong>of</strong> things to come Green and Senaratne put on 157 for the<br />
second wicket. Seneratne eventually falling for 63, Green remaining unbeaten on 91 –<br />
<strong>Jesus</strong> posting a competitive total <strong>of</strong> 193-2. Fitz chanced their arm with a short boundary<br />
on one side but fell 26 short. Against Selwyn, <strong>Jesus</strong> posted their highest Cuppers score<br />
<strong>of</strong> 206-2, including a brilliant 52 ball 100 from Seneratne, ably helped by 52 from Green.<br />
Selwyn never got close finishing on 151with 2 wickets for Pope. Next up were Johns who<br />
fared no better. A devastating spell <strong>of</strong> new ball bowling from Viljoen and Allan meant<br />
Johns were 29-5 <strong>of</strong>f 8 overs. They failed to recover finishing on 76, which was easily<br />
chased down by <strong>Jesus</strong>. The quarter final saw <strong>Jesus</strong> face Trinity. Some tight bowling<br />
throughout meant Trinity struggled to 91-9 which again was easily knocked <strong>of</strong>f by <strong>Jesus</strong>.<br />
So the side was confident going in to the semi against Christs but poor weather meant<br />
the game did not get played. This means that <strong>Jesus</strong> still holds the trophy having won the<br />
competition 2 years ago after the <strong>Jesus</strong> v Christs final was rained <strong>of</strong>f last year.<br />
Although without a shadow <strong>of</strong> doubt, the highlight <strong>of</strong> the season was the inaugural<br />
Old Boys Game that saw the Old Boys XI captained by Frankie Brown take on a <strong>Jesus</strong> XI.<br />
The Old Boys batted first and were 120-2 at lunch with Lee taking 2 wickets including<br />
the important scalp <strong>of</strong> Grimshaw for 48 to a good stumping from Hulbert. After lunch<br />
Brown and Newman put on runs at a good rate until they fell for 48 and 67 respectively.<br />
The Old Boys finished on 229 with Read picking up 3 wickets. In reply, after the early<br />
wicket <strong>of</strong> Green, Pope and Senaratne set about putting the Old Boys bowling attack to
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the test. They put on 123 for the second wicket before Pope fell to Hughes for 86. After<br />
his dismissal Senaratne upped the ante before retiring for 89. Allan and Miller saw the<br />
game home for a 5 wicket win for the <strong>Jesus</strong> XI.<br />
Tom Lee<br />
Rugby<br />
Matching last year’s efforts <strong>of</strong> League victory and a place in the Cuppers final was never<br />
going to be easy and season 2011-12 ended up as one <strong>of</strong> near misses for JCRUFC. The<br />
season started brightly enough, with an intake <strong>of</strong> quality freshers including some much<br />
needed brawn in the pack. However, defeat at Johns quickly put <strong>Jesus</strong> behind in the race<br />
for the League title. After leading 7-0 at halftime, <strong>Jesus</strong> tried to protect its lead in the<br />
second half, and lost 7-20. This was not to be the first time that the men in red and black<br />
failed to back themselves, keep the ball in hand, and finish <strong>of</strong>f the opposition.<br />
The early defeat was compounded two weeks later with a resounding loss to Johns at<br />
home (17-36), followed by a further demoralising defeat against Downing in the new<br />
year (10-25). On both occasions, JCRUFC was well beaten. Ultimately, <strong>Jesus</strong> finished a<br />
distant second, never really hitting our stride. When searching for explanations, two<br />
observations are unavoidable. First, <strong>Jesus</strong> suffered a horrific injury toll during the<br />
League season, with the casulty list <strong>of</strong>ten resembling that <strong>of</strong> a First World War field<br />
hospital.<br />
Rob Stevens represented the Blues, and Nick Roope and Chris Blucke the Under 21s,<br />
in the annual Varsity match; hopefully more Jesuans will get the opportunity to do so<br />
next year. Second, the team seemed to be missing that indefinable extra ten per cent that<br />
comes from absolute commitment to the cause. On paper, the squad looked stronger<br />
than last year’s, yet the performances, both in quality and in results, were not as good.<br />
Once the Cuppers season began and university rugby abated, the team started to gel<br />
for the first time. A convincing win in the quarter finals against a tricky Emma team was<br />
followed by the best performance <strong>of</strong> the year, as <strong>Jesus</strong> produced a polished performance<br />
to outclass a very strong Downing outfit (22-8). Stevens, electifying as ever, managed a<br />
hat-trick <strong>of</strong> tries to put <strong>Jesus</strong> in the final for the third straight year.
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Thus it all came down to an unforgettable day at a packed <strong>Cambridge</strong> City Rugby Club<br />
against a St Edmunds team featuring no fewer than five Blues. The match was played in<br />
horrendous conditions, including a strong wind, regular rain, and a solid ten minute<br />
spell <strong>of</strong> hail. Nevertheless, JCRUFC started strongly, with tries to both Tambara and<br />
Stevens reflecting <strong>Jesus</strong>’ dominance. With a 17-0 lead just before half-time, Stevens went<br />
down injured, and the tone <strong>of</strong> the match changed. Suddenly, <strong>Jesus</strong> appeared unwilling to<br />
keep the ball and put pressure on the opposition. Eddies saw their chance to seize the<br />
initiative and took it. <strong>Jesus</strong> defended with absolute resolve throughout the second half,<br />
despite two yellow cards, into the teeth <strong>of</strong> the building wind. In the 80th minute, the<br />
men in red and black cleared their lines far downfield. The match appeared won. But out<br />
<strong>of</strong> nowhere, Eddies produced a miraculous try from fully sixty metres to snatch the win –<br />
and the Cup.<br />
There were plenty <strong>of</strong> promising individual performances throughout the year.<br />
Oli Exton won Fresher <strong>of</strong> the Year, and Ben MacDonald the Player’s Player. Dan Marron<br />
was Most Improved, scoring four tries in <strong>Jesus</strong>’ victory over the Old Boys in another<br />
successful Wild/Dawson Memorial Match. Nick Roope captained outstandingly under<br />
difficult circumstances. It now remains for next year’s group to bring this individual<br />
brilliance together and render the team more than the sum <strong>of</strong> its parts.<br />
Jamie Miller<br />
Football<br />
JCFC fielded a new look side this season with the graduation <strong>of</strong> a generation <strong>of</strong><br />
stalwarts, and an influx <strong>of</strong> freshers keen to return <strong>Jesus</strong> football to its glory days. The<br />
inexperience <strong>of</strong> the side showed in the first few matches, however, and matches were<br />
lost despite controlling the games for long periods. The return <strong>of</strong> Oliver Juggins from<br />
injury proved to be a turning point in the season, however, as he scored a hat-trick in the<br />
5-0 demolition <strong>of</strong> Tit Hall.<br />
The attacking flair continued up front as new boys Niall Purcell, Harry Roocr<strong>of</strong>t, Tom<br />
O’Loughlin and Juggins dazzled defences all season – particular highlights being the 4-1<br />
win at Trinity, 4-0 defeat <strong>of</strong> Fitz and the determination shown in twice coming from<br />
After the 5-0 win in the Plate Final!
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behind to win 3-2 against Selwyn. They were supported by the tireless work <strong>of</strong> Udi<br />
Gabbai, Will Sheldon and Tom Russell in the centre <strong>of</strong> midfield. The experience <strong>of</strong> the<br />
backline gave the side a solid base. Tom Lee and Ben Layer - having forged a fantastic<br />
centre-half partnership over the past two seasons - made life easy for Justin Maini in<br />
goal. Full-backs Jordan Nadian and Kalil Rouse were always quick to turn defence into<br />
attack. Nadian racked up a number <strong>of</strong> assists over the season and grabbed a goal in his<br />
final game. He would later be named Player <strong>of</strong> the Season. An unfortunate draw left us<br />
facing Homerton in the first round <strong>of</strong> Cuppers and a narrow 1-0 loss meant we were<br />
entered for the Plate. Four clean sheets were kept in the run to the final. The Plate was<br />
won in a 5-0 victory over Corpus to bring silverware back to college for the first time in<br />
some years. This experience should leave the side in good stead for next season and new<br />
captain Niall Purcell should look to push for further honours. Thanks to all the <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
Rangers and everyone involved with JCFC – it has been a fantastic season.<br />
Justin Maini<br />
Hockey<br />
Last year was once again a successful one for JCHC. Eight members <strong>of</strong> the club played<br />
for the men or women’s Blues teams, including last years men’s and women’s captains<br />
and this years men’s captain. The support <strong>of</strong> the Blues provided us with strength in our<br />
Cuppers teams with both the men’s and the mixed side cruising to their respective finals<br />
to face St Catz in both. The mixed final was closely fought coming down to penalties<br />
which <strong>Jesus</strong> just lost out on. In the men’s final, despite a strong performance the men<br />
lost 5-3.
The men’s 1st XI despite losing 5 players to the Blues side still went on to comfortably<br />
win their league to gain promotion up to the top division. The team remained<br />
undefeated and finishing the season having scored 45 goals and only conceded 7. Once<br />
again JCHC were able to field a men’s 2nd XI who went on to finish second in their<br />
league while maintaining their status as a fun team open to all.<br />
Although suffering from a lack <strong>of</strong> fresher interest the girls <strong>of</strong> JCHC still had a strong<br />
season, losing only 2 matches over the season and being the top goal scoring team in<br />
the league. The team remained unbeaten in the league up until their final match against<br />
St Catz, the eventual league winners, leaving us 2nd.<br />
In the cuppers competition after being knocked out in the first round by a strong team<br />
from Murray Edwards the girls went on to win the plate competition, with a 5-2 win over<br />
Girton in the final.<br />
With many players still here next year hopefully JCHC will hopefully continue to go<br />
from strength to strength next season.<br />
Caroline Reid<br />
Badminton<br />
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It has been another successful year for the <strong>Jesus</strong> college badminton club. The men’s 2nd<br />
and 3rd teams as well as the women’s team finished Michaelmas term at the top <strong>of</strong> their<br />
respective divisions, resulting in promotion for all three teams. The promoted teams<br />
also managed to maintain strong positions in their new divisions in Lent term. The<br />
men’s first team consolidated their position in the top division.<br />
The return <strong>of</strong> the Cuppers tournament in Lent term saw the best results in college<br />
history for both the women’s and mixed teams. The women’s team managed to cement
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their position as one <strong>of</strong> the strongest in the league, steaming through to the Final where<br />
a nail biting match resulted in a 2-1 loss to Queen’s. The mixed 1st team also made it<br />
into the Final <strong>of</strong> their competition, where only a combined Trinity-John’s team were able<br />
to stop them from claiming the trophy.<br />
Special thanks must go to our team captains, Alex Kite, Luke Marris, Andrew Walker,<br />
Emma Cridland and Harshnira Patani. Also to Lee Robinson who has coached the<br />
women’s team.<br />
We are all looking forward to even better results next year!<br />
Anna Quinn<br />
Squash<br />
This year we put two teams, both engaged in weekly training session's and the college<br />
ladder schemes. Our first team this year had to battle up against the rankings from last<br />
year, where a strong team managed to get us into the second division. This year our<br />
team, after coming a close second place in Michaelmas 82-84 points overall, we<br />
managed to clinch the 2 division title in Lent term. Next year we have a strong base,<br />
with all <strong>of</strong> our player staying on for competing in the first division and for the league<br />
title. Our second team, from previously unsuccessful years, was entered in at division 6.<br />
However this year, by training with the first team and by playing regular ladder matches,<br />
the team grew over the course <strong>of</strong> the terms. In Michaelmas, our second team won<br />
division 6 by a comfortable margin. In Lent term, our second team won division 5 by a<br />
similar margin. Next year, although the team has lost a couple <strong>of</strong> it’s players, we are in a<br />
strong position for contending for the division 4 title – one where few second teams are<br />
competing.<br />
The successes <strong>of</strong> both our first and second team highlight the colleges strength and<br />
depth <strong>of</strong> strength at squash. This year was a good year, and with the same players<br />
staying on for next year, perhaps we’ll see even more achievement.<br />
Sam Green<br />
Basketball<br />
<strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> Basketball Club started this year in the second league out <strong>of</strong> four after a<br />
strong previous season. A new group <strong>of</strong> players, including many freshers, joined an<br />
already experienced team raring to start a new season.<br />
During Michaelmas they gained confidence and built on their skills during practice<br />
sessions. As the team got to know each other a strong zone defence developed. This laid<br />
the foundations for the team winning three <strong>of</strong> the five league games. These wins meant<br />
we resulted in a mid-table position, ready for the Lent term league. The league in Lent<br />
term proved unlucky for the club. The strong defence continued but a lack <strong>of</strong> attacking<br />
power meant many matches were lost by just a few points. Unfortunately this meant that<br />
we were relegated to the third league.<br />
I would like to thank everyone who played a part in the club this year, during both<br />
practices and matches. The captain next year will be Jake Shuter-Ross who I am sure will<br />
lead the team straight back into the second league. During the year, Kaladerhan<br />
Agbontaen, last year’s captain, played for the <strong>University</strong> first team. His commanding<br />
role as forward helped the team to second place in the BUCS Midland 1A league.<br />
Patrick Jull
Tennis<br />
With 3 members <strong>of</strong> the team returning from last year and a talented fresher who has<br />
been playing for the <strong>University</strong> all year, the <strong>Jesus</strong> girls tennis team was set for a great<br />
season and that was exactly what they had. Matches at the start <strong>of</strong> term were plagued by<br />
the rain, leaving the majority to be played during the Exam season. <strong>Jesus</strong> dominated the<br />
Premiership league without losing a single match, meaning that <strong>Jesus</strong> were crowned<br />
champions.<br />
Unfortunately, we did not have so much luck in Cuppers and had to withdraw at the<br />
Semi-final stage which was delayed due to the rain, and consequently we were unable to<br />
field a team as it clashed with exams.<br />
Alice Bush<br />
Volleyball<br />
The intercollegiate volleyball league takes place during Easter term every year. Despite<br />
the stress <strong>of</strong> impending exams, the opportunity for some casual mixed volleyball has<br />
continued to be a popular choice amidst the daily grind <strong>of</strong> exam revision. The <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> Volleyball Club draws on players <strong>of</strong> all levels from the college, from absolute<br />
beginners to members <strong>of</strong> the university squad. This year, the team finished in 7th place<br />
overall, qualifying at the top <strong>of</strong> the second division for next year.<br />
Adrian Lee<br />
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Ultimate Frisbee<br />
At the beginning <strong>of</strong> this year the club was suffering one <strong>of</strong> the typical problems with<br />
university societies with many <strong>of</strong> the members having moved on from the university.<br />
However, an influx <strong>of</strong> talented and enthusiastic freshers brought the club back to life.<br />
We came 10th out <strong>of</strong> 14 teams in Michaelmas term college league, an excellent result<br />
for a team half composed <strong>of</strong> freshers. With the help <strong>of</strong> a few alumni players we won<br />
Winter Cuppers, dominating all other teams until an extremely tough and hard fought<br />
final against Trinity (who had a large number <strong>of</strong> university and alumni players).<br />
Victory was a testament both to the talent that has passed though <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> over the<br />
years and to the progress <strong>of</strong> those who only recently joined the team (who did most <strong>of</strong><br />
the scoring).<br />
In Lent league we came 13th out <strong>of</strong> 15 teams and were awarded good spirit scores<br />
by other teams, showing that teams enjoyed playing us and felt we knew the rules<br />
(an important priority in a sport which is self-refereed and <strong>of</strong>ten a problem with newer<br />
teams). Poul Alexander played with the second’s team at Regionals. Megan Davies<br />
Wykes played with the <strong>University</strong> Women’s Team at regionals and nationals (indoors<br />
and outdoors) and Varsity and is to receive a half-blue for Ultimate Frisbee.<br />
The new captain for next year will be Chris de-Leeuwe, who’s commitment in coming<br />
to every match (even when injured) was exemplary. It is hoped that the team will go from<br />
strength to strength, building on the strong sporting heritage <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Megan Davies Wykes ■
Members’<br />
News
Members’ News for <strong>2012</strong><br />
David Wootton<br />
David Wootton (1969) as 684th Lord Mayor <strong>of</strong> the City <strong>of</strong> London has completed an<br />
eventful year in which the City became the focus <strong>of</strong> global media interest with the Royal<br />
Wedding, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and the Olympics. Among his many initiatives<br />
at home and abroad as Lord Mayor, David visited Beijing and Shanghai to promote the<br />
City as a hub <strong>of</strong> international renmimbi (the Chinese currency) business. At the Queen’s<br />
Diamond Juibilee Thanksgiving Service, David bore the ceremonial Pearl Sword as he led<br />
the Queen into St Paul’s Cathedral.<br />
Wohl Prize Established<br />
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Earlier this year, Lisa Keller, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> History, Purchase <strong>College</strong> State <strong>University</strong>,<br />
New York, contacted the <strong>College</strong> because she wished to establish a prize in honour <strong>of</strong><br />
her former Tutor, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Anthony Wohl (1955), at Vassar <strong>University</strong>, Poughkeepsie.<br />
In her words, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Wohl was the first to appreciate and encourage her thinking<br />
and laid the foundation for her academic career. By remarkable coincidence, he was<br />
visiting the <strong>College</strong> in summer <strong>2012</strong> to attend the JCCS Buffet Lunch and we took the<br />
opportunity to enable him to award the first Wohl Prize to Tom Arnold-Forster (2010).<br />
Tom Arnold-Forster receiving the first Wohl Prize from Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Anthony Wohl
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People<br />
W ALLAN (1968) has been appointed member <strong>of</strong> the Competition Appeal Tribunal.<br />
(Edward) L BECKET (1986) has been awarded the degree <strong>of</strong> Doctor <strong>of</strong> Canon Law by the<br />
Angelicum <strong>University</strong>, Rome, and has returned to Ampleforth Abbey.<br />
P BOARDMAN (1982) was awarded the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in<br />
2011 for Services to Heritage in East London.<br />
D DIAS (2010) has been granted a Visiting Scholarship to the Institute <strong>of</strong> Criminology in<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>.<br />
D G EAVES (2000) received the Whitworth Visionary Award at the Institute <strong>of</strong><br />
Mechanical Engineers.<br />
A FERSHT [1969 Fw] has been elected Master <strong>of</strong> Caius.<br />
A K FYFE (1993) was appointed one <strong>of</strong> the founding members <strong>of</strong> the Young Academy <strong>of</strong><br />
Scotland and in March this year was elected as one <strong>of</strong> the co-chairs <strong>of</strong> the Academy.<br />
E HARRIS [1997] is now Churches Conservation Adviser at the Victorian Society (the<br />
champion <strong>of</strong> Victorian and Edwardian Architecture).<br />
J E GIMLETTE (1982) was awarded the Dolman Travel Book Prize <strong>2012</strong> for his book<br />
'Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed. Currently you can listen to John on<br />
BBC Radio 4's 'Excess Baggage' on www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xnynh<br />
I HUDSON (1997) is now a partner at Carter-Ruck, the well-known London media<br />
solicitor, and represented some <strong>of</strong> the core participants at the Levison Iquiry.<br />
N HUDSON (1978) Rector <strong>of</strong> the Venerable English <strong>College</strong> in Rome, hosted the<br />
celebrations there marking the 650th anniversary <strong>of</strong> the founding <strong>of</strong> the college’s<br />
predecessor, the English and Welsh Hospice, on the same site in 17 January 1362.<br />
The <strong>College</strong> replaced the hospice in 1579 (see <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> 2011 pp 167-169).<br />
J R JAMES (1970) has been installed as an honorary Canon <strong>of</strong> Chichester Cathedral.<br />
D P MAHER (1977) was appointed Senior Advisor, Tuberculosis, at the Global Fund to<br />
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Geneva from July 2011.<br />
M HUNTER (1968) has been awarded the Samuel Pepys Award and the R. G. Neville<br />
Prize for his book Boyle: Between God and Science. He has recently retired as Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong><br />
History at Birkbeck <strong>College</strong>, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> London.<br />
G KILLINGWORTH (1968) has retired as Head <strong>of</strong> English at Caterham School. Flame<br />
Lily Books have just published Mister Misery which is his second novel for children. He is<br />
currently working on a PhD on ‘Rhetorical Performances in the Prose Works <strong>of</strong> Robert<br />
Green’.<br />
J MORGAN (1992) has been appointed a Recorder in the Crown Court.<br />
A MOURITZ (1987) gained the degree <strong>of</strong> Doctor <strong>of</strong> Science (ScD) from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> in October 2011.<br />
J O’DONNELL (1979) (Hon Fw) Master <strong>of</strong> the Choristers at Westminster Abbey, led the<br />
Abbey’s choir to Rome in June where, at the Pope’s invitation, it sang with the Sistine<br />
Chapel Choir at the Papal Mass in St Peter’s on the feast <strong>of</strong> SS. Peter and Paul – the first<br />
time in 500 years thar the Sistine Choir had been joined with another. The Abbey Choir<br />
also gave a public concert in Santa Maria Maggiore and a private one in the Sistine<br />
Chapel and sang Vespers at Monte Cassion Abbey, the mother house <strong>of</strong> the Benedictine
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Order to which St Radegund’s Priory, <strong>Cambridge</strong>, as well as Westminster Abbey, once<br />
belonged.<br />
A J PARKINSON (1966) retired from the active Methodist ministry at the end <strong>of</strong> August<br />
and is now a supernumerary minister in the Southampton Circuit <strong>of</strong> the Methodist<br />
Church.<br />
C F M RAWLINSON (1952) has been awarded an MBE. The citation highlighted his<br />
leadership in charitable services to Young People and to Music.<br />
A M D ROBERTSON (1981) continues as a Visiting Lecturer in the Law Faculty <strong>of</strong> Oxford<br />
teaching the Competition Law course with Dr Ariel Ezrachi <strong>of</strong> Pembroke <strong>College</strong>, on the<br />
BCL, MJur and MSc in Law and Finance post-graduate degree courses, combining that<br />
with full time practice in EU and competition law at Brick Court Chambers in London.<br />
J SCRAGG (2001) obtained his PhD degree in 2009 from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Bath, and is<br />
now employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the Angstrom Laboratory, Uppsala<br />
<strong>University</strong> in Sweden.<br />
C TABEART (1958) was awarded an Australian Philatelic Federation Research Medal in<br />
2011 – one <strong>of</strong> only 18 so far, and the first recipient from the UK.<br />
J J TAYLOR (1999) is currently head <strong>of</strong> Communications and Public Affairs for Google,<br />
Sub-Saharan Africa, based in Johannesburg.<br />
M F TOMPSETT (1959) was recently awarded a US National Medal <strong>of</strong> Technology and<br />
Innovation, the highest honour bestowed by the United States government on engineers<br />
and inventors, "For pioneering work in materials and electronic technologies including<br />
the design and development <strong>of</strong> the first charge-coupled device (CCD) imagers”.<br />
The Medal was presented in a ceremony at the White House in Washington, DC by US<br />
President Obama on 21 October, 2011. He had previously been awarded the Pioneering<br />
Life-time award by the NJ Inventors Hall <strong>of</strong> Fame in 2010.<br />
C TREACY (1967), a Queen’s Bench judge since 2002, has been appointed a Lord Justice<br />
<strong>of</strong> Appeal, bringing the number <strong>of</strong> Jesuan members <strong>of</strong> the Court <strong>of</strong> Appeal to three.<br />
(The others are Sir Roger Toulson [1964] and Sir Rupert Jackson [1977]).<br />
P WESTBURY (1988) has been awarded the Gold Medal <strong>of</strong> the Institution <strong>of</strong> Structural<br />
Engineers for his exceptional contribution to the structural engineering pr<strong>of</strong>ession.<br />
The citation for Paul, CEO at Buro Happold, mentions innovation in the structural form,<br />
and design <strong>of</strong> sports and entertainment buildings; in particular for his leading<br />
contribution to the design and construction <strong>of</strong> Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium in London,<br />
the 2006 Olympic Speed Skating Oval in Turin, Dublin’s Aviva Stadium and the London<br />
<strong>2012</strong> Olympic Stadium. Paul, a former student <strong>of</strong> Dr Ge<strong>of</strong>f Parks, has also very<br />
successfully promoted structural engineering internationally through his innovative<br />
papers on design and technology.<br />
