Gazette2020 WADHAM COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

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Contents

Fellows' List 4 J. A. E. Curtis – an appreciation 76 The Editor 8 Unusual Wadhamites 78 The Warden 10 Book reviews 84 The Domestic Bursar 12 Writing in the time of Covid Staff List 14 The Finance Bursar 18 Covid and post-Covid 90 The Development Director 21 Lyrical ballasts 91 The Senior Tutor 24 Consider the squirrel 92 The Tutor for Access 26 Quiet summers like these 93 The Chapel and Choir 28 Editing in a pandemic 94 The Sarah Lawrence Programme 30 Sports during the lockdown 95 The Library 32 Lifeline Service 96 The actress in lockdown 97 Clubs, Societies, Activities and Sports College Record

1610 Society 36 In Memoriam 102 Wadham Alumni Society 38 Obituaries 104 Medical Society 40 Fellows' news 130 Wadham Alumni Golf Society 41 Emeritus Fellows' news 136 Student Union 42 New Fellows 138 Law Society 43 Alumni news 142 Lennard Bequest Reading Party 44 Degrees 145 Rowing 46 Donations 146 Rugby 48 Cricket 49 The Academic Record Features Graduate completions 166 Final Honour School results 169 VE Day commemorations 52 First Public From war to post war 58 Examination results 171 OxVent: a Wadham Prizes 171 response to the pandemic 62 Scholarships and Exhibitions 173 Based on a true story 66 New Undergraduates 176 Reminiscences of T. C. Keeley 68 New Graduates 180 Some Wadhamiana in NSW? 71 Those were the days (3) 72 2021 Events 184 Modernist Song 75

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Frances J. Lloyd Alexander Steel Fabrizio A. Caola Domestic Bursar and Senior Lee Shau Kee’s Sir Man Kam Fellow and Tutor in Physics Fellows’ list Treasurer of Amalgamated Lo Fellow and Tutor in Law Clubs J. C. Séamus Davis Lydia C. Gilday Senior Research Fellow in WARDEN Paul J. Martin Mark S. Thompson Tarunabh Khaitan JRF in Chemistry Physics Tutor in Politics Tutor in Engineering Lord Macdonald of River Hackney Fellow and Tutor in Law Fiona M. Powrie, FRS Rebecca R. Simson Glaven Kt QC Matthew S. Kempshall Edmund M. Herzig Professor of David Richards JRF in Cliff Davies Fellow and Masoumeh and Fereydoon Emma E. A. Cohen Musculo-Skeletal Sciences Economic History Tutor in Modern History and Soudavar Professor of Tutor in Human Sciences FELLOWS Keeper of the Gardens Persian Studies Olivia Vázquez-Medina Juliane Zachhuber

Jane Griffiths Tutor in Spanish Fellow by Special Election in E. Jane Garnett Benjamin C. Berks Philip R. Bullock Tutor in History Placito Fellow and Tutor Ancient History Professor of Biochemistry Professor of Russian, Yeltsin in English and Tutor for Ursula H. M. Martin, FREng Stephen J. Heyworth and Tutor in Biochemistry Fellow and Tutor in Russian, Undergraduates EPSRC Research Professor Evan E. Easton-Calabria and Tutor for Equality and in Computer Science and JRF in Social Sciences Maurice Bowra Fellow and Caroline S. Mawson Tutor in Classics, Secretary Diversity Francesco Zanetti Senior Research Fellow Senior Tutor and Tutor for Tutor in Economics Alice Roullière for the Wine Committee, and Admissions (on secondment) Peter J. Thonemann Karl B. J. Kgle Fellow by Special Election Steward of Common Room Forrest–Derow Fellow and Alexander F. Ritter ERC Research Professor in Early Modern French Carolin Duttlinger in Music, Senior Research Alan W. Beggs Tutor in Ancient History Roger Penrose Fellow and Literature Ockenden Fellow and Tutor in Fellow, and Keeper of the John Flemming Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics German Eric F. Clarke, FBA Silver Natalia Doan Tutor in Economics, and Heather Professor of Music, Julie C. Hage Okinaga JRF in Japanese

Secretary of Governing Body Ankhi Mukherjee Director of Music, and Development Director Sakura Schafer-Nameki Studies Professor of English and Fellow and Tutor in Paul D. Beer Welfare Dean World Literatures, Tutor in Dominic P. Brookshaw Mathematics Francesco Licausi Professor of Inorganic English, and Tutor for Women Paolo G. Radaelli Senior Research Fellow in Associate Professor and Chemistry, Braithwaite Fellow Dr Lee’s Professor of Persian and Fellow Librarian Peter J. Alsop Tutor in Plant Sciences and Tutor in Chemistry, and Michael J. Bannon Experimental Philosophy Finance Bursar Sub-Warden Director of Postgraduate W. Thomas M. Sinclair George Southcombe

Medical Education and Christopher Summerfield Tutor in Philosophy Emily M. L. McLaughlin Fellow by Special Election in Colin P. Mayer, FBA Professorial Fellow Professor of Cognitive Fellow and Tutor in French History Peter Moores Professor of Neuroscience and Tutor in Thomas W. Simpson Stephan Rauschenbach Management Studies Andrew D. Farmery Experimental Psychology Senior Research Fellow in Paul Balister Sir Samuel Scott of Yews Philosophy and Public Policy Fellow and Tutor in Roger Penrose Tutor in Cláudia M. Pazos Alonso Fellow and Tutor in Medicine Darren J. Dixon Physical Chemistry Mathematics

Senior Research Fellow in and Dean Professor of Organic Susan M. Lea Christina S. M. Benninghaus Portuguese and Brazilian Chemistry, Knowles-Williams Professor of Microbiology Hannah Christensen Studies Martin G. Bureau A. F. Thompson DAAD Fellow Tutor in Physics Fellow and Tutor in Organic Ekaterina A. Shamonina Professor of Astrophysics, Chemistry in Modern History Laura C. H. Hoyano Lindemann Fellow and Tutor Tutor in Engineering Science Jennifer Boddy Senior Research Fellow in Oliver M. Butler Fellow by Special Election in Physics, and Tutor for Nathalie Seddon Alfonso A. Castrejn-Pita Law Graduates Tutor in Biological Sciences Fellow by Special Election in Law Colin Wood Fellow and Tutor in Law Oren Sussman Alexander C. Paseau Margaret Hillenbrand in Engineering Science and Molly Grace Reader in Finance and Tutor Stuart Hampshire Fellow and Tutor in Chinese Tutor for Race Monika Gullerova Fellow by Special Election in in Management Studies Tutor in Philosophy Associate Professor in Biology Experimental Pathology and Tutor of Medicine

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Sarah Cullinan Herring Rt Hon Sir James Munby EMERITUS FELLOWS Philip Candelas, FRS Paul Bevan Cathy Mason Hody Fellow by Special Chinese Philosophy Professor Andrew Nicholas A. Athanasou Election in Classics Michael R. Ayers, FBA Thomson, OBE, FRS Guido Bonsaver Ian McNab Colin J. Wood Ian N. Thompson Michael Froggatt Italian Clinical Medicine Sir Neil Chalmers Fellow by Special Election Raymond C. Ockenden, Andrew P. Hodges Madeleine Chalmers MaryAnn Noonan as Senior Tutor and Tutor for Kathleen M. Sullivan Dean Of Degrees C. V. Sukumar French Psychology Admissions Professor Sandra D. Geoffrey A. Brooker Rajendra Chitnis Dimitris Papanikolaou Attila Szab Fredman, FBA, QC C. J. Stephen M. Simpson KEELEY VISITING Czech Modern Greek Keeley–Rutherford JRF in Robert Hannigan, CMG FELLOWS 2020–21 Physics Terence F. Eagleton, FBA John Dawes Rob Penfold Professor Sally L. Mapstone Paul Acker Neurophysiology Chemistry Lucy McDermott Keith G. H. Dyke JRF in Medical Sciences Professor Robert J. C. Young Federico Formenti Louise Delumeau Joe Pitt-Francis Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS French Computer Science Laura Moody Amelia S. Gentleman John M. Brown, FRS VISITING FELLOWS JRF in Plant Sciences Emma Flint Heloise Robinson Professor Stuart J. Russell John D. Gurney Sorin Bangu TT21 Clinical Medicine Law The Hon Sir Timothy V. Ido Israelowich MT20 HONORARY FELLOWS Richard E. Passingham, FRS Giulio Gambuti Autumn Rowan-Hull Holroyde Andrea Mulligan HT-TT21 Physics Anatomy Lee Shau Kee Hari Kunzru Jeffrey Hackney, Keeper of the Archives Guadalupe Gerardi Sahba Shayani Sir Michael Checkland Professor Jrn Leonhard CHAPLAIN Spanish Persian (HT21) David J. Mabberley, AM Wasim Sajjad Professor Paul A. Goodwin Revd Dr Jane Baun Otared Haidar Richard Stacey Nicholas M. J. Woodhouse, Arabic Clinical Medicine Rt Hon Sir Christopher Verena Knaus CBE Rose, PC SUB-DEANS Adam Handel David Staunton Stephen J. Goss, Keeper of Neurophysiology Biochemistry Toluwalase (Tolu) Awoyemi Sir Franklin D. Berman, FOUNDATION FELLOWS Pictures KCMG, QC Gabrielle Beaudry Max Hodgson Rachel Tanner Alan Green Christina M. Howells Julien Du Vergier History Human Sciences Rt Hon The Lord Bragg, CH, Michael J. Peagram Olivia Glaze FRS, FBA Graham G. Ross, FRS Simone Irmscher Reinier van Straten Stephen W. C. Stow German German Peter J. Marshall, CBE, FBA William F. McColl J. Kenneth Woods COLLEGE LECTURERS Sarah Jenkinson Ben Walker Sir Roderick C. Floud, FBA Tao Tao Liu 2020–21 Nicholas C. F. Barber, CBE Chemistry Mathematics Rt Hon The Lord Dyson, PC Anthony C. Preston, CBE David J. Edwards Michael Abecassis Hiroe Kaji Wesley Wrigley French The Rt Revd and the Rt Matthew Benham Robin W. Fiddian Japanese Philosophy Hon The Lord Williams of Alasdair J. D. Locke Samuel Altmann Capt Michel P. Sauvage, RN Shio-Yun Kan Simon Yarrow Oystermouth, PC, FBA Economics John H. McCall MacBain, OC Chinese Clinical Medicine W. Michael G. Tunbridge H. Allen O. Hill, FRS William W. H. Doo Richard Ashdowne Jenny Lemke J. Bernard O’Donoghue, Linguistics The Hon Peter A. S. Milliken, Edwin W. S. Mok German Editor of the Wadham PC, FRSC Carol A. Richards Hannah Bailey Gazette Yiliang Li English Sir David R. Winkley The Hon N. P. V. Rothschild Economics Reinhard Strohm, FBA

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Our distinguished sports journalist, as described here by the Warden, they have to live with unprecedented Andy Bull, has written here about the the Finance Bursar and the Domestic privations and challenges. There has A new chapter privations of various sports lockdowns Bursar. And, just as we are about to go Troubled been much discussion of whether and the measures taken to overcome to press, there is possibly the most as'' these this year’s students are having the them. Rowing training involved travel exciting piece of good news: the award ‘normal Oxford experience’. Wadham is The Editor Bernard O’Donoghue times are, to Swindon. of the Nobel Prize for Physics to Roger maybe determined to reduce these limitations Given the unavailability of material Penrose. There will be a substantial all will as much as possible, as outlined by in some places, we have welcomed account of this magnificent accolade be well the Warden in a series of messages some features of greater length than in next year’s Gazette: perhaps more of concern over these past months. has been suggested in recent years. timely then anyway because, we hope, Nationwide the student experience And in a further attempt to make what we will be able to feature the conferring has been as never before. In Wadham Chaucer calls a virtue of necessity, of the Prize in Stockholm. It is a our final hardship is that the Warden is we have asked some of Wadham’s moment that warrants more lengthy coming to the end of his tenure, to the recent successful writers – journalists, reflection, marked by the proud flying universal regret of the Wadham family,

novelists and essayists – to write of the College flag. the end of a spectacularly successful about their experiences over the past But the College flag has flown at and reassuring incumbency, year: not necessarily to do with the half-mast too over recent months. Side characterised by unflagging attention dreaded virus, but often touching by side with the abnormal negative to the well-being not only of the on the working from home that has features of the year, normal negative College community but of the wider become such a feature of all our lives, things have proceeded too. There world. Wadham has been a beacon for good or ill. Nobody has talked are obituaries here for two long- of welfare and justice in the hands of about the compulsory government- standing and productive members of this Warden. IN HIS ‘MODERNIST SONG’ printed prescribed walk which has hovered the Fellowship, Jeremy Montagu and Troubled as these times are, maybe in this issue of the Gazette (page 75), uneasily between privilege and chore – Richard Sharpe. Another grievous loss all will be well. Maybe, after all, we will Terry Eagleton raises the question increasingly maybe leaning towards the was Sir Sydney Giffard who brought see what W. B. Yeats despaired of, a ‘how do you fashion an ending / to latter as the weather disimproved. We warmth and elegant distinction to finish worthy of the start. As we go to something that never began?’ It is have all become over-familiar with our Wadham events for over half a century. press in the anxious winter of 2020, we a good expression of the challenge own faces on screen. Of greatest current concern now hope you are reading the Gazette in a facing anyone attempting to give But many major things have gone is the circumstances of the students. world returning to its even tenor. an account of this strange year ahead, regardless of coronavirus. Like their contemporaries throughout My name appears as Editor here. which had hardly begun before its The College’s ambitious building the country and throughout the world, But the endlessly resourceful editorial cultural, academic and social life programme has kept up its rapid pace brain is Salome Parker’s. I am deeply was interrupted and in some cases indebted and grateful to her. suspended by the measures taken to counter the coronavirus. Peter Thonemann’s report from the Lennard Contributions for the 2021 Gazette should reading party describes in great But many major things have be submitted before 31 August 2021. circumstantial detail a series of virtual ''gone ahead, regardless of experiences, illustrating his report with coronavirus Sir Roger a picture of a laden table with no diners, Penrose, as at Flannan Isle. The reports of clubs winner of the Nobel and societies were greatly curtailed Prize for and in some cases unavailable. Physics

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the uncertainty that surrounds us. generosity have empowered us to leave Emeritus Fellow), Dr Heeyon Kim, Through these constrained times, such true and pure marks of the early Dr Matthew Langton, Dr Jack Miller,

Wadham remains a beacon of learning twenty-first century in this historic place. Dr Sara Motta, Dr Andrew Princep, and inclusion and College continues to I’m happy to report that Wadham’s Dr Emilia Terracciano and Dr Sam

shine, looking forward with confidence scholarship continues to win recognition I should Williams. Those leaving will all be and optimism to the moment when the at the highest international levels. It was ''like to missed and we hope they keep in world begins to open up once more. a matter of delight and pride for the thank you, touch and visit us often. In all this, we have been greatly College that our much-loved Emeritus the wider There is one other departure that I encouraged by the warmth and Fellow, Sir Roger Penrose, was awarded Wadham should mention, and that is my own. support of our alumni. We know that the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics. community, Some time ago, I made the decision that you have all faced stresses of your Roger’s intellectual achievements are for your this would be my last year at Wadham. own, and this makes your expressions towering and we salute him as one of support This was not easy, since I have been of concern and affection particularly the greatest figures in Wadham’s long and, very happy here. I came to Wadham touching. Since it has not been and distinguished history of scientific above all, because I admired its values and during possible for you to visit the College, we endeavour. I think it safe to say that for your my time here I have sought above all to Looking forward have moved our events online and our my predecessor John Wilkins, and friendship sustain them. It is the shared belief that Zoom talks, seminars, concerts, poetry his fellow members of the Oxford human progress is only possible through with confidence readings and more have been enjoyed Philosophical Club, would be delighted. scholarship, and that scholarship is best by thousands of you. It has been a real I also record with great pleasure served through an open, critical and pleasure to gather together so many that Professor Ben Berks was this year above all just engagement with the world, The Warden Ken Macdonald QC friends from around the world – thank elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, that defines the Wadham I have grown to you for keeping in touch and we return which itself grew from that same group love. I hope that over the past few years all your good wishes with equal warmth. of seventeenth-century Wadham our College has continued to honour LIFE HAS BEEN extraordinary for None of this is to say that the pace polymaths, and that Professor Séamus these principles, from discovering fairer

everyone over the past year and of life here has slowed. Through the Davis was elected a Fellow of the ways of finding luminous talent in young Wadham, too, has seen changes beyond Wadham herculean efforts of so many, our Royal Irish Academy. Our warmest people, to acknowledging the place of anything we might have imagined. As ''remains a latest building project is now complete. congratulations go to them both. learning for its own sake in research and you would expect, we have made the beacon of The drills, hammers and cranes have Wadham is above all a living discovery, to a stubborn, centuries-old

health and wellbeing of the hundreds learning fallen silent and the Back Quad is community and, as usual, this year confidence in the promise of the modern of people who live, work and study and returned to its customary peace. Now, has seen some comings and goings. world. If it is so, I should like to record that here our first priority. This has meant inclusion though, the lawns, shrubs, gardens The Fellowship is pleased to have this has been due to the commitment difficult adaptions for us all, including and and trees present a backdrop to two been joined by Professor Paul and inspiration of all those around me. a diminution in close human contact – College gleaming new buildings. The William Balister, Dr Jennifer Boddy, Dr Hannah I should like to thank the College but it has also brought the discovery of continues Doo Undergraduate Centre and the Lee Christensen, Dr Sarah Cullinan Herring, officers who have supported me so a new and deeper solidarity between to shine Shau Kee Building bring further grace Dr Michael Froggatt, and by Dr George steadfastly over the past nine years, members of our community that has to our foundation site and, along with Southcombe. We wish them all many all the staff at Wadham, the Fellows, been profoundly inspiring. The College the new John Webb Quad and the Bruce years of happy and fruitful work and the lecturers and the students. And administration has worked tirelessly Naylor Garden, will provide generations of companionship in our College. I should like to thank you, the wider to create safe environments, students students with places of soaring modern With our thanks for their friendship Wadham community, for your support have been unstinting in their support for beauty in which to live, study and learn. and service, we salute Professor Philip and, above all, for your friendship. It has one another, and our tutors and lecturers We are deeply grateful to the William Candelas, Rouse Ball Professorial been an enormous pleasure getting have continued to teach and to share Doo family and Dr Lee Shau Kee, and to Fellow in Mathematics (who, I am to know you during the course of my their scholarship with no thought to all our benefactors, whose vision and delighted to report, is elected an wardenship and I shall miss you all.

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workers’ providing essential services Wadham community, including: face and reuse, we renewed our Fairtrade on our sites. Around 30 staff started masks from our alumni in Hong Kong; University Award, continued meetings working from home and, where staff face masks hand sewn by College of our Sustainability Group, distributed could not work from home, we used staff; a collective donation of £20k 2,000 Fairtrade cloth face coverings, the Furlough Scheme (see Finance from our students to help support installed food waste bins in 270 Bursar’s article). We carefully planned non-academic staff salaries; a staff student bedrooms on the main site, our arrangements to make sure these appreciation letter from our students; a Our began using Vegware takeaway boxes were appropriate for the new ways of donation of £1k which we used to loan ''passion made from recycled, waste sugarcane, working and living during Covid-19. We three iPads to scouts who were home for and donated leftover food to the introduced social distancing and hand schooling; and many messages of sustain- Oxford Food Bank. hygiene measures, including reduced support from alumni across the world. ability The construction of the Dr Lee room capacities, enhanced cleaning As part of our phased reopening remains Shau Kee Building and William Doo programmes, one-way systems, new we staggered the return of our staff as strong Undergraduate Centre continued signage and screens. We recognised and from July we opened some of as ever throughout the crisis with the the challenges faced by many of our our accommodation for room-only contractor carefully following guidance Fortitude, kindness staff, including home schooling and bookings after careful planning and for the construction industry, and the taking care of vulnerable relatives. Our training. These bookings provided professional team largely working from and solidarity Staff Peer Supporters were on hand, valuable experience operating our home. With tremendous determination staff supported each other and we enhanced cleaning regime prior to from the team and support from

organised online socials and Town Hall our students returning. When our College staff, the 20 en-suite bedrooms The Domestic Bursar Frances Lloyd meetings to keep in touch. Covid-secure catering operation were ready for the start of term. By Low occupancy levels were utilised recommenced in mid-September, to December 2020 the remaining areas of by progressing many maintenance coincide with the arrival of many of our these impressive and transformational THE PAST YEAR has demonstrated projects. Most notably, our Holywell international students, it felt like the buildings will be complete and we will the huge strength and togetherness Street façade, including the front of the College was getting back to normal. be thrilled to open the doors. of our community, and what can still We are Holywell Music Room, was sensitively We introduced a new takeaway service, Our team members have been be achieved in unprecedented and ''extremely renovated, including servicing and as well as maintaining our dine-in truly remarkable this year whilst challenging times. It has been an grateful draught-proofing 63 sash windows. service, and our kitchen delighted us facing their own personal challenges. unforgettable year! for the The Works team also refurbished once again with delicious meals. They deserve the highest praise College life changed enormously many Staircase 13, one of the Fellows’ Following a staggered return of our for their fortitude, commitment from late March when the Government acts of guest rooms, external timber seating students in Michaelmas Term, we set up and comradeship. Huge thanks to announced new national restrictions kindness and paving outside the Bowra, and a ‘Pandemic Team’ to provide a support everyone. You have been amazing! due to the coronavirus outbreak. from our redecorated many rooms. One of the and advisory service to students and I would like to end with one personal Following University guidance, most Wadham important tasks was to keep our water assistance with infection tracing, seven quote from the students’ appreciation of our students left us at the end of community system safe from legionella bacteria. days a week. For students self-isolating letter, written when students were Hilary and teaching moved online With thousands of outlets to flush, on our main site we set up systems to studying at home in Trinity Term: ‘Every in Trinity. Our self-catering flats at weekly, our teams worked tirelessly provide food, and worked with the SU morning going to lectures I could Merifield, supported by live-in manager together to complete this enormous to support online grocery deliveries count on meeting our lovely gardener Lindsay Kennedy and his team, task and we saved as much water as across our sites. Our welfare team also and exchanging 'good morning'. This continued to provide a safe haven we could by carefully calculating the provided round the clock support. little encounter brightened my day

for around 60 students who could minimum flush time. Our passion for sustainability throughout both terms! I am grateful for not return home. A team of around We are extremely grateful for the remains as strong as ever. In addition their work and how beautiful they make 30 operational staff became our ‘key many acts of kindness from our to our continual programme to reduce the garden look.’

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DEVELOPMENT ACCOMMODATION, HOUSEKEEPING KITCHEN Non-academic staff list as at 1 July 2020 OFFICE SALES AND EVENTS OFFICE Head of Head Chef Development Housekeeping Neil Mahon A big thank you to all team members in the following list, and, Director Head of Helen Wynn Sous Chefs

of course, our many casual members, for contributing to the Julie Hage Accommodation, Deputy Alex Jeffs College's achievements over the past year. Deputy Sales & Events Housekeeper Ravi Pothula Development Daniel Swingler Dawn Dudley Third Chef Director Sales & Events Staircase Scouts Gary Bainbridge Marco Zhang Executive Victoria Braich Chefs de Partie

Chaplain FINANCE OFFICE ACADEMIC OFFICE WARDEN’S OFFICE Executive Officer Krista Karppinen Umbelina Conceicao Poongaran Chandran Reverend Jane Baun Rachel Saunders Accommodation & Da Costa Ruth Grant

College Nurse Finance Bursar Senior Tutor Executive Assistant Individual Giving Events Officer Lisa Edwards Elliott Peedle Carolyn Ruhle Peter Alsop Caroline Mawson Tamara Manager Jo-Ann Wheble Nivea Franqueira Sam Walker Welfare Advisor PA to Finance Academic Parsons-Baker William Parry PA to Deputy Liana Girskyte Weekend Breakfast

Annie Lawson Bursar Administrator Head of Website Research Officer Domestic Bursar Nedelina Ivanova Chef

Katarina Bjurstedt Mike Froggatt & Communications Angela Jefferson Ciara M’Crystal Madhuri Jumale Adrian Takacs College Accountant Academic Support Julia Banfield Communications Asma Khanom Kitchen Porters

DOMESTIC Vince Skeffington Administrator & Events Officer Fatima La O Sanchez Donato Da BURSAR’S OFFICE Senior Bursary Katherine Allen Salome Parker LIBRARY Viene Marshall Silva Vicente Clerk Tutorial Office Database Manager Galloway Luke Dawson Domestic Bursar Jan Lees Administrator Graham Beake Librarian Nampheung Gilman Soares

Frances Lloyd Payroll Officer Teodora Rnjak Development Office Tim Kirtley Phunphian Deputy Domestic Radha Tharmalingam Access & Outreach Administrator Assistant Librarian Sitarani Rai Jabegu

Bursar Bursary Clerk Officer Karen Farr Fran Heaney Ganga Rai Limbu

Neil Tindall Joan Griffin Hugh Munro Early Printed Books Martin Simmons

PA to Domestic Assistant Admissions Officer Cataloguer Sashi Subba Bursar Accountant Libby Charlton IT Sarah Cusk Raj Rani Surina Sarah Mitchell-Butler Debbie Taylor Access Assistant Persian Studies Bishnu Thapa HR Manager Finance Assistant Catherine Seed Head of ICT Section Rupa Thapa Joanne Perkins Anthia Cumming Academic Records Lee Wootton Co-ordinator Shanti Thapa Manager Senior Systems Mohammad Emami Tracy Turnbull Catherine Boyle Administrator Warden’s Academic Office Gordon Berry Housekeeper Assistant IT & AV Technician Justyna Joanna Thompson Crispin Raine Miklaszewska IT Support General Assistants Assistant Bill Gerrow Thomas Zillhardt Sean Kelly Carl Parfett Luke Stevens Gintas Venckevicius

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SCR & HALL LODGE GARDENS DOROTHY WADHAM Leavers from July 2019 until June 2020 Head Butler Head Porter Head Gardener BUILDING Ricardo Canestra Mark Hogarth Andrew Little We thank the following former colleagues for their Deputy Head Deputy Head Porter Assistant Residential valued contributions and wish them all the best in Terry Nowland Butlers Gardeners Operations their future endeavours. Asia (Joanna) Let Lodge Porter Michael O’Day Manager David Shepherd Robert Ayres Sophie Pitts Melissa Lyon Assistant Butlers Night Porters Deputy Chloe Bruyas Diccon Harris Housekeeper Anya Siddiq Sandra Bailey Shaun Johnson Maria Earl-Slater Aliz Filus Radoslav Korcok SPORTSGROUND Iwona Horbaczewska Scout Early Printed Books H&S and Lodge Porter Vilmos Kovacs Thomas Walter 30/07/19 Cataloguer Maintenance 20/03/20 Scouts 30/08/19 Assistant Maria Rodriguez Peter Wheeler Groundsperson Marta Aparicio Teresa Szawan Jacqui Person 31/12/19 Guillen Martin Cofield Dominika Dziedziak Scout Jan Trinder Deputy Head Butler 03/07/19 Conference & Events Johanna Longmore 31/03/20 Ana Catering Service Boatperson Manager HR Officer Assistants WORKS George Hudson Hernandez-Ardon Pauline McCarthy 30/08/19 31/12/19 Rebecca Morris Samuel Batra Justyna SCR Assistant Sales & Events 31/07/19 Emma-Ben Lewis Tegan Partlett Executive Naomi Bryant Leska-Knychalska Building Services Welfare Advisor Catering Service 22/05/20 Penny McGinty Manager MERIFIELD Averil Plant Darren Munt 31/08/19 Assistant Head Butler Alan Slater Anna Pennant Chris Cox Maintenance & 14/02/20 31/07/19 Thomas Coombes Lodge Porter Maria Rodriguez Maintenance Merifield Manager Facilities Assistant Assistant Gardener Anne-Marie Kelly 16/06/20 Mendez Operations Lindsay Kennedy Andrew Whiffen Amani Yates 27/09/19 Scout Scout Manager 20/02/20 SCR/Hall Scout 31/07/19 Moti Limbu Supervisor Joanne Yeomans Ludovina (Lucy) Scout Heidi Young Mike Yousef Gito Lal Works Supervisor De Araujo 03/10/19 Graduate IT Support Assistant SCR/Hall Assistant & Electrician Maintenance & Administrator (out of hours) Murtaza Azimi 24/02/20 Nedelina Ivanova Simon Peedle Facilities Assistant 31/07/19 Assistant Butler Kris Lambert 08/10/19 Tasneem Johra Washing-up Carpenters/Joiners Rochelle Eastgate Assistant Stephen Coleman Scout (DW site) Assistant Butler Shomik Mukherjee 28/02/20 Lewis Horner Bruce Mortimer (seconded) General Assistant Cellarer Painter 01/08/19 20/10/19 Beverley Moore Agnieszka Sabolova- Kevin Dawson SCR Assistant Annabella Massey Penelope McGinty 12/03/20 Lebiedzka Maintenance & Sub Dean (Merifield Catering Service Bar Steward Facilities Assistants site) Assistant Jannis Hussain

Christopher Davies Robert Afford 16/08/19 26/10/19 Bar Assistant 15/03/20 Kieran Carton Nipho Mkhize Jasen Bustin Sub Dean (main Deputy Head Butler Surinder Kaur College site) 31/10/19 Scout 16/08/19 15/03/20 Benedict Konst Catering Service Jana Terenova Assistant Bar Assistant 20/12/19 15/03/20

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several other crises in its wake: an with advice, reassurance and support. energy price collapse, an equity I would like to express our profound market crash, a liquidity crisis, a global gratitude for that. We were reminded recession, rising unemployment, to focus on what matters most: waves of cyber-attacks, and various providing the education and support political interventions when the for students and academics. And we Of course, what world’s attention was elsewhere. The did. In turn we stood by our staff, and ''came was beyond severity, responses and recoveries in continued paying full salaries, and (in a all expectation different parts of the world have been wonderful display of Wadham values) characterised as V-shaped, U-shaped, our absent students voluntarily and even K-shaped (polarised into contributed £20k towards the staff big winners and losers). But our costs. The Wadham community risk mitigations luckily prepared us looked out for each other. With many financially to weather the battering of activities suspended, we trimmed

the first months of Covid-19. costs where we could. And though It is an open secret that student the government targeted no support fees, rents and meal charges barely to higher education, universities were cover half of what it costs to teach our encouraged to participate in the Job lockdown to look after the College and students and run the College, and that Retention Scheme. The financial toll Facing uncharted its residents. we rely on the endowment income, of last year is yet to be fully counted: Long before Covid-19 struck, the popularity of conferences and an operating deficit in excess of £1m, territory we had anticipated an exciting but events, and the sustained generosity and investment losses of rather more, financially challenging year. The of our donors to make ends meet. But but we feared worse. And we are now first year of operations in the newly when Covid-19 struck, we gave rent in the larger second wave. The Finance Bursar Peter Alsop completed Dorothy Wadham Building, refunds to students studying from On the positive side, building second year undergrads taking home, we lost the Easter and summer development work continued residence, and then programmes conferences, some of our tenants throughout the lockdowns. Students of summer schools; paying £1m in could not pay rent, and investment are now living in the stunning Dr THIS HAS BEEN a remarkable year. interest on our bonds; funding the values dived. Fortunately, in these Lee Shau Kee Building, and the The Wadham community has faced final stages of the development in difficult times, our alumni stood by us, final work on the fine William Doo Covid-19 with resilience and stoicism; the back quad which was showing but our experiences will be similar signs of running over budget. And to those of many individuals and this against a backdrop of Brexit, institutions across the country, and the middle-east tensions, the US world. Students returned to their homes election, and US-China relations, all at Easter and were asked to stay there, with enough potential to destabilise administrative staff began working markets. Consequently we liquidated virtually, and many in operational roles investments and held elevated levels agreed to be furloughed. But we kept of cash to ensure that we could our doors open for students unable to complete our projects, come what may. travel overseas, those from vulnerable Of course, what came was beyond backgrounds or with particular needs, all expectation. Covid-19 not only and a core of staff worked throughout eclipsed all of the above, but triggered

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Undergraduate Centre, the Webb Quad and the Bruce Naylor Garden is going apace. Full credit to the contractor, the project team, and the Domestic Bursar for this. Happily, confirmation Given the events of this of tax uncertainties helped remove year,'' and what some other the risk of cost over-run. The year also charities have faced, I feel we seems to have shown the strength of have much to be grateful for More than our diversified investment portfolio ''1,600 alumni – our UK land and property holdings from 36 were resilient despite weakness in countries have most other UK sectors; investments in taken part China performed strongly, and our US I must acknowledge the resilience in our online funds were able to mitigate some of and adaptability of our office staff, as events the losses from UK and EU funds. It is well as the entire academic community, sobering to think that we need a total who in short order worked out how to return of 3.5% above inflation each carry out their roles effectively from year to sustain the endowment for the a hundred kitchen tables and attic future. This year we saw a negative rooms. It became a standing joke that Virtual reunions in return, though our diverse portfolio every conversation seemed to begin 'I protected us against the 17.8% loss cannot see you! Can you hear me? You pandemic times registered by the FTSE All Share Index. are still on mute.' With a deficit both on our operating In hindsight, it is tempting to trace Development Director Julie Hage costs, and on our endowment an arc of events, following a seemingly investments, we ended the year more natural progression. But it was not that fragile than we started. But, given the way at the time. At every step we were events of this year, and what some at cross-roads in uncharted territory, YEAR ON YEAR, I have the privilege Your continued engagement with the other charities have faced, I feel we and many decisions were made on of reporting on a rewarding schedule intellectual and social life of Wadham have much to be grateful for. the basis of scarce and conflicting of alumni reunions, debates and and its people has been an inspiration Covid-19 was also a driver for information, with uncertainty on encounters in the UK and overseas. and these virtual events will, I am internal change. As we saw the risk what might be the practical, human, This year, as the pandemic struck, sure, become a fixture also in post- growing, our IT staff made preparations financial and legal consequences. my resourceful colleagues in the pandemic times. for remote access to key systems, It is in difficult times that one most Development Office worked tirelessly Thankfully, a number of live and ordered stocks of laptops and appreciates the judgement of to convert all our planned events into events took place in London and screens. Office staff moved to virtual colleagues, and throughout the year, a virtual programme. We have sorely Oxford before the pandemic struck working; meetings, committees, the Warden, fellows, officers and staff missed the vibrancy of the in-person and we are sharing a few photos even Governing Body meetings were worked with the Student Union and encounters of the global Wadham on these pages. Toynbee Hall in all held online; College and alumni the University; their efforts went way community in recent months but we East London, a nineteenth century events were live-streamed, and beyond the call of duty to serve the are so grateful for your participation venue for pioneering social reform although not the same experience College community. I would like to in, and contributions to, this new established by a Wadham alumnus, as visiting the College the events acknowledge and thank all those who virtual mode of College life: more was the apposite location for our were suddenly accessible to far wider have worked so hard this year to keep than 1,600 alumni from 36 countries third Social Mobility Summit in spread and more diverse audiences. the College going. have taken part in our online events. November. Focusing on ethnicity

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and socioeconomic background, on College finances and increases 1 2 our panellists discussed practical student hardship, we are doubly measures to advance equal access grateful for your continued generosity. to university. Sir Michael Barber, Chair, As we prepare the Gazette for printing, Office for Students, highlighted the we have just completed our second- significance of Wadham’s widening ever Giving Day with resounding participation work: 'I am really glad success – thanks to all the alumni, that social mobility is so firmly on the Fellows and students who supported agenda for Wadham. The fact that this campaign and expressed why they they are on their third Social Mobility are #WadhamProud. This year, I have Summit, that the Access Centre is also been incredibly #WadhamProud being constructed in the Back Quad, of my wonderful colleagues in the and the emphasis they have given Development Office, and our Head in terms of the leadership they are of Communications, Julia Banfield, 3 4 providing in Oxford – these things are for their creativity and vigorous very important.' Wadham’s leadership commitment to connecting and in widening access to Oxford at regional supporting everyone in the Wadham and national levels owes much to the community. My grateful thanks to encouragement and generosity of our them all and to all of you for your alumni and this year, more than ever, your encouragement, munificence and

support has made a vital difference. friendship. We very much look forward The Donor Report enclosed with to such time when we can welcome this Gazette illustrates in greater depth you back to 'live' Wadham events and the transformative impact of your convey our warmest thanks to you support for the Access to Excellence in person. programme and the impact made in 1 Social Mobility Summit at Toynbee Hall, recent years thanks to your donations November 2019. of all sizes. Your gifts, acknowledged on 2 Virtual event: Honorary pages 146–163, are opening doors to This year, more than ever, Fellow Paul Goodwin talks an Oxford education and transforming ''your support has made a about the history of British art, November 2020. lives. As the pandemic impacts severely vital difference 3 Jane Griffiths, Fellow in English, recites poetry and introduces the Adderbury Ensemble for

Development Colin Drummond OBE DL 1969 Tim Parkes 1973 a performance in the Holywell Music Room, Amanda East 1981 Sachin Patel 2001 Council Members live-streamed to Wadham's Flora Fraser 1977 Anthony Preston CBE 1974 supporters, in lieu of the

Warren East CBE 1980, Chair Richard Grigson 1984 Lindsay Sharp 1966 Benefactors' Garden Party, July 2020. Victor Lee 1993 Heather Stevens CBE 1976 Nicholas Barber CBE 1959 4 Circles' Event, hosted Alasdair Locke 1971 Stephen Stow 1973 by Heather Stevens CBE Frank Berman 1961 Peter Mason 1994 Chris Taylor 1979 at The Conduit in London, Rory Coonan 1973 John McCall Kenneth Woods 1950 March 2020. Tom Daniel 1984 5 #Wadham Proud MacBain OC 1980 William Doo Jr 1993 5 students with Ken Maurice Ostro 1985 Macdonald QC.

