SOMERVILLE COLLEGE REPORT 2016-2017

Somerville College Report 2016-17

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This Report is edited by Liz Cooke (Tel. 01865 270632; email [email protected]) and Sarah Hughes Visitor, Principal, Fellows, Lecturers, Staff Lecturers, Fellows, Principal, Visitor, in Review Year The Report Principal’s Jan Royall Baroness Activities Fellows’ Fellowships Research on Junior Report Report MCR Report JCR Report Library Members’ Notes Report President’s Horsman Awards Members’ Fund Senior Somerville (1974) Tina Green Somerville: Before Life Members’ News and Publications Marriages Births Deaths Obituaries Report Academic Examination Results Prizes College Students Entering Committee and Association Officers Somerville Members Board Development Somerville Notices the Diary for Dates Legacies Contents Fellows Annie Sutherland MA, Bhaskar Choubey DPhil, Visitor, (in order of seniority) DPhil, (MA Cantab) Associate (BTech Warangal NIT) Professor in Old and Middle Associate Professor of English, Rosemary Woolf Engineering Science and Tutor Principal, Joanna Mary Innes Fellow and Tutor in English in Engineering Science MA, (MA Cantab) Professor of Modern History, Winifred Daniel Anthony MA, Charlotte Potts DPhil, Fellows, Holtby Fellow and Tutor in (PhD Lond) Professor of (BA Victoria University of History Experimental Neuropathology Wellington, MA UCL), FSA Lecturers, and Tutor in Medicine Sybille Haynes Associate Almut Maria Vera Professor of Etruscan and Suerbaum MA, (Dr Phil, Michael Hayward MA, Early Italic Archaeology and Staff Staatsexamen, Münster) DPhil Professor of Inorganic Art, Katherine and Leonard Associate Professor of Chemistry and Tutor in Woolley Fellow in Classical German and Tutor in German Chemistry Archaeology and Tutor in Visitor Classical Archaeology Fiona Stafford Beate Dignas MA, DPhil, The Rt Hon The Lord MA, MPhil, DPhil, (BA (Staatsexamen Münster) Karen Nielsen (Cand mag, Patten of Barnes, CH, Leicester), FRSE Professor Associate Professor of Cand philol Trondheim, Chancellor of the University of English Language and Ancient History, Barbara MA, PhD Cornell) Associate Literature, Tutor in English Craig Fellow and Tutor in Professor of Philosophy and Literature Ancient History Tutor in Philosophy

Principal Lois McNay MA, (PhD Natalia Nowakowska MA, Jonathan Marchini DPhil, Cantab) Professor of the DPhil Associate Professor of (BSc Exeter) Professor of Theory of Politics and Tutor in History and Tutor in History Statistical Genomics and Alice Prochaska, MA, DPhil, Politics; Dean MT Tutor in Statistics FRHistS Jonathan Burton MA, (PhD Roman Walczak MA, (MSc Cantab) Associate Professor Julian Duxfield MA, (MSc Warsaw, Dr rer nat Heidelberg) of Organic Chemistry and LSE) University Director of Reader in Particle Physics, Tutor in Chemistry Human Resources Vice-Principal Associate Professor and Tutor in Physics Hilary Greaves BA, (PhD Renier van der Hoorn

Richard Stone, MA, DPhil, Rutgers) Associate Professor (BSc, MSc Leiden, PhD Benjamin John Thompson MSAE, FIMechE, Professor of of Philosophy and Tutor in Wageningen) Associate MA, DPhil, (MA, PhD Cantab), Engineering Science, Tutor in Philosophy Professor of Plant Sciences FRHistS Associate Professor Engineering Science and Tutor in Plant Sciences of Medieval History and Tutor Luke Pitcher MA, MSt, in History DPhil, (PGCert Durham) Dan Ciubotaru (BSc, MA Associate Professor of Babes-Bolyai, PhD Cornell) Charles Spence MA, Classics and Tutor in Associate Professor of Pure (PhD Cantab) Professor of Classics; Assessor Mathematics and Tutor in Experimental Psychology Mathematics and Tutor in Experimental Simon Robert Kemp Psychology BA, MPhil, (PhD Cantab) Guido Ascari (BA Pavia, Associate Professor in French MSc, PhD Warw) Professor Jennifer Welsh MA, DPhil, and Tutor in French of Economics and Tutor in (BA Saskatchewan) Professor Economics of International Relations Alex David Rogers (BSc, PhD Liv) Professor of Damian Tyler (MSci, PhD Philip West MA, (PhD Conservation Biology and Nott) Associate Professor of Cantab) Associate Professor Tutor in Biology Biomedical Science and Tutor of English, Times Fellow and in Medicine Tutor in English; Dean HT-TT Christopher Hare BCL, (Dip d’Etudes Jurid Poitiers, MA Francesca Southerden Julie Dickson MA, DPhil, Cantab, LLM Harvard) BA, MSt, DPhil Associate (LLB Glasgow) Associate Associate Professor of Law Professor of Italian and Tutor Professor of Law and Tutor and Tutor in Law in Italian in Law

5 Louise Mycock (BA Durh, Stephen Rayner MA, (PhD Tessa Rajak MA, DPhil Fernando de Juan Sanz MA, PhD Manc) Associate Durham), FRAS, MInstP (DPhil Madrid) Fulford Junior Professor of Linguistics and Senior Tutor, Tutor for Owen Rees MA, (PhD Research Fellow Condensed Tutor in Linguistics (from April Graduates and Tutor for Cantab), ARCO Professor Matter Physics 2017) Admissions of Music César Giraldo Herrera Steven Herbert Simon (BSc Magister de los Andes MA, (PhD Harvard) Bogota, DC Colombia, PhD Professorial Senior Research Aberdeen) Victoria Maltby Fellows Fellows Junior Research Fellow Anthropology Aditi Lahiri (PhD Brown, MA, Amalia Coldea (MA, PhD Honorary Senior PhD Calcutta) Professor of Cluj-Napoca) Research Fellow Anissa Kempf (MSc, PhD Linguistics (ETH) Zurich) Fulford Junior Colin Espie (BSc, MAppSci, Stephanie Dalley Research Fellow Medicine Stephen Guy Pulman PhD, DSc(Med) Glas), FBPsS, MA, (MA Cantab, Hon PhD MA, (MA, PhD Essex), FBA CPsychol Professor of London), FSA Lisa Lamberti (BSC Geneva, Professor of Computational Behavioural Sleep Medicine MSc Copenhagen, PhD ETH Linguistics Zurich) Mary Ewart Junior Sir Marc Feldmann AC, Junior Research Research Fellow Mathematics Stephen Roberts MA, DPhil, (BSc(Med), MB BS, PhD, FREng, FIET, FRSS, MIOP MD(Hon), DMSc(Hon)), FAA, Fellows James Larkin MBioChem, RAEng-Man Professor of FMedSci, FRCP, FRCPath, (PhD Warwick) Fulford Junior Machine Learning FRS Professor of Cellular Lucy Audley-Miller Research Fellow Medicine Immunology MPhil, DPhil, (BA Newcastle) Rajesh Thakker MA, DM, Woolley Junior Research Patricia Lockwood (BSc (MA, MD Cantab), FRS, FRCP, Manuele Gragnolati MA, Fellow Archaeology and Bristol, PhD UCL) Fulford FRCPath, FMedSci May (Laurea in Lettere Classiche, Ancient History Junior Research Fellow Professor of Medicine Pavia, PhD Columbia, DEA Experimental Psychology Paris) Mariano Beguerisse-Diaz Stephen Weatherill MA, MSc, (PhD Imp Lond) Fulford Hania Pavlou DPhil, (MA Cantab, MSc Edinburgh) Sarah Gurr MA, (BSc, PhD Junior Research Fellow (BSc (Hons) Toronto, Jacques Delors Professor of London, ARCS, DIC) Applied Mathematics MRes Glasgow) Fulford European Law Professor of Molecular Plant Junior Research Fellow Pathology Corinne Betts DPhil Neurogenetics Matthew John Andrew Fulford Junior Research Wood MA, DPhil, (MB, ChB John Ingram (BSc KCL, Fellow Medical Sciences Kerstin Timm (PhD Cantab) Cape Town) Professor of MSc Reading, PhD Fulford Junior Research Neuroscience and Keeper of Wageningen NL) Julia Bird (BA Cantab, PhD Fellow Biomedical Sciences the College Pictures Toulouse) Fulford Junior Muhammad Kassim Javaid Research Fellow Economics Sebastian Vollmer (MSc, (BMedSci, MBBS, PhD PhD Warwick) Fulford Junior Administrative London), MRCP David Bowe BA, MSt, DPhil Research Fellow Statistics Victoria Maltby Junior Fellows Philip Kreager DPhil Research Fellow Medieval Edmund Wareham BA, Italian Literature MSt Fulford Junior Research Sara Kalim MA Director of Boris Motik (MSc Zagreb, Fellow Medieval and Modern Development PhD Karlsruhe) Professor of Melissa Bowerman (BSc, Langs. Computer Science PhD Ottawa) Fulford Junior Anne Manuel Research Fellow Medicine Lauren Watson (BSc, BSc (LLB Reading, MA, MSc, PhD Frans Plank (Statsexamen (Med), MSc (Med), PhD Cape Bristol) Librarian, Archivist and Munich, MLitt Edin, MA Ana Sofia Cerdeira (MD, Town) Fulford Junior Research Head of Information Services Regensburg, DPhil Hanover) PhD Porto and Harvard) Fellow Neuroscience Fulford Junior Research Andrew Parker (BA Philip Poole (BSc, PhD Fellow Medicine Davide Zilli (BEng, PhD Liverpool), MA, ACMA Murdoch) Southampton) Fulford Junior Treasurer Patrick Clibbens (BA, MPhil, Research Fellow Engineering Mason Porter MA, (BS PhD Cantab) Mary Somerville Science Caltech, MS, PhD Cornell) Junior Research Fellow History Michael Proffitt BA

6 Nahid Zokaei (BSc, Miriam Tamara Griffin Carolyn Emma Kirkby Theresa Joyce Stewart PhD UCL) Fulford Junior MA, DPhil DBE, OBE, MA, Hon DMus, (Mrs) MA Research Fellow Experimental (Hon DMus Bath, Hon DLitt Psychology Mary Jane Hands MA Salf), FGSM Baroness Lucy Neville- Rolfe DBE, CMG, MA Barbara Fitzgerald Harvey Joyce Maire Reynolds CBE, MA, BLitt, FRHistS, FBA MA, (Hon DLitt Newcastle- Judith Ann Kathleen British Academy upon-Tyne), FBA Howard CBE, DPhil, (BSc Fellows Judith Heyer MA, (PhD Bristol), FRS London) Hazel Mary Fox (Lady Fox) Pippa Byrne BA, MSt, CMG, QC, MA Victoria Glendinning DPhil British Academy Post- Julianne Mott Jack MA CBE, MA doctoral Fellow Averil Millicent Cameron Carole Jordan DBE, MA, DBE, MA, DLitt, (PhD Jennifer Jenkins (D. 2 Feb. Holly Kennard BA, MPhil, (PhD London), FRS London), FBA, FSA 2017) DBE, Hon FRIBA, Hon DPhil British Academy Post- FRICS, Hon MRTPI, MA doctoral Fellow Norma MacManaway MA, Baroness O’Neill of (MA, MPhil Dublin, DEA Paris) Bengarve CH, CBE, MA, Nicola Ralston (Mrs) BA (PhD Harvard), Hon DCL, Early Career Helen Morton MA, (MSc FBA, Hon FRS, FMedSci Antonia Byatt DBE, CBE, Boston, MA Cantab) FRSL, BA Fellows Kay Elizabeth Davies Hilary Ockendon MA, DPhil, DBE, CBE, MA, DPhil, Anna Laura Momigliano Siddharth Arora DPhil, (Hon DSc Southampton) (Hon DSc Victoria Canada), Lepschy MA, BLitt (BTech DA-IICT) Parkinsons FMedSci, FRS UK Early Career Fellow Josephine Peach BSc, MA, Rosalind Mary Marsden DPhil Baroness Jay of DCMG, MA, DPhil Maan Barua MSc, DPhil, Paddington PC, BA (BSc Dibrugarh) British Frances Julia Stewart Sarah Broadie MA, BPhil, Academy Early Career Fellow MA, DPhil Irangani Manel Abeysekera (PhD Edinburgh), FBA (Mrs) MA Adrianne Tooke MA, (BA Harriet Maunsell OBE, MA Career London, PhD Cantab) Paula Pimlott Brownlee MA, DPhil Mary Midgley MA Development Fellow Angela Vincent MA, MB, BS, (MSc London), FRS, FMedSci Julia Stretton Higgins Hilary Spurling CBE, BA André Veiga (PhD Toulouse) DBE, CBE, MA, DPhil, Hon Career Development Fellow DSc, FRS, CChem, FRSC, Catherine Jane Royle de Economics CEng, FIM, FREng Camprubi MA Foundation Fellows Doreen Elizabeth Boyce Nancy Rothwell Lady Margaret Elliott MA, (PhD Pittsburgh) DBE, BSc, DS, (PhD London), Emeritus Fellows MBE, MA FMedSci, FRS

Ruth Hilary Finnegan Margaret Adams MA, DPhil Sir Geoffrey Leigh OBE, MA, BLitt, DPhil, FBA Baroness Shriti Vadera

PC, BA Pauline Adams MA, BLitt, Mr Gavin Ralston MA Janet Margaret Bately (Dipl Lib Lond) CBE, MA, FBA Elizabeth Mary Keegan Lord Powell of Bayswater DBE, MA Lesley Brown BPhil, MA KCMG, OBE Margaret Kenyon (Mrs) MA

Carole Hillenbrand OBE, Marian Ellina Stamp Mr Wafic Said Tamsyn Love Imison BA, (BA Cantab, PhD Dawkins CBE, MA, DPhil, FRS DBE, BSc, FRSA Edinburgh), FBA, FRSE, FRAS, FRHistS Katherine Duncan-Jones Honorary Fellows Clara Elizabeth Mary MA, BLitt, FRSL Freeman (Mrs) OBE, MA Angela McLean BA, (MA Baroness Williams of Berkeley, PhD Lond), FRS Karin Erdmann MA, (Dr rer Crosby CH, PC, MA Jenny Glusker MA, DPhil nat Giessen) Michele Moody-Adams BA, Kiri Jeanette Te Kanawa Ann Rosamund Oakley (BA Wellesley, PhD Harvard) DBE, Hon DMus MA, (PhD London, Hon DLitt Salford), AcSS

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Judith Parker DBE, QC, MA Francesco Hautmann Betiel Wasihun (MA, PhD Alumni Relations (Dottore in Fisica Florence) Heidelberg) German Esther Rantzen DBE, Physics Liz Cooke MA CBE, MA Christian Hill (PhD Cantab) Departmental Lisa Gygax MA Caroline Barron MA, (PhD Chemistry London), FRHistS Lecturers William Laidlaw DPhil, (MA Fiona Caldicott DBE, BM, Cantab) Chemistry Oren Margolis DPhil, (MA Conferences & BCh, MA, MD (Hon), DSc KCL) History Catering (Hon), FRCPsych, FRCP, Alison Lutton DPhil, (MA FRCPI, FRCGP, FMedSci Edinburgh, MA Liverpool) Marco Scutari (MSc, PhD Dave Simpson English Padua) Statistics Emma Rothschild CMG, MA Quentin Miller Shaina Western (BA Venkatraman DPhil, (BMath Waterloo, Whitworth, PhD California at Treasury Ramakrishnan Kt, (BSc Canada) Computer Science Davis) International Relations Baroda, PhD Ohio), Nobel Elaine Boorman Laureate, FRS (President) Ain Neuhaus DPhil Medicine College Accountant Lecturer in Medicine Tessa Ross CBE, BA Mark Roberts MBioch, DPhil Biochemistry Helen Ashdown IT Joanna Haigh CBE, MA, BM, BCh, (MA Cantab), DPhil, FRS, FRMetS Elena Seiradake (PhD MRCP, MRCPG, DCH, PGDip Chris Bamber Systems Heidelberg) Biochemistry Janet Vaughan Tutor in Manager Akua Kuenyehia BCL, (LLB Clinical Medicine University of Ghana) Benjamin Skipp MA, MSt,

DPhil Music Baroness Wolf of Dulwich Porters’ Lodge CBE, BA, MPhil Graeme Smith MPhys, DPhil Academic Office Physics Mark Ealey Lodge Manager Lorna Margaret Hutson Joanne Ockwell (BA, MA BA, DPhil, FBA Stephen Smith BA, University of Gloucester) MPhil, (MA Open) Classical Academic Registrar Chapel Caroline Mary Series Archaeology BA, (PhD Harvard), FRS Claire Cockcroft MA, (PhD Brian McMahon MA, MSt, Pauline Souleau DPhil, (BA, Cantab), FRSB Programme (MA Essex) Director Sacha Romanovitch BA MA Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)) Director, Margaret Thatcher French Scholarship Trust Music Stipendiary Zachary Vermeer BCL, MSt, (BA Sydney) Law Library Lecturers Will Dawes (PGDip RAM, Timothy Walker BMus (Hons) Edinburgh) Susan Elizabeth Purver MA Sophie Bocksberger MA Plant Sciences Director of Chapel Music

DPhil Classics Matthew Roper MA, (MA Hilary Davan Wetton MA Durham) Nicola Byrom DPhil, (BSc Senior Music Associate Nottingham) Psychology Retaining Fee Lectures Joseph Camm MEng Development Further details of all Engineering Richard Ashdowne Office administrative staff MA, DPhil Linguistics are to be found on the Yvonne Couch MSc, DPhil Brett de Gaynesford College website. Medicine Vilma de Gasperin (BA, College of William DPhil, (Laurea Padua) & Mary, USA) Deputy Xon de Ros DPhil, (Fellow of Modern Languages Development Director LMH) Spanish Catherine Mary MacRobert Alessandro di Nicola BPhil, MA, DPhil Russian DPhil Philosophy

8 Principal’s Report

It is a pleasure for me to report on another remarkable year at Somerville, at the end of my own final year as Principal.

Our undergraduate finalists have been well represented among the top results in the University; and the proportion of candidates placing Somerville as their first choice of college at Oxford continues to grow. The College prides itself also on our insistence that every student can succeed despite the inevitable crop of difficulties with personal and health problems: at Somerville, once a student is admitted to study here, we are committed to giving them all possible support. That commitment does not necessarily bring the reward of a high ranking in the Norrington table (where First-class degrees score disproportionately), but it ensures a consistent record of good degrees at the level of Firsts and 2:1s, giving all our graduates the basis for future success. Meanwhile, it is gratifying to see the numbers of exceptionally high academic scores and university prizes increase each year.

It is also a matter for pride that our tutors and support staff continue to win awards from their departments and from OUSU, the student union. This year two tutors, Drs Siddharth Arora and Quentin Miller, won OUSU awards respectively as best lecturer in social sciences and best tutor in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, and our Academic Registrar who also deals with disability issues, Jo Ockwell, was recognised for her outstanding work in student support. Computer scientist Dr Miller summed up: ‘That three awards this year have gone to Somerville is no mere coincidence. The environment is so focused on teaching and learning, it’s impossible not to be Alice Prochaska continually caught up in the buzz of it. I feel very lucky to be part of it all’.

The College’s Governing Body has paid particular attention figure in the Higher Horizons consortium, centred on Stoke to strategy in this year of transition between Principals, and on Trent, which pursues a similar goal, supported by a grant raising academic standards is one plank in that strategy. In from the Higher Education Funding Council for England September 2016, a strategic review of progress over the (HEFCE). past five years noted that the College had also taken great strides in creating a congenial working environment for Underpinning the progress of the College in all ways has both academic and support staff. A survey of support staff been a determined fund-raising strategy: with the result opinion showed 93% positive about Somerville as a place to that Somerville’s endowment has risen by about 80% since work, compared with 75% in the previous survey, taken in 2010. Thanks in part to our loyal alumni (participating in 2012. An active policy of tackling any form of harassment, numbers well above the Oxford average) we are now better whether among students or staff, had clearly borne fruit. able to support students financially; although there is still so much more that needs to be done, in this era of rising Our academic policy, led by Senior Tutor Dr Steve Rayner, fees and interest rates. It has been one of the greatest is geared both to fostering the development of Somerville pleasures (and a constant challenge) for me as Principal, to students and to enhancing opportunities for access to meet alumni and other people in different parts of the world university, among communities not traditionally represented who can help the College – and therefore our students – to here. This year for the second year running, Somerville realise our aspirations. In the past year, my travels have hosted the “Universify” free summer school for students taken me to India (for the seventh visit during my tenure) from some of the poorest schools in areas linked to the and Singapore. I met with the warmest of welcomes in both College. It is designed to encourage Year 10 students to places, from alumni and new friends alike. The staff of our aspire to university and so to motivate them to do as well as Development Office led by Sara Kalim have been the key to possible in their GCSE exams. Dr Rayner is also a leading our success, consistently bringing in more funds each year

9 than most Oxford colleges, and they have been a joy to are particularly grateful for the support of the Indian High work with. Commission in London and the official representatives of the Government of India, successive High Commissioners In 2016-17 the Margaret Thatcher Scholarship Trust and Lord Bilimoria, for their consistent support. Sadly, awarded its first scholarships. The purpose of the Trust the Research Director Dr Alfred Gathorne-Hardy left us in is to provide a living legacy for Britain’s first woman and July 2017 to move on to new roles. He deserves the main first scientist to become prime minister, by offering full credit for getting the Centre established, running its regular scholarships at undergraduate and postgraduate level to seminars and lunch meetings, and melding its first scholars the most excellent students from any part of the world, into a cohesive body. Each one of them has benefited from regardless of political, social or cultural background and Alfy’s personal mentoring and the many opportunities for beliefs. The scheme echoes the support that Somerville professional development that he set up. During the past provided to Margaret Thatcher herself as an undergraduate year Professor Alex Rogers added to his many other duties of modest means. In the same spirit, the Trust also provides by acting as the interim overall director of the Centre; and Thatcher Development Awards, typically of about £2,000, an exciting new appointment will be announced shortly. for students and recent graduates to pursue innovative projects developing their personal and professional skills, Somerville’s dynamic academic community has added with the proviso that the projects should provide some or is about to add several new Tutorial Fellows. We kind of benefit to other people. The Trust was delighted are sad to lose philosopher Professor Hilary Greaves, to welcome Dr Claire Cockcroft as our programme moving on to a senior level fellowship at Merton College, director in January, and she has been working with and and we congratulate physicist Professor Steven Simon mentoring Somerville students in pursuit of the development on taking up his senior research position in the Physics programme. Department, though happily he continues as a Fellow of Somerville. Professor Mason Porter, former tutorial Fellow To date, we have awarded eight full scholarships, ensuring in Mathematics, who has moved to UCLA, continues that the recipients will leave Somerville at the end of their his affiliation as a Senior Research Fellow. This year we courses free from debt; and eight Somerville students are welcomed Elena Seiradake in Biochemistry, Dr Louise receiving Thatcher Development Awards. The programme Mycock in Linguistics (a new post), and Dr Mari Mikkola and mirrors some of the College’s leading characteristics of Dr Renaud Lambiotte will be taking up their appointments internationalism, inclusion and voluntary activity. Recipients respectively in Philosophy and Mathematics in Michaelmas of full scholarships include an undergraduate from Vietnam Term. Dr Vivien Parmentier will join the College in 2018 and a postgraduate from Malaysia, as well as British as Fellow and Tutor in Physics. It is a pleasure also to students from state school backgrounds. The development congratulate Somerville’s Fellows on several awards and awards to date include the following: volunteering in a prizes, including the appointment of Professor Aditi Lahiri refugee camp in Kenya; a biology expedition and the as a vice-president of the British Academy. An important establishment of a Science and Society Club at Somerville; part of the community are the Junior Research Fellows, the establishment of an India-Pakistan Arts/Politics described later in this report. Collective; volunteering in Peru; producing a show at the Edinburgh Festival; the establishment of a conference and Music and the arts have flourished during the year, with a mediaevalists’ discussion group; an event promoting a new director of Chapel Music, William Dawes, who sustainable food production and waste reduction in College; joined in January, already making plans to take the choir and bystander intervention training for College students. on tour to India and Senior Music Associate Hilary Davan Wetton presiding over the resurgent College orchestra. The Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development Somervillians have been well represented in drama and enjoyed another year of growth. Following last year’s highly comedy groups at the Edinburgh Festival, where this year’s successful conference in Oxford on “Nutrition, Power and offerings also included a one-woman show by Somervillian the Environment”, a further conference was held in Delhi, alumna Alison Skilbeck, on Shakespeare’s crones. and several satellite research projects are in progress. Two Indira Gandhi Scholars and the HSA Scholar in Law Coincidentally, the Royal Bank of Scotland chose a day gained distinctions in their masters courses, and all three during the Festival to launch their new £10 banknote are going on to further research degrees at Somerville. On featuring Mary Somerville. Brigitte Stenhouse gave a talk 17 November we celebrated the 150th anniversary of the at the launch party, her swansong as a valued member of birth of pioneering lawyer Cornelia Sorabji at a reception Development Office staff before moving on to do a PhD at India House in London. Speakers included the acting on the mathematics of Mary Somerville. This was a year High Commissioner Dinesh Patnaik, the past and present for honouring the College’s eponymous heroine. In May Deans of the Oxford Law Faculty and an eloquent personal the noted biographer Richard Holmes gave the Bryce tribute to his aunt from her biographer Professor Sir Richard Lecture on “The Mary Somerville connexion” to a large Sorabji. Our two first law scholars, Navya Jannu and Divya and appreciative audience. Earlier, we received news of a Sharma (the Cornelia Sorabji scholar), spoke movingly generous gift. Mrs Emma Lambe and her two daughters, about the opportunity that our benefactors have given them. lateral descendants of Mary Somerville through her brother Henry Fairfax, are presenting the College with a collection The Centre continues to develop its potential to enter into of Mrs Somerville’s own books, several paintings by her and partnerships supporting scholarships and research, with one attributed to her drawing master Alexander Nasmyth, a new building to house its work still a long-term goal. We and her personal collection of shells in their original cabinet.

10 The latter is especially iconic because the young Mary memory, Somerville will be able to accommodate all its Fairfax nurtured her interest in mathematics and the patterns undergraduate students for the whole of their course, of the universe by studying the shells on her native seashore and all first-year graduates. We are fortunate in that all of near Jedburgh. These newly acquired treasures will be on this accommodation will be on site, a huge advantage in display in the Mary Somerville Room, once the JCR and bringing the College community together. more recently the College bar. It has been transformed into an elegant space for special events and gatherings This has been a year of last times and farewells for me in the College, thanks in part to a generous legacy by personally. I am deeply grateful for the great privilege and the late Honorary Fellow Ruth Thompson, who is herself delight of leading the College for the past seven years. commemorated in a named room in the Library. Librarian I thank those who have supported me and shared the and Archivist Anne Manuel, who is also head of IT systems, journey: alumni, Fellows, staff in all departments, trustees has added the title Keeper of College Collections to her and board members within and beyond the College and portfolio and presides over this and other transformations. above all, the many hundreds of students who have made up this vibrant college community and shared with me The fortunes of the College have been transformed not their hopes, fears and extraordinary talents. As my ever- only by fund-raising but also by the wise stewardship and supportive husband Frank and I take our leave, we send innovative management of our Treasurer Andrew Parker. our very best wishes for the future to all our friends in the The College has raised a highly favourable loan for new Somerville community and especially to my successor, building, and work is under way on the Catherine Hughes Jan Royall. building. From 2019 onwards, for the first time in recent

Jan Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, has been elected Principal to succeed Dr Alice Prochaska, who retired in August 2017.

As a graduate of London University, Westfield College, with no history in Oxford, Jan brings a fresh perspective as well as energy and enthusiasm to her new role.

After graduating in Spanish and French Jan worked briefly in the commercial world before beginning a life-long career in politics. She worked in the European Parliament for six years, and then in the House of Commons for Lord Kinnock who was Leader of the Opposition. This was followed by ten years in the European Commission before her appointment to the House of Lords in 2004. She served as a Government Spokesperson on health, foreign affairs and international development under Tony Blair and joined Gordon Brown’s Government as Chief Whip. In 2008 Gordon Brown appointed her to his cabinet as Leader of the Lords and Lord President of the Council. After the 2010 election she became Leader of the Opposition in the Lords until she resigned in 2015.

Jan’s long experience inside and outside Government in foreign affairs and the European Union will be invaluable to Somerville as our country and our universities engage in new networks and new relationships in the post-Brexit world. Much of her work in other parts of the globe has focused on women, young people, education and democracy-building.

In this country Jan has worked a great deal on diversity, Jan Royall social inclusion, mental health, health, domestic violence and citizenship. She is passionate about young people and their potential. Until recently she was Pro-Chancellor of the University of Bath and she is engaged in many charities and Jan is chair of the People’s History Museum and a visiting organisations that work with young people, for example City professor of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Year UK, the NCS, Uprising and Step Up To Serve. Imperial College, London.

