2013 Annual Report - Jesus College

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jesus college
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cambridge
2013
one hundred and ninth annual report
jesus college • cambridge
2013
one hundred and ninth annual report
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Contents
Message from the Master
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Fellows and Other Senior Members 2012-2013
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Articles
On Learning Classical Greek Anthony Bowen
An Anthropologist Investigates Flying Saucers Timothy Jenkins
On Being a Freelance Historian
Dominic Sandbrook and Lizzie Collingham
Pylons James Purdon
How the Leopard Got its Spots Paul Grant
Fathoming the Earth Laura Alisic
How Salmonella Invades Anthony Davidson
Undressing Narrative Jennifer Early
A Global Civil War of Ideas Duncan Kelly
In the Mind of God John Hughes
On Writing an American Intellectual History Michael O’Brien
Fracking – Myths and Facts Robert Mair
A Life in the Day of the Librarian Rhona Watson
College History
College News
The Don Who Was Ousted John Cornwell
Arundel Marbles and a Don of Jesus College
Dr French and Dr Corrie –
a Study in Contrasts Peter Glazebrook
Jane Renfrew
People
Art at Jesus 2012-2013
The Chapel
Chapel Music
The Laurence Sterne Tercentenary 1713-2013
The Libraries and Archives
Books and Articles by Members and Old Members
donated to the College 2012-2013
Rustat Conferences
Bursary
Development Office
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India Photo Call
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College Societies
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Sports Clubs 117
Members’ News
People
Births
Marriages and Civil Partnerships
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Obituaries
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Awards and Results
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Events
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MESSAGE FROM THE MASTER I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
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Message from the Master
Ian White
“This feeling of ancient seclusion [in Jesus College] is
preserved today by the great open spaces of Butts Green,
Jesus Green and Midsummer Common, which shield
the College on three sides from the menace of
Cambridge suburbs ranged round in solid phalanx…”,
Country Life, 1928
requently over the past year, my attention has been
drawn to the beauty of Jesus College and the impact
that this has, not only on the collegiality of its members,
but also on the impression it makes on visitors and the
relationships forged as a result. I have been struck how
similar comments are made by those in very different
spheres and stages of life, and not only by Jesuans. Over
the past weekend, for example, I have heard senior visitors from overseas who hold major
national roles describing how conducive the environment is to discussing major issues,
and children from schools in inner London describing how inspired they have been by the
College as they have learnt about new subjects. Benefitting from the hard work and
expertise of those maintaining the buildings, looking after the gardens and providing
excellent hospitality, the beauty of the College, for many, creates an environment where
ideas can be exchanged more readily, and solutions or opportunities sought with a sense
of common purpose. For many, of course, the key feature of Collegiate Cambridge is that
the colleges provide that secure and special place where students can be stretched and
stretch themselves, follow their aspirations and achieve goals which they had not
previously felt possible.
This year of course, we are delighted by how the refurbished Chapel and Marshall Courts
have enhanced the College. The new accommodation for students has been greatly
welcomed and I have no doubt that it will help current and future cohorts of students to
thrive and excel in the coming years. Our commitment to providing important facilities
continues with great focus now being placed on the potential opportunity to acquire the
Wesley House site which could provide dedicated space for collective intellectual activities,
for meetings, collaborative project work, a hub for our ever-growing graduate community
and for hosting visitors, all areas in which the College’s provision is currently limited. I am
particularly grateful to those who have given and indeed continue to contribute to the costs
involved in the upkeep and enhancement of our buildings for the benefit of the wider
College community. It is greatly appreciated.
Indeed our students have thrived over the past year. Their performance at Tripos has
again been excellent, the College moving up to 6th place in the Tompkins League Table,
and a record number of our finalists being awarded first class degrees. This was matched
by the performance of our graduate students who also contributed so much to the life of
the College. For the second time this year, we invited certain local Cambridge alumni of the
College to the Graduate Conference and I believe that we all enjoyed the diversity of what
was presented, from a talk by a PhD student on doing origami with individual DNA
molecules to a fascinating account of the “killing fields trial” in Cambodia, from an MPhil
student, who until recently was based there in the Australian Embassy.
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MESSAGE FROM THE MASTER I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
Academic honours were not restricted to students and it was a pleasure to note several
fellows receiving major international awards and prizes during the year. Professor James
Crawford, Fellow and Whewell Professor of International Law, was awarded a Companion
of the Order of Australia for eminent service to the law, Professor Jean Bacon was awarded
an honorary doctorate by the Open University, and Professor Michael O’Brien, Fellow and
Professor of American Intellectual History, was the first recipient of the WoodwardFranklin Prize of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. We were delighted recently to elect
new fellows in Hispanic languages and History of Art, this strengthening the academic
support available to our students.
Music in College has continued to excel, with superb concerts being held throughout the
year, several benefitting from the extremely generous donations of a new Steinway piano
and of funds provided to refurbish the Sutton Organ. We believe that the College now is in
possession of one of the finest collections of keyboard instruments in Cambridge.
A particular highlight was the choir’s tour to Mumbai at Easter where for the first time, in
addition to performing in concerts, it supported the work of a charity, Songbound, which
seeks to invigorate children in slum areas of India by giving them the opportunity to sing
in choirs. This new type of activity, indeed new for the University, drew national interest,
and it is clear to me that under the leadership of our Director of Chapel Music, the College
is increasingly being looked to for leadership across the University in musical matters.
Sport remained strong in College as described later in the report. It is invidious to choose
any to discuss here, but having had a poor record as Master in attending Cuppers finals at
which the College side has lost, I was very pleased to learn about the men’s hockey final
this year, which for the first time involved Jesus College I playing Jesus College II, the IIs
having defeated St John’s College I and the holders St Catharine’s College on their way to
the final. It was an interesting match in front of a very partisan crowd, but nonetheless the
first team were triumphant.
Drama remains strong in College with students participating in major ADC productions,
touring and taking productions to Edinburgh. In art, we celebrated a major milestone with
the launch of the 25th Anniversary of the Sculpture in the Close exhibition, generously
supported by Antony Gormley and Vicken Parsons. As a result of the vision of Lord
Renfrew, Sculpture in the Close has become part of both College and Cambridge tradition
and Jesus College is indeed known well beyond Cambridge for contemporary sculpture.
A continuing joy in College is to witness the commitment and interest of its alumni. The
past year of course had just witnessed a most memorable JCCS dinner hosted by Sir David
Wootton in the Mansion House, the largest dinner to be held there during his term as Lord
Mayor, and of course, the College was especially delighted to receive a visit by the Earl of
Wessex during the Michaelmas term. It was a very great pleasure to see growing numbers
of alumni attend reunion dinners, and in particular a most glorious garden party in June.
These events remind one not only of the continuing interest in and affection for the College
from alumni, but also the continuing involvement of many in running events, providing
advice to the College students and fellows, and of course in financial support. Through
this and other such events, I have come to learn so much more clearly of the lasting impact
and benefit the College has had on its members; to have done so has been an enormous
privilege and has highlighted for me how we must strive to guard and maintain it.
FELLOWS AND OTHER SENIOR MEMBERS 2012-2013 I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
Fellows and Other Senior Members
2012-2013
Master
Professor I H White FREng
Fellows
Professor H le B Skaer (President)
Dr D E Hanke
Dr M R Minden (Tutorial Adviser)
Mr N J Ray MA ARIBA
Professor J B Thompson
Professor P H Nolan CBE
Dr J R Howlett (Praelector and Tutorial Adviser)
Professor I Paterson FRS
Dr M L S Sørensen
Dr G T Parks (Senior Tutor)
Professor J M Soskice
Dr M P C Oldham
Professor P Alexander
Dr R Mengham (Curator of Works of Art)
Professor D A S Compston FRCP
Professor M M Arnot FRSA AcSS
(Graduate Tutor)
The Rev’d Dr T D Jenkins
Professor J R Crawford, SC FBA
Professor R Cipolla FREng
Dr S Fennell (Financial Tutor)
Dr D I Wilson CEng
Dr J W Ajioka
Professor S A T Redfern (Tutor for Rooms)
Dr J P T Clackson
(Fellows’ Steward and Tutorial Adviser)
Dr M R Laven
Dr T S Aidt
Dr S T C Siklos
Dr T D Wilkinson (Deputy Graduate Tutor)
Dr V Mottier
Dr P Krishnan
Professor R J Mair CBE FREng FRS
Dr F M Green
Professor J A Dowdeswell
(Brian Buckley Fellow in Polar Sciences)
Professor M O’Brien FBA
Dr N G Berloff
Dr S Clarke
Zoology
Botany
MML (German)
Architecture
Social & Political Sciences
Chinese Management
MML (Russian)
Chemistry
Archaeology
Engineering
Theology
Law
Physics
English
Neurology
Education
Theology
International Law
Engineering
Land Economy
Chemical Engineering
Medicine
Earth Sciences
Classics
History
Economics
Mathematics
Engineering
Economics
Engineering
English
Physical Geography
History
Mathematics
Chemistry
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Dr M F Gill
MML (French)
Dr W Federle
Biology
Dr B Walton
Music
Dr O A Scherman
Chemistry
Dr R E Flemming
Classics
Dr C E Chambers
Philosophy
Mr R J P Dennis MA (Development Director
and Keeper of the Records)
Physics
Professor J J Baumberg FRS
Dr G N Wells (Dean of College)
Engineering
Dr D J Kelly (Keeper of the Plate)
Dr C M Burlinson (Vivian Cox Fellow in English) English
Dr B M B Post (Admissions Tutor)
Linguistics
Biology
Professor A H Brand FRS
Dr M J Edwards
(Gurnee F Hart Fellow in History)
History
Professor H L Moore
Social Anthropology
Professor K S Lilley
Chemistry
Dr C Mascolo
Computer Science
Dr O Caramello
Mathematics
Dr M V Lombardo
Psychiatry
Mr M T Williams MA (Director of Chapel Music) Music
History
Mr S C James MPhil
Dr A R Tucker
Geography
Physics
Mr L M Butcher MA
Dr C-B Schoenlieb
Mathematics
Rev’d Dr J M D Hughes
(Dean of Chapel and Tutorial Adviser)
Divinity
Dr N A Rutter
Materials Science
Dr R Morieux
History
Mrs A Künzl-Snodgrass (Tutorial Adviser)
MML (German)
Dr F H Willmoth (Archivist)
History and Philosophy of Science
Dr J Purdon
English
Dr R Reich
MML (Russian)
Dr M Waibel
Law
Dr F G Stark (Yates Glazebrook Fellow
in Law)
Law
Dr S Schnall
Psychology
Mr C L M Pratt MA (Bursar)
Emeritus Fellows
Professor K L Johnson PhD FREng FRS
Dr C J Adkins CPhys FInstP
Dr D S Whitehead
Dr J A Hudson
Dr J E Roseblade
Professor M J Waring FRSC ScD
Dr J Cameron Wilson
Dr W C Saslaw
Mr P R Glazebrook MA
Professor J T Killen PhD FBA
Professor S C Heath LittD (Keeper of the Old Library and Fellow Librarian)
Professor P D A Garnsey PhD FBA
Dr S B Hladky (Admissions Tutor)
Dr S Evans
Dr G C Harcourt AO LittD FASSA AcSS
Professor D K Fieldhouse LittD FBA
Professor W J Stronge
Dr R D Bowers
Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn MA ScD HonDLitt FBA (Honorary Fellow)
Professor R Freeman ScD FRS
Professor Sir Bruce Ponder FRCP FRS
Mr A J Bowen MA
Professor J C W Mitchell
Professor J M Bacon
Mr S J Barton MA
Honorary Fellows
Professor Sir Denys Wilkinson MA PhD ScD FRS HonFilDr HonLLD
Professor P W Anderson MA FRS
Professor P Mathias CBE MA DLitt FBA
Sir Samuel Brittan MA HonDLitt
Professor C J H Hogwood CBE MA HonMusD
Miss Jessye Norman MMus HonMusD HonDHL HonRAM
Professor A W Cuthbert ScD FRS
The Hon A R Gubbay MA LLM SC HonLLD
Lord Renwick of Clifton MA HonLLD HonDLitt FRSA
The Rt Hon Lord Stewartby of Portmoak PC MA LittD FBA FRSE
Professor Lord Rees of Ludlow MA PhD OM PRS
Sir Alistair Horne CB MA LittD
Professor R F Tuck MA FBA
Professor Dame Sandra Dawson DBE MA FIPH FCGI HonDSc CIM
Sir David Hare MA HonLittD FRSL
Mr A M D Gormley OBE MA HonLitt D
Reverend Professor B W Silverman MA PhD ScD FRS
Lord Watson of Richmond CBE MA FRTS
Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn MA ScD HonDLitt FBA (Emeritus Fellow)
Professor L A Jardine CBE MA PhD
Dr P J Hurford OBE MA MusB FRCO
Mr S Chatterjee MA
The Rt Hon Sir Roger Grenfell Toulson PC MA LLB
Mr M Perahia FRCM
Professor K E Wrightson MA PhD FRHistS FBA
Professor E S Maskin FBAHon MAHon DHL
Professor T F Eagleton MA FBA HonDLitt
The Rt Hon Sir Rupert Jackson PC
Mr J A O’Donnell MA KCSG FRCO FRSCM FGCM FRCM
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St Radegund Fellows
Mr J Hudleston
Mr R Kwok MA
Fellow Commoners
Mr J Cornwell MA HonDLitt FRSL (Editor of the Annual Report)
Professor B A K Rider PhD Hon LLD
Dr S S Saxena
Professor P J Williamson PhD
Lector
Mr A Ollivier
French
College Research Associates
Dr P Figueras
Dr D B Leith
Dr M Pritchard
Dr L Wartosch
Dr F Castles
Dr B Perreau
Dr C Ramalingam
Dr S Vignolini
Dr L Alisic
Dr P Grant
Dr E K Nichols
Dr N J Teh
Society of St Radegund
Charles Rawlinson (1952)
Geoffrey Granter (1957)
Eric Robinson (1942)
Brian Buckley (1962)
David Bennett
Richard Bawden (1947)
Firdaus Ruttonshaw (1968)
Gurnee Hart (1994)
Andrew Sutton (1965)
Christopher Rodrigues (1968)
Christine Jennings
Alasdair Morrison (1968)
Tomás Carruthers (1986)
Richard Briance (1971)
Michael Marshall (1952)
David Wootton (1969)
Jessica Sainsbury (1989)
Peter Doimi de Frankopan Subic (1990)
Patrick Wilson (1974)
Peter Day (1968)
Charles Hoare Nairne (1989)
Dr David Cunningham
Dr Martin Clarke (1975)
Adrian Frost (1976)
Ron Davies (1953)
Tony Thorne (1958)
Michael Booth (1959)
Paul Burnham (1967)
Christopher Kirker (1969)
Philip Yates (1978)
Joanne Yates (1980)
Albert Goh (1990)
Marshall of Cambridge Ltd
David Hibbitt (1962)
Susan Hibbitt
Stephen Heath (1964)
Articles
CLASSICS I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
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On Learning Classical Greek
Anthony Bowen
A Fellow looks back over sixty years’ engagement with Classical Greek
started learning ancient Greek aged 12.
Compared with boys at established
preparatory schools, I was two years behind
already. When my headmaster declared after
a term that he knew no more (he hadn’t
taught Greek for years), my father, who
taught French at Reading University,
arranged for me to start the morning twice a
week not at school but in the Greek
beginners’ class taught by Professor
Cormack in the university.
In short trousers I joined young men and
women of 19 and 20. First we did the
grammar. I could do that; I’d started Latin
and French aged 8. My classmates mostly
found it difficult not just to memorise the
declensions, conjugations and vocabulary but
also to manage the Greek penchant for
irregularity.
The next term we read Plato’s Apology. They
enjoyed that. I hadn’t a clue what was going
on, but I found that diligent attention to the
syntax allowed me to translate quite
accurately, and that helped a lot when I
returned to catching up my contemporaries.
Of course, I was too young for Socrates and
many of them were too old for easy language
learning. Nothing matches the success of
children learning their mother tongue;
perhaps we never concentrate on anything so
well again, but the mother tongue goes into a
different part of the brain from languages
learnt more consciously, and comparisons
with mother tongue learning are not helpful,
except to note the fate of so-called wolfchildren, those who completely miss a
context of human speech in their first years:
they never catch up at all (the classic case is
that of the wild boy of Aveyron, taken in hand
by Dr J M G Itard who first wrote him up in
1801).
The human brain if not stimulated in time
clearly passes a point at which its Chomskyan
capacity for language learning no longer
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works. I suspect there is another moment,
linked to puberty, when rote learning in its
turn becomes very difficult. Children can get
to know, and take great pride in knowing, a
vast amount of fact: for boys, it may be
biographies of pop stars and footballers,
dates of kings and queens, specifications of
cars, planes and trains (I’m not quite sure
what the equivalents are for girls); similar are
declensions and conjugations. Some of it we
wanted to know and some of it we needed to
know; it was all grist to the same mill. We
learnt a piece of poetry every week; only some
of it remains with me because I repeated only
some of it after it had served its purpose in
class, but the sheer experience of learning it
was, I am sure, helpful in learning other
things (and something else, about rhythm,
stuck very deep). We did not as children
understand all the poetry we learnt, but if you
have it in the head, understanding will come
as you mature, and I’d rather have it put there
imperfectly understood than not have it there
at all.
All teachers know the quarrel, however,
between learning a thing when you need it
and learning it in case you need it.
There may be another staging point in the
weakening of the ability to learn which comes
some time after puberty, or perhaps we lose
capacity steadily. I remember a woman of a
certain age, as the French say, who was in a
group I was teaching at the JACT Greek
summer school in Cheltenham 35 years ago.
After three days she said, “Oh Mr Bowen,
I just can’t remember it as fast as the rest of
them do, but please can I stay on?”. She
would have suffered the same in any other
group, and she stayed, but I had to be careful
in asking her questions.
Some of all that was with me, I like to
think, when in 1990, after nearly 30 years of
school teaching I returned to Cambridge at
the invitation of the Faculty of Classics to set
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up a course in intensive Greek for students
who could not matriculate in the language,
then a third of the intake; now they are a good
half. By the time I retired from my post in
2003 the Faculty had decided to invest in
language teaching; there were three of us
delivering the course, which was adapted
from year to year, as it still is, to take account
of the students’ declining rote knowledge of
Latin (they start later and are often taught by
teachers of less sure knowledge than used to
be the case), and we were about to welcome
the first students on the four year course, for
those who could not matriculate in either
ancient language: they begin with Latin, and
then, if all goes well enough, they move on to
Greek. I have just been teaching a group of
them at the Faculty summer school.
The Faculty does not, strictly speaking, deal
in absolute beginners except for Greek for the
four year lot. All who are offered places,
whether firm or conditional, are required
either to go to the JACT summer school in
Latin (at Wells Cathedral School) or in Greek
(at Bryanston School in Dorset) or the
equivalent to get started: they come up with
what would take a year or more to learn in a
school. I first taught on the Greek school in
1975 and I have missed only two years at one
or the other since. The summer school
generates an atmosphere in which
concentrated learning is easier than it can be
anywhere else: the shared enthusiasm is
infectious. In 1975, moreover, we were
trialling a new course for beginners, now
called Reading Greek, published by CUP;
unlike most such courses, which are the
brainchild of a particular teacher and suffer
from quirks accordingly, it incorporates the
experience and advice of many of the
country’s best Classics teachers and had a
remarkable governing body of scholars to
oversee its creation; in Peter Jones it had an
inimitable and inventive director. I was using
it again last week, with pleasure and
admiration undimmed; it has recently been
revised, partly to allow for learners without
any Latin. The continuing existence of
Classics owe s very much to the vision and
determination of JACT, the Joint Association
of Classical Teachers, now some 50 years old.
My job at Cambridge was to take things on
from where the students were at the end of
summer school. There are four tasks in
learning a language: vocabulary, accidence,
syntax and rhetoric. If the first is mostly up to
the student, the last is mostly up to the
teacher. But Greek is so constructed that a
teacher who knows its history can make
much of its vocabulary transparent.
I decided to use the perceptions of
philology to help learning to be done
more intelligently. In the Indo-European
languages, word-stems may vary in their
vowels: in English, sing/sang/sung and song
are the classic example. In Greek, lego is
‘I speak’ (e gives the verb) and logos is
‘speech’ (o gives the noun, and a great deal
else), and there are derivatives of each (lexis
and logic, for instance, both come through
into English) with various suffixes which also
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have predictable function. A perception of
stem variation can release many words into
intelligibility. In early Greek some sounds
were lost: intervocalic s had disappeared
prehistorically, causing the two vowels now
in contact to combine.
Last week I showed that this loss explained
the endings of adjectives in –es; when I wrote
one up on the board with the s in place and
then wiped the sigmas out to leave the vowels
on either side uncombined, one student
cried, ‘Oh that’s beautiful!’.
Thus a dose of philology helps in the
laborious tasks of learning words and
endings, and reminds students of the fact
that language is always on the move. As for
rhetoric, it helps to know that ‘Thine is the
kingdom, the power and the glory’ is a literal
translation from a language in which the
front of the sentence carries the most
important word and the rest of the sentence
tails off like a comet. English word order
tends to the opposite. A translation into
modern English should say ‘The kingship,
the power and the glory are yours’ – not
someone else’s, that is. Show pattern.
The task of learning remains, but where at
12 you learn because you can, at 20 you can
use some explanation. Ancient Greek is not
on the face of it an easy language, but it is
beautifully transparent.
‘ ¢ πολλa
¢
¢
¢ δiδaσκoμενος
γηρaσκω
δ’ aiεi
I grow old learning plenty all the time
Solon of Athens – Greek Statesman and Poet
Poetic Fragment 18
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ANTHROPOLOGY I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
An Anthropologist Investigates Flying
Saucers
Timothy Jenkins
How a closer look at belief in flying saucers offers new insights
for anthropologists
itherto, with honourable exceptions,
academic research into flying saucers
has mostly been to explain how mistaken
some people can be. This approach has
routinely resulted in psychological accounts –
seeking explanations at a mental level, such
as the deception of others, or self-deceit in
the form of compensation for deprivation or
disillusion. Some accounts in the past have
invoked neurophysiology – the mistaken
input of the senses, hallucinations and so
forth, whether individual or collective. It
might be more interesting, however, to ask
the standard anthropological questions: what
are people doing when they resort to these
notions? What do they achieve by doing so?
And under what social conditions do claims
for the existence of flying saucers appear?
Flying saucers emerged as a popular
phenomenon in the aftermath of the Second
World War, although there are plenty of
precedents in earlier fiction. They were much
discussed in the media and became a topic of
interest to various informal groups
(including what were called flying saucer
clubs in the 1950s). They formed part of the
Cold War originally.
There was a brilliant study made of one
such informal group in the Chicago area,
entitled When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger
and others (1956). This group not only
discussed flying saucers, but also received
messages from “spacemen” through the
group’s spirit medium. The spacemen told
their medium contact that they had been able
to penetrate the earth’s atmosphere with their
craft because of the recent disturbances
caused by the exploding of atomic weapons.
They had been surveying human industrial
activity and the build-up of arms. Moreover,
they had seen signs of a coming natural
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catastrophe, when land masses would fall
and the seas would rise, causing the flooding
of much of the North American continent.
Their proposed reasons for making
contact were twofold: first, to warn human
kind of the coming disaster; next, to gather a
selected group of humans to be taken to
another planet where they would be trained
and returned to earth in order to lead the
recovery of the human race.
The social scientists who studied this
group were interested in the patterns
exhibited by groups who expected some great
event: the coming of the Messiah, or the end
of the world; moreover, how groups coped
with the disappointment of their
expectations. The social scientists joined this
group, posing as fellow enthusiasts. They
subsequently wrote accounts offering
detailed descriptions of the group in its dayto-day activities, while the supposed date of
the crisis approached and passed. They
proposed a theory labelled “cognitive
dissonance” (how people cope, under
different conditions, with hopes and facts
that do not match up) to account for the
group’s mental coping-mechanisms. The
theory, widely invoked to explain all kinds of
behaviour, has now entered ordinary
educated conversation.
Re-reading the book fifty years on, a
number of aspects strike the reader: not least,
whether it was entirely ethical to infiltrate a
group without permission or knowledge of
the participants. But the primary impression
is of the richness of the description, which
accounts in large part for the book still being
in print. It is clear that the series of events at
the heart of the book was not produced solely
by the group and their medium but the
interactions between three sets of people.
There was the group, certainly, but also the
sociologists who had infiltrated, and the
media which got hold of the story and
accelerated the rhythm of events to a crisis.
Rather than being “mental” events, produced
in the heads of the group members, they were
‘social’ events prompted by interactions
between different groups with different
beliefs and aims.
Perhaps the most significant interaction
was between the interests and ideas which
motivated the group around the medium and
the focus of the investigation introduced by
the social scientists who entered the group.
This interaction could be described as a
misunderstanding between a concern with
“prophecy” on the part of one party, and
“prediction” on the part of the other. The
social scientists took the notion of prophecy
to be a prediction – in this case a prediction
concerning a future event, a world disaster
and the arrival of flying saucers.
This view, however, misses what
concerned the group’s medium, who was
more interested in the disappearance of
previously secure forms of measurement
which hitherto had allowed prediction of the
future. The forms which had become
(temporarily) uncertain were clear from her
messages and concerned a variety of
scientific discoveries and technical
inventions. In essence, the messages
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concerned space travel (still technically in the
future), involving transformed concepts of
distance; continental drift, involving
disturbed certainties about place; and nuclear
warfare, involving the dissolution of the
boundaries of the defensible self in what
came to be called ‘mutually assured
destruction’.
The medium was therefore working in an
environment in which the parameters of
distance, place and the bounded self had
become uncertain; where the notion of
prediction – which assumes stable and
unquestioned categories of measurement –
ceased to operate. The medium glimpsed
what we might call a new world condition,
with new threats and new possibilities of
participation. She articulated, moreover, an
account of these threats and possibilities in
the language available to her, offering an
version that made sense to her group.
Indeed, what she had to say was sufficiently
well understood to make sense to the media,
as well as to the social scientists, who could
work with spirit messages from outer space
as if they were perfectly familiar with such
notions. The medium was dealing not with
the future but the present, improvising a
seriesof solutions, drawing on elements
available from what is known as the
American tradition of ‘Metaphysical’ religion
– a mix of Christian, occult, philosophical
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and therapeutic ideas. She was creating a
compelling moral vision, with a description
of certain vital features of the contemporary
world, and offering her followers the
prospect of playing some sort of valuable role
in that world – of being potentially of service
to their fellow creatures in a time of crisis.
We might notice two things about this
encounter. First, ideas of flying saucers and
spacemen may become compelling under
this kind of condition without having to be
‘real’ in the positive sense of actually being
present. When the parameters of
measurement (by which we normally
establish what being present means)
temporarily become unclear, it is not evident
what ‘real’ might mean. We might suppose
that the material conditions of the time are
then conducive to the appearance of
imaginary objects. There is a great deal more
that could be said on this and the forms of
existence of paranormal phenomena.
Moreover, the medium’s grasp of the
implications for ordinary people of
international political events, scientific and
technological advances, and the potential for
meaningful moral action, was vastly more
sophisticated and outward looking than the
social scientists’ understanding. The social
scientists ignored the wider situation and
tried simply to pin the group’s vision of a new
world order to a supposed mental condition
that self-compensated for disappointed
hopes by avoiding facing the truth. Again, it
would be possible to go a good deal further
with this line of argument.
Why make an academic study of flying
saucers? A re-reading of the kind I propose
gives us clues as to how to tackle other
anomalous social phenomena. This
perspective is open to further elaboration,
both in developing a sociology of groups
organized around prophecies or secrets (they
are legion, including the promises offered
by some scientific research), and an
examination of the various overlapping
presuppositions held by the different parties
engaged in the generation of these kinds of
events. This allows a review of a wide variety
of social events which belong to nobody, but
which develop in a series of unanticipated
patterns. The study of flying saucers is an
example of this.
One last remark: these phenomena are not
in any sense new or recent, and the longerterm continuities can be traced conveniently
by reading novels. When Prophecy Fails led to a
novel by Alison Lurie, Imaginary Friends
(1967), which was in fact where I first
encountered the study and the materials it
contains. But Lurie was also playing with
earlier accounts, drawing on Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s description of Mesmerism in
The Blithedale Romance (1854) and, in
particular, on Henry James’ use of
Spiritualism in The Bostonians (1888). Lurie
even borrows the name of James’ young
heroine for her medium to make the point.
These novels sketch a history of engagement
with the Metaphysical, and flying saucers are
simply one in a long sequence of continuing
phenomena.
Timothy Jenkins has just published Of Flying
Saucers and Social Scientists: a re-reading of When
Prophecy Fails and of Cognitive Dissonance,
Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
HISTORY I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
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On Being a Freelance Historian
Dominic Sandbrook and Lizzie Collingham
Two Jesuans, a former graduate student and a former Fellow,
reflect on their lives as historians without a university base
en years ago [writes Dominic Sandbrook],
I had an email that changed my life.
At the time I was working as a lecturer at
the University of Sheffield, my first job after
finishing my PhD at Jesus. I’d been there for
two years, and to be honest, I was bored.
On the day I got the email, I had been
teaching a class on historiography, a
compulsory element on almost all history
courses but one that very few lecturers
genuinely enjoy teaching. Left to our own
devices, I suspect almost none of us would
have volunteered to do it, but we all had to do
it anyway. (It always amused me, by the way,
how it rarely occurred to the students that
their lecturers were just as grumpy and
reluctant as they were.)
That afternoon, as the rain poured down
outside our dingy 1960s-style annexe
building, I had been running a seminar on
‘Representations’, about how historians
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represent the past. The students seemed
bored, listless, depressed. I was pretty
depressed too, to be honest. So that night,
when an email appeared in my inbox with the
subject heading ‘Representation’, my heart
sank. I didn’t recognise the sender’s name; it
was probably one of the quiet ones, sitting at
the back, with a question about the reading
list.
But as my eyes travelled down the screen,
I realised I was looking at something very
different. It was from an agent, asking if it
would be possible to discuss my literary
representation. I Googled his name, and
then, my heart suddenly thumping, I realised
I did know it after all. “Nicknamed ‘the
Jackal’”, said the first website I found, “he is
best known for securing Martin Amis a
£500,000 advance for his novel The
Information”. Oh, I thought, my mind numb.
Not a student after all.
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At the time, it all felt a bit like something
from Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis’s famous
campus novel, in which the downtrodden
history lecturer Jim Dixon is miraculously
catapulted from provincial obscurity to a new
life in the capital. In the book, Dixon owes his
escape not to his own merits but to a wealthy
patron, who is amused by his rebellious
temperament. And I, too, was enormously
lucky. As I later discovered, the Jackal was in
the middle of a trawl for historians, and my
name had been mentioned by my former
Cambridge supervisor, Tony Badger – now
the Master of Clare – as well as Sheffield’s
best-known academic star, Ian Kershaw –
later knighted for his biographies of Hitler.
So, trembling with nervous excitement all the
way down from Sheffield, I went to see Wylie
in London. A few days later, I handed in my
notice.
In case you are wondering, my advance was
a lot less than Martin Amis’s – an awful lot
less. From the outside, freelance writing can
look like a glamorous way to make a living,
as you drift from launch party to literary
festival, dashing off the odd hundred words
in between. In reality, of course, it’s nothing
like that at all.
I have been very lucky in the last ten years.
Perhaps the biggest stroke of luck was that
my one good idea – a series of books telling
the story of Britain from the 1950s to the
present – somehow caught the public
imagination. I never really thought about it
that way, though. For ages I had been
interested in reading something serious but
entertaining about the post-war years.
Eventually, tired of waiting for somebody
better than me to write it, I decided to do it
myself. I was lucky that the person who
reviewed my first book for the Spectator
happened to be the Telegraph’s literary editor,
lucky that he liked it, and lucky that he asked
me to do the odd piece for him. I was lucky
that the comment editor of the Evening
Standard, quite by chance, picked up the book
and read it too. Later, I was lucky that a
producer at the BBC, quite independently,
was interested in the 1970s and heard that I
was writing a book about it.
To some extent, of course, you make your
own luck. But things could easily have turned
out differently. And if they had, maybe I
would have regretted my decision. The one
thing that never really occurs to people who
don’t write for a living – and the thing that
often obsesses people who do – is how you’re
actually going to make any money. It’s all very
well to sign a book deal for what sounds like
a handsome advance, but that advance has
got to stretch over several years. You get a bit
more money when you finish – but what if the
research takes longer than you thought?
What if the sales are a bit disappointing?
What if the publishers don’t go for your next
idea? Then you might be yearning for those
historiography classes after all.
So when people ask me, as they often do,
how to make it as a ‘popular’ historian, I have
only one answer. You just have to produce,
and keep producing. The problem, though,
is that you can’t let your standards drop,
because you’ll damage your own brand – a
horrible word, but that’s what it is. In my
case, I made a rod for my own back by
kicking off with a 300,000-word book on the
late 1950s, which effectively meant that the
subsequent volumes had to be just as long.
On one hand that’s great: readers often tell
me that they like the level of detail. I like to
read long books, and I love writing them.
Alas, my accountant sees it rather differently.
The other thing that strikes me about life
as a ‘popular’ historian is how inaccurate the
title is. In April 2012 I wrote and presented
my first television series, The 70s, which went
out on BBC2. By that point, I had published
four books, all of which had been widely
reviewed, and was writing regularly for the
Sunday Times and Daily Mail. But if ever I had
delusions of grandeur, they were punctured
by the sheer number of people expressing
complete bafflement that the BBC had asked
me, apparently a total nobody, to make the
series. (I’m thinking of you, Danny Baker!)
Occasionally someone on the Internet would
say: ‘Well, he did write these books …’ But
then the next person would write, as though
in outrage: ‘Well, I’ve never heard of them!’
and my spirits would sink again.
Looking back at my life since I left Jesus,
though, I wouldn’t change anything.
I enjoyed teaching, but, like most lecturers,
I never really had the time to throw myself
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into it. And in truth, leaving academia felt like
a liberation. No more exam scripts, no more
second marking, no more stupid forms to fill
in, no more departmental meetings where
every sits around and fiddles with their
agendas while some miserable sod reads out
the latest directive from the top brass. Instead
I’ve spent much of this year walking up and
down streets talking to a camera that nobody
else can see, while passers-by recoil in horror
from what they presume is an escaped lunatic.
Dominic Sandbrook’s books include: Never
Had it So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to
the Beatles; White Heat: A History of Britain in the
Swinging Sixties; State of Emergency: They Way We
Were: Britain 1970-174; Seasons in the Sun: The
Battle for Britain 1974-1979.
hen I was asked to write about being a
free-lance historian while being a
mother [writes Lizzie Collingham] I sat down at
my desk and began to wonder what that
would mean. It might mean a few remarks
about the equitable apportioning of childcare
and housework with my husband; the need
for flexibility; the necessity of returning to
one’s desk after a long day in the library and
after-school activities, dinner and bedtime
were over, in order to put in the necessary
number of writing hours; the joys of
watching a child grow and the way this puts
the demands of work into perspective.
I soon saw this line of thought had a
drawback. You will have heard it all before.
Furthermore, I felt vaguely depressed.
To quote Virginia Woolf again, women are
now educated, they are legally entitled to
possess property, they have the vote, the
professions are open to them, they bear
children in twos or threes not tens or twelves,
but it still makes sense to ask a woman this
question.
Just as an academic feels she should be
working all the time, so does a writer,
whether she is a mother or not. Nevertheless,
the free-lance life has many compensations.
I am on continuous sabbatical, free from
marking, meetings and administration.
When I was a visiting fellow at the Australian
National University’s research department,
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Well, that and writing articles for the Daily
Mail about what Britain will be like in 2081
when Prince George comes to the throne.
Now that’s more like my idea of fun.
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quite a few people remarked on how a feeling
of inertia gradually crept over the
department’s academics the longer they
stayed. Research time yawned endlessly
ahead of them and they began to miss the
stimulation of interchange with students.
Fortunately, the life of a recluse suits me. I am
almost certainly in the process of becoming
one of the eccentric fixtures in the University
Library who does not appear to have
anywhere else to go.
Writing trade books (the publishers’ name
for history books which are supposed to sell)
does, however, come with its own set of
constraints. My ability to potter about in the
archive is restricted. Publishers have to be
convinced that the topic I choose will be
sufficiently popular with the general reader.
If six months’ archival research results in a
fascinating but esoteric discovery it will have
been six months wasted. I am a reluctant
historian of food. When I set out to write a
popular history my agent chose Curry from
five or six ideas I had for books because she
was convinced that a food-based book would
be the most likely to capture publishers’
interest. The label of food historian has since
then been firmly attached to me in
publishers’ minds. However, the pressure to
write about food has made me more inventive
than I might have been. I am not interested
in reconstructing historical eating patterns
but I do find food a surprisingly good tool
with which to re-examine apparently familiar
historical topics. For instance, the Allied
landings in North Africa in November 1942
have been endlessly discussed by historians.
Was Churchill right to push for this rather
than the opening of a Second Front in
Europe? What contribution did the fighting
in North Africa make to winning the war?
But, if looked at from the perspective of food
rather than military strategy, Churchill’s
policy was a disaster. Shipping space, which
was already in short supply, became even
scarcer. Churchill chose to prioritise the
transport of food and equipment to the army
and the British Isles and to cut shipping to
the Indian Ocean by 60 per cent. As a result
no relief was forthcoming for the victims of
the Bengal famine in which 3 million died,
nor for famine victims in East Africa. The
Mauritians stranded on a tiny island in the
Indian Ocean, dependent on imports of
Burmese rice, made valiant attempts to feed
themselves by growing manioc, maize, sweet
potatoes and peanuts. They received only
occasional (and grudging) allocations of
manioc starch from Madagascar and a mercy
consignment of wheat from Australia. They
ended the war severely malnourished. Britain
may not have set out with the explicit
intention of exporting wartime hunger to its
empire (as the Nazis did), but this is in fact
what happened. Looking at the war from the
perspective of food did nothing to
rehabilitate the reputation of the Axis
powers, but the Allies reputation as the ‘good
guys’ was also somewhat damaged. I hope by
using food to reassess the Second World War
I managed to write an accessible account
while also contributing something original to
the historical debate.
The fact that publishers seem to prefer me
to write about food is also compensated for
by the fact that in turn, they do not tend to
question the fact that I often stray into time
periods and fields of history which within
academia might be regarded as somewhat
out of my field. The Second World War may
be a well-worn subject but this was not the
case for me. Before I began researching the
book I did not know that food was implicated
in speeding up the Holocaust. I was only
fuzzily aware of Herbert Backe’s Hunger Plan
which plotted the starvation of Russia’s cities
while their food was diverted to the
Wehrmacht. I did not know the details of the
German General Plan East which planned to
deport over 70 million Slavs and turn the East
into an agricultural utopia which would solve
Germany’s food supply problems. Nor was I
aware that Hitler derived inspiration for this
from the extermination of the Native
Americans by the policies of the US
government. The book I am writing at the
moment, which explores the role of food in
the British Empire through 25 meals, has so
far allowed me to trespass into Tudor Ireland
and early colonial America.
The free-lance historian, without a secure
academic position is, of course, far less
financially cushioned. Each time I have
finished a trade book the proofs have arrived
(with a two-week deadline for checking and
indexing) on the day I have gone into
hospital. The first time to have a baby, and
the terms for maternity leave for the
self-employed are meagre. The second time
to have brain surgery, and the unwell
self-employed writer is uncomfortably
classed with those seeking disability benefit.
It would be best, therefore, to draw a veil over
the quality of my indexes.
A secure salary aside, what I miss most as
a free-lance is colleagues and the separation
of work and home. During my time at Jesus
as a Research Fellow I was very attached to
my small office and lunch time conversation
with congenial colleagues. When I lived in
France my office was in the part of our house
that had been a second-hand bookshop.
It could only be reached via a trapdoor into
the kitchen. This level of the separation of
domesticity and writing was perfect.
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But since returning to Britain, Florence
Nightingale’s exasperated cry that ‘women
never have an half hour . . . that they
can call their own’, has emerged frequently
from
my
spare-bedroom-cum-study.
Florence Nightingale took to her bed.
Fortunately, my husband has just finished
building me a writer’s shed in the garden.
And when it comes down to it, Virginia Woolf
was right. A free-lance historian and a
mother needs a room with a lock on the door,
or in other words, the power and space to
think for herself. I am hoping that when the
proofs arrive for my next book they will find
me serenely at work in my shed.
Lizzie Collingham is the author of: Imperial
Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj; Curry:
A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors; The Taste of War:
World War Two and the Battle for Food.
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CULTURAL STUDIES I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
Pylons
James Purdon
A Research Fellow in English Literature outlines how the first pylons
stimulated the artistic imagination of the nation
t was a fellow of Jesus college, the architect
Sir John Leslie Martin, who wrote in 1937
that:
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The new aesthetic exists in the motor-car
and the aeroplane, in the steel bridge and
the line of electric pylons. Its values,
precision, economy, exact finish, are not
merely the result of technical limitation.
[…] Even the painter and the sculptor […]
have, in non-figurative work, abandoned
the accidental for the exact and have
replaced the ornamental by the
constructional.
Martin’s own preference for construction and
exactness over ornament and accident is plain
enough in the form of the buildings he
designed, among them the Royal Festival
Hall and Caius College’s Harvey Court. Just
as interesting, however, is his inclusion in
this list of aesthetic objects of a “line of
electric pylons”. During the 1930s, many
painters, poets and film-makers were
similarly attracted to these new and bizarre
objects in the British landscape. Pylons
marked, and transgressed, all sorts of
boundaries. For surrealist painters, they
offered a way to depict bold otherworldly
visions within the rolling landscapes of the
home counties. For revolutionary left-wing
poets, they provided a language in which to
talk about power in ways that were both
abstract and concrete. To documentary filmmakers, they gave a ready-made image of
modernity.
In Britain the National Grid was a site of
contested meanings and strange alliances
even before it had been built. Proposed and
begun under Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin,
the project gave rise to the spectacle of a
Conservative government pushing for a large
nationalised infrastructure funded by the
Treasury in opposition to the interests
of private businesses in the regions.
To compound the irony, the Electricity Supply
Bill was shepherded through Parliament in
1926, the year of the General Strike: while
socialism was making its presence
powerfully felt in British cities, a Conservative
government signed into law Britain’s biggest
ever programme of modernizing public
works.
Initially borrowed from Greek by French
Egyptologists as a term for the gateway
towers of Egyptian temples, the word pylon
(which simply means ‘gate’) had remained in
current use to designate the end tower gates
of suspension bridges. More recently, it had
been applied to the steel towers used to mark
the course in the new extreme sport of aircraft
racing, as in Pylon, William Faulkner’s 1935
novel about barnstorming pilots.
Tristram Hillier, who studied at Christ’s
College, Cambridge, was probably the first
English painter to recognise the significance
of the pylon. His painting Pylons (1933)
appeared in Paul Nash’s influential Unit
One exhibition in 1934. Hillier’s artist’s
statement, which can be found in the book
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Herbert Read edited to accompany the
exhibition, suggests two reasons for the
attractiveness of the subject. The first of these
has to do with national policy for the arts. In
response to Read’s queries about the
relationship between art and government,
Hillier offers his opinion that it is, or at least
that it should be, the obligation of the State
to safeguard cultural production as a social
good. ‘Much could be done to assist in
cultivating the public taste’, he writes, ‘and,
at the same time, in supporting the artist, this
latter being an important consideration at the
present time […] when the rich private
collector is fading into the realm of
mythology.’ Hillier suggests that, like
national-scale electrification, art ought to be
understood as a kind of public works project
too important to be left to the whims of
private enterprise.
The second reason pylons appealed to
British painters like Hillier who were
entranced by surrealist exemplars was that,
by virtue both of their form and of their role
in the network they sustained, no great leap
of intuition was needed to see them as objects
capable of mediating between the abstract
and the figurative. With their solid airiness,
their engineered abstraction, and above all
their incarnation of electrical insubstantiality
within industrial substance, pylons appealed
to artists who like Hillier found themselves
pulled between competing aesthetic theories:
the figurative and the abstract, the realist and
the surrealist, the romantically organic and
the classically austere.
Poets, too, acknowledged the duality of the
pylon, which marked a certain kind of
spoliation as well as heralding a new electric
utopia. Stephen Spender, for instance, in
‘The Pylons’ – a kind of type-specimen for the
genre of pylon-poem – offers what seems like
a nostalgic lament for the demise of ‘sudden
hidden villages’ and ‘the valley with its gilt
and evening look’ before turning to survey
the skyline with its ‘Pylons, those pillars /
Bare like nude giant girls that have no secret’.
In 1934, Cecil Day Lewis felt able to write
that poets ‘are learning to communicate
through a new kind of power, like the pyloncarried wires of which Spender writes.’ Yet
Spender’s portentous poem was wide open to
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parody, and quickly came to stand for a genre
unkindly and rather homophobically
described by Julian Symons as the work of
‘Pylon-Pitworks-Pansy’ poets. It was still
being mocked in 1943, when G.W. Stonier
wrote this more genial send-up of the
previous decade’s poetry:
Everywhere trippers in shorts and on
bicycles poured along the roads, swarmed
up lamp-posts, threw caps in the air.
Pylons!
Arterial roads, semi-detached villas,
Butlin’s camps, ping pong, scooters!
Hurrah!
But chiefly the pylons.
We craned our necks to get a closer view
of these Martians, representative of a new
leisure and mastery, striding the hills.
‘Like nude giant girls’, said Stephen
Spendlove with that wonderful felicity of
his for daydreaming.
As the contradictions in Spender’s poem and
in Stonier’s parodic squib suggest, these are
structures that instantiate a peculiarly
atavistic power of taboo, that prohibitory
magic which Freud describes as being
‘transmitted by contact like an electrical
charge’. Consider the enormous humanoid
pylons which stride through the 1938
watercolour Landscape with Pylons by Julian
Trevelyan – another Cambridge alumnus.
Look at Eric Ravilious’s The Wilmington Giant
(1939) in the right way, and this vast
humanoid figure, arms spread out to grasp
two straight lines, the whole thing viewed
through the wire of a rickety fence, begins to
resemble the familiar form of the pylon;
follow the trail of ancient stones across the
face of Paul Nash’s Landscape of the Megaliths
(1937), and they too seem to stalk off over the
horizon like a prehistoric pylon line. These
too are paintings about the relationship
between landscape and forms of non-human
power. For Hillier, Trevelyan and others,
pylons seem to have generated a similar
mixture of awe and estrangement, the idol of
a new object of veneration – progress, in its
avatar as electrification – which remains
hidden from view.
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SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
How the Leopard Got its Spots
Paul Grant
A Research Associate explores applications in the emerging field
of synthetic biology
ooking at the coat of a leopard may
prompt the question, as Rudyard Kipling
posed it, of how the leopard got his spots.
Kipling answered it by telling a “just so story”
about how the leopard learned the trick of
hiding in “the speckly-spickly shadows of the
aboriginal Flora-forest”. An evolutionary
biologist might answer the same question by
explaining the value of spotted camouflage
and how it increased the fitness of the
leopard’s ancestors. Both of these answers
are historical – they are stories about how a
series of events led to the state of affairs that
we observe. Stephen Jay Gould noted the
parallel and used the term “just so story”
to pejoratively describe evolutionary
explanations that were lacking evidence but
were intellectually seductive nonetheless due
to their narrative appeal.
Now let’s examine another formulation of
the question, by contrast – how does the
leopard make his spots. This question is
asking for a mechanism, a process by which
spots are formed during the development of
the leopard – a different question, for sure,
now in the realm of the developmental
biologist, and answered with reference to
molecular interactions, evidence from
genetic mutation studies, or with a
mathematical model. If we ask about how the
leopard makes his spots can we arrive at an
answer that doesn’t have to be told “just so?”.
The spots of a leopard are but one of many
patterns found on animal coats – stripes,
spots, whorls, and dapples all find
representation in such distantly related
species as fish, cats, and cows. These
patterns caught the attention of
mathematician and computer scientist, Alan
Turing, who sought to explain their
formation from a mathematical perspective.
Trying to explain patterning actually gets to a
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much deeper question of how living
organisms build themselves, for not only are
the skins or scales of animals patterned, but
their whole development, from a singlecelled embryo to a complex organism can be
thought of as a series of patterning events.
Cells differentiate from each other, one
becoming a neuron while another becomes a
skin cell. This process of differentiation is
achieved by spatial patterning in which
groups of cells run different genetic
programs based on their location and their
neighbours. As there is no overall blueprint
for producing these patterns, they must
instead form by self-organizing mechanisms
encoded in the cellular programs run through
the interaction of proteins and DNA. How,
then, if each cell has the same set of DNA and
there is no global information, can pattern
arise from uniformity?
In 1952, Turing proposed a model for the
emergence of self-organizing pattern from a
near-homogeneous field of cells. This work
presented a possible mechanism by which
the diffusion and reaction of chemical
substances that Turing called morphogens
could create an instability that would amplify
random differences within the field of cells
resulting in stable patterns across that field.
