Trinity College Oxford, Report 2008

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CONTENTS

THE TRINITY COMMUNITY ...... 2 JUNIOR MEMBERS ...... 72

President’s Report...... 2 JCR Report ...... 72

The Governing Body and Fellowship...... 5 MCR Report ...... 73

News of the Governing Body ...... 8 Clubs and Societies...... 74

Members of Staff ...... 12 Blues ...... 82

Staff News ...... 14 ARTICLES AND REVIEWS...... 83 New Undergraduates ...... 17

New Postgraduate Students ...... 20 ‘“Ffyrst, a chalice…”—Myths and truths concerning the Founder’s Chalice’ by Matthew Rushton ...... 83 Degrees, Schools Results and Awards ...... 22 ‘The Trinity Borstal Camps 1962-69’ by Richard Incledon... 89

THE COLLEGE YEAR...... 26 ‘Sailing at Trinity’ by Jeremy Atkins...... 92 Book Reviews...... 93 Alumni & Development Office Report ...... 26

Benefactors ...... 29 Degree Days ...... 95 Archive Report ...... 40 Gaudy Dates ...... 96 Buildings Report ...... 46 Editor’s note ...... 96 Garden Report ...... 48

Library Report ...... 49

Schools Liaison Report...... 54

OBITUARIES ...... 55 Cover illustration: William Pitt the Elder (1708-78), Earl of Chatham, is the second of Trinity's three Prime Minsters (only Professor Jack Good ...... 55 Christ Church has more). He matriculated as a Gentleman Commoner in 1727, and spent just over a year studying at Oxford. Joan Barton...... 55 Trinity's portrait, a copy after William Hoare, was bequeathed to the College by President James Ingram in 1850. Milanka Briggs ...... 56 Inside cover: Matriculation photograph 2008 Members of College ...... 57 With thanks to Ede & Ravenscroft, © 2008 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 2

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THE TRINITY COMMUNITY

PRESIDENT’S REPORT quality of education we offer our current students and plan successfully for an improvement to our infrastructure, notably a new he academic year closed on an exceptionally high note for building, of which more below. TTrinity. This year’s finalists gained thirty Firsts, a college record, and very strong performances from the rest of the finalists A major event at the start of the year was the departure after thirteen placed us in a comfortably high position in the Norrington Table, brilliant years of our award-winning chef Chris Simms, who eleventh out of thirty colleges. This reflects the greatest credit on the accepted the challenge of coping with Christ Church’s Tudor students themselves and their tutors, but we ought also to kitchen. His departure was rightly much mourned, but we are acknowledge the quiet role of those who ensure the smooth running incredibly fortunate in having as his successor an equally stellar chef of the college from the Porters to the Kitchen and Hall staff to the in the shape of Julian Smith, who happens to be Chris Simms’s Gardeners, the Workshop, the Bursary, the Alumni and Development nephew. The Hall staff are these days serenely and efficiently Office, the Accommodation Manager and the scouts, the Librarian, marshalled by Lisa Linzey. At the start of the summer we temporarily the College Office, the Conference Administrator and the Computer lost our Accommodation Manager, Mandy Giles, to maternity leave Manager. Without the seamless interaction of all the constituent parts (twins!) and Lisa, too, will be taking maternity leave at the end of of the college the academic outcome would not be realised. this year. We look forward to welcoming them both back and to adding some very junior members to the Trinity family. While this has been a good year for Trinity, academically, so has it been for the University as a whole. Oxford topped ‘The Times Good A more permanent departure at the end of this academic year is that University Guide’ for the eighth year in a row, scoring the top marks of our Senior Tutor, Trudy Watt, who is retiring after eight years in overall for staffing levels, degree classifications and spending on post. Her work rate has been legendary and I in particular will miss student facilities. It deposed Cambridge from the Sunday Times top her wise counsel. In her place we will welcome Valerie Worth, who slot and received UK best university ratings from the Independent has been Head of Modern Languages at Exeter University, but who and the Guardian. A clean sweep. The University also received more at an earlier stage of her career was a lecturer here at Trinity. We will external research income than any other UK university and topped also be welcoming to the ranks of the Governing Body, as a the tables for the Research Assessment Exercise funding. This permanent replacement for Peter Carey, our new History Fellow, research investment is a huge vote of confidence in the University James McDougall, again an old Oxford hand, who has most recently and as we heard from the Prime Minister when he visited Oxford been working in London. We are losing two Junior Research earlier in the year, an economic downturn is no time to slow down Fellows, Laura Swift and John Vakonakis and gaining a new one in investment in research. The University has also seen a change of Law, Dorota Leczykiewicz. We have a new librarian in the shape of Vice-Chancellor: John Hood stepped down after five momentous Sharon Cure from the Saïd Business School, while her predecessor, years in which the pluses far outweigh the minuses, to be replaced Alison Felstead, takes a position in the Bodleian. by Andrew Hamilton, previously Provost of Yale. In the sporting field, the major event was undoubtedly the first Trinity, like the University, is heavily dependent on the generosity Trinity rowing Blue for fifty years, Alex Hearne, who was part of of donors and benefactors and here too, despite the very difficult the successful Oxford crew in this year’s boat race. The Boat Club economic climate, we have been very lucky to attract some received another new boat this year through the generosity of substantial donations which will allow us both to maintain the high Harry Fitzgibbons and performed creditably in Torpids and Eights. 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 3

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Indeed two of the Men’s Crews in Torpids won Blades, a churches of Rome, including two of four basilicas. Other musical remarkable achievement. Trinity Cricket flourished this year, highlights this year included an outstanding production of the rarely inspired by the example of Charlie Hill, the Cricket Blue. Elsewhere performed Schubert opera Fierrabras, which won great critical the Women’s Joint Soccer Team with LMH won Cuppers for the acclaim, particularly for Sarah Jenks, the prime mover behind it. second year running and Trinity won Athletic Cuppers. A complete College drama has been particularly active with several productions, list of Blues and Half-Blues obtained by our students can be found culminating in The Insect Play by The Brothers Čapek on the lawns on page 82. in 6th week. An intriguing play and one which provided a striking contrast to the more traditional lawns play of the Oscar The Chapel Choir has been in particularly good voice and has Wilde/Restoration comedy variety. recorded a new CD called A Voice from Afar, which can be obtained from the Porter’s Lodge or the Alumni & Development Office. The The Richard Hillary lecture was a dazzling display of erudition and choir spent some time in the summer singing in some of the great wit by the Booker Prize-winning writer Colm Tóibín. Next year’s

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lecturer will be the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Old Members’ developing the college stymied. We are unusual among the central ideas for future lecturers are always welcome. Oxford colleges in being land-rich, but short of buildings. We certainly must do nothing to impinge on the beautiful gardens, but Among the other visitors to Trinity this year was Cardinal George it is highly desirable that we should have more of our students on Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, who has a long-term interest in Cardinal the main site in quality accommodation. Newman and, along with an accompanying entourage of historians and local clergy, was treated to a tour of College, an exhibition of I make no apologies in saying that this is the subject I will be Newman memorabilia and a ‘meditation in words and music’ in returning to in future newsletters and reports. We would hope to see Chapel. a new building operational by 2012. Our founder inherited a set of buildings on this site in the shape of the old Durham College I have kept up a vigorous travelling programme to meet Old buildings. The projected new building is probably the last one which Members over the last year, and in the coming months I will be going will be accommodated on this site, so it must be one of which he to the Far East and Australia, and then in the spring to North would have been proud. America. Nearer to home, I have been in the South West, Liverpool and Leeds. Early in October I shall be visiting an old haunt of mine, Finally, this edition of the Report is the first to be edited by Tom Dublin, and in November going to Madrid to talk to members of the Knollys, who has taken over this weighty task from Clare Hopkins. Oxford University Society. At all these events I shall be talking about Clare devoted a great deal of time and effort to the task of reporting our plans for a new building. We are now going though the various on Trinity’s annual activities and I would like to thank her on behalf hoops with the planning and local authorities, but what we have in of the college for the excellent job she has done in documenting them mind is a building which will be placed close to the new Bodleian, over the last ten years. with whom we hope we will be able to work successfully. The building should have a substantial lecture theatre, which can also be used for dramatic and musical performances, several seminar or teaching rooms, and around thirty en suite study bedrooms. While much attention is focused on the new building, we are currently renovating Staircase 6 in the front quad, which when completed will give us twenty-five new en suite study bedrooms. Sir Ivor Roberts

For those of you of a certain age who can remember the bathhouse, these must seem amazing developments. Nevertheless it is not a question of cosseting our students, but of competing with other colleges in attracting students to apply to Trinity and catering for the increasingly exigent demands of the conference trade. Every summer we more or less fill the college with visiting US summer schools, who need to be assured that they are getting the best value for their dollars among a host of competing colleges. Trinity has the prime location and the beauty and the best kitchens, but we also need to offer top quality accommodation. Without further accommodation on the main site and support for teaching in the shape of a lecture theatre and seminar rooms, we will find many of our plans for 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 5

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THE GOVERNING BODY Professor Martin D. Maiden, MA (MA PhD Camb.) FBA: Professor of Romance Languages President Professor Louis C. Mahadevan, MA (BSc New Delhi, MSc PhD Sir Ivor Roberts, KCMG MA FCIL Lond.): Tutor in Biochemistry Professor Alexander M. Korsunsky, MA DPhil (BSc MSc Moscow): Fellows Tutor in Engineering Science

Mr Michael J. Inwood, MA: Tutor in Philosophy, Vice-President Dr Chris Wallace, MA DPhil (BSc MSc Lond.): Tutor in Economics, Fellow Librarian Mr Peter G. McC. Brown, MA: Tutor in Classics Dr Keith J. Buckler, MA (BSc Lond., PhD Newc.): Tutor in Dr Clive H. Griffin, MA DPhil: Tutor in Spanish Medicine, Dean Tutor in Professor Gus Hancock, MA (MA Dublin, PhD Camb.): Dr Trudy A. Watt, MA DPhil (BSc Open, MSc Shef. Hallam): Senior Physical Chemistry Tutor NHS Consultant Mr Jack Collin, MD (MB BS Newc.), FRCS: Mr Nick W. Barber, MA BCL: Wyatt Rushton Tutor in Law Surgeon Dr Kantik Ghosh, MA (BA Calcutta, MPhil PhD Camb.): Stirling- Mr Bryan R. Ward-Perkins, MA DPhil: Tutor in Modern History, Boyd Tutor in English Fellow Archivist Professor Bernd Kirchheim, MA (RNDR CSc Prague): Shaw Dr Chris R. Prior, MA DPhil (MA PhD Camb.): Tutor in Applied Foundation Tutor in Mathematics Mathematics, Garden Master Dr Stephen D. Fisher, MA DPhil (MSc Southampton): Tutor in Dr Steve J. Sheard, MA (BSc PhD Lond.): Hunt-Grubbe Tutor in Politics Engineering Science, Computing Officer Dr Victor F. P. Seidel, MA (BSc Cornell, MSc Rensselaer, MBA Tutor in French Dr G. Jonathan Mallinson, MA (MA PhD Camb): Camb., PhD Stanford): Tutor in Management Studies Tutor in Inorganic Professor Russell G. Egdell, MA DPhil: Mr Ben McFarlane, BCL, MA: Tutor in Law Chemistry Mr Peter G. McCulloch, MA (MB ChB Aberd., FRCS Glas., MD Tutor in Professor Peter L. Read, MA (BSc Birm., PhD Camb.): Edin.): Reader in Clinical Surgery Physics The Reverend Emma M. Percy, MA (MA Camb., BA Dur.): Professor George D. W. Smith, MA DPhil, FRS: George Kelley Chaplain, Welfare Dean Reader in Materials Science Dr Johannes Zachhuber, MA MSt DPhil: Tutor in Theology, Dean Professor Frances M. Ashcroft, MA (MA PhD ScD Camb.), FRS: of Degrees Royal Society Professor of Physiology Mr Kevin J. S. Knott, CVO, MA (BA Lond.), AKC: Estates Bursar Professor Justin S. Wark, MA (PhD Lond.): Tutor in Physics Professor Kim Nasmyth, MA (BA York, PhD Edin.), FRS: Whitley Professor Jan T. Czernuszka, MA (BSc Lond., PhD Camb.): Tutor Professor of Biochemistry in Materials Science 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 6

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Dr Stefano-Maria Evangelista, MA MSt DPhil (BA E. Anglia, MA EMERITUS, HONORARY AND Tutor in English Lond.): SIR THOMAS POPE FELLOWS Mr John J. Keeling, CBE, MA (MA Lond.): Domestic Bursar Emeritus Fellows Professor Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, MA (BSc MSc Krakow, PhD Leic.): Professor of Computing Systems Mr Francis J Barnett, MA

Professor Craig Clunas, MA (BA Camb., PhD Lond.): Professor of Dr Robin A Fletcher, OBE, MA DPhil DSc the History of Art Mr Dennis H Burden, MA

Dr Michael C Brown, BSc MA DM Junior Research Fellows Dr Dorothy M Horgan, MA (MA PhD Manc.) Ms Laura A. Swift MA MSt: Classics Dr Alan Milner, MA (LLB PhD Leeds, LLM Yale)

Dr Ioannis ‘John’ Vakonakis, MA (BSc Crete, PhD Texas A&M): Mr J Michael Poyntz, MA Biochemistry Mr Frank B Thompson, MA (BSc Lond.)

