Report 2012-13 - Trinity College

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Trinity College Oxford
Report 2012–13
©2012 Gillman & Soame
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Trinity College Oxford | Report 2012-13 |
CONTENTS
THE TRINITY COMMUNITY
President’s Report...........................................................................2
Blues .............................................................................................55
The Governing Body, Fellowship and Lecturers............................4
OBITUARIES
Members of Staff ..........................................................................12
Jean Wright ...................................................................................59
News of the Governing Body .........................................................7
Staff News ....................................................................................14
New Undergraduates ....................................................................15
New Postgraduate Students ..........................................................17
Degrees, Schools Results and Awards .........................................18
Sir John Burgh ..............................................................................56
Dr Katerina Reed-Tsocha .............................................................58
Members of College ....................................................................60
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
‘President Hannibal Potter—The wilderness years’
by John Allan ................................................................................85
THE COLLEGE YEAR
‘Malcolm bows out’
An interview with Malcolm Nolan ...............................................90
Access & Admissions ...................................................................21
NOTES AND INFORMATION
Senior Tutor ..................................................................................21
Alumni & Development ...............................................................22
Benefactors ..................................................................................23
Archive Report .............................................................................32
Buildings Report...........................................................................38
Garden Report ..............................................................................40
Library Report ..............................................................................42
JUNIOR MEMBERS
JCR Report ...................................................................................47
MCR Report .................................................................................48
Clubs and Societies.......................................................................49
Book Review.................................................................................93
Degree Days .................................................................................95
Gaudy Dates and Information for Members.................................96
Editor’s note..................................................................................96
Cover illustration: The Parks Road gates, a detail of the image
engraved by William Monk (1863-1937) for the University
Almanack of 1902. This year sees the tercentenary of the gates,
which were constructed as part of the scheme for a new, formal
garden, of which only the gates and some of the clipped yews, now
large trees, remain. ‘Subscriptions for raising the iron gate’ came to
£224 12s 6d and were given by sixty-five individuals, in sums
ranging from £20 to £1 1s 6d. The donors consisted of the
President, Fellows, old members, undergraduates and one friend.
Inside cover: Matriculation photograph 2012
With thanks to Gillman & Soame © 2012
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THE TRINITY COMMUNITY
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PRESIDENT’S REPORT
very five years the college re-examines its size and shape. This
year, having taken a good hard look, we have concluded that
there is nothing very much wrong with either. Our academic results—
see below—suggest that’s not far off the mark. We will be doing some
tweaking at the edges and marginally increasing the number of
graduates we admit, but by and large we will aim to admit around
eight-five undergraduates and fifty to fifty-five graduates every year.
We have been sorry to lose this year one of our long-standing
Fellows, Chris Prior (Mathematics), who has been at Trinity for
thirty-seven years, and our Levine Fellow in Management Studies,
Victor Seidel, who has done sterling work as the inaugural Fellow
in that subject. During the course of the year we welcomed Ian
Hewitt (2002) back to Trinity as Fellow and Tutor in Applied
Mathematics and welcomed to our ranks as a Fellow Sue Broers,
whom many of you will know, who has been the Director of
Development since 2011. For the new academic year we have
elected Andrea Ferrero (Economics), Steve Shkoller (Mathematics)
and Elizabeth Drummond (Law), and Dorit Hockman, Zoё Turner
and Shamik Dasgupta as Junior Research Fellows in respectively
Biology, Chemistry and the Neurosciences. Philip Lockley, who has
already been here as an Associate of the Senior Common Room is
also becoming a Junior Research Fellow for the remaining two years
of his British Academy doctoral appointment in History.
Trinity was privileged earlier this year to be invited to elect the
Senior Proctor of the University, an office which dates back to the
thirteenth century and is thought to be the earliest office at Oxford.
The installation of our French Tutor and Fellow, Professor Jonathan
Mallinson, was a splendid ceremony, culminating in a lunch in
college with the Vice-Chancellor and other senior university officers.
Jonathan is being ably assisted by two pro-proctors, our estates
bursar, Kevin Knott, and chaplain, Emma Percy.
Among academic distinctions of the wider fellowship I should
mention the A.SK Social Science Award of 2013 to Paul Collier
(1982), an Honorary Fellow of the college, in recognition of his
innovative contribution in the field of development, poverty,
democratisation and global justice. He is a frequent adviser to
Government. Meanwhile our recently retired and now Emeritus
Fellow Gus Hancock, Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded an
honorary doctorate by the National University of Córdoba, the oldest
university in Argentina. Paul Fairchild, one of our medical Fellows,
has won a well-deserved Distinction in Teaching award.
The most splendid event of the year was the dinner at Mansion
House in London, hosted by the Lord Mayor, Roger Gifford (1973),
our newest Honorary Fellow. Over three hundred Trinitarians and
their guests attended what was a glittering occasion. On the day of
his installation, fifty Trinity students took part in the Lord Mayor’s
Parade, while four Old Members and four current students joined
members of the Watermen and Lightermen in rowing the Queen’s
barge, the Gloriana, to bring the new Lord Mayor to the City. More
recently, Trinity Lawns were the final destination of the Lord
Mayor’s Charity Bicycle Ride from the City to Oxford. Over four
hundred cyclists took part and raised a substantial sum of money for
the Lord Mayor’s charities.
Academically the college is going through a purple patch. Long may
it continue. We obtained a record number of Firsts (thirty-seven) in
Finals this year, a result which took us to second in the Norrington
Table. The college records confirm that it has never been higher since
my illustrious predecessor, the twenty-second President, devised the
eponymous table.
During the year, Trinity suffered the loss of its twenty-fifth President.
Sir John Burgh was a much-loved figure, who contributed greatly
to the college, not least in the sphere of music. Only a week earlier,
Katerina Reed-Tsocha, who was a Junior Research Fellow here when
I arrived seven years ago had died. The death of such a promising
scholar was particularly poignant.
The Hillary Lecture this year was delivered by the Man Booker Prize
winner, Anne Enright. She provided a fascinating insight into the
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reactions of Irish writers to censorship. Meanwhile the Humanitas
Lecturer, presenting the second in a series of lectures on
Historiography which are now attached to Trinity, was Sir
Christopher Bayly, who gave a wide-ranging lecture on Islam and
world history.
Turning to the college’s non-academic side, the successes in
examinations have been matched by remarkable results in Summer
Eights. The women’s First Eight with two Trialists and a Blue,
having earned blades in Torpids, continued to move up the divisions,
just one position off their all-time high. The men’s First Eight with
two Olympians and a Blue, not surprisingly perhaps, registered four
bumps (including Balliol on the last day) to win blades and finish
eighth on the river, the highest finishing position in over fifty years.
We continue to work on the new building project. Progress with the
planners has been painfully and frustratingly slow, but we hope that
the next year will see the pace pick up. Financially we are over halfway there, but will need to make a great effort to bridge the final
gap. I hope the achievements above will encourage and inspire others
to join us in doing so.
Sir Ivor Roberts KCMG
In rugby, Trinity was able to boast two Blues in last December’s
Varsity Match, one of whom came on with half an hour to go, when
Oxford were trailing badly, and helped the Dark Blues to victory by
scoring a try, a penalty and a conversion.
Both the Orchestra and the Chapel Choir have been in great form.
The choir has produced a new CD of Christmas music and continued
its tour of Europe’s major musical centres. This year its members
took in Venice and Tuscany (including singing at St Mark’s). Ben
Cartlidge, who has been at Trinity both as an undergraduate and now
a DPhil student, joined the University Philharmonic back in 2004
and this year has been made its Leader, a fine recognition of his
talent.
The Trinity Players performed a Lawns Play with a difference. A
version of Alice in Wonderland as a play within a play written by
two second-year students. ‘Lawns’ Play was perhaps a misnomer, as
it took place in a glade in the Wilderness. The Players also took a
production, Gabe Day, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
There is already a good deal of interest in the commemoration of the
outbreak of the Great War, but we also looked back this year to the
seventieth anniversary of the Dambuster raids. Melvin Young (1934)
was the only Oxford man to take part in the raid and we held a
service in the chapel organised by the university Air Squadron.
The President speaking at Mansion House
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THE GOVERNING BODY 2012-13
President
Sir Ivor Roberts, KCMG, MA, FCIL
Fellows
Mr Bryan Ward-Perkins, MA DPhil: Tutor in Modern History,
Fellow Archivist, Vice-President
Dr Chris Prior, MA DPhil (MA PhD Camb.): Tutor in Applied
Mathematics, Garden Master
Dr Steve Sheard, MA (BSc PhD Lond.): Hunt-Grubbe Tutor in
Engineering Science, Computing Officer
Professor G Jonathan Mallinson, MA (MA PhD Camb.): Tutor in
French
Dr Victor Seidel, MA (BSc Cornell, MSc Rensselaer, MBA Camb.,
PhD Stanford): Levine Tutor in Management Studies
Mr Peter McCulloch, MA (MB ChB Aberd., FRCS Glas., MD
Edin.): Reader in Clinical Surgery
The Reverend Dr Emma Percy, MA (MA Camb., BA Dur., PhD
Nott.): Chaplain, Welfare Dean
Dr Johannes Zachhuber, MA MSt DPhil: Tutor in Theology, Dean
of Degrees
Mr Kevin Knott, CVO, MA (BA Lond. AKC): Estates Bursar
Professor Kim Nasmyth, MA (BA York, PhD Edin.), FRS: Whitley
Professor of Biochemistry
Dr Stefano-Maria Evangelista, MA MSt DPhil (BA East Ang., MA
Lond.): Tutor in English, Fellow Librarian
Mr John Keeling, CBE, MA (MA Lond.), FCMI: Domestic Bursar
Professor Russell Egdell, MA DPhil: Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry,
Dean
Professor Marta Kwiatkowska, MA (BSc MSc Krakow, PhD Leic.):
Professor of Computing Systems
Professor Frances Ashcroft, MA (MA PhD ScD Camb.), FRS: Royal
Society SmithKline Beecham Professor of Physiology
Dr Michael Jenkins, MA DPhil (BSc Brist.): Tutor in Materials
Professor Peter Read, MA (BSc Birm., PhD Camb.): Tutor in
Physics
Professor Justin Wark, MA (PhD Lond.): Tutor in Physics
Professor Jan Czernuszka, MA (BSc Lond., PhD Camb.): Tutor in
Materials Science
Professor Martin Maiden, MA (MA PhD Camb.), FBA: Professor
of Romance Languages
Professor Louis Mahadevan, MA (BSc New Delhi, MSc PhD
Lond.): Tutor in Biochemistry
Professor Alexander Korsunsky, MA DPhil (BSc MSc Moscow):
Tutor in Engineering Science
Dr Keith Buckler, MA (BSc Lond., PhD Newc.): Tutor in Medicine
Mr Nick Barber, MA BCL: Wyatt Rushton Tutor in Law
Dr Kantik Ghosh, MA (BA Calcutta, MPhil PhD Camb.): StirlingBoyd Tutor in English
Dr Stephen Fisher, MA DPhil (MSc S’ton): Tutor in Politics
Professor Craig Clunas, MA (BA Camb., PhD Lond.): Professor of
the History of Art
Dr James McDougall, MSt DPhil (MA St And.): Laithwaite Tutor
in History
Dr Donald Markwell, MA, MPhil, DPhil (BEcon Hons Qld): Warden
of Rhodes House (to January)
Professor Valerie Worth-Stylianou, MA DPhil PGCE: Senior Tutor
Dr Dorota Leczykiewicz, MSt DPhil (MLaw Wroclaw): Fellow by
Special Election and Tutor in Law
Professor Francis Barr, (BSc, PhD Lond.): E P Abraham Professor
of Mechanistic Cell Biology
Dr Paul Fairchild, DPhil (BA Leic.): Tutor in Pathology
Dr Anil Gomes, BA BPhil DPhil: Tutor in Philosophy
Dr Gail Trimble, MA MSt DPhil: Brown Tutor in Classics
Dr Maria del Pilar Blanco, (BA William and Mary, MA PhD New
York): Tutor in Spanish
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Dr Tamás Dávid-Barrett, (MA Budapest, MPhil Camb.): Fellow by
Special Election and Tutor in Economics
Dr Michael Moody, (BSc Adelaide, PhD South Australia): Fellow
by Special Election and Tutor in Materials Science
Dr Susan Perkin, BA DPhil: Tutor in Physical Chemistry
Dr Ian Hewitt, MMath, DPhil: Tutor in Applied Mathematics (from
January)
Mrs Sue Broers, MA (BA PGCE Leeds): Director of Development
(from June)
Junior Research Fellows
Dr Katie Moore, MMat DPhil: Materials Science
Dr Louise Curran, (BA Camb., MA PhD UCL): English
STIPENDIARY COLLEGE
LECTURERS 2012-13
Dr Afifi Al-Akiti, MSt DPhil (BA Belf.): Theology
Dr David Maw, MA DPhil: Music
Dr Carlotta Minnella, DPhil (MA Trieste, Maîtrise Sciences Po
Paris): Politics
Dr Mark Moloney, MA Dip LATHE (BSc PhD Sydney): Chemistry
Dr Sarah Norman, (BSc Edin., PhD Camb.): Neurophysiology
Dr Claudia Pazos-Alonso, MA DPhil (MA Lond.): Portuguese
Professor Anthony Phelan, MA (MA PhD Camb.): German
Dr Elina Screen, BA MPhil PhD Camb: History
Dr Charlotte Stagg, DPhil (BSc MB ChB Brist.), MRCP:
Pharmacology and Endocrinology
Dr John Stanley, MA DPhil: Biochemistry
Dr Sam Vinko, DPhil (laurea magistrale Rome): Physics
Mrs Renée Williams, MA (L es L Paris): French
Dr Matthias Winkel, (MSc Manc, Dipl-Math Münster, PhD Paris):
Statistics and Mathematics
Dr Aurelia Annat, DPhil (BA York, PGCE MA Lond.): Modern
History
EMERITUS, HONORARY AND
SIR THOMAS POPE FELLOWS
2012-13
Dr Hannah Cornwell, BA DPhil: Ancient History
Mr Francis Barnett, MA
Dr Pavlos Avlamis, (BA Athens, MA Virginia, PhD Princeton):
Classics
Mr John Davie, MA BLitt: Classics
Dr Beate Dignas, MA MSt DPhil (Staatsexamen Münster): Ancient
History
Dr Mark Ford, (BSc PhD York): Chemistry
Dr Beatrice Groves, MSt DPhil (BA Camb.): English
Dr Felix Hofmann, MEng DPhil: Engineering
Dr Polly Jones, BA MPhil DPhil: Russian
Dr Adrian Kendal, BA BM BCh DPhil: Neurophysiology
Dr Michael Laidlaw, DPhil (MA Camb.): Lecturer in Chemistry
Dr Philip Lockley, MSt DPhil (BA Newc): Theology
Emeritus Fellows
Dr Michael Brown, BSc MA DM
Mr Peter Brown, MA
Dr Peter Carey, MA DPhil
Mr Jack Collin, MD (MB BS Newc.), FRCS
Dr Robin Fletcher, OBE DSC, MA DPhil
Dr Clive Griffin, MA DPhil
Professor Gus Hancock, MA (MA Dublin, PhD Camb.)
Dr Dorothy Horgan, MA (MA PhD Manc.)
Mr Michael Inwood, MA
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Dr Alan Milner, MA (LLB PhD Leeds, LLM Yale)
Mr Michael Poyntz, MA
Professor Simon Salamon, MA DPhil
Professor George Smith, MA DPhil, FRS
Mr Frank Thompson, MA (BSc Lond.)
The Reverend Canon Trevor Williams, MA
Honorary Fellows
The Lord Ashburton, KG, KCVO, MA
The Hon Michael J Beloff, QC, MA, FRSA, FICPD
Mr Julian (Toby) Blackwell, DL, Hon DBA, HonDLitt (Robt Gor.)
DUniv (Sheff Hallam)
The Rt Revd Ronald Bowlby, MA
Sir Hugo Brunner, KCVO, JP, MA, Order of St Frideswide
Sir John Burgh, KCMG, CB, MA, BSc (Econ) (Lond.), FRCM (ob.
April 2013)
Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, Bt, MA
Sir Anthony Cleaver, MA
Professor Paul Collier, CBE, MA DPhil
Mr Graham Cooper, JP, MA
Dr Geoffrey de Jager, BCom, Hon LLD (Rhodes), LLB (Natal)
Mr Roger Gifford, MA (from November)
Sir David Goodall, GCMG, MA
Professor Martin Goodman, MA DPhil DLitt, FBA
Sir Charles Gray, QC, MA
Professor Sir Malcolm Green, MA BM BCh DM, FRCP
Sir Christopher Hogg, MA
Sir Brian Jenkins, GBE, MA, FCA, FRSA
Professor Martin Kemp, MA, MA (Camb.) Hon DLitt (Heriot-Watt),
FRSA, HRSA, FBA, FRSE, Hon RIAS, FRSSU
The Lord Kingsdown, KG, PC, MA, FRSA
Mr Peter Levine, MA
Sir (Ronald) Thomas Macpherson of Biallid, CBE, MC and Two
Bars, TD, DL, MA
The Hon Sir William MacPherson of Cluny and Blairgowrie, TD, MA
Sir Andrew McMichael, MA BChir MB (Camb.), FRS FAMS
Professor Sir Fergus Millar, MA DPhil DLitt, FBA, FSA
The Revd Professor John Morrill, MA DPhil, FBA, FRHistS
Mr John Pattisson, MA
Sir Michael Peat, KCVO, MA MBA, FCA
Sir John Rowlinson, BSc MA DPhil, FIChemE, FRSC, FREng, FRS,
Hon FCGI
The Rt Revd Anthony John Russell, DPhil, FRAgS
Mr Wafic Saïd, Ordre de Mérite du Cedre, Ordre Chérifien
Professor David Sedley, MA, PhD (Lond.), FBA
Sir Edwin Southern, MA, BSc (Manc.), PhD (Glas.), FRS
The Rt Revd David Stancliffe, MA, Hon DLitt (Port.), FRSCM
Sir Peter Stothard, MA
The Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe, MA
Sir Thomas Pope Fellows
Mr Rodney Allan, MA
Mr Peter Andreae, DL, MA (from November)
Mr Caryll Birkett, MA
Mr Peregrine Crosthwaite, MA
Dr Roger Fry, CBE, BD (London, AKC), Hon DLitt (Ports.), FRSA
Mr Wyatt Haskell, BA JD AB (Amherst), LLB (Yale Law School)
Mr Robert Hunt-Grubbe, MA (Camb.)
Mr Robert Parker, CB, MA, MCMI, FRSA
Mr Stephen Pearson, MA
Mr John Singer, MA, MBA (INSEAD)
Dr Trudy Watt, MA DPhil, BSc (Open), MSc (Shef. Hallam)
Mr Thomas Winser, MA
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NEWS OF THE GOVERNING BODY
t the end of the academic year the Governing Body said
farewell to a long-serving tutorial Fellow, Chris Prior, who
retired after thirty-seven years at Trinity.
Chris has spearheaded Trinity mathematics for the last three decades.
He came to Trinity as a Junior Research Fellow in 1976, having read
mathematics at Churchill College, Cambridge (Trinity’s sister
college)—studying for his PhD under Stephen Hawking—and after
a postdoctoral spell at the University of British Columbia. He
became mathematics tutor in 1984, and has shared his college role
with a research career outside the University at the Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory, where he works on the design of particle
accelerators. He served Trinity as an indefatigable Senior Tutor from
1988 until 1995, as Vice-President in 1998-9, and has been the
Garden Master for almost twenty-five years.
Chris is held in great admiration by his many students, not least for
his clear thought and his careful attention to their individual needs.
Many remember with envy his ability to simply write down solutions
that had taken them pages and pages of wandering algebra. In recent
years his work has seen him travelling regularly and balancing
tutorials with an increasingly hectic flight schedule. He has remained
thoroughly dedicated to his teaching, and students knew they would
receive rapid and detailed answers to their queries whether it be from
Shanghai, Chicago, or CERN.
Victor Seidel, Trinity’s first Management Studies tutor, has returned
to the United States after ten years at Trinity. Having studied at
Cornell, Cambridge and Stanford universities, and also having
worked in management and technical roles at IBM in the USA and
Switzerland, Victor came to Oxford to become a University Lecturer
at the Saïd Business School and the first Fellow and Tutor in
Management Studies at Trinity, a post that later became titled in
recognition of the generosity of Peter Levine.
Victor’s research investigates how teams within and between
organisations develop new ideas and products, and more generally
with issues of technology and innovation management, strategic
management and entrepreneurship. He taught in these areas and
more broadly at the Saïd and was a founding academic director of
the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Among his
research projects he jointly led an Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council project on innovation within technology-led
enterprises.
At Trinity, Victor was a dedicated and much appreciated tutor who
gave lively and engaging tutorials, sometimes inviting students to
bring in their favourite products as examples of innovation. His
students won many prizes, including the Knox Prize and the
Pilkington and Shell Awards. He was always a cheerful presence and
made a lively contribution to the social life of the college. Not least,
he revived the SCR betting book, was, despite North American
origins, a very keen participant in the SCR-MCR cricket match, and
for five years served as Senior Member of the Boat Club.
While at Trinity, Victor married Sandra Shefelbine, and they and
their three children now live closer to their families, in
Massachusetts, where Victor has taken a post at Babson College.
They have fond memories of Oxford and Trinity, as we do of them.
Don Markwell (1981) was appointed as Warden of Rhodes House
in 2009 and it was with great delight that we welcomed him back to
College as a professorial Fellow. Don returned to Australia in
January to take up the post of Executive Director of the Menzies
Research Centre, where we wish him well.
Ivor Roberts published (in Serbian) Conversations with Milošević,
his book on the Balkans during and after the Bosnian War. The
English version appears next year. He and the Domestic Bursar gave
another joint talk, following last year’s on the Falklands, entitled
‘Northern Ireland: The Troubles Revisited’ to students, staff and Old
Members. He chairs the University’s ethics committee (which
scrutinises possible donations) and lectures and writes regularly on
foreign and occasionally domestic affairs. He is a member of the
Steering Committee of the British Academy’s Report on the need
for languages in diplomacy and security and is on the academic
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advisory board of the Oxford Foreign Service Programme and of the
Centre for Islamic Studies. He is chairman of the Jardine Scholarship
Foundation and of the Management Board of the Isaiah Berlin Fund.
He continues to chair Vincent’s Club, is a member of the committee
of the University Rugby Club (OURFC) and is senior member of
the University Golf Club. He has travelled widely again to meet Old
Members in Hong Kong, Sydney, Washington, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Boston and New York and of course in the UK.
Frances Ashcroft gave the Croonian lecture of the Royal Society,
its premier lecture in the biological sciences (becoming the second
woman to do so since the lecture’s inception in 1738). She gave four
named lectures including the Hille lecture (University of
Washington) and the Gemelli lecture (Catholic University of Rome),
six invited lectures at international scientific meetings, twelve talks
for the general public and to schools, and three performances at
literary festivals. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by
Radboud University in The Netherlands and elected an honorary
member of the Physiological Society. She featured in a video
interview produced by Voices from Oxford. She also published ten
scientific papers.
Nick Barber has published a paper discussing the relationship
between legal realism and pluralism in a collection of essays, a paper
on the separation of powers (translated into Russian), and a review
of a book on the Chinese Constitution for the Law Quarterly Review.
He lectured at the University of Copenhagen, the Centre for
Interdisciplinary Studies in Israel, University College London,
Manchester University, Cornell University and at the three major
Beijing universities—Renmin, Peking, and Tsinghua. Over the year
he ran two courses for Renmin. The first, an eight-week series of
seminars on constitutionalism, was taught through the internet from
Oxford. The second, a week-long course on the British constitution,
was taught in Beijing. He also co-organised a major conference in
China, that brought together a number of British and Chinese public
law academics. He continued to act as editor of the United Kingdom
Constitutional Law Blog, and published posts on the birth of the
royal baby—speculating about the content of the constitution when
the baby becomes king—and on the conventions surrounding royal
assent.
Craig Clunas’s latest book, Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power
in Ming China has been published by Reaktion books. Two of his
other books have appeared in Chinese translations: his survey of
Chinese art in the Oxford History of Art series, Art in China (OUP,
1997), and Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming 14701559 (Reaktion, 2004). He has published essays on ‘Art as Lineage
in the Ming and Qing’, in Jerome Silbergeld and Dora C Y Ching
eds., The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture (Princeton
University Press), as well as, ‘The Art of Global Comparisons’ in
Maxine Berg ed., Writing the History of the Global: Challenges for
the 21st Century (OUP/British Academy). A more personal comment
on the state of the discipline was published as ‘Regarding Art and
Art History’, Art Bulletin, 95.1 (March 2013).
Craig has continued to work on a major exhibition about Ming China
which will open at the British Museum in September 2014. His cocurator, Jessica Harrison-Hall is herself both the daughter and sister
of Old Members, giving this exhibition extensive Trinity
connections! He joined the advisory board of the Journal of
Contemporary Chinese Art, became chair of the International
Advisory Panel, Tate Research Centre Asia-Pacific, and lectured to
the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, Munich. He has also taken
on the chairing of the Ashmolean Research and Teaching Committee.
In June, in an edition of Radio 4’s In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg,
he discussed the classic Chinese novel Romance of the three
Kingdoms. Anxious not to be left behind technologically, he has
begun to tweet on matters regarding art history and Chinese culture,
@CraigClunas.
Jan Czernuszka has been on sabbatical leave from College this
academic year. Towards the end of his sabbatical he, with three other
dads, climbed Mount Kilimajaro in Tanzania to help raise money for
communication aids for Springfield Special School in Witney.
María del Pilar Blanco published, with Esther Peeren (University
of Amsterdam), as editors, The Spectralities Reader: Ghosts and
Haunting in Contemporary Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury). The
occasion was celebrated in September with a book launch and a twoday symposium at the University of Amsterdam.
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Russ Egdell continued to be Dean and was obliged to buy a decibel
meter for the Lodge to help combat noise from across the wall in
Balliol. His group continued to publish prolifically and conducted
the first commissioning experiments on hard X-ray photoemission
beamlines on the Soleil (Paris) and Diamond (Harwell)
synchrotrons. The group was also the first external user on the
Taiwan beamline on the Spring8 synchrotron in Japan. Attendance
at conferences was mostly confined to the UK with invited talks at
meetings in Leeds, Liverpool, Wolfson College and Harwell. His
sporting career reached its pinnacle with a haul of three wickets in
the SCR/MCR cricket match.
Paul Fairchild delivered the 2013 Hilliard Festenstein lecture at the
annual conference of the British Society of Histocompatibility and
Immunogenetics and was invited to give a keynote lecture for the
British Society of Gerontology annual conference. In addition to
speaking at various local schools, he gave numerous presentations
about stem cell biology to the general public at events such as the
Sunday Times Literary Festival, the Liberal Democrat Lawyers
Association conference, Café Scientifique and the Worcester Bible
and Science Society. His latest book The immunological barriers to
regenerative medicine was published by Springer and he is currently
working on another volume on stem cells for OUP. He contributed
to policy development through contributions to the House of Lords
Select Committee for Science and Technology and as an invited
member of a panel at the National Institutes of Health in the USA
involved in defining standards for the clinical application of
mesenchymal stem cells. He was interviewed for articles in an
eclectic mix of newspapers as diverse as the Japan Times, the Sydney
Morning Herald, New Scientist and the Arab Times.
Stephen Fisher continued to work on a variety of topics, including
ethnic minority political integration and attitudes to climate change
and the environment. He continued to run his ESRC project on
workshops and other resources for teachers of quantitative methods
for social science students (www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/qmteachers).
On election night he produced results-based analysis of the local
elections for the BBC. As usual, Stephen taught political sociology
and supervised graduate students for the department, and political
institutions, political sociology and quantitative methods for Trinity.
He published jointly: Heath, A F, S D Fisher, G Rosenblatt, D
Sanders, M Sobolewska The Political Integration of Ethnic
Minorities in Britain; Sanders, D, S D Fisher, A Heath, M
Sobolewska ‘The Democratic Engagement of Britain’s Ethnic
Minorities’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Wlezien, C, W Jennings,
S Fisher, R Ford, M Pickup ‘Polls and the Vote in Britain’, Political
Studies.
Anil Gomes continues to work and teach on issues in the philosophy
of mind and, in particular, on issues related to Immanuel Kant’s
account of our mental faculties. He published papers on these topics
in the Philosophical Quarterly and Kant-Studien and presented
related work at conferences in Oxford, Cambridge and York. A
longstanding interest in Iris Murdoch—sparked by the chance
finding of a collection of her philosophical essays in the library as
an undergraduate—resulted in a paper in the British Journal of
Aesthetics exploring the relation between art and ethics and the
extent to which attention to art can help us come to understand
another’s ethical framework.
Ian Hewitt joined the Governing Body in January when he began
his tutorial fellowship in Mathematics, tied to a University
Lectureship in Mathematical Geoscience. He was previously
working at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research
mostly focusses on improving computer models to describe the
behaviour of ice sheets. He co-authored a review paper on the subject
this year in the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, and had an article
in Earth and Planetary Science Letters addressing the role of
meltwater in lubricating ice sliding. He taught about the mathematics
of ice sheets at a summer school in Iceland. External presentations
during the past six months have included seminars at the British
Antarctic Survey, University of Cambridge and University of
Limerick, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics’
Geoscience Meeting in Italy, and a US Working Group Meeting on
Ice-Ocean interaction.
Marta Kwiatkowska has been awarded a grant for the project,
VERIPACE, which aims to lengthen the battery life of pacemakers
and improve heart patients’ quality of life. The project aims to exploit
the model-based framework for quantitative verification of
pacemaker software recently developed within the European
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Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant, VERIWARE
(www.veriware.org). The Proof of Concept grant was introduced to
establish the innovation potential of ideas arising from ERC-funded
frontier research projects. Marta has also has been selected to serve
on the REF Sub-panel 11: Computer Science and Informatics. The
REF (Research Excellence Framework) is the new system for
assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions.
It replaces the RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) and will be
completed in 2014.
Jonathan Mallinson completed an edition of Voltaire’s satirical tale
Lettres d’Amabed, to be published in the Complete Works of Voltaire
in 2015. Since March, he has been serving as Senior Proctor. Two
Proctors (senior and junior) are elected each year by colleges in
rotation to serve for one year. University statutes provide that the
Proctors ‘shall generally ensure that the statutes, regulations,
customs, and privileges of the University are observed.’ They serve
on the University’s main committees, they have responsibilities for
aspects of student discipline, for ensuring the proper conduct of
examinations and for dealing with complaints; they also carry out
ceremonial duties.
Peter McCulloch has published three papers in the British Medical
Journal and two in the Lancet in 2013, all related to his work on the
IDEAL Collaboration, making it the most productive year of his
career from the metrics point of view.
James McDougall began teaching a new undergraduate course on
the Middle East in Hilary term: the first time that the modern history
of the region has been available as a subject of study in the school
of Modern History at Oxford. One of his graduate courses, ‘History
and Anthropology in the Sahara’, co-taught with Judith Scheele at
All Souls, became unexpectedly topical in January when the civil
war and French intervention in Mali brought the region to unusual
media prominence (exponentially increased student numbers were,
we hope, also a function of the intrinsic interest of the subject…).
He was also involved in organising two conferences: a three-day
colloquium in Algiers that brought together young French and
Algerian historians, and a workshop in Oxford on ‘Social Memory
in the Middle East’, the latter being the sixth meeting in a series
organised jointly with SOAS and the Institute for the Study of
Muslim Civilisations, London. He gave a paper at the Oxford
Centre for Islamic Studies on the political economy of reform in
Algeria during the 1980s, and a lecture on ‘Religion, Nationalism,
and the Arab-Israeli conflict’ for the Ariane de Rothschild
Fellowship programme at King’s College, Cambridge; this annual
summer school provides Muslim and Jewish social entrepreneurs
from various countries with an intensive academic programme
combined with business-school project development. He left the
board of one journal, but failed to avoid co-option onto those of two
more. He contributed chapters on Islamic modernism and on the
‘cultural revolution’ in post-independence Algeria to edited
volumes, and an essay on the changing nature of violence in the
Middle East to a round-table forum in the International Journal of
Middle East Studies. He continues to attempt to find time to write
his book.
Katie Moore has spent most of the year on a microscope, acquiring
data for her research fellowship concentrating on elemental uptake
into crops. This hard work has paid off with the publication of seven
papers and conference papers since this time last year. Katie has
presented her research at various conferences and was invited to give
her first plenary lecture in Demark in August. She also continues to
teach the Materials Science undergraduates on various topics.
Susan Perkin has enjoyed a busy first year at Trinity, teaching
Physical Chemistry in the college and offering a third year
undergraduate lecture course on Soft Matter in the Chemistry
department. The move from London to Oxford necessitated a
laboratory removal and recruitment of a new team of researchers;
research is now well underway in several directions relating to ionic
liquids and properties of thin liquid films, and results have been
reported in several articles. A central message from this project, that
friction in certain liquids is quantized, was presented at the
International Society of Electrochemistry and the International
Conference on Ionic Liquids. She also gave demonstration-lectures
in schools and to the UNIQ summer school aimed at enthusing and
attracting applications to Oxford from under-represented groups.
Peter Read stepped down from his role as Head of Atmospheric,
Oceanic and Planetary Physics at the end of July, a post he has held
within the University since August 2008. Atmospheric, Oceanic and
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Planetary Physics (AOPP) is the smallest of the six sub-departments
within Oxford Physics and consists of around thirteen senior
academic and research staff, twenty-five post-doctoral research staff,
thirty graduate students and around six to eight technical and
administrative support staff. Its research programme spans a huge
range of atmospheric science, climate modelling and observations
and oceanography, not only on Earth but across the whole Solar
System and beyond, effectively including any planetary body
possessing an atmosphere or ocean! Peter’s term of office has
covered a busy period of expansion for AOPP, and he has overseen
the arrival of five new academic staff (three under the University’s
Physical Climate Science initiative) as well as extensions to its office
and laboratory accommodation. The job has brought many
interesting challenges, though he is now looking forward to spending
more time on his research work during a period of sabbatical leave.
In addition, however, he has also taken on a new role as joint chair
of a new academic partnership between Oxford University and the
Met Office. This opportunity emerged during his period as Head of
AOPP, when the University received an invitation from the Met
Office Chief Scientist to join their new Academic Partnership
scheme. There is a great deal of climate-related research that goes
on across around ten distinct Departments and Institutes within the
physical and social sciences divisions in Oxford. Peter’s new job
will be to help coordinate and promote joint research activities
between Oxford and the Met Office, and to contribute advice and
ideas to the Met Office, on his own and the University’s behalf, as
it develops its future research strategy. This is an important
development for the University in opening a new channel to apply
some of its research in the highly topical areas of climate change,
prediction and adaptation.
Gail Trimble continued to work on her commentary on Catullus 64.
She was awarded an AHRC Early Career Research Fellowship, to
run from 2013-15, which will allow her to complete the commentary
and move on to research on some of the literary issues arising from
the project. She published two chapters in edited collections, one on
the relationship between Catullus 64 and Virgil’s ‘messianic’ fourth
Eclogue and one on the history of the problematic term ‘epyllion’.
A review of a new book of critical essays on Catullus appeared in
the TLS. In September she took part in an international workshop on
the eleventh book of Virgil’s Aeneid (the least canonical book of the
most canonical poem in Latin literature) at the Fondation Hardt in
Geneva. She also contributed to a proposal for the reform of the
literature syllabus at Greats which the Classics Faculty agreed to
take forward, and brought the undergraduate Greek and Latin
Declamation Competition to Trinity.
Bryan Ward-Perkins completed his first year of a three-year
secondment as Director of the Ertegun House and Programme—the
result of an extraordinary benefaction by Mica Ertegun for graduate
scholarships in the Humanities. This has been interesting, and often
fun, since part of the job is to help the scholars run academic events
on the huge of range of subjects that they are studying. On the
research front he has been completing a print volume to accompany
the online Last Statues of Antiquity database (a searchable catalogue
of all the evidence for statuary in the late Roman empire). His book
of 2005, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, is currently
being translated into French and Japanese, to join earlier translations
into six other languages (German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese,
Romanian and Spanish).
Valerie Worth had a busy year overseeing the five-yearly review of
the college’s Academic Size and Shape Policy (a full report on this
key aspect of the Senior Tutor’s role is given on p.21). In between
this and other regular Senior Tutor duties (undergraduate and
graduate admissions, appointments of new Fellows and Lecturers,
oversight of students on course and tutors), Valerie was able to see
through Toronto University Press her book on Pregnancy and Birth
in Early Modern France:Treatises by caring physicians and surgeons
(1581-1625). The research underlying the book has provided the
opportunity for presentations and discussions with both historians
of medicine and medical practitioners, notably when Valerie was
invited to give the annual keynote lecture to the De Partu group of
midwives working on the history of their profession. After
completing some further collaborative work with French colleagues
on the history of translation and the history of science, Valerie will
now turn her attention to the translation of a seventeenth-century
French account of the religious wars.
