clare associa tion annual 2011-12 clare association annual

CLARE
ASSOCIATION ANNUAL
2011 - 12
THE CLARE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL
2011 - 2012
CONTENTS
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EDITORIAL
Mr DON HOLISTER A tribute by K.F.Riley
Lord WEDDERBURN of CHARLTON Obituary
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COLLEGE NEWS
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MASTER & FELLOWS A formal listing
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BENEFACTIONS & GIFTS
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RODNEY SHIRLEY AT CLARE (1948-1951) A reminiscence
A STUDENTSHIP IN CHINA by Jonathan Foxwell (2009)
THE PORTRAITS IN THE COMBINATION ROOM
by Peter Knewstubb (1950)
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THE MASTER’S MESSAGE
THE CLARE ASSOCIATION
Report from the Alumni Council
The Lady Clare Fund
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“OLD CLARE” NEWS
OBITUARIES
NOTICES
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The Editor of the Annual, Clare College, Cambridge, CB2 1TL
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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Illus 1
The new silver ewer and basin
Illus 2
Mr F.D. (Don) Holister
Illus 3
Lord Wedderburn of Charlton, QC, FBA
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Illus 4a
4b
At Dr Gordon Wright’s wedding; signing the register
ditto ; progressing to the reception
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Illus 5a
5b
Dr Maciej Dunajski receives an honour in Poland
Michael Nunn, pictured about 1992
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Illus 6
Images of the Combination Room Portraits
William Butler, Isaac Bargrave,
Nicholas Ferrar, John Moore
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more Combination Room Portraits
William Whiston, young and older
Martin Folkes, Thomas Woodroofe
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Illus 8a
8b
Combination Room Portrait: William Loudon Mollison
Rodney Shirley in his study at home
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Illus 9a
9b
The Great Wall at Mutianyu
City walls at Pingyao
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Illus 10a View from the South Peak of Hua Shan
10b Tsinghua University campus
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Illus 7
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Acknowledgements:
Illus 1
by Peter Allinson
Illus 5a
source unknown
Illus 6,7,8a
by Mr Douglas Atfield, copyright to Clare College
Illus 8b by Rodney Shirley
Illus 9,10 by Jonathan Foxwell
Other illustrations by the Editor, including the outside cover.
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EDITORIAL
I assemble this, my 17th issue of the Clare Association Annual,
with the hope that this year we can avoid the arrangement of a
subscription payment for a printed copy. I am told the funding for
such purposes is in better shape than two years ago, and the printed
version may, besides being free, also have some coloured
illustrations again.
During the year, one Fellow, Don Holister, has died and is
remembered in a memorial tribute. In College News there is
information on seven new Fellows, so the total number has risen
again. Something similar is true of the Honorary Fellows, where
we have lost one by the death of Lord Wedderburn, and we note the
election of four new Honorary Fellows. There is updated
information in the Benefactions and Gifts section.
A very interesting reminiscence is contributed by Rodney
Shirley (1948), which will strike chords with alumni of that era,
who are still quite numerous. A contrast is offered by the very
recent memories of Jonathan Foxwell (2009), on a ‘working visit’
to China. You may marvel at some of his pictures, and probably
you will wish we had room for more.
Alumni and students have occasional chances to visit the
Fellows’ Combination Room on H staircase. I offer biographical
details about each of the eight alumni portrayed. They are an
interesting group, each with a different character. I find Nicholas
Ferrar the most interesting, with a story which could be the basis of
a historical novel, or even a stage play or opera! Perhaps this arises
from the extreme diligence with which Mansfield Forbes wrote
about him. In my extract, his text is severely compressed.
It seems to be an unavoidable trend that the major contribution
of alumni news is in death notices: I express my thanks for families
and friends who offer draft obituaries. But I am still available, and
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most pleased, to get other news of alumni progress and successes,
or just ‘how things are now’ (can be more than 140 characters!).
I think it is true to say that there have been no prominent
changes in the Fellows’ garden or in the layout of the College.
Careful maintenance is constant, but often inconspicuous. There
has been work at the Colony site, completing major landscaping of
the space in front of Castlebrae. The plans for this were drawn up
by the Chelsea Show gold medallist, Robert Myers. A feature of
this is the banning of car parking in front of the original mansion,
giving space for ornamental planting which is expected to offer
greater amenity, once it is established.
Alumni attending reunion dinners are likely to see a new piece
of silver, a ewer and basin (see below), which is generally admired
for its style and originality. The funding for this was through a
trading-in of heavy Victorian silver, purchased in the 19th century
by the College, but which was no longer in use or needed.
P.F.K.
e-mail address [email protected]
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Illus 2
Mr F.D. (Don) Holister
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FREDERICK DARNTON HOLISTER
A Tribute for Don Holister at his
Memorial Service, 12th November 2012
I think that I can fairly claim to have known Don Holister for all
of the time that he was a Fellow at Clare, as I was just one place
above him in the College’s Order of Seniority – a ranking that
seems to have no particular purpose. Well, that isn’t strictly true. It
is a measure of how dangerously close one is to being appointed as
an Oley Trustee; and having to decide whether or not the Vicar of
Gransden should have a winter fuel allowance.
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We were both admitted as Fellows just over fifty years ago and
during most of that time, Don Holister was, in practice, Clare’s
Architect in Residence. He was also the College’s first Domestic
Bursar, a role in which he served for much of the same period.
Under both Brian Cooper and Brian Smale-Adams, he kept the
College ‘estate’ in good order. He also left his mark, if not his
signature, on so much of the fabric of the College; in the
architectural designs he drew up and then saw through to fruition;
and, on those occasions on which the College did employ an outside
architect, in the input he supplied to make sure that the end product
was one that suited Clare’s needs. Let me select one or two
examples from the many available.
(1) When Clare decided to go mixed, with the first admission of
female junior members in 1972, many Fellows used to say, rather
flippantly, that, in terms of infrastructure, all the Domestic Bursar
had to do was to install a few long mirrors. Of course, this was
done to try to emphasise just how easily a progressive College like
Clare could take such a major step in its stride. The reality wasn’t
quite so simple. In order to avoid cutting the number of male
freshers too drastically, the decision was also made to increase the
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overall annual intake; with the additional thirty or so rooms that
would be needed being fashioned in the roof spaces of some
staircases in Memorial Court. The conversions that Don and the
outside architects together devised proved so attractive and popular,
that, when it came to the second- and third-year rooms ballot, after
the Old Court rooms had gone these were the next to be taken.
(2) Much the same can be said about the time when Clare and
the other Cambridge Colleges were forced to go seriously into the
conference trade by a Treasury that assumed that we already had,
and reduced the University’s block grant accordingly. In order to
get that trade, most of Clare’s Memorial Court rooms had to be
made en-suite, and, although some of us didn’t care much for the
vertical radiators, the successful conversion owed much to Don’s
eye for detail and his devotion to the task.
(3) As a further example of Don’s permanent contribution to
the structure of the College, I should mention Clare Bridge. Well,
No, he didn’t either design or build it – he was older than many
people imagined, but not quite that old! I like to think that, as my
one and only contribution to the College’s more permanent fabric, I
persuaded the Finance Committee to pave and cobble the Bridge.
Those who have been here for more than about twenty five years
will recall that the stretch from the end of the Scholars’ Garden to
the Warren Gates used to become a sea of mud, following even the
most modest of showers. Well, once it was approved, Don and
Dave Parfey, the Clerk of Works, made sure that the paving scheme
was properly thought out, and equally properly executed. Probably
without realising it, thousands of people each year have reason to be
grateful to the pair of them – as cleaning one’s shoes once or twice
a day is hardly something to be enjoyed.
I might also add that, as was only to be expected from a man
with such loyalty to the College, when it became Clare’s turn to
nominate a University Proctor, Don answered the call. And Dave
Parfey was one of his Bulldogs.
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Don’s architectural contributions were not limited to Clare’s
buildings. When, in the mid-sixties the College decided to found
Clare Hall, and so re-establish the name abandoned in 1856, Don
was very much in the forefront when it came to drawing up the
building specification, and then in proposing Ralph Erskine as the
architect to carry it through. I, personally, do not like the building’s
roof – at least as viewed from the Members’ Stand at the Grange
Road Rugby Ground – but the way that the new Clare Hall has
flourished and grown, is testimony to many things, but not least to
its physical lay-out and design.
Another set of buildings, this time away from Cambridge, to the
design of which Don contributed significantly were those of the
independent University of Buckingham. Although I have never
seen it, one of Don’s neighbours at Apple Court told me that
amongst his proudest possessions is a photograph of him being
presented to the Queen and Prince Philip when they officially
opened the new campus.
As this is, of course, a balanced assessment of a very nice man,
perhaps I should also mention the only case I can think of in which
his plans for the College’s buildings didn’t go too well. Until the
mid-eighties, the Forbes Library, as it was then called, was housed
in the South Range of Old Court. It had no adequate heating, and
tended to be too cold to work in during the winter months. Don’s
scheme was to install ceiling heating panels. Now, as every
Physicist – but apparently not every Architect – knows, hot air
sitting above cold air in a confined space is a very stable
configuration. And the result? Our heads were boiled, whilst our
feet remained as frozen as ever!
Needless to say my own closest professional contact with Don
was in connection with his role as the College’s Director of Studies
in Architecture. As it happened, I had all the architectural students
amongst my tutorial pupils. Now, – even though several of them
are probably sitting in front of me – I have to say that they and their
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Tripos were probably the most way-out of all the subjects available
in Cambridge.
Everything depended upon the studio design work – and I mean
everything! It was almost impossible for anyone to get a Tripos
class that was different from that awarded to their design portfolio.
Yes, there were several written papers as well, but they seemed to
count for nothing. Literally, in some cases. I recall one of Don’s
students – a Canadian, who had impressed his admissions
interviewers largely on the basis of some jewellery he had designed
– who got zero marks for his Materials and Structures paper, but
still managed to get a first overall. Don clearly knew what really
mattered. But one can only hope that the buildings that the firstclass architect later designed, whilst they would undoubtedly be full
of design flair, could also stand up by themselves!
Another indication that written papers didn’t matter much in the
Architecture Tripos was the incident reported to the Board of
Examinations in 1985. The candidates would arrive somewhat late,
and furthermore, instead of going into the examination room, would
sit around outside reading text books, only going into the room
when they appeared to have completed their revision. However, be
that as it may, as a practising architect, Don was able both to
present a fine example of what was needed, and to keep a watchful
eye on his potentially errant flock.
When I had retired from the Senior Tutorship and my
University post, and taken up the slightly more leisurely post of
Tutorial Bursar, I could arrange to go to the Small Hall for lunch at
roughly the same time each day, shortly after one o’clock. When I
got there, there were hardly ever more than four other Fellows
already at the table – but three of them would almost certainly be
Brian Smale-Adams, Tim Thompson and Don.
Sadly, Brian is no longer with us, and Tim cannot be here today.
However, he has let me have a few notes on some of the things they
talked about at lunch – in particular, on Don’s time in the Army.
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He served in the Royal Engineers and was very proud to be a
Sapper Officer – commissioned at the young age of 19. At that
time in the late 1940s, this country was littered with unexploded
bombs as a result of the wartime air raids. Many of these were
booby-trapped, difficult to defuse, and buried underground. Don’s
Squadron was assigned to the very dangerous work of disposing of
them, and he served for three years in this demanding role.
I don’t know the exact sequence of events in Don’s life after
that, but it included a spell at Harvard, before he finally settled in
Cambridge and Clare. What I do know is that at Clare he was
renowned for his courtesy and for his concern for others. He
always found time to have a word with any member of the College
he encountered – even if they didn’t really have time to have a word
with him – and, in particular, he loved to chat with Members of the
College Staff, whose welfare he really cared about. He meant a lot
to the whole Clare community and we will all miss him greatly.
K.F. Riley (1955)
[Don Holister died on the 10th of August 2012. Ed.]
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KENNETH WILLIAM WEDDERBURN
LORD WEDDERBURN OF CHARLTON, QC, FBA, died on
9.3.2012, aged 84. He became a Fellow of Clare in 1952, having
read Classics and Law at Queens’ College and after National
Service in the RAF. He left Clare for the London School of
Economics in 1964 on appointment to the Cassel Chair of
Commercial Law.
Bill Wedderburn was a greatly respected teacher of Law to
Clare undergraduates, who recall his bracing supervisions as well as
the warmth of his concern for their welfare. Both Fellows and
students of that time were appreciative of his good humour, the
firmness of his convictions and his invariable fair-mindedness.
As a lecturer in the Law Faculty, Bill persuaded sceptical
colleagues to agree to the introduction of a course in Labour Law, a
subject of which he was a pioneering scholar and in the
development of which he was to have an outstanding role
throughout his career. His book, The Worker and the Law, a
standard text in successive editions for some 25 years, was a vivid
and innovative account which was written from the perspective of
working people themselves. It was followed by equally notable
comparative studies in Labour and Commercial Law, establishing
their author as a lawyer of international renown. In the 1970s he
had a leading role in the drafting of employment legislation which
fortified the rights and protection of working people.
Bill was made a life peer in 1977 as Lord Wedderburn of
Charlton (acknowledging a life-long allegiance to Charlton Athletic
FC). As a Labour peer he was loyal to his party but remained
consistently independent in speaking up for workers’ rights and
against religious discrimination and all forms of injustice. He
resigned the Labour Party whip in 2006 in protest against the
decision to make war on Iraq and the ‘cash for honours’ episode,
but remained a member of the party, resuming the whip when
Gordon Brown became Prime Minister.
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Bill was proud to discover that an ancestor, Robert Wedderburn,
born to a slave woman in Jamaica in the 18th Century, had been an
active campaigner against the slave trade.
Bill was an academic of great distinction, a prolific and lucid
writer, a combative and principled politician of the Left, and a man
of loyal and courteous comradeship. He leaves his beloved wife
Frances, their son, and three children of a previous marriage.
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Illus 4a At Dr Gordon Wright’s wedding; signing the register
4b
ditto ; progressing to the reception
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COLLEGE NEWS
FELLOWS
We regret to report in this issue the death of Mr Don Holister, a
Fellow here since 1962, on 10.8.2012. A tribute on page 6 records
our appreciation of all he did for the College.
In academic promotions we note, with congratulations, the
advancement to Readerships for Dr Helen Thompson (Social and
Political Sciences) and Dr Andrew Friend (Geography). Also, Dr
Julian Huppert has been appointed as a Lecturer in Physics,
although remaining on leave to fulfil his duties as MP for
Cambridge.
Clare Fellows have attracted many honours this year. The
Master has been elected a Fellow of the Society of American
Historians, recognising his literary distinction in the writing and
publishing of history and biography. The Society's fellowship
combines academic historians and professional writers of American
history. Membership, by invitation only, is limited to 250 authors
and 14 publishers. Professor Badger is the only UK-based
academic ever invited to become a Fellow.
The Council of the Royal Society have awarded a Royal Medal
to Prof Andrew Holmes, FRS, for ‘his outstanding contributions to
chemical synthesis at the interface between materials and biology,
and pioneering the field of organic electronic materials’.
Prof Simon Franklin has been elected a Fellow of the British
Academy.
Dr Fred Parker has won one of the University Pilkington
Prizes for teaching, for over 25 years, in the Faculty of English. He
is credited with ‘eliciting the best from students, from
undergraduate to PhD and in the wider world. As Director of
Graduate Studies, Fred has devised new courses and enhanced the
student experience with faculty shadowing schemes, peer writing14
groups and electronic seminars. His undergraduate students, too,
praise him as “excellent” for the clarity of his lectures’.
Prof Neil Greenham has been awarded the Kavli Medal, and
will deliver the associated Lecture on 17.4.2013.
Dr Maciej Dunajski has been awarded the title of Professor in
Poland, conferred personally by the President of the Republic. The
occasion is nicely shown in Illus 5a, page 16.
Dr Elizabeth Foyster has been awarded a Leverhulme
Research Fellowship, lasting 18 months, beginning 1.10.2012. This
is to conduct a project called 'Managing mental illness and
disability in the English family 1660-1800'.
Drs Josip Glaurdic and Rory Naismith have been elected to
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships for three years.
Dr Timothy Potts, briefly the Director of the Fitzwilliam
Museum, has now been appointed as Director of the Getty Museum,
in Los Angeles.
Prof Ottoline Leyser has been elected as a Foreign Associate to
the National Academy of Sciences
In January 2013, we hear that Dr Stephen Dalby will shortly be
leaving Clare, after three and a half years of research, published in
nine research articles. We congratulate him on his appointment as
Senior Scientist at Merck, New Jersey, USA.
Also in January, the news of Mr Stephen Jolly is that he will
take up the position of Ministry of Defence Director of Media &
Communications. We congratulate him on this advance, and thank
him for his help to Clare in the matter of public relations on a
number of important occasions.
After 7 years in retirement, Dr David Hartley, formerly
Director of the University Computing Service and, more recently,
the College's Steward, has started a new career in museums. In the
last few years he has been chairman of the British Computer
Society's special interest group in Computer Conservation and
found the subject so much fun that he has been appointed Museum
Director of the National Museum of Computing located at
Bletchley Park.
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Illus 5a Dr Maciej Dunajski (centre) receives an honour in Poland
5b
Michael Nunn, pictured about 1992
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The museum is arguably the foremost in the UK and one of the
best in the world, holding and displaying many seminal early
computers, most of which have been restored or rebuilt. David
comments that there is nothing more dull than a museum full of
dead computers; his are mostly alive and are regularly demonstrated
to visitors. They include a rebuild of the Colossus computer, built
in World War II to help decipher the Lorenz cypher used by Adolf
Hitler and his generals, and the original restored Harwell Dekatron without doubt the oldest working computer in the world. Within a
year or two, these will be joined by a working replica of the
Cambridge EDSAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic
computer to go into regular service."
In December 2012, the Fellows and staff were invited to attend
the wedding of Dr Gordon Wright to his fiancée, Elizabeth
Macleod. The news was also announced at the Alumni Council,
and was greeted with acclamation. Gordon’s sister assisted as ‘best
man’, and included in her speech, after the wedding in the Chapel,
that he was just a few weeks short of age 95. He appeared to be in
good command of the occasion (see Illus 4, page 13).
The Governing Body has, during the year, elected seven new
Fellows, raising the total number to 137 (including 9 Bye-Fellows).
The new Fellows introduce themselves as follows:Ms Jocelyn Wyburd was elected a Fellow of Clare from
January 2012 and is the Director of the
University’s Language Centre. She read Modern
and Medieval Languages (Italian and French) at
Trinity College, Cambridge before working for
several years in both the charitable and private
sectors variously in Nepal, Italy and the UK,
managing international projects for the raising of
educational standards, as well as awareness of
the projects and their need for funds.
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These experiences led her to discover a vocation to foster
greater multilingualism, and she trained as a language teacher
(Italian, French and German) for the state sector. She joined the
University of Cambridge as the Language Centre Director in 2011
after 12 years in a similar role at the University of Manchester,
where her work was recognised by the award of a National
Teaching Fellowship.
She is keen to build on the Language Centre’s reputation for
exploitation of technology to support language learning within and
beyond the University. She has spoken internationally on the role
of language centres in achieving European Union goals for
multilingualism and the enabling of greater student mobility, and
has developed workshops for staff in numerous institutions of
higher education. She has also for many years led outreach
initiatives to promote and support language teaching and learning in
secondary schools.
Ms Francisca Malarée was elected to a Fellowship in
November 2011, to be our new Director of
Development. She graduated BSc. (Economics)
from the London School of Economics (LSE) in
1995. This qualification was then extended
(part-time) to MA in Later Modern British
History, also at LSE. From 1996, partly whilst
also studying for her Master’s degree, she was
part of the LSE team working on a range of
approaches to alumni relations.
She then moved to Cambridge, with a position initially as
Assistant Development Director at Girton College, then taking full
charge as Development Director at Girton from November 2000.