Dr Philip A. Booth, (BA MPhil PhD) Camb: History Mr B Bede Rundle, BPhil MA

The Revd Canon Trevor S M Williams, MA

Dr Simon Salamon, MA DPhil

Dr Peter B R Carey, MA DPhil

Honorary Fellows

The Rt Hon J. Jeremy Thorpe, PC, MA

Mr Graham R Cooper, JP, MA

Sir Christopher Hogg, MA

The Rt Hon Lord Windlesham (David J G Hennessy), Bt, PC, CVO, MA DLitt

The Rt Hon Lord Kingsdown (Robin Leigh-Pemberton), KG, PC, MA , FRSA

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The Rt Hon Lord Ashburton (John F H Baring), KG, KCVO, MA Sir Thomas Pope Fellows

The Rt Revd Ronald O Bowlby, MA Mr Wyatt R Haskell, BA JD AB (Amherst), LLB (Yale Law School)

Sir Anthony Cleaver, MA Mr Robert Hunt-Grubbe, MA (Camb.)

Sir (Arthur) David Goodall, GCMG Mr Rodney M S Allan, MA

Sir Brian Jenkins, GBE, MA, FCA, FRSA Mr Peregrine K O Crosthwaite, MA

The Hon Sir William MacPherson of Cluny and Blairgowrie, TD, Mr Caryll W Birkett, MA MA Mr Thomas R Winser, MA Professor Fergus G B Millar, MA DPhil DLitt , FBA, FSA Mr Geoffrey J de Jager, BCom (Rhodes), LLB (Natal) – (from Sir John S Rowlinson, BSc MA DPhil, FIChemE, FRSC, FREng, December 2008) FRS, Hon FCGI Mr John Singer, MA, MBA (INSEAD) - (from March 2009) Sir Hugo L J Brunner, KCVO, JP, MA, Order of St Frideswide Dr Roger Fry, CBE, BD (London), AKC, Hon DLitt (Ports.), FRSA The Rt Hon Lord Newton of Braintree (Anthony H Newton), OBE, - (from June 2009) PC, DL, MA

Sir John C Burgh, KCMG, CB, MA, BSc (Econ) (Lond.), FRCM

Mr John H Pattisson, MA

Sir Peter M Stothard, MA

Sir Charles A St J Gray, MA

Professor David N Sedley, MA, PhD (Lond.), FBA

The Rt Revd David S Stancliffe, MA, Hon DLitt (Port.), FRSCM

Sir Michael C G Peat, KCVO, MA MBA, FCA

Mr Waﬁc R Saïd, Ordre de Mérite du Cèdre, Ordre Chérifien

Sir Edwin M Southern, MA, BSc (Manc.), PhD (Glas.), FRS

The Hon Michael J Beloff, QC, MA, FRSA, FICPD

Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, Bt, MA

The Revd Professor John S Morrill, MA DPhil, FBA, FRHistS

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NEWS OF THE GOVERNING BODY future of which was guaranteed during the year by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation. ir Ivor Roberts has finally produced, as editor and contributor, Sthe first new edition for thirty years of the diplomat’s bible, Clive Griffin was a guest speaker in Canada and USA, and was Satow’s Diplomatic Practice (described by Jim Naughtie in the FT appointed advisor to the Centro Universitario de Investigaciones as to diplomacy what Wisden is to cricket). He will be lecturing on Bibliotecológicas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de it in four continents over the next six months. He is working on two México, in Mexico City, where he gave a series of lectures and further books, one of which is on the Balkans. He has continued to research seminars in July and August. He hopes that, by the time this lecture and write on international affairs and diplomacy and Report appears, his book Oficiales de imprenta, herejía e Inquisición contributed one of the University’s podcasts. He is the current en la España de siglo XVI will have been published in Madrid. chairman of the British School in Rome, a Patron of the Venice in Peril Fund and Chairman of the King’s Group of Schools in Madrid. Gus Hancock continues to be Head of the Physical and Theoretical He was elected Chairman of Vincent’s in April 2009. Chemistry Laboratory, but still manages to spend a little time teaching Trinity’s and St Peter’s Chemistry undergraduates in Michael Inwood has published ‘Plato’s Eschatological Myths’ in a collaboration with other colleagues. His research work has resulted collection of essays on Plato’s Myths, edited by Catalin Partenie in publications on a variety of acronymically-rich laser spectroscopic (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and ‘The End of Plato’s Meno’ techniques (NICE-OHMS, OF-CEAS, TRFTIRE), applied to areas in Ariadni, a journal published by the University of Crete. In as esoteric as the measurement of vector correlations in November 2008 he delivered a lecture entitled ‘Is God to Blame?’ photochemical processes and as mundane (and, in these cash at a conference held in honour of Gerard Hughes at Heythrop strapped times, more fundable) observations of the chemical College, London. In May 2009 he presented a paper on ‘Aristotle components of human breath. He collaborates (a euphemism on Akrasia’ to the Oxford Workshop in Ancient Philosophy. He also meaning that others do more of the work) with engineers and arranged the publication, by Pegasus, of two detective novels written physiologists in Oxford, physicists in Sheffield, chemists in Bristol by his late wife, Christiana Sourvinou-Inwood, Murder Near the and medics in various parts of Europe. Sanctuary and Murder at the City Dionysia. Bryan Ward-Perkins was on sabbatical leave in Hilary and Trinity Peter Brown’s year was dominated by Faculty and University terms. These he spent in Oxford, with pleasure and profit to his administration, as he was chairman of the Sub-faculty of research, though not getting away (and the ever-present curse of Classical Languages and Literature and continued to serve on email) meant that the break was not as total or productive as it might the Humanities Divisional Board and on the University’s have been. His principal current interest is a project on ‘The Last Institutional Audit Management Board. He also spent many Statues of Antiquity’, for which he holds a major grant from the Arts hours liaising with the contributors to a volume he is editing on and Humanities Research Council. Next year will see the launch of Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage. He sang the part an on-line searchable catalogue of all the evidence for statues in the of Christ in a performance of Bach’s St John Passion in the period between about AD 280 and 650, and 2011 (he hopes) the Chapel in March. He rose again to be Dandini in Rossini’s publication of a book discussing how statues were used in Late Cenerentola at Abingdon in April; Trinity was well represented Antiquity, and why they eventually disappeared (having played a in the audience. His paper on Bowdlerization in the text of the vital role in the politics of Roman times). Westminster Latin Play was published in the International Journal of the Classical Tradition. He continues to be a Director Steve Sheard has obtained further funding from Pilkington for work of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, the on developing spray pyrolysis deposition of glass layers with enhanced 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 9

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optical characteristics. The application here is for glass building and she published eleven papers in scientific journals. She co- products that reject infrared light from the sun and so reduce the heat organised the first ever meeting for patients and families with load on a building during summer. Other research has moved towards neonatal diabetes at the Royal Society. She also gave talks on science the application of nanoparticles in optical and medical applications. to a number of schools and the Institute of Biology, and contributed to an Oxford University science podcast. Jonathan Mallinson has been acting Director of the Voltaire Foundation during this academic year, having finished a term of two Jan Czernuszka obtained a ‘Centre of Excellence for Tissue years as Chairman of the French Sub-Faculty. He was elected Vice- Enginering’, from the Wellcome Trust. He has also given invited President of the Association Internationale des Etudes Françaises, talks at conferences in Ireland and Germany, along with training and gave an invited lecture on Voltaire’s Candide at Hamilton courses for Teachers of science and several school visits. Materials College, NY. His translation of Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne students once again gained a large number of firsts, including appeared in the Oxford World’s Classics series, and he published University and National prizes in their respective fields. articles on two texts of Voltaire, Paméla and the Lettres d’Amabed, and on d’Urfé’s L’Astrée. Alexander Korsunsky, for the second year running, continued to be the sole editor of the book series entitled ‘Current Themes in Russell Egdell continues to work on the electronic structure and Engineering Science’ published by the American Institute of Physics surface properties of solids and his group published eleven papers in (AIP CP1138). He has accepted the position of Vice-Chairman of the this area in the academic year 2008/2009. A project initiated with EU Science Advisory Committee (SAC) at Diamond Light Source support in the past couple of years is concerned with development of (Harwell Science Innovation Campus), and spent considerable materials able to split water or destroy organic pollutants under solar amount of time on site contributing to the work there. He collaborated irradiation. The research involves collaboration with groups in with colleagues at the University of Rome on a novel residual stress Cambridge, Seville and Messina, with much travel to sunny places. measurement method based on the Focused Ion Beam (FIB) ring- Another new departure is a project which will involve publication of drilling technique, and published papers on this work (Materials three invited papers in Stand To: The Journal of the Western Front Letters, 2009). In June he organised and chaired Mesomechanics Association. These will follow the role of students and collaborators 2009 in Oxford, part-based at Trinity (thanks to Rosemary, Mandy, of Ernest Rutherford in World War I: the final paper in the series and Julian for making it very special). Proceedings will be published concentrates on Henry Moseley (1906), who was killed in action in by Elsevier online, with full open access. the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. He has continued his normal activities, including reviewing, Peter Read has recently published a paper in the journal Nature (Vol publishing; supervising doctoral students and final year projects (two 460|30 July 2009| doi:10.1038/nature08194 pp. 608-610) on a novel out of two were judged outstanding); undertaking major experiments determination of the rotation period of Saturn, that was accompanied (ISIS neutron facility, and synchrotrons: Diamond, ESRF, Soleil, by the unusual distinction of a related article (written by Nature SLS); conducting and attending meetings, and also doing some journalists) on ‘Making the Paper’ which provides some background thinking! on the author (and a photo!). A Nature podcast that included an interview with him about the paper can still be heard Chris Wallace took a year of sabbatical from October 2008 to at http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/index-2009-07-30.html. September 2009. During this time, the final paper from a research project on the evolution of public-good provision in simple games Frances Ashcroft gave the Mendel Lecture in Brno, as well as nine appeared in The Economic Journal. Three new papers were written, other lectures at international meetings on the research of her team, one on inequality aversion, one on public announcements and 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 10

