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Pembroke College
cambridge society
annual gazette
issue 88 w september 2014
Pembroke College, Cambridge, cb2 1rf
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© The Master & Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Ted Hughes (1930–1998), poet
by Peter Edwards
CONTENTS
Editor’s Note
From the Master
A. WRITINGS AND TALKS
Sermon – James Gardom
Marjorie’s War – Reginald and Charles Fair
The Third David Andrews German Lecture – Walter Myer
The Rosenthal Art Library – Rosalind P Blakesley
Tributes to Howard Erskine-Hill –
Richard McCabe and Robert Macfarlane
Dame Ivy Compton Burnett Prize for Creative Writing
B. COLLEGE NEWS
New Fellows
Fellows’ News
Gifts to the College
The Dean’s Report
Development Office Report
The Valence Mary (1997) Endowment Fund
College Clubs and Societies
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5
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14
21
28
24
34
47
57
59
62
64
70
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C. THE COLLEGE RECORD
The Master and Fellows 2013–2014
College Officers 2014–2015
Matriculation 2013–2014
Annual Examinations, First Class Results 2014
College Awards
Graduate Scholarships and Awards
Higher Degrees Conferred
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103
104
109
112
118
119
D. THE PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY
Members’ News
Annual General Meetings of the Society
Dinners and Receptions
Local Contacts
Rules of the Society
Presidents of the Society
125
128
129
135
137
139
E. DEATHS AND OBITUARIES
List of Deaths
Obituaries
143
146
F. BOOK REVIEWS
AV Grimstone, Pembroke Portraits (2013)
179
G. MEMBERS’ CORNER
The Frozen North – Baffin Island Expedition 2014 – Rhian Jones
185
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EDITOR’S NOTE
This year’s Gazette celebrates the publication of Bill Grimstone’s fascinating
Pembroke Portraits, both with a book review on p 179, and by using some of the
portraits featured in Pembroke Portraits to mark the divisions of the different
sections of the Gazette. The Frontispiece features a portrait that was acquired too
late for inclusion in Pembroke Portraits – Peter Edwards’ splendid study of Ted
Hughes, that now graces the Dining Hall.
As usual, thanks are owed to my secretary, Frances Kentish, for doing so much
work to help produce the Gazette and in particular her work on selecting the
excerpts from Marjorie’s War that are reproduced in the first section of the Gazette.
I am very grateful to the Fellows and students of the College, and Becky Coombs,
Sally Clowes, Pat Aske, Sally March, David Franks and Angela Anderson for all
their contributions to this year’s Gazette. Particular thanks are owed to Brian
Watchorn and Ian Fleming for their obituaries of Howard Erskine-Hill and Tom
Rosenthal, respectively; to Reginald and Charles Fair for giving permission to
reproduce extracts from their magnificently researched Marjorie’s War; to Richard
McCabe and Robert Macfarlane for allowing us to reproduce their tributes to
Howard Erskine-Hill at his memorial service; and to Rhian Jones for rounding out
this year’s copy of the Gazette with her account of her expedition crossing Baffin
Island to raise money for the Youth Adventure Trust – proof, if proof were needed,
that there is no corner in any foreign field that has not been touched in some way
by people who have spent time at this remarkable College.
Nick McBride
Pembroke Portraits can be ordered from the Finance Office, Pembroke College,
Cambridge CB2 1RF, or via email ([email protected]). Please send your name and
address and method of payment. The cost is £15.00 plus £2.00 p&p in the UK;
£5.00 p&p for the rest of Europe; elsewhere p&p £5.00 (surface mail) or £10
(airmail). Payment may be made by cheque in £ sterling payable to ‘Pembroke
College’; or by bank transfer to ‘Pembroke College’, Barclays Bank, Sort Code:
20-17-19, Account Number 30712620 (please include a reference to ‘Portraits’).
For payment by credit card contact the College by ‘phone on 01223 338126.
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FROM THE MASTER
This year’s introduction to the Gazette leads on from last year’s – and the three
things that I highlighted then pleasingly continue to apply, but each one in fact
strengthened. We have had another outstanding set of Tripos results with more
than a third of our undergraduates taking Firsts. The endowment has grown by
another ten million pounds to £70 million, with the Development Office having
raised a record £6.79 million in the year to 31 July 2014 (the rest being accounted
for by the revaluation of property assets). Finally, there has been continued
progress towards development of the Mill Lane site, with the College expecting to
secure agreement with the University during 2015 over the area allocated to
Pembroke and the timing of its development. This steady upward trend in our
‘key performance indicators’ is of course the result of formidable team and
individual efforts by the whole College community – and it is gratifying when
those are so clearly rewarded by such positive results.
I said last year we should resist the temptation to over-interpret the
conclusions to be drawn from a single year’s Tripos results. However, I believe
they do point towards good teaching, robust admissions policy and decisions,
consistently good performance in the Sciences and the Arts across a range of
subjects in all years and striving to meet our access targets without compromising
on the College’s top-level academic performance. The Senior Tutor, the
Admissions Tutor, the Teaching Committee and Directors of Studies have worked
hard to achieve success in each of these areas, but doing it in all of them together
is what has made this a vintage year.
This year’s development activity has been distinguished by two important
donations, both of which play to one of Pembroke’s long-established academic
strengths – what used to be called ‘oriental studies’. Bita Daryabari, a Californiabased philanthropist, has given the College US$2million to sustain Persian
Studies, and which will also greatly assist Professor Melville in completing his
definitive catalogue of Shahnameh illustrations. The Mohamed Noah Foundation
in Malaysia (the family foundation of the Razaks, who have provided the majority
of Malaysia’s post-war Prime Ministers) has given Pembroke £2.5 million to
endow a Lectureship in Asian Politics in the University, with a Fellowship in
Pembroke. The linked appointment, as it is called, breaks new ground in the
University as it is the College which receives and holds the money and then
guarantees the funds to meet the salary and other costs. The first incumbent will
be an expert in Islamic Law and complements appropriately other areas of related
scholarship amongst the Fellowship. I would also like to thank the many other
generous donors who have given to the College this year, and made it our best
fundraising year.
I remain reluctant to say too much at this stage about the Mill Lane site
development because the University has quite literally kept shifting its ground.
However, we are confident that we will get a large slice of it, but now more
probably on the south side than the north side. The College is pleased with this
prospect, though it may mean diminishing our interest in the Pitt building. This
would be disappointing, given the iconic significance of that building for the
College, but it would still be a price worth paying if we are able to realise all of our
other ambitions for the site. In my remaining year as Master (some members seem
to have been under the impression that I was leaving this August) I hope we can
go firm on our plans for the site development and how we will finance it. With a
hundred plus rooms to be built and other facilities to be acquired or constructed,
it will most likely be the largest expansion of the College in Pembroke’s long
history – altogether a significant but very exciting challenge, and satisfying to be
doing this directly adjacent to the College site not in another part of town. We are
already thinking in terms of a linking tunnel under Trumpington Street!
I do not usually draw attention to my own lectures in the Gazette (rather those
that invited lecturers deliver at the College). However, I am making an exception
because a recent lunchtime lecture that I gave at the Royal United Services
Institute on 7 July has attracted interest and attention like no other lecture I have
given since I retired from The Secret Intelligence Service in 2004. The lecture can
be viewed live on the RUSI and College websites. The core of my argument is that
it is time for the government to adopt a more proportionate approach to
countering the terrorist threat and a more balanced approach to the distribution
of its intelligence and security resources across a broader range of threats to
national security.Islam is at war with itself and though our own Muslim
communities are, and will be, caught up in the war between Sunni and Shia, we
are bystanders, no longer the primary targets that we were for Al Qaeda. The
strength of the response to this thesis (every major news channel requesting
interviews and many other requests besides) suggests to me that my views may
well be widely shared, though no-one in authority, or with authority, has so far
expressed them. Of course it is always risky to suggest a diminution in our
preoccupation with countering terrorism; one determined radicalised individual
can make your argument look premature, at best, or simply wrong. However,
even if it is too soon for the government to be listening to this advice, and it
probably is, it is not too soon to start asking questions about our national stance
so that looking beyond the next election the post-9/11 policies and attitudes
which have dominated national security thinking (including my own) might
be reconsidered.
In conclusion, I will not venture a view on the referendum for an independent
Scotland, except to remind members that Pembroke has a large number of
Scottish members in Scotland and that Pembroke’s annual Edinburgh dinner is
one of the largest of any Oxbridge college. Having attended those dinners
frequently, I have become well aware of the drawing apart of aspects of university
education north and south of the border. It would be a great shame, whatever the
outcome of the referendum, to see that drawing apart moving towards separation
– and I know that many Pembroke members, Scottish and English, would also be
saddened by it. When commentators speak of the referendum they never seem to
mention the thousands of small associations, like the Pembroke alumni, which
will be affected and not one feels for the better. The ‘universal’ part of universities
sits uncomfortably with separation.
I am well aware that I have omitted any comment about the 100th anniversary
of the outbreak of the First World War. However, I did not want to repeat my piece
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in the Martlet about the significance of the anniversary to Pembroke. I would urge
you to read it if you have not done so. This edition of the Gazette appropriately has
several more contributions to this theme.
R.B.D.
A. WRITINGS AND TALKS
Nicholas Ridley (1502–1555), Bishop of London
Artist unknown
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Sermon
James Gardom
The following sermon was preached by the Reverend Dr James Gardom, Dean of Pembroke
College, on Remembrance Sunday, November 10 2013, in Pembroke College Chapel, on
Amos 5:18–24 and Matthew 25:1–13.
… F A H Atkey Yorkshire Regt. A B Hoare Loyal N Lancs Regt. E S Phillips
Monmouthshire Regt. T R Stoney King’s Own Scottish Borderers. F R Armitage
R.A.M.C. C H Eyre Kings Royal Rifle Corps. K I Singh Indian Medical Service. A
C Sturdy R.A.M.C. H S Bligh Royal Naval Division. G H Foord Royal Army
Service Corps. E V Hemmant E Africa Volunteer Force. G H Millar R Naval
Division R Air Force. G G Napier 35th Sikhs Indian Army. J B Partington Devon
Regt. T Riley Royal Field Artillery. C H Schooling Chaplain to the Forces… And
so many many more…
What is our relation to the war dead? 120 have turned up at the war memorial
this year, and 50 have come on into chapel, and I think we can ask, Why?
What have we come to do? What is our relationship with these long dead, and
these memories?
In one sense, and perhaps far more here than in many places, our
relationship can be one of imaginative identification. This place is not so much
changed. They signed their name in the matriculation book. They studied
engineering or law, or classics, or science. They ate in that hall. They knew
this chapel. The lived and slept, in many cases, in the rooms in which we live
and sleep.
Imaginative identification, can, up to a point, give us a deeper sense of the
reality of these war dead. Men really quite like me and like Professor Melville and
Professor Gelsthorpe sat in these seats and reflected when they heard of the
deaths of former students. Students who had been promising, witty, clever,
serious, or chaotic, or beautiful or funny or wise.
It does not take much of a stretch for us to make that imaginative transition.
For each George, or Albert, or Edward on the memorial we can quite easily
imagine a Harry, an Alex, an Olly.
And I think that we should do so. It is a memorial. Part of our relationship with
the war dead is a relationship of anamnesis. We make present by remembering,
and the vividness of remembrance that is available in this place should not be
neglected or evaded. You could choose a name on your way out, and think about
it in your heart as Theodore, or Richard, or Rupert.
Our relationship with our war dead can be one of drawing close in imagination
and shared experience, but it seems to me that even with this there are dangers,
and I would like to name two.
The first is that we can think that we really know what it was like for these
young men, and what it is like for those who fight today. One side we can know
in imagination – the wavering perhaps, the courageous decision, farewells to
fellows and tutors. Maybe prayers in this place. We can imagine the fears and
griefs of parents and lovers.
But all the time another side is really hidden. We have not been surrounded by
danger and death, bravery and cowardice. We have not been asked to kill or seen
our friends die. Not even war poetry can open to us the hidden gnosis of war.
There is another and worse danger. The danger is that we think it is enough
just to remember. In our Gospel reading we hear a parable of the wise and foolish
bridesmaids. Their vigil for the bridegroom is an image of those who await the
Kingdom of God, the rule of justice and peace and righteousness. The wise ones
are prepared, active and ready to play their part. It is not enough just to be there,
to remember…
This can be made worse, in this place, in that we may be beguiled by the
ceremony, the poignancy, the solemnity. The more beautiful the music, the
stronger the words and the prayers, the greater the danger. We do not come
here to crown a heroic sacrifice with beauty. Amos rages against the temple
worship that serves to disguise, to mystify the deep wrongs of his time. If, by
what we do in this place, on this day, we make the deaths of those soldiers, and
the wars in which we engage any easier to live with, then we have failed, and
failed their memory.
We are gathered here for a Requiem, a prayer for peace. Any communion
service and a requiem particularly, brings into one sacramental and imaginative
space the living and the departed. It treats the humanity of those who have died as
not less real, no less present, than the humanity of those who are still alive. We
are here and they are here. We are all together. We are gathered in the sacramental
and imaginative space of the Lord’s Supper, where the one who has died and
conquered death is the host.
This sacramental or imaginative space binds together ourselves and those
who fought for peace, and even those they killed and those who killed them.
They are here and we are here, and the peace for which they fought is also here,
prefiguring the peace of the world. It is a sacramental space created and
bounded by Christ – the conviction of a victory accomplished, death and sin
conquered. That is our Requiem
But this is also a Requiem Mass. The Mass, the traditional word for
Communion, It takes its name from the final words of the Latin service “Ite missa
est”, “The dismissal is made, Go”. The equivalent in today’s service, “Go in
peace, to love and serve the Lord”. We come here so that we can then go. We are
sent out to be and to do what we have found in this sacramental space. Human
beings. Peacemakers. Sinners set free.
Ite Missa Est – Go in Peace. At the end of this service we must go. We must go
out, not with a sense of a duty done and an uncomfortable memory wrapped in
beauty. We must go out with an active conviction that we can turn imaginative
identification into imaginative action, as citizens, engineers, scientists, teachers,
theologians, as Master, Fellows and Scholars.
It is almost 100 years since the start of the First World War. And here is a final
thought. So here is a final thought. Active conviction without hope is hard to
sustain. With God’s help, in 2014, the peace they fought and killed and died for is
perhaps within our grasp. For the first time in history there are groups of
countries, and indeed whole continents, where war is almost unimaginable.
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Europe, North America, most of South America. This is not because of the fear of
an emperor, or even because of the fear of nuclear devastation, but because it no
longer enters our imagination as a way of resolving our differences.
So maybe this is our relationship with our war dead. Unlike them we have a
real chance to build peace. To honour them we must grasp it. If we can do so then
we can enter with them, joyful and unashamed the kingdom of our Saviour Jesus
Christ, the Prince of Peace.
Marjorie’s War
Reginald Fair and Charles Fair
In 2012, Reginald Fair (1947) and Charles Fair (1985)
published Marjorie’s War (Menin House Publishers), which is
made up of letters and diaries composed during World War I by
members of four families, all linked with Marjorie Secretan.
Two of the writers featured in the book were Pembroke
graduates: Charles Fair (1904) ( father of Reginald, and
grandfather of Charles) and Carl Champion (1906). They both
fought in World War I.
Charles Fair went to Marlborough and studied Classics at
Pembroke, before becoming a teacher at Haileybury in 1912.
He enlisted on 10 August 1914 and rose to the rank of Major;
he was awarded the DSO in April 1917. Charles met Marjorie
Secretan – whose fiancée, Toby Dodgson, was killed on the
Somme in 1916 – in July 1917 at a concert at Haileybury
Charles Fair as Captain of the
while studying at the Senior Officers’ School at Aldershot. They
Pembroke 1st XV rugby team
were married in September 1917. Charles was invalided out of
the army in January 1918.
Carl Champion studied Engineering at Pembroke and knew Charles, both from the fact that
they overlapped at Pembroke, and the fact that Carl – like Charles – taught at Haileybury. He
joined the army in 29 September 2014 as an officer. He was awarded the DSO in 1918. After
the war, Carl met Marjore’s sister, Esmé – who was at Haileybury helping to treat boys with
flu – and they were married in 1921. Charles Fair died on 29 July 1950; and Carl Champion
died on 12 June 1963. In the extracts from Marjorie’s War that we reprint below – with the
kind permission of Reginald and Charles Fair – we focus on letters written by Charles Fair to
members of his family, and Marjorie.
16 October 1915: Charles to his father, on being sent from England (where he was working as
a musketry officer at training camps) to join the 141st Infantry Brigade in France
It’s a bit of a shock, isn’t it, but I don’t complain though everyone thought I had
got a job which would keep me with the Brigade. But it is the first time they have
asked for captains and two – Stokes and myself – with two subalterns are going
from our Battalion… Though I dislike the prospect naturally, there is a certain
amount of relief in feeling that one has at last done the whole thing: to be still in
England after fourteen months at war is beginning to seem almost a disgrace…
7 November 1915 (north of Loos): Charles to his father
We got into the trenches yesterday. I am in charge of the Company so was a bit
worried about the routine, as we are very short of officers. However, I am
gradually getting the hang of things. Where we are is very quiet at present…
12 November 1915: Charles to his father
We are having our fill of trench life! We took four and a half hours to get to this
particular spot through a maze of water-logged trenches. It has rained almost
without stopping for four days and you simply can’t imagine what we look like.
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We haven’t had our clothes off since Friday and haven’t washed or shaved since
Wednesday… Our food gets through to us all right and yesterday we had bacon
and eggs for breakfast, though the Huns are less than two hundred yards away! It
is quite exciting when both sides are using artillery for all they are worth. I am
glad I know what it is like: it would have been very difficult to have remained in
England all the war and then had to face anyone who had been through it.
13 January 1916: Charles to Helen, his sister
I have time for once to write. I am not sure it is a good thing as we are all feeling
pretty fed-up with existence. We have just finished eight days in the trenches and
were due for four days’ rest, but for some reason our rest consists in hiding in filthy
dirty cellars only about four to five hundred yards from the Hun, unable to walk
about in daylight, rather short of food, very short in the temper, shorter still in the
wind (from lack of exercise) but not short of money, as there is no possibility of
spending it! I have only had my clothes off once this year and haven’t had a bath
since before Xmas! Altogether we’re feeling rather ill-used as the men have worked
most awfully hard. We took over a line of trenches which had been occupied for
many months by the French, and they devote all their energies to actual fighting
and neglect all sanitary arrangements, or even make their parapet bullet-proof.
We’re all feeling very itchy and one of my subalterns has actually got creeping
things innumerable. Hitherto I have escaped, but it can’t go on much longer.
13 February 1916: Charles to his father
My Company has a sort of post of
honour and is probably in a unique
position as regards the British front.
We are in a long trench on the top of
a huge slagheap of a coal mine: the
other half of the heap is occupied by
the genial Hun. Between us and him
there is a great gulf fixed, most of
which is barbed wire. It is rather a
strain as we are short handed both in
officers and men. I have a dugout
near the foot. At first I only got two
hours’ sleep during forty-eight
hours and that was broken, but last
night I managed to get about three
straight off.
19 March 1916 (Vimy Ridge): Charles to
his father
…We are back in the trenches, but
at present we are getting on all right.
The previous occupants had let
things slide very much and we have
had to put in a tremendous amount
Charles Fair in uniform as a Major, 1917
of spade-work to get the trenches in fighting order… The German trenches were
also in a bad way and there has been a temporary stoppage of hostilities while
both sides have been digging and wiring. It has been rather uncanny to see men
on both sides walking about in the moonlight in full view of each other.
Apparently neither side at present finds its position good enough to start
‘strafing’ the other, and it remains to be seen which side will begin again first.
Stokes is ill and is quite likely to go home with enteritis.
28 April 1916: Charles to his sister Mabel
Our time in the trenches had a pretty exciting finish, as the Germans blew up
a mine on the last evening just between our front line and theirs. It did quite as
much damage to their line as ours… Whenever a mine goes up all the artillery
on both sides who are anywhere in the neighbourhood lay for all they are worth.
This time it was an awful sight… I was standing in my trench when I suddenly
saw a column of earth and smoke rise in the air followed by a sheet of flame of
the most appalling size. I at once ordered all my Company into their dugout,
and rushed for my telephone to communicate with Battalion HQ. Immediately
the most appalling crash of artillery began and every kind of thing streaming
over us. All telephones except mine broke down, so that I was the only Officer
who could communicate with my CO…. At every sign of a lull I dashed up into
the trench to see how my lot was faring and to try to get an idea of what was
going on in front. Then came a short lull and I had to call for a volunteer to go
to the furthest Company for news. Two men went up (I loathed sending them).
Thank goodness they got there and back all right. I never thought to see both
unhurt again.
19 September 1916: Charles to his father, describing his involvement in capturing High Wood,
as part of the Battle of the Somme
I haven’t time to describe the battle of 15th September properly. I am all right,
but Col Hamilton was killed. I feel as if I had lost a brother, we have been so
constantly side by side in every sort of corner for nearly eleven months. I was not
allowed to come up to the very front line till he was hit, as all 2nd-in-command
officers were kept back in case of casualties to the COs. He was rallying all men
of all battalions after the first direct attack on the wood had failed and, as he led
them over the top, a machine-gun bullet killed him. It was just like him to dash in
like that but it was not really his job and we feel that he has thrown himself away…
Of all the soldiers I have ever known out here he was the finest and he was one of
the most absolutely lovable men I have ever come across…
24 September 1916: Charles to his father
We are right back now for a short spell at the same place whence we started
before moving up to the line. Everyone seems enormously proud of what the
Brigade, and our Battalion in particular, has accomplished. At any rate we did
what many others have failed to do and took a place which has cost many
thousand casualties and which is the last of the really high ground which the
Germans occupied in this part of the world. We had a pretty rough time and lost
many of our very best. I still feel very strange and lost without Hamilton and the
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others, but on the whole we are in splendid spirits and are receiving new drafts
almost daily to make us up to strength again.
17 December 1916: Charles to his father
Thank you and Agnes for sundry letters and parcels including the glove
mittens from the school children. They are really very good: I wore them this
morning while doing my rounds and they made my hands so hot I had to take
them off… We hope to give the whole Battalion roast pork and beer sometime
during the festive season. Needless to say, the actual beer will be the gift of the
present Commanding Officer! I believe I am to be sent on a six days’ course for
COs on December 31st, if I can be spared. I hope it may enable me to fill some of
the most obvious gaps in my military knowledge. We are not much excited about
the change of government [Lloyd George becoming PM in place of Asquith]. We
have learnt to distrust all politicians. If they could import some of the French Staff
I think it would be a good thing…
28 May 1917: Charles to his father
Did I tell you that I had a visit
from Champion the other day
[22nd May]? He discovered we were
in the same neighbourhood at last
and walked eight miles in order to
have tea with me in the trenches!
Friendship could go no further.
3 September 1917: Marjorie to Charles,
the day after he proposed marriage
My Dear Charley, I hardly know
what to say to you. I still feel I must
be dreaming and that I shall wake
up and find you are not really there
at all. It is rather like stepping
suddenly out of a cold, dark winter
into the warm sunlight, so that all I
can do is to sit still, rather dazedly,
and enjoy the bright light. But it’s
oh! so splendid to feel happy again
and to see other people happy about
me, too.
Charles and Marjorie on their wedding day,
12 October 1917: Charles to Marjorie
18 September 1917. The photo appeared on the
…We are still in trenches and
front page of the next day’s Daily Mirror.
still being rained upon. I am getting
very dirty… We have shifted our quarters and have not gained by the exchange.
Your husband can’t stand upright anywhere in the new place! Of course we feed,
read, work and write entirely by candle light. Those little collapsible candlesticks
I bought at the Army and Navy at Aldershot are proving awfully useful. Our mess
is about two-thirds the size of your sitting room. Three of us sleep, wash and live
in it. At meals we are joined by three others. There are two wooden beams
sticking up through the table and it takes some juggling to hand the plates round
without accidents.
26 October 1917: Charles to Marjorie
Your letter and the book have just reached me (dated 22nd)… By the same post
I had a letter of congratulations and good wishes to us both from Champion; he
is still out here. …Today we came part of the way in motor lorries. …It was also
simply pouring. We then tramped for about two hours to our trenches. The
weather has become very bad and all the familiar discomforts of the winter are
with us.
10 November 1917: Charles to Marjorie
Your husband thought he was wet and dirty last night, but tonight beats
anything seen since Xmas 1915! I went round at 5.30 this evening and it took three
hours. Even then I missed out a bit. The water and mud is clean through my
breeches and there is no chance of taking them off tonight, so I am sitting in them
rather squishily! I sat down in the trenches four or five times. It was so dark we
had to feel our way. The water was over my knees in places and the smaller men
are getting stuck in the mud. It is quite one of the worst nights I remember.
12 November 1917: Charles to Marjorie
…It has been a simply lovely day here and I have been very busy getting things
ready for the arrival of the Battalion tomorrow evening. I have ridden more than
a dozen miles and my horse simply loves a touch of frost in the air. I get so awfully
angry at the continuous comfort in which the Staff live, most of whom have never
seen a trench and never intend to. They can get materials for deck-chairs, bed,
arm-chairs and tables, while we have to beg and steal to get anything to sit on at
all or eat our meals off. This is no exaggeration as I have been doing it for two
years now and everywhere we go we have to make our own simple furniture, while
those who stay behind the lines have more or less perpetual homes and makes
themselves really comfortable. However, it is good to be out of the trenches at all
and it is more than good to be Marjorie’s husband.
16 December 1917: Charles to Marjorie
A very bad tempered husband today, though on the face of it he ought to be
pleased. We are at least right back at last – rather further than the place where
Toby [who was engaged to Marjorie before being killed on the Somme] is buried.
But
(a) No post for two days.
(b) It is snowing.
(c) I had only three hours sleep last night.
(d) We are in the worst camp I have ever seen.
This is what ‘they’ provide as a rest place for men who have unquestionably gone
through hell: huts which are utterly un-weatherproof – walls splitting apart –
floors full of holes (your husband has fallen through the floor of the Mess three
times already!) – three bunks for a whole Battalion to sleep on – two tables, two
forms: this is all the furniture. No washing water within a mile. The CO sharing
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one of these luxurious palaces with eight other officers. This is all to my mind an
absolute disgrace to all concerned. How can we buck up the men (who badly need
it) either in mind or body in such a place? Every time anyone walks across the floor
the candles fall over on the tables and between the cracks in the floor we can see
the refuse of the last inhabitants! I hope I am not unduly grumbling, but it is
maddening to see, as I have done over and over again, the luxury in which many
of the mighty and their underlings live and the poor devils who fight their battles
and die for them have such places as these given them for a long-promised ‘rest’.
We are trying to give the men a bit of an Xmas dinner, but of course all our
original plans were spoilt by our move. The best we can do at present is roast
pork, apple sauce, pudding, cigarettes and beer. But each man will have a parcel
provided by the worthy folk of St Pancras and Camden Town. They are very good
to us. I can’t help feeling that the mere fact of someone making peace will prove
very infectious, even though we may not consider it a good time for us. Still, there
is no doubt that they can’t go on demanding impossibilities of the fighting men
of all nations and, if the winter is a hard one, the working classes in all countries
on both sides will probably kick a bit.
A very tired but very, very loving husband and, in a sort of way, a contented one
because, though in a sad way, he has really been in touch with Marjorie today. I
have found Toby’s grave, darling. The roads are so frost-bound that I gave up
hope of riding over to look for it, so after lunch today I took Fox and set off on
foot. It was a long tramp but we first got there while there was still enough light
to search. I knew nothing except you had said it was south-west of the village and
I had seen the photograph. The last mile or two we steered straight across country
and came almost straight on to it. It is quite all right, very easy to find, both the
crosses standing quite upright and the wire round it and the other grave, on
which I couldn’t read the name: was it Toby’s orderly? You can understand,
darling, the mixture of thoughts that ran through my head as I stood there. I think
you were very present with me. I had taken a white card and I tied it on the cross
with this on it:
From Charles and Marjorie Fair
Xmas, 1917
It is well away from the roads. All around is every sign of war, but today the horror
was all concealed by the snow and in the mixture of light – half sunset, half
moonlight – it looked weirdly beautiful. I suppose you know what is on the
crosses. The one at the head has just the name, regiment and date. The other has
the same and, near the bottom, ‘Translated from the warfare of the world into the
peace of God’. I copied that down and then we just saluted and came away.
Somehow I had a strange feeling of comfort, my darling, because at last even all
those miles away from you I had been able to do a little thing for someone you
loved, and something that I knew would please you.
13 January 1918: Charles to Marjorie
No letter from you yesterday, as I more than half feared. I had a bad day
altogether, as when I was going round about midnight, I fell into a 7ft trench,
unnoticed in the dark, and have strained some ligaments in the left leg so badly
that I am helpless crock in my own dugout! I don’t know what is to be done about
it: I must see them through this tour, and then I think the doctor will insist on
sending me somewhere where it can be x-rayed, as he is rather anxious about the
most tender spot just at the top of the fibula. It is an awful nuisance just now.
What I dread most is that I shall be sent to hospital in France long enough to lose
command of the Battalion, but not a sufficiently bad case to come home. That
would be a maddening combination of circumstances. Meanwhile. I am quite
helpless and pretty uncomfortable, as the leg has swollen a lot. I am having it
massaged by a stretcher-bearer…
21 January 1918 (Le Havre): Charles to Marjorie
I hope I shall see you almost as soon as this reaches you, but I can’t let a day on
which I don’t see you go by without writing. I left Le Tréport at nine last night
(Sunday) and arrived here at ten this morning. I don’t know when we shall sail,
nor when we shall arrive. I hope and pray I shall manage to get to London so that
there will be no difficulty about your coming to see me as soon and as often as
possible. Isn’t this one of the very things we foresaw when we decided to get
married? I am getting dreadfully impatient for my beloved and am cursing the red
tape, or whatever it is, that keeps me waiting about when we are so far on our
journey. Never mind, it will be worth it a million times when I hold you in my arms
again. It’s no good either of us minding kissing in public (if we ever did!) because
you shall have to do it for a bit, I expect. My darling, there are millions of them
owing to you. Shall post this as soon as possible after landing.
All my love,
Charles
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The Third David Andrews Lecture: ‘Culture and Conflict 1914 –
2014: Reflections in the World War One Centenary Year’
Walter Myer
On 3 March 2014, the Third David Andrews Lecture on modern German culture
took place in the McCrum Theatre on Bene’t Street. The series is generously
sponsored by David Andrews, founder of the London-based business
processing company Xchanging, and a William Pitt Fellow of Pembroke
College. Following guest addresses in previous lectures of the series from film
director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and diplomat Henry Kissinger, the
bar had been set high for discussion in this, the centenary year of the outbreak
of the First World War. The panellists didn’t disappoint, and each brought a
distinct perspective to this year’s subject, ‘Culture and Conflict 1914 – 2014:
Reflections in the World War One Centenary Year’. Chairing the discussion was
Ned Lebow, a Bye-Fellow of Pembroke College whose most recent book,
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! A World Without World War I, presents a stimulating
counterfactual history of the 20th Century; also on the panel were David
Reynolds, a fellow of Christ’s College and a member of the advisory committee
for the Imperial War Museum, and Christopher Clark, a former student of
Pembroke and current fellow of St Catherine’s College, whose most recent
work, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, has already sold over
100,000 copies since publication in 2012. The guest lecturer was Professor
Martin Roth, the current Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London,
before which position he had served as Director General of the Dresden State
Art Collections.
Following an introduction provided by Chris Young, who resumes his role as
Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages at Pembroke next year,
Professor Roth began his address, in which he examined the unique relationship
between public museums and war. He drew upon the example of the British
Museum, which has only closed its doors twice since its founding in 1753 –
during the First and Second World Wars – as an indication of the incompatibility
of war and museums. This incompatibility he perceived as one of the great
ironies of the museum concept, which, in its preservation of a society’s culture,
constitutes an active response to the threat of cultural loss that accompanies war.
In a sense, then, museums and cultural exhibits matter all the more when they
are most at risk. He closed his comments with an inversion of the well-known
‘lest we forget’ of Rudyard Kipling’s Recessional; instead, Professor Roth called
for a positive intervention in our processes of remembrance, with the
exhortation ‘let’s remember’.
The other panellists then took discussion in a different direction, examining in
particular the tone with which official commemorations of the centenary had
been marked in Britain. Ned Lebow described the First World War as a Rorschach
test, in that the attitudes of successive generations towards the war tell us more
about the values of those generations than about the war itself. He noted the way
in which distinct national narratives grew out of the war, and observed that these
narratives were only now, in the centenary year, beginning to converge.
Christopher Clark was somewhat less optimistic about the reconciliation of
European remembrance of the war, decrying the contemporary memory culture
in the United Kingdom as a collapse back into Anglocentric nation state
narratives. This was in direct reference to the accounts put forward in recent
months by historians such as Max Hastings and by the politicians Michael Gove
and Tristram Hunt – Gove in particular has set off a high-profile debate in the
nation’s press, notably clashing with Regius Professor of History at Cambridge,
Richard Evans, after Evans charged Gove with promulgating a brand of ‘narrow,
tub-thumping jingoism’.
David Reynolds expressed concerns similar to those of Professor Clark on
the nationalistic attitudes toward the commemoration, and spoke in praise of
the new Cambridge University Press History of the First World War, edited by Jay
Winter. Importantly, none of the titles of the work’s 76 chapters contains
the name of a country, indicative of a conscious effort to compose an
authentically transnational work. He went on to note that, while the countries
of Western Europe now can and should move into a transnational
understanding of the war, the same is not necessarily possible for many of the
former Iron Curtain states, some of which are only two decades into recasting
their own state identities, and for whom a national war narrative remains a part
of that process.
The topics of discussion converged when the panellists began to debate the
role of museums in the context of transnational remembrance. Christopher Clark
and David Reynolds were quick to point out that museums are often national
institutions, and that their debt to the nation state can compromise their objective
presentation of historical artefacts – as Professor Reynolds observed, many such
institutions had, in the past, served to glorify national wars. When a question from
the audience drew the panellists attention to the disagreement characterising
planning for the House of European History in Brussels, Professor Lebow
provided a fascinating anecdote relating the strong political opposition met by an
American colleague of his after he’d attempted to include Japanese historical
accounts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings alongside the American
account in the National Aerospace Museum. Both this and further discussion
concerning the failures of the House of European History provided a remarkable
glimpse into the way in which political processes can still determine a cultural
institution’s portrayal of the past.
Crucially, the subject of the Ukrainian Crisis was never far from the surface.
Professor Roth recounted the attempts of the National Art Museum in Kiev to
acquire the trebuchet constructed in the Maidan; Professor Lebow alluded to the
conflict as a real threat to the ‘fundamental and profound reconciliation among
former adversaries’; however, perhaps most significant of all was the empty chair
at the side of the stage – Simon McDonald, the British Ambassador to Germany,
had intended to join the panel, but had been instructed at the last minute to stay
at his post due to the crisis. The spectre of the conflict loomed throughout the
conversation, and formed part of Christopher Clark’s comparison between the
worlds of 1914 and of 2014 – both, unlike the bilateral stand-off of the Cold War
years, feature a weary titan (Britain then, the US now), a rising power (Germany
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then, China now), and rising levels of unpredictability made manifest in regional
crises worldwide.
Irrespective of the actual danger posed by today’s international climate, the
panellists shared in their contention: as Britain and the rest of the world
commemorates the First World War over the next four years, efforts must be
made on the behalf of museums and historians worldwide to transcend national
narratives and develop a collective understanding of the First World War. A
comprehensive cohesion of understanding is, after all, surely our best defence
against further lapse into the conditions that made war possible one hundred
years ago.
From left to right:
Professor Chris Young, Professor Martin Roth, Professor Richard Ned Lebow, Professor Christopher Clark,
Professor David Reynolds
The Rosenthal Art Library
Rosalind P Blakesley
The Rosenthal Art Library was officially opened on
3 December 2013. Below our Director of Studies in
Art History pays tribute to the gift from Tom
Rosenthal that has transformed our holdings of
books on Art History.
Any alumni choosing to revisit the sites of
their fevered exam revision in Pembroke
library will notice a significant change these
days in the form of the Rosenthal Art Library,
housed in the western room on the ground
floor. Announced in the elegant lettering of
Eric Marland, who carried out Pembroke
library’s other inscriptions in the entrance
hall, the library stands testament to the
insight, discernment, and generosity of one
of the college’s great bibliophiles, Tom
Rosenthal (1956).
The son and father of two other
distinguished members of college – one a
fellow in oriental studies, the other the
recent historian of the National Theatre –
Tom rejoiced in the art of the book in many
ways: initially as a publisher (and, notably, the model for the bearded and bowtied protagonist of the veteran Snipcock and Tweed cartoon in Private Eye); but
also as a writer, critic, and reviewer, and through active and devoted association
with the National Book League. In each of these spheres of activity, he left an
indelible mark.
But the art of collecting books brought Tom a very specific joy. He would read
them, reread them, open them, stroke them, and sing their praises to generations
of captivated audiences. He would travel great distances to find the most apposite
new addition to his library, and – health issues in later life notwithstanding – lug
the precious acquisition home. He would devour his books’ visual and verbal
delights as they teetered in precarious piles on his desk or elbowed their way to
the front of bookshelves in every single room (not to mention the corridors and
staircases) of the explosion of culture that was his and his wife Ann’s north
London home. And then, towards the end of a life of incident and intrigue, of
conviviality and conversation that was second to none, he decided to donate his
remarkable collection to Pembroke.
The result is a gift of some 1,700 books, as well as scores of rare and valuable
catalogues, that were published during a critical half-century of art history, and
cover over two centuries of artistic and cultural life. The collection’s major
strength is twentieth-century art, complementing Tom’s own research interests
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in such diverse but ever-engaging artists as Ivon Hitchens and Josef Albers, L.S.
Lowry and Paula Rego. Indeed, the collection came to Pembroke together with a
fabulous Rego portrait drawing of Rosenthal – aptly laconic – that hangs in the
Rosenthal Art Library. A longstanding and close friend of Tom’s, Rego portrayed
him more than once, and, together with other friends, they celebrated many a
new year in style at Ann and Tom’s annual party.
But Pembroke students and scholars also benefit from a wealth of
catalogues of foreign exhibitions, including groundbreaking shows at the
Musée d’Orsay, that are often rare in any British library, let alone those of
Cambridge. There are valuable publications on art of a much earlier era, such as
the magnificent two-volume catalogue raisonné of Sir Joshua Reynolds, that
would have been beyond the reaches of the library’s budget but will support
teaching and research for centuries.
There are curious foreign-language volumes, too, including original
publications by members of the Russian avant-garde. Behind every volume lies its
own priceless Tom tale. When asking him about his rare volume of poetry by
Vladimir Mayakovsky, he informed me that he went to Moscow just the once. But
when he did, he visited none other than Evgeny Yevtushenko, iconic poet of the
Soviet era, in his flat just minutes’ walk from the centre of power in the Kremlin
that Yevtushenko would quietly challenge in his troubled and troubling verse.
Tom’s bequest makes Pembroke one of the strongest Cambridge libraries for
art historical research, and almost certainly the best Oxbridge college for the
study of modern British art. Lovingly cleaned and catalogued by the Librarian, Pat
Aske, and her team, it bespeaks the passions, friendships, and foibles that can by
nurtured by books. Indeed, the college owes thanks not only to Tom but to Pat,
too. Visiting Tom over many years, Pat came to understand the strength of his
relationship with his library. Appreciative of what a wrench it was when the time
came for Tom and his books to part, Pat personally supervised the packing of
every volume in London, their transport up the M11, and the cries of delight and
clouds of dust that accompanied their unpacking in Cambridge.
Tom’s work is done, as is Pat’s with regard to his books. They stand proud on
shelf after oak shelf in the Rosenthal Art Library. Those of us with work still to do
are the art historians and art lovers who will lose ourselves in Tom’s books,
admire, absorb, and contest their ideas, and quietly express thanks for Tom’s
legacy for generations to come.
Tom Rosenthal died on 3 January 2014, one month after the opening of the Rosenthal Art
Library. Ian Fleming’s obituary for Tom is at p 168. We reproduce below the text of Tom
Rosenthal’s speech at the opening of the Library.
Master, Duncan, Ladies and Gentleman, this is for me a moment of great
happiness and I would like to thank the Master, Fellows and staff of the college,
particularly Pat Aske the Librarian who tackled the daunting task of transporting
and shelving in some semblance of order, nearly two thousand weighty art books
and for making this Herculean effort look like an Art Library. I also want to
express much gratitude to Duncan Robinson for postponing his trip to America
so that he could perform this ceremony today.
Originally it was my intention to bequeath the fruits of six decades of reading,
publishing and collecting these books so that I could keep them in all their glory
at home till I fell off the twig. But, one day, I was thinking of my father Erwin,
wishing so often that I could still talk to him and hear what he could tell me about
what was going on in our beloved Pembroke; I’m sure many of you here today will
remember him. Then, irresistibly came into my mind his maxim ‘It’s always
better to give with a warm hand.’ That alone made me want to change the bequest
into a gift and, if I am honest, this change would enable me to take part in today’s
ceremony and surely enjoy it rather than putting any erroneous belief in life after
death. Pure vanity for which I apologize.
When I was a schoolboy here at the Perse, I reached the fifth form with a
severely alienated view of art, being incapable of painting and deadly bored by
the depiction of brushes in a jam jar. The art class was the last of the day and it
was my habit, as the last minutes crawled by, to fasten my bicycle clips to
expedite my ride home. The art master noticed this and yelled at me ‘Rosenthal,
you are a wretched scruffy East End tramp’. Be that as it may, when it came to
the sixth form our relationship warmed because I was the only boy who
engaged with him in art appreciation as I began to become a regular visitor of
the Fitzwilliam and, when I could afford it, an overwhelmed student of the big
London exhibitions.
I joined the art publishing house of Thames & Hudson and, whenever my
father took me into dinner in hall, followed by the rituals of the Parlour, I would
be accosted by the then Master, S C Roberts, not an academic but the head of the
mighty CUP, always with a humorous glint in his eye and the words ‘Hello Tom,
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still publishing those ridiculously expensive books, eh?’ Happily I can report that
quite a lot of what SC thought over-priced now grace these shelves.
Since publishing, then as now, was singularly ill paid, I doubled as critic and
broadcaster to survive in London and my proudest moment as a freelance, apart
from assuming the art critical chair of The Listener once occupied by Wyndham
Lewis and Herbert Read, was to be asked by the BBC to do four twenty minute
broadcast talks on Picasso. These were sent out under the rubric of ‘Sixth Form
Talks for Schools’ and word got back to me that my old enemy, the art master,
had re-organized the Perse timetable so that his current pupils could listen to his
‘star pupil’ to whom he had taught all he knew. So much for the ‘wretched East
End tramp’.
We all sometimes think of posterity. Mine consists of Ann’s and my two sons
who have greatly overtaken my own performance, the books I have written, all of
which are still in print and, last but by no means least, the Art Library being
celebrated today. I am honoured that Pembroke College has done it so proud.
Thank you.
Howard Erskine-Hill – Tributes
Howard Erskine-Hill, Fellow of Pembroke since 1980, died on 26 February 2014. A memorial
service was held for him in Pembroke College Chapel on 26 April 2014. We reproduce below
the addresses at the memorial service given by Professor Richard McCabe, Tutor in English at
Merton College, Oxford, and Dr Robert Macfarlane (1994), Fellow in English at Emmanuel
College. The address given by the Reverend Brian Watchorn (1965) serves as Howard’s
obituary and can be found at p 155 of this Gazette.
Professor Richard McCabe:
I first met Howard in 1977 when he agreed to supervise my doctoral dissertation
and our subsequent friendship, all thirty-seven years of it, was rooted in that
association. Our first official meeting was very formal, and I was particularly
tense. I wondered if Howard realised that we had met once before, anonymously
at a seminar where we had disagreed strongly about a passage in Jonson. I
wondered if his formality was the product of manner or memory. Only at the end,
as I got up to leave, did he say, ‘you are the young man from the Jonson seminar,
aren’t you?’ Nervously I confessed that I was. He smiled, stretched out his hand
and said, ‘It is very good to meet you again’. I tell that story because it illustrates
Howard’s character so well. He was interested in scholarship not discipleship. As
a supervisor, he helped me to find my own critical voice, not ventriloquize his. It
didn’t take me long to realise that he was possessed of what Pope described as ‘a
knowledge both of books and human kind’.
We got to know one another through literature, and went on a number of
literary vacations together, one to Alfoxen and Nether Stowey on the trail of
Wordsworth and Coleridge, one to Crabbe country, and one to the south of
Ireland, to visit sites associated with Spenser, on all occasions taking our complete
editions with us and reading passages to one another as we walked. On my last
visit to Howard, when he was already quite confused about many things, I was
surprised to find that he still remembered our trip to Kilcolman Castle and the
difficulty we had in reaching it across a field of fearsome nettles. But then, all of
my memories of Howard have strong scholarly associations: as a JRF here in
Pembroke I remember showing him the hidden panels in the Gray Room before
he too became a fellow of the college; I remember the jolly dinner in London after
his Warton lecture at the British Academy; and, of course, I remember the
wonderful evening in the Old Library to celebrate the presentation of the
festschrift that David Womersley and I had the pleasure of editing.
Howard’s scholarly career began in Nottingham where he studied the
eighteenth century as an undergraduate under Vivian de Sola Pinto and went on
to take his doctorate on Pope. Appointed to his first job at Swansea in 1960, he
published a much admired edition of Pope’s Horatian Satires and Epistles (1964). He
retained great affection for Nottingham and Swansea throughout his life, but it
was at Cambridge, where he moved in 1969 as a Fellow of Jesus College, that he
produced the book that firmly established his scholarly reputation: The Social
Milieu of Alexander Pope, published to great acclaim by Yale in 1972. It is a
remarkable piece of scholarship but also remarkably characteristic of its author.
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What Howard was interested in here was the human context that shaped Pope’s
poetics, the many relationships with friends, and antagonisms with foes, that
helped to mould the social conscience underlying the satires. The work is
structured to move through a series of meticulously researched biographies,
drawing upon a mountain of previously neglected archives, to an over-arching
analysis of Pope’s handling of the great themes of benevolence, social justice, and
philanthropy. Reviewing the book for the Modern Language Review, the poet Donald
Davie remarked, ‘this is one of those very rare books that truly deserve the
description: humane scholarship’. That description applies not just to the first
book but to Howard’s entire canon. For him, as for Pope, ‘the proper study of
mankind was man’, and the tradition in which he laboured was very much the
Humanist tradition.
It was that tradition, as he understood it, that he always felt impelled to defend.
His celebrated opposition to Derrida, for example, was born of the fear that the
humanity of letters was precisely what would be lost in deconstruction. Some
would debate that, but for Howard, as for Pope, a principle had to be ‘a principle
profest’. He regarded it as a moral duty to speak out, and speak he did from this
college on national television, framed in a great spoke-backed chair. And he was
only mildly embarrassed, when I told him how wonderful it was for me, a lapsed
Catholic, to hear someone other than the Pope speak ex cathedra.
Reread now in retrospect, The Social Milieu demonstrates a deepening sense of
empathy between its author and its subject, the sense that many of Pope’s ideals
were also becoming Howard’s ideals, as Pope’s religion would later become
Howard’s religion. Politically, too, he became Pope’s fellow-traveller, making the
wonderful collection of Jacobite medals and memorabilia so proudly displayed to
visitors at Chesteron Road. The Social Milieu readily demonstrates why Pope came
to preoccupy Howard’s imagination to the degree that he did, and given the part
that Pope played not just in Howard’s work but in his life, it is peculiarly fitting
that his final monograph, now being prepared for the press by his friend, Alex
Lindsay, should be a biography of Pope.