In this formulation, an activator morphogen
activates its own production and that of an
inhibitor morphogen. If there is noise in the
system, some areas will, by chance, contain
more activator and will therefore tend to
produce even more activator, causing the
spread of self-activation, but at the same time
producing the inhibitor that will stop that
spread. So long as the inhibitor diffuses
faster than the activator, the result will be
periodic peaks and troughs of activator and
inhibitor that will, depending on the
parameters, resolve themselves into patterns
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such as spots or stripes or, as demonstrated
in Turing’s original paper, the dappled
pattern of a cow. This mechanistic
explanation is extremely seductive as it is so
simple yet can explain so many of the
patterns we see in nature.
For much of the time since its publication,
Turing’s theory has been seen as something
of a “just so story” in its own right – it is a
mechanism that could produce the patterns
that we see and we like the story that it tells
but it is just a piece of mathematics. Is there
any evidence that biological molecules and
cells can actually function this way? Recently
there has been an increase in the number of
papers that combine experimental evidence
and modelling that suggest that Turing’s
mechanism may be functioning in a number
of developmental contexts. This evidence is
somewhat circumstantial, as biological
systems are extremely complex and
identifying the biochemical network that is
performing the specific functions of the
Turing-patterning within the baroque
elaborations that have been created by
evolution is extremely difficult.
There is another possibility, however. The
emerging field of synthetic biology gives us
the tools and the conceptual framework to
build genetic circuits out of DNA, run them
in microbes, and specifically test Turing’s
ideas divorced from the complexity and
historical contingency of naturally evolved
Bacteria respond to two different diffusing signals by
producing two different fluorescent proteins
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systems. Synthetic biology seeks to apply the
lessons learned from the field of engineering
to biology, creating libraries of wellcharacterized genetic parts, assembling
those parts into devices, and creating
predictable systems out of those devices. By
building a working biological system that
creates pattern by Turing’s mechanism, we
can validate the model and examine the
properties of such a system. This will remove
Turing’s mechanism from the realm of the
“just so story” and show that it really can
function in a biological system.
With the tools of synthetic biology, we can
“paint” bacteria with fluorescent proteins, so
that we can observe them and, perhaps more
importantly, get them to paint themselves
based on the outputs of the circuit they are
running. As visible in the accompanying
figure, I have engineered bacteria to
independently send and receive two different
diffusible signals that have been adapted
from bacterial quorum sensing systems,
producing different coloured fluorescent
proteins in response to different signals. This
gives me the two morphogens required in
Turing’s mechanism. What remains is to wire
these signals together in the appropriate
positive and negative feedback loops (easier
said than done, of course) and then I will be
able to tell the story of how the bacteria make
their spots.
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EARTH SCIENCES I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
Fathoming the Earth
Laura Alisic
A Research Associate explains how Cambridge scientists are probing the
evolution of the earth and the origin of tectonic deformation and earthquakes
arthquakes, volcanism, and the formation
of mountain ranges are widely observed
manifestations of processes in the Earth that
we know very little about. In fact, we know
less about the inner workings of our own
planet than we do about the Moon.
We do know that there is a complex
dynamic interaction between cold, stiff
tectonic plates at the Earth’s surface and the
hot, viscous mantle below. The mantle is
heated by the underlying core and cooled at
the surface. Much like a pot of boiling water,
the material in the mantle convects to
transport heat to the surface. The tectonic
plates at the surface are moving along with
this convective flow. Oceanic plates are
formed at mid-oceanic ridges and move
towards subduction zones, where they are
recycled as the slabs descend back into the
mantle. This process of plate tectonics
presents itself through plate motions of
several centimetres per year, and through a
multitude of earthquakes along plate
boundaries. The distribution of these
earthquakes indicates that deformation of the
Earth’s surface mostly takes place at the plate
boundaries, while the stiff plate interiors are
typically relatively undisturbed.
As an oceanic plate moves towards its
demise, its surface is altered due to the
presence of the ocean overhead, and water
increasingly becomes part of the mineral
structure. This water is subsequently released
when the plate subducts, which enhances
melting of the surrounding mantle. In turn,
the convecting mantle affects plate tectonics,
as its viscosity determines how freely plates
and slabs can move. Additionally, magma,
possibly affected by the influx of water from
the recycled oceanic plates, can rise from the
mantle through plates to the surface in the
form of volcanism. This illustrates the
complex interaction of the mantle, plates and
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water specifically in subduction zones
(Figure A).
We would like to understand how magma
in subduction zones interacts with its
surroundings, how melt migrates and rises
to the surface during volcanism, and how
water added to the mantle through slabs
affects these processes. The study of
earthquake data has provided models of
density variations in the mantle, and
laboratory experiments at high-temperature
and pressure improved our insights in the
behaviour of various minerals at mantle
conditions. Characterisation of chemical
signatures of rocks found at the surface,
especially volcanic ones, tells us much about
the various source regions (‘reservoirs’) of
these rocks in the mantle. But so far, the tools
available to us to probe the Earth and
understand the physics of mantle convection
are quite limited: we are literally only able to
scratch its surface, unlike some Hollywood
films would have us believe.
Numerical models of mantle convection
have proven to be highly valuable in studying
the unreachable Earth’s interior and its
coupling to the surface. During my PhD,
I developed global models on numerical
meshes fine enough to resolve small-scale
features such as narrow plate boundaries.
Adaptive meshing techniques allow these
high-resolution
models
to
remain
computationally feasible: the high resolution
is only applied in regions with small-scale
features, whereas broader features are
covered by lower resolution. The resulting
models show that subducted slabs in the
mantle can affect plate tectonics through
coupling between mantle structure and the
surface. The plates and slabs are
mechanically strong, but can have localised
deformation due to the nonlinear nature of
their material properties.
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Figure A
This deformation of rock is very much a
multi-scale problem: the mechanisms by
which plates deform, the mantle convects,
and melt migrates on length scales of
hundreds to thousands of kilometres are
defined by material properties and
deformation processes on a sub-millimetre
grain length scale. Combining these length
scales obviously poses great challenges for
numerical models. The only way to tackle
these challenges is with a concerted
interdisciplinary effort across the fields of
software engineering, numerical analysis,
mathematics, and geodynamics.
Within such a collaboration, I am
investigating with numerical models how
fluid magma interacts with its more
solid surroundings while undergoing
deformation.
In more detail, the models consist of a
high-viscosity porous matrix that can convect
as well as compact, and a lower-viscosity
fluid that fills the pores and convects along
with the matrix. When this two-phase
material is put under shear stress, narrow
lenses with higher porosity (i.e. more melt)
called shear bands develop. This shear
banding is a potential mechanism for melt
transport on a larger scale, and has been
observed in laboratory experiments (Figure
B). Comparisons between numerical models
and such laboratory experiments can help us
pin down details in material properties and
deformation mechanisms that are required to
create the observed shear band amplitudes,
periodicity, and angle.
Hopefully these models will give us clues
as to how small-scale deformation processes
can provide mechanisms for larger-scale melt
transport in subduction zones, and therefore
how the Earth’s mantle is coupled to its
surface. Understanding the coupling
between mantle convection and plate
tectonics would be a significant step towards
comprehending the origin and evolution of
tectonic deformation, the evolution of the
mantle, and ultimately the evolution of the
Earth as a whole.
Figure B
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BACTERIOLOGY I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
How Salmonella Invades
Anthony Davidson
A research student in medicine describes advances in the study of a
common stomach infection that affects 1.3 billion people every year
with high mortality in the developing world
veryone at some point in their lives will
have suffered from a bout of food
poisoning, whether it’s the dreaded “Delhi
Belly” when travelling abroad or simply
feeling a little queasy after eating some
suspicious looking chicken prepared in
your own kitchen. Food poisoning (or
Gastroenteritis) is commonly caused by a
species of bacteria called Salmonella enterica,
different variants (serovars) of this bacteria
cause different diseases. Typhoidal
Salmonella (such Typhi) are reasonably
uncommon and cause serious Typhoid
fever, whereas the far more prevalent nontyphoidal Salmonella serovars (such as
Typhimurium) are responsible for
gastroenteritis. With over 1.3 billion
estimated cases of non-typhoidal gastroenteritis each year it is no surprise that the
causative agents are of considerable
interest to the scientific community.
Fortunately in the western world where we
have rich diets and clean water, the
mortality rate from this sort of infection is
well below 1%. In the developing world the
disease is far more deadly, due to poor diet
and lack of access to clean water, the severe
diarrhoea which may result from
gastroenteritis can lead to dehydration and
a worsening of an already malnourished
state, therefore, unsurprisingly mortality
rates are as high as 25%.
Salmonella is a food-borne pathogen,
so enters the body primarily through
contaminated food and water. Most people
will associate the bacteria with
undercooked poultry and eggs, but
Salmonella has been found in a whole host
of other food products, a recent discovery
indicates that they stick very well to salad
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leaves. Most bacteria are destroyed in the
acidic environment of the stomach, but
those that do manage to evade this will
enter the small intestine. The intestine is
made up of epithelilial (gut) cells, and it is
within these cells that the bacteria
replicate. Entering these cells from the gut
lumen is a difficult task, as they are covered
in a thick mucosal layer that is inhabited by
a plethora of friendly (commensal)
bacteria. Instead Salmonella is taken up by
M cells, these are interspersed throughout
the gut and are responsible for sampling
the environment within the lumen, looking
for unwanted pathogens, and presenting
them to immune cells in an attempt to
eliminate any infection. Salmonella
successfully hijacks this process and moves
straight through the M cell escaping into
the environment below the gut cells. It is
here where Salmonella invades resident
macrophages, or tries to get inside the
epithelium.
Salmonella successfully stimulates its
own entry by manipulating processes
inside epithelial cells. To achieve this it
employs a Type 3 secretion system; a
complicated nano-machine similar to a
syringe, capable of injecting proteins
produced by the bacteria (effectors) into
the cell to which is has attached (host).
Effectors interact with host proteins and
induce “membrane ruffling” which
eventually leads to the engulfing of the
bacteria leading to its uptake into the cell
via a process known as macropinocytosis
(large cell drinking). Once inside,
Salmonella begin to replicate, and then
attempt to infect other neighbouring cells,
during this process a lot of damage can be
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caused within the intestine, resulting in
loss of water and diarrhoea, the death of
Salmonella results in the release of
endotoxins, which in turn causes the
associated enteritis.
I primarily study the methods Salmonella
Typhimurium utilises to invades our cells, in
particular looking at how it is able to
manipulate normal cellular processes to its
own benefit. To induce invasion
Salmonella interferes with the protein
skeleton (actin cytoskeleton), which is
responsible for maintaining the integrity
of the cell, as well as being involved in
movement and induced uptake. Actin is
regulated by a series of proteins, and
Salmonella is able to use its effectors to
either activate or directly mimic those
found in the host. The means by which
macropinocytosis is induced involves a
cascade of protein activation eventually
leading to generation of actin rich ruffles
(lamellipodia) that are required to drive the
whole process.
Aside from washing my hands around
forty times a day my time is spent
employing a number of methodologies to
elucidate the precise mechanisms by which
invasion occurs. Through the use of
biochemical techniques I attempt to
recreate the platforms in which the actin
polymerisation takes place. By purifying
combinations of bacterial effectors, and
host proteins potentially involved, I try to
artificially generate actin and discover
precisely which components are required.
This involves the use of beads that mimic
the plasma membrane of cells, to which I
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anchor the proteins of interest, these are
then incubated with a rich extract (made
from pig brains). These beads are washed,
the proteins recruited are identified, and
the extent to which actin is generated is
assessed. By using a combination of
chemical inhibitors and mutated proteins I
am able to pinpoint which proteins interact
with each other, and how Salmonella may
be able to interfere in these processes.
Once Proteins of interest have been
identified I move to more cell biological
approaches, using microscopy I visualise
the localisation of fluorescently tagged
host proteins in cells. Using tagged
Salmonella I am also able to assess
whether or not there is an interaction
between the bacteria and the protein of
interest. Often, proteins directly involved
in the process of uptake are recruited to the
invasion site, and are also sometimes
found on the surface of the
macropinosomes that the Salmonella
creates. By knocking out, mutating, or
enhancing the activity of proteins that
appear to be important, it possible to
assess their contribution to invasion, by
quantifying the efficiency of Salmonella
uptake.
Although not directly attempting to
discover a means to prevent Salmonella
infection, the work I carry out endeavours
to identify key components involved in the
invasion process. As many bacteria are
becoming resistant to modern antibiotics,
pinpointing new potential drug targets is
essential to prevent serious outbreaks of
disease in the future.
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FRENCH LITERATURE I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
Undressing Narrative
Jennifer Early
A research student explores the seductions of the
French Eighteenth Century novel
uring the eighteenth century, the
novel had a questionable reputation.
Reading was seen as a seductive and often
dangerous practice that could lead the
reader astray, indulging imaginings and
longings that were seen to be incompatible
with the traditional values of the French
ancien régime.
Pierre-Antoine Baudouin’s painting,
‘Reading’ (ca. 1760), demonstrates the
supposedly seductive power of such
literature. Neglecting the larger,
educational tomes on the table to her side,
the woman in this painting has chosen to
read a novel. The book has fallen from her
hand, and she is plunged into a profound
reverie. An eighteenth-century viewer
would be in no doubt as to the kind of text
she has been reading – namely, one of the
novels that Jean-Jacques Rousseau so aptly
stated had been written ‘to be read with
one hand’.
Cultural historian Robert Darnton has
played a major part in outlining the
important political role of such erotic
literature during the latter days of the ancien
régime. Archival evidence suggests that
eighteenth-century France was abounding
in ‘forbidden’ texts, published without
royal consent, that spoke of sexually
explicit exploits, devastating political satire
and blasphemous philosophy. The
conclusions of Darnton’s work suggest
that the potent mix of illicit literature and
subversive political thought played no
small role in the build-up to the French
Revolution itself, and that this
revolutionary potential was inherently tied
to the provocative, physical pleasure
aroused by reading. I shall explore the act
of reading during the eighteenth century as
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an erotic process, although I shall be
looking at works that were not included in
Darnton’s research.
Specifically, L’abbé Prévost’s Manon
Lescaut (1731), Denis Diderot’s Supplément au
Voyage de Bougainville (1772) and Vivant
Denon’s Point de Lendemain (1777) explore
the powerful “erotics of reading” that
developed during the eighteenth century
alongside the production of pure
pornography. Despite their vastly differing
subject matter, form and context, these
texts each develop a similar erotic bond
with the reader.
This can be clarified with reference to
Roland Barthes’s work, The Pleasure of the
Text (1975), in which he demonstrates how
reading itself is an erotic process. The
power of jouissance (bliss) and plaisir
(pleasure) in their physical, sexual sense is
taken as a metaphor for the power of the
feelings produced by the written text. For
Barthes, bliss is unspeakable and
unwritable. It is a state of pleasurable
confusion brought about through
disruption, through rending asunder that
which is comfortable and known, and in
which the indescribable may be
momentarily glimpsed.
Ultimately, the way in which these
eighteenth-century texts place the reader in
a state of ambiguity and uncertainty turns
the act of reading into an erotic seduction.
The reader is engaged in a process of
undressing the text, engaging intellectually
with the narrative in order to fully
understand its implications and
significations.
Denon’s text is an excellent example of
a classic, libertine novel, in which a young
man is lead astray by a calculating and
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irresistible woman who whisks him away
to her secluded country home. And yet,
the way in which the narrator veils his
sexual encounters, blurs the boundaries
between imagination and reality, and
denies any satisfaction at the end of his
short tale, demonstrates a seduction that
goes far beyond purely physical pleasure.
Rather, this seduction involves the reader
in an erotic engagement with the narrative
itself, drawing the reader in and promising
intellectual gratification akin to sexual
pleasure.
In Diderot’s Supplément, the reader
becomes part of the text as s/he attempts
to peel back these distinct layers of
meaning, working past the outright
sexuality of the narrative itself. The
narrative engages the reader in a seduction
that forces them to actively question the
distinctions between fact and fiction, and
to reflect on the undeniable mutability of
language, shaking all solid cultural and
linguistic foundations. This work is a
fictional supplement to the 1771 text
documenting
Louis-Antoine
de
Bougainville’s voyage around the world. In
his account, Bougainville depicted the
island of Tahiti as a New Cythera, a utopian
ideal of love and sexual freedom, and
Diderot’s dialogue professes to be a lost
portion of this factual document, read by
two unnamed French gentlemen. Here,
bliss becomes more than sexual ecstasy,
and is instead aligned with the act of
engaged reading, through which the
reader, positioned in a space that rests
outside of (or between) comfortable
cultural conventions, is seduced into
experience in the liberty inherent in
determining one’s own relation to these
notions.
Manon Lescaut is a sentimental novel,
and the earliest of the texts in question.
The novel sees the young des Grieux
reconstruct through narrative the pursuit
of his true love, Manon. Manon becomes
the elusive, empty space through which
des Grieux can achieve a state of bliss, and
his fractured and flawed narrative creates
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Baudouin, Pierre Antoine – La Lecture, circa 1760
this uncertain space in the mind of the
reader. Just as des Grieux is intent on
constantly reliving the fleeting moments of
bliss he experiences with Manon, the
reader engages with the narrative in an
attempt to grasp the ungraspable. In doing
so, the pursuit of intellectual climax is
constant and, although often frustrated, a
positive, productive force.
It is arguable that the subtle erotics of
the text itself, the relationship built
between narrative and reader, is the source
of textual pleasure. A close reading of these
seemingly disassociated texts, through a
framework set out by Barthes’s work, can
help to outline the connections necessary
to understand the act of reading itself in
the eighteenth century as an inherently
erotic process.
In understanding this process, it is
possible to understand not simply what the
public was reading during the eighteenth
century, but how they read these works,
and what possible effect this method of
reading had on the mentalities that
constituted pre-Revolutionary France.
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POLITICAL HISTORY I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
A Global Civil War of Ideas
Duncan Kelly
Our Fellow in Politics describes the background to his research on the
history of political and economic ideas during the Great War
he centennial anniversary of the Great
War is almost upon us, and yet another
avalanche of commentary is being
unleashed about this already much studied
period. One recent estimate suggested
some thirty thousand books already exist
covering these four years alone, so you
might wonder what else there could
possibly remain to say.
Part of the reason for the continuing
fascination, of course, lies in the question
of causes as much as consequences, in
trying to figure out why exactly this
great war shattered a relatively stable
peace between the great powers. Its
consequences, dramatic as they were (and
remain, in the case of debates about union
in Europe most obviously), are rather
clearer. But historians have never been able
to reach a consensus about why the war
broke out in quite the fashion it did, nor
how it affected what people thought about
the power of those ideas used to justify,
attack or support it.
One important explanation has been
conducted through the language of
‘embedded counterfactuals’, which
basically refers to attempts to clarify those
basic norms of international politics that
embedded certain assumptions about how
to act, and how not to act, given a relatively
clear understanding of the rules of politics
and diplomacy. Once those norms are
understood, the fact that war might not
have been conceptually inevitable, but was
highly likely in practice, seems easier to
see. When you know that if one of the
major powers plays its hand in a particular
way, a set of quite predictable responses is
likely to ensue.
This has been a very powerful
heuristic tool, giving shape to visions of
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responsibility, cause and effect, and
helping to determine our remaining
fascination with questions of war guilt as
well. However, thinking about shared
diplomatic norms and high politics as
embedding a series of assumptions about
causal and counterfactual reasoning is
actually a rather curious way of thinking
about the power of ideas in structuring and
constraining the practicalities of political
action. It makes them into rather static
things, with clear conceptual boundaries,
and that doesn’t sound or feel at all like
how political ideas work either in theory or
in practice.
It does, however, go beyond the usual
other ways in which ideas are discussed in
relation to the Great War. For many
contemporary scholars, the war remains
central given its memorial reverberations
across the last century, and its ideas
important in terms of their particular
material remains. Ideas matter here, but
really only as cultural artifacts. Equally, for
the bulk of political and social historians,
ideas tend to be rather secondary things
when focusing on the actions of politicians
and persuaders, and in fact only have
traction to the extent that there is a clear
chain of cause and effect. So ideas also
matter here, but really only as obvious and
direct causes of action, that is, they matter
when their relations are straightforward,
and particularly when they are directly
countenanced by high political elites. And
if this is how things work in the
mainstream of international political
history, those military historians and
strategists who are interested in tactics,
battles and practical strategies of conflict,
write histories of the war that are often told
in a grand, narrative style governed by a
day-to-day chronology of decision making
that connects soldiers and statesmen with
generals and battles. For these writers,
ideas rarely matter at all, unless they are
again very practical and of the moment,
because the real concern is with moving
men and materiel for the purposes of
winning the war. So at least the idea of
embedded counterfactuals has the merits
of taking ideas seriously as the causes and
explanation for action, but they render
those ideas static, immovable and fixed,
hypostatizing the very things that
apparently allowed unwitting political
elites to sleepwalk towards disaster,
blinding them from seeing their way
around problems.
For those old members well-enough
versed in Cambridge histories of political
and economic thought, the claim that ideas
are fixed and frozen things, or merely
epiphenomenal upon the realities of
practical demands, will seem odd at best.
Early in the last century, around the period
of the First World War and its aftermath,
it was the Cambridge economist and
Bloomsbury icon, John Maynard Keynes,
who said that when politicians were
justifying their positions, they were really
just channeling the scribbling and ranting
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of some long-dead ideas man, typically an
economist.
What was important, for Keynes, was
how those ideas came to be transformed
from their original time and place, into a
new, and obviously somewhat simplified
form, by contemporary political actors.
Later Cambridge historians of political
thought in the 1960s reiterated a similar set
of concerns, but broadened it out into the
wider field of political thought and
intellectual history. They attempted to
show the power that ideas held when fully
reintegrated back into their own historical
periods, expressed and engaged with in
their own particular languages and idioms.
In combination, the Keynesian analysis of
the power of ideas, and the renewed
Cambridge focus on the historicity of ideas
in context, has informed my own interest
in the study of political ideas and theories
over the past decade. And if that sounds
straightforwardly historical, it is, but it is
an approach to political ideas that has,
remarkably, been resisted by most writers
who study the First World War.
My own work on political ideas and
their history and transformation over time
has focused so far on early twentiethcentury German ideas about the nature of
John Maynard Keynes
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the state and politics, and on European
ideas of freedom from the mid seventeenth
to the mid nineteenth centuries. What I am
writing now is a global intellectual history
of political and economic ideas during the
Great War, which takes the power of ideas
themselves completely seriously in their
own terms. My aim is to apply a field
analysis to the study of ideas that is as
committed to their complexity and
importance as the field analysts of strategy
and materiel apply to their own fields of
study. I am working on the ways in which
historians, intellectuals, writers and
politicians used and transformed ideas
about politics, economics and history
during the years of the war, by tracing the
history or genealogy of those ideas about
war and peace back to the French
Revolution.
In particular, this means looking back
to the ways in which ideas of war and peace
during the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries were often thought about
through the lens of whether political
enemies were actually enemies of
humanity. The highly moralized political
force of arguments that were developed
first during the French revolutionary wars
had an astonishing aftermath that
culminated in the Great War. This was the
beginning not only of ‘total war’, but also
of ‘global civil war’. And as the civil war in
Europe became global through the course
of the conflict between 1914-1918, these
original ideas developed and changed. Yet
we still don’t really have an adequate sense
of quite how and why. It is the aim, and
hope, of my current research to find this
out.
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In the Mind of God
John Hughes
Our Dean of Chapel describes his current research in a field of theology
that is not amenable, he warns, to popular description or utility
heological and metaphysical inquiries
are frequently regarded as extreme
examples of the vices of academic research.
Obscure and often highly speculative,
the topics tend to be inaccessible to the
non-specialist.
The “divine ideas” – the theory that
material things are products of divine
“templates” in the mind of God – may
seem to be just such a typically archaic and
nonsensical topic for academic research.
And yet, this theory, taking very different
forms and expressions throughout the
history of Western philosophy and
theology, proves to be a highly generative
resource for exploring fundamental
philosophical questions.
My interest in this theory arose out of
my earlier research (The End of Work:
Theological Critiques of Capitalism, WileyBlackwell, 2007) on how notions of divine
creativity in German Idealism and
Romanticism shaped ideas of human
emancipation which were to be important
in nineteenth and twentieth century
political thought.
The story begins with Plato’s theory of
the forms. As seen in his famous analogy
of the cave in the Republic, Plato posits a
separate realm of ideas which are the basis
of the true knowledge of the philosopher.
The ideas, being immaterial, are not
subject to change and so account for
identity and unity in things. We can
recognise oaks and palms as trees, despite
their differences, because they share in the
form of ‘tree-ness’. The forms thus enable
Plato to think about how we recognise
patterns in things. At the same time, he
claims that these patterns are not simply
human constructions, but in some sense
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“ontological” – how reality is actually
ordered in itself. Moreover, the forms are
not simply neutral patterns; they are also
ideal in the sense of being more perfect
than their material reality; free of all the
limitations of matter. For this reason the
forms are also central to Plato’s ethical and
political thought. The philosopher is the
one who discovers that true justice is not
simply an instance of justice, but justice ‘in
itself ’ – the idea of justice, by which
individual instances of events can be said
to be just. The highest form is the “Form
of the Good”, which is like the sun in
giving light to all the other forms. The
good life involves detaching oneself from
selfish, material desires and lifting one’s
mind to the contemplation of the heavenly
forms.
To the contemporary materialist mindset this entire theory of the forms may
seem a particularly elaborate and
confusing
piece
of
ungrounded
speculation. Plato articulates some of the
problems with his theory in the Parmenides
(Does everything have a form? Even
negative things? How are the forms related
to one another?). These criticisms were
developed by his pupil Aristotle, who
rejected the existence of any realm of forms
separate from matter.
For Plato the theory of forms was not a
theory of creation. But in the hands of
the church fathers, and especially
St Augustine, this is what it became.
Building on the work of earlier Platonists
such as Philo the Alexandrian Jew and the
pagan philosopher Plotinus, they
reconceive the forms as ideas in the mind
of God, the heavenly templates according
to which he creates the world, rather like
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13th century picture showing God as “architect of the universe”. Vienna, Österreichische National Bibliothek
an architect working from plans, and by
which he knows his creatures.
This image of the divine artisan
combined with the idea of creation out of
nothing (ex nihilo) enabled the early
theologians to distinguish the JudaeoChristian understanding of free creation
from pagan notions of necessary
generation or ‘emanation’. The world
should not be understood as something
automatic, an overflow of the divine, they
claimed, but as more like a free work of art.
Plato had been rather unclear about the
relationship between the ideas and the
gods, but the Christian theologians located
the forms firmly within the mind of God as
eternal templates of creation. This
relocation was combined with various
suggestions from the New Testament
(John 1:1-5, Colossians 3:1-3, Hebrews
8:5), so that these templates were
understood to eternally pre-exist ‘in’ Christ
as the divine Word and Wisdom, or ‘plan’,
by whom all things are made. This is how it
is possible to speak of us being ‘chosen in
him before the foundation of the world’
(Ephesians 1:4).
By the time of Thomas Aquinas, this
identification between Christ and the divine
ideas has become so obvious that he can say
‘whoever denies the existence of the ideas
is an infidel, because he denies the
existence of the Son’. These theological
developments seem to resolve some of the
classical problems about the ontological
status and location of the forms, but other
problems remain in new forms: Are there
as many ideas as there are things or more?
And if the latter, why are some realised
rather than others?
Despite these questions the theory of the
divine ideas remained central not just to
Christian philosophy but also to Christian
piety and spirituality well into the middle
ages. However, the rediscovery of Aristotle
in the thirteenth century, brought the
problems with the theory to the surface
once again. On the one hand there were
theological conservatives who understood
the Augustinian tradition in a hyper-realist
way, so that the ideas seem to become
quasi-autonomous substances again.
On the other, there were the Aristotelian
radicals who tended towards nominalism,
regarding forms as simply linguistic
constructs and denying any talk of ideas
in God as compromising the divine
simplicity.
Despite the efforts of Thomas Aquinas
and others to avoid these extremes, the
nominalist position had become dominant
by the latter middle ages and the theory of
the divine ideas had begun to fade from
theological consciousness. The most
significant consequence of this fading of
the divine ideas was a new stress upon the
divine will. If God does not create according
to the eternally existing pattern of his own
being, then the only answer to questions
such as why did God create this or that
must be simply that he wills it.
It seems that whereas early Christian
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theologians had used the divine ideas to
argue for the freedom of creation,
according to the model of an artist, in the
later middle ages the rejection of the divine
ideas led to a more extreme voluntarist view
of this freedom in terms of the arbitrariness
of divine will. The subsequent rise of
voluntarism would have considerable
effects, not only upon the understanding of
God, but also on the modern view of human
freedom.
And yet this was not the end of the road
for the divine ideas. The question arose
again in the continental rationalist tradition
with the celebrated debate over grace
and freedom between the Cartesian
philosophers Malebranche and Arnaud in
the 1680s. By this point a more static,
mathematical view of the divine ideas had
made their relation to human ideas more
problematic. While Malebranche defended
a hyper-realist account of the divine ideas
but rejected innate human ideas, Leibniz
took up the discussion arguing in favour of
the divine ideas and innate human ideas,
against the empiricism of Locke. Closer to
home, the mature Coleridge, influenced
both by German idealism and the earlier
Cambridge Platonists, regarded Locke’s
rejection of the divine ideas as the death of
the ‘spiritual Platonic old England’.
Coleridge’s account of the divine ideas was
more thoroughly Trinitarian than Leibniz,
and also more poetic rather than
mathematical. For Coleridge the Christian
Platonism of the divine ideas enabled him
to move beyond the Hobbesian materialism
of Hartley and Priestly which he had
embraced during his Unitarian phase at
Jesus, while also supporting his realist
understanding of the creative powers of the
imagination. Coleridge’s philosophy was
itself significant in shaping the antiutilitarian strand of British social criticism
in the nineteenth century which originally
led me into this project. The story of the
divine ideas is then a long and complex one,
which tells us as much about our
understanding of what it is to be human as
it may or may not do about God.
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On Writing an American Intellectual
History
Michael O’Brien
Professor O’Brien discusses his qualms on having accepted the challenge
of writing a history of American intellectual life in one volume
Coton Mather, Benjamin Franklin and Henry David Thoreau
n the autumn of 2016, I am contracted to
send to my publishers (Farrar, Straus &
Giroux) the manuscript of a one-volume
history of American intellectual life since,
approximately, the late sixteenth century. I am
not convinced of the wisdom of this venture,
in part because it is not the sort of book I
usually write. Over the years, I have been the
kind of historian who disappears into
archives and re-appears to write indigestibly
long and complex books, crowded with
elaborate footnotes and fussy about concerns
of little interest to a wide readership. The
venture may also be unwise because virtually
no one else has attempted such a book for
several generations and, arguably, no one has
successfully done so since Merle Curti
published The Growth of American Thought in
1943. A lapse of seventy years means that, to
all intents and purposes, there are no models
and no one to plagiarize. And how is the
author of a wide-ranging book to get by,
without someone to plagiarize?
Still, it is probably time for such a book,
since the sub-discipline of American
intellectual history is, at the moment, healthy
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enough. It has not always been so. The genre
flourished from the 1920s until the 1960s,
when it had gifted authors (Vernon
Parrington, Ralph Gabriel, Morton White,
Richard Hofstadter), many readers, and was
thought deserving of the occasional Pulitzer
Prize. It was then usual for American
universities to have courses, usually
designated ‘American intellectual and social
history’, in which (after some vague noises
about democracy, the frontier, and the
welcome marginalization of condescending
European erudits), the student was asked to
read Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin,
Henry David Thoreau and sundry others,
habitually male, usually New Englanders, and
preferably sympathetic to both the
democratic ideal and American cultural
nationalism. Then the 1960s came along and
this happy tale disintegrated, as much else
did. With society in crisis, the social
historians became newly important and they
were very impatient with the suggestion that
complex printed texts were pertinent to
explaining what then needed explaining (and
healing).
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The intellectual historians panicked a little
and in the late 1970s convened a conference
in Wisconsin to identify New Directions in
American Intellectual History and build defensive
ramparts against the new hordes of social
historians, who were taking over history
departments, cluttering up historical
organizations, and smirking dismissively at
those who thought Emerson’s ‘American
Scholar’ worth a meditative consideration.
The new directions were not very clear and
were better designed to get someone to
Concord in 1830 than Silicon Valley in 1990,
and many got lost. For about two decades,
American intellectual history became
something of a backwater, as the number of
competing sub-disciplines (cultural history,
‘theory’, feminist studies) multiplied and, not
infrequently, walked off with and put to
strange uses the texts that the intellectual
historians used to own. Then, somewhere in
the late 1990s, matters began to improve.
Young scholars, even women, began to take
an interest, periodicals were founded, and at
least one book, Louis Menand’s The
Metaphysical Club (2001) unexpectedly became
a best-seller. It is hard to know why this
happened. It is partly that the other subdisciplines lessened their hostility and it
mattered that cultural history began to
displace social history and the former is less
adamantly anti-intellectual, even while still
worrying about the bane of elitism. It is partly
that the intellectual historians grew
more relaxed about these competing
methodologies and even began to learn from
them. It is partly that intellectual history
beyond the United States grew robust – even
the global historians now care – and this has
meant that the American intellectual
historian is no longer confined to a
conversation with other American historians
(only sometimes sympathetic), but is talking
to European intellectual, scholars of the
Baroque in Latin America, and even
historians of India and China. It is partly that
younger scholars are less adamant in their
intellectual elitism and now write books
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about the intellectual presumptions
underpinning Gallup polls or self-help books
or mass circulation magazines and do not
feel sullied by the demotic.
This is well and good, although it means
that writing a synthetic American intellectual
history is now far from straightforward, even
beyond the usual problems of narrating a
topic that spans more than four centuries and
a continent or so. To be sure, one still needs
to write about the clever people, though with
more awareness that the “intellectual” is a
category of person only invented in the late
nineteenth century and that early centuries
had other ways of identifying those who
cared about the life of the mind. Today,
however, one has to notice the not-so-clever,
but also care about reception and media,
explore the transnational, be sensitive to
sundry social groups and their discourses,
and even notice genres which only
secondarily produce printed texts (cinema,
television, architecture, painting) yet which
self-evidently embodied complex thought.
Above all, one needs to be conscious that
what has been said was seldom what was
understood, that the preference for the
intelligible, which comes naturally to an
intellectual historian. may not be the surest
guide to what needs to be narrated. That is,
one needs to write a narrative that
acknowledges the fragmentary while not,
itself, being fragmentary.
So, the adjective “synthetic” is more of a
problem that it used to be. In Curti’s day, it is
reasonable to think that there have been
continuing and central themes – the growth
of democracy, the disenchantment of the
world, the emergence of “American
culture” – which began when the English first
stepped off boats in Virginia, and to think
that,
the later one gets in the story, the more
hopeful the story gets. But, if you doubt
the reality of contthemes and are
unconvinced of the cogency of hope –
whatever that nice Mr Obama says – what
then? As yet, I do not know. But it will be
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FRACKING I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
Fracking – Myths and Facts
Robert Mair
The Professor of Geotechnology Engineering,
Head of Civil and Environment Engineering, and former Master,
assesses the risks and benefits of fracking
hale gas and fracking has been the
subject of intense debate over the past
year, and recently the Sussex village of
Balcombe found itself at the centre of the
controversy. Many myths, mistruths and
misunderstandings abound – frequently
fuelled by the media – but there are also
understandable concerns. Most of these
concerns have arisen from experiences in
the USA where more than 30,000 shale gas
wells have been drilled in recent years,
resulting in their ‘shale gas revolution’ and
the price of natural gas being 30% of the
price in Europe.
Last year I chaired a report by the Royal
Academy of Engineering and the Royal
Society entitled ‘Shale gas extraction in the
UK: a review of hydraulic fracturing’. The
committee of eight, comprising five
engineers and three geologists, received
evidence from, and consulted with, around
fifty organisations and individuals. The
report, published in June 2012, was
requested by the Government specifically
to address two key questions in connection
with fracking: (a) what are the risks of
earthquakes? (b) what are the
environmental risks, particularly in
relation to possible groundwater
contamination? The report addressed the
science and engineering evidence and
made a number of key recommendations,
all of which have been accepted by the
Government.
Firstly, what is shale, what is shale gas
and what is fracking? Shale is a common
type of sedimentary rock formed many
millions of years ago from deposits of
mud, silt, clay and organic matter. It is one
of the most abundant sedimentary rock
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types in the Earth’s shallow crust. Typically
shale is a very fine-grained rock at
considerable depth below the ground
surface (often thousands of metres down),
compressed over millions of years by the
huge weight of the rocks and soils above it.
Trapped within the shale are tiny bubbles
of gas, which is mainly methane (CH4) –
very similar to the natural gas recovered
from the North Sea and elsewhere in the
world. The permeability of shale is very
low, so that shale gas does not readily flow
into a well in the same way as gas would
flow from much more permeable
sandstone. Shale with commercial reserves
of gas will typically be greater than a few
hundred metres in thickness and will
persist laterally over hundreds of square
kilometres.
The way to get the gas out of the shale
is by means of hydraulic fracturing, often
termed fracking. Firstly a vertical well is
drilled down to the shale gas formation,
which is usually at least a kilometre below
the ground surface, and then turned
through 90 degrees using directional
drilling technology and extended
horizontally for several kilometres. The
well is lined with steel casing, which is
sealed into the ground by pumping cement
between the outside of the casing and the
rock. A perforation gun is then fed down
the well and at the required location holes
are punched explosively through the steel
casing and cement and into the
surrounding rock. The fracking then
involves pumping fracturing fluids (95%
water, 4.5% sand, and some chemicals) at
high pressure down the well in order to
induce fractures in the rock (see Figure 1).
The high injection pressure generates
sufficiently high stresses in the shale that
exceed its strength, opening up existing
fissures or creating new ones. The
fractures typically extend a few hundred
metres into the shale rock. The purpose of
the sand (the ‘proppant’) is to remain in
the fractures and keep them open when the
water is pumped out of the well, so that the
shale gas can then flow out of the fractures,
into the well and up to the ground surface.
There have been concerns about
earthquakes caused by fracking; in this
context ‘earth tremor’ is a much more
appropriate term than ‘earthquake’.
Microseismic events are a routine feature
of the hydraulic fracturing process. In 2011
in the Blackpool area two earthquakes of
magnitude 2.3 and 1.5 were measured
during fracking for shale gas. Seismic
events are measured on a Richter
logarithmic scale, so that a magnitude 3
event is roughly 10 times greater than a
magnitude 2 event and a hundred times
greater than a magnitude 1 event. Natural
seismicity in the UK is low by world
standards. On average we experience
natural earthquakes of magnitude 5 (felt by
everyone nearby) every twenty years, and of
magnitude 4 (felt by many people) every
three to four years. The UK has lived with
seismicity induced by coal mining activities
or the settlement of abandoned mines for a
long time; these can induce seismic events
Figure 1: An illustration of hydraulic
fracturing (Al Granberg/ProPublica).
Fracturing fluids are injected under pressure
to stimulate fractures in the shale. The fractures
are propped open by sand contained in the
fracturing fluid so that shales gas can flow
out of the shale into the well
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of up to magnitude 4. Our report
concluded that the two minor earth
tremors recorded at Blackpool were due to
the reactivation of a pre-stressed existing
fault, and that it was very unlikely that
future earth tremors caused by fracking
would ever exceed magnitude 3 – and the
effects felt would be no worse than a
passing lorry. In other words, the risk of
earth tremors of any real significance is
very low.
Potential groundwater contamination is
a much more important concern than
earthquakes. There has been much
speculation around the safety of shale gas
extraction following examples of poor
practice in the USA, particularly
concerning water contamination. Fracking
takes place at depth of several kilometres.
Although fracking may be taking place
underneath an aquifer, the two are
separated by such a vast cover of rock that
it is highly unlikely for water
contamination to occur by means of
fractures extending upwards and
intercepting an aquifer. Fractures are most
unlikely to extend upwards by more than a
few hundred metres.
Groundwater contamination is much
less likely to be due to the fracking process
than to faulty well construction. It is
important not to conflate fracking itself
with shale gas well operations. The only
realistic way that any contamination of
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groundwater may occur is if operations are
poorly regulated and poor wells are
constructed as a result. All wells are lined
with steel casing, which is sealed into the
ground by cement; ensuring well integrity
is very important if the risk of
contamination is to be kept to an absolute
minimum. The cementing of wells has to
be properly undertaken and tested; clearly
if this is not done there is potential for gas
leakage up the outside of the well.
Fortunately in the UK we have a long
history of world-class oil and gas industry
regulation. This makes it very unlikely that
we would experience the same
environmental problems that some areas
of the USA have had to face. For example,
in the UK, there is a regulated well
examination scheme. Also, every company
must disclose the chemical contents of the
fracturing fluid they use; this has not been
mandatory practice in the USA.
What about the stories of gas coming
out of kitchen taps in some parts of the
USA? One notable example, shown in the
film ‘Gasland’, is acknowledged to have
been a well-known phenomenon in the
particular area of the USA long before any
shale gas exploration and fracking
commenced; some areas have methane gas
from shallow depths naturally bubbling up
into the groundwater. It is therefore highly
misleading to imply that fracking will
result in methane gas contaminating
groundwater. There have also been no
cases of fracking fluids found in
groundwater. Those cases of groundwater
contamination that have occurred in the
USA are probably associated with faulty
well construction. Our report therefore
recommended that monitoring of
groundwater should be conducted across
the entire shale gas lifecycle: before,
during and after operations. This is
an important lesson to learn from the
USA’s shale gas experience, since it has
proved difficult to verify allegations of
water contamination caused by fracking
in the USA due to a lack of baseline
monitoring.
There have also been concerns about
methane emissions, since methane
entering the atmosphere is a much more
damaging greenhouse gas than CO2.
Methane emissions are not unique to
fracking; they are possible with any type of
oil and gas drilling. Methane flaring and
venting is already controlled under existing
licensing conditions for petroleum
exploration. Our report recommended that
constant monitoring of methane and other
emissions occurs before, during and after
any shale gas operations.
We should recall that the UK has been
fracking and directional drilling for nonshale resources for many years; fracking
itself is not new to the UK but it is being
newly applied to shale gas. Over the last 30
years more than 2,000 onshore wells have
been drilled in the UK, around 200 of
which have been fracked to enhance the
recovery of oil or gas. There have been no
instances of groundwater contamination
issues with any of these wells.
My committee’s priority was to examine
the science and engineering evidence,
assess whether it was safe to frack in the
UK and to come up with a set of
recommendations for the Government to
make it as safe as possible if they decided
to go ahead. We did not look at how
fracking will influence climate change
policy, energy policy, economic policy and
local attitudes. The Government will need
to consider all these before decisions are
taken, particularly if shale gas exploration
continues to full scale production.
The main conclusion of my committee’s
report is that the major environmental and
health and safety risks associated with
fracking can be managed effectively in the
UK, provided operational best practices are
implemented and enforced through strong
regulation. Putting it another way, shale
gas extraction is a complex engineering
process and must be done properly to be
safe. This is of course also the case for
many activities in the modern world,
including flying aeroplanes, operating
power stations and even driving cars.
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A Life in the Day of the Librarian
Rhona Watson
The Quincentenary Library is a crucial centre of the College;
its librarian finds variety the spice of her task
ne of the best things about being a
College librarian is that lack of
routine. Some days it seems as if even my
interruptions get interrupted! My job varies
over the academic year, with most of the
first six months spent inducting students,
checking reading lists, ordering books,
cataloguing them on the computer and
helping students with their queries. The
remaining six months is spent doing all of
the above and whatever else appears on the
horizon.
I walk into the office at nine in the
morning. If am lucky and the rest of the
team are around (no holidays, sickness,
training or meetings), I deal with my
emails – anything from 10 to 50 first thing
– and I open my post – boxes and boxes of
new books. I love buying new books with
other people’s money, and receiving all
those large parcels through the post – it’s
almost as good as Christmas. Some of
our books are requested by students or
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fellows; others I choose from reading lists
that the faculties provide. Often I find
myself anticipating books that students
will need.
A task I like least is weeding old books
out of the library (although we have
instituted an annual sale so that they all get
a chance to go to a good home). I also
dislike having to deal with students who try
to bend or break the rules. Luckily the
majority of our students are very wellbehaved and use the library correctly.
Some of the current trends in
librarianship concern student information
literacy, dissemination of information and
RDA (a new computing language for
cataloguing). Students nowadays tend to
be ‘resource rich and time poor’, whereas
in the past it was often the other way
around. I wish I had time to investigate and
disseminate information and train the
students on all of the electronic resources
and facilities that we can offer them.
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Students tend to access information in
an increasing variety of ways. Last year a
student said that he hadn’t checked his
pigeon-hole for post in two weeks, whilst
another said that he doesn’t have time to
check his emails. We try to provide
information in a variety of formats –
sometimes using the new social media
which students often prefer to more
traditional means.
If I take today as typical, there haven’t
been many academic queries, although
some members have come in to return
borrowed books so that they can take more
out. I have been asked to order “urgently
needed” books. I have retrieved books
from the library store for a student, and
dealt with a few computer files from the
University Library. I’ll attempt to finish a
paper on disaster plans, and work on a
report arising out of the library
questionnaire.
If I take this week as an example, I have
put out a display on young Granta novelists
on the reference desk. I have catalogued a
number of books, prepared for a meeting
tomorrow, and dealt with some invoices. I
have contacted the college nurse about
exam stress (and subsequently printed,
folded and placed about a hundred leaflets
on Repetitive Strain Injury around the
library). I’ve been taking initiatives to
relieve exam stress. The jigsaws and
origami will go out in the Garden Room on
Monday. I have bought three beanbags for
the Garden Room (a compromise in place
of the sofas that were asked for in the
library questionnaire).
On the wilder fringe of my week, I have
ordered a plastic model of the heart for the
medics; I had to show the builder where
the broken slates were on the roof, and I
arranged a brown-bag lunch with other
college librarians.
Another recent library trend has been a
concern with pests in libraries – no jokes
please. We have found ants’ nests, and my
deputy, Chris Barker, and I found a moths
in the Old library. We went on a course a
couple of months ago which was run by an
entomologist in the British Library. Now
we have set up an integrated pest
management scheme for the Jesus College
libraries. We haven’t had a major
infestation as yet, but we are taking steps
to prevent one. This has involved
everything from getting out the magnifying
glass and identifying the insects, to
arranging for one of our old manuscripts
to be frozen for three weeks.
I love those aspects of my job that lead
me in unexpected directions – people have
been asking me about robins because I
have been advertising the college nestbox
webcam and so I now know a lot more
about the breeding habits of robins than I
did a month ago.
I was able to run a practical workshop
on disasters after we had a flood in the
library last August; I have advertised
ArtStor, a new art package for the
university, and I have written a blog on how
to use it which has been used for teaching
across the university.
I do have a life beyond the library. I love
nature and photography, walking and, of
course, reading. On Thursdays I stay late
in college (normally I leave at 5pm), so that
I can teach my dancing class.
I mainly teach salsa and rueda (Rueda
de Casino is a form of Cuban Salsa) and
one highlight was teaching at an
international rueda congress in Vienna a
couple of years ago.
I haven’t taught dancing in the college
for a while (anyone remember the
graduates and fellows joint salsa classes we
taught, or the ceilidh workshops for the
MCR Burns Supper?). Funnily enough,
there are quite a few similarities between
teaching a class to dance and inducting
students into the library. A funny crossover
moment happened at the start of term a
few years ago, just after the library
inductions, when a few Jesus students
came into my salsa class and one just
looked at me and said in an aghast tone of
voice “b-b-but you’re my librarian”!
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FREND OF JESUS I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
The Don Who Was Ousted
John Cornwell
How a distinguished Jesus Fellow was banished from the
University and the College
nglo-American Life Insurance, 1800–
1914, a three-volume work published in
London this year (2013), would seem of
limited interest to our readers were it not for
the prominence given to a former Fellow of
this College. The first volume extensively
cites a company prospectus titled Rock Life
Assurance Company, published in 1809 by one
William Frend (1857-1841), a significant
founder of insurance provision, which he
deemed crucial to the financial security and
well-being of families high and low.
For twenty years (1806-1826) Frend served
as Actuary at the Rock Life company in the
City of London, a precursor of Northern Rock
of recent notoriety. Frend, who graduated
from Christ College Cambridge (his tutor was
William Paley of “divine watchmaker” fame),
was an accomplished mathematician, a
second wrangler (1780), and author of
Principles of Algebra (two editions: 1796 and
1799). He was to develop statistical risk
management principles, and refine the
proposed levying of graduated-income tax in
the first decade of the 19th century. He also
wrote a treatise advocating the benefit of
“sinking funds”.