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macro-economic performance in information-transmission models, Nick Barber has lectured in Beijing, Jerusalem, Glasgow and and one on endogenous and costly information acquisition in London, and published a substantial article on constitutional coordination games. These have been presented at various places up conventions in the Law Quarterly Review, and has completed the and down the country during the year, including the Universities of manuscript of his book, The Constitutional State, which should be Warwick, Southampton and Manchester, as well as here in Oxford. published next year. Also in the pipeline is an article in the Texas Other activities include a further year as Fellow Librarian, a new Law Journal on the use of the Condorcet Jury Theorem and similar position as associate editor of the aforementioned The Economic arguments in constitutional scholarship. He is currently working on Journal and continued involvement with the Society for Economic a paper on the possible reform of the Human Rights Act. Analysis Ltd, as its business manager and company secretary—this charity supports research in theoretical and applied economics, Kantik Ghosh continues to be Director of Undergraduate Studies especially by young economists, and publishes the prestigious in the English Faculty. Along with colleagues in the English and journal, The Review of Economic Studies. History faculties, he organised a distinguished international conference on the theme of ‘Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century Trudy Watt has completed eight years as the college’s first full time England’ (April 2009), accompanied by an exhibition of relevant Senior Tutor. She transformed the role, combining what had been manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. Kantik read papers at the several part-time jobs (Senior Tutor, Tutor for Admissions, Tutor for Medieval English research seminar at Oxford and at the International Undergraduates and Tutor for Graduates), that had circulated among Medieval Congress at Leeds, and contributed chapters to a collection the Tutorial Fellows, into a full-time (some might well think, more of essays on the Wycliffite contoversies, and to the latest volume of than full-time) post. In addition, she voluntarily took on numerous the Cambridge History of Christianity (devoted to the Latin west). responsibilities both inside and outside College. One of her several His book on the Wycliffite heresy has been recently reissued by legacies is the University-wide OxCort system for reporting on Cambridge University Press in paperback. students’ progress which she helped to introduce and subsequently develop. Trudy managed, however, to combine her responsibilities Stephen Fisher has undertaken two projects which came to slightly with an unwavering commitment to the welfare of members of diverging conclusions on the impact of the financial crisis and College and to a humane and caring attitude to our students. This recession on support for the government: while there are strong she did while quietly coping with the flood of administration, which indications from the 2009 Euro elections of more protest voting increasingly cascades down to the college from the University and against the government where unemployment was higher, the beyond. Trinity has every cause to be grateful to her. fortunes of Labour in the opinion polls since seem to be more closely linked with political rather than economic events. Trudy is very pleased to have retired from the college in a year of a record number of first class degrees and wishes to record her Victor Seidel was a visiting researcher at The Santa Fe Institute in thanks to all colleagues who have worked with her to support summer 2009. This institute promotes multidisciplinary research on Trinity students needing special help to finish their degrees— complex systems, and Victor’s work was focused on exploring whatever their final degree classification. Her plans for the coming models for how reuse of exisiting information is optimized in year include studying an Open University course. She aims to technological systems. submit her assignments on time, but should she fail to do so, she knows a wide range of good excuses to try! She will still be living Ben Mcfarlane has presented conference papers on topics ranging in Oxford and very much looks forward to remaining in touch with from resulting and constructive trusts to intermediated securitisation. College. He gave invited lectures to the Property Bar Association in London and to Graduate Diploma in Law students at Oxford Brookes. His 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 11

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second book—a Text, Cases and Materials volume on Land Law, She continues to work on her PhD thesis, which she hopes to submit jointly authored with two others—was published by OUP in May. in about eighteen months’ time. His first book, The Structure of Property Law, has been shortlisted for the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2009. Stefano Evangelista’s book, British Aestheticism and Ancient Ben also taught a new BCL course on Advanced Property & Trusts Greece: Hellenism, Reception, Gods in Exile, has just been published and has continued his work as the Law Faculty’s Admissions by Palgrave Macmillan. The book is a study of nineteenth-century Coordinator and as an invited professor at the University of Paris II English literature from the point of view of its engagement with the (Panthéon-Assas). classical Greek past. Why did self-consciously modern authors keep going back to arts and literature that saw the light of day over two Peter McCulloch has had a busy year. His research group has been thousand years previously? The book tries to answer this question very active, and its work on making surgery safer has begun to attract by looking at works by classicist and aesthete Walter Pater, some attention. Over the summer it was awarded two programme cosmopolitan female intellectual Vernon Lee, poetic duo ‘Michael grants, totalling £3.5m, so ensuring that the next couple of years will Field’ (Katharine Bradley and Emma Cooper), and Oscar Wilde. be busy too. He was also fortunate to lead on a paper in The Lancet on how new surgical techniques should be evaluated, something he Craig Clunas gave his inuagural lecture as Professor of the History has been deeply interested in for a decade. The fact that the group of Art in November of 2008, on the subject of ‘Putting China in its he worked with was called ‘the Balliol Collaboration’ is admittedly place in the history of art’. This year Oxford University Press less fortunate, but he takes no responsibility for this. brought out a second edition of Art in China, originally published in 1997, with increased coverage of modern and contemporary Emma Percy continues to enjoy life as the College Chaplain. Many Chinese art to reflect the growing interest in the field. In the spring interesting visitors have preached in Chapel over the last year, of 2009 he visited China, hosted by the Institute of Archaeology of including a memorable visit from Archbishop Vincent Nichols. As the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and travelled to Beijing, well as the regular Sung Evensong, members of the choir and chapel Shanxi and Hubei provinces to look at Ming dynasty buildings and community have participated in a variety of events from Taizé sites. He also lectured at Qinghua University and the Central services to chapel walks, discussion groups to entertaining a visiting Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, as well as at the Indianapolis Institute Cardinal. A small group of students accompanied the chaplain on a of Art. He continued to serve as a Visitor of the Ashmolean Museum, trip to Durham to connect with the Durham College heritage. This which reopens to visitors in its new and much expanded form in included visiting Holy Island, Jarrow and exploring Durham November 2009. He was also appointed a Trustee of the Needham Cathedral with the help of the Dean. The group was shown the Research Institute in Cambridge, and a member of the Academic document recording the consecration of the original chapel of Advisory Board of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Durham College, Oxford, on 27 January 1410. The Dean of Durham has agreed to preach at a service on 27 January 2010 in Trinity Chapel to mark 600 years of chapel worship.

Outside of term-time duties, the chaplain has conducted a number of weddings for Old Members in the chapel. She preached at the 800th anniversary of St James, Newbold Verdon, one of the few parishes where we are still the patrons, and had the wonderful experience of preaching in a packed York Minster at the ordination service of fifteen deacons, whose pre-ordination retreat she had led. 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 12

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MEMBERS OF STAFF – SEPTEMBER 2009

College Offices Medical Annabel Ownsworth, Academic Administrator Alison Nicholls, Nurse Isabel Lough, Tutorial Administrator Ashley Walters, Schools Liaison Officer Gardens Glenn Archibald, Admissions Officer Paul Lawrence, Head Gardener Luke Winter, Assistant Gardener President Aaron Drewett, Apprentice Gardener Ulli Parkinson, PA to the President Housekeeping Computing Mandy Giles, Accommodation Services Manager Alastair Johnson, Computer Manager Hannah Talbott, Acting Accommodation Services Manager Sadia Saad, Housekeeping Supervisor Alumni and Development Office Damian Blachnio, Accommodation Supervisor Sue Broers, Development Officer Carla Andrade, Scout, Staircase 14 & Fellows’ Guest Rooms Tom Knollys, Alumni Relations Officer Brenda Bassett, Scout, Staircases 6 & 3 Miriam Norman, Development Officer Leonia Chung, Scout, Staircase 18 Linora Lawrence, Database and Development Office Assistant Elsa Davidora, Scout, Staircase 4 Kate Lewis, Student Assistant (to September 2009) Yeti Dos Santos, Scout, Staircase 5 Bursary Alan East, Scout, Libraries and Chapel Robyn Searle, College Accountant Ken Ip, Scout, Rawlinson Road Jenny Cable, Executive Assistant to the Bursars Lana Ip, President’s Lodgings Nasera Cummings, Assistant Accountant Mia Krezel, Scout, Staircase 12 & Annexe Laraine Mather, Assistant Accountant Tracy Madden, Scout, Staircases 16 & 17 Katie Pullen, Fees and Battels Administrator Malcolm Nolan, Scout, Staircases 2 & 11 Sue Peach, Scout, Staircase 1, College Office & JCR Kitchen Conference/ Functions Administrator Lidia Skonieczna, Scout, Staircases 15 & 9 Rosemary Strawson Erwin Szymaniec, Scout, Staircases 7 & 13 Adam Urbanczyk, Scout, Libraries and Chapel Library in the absence of Alan East Sharon Cure, Librarian Kitchen Archives Julian Smith, Head Chef Clare Hopkins, Archivist Jonathan Clarke, Second Chef 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 13

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Sam Chruickshank, Third Chef Part-time porters: Doug Simms, Pastry Chef Nigel Timms Ionut Bacanu, Chef de Partie Wayne Evans, Chef de Partie Custodians David Lively, Chef de Partie Maurice Hicks, Custodian Chris Seaton, Chef de Partie Khalil Alhaji, Custodian Simon Wallworth, Chef de Partie Pat Conway, Kitchen Assistant Workshop John George, Kitchen Porter Steve Griffiths, Maintenance Manager Justino Geogino, Kitchen Porter Nigel Morgan, Workshop Supervisor Agostinho Viana, Part-time Porter Maged Alyas, Workshop Assistant Paul Hunt, Plumbing and Heating Engineer SCR and Dining Hall Henry Jeskowiak, Electrician Lisa Linzey, SCR and Hall Steward Gary Kinch, Painter and Decorator Rodrigo Scotti, Assistant SCR and Hall Steward John Smith, Carpenter Jonathan Flint, Dining Hall Supervisor David Thomas-Comiskey, Maintenance Operative Richard Rossouw-Smith, Dining Hall Supervisor Mariuta Teodorescu, Catering Assistant Grounds Paul Madden, Groundsman Beer Cellar David Burrows, Assistant Groundsman David Smith, Bar Manager Linda Peach, Cleaner, Sportsground Sue Smith, Bar Manager Gun Gunawan, Bar Assistant Boathouse Mark Seal, Boatman Lodge Graham Rance, Head Porter William Darbon, Porter Simon Gardiner, Porter Martin Reeve, Porter Dominic Lantain, Night Porter Nigel Bray, Night Porter 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 14

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STAFF NEWS Amidst the maelstrom of non-academic work, the students have been unaffected. We avoided swine flu but with advice from Alison Nicholls, the college nurse, and reams of detailed advice from he Report editor has just reminded me that it is time to write the countless other medical authorities, we are as ready as we can be for Tstaff news. It is the first week of the college’s summer closure the inevitable incidence later this year. Keeping everything clean and so it should be a quiet time, at least in theory! But Steve Griffiths, hygienic will stretch the scouts even more, but hopefully the students the buildings manager, and the workshop staff are busy with, inter will play their part too. alia, getting the contractors started with the refurbishment of Staircase 6, deep-cleaning the main kitchen, installing new sewage At least everyone is well fed; this is a serious understatement, as pumps in Staircase 4 and new showers in Staircase 1, and doing a Trinity’s cuisine remains excellent. Julian Smith effortlessly assumed cull of old furniture and bikes. Hannah Talbot, Mandy Giles’ the mantle of Head Chef when Chris Simms moved to Christ Church maternity cover as accommodation manager, is dealing with the in January after thirteen years of excellent service. But judging by houses hired for twenty students displaced by the Staircase 6 the accolades from all-comers since then, the standard of ‘fine refurbishment and clearing up after the 164 American students and dining’ remains exceptional. Jonathan Clarke moved up to Second twelve B&B guests who left last week. The Lodge is inundated with Chef and Verity Anton to Third Chef. Indeed ‘Vee’ impressed Green tourists, the College Office is sifting through today’s A-level results Templeton so much that they have just appointed her Head Chef, a and their ramifications, the Bursary staff is as busy as ever dealing great achievement for her but also testimony to the way that Chris with the additional workload following the end of the college’s and Julian had trained and mentored her. Good kitchen brigades financial year on 31 July and the Alumni & Development Office and bring on their young talent, so newcomers Chris Seaton, Jimmy gardeners seem to be at virtually full strength too. I had just left Bacanu and David Lively will now have a similar chance to shine. Kevin Knott’s office to discuss September’s Gaudies with Rosemary Simon Wallworth, and the ever-reliable Doug Simms, provided great Strawson, the conference and events administrator, when I bumped stability and continuity of standards during the period as everyone into, in turn, Sharon Cure, the librarian, Alastair Johnson, the else moved up, moved out or moved in. computer manager, and then Clare Hopkins, the archivist, who was hoovering her office. So much for college closure! The workshop staff is unchanged but their tasks are proliferating. Converting Staircase 6’s stylish but traditional twenty-three 2009 was a typically hectic year of juggling increasingly diverse bedrooms and four showers into twenty-five en suite rooms—yes, conference and commercial activity around our core academic two more rooms—is now Steve Griffiths’ principal task. But new function. Superimpose the experiment of admitting B&B guests, an boilers for staircases 1, 2, 3 and 6 is no small task either, especially ambitious building programme, several changes of key staff and a when done simultaneously with new sewage pumps, a new JCR glut of summer weddings, and it is a tribute to the staff that kitchen, a rapid refurbishment of Staircase 1 and countless other everything has been achieved on time and with the usual well maintenance tasks to get the real estate ship-shape for the start of merited plaudits from all our clients. Paradoxically, we were term. delighted to be so busy, as many Oxford colleges have had a major decline in conference revenue due to the dire financial climate. Mandy Giles, the accommodation manager, had a particularly Although ours was slightly down, it was not bad in the circumstances productive year, not least by producing twins in August! and reflected great credit on all involved in these vital money-raising Congratulations! Fortuitously she had completed the major clean- schemes. It has become commonplace for staff to do more with the up operation, both in College and especially in the outside properties, same resources, or the same with less, and I am most grateful. when the students vacated after Trinity term. She had the four 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 15