She was thus concerned from the start of this college’s strategy, and
registered very considerable success with it.
She lists interests which include politics and policy,
international economic development, and the playing of various
energetic sports.
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Professor Ottoline Leyser was admitted to the Fellowship in
May2012, having moved to Cambridge to join
the newly established Sainsbury Laboratory as its
first Associate Director in 2011. The Sainsbury
Laboratory is a new research institute situated in
the Botanic Garden, focusing on understanding
the mechanisms that regulate plant development,
by combining diverse molecular, cellular and
genetic
approaches
with
computational
modeling. Ottoline’s research fits well with this theme.
She is working on the regulation of shoot branching by a
network of systemically moving hormonal signals, using the model
plant Arabidopsis. She is particularly interested in the role of this
hormonal network in allowing plants to adjust their branching habit
in response to environmental conditions, such as nutrient
availability. She is interested both in the molecular mechanisms
that allow such plasticity in shoot branching, and in natural
variation in shoot branching plasticity and its contribution to
contrasting life history strategies.
Ottoline did her BA and PhD in Genetics at Newnham College,
and after three years post-doctoral research in Bloomington Indiana
and a year back in Cambridge as a Research Fellow at Newnham,
she took up a lectureship at the University of York, where she spent
16 years before her return to Cambridge in 2011.
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti was admitted
a Fellow in April 2012, having joined the
University as Professor of Macroeconomics in
the Faculty of Economics. He previously taught
at the European University Institute, the
University of Rome III, Bologna, and Yale. His
main research and teaching interest is in the
international dimensions of economic policy.
His contributions range from theoretical and empirical work on
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fiscal and monetary policy in the presence of financial frictions, to
analyses of currency and financial crises and their international
contagion. He is currently co-editor of the Journal of International
Economics and the International Journal of Central Banking, and
Programme Director at Centre for Economic Policy Research in
London.
Regarding his research interests, Professor Corsetti has long
collaborated with monetary authorities in Europe and overseas,
including the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the
International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York. His latest work is focused on the fiscal multipliers and
budget consolidation policies during financial crises, based on
macro models of stabilization in economies plagued by sovereign
risk crises, as well as on micro analysis of the output effects of
fiscal shocks. In a recent article, widely discussed in the press, he
has exploited the strong contraction of spending on public work
associated with the dismissal of city councils for mafia infiltrations
in Italy, to provide an estimate of the impact of budget
consolidation on economic activity. His most recent work is on
central bank liquidity provision as a shield against self-fulfilling
runs on public debt, the ‘mystery of the printing press’.
Dr Andrew Ferguson joined Clare as a
Fellow in May 2012. He has been in the
Cavendish Laboratory since 2007, where he
holds the Hitachi research fellowship.
Previously, he spent 4 years as a postdoctoral
researcher at the University of New South Wales
in Sydney. He is an experimental physicist and
works in the field of spintronics. He investigates
how the intrinsic angular momentum, ‘the spin’, of electrons can be
used in electrical circuits. At present the overwhelming majority of
electrical circuits use the ‘charge’ property of the electron, but the
‘spin’ may have advantages in terms of energy efficiency or in
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enabling new functionality. A main theme within his research group
is the development of novel microwave techniques to access the
dynamical behaviour of electron spins.
Dr Martin Smith joined Clare as a Junior
Research Fellow in October 2012, after
completing a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology (University of Toronto) and an MSc in
Earth Sciences (Sidney Sussex College, 2008).
His research addresses the origin and explosive
diversification of complex animal life some 540
million years ago, and his work at Clare will
target a new class of exceptionally well-preserved microfossils with
untapped potential to illuminate the diversity and rate of evolution
in the earliest animal communities.
Dr Adria de Gispert was admitted to the fellowship of Clare in
October 2012. He was born in Barcelona and he
received the degree of Telecommunications
Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya. In 2006 he received his PhD in
Statistical Machine Translation at the same
university. He came to Cambridge in January
2007 and has taken various positions (Research
Associate, fixed-term Lecturer and Senior
Research Associate) at the Machine Intelligence Laboratory of the
Department of Engineering. In 2008 he joined Clare as College
Research Associate, where he has also been College Assistant
Lecturer.
His research work is focused on designing and building
statistical pattern matching engines that are capable of translating
text or audio from any language to any language given a set of
previously-translated examples. The goal is for this engine to be
adaptive to user feedback and robust enough to support effective
world-wide communication in the globalised world.
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HONORARY FELLOWS
The College has a self-imposed limit of 24 Honorary Fellows.
The number having recently fallen below this number, a further four
elections were offered to, and accepted by, the following:Professor Sir David Cannadine, DPhil, LittD, FBA, Dodge
Professor of History, Princeton University.
Sir Mark Walport PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci, FRS, Director
of the Wellcome Trust. From April 2013, he will be the
Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser.
Professor Sue Alcock PhD, Director of the Joukowsky Inst. for
Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University,
Providence, RI.
The Very Reverend Vivienne Faull, Dean of Leicester, recently
approved as the next Dean of York.
We look forward to greeting them, when they are next able to attend
College events.
FORMER FELLOWS AND VISITORS
Dr Rupert Sheldrake’s new book The Science Delusion is said
to have sold out in four days. We congratulate him on this evidence
of successful writing.
Canon Andrew White’s most recent book Faith under Fire was
voted as the ‘Ultimate Christian Library’ book for 2012. He was
the Eric Lane Fellow in Lent term 2003, and is noted for his
constant work to restore peace to Iraq.
In January 2013 we hear of the death of Mary Bliss, who gave
the Lady Elizabeth Bell to the College; I hope to offer more on this
in the next issue. (Ed.)
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GRADUATE STUDENTS
The President of the MCR, Moos Peeters, after consulting her
members, writes:The MCR is a great place to socialise, meet people from really
diverse backgrounds and learn about the traditions of other
nationalities. All members are very knowledgeable and passionate
about what they study! It's friendly and inclusive and there's always
plenty going on, ranging from the graduate Friday formal dinners,
to welfare tea, whisky tasting and seasonal activities like pumpkin
carving. It is a very easy-going and welcoming environment and it
makes me feel very included in college life.
The Clare Annual Report 2012 indicates that we had a total of
267 graduates for this academic year, 200 of whom were studying
for the PhD degree. The following are noted as having their theses
approved for the PhD degree in the year 2012:G.Akdeniz
J.M.Alsiö
H.Ayetey
E.M.Batty
H.Brandstaetter
V.R.L.Bridges
S.P.J.Byrne
T.Chandra
F.L.Cole
D.J.C.Coutts
M.D.Eddleston
A.Finnemore
T.P.Flower
G.E.Gentsch
T.Gershon
J.M.H.Green
M.L.Hanin
C.L.Hutchinson
B.W.Jagger
A.Kaus
A.J.Key
A.C.Meldrum
R.H.Merrill
R.C.Mulherin
D.Narendra
S.Nuernberg
A.M.Pauly
C.A.L.Reams
M.Roode
M.Schenk
N.A.A.Schoenmakers
N.C.Seinen
L.F.R.Sutcliffe
A.C.Tristram
V.A.Vorontsov
G.L.Walkden
R.W.R.Wallbank
H.Wang
C.E.White
COLLEGE PRIZES
Some comment on the recent performance of current students in the
Tripos can be found in the Clare Annual Report 2012. Here we
again restore an item which appeared in the earliest issues of the
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Clare Association Annual, with a report that named College Prizes
were awarded for the academic year as follows:PRIZE
given for
RECIPIENT(S)
Allan
History
J. Mathieson
Prust
History
A. Eccles
Newnes
English
B. Davies
William Senior
Law
E.B.M. Mortimer
Milon Banerji
Law
M. Evans
Mallinson
Modern Languages G.E. Durham
Royalton Kisch Music
T.B. Kung
Davies
Economics
T. Jain
Paine
Economics
M.A. Yoganayagam
Christopher McCann
Economics
C. Steele
William Butler
Medical Sciences K. Biddle
Owst
Classics
not awarded
Owst
Mathematics
W. Padungwech
Harry Paten
Mathematics
S.E. Penington
Amiya Banergi
Mathematics
N.M. Wilkins
David Hartley
Computer Science not awarded
Perret
Arch & Anth
M.E. Brinkley
or Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Murgoci
Physics
A. Nikolic
Chibnall
Biochemistry
S. Forster
Olive Ward
Chemistry
H. Rees
Godwin
Life Sciences
I. Braithwaite,
C.E. Thakker
Horne
Physical Sciences A.M. Bevan, A.D. Bowden,
N.J. Caldwell, M.J. Cole,
J. Dixon, C.I. Fowers,
C.S. Harwell, T.F. Ingleby,
P.J.S. Lowth, H. Popplewell,
C.E. Pulman, T. Taape,
J.J. Taylor-West, K. Wagstyl,
D.J. Waterhouse, J. Williams
Pressed Steel
Engineering
(Year4) not awarded
(Year3) C. Wang
(2) S.R. Burnell, S. Shiangoli,
J.P. Waite, Y. Xia
(1) A.J.R. Hunt, J.C.Y. Lee,
A.J. Sanders
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Robins
further research
C. Gleeson, T.E.Z. Kearey
Lester Brough
College Music
H. Ogg
Gordon Wright Medicine
K. Goffe
Lady Clare
Humanities
A.B. Lewis
Precious Pearl or Social Science
Greene Cup
pietatis causa
A.M. Buchanan Hughes
Greene Cup
general learning
A.J. Morgan
Stephens
Theology
J. Kershaw
Stephens (Reading, by Dean’s nomination) C. Purse
Bauckham
Theology
J. Kershaw
Richard Gooder creativity (arts)
N.E.M. Moss
John Northam
poetry&prose
H. Ogg
Duncan Robinson art
F. Crossley
It is likely to be noticed by alumni that new prizes have been
established quite recently. Those which have been added to the list
of named prizes since the list for June 2009 are:PRIZE
awarded for
Christopher McCann Prize the best performance in Economics Part I
given by Christopher McCann (1966)
Bauckham Prize
a first in any Part of Theology & Religious Studies
given by Miss Catherine Fawcett
Milon Banerji Law Prize
for the best result in Law IA or IB
given by Mr Gourab K Banerji
Hartley Prize
for the best result in any part of the Computer
Science Tripos
given by Dr David Hartley (1956, Fellow in 1986), Secretary of the Alumni
Council
CHAPEL & CHAPEL CHOIR
The Dean, Dr Gregory Seach, writes:The sign on the entrance to Chapel reads: The Chapel exists to
the glory of God and as a place of prayer. It is a centre of
Christian worship within the life of this College community. You
are very welcome to enter, look around or simply pause, pray or
rest quietly. That this is both a very real statement of the purpose of
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the Chapel, yet only part of what the Chapel offers and does within
the College, was made abundantly clear in the past year.
As a space of great beauty (I often refer to the wondrous dome
in the antechapel as one of Cambridge’s greatest ‘undiscovered
gems’), tourists and visitors to the College often make their way to
it. The increasing number of school groups, who are most welcome
at Clare, are always taken into Chapel: its very structure – the aptly
named ‘collegiate seating’ (where worshippers sit facing one
another across the central aisle) – indicates our aspiration that this is
a community where people encounter one another (and sometimes
worship God) alongside and in the midst of their neighbours:
‘College’ necessarily implies ‘collegiality’, and stems from the
same linguistic root as ‘colleague’. Christian worship, of course,
takes place in the Chapel every day except Saturday: the regular
round of Choral services – Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday
Evensongs, and thrice-termly Complines – are the great ‘set pieces’
of the week. But Morning and Evening Prayer are said Monday to
Friday so that, conscious of it or not, all members of this
community (and that includes those who are no longer ‘in
residence’ – alumni/æ, former Fellows and staff) are held in prayer
every day. The keeping of an hour of silence, between noon and 1
p.m. every day, allows those who may be cautious of ‘set’ worship,
or of no faith, a place for quiet reflection or a chance just to stop
and rest. A small but faithful few still attend Sunday morning
Communion services and then continue their table fellowship over
breakfast.
The sense of the Chapel as a space for a large number of
College members to gather was never more painfully realised,
however, than in the course of this past year. The tragic death of
Rebecca Chamberlin just before the beginning of Easter Term, saw
large numbers of Rebecca’s friends and colleagues from the Boat
Club attend times of quiet reflection and recollection – a time when
grief and shock were acknowledged, shared, and given space. The
term ended with a moving Memorial Service in Chapel: a chance to
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reflect again after the business of a full term. In a sense that,
hopefully, will never need to be repeated, the Chapel thus provided
“a centre… within the life of this College community” for grieving,
pausing, recalling, contemplating.
Rebecca’s was the most searing Memorial Service held this
year, but not the only one. Fellows, staff and former students, as
well as family members, were able to gather to give thanks for the
life, work, integrity and friendship of Don Holister. Also we note
that alumni/æ returned to their Chapel in good numbers for
weddings; and, again, a particularly memorable one at the end of
2012, was held for Dr Gordon Wright who, at 94, married Dr
Elizabeth McLeod in a small but beautiful and moving service. As
I frequently write in these reports, at the annual Matriculation
service I always tell students that ‘just as they are members of Clare
for life, so this is now their Chapel for life’ – regardless of their
own faith commitment. This year has concretely shown that to be
so at all stages and ages of life. Because the God worshipped in
Chapel says, in Jesus Christ, “Come to me all…”, the Chapel
continues to extend the same invitation.
For the Choir, Abigail Gostick writes:The Chapel Choir continued to provide services for the liturgy
in College, with many notable services within the three academic
terms. After a successful tour to France and recording of the
Imogen Holst Choral Works CD in the summer of 2011, the Choir
of Clare College sang a live BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong in St
Matthew's Church, Northampton in September, including Walton’s
Chichester Service and Britten’s Festival Cantata Rejoice in The
Lamb. As a grand finale of St John's College's Quincentenary
celebrations in November, they formed part of a massed student
chorus for two performances of Walton's Belshazzar’s Feast in Ely
Cathedral and in London’s Royal Festival Hall, both with the
Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Andrew Nethsingha.
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The Choir gave their annual appearance at St John’s, Smith
Square, London in December 2011 with a programme of Advent
music framed by the Great ‘O’ Antiphons, as used for the days
leading up to Christmas. Soon after, they departed for a tour of the
Netherlands, with concerts in Vlissingen, Kampen, Amersfoort and
Nijmegen, performing this Advent programme devised by the
Director of Music. The concerts were very well received and each
one concluded with a standing ovation for the Choir’s efforts. On
New Year’s Day eight members of the Choir were broadcast on
BBC Radio 4 singing some traditional eighteenth-century toasting
songs, recorded in the College's Senior Combination Room with
David Owen Norris and John Sergeant.
In January 2012 the Choir formed part of a large chorus of the
top Cambridge Choirs, in collaboration with Cambridge University
Music Society orchestral players, in a concert of Debussy and Act
III of Wagner’s Parsifal with Sir Mark Elder in King’s College
Chapel. In April the Choir were re-invited to St Paul’s Cathedral to
sing the Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli in a Eucharist service,
and in July they returned to Westminster Abbey to sing Choral
Evensong. Between these two prestigious services, the Choir
recorded the Advent programme in All Hallows’ Church, Gospel
Oak and in St Alban's Cathedral, directed by Graham Ross and
produced by John Rutter, due for release on the Harmonia Mundi
label in 2013.
The academic year ended with a major three-week tour to
Australia with Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber
Orchestra, giving eleven performances of Beethoven’s famous
Ninth Symphony in Sydney Opera House, Canberra, Brisbane,
Melbourne, Adelaide and finally Perth, before braving the 22 hour
flight home to the UK to enjoy the last few weeks of the summer.
STAFF NEWS
In 2012, we marked the retirement of Michael Nunn, after 20
years of service with the gardening staff. He was hailed for great
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precision in lawn-mowing, but did many other things, with clear
willingness. Those with long memories may recognise him from an
early photograph (Illus 5b, page 16).
As mentioned a year ago, Ms Fran Malarée joined Clare in
January 2012 as the new Development Director, after holding a
similar position in Girton College for ten years. She conducted two
development campaigns there, with great success.
In January 2013 we hear that Luca Patriccioli, our Head Chef,
won the silver medal for his ‘main course’ entry at the British Open
Cookery Championships, and a certificate of merit for his ‘starter’.
We congratulate him on this further success: more description of
the dishes can be found at www.clareconferencing.com .
MASTER AND FELLOWS
at 1st October 2012
[In this list academic appointment or promotion since the previous list, for Oct
2010, is indicated with * . The date is that of ELECTION (by calendar year)]
MASTER
2002
A.J.Badger PhD Paul Mellon Prof. of American History
1954
1955
1958
1960
1961
R.G.West ScD, FRS Emeritus Prof. of Botany
T.J.Smiley PhD, FBA Emeritus Knightbridge Prof. of Philosophy
G.H.Wright MD formerly Univ. Lect. in Anatomy
V.Heine PhD, FRS Emeritus Prof. of Physics
M.G.Bown PhD Emeritus Fellow formerly Univ. Lect. in Earth Sciences
C.C.Turpin LLB Emeritus Reader in Public Law
K.F.Riley PhD formerly Univ. Lect. in Physics
R.L.Tapp PhD Emeritus Fellow formerly Univ. Senior Lect. in
Physiology
P.F.Knewstubb PhD formerly Asst. Dir. of Research in Physical
Chemistry
N.O.Weiss ScD, FRS Emeritus Prof. of Mathematical Astrophysics
M.J.Mitchinson MD, FRCPath Emeritus Reader in Cellular Pathology
R.M.Blackburn PhD Emeritus Fellow; formerly Reader in Sociology
FELLOWS
1962
1964
1965
1966
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1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1976
1979
1980
1981
1982
1985
1986
1987
1988
1990
R.S.Schofield PhD, FBA, LittD formerly Coll. Lect. in History;
formerly Hon. Reader in Historical Demography
J.M.Newton Emeritus Fellow formerly Coll. Lect. in English
A.S.Sinclair PhD Prof. of Modem Spanish Literature and Intellectual
History
D.Lynden-Bell PhD, CBE, FRS Emeritus Prof. of Astrophysics
R.D.Gooder PhD Emeritus Fellow formerly Coll. Lect. in English
A.B.Holmes ScD, FRS formerly Prof. of Organic and Polymer
Chemistry, now ARC Federation Fellow, CSIRO, Australia
W.A.Foster PhD Univ. Senior Lect. in Zoology
E.M.Freeman LLM formerly Coll. Lect. in Law
T.H.Moore PhD formerly Univ. Lect. in Linguistics
A.M.Snodgrass PhD, FBA, FSA, Hon.DLitt Emeritus Fellow; Emeritus
Prof. of Classical Archaeology
J.Woodhouse PhD Prof. of Structural Dynamics
T.C.Brown Praelector
P.F.Leadlay DPhil, FRS Herchel Smith Prof. of Biochemistry
S.C.Franklin DPhil, PhD, FBA Prof. of Slavonic Studies
G.F.Parker PhD Tutor; Univ. Senior Lect. in English
P.A.Cartledge DPhil, PhD, FSA President of the Fellowship; A.G.
Leventis Prof. of Greek Culture
A.L.Johnson Fellows’ Steward, Computing Co-ordinator; Univ. Senior
Lect. in
Engineering
P.J.Ford PhD FBA Prof of French and Neo-Latin Literature
A.Lucas MD, FRCP, FMedSci MRC Emeritus Clinical Research Prof.;
Director, MRC Childhood Nutrition Research Centre Inst. of
Child Health
D.R.Howarth LLM, MPhil Reader in Private Law, Dept. of Land
Economy
D.F.Hartley PhD Emeritus Fellow formerly Director of the Univ.
Computing Service
A.G.Thomason PhD Prof of Combinatorial Mathematics
D.J.Scott PhD Emeritus Fellow; formerly Univ. Senior Lect. in
Philosophy
N.H.Woodcock PhD Reader in Earth Sci.