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MEMBERS OF STAFF 2012-13
Academic Office
Robert Hyland, Admissions & Access Officer
Isabel Lough, Tutorial Administrator
Annabel Ownsworth, Academic Administrator
Alumni & Development Office
Sarah Beal, Alumni & Events Officer
Sue Broers, Director of Development
Andrew Clinch, Administrative Assistant
Miriam Hallatt, Development Officer
Thomas Knollys, Alumni Relations Officer
Archive
Clare Hopkins, Archivist
Beer Cellar
David Smith, Bar Manager
Sue Smith, Bar Manager
Ian Stacey, Assistant Bar Manager
Boathouse
Mark Seal, Boatman
Bursary
Jenny Cable, Executive Assistant to the Bursars
Nasera Cummings, Assistant Accountant
Laraine Mather, Assistant Accountant
Michael Ward, Fees and Battels Administrator (to September)
Graham White, College Accountant
Computing
Alastair Johnson, Computer Manager
Conference and Functions
Rosemary Strawson, Conference & Functions Administrator
Gardens
Aaron Drewett, Trainee Gardener
Paul Lawrence, Head Gardener
Luke Winter, Assistant Gardener
Housekeeping
Carla Andrade, Scout, Staircase 14, Fellows’ Guest Rooms, P&W
Brenda Bassett, Scout, Staircases 3 and 10, Chapel
Damian Blachnio, Housekeeping Supervisor
Leonie Chung, Scout, Staircase 6
Elsa Davidova, Scout, Staircase 4
Alan East, Scout, Staircase 18
Veronika Evans, Staircases 13 and 15
Mandy Giles, Accommodation Services Manager
Ken Ip, Scout, Outside Properties
Lana Ip, Scout, President’s Lodgings
Miroslawa Krezel, Scout, Staircase 12 and Lodge Annexe
Tracy Madden, Scout, Staircases 16 and 17
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Malcolm Nolan, Scout, Staircases 2 and 11 (retired in July)
Sue Peach, Scout, Staircase 1, JCR Kitchen and Academic Offices
Yeti Santos, Scout, Staircases 2 and 5
Martin Reeve, Porter
Chris Tarrant, Lodge Manager
Lidia Skonieczna, Scout, Staircases 2, 7 and 9
Medical
Kitchen
President’s Office
Adam Urbanczyk, Scout, General and Library
Ionut Bacanu, Chef de Partie
Matthew Bradford, Chef de Partie
Alison Nicholls, Nurse
Ulli Parkinson, PA to the President
Jonathan Clarke, Second Chef
SCR and Dining Hall
Pat Conway, Kitchen Assistant
Jonathan Flint, SCR/Hall Steward
Mihai Constantin, Chef de Partie (to May)
Sam Cruickshank, Third Chef
Wayne Evans, Chef de Partie
John George, Kitchen Porter
Daniel Little, Kitchen Apprentice
Anna Drabina, Dining Hall Supervisor
Natalie Hunter, Dining Hall Supervisor (from November)
Lisa Linzey, Assistant SCR/ Dining Hall Steward
Andrei Stefanescu, SCR Assistant
Julian Smith, Head Chef
Sports Ground
Agostinho Viana, Kitchen Porter
Paul Madden, Groundsman
Airi Stenlund, Pastry Chef
Simon Wallworth, Chef de Partie
Library
Michelle Brown, Grounds Scout
Workshop
Maged Alyas, Workshop Assistant
Sharon Cure, Librarian
Bennie Ehrenreich, Plumbing and Heating Engineer (from April)
Lodge
Steve Griffiths, Buildings Manager
Nigel Bray, Night Porter
Bill Darbon, Porter (retired in July)
Richard Dean, Porter
Dominic Lantain, Night Porter
Clive Mansell, Porter (from August)
Russell Dominian, Carpenter
Paul Hunt, Plumbing and Heating Engineer (retired in January)
Henry Jeskowiak, Electrician
Gary Kinch, Painter & Decorator
Nigel Morgan, Workshop Supervisor
David Thomas-Comiskey, Maintenance Operative
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STAFF NEWS
n the last college Newsletter, the President’s foreword paid tribute
to the work of the college staff, so I can keep this short and simply
include news of the changes that have happened during the year!
The most notable change has been the retirement, on health grounds,
of Malcolm Nolan who had been a scout at Trinity for forty-eight
years. Everyone knows Malcolm and he has recalled his time here
in an interview which is transcribed on page 90. Suffice to say that
he will be much missed and that there is a new portrait of him in the
Hall annexe—amongst some other notable college staff from bygone
years—so his smiling face will be a constant reminder of his long
service to Trinity.
One of the porters, Bill Darbon, also left in July. Bill had been here
for nearly five years and his avuncular manner made him popular
with current members and alumni alike. Shortly after his retirement,
tragically Bill lost his wife—we extend our sympathy and best
wishes for his future life. Bill’s replacement, Clive Mantell, joined
in August having recently retired from the Thames Valley Police.
Paul Hunt had been the college’s well-respected plumber for thirteen
years and retired earlier this year. His replacement, Benny
Ehrenreich, has already made an impressive start dealing with the
college’s arcane heating and plumbing systems. And Mihai Constatin
left the kitchens in June to return to Romania; his humour and
distinctive hats made him notably popular.
All I will do now is endorse the President’s gratitude for everything
the staff do, especially those who deputise willingly or walk the extra
mile when we need them. It has been the best year ever for income
from conferences, events, tourists and other money-raising efforts,
and I am indebted to all who have worked to achieve this excellent
outcome.
John Keeling
Domestic Bursar
Scaffolding on the east wall of the chapel during renovation of the
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NEW UNDERGRADUATES
Michaelmas Term 2012
BIOCHEMISTRY
Basu, Souradeep
Bray, Alissa
Galliers, Kathryn
Hocking, Joseph
Kinney, Helen
Winter, Molly
CHEMISTRY
Girling, Amanda
Owen, Helen
Treherne, Tom
Yuan, William
Zhang, Fei
CLASSICS AND MODERN
LANGUAGES
Doran, Mary Clare
CLASSICS
Harker, Rosemary
La Trobe, Elizabeth
Roderick, Michael
Stevenson, Celia
Thompson, Nicholas
Watson, Georgia
ECONOMICS AND
MANAGEMENT
Burnett-Small, Fabian
Gillespie, Sybil
Hutchinson, Christopher
ENGINEERING, ECONOMICS
& MANAGEMENT
HISTORY AND POLITICS
ENGINEERING SCIENCE
Crompton, Benjamin
Hay, Zachary
Sanders, Stuart
Chen, Xue
Fang, Benjamin
Au-Yeung, Jethro
Fraser-Mackenzie, James
ENGLISH
Colman, Amanda
Holmes, Shelby
Jarman, Frank
Oliver, Thomas
Piper-Vegh, Daniella
Seth, Radhika
Summers, Niall
ENGLISH AND MODERN
LANGUAGES
Savage, Isabel
HISTORY
Bateman, Chloe
Heywood, William
Killick, Rosanna
Margetson, Sarah
Thurlow, Constance
HISTORY AND MODERN
LANGUAGES
Stone, Richard
Turner, Jordan
Connolly, Katherine
Lee, Amaris
LAW
Pirgon, Melek
Ranjan, Rushil
MODERN LANGUAGES
Chittock, Sarah
Lopeman, Sarah
Pascalidis, John
Viner, Noah
MUSIC
Morrell, Benjamin
Williamson, Jordan
PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS
AND ECONOMICS
Cyrson, Matthew
Schmyck, Alexander
White, Michael
MATERIALS SCIENCE
Gardner, Hazel
Han, Ziyuan
Hopkin, Sarah
Jennison, Nicholas
MATHEMATICS
Clare, Mariana
De Oliveira, Gerald
Howland, Christopher
Jo, Hyunwoo
Peng, Xiaofei
Harding, Jared
Schmidt, Kyran
Sivanayagam, Shibanee
PHILOSOPHY AND
MODERN LANGUAGES
Noe-Steinmuller, Niklas
PHILOSOPHY AND
THEOLOGY
Haywood, Cecily
Mason, Cathy
Ramani, Raaghav
PHYSICS
Ahmedani, Iman
Huxtable, Alexandra
MEDICINE
Breton, Alexander
Dexter, Erin
Divanbeighi Zand, Amir
Moneke, Michael
Shavick, Alex
Chelvaniththilan, Sivapalan
Humphries, Oliver
Martin, Lucy
THEOLOGY
Finegold, Rachel
Jamieson, Crawford
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Undergraduates admitted in Michaelmas term 2012 came from the following schools:
Alleyn’s School, London
Limassol Grammar School, Cyprus
Stratford on Avon Grammar School for Girls
Bancroft’s School, Essex
Millfield School, Somerset
The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial RC School,
London
Altrincham Boys Grammar School
Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore
Bermuda High School
Maiden Erlegh School, Berkshire
Mill Hill County High School, London
Newstead Wood School, Kent
Berthold-Gymnasium, Freiburg, Germany
North London Collegiate School
Bradley Stoke Community School, Bristol
Oundle School, Peterborough
Bishop Wordsworth School, Wiltshire
Bournemouth School, Dorset
Brighton College
Brighton, Hove & Sussex Sixth Form
College
Cambridge Business College
Norwich School
Westcliff High School for Boys, Essex
Portsmouth Grammar School
Prendergast Hilly Fields College, London
Shenzhen College of International
Education, China
Devonport High School for Girls, Devon
Dubai College, UAE
Farnborough Sixth Form College, Hampshire
Fettes College, Edinburgh
Fort Pitt Grammar School, Kent
Godalming College, Surrey
Graveney School, London
Guildford High School
Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls,
Hertfordshire
Holton Arms School, Bethesda, USA
King’s School, Kent
King’s College School, London
Langley Park Girls School, Kent
The St Philip Howard School, West Sussex
Portland State University, USA
Pate’s Grammar School, Cheltenham
Clifton College, Bristol
Conyers School, Cleveland
The Judd School, Kent
Nottingham High School
Queen Elizabeth High School, Lincolnshire
City of London Freemen’s School, Surrey
Temasek Junior College, Singapore
Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls
Cambridge International Centre of Shanghai,
China
Cardinal Vaughan School, London
Sutton Grammar School, Surrey
Queen Elizabeth School, Lancashire
Radley College, Oxfordshire
Reading School
Shrewsbury School
Sidcot School, Somerset
South Hampstead High School, London
St Albans School
St Bede’s College, Manchester
St Brigid’s School, Denbighshire
St George’s School, Zimbabwe
St Mary’s High School, Derbyshire
St Mary’s School, Buckinghamshire
St Olave’s Grammar School, Kent
St Patrick’s College, Sri Lanka
St Paul’s Girls’ School, London
St Paul’s School, London
Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College
Tonbridge School
Tormead School, Surrey
Westminster School
Wilsons School, Surrey
Winstanley College, Wigan
Wootton Upper School, Bedfordshire
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NEW POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS
Michaelmas Term 2012
Alvarez Ortega, Elena
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Alveyn, Edward
Trinity College
Anderson, Lewis
University College
Arthur, Laura
University of Bristol
Barratt, Thomas
Durham University
Baum, Kevin
Trinity College
Blatchford, Katherine
Cambridge University
Boston, Hannah
Trinity College
Bridger, Emily
Dalhousie University, USA
Buglass, Abigail
Bunworth, Richard
University of Dublin, Ireland
Burton, Tara Isabella
Trinity College
Dalmia, Nihar
St Xavier’s College, India
Davies, James
Trinity College
Elbaum, Elianne
Dickinson College, USA
Moon-Little, Edward
University of East Anglia
Fyson, Claire
Natih, Putu
University of Indonesia
French, Katherine
Boston University, USA
Gerken, Philip
Exeter College
Hill, Florent
Universite de Paris II, France
Murray, Fiona
Exeter University
Tang, Yadi
Niehaus, Katherine
Stanford University, USA
Treiber, Christoph
Trinity College
O’Donohoe, Peadar
University of Edinburgh
Holder, Katherine
University of East Anglia
Pintacuda, Greta
Jagger, Jasmine
Rhee, Jessica
Christ Church
Hotham, James
Trinity College
Le Brun, John
University of Birmingham
Luck, Joshua
Trinity College
Lucken, Malte
University of Warwick
Lynch, Charlotte
Trinity College
Malik, Nayab
Jacobs University Bremen,
Germany
Marr, Charles
Brasenose College
Simpson, Shmona
St Edmund Hall
Ratan, Ajay
Rong, Youmin
Imperial College, London
Royle, Georgina
Trinity College
Sandman, Patrick
St Edmund Hall
Satto, Enzo
Ecole Centrale Paris, France
Seah, Kang Yee
Imperial College, London
Shorrocks, Rosalind
Trinity College
Thorpe, Thomas
King’s College London
Verhaart, Floris
University of Leiden,
Netherlands
Wolfreys, Finn
Korea Advanced Institute of
Science & Technology
Zelenty, Jennifer
University of Chicago, USA
Zhang, Ting-Ting
Cornell University, USA
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DEGREES, SCHOOLS RESULTS AND AWARDS 2013
In the academic year 2012-13 there were 302 undergraduates reading for Final Honour Schools and 128 graduates reading for higher degrees,
and two postgraduate exchange students.
Thirty-seven members, out of eighty-seven, gained first class degrees in Final Honour Schools in 2013. Their names are in shown in
bold.
Alexandra Attard-Manché
Caitlin Duschenes
Garreth McCrudden
Katherine Rollins
Anna Bennett
David Gay
Charlotte Meara
Ryan Sarsfield
Isobel Barling
Martin Bell
Andrew Bennison
Gavin Blake
Thomas Bosley
Phoebe Bragg
Samantha Brendish
Laura Bromley
Thomas Brown
Balam Budwal
Sarah Burke
Aisling Campbell
Fergus Colquhoun
Katie Connan
Richard Coxford
Peter Day-Milne
Lucy Dean
Timothy Deeks
Benjamin Dive
Alexandra Duffy
Kevin Feeney
Peter Forsyth
Bristi Gogoi
Beatrice Graham
Hannah Grey
Olivia Grimshaw
Luke Hanna
Nathan Jenko
Suzanne Jordan
Cameron McKelvie
Charles McMillan
Andrew Mellor
Isabella Mighetto
Jennifer Mitchell
Maude Morrison
William Nelson
Naomi Omori
Olivia Ouwehand
Adam Kelvey
Hannah Palacci
Dustin Klinger
Hamish Peddie
James Kimpton
Elliott King
Solomon Lau
Katherine Legh
Robert Leigh-Pemberton
Fay Lomas
Thomas Lowman
Georgia Lynott
Sophia MacAskill
Michael Papadopoulos
Judith Parker
Gabriella Perkins
Rory Platt
James Ross
Ezra Rubenstein
Tanya Sen
Thomas Sheahan
Rosemary Smith
Gregory Stacey
Alexander Stevenson
Sophie Stewart
Susan Sun
Ashmit Thakral
Alexandru Valeanu
Pierre Vila
Yiyi Wang
Jordan Waters
Freya Willetts
Rachel Purkess
Gareth Williams
Thomas Robertson
Yueyue Zhao
Lianne Ramasamy
Matthew Rees
Joseph Robinson
Andrew Yeomans
Stephanie Yiolitou
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The following advanced degrees and certificates were awarded:
(Those results not available at the time of publication will be listed
in the Report for 2013-14)
Doctor of Medicine
Ian Cummings
Doctors of Philosophy
Ellen Border (Biology)
William Brian (Mathematics)
Andrew Charlton (Organic Chemistry)
Lai Sheung Choi (Chemical Biology)
Alex Corkett (Inorganic Chemistry)
Samuel Geen (Physics)
Mahsa Javid (Clinical Sciences)
Seth Johnston (International Relations)
Elham Khatamzas (Clinical Medicine)
Volker Lang (Materials)
Angus Logan (Chemistry)
Lucy Matthews (Clinical Neurology)
James Mithen (Physics)
Edgar Pogna (Biology)
Ioannis Skandalis (Law)
Micaela Sousa (Materials)
Jennifer Tilley (Materials)
Nicholas White (Inorganic Chemistry)
Bachelors of Medicine
Graeme Greenfield (Distinction)
Thomas Moore
Abigail Nye (Distinction)
Bachelors of Civil Law
Katherine Blatchford
Richard Bunworth
Ajay Ratan (Distinction)
Masters of Science
Lewis Anderson (Sociology)
Emily Bridger (African Studies, Distinction)
Claire Fyson (Environmental Change and Management)
John Le Brun (Integrated Immunology)
Charles Marr (Contemporary India)
Edward Moon-Little (Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology)
Enzo Satto (Mathematical and Computational Finance)
Rosalind Shorrocks (Sociology)
Yadi Tang (Mathematical and Computational Finance)
Naomi Wise (Engineering Science)
Masters of Studies
Katherine French (Archaeology, Distinction)
Jasmine Jagger (English)
Thomas Thorpe (Theology)
Masters of Business Administration
Kevin Baum
Nihar Dalmia
Ting-Ting Zhang
Masters of Philosophy
Elizabeth Gourd (Greek and Latin Literature)
Rachel Hicks (Development Studies, Distinction)
Postgraduate Certificate in Education
Thomas Barratt (Modern Languages)
Katherine Holder (English)
Fiona Murray (Religious Education)
Certificate in Diplomatic Studies
Elianne Elbaum
Diploma in Legal Studies
Elena Alvarez Ortega (Distinction)
Florent Hill
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Undergraduate Scholarships
Clementine Hobson
Marco Diciolla
Henry Borrill
Charlotte Meara
Samuel Friggens
Andrew Bennison
Edward Birkett
Elizabeth Brunt
Caitlin Duschenes
Kevin Feeney
Luke Hanna
James Kimpton
Johannes Kombe
Chih-Wei Liu
Alan Miscampbell
Hassaan Mohamed
Maude Morrison
Richard Porteous
Alice Railton
Fay Lomas
Matthew Rees
Tanya Sen
Lucinda Smart
Jonathan Ranstrand
Katherine Rollins
Gregory Stacey
Susan Sun
Gemma Trott
Pierre Vila
Jordan Waters
Freya Willetts
Undergraduate Exhibitions
Martin Bell
Laura Bromley
Harry Burt
Fergus Colquhoun
Olivia Cundy
Alexandra Duffy
Elizabeth Elder
Thomas Elliott
Fred Ellis
Ryonghoon Ha
Sophie Hall-Luke
Joshua Harvey
Charles Hirst
Nicholas Hobhouse
James Ross
Ryan Sarsfield
Emma Sparkes
Helen Sunderland
Emma Tuckley
Clive Eley
Robert Flicek
Alison O’Connor
Stirling Boyd Prize:
Caitlin Mullarke;
proxime accessit:
Tanya Sen
College Prizes and Awards
Warburton Book Prize:
Solomon Lau
Fred Jayatilaka
Benjamin Stanwix
Cheng Wang
Bellot International Law Prize:
Elena Alvarez Ortega
Colin Nicholls QC Prize:
Stuart Sanders
Emily Walport
Christopher Prior Prize for
Mathematics:
Ashmit Thakral
Shuyu Yang
James and Cecily Holladay
Prize:
Alicia Ejsmond-Frey
Graduate Scholarships
John and Irene Sloan Memorial
Prize:
Shibanee Sivanayagam
Emma Walshe
Staszek Welsh
Andrew Yeomans
Nikolaos Baimpas
Christopher Burrows
Celia Campbell
Jonathan Downing
Ros Holmes
Anna Regoutz
Harry Smith
Graduate Prizes
Annette Bazuaye
Hannah Boston
Claudia Comberti
Sally Ball EC Law Prize:
Matthew Rees
Lady Astbury Memorial Prize:
Stuart Sanders
Margaret Howard Essay Prize:
Tom Moore
Peter Fisher Prize:
Benjamin Dive; proxime
accessit: Susan Sun
Richard Hillary Writing
Competition:
Howard Coase,
Kate Niehaus;
honourable mention:
Tara Isabella Burton
Sutro Prize:
Joseph Robinson
R A Knox Prize
Megan Addison (2011-12)
Andrew Bennison
Fergus Colquhoun
Luke Hanna
Eleanor Horrocks (2011-12)
Katrina McCarten (2011-12)
Katherine Rollins
Tanya Sen
David Evers Prize
Elliott King
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THE COLLEGE YEAR
T
SENIOR TUTOR
his academic year saw the five-yearly review of the college’s
Academic Size and Shape Policy. After a series of small-group
meetings with the fellowship and several detailed discussions at
Governing Body, the college has agreed a policy for 2013 to 2018,
which prioritises achieving academic excellence across the board,
from undergraduates, to graduates and Fellows. Key decisions
included looking to raise more postgraduate scholarships and
integrating more postdoctoral researchers into the college.
It is pleasing start to note that in October 2013, at least fourteen
incoming graduates will be wholly or partly funded by Trinity; and—
from very strong fields—our first three non-stipendiary Junior
Research Fellows have been selected (holding other university posts,
but now also benefiting from a college attachment), alongside our
regular three stipendiary Junior Research Fellowships.
Our Finalists appear to have been privy to confidential Governing
Body discussions about how we might raise further the level of
academic achievement: a record thirty-seven students achieved
Firsts, with forty-eight II.1s, two II.2s and no Thirds. This has
brought us to a historic high point of second place (behind New
College, but well ahead of Balliol!) in the Norrington Table. Our aim
is to help all students to achieve the very best result of which they
are capable, and the 2013 cohort has set the bar high for future years.
Valerie Worth
Senior Tutor
T
ACCESS AND ADMISSIONS
he 2012-13 academic year has been particularly successful for
the Access and Admissions programmes. In the undergraduate
admissions process of Michaelmas term, Trinity had an
unprecedented number of applications, representing one of the
largest percentage increases across all Oxford colleges. Many
applicants had attended events run by Trinity, including schools
visits and Open Days, and the numbers applying are testament to the
success of the existing access and outreach strategy, and also to the
increased level of participation and engagement which the college
has with schools and students.
One of the major successes has been the creation of the Access
Ambassadors Scheme. This provides a structure to enhance
undergraduates’ support for events which already exist, and to
encourage existing students to develop their own ideas for outreach
work both within the college and in their former schools. The
establishment of this scheme was in large part due to the hard work
and dedication of the JCR Access and Bursaries representative for
Hilary and Trinity terms 2013, Jessica Small, who has harnessed the
enthusiasm of the JCR. The scheme has already had a huge impact on
the success of recent events, including the summer Open Days, and I
am looking forward to consolidating this relationship with the JCR.
The Open Days in June were again highly popular, and remain the
largest single event which Trinity hosts. Over the course of two days,
we estimate that over 5,000 students, teachers, and parents visited.
Potential applicants were given the opportunity to meet tutors and
undergraduates from all academic disciplines, and to get a sense of
life at Trinity. In particular, we were delighted to welcome a
residential group from the college’s north-east regional link area
which enjoyed an extended welcome programme for two days before
the first Open Day.
Under the University’s regionalisation scheme, I have continued to
work to establish and improve relationships with schools in our link
regions (Oxfordshire and parts of the north-east, including County
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Durham, Darlington, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and
Stockton-on-Tees). Visits from pupils in years 12 and 13 (lower and
upper sixth) to Trinity, and our outbound visits to schools, remain
the core focus of the access and outreach programme.
In the past academic year, Trinity has conducted twenty-one
outbound visits to schools in link areas and received twelve full-day
visits. We are fortunate to have many alumni links in the teaching
world, and many former students have visited Trinity with their own
pupils; alumni working with sixth form groups are encouraged to
contact the college if they would be interested in arranging a visit.
With the establishment of the Access Ambassadors Scheme, we hope
to not only increase the number of events but also to allow
prospective applicants to gain more insight into the admissions
process, and student life.
One of the highlights of the year was the inaugural Oxfordshire
Schools Curriculum Enrichment Day, held in March. Invitations
were sent to maintained sixth forms in Oxfordshire, and over sixty
year-12 pupils from nine different schools attended the event, at
which they had the opportunity to attend a range of sample sessions
given by some of Trinity’s academics: Dr Anil Gomes challenged
the visitors to think about how much they can actually ‘know’ about
the world in which we live, and Dr Steve Sheard demonstrating how
developments in engineering can help with pioneering medical
treatments. These sessions allowed students to experience Oxfordstyle teaching first hand, and develop their own academic interests
as they prepare to apply.
The principal aims of Trinity’s outreach and access strategy remain
the commitment to inform year 12 and 13 pupils about applying to
competitive courses at top universities such as Oxford, and to
encourage applications from all individuals with the ability and the
potential to study here. With the continued assistance of students,
staff, and tutors, we hope to continue to attract the best students from
all backgrounds.
Robert Hyland
Access and Admissions Officer
I
ALUMNI & DEVELOPMENT
t has been another busy year in the Alumni and Development
Office, the highlight of which was undoubtedly the dinner at
Mansion House in June. We are exceptionally grateful to Roger
Gifford (1973) for hosting this splendid event during his term as
Lord Mayor of London.
Earlier in the year, another very welcome addition to the programme
of events was the Varsity Match, where Old Members were able to
bask in an Oxford victory that was unquestionably Trinity-led and
celebrate afterwards in the warmth of the Blues Village. Another
highlight for me was the visit to five cities in the USA, where the
President, Estates Bursar and I met a large number of Old Members
and Friends.
These examples provide just a taste of what was a packed year of
Gaudies, Benefactors’ Lunches, another Music Society concert and
dinner and Carol Services, to name but a few. The organisation of
all these events was handled smoothly and efficiently by Sarah Beal,
who has slotted seamlessly into her role in the office since joining
us in August 2012.
We continue to provide Old Members and Friends with up-to-theminute news through a range of media under the leadership of Tom
Knollys. The website is regularly updated, as are Facebook, Twitter
and LinkedIn, all of which have a growing number of ‘followers’.
These newer forms of communication, which include general emails
and a short electronic newsletter, run in conjunction with the
traditional Annual Report and Newsletters and they all reflect Tom’s
talent in presenting information in an eye-catching and informative
way, but he relies on members and friends to provide him with the
stories that make up the news.
This has been a very successful year in terms of fundraising, with
the 2012 telethon raising £175,000, which is more than any telethon
since 2004. What is particularly encouraging is that over 70 per cent
of those contacted during the telethon made a donation. The success
of the telethon and Annual Fund mailings are a reflection of the
dedication and hard work of Miriam Hallatt, who recruited an
excellent team of student callers and subsequently spent hours
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writing to everyone who was called. We have also received a number
of substantial gifts this year and welcomed eight new members to
the Ralph Bathurst Society.
We could not be more grateful to everyone who has made a gift to
Trinity, whatever the amount—your support is helping us to fund a
range of projects that includes bursaries, fellowships and buildings.
Many readers will be aware of the growing pressure to increase the
overall giving rate, which has been at just below 20 per cent of Old
Members for the last two years. In part this is because we will need
to approach a number of Trusts and Foundations for support in
coming years and we will need to demonstrate widespread existing
support, but it is also because the University is keen to achieve a
level of alumni giving commensurate with that of the Ivy League in
the United States. If you are able to help by making a gift during
2013-14, this would be enormously appreciated.
The work of the office depends upon the provision of accurate data,
whether in the form of updated addresses, entry of gifts or statistics
for the University and underpinning everyone’s work is that done by
Andrew Clinch, who undertakes a range of tasks including a monthly
bank reconciliation with an enviable patience and ‘unflappability’.
I extend my thanks to everyone for helping to make this such an
interesting and successful year.
Sue Broers
Director of Development
BENEFACTORS –
AUGUST 2012 TO JULY 2013
1937
Professor D W K Kay
1939
Mr P Kinnersley
1940
Major J Harper-Nelson
1941
Professor C F Cullis
Mr P T Currie
Mr D C Humphreys
Mr D le B Jones CB
Mr P Sleightholm
1942
Mr M R Caroe
The Lord Digby
The late Mr E R Giles
Mr J W C Mooney
Major General H G Woods
CB MBE MC DL
1943
Mr R C Bond
Mr J M P G Campbell
Mr E B Garsed
Mr M J Gent OBE
The late Mr R G MacLean
Mr J A W Whitehead
1944
Mr J M Barrowclough
Mr C W Birkett
The late Professor G I Bonner
Mr R V Cox
Mr M E S Evans
The late Dr G T Haysey
Professor Sir John Rowlinson
Mr P C Thomas
1945
Mr F J Barrett
Mr J W Bateson
Mr W S Cave
Dr I A Hill
Mr P A M James
Sir Thomas Macpherson CBE
MC TD DL
Mr B D I McKenzie
Mr J A Morrell TD
Mr W R Norman
Mr H F R Perrin
Mr R M T Raikes
Group Captain D B Robinson
The Revd E N Staines
Mr J C Woodcock OBE
1946
Dr P J Barber
Mr R A Bradley
Sir John McFarland Bt
Mr A M Stuart-Smith
1947
Mr R M Griffiths
Mr D Henderson
Mr T W Mason
Mr H M O’Nians
Mr R W L B Rickman
Dr A M Smith
Mr J A Worsley
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1948
The Rt Revd R O Bowlby
Mr M J M Clarke
Mr T W E Fortescue Hitchins
Mr P T Gordon-Duff-Pennington
OBE DL
Mr R O Graham
Mr A G S Grellier
The late Mr D F Hodson CBE
The Lord Kingsdown KG PC
The Hon I T M Lucas CMG
Dr J A Mitchell
Sir Patrick Moberly KCMG
Mr P P J Sterwin
Mr W D N Vaughan
1949
Mr G R Barkes MA
Professor J Black
Mr J C Browne
The Revd F B Bruce
Mr R W Ellis CBE
Dr A D Ferguson
Mr H J M Hambrook
Dr D T D Hughes
The Lord Kindersley DL
Major J G McGowan
Mr T B Owen CBE
Dr C M Staveley
Mr P L Wright
1950
Anonymous
Anonymous
Professor R L Baldwin
Mr J Blackwell DL
Mr J H F Bown
Mr J F Duke
Mr A G Fathers
Professor O W Furley
Sir David Goodall GCMG
Sir John Hall Bt
Mr C E H Hull
Mr K M A Ryves-Hopkins
Mr D G M Sanders OBE
Mr J W R Shakespeare CMG LVO
Mr D J Walker
Mr R M Young
1951
Mr T B H Brunner
Mr P G Corran
His Hon Judge Hordern QC
Mr H W Joynt
Mr R E Mavor
Professor J F Morrison
Mr J C Page MBE
The late Mr D Parnwell
Mr G S P Peacocke
Sir Patrick Walker KCB
Mr R J A C Wallace-Turner
1952
Mr M J L Attfield
Professor P A A Back CBE
Mr C R C Bevis
Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey Bt
Sir Anthony Cleaver
Mr C A K Cullimore
Dr P Dagley
The Revd M D Drury
Mr C W M Grose
Mr S D Lawrence
The Revd A W Morrison
Mr R Salter
Mr C M Smith
Mr G C Smith
Mr A D Stewart
1953
Mr F C G Bradley
Mr D F C Evans
Mr T F Godfrey-Faussett
Dr C R T Hughes
Mr W N M Lawrence
Mr J E Llewelyn
The Revd Prebendary
D M Morris
Dr B I Parsons
Mr A W L Paterson
Mr P S Trevis
Mr J F E Upton
Dr B Warburton
1954
Sir Hugo Brunner KCVO JP
Mr R A Dewhurst
The Revd Canon A C Hall
Dr A H M Hoare
Mr N J T Jaques
Mr F M Merifield
Mr J A Millbourn
Mr A H Morse
Professor E R Pfefferkorn
Major General T D G Quayle CB
Mr A G Randall
Dr I A Stewart
Dr R E S Tanner
1955
Mr J S Allan
Mr H R M Currey
Mr W G I de la Mare
Mr R B F Ingham
Mr A D Jenkins
Mr C A H Kemp
Professor Sir Fergus Millar
Dr D T Protheroe
Mr W A Sinclair
Mr W K Topley
Mr M J V Wilkes
1956
Mr R M S Allan
Mr C G Briscoe
Mr S T Corcoran
Mr D J F Fecci
Mr M Gainsborough
Professor J M B Hughes
The late Mr R S Miller
Professor M A Murch CBE
Mr D C Nelson
Mr J A Paine
Mr B R Rea
Mr A Richardson
Dr T W Roberts
The Revd A C Rogerson
Mr F N P Salaman
Mr S L Tanner
Mr J R Taylor
Mr J C E Webster OBE
1957
Anonymous
Anonymous
Professor J B Brow
Mr D C Burrows
The Revd N J Charrington
Mr D J Culley
Dr I Flintoff
Mr D J E Foster
Mr G N Guinness
Sir Brian Jenkins GBE
Mr L D Jenkins
Mr R M McNaught
Mr A J Pull
Mr M G L Thomas
Mr W J Uzielli
The Revd G F Warner
Mr C M J Whittington
Dr C B Williams
Mr M St J Wright
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1958
Mr J B Adams
Mr M F Attenborough
Mr J H Bottomley
Mr R H Brown
Mr R A Daniell
Mr A C J Donaldson
His Hon Judge G O Edwards QC
Mr P B Farmer
Mr A F Hohler
Mr D H Killick
Mr A G P Lang
Mr A T Lowry
Dr D J Pullen
Mr S D Rangeley-Wilson
Mr A J Redpath
Mr I S T Senior
Mr R S Simpson
Mr J A B Thompson
Dr G A Tindale OBE
Mr R B Wainwright
Mr R D Welham
Mr B R W William-Powlett
1959
Mr P M H Andreae DL
Mr D F Beauchamp
Mr R J M Butler
Mr R L Cordell
Dr M J Elliott
Mr P G A Eyre
Mr R C B Hulbert
Mr A C Hutton
Dr D G Jones
Mr B D Knowles
Dr J I McGill
Professor D E Minnikin
Mr P H Parsons
Dr H E R Preston
Mr J L Roberts
Dr G M Shepherd
Mr I G Thorburn
Mr R A Travis
Mr H W Turcan
1960
Mr J S Bennett
Mr T A Bird
Mr W H Bittel
Mr J D Blake
Professor T R Brown
The late Mr R H Burleigh
Dr P J Burrows
Mr J H Flemming
Professor Sir Malcolm Green
Mr R J B Guise
Mr D F G Lewis
The Revd R A Morris
Mr J C Nowell-Smith
Mr J M Pargeter
Mr F A Smith
1961
Mr R P F Barber OBE
Mr R O Bernays
Mr T G Bewley
Mr C J S Brearley CB
Professor J F Cartwright
Dr G A H Chapman
Dr G Georghallides
Sir Charles Gray
Mr C J Hemsley
Mr J G Hill
Mr J S Jeffrey
Mr R B Lockett
Dr J Loken
Professor R R A Marlin
Mr P B Morgan
Mr M E Pellew CVO
The Lord Petre
Mr C E Sundt
Dr H R N Trappes-Lomax
Mr W J Turcan
Mr A W Warren
Mr R N S Williams
1962
Mr D Armes
Mr G P E Gelber
Dr D M Gillam
Captain P W Hanley USN
Mr M J Hatch
Mr W J M Huntley
Professor C P Jackson
Mr J S Lowings
Mr C J Marsay
Mr K J Merron
Mr C P Robinson
Professor J D Sheridan
The late Mr A W Stevenson QC
Dr G P Summers
Dr J Tepper Marlin
Mr A G Thorning
1963
Anonymous
Mr M B Baldwin
Mr P J Barlow MBE TD
Mr J A Broom
Mr R E B Browne
Mr R C Chatfield
Mr N M Fraser
Professor C Hall
Dr R D Hinge
Mr N F Hodson
Mr A R E Laurie
Mr R L Rusby
Mr M H C Symonds
Mr W N F Walsh
Mr S W Westbrook
1964
Anonymous
Mr R J Anderson
Mr J Chiswell Jones
Mr R F Foster
Mr A M Fowler
The Revd Professor W Kay
Mr N E Melville
Professor J Morrill
Mr V J Obbard
The Revd Canon Professor
J Richardson
Professor L C L Skerratt
Mr J H Stroud
1965
Anonymous
Anonymous
Dr L H Bailey
Dr J H W Cramp
Vice Admiral
M P Gretton CB CVO
Mr D P Jones
Mr P C Keevil
Mr M A Lavelle
Dr S A Mitton
Professor D N Sedley
The Revd Dr F J Selman
Mr K A Stevenson
Mr D C Unwin QC
Mr M J B Vann
Mr W I Wolsey
1966
Mr R G Asthalter
Mr C R Barlas
Mr J L A Cary OBE
Mr P B C Collins
Mr H A Elphick
Mr I P K Enters
Professor D Fairer
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Mr I M Fyfe
Mr M S E Grime QC
Mr P G Hollings
Mr W Hood
Dr A S B Hughes
Mr A J S Payne
The Revd Dr R A Roberts
Mr I D P Thorne
Mr M S Travis
Mr R A West
Dr M C K Wiltshire
1967
Mr M Bevan
Professor P Collier CBE
Mr P K O Crosthwaite
Mr C J Cook
Professor A M Grant
Mr N W Jackson
Mr R C F Martin
Mr R B Morse
Professor P D Mosses
Mr D W Parker
Mr R S Parker CB
Mr G M Strawbridge
Mr D I Twomey
Mr M F M E Van den Berghe
1968
Mr S C D Bankes
Mr P J Bretherton
Mr A J Z Czerniawski
Mr O N F Fairclough
Mr J A H Greenfield
Mr C Harvey
Mr C D James
Dr S H Large
Mr A J G Moore
The Revd R R D Spears
Mr C P Watts
Dr J F Whelpton
1969
Professor J F Biebuyck
Mr M F Doswell
The Rt Revd C W Fletcher OBE
Mr P W Hare LVO
Mr N D E Inge
Dr C S Keeling-Roberts
Mr J E K Kimber
Professor R S G Knight
Mr G F O’Shea
Mr C M D Setterington
Mr J B H C Singer
The Revd Canon Professor
M West
1970
Anonymous
Mr M Austerberry
Professor B E Cain
Dr N A Dunn
Mr M L Gloak
Mr H B Inman
Mr J P Kennedy-Sloane
Mr M L L Lapper
Mr T R Marshall
Mr A M McQuade
The Revd C Padgitt
Mr D M Salisbury
1971
Anonymous
Anonymous
Mr S J Browning
Mr M J Eland
Mr P Fay
Mr M Franklin
Dr C J Heath
Mr S E Jones
Mr P J Lough
Dr V Lowe
Mr R L Nathan
Dr N E Reynolds
Mr M W J Thorne
Dr D P Yau
1972
The Rt Revd John Arnold
Mr H D Burnett
Mr C M P Bush
Dr J D H Chadwick
Mr N B Charlton
Mr E A Doran
Mr T Fraser
Mr C H Parker
The Revd Dr J Reader
Mr R D Spurling
Dr C D G Stuart-Buttle
1973
Anonymous
Mr R E Ainsbury
Mr C A S Fawcett
Mr M A Gadsby Peet
Mr A J Hewitt
Mr A J Hindle
Dr K A Manley
Mr A A Murphy
Mr A S Newman
Mr O C North
Mr R V Y Setchim
Mr R A Wood
1974
Mr D J Eastgate
Mr J F Fletcher
Mr J M Foster
Mr P J Horsburgh
Mr R M Hunter
Mr P M Levine
Mr R H Levine
Mr P W Lodge
Mr M H Ridley
Mr H Shulman
Mr N F St Aubyn
1975
Mr J P Brown
Mr J Clipper
Mr C T Couzens
Mr M Edelsten
Mr D G M Hofmeyr
Dr W R Lucas
Mr C A Pember
Mr G L Riddiford
Dr J L Speller
Mr D G Williams
Mr A R Wilson
1976
Mr J C Blackburn
Mr S M Coombes
Mr E S Dismorr
Mr H J Emmens
Mr V N Freeman
Mr M J Haddrell
Mr M J Harrison
Mr P J Lamphee
Mr G J Nash
Dr J N Newton
Mr M A Pepera
Mr C D Randell
Mr D I Reynolds
Mr R C Sagrott
Mr J R Silver
Mr R Weaver
1977
Dr P R Abbott
Mr R Barron
Mr P S Beck
Mr R L Bolton
Mr D J Cattermole
Mr S J Charles
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Mr R E Cobbett
Mr R J Farmer
Mr J A N Hopewell
Mr S F P Morecroft
Mr A J Morgan
The Revd D M Morris
Dr C G Oakley
Mr K M Stephan
Mr N R Williams
1978
Anonymous
Mr J N Atkins
Mr S J Bruce
Dr G N F Chapman
Mr C M Fairey
Mr P J Fosh
Mr J M Franks
Mr A Goddard
Mr K J Hambling
Mr C H Hanson
Mr J Hepwood
Mr T J Herbert
Mr J N D Hibler
Mr A D B Hughes
Mr J B Hunter
Mr D B James
Mr D W Jones
Mr S M Lord
Mr R C F Rea
Mr R M M Trapp
Dr P D Warren
Mr G A Wheeler-Carmichael
Mr A H Woodman
1979
Anonymous
Mr I N Abrey
Mr T S Banks
Mrs C M Beck
Mrs J E Byam Shaw
Mrs G Chapman
Professor M F Davis
Mrs V A Elson
Miss O M E Hetreed
Mr D Moffat
Mr H E J Montgomery DL
Mr J A C Mooney
Mr J M W R Morris