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American Summer Schools well ensconced and additional B&B have brought in record numbers of tourists and helped the college guests accommodated (180 altogether) before she departed for the coffers accordingly. maternity ward. Damien Blachio and Erwin Szymaniec continued to work like Trojans doing the heavy lifting and additional tasks but The other excellent news is that Sharon Cure is now formally the Sadia Saad and all the scouts are commended on achieving so much college librarian. Initially employed to cover Alison Felstead’s in so little time with such short handover periods. When Malcolm exchange stint at the Bodleian, Sharon made such a favourable Nolan tells me he has never worked so hard—and he has been here impact here that we were all delighted when she agreed to stay after for over forty-four years (!)—then it is worth noting. We were very Alison accepted a permanent appointment at the ‘Bod’. sorry to say goodbye to Kathy Davies in June after over twenty years of sterling service as a scout; she will be sorely missed. Fortunately, I haven’t forgotten the gardeners, groundsman Paul Madden, newcomers Elsa Davidova, Tracy Madden, Leoni Chung and Carla boatman Mark Seal, or the individuals in the workshop. They all Andrade have all fitted in well and quickly. continue to execute unseen but important work in maintaining the fabric and facilities of Trinity life. But the buildings manager and The quality, efficiency and style of service in Hall and the SCR have head gardener have articles later so I won’t steal any more of their been notably good this year: it was no co-incidence that it was Lisa thunder. Linzey’s first full year in charge, albeit she had regularly deputised over the years. We are now making plans for next year, when Lisa Of course, some of the staff doesn’t come under my direct aegis but also departs on maternity leave. Fortunately, Rodrigo Scotti, and I am not unsighted on the key work they do. The college’s principal newcomers Jonathan Flint and Richard Rossouw–Smith, are well function is academic and we do not under-estimate the volume or the established, so high standards will be maintained. Pat Conway has painstaking nature of the detailed work done by Annabel Ownsworth, continued as a kitchen assistant, despite the recent, tragic death of Isabel Lough and Glenn Archibald in the College Office throughout her son, Gary, who had previously been on the workshop staff. the year but especially in the pre-term rush following exam results. This will, no doubt, also be affected by the departure of Jonathan The SCR benefitted from the excellent job Dave Smith, the beer Downing, the schools liaison officer, who is returning to his studies cellar manager, did in totally re-shelving and reorganising the SCR and is being replaced by Ashley Walters. They will, of course, all wine cellars. Every bottle was moved, twice… and none was broken. soon be adjusting to working for a new boss, Valerie Worth. She As a result, the rotten shelves are gone and last month’s stocktaking succeeds Trudy Watt who leaves after eight years as Senior Tutor; we took three hours instead of three days. Dave and Sue Smith also had wish Trudy the best of good fortune in her new ventures. additional work during Gun Gunawan’s absence following his recent operation and a family illness, so the Smiths saw even more of the The Bursary similarly does painstaking, meticulous work but rarely Americans this summer. gets the accolades. Robyn Searle, the College Accountant, lost her assistant, Paul Rose in April; he was replaced by Nasera Cumming Graham Rance’s 24/7/52 men, the porters, have also seen a number on promotion. Nasera, in turn, was replaced by Katie Pullen: both of changes this year. Mark Norman departed for Worcester College have rapidly settled in to their new niches and continue to smile in April after six years of ‘front of house’ service. But the day despite the pained expressions from all the folk who come to pay, or porters, Bill Darbon, Simon Gardiner and Martin Reeve are all now dispute, their battels! part of the Trinity furniture, while Nigel Bray and Dominic Lantain keep the college secure at night, and seem to be quite busy para- I’m bound to have missed someone—Ulli, Jenny, Laraine, Anna, medics too! And the custodians, Maurice Hicks and Khalil Alhaji Omar, the folks in the potwash, casuals etc—who all do important 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 16

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work and may now give me aggro! If so, mea culpa. But I hope the above gives readers a flavour for the value, breadth and increasing pace of work undertaken by the staff. My gratitude goes to them all. Now back to that, alleged, college closure period!

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NEW UNDERGRADUATES Chambers, Thomas Stephen St Paul’s School, London

Child, Camilla Michaelmas Term 2008 St Swithun’s School, Winchester Addison, Megan Elizabeth West Kirby Grammar School, Wirral Collet-Fenson, Luke Berenger Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge Archer, Christopher Halliford School, Middlesex Cooke, Joseph Christopher Malbank School, Cheshire Baggott, Rory Adam Groby Community College, Leicester Courtney, Chloe Rose Alleyn’s School, London Bedford, Sarah Anne Bristol Grammar School, Bristol Cox, Hannah Jayne Ridge College, Stockport Bevan, Charlotte Samia Purdie Wycombe Abbey School, Wycombe Davies, Emily Rose Adams’ Grammar School, Shropshire Bossward, Paul King Edward VI School, Northumberland Donora, Alexander James Tyrrell Tonbridge School, Kent Bradley, Gracie Mae Wyggeston & Queen Elizabeth College, Leicester Dowding, Alexander James Poole Grammar School, Dorset Brehcist, Abigail Camilla Mary King’s High School for Girls, Warwick Dunne, Patrick James Sutton Grammar School, Surrey Browning, Sarah Mary Sir William Perkins’s School, Surrey Enoch, James St Paul’s School, London Bull, Rachel Louise Loughborough High School, Loughborough Feng, Yile Sherborne School, Dorset Bulusu, Sirisha Venkata Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge Gilmore, Alexander Richard Joseph The King’s School, Canterbury Burke, David Sullivan Upper School, Co. Down Goundry, Timothy Trinity School, Leamington Spa Caines, Karen Maureen St Edward’s School, Oxford Groot, Claus Alfred International School of Monaco, Monaco Case, Edward Philip Farman Eton College, Windsor Hackett, Alexander John Farnborough Sixth Form College, Hampshire 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 18

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Haenlein, Lucy Lim, Ee Lyn Collingham Tutors, London Penang Chinese Girls’ High School, Malaysia

Hanbury-Williams, Michael Lindsell, Jonathan James Eton College, Windsor Warwick School, Warwick

Hargrave, Rachel Charlotte Lynch, Charlotte Isabella City of London Freemen’s School, London Birkenhead High School, Birkenhead

Horrocks, Eleanor Sarah Mackey, Bethan Catriona St Paul’s Girls’ School, London Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls, Monmouth

Hu, Yu Mason, Benjamin Christopher Thomas Cambridge Tutors, Surrey Royal Grammar School, Worcester

Hutton, Christopher Mark McCann, Andrew The Manchester Grammar School, Manchester St Leonard’s Comprehensive School, Co. Durham

Jones, Robert Joseph McCarten, Katrina Anne Bolton School (Boys Division), Lancashire Cardinal Newman College, Lancashire

Kane, Laura Michelle McClellan, Thomas Michael Henry Box School, Witney Downside School, Bath

Keiller, James Alexander McClory, Philip Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge Abbey Grammar School, Co. Down

Khan, Mehreen McGuinn, Callum Luke Ken Stimpson Community School, Peterborough Winstanley College, Wigan

Krasodomski-Jones, Alexander Meldrum, Jonathan Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge St Aidan’s Catholic School, Sunderland

Kyte, Rose Elizabeth Melhuish, Francesca Marianne Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, Clitheroe Coventry School (Bablake), Coventry

Lagrue, Marianne Mulliner, Charlotte John Henry Newman School, Stevenage St Swithun’s School, Hampshire

Lear, Stephanie Rachel Nawab, Ayaaz Royal School, Bath King Edward VI Five Ways School, Birmingham

Leppard, Susannah Claire O’Reilly, Thomas Phillip North Leamington School, Leamington Spa Dulwich College, London

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Peatman, Oliver Stephens, Jennifer Louise Lord Wandsworth College, Hampshire Churchill Community School, Bristol

Peppel, Lea Jenny Jemima Suwanmanee, Siros Gymnasium Steglitz, Berlin, Germany Cambridge Tutors, Surrey

Pickering, Laura Jane Tamayo, Kieran Prior Pursglove College, Cleveland Dunraven School, London

Pointer, George Thomas Tan, Chien Hwei Reading School, Reading Benenden School, Kent

Richards, Harry Tasker, Poppy Harrow School, Middlesex Queen Margaret’s School, York

Roby, Ysobel Frances Taylor, William Guildford High School, Surrey Cherwell School, Oxford

Root, Max Tranter, Matthew Hugh Royal Grammar School, Guilford St John Fisher R C High School, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Royle, Georgina Louise Trigle, Charlotte Siglinde Torquay Grammar School for Girls, Devon Notting Hill & Ealing High School, London

Shanmugaratnam, Hari Haren Valori, Luke Adrian Nicholas Bedford Modern School, Bedford Cheltenham College, Cheltenham

Shorrocks, Rosalind Walters, Katherine Nicole Upton-By-Chester High School, Chester Dame Alice Harpur School, Bedford

Sidders, Katherine Anne Ward, Robert John Haberdashers’ Aske’s Girls School, Elstree Norwich School, Norwich

Simons, David Whalley, Charles King Edward VI School, Chemlsford Caereinion High School, Powys

Smith, Grant Laurence Whitaker, Eleanor Poole Grammar School, Dorset Queen Margaret’s School, York

Smith, Kathryn Whitby, Andrew Dollar Academy, Clackmannanshire Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood

Smith, Kate Elizabeth Yarlott, Lydia Clare St Benedict’s Upper School, Bury St Edmunds Colyton Grammar School, Devon

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Zhu, Huawei Choi, Lai Sheung Cambridge Tutors, Surrey Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Clark, Lawrence Trinity College, Oxford UNDERGRADUATE VISITING STUDENTS Corkett, Alex James Szabo, Marc University of Durham University of Göttingen, Germany D’Souza, Alicia Marie McGill University, Canada NEW POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS Decker, Daniel Russell Hilary Term 2008 United States Naval Academy, USA Almiron, Michelle Shirley (William H G Fitzgerald Scholar) Australian National University, Canberra (Exchange Student) Feng, Lu Kulkarni, Manish Churchill College, Cambridge University of Mumbai, India (Saїd Graduate Scholar in Business Studies) Gryc, Wojciech University of Toronto, Canada (Rhodes Scholar) Sousa, Micaela Aveiro University, Portugal He, Wen-Yu Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Taiwan Trinity Term 2008 Yeoh, Kar Kheng Universiti Teknologi, Malayasia Hearne, Alexander Princeton University, USA Michaelmas Term 2008 (Saïd Graduate Scholar in Business Studies) Aitken, David Hammond University of Canterbury, New Zealand Hernandez Ingelmo, Victor Manuel (Birkett Scholar in Environmental Studies) Complutense University, Madrid