Yet for twelve years Frend had been a
Fellow of Jesus, sometime Tutor and
Steward. One of his noted students was
Thomas Malthus, the political economist and
demographer. Frend also influenced Samuel
Taylor Coleridge. In his aptitude for punning,
Coleridge, characterised Frend’s plan for a
Pantisocratic “communist” society in
America as “frendotatoi meta frendous, most
friendly where we are all friends”. This was
in homage to Frend’s “theory of
benevolence”, an important inspiration for
the Pantisocracy project, which eventually fell
apart over financial squabbles and the ethics
of employing servants.
Frend had been a popular figure in the
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University, teaching mathematics at Jesus and
in other colleges. In addition to his
contributions to algebra, and a particular
interest in negative numbers, he was a
Hebrew scholar. He was greatly loved,
moreover, by the people of two
Cambridgeshire parishes where he was
incumbent – Longstanton and Madingley. He
started a Sunday school, the first in the area,
at Madingley, and encouraged a variety of
elementary education initiatives in
Cambridgeshire.
In 1793, however, he was expelled from the
University and later barred from entering
Jesus College for life. Frend’s dismissal from
the College was on the insistence of the
Visitor, the Bishop of Ely, acting at the
instigation of the Master, William Pearce (he
held the office for 31 years: 1789-1820).
The decision was further underpinned by
Sir William Scott, a judge in the Consistory
Court of the diocese of London, and a
government advocate general – a sort of
national Ombudsman.
Frend’s removal from the University and
his college was neither for “gross turpitude”
nor for any kind of criminal behaviour (the
routine statutory grounds for dismissal), but
because he had written a radical tract that
challenged the Established Church and Pitt’s
government. In 1793 Frend published his
Peace and Union Recommended, protesting the
declared war with France following the
execution of King Louis XVI. He had also
attacked the government for taxing the poor
to pay for the war. He was consequently, and
unfairly, accused of fomenting Jacobin
tendencies – a circumstance similar today of
offences against the Anti-Terrorism Act.
The University powers-that-be had other
quarrels with Frend: he had led a campaign
to end the Test Act, which excluded
non-conformists from a university education.
Moreover, he had abandoned the Church of
England and his priestly vocation to embrace
the beliefs of Unitarianism.
The Unitarian movement, as it implies,
denied the doctrine of the Trinity. God was
seen as unitary in nature, Christ was a good,
prophetic human being, but not divine.
Unitarianism also rejected sacramental
theology and the doctrine of apostolic
succession. Most important, for the temper
of the times, Unitarianism denied the
doctrine Original Sin. For the political
radicals of the 1790s, fired up by the early
spirit of the French Revolution, belief in
Original Sin hindered expectation of
an amelioration of society through social
and political, rather than spiritual, means.
For its opponents, Unitarianism encouraged
rebellion by insisting that the basis of sin was
unjust social and economic structures, rather
than a “deep stain in our nature”, as
Coleridge once put it. There are resonances
of this perspective in the views of Liberation
Theologians in our own day.
One of the major texts for the Unitarians
(Joseph Priestly referred to it as their “Bible”)
was the two-volume work of the philosopher
and physiologist David Hartley, Fellow of
Jesus College from 1727 to 1730. Hartley’s
Observations on Man (a copy of which is to be
found in the Old Library) proposed a quasideterministic mind-brain theory, often
labelled “necessitarianism”. The theory
argued that the causes of sin, and of virtue,
were principally environmental. Coleridge so
passionately worshiped Hartley that he would
name his first born after him (a decision he
later regretted on recovering his belief in
Original Sin – after, on consideration,
concluding that only the “deep stain”
explained the failure of his marriage and his
inability to control his opium addiction).
On a more petty scale Frend upset the more
conservative Jesus Fellows by appearing in
the Combination room with his hair unpowdered and wearing a blue coat – the
equivalent today perhaps of sporting a pony
tail and a tea-shirt at formal High Table
dinner.
In May of 1793 Frend was summoned
before the Vice-Chancellor’s court, charged
with offending the University statutes by
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publishing treasonous statements, and of
theological heterodoxy. The Vice-Chancellor,
Isaac Milner, was a man of formidable girth.
He was said to weigh 20 stones and had a
stentorian voice, which “combined with a
peculiar shrillness, could make itself heard at
a considerable distance”. At examinations he
would berate students with extreme sarcasm.
He was given to describing the less clever as
“sooty fellows”. As for his own academic
abilities in mathematics, he was said to
combine exceeding laziness with a tendency
to browbeat any who thwarted him.
Milner presided over the public trial of
Frend which took place before the University
graduates, who were divided in their
opinions on the matter, and a rowdy
constituency of undergraduates who were
pro-Frend to a man. As the trial proceeded,
rival graffiti appeared on the walls of
colleges: “Frend for Ever”, versus “Frend of
Jesus, Friend of the Devil”. The legends
“Liberty” and “Equality” were burnt with
trails of gun-powder onto the sacred lawns of
Trinity and St John’s. Meanwhile, Frend
continued to publish a series of appendices
to the original offending text. His biographer,
Freda Knight, while being sympathetic to
Frend as an admirable and influential
reformer, argues in her University Rebel
(written during the tide of late 1960s
university student activitism) that he might
have avoided what was to follow had he been
capable of a degree of moderation. Forty
years on, he perhaps stands in need of a more
favourable reassessment, celebration even.
He showed considerable courage in going
against the tide of opinion that, even then,
was in much need of change. His convictions
were well in advance of his time, and it is
arguable that his brave and determined
stance brought about significant reforms in
higher education.
Frend was banished from the University by
the court. He appealed; the appeal was
rejected. The terms of his expulsion meant
that he was no longer allowed to teach in the
University. He was also “rusticated”,
meaning that he was not allowed to reside
within the confines of the town.
Nevertheless, he was still a Fellow of Jesus
College – entitled to draw his stipend,
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take meals at High Table or in his room, and
enjoy the Combination Room. Here was an
interesting predicament: how could a Fellow
of the College receive all the benefits of his
membership of the Society, and yet be
banished from the town in which the College
was located? How could his expulsion be
physically enforced?
Frend loved Cambridge, and the College.
He decided to linger on in his rooms, waiting
to see what would happen. This infuriated
William Pearce the Master, who now decided
to bring the Visitor, the Bishop of Ely, James
Yorke, into the fray. The bishop wrote his
decision in the Master’s favour by the end of
July 1793: Frend should be banished,
physically, and forthwith, from the College.
The letter was duly read to the assembled
Fellows without a word of protest, according
to Pearce.
Frend was accordingly summoned to the
Lodge where Pearce informed him of the
Bishop’s decision: “I told Mr Frend”, Pearce
wrote to the Bishop on 31 July, “that it was my
duty to inforce the sentence, and hoped that
he would go away without giving me any
trouble. To this he said nothing but asked
whether that was all I had to say to him.”
Four days later Pearce confronted Frend to
ask “when he meant to leave College”. To
which Frend replied “that this was an
extraordinary question” and that his own
questions concerning the “very heavy charge”
that the Master and Fellows had lied about
him had not yet been answered. Whereupon
Pearce took himself up to London once again
to consult Sir William Scott.
Sir William’s opinion was that “if Mr Frend
persists in staying…then the Master may
direct the servants of the College to forbear
attending upon him and supplying him with
necessaries”. He went on: “I see no reason
why furniture may not be removed to a secure
Place thence to be delivered to him on his
order, notice being given him, and a Padlock
put on his Chamber door”. Moreover, Scott
opined that the Master “may order the Porter
to refuse him admittance into the college . . .
and wd be justified in using force to turn him
out, no more force being used than was
absolutely necessary for that Purpose…”.
This was signed “Wm Scott, 24 July 1793”,
and clearly gave leave for the College to use
strong-arm tactics with legal impunity.
On Tuesday 30 July the Master accordingly
despatched a note to Frend by messenger
warning that the contents of his room were
to be removed and that he would be barred
entrance to the college. As Pearce wrote to the
Bishop, “On Friday next . . . I shall order all
the College servants to forbear supplying him
with anything or attending upon him in
College, & the Porter to shut the Gate against
him”. Pearce complained that the Frend
business had prevented him going on holiday
in Cornwall, and that he “could not well
delegate the affair of Mr Frend to another,
especially as it appeared every day to be
coming to crisis”.
Friday came, and the Master, from his
vantage point in the Lodge, could see Frend
coming and going through the morning.
Eventually Frend presented himself at the
Lodge demanding to see Sir William Scott’s
written opinion and condemning, as Pearce
put it, “the illegality of our proceedings and
the stretches of arbitrary power which were
made against him”. Pearce refused.
Apparently Pearce later saw Frend leaving
the College and walking towards the town,
whereupon it appears that he ordered the
Porter to shut the gates. When Frend
returned at seven o’clock and knocked to gain
entrance, the Porter, according to Pearce,
“opened to see who was there”, and Frend
“rushed in by force and went to his room”.
The next day, however, accepting the
inevitable, Frend left the College forever,
eventually taking himself to London. He
would continue to collect his College stipend
until his marriage in 1808 to one Sarah
Blackburne, said to be attractive and a
competent artist. They would have one
daughter, Sophia.
Frend would live for another 44 years – a
respected businessman in the City of London,
a founder of modern insurance, and an
influential, still radical, figure in political and
educational circles. He urged better
conditions for workers, and promoted
tertiary education free from religious
prejudice and clerical domination. “The first
thing to be done…”, he wrote to Lady Byron,
“is to get education out of the hands of
the Clergy”. (Lovelace Papers, Bodleian
Library: letter William Frend to Ada Byron
27.2.1829). Lady Byron, Ada Lovelace, who
pioneered computer programming, and was
dubbed the Enchantress of Numbers by
Babbage, was taught mathematics privately
by Frend from an early age. On another
occasion, as remembered by his daughter
Sophia, he said: “the highest academical
teaching should be given without reference
to religious differences”. Sophia was
convinced that her father’s views, urged in a
flow of correspondence, led to the founding
of London University. His Plan of Universal
Education, published in the same year as the
Reform Bill, 1832, argued for free education
for all, including women – whose education
should be “as much attended to as that of the
men…”
His last years were spent at 36 Tavistock
Square, London. After suffering two strokes
he was almost completely paralysed, and
could barely speak. On 20 February 1841,
he indicated to his daughter that she should
read to him his favourite Psalm (19) –
“The Heavens declare the glory of God”.
Sophia wrote that as she read “As for man, his
days are as grass”, he “joined in and repeated
with me clearly and in a firm voice the verses
following to the end of the Psalm”. It was the
last time he spoke. He died the following day.
After his death, Sophia’s husband,
Augustus de Morgan, wrote a letter to Jesus
College (now in the keeping of the Old
Library), confirming with gentle irony, and
despite an evident fondness for the place, his
disdain for its petty conventions of those
times – doubtless including the insistence on
powdered hair and the outlawing of blue
coats.
“Nothing could show the bent of his mind
in this respect as well as the vivid manner in
which he could always remember the most
trifling minutiae of College habits or
discipline, which was accompanied by the
most frequent recurrence to the subject
whenever he was in a company with a
Cambridge man.”
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Sophia de Morgan eventually despatched
to the College a marble bust of William
Frend, which remains in our keeping .
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*
*
I am grateful to Dr Frances Wilmoth for
making available to me materials on Frend in
the keeping of the Old Library, particularly
Frend’s Account of the Proceedings and Sequal to
an Account. Other ms materials on Frend
include a collection of letters now deposited
at Cambridge University Library, also
published by the Cambridge Records Society:
Letters to William Frend from the Reynolds Family
of Little Paxton and John Hammond of Fenstanton.
See also Vol 1 of Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, ed. E. L. Griggs, 6 vols (Oxford,
1956-71); John Cornwell Coleridge: 1772-1804
(London, 1973); Frida Knight, University Rebel:
The Life of William Frend (London, 1971);
Nicholas Roe, Wordsworth and Coleridge, The
Radical Years (Oxford, 1988).
The bust of William Frend
Photo reproduced with the permission of John Henwood
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A JESUS COLLECTOR I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
Arundel Marbles and a Don of Jesus
Jane Renfrew
The strange tale of William Petty and a lost torso
n the late 1960s I was visiting Worksop
Library and found to my astonishment a
large marble torso which I was told had come
from the Pergamon Altar and indeed fitted on
to the reconstructed altar now in Berlin.
Pergamon was an ancient city and acropolis
in western Turkey, and the monumental altar
was probably constructed on one of its
terraces around 180BC. The altar for burnt
offerings was set in the middle of a
colonnaded courtyard on the top of a raised
platform, approached from the west by a
grand staircase. The whole of the base of the
structure was surrounded by huge frieze of
relief panels depicting the battle of the gods
and the giants – known as the Gigantomachy.
It was one of the highlights of Hellenistic art.
Writing some 400 years after its construction
Lucius Ampelius described the Great Altar at
Pergamon in his book Liber memoralis (8.14)
“At Pergamon is a great marble altar, 40 feet
high, with remarkable statues, and the entire
is surrounded by a Battle of the Giants”. The
Pergamon site was excavated between 18781886 by Carl Humann in order to rescue the
altar friezes and to expose the foundations of
the building. In 1879 the relief panels were
sent to Berlin and became the property of the
Berlin Museums.
The Worksop torso had been found built
into a cottage wall on the Worksop Manor
estate in 1960. Later that year the sculpture
was found to be causing internal damp. First
it was removed and offered to a monumental
mason for marble chips to decorate graves.
Next it was offered to an art master of a local
boy’s school as material for a sculpture class,
but it was seen by a local antiquary,
Mr William Straw, who realised it was an
Arundel Marble. He persuaded the Worksop
Borough Council to buy it in 1963, and it
was identified by Dr D E L Haynes of the
British Museum as coming from the south
side of the Pergamon Gigantomachy frieze.
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How had it come from Pergamon to
Worksop? This puzzled me and only recently
have I succeeded in reconstructing what
happened. It is an eventful and strange tale
involving a seventeenth century Fellow of
Jesus College.
In 1612 Jesus College appointed the Revd
William Petty into a Fellowship. He was the
successful headmaster of Beverley Grammar
School, which Bishop Alcock, the Founder of
Jesus College, had attended a couple of
centuries earlier. He had probably been
educated at Appleby Grammar School under
Reginald Bainbridge, who was a local
antiquary and had made a collection of
Roman inscriptions from local sites at the
school. It seems likely that it was here that he
first came to an appreciation of antiquities
and of the classics. He went up to Christ’s
College, Cambridge, in July 1604, as a sizar,
graduated BA in 1607, MA in 1611, and BD in
1618.
According to Sir Hugh Cholmley, who was
a star pupil at Beverley and whom Petty
brought with him to Jesus College: “he was a
good scholar and a witty man, but given to
drinking and so debauched us all..” In 1613
Petty was appointed tutor to the Earl of
Arundel’s two sons; James, Lord Maltravers
(who died in Ghent from smallpox, July
1623), and Lord Henry Frederick Howard
who succeeded to his brother’s title in 1623).
At this point Petty decided to mend his ways
and sent for his drinking companions: he
gave Cholmley thirty shillings in gold and
told him to give a good account of himself
“both of my money and my deportment”.
Petty remained a Fellow of the college until
1624 although he had leave of absence on
numerous occasions for travel abroad.
He first went abroad with the Earl of Arundel
in April 1613 when the Earl and his wife
accompanied the newly wed Princess
Elizabeth and her husband to Heidelberg.
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(William Petty was 15th on the list of retainers
who accompanied them, the list also
included Thomas Coke, who had been agent
for the Earl Arundel in Italy 1605-1613, and
Inigo Jones). The Earl and Countess went on
from Heidelberg to Venice, Padua, Florence,
Siena, Rome, and Naples, and it is likely that
Petty went with them at least for part of the
way. In Rome Arundel conducted
excavations, with official permission, and
found several Roman portrait statues which
may have been ‘planted’ for his benefit and so
his sculpture collection began to be formed.
On 10 September 1624 Arundel wrote to
the Ambassador at Constantinople, Sir
Thomas Roe “I recommende to you one Mr
William Pettye, a man of very good learning
who has been longe in my House, and is
ledde wth a great desire to see Turkye. My
earnest requeste is unto yr Lop. To give him
all ye favour and direction ye may, to see what
antiquities, eyther of books, medalls or stone,
wch may be founde: and that where he shall
desire to travel, yr Lop. Will direct him for
safetye as much as maybe, for he doth not
only love antiquitie extremely, but
understands them very wel..” (Hervey 1921
268). Sir Thomas Roe also received a letter of
recommendation from Mr Michael
Branthwaite who had been left in charge of
the Embassy in Venice when the Ambassador,
Sir Henry Wootton, returned to England in
1624: “I make bolde to throwe in my mite:
and rather because he is my countryman, and
longe acquaintance. His name is Pettie: his
calling a devine, wherein he hath worthily
proceeded a bachelor, a man that is sound
enough, and hath more in him than he makes
show of.”
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Even before Petty arrived in Constantinople
Sir Thomas Roe had written to the
Archbishop of Canterbury in December 1624:
“I heare your Grace hath written byone Mr
Petty, that is arrived in Smirna, ymployed by
my Lord of Arundell to buy books and
antiquities. Hee will find that barborisme
hath worne out all footsteps of civility and
learning; yet manuscripts are plenty, old
Greeke books, that are little worth: they have
been cerned over by many of good
judgement, and I think the gleanings are very
poore…”.
Petty’s
journey
on
to
Constantinople was fraught with danger: the
January storms caused many shipwrecks and
much loss of life, but he eventually arrived
safely.
He set to work immediately looking for
suitable antiquities to ship back to England
for the Earl of Arundel. He first lit on a series
of marble reliefs with which Theodosius II
had decorated the propylon of the Porta
Aurea, a triumphal arch erected by the
emperor Constantine to celebrate the victory
of Theodosius I over Maximus in AD388,
which was later incorporated into the Turkish
castle of Yedikule (seven towers) in
Constantinople. After long negotiations it
became clear that these were not going to be
made available, and so Petty decided to look
elsewhere. At the end of October 1625 Sir
Thomas Roe reported to Arundel “Mr Petty
hath this while visited Pergamo, Samos,
Ephesus and some other places where he
hath made your Lordship greate provisions
. . . Mr Petty hath advised me, that retorning
from Samos, where he had gotten many
things, going to Ephesus by sea, hee made
shippwrack in a great storme upon the coast
Reconstruction of the Pergamon Altar in Berlin
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of Asia; and saving his owne life lost both all
his collection of that voiadge, and his letters
by mee procured, desiring of mee to send
him others or else he can proceed no further.
Hee was putt in prison for a spy, having lost
in the sea all his testimonyes: but was
released by witness of Turks that knew him.
From thence he recovered Scio (Chios) where
he furnished himselfe againe; and is gone to
the place where he left his boate to fish for the
marbles, in hope to find them, and from
thence to Ephesus; and this is the last newes
I heard from him.”
The marbles were recovered by divers and
Petty went on to Ephesus and Smyrna. In
Smyrna he was lucky enough to make a
valuable purchase of thirty ancient marble
inscriptions including two fragments of the
chronological ‘Marmor Parium’ which had
been collected by a Monsieur Samson for the
French scholar Nicholas Claude Fabri de
Peiresc for which he had paid fifty gold
pieces. M. Samson had been jailed and his
collection confiscated but William Petty
collected it all together for a higher price for
Lord Arundel.
In Smyrna William Petty also acquired a
remarkable bronze head some 11.5 inches
high which was originally thought to have
depicted Homer, later Sophocles and most
recently a Hellenistic Macedonian king. It is
now in the British Museum (BM1760.0919.1,
Bronze 847) and dates from the second
century BC. Recent research reveals that it
was found in a well in Smyrna and was
collected by William Petty.
Sir Thomas Roe wrote to the Duke of
Buckingham on 26th August 1625 “Mr Pettie
hath bene at the so much famed Pergamo,
and brought somewhat away, as he writes
meane things, not worth his charge, only as
testimonyes of his travailes; but he is a close
and subtil borderer and will not bragg of his
prizes..” He wrote to him again in November
1626 “Mr Petty hath raked together 200
pieces, all broken or few entyre, what they
will prove I cannot judge. He hath this
advantage that he went himself into all the
islands and took all he saw, and is now gone
to Athens”.
In February 1626/7 Roe reported to the Earl
of Arundel that he had not heard from Petty
for three months since he returned from a
trip to the Morea “where he had gotten many
Marbles, such as will give your Lp. great
satisfaction . . . I have heard from Spache yt
he resolved on a voyage to Corynth, to buy
two statues, one entire ye other wanting a
head wch were discovered to him for me,
pretending yt he was employed by me & by yt
meanes he had first knowledge of them, but
I may not believe so discourteous proceeding
. . . I have none so expert and industrious,
able to doe yt wch his sckill & labour he doth
performe: for I thinck hardly any man can
match him in patience, travel and cunning to
obteyne his ends”.
It was fortunate that the Earl of Arundel
had been granted the customs dues on all the
currants imported into England from the
eastern Mediterranean. This put him in
touch with merchants who could transport
the marbles Petty had collected back to
England. The marbles arrived at Arundel
House in London early in January 1627. The
earl was not at home but when Arundel`s
friend, the librarian and antiquary, Sir Robert
Cotton saw them being unpacked in the
evening of their arrival, he went immediately
to see John Selden, the lawyer, and asked him
to start deciphering and translating the
inscriptions early next morning. Selden
agreed and asked that Patrick Young (Junius),
the King’s Librarian, and Richard James, the
antiquary, might help him. Next morning
they all met together in the garden of Arundel
House and set to work. This resulted in the
publication by Selden of twenty-nine Greek
and ten Latin inscriptions in a volume
Marmora Arundelliana in 1628. From then on
they were known as the Arundel Marbles. It
brought this important collection to the
attention of the learned world and great
credit to the Earl of Arundel. Pieresc,
however, wrote to Lucus Holstein, referring
to Petty; “Je trouve bien estrange que Mr.
Seldanus ayt faiit l’edition de cez Marmora
Arundelliana sans render l’honneur a celui
qui les avoir arrache de mains des barbares
avec tant de solicitude et de dangers . . .”
It must have given the Earl and Countess
much satisfaction that the king and queen,
Charles I and Henrietta Maria, visited
Arundel House in December 1628 in order to
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see this collection of antiquities. Petty
returned to England in 1629 and this brought
to an end his activities in Greece and Turkey,
and his attention turned to collecting
antiquities, drawings and paintings in Italy.
By the end of the 1630s the sculpture
collection is said to have numbered 37 Greek
and Roman statues, 128 busts, 250
inscriptions as well as a large number of
sarcophagi, altars and fragments.
William Petty died 23rd September 1639
and in his Will he left “To Jesus Colledge in
Cambridge £200 for the repairing thereof ”.
Unfortunately the college never received the
money. With the threatened outbreak of the
Civil War the Earl of Arundel left England in
1642 and went eventually to Padua where he
died in 1646. His collections were left in the
first instance to his wife, and after her death
in 1654, the contents of Arundel House
passed to Henry Howard, the younger son of
Henry Frederick, Lord Maltravers, who had
died in 1652. He was not at all interested in
the collection of marbles, and John Evelyn
describes them in his Diary for September
19th 1667 as being “miserably neglected &
scattered up & downe about the Gardens”.
By this time of the 250 inscriptions in the
collection 114 had perished. Evelyn managed
to persuade Henry Howard to give the
remainder to Oxford University, and they are
now in the Ashmolean Museum, where they
are known as the Arundel Marbles. In 1677
when Henry succeeded to the Dukedom of
Norfolk he obtained permission to pull down
Arundel House, and to dispose of the rest of
the marbles still in his possession. He sold a
lot of them, mainly busts, to Thomas
Herbert, later eighth Earl of Pembroke, who
took them to Wilton House near Salisbury.
The marbles he couldn’t sell were placed
under a colonnade in the garden, the roof of
which collapsed damaging the sculptures
below. Some sculptures were then buried in
the foundations of Norfolk, Arundel and
Surrey Streets. On Henry’s death in 1684 the
new Duke obtained permission from
parliament to lease the garden for residential
development. He persuaded Sir William
Fermor to take most of the remaining
marbles for £300, and they ended up at
Easton Neston, and eventually were given to
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Oxford University as the Pomfret Collection.
A number of the more damaged pieces were
given to a former family servant. The residue,
including the Pergamon torso, were taken
across the Thames and dumped on a patch of
waste ground beside the river in Kennington.
Shortly afterwards this plot of land was sublet
to a timber merchant who planned to
construct a wharf here. He brought over
quantities of rubble from the old St Paul’s
and together with the remains of the Arundel
Marbles used them to shore up the bank of
the Thames. About 1712 the land was
acquired for building, and the workmen
digging foundations came across a number
of buried sculptures and put them on one
side. Lord Burlington heard of this and chose
some which he took to Chiswick House.
Lord Petre heard that other sculptures
might still be buried there, and he was
allowed to arrange for excavations to try and
locate them. After six days the diggers
found six statues , some of great size, without
heads or arms lying close together.
These torsos were sent to the Duke of
Norfolk`s Nottinghamshire seat, Worksop
Manor. Unfortunately most of these
sculptures were destroyed in the fire which
burnt down Worksop manor in 1761, but
one at least survived. At the beginning of
the twentieth century it was lying in
the garden of the local historian, Robert
White, on the outskirts of Worksop, and by
the 1920s had been mounted on the outside
wall of a nearby cottage, where it remained
until 1960.
So having been collected by William Petty
from Pergamom in 1625, shipwrecked and
sunk to the bottom of the sea, found and
brought up by divers, transported to Greece
and then to England arriving in London in
1628, being displayed at Arundel House in
the Strand, then treated ignominiously first
in the grounds of Arundel House and then
dumped beside the Thames at Kennington
and used to reinforce the river bank, being
uncovered in excavations and sent to
Worksop Manor, avoiding destruction in the
disastrous fire, and finally being built into a
cottage wall, the Gigantomachy torso had an
adventurous life before landing up in
Worksop Library.
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TWO 19TH CENTURY MASTERS I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
Dr French and Dr Corrie – A Study in
Contrasts
Peter Glazebrook
Two masterships that spanned 65 years of the 19th century
or two thirds of the nineteenth century –
1820 to 1885 – there were only two
Masters of Jesus. William French was
appointed, aged 34, in 1820 by Bishop
Sparke; George Elwes Corrie, aged 57, in
1850 by Bishop Turton. Both had been
Fellows in other colleges, and both had
become Tutors, French at Pembroke, Corrie
at St Catharine’s.1 Both were personal friends
of the bishop who appointed them and both
were – unlike their immediate predecessors
or Corrie’s successor – serious scholars.
French was a Hebraist, publishing new texts
and translations of the Book of Proverbs (1831)
and of the Psalms (1830; new edition 1842).
Corrie was a church historian, and mediaeval
bibliographer and book-collector, who
published
painstaking
editions
of
foundational works of the English
Reformation and (at the age of 81) A Concise
History of the Church and State of England in the
Reign of Henry VIII (1874).2 But here the
similarities end.
French had been Second Wrangler (second
in the order of merit in the First Class of the
Mathematical Tripos), and a Smith’s
Prizeman and, as a young graduate, tutor to
Bishop Sparke’s children; Corrie had been
18th Wrangler (out of 18). French was happily
married to the daughter of the vicar of his
home town of Eye in Suffolk; they had two
daughters (a son-in-law was, albeit a Trinity
man, to be a benefactor of the College).
Corrie remained a bachelor, two longsuffering but devoted nieces keeping house
for him in the Lodge and at the Rectory at
Newton-in-the-Isle
in
the
north
Cambridgeshire fens. French was twice ViceChancellor, a good host,3 a gracious and
charming public speaker4 who was widely
respected in the University as a judicious –
that is, a cautious – reformer. He took a
leading part in the campaigns for the election
F
William French
of a High Steward and a Chancellor known to
be sympathetic to University reform: Lord
Lyndhurst in 1840, the Prince Consort in
1847.5 He had supported the introduction of
an optional examination in Classics that
might be taken by those who had already
obtained Honours in Mathematics – the
origin of the Classics Tripos – and he
favoured the introduction of Natural and
Moral Sciences Triposes, though he did not
live to see them brought into existence.6 He
initiated, once the Crown’s Law Officers had
agreed on the appropriate legal machinery, a
mild revision of the College’s statutes which
had remained unchanged since the sixteenth
century. He had earlier secured the Bishop’s
and the Privy Council’s approval for the
repeal of the statute requiring the
maintenance of an equal number of Fellows
from counties north and south of the Trent.
Corrie was Vice-Chancellor only once,
making something of a fool of himself in
refusing, both as Vice-Chancellor and
Master, to co-operate with the Royal
Commission – composed entirely of
Cambridge men – that had, after more than
twenty years of intermittent campaigning,
been appointed in 1850 to consider changes
in University and College statutes and
courses of study so as to make Cambridge
better able to meet national demands for
higher education. He suffered the
humiliation of being reversed by the Senate.7
A poor public speaker and an inaudible
he
treated
both
the
preacher,8
Commissioners and his fellow Heads of
colleges, and even Prince Albert, the
Chancellor, with pettish discourtesy – not to
mention the directors of a railway company
which threatened to disturb the quiet of
Cambridge Sundays by bringing passengers
in on excursion trains.9 In the view of Adam
Sedgwick, a Fellow of Trinity, pioneering
geologist, and one of the Commissioners,
Corrie was “timid and shy . . . singularly
narrow minded and . . . obstinate as a mule
. . . No one . . . could have been less fitted to
cope with the crisis confronting him”.10
Twenty-seven years later he was unchanged:
he
treated
the
1878
University
Commissioners in the same way as their
predecessors, to their chairman’s (Lord Chief
Justice Cockburn’s) great amusement. Corrie
had now become a joke. A letter from Mr
Gladstone about fellowships to be held by
married men was put into the waste-paper
basket unanswered.11 It is tempting to see in
him the original of Tom Staple, Tutor of
Lazarus College, in Barchester Towers (chap.
xxxiv) in which opposition to Sunday trains
also figures (chaps. v and x). There is no
gainsaying the damning verdict of one of the
University’s historians: “the last ditch was his
spiritual home”.12
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*
*
hroughout French’s Mastership, under
four long-serving Tutors – Hustler (181625), Skinner (1825-36), Gaskin (1831-42) and
Birkett (1845-53) – student admissions to the
T
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College were higher, averaging 14 a year, than
at any time since the death of Queen Anne,
save for what was, for Jesus as for most
colleges, the exceptional decade 1812-21, the
heyday of the Fellow Commoners. These
were the final years of the Napoleonic wars
when it was difficult for gilded youths to tour
the Continent in the care of private tutors,
and the first of the ensuing peace, when naval
and military officers, forced to contemplate
career change, sought to qualify themselves
for enrolment in the ordained ranks of the
church militant.13 One of these four Tutors,
Thomas Gaskin, though a Johnian, had been
elected a Fellow to strengthen the College’s
teaching in Mathematics – he was second
Wrangler in 1831 – the Fellowship having,
with the bishop’s consent, been left vacant
for two years until the right man appeared.
This was the first and only time since 1781 –
though with happier consequences than in
the case of William Frend – that an exception
had been made to the otherwise invariable,
but unwritten, rule that persisted to the end
of Corrie’s mastership, that Jesus
Fellowships were for Jesus men. They were
seen not as jobs but as prizes for those who
had done well in the Tripos and so a way of
attracting able students to the College.
Gaskin was a remarkable man. While
working as a shoemaker’s apprentice in
Penrith, he had come to the notice of Henry
Brougham, the future Lord Chancellor, who
owned a small estate nearby. Brougham
arranged for Gaskin to go to school at
Sedbergh, and then to come to St John’s. He
was to be a main-stay of mathematics
teaching and examining in Cambridge for
more than twenty years.14 French took a close
interest in the choices made by the Tutors of
young Fellows and other graduates as the
College’s mathematical and classical
lecturers to help them with the teaching of
the undergraduates – the only teaching that
Cambridge provided, apart from that offered
by private tutors (essential for candidates for
Honours’ degrees) and, in the case of the
LL.B (widely regarded as a soft option), by the
two Law professors.
But after Birkett’s marriage and
consequent departure in 1853, and as news of
Corrie’s reactionary attitudes spread, the
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George Elwes Corrie
numbers of undergraduates in the College
halved, a process exacerbated by his
appointment of a Tutor (Peter) who had spent
the previous nine years as a parochial
clergyman in Canterbury and was, according
to ‘Black’ Morgan, “eccentric in the
extreme”; a recent writer has dubbed him
“The Clever Fool”. He published a Manual of
Prayer for Students, which was “highly
derivative, being based on a collection of
prayers originally intended for boys at
Winchester,” and was to be Corrie’s ally in
the protection of evangelical orthodoxy.15 In
1859 only five students were admitted to the
College, and two of them did not stay long
enough to get a degree. The 1850s were a
difficult decade for all the small colleges, but
at Jesus admissions only returned to (and
then rose above) former levels when Peter left
for the College’s best living, to be succeeded
first by Cleave (soon to be Principal of
Victoria College, Jersey) and then, at last and,
one suspects, through Corrie’s gritted teeth,
by ‘Black’ Morgan.16
Morgan had, as the College’s Sadleirian
Lecturer been teaching Mathematics at Jesus
since 1855, had published A Collection of
Problems and Examples in Mathematics17 designed
to reduce dependence on private tutors, and
been a Bye-Fellow since 1858. Yet in February
1859 the bishop had been asked to allow the
College to defer nominating new Fellows on
the ground that there were too few qualified
candidates. When it did its first choice had
been a new graduate (Robertson), a man five
years Morgan’s junior, albeit that he had
come second in the Classical Tripos and so
deserved the prize of a Fellowship which
Morgan’s low ranking as 24th Wrangler,
though unexpected and attributed to overwork, may have seemed not to merit. Morgan
was at last elected to a Fellowship in 1860, but
when in 1863 Cleave was leaving it was to
Robertson, rather than to Morgan, that
Corrie first offered the Tutorship. He
declined it, saying that he would be better off
remaining a schoolmaster: after teaching at
Rugby and Harrow, he became Headmaster
of Haileybury the year before Morgan became
Master of Jesus.18 Morgan’s passion for the
river would not have endeared him to Corrie,
who disapproved of boat races, with which
“so much evil was connected”, not least on
account of the spectators – “the bedizened
women on the bank” – they attracted.19 But
the Master had now exhausted his options.
This probably also explains the election to a
Fellowship the same year of E.H. ‘Red’
Morgan, another keen sportsman who,
though again only a 24th Wrangler and so not
obviously deserving a prize, was brought
back from teaching at Lancing to become
Dean, relieving the new Tutor of that
responsibility.
“In his College” French was, an obituarist
noted, “singularly happy”. His relations with
his Fellows were always cordial; Corrie’s were
“unfailingly courteous”.20 French was an
efficient and diligent man of business who
worked hard to increase the returns from the
College’s estates, and so his and the Fellows’
dividends.21 The College’s sixteenth-century
statutes did not provide for a Bursar: business
affairs were the Master’s responsibility,
though in practice Masters came to delegate
much of the routine work to a Fellow who
might be spoken of as the Bursar, though
how much was delegated varied from Master
to Master, Bursar to Bursar. French’s
notebooks show him to have been active in
negotiations with the College’s tenants, and
ready to exploit the development
opportunities of the land in Cambridge
allotted to Jesus under the Barnwell
Enclosure Act of 1807. Many of the houses in
Jesus Lane, and all those in New Square, Park
Terrace and Malcolm Street date from his
Mastership, as from its early years do the first
additions made to the College buildings for a
hundred years (‘K’ staircase). And as became
the churchman who was head of the
ecclesiastical corporation that owned so
much of the newly developed land he played
a leading part in the negotiations and
planning for a new church – Christ Church at
the top of Maid’s Causeway – to be built to
accommodate the area’s new inhabitants, a
matter complicated by the anomalous
ecclesiastical status of the parish within
whose boundaries it would lie. The University
and St John’s, as well as his own college, were
persuaded to make substantial contributions
to its cost. Above all it was with French’s
support and encouragement that the
extraordinarily fine restoration of the Chapel
was begun and carried out as far as the
crossing tower, first by Salvin and then, more
happily, by Pugin. He gave the stained glass
that the latter designed for the three lancet
windows recreated at the Chapel’s east end.
But what seems most to have impressed
those who knew him was that, in an age of
religious and denominational asperities, “he
lived in great friendship with some who
differed from him, and thought the surest
way to bring them off from mistakes was by
gaining upon their hearts and affections.
The essentials of religion once solidly
established would, he thought, soon settle
other things.”22
Corrie was an altogether less energetic and
less eirenic figure. While Norrisian Professor
of Divinity he declared himself too
overworked to participate in the teaching and
examining of ordinands that the diocesan
bishops, anxious to improve the professional
standards of their parochial clergy, wanted
the University to undertake – a project which
French supported. And though he was the
long-serving Tutor of St Catharine’s (as well
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Robert Peter
as a Divinity professor), and expected to be
elected, he had been passed over for the
Mastership of his college by the other four
Fellows (it was that small a college) in favour
of a younger man, one of Corrie’s pupils,
whom they brought back from his parish.23
‘Black’ Morgan often referred to Corrie as
“our dear old Master”, though behind that
respectful designation a note of irony, even
irritation, may perhaps be detected. He was,
said Morgan, content to let the College’s
officers get on with their jobs: “though his
powers [under the pre-1882 statutes] were
very great, for he possessed a veto on all
questions pertaining to business and
discipline, he almost invariably refrained
from thwarting what he believed to be the
wishes of the Fellows”.24 So there had been
occasions when he thwarted the Morgans,
‘Black’ and ‘Red’, and their supporters
among the Fellows, but these occasions were
probably few and have left no trace in the
records of the College meetings. The
Conclusions Book is just that: a record of
affirmative decisions reached, not minutes of
discussions or of proposals that failed to gain
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the assent of either a majority of the Fellows
or of the Master.
Corrie was fortunate to find at Jesus a
recently elected Fellow, Arthur Westmorland,
who was ready and able to relieve him of the
burden of day-to to-day College business,
and who for over thirty years – he outlived
Corrie by a year – acted as the President, the
Master’s deputy, during his lengthy absences.
Westmorland displayed little interest in the
academic life of either College or University,
though he was keenly active and effective in
the Conservative interest in both University
and town politics.25 In 1878 Corrie’s
damaging intransigence was circumvented
by requesting the University Commissioners
to communicate with Westmorland rather
than the Master.26 It was, however, E.H. ‘Red’
Morgan, who planned the financing and
oversaw the construction of the new
buildings erected within the College –
beginning in 1867 with the Waterhouse
staircases – and who restarted, under the
guidance of G.F. Bodley and Morris & Co, the
restoration of the Chapel which had come to
a halt after French’s death.
Unsurprisingly Corrie, who saw himself as
one “of the old evangelical party, as
vindicated by Overton of York in his True
Churchman”,27 strongly disapproved of
Tractarian ritualism which, like boat races,
he thought “pregnant with evil”. In 1845 he
had very publicy resigned from the
Cambridge Camden Society, which was soon
to be such an approving admirer of the
Chapel’s restoration.28 The choral element of
Chapel services introduced, with French’s
blessing, by the Dean (Gibson), and
conducted and financed by the young
widower and Fellow Commoner, John
Sutton, was much reduced after Gibson’s
departure for a College living and, under
Bodley’s guidance, another bout of church
restoration in 1856,29 and Sutton’s almost
contemporaneous conversion to Roman
Catholicism. The University’s Registrary,
Joseph Romilly, thought Corrie “a narrow
minded bigot”.30 His sabbatharianism was
extreme: it was not only excursion trains on
Sundays that he objected to. Reading
newspapers that day was almost certainly
sinful, and he opposed the Sunday opening
of the Botanic Garden.31 His hatred of Roman
Catholicism was life-long and unremitting.32
Twelve years after the Act of Parliament that
had opened Oxbridge colleges and the B.A.
degree to all non-Anglicans, he asked, not the
Tutor or the Dean but, Westmorland to
inquire into the rumours reaching him of
Jesus undergraduates engaging in “papistical
practices”. Westmorland’s investigations
revealed that three or four were attending
services at St Clement’s Church, a Tractarian
strong-hold in Cambridge, but he felt that the
College could hardly object to that; it was,
indeed, a College living. There was, however,
one undergraduate who had actually
converted to Rome: in his case, thought
Westmorland, the best thing would be to
persuade him to move to another college, as
he did – and, to of all colleges, St
Catharine’s.33 Ironically, it was Corrie’s
casualness and lack of reverence when
celebrating Holy Communion that had given
one of the Fellows (Thomas King) the final
nudge that had propelled him, too, to Rome
– or so Arthur Gray, who entered the College
as an undergraduate in 1870, became a
Fellow in 1875, and was Master 1912-1940,
believed.34
French was as able and as effective a Head
of House as any of his contemporaries. It is
difficult to find any respect – longevity apart
– in which his successor appears in as
attractive or as favourable a light, French was,
of course, Master in his prime, Corrie in his
decline. But that explains little: they were
almost contemporaries: French matriculated
in 1806, Corrie in 1813. French was ordained
in 1814, Corrie in 1817.35 Corrie was settled in
his ways and attitudes long before he became
Master. The Memorials of the Life of George Elwes
Corrie D.D. (Cambridge 1890), edited by one of
his nieces, has disappointingly little to say of
his thirty-five years at Jesus. He contributed
next to nothing to the great expansion of the
College during Morgan’s Tutorship, but little
to hinder it. Arthur Gray, Morgan’s successor
as Master, declared that Corrie had
“neglected the College and the undergrads in
what now [1924] we should think a really
scandalous way”.36
*
*
*
o the question arises: why, in 1850, at such
a critical juncture in the history of the
University and its colleges, did Bishop Turton
appoint Corrie? To it the Memorials do,
however, provide an answer. Turton, too, had
been a Fellow and Tutor of St Catharine’s, and
was another “shy, hypochondriac”, life-long
bachelor (though in his seventies he did fall
head over heels in love).37 Corrie had been his
prize pupil, and having been elected a Fellow,
Turton at once appointed him his Assistant
Tutor. Subsequently Corrie succeeded Turton
as Tutor when the latter was elected Lucasian
Professor of Mathematics. Turton then
became Norrisian Professor, and when from
that poorly endowed chair he was appointed
Dean of Peterborough, Corrie succeeded him
in it. His former Tutor doubtless sympathised
with Corrie, as others did, in his
disappointment at not becoming Master of
St Catharine’s.38 Then, in 1845, Turton, now
Dean of Westminster, was promoted to be
bishop of Ely and so, on French’s sudden
death, he was there to exercise the bishop’s
right to appoint a new Master of Jesus and, in
doing so, to assuage the disappointment of
his former pupil whom he had already made
both his Domestic and, despite the refusal to
take part in teaching ordinands, his
Examining Chaplain. By itself the Mastership
of Jesus was no great plum,39 and after the
Cathedrals Act of 1840 the bishop was no
longer able to supplement a Master’s income
by giving him an Ely canonry, as his
predecessors had done for several Masters,
including French. But the bishop was not
wholly without resources. In 1851 “the
choicest living in his gift”, the parish of
Newton-in-the-Isle, became vacant. Turton
urged Corrie to accept it from him, and he
did.40 Newton was much farther from
Cambridge than Ely – it “had been looked
upon as a place beyond the limits of
civilisation”41 – yet, with a curate to look after
the parish when Corrie was back in College, it
seems to have suited him well and he
undertook, too, the duties of Rural Dean of
Wisbech: another ecclesiastical anomaly,
there being no archdeacon.42 By the early
1860s, he had become as much or more
concerned in parochial and diocesan as in
College or University affairs, the latter being
S
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for him by then a lost cause. There were no
pensions attached to University or college (or
church) appointments until after the first
world war and so most were, inevitably, for
life – however long the life.
It was not only in the exercise of episcopal
patronage that Turton was, like his former
pupil, a relic of the ancien regime.43 During his
four years as Lucasian Professor of
Mathematics, with a salary of £300 p.a. (about
£21,000 in 2013 money), he, like his
predecessor Charles Babbage, had never
lectured. A notable art collector, he was, if not
the very last, one of the last bishops to wear
the episcopal wig when in a church. ‘Black’
Morgan had unhappy memories of going to
Ely to be ordained by him. The elderly bishop
had shown no personal interest in the
ordinands and the service itself seemed to be
just a formality that had to be gone through.44
Gray had similarly dismal memories of Corrie:
his “religion was, I think, a thing for himself;
his sermons were the deadliest imaginable
and nobody heeded them . . . He always read
[them] and according to [his niece] never
preached the same one twice, which was a
waste of labour, as nobody would have known
that he had more than one sermon”.45
Corrie’s longevity had, however, one
fortunate consequence. Three years before his
death at the age of 92 in 1885, Bishop
Woodford had surrendered his right to
appoint Masters of Jesus. His predecessor,
Bishop Browne, had declined to do so,
thinking it wrong to do anything that would
further reduce the links between the Church
and the Universities, it would be “destructive
to both but utterly disastrous to the
Universities”.46 Under the College’s new
statutes that came into force in 1882 the
Master was to be elected by the Fellows, and
it was by their unanimous vote that ‘Black’
Morgan finally entered into his delayed
inheritance, becoming the thirty-first (and
last) cleric to be Master.
1
2
Sidney Smith in E.E.Rich (ed.) St Catharine’s College,
Cambridge – Quincentennary Essays (Cambridge 1972),
161-2, assesses Corrie’s Tutorship.
(London 1874); David McKitterick, Cambridge University
Library – A History, vol. II (Cambridge 1986) 689;
Cambridge Antiquarian Society Reports, I (1840) 1-15;
X (1860) 11-23; XI (1861) 73-78; M.E. Bury and J.D.
62
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Pickles (eds.) Romilly’s Cambridge Diary, 1848-1864
(Cambridgeshire Record Society, XIV (2000), 8 January
1858. The diaries of Joseph Romilly, the University
Registrary, have been edited in three volumes: 18331842 (Cambridge 1967); 1842-1847 (C.R.S. IX (1994)
(ed. Patrick Bury); and this one. All three are
subsequently cited as Romilly, with the entry date.
Romilly, 6 July 1835.
Romilly, 3 and 6 July 1835.
Romilly, 16 October 1840; 20 February 1847.
D.A. Winstanley, Early Victorian Cambridge (Cambridge
1936) 66-71.
Cambridge University Commissioners, Report (London
1852) Correspondence, page 2; Romilly, 2 December
1850.
Romilly, 5 November 1850.
Winstanley, 234-5; Romilly, 2 and 10 December 1850.
For the letter to the Manager of the Eastern Counties
Railway Company, M. Holroyd (ed.) Memorials of the Life
of George Elwes Corrie (Cambridge 1890) 270-1
(subsequently cited as Memorials); and for the
background, Reginald B. Fellows, Railways to
Cambridge, Actual and Proposed, and London to Cambridge
by Train 1845-1938 (both Cambridge 1976).
Quoted, Winstanley ibid; Romilly, 13 February 1850, 10
December 1851.
D.A. Winstanley, Later Victorian Cambridge (Cambridge
1946) 308. Isobel O. Morgan (ed.) Memoirs of Henry
Arthur Morgan (Cambridge 1927) 140 (cited
subsequently as Morgan Memoirs).
Winstanley, (note 6) ibid; (note 11) 269; see also Owen
Chadwick, The Victorian Church (London 1966-70) vol. i.,
128.
The statement and other comments in Arthur Gray and
Frederick Brittain, A History of Jesus College Cambridge
(2nd ed.) (London 1960), carried over from the first
(1902) edition and now copied into the Oxford Dictionary
of National Biography that the College saw a “gradual
and melancholy decline” during French’s Mastership
is borne out neither by the detailed data provided by
J.A. Venn, The Entries at the Colleges of the University of
Cambridge 1544-1906 (Cambridge 1908) and ibid, Oxford
and Cambridge Matriculations 1544-1930 (Cambridge
1930), nor by the evidence in this paper.
Note 7, Evidence from the University, 226-230.
Morgan Memoirs 125; Clive Dewey, The Passing of Barchester
(London 1991) 89-90; Manual (Cambridge 1859);
Romilly, 11 February 1858.
For H.A. Morgan: Glazebrook, Jesus College Cambridge
Annual Report 2012, 49-58.
(Cambridge 1858).
Jesus College Archives (subsequently JCA) M.D7.8
(Corrie’s Papers).
Memorials, 180; Percy Melville Thornton, Some Things
We Have Remembered (London 1912), 167 (Thornton
matriculated at Jesus in 1860); Morgan Memoirs, 138.
Gentleman’s Magazine, 2nd Series, vol. 32 (1949) 655
(French); H.A. Morgan in Memorials, 339-40 (Corrie).
21 1837 was a bumper year (£265 – 5 – 8: £18,500 in 2013
money) though an appreciative Fellow assured French
that no one could expect this level to be maintained
(Tancred to French, 6 January 1838): JCA French’s
Papers (2).
22 Gentleman’s Magazine, 2nd Series, vol. 32 (1849)
655-6.
23 Romilly, 15 and 17 November 1845
24 Memorials, 242
25 Obituary, Cambridge Review, 19 May 1886.
26 Cambridge University Commissioners Report (London
1878), Evidence, 226-30.
