The Newsletter of Trinity College Oxford | Summer 2008

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THE PRESIDENT

ith the sound of the headline act at Trinity’s splendid Commem Ball still ringing in my ears – I know you don’t Wneed me to tell you that the Sugababes are the most successful all -female act of the twenty first century in the UK – I pick up my pen to reflect on some of the other rich parts of the kaleidoscope that n

have made up life here in Trinity over the last few months. But the o t s p Commem Ball itself deserves special mention. It was an outstanding r a h S

feat of organisation with 1,700 guests and a budget of nearly l e a h

£250,000, clearly thoroughly enjoyed by all those who attended. I c i confidently expect my hearing to have recovered in time for the next M © Commem Ball in three years’ time. The President addressing the ‘Oxford in DC’ meeting in Washington in April To begin with the University, undoubtedly the major event of this period has been the launch of the important Campaign for Oxford, Finalists’ results are not yet available, but I am continually impressed Oxford Thinking, with its eye-catching fund-raising target of a by how hard the current generation of students works. The students minimum of £1.25 billion. I am sure you have received literature nonetheless manage to find outlets for their energies in many of the from the University spelling out the purposes of the campaign traditional areas. Rowing had mixed fortunes at summer Eights, but although perhaps not emphasising sufficiently that this is very much the Boat Club had a very large and enthusiastic group of oarsmen and a collaborative effort and the target figure itself an aggregate of what women throughout the year. The tennis team, which did not exist a the University hopes to raise and what each of the Colleges is few years ago, has managed four promotions in the last six seasons aiming to raise over the next few years. So every benefaction made to complete this year by winning the First Division. The women’s to either the University or Trinity will count towards the target. football team (part of a joint Trinity/LMH side) won cuppers for the Already more than 20,000 donors have helped the campaign reach a first time in its history, and our men’s cricket team has just been figure of nearly £600 million since the beginning of the pre-launch promoted. Moreover, our croquet team was runner-up in cuppers. I phase in August 2004. The campaign was launched in a whirlwind watched the first hour of a five-hour epic which reminded me what a of publicity on 28 May and will be re-launched in the Far East and vicious sport it can be. On a less competitive level, our musicians Australia in the autumn and again in North America next spring. have continued to provide an extraordinarily high level of music at Trinity’s priorities within the overall figure are to endow bursaries concerts and in the choir, and the Lawns Play, Hay Fever , after a for needy students, to secure fellowships which University funds are damp start, went on to play to full houses. The Fellowship has now often inadequate to provide and to improve the fabric of the remained relatively unchanged, but in the next few weeks we shall buildings of Trinity and, if possible, to add to them. We are sorely in mark the departure of Peter Carey, one of our two History Fellows, need of more teaching space and our student accommodation is who is leaving after twenty nine years’ teaching at Trinity to work for often considered below par when it comes to attracting necessary a charity in Indonesia, a life-changing mission for all concerned. We conference trade. It would also be beneficial to house more are saddened by his departure, but inspired by his example. graduates on the main site. A new building would help us address all As you can read elsewhere, I paid an extensive visit to North these issues. America in the spring and have also managed to meet Old Members Two other recent events on the University front are the nomination in South Africa and Spain. I am planning a visit to my own of the Provost of Yale, Professor Andrew Hamilton, to succeed John birthplace, Liverpool, in the autumn to meet Old Members in and Hood, who retires in September next year. It speaks volumes for around this year’s European Capital of Culture. While it is doubtful Oxford’s pulling power that we are able to persuade someone that my visit will be regarded as part of the city’s cultural running one of the best and richest universities in the world to join programme – though I see they interpret culture in the broadest us. At a micro-level, the Colleges have finally agreed with the sense – I do look forward to meeting a substantial number of Old University and among themselves on a formula to divide up the Members from the North-West. The Liverpool Daily Post in an HEFCE cheque that the Government pays to Oxford every year for article on me last year posed the question ‘So, beneath all the teaching and research. This has been an agonising and sometimes international glamour and diplomatic corps savoir-faire, is he really acrimonious process which has taken the best part of two years and just another subversive Scouser?’ Always hard to brush off these been an energy-sapping experience for all concerned. terms of endearment.

Front cover photo: The 2008 Commem Ball - balloon rides were just part of the spectacular evening which included an exclusive appearance by the 'Sugababes' as well as University a cappella group 'Out of the Blue', a casino, dodgems and an all night champagne bar. The grandest night Oxford has ever seen was organised by Ball President Adam Ben-Yousef (2006) and the Ball Committee. The evening was enjoyed by Fellows, staff, current students and Old Members, many of whom made it through to the survivors' photo despite the early morning drizzle. (Photo: Elizabeth Bradburn)

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I continue to plan further visits around the UK to meet Old Members I started at one end of the gamut, I end at the other. A couple of and have a few more international visits in mind. It is encouraging weeks ago I unveiled, along with the Lord Lieutenant of in this context to see the number of Old Members taking up the Oxfordshire, our very own Sir Hugo Brunner, and the Principal of invitation to dine on High Table with a guest. Just to remind you, Jesus, Lord Krebs, a blue plaque to Sir Hans Krebs, a Trinity Fellow any Trinity graduate can sign in once a term, with or without a guest, and Nobel Laureate in Biochemistry, whose house in Iffley village on non-guest nights during term. It’s very good value, and of course now bears one of these attractive marks of distinction. Let nobody our chef is the best in Oxford. It can make an original and very say that my job lacks diversity! special way of entertaining visitors and friends.