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dealt more-than-a-tricky hand this bulging folder of paperwork marked by the thoughtfulness of many. As I admissions year, but one he played ‘Summer 2003: To Do’ my favourite), but pass into ‘old lady’ stage, might I remind with aplomb. This August, Mike, Ken also taking down postcards and notes all ages of the joy such letters and

and I together spent a number of accumulated over the years. From mementos bring. I fail too often to offer evenings ringing colleagues, in and out the origami boxes made by a lovely them myself. To Wadhamites past and of the College, asking them to respond student whilst receiving treatment at present then, thank you. I look forward to quickly changing information (and the Warneford, and hand-drawn cards to reconnecting with you all in a couple quickly changing policies) on the and calligraphy, to quick scrawls, and of years’ time. government’s use of algorithms during even an email from a student under A-Level results week. It is perhaps academic monitoring procedures one of the highlights of my time here noting that these were actually ‘proving that to a ‘man’ – disturbed on those quite constructive’, I have felt touched evenings during dinners, children’s bed-times, and even from their own sleep – each tutor and member of

Solidarity staff stepped up to play their role in NEW STUDENT INTAKE 2019-20 the team. We may have had minor at its best differences about courses of action, of course, but each gave their full undergraduate students graduate students engagement, put students’ needs first, 126 91 Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions and the College’s need for a collective Dr Caroline Mawson action above any individual differences. I was touched by the confidence 63 reading taught degrees shown in the Wadham admissions 28 reading research degrees THIS IS MY LAST Gazette report as team that week – the solidarity of Senior Tutor for a couple of years, and I staff, academic, administrative and have already passed over the Tutor for domestic (and their families), and Admissions role. With effect from the the sheer willingness to put down ADMISSIONS ROUND FOR ENTRY start of Michaelmas term 2020, I head the pillow/baby’s dummy/research OCTOBER 2020 just a little bit North and across Parks and work together in what felt like an examinations1,611 sat Road to help set up Oxford’s 39th emerging crisis. Such solidarity across in 2019–20, the College – Reuben College. Normally I so large a group must be incredibly majority taken online struggle to say something new in this rare, and of incomparable value. annual report – academic years have a Without veering into a demitting reassuring familiarity. Not this year. The speech, I also want to provide my usual

dramas that the coronavirus-induced thanks to students, but with a different undergraduate778 hiatus to our normal ways of living will slant this year. This summer I have – in applications have played out in the lives of each a lonely, socially-distanced way – been

reader of this piece have of course clearing out my office, ready both for also found their way to Wadham. Mike to move in as incoming Senior undergraduate71 first

I demitted my role as Tutor for Tutor, and for the office’s move to the class results, UK EU Rest of the world Admissions last year and passed new building. As part of that, I have out of 130 students

this over to Dr Mike Froggatt; he was been finding many tasks undone (a completing Finals

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our life cycle approach providing support throughout a child’s journey to university and beyond. The Access and Outreach Team have increased the volume of digital resources for pupils and teachers available through the College The year ahead will website. These concentrated, in the ''allow fair access to first instance, on helping meet the

continue to flourish at needs of pupils now, made possible Wadham, in ways both through alumni support. The College expected and new has worked with digital mentoring specialists, Causeway Education, to 2019 TeachFirst Primary school visit provide 250 pupils with personalised university application support, helping to relieve some of the pressure on teachers, we are beginning a project to teachers burdened with ‘operation develop digital teaching materials for catch-up’ and targeting pupils hardest use in schools. These aim to engage (including our own Summer Schools), hit by the current situation. With face- young people in academic content Refocussing there have been green shoots of to-face access work likely to still be which complements school studies innovation across the year. UNIQ some way off, the emphasis on digital and boosts the cognitive and study Access Engineering successfully ran digitally delivery promises to transform our skills that enable students to excel at with Wadham alumni running an online ways of working long into the future, institutions such as Oxford. The year question and answer session and providing a model for increasing ahead will allow fair access to continue Tutor for Access Dr Hugh Munro a virtual tour of a computer games the scale and reach of our outreach to flourish at Wadham, in ways both company. Summer saw the students programme. In collaboration with expected and new. accepted under the University’s Opportunity Oxford scheme take FIGHTING THE URGE to write anything part in online sessions and attend a without the preface ‘in these uncertain socially distanced programme to help ACCESS AND OUTREACH IN NUMBERS times’ has been difficult this year. In equip them with the skills needed to 2019–20 reality, the current situation brought succeed here at Oxford. The year has the access agenda into sharper focus seen the expansion of the pre-16 and allowed Wadham to show its core sustained contact programme for &!a!a values. The College was one of the Bedford and Bedfordshire developing first to accept all of the offer holders the model successfully running in W6 regardless of the A-Level grades Luton. The programme brings together they were awarded in August, and state schools in the two boroughs building work on the Access Centre with over 100 pre-16 pupils taking Wadham95 College participating3,600 students schools145 represented has continued which will put widening part in a series of sessions supported events across the UK participation at the heart of the College. by teachers from the hub schools. Whilst the lockdown resulted in Our ability to respond is grounded in many sessions being cancelled Wadham’s Access to Excellence and

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In Trinity term Wadham Chapel went to look ahead, and to nurture our online, for both worship and pastoral inner reserves of wisdom, resilience, meetings. Wadham College Chapel creativity, compassion and courage. Eternity in now has its own YouTube channel, with the happy result that literally hundreds Dr Katie Pardee reports: an hour? of Wadham members and friends all No doubt every report of College over the world were able to share in activities will begin with phrases

Choral Evensong. Our five Evensong Through- such as 'It was a very strange year…'. Chaplain Revd Jane Baun films, beginning with a celebration out'' all the For the Wadham Chapel Choir this

of the Chapel’s 407th birthday, have uncertainty was certainly the case. After an

averaged 247 views across them to and unremarkable but happy and busy date – and are still available to enjoy – do dislocation Michaelmas and Hilary, we entered subscribe and watch! Don’t miss the 6th of the into the suspended animation of Trinity week Pentecost Evensong, featuring year, the term, where the passage of time was To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Wadham alumnus Paul Whittaker anchor of punctuated not by rehearsals and

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an hour (Music, 1983) as our speaker and sign Wadham services but rather by the issuing and William Blake, Auguries of Innocence (1803) language interpreter. Huge thanks are Chapel has receiving back of choir assignments: due to Wadham’s Librarian Tim Kirtley, held fast hymns and anthems recorded in who rose valiantly to the challenge students’ homes, then turned into

WILLIAM BLAKE’S EXHORTATION Hilary term’s theme, ‘20/20 Seeing of video editing our first film, and to videos and posted on YouTube. In to look – both closely and widely – Clearly’, took as its term-card mascot Chapel Music Director Dr Katharine a rather surprising transformation, guided Wadham Chapel through the the many-eyed, multi-lensed Blue Pardee, who took on the remaining Yours Truly the Choir Director became Hundreds rollercoaster of 2019–20. Fly, as captured in the astonishing four with dedication and inspiration. a recording and video engineer, and ''of Michaelmas’ theme was ‘Being engraving in the Micrographia (1665) Students, alumni and Fellows sent in together with the Chaplain, was Wadham Human’, illustrated at the cellular level by Wadham’s own Robert Hooke. videos of themselves reading, singing pleased to discover new ways to be members by an electron-microscope image of Chapel speakers explored William and praying, and parts were filmed creative. I am happy to be able to show and neurons derived from stem cells on Blake’s vision, seventeenth-century on locations around Oxford, including off the choir’s big project of the term: friends the term card. Speakers at Evensong science at Wadham, seeing gender a memorable sunset on Boar’s Hill, a 'virtual choir' video of the wonderful all over discussed emotions, disability, failure, and race in society and history, complete with bleating sheep. On a anthem 'O Thou the Central Orb', which the world connections, modern slavery, and quantum optics, and intersections sad note, on 29 April, the Chaplain included plenty of Wadham choir were able gender identity. Joining with the between science and religion. Sister conducted the funeral service of alumni as well as current singers, all to share Wadham SU and students of Hindu Elizabeth Jane CSMV came from the Professorial Fellow Richard Sharpe, who recording their parts individually from in Choral heritage, the Chapel hosted a Diwali Wantage Community of St Mary the died on 21/22 March. We hope to host a their widely-scattered homes. See it Evensong celebration at the end of October, Virgin to lead a much-appreciated memorial service in March 2022. here: https://youtu.be/Zisyeq4kGtw transforming the Ante-Chapel into a Lenten Quiet Day. Beyond the Eternity in an hour? Throughout all With such a different perspective palace of lights and sweets. Beyond walls, small groups met at the the uncertainty and dislocation of the on choir singing and chapel services the walls, the Chapel sponsored two Ashmolean, and also in London to year, the anchor of Wadham Chapel has as the lockdown provided, it was an

trips to the Ashmolean to examine see the magnificent Blake exhibition held fast, and whether in the nave or interesting, if challenging year – one

aspects of being human in art. Students at the Tate Britain. Other extra-mural online, it has offered a stable ark in the however which we will not be eager

also went on pilgrimage down the plans for the Easter vac, such as a storm, and open space for reflection to repeat!

Thames towpath to Iffley village, with mini-pilgrimage to the Wadhams’ and renewal. Our ancient Chapel its stunning Romanesque church, ancestral parishes in Somerset, fell holds and cherishes memory, but followed by lunch at the Isis Farmhouse. foul of the developing pandemic. also encourages us as a community

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of time, and they will remain long after admittedly dramatic lamentations.

we hopefully move past Covid-19. Even after Covid-19’s eruption and

None of us would However, as Covid-19 amplifies the our subsequent displacement, we

''trade the Wadham cracks in our system, it also magnifies still carried on passionately; here, the experience for the immense good in our society; unique nature of Oxford’s tutorials

anything else specifically, I hope to pinpoint the shone brightest, proving itself Oxford experience as one such boon adaptable to global rearrangements, in our world, through my reminiscence however cataclysmic they may of my time at Wadham. be. Thus, as my peers and I move I look back fondly at my time at on from our time at Wadham, I am Wadham, confident that a lot of who confident that we bring Wadham with UNDENIABLY, 2020 has garnered I am today stems from the growth us wherever we find ourselves in life an abhorrent reputation; from the that I underwent during my year – specifically, the drive and flexibility very beginning, the year seemed to abroad, both as an academic and as needed to lead the world into a better give way to tragedy after tragedy, a young adult learning to navigate place than the one we inherited. To with no end in sight. Of course, the the world. I smile when I remember the Wadham community, especially proverbial elephant in the room, the nearly palpable exuberance of all George, Susan, and Lindsay, I thank

A time to Covid-19, very quickly consumed the the students in the Sarah Lawrence you from the bottom of my heart world’s undivided attention, especially Programme during our first hall dinner, for welcoming us with open arms, cherish once the WHO declared it a global in which we met our tutors and the breaking bread and sharing drinks pandemic in early March; even now, Warden. Hilariously enough, our with us in our mutual journey through

Covid-19 continues to ravage the doe-eyed optimism soon gave way to Oxford. To the rest of the Sarah Sarah Lawrence Programme SU Rep 2019–20 world, and the long term fallout – in habitual groans about tutorial work – Lawrence Programme, remember all Shin Narita terms of economics, politics, and so swiftly did we acclimatise ourselves that you have accomplished, and be

public health – of Covid-19 remains to the Wadham culture. None of us proud – I cherish the time we spent unknowable. Unfortunately, the would trade the Wadham experience together and I cannot wait to see all In a year indelibly marked by the prevailing popular narrative appears for anything else though, despite our that you accomplish in life.

emergence of Covid-19, Student to be that Covid-19 has given rise to Union Representative Shin Narita the myriad crises that we face today – that once a vaccine is developed, the Sarah Lawrence programme reminisces about the time he spent world may revert back to normalcy. studying at the University of Oxford This is a dangerous delusion of both students 2020–21 alongside the rest of his peers as part our present situation and of the of the Sarah Lawrence Programme, future. While the global pandemic has Hania Al Muayyad Abigail Falato SLC Isabella Phelan SLC before finally conveying how the indisputably upended our lives, the Al Azm SLC Lixin Huang Grace Reed SLC outbreak has merely unearthed and Adele Benoit SLC Tsinghua University Anna Schultz SLC effects of the global pandemic have aggravated issues already present in Audrey Bensching SLC Zoe Kim SLC Julia Shanahan SLC

demonstrated the indispensability of our society. Covid-19 did not invent Meseret Carver SLC Raizel Labuntog SLC Julia Simmons SLC an Oxford education. anti-Asian racism, nor did it induce Edward Checketts SLC Ben Maseman SLC Katy Snair SLC racial biases in our healthcare systems Yiru Chen SLC Lauren Mesley SLC Sinbay Tan SLC – these problems, among countless Madeline Chetkovich SLC Afroditi Michalaki SLC Ning Xu SLC others, have been endemic in our Brooklyn Clark SLC Steven Orlofsky SLC societies for an indeterminate amount

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found a new home on display in the Warden’s Lodgings, including Our library services continued one that proclaims a 1653 act of ''to operate sucessfully thanks Parliament authorising the Wadhamite to the commitment and Robert Blake to ‘order and manage

flexibility of our loyal staff the affairs of the Admiralty’. Dr Floreeda Safiri, who helped Dr John Gurney set up the library’s specialist Persian Section in the experience and some great ideas for 1970s and who sadly died at the further developing our collections. beginning of 2020, donated just In October 2019 we again before her death around 600 books contributed to the annual special from her personal collection – a collections walking tour in which poignant gift for which we are very colleges display selected items to the grateful. Chris Gittins very generously public on a particular theme. In its first donated his father’s collection of year incunabula from seven colleges some 90 first editions of the poems of were displayed – this year twelve the Wadham alumnus Humbert Wolfe. colleges took part (meaning visitors An environmentally friendly adding them to the library collection had to walk nearly twice as fast!) and improvement to the fabric of the library Looking back once returned. the theme was early science so our this year was the installation of motion When we did re-open, in order to be display included our first editions of sensor lighting so that the bookshelves Covid-secure we reduced our seating Copernicus and Newton. are illuminated on approach – adding and adapting capacity and offered three bookable Five short films that we made that still more sophistication to our beautiful Library Study Sessions each day. discuss different aspects of the 38 reading room. College Librarian Tim Kirtley To keep our book lending going we seventeenth and eighteenth century

began a separate 24-hour ‘Click & broadsides that were gifted to us are Above left: The library team, socially distanced in the Collect’ system and to make all of this now available to view via a link on the College gardens. Left to right: Tim Kirtley, Librarian, IN A REMARKABLE year that work we recruited eight wonderfully library web page. During filming we Sarah Cusk, Early Printed Books Cataloguer, Fran saw the library’s physical space enthusiastic Reading Room displayed all 38 broadsides in the Heaney, Assistant Librarian, Mohammad Emami, Persian Studies Section Co-ordinator closed for six months, our library Assistants and benefitted greatly from Chapel – a very impressive spectacle. services nevertheless continued the crucial deep clean carried out Three broadsides subsequently Below: The broadsides lined up in Chapel to operate successfully thanks to by the Housekeeping team between

the commitment and flexibility of study sessions.

our loyal staff. When the students More generally, in January transferred to their home addresses 2020 we were delighted to welcome at the start of the lockdown they Dr Sarah Cusk as our new Early enjoyed a huge increase in e-book Printed Books Cataloguer after the provision, with temporary emergency retirement of Sandra Bailey. Working access generously provided by 40 hours a month at Wadham to many publishers. We were also able further progress our Antiquarian to order new print acquisitions to cataloguing project, Sarah brings be sent directly to home addresses, with her a wealth of Oxford library

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Colin Drummond Classics, 1969 I would also like to mention an The 1610 Society President, 1610 Society initiative of Committee member Seldom has our programme Tony Halmos. This is not strictly ''of access to excellence a 1610 matter but is very much and support for those from aligned to our ethos of combining THE SOCIETY REMAINS in good John Stocks, 1941 disadvantaged backgrounds good fellowship with support for health. With the impact of Covid-19 William Marker, 1946 been more important the College, particularly in terms of lockdown we have had to find new, John Hargreaves, 1949 its access work. A group of us who and we hope satisfactory, ways of Roland Challis, 1951 matriculated in 1969 (some 1610 reaching out to our members and to James Lahore, 1953 which echoed among participants members, some not) got together other alumni interested in supporting Gordon Heys, 1955 worldwide, and the hope that we will under Tony’s auspices for a 50 years the College via a legacy or significant Peter Day, 1957 meet for our usual physical dinner, on dinner in College last October. lifetime gift. Kithsiri Malalgoda, 1965 rather than a virtual ‘eidolon’ of one, on As the reminiscences and port Instead of our annual dinner we held Geoffrey Pritchard, 1967 Friday 3 September 2021. flowed, we decided (being as we all a virtual celebration from the College Gwen Edwards, widow of In the coming year we hope to host agreed a very special year group!) Hall on 11 September 2020 for some Phillip Edwards a 1610 event at St Paul’s Cathedral to commemorate this by raising 200 members and guests. The Warden Richard Sharpe, Fellow and when the College Chapel Choir sings money for a room in the College’s provided an update on the College Professor of Diplomatic Evensong. Initially this was planned new Access Centre. This is but one and the steps it has taken to cope Jeremy Montagu, Emeritus Fellow for November but has had to be of a variety of initiatives among with the twin challenges of A-level postponed to a new date of Tuesday year or subject groups, all perhaps algorithm and Covid-19; seldom At the same time we were able to 20 April 2021, on account of the animated by our love for the College has our programme of access to welcome 12 new members who joined Cathedral’s social distancing rules (sic). and what it stands for. excellence and support for those from us during the year maintaining our Based on the success of our virtual On behalf of your committee, disadvantaged backgrounds been total membership at 407 compared dinner above, we are also considering may I offer best wishes to all our more important; seldom too have the to some 280 ten years ago. We ended a Zoom talk or debate on a matter of fellow members and friends and say College’s already fragile operational with the usual toast to the College, general interest to members (ideas and ‘Wadham College – root and branch

finances been so severely challenged volunteers are welcome). may it flourish for ever’. with the loss of conference and B&B revenue and the additional Covid-19 related costs. 1610 Society We were gloriously entertained Committee Members by Stile Antico who sang a stunning selection of sacred and secular works from around the time of the foundation of our College. One of Colin Drummond Ross Hutchison 1979 the composers represented (John 1969, President Sachin Patel 2001 Taverner) belonged to a guild which Diana Blease 1987 Claudia Pendred 1977 sang masses for the departed. This Julie Curtis 1974 Leon Pickering 2003 was particularly appropriate as we Jeremy Evans 1991 Joe Romig 1963 commemorated with sadness the Tony Halmos 1969 Andrew Smith 1967 following 12 friends of our number Victoria Harper 1976 Nigel Tricker 1964 who passed away during the year: Tracy Hofman 1978

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Sachin Patel Physics, 2001 Wadham Alumni Society President, Wadham Alumni Society

THE WADHAM ALUMNI SOCIETY the globe to listen and participate in a was formed to encourage links lively Q&A. between Wadham alumni, and all For alumni in the US, media former students automatically become executive and journalist, Gordon members when they leave College. Crovitz (Law, 1980), gave a stimulating This most peculiar and challenging virtual talk on the afternoon of 28 year, we have helped bring Wadham October on ‘Fake News’, stating ‘We alumni together in cities across the live in an era where trust is a rare world again – with a number of social commodity’. The US election that events pre-lockdown, and since followed a week later showed just how with a number of highly successful true that is. virtual events. Perhaps because of Wadham’s terrific virtual events the disruption to our lives and lack of have shown the appetite that exists social interaction, these have proven among alumni for such events and extremely popular, bringing alumni interaction, across the globe, and the around the world together in a new Development Office is busy organising and meaningful way. further talks for 2021. We remain Our annual Wadham Society event extremely grateful to the College for was held on 16 September as a virtual this ongoing energy and support. talk, with speakers Lissa Muscatine It seems like an eternity ago but we (PPE, 1977), a former White House did manage to organise a number of Speech Writer and senior advisor, and informal networking and socialising Ambassador and Associate Professor events pre-lockdown, including

of Law, Jim Warlick (MLitt Politics, Wadham Wednesdays in London and Zoom event speakers, L-R from the top: Chris Summerfield, Gordon Crovitz, Lissa Muscatine, Sachin Patel, 1977), discussing the key issues at other cities in the UK and around the Margaret Hillenbrand, Alfonso Castrejn-Pita, Mark Thompson, Jim Warlick, Andrew Farmery stake in the run-up to the 2020 US world. With vaccines starting to get presidential election. An insightful regulatory approval and being rolled Wadham Alumni Wadham Alumni Elizabeth Kim 2003 and engaging discussion, the event out at the time of writing, we hope Society AGM Society Committee Jason Leech 2001 attracted just shy of 250 registrations that it won’t be too long before we can Members Daniel Rolle 2006 with almost 140 joining on the evening. resume these face-to-face initiatives. Notice is given of the next Rohit Sen 1999 Annual General Meeting of At the end of September, we held We continue to seek out Sachin Patel 2001, President the Wadham Alumni Society, an evening event for alumni in Hong enthusiastic new members to expand Ross Hutchison 1979, Fellows: Martin Bureau, to be held in association with Kong and the Asia-Pacific region with our committee, and also ideas and Vice-President Julie Hage, Ankhi Mukherjee a briefing on the activities of a fascinating talk by Professor Chris suggestions for initiatives and events the College, currently planned Mike Edwards 2007 Development Office Staff: Summerfield, our Fellow in Psychology, – please feel free to reach out to any for before the Alumni Dinner in Duncan Enright 1982 William Parry, Rachel on ‘Putting humanity into AI’. The of the committee members via the College on Saturday Bruce Gibson 1986 Saunders, Marco Zhang timing allowed alumni from around Development Office. 4 September 2021. Frederic Kalinke 2007

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Stephen Goss Richard Chapman Medical Society Emeritus Fellow Wadham Alumni Golf Society Mathematics, 1968

THIS YEAR HAS been a year of two wrong moment and had to return WITH GOLF BEING one of the few halves. We started with our normal almost immediately. The final-year social outlets allowed under the programme of talks and social clinical students then graduated pandemic conditions, I am pleased to events and were lucky to hold our several months early and several went report that we will not be engraving Hilary term meeting just before the straight to work on the wards. The ‘2020 – Not played’ on the Whitby lockdown for Covid: after that, the good news is that all of us at College Cup. The 2020 event was the 15th tale was very different. Before the have kept well throughout the year. occasion that alumni have gathered virus, we heard from two speakers, As readers will know, we had to for this annual tournament and both of whom had read medicine postpone our planned reunion. We special thanks go to Peter Lennon in Oxford. Dimitrios Mavrelos, in are now aiming for Saturday 25 who facilitated our day at his club, Michaelmas, had been a Wadham September 2021, and we shall be Huntercombe. 2020 Whitby Cup student and is now a consultant in in contact about that in the spring. Peter had a strong round, for which Winner – John Ford was presented with reproductive medicine at UCH in Many have written to me regretting I can vouch from accompanying him a framed brass London. He spoke on recent advances the postponement but wishing us well: round the course, but on the day rubbing depicting in assisted fertility, its increasing thank you all, and we’ll look forward to he was pipped by John Ford who Dorothy and Nicholas Wadham, importance, and some of the issues seeing you next year. scored 39 Stableford points. Hywel which all winners surrounding its use and availability. Davies was in third place. Covid retain for a year. In Hilary, we heard from David restrictions meant that the usual Holdsworth, an Oxford cardiologist. dinner and prize-giving in College an alternative mini WAGS tour to fill the He had come to medicine after a was not possible but we enjoyed tea, gap. The Intercollegiate event has a career in the army, and he spoke scones and cake after the round, in handicap limit of 20 but the proposed about his experience of high altitude suitably distanced circumstances. tour, like the Whitby Cup, physiology as the medic on climbing Participants were: David Frood is intended to be a friendly affair, open

expeditions with the armed forces. The final-year clinical (1977), Robin French (1961), Geoff to golfers of all abilities. The next Thanks to the generosity of old ''students then graduated Green (1971), Nick Smith (1966), Whitby Cup tournament is planned members, the Society played its several months early and Haydn Gott (1963), Mike Sauvage to take place at Huntercombe on usual role in supporting travel by our several went straight to (Emeritus Fellow), Jim Congleton Wednesday 22 September 2021. students. One went to Boston at the work on the wards (1984), Hywel Davies (1971), Nigel All past and present members end of 2019 to attend a research Cook (1970), John Ford (1976), of Wadham, including staff and fellows, conference in hepatology, and we Richard Chapman (1968) and Peter are welcome to join the Wadham supported five students variously Lennon (1975). Alumni Golf Society, so please do get

for electives and for a paediatric The next official date for your in touch via the Development Office placement abroad. Alas, only one Wadham golfing diary is the if you would like to participate or student completed her elective Intercollegiate event at Frilford on learn more. successfully. Two others squeezed Friday 16 April 2021. It is by no means in just the first half of their electives beyond the bounds of possibility that before the pandemic, but two travelled this event will again be cancelled so half-way round the world at just the there is consideration being given to

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Alasdair Leeding Biochemistry, 2018 Hana Fletcher Jurisprudence, 2018 Student Union SU President 2019–20 Law Society Law Society Student President 2019–20

THIS YEAR for the SU can rather IN SPITE OF the circumstances of Smith, Slaughter and May, Ashurst and neatly be divided into pre- and post- 2020, the Wadham Law Society several other law firms. The Alumni pandemic, so let’s first focus on the has continued to facilitate a close Dinner in Hilary saw an amazing turnout two successful terms we had. I began and collegiate relationship between with over 70 students, tutors and the year moving into our incredible Wadham law students, tutors and alumni attending, enabling networking new accommodation, the Dorothy alumni. The year started with Freshers’ and for students to talk to several Wadham Building, which despite some Welcome Drinks, closely followed by alumni about their career experiences teething problems, became our home. several events in Michaelmas term. Early since leaving Wadham, an opportunity The outstanding committee helped on, a presentation evening was hosted that students are always grateful organise and run many amazing by Debevoise & Plimpton, organised for. Before the dinner, Lord Justice events throughout the year. We had a with the help of Wadham alumna and Holroyde (1973) and Judge Michael wonderful Queerweek with speakers Debevoise partner Samantha Rowe Hopmeier (1970) gave an advocacy like Lucia Blayke, the founder of UK (2002), which gave Wadham students workshop to students, sharing their Trans Pride, and an unforgettable an invaluable insight into the work and perspectives on what makes a Queerfest. The Vice President (Louisa normality in ‘VirTrinity’ – particular Alasdair graduate opportunities at American law successful advocate. This was not Broeg, PPE, 2018) and I negotiated thanks to Welfare for providing Leeding firms. A further highlight of Michaelmas only extremely interesting but proved (left) with a new three year rent deal. This support in this time. The Corona Aaron Kai term was the Annual Bar Panel, which hugely useful for students intending to introduced a new subsidy system Cuppers (daily challenges posted on Shankar enabled students to garner an excellent go to the bar and those participating in (right) based on household income, freezing Facebook) was a highlight. Credit: Kemi insight into varying practices at the bar, mooting. Although the events planned rent for three years in real terms Now in the lovely room 29.7 in Agunbiade with experiences covering criminal law, for Trinity, including the annual London for the least well-off students. The College, I would like to extend my (Law, 2018) financial crime, human rights law and trip and drinks reception at Middle product of many meetings with Peter thanks again to my committee international law. The Q&A at the end Temple, were prevented by Covid-19, (Finance Bursar) and with the SU and throughout the year. Many thanks also of this event provided an opportunity the Law Society aimed to adapt to the I’m proud of the deal that was reached to the College officers who I could see to ask questions about pupillage virtual term: virtual ‘drinks receptions’ – I hope my next successors agree! worked so hard throughout lockdown applications, bar exams and the day- were held to celebrate both the end The moment everything changed and summer to ensure we had a safe to-day responsibilities which come with of law Moderations and Finals and to for me, and my naivety was crushed, environment to return to. My best being a barrister. The event culminated maintain the supportive atmosphere was the 8th week Hilary Governing wishes to my successor Aaron Kai in a drinks reception which provided of Wadham Law. I would like to Body, huddled with the Warden and Shankar (German and Portuguese, valuable opportunity to network and congratulate first years and finalists Senior Tutor discussing the stream of 2019), who has already proved ask more personalised questions. The alike for achieving exceptional results cancellations to be announced. The himself to be more than capable. Committee would like to thank Rabah considering the daunting prospect of following weeks were intense. I kept The Wadham community has been Kherbane (2016), Nicolas Damnjanovic sitting exams. In addition to this, I would students and the College officers in through it this year but the strength of (2015) and Rachel Kapila (2001) for like to thank the rest of the committee the loop with each other, providing that community tells me we can get travelling to Oxford and sharing their members for their work during the year, regular updates to both, to try to offer through this year too. experiences with students. Alongside alongside the tutors whose guidance some stability in very unstable times. these events, the Law Society was and support have been greatly

Once again, the SU committee went able to offer Wadham students appreciated and enabled the benefits of above and beyond to try offer some opportunities to interact with Travers the College’s Law Society to be reaped.

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Lennard Bequest Peter Thonemann Forrest–Derow Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History Reading Party 2020

THE 49TH ANNUAL Wadham reading and Taiwo Oyebola came up with party turned out to be a dream of a several palmary emendations to week, in more ways than one. The final the text of Nicander’s Theriaca. days of March saw the south coast of Evening entertainment included Cornwall wilting under a glorious spring several rounds of indoor Minoan bull- heatwave, and Lamledra house (much- leaping, as well as Jade Spencer’s loved home to the reading party for memorable solo re-enactment of the many years) can seldom have hosted a young Napoleon’s storming of the week of such hallucinatory perfection. bridge at Lodi. The standard of evening The reading party was co-ordinated, cuisine was formidable throughout: as usual, by Peter Thonemann and Ray highlights included Son Olszewski’s Ockenden, ably supported by Raphael vegan Chateaubriand à la Herbert Utz. Applications for the reading party Hart, and Fran Best’s multisensory forget the immolation of Brnnhilde Above: on the terrace at Lamledra brought were invited from all current Wadham ‘Pompano Sarah Bernhardt’ on a (Mia Boddington) and her flying ‘Not in shot’ the week to an agreeable conclusion. – Reading undergraduate students. (Much of bed of truffled aspic. horse (Naomi Miall) atop a blazing Party Could such a week really have the cost of the reading party is met The final night saw a full- pyre on the Dodman headland as participants happened? Or was it all a blissful through the generous bequest of a dress outdoor performance of dawn rose over the ocean. Special at Lamledra day-dream, the product of the senior former Wadham history tutor, Reggie Wagner’s Gtterdämmerung by praise should be reserved for the members’ over-vivid imagination, as Lennard, and subsequent contributions torchlight, co-directed by Pelin Lamledran Festspielorchester, Dan they pottered about disconsolately

by reading party alumni.) The 13 Morgan and Laura Henderson-Child. Gunn (the spoons) and Seb Elmes at home in the early days of the successful applicants included An impressively athletic Raphael Utz (everything else), who used their Covid-19 lockdown? Either way, the students from several different year- put a new spin on Siegfried’s Rhine limited resources to breath-taking, 2021 quinquagenary reading party groups and subject-areas, ranging journey by doggy-paddling from if occasionally idiosyncratic effect. (to be advertised in January 2021) from Engineering to English. Vault Beach to Hemmick. Few of Breakfast of champagne and oysters has a great deal to live up to. Seven hours each day were those privileged to witness it will ever reserved for quiet reading and finals revision. Freddie Wolff won a bottle of Château d’Yquem 1983 from Ray Ockenden by successfully memorising the whole of À l’ombre des jeunes filles Could such a week really en fleurs, while Josh Williamson put ''have happened? Or was it the finishing touches to his translation all a blissful day-dream? of Piketty’s Capital and Ideology into the medium of interpretative dance. Hazem Hassan offered an ingenious new proof of the Hodge conjecture,

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Aidan Gallagher Mathematics & Philosophy, 2018 (1610, of course, being the founding 2019–20 Men's captain date of our college!), raising money Jovana Pepic Chemistry, 2018 for the National Lawyers Guild. After Rowing 2019–20 Women's co-captain an amazing combined effort, we managed to smash both the distance and the donation targets – a huge well done to all involved! A special mention IT’S BEEN somewhat of a strange must go to Adam Roberts and his year at WCBC. When the river initially herculean effort in cycling indoors for closed in the first week of Michaelmas, 24hrs, completing five athletes’ work we braced ourselves for what we then alone from his living room! thought would be a ‘rough few weeks’. There are many reflections to be Two storms, one pandemic, and 11 made on the last year, however the race cancellations later, worry about main thing that has stuck with us has an amber-flagged river seems a world achievements of the novices, who on been the enormous importance of away – oh for our biggest issue to be a both sides made it to a closely-fought community. We’re lucky at WCBC lack of X-status coxes! final in ChCh ‘Ergatta’, to be beaten to have such a great cross-boat In the senior squad, the year began only narrowly by the home team and cross-squad dynamic, without somewhat as planned – we had a (both times)! which none of this would have been fantastic returning squad, a great Photo credit: Under these challenging After the two terms of river possible. But beyond that, the active external racing yearcard, and there was Steph Hall circumstances, many other college closures, we thought we might be due squad sits within a larger network lots of motivation to make the most of boatclubs found themselves a break come Trinity; unfortunately of alumni and coaches who provide Michaelmas training. Likewise with the floundering, and indeed some simply the fates had other plans, and amazing support throughout the novices we couldn’t have asked for a gave up the ghost altogether. At going into the Easter vac we found year, enabling us to do everything better start, with high numbers recuited Wadham however, things couldn’t ourselves in lockdown, without any that we do with such great success. and lots of potential already very visible have been any more different. Under prospect of summer rowing and now The captains would like to extend among them. All in all, spirits were high, Rod’s watchful guidance, the whole spread out across the UK and the their thanks to the whole society for and the sense of anticipation of the boatclub stepped up to the mark world. Nevertheless we persevered, Annual everything they’ve made and continue year to come was palpable. and embarked on one of the most downloaded Zoom, and embarked Torpids to make possible, and we hope to be dinner, And then the river closed... and ambitious training efforts the Isis on biweekly circuits, at first following February able to see them at a WCBCS dinner then stayed closed. We were forced has ever seen: we erged, we tanked, the British Rowing rubric, however 2020 some time soon! to watch from the confines of the we ran, we cycled, we travelled to later alternating between College erg dungeon as our externals Dorney lake, to Swindon, and we different athletes’ plans got crossed out one by one, and the did some of the most horrendous in different weeks – with prospect of getting out on the water circuits the captains could come interesting and varied remained ever more elusive. Indeed it up with in a delirium late the night results! The highlight of the says enough that come Remenham before. The fruits of our hard work term was of course the epic Challenge, the one race we did manage following a training plan described as 1610 fundraiser, primarily to make it to this year, we still hadn’t ‘especially robust’ by Rod (no small organised and promoted by been able to get out on the water in compliment, those who know him will Jovana, where alumni and the crew we were racing – a 5km windy understand) were immediately evident current students united to slog from Chiswick Pier to Vesta laid any time we did get out on the water, attempt a combined total very bare our lack of preparation. and especially so in the amazing of 1610km between us

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Joseph Grosvenor Law, 2018 against a Division 1 St Peter’s College and Trinity player, Billy Richards, which Rugby 2020–21 Rugby captain team. Prior to the match, the boys were very cleverly summarises online nervous after Isaac Thurgood, who had articles into key points for time-saving, done his research on our upcoming easier reading. opponents, warned us that St Peter’s Then came Covid... Sadly, our season DESPITE BEING cut short, the 2019/20 The on-field success of Michaelmas had a reincarnated Jonah Lomu on was cut short meaning we never got The team season was a successful one for term only boosted the team spirit off the wing. Luckily, come match day, to play our Cuppers semi-final match ''did not Wadham and Trinity RFC as the club the pitch, as new club social secretary, neither of the St Peter’s wingers were against Christ Church (a repeat of disappoint progressed from a motley crew of failed, Ollie Fox, put together a fun-filled any match for the formidable Wadtrin the 2019 Cuppers bowl final in which when the overweight footballers to a genuinely social calendar. Michaelmas also wing pairing of Abdullah Reza and Wadtrin convincingly defeated public highly competitive outfit. This was largely down saw several individual successes for Osian Williams. In the end, Wadham enemy number 1). Furthermore, our club anticipated to an influx of undergraduate freshers members of the team. Club President, and Trinity proved too strong for the tour to Madrid in March, organised by season- whose insatiable appetite for ‘big hits’ Alex Pentecost, was named Oxford favoured St Peter’s team, winning Louis Wright, could not go ahead. Finally, opener was matched only by their penchant for University Rugby League Blues Captain, the match in convincing fashion; the the annual ‘Old Boys’ rugby fixture had against overpriced curry and lukewarm John leading his band of Union rejects to their destructive runs of Euan Walkley and to be cancelled which everyone was LMH rolled Smith’s beer. Moreover, some imported ninth successive Varsity match win over the backline partnership of Warwick particularly upset about as this always around post-graduate talent further bolstered the Tabs. The team also supported Chipman and Finn Peacock were proves a fantastic occasion. the side with Mike Kramer, Jack Oakley Club Captain, Louis Wright, in the instrumental in the win. Overall, however, the club had a great and Doug Swan, providing some exotic annual Rugby Union ‘Varsity Match’ at Due to a typical English winter many season and we have been keeping team flare from South Africa, Australia, and Twickenham with many of the team of our Hilary term Division 2 games spirit alive with online ‘virtual pub’ socials Manchester respectively. watching from a bar in Val Thorens were postponed or cancelled as a and touch rugby sessions in keeping With one training session under our while on the Annual Varsity Ski Trip. result of pitches being waterlogged. with the RFU guidelines. Of course, we

belts (quite possibly the first in the club’s Hilary Term saw the return of Cuppers. However, we did get to spend some are all very excited for things to return to history), the team did not disappoint After a defeat at the hands of New time working with local charity, Keen, normal but in the meantime, we always when the highly anticipated season- College, Wadham and Trinity were placed with members of the team volunteering love to hear from club alumni and share opener against LMH rolled around. The into the plate competition – a fate that to help coach disabled children rugby stories of tackles and tries which only match was won in emphatic fashion, Photo of the the team was not all too disappointed at weekends and selling charity t-shirts we remember so please do get in team after scoring three tries in the opening 15 our victory in about. Wadham and Trinity mounted to help raise money. We also helped contact with our current Wadham Club minutes before the game was cut short the Cuppers a very successful campaign in the promote the browser extension, Genei, Captain, Joseph Grosvenor when Louis Egerton-Legum hospitalised Plate Quarter plate defeating Lincoln College and a brilliant start-up founded by Wadham ([email protected]). Final against an unfortunate LMH player with one St Peter’s Jesus College on our way to the last of his trademark crunching tackles. College eight. The quarter-finals saw us pitted Throughout the rest of Michaelmas term the team proved dominant with quite possibly one of the greatest Theodore Harris History & Economics, 2018 | 1st team captain 2019–20 winning streaks that Oxford colleges’ Ralph Covill History & Economics, 2018 | Freebooters captain 2019–20 Division 3 has ever seen; Queen’s and Cricket St Hilda’s among the casualties of Wadtrin charge. Only a defeat against THE MEMBERS of the Cricket Club were very disappointed to miss out on an entire season of a questionably impressive Oxford the beautiful game due to the pandemic. However, after a successful Freshers’ Fair, interest is Brookes’ 4th XV denied us the Division strong for the coming year and we hope to organise some training as soon as it is possible. In 3 title though promotion to Division 2 other exciting news, the Club is immensely grateful to Stephen Stow (1973) for his generous had nonetheless been secured. donation, which will allow us to provide training and match equipment for many years to come.