11 Fellows’ and Lecturers’ Activities

Biological Sciences Classics macroeconomic models imply that the effect of monetary and fiscal In July to August 2016 Alex Rogers Beate Dignas’s research continues policies on the economy depends on was Chief Scientist on the Nekton/ to focus on the religious landscape of agents’ expectations about the future. XL Catlin Deep-Ocean Survey to pre-Attalid and Hellenistic Pergamon. How monetary and fiscal policies Bermuda where he discovered deep- Currently she is participating in interact to determine macroeconomic sea coral gardens and the deepest a project entitled ‘Materiality in equilibrium depends on the interplay observations of invasive lionfish. Hellenistic Ruler Cults’, contributing between expectations and policies. Over the course of 2016 and 2017 with a focus on the agency and The understanding of this interaction Alex has authored or co-authored funding involved in honours for Attalid is crucial to identify the effect of 27 peer-reviewed papers on various kings, as well as working on a study of policies. For example, a paper co- aspects of coral reef and deep-sea the worship of Dionysus at Pergamon. authored by Guido, P. Bonomolo and ecology. Alex also contributed to She has been collaborating with Dr H. Lopes shows that allowing for two chapters in the UN’s First Ocean Lucy Audley-Miller on ‘Wandering time-variation in the way agents form Assessment and completed a report Myths: Cross-Cultural Uses of Myth their expectations could generate for the UN Division of Oceans and in the Ancient World’, based on the rational expectations equilibria that Law of the Sea on implementation of international conference both held feature temporary unstable, but UN General Assembly Resolutions on at Somerville in 2014 and soon to asymptotically stable, dynamics, and management of deep-sea fisheries. be published by De Gruyter. She is this framework is applied to study He also participated in a workshop on also editing the ‘ancient’ volume in a inflation dynamics. Another paper the Paris Climate Agreement hosted six-volume Cultural History of Memory co-authored by Guido, A. Florio and by National Geographic in Washington commissioned by Bloomsbury. Faculty A. Gobbi studied how expectations of DC, gave a guest lecture at the Royal and college duties have filled the past future changes in monetary and fiscal College of Defence Studies and gave year with chairing exams, and looking policy affect the dynamic behaviour of the Stanley Gray Lecture for 2017 for after the graduate Oxford-Princeton the economy and its current response the Institute of Marine Engineering, links as well as three flourishing of monetary and fiscal policies. More Science and Technology at Lloyds Somerville Classics courses: Literae info at: https://sites.google.com/site/ Registry. He also taught on courses Humaniores, Ancient and Modern guidoascari/. Guido presented the in Adaptations, Marine Ecology History, and Classical Archaeology and above papers and other works at and Ecology and led the First Year Ancient History. various seminars and conferences, Biological Sciences Fieldcourse. Alex Luke Pitcher spent the year as and in talks at several central banks continued as Director of Somerville’s University Assessor. He provided (Bank of Finland, De Nederlandsche Oxford India Centre for Sustainable oversight of the central Committees, Bank, Norges Bank, Riksbank, Fed Development. ruled on Hardship cases, and, on of Chicago, Kansas City and New York). He gave a plenary address to Renier van der Hoorn has continued one memorable evening, stood in for the RCEA 8th Money-Macro-Finance research programs on plant disease the Vice-Chancellor at the Zaharoff workshop, 18-19 May 2017, and and molecular pharming with his Lecture. He delivered the University presented a paper at the National research team using funding from the Latin Sermon at St Mary the Virgin Bureau of Economic Research ERC, John Fell Fund, Oxford-India again in January: having chosen Summer Institute in Boston. He was Centre, Clarendon Fund, BBSRC and the story of Martha for his text on visiting professor at the Dutch Central Syngenta. According to Thomson the previous occasion, he retold the Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank). Reuters, he is one of only a few tale of Judith and Holofernes (with a Highly Cited Researchers in Plant digression on the Temptation of St and Animal Sciences in 2016. There Anthony) this time around. He also Engineering are only sixteen scientists in the UK published a revised version of his Richard Stone is very pleased to having that title, two of them from commentary on the fragmentary Greek report that Engineering at Somerville Oxford. He has also obtained a grant historian Artemon of Pergamum for continues to flourish. This year we had from the European Commission to Brill’s New Jacoby. three of the six engineers graduating collaborate within a European network with First Class degrees and there on improving plant-based expression Economics were also very good examination platforms for the production of results in the first three years, with pharmaceuticals. He is organising the Guido Ascari’s research focused three or four students in the top International Conference on Chemical on understanding of the interaction forty of each year. Combustion work Proteomics at Somerville College, between expectations and continues with EPSRC and industrial planned for March 2018. macroeconomics policies. Dynamic funding, and a major activity is using

12 Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) to Humanities group. Apart from love working with manuscripts in the measure the flows in two dimensions trees, I have published an essay on Bodleian Library and elsewhere, and during induction and compression the Solway in an OUP collection, has recently become a member of the within the optical access engine; Coastal Works, and continue to Humanities Palaeography Committee. these measurements can be taken work on the Oxford History of 8000 times per second, and a single Romantic Literature. The Bicentenary Experimental Psychology run generates about six gigabytes of Jane Austen’s death has prompted of data. This poses challenges with several lectures and Yale UP have Professor Charles Spence has been data analysis and how best to make published a revised edition of my working to establish Gastrophysics: comparisons with the computational biography, Jane Austen: A Brief Life. The New Science of Eating as a predictions. I’ve had the pleasure of taking two discipline. He recently published a more groups of Somerville students to popular science book on this theme Stephen Roberts continues Chawton – with fine, bright weather on with Penguin. He has also been to research the application of both occasions. I’ve also been Chair working closely with chefs such as large-scale machine learning to of the MSt examination in English, Jozef Youssef at his dining space scientific, commercial and industrial convenor of the Romantic Research Kitchen Theory in High Barnet. domains. His current major interests Seminar and host of the Astor Visiting Following the sudden closure of the include the application of machine Lecturer.’ Psychology Department (due to the learning to huge astrophysical data discovery of asbestos) his Crossmodal sets (for discovering exoplanets, ’s monograph Annie Sutherland Research Group are currently without pulsars and cosmological models), English Psalms in the Middle Ages lab facilities and so doing lots of biodiversity monitoring (for detecting (OUP, 2015) won this year’s Beatrice research online and ‘in the wild’. changes in ecology and spread of White Prize. Awarded annually by disease), smart networks (for reducing the English Association, the prize energy consumption and impact), recognises outstanding scholarly History sensor networks (to better acquire and work in the field of English literature Joanna Innes had significant model complex events) and finance before 1590. The year has also seen administrative duties this year, as (to provide better insight into time the publication of two essays on the Vice-Chair of the Faculty Board, and series and aggregate large numbers of Psalms in edited volumes, and the in Hilary Term as Acting Principal unstructured information streams). He completion of work on two further during Alice Prochaska’s sabbatical. continues as Director of the Oxford- essays on devotional literature, both ‘It was interesting to see the College Man Institute of Quantitative Finance to be published in 2018. In addition, and University from a fresh angle. In and as a Faculty Fellow of the Alan Annie has worked intensively on her what free time I had, I completed work Turing Institute. editorial project for Exeter University editing a collection of essays, Suffering Press, presenting two papers on this Bhaskar Choubey continued working and Happiness in England 1550-1850, ongoing research over the course in the field of microelectronics for co-edited with Michael J. Braddick, and of the year. She has continued to better sensor design for commercial due out in August, and continued work enjoy and be challenged by teaching as well as biomedical applications. on the international collaborative “Re- and examining at graduate and This has led to new sensor as well as imagining Democracy” project, which undergraduate level. readout designs for digital cameras is now focusing on Latin America and and electromechanical systems. In This year Philip West has taken the Caribbean. I continued to serve as addition, he also started an activity on on the Deanship, an office which History Delegate for Oxford University better design of nano-systems. He is affords insights into many areas of Press, and as a member of its Finance serving on the IEEE Working Group on life at Somerville – not all of them, and Audit Committees.’ ICT in Europe, advising policy makers thankfully, to do with discipline. One of Oren Margolis published his first at European level. the happiest aspects of the role has monograph (The Politics of Culture been working with our excellent Junior in Quattrocento Europe) in Trinity English Deans and with the members of the Term 2016 and the book has been College’s administrative staff who do named proxime accessit for the Royal Fiona Stafford writes: ‘Since the so much to keep the College running Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize. publication of The Long, Long Life smoothly, in particular the Executive Oren has found the past academic of Trees in August 2016, I’ve been Assistant to Fellows, Karen Mason, year both enjoyable and productive very busy with radio interviews, and our Academic Registrar, Jo as he got to move on to new things: conferences and literary festivals. One Ockwell. An article on ‘The Drama of working on his new project, a cultural of the nicest things about the book is James Shirley’s Poems’ was published history of the Aldine Press; continuing that it has enabled me to work with a earlier in the year, and Phil is now to make forays into the history of former Somervillian, Matt Larsen-Daw, writing a co-authored article about history-writing (an ongoing interest); who is spearheading the Woodland punctuation in seventeenth-century and delivering a large number of Trust’s campaign to launch a National poetry for a forthcoming collection of conference and seminar papers Charter for Trees in November essays. He is also putting the finishing on these various themes. He was 2017. I’ve also been contributing to a touches to his critical edition of James awarded a Lambarde grant from the new TORCH Environmental Shirley’s poems. He continues to Society of Antiquaries for research

13 in Rome on the development in the Law Linguistics Renaissance of the papal title pontifex maximus. He also collaborated with Dr Julie Dickson has continued Louise Mycock joined Somerville on his fellow British School at Rome with her research work in legal 1 April 2017 and since then has had awardee, contemporary artist Candida philosophy. She completed an article, an article accepted for publication Powell-Williams, on her Arts Council entitled ‘Why General Jurisprudence in the journal English Language and England-funded exhibition ‘The is Interesting’, which is shortly to be Linguistics. She ran a college taster Vernacular History of the Golden published by the Mexican philosophy session on Linguistics for a group of Rhubarb’ at the Bosse & Baum gallery, journal Critica. In Trinity Term 2017 Year 10 students and their teachers London – hopefully the first of many she had a term of sabbatical leave in May, and participated in the two collaborations to come. and wrote three chapters of her college Open Days in June to promote forthcoming book, Elucidating Law: Linguistics to prospective students. Natalia Nowakowska is now in The Philosophy of Legal Philosophy. the fourth year of leading an EU- Dr Dickson continued to enjoy her funded project entitled Jagiellonians: teaching for the college in legal Mathematics and Dynasty, Memory and Identity in philosophy and in European Union Statistics Central Europe. This has been a Law, and she is very proud of the Dan Ciubotaru received an year of juggling books. Natalia has performance of the Somerville individual teaching award from the been preparing for publication the undergraduate and postgraduate MPLS this year. His research is in project’s first book, a collection of students who completed finals this representation theory, an area of essays entitled Remembering the summer, and who achieved some mathematics concerned with the Jagiellonians (Routledge, spring fantastic results including several study of symmetries. He is particularly 2018). The book traces how this Law Faculty prizes for the best interested in unitary representations major Renaissance dynasty has been performance in the year across the of reductive Lie groups and Hecke remembered in a dozen different collegiate university. European countries, from the sixteenth algebras in the framework of the local century to the present day. Natalia’s Professor Stephen Weatherill has Langlands correspondence. spent most of the academic year book on the early Reformation in Jonathan Marchini has continued looking down the back of the sofa for Poland is also set to appear later in to pursue the research funded by his a trade deal between the UK and the 2017, to coincide with the Luther ERC Consolidator Award to develop EU that will deliver to the UK the exact Year, the 500th anniversary of the statistical methods for uncovering same benefits as membership of the Reformation (1517/2017). The book is structure in high-dimensional datasets EU, sorting through the recycling in the entitled King Sigismund of Poland and in human genetics and neuroscience. hope of finding super new free trade Martin Luther, and is being published This year a main focus has been the agreements between the UK and by Oxford University Press in research related to the UK Biobank India, the USA and Australia while also December. Natalia has also spoken at project (http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/) greeting with glee the vast injections an international conference in Bruges, which has collected genetic data on of new cash into the NHS. So far he’s delivered a public lecture in London 500,000 UK individuals. His research been disappointed, but he does think and undertaken two very illuminating group has been responsible for he might have spotted a few unicorns research trips to Vilnius and Prague. estimation of haplotypes (paternally along the way. In the meantime, in a and maternally inherited DNA) for Benjamin Thompson has continued spirit of hoping things will somehow all the individuals, and for using his the process of implementing History work out fine in the end, he has methods to predict genetic data curriculum reform as Director of seen four books published in the unobserved by the assay used to Undergraduate Studies in History. last twelve months: Law and Values collect the data. This work will be Taking advantage of what may be a in the European Union (Clarendon published towards the end of 2017. last opportunity to use ERASMUS Law Series), The Internal Market as funding and engage in European a Legal Concept (OUP), Contract Quentin Miller also received an solidarity, he went to Lisbon to teach Law of the Internal Market (Intersentia individual teaching award. His about the late medieval church. Publishing) and Principles and Practice research interests include the design Thinking about Time and Temporality of EU Sports Law (OUP). He has and implementation of programming for the medievalists’ project has been continued to teach at undergraduate languages, and language support for curious in these turbulent times, and postgraduate levels while also parallel processing. and with big changes ahead for the supervising seven research students, Somerville History School. and he shares the general delight at the success of the Somerville finalists in Law in 2017.

14 Medicine Damian Tyler has enjoyed his first year teaching in Somerville and several Helen Ashdown’s main focus this of his students have won awards year has been her ongoing research and distinctions. His research team into blood eosinophils in chronic has successfully undertaken the first obstructive pulmonary disease. In human experiments using the novel particular, she is leading a clinical technique of hyperpolarized magnetic study which is now recruiting patients resonance imaging for the assessment from across Oxfordshire. She has of cardiac metabolism. This emerging also published papers on the clinical technique makes it possible to image features of whooping cough, and how the heart turns the fuels we eat the workload of NHS GPs. She (like sugars and fats) into the energy has recently taken over as national we need to keep our hearts beating. research lead for the Primary Care It is believed that alterations in the Respiratory Society UK, and has balance between the use of fats and chaired the South West Regional sugars may underlie many diseases Conference of the Society for of the heart and so this new imaging Academic Primary Care. In March she modality may provide a sensitive way welcomed the arrival of her daughter to diagnose heart disease and to help Elizabeth – just in time to attend the monitor its treatment. Francesca Southerden conference with her! Vanessa Ferreira is Associate Modern Languages Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Deputy Clinical Director of OCMR. Simon Kemp has two new books Sbornik statej pamjati V.M. Zagrebina’ She is an Honorary Consultant coming out this year. The first is a (1942-2004), edited by Ž. L. Levšina Cardiologist, and Clinical Lecturer monograph entitled Writing the Mind: et al. (St Petersburg: Rossijskaja at Somerville, and for the past year Representing Consciousness from Nacional’naja Biblioteka, 2016) has been continuing research using Proust to the Present, published this (https://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000008288/ cardiac MRI to study the human summer with Routledge. It ventures view). She also gave a paper on heart. She has published seven towards a literary history of the mind ‘Uses of perfective non-past forms scientific papers and one news article, over a century of European culture, in early Church Slavonic homilies’ at completed two book chapters and examining how psychological novels a conference, ‘St. Clement of Ohrid two consensus papers. Vanessa change through the century with in the Culture of Europe’, at the has submitted two major grant the rise and fall of psychoanalysis, University of Sofia in November 2016. existentialism, and behaviourism, applications this year and is actively Since joining Somerville as the the decline of religious belief and the involved in committee work and on new Fellow in Italian, Francesca advent of cognitive science. It’s the external Boards. Southerden has presented her first of a projected trilogy, so he is now research on medieval Italian poetry Victoria Stokes was awarded a hard at work on the second volume, at conferences and workshops in Wellcome Trust Clinical Research looking at theories of consciousness Paris and Berlin, as well as in Oxford. Training Fellowship in 2016 for her and literary criticism. Secondly, as In May, she travelled to Eugene, DPhil project entitled ‘The Role of part of his role as Schools Liaison Oregon, for the annual meeting of the the Adaptor Protein-2 Sigma Subunit and Outreach Officer for the French Dante Society of America, of which (AP2) in Calcium Homeostasis’. She sub-faculty, he has been involved with she is an elected member of the is exploring the biology of G-Protein Oxford University Press’s plans to Council. Together with her colleague Coupled Receptor (GPCR) function, create study guides for French texts in in medieval Italian, Elena Lombardi focusing on the calcium sensing response to the recent changes in the (Balliol College), she has been receptor (CaSR). Loss-of-function A-level syllabus, firstly as a consultant, convening the ‘Cavalcanti Reading and gain-of-function mutations to and then as the writer of one of the Group’, which has attracted a lively the CaSR result in hypercalcaemia first volumes, a companion to Camus’s and committed group of scholars and hypocalcaemia, relevant to her L’Étranger. background as a Specialist Registrar and graduate students. She has in Diabetes and Endocrinology. She is Mary MacRobert has published ‘The completed a forthcoming article on studying the CaSR signalling pathway place of the Mihanovi Psalter in the Petrarch’s ‘Art of Rambling’, and is and its components, focusing on the fourteenth-century revised versions of working on finishing a monograph role of the adaptor protein-2 sigma the Church Slavonic Psalter’ in volume entitled Dante and Petrarch in the subunit which is involved in clathrin VI of Studia Ceranea (2016) (http:// Garden of Language, which brings mediated endocytosis of the CaSR. ceraneum.uni.lodz.pl/s-ceranea/ together her interests in language, She teaches undergraduate and spis-tomow), and ‘The enigmatic desire, subjectivity, and poetic space. postgraduate medical students at Athens Psalter (Greek National Library, As a longstanding member of the Somerville. MS 1797)’ in “Slova I zolota vjaz’”. Somerville Medievalist Research

15 Group, she is delighted to have for Philosophy; and was involved Emeritus Fellow participated in this year’s meetings in the search for Somerville’s new alongside her colleagues in Modern Principal. Her article ‘Vice in the Judith Heyer has been continuing to Languages, English, and History. Nicomachean Ethics’ appeared in the write and lecture on different issues journal Phronesis early in the year; emerging from the village data that she Almut Suerbaum has chaired the another longer piece, ‘Spicy Food has been collecting over the last three Final Honours Schools for Modern as Cause of Death: Coincidence decades or so, spending the winter Languages and the six joint schools, and Necessity in Metaphysics E2- months in South India and the rest which has been complex, but also 3’ will appear in Oxford Studies in of the year in Oxford. In 2016-17 she fascinating – from oral exams to Ancient Philosophy vol. 52 (2017). has published: ‘Rural Gounders on the making sure that theses, dissertations ‘Deliberation and Decision in the Move in Western Tamil Nadu: 1981/2 and portfolios went to the right Magna Moralia and Eudemian Ethics’ to 2008/9’, in P.J. Himanshu and G. readers, from calming nerves of is forthcoming in Brink, Sauvé-Meyer Rogers (eds.), Longitudinal Research candidates and examiners to chairing and Shields (eds.), Virtue, Happiness in Village India: Methods and Findings meetings. She has given invited and Knowledge: Essays for Gail Fine (New Delhi, India: Oxford University lectures in Berlin, Bonn, Freiburg, and Terence Irwin (Oxford: Oxford Press, 2016), and ‘Loosening the Ties Helmstedt and Zurich, mostly on University Press, 2017). In December of Patriarchy with Agrarian Transition medieval religious song and mystical 2016, Karen gave the keynote talk in Coimbatore Villages: 1981/2 - theology – a welcome counterpart, as at an international conference for 2008/9’, in B. Mohanty (ed.), Critical were the meetings of the Somerville younger ancient philosophers at the Perspectives in Agrarian Transition: Medieval Research group, whose Humboldt in Berlin, and in September India in the Global Debate (New Delhi, members were enormously pleased 2016 gave a talk at the Southern India: Routledge, 2016). to be afforced by Francesca Association for Ancient Philosophy at Southerden, Somerville’s Fellow in Cambridge. Karen waits to see how Italian. Brexit negotiations will impact her legal status in the UK and suspects Philosophy she will have to seek legal help. This has been a year of transition for Philosophy at Somerville. In Physics September, Alessandro di Nicola Steve Simon spent much of concludes his two-year stint as the spring/summer as a Visiting Lecturer, and in October we will Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in welcome our new Tutorial Fellow, Copenhagen. Mari Mikkola, a specialist in feminist philosophy, who will join us from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. We Honorary Senior will then start a new and exciting Research Fellow chapter in the history of Philosophy at Somerville. Our students have Stephanie Dalley has given several been delivering excellent results lectures on the Hanging Garden in prelims and finals this year, with of Babylon, including one at the distinctions for Somervillians in Trondheim Arts Festival; her book on Maths and Philosophy, Physics and the Mystery of the Hanging Garden Philosophy, and PPE, and firsts for (OUP, 2013) is now published in students specializing in Philosophy Arabic by Beisan Press (Beirut), for Greats and PPE finals. The past translated by Najwa Nasr. She year has involved Karen Nielsen went to Basra (southern Iraq) for in a hefty amount of administrative the opening of the new museum work: she served on appointment of antiquities, spoke at a small conference, and visited the site of Ur, committees for a University Lecturer Nicola Ralston (1974, History, Honorary and the revived marshes, which now in Ancient Philosophy at Brasenose, Fellow) and Gavin Ralston (Foundation and for the CUF in Feminist and cover an area the size of Belgium. Fellow) attending a Buckingham Palace Theoretical Philosophy at Somerville, Her forthcoming book, a History of Garden Party, at which Gavin was also on the Board of the Faculty of Babylon, is now on its third draft, to representing St Paul's Cathedral, Philosophy; was Mods Examiner be published by CUP. where he is Lay Canon

16 Report on Junior Research Fellowships

Every year Somerville supports a substantial number researchers. The workshop on shipwrecks, in collaboration of Junior Research Fellows (JRFs) in a wide range with Dai Bowe, is mentioned above. César has also been of fields. Each JRF is asked to write an annual report working with Maan Barua, a British Academy Early Career for Governing Body to consider. The following piece Fellow at Somerville and former JRF here, to run a series attempts to summarise just some of the very of informal discussions drawing together researchers exciting research that our early career researchers from a wide range of disciplinary fields to consider recent are pursuing. publications in Geography, Anthropology, Environmental Humanities, as well as Science and Technology Studies. Anissa Kempf is working in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics to discover more about the cellular Melissa Bowerman works in the Department of and molecular mechanisms for regulating sleep. Anissa does Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, developing muscle- this by studying the proteins active in the brains of flies. specific therapies to improve the quality of life for patients suffering from two incurable neuromuscular disorders. Julia Bird works in the Department of Economics, studying Melissa works within the research team led by Professor urbanisation in developing countries. Julia uses census Matthew Wood, a Professorial Fellow at Somerville. Melissa data and satellite images (where she is also developing has received Principal Investigator (PI) funding for her work, new techniques that will allow the evolution of any city to recognising the quality of her individual contribution to this be studied), along with other sources of data to track urban important research. development. Julia uses analysis tools developed in various disciplines, including criminology and epidemiology, to Fernando de Juan is a Theoretical Physicist who provide new insights which allow the effects of public policy generates theoretical models to explain and predict to be evaluated. Julia has studied Kampala, Nairobi and the properties of an exotic class of materials known as Dhaka in particular depth. topological insulators and semimetals. Juan works with experimental groups in Oxford and elsewhere to compare Kerstin Timm works in the Department of Physiology, observed properties with theoretical predictions. This Anatomy and Genetics in the research group led by class of materials can show useful properties such as Somerville Fellow Professor Damian Tyler. Using the group’s superconductivity or photovoltaic current generation revolutionary imaging technique for tracking how the heart (the latter potentially useful for solar power generation). metabolises specific molecules, Kerstin is studying the effect Developing a robust theoretical understanding of how the of doxorubicin, a valuable cancer therapy drug which has structure determines the macroscopic properties of the significant adverse side effects in the heart. If doxorubicin’s material could mean that new, valuable materials can be impact on the heart can be elucidated and detected early discovered more easily. enough, a better balance between the drug’s positive impact on the cancer and its negative impact on the heart could be Lisa Lamberti is a Pure Mathematician, working on algebra achieved and patient outcomes could be improved. and combinatorics. Lisa’s work has some overlap with that of Somerville Emeritus Fellow, Karin Erdmann, and a jointly David (Dai) Bowe is a medieval Italian literature scholar, authored paper is anticipated. focusing on the works of Dante. In particular, Dai is pursuing an ongoing project on the role of women’s voices as Patricia Lockwood works in the Department of authoritative and/or corrective in Dante and other medieval Experimental Psychology. Patricia investigates the Italian verse. Dai worked with another of Somerville’s psychological and neural mechanisms that underpin how JRFs, César Giraldo Herrera, and the Faculty of Modern people interact with other people. In particular, Patricia and Medieval Languages as well as The Oxford Research examines how the ability to interact with others is affected Centre for the Humanities (TORCH) to organise a one-day by factors such as personality, ageing and disorders of conference on the theme of ‘Shipwrecks and how to avoid social cognition, including psychopathy and autism. them’. The workshop drew on the imagery of shipwrecks Ana Sofia Cerdeira works in the Nuffield Department of from many sources and should ultimately generate a volume Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Ana analyses the results of on shipwreck as a metapoetic and narrative image. the first clinical trial looking at the role of particles generated César Giraldo Herrera works in the School of from the placenta and detectable in the maternal circulation Anthropology and Museum Studies. He has particularly in preeclampsia. The condition, a potentially very serious wide-ranging research interests. One major project involves complication of pregnancy, is currently not easy to treat studying how Amerindian shamanic practices designed or monitor. A measurement, using these particles, that to support health and combat disease have real positive indicated the level of severity of the condition could be microbiological impact, achieving measurable health benefits very beneficial in improving appropriate management and through rituals that owe nothing to western/northern treatment of the condition. medicine methodology. César’s book on the subject Edmund (Ed) Wareham works in the History Faculty, promises to provoke a major debate and have a significant and his research interests in medieval German monastic impact. César has also collaborated with other Somerville

17 life and interaction are pursued through two channels. He Davide Zilli started his JRF as a postdoc in the Engineering works as part of a multi-researcher project studying 1,800 Department but now continues his research working for surviving letters from the Benedictine nuns’ convent of spin-out company Mind Foundry, which was co-founded Lüne between 1460 and 1555. His role in this project is by Somerville Professorial Fellow Steve Roberts. Davide to focus on studying the combination of Low German and spent some time developing a system (the HumBug Latin used in the letters. Ed concludes that the evidence project) designed to use mobile phones to detect the challenges the orthodox view that levels of Latin-learning presence of mosquitoes by listening for their characteristic were lower in female houses than in male ones, and has ‘whine’. Following a conversation over lunch (such is presented his findings to the collaboration. In addition to how interdisciplinary work can often start), Davide has working on this collaborative project, Ed has been pursuing also collaborated with Somerville Emeritus Fellow Marian his personal research agenda. Current work, building on Dawkins FRS, to help develop a system for monitoring Ed’s PhD work, focuses on nuns and the baths. Nuns used farm animal behaviour by analysing video feeds of their trips to the spas for medical and social reasons, but such pens. More recently, Davide has moved to working in the trips could also be used for devotional exercises, as nuns commercial sector as a machine-learning researcher for created ‘spiritual bathhouses’ in their minds as a Passion Mind Foundry. devotion. Nahid Zokaei works in the Department of Experimental Lauren Watson works in the Department of Physiology, Psychology, where she focuses on understanding visual Anatomy and Genetics, investigating the molecular working memory and attention in both health and disease. mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases. In particular, Nahid examines the neuromodulation of working memory Lauren focuses on spinocerebellar ataxias, a group of and attention in normal individuals and their deficits in inherited conditions characterised by a lack of voluntary patients with neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s coordination of muscle movements which often results in disease and Alzheimer’s disease, and those at risk an abnormal gait. Lauren works with stem cells that can be of neurodegeneration. Nahid’s other interests include induced to become the specific type of neuron that is seen understanding the correlations between neural activity and to be dysfunctional in these conditions. This approach has rapid forgetting and the interaction between attention and the potential to be a very powerful tool in characterising working memory. and ultimately combating the development of these Dr Steve Rayner, Senior Tutor devastating diseases.