L.C.Paulson PhD Prof. of Computational Logic
A.R.L.Travis PhD Emeritus Fellow; formerly Univ Lect in Engineering
G.Brown CBE LittD Emerita Fellow; formerly Prof. of English as an
International Language
J.M.Goodman PhD Admissions Tutor (Science); Reader in Chemistry
M.Lapidge LittD, FBA, FSA Emeritus Fellow, Hon. Archivist; Emeritus
Prof. of Anglo-Saxon
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1991
P.A.W.Edwards PhD Wine Steward; Reader in Pathology
M.J.Grant LLD Emeritus Fellow; now Provost of Univ. College,
London
1992 R.T.Phillips PhD Prof of Physics
B.A.Hepple (Sir Bob) QC, LLD, FBA Emeritus Master; Emeritus
Professor of Law
1994 * H.E.Thompson PhD Reader in Social and Political Sciences
1995 * N.H.Andrews BCL Professor of Civil Justice and Private Law
1996 C.J.Clarke DPhil Prof of Theoretical Astrophysics
T.W.Knighton PhD Emerita Fellow, formerly Coll. Lect. in Modern
Languages, now Research Prof of 16th Cent. Music at Barcelona
Univ.
N.C.Greenham PhD Prof of Physics
1997 R.M.Harris PhD Tutor, Dir. of Studies in Asian and Middle Eastern
Studies; Senior Language Teaching Officer in Arabic
1998 W.A.Harris PhD Professor of Anatomy
P.Fara PhD Senior Tutor; Affiliated Lect. in History and Philosophy of
Science
M.M.Lahr PhD Reader in Biological Anthropology
M.Sprik MSc, PhD Prof of Computational Chemistry
D.Hedley PhD Reader in the Philosophy of Religion
1999 A.Philpott PhD Graduate Admissions Tutor; Reader in Oncology
T.Follini PhD Dean of Students, Coll. Lect. in English Literature
W.A.Pullan PhD Univ. Senior Lect. in Architecture
2000 C.H.Duff BM BCh FFPHM Dir. of Studies in Clinical Medicine;
Deputy Regional Director of Public Health, East of England
P.D.Bristowe PhD Reader in Computational Materials Science
H.Jahn PhD, Dr. phil. habil. Tutor; Univ. Senior Lect. in History
T.M.Lewens PhD Reader in History and Philosophy of Science
N.B.Holdstock VetMB PhD Tutor; Univ. Lect. in Animal Reproduction
M.Frolova-Walker PhD Reader in Music History
R.Glen PhD Unilever Prof of Molecular Sciences Informatics
L.K.Tyler PhD MRC Prof of Cognitive Neuroscience, in
Experimental Psychology.
N.S.Clayton PhD FRS Prof of Comparative Cognition, in Experimental
Psychology
G.I.Ogilvie PhD Reader in Mathematical Astrophysics
2001 M.J.Weeks PhD Univ. Senior Lect. in Applied Economics
R.E.J.Dyball VetMB, PhD, ScD Emeritus Univ. Senior Lect. in
Anatomy
D.P.Hearn Bursar
2002 H.Griffiths PhD Prof. of Plant Ecology
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J.S.Gibson PhD Reader in Pathophysiology, in Veterinary Medicine
M.Dunajski PhD Graduate Tutor; Coll. Lect. in Pure Mathematics
2003 H. van Veen PhD Univ. Lect. in Pharmacology
J.A.Guy PhD Fellow in Tudor History
C.Weiss PhD Coll. Lect. in Classics, Tutor; Univ. Language Teaching
Officer in Greek and Latin
E.A.Foyster PhD Dir. of Studies and CoIl. Lect. in History
T.A.H.Wilkinson PhD formerly Development Director, now Head of the
Cambridge University International Office
2004 P.H.Jones PhD Dir. of Studies in Clinical Medicine; NHS Research
Consultant
J.A.Tasioulas PhD Financial Tutor, Coll. Lect. in English Literature
2005 W.J.Byrne PhD Reader in Engineering
S.Lazar PhD Graduate Tutor; Univ. Lect. in Social Anthropology
H.L.Sanson PhD Univ. Senior Lect. in Post-Medieval Italian Studies
F.M.C.Toxvaerd PhD Univ. Lect. in Economics
S.W.C.Jolly MA Univ. Director of Communications
M.J.Petty Steward
2006 R.Sterckx PhD Needham Professor of Chinese
F.L.Edmonds PhD Librarian (Fellows' Library); Univ. Lect. in AngloSaxon, Norse and Celtic Studies
I.Lestas PhD Research Fellow in Information Sciences: Control Theory
R.K.Semple PhD Univ. Clinical Biochemistry Research Fellow
R.G.Cacho PhD Admissions Tutor (Arts)(Mich); Univ. Senior Lect. in
Spanish and Portuguese
A.M.Preston PhD Tutor; Univ. Senior Lect. in History
2008 * A.D.Friend PhD Fellows’ Steward; Dir of Studies in Geography; Reader
in Earth Systems Science
J.Glaurdic Research Fellow in Political Science
C.A.Russell PhD Research Fellow in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
The Revd. G.J.N.Seach PhD Dean
P.C.Fletcher Bernard Wolfe Prof of Health Neuroscience
A.P.Balmford FRS Prof of Conservation Science
A.M.Stillman PhD Tutor and Fellow in English
2009 T.F.Potts PhD formerly Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum; now
Director of the Getty Museum
J.Prabhu PhD Univ Prof of Business Management Studies
D.A.Hodell PhD Woodwardian Prof of Geology in the Dept. of Earth
Sciences
P.Faulkner PhD Rooms Tutor, Coll. Lect. in Economics
S.Dalby PhD Research Fellow in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
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R.Naismith PhD Research Fellow in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
Studies
N.Crilly PhD Burrell Fellow in Engineering 2010, Univ. Lecturer in
Engineering Design
K.E.Hughes Turpin-Lipstein Fellow in Law, Admissions Tutor
(Arts)(Lent & Easter), Coll. Lect. in Law
P.M.Allmendiger Univ. Prof. of Land Economy
2010 K.E.McDougall PhD Brit. Acad. Post-Doctoral Fellow in Linguistics
A.Carter PhD Fellow in Structural Biology; Group Leader, MRC LMB
A.Brown PhD Research Fellow in Biophysics
W.Quillen Research Fellow in Music
G.A.C.Ross College Director of Music
J.C.Robertson PhD Univ. Prof. of the History of Political Thought
R.I.Watson DPhil Univ. Lect. in African History
2011 C.E.Roberts PhD Junior Research Fellow in English
W.Cavert PhD Junior Research Fellow in History of early-modern
Britain
C.Melnyk PhD Junior Research Fellow in Plant Sciences
2012 J.Wyburd Tutor; Head of the Cambridge University Language Centre
F.Malarée Director of Development
O.Leyser Prof of Plant Development
G.Corsetti Prof of Macroeconomics
A.Ferguson PhD Hitachi Senior Research Fellow in Microelectronics
M.Smith Junior Research Fellow in Evolutionary Biology
A.Gispert de Ramis PhD College Lecturer in Engineering
BYE - FELLOWS
1973
1982
1995
2001
2002
2006
2007
D.J.Thompson PhD FBA Bye Fellow; formerly CoIl. Asst. Lect. in
Classics
R.O’Hanlon PhD Bye Fellow; Prof. of Indian History and Culture,
Oxford
D.D.Robinson Bye Fellow; formerly Director and Marlay Curator of the
FitzwiIliam Museum; Emeritus Master of Magdalene
J.P.Ostriker PhD Bye Fellow; Emeritus Plumian Prof. of Astronomy
Revd. R.D.Greeves Bye Fellow: Proctor, formerly Dean and Tutor
A.Manica PhD Univ. Senior Lect. in Population Biology
D.F.Swensen PhD Bye Fellow; Chief Investment Officer, Yale Univ.
H.L.(Skip) Gates Jr PhD Bye Fellow; Alphonse Fletcher Univ. Prof. and
Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Inst. for African and African
American Research, Harvard Univ.
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2009 * J.L.Huppert PhD Bye Fellow; worked at the Physics of Medicine
research centre; elected MP for Cambridge in 2010. Now elected,
while on leave, to a Lectureship in Physics
HONORARY FELLOWS
1967
1976
1980
1987
1989
1990
1992
1992
1992
1994
1994
1997
1998
1998
2001
2001
2004
2006
Prof. James Watson ScD, KBE, FRS, Nobel Laureate 1962, Director,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Sir Michael Stoker CBE, FRCP, FRS, FRSE, Pathologist, President
of Clare Hall 1980-87
Sir David Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, ScD(Hon), FRS,
Broadcaster and Naturalist
The Rt Revd Mark Santer, formerly Bishop of Birmingham
Sir WaIter Bodmer PhD, FRS, FRCPath, Principal of Hertford
College, Oxford 1996-2005, formerly Director General, Imperial
Cancer Research Fund; currently involved in a genetic survey of the
UK
Sir Roger Norrington CBE, Chief Conductor (Stuttgart); Musical
Director of London Classical Players
Sir Nicholas Barrington KCMG, CVO, High Commissioner to
Pakistan 1989-94
Sir Frederick Catherwood formerly MP, MEP, Vice-President,
European Parliament 1989-91
Sir Philip Dowson CBE, RA, RIBA, FCSD, Architect, President of
the Royal Academy 1993-99, Senior Partner at Ove Arup
Sir John Boyd KCMG, Master of Churchill College 1996-2007, H.M.
Ambassador to Japan 1992-96
The Most Revd and Rt. Hon. Dr Rowan Williams DPhil, DD, FBA,
Archbishop of Canterbury
Prof. Sir Andrew Wiles KBE, PhD, Hon DSc FRS, Professor of
Mathematics (Princeton)
Lord Wilson of Dinton GCB, Master of Emmanuel, formerly Cabinet
Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service
His Excellency Fernando H. Cardoso, LLD, formerly President of the
Federative Republic of Brazil
Dr J.M.Rutter DMus Lambeth, CBE, Hon FGCM, Composer and
Conductor
Sir Timothy (Tim) Hunt PhD, FRS, Nobel Laureate 2001, Head of the
Imperial Cancer Research Laboratory for cell cycle control
Prof Frances Kirwan DPhil, FRS Fellow of Balliol, Prof. of
Mathematics
(Oxford)
P.Ackroyd CBE, FRSL, Hon DLitt, writer, biographer and poet; Chief
Book Reviewer, The Times, since 1986
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2006
2006
2012
2012
2012
2012
Mr M.F.Parris MA, author, political commentator, journalist and
broadcaster
Prof. J.D.Spence CMG, PhD, Sterling Prof. of History, Yale Univ.
Prof. Sir David N. Cannadine DPhil, LittD, FBA, Dodge Prof. of
History, Princeton Univ.
Sir Mark Walport PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci, FRS, Director,
Wellcome Trust
Prof. S. Alcock PhD, Director, Joukowsky Inst. for Arcaeology and the
Ancient World
The Very Rev’d Vivienne F. Faull Dean of Leicester
ELIZABETH De CLARE FELLOWS
2008
2010
R. Lerner
A.Gillespie MA PhD
I.Riley MA MEng
C.Forbes PhD
BENEFACTIONS AND GIFTS
As the 700th anniversary of the College’s foundation approaches in
2026, Clare is planning to secure its future in an increasingly
volatile financial world.
The strategy is to raise £50 million by the time of this milestone
to cover the following crucial areas:

£20m for the complete refurbishment of Old Court – to be
carried out on a scale not seen since about 1850, including a
new roof, new attic windows, new services (entailing
digging up the entire floor of the Court) and fire-walls in
between the staircases.

£10m for support of undergraduate and postgraduate
students who would not otherwise be able to study at Clare.

£10m for teaching in College: the supervision system is
under some threat as faculties make increasing demands on
their employees who are also fellows in colleges. Clare
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wants to employ the world’s best teaching fellows and to
ensure students continue to benefit from small-scale
supervision

£10m for the College’s endowment: this stands at about £70
million presently and is crucial for our current expenditure
and our future ability to be as independent as possible of
state funding.
Suffice to say, all donations of whatever size from alumni will
be crucial to the success of this campaign. Also as important will
be to increase the number of alumni remembering the College in
their wills. This is easily done via a Clare codicil form available
from the Development Office.
The challenge is always to increase the percentage of members
supporting the College on a regular basis, since this will be the key
to Clare’s future wellbeing. Currently about 20% of alumni make
donations. A complete list of donors is normally published annually
in a supplement to the spring/summer edition of Clare News.
DONOR RECOGNITION
Clare is very happy to recognise benefactions by naming bursaries,
scholarships, Fellowships, and other aspects of College life
according to the wishes of the donor. The College has established
special forms of recognition for benefactors at different levels:
Elizabeth de Clare Fellow (£500,000) The Governing Body
of the College elects Elizabeth de Clare Fellows on the
recommendation of the Master, to recognise individuals who,
through generous benefaction, contribute to the present and future
life of the College. Elizabeth de Clare Fellows are officially
recognised as senior members of the College. As full members of
the Senior Combination Room, Elizabeth de Clare Fellows enjoy
the same rights and privileges as Honorary Fellows.
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Master’s Circle (£100,000) Members of the new Master’s
Circle will be invited to an annual private dinner hosted by the
Master in the dining room of the Master’s Lodge. This event will
provide a unique opportunity for individuals to strengthen their
involvement in the current and future life of Clare.
The 1326 Society (£25,000) The 1326 Society recalls the year
of the College’s original foundation. Members are invited with
their spouses/partners to the annual Benefactors’ Dinner and to
periodic special events in College.
Benefactor (£10,000) Benefactors are invited with their
spouses/partners to the annual Benefactors’ Dinner in Hall,
preceded by a concert in Chapel.
The Samuel Blythe Society is named after the 17th century
Master of Clare whose generous bequest to the College guaranteed
its continuing success and prosperity. The Society has been
established to recognise during their lifetime those who have made
provision for Clare in their will. Members of the Society are invited
with their spouses/partners to an annual lunch in College, hosted by
the Master and Fellows, on the second Saturday of May.
MAKING A GIFT OR BEQUEST
Gift forms may be downloaded from the College website
(www.clarealumni.com) and are also available on request from the
College Development Office.
The College is a registered charity, which means that gifts to
Clare by UK taxpayers count as charitable gifts. For cash donations
of any amount, UK taxpayers can take advantage of the Gift Aid
scheme, under which a donation of £80 is worth £100 to the College
but costs the donor just £60 (if he or she pays income tax at 40%).
Regular gifts by Banker’s Order can also be made under the Gift
Aid scheme.
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US taxpayers can support Clare by making a tax-efficient gift
to Cambridge in America, P.O. Box 9123 JAF BLG, New York,
NY 10087-9123. When sending your gift, you should include a
covering note suggesting that the Directors of Cambridge in
America exercise their discretion and allocate your gift to support
Clare College.
Canadian taxpayers can make tax-efficient gifts directly to
Clare College.
Taxpayers in many European countries can also make taxefficient gifts to Clare – please contact the Development Office for
further details.
For further details on tax-efficient giving, visit the website
www.clarealumni.com and click on ‘Supporting Clare’.
Legacies to Clare may reduce the inheritance tax payable on
your estate, because of the College’s charitable status. When you
make or update your will, please consider leaving a legacy to Clare.
The Development Director, Francisca Malaree, or the Deputy
Director, Mr Rowan Kitt, are happy to talk confidentially to
members and friends of the College who are considering leaving a
legacy. Detailed information, including answers to frequently
asked questions, is available on the legacy pages of the College
website: www.clarealumni.com/legacy.
The Development Office, Clare College,
Cambridge CB2 1TL
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 333218
Fax: +44 (0)1223 362473
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.clarealumni.com
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CLARE’S LIAISON WITH SCHOOLS
Clare College continues to undertake Schools Liaison work on
behalf of the University in our four Link Areas: Coventry,
Warwickshire, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and London
Borough of Hackney. We welcome visits to Clare throughout the
year and the Schools’ Liaison Officers also visit schools to run
sessions or attend Higher Education Fairs.
Our work with schools has two main objectives; one is to
encourage as many gifted and talented applicants as possible to
apply to Cambridge by dispelling common misconceptions about
the University and the applications process. The other is to raise
aspirations at all stages of education. The latter aim means that this
year we are working with children as young as 8 years old in order
to instil a sense of confidence and pride in their own academic
achievements.
We have recently recruited a new Schools Liaison Officer to
come on board half-time, Ruth Dewhirst, who will be working
specifically on expanding our programmes in the Borough of
Hackney as well as providing support for activities across all our
Link Areas.
We have continued our successful schools visits to the College,
at both Primary and Secondary level, from students across our Link
Areas with students taking part in a variety of workshops, both
University & subject-themed, both in College and in University
departments. We are continuing to work closely with sixth-forms to
ensure that they have access to accurate, honest and detailed
information about Cambridge and the applications procedure, and to
dispel the myths surrounding the University. Occasionally we work
with schools from outside our Link Areas, usually because of
particular links to the College (e.g. alumni now in teaching). The
College also participates in University-wide Access initiatives such
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as the University Science Festival Masterclasses, the Shadowing
Scheme and the Teachers’ Conference.
Dr William Foster has been appointed as the Tutor for Access
and Outreach and is responsible for coordinating the College’s
outreach activities and the work of the two School Liaison Officers,
Anthony Fitzpatrick and Ruth Dewhirst.
CLARE AND BERMONDSEY
Clare has been linked to Bermondsey, South London, since 1730
when it gained the patronage of the parish church of St Mary. Late
in the nineteenth century, Clare decided to extend this involvement
and chose Bermondsey for the site of its mission. Since that time,
many Clare students have worked in the area and with Bede House.
Thus for many years, the College has supported the community
centre in the London district of Bermondsey, and the Bede House
Association was recently celebrating its foundation in 1938, over
seventy years ago. The centre has several Clare alumni on its
management committee, and the College sponsors recent graduates
on six-month internships each year.
To find out more about the placements sponsored by the Clare
Bermondsey Trust, contact the Director, Nick Dunne, at
[email protected]. Detailed information on the range of
social projects in train can be found at www.bedehouse.org.uk.
Also, Clare News 30 (autumn/winter 2012) has up-to-date comment
from Katrina Ramsey (chair of Trustees), and also comment from
Mark Brinkley (2008), newly graduated from Clare.
QUEENS’-CLARE OVERSEAS EDUCATION FUND
Ollie Imray writes, for the QCOEF Committee (2012-3):After some time in the wilderness, the Queens’ and Clare
Overseas Education Fund is proudly making a long-overdue return.
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Across the last twenty years, QCOEF has been involved in some
truly fantastic projects, supporting a number of teaching charities
around the world. Unfortunately, the Fund has spent the past
couple of years on the outer reaches of college life, with little
money raised and none at all donated. Therefore, we are
tremendously excited to announce the re-launch of QCOEF, as well
as to inform you of our progress to date.
Our biggest decision so far has been to fund a ‘Tools for Self
Reliance’ project in Sierra Leone. This venture is especially
pertinent to the work of QCOEF, having been suggested to us by
former Chair, Abi Gleek – now working at ‘Tools for Self Reliance’
herself. With our assistance, the charity is looking to tackle
extreme youth unemployment in impoverished communities within
the Moyamba, Tonkolili and Kambia districts of Sierra Leone. The
charity provides a mixture of vocational, entrepreneurial and even
life training, as well as the equipment needed to put these skills into
action. The hope is that such work will empower marginalised
youths to lift themselves out of poverty, with knock-on effects for
the communities around them. Our donation was enough to start
ten such projects, beginning in March 2013. For more information
about ‘Tools for Self Reliance’, we encourage you to visit their
website: www.tfsr.org.
Of course, the money we were able to give to this lovely little
project only emerged through contributions from within the
colleges. At present, QCOEF is heavily reliant on college bill
donations, but we are always looking for new ways to bring in
money. We have a number of fundraising events planned for next
term, ranging from pub quizzes to jazz nights to charity formal
halls. At present, there are few people left in Queens’ and Clare
that were here when the charity was last prominent; we hope that
such events will not only raise money, but awareness of our cause,
bringing it to prominence in college life.