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Some of the Emeriti arranged, with the help of the College Chaplain Jane Baun, for a bouquet of flowers, a single red rose and a wreath to be VE DAY 8 MAY 1945 photographed on the altar of the Chapel where Jane said appropriate prayers, before being left outside the door of the Chapel which then had to COMMEMORATIONS be re-closed.

The dedication placed with the bouquet read: Some of our Emeritus Fellows share their family stories. VE DAY 8 MAY 1945

WITH GRATITUDE FOR OUR FREEDOM and IN MEMORY OF ALL THE FALLEN OF WORLD WAR 2 On behalf of Wadham College Oxford 8 May 2020 He escaped The single red rose was laid at the request of Jeremy Montagu who said, '' to England ‘I was only a schoolboy at the time but as a Jew I’d not be here had it not been shortly before for VE Day and all who gave their lives to achieve it.’ France was invaded by

The dedication beneath the wreath read: Germany

VE DAY 8 MAY 1945

Remembering Lieutenant de Vaisseau Michel Sauvage n 1995 on the 50th anniversary of VE Day a service was held in the Legion d’Honneur, Croix de Guerre Chapel at Wadham to mark the occasion. The service, which took the Lost at sea December 1943 form of several lessons and hymns as well as prayers, was very moving. The Lancaster, and all Foreign Nationals serving with Allied Forces

IThe lessons were read by Wadham students in their native tongues including ''Spitfire and ‘For valour and a battle well fought’ German, Polish, Hebrew, French and English among other languages. The Hurricane of address was given by Lord (Claus) Moser, our former Warden, who told the Battle of Unexpectedly these tributes brought out memories from several Emeritus those present what it was like to be a Jewish teenager in Nazi Germany in Britain Fellows of their own fathers’ roles in the war, some of which follow here. the 1930s. Claus came to England in 1936, was interned as an ‘enemy alien’ Memorial

on the Isle of Man in 1940 and after release served as an intelligence officer Flight flew Captain Michel Sauvage RN, our former Domestic Bursar known to in the RAF from 1943–6. After the service my wife and I went home and had over the everyone as Mike, wrote: “My Father – also Michel Pierre – was born in 1913 tea in the garden when the Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane of the Battle of treetops and raised in Rouen. In the 1930s he joined the French Navy and, along with a Britain Memorial Flight flew over the treetops. number of his colleagues, he escaped to England shortly before France was Sadly in 2020, the 75th anniversary of VE Day, we could not repeat the invaded by Germany in 1940. He was appointed to a Royal Navy ship based in same form of service because the College was in lockdown as a result of the Plymouth and during this time he met my mother and they married in March Government restrictions resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. Regrettably, 1941. In 1942, as the Free French were being organised under de Gaulle, he also there is no record of the Order of Service in the College archives (so if took command of a French-built chasseur (about the size of a corvette) with by chance anyone present in 1995 has kept a record please let the archivist Photo credit: a mainly French crew and based in Cowes: he moved there with my mother.

have a copy). Jane Baun On 21 December 1943 the ship – named Carentan – was escorting a British

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submarine, HMS Rorqual, when it capsized in very bad weather off Portland minute. Those who were on the ground with the resistance in occupied Bill. Although a Polish destroyer was on the scene fairly quickly all but five of Europe were well aware of what was happening to the Jewish people, but the crew, including my father, were lost as the ship sank shortly afterwards. hugely frustrated at their inability to do anything about it. It was not thought that enemy action was involved and it was known that he “In the summer of 1939 my father left Oxford with a first in Greats and was not entirely happy with the seaworthiness of the ship. headed for Greece to perfect his command of modern Greek. With the After I joined the RN I checked the records at the Naval Historical branch; outbreak of war he hurried back to join the Royal Artillery and then worked the signal traffic was available and it was clear that the loss was indeed due to in military intelligence. He served with the allied troops during the retreats the storm that night. I was born in August 1944. My father was posthumously in 1941 from mainland Greece and from Crete. He subsequently joined the awarded the Legion d’Honneur and the Croix de Guerre, both of which were Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was appointed second in command presented to me by the French Ambassador in London in 1948. My mother of a 12-man team which in September 1942 was parachuted at night without sadly never remarried and it is ironic to think that, had my father survived the any briefing into the enemy-occupied mountains of northern Greece to cut war, we would presumably have returned to France and I would have grown the railway supply line between Thessaloniki and Athens. My father walked up entirely French. I had dual nationality until I joined the RN.” 300 miles alone in British Army uniform over the mountains for a month My father Jeremy Montagu wrote: “My father Ewen was the leader of the operation to make contact with the rival guerilla forces, the communists and non- ''Ewen was the known as Mincemeat. He wrote his own book, The Man Who Never Was, in communists. He got them to agree to support the SOE operation with the leader of the 1951 because the story had been leaked by an investigative journalist and argument that if they did not take part the other would get the credit. The operation the Admiralty gave him permission to write as much as was then permitted. ten minute interview above includes film of the successful demolition of the known as The book is still available in print – Amazon list it (along with a DVD of the Gorgopotamus railway viaduct but 16 innocent villagers were shot in reprisal. Mincemeat original semi-fictional film of 1953, with Clifton Webb playing my father). “My father stayed on in Greece and in 1943 he was appointed Commander VE Day must There were translations world-wide including a paperback in Ivrit. The book of the Allied Military Mission to Greece and promoted to Colonel, still in his ''have brought tells the story of how Ewen with a colleague from the RAF planned to dress mid-twenties. Operation Mincemeat, to which Jeremy’s father contributed mixed a corpse in a major’s uniform with an attached briefcase containing secret so spectacularly, was part of a wider deception plan, Operation Barclay, to emotions letters and float the body from a submarine off the Spanish coast. Knowing create the impression that Greece would be the target of the invasion in the tides would carry it ashore and that the contents of the briefcase would 1943, not Sicily. The Greek resistance activities in 1943 (Operation Animals)

reach the Germans, the papers would lead them to believe that the Allies were part of Barclay.

would land in Greece rather than Sicily.” “In the summer of 1944, with the Germans still in control of much of the

More recently, with much fuller documentation now that archives have been country, my father flew back to London to brief the Government and met my

opened, Ben Macintyre has written a book entitled Operation Mincemeat, mother for the first time. They married in 1945. My mother’s first husband had available as a paperback. Both books are available on Kindle. The film of Ben’s been killed on the retreat to Dunkirk, leaving her widowed with three small book includes interviews with Jeremy and two of the original members of the children, my Irish half-siblings. She had also lost two brothers, one in pilot team. Both films were recently shown on the BBC and Operation Mincemeat training with the RAF and the other at El Alamein so VE Day must have brought was re-shown (one hour) on BBC4 on 11 May 2020. Ewen Montagu’s other mixed emotions for her and also for my father who had seen the wartime book, which details others of his clandestine operations against the Nazis, rivalries between resistance groups sow the seeds of a bloody civil war.”

Beyond Top-Secret U, is also available again as an e-book though out of print Christopher Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, DSO OBE

on paper. (1917–2001), scholar, soldier, diplomat and politician: Conservative Member Captain The Hon Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu, CBE, QC, DL, RNVR of Parliament for Oxford 1959–66 and 1970–74 and served in Government (1901–85) was a British judge, writer and Naval intelligence officer (he was in 1961–64. He succeeded to the family title in 1988 on the death of his accepted as the Naval liaison between Bletchley Park and the Double Cross elder brother. {XX} committee). He was appointed Judge-Advocate of the Fleet and revised Michael Tunbridge wrote to say that his father, Ronald Ernest Tunbridge,

the code of Naval Law. He was also President of the United Synagogue of luckily survived the war but it was difficult to get him to talk about it.“I

Great Britain and Chairman of the Anglo-Jewish Association. had to drag some of the information out of him after he retired in 1971.

Nick Woodhouse wrote to say that we might be interested in an interview Father had graduated in Leeds with first class honours in physiology and

with his late father at https://youtu.be/iJk4tcwudVw, particularly the final medicine. In 1939 he was Reader in medicine and honorary consultant to

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the West Riding of Yorkshire. When I was born in June 1940 my father was a 1971. He was a strong supporter of the NHS from its beginnings, becoming specialist physician with the rank of Major in the RAMC. He served in Malta vice-chair of the Central Health Services Council and chair of many other

from 1941–44, becoming a Lt Colonel and awarded the OBE in January professional health societies, including President of the BMA.

1944. From 1944 to 1945 he was in Normandy and Belgium, then Germany, Michael Ayers wrote: Talking of fathers I strongly recommend a recent

being twice mentioned in despatches, before becoming a Brigadier and book by Jonathan Rée, A Schoolmaster’s War with things his father, Harry

consulting physician in the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) soon after VE Rée, wrote about the time he spent in France helping the French Resistance, day until 1946. losing many French friends and close accomplices. He worked in Franche- Father was always embarrassed at Christmas time to receive a card from Comte, where a memorial to him has recently been set up. A wonderfully a particular person thanking him for saving his life. Why so, Dad? He told me humane, hugely moving and un-gung-ho account. He later became a that the man had been his batman in Malta, which was more heavily bombed progressive Professor of Education, making news when he resigned his chair than London in the Blitz and they became almost immune to the air raid and went back to school-teaching. warnings. On one occasion he had been working in his office when the air (My own father was in the army throughout the First World War and was too raid warning went. Father did not leave so his batman did not do so either. It old to serve in WW2). was only when the bombs fell on the trench to which they should have gone Michael Tunbridge concludes: Mention of the First World War prompts The that they realised what had happened. The batman attributed his luck to my me to link VE Day 1945 with the centenary of Remembrance Day on Sunday ''ceremony at father’s cool calm manner but in truth Dad said ‘I had not heard the sirens.’ 11 November 2018. The ceremony at the Cenotaph was attended by the the Cenotaph Whilst in Malta Father and his colleagues dealt with a polio epidemic – President of Germany, whose presence was accepted by everyone as an was attended there were no vaccines then and few if any negative-pressure ventilators (iron acknowledgement of the huge losses by all sides in both world wars. In by the lungs) on the island so mortality and morbidity among the troops were high. the week following that event the BBC broadcast on Radio 4 each day a President Father was also physician to the Governor, Lord Gort VC, for whom he had a fifteen-minute talk by various speakers about Remembrance Day. On Friday of Germany, lot of respect. He felt that Gort had been shabbily treated by our Government 16 November the talk was given by Prof Jrn Leonhard about the German whose in 1940 after the retreat to Dunkirk, which he had rightly ordered whilst perspective on Remembrance Day. The talk was not only interesting and presence was

Churchill had wanted the BEF to stay alongside the collapsing French army. spoken in flawless English but also moving. The talk can be recalled by simply accepted by

Whilst in Normandy in 1944 Father had been summoned to Montgomery’s typing ‘BBC Radio 4 Jörn Leonhard’ and is well worth listening to. everyone as an caravan where he was asked to assess the state of health of Monty’s Chief of Jrn held the Pat Thompson Fellowship at Wadham from 1998–2003 and acknowledge- Staff and then report back to Monty. Next day the CoS was back in England. became the very distinguished Director of the School of History, Freiburg ment of the Father could never talk about visiting Bergen-Belsen in mid-April 1945 a Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and currently holds the chair of huge losses by day or two after it was liberated. Modern History in the University of Freiburg. Joern was elected a member all sides in both I asked him if he had been involved in the Nuremberg trials and he replied of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences in 2015 and was recently elected an world wars ‘not directly’. He told me that he and his three opposite numbers from the Honorary Fellow of Wadham. Father could four Allied powers had been asked to assess whether or not Krupp senior Jrn has kindly agreed to write an article for this edition of the Gazette ''never talk (the manufacturer who had employed POWs and slave labourers in the about the German perspective on VE Day which follows. about visiting armaments factories) was fit to stand trial. Each had to make their own Bergen- assessments. Whilst waiting in the Baronial hall Father saw that beneath the Belsen antlers mounted round the walls each had a plaque with the date when the Collated by W Michael G Tunbridge Emeritus Fellow stag had been shot and that none had been killed since 1942. Father asked to speak to the butler who turned out to be a Yorkshireman who had loyally served Krupp for 25 years and he explained that the Baron had developed the shakes and begun to lose his marbles. All the doctors accepted that he had developed Parkinson’s disease with early dementia so Krupp never stood trial.” Prof Sir Ronald Tunbridge Kt, OBE, MD, FRCP, DSc(hc), JP (1906–1984) became the first full-time Professor of Medicine in Leeds in 1946 until

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in Western Europe, in contrast, had not meant the unconditional surrender FROM WAR TO POSTWAR: and occupation of Germany, as some American officers and politicians had initially called for. In 1918, the British, French and Americans had accepted the orderly withdrawal of the German army, thus inadvertently providing fertile soil THE MANY VOICES OF for the ‘stab in the back’ myth: many Germans’ notion that a ‘red home front’ had at the last moment deprived them of a victory that had been within reach. In November 1918 the Allies had feared the costs of a continuation of the war 8 MAY 1945 and an occupation of Germany. In addition, there had been a growing fear of a Bolshevik infection of the allies’ own troops and of its possible repercussions The end of the war from a German perspective. on societies in Great Britain and France. The American president Woodrow Wilson had even worried that the occupation of Germany would symbolically humiliate the enemy and provoke revolutionary violence. Although the Versailles Peace Treaty of June 1919 had abandoned the

veryone perceived this day differently. Everyone had to perceive idea of equality of all actors in favour of a moralisation of politics and had put

it differently, depending on their personal experiences since 1933 guilt for the outbreak of war on Germany alone, in contrast to May 1945 the and since the beginning of the war in 1939. This resulted in the Did 8 May Versailles Treaty so hated in Germany did not mean unconditional surrender

Emany voices of 8 May 1945. Victor Klemperer, converted son of a Jewish ''1945 really nor the end of the German nation state created in 1871. Germany perceived rabbi, forcibly committed to Dresden’s ‘Judenhaus’ since 1940, after the mark the end herself as morally stigmatised, yet it did not completely lose its claim to

bombing of Dresden had managed to flee with his wife to Bavaria, where of the war European power either politically or economically. Unlike in May 1945, the

he saw the end of the war: ‘Now that the mortal danger is over, we are very everywhere? country still possessed the resources for a revanchist foreign policy after the

fed up with the small, but accumulated sufferings of our condition and find First World War.

no more compensation in its romanticism. But still, the feeling of gratitude All of this turned out completely different in May 1945: at that moment there

is always there, and many hours of the day again enjoyable. Bucolic hours, was no German state any longer, and hence no more national sovereignty in the so to speak.’ Thomas Mann experienced the end of the war in Europe in traditional sense. The history of the nation state of 1871 and its excrescence

exile in California and marked the “German capitulation” in his diary on 7 in the Third Reich was over. In its place came the seizure of power by the Allied May 1945. He wondered how far this day corresponded to his forced exile occupying powers and the complete division of the country into zones. In this

in 1933 and reflected on his ‘not exactly high spirits’. Mann was convinced total end of the Second World War, the character of total war since 1939 and

that Germany was no longer a political subject: ‘By the way, this and that especially since 1941 was preserved: the experiences of past violence in

will happen to Germany, but nothing in Germany.’ At the moment of the final the name of ideological and racial convictions, the blurring of the boundaries For many

defeat, skepticism about the Germans’ lack of self-criticism dominated: ‘The between soldiers and civilians, between military and home fronts against the ''immediate disavowal and renouncement of national socialism’s acts inside and out, the background of air war, and the extreme increase in violence, especially in the contemporaries commitment to want to return to truth, to right, to humanity – where are they?’ last weeks and months of the war. of May How did this end of the war differ from other transitions between war and Only from a distance, and above all in historical retrospect, a different 1945, the postwar? And did 8 May 1945 really mark the end of the war everywhere? perspective would emerge: the relativisation of the ‘zero hour’ (Stunde Null) change was A war’s end always reflects the specific character of the preceding war on the basis of the knowledge of long-term effects that contemporaries of 8 fundamental itself. In that way the transition from war to postwar in May 1945 reflects May 1945 could not yet know about: in view of the restoration and continuity and profound the totality of the Second World War. On all levels, the Allies systematically of elites and careers, of state structures, e.g. in schools, universities, in implemented what they had agreed on in 1943. In this, the lessons from a the judiciary and administration, in business. And yet for many immediate very different war’s end, in autumn 1918, played an important role. Unlike 11 contemporaries of May 1945, the change was fundamental and profound, November 1918, 8 May 1945 did not see an armistice as a transition to the not comparable to anything their own experience or even history held in preparation of a peace conference and treaty, but instead an unconditional store. German society, which until the end of the war had been differentiated surrender, involving disarmament, the imprisonment of the German military and divided into hierarchies down to the most minute detail through and the occupation of the entire country. The end of the First World War countless uniforms, titles, and accolades, suddenly appeared equal in the

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face of destruction and the shared struggle for survival. Within the space of Like all historical dates, 8 May 1945 becomes ever more multifaceted and a few days and hours the regime’s all-powerful actors of violence seemed to contradictory the closer we get to the concrete experience of the past. If have become mere objects of the Allies. But this impression was deceptive. we take the European and global perspectives of this world war seriously, 8 May 1945 Even in May 1945, it made a big difference whether you experienced the end its spatial and temporal expansion makes clear that in retrospect, this date ''becomes ever of the war as a former prisoner, slave labourer or concentration camp inmate, marks less a radical change in a single moment, but rather a threshold within more as a refugee or displaced person, whether you lived in a bombed-out city or the timespan between 1943 and 1949, a phase of tremendous increase in multifaceted in the countryside. violence, chaos, confusion and of many transitions into a postwar which in and But 8 May 1945 also reminds us of another characteristic of modern many places did not mean an end to violence. contradictory wars: it is much easier to mark the beginning of these wars – August 1914, the closer we September 1939, December 1941 – than their ends. That was already the get to the case for the First World War. 11 November 1918 ended the war between Jrn Leonhard is Professor in Modern History at the University of Freiburg concrete states in Western Europe, but the armistice did not interrupt the continuum of and a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Between 1998 and experience of violence in many other places: in East, East-Central and South-East Europe, 2003 he taught as Pat Thompson Fellow in Modern History at Wadham and the past in the shatter zones of the Russian, Habsburg, and Ottoman Empires, where was elected an Honorary Fellow in 2019. the war of states had led to the collapse of states, where the world war had turned into civil wars and ethnic conflicts, the front into a space of violence in which anyone – soldier or civilian – could be the enemy. This non-simultaneity of the end of the war applies even more to the It is much Second World War: for Italy it began with the Allied landing in Sicily in 1943 ''easier to and lasted until 25 April 1945, which is still celebrated as the day of liberation mark the today. 8 May 1945 marked the end of the war in the West with the signing beginning of of the act of military surrender in Reims, while Joseph Stalin insisted on the these wars Soviet Union signing in Berlin, which had been conquered by the Red Army – than their which is why the signing was repeated on the night of 9 May. Here the double ends end of the war already indicated the subsequent competition among the Allies between different interpretations of the war and the resulting claims to power. The end of the world war in Asia came even later: after the declaration of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito on 15 August, Japan’s unconditional surrender was not carried out until 2 September. As in the final phase of the First World War, it became apparent again that the formal end of the war in many places did not mean the end of violence per se, but only a change in the form of violent warfare: be it in the civil war-like conflicts in Italy or in the Balkans, in which the antagonism between partisans and fascists continued under different labels, or in the clashes in many areas of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, for example in Greece, between communists and nationalists, the latter having often first been protected by the German occupiers and now by the Western Allies. And in Asia the end of the war already prefigured the transition to the bloody conflicts over decolonisation, as the representatives of colonial regimes from Great Britain, France or Belgium returned and soon had to learn how much their credibility had suffered during the war, how little there could be a return to the status quo ante. A resynchronisation, a new ‘simultaneity’, was only to come with the beginning of the Cold War at the end of the 1940s.

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a Respiratory Physiologist visiting from King’s College London. Later that OXVENT: A WADHAM morning on Zoom (which none of them had heard about till then) the group met to discuss the challenges and possible solutions. Mechanical ventilators used in ICUs are complex devices. They cost RESPONSE TO THE upwards of £30,000 and are built to order with a lead time of many months. There are no UK manufacturers. Simply upscaling the manufacture of such devices was not an option. Nor could the Wadham group attempt to recreate CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC such a device in-house since, with global supply chains completely strangled, it would be impossible to source components, let alone assemble them in volume and at speed. The design of this emergency ventilator called for some lateral thinking. The device needed to be simple. With simplicity comes a smaller bill of materials, greater scalability and greater safety since there Sometimes would be fewer parts to source, to assemble and to go wrong. However, the ''the The OxVent ventilator was team were aware that clinicians would demand a certain level of functionality, enthusiasm created by a multidisciplinary so the device would need to be carefully pitched on the spectrum of and naïveté of team of engineers and medics simplicity and complexity to stand a chance of being useful. young minds By that Monday evening, two potential designs remained on the table. can shake the at the University of Oxford and Both used a core component which was known to be still widely available nihilism that King’s College London. This is (a self-inflating ‘resuscitation’ bag/valve) within the supply chain. One would comes from be driven by a mechanical system comprising a stepper-motor and rack- experience the story of their collaboration. and-pinion mechanism; the other would have no moving parts, the bag would be encased in a ‘thorax’ and driven by compressed air controlled by a proportional solenoid valve.

By the middle of that week, it looked like the thorax design was the leader,

and a prototype had been made in the IBME workshop. By this stage, word

had got out and we were inundated with offers of help from within Engineering

n Monday 16 March 2020, the UK Government launched the Science, and from the outside world. Although the core principle was quite ‘Ventilator Challenge’; a call to UK Industry to develop a rapidly manufacturable mechanical ventilator to satisfy the anticipated Ourgent surge in demand for these devices to treat critically ill Covid patients in Intensive Care units throughout the UK. The predicted number of devices required was 18,000, to be ready and deployed within one month. This alarming prediction took many by surprise, and the task seemed so daunting, that many in the business of developing medical devices, such as Wadham Fellow in Medicine, Andrew Farmery, had dismissed it as un-doable. Not daunted, however, was Rob Staruch, a DPhil student supervised by Wadham Fellow in Engineering, Mark Thompson. Sometimes the enthusiasm and naïveté of young minds can shake the nihilism that comes from experience. After his supervision meeting that morning, Mark and Rob decided to see if Oxford Engineering and Medicine could contribute something useful. Mark phoned Andrew, and fellow Wadham Engineer Left: The OxVent Alfonso Castrejón-Pita, and new Wadham Keeley Fellow Federico Formenti, Above: ventilator in the Andrew Farmery making

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simple, the ventilator needed to have a sophisticated closed-loop control the teams involved in developing new ventilator designs were stood down

system, and this required work by electronics and software colleagues. In the by the government. This also meant that despite satisfying the MHRA’s background, frantic work was going on to source the few things we needed in specifications, OxVent could not gain MHRA approval, nor, without any In striving for bulk, such as sensors, actuators, solenoids, electronic bits, and the odd widget. approvals could the acquired components for 7,000 devices be used to ''impossible Just seven days after the initial idea, they were able to demonstrate the build devices for distribution to other healthcare jurisdictions abroad. jam functioning prototype in a pitch to the Cabinet Office. After some frustrating Since then, with support of Oxford University Innovation, OxVent has tomorrow,

delay, whilst the Government was considering if Dyson or Dyno-Rod would spun out into a not-for-profit ‘social enterprise’ limited company. The was bread do a better job, they were informed that OxVent would receive support to ventilator is currently under evaluation by the FDA (regulatory authority in today

supply 7,000 devices, in a pairing with the manufacturer Smith+Nephew. the US) so that it can supply devices to Brazil and Mexico. Going forward, being thrown

A team of ten professors, post-docs, DPhils and a medical student set off OxVent aims to support low and middle income countries in current and away? Is any

to Hull to embed in the Smith+Nephew factory to work with their R&D team future Covid outbreaks, and more widely in medical/surgical practice ventilator to convert the prototype into a rapidly manufacturable device. The median beyond pandemic use. better than no At times it time from design to market for a simple medical device is five years; the ventilator? ''looked like OxVent team had two weeks to get their device to a stage where it could www.oxvent.org the goal was be independently tested by the Medical and Healthcare Regulatory Authority getting out of (MHRA). The team worked long hours, some taking turns on a camp bed reach in one of the offices, others, such as the key software team staying up all Andrew Farmery Fellow and Tutor in Medicine night on some occasions. This period was marked with elated highs and crushing lows. As soon as the team had managed to achieve compliance with MHRA requirement X, they would learn, via the rather sketchy lines of communications with them that this had now changed to require an additional or alternative functionality Y in the light of information which was by now coming in from ICUs in Northern Italy. At times it looked like the goal was getting out of reach. The MHRA and clinicians were demanding greater sophistication and functionality, yet this posed a risk (to any of the players in the challenge) of not being able to deliver a ventilator in time or in sufficient number. In striving for impossible jam tomorrow, was bread today being thrown away? Is any ventilator better than no ventilator?

One feature that was now required was that the ventilator should be able to sense when recovering patients were attempting to return to natural breathing. Such attempts should then ‘trigger’ the ventilator to deliver an assisted breath in synchrony with the natural pattern. Whilst these challenges are just part of the fun of academic medical engineering, they are very problematic in industry because one cannot chop and change a

design once it is frozen in a commercial ‘Quality Management System’ (a term that was entirely new to most of the Oxford team in Hull). Nevertheless, the control system was revised and tested in the hi-tech simulation centre in the Royal Surrey Hospital. Despite the delay caused by this design revision, the OxVent underwent independent scrutiny on behalf of the

MHRA in early April, and was shown to meet the stated specifications of function and safety. By now, it had become clear that the size and speed of the need was not, thankfully, as predicted, and so after a month of frantic activity, all of

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Semi-isolation has given time for reflection and activities, like spring BASED ON A TRUE STORY cleaning, recycling accumulated magazines and papers, inspecting food cupboards, that have been too long neglected. I was brought up at a time when fridges were extremely rare, certainly in Semi- Taking a philosophical approach. working class homes. We had a larder. This was long before litigation became ''isolation has commonplace. ‘Best before’ and ‘use by’ were unknown. If food passed the given time for

look, smell, taste tests we cooked or ate it. I have followed the same principles reflection and all my life. activities that Initially reluctant to go shopping more than necessary, I checked what I have been already had. too long It does not surprise me that food is perfectly edible months and even neglected risis, what crisis? years after the recommended dates. Even so I have been surprised at Words forever associated with PM Jim Callaghan in 1979 during the just how much ‘old’ food I discovered in my cupboards. Not all could be ‘winter of discontent’. Not that he actually used them. It was a Sun salvaged. Dream Topping (BBE 2000) never set no matter how long and hard Cnewspaper headline when Jim returned from the Caribbean to a frozen, I whisked! Dumplings made with similar vintage suet were inedible. Pretty well

strike-bound UK. everything else was consumed. Some of it might not have been at its best, As with all generalisations, there is some truth in the claim that history but I was surprised how well most items had kept. These included packets of

repeats itself. But if it does, why are we so often caught unawares? sauces (various dates 2004–10), soup (2011), risotto (2013), tins of Ambrosia Most – quite possibly all – of my best judgements have been made with rice pudding (2015), sultanas and custard powder (2016), lentils and split hindsight. I certainly didn’t get Covid-19 right. On 14 March 2020 I sent an peas (2017) and so on.

email railing against the postponement of all local football matches, typically I have yet to try the Christmas pudding (2013). Any offers before I do? attended by 100 or so, at a time when UK deaths totalled 11 and world deaths 5,000 out of a population of 6.5 billion. I assumed Covid was going to be like SARS, MERS, avian flu, swine flu, ebola – none of which had led to David Stanbury History, 1960 a global pandemic. Mind, I’m not much of a prophet. Not since that Grand National day in 1956 when Devon Loch, owned by the Queen Mother and ridden by famous jockey Some – and author, Dick Francis, jumped a non-existent fence and fell. I wouldn’t have ''perhaps all minded so much but it was well in the clear with just 50 yards to run – and – our best worst of all was carrying my life savings – 2s 6d (12.5p) at the time. memories This salutary lesson was reinforced during my first year at Wadham. I was never a regular at the bookies. Small bets. Nothing I couldn’t afford. I didn’t lose, but happened was up just 7s 6d (35p) at the end of the season. Many hours for such little reward convinced me and in the 60 years since I’ve hardly placed a bet. Some – perhaps all – our best memories never happened. ‘The past changes a little every time we tell it,’ wrote Hilary Mantel. A variation on ‘the fish that got away’. I am no philosopher, but I am philosophical. I have had to be. Long ago I reached that stage in life when I realised I was invisible to

beautiful women. I was five at the time! Life can be hard. I am not ‘highly vulnerable’. I haven’t had the NHS letter. But at 78 I am in the wrong age group, the one which accounts for 75% of UK Covid deaths. At first I was blasé. Until a medical expert said ‘high blood pressure is a major risk factor’.

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denounce something as ‘bosh’. A deeply reserved man, Keeley had to THOMAS CLEWS warm to you before he was likely to open up, and conversations were likely to proceed in short bursts, rather than in a continuous flow of words. But he clearly liked to talk about the past, and as a science historian, I KEELEY (1894–1988): always enjoyed listening to his stories of long ago. Like a good historian, I committed them to paper afterwards. I once asked what was his first Keeley’s significant memory? After a few minutes, he said that it was being held ''memory and SOME REMINISCENCES up by his mother to see the firework display commemorating Queen mastery of

Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, bursting over Birmingham in 1897 when he scientific was three. detail always In last year’s Gazette, Dr Geoffrey Brooker published Keeley had spent WWI as a ‘boffin’ working with the proto-RAF, fascinated me an article on Thomas Clews Keeley of Wadham in developing navigation systems for British aircraft, where, I was told, whose name the Keeley Visiting Fellowship is endowed. he developed an improved altimeter for aircraft. I once asked when he had first flown in a civilian capacity, unconnected with the RAF. After Here Allan Chapman FRAS (DPhil History of Science, a few moments’ thought he said, ‘in 1919 I flew from Croydon airfield to 1972) supplies some further reminiscences of Keeley. hear a performance of the St Matthew Passion in Germany. We flew in a converted bomber, with wicker seats for lightness. The ex-RAF pilot wore a frock coat and riding boots.’ His next continental travel was when he and a Cambridge friend had sailed across to France, bought a second- arly in January 1989, when I returned to Wadham after Christmas, hand Panhard car in Calais, and drove down to Italy. With war damage still the porter, John Hopkins, said to me, ‘I am afraid that Mr Keeley died everywhere, the roads were terrible.

suddenly on Christmas Day.’ I realised that an era had ended, because Keeley, an On one occasion, seated next to Keeley at dinner, I mentioned that I had

Keeley, an Emeritus Physics Fellow, was a Wadham institution. He had come '' recently been to Blenheim Palace with some visiting students. After the E Emeritus

to Wadham in 1924, after Cambridge and WWI, and lived, so I understand, in Physics usual silence before responding, Keeley gently growled, ‘I have not been

the same set of rooms on Staircase 2 for 64 years, where he eventually died. Fellow, was to Blenheim since the War.’ It transpired that when Churchill came to stay Keeley’s death was, as far as I could find out, as close to felicitous as such a Wadham for a weekend with the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Lindemann (Churchill’s

an end could be. I was told that relatives had come down from Birmingham institution scientific advisor and Keeley’s boss in the Clarendon Lab) would sometimes

to see Keeley and have Christmas lunch with him in his rooms. Then later take Keeley with him to discuss scientific matters and dine. in the afternoon, his devoted staircase scout, Willy Coates, telephoned to In 1986, when Halley’s comet made its first return since 1910, I discussed see if Keeley was all right, but got no reply. He alerted the lodge, and when it with him, and even took in a small telescope to (hopefully) view the the porter went over to investigate, he found Keeley dead in his armchair, comet from the Fellows’ Garden. Of course, most people who claimed that with a book on his lap, while his boiled electric kettle had switched itself off. they had first seen the comet in 1910 would only have been small children Keeley, it seems, had been preparing his tea, sat down to wait for the kettle at the time, but Keeley was a 16-year-old schoolboy preparing to read ■ to boil – then suddenly died. It reminded me of the story of the passing Physics at Cambridge. I recall that Keeley said that those elderly people of Wadham’s illustrious scientist and architect Sir Christopher Wren, who in 1986 ‘recollected’ vivid sightings of Comet Halley were mistaken, who in 1723, at the age of 91, after returning to his London home from for in 1910 (as in 1986) the comet had been a dull object as seen from Evensong in his newly completed St Paul’s Cathedral, was found dead in English latitudes. What these people were recollecting, Keeley said, was his armchair when his servant brought him a drink. My own last contact not Halley, but the brilliant, one-off ‘Daylight Comet’ of that year. Keeley’s

with the deceased Keeley had taken place not long before Christmas memory and mastery of scientific detail always fascinated me. 1988, when I was invited to join him and his old Wadham medical friend, Dr Dr Harold Harley told me how, when still an undergraduate at the end of

Harold Harley, for lunch in his rooms. Trinity term, probably 1925, Keeley had invited him to drive them down to Keeley (as everyone called him) was not a loquacious man, and legend a country house weekend in Devon, on Keeley’s motorbike and sidecar. has it that the only time he spoke in a Governing Body meeting was to Harley had never previously driven a motorbike but learned en route.

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Harley remembered the glorious summer weather as they rode west, back screen directly behind him . Whether the surplice was ever subsequently in those golden days of Jeeves, Wooster, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Miss washed on the English side of the Atlantic I never discovered. The last Harriet Vane. I first met Dr Harley in a true deluge of a winter’s afternoon in surplice-wearing Wadham don that I can remember was the late Professor In the the still half-built John Radcliffe Hospital around 1978, where I had been John Potter, the eminent neurosurgeon, who sat in the same stall for Edwardian '' invited to give a talk to the Oxford Medical Society, at which the always Sunday Evensong after Keeley’s passing. period nobody impeccably dressed Harley had been sitting on the front row. Afterwards, I have always felt privileged in having got to to know Keeley. For he, and seriously he offered me a lift back to College, and it began a friendship which would other long-lived men and women like him, form the very stuff of history, interested in survive to Harley’s own death at the age of 97 in 2002, during which I would to become what the 17th-century Oxford antiquary John Aubrey styled physics came learn at first-hand about the massive medical improvements that had ‘living histories’. to Oxford taken place between the 1920s and 1990s. Keeley, I came to understand from the Harleys, would sometimes spend Allan Chapman DPhil History of Science, 1972 a long vacation in the United States. Harold Harley’s wife Nancy first told me that a young American lady seemed to have taken a shine to Keeley, and would sometimes come over to see him in England. Whether her interest in Keeley was scientific or romantic was not clear; however, Keeley remained a lifelong bachelor. Nancy Harley did say, though, that this lady was the only person ever known to have addressed Thomas Clews Keeley SOME WADHAMIANA by his Christian name, which she pronounced ‘Taam’.