Barrow, Francesca Clare Javid, Mahsa Trinity College, Oxford University of Cambridge Medical School

Bertoldi, Ben Renato Juwono, Vishnu University of Queensland, Australia Columbia University, USA

Best, Jonathan Gordon Kaiser, Marius Trinity College, Oxford University of Edinburgh (Birkett Scholar in Environmental Studies) Bundvad, Mette Trinity College, Oxford Kalkan, Gökhan University of Manchester Charlton, Andrew University of Edinburgh Kempston, Ellen Clare Trinity College, Oxford 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 21

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Kendal, Adrian Reginald Shah, Deep Jayendrakumar Magdalen College, Oxford University of Georgia, USA (Rhodes Scholar)

Khandekar, Siddarth Stigglebout, Mark Andrew Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Corpus Christi College, Oxford (Saїd Graduate Scholar in Business Studies) (Michael and Judith Beloff Scholar)

Khatamsaz Khorrami, Elham Strauss, Claire Emma UK London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London Trinity College, Oxford

Lang, Volker Wilfried Tilley, Jennifer Miriam Ruth Lugwig-Maximillians University, Germany Trinity College, Oxford

Logan, Angus William James Walker, Jonathan Neil Trinity College, Cambridge Imperial College School of Medicine, University of London

Lun, Bophanie Christina Wei, Xiaoke University of Bristol Peking University, China

Macdougall-Davis, Robert Bernard Oxford Brookes University, Oxford

Mackay, Iain Campbell Trinity College, Oxford

Matteson, Myles Brand University of Edinburgh

Mithen, James University of Bristol

Phillips, Dimitri Boston College, USA

Pogna, Edgar Allan Universita La Sapienza, Italy

Rajan, Pravin Sunder Georgetown University, USA (Rhodes Scholar)

Richards, Alana Dani University of Nottingham

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DEGREES, SCHOOLS RESULTS AND AWARDS 2009

n the academic year 2008/2009 there were 308 undergraduates reading for Final Honour Schools and 114 graduates reading for higher degrees, Ione undergraduate Visiting Student, and one postgraduate Exchange student.

Thirty members, out of eighty-eight, gained first class degrees in Final Honour Schools in 2009. Their names are in shown in bold.

Charlotte S Abbs Johannes C Ender Benjamin W Judah William M Randall Edward B Arnold Julian W Few Megan G Kershaw Laura J Reardon Suzanne Ashman Jennifer M Galloway Matthew Knowles Charles E M Reston Alexander N S Auld Holly G Gathercole Alexander G G Laing Sian Roberts Peter A Ballett Joseph R W Goddard Mary-Jannet Leith Sam Roots Claire Balmer Alexander Goldsmith William Lough Jessica A Rule Sarah G Batty Sam A Hall Henry T Luckhoo Peta C Z-M Rush Graeme V Brooks Dominic H Hannon Kenneth T M Mackenzie Cameron C Russell Matthew S Brown Daniel Harding Mohamed Madi James Schneider Kimberley H R Bryon Eve M Harris Shoji Maeno Harry J Smith Raphael A Cadenhead Sophie L Haynes Ayesha A Malik Rachel A Smith Georgina A Campbell Francis G Hemingway Henry F S Martin James L G Stevens Chiau Ling Chow Charles M M Hill Rajesh Mistry Ciara S Stratford Thomas J D Clarke Catriona G Hodge Matthew Nour Elizabeth R Sutton Diana M Cross Yu Lin Huang Chengyi Ong Yi Fan Tan Helena M Curtis James J Hunter Katie E Parsons Benjamin E Thurston Owen Curwell-Parry Soojin Hwang Amanda R Partridge Charlotte Trainer Alissa F Davies Maxwell J C Irving Frances C Perrin Benjamin E Wallace Peter A R Davis Apoorva Jayaraman Sophia K Pilkington-Miksa Catherine E A Wallace Alexander W Davison Frederic W Jayatilaka Emily R Pimm Zhao Han Wang Tanya Deb Nirmal Jethwa Roland Powell Sarah Ward Simone G Dogherty Kang Kang Jiang Bethan M Prince Richard Williams 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 23

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THE FOLLOWING ADVANCED Victor M Hernandez Ingelmo (Latin American Studies) Marius Kaiser (Environmental Change) DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES Myles B Matteson (Criminology and Criminal Justice, Distinction) WERE AWARDED: Pravin S Rajan (Social Anthropology) Michaela P Rombach (Maths/Computer Science) (Those results not available at the beginning of Michaelmas Term Deep J Shah (Comparative Social Policy 2009 will be listed in the 2010 Report) Xiaoke Wei (Financial Economics)

Doctors of Philosophy Masters of Studies Lewis Allan (History) Francesca Barrow (Theology) Abdullah R A Baginda (International Relations) Ben R Bertoldi (History of Art) Jonathan D Brant (Theology) Iain C Mackay (Theology, Distinction) Wei Yang Cheong (Economics) Alana D Richards (Greek and Latin Languages and Literature) Emily J Down (Physics) Louise A Hardwick (Modern Languages) Executive Master of Business Administration Alexander Kurze (Biochemistry) Manish Kulkarni Michael J Lynskey (Management Studies) Dobrota Pucherova (English) Master of Business Administration Adam M Saunders (Social Policy) Alexander Hearne (Distinction) Andrew M Sayer (Physics) Szewan Wong (Distinction) (2008) Marc C Swan (Clinical Medicine) Denys Wahl (Matierials Science) (2007) Masters of Philosophy Mathijs Zandbergen (Materials Science) Urvashi Aneja (International Relations) Andreas Coutsoudis (Law) Doctor of Medicine Sarah E de Haas (English) Humma Shahid Amy S King (Modern Chinese Studies, Distinction) Kristin M Purdy (Comparative Social Policy) Bachelors of Medicine Damien Ming Bachelor of Philosophy Kathryn E Newell (Distinction) Henry F A C Shevlin (Philosophy) Toritseju O Sillo (Distinction) Charles R Williams (Distinction) Postgraduate Certificate in Education Bophanie C Lun (English) Bachelors of Civil Law Mark A Stigglebout Postgraduate Certificate in Diplomatic Studies Vishnu Juwono Masters of Science David H Aitken (Environmental Change, Distinction) Undergraduate Scholarships Alicia M D’Souza (Sociology) Edward B Arnold (English) Wojech Gryc (Mathematical Modelling) Claire Balmer (Materials Science) 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 24

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Raphael A Cadenhead (Theology) Catherine I Sides (English and Modern Languages) Helena M Curtis (Materials Science) Harry J Smith (History) Peter A R Davis (Mathematics) Oliver R Southwick (Mathematics) Julian W Few (Chemistry) Wanzhen Tang (Chemistry) Daniel Harding (Chemistry) James Thetford (History) Catriona G Hodge (History and Modern Languages) Francesca J Thomas (Theology) Maxwell J C Irving (Modern Languages) Matthew D Watson (Physics) Megan G Kershaw (Medicine) Frederick Weyman (Modern Languages) Matthew Knowles (PPE) Richard Williams (Theology) Kevin S Y Kong (Engineering, Economics and Management) Mary-Jannet Leith (Ancient and Modern History) Graduate Scholarships Henry T Luckhoo (Engineering Science) Christopher N Goulbourne Matthew Nour (Medicine) Felix Hofmann Roland Powell (English) Volker Lang William M Randall (Modern Languages) Manon H Mathias Sam Roots (Materials Science) Jiwen Zhu Yi Fan Tan (Mathematics and Statistics) Benjamin E Thurston (Medicine) Graduate Prizes Benjamin E Wallace (English) Mette Bundvad Xuejuan Xu (Engineering, Economics and Management) Lai S Choi Lawrence Clark Undergraduate Exhibitions Lu Feng Paul J Baggott (Engineering, Economics and Management) Julia T Schoettl Michael H Borup (Economics and Management) Jennifer M R Tilley Ushashi Dasgupta (English) Jonathan N Walker Craig S Furman (Chemistry) Graeme M Greenfield (Medicine) College Prizes and Awards Cicely J Hadman (English and Modern Languages) Adam Ben-Yousef: Stirling Boyd Prize Apoorva Jayaraman (Physics) Kimberley H R Bryon: Douglas Sladen Essay Prize (runner-up) Nirmal Jethwa (Biochemistry) Prateek Choudhary: Sarah and Nadine Pole Scholarship (shared) Teddy Kamata (Biochemistry) Luke B Collet-Fenson: Lady Astbury Memorial Prize in Law Jack Knowles (English) Luke B Collet-Fenson: Colin Nicholls QC Prize in Law Matthew J T Mair (PPE) Edward Cripps: Douglas Sladen Essay Prize Alexander J Mead (Physics) Diana M Cross: Warburton Book Prize Christopher R Newton (Modern Languages) Alexander J Dowding: Richard Hillary Prize Chengyi Ong (PPE) Stephen S Du: Lovells Prize in Law Monic Pant (Mathematics) Kenneth T M Mackenzie: Sutro Prize in Literae Humaniores David S Rackstraw (Physics) Katrina A McCarten: Sarah and Nadine Pole Scholarship (shared) Daniel J Reeve (English) Christopher Sellers: James and Cecily Holladay Prize Jessica A Rule (English) in Ancient History 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 25

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James Thetford: Douglas Sladen Essay Prize (runner-up) Henry T Luckhoo: Institute of Engineering and Technology Catherine E A Wallace: Warburton Book Prize Manufacturing Engineering Student Prize for final year project Lucy Wheatley: Sarah and Nadine Pole Scholarship (shared) Charlotte I Lynch: Morgan Advanced Ceramics Annual Prize for Richard Williams: Stirling Boyd Prize best performance in 1st year practicals Vanessa Yu: Margaret Howard Essay Prize Charlotte I Lynch: Johnson-Matthew Annual Prize for highest marks in Preliminary Examination R A Knox Prize Myles B Matteson: Roger Hood Prize (proxime accessit) for best Alexander W Davison performance in MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice Frederic Jayatilaka Kathryn E Newell: Margaret Harris Memorial Prize Matthew Nour Matthew Nour: Wronker Pharmacology Prize for excellent Yi Fan Tan research project Alexander V Pinder: Gibbs Prize for performance in Physics David Evers Prize Finals (2008) Benjamin E Thurston Benjamin J Pope: Gibbs Book Prize for Modern History (2008) Evelyn C G Richardson: The 2nd de Paravicini Prize for University Prizes and other Awards performance in Latin Moderations Jonathan Ayling: Gibbs Prize for Biochemistry (2008) Adam M Saunders: Graduate Student Award from SASE (Society Georgina A Campbell: Department of Materials Annual Prize for for the Advancement of Socio-Economics) outstanding improvement (joint winner) Toritseju O Sillo: Margaret Harris Memorial Prize Helena M Curtis: Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining A T Benjamin E Thurston: Gibbs Prize (proxime accessit) for First Green Annual Prize for best Ceramic graduate BM, Part II (2008) Ushashi Dasgupta: Gibbs Prize for results in English Moderations Jennifer M R Tilley: R H Craven Award for the best Polymer (2008) graduate in UK (Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining) Sarah Downes: QinetiQ Prize for the best Materials third year James P A Wright: Gibbs Prize for best overall performance in team design project English Finals (2008) Alexander Goldsmith: The Hall-Houghton Junior Septuagint Prize Alexander Goldsmith: Pusey and Ellerton Senior Prize for Biblical Hebrew Cicely J Hadman: Gibbs Prize for best overall performance in Modern Languages Preliminary (2008) Daniel Harding: Brian Bannister Part II Thesis Prize for Chemistry (proxime accessit) Frances E Hedges: Gibbs Prize for best performance in Modern Languages Finals (2008) Caroline Humphrey: A T Green Award for the best Ceramic graduate in UK (Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining) Frederic Jayatilaka: PTCL Thesis Prize Nirmal Jethwa: Gibbs Book Prize for Biochemistry Jack Knowles: Gibbs Prize for results in English Moderations (2008) 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 26