27 (York 1801); Obituary, Chanticleer, No. 1 (October 1885)
6.
28 Memorials, 253, 276, 336; J.F. White, The Cambridge
Movement (Cambridge 1962) 153.
29 David Verey and Alan Brooks, Gloucestershire I: The
Cotswolds (Buildings of England) (London 1999) (King’s
Stanley).
30 Romilly, 5 and 14 November 1850.
31 Memorials 73, 154, 228, 311.
32 Memorials 73, 89, 113, 213; Romilly, 6 and 14 November
1850.
33 JCA. M.D7.8 (Corrie papers).
34 JCA. Iris Morgan’s Album 54 (letter of October 1924).
35 What Corrie himself described in his last sermon as “a
long period of gradual decline” and failing eye-sight
followed what seems to have been a stroke in 1878.
Thereafter the Conclusions Book, even when he was
present at a College meeting, was often signed in his
name by Westmorland. In the last three years of his life
he was a complete invalid and often unable to read.
36 Note 34 above.
37 Peter Meadows (ed.) Ely – Bishops and Diocese 1109-2009
(Woodbridge 2010), 252-4.
38 Memorials, 243, 291.
39 JCA. M.D7.8 (Corrie’s reasons for not leaving the
College anything in his will); Memorials 346 (Arthur
Gray).
40 Memorials, 270.
41 Note 27, above.
42 Corrie chose to be buried beside the church porch at
Newton, and even today is not forgotten there. The
serving of refreshments after Sunday morning service
is brought to an end with the formula: “it’s now time to
take Dr Corrie his tea”, and the teapot is emptied out
not far from his grave.
43 Like Corrie, he had rebuffed the Royal Commissioners:
Cambridge University Commission, Report, (London
1852), Correspondence, p.3.
44 Morgan Memoirs, 123.
45 Note 34 above. Unsurprisingly, a kindlier picture is
presented in the Obituary and Memorial Sermon (by
H.A. Morgan), Chanticleer, No. 1 (October 1885), 2-9,
9-14.
46 JCA. Master and Fellows 3 (20 June 1871).
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COLLEGE NEWS I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
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Awards, honours, projects, significant lectures Fellows
Professor Jean Bacon has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Open University.
She has also been awarded an EPSRC Research Grant for her project CloudSafetyNet.
Professor Jeremy Baumberg has been awarded the 2013 ERC Advanced Investigator
grant. He was also given the 2013 Young Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for
his pioneering contributions to nanophotonics.
Dr Natalia Berloff has been awarded a Professorship in the Department of Applied
Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
Dr James Clackson has been awarded Readership in the Faculty of Classics. He also
delivered the Margaret Heavey Memorial lecture at NUI Galway in March 2013.
Dr Stuart Clarke has been awarded a Professorship in the Department of Chemistry.
Professor James Crawford has been awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia for
eminent service to the law through his significant contributions to international and
constitutional legal practice, reform and arbitration.
Dr Pau Figueras has been elected a “Stephen Hawking Advanced Research Fellow” at the
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP).
Dr Mary Laven has been appointed Reader in the Faculty of History. She has also (along
with two colleagues) been awarded ¤2.3m in ERC Synergy funding to launch the
interdisciplinary project “Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Renaissance
Italian Home”.
Dr David Leith has been elected an Advanced Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.
Professor Robert Mair delivered the Cambridge Annual Red Cross Lecture in April 2013
‘What’s going on underground? Tunnelling into the future for our cities’. He was
interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 ‘The Life Scientific’ programme in January 2013 and on
their Frontiers programme on ‘Crossrail Tunnelling’ in July 2013. He was appointed a
member of the UK Government’s Construction Industry Strategy Advisory Council; its
report was published in July 2013.
Professor Juliet Mitchell has been elected the Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow in the
Department of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies. She has also
been awarded a two-year grant for a research project and book on ‘Siblings in
Psychoanalysis and in the Plays of Shakespeare’. She has been elected a Professorial
Research Associate in Theoretical Psychoanalysis at UCL, and is currently the Mellon
Visiting Scholar at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Dr Véronique Mottier was appointed Director of the Laboratoire de Sociologie of the
University of Lausanne, a research unit of 6 professors and 29 research staff, where she
also holds a part-time Professorship in Sociology. She also organised (with Robbie
Duschinsky) a conference titled ‘Classifying Sex: Debating DSM-5’ on 4 & 5 July 2013,
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which attracted over 100 international speakers and participants, housed at Crassh &
Jesus College. On 27 August 2012 she delivered a keynote lecture ‘Gender Power and the
State: Poststructuralism and Beyond’ to the 6e Congrès International des
recherchesféministesfrancophones at the University of Lausanne.
Professor Michael O’Brien has been granted the Woodward-Franklin History Award by
the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He also gave the following lectures: “The Adams
Family and the Classical Tradition”, at Brigham Young University, March 2013; and
“A Retrospective on the Southern Intellectual Circle, 1988-2013”, at Mercer University,
February 2013.
Dr Brechtje Post has been appointed Reader in the Department of Theoretical and
Applied Linguistics.
Dr Nicholas Ray has been awarded the 2013 Cambridge Design and Construction award
for his practice’s alterations and re-furbishment of Pembroke College Hall. He also
delivered a lecture entitled: “Housing as Process and Product” to the International
Conference on Modern Housing Construction in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Professor Simon Redfern has been elected a British Science Association Media Fellow at
the BBC Radio 4 Science Unit and BBC News Online. He has also been awarded the
Schlumberger Medal of the Mineralogical Society for 2012. This is the society’s most
prestigious research award, “To recognize scientific excellence in mineralogy and its
applications”.
Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn delivered a lecture at the ‘Via Humanitatis:
Sur le chemin de l’Humanité’ in Vatican City, entitled: ‘The transformational
consequences of sedentism in Europe and Western Asia from 10,000 to 5,000 BC’.
Dr Simone Schnall has been appointed Associate Editor for Social Psychological and
Personality Science. Furthermore, her paper entitled “Disgust as Embodied Moral
Judgment” (Schnall, Haidt, Clore & Jordan, 2008), published in the Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin, has been recognized as the most often cited paper in this top-tier
journal within the past five years.
Dr Marie Louise Sørenson has been elected Professor of Bronze Age Studies at Leiden
University.
Dr Michael Waibel has won the biennial European Society of International Law prize for
his book Sovereign Defaults before International Courts and Tribunals.
Professor Michael Waring was invited to speak at the Centenary Indian Science
Congress.
Dr Tim Wilkinson has been awarded a Professorship in the Department of Engineering.
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New Fellows
Dr Thierry Savin studied for his BS degree in Physics in Paris,
and continued at the École Normale Supérieure, gaining an MS
degree in Biophysics. In 2001, he joined the Department of
Chemical Engineering at MIT to pursue his PhD. At MIT
Thierry worked on experimental micromechanics of biological
systems. After graduation in 2006, he joined the group of
Professor Mahadevan at Harvard University as a postdoctoral
researcher in Applied Mathematics. He notably resolved the
mystery of gut looping during embryonic development. In 2010
he moved back to Europe to join the theoretical group of Hans
Christian Öttinger at the ETH Zurich. Thierry was recently
appointed University Lecturer in Bioengineering, and his research at Cambridge will
focus on the structure, mechanics and thermodynamics of living matter.
Dr Maite Conde was born and educated in London prior to
completing an undergraduate degree in Film Studies with
Hispanic Studies at the University of Glasgow (1994), a
Masters degree in Latin American Studies at the University of
London (1996) and a PhD in Hispanic Literature and Culture
at the University of California, Los Angeles (2005). The main
focus of Maite’s work is Brazilian culture and she specialises
in Brazilian cinema. She has recently published a book on
literary engagements with film in early 20th Century Brazil,
and she has edited and translated a book of essays by a
Brazilian philosopher called Marilena Chauí. Maite previously
taught at King’s College London (2009-2013) and Columbia University, New York
(2006-2009), and earlier this year was appointed University Lecturer in Brazilian Studies.
Dr Donal Cooper has a BA degree with first class honours in
History from Oxford, and an MA degree with distinction and a
PhD degree in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute,
University of London. Since receiving his PhD degree, he has
worked as an MA course tutor in the Victoria & Albert Museum
and then as an Assistant Professor (and since 2009 an Associate
Professor) in the Department of History of Art at the University
of Warwick. His research interests centre on Italian
Renaissance Art and its social and special contexts which he
will pursue further following his recent appointment as a
University Lecturer in History of Art.
Dr Matthias Landgraf was elected by Council on 11 March
2013 (CM 6069) and is a recently appointed University Lecturer
in the Department of Zoology. He was an undergraduate at
University College London from 1989 to 1992 and moved to
Cambridge to undertake postgraduate research in
developmental neuroscience in the Department of Zoology.
Since completing his PhD in 1996, Dr Landgraf has held a
number of postdoctoral research positions and, from 2002 to
2010, was a Royal Society Research Fellow.
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Research Fellows
Edward (Ned) Allen read English Literature at Christ’s College,
Cambridge, where he was a Choral Scholar, and following an
MPhil with distinction is completing his PhD on American
lyric poetry. He has concentrated on the work of Robert Frost
and Susan Howe. He has received numerous awards,
including a Kluge Fellowship to research in the Library of
Congress, Washington DC and a W M Keck Fellowship to
work at the Huntingdon Library, San Marino, California.
Gavin Williams obtained a first class degree in Music from
Merton College, Oxford in 2007 and is completing a PhD at
Harvard on “the place of music, noise and silence in Milan”
at the beginning of the twentieth century. He has already
published a major article in the Cambridge Opera Journal on
Verdi’s funeral in Milan.
Teng Jian Khoo obtained the BA (Highest Honours) degree
magna cum laude in Physics from Williams College in 2009,
and then received a Dr Herchel Smith Award to fund his
continuing doctoral studies in High Energy Physics at the
University of Cambridge. Khoo’s doctoral work has been
carried out within the ATLAS collaboration where he has been
involved in the search for new elementary particles predicted
by the theory of supersymmetry, this involving the Large
Hadron Collider.
Adam Harper was elected a Research Fellow in January 2012 but
deferred for a year. He read Mathematics and Statistics at Exeter
College, Oxford, where he won several scholarships and prizes
before graduating. He then moved to Cambridge to begin his
PhD studies in Pure Mathematics at King’s College. Adam’s
research concerns number theory, in particular the
understanding of relationships between the two key operations
that can be performed with whole numbers – addition and
multiplication.
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French Lectrice
Cécile Dubois was born and educated in France. She obtained a
BA degree in Classics and Philosophy from the University Paris
IV-Sorbonne before successfully joining the Ecole Normale
Supérieure (Ulm) in 2008. She then received her BA degree in
History and a Masters in Classics from the University Paris
IV-Sorbonne, which enabled her to write on several of her
academic interests including Greek plays, Roman Epic poetry
and Ancient art. From 2011-2013, Cécile studied for the French
Agrégation (Lettres Classiques), which she obtained in 2013.
Cécile will start a PhD in 2014 on Roman Epic poetry.
Outgoing Fellows
Dr Andrew Tucker has moved to Cape Town, South Africa to continue his
Sociogeographical studies.
Dr Olivia Caramello is visiting the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn for two
months before taking up a post-doctoral research position at the Institute des Hautes
Études, France.
Dr Michael Lombardo has taken up a Lectureship at the University of Warwick.
Outgoing CRAs
Dr Pau Figueras has taken up a Fellowship at King’s College Cambridge.
Dr David Leith has moved to the University of Exeter as an Advanced Research Fellow in
the Department of Classics and Ancient History.
Dr Flynn Castles has taken up a position at the University of Oxford to continue working
on metamaterials.
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Art at Jesus 2012-2013
Rod Mengham, Curator of Works of Art Emeritus Fellow
he college benefited from two donations and one purchase in the last year. The large
and impressive canvas ‘Macbeth and the Witches’, now hanging in the Alcock
Room, was donated by Mr Harry Knill; a large charcoal drawing by Michael Dan Archer
of the Red Pyramid was purchased after the artist’s exhibition in Chapel in July 2012.
Mr Humphrey Ocean RA, who exhibited here in 2011, has also donated a print which has
been hung in the Upper Hall.
The College renewed its stewardship of the trio of dinosaur sculptures by Jake and
Dinos Chapman until June 1st when the sculptures were removed to the City of London
where they will remain for one calendar year. (They form a tight-knit group at the foot of
the Gherkin, and are made to look tiny by comparison!)
There was an exhibition entitled ‘Love, Fear, Hate, Disaster, Sex & Miracles’,
consisting of collages and prints by David Mach in the south transept of the Chapel and
in the Chapter House and Parlour between 23 October and 4 November 2012. There was
a very successful opening, the show was greeted with enthusiasm, and no fewer than
four of the prints have remained with us for the time being.
The increased conservation budget has allowed us to proceed to schedule with the
five year plan for a number of works to be cleaned and/or restored: the portrait of
Cranmer has been returned to Hall; the Gaudier-Brzeska drawing has been restored and
the two oval spandrels in the Prioress’s Room are next in line for repair. Meanwhile,
there have been minor rearrangements in Upper Hall, the Chapter House, the
Combination Room and the Alcock Room, and plans are under way to borrow six
canvases from the Fitzwilliam Museum in exchange for works either removed already or
about to be removed from, The Master’s Lodge. These include works by Fantin-Latour,
Goetze, Stark and Wilson Steer.
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Theaster Gates, My Labor is My Protest
This year’s Sculpture in the Close was secured by a wonderfully generous one-off
donation by Antony Gormley and Vicken Parsons. Martin Village (alumnus, donor) has
proposed a scheme for long-term funding that would involve the selling of small editions
of table-top sculptures and prints by artists associated with the College, with artists
sharing the profits with the College. Stephen Chambers and Denise de Cordova have
been approached and have said they are happy to launch the scheme with the sale of their
works. More on this scheme soon!
This year’s exhibition has been more international in character than any previous
show, with works by Miroslaw Balka (Poland), Theaster Gates (USA), Harland Miller
(UK), Damian Ortega (Mexico) and Doris Salcedo (Colombia). It ran from 23 June
to 22 September, and included a vintage American fire truck daubed in tar, a
hyper-realistic set of casts of nine members of a forensic science team, and in the chapel
an installation of pairs of wooden tables, with layers of earth sandwiched between them,
out of which a crop of grass grew erratically throughout the summer. Despite being so
spectacular, much of the work was conceptual in character and worked on several
different levels. The plan for the next show is to concentrate on the work of younger
sculptors.
Damian Ortega,
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The Chapel
John Hughes, Dean of Chapel Emeritus Fellow
his year’s major sermon series in Chapel took place in the Lent term on the Apostles’
Creed, the ancient summary of Christian belief which we say at every Evensong.
Our own Professor Janet Soskice was joined in this series by Dr Simon Gathercole and
Dr Anna Williams, lecturers in New Testament and Patristic and Medieval Theology
respectively here in Cambridge, Simon Oliver, who was briefly acting Dean here, now
teaching philosophical theology at Nottingham University, the Bishop of Coventry,
Dr Christopher Cocksworth, and the Vicars of St Martin in the Fields (Sam Wells) and
Little St Mary’s here in Cambridge (Robert Mackley). I hope to bring this out as a small
book to be a companion volume to the series from 2011 responding to the New Atheists,
which is being published this year by Wipf and Stock in the US and Canterbury Press in
the UK. Other guest preachers on Sunday evenings this year have included the Bishops of
Chelmsford and Worcester, Canon Angela Tilby from Christ Church Oxford, Lucy
Winkett from St James Piccadilly, Bill Scott, Chaplain to HM the Queen, James Hawkey,
the Sacrist of Westminster Abbey, Paula Gooder and Anna Rowlands from King’s
London, and, closer to home, Tim Macquiban (1970) from our neighbour on Jesus Lane,
Wesley Methodist Church. Increased sensitivity amongst students to the question of the
diversity of world religions led to the provision of a study group in the Lent term with
guest speakers talking about each of the major world religions from a Christian
perspective. Other small groups this year included the annual catechesis course
introducing the Christian faith to those who wish to find out more or remind themselves
of the basics, and a Bible study group in the Easter term using the meditative lectio divina
approach to read the letter to the Ephesians (essentially reading each verse slowly, four
times, and then leaving silence for meditation). This proved particularly popular when,
in one of the brief glimpses of summer, we relocated to the Fellows’ garden and did our
meditation sat on the grass, although it is possible that one student, exhausted no doubt
from preparations for exams, may well have fallen asleep!
This year has seen three Chapel excursions, which provide an opportunity for students
to take some more reflective time out of Cambridge, visiting places of historic and
spiritual significance. At the end of the Michaelmas term I drove a minibus of students to
Kent for a tour of the mother church of the Anglican Communion, Canterbury
Cathedral, where we also had a Eucharist in a side chapel. We then drove on to Ramsgate
to hear the choir sing a concert in the beautiful (if freezing!) church designed by
A.W.N. Pugin, who was of course also responsible for the restoration of our own chapel.
During the Easter vacation I led a group of sixteen, including students, staff, fellows and
their families, to Santiago de Compostella, the pilgrim city in Galicia in Spain which
traditionally claims to have the tomb of St James the Apostle. We walked the last three
days of the ancient pilgrims’ ‘Camino’, which was not enough to get the traditional
indulgence, but was probably quite sufficient for our mixed ability group! The weather
was not too fierce and the scenery was very beautiful which made for an excellent
atmosphere along the route. Finally, at the end of the year, I took another minibus full of
students on a daytrip to Walsingham in Norfolk, known as ‘England’s Nazareth’ because
of the ‘Holy House’ which the Lady of the Manor constructed in the eleventh century in
response to a vision. Walsingham was a major centre of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages,
and was then restored by the Vicar of the parish in the early twentieth century.
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Some of the students and staff members who visited Santiago de Compostella
At the heart of the life of the Chapel is of course the twice daily offering of worship.
With four evensongs a week we have more choral services than any college apart from
King’s and St John’s, with Thursdays and Saturdays having their own distinct
congregation who come to support the boy choristers. It was a pleasure to see one of the
choristers, Toby Gardner, confirmed by the former Archbishop of Canterbury this term.
On Tuesday evenings we have ‘nanosermons’ which provide members of the College
community with an opportunity to explore their own thoughts and feelings about
matters of faith and other questions. Sunday evensong with guest preachers remains our
most popular service of the week, but the Sunday morning Eucharists have continued to
flourish with a smaller, but loyal congregation and a volunteer choir under the talented
direction of our organ scholars, Robert Dixon and Ben Morris. There are a significant
number of students who are mainly involved in churches in the city, but who support the
Chapel when they can and tend to come to special occasions such as the termly
Corporate Communion and buffet supper. A particularly memorable occasion this year
was when we were joined by staff and clients of the Salmon Youth Centre in Bermondsey
(where Adrian Greenwood, 1970, is chair of trustees) who spoke about their work and
the effects that it had had on their lives. Many more students turn up for services to mark
the high points of the academic and ecclesiastical year, from matriculation, to
commemoration of benefactors and graduation, from All Saints’ with Westcott House in
All Saints’ Church opposite the College, through the moving All Souls’ Requiem and
Remembrance Sunday service, the ever popular Advent and Christmas carol services,
to Ascension day Mattins from the roof of N staircase. The special services between
them help the students to find some sort of shape and meaning to their time here in
Cambridge, as well as familiarising them with the shape of the Christian story of
salvation.
All of these services would be considerably more difficult without the help of many
people. I have been particularly grateful this year for the support of the Reverend Jason
Ingalls, a priest from the United States who is in Cambridge while his wife is teaching at
the Music Faculty. We reinvented the position of Dean’s Clerk for him, which had
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formerly been for an ordinand, so that he has been able to assist with the taking of
services and other activities this year. The practicalities of setting up and clearing away
for services have been ably handled by a fine team of Chapel Secretaries (who act rather
like sidespersons in a parish) consisting of James Lofthouse (who sadly leaves us this
year), Alex Kite, Jon Sanders, Sarah Woods, Izabela Kujawiak, Tim Waghorn, and
Tim Gray, under the supervision of the two Chapel Clerks, Hanna Weibye and Sarah
Dane. Hanna deserves particular mention as she steps down this year, after being a Clerk
or Secretary almost continuously since 2003. Our ordinands’ funds currently support six
students in training for ministry in the Church of England who live at Westcott House
and Ridley Hall while taking courses through the College, two of whom,
Olivia Maxfield-Coote and Ruben Angelici, have assisted in the life of the Chapel this
year. This makes us one of the key colleges for training ordinands in Cambridge.
So much of our worship is tremendously enriched by our very talented choirs who
continue to go from strength to strength. Our Director of Chapel Music, Mark Williams,
writes elsewhere about their activities, but I would like to acknowledge here his constant
support in the regular life of the Chapel and continual vision to encourage the choirs to
do new and exciting things, such as the extraordinary collaboration with the charity
Songbound in Mumbai this year. Over the Christmas vacation I also had the pleasure of
accompanying the choirs on their tour of the West coast of the United States, singing for
various concerts and services in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco. The restored Sutton
organ, blessed by the Bishop of Chelmsford in the Easter term in the presence of the
benefactor who so generously enabled its restoration, is a wonderful addition to our
ensemble of instruments in Chapel.
This year, in addition to the many weddings of former and current students and staff,
has also seen the baptism of two staff children (Ted Spragg and Lucie Thulborn) as well
as the child of a graduate student (Florence Stone). Regular collections at services
enabled us to raise over £3000 for our chosen charities: the Children’s Society, FLACK
(who work with homeless people in Cambridge), the Salmon Youth Centre, the Jesus
College Ethiopia foundation which supports children with disabilities in Ethiopia,
the Church Urban Fund, and Songbound. In all these many and varied ways I hope the
Chapel continues to be faithful to the vision of the College’s founders, to be a centre of
Christian worship and teaching reaching out in service to every member of this College
community and beyond.
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Chapel Music
Mark Williams, Director of Chapel Music
he past year has been an unusually busy and exciting one, even by the standards of
the Choir’s normally packed schedule. We welcomed just five new choral scholars to
the ranks of the College Choir and three new choristers to the Chapel Choir at the
beginning of the academic year. With such a relatively small change in personnel, the
choirs quickly bonded and blended, both socially and musically, and services were soon
drawing plaudits from congregation members, Fellows and students alike. Highlights
of the Michaelmas Term included a joint service with the Choir of St John’s College in
St John’s College Chapel and evensongs with Berkshire Youth Choir and with Inner
Voices, a choir made up of children from inner-London state schools. The opportunity
to welcome young people into the College Chapel to sing with our own choristers and
students is one which is greatly appreciated by all concerned, and students and
youngsters enjoyed making music together on both these occasions.
Owing to the vagaries of term dates, Advent Sunday fell just after term had finished
but this didn’t deter the congregation and on 2nd December the College Choir sang to a
packed Chapel at one of the most atmospheric services of the year. With several carol
services and a pre-tour concert under their belt, the Combined Choirs (totalling some
fifty people from the age of eight upwards), set off for the USA on Tuesday 11th
December. Concerts in Seattle, Portland, Oakland and San Francisco were all received
warmly with standing ovations from large audiences and, between rehearsals, services,
performances and receptions, the group found time to enjoy some of the sights of
America’s west coast.
Within days, copies of the Choir’s critically-acclaimed seasonal CD, Journey into Light,
had sold out and choral scholars and choristers alike were deeply touched by the
generosity of hosts, alumni and friends of the Choir who treated the group to parties,
lunches and dinners galore. The Choir’s visit to the USA coincided with the tragic
shooting of several schoolchildren in Connecticut and there was a palpable mood of
sorrow and confusion in the country yet, as one audience member observed, ‘the sight
and sound of a group of young people singing so beautifully brought light and hope into
our lives at a time of great sadness for the American people’.
The Lent Term began with a memorable performance of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in
King’s College Chapel in which the College Choir joined the choirs of other colleges and
the Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra under the baton
of Sir Roger Norrington. Joint services with the Choir of Clare College and the Choir of
the Loughborough Endowed Schools (with whom the College has a historic link) were
greatly enjoyed and special services for St Radegund, Ash Wednesday and the
Commemoration of Benefactors all brought musical highlights.
The Choristers visited Windsor Castle to sing Evensong in St George’s Chapel under
the direction of Timothy Byram-Wigfield, sometime Director of Music at Jesus College,
and particularly enjoyed the unusual experience of changing into cassocks and surplices
in the castle dungeon! For the students, much of the term was taken up with fundraising
for the forthcoming collaboration with the charity Songbound. Two male members of the
choir raised £800 in sponsorship through renouncing their razors for the month of
February (although one beard was infinitely more successful than the other!) and,
through sponsored cake sales, concerts and fun runs, the group raised nearly £10,000
for the charity.
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Songbound runs choirs for children in the slums of Mumbai and Bangalore, and
following the end of the Lent Term, the College Choir were privileged to fly to India to
work with these choirs for a week in Mumbai. The experience was one that had a
profound impact on both the Choir and the children they met. The project involved the
choir members running workshops in some of the very poorest parts of Mumbai,
encouraging the children (some of whom were as young as four) to work on singing
technique and breathing whilst learning Indian and British songs together. Friendships
were formed and laughter and tears abounded. The group witnessed extreme poverty
but also enormous enthusiasm and joy. In the words of one choral scholar ‘not only did
we see the wonderful confidence that making music as a group can build in children,
but the choir members themselves – through working with and leading the children –
gained hugely in this respect; every one of us discovered or rediscovered the joy and
long-lasting benefit of sharing music. It was a vivid reminder of the power of music to
transcend cultural and linguistic barriers’.
Towards the end of our week in Mumbai, we were joined by the Master for a
presentation in blueFROG, a trendy venue in the centre of the city, at which the
Songbound choirs came together with the Choir of Jesus College to sing an eclectic mix
of pieces. After a concert for the Cambridge Society of Bombay, the Choir boarded an
overnight train to Goa where the tour ended with a concert of music for Holy Week in
the magnificent Basilica Bom Jesus, attended by a capacity audience. Through their
fundraising, the Choir’s donation to Songbound will ensure that the visit has a lasting
legacy as it will fund each of the slum choirs visited for the next three years. Coverage in
the Indian press was considerable and the tour featured on the Radio 3 programme
The Choir hosted by John Rutter just a few weeks after the choir members returned to the
UK. It is a collaboration which the College hopes will continue into the future, and the
generosity of choir patrons, friends, alumni, Fellows, staff and choir families in
supporting the venture meant a great deal to those who had the extraordinary privilege
to be part of it.
The day before the first Evensong of Easter Term, the College Choir travelled the short
distance to Widdington in Essex to sing at the re-opening of St Mary’s Church, at the
invitation of John Rhodes (1964) and his wife Christine, choir patrons. The Choir sang
to a full church on a warm spring evening and a rendition of ‘Blue Moon’ in the village
pub after the concert seemed to delight the locals! Extra activities were kept to a
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minimum during the exam term, although the dedication of the newly-restored Sutton
Organ (generously funded by Mr James Hudleston) and a joint service with the Choir of
Trinity College in their Chapel (and broadcast live on the internet) were both memorable
occasions, and, once again, choral scholars performed extremely well, with nearly a
third of the choir being awarded firsts in tripos, including the two highly-talented organ
scholars.
The month following the end of term was perhaps the busiest for the Choir with
services for graduands and for donors to the College, a third recording for Signum
Classics, and concerts in Halstead in Essex, Froyle in Hampshire and Cavendish in
Suffolk. On 1st July, the Combined Choirs were joined by the peerless early music
ensemble, His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, for a performance of Claudio
Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610. The packed College Chapel resounded with applause,
particularly for a number of distinguished soloists drawn from the ranks of choristers
and choral scholars. The concert was followed by a Gala Dinner in Hall at which
supporters of the Choir were treated to the magnificent creations of the College’s chefs
whilst both choirs performed sacred and secular numbers. The concert was generously
supported by Mr and Mrs Michael Gaine whose enthusiasm and vision has, alongside
that of Mr Charles Rawlinson MBE (1952), members of the Choir Development Group
and an increasing number of Choir Patrons, been a key factor in the Choir’s growing
reputation and success in recent years.
Following a week of recording and fond farewells to Nico Bryan, Sam Fitzgerald,
Tom Lane and Hugo Walford, senior choristers with 21 years’ service to the Choir
between them, the College Choir travelled to Yorkshire to perform in St Michael’s
Church Coxwold as part of the College’s celebrations of the Laurence Sterne
tercentenary at Shandy Hall. Another concert in St James’s Piccadilly (sung jointly with
the Choir of Merton College Oxford in aid of the Muze Trust for Music Education in
Zambia) was followed by an event at the Salmon Youth Centre and a workshop with
students from South London state schools, before the Choir travelled to Oundle for its
five-day residency at the Oundle International Festival. The last week of the academic
year for our choral and organ scholars saw them participate in Evensong in
Peterborough Cathedral, two concerts in Northamptonshire village churches, a second
performance of the Monteverdi Vespers, several workshops with students on the Oundle
for Organists course and a live BBC broadcast of Morning Worship from the Chapel of
Oundle School.
Departing choral scholars – Benjamin Atkins, Christopher Bond, Harriet Flower,
Katie Matthews, Callum Mullins, Kit Preston Bell, Gareth Thomas – have all brought a
great deal to the Choir during their time with us and Robert Dixon, our departing Senior
Organ Scholar, deserves special mention for his admirable musicianship and his
exemplary commitment to his duties. As winner of the 2013 Brian Runnett Organ Prize,
open to all organ scholars in the University,
Robert brought further credit to an organ loft which was already unique in boasting two
organ scholars who were also Fellows of the Royal College of Organists.
An account of the year would not be complete without mention of the weekly services
for which the Choir primarily exists. It is sometimes in the quietest moments that we are
most strongly reminded of the privilege that is ours to continue the centuries-old
tradition of worship in such an ancient and beautiful building. Membership of the Choir
requires many sacrifices of the organ and choral scholars, the choristers and their
parents and families, and the College is extremely fortunate to have a choir family which
makes such sacrifices so willingly, but the rewards are immense as we continue, build
on and develop the great heritage of choral music at Jesus College.
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Laurence Sterne Tercentenary 1713-2013
Stephen Heath
he year 2013 saw the 300th anniversary of the birth of
Laurence Sterne, author of The Life and Opinions of
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey through
France and Italy, and without doubt one of the most
original of the College’s alumni.
Born in 1713 in the Yorkshire village of Elvington,
Sterne entered Jesus in 1733, having spent most of his
early years in Ireland, where his soldier-father was
stationed, before being sent back to England at the age of
ten to live with his father’s elder brother and attend
school in Hipperholme near Halifax. Jesus was something
Laurence Sterne by Sir Joshua Reynolds
of a Sterne family tradition and Laurence’s choice of
(1760). This copy in oil attributed
college was inevitable. His great-grandfather, Dr Richard
to R. Holme, a pupil of Reynolds,
Sterne, had served as the College’s Master from 1634-44,
hangs in Hall
while a grandfather, an uncle, and a cousin had been at
Jesus, not to mention two more cousins admitted while Sterne was a student. Jesus was
also the college of Nathan Sharpe, his much respected Hipperholme schoolmaster, who
had with great prescience declared the young Laurence ‘a boy of genius’. Jesuans,
moreover, were to be ever important in his later life; notably two Jesuan Archbishops of
York, Thomas Herring and Matthew Hutton, who were his diocesan superiors for many
of the years in which he held Yorkshire livings. There were sound financial reasons too
for choosing Jesus. Dr Sterne had left the College money to endow four scholarships for
poor students from Yorkshire or Nottinghamshire (his family was from
Nottinghamshire) and there was every likelihood that Sterne, whose father was far from
well off, would be awarded one of these. In the meantime, he entered the College as a
sizar, one of the class of poorer students who paid for their studies by undertaking
various duties in college; eight months after his arrival, his situation improved when, as
expected, he obtained a Sterne scholarship.
The College had flourished under Dr Sterne’s Mastership, notwithstanding difficult
last years that saw the beginning of the English Civil War. By the time Laurence arrived,
however, Jesus was no longer one of the largest but rather one of the smallest colleges,
academically stagnant and offering little by way of intellectual sustenance. Referring to
the large walnut tree that stood in the inner court, a contemporary poem described how:
T
It over shadowed every room,
And consequently more or less,
Forc’d ev’ry brain, in such a gloom,
To grope its way, and go by guess.
The poem’s author was John Hall-Stevenson, another Jesus student from Yorkshire;
a kindred spirit whom Sterne met in his second year and who was to prove a close friend
for the rest of his life. Not that friendship with Hall-Stevenson was particularly fitting
for a minister of the Church, as Sterne was to be. From a much wealthier background,
Hall-Stevenson inherited the partly ruined Skelton Castle in North Yorkshire, renamed it
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Crazy Castle, and was there to entertain Sterne and a rakish circle of friends – members of
his ‘Demoniacs’ club – with hunting, shooting, drinking, ribaldry, and idleness
(Hall-Stevenson’s brain never groped long in any gloom; as he put it in the same poem,
‘I keep thinking at my ease; / That is, I never think at all’). Sterne visited his friend at
Crazy Castle whenever he could, though the association with him was looked at askance
by the Church authorities. When in 1760 Hall-Stevenson, riding on the crest of the
success of the first volumes of Tristram Shandy, published two moderately obscene verse
epistles (one, indeed, entitled ‘To my Cousin Shandy on his coming to Town’ and both
declared by the poet Thomas Gray to be ‘absolute nonsense’), there was a rumour that
Sterne himself might be their author, bringing him stern admonishment from no less a
personage than the great theologian William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester, who
urged him to end the connection with Hall-Stevenson which allowed such a rumour to
flourish.
Sterne left Jesus in April 1737 for the ordinary life of a clergyman. After a brief spell as
assistant curate at St Ives, near Huntingdon, he returned to Yorkshire where his Jesuan
uncle Jacques was Precentor of York and an influential member of the Church
establishment (though Sterne eventually displeased him and after a time he did little to
advance his nephew’s prospects). Sterne began again as assistant curate in Catton, not
far from his Elvington birthplace, and then, having been ordained priest, obtained and
cumulated the livings of Sutton-on-the-Forest in 1738, Stillington in 1744, and then in
1760 Coxwold. The first two volumes of Tristram Shandy had appeared at the very end of
1759 and the Coxwold years were to be those of the writing and publication of the
subsequent volumes (there were to be nine in all), as also of A Sentimental Journey through
France and Italy; years too in which Sterne, who should have remained a relatively
unknown country parson, though known for his skill as a preacher, gained a celebrity of
which he made much during frequent stays in London. Notoriety came too, since
Tristram Shandy with its humourous waywardness, its satirical wit, its Rabelaisian bawdy
was regarded by many as obscene, inexcusable from the pen of a clergyman. Sterne’s old
college itself, it should be said, is not exempt from a touch of obscenity, remembered as
it is in a piece of dubious innuendo concerning ‘the pricks which entered the flesh of
St. Radagunda’; though it also makes a less questionable appearance when Tristram
looks back fondly to the time ‘when [my father] went up along with me to enter my
name at Jesus College in ****’.
On obtaining the Coxwold living, Sterne took up residence in Shandy Hall, as his
new home was called by his friends (‘shandy’ a dialect word for ‘crackbrained’,
‘peculiar’). It was there that he spent the last years of his life, though with prolonged
periods in France in the hope of improving his health (he had suffered from pulmonary
tuberculosis since his Jesus days). He died in 1768 in London, on one of his many stays
in the capital, and was buried in St George’s cemetery, Paddington. Sterne’s, however,
was to be no unquiet grave: soon after the burial his body was stolen, transported to
Cambridge for dissection, recognized, transported back to London to be buried again in
St George’s, at rest at last until 1969 when the site of the cemetery was sold for
redevelopment and Sterne’s remains, along with his gravestone, went to Coxwold for
reburial in the graveyard behind St Michael’s. His friend, the actor and theatre manager
David Garrick, had penned an epitaph:
Shall Pride a heap of Sculptur’d Marble raise,
Some unmourn’d, worthless, titled Fool to praise?
And shall we not by one poor Grave-stone learn,
Where Humor, wit and Genius sleep with Sterne?
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‘Yorick’s Progress: Sterne in his Study at Shandy Hall’, a limited edition print by the artist and Guardian cartoonist Martin Ronson
commissioned by the Laurence Sterne Trust at Shandy Hall. Sterne is shown in his study holding the marbled pages from Tristram
Shandy, his viola da gamba is behind his chair and St Michael’s can be seen through the window.
Copyright: Martin Rowson and the Laurence Sterne Trust
A copy of the print was donated to the College by Patrick Wildgust on behalf of the Trust.
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Humour, wit, genius… That the tercentenary of Sterne should be celebrated by his
college went without saying and we joined with the Curator of Shandy Hall for an event
in Coxwold on the sixth of July this year. Thus it was that on a superlatively sunny
Saturday afternoon, alumni living in Yorkshire and neighbouring counties could be
found gathered in the grounds of the Hall where the Curator, Patrick Wildgust gave an
introduction to the house and its history (Sterne added a coach house, a cellar, and a
two-storey extension) before taking everyone inside in small groups to explore its
various rooms and admire its collection of books, paintings, manuscripts, prints, and all
variety of Sterne-related ephemera. This was followed by tea in the gardens, where we
were joined by the Master and Mrs White, prior to a gentle stroll down the road to
nearby St Michael’s, Sterne’s parish church, for a fine ‘Concert of British Music’ given by
the College Choir under the direction of Mark Williams to a packed audience of alumni
and local residents.
By a more than happy coincidence, the parents of a member of the Choir, Andrew
Stratton, turned out to live in a village close to Coxwold. Thanks to Mrs Stratton
accommodation was arranged to allow the Choir to stay over until the next day and so to
take part in the Sunday morning service at St Michael’s. Mr and Mrs Stratton also
provided supper at their home on the Saturday evening for the Choir and those of us
who had come from Cambridge; their generosity did much to make the event possible.
As of course did that of Patrick Wildgust and all at Shandy Hall who so readily supported
the idea of holding this celebration and then in every way ensured that it went so well.
Members of the College who have an opportunity to visit the Hall should do so – the
house, its various collections, the numerous and original exhibitions it mounts in a
converted granary in the grounds, the gardens… all make any visit a rewarding
experience, and, of course, for Jesuans above all!
The Choir in St Michael’s Church
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The Libraries and Archives
Stephen Heath Keeper of the Old Library, Frances Willmoth,
Archivist and Assistant Keeper, and Robert Athol, Assistant
Archivist
The Old Library
he Old Library’s activities continue as usual. We have welcomed a number of
scholars and other visitors both from Britain and from many different parts of the
world (from Australia to look at the Malthus Collection, from Finland in connection
with a study of manuscripts of the Wycliffe Bible, to take only two examples). Although
no general conservation programme has been undertaken this year, a number of
individual items have required and received attention; our 11th century manuscript copy
of Priscianus’s De Grammatica, for example, was examined and sent to the Cambridge
Colleges’ Conservation Consortium to be disbound and given specialist treatment to
deal with damage to several leaves caused by the hide glue used for a repair some time in
the past.
A particularly noteworthy gift to the Library was made by Dr J L Gordon (1968) and
his wife Diana: a copy – number 46 of 450 – of the six-volume Millennium Edition
facsimile of the Domesday Book. The facsimile, itself, which takes up two of the volumes,
is a truly magnificent piece of book production, carried out with an attention to detail
that runs from a calfskin binding that
matches the earliest known Domesday
binding to the quality of the pages
themselves, which even allow the
‘hair’ side of the old sheepskin folios
to be distinguished from the ‘flesh’ of
the reverse. The other four volumes
comprise an English translation, an
index, and modern maps with the
Domesday sites overlaid, all of which
makes the edition a valuable scholarly
resource. The gift was made in
memory of Professor Austin Gresham
whom both John and Diana Gordon
knew well, both professionally and
socially: the former was supervised by
Austin for his PhD and then became a
colleague of his when he took up a
research position in the Department
of Pathology; the latter worked with
Austin when she ran the Curriculum
Office at the Clinical School.
A number of interesting historical
items have been acquired for the
Jesuan Collection, including three
Priscianus, De Grammatica manuscript, Durham,
works by the poet Elijah Fenton,
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who entered the College in 1700. Notable among them is a rare copy of his poem Cerealia
(1706), published anonymously but with the ascription to Fenton now generally
accepted. The poem is a burlesque imitation of Milton in celebration ‘Of English Tipple,
and the potent Grain’, the ale of these shores well able to get the better of foreign wines.
The other Fenton items were Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems (1708), an important
anthology edited by him and to which he contributed a number of pieces, both signed
and unsigned; and his own Poems on Several Occasions (1717). Fenton eked out a life of
relative poverty and is best remembered now for his collaboration with Pope on the verse
translation of the Odyssey. ‘By the suavity of his manners, he was beloved wherever he was
known’, wrote Dr Johnson in his soberly moving ‘Life of Fenton’, concluding: ‘Whoever
mentioned Fenton, mentioned him with honour’. Which was perhaps not readily said of
Joseph Browne, the author of another notable acquisition. A physician and satirist,
Browne entered Jesus in 1694. In 1706 he was convicted for libel against Queen Anne’s
government and sentenced to the pillory; possibly the only of our alumni to incur such
punishment (fellow Jesuan Fenton was at much the same time penning verses in praise of
the Queen). The work by Browne we acquired was The Circus, or British Olympicks, a Satyr on
the Ring in Hyde Park (1709). Less contumacious, this aims its barbs at ‘the gilded show’
of young nobles, fops and belles who exhibit themselves in Hyde Park’s Ring,
the fashionable promenade of the day. Mention might also be made of the limited edition
copy of a poem by George Stovin Venables, admitted to the College in 1828 and elected a
Fellow in 1835. Entitled, somewhat flatly, ‘The attempts made of late years to find a
north-west passage’, the poem won the Chancellor’s medal in 1831 but is now
long-forgotten. Venables himself, however, is still remembered, as the man who did
permanent damage to future novelist Thackeray’s appearance when he broke his nose in
a school-yard scrap at Charterhouse – Jesuans’ contributions to history are made in ways
both large and small.
The Keeper and Assitant Keeper of the Old Library have had the benefit of the
assistance of Chris Barker, Deputy Librarian of the Quincentenary Library, who has
provided help both with cataloguing and with looking after readers. Valuable assistance
has also been given by Rhona Watson, the Quincentenary Librarian.
The Quincentenary Library
tudents have continued to express their satisfaction with the Quincentenary Library
and the services it provides. It is much valued as a place in which to work.
The Library’s well worn carpets have been replaced with carpeting that follows the
original colour scheme. A few hours of exceptionally heavy rain led to water running into
the Library and revealed problems with the roof and gutters. Work is being carried out
this summer to deal with these problems. Thanks to the speedy response of the
Quincentenary Librarian and her staff, the number of books damaged beyond use was
small.
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College Archives
n May 2012, Robert Athol, who holds archival posts at Clare, Trinity Hall and
St Edmund’s, was appointed as temporary College Archivist to cover for Frances
Willmoth during her long term leave. Continued help from volunteers Pat Holder and
Kathleen Cann has allowed ongoing archive projects to be carried forward: in particular,
the reboxing and repackaging of student tutorial files from the 1930s onwards and the
cataloguing of papers relating to College livings. Though Kathleen has now moved away
from Cambridge, Pat is continuing the work on the tutorial files; when completed this
will free up some much needed archival storage space.
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One of the main Archive tasks this year has been cataloguing and sorting various
documents that were returned from deep storage. The hundred or so boxes that were
sent away last year for the period of the Chapel Court refurbishment were returned in
February 2013 and placed in a new archive store in East House. This space was formerly
used by the Records Manager as a semi-current and modern records store, but a
dedicated store has now been provided for this in the refurbished Chapel Court, leaving
the East House space available for archive use.
We have welcomed visitors to the College Archives over the last year with a range of
research interests, including 19th century women’s wages, spending on chapel furniture
during the Reformation, 18th century property deeds in connection with family history
research, and developments of College property since the 1960s. The role played by the
Archives in connection with our property is not always recognised – we are constantly
called on to answer queries, both internal and external, concerning terms of purchase,
boundary disputes, footpaths, and so on; queries that can often concern properties and
land that we no longer own but to which our archive records can provide an answer.
There have been a significant number of gifts to the Archives this year. Photographs
were received from the boat house, including a good one of Steve Fairbairn in a double
scull; these have been conserved and are now stored with our other photographic
collections. Our Honorary Fellow and former organ scholar Peter Hurford (1949) gave us
the notebook in which he recorded details of all the organ music he and his successor
Richard Lloyd (1952) performed at Chapel services. Peter and Adrian Rossiter and
Charlotte Grant (Fw 1995) donated a significant collection of the papers of A P Rossiter.
Rossiter was admitted as a Fellow in 1945 and subsequently served as Tutor, and Director
of Studies in English until his
death in a motorcycle accident
in 1957. Accounts given by
students of his supervisions and
lectures make clear that he was
an exceptionally brilliant and
inspiring teacher. The papers
we have received include drafts
of lectures, photographs, and
notebooks containing
reflections on various topics
(Elizabethan and Jacobean
theatre, the picturesque, etc.),
quotations, prose pieces,
poems, limericks, and detailed
records of rock-climbing trips
and routes (Rossiter was a
passionate and expert climber,
with an unsurpassed knowledge
of the Lake District).
Such gifts to the Archives
help us to fulfil our
commitment to maintaining as
full a record as possible of the
College and its life.
A P Rossiter
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The Bronowski Archives
he College this year received a
major collection of the papers of
Jacob Bronowski and has established a
dedicated archive space in Chapel
Court in which to house them, where
they will eventually be available for
consultation and study. The papers,
which cover the various areas and
periods of his work, had previously
been stored at the University of Toronto
but were transferred to the College at
the end of 2012, in line with the wishes
of the Bronowski family and with the
help of Professor Lisa Jardine,
Bronowski’s eldest daughter and an
Honorary Fellow of the College, as was
he. The establishment of the
Bronowski Archive has been made
Bust of Bronowski by Robert Hunt
possible by a generous donation from
Daniel and Joanna Rose of New York,
who were close friends of Jacob Bronowski. As well as the cost of the transfer and the
equipment of the rooms, their generosity has allowed appointment for a year of Madelin
Terrazas, previously an archive assistant at Churchill, to catalogue the papers and advise
on their conservation.
Jacob Bronowski (1927) read mathematics at Jesus as an undergraduate and continued
here as a graduate student, completing his doctorate in 1933. His subsequent career was
varied and distinguished: after a lectureship at University College Hull (later the
University of Hull), he did war work at the Military Research Unit of the Home Office and
the Joint Target Group in Washington; he was a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ’s
mission to Japan in 1945 and was responsible for the British report on the effects of the
Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs; in 1950 he became Director General of Process
Development in the National Coal Board; and in 1964 Senior Fellow at the new Salk
Institute in San Diego, subsequently serving as Director of its Council for Biology in
Human Affairs. During the 1950s he became a public figure as a result of his appearances
on the popular radio programme The Brains Trust and continued as a highly successful
broadcaster: his thirteen-part television series The Ascent of Man engaged millions of
viewers in Britain and the United States in an exploration of humankind’s cultural
evolution from prehistoric times to the present. As an undergraduate, he started a highly
original magazine, Experiment, devoted to the appreciation of new developments in art,
literature and music; later he was to write powerfully about the artist, poet and visionary
William Blake. Art and science were for him the same expression of the human
imagination: ‘I grew up’, he wrote, to be indifferent to the distinction between literature
and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned
together’. Through and through a humanist, his overriding concern was with the
integrity of what we are, with ‘the uniqueness of man that grows out of his struggle (and
his gift) to understand both nature and himself ’, as he put it in a ‘biographical sketch’
now in our possession. His achievement in so many areas, his intellectual integrity,
his humanity make him a model for everything the College should stand for and to which
the Bronowski Archive will bear witness.
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Books and Articles by Members and
Old Members donated to the College
2012-2013
The donations recorded here are those received before the end of June 2013.
Any items received after that date will be listed in next year’s Report.