Mr J R Pascall
Mrs C J Sants
Mr R C Wright
1980
Anonymous
The Revd Professor
M D Chapman
Dr N Cleave
Mr R Drolet
Mr S Edelsten
Mrs W L Harvey
The Hon J A Hussey
Mr J M Karas QC
Mr S R Martin
Miss L H Mason
Ms K L Mavor
Miss M McDonald
Mrs S M O’Brien
Mr P J Pinto
Mr J S Saunders
Mr N A Sloan
Mr D O Van Oss
Mr P J Williamson
1981
Mr E Akhund
Dr C J Astbury
Mr S J Beckett
Ms V R Blades
Mrs F M Butcher
Ms L L A Clay
The Revd T M Codling
Mr S Ferris
Mr S D Fraser
Mr A S Gillespie
Mr G A Hudson
Mrs C J Jackson
Mrs J M Lashly
Ms R E Livingstone
Mrs S M Lupton
Dr D J Markwell
Mr J D B McGrigor
Mrs N J Mellett
Mr G C Murray
Mr C W Parshall
Mr C J Reilly
Mr A S C Rix
Mr M C Taylor
Ms A C Window
Mr D T W Young
1982
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Dr N J Astbury DM
Mrs D J Chalmers
Mrs G A Gallois
Professor R G Gameson
Mrs S D Hardcastle
Ms A Henderson-Begg
Mr G Inoue
Miss K D Lassila
Dr J A Liddle
Mr R A Lindsay
Ms S M Lloyd
Dr R C Ratnavel
Mr P J Stevens
Mr H D A Stuart
Mr C D A Tchen
Ms E L Thody
Ms P Vijaykrishnan
1983
Anonymous
Mr J R Barty
Ms R M Beasley
Mr W A Carter
Mr J R Cashen
Miss I A Castellano
Mrs C F S Clackson
Mr W R Crocker
Ms W J Farmer
Dr J Fletcher
Mr R W Hanks
Mr G F Hurst
Mr D H Innes
Ms M E Jenks
Mrs S Lewisohn
Ms N Massen
Mr J D McNeile
Mr R P Paretzky
Miss K M Sand
Mrs A C Sheepshanks
Mr I A Taylor
Mrs F M Tchen
Dr S A Wolton
1984
Mrs B F Ancona
Mr P C P Bourdillon
Mr M M Brooks
Mr D D Eaton
Dr F M Gameson
Mr J M R Glasspool
Mr B P Hollins
Miss P M K Mayfield
Mr R L Michel
Mr Y Rahman
Dr K W Y Tan Bhala
Mr D J Tombs
Mrs H C Williams
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Miss M L Acton
Mr N H F Andrews
Mr M S Baker
Professor R K Bhala
Mrs G L Blair
Mr J E Brown
Mr P A Davies
Mr A P S Gee
Mr J N P Gilliland
Mrs C M Hart Liddle
Mr M S Harwood
Ms R Jordano Shore
Mr P M Kerr
Mr B E Masojada
Ms A Nicholls
Miss C H Rankin
Dr I L Skolnik MD
Mrs A H L Smith
Mr J Spence
Mr J A Thompson
Mr W V Wellesley
1986
Mr S J Cordell
Mr G N Eaborn
Mr D N Evans
Dr S A Galloway
Mrs S M Mewawalla
Dr J A Michie
Ms N Narain
Mr M T Oakeley
Professor G S Ogg
Mr D S Penkower
Mr A J Skates
Mr N J Thompson
Dr S J Tucker
The Revd M R Wood
1987
Mr M J Byrne
Mr W J Fernandez
Dr A R Gande
Mr C W Hammon
Mrs A F Hutchinson
Mr K E J Jordan
Mr A J Last
Dr N P Ludlow
Mr M R Tillett
Mr M G Tubbs
Mrs A C Turner
Mrs J L Urquhart
1988
Anonymous
Anonymous
Mrs S P K Arden
Mr W J Bayer
Dr E C Boswell
Mr P A P Carmody
Mr S W S Chiu
Mr S K Devani
Mr R S Dinning
Mr A H Forsyth
Dr A R Graydon
Dr E F Griffin
Dr M R Heal
Mr J A Jameson
Ms K J Kapur
Dr M A Ludlow
Dr S Y W Shiu
Mr D P Tomlinson
The Revd Dr S M Wood
1989
Anonymous
Mr G M Brandman
Mrs C D Brumage
Mr C Bull
Mr T Drew
Dr S L Garland
Mrs T P Garland
Mr P M Gillam
Mrs G C James
Mr J A S Letourneau
Mr E R Moore
Mr M A J Pitt
Mrs Y M Pollitt
Ms G M Quenby
Miss F P D Wiley
Dr M D Witham
1990
Anonymous
Anonymous
Mr E A Chadwyck-Healey
Mrs E R Davison
Mr N D Hallows
Mr R A Lamb
Mr A R Lawson
Mr B P Limbu
Ms H S Lowe
Mrs H R Murray
Mr I D Oliver
Dr J C Pinot de Moira
Mr A L Wilkins
Miss N V N Wilson
Mr D A J Wood-Collins
1991
Anonymous
Anonymous
Mr S R Cashman
Dr R Daniels
Mr N W Gummerson
Mr B Hall
Mr T E W Hawkins
Dr P M Hayton
Dr P M Hayton
Mrs N S Huet
Mrs Z King
Mrs K Maidment
Miss S E Oakley
Mr W J S Raffin
Mr R J See
1992
Mr J M Allan
Mr P C Collins
Dr R Forster
Dr R A King
Mr A Maidment
Dr J R Mosedale
Miss S M Pettigrew
Mrs S M Riley
Mr P A S Rozario-Falcone
Mr M A Schulz
Mr N M Steele
Mr R F S Thomson
Mr G C R Watson
Mrs M S Wickham
1993
Mr P A Barrass
Mr R W Dawkins
Mr P M Gilbert
Mr A J Gross
Mr T H R Hill
Mr J S Horn
Mr R A Keenan
Mr A S Lam
Mr S R J Marshall
Professor Dr A Quadt
Mr J P Snaith
Ms S C Sotheran
Dr A L Strathern
Dr C A Suthrell
Dr R L Thompson
Professor O S Todorov
Mrs C A Wolfenden
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1994
Anonymous
Anonymous
Miss I S C Berkeley
Mrs D S Bisby
Mr T R Blundell
Dr R O Bowyer
Mr S J Chiavarini
Dr C A Clover
Mr S P Donnan
Mrs E Georgiou Loizides
Mr T W Greeves
Dr E Z Gulliford
Mrs S J Hawkins
Mr M R Howells
Mr R I James
Dr A I Khan
Mr S J Nathan
Mr D J Nicholson
Mr A J North
Miss M Peart
Dr S Pierse
Miss E Segal
Mr B D T Shankland
Dr N A L Tamblyn
Mrs C E Taylor
Mr C P O Taylor
Dr D J Towsey
Mr M Weekes
1995
Dr K M Awenat
Mrs E C R Bosley
Dr J M Curran
Mrs C de Jongh
The Hon M C Finlay
Mrs T C C Fressdorf-Schelzius
Mr S I Goldberg
Mr N J Gray
Mr D R Kellett
Mr L G Large
Mrs V E Milner
Mrs H M North
Ms E N Price
Mrs N F Shinner
Mr J J Westhead
1996
Mr A H Anderson
Dr P D Catalino
Mrs H Chen
Mrs K J Craig
Dr T J Craig
Mr P A G Dillon
Mr J M Ellacott
Dr E R Hayton
Mrs H A Hudson
Mr J R Maltby
Mr B Nemeth
Dr R A Oliver
Mr D P Vosper Singleton
1997
Miss H R Bacon-Shone
Mr W A J Beck
Mrs R E A Coleman
Mr C J Good
Dr E C J Good
Mr A M Hull
Mr P McCloghrie
Mrs D E Miller ACA
Mr S W Miller
Mr S M Ng
Mr G J Samuel-Gibbon
Mrs S A Samuel-Gibbon
Miss H R Santer
Miss C L Tedd
Mrs K L Vyvyan
1998
Anonymous
Mr C D Blair
Dr P D S Burnett
Mr W A Charles
Ms S A Ellis-Jones
Mr B S Halfacre
Dr B L Hillier
Mr R S Holland
Mr J G Jansen
Mr T M Nelson
Miss C R Taylor
Dr E R Towers
Dr W J C Van Niekerk
Mr M Waring
Mrs E J Watson
Mr S J Wrigley
1999
Miss V L E Ailes
Mr S R Brodie
Dr N Doshi
Mr J B M Fisher
Mrs C D Fraser
Mr N Grennan-Heaven
Mr J V G Harvey
Mrs A L Johnson
Mr M W McCutcheon
Mr B Morris
Mr C S Murray
Miss K A Pawson
Mr A Peacock
Mrs I P Powles
Mrs J M Powlesland
Mr M Quieto
Mr S C Sanham
Mr S E Scanlan
Mr U Steinle
Miss C E Thomas
Mrs S Tollemache
2000
Dr H M Al-Mossawi
Miss F E Arricale
Ms L C Barnes
Mr C E H Cook
Mr R B Francis
Ms K E L Garbutt
Dr J B Goodall
Dr N J Hassan
Mr L C Holden
Mr J D Hutchins
Dr A R Kendal
Mr T E Leonard
Dr B L Palmer
Mr A S Powlesland
Miss S Ramaya
Mr E Rugman
Mr J R Sanders
Mr R Truffer
Mr G T Webber
2001
Mr N Barlow
Mr J A Chesculescu
Mrs C A Clipper
Dr N E Faull
The Hon A R Fellowes
Mr T E Fellows
Mr C M Fitzsimons
Mr B J Fletcher
Mrs D Fowkes
Mr A R Johnson
Mr D Johnston
Mr J H R Leslie
Miss E A Osman
Dr K E Shipman
Miss K S Stothard
Dr S E Symes
Mrs E J Wilson
2002
Ms V Bastino
Mr A S Clipper
Mr M D Conway
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Mr M Dewhirst
Mr S A Dhanani
Miss R Dickinson
Ms H S Eastwood
Dr M R Foreman
Mr R Geoghegan
Mrs C F C House
Dr M H Mathias
Miss N Patel
Mr T Pickthorn
Miss V Rees
Mr S Surendra
Dr W H E Sweet
2003
Anonymous
Miss S L Beal
Dr E Flossmann
Miss H J Gilbey
Mr E M Hughes
Mr J J S Kueh
Mr G D O’Connor
Dr C O H Parkinson
Mr M A Pearson
Mr M C Swan FRCS
Dr J Whitaker
2004
Anonymous
Dr L Allan
Mrs L S Barlow
Miss E F Biagioli
Mr G D Cameron
Mrs L J Douglas
Miss F E Hedges
Mrs L Kyte de Gonzalez
Mr M J Lawes
Mrs E J Mackay
Mr I C Mackay
Mr M Mallen
Mr J C Rowles Nicholson
Mr K L Townsend
Mr S Ward
Mr J D Wright
2005
Miss R M Barrance
Mr M S Brown
Ms R E Cook
Miss H M Curtis
Mr P Davis
Ms L Duboc
Miss J M Galloway
Dr K M Lewis
Miss K E Parsons
Mr W M Randall
Mr B D Raynor
Dr D S Sahota
2006
Mr G V Brooks
Miss L Campbell-Colquhoun
Mrs H E Curwell-Parry
Dr O Curwell-Parry
Ms S G Dogherty
Dr E Forestan-Barnes
Dr M B Hoppa
Dr H R Hunt-Grubbe
Miss L Marjason
Dr M C Mekat
Mr O Plant
Mr M Robinson
2007
Anonymous
Mr D J Kaestle
Mr M J T Mair
Dr J Zhu
2008
Mr A S Hearne
2009
Mr A M Down
Mr J W Fitzpatrick
Mr & Mrs J K Duschenes
Mr & Mrs J Elder
Lord & Lady Fellowes
Mr & Mrs A S Gardner
2010
Mr P Gilligan-Hackett
Miss R A L Smith
Mr & Mrs JP Hackett
Miss A Hall
Honorary and Sir Thomas
Dr & Mrs C Hannon
Pope Fellows who are not
Dr R & Dr S Harvey
Mr & Mrs G P Heywood
Old Members, Fellows,
Mrs J Hill
Former Fellows and Staff
Mr & Mrs R Hiorns
Mrs F S Broers
Mr & Mrs T J Hopcroft
Mr P G M Brown
Dr C & Dr S Hotham
Dr G de Jager
Mr D Howarth
Mrs M J E Hallatt
Mr & Mrs N C Huxtable
Mr & Mrs J Hunt-Grubbe
Mr & Mrs K Johnson
Mr T E Knollys
Mrs E Kimpton
Mr K J S Knott
Dr J Leheny (in memory of
Dr P J Moody
Dr J Pellew
Mr Dennis Burden)
Sir Ivor Roberts KCMG
Mr & Mrs G Lynott
Dr T A Watt
Mr A McMillan
The Revd Canon T S M Williams Mrs E Meath Baker
Mr & Mrs T P Morrell
Friends
Mr & Mrs M Musson
Anonymous
Mr G Newman
Anonymous
Dr & Mrs M Papadopoulos
Anonymous
Mr & Mrs P Primavera
Anonymous
Mr & Mrs N C Purkess
Dr C & Dr M Alveyn
Mrs A Richardson
Mr N Armstrong-Flemming
Mr & Mrs R Routley
Mrs C J Banszky
Mr & Mrs M J Sidders
Mrs C Small
Miss H Bickerstaffe
Mr & Mrs M Smith
Mr & Mrs A M Caplin
Mr P Tonkin
Mr C & Dr C Catterall
Dr K Trivedi
Mr A Colman
Mr W R van Dijk DDS
Mr & Mrs A Crawford
Mr A Walton
Mr P & Dr R Cundy
Mr & Mrs R D White
Mr & Mrs P D Dean
Mr & Mrs R Willetts
Mr & Mrs A Dogherty
Ms M S Williams
Mr T S Dowd
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Members of the Ralph Bathurst
Society
Anonymous
Mr J B Adams
Mr J S Allan
Companies and Trusts
Anonymous
Mr R M S Allan
Anonymous
Mr P M H Andreae DL
Ernst & Young Foundation
Mr N Armstrong-Flemming
Barclays Bank Plc
Lord Ashburton KG, KCVO, DL
Classics Conclave
Mr D F Beauchamp
Everyclick
The Hon M J Beloff QC
Historic Houses Association
& Mrs J Beloff
Thames and Chilterns Region Mr C W Birkett
Medimmune Inc
Mr J Blackwell DL
OUEM
Mr P G M Brown
Takeda Pharmaceuticals North
Mr S J Bruce
America Inc
Sir Hugo Brunner KCVO JP
The Trinity Society
Mr J H K Brunner
Contemporary Watercolours
Mr T B H Brunner
Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey Bt
Mr L Chester
Sir Anthony Cleaver
Mr P C Collins
Mr G R Cooper JP
Mr P K O Crosthwaite
Mr C G V Davidge OBE
Dr G de Jager
Mr R A Dewhurst
Mr R Drolet
Mr S Edelsten
& Ms A C Window
Mr S G Errington CBE DL
Mr D S Ewart
Mr D B Farrar
Mr C A S Fawcett
Mr S Forster
Mr A H Forsyth
Sir Roger Fry CBE
Mr A S Gillespie
Mr J M R Glasspool
Sir Charles Gray
Dato’ Robert Tan &
Dato’ Soo Min Yeoh
Mr & Mrs B Yeomans
Mr D I S Green
Mr V H Grinstead
Sir John Hall Bt
Mr W R Haskell
Sir Christopher Hogg
Mr A F Hohler
Mr P J Horsburgh
Mrs G Howard
Mr & Mrs R Hunt-Grubbe
Mr N J T Jaques
Sir Brian Jenkins GBE
Professor D W K Kay
Mr P C Keevil
Mr R B Landolt
Professor J W Last CBE
Mr P M Levine
Mr C J Marsay
Mr T R Marshall
Mr A G McClellan
Mr R L Michel
Sir Patrick Moberly KCMG
Mr A W Morgan
Mr J A Nelson-Jones
Mr D A Newton
Mr J A Paine
Mr C H Parker
Mr R S Parker CB
Mr J H Pattisson
Mr G D B Pearse
Mr S B Pearson
Dr J Pellew
Mr H S K Peppiatt
Mr N V Radford
Mr C D Randell
Mr R L Richards
Mr M H Ridley
Mr G C Rittson-Thomas
Mr W R Saïd
Mr F N P Salaman
Mr D M Salisbury
Lady Sants
Mr I S T Senior
Mr R V Y Setchim
Mr J W R Shakespeare CMG
LVO
Mr H Shaw
Mr A Shivdasani
Mr J B H C Singer
Mr A W W Slee
Dr C H Smith
Professor Sir Edwin Southern
Mr J Spence
Mrs J Steel
Dr A Stern
Mr G M Strawbridge
Dato' Robert Tan
& Dato' Soo Min Yeoh
Mr S L Tanner
Professor G L Thomas
Mr A G Tyrie
Mr W D N Vaughan
Mr S P Vivian
Mr D A P Vracas
Dr T A Watt
Mr J C E Webster OBE
Mr C M J Whittington
Mr S C Willes
Dr C B Williams FRCP
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I
ARCHIVE REPORT
t is always a pleasure to welcome visitors to the Archive Reading
Room, and we are glad when people pause to admire some of the
items that we have on display. The Archive has some fine exhibits,
which range from pewter rowing tankards to Claret Club dessert
plates, from Terence Rattigan’s typewriter to Peter Carey’s collection
of replica land-mines, and from knuckle-bone cobbles unearthed in
the Fellows’ Garden to a mounted piece of masonry once chipped
off the Balliol College wall. It’s hard to miss one new acquisition of
2013—a large plastic Heinz tomato ketchup dispenser acquired from
the Hall via steward Jon Flint. This is an important and iconic
artefact of early twenty-first century Trinity, and quite rightly the
pride and joy of the Fellow Archivist. Less immediately obvious but
considerably more beautiful is an eight-inch silver oar that was
donated by Mike Baldwin (1963). Purchased from Powell & Son on
the High Street, the oar is inscribed with the name of Arthur V
Dobson (1870), who rowed number three in the crew that won the
Trinity College Challenge Fours of 1872.
Not one visitor has spotted the oldest item to have appeared on our
shelves during the past year. Dating, we believe, from the Civil Wars,
it is a musket ball that was discovered in the garden some years ago
by Ally Maclay (Workshop Assistant 1976–2001), and rediscovered
by Bryan Ward-Perkins as he temporarily vacated his office. There
were many dangers and privations to be endured during the Siege
of Oxford (1644–5). Most undergraduate members of the University
had fled and the colleges were full of royalist courtiers, officers, and
their families. Our musket bullet is a very tangible evocation of an
incident that took place in the spring of 1645, on a small tree-topped
‘mount’ in the north-eastern part of the garden. The occasion was
recorded in the memoirs of Ann Fanshawe, the young wife of the
Prince of Wales’ Secretary for War, Sir Richard Fanshawe. On
23 February 1645 the couple’s first child was born. The next day he
was christened by Trinity’s President Hannibal Potter, but tragically,
baby Harrison lived for only fifteen days. It was not until May that
Lady Fanshawe ventured outdoors for the first time since the birth
and death of her son, and she was strolling in the garden with her
father when they heard
drums beat in the highway under the garden wall. My father
asked me if I would go up upon the mount and see the
soldiers march... I said yes, and went up, leaning my back
upon the tree that grew upon the mount. The commander
seeing us there, in compliment gave us a volley of shot, and
one of their muskets being loaded shot a brace of bullets not
two inches above my head as I leaned to the tree; for which
mercy and deliverance I praise God. [Ann H Fanshawe, The
Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe (London and New York, 1907), 31–3.]
The accession that spans the greatest geographical distance came
from Christopher Briscoe (1956) and his cousin William Briscoe
Bevan. They have deposited in the Archive a small but fascinating
family and business archive, supported by some very useful
published works. ‘Briscoe & Co’ began with William Briscoe—‘the
Founder’—who in 1781, at the age of 22, opened a hardware
business in Wolverhampton. Two years later he entered into a
partnership with two others and began shipping goods to Jamaica,
and from there the company expanded, opening branches in North
America, Australia, and New Zealand. The Trinity connection
includes Christopher’s grandfather George (1880) and his father
Walter (1923). Particularly nice are the ‘wet books’, leather bound
volumes of carbon-copied letters that kept the business running
smoothly across eleven thousand miles. On a more light-hearted
note, we also enjoyed ‘the Briscoe Golden Treasury’, a file of comic
verses dating from a year spent by Walter in the firm’s Melbourne
office in the 1920s.
Another member of Trinity with antipodean connections was Charles
Cannan (Fellow 1884–98), whose parents David and Jane Cannan
sailed to Melbourne in 1853, as David took a job with a company
selling prefabricated houses during the gold rush. Many of Jane’s
letters are in the Trinity Archive (others, and her paintings, are in the
National Archives of Australia) and they were richly mined as a
source for The Iron House: Jane Cannan and the Rush for
Melbourne, published this year in paperback by a descendant of the
family, Crescy Cannan. Jane’s letters are long and vivid, written
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closely and crossed on fragile light-weight paper, and we are very
grateful to Crescy for a complete set of transcripts of the letters,
which will be made available for the assistance of all future users of
this collection.
Charles Cannan arrived at Trinity in the middle of a building rush
that saw a dramatic change in the college’s appearance—the
development of the Front Quadrangle in 1883–5. We were glad to
receive from Peter Fay (1971) three framed nineteenth-century prints
of Trinity ‘before’, including two engravings by J Le Keux, depicting
the Chapel and garden, which were published in James Ingram’s
Memorials of Oxford (1937). It is always interesting to compare
prints with photographs, and we thank Nicola Morris (née King,
1995) who has loaned for copying a small albumen print of the
Chapel. This photograph is approximately 4 by 2 ½ inches in size,
and dates from about 1860. Its sepia tones are too pale to reproduce
here but thanks to the expert digital photography of the Oxford
Conservation Studio it is now possible to make out several
tantalising details: the iron railings around two small enclosures of
shrubbery in front of the Chapel, and a figure, perhaps the Porter,
lounging against the wall beneath the Chapel Arch.
Nicola is a regular Trinity-spotter on eBay, and she has also donated
two beautiful menu cards from Eights Week 1904, which we
illustrate. Glue marks on the backs suggest that, sadly, these lovely
mementoes have been removed from an album, which we believe
may have belonged to John G Russell (1903). He was not a member
of the Boat Club, but Eights Week was a time of general festivity
for the whole of Oxford; female visitors flocked to Oxford,
ostensibly to watch the rowing, and everyone’s days were filled with
picnics, lunches, dinners and parties.
Sporting and social action in Edwardian Eights Weeks was centred
on the river; more specifically, on the college barges. Trinity’s barge
was a beautiful wooden structure, built in 1888 to provide convenient
changing facilities for crews and a large viewing platform for throngs
of eager spectators. We are very grateful to Simon Wenham of
Kellogg College who has recently completed a DPhil Thesis on the
Oxford boat building firm of Salter Bros. Within the Salters archives
is the original specification for the Trinity barge, and we are very
grateful to Simon for procuring a copy of this for the Archive. The
Souvenirs of Eights Week 1904, donated to the Archive
by Nicola Morris
six hand written pages enumerate in great detail the barge’s
construction: the frame of ‘yellow baltic fir’; the flooring and joinery
of ‘selected yellow Christiana’; the balustrade ‘secured to the fixed
rail by special wrought iron sockets and screw bolts and ornamental
washers’; robust stairs to the roof; a 40 foot flag pole; lockers with
brass hinges and locks; and £10 worth of ‘pegs and rails, soap and
sponge dishes.’
By a somewhat poignant coincidence, the exact same week that this
document arrived, we also received from Laura Stacey, wife of
assistant bar manager Ian, a small snapshot of the barge, which was
in the possession of her grandparents. The only part to survive today
is the dragon figurehead, whose aura of menace can be seen to full
effect in the photograph, which we reproduce overleaf. Readers, as
you pass this proud beast in its lonely vigil outside the Danson
Room, please do take a moment to remember the late David
Woodrow (1938) whose quick thinking rescued it from certain
destruction. (David was walking past Shillingford Bridge one day
when he recognised the barge, on the bank and in use as a tea-room.
He discovered that the whole structure was rotten and soon to be
burnt, whereupon he redeemed the dragon for £10.) You may also
wish to reflect on the lost glory of the dragon’s former home, painted
as it was with ‘4 coats [of] oil colour in superior style and well
rubbed down...picked out with blue and finished with two coats of
best copal varnish.’
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Michael admits to having been ‘under-trained’ as the cox, so we have
refrained from looking at the records to see just how it went for
Messrs Tindale, White, Marcus, Walker, Miller, Killick, Harvey and
Fecci. Another rowing photograph of this period came in from James
Cockrill (2002). As Boat Club president in 2004–5 he was sent by
Robert Thomas (1954) a photograph of the OU trial VIII at Putney
in 1956 ‘rowing upstream “rock and roll”.’ The postcard from Robert
that accompanied it is brief but rich in possibilities: ‘Alas, I was not
selected. So I hitchhiked to Sweden to see my girlfriend!!’ And from
the estate of another stalwart of the Boat Club, the late David
Parnwell (1951), we were glad to receive a classic Oxford
photograph: Vincent’s Club, circa 1954. There is David, five rows
back, while hunched in the front row in cap and overcoat is none
other than Trinity Law Fellow Philip Landon (Domestic Bursar
1921–51).
Our records of 1950s Trinity have been augmented by a number of
very interesting donations. Nigel Jaques (1954) has given some
items from the early days of the Music Society and the Trinity
Singers, whose conductor he was. In June 1955 Nigel conducted a
Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer on a double bill with Tony Burch
(1952) conducting his own composition of ‘The Shepherdess and
the Chimney-sweep’. Two years later, in March 1957, he wielded
The Trinity Barge, photograph donated by Laura Stacey
The barge was in a state of considerable dilapidation by the Second
World War, and nobody was sorry to see it replaced by the present
boathouse. One crew which no doubt appreciated its copious hot
water and firm foundations was the 1959 Second Torpid, and we
thank Michael Wright (1957) for a charming photograph of the
rowers resting on their oars either before or after a training session.
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his baton again in an ambitious production of Haydn’s The Seasons
in Hall. We thank Nigel for both a programme and flyer, and for two
press reviews of the event. One critic praised his conducting style
but was rather rude, we thought, in wishing he had restrained his
sopranos from ‘shouting’.
One 1950s visitor to Trinity was Enid Morgan, who came to stay in
the President’s Lodgings for a weekend in February 1956, as the
guest of President Norrington’s youngest daughter Pippa. Enid came
back to visit the college almost half a century later, and has very
kindly written up for the Archive a memoir of how on her ‘first visit
to Oxford... I was amazed by everything, especially the size of the
house.’ She was taken to a concert and the soloist, Margaret Price,
came back to tea with the Norringtons. Enid handed around the
sandwiches, ‘made into circles like swiss rolls’, and after dinner in
the President’s dining room, she and Pippa ‘helped the butler with
the washing up.’ Not as grand as all that then!
Pippa, more properly Phillipa, Norrington also gets a mention in a
curious document that came in from Michael Thomas (1957). Part
programme, part poster, it was created for the Trinity Players’
production of Love’s Labours Lost, performed in the college garden
in the summer of 1958. It must have been a stunning production,
with at least forty members of college appearing in some capacity
in the credits. Pippa was in charge of costumes, and also found time
to appear in the band of dancing ‘Blackamoors’.
The college servants are often rather shadowy figures in the college
archive, and we are always delighted to receive information about their
lives and careers. We thank John Carter for a photograph of the whole
college staff in 1954, which includes his father who was then a scout.
And we thank Mr Clements for a photograph of his ancestor, George
Stanley Huckings, who retired in 1951 after many years as Trinity’s
‘bicycle man’. The photograph is undated, but George Huckings looks
very dapper as he sits in a deckchair and smiles at the camera.
One late but no less welcome accession came in, via the President,
from Richard Barber (1961). In 1964–5 Richard was the recipient
of a Whitehead Travelling ‘Studentship’, by means of which he spent
fifteen months travelling around the world. The Whitehead award
came with an obligation to write a report on one’s travels, and
Richard duly did so, commencing his introduction with a comment
on the stipulation to include material ‘of current topical interest’.
The topical events that he encountered included arriving in Boston
on the same night as the Beatles; witnessing first-hand the election
of President Johnson in November 1964; attending an anti-Vietnam
War rally in Montreal; leaving Chicago just ahead of a series of
destructive tornadoes; being ‘chased by steel-helmeted riot-troopers,
and running for dear life through the Ginza area with thousands of
Japanese students—I never had any idea of what we were
demonstrating for or against’; arriving in Singapore just before the
city seceded from the Federation of Malaysia; and crossing the IndoPakistan border a week ahead of the outbreak of war between the
two countries in September 1965. Richard is to be congratulated on
finally fulfilling the other obligation of the Whitehead award, which
was to present a copy of his report to the college. Only forty-eight
years late!
Our records of 1970s Trinity have been given a boost by a most
welcome donation from Andy Newman (1973). Andy is also to be
congratulated, first for having preserved so much material from his
undergraduate days despite having emigrated to the US; secondly
for sorting and arranging the material carefully and accurately into
bundles; and thirdly for efficiently organising the delivery of said
bundles to Trinity whilst on a summer holiday in Europe. We have
greatly enjoyed browsing through his neatly labelled packages.
Trevor Williams [Chaplain 1970–2005] contains pre-printed
invitations to ‘beer, bread and cheese’ lunches in the chaplain’s
rooms; Michael Maclagan [History Fellow 1939–81] has printed
invitations to ‘At Homes’ and ‘fork suppers’ on Northmoor Road;
while John Cooper [History Fellow 1952–78] sent handwritten
letters wondering ‘would you have lunch with me?’ in College. Both
Michael Maclagan and President Ogston wrote to congratulate Andy
on his First, a splendid achievement especially when one considers
the size of the bundle labelled Social. This contains a myriad of
invitations, mostly quite formal, to tea, drinks, parties, breakfasts, at
homes, pancakes, plays, bridge games... The President explained in
his letter that the college prize that came with a First—normally £15
cash and £10 in books—would not be possible since Andy had
already moved to an American law school. Instead he had instructed
the bursary to send £25 in cash, with the suggestion that Andy
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‘should spend some of this on a book, for which I enclose a book
plate.’ We would certainly hate to suggest any failure to follow the
President’s instructions—most likely Andy simply forgot to paste
the book plate, still attached to the President’s letter, to his purchase.
Another sociable US-dwelling history graduate of exactly ten years
later was Katherine Sand (1983), who provided a very welcome
surprise for the archivist by sending a FedEx package containing a
bundle of memorabilia from her first year—which she called ‘some
of the most ephemeral ephemera you are likely ever to receive’.
Exactly what we like then. ‘My preoccupations during this heady
period were boys, friends, parties, sleeping, still more boys, and
(occasionally and surprisingly) studying or anyway scrambling to
get my essays written and turn up to tutorials’ she explained. This
wonderful collection includes invitations to parties and college
events, good luck and birthday cards (shop bought and home-made),
letters, flyers for Zuleika [the women’s dining club] and programmes
for plays. But most of all, it consists of the notes that were pinned to
her door, and scribbled at her desk in the library. We illustrate just
one example of this long-forgotten means of communication. This
is what Trinity was like before everyone had Facebook on their
smartphones.
One of our most loyal donors of ephemera is Alan Coates (1980),
who this year produced a bulging file of correspondence with various
members of Trinity, mainly relating to the Old and Danson Libraries,
along with some excellent photographs of the state of play before
the recent Danson Library refurbishment. We were also glad to
receive a smaller file of letters from the time of Alan’s application
to Oxford, when he was admitted as the first ever undergraduate at
Trinity to read for the joint school of Ancient and Modern History.
It soon became clear that neither the college nor the University had
quite thought through the details of this new school, and we enjoyed
the letter from Michael Maclagan explaining the problem of the lack
of a First Public Examination, and the necessity of a further visit by
Alan from Yorkshire to Oxford to discuss which options he might
actually take.
A pleasing number of accessions relate to very recent activities in
Trinity. Gerald Peacocke (1951) and Robert Parker (1967) have
continued the excellent custom of archiving speeches made at Trinity
Undergraduate to undergraduate communication, 1980s-style,
from the collection of Katherine Sand
Society dinners. We thank Leonard Konrad (2011) for a DVD that
he has compiled of photographs and recordings of the choir’s many
performances and of the President’s Concerts. We regularly harvest
out-of-date posters and flyers for these and other events in College,
and we are delighted to acquire such a comprehensive archive of
them as well. Meanwhile Estates Bursar Kevin Knott has preserved
a menu card for the 2013 Torpids Dinner, celebrating both the Men’s
and Women’s First Eights, which each went up in their respective
divisions and won blades. The menu was passed around the table
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and signed by both crews—a long-standing custom of past decades
that it would be good to reintroduce. We thank too Anna Regoutz
(2010), MCR President for the past two years, who, in the MCR’s
fiftieth year, has donated some very useful administrative archives
that will be a great resource for future historians of post-graduates
in Trinity. The poster of the 2012 MCR Gala Dinner is a work of art
that will be joining our collection of framed posters on the stairs up
to the lobby of the Archive Room.
Many and varied are the press cuttings and book and journal extracts
that have come in during the past year, and we are grateful to the many
people who keep a Trinity eye open as they read. Jan Martin (Librarian
1980-2005) has continued her sterling work of trimming, identifying,
and storing them all safely, and we are glad of this opportunity to thank
Jan for her considerable efforts. We finish with just a small selection
to illustrate the range of topics and individuals who appear:
Dr Elgin van Treeck-Vaassen sent an article about the memorial
window to Isaac Williams, installed in the ante-chapel in 1860 and
removed during the Second World War. This is published in German
in Die Kgl. Glasmalereianstalt in München 1827-1874. Alan Coates
provided a link from the Society of Antiquaries to ‘Chert’
(Charterhouse environs research team), which has created an index
to sketches and maps of archaeological sites made by John Skinner
(1790). The Hon Michael Beloff (President 1996–2006) kindly
posted to us a cutting of ‘Father Stanton of St Alban’s Holborn’ by
Master Christopher Butcher, in Graya, the magazine for members
of Gray’s Inn. This tells the moving story of Arthur Henry Stanton
(1858), a life-long curate, part rebel, part saint, and a remarkably
gifted preacher to boot. We thank Nigel Armstrong-Flemming for
an article by Robert H Berls about the life of the author of a rare and
collectable book, The Waters of Yellowstone with Rod and Fly, by
Howard Back (1900). Howard Back, a descendent of the Duke of
Wellington, was a founder member of Trinity’s light-operatic
Savoyard Society (W S Gilbert was a family friend). Scarred by his
experiences in the First World War he threw himself into the family
business, the collecting of Chinese art, and fly fishing.
Ron Cox (1944) has appeared in a beautifully presented article in
the Department of Physics Newsletter. He recollects his years at
Trinity, which began with six months as a Royal Naval cadet in 1944,
resumed four years later after War service, discharge, and an
emergency posting to the Falklands, only to be interrupted again by
a call-up to serve in the Korean War. Ron never did get to sit his
finals, but graduated with ‘special circumstances’ in 1951 and on the
grounds that he had ‘already had a lifetime’s fill of excitement and
travel’ he then embarked on a calm and satisfying career in teaching.
A particularly entertaining photocopy arrived from John Stroud
(1963), in the shape of an extract from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’s
anthology The Spirit of Cricket (1994). This includes a short piece
entitled ‘Mr Merryweather says’ from the pen of Terence Rattigan
(1930), originally published in The Cricketer in 1965, describing the
difficulty inherent in watching first class cricket with small boys who
view every action on the pitch with the critical eye of their school
sports master.
It is with an appreciative eye that we gaze at the Trinity Archive, in
its wonderful variety of media and sources. The official records of
college administration would be much the poorer if we did not have
the additional material that comes in from college members of all
generations, and we are glad to have this annual opportunity to
express our thanks. We are already looking forward to what 2014
will bring.
Bryan Ward-Perkins, Fellow Archivist
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BUILDINGS REPORT
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The Chapel
he Report in 2011 recounted that following the internal and
external condition surveys of the Chapel, our consultants had
advised that before commencing any remedial works to the interior,
an analysis of the temperature and humidity within the Chapel
should be carried out. The 2011 report summarised the data logger
positions from where each quarter data was downloaded into the
moisture consultants’ computer system.
The consultants (Ridout Associates of Stourbridge) produced a
comprehensive report of atmospheric conditions within the Chapel,
which was produced in May 2012. From the data obtained and
analysed it was found that the data loggers at high level recorded an
environment that was ‘satisfactory for the decorative panelling and
carvings’, but that at lower low levels, especially at the east wall at
the base of the reredos, moisture levels were high enough to be of
concern. The recommendation of Ridout Associates and chapel
surveyor Martin Hall, of Hall and Ensom, Witney, was that remedial
measures be undertaken to lower the moisture in the walls. External
ground levels in these areas were high in relation to the internal floor
levels and it was recommended that the ground levels should be
reduced at the east end, and where possible, along the south wall. A
‘French drain’ should also be installed in these areas.
A recommendation was also made to remove one of the reredos
panels in order to examine any underlying timbers and support
structure. A panel on the south side of the altar was chosen, as the
external ground levels were highest in this area. Revealed below the
outer veneered panel was, unexpectedly, tongue and groove pine
boarding, which had been coated with pitch before being attached
to the battens below, presumably as a damp protection. The revealed
boarding does not look contemporaneous with late-seventeenth
century veneered panels, although further research needs to be
carried out on this material and construction. It is interesting that the
College Report for 1940-41 records a decision made earlier that year
to remove to safe storage as much of the Grinling Gibbons carving
as possible, presumably anticipating the risk of air-raid damage. The
scope of removal is summed up in the following extract:
…the carved grilles and other decorations of the screen of the
Ante-chapel and the greater part of the lime-wood ornament
attached to the panelling behind the Altar were taken down,
repaired where necessary, and packed for storage.