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THE COLLEGE YEAR

ALUMNI AND DEVELOPMENT between 1987-1989 made it back to College. A similar number of those who matriculated in or before 1952 enjoyed the very best of OFFICE REPORT Trinity hospitality on a warm evening in June. Not only have we been trying to reduce the number of years between Gaudies so that nce again, I start with the observation that it seems to have been contemporaries can meet more frequently, which I am convinced a very busy year in the Alumni and Development Office and O will have the approval of the majority of Old Members, but next as I look back at my diary, I see that we have held even more events year, we will resume the annual ‘50 plus Years On’ Lunch, which than in previous years. Given the nature of the work of the office— was only suspended this year because of the formal Gaudies helping Old Members and Friends to maintain contact with each covering those years. other and the college, producing regular publications and raising money to support those who are studying at Trinity now—it is very Many people also enjoy events linked to a society or a subject and gratifying to report that attendance at events has increased and we once again the Boat Club attracted a good number of Old Members have had a very good year in terms of fundraising. Only you can to its annual dinner. Pleasing though it is to bring former rowers judge the success of our publications, but Tom Knollys has invested together for a meal, it is even better to enable Old Members and a great deal of hard work in their preparation and he has now taken Friends to meet and cheer on our current crews. On the Saturday of on the additional burden of editing this Report. Summer Eights, we held a barbecue at the Boat House and we hope to repeat this in future years. If you are not currently listed as a Events Friend of TCBC and you would like to receive the Boat Club When the President arrived in 2006, we hoped he would travel newsletters and invitations, do let us know. around the country to meet Old Members, as well as welcoming them back to Trinity. He has maintained a taxing schedule over the In March, the Michael Beloff Law Society Dinner was for the first past year, holding receptions and dinners in Liverpool, Exeter and time promoted, to those who studied Law and those who have gone Leeds, and will be hosting a lunch in Dublin in early October, and it on to a career in the legal profession, as an opportunity not only to is our intention to include Cambridge and Scotland in our invite partners, but also colleagues, to meet our current Law students. programme later in the coming year. After dinner, guests enjoyed an excellent speech by Lord Neuberger, who was responsible for changes to admission to the Bar. The Thanks are owed to David Richards, who has been tireless in invitation to the Medical Society Dinner in May was extended organising regular informal networking drinks in London. These have beyond those who study or studied Medicine to include Old proved popular with people from across the age range, but especially Members in related fields. Like the lawyers a few weeks earlier, those who matriculated in the last ten years and we are grateful to Trinity Medics were this time invited to bring colleagues to College David, with the assistance of Sophie Coulombeau, for using for the evening and we hope that next year we will attract even Facebook and other networking sites to promote these ‘get togethers’. greater numbers to both events. If you would like to receive an invitation to either event and have not previously done so, please let As we plan our annual calendar, it is intriguing to speculate on what the Alumni and Development Office know. is most likely to bring Old Members back to Oxford. Judging by the evidence of 2008-2009, Gaudies continue to be the biggest magnet. Sarah Jenks, the president of the Music Society, rose to a challenge Last October, we welcomed over ninety people from the 1974-1977 set by her friends and in May masterminded two performances of group and in March, more than eighty of those who were here 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 27

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Schubert’s little-known opera Fierrabras. Many of you will have spoken to Sarah during the last two telethons and will vouch for her enthusiasm and commitment to opera. In the space of only a few weeks, other Trinity students and the University orchestra were recruited to take part and both performances were well attended by Old Members and Friends alongside enthusiasts from beyond the Trinity precincts. Particular thanks are owed to those who contributed to the success of the evening by responding to Sarah’s appeal for financial assistance with this enterprising project.

We should not forget events that are open to everyone and we have been thinking about ways to increase their popularity. Chapel was filled to overflowing for the Carol Service last December, but the London Reception, which was held in May at Petley’s Art Gallery in the West End, and the Trinity Society Weekend, which is part of the wider Oxford Alumni Weekend, though well attended, did not draw as many people as we had hoped. One plan is to change the date of the next London Reception to February and if you have any other suggestions about what we might do to increase attendance at events such as these, I would be interested to hear them.

A further innovation was made this year to the Parents’ Lunches, Some of the younger guests being entertained at the Family Garden Party, July 2009 when, for the first time, current students were invited to accompany their parents. This proved to be an exceptionally popular move and we were sorry that we could not accommodate everyone who wished contribution coming from the estate of the late Professor John to come along. To borrow from common parlance, please book early Mitchell (1935). The Mitchell legacy and many other substantial to avoid disappointment next year! gifts have been designated for undergraduate bursaries. In the current economic climate, we are especially aware of the difficulties faced Finally, no round up of this year’s events could be complete without by undergraduates and graduates and the college is determined to do mention of the Family Garden Party at the beginning of July. We had all that it can to ensure that they can make the most of their time at a number of anxious moments as the weather forecasters predicted Trinity and are not unduly affected by financial constraints. Other rain, but in true Trinity style, the sun shone and fifty Old Members significant donations were made to the endowment for Classics and and their families—170 people in all—made the most of the glorious for the fabric of the college, including a generous contribution from weather to frolic on the lawns and indulge in afternoon tea. the Wolfson Foundation. In acknowledgement of their considerable generosity, Geoffrey de Jager, John Singer (1969) and Roger Fry Fundraising were elected Thomas Pope Fellows during the course of the year. In terms of fundraising, we have had a particularly successful year as Old Members and Friends have provided exceptional support for The Annual Fund, which focuses on projects for the immediate which we cannot thank you enough. From August 2008 to the end benefit of the student community, continued to attract widespread of July 2009, over £1.2 million was raised in cash, the largest single support, in large part as a result of the telethon, which was held in 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 28

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September 2008. Coinciding as it did with the collapse of Lehmann we can award and to maintain, improve and extend our wonderful Brothers, the amount raised was lower than in previous years, but buildings. In 2009-10, we will continue to approach Old Members many people were persuaded to make a donation for the first time, and Friends in the hope that they will be able to support us, at encouraged in part by the promise that the government would match, whatever level is comfortable for them. at the level of £1 for every £3 donated, gifts from alumni who had not given in the previous three years. A very creditable £134,000 The Alumni & Development Office was raised during the telethon and, over the course of the year, As the Alumni and Development Office takes on more work, we donations to the fund exceeded £180,000. have welcomed a new member of staff. In January, we were joined by Miriam Norman, who is working with Tom Knollys, Sue Broers Benefactors and Linora Lawrence in both alumni relations and fundraising. Trinity welcomes the opportunity to thank Old Members and Friends During the year, we have benefited from the invaluable assistance for their generous financial support and the two Benefactors’ of Kate Lewis, herself an Old Member; she has now left us and we Lunches in the autumn were very well attended. Those people who all wish her well as she completes her studies. have informed us that they have left a legacy to Trinity in their will were invited to the annual William Pitt Society lunch in the spring. Finally, I hope to meet more of you during the course of the coming The highlight of the year was the Ralph Bathurst Society Dinner, year, whether you attend our official events, pass through College where major benefactors were feted by the Trinity Choir, which had at other times or use your dining rights to come to High Table. It is the privilege of performing with Oxford Philomusica, the a pleasure to work so closely with all our Old Members and Friends. University’s orchestra in residence, before dinner in Hall. I would 2009-10 promises to be another exciting year! like to take this opportunity to thank once again every person who has made a donation to the college during the last year; your support Kevin Knott has transformed the life of those in College. Estates Bursar

You may be aware that the success of fundraising across the collegiate University is measured in part by the Old Member giving rate. We still have some way to go if we are to approach the most successful college, which attracts donations from 30% of its Old Members, but our rate this year has risen to 18%. Interaction with the Collegiate University is not simply a matter of taking part in the annual benchmarking project. You will, no doubt, be aware of the Oxford Thinking Campaign, with its goal of over £1.25 billion, and you may have wondered how this relates to the colleges. Every donation to a college, for whatever purpose, is counted towards the grand total, and the campaign has already raised over £770 million.

I would not want to create the impression that we are taking undue pride in this year’s success as this is far from the truth. Given the precarious financial position of the University and in particular the Humanities, we are working to fully fund Fellowships in Classics, History and Law, to increase the size and number of the bursaries 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 29

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BENEFACTORS – AUGUST 2008 TO JULY 2009

Fellows, Honorary Fellows, Former Fellows and Staff 1936 Anonymous Sir John Moreton KCMG KCVO MC Anonymous Mr R M S Allan (1956) 1937 Mr F J Barnett Mr G P Allsebrook The Rt Revd R O Bowlby (1948) The Revd C W Pakenham Mrs F S Broers Mr P G M Brown 1938 Sir John Burgh KCMG CB Major M G Cardew Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey Bt (1958) The late Mr J J Gagnon Sir Anthony Cleaver FBCS (1958) Mr P M Luttman-Johnson Dr R A Fletcher OBE DSC (1946) Sir David Goodall GCMG (1950) 1939 The Revd Professor J L Houlden His Honour the late Judge R A Barr Sir Brian Jenkins GCMG GBE (1957) Mr P Kinnersley Mr T E Knollys Mr K Knott 1940 The Rt Hon Lord Kingsdown KG PC FRSA (1948) The late Dr R A B Drury Dr P J Moody Major J Harper-Nelson Miss M J E Norman Mr J H Pattisson (1952) 1941 Sir Ivor Roberts KCMG Professor C F Cullis Sir John Rowlinson FRS (1944) Sir Leonard Figg KCMG Professor D N Sedley FBA (1965) Mr D C Humphreys Dr T A Watt The late Major P H Hutchinson Mr D le B Jones CB 1931 Mr P Sleightholm The late Major G Thorne 1942 1932 Mr M R Caroe The late Mr F J P Gore CBE RA The Rt Hon Lord Digby 1933 Mr A D Fricker Sir Humphrey Prideaux OBE DL Mr E R Giles Maj Gen I A Robertson CB MBE DL Mr R E Hodgkin Mr H M Liddell 1935 Major General H G Woods CB MBE MC DL The late Professor J W Mitchell 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 30

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1943 Mr A M Stuart Smith 1950 Mr R C Bond Dr J P A Weaver Anonymous Mr J Melfort Campbell Mr H E P Woodcock Anonymous Mr S J D Corsan Professor R L Baldwin Mr G O Davies 1947 Mr R W Barklam Mr E B Garsed Major R M Collins Mr C R E Brooke OBE Mr R F Lewin Mr N D Cox DFC and Bar Dr D N Croft FRCP Mr R G Maclean His Hon Martin Graham QC The late Mr R J Dix Professor B S Smith Mr R M Griffiths Mr J F Duke Mr J A W Whitehead Mr D Henderson Sir John Hall Bt Mr M M L Hudson Mr P L Hughes 1944 Mr T W Mason Mr J F Mann Mr G L Ackers Mr G D B Pearse Mr N F McCarthy Mr D G S Akers Dr A M Smith MA BCh Mr K M A Ryves-Hopkins Mr J M Barrowclough The late Mr P C Bowles 1948 1951 Dr G T Haysey Mr B Barker MBE Mr T B H Brunner The late Mr R S Boddington Mr P L G Chevalier 1945 The late Mr J D Bryars His Hon Judge Hordern QC Mr C E N Arkell Mr C G V Davidge OBE Mr H W Joynt Mr R E D Arnold Mr P T Gordon-Duff-Pennington OBE DL Mr J R Lang Brown Mr D C Attlee Mr P D C Greenway Mr R E Mavor Mr J W Bateson Mr A G S Grellier Mr D Parnwell Mr J A C Briggs Mr D F Hodson CBE Mr G S P Peacocke Mr M J H Charles The Hon I T M Lucas CMG Mr A G Wilson The Revd Canon H Collard Professor M P O Morford Dr J M Wilson Dr I A Hill Mr R N Ponsonby CBE Mr J A Morrell TD Mr P P J Sterwin 1952 Mr W R Norman Dr I G Thomson Anonymous Mr R M T Raikes Mr M J L Attfield The Revd E N Staines 1949 Professor P A A Back CBE Mr J C Woodcock OBE Mr G R Barkes Mr C A K Cullimore Mr J C Browne Mr R K Day 1946 Mr J Faull The Revd M D Drury Mr J Gent Dr A D Ferguson FRCP Mr J Fraser Mr J B Goudge Mr H J M Hambrook Mr C W M Grose Canon R L Incledon Dr D T D Hughes Mr S D Lawrence Sir John McFarland Bt Mr T B Owen CBE The Revd A W Morrison Mr T D Raikes Mr J G Richardson Mr C M Smith Mr T R M Sewell Dr C M Staveley 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 31