AUSTIN, J.L.A. (1959), (i) In Good Hands: 250 Years of Craftsmanship at Swaine Adeney Brigg,
by K. Prior – includes photographs by J. Austin (John Adamson, Cambridge, 2012);
(ii) The Hale Collection of Tōhoku Ceramics – colour photographs by J. Austin (Ruthin Craft
Centre, Ruthin, 2012)
BAKER, D.J. (2003), (i) Textbook of Criminal Law (3rd Ed.) (Sweet & Maxell, London,
2012); (ii) The Right not to be Criminalized: Demarcating Criminal Law’s Authority (Ashgate,
Farnham, 2011); (iii) with J. Horder, The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law: The Legacy of
Glanville Williams, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013)
BARR, R.A. (1996, 2007), (ed.) Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Vol. 4,
No. 2 March 2012 (issue on W.S Graham) (Gylphi, Canterbury, 2012)
BARTLE, R. (1949), The Telephone Murder: the Mysterious Death of Julia Wallace (Wildy,
Simmonds & Hill, London, 2012)
BERRY, H.M. (1995), (i) The Castrato and his Wife (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011);
(ii) The Family in Modern England (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007)
BESEMER, S. (2007), Intergenerational Transmission of Criminal and Violent Behaviour
(Sidestone Press, Leiden, 2012)
BLACK, M.H. (1945), Learning to be a Publisher (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
2011)
Laurence Sterne (1733), The Life and Opinions of Tristram
Shandy, Gentleman, Volume VII, London 1765 ( Jesus College Old
Library). The success of the first volumes of Tristram Shandy led to
spurious imitations and ‘continuations’. Volumes were issued in pairs
and, starting with Volume V, Sterne adopted the practice of guaranteeing
their authenticity by signing the first of each pair
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BOWEN, A.J. (Fw. 1995), Jesuan Origins, by J. Sherman, translated by A.J. Bowen
(s.n., Cambridge, 2012)
COOKE, A. (1927, HON Fw 1986), The Times Obituaries 1992, forward by Alistair Cooke
(Blewbury Press, Blewbury, 1993) [donated by F.H. Willmoth, Fw 2011]
DATE, C.J. (1959), (i) View Updating & Relational Theory: Solving the View Update Problem
(O’Reilly, Sebastapol, 2013); (ii) Relational Theory for Computer Professionals: What Relational
Databases Are Really All About (O’Reilly, Sebastapol, 2013)
EDWARDS, P.J. (1979), More Work! Less Pay!: Rebellion and Repression in Italy, 1972-7
(Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2009)
ENONCHONG, N.E. (1988), Duress, Undue Influence and Unconscionable Dealing (2nd ed.)
(Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2012)
FIELDHOUSE, D.K. (Fw. 1981), “For Richer for Poorer” in Cambridge Illustrated
History of the British Empire (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996)
GLAZEBROOK, P.R. (Fw, 1967) “Glanville Llewelyn Williams 1911-1997, a biographical
note” in The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law: The Legacy of Glanville Williams edited by
D. J. Baker and J. Horder, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013), pp. 1-25
GRAY A. (1870, Fw 1875, Master 1912), Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Granmarye
(W. Heffer, Cambridge, 1919), The Everlasting Club and Other Tales of Jesus College (Jesus
College, Cambridge, 1996); Cambridge University: an Episodical History (W. Heffer,
Cambridge, 1926). [donated by TONGUE, A.F. (1959) & TONGUE, C.H. (1962) in
memory of TONGUE, F.J. (1928)]
HAPPÉ, P. (1978), (i) The Tide Tarrieth No Man (Malone Society: Manchester University
Press, Manchester, 2012); (ii) ed. with W. Hüsken, Les Mystères: Studies in Genre, Text and
Theatricality (Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2012); (iii) Noye’s Fludde: Benjamin Britten’s Interpretation
of the Chester Play (Presses Universitaires du Mirail, Toulouse, 2011); (iv) “A tale of a tub”,
in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (vol. 6) edited by D. Bevington et al
(Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012) pp. 543-654; (v) “‘Pullyshyd and
Fresshe is Your Ornacy’: Madness and the Fall of Skelton’s Magnyfycence” in The Oxford
Handbook of Tudor Drama edited by T. Betteridge & G. Walker (Oxford University, Oxford,
2012) pp. 482-98
HENSCHER, P.M. (1986), King of the Badgers (Fourth Estate, London, 2011)
HUGHES, J.M.D. (1997, Fw 2011), The Unknown God: Sermons Responding to the New Atheists
(Cascade Books, Eugene, 2013) edited by John Hughes, with chapters by him,
‘Christianity’s Bastard Child’, pp. 55-61; John Cornwell (Fw 1990, FWC 1996), ‘Morality,
Tragedy and Imagination’, pp. 63-75; Timothy Jenkins (Fw 1992), ‘Popular Science and
Science Fiction’, pp. 17-28; and Terry Eagleton (Fw 1964 , Hon Fw 2009), ‘Faith,
Knowledge, and Terror’, pp. 3-8
INGRAM. R.N. (1958), (i) In the Footsteps of the Innocents Abroad (Privately published,
2009); (ii) Adventures in Canada and the USA (Privately published, 2011); (iii) Some Episodes
and Incidents in a Working Life (Privately published, 2013)
JAMES, P. (2000) and MULLEN, A. (2001), Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds
(with contribution by CLACKSON, J.) (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012)
JENOFF, P.R. (1992), The Things We Cherished (Doubleday, New York, 2011)
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KILLINGWORTH, G.C. (1968), Mister Misery (Flame Lily Books, Shrewsbury, 2011)
LUCK, R.G. (1994), (i) Davies-Sonata nr. 2 in A major, edited by R.G. Marshall-Luck
(Blandford Forum, E M Publishing, 2012); (ii) Holst – Five Pieces for Violin and Piano,
edited by R.G. Marshall-Luck, (Blandford Forum, E M Publishing, 2012)
MEHTA, A.B. (1972), ed. with B. Winchester, Lysosomal Storage Disorders: a Practical Guide
(Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2012)
MENGHAM, R.A. (1973, Fw 1989), (i) ‘Stefan Themerson as Polish Artist and English
Writer’, in The Visual and the Verbal in Film, Drama, Literature and Biography, ed. Miroslawa
Buchholtz and Grzegorz Koneczniak (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2012) pp. 187-194. (ii)
‘Inside the White Crypt’, in Anselm Kiefer, Il Mistero delle Cattedrale (London: White Cube,
2012) pp. 37-41. (iii) ‘Spinning the Compass’ in Artists’ Laboratory: Stephen Chambers RA,
The Big Country (London: The Royal Academy, 2012) pp. 6-17, (iv) ‘Themerson’s Paradox’,
in The Themersons and the Avant-Garde, ed. Pawel Polit (Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz: 2013)
pp. 162-169
PARR, A.S.D.V. (1984), The Art of War: Five Years in Formula One (Adam Parr, S.I., 2012)
PENN, R.D. (1968) (i) Social Change and Economic Life in Britain (Homeless Book, S.I.,
2006) (ii) Skilled Workers in the Class Structure (CUP, Cambridge, 2010) (iii) Children of
International Migrants in Europe: Comparative Perspectives, by Roger Penn and Paul Lambert
(Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2009) (iv) Skill and Occupational Change, edited by
Roger Penn, Michael Rose, and Jill Rubery (OUP, Oxford, 1994)
RENFREW, A.C. (Fw 1986), (i) Cognitive Archaeology from Theory to Practice: the Early Cycladic
Sanctuary at Keros (L.S. Olschki, Firenze, 2012) (ii) Section on Colin Renfrew, pp. 79-83
in The Balzan Prizewinners’ Research Projects: an Overview, edited by (Fondazione
Internazionale Premio E. Balzan, Milan, 2012.); (iii) The Sapient Mind: Archaeology meets
Neuroscience, edited with C. Frith and L. Malafouris. (O.U.P., Oxford, 2009) (also includes
article by A.C. Renfrew “Neuroscience, Evolution and the Sapient Paradox: the factuality
of value and the sacred”, pp. 165-175)
ROSS MARTYN, J.G. (1962), ed. with N. Caddick, Williams, Mortimer and Sunnucks on
Executors, Administrators and Probate, 20th edition. (Sweet & Maxwell/Thomas Reuters,
London, 2013)
ROWLAND, C. (Fw, 1979-1991), ed., Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology, 2nd ed.
(Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007)
SHARP, J.R. (1972) “Aspects of High Churchmanship in Eighteenth-Century England:
Charles Wheatley (1686-1742) and the Rational Illustration of the Book of Common
Prayer”, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era pp. 31-44 Vol. 19
(2012)
STEWART, R.P.D. (1981), Jackson and Powell on Professional Liability (7th ed.), edited by
J.L. Powell and R. Stewart (Sweet and Maxwell, London, 2012)
SUN, C. (2007), The Case Study for Applying China National Agriculture Related Funding (China
Financial and Economic Publishing House, Beijing, 2012)
TAYLOR, D.A.J. (1951), “Thank You for your Business”: the Jewish Contribution to the British
Economy (Vallentine Mitchell, Edgware, 2013)
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Desiderius Erasmus, Novum Testamentum, Basel
1527 ( Jesus College Old Library); the copy owned by
Thomas Cranmer (1503; Fw 1512). The first edition
of Erasmus’s Novum Testamentum, a landmark
return to the sources of the Christian tradition,
appeared in 1516 and contained the first publication
of the original Greek text together with Erasmus’s
own translation into classical Latin. The fourth
edition, the last published in his lifetime, set the
accepted Vulgate Latin version side by side with the
Greek text and Erasmus’s own revised, more radical
Latin translation from the second edition. The later
ownership signature is that of Lord Lumley
(1633-1609) whose library was one of the largest
in Elizabethan England. The book eventually ended
in the British Museum but was sold in 1816 and
subsequently purchased by Arthur Gray who gave
it to the College of which he had been student,
Fellow, and Master
TOULSON, R.G. (1964) “Sir Michael Foster, Professor Williams and Complicity in
Murder” in The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law: The Legacy of Glanville Williams edited by
D.J. Baker and J. Horder, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013), pp. 230-246
WEST, D.R. (1979), [Pen-name – Robert Bridge] The Girl Who Liked to Say Wow (Calm
Publishing Ltd, Beckenham, 2012)
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RUSTAT CONFERENCES I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
Rustat Conferences 2012-2013
Nathan Brooker
n 4 December, 2012, we held the Rustat Conference Managing Organisational Change.
The meeting focused on the key organisational and HR challenges facing the
public and private sector, including universities, with more than 50 delegates in
attendance from business, government, academia, and the press.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor Sir Leszeck
Borysiewicz, began by enumerating the pressing concerns: the role of good HR in job
protection; the balance of rights regarding the employer-justified retirement age ( a
topic pertinent to the University’s decision to retain the academic retirement age at 67);
combatting youth unemployment, which he described as a “major scourge” of our
society.
An overview of the topic was given by Mr Indi Seehra, the University’s Director of
Human Resources. The conference comprised four sessions, each introduced by a
specialist, followed by moderated round-table discussion:
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1. Employment and Low Pay – The Challenges, introduced by Professor Willie Brown,
Professor of Industrial Relations in the University, and Richard Donkin, FT
columnist and author of The Future of Work and The History of Work.
2. Reward & Engagement – Future Directions, introduced by Albert Ellis, the CEO of
Harvey Nash, and Duncan Brown, Principal or Reward & Engagement at Aon Hewitt.
3. Talent Management – Finders Keepers, with presentations by Karen Moran, Director
of Resourcing, Talent and Leadership for the BBC, and Lesley Uren, Lead Adviser for
Talent Management at PA Consulting Group.
4. Workforce Planning – Managing Recruitment and Retirement, introduced by
Professor Simon Deakin, who works at the Centre for Business Research at the
University, Ashley Norman, a Partner at Cobbetts, and Gary Browning the CEO for
Penna.
Opening panel, Conference on Managing Organisational Change
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In his closing summary, Mr Seehra said that the conference had “unseated some firmly
held HR beliefs”. Despite a degree of negative opinion, he said, the conference came up
with positives: “We learnt this morning that there are avenues for UK plc to get some
knowledge into the economy. One of these might be the rise of what is termed the
‘informal’ sector” – a concept proposed by Mr Donkin to describe work opportunities
not formally applied for, usually in the technology sector, where skills such as software
or web development can lead to ad hoc and informal employment arrangements.
Mr Seehra described this new sector as “a potential leader in the fight against youth
unemployment”.
Crucial too, according to Mr Seehra, was the session on talent management. He said:
“Talent management has in the past been seen as being expendable in an era of
economic downturn. However, we have seen today how the ability for an organisation to
select, locate and maintain talent across a broad spectrum of skill sets – not just
potential leaders, but individuals who provide a company’s competitive advantage – is
perhaps more useful now than ever before.”
The conference was generously sponsored by Cobbetts, a leading UK law firm;
Harvey Nash, a global professional recruitment and IT outsourcing company; and
Penna, a global HR services group. A full copy of the conference report can be found
online at www.rustat.org, or by contacting the Conference Rapporteur, Nathan Brooker,
on [email protected]
Health Innovation: A Cambridge Success Story
n 29 January, 2013 we held the Rustat Conference Health Innovation: A Cambridge
Success Story. In a collaboration with the University’s Department of Clinical
Neurosciences and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
the meeting told the story of how the development of monoclonal antibodies and their
applications as medicines have transformed prospects for people suffering from a
variety of medical conditions, specifically multiple sclerosis. The original research on
developing monoclonal antibodies in the 1970s won Cambridge scientists Cesar
Milstein and Georges Kohler the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1984.
Subsequent studies in Cambridge adapted this technology and led to production of the
first humanised monoclonal antibody for use as a medicine by Greg Winter and Herman
Waldmann, both of whom gave presentations at the meeting.
The medicine they developed, Campath-1H (Cambridge Pathology 1st Human, now
renamed ‘Alemtuzumab’), was originally developed as a designer drug for the removal
of blood lymphocytes. However, after yet further studies at the University, Alemtuzumab
has subsequently been shown to be highly effective in the treatment of multiple
sclerosis.
The penultimate session, which featured presentations by Professor Alastair
Compston and Dr Alasdair Coles from the University’s Department of Clinical
Neuroscience, contained the testimony of two MS sufferers successfully treated with the
drug, Bea Perks, a medical writer for InterComm, and Tony Johnstone, a professional
golfer.
In the final session John Cornwell, Rustat Conference Director, chaired an open
discussion with some thirty science and medical journalists. The theme was how best to
communicate such science-rooted human interest stories in the mainstream media.
A full copy of the conference report can be found online at www.rustat.org, or by
contacting the Conference Rapporteur, Nathan Brooker, on [email protected]
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Delegates at the Drugs’ Policy Conference
Drugs, Science and Social Realities: A Fresh Policy Debate
n 25 April, 2013 we met to discuss and debate Drugs, Science and Social Realities.
The topic was prompted by the continuing crisis posed by substance abuse,
dependency, and their far-reaching consequences. The first segment of the meeting
consisted of presentations made by Professor Barry Everitt, of the Wellcome Trust and
the University’s Clinical Neuroscience Institute, and his colleague Dr Karen Ersche.
Professor Davis Nutt, of Imperial College, the former Home Office scientific adviser,
also participated. The meeting then continued with the following sessions:
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1. National and International Perspectives on Policies, featuring presentations by
Dr Jane Mounteney from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug
Addiction; Professor Alex Stevens from the University of Kent; and Rosanna
O’Connor, the Director of Alcohol and Drugs unit at Public Health England.
2. Socio-economic Realities, brought together Nicola Singleton of the UK Drug Policy
Commission; Mr Steve Sampson, journalist and author; and Ms Virginia Comolli
from the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
3. Policing and Rehab was led by Niamh Eastwood, the Chief Executive of drugs charity
Release; Max Daly, journalist and author; and Drew Harris, Assistant Chief
Constable for the Police Service in Northern Ireland.
4. Policy Options and Closing discussion was introduced and monitored by Dr Paul
Turnbull, Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research at Birkbeck College;
and featured a presentation by Tom Lloyd, former Chief Constable of
Cambridgeshire Police.
In his final summing up, Mr Lloyd suggested further analysis to prepare an environment
for reform. “At the moment there seems to be a quasi-religious church of prohibition”,
he said. The only way to alter the public’s understanding is by dismantling the
pre-existing and often prejudicially held beliefs often perpetuated by an ill-informed
media. If the people lead the way on this issue, then politicians and lawmakers will
finally have the licence to alter the drugs policies as they stand today. “The politicians
get it,” he concluded, “but they haven’t got the legitimacy, in a democracy, to say so”.
A full copy of the conference report can be found online at www.rustat.org, or by
contacting the Conference Rapporteur, Nathan Brooker, on [email protected]
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Bursary
Christopher Pratt, Bursar
s I write, we are finalising 2012-13 for publication in November, but we know that we
have beaten Budget, thanks to another record year from conference activity and much
improved endowment returns of 12.2% (9.1% on financial investments and 19.2% on
property). This is how our finances looked in the last published Accounts:
A
2011-2012
14,000,000
12,000,000
Millions
10,000,000
Surplus/Endowment
8,000,000
Other
6,000,000
Domus cost/income
Education/fees
4,000,000
2,000,000
0
Expenditure
Income
Fees continue to pay only just over half our education costs, but there is real progress in
making the Domus (shorthand for housing and feeding members, plus conference guests)
self-supporting. That progress was suspended in the absence of the Chapel Court income
stream, but has now resumed. We have, with hugely helpful input from Jesuans on our
Investment Committees, successfully replaced our financial investment managers and
initiated several significant property developments, income from which will support future
generations of Jesuans. We secured four important planning consents in 2013. Among
these are new pre-let offices to be built on a historic landholding close to Cambridge
station, which will have exceptional environmental credentials and won the unanimous
approval of the local planning committee (not a frequent event) as well as particular
compliments from the former mayor, its chair.
New offices at 53-55 Hills Road, Cambridge
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Another success has been a charitable letting in Jesus Lane, adjoining the new Marshall
Court and its Study Centre, to Cambridge Science Centre, which is proving hugely popular
with its target audience of young scientists. It was opened by the Vice-Chancellor and the
Master.
There are challenges ahead, of course. We are now close to re-acquiring the Wesley
House site, sold in 1922. Resourcing that and its refurbishment, with the new auditorium
we hope to add to it, will test us, but is a very exciting opportunity to take the College
forward in many ways.
Senior and junior members alike know how much the College owes to its loyal staff
and those reaching long service milestones in the last year include: maintenance supervisor
Chris Brown (25 years), librarian Rhona Watson and cleaner Rosalind Blake, (both 20
years). Three members of staff reached 15 years’ and ten more 10 years’ service, and we
said farewell to six members of staff who retired from the College including deputy head
gardener Neil Shaw who retired after 36 years, two senior porters, John Gray and Peter
Thorpe (16 and 15 years respectively), while Anthony Johnson, Ted Curtis and Colin
Steward retired from the maintenance department with a remarkable 61 years between
them.
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Development Office
Richard Dennis, Development Director
’d like to record my great gratitude to all Jesuans and other friends of the College who
have maintained their generous support for the College over the past year. Without such
support it is clear to me that our College would not be the success that it is. More is needed
in the years ahead of course, particularly to support our students, both undergraduate and
graduate, who face daunting financial challenges unknown to my generation.
It has been a pleasure to enjoy a year without any major building works taking place in
College. Once Chapel Court was returned to us last September the experts in our gardening
team swiftly healed the scars in the immediate surroundings and, thanks to their hard
work and the gift of Yorkstone paving, the Court itself looks better than ever.
Our own small role in things has been to oversee the installation of the plaques in each
room recording the names of those who contributed towards the cost of the rebuilding.
These plaques were on display at our annual Donor’s Garden Party which, along it
seems with just about every other event last year, was even better attended than the previous
year.
I am delighted to report that the Brittain Room, placed in storage whilst Chapel Court
was rebuilt, has been re-created in M4A. Apart from its role as a stand-by supervision room
and place for the Roosters to meet, it also provides a space which Old Members visiting
Cambridge may wish to use to enjoy some moments of calm. The key card is available from
the Porters’ Lodge.
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The cockerels in the new Brittain room
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David Hibbitt, Susan Hibbitt and Jonathan Barker
Society of St Radegund
The College marks its gratitude for acts of outstanding munificence with admission to the
Society of St Radegund. Immediately prior to the Society’s annual dinner on 24th June the
Master inducted four new members to the Society: Jonathan Barker (representing Marshall
of Cambridge Ltd), David (1962) and Susan Hibbitt who are endowing a graduate
scholarship, and Prof Stephen Heath (1965).
Bequests
The College wishes to record its great gratitude for the following bequests received during
the year 2012-13:
John Douglas (1962) £1,000; Sir Alan Cottrell (1974) £10,000; Richard Edmonds (1959)
£100,000; John Day (1945) £157,500; John Bell (1936) £300; Bridget Kenrick £20,000;
Brian Powell (1956) £10,171; Anthony Wheeler (1945) £184,500*; Richard Ingram
(1958) £1,000; Christopher Honey (1979) £3,000; Andrew Moss (1952) £1,000.
*Interim distribution
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India Photo Call
he photographs in this section were taken during the trip by members of the College
Choir in March 2013. Our aim was to bring the joy of music to children in the slums of
Mumbai in collaboration with Songbound, a music outreach initiative established by
Cambridge graduate Joseph Walters in 2011. Songbound uses music to inspire poor
communities by providing life-changing opportunities. Our trip was the start of what we
hope will be an ongoing project.
We conducted workshops with more than 200 children in a number of charity funded
schools and centres. We led the children in playful warm-ups and breathing exercises and,
while attention was paid to singing technique, the focus was on sharing the joy of music
between people of different ages and cultures. At the end of the project, a number of children
joined the Choir on the stage of blueFROG in central Mumbai for a concert celebrating the
achievements of the previous week.
The Choir’s visit coincided with the Hindu festival of Holi. We worked on songs about
colour, including Lavender’s Blue and I can sing a rainbow as well as Indian songs including
Vande mataram and Sawalee (a song written by the children in one of the centres visited). We
also performed for Cambridge alumni in Mumbai and gave a concert to a capacity audience
in the Basilica Bom Jesus in Goa.
Joe Walters, Founder and CEO of Songbound, described the project as ‘utterly inspiring
and mind-blowing’ and members of the Choir would all agree that the experience was one
which will stay with us for the rest of our lives.
Through our fundraising efforts, including a sponsored run, cake sales, beard-growing
and the like, the Choir has raised enough money to ensure that each of the centres and
schools visited during the trip will be able to run a choir for at least three years. A cheque for
£10,000 was presented to Joe Walters from Songbound after Evensong on Tuesday 11th June.
Mr Walters thanked the Choir for their work in India which he described as ‘life-changing’.
We intend to work with Songbound to establish a regular programme of cultural exchange
between the UK and India. More information can be found on the Choir website
(www.jesuscollegechoir.com).
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Societies
Student Union 2013 has been another hugely enjoyable year for Jesus College’s societies and sports
teams. It would be impossible to document every success that Jesuans have contributed
to, but I would like to highlight a few outstanding areas of undergraduate life. Societies,
ranging from law to engineering, have welcomed distinguished speakers and truly
enhanced the academic experience of students, making Jesus a fantastic place to learn.
Our sports teams have excelled across the board with almost all students featuring at a
range of levels. There has been Cuppers success for the Hockey club, while the Football
club and Boat House enjoyed impressive years. There is no doubt that Jesus’ outstanding
sporting facilities contribute to our proud track record at college competition.
Elsewhere, the music and drama scenes continue to thrive as new student talent arrives
and develops, with many students managing to pursue their passions whilst also
excelling on the academic front. The wealth of extracurricular opportunities really
contributes to the undergraduate experience at Jesus which I believe has no rival in
Cambridge.
The new academic year began with a hectic but memorable freshers’ week. Our aim
was to welcome the new students with typical Jesuan friendliness and help prepare them
for the start of their time at Cambridge. In remarkably little time, freshers began to feel
at home at Jesus. This was ensured by the efforts of both the students and the staff,
without whom the college could not exist. We are lucky to have such a relaxed and
approachable student body combined with a professional group of staff who are always
happy to help.
The Jesus College Student Union has organised a number of events and schemes over
the year. The Halfway Hall Dinner, the Jesus Garden Party in June and plenty of other
entertainments (such as comedy events and live music in the bar) give all Jesuans great
breaks from their studies. The JCSU has also produced an ‘Alternative Prospectus’,
giving potential applicants a student-focused perspective on life at Jesus. I would like to
take this opportunity to sincerely thank the whole Committee for their dedication and
hard work, and the staff of College for the invaluable help and facilitation they provide
for the JCSU. I believe that, at Jesus, we have a fantastic relationship between students
and College as a whole, and that this is vital to maintaining the College’s successes in
both academic and non-academic fields. I am sure that the coming year will see even
more Jesuan achievements.
Cameron Brooks
Middle Combinaton Room (MCR) It has been another successful year for the MCR. In spite of the strong increase in intake
of graduates this year, we feel that the organised events, whether academic or social,
have been able to cater for a large proportion of graduates and have been highly popular.
This is without doubt the result of the hard work of all our committee members, as well
as the incredible enthusiasm shown by the graduate community, all of which continues
to strengthen our reputation as a graduate-friendly college.
The social calendar of the year started off with ‘Freshers’ Fortnight’. We organised a
wide array of events ranging from a ‘curry night’ to several sports events, general social
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events – such as punting, games night and a bar quiz, tours of the College and even a
ghost tour of Cambridge. These events were very well-attended and successful in
creating another tight-knit graduate community, for which Jesus College has become so
renowned. Indeed, grad halls have been very popular and all graduate festive halls and
formal swaps have sold out throughout the year. Next to this, the other social events –
such as film night, afternoon tea, bar quizzes, a bake off competition and a games night
in the bar - have been equally successful.
Concerning academic events, we have once again organised several Fellows’ and
Graduates’ Symposia throughout the year. We have had fascinating talks from Drs Noel
Rutter and Findlay Stark and will receive a talk from Dr James Purdon on a variety of
subjects, such as superconductors, Scottish devolution and cold war representations
respectively. Next to this, we also organised the Annual Women’s Dinner, at which we
were able to enjoy an engaging talk from Prof Janet Soskice on the adventures of Agnes
and Margaret Smith. Finally, we will have a 3 Minute Thesis competition, at which 10 of
our graduates will be presenting their research in front of 5 judges and compete for
several prizes.
Our biggest academic event of the year, however, was the Graduate Conference.
Just as last year, we feel that this has been another great success. Graduates were able to
either give a talk or present a poster and we were generally impressed by the variety and
quality of the research presented. The guest speaker at the conference was Prof John
Loughlin – Director of the Von Hügel Institute – who gave a thought-provoking talk on
the hybrid state in the 21st century.
All things considered, this has been an excellent year, for which I would like to thank
the members of the MCR Committee, who worked hard and fulfilled their roles eagerly,
as well as all members of the graduate community for their unceasing enthusiasm and
general support.
Robrecht Decorte
Engineering Society
The Jesus College Engineering Society is student-runand aims to promote engineering
within the college, and to foster links between Jesuan engineers and industry. The usual
annual events of the Freshers’ Party and Engineer’s Dinner were very successful and
were this time supplemented with end of term events in Christmas and Easter to provide
great opportunities for the different years to socialise outside of academia.
The year was again capped off with the Post-Exam Punting and Garden Party:
a chance for both students and supervisors to enjoy the end of the academic calendar.
With some interesting talks planned for next term it promises to be another busy year.
Ed Eustace
Law Society
In JCLS tradition the year began with our annual Freshers’ Drinks event. This was, as
ever, an excellent opportunity for incoming freshers and LLM students to meet the rest
of the lawyers at Jesus.
Michaelmas term also saw the beginning of a great deal of mooting at Jesus. The
Annual Jesus/Magdelene Exhibition Moot was kindly hosted in Magdelene college this
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year, where George White and Jantien Van Renterghem represented Jesus. Our sincere
thanks goes to 4 New Square for their continuing support of this moot. The Exhibition
Moot was followed up with a mooting workshop run for first year students in
preparation for the Freshers’ Mooting competition held in Lent term. We were lucky
enough to welcome Lord Justice Jackson to judge the final round of the competition,
which was won this year by Hazel Jackson.
The Annual Dinner in Lent term was a definite highlight of the year’s JCLS calendar.
After some of college’s finest food we listened to a fascinating after-dinner speech from
our guest of honour Mr Justice Malcolm Wallis, who sits in the Supreme Court of Appeal
of South Africa. We are extremely thankful to him for joining us.
The Glanville Williams Society event was kindly hosted by David Moss, partner at
Hogan Lovells, at their buildings in London. As always, it provided a wonderful
opportunity for past and present Jesuan lawyers to meet one another. The 2013 events
calendar was rounded off by the Garden Party: a celebration of the end of exams with
Pimms and strawberries in the Fellows’ garden.
The Law Society has been most grateful this year for the endless support of old
members and sponsors, without whom none of the events, workshops and moots could
run. Sincere thanks are also due to the JCLS Committee, who have worked hard to
organise and run the calendar of events: Stephen Butler (President), Henry Jolliffe
(Treasurer), and Kieran Wilson (Master of Moots).
Jen Fisher
Music Society
Building on the successes of previous years, JCMS enjoyed another productive year,
presenting a wide variety of concerts with performances from many College musicians.
The year began with the
Freshers’ Concert, showcasing the talents of the College’s new members;
Instrumental Awards went to Julien Cohen, Sarah Hargrave, Rebecca Harwin, Declan
Kennedy, Luke Perera and Kiara Wickremasinghe. These, along with all the College’s
award holders have made a significant contribution to the musical life of the College
and their recital in February 2013 was also much enjoyed by all. In October 2012,
we welcomed renowned harpsichordist, Mahan Esfahani, to give the inaugural recital on
the College’s newly commissioned instrument. Featuring music by J.S. Bach, C.P.E
Bach, Reincken and Bartok, this special event proved extremely popular and
demonstrated the versatility and beauty of Bruce Kennedy’s fine new instrument. Our
attention then turned to the Michaelmas Concert, at which a capacity audience greeted
the JCMS Orchestra in the first of its three major concerts of the year. Following its
successful debut in the David Crighton Concert in February, the JCMS Chorus performed
alongside the orchestra in Elgar’s Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands, Op. 27, conducted by
Benjamin Morris. This rounded off a programme which had begun with Mozart’s
Overture from Die Zauberflöte, conducted by Gareth Thomas, and which featured
movements from Saint-Saëns’ Piano Trio No.2 Op.92, performed by Julien Cohen,
Katherine Lee and Elizabeth Edwards.
At the Lent term’s David Crighton Concert we were delighted to welcome back to the
College Mrs Johanna Crighton as we celebrated the legacy of her late husband, an
endowment in whose name generously funds College music-making. In recent years the
second half of this concert has always featured a complete concerto played by a Jesus
student and accompanied by the College Orchestra and this year we were treated to
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Elgar’s sublime Cello Concerto in E Minor performed by Elizabeth Edwards and conducted
by Josh Jones. Holst’s St. Paul’s Suite, Op. 29 No. 2, conducted by Colin Danskin, and
Dvorák’s “American” String Quartet No. 12 Op. 96, led by Louisa Dawes, completed the
programme of a memorable concert, much enjoyed by a large audience in the Chapel.
Following two highly successful orchestral concerts, the May Week Concert offered a
chance to celebrate the variety of music making at Jesus from both ensembles and
soloists. The orchestra opened and closed proceedings with Vaughan Williams’ Overture
to The Wasps and Elmer Bernstein’s Theme from The Magnificent Seven; pianist John Chen put
the new Steinway grand piano through its paces with music by Chopin and Liszt; and
Ben Morris directed excerpts from Handel’s Acis and Galatea from the new harpsichord.
Julien Cohen (piano) and Katherine Lee (violin) captured the spirit of the summer
evening in their virtuoso performance of music by Piazzolla which got everyone’s feet
tapping with its infectious tango rhythms! Following the concert, the audience enjoyed
drinks and strawberries in the Fellows’ Garden accompanied by a number of jazz sets
played by the terrific Jesus College Big Band.
Throughout the year, the Chapel has also hosted the weekly JCMS Recitals and the
ever-popular and unique Chapel Sessions. The Michaelmas Recital Series culminated in
a performance of J.S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue in which we heard the Chapel’s new
harpsichord join the Rawlinson Organ and Hudleston Organ under the fingers of the
Director of Music and our two Organ Scholars. Weekly recitals in the Lent Term and
daily in May Week featured choirs, countertenors, organists, harpsichordists, guitarists,
baroque ensembles, pianists, cellists and a good deal else, often performed to large and
appreciative audiences.
Music-making at Jesus continues to go from strength to strength. The significant
number of high-quality performances by a wide variety of ensembles and soloists has
ensured that the College can be rightly proud of its musical activities. The College
Chapel is now one of the best-equipped performance venues in Cambridge, following
the delivery of the Kennedy Harpsichord in 2012 and the Steinway piano, donated by the
generosity of Professor Stephen Heath, in 2013 to sit alongside its three fine organs;
The College’s recently acquired Steinway Model D concert grand piano donated by Professor Stephen Heath
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we are sure that future generations of Jesuans will continue to benefit from the
instruments installed at Jesus for many years to come.
Our thanks go to the many students who have contributed so much to the musical life
of the College over the past twelve months; to the Master, Fellows and Staff who have
supported the activities of the Society throughout the year with great enthusiasm;
and to the JCMS Committee members for their hard work and commitment to ensuring
the success of all of the activities of the Society.
Louisa Dawes & Gareth Thomas
Graduate Conference
At the conclusion of Lent term, the Jesus College graduate students simply wanted to . . . learn a heap
about stuff they’d never heard of.
The Jesus College Graduate Conference was in its sixth year this year. The Conference
is organised by the MCR for the MCR and the broader Jesus College community,
including undergraduates, fellows, alumni and benefactors.
The conference is the main academic event on the MCR calendar. Essentially, it is an
opportunity for grads to talk about what they study. Surprisingly, such opportunities to
talk about research in detail are not overly common. At the conference, however, the
normal Cambridge dialogue concerning the weather, heating problems, noisy
housemates, formal dinners, early morning rowing and the like is forgotten, and
instead, talk of theories, papers, theses, lab work, evidence and research proposals is
the order of the day.
This year’s conference was held on the Saturday following the end of Lent Term,
the day after the Benefactors’ feast. It was a fantastic way to end the term. Students,
fellows, alumni and benefactors were able to listen to talks, admire posters, ask
questions, share their own knowledge, and learn.
Following past practice, the conference consisted of two speech sessions and a poster
presentation in between. Most of the participating students presented their research in
the poster presentation. The day concluded with a champagne reception in the Master’s
lodge, followed by a guest speech and dinner in a beautifully laid out Formal Hall.
We were extremely lucky to have Professor John Loughlin attend the conference as
guest speaker. Professor Loughlin delivered a speech entitled “The Hybrid State: Policy and
Politics in the 21st Century”. Professor Loughlin is a Senior Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer in
the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.
His speech focused on the nation-state as it exists today, and whether it is disappearing
or surviving. His thesis, that through globalisation and Europeanisation, a hybrid state
has emerged, very much piqued the interest of the cosmopolitan audience.
Graduate student participation in the conference was undeniably impressive. Over 35
students presented. When the conference was advertised and presenters sought, the
graduates responded with abandon. No one’s research was too paltry. No one’s research
was too complicated to convey to a lay audience. No one’s research was too preliminary
to exhibit. This led inexorably to a well-balanced and diverse showcase of the research
undertaken at Jesus College.
So what did we learn? The weirdness of quantum physics. The merits of the Khmer
Rouge Tribunal. Bacterial suicide systems. The dialogue between theology and science.
Private education of government funded students. Suitability of aliens to their putative
habitats. A 12th century manuscript about the history of the Abbey of Ely. DNA origami.
How planets form. Sustainability of urban rail. Dams in India and China. What happens
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when you fall into a black hole. Dementia in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Spinal cord
injury. Sneaky salmonella hijacking behaviour. Accents in adult second language
learning. Bereavement policies in Danish schools. The politics and impact of Latin legal
language. And, more. Too much to absorb? Absolutely.
Nevertheless, the crowd was engaged. An attentive and inquisitive audience judged
our graduate speakers and poster presenters, and in a close vote, prizes were given to the
best speakers and poster presenters.
The conference was a great opportunity for presenters to practise their presentation
skills, and for the audience members to familiarise themselves with the sorts of research
that goes on outside their own faculties.
The Graduate Conference was a fascinating day, and is sure to be next year as well.
The graduate community hopes the event will continue to grow over the coming years
and see more and more involvement by the broader Jesus College community.
Dave O’Loughlin
May Ball
The 2013 Jesus May Ball saw the college transformed, with each court decorated as a
different dream. From nightmares in first court to flying in second, both the design and
lighting brought the theme of Dream Catcher to life. The ball offered a huge range of
culinary experiences, with fish finger sandwiches, dough balls, goat curry and stone-baked
pizza being particularly popular. The college once again opened its doors to famous artists,
with Maverick Sabre, Chris Ramsay and MistaJam all performing. None of this would have
been possible without the hard work and dedication of the 22 Committee members and
a team of staff and fellows of college. We would like to say a huge thank you and
congratulations to everyone involved in the organisation, and we are excited to see what the
2014 Jesus May Ball has in store!
Laura Winfield and Ali Hobbs
Roosters
The 106th year of the Roost saw loquaciousness and superciliousness in equal measure.
Although a quieter year on the debating side, the Breakfast-at-Lunchtime was
well-att-hen-ded by members of the Roost and the guests. Mor (‘or Less’) Arbabzadah
delivered an eloquent speech on the Art, Craft, Science and Mystery of Roosting, which
is testament to his support of the Roost over the last few years. Our heart is too full for
words: we thank you. The Roost was suitably pleased to egg on a number of the guests,
with a special mention to the men from Down Under. It is a pleasure to see the Roost
spreading its wings into lands far and wide. The year was brought to the close by the
elevation to the Grainsack of the new President, the 202nd O.C., James (‘Night and’)
Davey. I leave my perch assured that the Roost will continue to grow in his capable
talons and would like to thank all of the people that have supported me in my role over
the last two years, with a special mention to Mor (‘or Less’) Arbabzadah for his
continued efforts.
Cucurriat Gallinarium et oleat Ordo!
T.W.B. Ben ‘Babbling’ Brooks, 199th and 201st O.C.
Sports Clubs
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2012-2013 Reports
Athletics Club
This year’s freshers saw a wealth of talented athletes join the large collection of
returning Jesuan Blues and Half-Blues. The first opportunity to demonstrate the
strength of the Jesus team came in October with the winter Cuppers competition, where
both men’s and women’s teams put in highly respectable performances, retaining Jesus
College’s formidable reputation in athletics.
Both new and old members showed impressive dedication to training, which paid off
handsomely later on in the year, with a sizeable Jesus contingent being selected to
compete in the 139th Varsity Match.
For the women, Fiona James justified her dedication with convincing performances in
the 2nd team long and high jump and winning the triple jump. Ellie Simmons delivered
very strong performances throughout the year, which culminated in winning the 400m
for 2nd team. In the Blue’s match, football Blue Katie Sandford made a keenly
anticipated return to athletics, winning the 4oom hurdles, marking the completion of a
successful Cambridge sporting career.
In the Men’s second team match, Henry Rose came 2nd in the javelin throw, using the
strong technique he had developed just days before. In the jumps Ben Lewis was placed
3rd in the Triple Jump, and Nelson Tang recaptured the form of his youth to place 2nd in
the Long jump. Zaamin Hussain produced a great performance in the Pole Vault,
abolishing a match record that had stood for over 30 years.
A thrilling men’s Blue’s match ended in a narrow victory for Cambridge, which
wouldn’t have been the case without valiant Jesuan efforts. Jon Cook spearheaded a
victorious campaign in the middle distance, cruising to a victory in the 1500m.
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Alongside was Ed Smith, who ran the 800m in 1:58s, aiding a resilient performance on
the track.
Helen Broadbridge returns from her year abroad next year to lead the Cambridge
University Athletics Club as President, while Zaamin goes on to captain the Men’s Blues
in the 150th Anniversary of the first Varsity match next season. They aim to repeat the
success of this year’s 4-0 thrashing of Oxford. I’m sure the enthusiasm and youthful zeal
of next year’s College Captains, Nelson and Ellie, will take the Jesus Athletics team to
unprecedented glory. Good luck!
Zaamin Hussain
Boat Club
Men
The focus of the first half of the Michaelmas term was on refining technique in small
boats and preparing for the University IVs race. One very pleasing result was that of the
top JCBC IV (albeit quasi-scratch) winning the Winter Head beating both the top Caius
IV and the top Kings IV whose VIII would go on to win the Fairbairn Cup. We entered
two VIIIs and a IV into the Fairbairn Cup with M1 ending up in 4th place. M2 placed as
the 3rd fastest M2 crew, succeeding in beating several first boats as well. The top Jesus
IV+ produced a row that ensured a comfortable victory and meaning that the Men’s
Novices would not be claiming all of the Jesus glory.
The Lent races results were very pleasing with improvements for all crews and blades
for M3. This was achieved as a result of a large, enthusiastic squad with a heavy novice
intake who progressed very pleasingly from the raw athletes who had matured into bona
fide rowers during training camp in Spain and over the Lent term. A special mention
must go to Stephen Eddison and Matt Jones for helping with this. On the men’s side,
the term was marred by injury with several previous M1 rowers including myself
suffering long-lasting niggles.
Once the crew had been settled on for the Mays we took part in Pembroke Regatta.
We narrowly lost in the first round to First and Third who eventually went on to win the
entire event, themselves beating the LMBC crew in the final by the same margin that they
had beaten us. By virtue of losing in the first round we instead qualified for the plate,
winning every subsequent race and enjoying a comfortable victory over St Catz M1 in the
final.
At the end of the Bumps both M1 and W1 remained within reach of headship, and the
net movement of boats throughout the charts was up. A mention must go to M3 and W3
who both achieved blades, while W2 had a successful bumps and M2 which was largely
made up of strong but as yet green novices, were unfortunate to go down, although one
would expect great things to come of the rowers in that boat for the future of the club
given the substantial potential therein. Therefore Mays ended on a slightly disappointing
note, but the gloominess was soon drowned in the revelry of the Mays dinner.
After that we pulled ourselves together and had some really productive outings in
preparation for the qualifiers for Henley Royal Regatta. Unfortunately on the morning of
our qualifiers, our stroke man woke up with an injured neck. This rendered our task
almost impossible and we missed out on qualifying by 9 seconds. Nonetheless one
cannot account for last minute injury and while Lady Luck may not have been on our side
this time around, she left us with a strong squad for next season, a broad set of novice
shoulders upon which the burden of future headship challenges could rest and an
enthusiastic and more than capable committee with president Rhodri Kendrick to take
us forwards and upwards next year.
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The victorious Fairbairns IV+ with the Master. Left to right: Ivan Zovich, Ricardo Herreros Symons, Ian White, Rob Barno and Will Jones
Concentration and nerves – M1 before the start line
W1 on day 2 of May Bumps, chasing down FaT
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Personally I’d like to thank everyone who put so much time into the boat club this
year, be they coaches, the trust, rowers, coxes or the committee – the amount of hours
that were given to the club in return for no particular remuneration was truly staggering
to behold and ensured a strong showing both sportingly and socially. The effort and
goodwill towards the club was hugely appreciated and served to make my presidency an
extremely enjoyable and rewarding experience. Thanks to all for a fantastic year and I
trust 2014 will herald even more success both on and off the river.
Ricardo Herreros-Symons
Women
The women’s side of JCBC have had a fantastic year. Starting with several returning
rowers, we had a strong senior squad of 12, and a keen novice squad of 24.
The novice girls were a credit to the LBCs hard work and dedication. In Queens ergos,
NW1 made the finals and NW2 were best in their division, as were NW3. With an NW1/2
mix, the girls made the quarter finals in Clare Novices with a series of strong
performances. Both NW1 and NW2 produced strong rows in Fairbairns to finish 15th
and 39th in the women’s novice division, and W1 achieved a very respectable 4th out of
the college boats in the senior race, only 12 seconds behind the winning crew. The
women’s senior coxed four also had an excellent result, coming 3rd out of the college
crews.
Winter Rowing camp was also successful, and was a really good week for integrating
ex-novices and seniors. Technique and power in the boat improved across the crews
throughout the week, and we had some sterling sculling performances, including 3 of
our more flexible rowers performing perfect head stands in single sculls for the
amusement of the rest of the club.
W1 and W2 got the Lent term off to a great start when both won Newnham short
courses. In Pembroke Regatta, W1 had some fantastic rows, knocking out Girton W1
and Emma W1. In the quarter finals Downing W1 won by about half a boat length in a
close fought contest, going on to win the event. W2 also stormed through the first two
rounds, winning by over 6 boat lengths in one race and dominating the competition.
They were knocked out in the quarter finals due to an equipment malfunction which
caused them to crash.
JCBC had its best Lent bumps for quite some years, going up 10 places over 5 boats,
with every boat going up. W1 had an incredible row on the first day, bumping Pembroke
before first post corner, a feat rarely seen in the upper divisions. They then faced FaT,
Emma and FaT on days 2, 3 and 4 respectively, and a further bump and two row overs
saw W1 up 2 places to 3rd on the river. W2 also had a solid set of bumps, going up 2
places to 10th position in the second division.
W1 also had a fantastic row at WeHoRR, coming 84th out of around 350 university
crews, city clubs and international crews. This was our highest placing ever by over 30
places (previous best was 115th) and an incredible achievement.
Caroline Reid once again made the blue boat, retaining her seat in bow for the second
year. Katie Whitlock unfortunately just missed out, but received her half blue stroking
Blondie.
In the May Bumps W4 did incredibly well as the sandwich boat between W5 and W4
divisions, and avoided spoons with a courageous row over on the fourth day. W3 rowed
incredibly well, gaining blades and moving up to W3 division for next year. W2 also did
fantastically well, going up 3 overall to finish 8th in the W2 division. W1 always had a
challenge ahead, starting 2nd on the river in the W1 division. Days 1 and 2 saw two hard
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row-overs behind Downing, with Clare moving up from 5th to 3rd behind us. With 6
returning triallists, Clare were always going to be our toughest competition and we
knew day 3 would be a fight to the finish. We rowed the best we had ever rowed, taking
Clare right to the finish line. But despite pulling up to a quarter of a length off Downing,
we couldn’t hold off Clare and they bumped us 5 strokes from the finish. On the final
day, we once again put in a fantastic performance to row over, and Clare bumped
Downing halfway down the reach to take headship. Jesus W1 remain 3rd on the river,
with headship in sight and some strong rowers progressing up this year. I am optimistic
for our chances next year, and have every confidence in our new captain Molly Whitehall,
to continue the fantastic success of the women’s side this year.
Ellie Sharp
Boat Club Trust
This year has had both present-day excitements and elements of past reflection. On 12th
May Margaret White, accompanied by the Master, trustees, members and supporters of
the JCBC, named the new Men’s Eight “Steve Fairbairn”. The club – and it is the club
which makes these decisions - decided to identify the boat with Steve in part because no
JCBC boat has yet been called Steve and in part to mark the 75th anniversary of the death
on 16 May 1938 of by far the most influential figure in the history of the JCBC.
The portrait of Steve which hangs in College will be familar to many but alongside this
report is printed a photograph of Steve, and another Jesuan, on the river. Thought to
have been taken about 1890, the image was recently discovered behind furniture in the
boathouse – torn, dirty, stuck to poor cardboard with duct tape and badly foxed. Now
thoroughly conserved for preservation in the archives, it has been copied and
professionally printed at the University Library so we can hang a first-class reproduction
in the boathouse for all, especially the students, to admire.
We are greatly indebted to the College’s archivists for their help in repairing,
restoring and preserving an increasing number of memorabilia, of which this
photograph is a prime example; a big thankyou to them. Michael Waring has been
spending a great deal of time collating and restoring so that we now have a wonderful
collection of memorial oars and rudders from outstanding successes which we want to
display in the boathouse or the captain’s room, as well as pictures and photographs
which need conservation prior to display. We are, quite rightly, limited by lack of funds
and estimates for professional conservation work are way beyond our means but it is a
pleasure to see some recently cleaned oars beautifully on display at the boathouse, with
plenty more awaiting attention. I am immensely grateful to Michael Waring for his
efforts, the benefits of which we will all be able to enjoy.
Very few living will have known Steve Fairbairn in person but many more will
remember Percy Bullock. Percy, who knew and was taught by Steve, was Jesus boatman
for 47 years, from 1924 to 1971, succeeding Alf Parsons, whose time as boatman was a
mere 40 years. Percy died in October 1988 and Hugh Fitzwilliams has taken the
commendable initiative of organising a lunch in College on Saturday, 28 September to
mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Percy’s death and to celebrate his life. Those who
knew Percy will remember him as a life-long friend: his dedication to club and college,
his (justified) adherence to Steve’s teachings as a sure way to rowing success, his
emphasis on bladework, his skills as a coach, and his ability to enthuse everyone in the
club to do their best. He and his wife Dorothy were very hospitable at their house in New
Square, and not just to the current students: many members of the JCBC would make a
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Steve Fairbairn with a Jesuan companion circa 1890
point of visiting Percy whenever they were back in Cambridge, often years after
graduating. The memorial service for Percy in College Chapel 25 years ago was full to
bursting.
The strength of the Jesus community, whether college or boat club – in the case of the
boat club, those who rowed at Jesus under the influence of Steve, Percy and Percy’s
successors – lies in the commitment of those who have gone before to the success of the
constant infusion of new talent in the form of new students, with most of the latter
having no prior knowledge of the former. The commitment of those who have gone
before in the JCBC is exemplified by the recently-installed plaque in the Captain’s room,
4CC1, which shows the fourteen former occupants – including your chairman! – who
contributed to the refurbishment of the room, as part of the very successful
modernisation of Chapel Court, for the benefit of future occupants and the club.