PETER CAREY develops with the right academic rigour in line with the very exacting ISPO (International Society of eter Carey, Fellow and Tutor in History, Prosthetists and Orthotists) standards. is leaving Trinity after forty two years Provided this is successful, the graduates (who will (first as an undergraduate, 1966-69, then as P have four years' P&O training and two years' a graduate, 1971-74, and finally as a Fellow, teacher training) will return to their own provinces 1979-2008), which is not, he admits, an to staff the planned six provincial P&O schools, easy decision to have made. He will take up which over ten to fifteen years will turn out the the post of Project Director for the requisite 1,450 disability health professionals (six Indonesian School of Prosthetics & for every million of the population) which Orthotics, Jakarta. Indonesia needs as a minimum to serve its estimated He will be acting as Director and Project 2.4 million physically disabled, helping to get them Peter Carey and Bryan Ward-Perkins at Facilitator for the new Nippon Foundation- walking and mobile again with prosthetic and the History Dinner funded and Cambodia Trust-facilitated orthotic aids. At present the country has only a programme for the establishment of a prosthetic-orthotic (P&O) handful of foreign trained health professionals in the disability field. profession in Indonesia (there is none at the moment, in a country It is not surprising that this opportunity has appealed to Peter, who with a population of nearly 240 million). This will involve in the has made a lifetime commitment both to Indonesia and, more first instance the establishment of a graduate school for the training recently, to the Cambodia Trust (which he co-founded in 1989) and of P&O professionals and lecturers in Jakarta. Peter will be directly the care of the disabled in south east Asia. involved in making sure it gets launched in January 2009 and

SIR THOMAS POPE ADRIAN GILL AWARD FELLOWS rofessor Peter Read, Fellow and Tutor in Physics, has been honoured by the ince the last Newsletter, Caryll Birkett (1944) Royal Meteorological Society, which presented him with its Adrian Gill and Tom Winser (1949) have been appointed PAward for 2008, in recognition of his interdisciplinary research contributions Sir Thomas Pope Fellows in recognition of and over several years. with gratitude for their substantial benefactions to The Adrian Gill Award is awarded annually to a member of the Society who has the College. Their generosity has enabled the made a significant contribution in the preceding five years and recognises College to award valuable scholarships to a Professor Read’s many significant contributions that link atmospheric science, number of students who would not otherwise planetary science and geophysical fluid dynamics and allow us to view the Earth’s have been able to come to Trinity. atmosphere within a broader context. His research includes the use of detailed numerical models to study the dynamics and physics of a variety of planetary 2008 BIRTHDAY HONOURS atmospheres. The award also recognises his use of a skilful blend of laboratory experiments and relevant theoretical models to study fundamental dynamical he College congratulates the following who processes in stratified, rotating fluids, including waves and chaotic behaviour. were included in HM The Queen’s Birthday Adrian Gill, in whose memory this award was instituted, was a distinguished Honours: Hugo Brunner (1954, Honorary T theoretical oceanographer and fluid dynamicist who spent much of his career in Fellow), Knight Commander of the Royal Cambridge before moving to Oxford in 1984. Peter is pleased to have had the Victorian Order; Andrew James McMichael privilege of knowing Adrian Gill, briefly, before his untimely death in 1986. (former Professorial Fellow), Knight Bachelor, and Paul Collier (1967), CBE.

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PRESIDENTIAL NEWS

ince January this year, the President has been the Chairman of the Council of the British School of Archaeology and Fine Art Sin Rome. This continues a fine Trinity tradition. The School’s first Chairman a hundred years ago was Henry Pelham, then President of Trinity. More recently in the 1990s, Professor Fergus Millar, now Honorary Fellow and sometime scholar of Trinity, took on the post and John Ward-Perkins, father of our history Fellow Bryan Ward- Perkins, was Director of the School from 1945-74. Bryan is himself a very active member of the Council. COLLEGE EXCELLENCE AWARD

Sir Ivor has also been asked by OUP to edit the first revision for hris Simms, Executive Chef, and the Kitchen brigade were thirty years of the classic Satow’s Guide to Diplomatic Practice . declared ‘Chef and Supporting Team of the Year’ at The Oxford CACEs (Awards for College Excellence) dinner on 14 December SIDNEY M EDELSTEIN AWARD 2007 and received the award from cookery writer Prue Leith. rofessor Sir John Rowlinson (1944, Honorary Fellow), formerly EVENTS Dr Lee’s Professor of Physical Chemistry and an Emeritus PFellow of Exeter College, has been awarded the 2008 Sidney M The main events taking place over the next few months are Edelstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of given below. If you would like to attend or want further Chemistry by the American Chemical Society. The award cites ‘the information please contact the Alumni & Development breadth and quality of his research publications in the history of Office, 01865 279887, [email protected]. physical chemistry and his contributions over the last three decades to the development of the history of physical chemistry at the 19 – 21 September University of Oxford.’ Trinity Society and Oxford Alumni Weekend – Trinity’s and the University’s weekends coincide, providing an excellent JUSTIN WARK opportunity to return to Oxford to enjoy the entertainment, good food and good company of the annual Trinity gathering rofessor Justin Wark, Fellow and Tutor in Physics, has been seconded for the next two years to work two days a week for the with the added opportunities of lectures, tours and events PScience and Technology Facilities Council as the Chief Scientist of offered by the Oxford weekend. Further details are enclosed the new Photon Science Research Institute. or can be obtained from the Alumni & Development Office.

The aim of the Institute is to promote activity in the United 3 October Kingdom on so-called fourth generation light sources (ultra-short, Gaudy for 1974 to 1977 – please contact the Alumni & i.e. sub-picosecond, sources of X-rays which are ten billion times Development Office if you have not received your invitation. brighter than the new synchrotron at the Rutherford Laboratory) and to identify the key science and scientific groups to carry out research 7 October in this new area of science. The impact of these light sources in Liverpool Reception – invitations will be sent to those in physics, chemistry and the life sciences could be considerable. Liverpool and the surrounding area.