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We would like to ask for your help, too. Donations from alumni
have long been a crucial part of QCOEF’s success – any
contribution, large or small, will be welcomed readily. Further to
this, we would love to hear from anybody who is involved in
overseas education at present; in an effort to promote the college
element of QCOEF, we are keen to work with charities dear to
former students. If you are interested in proposing a charity for
future terms, or possibly visiting to speak to current students about
your work in the field, please do get in touch. Feel free to contact
me ([email protected]) or our Chair, Ed Bentsi ([email protected])
– or to visit our website at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/qcoef.
ERIC LANE FUND
The fund was established by a generous gift from Mr E.A. Lane
(Clare 1920) for the support of projects relevant to the advancement
of peace and social harmony. It is used to support a Visiting Fellow
for one term each year, and to give an Award and grants for student
projects that fall within the Fund’s remit. The Eric Lane Visiting
Fellows are not usually academics, but people who work ‘closer to
the coalface’, and the College community gains greatly from
engaging with their experience and concerns.
Ms Sonja Biserko was the Eric Lane Fellow for the Easter term
2012. She is an eminent Serbian human rights activist, President of
the Helsinki Human Rights Committee in Serbia, and a former
senior diplomat who has been deeply involved also in the anti-war
movement, from the early days of the break up of Yugoslavia. Her
project while she was here was to continue her research and writing
on the nationalist and anti-democratic forces that still have
considerable power in Serbia and impact on the wider region.
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Illus 6 Images of the Combination Room portraits:
William Butler
Isaac Bargrave
Nicholas Ferrar
John Moore
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Illus 7 more Combination Room portraits:
William Whiston (young)
William Whiston (older)
Martin Folkes
Thomas Woodroofe
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Illus 8a Combination Room Portrait: William Loudon Mollison
Illus 8b Rodney Shirley in his study at home
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Illus 9a The Great Wall at Mutianyu
9b City walls at Pingyao
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Illus 10a View from the South Peak of Hua Shan
10b On Tsinghua University campus
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RODNEY SHIRLEY AT CLARE (1948 - 1951)
A reminiscence
October 1948 wasn’t a particularly memorable month for most
people. Yes, the War was over, but there was little sign of
prosperity, and food rationing was still widely in force. But for me
it was a few days of sudden exciting transformation as, in a great
rush, I was demobilised from the Army and came up to Clare
College, Cambridge, in the nick of time to read for a Natural
Sciences degree.
Like many boys at school, on reaching the age of 18, military
service beckoned as almost the only option, though I think a few
occupations (such as medicine or coal mining) were exempt. So I
was called up, for what was initially an indefinite time in the Army,
with only an uncertain hope of joining my preferred college, Clare,
at some time in the future. For the next two years, or even longer,
all places at most universities were quite rightly being taken up by
demobilised service men (and women) released from much longer
war service.
The Army, to its credit, did run a two-week ‘Pre-Release
Course’ which I attended towards the end of the summer of 1948,
although without any assurance that Clare could accept me in the
autumn of that year. I remember that the course was pitched at
quite a high standard, to brush the cobwebs away after two years of
military thinking. For scientists, there were lectures to remind us of
binomial theorems and differential equations and to refresh us on
the laws of physics, chemistry and biology. Also, which was quite
new to me, a study and reading of T S Elliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ in
preparation for an optional English elective. Then, on return to my
base at Aldershot, one Friday ten days later I suddenly got a
message from Clare saying they could accept me if I could be
released to start the term in four days time. It was a mad rush, but
the University, Clare College, and the Army pulled all the stops out
and my release papers were prepared on Saturday, signed (I think)
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on Sunday. The next day, Monday, I was formally sent home
(demobilised) and I took the train to Cambridge on the Tuesday
with my trunk, bicycle and belongings.
University life was a great change from Army life. For two
years there had been Daily Orders telling what one should do, and
when, 24 hours a day. I half-kept looking on college and laboratory
notice boards to find out what was happening and at what time. It
took several weeks to work out that it was entirely up to me to
attend lectures (or not) and to work out my reading and learning
programme. The only obligatory attendances seemed to be college
dinners and the weekly tutorials.
Looking back I think I was lucky in my tutors. My college
tutors were Dr (later Sir Brian) Pippard for Physics, my main study
subject.
My other principal subject was Mineralogy (or
Crystallography) for which I had Dr R C Evans, a distinguished
academic who died only a few years ago aged 96. In one of my
second-year tutorials a perceptive comment by Dr Evans was
instrumental in switching my outlook, and my subsequent career.
For my first year I had ‘digs’ in about the most remote suburb of
Cambridge—at the far end of Kings Hedges Road. All the better
and more central rooms had been allocated earlier on but I was glad
to take what I had been offered. I soon learned to bicycle to and
fro, somehow balancing a pile of books for the day and, if
necessary, holding an umbrella. I think I only fell off once. Fairly
soon I got used to the travel to and fro—most lectures were in the
Cavendish Laboratory precincts--where I well remember the rows
of austere photographs hanging in a long corridor with the central
figures of giants such as J J Thompson, Lord Rutherford, the
Braggs, father and son, and perhaps even Lord Kelvin too. Sir
William Lawrence Bragg (the son of Sir William Henry) was still
lecturing there.
A month or so after settling in I had worked out how best one
might allocate one’s time: 25% in lectures and academic study;
25% in sport; 25% in clubs and societies and ‘extra-mural’
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activities, and 25% in socialising. This of course excludes a good
night’s sleep but overall I found it was a good guide.
The second year I had a convenient room in Memorial Court,
and for my third year some rather superior rooms in Bridge Street,
close to the centre of things where I could more easily entertain on a
modest scale. I knew quite a number of friends from school
(Stowe) who were in Trinity, St John’s and Magdalene, and my
third-year rooms were well placed accordingly.
Half way through my second year one or two things happened
which changed my career intentions. I had in mind taking a Part II
in Physics and then perhaps taking up academic research into
nuclear structures. I was having tea with an attractive girl called
Felicity from one of the women’s colleges and (it must have been
my leading) the conversation turned to the Quantum Theory of Max
Planck. ‘Who?’ said Felicity ‘I’ve never heard of him’. This threw
me back - surely this wasn’t possible. I sort of explained but
afterwards I was remorseful - the fault was mine for presuming that
what I thought was such a fascinating topic was necessarily so to
someone like Felicity who was studying Italian and Spanish.
Not long after, another incident occurred in one of my tutorials
with Dr R C Evans. At one stage he turned to me and (very
politely) said “Shirley, I don’t think you’re quite at home in
reciprocal space”. Actually he was quite right, I was not at home in
reciprocal space (which was a fundamental concept underlying
crystallographic analysis) and I thought he hadn’t noticed that. I
went home chastened, and from that point started to switch my
thinking away from reading Part II Physics, with its quite heavy
emphasis on fairly advanced mathematics.
One of the hidden benefits of Military service was that I was
allowed to gain a full BA degree after two (rather than three) years.
Therefore at the end of year two, provided I got a reasonable Part I
degree result - which I did, with a 2.1 - I decided to switch subjects
and take up English. In 1950-51, my third year, I therefore selected
a group of topics from the English Tripos which, helpfully,
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embraced the very wide range ‘English Literature, Life and
Thought: 1300 to the present day’.
It was a move I never regretted. I’ve always maintained an
enthusiasm and respect for the physical sciences, but a year of
reading English opened my eyes to the previously neglected world
of the arts, classics, literature and poetry. My college tutor was Dr
John Northam, later Senior Tutor of Clare and my subject tutor was
a delightful amiable professor Dr. Guy Pocock who I shared with
another science student who also had switched subjects for his third
year. Moreover, there was no doubt that the work load was much
lighter than in Natural Sciences which was considered then (and I
believe is still now) a ‘heavy’ tripos.
There were of course ‘set books’ of which I recall several
Shakespeare plays, Sisam’s ‘14th century Verse & Prose’,
especially ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’; Grierson’s
‘Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th century’; and Thomas
Browne’s rather dreary ‘Urn Burial’, coupled with a wide range of
lectures available from the normal Part I and Part II syllabuses.
When the year-end came, the main papers typically had up to 100
questions from which one could choose just 4 or 5. So one could
usually pick those topics one had specialised in, or had some
background in (e.g. ‘Discuss the influence of science on literature in
the 17th and 18th centuries...’). At the end of the year I don’t recall
any classification being awarded other than a ‘Certificate of
Diligent Study’ to add to the full BA I had gained already. Then,
after 3 years, and payment of something like £12, I became entitled
to cite ‘MA Cantab’ as my top Cambridge qualification. Later on,
after two years spent at the Harvard Business School (1954-1956), I
was able to add ‘MBA Harvard’ to my academic letterhead.
Rodney Shirley (1948)
(Ed. See a photograph of Rodney Shirley on page 45)
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A SUMMER STUDENTSHIP IN CHINA
We are glad to celebrate our link with Professor Babak Javid
(a former Fellow) in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Starting
in 2012, through his good offices, there is an opportunity for two
Clare undergraduates to spend 8-10 weeks of the summer at either
of the Schools of Life Sciences, or of Medicine, at Tsinghua. We
can note that Prof. Javid’s web page at www.tsinghua.cn opens with
the phrase ‘Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death
worldwide and in China’, and not be surprised that some of the
research work is in this area.
The object of the studentship is to foster links between Tsinghua
and Cambridge. The students will have the opportunity, not only to
perform cutting-edge basic research in the top university in China,
but also to explore aspects of Chinese culture, and to travel locally
after the studentship.
Two Clare undergraduates were awarded places, and one of
them, Jonathan Foxwell (2009) offers his account of the trip to this
issue of the Clare Association Annual:‘This summer, I was fortunate enough to be one of four students
from Cambridge on a new studentship scheme with Tsinghua
University, Beijing. This studentship involved an 8-10 week
placement in one of the laboratories in the bioscience faculties at
Tsinghua. I joined the group of Prof Babak Javid – the
Mycobacterial Pathophysiology Laboratory – and spent ten weeks
constructing new reporter genes in order to assay rates of
mistranslation in species of Mycobacterium. I also worked on a
secondary project involving investigating the effects of sub-lethal
concentrations of antibiotics on mistranslation rates and bacterial
survival, and gained some experience of teaching basic biochemical
techniques. In addition, the scheme involved meeting other
Principal Investigators and students at the university, and talking to
them about their research, giving insights into current research and
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how it is performed, as well as the role of science in Chinese
society.
The lab and the university had a very welcoming atmosphere,
and I have made many new friends over the summer; both Chinese,
and students from Harvard and the University of Chicago who were
also on exchange schemes. Together, we found time to explore
much of Beijing, and gain some insight into Chinese culture and
history. I now feel I have a much better understanding of a
somewhat mysterious country, and have developed a fascination
with many aspects of it. I even managed to pick up an extremely
limited amount of Mandarin. It was also interesting to meet people
with a different perspective on the West, and I hope I have been
able to satisfy some of their curiosity as they did mine. The
structure of the studentship also allowed for a week’s travelling at
the end, where I was able to see a small amount of a very large area,
in Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan provinces.
The self-reliant learning style expected in my host lab, while
initially daunting, has given me excellent experience and increased
confidence in performing independent experimental research, and I
now also feel much more assured in teaching others. This is in
addition to gaining knowledge in a number of areas and techniques
in biological research. I felt sorry to leave the lab, and am glad that
someone is carrying on my project and that I can keep in contact. I
am also certain I will return to China at some point, with so much
more to see. ‘
Editor’s note: Jonathan had many interesting photos from his trip,
from which I show only four. The city walls of Pingyao are
doubtless restored, but originally 14th century. On the Great Wall
we see Shivun Khosla (Caius coll.), Jonathan, and Jonathan Lam
(also Clare). The stylish bridge on Tsinghua University campus is a
relatively new construction. The view from the South Peak of Hua
Shan is breathtaking, but very peaceful.
See Illus 9 and 10, pages 46, 47.
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PORTRAITS IN THE COMBINATION ROOM
I am grateful for appreciative comments on the article in last year’s issue,
about portraits in the Hall. This year, I offer the following paragraphs about
portraits in the Combination Room, which most alumni and students have
occasional chances to see. Again, I try to pick out interesting (and possibly
memorable) features of each career, rather than give a detailed and
comprehensive account, and there seems to be advantage in taking them in
chronological order of their birth.
William Butler (1535-1618) 1, 2, 3
William Butler was born in Ipswich, Suffolk in 1535, and lived
a career as a prominent physician. He may have matriculated in
1558 at Peterhouse, becoming BA in 1561 and MA in 1564, but
was definitely elected a Fellow of Clare Hall (as it then was) in
1572. Furthermore, in October 1572 the University of Cambridge
granted him a licence to practise physic. He was usually styled
‘doctor’, though he never took the degree of MD.
He acquired an outstanding reputation in his profession,
becoming known for his eccentric manner and methods of
treatment. He combined traditional Galenical (natural remedies)
with Paracelsian (chemical) techniques, representing an
intermediate stage in English medicine. Our picture of him shows
him wearing the rich gold-upholstered skull cap of the President of
the College of Physicians. (see page 43)
He came to the attention of King James I, partly as a result of an
eccentric cure. A parson had been studying hard, then found
himself unable to sleep. The parson’s wife then gave him opium,
but gave too much and the parson could not be aroused in the
morning. William Butler, with the agreement of the wife, had one
of her cows killed, and put the parson into the warm belly of the
freshly-killed cow. The parson revived. There are many similar
stories of eccentric cures.
On the other hand, Butler is also credited with being able to
recognise changes in the face of a patient as death approached. At
the last illness of Henry, Prince of Wales, he saw these signs and
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did not pursue any aggressive treatment, but simply approved what
others were doing to help.
He was very generous to Clare Hall, giving three fine pieces of
silver, which are among the oldest in our collection of plate. He
died at Cambridge on 29 January 1618, and was buried in Great St
Mary's Church: on the south side of its chancel there is a mural
monument with his bust and a Latin inscription describing him as
the first among medical men of the time.
At his death, he left all his books to the College and also
bequeathed the sum of £260, for the purchase of ‘finest gold’ from
which a communion cup and paten were made, with his specified
engravings on them. He has also been commemorated by a pub
sign at Ye Olde Dr Butler's Head near Guildhall in London, and by
a sort of ale called Dr Butler's Ale.
Isaac Bargrave (bap. 1586 – 1643) 1, 3, 5
Isaac Bargrave, who became a proud man of Royalist
persuasion, and dean of Canterbury, was baptised in 1586, in Kent.
He was educated at Cambridge, receiving the BA degree from
Pembroke in 1607, then MA from Clare Hall in 1610. In 1612 he
was ordained deacon and priest at Peterborough, and later that year
became rector of Eythorne in Kent. He maintained his Cambridge
connections, but seems to have held this Kent living for thirty years.
Between 1616 and 1618 he served as chaplain to a kinsman, Sir
Henry Wotton, English Ambassador to Venice. On his return to
England in 1618 he carried a letter of introduction from Wotton to
King James. On presenting this, with its testimony to ‘his
discretion and zeal’, Isaac’s career prospered.
In 1622, Isaac received the DD degree at Cambridge, and was
appointed a prebendary of Canterbury Cathedral, where his brotherin-law, John Boys, was dean. In the same year he was granted the
living of St Margaret’s, Westminster, and became royal chaplain to
Prince Charles, an office which he retained after Charles began his
reign in 1625.
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Also in 1625, John Boys had died, and Isaac Bargrave was able
to succeed him as dean of Canterbury. In the following year, he
obtained the vicarage of Tenterden. His Westminster post earned
him ‘great esteem with the Parliament … who took the sacrament
constantly at his hands’. His sermons displayed a marked
independence, and one in particular offered to Parliament ‘…
against Popery, Evil Counsellors and Corruption’ incurred the
displeasure of the king.
As dean of Canterbury, Bargrave introduced musical and
liturgical innovations, and tried to follow Anglicanism as a middle
way between extremes. After the accession of Charles I, he firmly
declared himself in favour of the divine right of kings. He incurred
increasing disfavour from Parliament over their Bill for the
abolition of deans and chapters, and presented petitions against the
Bill from the University of Cambridge and from Canterbury
Cathedral.
At the beginning of the Civil War in 1642, Colonel Sandys
marched his troops to Canterbury and attacked the deanery.
Bargrave was absent, but his wife and children were cruelly treated.
Col. Sandys found him at Gravesend, arrested him and sent him to
Fleet prison. After three weeks, Bargrave was released without
having been brought to trial. He returned to Canterbury broken in
health, and died at the deanery in January 1643. He was buried in
the Lady Chapel, alongside other deans of the period.
The picture (see page 43) is believed to have been painted by
Cornelius Johnson, in 1636. It shows Bargrave holding a seal of
office, which looks (at full size) like the Cambridge University
seal. If so, this may relate to his holding the office of Taxor in
1612. This office, like a Proctor but now obsolete, was for the
regulation of student rents, and more widely in matters of checking
weights and measures of goods.
Nicholas Ferrar (1592-1637) 1, 2, 5
Nicholas Ferrar was born to a very stable and caring family.
His father (of the same name) was a popular merchant adventurer,
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who traded widely in the world. His mother guided all her family
diligently, with daily practice of reading from the scriptures, or
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. There was also home education in singing
and instrumental music, needlework and selected passages of
history.
Nicholas learnt his lessons very well, and at the age of seven
was sent to school at Enborne, where he continued to progress
superlatively. By the age of thirteen, his teacher was already
talking of his going to university.
Nicholas Ferrar came to Clare Hall, probably in 1607 at the age
of fifteen, and was entered for his first year as a ‘pensioner’, of
limited means. His parents thought he might progress to a status of
fellow-commoner in his second year, through his own merit. His
tutor was so impressed with him that Nicholas’ status advanced
even faster than expected. He graduated BA in 1610, and was made
a Fellow in the same year. The other Fellows valued his company
very highly. Nicholas seemed set for an academic career, where the
combination of education and community had a special resonance
for him.
The health of Nicholas had been of concern to his friends, and
Dr William Butler (q.v.) had offered the opinion that Nicholas
should travel. An occasion for this arose in 1613, when he was
presented to Princess Elizabeth, newly married to the Count
Palatine, who was travelling to her new home. Nicholas was
pleased to go in her train of courtiers as far as Amsterdam, but then
begged leave to make his own way. For a full five years he
travelled around Europe, making shorthand notes of his wide range
of adventures, which at one point included a narrow escape from
Mediterranean pirates. He rejoiced in learning more languages, and
felt better for all the exercise.
He returned to his family in London in 1618, a man of much
widened experience. There was talk of the Virginia Company, a
fairly new venture in America. The colonists in their plantations
could supply many goods to Britain, but most notably tobacco.
There was a novel proposal that, rather than just work to orders
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from London, they might operate through a General Assembly of
the local people. Nicholas Ferrar was most interested in this, and
when it was so established in 1619, joined with the MPs and
statesmen who were shareholders to promote its success. He
showed a remarkable skill at managing, from London, a good result
in all manner of detail. His skill at provisioning each new
expedition was appreciated, and he made valuable contacts with
France about sources of silkworms, and their care. The latter
enabled a silk trade to be started in Virginia. He was made King’s
Counsel for the plantation workers. Consulting with Sir Edwyn
Sandys, Nicholas wrote a constitution by which the colonists could
work, which was published in 1621.
The Virginia Company was very successful, but thereby aroused
the opposition of King James I, who wanted to promote the import
of tobacco from the Spanish colonies, rather than the Virginian
produce. This contest became gradually more severe, and
scandalous (as is traced in great detail in Forbes’ book) 2, with
Nicholas taking a leading role in promoting the Company. The
conclusion of this contest is seen in quoting Forbes from his page
430 thus:“Nicholas Ferrar was sent to the House of Commons with a
petition, which was well received, but James forbade Parliament to
meddle with colonial matters, and this hope was dashed to the
ground.” So it was, in 1624, that the King revoked the Virginia
Company’s licence to trade, and the colony ceased to prosper.