Shortly after joining Pembroke, Howard produced what is probably his most
celebrated work, The Augustan Idea in English Literature, published by Edward
Arnold in 1983. This is a masterly achievement which examines the manner in
which an ambitious, and sometimes ruthless, politician called Octavian
transformed himself into the cultural icon known as Augustus, and how
generations of poets and commentators have responded from Roman times,
through figures such as Petrarch, Shakespeare and Jonson, to Pope and his
contemporaries. As Howard presented it, it involved nothing less than the
shaping of Western culture, what he termed ‘this great subject of the
Humanities’. The depth of knowledge he displays in expounding that subject is
stunning and his control of argument exemplary. The work culminates in a
brilliant set of essays on Pope’s imitations of Horace mingling acutely close
readings of the texts with minute attention to the political circumstances in
which tThank you.hey were written. To no-one’s great surprise in 1985, just two
years after the work appeared, Howard was elected a Fellow of the British
Academy, and a D. Litt. followed three years later.
It has often been noted, and sometimes critically noted, that the politics in
which Howard was interested were almost exclusively the politics of state. He
freely acknowledged that, but did not regard it as a limitation. For him, politics
provided the public theatre in which personal principle was tested, and he was
fascinated by the various acts of courage, compromise and betrayal that it
produced, and how they came to be presented on page and stage. The
culmination of this interest was the simultaneous publication by the Clarendon
Press in 1996 of the two companion volumes Poetry and the Realm of Politics and
Poetry of Opposition and Revolution, dealing between them with political literature
from Shakespeare to Wordsworth. A particular strength of the project was its
analysis of the ways in which various writers such as Milton, Dryden, Pope, Dr
Johnson, and Wordsworth struggled to encompass experiences of political
defeat, disaffection, or disappointment. For private as well as professional
reasons, Howard was always fascinated by the lost cause, the missed opportunity,
the road not taken. Although his themes involve high politics, Howard’s focus,
through the attention he pays to the relationship between poetic language and
private circumstance, is as much on the personal as the political, a feature of his
writing that is particularly evident in the fine analysis of Wordsworth’s Prelude that
concludes Poetry of Opposition and Revolution.
For Howard everything depended on that ideal of ‘humane scholarship’
identified by Davie as the hallmark of his first monograph. And I know from our
private conversations that he found its ultimate expression, very appropriately, in
his favourite poet. In sketching the character of the perfect Humanist towards the
end of the Essay on Criticism, Pope encapsulated the ideal that Howard tried to
embody. And to a very large extent, as teacher, colleague, and certainly as friend,
he succeeded. Friendship was a dominant theme in Howard’s work, but perhaps
the defining theme in his life, a refuge against the loneliness that so often
threatened to break in. I am sure that many of us here have had the same
experience: the phone would ring around nine in the evening and Howard would
be on the line, and you always sensed that whatever the immediate reason for the
call, and it was often a scholarly reason, the important thing was the call itself, the
contact with a friend. I shall miss the calls, and the letters, and the dinners at the
‘Oxford and Cambridge’, as shall many here, but by way of consolation we have
the memory of someone who was entirely sincere in his emotions, and the
intellectual legacy of undoubtedly one of the greatest scholars of his generation.
In that respect Pope’s lines on the ideal critic seem to me to constitute a very
fitting epitaph for the Howard I knew as teacher, colleague, collaborator, and
friend, and I shall conclude by reading them in his honour:
But where’s the man, who counsel can bestow,
Still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know?
Unbiassed, or by favour, or by spite:
Not dully prepossessed, nor blindly right;
Though learned, well-bred, and though well-bred sincere;
Modestly bold, and humanly severe:
Who to his friend his faults can freely show,
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And gladly praise the merit of a foe?
Blessed with a taste exact, yet unconfined;
A knowledge both of books and human kind;
Generous converse, a soul exempt from pride;
And love to praise, with reason on his side?
(Essay on Criticism, 631–642)
Dr Robert Macfarlane:
My first meeting with Howard was the most intellectually frightening experience
of my life. It was the winter of 1993, I was 17 and callow, and Howard and Mark
Wormald were interviewing me for possible admission to Pembroke. I was shown
into Howard’s room, greeted warmly by Mark, and then realised that of my other
interviewer I could see nothing but a silhouette.
This was in the days before interview training: we’re now taught how to set
students at their ease, pay attention to the layout of the rooms in which we
interview, and generally to offer a feng shui of calm and parity. Not back then.
Howard was seated in front of a window through which white winter sunshine
poured, backlighting him so that he was only an outline. The outline proceeded
to interview me, piercingly. Occasionally there came a lethal twinkle from his
spectacles. The event has the clear impress in my memory of all such primal
scenes: he asked me about Keats, and I offered inanities about urns and
nightingales. He allowed me to talk about Seamus Heaney, which I did with
energy but imprecision. And then he asked me about Henry Fielding, and
whether I knew why Fielding had turned from drama to prose fiction. By huge
chance I did: Walpole’s Theatrical Licensing Act of 1737, a piece of stage
legislation that unintendedly changed the course of the English novel. The
silhouette paused briefly and nodded, clearly surprised that I had salted this fact
away. It was the straw of hope to which I clung while waiting to hear if an offer
was forthcoming.
One was, I came to Pembroke, and for my first year there was not only taught
by Howard, but also found myself his neighbour on N-Staircase: a proximity he
bore with remarkable tolerance. In that year I did little to endear myself to
Howard, including – unaware of his life’s commitment as a scholar – telling him
that the one Augustan I didn’t want to study was Alexander Pope, whom I found
‘tedious’. Howard was still fond of reminding me of that faux pas nearly twenty
years later. It has been one of the consolations of reading the many tributes sent
in by Howard’s former students to learn that I was by no means the only person
thus to have calumnied his hero.
Patiently, though, and with the austere passion that characterised much of
Howard’s life, he led me – as so many others – into the magnificent intricacies of
literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, introducing me to writers
of whom I cannot now imagine being innocent: Vaughan, Herbert, Traherne, the
antic canticles of Kit Smart and his cat Jeffrey, and the wunderkammerish arcana
of Thomas Browne’s prose. Somehow, he made the devotional and political
contexts of these distant writers at least visible to us. His knowledge was so
exceptional in its density that I felt it first as a reprimand, then as a spur. If it
seemed at times that he understood the decades of Jonson or Dryden or Browne
more subtly than he did the 1990s, this was itself a form of inspiration, whereby
scholarship – after the Paterian example – could act as a kind of time-travel. Jodie
Ginsberg, another former student, recalls the same sense of out-of-epochness
about him, noting that she would not have been surprised to discover, in the
Collected Poems of Alexander Pope, ‘An Epistle to Professor Erskine-Hill’.
Howard’s tastes were by no means confined to the long eighteenth century,
though. Although the Derrida affair means that he is recalled unfavourably in
certain quarters as an anti-avant-gardeist and a conservative, he could in fact be
open both to experiment and to contemporaneity. He was one of the pioneering
supporters in the Faculty of the study of what was then called Commonwealth
Literature, and he often put difficult modern work in front of his students: I
remember Thom Gunn’s poetry of the AIDS crisis, plenty of Beckett, the
strange prose mysticisms of Robertson Davies, BS Johnson, even once some
Jeremy Prynne.
Approaching a supervision with Howard, whatever the subject, you were
always nervous, for you knew that there you would be tested. There was no
winging it. Dan Burnstone nicely remembers ‘the steep and echoing climb to
Howard’s room, where he would be found sandbagged by stacks of books and
papers, the typewriter on the table’. Howard possessed an X-ray vision, which was
able to see through flannel and fibs. Ignorance was acceptable to him, but
laziness was not.
I speak mostly of my own experience of Howard’s teaching not because I think
it to be singular but because I know it to be typical. Time and again, in the
memories of former students that have reached me, the same virtues and qualities
are mentioned: a generous wish to share knowledge rather than to hoard it. An
asceticism of manner that could not disguise a warmth of heart. Courtesy,
principle, loyalty. A wit, sharp-edged sometimes; a fondness for comedies of
manners both on the page and in life. Patience with confusion, a readiness to
teach the average with the same commitment as the brilliant. He was not,
certainly not, an easy supervisor, and his manner did not, certainly not, work for
every student. There were those who found his shyness to be an aloofness, his
distance a kind of chilliness.
But he was, at core, a teacher as well as a scholar. Kate Beales recalls
overhearing him saying once, wistfully, that ‘All I want to do is to inspire my
students with a love of literature’. Alex Went speaks of a ‘dry but kindly inquisitor
who always seemed to carry his learning lightly.’ Nick de Somogyi describes him
as ‘a man of utter principle, above all in the spiritual generosity of his – and
blessedly our – education (a word for which he lived),’ and notes acutely that
Howard wanted ‘to encourage thinking, not acolytes’. Saul Rosenberg recalls him
as ‘the single most formative influence on my intellectual life’; Saul went on to
write a doctoral thesis on Faulkner, which he dedicated to Howard.
When I graduated, Howard bought me from the market a little late 19thcentury edition of Henry Vaughan, bound in soft calfskin, with a gilt owl
impressed onto the cover, and an inscription in his slanting copperplate. I still
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remember my pride at the beauty of the book, and the generosity of the
inscription. I later found out that, characteristically, he had bought and inscribed
a book for every English graduate that year.
Mine was signed off, ‘In friendship, Howard’. But the notion of becoming
friends with Howard was then preposterous. What would we say to each other?
What interest could he possibly find in conversation with me? However, like
numerous other former students here today, I did become friends with Howard.
It took time – more than a decade in fact; time for me to mature and him to
unbend. Though dissimilar in numerous ways, we shared a city, a profession, a
love of literature, and a passion for mountains and mountain culture. We met,
talked, drank – usually in the Champion of the Thames. I felt guilty when I did not see
him for six months, anxious at his loneliness, aware of my busy-ness. He was
supportive of my writing, about which he wrote me letters I greatly value, and he
watched my academic career within Cambridge and the English Faculty with
paternal vigilance. More than once, I know, he stepped in to do battle on my
behalf, though typically he did not tell me had had done so until long after the
conflict had ceased.
In March last year, I took Howard out for lunch. He drank red wine,
apologetically, and we talked about Pope, mountains, sailing, Macedonia, and
limestone. He wept a little, as he did more and more often in his final years, and
as we were bidding farewell he took from his knapsack a huge leather-bound and
gilt-tooled book, entitled Footsteps of Dr Johnson, by George Birkbeck Hill,
published in 1890, and rich with maps and engravings. He gave the book to me –
as he had been giving books, I knew, to others. It was a means of divesting
himself of his chattels as he aged, yes, but also a substitute means of expressing
affection, given the difficulty he found in speaking plainly of emotion. ‘To
Robert’, the inscription began, and it ended: ‘From his old teacher, Howard
Erskine-Hill’.
We embraced awkwardly, my old teacher and I, and that – until the hospital
– was the last time I saw him: walking stiffly off down Pembroke Street towards
College. It felt that a great distance had been travelled since I first met him as
my interviewer, and though I could not help him with his unhappinesses (as no
one could help him), I felt intensely glad (as many have felt) first of his
teaching, and then of his friendship. The silhouette had been filled in, and the
man was unforgettable.
The Dame Ivy Compton Burnett Prize for Creative Writing 2014
This year the prize was judged by the poet and prize-winning children’s author,
Kevin Crossley-Holland. He wrote in support of the winning entry:
‘I have read and several times revisited the six shortlisted entries for this year’s
College creative writing prize. To my mind, ‘Apricots’ and the poems
accompanying it are estimable, and the two short stories (‘Surely Now our
Household Hearths are Cold’ and ‘Under Cover of Darkness’) are both
outstanding. But, I think the sequence of poems ‘Corelines’ has the edge.
Turning on the connective tissues between harp and heart, often with stunning
imaginative force, these fine poems are hard-won and yet immediate. And they
show time and again how infinitely precious, elastic and musical our language is.
So their author is my nominee for this year’s prize.
The author of ‘Corelines’ is Phoebe Power, an English undergraduate at
Pembroke College.
Corelines
Harp Duet
Clarsach
Wren Chapel
Sleeping in his Harp-Case
Mary’s Dreams
Compline
Easter Windows
Drag Harpist
Dido for Anna
Corelines
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Harp Duet
two heads, four shoulders, passing
notes
hardwristed
veins pumped with steel and wood,
eyelids pierced with cold; gold irises.
Dark sleeves
sift
the space between, fingertips run in
and out of weftline, forcefields, hands
brush eyebeam, his hand,
her
hand sprung into the gap
of suspension, counterpoint,
pointed, gold nails.
Stroking
a heart the size of a house between them,
inking arches, arched eyebrows, the arch
of the harp’s mahoghany
back
bound to the window’s night:
a harp picture, one harp
and two harpists,
two halves
of a heart. Conceiving and expanding
wings, great arms embracing
art or children,
or mothers,
or pilgrims
a boy and a girl
holding space by strings
but never touching
each other
Clarsach
They lift the girl-harp in a hammock
of silver wire not to touch the ground or snap
a clavicle. Her feet are blades
not pedals. They change the key in naturals
and sharps. On the lawn, she tingles
her clitoris, and notes sprinkle with the grass-seed in the air.
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Wren Chapel
gridline
windows–
whiter
stare– or bluer– greener squares
glass-cake ceiling– sky invoked
columns
voices
pieced
bent
reciting
in
voltas–
from
to
Bibles–
air
bells
share
Chloe– Testament intoned
turns– hard oak stalls
beards– bald
spots–
pearls
Service – Order– crisped A4
sheepskin gloves– sherry gleam
God– sits on a marble chair
Sleeping in his Harp-Case
Harry’s bed was locked up but the harp was still there,
sphinx-serena in her case. He shifted the robe
from her slim dark shoulders and she made no sound,
but bare strings shone white in the night
electrics. Head too large, hips too narrow, feet a foetus
coiled at one end. That night, Harry slept in his heart-case.
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Mary’s Dreams
First Immaculata
arrived with her briefcase of tweezers, plucked
and flossed me, Felicity buffed and filed, I was
gargled, lips vaselined and sealed. They prised
my navel for disinfection but left it,
blinking, smelling of nothing.
*
On the terrace,
hair washed and dried for a sunlit breakfast,
watching the blue ocean: Anne came,
whispering annunce, annunce, and Teresa rinsed
my pores and slipped in the whitegold.
We sat there, after, sewing angels’ wings.
*
Then Natalie with her wide white face and dark brown eyes
sat with me, rubbing my flanks
to be haylike and warm, while the animals moved in
closer and I rocked
in the weak light, under the stars like milk on ink.
Compline
Each time we breathe we collect, let go,
forget, feeling the grey edges lift
from our eyes as we lose understanding
of upright, our flesh parts unstringing in dimness
of line, notes unpicked from the husk
of the bass, to leave this light fruit, ferial
melody sputtering its windtripping-trickle for weekdays, barefoot
in chapel, a girl like a mute dart
lighting more corners with candles so walls
disappear and presses the glow-worm
choirlights to fill us with stars,
pouring each paper cup with a circle
of cocoa dissolved in hot milk. The air
in Pembroke is sweet, laid out like the leaves
of an old book. Now it is late. Let me
stretch out, under your warm wings.
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Easter Windows
They began blue, greyblue,
aquamarine
and said, take, eat, this is my body
chapel
light
but the night was shadow
unto a place called Gethsemane
window squares
darkened to ink
and he went out, and wept bitterly
where the crucifix hung among stained glass
departed, and went and hanged himself
deepened as the text progressed, slowly
they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote
edges absorbed
into the glassdark
vinegar to drink, mingled with gall
like a stain seeping blacker, plummets
the ninth hour… Eli, Eli, Lamasabachthani!
sublimates,
till it altogether lost shape
Drag Harpist
I encrust my harp with strawberry-flavoured, gold-painted
MDF, covering the body within. This I alone ever see,
when I stand at the mirror in my underpants, brushing my teeth.
I sometimes perform in a Baroque wig. Othertimes it’s Georgia,
beauty spots and gold teeth. I must cut my fingernails, they’re out of hand,
not harpist hands: magenta varnish chipping off. Fucking cheap stuff.
Just sometimes, there’s so much crêpe I can’t quite play, the notes
won’t come, always flat – never that tight, white note, bone
in the centre of a room, that heart hanging from a string.
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Dido for Anna
If I could have siphoned his silence, his
saturate dumb fuck
all just my body hot lithe body in a cave
I’d live in that space, my fury
unhooking itself, shoulders growing
rounder, falling away in warm water.
If I’d had a piece of his silence.
I kept it from you, sister,
in daylight I danger, delicious,
cool silvered azure, lips sculpted,
I Dido, delicious in daylight.
In my flamethrown room I sweated,
wore away sandals, bits of leather,
hair in knots, loose tresses, knuckles
cut shaving wood for the pyre. I’ll wear
my finest – or maybe I’ll wear nothing –
I’ll squeeze my nipples to pulp.
I’ll wear my sandals loose, unknotted.
I believed I was in this alone. Soulmate,
backturned I was bound in a burning quiver
of Madness, and fired myself
with you
and our city, baby Carthage –
the flames spread over everything.
I pulled the fire around me and turned my back.
Afterwards, you cleaned my gashes
with water. You mopped up the blood
with the dress you were wearing.
My darling, you opened me with your lips
as I closed, and when I left
you stayed, stilled in my breath.
Corelines
after Mallarmé: ‘Sainte’
Unpicks itself of its gilt, sandalwood
harp in the corner brushes
free of its own Magnificat streams,
outbreathes a haze, gold flakes
of paint, quavers
and lashes flicker the space.
Fingerbone tightened
to break, your palms
rubbed to their stringed-up gut, nails
softened and brown, now
you are like a saint, body bled
to its wire in hammering
labour, muscle held between metal,
inside the carved DNA of birds
and twigs – the corelines – the heart.
B. COLLEGE NEWS
Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626), Master of Pembroke and Bishop
by Joseph Buckshorn
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NEW FELLOWS
Nine new Fellows of the College introduce themselves to the Pembroke College
Cambridge Society in their own words:
ANTHONY ASHTON was admitted to Pembroke in
October 2013 as the Stokes Fellow in Mathematics. He
writes: I grew up in the seaside town of Rhyl on the North
Wales coast and came up came up to Cambridge in 2002
read for a degree in Mathematics at Peterhouse. Having
thoroughly enjoyed my time as an undergraduate, I
decided to stay on for Part III of the Mathematical Tripos.
During this one year course I studied a range of subjects,
from Quantum Field Theory and Acoustics to Functional
Analysis and Operator Theory. On completing Part III in
2006, I took up a PhD in DAMTP, under the supervision of Prof. A.S. Fokas.
During my PhD I worked on problems in the theory of Partial Differential
Equations (PDEs), particularly on developing new methods that could be used to
study elliptic boundary value problems. This particular area of research allowed
me to use techniques from pure mathematics to solve important problems in
applied mathematics -- I felt I got the best of both worlds!
I finished my PhD in 2009 and managed to win the EPSRC prize fellowship in
DAMTP. This 9 month fellowship allowed me to extend many of the results I
obtained during my PhD. Based on this work I won a Junior Research Fellowship
at Emmanuel College, where I stayed from October 2010 until September 2013.
I am now the Stokes Fellow here at Pembroke, and I continue to work on the
theory of elliptic boundary value problems. I also supervise a range of different
courses from the Mathematical Tripos, which means I often get to spend time
doing mathematics with the undergraduate mathematicians in the college. I
currently lecture two courses for the Mathematics Department: Part II Integrable
Systems and Part III Distribution Theory. This gives me an opportunity to wax
lyrical about subjects I find interesting and tell bad jokes to a captive audience.
AMBROGIO CAMOZZI was admitted to Pembroke in
October 2013 as the Keith Sykes Research Fellow in
Italian Studies. He writes: The eldest of four boys, I was
born in the city of Milan, Italy, but always felt at home on
the mountains between the lake of Como and
Switzerland, where I spent most of my childhood. I loved
exploring and the dry Costiera dei Cech suited me well.
Now, as the Keith Sykes Research Fellow in Italian
Studies, I find myself exploring other sorts of ‘grounds’. I
am studying medieval texts and, in particular, Dante’s
Commedia. I became interested in this work, its sources and influence, when I
started my first degree in Italian Philology at the University of Milan. I found the
extreme complexity of the many stems of Dante’s poem, and at the same time its
wondrous unity, one of the greatest examples of what the human mind can
achieve, and something that would be sure to keep me enthralled long enough to
form a life-long activity.
During my first degree I took a year off to complete a research programme at
the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, in Sciences historiques et
philologiques. In Paris, I enjoyed a very fruitful time in terms of research, making
good use of the public libraries that were so much more efficient than those I was
used to on the other side of the Alps. At the Bibliotheque Nationale de France I
looked directly, for the first time, at medieval manuscripts trying to make sense of
the handwritings and gather information from their codicological features.
My final dissertation drew the attention of professor Zygmunt Baranski, soon
to become my supervisor here in Cambridge. Zyg invited me for a first meeting at
The Mad Bishop and the Bear, in Paddington Station, London: a pub, as I was to
discover. In order to complete my university education and have the chance to
work with Baranski, I enrolled for an MPhil in European Literature and culture at
Cambridge University. I then went on to start my PhD, being lucky enough to
benefit from the generosity and vision of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
As a Gates Scholar, I completed a doctoral dissertation on the relationship
between Dante and the medieval traditions of Alexander the Great.
I am currently working on three editorial projects. Firstly, I am turning my
Ph.D. dissertation Dante and the Medieval Alexander into a book. Work is already well
under way. My second project, Dante as Satirist, looks at the canons and
conventions of medieval satire, and their influence on Dante’s poetic career. I
have completed the major research work and published an exploratory study on
the topic for a new academic journal, Le Tre Corone. The third editorial project is
focused on Dante’s Convivio, the poet’s unfinished prose summa. With this Italian
study, I will present my very own reading of Dante’s ethics, the political purposes
of the treatise and its anti-hierocratic stance.
I have also been working on classical mythology in medieval culture, medieval
dreambooks and the magic lore. I am the cofounder of Esperimenti Danteschi (an
international course on Dante studies), and the creator of CAMA, a project set up
to provide new students of Italian at the University of Cambridge with a free firsthand experience of the territory of Firenze, Siena e Arezzo. I am a keen footballer
and hope to play (and score) again for the PCFAC. I am married to Tess and we
have Tom, Jasper and one very little girl, Beatrice. (Not because of Dante!)
ANDREW CATES was elected Bursar of the College in
October 2013. He writes: As the unplanned sixth child
born to two Bristol doctors at the end of 1965, I have
always taken life as a bit of a bonus. I grew up in the days
when it was normal to expect a six year old to walk three
miles home alone from school every day, where central
heating was unknown and where our black and white
television worked only briefly after each visit from the
Radio Rentals repair man. My school reports were
generally handed to me unopened by parents, I was in
“remedial reading”, rarely did homework and when 12 was told by my school with
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my parents that I would never get to university and should learn a trade. The next
year I had an inspiring English teacher and suddenly started reading copiously;
the following year I had an inspiring maths teacher as well. I thus came up to
Trinity to read Part IB Maths in 1983.
I enjoyed being an undergraduate; alongside Tripos, a half Blue and three
BUCS medals, I was neither caught nor killed in a wide range of (sober but
technically challenging) undergraduate misdemeanours. I met my future wife,
Carolyn, when she came up to read medicine in 1987, and she helped me to grow
up a bit. After a PhD I ended up as a Junior Research Fellow at Emmanuel working
on turbulent combustion. I went into the Oil Industry and by 1993 was managing
all of Shell’s interests in Cote d’Ivoire (in French speaking West Africa). Work
went well, but over three years living there I took on a concern about the plight of
street children which I carried through the next eight years of my career in Shell.
This was worsened by the deaths of several close friends out there, with children
I had helped teach to count potentially ending up on the street. All but a few very
close friends were surprised when, in 2004, I quit being in charge of Shell’s
European gas and power operations to move to Cambridge and run a small
charity looking after orphans in the developing world.
Last year, I started feeling I could put down some of my burden about African
children; the ones I knew closely had largely grown up, the charity had grown
many times over and was able to help far more children much more completely.
I had been on Cambridge University’s Audit Committee for a while and I
thought moving to a College as Bursar was interesting. Carolyn and I had both
reflected that Pembroke was the College we would both have rather gone to
as students. I was delighted when the vacancy came up, and even more so to
be appointed.
PAUL CAVILL was admitted to an Official Fellowship in
October 2013. He is also a University Lecturer in Early
Modern British History. He writes: Having grown up in
the London suburb of Wimbledon, I went to study at
Oxford in 1998. My college, Corpus Christi, was founded
in 1517 by Bishop Richard Fox of Winchester, sometime
master of Pembroke, whose portrait hangs in the dining
hall. Appropriately enough, my interests have focused on
the history of early Tudor England, including several
dimensions of Corpus’s foundation: the impact of
Renaissance humanism, the public role of churchmen, and the rise of
Protestantism (Luther’s challenge being coincidental with the college’s
establishment). I was at Corpus for seven happy years as an undergraduate and
postgraduate student. In 2005 I moved next door to Merton College as a junior
research fellow, where I spent two years turning my doctoral thesis into a book.
Then in 2007 I left Oxford for a lectureship at Bangor University, where I gained
experience of teaching and enjoyed living on Anglesey and walking in
Snowdonia. Two years later, I took up a lectureship at the University of Leeds,
where I appreciated the academic environment but found the city rather lively.
After four years there, I was delighted to be appointed to a lectureship in the
Faculty of History, and hence to have the privilege of joining Pembroke.
My type of history is political, and my angle constitutional, governmental, and
legal. I am interested in how the English polity worked from centre to locality and
from top to bottom and vice-versa, and in how it adapted during a period of
extensive, even profound, intellectual, religious, and social change. These issues
first engaged me as a graduate student when working on parliament in the reign
of Henry VII (1485–1509). Studying parliament may seem an old-fashioned form
of history. For me, however, as the only forum in which the whole realm was
supposedly present, parliament illuminates political life powerfully. Through
parliament, I have attempted to reconstruct the horizontal and vertical ties that
bound together the English polity (for instance, in the development of nationwide
remedies to social problems), and also the issues that on occasion divided it (for
instance, over the royal prerogative and the rule of law). Henry VII’s parliaments
are notorious for being terribly documented. Trying to discover more about these
intractable sessions whetted my appetite for archival research. Working my way
through obscure classes held at the Public Record Office, I found the quantity
daunting, but the documents fascinating. I relished piecing together links
between different sources, both there at Kew and at local record offices
throughout the country. My historical method remains an exercise in detection: to
find revealing but overlooked documents and to write about them.
Originally, religion was a minor part of my work, but few historians of the
sixteenth century can resist that subject for long. For someone with my interests,
the English Reformation is exciting as the most drastic act of government in
centuries. Modern scholarship has tended to emphasize its pietistic and
devotional dimensions, but to have hived off the politics. Two discrete, somewhat
unconnected, accounts of the Reformation have resulted. Recent work that seeks
to reunite these two elements has encouraged me to apply the sources that I use
to study governance to religion. Thus I have explored how heresy, although a
purely religious offence in canon law, nevertheless enmeshed church and state,
clergy and laity in sustained jurisdictional, procedural, and interpersonal cooperation and conflict. My latest research has brought to the fore one aspect of
this subject that deserves to be better known: the punishment of heresy, not by
burning (which dominates the literature), but rather by forfeiture of property. I
have discussed how the action and inaction of so-called heretics and their
families, of their neighbours, friends, and enemies, and of local magistrates,
officers, and jurors affected the process of confiscation. In the future, I hope to
examine what the idea of heresy meant to royal and ecclesiastical governors and
to the clergy and the laity in general in the three decades preceding the break with
Rome. I count myself fortunate to be developing these ideas in so scholarly and
stimulating a setting.
SANNE COTTAAR was admitted to Pembroke in October 2013 as the Drapers’
Research Fellow. She writes: I was born in the Netherlands as the second of
eventually five children. My family never settled down; moving on average every
two years and living abroad in Belgium and the United States. This made for an
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exciting childhood and my parents taking responsibility
for several years of my education in the US.
When I was 13, living in the south of the Netherlands
where small earthquakes occur, I tried to find a
relationship between the orientation of people’s beds
towards the fault and if an earthquake would wake them
up. In hindsight that was my first study in seismology,
although my only conclusion could have been that people
don’t make good seismometers.
After my BSc and MSc in geology/geophysics from
Utrecht University (including a semester at the Colorado School of Mines), I did
my PhD in global seismology at the University of California, Berkeley. Last
September I shipped my home across the pond for the sixth time to settle in
Pembroke College.
My research is on probing the structure and dynamics of the Earth using
seismic waves. The broad questions that are being answered are: What is the
overall composition of the Earth? How did the Earth form (compositionally and
thermally)? How do dynamics at depth relate to surface features? During my PhD
I worked on mapping complexities and flow at the boundary between the mantle
and the core. One of my projects was the discovery of a 3000-km deep anchor to
hot upwelling material causing Hawaiian volcanism. A multi-disciplinary aspect
of my work was to tie the seismic observations to geodynamics and mineral
physics. As a side note: suitable earthquakes for this research need to be large, but
also deep and therefore cause little damage.
During my Draper’s Company Fellowship, I plan to shift up in the Earth, and
focus on the boundary zone between the upper and the lower mantle around
400–700 km deep. The prevailing minerals here transition into higher density
phases, creating sufficient jumps in seismic velocity to reflect and refract seismic
waves that we can then observe. It remains a challenge to create a consistent view
between different seismic data sets and mineralogical models of these
boundaries. The boundary zone is quite important in the global dynamics; its
thermodynamics hinder overall mantle circulation. On a broader scale, I would
like to quantify how much material crosses this boundary, and to what degree the
entire mantle is convecting or else if layered convection is occurring.
Otherwise I enjoy playing board and card games. My brother and I had a short
stint playing on the Dutch youth bridge team, before we decided we preferred
science and wanted to live and study abroad. I like to broaden my horizon through
travel, hillwalking, volunteer work, and benefitting from everything Cambridge
has to offer.
HILDEGARD DIEMBERGER was appointed as a Fellow and College Lecturer in
Human, Social and Political Sciences in October 2013. She writes: Born at the
foothill of the Alps from an Austrian father and an Italian mother who shared a
passion for mountaineering, I have always been fascinated by mountains and
mountain environments. Rather than being attracted by summits, however, I
developed a special interest for the people who live with the mountains on a day
to day basis. Having experienced the Andes and the
Himalayas as a teenager, I decided to study social
anthropology and Tibetology at the University of Vienna.
During my studies and my early career, I carried out
extensive anthropological fieldwork in Tibet and the
Himalayas and promoted cooperation between western
and Tibetan academic institutions when this was still very
much a novelty. This pioneering experience offered me
unprecedented
opportunities
to
engage
in
anthropological fieldwork on a wide range of themes,
from spirit possession to environmental knowledge, and to collaborate with
Tibetan scholars making ground-breaking discoveries: the retrieval, translation
and publication of the history of the area north of Mt Everest (Pasang Wangdu and
Diemberger 1996, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna); the retrieval,
translation and publication of the 11th century and earliest known version of the
chronicle narrating the foundation of the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet
(Pasang Wangdu and Diemberger 2000, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna);
and, more recently, a monograph on the fifteenth century biography of the
Tibetan princess Chokyi Dronma (Diemberger 2007, Columbia University Press,
New York). Having acquired an almost intimate understanding of this
extraordinary woman through the Tibetan account of her life and having visited
many of the places where she lived and travelled in Tibet I developed a particular
interest in Buddhist women as (often unrecognised) cultural and social
innovators, which I still pursue.
In 2000, when the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit established by
Professor Caroline Humphrey expanded to include the Tibetan plateau and the
Himalayan regions, I was offered a teaching and research position that enabled me
to join one of the world’s most exciting teams studying Inner Asia. Thanks to the
support of the then Head of the Department of Social Anthropology, Stephen
Hugh-Jones, it was possible to establish a formal collaboration between
Cambridge and the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences in Lhasa and set up a wide
range of research projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
UK. Exploring Tibetan collections In Tibet and the Himalayas as well as the UK it
was possible to engage not only with the content of literary artefacts but also to
develop a special interest in Tibetan book technology which is reflected, among
other things, in the exhibition Buddha’s Word – the Life of Buddhist Books in Tibet and
Beyond at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (May 2014–January 2015).
When I moved to Cambridge I also started to teach at the department (now
Division) of Social Anthropology, which I have been doing with great passion up to
the present, making the most of the distinctive Cambridge ‘research led teaching’.
In the last few years, as issues surrounding the changing climate took centre
stage world-wide I returned to my long standing interests in the way people
understand and make a living in mountain environments – now with an eye to the
disappearing ice. Collaborating with Barbara Bodenhorn, an anthropologist
specialising in the arctic and a former Pembroke fellow, we set up an
interdisciplinary network on climate histories, which became the basis for a
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string of grants, collaborative schemes, outreach activities to local schools and
the teaching of an environmental component in the paper ‘Science and Society’ at
the Division of Social Anthropology. Drawing on this experience I have also
become a member of the Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the
Environment. Finally, as the general secretary of the International Association for
Tibetan Studies I have been promoting collaboration and cross-disciplinary
research on Tibet and the Himalayas world-wide.
JOHN DURRELL was admitted to an Official Fellowship
in October 2013. He is also an Assistant Director of
Studies in Engineering. He writes: After growing up in
Stockport I studied Physics at Imperial College. In 1997
I started a PhD in Materials Science as a member of
Jesus College.
My PhD was supervised by the late Prof Jan Evetts, an
old member, and sometime Fellow, of Pembroke. My
research then, as now, was aimed at understanding the
relation between magnetic and crystalline properties in
Superconductors, with a view to developing practical materials for applications.
In 2001 having finished my PhD I swore to myself I would move on from
Cambridge and left for a research assistant appointment at the University of Linz.
After a happy year in Austria I, somewhat to my surprise, found myself returning
to Cambridge to take up a Research Associate position in the Materials Science
Department, again with Jan Evetts as my supervisor. In 2005 I was very fortunate
to be awarded an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship which provided me with
five year’s salary and independent funding. During my research fellowship I
concentrated on trying to understand how grain boundaries in ceramic
superconductors affect current flow and engineering performance. In 2006 I was
appointed to a Research Fellowship at Hughes Hall, where I also served as a
Graduate Tutor and Director of Studies for Natural Sciences.
In 2010 I was appointed a Senior Research Associate in the Engineering
Department working with Prof David Cardwell. In this role I work with Boeing
Research and Technology developing characterisation techniques for bulk
superconducting materials, high performance superconducting materials and
potential applications for engineering superconductors. These potential
applications include the use of friction free superconducting bearings for energy
storage flywheels, low cost compact MRI systems, magnetic targeting for drug
delivery and non-destructive testing systems for aerospace applications.
I am delighted to have been lucky enough to be able to join Pembroke as a
Fellow. The College is an exceptionally vibrant and welcoming academic
community of which I am proud to be a part. I am particularly enjoying teaching
mechanics and materials science to IA and IB engineers, as has often been noted
I find that you only really understand something when you come to teach it.
MAXIMILIAN STERNBERG was admitted to an Official Fellowship in October
2013. He is also a University Lecturer in Architecture. He writes: It is a particular
privilege to be elected as fellow at the college where I was also a student. I joined
Pembroke as an MPhil student in 2001, and following my
PhD I returned to Cambridge as a Research Associate at
the Department of Architecture in 2007. Pembroke
generously extended its hospitality once more by
appointing me as an Academic Associate at a time. I
started a permanent Lectureship in the Department in
2012, and felt very honoured to join the fellowship in
October of 2013. It is now by pleasure to direct Studies in
architecture, inheriting a thriving community of students
from Dr William Fawcett, who has led the discipline in
Pembroke for the past decade.
Born in Munich to a German mother and Polish father, my education first at
French than at International School, gave me a transnational outlook from the
outset. Following a degree in history at King’s College London, a year in
investment banking the City made it clear to me that my vocation was in
academia. A scholarship from the Gates Trust enabled me to return to university
and find an intellectual home in architectural theory and urban studies.
My research covers both contemporary and historical areas of architecture and
urbanism. The common thread running through my various projects is an
emphasis on the wider role of architecture and the urban environment in
mediating conflictual social, religious and cultural tensions. My research
interests fall into three distinct areas.
My work as a project partner on the ESRC-funded project ‘Conflict in Cities’ is
brought together in a co-authored book entitled The Struggle for Jerusalem’s Holy
Places (2013). It focuses on the interplay of politics, religion and spatial practices
in ethno-national conflicts in Jerusalem. I am now adapting this approach to
urban conflict in a new context. With the help of a recent grant from the British
Academy, I explore the role of public space in transnational interactions in PolishGerman border towns.
My second area of interest is the social meanings of architecture in the Middle
Ages. My monograph Cistercian Architecture and Medieval Society (2013) draws on my
doctoral work and focuses on the complex relationships between Cistercian
abbeys and cities in the Languedoc in the thirteenth century. Recently I have
shifted my angle on medieval history to exploring the ongoing role of Romantic
conceptions of History in Modernism.
Finally, I am co-editing a volume entitled Phenomenologies of the City (to appear
later this year) that explores the interface of philosophy, architecture and urban
studies. My aim in this is to represent and bring into dialogue the multiple
approaches in this domain of architectural theory.
I vividly remember the support I received as a student in Pembroke and I
am committed to doing my part in passing this on to the undergraduates
and graduates that I have the pleasure of accompanying through their studies
at Pembroke.
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TIMOTHY WEIL was admitted to an Official Fellowship
in October 2013. He is also a University Lecturer in
Zoology. He writes: I was born outside of Chicago,
Illinois, USA, famous for Blues music, Al Capone, deep
dish pizza, Michael Jordan, President Obama and being
‘windy’. Chicago is in the ‘mid-west’, that is the region of
the USA between New York and California, said to be
‘friendly’ and ‘have family values’. This differs from the
coasts where the ‘heartless’ traders of Wall Street and
‘hapless’ hippies of San Francisco reside. I attended a
large state high school (secondary school) that fit most of stereotypes seen in
films. I graduated near, but not at, the top of my 700 person class, played soccer,
basketball, track and volleyball throughout. I believe my upbringing, both a
strong family unit and local environment, have structured my values system and
personality traits that govern the decisions I have, and will make.
I attended Washington University in St. Louis and majored in Biology with
minors in Drama, Pre-Med and Legal Studies. University was thoroughly
enjoyable and in addition to the second-to-none education I received in the
classroom, my education outside the classroom was just as important. I was a
member of a fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon, again fitting most of the stereotypes
seen in films. Most importantly, I made meaningful friendships that continue to
the present day. While an undergraduate I was fortunate to attend summer
programs in London and Costa Rice setting the stage for future career choices.
As a graduate student at Princeton University in the Molecular Biology
Department, I was first introduced to the fruit fly as a model organism, the
beginning of a love affair that still burns strong. Working with Professor Liz
Gavis, a wonderful mentor and even better person, I studied how Drosophila
pattern their body. A number of serendipitous events lead to a collaboration with
a group at the University of Edinburgh which resulted in my living there. After a
productive year and a half among the thistles and bagpipes, I returned to
Princeton, wrote up and received my PhD.
I was awarded a Fellowship from Marie Curie Actions which enabled me to
return to the UK for post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford. I
continued to work on fly body patterning with Professor Ilan Davis who educated
me in science and the British way of doing things. For the majority of my first year
in Oxford I was able once again to collaborate with an international group to
address exciting science questions. This time I lived in Utrecht, NL for 9 months
working with Catherine Raboulle on state-of-the-art electron microscopy
techniques. Once I returned to Oxford, I was first a member of Jesus College
(MCR) and then a Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College. In an attempt to
assimilate, I played college rugby, football and cricket whenever I had the chance.
In the end however, I relapsed to yankee youth and joined the Oxford University
Basketball Club. This led to playing point guard for two years with the Blues team
and also meeting my partner Laura who played for the women’s team.
This past October I joined the Zoology department here in Cambridge which
is a dream come true. I continue to work on the fruit fly and below is a brief
explanation of the research I carry out using this model organism for the nonscientific members of Pembroke:
You are made up of trillions of cells all working together for your entire life. However, at one
point in your life, you were a single cell. Think about that for a second, a single cell developed
into a trillion cell organism with the ability to function almost like a machine. For example,
your cardiac tissue contracts 50+ times a minute for your entire life. Your bones provide
structure to your body and your neurons transmit signals from your toes to your brain and
back in mere milliseconds.
Isn’t it baffling to think how we can ever begin to understand this process? My work uses
a model organism that is often referred to as a “miniature human with wings”, the fruit fly,
yes just like the one you might see flying around your fruit bowl. The fly has a surprisingly
high amount of genetic similarity to humans and has been successful in modeling many
human diseases including cancer and Alzheimer’s.
I explore how the symmetric egg of the fly is able to define which side will become the
head vs tail, left vs right and up vs down. By understanding how the simple fruit fly can
develop from one cell to many, we can begin to understand how this same process takes place
in humans.
For any afficionados, here is a more satisfying introduction to my work.
The primary embryonic axes of many animals are established through the localization and
translational control of transcripts prior to fertilization. Drosophila is an ideal model
organism for answering universal questions about axis determination and mRNA because of
its experimental tractability and homology to other complex multicellular systems. In
Drosophila, precise temporal and spatial regulation of gurken and bicoid mRNA translation
is essential for the body plan establishment. My work explores how bicoid and gurken are
regulated at different stages of egg and embryo development using a combination of
microscopy, genetics and biochemistry.
It is with great honour and humility that I join the fellowship of Pembroke
College. The rich history and progressive spirit of the college leads me to believe
that my inclusion in the fellowship will be mutually benificial. I have been moved
by the kindness and accomodating nature of the Pembroke community and I look
forward to building lasting relationships with all of you in the near future.
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FELLOWS’ NEWS
Sam Barrett’s two-volume edition and study, The Melodic Tradition of Boethius’ De
consolatione philosophiae in the Middle Ages, was published by Baerenreiter.
Rosalind Blakesley’s co-edited volume of essays, From Realism to the Silver Age: New
Studies in Russian Artistic Culture, was published by Northern Illinois University Press.
Hildegard Diemberger co-curated (with Mark Elliott), and produced the
catalogue for, the exhibition on Buddha’s Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond
at the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
William Fawcett’s article ‘The Post-war Traditionalists in Oxford and Cambridge’
was published in Oxford and Cambridge, the 11th issue of the annual Twentieth
Century Architecture, published by the Twentieth Century Society. The article
includes a section on Pembroke’s Orchard Building of 1957 and its architect,
Marshall Sisson.
Norman Fleck was awarded the 2013 ASME Koiter medal for International
Leadership in Mechanics, and the 2014 AA Griffith medal (awarded in
recognition of distinguished work in any branch of Materials Science) by the
Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. He was also made a Foreign
Associate of the National Academy of Engineering and awarded an Honorary
Doctorate by the Eindhoven University of Technology.
Robin Franklin was appointed to the Chair of Stem Cell Medicine at the Clinical
School and Head of Translational Science at the Wellcome Trust-MRC Cambridge.
Renaud Gagné’s book Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece was published by the
Cambridge University Press. He also co-edited Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy for
Cambridge University Press, and Sacrifices humains: Perspectives croisées et
représentations for the Presses Universitaires de Liège.
Loraine Gelsthorpe’s co-edited collection of essays, A Restorative Approach to Family
Violence: Changing Tack was published by Ashgate. She was also elected to a further
year as President of the British Society of Criminology.
Clare Grey was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Lancaster University.
Bill Grimstone’s book Pembroke Portraits was published by the College.
Alex Houen’s edited collection of essays States of War: Sovereignty, Terrorism, and the
War on Terror was published by Routledge. A collection of essays co-edited with
Dominic Janes and entitled Martyrdom and Terrorism, Pre-modern to Contemporary
Perspectives was published by Oxford University Press. His chapbook of poetry,
Rouge States, was published by Oystercatcher Press. He was awarded a Leverhulme
Research Fellowship for 2014–15 to work on a project on Sacrifice and Modern
War Literature.
Lauren Kassell was awarded a £1 million Strategic Award by the Wellcome Trust
to continue her work on The Casebooks Project: A Digital Edition of Simon Forman’s and
Richard Napier’s Medical Records, 1596–1634 (www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk).
Colin Lizieri was awarded the David Ricardo Medal by the American Real Estate
Society for his ‘innovative and extensive publications on real estate office markets
and the role of capital in urban development.’
Nick McBride’s book Great Debates in Jurisprudence (co-authored with Sandy Steel)
was published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Toby Matthiesen was elected as an Associate Fellow at the German Council on
Foreign Relations for 2014.
Sarah Nouwen’s book Complementarity in the Line of Fire was published by
Cambridge University Press.
Mike Payne was awarded the 2014 Swan Medal by the Institute of Physics for ‘the
development of computational techniques that have revolutionised materials
design and facilitated the industrial application of quantum mechanical
simulations’.
Maximilian Sternberg’s book Cistercian Architecture and Medieval Society was
published by Brill.
Colin Wilcockson served as the guest editor for the 2014, volume 25, 1st issue of
Anglistik: The International Journal of English Studies, focussing on literary illustration.
The issue included essays by Colin Wilcockson (‘Introduction: illustrations in
works of literature’ and ‘Illustrating Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Eric Gill’s
woodcuts for the Golden Cockerel Press’), Charles Melville (‘Fantasy and animal
fables: the illustration of Persian literature in English’), and Mark Wormald (‘The
great Irish pike: Ted Hughes and the art of poetry’).
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GIFTS TO THE COLLEGE
From –
Lady Adrian, Ferdinando Targetti’s Nicholas Kaldor: the Economics and Politics of
Capitalism as a Dynamic System, plus four other books.
John Bell, Simon Whittaker’s The Development of Product Liability, and 14 books
on international law.
Barbara Bodenhorn, ten books on anthropology and social science.
Richard Butler, a copy of his book, Secular and Domestic: George Gilbert Scott and the
Master’s Lodge of St John’s College, Cambridge.
Paul Cavill, Peter Burke’s History and Social Theory, plus two other history/social
science books.
Owen Chadwick, a 19th century family copy of A Romance by John Inglesant.
Patrick Derham, two books he edited: Cultural Olympians: Rugby School’s
Intellectual and Spiritual Leaders, and Liberating Learning: Widening Participation.
Mrs Dixon, Peterhouse: An Architectural Record.
Howard Erskine-Hill, a bequest of a number of books to Pembroke College
Library to enhance the English section of the Library. He also left us a 5th
edition, published in 1661, of Lancelot Andrewes’s Sermons. Before he died, he also
donated a memoir of Professor Ian Jack, which was published in the
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy XI.
The parents of Merryn Everitt (2007), a 30oz Victorian silver wine ewer
(London, 1877).
Michael Faraday, copies of his books The Herefordshire Musters of 1539 and 1542,
and The Herefordshire Chantry Valuations of 1547.
William Fawcett, Twentieth Century Architecture: Oxford and Cambridge, which
contains an article by him.
Ian Fleming, a copy of Alison Wilson’s Changing Women’s Lives: a Biography of
Dame Rosemary Murray.
Loraine Gelsthorpe, Vicky Pryce’s Prisonomics, and six other books on
criminology.
Tom Gibbons, Rooms in the Darwin Hotel: Studies in English Literary Criticism and
Ideas 1880–1920.
Terry Gifford, two volumes of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism for us to add to
our Ted Hughes holdings.
Colin Gilbraith, five books by Alexandre Dumas.
Iain Goldrein, the 2013 edition of Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service.