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Mr G C Smith Dr M G Ebison OBE FlnstP FRAS Mr D J Weight Mr A R Stephenson OBE Mr R B F Ingham Mr R D T White Mr P W Watson Mr A D Jenkins Mr C M J Whittington Sir Martin Wedgwood Bt Mr C A H Kemp Dr C B Williams FRCP The late Mr G C N Livsey 1953 Mr D C Moor 1958 Mr F C G Bradley Mr J A Nelson-Jones Mr J B Adams Mr D F C Evans Mr W G O’Brien Mr M F Attenborough Mr T F Godfrey-Faussett Mr E P Sharp Mr J H Bottomley Dr C R T Hughes FRACP Mr W K Topley Mr A C J Donaldson Mr W N M Lawrence Mr A G P Lang Mr D W C Morrison 1956 Mr A T Lowry Dr B I Parsons Mr S T Corcoran Dr D G Parks-Smith Mr E R G Shelswell White Mr D J F Fecci Mr S D Rangeley-Wilson Mr P S Trevis Mr M Gainsborough Mr I S T Senior Mr J F E Upton The Venerable C Hewetson Mr D L H Stone Dr B Warburton The Revd B A Hopkinson The late Mr W F C Swann Mr S H Wood Professor M A Murch CBE Mr J A B Thompson Mr D C Nelson Dr G A Tindale OBE 1954 Mr J A Paine Mr R D Welham Mr N W Buchanan Mr W C Parker Mr F G Cochran Mr B R Rea 1959 Mr C L Hicks Mr A Richardson The late Mr G Akerman Dr A H M Hoare Mr T W Roberts Professor J L Deutsch Mr N J T Jaques Mr F N P Salaman Dr M J Elliott Mr F M Merifield Mr S L Tanner Dr D S Fleming Mr J A Millbourn Mr J C E Webster OBE Mr R C B Hulbert The Revd J E Pawsey Mr A R W Lean Mr R C Pegler 1957 Dr B T Meadows Mr P J Petter Anonymous Professor D E Minnikin Dr R A Plumbridge Mr D J F Barwell The Hon Sir Simon Orr-Ewing Bt Major General T D G Quayle CB Mr D C Burrows Mr P H Parsons Mr T A G Raikes The Revd N J Charrington Dr H E R Preston Mr D R B Russell Mr D J Culley Mr R A Travis Dr R E S Tanner Mr C N Laine Mr D M Wilson Mr Michael McNaught 1960 Mr A J Pull Anonymous 1955 Mr E J Smalman-Smith Mr T A Bird Mr J S Allan Mr M G L Thomas Mr W H Bittel Mr J M St F Dare The Revd G F Warner Professor T R Brown 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 32

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Brig The Hon S J T Coleridge Dr C G Butchard The Revd Dr F J Selman Professor Sir Malcolm Green DM FRCP Dr J A Evers Mr O M Smyth Professor M C E Jones DLitt FSA Mr N M Fraser Dr R H Stone Mr D F G Lewis Mr T W Gooddy Mr R J M Neal Professor C Hall 1966 Mr J C Nowell-Smith Dr R D Hinge Mr J L A Cary OBE Mr J M Pargeter Dr J M Morton Mr P B C Collins Mr F A Smith Dr B D Ross Mr H A Elphick Mr A E G Rudebeck Mr I P K Enters 1961 Mr R L Rusby Professor D Fairer Mr R P F Barber OBE Mr M H C Symonds Mr I M Fyfe Mr C J S Brearley Mr J D H Weatherby Mr A A G Grant Professor J F Cartwright Mr S W Westbrook Mr P G Hollings Dr G A H Chapman Mr W Hood Dr G Georghallides 1964 Dr A S B Hughes Mr C J Hemsley Anonymous Mr B R Kirkpatrick Mr J G Hill Mr R J Anderson Mr H Koike Dr J Loken Dr J B H Black Dr O P Murphy Mr M E Pellew CVO Mr J Chiswell Jones Mr M L Page The Rt Hon Lord Petre Mr R F Foster Mr N O Ramage Mr A W Warren Mr A M Fowler Mr I D P Thorne Mr G J C Lavelle Mr M S Travis 1962 Dr P Leach Mr R A West Anonymous The Revd Professor John Richardson Dr M C K Wiltshire Mr D Armes Professor L C L Skerratt Mr J L Cavilla Mr J H Stroud 1967 Mr G P E Gelber Mr C J Cook Captain P W Hanley USN 1965 Professor A M Grant Mr M J Hatch Anonymous Mr H M M Griffiths Dr J Tepper Marlin Mr L H Bailey Mr N W Jackson Professor J D Sheridan Mr P R Boreham Mr T J C Manning Mr C J Simpson Vice Admiral M P Gretton CB CVO Mr R C F Martin Mr A G Thorning CEng FRAeS Professor P W Hewson Mr P C Metcalf Mr A D W Jackson Mr R B Morse 1963 Mr P C Keevil Professor P D Mosses Mr M B Baldwin Mr M A Lavelle Mr A J Newsome Mr P J Barlow Dr S A Mitton Mr D W Parker Mr J A Broom Mr D L Parris Mr R S Parker CB Mr R E B Browne Dr J Rees Smith Mr G M Strawbridge 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 33

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1968 The Revd C Padgitt Mr A A Murphy Mr S C D Bankes Mr R G Pedley Professor M B Ndulo Mr P J Bretherton Mr J H Stanley Mr A S Newman Mr O N F Fairclough Mr A Tyldesley The Rt Revd S Platten Mr J A H Greenfield Mr M M Toledano Mr C Harvey 1971 Dr S H Large Anonymous 1974 Mr A J G Moore Mr N J Hunter Anonymous Mr C T Richardson Mr E H Lee Mr M B Alloway The Revd R R D Spears Mr P J Lough Dr E R P Edgcumbe Mr C P Watts Mr J R Magiera Mr M C W Ferrand The Rt Revd J W S Newcome Mr P Findley 1969 Mr J R M Parker Mr J M Foster Mr M F Doswell The Revd S J Pimlott Mr P J Horsburgh Dr N C Elliott Mr G Shimell Mr Ronald H Levine Mr N D E Inge Mr M W J Thorne Mr P W Lodge Dr C S Keeling-Roberts Dr D P Yau Mr G C Olcott Professor R S G Knight Mr J S W Partridge Mr B W MacNay 1972 Mr R L Richards Mr J B H C Singer The Rt Revd John Arnold Mr M H Ridley The Revd Canon Professor M West Mr C D Baxter Mr N F St Aubyn Mr H D Burnett 1970 Dr J D H Chadwick 1975 Anonymous Mr E A Doran Anonymous Anonymous Mr S R Dunhill Anonymous Mr M Austerberry Mr T Fraser Dr R N B Cary Mr J C Boothman Mr J M Gray Mr P M C Forbes Irving Mr N P F Brind Mr C H Parker Mr P J Griffiths HE Mr A J Cary CMG The Revd Dr J Reader Mr A J Roberts Mr J H T Chatfield Mr A J Stafford Dr J L Speller Dr N A Dunn Dr C D G Stuart-Buttle Mr D G Williams Mr S J Hurwitz Mr D G Wrighton Mr A R Wilson Mr H B Inman Mr J P Kennedy-Sloane 1973 1976 Mr C R Lake Mr R E Ainsbury Mr E S Dismorr Mr M L L Lapper Mr A G K Bicknell Mr H J Emmens Mr J D Loake Mr A N Buckley Mr V N Freeman Mr G A Mackenzie Mr M R Gifford Mr M J Haddrell Mr T R Marshall Mr A J Hewitt Mr M J Harrison Mr A W Morgan Mr A J Hindle Major W J Holmes 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 34

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Mr George A Juarez Mr D W Jones Miss L H Mason Mr M R Lingens Dr A Knapton Ms K L Mavor The Very Revd R B MacCarthy Mr S P Lomas Professor M R Raphael Mr G J Nash Mr S M Lord Mrs M A Sibbitt Mr C W J Oakes Mr N V Radford Ms S M Tyne Mr J O D Orders Mr R C F Rea Mr A J Williams Mr M A Pepera Mr R M M Trapp Mr P J Williamson Mr C D Randell Dr P D Warren Mr R C Sagrott Mr A H Woodman 1981 Mr R D M Sears QC Anonymous Major General J D Shaw 1979 Mr E Akhund Mr P D Strawbridge Anonymous Ms V R Blades Mr N Swettenham Mr I N Abrey The Hon H A F Bruce Mr T S Banks Mrs F M Butcher 1977 Mrs C M Beck Ms L Coll Dr P R Abbott Professor V Brendel Mrs H V Cullura Dr J C Alexopoulos Mrs F Cardale Mr A P Dyte The Rt Hon Lord Ashton of Hyde Mrs G Chapman Mr A S Gillespie Mr P S Beck Mr K R Craig Mr G D J Hayward-Cole Mr S J Charles The Revd I C Czerniawska Edgcumbe Mr C J C Hollis Mr R E Cobbett Dr M C Davies Mr G A Hudson Mr R J Farmer Mr J P Folkes Mrs C J Jackson Mr T K Holman Mr A R Henry Ms J M Lashly The Revd D M Morris Miss O M E Hetreed Mrs L Macpherson Mr D A Nurse Mr D Moffat Mr G C Murray Dr C G Oakley Mr H E J Montgomery Mr C J Reilly Mr K M Stephan Mr J R Pascall Mr A S C Rix Mr E J Wood Mrs C J Sants Mr J D Rose Mr C J Scholefield Mr M C Taylor 1978 Mr L C Wolff Ms A C Window Anonymous Anonymous 1980 1982 Dr I W Archer Anonymous Anonymous Mr J N Atkins Anonymous Anonymous Dr G N F Chapman The Revd. Prof. MD Chapman Dr R G Barton Mr J Hepwood Mr S Edelsten Mrs D J Chalmers Mr T J Herbert Mr A Fullerton Mr D S Ewart Mr J N D Hibler Mrs J L Goulding Mrs S D Hardcastle Mr A D B Hughes Mrs W L Harvey Mrs A Henderson-Begg Mr J B Hunter Mr J M Karas QC Miss K D Lassila 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 35