I understand that in the days of Sir Maurice Bowra Keeley kept an

‘illegal’ pet dog, known officially as the College cat, in his rooms. Keeley IN NSW? used to take it to the cinema with him, paying for the dog’s seat, which would then be covered with several layers of newspaper, so that they A successful flowering, August 2020.

could watch the film together. After Keeley and the dog had been to see

The Cruel Sea, a College wag asked if the dog had enjoyed the film? ‘Yes,’

replied Keeley, ‘but not as much as he enjoyed the book.’ The dog was lthough it is mid-winter here, we have managed to flower successfully

also used to herd the Clarendon Laboratory undergraduates into line for for the first time in the open-air roof-garden above our flat in Elizabeth

Keeley’sannualFreshers’photograph,forhewasaseriousphotographer. Bay (Sydney): PAMIANTHE PERUVIANA (aka the Peruvian daffodil)

I once asked Indeed, after 1924, Keeley spent his entire professional life in running A ''him why he the Clarendon, as Lord Lindemann’s right-hand man. As the Lab had The Wadham connection? It chose to do constituted so much of his life, I once asked him why he chose to do his was named by one of my pre- his under- undergraduate studies at Cambridge rather than Oxford. He said that in decessors as Keeper of the graduate the Edwardian period nobody seriously interested in physics came to Herbarium at Kew, Otto Stapf, studies at Oxford. The ‘cutting-edge’ places to go to were Cambridge, Manchester, in 1933, after Major Albert Pam, Cambridge Germany, or America. who was a friend of Keeley (who Keeley was the penultimate Wadham don to wear not a gown but a told me that Pam had given Fellow’s ecclesiastical surplice to Chapel. Apparently, this garment had various plants to the Wadham become so enriched with coal dust, candle grease, and grime, that on one gardens). occasion ‘Taam’’s lady friend stowed it in her luggage, and took it home to As its name suggests it is from South America (where it is an epiphyte in the USA, where she had it thoroughly laundered and ironed, after which trees) and Pam received his bulbs from Peru in 1928. His bookplate figured the she posted it back to him across the Atlantic to Wadham. plant. I had always understood that Pam (OBE, senior partner at Schroders) During the 16 years that I knew Keeley, 1972–87, he regularly attended was at Wadham – but was this so? Wadham Chapel on Sunday evenings, invariably in his surplice, sitting in the Sub-Warden’s stall on the left-hand side, with the carved wooden David Mabberley Emeritus Fellow

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1854 THOSE WERE THE DAYS (3) That the House of Lords should be abolished. 4/10. Proposed amendment: That the fundamental evil of England is its vast system of The present hereditary and territorial aristocracy, which exerts a demoralising influence ''political state Sequel to Gazette 2017. on its government, its public feeling, its education and its religion; and by of America is maintaining a spurious sentiment, vulgarises its moral sense, impedes every a proof of the

opening for honourable energy, and keeps intelligence from its legitimate and evil effects of destined dominion. 8/10 a republican That the support granted by the country to the various forms of religion in government

recently opened the records of the College Debating Society and thought Ireland should be proportional to their respective numerical importance. 5/9 sharing some of its business might shed some light on the minds of our That while the circumstances which attended the success of the Puritans predecessors. What follows is a selection of Motions for debate from [17th century] are greatly to be deplored, their success materially advanced I1852, the earliest extant record date to 1857 (arbitrary terminus). I would the cause of liberty and constitutional government. 9/8

say it comes without comment, but as any fule kno, selection is itself an That the influence of the colleges on the University is prejudicial. 3/8 easily deducible comment. Wikipedia will help some, present company not That reform is greatly needed in the monitorial system of our public

excepted, to understand it. Serious study awaits a scholar. schools. Inquorate.

Votes are given as for/against. That the only hope of a permanent peace was the establishment of liberty

throughout Europe. 12/7 1852 That the Chinese war is not so disgraceful to England as is generally That the movement known by the name of Teetotalism is one which The conduct supposed. Carried. deserves the sympathy and support of every true patriot and philanthropist. of the '' 7/15 Russians tho’ 1855

That the high standard of education given to the lower classes at the unjustifiable That the abuse lavished by the Times upon the Government and

present day is calculated to do general harm. Lost without a division. is expedient Commanders in the war is prejudicial to the interests of the country. 3/9 That the diminution of Parliamentary influence which the Peelites have That the maintenance of the Ottoman empire is neither profitable nor

experienced is likely to be disastrous for the nation. 10/6 desirable. 6/3 That the American people whether viewed in a social intellectual or political That the reforms already made in the Oxford system though a step in the light is unworthy of a place amongst the civilised nations of the world. Lost right direction are it is to be hoped not final. Carried without a division. without a division. 1856

1853 That a peace with Russia at the present time is unnecessary and impolitic. 3/7

That the Catholic Emancipation bill was impolitic. 3/7 That the present political state of America is a proof of the evil effects of a

That the opening of the Crystal Palace on the Sunday is strongly to be republican government. 7/5

deprecated. 12/8 That the admission of the Jews to Parliament is inconsistent with the

That the Game Laws of England are at once impolitic and unjust. 7/12 Protestant character of our Constitution. Accepted as a motion for a future That whilst we consider universal suffrage the ultimate aim, we believe meeting, but not debated. the extension of the suffrage without the protection of the ballot would be That the present difference on the Slavery Question threatens a rupture

unavailing. Lost without a division. between the Northern and Southern States. 6/3 That the conduct of the Russians tho’ unjustifiable is expedient – by That the Classical system of Education is an error. Lost without a division. tending to drive back the Turks into Asia, which would be advantageous to

the better civilisation of Europe. 9/8 1857 That State-Education unconnected with religion is the chief necessity of That the present increase of crimes against life and property proves the

the time. 8/15 absurdity of the ‘ticket of leave’ system, and demands an increased severity in

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the infliction of capital punishment as its only remedy.Lost without a division. (to the tune of ‘The That the hostile measures against China taken hitherto are fully justifiable Modernist Song and ought to be prosecuted until the Chinese are willing to remove their Black Velvet Band’) The motion injurious restrictions on foreign trade. Lost without a division.

affected the That the present mixed system of Promotion (by merit and by Purchase) is ell I promised a new song this evening Terry Eagleton '' President’s the best that could be adopted by the Army. 7/3 As my repertoire grows rather thin, Emeritus Fellow rather than That Lord Palmerston does not deserve the confidence of the country . And after that brief explanation the House’s Lost without a division. WMy song it will shortly begin Constitution That the degree of Associate-in-Arts proposed to be conferred by the University of Oxford on the Middle Classes is undesirable. Won by casting Yes, my song is about to arrive, my friends vote of the President. It’s swift and perceptive and true, That the principles on which English rule in India has been based are I’ve sung you six lines now already

inconsistent with national duty and contrary to sound policy. 8/7 And I’m almost a quarter way through. That any system of education for the working classes is incomplete which

does not provide for their recreation. 5/3 I haven’t yet quite found a topic

That the policy of the British government with respect to the Slave Trade But I ought to in two minutes time…

has been sufficiently successful to warrant its continuance. Carried without ‘Tis wonderful weather we’re having… a division. Won’t you help me out there in a rhyme?

PS Having seen Robert Young’s piece on Robert Moses (in ‘Unusual Yes please stick around till I finish my song, Wadhamites’ (see page 78), I have added the debated motions when he was I’ve only four stanzas to go.

President of the Wadham Debating Society. He did not vote on any of them. I now need a line just to round off that verse – There is some evidence that he was the first American to hold this office. I once broke my ankle you know. It is doubtful whether all of what follows reached the attention of his many biographers. They say all art’s self-referential Speaks endlessly just of its forms, 1910 Its content is merely the product

That this House advocates the payment of Members of Parliament. 11/14 Of aesthetic devices and norms.

1911 Well those art-critics certainly had me in mind But how do That this House ridicules the action of the authorities in calling out an army ‘Cos I’ve really got sod all to say, you fashion '' against two men. 11/15 But the mystery of art is such that, even so, an ending

That this House favours the evacuation of Egypt by the British. 8/14 My song it is well under way. To something At a very jovial meeting in February, there was no public business, but in the that never

course of the exchanges, Mr Harper moved that the President be forbidden Now if I could just find a conclusion began to drink beer on debate nights. Mr Rochford asked for a week’s notice but I could sit down again like a man,

Mr Roberts pointed out that the motion affected the President’s rather than But how do you fashion an ending the House’s Constitution. Mr Eckel enquired as to the President’s capacity. To something that never began. Mr Goddard put a question about the American Bar and asked whether the President had crossed it. The President said this was not necessary. This was Well hold on now, I think that I’ve cracked it

RM’s last meeting as President, so it may have been his send-off. (Inspiring old stuff is this ale): Come all ye bold laddies and lassies Jeffrey Hackney Emeritus Fellow And hark to the moral of my tale

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J. A. E. CURTIS – AN APPRECIATION

A reflection on the career of Julie Curtis (History and Modern Languages, 1974) and her longstanding relationship with Wadham and the University of Oxford.

ew Drama in Russian: Performance, Politics and Protest in Russia, As one of the first cohort of women undergraduates to be admitted to Ukraine and Belarus (2020) is the latest landmark publication by Wadham in 1974, Julie’s place in College history was always going to be Julie Curtis, after The Englishman from Lebedian’: A Life of Evgeny Julie has assured. Captaining the Women’s Eight which was Head of the River in 1976 So, it will be NZamiatin (2013, Russian translation 2020), Mikhail Bulgakov (2017), and ''helped make and 1977 added sporting prowess to academic lustre in both Russian and ''‘poka’, A Reader’s Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov’s ‘The Master and Margarita’ me the History. Julie has remained a loyal friend ever since, whether helping out on rather than (2019). New Drama in Russian ought really to be the subject of a sober book scholar I the annual Cornwall Reading Party, or through her membership of the 1610 ‘proshchai’ review, as I’m sure it will be in the months to come. Instead, though, I’d like aspire to be Society. Each year, the Ockenden Prizes – awarded for the best performance to take the opportunity of celebrating Julie’s relationship to Wadham and today in Prelims in both German and Russian – remind us of Julie and Ray’s ongoing marking my very personal debt to her. It’s an auspicious moment to do so, contribution to the intellectual life of the College and their nurturing of the as next summer, Julie retires as Professor of Russian Literature and Fellow of next generation. If Ray’s example is anything to go by, I suspect Julie will find

Wolfson College – a post she will have held for exactly thirty years. many ways to remain involved in College life long after her official retirement. I have many reasons to be grateful to Julie, not least for admitting me So, it will be poka, rather than proshchai – or, in homage to Julie’s education to undertake graduate work here in Oxford in early 1995. My early plans to at the Lycée in Kensington, à bientt and not adieu. We wish her the happiest work under her supervision were scuppered by the birth of Jessica that of retirements. spring, although I can count evenings babysitting Sasha and Jessica as part of my broader education. Certainly, through her friendship and academic comradeship, Julie has helped make me the scholar I aspire to be today. Philip Ross Bullock Fellow and Tutor in Russian Many Wadham students have benefited from her expertise and kindness too, especially when she became the College’s Russian lecturer after the retirement of Tim Binyon in 2003 and until I took up the fellowship in January 2008. Students have gone on to benefit from her exacting translation classes or her inspirational drama tutorials, and the journey between Parks Road and Linton Road is familiar to many.

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Attendees were invited to evaluate Wadham’s present-day reputation UNUSUAL WADHAMITES: with its multifaceted history, and to ‘go beyond simplistic good-or-bad evaluations, and instead highlight complexity and culpability’. I began to Uncomfortable Oxford is a social enterprise that has been conducting ''wonder how ROBERT MOSES, CZAR OF walking tours of Oxford over the past year. Founded in the wake of many of movements such as #rhodesmustfall, the project aims to shed light on Wadham’s the less explored, uncomfortable aspects of Oxford’s past. In addition to alumni from NEW YORK walking tours, they conduct tours at the Ashmolean Museum. Wadham the more is the first Oxford college to conduct its own uncomfortable tour at this distant past event organised by the Research Associates. would pass our modern While we explored dark corners of the College that bore silent witness to scruples with

stories and men (inevitably, after Dorothy, they were all men) that did not fit flying colours Robert Moses studied comfortably with Wadham’s contemporary progressive liberal image, I began Jurisprudence at to wonder how many of Wadham’s alumni from the more distant past would pass our modern scruples with flying colours. We were lingering among the Wadham in the early quiet of the many different trees that now grow in the Fellows’ Garden, when 1900s. Though not a I suddenly thought of the man who must have walked and sat in the same name well-known in garden many times in the days when it was dominated by Wadham’s majestic copper beech: Robert Moses, who complained in fact that many an Oxford Oxford, he was one undergraduate ‘rarely if ever walks in his own college garden’, implying, one of the most powerful assumes, that he often did. He would later distinguish himself as a great lover men in New York of and creator of public parks. Though not a name well-known in Oxford, for decades Moses was effectively the Czar of New York, the most powerful from 1934 to 1968. man in the city from 1934 to 1968. Today he is probably best or rather worst remembered by New Yorkers as the man who at the end of his career tried to build a series of cross-Manhattan arterial roads, including a two-lane highway through Washington Square, and an eight-lane highway on stilts right across downtown New York, roughly following the lines of Delancey Street, to link the Holland Tunnel to the West with the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel, and the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges to the East. This was associated with a vast slum clearance and public housing project; while many streets were demolished, the only part that was ever built was Washington Square Village, n June 2019, I signed up to go on a tour of ‘Uncomfortable Wadham’. which consisted of 1,292 apartments that have since been transformed into As reported on the Wadham website: faculty housing for New York University. Led by historians Paula Larsson and Olivia Durand of the Robert Moses was the apogee of the 1950s cult of the car and the

IUncomfortable Oxford Project, some 20 MCR and SCR members toured building of superhighways in cities that cut through anything in their path. the College and grounds hearing about the role of women in College, the How different in mentality, I reflected, from the peaceful life he must have transformation of Dorothy Wadham’s image from a conservative religious led while a student at Wadham, many years before there were traffic lights

woman to a quasi-feminist icon, the history of the British empire as (now happily removed) at the corner of Broad Street and Parks Road. But expressed through the plants in the Fellows’ Garden, and the mysterious as our historians of uncomfortable Wadham caution us, history is always Above: Robert presence of a portrait of the poet [James Thomson] who wrote the Moses with Battery more complex than simplistic assumptions or judgements allow for. Moses poem Rule, Britannia! Bridge model dedicated his life, as he saw it, to saving New York from inexorable urban

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decline. He headed, often simultaneously, a variety of New York public senior students could be admitted to Oxford and take the BA in two years. authorities, usually associated with parks, transport and public housing. The main complaint that he voices about the Rhodes scholarships is that Moses Over 34 years, under a succession of different mayors, including FDR, he while Rhodes’ bequest ‘would seem to indicate that only a king of men could ''dedicated acquired more and more power while he altered the whole landscape of New be chosen’ in fact the Rhodes scholars in Oxford of his day were, he argued, his life, as he York. His first achievement was to draft a report in 1919 that recommended ‘too representative’, and as a result intellectually mediocre. The article is saw it, to reorganisation of state government and its departments so as to rid New York therefore concerned with how the quality of candidates could be improved, saving New of political patronage in state appointments. He himself would later come to in the context of his general preference for intellectual elites. His second York from head many of these departments whose creation he had recommended. His contribution, ‘Two Notes on Oxford’, offers sketches of ‘Oxford Life’ and ‘the inexorable efficiency, his unmatched ability to draft legislation, and his legendary talent Dons’. In many ways at first glance these seem a conventional undergraduate urban decline for getting things done formed the qualities that established the basis of his account of an Oxford whose antics and manners have been exaggerated to power. No one can deny the sheer magnitude of his achievements: 416 miles impress his Yale peers. of highways, 13 bridges, 658 playgrounds and public housing for 150,000 The first is fairly predictable until its final paragraph, where Moses people. He constructed parkways, tunnels, public beaches including the observes: ‘There is a moribund institution for workingmen’s sons somewhere huge Jones beach on Long Island, tens of thousands of acres of public in Oxford which was founded on the notions and bears the name of John parks, large public swimming pools all over the city, Shea Stadium (home of Ruskin of pious memory. I have never yet met an undergraduate who knew the New York Mets), the New York Coliseum at Columbus Circle (now rebuilt its exact location, nor have I met anyone who did not become incoherent as the Time Warner Center), and the majestic Lincoln Center. He was not only with rage when it was defended.’ The second, on the dons, gives us two It is perhaps involved in the planning and construction of the United Nations building but portraits of his tutors, neither of them flattering. His tutor for Roman Law, he ''fortunate it was his willingness and ability to build it that brought the United Nations recounts, at least recognises him in the street, but doesn’t quite know who that it is hard to New York, instead of to Philadelphia as originally planned. Moses’ impact he is, adding somewhat ambiguously, ‘He is truly a mine of information – he to work out on the city remains very controversial, however, most of all because of corrects all the mistakes in the papers I read him and answers all questions exactly who his championing of roads while allowing the NY subway system to fall into (albeit with the aid of a convenient text book) lucidly.’ He has more respect Moses’ tutors decline, though to be fair the subway was never his direct responsibility. Other for his Greats tutor, who he says ‘is at least alive – he has brethren who are were issues that people still remember include the fact that he presided over the moribund or completely dead’, but nevertheless Moses has little time for demolition of Penn Station, built the cross-Bronx highway which required the him since the tutor has apparently little time for Moses: ‘The young Greats eviction of thousands of African-American families and divided the Bronx in tutor often affects blasé world-weariness and infinite cultivated leisure, but it two, and, most unforgivably for many older New Yorkers, forced the Brooklyn is rather disconcerting to enter his room by appointment at 10:30, find him, Dodgers to move to Los Angeles. When one considers the sheer scale of feet on the fender, blowing clouds of after-breakfast smoke into the fire, and his endeavours, however, he would hardly have been human if he had got be stared at in astonishment and told with the utmost good-humor that he is everything right: in a 2007 book on Moses, the detailed catalogue of his built awfully busy and can’t possibly see you now. It is still more disconcerting to work and projects in New York City from 1934 to 1968 runs to 179 pages.1 pay him £7.10s. a term.’ Robert Moses was born in 1888 and grew up in New Haven and New It is perhaps fortunate that it is hard to work out exactly who Moses’ York before studying at Yale for his BA. After leaving Yale, in 1909 Moses tutors were. In his time there were just eight fellows at Wadham, aside from matriculated at Wadham College where he read for a second BA in the Warden; four of them were classicists and could therefore have been Jurisprudence. While at Wadham he was elected President of the Wadham his Greats tutor – Alfred Stowe, the Greek scholar Herbert Paul Richards, Debating Society, and appointed captain of University Swimming (he Joseph Wells, the classical historian who would become Warden in 1913, received a half-blue for swimming). We know a little about his life at Wadham and Erwin Wentworth Webster, a Greek scholar who was also a scholar of from two articles about Oxford which he contributed to the Yale Alumni Basque, as was his father whose publications are now regarded as having Weekly.2 The first involved a discussion of a currently uncomfortable figure, played an important role in the development of Basque nationalism. Though Cecil Rhodes (characterised by Moses as both an idealist and a shrewd man he probably did not teach him Roman Law, Moses’ law tutor for most of his of affairs, which happens to work quite well as a description of Moses himself) Jurisprudence course was likely to have been the College lecturer in law, and the Rhodes Scholarship. Moses himself had not applied for a Rhodes, Sir William Holdsworth, a fellow of St John’s, even then in the process of rather taking advantage of an agreement between Oxford and Yale that becoming a renowned English legal historian, as the author of the 17 volume

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A History of English Law, which he began to publish in 1903. In 1928, shortly poor results of the American, especially New York patronage system for after becoming the Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford, he published unelected government positions, as opposed to the British system in which the remarkable Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian in which he argued for civil servants selected on merit dedicate their lives to public service. The Moses’ ideal of the value of Dickens’ novels as a source for historical knowledge about the thesis was impressive enough to catch the attention of the Governor of New public service 3 '' English legal system in the pre-reform period. In contrast to the slow and York who then offered Moses his first job. remains inefficient operations of the Court of Chancery, under Holdsworth’s training, Whatever Moses’ personal views on racial difference, this did not prevent something that Moses would become ‘the best bill drafter’ in New York State – he never took him from believing in the ideal of public service, which for Moses was a we can another course in law after leaving Wadham. Although the Gazette suggests powerful moral and ethical stance to which he proceeded to dedicate continue to that after his BA he then registered for an MLitt, Moses in fact returned to his own life. For most of the public offices that he held, Moses took no admire New York to study for a PhD in political science at Columbia University. remuneration; he did not die a wealthy man. And however we may judge the But before he left, Moses interacted with a very different history that results of Moses’ life of dedication (some things we may applaud, others we was playing out in his own time – the liberal resistance to contemporary may judge to have been ill-conceived), at a moment in which paid outside imperialism and its ideology of racial hierarchy. In 1911, the first international political advisors have become preferred to the advice and expertise of civil conference addressing the question of race, racial inequality, race relations servants who serve the government, not the individual or the party, Moses’ and colonialism, the Universal Races Congress, was held at the University ideal of public service remains something that we can continue to admire. of London, suitably enough at the Imperial Institute.4 The organisers invited Moses’ politicians, activists and intellectuals from all over the world to speak: their Many thanks to Jeffrey Hackney for providing information about Robert ''opinions were names included Franz Boas, John Dewey, WEB Dubois, and Mahatma Gandhi. Moses from the College archives. simply a More than 50 countries and 20 governments sent representatives, as well

reflection of as universities, other associations and public institutions. Moses was one of conventional them. Reports vary as to whether, as a result of his debating skills, Moses Robert J C Young Honorary Fellow imperialist was elected to attend the conference as a representative of the College or attitudes in the Oxford American Club. At any event, there was a clear gap between the England at egalitarian ideals of the delegates, and those expressed by Moses when that time he rose to speak. Although he had never visited a British colony himself, he declared that ‘the “subject peoples” of the British Empire were simply not ready for self-government yet’. As he was beginning to explain why, several people from the audience started to rush at him; Moses’ colleague from Oxford quickly grabbed him and pushed him out of a door at the back of the speakers’ platform.5 Accusations of racism dogged Moses even during his lifetime, and it’s here that we find him most out of sync with current Wadham ethos of anti-racism, diversity and inclusion. But we should remember that

Moses’ opinions were simply a reflection of conventional imperialist attitudes 1 Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson, eds, Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of

in England at that time. It was 1911, the year of the Delhi Durbar. New York (New York: Norton, 2007). What Moses encountered in Britain at that time and then adapted for the 2 Robert Moses, ‘The American Rhodes Scholars’, Yale Alumni Weekly, vol. 20, 1910–11, pp. 338–9; US, was the assumption that education at Oxford or Cambridge was the best ‘Two Notes on Oxford’, Yale Alumni Weekly, vol. 21, 1911–12, pp. 583–4. qualification for those in government, whether at Westminster or in the Civil 3 Service. On his return to New York (after which he never again left the US), William S. Holdsworth, Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929). Moses wrote a long, detailed PhD thesis on ‘The Civil Service of Great Britain’. 4 A possible Oxford connection to the Universal Congress on Races is indicated by the fact that the Though this might not seem the most exciting subject for an ambitious young organisers published a questionnaire, inviting readers to respond with their views, in Mind, vol. 20, No. man, in fact it would constitute the basis of his life’s work. The thesis offers 77 (1911), pp. 159–160. a detailed study of the history of, as well as the operation and organisation 5 Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (New York, Knopf, 1974), of the Civil Service. The overall project is to contrast the inefficiencies and pp. 51–2.

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THE CULTURE OF DISSENT IN the most effective way – by shifts of genre or Book reviews RESTORATION ENGLAND: ‘THE target readership. Among other strategies, WONDERS OF THE LORD’ this involved deploying humour and the scatological for very serious ends. The book George Southcombe FSE in History also makes the hugely significant point for intellectual history that new ways of attending Boydell Press, 2019 POETRY: A VERY SHORT Debates over what poetry is, and what it to the meditative and the devotional INTRODUCTION has done, from Plato and Aristotle on are were never incompatible with activism, or carefully elucidated. The possibilities inherent In the 1660s, a man who with political and theological radicalism.

Bernard O’Donoghue Emeritus Fellow in writing poetry in English (provided by ‘its took his Bible to be rebound Moreover, Dissent was far from becoming hybrid Germanic-Italic’ linguistic heritage) was said to have been more introverted. Quakers – hardly passive Oxford University Press, 2019 and its limitations are discussed. Bernard told that it was so worn or quietist – went naked around northern himself writes with the conviction that ‘there that it would be almost towns in 1661, proclaiming penitentially Terry Eagleton (Emeritus is after all something poetry does that as cheap to buy a new and prophetically ‘Woe to Yorkshire’. The Fellow) began his 2006 How nothing else can’. This is perhaps one of one. This is a book about apocalyptic and the pastoral could run to Read a Poem by lamenting those things which it is important to believe the power of words, and alongside each other. Appropriately for its that literary criticism, of the even if it turns out to be very hard to say what about a culture which was embedded in a subject, this book gives space to satisfyingly kind he had learned, was that something is. Certainly even some of long history of doing complex things with close readings of texts, and to the highly going the same way as the statements offered in the book’s pithy words. The emphasis is on print, but this is effective and stimulating characterisation ‘thatching or clog dancing’. In conclusion provoke the reader to look for print interacting with oral disputation, talk in of distinct positions and conversations. A

defiance of this trend, he exceptions rather than agree. Poetry ‘is never coffee houses and in homes, as well as with rich discursive world is thereby opened up. wrote a brilliant apology for, and technical the statement of the obvious’ (what about letters and journals written and exchanged. This is a book which itself does elegant and guide to, the interpretation of poetry. Bernard Ogden Nash’s ‘Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Printed catechisms and sermons became illuminating things with words. O’Donoghue’s new work focuses more Is quicker’?). But this is hardly the point. The another form of itinerant ministry. The book’s REVIEW BY JANE GARNETT narrowly, but no less brilliantly, on the question book sent me off to consider things I should argument develops around case studies Fellow and Tutor in History of what poetry might be said to be. Taken have thought about before (the engagement of individual ministers, who – as George together these books form an essential of Emily Dickinson with Andrew Marvell), and Southcombe observes – wouldn’t necessarily

twenty-first century defence of poetry. most of all it made me want to write again. have been pleased to be in the same book as There are few poets better than Bernard at One final thought: throughout Bernard each other, but who nonetheless spoke the

the compressed thought, the unsentimentally often illustrates his points with reference to same language, although the inflections which expressed line that shows ‘the truth in some John Milton. This may simply be because they gave it were always contested. They

sense that is not obvious’. His capturing of Bernard thinks that Milton is the best example spoke to readers the pages of whose Bibles the passing of time on a neglected farm of most poetic techniques (which, to be fair, were well-thumbed, and who could readily

(‘the rolled-up bales, standing / Silent in the he is), but, whatever his intention, perhaps pick up the resonances and analogies. Biblical fields, with the aftergrass / Growing into the frequent recourse to Milton has accrued history had always been current politics. them’), or the wish that a lover’s eyes were a new meaning at the time of the book’s This is an important book for making vivid as blue as ‘the light on the dashboard / That publication. Looking around at the moment variegated dissenting cultures, but also for indicates the headlights are full on’ are lines it is hard (at least I find it hard) not to echo underlining that these cultures were not that have persisted with me since I first read Wordsworth’s cry of 1802: ‘Milton! thou separate from each other, but were grounded (or perhaps heard) them over twenty years shouldst be living at this hour’. in a long pre-existing literary and theological ago. Bernard’s poetic practice has clearly REVIEW BY GEORGE SOUTHCOMBE world which encompassed different traditions prepared him for the writing of a work on a Fellow by Special Election in History and Director (including Anglicanism) – not by flattening out grand theme conducted on a small scale. of the Sarah Lawrence Programme difference, but by attempting to translate it in

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COMING SOON: THE FLOOD King George V Avenue and Jaffa Road, faintly three years learned the feel of the country amused by signs saying: ‘King Herod’s Family and acquired a vocabulary of fruity Hebrew Zvi Jagendorf English, 1954 tomb: Ring the bell, upstairs turn right, second colloquialisms, I was able to impart my door, knock twice and ask for Mrs Cohen.’ experiences to him. After all, Jerusalem was a Halban Publishers, 2018 The affluent British philanthropist, Sir Isaac quaint divided city, perched between Heaven Wolfson, endowed a supreme Jewish religious and Earth in an overtly hostile environment. Zvi Jagendorf was born centre, and since the Hebrew for religious is To the East in the Old City, Muslim in Vienna in 1936 and as ‘dati’, local wags nicknamed the imposing new resentment at Israel seethed, while Jews a tot after the Anschluss pile ‘the Datican’. On the other side, behind marvelled at having just survived the of 1938 was exiled to the walls built by Suleiman the Magnificent Holocaust followed by assaults from London and adapted to in the 14th century, stood soldiers of the six neighbouring states. That was the rain, lukewarm beer, cloudy Arab Legion clad in keffiahs and at sunset on period, the predicament and the city skies, indifference to the Ramadan a gun was fired, to mark the end of that Jagendorf has so vividly captured dictatorship then engulfing the fast. Two radio stations each announced in his fascinating literary vignette.

Europe, and endless cups of tea. But being themselves as, ‘This is Jerusalem’, although REVIEW BY WILLIAM SHOLTO (PPE, 1951) both flexible and very intelligent he had locals knew that neither was actually situated landed in Wadham by 1955 and opted to read in the city itself. While the devout frequented English, graduating three years later. In 1957 houses of worship, some secular individuals Jagendorf migrated to Israel. found solace in Fink’s Bar, a kind of dimly-lit Jagendorf’s novel describes with ersatz English pub sited in the hub of the city. consummate detail life in Jerusalem between At the crux of the novel, is the kidnap in 1949, when the Rhodes ceasefire ended 1959 from Argentina of Adolf Eichmann, a the war between Israel and six neighbouring prominent Nazi, for war crimes committed 18 states that had intervened to prevent its years previously. His arraignment was due to establishment, and 1967, when Israel take place in Jerusalem. Opinions differed defeated the armies of Egypt, Syria and about condign punishment for murder, but Jordan, gaining control of the entire city. none seemed appropriate for planning the The Israeli capital had for 19 years been killing of millions of civilian men, women and partitioned by an illogical zigzag line where children. Was humanity going to survive at the fighting had fortuitously ceased in 1949, all? Perhaps an earthquake or another biblical

leaving the Jewish Quarter of the Old City flood would intervene to drown everyone? under Jordanian control, while the affluent My first encounter with Jagendorf was Arab suburb of Katamon was ceded to Israel. in 1957, in the refectory of the Hebrew The partial division left everyone University of Jerusalem, where he taught partially satisfied. English and theatre studies. Having both

Life was colourful in Jerusalem, with its experienced education in the same Puritan/ multiplicity of passionately held beliefs. Tudor quad, gazed on by the sombre statutes Orthodox Jews adhered to strict rules, as of Nicholas and Dorothy W, both impelled did the various Christian sects, the Greek to help and fortify the nine-year-old State Orthodox, the Friars, the monks, the Greek of Israel, and both with Germanic roots, we THANK YOU to everyone who has sent in a book for review this past year. Unfortunately, Catholics and the Abyssinians in their own immediately clicked and shared a flat on it has been difficult to organise many reviews but we are delighted to report on a number compound. Secular, westernised Jews Balfour Street, opposite the Turkish consulate. of new publications in the Alumni News section. formed a majority in the city, housed between As Jagendorf was a newcomer and I had after

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n mid-March, my husband kindest to make the business of I am not who I was. Patrick and I decided to try choosing poems unpressurised. I I am who I was. out a daily ritual. We hoped it started with the contemporary – This is not me. Imight provide some light during Sharon Olds’ achingly funny ‘Rite of This is me. what we sensed would be a Passage’ about the tensions at her disorientating time ahead. We son’s sixth birthday party. Patrick I am now the person vowed that, each evening during followed this up with Richard who had Covid: lockdown, just before we went Scott’s ‘Museum’, a charged paean the thing that came in March to sleep, we would read aloud a to male beauty. Our subsequent poem to each other. We would Photo credit: David Yiu choices roved; from Wordsworth’s I am now the person take it in turns – I would read one enchanting ‘The Solitary Reaper’ who disappeared arlier this year the former children’s evening, Patrick the next. In addition to our to an extract from Claudia Rankine’s thunderous in April and May laureate Michael Rosen (English, 1965) hope that this might offer succour, for me ‘Citizen’; from our very own Bernard O’Donoghue’s contracted coronavirus, and spent these readings would serve another purpose. tender ‘Áine’ to Fernando Pessoa’s gorgeous I am now the person E47 days in Intensive Care battling the illness. This year, I am working on my ‘difficult’ second ‘The Amorous Shepherd’ which had been read who peers into the mirror Following this period in an induced coma, novel. I say ‘working’, but it’s apt to describe at our wedding. As is his wont, sometimes hoping his left eye Michael began his long term recovery in a it more viscerally: I am crawling through the Patrick went off piste; his reading of Enobarbus’ will see what the right eye sees, rehabilitation unit before returning home, sludgy mass of a first draft, dragging myself on barge speech from Antony and Cleopatra was an catching a glimpse of the blackness where he continues to deal with the many side with heavy limbs and staring with a maddened unexpected treat. We found ourselves returning of the big pupil effects of ‘long Covid’. During these months, gaze at the distant finishing line. In common to the same writers; Keats, Yeats, Seán Hewitt, looking back at me in hope. Michael has been writing a new collection with many other novelists, throughout this Jackie Kay and Emily Dickinson popped up on

of free verse entitled Many Different Kinds I am now the person difficult process of making coherence from more than one occasion.

of Love, featuring poems on the subjects of who hears the telephonic trebly sound chaos, I find engaging with the clarity of the As the weeks rolled on, the more significant illness, mortality, community and love. The through the hearing aid poetic voice energising and helpful. value of these readings became evident to us. book will be published in March 2021 by Ebury in his left ear, So Patrick and I embarked on our literary These sleepily delivered poems, this interaction Press, and will also feature extracts from that makes the sound of a kettle boiling project with gusto. We created a notes page on with myriad voices, traditions, perspectives, letters written to Michael by the nurses who into scream. my iPhone where we recorded the titles of our was much more than just diversion or cared for him whilst he was in Intensive Care. chosen pieces. It was entitled ‘Words for Better distraction. It became a means by which we

He is delighted to share an early poem with I am now the person Days – An Anthology’. We laid down no specific immeasurably expanded and enriched our readers of the Wadham Gazette. who is alert to every twinge criteria about what the poems needed to be newly shrunken existence. These readings or mark anywhere on me. like. There were no stipulations about lengths of enabled us to maintain a sense of intimacy and I am getting to know this person. texts, no instructions about genres to opt for or connectedness with others when, all around us, This is not me avoid. As we both acclimatised to the complex those things were so woefully under threat. This is me rules of our new reality – battling through glitchy Zoom meetings or spending hours in socially Michael Donkor (English, 2003), novelist, Michael Rosen (English, 1965) distanced queues at the Post Office – it felt critic and teacher

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Consider the Quiet summers squirrel like these

id you know that grey squirrels used to dream of quiet summers like Road, or to spot local bands about town. Once can live to be 12 years old? I didn’t these, of hearing nothing more than I saw Radiohead’s Thom Yorke at the kebab until I Googled it a few months ago birdsong, soft breezes, whispers in the van on Broad Street when they were number Dand went down an internet rabbit hole of Igrass. This desire went against who I was: one in the album charts (he ordered cheese surprisingly fascinating squirrel facts. New an arts journalist whose life is loud with the and chips). To live in Oxford back then felt like York was the epicentre of the coronavirus rhythms and cadences of music. Still, the idea sitting on a stylus in the centre of a revolving, pandemic at the time, you see, and I spent a of peacefulness got more tantalising with age. thrilling world. lot of lockdown staring out of my living room Perhaps it was because of the busyness of Then there were the gigs at College, rough window at two squirrels who lived in the tree parenthood. Perhaps it was living in a world and ready, raucous and free, with me gaffer- outside. I became surprisingly invested in their that felt too full. taping leads and shifting gear around the JCR frenetic comings and goings; it was only polite But when the quietness came in March, and floor. Wadstock was like a normal gig but at to learn a little bit more about them. now; but one of the most valuable things you it lingered as the days got brighter and longer, hyperspeed, an exercise in scheduling college Staring at squirrels is not how I had planned learn at university, I have come to realise, is it was too much. I yearned for basslines, drums, bands from a million random genres, as well to spend quarantine. I was going to be the art of the blag. There is a thin line between vocals, squall and volume. The summers of my as egos, the weather, and several hundred productive! I was going to learn Spanish! I was being ‘wrong’ and being ‘creative’. (Unless student days, basically. students’ journeys to and from the bar. I sang going to read a bunch of serious books! Did you’re studying medicine.) Twenty-two years ago, I was President and played the guitar back then too, thankfully I do any of that? No. (Although I did learn the Another thing I learned: if you start an essay of the Students’ Union as Wadstock was in an age long before smartphones. I remember Spanish word for ‘no’.) During April, which was by talking about squirrels and the coronavirus, being put together. This was a graduation of sitting on the grass, oiled with £1.20 pints from definitely the cruellest month, I spent much of realise halfway through that this was a terrible sorts from being Bar and Social Secretary Colin and Steve, then jumping and dancing to my time alternating between looking out of the mistake, persevere anyway. And if you can’t in my first year, leading the bar in rowdy the melodies, all messy and alive. This wasn’t window and looking at bad news on my phone. think of a profound way to wrap things up renditions of ‘Hey Jude’ and ‘Delilah’. My out- glossy festival culture. It was more awkward, Or, to use the technical term, ‘doomscrolling’. with a pithy observation about how medium- of-College trips were to shows at the Zodiac much rougher than that. It was perfect. I’m not sure what was more alarming: the size urban rodents are emblematic of the and the Point, to buy records at HMV, Avid in This summer, I’ve been to no festivals at all.