The Institute is also providing essential input into a study that could 21 October result in such a fourth generation light source being built in the UK. Madrid Lunch – with the President.

Professor Wark is one of a team that was awarded a 2007 Daiwa 6 December Adrian Prize for its research on 'High energy density science: new Carol Service for Old Members, Friends and guests – frontiers in plasma physics'. Daiwa Adrian prizes are prestigious Chapel, 4.00 pm. The Chapel Choir will lead the singing of triennial awards and recognise outstanding research involving Christmas carols, interspersed with anthems and Christmas collaboration with Japan. readings. The service will be followed by refreshments served in Hall. Please let the Alumni & Development Office know FORMER STAFF if you would like to attend.

t is with great sadness that we report the deaths of Albert Greenwood , on 26 May, and of Frank Bush , on 28 May. Albert 2009 GAUDIES Iwill be remembered by many generations of Trinitarians, having 28 March Gaudy 1987 to 1989 come to Trinity as a scout’s boy during the Second World War and 26 June Gaudy up to and including 1952 retired as SCR butler in 2000. Frank and his wife Trish ran the College Bar for many years until they retired in 2001. 2 October Gaudy 1953 to 1959

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TRINITY TENNIS SUCCESS CUPPERS VICTORY

rinity’s Tennis team has won the 2008 League Championship he Trinity/LMH women’s football team won Cuppers, title in their debut season in the top division with a second defeating Somerville in the final 8 - 3. This follows a 12 - 2 win Tsuccessive unbeaten league campaign. Tin the semi-final and 8 - 0 in the quarter-final.

SPORTS NEWS

he Squash Team won several rounds of Cuppers before being beaten by Balliol (who had four out of five of their team as Tuniversity-level players). In the league, the team won twenty out of twenty five sets (of the five matches) in the second division, earning us the top place in the league and promotion to the top division for next year. The team was Oliver Plant, Sam Halliday, Fred Burgess, Charlie Hill and Steffen Hoyemsvoll.

The Ladies Pool Team won the first division earlier on in the year. Trinity played with a flair that took the First Division by storm, The team consists of Clare Templeman, Nicki Hoskins, Verity beating Keble 12-0, Worcester 9-3, LMH 11-1 and Jesus with a Fanton and Julia Pidgeon, the captain. walkover. In the final match of the season a battling 6-6 draw ANDREW CAIRNS (2007) against second-placed Merton ended the team’s run of twelve straight league victories spanning three seasons, but sealed the Premiership crown in the most thrilling of fashions. INTER-COLLEGIATE GOLF Since entering the bottom division in 2001, Trinity has risen through TOURNAMENT the rankings with four promotions in seven seasons, and this top flight victory following back to back promotions is a phenomenal he Trinity team at this annual alumni event has come achievement and caps a magnificent near-decade of success for impressively close to victory for the second time running. In Trinity’s Tennis team. T2007 Trinity came second only to Christ Church, while this year, in a more competitive tournament, a smaller team still managed to We are aiming to improve our tennis facilities at Trinity in the near improve on last year’s score to finish joint third with Christ Church; future, and a plan is being prepared which will hopefully be aside from an April hail shower or two, a great day’s golf was supported by both the College and Old Members. This is the perfect enjoyed. (Please contact the Alumni Relations Officer if you would opportunity to capitalise on the current momentum and, with a like to join the golf mailing list). strong nucleus of the team remaining for next season, propel the Tennis Club to further successes. MATTHEW JOHNSTON (1999) TORTOISES

LONDON RECEPTION tea party was held on 1 July to Awelcome two of Trinity’s newest members, two middle-aged tortoises, Toby and Plum, who needed a new home, and to thank Mrs Mavis Ramsden and her family for donating them. Trinity’s last tortoise is known to have been around until the late 1940’s. Toby has so far proved to be the more This year’s London Reception was held at The Charterhouse, an sociable and active and historic and peaceful oasis only a stone’s throw from Smithfield and so may be the better bet to represent Trinity in the annual Corpus the Barbican. Before the reception a short talk on The Christi Tortoise Race next year (apparently each college may Charterhouse’s history was given by one of the resident brothers. enter only one tortoise).

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AN ANGEL AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN

Professor Martin Kemp, who retires this summer, writes on Why it should be there was puzzling. The style ruled out its origins his discoveries relating to an intriguing corner of the with the earlier Durham College, and it was unlikely to be as late as President’s garden. Sir Thomas Pope’s 1555 foundation. The first clue was discovered by Clare Hopkins in the archive. A brief note of 1840 addressed to e are in the President’s garden. Sir Ivor and Lady Roberts are James Ingram, President of Trinity, signals that the St. Michael had hosting a summer reception. The garden is transformed. As once been part of New College’s impressive array of mediaeval Whappens with gardens over the years, almost unnoticed, the bushes sculpture. The note was written by the Warden of New College. and climbers had grown excessively. Paul Lawrence and his team of My dear President gardeners had cut back the overgrowth. Grimsley will hand over to you St Michael if you ask him for it. You In the northwest corner, I notice a rather battered-looking statue in a will find it sadly the worst for wind and weather. niche. ‘I’ve never seen that before’, I remark to Ivor. He explains Believe me that it had been totally obscured by shrubbery. ‘I think that’s a late Very truly yours Mediaeval St Michael ’, I say, and we walk over to look at it more Mr. N. Shuttleworth closely. Although the stone is very heavily weathered, we see that Saturday June 1840 the figure, in a twisted pose, is wearing armour, has a huge pair of wings, and the tail of a dragon or devil is curved around its thigh. Further research conducted under my Definitely St. Michael the Archangel, portrayed in the standard direction by Erik Bizet, masters student manner, in accordance with Revelation , 12:7-9. in the History of Art, clarified the circumstances that lead to its arrival. A The St. Michael typifies the new taste for complicated, ‘Mr. Grimseley’ was paid substantial communicative stances that entered English sculpture in the earlier sums of money by building masters part of the 16th century. The obvious point of comparison is the St. employed by New College on several George in Henry VII’s chapel in Westminster Abbey, which was occasions in December 1839 for the finished in 1519. It seems likely that the statue was made in the restoration of exterior stone carving. 1520s. After training in London, Grimsley returned to his native Oxford where he developed a flourishing family business as a sculptor in various media.