MCR Report

Somerville’s Middle Common Room has continued its the MCR has continued to excel in both sporting and upward trend in membership, hitting 200 for the first time academic circles. The Boat Club have won a remarkable with this year’s intake. The new graduate accommodation three blades this year, and MCR members have on Little Clarendon Street, Barbara Craig House, has represented the university in a variety of sports from added 30 high quality rooms a stone’s throw away, shooting to modern pentathlon. Spaces to talk at the contributing to the ever larger, more active, and diverse twice-termly symposia have been in high demand, with an graduate community in college. Since I joined the MCR impressive number of the MCR all wanting to show off their four years ago, there has been a significant and sustained equally impressive work. increase in the use of the common room in Margery We were sad to say goodbye at the end of Trinity Term to Fry House, and with it a much busier and friendlier many friends and colleagues graduating this summer. They atmosphere – long may it continue! will no doubt excel in their chosen careers, and will always Hand in hand with the increased use, we have made be welcome back at Somerville and the MCR. We must concerted efforts to improve the common room facilities. also say a very fond farewell to Alice Prochaska, whose The MCR Dining Room (the ‘Productivity Room’), still thoroughly positive impact on every aspect of college boasting the original dining table from the 1960s, is now life needs no further exposition here; she leaves with the a frequently used work space with a homey, if functional, gratitude and best wishes of us all. interior. Downstairs, the ‘Dungeon’ has been completely Finally, I wish to thank everyone in college who has helped refitted as a graduate study space complete with a room make this year such a success. Next year, I am sure, will be bookable for group work or tutorials. even better. Despite the expanded social scene, with coffee and Fergus Cooper, MCR President alcohol both flowing in perhaps worrying quantities,

18 JCR Report

Somerville JCR has enjoyed a fantastic year, and it has the successes of last summer’s pilot, with Somerville been my pleasure to enjoy the company and successes of student ambassadors speaking, and inspiring, in schools such a friendly and open student community. A wonderful in Kingston and Hounslow. The Arts Fund has been made demonstration of this was at swimming cuppers, where accessible for the first time (following a slight organisational Somerville overwhelmed all opposition and walked hiccup) so that anyone wishing to engage in a project can away champions by bringing at least four times as many do so without worrying about self-funding, and the JCR swimmers down to Iffley pool as any other team. Beyond bikes (Bikey McBikeface and Cycleangelo – democratically the swimming, Somerville sport has been outstanding this named, as you may have guessed) are up and running year, with Women’s Netball (sporting brand-new team stash) with only one mechanical malfunction between them all reaching the final of cuppers, while Men’s Rugby did the year. Maintaining our strong collective desire to help where same in the Plate Competition. Perhaps buoyed by these we can, the JCR is hoping to build on Somerville’s strong recent sporting performances, the JCR celebrated its first connection to India by sending several students to teach ever Somerville Sports Day which, aside from the snapping English in a school in Roshni, India, this summer. We remain of the tug-of-war rope, was an unmitigated success. The in close contact with Molly from Molly’s Library, in Ghana, Boat Club’s victories were too numerous to be fully listed which in recent years we have helped to fundraise for and here (if you’d like the full picture you should sign yourself up maintain, and provide support wherever we can. to the newsletter by emailing [email protected], I am told) but highlights included Blades for W2 in Torpids, and At the end of a great year, the JCR in particular wanted Blades for W1 in both Torpids and Eights! to show its gratitude to Alice for everything she has done as Principal, and we wish her all the best in the future. Beyond the world of sport, the JCR Committee ran Somerville is a magical home and we are all sad to leave it compulsory workshops treating the subjects of gender (even I’m sad to be leaving, and I get to come back after and sexuality, race and disability for the first time, and our my year abroad!), but I think the Alumni Association’s rather Women’s Officer Rani Govender deserves special praise catchy tagline ‘Once a Somervillian, always a Somervillian’ for arranging self-defence classes and organising the free very much holds true. distribution of sanitary products to students. Elsewhere, Alex Crichton-Miller, JCR President the Access Roadshow took place once more following

Thank you, Ali P 19 Library Report 2016-17

All of us at Somerville will be sad to see Alice Prochaska Emma Lambe, great-great-great-niece of Mary Somerville leave Somerville this summer but none more so than herself. The family also kindly donated five watercolours by the librarians and archivists who have received so much Somerville and an oil painting that may have been painted support and engagement from the Principal. With her by her tutor, Alexander Nasmyth (1758-1840). Some of background in historical manuscripts and archives and these treasures will be displayed in the college’s newly of course running one of the largest academic libraries in named Mary Somerville Room (the old JCR bar) when the world, Alice has been a tremendous source of advice, refurbishment is completed later this summer. Monetary contacts and ideas for us and we will miss her very much gifts have been received from the friends of Joanna indeed. Frank too has given unstintingly of his time and Nicholson (1984) and from Yoko Odawara. From 1 August knowledge in fostering, supporting and maintaining public 2016 to 31 July 2017, 1852 books have been accessioned interest in the John Stuart Mill library – one of his leaving (of which 445 are gifts), 13 pamphlets and 14 DVDs. gifts recently was the freedom of the library with his own key Sue Purver celebrated her 30th year at Somerville to the collection! More of the John Stuart Mill Library and its Library with the introduction of her Book of the Month friends anon. exhibitions where she displays and writes about items in our antiquarian collection each month. You can follow Library Collection her progress virtually on the library blog https://somlib. We have continued to purchase books for the library in all wordpress.com/ subjects and have been fortunate to receive many gifts of books, including substantial numbers from alumna Laura Special Collections and Archives Barnett (1972), the bequest of Mavis Mate (1953), and Special Collections and Archives continue to attract of John Stoye, brother-in-law of Enid Stoye (1938) and increasing amounts of attention with 160 email enquirers husband of Catherine Stoye (1947). These and all our (last year 144) and 41 visitors (last year 39). We provided other donors have been listed at the end of this report. Our exhibitions for International Women’s Day in conjunction grateful thanks go to all of them. Special mention should with the Philosophy Faculty about Philippa Foot and be made of the donation of around 200 books from the Elizabeth Anscombe; for the celebration of the completion library of Mary Somerville and her immediate family, by of the Amelia Edwards pots project (see last year’s report);

20 Darwin’s Descent of Man

Edward Brittain for the Bryce Lecture on Mary Somerville and for the Hazel Tubman was recruited to map the marginalia in the annual John Stuart Mill Lecture in addition to several other collection which we had anticipated would take around displays for events and reunions. Assistant Archivist Kate three months. Due to the large number of markings that O’Donnell participated in the World War One Collection day she found, however, this initial phase only took us a third organised by the University IT services with an exhibition of the way through the library. Generous donations from about Somerville as a hospital, and prepared material on JSM supporters Virginia Ross and Christopher Kenyon Mary Somerville for an edition of Antiques Road Trip (yet to have allowed us to bring Hazel back to continue the work in be broadcast). Additions to the collections include material February 2017, to be finalised in August 2017. from Shirley Williams including a wonderful portrait of Professor Albert Pionke of the University of Alabama Vera Brittain’s brother Edward which had been unseen returned in March and July 2017 and found he was able to for decades, and additional letters from the family of digitise twice the amount he did last year thanks to Hazel’s Margaret Kennedy. groundwork in locating the marginalia. John Stuart Mill Library The Friends of the John Stuart Mill Library received their first 16-page newsletter in August 2016 and enjoyed two The John Stuart Mill Library Project has had a busy and events: Tea with John Stuart Mill in March 2017 (speakers very successful year. The first books from the collection included Albert Pionke, Hazel Tubman and Helen O’Neill went to the Oxford Conservation Consortium (OCC) for from the London Library) and the annual lecture given repair with Darwin’s inscribed Descent of Man being by Helen Small which attracted over 75 enthusiastic the first volume to undergo much-needed restoration. attendees. The lecture, entitled ‘Liberalism and its Following an introduction from Linda Hart (1969) and with Enemies’, reappraised the importance of John Stuart Mill’s the assistance of the OCC we made a successful bid to Inaugural Lecture as Rector of St Andrews 150 years ago the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust in October in 1867. 2016 for £15,000 to repair the books containing marginalia. This project will dramatically increase the speed at which Finally, we are proud to announce that our popular group we can carry out the repairs as we will have a dedicated study room in the library is to be renamed The Ruth conservator for 100 days working on the project from Thompson Room in memory of our Honorary Fellow and August 2017. generous donor who died in 2016.

21 List of Library Donors 2016-17:

Jane, Lady Abdy Jakob Kastelic (Physics, 2013) Alice Prochaska (Noble, English, 1952), bequest Elizabeth Knowles (English, 1970)* Frank Prochaska* Academic Office Meriel Kitson (De Laszlo, Dani Rabinowitz Anglo-Kuwaiti Friendship Society Physiological Sciences, 1968)* (Philosophy DPhil, 2006)

Victoria Archard (Lloyd, Maths, 1966)* The Librarian Joanna Raisbeck (Modern Languages (German) DPhil, 2013) Phylomena Badsey* Max Luedecke (Computer Science, 1999) Rahul Raza (Archaeology MSt., 2016) Laura Barnett (Weidenfeld, Oriental Studies, 1972) Mary MacRobert (Russian, 1970) E.M. Robins (Maths, 1948)*

Jennifer Barraclough (Collins, Shruthi Manivannan (History, 2015) Matthew Roper Psychology, 1967)* Oren Margolis* Ilona Roth (PPP, 1966)* Philip Behrens (MSc Water Science, Policy & Management, 2016) Mavis Mate (Howe, History, 1953) Liz MacRae Shaw [bequest of] (Masters, History, 1966)* Elizabeth Black (Austin, English, 1959) [bequest of] James McMullen* Charles Spence*

Bhaskar Choubey Henry Mee* Fiona Stafford*

Patricia Davies (Owtram, B.Litt., 1951) Valerie Mendes* Gina Starfield (MSc Refugee & Forced Migration Studies, 2016) Julie Dickson Fiona Mercey (Robson, Physics, 1981)* John Stoye (books from the Katherine Duncan-Jones bequest of) Elly Miller (Horovitz, PPE, 1946) Rosemary Dunhill (History, 1962)* Elisabetta Strickland* MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Marieke Faber Clarke (History, 1959)* Modern Art)* Almut Suerbaum

Orla Fenton (BCL, 2016) Elaine Moore (Chemistry, 1967)* Charlotte Graves Taylor (1958)*

Rosemary FitzGibbon Delia Morris (Kay, French and German, Sir Guenter* and Phyllis Treitel (History of Art, 1967)* 1960)* (Cook, PPE, 1948)

Friends of Joanna Nicholson Hannah Mortimer (Robinson, Janet Treloar (Geography, 1958) (English, 1984; died 2016) Experimental Psychology, 1970)* Philippa Tudor (History, 1975)* Maggie Gee (English, 1966)* Nile HQ Ltd. Niamh Walshe (English and Modern Alice Gillett (Boycott, Agricultural Yoko Odawara (money used to buy Languages, 2015) Sciences, 1958) (from the Library of books and for preservation) Simon Gillett) Jonathan Ward Rosie Oliver (DPhil Oriental Studies, 2011) Miriam Griffin* (Rogers, Mathematics, 1976)* Stephen Weatherill* Rosalind Henderson (Bloomer, Modern Jenna Orkin (Music, 1974)* Languages (French), 1964)* Sr Jane Khin Zaw (PPE, 1956)* Ann Petre (PPE, 1944)* Joanna Innes *Gift of donor’s own publication

22 The Somerville Association President’s Report

Our 2017 programme opened with dinner at the House of allows alumni the opportunity to mentor and be mentored Lords. Baroness Jay then chaired a lively panel discussion themselves at every stage of their professional and on ‘The State We’re In Now’, focusing on the potential personal lives. implications of Brexit, with speakers Jill Rutter (1975) of Family and friends joined us in June for lunch and the the Institute for Government and Will Hutton, Principal of annual commemoration service to celebrate the lives and Hertford College and former editor-in-chief for The Observer. achievements of those Somervillians who have died in the We held our Annual General Meeting in March, taking the course of the year, including Honorary Fellows Jennifer opportunity to express our affection for Dr Alice Prochaska, Jenkins and Ruth Thompson. our retiring Principal, and our appreciation for all she has Finally, we record with great pleasure the remarkable done for Somerville. It was a truly memorable day. Alice Somervillians recognised with Queen’s Honours this year. and our guest of honour, Baroness Williams, were in In the New Year list, Baroness Williams of Crosby (Catlin, conversation about important issues of the day close to 1948) was made a Companion of Honour (and also both their hearts, including education, the National Health received an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law at Encaenia); Service, the values of Europe, world peace and human Caroline Ross (1993) was awarded an OBE for legal rights and women as political leaders. We also held a services to international climate change negotiations; working lunch for our matriculation Year Representatives Rachel Griffiths (Cullen, 1967) an MBE for services to and brought alumni and parents up to date with their vulnerable people; and Professor Kamila Hawthorne activities. We are delighted that our new Principal, Baroness (Ebrahim, 1978) an MBE for services to General Practice. Royall, will join us in college on 17 September for the In the Queen’s Birthday list, Gwyn Morgan (1972) was second Year Representatives’ symposium. We are reaching awarded an OBE for services to the rehabilitation of out through this network to alumni who cannot easily join in prisoners and Barbara Forrai (Lockwood, 1946) a BEM for activities at college or in London but enjoy getting together services to charity in the UK and Russia. informally or on-line. We are also making good progress on our offer of e-mentoring, to current students as well as Our warmest congratulations to them all. recent graduates to help them into the world of work. This Susan Scholefield (1973) is the top priority request of both JCR and MCR. It also

Horsman Awards The Somerville Senior Members’ Fund The Alice Horsman Scholarship was established in 1953. Alice Horsman (1908, Classics) was a great traveller who 2016-2017 wished to provide opportunities for former Somerville students to experience other countries and peoples, whether through travel, research or further study. The Alice Horsman Scholarship is open to final-year students and to all Somerville undergraduate and graduate alumni who are This Fund has been available to provide small sums to in need of financial support for a project, usually involving help alumni with unforeseen expenses and hardship. travel, research or further study, that is intended to enhance We are also able to subsidise the cost of individuals career prospects. Applications from Somerville students/ attending College events which would otherwise have alumni who have secured a place on the Teach First been unaffordable for them. We hope that people who scheme will be looked on favourably. find themselves in need will not hesitate to call upon the Fund. We are glad to hear from third parties who think For information about the application process please email help would be appreciated. And we are always grateful [email protected] or visit www.some. for donations to the Fund. ox.ac.uk/studying-here/fees-funding/student-awards. Applications are now accepted at the start of each term. Applications for grants should be made to Applications for Michaelmas Term close on Wednesday [email protected] or 18th October 2017. [email protected]

23 Life before Somerville

Tina Green came up to Somerville in 1974 to read Physiological Sciences. From Oxford she went on to Wolfson College, Cambridge to finish her medical training, eventually becoming a Consultant Dermatologist in 1991, specialising in Allergy. Tina Green in 1975, with Clive Britten

I went up to Somerville at the age of 18 straight from but perplexed by girls arriving with portfolios of work under school, so you may be wondering what amazing life their arms, milling around the JCR with such confidence, experiences I could possibly have had with such a straight many knowing one another, discussing their interview forward entry from school directly to university. The unusual preparation. The voices, the Southern accents, the easy nature of my particular path resides in the background laugh, the clothes! Strangely I didn’t feel uncomfortable, just I came from; I still have to pinch myself sometimes, thrilled to be there and join in the theatre of it all. It would wondering how different my life might have been without be a two-day interlude in my otherwise humdrum life. Just Somerville as my stepping-stone to a new world of before I was about to leave for my train I was asked to go opportunity. to yet another interview; I was getting the hang of this. It turned out to be a fifteen-man semi-circular interview with I went to a girls’ grammar school in Derby, which was me in the middle. ‘Why is the skeleton not made of iron?’ my first ‘uplift’ from my council estate. I narrowly passed ‘What might happen to us in zero gravity?’ – fun questions, the 11-plus and started in the lowest form, as my junior I thought, but I had better excuse myself as I had a train to school, in the modern 1960s way, had taught English catch. I didn’t get the scholarship. phonetically so that we could write plays and be creative without worrying about spelling. It also taught Maths by In those days your notification arrived by telegram. My living trigonometry, going out into the playground and mother opened it (nothing was private in our house). She measuring the height of trees – great for understanding why went to the phone box and phoned the school. ‘Hard such a subject was useful, but not ideal for the preparation luck, you got a place for “something” sciences and not needed to pass the 11-plus. Many of my friends went on to Medicine.’ I’d got in! I could not control my surprise and joy! the local secondary modern school, a place of chaos, and Callooh! Callay! A door to a new world. learnt how to put a crease in a man’s trousers and bath a baby. Grammar schools are a wonderful thing but not at the It was not plain sailing from a transition point of view, expense of those who don’t get a place there. and I think this should be remembered when we try and persuade state school children from deprived areas to try I thrived at school and loved learning, although art was my for Oxbridge. Contrary to what might be thought, in white main passion. After I borrowed a book about the dance working-class households there may be a view that you of the bee, which fascinated me, my Biology teacher somehow shouldn’t get above yourself and, worse, become suggested I do the Oxbridge entrance exam. My parents, a snob. My accent made me something of a celebrity in who left school at 15, were not impressed. My Latin teacher Oxford: ‘Say sinGing again’ – at least people wanted to had suggested I try for Philosophy. ‘What sort of job could talk to me. But my accent imperceptibly softened, although you get with that?’ was the puzzled parental reply. My I’ve never got to grips with ‘grarss’. This again cemented teacher suggested I could become a spy (possibly tongue- my snob status. I drank sherry (the tipple of the time), I in-cheek) – this sounded thrilling to me, and was laughed wore Laura Ashley (new in Little Clarendon St), I had more off by my incredulous parents. ‘It has to be something disposable income than my parents on a full grant – again, that leads to a job,’ they countered. The teachers asked an obvious point of difference as they lost the daughter they me to drop art and concentrate on sciences and I applied knew. We have never quite recovered. for Medicine (Physiological Sciences). I knew of no-one, except my teachers, who had been to university, so I So now as a retired Consultant Dermatologist I am taking based my views on the appearance of the panel members up my first love again, art. There is still something more than on University Challenge – one of my Dad’s favourite just touring state schools that we need to do, to encourage programmes where he took glee in answering the odd diversity. I am pretty sure I would not get into Oxford today. question. The TV was on all the time at home. I had an EE offer and only just scraped in. I suppose I must have appeared a bit quirky which came over in my entrance I think my A4 drawing of a horse with its nervous system paper – I’m sad this element has disappeared. probably clinched me the interview. But thank you, Miss Banister, for choosing me; I am forever After my first train journey travelling solo, I arrived in Oxford. in your debt. I was immediately smitten with its architectural grandeur,

24 Members' News and Publications Many news items have been received by post during the early days of September. The editor very much regrets that owing to design and print deadlines, these items cannot appear in this Report. They will appear in the Report for 2017-18; if you are affected by this and would like to update your contribution for next year, please do so before 31 July 2018. The editor apologises for any disappointment this may cause.

1937 who had ambitions and always wanted make something of her Joyce Marie Reynolds has been life… She was at the same college awarded the British Academy's Sir as Margaret Thatcher. She always Francis Kenyon medal for her work wanted to be the first lady to become on inscribed documents of the prime minister. She did not make Roman period. We are delighted to it, the other lady did. We all have to congratulate Joyce most warmly on settle for something less than we this and all her achievements. hope, but she has made good use of her ninety years.” Otherwise, I have 1940 had two small moments of fame. One Jo Vellacott is pleased that two was an appearance on Woman’s Hour, as one of a ‘chain’ of women of her books have recently gone Baroness Williams of Crosby (Shirley into a second paperback edition: who had influenced each other. I was Catlin, 1948) speaking at the Somerville Conscientious Objection: Bertrand astounded at the reaction and by how Winter Meeting Russell and the Pacifists in the First many men listen to the programme. Secondly, in my home town I was World War (Spokesman Books, 2015); Shirley Catlin (Baroness Williams given the Mayor’s bronze award, for and From Liberal to Labour with of Crosby) CH was made a services to the community – mainly Women’s Suffrage (McGill-Queen’s Companion of Honour in the for bringing the new University Centre University Press, 2016). ‘At age 95 I 2017 New Year’s Honours list and in touch with that community.’ For continue to write and am working on a subsequently received an Honorary more news of Lalage see Somerville memoir. I am also active as a Quaker. I Doctorate in Civil Law at Encaenia Magazine 2017. have two great-grandchildren.’ for her distinguished career in both politics and academia. 1944 1946 Ann Petre (Mrs Hales-Tooke) has Barbara Lockwood (Mrs Forrai) 1950 was awarded the BEM in the Queen’s self-published a third book: The Family Rosemary Filmer (Mrs Moore) Birthday Honours 2017 for services that Flew: The Story of the Tor Bryan writes: ‘We have downsized and to charity in the UK and Russia. We Petres, 1880-1950. It is an account of now live near family in Derbyshire. I are delighted to congratulate her most her father’s generation. Her four uncles am very busy with getting our new warmly. and father were all fliers from just abode into shape, but our son-in-law before the First World War. At 91, Ann is marvellous. Husband Derek has does not expect to write another book 1948 vascular dementia and needs a good but she does a certain amount of book Marigold Robins published in 2016 deal of care, but I am still managing to reviewing. She sold her house and Twenty First Century Town: The do some research. After long gestation garden in central Cambridge, most Service Town, and sent a copy to the a co-edited book on later seventeenth reluctantly, in 2011 and downsized library. Marigold writes: ‘It discusses century Quakerism has gone to the into a spacious flat in a retired people’s how present town layouts are out-of- publishers, and at the age of eighty- property in Chesterton, an attractive date. They prevent the installation of five I have just signed a contract for part of Cambridge. Her sons and many useful services: the provision another book, admittedly a short one, grandsons visit when they can and her of family care services such as child on George Whitehead, the eminence eldest grandson has been offered a care, for old/disabled people, of grise of Quakerism in the late place at LMH to read History. automatic transport for people and seventeenth century. I don’t suppose, goods (no drones) – all within 100m these days, that this is a record!’ 1945 of every dwelling in the town. But Rowena Patterson (Mrs MacKean) Lalage Bown writes: ‘This year saw nobody challenges town layout. Look writes: ‘I’m celebrating my 85th my 90th birthday, a time of happy at Bicester, a “new” town still being birthday and the completion of memories and many enjoyable built. The usual suburb layout with few my PhD thesis. The topic is “Older birthday celebrations. Somervillians local facilities and needing a car/bus/ people’s peer-run groups and their may be amused by a tribute-speech roads to get anywhere useful. Time contributions to their participants’ at one party by a 13-year-old great- and space waste. Time for a new kind perceived health and wellbeing”. The nephew: “Auntie Lalage is someone of town.’ 25 cooperating in a series of children’s so for the rest of your lives.’ I have books. Ruth is also hoping to work always remembered this, and I believe with another Somervillian, actress that it is the knowledge, expertise and Daphne Alexander, on a screenplay. confidence, instilled by Somerville, Somervillian cooperation across the which have enabled me to enjoy this generations is very precious to her. life-enhancing “career” long after the age of retirement.’ Judith Mundlak Taylor writes: ‘My granddaughter, Mabel Taylor, has spent a memorable year at St Peter’s 1956 College. The tutors were very pleased Ann Pettit (Mrs Swinfen) writes: with her. She closed a sixty-five year ‘By 2014, retired from university ‘Bletchley Girl’ Pat Davies with a copy of loop for me as I went up in 1952. In teaching, I decided the way to go her book (Pen & Sword’s Publicity Dept.) early May my son and I visited her in in current publishing was to set up Oxford and we walked around the my own imprint, Shakenoak Press. study grew out of my post-paid-work Somerville quad. I also managed to I now have nineteen novels in print, third age involvement with groups and see my classmate Cynthia Coldham- mostly historical, including two the community, promoting learning in Jones (Coldham, 1952) while I standalones, two set in seventeenth- older age. Still living happily in beautiful was there. Earlier this year Valerie century fenland, and two series. Tasmania.’ Vesser (Catmur, 1952) stayed with One series (eight so far), set in me here in San Francisco. I have a the Elizabethan period, features a 1951 book coming out in December, An young physician, refugee from the Abundance of Flowers: More Great Portuguese Inquisition, involved with Patricia (‘Pat’) Owtram (Mrs Flower Breeders of the Past (Ohio Sir Francis Walsingham’s intelligence Davies), a ‘Bletchley Girl’, and her University Press). In July I shall be 83.’ service (first book The Secret World of sister Jean Argles have collaborated Christoval Alvarez). My newest series on 1,000 Days On the River Kwai, 1953 (four so far), set in fourteenth-century the story of their father, Colonel Cary Nadine Brummer has a new Oxford, has as its central character Owtram OBE, who kept a secret collection of poems, What Light Does, a widowed bookseller with two small diary during his years as Camp due for publication by the Shoestring children (first book The Bookseller’s Commandant at Chungkai. Press in November 2017. Tale). All are released as paperbacks and ebooks. The series are currently 1952 Penny Minney has published being recorded by professional actors an account of her travels as an Anne Fawcett (Mrs Kirkman) as unabridged audiobooks. I’d love to undergraduate, sailing round the writes: ‘I retired from my voluntary hear from Somervillians via my website Mediterranean in a 17-foot long ship’s work on the IMB of a detention http://www.annswinfen.com and if lifeboat: Crab’s Odyssey: Malta to centre about eight years ago and, anyone is contemplating independent Istanbul in an Open Boat (Taniwha wondering what to do with my spare publishing, I’m very happy to share Press, January 2017; available time, I followed up an advert in the my experience.’ from [email protected], or can be village newspaper and began learning ordered from bookshops). Since her to drum. While to my teacher’s retirement from teaching classics, 1957 disappointment I’ll never be a rock Penny has been doing voluntary work Charity Scott Stokes moved to drummer, I have found a place in the as secretary to the Friends of Witton Devon in 2008 and since then she church music group which consists Dene and as trustee and fundraiser has taken part in various local history mainly of an enthusiastic bunch of for the Breathing Space Project, St projects. For the Devon and Cornwall teenagers. Having had to give up the Michael and All Angels, Witton Gilbert. Record Society she is currently editing more energetic pursuits of bell-ringing a selection of eighteenth-century and table tennis, I now go to a U3A Sheila Ashcroft (Mrs Harrison) letters, the so-called Nutwell Letters, poetry writing group which is amazing writes: ‘At the age of 81, I continue written to Sir Francis Henry Drake, though quite challenging.’ to be in demand as a speaker on 5th Baronet, of Buckland Abbey local history, to local history societies, Ruth Murray (Professor Finnegan) and Nutwell Court in Devon. Sir U3A groups, and W.I.s. I speak is very proud to have been awarded Francis was an MP for forty years, about the history of two monastic the Royal Anthropological Institute’s representing the pocket borough of institutions in Suffolk, Butley Priory 2016 Rivers Medal and to have Bere Alston, and Master of the King’s and Leiston Abbey, and the diaries won prizes for fiction and nonfiction Household during the first twenty of the eighteenth century parson, books. She is especially pleased years of George III’s reign. Some of James Woodforde. In October with the multiple awards for her the Nutwell Letters were written to 1954, the first-year undergraduates mythic Black Inked Pearl, and for the baronet when in London by a were gathered in the chapel to be the Hungry Monster Silver Award family friend and mentor, subsequently addressed by the Principal, Janet to Pearl of the Seas, shared with overseer of the Devon estates. Others Vaughan. She announced ‘You are Somervillian Rachel Backshall (2012), were written to Devon by the London Somervillians, and will continue to be the illustrator, with whom Ruth is apothecary and botanist William