After all the legal processes of this conflict, Nicholas and his
elder brother John had lost most of their financial resources, and
were understandably disheartened. Nicholas modified his own
aspirations, resolving to seek a simple life. Indeed, it is related that
he had received, through a rich friend with a daughter, an attractive
proposition of marriage, with a large dowry, which he most
elegantly refused.
By the spring of 1625 he had purchased in his mother’s name
“the complete lordship” of Little Gidding (Forbes page 463). In the
summer of that year there was also the funeral of James I and the
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accession of Charles I, which gave Nicholas little joy. Of more
serious concern was the appearance in London of the plague,
initially near the river and the docks. Nicholas urgently sent his
mother and remaining family into the country. He risked remaining
in London to clear up financial and other matters for himself and
brother John; he also found tenants for their London home. John
had gone to make some preliminary arrangements at Little Gidding,
and with the turn of the year, Nicholas joined him.
With much to do in their new home, one matter had precedence.
Nicholas contacted his former tutor and Dean at Clare, Dr Lindsell,
seeking help in becoming ordained as deacon, for which he had
been making diligent preparation. It was so arranged that, early on
Trinity Sunday, Nicholas Ferrar and Dr Lindsell rode to
Westminster chapel, where the Dean (soon to be bishop) Laud
conducted the laying-on of hands. As deacon, Nicholas could then
minister to his family community.
The community, initially all family members, numbered around
forty and settled into a simple pattern of life: the small chapel
would hardly accommodate all at once. The surrounding pasture
was rented to tenants, and other local sources of necessities would
readily sell produce at a helpful rate. It was a great joy to both
Nicholas and to George Herbert (the notable Anglican poet) that
they lived only six miles apart, and they had frequent meetings.
After Herbert’s death in 1633, Nicholas Ferrar played a major part
in the publication of George Herbert’s poems. (Barnabas Oley,
another Clare Hall Fellow, later published an edited version of
them, with a preface.)
Much has been written about the community, but this lies
beyond the scope of this article. Nicholas Ferrar died in 1637, and
was buried near his chapel; it was fortunate that he did not see the
wanton damage which it suffered in the Civil War, when the
Roundhead troops made a bonfire of the organ and church
panelling. It seems that Nicholas Ferrar was admired by all who
met him in his life (except King James!).
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The picture (see page 43) is an 1867 copy of the original, dated
1617 and held at Magdalene College; the copy was possibly given
by the Revd H J Carter about 1897.
John Moore (1646 – 1714) 1, 2
John Moore, who became Bishop of Ely, was born near Market
Harborough and came to Clare Hall as ‘sizar’ (receiving some help
from the College) ‘and pupil to Mr Mowsse’ in 1662. He graduated
as BA in 1666 and was elected a Fellow in the following year. In
1670 he became chaplain to Heneage Finch, who was subsequently
lord chancellor and first earl of Nottingham.
John was ordained priest by the bishop of Ely in 1671. This
event, and his subsequent elevation to the episcopate, were said to
cause John’s father, Thomas, great displeasure. He had given his
son a good education, but ‘never intended him for the Episcopate
order’. John was obliged to repay the cost of his education. He was
installed as a canon at Ely in 1679.
John Moore was a popular preacher, and filled many pulpits in
London, including sermons delivered, from 1689, as chaplain to
William III and Mary II. He was consecrated bishop of Norwich in
1691, and continued to preach, with many of his sermons being
published, and some in several editions. Many of his sermons were
warnings against Catholicism, and a collection of such works was
translated into Dutch and published in Holland. A further collection
was soon produced, in both Dutch and French editions. While
bishop of Norwich, John built up his extensive library of books and
manuscripts. In this task, he was helped by successive chaplains,
one of whom was William Whiston (q.v.). Forbes 2 indicates that
John Moore helped Whiston significantly, both as an undergraduate
and in his starting of his career.
In 1707, the new Queen Anne promoted John Moore to the
bishopric of Ely, although he was a ‘low-churchman’ and she
generally preferred high-church clergy. When he visited
Cambridge in 1708, he received an address from his college which
refers to his munificent gifts to Clare Hall Library, and to the help
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he had given in the rebuilding of the College. Since becoming
bishop of Ely, he had begun to rebuild and repair the Episcopal
house in Ely Place, Holborn. By 1712, he had moved and organised
there his enormous collection of books, which he was happy to
display to visitors.
His friend, Richard Bentley, was proposed as bishop of
Chichester in 1709, and had John’s support. Then, in 1714, John
Moore was the Visitor for Trinity College, and had to conduct a
trial of Bentley, Master of Trinity, ‘for encroaching on the
privileges of the college fellows’. During the long sittings at Ely
house which the trial demanded, John caught cold and died, before
being able to pass judgement on Bentley.
John Moore was buried in Ely Cathedral, and there is a
monument to him in the south aisle. His library, of some 29,000
volumes and 1,790 manuscripts, was eventually sold to King
George I, who gave it to the University of Cambridge in 1715. It
immediately became known as the Royal Library, and brought the
university library into international prominence.
William Whiston (1667 – 1752) 1, 2, 5
William Whiston was educated at home by his father, for whom
he also acted as amanuensis, and he attended grammar school at
Tamworth between 1684 and 1686. As the second surviving son he
inherited the family library and provision for university ‘that he
may be an able minister of the New Testament’. He entered Clare
Hall, Cambridge, as a sizar in September 1686.
He excelled as a student, taking a keen interest in Mathematics,
and graduated BA in 1689. Two years later, he was elected to the
Exeter Fellowship, and in 1693 was promoted to probationary
Senior Fellow. He established himself as a tutor at Clare Hall, and
counted among his students the nephew of Archbishop Tillotson (a
portrait of whom hangs in the Hall). He was ordained a deacon by
William Lloyd, the bishop of Lichfield, who is described as a
‘prophetic exegete’, and may have contributed to William
Whiston’s interest in biblical prophecy.
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In 1694, his poor health prompted him to resign his tutorship,
and transfer his pupils to Richard Laughton. William then replaced
Richard as chaplain to John Moore, bishop of Norwich (q.v.).
Though now travelling more, William retained his fellowship at
Cambridge and made further efforts to understand the work of Isaac
Newton. He thought highly of Newton’s mathematics and wrote his
own book, A New Theory of the Earth, dedicated to Newton, in
1696. In it, he combined Newton’s physics with John Woodward’s
geology, offering confirmation of scriptural accounts of the creation
and the flood. He also suggested that planets were built up from
comets, and that the near approach of a comet had started the
diurnal rotation of the earth, and perhaps also, condensation of the
comet’s tail had caused the flood. (! Ed.)
The New Theory book attracted much attention, and went to
several editions, with translations into German and French. In
1698, Bishop Moore secured a living in Suffolk for Whiston,
replacing his chaplaincy at Norwich, and putting 2000 parishioners
in his care. The next year, William resigned his fellowship at Clare
Hall, and married, as it happened, the daughter of his headmaster at
Tamworth. Shortly after this, Newton called him to Cambridge,
with the full income of the professorship; by this time, Newton
himself had become Warden of the Royal Mint.
In December 1701, Newton resigned his chair, and in 1702
Whiston was elected as the third Lucasian Professor of
Mathematics. In this post, he published many more books reexpressing the new mathematical theories in a way more accessible
to students than Newton’s original publications. Less helpfully, he
continued to write on biblical prophesy, and embraced an antitrinitarian theology, similar to Arianism, and sought the support of
the vice-chancellor of the university for his views. He also
contacted the archbishops of York and Canterbury, and published a
heretical work, Sermons and Essays, in 1709. He was, as a result of
all this, expelled from his chair and from the university.
William Whiston then withdrew to London, and lectured on
astronomy and physics, and gave tuition in mathematics. His
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prosecution as a heretic was begun, but never reached a verdict.
Course notes are still preserved which cover a wide range of topics
describable as ‘natural philosophy’, and the relevant lectures were
delivered next door to the Royal Society, in Crane Court.
Whiston also played an important role in early eighteenthcentury attempts to determine longitude at sea, having been
interested in this problem from his days as Lucasian professor. He
was convinced that a reliable method would benefit both safety and
trade. He suggested a number of methods, which were ingenious,
but impractical.
Another facet of his activity was a study of scriptural prophesy.
He studied the texts, sometimes suggesting corrections of ‘previous
errors’, and picked out many records showing prophesies being
fulfilled. He then looked for contemporary events which might be
fulfillment of prophesy. He suggested that earthquakes in London,
in 1750, might be divine judgment on the wicked city of London.
William Whiston eventually fell out of sympathy with the
Anglican liturgy, and was more drawn to the General Baptists.
Nevertheless, after his death in 1752, he was laid to rest in an
Anglican church. He wrote many books, but one of his best-known
achievements was his translation of the writings of Josephus, a
Jewish historian of the first century AD. The translation was
published in 1737.
Clare has two portraits of Whiston: (see page 44) his depiction
as aged about 53 is a copy of one in the National Portrait Gallery,
which is itself a copy of an original dated 1720. The ‘younger
Whiston’ was purchased by the College in 1987, and is believed to
have been painted in the 18th century (so he would have been at
least 34).
Martin Folkes (1690 – 1754) 1, 2, 5
Martin Folkes was born in 1690 to a father of the same name,
who was one of the benchers at Gray’s Inn. His son was educated
privately for seven years by a teacher who had formerly been a
professor of Hebrew at Saumur University. Shortly after his
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father’s death in 1705, he was sent to Clare Hall, and he was
admitted as a fellow-commoner in 1706. He had inherited a
substantial estate from his father, which allowed him an easy life of
leisure and study.
Martin made such impressive progress in his studies,
particularly in Mathematics and Philosophy, that he was proposed
for membership of the Royal Society at the age of just 23. He made
such continual advancement, with publications mainly on
astronomical subjects, that he was elected as vice-president in 1723
(with Sir Isaac Newton as president).
On Newton's death in 1727, Martin Folkes participated in a
heated contest for the presidency with the other vice-president, Sir
Hans Sloane, a contest which he lost, and he was dismissed from
the Royal Society's committee. Later, for just over two years, 173335, Martin took his family on a tour of Germany and Italy. They
spent some time in Venice, Rome and Florence. Martin developed
an interest in antiquities, but in Rome his wife, Lucretia, ‘grew
religiously mad’, to the extent that, on their return to England, she
was confined to a lunatic asylum.
From notes made on his tour, Martin was able to write a
dissertation on ancient coins, and to publish other papers on
subjects such as Roman columns. But he kept up an interest in
scientific subjects, and with his friends in the Royal Society. In
1739, he and his son visited France, to see the Academies there, and
to make further contacts.
When, in 1741, Sloane resigned his position as president of the
Royal Society for health reasons, Martin Folkes was unanimously
chosen to succeed him. In 1742, he was elected a foreign fellow of
the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris, and various other
honours followed. He was also President of the Society of
Antiquaries, and gained for that body a charter from the king in
1751, after which its members could be called fellows.
In his later years, his health gradually failed, and he requested
that his papers should be destroyed, and this was done after his
death in 1754. Among his bequests was an annuity for his wife.
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During his lifetime, he gave Clare a fine pair of candlesticks. The
portrait, a copy of the Hogarth original (1741), was given by the
Revd H J Carter in 1895. (see page 44)
Thomas Woodroofe (1750 – 1817) 3, 5
We have remarkably little detailed information about this
alumnus. He was admitted sizar in 1765, and became a scholar in
his progress to BA in 1770, and MA three years later. Thomas was
elected a Fellow in 1770, ordained deacon in 1773, and priest in the
following year. He is recorded as being Rector of Ockley (Surrey),
1784–1817, and of Oving (Sussex), 1799–1814, and twice married.
The portrait (see page 44) is dated as 1770, the year he became
a Fellow, but the painter is unknown. It was bought by the College
in 1934, and presumably shows the fashion of a Fellow in Georgian
times.
William Loudon Mollison (1851-1929) 4, 5
William Mollison was born at Aberdeen in 1851. He came to
Clare in 1872 with a Ferguson Scholarship from the University of
Aberdeen. In the next year he won a Foundation Scholarship at
Clare, and in the Tripos of 1876 graduated as Second Wrangler and
Second Smith’s Prizeman. He was immediately elected to a
Fellowship, and became a remarkably successful ‘coach’ in
Mathematics. However, the strain of teaching large numbers of
pupils was too much for his health. He was glad to devote himself
entirely to college work on his appointment as Junior Tutor in 1880.
Two years later, he succeeded Rendel Harris as Mathematical
Lecturer. In 1894, he became Senior Tutor at Clare on the death of
the incumbent. During all these years his energy, vigour and
business capacity were ungrudgingly devoted to the service of the
College. His election to the Council of the Senate in 1892 showed
that these qualities were appreciated in the University generally. He
had a unique knowledge of University statutes and regulations, and
he became the confidential adviser of more than one Vice65
Chancellor. In 1904, he was made Secretary to the General Board
of Studies.
On the death, in 1915, of Dr Atkinson, who had been Master of
Clare for nearly sixty years, Mollison was unanimously elected to
succeed him. But the mastership came to him (to use his own
words) ‘ten years too late’. The thirty five years of tutorial work
had made heavy demands on one who was never robust. He was
greatly troubled by persistent insomnia, which nothing seemed to
relieve. The death of his wife in 1917 was a blow from which he
never fully recovered. She had been his guide and counsellor – an
adviser whose judgement he trusted implicitly.
He resigned his seat on the Council and other outside
appointments, though he continued to take a keen interest in the
welfare of the College, and in the progress of the War Memorial
Court, which was solemnly dedicated by the Visitor (Lord Balfour)
on Armistice Day, 1924.
The Master’s last public appearance was at the Sexcentenary
Celebration in 1926, when the College entertained Princess Mary,
Lord Lascelles and many old Clare men who came up for the
festivities. Already his health was failing, and in 1928 he became
seriously unwell and, by doctor’s orders, left Cambridge in October.
Early in 1929, he was moved to a Nursing Home, where he died,
peacefully in his sleep, on the 10th of March. After a funeral
service in Clare Chapel, he was laid to rest, beside his wife, in St.
Giles’ cemetery.
The portrait, by Henry Lamb, R.A., was commissioned by the
College in 1926. (see page 45)
The published obituary continues:William Mollison was much more than a mathematician: at
Aberdeen he had acquired a fair knowledge of Greek and Latin, and
a love of literature which he never lost. He was a student of history,
especially political history, and of natural science. The best poetry
was an unfailing delight to him, Keats, Browning and Matthew
Arnold being his favourites among the moderns; and he enjoyed a
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good novel. His pupils had been known to say that, when they
discussed with him the subject they were studying, they found that
the Tutor knew more about it than they did.
In many ways he was the ideal Tutor; he would not tolerate
serious breaches of College discipline, and the undergraduates
respected his authority. At the same time, they realised that he was
always ready with counsel and sympathy in their difficulties and
troubles. He knew his men thoroughly, and followed their careers,
both at Cambridge and afterwards, with kindly interest. It added to
his influence that he was eager for the success of the College at
football, cricket and on the river. One of the last questions he asked
as he lay dying was ‘How has the Clare boat fared in the Lent
Races?’. He was greatly cheered by the news that it had made four
bumps.
Under him, Clare grew steadily in numbers and reputation.
Many generations of Clare men remembered gratefully his work as
Tutor. After the War, in which 200 of his pupils laid down their
lives, he seemed to lose something of his old vigour and alertness,
and to take a rather pessimistic view of the world. But he never
wavered in his love for Clare, nor in his desire to promote what he
believed to be its best interests.
References:
1. A very full description is often available in the Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography (Oxford Univ. Press), and this has been the principal source
of information in most of these sketches.
2. Clare College 1326 - 1926, ed. M Forbes (2 Vols).
3. Alumni Cantabrigienses by J & J.A. Venn (2 Parts).
4. Clare Association Annual published with Lady Clare Magazine 1929.
5. Comments about the paintings are drawn from a catalogue by J.W. Goodison
(Cambridge Antiquarian Records Society, 1985).
Peter Knewstubb (1950)
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THE MASTER’S MESSAGE
This year was overshadowed by the tragic death of a final yearstudent, Rebecca Chamberlin, on the eve of the Easter Term. A
hugely talented and popular student of English, Rebecca was a vital
force in the College: former president of the Christian Union,
member of the May Ball Committee, and cox of the College First
VIII. She was killed in a car accident on the way to the Boat Club
training camp at Marlow. It is difficult to convey the sense of loss
and shock in the College and one could not fail to be impressed by
the bravery of her family and friends and the support that members
of the College community showed each other through a very
difficult term. Rebecca will be remembered in our hearts but also in
a boat named after her and in a beautiful bench that will be part of
the re-designed garden in the Colony.
It was also the year that, in the fiftieth anniversary of his
election to a Fellowship, we lost Don Holister. Don was the
College’s first Domestic Bursar and the college’s first Fellow in
Architecture. Over the years with Brian Cooper, and later Brian
Smale-Adams, as Bursar, Don was responsible more than anyone
for the development and maintenance of the college buildings –
both an aesthetic and a practical task. He was deeply involved in
the setting up of Clare Hall. However, primarily we remember him
as a deeply courteous and caring man who was loved by many in
the College and who will be sorely missed by all members of the
Clare community.
The establishment of Clare Hall was one of three decisions
during Eric Ashby’s Mastership that defined the modern College.
The other two decisions were linked and were the two most
important decisions taken by the College in the twentieth century.
The first was the switch to a meritocratic admissions policy – to
seek out the best students irrespective of school and class
background. The second complementary decision was to admit the
best students irrespective of gender. This year marked the 40th
anniversary of the admission of women to Clare. That decision
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improved the College’s academic results, the intellectual distinction
of the Fellowship and profoundly shaped the atmosphere of the
College. The presence of the highest proportion of female Fellows
in a previously male college has, I believe, significantly improved
the rationality of the decision-making and the ordering of priorities
in Clare. I note that we have had two outstanding female senior
tutors in Polly O’Hanlon and Patricia Fara, but also that, during my
time as Master, we have had no female president of the Union of
Clare Students.
In this coming year I am delighted that the College will be able
to send a student to the Athena Global Leadership Institute at
Barnard College in New York, which brings together aspiring
young female leaders from the around the globe. This will be the
latest in a number of remarkable international opportunities for our
students thanks to the generosity of members of the College: for
example, internships and research opportunities at James Watson’s
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, with Mark Poznansky at
Massachusetts General Hospital and, last summer for the first time,
Babak Javid’s laboratory at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
It was a great personal pleasure to have the opportunity to meet
so many members of the College in Australia in the summer when
the choir toured with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. The tour
was a remarkable success for Graham Ross and the choir: selling
out the Sydney Opera House twice, playing to over 20,000 people
in all, and singing with an internationally acclaimed orchestra and
soloists. The performance of Beethoven’s 9th was voted by
Limelight magazine as the best orchestral concert of the year in
Australia. We owe a huge debt to Daryl Dixon for making that tour
happen.
Finally, for all our fears of the impact of large fees on the
numbers of students applying to University and on the deterrent
effect on students from less advantaged backgrounds, I can report
that applications this year to Clare went up by 10%. Seventy per
cent of the home students admitted this October came from the state
sector. I am also pleased to report that out finalists topped the
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university in their exam results and the Natural Scientists did
particularly well. None of this success would be possible without
the support of our members. It is that support that makes being
Master of Clare such a privilege.