Grimsley almost certainly carved a new St. Michael in 1839 or shortly thereafter for the east gable of New College The Replacement St. Chapel. It can still be seen high on the Michael by Thomas exterior of the Chapel above the later Grimsley, east gable of kitchens. The Trinity niche closely the Chapel, New reflects that in the original pinnacle, and College was probably also carved by Grimsley’s workshop.

The College archive also contains Ingram’s draft of a possible inscription:

Hortorum esto fidelis custos O Michaelis- Angelus atque Deus sic eris usque meus.

(Be a faithful guardian of the gardens, O Michael: Thus you will forever be my Angel and God) 1

Unfortunately, the battered Saint should not remain where he is for much longer. The surface of the stone is very abraded and very vulnerable to further weathering.

The Trinity St. Michael 1 Trinity College Archive, Liber Coll. Trin. Oxon M DCCC XXI ‘Miscellanea’, p. 132, no. 222; transcription Clare Hopkins, translation Peter Brown.

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EVENTS

rinity Lawyers are an innovative group and this year, in a In April, Trinity Historians from across the ages gathered to mission to attract more Old Members to the Michael Beloff celebrate the subject and to say farewell to Peter Carey before his TLaw Society Dinner , they decided to hold their get-together in move to Indonesia, as Director of an ambitious new programme, London. The venue chosen was the Oxford and Cambridge Club initiated through the Cambodia Trust, to train disability health and the occasion proved to be so popular that sadly not everyone professionals. The dinner, which was a wonderful combination of who wished to attend could be accommodated. This proved to be a nostalgia and discussion of future plans, proved so popular that we very successful evening in which the assembled multitude was hope to hold more such events. addressed by Lord Mance. On a mild evening towards the end of April, the On 1 March, Classicists gathered to hear the Boat Club’s newest boat, Parni – given by David music for a March and Chorus for the Antigone Beauchamp (1959) in honour of David Parnwell of Sophocles, composed by Sir Edward German (1951), one of the College’s keenest rowers – was and only recently discovered by Peter Brown. named and blessed by the Chaplain in Durham After a scintillating performance by members of Quad. This was a wonderful occasion where the the Trinity Orchestra and a special choir, the members of the Boat Club, including President, assembled Classicists chatted over lunch. Mike Churchman, and Men’s Captain, Ben Thurston, were able to thank the two Davids for Trinity boasts a number of writers among its Old their continuing support. Members, including Justin Cartwright (1965), and, early in April, his book entitled This Secret Mike Churchman and David Parnwell The annual lunch of the William Pitt Society was Garden: Oxford Revisited was launched in admiring the 'Parni' held on 31 May. This is the occasion when the College. What makes this book so special was, College thanks those Old Members and Friends partly, the fact that Justin had very kindly offered who have included a bequest to Trinity in their to donate the proceeds of sales on the evening to the College, but wills. Once again, a very enjoyable time was had by all. If you are more importantly, that the book, while purporting to comment on interested in finding out more about the Society, contact Sue Broers Oxford from the perspective of a student in the 1960s, is a largely on 01865 279889 or email [email protected]. Trinity-centric account of the times. The Danson Room was filled to capacity as people gathered to hear Justin read extracts from the book and to wish him well.

Parents and guests enjoying drinks on the lawns before the Parents’ Members and guests at the reception in the Divinity School Lunch in May. RALPH BATHURST SOCIETY DINNER VIOLIN RECITAL he Ralph Bathurst Society Dinner this year had an exciting format as members of the Society were first invited to a drinks n December 2007 two Trinitarians with almost a half century Treception in the Divinity School and a private viewing of the between them were responsible for a musical soiree for the exhibition Oxford College Libraries and their Benefactors . Not IHertfordshire Branch of the Oxford University Society. only were the exhibits impressive – most impressive of all being the Ben Cartlidge (2004) was the soloist and Ian Senior (1958) was the letter from Dr Johnson lent by Trinity – but this was a wonderful prime-mover for the latest in a series of recitals in his house given opportunity to wander around one of Oxford’s most beautiful and by talented Oxford musicians. Ben gave a superb account of sonatas historic buildings, before returning to Trinity for a delicious meal by Dvorak and Grieg with Massenet’s Meditation from Thais cooked by our award winning chef and his team, and served by our thrown in as a well-known ‘lollipop’. incomparable Hall staff.