apocalyptical headlines or the disquietingly modern world just pull a Coleridge and invent Gloucester Green and Polar Bear on Cowley I’ve been at home, finding this pause in our lives quiet view from my apartment. The usually a distraction. Speaking of which, there’s a lady making me rummage back through the past to busy street outside was deserted; the most from Porlock at the door, got to go. hold days like Wadstock 1998 like snowglobe energetic activity came from the squirrels. scenes in my hands. They feel like precious, Everything familiar was suddenly unfamiliar. It Arwa Mahdawi (English, 2001), delicate things, and they were, but they’re still

was a perfect embodiment of the unheimlich. Guardian columnist I yearned for missing what matters: the soundtrack of leads

Hang on, was it? I definitely learned about '' clunking into amplifiers, the majesty of noise, basslines, the unheimlich while reading English at drums, vocals, the wonderful roar of us all. Wadham; I’m pretty sure I wrote an essay about squall and the unheimlich in Gothic literature. Probably at volume. To the memory of a dear friend, J-P Stacey,

3am during an essay crisis. I’m not sure I was guitar in his hands, 1977–2017 entirely confident in what it meant then and I’m definitely not confident about what it means Jude Rogers (English, 1996), arts journalist

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’ve been reminded quite a bit this year of full-time study. Every paper that reached a t’s always seemed to me that the most

my final year at Wadham. Lockdown, for student’s hands was chucked in a bundle by mind-boggling of the many incredible feats

the lucky, followed the rhythms of finals one of us into a college doorway, with the help of that multi-talented Wadhamite CB Fry Sport isn’t

Irevision: living and working in the same room, of a man known as Taxi Timmy. This year, as we Iwasn’t that he tied the world long jump record, ''just a part of taking breaks for a walk or for exercise. Even the scrambled to set up a free delivery scheme for scored a Test century against Australia, won a life, it’s a

weather was the same: long, sunny, blank days. the newspaper and get elderly readers onto football cap for England, or even that he once distraction

I work at a newspaper, and from the our app edition, it’s perhaps not surprising turned down an offer to take over the vacant from it beginning of lockdown we began producing that my mind kept returning to that autumn throne of Albania. No, it was his ability to make a

it entirely remotely. We work to tight term, and the dogged, somewhat ludicrous standing leap backwards from the floor on to a deadlines, and every minute and every bit determination a bunch of students had to mantelpiece. Fry was so proud of this trick that

of communication counts, so this was far create a newspaper once a week. the playwright Ben Travers once had to talk him Then there was the man who found that all

from easy. As we were scrabbling together, Cherwell itself adapted this year, moving to out of demonstrating it. Fry was 70 at the time. of a sudden hundreds of thousands wanted to volunteering extra hours and wrapping our a fortnightly magazine format, with a limited I was thinking about this at the beginning of watch the marble races he put up on YouTube. heads around new messaging apps and print run. Perhaps, as a newspaper lover, I the lockdown, when all professional sport had And the people who were searching out video technology to get round the fact we could no should mind, but I’m just delighted it continues, been suspended. I was supposed to cover the streams from obscure leagues. They were longer yell ‘the front page headline’s spelled and that somewhere, students are still writing, Olympic Games this year, as well as the array of still playing football in Belarus, and there was

wrong!’ across the room, I was reminded of taking photos, and wrestling with page layout golf and tennis tournaments, rugby tours, and a flurry of interest in the big game between

my final year again; this time the term I was software; scrambling to create something of Test matches that fill every summer. Instead, Slutsk and Dinamo Minsk. When word spread editing Cherwell. their own against the odds. As a preparation I was a sports writer with no sport to write that there was going to be a cricket match in There are more similarities than you might for life, it’s hard to fault it. about. So, searching for some new way to pass Guernsey, 84,000 people tuned in to the live think between national papers and student my housebound time, I found myself eyeing broadcast. Anything to satisfy the desire to ones. The main difference is the entirely Barbara Speed (English, 2011), Comment my mantelpiece as if it was some domestic compete, or to watch others do it for you. voluntary nature of the second, but perhaps Editor at the i newspaper Everest, 110cm tall with a candle, a clock, and The unexpected inventiveness of it all that’s why the past few months I have noticed a picture of the kids on top. Surely not. was amusing, but the really remarkable thing the parallels more, as we’ve all been called ‘Challenge is what makes men,’ said Edmund was the sense of desperate necessity that on to do more, be flexible, and have a stab at Hillary after he’d climbed the real thing, ‘when drove everyone to it. I suppose for those of things we’ve never done before. men stop looking for challenges, we human us who love it, sport isn’t just a part of life, it’s

The months I spent in Cherwell’s cramped beings will be in a very bad way.’ Bad as it was a distraction from it. And goodness knows, office never struck me as preparation for the back in the spring, people hadn’t given up just we all needed one of those. In the very end, I workplace (especially as they were a worrying yet. I ended up writing about a man who ran guess, the last two people on earth will keep distraction from my actual degree), but in a marathon in his back garden, another who themselves busy cheering on the cockroaches retrospect, it was perhaps the best I ever did one up and down his balcony, two girls crawling up the wall. had: we were creating something as a team, who played a tennis match from across their on little resource and little time. Every news rooftops, and a back-yard pole vaulting contest Andy Bull (English, 2000) is a journalist and report, blind date or silly centre-spread was between the three men who would have been author. He works as a senior sports writer for carved out of hours meant to be spent on competing for the Olympic gold in Tokyo. The Guardian

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Lifeline Service – six months The actress on the Isle of Muck in lockdown

A short account of the ferry service during six n 12 March 2020 I was filming The the following day would be our final shooting months of unexpected self-isolation on the Wheel of Time in Prague. We were day, indefinitely. Could everyone pack up Isle of Muck, a Hebridean island of fewer than intensely focused on an intimate their apartments, their kits, their trailers, their 40 inhabitants. Oscene in a fishing hut – close quarters, workshops and get everything labelled and a wooden hut, soft hangings, props that into storage. It was a mammoth task. The

he first sight of the Caledonian MacBrayne consisted of cheese and grapes to eat. At the next day I was aware of sets being dismantled Lochnevis vessel appears at roughly same moment worry was pursuing us all, as behind us as we continued to shoot with the 12.20pm to the left edge of Port Mr, news of the rapid spread of coronavirus was cameras pointing in a different direction. I

Tfrom where it takes a wide berth to find the So it was then, that for several months in the becoming daily more anxious-making. In the made a mental note that if I ever move house deepest channel between two narrow posts spring of 2020, the ferry was reserved for cargo past week, our catering tent had morphed I will use crews from the film industry to pack

that separate Dubh Sgeir (Black Rock) from alone. Washing machines, toilet seats, chicken from a palace of free-wheeling food-grabbing my stuff. The efficiency and speed were

Bogha Ruadh (Red Rock). As it pulls into harbour, feed, corrugated iron, prescription medicine, to a heavily sanitised polytunnel reminiscent mesmerising. I was last one to leave the base the Lochnevis tanks, swings 180 degrees and Tennent’s lager, Co-op groceries, orchids in of the tented scene in E.T. where E.T. is under camp that evening. I put on the song ‘We could

reverses the final feet onto the slipway, bringing boxes, Peppa Pig wellingtons, live lobsters, dead observation and a full task force in hazmat have been anything that we wanted to be’ from down a ramp that always leaves a small ford of dogs. CalMac called it a ‘Lifeline Service’ – one suits is treating him as a biohazard. Slowly the Bugsy Malone and let it ring out across the water for passengers to cross. tinged with a sense of danger in providing the shift was occurring, people were becoming deserted tarmac. There had been a sense of The port is a bottleneck, a single peristaltic only passage for both sickness and health. aware of how much we touch each other, how ‘Last Plane out of Saigon’ all day. Our director artery through which the island’s material Peripheries often feel the ripples of major much we trust one another in film to provide for the next block was seen running to the needs, essential or otherwise, must pass. tremors in peculiar ways and, as such, we us with cups that are clean, water bottles that airport to catch the last plane back to Dublin. Until the jetty was built in 2005, the transit experienced the first wave of the pandemic as are only opened by washed hands, makeup On Monday 16 March I changed jobs: from of all goods, people and livestock required missives from another world. As the mainland brushes that have not been used on a dozen actress to full time primary school teacher a flit to meet the larger boat in deep water. receded into the realms of the imaginary, news other people… Atmosphere is wafted around of two boys aged 7 and 5. We had decided Sometimes cows would be winched from one would sail into our lives and wash up on the a set with wooden boards, dispersing smoke to stay in Prague. The Czech government’s to the other in a sling, and occasionally either shore like shrapnel from a distant conflict. and texture and, one now presumes, germs. policies were strict and absolute from the animal or farmer would end up in the swell. Residents told us of the bodies of unknown Although our minds would focus intensely start; it felt as if a strong strategy that mirrored Although Amazon boxes now often soldiers, some still buried in the Port Mr on the scene while the cameras were rolling outnumber agricultural supplies, Muck is graveyard, that beached at Gallanach Bay there was a distinct sense that between takes an island long prepared for isolation. ‘The during the Second World War. everyone was busy on their phones, trying to devastation of the small-pox, when it visits It is 12:35pm on a breezy afternoon in mid- book flights back home to wherever home Atmosphere is wafted places where it comes seldom, is well known,’ July by the time passengers hop across the was. We have a diverse cast and crew and ''around a set with wooden noted Samuel Johnson in Journey to the watery gap once more. Among them, we notice these places ranged from New Zealand to boards, dispersing smoke Western Islands of Scotland. The Laird of that someone has returned with a haircut. Korea to America to Europe to South Africa and texture and, one now Muck knew this too, paying two shillings to South America. The next day the chips presumes, germs and six pence a head to have his population Anton Spice (English, 2007), journalist were down. On 12 March Production had inoculated. ‘He has disarmed it of its terrour at said nothing official about ceasing filming;

Muack,’ Johnson observed. Photo credit: Anton Spice overnight an email went out announcing that

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I have fully embraced the mask. I will acting talent from this part of the world? Before find it hard to go back. We started off like those actors step on to the professional stage, most people, first wearing bandanas, and For a while I enjoyed many cut their teeth in productions at their then making our own, before I found a very being able to be fully universities. I always felt my time at Wadham '' appealing one meant for dance parties which myself for the first was a time to love and learn and follow the lit up like an equaliser to the rhythm of music or time in years ‘Try again. Fail again. Fail better’ school of voice. I realise that a nearly fully covered face, acting. I hope that the theatres can weather as well as offering one protection, gives one a this crisis and reemerge triumphant – assured wonderful sense of freedom… My eldest son passionate audiences who have not all been had a birthday during lockdown and, having collective creation of a new lexicon. I have lured into solitary consumption by YouTube been worried about it, announced later that it painted cardboard boxes in the same patterns and streaming services. was one of the best ones he has had. I made a as dresses I own and wore them on my head In the night sky over Prague, searchlights treasure hunt with riddle clues – another relic to create strange characters. I have rented are scanning the heavens, signalling that, were from my own childhood. Of course there were a cello and started to play again after 18 it not for the pandemic, something of cultural low moments. There was the night we call ‘stir years. A deep and profound pleasure – and importance would be playing in the building at fry’ when my husband broke the stovetop a realisation of what the body harbours for the source of the light beam. It seems like a grates on our cooker. We laugh about it now. us – the recollection of patterns and skills we quiet urging to quit my doomscrolling, cancel We bought the children boxing gloves to developed as children. I have lost a humbling my recent hamsterkauf, and be optimistic

punch pillows to let off steam. degree of skill, but the instrument still feels about what lies ahead. For a while I enjoyed being able to be fully fully part of me, and the muscle memory of its

myself for the first time in years. In recent fit with my body is wonderfully intact. Rosamund Pike (English, 1997) China’s response was the best bet. Like every times I have played so many powerful figures And what of my industry as a whole? The mother around the world I grappled with Zoom whose complicated energies have interfered theatre. That is the area of the arts that seems July 2020 and Padlet and various online hubs and meet with my own cellular makeup – how can you most under threat. Various theatres decided to ups and felt there must be a simpler way to invite the force fields of trauma, rage, despair try and put things online. Zoom performances upload work. I collected recycling and set up and intense love to course through your body gave a sense of shared experience. These projects to build junk robots and at the same without that body producing all the necessary had varying degrees of success based on time wondered whether holding onto these chemicals to feel those things? I am sure there the effort the actors involved put in. It turns relics of my own childhood were completely is fallout. I am certain, in fact. It was interesting out it doesn’t really cut it not to be ‘off book’ irrelevant in the modern age. The days my to see where my mind roamed when it found just because you are at home. A performance, husband took over the home school, the itself under less pressure. Yes, I still felt a need even a Zoom one, requires fully inhabited scene was very different: everyone serene, to explore and get inside different minds – I commitment… What must be remembered, fully plugged in, no mess… I doubted myself. started learning poetry by heart and recording as we try to get the theatre back on its feet I had the pleasure of playing truant with my some for Instagram. I started a relationship is that it should not be regarded as the poor older son, of saying one day, ‘Come on, let’s with Instagram; a wormhole I have always cousin of cinema, the one that always needs skip school this afternoon shall we? We will been suspicious of. I have learned its power, a handout. Films can fail catastrophically and never see Prague like this again.’ We took my and summoned doubtful respect for the huge sums are frequently lost. Similarly some car, a green Citroen DS from 1972, and drove monster that grows as you feed it. theatre productions bring millions of pounds through Prague. Parking restrictions were Interestingly I have watched little, and read of revenue into the country each year. The lifted everywhere and the place was deserted. more. I am revelling in the linguistic apparitions Wheel of Time and many other television We could park outside the most photogenic of the time: ‘Lockdown’, ‘Zoom bombing’, shows like it, feed off the talent pool nurtured landmarks. We took our masks and a Polaroid ‘doomscrolling’. Driven by emotional as well in British and Irish theatre. Where would the

camera and set off like bandits. as practical need, I am buoyed up by the giants like Netflix and Amazon be without the

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1958 Ledgard, Ronald C. (Mathematics) died 12 November 2019, aged 79 1959 Greene, Edward P. C. (Literae Humaniores) died 17 October 2018, aged 81* In memoriam 1960 Bowers, Roger G. (Literae Humaniores) died 21 April 2020, aged 77* 1961 Fitzpatrick, Horace A. (DPhil Music) died 6 March 2020, aged 85 1961 Graham, R. Humphrey P. (Literae Humaniores) died 18 April 2020, aged 77 Asterisked names indicate that an obituary can be found on the following pages. 1961 King, John A. (Jurisprudence) died 22 June 2020, aged 76* 1961 Salmon, John B. (Literae Humaniores) died 16 May 2020, aged 77*

1940 James, Sidney R. (Modern History) died 31 January 2020, aged 98 1962 Griffin, Peter K. (Modern History) died 31 January 2020, aged 76* 1943 Reid, Peter D. (Army short course) died 22 January 2020, aged 94* 1962 Taylor, Robert G. (Modern History) died 6 August 2020, aged 77*

1945 Giffard, C. Sydney R. (Literae Humaniores) died 20 February 2020, aged 93* 1962 Withey, Anthony G. H. (Modern History) died 8 June 2019, aged 76 (Honorary Fellow) 1963 Welsh, Anthony P. G. (Physics) died 5 February 2020, aged 75 1945 Howard, Norman (Physiological Sciences) died 25 October 2018, aged 91 1964 Szwaja, Christopher A. P. (Physics) died 15 June 2020, aged 73* 1945 Petch, William K. (Modern History) died 31 January 2020, aged 98 1965 Malalgoda, Kithsiri (DPhil Social Studies) died 10 October 2019, aged 76 1946 Marker, William B. (Modern History) died 22 September 2019, aged 91* 1965 Robbins, Anthony J. (English) died 14 January 2019, aged 72* 1947 Cornish, Frederick H. J. (Mathematics) died 14 May 2020, aged 89 1966 Pixton, Martin (Physics) died 2020, aged 72 1948 Badgery, Thomas W. (Jurisprudence) died 31 October 2019, aged 89 1968 Evans, David H. (Jurisprudence) died 9 November 2019, aged 75 1948 Birch, Reginald C. ‘Dick’ (Modern History) died 29 December 2019, aged 95* 1971 Thomas, Ioan F. (Visiting Student Programme) died March 2019, aged 91 1949 Blake, Barry I. (English) died 2 December 1997, aged 68 1972 Brown, David A. (Physics) died 8 April 2020, aged 65* 1949 Hargreaves, John A. (PGDip Educational Studies) died 2018, aged 89 1978 Clarke, Gillian M. (Jurisprudence) died 1 March 2020, aged 60 1950 Robertson, ‘Ron’ Angus W. J. (PPE) died 28 December 2019, aged 89 1978 Dunn, Graham (MSc Applied Statistics) died 23 January 2019, aged 69 1951 Bunday, Paul (English) died 17 November 2019, aged 89 1983 Weedon, Mark C. (Modern Languages) died 11 March 2020, aged 56 1951 Challis, Roland E. H. (English) died 1 June 2020, aged 90* 1985 Brennan, Anthony (Mathematics) died 5 November 2019, aged 53 1951 Common, Gilbert A. ‘Sandy’ (PPE) died 20 May 2020, aged 90 1990 Ace, Robert D. (PGCE Geography) died 6 May 2019, aged 50 1951 Gage, Peter J. (English) died 30 March 2020, aged 87* 2007 Pullen, Madeleine S. (Mathematics) died 16 August 2020, aged 31 1952 Scarf, Christopher H. (Music) died 18 March 2020, aged 86 1953 Goodbody, Patrick R. G. (Modern History) died 27 February 2019, aged 83 1953 Manners, John S. (Physiological Sciences) died 20 July 2020, aged 86 FELLOWS AND FRIENDS 1953 Mapplebeck, Paul H. (Chemistry) died 3 September 2020, aged 87* 1953 Parris, Michael (Chemistry) died 12 February 2020, aged 87* Donaldson, C. Ian E. died 18 March 2020, aged 84 1953 Walsh, John H. (Botany) died 14 March 2020, aged 85* Former Fellow in English (1962–69)

1954 Caff, John T. (Mathematics) died 13 December 2019, aged 82* Gotlieb, Allan E. died 18 April 2020, aged 92 1955 Bould, A. Roger (Dip Ministry) died 21 June 2019, aged 87 Honorary Fellow 1955 Heys, Gordon D. M. (Modern Languages) died 15 May 2020, aged 84 Montagu, Jeremy P. died 11 September 2020, aged 92* 1955 Squire, E. Martin (Forestry) died 8 July 2019, aged 83 Emeritus Fellow 1955 Todd, Robert K. (BCL) died 9 December 2019, aged 87 Russell, Donald died on 9 February 2020, aged 99 1955 Wheeler, Terence E. R. (English) died 25 December 2018, aged 82 He was Fellow & Tutor in Classics at St John’s (1948–88), and taught Latin for Wadham in his 1956 Barton, John F. ‘Dick’ (Mathematics) died 5 April 2020, aged 81* early years (1948–53). He had been pleasingly active, and regularly teaching Greek verse, until 1956 Drummie, Frederic R. (PPE) died 14 December 2018, aged 84 the last couple of years. 1957 Day, Peter (Chemistry) died 19 May 2020, aged 81* (Honorary Fellow) Sharpe, Richard died 21 March 2020, aged 66* 1957 Hennessy, John R. P. (Engineering Science) died 7 June 2020, aged 84* Professor of Diplomatic 1958 Burchell, Howard W. (Physics) died 4 August 2020, aged 81 von Bothmer, Joyce died 1 April 2020, aged 93 1958 Copping, Peter S. (Modern History) died 27 February 2019, aged 79* Foundation Fellow

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In 1988 Peter took up the Directorship of the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, an international centre for neutron scattering, before returning to the UK Obituaries in 1991 to be the Director of the Royal Institution (RI) of Great Britain. As Fullerian Professor of Chemistry he followed illustrious predecessors, notably the 19th- century pioneers Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday. As well as encouraging the important role of the Royal Institution’s mission to popularise science, Peter Peter Day, FRS | Honorary Fellow demonstrated a remarkable gift for managing a necessary reorganisation and 1938–2020 upgrade of the RI. He was an effective fundraiser, successful in persuading the wealthy to contribute through direct face-to-face meetings. Not always, however, eter Day came as a Chemistry as his comment on a letter from the Queen’s Private Secretary indicates ‘.. had student to Wadham in 1957 from been commanded to inform me that Her Majesty would indeed be graciously PEast Malling in Kent, the first in his pleased to head the list of contributors but with the condition that the sum family to win a University place. He donated should remain confidential. When I looked to the enclosed cheque, the was taught by Bob Williams, who reason for such a condition became clear: the sum was on a par with what one later was his research supervisor, might donate to a Village Fete.’ He retired from the post in 1998 and continued in as well as being the mentor for his research for many years as Emeritus Professor at University College London. early career. Peter was successful Over his scientific career he published over 700 papers and was productive, in all these early stages, providing even at times dominated by administrative duties. He was elected to Fellowship of the foundation for a spectacularly the Royal Society in 1986, and notably was awarded three Royal Society named productive career both as a scientist lectures: the Blackett and Jagdish Chandra Bose Memorial Lectures in 1994, the

and a scientific manager. He retained Bakerian Lecture and Medal in 1999, and the Humphry Davy and Claude Bernard a refreshingly open personality and Lectures in 2002. He was elected to Academia Europaea in 1992, in the Chemical enjoyed a wide range of intellectual Sciences section. He maintained strong links there, acting as Treasurer in 1999– interests throughout his life. 2010 and as a trustee in 2004–10. As a lasting legacy of his contributions and his Under the supervision of Bob influence, the Royal Society of Chemistry instituted the Peter Day Award, elected Williams, he completed a DPhil thesis entitled ‘Light Induced Charge Transfer annually to give a UK lecture tour on the basis of ‘outstanding contributions to and

in Solids’ in 1965. Directly after this he was appointed to St John’s College to advancement of the field of Materials Chemistry’. become first a Junior Research Fellow and then Fellow and Tutor in Inorganic Peter was a genuine intellectual with wide interests and a deep store of Chemistry (1965–88) associated with a Lectureship in Inorganic Chemistry. It knowledge. His personal demeanour was polite, relaxed and pleasant, but that was during the very early part of Peter’s independent research career in the never prevented him from taking a firm stance when required. He was the author Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory that together with Melvin Robin at Bell Labs in or co-author of many books, on topics ranging from his specialist discipline to Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA, the famous, highly cited Robin-Day classification his personal experiences and including a biography of Michael Faraday. Typically of mixed valency inorganic compounds was published. Mixed valence inorganic he wrote an essentially autobiographical work On the Cucumber Tree where he compounds contain charged species known as ions that result from the transfer used his wide experience to discern the deeper social and historical factors that of electrons between atoms of an element. Such materials give rise to novel, sustained the institutions he had served. His dislike of over-centralised planning in distinctive optical (e.g. the intense colour of Prussian Blue), electronic and research, as opposed to the fostering of individual creativity, is made clear there. magnetic properties that can be rationalised by the three dimensional solid-state He was sustained by a successful family life and enjoyed conversation, travel structural arrangement of the ions. Peter investigated how the physical properties (to France in particular), good food and wine, and gardening. Sadly, his wife of hybrid organic-inorganic mixed valence materials can be tuned to be switched Frances predeceased him in 2018 after 54 years of marriage. They are survived on and off by stimulating the movement of electrons between the ions through by their two children, Alison and Christopher. energy input using light absorption. This work contributed to the development of the important and contemporary fields of solid-state molecular electronics and By John Brown (Emeritus Fellow) and Paul Beer (Fellow in Chemistry) high charge density batteries.

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Ray Ockenden writes: Sir Sydney Giffard,KCMG | Honorary Fellow Sydney Giffard was an irreplaceable sort of person, my contacts with whom, 1926–2020 however erratic and brief they were, carried me into a past world I can recall from my childhood: a world of instinctively correct manners, of decency and ydney Giffard came from Repton spontaneous generosity. I felt enriched by his uneffusive personal warmth, and School to read Classics at the shared humour fed by lightly-worn intelligence. SWadham in 1945. He entered the Most of my encounters with Sydney came from events in Wadham, latterly Diplomatic Service in October 1961 the summer garden parties, where he could be seen manoeuvring his hat and was posted to Japan. He was with old-style correctness. Earlier there were dinner occasions when he was British Ambassador to Switzerland always warm and kind, knowing how to make his interlocutor feel interesting and from 1980 to 1982, and became important. But there was one particular contact I remember enjoying especially, Ambassador to Japan in 1984, having in connection with the Lennard Bequest Cornwall Reading Party. I think Sydney been closely involved with Japanese must have taken part in one of Lennard’s Lake District ventures; certainly he was matters for nearly thirty years. He was interested in the project, and suggested to me that since Berwick St John lay appointed CMG in 1976 and KCMG in on one of the possible routes from Oxford to the far south-west, we should look 1984. He was an acclaimed translator in on him on our way down. In all of the last four years when I was the organiser of Japanese literature, notably of of this event (I’m not sure about 2001, but certainly 2000, 2002 and 2003) we Rinzō Shiina’s novel, Ai no Shōgen as accepted that invitation. I recall vividly the pleasure of seeing Sydney and Hazel The Flowers Are Fallen (1961); on his in their beautiful home environment. And of course Hazel retirement from the Diplomatic Service put on lavish refreshments that straddled elevenses and in 1994 he published Japan Among the early light luncheon; and there was plenty to drink, too. For all the grand spheres he Powers, 1890–1990 (1994). The undergraduates on those occasions could sense that ''had moved in, his particular

He was born on 30 October 1926 in Lockeridge near Marlborough in Wiltshire; here they were having real contact with a former world attachment to and affection he died on 20 February 2020 and is buried in West Overton near Lockeridge. and sharing in social distinction. When in 2003 I held a for the world of Wadham was Three of his uncles were killed in military action, and among his many publications reunion dinner for Reading Party participants in Wadham, always movingly evident outside of his writings connected with Japan is Guns, Kites and Horses: Three Sydney and Hazel graciously agreed to attend; I remember, Diaries from the Western Front (2003), based on their diaries having placed Sydney next to the redoubtable and fiery Jenifer Hart (owner of the Sydney played a major role in promoting relations between Britain and Japan Cornwall house), enjoying the spectacle of his graciously charming her. throughout his life. He was centrally involved in the Peace, Friendship and For all the grand spheres he had moved in, his particular attachment to and Exchange Initiative, established by the Japanese Government in 1995, and from affection for the world of Wadham was always movingly evident. When it came, 1995 to 2003 he was Chairman of the Joint Committee of the UK-Japan History for example, to negotiations with Dr Okinaga, Sydney went out of his way to Project, concerned with 400 years of British-Japanese relations. In 2003 he help; without his knowledge of and reputation in Japan the very advantageous received the prestigious Order of the Rising Sun. He played an active part in the agreement would not have come about. bequest to the College by Dr Shoichi Okinaga, who became a Foundation Fellow in 1991. Shortly after his death, the College founded the Sir Sydney Giffard Poetry David Mabberley writes: Prize to honour the best original poetry on the subject of Japan, or translation Sydney Giffard must surely rank as one of the most gentlemanly of our wider of previously untranslated Japanese poetry composed by a Wadham student Fellowship, always elegantly dressed, courteous, generous, understanding – and on any course, or an Oxford student enrolled in either the Oriental Studies or endearing in that throwing back of his head and taking a deep breath before Japanese Studies course. Sydney was a fine poet himself, widely published in pronouncing on some deeply interesting topic with his penetrating insight. national poetry journals including the Oxford Magazine. After we returned to England from USA (2008) for me to take up a post at Royal From the date of his election to an Honorary Fellowship in 1961 to his death, Botanic Gardens Kew, my Australian partner Andrew and I visited Sydney and Sydney was a regular and cherished presence at Wadham festivities and Hazel at Berwick St John, when they, seizing the significance of our relationship, commemorative occasions, as noted by Ray Ockenden below. immediately (and of course very diplomatically) changed their planned sleeping

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arrangements for us. After we had returned to Australia and when they had moved from that beautiful house and garden, Emeritus Fellow Jeremy Montagu | which gave them so much pleasure, I visited them every Sydney Giffard must 1927–2020 time I came back to England: the last visit was in 2019, when ''surely rank as one of the Sydney, although very stooped, was as acute and amusing most gentlemanly of our Jeremy Montagu died shortly before the Gazette went to press, and soon after as ever. wider Fellowship he had updated his distinguished biography. We are printing that biography here. One of my visits was on the day of the Brexit Referendum: The story of his father’s remarkable experiences during World War II is included Sydney was beside himself with shock and outrage, a side to him I had never in Michael Tunbridge’s collection of accounts of family wartime memories in this

seen. He was so distressed by the pusillanimity of Britain’s leaders and their issue. He was an active and loyal member of the College’s emeriti in recent years. failure to convey to the British people the gravity of the consequences, the lack of appreciation Jeremy writes: (or ignorance) of the changing world geopolitics, and the childlike playing right I was brought up as a horn player, into the hands of Mr Putin: in short their complete lack of statesmanship. Ever trained as a conductor, and became our ambassador. professionally a percussion player. Guildhall School of Music ‘First Bernard O’Donoghue writes: orchestra’ had a surplus of horns I am sorry to report that Hazel died just a few months after Sydney. I also but a dearth of percussion: ‘Playing benefited from their incomparable hospitality and generosity, once on the way percussion would be so good for your to Lamledra as described by Ray Ockenden above (when Sydney said of the rhythm as a conductor,’ I was told. And Lennard bequest for which he had some responsibility ‘it will pay for the van’), and so I was the first person to play under more magnificently when Heather and I stayed overnight with them at Berwick a conductor in the Royal Festival Hall, St John to be taken to the Christmas Carol concert in Salisbury Cathedral: an ‘rolling up the King’, as the preface to unforgettable candlelit evening event. 2019 was the first Warden’s Summer the national anthem was then called, in

Garden Party that I attended when Sydney was not there. It left an unfillable gap. the first orchestral acoustic test. There will be a Wadham memorial service in due course. People wishing to join it I formed my own professional orchestra, the Montagu String Orchestra, giving

should contact Karen Farr in the Development Office ([email protected]). many first performances through the early 1950s and performing baroque and early classical works as ‘authentically’ as one could in those days – there were no early fiddles around then, but we used harpsichord and lute continuo, added ornaments and altered rhythms. Once the children had to be fed, the orchestra had to go and the last performance was in 1956 as part of the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of the Jewish Resettlement in Britain. I realised that the horn I was playing was not the instrument for which Mozart and Beethoven had written, and I bought my first handhorn in 1951 (in Wisbech where it had been ordered in 1870 and never collected) while I was working as orchestral factotum for Boyd Neel. I joined the Galpin Society, later becoming its Secretary (1965–71) and eventually its President, and through contact there with Michael Morrow I became the percussion player in his then new mediæval ensemble, Musica Reservata, and ‘invented’ early percussion – I was the first person to make reconstructions of the instruments shown in mediæval manuscripts and church carvings. I published the technology, initially in Early Music and the Galpin Society Journal, and then as a book, Making Early Percussion Instruments, and described the playing style in my half of James Blades (my percussion teacher) & Jeremy Montagu Early Percussion Instruments (both 1976).

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I played percussion with most of the major London orchestras (including the texts and of ethnomusicology, by Musical Instruments of the Bible (2002), and Royal Philharmonic with Beecham) and in most BBC orchestras and in many Origins and Development of Musical Instruments (2007), Horns and Trumpets of other provincial ones, and timpani and percussion in chamber orchestras in both the World (2014), The Shofar (2015), and most recently The Conch Horn, plus a ‘normal’ and ‘early’ performances. I wrote a major history of those instruments as frivolity Wendy – The Life and Loves of a Dragon (very much an adult book). Timpani & Percussion (2002). Articles, conference papers, exhibition catalogues, chapters in part-books, I worked for a year at the Horniman Museum in 1960 as curator of musical and reviews are too numerous to list in full. Many appeared in the Galpin Society instruments and there became interested in instruments from the rest of the Journal and in Early Music, from the second issue onwards, including several on world and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and mediæval iconography of musical instruments: ‘Beverley Minster Reconsidered’ secretary of its Ethnomusicology Panel (1963–mid-1970s). (1978), ‘The Restored Chapter House Wall Paintings in Westminster Abbey’ I began lecturing and teaching on musical instruments of the world and built up (1988), ‘The Crozier of William of Wykeham’ (2002), ‘The Macclesfield Psalter’ a major collection of instruments, world-wide and all periods from prehistoric to (2006), ‘The Romance of Alexander’ (2017), and others. Notable were all the the present, for research and to illustrate those lectures. I taught for Thurston Dart musical instrument entries in the Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Arts and in the at King’s College and for Stanley Glasser at Goldsmiths College, both London most recent edition (ed. Latham) of the Oxford Companion to Music, and as University (1968–81), and for John Blacking at Queen’s University of Belfast. I consulting editor, the Microsoft CD-ROM Musical Instruments. For four years I

mounted exhibitions of instruments at Sheffield University (1967) and Durham. was one of the Section Editors of the second edition of The Grove Dictionary of I was visiting professor at Grinnell College, Iowa (1970–71) and while in America Musical Instruments, responsible for all the Ethnographic material, the Percussion, I lectured at many other universities. I acted as External Examiner for London and the Classification, engaging a large team of new contributors as well as re- Guildhall University in musical instrument-making and research, and for PhD editing and writing some of the entries myself. theses at numerous universities. For some years I was doing fieldwork in Portugal with Patricia Bastos,

I published a series of books on European instruments, The World of Medieval & cataloguing small museums and listing their contents. While there she decided to Renaissance Musical Instruments (1976), The World of Baroque & Classical Musical create ANIMUSIC with my help, to be a local society similar to the Galpin Society, Instruments (1979), and The World of Romantic & Modern Musical Instruments which after five annual conferences has already become an international success. (1981), all now out of print (and the rights are available for republication!). She appointed me to be the Vice-President. From 1975 to 2000 I was Secretary of FoMRHI, the Fellowship of Makers and I was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1987) and Researchers of Historical Musical Instruments, whose Quarterly, edited by Ephraim a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, where I edited its Gazette for a dozen or Segerman, was influential far beyond its size and cost, but which, after we retired, more years, and where I am now an Emeritus Fellow. I served as President of the was allowed to lapse by our successors but has now been successfully revived. European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM) (1994–96). I was elected President I was appointed curator of the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments and of the Thames Valley Early Music Forum on its foundation. In 1991 I was elected lecturer in the University of Oxford (1981–95) where some ten percent of my a Vice-President of the Galpin Society, and its President in 2006. I was elected personal collection is on loan. While there I instigated the Friends of the Bate an Honorary Life Member of the National Early Music Association (NEMA). I was Collection, a major series of measured drawings of many of the instruments awarded the Anthony Baines Prize by the Galpin Society in 2004, then the Curt and some recordings on CDs, and I wrote numerous guides, handbooks, and Sachs Award by the American Musical Instrument Society in 2010, and the catalogues, organised teaching weekends, and extended the visiting hours. I also Christopher Monck Award by the Historic Brass Society in 2016. wrote two small books illustrated from the Collection, The Flute and The Horn Non-musical interests include active membership now of the Oxford Jewish (1990), both of which are scheduled for republication by the Friends in new editions. Congregation and involvement with a number of inter-faith and inter-communal I was advisor (consultancy) on musical instruments to the National Museum of organisations in Oxford. In London I was President of the West Central Synagogue Wales (1990) and to the University of Cambridge Faculty of Music (1995). Also to and was esteemed as their shofar blower, which is why the Horniman Museum

several other museums and the National Art Collections Fund (I am a member of asked me to demonstrate its technique in a series of photographs. their Advisory Panel), the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and occasionally to Today I am still writing books, articles, and reviews, doing some teaching other bodies such as the Leverhulme Foundation. on instruments, and frequently responding to queries from all over the world Retirement provided the time to write on a larger scale, first with my late wife, about instruments and their identification. I also spend time with my children, Gwen, Minstrels & Angels (1998), then a catalogue of the Reed Instruments in grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, and with my colleagues in College. my own collection (2001), followed, on the strength of my knowledge of Hebrew

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Catalogues, which now comprises 18 out of its planned 24 volumes. A personal Richard Sharpe FBA | Professor of Diplomatic chair followed in 1998. 1954–2020 Speaking to a Dublin audience in 2012 he referred to his work on charters and on the library catalogues as ‘my day job’, which represented only one aspect of his wider historical and literary interests, which he said ‘are very, very hard to classify’. The volume and versatility of his research were nothing short of mystifying. Richard confessed that he himself found it difficult at times to keep track of the state of his many projects and side projects, which could range, in a single year (2016), from an article on the earliest Norman sheriffs, through early nineteenth-century printing of Irish poetry, to the composer Tommaso Giordani (‘accidents happen, as I sometimes pick something up along the way’, he wrote on his webpage in relation to that one). Richard blended in perfectly among experts in every field that he mastered, but only a few of his followers seemed to be aware of the full range of his versatility, and fewer still possessed the intellectual stamina to be able to keep up with the flow of contributions across fields. What scholarly disposition motivates a man to try his hand in so many different subjects? To the same Dublin audience he told of wanting to explore ichard Sharpe once wrote that although the Venerable Bede carefully listed ‘the riches of how things connect and lead on, and lead on’. There was always his many works, ‘an agreed count is difficult’. This observation can just as new intellectual ground to be conquered and Richard dashed towards every Rwell apply to Richard’s own prodigious output as a historian, who specialised in new subject with fresh energy, acumen, and rigour. Ever the champion of a charters from the Anglo-Norman realm, but also in saints’ cults, in early medieval strictly evidence-based approach, some of his articles and at least one book church organisation, in medieval and early modern book culture, and in much else developed from rants about how others kept getting things wrong. If written besides. When he last updated his list of publications, about half a year before by anyone else, a book like Titulus: Identifying Medieval Latin Texts (2003), his untimely death on 21 March 2020, it amounted to 212 published works. To on the art of identifying medieval texts for the purpose of cataloguing, would those attempting to download and print the long list from his faculty webpage he be utterly unreadable. But Richard’s strong emotional engagement with left a cautionary note: ‘This is for the seriously curious... Think before you print.’ the subject, which stemmed from his frustration with the facile methods of With several unfinished works in progress, some of which will be seen through the some cataloguers, is so absorbing that it makes the challenge of cataloguing press by willing friends and colleagues, the list remains incomplete. medieval texts seem more like an exciting ontological riddle than a drudging Always ahead of the pack, Richard told that he started researching towards exercise in taxonomy. Richard could be as critical of himself as he was of his doctorate already as an undergraduate in Cambridge while reading Anglo- others, and on the eve of important occasions (like giving the Oxford O’Donnell Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. And when his fellow graduates at Trinity College were Lectures or delivering the Latin sermon at the University Church in 2003) just beginning to contemplate future career plans, Richard was already gaining one could glimpse an endearing sort of boyish international recognition with a series of ground-breaking articles on medieval insecurity beneath the serious scholarly exterior. Irish saints, on the manuscripts that transmitted their Lives, and on church Validation, rarely sought but always forthcoming, organisation in Ireland. His work on the latter subject in particular has turned on arrived in the form of a litany of accolades, among He was generous with his its head much of the received wisdom in a field whose chief protagonist had them a British Academy Fellowship (2003), a '' knowledge, he was always been his PhD supervisor, Kathleen Hughes. Richard’s first job as an editor for the launch by the President of Ireland of Roderick available, and he would continue Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources took him first to London and O’Flaherty’s Letters (2013), and most recently to follow the careers of his then to Oxford, where he devoted his spare time to completing his monumental an Honourary Membership of the Royal Irish graduates closely, supporting Medieval Irish Saints’ Lives, which was published a year after his appointments as Academy (2018) and a Corresponding Fellowship them in both ordinary and Reader in Diplomatic and Fellow of Wadham College in 1990. In the same year he of the Medieval Academy of America (2020). The extraordinary ways became general editor of the British Academy’s Corpus of British Medieval Library list goes on, but ‘an agreed count is difficult’.