The implication seems to be that the panels themselves remained.
There is also an interesting foot-note on the same page referring to
an earlier renovation or repair in 1887, from a workman who assisted
at the time. He recalled that the carvings were treated for woodworm,
repaired and repainted. Sadly there is no mention of whether the
panels were also removed.
In the 2010 Hall & Ensom fabric report, concern had been expressed
regarding the exterior stonework of the east wall. Unlike the other
Chapel and Tower facades, this wall was not refaced in the 1950s
and 1960s in Clipsham or Bath stone, and was one of the few
University walls of this period in Oxford with its original local,
ashlar stone-facing remaining. (A full account of the post-war refacing and repair of the Oxford University and College masonry,
including Trinity, can be found in Oxford Stone Restored – The Work
of the Oxford Historic Buildings Fund 1957-1974, edited by
W F Oakeshott). Like most college stonework prior to the large
programme of repair, the wall was suffering severely from sulphate
encrustation and blackened from centuries of air pollution, prior to
the Clean Air Acts. Much of the facing stone was delaminating (with
the resultant health and safety issues) and much of the detail from
capitals and pilasters has been lost. Many Oxford buildings were
constructed and faced with local Headington stone, but the softer
stone quarried in the seventeenth century had proved unsuitable for
ashlar and by the nineteenth century many walls so constructed had
begun to crumble. An American visitor to Oxford in the nineteenth
century, one Nathaniel Hawthorne, wrote of the crumbling college
walls:
How ancient is the aspect of these College quadrangles! So
gnawed by time as they are, so blackened and grey when they
are not black. If you strike one of the old walls with a stick,
a portion of it comes powdering down.
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And so it was until recently with the Trinity chapel east wall.
Remedial work was recommended by Hall & Ensom, which
included careful removal of loose and delaminated areas of facing
stone, but leaving as much of the original Headington stone ashlar
that was not beginning to become detached, and the filling of any
open and exposed joints with a suitable stone mix. During the works
the stone was examined by a geologist, Lesley Dunlop, of
Northumbria University, who is advising the Buildings Manager on
building stone used at Trinity. It is now clear, as a result of her
inspection, that Headington was not the only local quarry used in
the construction of the Chapel, and a further article on stone used at
Trinity is being prepared. All proposed exterior works were approved
by the Diocesan Advisory Committee. The east wall stone works are
complete and the scaffolding removed, with the ‘French Drain’
works to commence in Michaelmas term.
Off-site properties
The programme of flat refurbishments continued during summer
2013 (see reports of 2011 and 2012) with the top floor of 106
Woodstock Road. This floor comprises the three largest flats in the
block and, as previously, the refurbishment included refitting the
kitchens and bathrooms, redecoration and carpeting. Energy saving
is also a major feature of all our improvements and modern energy
efficient condensing gas boilers were installed as well as further
improvements to the roof insulation.
At 20-44 Rawlinson Road (built at the end of the 1980s) the energy
saving theme was further enhanced by a major change to the heating
system of the whole block. When built, the twelve flats were
provided with individual gas boilers. Unlike 106 Woodstock Road,
the construction and design of the building meant that it was possible
to link all the flats’ heating systems to one energy-efficient plant
room and one hot tank room. The retro-fit scheme was not without
difficulties, not least the installation of a new flue up and through
an existing narrow services riser.
Work was also completed on a second phase to refurbish 108
Woodstock Road. The middle flat had been refurbished at a change
on tenancy in previous years, but the ground and top floor flats were
completely refurbished over this summer. Works included kitchen
and bathroom refitting, partial rewiring, a new energy efficient
boiler, redecoration and new furnishings. Where previously the
property had been used for a mix of Fellow and student
accommodation, it is now a newly refurbished block of three
Fellows’ flats.
Other Significant Works
Little work had been carried out on Staircase 7 in recent years, other
than the work to create the Sutro Room (the former Arts Room) in
2005. During the long vacation the two bedrooms on the top floor
were partially rewired, refitted with new en suite shower rooms and
redecorated. In addition, the old electric storage heaters were
removed and new radiators were installed and linked to the existing
gas heated system serving the Sutro and JCR rooms below—it is a
curiosity that these two rooms had never been linked previously to
the existing heating system. The hall, stairs and landings were
redecorated and had new non-slip flooring laid.
The lights in the basement of the library were failing regularly in the
early part of the year and replacement parts were not available. They
were replaced in the late summer with new energy-efficient LED
units, as were some of the central lighting units of the upper library,
but retaining the original glass globes. Currently schemes are being
considered to replace the failing library desk lighting with modern
LED units, as well as the old fluorescent tubes along the east and
west walls at high level.
Steve Griffiths
Buildings and Maintenance Manager
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GARDEN REPORT
rinity’s Gardens played host to
several key events over this last year,
but none more important than the
Encaenia Garden Party on 19 June.
The Garden Party celebrates the successes
of the academic year and takes place on
the afternoon of Encaenia, the
University’s annual honorary degree
ceremony. Each year eight outstanding
individuals from throughout the world are
invited to receive an honorary degree.
This year they included recent Hillary
lecturer Sir Tom Stoppard, Paralympic
champion Baroness Grey-Thompson and
pianist Murray Perahia, KBE. Fifteen
hundred members of Congregation and
guests attend the garden party each year.
We were contacted about hosting the
event in October 2012 and almost
immediately I bought a significant
number of bulbs which we could depend on to flower between late
May and mid-June. These included Allium ‘Globemaster’, A.’Purple
Sensation’, A.Christophii, A. Spaerocephalon, Cammasia leichtinii,
Gladiolus italicus, Eremurus robustus. Unfortunately, the choice of
flowering plants is somewhat limited for the time between the
flowering of spring bulbs (e.g. daffodils and tulips) and when a
traditional herbaceous border comes into flower. Therefore, to
maximise interest in the border, we decided to incorporate annuals
which would guarantee bright splashes of colour for the event.
We started by looking very carefully at the border, highlighting
plants that had significant value and questioning those which were
not really contributing anything. Looking from the inside out, it was
clear that the border needed more structure and a better cohesion. At
about the same time, Trinity had employed the services of LDA
Design to support the design and planning of the new building. Not
one to miss an opportunity, I have been working with LDA Design
Encaenia Garden Party
to develop a new structure for the herbaceous border, which involved
site meetings with the team, Fellows and Garden Master and
culminated in the implementation of an interim landscape scheme for
the Encaenia event in June.
The overall design intent was to create a fluid organic structure with
a naturalistic character, comprising multiple layers of varying height
linked by repeating themes. The plant range is intended to provide
colour, interest and texture throughout the year. The main design
principles were:
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Existing perennials/shrubs retained where possible—these have
been divided and spread out to improve the overall structure and
to follow the formation of informal drift shapes.
Drifts of single species annuals and bulbs of various heights inbetween the retained planting material to provide immediate
impact (colour, interest and structure) for the June event.
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cream and garden plants. Back then the daffodils were nearly over
by 21 March.
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Lining up trays of newly sown annuals
Accent plants and overlays throughout the border provided
mostly by taller bulbs, such as Alliums, Camassia and Eremurus.
Structural drifts of grasses incorporated into the border
(including Calamagrostis and Stipa) to create structure, colour
and interest that can be depended upon—these elements will
provide cohesion and help to add visual continuity to the border.
With the plan in place, all we needed was a kind winter to maintain
our progress, but alas the weather hampered our efforts. Although
the long term average annual rainfall showed only a marginal
increase on previous years, December and January were very wet
which set things back. February was drier but colder. Forecasters
explained that the cause was the persistence of easterly winds from
a frozen continent, chilling the North Sea to just 4C or 5C, and
affecting the eastern half of the country most severely, which also
contributed to the coldest March since 1962.
On the 13 March we opened the gardens under the National Garden
Scheme, much earlier than in previous years, with the lawns frozen
and covered in snow—we asked the kitchen if they could provide
hot soup alongside the usual teas. Needless to say, visitor numbers
were very low but I am grateful to all those who ventured in on what
was a horrible day. It was the opposite of the same time last year,
when, the newspapers reminded us, a heat wave and drought resulted
in wildfires, hosepipe bans, packed beaches and record sales of ice
Meanwhile, preparations for the Encaenia planting were progressing
well. LDA and I agreed that the annuals used would be single colours
which would be planted informally. Looking at the numbers it was a
‘no brainer’ that the glasshouse and polytunnel we have at Trinity were
not big enough to raise the number of annuals required. Luckily I was
able to approach John Graham of Steventon Road Nurseries to rent a
commercial glasshouse for my requirements. My team went over to
help sow the hundreds of seeds, then on a regular basis to help with
moving the plants on to guarantee they would be in flower for the
event. The arrangements worked extremely well. I was always up to
speed with how the annuals were doing, and my my team benefited
from valuable work experience in a commercial environment.
We received plaudits from many different quarters but none more
special than from the President and Lady Roberts, who were the first
to congratulate us on delivering an Encaenia Garden Party of which
Trinity can be very proud.
The lawns played host to several other events during the year. I want
to mention especially Tomas Elliot’s brilliant production of Alice in
Wonderland for the Trinity Players in May. Set under the trees in the
wilderness area of the garden, small tables and chairs were
beautifully laid out to create the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Later in the
year the Oxford Theatre Guild celebrated the two-hundredth
anniversary of Pride and Prejudice, performing their own take on
the acclaimed book.
We also redeemed ourselves during our July NGS open day by
beating all records with an income of £1,725. We have been raising
money for charity under the National Garden Scheme for twenty
years and in that time, under the leadership of Garden Master
Dr Chris Prior, have raised around £40,000. It was with great regret
that we said ‘goodbye’ to Chris, who retired at the end of the year.
He has been a fantastic guardian of the gardens and Aaron, Luke and
I would like to take this opportunity to thank and acknowledge all
that he has done.
Paul Lawrence
Head Gardener
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LIBRARY REPORT
he main library continues to be filled to capacity, especially in
Trinity term, with some Finalists more or less camping out,
often surrounded by their belongings. I often think I should have a
competition for the oddest item found in the library, and this year a
contender would have been the (clean) saucepan left on a bookshelf!
In an attempt to preserve a little space for cleaning and movement
around we are starting to provide lockers so that students living in
outside properties can store their belongings safely and not have to
bring them to and fro every day. These were trialled in Trinity term
and I hope that more students will make use of them this year so that
the library can look more like a place for study and less like the
aftermath of a jumble sale.
With a bumper crop of 180 summer school students arriving at the
beginning of July there was the usual frantic effort to clean and clear
the library once term had ended, and shelve the mountains of
returned books. I would like to thank the students who formed part
of the cleaning team for their hard work, enthusiasm and continued
cheerfulness despite ending most days covered in dust. These
helpers, Georgie, Hannah, Jasmine, and Richard, are part of a pool
of students who help with a range of jobs including shelving,
induction tours and invigilation in the Old Library. As the library is
otherwise ‘single staffed’ their assistance is essential to keep things
running. Over the last year other helpers have included Bea, Claudia,
Emily, Kalika, Laura, Lorna and Tom. Ben, Harry and Jonathan have
provided knowledgeable support during Old Library openings. Alex
has researched the Danson erotica with a view to a possible future
exhibition. Hannah, Richard, Olivia and Sara have been excellent
sounding boards for new ideas as MCR and JCR library reps. I
would especially like to thank Alison O’Connor who has been
variously shelver, MCR rep, invigilator, cleaner, caption writer and
constant supplier of fresh ideas, cake and good cheer.
The extra help has been particularly appreciated as we have been
trialling a few extra openings of the Old and Danson libraries for
special interest groups who have pre-booked with Blue Badge tour
guides. These groups, which have included DFAS and several parties
from the Historic Houses Association, usually combine their visit
with a general tour and lunch or tea in college. The extra money they
pay for seeing the libraries has been put towards the Adopt-a-Book
scheme, and will allow more conservation work to be carried out in
the coming year. A prime candidate for conservation will be the set
of William Blake’s illustrations for his 1825 publication of The Book
of Job, which Jonathan Downing has written about in the most recent
edition of the Newsletter. At the moment conservation work is
underway on the first editions of James Cook’s Voyage to the South
Pole (2 vols, 1777) and Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (3 vols, 1784).
We are very heavily indebted to JOHN HEMSLEY (1961), and
members of the ‘Dodecadents’, for funding this work.
Another set of visitors to the Old Library in October was the crew
of Endeavour, which was using it, for the episode called ‘Fugue’, as
a stand-in for Duke Humfrey’s library in the Bodleian. The final
sequence showed how the camera certainly can lie, transforming the
‘bijou’ Old Library into a spacious study space, complete with
students working in every alcove.
In addition to the many donations of books which are listed below—
along with a few purchases of works written by Old Members—I
would particularly like to mention STEPHANIE YIOLITOU
(2010) who won the Norton Rose Fulbright prize for her paper on
company law. This prize included £250 for her college library which
will enable us to purchase some additional law titles this year.
Thanks to all of the donors, and to everyone who has donated books
anonymously. The names of college members are in upper case, and
the dates of matriculation are given in brackets.
PROFESSOR MICHAEL ALEXANDER (1959), a regular library
donor, presented a copy of his most recent title, Reading Shakespeare
(Palgrave, 2013), as well as a copy of the third edition of his A
history of English literature (Palgrave, 2013).
JOHN ALLAN (1955) presented a copy of The Persian Corridor:
help to Russia via the Persian Gulf in the Second World War (2013).
This is an edited version of his dissertation, submitted towards the
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degree of MA in Maritime History at the University of Greenwich,
2012.
PROFESSOR FRANCES ASHCROFT, Fellow and Royal
Society SmithKline Beecham Professor of Physiology, presented a
copy of her latest book The spark of life: electricity in the human
body (Allen Lane, 2012).
KHAN M AZAM (1954) presented a book written, in Urdu, about
his work, authored by Saeed Badar, which also contains nineteen
contributions from scholars in India and Pakistan, Iqbal’s ardent
soul, K M Azam: personality, thought and art (Jumhoori, 2012).
THE HON MICHAEL J BELOFF QC, President 1996-2006,
continued his long-time donation of the journals Counsel and The
Barrister. He also presented several books, including the second
edition of Sports law, which he wrote with Tim Kerr, Marie
Demetriou and Rupert Beloff (Hart, 2012), along with a number of
titles on law, history and politics.
PROFESSOR RAJ BHALA (1985) presented the revised edition
of his Modern Gatt law: a treatise on the law and political economy
of the Gatt & other W.T.O agreements: a treatise on the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Sweet & Maxwell, 2013).
NIGEL BRAY, Lodge Porter, donated a copy of John Hale’s
Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (Harper Perennial, 2005).
CHRISTOPHER BRISCOE (1956) presented a copy of Ian
Hunter’s Briscoes: 150 Years in New Zealand (Hunter, 2012) to the
Archive—see the Archive report for a description of Christopher’s
other donations.
PETER BROWN, Emeritus Fellow, gave a number of titles from
his own library including J Wight Duff’s A literary history of Rome
from the origins to the close of the golden age (Ernest Benn, 1953)
and Dialogues on Plato’s Politeia (Republic): selected papers from
the ninth Symposium Platonicum, edited by Noburu Notomi and Luc
Brisson (Academia, 2013).
RICHARD CLEGG QC (1956) gave a copy of his poetry
collection, The secret room (2013).
DR ALAN COATES (1980), Honorary Librarian of the Old
Library, presented a copy of Magical tales: myth, legend &
enchantment in children’s books edited by Carolyne Larrington and
Diane Purkiss (Bodleian Library, 2013) along with William Caxton
and English literary culture by N F Blake (Hambledon, 1991).
THE REVD CANON HAROLD COLLARD (1945) presented A
companion to the temple, or a help to devotion, in the daily use of
the common prayer by Thomas Comber (Miles Flesher, 3rd ed.,
1688) to the Danson Library.
PAUL COLLINS (1996) donated further classics titles from his own
library.
HUGH DOLAN (1997) gave a copy of his graphic novel, Battle for
Australia. Part 1: the fall of Singapore which he co-wrote with Alex
McDermott (Z beach true comics, 2013). This will be kept in the
Archive.
C J (JONTY) DRIVER (1965) presented his biography of his elder
brother, Simon: my brother & I (Kingston University Press, 2013).
PROFESSOR RUSSELL EGDELL, Fellow and Tutor in
Inorganic Chemistry, and his wife, Margaret, presented further
volumes for the Danson Library including a number of nineteenthcentury French accounts of the lives of saints including Catherine
of Siena, St Hugh of Grenoble and St Francis de Sales. The
collection also includes: Le cœur de Jésus by Eugène Desjardins
(Julien, Lanier, 1855); Les sanctuaires des Pyrénées by L de
L’Écuyer (Alfred Mame, 1875) and Reformations-Almanach auf das
Jahr 1821. Dritter Jahrgang by Friedrich Keyser (Erfurt, 1820).
Margaret Erskine donated a number of recent monographs
published by the Devon and Cornwall Record Society.
Jon Godsall gave a copy of his biography, The tangled web: A life
of Sir Richard Burton (Matador, 2008), to the Archive (to be
reviewed in a future edition of the Report).
DAVID HALLMARK OBE, visiting Fellow 2007-8, presented The
battle of Worcester, 1651: a collection of essays on the history of the
battle of Worcester, 1651 (Battle of Worcester Society, 2012). The
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book was edited and compiled by the Battle of Worcester Dinner
Committee, chaired by David Hallmark.
The President of Hampden-Sydney College presented Trinity with
a copy of On this hill: a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney
College 1774-1994 (Hampden Sydney College, 1994) to
commemorate its author, PROFESSOR JOHN LUSTER
BRINKLEY (1962) who died last year.
MIKE INWOOD, Emeritus Fellow, continued to donate philosophy
titles from his own library.
DR CHRISTIAN JUNG (1998) presented a copy of his titles; Die
doppelte natur des menschlichen intellekts bei Aristotles
(Königshausen & Neumann, 2011), and Meister Eckharts
philosophische mystik : wissenschaftliche beiträge aus dem tectum
verlag: reihe philosophie band 13. (Tectum, 2010).
GARY KAHN (1963) visited the Old Library with his publisher and
presented a copy of his The power of The Ring (Royal Opera House,
2012) along with a number of titles from the Overture Opera Guides,
of which he is the series editor. These included: Der fliegende
Holländer: Richard Wagner (Overture, 2012); Eugene Onegin: Pyotr
Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Overture, 2011); La bohème: Giacomo Puccini
(Overture, 2010); A midsummer night’s dream: Benjamin Britten
(Overture, 2011) and Simon Boccanegra: Giuseppe Verdi (Overture,
2011).
JUSTIN KUEH (2003) gave a number of books on politics and
economics from his own library.
SIR HARRY LUKE (1903), a colonial administrator and writer,
published an unconventional collection of cookery recipes from
many lands, The tenth muse (Putnam, 1954). A copy has been
purchased for the Archive on the recommendation of DR LOUISE
CURRAN, Junior Research Fellow in English Literature.
DR KEITH A MANLEY (1973) presented a copy of his Books,
borrowers, and shareholders: Scottish circulating and subscription
libraries before 1825. A survey and listing (Edinburgh
Bibliographical Society, 2012).
DR DON MARKWELL (1981), Fellow 2009-2013, presented a
copy of his Instincts to lead: on leadership, peace and education
(Connor Court publishing, 2013).
DR ALAN MILNER, Emeritus Fellow, continued to present the
New Law Journal and bound volumes of foreign law reports
published by his company, Law Reports International.
Anthony Murphy gave a copy of his book, Banks of Green Willow:
the life and times of George Butterworth (Cappella Archive, 2012).
GEORGE BUTTERWORTH, a composer and champion of folk
music, came up to Trinity in 1904.
MARK PARGETER (1960) presented two books to the Danson
Library. These comprised Alexis de Tocqueville’s L’ancien régime
et la révolution (Michel Lévy, 2nd ed., 1856), along with a bound
compilation of some of Byron’s poems, including two first editions:
The corsair (John Murray, 1814) and Hebrew melodies (John
Murray, 1815).
PROFESSOR TONY PHELAN, Lecturer in German, gave a large
number of German texts and criticism from his own library.
Harvey Pitcher presented a copy of his book, Responding to
Chekhov, the journey of a lifetime (Swallow House, 2013), writing,
‘My old friend and Chekhov co-translator, Patrick Miles, has
reminded me that George Calderon, the first man to translate and
direct a Chekhov play in Britain, was an alumnus of Trinity’.
GEORGE CALDERON came up as a Scholar in 1887.
THE RT REVD STEPHEN PLATTEN (1973), Bishop of
Wakefield, presented a copy of his recent work, Comfortable words:
polity, piety and the Book of Common Prayer (SCM, 2012).
Dr Dejan Popović, former Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia
to the UK, gave a copy of Felix Romuliana – Gamzigrad (Institute
of Archaeology, Belgrade, 2011), which the editor, Ivana Popović,
dedicated to the college.
DAVID RAIKES (1943) The poems of David Raikes (Fantasy Press,
1954) has been purchased to be kept in the Archive. On 21 April
1945 a young RAF pilot, Sergeant David Raikes (1943), and his
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crew were shot down in Northern Italy. This collection of his poetry
was published posthumously with an introduction by Charles
Wrench of Radley School. In July 2013 the bodies of David and his
crew were recovered and laid to rest in a Commonwealth war
cemetery in Padua.
TONY RANDALL (1954) gave a copy of his dissertation, The
Colonel and I: unravelling the Wintle legend. This formed part of
his MA in Biography at the University of Buckingham, 2011. He
also presented a copy of his recently published book, Age: an
autobiographical anthology (A G Randall, 2013) published in
support of the Wessex Heartbeat Trust.
SIMON RENTON (1967) gave the Archive a copy of a private
publication by his grandfather, SIR ALAN ‘TOMMY’
LASCELLES entitled Two diaries: 1914 and 1918, and inscribed
‘for my grandchildren’.
SIR IVOR ROBERTS, President, presented a copy of his Serbian
language title, Razgovori sa Milošević em (Službeni Glasnik, 2012).
DR VICTOR SEIDEL, Levine Fellow and Tutor in Management
Studies, presented Nicholas Amhurst’s two volume work TerraeFillus: or, the secret history of the University of Oxford; in several
essays (R. Francklin, 2nd ed., 1726). These volumes will be kept in
the Danson Library.
TANYA SEN (2009) donated a number of titles from her own library
as well as a copy of her dissertation: Strategic M&A in the European
telecoms sector: unpicking the drivers of merger success submitted
in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master in
Engineering, Economics and Management.
DEREK SMITH (1954) gave a number of backruns of political
journals including Political Studies and The British Journal of
Politics and International Relations.
THE REVD MICHAEL STAINES (1949) presented a miniature
copy of the Book of Common Prayer (University Press, 1890) for
the Danson Library. This book is also known as the Finger Prayer
book. A collection of miniature books, printed by Michael at the
Griffin Press, had previously been presented to the Danson Library
by his brother, NOEL STAINES (1945).
THE REVD NOEL STAINES (1945) gave the Archive a copy of
Midland Catholic History (no 18, 2011) containing his article
‘Catholic – Protestant: a survey of wills in Worcester Diocese 15301570.’
JOHN STOCKDALE (1959) presented the Archive with a copy of
Letters from the home front: Betty Stockdale’s letters to her husband,
1942-5 (Plant press, 2010) which he edited. These letters, by John’s
mother, are both beautifully written and evocative of domestic life
during the Second World War.
SIR PETER STOTHARD (1969) presented a copy of his memoir,
Alexandria: the last nights of Cleopatra (Granta, 2013)—reviewed
on page 93.
JOHN STROVER (1951) gave a copy of his biography of his
father, The faithful soldier: a biography of Ernest Strover, from India
to the World Wars (I B Tauris, 2013).
DR RALPH TANNER (1954) presented a copy of his most recent
works, Religious experience and culture: an enduring reciprocity
(Dharmaram, 2012) and The reciprocated silence: the modern
individual and religious misunderstanding (Concept, 2013). Ralph
also gives frequent monetary donations to the library.
CHRIS TARRANT, Lodge Manager, donated a number of
economics books from the library of his son, Alexander.
ARTHUR THORNING (1962) presented copies to the Archive and
Library of Dam Busters: failed to return which he co-wrote with
Robert Owen, Steve Darlow and Sean Feast (Fighting High, 2013).
Willem van Dijk a regular donor and correspondent, gave several
books including The Domesday geography of South-west England
edited by H C Darby & R Welldon Finn (CUP, 1979); Aldous
Huxley, Ends and means (Chatto and Windus, 1938); Creative
evolution by Henri Bergson (Macmillan, 1960) and Nigel Nicolson’s
Alex: The life of Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis (Pan, 1973).
EARL ALEXANDER was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of
Trinity in 1945. Although not a member of the college, he was
deemed to be qualified as ‘Founder’s Kin’.
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SIR PATRICK WALKER (1951) gave a copy of his
autobiography, Towards independence in Africa: a district officer in
Uganda at the end of Empire (Radcliffe Press, 2009).
DR BRIAN WARBURTON (1953), a descendent of the Evelyn
family, gave Memoirs of John Evelyn, comprising his diary from
1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters edited by
William Bray (Frederick Warne, 1818). This will be shelved in the
Danson Library.
ROBIN D’ARCY WARD (1968) presented a copy of his recent
book, Sokrátis—soul scientist (Areti, 2013).
M SARAH WICKHAM (née RAWLING, 1992) continued to pay
for the library’s subscription to the Church of England Record
Society and its publications.
The following recent graduates, postgraduates and undergraduates
donated books from their own libraries:
KATIE CONNAN (Law, 2010), RICHARD COXFORD (History,
2010), PETER FORSYTH (Engineering, 2009), DANIEL
HARDING (Medicine, 2005), SHELBY HOLMES (English,
2012), SOLOMAN LAU (Engineering, 2009), JUDITH PARKER
(Classics and modern languages, 2009), ASHMIT THAKRAL
(Mathematics, 2010).
Sharon Cure
Librarian
NICHOLAS WILSHERE (1996) donated a copy of Vergil’s
Georgics, edited by Katharina Volk (OUP, 2008) and Between men
2: original fiction by today’s best gay writers (Alyson, 2009), edited
by R Canning.
PROFESSOR VALERIE WORTH-STYLIANOU, Fellow and
Senior Tutor, presented a copy of Pregnancy and birth in early
modern France: treatises by caring physicians and surgeons (15811625) by François Rousset et al (Iter inc; Centre for reformation and
renaissance studies, 2013) which she edited and translated.
MICHAEL WRIGHT (1957) gave two handsome volumes to add
to the Archive’s Oxford collection: Cecil Headlam’s Oxford and its
story (J M Dent, 1904), which, Clare Hopkins writes, ‘has exquisite
hand-tinted illustrations by Herbert Railton, including a charming
picture of “The President’s Lodge”, which shows the creeper clad
windows, and of Staircase 10 from the President’s garden’. Michael
also gave Aymer Vallance’s The old colleges of Oxford (B T Batsford,
1912), an imposing publication to which Trinity was an original
subscriber. We can see why the original copy disappeared from the
library!
A Gormley statue’s-eye view of Trinity from the roof of Exeter
College (courtesy of Matt Baldwin, Exeter College)
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JUNIOR MEMBERS
T
JCR REPORT
he JCR has enjoyed another active year working to enhance
Trinity’s undergraduate experience. From assisting with
Freshers’ Week, to providing vast amounts of coffee to finalists on
the cusp of their exams, we’ve been supporting students
academically, socially and pastorally each step of the way. Indeed,
we’ve even spared a thought to what students do after they have
graduated by implementing a new careers position on the JCR
committee. This has helped us continue events with our sponsor
PwC, offering students the chance to speak to experts in a range of
vocations, such as media and insurance, and also organising personal
appointments with careers advisors. The Alumni & Development
Office and Trinity’s alumni have been a great help in setting up these
opportunities.
We also sought the aid of alumni through the Trinity Society as we
looked to create a gym space in the newly refurbished Nunnery
building. Although this is still a work in progress, the room is already
being used for rowing training, dance practice and general fitness
due in part to the Society’s funding and the support of the Domestic
Bursar. Another great addition to student life to come out of
discussions regarding accommodation is the online Bod card and
battels top-up system. The college was already well aware that such
a system was needed and agreed upon its immediate implementation
as a result of rent negotiations. The college understands the
importance of making rent affordable, as our increases remain
relatively low and a generous grants and bursaries scheme is
advertised by staff and student representatives.
Emphasising the need for affordable accommodation is one
recognisable facet in ensuring the college is open to a diverse set of
students. This year we made a concerted effort to improve
accessibility through the creation of an Access Ambassadors
Scheme. Currently there are fifty student ambassadors who receive
regular updates from the JCR representative and the Access and
Admissions Officer. This allows us to have a formal structure in
place linking students to access projects and the scheme also hopes
to train JCR members to return to their schools and present the
college and University to prospective students. We hope that the
access ambassadors will become important in both planning and
running future college open days and school events.
As well as ensuring diversity amongst prospective applicants, we
have also been embracing diversity amongst current students.
Working alongside Trinity Players and their performance of A Day
in the Death of Joe Egg, we have provided eye-opening events about
cerebral palsy and disability in general and we are very grateful to
our speakers for providing highly engaging workshops and talks. We
have also provided regular LGBT cheese and wine events and
foreign film nights to ensure students have an insight into a
kaleidoscope of different experiences. More enriching events have
been arranged with an eye on charity and giving to the community
and wider world. Once again we thoroughly enjoyed hosting the
John Watson School from Wheatley at our annual garden party.
Students, staff, children and parents alike all enjoyed an afternoon
of sunshine, cake and magic tricks. The JCR has also been heavily
involved in a Ugandan charity project, which is building on our longstanding link with the health centre in Kyobugombe. Our charity
representative helped the students involved in this project to host a
black-tie cocktail event held in the beer cellar, which raised funds
and was enjoyed by all.
There have been a vast number of social events this year with the
JCR’s entertainment and welfare reps combining to provide an
assortment of fun activities. Bowling, rugby nights, barbecues, yoga,
curry nights, bops, open mic nights and the re-emergence of pub
quizzes have made the JCR a lively community. Our film library is
also now truly well-stocked! Meanwhile our welfare reps are
increasingly well-trained and work closely with student peer
supporters to organise a weekly tea in the JCR and listen to student
problems on a daily basis. In conjunction with the Welfare Dean’s
work we are confident that an effective support network is in place.
Following on from last year’s excellent progress on the
environmental front, we have continued to liaise with the
Accommodation Manager and Domestic Bursar to ensure recycling
is continued in communal areas and student rooms. The installation
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of motion-sensor lighting in communal areas is also a welcome
environmental and cost-cutting exercise. Another area where we
have built on work achieved by previous committees is academic
feedback sessions. The Senior Tutor has been particularly helpful
here in ensuring student opinions on academic matters are always
considered and, pleasingly, a recent edition of the Oxford Student
rated Trinity’s student academic satisfaction as second in the
University.
Working with a vast network of students and staff has been a
fantastic experience and in spite of typical student grumbles and
groans, the college has been wonderfully supportive of our ideas,
events and input. Both JCR committees that I have served on have
been especially proactive and the support and advice of the MCR
has been invaluable. It is very pleasing to see the JCR excel this year
across sport, drama and music, whilst also partaking in a vast number
of societies that often sit well alongside academic work, for example
the PPE and Scientific Societies. It is perhaps a vindication of
Trinity’s success here that the JCR once again voted, after much
deliberation, to remain disaffiliated from the Oxford University
Students Union. Confidence that we can work well as a unit, without
formally associating ourselves with the Students Union, remains
high.
Andrew Butler
JCR President
M
MCR REPORT
y second year as President shared many similarities with
the first, but was also very different. The great spirit from
2011-12 was carried over the entire summer and immediately taken
up by the incoming MCR Freshers.
Michaelmas term started as usual with an intense Freshers’ Week,
not just for incoming graduates, but also for the committee. The alltime favourites, including ice-skating and ice cream, dinner at the
Jam Factory and the T-Bop, were still hard to miss, but we added a
few extra touches, such as a performance by the Oxford Imps, a
Scavenger Hunt, a Q&A Clinic, and a Ghost Trail. The new ‘gryphon
in a tea cup’ logo, designed by Alison, Caitlin and me, adorned all
our Freshers’ material from T-shirts to the newly introduced
Freshers’ packs.
Freshers’ Week seemed to set the tone for Michaelmas, which started
off with a memorable exchange dinner at Teddy Hall with their
mascot ending up on a soul-finding mission at Trinity. The traditional
Thanksgiving Dinner was a huge success and this year the enormous
organic turkey from the Covered Market was prepared by Trinity’s
master head chef. The term ended with a, some would say creepy,
Santa Claus interpretation by Marc Szabo.
While Hilary is always slightly challenging with the increasing work
load and the wet and grey weather, the MCR helped in organising
comforting and cheerful events. Coffee & Cake saw some new
additions including salt sticks (be warned!) and continued to replace
dinner on Wednesday evenings. The Treasures of the Danson Library
series continued and was very well received. We successfully
repeated the tea (and cake) with members of the college staff and
for our International Women’s Day event, Professor Dame Carol
Robinson gave a truly inspiring talk.
In Trinity term, the sun finally returned with a blast and made the
MCR Garden party held with Lincoln MCR a great success. Regular
wine tastings by ‘Prof. Crowther’ resulted in some staggering
revelations. To balance all this raucous behaviour, the MCR Poster
competition was as fierce as ever and a whole range of high quality
entries was submitted. For the first time the entries were exhibited
on the boards in the chapel arch.
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The beginning of the summer was marked, as is traditional, by the
SCR/MCR cricket match. The MCR batted first and scored 126-8.
In the words of Blidge (our most beloved Sports Representative,
Fred Jayatilaka): ‘can’t remember who scored runs, but Russ Egdell
took three wickets and a catch’. The SCR scored 101-4 (or maybe
5), which resulted in a win for the MCR by 25 runs. Blidge was also
the reason for so many five-a-side victories this year. This was a
truly remarkable year for Trinity MCR sports (and not just because
of Fred—we did have some Blues as well).
This year we have further increased the involvement of the MCR in
the wider college community. We have repeated and extended events
together with the JCR, college staff and the SCR, strengthening the
MCR’s position as a bridge between undergraduates and college staff
and academics. There is still work to be done, but Rome wasn’t built
in a day.
This year’s achievements would not have been possible without the
outstanding MCR Committee. I am immensely grateful for their
support and all the hard work they have put in. I would also like to
thank Alison O’Connor who was MCR Secretary at the start of the
year. We wish her all the best for her recovery. The committee’s
appreciation goes out to this year’s amazing team of MCR
Representatives we had, covering IT, the Library, Diversity,
Environment, Sports and English as a Second Language.
I hope that this report conveys what an amazing time I had as a
President. Apparently, no one has ever been lucky (or insane) enough
to be President for two years, so I am grateful for the trust the MCR
and its members put in me. It has been a truly remarkable time and
the great times and special friendships will never be forgotten. I was
very sad to see the year end with an election dilemma, but now it is
time to look forward to next year, when the MCR will celebrate its
fiftieth anniversary.
Anna Regoutz
MCR President
CLUBS AND SOCIETIES
BADMINTON
This year saw the reintroduction of badminton to Trinity’s wide
range of clubs and societies. You may think this was a long time
coming, particularly as badminton is now, according to Sport
England, the sixth most popular sport, behind swimming, athletics,
football, cycling and golf.
Restarting the society was always going to be difficult, and so it
proved when both our men’s and ladies’ teams were given tough
draws in the first round of the cuppers competition. Our men’s team,
drawn against eventual winners Teddy Hall, went down 5-1 but put
up a fight in some close games. Our ladies’ team, up against a
Magdalen side featuring both the Women’s 1st team captain and the
Mixed team captain for the University, were unlikely to cause an
upset and went down 4-2. Competing with other societies for
students’ precious time proved difficult, and while we had a full team
for each men’s league match, where we eventually finished fourth,
the women’s team was forced to withdraw due to a lack of numbers.
Next year only a men’s and a mixed team will be entered to bolster
both squads by allowing men and women to play in all fixtures.
All those who were involved at various points along the way
thoroughly enjoyed playing and hopefully the sport will continue at
Trinity for many years to come!
Alan Miscampbell
BOAT CLUB
After a spectacular performance in 2011-12, the bar was set high for
the crews of TCBC this year. In the face of challenging weather
conditions and ever-stiffer competition from other colleges, the
achievements of our members speak for themselves. With three sets
of blades, an advance into the second division for the Women’s 1st
VIII in both Torpids and Eights, and strong performances from the
lower crews, there can be no doubt that the Boat Club had another
remarkable year.
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An enthusiastic group of novices arrived in Michaelmas term, with
captains Jon Campbell and Anna Birley exuding enthusiasm and
managing to recruit many of them for the novice rowing programme.
Dangerous stream conditions made rowing impossible for much of
the term, and despite showing commitment to their training on land,
our novices were ultimately never given a chance to prove their
speed as Christ Church Regatta was rained off (that they returned in
such numbers for Torpids is testament to their grit and
determination). The seniors, again coached by Alex Holden-Smith
(for the men) and Andrew Brown (for the women), also suffered at
the hands of the weather but trained with resolve in the gym while
their competitors rested. This showed in the regattas that did go
ahead: at Autumn Fours, for example, our men’s crews won first and
second place.
The work in Michaelmas paid off. Hilary began with a well-attended
Winter Training Camp in Oxford, though dangerous stream
conditions meant the crews had to concentrate their training on land.
Maintaining enthusiasm and focus during a term largely spent on
land was a challenge for coaches and captains, though one that they
tackled successfully, as evidenced by a series of excellent results.
Our women did well to field two crews, and W2 proved their
courage in several tough races with other crews in their division,
including Jesus II and Lincoln II, which both went on to win Blades.
They are sure to avenge their relegation into the fifth division next
year. The women’s 1st Torpid excelled and proved their speed with
bumps on St Hugh’s, St Hilda’s, Mansfield, St Anne’s and Exeter to
win blades and advance into the second division. They went on to
showcase their form at the Women’s Head of the River race,
finishing 41 places higher than the year before.
The men, too, performed well. A combination of experienced and
novice rowers in M3 were able to score two bumps during the week,
though several rapid competitors in their rowing-on division meant
they finished the week one down. M2, a quick crew with several
returning rowers, scored an easy bump on Keble II on the first day
but unfortunately crashed into the bank on the third day, resulting in
their relegation to the fourth division, where they are unlikely to
remain for long. The men’s 1st Torpid earned Blades with bumps on
St Anne’s, LMH, Hertford, Wadham and St John’s, all before the
Gut, advancing up into the first division and finishing eighth.