Stephen Halliday, Insider Dealing by Sarah Clarke
Ardyn Halter, The Water’s Edge: Eleven Prints by Ardyn Halter with poems by
Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Gabriel Levin, Michael Longley, Jamie
McKendrick, Paul Muldoon, Don Paterson, Stephen Romer and Ardyn Halter.
Dr R. Harding, A History of Women’s Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
(edited by Jo Catling), and The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941–56.
Brian Holderness, eight books, including Joan Thirsk’s The Rural Economy of
England.
Tony Hopkins, three books on International Studies.
Cynthia Johnston, a copy of Blackburn’s Worthy Citizen: the Philanthropic Legacy of
R.E. Hart.
Andy Jones, David Englander’s Culture and belief in Europe, 1450–1600: An
Anthology of Sources.
Mrs Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, a copy of her book, Art in the Time of the
Colony.
Tom Kirkwood, a book by Yasheng Huang, a previous Visiting Scholar,
Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics.
Karen Lain, seven books by Pablo Neruda.
Jeremy Lawrence, three Pembroke publications for the Archives: The Pem June
1922, The Broke, June 1923, A Poet at Pem Lent 1951.
Gerald Mars, 60 volumes in the International Library of Criminology, Criminal
Justice and Penology Series.
Toby Matthiesen, a book he has contributed to: The Gulf States and the Arab
Uprisings (edited by Ana Echague).
Nick McBride, various books on law.
Charles Melville, Painting the Persian Book of Kings Today: Ancient Text and Modern
Images, with a foreword by him.
Stephen Nash, a book he contributed to, Albania and the Balkans, as well as two
other books from his own collection.
Simon Pearson, a copy of his book The Great Escaper: the Life and Death of Roger
Bushell – Love, Betrayal, Big X and the Great Escape. (Roger Bushell came to
Pembroke in 1929 to study Law.)
Yvonne Perret, The Journal of a Prominent Australian: the Hon. C.E. Isaac OBE MLC.
The family of F.W. Roberts (1904) – a Major in World War I – a photo album,
containing about 60 black and white photographs, some relating to
Pembroke, and others of military personnel.
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Daniel Rosenthal, ten books on film history.
Tom Rosenthal, some 1,700 art books to the Pembroke College Library. In his
honour the Art Library has been named The Rosenthal Art Library. In addition,
a copy of his festschrift, Life in Books, published by Menard Press in 2005.
Martin Roth, Art and Design for All: the Victoria & Albert Museum, edited by Julius
Bryant.
Glen Scarcliffe, George Goodwin’s Fatal Rivalry: Flodden 1513.
Hugh Taylor, a copy of his book, Edward J. Dent: Selected Essays.
Christopher Vanier, a copy of his book Caribbean Chemistry: A Memoir from St Kitts
and Antigua 1942–1961.
Colin Wilcockson, a copy of Anglistik, Vol. 25, 2014, containing articles by
Charles Melville, Mark Wormald and Colin Wilcockson.
Dr Tony Wilkinson, 29 books from his own library of fine art and private press
books, including Babou, Henry (ed.), Les Artistes du Livre. Some of these books
were exhibited at this year’s annual Plate Display.
Mark Wormald, a copy of the book he co-edited, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to
Collected.
Publications mentioned in the Fellows’ News section of the Gazette were donated
by:
Renaud Gagné, Toby Matthiesen, Sarah Nouwen, Maximilian Sternberg.
Publications mentioned in the Members’ News section of the Gazette were donated
by:
Bernard Adams (1958), David Clark (1958), Michael Counsell (1956), Hillary
Don (1952), Timothy Dudley-Smith (1944), Emma Jones (2010), John Loft
(1944), John Nicholas (1961), Daniel Rosenthal (1990), Tom Rosenthal (1956),
Martin Rowson (1978), Cedric Watts (1958), James Wood (1988).
THE DEAN’S REPORT
Pembroke House
This has been a very good year for Pembroke House, and the charity continues to
find new ways to serve the local community, and retaining strong links with
Pembroke College.
The biggest new project is IntoUniversity, a rapidly growing University Access
programme, helping young people from backgrounds which would not
normally consider University to understand the value of University, and how to
choose an appropriate course and place. IntoUniversity works with six local
primary schools, and six local secondary schools, offering academic support,
undergraduate mentors and study weeks. The arrival of this project at Pembroke
House has opened a whole new range of volunteering possibilities for Pembroke
students, who have gone in term time and in University vacations to assist with
the work. They have also been involved in welcoming Students from
IntoUniversity to Cambridge.
The projects that have been built up over the years continued to flourish. To
mention just some:
The Pembroke Academy of Music is running very smoothly, with excellent
tutors, and is working on a “Baby PAM” extension to work with 0–4 year old
children and their parents and carers. We had an outstanding shared workshop
at Pembroke College, which brought out the extraordinary skills that PAM has
developed in enabling people at very different stages in their musical education
to make music together.
The Community Garden at Pembroke House is a resource for all the other
projects as well as being a place for members of the local community (who often
have no access to a garden of their own) to do some gardening.
The Choir with No Name now seems to have settled with Pembroke House as
its South London home. It is a choir for people who have been homeless, or who
are vulnerably housed, and they particularly appreciate the fact that at Pembroke
House they can meet and get involved with the other projects.
Pembroke College Chapel choir visited at the end of the Michaelmas Term to
sing for the annual Advent Carol service. As usual we were made very welcome,
and the service forms an excellent end of term event for the Chapel choir. It is
matched by a visit from St Christopher’s church later in the year, when they come
to celebrate communion with us in College.
We have been working to strengthen links between undergraduate and
graduate members of the College and Pembroke House. This has involved a
number of visits from the Chapel Team, and from students who have expressed
an interest and a willingness to be involved. We go into the new academic year
with a nucleus of students who have had positive personal experiences of
Pembroke House, and who will be able to explain to Freshers why this is an
important and exciting thing with which to be involved.
The Residency is becoming an increasingly important resource for Pembroke
House. It offers a substantially reduced rent to people who are working as
volunteers on projects within Pembroke House.
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Once again the Subscribers have contributed greatly to the financial stability
of the House. Because they provide a constant income, and one which is not tied
to particular projects, they make it possible for Pembroke House to face the
future with confidence, and we are very grateful to Andrew Morris and Brian
Watchorn for their hard work in recruiting and sustaining this group.
Pembroke Chapel
The Pembroke Chapel Choir is really good. It has been especially strong this year.
This is not in itself unusual, but we have deliberately chosen not to participate in
the Choral Scholarships process. We rely on enough good singers turning up
every year and choosing to sing in the choir. We set a pattern of Choral
involvement which enables ambitious singing but does not require members to
put Chapel music before their work, or an ordinary social life. The result, from my
perspective, is a Chapel Choir composed of people who really want to be present,
and who represent the community for which they sing.
Thanks go to this year’s organ scholars, Theodore Hill & Richard Parkinson
who, under the guidance of Sam Barrett, our Director of Music, have made this
arrangement work so well. Particularly memorable at the Leavers’ Evensong was
Finzi’s Lo the full, final sacrifice¸ in which it was possible to sense Aquinas, Crashaw,
Finzi and the Chapel Choir all cooperating to express the mystery.
It is worth noting that we are in an era of boomerang Organ Scholars. In
addition to Theodore & Richard we have two “Emeritus Organ Scholars” from
previous years – Joseph Ashmore and Greg Drott, who are graduate students.
Greg will be directing music in Chapel in the coming academic year while Sam
Barrett is away in the USA.
This year has been notable for the presence in the Chapel community of an
unusual number of Clergy and Ordinands, present as Fellows, Senior Members of
the College, Graduate Students and students on placement. We have gathered (11
of us in total) on a number of occasions as the “Pembroke Clericals”, and really
enjoyed comparing notes and learning from each other.
We are especially grateful this year for the work of Stephen Coleman, a student
on placement from Westcott House, who has been immensely generous with his
time, full of interesting ideas and proposals, and an important pastoral presence
for a significant number of people.
A big feature of the coming year will be the commemoration of the beginning
of the First World War. Remembrance Day is always a very poignant event in the
College, as we gather by the Memorials in the Cloister, and then proceed to a
Requiem in Chapel. We hope to use the centenary years to ensure that these
generations of Pembroke students understand the Memorials, and have some
sense of the lives that were lost.
J.T.D.G.
DEVELOPMENT OFFICE REPORT
From the Development Director
I write at the beginning of July, at a time when the College might expect to have
calmed down. After all, the undergraduates have either graduated or gone on
extended internships (which is how so many now spend what most readers of this
would have regarded as vacations), the PhD candidates are still noses down in
their academic endeavours and the Fellows are able to concentrate fully on their
research again.
However, early July witnesses the College welcoming hundreds of international
students onto its prestigious summer courses, and the work of my office goes on
too, unfettered by the discipline of committees and other formal meetings.
That work is extraordinarily varied and I would challenge anyone to find
another line of work that was so subliminal and so ridiculous, that was so
strategic and so mired in fine detail, as this. It is what makes it addictive and
thrilling, and when things go well, as they have particularly done in 2013–14, then
there is tremendous reward for all concerned.
An example of such strategy and such fine detail can be found in our recent
contribution to the 650th Anniversary celebrations of the Drapers’ Company. The
College sent a begging letter to the Company in 1655, the like of which would
send today’s ‘professional fundraisers’ into contortions of agony, but it worked.
It would appear, however, that in a move (or lack of it) that would cause equal
cries of anguish from my professional colleagues, the College then went quiet
with the Drapers for exactly 300 years, before a visionary collaboration between
the Company and the College was embarked upon in 1955 with the creation on
Drapers’ Company Research Fellowships. These have persisted and thrived to
this day, and it was a privilege for the College to be part of their 650th Anniversary
proceedings in London on 4th and 5th July, about which my colleague Sally March
has published online (www.pem.cam.ac.uk/?p=15107).
What it does show is the importance of relationships – the Drapers are part of
the College’s wider fabric, hosts as they are to our annual London dinner, as well
as sponsors of an extraordinary sequence of leading academic minds who have
gone on or are going on to great distinction in their chosen fields; some have
moved successfully outside academia. The College provides to the Company a
regular report, an annual dinner with the Master and Fellows and keeps in touch
in a variety of ways. It is a great example of a benefactor/institution relationship,
and I am pleased to record that we have a good number of those.
We are not complacent, though, and my colleagues and I are acutely conscious
of the need to keep Pembroke donors and non-donors alike informed about life
at the place, about how the money which is donated is spent, and about how the
direct beneficiaries (principally the students and academics) are doing. There is
much work on our part to do to ensure that Pembroke continues to matter to you,
even as I argue that it matters outside our immediate purview.
This is the focus of the work of the Development Board, ably chaired by Peter
Jackson (1995), does. We have seen signs of that working, and as we brace
ourselves for the challenge of raising funds for an exciting and once-in-a-century
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project like the Mill Lane site, it will need to work all the more, and be a collective
effort in which you take part.
Every gift matters, and the College is grateful to everyone, every institution and
every company that has supported our endeavours. Individually and collectively,
those donations have brought great benefit to the people of the College by
improving their environment, giving bursaries for those in need, providing travel
awards to help broaden horizons and supporting research. Two particularly large
donations made this year exemplify the way in which the way in which Pembroke
life is enriched by philanthropy also means that the wider world benefits.
In July 2013, Mrs Bita Daryabari saw the importance of the study of Persian
history and culture that Charles Melville had for so long championed and gave an
extraordinary gift of $2M to enable that work to carry on in perpetuity, thereby
firmly establishing Pembroke as a global centre for this subject and enabling it to
continue its tradition of academic leadership in the field that includes among its
past luminaries such Pembroke scholars as E.G. Browne and A.J. Arberry.
In the spring of 2014, thanks to the encouragement of Pembroke members in
Malaysia, the Mohamed Noah Foundation gave £2.5M to endow a University
Lectureship, and Fellowship at Pembroke, in Asian Politics. The first incumbent
of this post will be admitted as a Fellow in October of this year. The growing
importance of a better understanding in the West of the politics of the East cannot
be overstated. The gift also marked a ground-breaking collaboration between a
college, department and a school of the University.
These gifts are leading examples of what all gifts (which amounted to
£6,687,000 this year) do at Pembroke, in that they make a difference to someone
or something, within and outside the College. Pembroke really matters and your
support for it all the more so. Thank you.
P.S. While Pembroke’s Development team is, in my view, full of excellent and
long-serving people, special mention must be given to Mrs Angela Anderson,
who retired at the end of July as PA to the Development Director and Office
Manager after more than 16 years’ brilliant service. She will be greatly missed by
a group of grateful colleagues, as well as by many thousands of Pembroke
Members who have been in contact with her over the years. The PCCS Committee
above all will miss her sterling support and, as a mark of its gratitude to her,
members of the Committee past and present gave Angela a generous retirement
present which will enable her to stay in touch with family and friends at Pembroke
and beyond for many years to come.
M.R.M.
The Matthew Wren Society
The 17th meeting of the Society was held in College on Saturday 19 October
2013. 81 members of the society, and their guests, were entertained to lunch in
Hall, following a reception hosted by the Master in the Senior Parlour and the
Inner Parlour.
Membership of the Society is open to anyone who has notified the College of
an intention to benefit the College by a bequest. Matthew Wren (1585–1667),
undergraduate, Fellow and President of the College (1616–24), and Bishop of Ely
(1638–67), had been a notable benefactor (his body is interred in the crypt of the
Chapel, which he had built as a gift to the College, in 1665). The Society has a
membership of 425. The names of those who have consented to be identified –
together with a number of recent bequests received – are listed below. To all, the
College is extremely grateful.
Mr I A Ewen (1933)
Mr I N Turner MBE (1938)
Mr C A Price (1944)
Mr P B Mackenzie Ross
(1945)
Mr D R Smith OBE (1945)
Mr G R Evans (1946)
Professor K N Palmer
(1946)
Sir Robert Sanders KBE
CMG (1946)
Dr M W Thompson (1946)
Mr P R Langham MC
(1947)
Dr H G Penman (1947)
Mr R M L Humphreys
(1948)
Mr J M D Knight DL
(1948)
Mr J G Parker (1948)
Mr R N Quartano CBE
(1948)
Mr C J Addison (1949)
Mr R Bonnett (1949)
Mr H J L Fitch (1949)
Mr J F K Hinde (1949)
Mr R H King (1949)
Mr E D Peacock (1949)
Mr R L Stewart (1949)
Mr P L Tennant (1949)
Mr M J C Annand (1950)
Mr P C Flory (1950)
Mr A N Savage ISO (1950)
Mr E B O Sherlock CBE
(1950)
Mr J J M Barron (1951)
Dr A B Carles OBE (1951)
Mr J L Dixon (1951)
Dr A M Hall-Smith (1951)
Mr R T Kingdon CBE
(1951)
Mr R T Lawman (1951)
Mr K A C Patteson (1951)
Mr G B Smethurst (1951)
Mr M B Whittaker (1951)
Professor J P Barber (1952)
Mr J C R Downing DL
(1952)
Mr J J Fenwick CBE DL
(1952)
Mr R N Field (1952)
Dr G R Hext (1952)
Mr T J Milling (1952)
Mr M J Munz-Jones (1952)
Mr P J Pugh (1952)
Mr D F Beckley (1953)
Mr I D Crane (1953)
Mr I D McPhail (1953)
Mr A N Paterson (1953)
Mr J D P Phillips (1953)
Mr N A Robeson (1953)
Mr N F Robinson (1953)
Mr P H Vince (1953)
Mr J M Whitehead (1953)
Mr C Beadle (1954)
Mr N I Cameron (1954)
Dr G F Fooks (1954)
Mr A H Isaacs MBE (1954)
Mr I Meshoulam (1954)
Mr R L Allison (1955)
Sir Michael Bett CBE
(1955)
Mr J E Bowen (1955)
Mr D W Eddison (1955)
Mr C Gilbraith (1955)
Mr D A Hewitt (1955)
Mr J D Hind (1955)
Mr T R Hopgood (1955)
Mr N La Mar (1955)
Dr H J F McLean CBE
(1955)
Mr G S Pink (1955)
Mr N M Pullan (1955)
Mr J M P Soper (1955)
Mr R J Warburton (1955)
Mr P W Boorman (1956)
Professor B M Fagan
(1956)
Professor D H Mellor
(1956)
Mr K E Piper (1956)
Mr M A Roberts (1956)
Mr M A A Garrett MBE
(1957)
Mr T R Harman (1957)
Mr T J Harrold (1957)
Professor J M H Hunter
(1957)
Mr J B Macdonald (1957)
Mr D W H McCowen
(1957)
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Mr R B Wall (1957)
Mr P J Yorke (1957)
Sir Michael Atiyah OM
FRS (1958)
Mr R A C Berkeley OBE
(1958)
Mr O C Brun (1958)
Mr R J M Gardner (1958)
Mr J D Harling (1958)
Mr J Lawrence (1958)
Mr J G G Moss (1958)
Mr A E Palmer CMG CVO
(1958)
Professor G Parry (1958)
The Rt Hon Sir Konrad
Schiemann (1958)
Mr J Sutherland-Smith
(1958)
Mr A H Wakeford (1958)
Mr W R Williams JP (1958)
Dr J N Woulds JP DL
(1958)
Mr H A Crichton-Miller
(1959)
Mr P N Jarvis (1959)
Mr M G Kuczynski (1959)
Mr J A McMyn (1959)
Mr B G Tunnah (1959)
Professor Y A Wilks (1959)
The Hon W I C Binnie CC
(1960)
Mr R J Gladman (1960)
Dr J P Warren (1960)
Mr J B Wilkin (1960)
Mr P G Bird (1961)
Mr J A H Chadwick (1961)
Dr S Halliday (1961)
Professor H R Kirby (1961)
Mr J C Robinson (1961)
Mr R M Wingfield (1961)
Mr R W Jewson (1962)
Dr M J Llewellyn-Smith
AM KStJ (1962)
Professor K M McNeil
(1962)
Mr R C Sommers (1962)
Professor J C R Turner
(1962)
Mr S C Palmer (1963)
Mr P D Skinner (1963)
Mr J A Stott (1963)
Dr J C D Hickson (1964)
Mr S F Kelham (1964)
Mr D J Shaw (1964)
Mr C R M Kemball MBE
(1965)
Mr J J Turner (1965)
Dr J G Vulliamy (1965)
Dr R G H Bethel (1966)
Dr E M Himsworth (1966)
Mr R I Jamieson (1966)
Dr D J Atherton (1967)
Mr C R B Goldson OBE
(1967)
Mr M Goodwin (1967)
Mr C R Webb (1967)
Mr I C Brownlie (1968)
Mr I P Collins (1968)
Mr G N Horlick (1968)
Mr D E Love (1968)
Mr P D Milroy (1968)
Mr T J H Townshend
(1968)
Mr J P Wilson (1968)
Mr P G Cleary (1969)
Mr B C Heald (1969)
Mr J H Kellas CBE (1969)
Dr C J D Maile (1969)
Mr M G Pillar (1969)
Mr W R Siberry QC (1969)
Mr R B Swanston (1969)
Professor J R Wiesenfeld
(1969)
Dr J R Deane (1970)
Dr W S Gould (1970)
Mr A J C Graham (1970)
Mr A McDonald (1970)
Dr H J Perkins (1970)
Mr I R Purser (1970)
Mr D A Walter (1970)
Mr R H Johnson (1971)
Dr R Kinns (1971)
Mr M H Thomas (1971)
Mr S C Lord (1972)
Mr M S Oakes OBE (1972)
Mr A G Singleton (1972)
Mr K J Russell (1973)
Mr M A Smyth (1973)
Sir Charles Haddon-Cave
(1974)
Mr A S Ivison (1974)
Mr S G Trembath (1974)
Mr P W Blackmore (1975)
Dr R A Hood QVRM DL
(1975)
Mr R D Jacobs QC (1975)
Dr K P Van Anglen (1975)
Dr M J Burrows (1976)
Mr N P McNelly (1976)
Mr P C Nicholls (1976)
Mr N G Walker (1976)
Mr N J Brooks (1977)
Mr J E Symes-Thompson
(1977)
Major General S M
Andrews CBE (1978)
Revd Father J C Finnemore
(1978)
Mr M K Jackson (1978)
Mr D S Walden (1978)
Mr P S J Derham (1979)
Dr L J Reeve (1979)
Mr J P Snoad (1980)
Mr M E Bartlett (1981)
Mr S D Morgan (1981)
Mr J S Davison (1982)
Mr D J Hitchcock (1982)
Mr D N Pether (1983)
Dr S J Rosenberg (1983)
Dr P Wilson (1983)
Mr J R Baker (1984)
Ms V J Bowman (1984)
Mr A D Marcus (1984)
Mr J P Johnstone (1986)
Mr R D R Stark (1986)
Miss C M Thomé (1987)
Mr A E K Vanderklip
(1987)
Mr N K C Chan (1988)
Mr A T McIntyre (1988)
Dr J W Laughton (1989)
Miss L Rice (1989)
Ms L J Walker (1990)
Dr G P Shields (1991)
Professor J P Parry (1992)
Professor A M R Taylor
(1992)
Mr M A Bagnall-Oakeley
(1994)
Dr A Guha (1994)
Mr H P Raingold (1994)
Ms H E M Walton (1994)
Mr A R B A Mydellton
(1997)
Miss J A Davies (1998)
Mr H R Perren (1998)
Mr G R I Llewellyn-Smith
(2003)
Mrs J A Gore-Randall
(2004)
Mr J Mayne (2004)
Mr M R Mellor (2006)
Miss C L Sutherell (2011)
The College apologises for any inadvertent omissions, and invites members
willing to see their names listed in future to write accordingly to Sally March at
the College.
Bequests
The College acknowledges with gratitude the following bequests which were
received between 1 July 2013 and 30 June 2014 –
Dr G J Williams (1958) £5,000
Dr D R Ives (1959) £2,000
Mr J L Lewis OBE (1942) £200
Mrs M P Hodgart £100
Dr P W Hayward (1947) £5,000
Sir Guy Millard KCMG CVO (1935) £1,000
Mr J B H Knight (1939) £539
Revd J W Bell (1950) £5,000
Mr N T Beazley (1978) £1,000
Mr W M Brimicombe (1939) £1,000
Mr R O Booth (1935) £1,000
Mr F C South (1934) £5,000
Dr A J Oxley (1949) a further £17,720
Mr M D Jepson OBE (1940) £2,000
Mr N W Hayman (1961) £5,000
Mr P R Spurgin (1948) £48,687
A Legacy to Pembroke College Cambridge, helpful information on making a legacy, can
be obtained by telephoning Sally March on (01223) 339079, writing to her at the
College, or on e-mail ([email protected]).
J.C.D.H.
The 1347 Committee Parents Luncheon
The 20th 1347 Committee Parents Luncheon was held at the beginning of the
Lent Term, on Sunday 12 January 2014. 167 parents and other family members
joined current members of the College for the occasion in Hall after drinks in the
Old Library.
Peter Bradshaw (1981), the British writer and film critic for the Guardian, was
this year’s guest speaker.
The Committee would like to thank all those who attended this year’s Lunch
and those who made donations. The £4,000 raised has been given to a College
fund that directly supports Pembroke students in need of financial assistance.
The next Parents Luncheon will be held on Sunday 19 April 2015 and details
will be circulated to the parents of Junior Members early in 2015.
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1347 Committee 2013–2014 Officers
President: J I Hirschowitz (2011)
Vice-Presidents: L Aitchison (2011), E Fairhurst (2011), E C Hughes (2010), E C
Morgan (2009)
Secretary: R R Pourkarimi (2012)
Publicity Officer: E L Gould (2012)
1347 Committee 2014–2015 Officers
President: H Lazell (2011)
Other officers will be elected at the outset of the 2014–15 Academical Year
Master’s Society
The 12th meeting of the Master’s Society was held in College on Saturday 22
February 2014. 96 guests were entertained to an enjoyable lunch in the Hall
following a drinks reception in the Senior Parlour. The Master thanked all those
present for their generous support.
Membership of the Society is open to anyone who has made gifts totalling
£2,000 or more to the College in the financial year prior to the event; invitations
are also sent to donors for the two years following a gift of £5,000 or more, and
for five years following a gift of £10,000 or more. Donors of £50,000 or more will
be granted indefinite membership of the Society. To all, the College is very
grateful. Among those attending this year’s lunch were:
Mr N M Bachop (1965)
Sir Michael Bett CBE
(1955) & Lady Bett
Mr G D Blyth (1972)
Mr J A H Chadwick (1961)
Dr P L Clarke (1971)
Mr H A Crichton-Miller
(1959)
Mr J N Crichton-Miller
(1953)
Mr J D Dinnage (1969)
Ms H Dolby (1986) and Mr
F Power
Mr J V P Drury (1966) &
Mrs C E C Drury
Professor P G Farrell
FREng (1965)
Mr C M Fenwick (1957)
Mr R N Field (1952) and
Mrs E Phillips
Mr M C Foster (1956) &
Mrs R Foster
Mrs V Gérard Powell
His Honour Judge N T
Hague QC (1950)
Mr A R Hewitt (1967)
Mr D N Howard (1956) &
Mrs J E Howard
Professor N Itoh and Mrs
P Trebilcock
Dr K Itoh Helsby & Mr T D
Helsby
Mr R W Jewson (1962)
Mr A D Marcus (1984)
Mr R D Marshall (1981) &
Mrs S A Kissane
Marshall
Dr M C Martin (2000)
Mr S S McGlashan (1974)
& Mrs C McGlashan
Mr I C Melia (1969) & Dr J
Melia
Mr J K Overstall (1955) &
Mrs A D Overstall
Mr R J Parmee (1970) and
Mrs B White
Mr C A Payne (1979) &
Mrs A Payne
Mr D R Pritchard (1979) &
Mrs F Judd QC
Dr I F Pye (1960)
Dr P R Radford (1961) &
Mrs P M Radford
Mr C L Reilly (1966)
Miss J S Ringrose (1997)
and Professor M Mills
Mr C P Robinson (1960)
and Mrs C Douglas
Mr G W F Rynsard (1971)
Mr S Sayeed
Mr G M Scarcliffe (1975) &
Mrs B A Scarcliffe
Mr H M Skipp (1965)
Mr R Slater FRGS (1966) &
Mrs J N Slater
Mr R G N Spencer (1977)
& Mrs C T Spencer
Mr K G Sykes (1965)
Mr P Tao (1985)
Mr M J Ternouth (1986) &
Mrs L Ternouth
Mr N G Walker (1976) and
Mr S Rose
Mr A K A Wallis ACA
(1979)
Mr D A Walter (1970) &
Mrs M N Walter
Mr R J Warburton (1955)
& Mrs B R Warburton
Mr C R Webb (1967)
Mr H A White (1946) and
Mr D White
Mr C C Williams & Mrs G
Williams
Mr J A Wilson QC (1977)
& Mrs S T Wilson
Mr R C Wilson (1966) &
Mrs E C W Wilson
The College was represented by:
The Master &
Lady Dearlove
Dr M R Wormald
Mr M R Mellor
Mr M G Kuczynski
Mrs S H Stobbs
Sir Roger Tomkys KCMG
DL & Lady Tomkys
Mr H P Raingold
Ms S A March
Miss N Morris
Mr J I Hirschowitz (2011)
Mr R Sanders (2011)
Miss Z Walker (2012)
Invitations for the next meeting of the Master’s Society, to be held on Saturday
7 March 2015, will be sent out in the autumn.
THE VALENCE MARY (1997) ENDOWMENT FUND
The Trustees of the Valence Mary (1997) Endowment Fund were informed at their
meeting in June that the total value of the Fund, comprising equities, cash and
fixed interest investments, now stood at £2,369,931 and that, since inception,
£744,356.85 had been received in contributions. It is also worth noting that
grants of £873,000 have been made to the College over the life of the Fund. A copy
of the annual accounts is available on request to Andrew Cates (Treasurer and
Bursar of the College).
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COLLEGE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES
BADMINTON
2013–2014 has been another successful year for Pembroke College Badminton
Club. The club continues to grow, cementing its position as one of the largest and
most popular sports teams in college.
Building on the platform of the 2012–13 season, the Men’s Firsts asserted
themselves in the college league in excellent style. An unbeaten Lent Term saw
them win Division 2 and promotion to the top flight for Michaelmas Term next
academic year. The season highlight was undoubtedly the formidable partnership
between Rupert Barton and Matej Janecek, who kept their cool and won vital
games whenever the team was under pressure. With the strong fresher intake this
year, the Men’s Firsts stand in a very good position to compete in the top league
in the University next year.
After back-to-back promotions last year, the Men’s Second Team have
consolidated their position in Division 4. Under the captaincy of Richard
Stockwell, they recorded a symmetrical three wins and three losses in both the
Michaelmas and Lent Terms. Their league position ranks them as the fourth best
college second team, which is great testimony to the strength and depth
of Pembroke badminton. The team also entered the annual Cuppers competition,
advancing past a very strong Girton Second team before losing out to
Churchill Firsts.
The Men’s Thirds provided an excellent opportunity for new players to enjoy
the excitement and team spirit of competitive badminton in the college leagues.
Over 10 players represented the Men’s Thirds, which is great credit to captain
Ahrandeep Aujla’s tireless enthusiasm to the sport.
Unfortunately, the Pembroke Ladies did not relive their success of last year,
suffering relegation to Division 2 at the end of Lent term. However, Emma Cai
(Women’s captain), Victoria Wang and Yan Zhang were excellent throughout
Pembroke’s Mixed Cuppers campaign, where we stormed into the semi-finals
before narrowly losing to St. Johns College.
The final match of the season was the annual Old Boys’ match. Despite
fielding an extremely strong team consisting of numerous ex-captains and exFirst Team players, the Old Boys’ team was not able to reclaim the Tom Karkinsky
Memorial Trophy from the students. It was a highly enjoyable afternoon and an
eventful Pembroke Badminton Annual Dinner rounded off the yearly celebration
of the club in spectacular fashion. Any Old Boys or Girls who would like to attend
the annual dinner and match next year should contact Oliver Lockwood
([email protected]) to be added to the mailing list.
Outgoing Committee:
Captain – Terence Kwan
Women’s Captain – Emma Cai
Second Team Captain –
Richard Stockwell
Incoming Committee:
Captain – Tom Ogier
Women’s Captain – Louisa Guyon
Second Team Captain – Sam Rowntree
Third Team Captain –
Ahrandeep Aujla
Treasurer – Ben Laird
Third Team Captain –
Mark Hammond
Treasurer – Bryan Cheung
Rupert Barton
BOAT CLUB
PCBC began the 2013–2014 season off the back of a severely depleted pool of
rowers from the previous season; however the tireless efforts of our Lower Boats
Captains Greg Drott, Tony Barker, Chloe Ramambason and Maev Conneely,
along with the invaluable coaching from Andrew Watson, saw Michaelmas term
field an impressive 78 rowers, with most able to compete in the Fairbairn cup.
This began a great Pembroke presence on the river that was to continue to
subsequent terms. The Novice men placed an impressive 9th and 40th, with NM3
not able to row due to bad weather. The Novice women placed 21st and a second
DNS due to weather. The Senior side had a shaky start to their racing season with
M1 placing 18th and W1 placing 21st, with M2 (IV) in 19th.
In the week prior to Lent Term, PCBC saw the inaugural Lent Term Training
Camp to Seville take place. We fielded four boats worth of seniors and novices,
with four coaches – Eddy Flower, Adam Lister, Matt Stallard and Alan Marron.
The twice/three times a day training regime in the lovely climate and setting of
Seville provided absolutely invaluable training that would take months to obtain
on the Cam, and also a fantastic bonding experience for all the members of PCBC.
Many thanks must go to the coaches for their dedication to the crews. A video
scrapbook is available to watch on the PCBC website, under ‘News’.
On return from camp, PCBC were greeted with very poor weather, and boating
restrictions due to building work on the Cam. Careful planning by the Captains
however allowed us to build on the successes of the camp and Michaelmas to field
five boats in the Lent Bumps (three Men’s and two Women’s). PCBC were set to
have a few more boats, however the multiple yellow and red flag mornings meant
that our novices particularly struggled. The weather also took a major victim in
this year’s Pembroke Regatta, which was unfortunately cancelled. Nonetheless,
M1 managed a good bumps of going up 3, with M2 being chased by successive M1
crews hence going down 3, with M3 going up 2. The Women’s side had a more
difficult bumps with W1 going down 6, and W2 going down 1 but not without an
intermediate bump up on First and Third II.
The poor weather also hindered the club’s off-Cam race plans in Lent, with our
crews having to be withdrawn from Hammersmith Head, WEHORR and HORR.
In the latter case, M1 were on the start line ready to row, when the umpires called
the race off!
With the difficulties of Lent Term, the club’s objective was to regain the
participation of past years in time for May Bumps. The club achieved this in style,
with the largest entry to May Bumps of any college with 11 boats (six Men’s, five
Women’s). The Getting on Race shaved this down to eight, which was still first
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equal in terms of the number of boats competing in Mays. The Men’s side had a
mixed bag of results, with M1 going up 2 to 5th in the first division, M2 dropping
4 places into the third division, M3 having a remarkable double overbump on one
day and going up 8 places overall, M4 going up 2, and M6 going up 2. M5 did not
get on. The Women’s side had a more difficult year, with W1 and W3 both
dropping 4 places, and W2 dropping 6. Many of these results, however, were not
representative of the progress that the crews made in the term, and the large
number of seniors rolling over this year to the 2014–2015 season gives the
opportunity for PCBC to have a string of future successful years.
As of writing, M1 are expecting a representation at Henley Royal Qualifiers in
the Geoffrey Perret II in The Prince Albert Challenge Cup event.
Many thanks to PCBC’s sponsors, King and Spalding, The Master Sir Richard
Dearlove, and all alumni who have supported the club in various forms over the
past year. A particular thanks goes to Kevin Bowles, our Boatman, who has to put
up with all the breakages PCBC imposes upon him! Also, Andrew “Gripper”
Watson’s role in coaching this year has played a large part in PCBC’s success, so
thanks go to him too. The boat club website provides recent boat club news at
www.pembrokecollegeboatclub.com.
Men’s 1st Boat: Tony Barker, Tom Wileman, Tom Hoier, Walter Myer, Theo Clark,
Tom Zawisza, Scott Warden, Archie Wood, Arav Gupta (cox).
Women’s 1st Boat: Hannah Townsend, Ery Hughes, Holly Clothier, Charlotte
Chorley, Chloe Ramambason, Maev Conneely, Catherine Vincent, Sienna
Tompkins, James Roberts (cox).
Outgoing Captains:
Overall Captain: Scott Warden
Men’s Captain: Archie Wood
Women’s Captain: Ery Hughes
Incoming Captains:
Overall Captain: Gregory Drott
Men’s Captain: Theo Clark
Women’s Captain: Chloe Ramambason
Scott Warden
CRICKET
After an extremely successful year in 2013, the cricket club aimed to push on and
continue its fine form of recent years. The loss of a number of key players was
countered by a strong intake of freshers, leaving me optimistic about our chances
of Cuppers glory.
Early-season friendly form was encouraging, featuring a good performance
and unfortunate loss against a strong Christ’s side, including an excellent spell
by fresher Harry Hudson. The next game’s performance left something to be
desired, as we were beaten by the 9 men of Hetairoi, with only a strong
rearguard action from James Perry and Sajeed Ali bringing us close to their total
of 157. The following weekend we came up against the Trevor Munns
Invitational XI. After watching Matt Leggett plunder 42 from our attack, we
turned to the unlikely figure of William Burrow to open our innings. He took to
this task with great gusto, if absolutely no footwork, bludgeoning a brisk 41.
Strong performances from James Norton-Brown and Jon Whitby took us close
to the 192 required to win; unfortunately, we then proceeded to tie the game
from a position of 6 required from 3 overs, with the opposition bowlers
cunningly repeatedly pitching it outside off stump and watching as we missed
ball after ball. The friendly season was rounded off with the traditional fixtures
against the Idlers, won (as ever) by the Idlers, and the Staff and Fellows, which
the college side won by 42 runs with a strong team performance.
Thankfully, our cuppers season was rather more successful. Our first group
game was against Queens’, our quarter-final opponents the previous year.
Expecting a tough game, we arrived an hour early for extensive fielding practice,
and I therefore decided to bat first. An excellent 61 from Harry McNeill Adams
(during which he took advantage of an extremely short boundary to hit perhaps
his first ever six), along with 31 from Norton-Brown , helped carry us to a strong
total of 166 from our 20 overs. The game was essentially won within the first six
overs, as three quick wickets from Perry knocked over the Queens’ top order,
leaving Queens’ to limp to 93, Izhan Khan returning impressive figures of 4–6
from his four overs to seal a 73-run win for the college. We took on Girton II in
our other group game, bowling them out for 49 with wickets for Hudson,
Burrow and Khan, before chasing the total down in under 5 overs for a
conclusive 7-wicket win. The highlight of the game had to be a loose delivery
from Perry getting the ‘Dilscoop’ treatment from the Girton opening batsman,
who had confessed to me to ‘barely playing cricket’.
Our quarter-final opponents were Jesus, the college’s football Cuppers
nemesis. Jesus won the toss and elected to field, and proceeded to bowl and
field extremely well to restrict Pembroke to 96–8, showing the virtues of
bowling full and straight. In reply, Pembroke took to the field in good spirits.
After keeping it relatively tight for the first six overs with pacey spells from
George Smith and Perry, Khan struck three times in quick succession to slow
the Jesus scoring, leaving them behind the rate at the halfway stage. Ultimately,
we were unable to keep taking regular wickets, and Jesus were able to reach
their target of 97 at the start of the final over despite a monumental effort from
the Pembroke men. Pembroke lost in the end by six wickets, and really were at
least 20 runs short of a par score.
This was the second consecutive season that Pembroke has lost to the
eventual Cuppers champions, and was an immensely enjoyable season of
cricket. Congratulations must go to Izhan Khan for his first-class debut this
year in the four-day Varsity match at The Parks. Looking forwards, the club will
retain a good pool of talent for next year, particularly in the bowling
department. Next year’s Captain will be James Norton-Brown, and next year’s
Secretary will be James Perry.
Squad: George Sydenham (Captain), Harry McNeill Adams (Secretary), George
Smith, Peter Fletcher, Izhan Khan, Richard Phillips, Bharat Ganju, Josh
Hirschowitz, Paul McMullen, Richard Stockwell, James Perry, James NortonBrown, Harry Hudson, Tom Fairbairn, Rob Oldham, Fergus Kent, Sajeed Ali, Joel
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Reland, Hamish Lazell, William Burrow, Jon Whitby, Jeremy Wikeley, Rishi
Bhabutta, Pete Harries, Elspeth Fowler, Lee Sharkey, Adam Truelove (official
scorer), Tom Williams (assistant scorer)
George Sydenham
FOOTBALL (MEN’S)
I wish I could present to you a story of unparalleled success – of a winning a
league and cup double and an invincible season to top it off. How close we came
to that dream! Just twenty minutes stood between PCAFC and eternal glory. But
alas, football is sport, sport is life, and life is unpredictable: it was not to be.
Despite this, we can all take much pride from one of PCAFC’s most successful
seasons of all time. Gaining promotion, winning Division 2 unbeaten with a
game to spare, and reaching the Cuppers’ Final are all immense achievements.
But let us not forget how close such a successful team came to stumbling at
the very first hurdle – Magdalene away on a windy October afternoon. Were it
not for great link-up play by supersub combination Griggs and Valov to rescue
a 2–2 draw, our unbeaten league campaign would have ended rather quickly.
Certainly in the first half of the season we had difficulty imposing ourselves
from the start and had not yet developed the veneer of invincibility that would
come to define us in the second half. Conceding early goals put us in trouble
against Magdalene, Trinity and Robinson, while the 7–3 extra-time victory
against Tit Hall belies what was an incredibly tight match for the first 90
minutes. Following an edgy start to the season we surged from strength to
strength, recording memorable, joyous routs against Trinity (7–1), Queens
(5–1) and Churchill (7–1). Winning became an attitude, and we responded
when tested, most notably against Homerton (3–1), where we came back from
1–0 down with 20 minutes remaining, and Caius (2–0) in the Cup Semi-Final.
Pembroke faced Jesus in the Cuppers Final, a Division 1 side who had been
fortunate to dispatch Pembroke in the quarter-finals the previous year. Jesus
started the sharper, but it was Pembroke who opened the scoring, Nielsen
netting for his 22nd goal of the season. Shortly afterwards, and with the
momentum firmly in their favour, Pembroke lost their captain Scott following
a clash of heads with a Jesus player. Despite this, Pembroke looked the stronger
side, and were unfortunate not to go into break further in front. Jesus came out
determined to overhaul the deficit, and were rewarded with two quick-fire
goals. Pembroke responded impressively, with Hudson bundling in from closerange to draw level. As the match headed into the final 20 minutes, Coan
whipped in a cross which was met by Harries, who finished at the second-time
of asking. At 3–2, Pembroke sought to close out the match, but Jesus, who had
suffered a defeat in the final the previous year, were not to be denied the trophy
again. They equalised following a goal-mouth scramble, before scoring the
decisive goal ten minutes from time. The Cuppers Final was an incredible
occasion, both for PCAFC as a footballing side and for Pembroke as a college.
Pembroke turned out in force, with students, fellows and staff all forming a
blue army that kept the side going throughout.
To what can we attribute such success? There are perhaps three key aspects
to any great football club: strength in depth, determination, and sheer quality.
This year Pembroke has had all three in abundance. Our quality has been
demonstrated week-in, week-out. Attacking-wise the threat that Nielsen has
brought to the club and his understanding with Hirschowitz turned us from a
side of potential during the 2012–13 season to a side that has scored goals for
fun this year. The combination in central midfield between Carroll, Hinksman
and Scott, with Reland adding further panache, has been better than any we’ve
faced, while the threat provided down the wings by Harries, Coan, and Griggs
and the long-throw capability of Scott have provided us with further outlets. But
attack is, of course, only half of the story. Hudson, King, Bittlestone and Ogier,
in front of the dominating Kent in goal, have provided the solid foundation for
many of our successes this year.
But quality is only part of this season’s story. Strength in depth across the
board has been essential to our success this year. It is very unusual for a college
side to be able to draw upon the wealth of talent that Pembroke has this year,
but with three squads it should come as no surprise. Not only has the input of
Messers Valov, Griggs, Reland, Layton, Adams, Sivathas, Weber and Mills in no
way diminished the quality of the side on the field, but each has brought
something different to the team when they have represented PCAFC this
season. Finally, and perhaps the greatest differentiating factor between us and
other college sides this season has been the determination and desire to
succeed that we have shown. Very few colleges train for two hours come rainor-shine on Friday afternoons, almost none get up at 7.30am on a Tuesday
morning and trek to the pitches in the freezing cold for a fitness session, and
absolutely none have got a coach and a mentor of the quality and commitment
that Trevor Munns has shown this year.
The success of the Pembroke First XI has been matched by the Second XI,
who earned promotion to the third division following an impressive unbeaten
league campaign in which they scored 28 goals, conceding only 5, dispatching
division four champions Queens IIs in the process. This promotion means that
the Pembroke IIs have now risen three divisions in only four years, a truly
remarkable achievement.
The Pembroke IIIs endured a difficult season, suffering relegation to
Division 7. Yet, the IIIs saw over 44 players represent the side, amassing a total
of 200 appearances in 12 matches, demonstrating that love of the beautiful
game runs deep within Pembroke.
It has been a truly incredible season for the entirety of the football club, and
it would not have been possible without the continued support of Trevor Munns
who remains the most invaluable member of PCAFC. I’d also like to thank the
outgoing committee for their help over the season, and wish Mark, Freddy and
Jack the best of luck for the coming campaign.
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2013–14 Season Committee:
Captain – Rory Scott
Secretary – Mark Bittlestone
Vice-Captain – John Carroll
Second Team Captain – James Weber
Third Team Captain – Joseph Spencer
2014–15 Season Committee:
Captain – Mark Bittlestone
Secretary – Tom Ogier
Vice-Captain – Matt Hudson
Second Team Captain – Freddy Mills
Third Team Captain – Jack Capel-Shyu
Rory Scott
FOOTBALL (WOMEN’S)
The 2013/2014 season held much promise for Pembroke Ladies. After years of
stagnation, with many of our finest players graduating and very few girls coming
in to take their places, I was inundated with requests from freshers hoping to
join the football team. Not only were these new players enthusiastic, but they
soon proved that they were talented and provided the breath of fresh air needed
for this to be the strongest ladies team I have played for during my three years at
Pembroke. Not only did we make it into the Cup for the first time in years but
also managed to retain our place in the top division of the league.
Pembroke Ladies seem to have an inexplicable amount of bad luck when it
comes to playing league football. Despite some fantastic play, our finishing has
left much to be desired, which has been reflected in the scorelines. However, for
many years we have managed to cling to our position in the top division and this
year was no exception. We sustained heavy losses to Fitzwilliam and Christ’s early
in Michaelmas Term – unsurprising given the large number of university players
on both those teams. We were also unlucky in losing 4–2 to Jesus who, until
recently, had the rare luxury of fielding a first and a second ladies team. Many
other teams might have lost heart after such a start to the season but every one of
our players battled valiantly through every match, cheered on by unfailingly
enthusiastic encouragement from player of the year Gaia Laidler: ‘C’mon girls,
we only need four more goals in the next five minutes, that’s nothing!’.
Our first game of Lent Term was against St. Johns in the league, a daunting
prospect given the relative size of our two colleges. Fortunately, we benefited
from some well-timed international signings from the recently arrived
American exchange students. Pembroke commanded play from the beginning,
making use of Liz Robinshaw and Claudia Acha’s abilities to take the ball past
anyone down the wing. Following some fantastic saves from defender
(reluctantly) turned goalkeeper Katie Threadgill we came away with a much
deserved 2–1 victory. Following a number of walkovers, we finished fourth in
the top division, outside of the relegation zone.
Unlike the league, our Cuppers run started strongly. In the opening match
against St Catz a loss would send us into the competition for the plate and a win
would enable us to compete for Cuppers glory. Despite missing some key
players we secured a comfortable win. This meant that we were up against
much tougher opponents in the Cuppers competition but we relished the
challenge as we were drawn against Trinity. An unfortunate miscommunication
of directions meant we started with only six players but as reinforcements
eventually arrived we took control of the game. After early goals from each side,
we broke the 1–1 stalemate ten minutes before the final whistle and it seemed
impossible that we would not progress to the quarter finals. However, with the
last kick of the game Trinity sent a long ball into the top corner which forced us
to extra time. For almost the full half hour it seemed we would have to relive the
penalty shootout which had sent us out of the cup last year but, again, with the
last touch, Trinity chanced a shot from outside the box and got lucky.
I have no doubt that, as I leave the team in the capable hands of new captain
Cassie Cope, the taste of playing in Cuppers and a year’s experience will propel
the team to greatness next season.
Susie Wright
HOCKEY (MEN’S)
Following last year’s near double promotion, Pembroke College Men’s Hockey
team had a lot to live up to. Changes in the league system initially looked as if they
might cause problems; however, these were largely overcome and Pembroke were
able to put out strong teams every week, consisting of new recruits and seasoned
veterans alike. The evidence for this is clear from the outstanding achievements
both in the league and the cup.
In our first game of Michaelmas, we demonstrated a determination and
hunger for victory that set the standards for the entire year. Despite unfortunately
conceding early and then the heavens breaking upon us, a strong defence and
attacking plays saw a number of balls narrowly passing the opposition posts,
with Pembroke putting pressure on the opposition. This led to two goals being
scored before the half was up, followed by another shortly into the second half.