M WILDER (1993) received an Australian Honour (AM) for services to environmental<br />
law, particularly in the area <strong>of</strong> climate change through contributions to the development<br />
<strong>of</strong> law, global regulation, public policy and the promotion <strong>of</strong> public debate, and to the<br />
community. He has also been made an Affiliate <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Cambridge</strong> Centre for Climate<br />
Change in the Mitigation Research Department <strong>of</strong> Land Economy, <strong>Cambridge</strong>.<br />
J WILTON-ELY (1958) was historical adviser (and contributor to the catalogue) for the<br />
travelling exhibition, Le Arti di Piranesi, architetto, incisore, antiquario, vedutista, designer,<br />
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, which involved the creation <strong>of</strong> decorative arts objects<br />
designed by Giambattista Piranesi (1720-78) using advanced laser technology. After the
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initial showing <strong>of</strong> the exhibition at the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2010, he has been<br />
involved in the exhibition’s showings in Madrid and Barcelona in <strong>2012</strong>, with future plans<br />
for North America and Britain.<br />
J A YOUNG (2001) is currently teaching economics and mathematics at the Perse School,<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> where he is he also Head <strong>of</strong> House.<br />
Births<br />
Nick ARCHER (1990) and Sally Archer (née Maidment, Christ’s, 1990) have a daughter,<br />
Josephine, born on 20 November 2010.<br />
Felicity BARRATT (née Rees, 1999) and her husband Christopher Barratt (Emmanuel<br />
1985) have a son, Edmund John, born 28 July 2011.<br />
Joanne CHOULERTON (1989) and her partner Tim Rumble have a daughter, Lydia<br />
Melanie Rumble, born 8 June 2011, a sister to Euan William.<br />
Kate KANGASLAHTI (née Lonie, 2001) and Vesa KANGASLAHTI (2001) have a son,<br />
Leo Henri Kangaslahti, born 19 April <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Miriam LAMPERT (1995) and her husband Ohad Levin have a son, Yoni, born on<br />
3 May <strong>2012</strong>, a brother for Shani.<br />
Aidan Malcolm David ROBERTSON (1981) and his wife Beverley have twins,<br />
James John Maxwell and Elspeth Kathleen Clare, born on 1 August <strong>2012</strong>; and Alice,<br />
born 17 November 2010.<br />
Amy WHITING (née Tudor, 2002) has a son, Elijah Mark Whiting, born 30 June 2011.<br />
Marriages and Civil Partnerships<br />
Christina BRATLEY (2002) and Christopher BURNIE (2002) married in the <strong>College</strong><br />
Chapel on 17 April 2011 with several fellow Jesuans in attendance.<br />
David Jeffrey HIRSCH (2004) married Hannah Leah Crummé on 27 June 2010 at<br />
Pinewood Studios.<br />
Roy HOWAT (1979) married Emily Kilpatrick.<br />
Paul KEARNS (1985) married Sioned Arbonne Boardman on 9 April 2011 in the Chapel <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong>, Oxford.<br />
Margaret OWEN (1986) had a civil partnership with Dr Victoria Gunn on<br />
17 December 2011.<br />
Felicity REES (1999) married Christopher Barratt (Emmanuel, 1985) on 18 September<br />
2010 in the <strong>College</strong> Chapel.<br />
Amy TUDOR (2002) married Mark Whiting on 24 April 2010.<br />
Sam VARDY (2001) married Eibhlin Murray (Corpus, 2002) on 24 September 2011.<br />
Rosa WILKINSON (2001) married David Tough on 14 May 2011 in her home town <strong>of</strong><br />
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Obituaries
Obituaries<br />
Honorary Fellows<br />
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Sir Alan Cottrell FRS was born on 17 July 1919 and died on 15 February <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Over a period <strong>of</strong> some 70 years the impact <strong>of</strong> Alan Cottrell’s scientific work on the basic<br />
understanding <strong>of</strong> materials and its practical application to engineering structures, his<br />
academic leadership and his role <strong>of</strong> Scientific Advisor to the Government has been<br />
immense. How did it come about? After graduating in Metallurgy at Birmingham in<br />
1939 Alan was put on war work, and was introduced to a serious problem <strong>of</strong> cracking <strong>of</strong><br />
armour plating <strong>of</strong> tanks at electric arc welds, which he solved. This early experience no<br />
doubt influenced his lifelong interest in fracture and structural integrity.<br />
Alan was made Lecturer in 1943 and in 1944 married Jean Elizabeth Harber, a<br />
marriage which lasted happily for 55 years. They had one son, Ge<strong>of</strong>frey in 1951, and<br />
much later adopted a daughter Ioana. It is said that one <strong>of</strong> his classic books Dislocations<br />
and Plastic Flow in Metals, published in 1953, was written during sleepless nights with<br />
baby Ge<strong>of</strong>frey. Towards the end <strong>of</strong> the war Alan prepared a new lecture course<br />
“Theoretical Structural Metallurgy” (which formed the basis <strong>of</strong> another classic book he<br />
wrote at this time) in which he discussed the structure and properties <strong>of</strong> metals in terms<br />
<strong>of</strong> the behaviour <strong>of</strong> constituent atoms and electrons. This course was very influential and
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ahead <strong>of</strong> its time. It contributed greatly to transforming a hitherto rather qualitative<br />
treatment <strong>of</strong> the subject into a quantitative and rigorous approach. Alan was a brilliant<br />
lecturer, able to convey quite complex phenomena in simple terms.<br />
After the war Alan started research on the plastic properties <strong>of</strong> metals. In a series <strong>of</strong><br />
penetrating and elegant, now classic, studies he showed inter alia how certain crystal<br />
defects called dislocations determined some important unique features in the ductile<br />
behaviour <strong>of</strong> structural steels, and how their interactions controlled hardening <strong>of</strong> metals<br />
by cold working. His contributions in this field are second to none.<br />
Alan’s work contributed much to making the Birmingham Department famous as a<br />
leading centre for the science <strong>of</strong> metals. Alan was given a personal Pr<strong>of</strong>essorship in 1949<br />
at the age <strong>of</strong> 30, and in 1955 was elected to The Royal Society at the early age <strong>of</strong> 35. In<br />
1955 Alan was invited by Monty Finniston to join him as Deputy Head <strong>of</strong> the Metallurgy<br />
Division at Harwell. He accepted because he expected to find problems there <strong>of</strong> national<br />
importance which fell into his field. One <strong>of</strong> his pioneering researches there, on neutron<br />
irradiated metals, led to a redesign <strong>of</strong> the fuel rods in Magnox Civil Nuclear Reactors.<br />
On 10th October 1957 a reactor at Windscale caught fire and started a national<br />
emergency. It occurred during a gentle heating to anneal the damage in the graphite<br />
core. Unfortunately, the energy released in this process heated up the graphite so much<br />
that it caught fire. Alan set up a new laboratory in just two weeks and he and his team<br />
unravelled the problem and were able to give an assurance that the Magnox reactors<br />
would be immune to this self heating effect.<br />
In 1958 Alan accepted an invitation to become Head <strong>of</strong> Department <strong>of</strong> Metallurgy at<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong>. He modernised the Department by bringing in new people (Robin<br />
Nicholson, Tony Kelly, Jim Charles, and later Graeme Davies) and new equipment, and<br />
by teaching the subject from the atomic point <strong>of</strong> view. He also started two new research<br />
projects, on field-ion microscopy, and on superconducting alloys. His own researches<br />
focussed on brittle fracture <strong>of</strong> structural steel at freezing temperatures, responsible for<br />
many tragic accidents to ships and bridges, and secondly, with Tony Kelly, on the<br />
physics <strong>of</strong> fibrous composites. This led to the development <strong>of</strong> new materials such as<br />
fibreglass and carbon fibre. Alan’s work on fracture identified a toughness parameter<br />
for a metal containing a crack, which was characteristic <strong>of</strong> the material, and which,<br />
when measured in a test piece, could be used to predict behaviour in a large structure.<br />
This represented an important advance in understanding and in ensuring structural<br />
integrity, and had an enormous impact in this field.<br />
All these changes in teaching and research activities transformed the Department into<br />
a world class institution. It has remained so ever since.<br />
In 1964 Alan accepted an invitation to become Sir Solly Zuckerman’s Deputy in the<br />
Ministry <strong>of</strong> Defence. Although most reluctant to leave the Department and the<br />
<strong>University</strong>, he had become concerned with the need to invigorate British Manufacturing<br />
Industry with Scientific Technology, and felt that Whitehall was the place to do this.<br />
Working on Dennis Healey’s defence review, Alan led tri-services studies on the<br />
problems, in particular the excessive cost, <strong>of</strong> a military presence in the near and far East.<br />
This led to the cancellation <strong>of</strong> the Government’s East <strong>of</strong> Suez Policy. In 1966 he followed<br />
Solly to the Cabinet Office as Deputy Chief Scientific Advisor. There he tackled various<br />
problems with scientific aspect, including the brain drain, environment and pollution,<br />
the Advanced Passenger Train and the Torrey Canyon disaster, but efforts to transfer<br />
some government defence research funding to research in civil industry failed, because<br />
the Treasury was interested only in reducing research funding.<br />
In 1971 Alan was knighted and became Chief Scientific Advisor. His position became<br />
complicated by the arrival <strong>of</strong> Victor Rothschild and his Central Policy Review staff.
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A proposal to make the work <strong>of</strong> the Research Councils more related to National needs,<br />
while retaining their independence, led to the controversial “Customer-Contractor”<br />
principle. This involved relevant Government Departments appointing Chief Scientist<br />
Advisors to help them to commission research from the Research Councils, and transfer<br />
<strong>of</strong> some funds from the Research Councils to the Departments. Alan commented that<br />
this scheme attracted an enormous correspondence which rapidly filled his filing<br />
cabinet.<br />
Alan was not very comfortable with the machinations <strong>of</strong> Whitehall politics. He played<br />
straight, and used his powerful intellect to make his case, however unpopular.<br />
In 1974, in evidence to the Select Committee on Science and Technology, Alan<br />
expressed his concern about the integrity <strong>of</strong> the steel reactor pressure vessel, which is<br />
critical to the safety <strong>of</strong> the Pressurised Water Reactor, promoted by Walter Marshall, for<br />
our Civil Nuclear Programme. This caused quite a stir. Walter Marshall set up a High<br />
Level Pressure Vessel Committee which examined the issue in great detail. In the early<br />
1980s, following the Marshall <strong>Report</strong>, Alan said that he was now satisfied that a<br />
sufficiently robust safety case could be established. The report and Alan’s endorsement<br />
had a major impact on the Sizewell B enquiry and on getting Nuclear Installation<br />
Inspectorate approval, and led more generally to major advances in the requirements for<br />
ensuring the integrity <strong>of</strong> pressure vessels and other large safety critical structures.<br />
In 1974 Alan accepted an invitation to become Master <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong>, <strong>Cambridge</strong>.<br />
He was glad to return full time to his family and to academic life. Alan had to supervise a<br />
major revision <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong> Statutes and prepare for the admission <strong>of</strong> women. This<br />
proved a great success. As Master, Alan came to know Prince Philip. Through Alan’s<br />
encouragement, Prince Edward became an undergraduate at <strong>Jesus</strong>.<br />
In 1977 he became Vice Chancellor for two years. He was surprised by the amount<br />
behind the scenes work that was needed, dealing with grievances and settling disputes.<br />
There was a lot <strong>of</strong> entertaining that had to be done and the Chancellor, Prince Philip,<br />
stayed in the Lodge. Much <strong>of</strong> the responsibility fell on Jean, who managed it superbly and<br />
with much pleasure.<br />
On returning full time to <strong>College</strong> his main activity was preparing for the arrival <strong>of</strong><br />
Prince Edward who became an undergraduate in the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
In 1986 Alan retired. He returned to the Department, and researched a new topic:<br />
The application <strong>of</strong> modern electron theory <strong>of</strong> metals to metallurgical problems, such as<br />
embrittlement <strong>of</strong> metals by certain impurities. Alan mastered the quite difficult theory<br />
and published in 1988 an excellent book Introduction to the Modern Theory <strong>of</strong> Metals. This<br />
was followed by an impressive set <strong>of</strong> papers and the publication <strong>of</strong> a book on Chemical<br />
Bonding in Transition Metal Carbides.<br />
In early 1996 Jean fell ill with Parkinson’s disease. Alan looked after her full time, so<br />
that she could stay at home. Sadly, she died in 1999 and Alan was devastated, and only<br />
got through it by strong family support. But he missed her greatly, and never really got<br />
over her loss. During this period he also became very deaf and this ended his enjoyment<br />
in music and lectures. Nevertheless, he continued publishing on plasticity <strong>of</strong> metals<br />
during the last few years.<br />
Alan was the most outstanding and influential Physical Metallurgist <strong>of</strong> the twentieth<br />
century. Through his pioneering researches, and as an educator, he has influenced<br />
countless students, scientists, and engineers over the years and will continue to do so.<br />
His papers and books are remarkable for their clarity. In his researches, he always knew<br />
what important questions to ask, and how to answer them. He had a brilliant intellect<br />
which he retained to the end. Alan was a kind, gentle, and sensitive person, with a sense<br />
<strong>of</strong> humour, and very supportive <strong>of</strong> people. He loved his family and was proud <strong>of</strong> Ge<strong>of</strong>frey
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working on nuclear fusion, which Alan considered to be an important future energy<br />
source. He was very eminent, but did not realise it, and was very modest. He received<br />
many awards and honorary degrees. At a Metal Society Conference in 1977 Alan received<br />
the Acta Metallurgica Gold Medal and commented that he was suffering from “medal<br />
fatigue”. In 1996 he received The Royal Society Copley Medal, the highest award <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Royal Society. He was the first metallurgist to receive the medal since it was first<br />
instituted in 1731.<br />
His life time achievement and impact have been immense, and <strong>of</strong> which his family can<br />
be justly proud, and the rest <strong>of</strong> us can be grateful for. He will be greatly missed by his<br />
loving family, and by all <strong>of</strong> us who knew him and whose lives he touched. He will be<br />
remembered with great affection and admiration.<br />
Sir Peter Hirsch<br />
Alan Cottrell: an appreciation<br />
I first met Alan in 1980 when I was taken by Peter Nolan to dinner on <strong>Jesus</strong> High Table to<br />
see whether my knife and fork work would stand in the way <strong>of</strong> my election as a Fellow.<br />
I sat next to Alan. My first impression was that he was a kind but shy person who was<br />
hard to get talking until you hit upon a subject in which he was really interested and,<br />
as I was to discover, inevitably well informed. Then the clarity and directness <strong>of</strong> his<br />
responses were fine witnesses to his outstanding intelligence.<br />
My first years as a Fellow (from October 1982 on) coincided with Alan’s last years as<br />
Master. Nevertheless, I was able to observe his behaviour as Master, not least how he<br />
tackled thorny issues within the college which arose in those years. By temperament he<br />
was naturally averse to conflict but he did not dodge formulating attempts at resolution.<br />
His years as Chief Scientific Officer had made him very sceptical about political<br />
processes and politicians and changed his political views – he was I think moderate<br />
Labour up until then – as he became thoroughly disillusioned with the behaviour <strong>of</strong><br />
Harold Wilson and his Ministers. (Jean I suspect had always been a Tory.)<br />
My coming to <strong>Jesus</strong> coincided with arrival <strong>of</strong> Prince Edward. The latter was a highlight<br />
for Jean, possibly less so for Alan. The first time I had lunch in the Lodge with them was<br />
just after Varsity carried a headline, “<strong>Jesus</strong> Don says Prince should not come”, Varsity’s<br />
take on my answer to their query, that he should if he had the qualifications, otherwise,<br />
not. Jean (she and I became great mates even though we rarely agreed) was clearly<br />
agitated about this but Alan merely advised me not to talk to Varsity reporters.<br />
He was a tolerant man, for example, he never hauled me over the coals for my notorious<br />
performance in the Chapel when I was admitted as a Fellow, being I suspect (or at least<br />
hope) rather amused. No more was his basic kindness apparent than in the considerate<br />
and caring ways he looked after spouses <strong>of</strong> newcomers to the college. Joan really<br />
appreciated the kindly concern he showed her as someone who had left her home<br />
country and three <strong>of</strong> our four children to come to <strong>Cambridge</strong> with me. She had the<br />
greatest affection for him, not least because <strong>of</strong> this.<br />
I mentioned that he was an excellent person to talk to if you touched on something in<br />
which he was interested. He and I shared a mutual passion for cricket. We had in-depth<br />
discussions whenever the Ashes Tests were on. He never held it against me that I had not<br />
passed the Tebbit Test. As conservative cricket tragics we shared a deep contempt for the<br />
pyjama game as opposed to “real cricket”, that is to say, Test matches. I always tried to<br />
have the lunch time scores to tell him whenever a Test match was being played.<br />
Alan had a low opinion <strong>of</strong> economics and economists (he made an exception <strong>of</strong> James<br />
Meade, his friend and fellow Fellow <strong>of</strong> Christ’s). Yet we could always talk in a pleasant<br />
way about economic and political issues.
Alan had a deep, abiding and informed love <strong>of</strong> classical music. He and Peter Nolan<br />
enjoyed their discussions about the latest recordings <strong>of</strong> their, <strong>of</strong>ten overlapping,<br />
favourites. I thought it a supreme tragedy that Alan became so deaf in his later years that<br />
he could no longer listen to music.<br />
While obviously I could never comprehend the details <strong>of</strong> his outstanding scientific<br />
contributions, I do remember we discussed a paper he published in his late eighties<br />
when his daily visit to his Department allowed him to think through and ultimately crack<br />
a puzzle, the solution <strong>of</strong> which had eluded him for many years. He gave me an <strong>of</strong>f print<br />
<strong>of</strong> the published solution. It was marked by the extraordinary clarity <strong>of</strong> its powerful<br />
analysis. Even to an outsider it was clearly the work <strong>of</strong> a rare intellect completely on top<br />
<strong>of</strong> what it was doing. Alan also had a dry, sometimes quirky, quiet wit which was on<br />
display, for example, in the speech he gave at his eightieth birthday celebration in<br />
college.<br />
Alan and Jean were a great team. She was an unfailing help mate and companion<br />
during his many faceted career. When she became so ill in her last years and withdrew<br />
from all contact with others, Alan nursed her with utter devotion and much patience.<br />
Such old-fashioned verities, especially his love <strong>of</strong> family, were very much characteristic<br />
<strong>of</strong> his behaviour.<br />
I count it a great privilege to have known him for nearly 30 years. When he retired as<br />
Master Joan and I took Alan and Jean to lunch at The Old Fire Engine at Ely to say “thank<br />
you”. It was a fun occasion with much laughter, gossip and, <strong>of</strong> course, good food and<br />
wine. I shall remember him with fondness and admiration, sad at his passing but proud<br />
to have been associated with an outstanding scholar who even more was a man <strong>of</strong> quiet<br />
integrity and great kindness. He truly was a good man.<br />
Ge<strong>of</strong>f Harcourt<br />
Emeritus Fellow, 1998<br />
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Sir Alan’s interview in the British Library oral history archive <strong>of</strong> eminent scientists:<br />
Sounds.bl.uk/oral-history/eminent-scientists/021M-C1379XOO46XX-001VO<br />
Siegbert Prawer (1944) was born on 15 February<br />
1925 and died on 25 April, <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
The former Taylor Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> German at Oxford,<br />
and a Fellow and Honorary Fellow <strong>of</strong> the Queen’s<br />
<strong>College</strong>, Siegbert was a prominent scholar <strong>of</strong><br />
literature and culture. He graduated in English and<br />
Modern Languages from <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1947 and was<br />
elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 1996. He was<br />
a frequent and popular attender at <strong>Jesus</strong> feasts and<br />
instituted the annual Marcus Prawer, essay prize<br />
for a <strong>Jesus</strong> student, in memory <strong>of</strong> his son, who<br />
died before he could take up a place at <strong>Jesus</strong>.<br />
He was made a Fellow <strong>of</strong> the British Academy in 1981, and was elected to the German<br />
Academy <strong>of</strong> Language and Literature in 1989.<br />
Born <strong>of</strong> Jewish parents, a Polish father and German mother, Siegbert escaped from<br />
Cologne in 1939. The family settled in Coventry where he attended the King Henry VIII<br />
School. He remembered dropping an unexploded fire-bomb into a bucket <strong>of</strong> sand
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during an air raid. Winning the Charles Oldham Shakespeare scholarship to <strong>Jesus</strong>, he<br />
read English with E. M. W. Tillyard, then Modern Languages in Part II under Leonard<br />
Forster. Roy Pascal <strong>of</strong>fered him a lectureship in German at Birmingham where he spent<br />
15 years before gaining the chair <strong>of</strong> German at Westfield <strong>College</strong>. In 1970 he moved on<br />
to Oxford where he stayed for the rest <strong>of</strong> his academic career.<br />
His talent for declaiming poetry attracted large numbers to his lectures. Among his<br />
special research and critical interests were the works <strong>of</strong> Heine, the literary influences on<br />
Karl Marx and Freud, and the Jewish presence in European literature in general.<br />
Throughout his academic life he was fascinated by the art <strong>of</strong> the cinema and assembled<br />
an enormous personal collection <strong>of</strong> films, writing many books on various aspects <strong>of</strong> the<br />
subject. In retirement he wrote a trilogy <strong>of</strong> books on Thackeray and continued a life-time<br />
hobby <strong>of</strong> sketching. He would sign <strong>of</strong>f his letters with a miniature self-caricature.<br />
In 1949 he married Helga Schaefer with whom he had two sons and two daughters.<br />
She died in 2002. In the last decade <strong>of</strong> his life Siegbert suffered from cancer and failing<br />
eye-sight. During this period he made a home with Helen Powell, the former librarian <strong>of</strong><br />
the Queen’s college, who cared for him with great devotion.<br />
He was the elder brother <strong>of</strong> Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (born 7 May 1927) the Booker<br />
prize-winning novelist, short story and film script writer.<br />
Old Members<br />
ALMOND, Adrian John (1957) died on 13 May <strong>2012</strong> aged 73.<br />
Adrian Almond was born on 30 May 1938 in Walmer, Kent. Educated at Kent <strong>College</strong>,<br />
Canterbury, he came up in 1957 to read Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a<br />
doctor. He graduated BA 1960; MB BChir 1963. Following graduation he undertook his<br />
clinical training at St Mary’s, London, before moving into General Practice. In<br />
retirement he continued to draw on his medical expertise for the good <strong>of</strong> his local<br />
community, serving as a Governor and President <strong>of</strong> Rowcr<strong>of</strong>t Hospice, Torquay, and<br />
Chairman <strong>of</strong> Torbay Local Research Ethics Committee. He also had time to spend on his<br />
interest in philately, postal history and maps; he jointly edited The British County Catalogue<br />
<strong>of</strong> Postal History (1996); co-authored The Corsini Letters (2011) and was a Fellow <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Society <strong>of</strong> Postal Historians.<br />
He married Patricia Anne Sterck; they had two daughters and a son.<br />
BATEMAN, Martyn Henry (1951) died on 14 October 2011 aged 80.<br />
Martyn Bateman was born on 21 April 1931 in Beccles, Suffolk. Educated at Felsted<br />
School he became the third generation <strong>of</strong> his family to come up to <strong>Jesus</strong> when he<br />
matriculated in 1951; his grandfather was P. E. Bateman, his father was W. E. B. Bateman<br />
(1920) and his uncle was H. F. Bateman (1921). Initially he read Engineering but<br />
following his decision to be ordained he took a special in Geography. He graduated,<br />
BA 1954; MA 1958. Following graduation he pursued his vocation for holy orders. His<br />
ministry centred mainly in Suffolk and Devon; in the early years, however, he also served<br />
as chaplain <strong>of</strong> the National Iranian Oil Company. He was appointed a canon at Bury St<br />
Edmunds cathedral. He had a keen sense <strong>of</strong> local history and wrote Lydford Lives (1990).<br />
He married Jane Isobel Campbell in 1955 and they had one daughter and two sons,<br />
including Ian Bateman (1981). In 1994 he married H. F. Bateman’s daughter, his cousin,<br />
Jancis, and in that same year David Bateman became the fifth generation <strong>of</strong> his family to<br />
become a Jesuan.