After a successful Torpids campaign, the attention turned to Trinity
term. Many rowers dramatically improved their rowing during the
Easter Training Camp in Seville. They came back and made
significant gains during the course of the term to produce
outstanding performances across the board in Summer Eights. W2
produced impressive rows to bump LMH II and St Hilda’s II on
Thursday and Friday, respectively, finishing the week up two. W1,
reinforced by Lightweight Blue Boat rower Katherine Rollins and
OUWBC squad members Rachel Purkess and Karolina Chocian,
was easily among the fastest crews in its division. They started the
week with a lightning-quick bump on St Hugh’s but, in a stroke of
bad luck, were denied bumps on Thursday and Friday by crews
ahead bumping out following a crash. They ended their campaign
up two, with a bump on Mansfield on the final day.
M3 had a rocky start to the week, bumped by Univ III on Wednesday,
but soon recovered and bumped them back on the Thursday before
bumping Green Templeton II on Friday. They ended the week up
one place. M2 showed their speed early on, with bumps on Keble II
and Balliol II in the first two days. They were unfortunately bumped
back by Balliol II on the Friday, before bumping Balliol once more
and Wadham II on the Saturday to advance up to division three and
with the accolade of having bumped Balliol not once, but twice,
during the course of their campaign. Meanwhile the men’s 1st VIII,
reinforced by Blues Constantine Louloudis and Kevin Baum, won
crossed Blades with bumps before the Gut on Wadham, St Edmund
Hall and Hertford in the first three days, finishing the week with a
bump at the exit of the Gut on arch-rivals Balliol. Thus they ended
the week in eighth place in division one, higher than at any time in
the last fifty years.
The year’s successes were duly celebrated at the annual TCBC
dinner, with a record number of Old Members in attendance,
following the conclusion of racing on Saturday of Summer Eights.
With a series of spectacular performances from many of our crews,
the bar is indeed set very high for future years; but with many rowers
returning and continued excellent coaching, TCBC will no doubt
continue to flourish.
Jonathan Ranstrand
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CHAPEL CHOIR
The Chapel Choir has had another busy and highly successful year.
The choir continues to sing to a high standard at weekly Evensong
and also looks for other musical avenues to explore. In Michaelmas
term the choir sang evensong at Cuddesdon, before launching the
highly anticipated CD of carols, Sing we now of Christmas,
accompanied by three thoroughly enjoyable carol services. In Hilary
term, the choir participated in a joint venture with Churchill College,
Cambridge and performed Mozart’s celebrated Requiem to a packed
house in the Catholic Chaplaincy. This must be one of the finest
performances by the choir in recent years.
The choir continues to profit from workshops with Ralph Allwood
MBE. Ralph has been instrumental in advising the Organ Scholars
and inspiring the choir members. The choir has also benefitted from
the now-established choral exhibitions which focus on applying the
correct technique to their singing. This is something which is of
course hugely beneficial to both the overall sound and to the singers’
enjoyment!
In Trinity term the annual May Day and Parents’ Lunch
performances were held, before the onset of finals and other such
festive fun. But undoubtedly the highlight of the year was the tour
to Venice and Tuscany, being invited to sing in no less than eight
venues including St Mark’s Basilica in Venice and Florence
Cathedral. Another aspect of the tour was involvement with the local
community. On one evening we had dinner with the choir of Pisa
University followed by a ‘sing off’. However, the highlight was
giving a recital outdoors for the parishioners of a very small coastal
church. In return they provided a wonderful reception and we
communicated in broken Italian. The choir looks forward to finding
yet more ways in which to use the social power of music!
Benjamin Morrell and Solomon Lau
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CROQUET
Trinity term 2013 proved once again that Trinity’s lawns are one of
the best spots for playing croquet in the University. Having acquired
some new balls and mallets to help replenish the supply of well-used
and often broken equipment from last year, members of all years
took to the lawns to try out the game, many for the first time.
Whilst our performances in the inter-collegiate cuppers tournament
were not as strong as in previous years, it was great to see a large
number of first-year teams (thirteen) entering out of the twenty-four
entries that the college made. With only eight teams out of the 284
seeded in the whole competition, it is always something of a lottery
as to how far any one team might progress. The two fourth-year
teams, Trinity 1 and 2, showed that experience counts in the
competition, being the only teams to reach the fourth round, with
my own team falling to eventual winners New 2 in the third round.
Hopefully, with so much enthusiasm from the younger years, we
might soon see a return of Trinity teams to the latter stages of the
competition!
Alan Miscampbell
MEN’S FOOTBALL
After the success of last season’s promotion and the heroics in
cuppers, the Trinity College 1st XI were looking to capitalise on ever
increasing momentum. This season was not to disappoint. The team
remained undefeated in its campaign for promotion from the third
tier into the second, a promotion that was duly achieved in the dying
embers of the season as we were tipped over the line by an exciting
5-5 draw with our Keble rivals. As ever, the old guns, the likes of
Alex Stevenson and Michael Papadopoulos, provided the driving
force behind the Trinity league team. However, despite Michael
bagging consistently, it was not a show of individuals, with close to
the full eleven getting on the score sheet at some point.
The season was characterised by the typical Trinity football style—
the bruising underdogs battling opponents with the support of a
churned up pitch and a downpour. Indeed this was idealised in our
cuppers uprising against the giants of Worcester on a blustery
February afternoon. Despite missing our quick-firing centre forward
Ezra Rubenstein, a spectacular performance from the well-weathered
Trinity defence led to a 0-0 grind after extra time. Bookies had tipped
us to nick it at this point, notably as Tim Deeks put it just over the
bar in the final two minutes, but it wasn’t to be as Worcester grabbed
two in extra time. Thus ended this year’s campaign for the longsought cuppers title, but we certainly left our mark on the eventual
winners, as the only team not to be beaten by full-time.
Frederick Ellis
WOMEN’S FOOTBALL
The season began with enthusiasm and high hopes from both our
LMH and Trinity players, eager to kick off the year with a win. Despite
valiant efforts, our dreams of cuppers success soon faded. With three
consecutive defeats, including a rather embarrassing 12-0 loss to the
mighty Merton/Mansfield, our time in the competition was short-lived.
Perhaps the less said about cuppers the better.
Thankfully for team morale, the season did, however, prove to be
one of two halves. Bolstered by some new mid-season recruits, we
set about reversing our disappointing cuppers fortunes. Under a new
training regime and the expert guidance of our excellent coaches for
the year, Ed Alveyn and Elliott King, we started to come together as
a team. The new LMHT proved more than a match for our league
rivals, with back to back victories against Pembroke, Exeter, Osler,
St Hugh’s and Lincoln. Undefeated in the league and only conceding
two goals throughout the tournament, we finished top of our
division. With promotion secured, we ended the season on a high.
Helen Sunderland
LAW SOCIETY
The Law Society has had another busy and rewarding year.
Michaelmas was, as always, the busiest of our three terms, in
anticipation of second year vacation scheme applications. In keeping
with Law Society tradition, one of the first events was in partnership
with Slaughter and May. However, this year instead of a dinner event
we visited the Slaughter and May Offices in London. We heard talks
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from current trainees, associates and graduate recruitment, as well
as a fascinating analysis of a deal from two partners. The day ended
with a drinks reception and a chance to talk with members of the
firm. Everyone involved found it a hugely worthwhile experience,
and the Law Society extends its thanks again to Andrew Jolly (1992).
Building on such a positive start to the year, the society held events
with leading firms such as Linklaters, MacFarlanes and SNR Denton,
which provided members with a variety of career ideas and valuable
insights into life as a city lawyer. An especially positive event was
dinner with Freshfields, in collaboration with Trinity’s Bright Futures
Network. The dinner was open to all Trinity members who were
interested in a career in Law, allowing a range of students to spend an
enjoyable evening discussing legal careers. The society also organised
a small careers clinic for second year students, which meant they could
receive personal advice on their vacation scheme and training contract
applications from one of the Law faculty’s careers advisers.
In place of the annual Michael Beloff Law Society Dinner
(superseded this year by the Mansion House dinner) we had an
alternative and more informal event in Oxford which was attended
by almost all the college’s law students and Law tutor Nick Barber.
It was a memorable evening and the society hopes to repeat such an
event next year.
Members of the Law Society were closely involved this year in
discussions with the faculty over reforms to the Jurisprudence
syllabus. The course now includes an extended coursework essay or
‘mini option’ accompanied by a shorter examination. These
discussions demonstrated Trinity’s strong connection with the Law
Joint Consultative Committee and the society’s role in making
student concerns heard on a university level.
I have thoroughly enjoyed being Law Society President and am very
grateful for the opportunities I have had and for the help given by
the Alumni and Development Office and by Samuel Fletcher and
Olivia Grimshaw as careers representatives. My thanks also go to
all the Trinitarians who have liaised with the society, donated, and
helped to organise events over the course of this year.
Rebecca Newman
MUSIC SOCIETY
The Music Society has continued to feature its traditional calendar
of events this past year, in the hope of encouraging and supporting
music in the life of the college.
The year started off with two organ recitals by Trinity’s organ
scholars, Soloman Lau and Benjamin Morrell. Also in Michaelmas,
the President’s Concert was held, unusually, in the President’s
Lodgings, resulting in perhaps a more intimate, ‘parlour music’
atmosphere.
The start of Hilary term featured a much enjoyed dinner in Hall,
attended by Old Members and current students, where the leadership
of the society was passed over to Conor Martin. In the Gala Concert
beforehand, the audience was treated to student performances in
addition to an alumni string quartet and other contributions from Old
Members. Arts Week quickly followed with a busy schedule of
performances and competitions. Trinity was privileged to host the
external talents of the Penny Arcade vocal quartet and the Oxford
Indian Classical Arts Society, performing traditional Indian Classical
music and dance. Arts Week guest night featured a string quartet,
something that seems to have become an Arts Week tradition, as well
as a new addition: the presence of the Oxford University Ceilidh
Band in the Beer Cellar afterwards, which contributed to a vibrant
evening. Trinity performances were seen in the President’s Concert,
including such works as Rossini’s ‘Cat Duet’, and Liszt’s ‘Hungarian
Rhapsody’ (played with four hands); the Orchestra Concert, and a
special Arts Week concert featuring less traditional repertoire, such
as Ernst Toch’s Geographical Fugue for spoken voices, an
improvisation on the theme from Titanic and an arrangement of the
theme from the BBC’s Sherlock.
Trinity term saw the return of a former Music Society president,
Tanya Sen, with a performance to raise money for the education
charity Pratham, and a twenty-four hour Organ Recital by Benjamin
Morrell and William Heywood to raise money for Christian Aid. The
year’s programme finished with the final President’s Concert.
The society is very grateful to our patrons, Gillian Howard and the
late Sir John Burgh, whose generosity has enabled us to put on this
year’s events, and to continue the TCMS Grant scheme—which this
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year helped fund the very successful Chapel Choir tour to Venice
and Tuscany. Sir John had been an enthusiastic follower of Trinity’s
musical endeavours for the last twenty five years and his
encouragement and support will be greatly missed.
William Heywood
NETBALL
This year has seen a consistently solid performance from the Trinity
Netball Team. Having previously had two teams, in Divisions 2 and
3, we decided to concentrate our efforts on just one team this year.
This meant we always had ample players and reserves for our weekly
matches, and could reliably field a strong team to put up a good fight
against some of the more formidable teams in Division 2. There was
a lot of Fresher interest and a great intake at the start of term to
combine with returning players. The season got off to an explosive
start with a 28-2 Trinity win against Pembroke. A regular team
gradually came into shape, and over the weeks we showed some
great teamwork and nifty ball skills, winning around half of our
league matches. We hope next season will see us continue on our
ascent to the giddy heights of Division 1.
Olivia Cundy
ORCHESTRA
Trinity College Orchestra continued to excel this year. It is an
impressive feat in itself that a college as small as ours can support a
regular orchestra, especially as only a handful of players come from
other colleges; that the standard of our performances is consistently
high bears witness to the talent and commitment of Trinity’s
musicians.
In Michaelmas term, under the direction of Ben Cartlidge, the
orchestra took on one of its biggest challenges in recent years:
Brahms’ 4th Symphony. It was Ben’s final symphonic work as
conductor of the orchestra; a role that he has held with distinction
over many years. Fittingly, the concert was a roaring success.
Hilary term saw the orchestra perform a range of shorter works,
including Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and the Intermezzo from
Mascagni’s Cavelleria Rusticana.
With Nico Hobhouse as the new conductor in Trinity term, the
orchestra took on a busy programme featuring Schubert’s Unfinished
Symphony, and selections from Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite. Despite the
reduced rehearsal schedule imposed by examinations, everyone rose
to the challenge with aplomb.
Nico Hobhouse
POOL
I was convinced by a number of Freshers, and some of the more
established members of the college, that I should set up a Pool team
at Trinity. Having established ourselves as a team and entered both
the league and team cuppers competitions, we quickly set about
powering our way through the third division. Going undefeated as a
team until our final match, which we narrowly lost 5-4, we earned
ourselves automatic promotion to the second division for next year.
In the cuppers competition, we found ourselves drawn in a tough
group, with two second division teams and a first division team in
Merton. Having done well to fight through to the knockout stages,
defeating St Hugh’s II 10-2 and New 7-5 and losing to Mansfield 57 and Merton 3-9, we lost again to eventual winners Merton to end
our run in the competition. Happily though, they defeated Balliol in
the final without losing a frame!
Having never taken the game particularly seriously myself before, I
must say that captaining the team has been tremendous fun. Next
year’s captain Gerald de Oliveira, besides convincing me to set up
the team, managed to win both the Doubles and 2-Man cuppers
competitions.
Alan Miscampbell
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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY
The Scientific Society hosted three talks this year, all of which were
very well-attended. We were delighted to welcome Dr Chris
Lintott—a familiar face from the BBC’s The Sky at Night
programme—as our first speaker in Hilary term, to talk about his
involvement in citizen science planet-hunting initiatives. In Trinity
term we were treated to Dr Anders Sandberg’s fascinating visions
of the future of cognitive enhancers, and Professor Emeritus
Christopher Leaver’s insightful, if controversial, views on the role
of genetically modified crops in achieving food security and
sustainability for the increasing world population.
All in all, it has been an exciting year for us, with good
representation from a number of scientific disciplines. Attracting
interest from members of the college and across the wider
University, we have experienced something of a revival after a
quieter period last year.
Sichen Wang
SQUASH
The 1st team had a fantastic year, getting to the semi-finals of
cuppers and just losing out to an all Blue Queen’s team. Our
performance in cuppers reflects a year of strong commitment from
our finest players including Nico Hobhouse, gaining consistently
good results against fine opposition in the league, and Alex Andrews,
whose resurgence in the team formed the backbone to Trinity
success. The college league divisions were reformed dramatically in
Hilary term, so whilst we are unsure where the team has ended up,
we will endeavour to keep up our strong pedigree as we come into
a new season. A consistent group of freshmen made up our 2nd team
and the way these players developed over the course of the year was
truly fantastic to watch.
Aleksandr Al-Dhahir
BLUES
F ULL B LUE
Lewis Anderson — Rugby Union
Anna Bennett — Women’s Rugby
Sarah Burke — Hockey
Tom Carver — Men’s Lacrosse
Kate Niehaus — Cross Country Running
Constantine Louloudis — Rowing
Charlie Marr — Rugby Union
Michael Moneke — Football
Caitlin Mullarkey — Cross Country Running
Katherine Rollins — Light Weight Rowing
Ezra Rubenstein — Football
H ALF B LUE
Hannah Beard — Lacrosse
Anna Bennett — Water Polo
Suzanne Jordan — Dancesport
Adam Kelvey — Dancesport
Cameron McKelvie — Rugby Fives
Rachel Norris — Judo
Naomi Omori — Dancesport
Connie Thurlow — Athletics 100m and 200m
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OBITUARIES
SIR JOHN BURGH, KCMG CB
(1925 – 2013)
President of Trinity 1987-96
Although John Burgh was never employed as a teacher, he possessed
essential attributes for that profession that made it appropriate that
his working career should end with ten years as head of an Oxford
college. He had a deep and instinctive sympathy for young people
and an easy capacity for talking and listening to them that lasted to
the end of his life. He had a penetrating and inquiring mind, which,
combined with the interest he took in whomever he met, would lead
him to confront one with challenging, darting questions that required
thoughtful answers about oneself. He was devoted to the pursuit of
Sir John in conversation with John Harris (Organ Scholar, 1990)
following a concert in Hall (from the album of Ed O’Reilly and
Richard Newhouse)
knowledge and culture, and wanted love of these to be shared widely.
He was deeply committed to fairness and impatiently hostile to the
barriers that prevented people from realising their talents. He even
had the mischievous sense of humour, welling up from a basic
seriousness, that enables the best teachers to lighten the burdens of
their young charges.
All these characteristics would look well on an application for a
teaching post at any level, and yet Sir John spent much of his life as
a civil servant, working mainly in economic, trade and employment
departments, reaching very senior levels. His had not however been
the typical life of a British administrator. It had begun in Vienna,
where he was born into a professional and highly musical family,
from whose elegant apartment on the Ringstrasse the 13-year-old
John had watched Adolf Hitler’s triumphant arrival in 1938. Vienna
was no longer a place in which to be a Jew, and the family was able
to leave for Britain before such exit became impossible. John
attended the Oxfordshire Quaker school, Sibford, until he was 15,
when his widowed mother could no longer afford to keep him there.
He left to become a factory worker at a wartime munitions plant.
However, he was determined to keep up his education through
various autodidactic means, until by 1947 he had been accepted as
an undergraduate at the London School of Economics and Political
Science, reading for the BSc Economics degree. Years later he was
to return to the LSE as Chairman of its Court of Governors.
Then, in 1950, began the civil service years, which won him
admiration for his deep personal integrity from senior colleagues as
well as ministers of successive governments. But then the
circumstances of his early life began to reshape his career. In 1972
he was appointed deputy chairman of the Community Relations
Commission, the need for which kind of institution could not be
better understood than by someone who had experienced the
atmosphere of central Europe in the 1930s. In 1980 he became
director general of the British Council, though in between he had
returned briefly to the civil service, where he was wanted as deputy
chair of the Central Policy Review Staff. At the British Council he
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found himself defending an organisation whose budget was being
heavily cut and whose staff felt demoralised. He taught them to
believe in the value of their work, and defended the Council’s
mission strongly and very publicly, arguing powerfully for the
importance of culture in Britain’s global presence. According to his
obituary in the Daily Telegraph, these activities led the then Prime
Minister, Margaret Thatcher, to block his appointment to some
subsequent public positions.
This did not however prevent him from becoming a leading figure
in several important British cultural institutions, especially musical
ones. His mother had been an excellent pianist, an instrument that
John himself also played throughout his life, and music was his
abiding passion. He served as secretary of the Opera Committee at
Covent Garden, and at various times as the chair of the National
Opera Co-ordinating Committee, of the trust that oversaw the
systematic publication of all the works of Hector Berlioz, of the
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (the main British
musical examinations board), and vice-chair of the Yehudi Menuhin
School. It is notable that these latter two were educational
institutions. In those difficult 1940s John had had to work hard to
secure his own education and to safeguard his links with his cultural
heritage, and he wanted these things to be easier for the generations
coming after him.
And so finally the move to Trinity, where John was able to pursue
further some of these commitments. He of course brought with him
his extensive administrative competence, looking after the college’s
routine business with a sharp eye but also launching an ambitious
fundraising plan. He worked hard to improve the breadth of the
college’s undergraduate recruitment. Trinity did not have a strong
record of attracting applicants from state schools, and John was
highly supportive of Fellows’ efforts to improve on this. He similarly
supported those who were keen to recruit more applications from
female students, and took a leading role in trying to improve the
gender balance of the fellowship itself.
As Old Members will remember, one of the many quaint but
potentially valuable institutions of Oxford colleges is the oddly
named president’s ‘collections’, where at the end of each term the
head of house discusses each undergraduate’s progress with tutors,
and delivers the results of these discussions to each student, seen
individually. It can be a wearisome chore, apart from the probably
exaggerated risks of getting the reports in the wrong order and
presenting them to the wrong undergraduates. John Burgh however
saw president’s collections as a good opportunity to get to know each
undergraduate, to encourage them, and occasionally to ask his
penetrating and challenging questions. Here the latent teacher in him
became manifest.
Trinity has never been central to the University’s musical life, though
thanks largely to the efforts of Peter Brown, then Fellow and Tutor
in Classics, John Burgh found a good base at the college for
practising his usual tireless musical activities. As ever encouraging
the young, now as both performers and listeners, he persuaded the
Fellows to appoint, as a resident string quartet, the Duke Quartet, a
young group which had just started out, performing the classical
repertoire, but also introducing audiences to contemporary works.
Their evening concerts in the chapel began to attract a universitywide audience. John also spotted occasional potential professional
musicians among Trinity’s undergraduates, and helped them launch
their careers. He continued these quietly helpful activities after his
retirement, recently helping a Trinity opera group launch a public
performance, probably the first time this had been done in the
college’s history.
Sir John Burgh KCMG CB was a public man. He spent his career in
public service, almost every organisation with which he came into
contact seemed to want him to chair its governing body. And yet it
was private friendships that he seemed to treasure the most, and he
had a large circle of close friends, and treasured his home life with
his wife, Ann, and their daughters, Clare and Alison. He even knew
that human relationships came before what seemed to be his first
love, music. He once told me the story of how, in 1952, he had
become engaged to Ann. His proposal accepted, they started to make
plans, and he suggested that they make arrangements for the
wedding as soon as he had returned from the Salzburg Mozart
festival, to which he was going to drive with some friends. Ann said
that if they were about to get married, he could not very well go off
to Salzburg for some weeks. John did not go to the Mozart festival
that year.
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A determined sense of values, both ethical and cultural, and a deep
rootedness pervaded John Burgh’s actions, but that was something
he had had to work hard to achieve. Like so many central European
Jews, he had been expelled from the cultural milieu into which he
had been born, and had had to reconstruct it. In religion, his father
had converted the family to Roman Catholicism in order to improve
its integration into Austrian society; and his mother had done the
same with the Church of England when they moved to London. He
was then sent to a Quaker school. From this heterogeneity of
backgrounds he constructed a firmly grounded secular humanism.
Among the many aspects of his life that this influenced was his
support for Dignity in Dying, the organisation that campaigns for
the right of terminally ill people to take their own lives, of which he
became a patron. Late in his life he spoke publicly of how, many
years ago, he had supported his sister Lucy when, diagnosed with a
terminal cancer at the age of 52, she had decided to end her life. He
spoke out, despite potentially adverse consequences, because he
wanted to give solace to others faced with such prospects. It was not
only at the start of people’s adult lives that John Burgh was on hand
with sympathy and support. The director of Dignity in Dying wrote
following John’s death:
I had the pleasure of meeting John on a numerous occasions.
He was warm and generous and kind and had an
unmistakable twinkle in his eye—a true gentleman. I was
astonished to learn that he was in his late 80s; the last time I
saw him, a few months ago, he was brimming with life. I only
ever heard him speak kindly of others and he was incredibly
encouraging of the work Dignity in Dying was doing.
Happily, John’s own life was able to maintain great dignity until its
natural end. Always athletic in build, with hair that never lost its
youthful colour, he was a regular and avid tennis player, playing his
last game only weeks before the brief pneumonia from which he died
in April 2013.
Colin Crouch
Fellow and Tutor in Politics, 1985-98
KATERINA REED TSOCHA
(1965-2013)
Junior Research Fellow in
the History of Art 2003-6
Katerina Reed-Tsocha died on
6 April 2013 at the age of 47.
She died young, way too
young—she was full of life,
ideas and plans, ambitions
and aspirations. During her
time at Trinity she made
significant contributions to
every aspect of college life.
The
seminars
on
the
Philosophy and Theory of the
Visual Arts that she organized
became a highlight of the
college term card and drew listeners and speakers not only from
Oxford, but the UK and all over the world. During those meetings,
the Danson Room became the venue for lively interdisciplinary
debate: open, provocative, thought-inspiring, and never the same.
The arguments begun in those seminars often spilled over into
conversations at dinner and beyond. Katerina enjoyed the
collegiate atmosphere, and became a good friend to many Fellows
and guests of Trinity.
Katerina grew up in Athens where she attended the prestigious Pierce
College, The American College of Greece, which traces back its
roots to the school for girls founded by American missionaries in
1875 in Smyrna. She then obtained a BA Honours Degree in
Philosophy from the University of Athens, her thesis entitled
Historicism, Cultural Criticism and ‘the Conversation of Mankind’.
She continued to pursue her interest in philosophy when she came
to the UK in 1988 to study for an MPhil at Cambridge. In the early
nineties she became interested in the philosophy of arts, and moved
to Oxford (Corpus Christi College) to complete an MLitt in this
subject (thesis title: Authenticity in the Visual Arts: The Identity of
the Work and the Identity of the Artist). In 2002 she defended her
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DPhil thesis entitled Parameters of Multiplicity and the Tropes of
Uniqueness in the Visual Arts. Her examiner was Mike Inwood.
Katerina’s interest in the intersection of philosophy and the theory
of visual arts has proved very fruitful in unearthing intriguing topics
for enquiry. It is in this area that she has made significant and lasting
contributions. Throughout her professional life at Oxford she
continued to develop and extend the boundaries of knowledge in this
field. Two of her books are forthcoming: A Very Short Introduction
to Expressionism in Art (Oxford University Press) and The Myth of
the Unique Piece (Princeton University Press). It is very sad to think
that Katerina will not see them appearing in print.
Alongside her theoretical work, Katerina managed to pursue an
active career in teaching and supervision. This was important to her,
and formed a very significant part of her work. She first taught as
temporary lecturer in the Department of the History of Art, then as
college lecturer at Christ Church and St Hilda’s, and in 2008 she
became Director of Graduate Studies and Tutor in Fine Art at the
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. She gave her heart and soul
to the job of looking after the students, investing a monumental
amount of effort in keeping the Ruskin graduate programme on
track, almost single-handedly. Her achievement is reflected in the
warmest regard in which she is held by the graduate students whose
lives and minds she helped shape. We all live on in our students, and
so does Katerina. What she gave them was infinitely more than
knowledge. It was an intricate weave of values that determines the
way we sense: see, smell, seize... She taught them her way of
illuminating this world.
She was a gentle soul: caring and naturally, innately considerate. Her
inimitable conversational style combined sharp intelligence with soft
humour, delivered with a gentle smile. Although it is never to be
repeated, memories of Katerina as a person and a great intellectual
stay with all those who knew and loved her. Although Katerina was
not a believer, her wish was for her life to be celebrated in a
memorial service held in Trinity Chapel. It took place on 22 June.
Moving tributes were given by Martin Kemp and Bishop David
Stancliffe, as well as Katerina’s close friends and her students. It was
a befitting commemoration of a life in full flight cut tragically short.
Katerina is survived by her husband, Dr Felix Reed-Tsochas, who
holds the post of James Martin Lecturer in Complex Systems at Saïd
Business School and, during the illness which took her life, nursed
her with patience, dedication and tenderness.
Alexander Korsunsky
Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science
JEAN WRIGHT
(1932–2013)
Lecturer in Politics
Jean Wright, who died on 9 January 2013, played an important role
in Trinity’s recent history, though in a self-effacing manner that
gained her few plaudits at the time. She was born Jean Atkinson in
1932 at Heckmondwike, a small town in the West Riding of
Yorkshire, to a working-class family: both her parents worked in the
cloth industry, and her father’s occupation appears on her birth
certificate as ‘Woollen card cleaner’. Jean went to Heckmondwike
Grammar School, and in 1949 became the first of her family to
attend university, matriculating at Somerville. She graduated with a
First in Modern History in 1952, then an even greater achievement
than it is now, and continued to graduate work at Nuffield. There she
met John Wright, an economics student from Sheffield, whom she
married in 1954. John was appointed Fellow and Tutor in Economics
at Trinity the next year, and soon became the college’s Estates
Bursar—a role he relinquished forty-one years later on his retirement
in 1996. Jean’s own ambitions for a formal academic career were
overtaken by circumstances: attitudes of the time towards married
women’s careers; the demands of marriage, and especially John’s
bad health in the 1950s; and, finally, the arrival of children—
Edmund in 1959 and Matthew in 1961. However, once they had
grown up, in 1978 she became a lecturer in Politics at Trinity.
Initially this was to teach the Political Institutions paper in PPE
Prelims as short-term cover for a Fellow on sabbatical, but the
arrangement proved successful and continued throughout the 1980s.
In this period Jean described herself as a ‘part-time self-employed
academic’.
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Jean and John played an important role in the history of Trinity’s
North Oxford properties: in 1965 they moved to 106 Woodstock
Road, at first renting it from the college, but then buying it. In 1986
they sold it back to the college, when it became the core of the
college’s ‘Staverton Road’ development. Parts of its garden from the
Wright era still remain: in particular the spectacular cypress tree, but
also a few apple trees and yew trees (there was originally a line of
seventeen). From the early 1990s Jean had to care increasingly for
John and her own mother, who died in 2001 and 2002 respectively.
She continued to live a determinedly independent life until near the
end, when she moved to St Luke’s Hospital in Headington. Those
of us who had the privilege to know Jean will remember her with
the same affection that we hold for John: she was a quiet-spoken
Yorkshirewoman who was decent through and through, and who left
the world much the better place for her being in it.
Bryan Ward-Perkins
Fellow and Tutor in History
(with considerable help from Edmund Wright)
OBITUARIES OF OLD MEMBERS
It is with sadness that Trinity has learned recently of the deaths of
the following members, obituaries of whom will be included in the
2013-14 edition of the Report:
(Arthur) Nigel Davenport (1948), on 25 October 2013
Lord Kingsdown (Robin Leigh-Pemberton, 1948), on 24 November
2013
George Grimes Watson (1948), on 2 August 2013
Lord Kindersley (Robert Hugo Kindersley, 1949), on 9 October 2013
Robert ‘Robin’ Ian Murray-Walker (1957), on 31 August 2013
Harry Edward Fitzgibbons (1958), on 21 September 2013
MAURICE GEORGE BALME (Scholar 1946) won fame in the struggle
for the survival of classics as a significant school and university
subject. When Oxford and Cambridge dropped Latin as a
requirement for entry in 1960, thereby putting paid to the relatively
secure place of classics in the school curriculum, Maurice was a key
figure among those who rose to the challenge, redefining the aims
of the subject and its teaching methodology. In the mid-sixties, he
and Mark Warman, both masters at Harrow School, produced a book
called Aestimanda (Up for discussion), which sought to elicit
responses to classical literature as a conscious part of the educational
process. The importance of Aestimanda can scarcely be overemphasized. Its publication has been the main reason why the
appreciation of classical literature, rarely a priority till then, has now
become such a welcome feature of everyday classroom teaching.
In the late sixties he sat on the advisory panel for the ground-breaking
Cambridge Latin Course which taught Latin through reading the
language: in those early days grammar was supposed more or less to
take care of itself. Working out his own principles of language
teaching, he embarked on Athenaze (To Athens), a beginners’ Greek
reading course but with a strong grammatical backbone. Later
published by the Oxford University Press, it is now the world’s bestselling Greek course. Two highly attractive Latin readers also
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appeared, both still in print. One was a collaboration with James
Morwood, another Harrow colleague and later Fellow of Wadham
College, with whom most of Balme’s future books were to be written.
The major product of this happy partnership was The Oxford Latin
Course, like the Cambridge Course based on reading but, like
Athenaze, insisting on the learning of grammar. Balme was himself
an impressive linguist who wrote delightfully fluent Latin prose, as
well as having the talent to fling off an ode in the style of Horace.
After leaving Marlborough, Maurice had done wartime service with
the Royal Marines, breaking Japanese codes at Bletchley. He then
proceeded to Trinity, where he won a good First in classical Mods.
He taught briefly at Radley and Charterhouse before moving on to
Harrow in 1952. There he remained until his retirement, thirty-three
years later. As a teacher, he was innovative, lively and committed,
though his tongue could have a sharp edge. After an inspirational
stint as Head of Classics, he became a housemaster, evincing a strong
commitment to a multicultural clientele and numbering among his
parents Diana Rigg and (a particularly satisfied customer) Joanna
Lumley. In this role his at times gruff exterior totally failed to
conceal the warm heart beneath. His wife Sarah, a talented painter,
proved a splendid chatelaine, her forthright opinions adding as much
spice to their dinner parties as her excellent cuisine.
A cultivated man, Maurice was a gallant rather than virtuoso cellist;
he edited unpublished writings of the seventeenth-century diarist
John Aubrey (1642), and he translated the Greek comic playwright
Menander for Oxford World’s Classics. When he and Sarah retired
to their beloved Yorkshire house, he was able to give full vent to his
passion for gardening. He kept writing up till his death in December
2012. An edition of The Oxford Latin Course for American college
students was published last year and a revision of Athenaze will
appear in 2014. The couple’s warmth, humour and humanity lasted
until the very end. Sarah’s death preceded his by eight days. They
are survived by a daughter and two sons.
Based on the text by James Morwood, Emeritus Fellow of Wadham
College, for the obituary in the Daily Telegraph
WILLIAM BRIAN BAXTER (Commoner 1961) was born in Belfast in
1927 and came to Trinity from Bangor Grammar School. He worked
in publishing in Toronto and was married to Edit, who survives him.
PROFESSOR GERALD IAN BONNER (Commoner as RAC Cadet 1944)
was the son of an ex-Indian Army officer and a primary-school
teacher, who took up responsibilities at an early age following the
premature death of his father. After leaving the Stationers’ School,
he joined the Army in 1944 and came to Trinity for an army short
course. He then served with the King’s Dragoon Guards in Palestine
and North Africa. He returned to Oxford after the war, but went to
Wadham. He then entered the British Museum, where he was a
keeper of manuscripts for over a decade. He demonstrated a zeal for
scholarship that led to the publication of his seminal study of St
Augustine of Hippo in 1963. He was also an enthusiastic participant
in the work of the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius, building
connections between Anglican and Orthodox churchmen.
In 1965 Gerald was invited to Durham to join the Theology
Department, at which he was the resident historian, teaching church
history from the patristic era to the present day. In 1967 he married
Jane Hodgson, then lecturing in the German department at Sheffield.
University. Their son was born in 1970 and their daughter in 1976.
While at Durham, he started courses on Augustine of Hippo, and
also on Cuthbert and Bede, feeling it important that somebody
should be working on the two northern saints whose remains lay in
the cathedral. More recently, he suggested the text to be put above
Bede’s tomb; the guides tell us that this text is an inspiration to
visitors.
Retiring early in order to guarantee the appointment of a successor,
he went to the Catholic University of America as Distinguished
Professor of Early Christian Studies (1990-1994). He taught for a
semester at Villanova University in 1999, and also taught several
summer schools in Wisconsin. He contributed many articles to the
mammoth Augustinus Lexikon and he was very touched to be
honoured with a Festschrift edited by Augustinian friends in Rome.
Gerald was always generous with help and encouragement to others,
and delighted in sharing information and insights. He was given to
hospitality, whether to new or visiting colleagues, or in bringing old
and new friends together for the pleasure of their company. He was
a man of deep learning and powerful convictions; he eschewed the
combative enthusiasm of many Anglican conservatives, while
remaining faithful to his firmly held convictions: he was deeply
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committed to upholding the sanctity of life, speaking and writing to
that effect. ·He was a regular worshipper both at the Cathedral and
at his parish church, where he was a server at the early morning
communion services until infirmity made this impossible. He kept
up a regular correspondence with family and friends, and his letters
were by turns entertaining and profound. The many tributes his
family has received show how much he was valued both for his
academic work and for the kindness and generosity of spirit which
led him to share his knowledge and insights with all who sought his
help.
Jane Bonner
MARK BEVIL ‘BEV’ BOWN MRCP (Millard Scholar 1951), was born
at Bexhill in September 1932. He was the fourth child of Dorothy
(Watson) Bown and Arthur Mervyn Bown MC (scholar 1912). His
middle name was given him by his father who had been a friend of
Bevil Quiller-Couch (1910). Mark was educated at Shrewsbury
School before coming to Trinity; he entered having gained the top
Millard Scholarship, the same award won by his father in 1912.
He graduated in medicine in 1957 and spent three years in the USA
before returning to England for a short stint as registrar and locum
consultant in chest diseases at Edgware and later as medical registrar
at the Canadian Red Cross Hospital at Taplow. He then became Chief
Resident at Tampa General Hospital in Florida followed by three
years as chest specialist to the Government of the Bahamas. He spent
the remainder of his working life in the Lowell area of
Massachussetts, first with a medical firm in Chelmsford and then in
Tyngsborough, where he ran his own practice for thirty years. He
ran the Tuberculosis programme in Lowell, headed the Respiratory
Department in Lowell General Hospital and worked at the Lowell
Health Department. He was a school doctor and served on a school
committee.
Known as ‘Bev’ in this country and as ‘Mark’ to his friends and
patients in America, he was someone whose character and
contribution to life is not easily described in a factual account of his
career. Any of his contemporaries who read this will understand what
I mean. He had an ability to mix with people in all walks of life and
make them laugh. He was unconventional in his work and in
everything else. From his surgery he dispensed a concoction which
became known as ‘Bown’s Mixture’ and people swore by it. Those
who came to his funeral ceremonies in the little town of
Tyngsborough went out of their way to express gratitude and
admiration for his friendliness, skill and compassion.
Bev died on 3 September 2013 just short of his 81st birthday. He is
survived by Linda, his wife of thirty-three years, and his three
children.
Hugh Bown (1950)
(CHRISTOPHER) ROGER ETTRICK BROOKE OBE (Scholar 1950) came
to Trinity from Tonbridge, where he had been Head of School. He
led a full life in College, acting for the Trinity Players as one of the
bouncy twins in Shaw’s You Never Can Tell and on a tour of
Hampshire villages in Maria Marten; keeping wicket for the Triflers,
being given out LBW by one village umpire off a ball which
damaged his chin, for he was not very tall, and playing a lot of golf.
Though he did not present the image of a scholar, he had a quick and
wide-ranging mind, and enjoyed the teaching of Tommy Higham,
James Holliday and especially Austen Farrer and Patrick NowellSmith. This was a strong team, and Roger emerged with a First in
Greats.
He passed the Foreign Office examination, the cursus honorum of
his generation. His career as a diplomat took him to Bonn,
Washington (where he marched to hear Martin Luther King’s famous
speech) and Tel Aviv, where he was in his element as commercial
attaché. There he impressed the visiting Ronald Grierson, who was
heading up the new Industrial Reorganisation Corporation, Harold
Wilson’s instrument to strengthen British industry. Grierson
persuaded him to join it and leave the Foreign Office, and he
embarked on a business career in 1966. This took him to Pearsons,
where he was a Director from 1971 until 1979, involved, among
other of the company’s interests, in the Goldcrest Company which
sponsored the films Watership Down and Gandhi. In 1979, he was
invited to become Managing Director of EMI, but within the year
the company was taken over by Thorn Electric, and he lost his job.