Encouragingly, Pembroke continued to press and if it were not for an
embarrassing miss from the captain Fletcher, could have seen the game put to
bed. However, a determined Emmanuel team began to ask questions and would
eventually dominate in the final quarter. Thankfully the skill of goalkeeper Norris,
as well as the effort of our defence, saw Pembroke hang on to a 3–2 victory.
Pembroke were strong throughout Michaelmas and finished third in the
league with five wins and two losses, however, it was our performance in the cup
which was truly encouraging. We managed to progress to the quarter finals,
beating Division 1 Girton at penalty flicks, before losing to the eventual winners,
Jesus. This was a great achievement and sets our sights for next year on reaching
finals day.
Moving into Lent, Pembroke became more clinical in their play with a fluid
passing game, complemented by some tremendous deflections. Key to the
success in Lent was the near impenetrable fortress that was the Pembroke
defence. Indeed we achieved the best defensive record in the Lent league, only
allowing 4 goals to be scored in 7 games. Between Norris and Ganju the goal line
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itself was heavily defended, with game saving performances coming from both
keepers. Our backline was reinforced with new recruits; Atti English (Player of
the Season), James Perry (Player’s Player – Michaelmas) and Charlie Cummins
(Most Improved Player). Alongside them the veteran Hamish Lazell, the up and
coming Joseph Spencer and captain Peter Fletcher, completed a defensive line
that was capable of denying the overwhelming majority of attacks. Surging
forward was a pacey attack, with pivotal distributing players such as James Hutt
and the skill and finesse of Adam Jackson (who indeed was greatly missed after
he suffered a freak injury late in the season). We received further reinforcement
on a number of occasions from the ladies side, with Charlotte Ivers, Anna
Robinson and Steph Willis, stepping in and showing strength and ability which
matched any of our opponents.
With Jack Tawney and Andrew Percival wreaking havoc amongst the
opposition defence, some questioned the tyrannical demands of the captain to
take the short corners, which lead to his corrupt rise on the top scorers’ list.
More deserved goals were well distributed throughout the forwards, with flair,
precision and the employment of a highly practised deflection routine. Our 22
goals in the 7 matches of Lent saw us joint top scorers.
The commitment shown by all those who represented Pembroke allowed us
to finish top of division 2, with five wins, two draws, no losses. This is a fantastic
achievement and means that Pembroke are looking forward to playing hockey in
the top division come next year.
My personal thanks go to all those who gave their time and effort to the club
this season. Particularly, I wish to thank Jack Tawney, who as Secretary has been
of great assistance in the running of the club and a real fountain of organised
fun. I am thoroughly looking forward to the future of Pembroke College Men’s
Hockey Club. Next year will be a challenge, a step up in our standard of hockey
and we will unfortunately lose some outstanding players. However, we are in
safe hands. I pass the captaincy on to a player who has shown unquestionable
commitment to the club. Under the leadership of James Perry and the continued
efforts of all our members I believe we can top the achievements of this year and
have an outstanding 2014–15 season.
Outgoing Captain: Peter Fletcher
Incoming Captain: James Perry
Outgoing secretary: Jack Tawney
Incoming Secretaries: Charlotte Ivers
and Charlie Cummins
Peter Fletcher
HOCKEY (WOMEN’S)
2014 squad: S Willis (outgoing captain), H Matheson (incoming captain),
A Robinson, C Ivers (incoming social secretary), P Dale, L Robinshaw, C Hogg,
G Banham, L Adams, E Carter, F Crole, J Simpson, J Bullock, J Padley, K Griffiths,
K Anne, K McCrudden, K Threadgill.
Record: Played 8, Won 4, Lost 4.
It has been something of a varied season for Pembroke Women’s Hockey. This
year’s fresher contingent arrived full of hockey talent and enthusiasm providing a
much-needed injection of players into what had been slightly dwindling ranks.
Several bastions of Pembroke hockey continued to show their steadfast support
for the team and a few 2nd and 3rd years who had not played before got coaxed
into getting involved.
In Michaelmas, three 1–0 wins and two opposition teams not managing to
get a team out meant that we were promoted to division 1 in Lent. Those three
wins were all of rather unique character despite all having the same score line.
We beat Emma in a lovely game of passing hockey, we beat Christ’s by shear grit
and determination from the defence and we beat Clare with a 7 man team at the
expense of the health of most of our players but all worthwhile for the glory
of PCHC.
Increasing numbers of injuries in the team and opposition sides full of
university players made the term in Division 1 pretty tough. Trying to play Murray
Edwards with 7 players was a painful experience which resulted in a 7–1 loss. Our
solitary division 1 win came from a hard fought match against John’s in which the
team really worked hard together to maintain their 2–1 lead to the end.
Emma Carter was awarded player of the season for her outstanding defensive
play at every match. In a fitting end to the season Anna Robinson, a stalwart of
Pembroke Hockey for the last 4 years, was awarded third prize in the Peter May
Sports awards.
Stephanie Willis
NETBALL
Team:
Defence: Becca Hitchings, Rhianna Ilube (Player of the Year), Tamara Bell
Centre court: Catherine Hogg, Jessica Farmery, Janneke Simpson, Ciara Scott,
Connie Chapman
Attack: Katie McCrudden, Jaspreet Khaira, Fabia Crole, Charlotte Ivers
Pembroke Ladies Netball has had another successful season. The year got off to a
good start with the recruitment of a number of talented players. Particular
mention must go to Charlotte Ivers and Katie McCrudden who stepped straight
into the squad as shooters, a position which the team had lacked in recent years.
The strong defensive trio of Rhianna Ilube, Tamara Bell and Becca Hitchings also
provided a consistent challenge for our opposition each week. Centre court was
dominated by Jessica Farmery, Ciara Scott and Connie Chapman.
In Michaelmas Term we started in Division 3 (out of 6) and quickly bonded
as a team with half of our players being new-recruits. While we won several
matches, the highlight of the term was the match against Homerton I. Despite
losing this match we showcased some of our best netball of the term against a
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team that included two Blues players. Pembroke continued to fight until the
final whistle and I was impressed with how the team coped with the faster pace
of play. Sadly at the end of the season we narrowly missed out on promotion due
to goal differences.
Lent Term saw some tough matches against teams demoted from division
two. However, the Pembroke defence particularly came into their own. At the end
of this term we have remained in the third division.
Netball Cuppers was a fantastic morning of netball for the team. We lost three
matches against Trinity Hall (who eventually went on to win Cuppers), Trinity I
and Murray Edwards I, but then hit our stride and comfortably beat Peterhouse
and Emmanuel II. I was proud of the team and how they were equally enthusiastic
in all matches played.
The biggest challenge we have faced this year was the lack of reliable netball
court access. The Pembroke Court on Grange Road is unsafe for play and so we
have been using the St Catharine’s College Court. I must commend the netball
team on their ability to adapt to often changing locations of netball matches. It
has recently been confirmed that a new Pembroke netball court is to be built at the
Pembroke pitches in time for next Michaelmas term. This is excellent news and
will hopefully help in our aim to be promoted to the second division.
The incoming captain is Charlotte Ivers, both a talented netball player and a
comfortable leader. I have no doubt that she will ensure the continuing growth of
Pembroke Ladies Netball Club and look forward to hearing how the team gets on
our new home ground!
Catherine Hogg
RUGBY
President: Howard Raingold
Captain: Will Burrow
Secretary: Felix Nugee
Incoming Captain: Rob Sanders
Incoming Secretary: Richard Phillips
Squad: Adam Barker, Mark Bittlesone, Will Burrow*, Rupert Cowan*, Jack Di
Lizia, Ross Elsby*, Michael Georgiou, Tom Hoier, Hamish Lazell, Roger
Lightwood, Felix Nugee, Yemi Ogunyemi*, Jamie Robson, Rob Sanders, James
Savage, Rory Scott*, Lee Sharkey, George Smith*, Will Snowden, Alex Stride,
George Sydenham, Josh Hirschowitz, Josh Wade, Jon Whitby*, Choi
Seonghoon*, Rory Burford*, Richard Phillips, Tim Bond, Adam Truelove, John
Suzuki, Adam Robinson, Skandar Keynes, Bharat Ganju, Haydn Morgans, Tom
Fairbairn, Tim Weil.
*University representative
The 2013/14 season proved to be a challenging one for PCRUFC. Relegation
from Division 1 proved a bitter blow, as did defeat in the cuppers plate semifinal. The departure of the majority of last year’s starting XV left the side facing
an uphill task from the very first game of the season. However, despite that fact,
the squad threw themselves into pre-season fitness and training in the hope of
being able to remain in the top-flight. Another positive was the very strong
intake of freshers who joined the side and who should provide the backbone of
a push for promotion next season.
As it did last year, the first fixture came in the form of a pre-season friendly
against CCK, in which many of the first years were blooded into college rugby for
the first time. Even though the game was lost many of the signs were positive.
Indeed, this positivity continued into the first game against Selwyn-Peterhouse,
which resulted in a narrow defeat despite Pembroke missing a number of their
‘star’ players. Whilst some of the verve may have been stripped from the side by
departures from the back-division, there were some new found powerful forward
runners amongst the freshers, most notably those who joined the front-row. After
the Selwyn-Peterhouse game, however, injuries really began to grip the side. For
the games against John’s, Jesus and Downing across the remainder of
Michaelmas, team selection became increasingly challenging, with the list of
unavailable players longer than that of those who were available. This was only
exacerbated by the increasing unavailability of players who were preparing for
Varsity matches.
There were some particularly notable moments during the Michaelmas Term.
It was pleasing to see, once again, so many members of PCRUFC representing
Cambridge in the annual Varsity series against ‘the other place’. Last year’s
secretary, George Smith made a try-scoring contribution to a thrilling u21 victory
at Twickenham, whilst Rupert Cowan (PCRUFC’s resident gentleman) finally
achieved his university colours. The club also continued to receive excellent
hospitality at the Free Press and its resident Paul McCartney lookalike. Credit
must go to the LJ, Mr Robson, for his superb management of the ever-enjoyable
Kangaroo Court. On a less positive note the term also saw terrible injury befall
one of the die-hard members PCRUFC. Adam Barker suffered a broken Femur in
a tightly contested 12–0 loss to Robinson. It was pleasing to see, however, the way
in which the club really came together in making sure he was bombarded with
visitors at Addies, to all of whom he was delighted to show his X-Ray!
Unsurprisingly, Mr Barker became only the second winner of the recently
inaugurated ‘John McClane Diehard Award’ at the annual dinner.
After the Christmas vacation, Pembroke returned as a different animal. The
remaining members of last year’s ‘golden generation’ became available once
again, and the strong batch of first years really came into their own. Lent Term
started with an away fixture to John’s. Despite leading throughout much of the
game, all efforts were eventually in vain as we came out on the wrong side of a
31–19 thriller! One of the most notable changes from Michaelmas was the
return of fluidity in our back division, with the return of the pace and power of
Messrs’ Smith and Elsby. The front row also began to rampage and spent the
whole 80 minutes of the match tearing into their opposite numbers from
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John’s. The following week a bonus point victory against Jesus raised hopes
that we might be able to stay up and was a result which left Mr Raingold
jumping for joy. Unfortunately this hope was dashed two weeks later as dogged
Robinson defence once again denied us a deserved victory in a tightly fought
game. Cuppers’ glory also eluded Pembroke once again, this time in the
Cuppers Plate. A 40–0 battering of a John’s second team took us into the semifinal, in which we played Girton. Their inability to contest scrums (much to our
annoyance) removed one of our most potent weapons, and despite prop Tom
Fairbairn’s dancing try in the corner late on (whilst also carrying upwards of
four Girton defenders with him) we unfortunately missed out on a place in the
Final at Grange Road.
It was not the greatest season on paper for PCRUFC, however, it was one in
which we were plagued with bad-luck and injury, neither of which helped our
cause. Following on from the success of last year’s ‘golden generation’ was
always going to be a hard task but I hope that with a strong intake of freshers, the
club can once again drive for promotion back to the big time. Huge thanks must
go out to Trevor Munns, who was superb in keeping the pitch in order despite the
deluge of rain this winter. There were times when the Pembroke pitches were
playable even when Grange Road was not, which was superb! As ever, Howard
Raingold has been extremely supportive of the club, and a thank you must also go
to Sir Richard Dearlove, who has continued to show interest in how the rugby
club has been getting on (even when it was not easy going). There must also be a
particular mention for Mr James Savage, an institution in his own right at
PCRUFC, who will be remembered by anyone who has played for the club since
2008. After years of great service to the club he is now moving on, having
slimmed down in preparation for a new career as a fly-half.
PCRUFC has left all of us who have been involved with many great memories,
whether they be based around bop evenings or great victories. It has also forged
many great friendships, which I am sure will last once those of us who are leaving
have departed. I would like to take this final opportunity to wish next year’s
committee all the best of luck, especially Rob Sanders as Captain and Richard
Phillips as Secretary. I hope that when you are reading this report next year it can
tell the tale of our glorious promotion back to Division 1.
Will Burrow
PEMBROKE PLAYERS
Outgoing Committee
President – John King/Jack Heywood
Artistic Director – James Lowther
Treasurer/Tech Officer – Joseph Spencer
Front of House Manager –
Katie McCrudden
Secretary – Sydney Wesley-Weeks
Incoming Committee
President – Constance Chapman
Artistic Director – John King
Treasurer – Joseph Spencer
Front of House Manager – Jake Wood
Secretary – Laura Moulton
Comedy Representative –
Mark Bittlestone
Publicity Officer – Maria Bergamasco
IT and Communications – Beth Swords
Comedy Representative – Rob Eyers
Publicity Officer – Lizzie Hibbert
IT and Communications – Caroline Sautter
The past year has seen the Pembroke Players go from strength to strength. We
have maintained our position as Cambridge’s most prolific drama society,
staging over sixteen events in New Cellars and elsewhere.
We were strongly represented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August,
through our collaboration with Strung Up Theatre Company, a student theatre group
set up by former Valencian Charlie Bindels. Two very different pieces were staged
at C Nova, show-casing the wide range of talent on offer in Cambridge. All Strung
Up was a circus piece based on Chaucer’s ‘The Franklin’s Tale’, featuring
puppetry, story-telling, physical theatre and original music, as well as stunts on
the trapeze and silks. This show was a sell-out success, and proved especially
popular with children. The second show was a revival of Snap Out of It!, a verbatim
play about mental health which had been staged in New Cellars last year. After
each performance, the cast set aside ten minutes to interact with audience
members about the project in the C Nova foyer, which was a rare and rewarding
opportunity. The show was featured on the BBC 3 programme ‘Free Speech’. Five
Pembroke students took part in these two shows in various capacities: Charlie
Bindels, Jamie Hansen, Constance Chapman, John King and Annie Woodcock.
The home run of the Japan Tour kicked off Michaelmas Term for the society,
with our production of Two Gentlemen of Verona in Corpus Playroom in October.
Other highlights from our season included the annual Sticky Floor Smoker in New
Cellars and Woody Allen’s Play it Again, Sam in Corpus Playroom. This was
followed by a staged reading of Dustin Lance Black’s 8, presented in association
with the American Federation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact, who were
a constant presence during the rehearsal process. The play, comprised of the
transcripts of the 2010 Californian court case on Marriage Equality, was
supplemented by a cast blog on the project, and a series of audience discussions
which took place after each show. Trans* activist and Lib Dem councillor Sarah
Brown gave a moving speech after one performance on her experiences of
marriage and civil partnership in the UK. The show was staged as a fundraiser,
and raised an incredible £750 for PACE, a London-based mental health charity.
Michaelmas was brought to a festive close by the annual Pembroke Players Freshers’
Pantomime, which, as always, was written, directed and performed by Pembroke
first year students.
In Lent Term, we staged no fewer than eight shows, reaffirming our position
as Cambridge’s most prolific college theatre society, beginning in Week 1 with
Terminus, a rhyming monologue play by Mark O’Rowe. This was staged in the
Corpus Playroom and received three five-star reviews from student press. It was
followed by our second piece of LGBT+ Theatre of the year, The Children’s Hour by
Lillian Hellman, in New Cellars. The freshers of Pembroke once again trod the
boards two weeks later, with an innovative and daring modern reimagining of
Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. Other highlights from the season include Pompeii, a
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piece of new writing by Eli Keren, and our annual Black Tie Smoker in the Old
Library. Our Lent season drew to a close with a triple bill of de Musset’s Les Caprices
de Marianne, Mark Ravenhill’s The Cut, and a stage adaptation of Quentin
Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs – all of which had concurrent five-night runs, and
attracted great audiences.
Looking back, I am very proud of the variety brought to the Cambridge
theatre scene by Pembroke Players in 2013/14. We did not stick to “safe” plays,
offering audiences Shakespeare, circus, new writing, and verbatim theatre,
whilst remaining a focal point of the Cambridge comedy scene. The presidency
now has passed into the capable hands of Constance Chapman, who has led the
new committee through the annual Golden Gods Smoker, which was a sell-out
night in New Cellars, featuring both first time performers and Footlights
regulars. On the immediate horizon, we have our upcoming May Week show,
The Clouds by Aristophanes, and a one-off sketch show headed by our new
comedy rep, Rob Eyers.
As for the future, we are approaching our 60th anniversary next year, and this
milestone will not pass uncelebrated. New Cellars has received a drastic makeover, and been fitted with new house lights, making it a more versatile space. We
are sending three shows to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August – Occupied, a
new political comedy by Harry Buckoke, The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood, and
UCAS!, a quirky new musical about applying for university. We are sure that all
three shows will do very well with Fringe audiences. This year’s annual Japan Tour
sets off in September with a production of The Merchant of Venice, directed by Emma
Wilkinson. Over the past few days, our inboxes have been flooded with
applications for next term’s shows. We are continuing to grow as a strong
presence in Cambridge theatre and abroad; more Pembroke students than ever
have become involved in theatre in the past year, and as the society enters its
seventh decade, we can say with absolute certainty that the future of Pembroke
Players looks very bright indeed.
John King
MUSIC SOCIETY
Pembroke is fast becoming the venue for Lieder in Cambridge. This year saw the
College build on the reputation of the Sir Arthur Bliss Song Series by launching a
unique venture, the Pembroke Lieder Scheme. At the beginning of the year, four
duos were chosen from applicants across the University to receive specialist
training in Lieder from the College Musician (Joseph Middleton) and visiting
professional singers (Amanda Roocroft, Joan Rodgers and John Mark Ainsley).
After a year of intensive coaching, the duos performed to an enthralled audience
gathered in the Old Library early in the Easter term. Names to watch include Joel
Williams (tenor) & Douglas Tang, who won national prizes for their Lieder
performances in the course of the year, and Jonathan Hyde (bass-baritone) &
Edward Picton-Tuberville, who treated us to a strikingly mature rendition of
arguably the earliest song cycle, Beethoven’s An die Ferne geliebte. The Scheme will
run for a further year before donors are sought to sustain a distinctive
contribution to Cambridge’s cultural life.
The Bliss Series continued to attract an array of leading Lieder singers to the
College thanks to the ongoing financial support provided by the Kenderdine
Fund. Joseph Middleton, fully recovered from a wrist injury, continued his
interrupted Britten celebrations with two concerts in Michaelmas Term, the
first with Marcus Farnsworth & Robert Murray, the second with Ruby Hughes &
Nicholas Mulroy (deputizing for Andrew Kennedy). Alish Tynan dashed from
London on the afternoon of 25 January to stand in for John Mark Ainsley,
leaving nobody disappointed with the late substitution. John Mark will return in
November for his much awaited recital. Two further recitals were equally starry,
as Carolyn Sampson beguiled us with a recital of flower songs and Iestyn Davies
justified his billing as one of the world’s leading counter-tenors.
No less professional in outlook, third-year music student Benedict Collins
Rice continued his remarkable series of concerts with The Façade Ensemble.
Sunday evening regulars were treated to a remarkable performance of Judith
Weir’s chamber opera The Consolations of Scholarship in Michaelmas Term, and in
Lent Term an evening of music by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in honour of the
Master of the Queen’s Music’s 80th birthday. Both concerts would not have
been possible without substantial donations from the Lob Fund. Serious
advantage was also taken of Pembroke’s two organs during the year, both the
restored main organ dating back to 1708 and the Aubertin chamber organ that
arrived exactly 300 years later following a donation from Geoffrey Perret
(Pembroke, 1948). Pembroke organ scholar and latterly Assistant Organist of St
George’s Chapel, Windsor, Roger Judd (Pembroke, 1963) returned in early
November to give a recital marking the 50th anniversary of his matriculation.
Both the Kenderdine (Theodore Hill) and Graham Maw (Richard Parkinson)
organ scholars offered Sunday evening recitals, and Honorary Fellows were
treated to a recital of organ duets given by two previous organ scholars now in
residence as graduate students (Gregory Drott and Joseph Ashmore) along with
the Director of College Music. Amidst all of this, invited artists Michael
Bonaventura & Huw Morgan mixed live and manipulated sounds in a wash of
sound rarely heard in chapel. Other inspired recitals of different kinds included
Ensemble Matisse’s programme of chamber music related to birds, Georgina
Feary’s exploration of ever more experimental twentieth-century works for
clarinet, and Rachel Kay’s authoritative performances of movements from
Bach’s cello suites and Debussy’s late sonata.
More social forms of music making also thrived through the year. The PCMS
Orchestra continued to prove a testing ground for ambitious conductors. In
Michaelmas, Theodore Hill tackled Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances and Jack Oades
directed Delius’ On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring. In Lent Term, Yannick
Mayaud lead the way in a performance of the first movement of Mozart’s 40th
Symphony. The ‘Lovely Choir’ (a distant relative of the Valence Mary Singers)
gave its annual concert of light choral arrangements at the end of Lent Term.
Pushing the boundaries further, the Pembroke Blues Band joined Fitz Swing for
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a Jazz and Blues Night in the middle of Lent Term. The jazz continued to flow
in recitals by Jack Oades and Ben Jones, as well as at the highly rated PCMS May
Week Garden Party. For co-ordinating a wealth of activities during 2013, the
outgoing Chair of PCMS, Georgina Feary, deserves much praise.
The Chapel Choir, fresh from the summer tour of the East Coast of the
United States, continued to sing the round of college services to the highest
standards. This year was particularly notable for visits to Lichfield and St
Edmundsbury Cathedrals, the former enabled by an annual donation from old
choir member, Raymond Nasr. Musical highlights included an almost indecent
amount of Howells (including the sumptuous Take Him Earth for Cherishing in the
Passion Service) and a May Week Choral Evensong capped by Gerald Finzi’s
setting of Richard Crashaw’s Lo, the Full Final Sacrifice. Individual choir members
are rarely mentioned in dispatches, but particular mention must be made this
year of three leavers, Francesca Sanders Hewett (soprano), Katharine Smith
(alto) and William Snowden (bass), who have a combined experience of over
15 years in Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Gregory Drott, who takes over as
Director of College Music during my forthcoming sabbatical year, will have to
search long and hard to replace such talented and dedicated choir members.
Sam Barrett
Theodore Hill, the Senior Organ Scholar and current Chair of the Music Society, writes
separately about a joint concert between Pembroke Academy of Music, an open access music
project based at Pembroke House in Walworth, south east London, and PCMS:
On Saturday 1 March we welcomed a large party from the Pembroke Academy of
Music, led by Elizabeth Andrews, for a collaborative project. Last year PCMS
joined children from the Pembroke Academy in a performance of a choral
anthem, alongside separate items that they had prepared in advance. This year
saw us make music together for the whole day, culminating in a well-attended
afternoon concert that featured a joint choral performance of Wesley’s "Lead me,
Lord" (directed by Jack Oades) and combined orchestras in the second movement
of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony. The highlight was a moving ensemble
performance of Jesus’ Blood never failed me yet by Gavin Bryars. We look forward to
welcoming PAM back next spring for what has become a highly enjoyable fixture
in our musical calendar.
After the roaring success of the Stokes Society Annual Garden Party, the newly
elected Stokes Society Committee continued to take Pembroke’s science society
to new levels of popularity, excitement and greatness this year. The 2013 Annual
General Meeting saw the conception of ‘Speakers Officer’ as a stand-alone role,
tasked with finding the biggest and the best scientists to speak at our meetings.
Lachlan Stibbard Hawkes rose to the challenge, filling every week of both
Michaelmas and Lent Term with interesting speakers before the academic year
had even begun. Things were off to a good start.
The first term started with a bang with Professor Chris Howe’s talk entitled
‘DNA, Manuscripts and Persian Carpets’ drawing in the crowds to the Nihon
Room, leaving not a seat or table spare. As a Cambridge biochemist, he
described how his team have been applying genome sequencing and analysis
technology to ancient scripts such as the Canterbury Tales, revealing how the
texts have been altered and evolved over time. Pembroke’s own Professor Mike
Payne delivered an inspiring talk about his life experiences in the field of
quantum mechanics and showed physicists and non-physicists alike how they
can turn their research into a successful business. The diversity of talks in
Michaelmas Term was astounding, ranging from the biology of bacterial DNA
to the secrets of extinct organisms and even how the internet works. We also
took the opportunity to socialise with other science societies around
Cambridge this year, and our Christmas formal and cocktail party was enjoyed
by members of Christ’s College’s ‘Darwin Society’, Downing College’s ‘Danby
Society’ and St. John’s College’s ‘Larmor Society’.
The end of Michaelmas Term saw the Stokes Society Committee having the
unique opportunity to delve into the society’s history, with Pembroke’s
librarian, Pat Aske, allowing us to view the Stokes Society archives.
Meticulously kept minutes dating back to 1909 were uncovered and we were
particularly amused to find that the nature of the society in those days
(previously called ‘The Germs’ and later ‘SPOONS’) was more for the purpose
of presenting the students’ own research. We attempted to document some of
these treasures and the pictures can be found on the Pembroke College Stokes
Society Facebook page. Naturally, we added our own contribution of posters
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and term cards to the archive and we hope that future committees will continue
to do this for generations to come.
The line-up of speakers for Lent Term was awash with professorships and
knighthoods. To mention but a few, Professor Sir Robert Mair told us about how
engineers are constructing London’s Crossrail tunnels whilst keeping Big Ben
upright, and Professor Bruce Hood, an experimental psychologist at the University
of Bristol, explained why the idea of the ‘self’ is an illusion and why there is in fact
no ‘you’ inside your head. A particular highlight came at the end of the term, with
Professor David Nutt enlightening a captivated audience on the controversies
surrounding drugs policy. Many of the speakers featuring in our Lent term card
had previously given Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and many of them
commended the committee on their professionalism as well as the first class
treatment of their guests – dinner at arguably the finest formal hall in Cambridge
and honorary life- membership of Stokes Society. Students and fellows of Natural
Sciences also indulged themselves at the Stokes Society Annual Dinner with
President, Craig Burns, giving a rousing speech to conclude the evening.
A round-up of the year would be incomplete without mentioning the
society’s grand finale. Professor Lord Robert Winston, renowned for his
contributions to the development of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and for
presenting television documentaries such as ‘Child of Our Time’, was a beacon
of hope, wisdom and humour in the midst of the Easter Term exam turmoil.
The talk was unconventional in several ways, not least because its popularity
meant that a ticketing system had to be put in place to prevent the masses
descending upon the Old Library (almost certainly a first for the Stokes
Society)! Topics explored ranged from how he got into and subsequently left the
field of medicine, his experiences in politics and the ethics of IVF, sparking
some interesting debates.
This year’s committee were all sad to leave their posts after a year of fantastic
events and talks, meeting great scientists and learning new things from outside
our own fields. We now pass on the Stokes Society baton to an enthusiastic,
new committee and hope that they carry on the success of this year and have as
much fun as we had.
Outgoing committee
President – Craig Burns
Secretary – Ollie Stephenson
Treasurer – Victoria Wang
Speakers Officer – Lachlan Hawkes
Publications Officer – Amy Danson
Events Officer – Susie Wright
Membership Officer – Chloe Scott
IT Officer – Graham Edgecombe
Careers Officer – Joanna Buckland
Graduate Representative – Heidi Howard
Amy Danson
Incoming committee
President – Cameron Dashwood
Secretary – Siobhan Botwright
Treasurer – Emily Whettlock
Speakers Officer – Will Gayne
Publications Officer – Coco Day
Events Officer – Jessica Farmery
Membership Officer – Kathy Darragh
IT Officer – Patrick Szmucer
Graduate Representative – Matthew Lim
IVORY TOWER SOCIETY
It was a relatively quiet year for the Ivory Tower Society after a later changeover
of leadership. The ITS may be a bit lost in the woods at the moment and is
searching for its identity in a crowded Cambridge society world. That’s not to
say there wasn’t any excitement – ITS did have several standing-room-only
events throughout the academic year.
In Michaelmas Term, Tom Blees, president of the NGO Science Council for
Global Initiatives, stopped by on his way to speak with the Department of
Energy and Climate Change. Mr Blees delivered a talk entitled “Planning a
Peaceful Global Revolution”. This revolution, he argued, would be a radical
change in the provision of energy, water, and other essential industrial services.
He brought us several technologies from the frontlines of sustainability
science, including a novel nuclear reactor systems (eats its own waste!), an allelectric lorry, an all-consuming arc furnace for toxic waste (powers itself and
spits out road building material!), and a water desalination system.
In Lent Term, Dr Peter Stern, a senior editor at SCIENCE, exposed the
innards of the manuscript selection and editing process to a packed house of
voyeuristic graduate students, postdocs, and fellows. We can be sure that
knowing how the science editing sausage is prepared will be of benefit to both
our future publication efforts and the sanity of the editors who clearly have their
work cut out for them!
We also hosted a fascinating talk and discussion with Karel Janeček, a Czech
mathematician-entrepreneur-billionaire-turned-democracy-theorist-andadvocate. If that sounds like quite the title, it was proven very much deserved by
his lecture on voting theory, his self-sponsored anti-corruption prize
competitions, and experiences with taking on the powers-that-be in the Czech
Republic. A long conversation over wine, cheese, and crackers expanded our
appreciation of the complexities of fair voting systems – including Janeček’s
attempt to make this ‘worst-except-for-all-other-forms’ of government just a
little bit better.
We stride forward – by this time next year, the Ivory Tower Society may have
a new name but with its same old spirit revived. After all, how can we fail when
there’s such superb energy and assistance from the likes of James Gardom,
Dean of the Chapel and longtime ITS guide; Nami Morris, indefatigable
speaker-finder; Ken Smith, infinitely patient facilities fixer; and Jaspinder
Sagoo, the energy behind the society? We’ll be back – watch this space.
Mark Nelson
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JUNIOR PARLOUR
President: Stephanie Willis
Vice-President: Paddy Kirkham
Treasurer: Oliver Watson
Entertainments: Simrun Basuita
Welfare Officer: Katharine Griffiths
Women’s Officer: Lily Maxwell
Men’s Officer: Will Popplewell
LGBT+ Officer: Alex Kemp
Ethnic Minorities Officer: Jeffrey Xiao
International Officer: Kate Cheng
Disabled Students Officer: Liam Hammond
IT Officer: Niall Rutherford
Hostels Officer: Alison Humphreys
Publications Officer: Matthew McConkey
Senior Access Officer: Joël Reland
Junior Access Officer: Tom Ogier
Green Officer: Amy Dolben
Food and Bar Officer: Marion Priebe
Charities Officer: Helen Denyer
It has been an enjoyable and productive year for the JPC. Excellent relations with
the College authorities have allowed the JPC to initiate material and system
improvements to college facilities and procedures. Regular Consultative
Committee meetings with the Bursar, Dean and Senior Tutor have been
productive and harmonious affairs.
My predecessor oversaw a change to longer opening hours for brunch after
the huge popularity of Pembroke brunch meant that queues were becoming
very long. Rather insistent pressure from the JPC may or may not have
accelerated the release of an electronic room booking system. Either way a
system is now in place and working well, to the delight of all who book rooms
in college on a regular basis. The JPC supported the Senior Tutor in the design
of a tutorial questionnaire aimed at reviewing and improving the current
tutorial system.
In terms of material changes the JPC have initiated 3 different projects.
Additional cycle storage capacity is being installed at the front and the back of
college. The New Common Room was redecorated and refurnished by the
College and the JPC funded the purchase of a projector for the room. The
JPC are also supplying tea and coffee supplies for the room for use by those
students who live outside of college. Recent discussions have started
theprocess of improving the air conditioning and the quality of the machines in
the college gym.
The welfare team, led by Katharine Griffiths, have organised yoga, zumba,
biscuit breaks and massages for students throughout the Easter term and have
continued to oversee the provision of sexual health supplies for the college. The
JPC has continued to run BOPs twice a term which have been well attended and
the Publications Officer has produced two excellent issues of Pembroke Street
showcasing Pembroke writing and artistic talent.
The JPC is now focusing on organising an end of term garden party and then
on running a smooth, informative and enjoyable Fresher’s week for the next
generation of Valencians
Stephanie Willis
GRADUATE PARLOUR
President:Paul McMullen
Vice-President: Florian Schroeder
Secretary: Stephen Gage
Treasurer: Alice Ievins
Welfare Officer: Ailith Pirie
Events Officer: Marion Messmer
Women’s Officer: Melisa Trujillo
External Officer: Jon Reimer
LGBT Officer: Julia Schulman
International Officer:
Charlotte Schoonman
GP Steward: Joseph Harvey
IT Officer: Katrina Malone
For the Graduate Parlour the 2013–14 academic year has been characterised by
growing diversity, camaraderie and community. Maintaining the momentum
created by last year’s Committee, the GPC has sought this year to make the
Pembroke graduate community as inclusive and supportive as possible. A very
enthusiastic and active matriculating year-group has invigorated the Graduate
Parlour this year. With a growing contingent of international students, the
diversity of views as well as backgrounds has been deeply refreshing.
Pembroke grads enjoyed another year of diverse GP events, including whiskey
and chocolate tastings, real ale nights, and the tongue-in-cheek internationally
themed party ‘Dr. Internationalove (or ‘How I learned to stop worrying and love
the foreigners’)’, with the year beginning, as always, with the high-paced gauntlet
of Freshers’ Week. In addition to a cinema excursion, the wonderful silliness of
the GP pub-crawl, and what are fast becoming the GP’s traditional Gin and Tonic
evening and opening ‘P is for Pembroke’ themed BOP, Freshers’ Week this year
saw Pembroke grads enjoy an inter-collegiate LGBT+ event with several other
colleges at Gonville & Caius. We were also pleased to expand the repertoire of GP
events by hosting two picnic days for Pembroke graduates with families and
children. The GPC wanted to continue the great work of last year’s committee in
reviving the GP Families scheme, helping new Pembroke graduates to feel at
home in Cambridge by giving all GP members the chance to connect closely with
their fellow new arrivals. Just how much the GP Families scheme contributed to
the life of the GP was clear to see from the enthusiastic and fraternal atmosphere
emanating from the space and the community from the very first weeks of this
academic year.
The tireless efforts of our Welfare Officer ensured that Pembroke grads had
regular access to enjoyment, support and community, through film nights, the
student-to-student support provided by the Pembroke Listeners, and – most
important of all – the guarantee that members of the GP were able to consume their
respective bodyweights in tea and cake on a weekly basis. The inclusive vibe of the
GP in 2013–14 is perhaps best exemplified by the Pembros’ Knit-Along. An
initiative started by non-committee members, being part Welfare initiative, part
shameless celebration of all things woollen, the Knit-Along grew from a tight-knit
group of graduates to incorporate into its meetings at times hefty swathes of the GP
community, rejoicing in the craft and the camaraderie, and never left short on irony.
We welcomed the college’s renovation of the entrance to the GP in Lent Term,
featuring a ramp and automatic door, which importantly has increased the
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accessibility of our communal space. In Easter term new lockers were installed in
the GP, particularly for use by graduates living outside of college. Having
concluded an agreement with the help of CUSU, the GP took up a subscription to
Sky TV in Michaelmas term, which, somehow defying the expectations of the
Gen.-Y stereotype, has served to foster social links between Pembroke grads and
their seemingly sports-crazed undergraduate counterparts, helping in the
process to break down the exclusivity between the JP and GP communities. The
Committee was also pleased to bolster the ranks of Associate Members of the GP,
expanding the Pembroke GP network, offering support and camaraderie to our
Associate Members, and creating opportunities for Pembroke graduates to forge
professional and social links with longer-term visitors to Cambridge from
beyond the college, university and the UK.
Easter Term also saw the incorporation by vote of an Environmental Officer
into the GPC – an exciting prospect, and one long overdue, which will allow the
GPC to work more closely with the college’s Environmental Awareness
Committee, and secure for Pembroke graduates a clearer route to decisive input
into environmental policy and decision making within our college. We are also
pleased to announce the renovation of two rooms within the college to create a
computing and working space exclusively for graduates, which will be completed
over the summer. With space at a premium within the walls of all Cambridge
colleges, we are extremely grateful to the college for its support of graduate
learning. In an outwardly facing vein, the GPC, in collaboration with the college’s
Development Office, is in the process of putting together a Graduate Video
Prospectus. Filming and interviews with Pembroke graduates are underway, with
a view to producing an accessible guide to graduate life at Pembroke. We hope
that this will provide useful information for prospective applicants to the college,
and help to disentangle myth from reality, encouraging greater transparency
about the Cambridge experience and providing concrete information for
prospective members of our college.
The GPC has kept close ties with the Cambridge University Students’ Union
(CUSU) this year. Our Vice President and External Officer in particular have
represented the interests of Pembroke graduates at decision-making meetings
of CUSU, helping to keep the GP abreast of the goings-on at inter-collegiate
and university levels. The Graduate Union (GU) is slowly recovering from
the difficulties it faced last year, however there is still some way to go, with
limited engagement between the GU and MCRs this academic year coming as a
consequence.
This, however, did nothing to hamper the connection between Pembroke
graduates and their counterparts at other colleges. The GP enjoyed a combined
BOP at Murray Edwards, and swaps with Peterhouse, Trinity, St. John’s, Gonville
& Caius, Trinity Hall, and Darwin, to name but parts of the whole.
Organised by our Women’s Officer, the GP marked International Women’s
Day over a full week, celebrating the contribution of women to academia and our
communities, and doing our part to raise further awareness of the malignant
dangers of sexism inside and outside of academia. Grads were engaged in film
screenings, group discussion sessions, and an interactive display of images and
aphorisms in the GP, which encouraged members of our community to
contribute ideas and questions of their own. In addition, a fundraising effort
coordinated wonderfully by our Women’s Officer raised several hundred pounds
for the Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre.
A similarly inspiring week was coordinated by our LGBT Officer at the opening
of International LGBT+ History Month: a celebration of queer culture, and an
attempt to continue to raise awareness of the rights of all to individuality, selfidentity and personhood. The week included film screenings, group discussions,
a themed BA Dinner, an inter-collegiate debate and information session, a weeklong decoration of the GP, and the availability of literature to help raise
awareness, bolster discussion and inspire debate.
On behalf of the whole GP community, the Committee would like to extend its
thanks and appreciation to a number of representatives of the college for their
consistent, considerate and energetic support: to Becky Coombs, Frances
Kentish, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Mark Wormald, Andrew Cates, James Gardom,
Andrew Enticknap, Michaela Koseoglu, Caroline Adams, John Spelzini and the
lovely Pembroke Porters, Alan Rogers and the staff of the IT Department, David
Harwood, Savino Cafagna and the tireless kitchen and serving staff, Ken Smith,
and the Graduate Tutors.
For anyone wishing to reconnect with the Graduate Parlour, you can catch up
with the latest goings-on through the GP website (www.srcf.ucam.org/pemgp/)
and the Facebook page (www.facebook.com/PembrokeCollegeGraduate
Parlour?fref=ts), or by contacting the GPC President ([email protected]).
I am very pleased to congratulate my successor to the Presidency of the GPC,
Nikola Novcic, together with the other incoming members of the Committee.
With the GP in excellent hands for the coming academic year, we all await the
developments for the Pembroke graduate community with great anticipation
and excitement!