26 Hudson, a friend of Sir Francis who annual conference of the International company of friends. I’d be very happy acted as his London agent. Association for Feminist Economics, to hear from anyone who remembers held this year in Seoul, South me, [email protected].’ Korea, and spoke on her book in 1958 Rosemary Dunhill writes: ‘The book an international context at the final I have been working on since about Janet Treloar is as busy as ever and plenary. this autumn has a series of exhibitions 1980 has at last been completed and at the Royal Watercolour Society, the Caroline Pinder (Mrs Cracraft) published by the Northamptonshire Chelsea Art Society, the Scotland- writes: ‘On my fifth trip to Palestine Record Society. It is called Russia Society, Piers Feetham Gallery I celebrated my 75th birthday in Northamptonshire National Schools and ‘Art For Youth’. For details Bethlehem. Depressing to see 1812-1854. I may say this has not please see http://janettreloar.com/ continued settlement expansion been 37 years of continuous work on exhibitions.html. (600,000 illegal Israeli settlers now). At the project and quite a lot else has Aida Refugee Camp tear gas canisters happened in the intervening years!’ lay all over the ground. Welcomed by Sheila Roxburgh (Mrs Mawby) 1959 Bedouin deep in the Negev at New has (finally!) completed an Open Marieke Clarke published an article Dawn School at Be’er Sheva. Met an University BSc (Hons), based on in June 2016 on her aunt Ank Faber- extraordinary English-Israeli woman, DipComp (Oxon) plus OU modules, Chabot, who sheltered Jews in the Roni Keider, near the Eretz Crossing, including French and German. She Netherlands in World War II. The piece who drives Gazans to get medical and Andrew have recently celebrated appeared in War and Women Across help in Israel if they can get the their Diamond Wedding with a family Continents (edited by S. Ardener, F. permits from Hamas, PLO and Israelis. lunch for eleven (three children, four Armitage-Woodward and L.D. Sciama, Visited Ma’alool, seven miles west of grandchildren). Her interests are and published by Berghahn). In Nazareth, to see a village destroyed as follows. Photography: themes September 2016, Marieke published in 1948 and planted over with a pine include family, garden, peacocks(!), (jointly with Pathisa Nyathi) Welshman forest. Twenty farming families driven fireworks, fairgrounds, landscapes Hadane Mabhena: A Voice for out, 50/50 Christians and Muslims. and redevelopment – see https:// Matabeleland (Amagugu Publishers, Church has been rebuilt, and Muslims www.flickr.com/photos/86372217@ Bulawayo). join Christians to celebrate Easter. N00/. Travel: in recent years in the UK, Visited Hope Flowers School in a Onora O’Neill has won Norway’s France, Japan, Iceland. Languages: camp near Bethlehem. 350 children 2017 Holberg Prize, an annual award current target Japanese, JLPT Level 2 (4-13 years), mostly from surrounding for outstanding research in the arts, (trying to find an appropriate part-time refugee camps; emphasis is on peace humanities, social sciences, law or class). Somerville: Film Club; direct and democracy. Provides workshops theology. She has received the prize contact with a few Somervillian friends, and counselling for both parents and for her ‘distinguished and influential plus others by email; 1962 Year Rep. children – most of whom have been role in the field of philosophy and for Local: Earth Heritage ‘Champion’. Pub traumatized by night home searches, shedding light on pressing intellectual quiz team. and ethical questions of our time.’ witnessing violence, and harassment – as well as services for Special Hilary Forrest (Mrs Spurling) has a Needs kids. Met Military Court Watch: 1963 new book Anthony Powell: Dancing concerned with the 414 children Elizabeth (Liz) Allen (Dr Young) to the Music of Time coming out from detained in prison – some as young as writes: ‘I live on the Pacific coast of Hamish Hamilton/Penguin on 11; mostly 13-15. The resilience and the Coromandel Peninsula in NZ. I’ve 5 October. restraint, grace and generosity of the joined a group of people who support Palestinians never cease to amaze.’ protection of kiwi from imported 1961 predators, mainly mustelids, in a 3,000 Maria Hargreaves (Mrs Perry- 1962 hectare area. Over the past ten years the protected kiwi population has Robinson) has contributed a chapter Gaby Charing writes: ‘Four years ago grown from 27 to over 100 pairs of to Farm Street: The Story of the my pleasant life was turned upside birds. As kiwi can wander up to 25km Jesuits’ Church in London, published down by a diagnosis of bowel cancer. at night, I’m now checking that the in March 2017 by the Unicorn Press. I’m still having treatment (now purely adjacent borders are being protected palliative, alas) and managing to lead Prue Hyman has just had a book so that these kiwi can safely wander a scaled-down version of my earlier published, mainly on women and the at night.’ New Zealand economy, in the Bridget life. I’ve had to give up activism in the Williams Text series, an excellent Labour Party and Southwark LGBT set of small books on NZ society Network, but am continuing a long- 1964 and its literary scene. It is entitled standing involvement as a public and Linda Akeroyd (Ms Wyllie) writes: ‘I Hopes Dashed? The Economics of patient voice in the local NHS, now am just continuing with our hobbies of Gender Inequality (BWB, 2017) and with an emphasis on cancer. My motto ballroom dancing and gardening, and is available electronically at http:// is: don’t fight cancer, roll with it. Liz enjoying our European holidays – and bwb.co.nz/books/hopes-dashed. In and I try to face it head on, and get I look forward to reading about what June/July 2017, Prue attended the on with our lives, with lots of reading, others in our year have been doing!’ gentle travelling, and enjoying the 27 Elaine Arrowsmith (Mrs Davis) Institute in London. I’ve much enjoyed Rosalind Bloomer (Mrs writes: ‘After many years dividing the process of research, and have Henderson), widowed in 2015, our time between the US, Italy and written some of it up, though it’s really is still living on Anglesey. Her book the UK we are now based at our for family and I don’t feel a need to Reflections on the Life and Thought of home in rural south Shropshire. Since publish.’ Blaise Pascal was published in March John’s retirement last year we have 2017. She writes: ‘I have to thank Jo Sunethra Bandaranaike writes: been travelling to far off places and in Christian (Hickey, 1964) and her ‘For nearly two decades, I have between keeping our garden in order Pimpernel Press for the work put into been heading Sunera Foundation, and catching up with old friends, many its production and marketing.’ a charitable organisation in Sri Lanka, of whom we haven’t seen for a long which is committed to enhancing Chia-Ching Chang (Mrs Dawson) time. We take shorter breaks in Europe the lives of differently abled young is a textile expert and she writes: and the UK, often involving theatre persons, by identifying their latent ‘Probably the most unpronounceable and concerts, but also enjoy life in talents and developing them. activity I’ve taken up recently is the beautiful Shropshire countryside Over the years, these youngsters Peruvian Loop-Manipulated Braiding. and spending time with our three, have developed into self-confident A less esoteric activity is lace-making, soon to be four, grandchildren. If any individuals, integrating into mainstream and I was lucky enough to be the local Somervillian is planning a walk on the society. Currently we run regular who was invited to make a piece of Offa’s Dyke path do get in touch!’ workshops in 36 locations throughout lace for the Fashion Museum, Bath, Eileen Baker (Lady Strathnaver) the country and have around 1500 to show off their antique pillow and writes: ‘Retirement: I’m loving it! participants. Our new project involves bobbins.’ There’s so much to do, I sometimes working with their mothers. Our pilot Susan Hoyle writes: ‘It has been wonder how I managed child-rearing project was a highly successful stage a grim year, with all the men of my and a 12-hour-a-day job as well! I’m performance by a group of parents. In generation of the family and a dear so grateful to find myself nearing our long journey, we have had financial friend suffering from cancer; but to 75, survivor of one serious illness, support and strength from Friends of set against these horrors, there are with time: time for wonderful family Sunera Foundation, headed by Susie also the deep joys of spending time and friends; time for long walks and Griffin, Susan Hoyle and Alison with grandchildren, and attending exploring London (freedom pass in Skilbeck (all 1964). Their belief in weddings as well as funerals. Jeremy hand); time to travel and to read all our work has been a great source of and I are slowly transforming a those good books; and sometimes – inspiration to me.’ neglected 1560-and-1895 house often in fact – just time to be at home, Jill Barnes (Mrs Hamblin) writes: into a comfortable place to live and back fully part of my neighbourhood of ‘I continue with my hobbies and welcome people, and I am having 47 years. In the past I always seemed being Granny to twelve. I have more fun writing a historical novel – which to be rushing out somewhere but involvement with children as a leader takes up the time previously spent on now I’m actually enjoying domesticity: of the Young Archaeologists’ Group Friends of Sunera Foundation, which the house, the garden, cooking, in Colchester; in May I went on the (see Sue Griffin’s entry) has sadly had emptying out cupboards and drawers. leaders’ course in Formby, where to be wound up.’ I somehow became the depository of prehistoric footprints can be seen choice of four generations of a family Chris Lyons (Mrs Grant) writes: on the (never ending) beaches. I incapable of throwing anything away. ‘Since the 2014 Reunion I continue to was, sadly, by far the oldest there! The historian in me also finds that enjoy seeing the world in retirement. I continue as village Archivist and difficult but I’m working on it. Anyone Most adventurous trip was travelling Secretary of the Tendring Local History want a 90-year-old child’s sailor suit?!’ overland (mainly!) from Beijing to Recorders and have begun a series of Istanbul, seven weeks along parts of Corinna Balfour writes: ‘I have been courses on reading old handwriting, the great Silk Road. Truly amazing to researching the life of my great-great- beginning with Secretary Hand. I realize what great civilizations once grandfather, Sir Hermann Weber, spend most summers as a sailing existed (sadly overlooked in history who lived from 1823 to 1918. Born in widow, my husband not having been lessons of yore). Also three small Germany, he trained as a doctor there, put off his passion for sailing by the expedition cruises: South Seas, coast then came to England in 1851 to work loss of his beloved boat, ‘Arabel’, of West Africa and west coast of at the German Hospital in London, north of Spitsbergen a few years South America; Cape Town, Iguazu later was also in private practice. ago. Together, we enjoy travelling by Falls and Paraguayan Missions; He was one of the earliest people in more conventional means, including Colombia and Venezuela; Ecuador; England to recommend to patients seeing our Korean ‘son’ in Seoul. Cambodia and Laos; Burma; plus a with TB that they go to the mountains Somervillians who knew my brother, river cruise from Amsterdam to the to try to get cured. This provides me Tim, who had returned from many Black Sea (more history lessons!). All with a link to Switzerland where I live. years in Toronto to become Emeritus recorded on my website – another In the process I’ve found out quite Professor in Edinburgh, should know hobby. And fifty years on from our a lot about German immigration in that he suffered a stroke in March Pembroke College wedding, we have England in the nineteenth century, and, although his physical recovery just celebrated in Sorrento and Ischia.’ the hospital system and training of is going well, he still, as I write this in doctors. I use the library of Basel July, cannot speak or read, though his Narayani Menon (Professor Gupta) University and also the Wellcome understanding is all there.’ writes: ‘I have been in Delhi the last 28 3 years, with occasional visits to and Edward Mortimer, chaired by Sadly, Susan Hoyle, Ali Skilbeck Kolkata, to my late husband's family Jonathan Steele; I also played it and I had to decide to wind up home, where I need to downsize the at Ditchley House, to near sell-out Friends of Sunera Foundation after humungous collections of books. To audiences on the Edinburgh Fringe ten years of supporting Sunethra escape from this, I have spent time last year, and only recently to ex-pats Bandaranaike’s work with disabled editing and publishing a book on the in Cordes, France. I am still hoping - young people in Sri Lanka, to the Viceroy's House/Rashtrapati Bhavan Trump permitting - to fly her across tune of £177,000 – over 33 and a half (A Work of Beauty: The Landscape the Atlantic in the opposite direction... million rupees. When asked to help a and Architecture of Rashtrapati My latest show, 'The Power Behind former colleague with a writing project Bhavan, Publications Division, New The Crone', all about Shakespeare's she had to abandon because of her Delhi, 2016). I also lent my pen to older women, will play at Edinburgh all illness, it was a great relief to find that try and save a prominent work of August. In January 2016, as a Trustee I can still write fluently and to satisfy architecture - the Hall of Nations, 1975 of Friends of Sunera Foundation, I editors!’ - but failed. March to May this year spent a month in Sri Lanka, working was dedicated to getting my daughter with the Sunera drama workshops for 1965 Niharika married. I am so glad that we disabled people. I continue to work Gillian Arnold (Dr Cross) had a of 1964 are still in contact. It makes with students at RADA, as does my completely new Demon Headmaster us feel younger, and 1964 seems actor husband, Tim Hardy. My work book published in July – the first one yesterday, not a half-century ago! I for RADA In Business, whose profits for fifteen years. It’s called The Demon can still feel the excitement of the go to help the students, has taken Headmaster: Total Control and on first snowflakes softly settling on my me to Italy, France, and Spain this 10 July Gillian did a live-streamed wine-coloured coat as I walked down year alone. Tim continues to act too, interview about it, in Oxford, with St Giles, and the slight nervousness touring his one man 'Trials of Galileo'. Barney Harwood from Blue Peter. of standing at Miss Ramm's door We have been remarkably hearty, and clutching a badly-written essay. As feel more than lucky.’ Nicola Galeska (Mrs Davies) writes: I see the 5 a.m. sunlight in London ‘The only news around here is which Priscilla Turner writes: ‘I am when I speak to my son on Skype, knee hurts most and when I get new making second editions of both I recall the magic of sitting on the batteries for my hearing aids!! No real O Love How Deep (www.amazon. terrace of the Graduate House at 11 cause to complain actually, we are co.uk/Love-How-Deep-Three-Souls/ p.m., in the twilight - one thing I miss.’ both keeping well and so is all the dp/1449721206/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UT- family.’ Gillian Metford (Professor Clark) F8&qid=1331945630&sr=8-1 (reduced writes: ‘Retirement continues to be fictionalisation!) and Holy Homosex? great, though our elder daughter (www.amazon.co.uk/Holy-Homo- 1966 has to explain to her friends why we sex-Priscilla-Turner-2013-04-17/dp/ Elizabeth (Liz) Masters (Mrs Shaw) think of it as an opportunity to get B01MT4GX2B/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UT- writes: ‘It seems a long time since we some work done. This year I have F8&qid=1497239820&sr=8-2&key- attended the Somerville reunion last an unusual range of funded travel: words=holy+homosex (study September. I found it a very enjoyable so far, brief visits to Colorado and questions), but both are OK without and inspiring experience. My only to Sweden, and (amazingly, and all these little changes. Don’t worry about regret was that I spoke with so many being well) New Zealand and South being identified in the former: there just interesting contemporaries who I Africa to come; writing editorial work, didn’t seem to be any need to call would have liked to have known fifty and useful activity at the British Girton Newton, Sidney Sussex years ago. I’ve embarked on a new Academy. Stephen and I live in Bristol, Melville, Caius Poultney, Somerville career writing historical novels and and continue to be carers, as best St Mary’s etc. at this date, otherwise my second book No Safe Anchorage we can, for our younger daughter. people and academic subjects are still is coming out in October.’ For more Our elder children flourish. Sam is a quite heavily disguised. Nan Dunbar is details see www.lizmacraeshaw.com. lecturer at Lancaster (philosophy), still Jane Scott, for instance. I continue and he and Emily have Hallam (almost to post art to http://PriscillaTurner. seven) and Ursula (almost two). Alex imagekind.com and sometimes even 1967 has Austin (two and a half) and Tobias sell some. There is some shorter This year is celebrating a 50th (four months), so is taking a break writing and preaching here: www. anniversary and a booklet of from law; she and her husband live in linkedin.com/in/dr-priscilla-turn- autobiographies is available for Greenwich.’ Gillian is co-editor, Oxford er-46948139 .’ members of the year (contact : Early Christian Studies / Texts, and co- [email protected].) Sue Watson (Mrs Griffin) writes: editor, Translated Texts for Historians ‘The last two years have been a dark Jennifer Barraclough writes: ‘Since 300-800. tunnel as Rod and I had successive retiring from my medical post at the Alison Skilbeck writes: ‘In 2015 I health crises, but life does seem a little Churchill Hospital I have been living performed my show 'Mrs Roosevelt brighter again now. We are celebrating in New Zealand with my husband, Flies to London' for a month at our 50th wedding anniversary in but still make annual visits to Oxford. the King's Head Theatre. We held August, spending a week in Penzance Writing is a major interest, with several post-show discussions with such (my home town) with our daughters, novels and books on health care. I luminaries as Dame Helena Kennedy, sons-in-law and granddaughters. also run a small client practice using 29 alleviate the street dog problem here. I have recently fostered two beautiful dumped pups who will be rehomed via Santerpaws Bulgarian Rescue, one of several animal organisations I support. Four of us did a homemade three-day walking trip in the Central Balkan Park to climb Botev, its highest peak. I, ironically, taught my former Bulgarian teacher intensive Spanish before she moved to Tenerife for a better life.’ Rachel Griffiths (1967) with MBE Carole Hillenbrand (1968) at the British Academy Dilys Wadman writes: ‘Over the last year or so, I realised that I would like Bach flower remedies, sing with a interconnected nature of cultures to be much more in touch with College choir, and support animal welfare and civilizations; it was founded by again. I contacted Liz Cooke and was charities. My website and blog can be the International Relations scholar, Dr delighted to be welcomed back so found at http://jenniferbarraclough. Nayef Al-Rodhan. warmly. Liz asked if I would be willing com.’ to take part in a new initiative of year representatives, to extend Somervillian Deborah Hewitt (Dr Bowen) 1969 communication and contacts. I’ve retired this June from her full-time Vijayalakshmy Rangarajan was enjoyed being involved in this, though position in the English Department invited a year ago by the Sahitya feel I am doing it inadequately as at at Redeemer University College in Akademi, India’s National Academy the moment the main focus is on south-west Ontario, but will continue of Letters, to write a monograph on Facebook pages, which I still can’t teaching part-time for a few years Konkuvelir, author of an epic called get to grips with! I hope to do better yet. The joy will be that this involves Perunkathai in Tamil. This book was over the coming year and would love no administration, and means she published in May 2017 in the series to hear from any of our year who will also be able to get on with her The Makers of Indian Literature. have ideas about what we might do. own research and writing with less Perunkathai is a version of the great Meanwhile, I’ve relished travelling – general panic. Her present project, for Brhatkathã, a well known narrative over the last year, I’ve been to Peru which she has a grant from the Social of ancient India, which was originally and Bolivia and Ecuador and the Sciences and Humanities Research written by Gunadhya in the Paisaci Galapagos, having fallen in love with Council of Canada, is on The Voice of language. The contribution of the Latin America.’ Environmental Hope in Contemporary author Konkuvelir, well versed in both Ontarian Poetry – her husband calls Sanskrit and Tamil, is fine. it The Poetry and Ecology Project 1972 for short. If you’re working in the 1970 Nicky Britten writes: ‘My job is crossover between literature and Professor of Applied Health Care environmental issues, Deborah would Sabina Lovibond writes: ‘In Research at the University of Exeter love to hear from you! December 2016 I gave a talk on Medical School where I have worked “La fragilité de l’ordinaire chez since 2002. I made transitions from Rachel Cullen (Mrs Griffiths), the Wittgenstein” at a seminar at the Care Quality Commission’s Mental Maths to Medical Sociology via Sorbonne, Paris, in a series on the Management Science, all by chance, Capacity Act Lead, was awarded an theme “Ordinaire et forme de vie”. MBE in the 2017 New Year’s Honours but I am very happy where I ended In February 2017 I was the keynote up.’ list for services to vulnerable people. speaker at a study day at Queen Mary University of London on “The Concept Gillie Evans will be ‘retiring at the 1968 of Attention in Simone Weil and Iris end of 2017 after 35 years as a GP through the best of times in the NHS. Carole Hillenbrand is Professor of Murdoch”.’ Highlights have been my years as Islamic History at the University of College Doctor for Somerville in the Edinburgh and the Vice-President of 1971 1980s and more recently in addressing the British Society for Middle Eastern Sue Dixson writes: ‘I have just the medical care of patients in Studies. On 31 October 2016, the completed nine years “retirement!” care homes, especially those with British Academy awarded Professor in Bulgaria. Five years ago my civil dementia. I am hoping to move next Hillenbrand the prestigious Nayef partner left me, declaring that our year to be within easy reach of Bath Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural animals were “expendable”. Having and Oxford.’ Understanding for her book Islam: A stayed with the goats, hens, dogs New Historical Introduction (Thames and cats, I have discovered a depth of Carolyn Gates is living between & Hudson Ltd, 2015). The award is connection with animals which gives Amsterdam and Penang (Malaysia) for outstanding scholarly contribution new meaning to life. I accompanied and continues to work on international to transcultural understanding the mayor of Dryanovo on his first visit trade economics, mainly for the EU. and is designed to illustrate the to Britain, as part of much research to She travels frequently and is trying to return to writing. 30 Joanna Haigh is Co-Director of the Oxford University for the 1972-73 privately from home and am working Grantham Institute – Climate Change school year. I “read” Biochemistry, on a new (psychotherapy) book; and Environment, at Imperial College but mostly, I learned as much as I from September, I intend to have London. She is hugely enjoying this could about Oxford and England, and one London day a week for cultural role but notes that ‘the past twelve loved it all. Now a retired surgeon pursuits and meeting friends. If you months have been even busier in Sacramento, California, I think know of any old Somervillians in my than usual in having to consider the of Somerville fondly, and remain an East Sussex neighbourhood, please ramifications of the US withdrawal Anglophile.’ get in touch.’ [email protected] from the Paris Agreement on Gwyn Morgan, Founder and Director combating climate change.’ of Prisoners’ Penfriends, was awarded 1973 Rosemary Hall writes: ‘Like many an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Jane Anstey (Mrs Fisher) writes: people, I volunteer, working in a charity Honours list for services to the ‘I am still copy editing and indexing shop one day a week. But retirement Rehabilitation of Prisoners. educational and academic books, and has enabled me to develop my interest Rachel (‘Lizzie’) Rolfe (Mrs Rice) writing fiction (under the name of Jane in local history. It is amazing how lives in Chesterfield and is now Anstey) when I have time, though with history comes alive when you realize working as a counsellor to children no enormous success. My interest the ways in which local people were and young people in the East Midlands in theology has been rekindled by influenced by major political or social area. ‘The need is very great given the undertaking training as a Reader in events. I had always found military constraints experienced in CAMHs the Church of England, and I have just history boring, until I uncovered the and it is work I love. I did an MA in applied to do an MPhil in Theology at tale of a Warwickshire-born surgeon Autism about ten years ago and I now Exeter University, I hope by individual who volunteered to help those work with a number of children on the research.’ wounded in the Franco-Prussian War. autism spectrum. I started out reading I have written a number of articles in for a degree in Agriculture and Forest local journals and magazines, and 1974 Sciences – but, prompted by events researched a number of subjects, Jenna Orkin has a new book out in my own life, I have taken a totally from the serious (pauper children in on Amazon: Ground Zero Wars: The different direction forty years on.’ Victorian Warwickshire) to the not- Fight to Reveal the Lies of the EPA in so-serious (circuses and menageries Janet Walker writes: ‘After qualifying the Wake of 9/11 and Clean Up Lower in nineteenth-century Alcester). But as a Chartered Accountant, I spent Manhattan. always the appeal is that you are twenty-five years in film and television Candida Stockton writes: ‘I am discovering something that no-one before joining Ascot Racecourse in still working at HMRC specializing in else has discovered before.’ 2003 as Commercial and Finance indirect tax and wrestling with Brexit Director. In 2011 I moved to the Mary Honeyball has been an MEP – but now only three days a week education sector, becoming the first since 2000, specializing in women’s which gives a much better work/life female bursar of Eton College. I enjoy rights and gender equality, covering balance. I recently got together with the job enormously as there is not just issues including the pensions and pay an old friend from Oxford days (re- the school and its 400 buildings to gap, sexual harassment, maternity/ introduced by a mutual friend who was keep me busy but also a substantial paternity leave and human trafficking. at Somerville with me) which is the investment and property portfolio. My She has produced reports for the start of an exciting new chapter but partner, Peter, and I are lucky enough European Parliament on prostitution also a nice link to the past. I am living to live in Eton too so my commute is a (recommending that the buyer of in St Albans (one child still at home stroll across the playing fields.’ sexual services should be criminalized and one living nearby) but still visit as in Sweden), and on the particular Laura Weidenfeld (Mrs Barnett) Oxford regularly as most of my family issues faced by women refugees. retired in May from Croydon live there.’ Mary is also involved in legislation on Hospital after almost twenty years copyright and intellectual property. of working there as an existential 1975 Faced with Brexit, she will probably psychotherapist. ‘I was feeling torn Ginny Harrison has now retired be gone by mid-2019. Two years ago between wanting to visit my children from legal practice after thirty-five she published Parliamentary Pioneers: and two granddaughters in London, extremely varied years in Government Labour Women MPs 1918–1945. one of my sons and his young family and in private practice. She now She is still living in central London and of three in Berlin, my mother and undertakes voluntary mediation work together with her partner Inigo Bing step-father in Paris, occasionally my as well as hospice visiting and it is recently bought a house in a remote daughter in Africa, attending courses, very good to report that she and part of northern France. writing and trying to put down roots several old Somervillians of the class for my new life in Lewes. Making new Scarlet la Rue is an American and as of 1975 meet up regularly for a lively friends has therefore been rather slow, a second year student at the University lunch. These include Claire Wilson but I am confident that gradually this of California, Berkeley, applied for their (née Dillon), Amanda Clarke will happen. My joy in the stunning Education Abroad Program. She ‘was (née Dalton), Fiona Sewell (née views from my house has sustained extraordinarily fortunate to be one of Torrington), Ann Stephenson me throughout. I now see clients the two students chosen to attend Wright, and Jill Rutter. ‘Conversation

31 never flags and we always seem able unambitious. If any Somervillians responsibility for me. My conference- to take up from wherever we left off!’ know any open-minded investors, opening talk (!!) was a success – I she’d love to hear from you at cindy@ should say thanks also to the strength 1976 makelovenotporn.com. I developed in my young years at Oxford and at Somerville. Also I Helen Hallpike (Mrs Burton) Susan Livingstone (Mrs Sinagola) co-organize the second edition of a is lecturing on Business and writes: ‘On 1 April 2017 the year of Summer School in Nuclear Physics in Organisational Behaviour at King’s 1976 met for a Ruby lunch to mark Pisa https://www.unipi.it/index.php/ College, London University and forty years from their matriculation. maths-physics-and-nature/item/6163- Kingston University Business School The event was attended by over half re-writing-nuclear-physics-textbooks. whilst studying for a PhD to legitimise the year and was a very joyful event. Family-wise my husband Ken her new-found career. She is also As one participant said, ‘It was a great Konishi will retire in November from enacting the topic of her research, success. Weird that I saw many faces, his Theoretical Physics professorship which is on ‘Careers in the face of and names, that were completely new while our son Mahiko will get his PhD increasing longevity’. She would love to me. Was that me being dumb or did in Psychology from York during the to hear from other mature students we just not mix enough? Such lovely, summer.’ intelligent and interesting people, and of all ages and maybe even form a wonderful reconnections with dear Skype/Facetime/googlehangouts Kamila Ebrahim (Professor friends. Thank you, Somerville!’ If network for mutual encouragement/ Hawthorne), Vice Chair of anyone in the year would like a copy commiseration! Professional Development at the RCGP and Clinical Professor of of the collected short biographies, Katherine Taylor (Dr Kate Lack) Medical Education and Associate please contact elizabeth.cooke@ writes: ‘Our son Chris (University Dean for Medicine at the University of some.ox.ac.uk College) got married last year (July Surrey, has been awarded an MBE in 2016) to Carla Thomas (St Anne’s); Lorna Hutson has been appointed the 2017 New Year’s Honours list for they both read PPE. They currently Merton Professor of English Literature services to general practice. with effect from 1 September 2016: live in Cairo, where she is a diplomat https://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/news/ and he works for the British Council. lorna-hutson-appointed-merton- Last autumn, Paul and I went on the 1979 professor-english-literature Swan Hellenic cruise promoted by Claudine Dauphin directs Somerville, travelling with Hiroko (née archaeological/GIS projects in Jordan 1977 Akagi, 1977) and Albert Ong, and and Palestine/Israel affiliated to CBRL/ meeting up with other Somervillians British Academy and funded by the Mary Chater (Mrs Curry) has moved on board.’ Augustus Foundation. ‘Fallahin and back to England with her husband and Nomads in the Southern Levant from misses much about Italy. But she is Emma Henderson is now a novelist and lecturer at Keele University. Her Byzantium to the Mamluks: Population delighted that their touring ensemble Dynamics and Artistic Expression’ is theatre company Shakespeare in Italy first novel, Grace Williams Says It Loud, was published by Sceptre/ a project focusing on the changing (co-productions with UK and Italian relationship between agriculturalists theatres) has now got charitable Hodder & Stoughton to considerable critical acclaim in 2010 and won or and Bedouins. ‘The Mediaeval and status, registered charity no. 1172308. Ottoman Darb al-Hajj in Jordan’ has This should ensure core funding for was shortlisted for several literary awards, including the Orange Prize entailed surveying the two pilgrimage the project for the immediate future. roads to Mecca and discovering and Their third summer school (this year for Fiction and the Wellcome Trust Prize. It was runner-up for the MIND mapping the stop-over camps (http:// in Padua) ran from 24 June to 8 July www.pef.org.uk/blog/category/from- 2017. Book of the Year. Her second novel, The Valentine House, came out in the-field/). She has lectured on the Cindy Gallop continues to April 2017 with the same publisher. Hajj roads, in Amman under the high face challenges building her She has also been to Germany (Berlin patronage of HRH Prince el-Hasan social sex videosharing startup and a small island off the north coast bin Talal of Jordan, in Jerusalem, and MakeLoveNotPorn – ‘Pro-sex. Pro- called Hiddensee) to do research at the British Museum, and discussed porn. Pro-knowing the difference’ for her next novel; this was made the results of both projects at the – especially with funding, where her possible by an Alice Horsman Travel 12th International Conference on the biggest obstacle is ‘fear of what Award from Somerville. There is more History and Archaeology of Jordan other people will think’. As a result, information on her website: www. in Berlin, and at the International GIS she is now raising the world’s first emmahendersonauthor.com. Esri Conference in Versailles. Her most and only sextech fund, to invest in recent publications include several disruptive sextech ventures founded articles on the historical relationships by women. As Cindy likes to say, 1978 between settled farmers, nomads and ‘Women challenge the status quo Angela Bonaccorso writes: ‘I was pilgrims in the Middle East, and two because we are never it.’ Her fund is in Australia as an invited plenary books: Animals in the Ancient World: called AllTheSky Holdings, after Mao speaker at the INPC2016, the most The Levett Bestiary (2014) and Les Zedong’s ‘Women hold up half the important nuclear physics conference Animaux dans le Monde Antique: Le sky’, which Cindy felt was relatively worldwide. It was a great honour and Bestiaire Levett (2016), both published