Roger had a restless and innovative streak, and this came to his
rescue. He created Candover Investments, a firm specialising in
management buyouts. This, one of the earliest of its type, was an
outstanding success, and was widely regarded as the leader in its
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field. Roger was its chief executive from 1980 until 1990, and its
chairman until 1999. It was a sadness for him that after his departure
it over-reached itself, and went into terminal decline. He became a
director of Slough Estates, Tarmac, Wembley PLC and many other
companies. But his energy was always focused on using money for
the benefit of the community. He championed the Thatcherite belief
in a mixed economy, searched for new ways of attracting private
capital to public investment, and became Chairman of Innisfree, an
early PFI company helping to build hospitals and schools. He was
Chairman of the Audit Commission for three years from 1995. He
set up his own charitable trust, and at his memorial service speakers
from the Autism Diagnostic Research Centre, the Pelican Cancer
Foundation, Southampton University and the Royal Society told of
his stimulating interest in the causes it supported.
Roger was married to an American, Nancy Lowenthal, for fifty-four
years. They had a daughter and three sons and were a devoted and
attractively vivacious couple. Roger died on 11 December 2012.
Roger Ellis (1949)
ROBERT ‘ROBIN’ HAYDON BURLEIGH (Commoner 1960) was educated
at the Dragon school and then at Repton before coming to read law
at Trinity. He was a keen golfer and was awarded a golf Blue in
1963, as well as playing in golf and hockey cuppers. He enjoyed his
time at Trinity though it is likely most weekends were spent on the
golf course.
Robin was brought up partly in the Hope Valley and then in
Sheffield, and he became a lifelong supporter of Sheffield
Wednesday football club. After Trinity he returned to Sheffield to
train as a solicitor. He had a short spell as an in-house lawyer for
Wilkinson Sword and then, through a golfing connection, joined
the London law firm of Clifford Turner in 1968 and became a
partner in 1971. Through his flatmates he met Ann and they were
married in 1969. There followed two assignments abroad together,
firstly Amsterdam and then Riyadh in Saudi Arabia in 1976,
accompanied by their six-month old daughter; the return to London
saw the arrival of a son in 1980. In 1978 he became head of the
Corporate Financial group of the firm, until he retired from ill health
in 1997. His health continued to dog him but he never ever
complained and his good humour was never absent. He was indeed
a life enhancer. In these latter years he supported fundraising for
both the Dragon and Trinity as a reflection of both his happy time
at these establishments and his belief in mentoring and supporting
the younger generations.
After retirement Robin continued to play and support his various
golf activities and spent more time in the southeast of France where
he and Ann had a house in the sleepy Var. His gardening skills were
replaced by a love of olive trees and their harvesting. His French
farming neighbours took this jovial Englishman who spoke
indifferent French to their hearts and in later years many idyllic
evenings were spent in their company. He was diagnosed with an
aggressive cancer in September 2012 and died on 16 December, still
complaining about the lack of test match scores.
Ann Burleigh
D R JOHN COURT CORNWELL (Commoner 1941) was born and brought
up in Bristol, one of four brothers, and educated at Clifton College.
He came to Trinity in 1940 to study Politics, Philosophy and
Economics, but soon after arriving was called up for military service.
It was in France, whilst marching through the notorious Falaise Gap,
where he witnessed appalling carnage to both men and horses, that
he was ultimately inspired to become a doctor.
After the war, John qualified from St Mary’s Paddington. He started
his career as a GP in north London. Seeking a new challenge, he
soon accepted a job as a medical officer for Shell. This post took
him to far-flung places including Indonesia, where he set up a small
hospital for both expatriates and locals, and then onto Trinidad and
finally Nigeria where he developed a passion for astronomy.
John retired from Shell in 1971 and became a Consultant of
Occupational Health in Bristol, finally retiring in 1998. He remained
an enthusiastic supporter of Trinity and regularly attended Gaudies
and lunches in College. John is survived by his wife, Meike, three
children and eight grandchildren.
Meike Cornwell
JULIAN MICHAEL ST FELIX DARE (Minor Scholar 1955) was always
very good fun to be with, gregarious and boisterous. He was an
accomplished athlete, running the 100 yards in less than eleven [or
was it ten?] seconds, and became an inspiring classics teacher. He
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read Mods and Greats at Trinity and played rugby for the college,
cricket for the Trinity Triflers and continued to run, as a sprinter. He
also made many friends at Trinity.
One year at Trinity he took digs in the home of the daughter of a
former president of the college (Henry Pelham, President 18971907). Mrs Bickmore certainly found Julian a bit wild and was
exasperated at his negligence in failing to clear his room at the end
of the summer term. Eventually he prevailed upon a friend, Peter
Sharp (1955) to drive to the house and let him empty the contents of
his room from his window directly into the boot of the car. (In later
life, the Carlisle police once assessed that his merely untidy house
had been broken into.)
Julian was born in December 1936 in Georgetown, British Guiana
(now Guyana). His father’s family had been merchants in Georgetown
for some generations, prominent in the local community and in West
Indian cricket. His mother was from the West of Ireland. Julian was
sent to school at Stonyhurst, from which he won his scholarship to
Trinity. After graduation he decided to try his vocation with the
Dominicans at Woodchester, near Stroud. Eighteen months later,
having concluded that life as a friar was not for him, he got a job at
the Bank of London and South America. This took him to Brazil,
where he mastered Portuguese. Another twist in his life (and a nervous
breakdown) brought him at the end of the sixties to the Benedictine
school of Worth Abbey, to teach classics. He was at Worth for fifteen
years. In due course the opportunity to become head of department
presented itself. That gave him pause. He decided, deliberately, to
move to a maintained school. After a short time in Liverpool he was
appointed to Trinity School in Carlisle, a former grammar school.
There he had some notable successes in equipping classics pupils for
the best universities. A former pupil of his at Worth, who became an
Olympic athlete and whose talent had been encouraged by Julian,
described him as, ‘a great man with incredible enthusiasm, energy and
with a warmth of character which was very special. He managed to
be a Master to we boys, but at the same time a friend, quite a rarity in
those days when formality was so much more the norm.’
He did care deeply about people and was an attentive godparent; he
was stimulating company and generous with his limited resources.
Retiring to live in Oxford, in 1998, he worked for Oxfam (making
good use of his Portuguese) and taught English to foreign students.
He enjoyed welcoming many former pupils and Oxford
contemporaries, and he travelled, returning to Brazil, and to Guyana.
It was while on a visit there, in April 2013, that Julian died peacefully
(of a heart attack while swimming, only a quarter of a mile from
where he was born).
Hugo Brunner (1954) and Eldred Smith-Gordon (1956)
PETER VASILI DARROW (Commoner with Senior Status 1972) was
born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the son of Peter and Charlotte Noble
Darrow. He graduated from Columbia College and came to Trinity
to take a BPhil degree. He remained active in alumni affairs,
incorporating Trinity Society USA as a charity. With friends from
Trinity, starting in 2005, he helped expand the Cambodia Trust, the
charity co-founded by former History Fellow Peter Carey, which
maintains rural clinics in Cambodia that provide free artificial limbs
to those maimed by land mines. At the time of his death, Peter was
chairman of the board of the Trust. He was also a board member of
Everyone Wins, a national childhood literacy and mentoring nonprofit organization. Once a week he used to read to elementary
school children during his lunch period. After their mother died of
cancer in 2001, Peter and his brother established Fighting Chance, a
free-of-charge cancer resource centre for residents on the east end
of Long Island.
Peter graduated from Michigan Law School in 1978, where he was
a member of the Law Review. He became a partner at Mayer Brown
& Platt in its New York Office and was later a partner in DLA Piper’s
Finance practice in New York City. He travelled frequently for the
firm to Mexico and other Central and South American countries to
handle complex financial transactions for large companies in Latin
America.
Peter was a highly experienced finance and securities lawyer who
focused on capital markets financing, acquisition and leveraged
financing, structured financing, project and infrastructure financing,
debt restructuring and liability management transactions, particularly
in Latin America and other emerging markets. In the business world
he was considered a pleasure to work with, and was highly regarded
for his expertise as a trusted, commercially-minded adviser.
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He was admitted to the New York bar and was a member of the
American Bar Association, Section of Corporation, Business and
Banking Law. His publications include A Greek Odyssey: Greece’s
sovereign debt restructuring and its impact on holders of Greek
bonds and Will 2012 Bring More Debt Restructuring for Latin
American Companies?, and he co-authored several other
publications over the last two decades.
Peter was an avid rower. He began rowing with the Columbia
lightweight rowing crew in 1968. He rowed in the 3rd VIII in
Summer Eights in 1974 (given the light-hearted listing of the names
in the Eights programme, perhaps it was not the most serious of
crews). In later life he enthusiastically supported the small Sag Harbor
rowing club and last year he raised funds to purchase a new rowing
shell for Columbia’s women’s crew. He named it the Denise V Seegal
in honour of his wife.
He died on 19 May 2013, after a long battle with cancer. He is
survived by Denise, his wife of five years—they were introduced to
each other by the author of this tribute—and by his two children
from an earlier marriage.
John Tepper Marlin (1962)
DEREK BAINFORDE DAWSON MBE (Commoner 1940) was born in
Colwyn Bay and brought up in Wembley Park, London, within
earshot of the Stadium. He was educated at Bradfield College,
excelling in the classroom and on the playing field, and winning a
place at Trinity to read Law under the legendary Philip Landon.
Derek squeezed his Law degree into two years and was then
commissioned in the Sherwood Foresters and joined the war
effort. He immediately saw action in North Africa for the 6th
Lincolnshire Regiment, and in March 1943 in Tunisia received
gunshot wounds to his head, right arm and left leg, which was
amputated above the knee with great skill by a German surgeon.
He survived the rest of the war in a variety of prisoner-of-war
camps.
On his repatriation in 1945, Derek threw himself back into civilian
life. He married his wife, Pat, in 1947 and had two children, Hugh
and Guy (both of whom went to Trinity), while building a successful
career as a legal adviser with Esso Petroleum. The family moved
down to Fisher’s Pond, near Winchester, in 1970 and continued to
live there happily after Derek’s retirement in 1977.
Derek had been active in the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen
Association all his adult life, and continued to be so in retirement as
Honorary Secretary to the Southampton, Winchester and District
Branch. He was awarded the MBE in 2001 in recognition of his
services to charity.
Derek was a man of great courage and determination, with a fine
legal brain and a broad range of cultural and sporting interests. His
enduring love for Trinity and its people was a constant factor in his
life; he enjoyed nothing more than returning to Gaudies and lunches,
and he stayed in touch with his old Trinity friends to the last.
Guy Dawson (1971), son
(WILLIAM) LEONARD ‘LEN’ DENNY (Commoner as RAC Probationer
1945) was born in August 1927 and attended Haberdashers’ Aske’s
School at Hampstead. In his final year he volunteered for the army
and joined up on 16 August 1945.
I met him at Brancepeth Castle, Durham, where we were sent for
our initial military training. After six weeks we were ordered to
report to Trinity to read Mathematics and Physics for the Preliminary
Examination. After one term we had to move to Keble College,
whilst remaining members of Trinity.
At this time undergraduates had to obtain permission to be away at
weekends. For Len it was not enough to leave early on a Sunday
morning to see his young lady in London, so we agreed that I should
ruffle his bedclothes, wash in his hand-basin and spit in his tooth
mug, thereby allowing him to leave on Saturday to visit Betty, whom
he subsequently married. We worked on the principle that ‘all was
fair in love and war’.
At the end of the Trinity term it was back into the army and Len had
to report to Yeovil for training with the Royal Army Service Corps.
We met up again in Aldershot at Mons Barracks in October 1946
and after eight weeks Len was commissioned and posted to Kenya.
After demobilisation in 1948, Len was employed by the Bank of
England and gained experience in the cashiers’ and secretaries’
departments before finally settling in personnel. Whilst in the
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secretaries’ department he had to supervise the changeover from
typewriters to computers, which caused many headaches and late
nights working. Len’s concern was always for those under his care
and he gained the reputation for being firm and just with those he
employed.
Len and Betty were married in September 1954 and their marriage
was blessed with the birth of two daughters. They were living in
Wendover and Len served on the Board of Aylesbury Hospital and
also gave his time to the Citizens’ Advice Bureau and the Soldiers’
and Airmen’s Families Association. His involvement in all these
organisations was prompted by his conviction that his Christian faith
had to be expressed in service to others and he and Betty were
staunch members of their local Congregational Church.
After retirement they moved to Oxford. Len’s love of music and the
theatre was amply met by events around the city. He appreciated
being so close to Trinity and whenever he and Betty could, they
attended events in College. Len had great compassion for those who
suffered illness and this was especially evident with the maladies
suffered by Betty. He himself developed three forms of cancer,
which he endured without complaint, strengthened by his Christian
faith. He died peacefully on 29 September 2012.
Harold Collard (1945)
(CYRIL) PAUL DIVER (Commoner 1934) was born in 1915 while his
father Cyril Diver, a naturalist, was at the front. Summers were spent
in Bournemouth with his grandmother Maud Diver, the novelist, and
in Dorset, where his father was surveying Studland Heath. He went
to Charterhouse, where he excelled at cricket and developed his
interest in the classics and in philosophy. He came up to Trinity in
1934 to read Greats. He became a member of Vincent’s and in 1938
took up a Whitehead Travelling ‘Studentship’, spending five months
in the USA, Canada, South Africa, Egypt and Europe in the year
leading to the Second World War.
He joined Imperial Tobacco, where he spent all his working life, but
in 1939 joined the Royal Artillery and was sent to the desert, where
he was captured hailing an allied tank which had been taken by the
enemy. He was sent to a camp in Italy, transported initially in a
submarine. He remembers the best food he had as a PoW. The cook
had filled the empty torpedo tubes with black market goods and took
pride in his work.
He returned to London in 1945 where he soon married Jane WaseRogers, a family friend he had known since childhood. They moved
to Liverpool, where they stayed—apart from three years in Sheffield
running a snuff mill—until 1972 when he joined the board of
Imperial Tobacco in Bristol, retiring in 1978. He was always
involved in local activities; in Liverpool, the Port Authority, and in
Somerset, the Somerset Trust.
He loved travel and in later years took walking trips to Nepal, the
Amazon and Sri Lanka as well as visiting Greece and Italy regularly,
botanising and photographing the wild flowers. In 1984 he and Jane
moved back to London, where they had both grown up. Here again
he was involved locally: helping older people, and playing croquet
and bridge to competition standard. He enjoyed his free travel,
regularly attending concerts on the South Bank and always had his
hair cut at Harrods. He moved into a nursing home by Richmond
Park just before Jane died in 2008, and he stayed active until his last
year, dying in January 2013, aged 97. He leaves two children and
four grandsons.
Caroline Boyd, daughter, and William Diver, son
DR MAURICE GEORGE EBISON OBE FINSTP FRAS (Commoner 1955)
was born in Woking in 1930. He attended the Royal Grammar
School, Guildford and following National Service and three years
at Jesus College, Cambridge, he came to Trinity to take a diploma
in education.
After Trinity he undertook further study in London and Salford and
completed a doctorate in 1993. He taught at Queen Mary’s Grammar
School, Walsall and at the College of St Mark & St John in Chelsea.
The college moved to Plymouth in 1973 and Maurice joined the
Institute of Physics, of which he had become a fellow two years
before, and at the time of his retirement held the post of Deputy
Chief Executive. He published a number of books and in 1998 was
awarded the Institute of Physics’ Bragg medal and prize, which
recognises significant contributions to physics education and to
widening participation within it. He and his wife, Audrey, retired to
Hove in 2001 and he died there in February 2013.
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© John Carey
ANTHONY ‘TONY’ PAUL FRASER
(Commoner as Advanced
Student 1987) was born and
educated in Kent and showed
early signs of an adventurous
spirit and a passion for
wildlife, nature and travel. On
leaving school in 1977 he
travelled to India and Nepal,
backpacking his way to the
foothills of the Himalayas. On
his return he undertook various
jobs including two years as a
tree surgeon/arboriculturist in
Ireland. During this time he
decided to study for a tree culture and forestry degree at Bangor
University, where in 1985 he gained a First in BSc Forestry.
Tony came to Trinity to take an MSc course in forestry, whilst working
for two years with the Department for International Development as
a research officer. This involved field research in Tanzania based at
the Tanzania Wattle Company (Tanwat) and developing a computerbased management system for plantation forestry, followed by a year
at Trinity writing his thesis, entitled A management control system for
fast-growing tree plantations in the tropics. Tony enjoyed rowing,
playing cricket and tennis at Trinity, as well as the formal literary
dinners to which students contributed readings.
In 1989, Tony was posted to the Solomon Islands as part of a
Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) team to set up a
plantation company on the remote island of Kolombangra, where he
spent three years as Development Manager. In 1992, he transferred
to Africa to lead the process of setting up a teak company in
Kilombero Valley in Southern Tanzania, which is the largest seasonal
wetland in East Africa. He laid down the foundations for what is
now a substantial plantation and sawmilling operation, one of the
few sources of certified teak in the world. The company brought in
much-needed long-term employment and a wide range of social,
economic and environmental benefits, including the protection and
management of over 20,000 ha of native forests and wetland. Tony
established a partnership with Plan International for community
development, and an HIV/AIDS prevention programme for the
company workers and their families, which is still operating.
It was during this time that Tony met Nicole through his contact with
the Ifakara Health Centre where she was working. They married in
1996. Early in 1997, CDC offered Tony a posting in Swaziland as
Managing Director of Shiselweni Forestry Company, where one of
his initiatives was to take direct control of the processing and
marketing operations of the eucalyptus and pine timber. Tony
became a father in 1999, with a second daughter born in 2001.
Tony spent sixteen years with CDC and returned to England in 2002
with his young family. They settled on the Lizard Peninsula in
Cornwall where he conceived the idea of and brought to fruition the
Cornish Sea Salt Company, extracting salt from the crystal clear
waters at the coast. Considerable time was spent researching,
planning and mobilising resources, and Tony was able to inspire a
dedicated team to join him.
In 2008 Tony was diagnosed with motor neurone disease and the
family moved to Kent to be close to his relatives. He took an interest
in several research studies on MND and participated in a clinical
trial at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. He died at home on
19 June 2012. He leaves an amazing legacy in the companies he
helped develop, and among his family and friends.
Nicole Fraser
EDWARD ‘TED’ RICHARD GILES
(Commoner
as
RAF
Probationer 1942) was born in
Paddington, London, the son of
John Giles, a carpenter, and his
wife Nellie, the youngest, by
some years, of their three
children. He attended North
Paddington Central School—
though undoubtedly bright
enough to have attended
grammar school, his parents
were unable to afford the
uniform and other expenses. When Ted’s school was evacuated, he
stayed in Paddington and worked as an office boy in the Borough
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Engineer’s department, continuing his schooling at an evening institute.
Once 17, he successfully volunteered for the RAF and, having already
shown academic promise, he was sent to Trinity for a six-month short
course in September 1942, joining the University Air Squadron.
After air-crew training in Canada, Ted returned in September 1944
and was sent for training as a glider pilot, the Glider Pilot Regiment
having just suffered heavy losses at Arnhem. In March 1945, on the
eve of his twenty-first birthday, he flew one of 419 gliders that took
part in operation Varsity, part of the campaign to secure a foothold
across the Rhine to facilitate the Allies’ eastward advance. The loss
of airborne troops was high and only eighty-eight of the 419 gliders
that landed was undamaged by enemy fire.
His final deployment was at an airfield in Bangkok, after which he
would have liked to return to Trinity, but, unable to afford it, he was
taken on instead as a pupil in the department of the chief engineer at
Paddington Town Hall, from where he undertook civil engineer
training.
In August 1949 Ted married Joyce and they moved to Stevenage, Ted
having taken a job as an engineer on the construction of the new town.
Work on the new wind tunnel at RAF Thurleigh, near Bedford, was
followed by postings in Singapore and Cyprus, and then a move to the
Inspectorate of Mines and Quarries, which, following the Aberfan
disaster in 1966—the collapse of a spoil tip, which engulfed the village
school, killing 116 children and twenty-eight adults—involved work to
prevent similar tragedies. Though retiring officially at 60, he accepted
an approach from British Industrial Sand to work part-time for five
years—he in fact remained with the company until the age of 79.
On their return to England from Cyprus he and Joyce had bought
the house in Chalfont St Giles in which Ted was to spend the rest of
his life, and some of his occupations included editing the village
magazine and the local NADFAS newsletter. He wrote poetry,
sending two poems a month to the Literary Review, which made him
Poet of the Year in 1999. He was a Royal Yachting Association
ocean-going skipper and sailed dinghies and yachts.
Despite his brief time at Trinity, his affection for it remained
undiminished and latterly he and Joyce attended several events each
year, to each of which Ted brought his cheery good humour and
unfailing charm and kindness. It is fitting that the last event he came
to in College, a commemoration of the Dam Busters raids in May,
was organised by the OU Air Squadron. Ted died on 17 August 2013
and is survived by Joyce, their two sons and five grandchildren.
BENJAMIN ‘BEN’ BERNARD WOULFE GOODDEN (Commoner as RA
Probationer 1943) was the fifth child and only son of Cecil and
Hylda Goodden. His father was bursar of Harrow School and the
family lived in a school house until he retired, in 1937, when they
moved to Dorset. At the age of 11, Ben became an instant, lifelong
cricket addict when taken by friends to the Oval to watch England
vs. India. He enjoyed playing cricket, but enthusiasm always far
exceeded ability. He became a member of the MCC in 1952 and a
life member of Gloucestershire in 1973.
Ben was successful in getting a scholarship to Harrow, but was then
all too good at doing as little work as possible, thus leaving more
time for reading P G Wodehouse and Wisden. With initial reluctance
he sat for a scholarship at King’s College, Cambridge. Much to his
surprise he was offered a place for when the war was over.
Ben and I were in the same form at Harrow and we were selected as
potential gunner officers to go on the first ever Artillery six-month
short course at Oxford, being lucky enough to be posted to Trinity.
At the end of the course Ben was offered a place at the college after
the war. We then went to Norwich for basic military training and
after artillery signals training met again for preparatory Officer Cadet
Training. For our final officer cadet training we were given the
choice between Catterick in Yorkshire and Deolali near Bombay. We
thought India would be a good adventure and so went there.
We were commissioned in July 1945. Ben was posted to regiments
in Java, Burma, and then Malaya before being demobilised in 1947.
Having enjoyed his time at Trinity he took up the offer to return, to
read law, abandoning the offer from King’s. He graduated in 1949
and read for the Bar exams. He got a scholarship at the Inner Temple
and was called to the Bar in 1951. However, he gave up hope of ever
earning a living at the Bar and joined James Capel & Co in 1954,
moving to M&G Securities in 1972, setting up the Advisory
Department and being appointed director in 1974. He stayed on until
well after normal retirement age, retiring in 1999 after M&G was
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He enjoyed singing ever since he first went to school and in 1972
he joined the Bach Choir and became its treasurer for twenty years.
He sang in concerts at the main London venues and elsewhere in
Britain and around the world, as well as at the wedding of the Prince
of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.
He married Elizabeth Woodham-Smith in 1952. They had two
daughters and a son, but divorced in 1966. In 1973 he married Rose
Norman, with whom he had a son, as well as acquiring two stepsons
and a stepdaughter. His old age was marred by Multiple Sclerosis
and in due course he had to give up driving and took to a wheel chair.
He died on 15 January 2013. Throughout his post-war life he had
kept in touch with the mates he had known on the Oxford wartime
short course, attending reunion lunches in alternate years. He had a
hilarious sense of humour and had been wonderful in earning the
love and admiration of friends and family of all ages.
James Wheen (1943), with thanks to Rosey and family
(PHILIP) STEPHEN GRAY OBE (Commoner 1941) established an opera
group and left a career in the Bank of England to manage the London
Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra, so helping to establish the careers of, amongst others, Sir
Colin Davis and Sir Simon Rattle.
Stephen was the son of Philip Gray, rector of Albury in Surrey, and
was educated at Rugby School, where he was an accomplished
pianist, who learnt to play the oboe when the school orchestra was
short of an oboist.
He came to Trinity to read Classics. Following Trinity he worked at
Bletchley Park and after the war spent seven years at the Bank of
England. In 1950 he founded the Chelsea Opera Group with David
Cairns (1945). The group was formed to give concert performances
in the original language and they invited Colin Davis, a young cellist
with ambitions to be a conductor, to join them, firstly to conduct a
performance of the Magic Flute at the Holywell Music Room in
Oxford. Stephen played the oboe in the orchestra, looked after the
group’s finances and chaired its committee.
The group’s reputation spread and in 1957 he was approached by
the London Philharmonic Orchestra to be its general manager. His
task was to get the finances straight during a difficult period for the
orchestra, which he did so well that in 1959 he was asked to become
the general manger of the Philharmonia Orchestra and Concert
Society. He worked for Walter Legge, a hard taskmaster, and in his
five years with the Philharmonia he ‘graduated’ as an orchestral
administrator. In 1963, with the orchestra at its peak, he took it on a
tour of South America, the first British orchestra to go there. The
many pitfalls and difficulties were eased thanks to the gifts as a
musical ambassador of the conductor, Sir John Barbirolli.
In 1964 Legge disbanded the orchestra and Stephen was appointed
manager of the Liverpool Philharmonic (RLPO), working for the first
thirteen years with musical director Sir Charles Groves, undertaking
some of the most exciting ventures in north-west music. They instituted
the British conductors’ seminars, from which emerged Andrew Davis,
later to become an associate conductor, and in 1966 the RLPO
undertook its first foreign tour, the first of thirteen in Stephen’s time
there. During Stephen’s stewardship audiences grew and, artistically
and economically, he left the orchestra in a much sounder position than
it had been. He was honoured with a unique gala concert on his
retirement in 1987, in which all five of his principal conductors took
part, along with Sir Simon Rattle, whose musical talents he had
encouraged, having made him an associate conductor in 1977.
After spending some more time in Liverpool, he and his wife
Frances, whom he had met through the Chelsea Opera Group, moved
to Herefordshire. He died in November 2012, survived by Frances
and their two children.
Based on the notes by Michael Kennedy for the 1987 gala concert
programme
ROY WILLIAM GREEN (Commoner as RASC Probationer 1945) was
born in 1927, the last child and only son of Herbert and Mabel Green
of Shirley. After four daughters, his arrival was a joy, especially to
his father. The family was not wealthy and so there was great delight
when he won a scholarship to Solihull School.
As the war neared its end, he was called up. He served in a tank
regiment in Egypt and then Trieste as fighting continued in the
Balkans. On demobilisation he was given funding to come to Trinity,
where he read Modern Languages. He was always very proud of his
connections with Trinity and loved attending reunions.
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His choice of study made him ideally suited for a career in the
rapidly developing travel business. His passports record visits all
over the world over several decades. On his retirement he shared a
home near Stratford with married friends, later moving with them
into the town. Following the death of the husband, his widow
decided to join her son in South Africa, so Roy, not wanting to give
up his full Stratford life, became a resident of the historic fifteenth
century alms houses, their central location being ideal for him.
Among several retirement activities, he worked as a tour bus guide
for many years, regaling tourists with his highly entertaining and
colourful historical accounts. In his early 80s he took up the study
of Latin, which he really loved. Fearing his memory for vocabulary
would fail him, he decided not to enter for the GSCE examination
and felt he should give up the class. His fellow students so enjoyed
his readings from Virgil and Horace—he had a mellifluous voice—
that they persuaded him to continue. They chose an appropriate
reading from Seneca for his funeral.
Roy was highly cultured and having been involved in amateur
dramatics in his youth, he relished the proximity to all the RSC had to
offer. Always a dapper dresser, he had great presence. He was an
entertaining raconteur and very gregarious and, being a devoted
supporter of the Campaign for Real Ale, he had many convivial
evenings in the local inns. He had a wide circle of friends of all ages—
several post graduate students from the Shakespeare Institute attended
his funeral and said how greatly they had enjoyed his company.
Julie Harding, niece
STEPHEN JOHN HANSCOMBE (Commoner 1956) was born in the Wirral
and educated at The Leas School in Hoylake and Giggleswick
School in West Yorkshire. He spent three exceptionally happy years
at Trinity reading English, flying in the University Air Squadron (he
did his National Service and spent five years in the RAF before
coming up to Oxford) and playing golf for the University, just
missing out on a Blue.
After graduating, he married his first wife, Christine, in 1960 and
worked briefly as an air traffic controller at Prestwick Airport before
joining British European Airways (soon to become British Airways).
Appointed initially as an assistant to one of the senior managers he
swiftly became BEA manager for Denmark, before moving to
Sweden as manager for the whole of Scandinavia. These posts were
followed by time at Manchester Airport, where he looked after the
1-11 division. His final BA appointment was at Gatwick Airport,
where he set up British Airtours, the airline’s charter operator. He
subsequently became chief executive of Air UK, in which he enjoyed
considerable success, but when it was taken over by KLM, he
decided to retire.
Stephen’s retirement was fulfilling in a different way. A move to
Bath some fifteen years ago with his second wife, Nicola, whom he
married in 1981, took him to a city in which he felt completely at
home. Its beautiful Georgian architecture and fascinating history,
redolent of Jane Austen, another of his interests, suited him to the
full. Bath was also an ideal place for him to indulge in his other great
love and interest, Worcester porcelain.
Stephen was a remarkable man with great presence, charm, intellect
and a lovely sense of humour. He was a loving husband, father (he
had two daughters with Christine) and grandfather. Sadly, for the
past ten years, Stephen had been battling with PLS, a rare form of
motor neurone disease, but with Nicola and his family’s support, he
managed to lead a surprisingly full and enjoyable life. It was only
relatively recently that he accepted that the battle had been lost.
Philip Hanscombe, brother
DR ROBERT PETER HARKNESS (Commoner as Advanced Student 1977)
was a computational astrophysicist with the San Diego Supercomputer
Centre (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego.
He was born in Middlesex, the son of a pipeline engineer, and
attended the City of London Freemen’s School and University
College London. He came to Trinity to take a DPhil in Astrophysics.
He then moved to the USA and joined the Department of Astronomy
at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin in 1984 and also worked
at the UT Center for High Performance Computing from 1986 until
1999, when he joined the scientific computing division of the
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder,
Colorado, moving to SDSC in 2001.
Robert was a pioneer in the use of detailed radiative transfer
techniques to compute the spectra of supernovae, thus helping to put
this subject on a much firmer quantitative basis. His methods were
computationally demanding, and his work established him as one of
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the foremost computational astrophysicists of his generation. As a
Research Scientist at UT, he employed cutting-edge computational
facilities to elucidate the nature of the newly-recognized Type 1b
and Type 1c supernovae as the explosions of massive stars that had
been stripped of their outer envelopes of hydrogen. His identification
of helium in Type 1b supernovae was especially influential. He also
was the first to realize that a prominent ‘emission’ feature in the
ultraviolet portion of the spectra of Type 1a supernovae (exploding
white dwarfs) was not due to emission, but rather was a lack of
absorption by iron that suppressed the flux at longer and shorter
wavelengths. Robert invented a famous branching diagram,
frequently reproduced but not always credited, that captured the
physical relations among the growing sub-categories of supernovae.
Later in his career, Robert was deeply involved in the development
and employment of ENZO, a 3-D time-dependent code for
computational astrophysics capable of simulating the evolution of
the universe from the beginning using first principles, one of the
most efficient high-performance codes in the astronomy community.
Robert’s work allowed cosmologists to tackle computational
problems that were 2000-fold larger and more complex than just
fifteen or so years before. He was a pioneer of the use of
supercomputers in astrophysics, with rare in-depth knowledge of
both domain science and supercomputing technologies which
allowed him to accomplish things that most would not even attempt,
and his extensive experience was a tremendous asset to all those with
whom he worked.
Given other opportunities and capabilities, Robert would have
participated avidly in the human exploration of space. Failing that,
he turned to the other great frontier of his age, computation. In that
field, he rode at the frontiers. He died in January 2013, after a brief
bout with cancer, survived by his wife, Rebecca, and his sister.
Rebecca Pyle Harkness, with thanks to Craig Wheeler, University
of Texas
DR GORDON TELFORD HAYSEY (Commoner 1944) was born in Leighon-Sea in February 1927, the youngest of four children (only two of
whom survived to adulthood) of Cuthbert Haysey, a civil engineer.
He was educated at St Albans School before coming up to Trinity
for five years to study medicine.
After graduation he completed his medical training at St
Bartholomew’s Hospital. He held various posts until, in 1958, he
moved to Market Drayton in Shropshire, where he joined the
practice of another Trinity graduate, John Gask (1933). He worked
as a general practitioner there until his retirement in 1980.
Other medical related activities included the Territorial Army, where
he commanded Field Ambulance 224 with the rank of Lieutenant
Colonel. He was County Surgeon for Shropshire for the St John
Ambulance, and it was a source of special pride to him to be
appointed an Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of
St John of Jerusalem in 1995.
He was a keen musician, accomplished at the piano and organ—a
‘temporary’ role as organist of the local church lasting some thirty
years—and an active Freemason; he was appointed Provincial Grand
Master of Shropshire in 1994, a position he held until 2002.
A devoted family man, he married his wife Alison in 1953, and is
survived by her and four children, one of whom, David, followed
him to Trinity. He died in July 2013.
David Haysey (1976), son
RICHARD ELIOT HODGKIN (Commoner 1942) attended Trinity either
side of the Second World War and, following a distinguished role in
the war, went on to enjoy a career with ICI and as an art dealer. He
was born in 1924 and in his early memories of London he recalled
acute poverty and the simplicity of life in those days: playing in Hyde
Park, with yachts on the round pond, remained vividly in his mind.
Soon afterwards the family moved to Cobham where he discovered
the joys of the countryside, a pleasure which never left him.
He attended Stowe where he was head of house. From there he was
rescued (as he put it) on the eve of war by his father, then a
brigadier, who obtained for him a place at Trinity for a short
wartime degree combined with military training. Having turned 19,
he was posted for officer training to Yorkshire and then Sandhurst.
He was to be in the Royal Armoured Corps commanding a troop of
three armoured cars. He recalled the commencement of his training:
‘Vaccinations against small pox followed; the fellow in front
collapsed at the prospect, and I spent ten days in hospital with
fever’.
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This period was for him idyllic and one of real freedom, travelling
about the north of England, sleeping in hay-barns and generally going
where he wanted. It was not to last long. In 1944 his regiment, the
1st King’s Dragoon Guards, forming part of the British 8th Army
under the command of Montgomery, joined the Italian campaign,
arriving, after a detour into the Atlantic to avoid submarines, at
Naples where Vesuvius was in full eruption. His worst experience
was on his twentieth birthday: stationed on a hill just north of Perugia,
his troop occupied a walled cemetery. Not long after their arrival they
were shelled almost continuously for some two days. Richard
wondered how he had escaped, for his cap, resting on an earth wall,
had a large hole put in it, and his binoculars were severed by shell
pieces. From Italy, his unit headed for Greece, and from there
transferred to a tented camp in Egypt near the pyramids, of which he
had an unforgettable view. He was then appointed aide-de-camp to
the General Officer Commanding Palestine and Trans-Jordan.
Resuming civilian life in 1947 he returned to Trinity, where he was
to get a First in Geology. He was an enthusiastic oarsman and in
1948 was in the college 2nd VIII, which excelled itself during Eights
Week.
In 1949 he joined ICI and for a decade or so worked across Europe
and the Americas on business connected with the oil industry. In
1952 he married Karina Montagu-Pollock, the start of a long and
happy life together. After a spell in Paris in the early 1960s the family
lived in Surrey, before moving to Somerset. Following the return
from Paris, Richard had begun the pursuit of his interest in the arts,
setting up as an art dealer in London and later becoming a good
painter himself. In addition to his skill as an artist, his carpentry was
also of the finest; he would make delightful pieces of furniture for
the home, from tables to cabinets. As an art dealer he specialised in
old drawings and made a number of ‘discoveries’, many of which
are now in leading museums.
Throughout his life Richard held true to his guiding principles of
integrity and decency and to his family he was an inspirational figure
and leader. He died on 14 February 2013, and is survived by Karina,
their daughter and two sons, and by his brother John Hodgkin
(1941).
Harry Hodgkin, son
D ENYS FRASER HODSON CBE (Minor Scholar 1948) was a leading
Arts and Leisure manager who exemplified a new breed of
professional leader in the field. He was Director of Arts and
Recreation for Swindon (later Thamesdown) Borough Council,
Chairman of Southern Arts, Governor and Deputy Chairman of
the British Film Institute and Vice Chairman of the Arts Council
of Great Britain under Lord Palumbo. Building on the legacy of
Swindon’s pioneering post-war librarian, Harold Jolliffe, he
recruited and led a team of unusually excellent officers in the
creation of a comprehensive leisure service, in which the arts and
sport had equal weight. He played a key role in the development
of Swindon’s twentieth-century art collection, while actively
promoting participation in all art forms. His reputation at local
and regional level led to national appointments in which he used
his consummate diplomatic skills to broker relationships at a
turbulent time for the Arts Council and Regional Arts
Associations.
Denys was born in the vicarage at Northleach, Gloucestershire in
May 1928, son of the Revd Harold Hodson, MC. In 1938 the family
moved to the rectory at Bedale in Yorkshire. There they typified the
rural parson’s idyll. On more than one occasion, Denys was able to
ride to local dances and return home safely—despite being slightly
the worse for wear—thanks solely to the homing instinct of his horse
Ruth.
Whilst at Marlborough College during the war, he stood as the
Labour candidate in the school’s 1945 mock election and though he
did not win, was always proud of the dramatically increased share
of the vote that he earned. In 1946 he did his National Service with
the Palestine Police since ‘it was the only place where there was any
shooting going on’. In 1948 he came to Trinity to read History. He
was president of the JCR and of the Gryphon Club.
His first job was with Imperial Tobacco, where he found his
management trainee role so boring that he managed to dislocate his
jaw while yawning. The resulting ‘industrial injury’ was reported in
the Lancet medical journal. Shortly afterwards he joined the
advertising agency Coleman Prentice Varley and began a rapid rise
in the 1950s London advertising industry. Amongst other
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what was to become a popular chocolate biscuit during the ’60s and
’70s. He subsequently held marketing roles in the by-then-declining
British textile industry with Spirella (women’s made to measure
corsets) and Chester Barrie (men’s suits).
In 1970 he moved from the private to the public sector, taking up
the Director of Arts and Recreation post in Swindon. Over the next
twenty-two years he was responsible not only for the development
of arts and leisure facilities in this rapidly growing borough, but also
for establishing Thamesdown Community Arts, Swindon Dance and
the borough’s public art programme.