Paul McMullen
C. THE COLLEGE RECORD
Christopher Smart (1722–1771), poet
attributed to Thomas Hudson
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THE MASTER AND FELLOWS 2013–2014
THE MASTER
Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, MA (2003), KCMG, OBE
FELLOWS
1956
Malcolm Cameron Lyons, LittD (1997)
1958
Albert Victor Grimstone, PhD (1958), MA (1959)
1961
Leslie Peter Johnson, BA Newcastle, DPhil Kiel, MA (1959)
1964
James Christopher Durham Hickson, MA (1964), PhD (1966)
1979
Nicholas Barry Davies, MA (1977), DPhil Oxon, FRS, Professor of
Behavioural Ecology
1982
(1961) John Peter Dougherty, MA (1960), PhD (1961)
(1977) Jan Marian Maciejowski, MA (1976), PhD (1978), Professor of Control
Engineering President of Pembroke College
Norman Andrew Fleck, MA (1983), PhD (1984)), FREng, FRS, Professor of the
Mechanics of Materials, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics
1984
Michael Christopher Payne, MA (1985), PhD (1985), FRS, Professor of
Computational Physics
1985
Charles Peter Melville, MA (1976), PhD (1978), Professor in Persian History
Trevor Robert Seaward Allan, BCL Oxon, MA (1983), Professor of Jurisprudence
and Public Law
1992
Jonathan Philip Parry, MA (1982), PhD (1985), Professor of Modern British
History
Mark Roderick Wormald, MA, DPhil Oxon, PhD (2008), College Lecturer
in English
1993
Donald Robertson, MA (1987), MSc, PhD LSE, University Senior Lecturer
in Economics
1994
Loraine Ruth Renate Gelsthorpe, BA Sussex, MPhil (1979), PhD (1985),
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Torsten Meißner, MA Bonn, DPhil Oxon, PhD (1997), University Senior
Lecturer in Classics
1995
Robin James Milroy Franklin, PhD (1992), Professor of Stem Cell Medicine
Christopher John Young, MA (1994), PhD (1995), Professor of Modern and
Medieval German Studies
Silvana Silva Santos Cardoso, BA, MEng Porto, PhD (1994), Reader in Fluid
Mechanics and the Environment
1996
Sylvia Huot, MA (2004) BA California, PhD Princeton, FBA, Professor of
Medieval French Literature
1997
Nicholas John McBride, BA, BCL Oxon, College Lecturer and James Campbell
Fellow in Law
(2000) Nigel Robert Cooper, MA (1995), DPhil Oxon, Professor of
Theoretical Physics
1998
Kenneth George Campbell Smith, BMedSc, MB, BS, PhD Melbourne, MA
(2000), FMedSci, Professor of Medicine and Head of Department of Medicine,
Honorary Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Alan Garth Tunnacliffe, MA (1994), PhD London, Professor of Molecular
Biotechnology
Lauren Tamar Kassell, BA Haverford, MSc, DPhil Oxon, Reader in History of
Science and Medicine
1999
Vikram Sudhir Deshpande, BTech Bombay, MPhil (1996), PhD (1998), Professor
of Materials Engineering
2001
Demosthenes Nicholas Tambakis, MA (1993), PhD Princeton, College Lecturer
and Pyewacket Fellow in Economics
Nilanjana Datta, MA (2008), BSc, MSc Jadavpur, PhD ETH Zurich, College
Lecturer and Overstall Fellow in Mathematics
John Stephen Bell, BPhil Gregorian University Rome, MA(1978), DPhil Oxon,
FBA, Professor of Comparative Law
Timothy John Bussey, BSc Victoria BC, BSc Vancouver BC, PhD (1995),
Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience
Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Laurea, Politechnico di Milano, PhD (2001), ScD (2013)
Professor of Nanotechnology
2002
Rosalind Polly Blakesley, MA (1996), DPhil Oxon, Reader in Russian and
European Art
2003
Alexander William Tucker, MA (1989), VetMB (1992), PhD (1997), University
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Public Health
2004
Arwen Fedora Deuss, MSc Utrecht, DPhil Oxon, PhD (2008), University
Lecturer in Theoretical Geophysics
2005
Simon Learmount, BA, MA University of East Anglia, MBA (1996), PhD (2000),
University Lecturer in Corporate Governance
Alan Michael Dawson, MA (1978), PhD (1994), Director International Programmes
Jorge M Gonçalves, MSc, PhD MIT, Reader in Engineering
Samuel James Barrett, BA Oxon, MPhil (1996), PhD (2000), University Senior
Lecturer in Music
2006
Alexei Shadrin, MSc, PhD Moscow, University Lecturer in Numerical Analysis
James Theodore Douglas Gardom, BA Oxon, PhD King’s College London, Dean
and Chaplain
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Katrin Christina Ettenhuber, BA (2000), MPhil (2001), PhD (2005), College
Lecturer in English
2007
Matthew Robert Mellor, BA Oxon, MA (2010), Development Director
Stephen O’Rahilly, KCMG, MD, MB, BCh, BAO Ireland, FMedSci, FRS,
Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine
Gábor Csányi, MA (1994), PhD MIT, Reader in Engineering
Menna Ruth Clatworthy, BSc, MBBCh Wales, PhD (2006), University Lecturer
in Transplantation Medicine
Ashok Ramakrishnan Venkitaraman, MA (1993), PhD London, MB, BS Vellore,
India, FMedSci, The Ursula Zoellner Professor of Cancer Research
2008
David John Huggins, MChem, DPhil Oxon, Research Associate, Cambridge
Molecular Therapeutics Program, and Supernumerary Fellow
2009
Colin Martyn Lizieri, BA Oxon, PhD LSE, Grosvenor Professor of Real
Estate Finance
Alexander Houen, BA, MPhil Sydney, PhD (1999), University Senior Lecturer
in English
Renaud Gagné, BA, MA, Montreal, PhD (2007) Harvard, University Lecturer
in Classics
Mina Gorji, BA (1996), MPhil, PhD Oxon, University Lecturer in English
Caroline Burt, BA (1999), MPhil (2000), PhD (2004), College Lecturer in
History, Admissions Tutor
Siân Katharine Pooley, BA (2005), MPhil (2006), PhD (2010), Temporary
University Lecturer in the Faculty of History
Sarah Maria Heiltjen Nouwen, LLB, LLM Utrecht, MPhil (2005), PhD (2010),
University Lecturer in Law
2011
Krzysztof Kazimierz Koziol, MSc Silesian University of Technology, PhD
(2005), Royal Society Research Fellow
Joanna Ruth Bellis, BA (2007), MPhil (2008), PhD (2011), Harry F Guggenheim
Research Fellow
Sky Trillium French, BA, MSci (2008), PhD (2011), Drapers’ Company
Research Fellow
Moritz Toby Matthiesen, BA Berne, MA SOAS, PhD SOAS, Abdullah Al
Mubarak Al Sabah Research Fellow
Randall Scott Johnson, BA/BS Washington, PhD Harvard, Professor of
Molecular Physiology and Pathology
Christoph Loch, Diploma-Wirtschafts-Ingenieur Darmstadt, MBA Tennessee,
PhD Stanford, Director and Professor of Management Studies at the
Cambridge Judge Business School
Clare Philomena Grey, BA Oxford, DPhil Oxford, FRS, Geoffrey Moorhouse
Gibson Professor of Chemistry
Maria Abreu, BSc LSE, MPhil Amsterdam, PhD Amsterdam, University Lecturer
in Land Economy
2012
Anna Mollie Young, MEng (2008), MA (2011), PhD (2012) Maudslay-Butler
Research Fellow
Chloe Nahum-Claudel, BA (2005), Trebilcock-Newton Trust Research Fellow
Stephen David John, BA (2000), MPhil (2002), PhD (2007) University Lecturer
in Philosophy of Public Health
Warren Robert Joseph Daniel Galloway, BA (2004) MA (2007) PhD (2008) Postdoctoral Research Associate in Organic Chemistry
Ernst Henning Edmund Grunwald, BA (1997) PhD (2003) University Lector in
Modern German History
2013
Andrew Thomas Cates, BA (1986) PhD (1989) Treasurer and Bursar
Paul Ross Cavill, MA, MSt, DPhil (Oxford) University Lecturer in Early Modern
British History
John Hay Durrell, MSci (Imperial) PhD (2001) Senior Research Associate in the
Department of Engineering
Maximilian Jan Sternberg, BA King’s College London, MPhil (2002), PhD
(2007) University Lecturer in Department of Architecture
Hildegard Gemma Maria Diemberger, PhD (Vienna) College Lecturer in
Human, Social and Political Sciences
Sanne Cottaar, BSc, MSc (Utrecht), PhD (California) Drapers’ Company
Research Fellow
Anthony Charles Lewis Ashton, BA (2005) PhD (2010) Stokes Research Fellow
Ambrogio Pistoja Camozzi, BA (Milan), PhD (2013) Keith Sykes Research
Fellow in Italian Studies
Timothy Thomas Weil, BSc (St Louis), PhD (Princeton) University Lecturer
in Zoology
EMERITUS FELLOWS
Charles William McElroy Pratt, MA (1953)
Anthony William Nutbourne, MA (1954)
Richard Hawley Grey Parry, ScD (1983)
Colin Gilbraith, MA (1975), MVO
Amyand David Buckingham, CBE, ScD (1985), FRS
Colin George Wilcockson, MA (1958)
Michael James David Powell, ScD (1979), FRS
Antony Gerald Hopkins, FBA
Ian Fleming, ScD (1982), FRS
John Ryder Waldram, MA (1963), PhD (1964)
Howard Henry Erskine-Hill, LittD (1988), FBA
Sir Roger Tomkys, KCMG, MA (1973)
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William Bernard Raymond Lickorish, ScD (1991)
Robert Joseph Mears
Leo Brough Jeffcott, MA (1994)
Sathiamalar Thirunavukkarasu, MA (1971)
Nicholas Stanislaus Baskey, MA (1998)
Brian Watchorn, MA (1965)
Howard Peter Raingold, MA (1982)
Richard James Jackson, MA (1968), PhD (1968)
Michael David Reeve, MA (1966), FBA
Michael George Kuczynski, MA (1972)
Susan Helen Stobbs, MA (1970)
Rex Edward Britter, MA (1979)
Geoffrey Richard Edwards, MA (2008)
Barbara Ann Bodenhorn, MPhil (1979), PhD (1990)
Christopher John Blencowe
HONORARY FELLOWS
1983
1988
1992
1993
1998
1999
2000
2002
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, MA (1956), PhD (1955), Hon ScD, FRS
Ray Milton Dolby, Hon OBE, PhD (1961), Hon ScD
Sir John Frank Charles Kingman, ScD (1969), FRS
The Rt Hon James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior of Brampton, PC, MA
(1970)
Sir Constant Hendrick (Henry) de Waal, KCB, MA (1955), LLB (1952)
Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson, MA (1985), FRS
Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood, CBE, MA (1967), Hon MusD
James Gee Pascoe Crowden, CVO, MA (1955)
Sir John Anthony Chilcot, GCB, MA (1973)
The Rt Hon Sir Konrad Hermann Theodor Schiemann, PC, MA (1965), LLB
(1962)
The Rt Hon Sir Alan Hylton Ward, Lord Justice Ward, PC, MA (1968), LLB (1963)
Emma Louise Johnson, MBE, MA (1992)
Sir John Edward Sulston, PhD (1982), Hon ScD, FRS
William Hall Janeway, PhD (1971)
Sir Michael Bett, CBE, MA (1977)
Roger Walton Ferguson Jr, MA (1976), PhD Harvard
Sir Christopher Owen Hum, KCMG, MA (1971)
His Excellency George Maxwell Richards, TC, PhD (1963)
Sir Marcus Henry (Mark )Richmond, ScD (1971), FRS
The Rt Hon Christopher Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, PC, MA
(1977), PhD (1979)
Amyand David Buckingham, CBE, ScD (1985), FRS
Stephen John Nickell, CBE, BA (1965), FBA
Martin Biddle, OBE, MA (1965), FBA
Peter Stuart Ringrose, MA (1971), PhD (1971)
Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew of Donegore, MA (1971), PhD (1974)
Stephen Jay Greenblatt, MA (1968)
David Anthony Brading, BA (1960), LittD (1991), FBA
Jeremy Bloxham, BA (1982), PhD (1986), FRS
2010
The Rt Hon Sir Patrick Elias, Lord Justice Elias, PC, PhD (1974)
Clive Vivian Leopold James, BA (1964) MA
WILLIAM PITT FELLOWS
1996
1997
2001
2003
2008
2009
2010
2012
2013
Sir Mark Henry Richmond, ScD (1971), FRS
Richard Tak Sang Chiu, BA (1971)
Peter Stuart Ringrose, PhD (1971)
Jeremy Henry Moore Newsum, BA, Reading
Barrington John Albert Furr, OBE, BSc, PhD, Reading
Ismail Kola, PhD, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Richard John Parmee, BA (1973)
Sir Michael Derek Vaughn Rake, FCA
Kai Dai, MD, BSc, Shenyang University, EMBA (2012)
Robert Carlton Booker, BSc, University of East Anglia; MFin,
London Business School
Peter Douglas Hancock, BA, Oxford
Barry John Varcoe, BA, University of the South Bank, PhD Glasgow Caledonian
BYE-FELLOWS
2001
2008
2009
2010
2011
2013
Jayne Sinclair Ringrose, MA (1970)
Daniela Passolt, BA Hamburg, MSc SOAS, PhD LSE
Rebecca Lucy Coombs, BA Bristol, PhD Paris
Andrew Enticknap, MBA UEA
Mark Reinhard Norbert Kotter, MD Graz, MPhil (2001), PhD (2006)
William Fawcett, MA (1974), PhD (1979)
Mark Strange, BA Durham, MSt, DPhil Oxon
Katharina Rietzler, MA PhD UCL
Richard Ned Lebow, MA Yale, PhD New York
FELLOW-COMMONERS
2004
2005
2006
2007
2009
2013
George Simon Cecil Gibson
John Andrew Hulme Chadwick, MA (1968)
Keith Gordon Sykes, MA (1973)
Randall Wayne Dillard, LLM (1983)
Norman Mcleod Bachop, BA (1968)
Anthony Harwick Wilkinson
Christopher Bertlin Turner Adams, MA (1957)
John Charles Grayson Stancliffe, MA (1952)
John Kevin Overstall, BA (1962)
Paul David Skinner, BA (1963)
Master: Sir Richard Dearlove
COLLEGE OFFICERS 2014–2015
President: J Maciejowski
Senior Tutor: M Wormald
Dean and Chaplain: J Gardom
Treasurer and Bursar: A Cates
Praelector: T Meißner
Librarian: N McBride
Tutorial Bursar: L Kassell
College Proctor: D Tambakis
Steward: M Mellor
College Curator: C Melville
Tutor for Graduate Affairs: L Gelsthorpe
Admissions Tutor: C Burt
Tutor for Graduate Admissions: N McBride
Development Director: M Mellor
Assistant tutors: M Abreu, S Barrett, K Ettenhuber, J Gardom, M Gorji, H Grunwald,
S John, N McBride, T Meißner, M Mellor, S Nouwen, A Tucker
Graduate tutors: C Burt, A Deuss, J Durrell, J Gardom, D Huggins
College lecturers: C Burt (History), N Datta (Mathematics), H Diemberger (Archaeology
and Anthropology, Human, Social and Political Sciences, and Politics, Psychology
and Sociology), K Ettenhuber (English), G Kolios (Economics), N McBride (Law),
D Tambakis (Economics), M Wormald (English)
Directors and Assistant Directors of Studies:
Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic: P Russell
Archaeology and Anthropology: H Diemberger
Architecture: M Sternberg, E Ashman Rowe
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies: C Melville
Chemical Engineering: S Cardoso, K Mahbubhani
Classics: T Meißner
Computer Science: C Hadley
Economics: D Tambakis, D Robertson
Education: E Taylor
Engineering: G Csanyi, V Deshpande, J Durrell, A Ferrari
English: M Wormald, K Ettenhuber
History: C Burt, P Cavill
History of Art: R Blakesley, J Munns
Human, Social and Political Sciences: H Diemberger
Land Economy: M Abreu
Law: N McBride, S Nouwen
Linguistics: D Willis
Management Studies: S Learmount
Mathematics: N Datta, A Shadrin
Medicine: A Tucker, M Clathworthy
Modern Languages: S Huot, A Wiesl-Shaw, C Young
Music: S Barrett, D Mordey
Natural Sciences: T Bussey, N Cooper, S Cottaar, A Deuss, W Galloway, L Kassell,
K Koziol, G Micklem, M Payne, T Weil
Philosophy: S John
Theology: J Gardom
Veterinary Medicine: A Tucker
Director for International Programmes: D Jarvis
Lectrice in French: A Le Gallou
Lektorin in German: M Tießen
Academic Associates:
Anatomy: A May
Classics: M Arbabzadah
Economics: T Greve
Engineering: F Torrisi
French: S Qadri
Mathematics: M Castle
Physics: F Lee
Social Anthropology: M Magalhaes
Zoology: J Gerlach
MATRICULATION 2012–2013
MICHAELMAS TERM 2013
Abdullahi, Hanad (Uxbridge High School Academy Trust)
Abebe, Rediet (Harvard University, USA)
Abrahams, Joshua Ian (Dartford Grammar School for Boys)
Adams, Elizabeth Kate (King’s College School, London)
Adjei, Ellen Julienne Adjoa (St Michael’s Catholic Grammar School, Finchley)
Aebischer, Sebastian Francis (Bishop Wordsworth’s Grammar School, Salisbury)
Ahmad, Saif (University of London)
Alderazi, Sayed Hasan (University of Nottingham)
Ali, Mohsin (McMaster University, Canada)
Ali, Sajeed (King Edward’s School, Edgbaston)
Allgaier, Benjamin (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Alvarez-Piñera, Jesus (University of Oviedo, Spain)
Amin, Eshaa (Sevenoaks School)
Andre, Ryan (Vermont Law School)
Aus, Andrew (Birkbeck, University of London)
Baldwin, Jacob John William (Ermysted’s Grammar, Skipton)
Beardsworth, Nathan (St Dunstan’s College, London)
Bhabutta, Rishi (Bancrofts School, Woodford Green, Essex)
Blaxter, Tam Tristram (Oxford University)
Bleasdale, Amy (Oxford University)
Bond, Timothy (Watford Grammar School for Boys)
Bruton, Derek Jackson (Brigham Young University, Utah)
Buerki, Silvianne (University of Berne, Switzerland)
Bulang, Christine (Fachhochschule, Hof, Germany)
Burford, Rory Joshua (Ludlow College)
Cadwallader, Beatrice (St Marys School, Ascot)
Carey, Fabienne (Loreto Grammar School, Altrincham)
Carter, Emma (Invicta Grammar School, Maidstone)
Chandler, Andrew (Trinity School, Croydon)
Cheung, Chun Hin Bryan (Colchester Royal Grammar School)
Choi, Seonghoon (The Alice Smith School, Kuala Lumpur)
Chow, Chi Fung (German Swiss International School, Hong Kong)
Clark, Theodore (The Perse School, Cambridge)
Cloutier, Theresa Kruse (Brown University, Rhode Island)
Coan, Quinn (Occidental College, LA)
Cope, Cassie (Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge)
Cousins, Shaun (University of Sydney)
Cullen, James (The Latymer School, London)
Cummins, Charles (St Paul’s School, London)
Cutler, Sebastian James (Reading School)
Dani, Amrita Shashi (Harvard University, USA)
Darke, Alexander Ian (The King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth)
Dashwood, Cameron Darling (Brighton College)
Davies, Louis Nigel (Watford Grammar School for Boys)
Day, Jessica Coco (The Blue School, Wells)
De, Eleanor Katurani Janet (Brighton College)
de la Peña Fernández-Garnelo, Francisco de Borja (Kings College London)
Deer, Camille (European School, Culham)
Deradjat, Dominik (Aachen University, Germany)
Dolben, Amy (Howell’s School, LLandaff, GDST, Cardiff )
Droogleever Fortuyn, Michael (Loughborough Grammar School)
Ellison, Alexandra (European School, Brussels 1)
English, Max Atticus O’Rourke (Abingdon School)
Evans, Sian (James Allens Girls School. London)
Eyers, Robert William (Alton College, Hampshire)
Fairbairn, Thomas (King’s College School, London)
Farmery, Jessica (Oxford High School GDST)
Fawcett, Laura Joy (Central School of Speech and Drama, London)
Fernando, Anushan (The Latymer School, London)
Forbes, Annie (Firrhill High School, Edinburgh)
Friend, Daisey (Rugby High School)
Gayne, William Joseph (Tytherington High School, Macclesfield)
Glennie, Andrew Nigel Forbes (University of Warwick)
Godawatta, Julien (Lycee Victor Duruy, Paris)
Gooder, Isobel (Downe House School, Thatcham)
Gordon, Kathleen Eilidh (Bearsden Academy, Glasgow)
Grenfell, Sophie Elizabeth (Bromsgrove School)
Griffiths, Jessica Louise (Vyners School, Middlesex)
Grommet, Angela (Kansas State University)
Guy, Benjamin David (Brown University)
Hall, Dominic Thomas (Groby Community College, Leicestershire)
Hammond, Liam James (Sheldon School)
Händel, Teresa (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany)
Hayler, Alice Eleanor (St George’s Academy, Sleaford)
Hengeveld, Anne Christel (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Heywood, Susanna (Wheatley Park School, Oxfordshire)
Hibbert, Elizabeth Mary (Wilmslow High School)
Hippisley-Gatherum, Kane (Morrisons Academy Crieff, Scotland)
Holiday, Georgina Anne (Colchester County High School For Girls)
Howden, Sarah (The Tiffin Girls School, Kingston-upon-Thames)
Hudson, Henry William (The Cherwell School, Oxford)
Ivers, Charlotte (Dean Close School, Cheltenham)
Jenkinson, Fiona (Kings School, Canterbury)
Jennings, Sally (University of Bristol)
Jobanputra, Rishi (Dr Challoners Grammar School, Amersham)
Johnson, George (Norwich School)
Jones, Benjamin (Tonbridge School)
Karmann, Till (Oxford University)
Katsos, Charalampos Isidoros (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Katz, Harley (University of Maryland)
Kavoosi, Kia (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
Kay, Rachel (St Albans High School for Girls)
Kennan, Aoife (Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
King, Haydn James (Jesus College, University of Cambridge)
Kitzing, Andreas (London School of Economics & Political Science)
Kondratowicz, Monika (Alcester Grammar School)
Kurin, Gennady (SOAS, University of London)
Laforgue, Raphaël (Sorbonne University, Paris)
Laidler, Gaia (Westminster School)
Lambrick, Sam Morgan (Loreto College, Manchester)
Landers, Courtney Amaryllis (Australian National University, Canberra)
Lange, Lukas (Technische Universitaat, München)
Law, Richard (St Paul’s School, London)
Lawlor, Ciaran James (Royal Latin School, Buckingham)
Leitao, Antonio Francisco De Atao Resende (University of Strasbourg)
Lejeune, Audrey Claire (Lycee Francais de Shanghai)
Li, Kuang (Jilin University, China)
Lim, Lucy Gabrielle (Westcliff High School for Girls, Westcliff on Sea)
Lin, Teresa Ye (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Liu, Lun (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
Logan, Georgina (Headington School, Oxford)
Lyons, Alice (Claremont McKenna College, California)
Malone, Katrina Sophie (University of Melbourne)
Marshall, Richard Benjamin (Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School, Aylesbury)
Maxwell, Lily Olivia (Altrincham Girls Grammar School)
Mayaud, Yannick Jacques (Beaumont School, St Albans)
Mayes, Darion (Springwood High School, King’s Lynn)
McCall, Taylor Jane (Courtauld Institute, London)
McGee, Thomas (Sevenoaks School)
McKee, Rona Elizabeth (St Helen & St Katharine, Abingdon)
Medek, Akos Vince (Mihály Fazekas Primary and Secondary Grammar School, Budapest)
Menzies, Sam (University of Bristol)
Messmer, Marion Gudrun (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts)
Mihan, Shiva (Alzahra University, Iran)
Moulton, Laura Pascale (Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School)
Naddell, Sophie (Hutchesons’ Grammar School, Glasgow)
Naslidnyk, Mariia (TG Shevchenko University, Kiev)
Neumüller, Kathrin Maria (St Andrews University)
Nielsen, Marcus (Aylesbury Grammar School)
Nolan, Charlotte Emma (Bishop Heber High School, Malpas)
Norton-Brown, James (Monmouth School, Monmouth)
Nospickel, Anne (University of Cologne, Germany)
O’Callahan, Patrick Gaughan (Brown University)
Ogier, Thomas Hiroto (The Guernsey Grammar School & Sixth Form Centre)
Oldham, Robert (Westminster School)
Orsman, Seren Josephine (Surbiton High School, Kingston upon Thames)
Ottaway-Ware, Charlotte Louise (The King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth)
Owens, Eloise (Barnard College, New York)
Padley, Jessica (The Queen Elizabeth’s High School, Gainsborough)
Parker, Anna (The London Oratory School)
Parkinson, Chad Louis (Wath Comprehensive School, Rotherham)
Parkinson, Richard John (Reading School)
Perry, James Edward George (Charterhouse, Godalming)
Petersen, Katrine Tilgaard (Ordrup Gymnasium, Copenhagen)
Phillips, Richard James (Lancaster Royal Grammar School)
Pinnen, Elena (University of Bologna)
Popplewell, William (International School of Geneva, La Chataigneraie)
Potterton, Catherine Christine (Wolfson College, University of Cambridge)
Powers, Christine (Pace University, New York)
Powlesland, Katherine Lucy (Newnham College, University of Cambridge)
Pruzina, Helen (Grosvenor Grammar School, Belfast)
Purcell, David (University of East Anglia)
Qiao, Jiayu (Caterham School)
Quay, Michelle Marie (University of California, Los Angeles)
Raeymaekers, Sven (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
Riley, Errin Christina (Lancaster Girls Grammar School)
Roberts, James (The Grammar School at Leeds)
Roelofs, Aurora (Highgate Wood School, London)
Rogers, Douglas (Edinburgh Academy)
Rouzé, Cambyse (Ecole Centrale de Paris, France)
Rowland-Simms, Ciara Anna Simone (Colyton Grammar School, Devon)
Rowntree, Samuel Oscar (Greenhead College, Huddersfield)
Roy, Helena (Dr Challoner’s High School for Girls, Amersham)
Rozumalski, Jason (University of California, Berkeley)
Ryabchynskyy, Kostyantyn (Clifton College, Bristol)
Sanghera-Warren, Mala (Highams Park School, London)
Sautter, Caroline Grace (Bancrofts School, Woodford Green, Essex)
Scott, Andrew William Peter (Edinburgh Academy)
Scott, Ciara (St George’s School, Harpenden)
Shah, Priya Radhika ()
Shao, Peng (London School of Economics & Political Science)
Shing, Judy Yik (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
Simpson, Alexander (Harris Academy Dundee)
Singha, Karan (Uppingham School, Rutland)
Starling, Andrew Elliot (University of Pennsylvania)
Sterlini, Giorgio (Dame Alice Owen’s School, Potters Bar)
Sun, Bo (Peking University, Beijing)
Sutton, Jason Paul (Kings College London)
Suzuki, Jion (College Du Leman International School, Geneva)
Szmucer, Patrick Jaroslaw (XIV High School, Wroclaw, Poland)
Taape, Tillmann (Clare College, Universtiy of Cambridge)
Tan, Yi (Hebei University of Medicine, China)
Taylor, Hannah Grace (Winstanley College, Wigan)
Teng, Clare Siew Chin (Havergal College, Canada)
Terry, Isabelle Louise (The Judd School, Tonbridge)
Tham, Yan Ping (Raffles Junior College, Singapore)
Thomson, Sophie Jane (The King’s School, Chester)
Titley, Mark (Marple Sixth Form College, Stockport)
Tomlinson, Patsy Roseanne (University of Birmingham)
Tompkins, Daniel Justin Keith (Highgate School, London)
Tompkins, Sienna Victoria Beatrice (Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe)
Totz, Keiler James (St. Michaels University School, Canada)
Townsend, Hannah Millicent (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)
Truelove, Adam (The Priory Academy LSST, Lincoln)
Tsai, Yu-Fung (University College London)
Turner-Bridger, Benita (University of Edinburgh)
Ulrich, Stefan (Royal Grammar School Guildford)
Valentine, Alastair (City of London Business School (now London Metropolitan University))
Valov, Victor Yovchev (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
van der Heijden, Frieda (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
Virk, Jasvir (University of Wolverhampton)
Wang, Ann (California Institue of Technology, Pasadena)
Waters, Matilda Scindia Penrose (Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe)
Watkins, Richard (Rugby School)
Wehmann, Eileen (Jacobs University, Bremen)
Wileman, Thomas Mathew (University of Lancaster)
Wilkinson, Roberta Judith Jameson (Parrs Wood High School, Manchester)
Willis, Holly (North London Collegiate School)
Wilson, Cavin Boyd (Australian National University, Canberra)
Wood, Myfanwy Christine Elizabeth (University of Melbourne)
Xiao, Jeffrey Zhi Peng (Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet)
Yashar, William Montgomery (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Zeifman, Emmett (Yale University, Connecticut)
Zhang, Genghua (London School of Economics & Political Science)
Zhang, Yan (City University, London)
Zulawski, Piotr Pawel (IV Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. KEN w Bielsku-Białej, Poland)
LENT TERM 2014
Acha, Claudia (University of Pennsylvania)
Arima, Yusuke (Waseda University, Tokyo)
Bacarella, Nicholas John (University of California, Berkeley)
Bae, Seongyeon (Smith College, Massachusetts)
Bruch, Joseph (University of Pennsylvania)
Chua, MengShuen (California Institute of Technology)
Das, Satyajit (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)
Deng, Wenyan (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)
Diamond, Anna Myrup (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)
Ganju, Bharat (University of Pennsylvania)
Guo, Mengtian (Mount Holyoke College)
Hersh, Adam Klein (University of Pennsylvania)
Hirvonen, Heidi Susanna (Wesleyan University, Connecticut)
Hoang, Binh Quoc (Yale University)
Kasper, Kenneth Michael (University of Pennsylvania)
Kisch, Tian Lee (Harvard University)
Kramer, Benjamin (University of Maryland)
Lafferrandre, Katherine Ann (Sewanee: The University of the South)
Linder, Christy (University of Pennsylvania)
Lombardi, Lucia (Polytechnic University of Milan)
Mata Matthews, Bonnie Jane (University of California, Berkeley)
Mathialagan, Nevatha (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)
Novetsky, Rebecca (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Packer, Brent Alexander Sandhaus (Wesleyan University, Massachusetts)
Papp, Olivia Janet (Mount Holyoke College)
Prathanrasnikorn, Soracha (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)
Ran, Jing (University of Pennsylvania)
Russell, Anna Sankey (Yale University)
Sasson, Tehila (University of California, Berkeley)
Shah, Natasha Zohra (Smith College, Massachusetts)
Shevin-Coetzee, Michelle (George Washington University)
Suseendran, Aashika (Arcadia University, Pennsylvania)
Van Reed, Hanna Wagner (Oberlin College, Ohio)
Zhang, Ruoxi (Cornell University, New York)
ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS, FIRST CLASS RESULTS 2014
Preliminary Examination for Part I of the
Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos
Rogers, Douglas
Preliminary examination for Part IA of the
Classical Tripos
Hudson, Henry William
Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Part I
Colwill, Elisabeth Ellen
Classical Tripos, Part IB
Hill, Theodore Alexander
Archaeology and Anthropology, Part IIB
Back, Anna Louisa
Brownlee, Emma Claire
Classical Tripos, Part II
Oakes, Sophie Madeline
Wesley-Weeks, Sydney Elgar
Architecture, Part II
Norris, Thomas George
Computer Science, Part II
Edgecombe, Graham Philip
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Part IA Economics, Part I
McGee, Thomas
Cutler, Sebastian James
Roy, Helena
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Part II
Tham, Yan Ping
Keynes, Alexander Amin Casper
King, Jennie Natasha Eve
Economics, Part IIA
Hazell, Jonathon Alexander David
Chemical Engineering Tripos, Part IIA
Hudson, Matthew Stephen
Hoier, Thomas Peter
Tan, Jan Joo
Huang, Anqi
Engineering, Part IA
Abrahams, Joshua Ian
Davies, Louis Nigel
Droogleever Fortuyn, Michael
Medek, Akos Vince
Phillips, Richard James
Ryabchynskyy, Kostyantyn
Szmucer, Patrick Jaroslaw
Totz, Keiler James
Engineering, Part IB
Arshad, Samad
Downing, Tristan Alexander Lee
Forbes, Thayne Juliusz
Lam, Pui Hei
Ormond, Bryan John
Prior, Daisy Cordelia Charlotte
White, Charles Rory
Wong, Hok Hei Nicholas
Engineering, Part IIA
Bardsley, Oliver Paul
Griggs, Philip John
Lobo, Arun Joseph
Obeyesekere, Danton Gamini
Sears, Luke William
Willis, Stephanie Isabelle
Wojtecki, Alexander Lucian
Engineering, Part IIB
Barton, Rupert Anthony
Jackson, Adam John Robert
Ravi, Neeraja
Tapner, Frederick James
Warden, Scott
Watson, Alexander Richard
Preliminary Examination for Part I of
the English Tripos
Hibbert, Elizabeth Mary
Howden, Sarah
Oldham, Robert
Taylor, Hannah Grace
English, Part I
Chorley, Charlotte Mary
Cochrane, Harry James Campbell
McConkey, Matthew Sam
Metcalf, Eleanor Charis
English, Part II
Greaves, Abigail
Kaner, Hannah Frances
Peres, Tessa Penelope Carkeek
Schwarz, Gabrielle
Temple, Joseph
Preliminary Examination for Part I of the
Historical Tripos
Deer, Camille
Historical Tripos, Part I
Bittlestone, Mark Christopher
Innes, Matthew James MacDonald
Historical Tripos, Part II
Burrow, William Oliver
Gildea, Florence Hazel
McCrudden, Kathleen Theodora Rosalia
Wikeley, Jeremy Benjamin
History of Art, Part I
Tompkins, Daniel Justin Keith
Human, Social, and Political Sciences
Tripos, Part I
Farmery, Jessica
Lim, Lucy Gabrielle
Land Economy, Part IB
Guyon, Louisa Antonia Elisabeth
Law, Part IB
Bergamasco, Maria Lorenza
Innes, Mairi Catriona
Law, Part II
Kumar, Ashish Xiangyi
Scott, Rory Alexander Mccall
Master of Law
Creelman, Gavin Shields
Malone, Katrina Sophie
Linguistics, Part IIB
Bennett, Sarah Elizabeth
Stockwell, Richard
Mathematical Tripos, Part IA
Godawatta, Julien
Mayes, Darion
Nielsen, Marcus
Mathematical Tripos, Part IB
Barker, Antony William
Willis, Catherine Rosemary
Mathematical Tripos, Part II
Boyd, Michael Edward
Pike, Sarah Victoria
Stibbard Hawkes,
Lachlan Philip Llewellyn
Turton, Sam Edward
Master of Advanced Study Degree in
Applied Mathematics
Rouzé, Cambyse
Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Part IA
Padley, Jessica
Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Part IB
Garside, Benjamin John Elliot
Matheson, Hannah Mollie
Seah, Tiffany
Wild, Philip Hayden
Final M.B. Examination Part I, Pathology
Heywood, Richard Martyn
Final M.B. Examination Part II, Clinical
Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Heywood, Richard Martyn
Modern and Medieval Languages,
Part IA
Adjei, Ellen Julienne Adjoa
Modern and Medieval Languages,
Part IB
Myer, Walter Rupert Hordern
Modern and Medieval Languages, Part II
Evans, Imogen
Fowler, Elspeth Marinha Claire
Music, Part IA
Jones, Benjamin
Natural Sciences, Part IA
Burford, Rory Joshua
Choi, Seonghoon
Chow, Chi Fung
English, Max Atticus O’Rourke
Evans, Sian
Fernando, Anushan
Hammond, Liam James
Jenkinson, Fiona
Marshall, Richard Benjamin
Titley, Mark
Natural Sciences, Part IB
Anketell, Matthew James
Byfield, Peter John
Darragh, Kathy
Griffiths, Katharine June
Laird, Benjamin David
Nicol-Harper, Alex
Piette, Anjali Amélie Alison
Weber, James Michael
Natural Sciences, Part II: Biochemistry
Wang, Victoria Min-Yi
Natural Sciences, Part II: Chemistry
Scanes, Robert John Hoope
Natural Sciences, Part II: History and
Philosophy of Science
Kirkham, Patrick Maurice
Ramsden, Jack David
Natural Sciences, Part II: Pathology
Brayne, Adam Bamlett
Smith, Catherine Anne
Williams, Thomas George Samuel
Natural Sciences, Part II: Physics
Ader, Jacob Samuel
Lazell, Hamish William
Wood, Archie Edward Merriman
Natural Sciences, Part II: Physiology,
Development and Neuroscience
Khaira, Jaspreet Kaur
Natural Sciences, Part II: Plant Sciences
Watson, Oliver John
Natural Sciences, Part II: Psychology
Waxman, Ruth Toby
Natural Sciences, Part II: Zoology
Threadgill, Katrina Rose Domenica
Natural Sciences, Part III: Chemistry
Officer, Hannah Lindsey
Natural Sciences, Part III: Geological
Sciences
Hughes, Ery Catherine
Tweed, Lucy Emily Langran
Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III: Materials
Science
Stone, Isobel Claire
Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III: Physics
Lim, Matthew Alexander
Penney, Camilla Emily
Politics, Psychology, and Sociology,
Part IIA
Ilube, Rhianna Kemi Adesuwa Louise
Kulkarni, Priyanka
Lloyd, Lewis Alexander
Politics, Psychology, and Sociology, Part IIB
Brady, Phelim Peter James
Jitendra, Abhaya Rama
Kelly, Dominic Patrick
Theological and Religious Studies, Part IIB
Pangsrivongse, Pongsit
COLLEGE AWARDS 2013–2014
Kilby Prize
best undergraduate performance
McCrudden, KTR
Bethune Baker Prize
for Divinity
Pangsrivongse, P
Blackburne-Daniell Prize
best second-year performance
Cochrane, HJC; Downing, TAL;
Hazell, JAD; Hill, TA; Ilube, RKAL;
Lloyd, LA; Nicol-Harper, A; Prior, DCC;
Seah, T
EG Browne Prize
for Oriental Studies
Keynes, AMC
Peter de Somogyi Memorial Prize
special merit in an Arts subject
Brownlee, EC; Hudson, HW; Kumar, AX;
Pangsrivongse, P; Peres, TPC;
Stockwell, R
Hansen Prize
for outstanding first or second-year
performance in the Arts
Hill, TA
Satish Kumar Aggarwal Prize
for outstanding first-year performance in
Mathematics or Natural Sciences
Mayes, D
Crowden Award
for a distinguished contribution to
College life
Kirkham, PM; McNeill Adams, HG
Adrian Prize
for Medical and Veterinary Sciences
Seah, T
Atiyah Prize
for Part III Mathematics
Rouzé, C
Cadell Prize
for Architecture or History of Art
Norris, TG
Collins Prize
for English
Peres, TPC
Ginsberg Prize
for Classics
Hudson, HW
Ginsberg Award
for Classics
Hill, TA; Oakes, SM; Wesley-Weeks, SE
Hadley History Prize
usually for Part II of the Tripos
McCrudden, KTR
Sir William Hodge Prize
for Mathematics or Natural Sciences
Nicol-Harper, A
Hodgson Memorial Prize
for Part IIB Engineering Project
Barton, RA; Warden, S
Howard Raingold Prize
normally for Part I of the History Tripos
Innes, MJM
Joslin Prize
for Economic History
Gildea, FH
Dr Stoneley’s Prize
for Geology and Geophysics
Hughes, EC
Lancaster Prize
Henry Sumner Maine Prize
for Archaeology and Anthropology
Brownlee, EC
for Engineering
Davies, LN
Lander Prize
for History of Art
Tompkins, DK
Legg Prize
Tomkys Prize
for Social and Political Sciences
Lloyd, LA
Boyd, ME
Trebilcock Prize
for Economics
Hazell, JAD
Ann Ellen Prince Prize
for Modern Languages
Evans, I
Turner Prize
for Music
Jones, B
BM Roberts Prize
for Part III Chemistry
Officer, HL
Ubaydli Prize
for Computer Science
Edgecombe, GP
Marie Shamma’a Frost Prize
in Oriental Studies (Arabic)
King, JNE
S M Jamil Wasti Prize
for Part I English
Cochrane, HJC
Robin Shepherd Memorial Prize
for Chemistry
Scanes, RJH
Willoughby Prize
for Private Law
Innes, M
Shilling Prize
for Land Economy
Guyon, LAE
Ronald Wynn Prize
for Engineering
Jackson, AJR; Sears, LW
G C Smith Prize
For Material Sciences
Stone, IC
Ziegler Prize
for Law
Kumar, AX
for Mathematics
Dr Stevens Prize
for Natural Sciences
Penney, CE; Tweed, LEL; Wang, VM-Y;
Waxman, RT
Foundress Prizes
Ader, JS (Natural Sciences)
Back, AL (Archaeology and Anthropology)
Bardsley, OP (Engineering)
Bennett, SE (Linguistics)
Bergamasco, ML (Law)
Brady, PPJ (Politics, Psychology and
Sociology)
Byfield, PJ (Natural Sciences)
Colwill, EE (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic)
Cutler, SJ (Economics)
Darragh, K (Natural Sciences)
Downing, TAL (Engineering)
Greaves, A (English)
Huang, A (Chemical Engineering)
Ilube, RKAL (Politics, Psychology and
Sociology)
Khaira, JK (Natural Sciences)
Kulkarni, P (Politics, Psychology and
Sociology)
Lim, LG (Human, Social and Political Sciences)
Mayes, D (Mathematics)
Metcalf, EC (English)
Phillips, RJ (Engineering)
Pike, SV (Mathematics)
Prior, DCC (Engineering)
Ramsden, JD (Natural Sciences)
Ravi, N (Engineering)
Smith, CA (Natural Sciences)
Stockwell, R (Linguistics)
Tham, YP (Economics)
Threadgill, KRD (Natural Sciences)
Turton, SE (Mathematics)
Watson, OJ (Natural Sciences)
Wikeley, JB (History)
Wild, PH (Medical and Veterinary Sciences)
College Prizes
First year
Abrahams, JI (Engineering)
Adjei, EJA (Modern and Medieval Languages)
Burford, RJ (Natural Sciences)
Choi, S (Natural Sciences)
Chow, CF (Natural Sciences)
Deer, C (History)
Droogleever Fortuyn, M (Engineering)
English, MAO (Natural Sciences)
Evans, S (Natural Sciences)
Farmery, J (Human, Social and Political
Sciences)
Fernando, A (Natural Sciences)
Godawatta, J (Mathematics)
Hammond, LJ (Natural Sciences)
Hibbert, EM (English)
Howden, S (English)
Jenkinson, F (Natural Sciences)
Marshall, RB (Natural Sciences)
McGee, T (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies)
Medek, AV (Engineering)
Nielsen, M (Mathematics)
Oldham, R (English)
Padley, J (Medical and Veterinary Sciences)
Rogers, D (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic)
Roy, H (Economics)
Ryabchynskyy, K (Engineering)
Szmucer, PJ (Engineering)
Taylor, HG (English)
Titley, M (Natural Sciences)
Totz, KJ (Engineering)
Second year
Anketell, MJ (Natural Sciences)
Arshad, S (Engineering)
Barker, AW (Mathematics)
Bittlestone, MC (History)
Chorley, CM (English)
Forbes, TJ (Engineering)
Garside, BJE (Medical and Veterinary Sciences)
Griffiths, KJ (Natural Sciences)
Hudson, MS (Economics)
Laird, BD (Natural Sciences)
Lam, PH (Engineering)
Matheson, HM (Medical and Veterinary
Sciences)
McConkey, MS (English)
Myer, WRH (Modern and Medieval Languages)
Ormond, BJ (Engineering)
Piette, AAA (Natural Sciences)
Tan, JJ (Economics)
Weber, JM (Natural Sciences)
White, CR (Engineering)
Willis, CR (Mathematics)
Wong, HHN (Engineering)
Third year
Brayne, AB (Natural Sciences)
Burrow, WO (History)
Griggs, PJ (Engineering)
Hoier, TP (Chemical Engineering)
Jitendra, AR (Politics, Psychology and
Sociology)
Kaner, HF (English)
Kelly, DP (Politics, Psychology and Sociology)
Third year continued
Kirkham, PM (Natural Sciences)
Lazell, HW (Natural Sciences)
Lobo, AJ (Engineering)
Obeyesekere, DG (Engineering)
Schwarz, G (English)
Scott, RAM (Law)
Fourth year
Creelman, GS (Law)
Fowler, EMC (Modern and Medieval
Languages)
Lim, MA (Natural Sciences)
Stibbard Hawkes, LPL (Mathematics)
Temple, J (English)
Williams, TGS (Natural Sciences)
Willis, SI (Engineering)
Wojtecki, AL (Engineering)
Wood, AEM (Natural Sciences)
Malone, KS (Law)
Tapner, FJ (Engineering)
Watson, AR (Engineering)
Fifth year
Heywood, RM (Clinical Medicine)
Sixth year
Roche, AM (Clinical Veterinary Medicine)
Elected to a Foundation Scholarship
Anketell, MJ (Natural Sciences)
Arshad, S (Engineering)
Barker, AW (Mathematics)
Bennett, SE (Linguistics)
Bergamasco, ML (Law)
Bittlestone, MC (History)
Byfield, PJ (Natural Sciences)
Chorley, CM (English)
Cochrane, HJC (English)
Colwill, EE (Anglo-Saxon,Norse and Celtic)
Darragh, K (Natural Sciences)
Downing, TAL (Engineering)
Forbes, TJ (Engineering)
Garside, BJE (Medical and Veterinary Sciences)
Griffiths, KJ (Natural Sciences)
Guyon, LAE (Land Economy)
Hazell, JAD (Economics)
Hill, TA (Classics)
Hudson, MS (Economics)
Ilube, RKAL (Politics, Psychology and
Sociology)
Innes, MC (Law)
Innes, MJM (History)
Kulkarni, P (Politics, Psychology and
Sociology)
Laird, BD (Natural Sciences)
Lam, PH (Engineering)
Lloyd, LA (Politics, Psychology and Sociology)
Lobo, AJ (Engineering)
Matheson, HM (Medical and Veterinary
Sciences)
McConkey, MS (English)
Metcalf, EC (English)
Myer, WRH (Modern and Medieval Languages)
Nicol-Harper, A (Natural Sciences)
Ormond, BJ (Engineering)
Piette, AAA (Natural Sciences)
Prior, DCC (Engineering)
Seah, T (Medical and Veterinary Sciences)
Stibbard Hawkes, LPL (Mathematics)
Tan, JJ (Economics)
Watson, OJ (Natural Sciences)
Weber, JM (Natural Sciences)
White, CR (Engineering)
Wild, PH (Medical and Veterinary Sciences)
Willis, CR (Mathematics)
Willis, SI (Engineering)
Wojtecki, AL (Engineering)
Wong, HHN (Engineering)
Foundation Scholarships continuing
Ader, JS (Natural Sciences)
Aitchison, L (Modern and Medieval
Languages)
Bardsley, OP (Engineering)
Boyd, ME (Mathematics)
Cymes, T (Clinical Medicine)
Fitch-Bunce, JB (Modern and Medieval
Languages)
Flesher, JD (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
Gradel, A (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
Griggs, PJ (Engineering)
Hoier, TP (Chemical Engineering)
Huang, A (Chemical Engineering)
Ireland, AT (Natural Sciences)
Lazell, HW (Natural Sciences)
Liu, S (Engineering)
Obeyesekere, DG (Engineering)
Pike, SV (Mathematics)
Ramsden, CM (Clinical Medicine)
Scanes, RJH (Natural Sciences)
Sears, LW (Engineering)
Sivananthan, SH (Engineering)
Turton, SE (Mathematics)
Wang, VM-Y (Natural Sciences)
White, MW (Engineering)
Wood, AEM (Natural Sciences)
Retrospective awards to Commoners
Back, AL (Archaeology and Anthropology)
Brady, PPJ (Politics, Psychology and Sociology)
Brayne, AB (Natural Sciences)
Evans, I (Modern and Medieval Languages)
Fowler, EMC (Modern and Medieval
Languages)
Hughes, EC (Natural Sciences)
Jitendra, AR (Politics, Psychology and
Sociology)
Kaner, HF (English)
King, JNE (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies)
Kirkham, PM (Natural Sciences)
Malone, KS (Law)
McCrudden, KTR (History)
Oakes, SM (Classics)
Ramsden, JD (Natural Sciences)
Rouzé, C (Mathematics)
Schwarz, G (English)
Stone, IC (Natural Sciences)
Threadgill, KRD (Natural Sciences)
Waxman, RT (Natural Sciences)
Wesley-Weeks, SE (Classics)
Wikeley, JB (History)
Foundation Awards
Kumar, AX (Law)
Lim, MA (Natural Sciences)
Mellor, NS (Veterinary Medicine)
Officer, HL (Natural Sciences)
Penney, CE (Natural Sciences)
Pangsrivongse, P (Theology)
Stockwell, R (Linguistics)
Williams, TGS (Clinical Medicine)
Foundation Awards continuing
Ashmore, JL (English)
Harvey, JE (Mathematics)
Howe, EK (Natural Sciences)
Ievins, AMAN (English)
Little, CE (Clinical Medicine)
Ross, IFW (Veterinary Medicine)
Thompson, RP (Natural Sciences)
Walker, MI (Engineering)
Willis, JCW (Natural Sciences)
College Scholarships
Abrahams, JI (Engineering)
Adjei, EJA (Modern and Medieval Languages)
Burford, RJ (Natural Sciences)
Choi, S (Natural Sciences)
Chow, CF (Natural Sciences)
Cutler, SJ (Economics)
Davies, LN (Engineering)
Deer, C (History)
Droogleever Fortuyn, M (Engineering)
English, MAO (Natural Sciences)
Evans, S (Natural Sciences)
Farmery, J (Human, Social and Political
Sciences)
Fernando, A (Natural Sciences)
Godawatta, J (Mathematics)
Hammond, LJ (Natural Sciences)
Hibbert, EM (English)
Howden, S (English)
Hudson, HW (Classics)
Jenkinson, F (Natural Sciences)
Jones, B (Music)
Lim, LG (Human, Social and Political Sciences)
Marshall, RB (Natural Sciences
Mayes, D (Mathematics)
McGee, T (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies)
Medek, AV (Engineering)
Nielsen, M (Mathematics)
Oldham, R (English)
Padley, J (Medical and Veterinary Sciences)
Phillips, RJ (Engineering)
Rogers, D (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic)
Roy, H (Economics)
Ryabchynskyy, K (Engineering)
Szmucer, PJ (Engineering)
Taylor, HG (English)
Tham, YP (Economics)
Titley, M (Natural Sciences)
Tompkins, DJK (History of Art)
Totz, KJ (Engineering)
Searle Reading Prize
Lyons, AI
Derek Rose Memorial Studentship
McGee, T
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett Prize
for creative writing
Power, PRA
Nicholas Powell Travel Bursary
King, JA
Peter Clarke Science Writing Prize
Danson, AF
Christine Hansen Music Travel
Scholarship
Maynaud, YJ
Kenderdine Organ Scholarship
Hill, TA
Peter Ringrose Africa Travel Scholarships
Hammond, LJ
Graham Maw Organ Scholarship
Parkinson, RJ
Jack Lander Travel Scholarships
Oldham, R
Idle Scholarship
King, JNE
Peter May Award
for Tripos and University sports
Fowler, EMC; Lloyd, LA; Ormond, BJ;
Ravi, N; Willis, SI
Monica Partridge Award
Balkan Studies
Colfer, B
Keith Sykes Awards
Chapman, CAS
Blues Awards
Ginsberg Awards For a Blue
Kent, F (Football)
Khan, I (Cricket)
Kondratowicz, M (Lawn Tennis)
Ormond, B (Sailing)
For a Half Blue
Hall, C (Lightweight Rowing)
Hanspal, M (Cricket – 2012/13)
Hengeveld, A C (Women’s Volleyball)
Khan, I (Cricket – 2012/13)
Ravi, N (Cricket)
Willis, S (Equestrian)
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS 2013–2014
The following named scholarships and awards were made for the academic year 2013–2014:
Arabic & Islamic Studies (E G Browne Fund)
Shiva Mihan (PhD in Asian & Middle Eastern Studies) from Alzahra University (Iran).
Boustany Scholarship in Astronomy
Harley Katz (PhD in Astronomy) from the University of Maryland.
Keith Sykes Studentship in Medieval Italian Literature
Katherine Powlesland (PhD in MML: Italian) from Newnham College, Cambridge.
Lander Studentship in the History of Art
Taylor McCall (PhD in History of Art) from the Courtauld Institute.
Monica Partridge studentship
Elena Ilioi (PhD in Psychology) already a member of Pembroke College.
Nahum Graduate studentship in Physics
Florian Schroeder (PhD in Physics) already a member of Pembroke College.
The College part-funded two University studentships
Till Karmann (PhD in Politics & International Studies) was awarded a CHESS studentship
Myfanwy Wood (LLM) was awarded the Davis McCaughey Australian Scholarship.
The College also made significant ad hominem awards from various funds:
Pembroke College fund for MPhil study or equivalent study
Joseph Ashmore (MPhil in Medieval & Renaissance Literature) already a member of
Pembroke College.
Tom Foxall (MPhil in Classics) already a member of Pembroke College.
Max Jamilly (MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise) already a member of Pembroke College.
Sadia Shafquat (MPhil in Education) already a member of Pembroke College.
William Snowden (MPhil in Classics) already a member of Pembroke College.
Cassie Tickell Painter (MPhil in Economics & Social History) already a member of
Pembroke College.
Laura Fawcett (MPhil in Theology & Religious Studies) from Fitzwilliam College.
and from the Ziegler fund:
Gavin Creelman (LLM) already a member of Pembroke College.
Julia Schulman (LLM) already a member of Pembroke College.
Pembroke Research Funds
Emily Groves (PhD in Medicine) already a member of Pembroke College.
Courtney Landers (PhD in Pathology) from the Australian National University.
Mark Nelson (PhD in Engineering) already a member of Pembroke College.
Elena Pinnen (PhD in MML: Italian) from the Universita degli Studi di Bologna.
Tillman Taape (PhD in the History & Philosophy of Science) from Clare College,
Cambridge.