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AN OLD MEMBER WRITES: DINING WITH GATSBY, AND OTHER GREAT TRINITY GRADUATES

nlike the larger The common thread beyond the Trinity connection? Gatsby factory farm insouciance undoubtedly, but also a quintessentially English Ucolleges in Oxford, stubbornness and refusal to accept the rigorous conventions of a Trinity seems to foster blinkered establishment. A wonderful contrariness but one that can individuality amongst lead to a financial switchback. For such mavericks might the its chosen elite of William Pitt Society have been created. You want to give to your members. While having college, but you are currently a little strapped? Not to worry, Trinity educated three prime believes you will succeed in the long run and invites you to write a William Pitt the Elder ministers, plus its fair bequest to the College into your will. share of warriors, So sign up for the Pitt Society and dine in real Gatsby style. You get mandarins, Gold Sticks-in-Waiting and Portcullis Pursuivant a superb lunch on a summer Saturday from Oxford’s most envied Heralds of Arms, it has also produced a respectable slew of kitchen and cellar and a speech from our much travelled and mavericks, innovators and general swimmers against the current. knowledgeable President. You can park in College, play croquet or Let us celebrate a few of them: marvel at what twentieth century plumbing has done for your • Our founder Thomas Pope overcame his family name to staircase. After lunch you and spouse can explore the retail become a big help to Henry VIII in dissolving the monasteries, opportunities of the city centre, see the new Pre-Raphaelites at the thereby setting this island’s course of detachment from the Ashmolean and take tea at the Randolph. A stylish day out. European landmass. The historians amongst you may question naming a society • Richard Burton, the explorer, spy and linguist (not the Welsh dependent on legacies after Pitt the Elder. When Pitt died in 1778, thesp) was sent down from the College for steeple chasing the government had to cough up £20,000 to cover his accumulated during term, and pioneered the English fascination for Arabian debts. The College acknowledges that Pitt served Trinity, and the culture. He translated the 1001 Nights and brought us the country, in many ways and asks you to ensure that you will leave the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and the Kama Sutra . College a sum which will enable it to do what it has done so well in • John Aubrey, miscellanist and writer whose famous theatrical the past into the future. monologue Brief Lives still gets performed, most recently starring the incomparable Roy Dotrice. Let Pitt himself have the last word: ‘Confidence is a plant of slow • Joyce Cary, Irish born writer who enjoyed friendship with growth in an aged bosom. Youth is the season of credulity.’ Which George Orwell and many periods of literary poverty. He was the sounds rather like the plot of The Great Gatsby . author of The Horse’s Mouth , the post war novel of bohemian

life in London, with the film lead played by Alec Guinness. ROGER BARESEL (1966) • Richard Hillary, the English St Exupery of the Battle of Britain. • Anthony Crosland, another magnificent upstream swimmer, President of the Union, economics don, author, biographer, TRINITY SOCIETY FUNDING Fabian and lover of life to the full, who held five offices of state, including Foreign Secretary. he Trinity Society has made donations to five student • Terence Rattigan, the most acclaimed playwright of his clubs and societies since the beginning of the year. The generation. Tfirst was a £1,000 grant towards the cost of the three new • Norris & Ross McWhirter who invented the Guinness Book of timpanis that the Orchestra had previously had to rent in for Records. its performances. In a spirit of student entrepreneurship, the • Kenneth Clark who single-handedly invented civilisation. timpanis are now rented out occasionally to generate income • Miles Kington who invented Franglais. for the Orchestra. • And of course our very own President in the 1960s, Sir Arthur The second grant of £800 helped to cover the costs of Lionel Pugh Norrington, who invented the Table. Broadsheet, the twice termly student publication chronicling Scott Fitzgerald, although a Princeton man himself, chose Trinity student life in Trinity. The third and fourth grants both of £200 for Jay Gatsby, undoubtedly influenced by Trinity’s radical sense of were to the tennis and badminton teams for new kit. Finally, style and occasion, and Pitt’s pro-America stance. My own year the Society gave £300 towards the cost of a tour by the Choir produced the man who wrestled with a masked gunman on the to Dublin. bonnet of boxing promoter Frank Warren’s Bentley; the man who This very valuable support by the Society of student clubs and brought the Hamburger to Bristol and the man who brought Pop Art societies is very much appreciated. to Sloane Square.

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RICHARD HILLARY LECTURE OLD MEMBERS’ NEWS