One of his more peculiar responsibilities at Swindon was to officially
open public ponds for skating during an extended cold snap. A keen
skater while growing up in Yorkshire, he used to carry out the testing
himself. The local papers duly turned out in the hopes of a dramatic
headline. They never got it.
In retirement, he led the Friends of Fairford Church, dedicated to
preserving this magnificent fifteenth century wool church. Over the
course of more than twenty years his tireless efforts secured over
£1 million in funding and enabled the restoration and in-situ
preservation of the church’s unique stained glass windows, often
described as the finest English medieval church windows in
existence. He enjoyed bird watching and was an expert dry-fly
fisherman on the Coln and Leach rivers in Gloucestershire. In 1953
he married Julie Goodwin, who died in 2009. He died in January
2013 and is survived by a daughter and a son.
Lucy Hodson (Wadham 1981), daughter, and Nicholas Hodson
(St Peter’s 1984), son
PETER MUIR FRANCIS HORSFIELD QC FRSA (Scholar 1950) was
educated at Beaumont School and came as a scholar to Trinity, where
he occupied the rooms of John Henry Newman, one of his great
heroes, and was tutored by Austin Farrer. Having gained a double
first in greats he applied for a junior prize fellowship at All Souls
but although he topped the exam table, no elections were made that
year. He chose to do his National Service in the navy, during which
he took the opportunity to learn Russian—which he subsequently
was able to apply, to supplement his meagre income, by teaching
Russian to the Gas Board.
Peter chose the Chancery Bar as a profession on the recommendation
of his mentor at Oxford, John Sparrow, then Warden of All Souls,
and he was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1958. He became
the pupil of Christopher Slade, with whom he appeared in a
television series called The Lawyers—each hour-long episode
consisted of various legal heavyweights of the day holding forth
about the law, but the dramatic element was provided by Christopher
and Peter as Mr Brimmercom and his bright young pupil. He took
silk in 1978 and was elected a bencher of the Middle Temple in 1984.
One piece of advice which he would give his younger colleagues
was this: ‘If you want to get on in this profession, don’t make jokes,’
advice which he never took himself. Following his retirement from
the Bar in the mid-1990s Peter acted as a part-time Special
Commissioner and was often assigned heavy VAT appeals.
Law was never Peter’s passion, but painting certainly was.
Encouraged by his friend and mentor Keith Grant, he took himself
off to art school and developed his own style heavily influenced by
the expressionist Emil Nolde. Taking a studio close to home, he
embarked on his new career as a painter in oils, with a penchant for
trees. He held two one-man shows, in 1997 and 2004. Both
exhibitions were followed by bouts of the debilitating illness which
dogged him during the last fifteen years of his life, and which was
eventually to bring his artistic career to a premature end.
Peter married in 1962 Charlotte Debenham and they had the most
successful of marriages, producing three sons in short order, to
whom he was a kindly but not over-indulgent father. Although not a
sportsman, Peter loved walking and he and Charlotte grew to love
the Brecon Beacons and the Black Mountains in Wales. Another of
his interests was astronomy; he was a member of the Royal
Astronomical Society and even built himself an observatory with a
sliding roof of his own design. In 1988 he was elected a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Arts.
His last few years were very difficult, with Peter unable to engage
with the outside world as his health deteriorated. He was tirelessly
cared for during the entirety of his illness by Charlotte. He died in
April 2013.
Based on the eulogy given by Francis Barlow, QC (Christ Church,
1959)
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ROBIN JOHN EDWARD KENNEDY (Commoner 1950) was a private
person who had loved his schooling at Downside, his three years at
Trinity and his two years in the 15th/19th Hussars; he constantly
referred back to these experiences in his life.
He worked in the City as a Lloyds underwriter, first for C T Bowring
& Co. and later for Willis Faber, where he was considered to be one
of the foremost experts on Latin American, as well as Spanish and
Portuguese, business. He retired in 1988, enjoying his garden and
time with his family.
He died at the Runnymede Hospital Chertsey in January 2013 after
a long illness.
Mary Kennedy
THE REVD COLIN HARVEY MEAD (Commoner as RAF Cadet 1944)
was born in Sheffield and came to Trinity from Bloxham School. He
played Hockey while here. After Trinity he practised as a Chartered
Accountant until 1986. He was ordained as a non-stipendiary
minister and served on the board of Bloxham School. He died
peacefully in April, aged 86, he and his wife Jean having just
celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary.
ROGER SIMON MILLER (Commoner 1956) was the son of an Anglican
priest, sometime vicar of East Dean in Sussex. He was born in
Seaford and came to Trinity from Harrow to read History. He and
his partner Tessa spent some time living in France, before moving
to Somerset. He died in April 2013 after a short illness.
CHRISTOPHER ‘CHRIS’ MILNES MITCHELL (Scholar 1952) was
kindness personified and courteous to his fingertips. He was a man
of culture, a man of learning and a man of integrity. He was born in
1934 in Dar Es Salaam, the younger son of Doreen Milnes Mitchell
and Arthur Mitchell OBE, a civil engineer. He attended school in
Dar Es Salaam before his family returned to England, settling in
Beaconsfield and he was sent to Bryanston School, where he
excelled. He came to Trinity to read Chemistry.
From 1956 to 1961 he worked for the Atomic Energy Authority
where he developed longstanding friendships. He then gained a
position as a senior scientist with Esso Petroleum near Abingdon.
He was held in extremely high regard, especially relating to his
involvement in bitumen test work. He talked about his work with
characteristic modesty but reading between the lines it seems he was
‘chief troubleshooter’.
That period of his life was a happy one. He lived with his mother
Doreen with whom he had a wonderful relationship; they travelled
extensively and while at home in Marcham enjoyed Bridge evenings
and gardening. Following her death in 1995, Chris moved to Culham
and retired from Esso in 1999.
Deciding where to spend the rest of his days, typically he researched
many areas and eventually plumped for Colyford in Devon. He was
warmly welcomed and felt part of the community from the outset.
He was involved in the famous Goose Fayre and many local clubs.
Having made wonderful friends he was truly happy there. He took
time to visit his family in Kent and through his interest in geneology
compiled a comprehensive family tree. He enjoyed attending family
events and cricket matches.
He was an extremely talented artist and looked forward to his annual
art course in Crail where his work and quiet humour were much
admired. He gained enormous pleasure from his music and attended
concerts and recitals at every opportunity. Not only was he
tremendously supportive to his family and friends but he worked
tirelessly and quietly for various charities, particularly the RNLI,
continuing his mother’s work.
Kim Kirkaldy, neice
SIR JOHN OSCAR MORETON KCMG KCVO MC (Commoner 1936)
died on 14 October 2012, aged 94. The son of a one-time Oxfordshire
vicar, he attended St Edward’s School and was one of those enviable
people who excelled both in the classroom and on the playing field,
winning a string of prizes in classics and literature, captaining the
school in athletics and representing it also in rugger and hockey.
John went on to Trinity from 1936 to 1939, where he continued his
earlier sporting prowess. He represented the University and the
country, particularly as a half-miler. However his time at Trinity was
cut short when war service interrupted his classical studies, to which
he was not destined to return.
His MC was awarded for an extraordinarily brave exploit at Kohima
in Burma in 1944. With a sniper’s bullet in his shoulder, he continued
under fire for five days during which, according to the official citation,
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‘he insisted on carrying on owing to the difficulties of relief at the
time…Great damage was inflicted on the enemy by the gunfire brought
down by Captain Moreton who put himself in great peril every time
he spoke on the wireless, owing to the proximity of the the enemy…
Throughout he showed great coolness, judgement and courage’. John’s
own reactions to the episode may be gauged by the later choice of the
Kohima Educational Trust for donations when he died.
Returning from the war in 1945, John married Peggy in a union
which was to last for sixty-six years and produce three daughters.
After a short time teaching at Uppingham he joined the Colonial
Service in 1948. He served in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion,
and then became private secretary to the Colonial Secretary, Alan
Lennox-Boyd, for a period of four years involving a succession of
African independence negotiations. Transferring to the
Commonwealth Office, John had three years in the High
Commission in Nigeria, followed by four years in London during
which the Foreign and Commonwealth Offices merged and he was
appointed Ambassador to Vietnam. The Vietnam war was at its
height and required delicate handling of both the Vietnamese and
the Americans, the latter resenting the determination of Harold
Wilson’s government to keep Britain well out of it. In 1972 John
was appointed High Commissioner in Malta, where he had to deal
with the redoubtable Dom Mintoff as Prime Minister.
John’s final assignments were in the United States—two years as
deputy to the Permanent Representative to the United Nations (though
with the personal rank of Ambassador) and three as Minister and deputy
to the Ambassador in Washington. This happened to be Peter Jay, who
had been controversially catapulted in from outside the Diplomatic
Service in circumstances which raised eyebrows, not only in official
circles, as he was the son-in-law of Prime Minister James Callaghan
and known to be a close friend of Foreign Secretary David Owen.
Jay himself obviously expected to be given a rough ride by his career
staff. That this did not happen was largely down to John, who in
Jay’s own words ‘supported me every day and in every way with
wise advice and personal friendship, making my task less daunting
and much more enjoyable. [This was] a reflection certainly of his
deep professionalism, but also and even more profoundly of his
essential and pre-eminent decency’.
John’s tenure in Washington coincided with the Queen’s state visit
to the United States as part of the bicentennial celebrations in 1976
of American independence. He played a leading part in organising
the British role, and was rewarded by the KCVO conferred on him
by Her Majesty on board Britannia. To this was added the KCMG
awarded on his retirement in 1978. In retirement among his many
activities was Gentleman Usher of the Blue Rod of the Order of St
Michael and St George from 1979 to 1992.
It remains a matter of conjecture why, although his spell in
Washington was in a sense his crowning achievement, it was not the
highpoint that might have been expected. One possibility is that there
were ongoing frictions in Whitehall between the former Foreign
Office and the Commonwealth fraternity. Another is that he was
known to hold critical views about Britain’s imperial record which
may not have commended him to the Establishment. (A memoir
which he wrote for the Trinity archive in 2005 reveals that this was
matched by a strong social conscience at home.)
For my part, since John was ten years ahead of me at both St
Edward’s and Trinity, and our paths never crossed in the Diplomatic
Service, I did not get to know him until the late 1980s. But my
abiding memories of him will be his assiduous attendance at
functions connected with all three circles, from reunions at School
and College to Annual Services in St Paul’s of the Order of St
Michael and St George. This continued until late in his advancing
years and impaired mobility.
The remarkable and moving tributes paid to John at his
Thanksgiving Service in The Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy (Chapel
of the Royal Victorian Order) on March 6, 2013 were a fitting
recognition of his personal and professional qualities as soldier and
diplomat which inspired the profound affection and respect of all
who knew him, not least from members of the Trinity community.
Ivor Lucas (1948)
GEORGE MYERS (Commoner 1972) taught at Manchester Grammar
School until his retirement in 2005. It was probably the variety of
his background that gave him such a wide accessibility to both
colleagues and pupils at MGS. He had roots in north Manchester
and the Lake District; he attended Rossall Prep for a time; was
educated at Trinity Grammar School, Melbourne, and read English
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at Melbourne University, where he also lectured for a couple of
years. In fact, it was while George was teaching one course on
Modern Australian Poetry that, on realising that three of the poets
he was discussing were actually in the lecture hall, he felt that there
must be a world elsewhere. So he embarked on the DipEd at Trinity
which finally took him to MGS in 1973.
George brought to his teaching a love of literature which cut through
jargon to celebrate the great writer’s ability to communicate ‘lived
experience’. He represented that strange amphibian, a reformed
Leavisite who, while believing that literature is central to enabling us
to enjoy or endure life, feels there must also a place for the playful and
whimsical. ‘Being serious’ about what one reads should, for instance,
not rule out a love for the ‘Englishness’ represented by Barbara Pym,
Ivy Compton-Burnett or Elizabeth Taylor (that is author of Mrs Palfrey
at the Claremont—a novel which George regularly bought fresh copies
of, so they could be passed on as recommended reading). Another of
George’s great literary favourites was Philip Larkin.
Those who knew George will always associate him with his warm,
civilised, welcoming laugh. He was a great conversationalist, and
one of the most unfailingly cheerful and good-humoured people you
could ever hope to meet. He was also a great one for getting his
classes talking. Many of his lessons in the lower school would begin
with a pupil giving a five-minute talk and his teaching also put down
roots into music and art; he had a love for the art of the Italian
Renaissance (this went into a popular sixth form option) and a
particular affection for Florence and Venice. He was also, throughout
his teaching career, an energetic organiser of trips to the theatre—
an activity which must have left him somewhat out of pocket,
because even at the last moment he always seemed to have a few
unsold tickets left for any pupil or member of staff who wanted one.
George directed plays, too, for the MGS Dramatic Society; a
production of Witness for the Prosecution proved to be particularly
memorable as was, indeed, his portrayal of the lugubrious butler
Merriman in the mid ’70s when there was world enough and time
for the members of the English Department to think of staging a
production of The Importance of being Earnest.
George undoubtedly influenced the lives of many of his pupils, and
he remained better than most at keeping in touch with those who
held him in particular veneration. At a time of change from year to
year in the teaching of English, those running the English
Department had every reason, too, to be grateful to George for his
good advice and wisdom. It is sad that his period of retirement in
Didsbury, where he lived with his partner Bob, was such a relatively
short one. He died in Manchester Royal Infirmary in January 2013
after a short period of illness.
Andrew Mayne, Former Head of English, Manchester Grammar
School
(GEORGE) WILLIAM MICHAEL ORR (Commoner 1954) — ‘Are you
as good a hockey player as your father?’ was the first question
William was asked at his admission interview. Pip Landon had done
his homework on James Orr (1899) who had captained Scotland and
played in the team that won third place in the 1908 Olympics.
The eventual answer was ‘No’ but for three years, William or ‘Billy’
played rugby and hockey for the college, as well as occasionally
cricket, tennis, soccer and squash. He was also President of the
Trinity Players and produced the 1956 play in the garden. Much time
was spent playing golf and bridge and with OUDS, where he was
on the committee, and also with OTG at the Edinburgh Fringe in
1956 and 1957, in the last year writing sketches for a promising
musician and comic called Dudley Moore.
Though he had read English, he joined an engineering company, to
pursue the interest he had gained in his National Service, where he
had become a qualified Submarine Officer. He then spent thirty-two
years travelling the world living or visiting in some forty-four
countries—from thirty months in India to one day in Mozambique,
plus a varied and fascinating time in remote parts of China, Papua
New Guinea and Chile amongst others, interspersed with negotiating
capital projects with ministers and officials, in, for example, South
Korea, Guinea and Iraq.
After that he worked for the construction company started by his fatherin-law, with visits restricted to Colchester, Carlisle or Dudley. This gave
him more time to spend with this wife, Annabelle, when she wasn’t
overseas on government business, and his four children, plus time for
gardening, golf, skiing and family holidays—with punishing itineraries—
learning about many other countries. He died in October 2012.
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DAVID ‘PARNI’ PARNWELL
(Commoner 1951) was
born in November 1929
in Bexley, Kent. He was
the only child of Eric and
Florence
Parnwell,
though his mother, a
promising
contralto,
preferred her singing
name of Monica. His
father worked for Oxford
University Press. In 1936
Parni accompanied his
parents on an overseas
tour for OUP and later
said that it was little wonder that he became a geography teacher and
expedition leader who believed strongly in travel and the importance
of a global world, since he formed these values sitting on an elephant
in Ceylon, riding a rickshaw in Singapore, cruising down the Nile in a
felucca with a pretty nun, and playing with American children on deck
crossing the Pacific.
Parni started at St Edward’s School, Oxford in 1944. He served his
National Service as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, from
1948 to 1950, first in Cheshire and then in Hong Kong. On his return,
on the advice from a close family friend, Fred French, an OUP author
and the President of the Island of Alderney, he came to Trinity, to
read geography with a view to teaching.
During his three years at Trinity he was the Captain of Boats for two
years and had a trial cap for the Varsity VIII in 1953. He made many
life-long friends here and was a member of the Claret Club. In his
first year he became a ‘stooge’ (a sort of trainee teacher) at the
Dragon School, one of the first to do so and following in the
footsteps of Hugh Woodcock (1946).
On leaving Trinity Parni joined the staff of the Dragon. He spent
thirty-five years at the school, teaching Latin, Science (one of the
school’s science labs is named after him), and English. From the
early age of 31 he served as a housemaster, a role he filled for fifteen
years, and then as deputy head. But it was as Head of Geography for
twenty-five years that he made his name, displaying his usual
enthusiasm for new challenges. He was a Fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society, from which he received encouragement as an
expedition leader with children and teachers, and he would often
lead trips to Paris for the school and later Mediterranean educational
cruises for prep schools; he served as a trustee and then as president
of the Independent Schools’ Adventure Cruises. For many years he
set the Common Entrance geography paper taken by all prep schools
and he wrote, updated and co-authored a number of geography books
(he also wrote a book about schools rowing Fifty Years to Row—A
History of the National Schools’ Regatta). Parni was a very good and
motivational teacher and would always find something positive to
say in the boys reports to counter their failings. He had a marvellous
rapport with the boys as he encouraged and fed the interests and
passions of eager and inquisitive pupils. Amongst his enthusiasms
outside of the school was the Oxford and Bermondsey Club, a youth
club offering a range of sporting and social activities for young
people in South London as well as residential and weekend camps.
Parni served in later years as President of the Club.
His rowing enthusiasm of course continued. He gradually introduced
rowing to the Dragon and over the years he coached many crews at
Trinity, Leander, St Edwards and other schools, as well as supporting
the National Schools Regatta. He was a member of Leander from
1954 and a member of Henley Royal Regatta; his pink tie and socks
and pink hippo cap were often to be seen, as was his Trinity oar on
the wall. He attended at least two Olympic Games with his GB scarf
and Union Jack flag and in 2012 he was able to get to Leander in his
wheelchair to watch some of the London Olympics.
After he retired in 1989, Parni went through a difficult period of
trying to adjust and suffered from mild depression, greatly missing
his pupils and the camaraderie of the Common Room. He recovered
with the support of his many friends and then found a way forward
with his numerous interests and his Christian faith. He sang in his
beloved Remenham Church, where he was a churchwarden. One of
the things, he once wrote, that made him feel nearest to God was
cycling up to Leander at 8 am in July to coach the lads, with geese,
herons and cygnets on the glistening river.
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After he bought, in the mid-1980s, the Barn at Remenham, near the
start of the Henley course, he would issue open invitations to visit
during the Regatta with a marquee in the garden and his own
loudspeaker linked up to the umpire so that he knew the race results
and what was going on. Oarsmen and women from numerous crews
would come and pay homage; many crews had at least one member
whom he had coached at some time or other. At all times of the year
his open house hospitality was legendary with tea and his friend Sue
Womersley’s home-baked cakes; sleeping in the gallery was
permitted for favourites such as his god-daughters whom he loved
dearly; music was always playing; postcards from all over the world
covered the kitchen walls.
Parni continued to take an active and involved interest in Trinity.
From 1994 to 2006 he served as Joint Hon Sec of the Trinity Society
and during this time in particular he was a frequent visitor to College,
parking his Renault by the chapel tower. His enthusiasm and support
of the boat club never diminished, finding the determination and
dedication of its members an inspiration, and he provided an
immense amount of moral and practical support. In 2008 he was
honoured, after initial reluctance, to have a boat named after him.
His final years were marred by a steady decline in his health and he
died peacefully on 18 October 2012 at the Royal Berkshire Hospital,
just before his eighty-third birthday, with his friends Suzie Chavasse
and Bishop Bone reading Psalms by his side. He was a rare and
remarkable man. He loved people. He motivated children. He was
generous. He was a true friend. But above all he was fun.
Taken from the address given by Sir David Lewis at the memorial
service in January 2013
TERENCE ‘TERRY’ COBDEN PIKE (Commoner as Signaller Probationer
1945) was educated at Canford School before coming to Trinity. He
enlisted in the Royal Corps of Signals soon after—seeing service in
Greece, Egypt, Palestine, and Jordan—before completing his degree
course externally at Birkbeck College. He subsequently worked in
London in the steel broking field.
On retirement he moved to Salcombe where he was able to indulge
his love of golf and sailing—in the early 1950s Terry was instrumental
in forming the Old Canfordian Golfing Society. Those who had the
good fortune to play golf with Terry will remember his unfailing
kindness, humour, and his strongly held views on a wide range of
topics. Old fashioned these views might now seem, but they were
firmly held and difficult to shift. He died at Salcombe in March 2013.
Richard Baxter (1962)
SIR GEOFFREY SHAKERLEY BT (Commoner 1953) was the elder son
of Sir Cyril Shakerley, fifth baronet of Petworth, Sussex. He was
born in Marylebone in 1932 and came to Trinity from Harrow to
read Law.
After Trinity he began a legal career at Lincoln’s Inn but in 1960
gave up law for photography. In the early years he also worked as a
dealer in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English pictures and in
1970 created a company, Photographic Records, which catalogued
private art collections, and led to his photographing art and interiors
more generally, including work for the Victoria and Albert Museum.
In 1982 he took the first photographs of the House of Lords in
session and he published a photographic volume, Henry Moore:
sculptures in landscape, in 1977 and provided the images of
photogenic dogs in equally photogenic settings for The English Dog
at Home (1987).
In 1962 he married the actress Virginia Maskell, with whom he had
two sons. Following her death only six years later, he married, in
1972, Lady Elizabeth Anson, the daughter of Lord Lichfield and a
cousin of the Queen. The connection led to his taking photographs
for the Royal Family on many occasions, including weddings and
christenings, as well photographing the Queen on her eightieth
birthday and taking portraits of the Queen Mother and the first
official photograph of the then Camilla Parker-Bowles.
His marriage to Elizabeth Anson ended in divorce and in 2010 he
married Virginia Hobson, who, with his sons, and a daughter from
his second marriage, survives him. He died in December 2012.
EGERTON RICHARD GEOFFREY SHELSWELL WHITE (Commoner
1953)—Eg, pronounced Edge, to his friends, Egit to his family—
came up to Trinity from Winchester, following National Service with
the Royal Irish Fusiliers (he was one of those Irish citizens who,
after schooling in Britain, honourably chose to serve alongside their
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Sergeants’ mess he was considered the best subaltern they had ever
had in the battalion, a commendation which did not surprise me for
he had a most attractive personality.
Eg had come up to read French and Spanish, being already a fairly
fluent speaker of the latter, but it was rowing that became the love
of his college life, a sport in which he participated enthusiastically
with his fellow oarsmen in the Trinity Boat Club. He was also quite
a talented musician and, when he was not rowing, playing his
‘squeeze box’ or socialising, he enjoyed reading, prose and poetry,
and also tried his hand at writing. One of Eg’s close friends was
T A G (Tag) Raikes. Neither Eg nor Tag read philosophy but they
shared an interest in the subject and would discuss it in conversations
which revealed a critical mind behind Eg’s amiably dégagé exterior.
Other friends of his were Jack Hoare and Jack Pawsey. My own
relationship with him owed much to a shared sense of humour. Eg
was very companionable and aristocratically self-deprecating. His
refinement was enhanced contrastingly by the garment he wore daily,
the shabbiest tweed jacket in college, unforgettable for its
shapelessly bulging, unused, and probably unusable, pockets and
leather-padded elbows.
On coming down from Oxford, deprived of his beloved rowing
and of the companionship of his fellow oarsmen, Eg reverted to
what had been his first aquatic love: the sea. His family’s ancestral
home, Bantry House, is on the south-west coast of Ireland, and as
a boy he had gone aboard visiting Spanish fishing vessels, on
which he learnt to sail and to speak Spanish. From prep school he
tried to enter Dartmouth Naval College but failed the Royal
Navy’s stringent eyesight test. Now, following Oxford, this time
trying for the merchant navy, he again failed the test. But he was
accepted for trawling and went on—I think two—strenuous
fishing trips to the North Sea. There, on a tilting deck at daybreak,
slightly faint with fatigue following no more than a few hours’
sleep, a gutting-knife clasped precariously in hand and with
catfish snapping at his sea-booted ankles, he endured the hardship
with resolution and to the outspoken admiration of his hardened
professional shipmates.
Moving to London he landed a job working for actor and director
José Ferrer, who, with actress Viveca Lindfors, would pick him up
in their limousine early in the morning, to take him to work on their
film set. Availing himself of Eg’s aristocratic charm and good
manners, Ferrer would send him to the neighbouring film-set with
discreet invitations to selected young actresses to meet him—
invitations which they readily accepted.
Eg was married twice. His first wife, Jill Dumersque, was half
American and the couple spent their married life in the States, where
Eg taught at a local school and took up music again, teaching himself
the trumpet and trombone and joining a jazz band. He and Jill had
two children. When his mother died in 1978, he returned to Bantry
to undertake the restoration and maintenance of the run-down house.
He had the good fortune to meet and marry Brigitte Kleihs, with
whom he had four more children. Brigitte cooperated with him in
the laborious and expensive restoration of Bantry House and
thereafter in the management of it for day visitors and for guests who
occupied their six letting-rooms (the house and family were the
subject of an episode of Channel 4’s Country House Rescue). As
self-deprecating and modest as ever, Eg was happy serving breakfast
to his guests in the stately dining-room, while he and the family ate
more informally in their flat upstairs. From having once been been
dégagé he was now decidedly engagé. For recreation Eg participated
in the local band, shaping up for the regular inter-county brass-band
competition, rehearsals for which took place in the august ambiance
of the mansion’s pillared library. He died in December 2012; the
restored splendour of Bantry House will stand as a lasting testimony
to his and Brigitte’s industrious and fruitful commitment, while
Trinity friends from long ago will remember him with affection.
Frederic Bradley (1953)
(RICHARD) PIERS SKIDMORE (Commoner 1956) came up to Trinity to
read law, following a notable school career at Repton, where he was
Head of School and played football for the 1st XI. At the college he
continued to play football, was a strong member of Trinity Players
and of the Chapel. He was prominent, too, as someone of great social
charm, a fine all round person. He also became involved with Oxford
House and St Margaret’s House Settlements in the east end of
London, and would join the hop pickers during the Long Vacation.
Running through the fabric of his life, Piers’ overriding passion,
which he had developed as a young boy living in the Irish Republic,
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was birds. It was fascinating to bicycle out with him to listen to a
dawn chorus and marvel at his skill in identifying birdsong. Years
later, I remember two trips with him, one round Gairloch, where to
his ecstatic delight (a lifelong emotion) all three species of divers
were seen in one afternoon, and another to the Farne Islands, where,
by chance, we arrived at the same time as the puffins.
From Oxford, Piers qualified as a solicitor, and then was asked to
join the staff at Cumberland Lodge, the think tank for the potentially
great and good in Windsor Great Park. All seemed very promising,
but, for reasons hidden deep inside him, he suffered a severe
psychological breakdown. He recovered slowly, helped by many
friends and professionals, and, after a recuperative stay with a Trinity
friend in Botswana, was accepted to train for the priesthood at
Cuddesdon Theological College. Alas, another breakdown again
knocked him off course, but, when stable once more, he joined the
community of St Margaret’s. Here he met Eileen, his marvellous
wife, whose truly loving support gave him the strength and
togetherness to work as a solicitor in Brighton.
Her death after over twenty years of marriage was a very severe
blow, but Piers was greatly supported by the members of his parish
church, where he was a Reader and was invited to preach regularly.
He was a tremendously faithful man, not only as a Christian, but also
to friends made throughout his life. He was also extremely generous.
At his funeral, a very full church was an eloquent witness to the
esteem in which he was held.
Ben Hopkinson (1956)
(ARTHUR) WILLIAM ‘WILLIE’ STEVENSON TD QC (Commoner 1962)
was one of those people you knew you were privileged to have met.
It was only in 2005 that I met him for the first time, and seven years
was far too short a time to enjoy his humour, intelligence, wit and
generosity. The enthusiasm with which he habitually greeted me as
a fellow ‘Trinity man’ was testimony to the affection he felt for his
undergraduate days, and undeniably a compliment regardless of the
gender and age discrepancy.
Willie was born in London in 1943 and educated at Marlborough
College. He spent his time at Trinity playing bridge, enjoying a full
role behind the scenes as a member of OUDS (never on the stage), and
making life-long friends. He graduated with the ‘gentleman’s degree’,
which I am told made him immensely proud and his parents furious!
After graduating he obtained a place in Chambers at 1 Paper
Buildings in the Temple, where he practised for the whole of his
professional life. He was called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1968,
where he relished the challenges and was a formidable but always
courteous opponent—it was a world in which he thrived. He took
particular pleasure in the training of student members and young
barristers: he was one of the Inn’s representatives on the Advocacy
Training Council, a member of the Education Committee, and at the
time of his death was Chairman of the Admissions Call and Pupillage
Committee. A highlight of becoming a bencher was travelling to
Ghana to train those who were themselves trainers in advocacy. He
was held in great affection by his many pupils in chambers who,
without exception, cherished their time with him as much for the
entertainment and fun he provided as for his expertise and support.
He was appointed a Recorder in 1992, where he demonstrated a
headmasterly talent for admonishing criminals, and took Silk in
1996. It also gave him enormous pleasure to be elected a Bencher
of Lincoln’s Inn in 2001. The fellowship, kindness and friendliness
which he encountered in the Inn were for him such an important part
of his professional life, and he enjoyed the social life to the full as a
much sought-after dinner companion.
Outside the Law, Willie achieved the rank of Lance Bombardier in
the Honourable Artillery Company and was proud to be awarded the
Territorial Decoration in 1980. He was a member of Boodle’s,
reflecting his country interests, which included shooting, stalking
and fishing, and also shared a boat, enjoying many holidays with
family and friends.
The most significant of Willie’s sporting interests was skiing, as it
brought him to the woman who would become his beloved wife,
Bridget. They met on a skiing holiday in February 1969 and the
romance has been described as not so much a whirlwind as a
hurricane: they were engaged two weeks later, and married at the
end of May in the same year. Bridget was welcomed by his family
as a steadying influence and was clearly still his rock, as he was hers,
more than forty years later. They were blessed with three children,
and four grandchildren; and through good times and sad ones,
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including the death of one of their grandchildren and Willie’s last
illness, theirs was a marriage of strength and mutual confidence as
well as tremendous fun. Willie was exceptionally well read, and well
informed; a man with a gift for fascinating conversation and an
irrepressible sense of humour. He died on 9 December 2012. It is an
honour to have known him, however briefly.
Rebekah Stone (née Elliot, 1998)
JOHN ‘JACK’ HENRY STRAWSON (Millard Scholar 1933) will be
remembered as an inspirational and forward-looking teacher. He was
a long-serving Methodist Local Preacher, keen gardener and lover
of bridge and of Times crosswords. He was born into a Lincolnshire
farming family in 1914. It was a difficult time for farmers but Jack
won scholarships to Stamford Grammar School and then to Trinity
to study Chemistry. His tutor was Cyril Hinshelwood, Nobel Prize
winner. He was also a friend of James Lambert and for his Chemistry
part II he worked in the old Chemistry labs in Dolphin Yard.
Jack’s ability to teach showed early on. While still a student he
taught for two weeks at Charterhouse. On leaving Trinity, he taught
for one term at King Edward VII School, Nuneaton. In 1938 he
moved to Portsmouth Grammar School (PGS). Many of his
colleagues there remained friends for life. In the Second World War
PGS was evacuated. Jack was recruited as a War Department
Chemist in an ordinance factory in Pembrey, near Swansea, where
his PGS colleague and friend Ted Parter lived. Ted introduced Jack
to his sister Molly and in October 1941 Jack and Molly were
married, setting up home in an early version of the war-time
prefabs.
After the war Jack returned briefly to Portsmouth before moving to
St Paul’s School in 1947. Jack fitted in well with life at St Paul’s,
taking many roles during his twenty-seven years there, including
running a scout troop, arranging the timetable and putting science
teaching on a sound footing. The science block was then at the far
end of the school building from the staff room and woe betide
anyone who interrupted Jack as he made his speedy way there during
a coffee break. He was senior science master when the school left
Hammersmith and moved across the river to its present site. Jack
became chief chemistry examiner for the London University Exam
Board and was responsible for developing the O-Level Exams for
the new Nuffield science teaching. He worked for UNESCO in India
for a year shortly before retirement.
On retirement Jack and Molly moved to Herefordshire where they were
kept very busy. Molly died in 1989 but Jack got used to solo living until
he was over 90, when he moved to sheltered housing in Abingdon near
his eldest son. Over the next few years Jack’s health deteriorated but
he continued to take a keen interest in the lives of his children, Robert
(1963), Andrew (1968) and Susan, and four grandchildren. He died on
21 March 2013, two days after his ninety-ninth birthday.
Robert Strawson (1963), son
MAJOR RICHARD RYLAND THOMPSON (Commoner 1941) was born in
York, the elder son of Geoffrey Thompson (1902), an agricultural
merchant, and came to Trinity from Stowe School to read
Physiological Sciences.
In 1957 he married Pamela Baker. They had two sons and a daughter.
He died in March 2011, aged 87, after a long illness.
DAVID NICHOSON TYLER (Scholar 1947) read Chemistry at Trinity
and graduated with a first class degree. His years at Oxford were
very happy and rewarding ones. As well as academic achievements,
he succeeded in many sporting activities. Together with Jack Hurst
(University College, 1948) he played bridge and table tennis for the
University, more informally playing tennis and cricket. The
friendship with Jack remained; though he lives in Chicago, they met
annually.
David was born in Sheffield, where he attended the King Edward
VII School. After Trinity, he joined Courtaulds, a textile company,
working in the Coventry research laboratories. During the next years
he gathered six patents to his name for producing artificial fibres and
threads. He later became general manager of the Carrickfergus
factory in Northern Ireland and he retired as the firm’s data and
telecommunications manager.
In 1952 he married Lorna and they had two daughters. They lived
successively in Wolverhampton, Australia, Preston and Northern
Ireland. On retirement David remained active in mind, playing
competitive bridge, and in body, playing tennis until he was 75, with
golf also forming an important part of his life. The family had moved
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to Leamington in 1968 and Lorna and David lived there very happily
for forty-five years until David died of a fall on 29 April 2013.
Lorna Tyler
PHILIP VLASTO FRCS (Commoner 1938), third son of Augustus
Vlasto (1891) and his wife Milly, and younger brother of Alexander
(1923), was born in London and educated at Charterhouse before
coming to Trinity to read Medicine.
He worked at the London Hospital during the Blitz, dealing with
many casualties. In 1944, having qualified, he joined the RAF as a
flight lieutenant. After the War he served in the RAF Volunteer
Reserve for two years and bought into a private general practice in
Weymouth, where he became a popular and highly respected GP. He
began to assist the first orthopaedic surgeon in the West Dorset
Health Authority and continued the association until his retirement.
His expertise in carpentry was reflected in his skills in trauma and
orthopaedic surgery; he performed joint replacement with first-class
precision. His devotion and skill were recognised in his election as
a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1979. He served as an
orthopaedic advisor to the RNLI and sat on its medical and survival
committee for ten years.
In 1944 he married Sheila and they had a daughter the following
year, but Sheila died shortly afterwards. In 1947 he married Pat
Markham, with whom he had two sons. He retired in 1980 and
moved to north Dorset, where he continued with his carpentry and
he and Pat created a much-admired garden. He died in March 2013.
Based on the obituary on the RCS website
DAVID DALRYMPLE WARWICK (Commoner 1941) was born in India
in 1923. His father was a doctor in the Indian Army and his mother
was the daughter of a Royal Navy Captain. His grandparents on his
father’s side were German missionaries who settled in Darjeeling.
Aged 3 he was brought to England by his mother and stayed for two
years in a nursery boarding school in Southsea. When his parents
returned to England they settled in New Milton, near Bournemouth,
where David attended prep school. He was sent to Repton, where he
excelled at tennis and won the Queen’s Junior School Boys’
championship and later became Devon county champion.
He came to Trinity for a short time and read History. He left in 1942
and served at Bletchley Park translating Japanese codes; then on to
the Pentagon in Washington to assist in the code breaking there. He
ended his war service on a posting to India and returned to Trinity
in January 1947 for a further year, to read English.
He followed Trinity with a career in teaching at Sedbergh, Solihull
and Sir Roger Manwood’s School at Sandwich. After retirement, a
chance meeting with the Archbishop of Queensland in Broadsands
car park led to almost twenty years travelling between England and
Australia, where he made many friends, conducting operas and
musicals in over fifty productions for schools. At home he conducted
the Torbay Light Orchestra and directed operas. He was also an
umpire and steward at Wimbledon. He always kept ‘open house’;
you only had to look over the gate to be invited in. One summer a
couple of hippies did just that; the visit ending with David being
invited to be Best Man at their forthcoming wedding and he happily
obliged! It was a common sight to see David dressed in a Father
Christmas hat in winter, chatting to everyone he met. He was a
dedicated Christian involved with his local church, presenting
concerts and ‘songs of praise’.
Andrew Warwick, brother
BROTHER JAMES (ROWLAND HOWARD STOKES) WILLIAMS (Scholar
1936) was a learned and humble Christian who overcame
accusations of heresy to be ordained in the Church of England,
before converting in middle age to Greek Orthodoxy. For more than
half a century he lived as a monk of Longovarda on the island of
Paros, where he died, on 14 December 2012, at the age of 95.
Howard Williams was born on 17 February 1917, the younger son
of a London doctor. As a foundation scholar of St Paul’s School he
learned to love the ritual of compulsory daily chapel, and arriving
at Trinity as the senior scholar of his year, he was bewildered by the
poorly attended chapel services, and by the President’s dry and rapid
delivery.
In 1989 Brother James wrote to Bryan Ward-Perkins and me, having
read in the Archive Report of our interest in Austin Farrer (Chaplain
1935-60). He sent from Greece three treasured letters and a postcard
from his ‘revered tutor’, a generous gift that was followed by
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another, a thirty-four page hand-written memoir of his Trinity years.
He vividly recalled reading Greats with Tommy Higham, whose
moral discourses were drawn from natural history and peppered with
judicious expletives. He described his scout, Williams, who averred
that it was ‘a grand sensation to be drunk’ and was delighted when
the shy, monastic young man entertained (for family reasons) an
attractive ballerina to tea. Good manners made him attend the Oxford
Christian Union; ‘pleasant people’, although he was troubled by their
‘linguistic poverty.’ His closest friend was his tutorial partner, Denis
Grey, who deplored his tactlessness in asking Ronald Syme, in their
very first tutorial, if he could drop Ancient History for Patristics. He
and Denis were among the earliest pupils of Anthony Peck, who was
perplexed by Howard’s search for metaphysical truth, but took them
to a pantomime at the end of their first term. Together the two young
men explored the Oxfordshire countryside, and sampled the services
in Oxford’s many churches.
