52 CREATOR OF THE MODERN COLLEGE I <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2012</strong> both the Commission’s requests for information and its invitations to submit proposals for making <strong>Cambridge</strong> more attractive and accessible to more students, and for widening its curriculum and putting its endowments to better use. (His successor as Vice-Chancellor was more co-operative, but only one Jesuan broke ranks: Thomas Gaskin, a former Tutor who, safe in a local parish, was still teaching Mathematics in <strong>Cambridge</strong>). The Commissioners’ recommendation for allowing some fellowships to be held by married men – generally considered an essential precondition for improving the quality <strong>of</strong> university teaching by allowing it to become a life-time career – was spurned by the Master and Fellows <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>, which was one <strong>of</strong> only three colleges to remain completely under this handicap. 7 Nothing, if Corrie could prevent it, was going to change. While Norrisian Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Divinity (1838-54) he had declined – claiming to be over-worked – to participate in the “voluntary” theological teaching and examining <strong>of</strong> intending ordinands on which nearly all diocesan bishops, hoping for a more theologically literate clergy, were keen. It was an odd stance for the Head <strong>of</strong> a college, the bulk <strong>of</strong> whose students were destined for the Church, and not one calculated to attract the more serious minded (or their parents) to it, or <strong>of</strong>fset by the announcement that each Lent term the Master gave a course <strong>of</strong> divinity lectures. Corrie was, when he appointed Morgan Tutor, seventy and tired – probably more tired than when, thirteen years earlier, he had come to the <strong>College</strong> from St Catharine’s (even smaller and poorer than <strong>Jesus</strong>) where he had been a Fellow since graduating (as 18th Wrangler), Dean for 31 years, and Tutor for 28 (eleven <strong>of</strong> them during his sixteen-year term as Norrisian Pr<strong>of</strong>essor). By 1863 he had settled into the routine <strong>of</strong> spending the six summer months at his parish <strong>of</strong> Newton-inthe-Isle, on the northern edge <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Cambridge</strong>shire fens, a living given to him by his former Tutor at St Catharine’s, and predecessor as Norrisian Pr<strong>of</strong>essor, Bishop Turton. Having appointed his former pupil to the Mastership he sought to compensate for its inadequate stipend by presenting him to “the best living in my gift”. The <strong>College</strong> was, while the Master was away, left in the care <strong>of</strong> its President, Arthur Westmorland, who also acted, in effect, as Bursar. Like Morgan he had come to <strong>Cambridge</strong> via King’s <strong>College</strong> London. 8 A layman, a barrister and a man <strong>of</strong> some means, he was prominent in the town’s political life – in the Conservative interest, <strong>of</strong> course – but little involved in academic affairs or with students. They were Morgan’s responsibility and though Corrie was, like many said to suffer from poor health, to live to a ripe old age (92), he neither opposed nor interfered with Morgan’s ideas for the <strong>College</strong>, little though they can have appealed to him. M organ, now 33, was, by contrast, the very embodiment <strong>of</strong> the vigorous masculine Victorian clergyman. He had rowed in more than a hundred intercollegiate races, stopping only when rules about standing were introduced, but then, with other energetic dons, founding their own boat club whose name, “The Ancient Mariners”, revealed its close association with Coleridge’s old college. 9 In the previous year he and Leslie Stephen had been the first climbers to traverse Jungfrau Joch, and he had toured Sweden, Finland and Russia, publishing a book about his trip. 10 He was, too, a keen cyclist. Crucially for him and the <strong>College</strong>, he was able, within two years, to secure the election as Fellow and Dean (thereby freeing himself from that <strong>of</strong>fice) <strong>of</strong> another Morgan – Edmund Henry – but no relation, 24th Wrangler, and every bit as energetic and enthusiastic a sportsman, though preferring land to water, a rougher and less sophisticated man: to be known as ‘Red’ Morgan, so as to distinguish Dean from Tutor. A muscular Christian if ever there was one, ‘Red’ Morgan was a practical, business-like man, with a sound financial sense – it was he, not Westmorland, who worked out how the new buildings that ‘Black’ Morgan wanted could be paid for, and it was he who oversaw the builders and saw that the <strong>College</strong> got
CREATOR OF THE MODERN COLLEGE I <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2012</strong> 53 Morgan with Ear Trumpet