You will read elsewhere of this year’s results on the river. As trustees we are happy
with the performance of today’s club: both men’s and women’s first eights within reach
of the top if they can’t be at the actual top, and continuing strength in the lower boats.
We were pleased to see two boats entered for the Temple at Henley: both were asked to
qualify (for the regatta proper) and the almost-first men’s eight only narrowly missed
doing so: just one Cambridge college crew qualified, a Caius/Lady Margaret composite
which went out on the first day.
The Trust made one major purchase of equipment this year, the new men’s eight
already referred to. In addition to maintaining the club with first-class equipment, we
have a strong eye to continuity, and have presented the captains with a Legacy Book –
a fine, bound volume acquired with much effort by Chris McDouall, thankyou to him
– in which the captains each year will write confidential experiences, advice and
guidance, to be read only by their successors – things, for example, they themselves
wish they had known or which they think later captains ought to be told or would
benefit from knowing.
We continue to regard training camps as critical: this year’s, in January in Spain, had
the highest attendance of all camps to date, 29 rowers and coxes. The Trust pays for the
camp itself and supports attendees with fifty per cent of their costs. Everyone agreed that
the camp had a major effect on results in the ensuing two terms.
There is an increasing amount of social activity led by trustees and other supporters,
at no cost to Trust funds: a “meet the new Captains” evening in London in September,
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formal Hall in College in November, a supporters dinner in London in March, a
barbecue at the boathouse on a Sunday in May – usually on the day the club elects its
officers and committee for the following year and this year the occasion of the naming
of “Steve Fairbairn” – and the Paddock on the Saturday of the Mays, which has rightly
become a great College and JCBC occasion. All this is excellent for building and
renewing the body of support for the club which is invaluable in so many ways. And
Friends of the JCBC are invited to all these events.
The Friends are in very good shape, thanks to the excellent leadership of Richard Tett,
Louise Couch, Lucy Murray and David Reid, and membership continues to rise. The aim
is to enhance active support of the JCBC amongst all those who care for the fortunes of
the club, by keeping members informed and providing opportunities for supporters to
meet each other as well as current rowers. Members receive by email a termly newsletter
and other updates. There is a JCBC alumni web page at
http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/boatclub.html and an up-to-date JCBC website at
jcbc.jesus.cam.ac.uk with news and photographs – and members have free parking in
the Paddock on Mays Saturday. All for a very modest annual subscription. If you would
like to became a Friend, please contact me on [email protected]
Friends’ subscriptions go entirely to the Trust’s capital fund. The fund stands
currently north of £800,000 and produces an income between £25,000 and £30,000 each
year: a tribute to the skills of Sarasin, who manage the fund under the watchful eye of
Ewan Pearson. The continuing rise in the cost of rowing equipment far outstrips
inflation in other sectors – a new eight, for example, such as “Steve...”, takes most of an
entire year’s income. We have concluded that, to keep the JCBC provided for in a way
necessary to achieve success, we have to increase our income long-term, and that means
increasing the Trust’s capital – by £250,000. The trustees will be taking steps to raise
that extra capital. All contributions, however small and including in the form of
legacies, are always welcome and I would encourage those who wish to help the club in
this way to contact Chris McDouall on [email protected]
There is another way in which supporters can help the club, and that is coaching.
There is a great need for more coaches to supplement those who already do so much so
willingly. If you could help, even for a short time or on an occasional basis – and it
doesn’t matter if you haven’t coached for some time (or at all!) – please contact Jon
Hutton on [email protected] or Matt Jones on [email protected]
The trustees and their responsibilities remain unchanged:
Chairman
Treasurer
Investments
Secretary
College Links
The Friends:
David Wootton
Chris McDouall
Ewan Pearson
Louise Couch
Michael Waring
Richard Tett
Louise Couch
Lucy Murray
David Reid
Sheena Cassidy
Women’s Club
Training/Coaching/
Quality of Rowing
Matt Jones
Boat Club Strategy/
Boatman/Boathouse Jon Hutton
London Link
Sheena Cassidy
[email protected]
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[email protected]
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I am very grateful, as I am sure readers will also be, to all my fellow trustees for their
time and effort: entirely voluntary when they all have jobs and commitments to more
than fill their days otherwise.
This year we had two exceptional captains: Ricardo Herreros-Symons and Ellie Sharp
did a wonderful job and showed great leadership, with the result that morale remained
excellent even when circumstances were adverse – which they were. We wish them both
well and look forward to staying in touch. We wish too all success to Rhodri Kendrick
and Molly Whitehall, the new men’s captain and president and women’s captain
respectively, and the other officers and committee members: they will know that there is
a huge well of support for them and lots of advice and guidance available to them in the
coming year.
I conclude with a late piece of news and a personal note. Our boatman, Charlie
Mulholland, has left the club on amicable terms: we thank him for his contribution and
wish him well. The process of appointing his successor began under the excellent
chairmanship of Michael Waring and has resulted in the appointment of John Thicknes,
fresh from three years’ experience building and sustaining lightweight oarsmen to the
CULRC. He is already proving and exceptionally capable and conscientious holder of the
post of Head Coach/Boathouse Manager.
My personal note is that I have been given the great honour of being elected a Steward
of Henley Royal Regatta. For those in the world of rowing, this is the top, at least off the
water. I am very pleased, not just for myself, but because it continues the long line of
Jesuan Stewards and I am delighted to be joining the very distinguished group of Pat
Delafield, Chris Rodrigues and Chris Baillieu, all of whom have made and continue to
make a major contribution to Jesus, Cambridge, national and international rowing.
We look forward with confidence to the coming year and wish the JCBC well.
David Wootton, Chairman
Cricket
Jesus College Cricket Club had another busy schedule of fixtures this season, with
matches against Nottingham University and a number of wandering cricket clubs from
London and Cambridge. Another great tradition that will continue for many years to
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come is the Old Boys Match and Annual Club Dinner in early May. This year saw the
Old Boys XI declare on 157-8 with Brown scoring 53 and Newman scoring 29, the Jesus
XI scored 90-3 from 19 overs (Grimshaw 35*) but as the clouds moved in, rain caused
play to be abandoned.
The Cuppers campaign got off to the usual strong start. The first match saw a
comprehensive win over Girton with Green and Pope both scoring hundreds. The
second game, against Clare, saw a shock defeat and uncharacteristic early exit for the
Jesus XI. Jesus batted first and some strong late innings hitting by Tom Lee saw Jesus
reach 165 from their 20 overs. A couple of early wickets fell which eased the nerves, but
this brought Clare’s number 4 to the crease. The big hitting New Zealand batsmen gave
a few early catches but Jesus were unable to capitalise on them, and he made them pay;
scoring 102* to take Clare to Victory in the 20th over of the game.
A final highlight of the season was the Cricket Club playing host to Mezica Kriket
Klub from Slovenia. The club is one of only 8 Cricket Clubs in the country and we were
honoured to be one of their fixtures for their 2013 cricket tour. The match saw Jesus bat
first, declaring on 182-3, Mezica were unable to reach the target and ended up on 113 all
out. It was a thoroughly enjoyable day to finish off a good season of cricket.
Eddie Hulbert
Rugby 2012-13 proved a mixed season for JCRUFC. Jesus was very successful in terms of its
contribution to University-level rugby this year, with players selected in the following
Varsity games: Dugal Bane (Blues); Kouj Tambara, Calum Mulderrig and Nic Viljoen (LX
Club); Nick Roope (captain), Chris Blucke, Tom Hudson, Andy Gill and Oli Exton
(U21s); Bryn Elesedy (U21As). This is in itself testament to the quality of rugby fostered
by Jesus College.
At full strength, this year’s Jesus side was as strong as any in recent memory, and
certainly equal to any other college, as was proved on occasion throughout the season.
Unfortunately, with so many players detailed to the University teams, the college side
struggled somewhat, particularly as these players were necessarily some of the strongest
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in the team. On top of this, a number of serious injuries and a certain familiarity with the
Dean’s office left the team severely depleted at times. Compared to recent successes, this
has been something of a fallow year for JCRUFC, with sub-par achievements in both
Cuppers and the league.
That said, the season did not pass without event. Though five weeks of snow at the
start of Lent term prevented the league from being concluded, for a long time the club
was in the running to win the league, and was let down by just a couple of fixtures.
Additionally, the old rivalry with St John’s seems to have been settled somewhat,
on both a personal and sporting level. Our boys gave St John’s a hell of a beating at their
own ground in our only encounter with them this season. However, in the absence of any
truly dominant force from either college, the season undeniably belongs to Downing, who
came out on top in both competitions; for those still reading the Sport section in The Tab,
history was quite literally written by the victors, much to the chagrin of all others.
Jesus was also able to field a 2nd XV for Cuppers, who reached the semi-finals of the
Shield, but in the event the deepening injury crisis forced a forfeiture.
Notwithstanding the above, the spirit of the club is alive and well, particularly amongst
a strong fresher contingent. Gladly, any lack of action on the pitch was more than balanced
by a steady stream of social fixtures – too many, some might say. Our performance next
season might prove critical in determining the short-term future of JCRUFC.
This year’s committee was particularly proud to achieve third place in the Fair Play
Trophy (for those not aware).
2012/2013 committee: O. Jones (Captain); O. Exton (Secretary); T. Hudson and
O. Colegrave (Mascots). Next season’s committee: H. Rose (Captain); C. Whittaker
(Secretary); N. Hudson and E. Robinson (Social Secretaries).
Oliver Jones
Football
2012-13 was another very successful season for all three of Jesus’ men’s football teams.
The first team, led by captain Niall Purcell, reached the Cuppers final. Played on a
freezing Monday night under the floodlights of Grange Road, the team put in a strong
performance in a typically cagey affair but eventually lost 2-1 after extra time. It was a
frustrating evening for the side and was typical of so many matches this season; Jesus
played the better football but failed to turn the possession into goals. Had the team
notched a few more early on in the season and turned draws into wins, they would have
mounted an even stronger challenge for the First Division league title. They finished
fourth as unbeaten Fitz went on to do the double, but enjoyed some memorable
performances along the way, not least the 9-1 thrashing of Emmanuel.
A relegation and a promotion last season led to the unlikely scenario of the Jesus
second and third teams both playing in Division 4 this year. The derby match they played
early on in the season drew a healthy crowd to the Jesus pitch. The thirds, under Ryan
Malone, were hunting a famous victory and went into the game on the back of a 14-game
unbeaten streak, with Billy Haslam’s second team all too aware of the humiliation
anything but a win would bring. A contentious penalty decision gave the seconds a goal
lead after a tight start to the game and they ran out 3-0 winners in the end; a result that
would spur them on to achieve a deserved promotion back to Division 3 as runners-up.
The thirds were also challenging for the league title until late on having beaten several
college second teams in impressive fashion, but will be very proud of retaining the Vase
trophy for the third consecutive year.
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All in all, three top-half finishes, two cup finals, one cup win and a promotion proved
why Jesus is always considered a strong footballing college. The first team will be
thinking of ‘what might have been’ for a while yet, but the club goes into next season
even hungrier for more success under the captaincies of John Crawford, Simon Pittaway
and Freddie Valletta. Onwards and upwards!
Tim Kitching
Hockey 2013 saw history made as, for the first time in living memory, both Jesus Men’s teams
reached the Cuppers Final. The Men’s 2nd team had a heroic season and, thanks to a
strong and dedicated influx of freshers, swept aside all other competition in their path to
the Final, including last year’s winners and bitter rivals St Catherine’s who they bested in
a thrilling Quarter Final match that ended with a last-minute goal in extra time.
Meanwhile, the Men’s 1st Team romped to victory as Division 1 Champions and
trampled St Johns in the Cuppers Semi-Finals. This year’s squad was once again studded
with players from all three of the University squads as well as some JCHC legends
including Sam Grimshaw, who this year scored his 150th goal for the college.
Loyalties were tested as players decided on their allegiances and Jesuans turned out en
mass to watch the battle between youth and experience. Despite giving the 1st Team a
scare with an early goal, in the end even the famous Spirit of the 2nd Team was not
enough to overcome the might of the 1st XI who completed their perfect season with a
7-2 victory over the 2s. The final was a true celebration of the depth of skilled players at
Jesus and bodes well for the future.
This year was another strong season for the Jesus women’s hockey team. Suffering
from a lack of second and first year interest, the team often consisted of fewer than
eleven players, but this did not stop them finishing a solid fourth place in Division One
of the women’s league. The highlight of the season was undoubtedly beating St Catz,
who won the league, 1-0. This was testament to the hard work and perseverance of the
Jesus team, compared to the University-player dominated opposition. The strong hockey
tradition for Jesus women looks set to continue, as many players are staying on at the
college, although the team are very much hoping for an influx of hockey-playing
freshers next year!
Barney Walker and Katherine Message
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Badminton
Jesus College Badminton Club has had another strong year, maintaining its reputation
as one of the strongest Colleges for badminton. The men’s first team, despite lacking
any University players, finished amongst the top three in division 1 in both Michaelmas
and Lent Term leagues. Victories were earned over Downing, Queens, Girton and most
notably a 5-4 win over Trinity College.
The ladies team also had a very consistent year in the league, finishing in 4th place of
division 1 in both terms. Harshnira Patani was selected to represent the University in the
Varsity Badminton Match against Oxford, the first player from Jesus to do so in recent
years.
The men’s 2nd team, one of the highest ranked second teams in the University,
performed very well in the Michaelmas League and were narrowly denied promotion.
Lent Term results were more inconsistent and the team finished mid league.
The men’s 3rd team, consisting mostly of freshers, had some very challenging
matches in Michaelmas Term coming up against many college first teams. A nail-biting
5-4 victory over St. Catz was the highlight, but unfortunately the team was relegated.
The team showed great spirit though to bounce back in Lent Term, winning all but one
match!
It was always going to be difficult to follow on from very successful Cuppers runs for
the teams last year, and unfortunately this proved to be the case for the men’s first and
mixed teams who came up against strong Clinical School teams in the early rounds.
The ladies team, who were runners up last year, also had a tough draw and lost a very
close quarter finals to Gonville & Caius. However, the men’s 2nd team produced some
brilliant performances to reach the Cuppers quarterfinals, knocking out college first
teams along the way!
A special word of thanks must go to our captains: Kim Liu, Matthew Daggitt, Mark
Southall and Madhu Chetan who have worked tremendously hard over the last year
running the teams and organising matches. Also, to Lee Robinson, who is leaving this
year, and has dedicated so much time to Jesus Badminton Club over the last 4 years,
coaching both the men’s and ladies 1st teams.
Thanks to everyone involved with Jesus College Badminton Club and here is to even
better results next year.
Will Chaplin
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Squash
Squash at Jesus College has gone from strength to strength over the 2012/13 season.
Having won promotion into the top division last year with a strong set of players, the
first team capitalized on the opportunity to compete among all the other top colleges,
performing incredibly well to win the College League by a significant margin.
The second team have also become a formidable force in college squash over the course
of the year under the captaincy of Luke Woodliffe. Their strength in depth has helped
them to finish second in division 3, having gained promotion from division 4 earlier in
the season. This is an incredible achievement, as they are now by far the highest ranked
second team in the College Leagues. Players from both teams deserve their success,
having worked hard all year by attending weekly training sessions and playing regular
games on the college squash ladder.
Outside of the teams, Jesus College enjoys a large social squash scene. Over forty
college members take part in the active college squash ladder, allowing Jesuans easy
access to other players of a similar standard, and the ability to find new playing partners.
As a college we won a competition ran by the University Squash Club which encouraged
as many people as possible to play on a single day in order to help back the bid to get
squash into the Olympics in 2020. On top of this the club organised a set of training
sessions over an eight week period which were open to all players, and which were run
by the Cambridge University squash coach.
Although next year we will unfortunately lose some integral members of both college
teams, many strong members of the club are staying on, and the strength in depth of
squash at the college means that the 2013/14 season will be another great one for the club.
Tom Atherton
Mixed Netball
The 2012-13 Season was a tough one for the Jesus Mixed Netball Team, but one that also
showed exactly the kind of tenacious spirit and depth of ability which makes Jesus such
a renowned sporting college. Coming into the season we knew we faced the tough task
of refilling the male side of our squad, and rebuilding on the female side too. Luckily the
Freshers’ Fair proved the perfect place to recruit talent, and over thirty people had
signed down to volunteer themselves for duty. As such, over the next few weekends, our
core squad took shape, and there was not a single game in the term where we did not
have the numbers to put out a very competitive side. By the end of Michaelmas Term,
having put in some very strong performances against the entire range of teams in the top
division, easily seeing off Churchill at home, and coming out on top in an extremely
tight game against league leaders Gonville and Caius, we were well placed in the middle
of the table. The second half of the season was hampered by the weather, but when the
snow, ice, and driving rain finally let up in time for Cuppers, we showed that we really
did have strength in depth and some real finesse and quality, given that half the team
had been playing netball regularly for less than 9 months!
Easing through the group stages with only a handful of goals against us, we battled
to an unlucky loss in the quarter finals against eventual winners, Corpus Christi.
Next season will come with the usual challenge of restarting and regrouping, but the
Jesus sporting heritage will no doubt mean that we, yet again, have a very real chance of
aiming for the top.
Sarah Woods
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Table Tennis
This year has been a great one all round for table tennis, where we have seen promotions
for both teams, a large boost in the number of players, and secured funding for brand
new tables and equipment.
With great interest at the start of the year, the club managed to start up a second team
for the first time in as long as anyone can remember. Under the guided captaincy of Tom
Atherton, the team stormed the entry division 6, and should have no trouble climbing
the divisions in future years. The first team is now once again a force to be reckoned
with after topping the second division this season, and will be rightfully back among the
top colleges in the first division for next year. In the cuppers knock out tournament the
team reached the quarterfinals, where we were unfortunately narrowly beaten by a
strong joint team of two colleges.
Training sessions have taken place throughout the year once a week, with interest
from many starting up the sport as well as active players. This increase in the size of the
club allowed us to receive funding for 3 quality tables, which should last us a long time.
We hope to have another successful season next year, as Jesus College Table Tennis
grows in size and strength.
Luke Woodliffe
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Ultimate Frisbee
The club started the year on shaky ground due the loss some of our older experienced
players. Luckily a selection of enthusiastic and talented freshers joined the team
bringing us back to full strength. We started the season well, winning several matches in
the group stage but unfortunately our fresher heavy side could not keep this up as the
season drew to a close coming 17th out of 18 teams.
The lent league went better with matches being much more closely fought even
though some matches the team was made up almost entirely of fresher players.
The newbies also managed to pick up the rules very quickly; this is vital as the sport is
self-refereed and the majority of players being new the game.
Megan Davies Wykes played at the University Indoor Women’s Regionals and
Nationals, University Outdoor Women’s Nationals and at Mixed Tour 2. Christopher de
Leeuwe played for the Men’s Seconds team at Varsity and captained them in Outdoor
Regionals.
The new Captain for next year will be Danny Hunt, whose determination to the sport,
dragging along friends to ensure that we don’t forfeit any matches, will help build on
the successes of this year and start bringing back the glory days of Jesus Ultimate.
Chris de Leeuwe
Members’
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Members’ News for 2013
People
P E S BARBER (1988) has been appointed Director of the (National) Catholic Education
Service, of which he was earlier the Legal Officer.
D M BERNEY (1984) has been appointed NHS Professor for Genito-Urinary Pathology at
St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
H M BERRY (1995) has been appointed Professor of British History at Newcastle
University.
W T BORDASS (1962) was awarded the OBE in the New Year’s Honours List in 2012 for
services to the Architectural and Engineering Professions and Sustainable Development.
L R BRONZE (1974) was awarded the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2013 for
Services to Education.
R K BUTLIN (1973) was elected to serve as President of the European Society for
Evolutionary Biology for two years, starting at the Society’s congress in Lisbon in August
2013. He has also been invited to hold the Tage Erlander Guest Professorship by the
Swedish Research Council, to be held at the University of Gothenburg during 2013 and
2014.
A CANALE-PAROLA (1971) was appointed Chair of Coventry & Rugby Clinical
Commissioning Group.
N FACCINI (née Awais-Dean, 2001) was awarded a PhD from Queen Mary, University of
London.
P W GORDON (2004) has been awarded the Dankwerts Pergamon Prize for the best
PhD dissertation submitted in the Department of Chemical Engineering and
Biotechnology in 2012.
S N GOWERS (1998 has been instituted and installed as the Vicar of Holy Trinity,
Old Hill.
J A HARRISON (1971) has won the non-fiction prize of the Wales Book of the Year 2013
for Forgotton Footprints, Lost stories in the Discovery of Antarctica.
T J HEARD (1960) was awarded the MBE in the New Year’s Honours List in 2012 for
Services to the Teaching of Mathematics.
R J HARWOOD (1988) was one of three Jesuans appointed a Queens’ Counsel this year.
The others are G H Mansfield (1988) who, like him came to the College from
Nottingham High School, and F M Sinclair (1983).
H D HIBBITT has been elected Foreign Associate in the National Academy of
Engineering for his citation ‘creation and development of the ABAQUS finite element
code for nonlinear structural analysis and its worldwide dissemination’.
J E HODGES (1994) finally returned to Perth, Australia in 2005 after a year in Jamaica,
four in London and two in Bogota. She has been working as a teacher of high school
Biology since then and married Peter Murray, a registered nurse from Melbourne, in
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2011. Their son, Edward Tregear, was born nine weeks early in July 2012 and is now an
energetic and happy little boy. She would love to hear from any Jesuans visiting this part
of the world.
J B S HUBBARD (1976) left Bournemouth School after twenty-five year’s service, which
embraced stints as Head of Lower School, Chairman of the Common Room, Staff
Governor, and finally five years as Head of English. He is currently enjoying taking time
to travel, read and write, walk, paint and garden, and reflect on returning to teaching of
some kind after a productive break.
N G E HUDSON (1978) has returned to England from Rome, where for the last nine
years he has been Rector of the English College, to become Parish Priest at the Sacred
Heart Church, Wimbledon, his home parish which, like Wimbledon College where he
was at school, has until now been staffed by Jesuits.
I C HUTCHINSON CERVANTES (1986) is now Priest in Charge of the Parish of Nuthurst
and Mannings Heath and World Mission Officer for the Diocese of Chichester.
S J IRWIN (1972), Queen’s Bench Judge since 2006 and Presiding Judge on the Northern
Circuit, 2008-2012, is now Chairman of the Special Immigration Appeals Committee.
P C KÖHLER (1983) was elected Head of the School of Law at SOAS, University of
London in July 2012. He is also the owner of London’s cult cabaret bar CellarDoor,
M S LEE (1983) has written a novel, a TV costume drama, three screenplays and a play.
G H MANSFIELD (1988) was appointed a Queens’ Counsel in March 2012 as was
another Jesuan, F M SINCLAIR (1982) (see below). They join more than two dozen other
Jesuan QCs.
M MARIX EVANS (1960) was presented with the President’s Award for his work on the
preservation and visitor interpretation of the battlefield of Naseby at the Battlefields
Trust Conference held at the University of Durham in April 2013. The award was created
on the initiative of the actor and military historian, Robert Hardy and was made for the
first time in 2013. The award was presented by Chairman Frank Baldwin, acting on
behalf of Robert Hardy.
R McLAUGHLIN (2002) was awarded the MBE in the New Year’s Honours List in 2012
for Services to Defence.
C J RODRIGUES (1968) has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of
Surrey to recognise his outstanding contribution to the tourism industry. Christopher
has also become Chair of British Bobsleigh and Skeleton – the UK body responsible for
participation in those Olympic and World championship sports.
F M SINCLAIR (1983) has been appointed a Queens’ Counsel. She, Jane Bewsey (1982)
and Leigh-Ann Mulcahy (1988) are among more than two dozen Jesuan QCs (see also
G H Mansfield [1988] above).
R G TOULSON (1964 Hon Fw) has become a Justice of the Supreme Court. He was a
Queens’ Bench Judge 1996-2007, Chairman of the Law Commission 2002-2006, and a
Lord Justice of Appeal 2007-2013. He is the fourth Jesuan to be a member of the UKs
highest court, but the first to come from England. Lords Thankerton and Reid were
from Scotland, Lord Lowry was from Northern Ireland.
H M A WEAVERS (2007) ) has been awarded the Beddington Medal of the British Society
for Developmental Biology. The Beddington Medal is the Society’s major award to a
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promising young biologist,awarded for the best PhD thesis in developmental biology
submitted in the previous year.
A N S WEBB (1994) was appointed Parish Priest of the Oxford Oratory Catholic Church
of St Aloysius Gonzaga in September 2012.
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Births
Caroline DíAZ-CROSSLEY (née Crossley, 1989) and her husband Juan Díaz have a son,
James Sebastian, born 7 September 2012, a brother to Jacob Alexander, born 4 April
2009.
Natasha FACCINI (née Awais-Dean, 2001) and her husband Marc have a daughter,
Emilia Grace, born 29 March 2011.
Emma HITCHCOCK (née Keeling, 2001) and Giles HITCHCOCK (2001) have a
daughter, Martha Violet Julia, born on 9 October 2012.
Sarah LEA (née Cantwell, 1993) and her husband Michael have a daughter Anushka,
born 2 June 2012, a sister to Theo, born 11 November 2010.
Sam RICHARDSON (2002) and Sarah RICHARDSON (née Dickinson, 2002) have a
son, Thomas Jonathan, born 19 November 2012, a brother to Daniel Jacob, born 22
October 2010.
Sam VARDY (2001) and his wife Eibhlin have a son, Noah Oisin, both 8 April 2013.
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Marriages and Civil Partnerships
Emily ANDERSON (2004) married Matthew BUNNING (2002) on 10 October 2013 in
her home town of East Sheen, London.
Rebecca MAUGHAN 2007 married Jonathan Fairless on her parents farm, High
Bellridge Farm, Northumberland on 3 August 2013.
Robert HUDSON (1992) married Jane Louise WHITTAKER (1996) on 13 October 2012 at
Walcot Hall in Shropshire.
Ruth JENKINS (2005) married the Icelandic Opera Singer Andri Björn Róbertsson on
21 July 2013 at St Robert’s RC Church, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Ryan THOMAS married Alison BOWDEN (both 1993) on 1 September 2012 at new Park
Manor in the New Forest.
Joachim PENZEL (1996) married Rebecca Dulheuer on 11 August 2012 in the
Melanchthonkirche, Bochum, Germany under the auspices of, amongst others, a
trusted handful of fellow Jesuans.
Tim VICKERS (2000) married Sophy Marchment on 10 November 2012 at The Abbey
and Cathedral Church of St Alban.
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JESUAN IN ROME I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
Farewell to Rome
Nicholas Hudson
In our series of occasional reminiscences by old members, Nicholas Hudson
(1978-81) looks back over nine years as Rector of a seminary in Rome
our boss has been shot!” That was how
“Ymy fellow-historian James Cowderoy
broke to me the news of an attempt on the life
of Pope John Paul II in St Peter’s Square. It
was May 13th 1981; and I was revising on a
bench opposite the cricket pavilion when
James brought me this shocking news. James
knew that I was due to begin training for the
Catholic priesthood at the English College in
Rome the following autumn: he was
thoughtful in seeking me out to tell me.
Little could James and I have imagined,
that fateful day, that the same Karol Wojtyla
would still be Pope in 2005 when I had the
privilege, as Rector of the College, to present
to the Holy Father a group of illustrious
English heroes: Dallaglio, Catt, Shaw,
Lewsey, Worsley, Haskell, Abbott – yes, the
Rugby World Cup-winning champions!
“Sono i Campioni del Mondo”, I heard Italian
Pope Benedict XVI greets Monsignor Hudson
pilgrims murmur as these athletes made their
progress through the Square and up onto the
papal podium.
Like so many before them, this band of
Englishmen had stopped at the English
College on their way to St Peter’s because they
knew it to be “the English place in Rome”.
The English College is indeed the oldest
English institution outside of England. First
it was a hospice for pilgrims and then a
seminary; and has served as an informal
embassy ever since Edward III sat on the
English throne – right through to the twentyfirst century. The English Hospice was
established in 1362 by a Confraternity of
Englishmen resident in Rome; established to
cater for the needs of pilgrims visiting from
our shores. From Plantagenet times, it
enjoyed royal patronage: Henry VII named it
the King’s Hospice; Henry VIII called it Our
Hospice and installed the Archbishop of York
to be its Warden and his Ambassador to the
Holy See.
When Elizabeth I would no longer allow
Catholic priests to train in her realm, the
Hospice’s use was changed, in 1579, for it to
become a seminary to ordain men to return
to England and minister – albeit secretly –
to the continuing Catholic community there.
To do so was considered a treasonable
offence, punishable by imprisonment,
torture and, in many cases, death – death by
hanging, drawing and quartering. In the first
century of the College’s existence, forty-four
of its alumni were martyred in this way; and it
was named by papal decree The Venerable
English College in recognition of their heroism.
Rooted as it is in the Counter-Reformation,
the College is nevertheless strikingly
ecumenical. The Archbishop of Canterbury
and his wife always stay there when visiting
the Pope. When I was Rector, Archbishop
Rowan Williams stayed with his wife some
eight times; and we were delighted that
Archbishop Welby should choose to stay with
us too when he met Pope Francis.
Since Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor was
Rector in the 1970s, the College has aimed
every year to welcome one or two Anglican
ordinands to live and study for a semester
alongside the seminarians. These ordinands
have hailed from all places between
Chichester and Durham. But the clear
majority have been students of Westcott
House opposite the College in Jesus Lane;
and it was a particular joy for me welcome to
the Venerabile recently the Reverend Canon
Martin Seeley, Principal of Westcott and
himself a Jesuan, along with his wife, the
Reverend Jutta Brueck.
Three Pontificates in eight years brought a
great number of people to Rome – from
royals to simple pilgrims; and the College
was proud to continue its tradition for
hospitality by welcoming them all as
generously as it possibly could – especially
since we were celebrating in 2012 the 650th
anniversary of the foundation of Hospice. On
the celebration of our sesquicentenar, we were
honoured when Queen Elizabeth II sent as
her representative the Duke of Gloucester,
who delivered a most touching message. Two
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days later, Pope Benedict XVI received in
private audience the whole College.
Contemplating a picture we brought him of
the
College’s
first
students,
he told us, “you are their successors”.
His Pontificate also saw the visit of Tony
Blair, the third visit of a serving British Prime
Minister after William Gladstone and
Macmillan.
Rather like life at Jesus, so at the Venerabile,
it is the everyday that forms and shapes the
student more than the historic and
momentous. Seminarians are with us these
days for seven years. They begin with two
years’ Philosophy at the University of St
Thomas, where their teachers are Dominicans.
This is followed by three years’ Theology at
the Jesuit Gregorian University. Most find this
to be an enriching experience, with teaching
by both men and women, lay and ordained,
from every Continent – alongside a similarly
varied group of students: lay men and
women, religious sisters and predominantly,
of course, seminarians from across the globe.
Very popular are visiting professors from
other universities: I remember being
particularly impressed by a course with
Professor Owen Chadwick on the Anglican
Divines (he was rather impressed to find
several graduates of Oxford and Cambridge
taking his course!); and Professor Eamon
Duffy has also contributed in recent years.
Seminarians end their studies with a Licence
specialisation – anything from Canon Law to
Church History to Scripture. I often told
students that I found the Licence in
Fundamental Theology at the Gregorian
the most stimulating of all my university
studies.
We tend to speak of Seminary Formation
as four-fold in its structure: Intellectual,
Spiritual, Pastoral and Human. Even if studies
occupy most of the hours in a day, a student
will also be encouraged to make significant
time for these three other foci of his training.
For instance, a student is expected to make
good time each day for meditation. Most
achieve this before the 6.45 a.m. Mass and
Lauds. After breakfast, the mornings are
filled with lectures at the universities.
Afternoons are usually for seminars, study,
essay-writing, spiritual reading, exercise
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The Chapel, English College, Rome
(there is a lot football played in Rome!),
pastoral classes and pastoral work, ending
with Vespers before supper.
Students are engaged in a variety of pastoral
work once or twice a week: many have been
trained to visit men on remand in the Regina
Coeli Prison; others help the Mother Teresa
nuns looking after the destitute; still others
teach in local parishes. Every seminarian
spends the month of September in an English
parish.
The College staff is made up of five priests
all with good pastoral experience who bring
the seminarians together weekly to reflect on
their pastoral work and to “learn the ropes” of
celebrating baptisms and funerals, teaching,
counselling – in short, of being pastors.
I liked often to remind the students of Pope
John Paul’s saying that “the seminary is the
place where we await the gift of the Spirit for
mission”. I felt the call to be a part of this
mission from schooldays. I came up to
Cambridge to see more clearly if this was
indeed my vocation. As I began, about half way
through Tripos, to share with friends at Jesus
College my desire to be a priest, I found their
reactions to be gentle, respectful in tone and
surprisingly encouraging.
Like most Jesuans, I found my three years
living in Jesus Lane to be deeply formative.
I am often asked, “How many years did it take
for you to train to be a priest?” and I reply
without hesitation, “Nine: six years in Rome
and three at Cambridge!” The formation was
all of a piece; and one for which I shall be
eternally grateful.
Obituaries
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Obituaries
Fellows
John Cameron Wilson (1960) was
born on 3 November 1942 and died
on 21 September 2013.
Dr Cameron Wilson, who was a
Jesus Teaching Fellow for almost
forty years, supervised with great
devotion many generations of
students in French language and
literature. He also undertook a
variety of academic, pastoral and
administrative roles in the College,
all of which he performed with
legendary diligence and courtesy.
From 1992 to 1995 he was President
of the College, demonstrating
impressive skills as a chair person
and punctilious concern for
individual Fellows.
He was greatly valued on the
governing boards of four
independent schools, and liaised with a variety of schools throughout the country to
encourage university applications in modern languages. For many years he was involved
with schools’ examining boards. He was a devout Christian, frequently assisting at
prayers in Chapel, and preaching both in College and elsewhere.
Cameron, as he was popularly known, was a softly-spoken man who exuded
consideration and sensitivity. All who knew him were struck by his self-effacing
modesty. There was an air of clericalism about his demeanour: always the dark suit,
white shirt, sober tie, black shoes. Circumstances conspired to discourage him from
pursuing research in his chosen specialist field – 17th century French literature – beyond
his PhD. He never held a University post. Instead his time and energies were channelled
into tutorial teaching of undergraduates, directing their studies, offering pastoral and
academic advice across many disciplines, and promoting the welfare of the College
community. Despite colleagues’ occasional misgivings, he would find redeeming
features (and grounds for future hope) in those who fell by the wayside – either
academically or in matters of discipline. His serious, purposeful exterior belied a keen
wit and talent for public speaking, which he revealed to the delight, sometimes
astonishment, of those whom he entertained with an after-dinner speech.
John Cameron Wilson was born on 3 November, 1942, the only son of two teachers
(both graduates of the University of Leeds) in the small village of Sutton-in-Craven,
North Yorkshire. His father taught music in a variety of schools and eventually became
Registrar at the College of Music in Manchester where the family settled in 1948. Aged
eleven, Cameron became a pupil at Manchester Grammar, when it was a direct grant
school. His love of language, he used to say, was developed from listening to the radio.
He admitted that his boyhood hobbies included collecting copies of the Radio Times and
mastering the bus time-tables of Greater Manchester!
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In 1960 he came up to Jesus to read Modern Languages with an Exhibition, later
converted to a Scholarship. In his second year he came under the influence of the
distinguished Australian scholar, Lloyd James Austin. Austin, who had in 1956 resigned
a Fellowship at Jesus to take up the Chair of Modern French Literature at Manchester,
returned to Cambridge (and Jesus) in 1961 as Drapers Professor of French and Head of
the French Department. Austin detected great promise in Cameron.
A colleague of many years writes: “Cameron was equally brilliant as a linguist in
French and German and could have pursued a career in either. Circumstances steered
him towards French (and Molière), but he often said he would rather have specialized in
German. He was deeply interested in translation and exceptionally good at it; reflecting
his profound concern with linguistic (and conceptual) precision. He loved words and
deeply respected their meaning, an aspect of his sense of responsibility towards others.”
On graduation in 1963, Cameron continued in the College as a research student.
In 1965 he was elected to a College Research Fellowship and the following year was
elected to a Teaching Fellowship. That year he married Brenda. As a student Cameron
had been involved with the Robert Hall Society, a Cambridge student Baptist society, and
attended Zion Baptist Church. He met Brenda during the vacation while attending
Beaver Park Baptist Church, at Didsbury, Manchester. She was at the time a school
teacher in Gatley. They would have two children Martin and Helen. Cameron
subsequently became a Baptist Deacon, regularly preaching in Cambridgeshire villages.
Some years later he joined, and became an Elder of the United Reformed Church.
For many years he took Morning Prayers in College Chapel on Wednesdays, hosting
breakfast afterwards. A former pupil writes: “I know he was a devout and in many ways a
private man, and his care and love for his family, especially his beloved wife, was central
to his life, along with his deep and glowing faith. This shone through, and touched the
lives of so many non-linguists as well.”
A colleague recalls being taught by Cameron in the early days of his teaching career:
“Fantastically carefully marked and extensively annotated and considered essays;
remarkable handwriting. Attention to use of language and clarity above all. He was
always a few minutes late. Slightly out of breath. The sound of his steps on the stairs up
to C5. This felt like an effect of how meticulously he did everything he did (so that he
had always taken a little too long over it). Always sat in the same place. The postcards
from students on the mantelpiece six or seven deep (none ever removed, only added to).
Big bookcase with glass doors along one wall of his room. This was inherited from his
father (as were many of the books in it). Coffee always on the half hour.”
In 1969 he was appointed Assistant Tutor, then, a year later, Tutor to the extensive
Natural Sciences and Engineering sides. His vocation at Jesus now seemed set: his talent
was for teaching and administration, matched by unstinting pastoral concern.
For eight years he was Tutor for Rooms, which in those days meant involvement with
the College’s constituency of landladies. Every year he held a lunch for them. As Tutor,
and Director of Studies, he generously and frequently entertained his pupils. Over lunch
or dinner he got to know his students in the round – their strengths and weaknesses.
And they, in turn, came to know and be influenced by him. Shortly after his death a
former pupil wrote this tribute, echoing the gratitude of many: “Cameron’s faith in me,
his kindness but firmness, and his utter commitment to supporting and mentoring his
students to do their best and become whole young adults was fundamental, and from
talking to other linguist and non-linguist friends I know my life is not the only one that
owes more than I can possibly say to this absolute gentleman”.
In his room he maintained a complete run of the University Reporter. His encyclopaedic
knowledge of the Tripos syllabuses and accompanying regulations enabled him to assist
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students who sought to change their courses. But he came into his own when invoking
College statutes, and employing his considerable rhetorical skills, in defending students
who fell foul of authority. A colleague remembers: “When for some of them things did
not go well, he could be relied upon to find – after delivering firm admonitions and
making it crystal clear that idleness could not be tolerated – a life-line, and then to
persuade a sternly-minded College committee to allow another chance, under stringent
conditions, to a student who might otherwise have left Cambridge prematurely or
without a degree”. Another remembers: “Most people in College will recall his advocacy
for individual tutorial pupils. He was almost notorious for his ability to persuade the
College to give the most hopeless or compromised or unhappy students another chance.
He never lost faith in or patience with anyone. The epitome and justification of what it
once meant to be a Tutor.”
For many years he was Director of Studies for Medieval and Modern Languages
(it was said that he served in that capacity, moreover, for about half the Cambridge
colleges at one time or another). For ten years he was Admissions Tutor for Arts.
When he became President he revealed his managerial flair, exemplified by apportioning
precise timing for each item of an agenda.
He was a member of many University and non-University committees, including the
Careers Service Syndicate, the Matriculation Board, and the Oxford and Cambridge
Examination board. He was President of the Society for School Teachers and Cambridge
Dons. His interest in schools, school curricula and examinations, and school
administration was wide-ranging. He conducted mock O level orals at schools
throughout Cambridgeshire, and he was Chief Examiner in French for STEP – The Sixth
Term Examination Papers. He served for many years as governor on the boards of
Abbotsholme School, Cheltenham College, Cranleigh School, and Seven Oaks School.
He was School Liaison Officer for the Faculty of Modern Languages, and many are those
who profess that they would never have applied to Cambridge had it not been for
Cameron.
These responsibilities took him around the country, always by rail, his journeys
assisted by a prodigious knowledge of railway time-tables and branch lines. He loved
train journeys, he would say, since they brought peace and contentment. He did not own
a car or a bicycle, and routinely walked the three miles between his home near
Addenbrooke’s Hospital and College.
In his early sixties, both as student and don, Cameron and his family suffered two
setbacks. He was severely injured when hit by a bicycle in Cambridge. Then Brenda
contracted motor neurone disease. Taking early retirement in 2004, Cameron and
Brenda moved to Shrewsbury. It was here that he nursed her until she died on 9 January
2005.
A year after Brenda’s death, the College held a dinner in Cameron’s honour at which
past students and tutorial pupils from four decades filled the Hall. He said it was one of
the happiest days of his life.
In subsequent years Cameron was active as an Elder of the Shrewsbury United
Reformed Church, and was a member of the Parochial Council at St Chad’s Church.
He gave classes at the local education centre on Great French Writers, and became
publicity officer for the Shropshire motor neurone disease branch. In May of 2010,
however, he suffered a stroke and in consequence needed full time care until his death
on 21 September 2013. He is survived by his son Martin and daughter Helen.
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Barry Dorn Till (1942) was born on
1 June 1923 and died on 12 June 2013
aged 90.
In his ninety years Barry Till lived
many lives; he was a soldier, cleric,
scholar, charity director and
educator. He was, however, most
proud of his time as Principal of
Morley College; in just over two
decades, he quadrupled student
numbers and developed the range
and quality of the courses offered,
establishing it as a leading adult
education college.
Barry Till was educated at Harrow
School. He came up to Jesus in 1942
to read History. After three terms he
joined the Coldstream Guards and
following training as a signals officer
was posted to fight in Italy in 1944.
In the down time between campaigns, he would visit the local churches and galleries
and was thus affectionately known to his fellow officers as ‘Tapestry Till’. When his war
service ended he returned to Jesus to complete his studies. He was awarded the
Lightfoot Scholarship in 1949 and following graduation began training for the
priesthood at Westcott House.
After a period as a curate in Bury, Lancashire, he returned to Jesus in 1955. As Dean,
he was responsible for running a large chapel and the welfare of 300 undergraduates;
in both aspects of his role he showed first rate practical abilities. In 1960, aged only 37,
he was appointed Dean of Hong Kong Cathedral; whilst in this role he made significant
links with the Chinese authorities, as well as with other faiths. He developed his
ecumenical ideas in one of the first books on the subject, The Churches Search for Unity
(1972). As a result of his separation from his first wife, Shirley, the Council of the
Cathedral suspended his position as Dean. Soon after arriving back in England with his
two little boys he returned to Jesus to discuss a potential new opportunity, the role of
Principal of Morley College. The role seemed perfect for him, combining his love of the
arts, the ability to use his great practical skills and passion for universal education; so,
in 1965, Barry became the principal of the adult education institute in south London.
When he took over, Morley had a music department with an exceptional reputation
established under music directors including Gustav Holst and Michael Tippett. Over the
next 21 years, Barry expanded Morley’s areas of excellence to include art and literature.
He opened a pioneering gallery headed by the then Director of Art, the painter Lawrence
Toynbee and encouraged a remarkable group of teachers, including the writer Margaret
Drabble and painter Maggi Hambling. Determined to make education as accessible as
possible to as many as possible, he developed daytime classes aimed at women and
opened a crèche to enable young mothers to attend. His ambitions for Morley could not
be housed in existing buildings and so he ran major fundraising campaigns to develop
two buildings, for which he commissioned the then little known but now renowned
modernist architect, John Winter.
Towards the end of his time at Morley, he began working as an adviser for the Baring
Foundation, the charitable arm of the merchant bank. In 1986, after stepping down as
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Morley’s Principal, he became the Director of the Foundation. There he directed
significant sums towards funding welfare programmes in deprived parts of Merseyside
and the North East. He continued this charitable work by serving as deputy chair of the
London Sinfonietta and board member for a range of other art and educational
institutions including the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Mary Ward Foundation and the
Victoria and Albert Museum.
In retirement, he completed an unfinished academic project that he’d put aside thirty
five years earlier on the re-institution of Anglican church courts after the Restoration
and wrote seven new entries on 17th century Anglican divines for the Oxford Dictionary
of National Biography. He was granted the rare honour of a Lambeth degree, being
awarded a DD (Doctor of Divinity) by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
He is survived by his second wife, Antonia, and their two daughters, Lucy and Emily;
and by two sons, Nicholas (1974) and Jeremy, from his first marriage.
Old Members
AGATE, George Jeffrey (1951) died on 22 January 2013 aged 81.
Jeffrey Agate was born on 19 May 1931 in London. Educated at Charterhouse, following
National Service in the Grenadier Guards, he came up in 1951 and read Economics and
Law. A keen golfer he gained a Blue before graduating BA 1954; MA 1958. Golf was a
lifelong passion and he was a member of the R&A, serving on its Championship
Committee, as well as being Captain of Sunningdale Golf Club. He used his studies to
further the family timber business, J and S Agate Ltd.
He married Judith Neilson in 1956 and they had a son and a daughter. Sadly his wife
and his son died in 1999 and 2001 respectively.
BARBER, Horace George (1948) died on 4 October 2007 aged 84.
Horace Barber was born on 16 October 1922 in Jamaica. Educated at Jamaica College,
he was a colonial officer attached to the Government of Jamaica, when he applied to
Jesus to undertake the Colonial Office Second Course. Having gained a place he duly
came up in 1948. After completing the course he applied to read Economics and came
up again in 1951. He graduated BA 1954. Subsequently he held many senior positions in
Jamaica including head of the Civil Service and Governor of the Bank of Jamaica.
He married Violet Rae Barber in 1954; they had a son and two daughters.
BARBER, Simon John Gresham (1957) died on 8 April 2013 aged 75.
Simon Barber was born on 10 August 1937 in London. Educated at Mill Hill School,
London, following National Service, he came up in 1957 to read Law. D. J. V. Fisher
described him as “unfailingly courteous and considerate and thoroughly trustworthy”.
He graduated BA 1961; MA 1964. He subsequently trained to be a solicitor and was
admitted to the roll in 1965. The majority of his career was spent as District Secretary
and Solicitor for Wrekin District Council.
He married Penelope Jane Baldock in 1965 and they had three sons together. Sadly,
Penelope died in 1975. He married Jane Anne Rosamond Macarthur in 1976 and they had
a daughter. On his retirement Simon and Jane retired to a smallholding in Mid-Wales.
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BAZETT, Michael Aldwin (1937) died 4 July 2012 aged 93.
Michael Bazett was born on 27 October 1918 in India. Educated at Radley College he
came up in 1937 to read Natural Sciences with a view to going on to be a doctor. Whilst
at Cambridge he: represented the University at boxing, knocking out the United
Hospitals representative; and played Rugby for the Jesus 1st XV. After a year he
concluded he would prefer to continue his studies at a more practically focused medical
course; he subsequently went on to train at St Mary’s London. Following service with
RNVR as a Surgeon-Lieutenant he worked as a General Practitioner until retirement in
1984. During his retirement he enjoyed gardening and reading philosophy.
He married Rosamund Mary Thatcher in 1950; they had two daughters.
BELL, John Harold Backhouse (1936) died on 21 November 2011 aged 95.
John Bell was born on 8 February 1916 in Capetown. He attended the Christian Brothers’
School, Saint Gabriel’s College in Pretoria, before coming up to Jesus in 1936 to read
Engineering. He graduated BA in 1939 and went to work for the General Electric
Company in Coventry. The GEC factory was severely damaged by German bombs and
therefore John had to look for a new job in April 1941. He joined the Admiralty, initially
in a reserved occupation, but chose to remain after the war had ended; he spent most of
his career at the Admiralty’s Ditton Park facility. Following retirement he moved to
Dorset in the 1980s.
He married Mrs Marjorie Saunders in September 1965 and became a step-father to
her children, Peter and Audrey; Peter sadly died in 2010, thirteen years after his mother.
BISHOP, Christopher James Gladstone (1955) died on 28 February aged 77.
Christopher Bishop was born on 9 December 1935 in London. He came up to Jesus in
1955 to read Classics, graduating BA 1958; MA 1962. Following graduation he
undertook his teaching certificate at Leeds University, graduating as top student for his
year. He taught Classics, first at Westminster City School and then at Netherthorpe
School, Staveley, Derbyshire, where he was also a senior master. He was very involved in
the local church community in Derbyshire and also had a great interest in the carriages
of the London North Eastern Railway, researching and producing books on their history.
He married Christine Nutton in 1967 and they had two daughters.
BROOKS, Anthony Delany (1948) died on 24 April 2012 aged 83.