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BENSON, Kenneth Michael Langton (1946) died on 10 April <strong>2012</strong> aged 87.<br />
Kenneth Benson was born on 22 March 1925 in Preston. Whilst at Wolverhampton<br />
Grammar School he applied to study at <strong>Jesus</strong> but was called up to serve in the Royal<br />
Navy. During the war he served in Japan, where he mastered basic Japanese and<br />
developed a lifelong fascination for the country. He later wrote <strong>of</strong> how disorientated he<br />
felt when, in the autumn <strong>of</strong> 1946, he left a devastated, humid, Japan and arrived in a<br />
freezing austere <strong>Cambridge</strong> to immerse himself in Latin and Greek. After three years’<br />
hard work he graduated BA 1949; MA 1955; and embarked on a career as a teacher.<br />
During his career he taught Classics at a number <strong>of</strong> schools; his final post was at<br />
Lanesborough Preparatory School, where he was Headteacher. In retirement he worked<br />
for the Overseas Missionary Fellowship in Japan.<br />
He married Joy Hitchins in 1962 and they had a son and a daughter.<br />
BERGER, Ralph Jacob (1957) died on 13 March <strong>2012</strong> age 74.<br />
We are grateful to Ralph's family and friends for the following:<br />
“Ralph Berger was born on 16 September 1937 in Vienna. Following attendance at The<br />
Perse School, <strong>Cambridge</strong>, and two years <strong>of</strong> RAF National Service he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in<br />
1957 to read Natural Sciences (Psychology). Following his BA Ralph went to the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Edinburgh as a Research Assistant, in the Department <strong>of</strong> Psychological<br />
Medicine under the late Ian Oswald, in the burgeoning field <strong>of</strong> sleep physiology,<br />
receiving his PhD in 1963 with his dissertation on the “Experimental Modification <strong>of</strong><br />
Dream Content by Verbal Stimuli”. His first <strong>of</strong> many scientific papers was published in<br />
Science in September 1961 and is widely cited as a reference work in the methodology <strong>of</strong><br />
sleep measurement. In late 1963, newly married to Gunnela Holmgren, Ralph joined the<br />
US National Institutes <strong>of</strong> Health, working in Puerto Rico in perinatal psychology. In<br />
1965 he began research at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> California, initially at UCLA and then, in<br />
1968, at the recently founded campus at Santa Cruz, from which he retired in 1994 as<br />
Emeritus Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Biology. He was one <strong>of</strong> the pioneers <strong>of</strong> modern sleep research,<br />
known for his exacting methodology and experimental controls in a still evolving field.<br />
An early member <strong>of</strong> the Association for the Psycophysiological Study <strong>of</strong> Sleep he was a<br />
long time champion <strong>of</strong> the theory <strong>of</strong> energy conservation as the evolutionary basis for<br />
sleep. Throughout his life he was occupied by the concepts <strong>of</strong> memory, time and the<br />
nature <strong>of</strong> experience, his book “Psyclosis – The Circularity <strong>of</strong> Experience” (Freeman<br />
1977) deals with certain aspects <strong>of</strong> his thinking. Befitting a natural scientist, Ralph was a<br />
committed ecologist and worked constantly to preserve the habitats <strong>of</strong> the monarch<br />
butterfly; he was a gardener, ornithologist, jazz aficionado and a tennis player, all<br />
activities which he shared with Gunnela, as well as a love <strong>of</strong> literature, especially Proust.<br />
Ralph shared with his children, Timothy and Michael, perhaps fittingly for an adopted<br />
Californian, a passion for surfing and skiing, which he indulged until quite recently.”<br />
BERMAN, Lawrence (1928) died on 22 March <strong>2012</strong> aged 102.<br />
Lory Berman was born on 7 September 1909 in Brooklyn, New York. Educated at St<br />
Paul’s School, London, he came up in 1928 to read Mathematics and Mechanical<br />
Sciences. He graduated BA 1931; MA 1936.<br />
We are grateful to Lory's family for the following:<br />
“From 1931-33, he served a student apprenticeship at the Rugby works <strong>of</strong> the English
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Electric Company, which later became part <strong>of</strong> the General Electric Company. Lory<br />
worked on the design staff <strong>of</strong> the diesel engine departments in Rugby, Preston and<br />
Newton-le-Willows. His work sometimes took him abroad, to Malta, Canada, Argentina<br />
and Australia. Lory met Bessie Jonathan at an adult education centre in Rugby. They<br />
married in 1938 and had a daughter, Enid, and a son, Paul. Lory and Bessie lived in<br />
Rugby, Southport, Eccles, Culcheth, Alderley Edge and Sale. He retired in 1974, and<br />
became an active member <strong>of</strong> his local Probus club and local branch <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
the Third Age. Throughout his adult life, Lory attended evening classes in various crafts,<br />
including woodwork, metalwork, pottery and silversmithing, and became a registered<br />
silversmith. He produced some fine work, particularly a silver tea service. Both Lory and<br />
Bessie traveled extensively in their long retirement, visiting friends and relatives<br />
overseas, as well as cruising to many varied locations and caravanning in the UK.<br />
BODLEY, Richard Douglas (1949) died in February <strong>2012</strong> aged 83.<br />
Richard Bodley was born on 13 June 1928 in Cheltenham. Educated at Felsted School he<br />
came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1949, a year after his cousin Patrick Winterson (1948). He read<br />
History, graduating BA 1952; MA 1962. Soon after graduation he studied Theology at<br />
Westcott House before going on to pursue a career in business. After a brief spell with<br />
the Bank <strong>of</strong> England he joined the National Coal Board where he remained for nearly<br />
thirty years rising to be Deputy Director <strong>of</strong> Industrial Relations. After leaving British<br />
Coal, as the National Coal Board had become, he became Senior Partner <strong>of</strong> the Belgrave<br />
Consultants before semi-retiring in 1991. For the next seven years he continued to serve<br />
on Industrial Tribunals before completely retiring in 1998.<br />
He married Hedvig Kirsten Johannesen in 1958; they had two daughters.<br />
BOOKER-MILBURN, Donald (1962) died on 29 May <strong>2012</strong> aged 72.<br />
Donald Booker-Milburn was born on 20 May 1940 in Dornoch. He attended Trinity<br />
<strong>College</strong>, Glenalmond, and then read French at Grenoble <strong>University</strong> before coming up to<br />
<strong>Jesus</strong>, his father's college, in 1962 to read Modern Languages. The following year he<br />
married Marjorie Burns. After graduation he was a master at Fettes <strong>College</strong> for three<br />
years. His legal career began with reading law at Edinburgh <strong>University</strong> followed by<br />
training at Shepherd & Wedderburn and in 1968 he was admitted to the Faculty <strong>of</strong><br />
Advocates. By 1980 he had become a sherriff, first <strong>of</strong> Lothian and the Borders and then<br />
<strong>of</strong> Grampian and latterly at Inverness and Tain. A keen golfer with a low handicap, he<br />
had been captain <strong>of</strong> Royal Dornoch Golf Club. He was also a great music lover with a<br />
particular passion for Sibelius. His good friend, Sir Menzies Campbell recalls: "Donald<br />
was a bluff man and a generous host. He was strong minded and he could hit a golf ball<br />
for miles. He loved the North <strong>of</strong> Scotland and took his duty as a Sheriff seriously but not<br />
so seriously that he could not relax among his friends." Donald had two children, Simon<br />
and Lisa, who report their father's love <strong>of</strong> his Irish setters and three grandchildren.<br />
BOYES, Simon (1968) died on 25 January <strong>2012</strong> aged 61.<br />
Simon Boyes was born on 11 February 1950 in Wakefield. Educated at Altrincham<br />
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<br />
enthusiasm to others and therefore his subsequent career as a teacher seems entirely<br />
appropriate. He took a Certificate in Education at St Martin’s <strong>College</strong>, Lancaster, but<br />
intermitted his course to do Voluntary Service Overseas in Fiji. From 1973 to 1975 he<br />
taught Chemistry at the Lancaster Royal Grammar School and then spent a year teaching<br />
at Queen’s <strong>College</strong>, Nassau, Bahamas. He returned to the UK in 1976 and spent the next<br />
thirty four years at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys School, Elstree. He was promoted to<br />
Head <strong>of</strong> Careers, then to Senior Master and finally he retired as Second Master in 2011.<br />
Described by Haberdashers' as “a model <strong>of</strong> kindness and efficiency who was always<br />
willing to <strong>of</strong>fer support”, he dedicated his time to assisting colleagues and pupils alike.<br />
A former pupil's parent commented, "his warmth and genuine interest in people<br />
concealed astuteness and intelligence ... I am proud to be able to call him a friend."<br />
Simon remained an optimist to the end despite a nine month battle against colon<br />
cancer.<br />
He married Elizabeth in 1972 and they had a daughter and three sons.<br />
BROWN, Timothy Edward (1962) died on 17 April <strong>2012</strong> aged 68.<br />
Tim Brown was born on 20 October 1943 in Hornchurch, Essex. Educated at Brentwood<br />
School he came up in 1962 to read English; graduating BA 1965; MA 1969. Following<br />
graduation he joined the National Coal Board as a Personnel Officer. He spent the 1970s<br />
working as a Personnel Manager for Foster Wheeler Limited before moving in 1980 to<br />
become Employment Manager at Stone & Webster Limited. In retirement he moved to<br />
France where he enjoyed growing olives and spending time with his wife, Sheila Smith.<br />
CARPMAEL, John William Maurice (1961) died on 16 September 2011 aged 69.<br />
John Carpmael was born on 23 November 1941 at Wolverley, in Worcestershire. He<br />
attended Oundle School where he showed prowess on the playing field as well as early<br />
promise as a leader. Between school and university he joined a friend, Ian McAlpine, on<br />
a trip to the US and Canada visiting McAlpine civil engineering sites in the two<br />
countries. Two <strong>of</strong> his strongest memories <strong>of</strong> the trip were walking on the unfinished<br />
43rd floor <strong>of</strong> the Place Ville Marie building in Montreal and driving 700 miles in the<br />
baking sunshine across the Nevada desert in one day. On returning to England he<br />
followed the family tradition <strong>of</strong> coming up to <strong>Jesus</strong>. He matriculated in 1961 to read<br />
Engineering and soon took an active part in sporting life at the college. After two years it<br />
was decided that he should join the family firm <strong>of</strong> Patent and Trade Mark Attorney,<br />
Carpmaels & Ransford. He left <strong>Jesus</strong> with the good wishes <strong>of</strong> the college, many friends<br />
and sufficient grounding in his subject to be responsible for all C&R’s engineering<br />
clients. He remained at the firm, rising to be senior partner, until ill health forced early<br />
retirement in 2002. He was a man <strong>of</strong> huge energy which he expended in the <strong>of</strong>fice, at the<br />
crease or on a shoot; he also had wide interests including architecture, stamp collecting<br />
and wine. He left a considerable mark on the properties he and his wife lovingly restored<br />
and on the friends and family who were proud to have known him.<br />
He married Alexandra Mary Fowkes and they had two sons, including William.<br />
William came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1990 and was followed by his cousins Chris Fowkes (1992)<br />
and Nicholas Fowkes (1998).
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CIVIL, Colin Trevor (1959) died on 5 November 2010 aged 71.<br />
Colin Civil was born on 20 March 1939 in Northampton. He was educated at All Saints'<br />
School, Bloxham. He came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1959 and read Economics and Law, graduating<br />
BA 1962; MA 1968. He married Bridget and they had three sons. The college has no<br />
further information about his life after college.<br />
CLOVER, Morriss Fairfax (1944) died on 6 March 2011 aged 84.<br />
Morriss Clover was born on 25 August 1926 in Saltash, Cornwall. Educated at<br />
St Edward’s School, Oxford, he came up in 1944 to read Mechanical Sciences.<br />
He graduated BA 1947; MA 1951. Following graduation he undertook National Service in<br />
the Royal Navy. After demobilisation he joined Paxman Diesels Limited; remaining with<br />
the firm for 40 years. Whilst working at Paxman he served in the Royal Navy Volunteer<br />
Reserve rising to the rank <strong>of</strong> Lieutenant Commander.<br />
He married Shirley Margaret Evans in 1957; the couple had two sons and two<br />
daughters.<br />
CROOK, John Hurrell (1954) died on 15 July 2011 aged 80.<br />
John Crook was born on 27 November 1930 in Southampton. Educated at Sherbourne<br />
School and the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Southampton, he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1954 following<br />
National Service in the Far East. He found his experiences during National Service very<br />
enriching as he was introduced to Buddhism and also experienced the interplay <strong>of</strong> the<br />
British class system. At <strong>Cambridge</strong> he undertook a thesis on The Comparative Ethology and<br />
Social Organisation <strong>of</strong> the Weaver Birds. In his thesis he succeeded in tracing certain<br />
correlations between the type <strong>of</strong> sexual display shown by each species and its habitat<br />
selection, its sociality and its nest construction. He graduated, PhD 1958. In 1962, he<br />
joined the psychology department at Bristol <strong>University</strong>, there his studies moved to<br />
primates and he led field trips to Africa.<br />
We are grateful to John's colleague, at Bristol <strong>University</strong>, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Innes Cuthill, for<br />
the following:<br />
"[he was] a pivotal figure in the rise <strong>of</strong> British primatology and socio-ecology ...<br />
John’s work added ‘ecology’ to ‘ethology’, and he is widely regarded as having<br />
introduced cross-species comparisons to the scientific toolkit <strong>of</strong> animal behaviour. His<br />
pioneering studies <strong>of</strong> primates as well as birds had a large influence in the growth <strong>of</strong> the<br />
fields now known as behavioural ecology ... Tackling one <strong>of</strong> the biggest questions in<br />
psychology, his 1980 book “The Evolution <strong>of</strong> Human Consciousness” was also<br />
influential in stimulating a new wave <strong>of</strong> evolutionary approaches to this age-old<br />
problem. By the start <strong>of</strong> the 1990s, his attention had shifted to human social behaviour,<br />
studying the polyandrous (‘multi-husband’) marriage system <strong>of</strong> the hill-tribes <strong>of</strong> Ladakh<br />
and interpreting this as a social adaptation to the harsh farming conditions in the<br />
Himalayas. However, with a long-standing personal interest in Buddhist philosophy, his<br />
research moved away from ecology towards studying the social and spiritual lives <strong>of</strong><br />
these communities. Ultimately he also taught Western practitioners <strong>of</strong> Zen Buddhism<br />
and wrote several books on Buddhist philosophy and its relationship to Western<br />
humanism.”<br />
From the 1980s he developed a meditation course called the Western Zen Retreat<br />
which he ran from a farmhouse in Wales. In 1993, he received transmission from the
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Dhama Drum monastery in Taiwan and founded the Western Chan Fellowship.<br />
Amongst his published works are: The Evolution <strong>of</strong> Human Consciousness (1980);<br />
Himalayan Buddhist Villages with Henry Osmaston (1994); The Yogins <strong>of</strong> Ladakh with James<br />
Low (1997); and World Crisis and Buddhist Humanism (2009).<br />
He married Eirene Harvalias in 1956 and they had a son and a daughter. The couple<br />
later divorced. John also had a long term partner, Hazel Russell.<br />
CROOK, Peter Morgan (1943) died on 11 December 2011 aged 86.<br />
Peter Crook was born on 24 May 1925 in Horsforth, near Leeds. Educated at Kimbolton<br />
School and Leeds <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> Technology he came up in 1943. In the 1950s and 60s he<br />
worked as a chemist, first for Coal Tar Research Association and then for L. B. Holliday<br />
Co. Ltd. Whilst working he studied for a degree with the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Leeds, graduating<br />
BSc in 1960. In 1971 he became a teacher before returning to Leeds <strong>University</strong> to work as<br />
a technician. He retired in 1984 and moved to Dorset in 1993 to be close to his family.<br />
He married Hildred Mary Calvert in 1950 and they had one son.<br />
D’ARCY, John Orchard (1964) died on 27 February <strong>2012</strong> aged 68.<br />
John D’Arcy was born on 12 April 1943 in Richmond, Surrey. He attended Welbeck<br />
<strong>College</strong> before joining the British Army. He came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1964 from Sandhurst, via<br />
a short spell in Aden. He read Mechanical Sciences and graduated BA 1967; MA 1971.<br />
Following graduation he served in the British Army. After leaving the forces he held<br />
various positions in business including managing a hotel and running a property<br />
development business.<br />
He married Joanne Macdonald in 1966 and they had one son and one daughter. He<br />
divorced in the 1970s; later meeting Sylvia Graham who became his partner in life and<br />
business.<br />
DAVIES, David Thomas Idwal Griffith (1953) died on 10 December aged 77.<br />
David Davies was born on 16 August 1930 in Leeds. Educated at Monmouth School and<br />
<strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong>, Oxford, he came up to college in 1953 to read Architecture. He graduate<br />
BA 1956; Architecture, Diploma 1958; MA 1967. He subsequently studied for a doctorate<br />
at <strong>Cambridge</strong> whilst also practising as an architect. Following submission <strong>of</strong> his thesis<br />
he joined the civil service, where he remained for the next thirty-three years; rising to be<br />
Head <strong>of</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>ession at the Department <strong>of</strong> the Environment. Following retirement from<br />
the civil service he worked as an Adviser to the Stepney Area Churches and was also<br />
Chairman <strong>of</strong> Crown Housing Association. Outside <strong>of</strong> work he enjoyed letter carving,<br />
woodwork and sketching.<br />
He married Anne Christina Carmichael in 1957; they had three daughters and a son.<br />
DAVIES, Peter Maxwell (1939) died on 11 May 2011 aged 92.<br />
Peter Davies was born on 10 October 1918 in Liphook, Hampshire. Educated at Eton<br />
<strong>College</strong> he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1939 to read Natural Sciences with a view to becoming a<br />
doctor.
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We are grateful to Peter’s eldest son for providing the following:<br />
“When the Second World War broke out he gave up his studies and joined the RNVR<br />
where he served on MTBs and had his own command, seeing active service in the<br />
channel, the Mediterranean and Adriatic. Whilst he was based at Littlehampton, he met<br />
Patricia Mary Lynch (née Farrar) and they were married there on 19th May 1944. Their<br />
first son, Christopher Maxwell Davies (1964) was born 11th March 1945. A second son,<br />
Dominic Theophilus Harris Davies was born on 19th March 1952. After the war he<br />
worked in the publishing industry joining Burns & Oates and later Rainbirds,<br />
subsequently starting his own publishing business, Marlon House Ltd in Westminster.<br />
In the 1970s he went into the export business, starting his own company exporting to<br />
Japan which he continued until he was 88. After Patricia’s death on 15th February 2000,<br />
he immersed himself in church work and co-founded the South Coast Meditation Group<br />
in the Roman Catholic Diocese <strong>of</strong> Arundel, which continues to meet regularly to<br />
meditate on the Word <strong>of</strong> God.”<br />
DAWSON, John (1944) died on 20 December 2011 aged 85.<br />
John Dawson was born on 15 October 1926 in Rochdale. Educated at Rochdale<br />
Municipal High School he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1944 to read History with a scholarship.<br />
Whilst at college he set up, with others, a table tennis club as well as playing for the<br />
cricket XI. He graduated, BA 1947; MA 1951. Following graduation he pursued a career<br />
as a teacher serving as the first head teacher <strong>of</strong> John Ruskin School, Coniston, for over<br />
twenty years. His connection with Ruskin continued after retirement from the school: he<br />
was honorary curator <strong>of</strong> the Ruskin Museum, Coniston; and chairman <strong>of</strong> the Friends <strong>of</strong><br />
Ruskin’s Brantwood. He wrote Torver – The Story <strong>of</strong> a Lakeland Community; Wordsworth’s<br />
Duddon Revisited; A Dream <strong>of</strong> Eden; Cumbrian Privies as well as numerous topographical and<br />
historical articles for Country Life and Lancashire Life. He had a strong faith and served<br />
as a lay Methodist preacher for almost half a century.<br />
He married Margaret Isobel Shepherd in 1955 and they had two sons and two<br />
daughters.<br />
DAWSON, William John (1971) died on 8 April 2011 aged 58.<br />
William Dawson was born on 14 October 1952 in Birmingham. Educated at the Central<br />
Grammar School, Birmingham, he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1971 to read part I Natural<br />
Sciences with part II Philosophy. He graduated BA 1974. His later life was dogged with<br />
ill health and he was therefore unable to realise the potential demonstrated in his youth.<br />
DAY, John Burnham (1945) died on 18 March <strong>2012</strong> aged 85.<br />
John Day was born on 21 September 1926 in Nottingham. He attended a local grammar<br />
school, High Pavement, before coming up in 1945 to read Modern Languages. He<br />
graduated BA 1948; MA 1952. Following graduation he returned to his home city and<br />
trained to be a teacher. His first post was at Forest Fields Grammar School, Nottingham;<br />
he remained at the school throughout his career becoming a well-respected Head <strong>of</strong><br />
Modern Languages. Beyond the classroom he served as organist and choirmaster at St<br />
Martin’s Sherwood, Nottingham, and then at St Peter’s Radford Nottingham. He was<br />
also a keen member <strong>of</strong> the West Bridgford Operatic Society.