HIGHER DEGREES CONFERRED
PhD
Abdulla, F Y A A, European Union Policies and Socioeconomic Development in the Southern
Mediterranean
Adkins, I H, Sound, Space and Christological Self-Giving (with special reference to William Vanstone,
Sarah Coakley, Rowan Williams and Donald MacKinnon)
Bartonicek, N, Computational Studies on the Biogenesis and Function of Small Non-Coding RNAs
Benesh, M J, Charge Transport Dynamics of Surface Acoustic Waves in a GaAs/A1GaAs 2DEG
Black, P M, Genetics education, science-talk and dialogic pedagogy: Developing 14- to 16-year-olds’
school science concept of genetics and inheritance, in the context of human health and disease
Camozzi Pistoja, A, Dante and the Medieval Alexander
Chan, T S, Development of quantitative fluorescence microscopy techniques for the study of protein
amyloids
Collins, B S L, New Catalytic Methods and Strategies for Chemical Synthesis
Conroy, R T, Ecological Modernization, Environmental Governance and Transformations in the UK’s
Waste System
Deacon, W J, Quantification of cell and tissue behaviours during morphogenesis
Echtermeyer T J, Graphene Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics
Ferrari, A C, Moving into Space: the Art of Henri Laurens (1885–1954)
Firestone, E, Seeming Probable: Cognitive Approaches to the Improbable in Shakespeare
Fowler, C J, Identification of a ciliary defect associated with pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial
disease
Guerry, E D, The wall paintings of the Sainte-Chapelle
Hiller, B T, Sustainability Dynamics of Large-Scale Integrated Ecosystem Rehabilitation and Poverty
Reduction Projects
Johnson, J A, Chilungamo? In Search of Gender Justice in Matrilineal Malawi
Kim, D-J D, The Political Economy of Trade and Development in the Multilateral Trading System: the
World Trade Organisation’s Aid for Trade Agenda
Kimbriel, S C, Friendship as Sacred Knowing
Lee, J, The Regulation of Fas Ligand Trafficking in Human Lymphocytes
Lombardo, A, Graphene nanoelectronics and optoelectronics
Mahbubani, K T A, Vehicles for the Oral Delivery of Live Bacteria
Mardilovich, G, Printmaking in Late Imperial Russia
McDonald, K L, Language Contact in South Oscan Epigraphy
Msibi, T P, “We are what you think we are not”: a study of black South African male teachers who
engage in same-sex relations
Murray, M J, The role of microRNAs in paediatric malignant germ cell tumours
Obaid, D R, Coronary atherosclerotic plaque imaging
Page, G W, Risks, Needs and Emotional Rewards: Complexity and Crisis in the Drug Interventions
Programme
Pawelec, K M, Tailoring Ice-Templated Scaffold Structures for Biomedical Tissue Repair
Pitt Ford, C W, Unsteady Aerodynamic Forces on Accelerating Wings at Low Reynolds Numbers
Plumb, J A, Targeting Coenzyme A Biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using a fragment-based
approach
Popa, D, Ultrafast fibre lasers mode-locked by carbon nanotubes and graphene
Powell, G, A critique of the ecclesiology, missiology and sociology of the Mission-shaped Church report
Sobers, A H, Slaves without shackles: forced labour and manumission in the Galata court registers,
1560–1572
Stubbs, T M C, The plantation overseers of eighteenth-century Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia
Szlachta, W J, First principles interatomic potential for tungsten based on Gaussian process regression
Torrisi, F, Nanomaterials-based dispersions, inks and composites for flexible electronics and photonics
Wivel, M, Colour in Line – Titian and Printmaking
Master of Law
Creelman, G S
Malone, K S
Schulman, J L
Wood, M C E
MPhil
Armstrong, L, Modern European History
Arnold, R D, International Relations
Boreham, J W, Economics
Burns, D I, International Relations
Cabrero Vilatela, A, Micro- and
Nanotechnology
Dalgleish, E C, Russian Studies
Evans, F M M, English Studies: Modern and
Contemporary Literature
Fleming, A J, Management
Frecknall, J C, Early Modern History
Gage, S G, Architecture
Gammell, C P W, Middle Eastern and Islamic
Studies
Goodhead, R J, Economics
Groves, E L, Clinical Science
Hoyos, T, Innovation, Strategy and
Organisation
Ilioi, E C, Public Health
Kim, J M J, Innovation, Strategy and
Organisation
Kroon, A, Development Studies
Lai, L, Modern Society & Global
Transformations
Mansfield, T H, Medieval History
Masciandaro, M J, Political Thought &
Intellectual History
Matthews, H R, Biological Science
(Biochemistry)
Mohr, P T M, Engineering for Sustainable
Development
Morrissey, P D, Politics
Nelson, M W, Nuclear Energy
Pelletier, J F, Physics
Pickworth, F I, Classics
Plastina, M C, Modern European History
Qiu, C, Economic Research
Robertson, N F, European Literature
Runyon, R S, Biological Science (Pharmacology)
Schriever, A R, Theology and Religious Studies
Straus, M I, Early Modern History
Walsh, A M, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Wang, A A, International Relations
Webb, R C M, Social Anthropology
Weidenfeld, C D, European Literature
Wilson, G P, Energy Technologies
MMast
Emerson, K J, Pure Mathematics
Reuvers, R J P, Applied Mathematics
(see p 106 2013 issue)
Schmitz, FR, Applied Mathematics
(see p 106 2013 issue)
Schroeder, F A Y N, Experimental and
Theoretical Physics (see p 107 2013 issue)
MEng
Barton, R A
Bush, A A
Chai, A S L
Cowan, R M
Elsby, R A
Foster, J E
Gold, I S E
Jackson, A J R
Mas, J A
Ravi, N
Rew, O G
Tapner, F J
Tawney, J J A
Vickery, A J
Vincent, C M
Warden, S
Watson, A R
Schoenberg, M O
Chang, J M
Dilov, D
Faye, R
Laniel, S
Parodi-Huml, L
van Niekerk, A
Zherdeva, O
Lim, M A
Officer, H L
Penney, C E
Robinson, A C
Selvackadunco, A
Stone, I C
Tweed, L E L
Monk, E J M
Winder-Rhodes, S
King, J A
Savage, J H
MBA
Khubchandani, R
Executive MBA
Abbs, I C
Antonova, Daria
Cervantes, E
del Bigio, P V P
MSci
Bankes, E T
Cole, N L
Hughes, E C
Lightwood, R A
MB
Anderson-Witty, R C
BChir
Breslin, R C
Bruton, E C
Vet MB
Roche, A M
Sanders-Hewett, F A
D. THE PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY
William Pitt (1759–1806), Prime Minister
by George Henry Harlow
MEMBERS’ NEWS
1943 Sydney Afriat’s The Index Number Problem: Construction Theorems was
published by Oxford University Press.
1944 Timothy Dudley-Smith’s A Mirror to the Soul: 30 Contemporary Hymns Based
on Psalms was published.
John Loft’s translation, The Mirror of Falconry by Pierre Harmont and the
Falconry of Francois Sainte Aulaire, was published.
1952 Hillary Don’s Across the Pacific Ocean with Paddle Steamship: China was
published by Belvedere.
1955 Sandy Holt-Wilson was awarded an OBE for raising the standard of eye
care in Ethiopia.
1956 Michael Counsell’s She Was the First Apostle: Mary Magdalene Tells Her Story
was published by Createspace Print. The latest, 2015, edition of his The
Canterbury Preacher’s Companion was published by Canterbury Press.
Tom Rosenthal’s On Art and Artists: Selected Essays was published by
Unicorn Press.
1958 Bernard Adams’s translation of Andras Kepes’ The Inflatable Buddha was
published by Armadillo Central, and his translation of Márton
Csombor’s Europica Varietas was published by Corvina Press.
David Clark’s Russia Through the Looking Glass was published.
Andrew Parkin’s novel Private Dancers or Responsible Women was published
by Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co.
Cedric Watts’ Shakespeare Puzzles was published by Publish Nation, and his
Final Exam: A Novel (by ‘Peter Green’) was also published.
1959 Christopher Andreae’s biography of Joan Eardley was published by Lund
Humphries.
1960 Ian Binnie was made a Companion of the Order of Canada (in 2012) for
his contribution in the legal profession and his commitment to legal
education and the rule of law.
1961 Richard Berengarten (aka Burns) was elected a Fellow of the English
Association. He was also made an honorary citizen of Kragujevac, Serbia,
in recognition of his book of poems The Blue Butterfly. His new book of
poetry (Manual: Selected Writings 6) and two new chapbooks (Imagems 1 and
a translation of Twelve Poems by the Croatian poet Tin Ujević) were
published by Shearsman Books, Bristol. A Chinese translation of part of
his poem ‘Tree’ by Wang Ying appeared in the Chinese People’s Daily on
November 5, 2013: the first time that the work of a non-Chinese poet has
been published in this journal.
John Nicholas’ Main Line to the West: The Southern Railway Route between
Basingstoke and Exeter – Part 4 was published by Irwell Press Ltd.
1962 Peter Taylor was the recipient of the Royal Television Society’s 2014
Lifetime Achievement Award for Television Journalism, in recognition
of his programmes on Northern Ireland, South Africa, the Brighton
Bomb, the decision to invade Iraq, and Al Qaeda.
1963 Richard Kellaway was elected Mayor of Windsor and Maidenhead.
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
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1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1978
1979
1983
1984
1985
1987
1988
Paul Skinner was awarded a CBE for Services to Business and
Infrastructure.
Anthony Campbell was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales,
and to the Council of the Linnean Society.
Starling Lawrence’s novel The Thief of Words was published by Quantuck
Lane Press.
Richard Mead’s The Last Great Cavalryman – The Life of General Sir Richard
McCreery was published by Pen & Sword.
Richard Slater’s book of photographs People in London – One Photographer,
Five Years, The Life of a City was published by Elliott & Thompson.
Andrew Swanston’s The King’s Exile, the second volume in his Thomas Hill
Trilogy, was published by Corgi.
Peter Fitzpatrick’s dual biography The Two Frank Thrings was published by
Monash University Publishing, and won the 2013 Australian National
Biography Award.
The second edition of Men and Masculinities in Europe, co-edited by Keith
Pringle, was published by Whiting & Birch.
Sam Blyth was awarded the National Order of Merit (Gold) by the King
of Bhutan for his services to education.
David Prior was appointed Chairman of the Care Quality Commission.
Rajeshkumar Thakker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
David West’s Social Movements in Global Politics was published by Polity.
Rupert Booth was awarded an MA (with Distinction) in Economics for
Competition Law by King’s College, London.
Richard Jacobs was appointed co-head of Essex Court Chambers.
Simon Donaldson was one of the five winners of the 2014 Breakthrough
Prizes in Mathematics, a new award designed to recognise major advances
in the field of mathematics. Simon Donaldson’s prize was awarded for
his work on invariants of 4-dimensional manifolds and for the study of
the relation between stability in algebraic geometry and in global
differential geometry.
The book of Martin Rowson’s exhibition (in April 2014 at the Dylan
Thomas Boathouse, Laugharne) Dylan’s Progress: A Centenary Entertainment
was published.
Patrick Derham co-edited Cultural Olympians: Rugby School’s Intellectual and
Spiritual Leaders, published by University of Buckingham Press.
George Courtauld’s England’s Best Loved Poems: The Enchantment of England
was published by Ebury Press.
Raymond Nasr was appointed as a Lecturer in Management at the
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, California.
Ian Collins was appointed to a personal chair in Medicinal Chemistry at
the Institute for Cancer Research, University of London.
Andy Farrell’s The 100 Greatest Ever Golfers was published by Elliott &
Thompson.
James Wood’s collection of poems, The Anvil’s Prayer, was published by
Ward Wood Publishing.
1989 Richard Penty was appointed Master of Sidney Sussex College.
1990 Daniel Rosenthal’s The National Theatre Story was published by Oberon
Books.
1992 Mark Ellwood’s Bargain Fever: How to Shop in a Discounted World was
published by Portfolio Penguin.
1996 Ray Newman and Jess Slack (1997)’s Brew Britannia: The Strange Rebirth of
British Beer was published by Aurum Press Ltd, under the noms de plume
Jessica Boak and Ray Bailey.
1997 Jess Slack co-authored Brew Britannia with Ray Newman (1996): see above
for details.
1999 Tristan Stubbs won the 2013 Hines Prize for the best first book relating
to any aspect of the Carolina Lowcountry and/or the Atlantic World. The
book which won him the prize – The Plantation Overseers of EighteenthCentury Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia – will be published by the
University of South Carolina Press in their Carolina Lowcountry and
Atlantic World series.
2002 Miranda Stearn co-edited a book on Challenging History in the Museum:
International Perspectives, published by Ashgate.
2003 Matthew Wilburn King contributed a chapter on ‘Environmental
governance and peacebuilding in post-conflict Central America’ to a
book on Governance, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
published by Earthscan.
2004 Kate Epstein’s Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United
States and Great Britain was published by the Harvard University Press.
2007 Fred Rowson was awarded the London Shorts short film award at the
2013 London Film Festival.
2008 Daniel Popa was appointed as a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College,
Cambridge.
2010 Phin Adams won bronze in the category ‘Speech Radio Personality of the
Year’ at the Radio Academy Awards, for his weekly radio show ‘Phil’s
Barmy Bunch’ on Cam FM.
Emma Jones co-edited a book on Carvings, Casts and Collectors: The Art of
Renaissance Sculpture, published by the Victoria and Albert Museum.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY
AGENDA FOR THE 2014 AGM
Thursday 20 November; The Drapers’ Hall, London; drinks at 7.00 pm, dinner
at 7.30 pm
Nominations for 2014–2015
President: Mrs C F Holmes
Vice-Presidents: J G P Crowden, Lord Prior, Sir Roger Tomkys, H P Raingold
Secretary: M R Mellor
Treasurer: A Cates
Editor of Gazette: N J McBride
Secretary of London Dinner: A S Ivison
Secretary of Scottish Dinner: R M B Brown
Secretary of South Western Dinner: A B Elgood
Secretary of Northern Dinner: D R Sneath
Committee to 2015: C B Hall, R J A van den Bergh, C R Ottey, A M Lloyd-Williams,
E J Williamson, S E Ruthven
Committee to 2016: J W S Macdonald, R K Perkin, A G Singleton, E C S Price,
T C Young, J A Bashford
Committee to 2017: F C Simeons, N P H Meier, C A Haddon-Cave, M P Dunfoy,
J M Ginsberg, C E Macallan
MINUTES OF THE 2013 AGM
Thursday 14 November; The Drapers’ Hall, London; drinks at 7.00 pm, dinner
at 7.30 pm
Nominations for 2013–2014
President: The Master
Vice-Presidents: J G P Crowden, Lord Prior, Sir Roger Tomkys, H P Raingold
Chairman of Committee: Mrs J E Morley
Secretary: M R Mellor
Treasurer: A Cates
Editor of Gazette: N J McBride
Secretary of London Dinner: A S Ivison
Secretary of Scottish Dinner: R M B Brown
Secretary of South Western Dinner: A B Elgood
Secretary of Northern Dinner: D R Sneath
Committee to 2014: A E Palmer, J B Meyer, R B Tregoning, A J Sheach,
R M V Blaney, E K Lee
Committee to 2015: C B Hall, R J A van den Bergh, C R Ottey, A M Lloyd-Williams,
E J Williamson, S E Ruthven
Committee to 2016: J W S Macdonald, R K Perkin, A G Singleton, E C S Price,
T C Young, J A Bashford
DINNERS AND RECEPTIONS
Pembroke College Cambridge Society London Dinner
The 87th annual dinner of the Society was held at the Drapers’ Hall on the evening
of Thursday 14 November 2013. The Toast to the College was proposed by
Mr Noel Manns FRICS (1977), President of PCCS, and the response was given by
Professor Jan Maciejowski, President of the College.
PRESENT
1945
1953
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1964
1966
1967
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
The Master
Dr R A Kaner M Litt
DPhil
Mr I D Crane
Mr G S Pink
Mr D N Howard
Mr C M Fenwick
Dr C B Hall
Mr J W S Macdonald
Mr F C Simeons
Mr J H Jones
Mr M G Kuczynski
Mr G K Toland
Mr C Barham Carter
Mr J A H Chadwick
Mr P A O’Leary
Mr C D D Woon
Dr J C D Hickson
Mr J V P Drury
Mr R B Tregoning
Mr W P Merrick
Mr T J Barwood
Mr J A C Drake
Mr D A Walter
Mr H R Jacobs
Mr J J P Lincoln
Dr N C A Bradley
Professor A N
Cormack
Mr D E Dickson
Mr D M Edwards
Mr O Heald QC MP
S J Machin Esq
Mr M A Smyth
Sir Charles HaddonCave
Mr A S Ivison
Mr P R Pentecost
1975
1976
1977
1978
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
Professor R V
Thakker FRS
Mr C Comninos
Mr S F Glanvill
Mr S J Shotton
Mr N H Denning
Mr A M LloydWilliams
Mr M A Anderson
Mr R J Bampfield
Mr N A Cadwallader
Mr P N Earle
Mr R J Edwards
Mr A J Fryza FCIB
Mr P S Kirkby
Mr M S Lavelle
Professor J M
Maciejowski
Mr N G H Manns
Mr D J Morum
Mr C J F Silcock
Mr J A Wilson QC
Revd Father J C
Finnemore
Mr D E Knox
Mr M Russell-Jones
Mr A Bateman
Mr N M Heilpern
Mr J D R Howard
Mr P B Kempe
Mr C R Kingdon
Dr P Campbell
Mr D M Holland QC
Mr S E Lugg
Mr A J Sheach
Mr A M Fox
Dr A G Miller
Mr S J Hilton
1985
1986
1987
1994
1995
1997
1999
2000
2001
Mrs C F Holmes
Dr J E Morley
Mr R O H Morley
Mr G B M H du Parc
Braham
Mr M L Bicknell
Mrs J Bonner
Mrs S A Davies
Mrs O F M du Parc
Braham
Mr A H GillespieSmith
Mrs H C GillespieSmith
Mr N L L James
Mrs R S James
Mr J P Johnstone
Mr R D R Stark
Mr D L Taylor
Mr C J T Woolley
Mr H T Baker
Mr N A Pink
Mr N F Regan
Miss C M Thomé
Dr A J Bennett
Mr H P Raingold
Mr A L B Neame
Dr S C Tomkins
Mr N J McBride
Mr T C Young
Mr J A Buckley
Dr J Lapinski
Dr P M McCormack
Mr A W Morris
ARAM
Mrs R F Wilkins
Mr E P R Orr
Mr P G Wilkins
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Mr O G Lockwood
Mr D M Matanhelia
Mr A D N Robson
Dr D R Shouler
Mr W E J Bakewell
Mrs I J D Clarke
Mr O J Clarke
Mr R J Swan
Miss H G A Bill
Dr R C D Blevins
Dr T M Funnell
Miss C N Kissin
Miss S C Lambie
Dr S C Picot
Mr A J Smith
Dr J P Sturgeon
Mr M S Williams
Miss H E Burt
Mr M A Copestake
Miss N K Jacobs
2007
Mrs A C Swan
2008
Miss H S Baker
Miss E D Burns
Miss K B Cooke
Mr P D Dewhurst
Miss O M C Dobell
Dr J T D Gardom
Miss M K Keyworth
Miss K J Leake
Miss J H Lowes
Mr A P McKee
Mr M R Mellor
Miss O J O’Sullivan
Mr W E Pinkney
Mrs F J Potts
Miss S E Ruthven
Mr J M Sengendo
Mr J M Sharp
Mr J C S Tan
Miss E Thornhill
Mr G B Towers
Mr M D McLean
Miss C K Cooke
Mr M E Hoyt
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Mr T A Michaelis
Miss A Shyy
Miss A M Fulwood
Miss E C Morgan
Miss K E Nicholson
Mrs A Petreanu
Miss E C Hughes
Dr I Karimi
Mr S Warden
Mr W O Burrow
Miss E Fairhurst
Mr J I Hirschowitz
Mr H Lazell
Mr H G McNeill
Adams
Mr R Sanders
Miss K Y H Cheng
Mr P I McMullen
Dr A T Cates
Mr E R G Button
Ms S A March
Miss N Morris
The 88th annual dinner of the Society will be held at the Drapers’ Hall on the
evening of Thursday 20 November 2014. The Toast to the College will be
proposed by Sir Charles Haddon-Cave (1974), and the response by the Master, Sir
Richard Dearlove KCMG OBE, President of PCCS.
Scottish Dinner
The 63rd Annual Dinner in Scotland was held at the New Club on Friday
8 November 2013. The College Representative was the Master, Sir Richard
Dearlove KCMG OBE.
PRESENT
1945
1950
1954
1955
1956
1957
The Master and
Lady Dearlove
Mr P B Mackenzie
Ross
Mr A Gilchrist OBE
Mr A H Trevor
Mr C Beadle
Mr C Gilbraith
Mr K A MacKinnon
CVO
Professor J A A
Hunter OBE
1959
1961
1964
1965
1966
1967
Dr S Crampin
Mr H A CrichtonMiller
Dr D B Taylor
Mr P L Dix
Professor H R Kirby
Mr D M Grant
Mr N M Bachop
Mr I M Tait
Mr J N Wright QC
Dr D MacIntyre
1970
1979
1981
1984
1986
1988
1989
1995
1997
Mr W Roxburgh MA
FRICS
Mr D A Walter
Mr J W S Macfie
Dr I M McClure
Mr A J Clarkson
Dr B A Cuthbert
Mr A Kennedy
Professor A J McNeil
Mr R M B Brown
Mr A W Barklie
Mr D I Forrester
1998
Dr A F Bell
Mr T A C Record
2009
Dr C Burt
Miss N Morris
Robbie Brown (1989) has arranged to hold the 64th Annual Dinner in Scotland at
the New Club on Friday 7 November 2014. The College Representative will be the
Master, Sir Richard Dearlove KCMG OBE, President of PCCS.
Northern Dinner
The PCCS Northern Dinner was held at the Leeds Club, Leeds, on Friday 28 March
2014. The College representative was Ms Sally March from the Development
Office.
PRESENT
1952
1953
1964
1966
Dr D Blackburn and 1966
Miss E M
Whettlock (2012) 1966
Mr H Howard and
Ms H Whittaker
Mr P D Ogden
1966
Mr J V P Drury &
Mrs C E C Drury
Mr D A Salter &
1980
Mrs A R Salter
Mr D R Sneath TD
DL &
Mrs C Sneath
Mr R B Tregoning &
Mrs G M C
Tregoning
Professor D P
Newton &
Mrs X Liu
Mrs J C Margretts
(widow of Mr G F
Margretts (1961))
Ms S A March
It is intended that the next Northern Dinner will be held in Spring 2016. If you
would like to record your interest, or recommend a venue, please contact David
Franks in the Development Office ([email protected]).
South Western Dinner
The 13th Annual South Western Dinner was held at the Clifton Club on the
evening of Friday 1 November 2013. The College representative was Mr Nick
McBride, Director of Studies in Law and Editor of the Gazette.
PRESENT
1957
1961
1962
1964
1966
Professor Sir John
Kingman FRS &
Lady Kingman
Mr R H Jarratt &
Mrs S E Jarratt
Mr R C Sommers
Mr J D Midgley &
Mrs J A Midgley
Mr N A Rogers
1970
1971
1972
Professor A D
Buckingham CBE 1978
FRS &
Mrs J Buckingham
Mr J K Pritchard & 1980
Mrs K M Pritchard
Mr F G D Montagu & 1983
Mrs O Montagu 1984
Mr A B Elgood
Dr J W Lumley
Dr S N Kukureka
Professor J H Tobias
& Mrs I Tobias
Professor V K
Aggarwal FRS
Dr M V Kyle
Mr J C Garner &
Ms N Feaver
1985
1989
Dr S V Griffin &
1991
Mr D P Griffin
1997
Mrs E C Neill &
Mr S D Neill (1989)
Dr J R D Murray
Mr N J McBride
2001
Miss A V J Midgley
Ms S A March
Tony Elgood (1972) has arranged to hold the 14th Annual South Western Dinner
at the Clifton Club on the evening of Friday 7 November 2014. The College
representative will be Professor Mike Payne FRS.
Paris Dinner
The inaugural meeting of PCCS Paris Society met for drinks and dinner at the Les
Philosophes, 28 rue Vieille du Temple, Marais, Paris, on Wednesday 2 April 2014,
organised by Professor Andrew Parkin (1958).
PRESENT
1957
1958
1961
Mr J Altman
Professor A T L
Parkin &
Mrs F Parkin
Mr C P Sparks &
Mrs B Sparks
Mr C R Vanier &
guest
1977
1989
1997
2002
Professor J M
Maciejowski &
Mrs M
Maciejowski
2004
Miss J Kirby
2007
Mr T C Young
2011
Mr D P Mascarenhas
Dr J J-M RandonFurling
Dr D Yang
Mr M R Nowlis
Miss K E A Poston
Miss G Butterworth
San Francisco Dinner
A San Francisco dinner was held at the University Club of San Francisco,
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, on Tuesday 14 January 2014, organised by Mr Peter Cleary (1969)
and Mr Raymond Nasr (1984). The College representative was Sir Richard
Dearlove, Master of the College.
PRESENT
1952
1959
1969
1975
Dr H F Don &
Mrs J Don
Mr D P Robinson & 1976
Mrs E Robinson
Mr P G Cleary &
Mrs P Cleary
1980
Mr H S Simon
1981
Dr A J Wilkes &
1983
Mrs M Wilkes
Mr P C M
1984
Thornycroft &
1989
Mrs A Thornycroft
Mr R P Douglass & 1991
Mrs S Douglass
Mr J W Montgomery 1993
Mr M P Bridges &
Ms J Thirasilpa
Mr R G Nasr
Mr J S Kirk &
Mrs J Kirk
Mr A G Ioannou &
Ms V Imbeni
Dr S W P James
2003
Miss K Lange &
Mr B Rhoan
2004
Sir Richard Dearlove
KCMG OBE
Mr M F Ferraro
Mr M Kaufmann
Toronto Dinner
A Toronto dinner was held at the National Club, 303 Bay Street, Toronto, on
Wednesday 4 December 2013, organised by Dr Arnie Guha (1994).
PRESENT
1959
1972
1977
Mr J A McMyn FCA 1988
& Mrs J McMyn 1994
Mr G D Blyth
2007
Mr D J Morum
Mr J W Wood
Dr A Guha
Dr G Csanyi
2008
2009
Mr S P X Lynch &
Ms J Kent
Dr C Burt
Tokyo Dinner
A PCCS Japan dinner was held at Washoken Marunouchioazo, 5F, 1-6-4,
Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, on Tuesday 24 September 2013, organised by
Mr Peter Itoh (1966) and Mr John Sunley (1973).
PRESENT
1959
1960
1966
1973
1980
1982
Mr M G Kuczynski
Mr T Kazuhara
Mr T P Itoh
Mr J A Sunley
Mr M R Gilchrist
Mr K Nishizaki
1985
1990
1993
1994
1996
Mr C M F Viner
1998 Miss K Kodama
Professor A Utsugi
Mrs M TateishiMr T Ueda
Inoue
Dr A Mabuchi
Mr N E J Weindling Mr Y Kawamura
Professor N Itoh
Mrs S Saito
Hong Kong Dinner
A Hong Kong dinner was held at the Hong Kong Club, 1 Jackson Road, Central,
on Saturday 30 November 2013 and organised by The Hon Peter Wong GBS
OBE (1962).
PRESENT
1962
1964
1970
The Hon Peter Wong 1979
GBS OBE &
1985
Mrs W Wong
1994
Dr J C D Hickson
Mr J R James
Mr J K S Foo
Mr P Tao
Mr B P H Li
Mr M K-T Mok
1996
2004
Mr C I-J Tsai &
Mrs C Tsai
Miss H Y B Law
Mr H A T-T Kam
Photo: The Hon Peter Wong
Attendees from left to right: Paul Tao, Bianca Law, Martin Mok,
Wendy Wong, Peter Wong, James Hickson, Jim James, Ben Li,
Catherine Tsai, Charles Tsai, Jacky Foo, Hugh Kam
LOCAL CONTACTS
Australia
Dr M J Llewellyn-Smith (1962)
27 Kate Court, Adelaide SA 5000
Email:
michael.llewellyn.smith.1962@
pem.cam.ac.uk
Mob: +86 1380 1358 781
China office: +86 10 84868099
US office: +1 570 506 9850
Germany
Mr K M M Bosch (2009)
Email:
[email protected]
Mr A G Shelton (1976)
Level 2, 88 Collins St
Melbourne VIC 3142
Hong Kong
Email:
The Hon Peter Wong GBS OBE (1962)
[email protected] Flat 1D, Ewan Court
54 Kennedy Road
Mr A J R Barker (1994)
Email:
35 Harcourt Street
[email protected]
Hawthorn East VIC 3123
Email:
Japan
[email protected]
Mr T P Itoh (1966)
Miss L J Sproston (1995) (Sydney)
Aozora Securities Co Ltd
Email:
Shiroyama Trust Tower 36th Floor
[email protected]
4-3-1 Toranomon
Mr R E Shadforth (1996) (Sydney)
Minato-ku
Email:
Tokyo 105-6063
[email protected] Tel: + 81 3 5425 3511
Fax: + 81 3 5425 3512
Canada
Mr J A Sunley (1973)
Ashton Consulting Limited
Dr A Guha (1994)
Phase 5 Research
8F Landic Toranomon Building No 2
99 Spadina Avenue, Suite 400
Toranomon 3-7-8
Toronto ON M5V 3P8
Minato-ku
Email:
Tokyo 105-0001
[email protected]
Email:
[email protected]
China
Qatar, Abu Dhabi and UAE
Mr T D P Kirkwood (1987)
Mr P W Blackmore (1975)
Kirkwood & Sons LLC
Email:
3610 Capital Mansion
[email protected]
No. 6 Xin Yuan Road South
Chaoyang District
Beijing 100004
Email:
[email protected]
Singapore
Mr B D Clarke (1981)
Raffles City
PO Box 1456
Singapore 911749
Email:
[email protected]
Tel: +65 6775 0542
Mob: +65 9277 0028
Turkey
Mr A M Walsh (2008)
Email:
[email protected]
USA
Mr D W H McCowen (1957)
Beaver Lodge
5520 Gardner Road
Metamora MI 48455
Mr P G Cleary (1969)
531 Diamond Street
San Francisco CA 94114
Ms C E Llewellyn-Smith (2007)
(New York)
Email:
cassie.llewellyn.smith.2007@
pem.cam.ac.uk
Mr C P Robb (1976)
161 East 79th Street Apt 12B
New York NY 10021-0433
UK
London: Mr A S Ivison (1974)
CMS Cameron McKenna
Mitre House
160 Aldersgate Street
London EC1A 4DD
Bristol: Mr A B Elgood (1972)
Upper Hounsley Farm
Hounsley Batch, Winford
Bristol, Somerset BS40 8BS
Email:
[email protected]
Leeds: Mr D R Sneath TD DL (1966)
7 Kirkby Road
Ravenshead
Nottingham NG15 9HD
Email:
[email protected]
Scotland: Mr R M B Brown (1989)
79 Hamilton Place
Aberdeen AB15 5BU
RULES OF THE SOCIETY
1.
The Society shall be composed of past and present Members of
Pembroke College, Cambridge, and shall be called the ‘PEMBROKE
COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY’.
2.
The objects of the Society shall be:
(a) To promote closer relationship among Pembroke Graduates, and
between them and the College.
(b) To compile an Address Book of past and present Members of the
College, to publish an Annual Gazette, and to issue these free to all
Members of the Society.
(c) To make grants to the College.
3.
The subscription for Life Membership of the Society shall be decided
from time to time by the Committee.*
4.
The Officers of the Society shall be a President, one or more VicePresidents, a Chairman of Committee, a Treasurer, a Secretary (who
shall be a resident Fellow of the College), a Dinner Secretary, an Editor
of the Gazette, and such local Secretaries as may be desirable.
The Officers shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting and shall
hold office for one year. Nominations, with the names of the Proposer
and Seconder, shall be sent to the Secretary six weeks before the
Annual General Meeting. The retiring President shall not be eligible
for re-election for a period of three years after his retirement.
5.
The Management of the Society shall be entrusted to a Committee
consisting of the following Officers, namely the Chairman of
Committee, the Treasurer, the Secretary, the Secretary for London, the
Dinner Secretary, the Editor of the Gazette and not less than twelve other
Members of the Society to be elected annually. Nominations for the
Committee, with the names of Proposer and Seconder, shall be sent to
the Secretary six weeks before the Annual General Meeting. Of the
elected members of the Committee, six shall retire annually by rotation
according to priority of election, and their places shall be filled at the
Annual General Meeting; a retiring member shall be eligible for reelection after a period of one year from his retirement. The Committee
shall have power to co-opt additional members for a period of one year.
6.
The Capital Fund of the Society shall be vested in the Master, Fellows
and Scholars of the College, who may administer this Fund both as to
capital and income as they in their discretion may think fit, provided
always that it be primarily applied to making contributions to the
funds of the Society.
7.
The income and expenditure of the Society shall be administered by the
Committee through its Secretary.
The Committee may at their discretion add to the Capital Fund vested
in the College, but shall have no power to require withdrawal from this
Fund.
8.
The Committee shall meet at least twice in every year. At all meetings of
the Committee seven shall form a quorum.
9.
The Committee shall arrange an Annual Dinner or other Social
Meetings of the Society in London.
10.
The Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held on the day
fixed for the Annual Dinner or other Social Meeting. The Secretary
shall send out notices of the Meeting at least one month before it
takes place.
11.
The Committee in their discretion may, and upon a written request
signed by twenty-four Members of the Society shall, call a Special
General Meeting. Fourteen days’ notice of such a Meeting shall be
given and the object for which it is called stated in the notice.
12.
No alteration shall be made in the Rules of the Society except at a
General Meeting and by a majority of two-thirds of those present and
voting, and any proposed alteration shall be stated on the notice calling
the Meeting.
*The Committee decided (10 December 1982) that, for the time being, the Life
Membership subscription shall be nil. This decision was made possible by an offer from
the College of an annual subvention from the Bethune-Baker Fund which, it was hoped,
would provide a sufficient supplement to the Society’s income to enable expenses to be
met, particularly the expenses of printing and postage of the Annual Gazette.
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L. Whibley
F. Shewell Cooper
A. Hutchinson
F.S. Preston
E.H. Minns
J.B. Atkins
H.G. Comber
E.H. Pooley
J.C. Lawson
J.E. Singleton
J.K. Mozley
M.S.D. Butler
J.C.C. Davidson
S.C. Roberts
R.A. Butler
M.S.D. Butler
J.W.F. Beaumont
J.T. Spittle
P.J. Dixon
H.E. Wynn
W.W. Wakefield
V.C. Pennell
E.H. Pooley
B.E. King
H. Grose-Hodge
S.C. Roberts
H.F. Guggenheim
W.V.D. Hodge
C.B. Salmon
A.J. Arberry
A.G. Grantham
B. Willey
G.W. Pickering
M.B. Dewey
J.M. Key
W.A. Camps
D.G.A. Lowe
W.S. Hutton
R.G. Edwardes Jones
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D.R. Denman
W.L. Gorell Barnes
M.C. Lyons
D.A.S. Cairns
M.V. Posner
P.R.E. Browne
Lord Adrian
J.G.P. Crowden
L.P. Johnson
Lord Prior
J. Baddiley
T.J. Brooke-Taylor
J.C.D. Hickson
P.J.D. Langrishe
J.R. Waldram
G.D.S. MacLellan
S. Kenderdine
Sir Peter Scott
A.V. Grimstone
The Rt. Hon. Lord Taylor
The Master
Sir John Chilcot
C. Gilbraith
J.K. Shepherd
B. Watchorn
R.H. Malthouse
M.G. Kuczynski
Sir Patrick Elias
Sir John Kingman
Ms V Bowman
M.G. Kuczynski
R.H. King
J.S. Bell
R.G. Macfarlane
M.R. Wormald
N.G.H. Manns
The Master
Mrs C.F. Holmes
E. DEATHS AND OBITUARIES
Sir George Stokes (1819–1903), mathematical physicist
by Lowes Cato Dickinson
LIST OF DEATHS
The College notes with regret the deaths of the following members
1934 Frank Campbell South (6 April 2013)
1935 Roger Ormerod Booth (10 July 2013; BA Law)
1936 Donald John Ingram West (20 June 2013; BA History/English; awarded
CBE 1978)
1938 Greville Arthur George Selby-Lowndes (31 May 2014; BA Archaeology
& Anthropology)
1939 William Marcel Brimicombe (1 July 2013; BA Modern & Medieval
Languages)
Thomas Lindsay Clark (date of death unknown; BA Mechanical
Sciences)
1940 Derek Heseltine Barlow (18 May 2014; BA Mechanical Sciences)
John Cloudsley-Thompson (4 October 2013; see obituary p 151)
Michael Denis Jepson (7 December 2013; see obituary p 159)
Kenneth Elmslie Munn (20 June 2013; see obituary p 164)
1941 Michael Francis Meredith Hardy (24 October 2013; BA Engineering)
Patrick Malcolm Brogden Sutcliffe (31 January 2014; BA
Agriculture/Estate Management; aide-de-camp to The Queen
1970–1975; awarded MBE 1966, CBE 1983)
1942 Arthur Norman Apthorp (2 November 2013; BA Mathematics/Natural
Sciences/History; Archdeacon of the Country, Diocese of Perth
1966–72)
William Hurst Leigh (January 2013; see obituary p 161)
1943 John Fergusson Burdett (10 December 2012; BA Mechanical Sciences)
Henry Nelson Mills (date of death unknown; BA Natural Sciences)
John Denis Milne (29 March 2013)
Anthony Derek Spottiswoode (2 February 2014; BA Law; Partner
Herbert Smith 1952–83; Priest 1987)
1944 Anthony Melland Gaskell (3 April 2013)
1945 Michael George Foster-Taylor (13 May 2013)
Ian Robertson Lilburn (30 September 2013; BA Modern & Medieval
Languages)
1946 Richard George Bennett (10 April 2014; BA Modern & Medieval
Languages)
William Norman Blyth (15 December 1985; BA English)
Herbert John Fenton Taylor (2012; BA Moral Sciences)
1947 David William Couch (17 July 2013; BA Natural Sciences)
Ian Michael Jaques Mair (22 January 2014; BA Natural Sciences)
1948 Patrick McLellan Forman (17 April 2014; BA History/English)
Richard Alexander Lang (9 September 2013; see obituary p 160)
Hamish McNaughton Henderson (19 October 2013; BA Classics)
Anthony Stafford Rudkin (29 April 2014; BA Economics/History)
John Pieter Voltelin van der Byl (2 September 2013; BA Moral Sciences)
1949 Brian Earnshaw (2014; BA English/History)
Marcus Frederick Honywood English (19 December 2013; BA Estate
Management)
John James Putnam (23 December 2013; see obituary p 166)
1951 Malcolm David Taggart (2014; BA English)
1952 Robert Thornton Smith (11 February 2014; BA Mechanical Sciences)
1953 David Gerald Hepburn Beatt (18 June 2011; BA Natural Sciences)
Neil McShane (4 June 2013; see obituary p 162)
Frank Victor Scott (28 January 2013; BA Mechanical Sciences)
Thomas Hindle Weeks (26 December 2013; BA Mathematics)
1954 Richard Penry Ambler (23 December 2013; see obituary p 147)
Robin Crawford (2014; BA History/Theology)
Jack Ronald Hall (20 January 2014; see obituary p 158)
Christopher Leonard Kirch (24 May 2010; BA History)
Edward Blake White-Atkins (18 January 2014; see obituary p 176)
1955 Alexander Daniel Holt-Wilson (7 May 2014; BA Natural Sciences,
BChir, MB; awarded OBE in 2013 for raising standard of eye care in
northern Ethiopia)
1956 Conrad Alexander Blyth (7 August 2012; see obituary p 148)
Thomas Gabriel Rosenthal (3 January 2014; see obituary p 168)
1957 Ray Milton Dolby (12 September 2013; see obituary p 152)
David Evans (23 October 2013; BA Mechanical Sciences)
1958 Edward Luke Stone (26 April 2013; BA History)
Thomas Bowater Vernon (11 September 2013; see obituary p 175)
1960 Robert Meric Dymond (14 April 2014; BA Mathematics)
John Johnstone (27 October 2013; BA Classics)
Lewis Varley Luxton (11 December 2013; BA Law)
1961 Robert Victor Adkinson (16 December 2013; see obituary p 146)
Nigel Ward Hayman (20 October 2013; BA Chemical Engineering)
1962 Charles William McElroy Pratt (23 November 2013; Fellow and Director
of Studies in Medicine at Pembroke 1962–87)
Graham Stuart Brandon Street (17 September 2013; BA Natural
Sciences; Fellow of Pembroke College 1968–1970)
1964 Ryszard Janusz Hamilton (12 July 2013; BA Modern & Medieval
Languages)
Richard James Stibbs (1 September 2013; see obituary p 172)
1965 Clive Vincent Thompson (16 May 2013; BA Modern & Medieval
Languages)
John Fridolin Winteler (July 22 2013; BA Law)
1966 John Bryant (22 May 2013; PhD Chemical Engineering)
1967 Martin Lawrence Stote (7 June 2014; see obituary p 174)
1969 Ernest Wilson Nicholson (22 December 2013; see obituary p 165)
1970 Martin Simon Davies (July 2013; BA English)
Roy Henry Ivan Sean Fergus Kaulback (18 June 2013; BA Arch &
Anth/Land Economy)
Anthony Kevin McGuinness (2013; BA Classics)
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Adrian Peter Caswall Rolt (6 April 2011; BA Law)
Nathaniel Bumstead (20 April 2004; BA Natural Sciences)
Kenneth Albert King (30 March 2014; BA English)
David Wright (Summer 2013; BA Engineering)
Howard Henry Erskine-Hill (26 February 2014; see obituary p 155)
Glen Leroy Richards (August 2009; PhD History)
Carol Helen Johnston (22 January 2012; BA Mathematics)
John Christian Schmeidel (25 June 2013; see obituary p 170)
This Gazette also carries obituaries for Robert Roddick Ackrill Breare (p 149),
Timothy James Doyle (p 153), and Robert Keith Middlemas (p 163). whose deaths
were announced in previous editions of the Gazette.
OBITUARIES
Robert Victor Adkinson
27 July 1943 – 16 December 2013
Obituary by Stephen Nash (1961)
Robert (Bob) Adkinson was a publisher, with a reputation for
brilliance as an editor of art books. For some 20 years he
worked with Thames and Hudson, and edited many of their
most successful volumes. Father of two daughters, Olivia and
Sophie, and grandfather of three grandsons and one
granddaughter, Robert remained devoted to family, despite
matrimonial breakdown. Pembroke was the one institution for which he retained
a life-long love.
Bob and I first met in October 1961 when we both arrived at Pembroke, he to
study English. Bob was born and raised in Macclesfield, the Cheshire mill town;
there he had attended the 500-year old grammar school, the King’s School. He
had completed his ‘O’-levels at 14 and ‘A’-levels at 16. When he won an Exhibition,
he was still too young to go up to Pembroke, and so spent a gap year working in
a hotel on the Scilly Isles.
He was Bob to us at Cambridge, and only later in London did he become
Robert. He would have been very aware of North/South differences, but was soon
habituated to the ambience of Cambridge and later to NW6, NW5 and NW1.
From Pembroke, small groups of us would be invited to go north for long weekends in Macclesfield, where his mother, to whom he was devoted, looked after us.
Bob was a most entertaining and engaging companion, who had a wide group
of friends from different backgrounds, ranging from the raffish to the preppy. He
liked to regale us with accounts of time spent with the fair sex. He tried his hand
at student drama, and early on had a leading part in a Pembroke Players’
production of Pirandello’s ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’; then a lead role
in a university production of Lorca’s ‘Blood Wedding’.
From that early ‘60s era, I recall Bob as a great stylist, an aesthete. One aspect
of this was his embracing of French culture. In Bob’s room on V staircase, one
drank real black coffee, out of French railway bistro cups with saucers, often in the
company of his friend Nicholas Fry who lived next door. The first cars we bought
were inevitably Citroens: later I recall trips, jammed in the back of the
On leaving Cambridge in 1964, Bob took a job in the English Faculty of the
University of Liège, where he met Danielle, one of his students, whom he later
married. From Liège, they moved to Paris where Bob had landed an editorial job
with the French life-style magazine, Réalités. I remember visiting them in their
small flat not far from the Eiffel Tower, when Olivia was a baby. Eventually, they
returned to London, where Bob remained for the rest of his publishing career. He
worked with the novelist Andrew Sinclair at Lorrimer, publishing classical film
scripts. According to Sinclair, Robert had the most brilliant pictorial imagination,
enabling him to ally pictures to text in a way that very few non-artists can do.
After an abortive business flirtation with Robert Maxwell and his publishing
empire, Bob joined Thames and Hudson, as Commissioning Editor, and
remained with them until his retirement. There his reputation for publishing
excellence grew. T&H appreciated his keen eye, combined with an extremely
cultured, well-educated and interested mind; and also his ability to turn an
inadequate manuscript into a totally acceptable book. Not only did he
commission books, but he often injected his own knowledge and rewrote chunks
of them himself, although this was not apparent to the reader. George Plumptre,
with whom he worked on ‘The Water Garden’, describes Robert’s talent for
‘pulling brilliant books out of the bag’. He was also responsible for whole series
of successful T&H titles, such as ‘The Way we Live’, ‘The Most Beautiful Villages’,
and latterly ‘Paintings in Proust’ and important volumes on Art Deco.
Having decided that he would retire to the Dordogne, he duly purchased a
house in Domme. The idea of Bob assuming a boulevardier life-style in his later
years seemed entirely appropriate. Sadly this purchase never led to his actually
moving to Domme, and a French sunset on his life was not to be. During his last
few years, his health deteriorated with the onset of an incurable lung condition,
and the ambit of his life became confined to NW1, where he developed a coterie
of new friends. The last time I saw him, and already speaking with difficulty, he
summoned up the energy to lecture me on the relative merits of Verdi’s operas!
Bob/Robert was a person who lived an intense, highly-charged life, and who,
in his professional career, achieved an unsurpassed degree of excellence. But
what will be our abiding memory was his mischievous joie de vivre which made
him an unforgettable friend, father and grandfather.
Richard Penry Ambler
26 May 1933 – 23 December 2013
Richard Ambler was an outstanding scientist who became
a Professor of Protein Chemistry at Edinburgh University
and specialised in studying the evolution of bacteria,
thereby providing us with vital information about how
bacteria might become resistant to antibiotics.
Richard was born in Bexley Heath, Kent. When he
was seven, he and his family moved to Kirkee, India,
where his father had been appointed Chief Inspector of
Military Explosives. After the war ended, Richard went to boarding school at
Haileybury College. After having done National Service with the Signals
Regiment, Richard won a Scholarship to Pembroke College in 1954 to study
Natural Sciences. He then did a PhD in ‘Structural Studies in Bacterial Proteins’
and was made a Drapers’ Junior Research Fellow of Pembroke College in 1959.
Having obtained his PhD in 1961, Richard undertook three years’ worth of
postdoctoral research with Fred Sanger in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular
Biology at Cambridge.
In 1965, Richard became a Lecturer at the new Department of Molecular Biology
that Martin Pollock had been asked to set up at the University of Edinburgh. Richard
eventually rose to become head of the department in 1984 and was awarded a
personal chair in protein chemistry in 1987. Richard’s research career focussed on
answering questions relating to the evolution of bacteria; one of the reasons why he
was attracted to working with Martin Pollock was that Pollock was interested in
determining the reasons for penicillin-resistance in bacteria. Much of the resistance
is due to the production of an enzyme, penicillinase or lactamase, which destroys
the antibiotic. This capacity to resist antibiotics was seen in diverse bacteria, and
Richard asked whether this capacity had a common origin, or had evolved
independently in the bacteria that manifested this capacity as a result of their being
exposed to antibiotics. Using amino acid sequencing information to analyse
bacteria, Richard determined in 1978 that the most common penicillinases had a
common origin, while other enzymes had originated independently.