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To his research students and postdocs Richard was a committed and archives and libraries. Teaching medieval scripts to students who had no Latin supportive mentor. It took a while for me as a novice graduate student to or little could be disheartening, at least when they showed no desire to learn a understand that what I initially interpreted as impatience was actually his knee-jerk language needed by researchers in the period. He maintained the Classicist’s reaction to predictable or synthetic ideas. But when he sensed original thinking, urge to look always at the primary evidence – a book from 2003 has the pointed even when its ember was slight, he would be quick to engage and foster. He was title Titulus: identifying medieval Latin texts. An evidence-based approach. He generous with his knowledge, he was always available, and he would continue committed his career to big projects that have made such evidence more easily to follow the careers of his graduates closely, supporting them in both ordinary available, bibliographies (e.g. A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and and extraordinary ways, which included creating research positions on funded Ireland before 1540), editions, and above all the Corpus of British Medieval projects and even providing temporary accommodation when this was needed. Library Catalogues, of which he was general editor, and from which he drew out The big house with the beautiful garden on the Whitehouse Road was always fundamental conclusions in the splendid Lyell Lectures of 2019 – how lucky we open to visitors: friends and colleagues from the world over would be treated were in the timing. to nauseously large pots of filter coffee or a bottle of Prosecco to lubricate high The Wadham historians had hoped for an ancillary tutor; they did not get that, spirited conversations on his latest work in progress, on the future of Oxford and at times Richard might not be seen for months on end, but the College libraries, on recollections from trips to the Veneto or from island hopping in the gained a Fellow who generously took on the role of Senior Tutor, and then, having

Hebrides; and to finish off the evening there would be a dose of ordinary academic not quite finished his three year stint – he demitted office to serve as Junior gossip with some punning jokes and, lastly, his resoundingly hearty laugh. Proctor in the college’s turn (2000–01) – came back for a final term to cover a gap. Jane Gover (now Senior Tutor at Merton) worked alongside him as Academic By Roy Flechner (2002, DPhil Modern History) Administrator: ‘He was such a thoughtful, caring and committed person, and I learnt a huge amount from supporting him in his role as Senior Tutor. I also learnt quite a bit about monks. We had a lot of fun working together, including on Stephen Heyworth writes: some occasions when things were going pear-shaped. His laugh was amazing.’

I first met Richard when I was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the A Classics Tutor at another college, whom back in 1999 we turned down for a late 1970s. He had read Part 1 of the Classics Tripos before switching to Anglo- Lecturership, remembers Richard’s generosity afterwards, taking him for a drink to Saxon, Norse & Celtic, and was then working on his PhD (on the early Irish Saints’ explain how he could do better. He liked beer, good wine, conviviality. Even when

Lives), a figure of distinction, learned, outwardly slightly gruff, but full of mischief not holding College office, he used his methodical thoroughness and love of and wit. He had already published two volumes on the history of the Hebridean records to compile and then keep up to date the seniority list of Fellows since the island of Raasay. Our friendship strengthened when I started going on the Trinity 1930s, as well casting his eagle eye over the Wadham pages Lake Hunt, a week-long version of hare and hounds based in Seatoller, and running in the University Calendar. A series of Wardens thus relied on since the 1890s. Richard was a stalwart of the Hunt over decades: it provided an him to make sure Fellows were signed in the correct order. outlet for his physical energy, days spent in one of those beautiful wild parts of the Simon Rees, another friend from Trinity, who regularly A figure of distinction, British Isles that he especially loved, a sense of tradition, and an opportunity to visited him in Wadham, writes: ‘Richard was a man of unique ''learned, outwardly slightly reminisce, argue, play games – I remember with particular fondness the daily walk skills and gifts, but never lost his schoolboy-like relish at gruff, but full of mischief over the Honister Pass after tea at Gatesgarth Farm, a slog both up and down for discovery and his sense of humour in the richness and and wit tired limbs, but so often enriched by Richard’s conversation. variety of language and its users.’ His death has taken away Somehow Trinity managed not to elect the future FBA to a Research Fellowship an abundance of humanity, energy, and scholarship, and we miss him. (it was a period when they had difficulty choosing candidates in the Humanities), and Richard headed off to the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, first in Chancery Lane and then in Oxford, where he provided hospitality, advice, and cheese-and-cauliflower soup when Helen and I were house-hunting in 1988. Two years later he too came to Wadham, appointed to the Readership in Diplomatic (i.e. the study of medieval charters and their script). He would always claim not to be a palaeographer, but charters and scripts became a central part of his academic life, along with lexicography, ecclesiastical history, antiquarianism,

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John Frederick Barton Dick will be remembered as having a to him for his scholarship and meticulous overseas students and colleagues, and this 1938–2020 very sunny and calm disposition that he endeavour on their behalf.’ characterised his management style. inherited from his mother, Doris. He was While at Shebbear he wrote several History Working in the UK from 1984 until 1996, in John Frederick Barton also kind-hearted and down-to-earth, never textbooks including The Shaping of the the British Council’s London and Manchester grew up in Cromhall, one to put on airs, and would always try Welfare State (1974) and 1776: The American HQs, he became Assistant Director-General in Gloucestershire, where to remember names of staff in shops and Challenge (1976), timed to coincide with the 1993. He led an English 2000 project, looking he was soon to earn the restaurants. He loved playing bridge once a bicentenary of American independence. He to the future expansion and diversification nickname ‘Dick Barton’ week, participating in BAe socials with Shirley, was also a senior A Level examiner for the of English. He was instrumental in the UK after the eponymous, popular attending Gaudy reunions and meeting up Oxford Delegacy. government’s work after 1989 to replace radio series detective. with his friends for a pint or two of real ale in Retirement took him and Joan to the idyllic Russian with English language teaching in He showed academic promise from an the local pub. setting of Gidleigh, on the edge of Dartmoor, eastern and central Europe. early age, getting into a local grammar He is survived by his wife, four children and and gave him more time to devote to his He led Trinity College London International school where he would nurture his love six grandchildren who all adored him. garden and books. He spent his last years Examinations Board as Chief Executive from of maths which he went on to read at By Jonathan James Barton (son) in Exeter and passed away peacefully in his 1998 to 2006. Oxford. While at Wadham he was an active sleep on 29 December 2019. He wrote poetry, including a volume member of the badminton team. He also He is survived by Joan, his four children – published as In Passing by the Calcutta already had a desire to travel and, one Reginald Charles (‘Dick’) Birch David, Jonathan, Isobel and Hilary – and eight Writers’ Workshop in 1976, and wrote and summer, sold his violin to buy a motorbike 1924–2019 grandchildren, in whom he took immense spoke at conferences regularly on English which he used to travel with student friends pride and pleasure. language development. to France and Spain. Dick Birch arrived at Wadham in 1948 after By David Birch (son) Roger’s son Mark and daughter Alison On graduating, he joined British Aerospace Watford Grammar School and two years in were born in Ghana to Roger and his first (BAe) in 1959 as an engineer, where he built the Royal Air Force. He was born and brought wife, Gwen, who also shared his life in India a successful career and made some close up in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, the only Dr Roger George Bowers, CMG, OBE and Egypt. His 35-year partnership and friends along the way. It was also in his early child of Charles and Adeline Birch, a chauffeur 1942–2020 marriage with his second wife, Jenny, lasted days at BAe that he met his wife, Shirley, from and dressmaker, respectively. At Oxford, he from 1985 until his death. They worked nearby Bristol. They both settled in Welwyn, was strongly influenced by Alan Bullock, then Born on 23 May in London together at the British Council and Trinity, Hertfordshire, almost 50 years ago, where a fellow at New College and later to become and educated at the Royal and relaxed in France. they would raise four children. Vice-Chancellor of the University. Grammar School Guildford, The many tributes to Roger stress One of his highlights at BAe came towards In 1951 he taught for the British Council Roger graduated with a BA his intellect, his grasp of international the end of his time there, when he and his in Egypt, where he met his wife, Joan. After in Literae Humaniores at perspectives, his warmth, and his wit. He would team met the Queen at Buckingham Palace their marriage, Dick taught history in schools Wadham in 1964, and joined have been startled by the recognition of what to receive an award for their contribution in Bath, Hanley and Cleethorpes before the British Council to pursue a career in he regarded as normal working practice. to British industry, an experience he becoming Senior History Master at Shebbear overseas education. By Jenny Pugsley (widow) remembered very fondly ever since. College, Devon in 1963. He held senior posts in English language He and Shirley enjoyed many years’ He was soon promoted to Second Master development in Accra, Allahabad, Calcutta, retirement together and particularly loved and stayed until his retirement in 1984, and at the Ains Shams University in Cairo, travelling. Together they discovered such delayed for a year so he could ‘see in’ the between 1965 and 1984. He was awarded far-flung places as Zimbabwe, Kenya, China new Head, Russell Buley, who wrote of him an MPhil and a PhD in Linguistic Science at and Brazil – and they would often pursue recently: ‘Dick was held in high regard by the the University of Reading in 1971 and 1978 their adventures with their children and staff for his sensitive leadership as Second respectively. Regarded as the equal of many grandchildren, with whom they got to know Master. Among generations of pupils, A academics in the field, Roger knew the value Spain and the USA, including Bryce, Zion and Level history students, and all who applied of understanding and respecting the culture, the Grand Canyon. to university, had good reason to be grateful values and working environment of his

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David Andrew Brown John Tregoning Caff Roland Ernest Howard Challis Peter Spencer Copping 1954–2020 1937–2019 1929–2020 1940–2019

David grew up on various council estates John Tregoning Caff died at his home in Roland studied English Peter won a Scholarship to read History at in Middlesbrough and had never left the Cornwall on 13 December 2019 aged 82. Literature & Language at Wadham, matriculating in 1958. I met him on north-east before he travelled to Oxford for He was a pupil at Manchester Grammar Wadham, graduating some the day both of us came up to take the entry an interview at Keble. To his surprise he was School from 1947–54. From there he went time in the early 1950s. exams and he was a good friend from then

made an offer of 2 ‘E’s at A level from Wadham on to study at Wadham (1954–57), Harvard He subsequently had a on. I saw a lot of him in London especially when without the College having seen him or him the (1957–58) and Nuffield College, Oxford successful and varied career he bought a flat very near to where I lived.

College. In spite of the low offer David continued (1958–60), receiving a 1st Class Hons MA as a journalist and broadcaster around the My first impression and lasting to study hard and achieved brilliant results. and a BPhil Economics. John had a varied world. He worked for the Sydney Morning impression was that he was wonderfully The next three years were happy ones and career starting in the Diplomatic Service Herald in Australia, and the Straits Times encyclopaedic. He must have had a David made friendships for life, particularly with (1960–73) with Foreign Office postings to in Malaya before an illustrious career in the clamp memory because he could take up Martin Richards. He also had warm memories Buenos Aires and Washington DC. He then BBC – as the BBC Foreign Correspondent discussions on Physics and Gene Technology,

of Geoff Brooker who helped him enormously transferred to HM Treasury (1973–81) from in South-East Asia, during the Vietnam on Astronomy and … on it went. I thought in the last term with revision sessions. where he was seconded to Leeds Castle war, based in Singapore, and as the BBC he was made to be a Don but perhaps even David continued his academic career Foundation, Kent (1981–82), securing the correspondent in the Middle East, based by his time the idea of the all-rounder had at Lancaster University, gaining an MA in future of the castle for future generations. in Cairo, Egypt. He subsequently was the faded. I’m sure that his multiplicity of interests Operational Research and then qualifying as a He then became economic director of producer of current affairs programmes got in the way of him focussing on Modern chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse. the CBI (1983–88) before moving to his Analysis for Radio 4, Head of BBC Topical History. All of us who were in his group He had a varied career in industry, latterly as a home county of Cornwall where he was the Tapes, Head of Central Current Affairs Talks thought he was heading for a First although in Finance Director, and was able to retire early Managing Director of the Devon and Cornwall (World Service), in Bush House in London, those days only 4 or 5% got Firsts. to enjoy family life, long walks on Wimbledon Development Company (1988–92). From before managing the BBC’s Monitoring He was also an expert gardener and used Common with friends and visiting family in 1992 until 1996 John worked for the Prince’s Service in Caversham Park outside Reading. to do the garden of Pat Thompson, one of North Yorkshire. He also spent eight years as a Youth Business Trust, following which he In his latter years Roland was very actively his Tutors. The Copping family were known governor at Tiffin Girls’ grammar school. David was engaged with Prime, the Prince’s Trust involved in the local arts scene in Salisbury, for their gardening skills and although Peter’s never lost his love of learning and greatly for the over 50s until 2002. He believed Wiltshire, assisting in the establishment of branch of the family was on the margins enjoyed revisiting the maths and physics in giving back to his community and after the Salisbury Arts Centre, and was an active and at the poorer end they still worked in curriculum to help our three daughters with his official retirement he devoted much of participant in local poetry and drama groups. the gardening trade. His father left school at their GCSE and A level studies. his time volunteering for various Cornish Despite declining health and the onset of eleven in 1915 when there was a government We often visited Oxford as a family and charities and organisations, giving freely of Parkinson’s Disease over the past couple of directive that if pupil had achieved a certain David would point out the locations of various his considerable expertise. He especially years, Roland maintained an independent standard by eleven and was needed to help adventures, including having to climb over the enjoyed chairing meetings and finding existence in his beloved home in rural the war effort they could leave. He then railings of the Exam School after an illicit party ways round obstacles. In 1962 he married Wiltshire, until the final four weeks of his life. worked with his father growing vegetables on there and steering a punt over the stone steps Patricia Doyle and they were blessed with He is remembered with great affection by his the family’s market garden. near Parson’s Pleasure! A trip to Wadham three daughters and five grandchildren. His friends, relatives, and partner and by his three After a cluster of illnesses when he was

was always on the agenda and David also interests included music, walking, gardening children and five grandchildren. four or five he suffered from a deafness which enjoyed meeting old Wadhamites at dinners and languages. John was highly intelligent By Robin Challis (son) afflicted him for the rest of his life. It did not and gaudies. and a man of humour, who combined hamper his exuberant rather loud conversations

David had a rare cancer and, in spite of culture and compassion in equal measure. – nor, when he sorted out various hearing aids, a very challenging final year, never lost his By Suzanna Farnham (daughter) his deep appreciation of music. resilience, bravery and determination. After he went down he worked for Mullard By Janet Brown (widow) then moved to Philips at their Eindhoven

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headquarters in the Netherlands, and He also reminisced about the parts he played With one other undergraduate, whom he His business success enabled Edward to then moved back to England in the late with the College Drama Society plus many had converted, Edward founded the Oxford indulge his tastes for vintage cars and for

60s to IBM. He left ‘under a cloud’ having amusing anecdotes at his efforts with (I think) University Free Presbyterian Society. He cut fine food and wine, dispensed with lavish

written a derogatory letter about them the second rowing eight. a conspicuous figure, dressed in the manner hospitality. His Times obituarist celebrates him to The Times. Luckily he had already National Service followed and was which (apart from a brief remission) he was to as ‘a jovial man who occasionally turned self- arranged a position with Sainsbury’s. This spent with the 1st Battalion Somerset light retain throughout his life: dark three-piece suit, indulgence into an art form’, but this was only eclectic career settled down when Infantry in Malaya, involved in jungle warfare gold chain and pocket watch. He was, however, one side of a complex personality. He remained he became a Lecturer at Manchester against Communist Terrorists during the most entertaining company, not least in the devoted to the Free Presbyterian Church, of Metropolitan University and in retirement Malayan Emergency. College Essay Society, which he regaled with which he became an Elder, and did much work did some work for the Open University. Following National Service, he spent 18 vigorously argued, but good-humoured papers for the Trinitarian Bible Society, once getting In Manchester he was a long-standing months in Northern Nigeria trading in hides, on the literal truth of the Genesis creation story arrested smuggling bibles into China. member of the Hallé Concerts Society, skins, groundnuts and cotton as a Venture and the necessity of religious intolerance. By John Rich (Classics, 1962) subscribing to concerts across the various Agent for John Holt & Co. of Liverpool. After graduation, Edward stayed on in series they gave and when the Hallé faced In 1958 he joined Bostik of Leicester and Oxford, working for a DPhil on the Calvinist

its financial crisis in the 1990s he was one made his way up to Sales Director of one of theologian Turretin, and spent spells Peter Kenneth Griffin of a number of key supporters who pledged their Associate Companies and in 1972 he tutoring a young Scottish earl and teaching 1943–2020 additional gifts over a number of years, spent the last 20 years before retirement as at Magdalen College School. After leaving making him one of the Hallé’s Family of Managing Director of the UK Company of MCS, Edward happened on his life’s work. Peter Kenneth Griffin was born at ‘Springfield’ Benefactors. In Manchester he also took an Gustav Käser Management and Sales Training Noting the presence in Oxford of both in King’s Stanley on 11 March 1943. He was

active part in the local Labour Party and sat organisation – a Zurich based company. university applicants in need of coaching educated at the local primary school and at on various committees. Peter married Sheila in 1955 and had three and indigent postgraduates ready to provide Marling School in Stroud. In 1962 he went up In his last year or so he contracted sons and eight grandchildren. tuition, Edward provided his services as a to Wadham to read History. After graduation Alzheimer’s then inoperable pancreatic and By Sheila Gage (widow) middleman, with such rapid success that he he stayed on at Oxford for a year to study liver cancer. was able in 1967 to found Edward Greene’s Education before taking a job with the Schools He was a vivid and unforgettable presence Tutorial Establishment. With one-to-one Service at the Reading Museum. in my life and in the lives of his many friends Edward Paul Campbell Greene teaching based on the Oxford tutorial Peter entered the teaching profession

who miss him greatly. 1937–2018 system, this was very different from older in the mid 1960s with a post at the Forest By Melvyn Bragg (Modern History, 1958) crammers, and soon became a notable School in Winnersh. On moving back to Edward Greene came from a notable family feature of the Oxford educational scene. King’s Stanley in the early 1970s he joined – Graham and Hugh Carleton Greene were Edward continued to direct the Establishment the History Department at Katharine Lady Peter John Gage cousins. In a departure from family tradition, until 2005, and under his successors it still Berkeley’s School in Wotton-under-Edge, 1932–2020 he was sent to Eton, but the strong religious thrives in the seventeenth-century building where he remained until he retired in the late

convictions that he had already formed in Pembroke Street which Edward acquired 1990s, by then Head of Department. Peter came up to Wadham in 1951 to read obliged him to leave early: apparently he felt in 1972, while similar institutions have After retirement, Peter was awarded an English literature. unable in conscience to turn to the east for the been set up on its model. The distinctive MPhil from the University of Gloucestershire He was educated at King’s College, creed in Chapel or to observe the instruction character of the Establishment owed for his work transcribing with detailed Taunton, and 1950/51 at Westminster School, that in divinity lessons the teacher’s invitation much to Edward’s charm and his foibles, footnotes the diary of a railway engineer.

Simsbury, Connecticut, USA as an English for questions should not apply to him. as with its brochures, hand-printed and Charles Richardson, a pupil of Isambard Speaking Union exchange student. After National Service, Edward followed his hand-stitched, and using handmade paper Kingdom Brunel, was engaged to survey the He very much enjoyed his association father to Wadham in 1959, taking Classical sourced from Sweden and a font retaining route of the future Great Western Railway with Wadham Choral Society and had happy Mods and then Greats in 1963. By then, he the archaic long ‘s’. However, Edward kept through Gloucestershire in the 1830s. memories of the performances they gave, had found his spiritual home in the strictly academic standards high and gave both A keen local historian, Peter was a member some joining the choir of Lady Margaret Hall. Calvinist Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland. the students and the tutors warm support. of the Stroud Local History Society, the Stroud

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Museum Association, the Museum in the Park He was a stalwart of the ICID community based professional orchestra later renamed John also collaborated with Gordon and the Cotswold Postcard Collectors’ Club. and was instrumental in bringing up the sector the City of Oxford Orchestra. His collaboration McDougall, artistic director of the Oxford However, his main interest was the history of agricultural water management. An expert with the Greek conductor, Yannis Daras, a Playhouse to form Oxford Music Theatre, of the village where he lived for most of his in water resources development for irrigation, life-long friend, with whom he shared an which company was one of the first outside life. Peter gave many talks and lectures on drainage and power generation, John handled encyclopaedic knowledge of music, ushered in New York and London to tour a production the subject, and his book, A History of King’s major water resource assignments in more a revolutionary era in the musical life of Oxford. of Tom Stoppard’s Every Good Boy Stanley, based on decades of meticulous than 20 countries in Africa, the Middle East In its heyday, the orchestra gave some seventy Deserves Favour. Another highly successful research, was near completion when he died; and Asia. He had actively been associated performances a year and attracted world class collaboration was with the Heather Professor his daughter Kate has taken on the task of with ICID since 1978 in various capacities. soloists such as Nigel Kennedy, Cristina Ortiz, of Music, Denis Arnold, who used the City of preparing it for publication shortly. He was a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Howard Shelley, Myung-Wha Chung, Julian Oxford Orchestra as a conduit for his own Peter leaves three grown up children, Kate, Engineers and a Member of the Chartered Lloyd Webber, and Marios Papadopoulos who research in to 18th century Italian music. Chloe and Edmund, and four grandchildren in Institution of Water & Environmental maintains a musical presence in Oxford today In the late 1990s John and the trumpeter Australia and Gateshead. His wife Liz continues Management, and has served on a number with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra. John Roger Payne formed ‘La Réjouissance’,

to live at ‘Springfield’ in King’s Stanley. of engineering and scientific committees and also introduced an annual summer season of a trumpet and organ ensemble which By Elizabeth Griffin (widow) advisory boards. baroque concerts in Merton College Chapel. performed many concerts in Oxford and He was a member of the Engineer and Pianist and conductor, Marios produced a CD of the same name. Logistic Staff Corps from 1984, of which he Papadopoulos has written about his long More recently John contributed to Colonel John Richard Hennessy, eventually became the Commanding Officer association with John: feasibility studies for the creation of the OBE in February 1997. He was also the Honorary ‘John invited me to give a piano recital in Jacqueline du Pré building at St Hilda’s and 1936–2020 Colonel of RE Specialist Units from March 1997. the Holywell Music Room as part of the Oxford the adaptation of St John the Evangelist (SJE) He was an Honorary Member of the Pro Musica’s Summer Series in 1975 and into a new 500 seat concert venue for Oxford. John Hennessy was born in Cardiff and was Institution of Royal Engineers and was a subsequently engaged me to perform with Michèle Smith, Director of SJE Arts, writes: educated at Downside and Oxford University, Blythe Sapper. the orchestra the following season and on “…without John we might never have started where he studied Engineering Sciences. He By / With thanks to Anna Hennessy numerous occasions thereafter. to use it (the church) as a concert venue…”. was then called up for his National Service, John was a man of great vision and humility. John was a dedicated and inspirational which he spent in the Royal Engineers. I spent many hours in his company and teacher and the brass coach for the Thames He joined Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, John Alexander King admired his deep knowledge of music and Vale Youth Orchestra for over 40 years. He (Gibb), a firm of Civil Engineering Consultants, 1943–2020 repertoire. His programming was ingenious, also was the UK associate for the music in 1959 and worked for them on a large variety matching works together to form a cohesive agency Latitude 45 based in Montréal. John of projects mainly related to water and hydro- John Alexander King passed musical narrative. He was quick-witted and was a socialist and a Europhile, a Northerner power until he retired in 1977. away at home on 22 June his command of the English language was with a dry but always compassionate sense John spent two postings in Iran, initially 2020 after a long illness. supreme. I’d often study his writings and read of humour. working for the Tehran Regional Water Board Born in Manchester, his programme notes in order to learn. He is survived by his wife Thérèse, on the supervision of the construction of the Lancashire, in 1943, John John introduced me to Oxford and provided two stepsons Nick and Luke and six step Latyan dam and then the associated water attended Bolton School where me with a platform on which to share my grandchildren, Ellie, Oskar, Konrad, Lucy,

treatment works and subsequently as the he developed a passion for music. While music-making with a discerning audience. I Milton and Alfie. firm’s Chief Representative. He returned to reading Law at Wadham, he was regularly shall for ever be grateful. When I founded the By Thérèse Maitland (widow), England and was promoted to the Partnership involved in music, playing the trumpet with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra in 1998 (the compiled from friends and colleagues’ in 1975, which was then located in Reading. Oxford University Orchestra, and the Oxford Oxford Philomusica as it was known then), comments and writings John also took on the role of Honorary Orchestral Society under Sydney Watson. he stood by me and gave me invaluable President of the International Commission for In 1965, he co-founded with the advice: he considered the Oxford Phil as

Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), which he served distinguished baroque trumpeter, Don the continuation of his efforts. He leaves a

between 1990 and 1993. Smithers, the Oxford Pro Musica, an Oxford- significant and enduring musical legacy.’

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Paul Harold Mapplebeck disadvantaged students like himself. Studying was the largest Teacher Training College in the Shirley-Anne moved to Braeside, ON after 1932–2020 at Wadham was inspirational for him, offered UK. It has now disappeared. his retirement. Mike will be remembered for him many unique opportunities, expanded A keen sportsman, Willis took a leading part his sharp wit, love of outdoor adventuring, Paul was proud to have been his horizons and led to many new interests in the rugby and cricket teams and was also and insatiable curiosity to find answers to so awarded a scholarship by which would stay with him throughout his a member of the cricket team at Wadham. many questions. He explored many different Wadham to read Chemistry life. He worked for ICI his entire career in He also played squash, tennis, hockey and interests throughout his lifetime including in 1953. Yet his entrance Sales and Purchasing where he met his enjoyed swimming and rock climbing. He mountain climbing (member, Alpine Club of interview centred on a wife Joyce at his recruitment interview, and and Anne climbed all 277 Scottish Munros Canada, Fell and Rock Climbing Club in UK), discussion of his essay in the to whom he was married 61 years. He is – mountains over 3,000 feet. This was in sailing (Outward Bound instructor), Canadian general paper, ‘Ballet is a glorious synthesis, survived and greatly missed by Joyce, his between preparing a MEd from Durham Ski Patrol Service at Mont Ste. Marie and Mt. opera is a hideous mixture – discuss.’ He three children and four grandchildren. University and a PhD at Glasgow University. Pakenham, scuba diving, Naturists (member, impressed Sir Jack Westrup (Oxford Professor By Jane Simoni (daughter) His cultural interests included classical Federation of Canadian Naturists, Ottawa of Music) and the panel with his knowledge of music (with a special enthusiasm for Italian Naturists), and most recently Amateur radio the complete collection of the symphonies opera which inspired him to learn Italian), operator (VA3TJP with the Ottawa Valley of Mahler. At the end of the interview, with not William ‘Willis’ Bennett Marker theatre and film. Mobile Radio Club). A private celebration of a single Chemistry question being allowed to 1928–2019 He can be said to have had a full and life for family and friends will take place in the be put by the Chemist Junior Lecturers on happy life due in no small way to his early summer, at which point we will scatter his the panel, Sir Jack announced, ‘Gentlemen, William (Willis) Marker was born in 1928 experiences at Wadham. ashes to fulfill his final wish of sailing the seven this man is a chemist who knows all of Gustav to Scottish parents. He soon moved south By Anne Marker (widow) seas for eternity. VA3TJP Out. Mahler’s symphonies. He’s just the kind of and spent his youth in England as his father By Gillian Durrett (daughter) person we want at Wadham!’ was a tax inspector and thus possibly open Paul made full use of his time, attending to bribery. Eventually the family moved Michael Parris guest lectures by many young and upcoming to Ulverston where Willis and his brother 1932–2020 Major-General Peter Daer Reid inspirational scientists including Dorothy attended the local Grammar School. Willis 1925–2020 Hodgkins. He prepared for his tutorials with won an exhibition to Wadham College where Mike passed away peacefully RJP Williams and Professor Hammick ‘as he read Modern History. After completing on 12 February 2020 after Major-General Peter Daer Reid never before’. When he wasn’t discussing National Service where he joined the Air a short stay at Carlingview was son of Colonel Spence chemical conundrums in the JCR after Force and was stationed at Farnham he Manor in Ottawa. Survived by D Reid, RAMC, and educated dinner or studying in his beloved library he then spent a year in Nice teaching English his sister Patricia (Maureen) at Cheltenham and Wadham played sport and attended every film shown at the Ecole Normale de Garçons. There Barlow (NSW, Australia), loving College, Oxford, where he took by the OU film society during his time there. he perfected his French and made some wife of 58 years Shirley-Anne (Finnbogason), the wartime one-year course Attending as many classical music concerts lifelong friends. children Tim (Jacques), Gillian (Richard), Penny in General Science. Commissioned into the as he could afford, on several occasions he He then entered the teaching profession, (Tracy), grandchildren Emily, Arianne, Evan, Coldstream Guards in 1945 he transferred also cycled from Oxford to Covent Garden his first post being in Portsmouth. He moved Claire, Samantha, Jason, Tyler, Hunter, Dakota, to 1st The Royal Dragoons two years Opera House and back in a day to watch from there to East Anglia and thence to Kirkby and great-grandchild Luke. later, eventually becoming the regiment’s last some special performances. A Rugby and Lonsdale in Westmorland to be nearer to his Born in Leicester, UK, Mike attended school commanding officer before amalgamation Squash College Blue he proudly captained the beloved hills. There he met Anne whom he locally (Stamford) and, excelling in academics, with the Royal Horse Guards in 1969. After Wadham College Rugby Team and later went married. They had two children and after ten pursued his education until he received his commanding the armoured regiments based on to play for Hendon. He was present on the happy years there they moved to Jordanhill DPhil in Inorganic Chemistry from Wadham. in the United Kingdom, he was appointed mound to watch Roger Bannister break the College in Glasgow where Willis joined the He emigrated to Canada shortly thereafter, Director of the Royal Armoured Corps and magic four minute mile. History Department. He gradually moved meeting Shirley-Anne in Edmonton, and then was closely involved in the design and Paul contributed to the College in later up the ladder and eventually became an moving to Ottawa where he taught at Carleton selection of the British Army’s main battle tank

life as much as he was able, to help other Assistant Principal at a time when Jordanhill University until his retirement in 1993. He and in the final decades of the Cold War.