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DRACOPOLI, John Lawrence (1939) died in July 2011 aged 89.<br />
Jack Dracopoli was born on 25 September 1921 in Bishops Stortford. Educated at Radley<br />
<strong>College</strong>, he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1939 to read Engineering, graduating BA 1942.<br />
Following college, he served in the RAF working on the development and deployment <strong>of</strong><br />
radar. After the war, he started his own electrical engineering company, Hivolt Ltd,<br />
making high voltage generators. One <strong>of</strong> his customers was the Cavendish Laboratories<br />
who used his equipment in their electron microscopes. He sold his business in 1972 and<br />
retired, first to Tuscany for about 20 years and then moved to Burgundy where he died.<br />
He lived life to the full and made a great impression on those who knew him.<br />
He married Nancy Elizabeth Power during the Second World War and they had a<br />
daughter and a son. Subsequently Elizabeth’s brother, Nigel Power (1947) and the<br />
couple’s son, Andrew Dracopoli (1965) came up to <strong>Jesus</strong>. Jack and Elizabeth divorced in<br />
1951 and the following year Jack married Felicity Piers in 1952. Jack and Felicity had a son.<br />
EDMONDS, Richard Dallas (1959) died on 24 July 2011 aged 69.<br />
Dallas Edmunds was born on 7 August 1941 in Cheltenham. Educated at Repton he<br />
came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1959. He read part I History and part II Archaeology & Anthropology<br />
before graduating BA 1962; MA 1966. Following graduation he worked as an interior<br />
designer. He remained fond <strong>of</strong> the college throughout his life and was particularly keen<br />
to support those finding the transition from adolescence to adulthood difficult.<br />
ELLIS, Martin Franklyn (1944) died on Christmas Day 2009 aged 87.<br />
Martin Ellis was born on 19 August 1924 at Forest Hill, London. Educated at Dulwich<br />
<strong>College</strong> he served as a Gunner in the Royal Artillery until he was demobilised due to<br />
injury. He came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1944 reading Modern Languages followed by Economics<br />
and graduating BA 1946; MA 1962. An “affable good chap”, hard-working and full <strong>of</strong><br />
common sense his tutors warmly recommended him for a career in business;<br />
employment at a string <strong>of</strong> blue chip firms followed, including: Philips Electrical Limited<br />
and Standard Telephones & Cables Limited. He moved on to join the British Electrical &<br />
Allied Manufacturing Association before his final role at the Hawker Siddeley Group plc.<br />
In retirement he put his business skills to good use in the service <strong>of</strong> his local branch <strong>of</strong><br />
the National Trust.<br />
He married Jacqueline Mary Hobbs in 1955 and they had one daughter; both<br />
predeceased him but he is survived by his son-in-law and three grandchildren.<br />
EZCURRA, Amanda Perreau-Saussine (1990) died on 1 August <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
It was with great sadness that her many friends and admiring colleagues learned <strong>of</strong> the<br />
death <strong>of</strong> Amanda Perreau-Saussine Ezcurra (née Hatfield). Amanda was a distinguished<br />
academic lawyer and specialist in historical jurisprudence and international law.<br />
After her first degree in law at <strong>Jesus</strong>, Amanda worked as a Legal Officer for Amnesty<br />
International before returning to <strong>Cambridge</strong> for doctoral studies.<br />
As a member <strong>of</strong> the lay Dominican community at Blackfriars she met her first<br />
husband, Emile Perreau-Saussine, a political philosopher who shared her strong and<br />
intellectually rigorous Catholic faith. Amanda went on to a lectureship at King’s <strong>College</strong>,
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London before returning in 2000 to a Lectureship in Law at <strong>Cambridge</strong>, becoming first a<br />
Fellow <strong>of</strong> Newnham and latterly Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Queen’s (2007-), during<br />
which time Emile was a Fellow and Lecturer in political philosophy at Fitzwilliam.<br />
They had two children, Elisabeth and Martin, and between them lead a robust and<br />
active intellectual and personal life with shared interests in religion, politics, philosophy<br />
and the law.<br />
Emile’s sudden death in February 2010 from a ruptured aorta was a devastating blow.<br />
Amanda showed impressive strength through this bereavement, which left her a widow<br />
with two small children. The following summer she herself developed pains which were<br />
attributed to the inevitable stress <strong>of</strong> her situation, and only the next January diagnosed as<br />
cancer that was already advanced. With supernatural – she would say ‘graced’ –<br />
determination she fought this illness, not least for the sake <strong>of</strong> her young family. Friends,<br />
especially from her former community at Blackfriars, rallied round as she underwent<br />
punishing treatments. Yet in the midst <strong>of</strong> this came another dawn <strong>of</strong> love, when she met<br />
Carlos Ezcurra, an Argentinian political scientist. They married in a joyous nuptial mass<br />
in Queen’s <strong>College</strong> Chapel on 1 November, 2011 with Carlos becoming at once a<br />
husband and loving father. She died exactly none months later leaving with her friends<br />
and family indelible memories <strong>of</strong> bravery, honesty, joy and a love that, in her firm<br />
conviction, knows no end.<br />
FENWICK, Thomas Richard Featherstone (1945) died on 20 January <strong>2012</strong> aged 85.<br />
Tom Fenwick was born on 11 December 1926 in Newcastle. He came up from<br />
Charterhouse in 1945 and read Agriculture, graduating BA 1948. We are grateful to<br />
James Fenwick, his son, for providing the following:<br />
“On graduation, he determined to farm and following various stints in Suffolk, the<br />
mid-west <strong>of</strong> America and Western Australia, he returned in 1952 to take over the family<br />
estate at Wolsingham, Co Durham. A countryman at heart, the estate became his<br />
lifelong project. He farmed cattle and sheep and managed the forestry and shooting<br />
enterprises for more than 50 years. In addition, he ran a forestry company, NFP, for over<br />
20 years. He served as a JP, was High Sheriff <strong>of</strong> County Durham in 1976, acted as a<br />
Church Warden for 37 years and stood as the Conservative candidate for his home<br />
constituency <strong>of</strong> North West Durham in the 1979 election. He was married to Sally Page<br />
for 54 years and they had 4 children.”<br />
FINCH, Jack (1942) died on 10 December 2010 aged 86.<br />
Jack Finch was born on 31 January 1924 in Thorpe-next-Norwich. Educated at the City <strong>of</strong><br />
Norwich School he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1942 to read History with an exhibition. After a<br />
year he commenced his military service which lasted three years and included a period in<br />
Palestine. Following demobilisation he returned to <strong>Cambridge</strong> and completed his<br />
degree graduating, BA 1948. After a years’ teacher training he began his career as a<br />
teacher which included serving as head <strong>of</strong> the History Department for thirteen years at<br />
Southampton Totton Grammar School and for fourteen years at Hounsdown<br />
Comprehensive School. He enjoyed music and was a leader <strong>of</strong> the Southampton Concert<br />
Orchestra.<br />
He married Annette Arnold in 1945 and they had three sons and one daughter.
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GIFFARD, Adam Edward (1954) died on 31 December 2010 aged 77.<br />
Adam Giffard was born on 3 June 1933. He came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1954 following National<br />
Service. He read Modern & Medieval Languages, graduating BA 1957; MA 1961. His<br />
career included working as a documentary film maker. He returned to education later in<br />
life when he took an Open <strong>University</strong> degree, graduating BSc in 1995. Upon the death <strong>of</strong><br />
his father he succeeded to the title <strong>of</strong> fourth Earl <strong>of</strong> Halsbury, but chose not to use the<br />
title.<br />
He married his second wife, Joanna Elizabeth Cole in 1976; they had two daughters.<br />
GLOSTER, John (1940) died on 28 May 2011 aged 89.<br />
John Gloster was born on 23 March 1922 in Coventry, where he attended King Henry VIII<br />
Grammar School. He came up to <strong>Jesus</strong>, with a scholarship, in 1940 to read Natural<br />
Sciences with the intention <strong>of</strong> going on to qualify as a doctor. He graduated BA 1943; MB<br />
BChir 1946; MD 1953. After leaving <strong>Cambridge</strong> he went to St Bartholomew’s Hospital,<br />
London, and completed his training. Early on in his career he established an interest in<br />
ophthalmology whilst working on miners’ nystagmus and retinitis pigmentosa. In 1954,<br />
he joined the Institute <strong>of</strong> Ophthalmology, then under the guidance <strong>of</strong> the late Sir Stewart<br />
Duke-Elder, and worked primarily on glaucoma. He worked at the institute until his<br />
retirement in 1982, and served as dean for a period. He was awarded the Sembal Chair <strong>of</strong><br />
Experimental Ophthalmology and was also an honorary consultant at Moorfields Eye<br />
Hospital, where he was in charge <strong>of</strong> the glaucoma clinic.<br />
After retirement he deployed the intelligent, methodical techniques he used in<br />
research to growing and exhibiting auriculas; which he did to a national standard. Aside<br />
from gardening he also loved music, theatre, and ballet.<br />
He married Margery Williams in 1947 and they had two sons.<br />
GODDEN, Brian Thomas (1945) died on 27 December 2009 aged 82.<br />
Brain Godden was born on 30 April 1927 in London. Educated at Battersea Grammar<br />
School he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1945 to read Modern Languages. He graduated BA 1948.<br />
In his late teens he developed a deep faith; this lead to his conversion to Roman<br />
Catholicism in 1947. As a recent convert he was required to delay his calling to become<br />
a priest and whilst waiting he taught French at St Aloysius’ <strong>College</strong> in Highgate.<br />
In 1951 he began training at St. John's Seminary in Wonersh, near Guildford. Six years<br />
later he was ordained at the Franciscan Friary, East Bergholt, near Colchester. He served<br />
as a parish priest in a number <strong>of</strong> parishes in Southern England including St Ethelbert’s,<br />
Slough. On the modernising wing <strong>of</strong> the church, he wrote Celibacy & the Catholic Priesthood<br />
– The Case for Change (1993).<br />
He had a wide range <strong>of</strong> interests including gardening, astronomy and music.<br />
GOUGH, Charles Brandon (1958) died on 26 April <strong>2012</strong> aged 74.<br />
Brandon Gough was born on 8 October 1937 in Wallasey. Educated at Douai School,<br />
Woolhampton, run by the Douai Abbey Benedictine Community in Berkshire, he<br />
retained a strong Roman Catholic faith which was to provide him with the values and<br />
principles which he would retain all his life. He came up in 1958 and read part I and IB<br />
Natural Sciences and part II Law. He graduated BA 1961; MA 1972. In 1964 he joined
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Coopers & Lybrand; four years later he was a partner and at only 44 he was made<br />
chairman. His appointment reflected the firm’s ambitions to become the UK’s leading<br />
accountancy firm and to develop its international practice. The accountancy world was<br />
changing rapidly during the 1980s and early 1990s and Brandon was able to supply<br />
steady, yet ambitious leadership. All his skills were harnessed to bring about the merger<br />
with Deloittes. After thirty years with the firm, he was happy to move into semiretirement<br />
and use his talents for public service, this included serving as Chancellor <strong>of</strong><br />
the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> East Anglia, Deputy Lieutenant <strong>of</strong> Kent and chair <strong>of</strong> Yorkshire Water,<br />
the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Review Body on Doctors'<br />
and Dentists' Remuneration. He was knighted in 2002 and received honorary degrees<br />
from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Kent and UEA. He enjoyed walking, gardening, opera and singing<br />
in a choir with his wife. He had a keen interest in theatre and was a member <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Council <strong>of</strong> the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Trust for six years.<br />
He married Sarah Evans Smith in 1961; they had one son and two daughters.<br />
GREEN, Christopher Hewlett (1956) died in December 2010 aged 73.<br />
Christopher Green was born on 15 May 1937 in London. Educated at Sedbergh School he<br />
came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1956 to read Natural Sciences, graduating BA 1959. At college he<br />
impressed with his all-round abilities; being equally at home on the rugby pitch, singing<br />
with a choir and studying in a lab. After some travelling following graduation, he joined<br />
BP, where he remained throughout his career until retiring in 1992. He was passionate<br />
about music and managed to balance his career with his love <strong>of</strong> singing with the<br />
Monteverdi and Schutz choirs. Following his retirement he returned to studying another<br />
lifelong passion, archaeology; completing postgraduate studies at Birkbeck <strong>College</strong>,<br />
London, and Kellogg <strong>College</strong>, Oxford.<br />
He married Loryn Jean Turner in 1965 and they had two sons and one daughter.<br />
GREEN, Eric James (1945) died on 5 November 2011 aged 85.<br />
Eric Green was born on 15 September 1926 in Birkenhead. Educated at the Royal<br />
Grammar School, Lancaster, he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> on a university short course. Following<br />
two years with the Royal Marines, including time with 45 Commando in Hong Kong,<br />
he returned to <strong>Cambridge</strong> to read History. At <strong>Jesus</strong> he played rugby and ran with the<br />
Hare and Hounds. After graduation he trained to be a teacher; he taught at the Liverpool<br />
Institute and Belle Vue Grammar School in Bradford before embarking on a career in<br />
education administration. He spent four years in Barnsley Education Department before<br />
moving to be Deputy Chief Education Officer in Chester. From Chester he went to<br />
Bromley, where he was Assistant Director <strong>of</strong> Education and his responsibilities included<br />
further education in the borough. Following retirement in 1990 he travelled extensively,<br />
volunteered for the Citizens Advice Bureau and led house groups <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Third Age in the study <strong>of</strong> History.<br />
He married Janet Hindle in 1967 and they had one son and one daughter.<br />
HARRISON, Alwyne George (1949) died on 27 April <strong>2012</strong> aged 82.<br />
Wyn Harrison was born on 9 January 1930 in Chorley, Lancashire. He attended<br />
Chesterfield Grammar School before coming up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1949 to read English. He
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graduated BA 1952, MA 1956; and soon departed for a career in India. He spent his<br />
entire working life in India, rising to become Vice Chairman and Managing Director <strong>of</strong><br />
Mather & Platt (India) Limited. His contributions to industry were recognised when he<br />
was appointed O.B.E. in 1987. Following retirement in 1989 he returned to England<br />
making his home in Macclesfield and later in Warrington.<br />
He married Alexandra Edwards in 1955 and they had two daughters and a son.<br />
HARTLEY, John Neil (1933) died on 17 October 2011 aged 96.<br />
John Hartley was born on 28 March 1915 near Burnley in Lancashire. Educated at the<br />
Leys School he came up in 1933 to read Natural Sciences. He served as a flight lieutenant<br />
in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. Following<br />
demobilisation he pursued a career as a pharmacist before moving into business.<br />
HILL, Vyvyan Dudley (1928) died on 19 October 1993 aged 82.<br />
Vyvyan Hill was born on 10 January 1911 in Hawk’s Bay New Zealand. Educated at<br />
Christ’s <strong>College</strong>, New Zealand, he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1929 to read Engineering.<br />
After fighting in North Africa during the Second World War he returned home to take<br />
over the family farm. In the 1960s he converted the farm into an orchard.<br />
He married Elizabeth Beatrice Harvey in 1944; they had two girls and a boy.<br />
HONEY, Christopher Simon (1979) died on 23 May <strong>2012</strong> aged 52.<br />
Chris Honey was born on 21 October 1959 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (then Malaya).<br />
Educated at Eltham <strong>College</strong>, he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1979 to read Architecture,<br />
graduating BA in 1982; MA 1985. He was a keen member <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> Boat Club and<br />
the <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>University</strong> Officers’ Training Corps (having completed a Short Service<br />
Limited Commission in the Queen's Gurkha Engineers in Hong Kong prior to<br />
matriculating). His sister, Alison, followed him to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1982. In 1983, he spent a year<br />
working in Malaysia with the leading Kuala Lumpur firm, BEP Akitek Sendirian before<br />
attending the Bartlett School <strong>of</strong> Architecture and Planning, <strong>University</strong> <strong>College</strong>, London,<br />
passing his Diploma in 1985.<br />
After qualifying, Chris spent several years in London working in architectural firms<br />
including Hamilton Associates with Paul Tanner (1966) and GMW. In the late 90s (now<br />
married to Rebecca Williams) he moved back to Asia where he headed an in-house<br />
design <strong>of</strong>fice for Michael Tan, a leading Malaysian property developer with whom he<br />
developed a strong friendship. During this time he planned schemes, now executed, in<br />
peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak and Australia as well as viewing sites in China. After some<br />
years in Kuala Lumpur he and Rebecca returned to the UK to live in Hertfordshire and<br />
their sons Sam and Nat were born. Chris continued to keep up his pr<strong>of</strong>essional links<br />
with Asia but also developed a busy local architectural practice.<br />
Chris had a seemingly unbounded interest in everyone and everything. He was a<br />
natural linguist and maintained an extensive network <strong>of</strong> friends from all over the world.<br />
He was elected a Fellow <strong>of</strong> the Royal Society <strong>of</strong> Arts in 1986, loved travel, opera and<br />
Scandinavian design, Arsenal, all things Asian, his family, his friends and his pugs.<br />
Tragically in 2003, after developing septicaemia from a cat scratch, Chris developed
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dilated cardiomyopathy. He was an extraordinary patient: he read avidly about his<br />
condition, confronted it head on and was relentlessly optimistic despite frequent<br />
setbacks. In February <strong>of</strong> <strong>2012</strong> he was admitted to Papworth Hospital and was delighted<br />
to discover that he had the opportunity to reminisce about college life with his<br />
consultant, Clive Lewis (1987). The plan was for Chris to receive an urgent heart<br />
transplant but complications meant this was not to be.<br />
LAMB, Roland Hurst Lowry (1935) died on 23 November 2011 aged 94.<br />
Roland Lamb was born on 27 October 1917 in Kingswood, Surrey. He attended Mill Hill<br />
School, coming up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1935 to read History. He graduated BA 1938; MA 1942. A<br />
man <strong>of</strong> deep spiritual conviction, following graduation he trained for the Methodist<br />
ministry. He served as a chaplain in the Middle East during the Second World War and<br />
afterwards in churches in South Shields, Walton-on-Naze, Aberystwyth and Cornwall.<br />
In the 1950’s he was seconded to the Inter-Varsity Fellowship (now the Universities and<br />
<strong>College</strong>s Christian Fellowship). In 1967 he left the Methodist church as he had become<br />
increasingly concerned about moves away from literal interpretations <strong>of</strong> the Gospels.<br />
For the next fifteen years he worked tirelessly for the British Evangelical Council as its<br />
General Secretary as well as serving as Pastor <strong>of</strong> the Spicer Street Independent Chapel in<br />
St Albans. Many found comfort in his ministry which was always compassionate,<br />
considered and clear.<br />
He married Jill Alicia Morse in 1943 and they had one son and three daughters.<br />
LAWN, Oliver Hugh (1937) died on 3 May <strong>2012</strong> aged 93.<br />
Oliver Lawn was born on 20 November 1918 in Walsall. Educated at Kingswood School,<br />
Bath, he went up in 1937 and read Mathematics, taking part I, II and III. He<br />
distinguished himself as both a mathematician and an oarsman. He graduated BA 1940;<br />
MA 1944. In 1940 he was assigned to Enigma Code breaking at Bletchley Park. There he<br />
met Sheila Isabelle Mackenzie, his future wife, and also qualified as a Methodist Local<br />
Preacher. After the end <strong>of</strong> the Second World War, he spent a short period lecturing in<br />
Mathematics at Reading <strong>University</strong> before entering the Civil Service in London. In 1978<br />
he retired and was appointed CBE. He moved to Sheffield where he undertook voluntary<br />
work in the community: co-ordinating the fund-raising to build a day care centre at a<br />
local cancer hospital; serving on several committees <strong>of</strong> Voluntary Action Sheffield; and<br />
serving as a Non-Executive Director <strong>of</strong> the Northern General Hospital NHS Trust. His<br />
leisure enthusiasms were wide, including caravanning, hill walking, especially in<br />
Scotland, and orienteering. He took great delight in nature and his family. Sheila reports<br />
that she and Oliver were very happy in Sheffield making friends and enjoying this new<br />
venture.<br />
LAWTON, Paul Ivan Carl (1945) died on 1 June <strong>2012</strong> aged 88.<br />
Paul Lawton was born on 6 April 1924 in Manchester. Educated at Shrewsbury School he<br />
served in the Armed Forces before coming up in 1945. He read English, graduating BA<br />
1948; MA 1952. In 1951 he joined the World Health Organisation. He remained with the<br />
W.H.O. for more than thirty years, rising to be a director in the Division <strong>of</strong> Coordination.