Richard was able to use amino acid sequences and protein sequences in order
to investigate the origins of chloroplasts, which conduct photosynthesis in plant
and algae cells, and mitochondria in cells that make up plants and fungi and
many other living things. He was able to trace links between the cytochromes and
copper proteins in photosynthetic bacteria and the proteins in chloroplasts, and
links between the sequences of cytochromes in some bacteria and those of
mitochondria. These studies suggested that organisms evolved, not only through
the mutation and selection of genomes, but also through the acquisition of genes
that had evolved in separate organisms. This process of lateral gene transfer
accounted for the ability of bacteria to resist antibiotics, as was shown by
Richard’s studies of penicillinases.
Richard met his first wife, Pat, when they were undergraduates at Cambridge.
They married in 1957 and had two daughters, Anne and Jane. After their marriage
broke up, in 1990 Richard met Sue Hewlett, with whom he had worked at
Edinburgh in 1969. Sue’s younger two daughters from a previous marriage,
Gemma and Nicola, effectively became Richard’s daughters, and Sue’s elder two
daughters, Heidi and Juliet, became part of the family too. Sue died in 2003. He is
survived by his daughters, and four grandchildren.
Conrad Alexander Blyth
12 July 1928 – 7 August 2012
Obituary by Dougal Blyth
Conrad Blyth was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. At the
University of Otago he was awarded an MA in
Economics with First Class Honours and in 1953 came
to Cambridge on a scholarship with his wife June. He
took up a prize Fellowship at Pembroke in 1955. (Here
began a lifelong friendship with Malcolm Lyons, now
Pembroke’s most senior surviving Fellow.) Conrad received his PhD in 1957, and
continued as a University Lecturer and Fellow until 1960. Following the
publication of his first book he returned with his wife and two children to New
Zealand for five years as the founding Director of the NZ Institute of Economic
Research in Wellington, where June and he had their third child.
After a Professorial Fellowship at the Australian National University in
Canberra (1965–8), and four years in London as Deputy Director of the National
Institute of Economic and Social Research, Conrad returned again with the family
to New Zealand in 1972. There he held a Chair in Economics at the University of
Auckland until his retirement in 1993 and served two long stretches as Head of
Department, as well as on many university committees, including the University
Council; during this period Conrad was appointed as the NZ envoy to a
Commonwealth inter-governmental economics forum, and he spent the years
1978–82 on secondment as Director of Social Affairs and Industrial Relations at
the OECD in Paris. Pembroke College welcomed him back as a visiting scholar for
much of 1988, and during this stay the first of Conrad’s grandchildren was
brought to Cambridge from New Zealand to meet him and June. After his
retirement he continued to teach, publish and consult for several years, but further
grandchildren and other family matters began to occupy more of his attention,
along with his continuing interest in rugby and cricket, current affairs, wine and
fine food, the beach, modern history, short stories, theatre and classical music.
Conrad’s particular fields were the economics of public policy, international
economics and the international economy (in particular business cycles), and the
economic development of the South Pacific and New Zealand. He published over
a hundred books and articles. He was a major contributor to the Ross review of
taxation in New Zealand in the late 1960s, and in 1969 published American Business
Cycles 1945–50, and in 1977 Inflation in New Zealand, and later in his career much
work on government expenditure in New Guinea. Conrad’s New Zealand students
included several subsequent Cambridge PhDs in Economics (including one who
later married his son), a Minister of Finance for the New Zealand Government, a
Governor of the New Zealand Reserve Bank, an Acting Vice-Chancellor and a
Chancellor of the University of Auckland, the latter also Chairman of the Board of
one of Australasia’s larger companies. His wife June died shortly after him and
they are survived by the three children and six grandchildren.
Robert Roddick Ackrill Breare
18 March 1953 – 12 July 2013
Robert Breare was a remarkable British businessman,
who was involved in 100 or so companies, specialising in
the areas of hospitality and entertainment.
Robert was educated at Eton, and came to Pembroke
in 1972 to study Law, becoming Boat Club Captain in
1975 and obtaining a Blue in rowing in 1976 (a year
when Oxford won the Boat Race). On graduating,
he went to work for his family’s newspaper group,
R Ackrill. Robert’s father resisted Robert’s plans to expand the business, and
eventually – when Robert’s father retired – Robert sold the business in 1983 to
United News & Media, the owners of the Yorkshire Post, for £5m. Robert invested
the money in the Westminster Press newspaper group, selling the business three
years later to Emap for £18m.
Robert then became, in 1987, the chief executive of Parkdale, a Leeds-based
commercial property developer. Robert had Parkdale acquire a portfolio of hotels,
golf courses, and country clubs. This increased Parkdale’s profits from £1m to
£8m and in 1989, he agreed a takeover of Parkdale by Pavilion Leisure. Robert
moved on to found Arcadian in 1990, a hotels business which came to own the
Malmaison chain, the Great Eastern Hotel, a dozen historic hotels, and three
resorts in Europe. However, Arcadian had rocky beginnings: within a few months
of the company being created, the UK went through a major recession and Robert
‘went from a house in Chelsea and a Ferrari Testarossa to a leased apartment in
Clapham and a share of an old Golf.’ However, Robert weathered the storm and
turned Arcadian into a company that he would sell in 1998 for £100m.
Robert then founded the Noble House Group. Robert’s vision was to use this
Group to create a chain of pubs and restaurants that would ‘sing and dance’
through strong control over their approach to food provision, branding, décor,
and atmosphere. With that in mind, Robert announced his intention to make a
£470m bid for Wolverhampton & Dudley, Britain’s regional brewer, having
already bought Oriental Restaurants – the company behind the Yellow River Café
chain – for £14.4m, and having expressed an interest in acquiring the 3,000 pubs,
valued at £1.5bn, being auctioned off by Whitbread. The family managers of
Wolverhampton & Dudley resisted Robert’s approach as ‘all froth and no Breare’
and a firm bid for Wolverhampton & Dudley never materialised, as Robert wasted
time making more and more, and more and more bizarre, requests for
information (such as for the firm’s laundry bills, and a breakdown of the types of
whisky sold). Wolverhampton & Dudley’s shareholders, fed up with Robert’s
prevarications, voted to remain independent and Robert was labelled ‘Britain’s
most shambolic corporate raider’.
Robert moved on to run the Scotsman Hotels group, and helped to turn that
group around; but he had a less happy experience with Merchant Inns, a boutique
hotel operator that he founded with Sir John Ritblatt but was fired from in August
2009. Robert would, however, enjoy one last – through truncated – hurrah with
Snoozebox, a company which was set up to provide ‘pop up’ hotels for special
events. The hotels consisted of stackable shipping containers that had been
converted into en suite bedrooms complete with air-conditioning, television and
free wi-fi. The idea for Snoozebox had come to Robert when attending the
24 Hours race at Le Mans, facing a 20 minute walk to stand in a 20 minute queue
to visit a filthy lavatory at 3 am. ‘There’s got to be a better way,’ was his thought.
The first event covered by Snoozebox was the 2012 Grand Prix – with Snoozebox
providing a 40 room hotel for people attending the event – and Snoozebox was
subsequently floated on the stock exchange for £20.5m. However, difficulties
with a contract to provide portable hotels for the 2012 Olympics resulted in a loss
of £4.4m and Robert’s resignation from the company. Robert’s idea was,
however, a great one and Snoozebox reported much better results the following
year, and provided a pop-up hotel at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
Robert was married three times, and is survived by his four sons.
John Cloudsley-Thompson
23 May 1921 – 4 October 2013
John Cloudsley-Thompson was one of the leading
natural historians of our time, specialising in the
study of wildlife in desert areas.
John was born in India but his family soon moved
back to the UK, and he was educated at Marlborough.
He went to Pembroke College in 1940 to study Natural
Sciences, but after the evacuation of British forces
from the continental mainland in June 1940, he
decided that he had to make some contribution to the British war effort. Too
young to join the army, he volunteered for farm work until, a few months later,
he was old enough for armed service, and was put into a tank regiment, the
7th armoured division.
In October 1941, John arrived in Egypt and immediately saw action in the
desert. It was here, in North Africa, that his lifelong interest in desert wildlife
began. He bought a baby desert fox from the locals and he and his crew
completely tamed it, and one day saved its life when it strayed into the engine
compartment of the tank, at the cost of holding up an entire squadron while they
searched for it. John’s tank was involved in the Battle of Gazala against Rommel’s
forces around Tobruk in Libya. John’s leg was seriously injured in the battle and
he was invalided home. He spent 1943 helping to train soldiers at Sandhurst, but
he then convinced the authorities that he was healthy enough to take part in the
D-Day landings. He was assigned a tank, which landed at Bayeux, but was then
destroyed in action at Villers-Bocage. John and his tank crew managed to escape
and took part in the Caen offensive in another tank.
John returned to the UK in November 1944, and resumed his studies at
Pembroke, obtaining a BA in Natural Sciences in 1946, and a PhD in Entomology
in 1950. He then took up a Lectureship in Zoology at Kings College London,
before getting the chance in 1960 to return to the desert as Professor of Zoology
at Khartoum University in Sudan. He was to stay there for 11 years, undertaking
expeditions into the desert and laying the groundwork for the over 50 books that
he would subsequently produce on The Diversity of Desert Life, Spiders and Scorpions,
The Desert, Sahara Desert, Insects and History, and Camels.
John became Professor of Zoology at Birkbeck College, London, from 1972–86.
He continued to publish prolifically, on Biological Clocks, Microecology, Rhythmic
Activity in Animal Physiology and Behaviour, The Temperature and Water Relations of
Reptiles, and The Diversity of Amphibians and Reptiles. His last major book on biology
was written when he was 84, in 2005: Ecology and Behaviour of Mesozoic Reptiles.
John’s achievements were recognised with the Peter Scott Memorial Award
(given to him by the British Naturalists’ Association in 1993), the Royal African
Society Medal, the JH Grundy Memorial Medal, a festschrift for his 80th birthday
(Ecology of Desert Environments, edited by Ishwar Prakash), a special edition of
Euscorpius (on scorpion research) for John’s 90th birthday, an Hon DSc from
Khartoum University, and visiting Professorships and Fellowships all over the
world. He was President of the British Arachnological Society (1982–85), the
British Society for Chronobiology (1985–87), and the British Herpetological
Society (1991–96).
John’s wife, Anne, whom he married during the war, died in 2012. He is
survived by their three sons, Hugh, Tim, and Peter.
Ray Milton Dolby
18 January 1933 – 12 September 2013
Ray Dolby was a genius, whose inventions transformed
the enjoyment of music and cinema lovers from the
1970s onwards.
Ray was born in Portland, Oregon, and from an early
age showed a fascination with sound, studying the
vibrations of his clarinet reeds as a child. His mechanical
talent was spotted early on, when Alex Poniatoff, the
founder of the video and audio recording firm Ampex,
visited Ray’s school and Ray – at that point, 16 years old – volunteered to act as
projectionist for a talk that Poniatoff was giving and showed Poniatoff a camera
rig he had put together. Poniatoff invited Ray to work for him at Ampex, and Ray
(who was far ahead in his studies at school) subsequently spent half his time at
Ampex, filing his first patent at the age of 19.
Ray went to Stanford University to study Electrical Engineering, graduating in
1957. He then obtained a Marshall Scholarship which allowed him to come to
Pembroke College to do a PhD on long wavelength X-rays. In 1960, Ray was
elected a Fellow of the College as the Drapers’ Senior Research Student – the first
American ever to be made a Fellow of Pembroke College. Ray was made the
Drapers’ Research Fellow after receiving his PhD in 1961. In 1962, while he was at
Cambridge, Ray met his future wife, Dagmar Bäumert, a summer student from
Germany. They were reunited in India, where – after having left Pembroke in
March 1963 – Ray worked for two years for Unesco as a scientific adviser. While
he was in India, Ray used his spare time to record Indian musicians, and he set up
his own home studio.
On returning to the UK in 1965 with Dagmar, Ray set up Dolby Laboratories, a
company based in London. Dolby Laboratories’ first invention was the Dolby A301 professional noise reduction unit. This built on an idea Ray had had in India
as to how to deal with the then persistent problem of tape hiss on pre-recorded
cassette tapes. His idea arose out of the fact that the problem of tape hiss was
particularly severe at points when the music on the tape was particularly quiet, or
of low frequency: at those times the background tape hiss, which was also at low
frequency, would be particularly noticeable. Ray’s idea was to invent a machine
that boosted the strength of low frequency signals as they were recorded onto
tape, and which then reduced the strength of those signals when the tape was
played back. Doing this meant that when the tape was played back, low frequency
notes that had been recorded onto the tape were heard perfectly normally, but the
low frequency tape hiss was substantially reduced on playback. The Dolby A-301
machine was a great success: the machines were initially sold to Decca for use
in all their recording studios (and were first used in 1966 on a recording of
Mozart’s Piano Concertos 8 and 9 by Vladimir Ashkenazy), and quickly became
an industry standard.
Dolby Laboratories followed up the success of the Dolby A noise reduction
system by introducing in 1968 the Dolby B system, which was intended for use in
home recording systems. Over time, Dolby Laboratories would produce further,
and better, noise reduction systems such as Dolby C (1980), Dolby SR (1986), and
Dolby S (1989). All these innovations came after Dolby Laboratories relocated to
California in 1976. The shift was not prompted by a desire to get involved with
Hollywood, but rather Ray’s desire to give his first child the kind of upbringing he
had enjoyed. However, Dolby Laboratories’ focus did soon shift to working on
revolutionising the use of sound in cinema. By the mid-70s, Dolby Laboratories
had developed Dolby Stereo, which allowed a film encoded in Dolby Stereo to
carry sound in four channels – left, right, centre, and surround for speakers at the
sides and back of a cinema for ambient sound and special effects. The system was
first used on the 1976 remake, A Star is Born, but the real breakthrough came the
next year when cinemagoers were amazed by the quality of the immersive sound
experience afforded by watching Star Wars and Close Encounters of Third Kind – both
films made with Dolby Stereo technology. Further innovations soon followed:
Dolby Surround (1982) (for use on home video systems), Dolby Digital (1992) (the
film industry successor to Dolby Stereo), Dolby Digital Live (2005) (for video
games), and Dolby Atmos (2012) (which allows for a film to carry 128 discrete
audio tracks, and up to 64 unique speaker feeds).
Ray Dolby’s achievements were marked with an OBE in 1987, two Academy
Awards in 1979 and 1989 for his ‘contribution to motion picture sound’, an Emmy
in 1989 and a special lifetime achievement award at the 2003 Emmys, a US Medal
of Technology in 1997, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2014. By the
time of Ray’s death, he held more than 50 American patents. Ray and his wife
Dagmar were noted philanthropists, particularly in the field of scientific research
and health care.
Ray is survived by his wife Dagmar, their two sons, Tom and David, and
four grandchildren.
Timothy James Doyle
1931 – 3 August 2011
Obituary by Judith Doyle
Knowledge of commercial law and many years’ experience
as a member of the London Stock Exchange were pivotal
when Timothy Doyle worked in the New Zealand
Department of Justice (Commercial Affairs) towards
establishing the New Zealand Securities Act 1978. He later
worked for the New Zealand Securities Commission, an
independent crown entity — the main regulator of investments — which was
established in 1979. In May this year, 33 years on, the commission was replaced
by the Financial Markets Authority, which still operates on the basic principles
worked out in those early years.
Born in Poole in Dorset (‘delivered by my grandfather,’ he liked to relate), his
family moved frequently, as his father was a Colonel in the British Army (Royal
Engineers). During World War II, then living in London, his parents decided that
the family should move out of the path of German bombers, so the young boy was
delighted to leave his much-disliked prep school and attend a village school in
Hope Cove, a picturesque coastal village in Devonshire. He revelled in it. But
disaster! His prep school was evacuated to the selfsame village, so back to stern
discipline and strict regulations he had to go.
Secondary education was at Charterhouse School in Godalming, Surrey, where
he especially enjoyed music and history. His aptitude for maths led to a less
respectable activity as the school’s bookie. (He later lived not far from Epsom
Downs Racecourse in Surrey. Here he would rush from bookie to bookie to get the
best odds at the Epsom Derby, the Oaks or some other race meeting). It was at
Charterhouse, too, that he discovered a talent for chess which he later played by
correspondence against opponents in different parts of the world. He was New
Zealand Correspondence Chess Association champion in 1999 and has passed on
an aptitude for chess to his elder son.
Tim attended Pembroke College where he graduated in Economics and Law.
He was a member of the London Stock Exchange from 1958 until 1974 when he
emigrated to New Zealand with his three children and Kiwi wife. They settled in
Roseneath, Wellington. He joined the New Zealand Justice Department
(Commercial Affairs) in 1976 when the antiquated Companies Act of 1955 was
being adapted and updated to current needs. (In the absence of substantial
securities laws, New Zealand had seen the collapse of some major companies that
had acquired funds from the public). As a research officer in Commercial Affairs,
he took a prominent role in establishing New Zealand’s first Securities Act,
consulting with lawyers, accountants, sharebrokers and parliamentary law
draftsmen in the process.
The key statement in the Bill was that ‘No security shall be offered to the public
for subscription unless the offer is made in or accompanied by a prospectus.’
Establishing a commission was seen as vital to achieving this end. Finally, despite
opposition from Treasury, the Reserve Bank, Cabinet and the Prime Minister (Rt
Hon. Robert Muldoon at that time), a commission was approved because nearly
all of the many public submissions wanted one.
From 1978–1987, Tim was Director of Research in the Securities Commission,
the last two years on secondment to National Companies and Securities
Commission in Melbourne. On his return to New Zealand, he became manager
Corporate Trust Services, Bank of New Zealand, for four years, and later
Chairman of the Unit Trust Association of New Zealand.
After retirement, he pursued his lifelong interests in music (especially opera)
and history. European travels with Tim were always enlivened by an account of the
goings-on of royalty or heads of state, in whatever country he was in at the time.
He revelled in opera tours round Europe and opera music flooded his home much
of the time. His dry wit and ability to remember poetry, proverbs and historical
facts were legendary amongst his family and friends. Told that his first grandchild
was to be called Jarvis, he sat back, puffed on his pipe for a while, and said,
‘Mmm, HMS Jervis. Hit by torpedo
during the war, off Gibraltar, I think.’
After much ill-health in the last few years, he died peacefully of a heart attack
at Mary Potter Hospice, Newtown, leaving his wife, two sons and one daughter.
Howard Henry Erskine-Hill
19 June 1936 – 26 February 2014
Obituary by Brian Watchorn (1965
Howard was a Yorkshire-man by origin, born in
Wakefield. His mother stemmed from the well-known
Poppleton family of worsted spinners and knitters in the
nearby mill town of Horbury where Howard grew up
with his cousin John. Horbury is perhaps best known as
the place where Sabine Baring-Gould was curate in the
1860s and wrote for the Sunday School procession the hymn ‘Onward Christian
Soldiers’. Not quite Howard’s taste in hymnody, militant though he could be.
Howard’s father, Henry Erskine-Hill, was Scottish, an architect who came
close to designing a new Episcopal cathedral for Aberdeen but was pipped at the
post by Ninian Comper. There was a strong Anglican tradition in the Erskine-Hill
family; Howard’s grandfather became first Provost of what was to become
Aberdeen Cathedral and his great uncle was Vicar of Horbury and Canon of
Wakefield. Secondary schooling was however at a Methodist boarding school,
Ashville College in Harrogate, where Howard came to know the hymns of Charles
Wesley which he greatly admired. The standard of teaching there he did not
admire except for one inspirational master: the teacher of English. And so it was
that, exempt from National Service on account of his asthma, Howard read
English with Philosophy at Nottingham University, graduating BA (1957), then
PhD (1961) with a dissertation entitled Tradition and Affinity in the Poetry of Pope.
Thus the die was cast.
During the Second War Howard’s father served as an army officer but
thereafter the marriage fell apart. He was to remarry and have two children,
Stephen and Diana, whom Howard eventually discovered and got to know. After
the death of Stephen Howard particularly developed a strong bond with his halfsister, though she was profoundly deaf, and they went walking together in the
north, following up family traces and places. In a poem called ‘Family Affairs’,
Howard recorded how ‘Strange to meet half-brother and half-sister,/ And
through them see again my errant Dad./ With my mother in the USA/ When news
of my Dad’s death finally came through;/ My mother who at least never walked
out on me,/ I would not leave alone in the USA’. His father died in 1989; the poem
is dated October 2013 – a long time for grieving.
Howard was immensely protective of his mother who had been left in difficult
circumstances such that from his student grant he sent her 10 shillings each
week, a notable sum. She came to live with Howard in Chesterton Road and died
in 1991, and it is in her grave at Fen Ditton that Howard was buried after the
Requiem Mass at the RC Chaplaincy, Fisher House. The loss of his mother was
partly filled by Diana, herself a published poet, who to his grief in turn developed
cancer and died in Dun Laoghaire only last November, just as Howard was
himself losing his bearings. In his latter fantasies he spoke much of his mother.
And friends have detected, despite much hospitality and camaraderie, a depth of
loneliness through his life that is not unknown in the single man.
After Nottingham Howard held posts at Swansea University for some nine
years before being appointed Lecturer in English in Cambridge in 1969 and
Fellow of Jesus College. Disagreement there led to deep unhappiness which
prompted Professor Ian Jack to attract him to a Fellowship at Pembroke in 1980.
Howard could himself be prickly, for at heart he was a man of deep principle.
As a student and young lecturer he demonstrated on the Left (a photograph at
home visible on the sideboard shows him proudly wearing his CND badge)
whilst at Cambridge he ended up supporting the Right: first the Tories, then an
annual subscription to UKIP out of his ardent antagonism to the European
enterprise. He was also passionate in opposing fashionable thinking, notably
taking a prime part in rousing opposition to the award of a Cambridge
Honorary Degree to Jacques Derrida, the deconstructionist, in 1992. What an
excitement that was, but for Howard something deeply important was at stake
not only for academia but for human flourishing. As he put it in a subsequent
account of the affair in the Cambridge Review: ‘Not only education and research,
but the practical conduct of everyday life, depend on the notions of probability
and truth. No truth, no tenure, one reporter wrote satirically, to which I answer:
no truth, no thought.’
Howard was promoted Reader in Literary History in 1984, then Professor in
1994 until retirement in 2003. He had been elected Fellow of the British Academy
in 1985. In retirement he and I came to share the Emeritus Fellows study in
Pembroke, so were frequently together as friends as well as colleagues. But soon
after I had become Dean and Chaplain of Pembroke in 1982, Howard had started
to appear at Sunday Evensong in Chapel. He was quietly leaving the atheism of his
more radical days and finding a home in the Book of Common Prayer. He
discovered our Friday Evensong was sung to plainchant and gradually got the
hang of it, unaccompanied as it was. He regularly read the First Lesson from the
Old Testament of the King James Bible, often quizzing me before and after; if
asked to read the New Testament he often came close to tears.
Howard was never one to do things by halves. Having come to faith in the
Church of England and unhappy at the ordination of women as priests, he was
received into the Roman Catholic Church. Fisher House became a spiritual home
which of course he took seriously, dutiful at Sunday Mass, going on retreat,
joining a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, helping to organise a fortnightly poetry
reading group with Sister Anna Mary, and forging a deep friendship with Father
Alban the then chaplain, who spoke movingly at the Requiem on Howard’s
favourite text, John 21. Howard did not however leave his College Chapel behind.
The rich beauty of Evensong still nourished him, Fridays and Sundays, which
were followed by the companionship and nourishment of High Table.
Howard was himself hospitable. Many of us have doubtless shared his table at
Chesterton Road, cleared of books and scholarly papers tumbling to the floor, or
at his London club. In his will he made provision at any Memorial Service not only
for ‘good music’ from choir and organ but for ‘good refreshments afterwards for
those present: good wine, good food, good tea (Lapsang Souchong; Darjeeling)’.
Glasses were duly raised in the Old Library in his memory. There were also
bibulous occasions in College, especially around 30th January, the feast of
Charles king and martyr, when Howard’s Jacobite passions came to the fore. His
favouring the Stuarts chimed of course with his literary interests and Scottish
background, but sceptics like myself and our organ scholars were readily
persuaded to stumble along in the late-night singing of ‘When the king enjoys his
own again’. The seriousness of this interest is evidenced also by the considerable
collection of Jacobite prints, portraits and coins that he collected with the advice
of his friend and executor Richard Sharp.
These frames however had to compete for space at home with Howard’s wider
interest in art which included modern work and led to his friend Professor
Monica Partridge bequeathing her substantial collection to Pembroke, though
Nottingham University was her own background. Howard’s love of paintings,
which led to the creation of the College’s Fine Arts Committee, will be continued,
we hope, with any donations made in his memory.
Howard was admitted to hospital on December 1 2013 thanks to the vigilance
of friends and neighbours, suffering from jaundice. Alas, his liver was beyond
repair and a subsequent fall in hospital meant that he would not walk again. His
mind became very confused, though not without laughs. Howard remained the
gentleman in his sickness, always concerned to offer a cup of tea to the band of
faithful visitors to his Care Home, and though wasting away retaining that gentle
smile. He slipped quietly away in the morning of 26 February, having previously
received anointing.
Howard’s prodigious scholarship is spoken of elsewhere. Also his deep
affection for his students; his little volume on Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels has the rare
dedication: ‘To my undergraduate pupils at Cambridge.’ But this most
importantly was also a Christian soul. His will opens: ‘I commend my soul to God and
my body to the grave looking for that resurrection which is spoken of in the Christian creeds.’
And it is to that rich band of Christian souls in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, one of
the wide range of topics on which Howard lectured, that I turn for a final picture.
Not Mr Honest or Mr Standfast or Mr Greatheart, fitting as they might be, but Mr
Valiant-for-Truth, who finally, at the river’s brink, called for his friends and said:
‘I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I have got hither, yet now I do
not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him
that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My
marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who will
now be my rewarder…’ So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the
other side.
Jack Ronald Hall
28 July 1934 – 20 January 2014
Jack (‘Ron’) Hall virtually invented the art of investigative
journalism in the UK as one of the three founding
members of the Insight team on the Sunday Times.
Ron was born in Sheffield, and educated at the local
grammar school, Dronfield, where he met his future
wife, Ruth: he was the head boy and she was the head
girl. He studied mathematics and economics at
Pembroke College from 1954–57. On graduating, he got
a job as a journalist at the Glasgow Herald, subsequently moving to the Daily Mirror,
where he was responsible for running the ‘Old Codgers’ letters column.
In 1962, Ron – together with Jeremy Wallington and Clive Irving – was
recruited by Michael Heseltine, at that point an ambitious young publisher, to run
a weekly news magazine called Topic, which would analyse the key events in the
news that week in depth. Topic was a commercial failure, but won the admiration
of many in Fleet Street, including Denis Hamilton, the then editor of The Sunday
Times. When Topic closed, Hamilton approached Clive Irving, Topic’s editor, and
suggested that he work for The Sunday Times, providing detailed analysis of
stories in the news. Irving agreed, but only on the condition that Ron and Jeremy
Wallington came with him.
The three members of what became known as the Insight team arrived just as
the Profumo scandal broke. Covering that story gave the Insight team the chance
to hone their style, pulling a complex story into a coherent and sensational
narrative, usually beginning with a dramatic account of some incident that would
play a key part in the story. But the Insight team really made its name with a story
written by Ron, about Peter Rachman, the corrupt slum landlord who would
routinely harass his tenants in order to get them to move out so that he could sell
his properties to more lucrative clients. ‘Rachmanism’ and ‘Rachmanite’ – terms
coined by Ron – entered the English language.
The following year, Ron became editor of Insight. His team went on to cover a
huge number of important stories, including the Philby spy scandal and the
thalidomide tragedy, while the Insight style of investigative journalism was copied
worldwide, including by the Washington Post, which broke the story of the
Watergate scandal. In 1963, Ron (with Clive Ivring) published an account of the
Profumo affair, in Scandal 63. Rod followed this in 1970, with The Strange Last Voyage
of Donald Crowhurst (co-authored with Nicholas Tomalin), about a story first
broken by Insight, about Crowhurst’s faking his voyage around the globe in a
round-the-world race.
Ron’s days at The Sunday Times were numbered as soon as Rupert Murdoch
acquired The Times and The Sunday Times in 1981. Harold Evans, the then editor of
The Sunday Times, moved to become editor of The Times. The two principal
candidates to become editor of The Sunday Times were Ron, who was by then editor
of The Sunday Times magazine, and Hugo Young, The Sunday Times’ leader writer
and political columnist. Murdoch appointed Frank Giles, the foreign editor, as
interim editor and Ron and Hugo Young as his deputies, in order to see who
would be more aggressive in trying to elbow their way into the top job. However,
neither showed any taste for the fight that Murdoch wanted them to have, and
Murdoch had Ron fired and Hugo Young demoted.
Ron went on to edit the Sunday Express magazine, but when the Express group
was acquired by United Newspapers in 1984, he was summarily dismissed by
David Stevens, the chairman of United Newspapers. In 1986, he became
associated editor of the London Daily News, which was intended to rival the Evening
Standard, but decisively lost the ensuing circulation war. Ron then worked as a
consultant editor for Scotland on Sunday, before being invited by Clive Irving to
become the London editor on Condé Nast’s Traveler magazine, which enjoyed a
huge amount of acclaim under Ron’s leadership, particularly for its 13,000 word
report on 50 Greek islands, which sold out all over the world.
In 1981, Ron’s first wife Ruth died at the age of 48. Ron subsequently remarried twice, in 1982 to Christine Walker, his secretary at The Sunday Times, and
in 2008, to Pat Glossop, a research editor on Traveler. In 2004, Ron was diagnosed
with Parkinson’s Disease, which subsequently developed into the much more
serious Parkinson’s with Lewy bodies. He had no children.
Michael Denis Jepson
28 April 1921 – 7 December 2013
Obituary by Rowland Jepson
Michael was born in 1921, the second son of Rowland
Walter and Margaret Jepson, in South London. As
a boy, he went to Mercers’ School, where his father
was Headmaster. Michael went on from Mercers’
to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1940, to read
Engineering. Due to the war, he completed his degree
in two years. He rowed in the University Pairs in 1942, the oar from which hangs
at Ffynnonau, between the Cambridge oars of his father and his elder son (who
was also at Pembroke).
By October 1942, Michael was in the Navy: he served as an Engineering Officer
on the London, the Scylla and the Milne, in the Arctic convoys, and was on the
Scylla for the D-Day landings and later for the landing in Salerno. Michael was
able to announce in 2013 that he had finally been awarded the Arctic Star,
although he was sorry that so many of his colleagues had not lived long enough
to receive their recognition.
Michael met Ursula when home on leave: she was sharing a flat in London
with his sister Anne – Anne was going out on a date and told her brother to take
Ursula out. He and Ursula were married in March 1948 in Brecon, and they lived
in Manchester, where Ursula taught, and Michael worked for Metro-Vicks. From
there, they moved to Northumberland, where Michael designed marine gas
turbines. In 1953, they moved again, to Ilkley, where Michael worked for Spooner
Industries, designing paper-making machines. In 1965, the family (with
4 children now) moved to Kent, and three years later to Newport, while Michael
worked for Black Clawson International as their Managing Director. His main
hobby through these years was sailing.
In 1971, the family moved to Ffynnonau, Brecon, Ursula’s childhood home,
and did not move again. After a year of commuting to Newport, Michael left
engineering and started farming on the small family farm surrounding
Ffynnonau. He farmed for 10 years, and then ‘retired’. However, ‘retirement’ for
him consisted of doing many new jobs! He served as a Governor of Christ College,
Brecon, he worked with a company building wind generators, as a Fellow of the
Institute of Mechanical Engineering, he lectured part-time at Bath University,
acted as a consultant, and as an expert witness in an industrial ‘spying’ case, he
served twice as president of the Old Mercers’ Club, creating the Mercers’ School
Memorial Trust and the Memorial Professorship of Commerce at Gresham
College, he ran the appeal to strengthen the tower of Brecon Cathedral and install
new bells, raising over one million pounds, for which he was awarded the OBE.
At home, he designed and built a band saw and planted many acres of woodland,
and at his local church he installed heating and built the lych-gate.
His abiding interests were the sea, Mercers and Pembroke, correct English, his
family and Ffynnonau.
Richard Alexander Lang
10 November 1925 – 9 September 2013
Obituary by Howard Bowser (1948)
Richard was born in Abatabad, India – the only child of
a serving British Officer. At an early age he was shipped
back to England into the care of his grandmothers. Prep
school was St Alban’s, Rottingdean, followed by Radley
College where he won a scholarship to Pembroke, but
first he had war service.
He served in the Royal Artillery. He was stationed in Austria where he went on
a Russian Interpreter’s course. When he came up to Pembroke (1948) that
language together with Latin became the subject of his Tripos, in which he gained
Honours in 1950.
His first teaching post was at Ardvreck, a boy’s Prep school near Perth. Here he
met Helen, a junior matron. They fell in love, married in August 1954, and had a
family. Their marriage lasted a happy 56 years.
His second and final post was at the curiously named Old Malthouse,
Langton Matravers, where they were houseparents for a while before moving to
nearby Swanage.
Our lifelong friendship began in Hall, and grew despite or perhaps because of
a huge difference in temperament. Neither of us was athletic but Richard was
great on a bike and we had cycling holidays together in France, Scotland and
England and we went skiing in Austria.
I was his Best Man at his wedding in Dundee and celebrated in person both
his Silver and Golden Weddings. And we were Godfathers to our respective
firstborns.
Careful, deliberate, patient and kind, his daughter Fiona said he had 3 loves;
his wife and family, Scotland and his pupils. He was an ideal teacher for boys at
what Lord Baden Powell described as the red-hot stage of enthusiasm. I would
add a fourth love: for most of his life he and Helen always seemed to have a couple
of dogs at their heels! Above all he was a true gentleman and as a staunch
Christian he served for a while as Churchwarden at his village church.
Sadly his last few years were clouded. Without his beloved Helen who had
gone before him, he died peacefully in his sleep in his care home in Swanage. He
was my best and lifelong friend and I shall miss him a great deal.
He leaves a son, two daughters and six grandchildren.
William Hurst Leigh
10 January 1924 – 26 January 2014
Obituary by Hannah Kent
William (‘Bill’) was born in Marton, Blackpool, and attended Blackpool Grammar
School from his 10th birthday. In 1942, Bill was awarded a scholarship to
Pembroke where he read English. After one year, he was called up into the army,
eventually earning a commission.
Active service in Holland and Germany included the Rhine crossings. Bill was
in Hamburg on VE Day and never overcame his shock at the damage that had
been done to that city and its people. Although he never spoke of the more
harrowing aspects of his wartime service, he considered being involved in World
War II as one of the most formative experiences of his life.
In Cambridge, Bill had met a Classics undergraduate from evacuated Bedford
College. Audrey came from Chipping in Lancashire, less than 30 miles from Bill’s
home town, and they had many things in common, not least their shared sense of
humour. Bill married Audrey in 1945 during a few days of unexpected leave. After
demobilisation in 1946, Bill returned immediately to Pembroke and took his
degree in 1947. The following year, Bill and Audrey’s first daughter, Hannah, was
born, and Bill completed a third year at Pembroke. He gained a Diploma in
Education in 1949.
Bill subsequently taught English at Preston Grammar School for five years,
during which his second child, Peter, was born. In 1954 he became second
English Master at Wigan Grammar School, and then head of English at
Kingswood Grammar School on the outskirts of Bristol in 1960. His and Audrey’s
third child, Judith, was born the following year.
Bill continued teaching at Kingswood (subsequently renamed Kingsfield
School) until his retirement in 1983 – his preference for teaching over
administration meant that he did not go down the route to becoming a
headmaster, though he did, however, serve on examining boards and the Schools
Council, as well as being involved in BATE, the Bristol Association for the
Teaching of English.
Retirement freed Bill for a range of new activities. As a member of The Mayor’s
Corps of Honorary Guides in Bath, he developed specialised walking tours. He
also became involved with the Building of Bath organisation, and the University
of the Third Age where he enjoyed being in a choir and organised architectural
walks in local towns. He was also a committed and regular participant in the
French Circle, and the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution.
Despite the physical limitations of old age, Bill kept a lively mind to the last,
continuing to buy new books that provided a stimulus both for him, his wife
Audrey, and anyone who visited him.
Neil McShane
11 June 1935 – 4 June 2013
Obituary by Rupert McShane (1981) and Loder Bevington (1953)
If ever there was a man of many parts, it was Neil McShane. He was a
charismatic, generous and enthusiastic man whose love of company and
parties, honed at Pembroke, never left him. Horses framed his life. His father
owned racehorses, and Neil became a much lauded point to point jockey,
winning the undergraduate race at Cottenham before going on to win the Essex
four mile open four times on ‘Adagio’ – who clearly was anything but, being
nicknamed ‘Adago’.
Educated at Sedburgh, he read medicine, but had a more productive
relationship with the double bass than with his textbooks. Had the late hours of
the University jazz club not so effectively precluded his attendance at physiology
lectures, he would perhaps have made a good surgeon. He played 1st XV Rugby
and followed the national teams all his life.
Neil treasured his memories of his national service in the Royal Marines:
Malta, playing polo, leading his men. He was deeply honoured to represent the
regiment at Churchill’s funeral.
His career in retail was set following a chance meeting with an attractive
member of a supermarket dynasty. His direct experience in store management,
and then consultancy, put him in good stead when he decided to move into the
City where he brought several companies to the market before becoming an
analyst in the retail sector for several stockbroking firms.
His enthusiasm led him into unexpected projects. He spent several years
helping bring to fruition John Morrison’s (Wolfson) vision of how Greek oared
warships should work. The trireme was built by the Greek navy, then powered by
British and American undergraduates around Pireaus and the Thames: living
archaeology par excellence.
He enjoyed order and tradition. Once the family started, he moved back to his
and Caroline’s origins in north Essex, where he became an announcer at point to
points. In retirement, Neil collated and wrote what is now the definitive account
of the many unique hunt buttons, which are awarded by the Master of a hunt to
its loyal servants. He was church warden and guide at Dedham church, steward at
the Munnings museum, and Grand Master and subsequently Almoner of the
Middlesex Lodge.
He was, above all, loyal. Friends he made at Pembroke lasted a lifetime, and he
loved holidays – sailing with Murray Fox, fly fishing with Ronald Brown, moving
water buffalo up the Orinoco with Nick Wykes. Many came to his and Caroline’s
golden wedding party – to celebrate a marriage that had endured through thick
and thin, including the loss of their daughter Lucy.
He leaves Caroline, two sons (Rupert and Rory), and seven grandchildren.
Robert Keith Middlemas
26 May 1935 – 10 July 2013
Robert (‘Keith’) Middlemas was a leading historian of
modern British society and a prominent public intellectual.
Keith was born in Alnwick, Northunberland, and was
educated at Stowe School. He went from school straight
into doing National Service in the Northumberland
Fusiliers, where he saw active service in Kenya during the
Mau Mau uprising. He then went to Pembroke in 1955 to
study History. His age, experiences and academic ability
(he obtained a First in History) gave him a distinction that his contemporaries
could not pretend to, and which Keith enjoyed. The then Master, SC Roberts,
remarked, ‘I never know if I quite live up to his expectations of me.’ Keith also met
his future wife, Sue Tremlett, in Cambridge, in the Soup Kitchen in Petty Cury,
where she was working as manageress. (He also came across Sylvia Plath, whom
he helped after she fell off her bike.)
After graduating in 1958, Keith toured Canada as a member of a British rifleshooting team before being appointed as a Clerk in the House of Commons. In
his spare time, Keith started writing history books: Command the Far Seas (1961)
(about German battle cruisers in the First World War), The Master Builders (1963)
(about the first great international engineering contractors), and The Clydesiders
(1965) (about the struggle for power by left-wing activists on the Clyde). These
books prompted Asa Briggs, then the first Professor of History at the University
of Sussex, to invite Keith in 1967 to join the History department there. Keith
joined the department as a Lecturer and stayed for 30 years, becoming a Reader in
1976 and Professor from 1986–98.
While at Sussex, Keith wrote a huge number of books. One of his key works
was Politics in Industrial Society (1979), which argued that the UK government had
ensured social stability and high employment by sharing power with employers
on the one hand, and trades unions on the other. So the UK existed as a
‘corporatist’ state where political power was shared among interest groups,
rather possessed by a single body. This was an analysis that could not survive the
advent of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister and Keith subsequently modified
it in his three volume work Power, Competition and the State (1986–91), covering the
periods 1940–61, 1961–74, and 1974–90. Among his many other publications,
Keith also published a three volume edition of Thomas Jones’ diaries (1969–72)
(Thomas Jones was a confidant of Lloyd George, Andrew Bonar Law, and Stanley
Baldwin), a 1,000 page biography of Stanley Baldwin (1969), and The Double Market
(1975), on the art trade and art thieves. His final book, As They Really Were (2011),
based on drawings of citizens of Alnwick in 1831, brought him full circle back to
his beginnings.
Keith’s distinction as an historian made him an international figure, and he
served as a visiting Professor at Stanford University in 1984, and at Beijing
University in 1989 in the immediate aftermath of the Tiananmen Square
massacre. He played a key part in the completion of the Cahora Bassa Dam in
Mozambique in 1974. Having been commissioned to write a history of the
construction of the dam, he had earned sufficient trust from everyone involved in
building the dam to operate as an effective intermediary when Portugal’s
withdrawal from Mozambique in the aftermath of the fall of Portugal’s military
government threatened to halt the dam’s construction. His interest in buildings
and art meant that he was regularly consulted by Sotheby’s and Christie’s. After
his retirement in 1998, Keith travelled the world lecturing on European
democracy, and working as chief executive of a consultancy firm, advising
international firms on European political and economic trends.
Keith is survived by his wife Sue, their son, and three daughters.
Kenneth Elmslie Munn
1 April 1921 – 20 June 2013
Obituary by Richard Munn (1977)
Kenneth came up to Pembroke in 1940 to read
Natural Sciences after spending seven years at
Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood. It was at
school that he first developed his interest in
Science, especially Physics, his love of rugby ( or
rugger as he called it) and his interest in scouting. He continued with these
interests whilst at Pembroke by playing rugby for the college and becoming
involved with the University scouts. The Scouts, in particular, gave Kenneth the
opportunity to broaden his horizons by joining camps in the UK and Europe after
the war, as well as the chance to develop life-long friendships.
After three years, his studies were interrupted by the war and, given his
scientific background, he joined the Army Operational Research Group, with his
main focus being the air defence of London. It is fascinating reading some of his
reports and his hand-written notes on some of the projects, including improving
the efficiency of London’s searchlights and Project Bullseye relating to the
training of new RAF crews. He also spent many hours in and under Hyde Park
working with anti-aircraft gunners and could recount several amusing stories of
Winston Churchill’s visits to their bunker.
After the war Kenneth returned to Cambridge and finished his degree in 1947.
He then started teaching at Haileybury College, where he was to spend the next
36 years as a dedicated schoolmaster, including stints as a Housemaster and
Head of Science. He also found time to play a leading role in the association for
science teachers as well as being one of the founders of the Combined Science
course for O-Level, as it was then. In the early years he continued playing first
class rugby for Old Merchant Taylors, who, in those days. numbered clubs, such
as Bath, Gloucester and Harlequins among their opponents. until age and other
commitments brought his rugby playing to an end.
Kenneth married Margaret in 1951 and they had two children. Richard
followed in his father’s footsteps to Pembroke in 1977. Whilst Kenneth had
maintained good contacts with the members of college, such as Gerry Smith, this
gave Kenneth the chance to renew these contacts.
On retirement in 1983, Kenneth and Margaret moved to Fairford in
Gloucestershire, where Kenneth quickly became involved with St. Mary’s Church.
He played a major role in the extensive renovation of the stained glass windows in
the 15th century church – a project which gave him much satisfaction.
Pembroke played an important and enjoyable role in Kenneth’s life and he
always looked forward to the college reunions until failing health took its toll.
Ernest Wilson Nicholson
26 September 1938 – 22 December 2013
The Reverend Professor Ernest Nicholson was a leading
scholar on the Old Testament, as well as serving as
Provost of Oriel College, Oxford from 1990–2003.
Ernest was born in Portadown, Co Armagh; the son
of a farmer. He failed his 11-plus and spent four years at
the Portadown technical college. Having ambitions to
enter the church, he mastered enough Latin to enable
him to move to Portadown Grammar School and then to
Trinity College Dublin to study Theology. He did his PhD on the literary history of
the book of Deuteronomy at Glasgow University. In 1962, Ernest married Hazel
Jackson – whom he had met as a teenager in Portadown – and took up a
Lectureship in Hebrew and Semitics at Trinity College Dublin.
In 1967, Ernest published his first book, Deuteronomy and Tradition, which was
based on his PhD thesis. He also moved to Cambridge, becoming a University
Lecturer in Divinity and a Fellow of Wolfson (at that time, University) College.
Two years later, Ernest was ordained in Ely Cathedral and moved to Pembroke
College, becoming the College’s Chaplain and later its Dean. While at Pembroke,
Ernest published Preaching to the Exiles (1971) and Exodus and Sinai in History and
Tradition (1973).
In 1979, Ernest moved to Oxford, taking up the post of Professor of the
Interpretation of Holy Scripture and a Fellowship at Oriel College. He continued
to produce books on the Old Testament: God and His People: Covenant and Theology
in the Old Testament (1986), and The Pentateuch in the Twentieth Century: The Legacy of
Julius Wellhausen (1998). He also initiated efforts to produce an official history of
Oriel College, which was published in November 2012. Ernest was made a Fellow
of the British Academy in 1987, and was awarded the Burkitt Medal for Biblical
Studies by the British Academy in 2009. He served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of
Oxford University from 1993–2003.
Ernest is survived by his wife Hazel, their three daughters, Rosalind, Kathryn
and Jane, and six grandchildren. Hazel and Ernest’s son, Peter, died in Mexico,
where he had married and settled.
John James Putnam
28 June 1929 – 23 December 2013
Obituary by Roger Putnam
My brother John was a man of many parts and many
talents. John was the middle brother in a family of three
boys. In due course we all three came up to Pembroke. In
our much younger years, we all became keen Crusaders
and it was through them that we learnt to enjoy
camping. As a Boy Scout John’s shirt was practically
covered with proficiency badges of which he was quite proud. He became Head
Boy of his prep school. He was made Head of House and a senior prefect of
Haileybury & Imperial Service College. In sport, he was selected for the school’s
first teams in five different games, an unusual feat, including being made captain
of hockey.
John’s National Service in the Royal Artillery saw him posted to Ceylon, as it
was called in those days, where cricket featured prominently in the Army’s
sporting calendar. He was so saddened when, years after his time there, civil
conflict broke out in the country which he knew could be such an idyllic place in
which to live.
After his two years in the Army, John came up to Pembroke College for three
years to read English and History. While here he also developed interests in art,
architecture, education and farming.
On leaving Cambridge he took a job as a management trainee in the Chief
Cashier’s Office in the Bank of England, working in the City of London.
At about this time he went on holiday in Austria, and there he met Myra, who’d
travelled over from Dublin to join the same holiday group. A year or two later, they
married in Dublin. They lived first at Windsor and then moved to Tilehurst near
Reading. Soon came big changes, with John leaving the Bank of England, where
he’d found he wasn’t really at heart a City person. Instead he took a job teaching
English and History to sixth-formers at a large Roman Catholic school in
Reading, Presentation College, which later he said gave him some of the most
satisfying work he’d ever done.
Then followed the golden years, with the arrival of three gifted girls, followed
later by a talented brother for them. John was utterly devoted to his family. He did
his utmost to protect their interests, to support Myra and the children in all they
did, and in helping them to further their ambitions where he could.
Having taken to the school teaching, in fact proving to be a natural teacher,
John, with Myra’s help, took over a primary school in Tenterden, Kent. They
worked tremendously hard to build it up to over a 100 pupils, at a time when their
own three girls were growing up fast. They ran it for six years as a thriving
institution, but the demands placed on them were very high indeed.