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After graduating from the Army Staff College Anthony John Robbins John went up to Wadham in 1961, reading focused on butterflies, searching across

at Camberley he was offered a choice of a staff 1946–2019 Classical Mods and Greats. Two of his rough terrain with fellow enthusiasts for appointment in Gibraltar or Defence Attaché teachers had special importance for him: elusive specimens like the Chelmos Blue, in Rabat, Morocco. Displaying characteristic Born in Eastbourne in 1946; died in Rome, George Forrest, then in his brilliant prime as eventually run to ground in a sheep trough.

flexibility of mind he offered to undertake both, 2019. Anthony came to Wadham from Christ’s a Greek history tutor, and Maurice Bowra – Sadly, such trips were curtailed by the blood living on the Rock but visiting nearby Rabat Hospital to read English in 1965. He was John was later to acknowledge his debt to disorder which was to lead to his death. as necessary to meet his responsibilities co-founder of a school of English, the Wall Bowra’s ‘infectious delight in all things Greek By John Rich (Classics, 1962) there. Later, when a colonel working in the Street Institute, in Italy in 1967. Appointed to (and more)’. John’s undergraduate years also Ministry of Defence in London he persuaded a lectureship at the University of Canberra saw the start of his lifelong passion for travel the authorities to allow him extended leave to in 1970. Returned briefly to Italy in 1975 in Greece. Christopher Adam Patrick Szwaja participate in Colonel John Blashford-Snell’s before moving to London. He returned to In 1965 John embarked on a DPhil on 1946–2020 1971–72 Trans-American Expedition from Italy in 1996 and lived there for the rest of his early Corinth (a topic suggested by Forrest). Alaska to Tierra del Feugo to study the bird life, publishing poetry widely, notably in his He completed it in 1970, but already in 1967 Kris (as he liked to be known) moved to

life and take charge of the scientific group. A book Anthogony. He worked on the board of he had been appointed to a lecturing post at London after graduation from Wadham, keen amateur ornithologist, Reid joined the several prominent literary journals, including Queen’s University Belfast. It was at Belfast that to work in the field of early computer expedition for the crossing of the Darien Gap, Smerilliana. He was a celebrated translator he met and married Veronica and their children programme design. He was in demand in the 50-mile stretch of roadless jungle and between Italian and English and remained Ian and Helen were born. It was a happy time this field, working as freelance consultant for marshland on the isthmus connecting Panama in active contact with Wadham through his for them, but the Troubles increasingly cast global organisations such as BEA, IBM and with Colombia. It is an ornithologist’s paradise brother Robin (Fellow in English 1981–2005). their shadow: John even found himself giving many more. In the early 1970s Kris moved and Reid made an impressive collection of By Bernard O’Donoghue, Emeritus Fellow tutorials to a student interned in Long Kesh, to Germany, where he worked in Hamburg, specimens and photographs. where the copy of Plato’s Republic in his before moving to Berlin mid 1970s. After leaving the army in 1980 over a period briefcase aroused suspicions. Berlin became Kris’ home. He continued to of eleven years, he researched the events of John Brynmor Salmon In 1979 John moved to the University of work as a freelance consultant through the the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) between 1942–2020 Lancaster, and it was there that he brought his 80s and 90s. Kris was multi-lingual, speaking England and France visiting battlefields work on Corinth to its triumphant completion. German, French, Polish, Russian and of and fortified towns for the production of his John Salmon was an outstanding Greek However, stringent cuts then led to the course English. Kris had a thirst for knowledge book of remarkable historical detail: By Fire historian, whose masterpiece, Wealthy closure of several Classics departments, and mental stimulation to the last – playing and Sword – The Rise and Fall of English Corinth: A History of the City to 338 BC of which Lancaster was one, and John chess & backgammon, writing ‘Mastermind’ Supremacy at Arms 1314–1485, published (Oxford, 1984), will long remain the standard accordingly moved again, in 1989, to the quizzes. Kris built and tested his knowledge by Constable in 2007. The book made an work on its theme. He was also a much-loved University of Nottingham, where he remained continually. An avid reader, he never lost enduring contribution to the study of the husband and father, teacher, colleague and until his retirement in 2005, and so became his interest in physics/cosmology, always economics and techniques of the wars of friend, and a man of wide enthusiasms, above my colleague. surrounded by books on this chosen subject. the period. all for Greece and for the natural world. John was a superb and caring teacher and As a young man, Kris was awarded a He married Catherine Boodle in 1958. They John was the son of a Methodist minister a warm and positive colleague, supportive scholarship to Chatham House Grammar had two sons and two daughters, all of whom and educated at the Methodist foundation, especially to younger staff. Particularly School in Kent: from there he was awarded survive him. Kingswood School, where, besides getting a notable were the student trips to Greece an exhibition to Wadham, Oxford. There By Michael Tillotson (family friend), sound classical training, he formed some of which he organised and ran brilliantly. He could have been no more worthy recipient, with thanks to Catherine Reid (widow) his abiding interests, including cricket was an old hand at such ventures, having a significant achievement in the 1960s; his (as both player and spectator), classical collaborated on many adult education Greek mother was eternally proud of this. music (especially Schubert Lieder), and trips with John Prag from Manchester. Kris was a quiet, studious man, of tall, slim

butterflies: schoolboy butterfly collecting In retirement at the family home at the foot stature (6’8”). His days in Oxford were filled was in due course to be replaced by of Ingleborough, John was able to continue with learning, not partying! He often talked superb photography. his many interests. His Greek travel now about his time at Wadham and only a few

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years ago ordered a replacement of the everything he wanted. He made his name as John Hugh Walsh six and named himself ‘Don’ as head of College scarf, which he wore with pride in his an expert commentator on trade union affairs 1935–2020 the family. adopted home city of Berlin. and industrial relations generally. He worked He died in March 2020, aged 85. Kris’ funeral took place in Berlin on 15 July for The Financial Times, The Observer, and Dr John Walsh had a long John had a long life, a long retirement and 2020. He leaves behind a wife and daughter The Sunday Times, and was a columnist for academic career in teaching was happily married to Brenda for 57 years. and will be sadly missed by them, as well as New Society, The Spectator, The Economist, and research at universities By David Walsh (son) and family his family here in England. The New Statesman, and other publications. in Edinburgh, Liverpool and By Alexandra Nash (cousin) and Susannah It was no surprise that he should be asked to Manchester. Szwaja (daughter) write the official history of the TUC, in that he Born in Spalding, Terence Edmond Ralph Wheeler had already published several major works Lincolnshire, in 1935, he attended Wyggeston 1936–2018 on the history of industrial relations in Great Grammar in Leicester. He left a year early in Robert George Taylor Britain. His journalism and his scholarship fed 1952 after gaining a scholarship to Wadham Terence Wheeler was born in August, 1936 1943–2020 on each other. to study botany. He was awarded a first class in Portsmouth. Although his parents were Perhaps predictably, Robert was a strong degree. A DPhil followed in 1959, with a thesis Marxists, they sent Terry to a Catholic primary Robert Taylor was born in Bury in January supporter of the Labour Party, although, on the ‘enzymes of certain fungi’. school where he won a catechism prize and 1943. His father was Town Clerk of St Helens. as an incorrigible individualist, not always a A keen cyclist, in the summer of 1956 he a place at Portsmouth Southern Grammar Although he only lived in the North for two Party member. He knew where the Labour rode to Rome and back. He was also an Eights School. There, a charismatic English teacher years or so after leaving Wadham, as a movement’s traditions should lead. Hugh rower for Wadham. encouraged him to apply for Oxford and he Lecturer at Lancaster University, he remained Gaitskell and John Smith were heroes, His first job was assistant lecturer at won a place at Wadham, matriculating in a Lancashire man in many ways. Rugby Wilson an opportunist, Blair a deviant and Edinburgh University in 1958. 1955. He found a haven working backstage in League was the only game worth following, Corbyn an aberration. Equally, in the Union The following year he met Brenda Booth. the Oxford University Dramatic Society. with Lancashire cricket just possible as a world, Walter Citrine and John Monks were They married in Edinburgh in June 1962 and Early in his career, Terry moved to India with second option. He was blunt, forthright, models of leadership, while Arthur Scargill honeymooned as wardens of Kishorn Youth his young family, where he taught some 600 and to the point. He was sent to St Bees was a wrecker. Robert had lived in Sweden Hostel in the Highlands. Later that year he took boys at Birla boarding school in Pilani, in the School in Cumberland, but did not enjoy for a number of years and much admired its a job lecturing in microbiology at Liverpool middle of the Rajastan desert. After a few years, the experience. social democracy and cooperative industrial University and the couple moved to Wallasey. they moved back to the UK, to Kent, where he He came up to Wadham to read Modern relations. Swedish society provided him with Helen was born in June 1964 and Hugh in first taught at a girls’ grammar school and later History in October 1962, and, as a modernist a yardstick, with which to beat American November 1966. The family moved to Hazel went on to lecture in 18th-century and later

by temperament, was much influenced by and Russian models. He had visited both Grove, Stockport, in 1968 when John started at modern literature at Christ Church, Canterbury. the teaching of Pat Thompson. A top First countries and disliked them equally. the University of Manchester Institute of Science Terry was also a writer and was extremely was taken three years later, followed by a It was unknown for Robert to sit on the and Technology. By now he was teaching modest about his work. His first novel,

studentship at Nuffield, a College whose fence. He had an opinion about everything genetics while continuing to conduct research, Conjunction, exploring clashing world-views

history he later wrote. Through the influence and expressed it fearlessly. He was including, in 1969, into ‘the drawbacks of plastics’. in India, was shortlisted for the Booker prize of the Thompson family, he was drafted into passionate about history, politics and books, Hugh died of leukaemia in February of in 1970. He published two other novels, From

research for the official edition of Churchill’s of which he was an obsessive collector. 1969. Twins Martin and David were born eight Home in Heaven (1971) and The Wreck of the papers, under Martin Gilbert’s direction. An Music, too, was a passion, and his preference months later. The family put down roots and Rat Trap (1973), as well as two short stories, academic career seemed inevitable, not least here was for the emotional, swelling when a job offer at Glasgow University arose and two screen plays which were broadcast

because his first book was an authoritative life symphonies of Mahler and Shostakovich. he turned it down. by the BBC in the 1970s. of Lord Salisbury, the late nineteenth-century Rumpled and apparently disorganised in His passions were gardening, walking, In 1982 he stopped writing altogether. Prime Minister. Sensibly, after a short spell at matters that did not interest him, he wrote photography, theatre and jazz. He was a lay To the end, Terry’s greatest pleasure was Lancaster, however, he changed direction. and thought with unstinted focus on issues supporter of Hazel Grove Scouts for years. in listening to the people he met, and Robert was a scholarly polemicist for about which he cared deeply. After retiring in 1999 John and Brenda discovering their stories. whom a career in serious journalism offered By Leslie Mitchell (Modern History, 1962) moved to Buxton. He became a grandfather of With thanks to Sara Wheeler (widow)

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I published an article on the late Vladimir In May, he was admitted to the Royal Irish Sharov, one of post-Soviet Russia’s most Academy for his pioneering work in the Fellows’ news important writers. This is academic territory I physics of quantum materials. For the first rarely visit, so I am grateful to Dr Oliver Ready time in its 235 year history, Séamus and for his gentle guidance in this new field. Oliver 28 further new members were admitted to Dominic Parviz Brookshaw Philip Ross Bullock has, of course, been covering most of my the Academy with a video call rather than a Associate Professor of Persian Literature | Professor of Russian Literature and undergraduate teaching at Wadham during handshake. Senior Research Fellow in Persian Music | Fellow and Tutor in Russian my time at TORCH, so it has been a particular And in July, he was awarded the Olli V. privilege to learn from his expertise. I also Lounasmaa Memorial Prize 2020 for his The Association for Iranian Studies has 2019–20 was my final year as Director of co-authored an article on the contemporary pioneering research into visualizing electronic named Professor Dominic Parviz Brookshaw TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Russian playwright, Ivan Vyrypaev, with quantum matter at the atomic scale. The as winner of the 2020 Saidi-Sirjani Book Humanities), and much of my time has been Professor Julie Curtis (History and Modern prize is awarded once every four years Award. This distinguished award goes to devoted to chairing the new Humanities Languages, 1974), Rajinder Dudrah, and Noah to a scientist who has made outstanding Dominic in recognition of his book Hafiz and Cultural Programme, which supports Birksted-Breen. October sees four freshers contributions to advances in low temperature

His Contemporaries – Poetry, Performance research-led public events and collaborations reading Russian at Wadham, the largest intake physics and related fields. and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Iran. with local, national, and international partners yet during my time at the College and a sign Hafiz and His Contemporaries is a in the arts. Organising this kind of activity of optimism for the future.

socio-political, historical, and literary has been a major logistical challenge during Jane Griffiths contextualisation of Shams al-Din lockdown, but together with colleagues in Placito Fellow & Tutor in English Muhammad Hafiz of Shiraz (d. 1390), who the Humanities Division, we managed to J. C. Séamus Davis remains an elusive and opaque character host some 17 online events over Trinity term, Professor of Physics | Senior Research Jane has a new book, for many. Hafiz was a Persian poet whose which have been seen more than 29,000 Fellow in Physics published by Palgrave, collected works remain some of the times by viewers in some 23 countries. When October 2020: most admired in Persian literature. not teaching or chairing meetings online, I Séamus has been the Architectural Space The Saidi-Sirjani Book Award is granted took every opportunity to work in the College recipient of a string of and the Imagination: biennially by the Association for Iranian gardens; their quiet beauty made the effects accolades this year. Houses in Literature Studies on behalf of the Persian Heritage of the pandemic elsewhere seem yet more In April 2020, he was and Art from Classical Foundation. tragic, and made me feel the privilege of named as one of six to Contemporary, ed. Established in 1995, the purpose of Oxford more acutely than ever. It is uncanny to world-class scientists Jane Griffiths and the Award is to recognise and promote look back on a time when travel and face-to- to be awarded a Adam Hanna scholarship in the field of Iranian studies. face contact were things we took for granted, prestigious Research The book originated in a conference, The award also honours the memory of and lectures in Moscow and St Petersburg Professorship by the The House in the Mind: Architectural Space Ali-Akbar Saidi-Sirjani (1931–1994), the noted seem like strange dreams from another life, Royal Society. Professor Davis studies exotic and the Imagination, which Adam and Jane Iranian historian, literary critic and author, as do conferences in San Francisco and Bern. new quantum mechanical states of matter organised as part of the Wadham Conference in appreciation for his scholarship, courage, In October 2019, I spent a week in Seoul, and this appointment specifically supports Series in March 2016, that was designed to and indefatigable struggle for freedom promoting a new recording of Russian piano his work in atomic-scale visualisation of support Fellows’ research. of expression. trios by Trio Owon, for which I had written quantum spin liquids. His work aims to the liner notes. Whilst there, I caught up with advance our understanding of this enigmatic Sian Stickings (Modern Languages, 1976) and challenging state by developing two new and Simon Smith (Modern Languages, 1976), types of quantum microscopes which will be current UK Ambassador to South Korea. Of the first instruments capable of observing

this year’s publications, two attest to the quantum spin liquids directly. pleasures of collaboration. In summer 2020,

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Stephen Heyworth in a volume on the Appendices Vergiliana, significant soft-law instrument for any country Emily McLaughlin Professor of Latin | Bowra Fellow and Tibulliana, and Ovidiana edited by two other planning to adopt anti-discrimination law. I Fellow and Tutor in French Tutor in Classics Wadhamites, Tristan Franklinos and and hope to bring my experience with the Indian Laurel Fulkerson, and ‘Interpolation-hunting bill to inform the UN debate on the issue. I was Emily McLaughlin is Hilary term ended, as usual, with Mods Lunch. in Senecan tragedy, Ovid, and Horace’, in a also invited to join the advisory board of the the Tutorial Fellow in

During that prolonged celebration of hard Festschift for Richard Tarrant. Also imminent International Journal of Constitutional Law French at Wadham. and effective work by the second year, they is ‘The author of [Tibullus] 3.19 and 3.20: in 2020 – arguably the most well-regarded Her new book Yves received a message from the Vice-Chancellor anonymous or Tibullus?’, which combines international journal in the field. A co-authored Bonnefoy and Jean- telling them to go home. As I walked home two recent themes: exploration of the article on religious freedom and discrimination Luc Nancy: Ontological in the darkness I reflected on a fine last Corpus Tibullianum and (like the Consolatio also won the Special Mention Award for the Performance was couple of days – if this should prove to be the piece) sceptical questioning of claims of journal’s best paper prize. I visited the NYU published in May end of my tutorial life. Fortunately it wasn’t inauthenticity and late dating. Law School as their Global Visiting Professor 2019 with Oxford that, but nothing has been quite the same for five months at the start of 2020. It was an University Press. since. All encounters with students have extremely fruitful and rewarding trip, despite This monograph analyses the relatively been online or outside. Work in the Easter Tarun Khaitan some disruption due to the pandemic. With neglected late poetry of the celebrated vacation was more intense than ever: I found Professor of Public Law and Legal respect to my current work on democratic French poet Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016). In collating Fasti MSS online was the best way of Theory | Hackney Fellow in Law | Future deconsolidation in established democracies, a series of close readings of his most coping with existential angst, and combined Fellow, University of Melbourne I have recently accepted an invitation to lead significant later poems, it investigates how that as time passed with checking through one of five streams of a major project to Bonnefoy uses different modes of formal bibliographies to make sure each contained 2019–20 was a develop tools that can prevent major human experimentation to develop innovative material available online (along with scanning successful and rights catastrophes before they happen: the new models of thought, inviting us to try chapters from my own books), and designing productive year of Prevention Project is being led by the first out new ways of perceiving existence and how Schools exams might look in Classics. my special leave Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, of positioning ourselves in the world. Save in a very few cases, we ended up with from Wadham. In justice, relation, and guarantees of non- Comparing Bonnefoy’s poetry and Jean- ‘open book’ papers, dropping the translation 2019, I gave the recurrence by the UN Human Rights Council, Luc Nancy’s philosophy for the first element, sometimes replacing it with extra prestigious ‘Current Mr Pablo de Greiff. In mid-2020, I started the time, this study explores how the poet and commentary. Because of the fluke of timing, Legal Problems’ Junior Faculty Forum for Indian Law Teachers, the philosopher both critique the tendency we think it worked without disastrous effects lecture at UCL, to provide a monthly online workshopping that we have to perceive our existence in on the course or the classifications (though where I discussed the problems affecting space for early career Indian law academics conceptual terms, as if our lives unfold everything took the Examiners 50% longer): constitutional regulation of political parties. I – an opportunity most of them lack in their outside of the physical world. It examines for many reasons, I pray, never again. also won the 2019 Woodward Medal for my home institution. In October 2020, I will start how they encourage us instead to use Tutorials online are very tiring, and some book A Theory of Discrimination Law (2015, as the Vice-Dean of the Oxford Law Faculty. language in more affective and embodied students eventually ran out of steam a OUP) for making ‘a significant contribution ways, cultivating the very material, corporeal, little (especially the second years, who had to knowledge in the field of humanities and sensual, and meaningful processes of no proper post-Mods relaxation); but the social sciences’. In 2020, I was awarded the exchange that bring the text into being, Wadham Classicists rose to the challenge, Excellence in Engagement Award (including a and reminding us that we are not separate, and I read informed and enlightening essays, research fund of 10,000 Australian dollars) by that we too emerge from an interplay and heard many stimulating discussions, not Melbourne University for my work on drafting of worldly forces. least in revision classes with the finalists. We an anti-discrimination bill in India. I have also One of the key arguments that the book even had a couple of Zoom socials at the end been invited to join the advisory board of the makes is that both Bonnefoy and Nancy of term. United Nations Human Rights Office initiative present the act of writing as an ‘ontological Papers of mine appearing in 2020 include to draft ‘A Practical Guide to Developing Anti- performance’. Ontology is the strand of ‘The Consolatio ad Liuiam and literary history’, Discrimination Legislation’. This can become a philosophy that explores how worldly

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existence is structured. For Bonnefoy Mary University of London in October Fellow, Professor Hilary Owen. Europe, Banque de France, the International and Nancy, the text is an ontological 2020 and a keynote at the inaugural MLA The last major event in which CPA was Monetary Fund, CREST Paris, the European performance because it doesn’t simply (Modern Language Association) conference involved prior to lockdown was the celebration Central Bank, the Asian Development Bank, describe or represent the generative in Glasgow in 2021. She is also dreaming of the 50th anniversary of Paris School of Economics, University dynamics that bring the world into being. about her next book, which is on nineteenth- Spanish and Portuguese at Oxford on of Glasgow, University of Southampton, It actively presents these dynamics. century dream thought, theory, writing 28 February 2020. The day culminated in University of Tokyo, Shanghai University, It exposes the dynamics of interaction and architecture in British, American, and a splendid poetry reading by Ana Luisa Strathclyde University, and several others. In that bring it – and indeed all of us – into Anglophone literature. Amaral (a writer best known to more recent November 2019 he visited Singapore where being, allowing us to perceive this creative generations of undergraduates reading he enjoyed meeting several of Wadham alumni force, not from the outside, but from within. Portuguese for her memorable post-imperial and giving talks at the National University of The book is directed at readers of recent Cláudia Pazos Alonso play Prospero Morreu). Singapore and the Singapore Management French poetry and thought, from university Associate Professor in Portuguese and University. He was awarded a Mid-Career students and researchers, to those who Brazilian Studies | Fellowship for Social Sciences from the British follow contemporary poetics and theory. Senior Research Fellow Dr George Southcombe Academy. Francesco spent Trinity term on It is for anyone interested in the overlap Fellow by Special Election in History | sabbatical leave and continued an exciting between poetry and philosophy, or in the To mark the end of her stint as College Director, Sarah Lawrence Programme line of research on alternative approaches to material or non-human turn in literary Dean, Cláudia Pazos Alonso took MT 2019 explain economic fluctuations and the role of criticism and philosophy. as sabbatical leave. Following a keynote George has a new publication: The Culture of economic policy. address at the Association of British and Irish Dissent in Restoration England: The Wonders Lusitanists conference held in Edinburgh of the Lord (Studies in History, August 2019). Ankhi Mukherjee in September, she spent research time Professor of English and World in Portugal, where she participated in a Literatures | Tutorial Fellow roundtable at the National Library on women Francesco Zanetti and the colonial press, and presented Tutorial Fellow in Economics Ankhi Mukherjee conference papers in Beja (hometown of has completed the the mythical 17th-century Portuguese Nun, Francesco had manuscript of Unseen Mariana Alcoforado) and Lisbon/Vila Vicosa another productive City: The Psychic (hometown of the modernist poet Florbela year. He continued Life of Poverty in Espanca). She worked on a bilingual anthology to tutor students in Mumbai, London, of Espanca’s poetry forthcoming with Lisbon first and second year

and New York, a book Poets, while simultaneously putting the finishing of the PPE, E&M and and research project touches to her monograph Francisca Wood H&E programmes on generously funded by and Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture: macroeconomics the Wellcome Trust, AHRC, and the Fell Fund. Pressing for Change (Oxford: Legenda, 2020). topics, and was part of It will be published by Cambridge University Another publication at the end of 2019, Photo by Francesco Zanetti the Academic Policy, Press. Bringing together literary works which had started life back in 2017 as a part Investment, and Graduate Scholarships and psychoanalytic case studies, Unseen of the Wadham Conference Series, was committees of the College. During the past City examines the afterlives of Freudian a guest-edited issue of Portuguese academic year, he gave several research psychoanalysis in global cities and the Studies on Transnational Women Writers. It seminars, many of them offered remotely, re-tooling of psychoanalytically-oriented features articles by Wadham alumna Rosa including at the NBER Summer Institute, psychotherapy for maladies associated Churcher Clarke (Modern Languages, 2008) the World Congress of the Econometric with urban poverty. Mukherjee will present (currently completing a PhD at the University Society, the Annual Meeting of the European the Lisa Jardine Annual Lecture at Queen of Lisbon) and by former Visiting Keeley Economic Association, CEPR workshops in

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There was good attendance by locals, Ray Ockenden Emeritus Fellows’ news including graduate students well primed Ray Ockenden has mostly been occupied by a course given by Naomi the previous with teaching, looking after German at five term. As papers were circulated beforehand, Colleges in the first half of 2020, and giving presentations were short, discussion long, up to 16 hours a week of distanced tutorials which – since Naomi had taken due care that during Trinity Term. Before lockdown he some invited speakers would disagree with published two articles on Mrike, one in me – made it a stimulating and rewarding, German and one in English. if demanding, occasion, for which I am grateful. It was also a delightful, highly social opportunity to meet up with old friends Bernard O’Donoghue again, and to make the acquaintance of other Bernard O’Donoghue has a new book, Poetry: philosophers. A Very Short Introduction, published by Covid struck on the third and last day, Oxford University Press, September 2019. 28 February, when the first cases in Vienna See page 84 for a book review by George were rather dramatically announced, with Southcombe, Fellow by Special Election in unnecessary journeys on public transport History. strongly discouraged. Nervous as we were in those days – the disease was already raging Michael Ayers and just across the border in Italy – I took an early Nick Woodhouse alumni flight home, regretfully scrapping or, hopefully, Nick Woodhouse has been appointed CBE in speakers postponing plans to spend more time the 2020 New Year Honours List for services at the symposium in Vienna. to mathematics.

Photos by Naomi Osorio- Kupferblum Jeffrey Hackney Jeffrey Hackney will be a Clerk of the Market Michael Ayers is now there on a three-year JRF, funded (again!) for 2020–21. Covid-19 first impinged directly on my life at by the Austrian Research Council. the end of February, while I was participating Tom Crowther (PPP, 1992), now Reader in a symposium with a strong Wadham at Warwick, and Rory Madden (Physics & David Mabberley presence. The symposium was organised by Philosophy, 1996, and DPhil), Permanent A Spanish edition of The Extraordinary Story Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum (PPE, 2002), for Lecturer at UCL, were among the invited of the Apple was published in January 2020 the Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy, on speakers. Hannah Ginsborg (PML, 1976) by Libros del Jata, Bilbao: La extraordinaria the topics of my recent book, Knowing and and Menno Lievers (DPhil, 1989) were also historia de la manzana (trans. Clara Galardi Seeing. It followed a public lecture I gave at present. Hannah is Professor at Berkeley, Labraza). the Vienna University Philosophy Department. where she has been since 1988, but had After the worst-recorded drought in NSW, Naomi came to Wadham as a mature not far to come since she was on sabbatical we had the biggest-recorded bushfire (house student in a break from a career in in Berlin. Menno has long taught at Utrecht saved, garden lost), then the ‘unprecedented’ simultaneous translation. She returned to University, regularly bringing students to floods and, like everyone else, the plague. My Vienna, and to translation, to work part- Oxford for a few days to join lectures and annual visit to Wadham has therefore been time at the University to achieve a PhD, classes here by an arrangement with the shelved until at least 2021. with credit, in philosophy of language. She Oxford Faculty.

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Dr Sarah Dr Molly Grace Cullinan Herring New Fellows Molly joined the Sarah joins Wadham as Oxford community Professor Paul Balister Dr Hannah Hody Fellow by Special in 2017, as a NERC Christensen Election in Classics. Knowledge Fellow Paul joins Wadham as the Roger Penrose Dr Sarah Cullinan in the Department Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics. Hannah is a Tutorial Herring read for a of Zoology and a Fellow in Physics and BA and an MSt in Classics at Oriel College, member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for an Associate Professor and a DPhil at University College which she Conservation Science. Dr Jennifer Boddy in Physical Climate completed in 2012. In 2020, she became a Fellow by Special within the Department She was a lecturer in Ancient Greek Election at Wadham, tutoring in Biology. In September 2020, of Physics. literature at Balliol and Trinity Colleges before Molly’s research works to define and Jenny took up the Hannah’s research centres on the role of moving to Winchester College where she was measure species recovery. Conservation Wadham College Law fast atmospheric processes in the climate Head of Classics for several years, during biology has long focused on predicting

Society fellowship at system, including convective storms, clouds, which time she became a qualified teacher. and avoiding extinction, such that (until Wadham, where she and turbulence. She is interested in sources Her research interests are in epic and Greek recently), there was no standard way to track teaches Land Law and of predictability for these fast processes, and lyric poetry. She is currently preparing a book species’ progress toward recovery. Molly has Trusts. Jenny will be pursuing further research how these processes impact more slowly for publication by OUP entitled The Mirror helped lead the development of the IUCN in these fields over the course of evolving components of the climate system and the Lyre: song performance and poetic Green Status of Species, which is a globally the fellowship. such as the oceans. Improved understanding authority in Greek literature. applicable framework to describe species Jenny’s doctoral research explores how of small-scale processes allows Hannah recovery status and which complements the land law could become more sensitive to to improve the numerical models used to world-renowned IUCN Red List of Threatened home-loss vulnerabilities. predict the atmosphere across weather and Dr Mike Froggatt Species. The Green Status of Species draws Jenny studied for her BA in Law at Clare climate timescales. A key theme throughout on fundamental concepts in ecology – e.g. College, Cambridge. After completing her Hannah’s research is quantifying uncertainty As Acting Senior species functionality, viability, variability, and undergraduate degree, she joined the Law in atmospheric processes, including the use Tutor and Tutor for historic distribution. Commission for a year, working as a Research of stochastic approaches to characterise Admissions, Mike Prior to arriving in Oxford, Molly completed a Assistant in the Property, Family and Trust unresolved variability. is responsible to PhD in Conservation Biology at the University Law Team. Jenny returned to Clare to Before joining Wadham, Hannah was Governing Body for of Central Florida (Orlando, USA), where her complete her LLM degree, before moving to a Natural Environment Research Council the development of research focus was in transportation ecology Trinity Hall, Cambridge for her PhD. Independent Research Fellow in the Academic Policy and heads up the academic (lethal and sub-lethal impacts of roads on Oxford Physics Department and a lecturer administration of the College. wildlife ecology and behaviour). at Corpus Christi College. She has also He studied at St John’s College, Oxford, When she is not thinking about science, spent time in Boulder, Colorado, where she where he completed a doctoral dissertation she is an avid consumer of the arts, and was an Advanced Study Program Fellow on science in Soviet propaganda and popular you can sometimes catch her onstage as a at the National Center for Atmospheric culture, before going on to spend four years member of the Oxford Operatic Society. Research. She was awarded her DPhil (PhD) lecturing on Soviet and East European history in Atmospheric Physics by the University at the universities of Durham and Edinburgh. of Oxford, and her MSci in Physical Natural He joined Wadham as the College’s Access Sciences by Pembroke College, Cambridge. and Admissions Administrator in 2012, and took up the role of Academic Administrator in 2014.

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Dr Lucy Dr George George grew up on Dartmoor in Devon and McDermott Southcombe attended his local comprehensive school. He completed his undergraduate and graduate Lucy joins Wadham as George is Fellow by studies at Keble College. From 2008 to 2011 JRF in Medical Special Election in he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Sciences. She is History. His research at Somerville College. He is a Fellow of the interested in the focuses on two broad, Royal Historical Society. In his spare time molecular mechanisms overlapping areas: George writes occasional poetry, goes to of pain sensation and in particular, the history of seventeenth-century dissent, the theatre, cooks and runs. He used to act, understanding the role of the voltage gated and the relationship between early modern and he now fulfils his dramatic inclinations by sodium channel Nav1.7 in human nociception. literature and history. reading to his young son. Lucy’s work uses iPSC derived nociceptors in In his work George has been engaged in combination with CRISPR/Cas9 genome uncovering evidence for different modes editing to functionally characterise Nav1.7 in a of popular political engagement, and, in Attila Szab human model system. particular, the importance of nonconformist She is a keen CRISPR enthusiast and print culture. His three-volume edition of Attila joins Wadham enjoys being involved in the Genome nonconformist verse was published by as Keeley–Rutherford Engineering Forum at Oxford. Pickering and Chatto in 2012. Junior Research Fellow In her spare time, she enjoys cycling around He has also produced, alongside his in Physics. Oxfordshire on a rusty 1966 Raleigh bike. friend and colleague Dr Grant Tapsell, a Attila completed broader study of the late seventeenth his PhD studies at the century, which uses visual and literary University of Cambridge in 2020, where he Dr Laura Moody materials alongside the more conventional studied exotic spin liquid phases in frustrated sources of political history. magnets using computational and theoretical Laura is a Royal He has recently published an essay on techniques. He developed novel semiclassical Society University scepticism towards witchcraft in Cromwellian simulation techniques for these systems and Research Fellow based England in a collection of essays, of which he contributed to the development of machine at the Department of is one of the editors, written in honour of his learning approaches to quantum spin liquids Plant Sciences. retired doctoral supervisor Dr Clive Holmes. and other challenging phases of matter. Her research Clive taught many Wadham students during He contributed theoretical support to exploits both well-established and his time in Oxford. neutron scattering and magnetometry innovative approaches to define the George continues to work on experiments on a range of frustrated genetic interaction network underpinning interdisciplinary themes, and he has just magnetic materials, as well as ultracold atom three-dimensional growth using the model completed a monograph on the culture of experiments aimed at a better understanding

system Physcomitrella patens. dissent in Restoration England. of quasicrystals. He looks forward to working George, as well as being Director of the closely with similar experiments at the Sarah Lawrence Programme, is a College Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Lecturer in History. He teaches early In his free time, he enjoys classical music, modern British and European history. He dancing, photography, and running. has supervised, or is supervising, graduate students working on various aspects of English witchcraft, Quakerism, and Anglo- Japanese relations.

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Academy in 2019. She was Royal Literary book tells the story of some of Fund Fellow at the British Library 2018–9. the people whose lives were Alumni news destroyed when they were 1977 Fraser, Flora E. wrongly targeted by harsh new Home Office legislation. It’s 1961 Berman KCMG QC, 1968 Koch, Richard J. As a distinguished historical biographer also an account of what it feels exploring the significance of the lives lived like to work as a journalist, Sir Franklin D. has a new book, Unreasonable by remarkable women of the eighteenth trying to understand why law-abiding elderly has been appointed a Judge ad hoc on the Success and How to Achieve and nineteenth centuries in Britain, Europe people were being deported, detained and International Court of Justice, November 2019. It: Unlocking the Nine Secrets and North America, Flora was awarded an made homeless by government policies, and, of People Who Changed the Honorary Doctorate by King’s College London worse still, why no-one had noticed this was World, published by Piatkus, 1963 Potts, James (Jim) R. in October 2019. happening. August 2020. has two new books, This Spinning World: 43 1978 Pope, Hugh M. G. 1991 Lake OBE, Lucy A. stories from far and wide (2019) and Reading 1970 Aguirre, Fernando G. the Signs (2020), both published by Colenso has a new book, Dining has been awarded the 2020 Yidan Prize for Books. Reading the Signs is a collection of 111 received the Lifetime Achievement Award with al-Qaeda: Making Education Development, for her contribution poems, including one about Wadham. from Latin Lawyer, 2019. He is recognised Sense of the Middle East, to female education. Lucy is Chief Executive for his unique career of over 50 years that published by Book Printing UK, Officer at CAMFED International. has spanned private practice and politics, September 2020. including the establishment of democracy 1994 Horscroft, Nigel J. in Bolivia. 1982 Graydon, Charalee F. E. has been appointed as Chief Scientific Officer 1972 Chapman, Allan has obtained a PhD in Mediation and Conflict at microbiome specialist MRM Health in Resolution from EUCLID University where she Ghent, Belgium, July 2020. has a new book, Caves, is a faculty member, November 2019. 1964 Hasluck, Coprolites, and Catastrophes; the story of the pioneer fossil- 1997 Bates, Michael W. The Hon Nicholas P. 1982 Metzer QC, Anthony D. E. hunter and geologist William The Right Hon Lord Bates is appointed Deputy has a new book, Beyond the Buckland, published by SPCK, has been named as Pro Bono QC of the Speaker of the House of Lords, April 2020. Equator. An Australian Memoir, August 2020. Year by the Bar’s national charity, Advocate, published by Arcadia/Australian November 2019. 2000 Colegate, Daniel M. Scholarly Publishing, 2019. 1974 Darke, Diana 1989 Anand, Anita I. has a new book, What 1965 Rosen, Michael W. has a new book, Stealing Adventures Shall We Have from the Saracens: How has been elected to the Canadian House Today? Travelling From More Michael’s memoir, So They Call You Pisher!, was Islamic Architecture Shaped of Commons as the Liberal MP for Oakville, To Less In Search Of A Simpler published by Verso Books in 2017 and includes Europe, published by Hurst, October 2019. Life, independently published a final chapter on his time at Wadham 1965–69, August 2020. June 2020. with plenty of memories of Maurice Bowra. 1991 Gentleman, Amelia S. Michael continues to present BBC Radio 4’s 1974 Davies, Hilary S. ‘Word of Mouth’, work that he says often owes has a new book, The Windrush Betrayal: a good deal to his time doing English was made a Fellow of the English Association Exposing the Hostile Environment, published at Wadham. in 2017, and a Fellow of the Temenos by Guardian Faber, September 2019. This

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2000 Wheeler, Duncan one of the most curious and captivating Greek writers of the eighteenth century. has a new book, Following Franco: Spanish culture and 2005 Rae, Charlotte Degrees politics in transition, published by Manchester University has been appointed as a Lecturer in Press, October 2020. Psychology at the University of Sussex Each year the College Gazette has carried will still want to come back, as soon as it is (starting summer 2019), and is the new information about Degree Days, pointing possible, to take their degrees in person. 2002 Jenkins, John C. department Green Officer. out that graduates may take their degrees in There may well be some constraints because absentia without coming back to Oxford, but of the backlog of graduands that will have has a new book, Pilgrimage 2015 Bruce, James (Jim) P. urging them to consider coming and taking built up. For example, there may be a need and England’s Cathedrals: part in a Degree Day ceremony at Wadham for more Degree Days in the future to cope Past, Present and Future, by has a new book, Ireland’s and in the Sheldonian. with that backlog, and as a consequence the Dee Dyas and John Jenkins, Hope: The ‘peculiar theories’ This year (as in so many other ways) ceremony may have to be shortened in some published by Palgrave of James Fintan Lalor, things are different. Large gatherings in way or other. But the basics will certainly MacMillan, August 2020. This is published by Vernon Press, the Sheldonian are not, for the time being, remain, as will the College’s hospitality the result of a three-year AHRC October 2020. This book will thinkable, and there has been no graduation on those days. We will be in touch with research project at the University of York. be of great value to anyone .. ceremony there since February. graduands as soon as there is news that interested in Irish history since Speaking personally for a moment, as ceremonies will recommence, and we ask 1800, especially in the areas of the Great 2003 Le, Grace J. Dean of Degrees, I can say that Degree you to be patient meanwhile. Famine, the Young Ireland movement, and Days have been one of the things I have Any further information can be obtained by married Adam Drury on 11 July 2020. the Land War. missed most during the past six months writing to the Dean of Degrees c/o Teodora and more of very limited social life. Degree Rnjak in the Academic Office at Wadham; 2004 Bejan, Cristina A. 2015 Ali Majid, Zainab, and Days are always, as I have sometimes said her telephone number is 01865 277947, her Fateh, Amira has a new book, Intellectuals in a welcoming speech, splendid occasions, email address is [email protected] and Fascism in Interwar co-founded ‘Empower Her* Voice’ in 2017. rather like weddings but without any tears. Alternatively, you can go to the College Romania: The Criterion EH*V is a platform that spotlights the Graduands enjoy coming back to Wadham, website at: --­ and often manage to organise to come to a www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/students/graduation ·-- Association, published innovative vision and unique lived experiences by Palgrave Macmillan, of womxn and non-binary people worldwide. Degree Day with contemporaries and friends; - September 2019. In the summer of 2020, they were delighted I have enjoyed the privilege of meeting Ray Ockenden students, some I already knew, some I was to see a growing global sign up for their 2004 Tsalicoglou, Elina summer volunteership programme, working meeting for the first time, and their families, to help promote girls’ education and especially their parents with whom I had has a new book, Konstantinos their empowerment. many enjoyable conversations. The weather Dapontes: Selected was nearly always very kind, and the occasion Writings, published by 2019 Merrill, Elizabeth J. itself, the dressing-up and the formality of Harvard University Press, the Latin language ceremony, was always a August 2019. This forms is co-founder of ‘FemThinkDo’, a feminist new pleasure. part of the Harvard Early events company that platforms feminist We understand that more graduates than Modern and Modern Greek authors, academics, activists, artists to talk previously may want to finalise things by Library series. It is a bilingual edition, about their work and how they interact with taking their degrees in absentia, but because featuring a translation of selected writings feminism in their work. Their pilot programme the College so much enjoys those times by Konstantinos Kaisarios Dapontes, launches in January 2021. when students return, it is hoped that many