After a First in Mods and a Second in Greats, Howard stayed on for
a fifth year to read Theology under Austin Farrer. The chaplain did
not encourage intimacy—‘how terribly intrusive hand-shaking is’,
his wife once remarked. But he was sincere and intuitive, wholly
sympathetic to the piety of his pupil, and strongly supportive of his
wish to be ordained in his native diocese of Southwark. Although
suspicious that Howard's theological views were heretical, the
bishop was finally persuaded to accept him as a candidate. For
twelve years Howard served as Assistant Missioner at the
Camberwell Mission Church of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
In 1956 he was invited by a Trinity contemporary, Cyril Argenti
(1936), himself a Greek Orthodox priest, to spend three months in
the Monastery of Longovarda. Howard Williams returned
permanently to the monastery in January 1959, taking his monastic
vows, and the name Brother James, on 21 August 1965. ‘I am sure
you must be a blessing to your Brethren,’ wrote Austin Farrer.
Brother James’s long letters were a pleasure to read, and he had many
correspondents. Despite his isolation—in the early 1990s he lived
alone in a dependent cell—he was well-informed through the letters
of his friends, and by their regular gifts of books. In May 1992 he wrote
candidly, ‘cold weather prevented me from writing in February or the
first week of March (there is no artificial heating here, and plenty of
draughts, so writing means chilblains on hands and feet). Then came
Lent—a much more arduous and full-time affair than people are
accustomed to in the West.’ He seemed invariably delighted by the
glimpses into college life afforded by the annual arrival of a Trinity
Report. The mention of a Drambuie Parfait served at a college dinner
elicited a captivating description of his ‘solitary meal, consisting of a
local variety of very small tender field beans with garlic sauce,
followed by not so very fresh uncooked apricots.’ In another letter he
described how ‘with enthusiasm and many tears’ he had read an article
by Peter Carey (Fellow in History 1980-2008) about the Cambodia
Trust. He had fallen in love with Cambodia, he explained, by means
of a Christmas present of John Pilger’s Distant Voices, since when he
had been following news of the country via newspaper cuttings.
In 2006 some mail was returned to Trinity, and it was feared
erroneously that Brother James had passed away. It was with great
sadness therefore that the college learned of his death only last year,
and we realised, too late, that in the last years of his life he had been
deprived of the Trinity publications that he so much enjoyed.
DR ROBIN GOW WILLISON (Commoner 1943) was born in Highgate
in 1925. He was educated at Highgate School and then came to
Trinity to study medicine, finishing his clinical training at the
Middlesex Hospital. He was a major in the RAMC and was posted
to the Churchill Hospital in Oxford which, in those post-war years,
was at the centre of advanced neurology including the treatment of
spinal injuries particularly in wounded soldiers.
Robin learnt his neurology in Oxford with colleagues at the Radcliffe
Infirmary and published papers in the emerging field of clinical
neurophysiology. He worked at Stoke Mandeville hospital too during
this period, treating stroke and paraplegic patients. In 1962, he was
appointed as consultant at the National Hospital, Queen Square in
London, and it seems to have been there that his interest in
neurophysiology was further stimulated. His MD thesis was entitled
Quantitative electromyography in healthy subjects and patients with
muscle disease. In a series of papers between 1961 and 1980, which
are classics in the neurophysiological field, he helped define many
aspects of the basic clinical neurophysiology of nerve, muscle and
anterior horn cell disease. In the 1970s he provided the technical and
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theoretical input needed to start EEG (electroencephalography)
telemetry at Queen Square and the development of automated
analysis of EEG. His expertise was technical and computational,
long before an interest in computers was common amongst medical
practitioners, and Robin’s skill lay in devising technical methods of
addressing clinical problems which he achieved with remarkable
success. His work was at the core of the worldwide reputation of
neurophysiology at Queen Square. To juniors at the time, he was
renowned for his formidable intellect, and yet also for his great
kindness and consideration. His death ends an era in British
Neurology.
Robin had a rich family life. He married Gillian Caven-Irving in
January 1953. At that time she was a student nurse at the Middlesex
Hospital. They had four children, two of whom are medical science
academics, and ten grandchildren. He was a cultured, erudite and
gentle person. The last few years of his life were affected by physical
illness, despite remaining intellectually bright. He loved Oxford and
raised his family there; moving houses, over a sixty year period from
Wheatley to North Oxford, to Headington and finally to Woodeaton,
above Otmoor, where he enjoyed bird watching. He died peacefully
on 18 February 2012.
Keith Willison, son
ANGUS MACKENZIE NICHOLSON WRIGHT (Commoner 1955) —
Anyone that has enjoyed The Adventures of Thomas the Tank Engine
on TV may at some point wonder about the source of the Engine’s
enduring appeal. As managing director of the Britt Allcroft
Company, Angus was well placed to provide an answer: his was that,
between shots, only the eyes on the engines’ faces moved.
Angus was born in April 1934. He came up to Trinity in 1954 to read
Law after two years of National Service, in which he had followed
his father into the 1st Durham Light Infantry. He kept up his love of
rowing, but it was in musical theatre that he found his metier,
becoming a leading member of the Experimental Theatre Club. At
the Edinburgh Fringe he met his first wife. They moved to London
where he trained at the BBC and then to Southampton to direct
programmes at the newly formed Southern Television franchise.
As a broadcaster he sought to educate his audience in the best
Enlightenment tradition, through great entertainment. This was most
successfully achieved in the children’s programme How?, which
remains ITV’s longest running children’s television show and as a
format has spawned countless imitations. In the 1980s, a confluence
of events created the chance for Angus to join his second wife, Britt
Allcroft, in the ambition to bring Thomas to the screen. Thomas’s
global appeal became legendary. In just over ten years the Britt
Allcroft Company grew from spare-room start up to global player
with offices in Southampton, New York, Tokyo and Toronto. In
1996 Angus brought the company to public offering with an annual
turnover of £53 million.
He retired in 1999 and moved to deepest France. The gorgeous
landscape, rich cultural heritage and free Protestant tradition
appealed to his sense of diversity; he was elected to the conseil,
being cherished by his adopted community for his calm rationality
and kind overview.
A blend of anarchic fun, conservative philosophy and liberal spirit
can often form the backdrop to a British life done well. Angus’s life
was an exposition of this. His ability to hear others remained young
and uncompromised, his advice always carried a lightness of touch
and his contribution was consistently thoughtful and thorough.
When he underscored the moving eyes of Thomas, it was because
he cared passionately that a children’s TV programme could impart
the importance of eye contact, honesty, plain dealing and enduring
relationships—it’s all in the eyes.
Angus’s life was one of faith, endeavour and cheerfulness, which is
a decent sort of way to ‘put one’s Self about’.
Ben Wright, son
Correction: In the obituary of John Luster Brinkley (Report 201112) a misprint incorrectly gave his middle name as Lusto.
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ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
PRESIDENT HANNIBAL POTTER—
THE WILDERNESS YEARS
John Allan (1955)
Hannibal Potter, who was elected a Fellow of Trinity 400 years ago
this year, was president of the college during the Civil War. Having
been ejected from the post, for a short time he temporarily, and
rather mysteriously, became vicar of Sandford St Martin in north
Oxfordshire, which had no apparent connection with Trinity. John
Allan, who now lives in the (rebuilt) vicarage there, has undertaken
research to discover more about the twelve years Potter spent in exile
from Trinity before his re-instatement after the Restoration.
T
he Revd Hannibal Potter DD (1592 –1664) was a scholar (1609)
of Trinity and was elected to a fellowship in 1613. In 1643,
during the turbulent times of the first English Civil War, he
succeeded Ralph Kettell as President. His younger brother the Revd
Francis Potter BD, FRS (1594–1678) was a commoner (also 1609)
and contemporary of Hannibal at Trinity and in 1637 succeeded his
father Prebendary Richard Potter (Fellow 1579–1585) as Rector of
Kilmington in Somerset. Another of Hannibal’s contemporaries at
Trinity was Robert Skinner (scholar 1609, Fellow 1613), later
Bishop of Bristol and then Oxford. Both these connections turned
out very useful.
wrote An Interpretation of the Number 666 (published 1642), made
the sundial on the north wall of Durham Quad which is shown in the
Loggan view of the college, painted the copy of the portrait of the
Founder which hangs in Hall, and was admitted a Fellow of the
Royal Society in 1663.
Whereas Francis was fairly well-to-do by virtue of his rectory and
avoided sequestration, Hannibal was not just ousted from the
presidency but also deprived of the college living of Garsington and
all his other emoluments. In the words of John Walker in his Attempt
towards recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the
Clergy of the Church of England, Heads of Colleges … who were
Sequester’d, Harrass’d, Etc. in the late Times of the Grand Rebellion
(1714), ‘the good Old Doctor was driven to Great Necessities, and
did in a most woful manner endure great Hardships’. Sadly, Francis
complained in a letter to his friend John Aubrey dated May 23, 1653
that he was ‘continually vexed …with bitter and sharpe contentions
… between my brother and myselfe’ and that he had ‘a serpent in
my house that dayly calumniates all my actions, reproaches me for
After several difficult passages with the Parliamentary Commissioners
after the end of the Civil War, Hannibal Potter was found guilty of
high contempt and stripped of his office as President. After he
prudently, if hardly heroically, left the President’s Lodgings on 13
April 1648 by the back door, just as the Parliamentary Commissioners
and the Chancellor (the Earl of Pembroke, memorably described by
the antiquary Antony Wood as ‘intolerably choleric and offensive’),
arrived at the front door with orders to evict him, he went to live with
his younger brother Francis in his rectory in Kilmington.
In passing, Francis Potter was seemingly more interested in science,
art, medicine and biblical eschatology than in his pastoral duties: he
Election of Hannibal Proctor to the presidency of Trinity (1643)
(Register A.f.77d and f.78)
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spending time in trying foolish experiments and making toyes,
threatens to throw me out of my house…’ Almost as if Hannibal had
read Francis’ letter, he himself wrote to Aubrey just three days later,
on May 26, criticising him for commending Francis ‘too highlie and
to his face’ and saying that Francis ‘hath a wonderfull conceit of him
selfe’ and that he considers Francis ‘blind and erroneous in many of
his notions (not to say ridiculous) …’. In the same letter Hannibal
laments his condition, as being without employment, his books kept
from him for debt, unable to stir abroad and seek help, and signs
himself ‘Your poor friend’.
Help was at hand, however, though we seem to have only Walker’s
word for it: ‘he was forc’d to accept of the poor curacy of
Broomfield in Somersetshire, not worth above 25 or 30l a Year,
(which was obtained for him by one Captain Coleford) to earn his
Bread and keep himself from starving’. President Blakiston says in
his History of the college that this Captain was possibly the Revd
Culliford, Commoner 1609. Walker does not give a date for this, nor
does the article on Broomfield in VCH Vol. VI, Somerset, which
mentions Hannibal, ‘ousted as President of Trinity College, Oxford’
merely as ‘among the curates of the seventeenth century, some
resident’. However, Hannibal was not ‘long permitted to enjoy that
poor Pittance’ (Walker); he seems to have been over conscientious
in performing his pastoral duties according to his lights, for it
became known that he used part of the Church [of England] service
and he was turned out by the Somerset County Committee ‘under
the Pretence, forsooth, of Insufficiency’ (Walker) or ‘scandalous
behaviour’ (the Committee), namely the use of the Book of Common
Prayer. The OED defines ‘insufficiency’, in its obsolete or archaic
sense, as ‘inability to fulfil requirements, incapacity, incompetence’.
The date of this does not seem to be recorded; Walker says he did
not know what became of Hannibal afterwards until August 3, 1660,
when he was restored to his headship of Trinity, and indeed there is
very little recorded about what became of him during the time of his
exile from Oxford. By chance I happened on a clue which when
followed up provided one incident not hitherto mentioned in the
published accounts of Hannibal’s life.
My wife Judith and I live in the former vicarage in the north-west
Oxfordshire village of Sandford St Martin, so named (since the
1860s) after the patron saint of the village church to distinguish it
from the other Sandfords in the county. The house stands next to the
church, and when the church had to be emptied of its contents and
furnishings while the fabric was treated for beetle infestation and
dry rot, the papers in the Parish Chest were given temporary
sanctuary in our house. I took the opportunity of examining these
papers and discovered that the last incumbent Canon Kenneth
Packard, who retired in 1975 and was not replaced, had compiled a
dossier of notes written by himself and contemporary documents on
the history of Sandford and its church to mark the septcentenary of
the consecration of the church by the Bishop of Lincoln in 1273. The
St Martin’s Church and the Vicarage, Sandford St Martin, in the
nineteenth century
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dossier contains a mass of detailed information, including that there
is a rentcharge on some agricultural land in the Parish to pay for
repairs to the Chancel of the church, which the PCC registered in
2009 on the titles to the land and has subsequently put to good use.
I had expected that I would find in Canon Packard’s dossier some
corroboration of the appointment recorded in the article on Sandford
St Martin in Volume XI of the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire
of Hannibal Potter DD, elected President of Trinity College Oxford
in 1643 and deposed in 1648, as the incumbent of the living of
Sandford in 1658. I had been surprised to read this, because his name
did not appear on the list of Vicars on the wall of the Church. (The
omission has now been remedied). However, the list in the dossier of
Vicars of Sandford during the Civil War and Commonwealth period
is confused and incomplete and contains no mention of President
Potter. This struck me as odd, and I determined to investigate.
Naturally I started my enquiries in Trinity, where my research was
stimulated and greatly assisted by the college archivist Clare
Hopkins, who not only refers in her college history, Trinity College:
450 years of an Oxford college community (2005), to the travails of
President Potter during the Commonwealth, but also wrote the article
on the President in the New Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography (2004). She was however not aware that Potter had been
vicar of Sandford and was keen to know more about what Potter did
between his ejection from Trinity by the Parliamentary
Commissioners in 1648 and his reinstatement as President in 1660
when King Charles II came into his own again.
The college librarian Sharon Cure guided me to the sources in
Bodley, and the eminent historian Blair Worden, who is among the
leading authorities of the period of the Civil War, not only gave me
some helpful suggestions as to where I might find material but also
introduced me to a former pupil of his, Martin Winstone, who had
written an MLitt thesis on the Triers (of whom more below) in 1995
and kindly lent me a copy of it. I was also directed to some material
in the Lambeth Palace Library which includes the record of Potter’s
appointment by the Triers to Sandford in 1658. The story which I
pieced together is still far from complete, but it does include some
new details that incidentally demonstrate how the old members of
the college look after their own.
Title page of An Interpretation of the Number 666
View of Trinity College in the seventeenth century (David Loggan,
Oxonia Illustrata, 1675)
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The Triers comprised a council set up by Parliament of ‘active
commissioners of independent minds’ to assess the suitability for
appointment of sequestered ministers to new livings. ‘Suitability’
appears to have meant the Calvinism of the examinee rather than a
more rigid denominational test; Arminians, whether Laudian or
Independent, would probably have been rejected, but episcopalian
Calvinists could be tolerated. An applicant appearing before the
Triers had to satisfy them of his suitability both in examination to
ascertain his Calvinism and by producing testimony in his support
from three persons of known godliness and integrity, at least one of
whom had to be a minister. (I am indebted to Martin Winstone for
this information.) Many of the records of the Commonwealth
disappeared after the Restoration, and we are fortunate that the 1658
Admission Register of the Triers does survive in Lambeth Palace
Library. It records on p. 62 the admission of ‘Hanniball [sic] Potter
Dr in Divinity on the second day of July 1658’ to ‘Sanford [sic] in
the County of Oxon upon a pres. [presented document] exhibited the
18th day of June 1658 from James Chamberlayne Esqr the patron
And Certificates from Rob. Skynnor of Launton Tho: Jones of
Woodeaton Edw. Bathurst of Chipping Warden’. Very
disappointingly the certificates themselves do not seem to have
survived. Now:
1. ‘James Chamberlayne’ came from Wickham near Banbury and
matriculated at Trinity in 1635; I have found nothing else about
him, whether as patron of the living of Sandford or otherwise.
He is not named in such admittedly incomplete record of the
patronage as I have found.
Admission of Hanniball Potter to the Rectory [sic] of Sanford [sic]
in the Triers Register © Trustees of Lambeth Palace Library
2. ‘Rob. Skynnor’ is Robert Skinner DD (scholar 1607 and a pupil
of Hannibal, Fellow 1613): Rector of Launton (Oxfordshire) and
Greens Norton (Northamptonshire), Bishop of Bristol 1636,
translated to Oxford 1641, impeached with eleven other Bishops
for high treason 1641, committed to the Tower, released eighteen
weeks later and retired until the Restoration to the rectory at
Launton, which he was permitted to retain though deprived of
his other livings. He secured a licence to preach and conferred
holy orders throughout England.
3. ‘Tho: Jones’ is Thomas Jones, matriculated aged 15 in 1615 at
New College, BA Trinity 1619, Rector of Wood Eaton,
Oxfordshire 1635.
4. ‘Edw. Bathurst’ is Edward Bathurst of Hothorpe,
Northamptonshire (now Leicestershire), matriculated aged 16 at
Trinity, BA 1630, Vicar of Copredy 1642, and Chipping Warden
1656.
It seems likely that Robert Skinner was the prime mover in
mustering the support of old members of Trinity in securing the
living of Sandford for Hannibal—and incidentally the deposition (of
which I can find no record) of the existing incumbent, probably one
Example of President Potter’s signature
(Computus audit 1647-8)
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Henry Coxon—and it is frustrating not to be able to find any account
of Skinner’s life or any of his papers which relate to this period and
might fill out the narrative. Very likely Skinner and the others took
care to keep their correspondence confidential and to a minimum in
those tricky times for Anglicans. It is perhaps not inappropriate that
the episode is recorded so minimally.
This account leaves many questions unanswered: why Sandford? It
was not a college living, nor was it vacant. Why not until 1658? Did
Hannibal reside at Sandford? There was a vicarage there, but the
oldest part of the present house is believed to be early eighteenth
century, so one can only guess what was there in 1658: very likely
small, damp and uncomfortable if the complaints made by
Hannibal’s successors a century later are anything to go by.
From the sparse clues we have Hannibal comes over as a quiet and
unassuming man, almost timorous, inclined only rarely to put
himself forward. It is also rather typical that his reinstatement as
President on 3 August 1660 got no special mention in the college
archives. No portrait of him is known to exist; Aubrey did not make
him the subject of one of his Brief Lives; his signature on college
documents starts confidently and then tapers away into the margin.
He died on 1 September and was buried in Chapel on 18 September
1664, but his gravestone, if there was one, did not survive the
demolition of the chapel in 1691. All that we appear to have to
commemorate him is the profoundly melancholy but sympathetic
epicedes, or dirge, written by Samuel DuGard (Scholar 1662) for his
funeral which commences ‘Weighty with years, and ripe for Gloryes
birth/He flyes at once to Heavn and sinks to Earth’ and continues in
that vein.
Extract from Sam Du Gard’s Epicedes on the Reverend Dr Potter
President of Trin. Coll. Oxon. (Bod. Lib. MS Rawl. Poet.152, f.40)
– see Clare Hopkins, Trinity, pp.126-7 for a partial transcription
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MALCOLM BOWS OUT
bit reluctant to leave the farm because his brother had just recently
gone to war. His brother, Willie Nolan, had joined the Air Force as
a gunner, on board the bombers, and he was killed over in France.
Then my Dad did leave to go with my mum to England. They came
to Oxford to where their sister was. My Dad was a builder. He was
a labourer at first and then he was a carpenter by trade, and then he
became a foreman and worked for Minns.
And where did you live in Oxford?
My parents lived, first of all, with an old lady, Mrs Chandler, in
Marlborough Road, because they couldn’t get anywhere to live
before I was born, and I was born there. It was quite funny because
she was a very old lady, and I remember her having lots and lots of
cats. There was a picture of me as a baby with loads of cats. And
then eventually, they saved their money up, and they got the house
across the road. I think it was worth about £800.
You were very young when you came to Trinity. Did you want
to work in a college?
I was 15. I started on January 1, and my birthday wasn’t until April.
I didn’t know what I wanted. I wanted to do all sorts of things, and
I thought I was only going to be around about a couple of months or
something, especially working for Jim Harvey!
Was it your parents’ idea that you should work for a college?
In the summer of 2013 Malcolm Nolan retired from Trinity after forty
years of unbroken service in the SCR and as a Scout. On 5 September
Malcolm visited the Archive to record an interview with Bryan
Ward-Perkins, Fellow Archivist, and Clare Hopkins, Archivist.
Here are some extracts from their conversation.
Malcolm, were you born in Oxford?
I was. My family came over from Ireland, because my mother
wanted to be a school teacher, and at that time, when she was living
in Ireland, the only lady school teachers were nuns. My Dad was a
No, it wasn’t. We were looking for a job, and I didn’t want too
physical a job because I was only 15, and I wasn’t quite sure what
to do. And then there was a job in two of the colleges, looking for
boys to be Senior Common Room boys, and one was in Wadham,
and one was in Trinity. We came to Trinity because it was nearer to
get there than Wadham, to see what it was like. I came with my mum,
we went upstairs, and looked around, the SCR Butler Jim Harvey
gave us the details. He said, ‘it’s going to be hard.’ He didn’t tell any
lies—it was going to be hard. ‘But try it out anyway, and come back
Monday.’
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finished, and then I came back at night to do the High Table dinner.
At night time I was able to wait on tables, under the watchful eye of
Jim Harvey. But I had to do everything right. You had to have the
port, Madeira, in the right places!
What did you have to wear?
I had to wear a white coat. When I was laying the coals I used to
have a big apron on that covered me for the ashes. Jim Harvey would
not let me wait at lunch time because I was full of dust, so, basically,
I did the washing up. But I had a bath in the afternoon, so I was clean
when I came back.
Tell us how you laid a decent fire.
So you were specifically a ‘Senior Common Room Boy’. What
did you have to do?
The grates! The grates used to take a long time in the morning to do.
And then when they were done, Jim Harvey got me other jobs, like
cleaning the table or cleaning the floor, or cleaning the silver. And
then washing up. I wasn’t able to wait at table; I had to do all the
washing up. And he used to inspect the silver—it was all silver, the
washing up, knives and forks—and on the first day, I didn’t do it
properly. You had to get the grease from in between the prongs. He
said, ‘you haven’t done that properly!’ Only once did he have to tell
me off though, only once.
The hours were quite long. I got two nights off, and I picked my
nights. I was very lucky and was able to have Wednesday and
Saturday nights off. But I worked Sunday, and we worked fifty, sixty,
seventy hours sometimes. We started around seven o’clock. I didn’t
work in the afternoons, after half past two or two o’ clock when we
First of all I had to go upstairs to the Tower Room to get the
newspaper for the fire. I went up here where we’re sitting now [the
Archive Reading Room occupies the space of the former SCR
storeroom] and there was a big load of newspapers. I was told by
Jim Harvey that I couldn’t take the ones on top; it had to be the ones
down the bottom. And that was quite hard because they were heavy.
And when I tried to get them out, sometimes they used to fall all
over the place. Being from the forces he was like that, he wanted
everything right. Then I had to go to the workshop to get the wood
from the carpenter, who was Ron Belcher at that time. I used to come
back with the wood, and the paper, and then I needed the coal. I was
shown where the coal was, there was this bunker outside the Old
Bursary there, and you opened it up and there was massive, great
big pieces of coal and I had to chop it down with this metal chisel,
and put them into another bucket, and then I had to go upstairs to
the SCR to do the grates up there. I had another bucket available, to
put the ashes in, and that was the most nasty job of all, the ashes. I
had to make sure that I did it properly, and took my time on it so the
ashes didn’t go everywhere. I had to be very careful. After I’d done
that I put the paper in, and then put the wood just so, so there would
be breathing holes there for the coal. But sometimes, if I had to hurry
up, that’s when I made mistakes. I had to wait then, till night time,
and think, oh my God, I think I made a mistake with the coal... If
there wasn’t enough breathing holes, Jim Harvey, he used to go mad.
He used to go, ‘Look what you’ve done! Look, it doesn’t go!’ I only
made a mistake about three times ever, where it didn’t go, out of all
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the hundreds of times I did it, so that was pretty good. And then,
later, firelighters were a mercy on the scouts! They were brilliant.
How did you come to transfer from the SCR to Staircase 11?
It happened when Albert Greenwood was appointed Steward of the
Senior Common Room. I asked for his Staircase, because at that time
I was doing part of Staircase 7 and a part of Staircase 2. So I asked
for that Staircase because it was bigger, and that’s how I became a
Scout. I liked Staircase 11, but I did other work as well, I worked in
the Hall, and I worked in the Senior Common Room.
When you started in the Senior Common Room, were most of
the scouts male then?
They were all male. There was one little lady, an old lady, that came
to work here as a cleaner, Mrs Turner, but she wasn’t a scout. The
women scouts came in around ’67. When I first started in ’65 they
weren’t there, but they started to employ one or two part time, very
few, but they worked with the other scouts. Dick Cadman had a lady
working with him, Mrs Brown, and Alfie Carter had Mrs Harris
working for him instead of having the boys. When they had the
grates, they had to have the boys, and then they couldn’t get the
young men working there because of the car factories, so they had
to employ ladies.
Why did you stay at Trinity?
There were good times, and I think it’s the good times that made me
stay rather than the bad times. It was good, I enjoyed it. Sometimes
you get people you don’t like working with. Over the past few years
I haven’t enjoyed being in the college. It’s to do with the job, you
know, what I actually do. I do more cleaning now than I used to, a
lot more toilets to clean, a lot more showers to clean, a lot more en
suites to clean. And not coming back at night as well, I enjoyed the
waiting side of it. Having two types of jobs helped.
When I started we were making the students’ beds for them, and the
full bed, no duvets. It could take up to five minutes to make a bed.
That stopped when the duvets were bought in. You didn’t really need
the bed-making then, but you still made beds for conferences. We
used to do a lot more, clean their shoes, wash up for them, really
look after them.
Did things ever happen where you felt you had to report a
student?
In the ’60s the drugs thing was quite rife. I think a lot of students
did take drugs and you had to be a bit diplomatic in what you said.
I remember one day I went into the JCR to clean it, and there was a
student jumping up and down on the table, he was way out… So I
reported him to the Bursar, or was it the Head Scout? And I was in
the office, and he said, ‘How dare you be horrible to the student?’
And then the student came in later to apologise that he lied. But the
college would rather take the side of the student.
What can you tell us about the Bursars you have worked for?
Bursars were my bosses. Obviously there were times when I didn’t
like them, but basically, at the same time, you know, I was there to
work. I wasn’t there to get on with them, they were there to do their
job as well.
Malcolm looked at a photograph of President Quinton and the
Governing Body in 1986.
There’s Dennis Burden…. Mr Wright! I liked Mr Wright. I liked
Colin Crouch... he was on my staircase. Dr Hammersley… very nice.
Mr Rundle… Alan Milner... a very nice gentleman.… I don’t know
any stories about him, sorry! Maybe I do, but I won’t tell you! Ah,
there’s a lovely bunch of Fellows there. Lovely! And, who’s that
one—Dr Salaman! One day my son had difficulty with some maths
he was doing for his A Levels. And so I said, ‘I’ll ask Dr Salaman.’
And I couldn’t believe it, he actually told me so well, how the sum
was, that I could get back to my son on it, and teach him. Dr Salaman
was amazing; he did everything with a story as well, which was
lovely. They were a nice bunch...
When did scouts stop serving in Hall?
Everything happens gradually, I notice. Basically, what happened
was, they couldn’t get the scouts to work, it went lower and lower
on the scale, so the duties changed a lot. Alan Clifford, one of the
scouts, became the Hall Steward, and they sort of did away with the
scouts in Hall then, and I went to work for the Senior Common
Room, for Albert. I was the youngest then, you see. Peter Treadwell,
he was a young scout with me, but he was killed one day on his
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bicycle, on a roundabout up in Kidlington. Working for Albert was
wonderful, yeah, absolutely wonderful. He was a real gentleman,
Albert. He loved the Fellows. Fellows came first with him; he always
put the Fellows first before the students.
Tell us about sconcing.
When I came here, in the dining hall, and had my own table, the
students used to say, ‘oh, sconce please!’ The first time I had to ask
somebody in charge what a sconce was. You had to go down to the
Buttery (because it was the Buttery then, the Beer Cellar came later)
and order beer or lager, or whatever they wanted, to be put into a big
silver tankard. They gave me this big silver tankard, about two and
a half pints were in it, and then I brought it back up and gave it to
the student, and he passed it round the table if he didn’t want the
sconce himself. Or he had to stand up on a chair and down it in one.
It was his punishment for saying something he shouldn’t do at the
table. In them days they didn’t pay in cash; they paid on a tab, then
they paid at the end of term. And not only just the sconcing; if they
wanted a beer or anything, or a soft drink, I had to go down and get
it for them.
Did it make a difference when women students came?
No not at all. They blended in very well, apart from one girl on
staircase 11, she didn’t want to be on there. She didn’t want to be in
the bedroom, with a man scout. Which was fair enough. She didn’t
like the facilities, the toilets, but the rest of them sent her to Coventry,
didn’t talk to her.
Are there other things that you’d like to talk about?
Memories are very precious to me. It’s lovely that I can remember
things. I’d like to write a book, just for the memories, not to sell the
book or anything, just to write something for my private use. I
haven’t started it but I know what to say in it.
Thank you for doing this interview. Your memories are just
wonderful and it’s really good that we should have them on
record.
It is a pleasure. Thank you, a pleasure.
BOOK REVIEW
PETER STOTHARD, ALEXANDRIA: THE
LAST NIGHTS OF CLEOPATRA
Granta, 2013 (ISBN: 978-1847087034)
The Classical Association of Great Britain has evolved a tradition
of electing as its president in alternate years someone who is not a
professional classicist but rather someone (in Gilbert Murray’s
words) ‘of wide eminence outside the classics’. Trinity has been well
represented among these eminent non-professionals: Sir Cyril
Hinshelwood served in 1959, Sir Anthony Cleaver in 1996, Philip
Howard in 2002, and Sir Peter Stothard in 2012; among the
professionals, Professor (now Sir) Fergus Millar served in 1993, so
overall the college has contributed twenty per cent of the Presidents
in the last twenty years. Peter Stothard read Mods and Greats at
Trinity from 1969 to 1973, was editor of The Times from 1992 to
2002, since when he has been editor of the Times Literary
Supplement, and was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the
College in 2000 and knighted in 2003. In his Presidential Address
he made some (slightly quizzical) remarks about the Reception
Studies that have become such a fruitful area for research in classics
recently; Alexandria: the Last Nights of Cleopatra exemplifies
classical reception at its most creative and most illuminating.
‘This is becoming a book about me. That is not what I intended.’
These are the opening words of the fifth chapter. In fact this book is
so artfully constructed that it is hard to believe that it was not planned
from the start to be what it is: not only an autobiographical memoir
but also an account of the life and death both of Cleopatra and of the
author’s friend to whose memory the book is dedicated, the whole
set in the context of a three-week visit to Alexandria by the author
at the beginning of 2011, on the eve of the Arab Spring, where he
claims to have written the book in his hotel room and sundry other
places. On p.219 we read that ‘Alexandrians pioneered the art of
wrapping art within art, poems on one subject in the packaging of
another, stories of the present inside stories of the past’; Peter
Stothard in this book proves himself to be a true Alexandrian. As in
his earlier book On the Spartacus Road (2010), the account of a
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period of Roman history is combined with autobiographical elements
within the framework of a diary, but this time there is much more
autobiography, and there is a very subtle web of cross-references
and thematic echoes. Major themes include death, memory, and the
importance of chance in our lives; echoes of minor details include
the fact that Warley East appears at the top of p.150 as the name of
a railway station apparently chosen at random as part of a game and
reappears on p.308 as the name of the parliamentary constituency of
Andrew Faulds (who played the part of Canidius in the blockbuster
film Cleopatra). We may sometimes wonder about the balance
between fact and fiction: for instance, was Peter really taken under
their wing in Alexandria by two mysterious characters called
Mahmoud and Sokratis who told him when to be where almost every
day for three weeks and never let him pay for anything? But they
certainly help to give substance to his account of his visit (if he really
went ...), and the book would be poorer without them.
This is said to be Peter’s eighth attempt to write about Cleopatra, the
first having been made when he was ten years old, the fourth during
his first term at Trinity in 1969 (although I was his tutor at the time,
I regret to say that I knew nothing about this obsession of his). He
also spent some time during that term, as on other occasions,
discussing Cleopatra with his old school-friend and Trinity roommate Richard Gilmore (to whom as RJMG the book is dedicated,
and whose obituary Peter wrote in the Report for 2010-11), here
referred to throughout by his third name Maurice. In the same term
Peter had a memorable meeting in the back bar of the King’s Arms
with James Holladay, then Trinity’s Ancient History tutor,
entertainingly described in the tenth chapter. James directed the
young enthusiast’s attention to the fact that Caesar and Cleopatra
had both been great bureaucrats and instructed him ‘Look at the men
in the middle ranks. Remember their names: Hirtius, Plancus,
Dellius, Canidius’. Peter has acted on this advice to good effect, and
Plancus provides an unexpected link with the other notable Trinity
figure featured in the book, Marmaduke Hussey, who while
Managing Director of Times Newspapers in 1979 took time off from
a particularly bitter industrial dispute to invite Peter to lunch at
Brooks’s Club and discuss (among other things) the fact that in 1944
he had sailed past Plancus’ tomb at Gaeta on his way to Anzio (where
he lost a leg). The eighteenth and nineteenth chapters contain a
hilarious account of the celebrations for the bicentenary of The Times
in 1985 (hilarious except for the fact that the then editor was dying
of cancer), including the ‘Rout’ organised by Hussey at Hampton
Court and attended by the Prince of Wales, ‘all in the great
Alexandrian tradition of partying problems away’.
Given his long-standing interest in Cleopatra, and his fruitful
exchanges with James Holladay in the King’s Arms, it is perhaps
surprising that Peter chose not to study Roman History at any stage
of his undergraduate course. This does not prevent him from writing
now with authority, sensitivity, and imagination on the period, on
the sources for the events, and on their later treatment in literature,
art, film and (briefly) opera. He even tells us that at a late stage of
his visit to Alexandria he discovered a book called Mort ou Amour,
translated from the Arabic, ‘in which an historian in an Alexandrian
hotel room is struggling to write a book about Cleopatra’. Life does
imitate Art in unexpected ways, and Peter Stothard has built a fine
monument to himself, to RJMG, and to Cleopatra.
Peter Brown
Emeritus Fellow, Tutor in Classics 1968-2011
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NOTES & INFORMATION
DEGREE DAYS
There are now four graduation ceremonies each year. Finalists will
be invited by the University to book a ceremony through the new
eVision system; they are given priority to book a place and any
remaining spaces are made available to historic graduands (those
who finished their studies prior to October 2013).
Historic graduands who would like to book a graduation ceremony
will be added to a waiting list and spaces will be allocated in
February 2014 once all current students have had the opportunity to
book.
If you are happy not to graduate in person, then graduating in
absentia is very easy and is not limited to Trinity’s four ceremonies.
Please see the Degree Days page on the website and contact Sarah
Beal for further information.
Ceremony Dates for 2014-2015. Booking from October 2013
Saturday 12 July 11.00 am
Friday 25 July 11.00 am
Saturday 15 November 11.00 am
Saturday 9 May 2015 2.30 pm
Masters Degrees
Undergraduates of the college who have taken, or are taking, the BA,
are eligible to take the MA (Oxon) in or after the twenty-first term
from matriculation.
Four year undergraduate masters degrees
Former undergraduates who read for a four-year Masters degree
(MChem, MPhys, MMath, etc) and who matriculated between 1993
and 1998, should check eligibility with the Tutorial Administrator
before booking to take the MA. Those who matriculated in or after
October 1999 are not eligible to supplicate for an MA.
Convocation
All graduates of Oxford become life members of Convocation,
which elects the Chancellor and Professor of Poetry. Please look out
for details about voting in elections on the Oxford University
Website as members will not be specifically invited to vote.
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2014 GAUDIES
29 March — 1972 - 1976
27 September — 2007 - 2009
DINING ON HIGH TABLE
Old Members have a lifetime’s entitlement to dine on High Table, at
their own expense, once a term on Monday, Tuesday or Thursday
evening or Sunday following Chapel (i.e. excluding guest nights). The
cost is £13.90, plus wine, and members are welcome to bring a guest.
Bookings should be made by 10 am on the day (2 pm on the Friday
before for Sundays) through the Alumni & Development Office.
VISITING COLLEGE
Old Members are very welcome to visit College at any reasonable
time. Although rare, there are a few occasions when the college, or
parts of it, are closed; if you are planning a visit and can let the
Alumni & Development Office know in advance when you are likely
to arrive, the porters can be briefed to expect you. On arrival please
identify yourself to the porter on duty. A University of Oxford
Alumni Card is useful to have, especially if you wish to visit
other colleges and university attractions—if you do not have a card
contact the University’s alumni office: +44 (0)1865 611610,
[email protected].
LUNCH IN HALL
Old Members and their guests visiting Oxford are welcome to enjoy
a self-service lunch in Hall. Lunch is served from 12.30 to 1.30 pm
during term and usually from 12.00 noon to 12.30 pm during the
vacation—but please check times when booking. There is a choice
of hot dishes each day, with soup and puddings usually available.
The bar is open in the Beer Cellar for coffee from 10.30 am to
2.00 pm (1.00 pm during vacations). There is a flat rate for lunch of
£7.00 per person and places must be booked and payment made in
advance (as there is no facility for paying in Hall). Please contact
the Alumni & Development Office to make a booking.
STAYING IN COLLEGE
Guest rooms may be booked by Members throughout most of the
year for a stay of up to three consecutive nights. The cost per person
is £49.00 a night, including breakfast. Rooms should be booked
through the Alumni & Development Office: 01865 279887,
[email protected]. Further information for Old Members and
Friends can be found on the alumni pages of the website:
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/alumni.
CONTACTS
Trinity College, Oxford OX1 3BH
Porters’ Lodge
+44 (0)1865 279900
Alumni & Development Office
+44 (0)1865 279887/941
[email protected]
[email protected]
Conference & Functions Administrator
(to hold events in College)
+44 (0)1865 279888
[email protected]
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk
EDITOR’S NOTE
The Trinity College Report is edited by Thomas Knollys,
the college’s Alumni Relations Officer. He welcomes
feedback, and can be contacted by post or email:
[email protected]. He is grateful to his colleagues,
and especially to Clare Hopkins, Archivist, for their help and
advice in producing this edition, and to all who contributed
reports, articles and obituaries.
The next edition of the Report will cover the academic year 201314. The editor is always glad to discuss possible articles for the
Report. He is particularly grateful for contributions of obituaries,
or suggestions of possible sources of information.
©2012 Gillman & Soame
Trinity College • Oxford • OX1 3BH
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk

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