32 by the Musée d’Art Classique de 1982 2017, Steinway & Sons opened a new Mougins, France. showroom in Paris and approached Linsey Firkser (Mrs Cornwall- me to translate their publicity Julia Gasper has published two Jones) writes: ‘I have had secondary brochure. I am keen to share all this books this year: The Modern progressive multiple sclerosis for 25 because we women can be faced Philosopher and Other Works by years. Fortunately, it didn’t affect me with difficult choices when it comes to Elizabeth Craven (Cambridge Scholars until I was about 30, when I had the juggling our careers and motherhood Press), and Elizabeth Craven: Writer, first of my two sons, James. The and I hope it may encourage other Feminist and European (Vernon Press). second, Eddie, came when I was 34. women to know that closing the door https://elizabethberkeleycraven. I worked in publishing as Editor of temporarily on one’s career is not blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/elizabeth- the AIDS journal for five years before necessarily detrimental in the long craven-writer-feminist-and.html joining BBC News, where I produced run; when our children came along, I the first ever subtitled football, and Deborah Taylor has been appointed wanted to take some time out to be a then BBC Radio 4, where I produced to be Senior Circuit Judge, Resident full-time mother and I do not regret it the Westminster Hour and worked Judge at Southwark Crown Court for a second – it was not only the right on In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg. with effect from 10 April 2017. In May personal choice for me but it turned From there I was medically retired in this year Judge Taylor very generously out to be a great professional one 2011. However, with very little on the hosted a splendid dinner in Inner too as it enabled me to discover that treatment horizon, I have just been Temple for Somervillian lawyers. I could pursue a completely different accepted onto a trial of statins, so career path.’ there is hope!’ 1980 Sophie Mills has worked tirelessly Vicky Canning (Mrs Andrew) writes: 1983 at UNC Asheville, US, to build a ‘Having set up a small chartered flourishing Classics Department. In Mary Bucknall has moved to accountancy practice, and run it 2015 the US Society for Classical Dorset to be nearer her family. She successfully for 22 years, I merged Studies honoured her with a SCS is the Elected Representative for it with a larger firm in Bromley in Award for Excellence in the Teaching Deaf Anglicans Together (DAT) on November 2016. As well as working of Classics at the College Level, the General Synod of the Church with the merged firm, I am also for ‘the vision and leadership she of England, 2015-2020 (with BSL now working as a small business has brought to Classics and to her interpreter support). consultant/mentor/coach. I advise college.’ https://classicalstudies. three distinct groups of people: Nicky Jenkins (Mme Gentil) org/awards-and-fellowships/2015/ those who are thinking of starting a writes: ‘After obtaining my degree collegiate-teaching-award-sophie-mills business, ongoing businesses which in French and German, I moved to are having issues and are looking to Paris to work as a translator, got 1984 increase profits, and business owners married shortly afterwards, and have Fiona Forsyth writes: ‘Still living in planning an exit strategy. As well as been here ever since. I translated Doha, Qatar, and happy to get in small businesses in general, I also for various companies for ten years touch with anyone out in the Gulf advise small firms of accountants. I am before taking a break to raise our two region – if the blockade lets us! Email: enjoying this exciting new phase of my children. During my years as a full-time [email protected]’ career.’ mother, I took up the piano again (having done some classical piano Rachel Jenkinson (The Rev. Margaret Casely-Hayford has as a child) but this time decided to Mrs Gibson) writes: ‘Following been asked to chair a Diversity review learn jazz improvisation. Initially, I did seventeen interesting and varied for the CILIP Carnegie and Kate this just for fun but my progress was years working in the Civil Service, Greenaway book awards, and in May surprisingly swift and before I knew ten years ago I swapped one sort of she was appointed Chancellor of it, I found myself performing in public ministry for another, and was ordained Coventry University. In 2016 she was (Paris restaurants, recitals, and private in the Church of England. After elected to the board of the Co-op receptions). I recently wrote a book of serving as Curate at Christ Church, Group as a Member Nominated Non- short stories (in French – documenting Chorleywood, then as Associate Executive Director; and also appointed how I belatedly discovered my true Vicar at St Andrew’s, Chorleywood to the board of the Radcliffe Trust, passion in life going on to become (where I married Mark, a Civil Service which is one of the oldest charities a fully-fledged jazz pianist) which colleague, in 2013), I moved to in the country, having just celebrated was published over here in March become Rector of St Clement’s its 300th anniversary. (It makes 2016. In May, I presented my book Church in Oxford two years ago. Mark awards in relation to the support and at a national congress of piano and I are very much enjoying life in sustainability of classical music and professionals, where it was extremely Oxford (again!).’ heritage crafts.) She is still Chair of well received and sold like hot cakes! Action Aid UK; on the Met Police Collette Lux writes: ‘This year, I have I am hoping to bring out the English Panel overseeing the Inquiry into become Director of Communications version by the end of this year. So I police corruption, and on the advisory and Marketing at UCL. Leaving King’s currently divide my professional life board of Ultra Education. She is also and moving to become one of the between performing, writing, and co-founding a charity called ‘One Day I “godless of Gower Street” was a big still occasionally translating; in May Will’, and she co-manages a rap artist. 33 pull but I am delighting in the radical and environmental law in London and continue as a Somerville year rep, do anarchy at UCL! Its ethos is so close Bristol. Three kids later, my husband’s voluntary work with her therapy dog, to Somerville’s that I feel almost at job moved us out of the jurisdiction mentor young people and campaign home. Attending The Archers old of the Courts of England and Wales, on mental health and medical issues, Somervillians dinner with former to Maryland in the USA where I work using her experience of working in the tutorial partner Helen Griffiths was part-time as a State Park ranger. We field of pharmaceutical patents, and great fun and it was good to see so will soon be moving to the New Haven her legal knowledge. many like-minded alumnae.’ area in Connecticut.’ Nicole Belmont writes: ‘For the past Jane Willis writes: ‘I am married with three years alongside my day job in 1985 two school-age children and based in marketing I have been running a non- Susan Allen is an Associate Bristol – a great city! I am still in touch profit choral music organization in New Lecturer at the Open University and with several Somervillians and greatly York City called Choral Chameleon. in May of this year she published value these longstanding friendships. I We have a professional ensemble, An Introduction to the Crusades work full time as founder and Director a volunteer choir and run an annual (University of Toronto Press). It is a of arts and health consultancy Willis Institute in June for composers and companion text to the earlier co-edited Newson – www.willisnewson.co.uk – conductors of choral music. We sourcebook (with Professor Emilie which was set up in 2002. Before that love to commission and perform Amt, Somerville 1984), The Crusades: I was Arts Director of Barts Healthcare new choral music in many genres. A Reader (second edition, 2014, NHS Trust where I set up the hospital Next year we will be an ensemble- University of Toronto Press). arts programme Vital Arts – http:// in-residence at National Sawdust, www.vitalarts.org.uk/. My work centres an exciting new venue for chamber Bonnie Effros has accepted a chair around using the arts to support health music in Brooklyn. I invite anyone from in History at the University of Liverpool, and wellbeing and I continue to be Somerville choir to get in touch, (visit!) starting August 2017, and is excited passionate about the power of writing and learn more about our activities. about returning to the UK (this time to enable marginalised and vulnerable Our website is www.choralchameleon. with husband David, and kids Max people to find their voice and express com.’ and Simon). themselves.’ Rachel Sylvester, The Times Anna Heselden (Mrs McGowan) political correspondent, won the writes: ‘I have been working as a 1987 Political Journalism prize at the Project Lawyer for Obelisk Legal Suzanne Cook (Lady Heywood) is British Journalism Awards 2016. She Support. My most recent project was Managing Director at Exor and Deputy was ‘thrilled to be vindicated’ after for Amec Foster Wheeler (oil and gas Chairman of the Royal Opera House. weathering the accusations made by and clean energy) doing a GDPR Data She has been writing a book about her Andrea Leadsom earlier in the year. Protection overhaul to their policies early life and has an offer to publish it and procedures. My eldest twin sons, from Bloomsbury. Thomas and William, completed 1989 their GCSEs last summer with 21 As Jane Dickers is now a Partner of Rebecca Domleo (Mrs Nuttall) between them including 19 A*s and Gray & Gray LLP in Peterhead and has writes: ‘While my children were young my youngest son, Benjamin, passed just been elected to the Council of the I entertained myself by learning Latin his Common Entrance exams with Law Society of Scotland. at night-classes. I subsequently ran flying colours to gain entry to Hampton a Latin club at my children’s primary Vicky Loh (Mrs Outen)’s adored School. The twins are now studying for school. I am now very pleased to be husband, Ian (Brasenose), a frequent their A-levels at St Paul’s School and starting to teach Latin at secondary visitor to Somerville, died in March Benjamin is enjoying life at Hampton. school in September when the last 2017 from brain cancer. He leaves So I am a very proud Mum!’ of my children goes up to secondary behind two children, Tom and Flora. school. I will particularly enjoy teaching Sarah Pakenham lives in Pimlico and Vicky is grateful for all the steadfast Latin literature, for which my degree works at Andersen Press Children’s support of her Somerville friends. in English will hopefully have prepared Book Publishers as Director of Rights me well.’ and International Sales. 1988 Sarah Price writes: ‘I’m coming to Claire Jacob (formerly Evans) 1990 the end of my four-year posting as has been diagnosed as having Claire Cockcroft was delighted Ambassador to Finland which has cyclothymia, a mild form of bipolar, to return to Somerville this year as been fun and fascinating. From early which is rarely diagnosed unless it the Programme Director for the 2018 I’ll be back in the UK, working leads to bipolar disorder. In Claire’s Margaret Thatcher Scholarship Trust. at the Foreign Office and settling my case, an unfortunate combination Throughout the year, a programme family (husband Simon and two boys) of circumstances (extreme stress, of workshops and seminars into our new house in Suffolk.’ prescription drugs, and jet lag) resulted (academic, personal development in bipolar disorder. Claire has given Katherine Van Der Lee writes: ‘After and careers) is offered to all students up her job as a Chartered Patent and graduating (Zoology), I became a and 2017 saw the launch of the Trade Mark Attorney. She plans to solicitor practising utilities, planning Thatcher Development Awards, to

34 support larger scale travel projects daughters are now nine and six and from Detroit, Michigan, to Seoul, and opportunities for personal we are all thrilled that we have recently South Korea. Ten years ago, I set up development, which is featured in the added to our family in the shape of a shop as a ghostwriter for distinguished latest edition of the magazine. Claire black Labrador puppy called Tessa.’ individuals. I love finding the voice that is also involved with Somerville’s matches what my clients have to say. new venture into on-line mentoring - 1991 They include captains of industry, two Aluminate. ‘If you’re passing through former heads of government, and a Oxford, or would like to arrange a visit, Zoe Cross writes: ‘I have been former head of state. Earlier this year, don’t hesitate to contact me. I’d love working as an environmental specialist I finished my tenth book, the reformist to reconnect with old friends and any with Panasonic for eighteen years testament of a top-ranking politician.’ now. However, recently I have started alumni interested in the mentoring returned to Oxford in delving deeper into the difficulties Glenn Nesbitt scheme.’ August together with his wife Lizzy faced by people like me with a so- (Worcester, 1997) and their two Carol McColl (Mrs Bird) writes: ‘I called facial difference, and am now children, Joseph and Zoë. Glenn has have done a lot of teaching this year of active in the Moebius Syndrome spent the last nine years teaching at Latin, Greek and Classical Civilisation, Association Germany. I am also the Johannesburg Bible College in as well as helped to prepare online currently in the process of writing a South Africa and is now an Associate teaching resources for OCR. Next kind of memoir, in the hope that it may Minister at St Ebbe’s Church. year looks set to be a lot quieter. In inspire others with a visual difference between times I’ve also managed to of some kind, or related self-esteem Max Whittle writes: ‘In June 2017, publish two guides to support the issues. Two years ago, I met my I had my second book published in new A-level Latin syllabus, both on first serious partner. He is giving me Japan, where I have been living and Roman elegy. Not sure I like the editing plenty of moral support in this project, working for the last sixteen years. My process very much. More recently, and would like to write a foreword book Real Japanese is an introductory I took a nostalgic trip to Oxford as when the book project gets closer to guide to the language and culture of an advocate for classics, trying to publication. On a different note, I have Japan. It also contains a number of persuade sixth formers to consider it also just taken dual British-German autobiographical stories and cultural as a degree subject. How wonderful nationality in light of the recent Brexit reflections on my time in this wonderful those student days were!’ referendum. Like so many British country. The Japanese publisher is Kathy Brewis (Mrs Dunn) writes: expats, I am greatly saddened by currently working to get the book ‘After more than a decade at The these recent events, but hope that published in the UK, so hopefully it will Sunday Times I quit to go freelance a viable position will be found in the be available here soon. For the time in 2013 but fairly quickly realised I like coming years.’ being, I will be donating a copy to the going out to work and being part of a Somerville College Library.’ community. So I’m now a copy-writer 1993 in the marketing and communications Caroline Ross, a lawyer at the 1995 team at London Business School Department of Energy and Climate Stephen Arthur Allen is Professor (LBS). I interview faculty and students Change, has been awarded an OBE of Music at Rider University in New from all over the world and write in the 2017 New Year’s Honours list Jersey. He initiated and co-designed copy for adverts and campaigns. I’m for her legal services to international a new and unique BA in Popular married, with three daughters aged climate change negotiations. Music Culture and lectures on the nearly 5, 7 and 12 – the oldest of Beatles, Radiohead and the film whom already has her sights set on Sarah Watson lives in Greenwich music of Stanley Kubrick as well as Somerville!’ Village, Manhattan, with her husband the general music histories and World and three year old daughter. She is Music. He is currently researching Sally Mitchell’s youngest son in Global Chief Strategy Officer and Bruce Springsteen and continues to 2015 (then 3) was diagnosed with a Chairman of BBH NY, an advertising publish widely on Benjamin Britten and life-limiting genetic condition called agency originally established by the brass band repertoire. (Contact mucopolysaccharidosis II (MPS). Sally legendary Somervillian Cindy Gallop [email protected] for copies.) His article blogs about what it has meant for their (1977). She has another child on on Britten’s Violin Concerto has just family at www.hunterslife.co.uk. the way in October. She would been published in The Musical Times love to hear from other NY based Susan Owens’s new book The with a major piece on Gustav Holst Somervillians: [email protected]. Ghost: A Cultural History (Tate forthcoming. He was recently awarded Publishing) comes out in October the Bertram Mott Prize for outstanding 2017. 1994 achievements in Higher Education. Emma Rich (Mrs Cross) writes: Cornelius Grupen writes: ‘Twenty He continues to conduct the National ‘I am enjoying life working for Willis years ago, I started writing for The Award-winning Princeton-Rider Brass Towers Watson four days a week and Independent in London. A few years Band, which he founded in 2004, and managing to juggle corporate and later, I joined McKinsey & Company, the Lancaster British Brass Band, home life thanks to a flexible employer the consulting firm. Specializing in PA and is about to begin the Rider who is happy for me to work from marketing and media management, University Brass Band. home regularly when I need to. Our I served clients all around the world,

35 Tim Carter took up the post of vicar for Cambridge and I had played for 2002 of All Saints’, Wellington, with St Oxford back in the day.’ Alex Finlayson and Stephanie Catherine’s, Eyton, last October. It is Ashmore are enjoying adjusting to a lively and thriving pair of churches in 1999 their new life, with a baby, back in the Shropshire. Katharine Baker (Dr Harding) has UK after several years abroad. been awarded a postdoctoral research 1996 fellowship from the MS Society of 2003 Helen Cowan is now a health writer Canada, starting in August. ‘Very Alexi Baker has been for Reader’s Digest, British Journal exciting! I will be there for somewhere appointed Collections Manager of of Cardiac Nursing, Hippocratic Post between 6 and 11 months. My project Yale University’s Historical Scientific and other medical publications. She is titled “Is socio-economic status Instruments Collection at the Peabody is a member of the Guild of Health associated with disability in MS? A Museum of Natural History and will Writers and the Medical Journalists’ multi-national study”.’ be transforming the collection as the Association. She recently interviewed Katerina Kaouri chaired the Peabody enters an unprecedented Professor Matthew Wood about his organising committee of the 1st Study period of redevelopment. Alexi was research into muscular dystrophy. Her Group with Industry in Cyprus in previously a CRASSH Mellon-Newton website is www.helencowan.co.uk. December 2016. Study Groups with Postdoctoral Interdisciplinary Research James Aspen says his only news is Industry are week-long workshops Fellow. that he was the solicitor who acted for for teams of mathematical scientists Johanna Harris is Senior Lecturer the winning charities in the Supreme to work on important industrial and in English at the University of Exeter, Court case that hit the news back in societal challenges, initiated at the where she has been since leaving March (Ilott v Blue Cross), which was Oxford Mathematical Institute in Oxford in 2010. Her research and about the scope of everyone’s freedom 1968. Fifty mathematical scientists writing focuses on early modern to decide who benefits under their from seventeen countries worked literature and religion, especially wills. ‘A small claim to fame!’ very productively on four Cypriot puritanism. She will give the annual challenges, which ranged from Jeremy Maule lecture on Thomas improving the bus routes in urban 1997 Traherne at Hereford Cathedral in Nicosia to designing a better recharge October 2017. Johanna is married Laura Dixon (Mrs Hall) moved to strategy for the Germasogeia aquifer to Daniel Tyler, Lecturer in English at Copenhagen, Denmark, with her in order to save water. Hilary Balliol College, and they have one husband and two young daughters in Ockendon provided invaluable help, daughter, Imogen (2.5), and another summer 2017, and continues to work and the work on the water challenge child due in November. Daniel will as Director of Communications for the has subsequently been continued take up a new position as Fellow luxury family travel firm Kid & Coe. Her with Oxford researchers. In January and Lecturer in English at Trinity Hall, children’s book, One Day, So Many Katerina will be moving to Cardiff Cambridge, in September. Ways, is due to be published by Wide University as a Lecturer in Applied Eyed Editions in August 2018, focusing Mathematics. A very hard decision Laura Macdougall is moving to on the different lives of children in fifty to leave Cyprus but she is looking United Agents on 31 July, as an countries worldwide. forward to being back in the UK. Agent in the Book Department. She represents writers such as Jim 1998 2000 Broadbent, the Labour MP Jess Phillips, and Ruth Hogan, author of the Aaron Maniam has been enjoying Richard Stedman writes: ‘I have just a new assignment in the Singapore internationally bestselling The Keeper completed a PhD in Mathematical of Lost Things. She would be happy to government since 2014, overseeing Physics (which is classified as Maths, policy on manufacturing, services, speak to anyone considering a career not Physics) at the University of in trade publishing. tourism and economic strategy. He is Glasgow. My work was on a system of looking forward to returning to Oxford equations called the Witten-Dijkgraaf- Huw Thomas is Leader of Wales’s in Michaelmas 2017, for a DPhil in Verlinde-Verlinde equations which, largest local authority and the Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of amongst other things, play a role youngest Council Leader in Wales, Government. in the postulated extension of the after the Labour group, which controls Caroline Orlebar writes: ‘I got standard model of particle physics Cardiff Council, elected him as their married to John Wakefield on 17 called supersymmetry. I am sure that Leader. September 2016 in St Mary the Virgin, at least my former tutors would like to Podington with fellow Somervillian know this!’ 2004 Anna White (1997) as one of the Anthemos Georgiades and his wife Sheiba Kaufman completed a four bridesmaids. John and I met Lucy (Keble, 2002) and their first child PhD in English at UC Irvine in 2016 at the 2015 Tennis Varsity Match are loving life in San Francisco where and is currently an Ahmanson-Getty and Alumni Dinner at Moor Park, Anthemos founded a venture-backed postdoctoral scholar at UCLA Clark Northwest London, as he had played start-up called Zumper. Library and Center for 17th and 18th

36 The Old Somervillian cricket team, from top left: Cameron Fern, Vivek Lodhia, Daniel Khan, Prannay Kaul, Gus Gayford, Tom Jenkins, Tom Smith. And bottom row: George Galla, Sam Packer, Will Travis, Ed Davison.

Century Studies. She has published 2012 We currently have players ranging an article in the edited volume, from matriculation years 2001-2014 Sam Packer has helped to set up Shakespeare and Hospitality: Ethics, so there is plenty of variety age-wise an Old Somervillian cricket team. Politics, and Exchange. and we would be happy for there to He reports: ‘In early July the Old be more!’ Alexander Starritt has his first Somervillian cricket club had its novel, The Beast, coming out in second tour in three years, this time September. It is described as ‘a to Belfast after the previous tour to 2013 darkly funny novel… a story in which Dublin. It was a great success on and Niluka Kavanagh writes: ‘Having comedy teeters on the edge of horror.’ off the field with two wins and two graduated just over a year ago, I first For more details see: headofzeus. defeats. We’ve also had our annual did a six-month marketing placement com/book/beast. Alex is organising game against the current college with British retailer Jack Wills. My readings, so if anyone is interested, where the Old Boys once again put manager was Somervillian Annabel just let him know: alex.starritt@ the youngsters in their place, as well Harani (Harrison, 2004), which was googlemail.com as a couple of games in and around lovely to bond over! I’m now about London. We will be touring again next to start a Sales & Marketing graduate 2006 year and plan to expand our London scheme with KPMG. But first, a trip to fixtures. All Old Somervillians are most Bali calls!’ Elizabeth Prochaska was welcome to get involved; if you fancy appointed as the new Legal Director it, please contact the captain Sam for the Equality and Human Rights Packer at [email protected]. Commission in May 2017.

37 Marriages

Cheng – Spence Pitt – Montanari Sophia Cheng (2008) on 27 August On 28 August 2016 Melanie Pitt (2001) 2017 to Robert Spence (2008) to Rob Montanari (2001) Grieveson - McGowan Quaye – Woodcock Simon Grieveson (2004) on 16 July On 30 April 2016 Stacey Quaye (2003) 2017 to Kimberley McGowan to Paul Woodcock

Jenkinson – Gibson Treacher – Khan On 2 May 2013 Rachel Jenkinson On 19 August 2016 Anna Treacher (1984) to Mark Gibson (2006) to James Khan (2006)

Oberoi – Cattai Wood – Spearpoint In May 2015 Priya Oberoi (1992) to On 19 May 2015 Vicki Wood (2000) to Marco Cattai Toby Spearpoint

Orlebar – Wakefield Zhang – Maiden Caroline Orlebar and John Wakefield On 17 September 2016 Caroline On 6 October 2013 Hilary Zhang (2005) Orlebar (1998) to John Wakefield to Benjamin Maiden (2008, Exeter College) Births

Kaufman To Sheiba (2004) and Bret Kaufman on 19 November 2014 a son Thomas Burhan Kaufman

Lexton To Ruth Sian Lexton (1998) and Ean Hoffman Lexton on 30 December 2015 a son Jesse Huw Lexton

Mautner Daniel Allfrey Theo Georgiades To Jessica (1997) on 24 November 2016 a daughter Rozalia (Rosa) Fern Alcalay Georgiades To Ruth Elizabeth (Mayers, 1990) and To Anthemos (2001) and Lucy Maxwell Eugene Alcalay on 18 March 2016 a Georgiades on 19 May 2017 a son To Esther Maxwell (2004) on 25 May 2017 daughter Juliet Sharon Alcalay Theo Cole Georgiades a daughter Beatrix Grace Jane Maxwell

Allfrey Gunn Mohideen To Sarah and Philip Allfrey (2003) on To Philippa (Smithson, 2009) and To Ayesha Mohideen (1996) and Rick 11 August 2016 a son Daniel Kenneth Alexander Gunn (2008) on 18 October Gibson on 20 October 2016 a daughter Allfrey, a brother for James 2016 a son James Casper Gunn Fara Mary Beatrice Gibson, a sister for Zaki and Saira Ashdown Hanratty To Helen (Tutor in Clinical Medicine) To Holly (Brown, 2006) and Luke Hanratty Oberoi-Cattai and Michael Ashdown (formerly Tutor (2006) on 26 June 2017 a son Jonah To Priya Oberoi-Cattai (Oberoi, 1992) and in Law) on 12 March 2017 a daughter Robert Hanratty Marco Cattai on 15 March 2017 a son Elizabeth Dorothy Charlotte Ashdown Massimo Prakash Oberoi-Cattai Heath Finlayson To Kate (Naylor, 1999) and James Heath Spearpoint To Stephanie Ashmore (2002) and Alex on 20 February 2017 a son Charles To Vicki (Wood, 2000) and Toby Finlayson (2002) on 27 April 2017 a Francis Alexander Heath, a brother Spearpoint on 6 July 2017 a daughter daughter Isla May Finlayson for William Maggie Joan

38 Fouace Morrogh Sayer Deaths Enid Pamela Roslyn Fouace Felicity Diane Morrogh née Joyce Sayer née Buxton née Marshall (1938) on 7 Chugg (1952) in about (1954) on 11 August 2017 November 2016 Aged 97 December 2016 Aged 85 Aged 93 Jenkins

Jennifer Jenkins (Hon Fellow, Hirst Murray Shaw Louise Margaret Campbell Elizabeth (Biz or Bess) Murray Elizabeth (Liza) Shaw née 2004) on 2 February 2017 Aged 96 Hirst née Campbell (1969) on née Hickson (1951) on 31 Mrosovsky (1955) on 26 22 August 2016 Aged 65 March 2017 Aged 83 December 2016 Aged 80 Beckett Elspeth Beckett née McIntosh Johnson Musgrave Sinclair Loutit (1947) in December 2016 Diana Johnson (1954) on 22 Beatrice Musgrave née Angela Sinclair Loutit née de Aged 87 November 2016 Aged 81 Falkenstein (1945) on 26 May Renzy-Martin (1939) on 18 2017 Aged 93 August 2016 Aged 92 Bell Kenyon Jennifer Bell née Grindley Mary Rignall Kenyon née McCree Storr (1963) on 28 May 2017 Humphrys (1941) on 9 Christine Linda McCree Caroline Margaret Storr Aged 71 January 2017 Aged 94 (1972) on 28 November 2016 née Crawford (1969) on 21 Aged 63 January 2016 Aged 67 Birukowska Keynes Maureen Ann Birukowska née Anne Pinsent Keynes née Neville Sington Symonds Booth (1954) on 6 June 2017 Adrian (1942) on 28 March Pamela Ayres Neville Sington Anne Symonds née Harrison Aged 81 2017 Aged 92 née Neville (1981) on 1 March (1934) on 6 February 2017 2017 Aged 57 Aged 100 Black Kohl Elizabeth Lynne Black Margaret Stewart McLaren Roosegaarde Taylor née Austin (1959) on 13 Kohl née Cook (1944) on 10 Aleida Elisabeth Mabel May Ann Gaynor Taylor née September 2016 Aged 79 September 2017 Aged 91 Roosegaarde (Betty) Norman Hughes-Jones (1946) on 23 née Bisschop (1940) on 2 February 2017 Aged 88 Boulton Large March 2017 Aged 95 Marjorie Boulton (1941) on Moira McColl Thorn Large Thomas 30 August 2017 Aged 93 née Sydney (1946) on 5 Northcott Rosemary Thomas née Toye March 2017 Aged 91 Joy Northcott (1985) on 25 (1976) on 2 October 2016 Brown January 2017 Aged 51 Aged 58 Diana Margaret Brown née Lee Clements (1957) on 20 May Ivy Margaret Lee née Cox Ochoa Topham 2017 Aged 80 (1943) on 30 January 2017 Rafael Baptista Ochoa (2015) Pauline Bladon Topham Aged 91 on 6 April 2017 Aged 23 (1947) on 4 April 2017 Corney Aged 89 Marie Corney née Thurman MacLeod Page (1966) on 22 December 2016 Sheila Jean MacLeod (1958) Eleanor Rosalind Page née Wallis Aged 78 on 1 November 2016 Pollard (1935) on 13 August Dorothea Wallis née Back Aged 77 2017 Aged 101 (1943) in early 2017 Aged 92 Creighton Ellen Rhoda Christian Male Parham Walz Creighton née Barclay (1946) Celia Ann Male née Carr Christian Mary Parham née Rosemary Theodora Walz on 16 June 2017 (1955) on 7 March 2017 Fitzherbert (1950) on 23 April née Graves (1953) on 30 Aged 79 2017 Aged 84 November 2016 Aged 82 Dundas-Grant Valerie Hermine Dundas- Maskell Richards Whitaker Grant (1941) on 29 June Rosalind Mary Maskell née Sheila Rosemary Richards Ann Whitaker (1946) on 8 2016 Aged 92 Rewcastle (1947) on 7 (1948) on 6 September 2016 May 2017 Aged 94 September 2016 Aged 88 Aged 87 Falconer Williams Gillian Laura Condie Falconer Mate Ross Betty Williams née Rollason (1944) on 27 October 2016 Mavis Evelyn Mate née Howe Ann Lorna Katharine Ross (1947) on 8 March 2017 Aged 90 (1953) on 20 October 2016 née Chubb (1948) on 28 July Aged 88 Aged 82 2016 Aged 86 Flew Woodfill Annis Ruth Harriet Flew née Middlemiss Ross Jacqueline Isabel Woodfill Donnison (1949) on 8 March Prisca Mary Faith Middlemiss Katharine Elizabeth Mary née Iselin (1940) in April 2017 Aged 86 née Mills (1967) on 15 Ross (1940) on 7 November 2017 Aged 94 December 2016 Aged 68 2016 Aged 95

39 Obituaries

Jean Austin (Coutts, 1937)

Jean Austin, my mother, was born Jean Coutts in Hampstead in December 1918, just at the end of the First World War. The eldest of six children, brought up in an intellectual but sheltered environment, where she enjoyed long evening conversations with her father, she easily won an open scholarship to Somerville to read Mods and Greats. Despite the outbreak of war and her father’s sudden death, she had many happy memories of her time there: bike rides out to Binsey for tea, heading the Jowett Society, living in Park Town, discovering philosophy, and meeting and marrying my father, the philosopher J.L. Austin. They were married in March 1941, Jean being the first Somervillian to be given permission to marry while still an undergraduate. Just three weeks later, they were bombed, and miraculously survived. Jean recovered just in time to take her finals and get a First in Greats. Jean Austin

The combination of determination and brilliance she She died on 26 July 2016, aged 97. She leaves displayed then was needed again when her husband died four children, nine grandchildren, and thirteen great- in 1960 (when she was only 41), and she had to transform grandchildren. her life from being a devoted wife, mother and intellectual Lucy Nuseibeh (Austin, 1968) companion to building a career and supporting a family alone. Although devastated, she converted the family house into flats to supplement her income, and she taught philosophy when and where she could; with such success Enid Fouace (Marshall, 1938) that in 1965 she became Philosophy Tutor at St Hilda’s, where she remained for twenty years until retirement. Enid was born on 19 June 1919 and grew up in north London, the eldest of four children. She attended She loved her work, and was an excellent tutor. Although Minchenden School in Southgate for her secondary students found her intimidating and exacting, they also education, where she did extremely well, displaying a found her kind, empathetic and wise. Several went on to natural gift for languages. She was also good at sports, become philosophers due to her, and a great many kept in especially on the hockey field. touch throughout her long life. One pupil described her as ‘a splendid example of what it is to take philosophy seriously In 1938 she must have given her parents and family some … deeply serious about the subject, and intellectually very anxious moments when she was travelling alone by demanding, but never solemn or overbearing; friendly, train in Nazi Germany at the time of the Munich crisis. She supportive, and always willing to treat one as a fellow had secured a place at Oxford, and was no doubt anxious participant in this intellectual endeavour.’ to maintain her fluency in the language. Later that year she came up to Somerville to read Modern Languages; one of Always modest about her own achievements and abilities, her contemporaries was Iris Murdoch. especially in relation to her husband, she made her own mark in philosophy with two papers: ‘On Knowing One’s Going down in 1941, Enid was recruited to work at Own Mind’, delivered to the Aristotelian Society, and Bletchley Park where there were many Somervillians ‘Pleasure and Happiness’. These two titles reflected her employed, all strictly bound by the Official Secrets Act. own personal as well as philosophical predicaments, due to She was extremely conscious of her responsibilities in this her husband’s early death: the problem of one’s own versus respect and never subsequently discussed or revealed any ‘other minds’, which she had worked on with her husband, details of her work there, even after these restrictions were and the problem of happiness, which had been so abruptly relaxed. snatched from her. Post-war, after taking up one or two teaching positions, She had many pleasures, in addition to that of using her Enid evidently decided that she would like to live in France, mind, and throughout her life she particularly enjoyed which for her at that time must have meant Paris. There she walking (as a ‘rational biped’) and nature, especially the worked for some time at the British Council, and also gave pond in her garden in Old Marston. private English lessons. Then it was that Lucien Fouace appeared, wanting assistance in making his own French

40 translation of one of Shakespeare’s plays. However, no evidence ever emerged that this was achieved! In 1949 Enid and Lucien were married and, after living initially with Lucien’s family in Antony, they moved to an apartment in the Quai St Michel overlooking the Seine and within sight of Notre Dame.

In 1960 they moved to Fontaine sous Jouy in Normandy where they had bought a very pleasing rural property, largely surrounded by quite dense woodland, from which Lucien pursued his profession as an Avocat. In 1963 their daughter Claire arrived, and thereafter family life continued with Enid also giving secretarial support to Lucien in his work. Holidays were enjoyed, which included a trip back to England once a year. In 1981 Enid decided that she needed to re-establish her English roots and bought a property in Felixstowe, and Lucien joined her there after some time.

In 2003 Enid published (via a private printing) a volume of verse Poems from Suffolk and Normandy. She made reference in a subsequent letter to a second volume of poems in French but unfortunately no trace of this has been found.