Richard Norman (1945) is a Chaplaincy volunteer at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. Guy De Moubray (1946) writes ‘At the age of 81 I have written and self-published a cookery book Dinner at Eighty . Details of my books, articles and guided tours can be found on my website , www.buxlow.com.’ Tom Sewell (1946) , on retirement from the Chairmanship , has been appointed Life President of the Teachers of Tomorrow Trust. His recently-published book entitled What Did You Do in the Cold War Daddy (Starline Publishing, 2006) has been well-reviewed. It is an account of his and his wife’s confrontations with the KGB when Tom was Head of Chancery (Political Section) at the British Embassy in Moscow. Ivor Lucas (1948) has published 80 @ 80 , a collection of eighty Howard Jacobson, writer and journalist, gave the 2008 Richard reviews written for Asian Affairs (the journal of the Royal Society for Hillary Lecture in March (pictured with the President following the Asian Affairs) between 1989 and 2007. The books reviewed are mainly lecture). about the Middle East and Islam, and publication was timed to coincide with the author's eightieth birthday. NORTH AMERICAN EVENTS Robert Hughes (1951) has been commissioned by the British Council to re-write his booklet on cultural awareness Feeling at Home (1st edition 1991, revised 1997 and 2002). It appeared as Cultural Connections in July 2007. James Lang Brown (1951) writes that he is retired - or almost - and is doing the occasional consultation for woodland estates and the like; landscape, conservation, ancient woodlands and ecology in lowland Britain. He is spending more time sailing old wooden boats, walking hills and paths, bird watching and singing in choirs and the places where they sing. Richard Bevis (1952) writes ‘This breaks the silence of many years. After five years in a management role at the Oxford Playhouse and twenty six years in I.T. , with a financial house (part of Barclays Group), n April, the President made another visit to North America, I retired twenty years ago. Now living in north Norfolk, I am a Church the second since he assumed his role as head of the College. of England Reader with six daughters and ten grandchildren.’ IStarting on 3 April, he covered more than 6,500 miles in an Christopher Hughes (1953) is Medical Director of the South attempt to meet as many Old Members as possible in the space Australian Postgraduate Medical Education Association. of eleven days. Reagan Bunker (1999) was kind enough to Clem Salaman (1953) has published a translation of Asclepius organise the venue in Toronto for a dinner that proved to be the (Duckworth, 2007), a philosophical work ascribed in ancient and start of an enjoyable, if exhausting, tour. renaissance times to a legendary Egyptian sage, Hermes Trismegistus (the Egyptian god, Thoth). Two days later, Sir Ivor was in New York for Oxford’s North American Reunion, where he hosted a dinner for Old Members John Upton (1953) writes that he has joined the (retired) majority after and Friends of Trinity at the University Club. Thanks are due to life as a small town solicitor in Shropshire. ‘Two married daughters Peter Darrow (1972), who again played an invaluable role in have the grace both to live in Oxford. The Somerville Ricketts twins gathering together Trinity folk from far and wide. survive marriage to me (Francesca) and (Juliet) marriage to Andrew Quicke (New College 56/59). Septuagenarians all, we have just In a punishing schedule that allowed little or no free time, the completed a real fun project: a fourteenth century apartment in the hill President then flew to Chicago, where he met a number of Old town walls of Anghiari, Arezzo. It’s available!’ Members for drinks and dinner in a hotel by the side of Lake Brian Warburton (1953) is working on the Warburton Family History Michigan ( pictured above ). A day later, he was in Los Angeles, circa 1070 AD. Further compositions for Music Festivals are in the where Lionel Chetwynd (1968) had found an excellent venue. pipe-line. Finally, the President spoke in Washington at a reception held Sydney Wood (1953) writes ‘I now have two splendid grand-daughters. for all Oxford University alumni and then relaxed over dinner Despite being just three years old in one case and three weeks in the with a congenial group from Trinity. other I’m already training them for their future historical studies at Trinity ’.

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OLD MEMBERS’ NEWS

George Beckmann (1955) has been elected Fellow of the Royal Richard Barber (1961) was appointed Chairman of the Home Farm Astronomical Society (FRAS) and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Trust in October 2007. The trust is one of the country’s leading Society (FRGS) and has published ‘Magnetic Susceptibility charities caring for people with learning disabilities. Ellipsoids in Nagssugtoqidian and Archaean rocks in South East David Hutchinson (1961) writes that he has published Through A Greenland’ in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark. Looking Glass (The Memoir Club, 2008) about his adventures and George O’Brien (1955) is currently secretary of the Tayside Branch kidnapping in Colombia, including photos by Matthew Leighton of the Oxford University Society which also covers Dundee, Stirling (www.thememoirclub.co.uk). ‘I hope that you will find it amusing and St Andrews. and even interesting! But try to avoid repeating the experience!’ Mervyn Murch (1956) was appointed CBE for services to the Family Peter Morgan (1961) is President of Kent County Cricket Club for Justice System, in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2007. 2008. Stephen Tanner (1956) has retired from his last paid (very part- Jonty Driver (1965) writes ‘I have been appointed Hon. Senior time, non-executive) employment and is hoping to get to grips with Lecturer in the School of Literature and Creative Writing of the computers and better golf. University of East Anglia (2007- 200 9) and was lucky enough to be awarded a Bogliasco Fellowship at the Liguria Study Centre in Robin Fawcett (1957) was awarded, in 2006, an Honorary 2007.’ Professorship at Beijing Normal University, a Guest Professorship at the University of Science and Technology, Beijing, and a Guest John Flint (1968) is now running his own company, Simply Professorship at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou. He was also Consult, focusing on cost management and cost reduction, especially invited to be an Academic Advisor to the Functional Linguistics for charities, schools and colleges. Institute of Sun Yat-sen University, and a Consultant to the Centre John Reader (1972) has published Reconstructing Practical for Functional Linguistics at Beijing Normal University. In 2007 he Theology: The Impact of Globalization (Ashgate, 2008). was awarded an Emeritus Professorship of Cardiff University. He has published a ‘genuinely introductory introduction’ to the Richard Hunter (1974) has left Japan and is now living on the Isle grammar of English, developed by Robin and his colleagues, of Man and telecommuting. Invitation to Systemic Functional Linguistics through the Cardiff Andrew Mangeot (1974) lives in Cambridge and is Trusts & Major Grammar : an extension and simplification of Halliday’s Systemic Gifts Fundraiser for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH). Functional Grammar (Third Edition ) (Equinox, 2008). Writing as André Mangeot, he has published two well-received Ian Flintoff (1957) - his thesis on Political Economy and the poetry collections to date, Natural Causes (Shoestring Press, 2003) Communication of Science was awarded a PhD by the Open and Mixer Egg Box (2005) along with a recent collection of short University in May 2008. stories, A Little Javanese (Salt Publishing, 2008). A second volume will appear in 2009. He is also a member of the poetry performance David Whitehead (1957) is on the Committee of the Oxford & group, The Joy of Six, which has appeared at festivals and venues Cambridge Society of Cape Town, which has over 400 members. He across England and Wales, and in New York. looks after the database, adding new names as graduates come back to South Africa (and taking off details of those who pass on to other Robert Dawson Scott (1975) produced Consenting Adults for lands - overseas, below or up in the sky). He has represented BBC4, a TV drama about the Wolfenden committee, starring Western Province as a Senior Golfer at the National Tournament on Charles Dance and written by Julian Mitchell, which was broadcast four separate occasions. He recently reviewed a book on Enzymes in September 2007. It won Best Actor (for Sean Biggerstaff, who for the Biochemical Society and has written a foreword for Africa’s played Jeremy Wolfenden) and Best Screenplay (Julian Mitchell) at Venomous Snakes by E J English . the Scottish Bafta awards, 2007, and was nominated as Best Drama. Charles Reston, a current Trinity undergraduate, had a small part in Roger Clark (1958) retired - early! - from the University of Kent it as one of Jeremy Wolfenden‘s lovers. about five years ago and has opened up a new career as an antiquarian bookseller; he can be found at the National in London Alex Merriman (1975) , since leaving the Bank of England in 2004, on the second Sunday of every month. has been at the British Bankers’ Association, latterly becoming its Executive Director responsible for Wholesale and Regulatory Michael Alexander (1959) has published Old English Riddles from Affairs. Married to Alison, his children Andrew (10) and Sophie the Exeter Book (Anvil, 2007) and The First Poems in English (nearly 5) are growing up fast. He is in frequent contact with Chris (Penguin Classics , 2008). Granville and Julian Phillips , as well as Jon Huggett (all 1975) , Geoff Hines (1959) is still working on a full-time basis as an whom he visited in New York in April. Executive Search Consultant with his own business, Hines Nick Pleasance (1976) is retired and spends the English winter in Management Consultants, in Brisbane. He has also been appointed Adelaide, Eastern Cape, South Africa, ‘any Old Member is welcome as an Auditor with the Australian Universities Quality Agency. In to come and stay’. June 2007 he was elected Chairman of the School Council of Brisbane Boys’ College , a leading private school with over 1,500 Robert Weaver (1976) has just completed thirty years of teaching pupils. (nine at RGS Guildford and twenty one at Dulwich) and this year has moved across from manning the Religious Studies Department Michael Jones (1960) has published an edition of Le Premier at Dulwich College to be Keeper of the Fellows’ Library within the Inventaire du Trésor des Chartes des Ducs de Bretagne ( 1395) and College Archives, curating and promoting the antiquarian book Hervé Le Grant et les Origines du Chronicon Briocense (2007). 10 | Trinity College Oxford | Summer 2008 5134:S4300 18/7/08 09:41 Page 11