They decided on a complete change of occupation and lifestyle. They left the
school and moved down to the West Country to run summer holiday-lettings.
They started with an old mill in the South Hams and built that business up by
adding cedar-wood chalets in the grounds.
After several years there and a short interregnum, the family moved to a
stone farmhouse with a barn and outbuildings, also in the South Hams. The
heavy physical work involved in modernising and converting the buildings,
however, took its toll on John’s back. While recovering from the back injury,
lying on a board, John decided, with Myra, that it was essential, whilst
continuing to run the summer-lettings, to find an occupation that involved less
heavy lifting and bending. So, using his knowledge of pottery gained during his
teaching years, John designed and made some miniature, model ceramic
cottages of typical vernacular architecture for sale. He called them ‘Heritage
Houses’. After the first seventeen models were launched at the Torquay Gift
Fair, they began to sell in considerable numbers. Buyers soon wanted a wider
range, so John added more designs of houses and also pubs, shops, churches,
stately homes and a castle. Eventually John was making over two hundred
different models.
The business expanded to meet the demand. John took on more staff, he
exhibited the models at gift fairs in this country and abroad and sales increased
still further. He added a range of ceramic model cars which he called ‘Character
Cars’. John derived a great deal of interest from the business and made many
friends amongst customers and fellow-exhibitors alike. Some American
collectors of the houses would drop in unexpectedly to have a chat and buy
models to add to their collection.
John and Myra at home provided a warm and stimulating environment, first
for their three daughters and son and later for their much-loved grandchildren.
Their homes in the South Hams gave them space and proximity to wild country
which they all loved.
Apart from having many interests, with views on practically every subject, John
was a great conversationalist who did so much enjoy a lively chat with
whomsoever he came into contact. He could promote his opinions strongly, but
he liked to hear other people’s views too.
A man of honour, compassion and kindness, John’s family and friends will
miss his leadership, his counsel, his fund of ideas and his sense of fun. Athlete in
his youth, Gunner Officer in his National Service, banker, schoolteacher,
headmaster, entrepreneur, craftsman, bee-keeper, builder, country-lover and
philosopher, John was always ready to help others where he could. He had great
sympathy for people in genuine need, his own interests often becoming, to him,
minor considerations.
John will leave a huge gap for his family and friends but thoughts of shared
past times together will live on warmly in our memories. John is survived by his
wife Myra, their daughters Kate, Shelagh and Helena and son James and
grandchildren: Caroline, Nicholas, Thomas and Jonathan. Tradition was
followed when his grand-daughter Caroline came up to Pembroke in 2005 to read
Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, graduating in 2008.
Thomas Gabriel Rosenthal
16 July 1935 – 3 January 2014
Obituary by Ian Fleming (1956)
Larger than life when he was an undergraduate from
1956-1959, Tom went on to live an extraordinarily full
and successful life as a publisher, author, broadcaster,
bibliophile and critic.
Tom was born in London. His parents, Erwin and
Elisabeth, were refugees from Germany after Erwin lost
his first academic post in 1933—Jewish academics were among the first to be
deprived of their jobs after Hitler was elected Chancellor. After a time in London,
Erwin was given an academic post in Manchester, where Tom and his younger
sister Miriam spent their early years. The family moved to Cambridge in time for
Tom’s sixth form studies at the Perse. Erwin was a member of Pembroke from
1955 and eventually became a Reader in Oriental Studies in the University, and in
1962 a Fellow of Pembroke.
After National Service as an officer in the Royal Artillery, Tom came to
Pembroke as an exhibitioner to read history, changing to English for Part II. He
was active in the Footlights, the Pembroke Players,
Varsity and the ADC, where he was a memorable Jew of
Malta (see photograph, left). On going down he got a
job with the art-book publishers Thames & Hudson,
where he rapidly advanced, becoming Managing
Director of Thames & Hudson International in 1966. He
was the art critic of The Listener in this period, and
began another career as a broadcaster, talking about
opera in his gloriously deep and authoritative voice.
Opera-going became a large part of his life. When I
showed him my home projector, using the DVD of
Berlioz’ Les Troyens, he remarked that he had been at that performance. Earlier,
when Mary and I wanted to see Deborah Warner’s production of Don Giovanni
at Glyndebourne, I asked for his help in getting tickets. Without hesitation,
he suggested that he would buy the tickets, and we would bring his mother,
now a widow living alone in Cambridge, and a hamper of food. He brought
the champagne.
In 1970 Thomas Tilling, who ran Secker & Warburg’s parent company,
approached Tom for advice about a potential successor to Fred Warburg. Tom
offered himself—making several wise conditions. Tilling made him Managing
Director, a post which he held with great success, artistically and profitably, from
1971 until 1984. He was less happy to move up the corporate ladder, in 1980, to
become Chairman and Managing Director of the parent company Heinemann
Inc.; but he kept his office and his afternoons at Seckers, where he was much
happier— reading manuscripts and talking to their authors. Notably, in this
Pembroke context, one of them was Tom Sharpe. There was a custom in the office
that if Tom Rosenthal’s door was shut, and laughter could be heard inside, no one
was to disturb him. It meant that he was reading Sharpe’s latest. To support
Sharpe, he got Seckers to give him a salary large enough to live on for several years
before the books became best sellers. Even at the top of the corporate tree, Tom
read all the books he published and some of those he rejected.
In 1984, he abandoned the businessman’s life at Heinemann and dedicated
himself again to books, by becoming Chairman and Managing Director of the
private publishing house of Andre Deutsch, initially sharing the posts with André
Deutsch himself, then alone after Deutsch retired. Overall, between Seckers and
Deutsch, he had a most impressive list, rich in novelists such as Gore Vidal,
Penelope Lively, Jean Rhys, John Updike, Günther Grass, Saul Bellow, David
Lodge, J. M. Coetzee, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Heinrich Böll and Carlos
Fuentes, as well as notable non-fiction by Germaine Greer and David Thomson.
Some he inherited, many he brought in himself, and some he took with him from
Seckers to Deutsch. A telling example at Seckers was that of David Thomson who
had contracted, before Tom joined the firm, to write a book about cinema. But
Thomson had gone off at a tangent, and the book that Tom first saw, the nascent
Biographical Dictionary of Cinema, was very different from the one Thomson had
contracted to write. It was clearly a risky prospect, for there was nothing like it,
and it was growing and growing; Tom decided to publish it in spite of its novelty,
and it has proved to be one of the most popular books on cinema. Tom had an
extraordinary sense of what was well written, important and would sell.
That good judgement was sharply brought into focus for me when he came
round in 1984 to look at the photographs Mary had taken of him for a book of
family photographs to give to Erwin and Elisabeth for their 50th wedding
anniversary. Several photographs of Tom were laid out on the table. He surveyed
them quickly, pointed to Mary’s favourite, the one that illustrates this obituary,
and said, ‘I hate it; but it’s very good. It’s the one you should use.’
But publishing was changing, and Tom eventually found the limitations of a
small publishing house frustrating. He sold Deutsch in 1997 and turned to an
active life as author, critic and broadcaster, as well as co-founding a private press.
He wrote many articles on opera and art in The Listener, The New Statesman, The
Spectator and the Independent on Sunday. He wrote several impressive books on
artists – Ivon Hitchens, Arthur Boyd, Jack Yeats, Sidney Nolan, L. S. Lowry, Josef
Albers, and two on Paula Rego. For these works he was awarded a Cambridge
PhD in 2005.
In addition to all this Tom managed to be a committee member or Trustee of
a number of organisations with which he was in sympathy – in Cambridge, The
Appointments Board, the ADC and the Fitzwilliam Museum; in London, The
National Book League, The Royal College of Art and the ICA, which he chaired for
several years. Gregarious and good company, he usually found himself at the top
table at Pembroke feasts when Erwin brought him in as his guest, successive
Masters realising that the College’s guests might well find Tom’s conversation
entertaining. It was – full of his life, but of wide-ranging good judgement too.
He married Ann Warnford-Davis (née Shire) in 1967; they had two sons,
Adam, a surgeon, and Daniel (Pembroke 1990), a freelance lecturer and writer
most recently of a history of the National Theatre.
Tom and Miriam jointly endowed a travel grant at Pembroke in Erwin’s
memory; and in December 2013 he gave the college his large and most impressive
collection of more than 2000 art books. They are now housed in the Rosenthal Art
Library, the room on the ground floor at the west end of the library, thus making
Pembroke extraordinarily well equipped for the study of Art History. The
presentation was a fitting and moving occasion. Visibly failing, but rallying to the
occasion, Tom made an excellent speech and, with Ann, Adam and Daniel, joined
us for dinner at high table. He died four weeks later.
John Christian Schmeidel
6 February 1957 – 25 June 2013
Obituary by Dean Karalekas
After graduating from Dulaney Senior High School in in
what he affectionately termed ‘the People’s Soviet Socialist
Republic of Maryland,’ John matriculated in 1974 at
Bowdoin, a liberal arts college in the coastal Maine town
of Brunswick, to pursue his Bachelor of Arts majoring
in History.
In his junior year at Bowdoin, John was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and
following his junior year he undertook summer study on British history at Trinity
College, Oxford. He received a Surdna Foundation Undergraduate Research
grant, which allowed him to undertake a study of Oliver Cromwell as an
undergraduate research fellow in his senior year.
While studying in what he once termed a ‘painfully male’ undergrad
environment at Bowdoin, John served in various capacities – including as Editorin-Chief in the first semester of his senior year – for The Bowdoin Orient, a studentrun weekly paper that boasts of being the oldest continuously-published college
weekly in the United States. He earned varsity squash numerals, was on the
editorial board of the Bowdoin literary magazine ‘The Quill,’ and was selected as
an alternate student speaker at the Commencement Exercises. He was nominated
for a Rhodes Scholarship.
John graduated magna cum laude, following which he completed a commercial
banking training program at Bankers Trust Company in New York and worked for
Bankers Trust in Manhattan from 1978. In 1980 and 1981 he worked as an analyst
for the investment bank of Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York, where he qualified
as a registered representative to sell bonds and equities on the New York stock
exchange.
In the early 1980s, John was once again a student, this time living in New York.
He entered Columbia University Law School in 1981, and received a Juris Doctor
degree in 1985, specializing in corporate and securities law. During that time, he
was a student assistant in the US Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York,
in the Narcotics Division.
After law school, John headed overseas for what he called ‘ill-paid
government work.’ He was for eight years a banker in Europe, and studied at
the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1987 he received a
Master of Science in Economics degree from LSE, with a concentration in
corporate and international finance, and began working at Dean Witter Capital
Markets International in London, focusing on Eurobond sales to Germanspeaking investors.
From 1988–90 he was a vice president at Templeton Investments Management
in Edinburgh, where he was responsible for marketing investment management
services to institutions in continental Europe and selecting equities and bonds for
Templeton’s European funds. John joined Price Waterhouse in Paris and Berlin in
1990–91 as a manager working on cross-border merger and acquisition advice.
By 1992, John had entered Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he received
his MPhil in International Relations, awarded with departmental honors, writing
on the topic of Germany’s Red Army Faction: The Theory and Practice of Urban Guerrilla
Warfare and the Problem of State-Sponsored Terrorism. In 1992, he was the deputy editor
of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. He remained a keen squash player
during his time here.
John went on to do a PhD in Modern History at Pembroke, completing the PhD
(which would eventually become the book STASI: Sword and Shield of the Party
(Routledge, 2007)) in 2006. John used the opportunities afforded to him as a PhD
student to travel and conduct research, largely on the issues that he found
important: conflict studies and terrorism. Between 1992 and 1994, John spent
20 months conducting archival research in Berlin on files that had been unlocked
after the fall of the Berlin Wall and that had been accessible to very few German
and Western readers in those years. He was particularly interested in the political
upheavals and student revolutionary movements of the 1960s. John’s explorations
of the STASI focused on the question of STASI support for both West German and
Middle Eastern terrorist groups. He looked at left-wing terrorism in the Federal
Republic of Germany, as well as the links between West Germany’s Red Army
Faction and the GDR Ministry for State Security. He would go on to write several
articles covering the foreign affairs beat as a freelance reporter for such journals
as Intelligence and National Security, and as a member of the International Institute
for Strategic Studies in London.
In 1993, John worked as a consultant to the RAND Corporation in Santa
Monica, California as an expert on Middle Eastern terrorism, where he had to
learn on-the-job alongside wonks armed with PhDs in statistics. Here he
contributed to studies on, among other things, the Marine Barracks Bombing of
1983. He would find himself living in that very region very shortly thereafter, as a
US government-sponsored Fulbright Scholar in Tunisia in 1995–1996, where he
earned a certificate in modern standard Arabic from the University of Tunis, as
well as a Certificate of Proficiency in Russian, from the Russian Cultural Institute
in Tunis. In addition to this voracious language learning, his main purpose in
Africa was research, working in tropical heat from crates of German source
material he had procured in Berlin, and sending chapter drafts by e-mail long
distance to his doctoral supervisor back at Cambridge.
While the life of a student can be liberating, it is rarely remunerative, so after
earning the title of Doctor, and spending time as a freelance reporter, John
decided to put his law degree and his expertise in terrorism to use, and he moved
back to the United States where he worked for several law firms, including
Lieberman, Dodge, Gerding & Anderson, and Koglmeier, Dobbins & Smith, as
well as UBS Financial Services. He focused on such areas as threat assessment,
executive protection, local political risk, and Homeland Security advice. In 2007,
John became a Deputy County Attorney in Yavapai County, Arizona, where he tried
over 20 cases successfully, both misdemeanours and felonies. Here he directed
law enforcement officers on organizing undercover operations in narcotics
investigations and was an expert in methamphetamine distribution and
interdiction of international imports. In his down time, he enjoyed training at the
north Phoenix Krav Maga school with Phoenix PD gang squad cops, going on
ride-alongs with the deputies, and bushwhacking on Saturdays with his AR rifle.
John was disliked as a prosecutor by some of his higher-ups, as he refused
to go hardline on cases of isolated hermits, living in the back country, burgling
the occasional backyard shack. He preferred instead to give them a talking to
and a sandwich (prosciutto and Brie, with lettuce and tomato), and his
technique apparently worked – very few of them re-offended. Some of them
continued to send him mail and photos of their families. John saw it as his
mission to redirect these people, not to imprison the entire world. This put him
at odds with management for being too soft and not enough concerned with
conviction numbers.
In 2009, John once again got itchy feet, and he came to the Far East, first
studying Mandarin Chinese at ShiDa University in Taipei, Taiwan. The following
year, he enrolled as a student (seeking his second PhD) in the International
Doctoral Program of Asia Pacific Studies (IDAS), at National Chengchi University,
where his research focused once again on issues related to law enforcement and
justice: international crime, triads and narcotics. This is where I met him.
John passed away in Taiwan, a faraway land—far from the friends and family
he had made back home; but in a new land, at least to him, where he was
unfamiliar and often endearingly confused about the baffling local customs. But
in his last days, he was not alone. He was an integral part of a circle of friends—
my circle of friends—and we all miss him dearly.
Richard James Stibbs
2 January 1946 – 1 September 2013
Before he died, Richard supplied the College with this memoire of
his time at Pembroke:
I came up in 1964 as an Entrance Scholar to read Natural
Sciences from Bristol Grammar School, then a highly
academic direct grant school. In 1964 BGS sent 34 boys
to Oxbridge. This entry from the similar schools across
the country gave Cambridge in the 60s and early 70s the
widest social mix in its history. Sadly the decline of academic schooling in the
maintained sector has made it extremely difficult to emulate those times.
Meredith Dewey was rooms tutor at the time and he had a policy of allocating
grotty rooms to Entrance Scholars as he knew they would be able to choose the
best rooms in their 2nd and 3rd rooms. So I was allocated the set F1 in Red
Buildings. Red Buildings certainly need renovation. My bedroom had a wash
stand with the traditional bowl and jug. Hot water came from an Ascot boiler in
the shared gyp-room, which also provided a pair of gas rings. Excellent baths
were provided in the bath house at the other end of the library which meant a trek
in a dressing gown through the wind and rain. However, F1 was on the top floor
of F with a splendid view of Little St Mary’s Lane from my bedroom window, and
of the chapel, the library and the cherry tree from the sitting room window. I
consequentially chose to stay in F1 for all three years.
This did have an unexpected consequence. Red Buildings are rather close to
Fitzbillies, especially as the Chapel Gate was left open during the day. I came to
Pembroke as a slim and fit young man, but my colleagues from Pembroke and
other Colleges got into the habit of spending the breaks between lectures on the
New Museum Site in my room with coffee, Chelsea buns and Sacher Torte. I
expanded. Just as well. Pembroke had compulsory Hall (compulsory in the sense
that you paid for it even if you did not eat it). This had the advantage that during
the year you met everyone in your year group and discovered that it was possible
to communicate with historians. However the drawback was that you were
exposed to the dire food; so dire that a colleague was diagnosed with scurvy in his
first Lent Term. Pembroke had not discovered fruit and salad, and cooked
vegetables until you could not guess their identity.
But the principal purpose of the College is teaching and research and
Pembroke in the Natural Sciences was on a roll. In particular the College had
appointed John Waldram in Physics and Ian Fleming in Chemistry, both inspiring
teachers, so the subjects flourished. I read Theoretical Physics in my third year
and fell out with it in a big way due to both a lack of ability but also as supervisions
were arranged by the Cavendish and not by College. It should have been inspiring
being supervised by Nobel Prize winner Brian Josephson, but it was not when the
supervisor cannot understand why the pupil cannot understand the concepts that
are trivial to a Nobel Prize winner.
I was still enjoying Cambridge so, what to do? There was a new-fangled subject
called Computer Science so I signed up for the Postgraduate Diploma in
Computer Science and have been in Cambridge computing ever since. I was
subsequently a graduate student and research assistant and was elected President
of the Middle Parlour. Those were the revolutionary days, but I stood on the
simpler platform of better food for the graduates. We instituted graduate dinners
every Thursday in the Old Library. A memorable May Week dinner in 1971 was a
classic of salmon, baron of beef (with edible vegetables) and strawberries. But the
really memorable part was the quartet led by David Stanley playing after the meal.
A magical evening.
Music was particularly important during that time. Encouraged by Sidney
Kenderdine and Meredith Dewey and heavily influenced by the memory of David
Munrow, classical and other music flourished. Clive James had joined the College
as a graduate student and brought the Footlights into College by staging the
Footlights Smokers in the Old Reader. These splendid evenings were try-outs for
the main Footlights show held for two weeks in May Week at the Arts Theatre
before heading north for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The smokers introduced
some notable people to the Pembroke including Germaine Greer as a brilliant
comedian, Julie Covington (Evita) and Peter Atkin who subsequently collaborated
with Clive setting his lyrics. Pete and Clive’s excellent songs are the nearest
English equivalent to those of Jacques Brel.
But back to the mundane. In my first year I was introduced to croquet, played
– as now – on New Court and Red Buildings lawn and have continued playing ever
since; indeed each summer playing against a colleague whom I taught to play on
New Court lawn in 1968. New Court is a splendid venue for croquet as it attracts
spectators. In the 70s we particularly enjoyed the arrival of the Californian
Summer School who were fascinated by the game and who had not quite realised
that the standard Californian female summer dress was probably not appropriate
for a chilly Cambridge summer. So we enjoyed their presence as much as they
were fascinated by ours.
My University career developed as Head of User Services in the Computing
Service, Proctor and Chairman of the Board of Scrutiny. I was very involved with
technology transfer from the beginning of the Cambridge Phenomenon as a
founder of the splendidly named Applied Research of Cambridge and as
Chairman of the equally aptly named Cambridge Research and Innovation. I got
involved in teaching for other Colleges in the 70s and moved across the road as a
Fellow of Downing retiring as Fellow and President in September 2013.
However I certainly have not lost touch with Pembroke. John Waldram asked
me to supervise Natural Sciences Part IB Maths in 1968 and I have continued
supervising without a break since, finishing in June 2013. I was also external
Director of Studies in Computer Science for Pembroke for 20 years. Sadly
University publications have stopped listing all College affiliations after names
and only use the current one. I miss being ‘Richard James Stibbs PEM and DOW’
as I look back with great affection for my 50 year association with Pembroke.
Martin Lawrence Stote
3 November 1948 – 7 June 2014
Obituary by Clive Toomer (1966)
Martin Stote was a reporter, working for the Daily Star
and then the Daily Express, on a number of high-profile
stories, including the Fred and Rose West murders, the
massacres at Hungerford and Dunblane, the Soham
murders, and Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.
Martin was born in Portsmouth and came to Pembroke in 1967 to study
English. On graduating, he returned to his hometown and started working for the
local paper, The News. After working for several news agencies and newspapers
around the country, he joined the Birmingham Evening Mail as a senior reporter. He
moved from there to the Daily Star in 1982, and married his wife Sue three years
later. For 16 years, he worked at the Daily Star covering Midlands-based stories,
including the trials of Soviet spy and GHCQ employee, Geoffrey Prime, and the
serial killer nurse, Beverley Allitt. From 1999–2009 he did the same job for the
Daily Express, despite being diagnosed with throat cancer in 2004 and having
surgery in 2007 which left him with a speech impediment.
In 2009, Martin left the Daily Express and in 2011 took up the post of deputy
editor of The Ionian, a travel magazine for the Ionian Islands. In 2012, Martin
became ill again with cancer and had to undergo major surgery for a second time.
Martin is survived by his wife, Sue, and their son John.
Thomas Bowater Vernon
23 April 1939 – 11 September 2013
Tom Vernon was an award-winning broadcaster, most
famous for his series of Fat Man… travelogues.
Tom’s father was a former Bengal Lancer who had
seen service on the Khyber Pass and became head of
prison services in Nigeria. It was there that Tom’s father
met Tom’s mother, a hospital matron. Tom was born in
a less exotic locale – the East End of London – and
attended grammar schools in Shropshire, Sussex,
Dorset, and Kent. He was the first boy from his school to go to Cambridge, where
he read English at Pembroke College in 1958, while devoting most of his time to
drama and music.
After graduating in 1961, Tom oscillated over the next nine years between
working as a public relations officer (for the Royal Shakespeare Company from
1961–63, and for the British Humanist Association from 1965–69) and as an
English teacher (from 1963–65, and from 1969–70), while continuing (in the
words of his entry in Pembroke’s Who’s Who) to work as a ‘minstrel and folk
singer’, meeting his wife Sally at the Elizabethan Rooms in Kensington Gore
(where he was playing a minstrel, and she a wench), and enjoying a regular slot
on the ‘Today’ programme on Radio 4, making up songs on the spot about
current events.
In 1970, Tom got his big break, becoming the first presenter on BBC Radio
London when it went on air. He took the chance to present a wide variety of
programmes, including reading entire novels on air, playing all the characters
himself. He subsequently moved to Radio 4 as a producer of documentaries and
talks as well as a presenter on various shows including the arts programme
Kaleidoscope. Tom’s innovative work brought him many awards, including Radio
Personality of the Year, Radio Presenter of the Year, and Best Radio Documentary.
1979 saw the first Fat Man on a Bicycle series – broadcast on Radio 4 – where
Tom cycled from his home in Muswell Hill, London, through France and Italy,
interviewing people he met along the way. Channel 4 snapped up the format and
produced three series with Tom in the saddle: Fat Man Goes Norse (1987), Fat Man
in Argentina (1990) (for which Tom was awarded a medal by a grateful Argentine
government for improving relations with the UK), and Fat Man Goes Cajun (1991).
This was followed by Fat Man Goes West, made for Meridian in 1993. Tom then
returned to the BBC, making Fat Man in France in 1994, and then – abandoning the
bicyle – Fat Man in the Kitchen, provoking horror from the Daily Mail at scenes of
Tom’s cat walking over the kitchen table and Tom picking up meat that he had
dropped on the floor and placing it straight in the frying pan.
During this period, Tom and Sally – who had married in 1967 – divorced in
1986, only to re-marry in 1992. They settled in rural France, in the Cévennes, and
Tom spent his time growing vegetables and fruit, singing with local choirs,
playing in local chamber groups, and entertaining friends.
Tom is survived by Sally and their two sons.
Edward Blake White-Atkins
5 April 1935 – 18 January 2014
Obituary by Margaret White-Atkins and Fiona Davies
Blake was born in Falmouth, Cornwall, 1935, originally
as Edward but soon re-named in the wake of King
Edward VIII’s abdication. His mother died when he was
five so he was sent to boarding school while his father
served as a Commander in the Royal Navy during the
Second World War.
Blake’s own leadership skills, intelligence and personality shone through early
when he was made head boy. Then, later, he won an exhibition to Blundells
School in Devon. After leaving Blundells at 16, Blake followed in his father’s
footsteps to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, where he won the Queen’s
Gold Medal – awarded to the cadet who obtains the highest marks in the Passing
Out Examination. He also had the honour of marching through London in the
Queen’s coronation procession in 1953.
The Navy sponsored Blake to go to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he
gained his degree in Mechanical Sciences and made some life-long friends,
including local girl, Margaret, whom he married in 1958.
Blake’s career in the Navy brought many interesting adventures all over the
world, from Iceland to the West Indies to the Far East, including rescuing
passengers from a troop ship, the Empire Windrush, which had caught fire in the
Mediterranean. Over the years, Blake was promoted to the rank of Commander
and had all sorts of different postings, including the command of HMS Forest
Moor in Yorkshire, several lovely years at the shore wireless station in Mauritius,
international experiences at SHAPE in Belgium, and two years teaching at the
Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
After retiring from the Navy at 53, Blake became a civil servant in Cheltenham
until he retired finally at 60, when he and Margaret moved to Wokingham to be
near daughter Fiona and his granddaughter, Rachel.
Blake was a kind, gentle and much-loved man. He lived life to the full, enjoying
his photography, sailing and gardening and, although he is greatly missed, his
legacy lives on in many, many small ways through his family and friends.
F. BOOK REVIEWS
Edward Granville Browne (1862–1926), Orientalist
by Charles Shannon
A.V. Grimstone, Pembroke Portraits
(Pembroke College, Cambridge, 2013)
Alone of all her kind, the Foundress, Marie de St Pol,
Countess of Pembroke, hangs prominently in hall
by the high table. There is no early likeness of her,
so what we have here is a colourful but bland image
by a studio assistant of Joshua Reynolds, Giuseppe
Marchi, more notable for heraldry and piety than for
personality. It derives from a print of 1715, copied
from a 1629 manuscript illumination showing the
Countess at a prayer desk with her breviary before her. Her portrait was one of
three commissioned by the College in the late 1780s to commemorate significant
benefactors, the others being Henry VI, whose generosity was probably overestimated, and Robert Hitcham, the Jacobean lawyer who left to the College
Framlingham Castle along with a bequest large enough to build the south range
of Ivy Court. Another anachronistic portrait is that of ‘the prince of poets’
Edmund Spenser, which was painted by Benjamin Wilson circa 1771. (I remember
seeing a bread roll bounce off this portrait in my first year at Pembroke during an
energetic exchange of opinions one evening over dinner.) The Fellows evidently
felt the need of improving their stock of portraits in the early 1770s, for Wilson
was also commissioned to provide the likeness of Thomas Gray (d. 1771) and of
the ancient and eccentric Master, Roger Long, who had matriculated in 1697 and
died, still in office, in 1770. It’s a pity that the artist did not include in the
background of his portrait Long’s bizarre Great Sphere – the tin planetarium
eighteen feet in diameter, described by Grimstone, that survived in the grounds
until late Victorian times.
The College’s oldest portraits are those of Richard Fox, who was Master early
in Henry VIII’s reign, and then the Protestant divines who gave Pembroke such a
powerful reputation for Reformation theology: Nicholas Ridley, John Bradford
and Edmund Grindal. All these paintings came to the College long after the
subjects had died, in some cases centuries afterwards, so one forms the
impression that the College possessed very few portraits before the eighteenth
century. Pembroke seems not even to have possessed a portrait of its most
celebrated scholar, Lancelot Andrewes (who was Master for sixteen years, and the
most outstanding churchman of his time), until fifty years after his death, when
the College was given a small undistinguished likeness, which is now only
occasionally displayed in College.
One of our greatest benefactors, Matthew Wren (who was a protégé of
Andrewes), is remembered by a shrewd portrait of him as a young Jacobean at
the outset of a turbulent career which led to nineteen years in the Tower of
London. As a thanksgiving for his deliverance from imprisonment, he
commissioned a new chapel for the college, designed by his nephew. The chapel
is effectively his memorial, but it would be good to see his portrait displayed in
hall from time to time, especially as the College has created a society in his name
for modern benefactors.
William Pitt stands out as the pre-eminent alumnus of Pembroke over its long
history. The College is well furnished with images in various media of this
incomparable man, prime minister at twenty four and for seventeen years
thereafter, presiding over the nation during the heroic confrontations with
revolutionary France. Ever reluctant to commission a portrait, the College
conceded the case for Pitt six years after his death, though it stopped short of
engaging a major artist. Instead, the College chose George Henry Harlow, a pupil
of Thomas Lawrence, who produced a competent portrait based on one painted
in 1805 by John Hoppner. Pitt’s features, with his long slender nose, were a gift
for caricaturists, as Gillray well understood, so artists had to emphasise his
intelligence and natural authority in order to counteract the innumerable political
cartoons by partisan satirists. Nollekens’ marble bust at the back of the hall
presents a far-sighted statesman in classical dress. Richard Westmacott’s
splendid bronze statue of 1819, retrieved from a government store in 1969 and
now well situated by the side of the Library, images him as a Roman senator, in
full toga, alert yet relaxed, possessed of a natural nobility.
It is somewhat disconcerting to read that besides Pitt, the only other
outstanding political figure produced by the College has been Rab Butler, so
prominent in Conservative Party politics in the ’50s and ’60s, and three times
passed over as Prime Minister in those decades. How surprising that the College
should have contributed so little to the political life of the nation. Butler’s portrait
by Allan Gwynne-Jones shows him impassive and uncommunicative, subdued by
the dark-brown featureless background and by his sombre, crumpled clothes.
If Pembroke produced few politicians, its ethos has been favourable to poets.
We have already mentioned Spenser’s portrait, commissioned at a time when
college scholarship was low but its poetic reputation high. Thomas Gray was in
residence until 1771, when he died in his rooms above the Senior Parlour. Author
of some of the most admired poems of the eighteenth century, he was a modest
and somewhat reclusive man. As Dr Grimstone notes a propos of his
appointment to the chair of Modern History (for which he had no qualifications)
‘like other professors at that time, he refrained from lecturing’. He is
remembered by a wooden portrait, verging on caricature, painted ‘from memory’
by Benjamin Wilson a year after his death. Like so many of the College portraits,
it was bequeathed, not commissioned. A more distinguished, though not
necessarily more accurate, image was offered by the Victorian sculptor Hamo
Thornycroft, in a bust that may be seen in the bay window of the hall.
Interestingly, Gray’s contemporary and friend, William Mason, whose reputation
as a poet was much higher in the eighteenth century than it is now, was the
subject of the only picture in the College collection by an artist of the first rank:
Joshua Reynolds.
Opposite Mason in Hall hangs the colourful portrait of Christopher Smart,
attributed to Thomas Hudson. Smart was an idiosyncratic poet whose rhapsodic
religious verse has come to be much appreciated in recent decades. Here we see
him in complacent mood, justly proud of his fine silk waistcoat rich with gold
embroidery, and prouder still of the letter from Alexander Pope praising his early
verses which he prominently displays on his desk. The artist catches him at the
height of his prosperity, before he declined into the madhouse and the debtors’
prison. This is the most enjoyable of Pembroke’s portraits, and Smart has the
additional distinction in this gallery of scholars of being the only man who chose
to be shown with his books.
The nineteenth century was an undistinguished age for Pembroke. Two
masters held sway for eighty-four years, reducing the college to near inertia. ‘In
1858, the sole freshman made off to Caius after five days.’ Two scientists,
however, redeemed the general mediocrity of the era. One was the astronomer
and mathematician John Couch Adams, the other was the physicist George
Stokes. The College rightly possesses a number of images, all satisfying, none
outstanding, of Stokes, the man who most notably restored Pembroke’s
reputation. Dr Grimstone remarks that the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary
of Stokes’ tenure of the Lucasian Chair in 1899 brought together delegates from
universities all over the world, ‘collectively forming what must have been the most
distinguished body of people ever to have assembled at Pembroke’. Thereafter,
through the twentieth century, the paintings commissioned by the College form
a fairly conventional record of Masters and Fellows. The College that was once so
productive of churchmen now honours its scientists and mathematicians: Stokes,
William Hodge, Richard Adrian and most recently, John Sulston. The informality
of Sulston’s portrait by Tom Phillips marks a decided break from centuries of
artistic protocol. Of the recent additions to the College collection, the graphite
portrait of James Campbell by Gilly Rayner catches him with the wonderful
immediacy this medium allows, and James Dearlove’s striking image of Michael
Kuczynski painted on a sheet of the Financial Times brings us thoroughly up
to date.
Using his unusually broad knowledge of the college archives, Dr Grimstone
has given us a most valuable account of Pembroke’s pictorial inheritance.
Scholarly and highly readable, his brief biographies complement the portraits
with informative detail and engaging anecdote. The presentation is enhanced by
excellent design and printing. Both text and colour illustrations make the book a
college history of a new kind, one that should be on the shelves of all alumni.
Graham Parry (1958)
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G. MEMBERS’ CORNER
Sir John Sulston (1942–), Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
by Tom Phillips
THE FROZEN NORTH – BAFFIN ISLAND EXPEDITION 2014
Rhian Jones
In March 2014, Rhian Jones (2004) went on expedition to cross
Baffin Island on foot in order to raise funds for the Youth Adventure
Trust. Below is her account of her time on the expedition.
As I gazed up at the polar bear skin, stretched on a frame
to dry in the bright sun, I had the thought that I was
probably suffering from sensory overload and no longer
processing what I was seeing. The Inuit hunter who had
shot the bear a few days ago cheerfully informed my
group that it wasn’t even that big a bear – ‘It’s seven feet
tall but they can reach up to eleven.’ Seven feet was
certainly impressive enough from my point of view,
which at that point was about level with its back legs. I
swallowed and ran my hand through its translucent fur, entertaining the thought
that perhaps touching the bear may make it seem less frightening. I certainly
didn’t feel any braver as we said goodbye to the hunter and carried on our way.
We were in Qikiqtarjuaq, an
Inuit village on the Northern coast
of Baffin Island in the Canadian
Arctic. Lying just west of
Greenland, Baffin is the world’s
fifth largest island yet is incredibly
remote and unpopulated (with a
population hovering at just under
500 people, Qikiqtarjuaq is one of
the more notable population
centres yet, in winter, it can only
be reached from the outside world
by a tiny prop plane that bounces
down the icy runway when the
weather allows). I was part of
a five-strong expedition aiming
to cross the Island from coast
to coast through the famed
Akshayuk Pass and this village was the final stop on our 60 hour journey from the
UK. The Pass itself is an ancient Inuit travel route: a snaking river and lake system
which has cut a corridor through towering granite peaks and tumbling glaciers,
crossing the Arctic Circle en route. A whole year in the planning, ours was to be a
self-supported journey at the end of winter in March, completed on foot and by
ski when the landscape would be utterly frozen. We had allowed ourselves up to
nine days to complete our 140km north-to-south journey, including provision for
bad weather days should we be unable to travel.
Having hoovered up stories of Scott, Shackleton, Franklin and company since
my early teens, I had signed up to the expedition eager to see some of the polar
landscapes I had read so much about. Being an enthusiastic but admittedly
generally fairweather camper and hiker meant I was also keen to attempt a
physical challenge the likes of which I had not experienced before. My
enthusiasm prior to the trip was tempered only by fear of the polar bears that
populate the region. A Zoology student in my Pembroke days, I would have been
delighted to see one, but strictly once we had safely completed our journey. My
desire to avoid them as we made our way on foot was made all the more acute by
the fact that, since we would be in a National Park, we would not be permitted to
carry any firearms to deter them.
Our transport from Qikiqtarjuaq to the head of the Akshayuk Pass
From Qikiqtarjuaq, we skidooed for several hours across the sea ice to reach
our start point at the head of the Pass. This was in order to avoid the coastal areas
where bears were known to be most active. It was a magical afternoon; as the
hours and miles went by the coastline became wilder and more impressive. We
stopped just after lunch to explore an iceberg – massive to us yet really just a tiny
fragment of an ice sheet. It was a beautiful thing, starkly framed against the
intense blue of the sky. Once we had arrived at our start point, we disentangled
ourselves from the sleeping bags and blankets in which we had been buried in the
boxes towed by the skidoos, and took a deep breath. The skidoo drivers finished
their cigarettes and started their long cold journey home in the last of the daylight
and, oddly enough, I felt quite calm. We were kept occupied with unpacking the
sleds we would be hauling (known as ‘pulks’), putting up the tent and cutting
blocks of polystyrene-like snow to melt for cooking; it felt good to be busy until it
was time to crawl into our sleeping bags for the first night. However, when we
woke in the morning I gazed at the layer of ice crystals coating the inside of tent,
felt the unfamiliar crackle of a frozen sleeping bag, and realised that, despite all
my preparations, I had probably underestimated the realities of the trip.
After our first night on the ice
As it turned out, simply knowing that the temperature would be minus 25°C
on a good day was very, very different to living in such conditions 24/7. The effort
needed to cope with the temperature was never-ending and quite draining. Even
simple tasks like undoing zips or tightening crampon straps in gloved hands
required practice over the first couple of days. Hands chilled dangerously within
just a few moments of exposure, whilst standing still for even a minute or two
required a subsequent session of energetic activity to get the blood moving again.
Action was needed the moment that a creeping chill was felt in a finger, toe or
exposed part of the face: frequent and highly energetic whirling of the arms to
encourage blood to warm the extremities left me with the sensation that each
fingertip had been repeatedly banged in a door.
The cold consistently occupied much of one’s mind yet the jaw-dropping
nature of the scenery still managed to drag our attention away from basic
corporeal matters like numb hands. Unlike a North Pole attempt, where the
whole journey is made on the generally featureless ice cap, the valley we
traversed contained remarkable sights every moment of the day. At the
beginning of our journey on the coast of the Davis Strait, spectacular icebergs
trapped as the sea had frozen the previous autumn were silently waiting out the
winter like boats in a harbour, until the spring thaw would allow them to drift
back out to sea. The bright and open vista we saw as we looked north over the
sea ice was countered by the dark and brooding edges of the steeply-sided valley
we were walking into.
We left the coast and began our journey following the winding river and lake
system up the valley. As we did, the pulks we were pulling made their presence
felt. On the flat ice of rivers and lakes they felt weightless and the gentlest pull on
the harness set them moving behind you. When wind-packed snow creaked
beneath us, it gave a lovely cushioned surface for them to glide along. In the
windiest parts of the valley, where the snow had been blown away and the ground
beneath exposed, we fought our way over gravel that bit into the bottom of our
pulks, grating away the surface and sapping our strength until we reached more
forgiving ground.
Due to the scale of the landscape we were in distances on our journey were
stretched out to seemingly impossible proportions, sometimes giving us the
uncomfortable feeling of making little progress, even after several hours (there
was one iceberg in particular it seemed we simply could not leave behind even
after a morning’s hard slog). But when the mind-blowing nature of the wider
landscape became too much to take in, there was always the option of looking at
the sights closer to hand. Looking down at, and through, the lake ice was a
mesmerising activity. Perhaps it was the purity of the water or the pressure the ice
was under but, in parts, the deep lakes were absolutely flawless and glass-like. It
was like walking over the roof of a cathedral and, with the light disappearing
down into the deep blue depths, it gave quite the sense of vertigo. In other places,
layers and layers of bubbles were stacked into dense columns, adding chandeliers
to the strange indoor rooms that the frozen lake had created. These bubble
arrangements were truly beautiful – the degree of variety in colour, shape and size
kept one’s eyes occupied for hours and hours. A number of times we even saw
fairly sizeable rocks, fully suspended in the ice. Where the lakes got shallower, the
ice butted up against hidden underwater boulders and burst upwards into large
fractured hummocks. We discussed what these shapes reminded us of: surfacing
whales coming up for air and enormous hatching dinosaur eggs were two of what
I felt were the more accurate descriptions. Regardless of whether we agreed on
their appearance, the whole group enjoyed unhitching our pulks to clamber up
and slide down their steep sides on our fronts and backs. These moments of
enjoying such a harsh landscape in quite a child-like way were, frankly,
completely surreal.
One day we climbed high above the valley floor to circumnavigate glacial
moraine that effectively blocked our paths and led us to the high point of the
whole valley. This significant upward effort through heavy snow afforded us the
incredible treat of an afternoon spent descending a frozen waterfall that flowed
down from so-called Summit Lake towards the sheer face of Mount Thor, the
world’s greatest vertical drop of 1,250 m. It was here on this steeply sloping ice
that our faithful pulks transformed into wildly untameable weights, hell-bent on
sweeping or knocking us off our feet. This demanded a careful descent: lowering
our pulks in front of us and bracing with our crampons in the ice to prevent what
could be a potentially disastrous twisted knee, ankle or worse. After some slightly
tense moments, the angle of the slope shallowed and we were able to clamber
astride our pulks, lift our legs from the ice and sledge the final couple of hundred
metres down towards the valley floor using our ski poles to try and steer. Having
swung around backwards, forwards and then sideways, I came to a stop and
collapsed into a fit of giggles. I think it may have been my favourite moment of the
whole trip. That afternoon, we edged further into the shadow of Thor and were
afforded an incredible camping spot at the foot of the towering peak that evening.
A halo surrounding the sun, formed by ice crystals in the air
Despite my fears, we didn’t see a polar bear, though sightings of several sets of
tracks were enough to set pulses racing at one point. Aside from the never-ending
cold, the most significant danger thrown at us was the extreme weather we
experienced on a couple of occasions. Headwinds found tiny chinks in our headto-toe layers, sapping any residual warmth trapped in clothing, making frostbite
even more of a threat. Our breath froze the moment it left our nose or mouth,
freezing our balaclava masks into rock solid muzzles which, combined with the
noise of wind, made communicating difficult. The strength of the headwind and
the weight of the pulks we pulled resulted in us being blown backwards on our
skis as forward progress on occasion became impossible. We had to admit defeat
on one day, sitting out the wind for the rest of the day and night. When we woke
the next morning, our pulks had been buried by spindrift in the night but the
glorious blue skies and still weather of previous days had thankfully returned.
When the wind didn’t blow I was aware that we were in a truly noiseless
landscape; frozen and still, it was unnervingly quiet. However, these
contemplative periods were few and far between as we kept up our steady pace
throughout the day. This meant that we were always accompanied by the strange
squeaks, hisses and creaks that came with moving across heavily compacted snow
and ice. We stopped for only a few minutes mid-morning, lunchtime and midafternoon for the sole purpose of cramming as many pieces of chocolate, dried
fruit, nuts and (most prized of all) frozen pork scratchings into our mouth as we
could, until we couldn’t physically bear the cold of being stationary any longer.
A view of Mt Thor during our waterfall descent
I am tremendously proud that our intrepid team of amateurs completed the
whole journey over eight days without injury or major incident. A number of
teams attempt the route during a short period at the end of winter each year and
three groups who were in the valley at the same time as us were rescued, due to
injury, frostbite or bad weather. Once we had safely arrived at our destination of
the village of Pangnirtung, we learned that we were in fact the first team to
successfully cross the Pass this year. Ironically, we were then unable to leave
Pangnirtung for several days as we waited for a clearing in the bad weather to
allow our small plane from the south to land. This delay to our plans actually
afforded us an unexpected addition to our trip by allowing us to experience
everyday life in such an isolated and unique community. We became (very) minor
celebrities about town, with our exploits even being mentioned on the local radio!
Aside from traversing the Pass, our expedition’s aim was to raise awareness
and funds for the work of the Youth Adventure Trust, a Wiltshire-based charity
working with vulnerable teenagers with whom I volunteer. The Trust does
fantastic work in providing a structured programme to allow disadvantaged
young people to challenge themselves in new and unfamiliar situations and push
their expectations of their own capability. The Trust achieves great success on a
comparatively tiny budget which means that, as a result of our team’s efforts in
raising almost £32,000 so far, many more young people will be given the
opportunity to develop themselves and learn about their own strengths.
I have found writing about the experience and trying to accurately document
what I saw and felt extremely hard. I have never been anywhere so beautiful, wild
or frightening as Baffin Island; the landscape and weather left me in no doubt of
just how vulnerable we were, yet everyday was a fantastic experience that
challenged us, educated us and generally made us feel extremely lucky to be
there, even on the days where we battled -45°C headwinds. I was genuinely
humbled by the whole experience. I’m looking forward to drawing on the
experience I gained as part of this trip to help me work with the young people on
the Youth Adventure Trust programme in achieving more than they might
otherwise consider possible.
www.youthadventuretrust.org.uk
www.justgiving.com/RhianEllie-YAT
Rhian Jones in front of Mt Asgard (the chimney peak in the background)
MA Degree
The following information concerning the MA degree may be useful to members of the
Society:
Standing: a Bachelor of Arts may be admitted Master of Arts six* calendar years after the end
of his or her first term of residence, provided that (which is usually the case) at least two
years have elapsed since taking the B.A. degree.
Fees: a fee of £5 is payable by those who took their BA degree in 1962 or earlier.
Please give at least four weeks’ notice before the Congregation at which you wish to take
your degree. Correspondence should be addressed to the Praelector.
* For affiliated students, five years.
Dining Rights and Guest Rooms
Members who hold an MA or other Master’s degree or a higher degree from the University,
or are qualified for an MA, are welcome to dine in College during Full Term or the period
of residence in the Long Vacation. For the academic year 2014–2015, ‘Full Term’ means
7 October to 5 December, 13 January to 13 March, and 21 April to 12 June; residence in the
Long Vacation runs for five weeks from early July.
Dining for Members is available on any evening of the week during term or Long Vacation
Residence except Tuesday or Saturday and on occasions when large College events take
place. A Member may dine as a guest of the College at High Table up to four times each
academic year (once a term and once in the Long Vacation residence), provided a Fellow is
present to preside. On one of those occasions, overnight accommodation is free of charge
for the Member if it is available.
It is regrettably not normally possible for spouses/partners to dine at the High Table.
However, for the academic year 2014-2015, the College will hold six ‘Members’ Evenings’,
when up to ten Members and their guests (ten people in all) may dine at the College’s
expense. It is recommended that large parties of Members, or Members and their
spouses/partners, should seek to use these evenings as particularly good opportunities
to dine in the College. The dates of these occasions in 2014-15 are: Monday 20 October
and Sunday 9 November (Remembrance Sunday), Monday 19 January 2015 and Sunday
22 February, Wednesday 6 May and Sunday 7 June (also a Scarlet Day – Whitsunday).
Overnight accommodation may also be available in College, at a reasonable charge (£42.50
per person, per night, for the current academic year), for a visit of a maximum of two
nights. The College has four en suite guest rooms (one twin-bedded room and three doublebedded rooms). Given these limited facilities, early notice is strongly advised when making
inquiries. The College would be grateful to be informed at the earliest opportunity if a
Member’s plans to visit have to be amended. The College also regrets that it will be
necessary to charge a Member for the full cost of the room in the event that that Member
should cancel his or her visit without notice.
Arrangements for dining, or for staying in a guest room, should be made through the
Development Office either by telephone (01223 339079), letter, fax (01223 339081), or
email ([email protected]). Should Members simply wish to book a guest room, this can
be done directly with the Porters’ Lodge by telephone (01223 338100).

2014 - Pembroke College - University of Cambridge

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