Tony Brooks was born on 9 September 1928 in London. He attended the Friends School,
Saffron Walden, before completing his National Service. He came up to Jesus in 1948 to
read Natural Sciences with a view to going on to read Medicine. He graduated BA 1950;
MA 1955. He decided not to pursue a medical career and following graduation became a
tea-taster in Sri Lanka (Ceylon in those days). Then he owned and managed a successful
garage and car hire business before finally, whilst semi-retired, owning and running a
guest house. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and was still enjoying paragliding off
the Dorset cliffs, hiking in the Rhine Valley and playing badminton during the final years
of his life.
He married Brenda Irene Dunn in 1955 and they had two sons and a daughter.
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BROUGHTON, Joseph David Henry (1953) died on 17 November 2012 aged 80.
Joseph Broughton was born on 14 November 1932 in Chesterfield. He attended the Leys
School and following his National Service, came up to Cambridge in 1953. He read Part I
Economics and Part II Law, graduating BA 1956. The college has no further information
about his later life.
BROWN, John (1942) died on 19 March aged 89.
Jack Brown was born on 4 June 1923 in Leicester. Educated at City Boys’ Grammar
School, Leicester, he came up in 1942 to read Mechanical Sciences. As the Soccer club
was unable to maintain an independent existence it amalgamated with Trinity Hall
during the war and Jack was its second captain. He was also the captain of the cricket
team in 1943 and 1944 and was described in the annual report as “a very efficient and
popular captain”. In 1944, he was sent to Power Jets Ltd where Frank Whittle had set up
his team to develop the jet engine for aircraft propulsion. Following a couple of years
developing combustion systems he returned to Jesus to complete his degree, graduating
BA 1948; MA 1950. He then returned to the company, now nationalised and known as
National Gas Turbine Establishment. In 1959, he entered an entirely different field when
he joined the Nuclear Plant Branch of the Central Electricity Generating Board as a
Performance Engineer. He finished his career as Head of the Nuclear Plant Branch, retiring
in 1986. In retirement, he frequently presented at the local Probus, addressing each
assignment with the discipline and fervour that he had earlier practised at Jesus College.
He married Margaret Elizabeth Peers in 1947 and they had three sons. The arrival of
his sons saw him move from sports’ participant to referee. His younger brother was
Don Brown (1949).
BULMAN, Michael Thomas Andrew (1955) died on 5 February 2013 aged 78.
Michael Bulman was born on 9 June 1934 in Birmingham. Educated at King Edward
School, Birmingham, following National Service he came up to Jesus in 1955 to read Part
I Classics and Part II Theology; graduating BA 1959; MA 1962. D. J. V. Fisher viewed him
as a man of “sound sense and determination” and warmly recommended him for the
ministry. He remained in Cambridge after graduation, studying at Ridley Hall. Following
his ordination he served curacies in Blackpool and Poole before becoming the vicar at
St Barnabas, York, for seventeen years. He then moved to Israel where he was Field
Director of the Israel Trust of the Anglican Church as well as Canon of St George’s
Cathedral, Jerusalem. Following his return to England in 1993 he was appointed Rector
of St Bartholomew, Maresfield, and Vicar of St James the Less, Nutley in East Sussex.
He retired from full-time ministry in 2000.
He married Joan Sarfas in 1959; they had two sons and one daughter. Sadly their son
Reverend William Mark Bulman died in 2001.
COLES, Richard John (1960) died on Christmas Eve aged 2010 aged 70.
Richard Coles was born on 9 July 1940 in Kettering. Educated at Kettering Grammar
School, he came up to Jesus in 1960 to read Law, graduating BA 1963; MA 1967. A keen
sportsman he captained the college cricket team as well as providing useful service to the
rugby and soccer teams. Following graduation, he trained to be a solicitor whilst
working for ICI. He remained with the company for 26 years, rising to become deputy
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group solicitor. From 1994 he worked as a consultant before retiring in 2000. His
interests included bridge and golf.
He married Jennifer Marjorie Phillips in 1970 and they had two daughters.
COPPERWHEAT, Eric William (1946) died on 17 December 2012 aged 91
Eric Copperwheat was born on 1 April 1921 in Catford. Educated at Kent College,
Canterbury, he was a church organist and choir master prior to joining the RAF.
Following demobilisation he came up to Jesus in 1946 to read Music and to be the Organ
Scholar. He switched to Modern Languages for Part II and graduated BA 1949; MA 1953.
Writing to the College following the 150th anniversary of the choir, he wrote:
“[At the time I was at Jesus] there was one organ scholar and he was the ‘Director of
Music’. The college organ was said to be the smallest four-manual instrument in the
country; there has evidently been much progress since then.”
In January 1960, he migrated to New Zealand and was a respected organist, choir
master, director of music and teacher of the organ and piano. He was particularly proud
to have been the first organist of the then new Wellington Cathedral. In semi-retirement
he served as the organist at St Barnabas Roseneath for eighteen years until tragically he
lost the feeling in his fingers.
He married Margaret Tutt in 1971.
CRAIG, Richard Munir (1943) died on 23 April 2013 aged 87.
Richard Craig was born on 25 March 1926 in Rome. Educated at Aldenham School,
Elstree, he came up to Jesus in 1943 the third of the three Craig brothers, his older
brothers being David Leonard (1938) and George (1941). He read Engineering for three
terms before going to Trinity College, Dublin, to complete his studies. At Trinity, he
completed a BA in Modern Literature (French & Italian) before returning to his study of
Engineering and completing a BAI in Civil Engineering. Following graduation, he
started his career as a Resident Engineer for Binnie and Partners in Scotland. His career
took him all over the world including Nigeria, Italy and Australia. His final role was in
Brussels, where he combined his degrees in languages and engineering, and worked as
a technical translator. Beyond work, he enjoyed rowing, reading and walking.
He married Joan Dormain and they had a son and a daughter.
DEAN, Michael Ronald Elson (1955) died on 28 February 2013 aged 75.
Mike Dean was born on 3 April 1937 in Maidstone. Educated at King’s School,
Rochester, he came up in 1955 to read Natural Sciences with a view to qualifying as a
doctor. He graduated BA 1958; MB BChir 1961. On completion of his medical training he
specialised in radiology; he was a consultant at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital,
Chairman of the Shropshire Hospitals Medical Committee, President of the British
Society of Interventional Radiology and Dean and Vice-President of the Royal College of
Radiologists. He also wrote Basic Anatomy and Physiology for Radiographers (1970).
He had two sons and two daughters from his first marriage. When he married Vera
Dean in 1990 he gained a step-daughter and step-son.
DE CHAZAL, Eric Charles (1937) died on 3 January 2013 aged 94.
Charles De Chazal was born on 22 July 1918 in India. Educated at Clifton College he
came up in 1937 to read Modern Languages and Law. He took an active part in the social
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life of the college and was a strong oarsman rowing at 7 in the 1938 boat which won the
Fairbairn Cup. He graduated BA 1940; MA 1944.
His “admirable” linguistic skills and great sense of responsibility made him a natural
choice for the Colonial Service and so in 1940 he was sent to serve in Tanganyika. In
1947, he moved to Basutoland where he remained until just before the soon to be
Kingdom of Lesotho gained its independence. He spent the next seven years as a teacher
before becoming the Company Secretary of the British Sugar Bureau.
He married Joan Williams in 1944; they had a son and a daughter.
DOBBS, Kildare Robert Eric (1946) died on 1 April 2013 aged 89.
Kildare Dobbs was born on 10 October 1923 in India. He was educated at the College of
St Columba, Rathfarnham, County Dublin, before enlisting in the Royal Navy. Following
demobilisation, he came up to read English in January 1946, graduating, after an
allowance of terms for war service, BA 1947; MA 1952. After a brief spell in education he
emigrated to Canada where he established himself as a leading essayist and poet and
was considered one of the forerunners of travel writing in the country. Richard Greene,
a fellow author and poet, said of him, he “was Canada’s most complete writer”.
Amongst his published works are: his autobiography, Running to Paradise (1962)
which won a Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award; Anatolian Suite (1989);
Casanova in Venice (2010); and The Kindly Fruits (2012). His contribution to Canadian life
was recognised when he was invested with the Order of Ontario and, shortly before his
death, the Order of Canada.
He married Patricia Marjorie Agnes Parsons in 1944; the couple had two sons prior to
their marriage being dissolved. He married Mary McAlpine in 1958 and he and his
second wife had two daughters. Following his second divorce, he married Linda Kia
Kooluris in 1981; after telling his new wife’s mother he “had to marry three times to get
the right mother-in-law”. This marriage lasted thirty-two years.
DRUMMOND, Alan Hastings (1972) died on 12 September aged 62.
Alan Drummond was born on 27 March 1950 in Glasgow. He attended Hillhead High
School before reading for a BSc at the University of Glasgow. He came up to Jesus in
1972 to study serotonin and blood platelets for his doctorate. Alan graduated with a PhD
in 1976 and took up a post-doctoral research position at the Friedrich Miescher-Institut
in Basel before returning to academic positions at the University of Glasgow and the
School of Pharmacy, University of London.
In 1988, he moved into industry working for British Biotechnology where he became
Research Director with responsibility for over 150 scientists. In 2001 he became
founding Chief Executive Officer of Chroma Therapeutics Ltd. After he had established
Chroma he changed board roles to become Chief Scientific Officer. He published over
50 scientific papers and was a named inventor on several key patents relating to the
targeting of drugs to specific cell types responsible for disease development.
He was married to Margaret and had three sons and a daughter.
EBISON, Maurice George (1952) died on 8 February 2013 aged 83.
Maurice Ebison was born on 3 February 1930 in Woking. Educated at the Royal
Grammar School, Guildford, following National Service in the RAF, he came up in 1952
to read Natural Sciences. Whilst at Cambridge he played football for the University and
was a regular member of the University Falcons. He graduated BA 1955; MA 1959.
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Following graduation he trained at Oxford University to be a teacher. His first post was
at Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Walsall, where he remained for six years before
moving to the College of St Mark and St John. He became a Fellow of the Institute of
Physics in 1971. Two years later he joined the Institute of Physics and at the time of his
retirement held the post of Deputy Chief Executive.
He was deeply committed to the benefits of scientific education both for himself,
he completed his own doctorate in 1993, and for the wider community. His services to
science were widely recognised, he was: granted the title of Chartered Physicist in 1991;
elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1992; appointed OBE in 1993; and
awarded the Bragg Medal from the Institute of Physics in 1998. He took an active role in
his local community and was Honorary Treasurer of his Local Residents’ Association;
a member of Isleworth Community Safety Forum; and Treasurer and Trustee of the Cecil
Powell Trust.
He married Audrey Booth in 1957.
EYTON-JONES, Arthur David (1941) died on 16 August 2012 aged 89.
David Eyton-Jones was born on 8 March 1923 in Forest Hill. Educated at Monkton
Combe School he came up to his father and grandfather’s college to read Agriculture in
January 1941. Described by his tutor as “a very good sort” he was much liked in the
College. At the end of his second year he joined the Royal Sussex Regiment before
serving with the SAS. After leaving the army he became a tea planter in Assam. He later
became a manager for Tilhill Forestry Ltd before retiring in 1984.
He married Diana Morton in 1949 and they had a son and three daughters.
GAWN, Peter Charles (1950) died on 6 February 2013 aged 81.
Peter Gawn was born on 31 March 1931 in Surrey. Educated at Hurstpierpoint College,
West Sussex, after National Service, he came up to Jesus in 1950 to read Theology. He
graduated BA 1953; MA 1957; having made a good many friends and distinguished
himself as a mean hockey player. In 1954, after a year as an assistant anglais in Limoux,
Aude, France, he emigrated to Canada with his new bride, Joan née Maddock. After the
usual uncertainties of settling in to a new and vastly different country he worked for
several years as a junior manager for the Canadian branch of Pilkington Glass. He then
switched careers and served for five years as a security officer in the Royal Canadian Air
Force. Finally, in 1968, he transferred to the Canadian civil service as a translator and
held various positions including director general of translation services. He retired early
in 1993. Two years later he and his wife moved to British Columbia to be closer to their
two daughters and to enjoy the more temperate climate, leaving their three sons back
east. In retirement he spent much time studying his family history.
GREEN, Peter Stuart (1949) died on 21 February 2013 aged 83.
Peter Green was born on 15 August 1929 in Sheffield. Educated at King Edward VII
School, Sheffield, he came up in 1949 after National Service. He read Modern & Medieval
Languages and graduated BA 1952; MA 1956. Following graduation he put his language
skills to good use working as a European Export Sales Representative for the English
Steel Corporation in Sheffield. In 1956, he returned to his studies and undertook a
degree at Lund University, Sweden, graduating FK, 1959. Returning to the UK he took up
a teaching post at Calday Grange Grammar School, remaining with the school until
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1965. He then joined the University of York where he became senior lecturer and
Director of the Language Teaching Centre, before retiring in 1990. His published work
included: German: A Structural Approach 1-3 (1966-1968); The Language Laboratory in School
(1975) (jtly editor and author); Language Aptitude Test (1977); and (jtly) Fehleranalyse und
Leistungsbewertung im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe I (1983). Following retirement he
re-joined York University as a student and undertook a DPhil in Education.
He married Brita Elisabet Hanström in1957; they had a daughter and a son.
GRIFFIN, Harold Rodan Bristow (1930) died on 22 July 2012 aged 100.
Harold Griffin was born on 21 January 1912 in Scarborough. Educated at Cheltenham
College, he came up in 1930 to read Law. He graduated BA 1933; LLM 1934; MA 1943.
Following graduation he was called to the bar. During the war he served with the Green
Howards. After demobilisation he took holy orders; he was still taking morning prayers
in Woodbridge when aged 95.
He married Miriam Lee in 1939; they had one daughter.
HARMER, Michael John (1970) died on 29 October 2012 aged 61.
Michael Harmer was born on 29 December 1950 in Southampton. Educated at
Farnborough Grammar School he came up to Jesus with an exhibition in 1970 to read
Natural Sciences. He graduated BA in 1973 and in October that year he joined the
computer analyst and programmer business, CAP Ltd, as a graduate trainee.
He remained with the company throughout his career through its various incarnations
as Sema, SchlumbergerSema, Atos Origin and Atos. As a Systems Analyst he specialised
in the analysis of complex business requirements for large organisations including the
Inland Revenue, DEFRA, Royal Mail and the NHS, managing the implementation of new
systems and migration of existing systems to meet these requirements.
In his leisure time he enjoyed researching family history, crime fiction, cryptic
crosswords, logic puzzles, wildlife and photography.
He married Jane Loveday Searle in 1973 and they had one son.
HARRIS, Thomas Frank Wyndham (1938) died on 18 June 2012 aged 95.
Sandy Harris was born on 4 August 1916 in Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa.
He undertook his first degree at Rhodes University College before coming up to Jesus in
1938. At college, he played cricket for the 1st XI and gained his colours. Following the
outbreak of war he joined the Royal Navy and was posted to the Department of
Miscellaneous Weapon Development at HMS Birnbeck. In 1943, he was posted to the
South African Navy and finished the war at HMS Lanka. After the war he returned to
South Africa and taught at his former school, Michaelhouse, becoming head of Physics
and a Housemaster. In the 1960s he moved into academia developing a notable career in
Oceanography. The highlight of his career was in 1976 representing the University of
Capetown as Principal Investigator on the NASA team for the Nimbus-G satellite.
In 1978, he moved to New Zealand where he was in charge of the Soil and Water Science
Centre in Hamilton. The following year he retired and moved to Leigh, north of
Auckland. His public sharing of science culminated in substantial publications notably
in his retired years. Friends of Sandy report: “Professor Harris was treasured by students
for his guidance and admired by academics for unique analytical skills”.
He married Veronica Martin and they had two daughters.
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HELLER, Robert Gordon Barry (1952) died on 28 August 2012 aged 80.
Bob Heller was born on 10 June 1932 in London. Educated at Christ’s Hospital,
Horsham, after National Service, he came up to Jesus in 1952 to read History. Whilst at
Jesus he regularly played for the First Rugby XV, wrote verses for Footlights and articles
for Varsity all whilst, seemingly effortlessly, shining at Tripos. He graduated BA 1955.
Despite the reservations of Mr Fisher, who thought he could do better, he joined the
Financial Times working as Diary Editor and US Correspondent from 1955-1963.
He then moved to be Business Editor of The Observer for two years before joining
Haymarket Publishing. Under Haymarket he was the editor of Management Today for
twenty-four years. He wrote numerous management books including: The Naked Manager
(1971); The Super Managers (1984); The Pocket Manager (1986); The Best of Robert Heller (1989);
Culture Shock: The Office Revolution (1990); The Quality Makers (1993); In Search of European
Excellence (1997); and Goldfinger (1998). He had a great interest in contemporary art and,
with his partner, Angela Flowers, helped develop and support the gallery she founded in
1970. A keen supporter of Jesus and Cambridge he served on the Finance Committee of
the former and the Appointments Board of the later. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s
disease in 2002 but his enthusiasms for Rugby, fine wines, music and art continued for
another 10 years.
He married Lois Ruth Malnick in 1955 and they had one son and two daughters
including Jane Heller (1981). The marriage was dissolved in 1999. He married Angela
Flowers in 2003 and they had a daughter.
INGRAM, Richard Newstead (1958) died on 11 April 2013 aged 75.
Dick Ingram was born on 20 March 1938 in Loughborough where he went on to attend
the local grammar school. Following National Service in Bomber Command servicing
radar systems in ‘V’ bombers, he came up to Jesus in 1958 to read Mechanical Sciences.
Whilst at Jesus he made lifelong friends with four of his fellow Jesuan engineers;
recounts of trips he and these friends undertook entitled In the Footsteps of the
Innocents Abroad and Adventures in Canada and the US can be found in the Jesuan
library. After graduating BA 1961, his early career, with Schlumberger, saw him posted
around the world, including to Libya where he carried out seismic geological surveys in
the desert. On returning to the UK he became Operational Research Assistant at Richard
Thomas and Baldwin. In 1967, he joined Rover and he was to remain with motor
manufacturing for the rest of his career; retiring in 1999 as Business Director of Jaguar,
by then part of Ford. In Some Episodes and Incidents in a Working Life, also in the
Jesuan library, he gives a fascinating personal account of a career in British Industry over
forty years of great change.
Throughout his life he was actively involved in local community and charity work.
He was: a founder member of the local Shelter group; elected to Solihull Council,
serving on several committees; and chairman of First Solihull Scout Group for 20 years.
In his retirement, he was appointed by the Lord Chancellor to assist in the recruitment
of new magistrates and subsequently volunteered to serve on the Youth Offenders Panel
as part of the ‘Restorative Justice Scheme’. He initiated funding by Jaguar for Sustrans to
construct links into Jaguar plants from the National Cycle Network and he encouraged
Jaguar to establish Jaguar Wood, a walnut plantation in the new National Forest, to
provide the interior veneer for Jaguar cars.
He and his wife, Judy, had two sons.
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JONES, Alan Desmond Bennett (1949) died on 17 April 2013 aged 84.
Alan Jones was born on 20 June 1928 in Redhill, Surrey. Educated at Tonbridge School,
following National Service, he came up in 1949, with a major scholarship. He read
History, graduating BA 1952; MA 1956. After seven years as a Publicity Manager for The
Monotype Corporation he spent most of the rest of his career with the Associated Board
of the Royal School of Music as their Publishing Manager.
Alan was in a relationship with Frank Speed for 49 years and died on their
anniversary. The couple lived in Hampstead together from 1964 and entered into a civil
partnership in 2007. Both were avid classical music, opera and theatre fans and were
staunch supporters of Tottenham Hotspurs having a season ticket for many years.
They also took many cycling holidays around France. Alan was a keen sudoku fan and
supporter of the College.
LARKE, Gerald Ernest (1958) died on 21 December 2012 aged 73.
Gerry Larke was born on 31 March 1939 in Gillingham, Kent; he attended the local
grammar school before coming up to Jesus.
We are grateful to Gerry’s friend Mark Pratt (1958) for the following:
“Gerry Larke was a quiet reserved man with a profound Christian faith which was
central throughout his life. He came up in 1958 and read French and German. He was
kind to a fault, always thoughtful and if he gave a judgement on anything it had been
considered carefully. His personal experience of France, in particular, infused his
academic work with energy and humour. He made close and loyal friendships and
helped many with encouragement and support, which in several cases, lasted well past
his university career, in some, for a lifetime. Gerry’s working life was spent teaching;
he was very well respected throughout his teaching career.”
He married Margaret Cotterrill in 1961 and they had a son and a daughter and 51
happy years together.
LINDLAR, Richard Max Trevor Dierichs (1945) died in 24 July 2012 aged 84.
Trevor Lindlar was born on 30 October 1927 in London.
We are grateful to Trevor’s former rowing colleagues for the following:
“Trevor had a distinguished rowing career. Coming up from Radley College in 1945,
he rowed in CUBC Trials. In the Lents 1946 he rowed in the 1st VIII (Bow), finishing
H of R. After rowing in the Magdalene Pairs, he rowed in the 1st VIII (Bow) made 4
Bumps in the Mays, won the Marlow Grand and Ladies Plate at Henley. After 2 years
National Service (Army) he returned to row in the 1st VIII (Bow) finishing H of R in the
Mays 1948 and in Olympic Trials at Henley. He rowed in the Light Fours (Bow), Foster
Fairbairn Pairs and in the Fairbairn Cup 1st. VIII at 7. In 1949 he rowed in the 1st VIII (7)
at Reading and Thames H of R races, in the Magdalene Pairs and back at Bow in the 1st.
VIII rowed in the Mays, Marlow Grand and Ladies Plate at Henley. Trevor was then made
Captain of Boats for 1949/1950 and in the 1st. VIII (7) won the Fairbairn Cup by 14 secs.
In the Lents 1950 he was in the 1st VIII (7) rowing over 2nd. on the river, finished 3rd in
both the Reading and Thames H of R races rowing in the 5 seat and 7 seat respectively.”
He left Cambridge in 1950 to work in Northern Rhodesia. Soon after arriving in
Africa he met Sheila Pursey and the couple decided to return to the UK to marry and have
a family. They married in 1953 and shortly after had their two sons. We are grateful to
Trevor’s youngest son, John, for the following:
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“My father initially worked for ICI before becoming a dairy farmer in his own right.
Firstly in North Moreton, Oxfordshire, and then in Mapledurham, Berkshire. He had a
very happy and successful second career as a schoolmaster, teaching Biology at The
Junior King’s School, Canterbury. He was very involved in instructing boys in dinghy
sailing whilst there, and we had our own family boat which was a source of huge
pleasure to my father – a 42 ft ketch, built c1925. He retired in 1985 and my parents
bought 17 acres of land in Rolvenden, Kent, where they set up a very successful
vineyard-producing wine to his typically high standards! I think these retirement years
were in many ways the happiest of their lives.”
The couple died a few months apart.
LUCAS, Stephen (1942) died on 26 January 2013 aged 88.
Stephen Lucas was born on 16 April 1924 in Hughenden, Buckinghamshire. Educated
at Sedbright School, Kidderminster, he came up in 1942 to read History on the RAF
short course. After going down he returned to the RAF and took part in a number of
sorties in a Lancaster bomber. He was demobilised in 1946 and resumed his degree.
At Cambridge, he performed in the Footlights May Week production, helped with
College plays and assisted in the production of a new opera for the Cambridge Festival.
After graduation he became a teacher and spent most of his career as a History Master at
Victoria College, Jersey. Pupils of the college fondly remember “Spike” as a dedicated
teacher who demanded the highest standards but in return enthralled them with his
wicked sense of humour and passion for his subject. In retirement he updated the History
of Victoria College, sang with the Island Singers and played competitive scrabble.
MATHEWS, John Alan (1951) died on 24 April 2013 aged 78.
We are grateful to John’s friend Thomas Dann (1951) for the following:
“John Mathews was born on 19th June 1934 in London, where he attended
Haberdashers’ Aske’s School. He came up to Jesus in 1951 to read Natural Sciences
(for Medicine), graduating BA in 1954, MB BChir in 1957, MA in 1958 and MD in 1985.
He then proceeded to Guy’s hospital for his clinical training. After several junior
hospital posts two years was spent in general practice. John then followed the career
path to becoming a consultant rheumatologist at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, ending
up as a senior rheumatologist. During his time he published numerous papers and
contributed chapters in several text books. Elected FRCP, he was also a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Medicine. He was visiting Consultant Rheumatologist to the British
forces in Germany and Honorary Civilian Consultant in Rheumatology to the Army.
Reflecting his musical interests he founded the Musicians Clinic at St Thomas’ and
became Honorary Physician to the BAPAM, a charity for musicians. He jointly won the
Council prize of the British Association of Physical Medicine and Rheumatology. His
long association with St Thomas’ Hospital was reflected in his becoming a governor to
the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust. John was a very good violinist and enjoyed
playing in various chamber groups and the Doctors Orchestra. He was a keen concert
goer and even chose to live within walking distance of most of the London concert halls.
Whilst at College he was a keen Rooster and remained so throughout his life. He
became increasingly fond of the College as he grew older and visited as often as he
could. As a specialist in disorders of the neck it was ironic that he suffered a severe neck
injury whilst skiing off piste, necessitating rescue by air ambulance. This episode was
recreated by the BBC in a television series.
He married Wendy Dewhurst in 1957 and they had one son and two daughters.
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MILES, Charles William Noel (1934) died on 1 February 2013 aged 97.
Charles Miles was born on 3 November 1915 in India. Educated at Stowe School he came
up in 1934 to read Estate Management, graduating BA 1937; MA 1946. During the war he
served as Major with the Royal Army Service Corps and his service led to him being
mentioned in dispatches. Following demobilisation from the Army, he returned to
Cambridge to become a University Lecturer in Estate Management. In 1954, he took up
employment as Resident Land Agent to Sir George Megsick and at the same time
managed the Bisterne Estate for Major John Mills. Whilst with Sir George he served as
President of the Chartered Land Agents Society. In 1968, having gained a great deal of
practical experience he took up the post of Professor of Land Management at the
University of Reading. He had a collaborative style and his published works include the
following joint publications: Recreational Land Management (1977); and Aspects of Rural
Estate Management (1995). He served as Chairman of the Agricultural Wages Board of
England & Wales for nine years and stepped down in 1981 when he also retired from
Reading. His achievements were recognised at the highest level and he was appointed CBE.
He married Jacqueline (known as Dickie) Cross in 1940 and they had a son and a
daughter. Sadly his wife and son died in 1998 and 1969 respectively.
MORGAN, Christopher James (1998) died on 22 December 2012 aged 32.
Chris Morgan was born on 15 March 1980. Educated at Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby,
he came up in 1998 to read Computer Science. At college he played for the Rugby First
XV and rowed for the first boat. He also participated in the wider university by joining
CU Taekwon Do and contributing to Varsity Online. He graduated BA 2001 and joined
Barclays Capital later that year. He moved to i2 in 2005 and then to Aveva Solutions in
2008 before joining Red Gate Software in 2011.
MOSS, Anthony David (1952) died on 1 December 2012 aged 80.
Tony Moss was born on 24 January 1932 in Blackheath, London. Educated at Cranbrook
School, following National Service in Libya, he came up to Jesus in 1952. He read Law
and graduated BA 1955; MA 1959. After graduation he was employed by Metal Box Co
Ltd. He later qualified as a solicitor and joined the law firm Hyde Mahon & Pascall
(subsequently Hyde Mahon Bridges), where he was a partner until his retirement in
1991. He took an active part in the life of the City of London, serving, inter alia, as:
Master of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers; Sheriff of the City (1992-3);
Member of the Court of Common Council; Chairman of the Libraries Guildhall Art
Gallery & Archives; Governor of Christ’s Hospital, Bridewell Royal Hospital and the
Museum of London; and Trustee of Geffrye Museum.
He married Jennifer Ann Hume-Rothery in 1956 and they had one son and two
daughters.
MUNCEY, Brian William (1943) died on 26 August 2012 aged 87.
Brian Muncey was born on 9 April 1925 in Essex. He attended Beckenham & Penge
County School before coming up to Jesus on the Navy Cadet course in 1943. After
demobilisation he returned to College to read Modern & Medieval Languages,
graduating BA 1947. A. L. Percival described him as “a good solid fellow … very
personable and friendly”.
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In 1950, he took his MA and married Stella Catherine Stevens. Their first two children
quickly followed and the couple decided to leave dreary post war Britain to head for
Australia. They arrived in Adelaide in 1957, and were soon joined by their third and last
child; they now had two daughters and a son. Brian was initially a high school language
teacher then he was an International Student Administrator for the Colombo Plan
until the 1980s. He was a gentle family man who had a gift for languages and loved
hill-walking; he often combined his interests by muttering Indonesian verbs as he
scampered up the hill.
PARKER, Martin Richard George (1973) died on 6 January 2011 aged 56.
Martin Parker was born on 17 January 1954. He came up to Jesus in 1973 to read
Geography and whilst at college he impressed with his industry, modesty and discipline.
He graduated BA 1976. The college has no further information about his life.
PAWSON, John Marke (1949) died on 30th October 2012 aged 85.
Marke Pawson was born on 29 August 1927 in Didsbury. Educated at Kings Moor
School, Glossop, following National Service he came up in 1949. He read Natural
Sciences for Part I before moving, as he had always planned, to the Course for the
Diploma in Agriculture. A. L. Percival said of him, “I like Pawson well. He is an
extremely sound and dependable fellow, and I should think he has great powers of
industry and endurance.” He graduated BA in 1951. Following graduation he worked as
a geophysical surveyor for Stan-Vac Oil Company in what was then British Somaliland.
We are grateful to Marke’s widow, Marianne, for the following:
“On his return to England he studied for a PGCE in London and then spent several
years teaching in a boys school in Hong Kong. Returning to Bath, he taught at the Bath
Technical School, where he designed his own Environmental Science course in the days
when the subject was almost unknown in the curriculum. He took a sabbatical from
teaching and continued his work in Environmental Science where he tried to pioneer a
form of holistic teaching where subject boundaries were “blurred”. [Subsequent early]
retirement gave him the time and energy to start to write, and he began to explore Sacred
Geometry, Land Zodiacs and many ‘other worldly’ pursuits.” His studies led him to
write, Gematria, The Numbers of Infinity (2004), an investigation into the Qabalistic
interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures.
He met Marianne, then Marianne Bennett, in 1977; they married the following year
and their son was born in 1981.
PERKS, Catherine Charlotte (1994) died on 26 September 2012 aged 53.
Catherine Perks was born on 10 March 1959 and was brought up in Warwickshire where
she enjoyed riding on her parents’ small farm. She graduated from Birmingham
University and qualified as a solicitor before working in Manchester specialising in
property work. Following the death of her parents, she left the Law and came up to Jesus
to study Theology. She also attended London Bible College. This was followed by a PhD
in Theology, starting in London and transferring to the University of Aberdeen where
she was awarded her doctorate in July 2004. Catherine had a number of close friends,
but did not marry or have children. She loved animals and was rarely to be seen without
her Dalmatian, Oliver, who regularly travelled with her in Europe. In 2006, she bought a
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house in Autignac, a village near Beziers in the South of France. The house needed
complete modernisation and, despite the usual delays and cost-overruns, she succeeded
in created a lovely home from home. In 2008, Catherine moved to the village of Ashwell,
Hertfordshire, where she quickly made new friends and became involved in the church.
She had been accepted for training as a lay reader when she was diagnosed with cancer
last Easter. She faced her illness with fortitude, faith and good spirits until the end.
PIGGOTT, John Cyril (1971) died on 19 November 2012 aged 60.
John Piggott was born on 31 March 1952 in Oxford. Educated at Magdalen College
School, Oxford, he came up to read Natural Sciences in 1971. He graduated BA 1974;
MA 1978.
We are grateful to John’s wife, Pat for the following:
“At Cambridge, he developed an interest in Science Fiction which was to stay with
him for the rest of his life and led to him gathering an extensive collection of science
fiction books. He also played Postal Diplomacy, an activity based on the Diplomacy
Board game and through this developed a large collection of like-minded friends.
He served as General Secretary of the Nation Postal Diplomacy Games Club. It led to
him publishing his own magazine, Ethil the Frog. He also played Scrabble and his best
result was 5th place in the National Scrabble Championships in 1975. In 1975, he and
his friend Richard Sharp published The St Michael Book of Games.”
After University, he joined the Civil Service, starting in the Cabinet Office and
transferring to the Department of Education and Science in 1978. He retired due to ill
health in 1991 but was able to take a job at the Post Office a few years later. Sadly only a
few months after retiring from the Post Office he died.
He is survived by his wife, Pat and their daughter and two sons.
PORRITT John Norman (1952) died on 23 April 2012 aged 78.
John Porritt was born on 14 May 1933 in Kasama, Zambia. Prior to coming up to Jesus in
1952 he was educated at Mill Hill School, London. He read Part I Mathematics and Part II
Moral Sciences. Whilst at College, he was considered by Professor Jennings to be “a very
upright young man and very pleasant to deal with”. He graduated BA 1955. As a
conscientious objector he worked in Vienna with refugees from the 1956 Hungarian
uprising, rather than completing National Service in the military. He subsequently
trained to be a teacher at the Institute of Education, London. From 1959 to 1963 he
taught at Rickmansworth Grammar School, whilst also studying for a BSc in
Mathematics at Birkbeck College, London. He then lectured at The Malayan Teachers
College, Penang. Following his return to the UK he lectured at Bede College, Durham.
He was then seconded to The University of the South Pacific as a teacher trainer, where
he said he had the biggest classroom in the world. He returned to Bede College, giving
another six years’ service, whilst also achieving an MSc from Durham University and
teaching at the Open University. After being made redundant he went back into the
classroom teaching Maths and some Religious Studies at The Royal Grammar School,
Newcastle Upon Tyne. In 1992 he again taught with the Open University as a course
tutor; his eventual retirement came in 2003. His wife, Heather reports:
“His retirement gave him the time to devote to his lifelong interest in gardening and
his other interests of bridge and long distance walking and his gifts as a linguist.
He also devoted much time to church work especially preaching in a local fellowship.
He was above all a devoted family man.”
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ROBINSON, Geoffrey (1960) died on 4 August 2012 aged 71.
Geoffrey Robinson was born on 26 June 1941 in Orpington, Kent. Educated at Dulwich
College, he came up in 1960 to read English, graduating BA 1963; MA 1969. Following
graduation he worked in London’s City University library. In 1970, he joined the British
Standards Institution where he remained until retirement in 2003. We are grateful to
Geoffrey’s friends and colleagues for the following:
“[At the BSI the Universal Decimal Classification] dominated his workload. His
attention to detail, precise use of language, wide general knowledge, and desire for clarity
and order were highly valued there and in other areas. He was a meticulous, highly
efficient and respected Programme Manager for the various committees involved.
Outside BSI, the theatre was a lifelong passion, particularly the plays of Shakespeare
and Elizabethan and Jacobean contemporaries. He sought out new productions
wherever they were and kept a personal archive, assessing each performance. He also
spent many hours in the British Library’s Rare Book room examining different versions
of texts by Fletcher, Beaumont and other playwrights of the period. He was an
enthusiastic participant in the Save the Rose Theatre campaign to preserve its historic
site on Bankside.
Cinema also played a large part in his life: he was especially fond of the films he had
grown up with, particularly American musicals of the 40s and 50s. His musical tastes
were wide ranging, from early English music of Tallis and Purcell, through the Great
American Songbook (Kern, Porter and Gershwin), to early Elvis Presley.
Very much a loner, Geoffrey was not an easy person to get to know, but those who
took time to get to know him would be rewarded by generosity, loyalty, kindness and a
fine wit. He was an assiduous correspondent: his beautifully handwritten postcards,
letters and emails were unfailingly informative, vivid, wicked and amusing.”
ROGERS, Martin Hartley Guy (1947) died 28 December 2012 aged 87.
We are grateful to the Rogers family for the following:
“Martin Rogers was born on 11 June 1925 in Birmingham. Son of the Rector of
Birmingham, educated at Marlborough College, he served in the Lincolnshire Regiment
and was Education Officer in Palestine before coming up in 1947. He read Law,
graduating BA 1949. On leaving university he joined the Commonwealth Relations
Office (later to become the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and served in Karachi,
Lagos, Ottawa, Jamaica and Bombay (now Mumbai). He then returned to Nigeria, this
time as Deputy High Commissioner in Kaduna. His last overseas posting was to The
Gambia as High Commissioner. On his return to the UK he joined the Civil Service
Selection Board based in London. In retirement he enjoyed golf, cricket, bridge,
crosswords and current affairs. But in his last years he derived his greatest pleasure from
being with his beloved family, listening to music and living by the sea in the Channel
Isles.”
He married Jean Beresford Chinn in 1959 and they had one son and three daughters.
RUSSELL, Ernest (1952) died on 10 March 2013 aged 84.
Ernest Russell was born on 21 May 1928 in Birmingham. Educated at King Edward’s,
Birmingham, his coming up was delayed by a serious spinal disease. He matriculated in
1952 and read Modern Languages; he graduated BA 1955. Following graduation he
moved to France. Soon after arriving in France he taught at a few Parisian lycées whilst
also adapting the series Walter and Conny for French Télévision Scolaire. His next role
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was teaching at CPL, a private school where the senior staff of Air France attended to
improve their English. In l964, he married Ida Augustin and in 1970, after the arrival of
his son and daughter, he set up his own school, Studypool English. The school
specialised in using phonetic techniques to teach English to adults.
SEARS, Paul Lindsay (1966) died on 13 September 2012 aged 63.
Paul Sears was born on 24 January 1949 in Watlington, Oxfordshire. He entered the
college as a Scholar from the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, in 1966. He read
Natural Sciences, graduating BA 1969; MA 1973; before embarking on a doctorate in the
Reactivity of Transition Metals; graduating, PhD in 1974. In the mid 1970’s he moved to
Canada working initially as a researcher at the University of Toronto before joining the
Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology.
He married Margaret (Meg) and they had two girls and two boys.
SHEPHERD, William Guy (1955) died on 19 October 2012 aged 77.
Bill Shepherd was born on 21 May 1935 in West Wickham, Kent. Educated at Brentwood
School he came up to Jesus in 1955 following National Service with the Royal Artillery.
He read English, graduating BA 1958; MA 1962. The first thirty years of his working life
were spent in the electronics industry, latterly, with the Plessey Company. In the late
1990s he trained as psychosynthesis therapeutic counsellor and developed his own
private practice for the final fifteen years of his life. He was also a Samaritan for many
years.
He published a number of books of poetry as well as translations – his version of
Horace’s Complete Odes and Epodes was published by Penguin Classics in 1983 and
followed by Propertius’ The Poems in 1985. His final venture in Latin translation was of
Statius’ Silvae, undertaken jointly with Anthony Howell and published by Anvil Press
Poetry in 2007.
He married Margaret Anne McGregor in 1959 and they had a daughter and two sons.
SIMONS, Laurence Anthony (1949) died on 9 March 2013 aged 83.
Tony Simons was born on 14 May 1929 in London. Educated at University College
School, Hampstead, he came up to Jesus in 1949 following National Service. He read
Law; graduating BA 1952; MA 1957. He decided not to pursue a career in the legal
profession choosing instead to become a doctor. He graduated, alongside his new wife,
MB BS from the Royal Free Hospital in 1962. After house jobs also at the Royal Free he
completed a registrar rotation in anesthesiology at the Middlesex Hospital in London,
followed in 1967 by a fellowship in anesthesiology at Mass General Hospital in Boston,
Massachusetts. In 1969, he began work as an anesthesiologist at Lynn and Lynn Union
Hospitals just north of Boston MA, where he continued to work for the next 25 years.
Tony was president of the Massachusetts Anesthesiology Society from 1980-1981.
He married Margaret Susanne Frankel in 1961; they had two daughters and two sons.
SPENCE, Ian Richard (1959) died on 2 August 2012 aged 73.
Ian Spence was born on 15 October 1938 in Forest Hill, South East London. Educated at
Dulwich College, after completing his National Service, he came up to Jesus in 1959 with
a scholarship. Whilst at Jesus he took a full part in College life, including being
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Secretary of the Jesus College Boys Club, at Cambridge House, Camberwell. He read
History, graduating BA 1962. He joined the Civil Service on graduation and held a
number of senior positions within the Inland Revenue until he retired in 1998. In
retirement he lived in Dulwich for the summer months and spent the winters on the
island of Grenada.
He married Anne Kiggell in 1971. Ian’s brother, Colin Spence (1964) reports:
“He relished the company of his daughters Jackie and Fiona and his four grandchildren
and at a memorial party held shortly after his death it was widely agreed that whoever he
met would instantly become his friend for life”.
SPENCER-JONES, David Henry (1943) died on 14 May 2011 aged 87.
David Spencer-Jones, the son of the honorary fellow, Sir Harold Spencer-Jones (1908),
was born on 19 February 1924 in South Africa. Educated at Gresham’s School, Holt,
he came up in 1943 to read Agriculture. Shortly after arriving he joined the Royal Navy;
his service took him to Shanghai, Sydney and Hong Kong. Following demobilisation he
returned into residence and completed his degree, graduating, BA 1948; MA 1950.
He was followed up to Jesus by his cousin, Malcolm Ryland-Jones in 1954 and his
brother, John in 1955 (see below). Throughout his subsequent career he drew on his
Agriculture training working as an adviser, manager or consultant for ICI, Glaxo, Potash
Ltd, Midox Ltd and Water Wise. In retirement he pursued his interests in oil painting
and music.
He married Gillian Carlisle in 1952; they had three sons and two daughters.
SPENCER-JONES John Franklin (1955) died on 28 September 2012 aged 78.
John Spencer-Jones was born on 17 January 1934 in Greenwich, the younger brother of
David Spencer-Jones (1943) and the son of Sir Harold Spencer-Jones (1908). John spent
his early years living in Capetown, South Africa, where he had been evacuated at the start
of World War II. Educated at Gresham’s School, Holt, he gained his wings with the RAF,
before coming up. He came up in 1955, a year after his cousin Malcolm Ryland-Jones
and read Law, graduating BA 1958; MA 1962. At college he made a great number of
friends, was a member of the College First XV and had a lively interest in music; D. J. V.
Fisher described him as “thoroughly likeable”. Following graduation he pursued a
career as a management consultant and continued his interests in aviation and rugby.
He travelled extensively throughout his life and had a gift for being able happily to talk
to people of any culture from different walks of life regardless of race, religion or
background.
He married Ruth Betts in 1956; they had three sons and a daughter.
STUDDERT-KENNEDY, William Gerald (1954) died on Christmas Eve 2012 aged 79.
Gerald Studdert-Kennedy was born on 21 February 1933 in Lucknow, India. Educated at
Winchester College he came up 1954, following his cousin M. G. Studdert-Kennedy
(1945). He read English, graduating BA 1957; MA 1961. He was encouraged by his
supervisors to consider research but chose instead to join the BBC as an assistant
producer, where he later directed Panorama. After five years with “Auntie” he won a
Commonwealth Fund fellowship to study at Harvard and Berkeley. He remained in
academia for the rest of his career before finally retiring as a professor at Birmingham
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University. His publications included: Opinions, Publics and Pressure Groups (1970) (jtly G C
Moodie); Evidence and Explanation in Social Science (1975); Dog-Collar Democracy: The Industrial
Christian Fellowship, 1919-1929 (1982); British Christians, Indian Nationalists and the Raj
(1991); Providence and the Raj: Imperial Mission and Missionary Imperialism (1998); several
weighty articles on the history of religion; a number of entries for the Oxford Dictionary
of National Biography; art history articles on Titian; and joint articles on the possibilities
of statistical analysis of aesthetic judgement. Tributes report he had “the gift of seeing
people from their own point of view”, he had an “unforced concern for the welfare of
others” and that he believed “education should inform the whole of our lives, not just
train us to earn our daily bread”.
He married Rose Hallett soon after graduation and they had a daughter. In 1971, he
married for a second time; his bride was Judith Anne Metcalfe and they had two sons.
TOTTENHAM, Hugh (1944) died on 11 November 2012 aged 86.
Hugh Tottenham was born on 10 October 1926 in Hanley, Staffordshire. He came up to
Jesus in 1944 to read Mechanical Sciences, graduating BA 1947; MA 1952. Following
graduation he began working in industry as a structural engineer and specialised in
using laminated wood. One of his first projects was the Manchester Oxford Road
Station, now a grade II listed building; described in Pevsner’s Architectural Guide –
Manchester as “One of the most interesting and innovative buildings of the period...it is
the most ambitious example in this country of timber conoid shell roofing”. Later he
moved into academia, working at the Faculty of Engineering at Southampton. His
former student and later colleague, Professor Carlos A Brebbia commented: “His
influence on modern computational engineering has been enormous although his
written output was comparatively small. He left two important seminal books as a result
of two international meetings I had the privilege to help him organise.” By 1975, then a
professor, he found greater fulfilment in his private practice and retired from the
university to work full-time as a consultant specialising in the applications of
computational techniques to engineering. Together with colleagues, he helped establish
the Wessex Institute of Technology, where he served as an Adjunct Professor and
member of the Board of Directors until the end of his life.
He married Margaret McCraith in 1952; they had a girl and two boys. Tragically his
daughter, Mary, died in 2003.
His nephew, Adrian, came up in 1976.
VELLACOTT, Roger Frederick (1965) died on 20 November 2012 aged 66.
Roger Vellacott was born on 16 November 1946 in Liverpool. Educated at the City of
London School he came up to Jesus in 1965 to read History. He graduated BA 1968;
MA 1972. After a short period in the Bank of London & South America he embarked on
a series of successful commercial enterprises. His finally entrepreneurial role was
leading Passfield Data Systems, a software house supplying the horticulture industry.
He married Dorita Torres-Zapico in 1971 and they had a daughter and a son.
WALLACE, Toby Jak (1995) died on 2 July 2013 aged 36.
Toby Wallace was born on 5 February 1977 in Leamington Spa. Educated at King Edward
VI School, Southampton, he came up in 1995 to read Geography. He was Vice-President
of the College Student Union and in his first year played Hockey for the University U21s.
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In 1997, he was a member of the winning Goldie boat and represented the Goldie Boat
Club at Henley winning the Ladies’ Challenge Plate and also at the National
Championships winning the Men’s Coxless Four. He graduated BA in 1998, the year he
became a winning Blue in his first Boat Race and represented Great Britain at the U23
World Rowing Championship. The following year, he undertook a post graduate course
in Management Studies, again rowed successfully in the Boat Race and won the Waring
Award for sporting achievement. After Cambridge, he joined the graduate programme
of Aberdeen Asset Management. He remained with Aberdeen throughout his career
working in various offices; in his last role he worked as a Senior Relationship Manager.
During his time in the Sydney office he competed in the Speight’s Coast to Coast in New
Zealand, the Sydney marathon, the Coolangatta Gold, the 24 hour World Solo Mountain
Bike Championship and XPD and the State and National Surf Life Saving
championships. Following a move to Philadelphia, Toby rowed the Atlantic as part of an
eight-man crew trying to break the mid-Atlantic speed record. With lack of prevailing
weather and counter-current, the crew managed 34 days, 2 days outside the record.
During this event Toby raised funds for The Harry Mahon Cancer Research Trust and
The Kirsten Scott Memorial Trust. He was presented with a replica of the Liberty Bell by
the Mayor of Philadelphia, Michael A. Nutter, in recognition of the row and his
charitable work. Toby also volunteered as a mentor to local school children. In 2013,
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award USA stated: “… we commend Toby for his excellent
service to youth and charity. A true example of selfless service...” The Vice Principal of
Development at Gesu School, Sean Lavelle, paid the following tribute: “…Toby was the
kind of person that by virtue of his actions and words encouraged others around him to
do more for others, to live life to its fullest. Without calling you to task, he made you
feel there was more to life than simply waking up, going to work or going to school,
coming home and doing it all again the next day. He made you realize there is a purpose
yet to be fulfilled and waiting for you to get up, grab it and go!”
Toby married Claire Barker in 2005.
Toby died following a collision whilst taking part in a charity ride for the Kirsten
Scott Memorial Trust from Land’s End to John O’Groats.
WALLER, John Frederick (1950) died on 11 November 2012 aged 81.
John Waller was born on 16 February 1931 in Cambridge. Educated at Cambridgeshire
High School he came up in 1950 to read English, graduating BA 1953; MA 1957. Whilst
at university he and some school friends formed the Pied Pipers Musical Theatre Club;
more than sixty years later the club is still going strong. Following a period teaching he
became a copywriter. He worked at Kodak and Penguin Books before becoming
Publicity Manager for Decca Radar (subsequently taken over by Racal Electronics.)
He remained with Decca for 23 years and retired in 1986.
He married June Keath Twinn in 1955 and they had a son and a daughter. June died in
1983.
WEBB, Gilbert Kenneth Murray (1964) died on 2 January 2013 aged 72, in a
mountaineering accident near Plettenberg Bay in South Africa.
Ken Webb was born on 6 September 1940 in Johannesburg. Educated at Hilton
College, Witwatersrand, and the University of Natal, he came to Jesus as a graduate
student to read Law. A keen sportsman, he had been selected to play rugby for the
Springboks but was unfortunately unable to play due to injury. The experienced rugby
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player’s cauliflower ears were a warning to anyone who thought to tangle with him.