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collections. He was elected fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Marina Dudenhöfer ( née Chaciewicz, 1990) is working part-time as London in December 2007 for research on medieval manuscript a legal and financial translator for Daimler and is studying part time fragments and palaeography teaching. for an MA. Philip Balestrieri (1978) holds a dual appointment as Associate Katharine Woodhouse-Beyer (1990) is a Senior Archaeologist for Professor of Anaesthesiology and of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Cultural Resource Consulting Group in Highland Park, New the University of Virginia. Jersey and also teaches multiple courses in the Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University. She is a ‘super-commuter’, Martha Davis (1979) has co-edited Bringing Human Rights Home travelling between the western suburbs of Philadelphia and New (Praeger Press, 2007), a three-volume book set that chronicles the Brunswick, New Jersey each day. history and current status of the growing human rights movement within the United States. Oliver de Peyer (1991) was recently chosen as one of seventeen Medical Research Council 'People behind discovery', to act as Louise Jury (1984) has left The Independent after eleven and a half examples of scientific research careers. years to become Chief Arts Correspondent of the Evening Standard . Sarah Oakley ( née Walsh, 1991) is now the Operations Officer of a Richard McCarthy and Christina Mungan (both 1985) moved Type 22 Frigate, HMS Chatham. Chatham will spend almost seven back to London after twelve years in China and Japan. Richard is a months of 2008 deployed to the Northern Arabian Gulf, protecting partner in Transaction Services at KPMG London. the Iraqi Oil Platforms and co-ordinating the coalition forces. Sarah Stephen Tucker (1986) , after twelve years as a Fellow of Wadham is the principal Welfare Officer (above water) and Head of the College, has been appointed to a University Lectureship in Welfare Department. Biological Physics and, in October 2008, will become the first Paul Walmsley (1992) has been working at Sibelius Software for official new Fellow of Green Templeton College. the past seven years as Senior Software Developer and has been Judith Stedeford (1987) is currently a Consultant Anaesthetist at involved in his fourth major version of Sibelius. He is currently Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. living in Crouch End, north London. Ann Ardron ( née Brooks, 1988) writes ‘After a number of years Claudio Corradetti (1996) writes ‘After a period of teaching running my own ergonomics consultancy I have decided to pursue political theory at the National Law University of India in my dream of becoming a professional artist. I paint portraits, Bangalore, I’m back in Rome lecturing in political philosophy at the landscapes and seascapes to commission and also sell via University of Rome.’ exhibitions (www.annardronart.com ). So far, sales are very Heather Bacon-Shone (1997) is on a medical leave of absence encouraging!’ from the United States Coast Guard while undergoing treatment for Emily Boswell (1988) writes ‘I am relocating with Procter & Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She hopes to get back underway on Coast Gamble, to our labs in Cincinnati, USA - global headquarters for Guard cutters again soon. P&G. This will be for at least three years. I will be part of our Helena Banyard Smith (1997) writes ‘I have just bought my first Materials Science & Technology group based there, working on house, with my fiancé Tom, and we are enjoying the Cotswold sustainable materials for packaging.’ scenery and digging our own vegetable patch. I continue to work at Justine Burley (1988) has been promoted to Associate Professor, Osborne Clarke, specialising in Energy and Environmental law.’ Department of Philosophy, and Deputy Executive Director of the Elsa Dobler (2006) has taken a Masters degree at Sceaux University National University of Singapore Graduate School for Integrative in the Law of Numerical Creation. Science and Engineering, and, with her husband Alan, now resides in Singapore & London. MARRIAGES Ali Devani (1988) has left British Airways after ten years and joined UTi, a major supply chain services provider. Michael Ferrand (1974) to Ariele Touati, on 15 September 2007. Damian Hinds (1988) has been selected as the Conservative Andrew Mangeot (1974) to Roslyn Alleyne, on 9 February 2008, in candidate for East Hampshire at the next general election. Maraval, Trinidad . Cavinder Bull (1989) was appointed Senior Counsel in Singapore Justine Burley (1988) to Alan Colman (Queen’s, 1967), on 24 in January 2008. December 2007, in Sri Lanka. Gabrielle James (1989 ), after ten years in consulting, is now Damian Hinds (1988) to Jacqui Morel, in September 2007. freelancing with her own company, 1776 Consulting. Marina Chaciewicz (1990) to Mark Dudenhöfer, on 3 May 2008, in Siobhan Rafferty (1989) writes ‘I did a PGCE in 1994 , then Deidesheim, Germany. worked as a languages teacher , then as an educational software Mark Schulz (1992) to Nicola Thatcher, in March 2007, at the editor. I married Simon Cobb (Christ Church, 1988) in 2001 and we Little Chapel of the West, Las Vegas. now live in Kent and have three lovely boys: Laurie (4), Joe (2) and Robin (10 months)’. Paul Walmsley (1992) to Lisa Stagg, in October 2006. Jamie Allan (1992) was best man and Jonathan Parkin (1992) an usher. Simon Donnan (1994) to Rebecca Hodges, on 21 April 2007, at St Chad’s, Sutton Coldfield. Trinity College Oxford | Summer 2008 | 11 5134:S4300 18/7/08 09:41 Page 12