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He enjoyed working with wood, whether making jewellery or practical pieces for his<br />
wife's farm. He loved to spend time in the nearby mountains skiing and climbing and<br />
did the Haute Route (Chamonix-Zermatt) several times. When he retired, he bought<br />
himself a chalet in a ski resort in Le Grand Bornand and settled there. It was in the chalet<br />
he wrote a translation <strong>of</strong> Franco Fortini’s poems, entitled "Summer is not all", and<br />
produced a translation <strong>of</strong> "Canti" by Giacomo Leopardi.<br />
He married Catherine Lévy in 1954. Catherine already had a son and the couple went<br />
on to have another boy.<br />
LI, Fook Kow (1957) died on 27 October 2011 aged 89.<br />
Fook Kow Li was born on 15 June 1922 in Hong Kong. He attended Wah Yan <strong>College</strong>,<br />
Hong King, before studying Metallurgy at Massachusetts Institute <strong>of</strong> Technology,<br />
graduating from M.I.T. BSc in 1944; MSc in 1945. After the war, he returned to Hong<br />
Kong, working first as a teacher at St Paul’s Co-educational <strong>College</strong>. He joined the Hong<br />
Kong Government Secretariat in 1954 and came to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1957 to study the Overseas<br />
Services Course. After again returning to Hong Kong he remained with the Secretariat<br />
and served in various posts including as: Secretary for Social Services; Secretary for<br />
Home Affairs; and Chairman <strong>of</strong> the Public Service Commission before retiring in 1987.<br />
He was appointed Companion <strong>of</strong> the Order <strong>of</strong> St Michael and St George in 1975.<br />
He married Edith Kwong in 1946; the couple had two daughters and two sons.<br />
LUNN-ROCKLIFFE. David Craven (1947) died on 23 August 2011 aged 86.<br />
David Lunn-Rockliffe was born on 28 December 1924 in Southampton. Educated at<br />
Stowe School, he served in Burma during the Second World War. He came up in 1947,<br />
the third generation <strong>of</strong> his family to do so. He read Economics and Agriculture,<br />
graduating BA 1950; MA 1961. His time at college showed the breadth <strong>of</strong> his interests,<br />
his considerable charm and his ability in practical affairs; for example he organised the<br />
<strong>College</strong> May Ball in his final term. After graduation he continued to have wide interests<br />
both in his hobbies and his business life. In business he, in some cases concurrently,<br />
worked as a diary famer, served as development director <strong>of</strong> the Institute <strong>of</strong> Corn &<br />
Agricultural Merchants, ran a specialist paint manufacturer, was chief executive <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Amateur Rowing Association and was founder and chairman <strong>of</strong> the River & Rowing<br />
Museum Foundation at Henley-on-Thames.<br />
He married Elizabeth Victoria Capron in 1950; they had five daughters.<br />
MALLETT, Hugh Michael Finer (1943) died on 25 February <strong>2012</strong> aged 86.<br />
Michael Mallett was born on 31 March 1925 in Bradford. Educated at Bradford Grammar<br />
School, he came up in 1943 on a RAF short course and caught the rowing bug. After<br />
leaving <strong>Cambridge</strong> he was posted to Canada until VJ day and then to Egypt; where he<br />
rowed on the Nile. He returned to college in 1947, and continued his rowing and this<br />
time combined it with journalism as rowing correspondent <strong>of</strong> Varsity writing under the<br />
nom-de-plume “Wash-out”. A photograph <strong>of</strong> him sat in bed taking his finals graced the<br />
front page <strong>of</strong> the student rag after he was struck down with shingles. His taste for<br />
writing led to a career as a freelance journalist.<br />
He married Pamela Margaret Raby in 1961 and they had a son and daughter.
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MANT (née Randall), Frances Joy (1979) died on 7 May 2011 aged 49.<br />
We are grateful to Frances Mant's family for providing the following information:<br />
"Frances Randall was born on 14 May 1961 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, and was brought<br />
up from age 6 in Rugby, Warwickshire. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies <strong>College</strong>,<br />
where she first met her life-long friend Caroline Pack (1980). In 1979, the first year <strong>of</strong><br />
female undergraduates, Frances came up to <strong>Jesus</strong>, following her brother John (1974) to<br />
the college. She read Medicine, and near the end <strong>of</strong> her 3 years in <strong>Cambridge</strong> met a<br />
fellow medical student Jonathan Mant (Corpus Christi, 1979), whom she married at<br />
Great St Mary’s in 1983. She completed her medical training at the Middlesex Hospital,<br />
London. She and her husband moved to Devon in 1986, where Frances obtained a<br />
Certificate <strong>of</strong> Qualification in Social Work from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Exeter.”<br />
In 1989 they moved to Oxford, where Frances worked as a specialist social worker at<br />
Ritchie Russell House (1989-94) and as a research associate at the Radcliffe Infirmary<br />
(1994-95).<br />
In 1997, the family moved to the West Midlands. Frances then read for the Ministry at<br />
The Queen’s Foundation, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Birmingham, graduating with a first in applied<br />
theology, and was ordained at Worcester Cathedral in 2005. She then served as Curate at<br />
All Saints, Bromsgrove (2005-8), Chaplain, Princess <strong>of</strong> Wales Hospital, Bromsgrove<br />
(2008-09), and Tutor at Westcott House (2010-11). She leaves her husband Jonathan,<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Primary Care Research at the Department <strong>of</strong> Public Health & Primary Care,<br />
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, their children William and Alice, her parents and brother.<br />
Her funeral was held at Great St Mary’s on 20 May 2011, and conducted by the<br />
Rev Canon Martin Seeley (1972).<br />
MAY, Michael Cedric (1960) died on 1 November 2010 aged 69.<br />
Michael May was born on 25th March 1943 in Paignton, Devon. He attended Harrow<br />
School before coming up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1960 to read Mechanical Sciences and Estate<br />
Management.<br />
He graduated BA 1963; MA 1967. Following graduation he joined a large London firm<br />
<strong>of</strong> surveyors but always hankered after running his own business and at 23 he set up<br />
Stonecot Contractors, building houses in Reigate. The company became a successful<br />
private building company, developing and building commercial and residential<br />
properties throughout Surrey and south London; listed buildings being his particular<br />
passion.<br />
We are grateful to his family for the following:<br />
"He was an outdoor man and a keen participant in most sports from golf to skiing<br />
although when he was young weekends were taken up with competing in amateur single<br />
seater racing cars. He travelled extensively but was equally content pottering around his<br />
wonderful garden. During winter months he had great fun owning and racing jumps<br />
horses. He was a charming man, a gentleman, and much respected for his advice, both<br />
from friends and employees, but his greatest joy came from his family and<br />
grandchildren and dogs overrunning his garden."<br />
He married Alison Fraser in 1968 and they had two sons and a daughter.<br />
McKINLAY, Timothy Alan (1980) died on 18 January <strong>2012</strong> aged 50.<br />
Tim McKinlay was born on 6 May 1961 in Warrington. Educated at King’s School,<br />
Macclesfield, he read Natural Sciences, graduating BA 1983; MA 1987. He was elected to
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a scholarship in 1981. After graduating he completed Part III Maths and then went to<br />
work for Deloitte Haskins and Sells as a financial modeller. From Deloittes he joined<br />
Booz Allen Associates. His career then progressed, via a period as a consultant advising<br />
on consumer goods and an MBA from INSEAD, to working for Heinz as Country<br />
Manager for Indonesia and President <strong>of</strong> Heinz Korea. From Heinz he moved to become<br />
a Partner <strong>of</strong> Navis, a private equity company where he led the Portfolio Monitoring and<br />
Management Function. He was also active in engaging senior management <strong>of</strong> many<br />
Navis portfolio companies.<br />
We are grateful to Tim's sister, Sally Elliott, for providing the following:<br />
"Tim was a man with a brilliant mind, a courteous and gentle demeanour. He was an<br />
outstanding father, a man loving <strong>of</strong>, and loved by, his family. He was an adventurer, an<br />
explorer <strong>of</strong> different lands and cultures, and was an exceptional photographer. He had a<br />
dry wit, was thoughtful, with inspirational inner strength, and showed a dignity and a<br />
courage that is hard to compare when faced with the battle against an aggressive brain<br />
tumour. He loved life, and strove to make the most <strong>of</strong> every moment in his quiet and<br />
determined way, providing his two teenage daughters with outstanding experiences and<br />
paved the way for their future."<br />
MEADOWS, James Romulus (1956) died on 30 April <strong>2012</strong> aged 77.<br />
Jim Meadows was born on 7 January 1935 in Nashville. He attended Parmer School in<br />
Nashville, The Webb School in Bellbuckle, Tennessee, and Yale <strong>University</strong>.<br />
We are grateful to Michael Delahooke (1954), for the following:<br />
"He came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in October 1956, armed with an imposing physical presence,<br />
earthy good humour and an all-American determination to succeed. He found the<br />
methods <strong>of</strong> the CUBC unfamiliar but applied himself vigorously to adapting his rowing<br />
to fit in with this new style, and soon achieved the all important approval <strong>of</strong> Alf Twinn.<br />
Universally known as ‘Big Jim’ he was awarded his Blue in his second term, and proved<br />
to be one <strong>of</strong> the driving forces behind the victory in that year’s Boat Race. None <strong>of</strong> us<br />
who heard it will forget his outburst <strong>of</strong> old Tennessee expletives at the Mile Post as<br />
Oxford seemed to be slipping away from us, and which so galvanised the crew that we<br />
were in front by Hammersmith!<br />
If he found CUBC methods unfamiliar, those at <strong>Jesus</strong> must have seemed positively<br />
eccentric, though he was too polite to say so, and instead Jim got his head down and<br />
helped the <strong>College</strong> to maintain its position as Head <strong>of</strong> the Mays. In the following year,<br />
1958, he was not selected for the Blue Boat but, nothing daunted, applied himself to<br />
successfully keeping <strong>Jesus</strong> at the Head <strong>of</strong> the Mays, and then crowned his <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
rowing career by winning the Ladies’ Plate at Henley for the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Jim enjoyed every aspect <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong> life, though he found the dinners in Hall to be<br />
somewhat lacking, and regularly visited the Pitt Club for a second meal after the<br />
insubstantial fare at <strong>Jesus</strong>. He read English Literature, and told amusing tales <strong>of</strong> sharing<br />
supervisions with future England cricket captain, Ted Dexter, in which they attempted to<br />
deconstruct the finer points <strong>of</strong> Chaucer. In preparation for his return to the States, he<br />
equipped himself with a Savile Row suit, a bowler hat and tightly rolled umbrella, and<br />
acquired a 1932 vintage 3 ½ litre Lagonda tourer. He drove this remarkable vehicle<br />
round the Highlands <strong>of</strong> Scotland, and then shipped it back to Nashville, together with<br />
plentiful supplies <strong>of</strong> Draught Guinness.”<br />
Following graduation he served in the US Army before joining Container<br />
Corporation <strong>of</strong> America. In 1977 he returned to his home city and joined Dixie Graphics
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Inc. By the mid 1980s he had become the president and owner <strong>of</strong> the company.<br />
Despite the distance, Jim and his wife, Patricia, <strong>of</strong>ten returned to <strong>Jesus</strong> to visit<br />
cherished friends and in 2004 he became a member <strong>of</strong> the Society <strong>of</strong> St Radegund.<br />
MEARES, Dennis Neville Frederick (1943) died on 9 October 2011 aged 85.<br />
Dennis Meares was born on 11 December 1925 in Cardiff. Educated at St Edward’s<br />
School, Oxford, he came up to college in 1943. He read Engineering, graduating BA<br />
1946; MA 1950. The highlight <strong>of</strong> his time at <strong>Jesus</strong> was rowing in the boats which came<br />
Head <strong>of</strong> the River in the March Eights in 1944 and 1945.<br />
We are grateful to Peter Meares for the following:<br />
“He joined the Royal Navy as Probationary, Acting Temporary Midshipman (E). After<br />
basic training he served in the submarine branch (it paid more), travelling all over the<br />
world. During this period he married Lesley and they had three children. In 1976 Dennis<br />
left the service having reached the rank <strong>of</strong> captain, and joined GEC in Melksham, where<br />
he was a contracts manager for baggage handling systems. When he finally retired, he<br />
settled down to his large vegetable plot, and maintaining the family home, which at<br />
600+ years old always kept him busy. In retirement he was a very active member <strong>of</strong> the<br />
village society, the Meares’ being well known for their hog roast RNLI fund-raising,<br />
and safari supper.”<br />
MILLS, Ronald Gerald (1950) died on 14 November 2011 aged 81.<br />
Gerry Mills was born on 17 May 1930 in Guildford. Educated at the Royal Grammar<br />
School, Guildford, following National Service he came up in 1950 to read Mathematics.<br />
A talented table tennis player he played regularly for the university’s un<strong>of</strong>ficial team.<br />
He graduated BA 1953; MA 1957. Following graduation he worked for Standard<br />
Telephones and Cables whilst also studying part-time for a Masters at London. He<br />
subsequently went on to work for Elliott brothers before setting up Mills Associates Ltd<br />
in 1962. He grew this business into a successful nationwide computer company<br />
employing hundreds <strong>of</strong> staff over multiple locations. After Mills was sold in 1998,<br />
Gerry became a leading light in the British Go Association, a group set up to promote<br />
the oriental board game, Go. He also continued to walk mountains and was still helping<br />
to build new businesses up to his death.<br />
He married Moira Eileen Johnson in 1952; they had two sons and a daughter.<br />
MURDOCH, James William (1940) died on 11 May 2011 aged 89.<br />
James Murdoch was born on 12 October 1921 in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.<br />
Educated at Epsom <strong>College</strong> he studied for a year at the East Sussex School <strong>of</strong> Agriculture<br />
before joining the Royal Engineers. He came up in 1940 to study the Royal Engineers<br />
short course, and following his six months in <strong>Cambridge</strong> returned to his regiment<br />
serving overseas. After demobilisation he trained in medicine at the London Hospital;<br />
practising over a forty year career in Trinidad, Derby, New Zealand and Hove.<br />
In retirement he enjoyed playing golf.<br />
He married Evelyn Theodora Vaux in 1949; they had two daughters and a son.
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PEGLER Alan Francis (1938) died on 18 March 2011 aged 91.<br />
Alan Pegler was born on 16 April 1920 in London, the son <strong>of</strong> F. E. Pegler (1908).<br />
Educated at Radley <strong>College</strong> he came up in 1938 to read Law, but never settled into<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> life and determined to leave. During the Second World War he served in the<br />
Fleet Air Arm before injury led to his discharge. In 1946, he joined his father’s firm,<br />
Northern Rubber Co, and served as chairman from 1949 to 1953. His real interest,<br />
however, was in steam trains; his passion took over his life and took all his inheritance,<br />
but more than anyone else he was responsible for saving the Ffestiniog Railway and the<br />
Flying Scotsman. After the money had gone, he reinvented himself as an entertainer and<br />
regaled his audiences with tales <strong>of</strong> the “old girl”; as the Flying Scotsman was known.<br />
The Chairman <strong>of</strong> the Ffestiniog Railway Society, Howard Wilson, said <strong>of</strong> him; “Alan was<br />
a pioneer and an inspiration to the railway preservation movement throughout the<br />
world. We owe him a great debt <strong>of</strong> gratitude.” He was appointed O.B.E. in 2006.<br />
He married Susan Bendell in 1940 with whom he had a son. The marriage was<br />
dissolved and he married Lois Reith in 1946; Lois died in 1948. He married Pamela<br />
Marshall in 1952, they had a daughter. Pamela died in 1956. He married Pauline Graves<br />
in 1957; the marriage was dissolved. His life-long friend was Petrina Derrington.<br />
PENNY, Thomas Gillard (1954) died on 7 November 2011 aged 77.<br />
Tom Penny was born on 15 April 1934 in Tiverton, the nephew <strong>of</strong> Penny, W. M. (1903)<br />
and Penny, C. J. (1913). Educated at Winchester <strong>College</strong>, he served for two years with the<br />
Somerset Light Infantry, one <strong>of</strong> which was spent as a commissioned <strong>of</strong>ficer in Malaya.<br />
He came up to his uncles’ college in 1954 to read History and Law and graduated BA<br />
1957; MA 1961. He joined a Tiverton firm <strong>of</strong> solicitors in 1960 and later became a<br />
partner. He stepped down from the firm in the early 1980s and worked as a consultant<br />
for Bevan Ashford (now Bevan Brittan). In 1999 he set up in sole practice and was kept<br />
busy serving his local community. He took an active interest in rural life and served as<br />
Clerk to the Tiverton Almshouse Trust, as well as being one time President <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Mid Devon Show.<br />
He married Joan Elizabeth Alexandra Flower in 1964 and they had three daughters and<br />
one son.<br />
PHILP, Arthur David Trevelyan (1949) died on 26 October 2011 aged 82.<br />
David Philp was born on 15 May 1929 in London. Educated at Clifton <strong>College</strong>, Bristol, he<br />
came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1949 following National Service. He read Modern & Medieval<br />
Languages, graduating BA 1952; MA 1957. Whilst at college his courage and capacity for<br />
hard work were noted. After leaving <strong>Cambridge</strong> he went to Spain for three years where<br />
he taught English and made many friends. When he returned to England he worked for<br />
the Ockenden Trust (the trust brings displaced people to the UK for education, training<br />
and settlement). He then spent a short time sailing, crewing and delivering a boat,<br />
before becoming a farmer in North Cornwall. We are grateful to his wife, Sue, for<br />
providing the following further information:<br />
“While farming he taught French at the local primary school and coached many<br />
children for their O levels and A levels. In the summer the house was full <strong>of</strong> the children<br />
<strong>of</strong> our many foreign friends, Spanish, Norwegian, French and German. He taught many<br />
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<br />
repertoire.”<br />
He married Susan Isabel Mary Jerram in 1964; although the couple never had children<br />
they brought up two nieces from the age <strong>of</strong> five to 16.<br />
RANDELL, Michael John (1953) died on 14 June 2011 aged 75.<br />
Mike Randell was born on 4 August 1935 in Bristol. Educated at St Brendan’s <strong>College</strong>,<br />
Bristol, he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1953 to read Natural Sciences. He graduated BA 1956; MA<br />
1960. Following National Service he worked as a Chemist for ES & A Robinson for three<br />
years. He spent the rest <strong>of</strong> his career with Procter & Gamble, retiring in 1994. He had a<br />
great passion for cricket, furthering its interests in the North-East as Assistant Secretary<br />
to Northumberland County Cricket Club and as Chairman <strong>of</strong> Newcastle Cricket Club. He<br />
also sang in the Choir at St Mary's Cathedral and studied Geology for many years.<br />
He married Moira Baston in 1964 and they had one daughter.<br />
RICHARDS, David Andrew (1952) died in February <strong>2012</strong> aged 83.<br />
David Richards was born on 28 January 1929 in Ashurst, Sussex. Educated at Brockley<br />
County School, he joined the Royal Engineers in 1947, originally to undertake his<br />
National Service but later he joined the regular army. He came up in 1952 to read<br />
Mechanical Sciences, graduating BA 1954; MA 1970. Following graduation he returned<br />
to the Army, serving until 1977 and reaching the rank <strong>of</strong> Lieutenant Colonel. After<br />
leaving the military he taught at Ardingly <strong>College</strong> until 1989. In retirement he pursued<br />
his interests in music and photography.<br />
He married Lucie Hamilton Langmead in 1955; they had two sons and a daughter.<br />
SIMKIN, Eric Philip (1946) died on 25 January <strong>2012</strong> aged 84.<br />
Eric Simkin was born on 9 September 1927 in Liverpool. He was educated at Liverpool<br />
<strong>College</strong> before coming up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1946 to read Natural Sciences with a view to going<br />
on to be a doctor. He graduated BA 1949. Following graduation he undertook his clinical<br />
training at the Central Middlesex Hospital and graduated MB BChir 1952. The following<br />
year he took his MA. Following working at the old Liverpool Royal Infirmary he decided<br />
to specialise in anorectal surgery. He opened a specialist anorectal clinic at Sefton<br />
General Hospital and then at the Royal Liverpool <strong>University</strong> Hospital, where he was<br />
consultant from 1978. He loved his work and helping his patients and therefore was sad<br />
when retirement came.<br />
He married Marilyn Wiseberg in 1970 and they had a daughter and a son.<br />
SKINNER, Evelyn George (1946) died on 20 March 2011 aged 90.<br />
Lyn Skinner was born on 23 December 1920 at Bough Beech, near Edenbridge, in Kent.<br />
He attended Sevenoaks School and on leaving school joined the Met. Office based in<br />
Beverley, Yorkshire. Following the outbreak <strong>of</strong> the Second World War, he was seconded<br />
into the RAF as a flying <strong>of</strong>ficer. He flew on reconnaissance trips in Flying Fortresses and
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also Halifax aircraft. In 1946, following the recommendation <strong>of</strong> his friend Ken Lindsay<br />
(1941), he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> to read Natural Sciences. At <strong>Jesus</strong> he coxed and sang in the<br />
college choir. After graduation, he studied at the Institute <strong>of</strong> Education in London and<br />
gained a diploma. He went out to the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1950 and set up the<br />
first science laboratories in Tamale in the Northern Territories. Later he became a<br />
schools inspector. He also held the post <strong>of</strong> headmaster at a school in Takoradi in the<br />
south <strong>of</strong> Ghana. Following Ghana's independence, in 1956, he returned to the UK and<br />
trained as a doctor. He took up his first houseman's appointment at Salisbury General<br />
Hospital where he met his later wife, Maureen, who was senior staff nurse on the<br />
surgical ward. He moved from Salisbury to Dorchester where he did Gynaecology and<br />
then to Southampton where he did Paediatrics. From Southampton he returned to<br />
Ghana and worked as a doctor at the diamond mining company's hospital (the<br />
Consolidated African Selection Trust) in Akwatia. In 1967, he returned to the UK and<br />
worked as a general practitioner; serving as a G.P. in Basingstoke for twenty one years.<br />
He pursued an active retirement: sailing a catamaran round Brownsea Island and at Arne<br />
in Dorset; singing in the church choir; walking the coastal paths <strong>of</strong> Cornwall and Devon;<br />
playing a mean game <strong>of</strong> tennis until he was eighty years old; and much to his wife's<br />
dismay, climbing the apple tree in the garden at the age <strong>of</strong> eighty five.<br />
He married Maureen Coombs in 1966 and they had a son and a daughter.<br />
SPALDING, John Oliver (1942) died on 16 April <strong>2012</strong> aged 87.<br />
John Spalding Law was born on 4 August 1924 in Manchester. He was educated at<br />
William Hulme Grammar School, before coming up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1942 to read Law. Soon<br />
after arriving he was commissioned into the Royal Artillery. After service in Burma,<br />
Singapore and Java with the Indian Army he returned to <strong>Jesus</strong> to complete his studies.<br />
He graduated BA 1949; MA 1961. His early career was spent as a local government<br />
solicitor originally in his native Manchester but later in Hampshire.<br />
In 1962 he returned north, albeit to the other side <strong>of</strong> the Pennines, and joined the<br />
Halifax Building Society as an in-house solicitor in 1962. He was appointed chief<br />
executive in 1982 at a time <strong>of</strong> great change for the financial services sector. As chief<br />
executive <strong>of</strong> the largest building society he was a leading voice in the call for Building<br />
Societies to be allowed to expand into new areas such as estate agency and insurance.<br />
The government, however, went further than he had argued for and permitted the<br />
demutualisation <strong>of</strong> building societies.<br />
John retired in 1988 leaving a society that had chosen, for now at least, to remain<br />
mutual. After leaving the Society he served as Chairman <strong>of</strong> the National House Building<br />
Council for four years before embarking on an active retirement which included sailing a<br />
tall ship to the Canaries and happy days spent on canals.<br />
He married Mary Hull in 1952 and they had a son and a daughter.<br />
STEVENSON, Philip Kenneth (1938) died on 15 March <strong>2012</strong> aged 92.<br />
Philip Stevenson was born in Rochdale on 3 August 1919. Educated at the City <strong>of</strong> London<br />
School, he came up in 1938 to read Classics taking part I. Following part I, he left<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> on War Service in Africa and Burma, and after being granted an allowance <strong>of</strong><br />
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 <strong>Cambridge</strong> he joined the<br />
colonial service. He was posted to Northern Rhodesia and so he and his pregnant wife,<br />
Ursula (née Carter), set <strong>of</strong>f for Africa.<br />
Their first daughter was born in Lusaka where Philip began teaching Classics at<br />
Munali Secondary school, and a second daughter was born in Northampton on the<br />
family’s first leave back to England.<br />
Having risen to be deputy head he was persuaded to become a schools inspector.<br />
He remained an inspector following Zambia’s independence, and finally left to return to<br />
the UK, in 1969.<br />
Despite his long career in education, his modesty and desire to learn new things led<br />
him to enrol for the P.G.C.E. course at Oxford <strong>University</strong>. After completing the course he<br />
taught Classics part time until his retirement.<br />
A quiet, considered man, he found expression in playing the piano and photography;<br />
his family have many stunning photographs <strong>of</strong> their time in Africa.<br />
SUTHERS, John (1957) died on 24 April 2011 aged 72.<br />
John Suthers was born on 7 June 1938 in Manchester. He attended King Edward VI<br />
Grammar School, Birmingham. After a year as an assistant at Birmingham <strong>University</strong> he<br />
came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1957 to read Natural Sciences, graduating BA 1960; MA 1964.<br />
Following graduation he remained in <strong>Cambridge</strong> to study to be a teacher.<br />
He married Alma. We do not have any further information to share about his later life.<br />
SWINDELLS, Julia (1981) died on 29 October 2011 aged 60.<br />
Julia Swindells was born in Macclesfield on 13 August 1951. She undertook her<br />
undergraduate degree at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Leeds before moving to Goldsmiths,<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> London, to complete a postgraduate certificate in the teaching <strong>of</strong> English<br />
and Drama. Four years teaching at Itchen Sixth Form <strong>College</strong> in Southampton followed.<br />
She returned to London in 1978 to train as a journalist at City <strong>University</strong>, London.<br />
Her true vocation, however, was in academia and so she came to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1981 to<br />
complete her doctorate in Victorian writing. After completion <strong>of</strong> her thesis she worked<br />
for a number <strong>of</strong> institutions in adult, community and higher education before joining<br />
Homerton <strong>College</strong>, <strong>Cambridge</strong>, in 1989. At Homerton, she was variously director <strong>of</strong><br />
studies for English, senior member and fellow. She left Homerton in 2006, after which<br />
she became a Senior Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin <strong>University</strong>, where she was made a<br />
P<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> English in 2010. Her major publications included Victorian Writing and<br />
Working Women: the Other Side <strong>of</strong> Silence; The Uses <strong>of</strong> Autobiography; and Glorious Causes.<br />
Beyond her working life she was a Labour party activist, a passion she shared with her<br />
husband, Ben Bradnack. She had a strong commitment to women’s rights and was<br />
therefore a natural choice to speak at the 25th anniversary <strong>of</strong> women entering <strong>Jesus</strong>.<br />
When she spoke, she was standing in for her long-time friend, Lisa Jardine (1976).<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Jardine writes: "I had never encountered anyone <strong>of</strong> such total integrity, such<br />
intensity <strong>of</strong> commitment and feeling, and such deeply lucid thoughts on politics …<br />
Her sense <strong>of</strong> humour and her timing for a well-placed piece <strong>of</strong> irony were impeccable.<br />
Her sense <strong>of</strong> fun was infectious…"<br />
She and her husband had one daughter.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Swindells took her own life while suffering a period <strong>of</strong> mental illness.