By 2011 poor health had overtaken them both, and Enid was admitted to a care home. She died peacefully surrounded by her family on 7 November 2016. Nigel Marshall Mercy in uniform

Mercy Heatley (Bing, 1939) Oxfordshire Education Authority and then Social Services. Her interest lay mainly in young people, and while working Mercy was born in 1921 in the North of Ireland where her for Oxfordshire’s Family and Child Guidance Service, she parents, Geoffrey and Irene Bing, had started a boarding developed a particular interest in autism. In the 1970s she school for young boys – Rockport – in 1906. The school pioneered the idea of integrating children with learning is now officially co-educational but it was not so in the difficulties into the classroom, a practice which was 1920s, when Mercy was one of only four girl pupils. Aged adopted nationally after recommendation in the Warnock 12 she went to Howells, a girls’ boarding school in Wales, Committee report (1978). She also helped to found the where a contemporary remembered her as ‘almost on the charity Children in Touch to help pay for additional therapies same level as the teachers’, and from there, in 1939, to for autistic children. Somerville. After her retirement Mercy worked as an expert witness well At first she read PPE, then switched to History. Like many into her 80s, assessing family problems for court hearings. students she interrupted her studies to join the war effort, As a fluent radio interviewee and prolific letter writer, she driving lorries in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. After this supported many causes including: experience she intended to study psychology and become a probation officer, but a chance meeting on a train led her • the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (participating in to decide on medicine and psychiatry. A year later, having the women’s protests at Greenham Common) studied more science, and with encouragement from • opposition to the UK government’s Public Finance Somerville chemistry tutor Dorothy Hodgkin, she returned to Initiative and any kind of privatisation in the NHS Oxford as a medical student. • opposition to the Iraq war. This led to national headlines when she withheld part of her income tax in protest and In the midst of her studies, Mercy met Dr Norman Heatley, was duly summoned before magistrates. ten years her senior, at a Somerville dance. They were married six months later in December 1944. He was not She also supported individuals – from NHS whistle-blowers the Prince of Wales, whom her father had once thought the to East European refugee children brought to the UK by the most appropriate match, but in Mercy’s eyes even better, a Ockenden Venture. scientist and member of the Oxford team whose work on penicillin was already enabling the treatment of Allied troops To her death aged 94, Mercy retained her sharp wit and in World War 2. good sense of humour, remaining curious and caring about the lives of friends and family. Having had five children, and thanks to a succession of au- pairs, Mercy was able to work part-time as a Consultant to Rose Heatley

41 Aleida Elisabeth Mabel May Norman (Bisschop, 1940)

Dr Elisabeth Norman (Betty) was a relentless campaigner for the rights of and standards of care for children with learning difficulties. Her third son, Thomas, was born with Down’s syndrome in 1956; she was advised to send him away to residential care and, awakened by this experience, she threw herself into voluntary work, first as Chairman of the Friends of Royal Earlswood, where Thomas went to live from the age of seven, and subsequently on the East Surrey Health Authority and as Vice Chairman of Mencap.

She was horrified to find how mixed the care was and how poor the facilities. She became a prodigious fund-raiser for the Royal Earlswood, an NHS-sponsored home in an imposing Victorian building housing some 600 residents of varying degrees of handicap. She fought many battles with the Health Authority to prevent diversion of funds and to modernise facilities which would have been considered unacceptable for patients with no disability.

Later, as the new ‘care in the community’ policy resulted in closure of the old homes and dispersal of residents, she worked with Brian Rix (later Lord Rix), Chairman of Mencap, to try and keep the best of the communal activities, believing that many of the less able would become ‘lost in the community’, unable to cope with normal life. Betty Norman

Betty was born in 1922 to an eminent Dutch lawyer, Dr the poverty of the East End. It was the job of the medical W.R. Bisschop, the great-grandson of one of Napoleon’s officer to handle anything that turned up at the door. Marshals. She was brought up in Lincoln’s Inn and went Consultants came by three times a week to give advice. to Queen’s College, Harley St., then to Somerville to study From there she joined Great Ormond Street as a Registrar Medicine in 1940. She nearly missed doing so having at a very exciting time as the NHS had come into being and been stranded in Canada at the outbreak of the war with paediatrics was developing rapidly. There she met Dr Archie a British Council girls’ delegation. Her father managed Norman, her future husband, who later came to be an to find a passage on a (then neutral) US ship sailing from eminent Consultant Paediatrician. New York. Never the most punctual, she and a friend spent the departure day seeing the sights of New York and Once married, she gave up practising medicine to devote arrived late back at the dock to be told the ship had sailed. herself to having children and raising a family. Starting late, Running down the quayside they managed to climb on she had five boys and three miscarriages in eight years. board as the last gangplank was withdrawn. With Archie away working long weeks in London, she brought up her troublesome sons and embarked on her Oxford in the war proved austere: many of the young men long crusade for children with disabilities, alongside her had left and food and coal were rationed. Students shared devotion to Archie and to family life. Between times she rooms to study in order to stay warm. She became great was a talented and bold artist, unfortunately rarely finishing friends with Daphne Park and made the most of the limited her canvasses. Her abiding love was for her husband and social life. ‘Always elegant, never on time’ was her tutor’s children. She died after sixty-six years of marriage just over assessment. As a student she worked at the Wingfield two months after Archie. Morris hospital, treating the abscesses caused by chronic Archie Norman tuberculosis infection. In 1945 she became a Houseman at the Radcliffe Infirmary and also acted as a part-time penicillin nurse, giving twice daily life-saving injections. As the needles were reused and often blunt and most of the Mary Kenyon (Humphrys, 1941) wounded did not understand the point of antibiotics, the penicillin nurses were the most unpopular people on the Mary was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, the elder daughter ward. of a Master Mariner. Her early education was at Nottingham Girls’ High School. The family moved to Essex when Keen to specialise in children, in 1947 she joined the Queen she was eleven and she and her younger sister went to Elizabeth Children’s Hospital in East London. Because Chelmsford County High School where she was made paediatrics was still developing, many GPs did not deal with School Captain. She obtained a place at Somerville to read children and most patients were self-referred, coming from English Literature, and it was to her great regret that owing

42 Mary Kenyon Anne Keynes at the time of her engagement in 1944

to wartime constraints her degree course was limited to two red geraniums in her conservatory, books everywhere. She years. She loved Oxford and made the most of it; J.R.R. would be ready to share her thoughts on any subject and Tolkien was her tutor in Anglo-Saxon. After obtaining her was a wise and generous listener. She would happily cater degree she applied to the Foreign Office, admittedly hoping for any occasion, on her venerable four-ring cooker, from to be sent as a beautiful spy to some far-off destination, dinner parties at home to weddings, school reunions and all Betty Norman but instead she was sent to Bletchley Park to work twelve the Church festivals. hour shifts in the famous Hut 6, decoding the Enigma Patricia Chancellor (Humphrys, 1949) and Corinna transmissions. She said it was nothing like the film. Kenyon-Wade After the war, Mary worked for the publishing house Eyre and Spottiswoode. She loved London and became part of the literary and musical life of Bloomsbury. At one of Anne Pinsent Keynes (Adrian, 1942) many parties she met the music critic Max Kenyon, and they married in 1948. They lived for a while in London, then Anne Pinsent Adrian was born in Cambridge on 27 May moved to the small village of Hutton, in Essex, where life 1924, and died there on 28 March 2017. She was the was quieter than she liked. So began a great list of voluntary eldest child of E.D. Adrian, professor of physiology and occupations which she took up in the local community. Master of Trinity College (1951–65), and his wife Hester She was a School Governor, a trustee of local charities, a (Pinsent) Adrian, who was long committed to the causes deliverer of ‘meals on wheels’ and managed to sell poppies of mental health and penal reform. Her twin siblings were for a total of 78 consecutive Novembers. She co-founded Richard Hume Adrian, Master of Pembroke College, the successful local preservation society, regularly cooking Cambridge (1981–93), and Jennet Parker Campbell, who for 150 at get-togethers, ran the history group for three followed her to Somerville in 1945 and is now living in decades and was still scrutinizing planning applications Cornwall. to the Council on its behalf in 2016. In addition to her historical work, for which she often gave talks to schools Anne was educated at the Perse School, Cambridge, and and societies, she was greatly involved in the life of her local Downe House. On leaving Downe in the summer of 1941, church. she was faced with the decision whether to join the WRNS or to continue with her education. Her love of France, She was a formidable cook and hostess, and, in her own and French literature, had been kindled before the war; fashion, an enthusiastic gardener. Her garden was large, her mother had read history at Somerville (1919); and her prolific, overgrown and beautiful. She cared for it herself and much-loved grandmother lived near Oxford. Anne settled at 94 was still digging her own potatoes which according on more education, at Somerville, and in December 1941 to custom she had planted the previous Good Friday. If you gained an exhibition in French. walked down the lane past her house you might see her in disreputable old clothes, digging or stoking a bonfire. She Her tutor was the redoubtable Dr Enid Starkie; and from would invite you in for home-made cake and tea, never in her she was soon learning much about Baudelaire and a mug but always in an elegant antique cup and saucer. Rimbaud. Dr Starkie’s teaching was supplemented, You would sit in her sitting-room facing an avalanche of however, by a remarkable series of letters about the French,

43 their language, and their literature which she received, at Somerville, from a young Breton called Guy Vourc’h. He had escaped from Occupied France to England in 1940, with little more than the Adrians’ Cambridge address in his pocket, and since then had been in service with the Free French. Anne initiated the correspondence in 1943, as a way of practising her written French; for his part, Guy approved of Oxford because he had found, when passing through on manoeuvres with his fellow commandos, that Blackwells was unusually well stocked with French books.

Among her friends at Somerville were Shirley Bridges (Corke), who died in 2015, Rosamund Benson (Huebner), Cecily Hastings, and Susan Wood. Her main distraction was music: singing in the Oxford Bach Choir, trained by Thomas Armstrong, and with the Balliol College Musical Society, conducted by Christopher Longuet-Higgins. She was by all accounts a fine soprano, and treasured a letter from Dr Armstrong in which he thanked her warmly for her contributions to music in Oxford. Her viva in 1944 was held Margaret Cox on D-Day. All she could remember of it was that Professor Gustave Rudler, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, seemed unable to focus on the matter in hand, and that she was released in no time. Margaret Lee (Cox, 1943)

Anne left Oxford in July 1944, moving to London for the My mother, always Margaret, was born on 20 March 1925 year of war work which qualified her for a war degree. She in Boston, Lincolnshire. There she spent a happy childhood worked in the Ministry of Production, managing the supply in the fenlands. She came from a working-class family, of bicycles and other necessities to liberated countries; who valued education. At school she excelled at everything in letters home she reassured her parents about the and won a place at Boston High School. She gained the doodlebugs. At a party that May she met Richard Darwin highest grade across all subjects at School Certificate, Keynes, an acquaintance from childhood in Cambridge, became Head Girl and took her Highers in 1942 when just then working on radar and gunnery for the Admiralty. They 17. Art was her passion and talent, but instead she chose discovered a common interest in the poetry of Rimbaud, an academic route, the first member of the family to do so. became engaged in August, and married in January 1945. Somerville offered a scholarship and so she came to Oxford in 1943. In the official matriculation photo, Margaret is the After the war they began their life together in Cambridge, striking blonde in the second row, slim, petite and beautiful. with what became a family of four boys. Anne continued to sing, most often with the Cambridge University Madrigal My mother was unable to complete this first year due to Society conducted by Raymond Leppard. She occupied illness, but returned in 1944 to repeat the year, joining a herself also in social work; with the organisation of new year-group. Encased in a plaster jacket for weeks, conversation classes for visiting scholars from overseas; she spent a great deal of time at the Radcliffe Infirmary. and writing papers on music, and French literature, for However, she enjoyed the rest of her time in Oxford, a reading group which flourished among the self-styled particularly once the end of the war brought peace and with ‘Learned Ladies’ of Cambridge. Latterly she gave close it great change. attention to the family papers which had passed to her The time my mother was ‘up’ was truly unique. Voluntary from her parents. One senses that she never left behind work was compulsory, and my mother did rooftop fire- her years at Downe, and at Somerville, because she could watching and helped in the local nursery. College rooms never forget the friendships which had sustained her in a accommodated essential workers, and nurses occupied time of war. West, often waking everyone up in Library wing. In the first Anne’s children were brought up with two biscuit tins. The couple of years there were few men in Oxford, and most light blue one, decorated with the arms of the colleges students were under the age of majority (21). This did not in Cambridge, was filled by her with biscuits for cheese, stop them having fun, and lifelong friendships were forged. especially the Bath Olivers. The dark blue one, decorated In her last year, Margaret went to a ball, and much fun was with the arms of the colleges in Oxford, was reserved for had making dresses out of what material could be found. the succulent Jaffa Cakes, and other varieties containing In 1947, Margaret left Oxford and moved to London where chocolate. she trained as a librarian. In 1949, having just met my father, Simon Keynes Ian, she underwent a major operation followed by a long period of convalescence.

44 My mother’s working life was to be short. In 1950, at the Council of Industrial Design, she compiled the catalogue for the Festival of Britain. My parents moved out of London to Fulmer, where they both worked at the Cement and Concrete Association. This was to be my mother’s last job. In 1954 she produced her first child, and gave up working, as was the norm. Within a few years there were four of us, two boys and two girls, which left Margaret little time for herself. As we became older, she spent less time on household tasks, preferring to encourage us to explore a world of books and learning. She read us her favourite stories and poems, including extracts from Beowulf, and introduced us to the works of C.S. Lewis and Tolkien, whose lectures she had attended.

The grammar school and Oxford had provided social mobility. Her working-class background was long left behind, and we enjoyed a very middle-class existence, but she never forgot her roots. Somerville always occupied a very important place in her life. She knew it had been the making of who she was and was always grateful to have had that Moira McColl opportunity. the Communist Party before joining the University Labour Margaret died on 30 January 2017, a few weeks before Party and she regularly attended the Oxford Union. She was her 92nd birthday. The last few months were probably the tutored by the formidable Mary Lascelles through whom she hardest of her life after Ian died unexpectedly in July 2016, developed her lifelong love of English literature. which was a great shock. But she was tough, resilient, and never lost her enquiring mind. She retained a fierce intellect After graduating she moved back to London and initially to the end. followed her father into librarianship, taking the relevant exams at University College London. However, she found Hers was truly a life well lived, even if seemingly the work of a librarian rather dull and that her love of English unremarkable. was better embraced in the world of publishing. She joined Kate Marshall the Phoenix Press and then worked for several years on the influential Hospitals Year Book. However, she had always wanted to travel and applied for a job in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) to manage a mobile schools’ library. (From Moira McColl Torn Large those small beginnings that service has today become a worldwide charity known as Book Aid International.) (Sydney, 1946) Thus, in 1957, at the age of 32, and despite not knowing Moira Large was born in Leeds in 1925 but as a young anyone there, she set sail on a ‘Union Castle Line’ ship from child moved to Leytonstone in East London where her Southampton on the two-week journey to Cape Town and father, Edward Sydney MC, (a future President of the Library then the three day train journey up to Lusaka. She quickly Association) had been appointed the municipal Librarian. immersed herself in colonial life touring the length and Moira attended Leyton County High School for Girls but she breadth of the country in a Land Rover, visiting villages and completed her ‘Highers’ in English, Latin, French and History townships with her books. at Chipping Camden Grammar School, as the family moved In 1960, Moira married Philip Large, a senior colonial officer, to the Cotswolds to escape wartime London. She was a with whom she had three children, but with independence very able student, finishing school in 1944, but she forewent sweeping across Africa they returned to the UK in the mid going straight to University and signed up to ‘do her bit’ for ‘60s. Here she devoted herself to her growing family, but the war effort, joining the WRNS and training as a Morse found time to give expression to her creativity through code wireless telegraphist listening in to German signals, sketching, painting, and writing poetry and short stories, as particularly those being sent by the U-boats in the North well as in dress-making, embroidery and knitting, although Sea. Unbeknown to her at the time she was a vital part of her greatest loves were reading, gardening and ornithology. the huge effort to break the ‘Enigma’ code. Moira was, for her time, a most adventurous woman. She After the war Moira was awarded a place at Somerville to was dignified, upright and loyal, always mischievous with read English Literature, matriculating in 1946. It was an words and a truly independent spirit. She passed away on 5 exciting time to be there and she threw herself into university March 2017, after a short illness, at the age of 91. life embracing the joy and the hope of those immediate post-war years. Like many at that time she briefly dallied with Andrew Large

45 symptoms had not in fact changed clinical or laboratory Rosalind Mary Maskell practice outside her own centre. In her early eighties, she (Rewcastle, 1947) decided to make one final attempt to attract wider attention to her work on urinary infection and submitted a paper Rosalind Maskell was Senior Medical Microbiologist at the summarizing her earlier research to the journal Medical Public Health Laboratory and Wessex Regional renal unit at Hypotheses. This was published in May 2010. St Mary’s Hospital, Portsmouth. Her persistence was rewarded when she was contacted After school in Tunbridge Wells and at Millfield, she attended soon afterwards by a group of researchers from Loyola Somerville as a Nuffield Scholar in Medicine, graduating with University Chicago who were using genetic techniques to a First Class Honours degree in 1950. She then undertook investigate the urinary microbiome and its implications for clinical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. our understanding of urinary infection. It was a source of After house jobs, she married a fellow graduate, John great comfort and satisfaction to Rosalind in her later years Maskell, and ceased medical practice for fourteen years in to know that another group of clinicians and microbiologists order to raise a family and support John in his work as a was conducting research focused on this problem and that general practitioner in Havant. their findings supported her own hypothesis that urine is not sterile in the absence of clinically significant infection. In 1968, looking for an opportunity to return to medical practice as her children were growing up, she obtained an Away from the laboratory and clinic, she was governor appointment as clinical assistant in the renal unit and public of a number of local secondary schools and devoted any health laboratory service in Portsmouth. Her remit was to spare time to gardening. She was a voracious reader with acquaint herself with the field of urinary tract infection and a particular appetite for political biography and a keen eye then to undertake clinical and laboratory duties in this field. for any lapses in grammar or punctuation. Predeceased by This was to be the focus of her work for the rest of her John, she is survived by her son Giles, a radiologist, and career. daughter Genevieve, a horticulturalist. Giles Maskell Alongside her clinical duties, she established from scratch a research programme which led her to publish two books, many chapters in multi-author publications on renal medicine, surgery and microbiology, and over fifty Lorna Ross (Chubb, 1948) peer-reviewed scientific papers. Her interest had been stimulated by the plight of women whom she encountered My cousin Lorna Ross died on 28 July 2016. Her earliest in the clinic with unexplained urinary symptoms and clinical years were spent in Egypt, where her father was working. diagnoses of ‘urethral syndrome’ or ‘interstitial cystitis’. Her She loved her schooldays at Downe House (where she was suspicion was that current standard laboratory techniques taught by Clare Campbell, OS, who remained a lifelong for urine culture were failing to identify the organisms which friend), with its emphasis on the performing arts, and longed were causing infection in these patients. She was able to be a dancer, but grew too tall. At home, she climbed the to show that using prolonged growth under anaerobic tallest trees in the garden, and once at a circus had a go conditions, pure cultures of certain ‘fastidious’ organisms at standing on a cantering pony. Later still, the line ‘I was usually regarded as commensals could be obtained from just teaching my granddaughter to turn cartwheels’ was a the urine of some of these patients. Her hypothesis was memorable one. that repeated courses of antibiotics led to the selection of resistant bacteria in the urethral commensal flora and that In 1948 Lorna gained a place at Somerville to read Greats. these then had a role in the aetiology of symptoms. Although she came away with a Third, she made the most of university life, including becoming engaged to a member Her work was rewarded with a number of distinctions of the 1951 Boat Crew; we all mourned when the boat including the award of a DM by Oxford University in 1985 sank in front of the television cameras, and again when and election to MRCP (UK) under byelaw 117 the same the engagement ended not long afterwards. True to her year. She was proud to serve as a member of the National declared ambition ‘to make my mark on Oxford’, she took Biological Standards Board from 1988 to 1992. Despite her final Schools clad in full-length black skirt, high-necked these welcome forms of recognition, her work did not find Victorian blouse and a tie of black velvet ribbon. favour with the medical microbiology establishment of the day and she was deeply wounded by a particularly damning After Schools, Lorna happily became secretary/companion review of one of her books. She always suspected that her to Gilbert Murray on Boars Hill. There followed a period of work would have been better received had it emanated housekeeping for her grandparents and then a short spell from a major research centre rather than from a part-time of teaching. At 27, she married John Ross, her admirer female clinician in a district hospital with a single laboratory from Oxford days; his ordination in 1957 led to eight years assistant. as a tutor/lecturer in Cambridge. This ended – with a fourth child on the way – with their move to Edinburgh, where Although sustained by her late husband’s reassurance that John held the university post of Faculty Officer in Social the truth will always out in the end, it remained a source of Sciences and served as a non-stipendiary priest; Lorna, great frustration to her that work which had the potential too, became more deeply committed as a Christian, and to benefit countless patients suffering from disabling sought ordination, but without success.

46 Ann Whitaker (1949)

Going to Somerville in 1946 as a mature student, Ann Whitaker became head of the junior common room. She was presented to the then Princess Elizabeth who asked her what she was studying. "PPE", she replied, to which the Princess threw back her head, laughed and asked, "What on earth is that?!"

Ann was studying in Switzerland at the outbreak of the Second World War. She became secretary to the air attaché at the British Legation in Berne. There was an unexpected visitor one day in 1941, Airey Neave, the first British officer to escape from Colditz. He was a friend of the family and they went for a walk together. The next day he was gone, passed down the lines and back to England.

Returning herself to England via an adventurous journey, Lorna Chubb on the Isle of Lewis Ann enlisted in the WRAF and then was seconded to the Foreign Office and MI6. She worked in North Africa and Italy and was mentioned in despatches.

Having gained a second class honours degree in 1949, In Edinburgh life was not easy in a large, neglected house, Ann trained as a medical social worker with the Institute but Lorna was ever creative. To quote daughter Jane: ‘As of Almoners, working at the National Hospital, Queen's a child, you are not impressed that your mum can cook, Square, London. In 1957 she completed a mammoth paint, sing, dance, identify plants and insects, speak a research work on "The young chronic sick in the North range of languages, and perform the pose of a crow in East Metropolitan Region" for which she was sponsored by yoga. You just think she’s a bit of a hippie.’ And, one may The Nuffield Foundation. This led to improvements in care add, write poetry. Nettle soup figured largely on the menu, nationally. in season; she let the spare room to a single mother and enjoyed filling the top flat with families from overseas sent to She worked alongside Dr Queenie Adams at her practice in her by the university. Lorna also taught Classics for a while Harley Street. Together they founded a charitable trust for in local schools, and took flying lessons. the establishment of homes for the rehabilitation of young men with mental and sometimes physical problems. They After John’s sudden death aged 63 and her own serious moved to Cornwall in the 1960s, where activities included cancer, Lorna, now free from family responsibilities, decided organising summer camps for children in the garden to fulfil a lifelong ambition to Go Far Away with God and and founding Tremore Christian School, an independent arranged for a year’s retreat on Tristan da Cunha, visiting day school which ran for eighteen years in purpose-built friends in Nigeria and South Africa en route. The ‘retreat’ premises in the grounds where they lived. When a staffing was anything but solitary; though mornings were spent with problem arose Ann found herself principal of the school. her Bible, she lived with a family, became ‘Grannich’ and joined in many exciting expeditions. From pinnamin eggs Dr Adams predeceased Ann Whitaker by 18 years and in and bird fat to all-day carding sessions and many ‘buffdis’ those years Ann travelled twice to Uganda and in her 88th (birthdays), she relished it all. year to the Philippines. She warned officials and young people that "west is not always best" with regard to what She still felt drawn by remoteness and one more big she saw as the moving away from the Judaeo-Christian adventure followed: the purchase of a house just outside foundation of our society. Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis. She loved the huge expanse of sky, the small friendly town, the daily ferry Ann's home was always a place of welcome. Her sound faithfully crossing her view into the harbour; the painting wisdom, advice and her sharing of an astute understanding group, the poetry group, the prayer group and her church, of world affairs will be much missed. She died on 8th May together with her small garden, absorbed her time and 2017. brought her congenial friends. She published some poems in a Scottish national newspaper, and had a display of her Susan Pernet paintings in the town library. An unsuccessful hip operation Friend and former secretary obliged her to move into an excellent care home and when, aged 86, she was finally laid low by a stroke, she was ready to go. Christian Parham (Fitzherbert, 1950) Lucia Turner (Glanville, 1951) died on 23 April 2017. There will be an obituary in the 2018 Report.

47 The Artist’s Family, by kind permission of the Tate Gallery - Henry Lamb’s family at Coombe Bissett 1940; Henrietta aged 9 stands on the left

Henrietta Frances Phipps surrounded by Henry’s artistic friends, as well as Pansy’s family and literary circle. Henrietta was, according to her (Lamb, 1950) sister Felicia, the apple of her father’s eye; he appreciated her gentle demeanour and painted many portraits of her. Henrietta Frances Lamb was born in 1931 at the crossroads Until the war stopped them the family travelled frequently to of two significant artistic and cultural movements: Italy and France, but life at home in an intellectual hothouse Bloomsbury, where Lytton Strachey and Lady Ottoline made demands on the children; Henry’s tempestuous Morrell met their counterparts of the 1920s generation, and argumentative spirit, although tamed by marriage including Evelyn Waugh, John Betjeman and the Sitwells. and advancing age, could still burst out, while Pansy saw Her father, the artist Henry Lamb, had been an associate of herself as a writer first, a homemaker only by fits and Augustus John, and at the turn of the century had married starts. Henrietta calmly survived the arguments, fortified as his first wife Euphemia, John’s model and muse. It took by her friendship with Pakenham cousins of her age, but him many years to disentangle himself from this liaison, and Felicia found the atmosphere so oppressive that she took a it was only in 1928 that he took as his second wife Pansy secretarial course, and became a journalist. Pakenham, sister of Frank, later Lord Longford. They were both at the centre of a group of young, fun-loving writers and Henrietta attended the Godolphin School at Salisbury; she intellectuals collectively known as ‘The Bright Young Things’, took herself there without parental help, and was a model whose literary achievements were punctuated by romps student. In 1950 she won an exhibition to Somerville to and practical jokes. Henry remained a close friend of Lytton read History. At Oxford she was happy: she was a member Strachey, who appreciated Henry’s sharp, critical intellect, of a select group of contemporaries who would become and their friendship lasted up to Strachey’s death. Henry was friends for life. At Oxford too she converted to Catholicism, also extremely musical, and anticipated by many years the thus provoking furious antagonism from Henry, who was revival of interest in Early and Baroque music. a militant atheist. A Somerville friend remembers his angry outburst about the Oxford History syllabus. ‘They are Henrietta, the eldest of three children, grew up in Coombe teaching Henrietta about Barbarossa rather than anything Bissett in Wiltshire; she delighted her father by showing serious’, he raged. early signs of intellectual promise. A bookish child, she was

48 Henrietta left Oxford in 1954 and took a job at History Mavis began work on her own doctorate in medieval history, Today, then run by Peter Quennell. She worked there, with an emphasis in women’s studies. sharing a flat in Chelsea with her Pakenham cousins, until her marriage in 1960 to William Phipps the silversmith, Charles died when Mavis was just 40. She wrote, ‘I needed son of Sir Eric Phipps, the British Ambassador to Hitler’s to support my family. Fortunately, interest in women’s history Germany from 1934 to 1937. William, in flight from a family was growing in the US, and with several articles already so involved in great events, had passed a stormy youth, but published, I received a position as an Assistant Professor his marriage to Henrietta was exceptionally happy, and until at the University of Oregon. I enjoyed teaching and . . . William’s death in 2009 they were seldom apart. The family administration, becoming co-director of the Center for the lived at 31 Chepstow Villas, which for fifty years was a Study of Women and Society, while retaining my interest meeting place for their ever-growing circle of friends. While in late medieval economic history. Without a spouse, my William forged silver in his basement workshop, Henrietta work became my focus. In due course, I retired from the studied at Kingston College of Art, and became landscape University as full professor and department chair, but gardener to the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, continued my research on the economic history of Kent and working in the Town Hall and in the Parks Department. She Sussex. My most recent work was to contribute to a new had a hand in the design of so many civic amenities that history on the port town of Sandwich.’ one commentator maintained that her forty years’ work had Mavis endured Alzheimer’s Disease with dignity and ‘shaped the Royal Borough’. She remained involved in the fortitude. She died from a heart attack, the kind of no- gardens of Kensington almost to her death. nonsense departure she had hoped to make. To the end, Henry died in 1962, and Henrietta took on the she took pride in her garden, never missed watching BBC administration of her father’s artistic legacy, a task World News, and lived, as always, surrounded by piles of increasing as his reputation grew. Pansy, however, lived till books. 1990, spending her last years in Rome, having followed We remember Mavis with love, gratitude, and deep her daughter into the Catholic Church. Henrietta brought admiration for the way she led her life. She was a formidable her home and cared for her till her death. She and William intellect, a skilled administrator, and a dogged researcher. worked together for the Church of St Mary of the Angels, Colleagues describe her as ‘one of the most important Notting Hill among the homeless and the down-and-out. foremothers of the medievalist feminist movement’ (and also When already in her 70s she started to study Hebrew, and as ‘an impressive ping-pong player’). Mavis was, in addition, in 2015, despite increasing ill heath, she made a pilgrimage a loving mother, a welcoming mother-in-law, and a proud to the Holy Land with her daughter Teresa. She died in May grandmother. 2016, aged 84. She is survived by her daughter and three sons. Mathew Mate and Shelli Koszdin, Laurence Mate and Paige Weston Miranda Villiers (McKenna, 1954)

Mavis Evelyn Howe Mate (Howe, 1953) Rosemary Walz (Graves, 1953) My mother Rosemary was born in West Kirby in the Wirral Mavis Mate died at home in Illinois on 20 October 2016, on 13 March 1934 and educated at St Mary’s School in just days after mailing her proud vote for Hillary Clinton. Wantage. Although Mavis’s friends and family miss her terribly, we are glad, for her sake, she outlived neither her queen nor the She spent her ‘gap year’ living with her Romanian aunt last remnants of sanity in the American electorate. (Mavis in Paris and studying at the Sorbonne before coming up was always betwixt and between her two countries. It to Somerville in 1953 to read French and German. Her troubled her that she sounded English to Americans and study of modern languages took her to Heidelberg in the American to the English.) summer vacation at the end of her second year where she met Dr Walz, a German university lecturer 27 years her Born in 1933, within sound of Bow Bells, she lived through senior. Their long-distance courtship resulted in marriage the Blitz and was the first in her family to attend college. in April 1957 and she moved to Heidelberg and had four She wrote, ‘Somerville offered me . . . the sustaining children. As director of the Dolmetscher Institut, my father support of strong, female friendship, and the emphasis on regularly received international visitors to Heidelberg and, academic rigour. There weren’t too many people with my as a couple, my parents were renowned for their hospitality. background at Somerville, but . . . I was accepted for the We were always told that Malcolm Muggeridge pushed kind of person I was, which made easier my transition to life my sister in her pram and Tony Benn mentioned being in North America.’ invited to tea in his diaries! They provided a home from Mavis married Charles Frederick Mate (Pembroke, 1952) home to English students in Heidelberg and continued and emigrated to Canada after Charles finished his this international open house when the family moved to doctorate. Both Mavis’s sons were born in Canada, then Guildford where my father had the chair in the Department the family moved to the USA. At Ohio State University, of Linguistic and Regional Studies at the University of

49 but she was delighted to watch him sprint to an unexpected gold medal on the television!