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ALUMNI 0W 0W Ian Grant 0 Alastair Macgeorge 0 Donations Alan Green D David Mountain W 1924 John Hewson 0W Philip Parker 0W Basil Davies † Albert Hibbert 0N David Parry † Les Norman Keith Saunders 0W 1940 With grateful thanks for all those below who 0D Member of the Dorothy Circle John Roberts 0W Anthony Warner 0W have supported the College so generously In addition to the benefits associated with Sidney James † Eddie Tyson 0N 1952 over the last year, as well as those who have membership in the Wilkins and Nicholas Pat Jolly † Paul Williams 0W Bernard Bligh 0W given anonymously. All these donations have Circles, donors who give at least £5,000 per 1941 1949 0W been received between the dates of 1 August year receive a complimentary invitation to all 0 Alistair Boyd 0 2019 and 31 July 2020. of our events throughout the year. Gifts at this Anthony Stocks † Keith Anderson W Antony Branfoot W 0W level can be transformational for our students 1943 John de Nordwall Laurie Brown 0 0W Member of the Wilkins Circle and members of the Dorothy Circle join an Walter Frank † Ken Green W John Bamforth 0N 0 All donors who give regularly, whether exclusive list of alumni and friends who are Michael Goldman † Ivan Holliday W Kenneth Cook 0W 0 0 monthly or annually, regardless of amount, Wadham’s most important change-makers. Hilary Gosling W Roy Hotchkiss W Frederick Smith 0W 0 0 receive a special listing in the Gazette, as well 0 W E O Jones W Eric Johnston W Arthur Wain W 0W as invitations to the annual Circles’ event and † Deceased Alan Madgwick † Richard Lowndes 0 Benefactors’ Garden Party. Their ongoing 1944 Tom Ragle Evelyn Morgan W Christopher Ralling John Norman 0W commitment helps us to plan for the future Foundation Fellows Peter McLean CMG OBE 0W Tony Smith 0W Clive Sheppey 0W and regular giving reduces administration Alan Green (1948) Christopher Pitcher 0W Alec Stephen 0W costs, which enables us to raise our sights Michael Peagram (1962) Nigel Roberts 0W 0 1953 and do even more for Wadham students. Stephen Stow (1973) John Thwaites W 0 1945 Roger Almond W Kenneth Woods (1950) 1950 0 0 John Andrews CBE W N Member of the Nicholas Circle Nicholas Barber CBE (1959) Sir Sydney Giffard † Richard Allen 0W Brian Dimmock 0W Donors who give at least £1,000 per year Anthony Preston CBE (1974) Derek Holmes † Michael Gane Martin Dodsworth 0W receive all the benefits of membership in the Matthew Benham (1986) Roger Orcutt 0W Alan Jarvis 0W Colin Gamage 0W Wilkins Circle, as well as an invitation to join Alasdair Locke (1971) Edmund Keeley 0W Nicholas Hassall 0W the Warden for a special gathering at the John McCall MacBain OC (1980) 1946 Gerard Molloy 0W Anthony Higgs OBE 0W Circles’ event. We are proud that membership William W. H. Doo David Cashdan 0W John Mountford 0W Jim Lahore † of the Nicholas Circle is growing, as more Edwin Mok (1979) Julius Lunzer 0W Gordon Mungeam 0W David Lamb 0W and more alumni take the lead in making Carol Richards Willis Marker † John Peers 0W David Malia 0W substantial gifts for the benefit of those who The Hon Nat Rothschild (1990) Paul Mercier 0W John Rhodes 0W John Manners † follow in their footsteps. 1947 Peter Stanley 0W Paul Mapplebeck † 0W Fred Cornish † Michael Tomlinson † Martin Mauthner Peter Ockleston 0N Roy Garthwaite 0N 1951 Peter Kearns 0W David Onley Robin Allen Peter Phillips 0W Gordon Wyatt † Colin Campbell 0W Geoff Power 0W 1948 Sandy Common † John Sharp 0W 0W Thomas Badgery † Alan Forey John Smallwood 0W Brian Brooke-Smith 0W David Hodgson 0W Tony Cotton 0W Michael Joyce

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and Medicine Djuna Barnes: Melancholy, Research Interfaces

Computational insights Body, Theodicy Adaptation and genetic Granted leave to supplicate into novel fluorination Granted leave to supplicate conflict 10/05/2020 methodology 06/01/2020 Granted leave to supplicate Granted leave to supplicate 28/01/2020 29/10/2019

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Taught courses MPHIL Levi Hord MST History of Science, Final Honour School results The following students Matthew Hewitt Medicine and Technology, Jaz Brisack have agreed to publication Greek &/or Roman History, Distinction History (Intellectual of their results Distinction History), Merit 2019–20 Michael Kramer Nathan Katkin BCL Education (Comparative & William Bunce Greek &/or Latin Lang & Lit, The following students have CLASSICS & MODERN International), Distinction Late Antique & Byzantine Giuseppe Jafari, Merit Distinction Studies, Distinction agreed to publication of LANGUAGES Luči Krnić Jeremiah Lau, Distinction Michelle Lin their results Mathematical Sciences, Alex Coonar Nora Ling, Merit Andrew Hodgson (FRE) 1 Japanese Studies, World Literatures in English, Jack Oakley, Merit Merit Distinction Merit ANCIENT & MODERN ECONOMICS & Laura Stockdale, Merit Douglas Loynes Katherine Wood HISTORY MANAGEMENT African Studies, Distinction Andrea Doda BMBCH Modern Languages, Greek &/or Latin Lang & Lit, Eduard Oravkin Hugo Raine 1 Owen Eddershaw 2.1 Distinction Distinction Gabriel Bickler, Distinction Mathematical Sciences, David Linsey 1 BIOCHEMISTRY Emma Flint, Pass MPP Distinction Tallulah Griffith Moksh Pandya 2.2 Ben Griffin, Pass English and American Lia Petrose Patrick Collins 1 EMEL Ben Huggon, Pass (M1) Zoe Lin, Pass Studies, Distinction Statistical Science, Pass Ryan Gilroy 2.1 Marie Lucas, Pass Philip Wheeler, Merit Harry Langham Laura Puentes Gantiva Alice Rawson 2.1 Zara Baker (SPA, ARA) 2.1 English (1550–1700), Katie Forsyth (GER, ARA) 2.1 BPHIL MSC Law & Finance, Distinction Distinction BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Nadia Ghauri (FRE, ARA) 2.1 Abhinav Singh Francesco Moiraghi, Pass Keira Adams Lizzie Merrill Musculoskeletal Sciences, Callum Hudson 2.1 ENGINEERING SCIENCE Psychological Research, Women’s Studies, DIP. LEGAL STUDIES Distinction Naomi Miall 1 Distinction Distinction Harry Penrose 2.1 Alan Di 2.2 Mosimiloluwa Somuyiwa Marcos Diaz Tarrago, Justin Brassett Ally Pugh Alice Robijns 1 Georgiana Dima 1 Law & Finance, Merit Distinction Water Science, Policy & Women’s Studies, Freya Way 2.1 Sebastian Elmes 1 Danial Farooq 2.1 Management, Distinction Richard Tong Distinction MBA Contemporary Chinese CHEMISTRY Adam Lewis-Douglas 2.1 Carina Conradie Sebastian Rees Studies, Merit Francesca Murphy 2.1 Sebastian Gatica Avila, Pass African Studies, Merit Global and Imperial History, Will Chappell 1 Max Sarch Thomas 1 Ewelina Turek Kc Neoh, Distinction Isabella Conte Distinction Aditya Desai 2.1 Lorenzo Sintini 1 Japanese Studies, Merit Alex Gutteridge 1 Victoria Udom, Distinction Criminology and Criminal Imogen Whiteley Nicholas O’Donoghue 2.1 ENGLISH Justice, Distinction María José Villalba Giubi Greek &/or Roman History, Emma Richards 1 MFA Law & Finance, Merit Elodie Freymann Distinction Charlie Shaw 1 Megan Greenough 1 Cognitive Evolutionary Adriana Vitagliano Sybil Song 1 Laura Henderson-Child 1 Laura Hindmarsh, Distinction PGCE Anthropology, Distinction Latin American Studies, Polly Thisdell 2.2 Pelin Morgan 1 Distinction Clement Wohrer 1 Jose Enrique Gonzalez- Jenny Coppinger CLASSICS & ENGLISH Prada Felices Jennifer Watson History, Pass ENGLISH & MODERN Criminology & Criminal Pharmacology, Distinction Oli Craven-Todd Agnes Girling 2.1 LANGUAGES Justice, Distinction Shadi Hadj-Youssef Biology, Pass Neuroscience, Pass Mia Boddington (FRE) 2.1

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EXPERIMENTAL LAW MODERN LANGUAGES PSYCHOLOGY Ella Black 2.1 Ben Black (FRE, GER) 2.1 First Public Examination results 2019–20 Jovana Deden 2.1 Celine Ng 1 Esme Carter (FRE, POR) 2.1 Can Demircan 1 Karishma Paun 2.1 Jamie Morgan (RUS, CZE) 1

Helen Doran 1 Hannah Szczepanski 2.1 Freddie Wolff (FRE) 1 MODS AND PRELIMS LAW LITERAE HUMANIORES Lucy Johnson Perret 2.1 Justin Tan 1 Due to the pandemic, Charlie Balshaw, Pass Ben Broadbent 1 Rosalind Robshaw 1 Jason Xiao 2.1 MODERN LANGUAGES & some subjects cancelled LINGUISTICS first public examinations, Victoria Goldstraw, Pass Ray Cheung 1 HISTORY LAW WITH LAW STUDIES or opted for alternative Joseph Grosvenor, Pass Imogen Front 2.1 IN EUROPE Saleem Rizvi (FRE) 1 informal assessments. Liberty Haddrell, Pass Zahra Grieve 2.1 Justin Lim, Pass Eliana Nunes 1 Lara Adamczyk 2.1 The following students ORIENTAL STUDIES Andrew Morris, Pass Tom Carter 1 Son Olszewski 2.1 have agreed to publication Flora Clark 1 Meher Pahuja, Pass MEDICINE (PRE-CLINICAL) of their results Samson Dittrich 1 LITERAE HUMANIORES Anahita Alexander-Sefre Lucy Taylor, Distinction Matt Clarke, Pass Joseph Hettrick 1 (PER) 1 EXPERIMENTAL Aaron Johnston, Pass Jade Spencer 1 Evelyn Atmore 1 Bella Anderson (ARA) 2.1 LAW WITH LAW STUDIES PSYCHOLOGY Jacinta Kynaston, Pass Dhanya Nair 2.1 Rachel McVeigh (CHN) 1 IN EUROPE HISTORY & ECONOMICS Zoe Reed Sanderson 2.1 Lauren Scullion, Pass Madeleine Moore (PER) 1 Ellie Lewis, Pass Charlie Willis 2.1 Millie Morrissey (SANS) 1 Lisa Muttonen, Pass Josh McCracken, Pass Josh Williamson 1 Isabelle Wilson (CHN) 1 Advay Saxena, Pass MATHEMATICAL AND Junior Okoroafor, Pass HISTORY & ENGLISH THEORETICAL PHYSICS PHILOSOPHY & MODERN Silvia Sicheri, Pass LANGUAGES Mrinmoyee Roy 1 Renat Karimov D Grace Elshafei (SPA) 1

HISTORY & MODERN MATHEMATICS Joseff Reed (GER) 1 University and faculty prizes 2019–20 LANGUAGES Ellery Shentall (FRE) 1 Will Bayliff 1 Eleanor Watson (FRE) 1 Hazem Hassan 1 PHYSICS Evelyn Atmore Nathan Katkin Saleem Rizvi Aaron Jones 1 Literae Humaniores MPhil Greek and/or Latin Modern Languages and HISTORY & POLITICS Dan Lyness 1 Runbei Cheng 2.1 Gibbs Prize (Course II) Language and Literature Linguistics Alasdair Grant 1 Gaisford Dissertation Prize David Gibbs Prize – for Gaby Schwarzmann 1 Runbei Cheng MATHEMATICS & Emily Hampson 2.1 best performance in STATISTICS Aaron Hartnell-Booth 1 Physics Celine Ng FHS examination in the HISTORY OF ART Thomas Jones 1 Gibbs Prize for the BA Group Jurisprudence linguistics papers Brian Wrobel 1 Zoe Lewis 2.1 Project Presentations Wronker Prize – for best Nina Ledwoch 2.1 Hank Wu 1 performance in the Gaby Schwarzmann Cara Exall MEDICINE (PRE-CLINICAL) History and Politics HUMAN SCIENCES Jurisprudence paper PPE PPE Book Prize Ellie Ayre 2.1 Proxime Accessit Gibbs Quadrant Prize – for Hannah Harrington 2.1 best performance in the Afrose Dor 1 Alec Bandy 2.1 Thesis Prize Justin Tan Katie Medd 1 International Trade paper Sulaiman Uppal 1 Fran Best 2.1 Jurisprudence Louis Torracinta 1 Matthew Hewitt Ruby Wolman 1 Cara Exall 1 Wronker Prize – for Ray Williams 2.1 MPhil Greek and/or Roman Eduard Oravkin Daniel Gunn 2.1 best performance in History Mathematical Sciences Harry Lau 2.1 OMMS Mathematical Prize – the Tort Paper Ancient History Prize Mohammed Rahim 2.1 for recognition of excellent performance in exams

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Wadham College Cheney Prize in Arts Undergraduate scholarships and Social Sciences named prizes 2019–20 Awarded jointly to Thomas and exhibitions 2019–20 Albertini (History and French, 2018) for his research on CAROLINE KELLETT FIDDIAN TRAVEL PRIZE the dissolution of Evesham ANCIENT & MODERN CLASSICS & ENGLISH ENGLISH FHS PRIZE IN HISTORY IN SPANISH Abbey, and to Sofia Sanabria HISTORY Agnes Girling Joseph Geldman Awarded to Awarded to De Felipe (History, 2018) for her essay on Marvel’s Black Theodore Lewis Kitty Low Laura Henderson-Child Tom Carter Lily Rachel Widow character and the Hugo Raine Pelin Morgan Anna Chamberlain CLASSICS & MODERN dissemination of American Clare St George Flora Clark OCKENDEN PRIZE BIOCHEMISTRY LANGUAGES Cold War propaganda. Clement Wohrer Samson Dittrich IN GERMAN Joseph Hettrick Patrick Collins Andrew Hodgson ENGLISH & MODERN Awarded to Eoin Hughes Connor Hughes LANGUAGES Sam Miller Conor Hartley College Prize Sophie MacKay ECONOMICS & Hugo Raine in Science and MANAGEMENT Mia Boddington Mrinmoyee Roy OCKENDEN PRIZE Mathematics BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Gaby Schwarzmann IN RUSSIAN Sten Agnefjall EXPERIMENTAL Awarded jointly to Joe Elizabeth Biggs Isobel Townend PSYCHOLOGY Jade Spencer Awarded to Eleanor Watson Deakin (Mathematics and Louis Egerton Legum EMEL Josh Williamson Lily Samarine Philosophy, 2018) for his Joseph Gent Bill Berners-Lee essay on propositional logic, Callum Hudson CAROLINE KELLETT FPE PRIZE IN PHILOSOPHY and to Naomi Miall (Biological Naomi Miall Benjy Fortna HISTORY Sciences, 2017) for her Alice Robijns PRIZE IN HISTORY Awarded to work on the UK’s Chlamydia Vanessa Wynter ENGINEERING SCIENCE Alfie Fell Awarded to Phoebe Bachsleitner vaccination programme. Joseph Hettrick Jackson Cooper-Driver Mia Sorenti BIOLOGY Henna Khanom REX WARNER PRIZE IN Georgiana Dima Sophia Oleksiyenko-Stech Chloe Williams CLASSICS MODERATIONS The Rex Warner Prize Alice Travis Sebastian Elmes Emily Urquhart Danial Farooq CHRISTINA HOWELLS Awarded to Awarded to Melanie CHEMISTRY Luke Johnston HISTORY & ECONOMICS PRIZE IN FRENCH Ben Broadbent Greenberg (Sarah Lawrence Jacob Kerr Awarded to Ray Cheung visiting student) for her cycle Alex Butler Irinka Lamiquiz Pratt Theo Harris of three carefully-crafted Will Chappell Adam Lewis-Douglas Josh Williamson Andrew Hodgson SUKUMAR PRIZE poems, ‘She won’t stop…’, Alex Gutteridge Alex Proudman HISTORY & ENGLISH DEROW PRIZE IN PHYSICS ‘Hourglass II’ and ‘Somehow Emma Richards Nazmus Saadat There Are Still Deer’ and Cian Ridley Max Sarch Thomas IN CLASSICS Awarded to proxime accessit to Anna Amir Sadeghi-Kelishadi Adhi Senthil Kumar Sam Miller Awarded to Hank Wu Schechter (Sarah Lawrence Rachel Sage Rhim Shah HISTORY & MODERN Evelyn Atmore visiting student) for ‘The Mia Saunders Lorenzo Sintini WOODHOUSE PRIZE Swap’, a short story which Charlie Shaw Luke Stalder LANGUAGES ESHAG PRIZE Awarded to explores themes of trauma and Sybil Song complicity in the context of Euan Walkley Isla Chaplin Awarded to Hazem Hassan American campus culture. Eleanor Watson Phoebe Bachsleitner

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HISTORY OF ART MATHEMATICS Kate Hoyles Emily Kindermann

Laura Jennings Will Bayliff Gerda Krivaite Named graduate scholarships 2019–20 Hazem Hassan Sioned Marie Lyons HUMAN SCIENCES Aaron Jones Cecilia Marchant Dan Lyness Charlotte McDaniel BROOKMAN DAVID RICHARDS PETER CARTER Hannah Wade Andreea Rotaru Matthew Webb SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIPS GRADUATE Joshua Silverbeck LAW IN PHYSICS SCHOLARSHIP IN LAW MODERN LANGUAGES & Patrick Brennan MATHEMATICS & LINGUISTICS Lizzie Barbeary Jorge Garcia-Franco Anna Ventouratou COMPUTER SCIENCE DEREK CALAM Ella Black Kate Maurer Saleem Rizvi CHEMISTRY PETER CARTER Hana Fletcher Kevin Thielen Oscar Heath-Stephens SCHOLARSHIP TAUGHT GRADUATE Dan Leyva Ioana Iaru ORIENTAL STUDIES FIRSTRAND SCHOLARSHIP Freya Mason Piotr Mitosek Alistair Boyd SCHOLARSHIP IN LAW Celine Ng Rose Johnson IN EDUCATION Max Oliver MATHEMATICS & Ruby Osman CLARENDON-MONCKTON Jack Oakley Hannah Szczepanski PHILOSOPHY Alfred Thompson SCHOLARSHIP Michael Kramer Justin Tan TREVOR-ROPER PHYSICS Joe Deakin Shwanda Corbett JOHN MCCALL SCHOLARSHIP IN LAW WITH LAW STUDIES MACBAIN GRADUATE ANCIENT HISTORY IN EUROPE MATHEMATICS & Theo Anton CLIFF DAVIES GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS STATISTICS Elizabeth Fox SCHOLARSHIP IN HISTORY William Bunce Jasmine Knapman Aaron Hartnell-Booth Maria Chiara Paoli Levi Borodenko Thomas Jones Frances Whorrall-Campbell Wissam Ghantous WADHAM GRADUATE LAW LITERAE HUMANIORES Yi Tu Arnav Prasad Shadi Hadj-Youssef SCHOLARSHIP Milena Vuletic Fanglin Shu DALITZ GRADUATE Evelyn Atmore Brian Wrobel Olivier Witteveen SCHOLARSHIP KALISHER TRUST – Reginald Aziza Ray Cheung Hank Wu WADHAM SCHOLARSHIP Lauren Coleman MEDICINE (PRE-CLINICAL) Yujia Zhang Filippo Revello WADHAM-MR MICHELL’S Eliana Nunes Alice Flett RCUK SCHOLARSHIP Piero Alberti PPE DAVID RICHARDS MATHEMATICAL AND Iman Awan SCHOLARSHIP IN MURRAY CLASSICS Thomas Robinson THEORETICAL PHYSICS Daniel Maloney Cara Exall CHEMISTRY SCHOLARSHIPS Daniel Gunn WADHAM COLLEGE – Renat Karimov MODERN LANGUAGES Giovanni Raiteri Zhong Hui Lim Matthew Hewitt PHILOSOPHY FACULTY James Oakley HERBERT SPENCER Ben Black PRE-CLINICAL MEDICINE DAVID RICHARDS SCHOLARSHIP Jacob Dodd SCHOLARSHIP IN NORWEGIAN Josie Ediss Afrose Dor ECONOMICS SCHOLARSHIP George Webster

Taco Prins Simen Sopp WADHAM-WOODWARD RCUK HUMANITIES

DAVID RICHARDS/AHRC OXFORD-MOK GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP IN HISTORY Clara Voyvodic Casabo Andrew Kwok Martin Babicka

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WATER CONSERVATORS’ Habib Orekoya ENGINEERING SCIENCE Sophie Trevillion SCHOLARSHIP Brampton Manor Academy Brighton College Wadham College senior Oliver Bean Justin Brassett Luke Palin Harrogate Grammar School Lily Webb scholarships 2019–20 Christ’s College, Finchley Finham Park School CDT FEE WAIVERS Ahmet Besmi Milan Patel Brighton Hove and Sussex Juliet Webber The following Wadham St Paul’s School, London Christ’s Hospital Jonathan Andrews EPRIME ESHAG Sixth Form College graduate students have Adam Golinski SCHOLARSHIP been elected to: Eddie Standen Alexander Cook Lucy Harwood ENGLISH & MODERN John F Kennedy School, King’s College School Oskar Hoff María José Villalba Giubi LANGUAGES SENIOR SCHOLARSHIP Hertfordshire Ndidi Iwumeme Zach Ellis Prannay Kaul Millie Dean-Lewis Panarat Anamwathana KEELEY SCHOLARSHIP CLASSICS & ENGLISH Elizabeth College Hala Lamdouar Leighton Park School Paula Kaanders Zachariah Lockhart William Nathan Kay Song Jack Oakley Alexandra Wright Georgie Walker Gareth Molyneux The Perse School Laura Stockdale Veronika Samborska St Olave’s and St Saviour’s Highgate School Oana Pelea George Webster Owen Smith Grammar School Hengyu Wang Owen Smith Frances Whorrall-Campbell Simen Sopp Ulink College of Shanghai EXPERIMENTAL Pearse Solon ECONOMICS & PSYCHOLOGY MANAGEMENT Thomas Williams Hills Road Sixth Form College Daniel Berry Tom Haggith Joseph Rowntree School Loletta Wong Queen Mary’s College Dr Challoner’s Grammar Angelina Bogdanova New undergraduates 2020 Shaumik Haque School Alexandra Park School Little Heath School, Reading Adam Young Maddie Kennard Rithica Mothi Sayeeram Latymer Upper School Bridgwater & Taunton College BIOCHEMISTRY Dora Solloway CHEMISTRY Henrietta Barnett School The Gryphon School, ENGLISH Tak Lee Andy Alexandrou Sherborne Cherry Chung Daniel Whiley Hong Kong Baptist University St Gerard’s School, Bangor The Affiliated International St Paul’s School, London Affiliated School Wong Kam Eloise Trawick Nooresahar Ahmad School of Shenzhen Fai Secondary and Primary Emma Dodd Redborne Upper School and Hartlepool VI Form College University School Truro and Penwith College Community College EMEL Ilana Cuello-Wolffe Nathan Coltart Tim Zhang Callan Sharples Ike Williams Timothy Leong The Dalton School Wellsway School Royal Russell School Runshaw College The Gryphon School, Backwell School, Bristol Jack Dillon Sherborne Ethan Jennings Doha College Helen Zhang St Thomas More Catholic Rory Price HISTORY Brighton College Maddy Workman King Edward VI Camp Hill School and Sixth Form Anna Dowell Sir John Leman High School School for Boys Yumn Batool College, Nuneaton The Latymer School BIOLOGY Beckfoot Thornton CAAH Zoe Lacour Cia Mangat Anna Davidson Edie Abrahams Twyford Church of England St Paul’s Girls’ School Trinity Academy, Edinburgh Lytchett Minster School Savinay Sood High School Callum Shaw Henrietta Barnett School Leila Kerley Ben Harvey Kate Morton Brighton Hove and Sussex Twynham School King George V College St Helen & St Katharine Sixth Form College

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Daniel Kovacs HISTORY OF ART Lara Peremezhko MATHEMATICS Aleksander Stawiarski MODERN LANGUAGES & Copenhagen International d’Overbroeck’s Batory High School LINGUISTICS School Nina Mangion Jakub Adamek Sevenoaks School Erin Riches Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Kate Tracey Danielle Chorley Eva Perez Kennet School Augusta Witkowskiego St Benedict’s School, Ealing Chew Valley School Francis Holland School, Chloe Oxborrow Sarah Stark Zuzanna Lebek Regent’s Park Kesgrave High School Yasmine Amirouch MODERN LANGUAGES Our Lady’s Catholic College, Swakeleys School for Girls 33 Liceum im. M. Kopernika Sneha Shiralagi Lancaster HUMAN SCIENCES Jack Antoniou Sheffield High School Campbell Brawley ORIENTAL STUDIES Whitgift School, South for Girls LAW WITH LAW STUDIES Reed College, Portland Hannah Gardner Croydon Kashif Chowdhury IN EUROPE Oregon Emily Twinam UWC Adriatic Lara Bulloch Ilford County High School The Hazeley Academy Ignacio Ciscar Mugica Hannah Manderson Fraser Allatt Alleyn’s School, Dulwich Colegio Internacional Europa Charlie Croft Jess White Hockerill Anglo-European Loreto College, Manchester Lucia Clark Dulwich College Upton Hall School College Max French Allegra Kunze-Concewitz Backwell School, Bristol Millfield School Fatima El-Faki Rosie Wiles Charlotje Shillingford-Laus International School of Milan Alice Edwards King Solomon Academy Sir Harry Smith Community Orleans Park School Zhanyi Jin Christ College, Brecon College LITERAE HUMANIORES Shanghai Guanghua College Cerys Griffiths Freddie Zu Wied Peter Symonds College Eton College Naomi Finapiri Ava Balaji Charlotte Mathe HISTORY & ECONOMICS Holland Park School Luke Hatch Henrietta Barnett School European School, Brussels 1 LAW Dauntsey’s School, Wiltshire Aleksander Sarbinski Patrick Groves Ricky Cooke Sean White Dulwich College Calday Grange Grammar Clem Marshall Maeve Carroll King Edward VI School, City of London School School Alexandra Park School WQE Leicester Warwickshire HISTORY & MODERN MATHEMATICS & Isabelle Gudi Nicola Wieclaw LANGUAGES Angel Chun Tara Desai COMPUTER SCIENCE King Edward VI School, Bury Liceum Ogólnokształcące Diocesan Girls’ School, Hong King Edward VI High School St Edmunds Towarzystwa Ewangelickiego Grace Clover Kong for Girls Agathiyan Bragadeesh Simon Langton School for Hymers College, Hull Alex Hamilton-Meikle Boys Nicholas Clark Esme Forrester Winchester College PHILOSOPHY & MODERN UWC South East Asia, Dover The Sixth Form College, Emre Mutlu LANGUAGES Anna Power Campus Colchester British International School of Sophie Holt Sevenoaks School Chicago Holy Cross College, Bury Natasha Festenstein Joseph Khaw Eva Hayward Fulford School Anglo-Chinese School Belfast Royal Academy Alex Kahn HISTORY & POLITICS (Independent) MEDICINE (PRE-CLINICAL) The Grammar School at PHYSICS Jude Owers Leeds Asha Kiggins Krishi Khosla Ermysted’s Grammar, Skipton Vita Love Tapton School Langley Grammar School The Charter School, North Ella Marshall Matthieu Bridger Emily Warnham Dulwich Baxter College Hurstpierpoint College Benji McLean Ella McCoy Bishop Thomas Grant Monkton Combe School Hong Kong International School, London Noah Mallick Louisa Owen Leah Harper School Bristol Grammar School The Latymer School Thomas Telford School (City Matilda Parker Technology College) Six 21 Holly Pearce Kate Shipley Twyford Church of England Longbenton High School High School

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Wiktoria Kapusta Will Chamberlain Andrea Doda Sam Griffiths The Blue Coat School, MPhil, Islamic Studies & DPhil, Classical Languages MSt, Modern Languages Liverpool New graduates 2020 History & Literature University of Edinburgh University of St Andrews Wadham (MSt 2019–20) Lucas Martin Kamila Akhmedjanova Jakub Bieganski Justin Hayden The Cherwell School DPhil, Oriental Studies BCL Guadalupe Chavez Afrose Dor DPhil, Inorganic Chemistry H University of Oxford (Keble) James McElhinney University of Oxford Wadham (BA 2015–19) DPhil, Politics BMBC , Clinical Medicine Arnold Hill Academy, (Somerville, St Peter’s) New School University, US Wadham (BA 2017–20) Anton Blackburn Qichi He Nottingham Ronke Akinyemi MSt, Music (Musicology) Nicolas Chen Alex Ewing DPhil, Engineering Science James Thistlewood BCL University of Oxford (Jesus) DPhil, Biochemistry BCL Shanghai Jiao Tong Norwich School Osgoode Hall Law School, University of Montreal University of Glasgow University Irina Boeru York University, Toronto Joseph Hettrick Okasha Uddin MSt, Medieval Studies Yangyang Chen Ink Eze Lampton School Emily Archer University of Oxford DPhil, Mathematics MBA MSt, History DPhil, Atomic & Laser Physics (St Hilda’s) Shandong University Brown University (Intellectual History) Runlai Xu University of St Andrews Wadham (BA 2017–20) Poly Prep Country Day Nina Braude Victoria Chocqueel-Mangan Mike Fan School Evelyn Atmore BCL MSt, Women’s Studies MSc, Statistical Science Matthew Hewitt MPhil, Greek &/or Roman University of Cape Town Wadham (BA 2017–20) University College London DPhil, Ancient History PPE History Wadham (MPhil 2018–20) Lukas Braun Dennis Christensen Nikolaus Feldscher Wadham (BA 2016–20) Tarafa Holford Cara Addleman DPhil, Experimental MSc, Mathematical MJur Bristol Grammar School Romane Aubert Psychology Sciences Universität Wien BCL University of Oxford Wadham (BA 2016–19) Dip. Legal Studies Bernstein Center for Alice Gable Pancho Combley Lopez Université de Paris II Computational Neuroscience (Mansfield) High Storrs School MSt, Modern Languages Eoin Hughes (Université Panthéon-Assas) Berlin Sophie Alice Cundall University of Cambridge MSt, History Amelia Hughes Ellie Ayre Arwed Buchholtz MPhil, Modern Languages (Intellectual History) St Robert of Newminster RC Sankalp Garud BMBCH, Clinical Medicine MPhil, Economics University College London Wadham (BA 2017–20) School & VI Form College DPhil, Experimental Wadham (BA 2017–20) University of Oxford Alec Davi Psychology Hauwa Ibrahim Nia Large (Pembroke) Karen Azoulay MSc, Mathematical University College London MSt, Women’s Studies John Port Spencer Academy William Bunce Sciences American University, DC MJur Sarah Gaspard Université de Paris II DPhil, History École Polytechnique Eemil Moisio DPhil, English Samson Itodo (Université Panthéon-Assas) Wadham (MSt 2019–20) ACS Hillingdon International Tim Davidson Concordia University MPP School James Banks Andrea Buongiorno DPhil, CDT Synthesis for University of Jos, Nigeria Daniel Goode Dave Olsen MSc, Statistical Science DPhil, Philosophy Biology and Medicine MSc, Law and Finance Sophie Jaeger Huntington School University of Warwick University of Oxford (St Cross) University of Cambridge University College Dublin MPhil, Russian & East Ren Phua Maral Bayaraa Jose Cabezas Caballero Christopher Deane European Studies Bryce Goodman Raffles Junior College, DPhil, Engineering Science DPhil, Interdisciplinary MSt, English (1900–present) Vienna University DPhil, Philosophy Singapore University of Bristol University of Cambridge Bioscience University of Oxford Giuseppe Jafari University of Edinburgh Robbie Strang Billy Beswick Samson Dittrich (St Cross, New) MPhil, Law

Stafford Grammar School DPhil, Oriental Studies Scott Cameron MSt, Women’s Studies Wadham (BCL 2019–20) School of Oriental and DPhil, Engineering Science Wadham (BA 2016–20) African Studies University of Stellenbosch

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Emmeran Johnson Joel Madly Sophie O’Neill-Hanson Charley Rogerson Lauren Spohn Elly Walters MSc, Statistical Science MSc, Mathematical MSc, Criminology & PGCE, History MSt, History MSt, Women’s Studies Imperial College of Science, Sciences Criminal Justice University of Warwick (Intellectual History) University of Cambridge Technology & Medicine Heriot-Watt University University of Reading Harvard University Rodney Rousseau Huiru Wang Daniel Kandie Dougal Main Håkon Oppedal MBA Alexander Stavrou MSc, Contemporary MSc, Social Data Science DPhil, Atomic & Laser MFA University of Toronto MFA Chinese Studies University of British Columbia Physics Goldsmiths University City and Guilds of London Huazhong (Central China) Nadia Saffoon (from HT20) University of Oxford Art School University of Science and Jiaqi Kang Will O’Sullivan DPhil, Organic Chemistry (St Anne’s) Technology MSt, History of Art & MSc, Water Science, Policy King’s College London Alexandra Street Visual Culture Dennis Mazingi & Management MSc, Law and Finance Madeleine Wattles Richardo Santos University of Oxford MSc, International Health University of Edinburgh University of Durham MSc, Latin American Studies DPhil, Engineering Science (St Catherine’s) and Tropical Medicine University of Durham Emma Page Instituto Superior Técnico Bechir Tabia The Colleges of Medicine of Jamie Lai DPhil, Oncology DPhil, Engineering Science Bastian Wiederhold South Africa Anna Savage BCL University of Nottingham Université de Technologie de DPhil, Statistics MSt, Greek &/or Latin University of Cambridge Gwenafaye McCormick Belfort-Montbéliard Wadham (MSc 2019–20) Katerina Pavlidis Lang & Lit MPhil, Japanese Studies Hannah Ledlie University of Monica Taing Georgia Williams Waseda University MSt, World Literatures MSt, Creative Writing in English Newcastle-upon-Tyne MSc, Clinical and BCL University of Birmingham Emily Medrano Vassar College, NY Therapeutic Neuroscience College of Law Alice Scharmeli MSt, Music (Musicology) McGill University Adam Lewis-Douglas BMBCH, Clinical Medicine Peter Wills Hunter College, CUNY Fiona Phillips DPhil, Engineering Science MPhil, Greek &/or Latin Wadham (BA 2017–20) George Trotter DPhil, Law Wadham (MEng 2016–20) Lily Moore-Eissenberg MSt, World Literatures in University of Toronto Lang & Lit Ingrid Schreiber BPhil, Philosophy University of Oxford English Jin Li DPhil, History Ruby Wolman Yale University (St Hugh’s) University of Exeter MSc, Maths & Fndns of University of Oxford BMBCH, Clinical Medicine Computer Science Rejoice Namale Kaya Pillet (Harris Manchester) Christoforos Tsavatopoulos Wadham (BA 2017–20) University of Waterloo MPP DPhil, Law MSc, Japanese Studies Ellery Shentall Hank Wu University of Malawi McGill University University of Oxford (Queen’s) Charl Linde MSt, Modern Languages DPhil, Condensed Matter MSc, African Studies Joe Namy Rahul Ravindran Wadham (BA 2015–20) Victoria Udom Physics University of Cape Town DPhil, Fine Art MPP Wadham (MPhys 2016–20) DPhil, Biomedical & Clinical Dan Simons New York University Wadham (MBA 2019–20) Kelly Lloyd Sciences DPhil, Philosophy Bingyuan Yang Imperial College of Science, DPhil, Fine Art Celine Ng University College London Sulaiman Uppal DPhil, Surgical Sciences Technology & Medicine School of the Art Institute BCL BMBCH, Clinical Medicine University of Cambridge Jack Skilbeck of Chicago Wadham (BA 2017–2020) Tamim Rezai Wadham (BA 2017–20) BCL Eileen Ying MSc, Clinical and Chris Lyle Xen Nutt College of Law, Sydney, Adriana Vitagliano MSt, World Literatures Therapeutic Neuroscience MPP PGCE, Modern Languages Australia MBA in English McGill University Wadham (BA 2010–14) University of Bristol Wadham (MSc 2019–20) University of Virginia Peder Skjelbred Adriana Riganova Laura Lynes Son Olszewski BPhil, Philosophy Sam Walby Jiali Zhang MSc, Russian & East MSt, Creative Writing BCL University of Oslo DPhil, Atomic & Laser Physics DPhil, Biomedical Sciences: European Studies University of Edinburgh Wadham (BA 2016–20) Imperial College of Science, NIH-OU University College London Technology & Medicine Johns Hopkins University

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2021 Events

OUR VIRTUAL PROGRAMME Events will be advertised PROVISIONAL DATES continues this year with regularly via email invitations FOR YOUR DIARY topics ranging from global and e-newsletters but please vaccine distribution, to do keep an eye on our Friday 3 September corporate strategy in the website for the most up-to- 1610 Society Dinner pandemic; an interview with date news and information: Nobel prize-winner Roger www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/events Saturday 4 September Penrose, to poetry reading We very much look forward Wadham Alumni Society with some of Wadham’s most to the time when we can Dinner eminent poets. welcome you back to Wadham Looking ahead to autumn in person once more. Wednesday 2021 with a glimmer of hope, 22 September we are also beginning to plan Whitby Cup Golf for the possible return of in-person events. Saturday 25 September Medical Society Reunion

A socially distanced Development Team. L-R: Marco Zhang, Graham Beake, Salome Parker,

William Parry, Julie Hage, Rachel Saunders, Karen Farr, Angela Jefferson

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