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TOWNSEND, John David Robertson (1942) died on 2 January <strong>2012</strong> aged 87.<br />
John Townsend was born on 4 May 1924 in Dalhousie, India. Educated at Portsmouth<br />
Southern School, he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1942 to read History. He graduated BA 1948;<br />
MA 1950. Following graduation he remained in <strong>Cambridge</strong> for a year to train to be a<br />
teacher. His first job was at a boys' grammar school in Hull and from 1956 to 1960 he<br />
taught in the Midlands at Oldbury Grammar School. His third and final teaching post<br />
was as Head <strong>of</strong> the History department and Head <strong>of</strong> Sixth Form at Thomas Bennett<br />
School, Crawley, Sussex.<br />
Throughout his life he was passionate about the past; following retirement he studied<br />
both his family and local history. Always willing to share his knowledge, he gave talks to<br />
local groups up to 2010 and worked as a guide at Shipley Windmill in Sussex. He also<br />
worked on projects for the local archives <strong>of</strong>fice.<br />
He married Joan Ellen Runcorn in 1951. They had a son and daughter together and<br />
many years later divorced.<br />
TROUGHTON, Alan James (1943) died on 7 April 2011 aged 86.<br />
Alan Troughton was born on 2 April 1925 in Coventry. He came up from King Henry VIII<br />
Grammar School, Coventry, in 1943 to read Mechanical Sciences. After two years study<br />
he joined Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Limited where he worked on the<br />
development <strong>of</strong> new types <strong>of</strong> aircraft. This work was allocated as National Service by the<br />
Technical and Scientific Register <strong>of</strong> the Ministry <strong>of</strong> Labour and National Service, and so<br />
he was granted an allowance <strong>of</strong> terms and permitted to graduate BA 1946; MA 1950.<br />
Alan spent the next 43 years working on aircraft design as Armstrong Whitworth<br />
merged with Hawker Siddeley which in turn merged with the British Aircraft<br />
Corporation. He rose to become chief designer <strong>of</strong> the BAe ATP and was ATP Project<br />
Development Executive at BAe Manchester. In his retirement from full-time employment<br />
he was visiting Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Aerospace Design at the <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> Aeronautics, Cranfield.<br />
He also served on the technical committee <strong>of</strong> the International Federation <strong>of</strong><br />
Airworthiness and became its Vice President (Technical) and Chairman in 1991.<br />
He married Elma Doris Liegns in 1956.<br />
TYLER, Robert Reginald (1952) died on 21 March 2011 aged 78.<br />
We are grateful to Bob’s former pupil and colleague, Stephen Wilson (1966) for the<br />
following:<br />
“Bob Tyler was born on 30 April 1932 in Coventry. He was educated at King Henry VIII<br />
School, serving as School Captain in his last year. After national service (which included<br />
18 months in Army Intelligence in North Germany), he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1952 to read<br />
Modern Languages; he always recalled studying under Trevor Jones, the outstanding<br />
lexicographer <strong>of</strong> his generation and the most human <strong>of</strong> academics. He also sang in the<br />
chapel choir and played sport. He graduated BA 1955; MA 1961. He completed the<br />
post-graduate certificate in education before returning to his old school to teach.<br />
He married Margaret in 1957 and they had a daughter and two sons; family life was<br />
always very important to him. In 1965 Bob became Head <strong>of</strong> German at Harrow County<br />
Grammar School and six years later moved to a similar position at Haberdashers’ Aske’s<br />
Boys’ School, Elstree, where he subsequently served as a Housemaster and as Head <strong>of</strong><br />
Middle School. In all three schools, he coached rugby teams with vigorous commitment
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and provided a strong tenor voice in choirs and productions – Gilbert and Sullivan being<br />
a particular favourite. His teaching was inspiring and noted for its clarity and precision.<br />
He served as an O level chief examiner. In pastoral work his advice was wise and<br />
relevant. In everything that he did, he <strong>of</strong>fered hard work, good humour and seriousness,<br />
loyalty and integrity. Bob retired early in 1988 because <strong>of</strong> sight problems (which were<br />
alleviated by an operation some years later). In retirement in East Devon, he continued<br />
his interests in gardening, crosswords (regularly winning competitions), reading and<br />
music. With Margaret he was much involved in choral singing, and he served his local<br />
community in many roles including Churchwarden <strong>of</strong> St Mary’s, Aylesbeare, blood<br />
donation organiser, fundraiser and “Probus” Chairman.”<br />
VICKERS, Denys Hedley (1947) died on 28 March 2011 aged 89.<br />
Denys Vickers was born on 25 July 1921 in Goudhurst, Kent. Educated at Harrow he<br />
served with No 4 Commando unit during the Second World War. After demobilisation<br />
he studied at Durham <strong>University</strong> for a year before coming up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1947.<br />
He left <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1948 with the good wishes <strong>of</strong> the college. He married Lyn and had<br />
three children. We do not have any further information to share about his life after<br />
college.<br />
WHEELER, Anthony Reay (1945) died on 8 May <strong>2012</strong> aged 84.<br />
Anthony Wheeler was born on 31 July 1927 in Sudbury. Educated at Sudbury Grammar<br />
School he came up in 1945. He read English and Archaeology & Anthropology,<br />
graduating BA 1948; MA 1952. He later studied for a Geography degree at London<br />
<strong>University</strong>. Following National Service in the Royal Army Education Corps he joined the<br />
Royal Grammar School, Worcester, as a schoolmaster. He remained at RGS until<br />
stepping down as Second Master in 1987.<br />
An active retirement followed, centred mainly round his church and his interest in<br />
local history. He wrote Royal Grammar School Worcester 1950 to 1991 with Retrospect to 1291<br />
(1990); History <strong>of</strong> William Wood House 15th Century to Present Day (1992); Sudbury Grammar<br />
School Alumni 1900 to 1972 (1993); Kitchen, Barn & Spite Chapel (1996); What's in a name?<br />
Origins <strong>of</strong> Sudbury street names (<strong>2012</strong>) and provided many fascinating talks to local history<br />
groups. He was also a Freeman <strong>of</strong> Sudbury, Suffolk.<br />
WHEWAY, Robert Alan (1949) died on 10 June 2011 aged 81.<br />
Robin Wheway was born on 15 September 1929 in Walsall, Staffordshire. Educated at<br />
Denstone <strong>College</strong>, Uttoxeter, he matriculated in 1949. He read Mechanical Sciences,<br />
graduating BA 1952; MA 1956. His principal interest at <strong>Cambridge</strong>, apart from work,<br />
was rifle-shooting; for which he gained a half-blue for full bore and a half-blue for<br />
match rifle. It was his commitment to shooting which also led to him being the first<br />
person to decline the presidency <strong>of</strong> the Roosters. The senior tutor described him as<br />
having an “exceptionally attractive character, very easy to get on with and yet not lacking<br />
in perception and discrimination.”<br />
We are grateful to his wife, Gisela, for providing the following information about his<br />
life following graduation:
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“He worked in private industry running a chain making factory in Walsall in his early<br />
years where he was also called to the bench as Justice <strong>of</strong> the Peace. He later served as<br />
Industrial Liaison Officer at Aston <strong>University</strong> and then took up the post <strong>of</strong> Industrial<br />
Development Officer for the City and County <strong>of</strong> West Glamorgan in Swansea until his<br />
retirement in 1991. His lifelong passionate interest was in architecture, first kindled<br />
amid the beauty <strong>of</strong> the historic buildings <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong>, which led him to become a life<br />
member and active supporter <strong>of</strong> the National Trust. As a chartered engineer he was a<br />
member <strong>of</strong> the South Wales Branch <strong>of</strong> the Institute <strong>of</strong> Mechanical Engineers and<br />
represented them on the Court <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Wales, <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> Cardiff.”<br />
He married Gisela Elisabeth Neven in 1963. They had two sons and a daughter.<br />
WILLSALLEN, Thomas Peter (1933) died on 11 March 2011 aged 97.<br />
Peter Willsallen was born on 9 March 1914 in Sydney, Australia. Educated at King’s<br />
School, Paramatta, New South Wales, Australia, he came up in 1933 and read<br />
Agriculture for two years. On his return to Australia he trained as a “jackaroo” and then<br />
managed a family property “Widgeongully” at Jugiong between Yass and Gundagai in<br />
New South Wales. In 1939, he formed the Jugiong branch <strong>of</strong> the Light Horse Brigade<br />
and proudly signed up for Army service. Two months later he boarded the troop ship<br />
“Orcades” in Sydney and sailed for action in the Middle East with the 6th Cavalry<br />
Regiment. He was demobilised in 1945, having attained the rank <strong>of</strong> Major, and returned<br />
to Widgeongully. In 1982, he sold the farm and moved to a nearby town before<br />
eventually moving to Sydney.<br />
We are grateful to Peter’s daughter, Georgina, for providing the following<br />
information: “[my parents] sense <strong>of</strong> adventure led them, amongst other things, to<br />
obtaining their private pilots licences. In 1970 the purchase <strong>of</strong> a twin engine Cessna 310<br />
enabled them to fly, with another couple, to England and back to Sydney. On his several<br />
trips to the UK over the years my father kept in touch with his <strong>Cambridge</strong> friends.<br />
My sister and I were regaled with stories <strong>of</strong> his Australian friends at [<strong>University</strong>].”<br />
One <strong>of</strong> those Australian friends, Hugh MacMaster, became his brother-in-law when<br />
he married Elizabeth Georgina Ann MacMaster in 1943. Peter and Elizabeth went on to<br />
have two daughters.<br />
WOOD, Alan Dudley (1943) died on 30 August 2011 aged 84.<br />
Alan Wood was born on 10 February 1926 in Shenfield, Essex. Educated at City <strong>of</strong><br />
London School, he came up in 1943 to read Mathematics, graduating BA 1946. As with<br />
many war time students, he did not complete the usual nine terms but was given an<br />
“allowance <strong>of</strong> terms” due to being engaged with Pye Limited, a radio company, on work<br />
<strong>of</strong> National Importance.<br />
We are grateful to Alan’s goddaughters and one <strong>of</strong> his friends for providing the<br />
following:<br />
“Alan was an enlightening and enthusiastic Maths Teacher from the 1950s to the early<br />
1990’s. He taught at both the Commercial Travellers School in Pinner, and at<br />
Haberdashers, he was also School Choirmaster. Alan had many interests including<br />
choral music, astronomy, long boating, gardening, swimming and walking. He was<br />
a very well-liked and respected man [with a] good sense <strong>of</strong> humour and cheerful<br />
nature.”
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YATES, Kenneth Harry Aubert Thomas (1936) died on 22 October 2011 aged 93.<br />
Kenneth Yates was born on 8 December 1917 in Northampton. Educated at<br />
Northampton Town and County School, he came up to <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1936 to read Natural<br />
Sciences with an exhibition, graduating BA 1939; MA 1943. At college he was hard<br />
working, conscientious and rated highly for all-round capability. After graduation he<br />
taught Chemistry at Stamford School, followed by Wellingborough School, before<br />
moving to The King’s School, Canterbury, as Head <strong>of</strong> Chemistry in 1949. He remained at<br />
King’s for the rest <strong>of</strong> his career, becoming Head <strong>of</strong> Science in 1969, and retiring in 1980.<br />
He was also a Chemistry examiner with UCLES for many years. He had a deep faith and<br />
gave great service to his local Methodist church.<br />
He married Clarice Mary Wood in 1949 and they had one daughter. ■
Awards<br />
& Results
Awards<br />
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<strong>University</strong> Prizes, Grants and Scholarships, and External Awards<br />
Schiff Studentship in Engineering Tina Schwamb<br />
The Smith-Knight and Rayleigh-Knight Prize <strong>2012</strong> Megan S Davies Wykes<br />
for PhD in Pure Mathematics & Mathematical<br />
Statistics<br />
<strong>University</strong> Tripos Prizes<br />
The David Roberts Memorial Prize Ben Strak<br />
The PricewaterhouseCoopers Prize Alison R Andrew<br />
The Civil Engineers Prize for Soil Mechanics Clara K Seah<br />
The Anthony Dorrell Prize for Russian Tom H Rothwell<br />
The D. H. Green Prize Daniel Taylor<br />
The BP Prize for Outstanding Performance in Part IB<br />
Chemistry A<br />
Alexandra S Lubin<br />
The Sir Alan Cottrell Prize in Materials Science and<br />
Metallurgy<br />
Thomas E J Edwards<br />
The Junior Scholefield Prize (Theology Part IIA) Rebecca J Lloyd<br />
<strong>College</strong> Awards, Elections and Prizes<br />
The Raymond and Helen Kwok Research Scholarship:<br />
Mr Xuzhen He to study for a PhD in Engineering, supervised by Dr Dongfang Liang<br />
(<strong>2012</strong>)<br />
The David M Livingstone (Australia) Scholarship:<br />
Mr David O’Loughlin to study for a Master <strong>of</strong> Law (LLM) in the Faculty <strong>of</strong> Law<br />
(from October <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
Mr Angus O’Brien to study for a Master <strong>of</strong> Law (LLM) in the Faculty <strong>of</strong> Law<br />
(from October <strong>2012</strong>)<br />
The inaugural Avago Scholarship:<br />
Mr Liang Geng continues with his studies for a PhD in Engineering, supervised by<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Richard Penty (from October 2009)<br />
The Gurnee Hart Scholarship 2011:<br />
Mr Qiaosheng Dong studying for a PhD in Classics (October 2011)<br />
The Goh & Coupe Scholarship 2011:<br />
Miss Kathryn Crowcr<strong>of</strong>t studying for a PhD in Medieval and Renaissance Literature<br />
(October 2011)<br />
The Embiricos Award 2011:<br />
Mr Evangelos Papoutsellis to study for a PhD in Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics<br />
supervised by Dr Carola Schoenlieb<br />
Choral Scholarships:<br />
Jessica L Ballance, Maximillian Cockerill, Elizabeth Edwards, Eleanor C Holroyd,<br />
Toby Miller, Michael M<strong>of</strong>idian, Thomas H Rothwell, Andrew Stratton
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Rawlison-Hadfield Graduate Choral Scholarships:<br />
Emma Pauncefort (Fitzwilliam)<br />
Instrumental Exhibitions:<br />
Timothy F Coombes (cello), Elizabeth Edwards (cello), Kim C Liu (piano),<br />
Hester M Mulhall (cello), George Salimbeni (piano), Grace Smith (piano)<br />
Edward Daniel Clarke Travel Bursary:<br />
Sam S F Green<br />
James Baddeley Poole Bursaries:<br />
Simon Banner, Alice F Crocket, James J M E Hooper, Jasmine R Sawyer<br />
Sir Moses and Lady Finley Travel Bursaries:<br />
Julie A Lawrence, Ambroise R D R Fargère<br />
<strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong> Society Travel Bursaries:<br />
Christopher T Blucke, Clementine Chambon, Hugo O Jones, Kim C Liu, Kyan M Pucks,<br />
Felix D Styles<br />
Sir James Knott Bursary:<br />
Mark J Cullen<br />
Sir Robbie Jennings Fund:<br />
Alexander Baillie-Hitchcock, Colin R Danskin, Rebecca A Ferriman, András Kapuvári,<br />
Matthew J O’Kane, Christopher P Ruck, George White, Dean Williams<br />
Alan Pars Theatre Fund:<br />
Lauren Stevens, Alexis Kreager<br />
Alan Burrough Grant for Rowing:<br />
Caroline M Reid<br />
Douglas Timmins Grants for Sports:<br />
Kaladerhan Agbontaen (Basketball/Athletics), Samuel Ashcr<strong>of</strong>t (Cross Country),<br />
András Kapuvári (Water Polo), Jade I Lane (Netball), Heather Reynolds (Archery),<br />
Amelia S Tearle (Football), Dawn Wilkinson (Sailing – Team Racing)<br />
Scholarships for Graduate Students (awarded in Michaelmas 2011 for 2010-2011 results):<br />
Neil M Amin-Smith, Nina Andreeva, Maxwell Battle, Dr Maxim G Bloomfield,<br />
Liesbeth Corens, Darren Craig, James A Crawshaw, Rory W Davidson,<br />
Machteld T de Vos, Dexter Dias, Bettina D Dreyer, Madeleine L Geddes-Barton,<br />
Maria Guerra Arias, Renée Hale, John N Harding, James Jiang, Amiel J E Kestenbaum,<br />
Charlotte Langley, Jonathan L D Lawson, Charles R Melvoin, Moreno Mitrovic,<br />
George B Owers, He Qi, Umer Shabbir, Jacqueline Stenson, Derek P Traynor,<br />
Amy E Watson, Daniel N Whitelock, William Y L Wu, Yuan C Zhang<br />
Scholarships:<br />
Rupert C H Allison, Alison R Andrew, Ifedolapo Apampa, Thomas P Arnold-Forster,<br />
Laura T Axinte, David J Barker, Matthew Barr, Christopher J Belfield,<br />
Rowan D Brackston, Alice M R Boughton, Elliott H Bussell, Clementine Chambon,<br />
Rachel Chapman, John L Chen, Madhurima R Chetan, Alexandra R H F Chua-Short,<br />
Jessica M Clough, Mark J Cullen, Ewan Davies, Katie L Davies, Michael J Dawes,<br />
Natalie E Dennehy, Maximillian L D Drinkwater, Thomas E J Edwards, Faith E Ege,<br />
Angharad J T Everden, Tara M Finegan, Donald Futers, Hannah E S Gelbart,<br />
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,<br />
Leonard Q Hasenclever, Kristian S Hewett, Thomas R Hill, Megan E Hughes,<br />
