2012 Annual Report - Jesus College - University of Cambridge

58 CREATOR OF THE MODERN COLLEGE I Jesus College Annual Report 2012
unsafe and hopelessly inconvenient. It fell
way below the standard set by East and North
Houses. Carpenter came over from Chapel
Court to plan the alterations which produced
the house we know. Morgan himself paid for
the bay windows which greatly enhanced the
dining and drawing rooms, and he lent the
College money to pay for other changes.
Though he had been so active a sportsman,
he was several times, while still Tutor,
seriously ill and at death’s door. 31 By the time
he became Master he was well on the way to
becoming profoundly deaf – his portrait in
Hall catches the characteristic gesture of a
hand raised to his ear – and so it was
impossible for him to be Vice-Chancellor.
(The D.D. gown he wears in that portrait was
of a degree conferred in recognition of his
Mastership, not of any theological learning).
He remained faithful to the causes he had
championed in his prime: it was at his
initiative that the College began to elect
Research Fellows. But in 1907 he had to
accept that he was no longer capable of
acting as Master, and at the request of the
Fellows, all of whom were for the first time in
the College’s history recognisably university
teachers, actual or embryonic, the Bishop (as
Visitor) appointed Arthur Gray Vice-Master. 32
It was from that year, rather than 1912, that
Gray’s mastership really began. ■
1 The author’s speech at the J.C.C.S. dinner on 24
September 2011 was based on an earlier version of
this paper.
2 Jesus College (Cambridge University College Histories)
(London 1902), pp. 222, 227.
3 Arthur Gray and Frederick Brittain, A History of Jesus
College Cambridge (London 1960) p. 189.
4 Church and Dissent in Wales (Cambridge and London
1895).
5 F.J.C. Hearnshaw, Kings College London 1828-1928
(London 1929) p. 182.
6 On 22 February 1859 the College had petitioned the
Bishop to be allowed to defer nominating candidates
for a vacant fellowship on the ground that there were
too few duly qualified candidates: J.C.A. Conclusions
Book.
7 Peter Searby, History of the University of Cambridge (vol.
III) (Cambridge 1997) p. 542
8 As also had Thomas King, Fellow 1863-1904.
9 [Leslie Stephen] Sketches from Cambridge by a Don
(London 1865) pp. 16-17.
10 The Northern Circuit (Cambridge 1862).
11 J.C.A. Conclusions Book. 22 Dec 1870, 19 May and 7
June 1875, 12 March 1887; P.P.3 (E.H. Morgan
scrapbooks).
12 D.A. Winstanley, Later Victorian Cambridge (Cambridge
1947) p. 156
13 J.C.A. Conclusions Books, 22 and 29 April 1869.
14 The Mathematical Tripos: an Inquiry into its Influence on a
Liberal Education (Cambridge 1871); Cf. [Leslie
Stephen] (n.9) p. 50.
15 The Tenure of Fellowships (Cambridge 1871);
Winstanley (n.12) pp. 267-9.
16 Chanticlere 1891. M.T. p. 16.
17 Note 3, chapter 12.
18 Christopher Brooke, History of the University of
Cambridge (vol. IV) (Cambridge 1993 App. 1.
19 Note 2, p. 222; J.M. New Chanticlere, E.T. 1892; W.R.
Inge in F.J. Foakes Jackson (ed.) The Parting of the
Roads (London 1912) p. 3, Charles Whibley,
Blackwood’s Magazine, October 1912; Foakes Jackson,
Cambridge Review 17 October 1912, (reprinted
Chanticlere M.T. 1912).
20 Chanticlere 1904, M.T., p. 476; ibid. Foakes Jackson,
1912 M.T. p. 10.
21 Iris L. Osborne Morgan, Memoirs of Henry Arthur
Morgan (London 1930) p. 116.
22 [J.R. Seeley (ed.)] p. 20.
23 p.3.
24 p.66, cf. E. Sharwood Smith (matriculated 1883) in
Peter Glazebrook (ed.) Jesus: The life of a Cambridge
College (Cambridge 2007) pp. 107-109.
25 Sheldon Rothblatt, The Revolution of the Dons (New
York 1968) p. 230.
26 [Seeley] (n. 22)pp. 64-65.
27 Glazebrook (n.24) pp. 209-10.
28 The data on the matriculation/graduation ratio has
been culled from Cambridge University Book of
Matriculations and Degrees (Cambridge 1902), and
those on Honours and Degrees from Cambridge
University Historical Register 1851-1900 (Cambridge
1904)
29 Notably, J.A. Mangan “Oars and the Man”: Pleasure
and Purpose in Victorian and Edwardian Cambridge,
British Journal of Sports History vol. 1 (1984) pp. 245-
271, an edited version of which is printed in
Glazebrook (n.24) pp. 156-164; and the essays there
by Christopher McDouall and David Wootton on the
Boat Club (pp. 183-190) and by Geoff Parks on
Cricket (pp. 191-194); Percy Melville Thompson,
Some Things We Have Remembered (London 1912) pp.
161-7.
30 Morgan (n.21) p. 236.
31 Cf. the Fen Ditton epitaph.
32 Thomas King, Fellow since 1863, who had spent
much of his life as an Inspector of Schools, died in
1904.