THE CLARE ASSOCIATION
REPORT OF THE ALUMNI COUNCIL 2012
The Alumni Council comprises:
Chairman: The Master, as President
Deputy Chairman: Dr Ian Hill OBE (1966)
Secretary of the Association: Dr David Hartley (1956)
Editor of the Clare Association Annual: Dr Peter Knewstubb (1950)
Development Director: Ms Francisca Malarée
Year Group Representatives and representatives of the
Boat Club and Friends of Clare Music;
Union of Clare Students and Middle Combination Room representatives
The constitution of the Alumni Association requires the Alumni
Council to publish an annual report of the Association’s activities.
This is the eighth such report since the Association was reformed
and the Council established in 2005.
The Alumni Council has two committees: the Annual Fund
Committee, which advises on fund-raising for the annual fund, and
the Events Committee, which advises on the programme of events
organised for the benefit of alumni.
The Council and its
committees conduct most of their business through electronic mail,
the Council itself meeting once a year and the committees twice a
year.
In 2012, the Annual Fund had raised £320,000 targeted at
undergraduate and postgraduate student support and College
teaching, and the focus for 2013 would also include the
refurbishment of Old Court and the College endowment. The
Events Committee reviewed the growing diversity of alumni events
which now include reunion and other special dinners, dinners and
reunions held abroad and specialised visits such as to sporting and
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other relevant venues. The Committee paid particular attention to
how to encourage year group representatives and other alumni to
organise events in regional and international localities.
The Council established the annual Alumnus of the Year Award
in 2009, and has announced that the recipient in 2013 will be
Jonathan Lane OBE (1976). The winner has custody of a bronze
sculpture made by Clare alumna Ms Angie Harlock-Wilkinson, and
is also invited to address the Half-Way dinner attended by secondyear students.
A major item for discussion by the Council was the new
development strategy which looks forward to the College’s 700th
anniversary in 2026. This will involve a campaign to raise £50
million to fund a range of new initiatives, engaging the combined
efforts of the fellowship and alumni.
Finally, the Council reviewed its own way of working. It has
followed a practice of holding its meeting in December, and this is
now considered both inflexible and increasingly inconvenient for
members. It was decided to move the meeting to late September to
enable a fuller day of meetings and discussion groups. The next
meeting will therefore be held on Saturday, 21 September 2013.
David Hartley (1956)
THE LADY CLARE FUND
Council of the Lady Clare Fund
Chairman:
The Master
College Members:
Dr. Ken Riley, Prof Tim Smiley, Mr.Colin
Turpin, Prof Alison Sinclair
Members elected to represent the Association:
Dr. Gordon Wright, Dr Paul Austin,
Dr. Michael Bown, Ms. Elisabeth Marksteiner
Hon. Secretary:
Mr. Colin Turpin
Hon. Treasurer:
Dr. Michael Bown
The Lady Clare Fund was founded in 1934 by members of the
Clare Association to provide help on a strictly confidential basis to
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alumni of the College, or their dependants, who find themselves in
financial difficulties. 'Dependants' include those of deceased
members. Need may arise through old age, ill health, widowhood
or natural disabilities; temporary help may be needed with
completion of professional training or with expenses arising from
taking up new work, perhaps following redundancy. These latter
may be met by short-term loans.
For the Fund to carry on its work effectively, continuing support
from donations and bequests is needed. Contributions should be
sent to the Honorary Treasurer, Dr M.G. Bown, at Clare College.
The Fund is a registered Charity and reports annually to the Charity
Commissioners. Donations from UK taxpayers may be enhanced
by Gift Aid, as for donations to Clare (see page 37)
The Fund’s income comes from dividends and donations, and of
course from the repayment of loans. There is no financial support
from the College as such. Our dividend income has been
significantly reduced, and despite a steady level of donations we
have perforce been less generous than formerly with grants and
loans. This year we made grants totalling £4,500 to three qualified
applicants, one to help recover his career after a business failure, the
others to help them in starting their careers. Loans in total £2,750
went mostly to a man after a business failure, with some hope of
recovery.
Our financial position will be improved, if and when more of
the outstanding loans can be repaid. There has been some
improvement, but the total owed is still about 6 times the annual
revenue.
By its reports in last year's Clare Association Annual, and
through the Clare News, the Fund has informed past members about
how to apply for financial help. Despite the above figures the
Fund's finances still allow us to offer financial assistance, in cases
of real need, consistently with the aims of the Charity. Applications
may be made to the Honorary Secretary, Mr C.C. Turpin, Clare
College or to the Master or one of the Tutors. Anyone who thinks
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that another alumnus or a dependant of one may be in need of help
is asked to get in touch with one of these.
‘OLD CLARE’ NEWS
1927
William Scott Morton—has died, aged 103, probably the oldest
alumnus at this time; see obituaries.
1928
1929
Terence V.H.Coffey—news reaches us of his death, ‘a few years
ago’.
1930
P.Noel Hartley—reached his 100th birthday on 12.12.2011, and
was interviewed for Clare News 29, plus a photo. Now news
reaches us of his death on 12.4.2012, aged 100.
1931
1932
Garth L.Doubleday—news reaches us of his death on 26.9.2012,
aged 99. He read Agriculture.
Maurice Pettitt (The Rev’d)—news reaches us of his death on
11.4.2012, aged 98.
1933
Paul E.Queneau—we have news of his death, after a brief bout of
‘flu, at the age of 101; see obituaries.
1934
Derrick N.Lawley—news reaches us of his death on 27.2.2012; he
read Mathematics; see obituaries.
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1935
Anthony T.Chapman-Purchas—sadly, news reaches us of his death
on 20.9.2012; he was aged 96, and seemed to have outlived all
his close Cambridge contemporaries.
1936
1937
1938
Donal R.Barnes—news reaches us of his death on 7.8.2012, aged
94.
Arthur Terence Lecky—we hear that he ‘passed away’ on
16.11.2012, aged 93; he read Modern & Medieval Languages.
Donald W.O’Connell—news reaches us of his death on
10.10.2012; he read Economics.
1939
Anthony R,Buckley—news reaches us of his death on 21.9.2012.
Arthur Park--news reaches us of his death on 10.10.2012; he read
Mechanical Sciences.
1940
Patrick I.J.K.Sparrow—news reaches us of his death on 26.5.2012;
he read Mechanical Sciences.
1941
Ian M.D.Potter—news reaches us of his death on 24.7.2012; he
read Mechanical Sciences.
James G.(Tim) Tatham—news reaches us of his death in June
2012, aged88; he read Engineering Sciences.
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1942
year representative: Mr Alan Swindells
Graham B.S.Chase—news reaches us in September 2012 of his
passing away ‘recently’.
J.A.(Tony) Farrer-Halls—news reaches us of his death in Devon,
peacefully in his bed after a long struggle with failing health, on
17.4.2012.
Michael E.F.Howarth—news reaches us of his death on 16.7.2012,
aged 88; see obituaries.
A.A. (Alec) Robinson—news reaches us that he died on 4.11.2012,
after a fall in the garden, when he was collecting apples; see
obituaries.
Thomas F.Stanton—news reaches us of his death on 9.7.2012; he
came to Clare from Repton, and read Natural Sciences.
Charles K.M.Stewart—news reaches us that he died in August
2012; he read Agriculture.
P.F.T.C.Stillwell—news reaches us of his death on 11.1.2012, aged
87; he read Natural Sciences and Chemical Engineering.
1943
year representative: Mr John Appleton
Arthur P.A.Cargill—came here on a Naval Short Course in 1943;
news now reaches us of his death on 5.2.2012.
Peter R.Doidge—news reaches us of his death on 11.3.2012, aged
85.
Harry M.Fairhurst—news reaches us of his death on 17.10.2011; he
was the elder brother of Ian Fairhurst (1948), whose death was
noted, with an obituary, in the last issue of the Annual. See
obituaries for an appreciation of Harry Fairhurst.
Anthony McClellan—(CBE); news reaches us of his death, aged
86, on 8.4.2012.
Kenneth R.Wallace—news reaches us of his death on 8.12.2011; he
read for Medicine.
year representative:
1944
Anthony W.Furse—news reaches us of his death. He contributed a
note of encouragement to the Annual just two years ago.
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1945
year representative:
Gordon Homer Evans—news reaches us of his death on 4.3.2011,
aged 83; he read Natural Sciences.
C.B.H.Gill—news reaches us of his death on 7.3.2012, aged 84; he
read Law.
Derek R.D.Gransden—news reaches us of his death on 15.2.2012,
aged 84; he read Chemical Engineering.
Roger N.Hilton—news reaches us of his death on 20.6.2012; see
obituaries.
W.(Bill) Johnson—news reaches us of his death on 17.10.2012; he
read Physics.
1946
year representative: Dr Michael Bown
B.A. (Bernie) Abeywickrama—news reaches us of his death in Sri
Lanka on 3.5.2011; see obituaries.
John W.Glen—in the summer of 2010, was interviewed by
someone from the British Library for their programme National
Life Stories: an Oral History of British Science.
Lintorn T.Highett—his death was noted in the last issue; now see
obituaries.
William D.Oxenham—news reaches us of his death, aged 84, on
8.2.2012.
1947
year representative: Dr Duncan Poore
Derek A.L.Paul—participated as a panelist on New Economics, in
Ottawa, at a symposium hosted by the Canadian Association of
the Club of Rome, October 2011.
1948
year representative:
David W.Atkinson—news reaches us of his death on 27.10.2012,
aged 86.
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1949
year representative: Mr Andrew Stuart CMG
John M.Attenborough—news reaches that he passed away on
9.11.2012; he read Modern Languages, and was the younger
brother of Sir David Attenborough.
James C. McVeigh—news reaches us of his death.
year representative: Prof Alan Gillett OBE DSc
1950
The Rev’d David P.Brewster—news reaches us of his death in
September 2012.
John G.Marks—news reaches us of his death on 31.10.2012.
Frank A.Ruhemann—news reaches us of his death on 24.1.2012,
aged 81.
1951
year representative: Mr Dermot Hoare
William (Bill) G.Shepard—news reaches us of his passing away on
12.9.2012; he is survived by his wife, Etel; see obituaries.
1952
year representative: Dr John Owen MBE
David C.Knight—news reaches us of his death on 12.2.2012; he
read biochemistry, and also was ordained in the Church.
G.M.H. (Martin) Murphy—has recently had two books published in
Spain, under titles Ingleses de Sevilla (2012) and El Ensueno de la
razon: la vida de Blanco White (2011).
K.W.(Bill) Wedderburn—(Fellow, and Hon Fellow), died
peacefully at home on 9.3.2012; see obituary on page 11.
Robert B.Woodd-Walker—news reaches us of his death on
15.12.2011; he came to Clare from Rugby, and read for
Medicine.
1953
year representative: Mr David Kirkman
Donald C.M.Corbett--news reaches us of his death on 23.11.2012;
he read Agricultural Science.
Simon Whitmore—news reaches us of his death on 4.6.2012, aged
79; he read Law.
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1954
year representative: Mr Michael Woods
Jonathan D.Bird—news reaches us of his death, aged 78, on
7.5.2012; he read Law.
Peter J.D.Marshall—news reaches us of his death on 9.6.2012,
aged 78; he was noted as a Yorkshire philanthropist; see
obituaries.
Timothy (Tim) J.Rix—news reaches us of his death on 8.11.2012,
aged 78; see obituaries.
year representative: Mr Michael Sullivan
1955
A.G.Munro (Sir Alan)--for an extended review of his diplomatic
career see Clare News 30.
1956
year representative: Mr Stephen Jackobi OBE
Edward St J.Brice—‘died peacefully in his sleep on 29.7.2011,
after a short illness’; see obituaries.
Michael G.Downey—news reaches us of his death.
1957
year representative: Mr Ruscombe Westmacott
1958
year representative: The Rt Hon. the Lord Hacking
Paul Grundy--news reaches us of his death in January 2013; he was
an Emeritus Prof. in Structural Engineering.
William S.Woolcock—news reaches us of his death on 16.9.2012.
1959
year representative: Mr Brian Hughes
Brian G.Odell—news reaches us of his death; see obituaries.
year representative: Mr John Biggs
1960
A.Jonathan (Jon) P.Jackson—news reaches us of his death on
29.12.2011; see obituaries.
1961
year representative: Prof Hugh Macmillan, Mr Robert
Wootton
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1962
year representative: Mr John Naylor OBE, Mr Charles
Wright
Anthony Barker—(QC); news reaches us of his death in March
2011.
F.D. (Don) Holister—(Fellow); we record his death on 10.8.2012;
see the tribute on page 6.
year representative: Dr P K Chatterji, Mr John Clare
1963
Brian T.Colvin--awarded a Queen’s Medal by Queen Mary
College, Univ. of London ‘for an exceptional and sustained
contribution over many years’; for more comment and a photo
see Clare News 30.
Nicholas M.Keen—news reaches us of his death on 1.7.2012, aged
66.
1964
year representative: Col. Colin Heggie
Ronald D.Parkinson—news reaches us that he ‘passed away’ in
November 2012; he read Architecture and Fine Art; see
obituaries.
1965
year representative: The Rev’d Roger Stoakes
Richard P.L.Beauchamp—news reaches us of his death, aged 64,
on 1.10.2011; he read Mechanical sciences.
1966
year representative: Mr Norman Dawson
1967
year representative: Mr John Speed
Michael Kinghan--awarded the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday
Honours list ‘for services to sustainability and biodiversity in
Staffordshire and the West Midlands’.
Stephen B.Rofe—news reaches us of his death on 21.2.2012.
1968
year representative: Dr Laurence Gerlis
1969
year representative: Mr Mohammed Amin
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Malcolm Adams—news reaches us that he passed away on
2.1.2013, aged 62 years. He was Prof. of Clinical Psychology
at the Univ. of East Anglia.
A.C.S.Allan (Sir Alex)—created KCB in the New Year’s Honours
List.
1970
year representative: Brig. Rod Croucher CBE
1971
year representative: Mr Peter Jones TD
M.J. (Sir Mark) Walport—(recently elected an Hon Fellow at
Clare) has been selected as the Government’s next Chief
Scientific Adviser, from April 2013.
1972
year representative: Mr Nigel Puttick
Paul C.Austin—news reaches us of his death on 13.10.2012; Paul's
funeral was held in Cambridge UK on Oct 25. A Memorial Service
was held at St Andrews-on-the-Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand,
on Dec 22.
year representative: Lady Jackson, Mr Andrew Stott
1973
Sophie C.Hamilton—became a senior partner in the law firm
Forsters from 2001-08 – one of the few women to occupy that
role in a leading West End firm. Sadly, she died in November
2012, aged 57; see obituaries.
1974
year representative: Ms Yvonne Jerrold
Kathryn A.Foster (née Johnson)—news reaches us of her death
about three years ago.
Judith A.Newman--awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday
Honours list ‘for services to scholarship’; Judith is Prof. of
American Studies at the Univ. of Nottingham.
G.F. (Fred) Parker—(Fellow); awarded a University Pilkington
Prize for teaching.
1975
year representative: Dr David Livesley
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1976
year representative: Dr Antony Socrates
Jonathan W.M.Lane—(OBE) elected through the Alumni Council
as Alumnus of the Year for 2013. Jon began his career with the
charity Water Aid, where he applied his skills as a civil
engineer to help people in developing countries secure ready
access to clean water. He went on in this, to become Executive
Director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Council at his
retirement in 2012.
Eric Perkins—news reaches us of his death on 31.3.2011.
1977
year representative: Mr Harvey Brough, Mrs Jocelyn
Miles
Andrew W.Sentance—appointed CBE in the New Year’s Honours
List.
1978
year representative: Mrs Maxine Taylor
1979
year representative: Dr Choon Joo Kho
Alice Welbourn—was elected as Clare’s Alumna of the Year for
2012. She spoke movingly to the second-year students at their
Halfway Hall dinner in February on awareness of AIDS, and on
her personal involvement in the syndrome. See Clare News 29
for a complete account of her talk.
1980
year representative: Mr Dominic Haigh
Philip J.Greenwood—news reaches us of his death in 2012; he read
Engineering.
1981
year representative: Dr David Smith, Mr Anthony
Davis
1982
year representative: Miss Clare Gough
Paul Klenerman—now Professor of Immunology at Oxford, and
seeking vaccines for hepatitis C. For a career survey and a
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current picture, see Clare News 29, where it is also recalled
that, in 1984, Paul fenced for the British Olympic team at Los
Angeles.
1983
year representative:
Marian B.Holness—shared, with one other, the Sedgwick Prize
2012 for an essay in Geology or a related topic.
1984
year representative: Mr Robert Damms
1985
year representative: Ms Elisabeth Marksteiner
1986
year representative: Dr Ratul Roy
1987
year representative: Ms Miranda Fyfe
1988
year representative: Ms Sophie Palmer
Neil C.Greenham—awarded the Kavli Medal of the Royal Society,
and will deliver the linked Lecture on 17.4.2013.
1989
year representative: Mr Benjamin Rigby
Paula R.Daniels (Dr Harrison)—news reaches us of her death, after
a short illness, on 20.9.2012, aged 41; see obituaries.
1990
year representative: Dr Matt Walpole
Emma-Jane Carter (née Little)—news reaches us of her death on
13.8.2012, aged 41; see obituaries.
1991
year representative: Ms Kirstin Green
1992
year representative: Mr Christopher Withers
1993
year representative: Miss Melanie Gerlis, Ms Sally
Hotchkin
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1994
year representative: Ms Jessica Spence, Dr Anna
Dempster
1995
year representative: Mrs Anna Forrest
1996
year representative: Miss Emily Benson
1997
year representative: Mr Ashish Gupta
1998
year representative: Mr Stuart Middleton
1999
year representative: Dr Richard Flower
2000
year representative: Mrs Simone Münich
Jacqueline Rose--has won the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield
Prize, awarded to the best book on British history by a debut
writer. For more, see Clare News 30.
2001
year representative: Mr Richard Eyre
Harriet Muller—is pursuing a very successful career as an artist,
and is now living in Bournemouth. She is said to be open to
commissions. For more, with a current picture of her, see Clare
News 29.
2002
year representative: Dr Richard Haddon
2003
year representative: Mr Joshua Alexander
2004
year representative: Mr Michael Malley
2005
year representative: Mr Johnny Langridge, Miss
Imogen Begg
2006
year representative: Miss Yuelin Li
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2007
year representative: Mr Stuart Sheppard
Jutta Wellmann—a PhD student who died, after a short and sudden
illness, on 4.9.2011, aged 28. She had been a researcher at the
Gurdon Institute.
year representative:
2008
Amy Buchanan-Hughes--instead of pursuing a PhD study, as first
intended, she founded a charity called TASTE for Science, and
will be spending the next four years teaching science in
Uganda; for more see Clare News 30.
Tillmann Taape—awarded the Lipton Prize for the best overall
performance in Part III of History and Philosophy of Science.
2009
year representative: Mr William Wynell-Mayow
Rebecca J.Chamberlin—a third-year student, who tragically died in
a car accident on 19.4.2012; see the Master’s Notes for further
information.
Maximillian Evans—awarded the Falcon Chambers Prize for Land
Law.
Theodor Kung—awarded the Donald Wort Prize for the highest
mark in a musical recital.
Anne Turberfield—spent nine weeks at Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory, as the first recipient from Clare of a J.D.Watson
Scholarship, on which she was congratulated in last year’s issue
of the Annual. For more, see Clare News 29.
2010
year representative:
Alexandra Batchelor--was elected J.D.Watson scholar for 2012,
and spent ten weeks of the summer at Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory; for more, see Clare News 30.
William Cole—is congratulated on winning the Clare College
Chamber Music Composition Competition; his trio for clarinet,
violin and ‘cello will be premièred by three Clare musicians on
Sunday the 4th of March in Clare College Chapel.
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In November 2012, William was also declared the winner of the
Carol Composition, with a setting of Rorate caeli which
‘showed great imagination and skill’. His carol will be
premièred in the Advent Carol service.
Tom Ingleby—awarded the Wiltshire Prize for the sciences of
Geology and Mineralogy, and also the Mapping Scholarship of
the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain.