Samuel R Hyatt-Twynam, Richard M Johnson, Samuel B Johnston, Hugo O Jones,<br />
Eleanor Kendrick, Haydn J King, Alexandre F Kite, Adam P S Lawrence,<br />
Benjamin G Layer, Adrian L H Li, Timothy Lim, Kim C Liu, Rebecca J Lloyd,<br />
James A L<strong>of</strong>thouse, Alexandra S Lubin, Laura L MacLean, Ayaz Manji, Luke C Marris,<br />
Lauren J Matthews, Benjamin McDonald, Juliette M McIntyre, Timothy A Middleton,<br />
Milhan I Mohamed, Alexander B Morris, Natasha Nussbaum, Katherine O’Byrne,<br />
Marie-Louise O’Connor, Nicholas C A Parkes, Laura A Parkman, Daniel J Peacock,<br />
Ge<strong>of</strong>frey Penington, Oliver Rees, Thomas H Rothwell, Lee Robinson,<br />
Thomas G Russell, Mark A Salmon, Joseph M Sanderson, Katie L Sandford,<br />
Stephanie J Schohl, Clara K Seah, Sapumal J Senanayake, Emily C Sheen,<br />
Maximillian J M Shepherd, Qian Shi, Michael C Simpson, Andrew J Singleton,<br />
Mark Southall, Tanne G Spielman, Harry D Tayler, Daniel Taylor, Mark van der Wilk,<br />
Sarah Vose, Anna R L Wilson, Kieran Wilson, Benjamin J Windsor, Charlotte M Wood,<br />
Thomas J Wood, Edward A S Wyncoll<br />
Exhibitions:<br />
Joseph Baxter, Christopher de Leeuwe, Oliver Exton, Ryo Harada, Lloyd Hilton,<br />
William Jones, Stephen Joseph, Mikolaj A Kowalski, Alexis Kreager, Christopher Lark,<br />
Toby Miller, Michael M<strong>of</strong>idian, Lawrence A L Paleschi, Jennifer Parkin,<br />
Amorette Perkins, Gonzalo Ramos, Cai Read, Michael D Rees, Jon Sanders,<br />
Andrew Stratton, Kai Y Tan, Nelson Tang, Oliver M Taylor, Barnabas J Walker,<br />
Hannah F Waxman, Matilda C Wnek, Shang-Wei Ye<br />
Prizes:<br />
Senior Keller Clara K Seah<br />
Timothy Lim<br />
Keller Lee Robinson<br />
Laura A Parkman<br />
Joseph M Sanderson<br />
Sapumal J Senanayake<br />
Benefactor’s (2004) Alison R Andrew<br />
Madhurima R Chetan<br />
Angharad J T Everden<br />
Rebecca J Lloyd<br />
Alexandra S Lubin<br />
Benjamin McDonald<br />
Ge<strong>of</strong>frey Penington<br />
Kieran Wilson<br />
Sir Leslie Martin (Architecture) Natasha Nussbaum<br />
Farrell (Greek Studies) Maximillian L D Drinkwater<br />
Carruthers (Computer Studies Part IA) Toby Miller<br />
Carruthers (Computer Studies Part IB) David J Barker<br />
Malthus Economics Alison R Andrew<br />
Malthus PPS Ben McDonald<br />
Evans (Engineering Part IA) Andrew Stratton<br />
Engineers’ (Part IB) Adrian L H Li<br />
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English) Donald Futers<br />
Newling (History Part I) Hugo O Jones<br />
Schiff (History Part II) Laura L MacLean
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Glanville Williams (LL.M.) Milhan I Mohamed<br />
Bronowski (Mathematics Part IA) Michael D Rees<br />
Ware (Mathematics Part IB) Edward A S Wyncoll<br />
Sir Harold Spencer Jones (Mathematics Part II) Ewan Davies<br />
R A Watchman (Mathematics Part III) Andrew J Singleton<br />
Eliot (MML Part II) Olivia R Ghosh<br />
James Perrett (Medical Sciences Part IA) William Jones<br />
Hadfield Anatomy (Medical Sciences Part IA) Oliver M Taylor<br />
Duckworth Madhurima R Chetan<br />
Hadfield Medical Sciences (MVST Part II) Laura T Axinte<br />
Roberts (Pathology) Angharad J T Everden<br />
Wellings (Natural Sciences Part IA) Ge<strong>of</strong>f Penington<br />
Longden (Natural Sciences Part IB) Alexandra S Lubin<br />
John Gulland (Natural Sciences Parts IA and IB) Faith E Ege<br />
John Gulland (Natural Sciences Part II) Timothy Lim<br />
Sir Alan Cottrell (Natural Sciences (Physical) Chemistry: Nicholas C A Parkes<br />
Part II or Part III) Physics: Rupert C H Allison<br />
Duncan McKie (Natural Sciences Part II or III) Physics: James A L<strong>of</strong>thouse<br />
Geology: Timothy A Middleton<br />
Corrie and Otter (Theology and Religious Studies) Rebecca J Lloyd<br />
Valérie Tyssens (MML Part I: French Language) Thomas G Russell<br />
G F Hart (History Prelims to Part I) Patricia-May Wyllie<br />
Gilbertson Prize Sian K Owen<br />
Hogan Lovells (Law Part IA) Kieran Wilson<br />
Hogan Lovells (Law Part IB) Rachael L Chapman<br />
Glanville Williams (Law Part II) Joseph M Sanderson<br />
Russell Vick Laura A Parkman<br />
Reid-Henry (Geography) Simon D J Pratt<br />
Sir Peter Gadsden Zelie C F Wood<br />
Crighton (Music) Louisa K N Dawes<br />
Gray Reading Prizes Chapel: Timothy A Middleton<br />
Hall: Alexander D Walker<br />
James Hadfield (for contributing most to medical (pre-clinical Medicine):<br />
and veterinary studies in the <strong>College</strong>) Cyrus Daruwalla<br />
(Clinical Veterinary Medicine):<br />
Josephine E M Brant<br />
Margaret Mair Choral Sapumal J Senanayake<br />
Morgan (English essay) Lucinda E K Higgie<br />
Prawer (Dramatic Criticism) Rachel E Bryan<br />
Edwin Stanley Roe (for an essay on Charles Katherine B Wakely-Mulroney<br />
Dickens)<br />
Sir Denys Page Award (for Classics Benjamin H P Brooks<br />
students to travel to Greece) Maximillian L D Drinkwater<br />
Renfrew (for the most significant contribution Rebecca Burns<br />
to the musical life <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>)<br />
Waring Award (for sporting achievement) Caroline M Reid<br />
Thian Anna R L Wilson<br />
<strong>College</strong> Prizes:<br />
Archaeology & Anthropology (BA) Part I Hannah F Waxman
Architecture Part II Daniel J Peacock<br />
Chemical Engineering Part IIA Clementine Chambon<br />
Classics Part II Maximillian L D Drinkwater<br />
Economics Part I Oliver Exton<br />
Economics Part IIB Lee Robinson<br />
Engineering Part IIA Rowan D Brackston<br />
Engineering Part IIB Sapumal J Senanayake<br />
English Prelims to Part I Matilda C Wnek<br />
English Part I Alice M R Boughton<br />
Management Studies Charlotte M Wood<br />
MVST Part IB John L Chen<br />
Angharad J T Everden<br />
Anna R L Wilson<br />
Final Veterinary Examination Part III Katie A Curtis<br />
Modern & Medieval Languages Part IA Thomas H Rothwell<br />
Thomas G Russell<br />
Modern & Medieval Languages Part IB Hannah E S Gelbart<br />
Music Part IA Alexander B Morris<br />
Natural Sciences (Physical) Part IA Elliott H Bussell<br />
Natural Sciences (Physical) Part IA Rose I G Gibbins<br />
Natural Sciences (Biological) Part IA Kim C Liu<br />
Natural Sciences (Physics) Part IB Thomas E J Edwards<br />
Philosopy Part IA Alexis Kreager<br />
Philosopy Part IB Ayaz Manji<br />
Politics, Psychology & Sociology Part I Amorette Perkins<br />
Politics, Psychology & Sociology Part IIB Ifedolapo Apampa<br />
Tripos Results<br />
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<strong>2012</strong> 2011 2010<br />
Number <strong>of</strong> Examinations taken 499 495 496<br />
Number obtaining First Class (or stars) 117 124 94<br />
Number obtaining Second Class (Upper) 239 219 245<br />
Number obtaining Second Class (Lower) 54 52 56<br />
Number obtaining Second Class (Undivided) 31 30 34<br />
Number obtaining Third Class 7 15 16<br />
This year the college had about 800 students (no two ways <strong>of</strong> counting them gives the<br />
same number). There were approximately 475 undergraduates in residence, 22 <strong>of</strong><br />
whom came from other countries in the European Union and 14 from other overseas<br />
countries. There were around 145 in each <strong>of</strong> the first three years and 62 in the fourth.<br />
Ten undergraduates were abroad for the year. There were 324 students in the graduate<br />
community at 1 October 2011 <strong>of</strong> whom 75 PhD students were in their 4th and 5th or<br />
more years who were writing up, preparing for vivas or waiting for degree approval<br />
(‘under examination’).
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PhDs<br />
J T Ansorge, The technics <strong>of</strong> politics: Information technology in international relations<br />
M R Arbabzadah, Greek-Latin bilingualism in ancient magic<br />
C Bay, Dynamic holographic masks for adaptive optical lithography<br />
S Besemer, Intergenerational transmission <strong>of</strong> criminal and violent behaviour<br />
R L D Campbell, Thermodynamic properties <strong>of</strong> a Bose gas with tuneable interactions<br />
Y Chen, Probabilistic frameworks for single view reconstruction using shape priors<br />
L P Collins, Making sense: Art and aesthetics in contemporary French thought<br />
J F K Cooper, Electrodeposition, magnetism and growth studies <strong>of</strong> colbalt, nickel and copper<br />
P B Cranwell, Towards the total synthesis <strong>of</strong> leustroducsin B<br />
J M Diego, Mantecón Clarifying the field <strong>of</strong> student mathematics-related beliefs: developing<br />
measurement scales for 14/15-year-old students across Bratislava, <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire, Cantabria,<br />
and Cyprus<br />
M Gan<strong>of</strong>sky, Night in eighteenth-century French libertine fiction<br />
C M Geissler, 'Die schwarze Ware': Transatlantic slavery and abolitionism in German Writing,<br />
1789-1871<br />
Q Gong, Integrated power conversion circuit for radio frequency energy harvesting<br />
P W Gordon, Development <strong>of</strong> a scanning fluid dynamic gauge for cleaning studies<br />
S Guldin, Inorganic nanoarchitectures by organic self-assembly<br />
S C Haines, A study <strong>of</strong> charged B - DK and B - Dpi decays with the LHCb experiment<br />
S L Harding, Azadirachtin: Towards a second generation synthesis<br />
J Hartmann, Transnational counter-terrorism co-operation and world order<br />
L J Henson, Solid oxide fuel cells<br />
P Hiralal Popat, 1-dimensional nanomaterials for energy generation and storage<br />
S R Holmes, Powder metallurgy dual alloy disk solutions<br />
A B Horwath, Epiphytic bryophytes as cloud forest indicators: Stable isotopes, biomass and<br />
diversity along an altitudinal gradient in Peru<br />
N A Jackson, Dialogue and spiritual formations: form and content in early Christian texts<br />
S C James, The "<strong>Cambridge</strong> School" in the history <strong>of</strong> political thought, 1948-1979<br />
C H Laing, Print, prayer, and presence: Constance Padwick's model for Christian encounter with Islam<br />
K M Leckie, Collecting Swiss lake-dwellings in Britain 1850-1900<br />
J Li, Use <strong>of</strong> expended bed adsorption (EBA) to purify natural products from plant scources<br />
S Mahmoud, The Paradigmatic nature <strong>of</strong> the 'Ritual Prayer' (Salat) in Ibn 'Arabi<br />
P Nahai Williamson, Tuning ordered states in transition metal chalcogenide systems<br />
C P O’Rourke, Models, artistes and photoplayers: The film actor in Britain, 1895-1929<br />
C Ouellet-Plamondon, Characterisation and performance <strong>of</strong> innovative aluminosilicates for soil<br />
mix technology permeable reactive barriers<br />
J Quintard, Towards a worldwide storage infrastructure<br />
R A V Robison, Turbulence ingestion noise <strong>of</strong> open rotors<br />
D Santhanakrishnan, An integrated system for conceptional design <strong>of</strong> space systems<br />
S R L Stacpoole, Generation <strong>of</strong> human oligodendrocytes from embryonic stem cells: An experimental<br />
tool and potential therapy for Multiple Sclerosis<br />
C Sun, Non-covalent bonding at the solid-liquid interface<br />
B J Tolley, Identifying molecular determinants <strong>of</strong> C4 photosynthesis<br />
A Tran Viet, Temperature-sensitive polymers in porous media<br />
F Viola, Resolution-independent image models<br />
L S Williams, Analysis <strong>of</strong> kinesin-1 function in vivo<br />
D J Wilson, Investigating Nd and Pb isotopes as paleoceanographic proxies in the Indian Ocean:<br />
influences <strong>of</strong> water mass sourcing and boundary exchange<br />
A M Young, Tip-clearance effects in axial compressors ■
Events
<strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong> Society<br />
Committee<br />
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1977 Pr<strong>of</strong>essor I H White (Ian)<br />
(President and Chairman)<br />
Officers First Elected<br />
1960 M R HADFIELD (Trustee) (Max) 2006<br />
1963 J MARSHALL (Jim) 2005<br />
(Hon. Dinner Secretary)<br />
1969 D H WOOTTON (Trustee) (David) 2008<br />
1969 C I KIRKER (Trustee) (Christopher) <strong>2012</strong><br />
1970 A D C GREENWOOD (Adrian) 1998<br />
(Hon. Secretary)<br />
1971 T SLATOR (Hon. Treasurer) (Tom) 2002<br />
1998 Dr J P T CLACKSON (James) 2004<br />
(<strong>College</strong> Council Rep.)<br />
1999 Dr V MOTTIER (Véronique) 2006<br />
(<strong>College</strong> Council Rep.)<br />
Year Representatives<br />
1962 J G ROSS-MARTYN (John) 2009-2013<br />
1979 S R DAVIS (Shane) 2009-2013<br />
2001 A R I NEWMAN (Anush) 2009-2013<br />
2001 S L GICK (Sophie) 2009-2013<br />
2000 R S BROWN (Rory) 2010-2014<br />
1976 M P HAYES (Mark) 2010-2014<br />
1997 J P McGINTY (John) 2010-2014<br />
1987 M P VOS (Mariel) 2010-2014<br />
1971 A R C KERSHAW (Alan) 2011-2015<br />
1994 N G BAVIDGE (Nathan) 2011-2015<br />
1999 V A SAXTON (Victoria) 2011-2015<br />
2003 A WATSON (Adam) 2011-2015<br />
1977 R M ALLON-SMITH (Richard) <strong>2012</strong>-2016<br />
1980 S J YATES (Joanne) <strong>2012</strong>-2016<br />
1987 A H MARTIN (Alison) <strong>2012</strong>-2016<br />
2002 V ARMSTRONG (Verity) <strong>2012</strong>-2016<br />
2000 R J P DENNIS (Richard) Co-opted<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> General Meeting 29 September <strong>2012</strong><br />
The <strong>Annual</strong> General Meeting <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong> Society took place on<br />
Saturday 29 September <strong>2012</strong> at Mansion House, London at 6.15pm, courtesy <strong>of</strong> the Lord<br />
Mayor <strong>of</strong> London. The Master, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Ian White, was in the chair. Some forty-five<br />
members <strong>of</strong> the Society were present, including the Lord Mayor, David Wootton, plus<br />
guests. Six members <strong>of</strong> the Executive Committee had sent apologies for absence.<br />
Minutes<br />
The minutes <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Annual</strong> General Meeting held on 24 September 2011 were approved<br />
and signed as a correct record.
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Matters Arising<br />
The Secretary reported that the <strong>2012</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> was in the course <strong>of</strong> preparation and<br />
should be distributed in November. It should contain the minutes <strong>of</strong> this meeting and a<br />
report <strong>of</strong> the dinner.<br />
Secretary’s <strong>Report</strong><br />
The Honorary Secretary reported the details <strong>of</strong> the six JCCS Travel Bursaries awarded in<br />
<strong>2012</strong> and a letter <strong>of</strong> thanks received from the President <strong>of</strong> the JCSU for the grant to them.<br />
During the year Mike Fairey had stepped down as Trustee after 9 years in <strong>of</strong>fice and had<br />
been replaced by Christopher Kirker. There would be 375 members and guests<br />
attending the <strong>2012</strong> Dinner, a record for a recent JCCS dinner. The meeting agreed to<br />
record a vote <strong>of</strong> thanks to the Dinner Secretary, Jim Marshall, and his wife Patricia for all<br />
their hard work in preparing for the dinner. Music would be provided during the dinner<br />
by undergraduates <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong> playing in the Gallery.<br />
Treasurer’s <strong>Report</strong><br />
The audited accounts to 31/12/2011 showed a surplus <strong>of</strong> £1,557, partly reflecting the<br />
decision in 2010 to increase the life-time subscription <strong>of</strong> £15. The accumulated fund<br />
stood at £76,007. The Society had been able to award Travel Bursaries <strong>of</strong> £3,000 as well<br />
as to donate £2,500 to the JCSU. Investments were shown at cost. There had been both<br />
sales and new purchases during the year to increase dividend income at £3,421. The<br />
meeting agreed to receive the accounts.<br />
Appointment <strong>of</strong> Auditor<br />
The meeting agreed to appoint N. J. Mitchell F.C.A. as auditor for <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Dinner Arrangements for 2013<br />
The Secretary announced that the 2013 <strong>Annual</strong> Dinner would take place in <strong>College</strong> on<br />
Saturday 28 September 2013. It would be black tie and would revert to one guest per<br />
member. Tickets would go on sale in May 2013. The Guest <strong>of</strong> Honour would be the<br />
Rt. Hon. Andrew Mitchell MP (1975).<br />
Election <strong>of</strong> Officers<br />
The meeting agreed to elect for one year Adrian Greenwood as Honorary Secretary,<br />
Tom Slator as Honorary Treasurer and Jim Marshall as Dinner Secretary.<br />
Executive Committee<br />
The meeting agreed to elect the following as Members <strong>of</strong> the Executive Committee to<br />
serve for 4 years in succession to those retiring by rotation: Richard Allon-Smith (1977),<br />
Joanne Yates (1980), Alison Martin (1987) and Verity Armstrong (2002). The retiring<br />
members were thanked for their contribution, especially Alice Foster who was<br />
organising the singing <strong>of</strong> Grace by a volunteer choir <strong>of</strong> diners at the beginning <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Mansion House dinner.<br />
Any Other Business<br />
The Honorary Secretary encouraged those present to attend the Spring Dinner at the<br />
Oxford and <strong>Cambridge</strong> Club on 20 April 2013 and the buffet lunch to be held in the<br />
Fellows’ garden on 15 June 2013. This latter event was well suited to family parties as<br />
there was no limit on the number <strong>of</strong> guests. The event also coincides with the last day <strong>of</strong><br />
the May Races. A Drinks Reception would be organised for November 2013 in London.<br />
Date <strong>of</strong> next year’s AGM<br />
Saturday 28 September 2013 in <strong>College</strong> before the <strong>Annual</strong> Dinner. The <strong>University</strong><br />
Alumni weekend would take place on September 27–29.