She died on 30 November 2016. Fortunately the whole family was able to come together at her bedside a few weeks before she died and we were able to bring her messages of love and thanks from the many people whose lives she had touched in her 82 years. Linda Walz (1982)

Maureen Birukowska (Booth, 1954)

died on 6 June 2017. There will be an obituary in next year’s Report. Diana Johnson (1954)

I first met Diana at Somerville in 1954. She was one of the year’s remarkable cohort of people chosen by Mary Lascelles and Ursula Brown to read for the Honour School of English Language and Literature. I was reading Modern History, so we did not meet in a tutorial context, but as part of a large-ish informal group of friends which included Anthea Bell and Meg Pattison.

Diana was already creating her own inimitable sketchbooks, full of vigorous, decisive drawings of the people, animals, trees, buildings she saw around her every day, and peppered with characteristic comments on life and art. She was, I remember, into scraper-board at that time; it was a Rosemary Walz fairly new invention and it suited her capacity for producing bold, sharply observed vignettes in black and white. I Surrey. We enjoyed a childhood with a steady stream of remember one in particular which was her reminiscence of visitors and extended ‘family’ from around the world – my the Horn Dancers of Abbot’s Bromley, where she and her father’s experience of being one of the few Germans who sister Pam had been at school. spoke out against the Nazi regime, leading to his arrest by the Gestapo in 1936, influenced him to offer a helping hand Shortly after this Diana began to experiment with wood cuts and a welcome to all who might want it. and with wood engraving. I clearly remember an expedition with her to the City of London, to Stanley Lawrence’s In 1963/4 my parents built a home in Mallorca, and my shop in the cobbled courtyard called Bleeding Heart Yard. mother added Spanish to her list of languages she spoke This shop was a paradise for wood engravers, despite fluently. Mallorca became her permanent home in 1984/5 – or perhaps also because of – Lawrence’s strong and after my father’s death, where she became very involved eccentric personality. He had a marvellous stock of wood in the local parish, working as ecumenical officer for the engraving tools, blocks, inks and so on, but he was well Anglican priest liaising with the local Catholic priest to known for taking kindly to some of his customers, and not promote ecumenical services. During this time she learnt to others. He and Diana got on very well. She stood up to to read and understand Mallorquin, the dialect of Catalan him. He seems to have found her interesting, off-beat and spoken in Mallorca. worthwhile, as so many of her friends did over the years.

My mother put a lot of energy into creating beautiful homes Diana came to know and respect the work of wood for the family, developing skills in upholstery and carpet- engravers as diverse as Clare Leighton, Gwen Raverat and laying to complement her expertise with the needle, which Eric Gill. I remember an expedition with her to Cambridge, she used to create all the soft furnishings and most of where we spent so much time in Kettle’s Yard that we never our clothes as children. She took a great interest in the got to the Fitzwilliam, and where Diana discovered in a small lives of her six grandchildren and was the number one gallery in (I think) Downing Street that the proprietor had fan of my nephew, Marcus Walz, as he developed his known Gwen Raverat personally, and had many affectionate career as a kayak champion for Spain. She had always reminiscences of her. enjoyed travelling and would use his various international championships as springboards for trips. Sadly she did not It was interest in the work of Eric Gill that first led Diana to feel up to travelling to Rio for the Olympic Games in 2016 make one of her exploratory solitary journeys, this time to

50 Capel-y-Ffin where she did a whole batch of drawings of what is left of the strange monastic establishment of Father Ignatius.

Another of Diana’s journeys was to Kilpeck in Herefordshire, where on more than one occasion she found a nearby B&B, full of dogs, horses and sheep, and stayed to fill sketch- books with drawings of the Norman church, its rounded apse, its carved doorway, and its powerful carvings; the hare and hound, the dragon, the grotesque monsters and big-eyed human figures. She loved Kilpeck.

On another occasion, Diana was in Cornwall, alone (she thought) in an old church. She was startled to hear footsteps and rustling, and to see an elderly woman appear from behind a pillar. ‘Are you a ghost?’ said Diana. ‘Not yet’ the figure replied – an answer worthy of Diana herself. They both had a good laugh.

My recollections of Diana are more or less all of this variety, her acuity, her enquiry, her sharp observation, her wit. There was also her courage. She had a number of misfortunes in the course of her long life. All of these she met with determination, with resolution, with intellectual curiosity, with an interest in other people, with scorn for falsity, and above all with humour. Diana truly had a survivor’s stamina. I am Celia Male glad to have known her. She will certainly be missed. Gillian Lewis (Morton, 1954) herself the task of finding them. Starting with a few school magazines and her exceptional networking skills, she finally succeeded in locating most of the pupils and staff that had passed through the EGC over its 21-year Celia Male (Carr, 1955) life from 1935 to 1956 – some 1,600 individuals in all. This Celia Male was born on 31 August 1937 and passed away work culminated in a joyful and emotional reunion in London peacefully, in her sleep, aged 79 on 7 March 2017. After in 1991. Many ‘girls’ were reunited with friends they had reading Biochemistry at Somerville, she enjoyed a rewarding lost since the school’s demise – and local reunions continue career as a scientific adviser and consultant. She was a today in many countries. prolific networker and, in later life, used her great She also won international recognition for her work in interest in people, their stories and connections, to help genealogy. Apart from researching her own family, she was reunite families and friends separated by circumstance all always willing to help others trace lost friends and relatives – over the world. and her many contributions to the JewishGen website were Celia spent her early years in Egypt, where she attended the always lively and interesting. Her other passions included English Girls College (EGC) in Alexandria, before coming up her cats, her garden, her cooking and her large collection of to Somerville in 1955 to read Biochemistry. On graduating, illustrated children’s books. she joined the Medical Research Council Biophysics Celia suffered a disabling stroke in 2009 and was diagnosed Research Unit at King’s College London, where she met with inoperable pelvic cancer early this year. She is survived her husband-to-be, physicist John Male. They married in by her husband, two sons and three grandchildren. September 1962. John Male Celia had a considerable talent for simplifying and presenting complex subjects in clear, readable prose and she put this to good use in her subsequent career. After a short time as Scientific Adviser to a Swedish pharmaceutical Liza Shaw (Mrosovsky, 1955) company, she spent the remaining years as partner in a small consultancy firm, specializing in market surveys and Liza is greatly missed. She was a person of warmth, forecasts for the pharmaceutical and food-technology generosity and understanding, as her family, friends and industries. those for whom she worked well knew. She was also a person of exceptional strength and fortitude, qualities which But Celia’s main interest was always in people. When the became particularly clear during the last years of her life, EGC was forced to close, following the Suez crisis in 1956, qualities however which she consistently underplayed: ‘On many of the girls and their families were expelled from Egypt my gravestone,’ she would say, ‘I want only two words: and scattered worldwide. Some 35 years later, Celia set “She tried”.’

51 Liza Shaw Danny and Dinah, Christmas 1983

She was born on 11 April 1936 in Romania, where her father, Peter Mrosovsky, was prospecting for oil. She Diana ‘Danny’ Brown (Clements, 1957) already had two brothers, and was later to have two sisters, Diana ‘Danny’ Brown was born on 3 March 1940 and died one of whom, Kitty, was at Somerville. The family moved on 20 May 2017. She was one of those rare people with a and settled in several different countries (Tunisia among photographic memory and an encyclopaedic knowledge of them) after leaving Romania. In May 1944 they came everything from biology and medicine to history, the theatre, to live in Oxford. Liza however then went to Badminton politics and the arts. She came up to Somerville in 1957 at School (she was Head Girl) before applying successfully the age of 17 to read Mathematics, a decision driven by her to Somerville, where from 1955 to 1959 she read Literae headmistress, herself a mathematician. At the time, Danny Humaniores. When I first went to coffee with her in college, would rather have gone to art school. However, being at I thought I’d met a kind of Russian princess surrounded by Somerville was life-changing for Danny. Inspired by her Tunisian bedspreads. access to the personal library of John Stuart Mill, she found Following university, she worked in a city law firm, gaining her spiritual home and became a life-long Humanist and good experience, and later taught in Coventry. However, advocate for women’s rights. she was really drawn to social work and in 1960 she was accepted by LSE; she gained two diplomas, in Social While at Oxford she co-founded the University Humanist Studies and in Social Administration. Having trained as a Society and joined the Liberal Club, the Labour Club and social worker, she then worked in childcare from 1963 to also the Conservatives; not because she was uncertain of 1994, first in Tower Hamlets and then in Haringey. her political views, but because she had views that she felt these organisations needed to hear. In 1966 she married Jonathan Shaw, later consultant paediatrician, an immense source of support until the end. After Oxford, Danny worked for many years as a teacher They have three children, Isabella, Susanna and Varya, and in England and Switzerland. In 1970, while working as four grandchildren. head of Maths at Tewkesbury Girls High School, she met her husband Roy. They married in 1973 and Danny After retiring, Liza put her enthusiastic energy into learning became stepmother to Roy’s two children from his Russian, resulting in a good degree from the University of previous marriage, Wendy and Steven. Their own children, Westminster in 2000. She was also very much interested Rosamund and Adam, were born in 1975 and 1980. in Nabokov, who knew her father at university: her Russian connections deeply concerned and interested her. In 1976 Danny joined Roy and his partners in a new She died peacefully at home with Jonathan at her bedside computer-services business, Metier Management Systems, and her family around her on Boxing Day 2016. which very quickly became the world leader in computer systems for the management of large-scale major projects. Sally Marler (Turton, 1955) When the business was sold in 1985, the family moved to

52 Laren in the Netherlands. Not long after the move, Danny broke her neck in a car accident, putting an end to her business career. At around that time, the couple became activists in the field of population, family planning and women’s rights.

In 1986 Danny became chairman of a UK charity, Population Concern, recruiting Prince Philip as patron and both Richard Dawkins and Archbishop Habgood as vice-presidents. In 1987, the couple co-founded a similar population advocacy organisation in the Netherlands, the World Population Foundation, which later merged with the Rutgers Nisso Foundation and was renamed Rutgers WPF. It has become the leading European organisation campaigning for sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Danny became Chairman of the Somerville Appeal Committee in 1995 and remained in that position until 2003 when the Committee was disbanded and plans initiated to set up a Development Board in its place. She was also the first mother of a Somervillian daughter and son, Rosamund (1994) and Adam (1998).

Danny was above all a woman driven by compassion. She loved the world and she loved people. Almost her every waking moment was spent in trying to put the world to rights. For the last fifteen years of her life she was dogged by illness, by an unforgiving auto-immune disease that left her quite often in pain and unable to sleep. But, undaunted, Lydia Wright she carried on the struggle, mainly via an internet discussion forum that she founded, Secular Café, and with hundreds of correspondents on-line. in a matter of weeks. For the next two years they lived in a Saigon hotel room and Lydia became a freelance writer From the letters of condolence and sympathy the family contributing pieces for The Economist and The Financial have received, it is clear that Danny was an inspiration not Times. Her background and specialist knowledge opened only to her family and close associates but to hundreds if doors. One young American military intelligence officer they not thousands of others who came into contact with her. knew at the time – and who became a life-long friend – still Rosamund Akayan (Brown, 1994) thought she had been secretly working for the government more than forty years on. She wasn’t – but she learnt quickly how to cultivate contacts. Lydia Wright (Giles, 1959) The assignment lasted until 1971 when they returned to the UK after Ian was appointed The Guardian’s foreign For Lydia, winning an exhibition to read history at Somerville editor. The couple duly moved to Manchester and became in 1959 was a pivotal event in her life. The first member of parents in 1973. After moving to London Lydia returned to her family to go to university, her three years there not only work, doing something which suited both her academic and opened her mind to academic opportunities but shaped writing interests. the way she saw the world at a time of profound change in society. She became deputy editor of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, commissioning and editing the quarterly After graduation she took a job at the Foreign Office publication. It required diplomacy (dealing with academic working for a then secret department that analysed and egos is never easy), writing skills and in-depth knowledge. assessed intelligence reports. She was assigned three It also married her training in history with her journalistic countries: North Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Every night knowledge of communication. She also continued to write the typewriter ribbons used were locked in a safe. That and update the sections on Vietnam and Cambodia for the work inspired a wider interest in the countries that she wrote Far Eastern Economic Review yearbook. about and when, a few years later, happenstance presented the opportunity to marry and swap Whitehall for South East But her interests were wider and more eclectic. Since the Asia itself it was not a hard decision to make. 1960s the couple had spent significant time in Donegal and in retirement built a house in a remote spot on the Ian Wright, a journalist for The Guardian, had been Inishowen peninsula. In her early 30s Lydia was taught by appointed the paper’s first South East Asia correspondent. locals how to catch lobsters under the rocks at low tide At the age of 28 the couple married and left for Vietnam – using just a stick with a wire hook at one end. Into her

53 Scilla is remembered by her fellow Somervillians as hugely entertaining and vivacious, with a distinctive smile and voice. After her degree she went on to complete her medical training at University College Hospital. She married David Read, a fellow medical student from Oxford, and had three children, Emily, Sophie and Olivia, all three of whom later became Oxbridge graduates. She decided to embark on further specialist training in psychiatry, and obtained her MRCPsych in 1995. She had been somewhat squeamish about the more corporeal aspects of medicine (she fainted when attending her first medical operation) and so perhaps psychiatry was a wise choice. In all events, she embraced the field with passion. She became a highly respected consultant at the Colchester General Hospital, and was adored by many of her colleagues and patients.

Scilla was a complex personality – bold, opinionated and forthright, but also humorous, fun-loving and generous to a fault. Her taste in beautiful things was one of her signatures. Her lovely house in the Essex countryside was decorated with great taste and adorned with antiques, and her garden was planted with her favourite roses and peonies in soft hues. She loved to cook and entertain and hosted many memorable get-togethers for the whole family. She also loved to travel, and especially enjoyed visits to Italy. Her accounts of family trips would be replete with descriptions of art, architecture and food, as well as humorous incidents. Scilla was a great raconteuse. Priscilla Read Scilla’s loyalty and commitment to her family were deep. She adored her children and grandchildren and always had 70s and until very shortly before she died she continued a very special bond with our mother. Scilla’s frequent visits this tradition – catching sometimes three or four lobsters to Constance in Cambridge were a source of huge joy and every spring tide. That typified her: an enthusiast whose solace to her, and continued even when Scilla was herself intellectual and practical curiosity was boundless and for becoming unwell. Her insistence on putting others’ health whom the world was a fascinating and exciting place to be before her own was characteristic: Scilla continued with her explored. clinical work until shortly before her death. Oliver Wright In the last months of her life, Scilla was thrilled to be awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the crowning achievement of her career. Priscilla Elise Read (Roth, 1965) Typically, Scilla was modest in her acceptance of the award. Despite unstinting dedication to the care of others, she did Priscilla Roth was born on 25 May 1947. She was a very not seem to believe that she merited such recognition. pretty child with shining blue eyes and softly curling red hair. The family moved to Dumfries, and then to Chichester. Naomi Aslet (Roth, 1973) and Ilona Roth (1966) In 1956 our father, the psychiatrist Martin Roth, became Professor in the Newcastle upon Tyne Medical School. Scilla (as she became known) sometimes said that the carefree, sunny years of our early childhood really ended then. Prisca Middlemiss (Mills, 1967) Prisca was born in Cambridge in 1948, where her father Scilla’s enduring sense of herself as the oldest made was a Fellow and lecturer at Jesus College. The family later her in equal measure forceful and protective in relation moved to Manchester, where Prisca attended Manchester to us younger siblings. All three of us were pupils at the High School for Girls, coming to Somerville in 1967 to read Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School for Girls. Scilla German and French. She had a room in Vaughan, quite enjoyed Latin, French and English, which were very well a new development at the time, and we envied her that! taught, but opted to study Sciences for A-level. She I remember many earnest discussions on the Romantic secured a place at Somerville, a very unusual achievement German poets, Prisca expressing her strongly held views for a Church High School girl at that time. Her choice of pre- and debating the finer points of Schiller, Rilke, Goethe clinical medicine undoubtedly showed a paternal influence, and others … probably the only time in my life I have ever but was to become a profound, life-long dedication to the thought about German poetry over breakfast! She was needs of sick people, and especially the mentally ill. a very reflective person and looking back I think she had

54 great maturity of thought, far more so than me. She would often look at you a while before replying; this could be quite disconcerting but her words were thoughtful and perceptive. And she had a lovely, long, slow smile and a great sense of humour.

Prisca was always interested in theatre and acting and quite early on she auditioned for The Caucasian Chalk Circle. That was how she met Nigel, who was directing the play, and they became inseparable. Nigel gave her the leading female role, that of a giving and compassionate woman in a self-centred society – and that pretty well sums up Prisca’s life.

In our day it was unusual for students to spend a year abroad – the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages was frequently more medieval than modern, as we often remarked – but Prisca and Nigel bucked the trend and spent a year teaching English in Germany, returning to Oxford to graduate in 1971. They were married at Merton College in September that year and then set off for a year in Finland, teaching English. This was followed by three Prisca Middlemiss years spent in Bulgaria, again teaching English. This was a real challenge, but exciting too. Prisca told us of a drab and regimented life, albeit with good friends among the her increasing interest in medical writing. More recently, we staff and students they worked with. She spoke of ‘listening re-kindled our friendship and met up on several occasions. ears’ and remarked that often the only safe place to talk She enjoyed a few reunions and events at Somerville and was in the car! On one occasion she stood up, very bravely, she talked a lot about her two beloved granddaughters. against the communist authorities, when pressure was put She spent much time travelling to Cambridge and on her to falsify the results of a daughter of a high-ranking Gloucestershire to spend time with her children and help party member. This was Prisca through and through, with the grandchildren. She always loved reading and talked standing up for what she believed. about her rather fearsome-sounding Book Group, to which you had to be admitted by a panel of members – she clearly When they returned to London in 1975 Prisca worked relished the intellectual stimulation of this group! for the British Diabetic Association, which fired her enthusiasm for medical journalism. I remember that she Her death, in December 2016, came far too soon, but she once edited a diabetic cookery book and regaled us with remained involved and active as long as she could and is stories of the white paint and polyfilla used to enhance much missed by her family and many friends. the delicious looking photos! She went on to write for the General Practitioner, Medical News and Practical Parenting Rosamund Skinner (Forrest) and Susie Worthington Magazine, among others, using her own experience as (Middleditch), 1967 mother to Ben and Sophie. In more recent times she worked for Unique, the Rare Chromosome Disorder Support Group. She had the remarkable gift of being able to interpret the complex science behind various genetic Hatty (Harriet) Brookland disorders into simple language. Although she had no formal (Carswell, 1969) medical background she was able to converse with medical experts and produce hundreds of leaflets on these rare Harriet Carswell was born on 1 October 1950; her mother disorders. She also helped to link families and carers across Ianthe Carswell (née Elstob) read PPE at Somerville, 1936. the world looking after children with identical chromosome conditions. In 1998 she was diagnosed with pulmonary Hatty and I met at North London Collegiate School and fibrosis, but continued to lead a busy and active life, came up to Somerville together in October 1969. She read carrying on with her work and finding ways to circumvent PPE and I read PPP. In our first year we both had rooms the illness. She had many and various interests – gardening, in Vaughan where I particularly remember our Sunday growing fruits and vegetables, dress-making, travelling. routine. We would take our washing to the launderette on the corner of Little Clarendon St and Walton St. There We kept in touch throughout the years, albeit with was no college supper on Sunday evenings. Instead we infrequent meetings. I remember Prisca’s regular Christmas collected sliced bread and jam from the kitchen and would letters, her obvious delight and pride in her children and go back to Hatty’s room and make toast on the electric fire their achievements, her descriptions of family holidays and while listening to the Mozart Clarinet Quintet and talking

55 – although now I think we talked more about people and relationships than the big intellectual ideas that we were supposed to be grappling with in our studies!

After Oxford, Hatty returned to London for her first job, at Lloyds of London, where she was the first woman on the floor of the Stock Market. She did not enjoy that environment so moved to work for the Consumers’ Association and Which? magazine. During this time she wrote several books about household economics. She then worked for more than twenty years as a very successful self-employed business woman, and as a freelance editor.

Throughout her life Hatty devoted countless hours to voluntary work – including the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) and the Norden Farm Arts Centre. She was a tireless editor of the Marlow Society newsletter for many years. More recently she contributed to the CAB’s advice column in the local Marlow newspaper once a month.

Hatty was an expert gardener, with an allotment which kept her family in seasonal vegetables and jam. She was an Helen Minter enthusiastic and excellent oarswoman and she had a skiff on the Thames. She somehow also found time to maintain a rich cultural life in art and music and many friendships. thesis focused on patent law and resulted in a paper written Hatty’s first marriage ended some years ago, but in 2013 jointly with her tutor, Charles Oppenheim. In autumn 1979 she met Kevin Brookland and they married very happily just she joined her husband in Prague for two months behind seven weeks before her death. Hatty leaves behind her new the Iron Curtain. Back in London, she attended the May husband and three step-children, her sister, other family 1980 graduation ceremony, already two weeks overdue with members and her many friends. her first child, then went directly to the maternity hospital, Hatty died very suddenly and inexplicably after a minor giving birth to James two days later. accident in her garden, having been in very good health. Combining motherhood and career, she worked part- Very sadly Bridget, her only child from her first marriage, time with CABI (an international information organisation), also died recently. Hatty’s death came as a very great shock producing abstracts from scientific literature in over ten to her family and friends. She will be very sorely missed. European languages. After about fifteen years she became Julia Goodwin, 1969 a technical editor for the British Association of Dermatology, overseeing journal production. James was followed by two other children, William (November 1984) and Roxana (December 1988), and the growing family moved to a larger Helen Moira Minter (Knox, 1971) house in Isleworth. Helen was typical of a generation with wonderful opportunities to see the world, and the children, Born in Sheffield on 8 May 1953, Helen was educated even when young, were unhesitatingly taken along. Among at Sheffield High GPDST, leaving with grade As and many trips abroad, the weeks touring Senegal in 1995 with distinctions in chemistry, maths and physics. Matriculating a woman friend were particularly adventurous. Her varied in 1971, she developed a lasting love for Somerville, making interests included music (the Aberdeen Bach Choir, street lifelong friends among contemporaries. After prelims choirs, and a Bolivian music group), stained glass, and she changed to agriculture and forestry. The course, for badminton. She loved long walks, and her propensity to researchers and advisory experts rather than farmers and paddle along any suitable beach was legendary. foresters, was intellectually fulfilling. Two inspiring lecturers, By 2007, she and David had location-independent jobs, Geoff Hodgson and Collier Dawkins, taught her to think so decided to return to Helen’s native Yorkshire, buying a independently and defend her conclusions. She often house in Whitby with fine harbour views. Happiness was acknowledged their enormous influence. completed by grandchildren, Lorencita (February 2010) and After Oxford, she accompanied her fiancé, David Minter Anna (June 2012), but this joy did not last. In August 2012, (Pembroke, 1970) to Aberdeen where she worked at the Helen was diagnosed with a rare but aggressive cancer. North of Scotland College of Agriculture monitoring distillery Major surgery followed in September, but delays in making effluent. Having married on 14 June 1975, the couple the diagnosis meant it was already too late. Understanding moved to Brentford in September 1977, and she started an that, Helen filled her remaining time with as much life as MSc in information science at City University, London. Her possible. In combating the illness her courage shone,

56 bearing surgery and chemotherapy with dignity. She died on 31 May 2016 surrounded by her family. Her life was a model of measured good judgement, with a ready and generous store of compassion. She was blessed to have healthy offspring and see all reach adulthood, each with a successful career and each with a fine partner. David Minter

Joanna Nicholson (1984)

Joanna was born in August 1966, the eldest of five children of Jackie and Graham Nicholson. The family lived near Hull, East Yorkshire, where her mother was a teacher of English and her father a university lecturer. Her twin lifelong passions of literature and music were evident then; when she wasn’t reading, she was practising the cello, or playing in the county youth orchestra.

She came up to study English at Somerville in 1984. The Somerville English students whom she met there were a tight-knit group and became her lifelong friends. It was also whilst at Oxford that she met her husband Andrew Ferraris, who was studying Physics at Magdalen College. Her cello, ‘Bruno’, of course came to Oxford as well, and when not studying Joanna was again to be found playing in orchestras.

After Oxford, Joanna moved to London. She studied Law at the College of Law and married Andrew in 1992, moving to New Malden in the south-west of London. After qualifying, she worked first for McKenna and Co, and then from 1994 to 2005 in the Government Legal Service for the Department of Health. Her work mainly Joanna Nicholson focused on European health law, and she was closely involved with legislation, most notably connected with regulating medical devices and the sale of cigarettes. Joanna first became ill with cancer in 2013 and was treated The music continued in London, where she sang with the for about a year. After that, she had around 18 months of Lawyers’ Music choir rather than played. good health before the disease returned in early 2016. She After leaving the Civil Service, by which time she’d had died peacefully on 1 September 2016 at the Princess Alice her two daughters Emma and Charlotte, Joanna took up hospice, Esher, surrounded by family. voluntary roles over many years in the local schools and She leaves her husband and two fabulous daughters who, the Catholic church, and became a well-known and well- along with all who knew her, miss her very much. loved member of those communities, all the while also being a caring and devoted wife and mother. Andrew Ferraris

57 Academic Report

Examination Results, English and Modern Languages Mathematics and Computer Science 2016-2017 Class II.I Beverley Noble Class III Alistair Gavin English Language and Literature Mathematics and Statistics Undergraduate results Class I Stuart Webber Class II.I Zixian Li Ancient and Modern History Class II.I Rosalie Baxter Class II.I Thomas Udale Jack Cottam Class II.I Frederick Clamp-Gray Caitlin Jauncey Mathematics and Statistics (BA) Charles la Fosse Class III Chenyuliang Zhang Biological Sciences Elizabeth Paskin Catriona Wilson Class II.I Jonathan Baker Medical Sciences Georgina Baynham Charles Chen Experimental Psychology Class I Miranda Rogers Angelina Konnova Class I Helen Burridge Class II.I Stavros Dimitriadis Kirsten Simkin Oliver Shotton Class II.I Emily Albery Zoe Thursz Chemistry History Class I Benjamin Hawkey Gilder Modern Languages Class I Tomas Dillon Class I Pauline Chatelan Class II.I Jiaying Mo George Galla Olivia Murray Joshua McStay Class II.I James Aldred Frances Varley Harriet Dixon Classical Archaeology and Ancient Rebecca Heitlinger Class II.I David Barker Tamanna Khan History Anna Bett Class I Peter Thompson Matthew Evans Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Class II.I Hannah Gain Fairlie Kirkpatrick Baird Class I Amrit Bal Classics and Modern Languages History and Economics Class II.I Vitan Blagotinsek Class I Sarah Bridge Class II.I Daniel Smith Music Classics with Oriental Studies Jurisprudence Class I Quinn Western Class I Dominique David-Vincent Class I Maia Perraudeau Class II.I SaffiyahKeig-Momin Class II.I Kate Bolton Harry McSwaine Computer Science Zachary Foo Philosophy, Politics and Economics Class I Dan-Andrei Gheorghe Matthew Moriarty Ayo-Oreoluwa Smith Class I Leonie Hoffmann Computer Science (BA) Class II.I Mariella Brown Literae Humaniores Michael Costante Class I Anthony Guo* Class I Luke Forryan Louis Mercier Class II.II Angela Shi Diploma in Legal Studies Class II.I Anna Baird Georgia Bruce Pass Johanna Bottyanfy Amelia Horvath Physics Lea Keita Calam Lynch Class I Kenneth Hughes Michael Hutcheon Engineering Science Mathematics Jakob Kastelic Class I Jamieson Brynes Class I Krishan Bhalla Eduardo Rodriguez Max Fishwick Class II.I Richard Brearton Joseph Gilfillan Helen Ryan Class II.I Tien Sun Lo Mathematics (BA) Class II.II Robert Chalmers Frederic Fooks Class II.I Cicely Robinson*

58 Physics (BA) Clinical Embryology Class II.I Delta Hung Postgraduate results Pass Babatomisin Adeniran* Joanne McAtear Sanya Arora* Class II.II Menglai Liu Bachelor of Civil Law Shelby Sparby* Pass Orla Fenton Divya Sharma Computer Science All students are offered the choice, at Distinction Rafael Baptista Ochoa* the start of their course, of opting out of any public list that the University Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor Pass Janhavi Agrawal* or College may produce. There are of Surgery therefore the following results to Distinction Josephine Robertson Contemporary India announce, without reference to subject Pass Philip Hartley Pass Shivani Sharma or name: Radhika Sholapurkar Smit Singh Class I = 3 Matthew Titterington Class II.I = 20 Criminology and Criminal Justice Class II.II = 1 Master of Business Administration Pass ToufiqAbdul Aziz Pass Xu Chen* This list is accurate at the time of Yoqtan Del Castillo Global Governance and Diplomacy print and some exam results may be Calderon* Pass Joshua Lievens released after this date. Mariko Nakayama* Lucy Lim Undergraduates with an * after their names completed in 2015/16, but their Mathematical and Computational Master of Philosophy results were released after going to Finance print, and are therefore included here. Distinction Bonan Sang Development Studies Pass Ming Gao Distinction Deepa Kurup Mathematics and Foundations of Greek and/or Latin Languages and Computer Science Literature Distinction Markus Schepers* Pass Giulio Leghissa Psychological Research International Relations Distinction Chloe Bracegirdle* Pass Benjamin Daus-Haberle Pass Gregory Simmonds*

Master of Public Policy Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Distinction Gina Starfield Pass Satyender Duhan* Diwakar Kishore* Social Science of the Internet Pass Krishna Saumya*

Master of Science Master of Studies Applied Statistics Pass Xiankai Gao* Ancient Philosophy Tianyue Yao* Pass Floriane Van den Brande Tongjin Zhang* British and European History Biodiversity, Conservation and 1500-present Management Distinction Anna Clark Pass Sofia Maria Teresa Clara Daniel Rafiqi Castello y Tickell* Cora Salkovskis

Clinical Embryology Classical Archaeology Distinction Catherine Bear* Pass Maria-Anna Mavroforaki