2011
year representative:
Damian Platt—a graduate seeking a Master’s degree studying
International Relations, was awarded the MBE for his previous
work in the favelas, or shanty towns, of Rio de Janiero; he
received the award at Buckingham Palace in December 2011.
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OBITUARIES
BARTHOLOMEUSZ ARISTIDES ABEYWICKRAMA,
a
botanist from Sri Lanka, died on 3.5.2011 at the age of 91. He was
educated in Ceylon (as it then was called), and distinguished
himself academically at Royal College, Colombo, before entering
the University of Ceylon, Colombo, in 1937.
A scholarly achievement of his schooldays was a precursor to
his later life. The school he was attending offered a prize in
‘Christian knowledge’. Though Bernie (as he was familiarly
known) was, and remained, a devout Buddhist all through his life,
he decided this was interesting, took up the challenge of studying
this religion and won the prize.
His studies at the University gained him an external BSc degree
of the University of London in 1941. He was appointed an
Assistant Demonstrator in Botany at the University College,
Colombo in 1942. He was then awarded a Government Science
Scholarship for research on temperate woodlands, which brought
him to Clare in 1946.
Bernie very much enjoyed this period, which included going on
his bicycle to his locations of research. He obtained his PhD in 1949
for his thesis A Study of the Variations in the Field Layer
Vegetations of Two Cambridgeshire Woods and returned to the
University of Ceylon to take up an appointment as Lecturer. He
was appointed Professor of Botany in 1965.
His services were then much sought after, until he retired in
1985, being appointed Emeritus Professor and receiving an
Honorary degree of DSc. He also had the signal honour of being
appointed as the first Vice-Chancellor of the (amalgamated)
University of Sri Lanka.
While he enjoyed all he set his mind to, he took particular
satisfaction in his assignment as member of the UNESCO Advisory
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Committee to the Director-General on Humid Tropics Research
(1959-1964). His contribution to the revision of Trimen’s Flora of
Ceylon is another of the scientific works for which he will be
remembered, both locally and internationally.
A noteworthy incident occurred during his term on the first
Board of the Central Environmental Authority. At a Board Meeting
it was reported that the waters of the Beira Lake had turned green
and that the Prime Minister, Ranasinghe Premadasa, (under whom
the CEA functioned) had been advised that an industrial
establishment had been dumping green paint into the lake.
Professor Abeywickrama looked thoughtful on hearing this, asked
for a sample to examine under a microscope and established that it
was a case of eutrophication by minute algae and other microorganisms due to pollution of the lake. The Police, for one, were
extremely grateful for this information since they were being
pressed from above to apprehend those who were guilty of dumping
green paint into the lake.
Another aspect during his service on the Board of the CEA was
his battle against a poorly-conducted ‘Forestry Master Plan’. The
country owes a considerable debt of gratitude to Professor
Abeywickrama for his selfless and protracted exertions on this
matter against much opposition. If that Master Plan had gone
through in its original form, it would have been disastrous for the
forests of his country.
EDWARD St JOHN BRICE died ‘peacefully in his sleep’ on
29.7.2011, after a short illness. His father, Walter Brice, was at
Clare in the years 1929-32. Edward was educated at Tonbridge
School, where he was noted for his playing in cricket and Rugby,
and was Head Boy in 1954. Before going to Cambridge, he was
commissioned in The Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs), in
1955.
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He came to Clare in 1956 to read Law and Economics, and also
played Cricket and Rugby for the College. After graduation,
Edward returned to Kent to run the family farm, but really devoted
most of this life to working for the County of Kent.
He was a Kent County Councillor, Warden of Rochester Bridge
Trust, Governor of East Malling Research Station, Chairman of
Kent County Agricultural Society and Chairman of Governors at his
old school, Tonbridge. Besides all these, he was appointed High
Sheriff of Kent and Deputy Lieutenant of Kent, and was Master of
the Skinners Company in London 1990-91 and also Director of
Weald Granary.
Edward was a keen sportsman, but particularly in golf; he was a
member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and
Captain of several Golf Clubs and Societies. He is survived by his
wife, Elizabeth, a son and a daughter and five grand-daughters.
EMMA-JANE CARTER (née LITTLE) was diagnosed as having
stomach cancer at the age of just 41. She came to Clare in 1990,
read Modern and Medieval Languages (German and Russian), and
was a choral scholar. She made many friends, and the news of her
death will be a surprise to many of them, as she did not publicise
the fact of her cancer.
The illness was discovered in December 2010, when their
youngest child was only six months old, and she none the less
enjoyed pressing on, establishing with Martin a lovely home with a
settled routine of school and other activities for all three children.
She dwelt on making things normal, as far as possible, and even
began learning the violin in the 18 months of her illness.
From early July 2012, Emma was in Cheltenham Hospital and
well attended in a quiet and comfortable room. She was able to
enjoy watching the Olympic Games transmissions, notably the
men’s tennis final, and appreciated the flowers and visits from
family and a few friends.
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A website at www.martinandemma.com/emma/index has a few
more details; she died peacefully in her sleep on 13.8.2012.
HARRY MARSHALL FAIRHURST, OBE, MA (Cambridge and
Manchester), Dip.Arch., FRIBA, FUMIST, architect, died on 17th
October 2011. He was the eldest of three brothers, all at Clare; Ian
and Alan pre-deceased him.
Towards the end of wartime days at Clifton College (evacuated
to Bude), Harry had an interview at the War Office to determine
fitness, as his hearing had deteriorated following live firing
exercises. It was suggested that, while he might get into the Pay
Corps or the Pioneers, he should rather go to university and learn
something that would be useful after the war; Cambridge and
architecture it would be. Harry came to Clare in 1943, and Henry
Thirkill, the Master, evidently made an early impression at a drinks
party for ‘freshers’, in saying “Gentlemen, I shall only presume to
give you one piece of advice; pay cash.”
Harry applied himself with a will at the school of architecture
on Scroope Terrace. He lived for two years in Memorial Court and
was part of the college fire brigade; wartime duties included
washing up in the college kitchens. A profoundly public-spirited
man, he had an enduring regard for those that fought, and for the
sort of country to which they came back.
From Cambridge he took his Architecture Diploma at North
London Polytechnic, obtaining experience of practice with Louis de
Soissons. In 1949 he joined his father at the family firm in
Manchester, Harry S. Fairhurst and Sons, (later Fairhursts and now
Fairhurst Design Group), becoming a partner in 1950. He entered
private practice in 1981. His professional life was in two parts:
early work was in industrial and technical buildings, including
Manchester’s medical school; in private practice he focused on
conservation, especially work with churches and cathedrals.
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Among his early works were the Shirley Institute in Manchester
and buildings for Reckitts, and work for ICI in Alderley Park began
in 1952. The firm also built much of Christie Hospital, a pioneering
centre of excellence for cancer treatment. Harry enjoyed working
for research, visiting hospitals in Scandinavia, laboratories in North
America. There was a long association with the Manchester
Guardian buildings, ending only with their decision to relocate to
London. On a domestic scale, he found time to design some
ingenious conversions of old buildings into new homes.
Harry understood how the imaginative use of materials affects
the cityscape and public perception, not just the buildings
concerned. He encouraged and employed many working in the
applied arts. He commissioned sculpture from Lynn Chadwick,
notably the Manchester Sun (1963) for the university. Stained glass
artist and sculptor Tony Hollaway installed a major work on the
chemistry building in 1964. Harry worked again with Hollaway
from the 1970s to commission Manchester Cathedral’s beautiful
expressionist stained glass windows in the west wall: Genesis,
Mary, Denys, George and Revelation.
Harry was Manchester Cathedral’s architect from 1970 to 1990.
His care for it, from vestments to masonry, was meticulous and
imaginative; it set standards in intelligent conservation for future
generations. Interested in acoustics and musicianship despite his
deafness, he supported Nicolas Kynaston’s proposals for a new
organ in the cathedral, believing that an instrument modest in scale
and better sited would be desirable. Probably, Harry would regret
that a much more ambitious scheme has since been approved.
He carried out quinquennial inspections of churches and
supervised grant-assisted work to repair historic buildings on behalf
of the Ministry of Works. In 1991 English Heritage commissioned
him to survey all English cathedrals; he re-surveyed several years
later. In retirement he helped to establish the register of Architects
Accredited in Building Conservation and was a familiar face as he
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continued to supervise grant-aided work all over the country. Ever
courteous on site, he was always attentive to the needs and value of
experts and good craftsmen; he celebrated good stewardship.
Among various offices, he was founding chairman of the
Cathedral Architects Association, former Chairman of the
Redundant Churches Uses Committee, and served as President of
the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.
He took a close interest in local affairs, charities for children,
forestry, gardening, the Portico Library, the 20th Century Society
and the Manchester Art Gallery. He was awarded a Civic Trust
medal for Holt House; an honorary degree from Manchester;
fellowships of RIBA and UMIST; an OBE for services to
architecture. Once he finally retired he received a Maundy purse
from the Queen (who was also 80 years old), at Manchester
Cathedral in 2005. Harry is survived by his wife Elizabeth and their
children Kate, Rachel, Philippa and Tim.
SOPHIE CHARLOTTE HAMILTON, a talented lawyer, died
after ‘a short and dreadful illness, borne
with her customary patience and fortitude’,
on 19.10.2012, aged 57. She was educated
at St Mary’s Calne, Marlborough, and came
to Clare in 1973, the second year of
admitting women undergraduates.
Of
course, she read Law.
She joined the law firm Frere
Cholmeley in 1977, and rapidly made her
mark as a commercial property solicitor,
becoming a partner in 1985. Her ability to
give lucid advice on complex matters made her a much sought after
adviser. Theatre was one of her particular interests, and when the
company ‘Cheek by Jowl’ was formed in 1981 she gave good
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advice. Not only that, but she remained on its board as adviser,
director and, later, chairman.
The firm Frere Cholmeley prospered and grew, and eventually a
small group of partners, including Sophie, broke away in 1998 to
found a new firm called Forster’s. This was a small firm
specialising in real estate and private wealth, which grew under her
guidance.
Sophie was noted also for her charitable work, unstintingly
given, as in a trek to Machu Picchu to raise funds for Christian Aid.
She held positions such a Governor of Nottingham Trent
University, and was a Trustee of Church House. In these and many
other connections, she will be sorely missed.
PAULA ROSAMUND HARRISON (née DANIELS), a very
successful research worker in biochemistry,
died on 18.9.2012, aged only 41. She came
to Clare in 1989 to read Natural Sciences,
and amongst other activities was a keen
rower. She was in a Bumps crew who won
‘blades’.
Paula’s PhD thesis (working in York)
concerned the human papilloma virus,
thought to cause cervical cancer. After
this, she worked for a time with Pfizer,
involved in identifying small molecules as
potential drug candidates for a range of diseases.
She married Richard Harrison in 2001, and moved to a senior
scientist position with Cambridge Antibody Technology. She was a
key inventor of the medicine Mavrilimumab, a human antibody
designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis. The drug, now in clinical
trials, targets and blocks a protein implicated in the inflammatory
process.
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Paula’s success in all her work led to her promotion to ‘team
leader’ in 2005. As a result, she became responsible for leading
many projects on drug screening for many respiratory and
inflammatory diseases (e.g. asthma and rheumatoid arthritis).
Success led to further promotion and a widening range of projects,
bearing also on cancer, diabetes and various neurological diseases.
The degree of success was all the more remarkable for her
sharing of research time with raising a family, one child born in
2003 and the second in 2005. She was also a person of great
energy, with many interests in sport and the local community, and
herself playing piano and violin.
Sometime in 2011, Paula was diagnosed with cardiac
amyloidosis, usually considered rare in young people, in which
there is an impediment to proper operation of the heart. She is
survived by her husband, Richard, and their son and daughter.
LINTORN TREVOR HIGHETT, awarded the MC for courage
in the war, has died at the age of 90, on
6.1.2012. He was just 18 when the war
broke out, and we must guess that he
finished his education at Bradfield College
and offered himself for military service.
The principal story told of his service
sees him in the Dorsetshire Regiment,
fighting in the Assam hills of north-eastern
India in 1944. The military imperative was
to retain control of the mountain roads,
which would be, for an enemy, a strategic
route to the Indian plain. The Allied garrison of the village of
Kohima had been fighting for two weeks, in slit trenches, against
relentless shelling. Descriptions of the scene are reminiscent of the
first World War.
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The Dorsetshires were given the task of taking control of the
District Commissioner’s bungalow complex. This had a dominant
position above the road, along which any tanks would have to
travel. The Japanese were dug in to the steeply-terraced hillside,
while the Dorsetshires, supported by the Royal Berkshire Regiment,
counter-attacked. At one stage, each side held part of the
bungalow’s garden, with a tennis court as a no-man’s-land between
them. Hand grenades were being lobbed across like tennis balls.
Captain Highett, in an armoured car, ran the gauntlet of mortar
and artillery shelling, bringing food and ammunition to an isolated
company until his vehicle was knocked out by a direct hit from a
75mm gun. After sappers bulldozed a track up the spur, a tank
managed to climb up to the Dorset’s HQ and slide down onto the
tennis court.
Acting as liaison officer, Highett selected targets for further
tanks that got through to the Dorset’s position. Firing over open
sights, they wreaked havoc on the enemy’s defences, and the
Japanese fled onto the waiting rifles of the Dorsets. For this, and
other incidents demonstrating extreme bravery, Captain Highett was
awarded the Military Cross in 1945.
Lintorn Highett came to Clare in 1946, to an unusual situation.
He was one of a large proportion of students five or six years older
than the other ‘freshers’, and with a vastly wider experience of the
world. He read Classics, and in Part I of the Tripos was noted for
Distinction in Latin verse. In the post-war situation he was able to
take his degree in two years, but in that time also got a Blue in
tennis.
After teaching in a prep school for a time, he was recruited into
the intelligence services, with some postings in Africa. In 1961 he
became a councillor for Clapham, on the London County Council,
and later worked for the RAC as its director for roads. He retired to
London, and remained active into old age with interests in tennis,
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bridge and fell walking. In 1951 he married Jean Montagu, who
survives him, with their son and two daughters.
ROGER NORMAN HILTON, mycologist, was born in
Birmingham in 1927, and died peacefully in Perth, Western
Australia, after heart failure on 20.6.2012.
He was educated at Chigwell House Birmingham and Solihull
Grammar School Warwickshire, and went on to read Natural
Sciences at Clare College Cambridge, 1945-1948. Here he came
under the influence of Harry Godwin, Humphrey Gilbert-Carter and
E.J.H.Corner, previously Assistant Director of Singapore Botanic
Gardens. Roger’s tendency to asceticism came easily in a 1940’s
Clare College, with (some might say) its near monastic ethos, plus
rationing even of bread, potatoes and coal, and no central heating to
temper the easterly winds sweeping across the fens of East Anglia.
Upon graduation he was appointed Plant Pathologist to the
Rubber Research Institute of Malaya.
He made a major
contribution to the control of disease in rubber plantations in
Malaya by the publication of his seminal Maladies of Hevea in
Malaya (Rubber Research Institute, 1959), for which he
commissioned a set of remarkable colour plates by Hoh Choo
Chuan, printed by the Kynoch Press, Birmingham. In his review of
the book S.D.Garrett wrote ‘The Rubber Research Institute of
Malaya has led the world and has won a lasting place in the history
of plant pathology: the mycologist will be no less in debt than the
rubber planter to Mr Hilton for this admirable adjunct to his
knowledge’.
For a time during the Malayan Emergency, over the governing
of Malaya after the War, Roger was seconded as Settlement Officer
for the resettlement village of Semenyi, a key part of the Briggs
Plan to deny manpower, money and food to the communist Chinese
guerrillas. This was a difficult and at times dangerous task for him
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and he was commended by the State of Selangor for his skill and
tact in managing initially hostile squatters.
He took a wide interest in Malayan life and in the establishment
of Templer Park as a 1300 hectare forest reserve close to Kuala
Lumpur. His monograph on The Basic Malay House was published
in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1956. He gave much
support to the maverick editor of Young Malayans Richard Sidney,
an ex-Headmaster of the Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur,
recognising in him a fellow being who was not prepared to follow
the herd without question.
On Malayanisation of his post at the Rubber Research Institute
in 1964, he was appointed as a Lecturer in Botany at the University
of Western Australia, Perth, where his experiences in South-east
Asia, and delight in its people’s culture, were reassuring to students
from that region. He and his students made many advances in the
knowledge of the fungus flora of Western Australia: his former
students Neale Bougher and Katrina Syme acknowledged his
inspiration and help in their land-mark book Fungi of Southern
Australia, and he was instrumental in promoting the knowledge of
the larger fungi to a wider public.
As in Malaya, he quickly became part of the life and culture of
his new country and took Australian Citizenship in 1989. He was a
Volunteer Guide in King’s Park, Perth, showing parties round the
extensive plant collections there. Visitors said that he sounded like
David Attenborough: this was not surprising, as he followed him at
Clare, taking the same Natural Sciences courses. After retirement
he was for a time President of the Volunteer Guides.
In 1992 he gained an honours Degree in South-east Asian
Studies from Murdoch University.
Overall, Roger’s very full life was devoted to education, in the
tradition of his family of four generations of teachers. He is sadly
missed by his wife Leila (nee Looesli), whom he married in 1967,
and by his daughter Line and his son Willoughby.
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MICHAEL EVELYN FRANK HOWARTH, born in 1924, has
died on 16.7.2012. He came to Clare in 1942, and graduated in
Physics in 1945.
Michael joined the staff of the Research Laboratory at Kodak,
based in Harrow, and establishment he served loyally until his
retirement in 1984.
He then moved, with his wife, Madeleine, to Colwall, a village
between Ledbury and Malvern, where he enjoyed his years in
retirement. He received regularly the Clare Association Annual and
other Clare publications, which were, presumably, amongst his
pleasures.
ANTHONY JONATHAN PENDLEBURY JACKSON
was
born in 1941, the son of a naval officer and an actress. At the age
of 12, in Singapore, Jon (as he was usually called) contracted polio,
which affected his whole life. It being before the days of effective
vaccines, Jon completely lost the use of his left leg, and much of the
capacity of the other.
The next year, Jon was sent to Radley College and got on with
his life in a purposeful and determined manner. Despite his
disability, he pursued an interest in sport, which was a powerful
influence. He became involved with the boxing team, as a
‘second’ and coach. His contribution was such that he was awarded
his boxing ‘colours’, an unusual honour. However, he seemed to
have serious difficulty in managing technical, mechanical or
electrical things. This led to his attempt at taking part in rowing, as
a cox, not being a real success. Jon’s school work went well, and
he gained a life-long interest in geography.
Jon came to Clare in 1960, and read Geography. After
graduation, he moved to the USA, where he was involved in urban
development in Atlanta, Georgia, and afterwards in Boston. He
also spent some time in Canada, in the same line of work. By the
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mid 1980’s, Jon’s mother was becoming unwell, and Jon moved
back to the UK, to help to support her. He settled in Felpham, West
Sussex, and became involved with assisting a number of charities
concerned about mobility of the disabled – a field in which Jon had
intimate knowledge.
In 1988, in his capacity as Editor of the Arun Voice, he
interviewed Rosemary Orpin, the then mayor of Littlehampton,
about her organisation of a trip for war veterans to visit the Somme.
This was the beginning of a lasting friendship, based on their shared
participation in charitable work; they married in May 2003. By this
time, Jon’s health became an increasing concern. He had twice
broken a leg, and had diagnoses of cancer and diabetes. Yet he
remained cheerful and busy.
In the summer of 2011, he was travelling towards a holiday in
Guernsey when the vehicle had to brake hard; Jon fell from his
wheelchair, and broke both ankles. During treatment for this, he
was found to have chronic kidney failure. Recovery was slow, and
in December he had to have his left leg amputated. Rosemary
managed to organise his release from hospital, so that he could
spend Christmas at home. However, the strain on his system was
too great, and on the 29th December he suffered a massive heart
attack, from which he did not recover.