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Nicola King (1995) to James Morris, on 19 May 2007, in Pilton, Somerset. Tim Craig (1996) to Kirsty Muirhead (1996) , on 18 August 2007, at Stowe Landscape Gardens. Among the many Trinity friends present from 1996 were Helen Horseman , bridesmaid, Jonathan Clarke , best man, Russell Goodall , Master of Ceremonies, Victoria Pike ( née Wearden) and Jacqueline Barley ( née Godfrey) singing a duet, and Sarah Thorne , a reader. On 27 March, Politics Fellow Steve Fisher hosted a very Mike Hirst (1996) to Caroline McClatchey, on 27 October 2007, at enjoyable dinner for Old Members in Belfast . This is the first time St Comgall’s Church, Bangor, Co Down. Among the Trinity friends that there has been a Trinity event in Northern Ireland and we are present were Nicholas Jubber (1996) , groomsman, James Maltby delighted that we are able to make contact with Old Members (1996) Andrew McCarrow (1996) , Master of Ceremonies, , around the country. photographer and Richard Francis (1996) , principal organist. Matt Woods (1998) to Andrea Parra Torres, on 14 March 2008, in To Tamsyn Prior (1990) , on 28 January 2008, a daughter, Violet Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Mary. Vicky Leggett (1999) to Lee McMunn (Wycliffe Hall, 2002), on 31 To Tibor Scharf (1990) , on 3 August 2007 a son, Robert May 2008. Emmanuel Alexander, a brother for Anna-Dorothea. Sarah Carpenter (2000) to James Larkin (2000) , on 15 September To Oliver de Peyer (1991) and Tuan-Chi, on 17 February 2008, a 2007, at Oxford Town Hall. The reception was held at Trinity. daughter, Shon-Shon Ursula. Robert Williamson (2002) to Michelle Deere, on 24 March 2008. To Ben Giaretta (1992) and Naomi , on 23 April 2008, a daughter, Many friends from Trinity were present and James Weston (2002) Maia Ginevra. read a lesson. To Sally Riley ( née Latham, 1992) and Howard, on 11 March BIRTHS 2008, a daughter, Phoebe May, a sister for Faith and William.

To Michael Ferrand (1974) and Ariele Touati, on 14 August To Mark Schulz (1992) and Nicola, on 16 December 2007 , a 2006, a daughter, Victoria Liane Beatrice. daughter, Lettice Grace. To David Boyle (1977) , on 2 February 2007, a son, William. To Nick Heslop (1993) and Suzy, on 10 November 2007, a son, Zachary John. Martha Davis (1979) , in July 2007, adopted a daughter, Mei Eleanor, born on 25 January 2005, a sister for Caroline. To Catherine ( née Woolcott ) and Chris Taylor (both 1994) , on 23 September 2007, a son, Paul Alexander Owen. To James Waggett (1984) , on 22 May 2007, a son, Henry Michael Lycett. To Jessica ( née Balderstone) and Sam Wilson (both 1994) , on 3 October 2006, a daughter, Arabella. To Catherine Brumage ( neé Bailey, 1989) , on 25 December 2007, a son, Jonty William. To Rosemary Clarke ( née Allen, 1995) and Brendan, on 13 December 2007, a son, Thomas Allen. To Gabrielle James ( née Wong, 1989) , on 26 October 2004, a son, Dexter Roger Solomon and on 12 September 2006, a son, To Dennis Kruchinin (1999) and Lauren Mills, a daughter, Thomas Roger Independence. Elizabeth. To Garry Mullender (1989) , on 11 January 2008, a son, Ricardo, a brother for Tomás. To Yvonne Pollitt ( née Abbott, 1989) and Michael, on 3 December 2007, a son, Samuel, a brother for Daisy. To Deborah Done (1990) , on 27 April 2007, a son, Joshua Peter Daniel.

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