<strong>Report</strong>s <strong>of</strong> JCCS Events 2011-<strong>2012</strong><br />
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Reception at the Athenaeum 17 November 2011<br />
The JCCS London Reception took place on the 17 November 2011 at the Athenaeum and<br />
was attended by 102 Jesuans and their guests.<br />
JCCS Buffet Lunch 16 June <strong>2012</strong><br />
The <strong>2012</strong> Buffet Lunch was once again a very enjoyable experience with many heading<br />
afterwards to the river to watch the afternoon’s racing.<br />
JCCS <strong>Annual</strong> Dinner 29 September <strong>2012</strong><br />
It is a remarkable fact, and one that should cause us no surprise, that three <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Lord Mayors <strong>of</strong> London over the last thirty years or so have been Jesuans: the late<br />
Sir Peter Gadsden (1949) in 1980, Sir Alan Traill (1958) in 1985 and, this year,<br />
David Wootton (1969). Like his predecessors, David very kindly invited the Society to<br />
hold our <strong>Annual</strong> Dinner at the Mansion House and consented to be our Guest <strong>of</strong><br />
Honour. This was also the first <strong>Annual</strong> Dinner at which the Master, Ian White (1977),<br />
President <strong>of</strong> the Society, presided.<br />
The Egyptian Hall at the Mansion House has nearly 3 times the capacity <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong><br />
Hall where we normally hold the <strong>Annual</strong> Dinner. Would we be able to fill the Mansion<br />
House? In the event, all the tickets were sold within a fortnight. We sat down 375, the<br />
most popular <strong>Annual</strong> Dinner on record, and the biggest turn-out for a Mansion House<br />
dinner for some time.<br />
Jesuans from 6 decades were well represented, including 6 from the 1940s. There was<br />
a particularly strong contingent from David Wootton’s generation <strong>of</strong> rowers – David was<br />
Captain <strong>of</strong> the 1972 Mays Boat, the last time <strong>Jesus</strong> men came Head <strong>of</strong> the River. As many<br />
<strong>of</strong> David’s fellow crew members as could attend did so. And, as usual, we had the<br />
The JCCS Committee
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pleasure <strong>of</strong> welcoming many guests. We began with sung grace from the Gallery,<br />
performed by Jesuans attending the dinner. And we were splendidly entertained during<br />
the meal by renaissance and baroque music played by a brass quintet <strong>of</strong> undergraduate<br />
musicians from the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Flowers in <strong>Jesus</strong> colours adorned the tables, which were lit by massive silver<br />
candelabra. The Mansion House staff served an exquisite dinner with a combination <strong>of</strong><br />
awesome efficiency and attentive friendliness.<br />
Proposing the health <strong>of</strong> the Guest <strong>of</strong> Honour, the Society’s Secretary Adrian<br />
Greenwood (1970) noted that this had been a remarkable mayoral year, with David<br />
Wootton playing a prominent role in ceremonies accompanying the Queen’s Jubilee,<br />
and subsequently the Olympic Games. In addition to these duties, the Lord Mayor had<br />
been actively promoting the economy, and the City’s role in it, at home and abroad,<br />
making some 700 speeches. Adrian thanked all those who had contributed to making<br />
the dinner such a success, including our sponsors, the School for Creative Startups,<br />
Cubitt Consulting, and Cyance, as well as the Lord Mayor for contributing the port.<br />
In proposing the health <strong>of</strong> the <strong>College</strong>, the Lord Mayor recalled his Yorkshire roots<br />
and his time at <strong>Jesus</strong>, focussing on the importance <strong>of</strong> rowing. His fellow winning crew<br />
members were compelled to stand and take a bow, to prolonged applause. He<br />
acknowledged the high pr<strong>of</strong>ile nature <strong>of</strong> his role, saying that he knew he had arrived<br />
when, as a result <strong>of</strong> his involvement in the Jubilee, he had appeared in the pages <strong>of</strong><br />
“Hello”. The pace was pretty hectic, but it had been a great opportunity to engage with<br />
British businesses and trading partners world-wide, as well as the extraordinary range <strong>of</strong><br />
charitable work supported by the City.<br />
In his response, the Master expressed the warm appreciation <strong>of</strong> everyone present for<br />
having been invited to hold the <strong>Annual</strong> Dinner at the Mansion House. He went on to give<br />
an insight into the <strong>College</strong>’s principal activities over the past year, including<br />
achievements both sporting and academic. He was very positive about the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
prospects on both fronts in the year to come.<br />
Patricia and Jim Marshall David Wootton
The consensus as we left was that we had had a wonderful and memorable experience.<br />
Not, we confide, a unique one – we all look forward to the election <strong>of</strong> the next Jesuan<br />
Lord Mayor.<br />
The Society are already planning the next two dinners. The first will be held in London<br />
on Saturday 20 April 2013 when we shall be entertained once more in the glittering<br />
premises <strong>of</strong> the Oxford and <strong>Cambridge</strong> Club in Pall Mall. And for our next <strong>Annual</strong><br />
Dinner to be held on Saturday 28 September 2013 we shall be making a happy return to<br />
the <strong>College</strong>. Invitations to apply for these dinners will be sent out by the Development<br />
Office in January 2013 and May 2013 respectively.<br />
Jim Marshall<br />
JCCS Dinner Secretary<br />
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JCCS Travel Bursaries<br />
This year, travel bursaries were awarded to Christopher Blucke, Clementine Chambon,<br />
Hugo Jones, Kim Liu, Kyan Pucks and Felix Styles.<br />
Forthcoming JCCS Events<br />
20 April 2013 JCCS Spring Dinner at the Oxford and <strong>Cambridge</strong> Club<br />
15 June 2013 JCCS Buffet Lunch on Bumps Saturday<br />
28 September 2013 JCCS <strong>Annual</strong> Dinner and AGM in <strong>College</strong>
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<strong>College</strong> Events<br />
‘50 Years On’ Anniversary Lunch 9 November 2011<br />
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1961 and their spouses to<br />
lunch in college on 9 November 2011. The following accepted this invitation:<br />
S A K Anderson, C J Arnold, M M Austin, P L Brown, M T Coulton, P T C Cox,<br />
M Durrell, M C A Eaton, G J Edwards, D G Fairley, J L Finney, M W Gardiner,<br />
M R Hadfield, D K S Irving, C Johnson, M J Lane, M J Lord, S J Miller, R S Palmer,<br />
R J Pankhurst, R M Potter, A Rae, B J Riley, T M Southern, M J Stevenson,<br />
N A Strauss, M Takahashi, D R Tant, J V Terry, J F J Toye, E P Turney, A R Windows<br />
‘60 Years On’ Anniversary Lunch 23 November 2011<br />
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1951 and their spouses to<br />
lunch in college on 23 November 2011. The following accepted this invitation:<br />
H Butler, R Cutteridge, T C Dann, P A Johnson, B S P Jones, M B R Mathalone,<br />
J A Mathews, M H S Muller, W B Page, M R Pattinson, S J Robinson, J H Rowsell,<br />
R H K Stephens, G J Tayar, D B Wakefield, G C Watson, J M Watt<br />
Reunion Dinner 13 January <strong>2012</strong><br />
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1976, 1977 and 1978 to dine in<br />
college on 13 January <strong>2012</strong>. The following accepted this invitation:<br />
D G Jones (1975); N I Ayton, I N Back, R S Bassett, J D Belcher, S J Bending,<br />
P A Bense, D R Bentley, J F Birkett, R J Butter, D M Carrington, D J A Casserley,<br />
J K G Coad, W O A Coales, R A Collins, A R D’Arcy, D C C Dodd, C A Farrell,<br />
N A Fleck, J C Foy, A C Frost, J A Fry, S M Gordon, J P Hancock, M D Harding,<br />
G R Harper, N J W Hartley, M P Hayes, N Hopkinson, A Iles, M Joannes, A R Jones,<br />
H J Lack, R S Lander, S G Leegood, P B Marshall, R G Mescall, J P Midgley,<br />
N Morrison, M Nicholls, J M C Plane, J D Richardson, J P Shinton, R K Stobart,<br />
C H Streuli, P W Swanson, S P Tibble, Robin Tolson, C J Trickey, N S Walker,<br />
C G Ward, P S Woods, S J Wrigley (1976); R M Allon-Smith, J E Atwell, N Barnard,<br />
R H S Birkett, S S Birkett, D H P Brady, N R Britteon, N R Cellan-Jones, S Coltman,<br />
S R Cook, P M Cooper, J F Dean, J M Dickens, J A Dowdeswell, N S Ellis, M D Evans,<br />
M R Fanthorpe, S P Fletcher, A S Frankenburg, C H Gallagher, A T Gilchrist,<br />
C F Gilderdale, C D Goddard, S M D Goodfellow, M J Hall, J P Halsey, D G Heggie,<br />
S N Hillson, J R Hurst, P K James, S R Marriott, R W E Marsh, C H Moore,<br />
S J Mullock, J V Naunton Davies, S J Paget-Brown, K J Poole, D I Rawlinson,<br />
S J Reynolds, H R Shaw, R B Smith, M J A Stafferton, R D Tauwhare, D N Taylor,<br />
M C Taylor, C E Tuckwell, R L Upton, M V Waterman, S I T Waters, A M Wenban,<br />
I H White, J L Whiteman, M J Wilshire, R Withnall (1977); C D Barnard, A T H Brook,<br />
A J Chmaj, J R D Corrie, T S Couzens, J A F Cowderoy, P R Durrant, M H Etheridge,<br />
S R Gales, D M R Gray Stephens, C K Huggins, I C Kemp, B S Knight, T M Lloyd,<br />
A S McClay, S A T McGill, P S Oakes, M J Pavier, A G Phillips, A R Phillips,<br />
M R H Pickup, V T Purton, G W Rees, C M Reily, R W Rogers, Canon M F Rusk,<br />
G K Sankaran, C P Sowden, S R Spindler, A M Teague, E B Tompkins,<br />
C J Wigglesworth, S A Woodward (1978)
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Glanville Williams Society Reception 29 February <strong>2012</strong><br />
The eleventh Glanville Williams Society Reception was held in the Reading Room at the<br />
Law Society on 29 February <strong>2012</strong>. The following Jesuans connected with Law attended<br />
the event:<br />
R D Bartle (1949); M J Booth, W G Park (1959); B A Fireman (1963); R M Jackson,<br />
C M Treacy (1967); W Allan, G N Clayton (1968); P Crook, N P Ready (1971);<br />
J P Wotton (1972); G W Hoon (1973); C K Roberts (1974); S M Gordon,<br />
B A K Rider (1976); S J Paget-Brown (1977); R J Cowper (1978); S S Bhakar,<br />
D V Gibbs (1984); R B Ulph (1986); A Kay (1991); R A Stocks (1993); A J Evans (1995);<br />
J J McNae (1996); O K De Groot, J E Doak, N J Mackay, I J Hudson, J A Thackray<br />
(1997); C M Hawes, A E Coultas, K C Wilford (1998); O P Markham, M E Page (1999);<br />
R S Brown (2000); S J Day, R W Turney (2001); H E Burns, R P Hartley,<br />
L A Humphries, J G Macpherson, R C McDougall, C T Singleton (2002); J A Chervak,<br />
A L De Lorenzo, R Evans, M J Naylor, M E Rees, N D J Robinson (2003); E M Davies,<br />
K P Mawdsley, M Thompson (2004); J A Graetsch, D M Jarrett, J P S Newman (2005);<br />
S R Haria-Shah, D J G Hay, D J Sharples, M A Thorne, Y Zhu (2006); A Abraham,<br />
D C M Lafferty, A E Sarvarian, B R H Shanks-St John (2007); M J Cullen, J S M Sinyor<br />
(2008); A Gordon, O F Harris, C Orphanides, L A Parkman, J M Sanderson (2009);<br />
S J Butler, S J Butler, I S M Campion, R L Chapman, E E Cridland, J T R Lai,<br />
K M Pucks, C M Rogers, R S Whittaker, T R Worrall (2010); R A Bhatt,<br />
A R Bulchandani, G Churchhouse, S Y Fan, J Fisher, H Jolliffe, E Mellor, M Pelton,<br />
K Wilson, G White (2011)<br />
MA Dinner 23 March <strong>2012</strong><br />
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 2005 to dine in college on<br />
Friday 23 March prior to their MA ceremony the next day. The following accepted this<br />
invitation:<br />
R H Abbott, A P Acred, R J Amaratunga, R A Armstrong, J S Baddeley,<br />
P W M Benson, A E Bezzer, A Blackadder, F Bowen Day, L D Bowers, A D Boyd,<br />
A G Bradbury, C L A Briance, D V Brudenell, S K Burnand, E J Carter, J R J Charlick,<br />
S T Clemo, C Comberti, N D Cross, W D Crouch, R W L Davies, A C A Dessain,<br />
R Ding, L C D Fielding, C Finneral, A G Golding, J A Graetsch, M D Gregoire,<br />
A J Hackney, J J Hale, N E Hall, G E C Hamilton, W P Harnden, E Hayashi,<br />
M M Hoehl, D J Hollinshead, R A Homer, J H Houghton, F A Hughes,<br />
J F Hutcherson, J L Illingworth, R J Ingham, M Jagger, J W James, D M Jarrett,<br />
C J F Jones, I A S Jones, L K Kelly, D Kelly, C J Kennedy, M J Kim, M J King,<br />
S Kiwanuka, C H J Kurwie, C N Lewis, E P Lowth, A L Mack, G E Mann,<br />
G E Marshall, N Moonka, B G Moores, C J Morris, E K Mottram, J C D Mumford,<br />
J P S Newman, J L Nicholson, C J Nixon, T D O’Beirne, A S O'Brien, W A Okell,<br />
V Parisinou, G M Patton, W D Pearse, J M Pemberthy, L N Rhodes, R L Rhodes,<br />
L A Richardson, A E Ritchie, M P Robinson, E Rouse, K Saigal, R P Saunders,<br />
J C G Savage, B R Sherlock, C C Shotton, C M Sibley, D L Silvester, A Singh,<br />
R Singhal, N J Smith, C Squires, P C Strachan, R I Stuart, S Telalagic, J A Thomas,<br />
T J R Verrill, A Walker, R J Wallduck, T J Walton, A D G Ward, J L Wear,<br />
M A Whittaker, K E Whittaker, D R Wilkins, Z J Williams, S J Wood, N L Wright,<br />
Y Wu, J A G Wyatt, K J Young, A T Zhang
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Reunion Dinner 30 March <strong>2012</strong><br />
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1966, 1967 and 1968 to dine in<br />
college on 30 March <strong>2012</strong>. The following accepted this invitation:<br />
D J Alden, R W Allchin, S E Barr, R Billingham, D G R Bussey, K E Crawford,<br />
A W Darby, C R L de Chassiron, D R Drabble, T J Duffy, J R Eborall, R W Evans,<br />
D P Frith, E S Funnell, P Gelling, A B Gillham, N E F Griffiths, Stephen Hockman,<br />
R F W Holder, P M Hollins, R B Huyshe, C L James, W J Jenkins, P G Kauders,<br />
R D Linsell, C Martin, C J M Meade, R E Milne, L I Moody, J D Pike, K P Punshon,<br />
R H Richards, P T Tanner, P M Terry, D A R Williams, S Wilson, K J Wood,<br />
A G P Wright (1966); R Avery, A C G Brown, P Burnham, P J Carr, G L Collins,<br />
J I Dunnett, D M Elliott, S P Ferguson, S I Fitzgerald, S W Gilley, R J Haygreen,<br />
S M Hill, R S Hughes, R M Jackson, K Q F Manning, M F R Martin, J C Mason,<br />
K McGuirk, R A McKee, M R Messham, G L O’Neill, D E Perchard, P J Phair,<br />
N G B Reid, C A P Reynard, G Ritchie, R C Shrimplin, J R S Smith, L Steele, R J Taunt,<br />
S R Tilsley, D Turner, S E Vick, J G Williams (1967); M J Allchin, C C Bradbury,<br />
G N Clayton, J H Connolly, P I Day, A H Dingley, S M Evans, A J Fewster, M W Finnis,<br />
P J Fok, M S Freeland, R D Hull, B V Karp, S J Kern, G C Killingworth, G I Kirkbride,<br />
D J J Mackenzie, W F Mason, R T Nokes, R T Norris, K Penfold, R D Penn,<br />
M N Rossor, F S Ruttonshaw, G R Struthers, R J Sutton, R S Taylor, R F Turner,<br />
J F Wickens, C C Wright (1968)<br />
Anniversary Dinner 30 June <strong>2012</strong><br />
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1972, 1982, 1992 and 2002 to<br />
an anniversary dinner in college on 30 June <strong>2012</strong> to mark their 10th, 20th, 30th and 40th<br />
anniversary. The following accepted this invitation:<br />
N Paterson (1971); J P Ashford, C J Brock, M T Carson, B J Clancy, B C Couzens,<br />
C E S Dickenson, P A Hodgson, N S Hoult, G R F Hudson, S J Irwin, P F Jakeman,<br />
D R Martin, D W Maxwell, J P Wotton, A L Young (1972); D M Ackroyd, J E Ashton,<br />
K E Ashton, W J Averdieck, S Clough, J A Cottrell, B P Davies, J R Edwards,<br />
R J Fountaine, N R Freeman, T M Gadd, B H Gammage, N J Gostick,<br />
N J Granger-Brown, E P Grotefeld, P A Hardy, N B Heath, H J S Hemingway,<br />
A M Honey, J M M Huddy, C R Hunt, G T Jacombs, S R King, S E Knowles,<br />
C T Mocatta, S C Mocatta, J Mocatta, A D Mortimer, T P Murray, S R Penney,<br />
C T Sambrook, J M Sciver, M P F Sutcliffe, R M Walker, J C Walsh, A E B Wright<br />
(1982); L Barber, D W Barnett, S Broadhead, S F Brown, S M Field, M C Green,<br />
S C Hampton, M A Holman, N J Hornung, C W K Hudson, F J B Hudson,<br />
R F Hudson, A J Morgan, J M Oliver, S D E Park, M R Parker, D R Pederzolli,<br />
M J Price, R D Rawlings, S L Rumsby, T E Samuel, E C Seaward, C F Shaw, L Sieh,<br />
K L Slowgrove, L Spanswick, R L Strachan, M J Street, G P L Thomas, F Tinnion,<br />
J G M Traynor, S P Walcot, A R Williams, K A Wood, D M Yates (1992); N Ahmed,<br />
V A Armstrong, T A S Austin, D E Banks, S J Benjamin, E E Blackhurst, I S Blaney,<br />
H E Burns, R M Caulton, R C Charleton, A Choudhry, S K J Cole, A J Darsley,<br />
R J Dimmock, M J Dolman, L D Elgie, J E Falvey, S Furey, A J Gabriel, S D Grimshaw,<br />
R P Hartley, R Hewitt, A W Jamieson, D Kierney, M S Kudari, C R Lewis, J Liddicoat,<br />
B D Maddox, D S Mardell, R McLaughlin, P A Mills, P W Neale, E Neeson,<br />
T M Porter, N Rasiah, R M A Reader, E J Sherwood, K L Smith, S C Tenant,<br />
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Note from the Editor<br />
We wish to thank all those who have contributed to this year’s <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong>, which<br />
depends on its readers for the generous and timely flow <strong>of</strong> copy and information.<br />
We welcome suggestions for articles from the widest scope <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong> membership<br />
including Fellows and other Senior Members, students, and Old Members. Ideally,<br />
articles should run to about 1,000 words and be accompanied by a photograph or<br />
illustration. This year we have extended the college history section and added a new<br />
section titled “Memoir” in which Dr Stan Evans has celebrated the centenary <strong>of</strong> Scott’s<br />
arrival at the South Pole with recollections <strong>of</strong> his own time wintering in the Antarctic.<br />
We are also grateful to Derek Taylor for his article on some past Jewish students at <strong>Jesus</strong>.<br />
Readers wishing to <strong>of</strong>fer articles should write to me at jc224@cam.ac.uk<br />
This edition brings news <strong>of</strong> the year’s three Rustat Conferences, a project founded in<br />
the <strong>College</strong> in 2009 and which welcomes the interest and participation <strong>of</strong> Old Members.<br />
Those wishing to participate in future conferences can see notification for future<br />
meetings at www.rustat.org and contact me as above.<br />
Limitations <strong>of</strong> space meant that we were not able to run the photographic section<br />
“Photo Call” this year; but we are keen to include it next year and welcome good<br />
photographs featuring <strong>College</strong>-related scenes and people, including sport, music and<br />
celebrations.<br />
Old Members who wish to send notification <strong>of</strong> births, deaths and marriages, and other<br />
news such as promotions, appointments, awards and other achievements should contact<br />
the Development Office at development@jesus.cam.ac.uk<br />
Students who run our <strong>College</strong> societies and sports clubs should send their copy to<br />
Nikki Williams in the Development Office in good time. Ideally the deadline for all copy<br />
is 1 July, but the earlier the better.<br />
We welcome suggestions for the improvement and expansion <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
which strives to reflect the variety and multidisciplinary scope <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong> life, past and<br />
present.<br />
John Cornwell<br />
Editor, <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong>
Calendar <strong>of</strong> college events <strong>2012</strong>-2013<br />
11 January <strong>2012</strong> Reunion Dinner (1997, 1998, 1999)<br />
February <strong>2012</strong> Glanville Williams Society Reception, The Law Society<br />
22 March 2013 MA Dinner (2006)<br />
12 April 2013 Reunion Dinner (1987, 1988, 1989)<br />
15 June 2013 Marquee at the Paddock, Fen Ditton<br />
24 June 2013 Society <strong>of</strong> St Radegund Dinner<br />
29 June 2013 <strong>Annual</strong> Fund Donors’ Garden Party<br />
29 June 2013 Anniversary Dinner (1973, 1983, 1993, 2003)<br />
Invitations to all the above events will be posted or emailed to those concerned. If, however, you wish<br />
to attend any <strong>of</strong> these events but do not receive anticipated postal or email notification, please contact<br />
the Development Office (tel: 01223 339301) or visit the alumni events section <strong>of</strong> the college’s website<br />
(www.jesus.cam.ac.uk) where details are also posted.<br />
MA dining<br />
Members <strong>of</strong> MA or similar status are invited to dine at high table free <strong>of</strong> charge twice a year and to<br />
maintain contact.<br />
Because <strong>of</strong> staffing arrangements there is no dining on Saturdays but it is usually possible to<br />
accommodate visitors on Sundays during term. The other available days are Tuesday, Wednesdays,<br />
Thursdays and Fridays. It is always advisable to book in good time by phoning the Manciple’s Office<br />
on 01223 339485.
<strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> Records Update<br />
name:<br />
matriculation year:<br />
(new) address:<br />
(new) telephone no:<br />
(new) e-mail address:<br />
news:<br />
Please return to:<br />
The Development Office<br />
<strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
cb5 8bl<br />
e-mail: development@jesus.cam.ac.uk<br />
Data Protection Statement<br />
All personal data are securely held in the <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> and <strong>University</strong> Development<br />
Offices and will be treated confidentially and with sensitivity for the benefit <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>, the <strong>University</strong> and its members. Data may be used by the <strong>College</strong> and <strong>University</strong><br />
for a full range <strong>of</strong> alumni activities, including the sending <strong>of</strong> <strong>College</strong> and <strong>University</strong><br />
publications, promotion <strong>of</strong> benefits and services available to alumni (including those<br />
being made available by external organisations), notification <strong>of</strong> alumni events and<br />
fundraising programmes (which might include an element <strong>of</strong> direct marketing).<br />
Old Members’ contact details may be made available to other current and Old Members<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong>, recognised <strong>College</strong> and <strong>University</strong> alumni societies (e.g. JCCS) in the<br />
UK and overseas, to sports and other clubs associated with the <strong>College</strong> and <strong>University</strong>,<br />
and to agents contracted by the <strong>College</strong> and <strong>University</strong> for particular alumni-related<br />
activities. Under the terms <strong>of</strong> the Data Protection Act 1998, you have the right to object<br />
to the use <strong>of</strong> your data for any <strong>of</strong> the above purposes, in which case please write to<br />
The Keeper <strong>of</strong> the Records, <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong>, <strong>Cambridge</strong> CB5 8BL.
JOURNEY INTO LIGHT<br />
Music for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany and Candlemas<br />
The Choirs <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
directed by Mark Williams<br />
1. <strong>Jesus</strong> Christ the apple tree<br />
2. We wait for thy loving kindness<br />
3. I sing <strong>of</strong> a maiden<br />
4. Advent Prose<br />
5. There is no rose<br />
6. Hymn to the Virgin<br />
7. Bright star carol<br />
8. In the bleak midwinter<br />
9. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day<br />
10. The Shepherd’s Carol<br />
11. I saw three ships<br />
12. The little road to Bethlehem<br />
13. Away in a manger<br />
14. Sir Christèmas<br />
15. The Lamb<br />
16. Paean on ‘Divinum Mysterium’<br />
17. Epiphany<br />
18. Here is the little door<br />
19. Bethlehem Down<br />
20. Nunc dimittis<br />
21. Hymn to the Creator <strong>of</strong> Light<br />
“graceful, gracious and always beautifully shaped to the sense <strong>of</strong> the words<br />
and the musical phrase… a gorgeous performance”<br />
John Rutter on Journey into Light<br />
For further information about the Choir and current projects please go to<br />
www.jesuscollegechoir.com or www.jesuscollegechoir.co.uk<br />
where you can also download an order form.<br />
CDs are also available on Amazon and at the Porter’s Lodge. Alternatively please visit<br />
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/journey-into-light-music-for/id487105589
Reconstruction <strong>of</strong> The Priory <strong>of</strong><br />
St Mary and St Radegund<br />
This drawing was commissioned by the <strong>College</strong> Council at the suggestion <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Revd. Dr John Hughes in June 2011. It is the product <strong>of</strong> a week’s visit to <strong>Jesus</strong> in<br />
November <strong>of</strong> that year by Richard W. Parker, during which time research in the<br />
<strong>College</strong> Library and Archives, site survey and observation and discussions with<br />
interested parties were utilised to interpret the development <strong>of</strong> the buildings and<br />
produce a rough sketch drawing for comments. The sketch was then worked up<br />
into a finished pen-and-ink drawing during the spring <strong>of</strong> <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
This reconstruction <strong>of</strong> St Radegund’s Priory is designed to show clearly those<br />
parts <strong>of</strong> the medieval complex about which the <strong>College</strong> has knowledge and to<br />
suggest the possible layout <strong>of</strong> lost buildings. The view is fom the south east, with<br />
the priory church in the foreground and First Court in the middle background.<br />
The view shows the priory in the 15th century, during a period <strong>of</strong> increasing<br />
poverty and dilapidation which ended in 1496 with the dissolution <strong>of</strong> the nunnery<br />
and the foundation <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Richard Parker is a pr<strong>of</strong>essional archaeologist, research and writer,<br />
based in Exeter. After completing a degree in the History <strong>of</strong> Art at the<br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> East Anglia, he worked for Exeter Museums Archaeological Field<br />
Unit (later Exeter Archaeology) as an historic buildings specialist, producing a<br />
range <strong>of</strong> historic buildings surveys and reconstruction drawings for both public<br />
and private clients. Since 2010 he has operated freelance as an archaeological<br />
consultant, working to support postgraduate research on the subject <strong>of</strong><br />
19th-century church furnishings in Devon.<br />
If you wish to purchase one <strong>of</strong> these limited edition prints,<br />
please send a cheque for £12.50 (including postage & packing)<br />
made payable to <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong><br />
to The Development Office, <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong>, <strong>Cambridge</strong> CB5 8BL
I am eligible for Gift Aid, please send me a form to complete.
<strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong>'s hospitality goes from strength to strength and the<br />
college regularly hosts both residential and non-residential functions<br />
<strong>of</strong> all sizes, from private celebrations to club meetings to major corporate<br />
and international events.<br />
Old Members are warmly encouraged to discuss any such<br />
requirements with a member <strong>of</strong> the conference & events team, by post,<br />
email (conference@jesus.cam.ac.uk) or telephone (01223 339485).<br />
Further information on the facilities available is obtainable<br />
on the college conference & events website:<br />
http://conference.jesus.cam.ac.uk
Designed by Nikki Williams, <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Printed by Swan Print Ltd www.swanprint.co.uk