DERRICK NORMAN LAWLEY, a statistician, died ‘peacefully
at Murrayfield House’ on 27.2.2012. He came to Clare in 1934,
studied Mathematics and was listed as a ‘wrangler’ (i.e. first class)
in Part II of the tripos in 1936. He took Part III the following year,
with a mark of ‘special credit’, and graduated BA.
Derrick Lawley was considered to be an excellent statistician,
and was especially noted for his work on ‘factor analysis’, an
unravelling of the effects of several influences on some observation,
made repeatedly under controlled conditions. Lawley’s work on
this is still quoted in statistical textbooks.
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Antony Fielding, Professor of Social and Educational Statistics
in the Department of Economics at the University of Birmingham,
worked with Lawley in Edinburgh and described him as a fairly shy
effacing man. He thought his work with Maxwell and Joreskog
helped to make factor analysis something that statisticians could
think seriously about in the early years. He wrote that he had a lot
of respect for Lawley and thought that he did not have the high
profile he deserved when working on what was, in those far-off
days, an unfashionable subject amongst statisticians. Some say that
Lawley’s book with Maxwell, Factor Analysis as a Statistical
Method helped to make factor analysis statistically respectable.
PETER JOHN DIXON MARSHALL was an idiosyncratic
Yorkshire philanthropist, who persuaded
many others to follow his example. He
spent his wartime childhood at Bolton
Abbey, and developed a deep love of nature
in all its aspects. He was educated at
Oundle, where he played rugby in the 1st
XV. After a National Service commission
in the Yorkshire Light Infantry, he came to
Clare in 1954 and read History.
At a very early stage, he was enlisted
on the board of the family’s wholesaling
business, Wilkinson & Warburton, and was joint managing director
in 1970, when the company floated on the stock exchange. He
succeeded his father as chairman from 1976 until the family sold its
interest in the late 1980s.
His abiding passion was for philanthropy, which he exercised to
good effect in managing the charitable trust originally set up by his
uncle (Sir George Martin). Grants from the trust rarely exceeded
£10,000, and went to many causes in Yorkshire. But Peter Marshall
also had skill in fund-raising, which he used well, achieving larger
sums, mostly in support of Yorkshire charities.
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In 1991, he launched the UK Charitable Trust Initiative, which
ran seminars around the country, explaining the mechanisms of
philanthropy to wealth managers and their clients. More than a
hundred foundations came into being as a result, with assets
exceeding £ 150 million.
He was also the driving force behind the Craven Trust, which
raised a Dales Recovery Fund of more than a million pounds after
the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in 2001. Peter liked the
story of a stricken hill farmer, who rang for help because his
electricity had been cut off when he failed to pay the bill. “We’ll
ring you back”, a volunteer told him. “Better be quick” came the
reply, “They’re cutting the ‘phone off tomorrow.” A cheque was
issued that very day.
Peter stood as a Conservative candidate in elections in 1959 and
1964, but failed to dislodge the Labour MP. He was high sheriff of
West Yorkshire in 1991, and also on the regional committee of the
National Trust. He created his own charitable trust, and was a
trustee of many others; he was appointed OBE in 1996.
An individualist who enjoyed solitude, he was also a farmer,
fisherman, birdwatcher and dinghy sailor. He was widely read in
politics and history, loved watching cricket, and was a quietly
devout churchman. In 1986, he married Pamela Dawson, who
survives him, with their son and daughter, after his death on
9.6.2012.
WILLIAM SCOTT MORTON, a man of many parts, was for
some time the oldest living alumnus of Clare. Born in Edinburgh,
Scotland, he entered Clare in 1927 and received his bachelor's
degree from Clare College in 1930 with a First in Classics. Later,
he received his divinity and doctoral degrees from Edinburgh
University.
He went out to China as a missionary in the 1930s, and escaped
in 1941 on the last British boat out of Japan, to land in the USA a
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month before Pearl Harbor. During the war he served as a chaplain
in the Royal Air Force.
Returning to Scotland, he was called to minister to a church that
been destroyed during the war. Later, called to a church in the US,
he began lecturing at New York University, eventually becoming a
professor of Asian history at Seton Hall University. During this
period he produced articles and books on China and Japan, some of
which are still in use by universities.
William died on March 29 at the age of 103, in New York, and
is survived by children of his first wife, Alice Gleysteen Morton:
Michael, Alistair and Keith Scott Morton and Margaret Gail Scott
Morton Hampson; seven grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren; and his wife, Phyllis Stock-Morton.
BRIAN GEOFFREY ODELL has died of the rare illness
amyloidosis at the age of 71.
Brian studied Natural Sciences at Clare from 1959 until 1962,
and most notably was mentioned in three issues of Clare
Association Annual of the time, under ‘College News’. In the 1960
issue he was named, with nine other first-year students, for
congratulation on his Tripos results. In the next year it is noted that
he was among eight second-year students (over all subjects) gaining
a First, and in 1962 he was one of three Natural Sciences students
gaining First in Part II. He was also awarded the Robins Prize (for
a student proceeding to further research) and went on to obtain a
PhD in Organic Chemistry at Cambridge in 1965. He was a keen
member of the Clare College soccer team and a popular contributor
to many other college activities.
Subsequently Brian spent some years doing research at
Southampton and Cornell universities, followed by teaching and
research at Cambridge (Downing) and Leeds universities. He then
settled in York where he became Head of the Department of
Mathematics and Science at the College of Ripon and York St John.
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Later he moved to administration where, as Deputy Registrar, he
was involved with academic standards and also with much of the
detailed work required to move the College to university status.
Brian was a life-long hill and mountain walker. He was
passionate about the ‘right to roam’ and argued the Ramblers' case
for access to a number of contested sites in North Yorkshire, with
considerable success. He surveyed a number of areas including
some sections of the Ramblers’ proposed coast path in Yorkshire in
the fight for access to the entire coast of England. Brian was a very
keen orienteer; he spent much time on the technical aspects of the
sport, on setting courses and as a competitor. To increase his
fitness he ran with friends on a weekly basis - for about 25 years.
Brian had a lovely sense of humour and a ready wit. He leaves
Cathie, his wife of 46 years, two daughters Carol and Sue and nine
grandchildren. He will be sorely missed by family members and his
many friends.
RONALD DENNIS PARKINSON, a long-serving assistant
curator at the Victoria & Albert museum (V&A), died on
20.11.2012, aged 67. He is said to have had a rather strict
upbringing in South London. He attended St Dunstan’s College,
Catford, and then came to Clare in 1964.
Ron (as he was usually known) read Architecture and Fine Art.
His tutor was ‘the brilliant and unconventional’ Michael Jaffé, later
Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum. The composer John Rutter
was among Ron’s friends at Clare, and together they produced
John’s first album of carols, while still students. Apparently, Ron
planned a PhD thesis on English Collectors and Patrons of
Painting: 1780-1840, of which Jaffé had great expectations, but it
was never completed.
After a brief period as a research assistant at the Paul Mellon
Foundation of British Art, Ron joined the V&A in 1972. After a
year or two there, he had four years as an assistant keeper at the
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Tate Gallery, then returned, in 1978, to the V&A as its deputy head
of education. Sudden death of the head of that section resulted in
Ron taking her position.
Under Ron Parkinson the educational mood changed from
‘instructional appreciation’ to discussion of what viewers could
‘see’ in a painting. Educational courses were very successful, and
Ron earned the description, from the Director of the V&A, as ‘the
best history of art scholar I had’.
Ron’s specialty remained British painting, and he compiled the
V&A’s Catalogue of British Oil Paintings (1820-1860), published
in 1990. In 1998 he brought out the popular guide Constable, The
Man and his Art. These were only two of many valued successes in
Ron’s work at the V&A. He retired early, because of ill health, in
1998. He was found dead at his home in Tooting, South London;
his partner of 30 years, Derek, predeceased him in March.
PAUL ETIENNE QUENEAU,
Emeritus
Professor
of
Engineering, died peacefully on 31.3.2012,
after a brief bout with ‘flu, at the age of
101. His father was an engineer, and took
his family to a number of different
countries as Paul grew up, prompting him
to learn other languages. He turned 18 in
the same year that the stock market
crashed. He had gained admission to
Columbia University in 1927, and he
persevered in his schooling through the
depression, working part-time as a waiter.
Paul Queneau gained degrees at Columbia of BA (1931), BSc
the next year and Engineer of Mines in 1933. He then came to
Clare, presumably for more study in Engineering. He found
employment in laboratory work at the alloy plant of International
Nickel (INCO), in West Virginia.
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Alert to world affairs, Paul noted the rise in Nazi forces and
tried to enlist in the US armed forces. He was told that he was more
valuable as a civilian engineer. But when there was news of the
attack on Pearl Harbour, Paul (with the full support of his wife
Joan, married since 1939) appealed to the Pentagon directly, and
was enlisted. He was eventually deployed to Europe as part of the
Corps of Engineers.
He spent some years battling from the Normandy beachhead to
the Rhine, and was decorated for his service. In 1945 he returned to
the Army Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. Paul was proud of what
had been achieved, but suffered from extreme post-traumatic stress,
from which he felt he was rescued by the devoted care of Joan, his
wife.
In 1949, Paul explored, mapped and photographed the Perry
River region of extreme Northern Ontario, by 13-foot canoe. This
was in the company of artist and ornithologist Peter Scott and
zoologist Harold Hanson, working for the US government. Scott
wrote about it in Wild Geese and Eskimos: a Journal of the Perry
River Expedition of 1949. This book included some of Paul
Queneau’s photographs.
After the war, Paul had resumed his career at INCO, advancing
eventually to be Assistant to the Chairman by about 1970, when he
retired with academic honours for his work. He set about further
study, and earned a doctorate degree from Delft University of
Technology in the Netherlands, at the age of 60. He then joined the
faculty of Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, in Hanover
NH, where he taught for the next 25 years!
Paul and Joan made their retirement home at a farm in New
Hampshire, living out Paul’s boyhood dream of being a farmer.
They also visited their friends worldwide. Joan died some years
ago, and likewise his brother Roland and three sisters. Paul is
survived by one brother (Bernard, soon to be aged 100) and also
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mourned by a son and daughter, six grandchildren and seven great
grandchildren.
TIMOTHY JOHN RIX, one of the most respected and successful
publishers of his generation, has died at the
age of 78. He was educated at Radley
College, then did his National Service in
the Royal Navy. He thus came to Clare at
the age of 20, in 1954. He read English and
was awarded a Mellon Fellowship at Yale
for a year.
Tim then joined Longmans, the
publisher, in 1958, starting a long career in
that line of business. After six months of
training, he was posted to Kuala Lumpur as publishing manager for
the Far East and South-East Asia regions. He returned to Britain in
1963 to be a senior publisher of English Language Teaching (ELT)
materials, an area in which Longmans became a market leader.
Tim had previously admired the work of the research unit at
University College, London, supported by Longman, which studied
spoken and written English. In 1964 he became head of Longman
ELT; in the course of twelve years, he advanced to be its Chairman.
Among many successful publications, many will know the
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, now in its fourth
edition. This evokes memories of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary of the
English Language (1755), which was published by Longmans.
Tim Rix was noted for a style of leadership which involved the
staff in the progress of the business. He pioneered the provision of
annual reports for staff, including data on sales. He also
encouraged staff to ‘put something back’ in various ways, and was
very approachable, remembering the names of most of them. He
served as Chairman of some official and charitable bodies, even
after his retirement in 1990. He was appointed CBE in 1997. He is
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survived by his wife, Gillian, and their son and daughter, and by a
daughter from his first marriage.
ARTHUR ALEXANDER ROBINSON, a leading manager in the
field of computing, died on the 4th of November 2012 after a fall in
his garden, while collecting apples. He came to Clare in 1942 and,
on the compressed scale of study in wartime Britain, graduated and
commenced his career in 1944.
Alec first worked for English Electric Ltd, as a student
apprentice, then as a development engineer. Crucially during this
period he studied for a PhD degree at the University of Manchester
(1947-49), where he worked on the design of the hardware
multiplier, for the early Mark 1 electronic computer.
He then transferred to Ferranti Ltd, where he worked as Senior
Development Engineer. Alec was one of the main contributors of
the many improvements introduced into the Ferranti Mark 1. For
example, he introduced more parallelism into his original
multiplier, so that it ran on average five times as fast.
In 1962, Alec moved to the University of London as General
Manager of Computers (Bloomsbury) Ltd, then became Director of
their Computer Centre, which had one of the three Atlas computers
available at that time. For five years from 1969, he was Director of
the National Computing Centre. He then became Director of the
Computer Centre at the University of Wales, in Cardiff, until
retirement in 1991.
Alec died at the age of 88, and saw enormous changes in that
lifespan. He is survived by his wife, Sylvia, and his family.
WILLIAM GEORGE SHEPHARD, always known as Bill, has
died at the age of 84. He was born in Kent, and did his national
service with the RAF in Malaya, just after the war. He was mainly
talking Australian pilots through landing procedures, and enjoyed
that job. He returned home in 1948, to a job in advertising with
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evening classes at London University, where the teacher
encouraged him to apply to Cambridge.
Bill came to Clare in 1951 to read English, and took Part II of
the tripos in 1953 with first class honours. We read that here he
also joined the Communist party, made many lifelong friends, and
met his future wife, Etel; they married in 1954. Bill took Part III of
the English tripos in 1955, and graduated BA.
Bill moved to different jobs in the Midlands: studying East
Anglian dialects in Leeds; teaching in a comprehensive school in
Huddersfield; teaching English, as a foreign language, in
Birmingham. In 1962 he returned to Cambridge, to work at the
Examinations Syndicate, in charge of overseas O- and A-level
English. Bill clearly throve in this job, and remained there until
taking early retirement in 1989.
He was summed up as a highly intelligent, quiet man who was a
wonderful father to his four daughters. He would read to them, play
the piano for them, and make puppets and dolls’ houses. After
retirement, Bill joined the Cambridge Guitar Orchestra, the
University of the Third Age and the Cambridge Men’s Group. He
was also a keen cyclist, until he fractured his hip at the age of 82.
After that he never recovered the same health, but remained alert
and agile in his mind. He is survived by Etel, his daughters, eleven
grandchildren and a greatgrandson.
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NOTICES
REUNION DINNERS 2013
Friday 22nd March: those matriculating in 1960 and 1961.
Friday 20th September: those matriculating in 1970 and 1971.
Friday 27th September: Up to 1955.
REUNION DINNERS 2014
Friday 21st March: those matriculating in 1980 and 1981.
Friday 19th September: those matriculating in 1990 and 1991.
Friday 26th September: those matriculating in 2000 and 2001.
REUNION DINNERS 2015
Friday 20th March: those matriculating in 1962 and 1963.
Friday 25th September: those matriculating in 1972 and 1973.
Invitations will be sent by the Development Office well in advance.
DINING RIGHTS
Clare alumni are entitled to dine on High Table once a term, free of
charge. Bookings are subject to availability and must be made in
advance with the Fellows’ Butler (tel: 01223 333224 or email
Peter Allinson on [email protected]). Members may dine on
Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday evenings during Full Term, and
may bring a guest at their own expense. For further information,
please contact the Steward, Mr Mick Petty on his e-mail
[email protected]
B&B IN COLLEGE FOR ALUMNI
Clare College is delighted to launch special alumni rates for Bed &
Breakfast from 2013. You can view availability, book and pay
online by visiting this link
www.clareconferencing.com/accommodation/BandB.html
Enter the code CLAREALUM and you will receive a 10% discount
on the room rate.
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COLLEGE CONFERENCE FACILITIES
The College provides facilities for residential conferences during
the Long Vacation and at Easter. Enquiries should be made to the
Conference Manager on 01223 333203.
Clare Development Strategy:
A new campaign
Under Toby Wilkinson, Clare established a professional fundraising
and alumni relations organisation, which successfully raised the
funds to build Lerner Court. Although it is still some way off, the
700th anniversary of Clare’s foundation (which we will celebrate in
2026) should provide a focus for an ambitious fund-raising
campaign to build on this success.
WHY DO WE NEED TO RAISE MORE FUNDS?
Like other Oxbridge colleges, Clare has a large endowment. Why
does it need more money?
Public funding for UK higher education is increasingly
uncertain, and its contribution to Clare’s budget is very unlikely to
increase. At the same time, increasing global competition to attract
the best academics is inflating salaries and leading University
departments to cut posts to balance their budgets, with less
provision for teaching. If teaching standards are to be maintained,
colleges must fill the gap. Meeting equal access requirements leads
to increasing needs to provide financial assistance to students at
both undergraduate and graduate level. Clare’s endowment income
is already fully utilised at the existing level of college teaching and
student support, and to increase provision sustainably will require
the endowment to increase.
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While the college’s income provides for the routine
maintenance of its buildings, Old Court will soon require a major
refurbishment. This would wipe out around a third of the entire
current endowment if funded directly, with a commensurate effect
on future income and hence on the academic objectives of the
college.
As well as these specific objectives, the college expects that the
future will bring new funding challenges which cannot yet be
foreseen. Increasing the endowment will provide a buffer to help
the college to meet such challenges without lowering standards.
In broad terms, the fundraising targets are:
Further endowment for College Teaching to secure the
supervision system: £10 million
Further endowment for student support (both postgraduate and
undergraduate): £10 million
Refurbishment and provision of new facilities in Old Court:
£20 million
Securing additional general endowment funds: £10 million
The College estimates that it needs to raise these targets,
amounting to £50 million (at today’s prices) by 2026 to meet these
requirements, which can be achieved by roughly doubling the
current rate of fundraising.
Although the overall targets are high, all donations, whatever
their level, can make a difference. For example if every Clare
alumnus pledged to give £500 this would raise £5 million in a year
with Gift Aid.
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DONATION FORM
Your Name and Matriculation year
Your home address and postcode (to check our records)
If you are using international bank transfers please use:
IBAN: GB 35 BARC 2017 1930 0333 16 or SWIFTBIC: BARC GB22
For a regular gift:
I would like to make a regular gift to Clare College, Cambridge of
£
(in figures) per  month  quarter  year starting on
(write date)
for a period of
years.
Please pay to: Barclays Bank plc, 9-11 St.Andrews St, Cambridge CB2 3AA
Sort Code 20-17-19 A/c No,30033316 Name ‘Clare College Development’
Instruction to (name and address and postcode of your bank)
Your A/c No.
Sort Code:-
Signed:
Date signed:-
For a single gift:
I would like to make a single gift to Clare College, Cambridge of
£
(in figures). I enclose  a cheque made payable to Clare
College, Cambridge OR  a Charities Aid Foundation voucher OR
Please charge my  Visa  Mastercard  Switch
Card Number
Valid from:Expiry:Card security number (on the reverse):Maestro issue:Signed:
Date signed:-
Please allocate my gift to support
 College Teaching  General
 Student Support  Old Court  Other
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Please tick if you wish to:
 I would like my gift to remain anonymous
 I am interested in leaving a legacy to Clare College
 Please send me more information on current fundraising priorities
GIFT AID DECLARATION
As a registered charity (No. 1137531), Clare College can reclaim basic rate
tax on all gifts, provided that you have paid an amount of UK income tax or
capital gains tax equal to the tax we reclaim. This means that every £10
donated is worth £12.50, the difference being paid by HMRC, at no cost to
you. If you pay tax at the higher rate, then you can reclaim further tax relief
on your self-assessment tax return.
Please treat all donations I have made in this tax year, and in the four
previous tax years, and all donations I may make from the date of this
declaration, as Gift Aid donations, until I notify you otherwise. I
understand
that I must pay an amount of UK income tax and/or capital
gains tax at least equal to the tax that Clare College reclaims on my
donations in each tax year.
Signed:
Date signed:-
Please detach this form neatly and return it to the Development Office, Clare
College, FREEPOST CB422, Cambridge, CB2 1BR
This form extracts directly relevant items from a larger (A4) form, also
available from the Development Office. The larger form can, of course, set
out further detail on the matter of Giving to Clare.
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