Heavily built at 6’2” and 16 stone, he was an immensely strong man (he would – not
infrequently – pick up John Honey (1964) and hold him above his head before throwing
him into the Cam) of good humour and excellent company. He won two Rugby Blues,
in 1964 and 1965, and played for the Jesus 1st. XV in 1964, 65 & 66. In 1965 he rowed in
the JCBC VIth. “International” May Boat which consisted of three South Africans, three
British, two from (then) Rhodesia and one Australian, coxed by The Rev. James Owen.
This remarkable crew was coached by the President of the CUBC Joe Fraser (1962) who
recalls that the thighs of Ken Webb at 5 and Chris Wiggins (1962) at 6 were so massive
that they could not get their hands away at the finish of the stroke. The JCBC Boatman,
the redoubtable Percy Bullock, advised that “all Jesus boats were rigged the same” and
that nothing could be done. However on their next outing Webb and Wiggins appeared
to have mastered their difficulty round the turn and a close inspection by their Coach
revealed that some extra washers had mysteriously appeared under the bottom stays.
Percy Bullock remained his enigmatic self, with no comment. Ken was also an
enthusiastic skier. He was a member of The Natives Club and of The Rhadegund Society.
Contemporaries recall with fondness his impressive thirst and his extraordinary ability
to eat hotter curries than anyone else in the University. He shared a house at Haslingfield
with Johnny Payne (1961).
Ken graduated LLB in 1966. He moved to Canada and spent many years working on
the Toronto Stock Exchange with Midland Doherty (now Merrill Lynch) and
subsequently several years as a consultant before retiring to Plettenberg Bay. He leaves
his wife, Clare, whom he married in 1974, two daughters and a son.
WILSON, Andrew Bengt McCulloch (1948) died on 4 December 2012 aged 83.
Andrew Wilson was born on 27 December 1929 in Durban, South Africa. Educated at
Hilton College, Natal, South Africa, he came up in 1948. Initially he read Agriculture
before changing to Law. He graduated BA 1951. After being admitted to the English Bar
he practised law in London for two years before returning to his homeland. He was
admitted to the South African bar in 1956 and took silk in 1976. During his career he was
involved in many high profile and politically sensitive trials and colleagues speak of him
“as an advocate [who] set a high standard in legal defence”. He was appointed to the
bench in the Natal Provincial Division in 1984, where his progressive and principled
judgments were recognised by colleagues. In 1989 he was a member of the group of
eight South African judges who attended a conference with the then banned ANC at
Nuneham Park, Oxford, despite opposition of the then Minister of Justice. Towards the
end of his career he was appointed vice-chair, and later chair, of the Committee on
Amnesty of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Beyond the law, he was Natal
Chairman of the House of Laity of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa and a
member of the Natal Diocesan Synod and the Provincial Synod in Southern Africa; he
also stood as a candidate for the Progressive Party in 1966.
He married June Verrall in 1956 and they had one son and two daughters. In 1983 he
married Crystelle Smuts. His daughter Deborah Wilson (1988) was in her first year at
Jesus at the time of her sad and early death in 1989.
WILSON, Donald Alexander (1952) died on 29 April 2013 aged 79.
Donald Wilson was born on 7 October 1933 in Wilmslow, Cheshire. Educated at
Manchester Grammar School he came up in 1952 to read Mathematics with a major
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scholarship. At college, he met his future wife, Shirley Walker, who was studying
Natural Sciences at Newnham. He went straight to work at GCHQ following graduation
and remained there his entire working life. After retirement in 1993, he stayed in touch
with old colleagues as the Events Coordinator for GCHQ pensioners; was Secretary to
the Local Green Land Group; and enjoyed crosswords, snooker and rambling.
He and Shirley had one son, Alexander, who came up in 1983 and two daughters.
WINTER, Derek George (1952) died on 30 May 2012 aged 84.
Derek Winter was born on 29 December 1927 in London. After leaving University
College School, Hampstead, he was called up and served in the Royal Army Service
Corps. After a year as an assistant pastor he studied Theology at Spurgeons College.
He continued his Theological Studies at Jesus, matriculating in 1952. He graduated BA
1954; MA 1966; and became a Baptist minister. His ministry took him to Brazil for a
decade before he needed to return to the UK for family reasons. Thereafter he worked as
a lecturer at St Paul’s College of Education, Cheltenham, and later as an Education
Adviser for Christian Aid. After leaving Christian Aid, he lived full-time in Herefordshire
and worked for Age Concern as Organiser for Hereford. During his working life he
wrote Hope in Captivity: The Prophetic Church in Latin America (1977) and
Communities of Freedom (1989). In retirement, he was an active member of the
Hereford Oxfam Campaigns Group and wrote a monthly newsletter for over a decade.
He married Beryl Gravgaard in 1953 and they had two daughters and three sons,
including J. M. Winter (1973) and M. P. Winter (1975). Beryl died in 1968. He married,
his long-term partner, Helen Lee in 2004.
Erratum
PENNY, Thomas (Tom) Gillard (1954). In the obituary notice, we stated Mr Penny’s firm
Bevan Ashfords went on to become Bevan Brittan. This was incorrect. After graduation,
Tom joined his father’s Devon Law Practice, Penny & Harward, with its head office in
Tiverton. After several different names and expansions, Penny & Harward, including
Bevan Ashford (and not Bevan Brittain), it has now become Ashfords. Tom retired from
the Tiverton office in 1999, opening his own office as Notary Public and retired from this
in 2009. Motivated by a deep concern for social welfare, he developed a charity law
practice in the second half of his legal career and this included acting as Clerk and
Treasurer to the Tiverton Almshouse Charity (in the footsteps of his father Raymond
Penny) from 1968 to 2004. “What would you want for your own father or mother?” was
always his driving principle. Eager to embrace a significant housing project for local
residents, he spearheaded the development and construction of a new block of
almshouses on a brownfield site in the centre of Tiverton, which His Royal Highness
Prince Charles opened in 2004. He was still serving on the Devon and Somerset Law
Society Committee when he died.
Awards
& Results
AWARDS & RESULTS I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
Awards
University Prizes, Grants and Scholarships, and External Awards
Harkness Prize 2012
Timothy A Middleton
Members’ Classical Essay Prize 2012
Robrecht P-J M Decorte
Schiff Studentship in Engineering 2012-2013
Tina Schwamb
Smith-Knight and Rayleigh-Knight Prize 2013
Evangelos Papoutsellis
(for essay entitled “Alternating regularization in
measurement and image space for PET reconstruction”)
Henry Arthur Thomas Book Prizes 2012
Benjamin H P Brooks
Louisa K N Dawes
Henry Arthur Thomas Travel Exhibition 2012
Maximillian L D Drinkwater
University Instrumental Prizes
Min Kyung Lee (Violin), Esther Osorio Whewell (French Horn), William M Sheldon
(French Horn – co-opted)
University Tripos Prizes
The Adam Smith Dissertation Prize
The Adam Smith Prize
The William Vaughan Lewis Prize (awarded jointly)
The B R D Clarke Prize
The Clive Parry Prize for International Law
The Amanda Perreau-Saussine de Ezcurra Prize for
the History and Philosophy of International Law
The Whewell Scholarship for International Law
The Alison Fairlie Prize for French
The Kurt Hahn Prize (option B) for German
The Tiarks Prize for German
The Kurt Hahn Prize (Part IB) for German
The Mrs Claude Beddington Modern Languages
Prize (awarded jointly)
The Kurt Hahn Prize (Part II) for German
(awarded jointly)
The BP Prize for Outstanding Performance in Part IA
Chemistry A
The BP Prize for Outstanding Performance in Part IA
Chemistry A
The Sir Alan Cottrell Prize in Materials Science and
Metallurgy
The BP Prize for Outstanding Performance in Part IB
Chemistry A
The BP Prize for Outstanding Performance in Part IB
Chemistry B
The Cental Electricity Generating Board Prize for
Materials Science and Metallurgy
Alison R Andrew
Ivan Kuznetsov
Simon D J Pratt
Esme R M Shirlow
Esme R M Shirlow
Esme R M Shirlow
Esme R M Shirlow
Syamala A Roberts
Syamala A Roberts
Michael Grace
Thomas H Rothwell
Matthew Lampitt
Adam T P Rider
Rebecca C Harwin
Genyi Meng
Kim C Liu
Kim C Liu
Kim C Liu
Thomas E J Edwards
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The Theological Studies Prize (awarded jointly)
The Theological Studies Prize (awarded jointly)
The Charles Fox Memorial Prize (PGCE Science with
Chemistry) (awarded jointly)
Robert G Dixon
Rebecca J Lloyd
Francisco N Newby
College Awards, Elections and Prizes
The David M Livingstone (Australia) Scholarship:
Benjamin Mee to study for a Master of Law (LLM) in the Faculty of Law
(from October 2013)
Avago Scholarship 2012-2013:
Jian Chen to study for a PhD in Engineering, supervised by Professor Ian White
(from January 2013)
The Gurnee Hart Scholarship 2013:
Thomas Arnold-Forster studying for the MPhil degree in History (October 2013)
The Goh & Coupe Scholarship 2013:
Alice Boughton studying for the MPhil degree in English Studies (October 2013)
Lady Kay Scholarships:
Maximillian L D Drinkwater studying Theological & Religious Studies Tripos
(affiliated, October 2013)
Maitland Memorial Prize 2012-2013:
Louis C C Chartres (for Mesolithic Studies)
Organ Scholarship 2012-2013:
Robert G Dixon
Ng Prize:
Stephen J Butler
Diane Maitland-March Travel Award:
Dan Cao
Wohl Prize:
Patricia-May Wyllie
Bernard Mortlock Grant:
Justin F Hutcherson
Rustat Bursaries 2012-2013:
Dominic Biddle, David J C Bookless, Sarah Gales, Rebecca Lauham, Matthew T Smith,
Austin B B Atkins, Timothy D F Gray, Peter Sibley
Choral Scholarships:
Austen B B Atkins, Jessica L Ballance, Declan K Kennedy, Peter Lidbetter, Sophie Nairac,
Syamala A Roberts
Rawlison-Hadfield Graduate Choral Scholarships:
Sapumal J Senanayake
Instrumental Exhibitions:
Julien E Cohen (piano), Sarah G Hargrave (cello), Rebecca C Harwin (clarinet),
Declan K Kennedy (violin), Luke Perera (clarinet), Kiara A Wickremasinghe (violin)
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Edward Daniel Clarke Travel Bursary:
Laura M Ashforth
James Baddeley Poole Bursaries:
Ross D M Cullen, Samuel S F Green, Yauhen Khapkin, Florence J Simpson
Sir Moses and Lady Finley Travel Bursaries:
Julie A Lawrence, Martin Lytje, Katherine Menzies, Mengyang Xuan
Jesus College Cambridge Society Travel Bursaries:
Charlotte S Bush, Molly N Byrne, Niall O T F Cooper, Robert A Crawford, Cathy Hearn,
Alison C Hobbs, Izabela Kujawiak, Rebecca Lanham, Vijay V Maharajan,
Eleanor C Ogilvie, Heather Reynolds, Nuzhat Tabassum, John L Woodliffe
Sir James Knott Bursary:
Hannah S Cairns and Oliver Juggins
Sir Robbie Jennings Fund:
Caroline S Ashcroft, Sarah G Hargrave, Rebecca C Harwin, Oliver Juggins,
Martha Marcuson, Henry Miller, Claire M Rogers, Hannah F Waxman
Alan Pars Theatre Fund:
Samuel J Curry, Edward Eustace, Claire E O’Brien
Alan Burrough Grant for Rowing:
Thomas E J Edwards, Rhodri Kendrick, Katherine Menzies, Samuel J Ojserkis,
Caroline M Reid, Katie-Jane Whitlock
Douglas Timmins Grants for Sports:
Edmund Bradbury (cycling), Emma A C Byatt (fencing, hockey, lacrosse, cycling),
Thomas E J Edwards (windsurfing), Cyprien J J Guermonprez (golf ),
Alice R Hemingway (squash), Lloyd Hilton (athletics), Megan E Hughes (football),
Zaamin B Hussain (athletics – pole vault), András Kapuvári (water polo),
Thomas R Maxey (water polo), Lawrence A L Paleschi (karate), Edward Pope (cricket),
Thomas E Rootsey (swimming), Nipuna Senaratne (cricket, hockey),
Alexander Silver (golf ), Felix D Styles (hockey), Amelia S Tearle (football),
Benjamin J Windsor (orienteering)
Scholarships for Graduate Students (awarded in Michaelmas 2012 for 2011-2012 results):
Siem J G Aarts, Ransford A Acheampong, Hugh V Amos, Sophie E Atkinson,
Emily Baker, James A Black, Trevor M Blum, Sophie Briquetti, Olivia M C Chausson,
Alexander J Cornish, Kathryn Crowcroft, Robrecht P-J M Decorte,
Ambroise R D R Fargère, Elizabeth Gilbert, Jia Li, Anna Mercer, Thomas F J-M Pasquier,
Christopher P Ruck, Andres C Samayoa, Joe A Todd, Katie-Jane Whitlock,
Alexander T Woolf
Scholarships:
Alison R Andrew, Thomas P Arnold-Forster, Laura M Ashforth (2012 and 2013),
David J Barker, Joseph Baxter, Christopher J Belfield, Michael Blank, Nicola C Boekstein,
Alice M R Boughton, Rowan D Brackston, Alice E Bush, Rachel E Bryan,
Clementine Chambon, William A Chaplin, Rachael L Chapman, John L Chen,
Madhurima R Chetan, Wun Y J Cheung, Alexandra R H F Chua-Short, Declan P Corr,
Matthew L Daggitt, Ewan Davies, Michael J Dawes, Christopher de Leeuwe,
Natalie E Dennehy, Kathryn C Dixon, Robert G Dixon, Olivia J G Draudins,
Thomas E J Edwards, Angharad J T Everden, Oliver Exton, Anna A Fairhurst,
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Martha N Fromson, Zi Kang Gan, Rose I G Gibbins, Owen D Graham,
Megan K Griffin-Pickering, Ryo Harada, Rebecca C Harwin, Leonard Q Hasenclever,
Thomas R Hill, Lloyd Hilton, Alison C Hobbs, Hugo O Jones, Alexandre F Kite,
Mikolaj A Kowalski, Ivan Kuznetsov, Matthew Lampitt, Christopher Lark, Thomas L Lee,
Julia LePla, India L H Lewis, Adrian L H Li, Kim C Liu, Rebecca J Lloyd,
James A Lofthouse, Alexandra S Lubin, Trina-Jo Mah, Martha Marcuson, Luke C Marris,
Rian M Matanky-Becker, Jamie McCann, Benjamin McDonald, Genyi Meng,
Samuel I Miller, Toby Miller, Alexander B Morris, Theo W Morris Clarke,
Calum T Mulderrig, Angus J O’Brien, Claire E O’Brien, David P O’Loughlin,
Jennifer Parkin, Geoffrey Penington, Simon M Perfect, Amorette Perkins, Cai Read,
Michael D Rees, Adam T P Rider, Syamala A Roberts, Thomas Robson, Claire M Rogers,
Harrison C Roocroft, Thomas H Rothwell, Thomas G Russell, Aws Sadik,
Mark A Salmon, Jon Sanders, Katie L Sandford, Stephanie J Schohl, Nipuna Senaratne,
William M Sheldon, Esme R Shirlow, Michael C Simpson, Mark Southall,
Rosemary V Southwell, Tanne G Spielman, Katie Steval, Andrew Stratton,
Edward B Taylor, Oliver M Taylor, Maria A Wardale, Hannah F Waxman, Kieran Wilson,
Laura E Winfield, Matilda C Wnek, Patricia-May Wyllie, Edward A S Wyncoll, Weiyu Ye
Exhibitions:
Julien E Cohen, James P Cranston, Robert A Crawford, Michael Grace,
Victoria D Herrenschmidt, Danielle Holmes, Wesley Howell, Nicholas Hudson,
Luke A Ilott, Pavel Kohout, Jacob Lam, Jia Wang Lei, Christopher H Lewis-Brown,
Henry Miller, Esther Osorio Whewell, Alexander J Paige, Ravi Patel, Luke Perera,
Jake V Perl, Fiona S Petersen, Daniel L Petrides, Simon Pittaway, Peter Sibley,
Patrick A Stevens, Charles Whittaker
Prizes:
Senior Keller
Benefactor’s (2004)
Farrell (Greek Studies)
Brereton (Part IA Classics)
Carruthers (Computer Studies Part IB)
Carruthers (Computer Studies Part II)
Malthus Economics
Malthus PPS
Evans (Engineering Part IA)
Engineers’ (Part IB)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English)
Newling (History Part I)
Schiff (History Part II)
Alison R Andrew
John L Chen
Madhurima R Chetan
Angharad JT Everden
Benjamin McDonald
Thomas P Arnold-Forster
Rebecca C Harwin
Matthew Lampitt
Geoffrey Penington
Daniel L Petrides
Syamala A Roberts
Thomas H Rothwell
Hannah F Waxman
Julia LePla
Victoria D Herrenschmidt
Toby Miller
David J Barker
Alison R Andrew
Ben McDonald
Zi Kang Gan
Andrew Stratton
Alice M R Boughton
Patricia-May Wyllie
Thomas P Arnold-Forster
Glanville Williams (LLM)
Bronowski (Mathematics Part IA)
Ware (Mathematics Part IB)
Sir Harold Spencer Jones (Mathematics Part II)
R A Watchman (Mathematics Part III)
Eliot (MML Part II)
James Perrett (Medical Sciences Part IA)
Hadfield Anatomy (Medical Sciences Part IA)
Duckworth (Parts IA and IB Medical Sciences)
Hadfield Medical Sciences (MVST Part II)
Roberts (Pathology)
Wellings (Natural Sciences Part IA)
Longden (Natural Sciences Part IB)
John Gulland (Natural Sciences Parts IA and IB)
John Gulland (Natural Sciences Part II)
Sir Alan Cottrell (Natural Sciences (Physical)
Part II or Part III)
Duncan McKie (Natural Sciences Part II or III)
Corrie and Otter (Theology and Religious Studies)
Valérie Tyssens (MML Part I: French Language)
G F Hart (History Prelims to Part I)
Hogan Lovells (Law Part IA)
Hogan Lovells (Law Part IB)
Glanville Williams (Law Part II)
Russell Vick (Law)
Sir Peter Gadsden
Crighton (Music)
Gray Reading Prizes
James Hadfield (for contributing most to medical
and veterinary studies in the College)
Margaret Mair Choral
Morgan (English essay)
Prawer (Dramatic Criticism)
Edwin Stanley Roe (dissertation on a
literary subject)
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Esme R Shirlow
Christopher H Lewis-Brown
Michael D Rees
Edward A S Wyncoll
Ewan Davies
Matthew Lampitt
Ravi Patel
Jacob Lam
Oliver M Taylor
Madhurima R Chetan
Aws Sadik
Rebecca C Harwin
Geoffrey Penington
Cai Read
John L Chen
Chemistry: Laura M Ashforth
Physics: Owen D Graham
Materials: Thomas E J Edwards
PDN: Angharad J T Everden
Robert G Dixon
Syamala A Roberts
Daniel L Petrides
Wun Y J Cheung
Kieran Wilson
Rachael L Chapman
Esme R Shirlow
Sophie E Atkinson
Elizabeth Edwards
Michael Mofidian
Chapel: Thomas H Rothwell
Hall: James A Lofthouse
(pre-clinical Medicine):
Aws Sadik
(Clinical Veterinary Medicine):
James M Bost
Catherine M Matthews
Brigid McPherson
Eleanor R Simmons
Alexina J Anatole
Alexander J Baillie-Hitchcock
Matthew Lampitt
Julia LePla
Calum T Walker
Gareth W Thomas
Sir Denys Page Award (for Classics
students to travel to Greece)
Renfrew (for the most significant contribution
to the musical life of the College)
Waring Award (for sporting achievement)
Thian
Thomas L Lee
William A Slade
College Prizes:
Archaeology & Anthropology (SA) Part IIA
Hannah F Waxman
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Chemical Engineering Part I
Chemical Engineering Part IIB
Economics Part I
Economics Part IIA
Economics Part IIB
Education Part I
Engineering Part IIA
Engineering Part IIA
Engineering Part IIB
Engineering Part IIB
English Prelims to Part I
English Part I
Geography Part IA
History Part II
LLM
LLM
Master of Corporate Law
Linguistics Part IB
Management Studies
Manufacturing Engineering Part IIA
MVST Part IB
Modern & Medieval Languages Part IA
Modern & Medieval Languages Part IB
Music Part IB
Natural Sciences (Biological) Part IA
Natural Sciences (Chemistry) Part IB
Natural Sciences (Physics) Part IB
Natural Sciences (Systems Biology) Part III
Politics, Psychology & Sociology Part IIA
Politics, Psychology & Sociology Part IIB
Second Examination for BTh for Ministry
Jennifer Parkin
Clementine Chambon
Theo W Morris Clarke
Samuel I Miller
Ivan Kuznetsov
Claire E O’Brien
Alison C Hobbs
Mark A Salmon
Rowan D Brackston
Michael C Simpson
Esther Osorio Whewell
Rachel E Bryan
Maria A Wardale
Hugo O Jones
Angus J O’Brien
David P O’Loughlin
Olivia J G Draudins
Laura E Winfield
Alice E Bush
Edward B Taylor
Trina-Jo Mah
Syamala A Roberts
Thomas H Rothwell
Alexander B Morris
Genyi Meng
Kim C Liu
Rose I G Gibbins
Rosemary V Southwell
Amorette Perkins
William M Sheldon
Thomas Robson
Other Awards
British Society’s Beddington Meda for
Developmental Biology
Brian Runnett Prize
The Salters’ Institute of Industrial Chemistry
Graduate Prize
Helen Weavers
Robert Dixon
Clementine Chambon
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Tripos Results
2013
2012
2010
Number of Examinations taken
499
499
495
Number obtaining First Class (or stars)
127
117
124
Number obtaining Second Class (Upper)
239
239
219
Number obtaining Second Class (Lower)
53
54
52
Number obtaining Second Class (Undivided)
24
31
30
Number obtaining Third Class
7
7
15
This year the College had over 800 students (no two ways of counting them gives the
same number) There were approximately 470 undergraduates in residence, 27 of whom
came from other countries in the European Union and 29 from other overseas
countries. There were around 145 in each of the first three years and 50 in the fourth.
Eleven undergraduates were abroad for the year. There were 335 students in the
graduate community at 1 October 2012 of whom 62 PhD students were in their 4th and
5th or more years who were writing up, preparing for vivas or waiting for degree
approval (‘under examination’).
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PhDs
E Appel, Cucurbit[n]uril-based supramolecular hydrogels: from fundamentals to applications in
drug delivery
J P Betts, The business enterprise in mid-Victorian social thought
F Biedermann, Cucurbit[n]uril mediated self-assembly in water: From binding forces to
applications
S C Bingham, The expression and regulation of emotion by young children in classrooms:
a developmental perspective on appraisal theory
W Chen, Investigations of low-cost fabrication process for all printed organic electronic devices
S-Y Chien, Seismic frequency properties of solid-melt systems by mechanical spectroscopy
P V Connick, Autologous mesenchymal stem cells as a neuroprotective therapy for secondary
progressive multiple sclerosis
K Cotterill, How do attitudes of habitual high-technology entrepreneurs to early-stages failure
differ in Silicon Valley, Cambridge and Munich?
G Denny, Reducing fresh produce CO2e emissions through Urban Agriculture, seasonality, and
procurement dependency: Life cycle analysis for tomato, potato, and apple consumption in East
Anglia and Greater London
P J Fox, Massively parallel neural computation
L Geng, Transmission capacity improvement for high speed multimode waveguide links using
advanced optical launch and multilevel modulation schemes
K M Gunderson, Radiation damage in phosphates and silicates for nuclear waste disposal
M Korff, Response of piled buildings to the construction of deep excavations
E J Koskinen, Thermal verification of programs
M H M Lau, Spatial planning, meta-governance and sub-regional variation
M A Lawson, Spectroscopic investigations of thermally induced polyphosphazene decomposition
J L N Levy, Second class citizens of Sweden: Sex work and drug use in people’s homes
I Manolescu, Universality for planar percolation
M J Miller, The Official East German Response to Willy Brandt and Neue Ostpolitik, 1969-1972
V Naudziunas, Design and implementation of a language for path algebras
F N Newby, Structural studies of the Alzheimer’s amyloid B Peptide
Z Peng, Mechanical spectroscopy of quartz and Fe1-xNix: Anelasticity in crust and core
K J Savage, Plasmonic interactions in the Quantum Tunnelling Regime
D Schmeisser, China and the changing structure of global production networks
L J Spalek, Emergent phenomena near selected phase transitions
G D Stahl, White working-class boys’ negotiations of school experience and engagement
S Svobodova, Study of herpes simplex virus type 1 tegument assembly
K Tambara, The application of naphthalenediimides in supramolecular chemistry
M-H Tsai, Boron containing molecular imprinted polymer (MIP) templates from symmetric and
asymmetric diboration of olefins and other boron containing functional polymers
G J V D Veyron Van Hylden, Towards explaining the dotcom and subprime events: Theoretical
derivations on the stylized facts on options and portfolios & empirical evidence from the venture fund
and CDS index markets
H M A Weavers, Investigating the role of specialised tip cells during morphogenesis of the
Drosophila renal system
D R Wilkins, Understanding x-ray reflection as a probe of accreting black holes
E G L Williams, Total synthesis of novel analogues and hybrids of the anti-cancer agents
dictyostatin and discodermolide
T Yunusov, Characterisation of cholinergic interneurons in the larval locomotor network of
Drosophila
N Zhao, Tailor-made functional cucurbit[n]uril hosts through molecular recognition
Events
EVENTS I Jesus College Annual Report 2013
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Jesus College Cambridge Society
Committee as of 1 October 2013
1977
Professor I H White
(President and Chairman)
Officers
1960
1963
M R HADFIELD (Trustee)
J MARSHALL
(Hon. Dinner Secretary)
1969
D H WOOTTON (Trustee)
1969
C I KIRKER (Trustee)
1970
A D C GREENWOOD
(Hon. Secretary)
1971
T SLATOR (Hon. Treasurer)
2000
R J P DENNIS
(College Council Rep.)
1997
J M D HUGHES
(College Council Rep.)
Year Representatives
2000
R S BROWN
1976
M P HAYES
1997
J P McGINTY
1987
M P VOS
1979
S R DAVIS
1971
A R C KERSHAW
1994
N G BAVIDGE
1999
V A SAXTON
1977
R M ALLON-SMITH
1980
S J YATES
1987
A H MARTIN
2002
V ARMSTRONG
1977
S N HILLSON
1992
K L SLOWGROVE
2000
N P H KING
2001
A M FOSTER
(Ian)
(Max)
(Jim)
First Elected
2006
2005
(David)
(Christopher)
(Adrian)
2008
2012
1998
(Tom)
(Richard)
2002
2013
(John)
2013
(Rory)
(Mark)
(John)
(Mariel)
(Shane)
(Alan)
(Nathan)
(Victoria)
(Richard)
(Joanne)
(Alison)
(Verity)
(Simon)
(Katie)
(Nick)
(Alice)
2010-2014
2010-2014
2010-2014
2010-2014
2009-2015
2011-2015
2011-2015
2011-2015
2012-2016
2012-2016
2012-2016
2012-2016
2013-2017
2013-2017
2013-2017
2013-2017
Annual General Meeting 28 September 2013
The Annual General Meeting of the Jesus College Cambridge Society took place on
Saturday 28 September 2013 in the Prioress’s Room at 6.30pm. The Master, Professor
Ian White, was in the chair. Some thirty-five members of the Society were present.
Eight members of the Executive Committee had sent their apologies for absence.
The meeting commenced with a period of silence in memory of Jeremy Gotch (1954)
who died in August 2013. Jeremy had served on the JCCS Executive Committee for 35
years, including as both Trustee and Dinner Secretary and was Guest of Honour at the
Annual Dinner in the centenary year (2004).
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Minutes
The minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 29 September 2012 were approved
and signed as a correct record.
Matters Arising
None.
Secretary’s Report
The Honorary Secretary reported that (a) the College Council had appointed John
Hughes and Richard Dennis to serve as their nominees on the JCCS Executive
Committee (b) the College had allocated JCCS Travel Bursaries totalling £3,500 to 13
undergraduates, and (c) the 2013 Annual Report was in the course of preparation and
should be distributed in November. It would contain the minutes of this meeting and a
report of the dinner. The Master added that the Travel Bursaries had been much
appreciated and well used.
Treasurer’s Report
The audited accounts to 31/12/2012 showed a surplus of £1,715. The accumulated fund
stood at £77,723. Dividend income had increased to £3,651. Investments were shown at
cost and their market value was over 10% higher, thanks to sound decisions by the
Trustees. As a result, the Society had been able to increase both the Travel Bursaries to
£3,500 and the donation to the JCSU to £3,000. A further £15,000 of cash had been
invested since the year end. The meeting agreed to receive the accounts.
Appointment of Auditor
The meeting agreed to appoint N J Mitchell F.C.A. for 2013.
Dinner Arrangements for 2014 The Secretary announced that the 2014 Annual Dinner would take place in College on
Saturday 27 September 2014. It would be black tie and members could bring one guest.
Tickets would go on sale in May 2014. The Guest of Honour would be the Theo Huckle
QC (1980).
Election of Ofﬁcers
The meeting agreed to elect for one year Adrian Greenwood as Honorary Secretary,
Tom Slator as Honorary Treasurer and Jim Marshall as Dinner Secretary. The Secretary
announced that this would be Jim Marshall’s last year as Dinner Secretary, having
indicated his decision to step down at the AGM in 2014. The search for a successor is
well advanced. The Master gave thanks for Jim’s meticulous planning and attention to
detail and noted that since he had become Dinner Secretary in 2005, the Annual Dinner
had expanded into Upper Hall, the Spring Dinner had been instituted and a most
successful dinner had been held at the Mansion House in 2012 (their largest for years).
Executive Committee
The meeting agreed to elect the following as Members of the Executive Committee to
serve for 4 years in succession to those retiring by rotation: Simon Hillson (1977),
Katie Slowgrove (1992), Nick King (2000) and Alice Foster (2001). In addition, the AGM
agreed to the Committee’s recommendation that Shane Davis (1979) be appointed to fill
the vacancy created by the resignation of Adam Watson, due to re-location in Hong
Kong. Shane will serve to 2015.
Any Other Business
The Honorary Secretary encouraged those present to attend (a) the Drinks Reception at
the Oyster Shed, on the riverfront near Cannon Street Station on 12 November 2013,
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for which tickets were already on sale (b) the Spring Dinner at the Oxford and
Cambridge Club on 5 April 2014 and (c) the buffet lunch to be held in the Fellows’
Garden on 14 June 2014. This last event was well suited to family parties as there was no
limit on the number of guests. The event also coincides with the last day of the May
Races.
Graham Tayar (1951) asked whether the Committee would consider relaxing the dress
code for men to include a dark suit. Andrew Jackson (1957) said he would not be in
favour. The Secretary said that the Committee would consider the request at their
meeting in March.
Date of next year’s AGM
Saturday 27 September 2014 in College before the Annual Dinner. The University
Alumni weekend would take place on September 26-28.
Reports of JCCS Events 2012-2013
JCCS London Dinner 20 April 2013
The JCCS London Dinner took place on the 20 April 2013 at the Oxford and Cambridge
Club, and was attended by 108 Jesuans and guests.
JCCS Buffet Lunch 15 June 2013
The 2013 Buffet Lunch was once again very well attended by Jesuans and their families.
Afterwards, despite the weather, many still headed to the river to watch the afternoon’s
racing.
JCCS Annual Dinner 28 September 2013
Following the Society’s AGM, the Annual Dinner took place in Hall, Upper Hall and the
Gallery where 221 members and their guests were present. The Master presided and the
Guest of Honour was the Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP.
JCCS Travel Bursaries
This year, travel bursaries were awarded to Charlotte Bush, Molly Byrne, Niall Cooper,
Robert Crawford, Cathy Hearn, Ali Hobbs, Izabela Kujawiak, Rebecca Lanham,
Vijay Maharajan, Eleanor Ogilvie, Heather Reynolds, Nuzhat Tabassum and
John Woodliffe.
Forthcoming JCCS Events
5 April 2014
14 June 2014
27 September 2014
JCCS Spring Dinner at The Oxford & Cambridge Club
JCCS Buffet Lunch on Bumps Saturday
JCCS Annual Dinner and AGM in College
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College Events
‘50 Years On’ Anniversary Lunch 14 November 2012
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1962 and their spouses to
lunch in college on 14 November 2012. The following attended this lunch:
G Alderman, C V Anson, R M O Batty, W T Bordass, G Bowman, R Cammack,
R J Christian, J D Coates, P E Croucher, F G Crozier, C Davidson, P J A Findlay,
N H Freeman, S D Gagg, D C George, R L Gordon, R J Harrison, M J Hayhurst,
H D Hibbitt, J A Hudson, C H Jones, J P Leech, P S Magauran, I A D Martin,
A I Phillips, N L Pilkington, J G Ross-Martyn, M W Scott, R V Scruton, M J Short,
J C Sledge, M M Slinn, M J Snell, G M Thelwall Jones, C H Tongue, G A Wilkinson,
C P Yates
‘60 Years On’ Anniversary Lunch 21 November 2012
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1952 and their spouses to
lunch in college on 21 November 2012. The following attended this lunch:
I S Ball, A J Black, S Brittan, W S Charles-Jones, W F Corpe, J B Davies, E H Double,
D E K Elliott, J H Girling, J P Greaves, R A Kipping, M J Marshall, P J Mullock,
F Ogden, J Osborn, J S W Pulford, C F M Rawlinson, D J Richards, A J M Robinson,
J C Stevenson-Hamilton, R H Stone, P Thompson, A M S Wilson, P J Winter
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Reunion Dinner 11 January 2013
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1997, 1998 and 1999 to dine in
college on 11 January 2013. The following attended this dinner:
J M Adams, R L S Atherton, C J Baker, W M Barnes, R Bazaz, J J Bickerstaffe,
T J Bradshaw, A M Bragg, M E Brock, C F Meacock, J M Busuttil, S A Cassidy,
F C Chambers, I J Chapman, G L Charles, A C Cotton, O K De Groot,
H Djafari Marbini, J E Doak, M R Futyan, T H Gallico, M A Grant, D J Hancock,
E L C Harris, R J Hogley, J Hudson, J M D Hughes, H J Backhouse, L R Jones,
J A Kendall, C J Lee, J C Lloyd, N J Mackay, S B Magnus, N J Mapp, I J Martorell,
T E Meredith, R W L Morgan, L J F Murray, M Plevnik, J E M Seddon, C Shahrad,
M P Spencer, E L Taylor, A J Toner, E J Tunnicliffe, R A Van Der Hoff, C E Wardle,
C F Wright (1997); P Adib-Samii, C A E Aikens, C H Atkin, V C M Barr, L B Bevan,
J R Bowen, E A Brough, R J Budd, C M Hawes, A E Carpenter, E M K Case,
A E Coultas, L C Du Preez, N J Esbester, R A Evans, S P Gent, S V Getov, S J Glover,
N S Gowers, S S James, D Jash, G W L Jenkin, R P I Lewis, S A Lupini, F J McGlade,
T L McGlynn, L C McMahon, P M Fowler, S R McNamara, S J Nickerson, P Ninkovic,
J W Richards, D A Rivers, S M Rivers, N M Rouse, B K Schofield, T Shah, L Sheena,
P A Smith, I P S Sood, T Soomro, T A Stallard, T M Stewart, M J Sutton, R E-J Tait,
M B Wesker, K C Wilford, R A Williams, R J Williamson, E C Woollcott (1998);
E J Arkell, A E Blackham, J D N Bull, S C Bunting, A Chalisey, J A Crossick,
J Crossick, R V Dowling, A England, D A Evans, T Foulkes, S N Gobbett,
G L Hamilton, V L Hayward, A Ingram-Hill, R A Ireland, S L Jenkin, A Kimis,
E C Lamm, N M Lang, C E Lee, D R Lewis, R L Linden, J W Lovell, O P Markham,
A M Matthews, L McGrath, J C Moore, C R Morton, S A Munk, B M Musgrave,
J E Okosun, M E Page, J C Peak, D J Perry, N J Prince, S R M Rajam, N Sabharwal,
V A Saxton, Z L Schluter, M A Skulason, M E Slingo, T A Stenhouse, A P Storey,
O O Sulaiman, L F Tang, O D Thomas, N Walji, A L Washbrook, N W Webb,
T L Whitecross, J T L Zwart (1999)
Glanville Williams Society Reception 5 March 2013
The twelfth Glanville Williams Society Reception was held at Hogan Lovells
International LLP on 5 March 2013. The following Jesuans connected with Law attended
the event:
I A D Martin, J G Ross Martyn (1962); B A Fireman (1963); R M Jackson,
C M Treacy (1967); W Allan, G N Clayton (1968); H R Sandison (1971);
G R F Hudson, J P Wotton (1972); D C Kelly, A R Kennon, C K Roberts (1974);
D J Moss (1975); J K G Coad, B A K Rider (1976); S J Paget-Brown (1977);
R J Cowper (1978); T D Huckle (1980); R M Walker (1982); F M Sinclair (1983);
R C H Alexander, S S Bhakar, R P L Cherry, D V Gibbs (1984); A L Arter (1985);
A P Briggs, S P Charles, K A Knight (1987); P E S Barber, M P C Oldham (1988);
P W D Stafford (1989); J H Milne (1990); A Kay (1991); L N Dunne, C M Guthrie,
R A Stocks (1993); E C Messud (1995); M E Bays, K M S Burns (1996); S H Arif,
R L S Atherton, M J Bullen, O K De Groot, J E Doak, N J Mackay, I J Martorell,
M P Spencer (1997); A E Coultas, K C Wilford, E C Woollcott (1998); O P Markham,
J C Peak (1999); R S Brown, C V M Hare, S J Hollander, A M V Jeffrey (2000);
O J Elgie, A J M Lee, J H Smith, R W Turney (2001); I S Blaney, H E Burns, R H Davis,
C A Dobson, R P Hartley, J G Macpherson, R C McDougall, T E D Ogden (2002);
E J Amos, D J Baker, A L De Lorenzo, C M Leach, M J Naylor, M E Rees,
N D J Robinson (2003); E M Davies, B A Pykett, M Thompson, C P Williamson
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(2004); J A Graetsch, M D Gregoire, E Hayashi, J W G Ketcheson, J P S Newman
(2005); C J Peters, M A Thorne, Y Zhu (2006); A Abraham, D C M Lafferty,
E E McCrea-Theaker (2007); M J Cullen, K E Laidlow, A Tahsin (2008); O F Harris,
L A Parkman, A Silver (2009); S J Butler, I S A Campion, R L Chapman, E E Cridland,
C T Mulderrig, K M Pucks, C M Rogers, R S Whittaker, T R Worrall (2010); S Y Fan,
J Fisher, H Jolliffe, E Mellor, M Pelton, J A Van Renterghem, G White, K Wilson
(2011); J H R Anderson, W Y J Cheung, H Y J Chow, J Crawford, J Gertner, H Jackson,
R McLeod, A J O’Brien, D P O’Loughlin, F S Petersen, S Raach, M Schinazi,
E R M Shirlow, P Sibley, N Sri Rajkumar, J G Yap Endara (2012)
MA Dinner 22 March 2013
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 2006 to dine in College on
Friday 22 March prior to their MA ceremony the next day. The following attended this
dinner:
S Abhyankar, C S Allen, S J Baker, F A C Beere, F Begeti, A M Berner,
J G Blanchard Lewis, C M Blaum, C G Botham, J E M Brant, Z S Z Bray, L J Britton,
S H Bullent, A J Carnegie-Brown, T J H Checkley, R A Crawshaw, K A Curtis,
S B J Dane, C J Daniels, N J Darling, C L Davey, H T M Davies, M S Davies Wykes,
F M De Meillac, H C R Donati, E S Druckman, R J Eason, V A Eveleigh, A G Fitchie,
M E Forrest, L G M Fortune, G L Fox, Y Gao, E Goater, N C Hands, S R Haria-Shah,
A K Harvey, D Hawthorne, D J G Hay, J E Head, C M Hibbert, R F J Hobson,
M D Horrocks, D F V Howell, F W Hutchins, T W Johanson, M C Jones, G L S Kiddey,
M J C King, W H Knock, E K Knott, T M Kyrke-Smith, V K Lai, K S Lamza, C Langley,
T H S Laskey, A J Leach, L J Lindley, D H H Mack, F F B Madsen, H I Maduka,
D A Marlow, R J Martin, L A McAlister, H M T McGrath, T F H McIlveen,
D C Millican, K T Morland, T D T Möst, E Murphy, S Murugesu, K J Needham,
M P Norris, C D Olsen, N E P Petty, P J S Piercy, W R Rees, S Renshaw, M P Robin,
M S Sagmeister, I Saloojee, S E Schofield, R U Schumacher, I A Scott, R M R Scott,
T D Skinner, T P C Smith, O A C Stevens, A Taali, S J Tanner, J A Taylor, M A Thorne,
K E Treen, H L Wainwright, D J Wakerley, D C White, E J White, J M Whybrew,
C E Wilkerson, R J Wills, L K Wong-Taylor, Y Zhu
Reunion Dinner 12 April 2013
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1987, 1988 and 1989 to dine in
college on 12 April 2013. The following attended this dinner:
S Abbott, R P Bacon, A P Briggs, D E Brown, S P Charles, M J Cherry, H J Cordell,
C G Duff, D A Edwards, N H Edwards, S El-Shahat, R G Feldmann, A G Goyder,
C A Hall, R E Harris, K R J Hartwell, O Hiwaizi, M E Hubbard, R A Lord,
P A Marsden, D H Martin, A J McCulloch, J R Mole, J D J Penfold, T R Pickles,
U C Protz, M A Routley, E M Sankara Narayanan, M J Simons, W J E Smith,
A Stanford, A C Stiles, M P Vos, S R Wakefield, A F Whitehouse, L H Wright (1987);
H Adams, R A Atkins, M R Baillie, P E S Barber, F A Beddall, A R J Bell, M C Bienfait,
M J Boden, J Bowen, J M S Brown, S J Browse, D Carmona, C J Carpenter, T J Clarke,
J M Dallosso, R M Dudley, S E Duff, J Dwelly, L Edie, S C Farrar, C T Giles, R A Given,
S V Godbehere, A H Gordon, J P Grundy, N W Harding, D A Hargreaves, C J Howlett,
D O Irfan, B R L Iversen, G M Jones, L E Keown, E S Lee, D C Logan, I J Mactavish,
G H Mansfield, E P McCaughan, G J McLaughlin, P K Murphy, T Norman, M Palmer,
M E C Perrott, R Preiskel, S C Rattray, A Richdale, J P Roper, A S J Sewell, D W Street,
S C Street, N J Terry, R P Tett, S V L Thong, J D Verrinder, P S Westbury,
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S M Wintersgill (1988); A J Baldock, R H Beardsmore, A R Bould, D S R Bould,
S K Burnett, J Choulerton, E C Clee, S W G Cohen, J H Cunliffe, R C Dale, J A Davies,
M De Souza, N S Dove, L Edirisinghe, P Q Foster, V A Henley, C M Hodges,
E A Hodgson, H S Humphreys, R J Landauer, J M Lawn, S C Lowry, C E L McCulloch,
E A Murray, K A Murray, R E Parr, D G Pettifer, P W D Stafford, S V Stinchcombe,
N J Weaver, M C R Western (1989)
Anniversary Dinner 29 June 2013
The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1973, 1983, 1993 and 2003 to
dine in college on 29 June 2013 to mark their 10th, 20th, 30th and 40th anniversary. The
following attended this dinner:
J C Aston, R C Aylard, R R Bate, M W Canby, R W Clarke, M C Grandy, D W Haigh,
A P Hilley, G W Hoon, C M Lewis, W A Longbottom, W D D F Peck, R J Philo,
D K Saul, A W Sheldrick, G R Short, A C Smith, D E Tyrrall, P J H Vaughan,
J M Winter (1973); D L Adams, S E Belcher, W Bell, D Chin, M P Chipperfield,
R J Dykstra, R E I Elliott, R E D Geffen, A R Ginger, A M Gough, M A Green,
T P J Hill, M C Hosking, G J Hurst, E C Jameson, P C Köhler, M J L Lanoë,
C P McMahon, J E Messervy-Whiting, M R Owen, M J L Percival, S G Pickles,
R A Polonsky, M A Saward, G L Stewart, S F Stokes, W J Stokes, A G Wilson (1983);
R D Abel, R C Andrews, R A Atkin, S F Atkins, S L Ballard, N F Barnes, A L Block,
M H Brooks, M R Brown, E J Cawte, N Chatrath, M W Clack, A R Collins,
A E Colquhoun, S L Dixon, D Drake, A D E Drury, K E Ellison, J C Frew, A K Fyfe,
O K Gavin, E K E Gerrard, A I Glencross, K S Glencross, C J Goddard, W J Hawkes,
D Hemp, M A Hendy, A F Horner, S J Howard, E Kilburn, T E King, S E Lea,
C Limbert, N M Luscombe, T J MacCormack, K L Malcolm, F J Marritt,
N McInnes, L M McKerrow, A L Middlemiss, P T Morgan, A Patel, R J Rees,
J C Ripley, M G Rushton, J S Sharp, A L Sheehan, J E Shenton, R A Stocks, L Tan,
L R J Tan, E K Thorp, A F Toole, J A Troughton, D S White, M D White,
K A Williamson, S R Wood, J L Wright (1993); K E Brown (1994); B S Ahmet,
J J Bailey, D J Baker, E J Bogira, L K Bradley, S F Brereton, S J Chester, L A Cockman,
A L De Lorenzo, A N Fergusson, S C Haines, M T Hanney, J M Hawton, L M Hopper,
T H Hughes, T D Hutt, S L Laitung, M L Leach, D J Mayland, L P McLain, R Mycroft,
Z Mycroft, G N Newton, J T W Ng, S O’Connor, A M Pascovitch, L J Plenderleith,
J Pratt, L M F Razzall, C P Rimmer, R A V Robison, S M Snow, L F Steele,
C F G Torrington, C Walton, B Wang, H M Weibye, A J Widgery, S V Williams,
E C Wood, E A Young-Lidard (2003)
Calendar of College Events 2013-2014
10 January 2014
tbc 2014
28 March 2014
4 April 2014
14 June 2014
23 June 2014
28 June 2014
28 June 2014
Reunion Dinner (1958, 1959, 1960)
Glanville Williams Society Reception
MA Dinner (2007)
Reunion Dinner (1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957)
Marquee at the Paddock, Fen Ditton
Society of St Radegund Dinner
Annual Fund Donors’ Garden Party
Anniversary Dinner (1974, 1984, 1994, 2004)
Invitations to all the above events will be posted or emailed to those concerned. If, however,
you wish to attend any of these events but do not receive anticipated postal or email
notification, please contact the Development Office (tel: 01223 339301) or visit the alumni
events section of the college’s website (www.jesus.cam.ac.uk) where details are also posted.
MA Dining
Members of MA or similar status are invited to dine at high table free of charge twice a year
and to maintain contact.
Because of staffing arrangements there is no dining on Saturdays but it is usually possible to
accommodate visitors on Sundays during term. The other available days are Tuesday,
Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. It is always advisable to book in good time by phoning
the Manciple’s Office on 01223 339485.
Jesus College Records Update
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news:
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e-mail: [email protected]
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Offices and will be treated confidentially and with sensitivity for the benefit of Jesus
College, the University and its members. Data may be used by the College and University
for a full range of alumni activities, including the sending of College and University
publications, promotion of benefits and services available to alumni (including those
being made available by external organisations), notification of alumni events and
fundraising programmes (which might include an element of direct marketing).
Old Members’ contact details may be made available to other current and Old Members
of Jesus College, recognised College and University alumni societies (e.g. JCCS) in the
UK and overseas, to sports and other clubs associated with the College and University,
and to agents contracted by the College and University for particular alumni-related
activities. Under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998, you have the right to object
to the use of your data for any of the above purposes, in which case please write to
The Keeper of the Records, Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL.
The latest discs from the Choirs of Jesus College
are available from all good CD retailers, online and via iTunes,
by post from the Chapel & Choir Office
or at the Porters’ Lodge
***** BBC Music Magazine
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“the Choir of Jesus College Cambridge sings beautifully”
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to the sense of the words and the musical phrase…
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For more details visit
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or telephone +44 (0) 1223 339699
Jesus College’s hospitality goes from strength to strength and the
college regularly hosts both residential and non-residential functions
of all sizes, from private celebrations to club meetings to major corporate
and international events.
Old Members are warmly encouraged to discuss any such
requirements with a member of the conference & events team, by post,
email ([email protected]) or telephone (01223 339485).
Further information on the facilities available is obtainable
on the college conference & events website:
http://conference.jesus.cam.ac.uk
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