59 Creative Writing Economics All students are offered the choice, at the Distinction Stefano Domingues de Nuwat Nookhwun start of their course, of opting out of any Castro Pachi* public list that the University or College may produce. There are therefore the Pass Jonathan Crossley* Engineering Science following results to announce, without Ibrahim Almosallam reference to subject or name: English Mohd Nazri Bin Bajuri Distinction = 2 Pass Bethany Dubow Pass = 8 Avani Amalya Tandon History Vieira Jean-Michel Johnston This list is accurate at the time of print Christy Lindsay General Linguistics and Comparative and some exam results may be released Philology after this date. Graduates with an * after Inorganic Chemistry their names completed in 2015/16, but Pass Katharina Kranawetter Ronghuan Zhang their results were released after going to Marcella Meehan print, and are therefore included here. Modern Languages International Relations Katharine Millar Distinction Colette Lewis Helena Ord Florian Remele Law Pass Georgia Pearce David Frydrych

Oriental Studies Mathematics Distinction Jonathan Lawrence Teresa Gomes Cipriano Nabais Conde Women's Studies Medieval and Modern Languages Distinction Louise Perry Grace Beatrice Rey Lawson Conquer

Postgraduate Certificate Medieval and Modern Languages Friederike Wolpert Diplomatic Studies Pass Mike Masauvakalo Oriental Studies Jonathan Ward Postgraduate Diploma Pharmacology Alexandria Colaco Diplomatic Studies Ines Tavares Pinto Sa Pereira Distinction Mohammed Sheriff Iddrisu Plant Sciences Doctor of Philosophy Olga Sedelnikova

Biochemistry Master of Philosophy Chih-Chao Liang Law Chemical Biology Panagiotis Doudonis Anne Makena Tobias Lutzi Clinical Medicine Anne Ndungu

Comparative Philology and General Linguistics Kinga Kozminska

60 Awards to Undergraduate, Science), Prannay Kaul (Engineering Prizes and Other Awards Science), Kelvin Lam (Engineering Graduate and Postgraduate Science), Wai Yan Wong (Law), Adam to Undergraduates and Students 2016-17 Hillier (Mathematics and Computer Graduates Science), Dianzhi Yu (Mathematics and Beilby Scholarship Computer Science), Isobel Hettrick Archibald Jackson Prizes (for (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), Jonathan Baker (Biological Sciences) Graduates with a Distinction in Calypso Lord (Philosophy, Politics and Krishan Balla (Mathematics), James their exams in 2017) Economics), Jun-An Tan (Philosophy, Martindale (Mathematics), Alexandra Politics and Economics), Horia Rafael Baptista Ochoa (Computer Romagnoli (Mathematics), Jonathan Magureanu (Physics), James Pidgeon Science)*, Catherine Bear (Clinical Tam (Mathematics), Andrew Tweddle (Physics), Eduardo Rodriguez Embryology)*, Chloe Bracegirdle (Mathematics), Sheheryar Zaidi (Physics), Daniel Tucker (Physics) (Psychological Research)*, Anna (Mathematics) Clark (British and European History), Scourse Scholarship Stefano Domingues de Castro Pachi Brazell Scholarship (Creative Writing)*, Mohammed Sheriff David Miron (Biological Sciences), Jacob Amacker (Physics), Kenneth Iddrisu (Diplomatic Studies), Navya William Sargent (Medicine - Graduate Hughes (Physics), Michael Hutcheon Jannu (Civil Law), Deepa Kurup Entry), Calum McIntyre (Medicine - (Physics), Jakob Kastelic (Physics) (Development Studies), Jonathan Preclinical), Miranda Rogers (Medicine Lawrence (Oriental Studies), - Preclinical) Bryant Scholarship Colette Lewis (Modern Languages), Siu Ying Wong (Chemistry) Shaw Lefevre Scholarship Helena Ord (Modern Languages), Louise Perry (Women's Studies), Jack Gascoigne (History), John Bull and Bull Scholarship Daniel Rafiqi (British and European Merrington (History), William Andrews History), Florian Remele (Modern Edward Aplin (Classical Archaeology (History and Modern Languages), and Ancient History), Nuala Marshall Languages), Josephine Robertson Cameron Fern (Mathematics), Helen (Medicine - Graduate Entry), Cora (Classical Archaeology and Ancient Ryan (Mathematics) History) Salkovskis (British and European Barraclough Exhibition History), Bonan Sang (Mathematical Cooper Scholarship and Computational Finance), William Ashley Barnard (Modern Languages), Sargent (Medicine - Graduate Entry), Dan-Andrei Gheorghe (Computer Eva Hilger (Modern Languages) Science) Markus Schepers (Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Beilby Exhibition Dukinfield Darbishire Science)*, Ranu Sinha (Geography Maximilian Bandurka (Biochemistry), Scholarship and the Environment)*, Gina Starfield Joshua Grubb (Biochemistry), (Refugee and Forced Migration John Henry (Medicine - Preclinical) Maria Allan-Burns (Experimental Studies) Psychology) Ginsburg Scholarship Amrit Bal (Biochemistry), Angelica Brazell Exhibition College Prizes (for achieving a First, Distinction or average of at least Lindsey-Clark (Biochemistry) Cameron Saint (Physics) 70% in all examinations other than Haynes Scholarship Cooper Exhibition the Final Honour School) Lachlan Black (Chemistry), Callum Radu-Bogdan Berteanu (Computer Thomas Abbott (Modern Languages), Hall (Chemistry), Benjamin Hawkey Science) Jacob Amacker (Physics), Hannah Gilder (Chemistry), Callum Prentice Ayikoru Asiki (Chemistry), Benjamin (Chemistry) Dukinfield Darbishire Exhibition Barclay (Engineering Science), Eva Zilber (Medicine - Preclinical) Lachlan Black (Chemistry), Yifan Hughes Scholarship Chen (Medicine - Graduate Entry), Natalie Lo (Engineering Science), Murray Exhibition Harold Collett (Philosophy, Politics Lenard Ee-Jin Ong (Engineering Rani Govender (History), William Jonas and Economics), Alyssa Crabb Science), You Wu (Engineering (History) (Biochemistry), Matthew Crawford Science), Anqi Zhuang (Engineering (Chemistry), Jessica Crompton Science) Endowment Fund Exhibition (Chemistry), Maddie Culhane (History), Francesco D'Antonio Ryan O'Reilly (History), Georgina Murray Scholarship (Physics), Marie Ducroizet-Boitaud Riley (History), Wenji Shen (Law), (Mathematics and Philosophy), Maya Brownlow (History) Katharina Walla (Law), Thomas Benjamin Etty (History and Economics), Richards (Modern Languages) Endowment Fund Scholarship Cameron Fern (Mathematics), Callum Jamieson Brynes (Engineering Shaw Lefevre Exhibition Hall (Chemistry), Pak Hei Hao (History), Science), Max Fishwick (Engineering Robert Harvey Wood (Mathematics), Alex Crichton-Miller (History and Adam Hillier (Mathematics and Science), Joseph Gilfillan (Engineering Modern Languages)

61 Computer Science), Katherine House Andrei Gheorghe (Computer Science), Postgraduate Awards (English Language and Literature), Joseph Gilfillan (Engineering Science), Samuel Juniper (Mathematics), Anthony Guo (Computer Science), Alice Horsman Scholarship Prannay Kaul (Engineering Science), Benjamin Hawkey Gilder (Chemistry), Anna Bett (History), Nathalie Robert Kirk (Mathematics and Leonie Hoffmann (Philosophy, Politics Botcherby (English Language and Computer Science), Denis Koksal- and Economics), Kenneth Hughes Literature), Sarah Bridge (Classics and Rivet (Engineering Science), Robin (Physics), Michael Hutcheon (Physics), Modern Languages), Hannah Leach (Mathematics), Grace Lee Jakob Kastelic (Physics), Angelica Broadbent (Experimental Psychology), (English Language and Literature), Jun Lindsey-Clark (Biochemistry), Joshua Mariella Brown (Philosophy, Politics Liu (Engineering Science), Ivo Maffei McStay (History), Maia Perraudeau and Economics), Abigail Carroll (Mathematics and Computer Science), (Law (with Law in Europe)), Eduardo (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), Horia Magureanu (Physics), James Rodriguez (Physics), Miranda Fergus Chadwick (Biological Sciences), Martindale (Mathematics), Benjamin Rogers (Medicine - Preclinical), Pauline Chatelan (Modern Languages), Michiels (Chemistry), Francesca Millar Helen Ryan (Mathematics), Hannah Emma Henderson (Modern (Music), Kean Murphy (Philosophy, Scott (History), Peter Thompson Languages), Elliot Howard-Spink Politics and Economics), Lenard Ee-Jin (Classical Archaeology and Ancient (Biological sciences), Christina Ong (Engineering Science), Jack Pegg History), Frances Varley (History), Hunt (Biological Sciences), Charles (Engineering Science), James Pidgeon Stuart Webber (English Language and La Fosse (English Language and (Physics), Callum Prentice (Chemistry), Literature), Quinn Western (Music) Literature), Calum McIntyre (Medicine), Joseph Rattue (Modern Languages), Joshua McStay (History), Zoe Moores Siyu Ren (Engineering Science), Principal’s Prizes 2017 (Classics and Modern Languages), Frederik Robinson (Mathematics and Principal’s Prizes are awarded to those Philip Oddie (Medicine), Florian Computer Science), Alexandra students who scored in the top 10% or Remele (Modern Languages), Matthew Romagnoli (Mathematics), Claudia better of their subject University-wide, Robinson (Modern Languages), Rowan (English Language and and/or gain top marks for a dissertation Laura Schack (Modern Languages), Literature), Cameron Saint (Physics), or in a particular set of papers. This Adam Wynne (English Language and Irene Sibille (Philosophy, Politics and applies to finalists or third year students Literature) Economics), Aaron Simpson (Medicine on a four year course. - Graduate Entry), Oliver Smith (Ancient Somerville College Alumni and Modern History), Frances Spragge Undergraduate Principal's Prizes: (Biological Sciences), Jonathan Scholarships Amrit (Biochemistry), Angelica Stark (Physics and Philosophy), Bal Anna Branford (Modern Languages), (Biochemistry), Callum Jonathan Tam (Mathematics), Daniel Lindsey-Clark Navya Jannu (Law), Miranda Rogers (Chemistry), Peter Tucker (Physics), Andrew Tweddle Hall Thompson (Medicine) (Classical Archaeology and Ancient (Mathematics), Alistair Wakelin History), Dan-Andrei (Engineering Science), Wai Yan Wong Gheorghe (Computer Science), Prannay (Law), Siu Ying Wong (Chemistry), Other Somerville Awards (Engineering Science), Andrew Wood (Biological Sciences), Kaul Lenard Ee-Jin (Engineering You Wu (Engineering Science), Ong Cerries Hughes Prize Science), Stuart Webber (English Sheheryar Zaidi (Mathematics), Anqi Frederick Morgan (English Language Language and Literature), Joshua Zhuang (Engineering Science) and Literature), Maxwell Purkiss McStay (History), Miranda Rogers (English Language and Literature) (Medicine - Preclinical), Pauline Mary Somerville Prizes (for Chatelan (Modern Languages), Quinn Chloe and Helen Morton Choral achieving a First or Distinction Western (Music), Michael Hutcheon Scholarship in the Final Honour School (Physics), Jakob Kastelic (Physics), examinations) Eduardo Rodriguez (Physics) Emily Albery (Experimental Psychology), James Powe (Music) Amrit Bal (Biochemistry), Krishan Graduate Principal's Prizes: Bhalla (Mathematics), Sarah Bridge Anna Clark (British and European Daphne Robinson Award (Classics and Modern Languages), History), Cora Salkovskis (British and Maximilian Bandurka (Biochemistry), Jamieson Brynes (Engineering European History), Deepa Kurup Benjamin Hawkey Gilder (Chemistry) Science), Helen Burridge (Experimental (Development Studies), Bonan Sang Leonie Hoffmann (Philosophy, Politics Psychology), Pauline Chatelan (Modern (Mathematical and Computational and Economics), Maria Hohaus Languages), Dominique David-Vincent Finance), Florian Remele (Modern (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), (Classics and Oriental Studies), Tomas Languages), Josephine Robertson Robin Leach (Mathematics), Angelica Dillon (History), Nina Faure Beaulieu (Medicine - Graduate Entry) Jonathan Lindsey-Clark (Molecular and Cellular (Biological Sciences), Max Fishwick Lawrence (Oriental Studies) Biochemistry), Ryan O'Reilly (History), (Engineering Science), Luke Forryan Robert Pepper (English Language and (Classics), George Galla (History), Dan- Literature), Irene Sibille (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), Eva Zilber (Medicine - Preclinical)

62 Joan and Don Dixson Travel Grant OUP Prize for Personal OSCE Prize for the Preliminary William Andrews (History and Modern Achievement Examination in Medicine Part II Languages), Charles Macpherson Benjamin Michiels (Chemistry) William Sargent (Medicine - Graduate (English Language and Literature) Entry) Turbutt Prize for Second Year Margaret Irene Seymour Music Practical Organic Chemistry Martin Wronker Prize Award Siu Ying Wong (Chemistry) Miranda Rogers (Medicine - Preclinical) Joshua Grubb (Biochemistry), Catrin Haberfield (English), Saffiyah Law Faculty Prize for Corporate Tax Gibbs Prize Keig-Momin (Music), Eloise Kenny Law and Policy Miranda Rogers (Medicine - Preclinical) Ryder (Music), Francesca Millar Orla Fenton (Civil Law) (Music) Physics Prize for an MPhys Project David Gibbs Prize for the Best in Atomic and Laser Physics Rhabanus Maurus Award Submitted Work in a Special Jakob Kastelic (Physics) Lara Chittick (Modern Languages), Subject Paper XII in FHS Modern Florian Remele (Modern Languages) Languages Scott Prize for Performance in the Physics Part A Examination Sarah Smithson Prize Sarah Bridge (Classics and Modern Languages) Horia Magureanu (Physics) Rebecca Heitlinger (Modern Languages) Microsoft Prize for the Best Gibbs Prize Award for the BA Group Computer Science Project Project Presentations Somerville Lawyers' Group Prize Dan-Andrei Gheorghe (Computer Joanne Mcatear (Physics) Alicia Kaupp-Roberts (Law with Law Science) Studies in Europe) Scott Prize for the Best BP Prize for the Best Chemical Performance in the MPhys Engineering Part B Project Examination University and External Max Fishwick (Engineering Science)* Eduardo Rodriguez (Physics) awards Maurice Lubbock Prize for the Best Gibbs Prize for the Best Use of Second Prize for the Part II Research Performance in the Honour School Experimental Apparatus in an Project of Engineering Science MPhys Project Amrit Bal (Biochemistry) Chengzhi Zhou (Engineering Science)* Eduardo Rodriguez (Physics)

Gibbs Book Prize Proxime Accessit Gibbs Prize Awards with an * were awarded in 2015/16 after going to print, and are Amrit Bal (Biochemistry) Joshua McStay (History) therefore included here. Biochemical Society Prize Law Faculty Prize for Human This list is accurate at the time of print Angelica Lindsey-Clark (Biochemistry) Rights Law and some prizes may be awarded after Matthew Moriarty (Law with Law this date. GSK Third Year Prize in Practical Studies in Europe) Organic Chemistry Callum Hall (Chemistry) Clinical School Year 4 General Practice Essay Prize Turbutt Prize for Second Year Grace Barnes (Medicine - Clinical) Practical Organic Chemistry Natasha James (Chemistry) Hobson Mann Lovell Scholarship Eleanor Grant (Medicine - Graduate Entry)

63 Students Entering College Diploma in Legal Studies Pak Hei Hao, Tonbridge School in 2016-17 Johanna Bottyanfy, University of Mohamed Iman, The Quest Academy Konstanz, Germany Niall Macklin, St Peters High School, Lea Keita, Paris II Pantheon Assas Gloucester Undergraduate students University, France Abigail Payne, Weald of Kent Grammar School entering College in 2016-17 Engineering Science Rachel Solomon, Bryanston School Benjamin Barclay, Harrow School History and Economics Ancient and Modern History Alexandra Drewe, Walthamstow Hall, Benjamin Etty, Archbishop Holgate's Edmund Harding, St Paul's School, Sevenoaks Sixth Form London Jun Liu, Kingswood School Laurie Sanderson, North Bristol Post Siyu Ren, Raffles Junior College, History and Modern Languages 16 Centre Singapore Olivia Creber, Bishop Luffa School Oliver Smith, Radley College Edwin Silverthorne, Pate's Grammar Laura de Lisle, Westminster School School Biological Sciences Elizabeth McGowan, Wirral Grammar Alistair Wakelin, Peter Symonds School for Girls Atticus Albright, Steyning Grammar College School Jurisprudence English Language and Literature Tiago Andrade Castro, European Alastair Ahamed, Bolton School Boys School, Brussels 1 Theodora Briggs, Shrewsbury School Division Nina Billows, Deyes High School, Catriona Fraser, Ulverston Victoria High Ewan Fraser, Lenzie Academy, Maghull School Glasgow Jai Bolton, Hanley Castle High School Katherine House, Waldegrave School Amna Khalili, Karachi Grammar School Benjamin Fisk, Exeter College, Hele Imogen Laycock, Tapton School Alexander Martiyanov, Eton College Road Centre Grace Lee, Auckland International Alexander Wathan, King's College Michael Hammond, St Paul's School, College School London Emma Line, Colchester Royal Grammar Wai Yan Wong, German Swiss Daniel Simonsen, The Corsham School School International School, Hong Kong Andrew Wood, Hampton School Charles MacPherson, Kings School, Canterbury Literae Humaniores Chemistry Claudia Rowan, JFS Harry Goaman, Winchester College Hannah Ayikoru Asiki, Greenshaw Sabriyah Saeed, Withington Girls' Matilda Granger, Haberdashers' Aske's High School, Sutton School School for Girls, Elstree Jessica Crompton, Durham High Poppy Stuart, English Martyrs School & Barnaby Harrison, Eton College School for Girls Sixth Form College Stratton Hibbs, Robert E Lee High Joseph Heidrich, St Dominic's Sixth Maya Tysoe, Camden School for Girls School, Texas, USA Form College James Walsh, Chesham Grammar Charles Keen, Winchester College Lily Latimer Smith, City of London School Freemen's School Alexandre Nash, The Ashcombe School Erasmus Balsama Dattrino, University Jessica Macdonald, Haberdashers' Paul Valery, France Mathematics Monmouth School Girls Ria Chavda, Haberdashers' Aske's Tommy Pitcher, The Pingle School, Experimental Psychology School for Girls, Elstree Swadlincote Maria Allan-Burns, King Edward VI Robert Harvey Wood, Highgate School School, Southampton Classical Arch and Ancient History Jiali Liu, Wuhan Britain-China School Natalie Siena Trautman, Stuyvesant Richard Lo, Northampton Academy, Sade Clarke, Bishop Thomas Grant High School, New York School, London Northampton Suzan Yavuz, Chelsea Academy Finbar Kavanagh, The Cardinal Thuvarakan Mathetharan, Tiffin School Vaughan Memorial RC School History Gillian Parkinson, Clitheroe Royal Rachel Roberts, Parmiter's School Tristan Alphey, The Perse School Grammar School Yash Shah, United World College of Computer Science Maddie Culhane, Cheltenham Ladies' College South East Asia Grant Cox-Sehmi, Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Norhane Ennaoumi, Harris Westminster Sixth Form

64 Mathematics and Computer Science Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Graduate students entering Oscar Grove Valero, Whitgift School, Mark Chin, United World College of South Croydon South East Asia, Dover Campus College in 2016-17 Ivo Maffei, Liceo Antonio Rosmini, Italy Alyssa Crabb, The Tiffin Girls School Frederik Robinson, The Hollyfield Maximilian Hannam, Bedales School Auto Intelligent Machines and Systems (EPSRC CDT) School, Surbiton Penny Sherlock, Colchester Royal Grammar School Oliver Bent, University of Oxford Mathematics and Philosophy Marie Ducroizet-Boitaud, Ecole Music Bachelor of Civil Law Jeannine Manuel, Paris Eloise Kenny-Ryder, The Godolphin Orla Fenton, University College Cork, and Latymer School Ireland Mathematics and Statistics Francesca Millar, Redland High School Navya Jannu, Jindal Global University, Louis de Mendonca, Exeter For Girls India Mathematics School Alice Woffenden, Guildford High Divya Sharma, National Law Institute Xinya Li, St Mary's School, Calne School University, Bhopal, India

Medical Sciences Philosophy, Politics and Economics Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor Elizabeth Cooper, King Edward VII William Brown, King Edward VI School, of Surgery School, Sheffield Southampton Grace Barnes, University of Oxford Sarah Peters, The Tiffin Girls School Harold Collett, Colyton Grammar Sacha Burgess, University of Oxford Lara Reed, Wycombe High School, School Magnus Fugger, University of Oxford High Wycombe Holly Mackay, Benenden School James Goetz, University of Oxford Nandana Syam, Notre Dame Catholic Matthew Maclay, Dr Challoners Daniel Overin, University of Oxford VI Form College Grammar School Medicine Kean Murphy, Hwa Chong Institution, BPhil Philosophy Singapore Tomi Francis, University of Warwick Yifan Chen, University of Cambridge Rohan O'Reilly, Hampton School Chiara Martini, University of Bologna, Jonathan Phillips, University of Italy Cambridge Hannah Patrick, Rydal Penrhos School Aaron Simpson, University of Oxford Irene Sibille, Liceo Classico Statale DPhil Astrophysics Vincenzo Gioberti, Italy Modern Languages Zahra Gomes, University of the West Andy Wang, Brisbane Grammar Indies, Trinidad Tobago Thomas Abbott, King Edward VI Aston School, Australia Eve Althaus, St Marylebone Church of Eilidh Wilson, Williamwood High School DPhil Computer Science England School Cristian Trovato, University of Bologna, Physics Katie Bastiman, Jersey College for Italy Girls Yuchen Guo, Shanghai Guanghua College - Fudan Campus DPhil Condensed Matter Physics Melissa Boyce-Hurd, Wallington High School For Girls Ishraq Irteza, Nottingham High School Sabrina Sterzl, University of Munich, Germany Alice Hadley, Burntwood School Kyungmin Kim, Korean Minjok Leadership Academy Elinor Lamrick, Croesyceiliog School DPhil Economics Thomas Sandnes, Olchfa School Patrick Middleton, Whitgift School, Zoe Fannon, University of Oxford South Croydon Ryan Sephton, Foxford School & Community Arts College India Parker, Lady Margaret School DPhil Experimental Psychology Joseph Rattue, King's College, Madrid Physics and Philosophy Sage Boettcher, Johann Wolfang Goethe University, Germany Ella Shaw, Cardinal Newman College, Meryem Arik, Haberdashers' Aske's Chloe Bracegirdle, University of Oxford Preston School for Girls, Elstree Jonathan Stark, George Watson's DPhil Geography and the College Environment Ranu Sinha, University of Oxford

DPhil International Development Rakib Akhtar, University College London

65 DPhil Law MPhil Development Studies MSc Math Mod and Scientific Tobias Lutzi, University of Oxford Sigfried Eisenmeier, Zeppelin Computing University Friedrichshafen, Germany Giancarlo Antonucci, Polytechnic DPhil Mathematics University of Turin, Italy Joshua Ciappara, University of Sydney, MPhil General Linguistics and Australia Comparative Philology MSc Mathematical and Julius Eckhard, Ruprecht-Karls Amanda Thomas, University of Oxford Computational Finance University, Heidelberg, Germany Ming Gao, University of Liverpool MPhil International Relations Bonan Sang, Imperial College of DPhil Medical Sciences Christoph Steinert, University of Science, Technology & Medicine Anna Glück, University of Vienna Mannheim, Germany MSc Pharmacology MSc Applied Statistics DPhil Medieval and Modern Conor Kearns, Trinity College, Ireland Languages Jean-Francois Ton, Imperial College of Rebecca Bowen, University of Science, Technology & Medicine MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Edinburgh Fan Wu, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- Studies University, Germany Gina Starfield, Yale University, USA DPhil Pharmacology Chang Zhang, Imperial College of Abi Yates, King's College London Science, Technology & Medicine MSc Sleep Medicine Tianrong Yeo, National University of Annabelle Banks, University College Singapore MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and London Management Priya Maharaj, The University of the DPhil Psychiatry Urvi Gupta, University of Delhi, India West Indies, Trinidad Alexander Kaltenboeck, University of Oyekunle Oyekanmi, Emory University, MSc Clinical Embryology Edinburgh USA Anthea Mahesan Paul, SRM University, Eva Plananska, King's College London DPhil Statistics India Mohamed El Fadhel Ayed, Ecole Sreetharan Sivapatha Sundaram, Normale Superieure de Cachan, France MSc Computer Science Queen Mary University of London Qixuan Feng, Supelec, Ecole Ana Filipa Vieira Noia, Escola Superior DPhil Zoology Superieure d'Electricite, France de Tecnologia da Saude do Porto, Benjamin Van Doren, Cornell University, Luke Geeson, University of Nottingham Portugal USA Philippe Syz, Boston College, USA MSc Water Science, Policy and Management Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC MSc Contemporary India DTP) Philip Behrens, University of Adelaide, Shivani Sharma, Lady Shri Ram Australia Maria Font farre, Wageningen College, India Agricultural University, Netherlands Smit Singh, University of Delhi, India MSc(Res) Clinical Neurosciences Master of Business Administration Connor Scott, University of Greenwich MSc Environmental Change and Oscar Gonzalez, Anahuac University, Management Mexico MSc(Res) Inorganic Chemistry Tanvi Agrawal, St. Joseph's College, Sophie Mittleman, New York University, Xuejian Zhang, University of Bangalore, India USA Birmingham Anupama Panikar, Christ University, MSc Global Governance and MSt Ancient Philosophy India Diplomacy Floriane Van den Brande, University of Qi Zhang, Tulane University of Joshua Lievens, University of Sussex Oxford Louisiana, USA Lucy Lim, University of Cambridge MSt British and European History Master of Public Policy MSc Integrated Immunology 1500-present Freshta , Panjab University, Karim Hisashi Hashimoto, Charles University, Daniel Rafiqi, University of Warwick Chandigarh, India Czech Republic Anna Clark, University of Oxford Edward Ndopu, Carleton University, Hannah Sharpe, University of Oxford Canada Cora Salkovskis, University of Oxford Richa Roy, National Law School of MSc Law and Finance MSt Classical Archaeology India University Bangalore, India Surya Kiran Banerjee, National Law Maria-Anna Mavroforaki, National Jai Vipra, University of Mumbai, India School of India University Bangalore, and Capodistrian University of Athens, India Greece

66 MSt Classical Archaeology MSt History of Art and Visual MSt Women's Studies Rahul Raza, University of St Andrews Culture Louise Perry, The School of Oriental Beatrice Cartwright, Courtauld Institute and African Studies MSt Creative Writing of Art Nika Cobbett, University of Surrey MSt World Literatures in English Roehampton MSt in Modern Languages (FRE) Avani Amalya Tandon Vieira, University Harriet David, University of London Colette Lewis, University of Oxford of Delhi, India (Institutes and activities) MSt in Modern Languages (GER and PGCert Diplomatic Studies Natasha Parker, University of Exeter ITA) Mohammed Sheriff Iddrisu, University Sofija anaZovko , Royal Holloway and Helena Ord, Princeton University, USA of Ghana Bedford New College Mike Masauvakalo, University of the MSt in Modern Languages (GER) MSt English (1550-1700) South Pacific, Fiji Florian Remele, University of Bayreuth, Bethany Dubow, University of Germany Cambridge Samuel Jacques, University of East MSt in Modern Languages(SPA) Anglia Georgia Pearce, King's College London

MSt General Linguistics and MSt Oriental Studies Comparative Philology Jonathan Lawrence, University of Katharina Kranawetter, Vienna Oxford University, Austria Marcella Meehan, University of MSt US History Birmingham Anthony Taylor, Ruskin College Tadej Pahor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

67 Somerville Association Somerville Development Officers and Committee Board Members as at 11 March 2017 as at 28 February 2017

President Chair Susan Scholefield (1973) Clara Freeman (Jones, 1971)

Joint Secretaries Deputy Chair Elizabeth Cooke (Greenwood, 1964) Hilary Newiss (1974) Lisa Gygax (1987) Basma Alireza (1991) Committee Members Tom Bolt Nick Cooper (2008) Ayla Busch (1989) Richard Forrest (1994) Lynn Haight (Schofield, 1966) Natasha Robinson (1972) Niels Kroninger (1996) Virginia Ross (MCR, 1966) Nicola Ralston (Thomas, 1974) Lorna Sutton (2010) Sybella Stanley (1979) Karen Twining Fooks (Twining, 1978) Sian Thomas Marshall (1989) Frances Walsh (Innes, 1956) Dr Alice Prochaska, Principal of Somerville

Fellows Appointed by the College Honorary Development Benjamin Thompson (Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History) Board Members Fiona Stafford (Fellow and Tutor in English) Harriet Maunsell (1962) Luke Pitcher (Fellow and Tutor in Classics) Doreen Boyce (Vaughan, 1953) Paddy Crossley (Earnshaw, 1956) Margaret Kenyon (Parry, 1959) For full details see the college website at Nadine Majaro (1975) www.some.ox.ac.uk/... Roger Pilgrim Sam Gyimah (1995)

For full details see the college website at www.some.ox.ac.uk/alumni/the-development-board/

Dates for the Diary

The updated schedule of College events appears on the College website at www.some.ox.ac.uk/alumni/events The 2018 Gaudy will be on the weekend of 24-25 June and will be for matric years 2000-2006.

68 Legacies

Legacies are a vital source of support for the College’s activities. Here we record our thanks to all of those who have left legacies to support Somerville and we honour three of the Somervillians whose recent legacies have made a big difference to the College.

Jane, Lady Abdy (Noble, English, 1952)

Ruth Thompson (History, 1971)

69 Catherine Hughes (Principal, 1989-1996)

If you would like to know more about leaving a legacy to Somerville, please go to www.some.ox.ac.uk/legacies or contact Brett de Gaynesford ([email protected] 01865 280361).

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