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Dr J A Liddle 1985 Dr C E Riddell Mr R A Lindsay Mr R I C Denman Mrs S L Rollo Mr J E Macpherson Mr A P S J St J Gee Mr M R Tillett Mrs S C A Maynard Mr J N P Gilliland Mr M G Tubbs Mr S B Pearson Mrs C M Hart Liddle Mrs A C Turner Dr R C Ratnavel Mr M S Harwood Dr C P Von Siemens Mr P J Stevens Mr P M Kerr 1988 Mr C D A Tchen Mrs A H L Smith Anonymous The Revd Dr H A Warren Mr J Spence Anonymous Mr A R J Weale Mr D J Yeoward Mrs A Ardron Mrs J V Wells Dr E C Boswell 1986 Mr S R G Chaplin 1983 Anonymous Mr A H Forsyth Anonymous Mr S J Bentley Dr A R Graydon Anonymous Mr L Chester Mr J A Jameson Anonymous Mr S J Cordell Ms K J Kapur Dr P H Balkwill Dr G B Deane Dr M A Ludlow Mr R J Baron Mr D N Evans Mrs S L Noon Mrs C F S Clackson Dr S A Galloway Mr M P Rees Dr J Fletcher Mrs S M Mewawalla The Revd Dr S M Wood Mr V H Grinstead Mr J Allen Michie Mrs S Lewisohn Dr H R Mott 1989 Mr J D McNeile Ms N Narain Mr J S Argles Mr R P Paretzky Mr M T Oakeley Mr G M Brandman The Revd S J Reed Mr D S Penkower Mr S J B Clarke Mrs A C Sheepshanks Mrs S Risebrow Mr T Drew Mr I A Taylor Mr W K Rogasch Dr S L Garland Mrs F M Tchen Dr S J Tucker Mrs T P Garland Mrs C L M Wilkes Mr M R Wood Mr P M Gillam Mr A B Woodfield Mrs G C James 1984 Mr D A Lawson Mr P C P Bourdillon 1987 Mr E R Moore Mr J M R Glasspool Anonymous Ms S O’Looney Miss P M K Mayfield Mr W J Fernandez Mr M A J Pitt Squadron Leader A B Miller Dr A R Gande Mr G P C Strafford Mr Y Rahman Mr C W Hammon Mr R C H Wood Mr D J Tombs Mr A J Last Dr John Vlahoplus Mr D D A Lawson 1990 Mrs H C Williams Dr N P Ludlow Dr M J Bottomley Mr P A Woolf Dr M B Marcy Professor R M Fisher 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 36

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Mrs B Jolley Dr R Forster Mr T R Blundell Mr R A Lamb Ms M C Jenkins Miss C C Bousfield Mr A R Lawson Miss C M L Jepson Dr R O Bowyer Ms H S Lowe Dr R A King Miss D S Cage Mrs H R Murray Mr A Maidment Miss N S Dissanayake Dr J C Pinot de Moira Miss S M Pettigrew Miss A J Doenhoff Mr A M Putt Mr M P Rendell Mrs S J Hawkins Mr T O A Scharf Mrs S M Riley Mr N G J Kappeyne van de Coppello Mr J M Tuersley The Revd D B Seward CO Mr D T Lewis Mr A L Wilkins Mr N M Steele Mr D J Nicholson Mr A D Wilson Mr A G M Trevelyan Mr A J North Dr K E Woodhouse-Beyer Mr G C R Watson Dr S Pierse Mrs M S Wickham Mlle V H Rapetti 1991 Dr C A Wood-Allum Mrs N L Reeves Anonymous Mr G Wu Miss E Segal Anonymous Mr B D T Shankland Mr J J Axtell 1993 Mr N A L Tamblyn Mr C W Barlow FRCS Miss C L Curtis Mrs C E Taylor Dr R Daniels Mr R W Dawkins Mr C P O Taylor Dr E F Drysdale Mr P M Gilbert Mr B Hall Mr A J Gross 1995 Mr T E W Hawkins Mr J M Lyle Anonymous Dr P M Hayton Mr A Mangriotis Miss N F Cornish Mrs S L Hill Mr K I Naqib Mrs S P Francis Mr C R Howlett Mr M R Newton Mrs T C C Fressdorf-Schelzius Mrs K N Maidment Dr S J Payne Ms A B Glynn Miss S E Oakley Mr M G Pratt Mr N J Gray Mr R S S O’Keeffe Professor A Quadt Mr L G Large Mr W J S Raffin Mr J M Rigg Miss R L M Lawrence Mr R J See Mr J P Snaith Mrs N J Morris Mrs N K Sinclair Mr A L Strathern Mrs P R Naqib Mr A P Woodhead Dr C A Suthrell Mrs H M North Mr O S Todorov Dr G Petrochilos 1992 Ms E N Price Anonymous 1994 Dr A J Thompson Mr J M Allan Anonymous Mr J J Westhead Mr M T Bavinton Mrs C C Alexander Mrs P A Bavinton Dr V C Appel 1996 Mr R E Bonner Mr R M H Baird Anonymous Mr P C Collins Dr S Basavappa Ms H Adams 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 37

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Mr A H Anderson Mr C D Blair 2000 Mrs J A Barley Mr W A Charles Miss F E Arricale Mr N Ben Khedher Dr L Chua Miss J C Beswitherick Mr H M T Bokenham Mr F Cordes Miss T E M Collard Mr C Corradetti Ms S A Ellis-Jones Mr C E H Cook Mr P R Crompton Miss A E Harland Ms K E L Garbutt Miss H A Fletcher Mr R S Holland Mr J D Hutchins Mr R E Francis Mr J G Jansen Dr A R Kendal Miss A R Hall Miss C R Leigh Miss Y C Lehnardt Dr E R Hayton Dr G Molnar Biro Miss L E Orr Dr C E Hinchliffe Mr J S Scibor-Kaminski Dr R D Osborne Professor Dr M Kuijer Ms T M Spence Mr A S Powlesland Mr J R Maltby Mrs R F Stone Mr R Truffer Dr R A Oliver Dr E R Towers Miss G S Voss Mr W J C Van Niekerk 2001 Mr N E A Wilshere Mrs R H G Warham-Smith Miss M Bunce Miss A Ellis 1997 1999 Mr A R Fellowes Anonymous Anonymous Mr M J Flowerdew Miss H R Bacon-Shone Anonymous Mr S Z Hussain Miss H R Banyard Smith Mr H R Barry Mr A R Johnson Mr W A J Beck Mr S R Brodie Mr D Johnston Mrs R E A Coleman Miss H Cartwright Mr C Kafasis Miss D E Cresswell ACA Miss I P James Mr C T Lochotinan Mr C J Good Ms C M Laing Mr C A M Mackenzie Dr E C J Good Mr G W Laing Miss E A Osman Mr C Maresca von Beckh Widmanstetter Mr M W McCutcheon Dr S E Symes Mr P McCloghrie Mr T J Mirfield Mr S W Miller Mr C S Murray 2002 Miss C C A Newbury Mr A Peacock Mr A S Clipper Mr S M Ng Mr R T Pepper Mr J D Cockrill Mr R A Priestley Miss A L Pilkington Mr A R Cunliffe Mr G J Samuel-Gibbon Mr S C Sanham Mr M Dewhirst Mrs S A Samuel-Gibbon Mr S E Scanlan Miss H S Eastwood Miss Celia Tedd Miss J M Sherry Mr T E Fellows Mrs R C Trifunovic Mr A W W Slee Mrs S E Flowerdew Mrs K L Vyvyan Miss C D Taylor Mrs D Fowkes 1998 Miss C E Thomas Mr D A Guttridge Anonymous Mrs S Tollemache Mr A Mercer Anonymous Mr H R Wiggins Mr D E Pozen 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 38

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Miss V Rees Mr D Downing & Ms L Sanders Others Miss S M Rudge Dr J P Ender Anonymous Miss E A Udoma Mr D Evans Anonymous Lord & Lady Fellowes Allen & Overy 2003 Mr J Halliday Barclays Bank plc Anonymous Ms J Hanna Contemporary Watercolours Anonymous Mrs S Hawley Rajiv Gandhi (UK) Foundation Mr M A Webb Mr & Mrs I Helps Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group plc Dr J Whitaker Mrs J Hill Nike The late Professor E Hofer DLA Piper 2004 Mrs J Hunt-Grubbe British Petroleum Anonymous Mr R Hunt-Grubbe British Schools & Universities Foundation Mr L Allan Dr A Hutton UBS Mr J D Wright Mr & Mrs J T Hyland Wolfson Foundation Dr A Jasper The Worshipful Company of Dyers 2005 Mrs M A Kershaw Miss K M Lewis Professor R Ketterer Members of the Ralph Bathurst Society Mr N Wakeling Mr E Kyte The Ralph Bathurst Society was set up to Mr R Leith honour and thank Old Members and Friends 2007 Mr J J McClory who are major donors to the college. Anonymous Mrs J McCourt Mr & Mrs B Newman Mr G R Cooper JP (1937) Parents and Friends Ms S Nicholson Professor D W K Kay (1937) Anonymous Mr P Nye Mr C W Birkett (1944) Anonymous Mr T Pickering Mr J H K Brunner (1945) Mr N Armstrong-Flemming FCA Mrs A Pounds Mr A B Sainsbury VRD (1945) Mr J Baggott Mr K Priddin The Rt Hon Mrs C J Banszky Dr Jukka Rautonen Lord Ashburton KG, KCVO, DL (1947) Mr M L Ben-Yousef Mr J Reeve Mr G D B Pearse (1947) Mrs M E Bristow The late Dr M Scott Ray Sir Patrick Moberly KCMG (1948) The Revd H Broadbent Dr K Shanmugaratnam Mr G C Rittson-Thomas (1948) Mr A Brown Mr & Mrs M Smith Mr W D N Vaughan (1948) Mr N Cadenhead Mr A D Stewart Mr S G Errington CBE DL (1949) Mr A M Caplin Professor Styczynska Mr C R E Brooke OBE (1950) Mrs Lynne Carter Mrs E Thetford Mr D B Farrar (1950) Mr D Cartlidge Mr W R van Dijk DDS Sir John Hall Bt (1950) Mr D H Crocker Dr A Wallace Mr H S K Peppiatt (1950) Mr G de Jager Mr & Mr M Wiggins Mr J W R R Shakespeare CMG LVO (1950) Mr & Mrs A Dogherty Mr T B H Brunner (1951) 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 39

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Dr C H Smith (1951) Mr D A P Vracas (1977) Mr J H Pattisson (1952) Mr N V Radford (1978) Sir Hugo Brunner KCVO JP (1954) Mr S P Vivian (1978) Mr R A Dewhurst (1954) Mr S C Willes (1979) Mr N J T Jaques (1954) Mr S Edelsten & Ms A C Window (1980) Mr J S Allan (1955) Mr D S Ewart (1982) Mr J A Nelson-Jones (1955) Mr V H Grinstead (1983) Mr R M S Allan (1956) Mr J M R Glasspool (1984) Mr J A Paine (1956) Mr J Spence (1985) Mr F N P Salaman (1956) Mr L Chester (1986) Mr S L Tanner (1956) Anonymous (1988) Mr J C E Webster OBE (1956) Mr P C Collins (1992) Sir Christopher Hogg (1957) Mr A W W Slee (1999) Sir Brian Jenkins GCMG GBE (1957) Mr C M J Whittington (1957) Anonymous Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey Bt (1958) Mr N Armstrong-Flemming FCA Sir Anthony Cleaver FBCS (1958) The Hon M J Beloff QC MA FRSA and Mrs J Beloff Mr H E Fitzgibbons (1958) Mr P G M Brown Professor J W Last CBE (1958) Dr R Fry, FRSA Mr I S T Senior (1958) Mr G de Jager Mr P M H Andreae (1959) Mr W R Haskell Mr D F Beauchamp (1959) Mrs G Howard Mr D A Newton (1959) Mr and Mrs R Hunt-Grubbe Mr R B Landolt (1963) Dr J Pellew Mr P C Keevil (1965) Mr W R Saïd Mr S Forster (1966) Mr H Shaw Mr P K O Crosthwaite (1967) Professor Sir Edwin Southern Mr R S Parker CB (1967) Mrs J Steel Dr G L Thomas (1967) Mr D I S Green (1968) Mr J B H C Singer (1969) Mr T R Marshall (1970) Mr A W Morgan (1970) Mr C H Parker (1972) Mr A Shivdasani (1973) Mr P J Horsburgh (1974) Mr P M Levine (1974) Mr R L Richards (1974) Mr C D Randell (1976) Mr A G Tyrie (1976) 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 40

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ARCHIVE REPORT over for sixpence.’ These days the position of Bowles Reader is held by the Chaplain Emma Percy; services are occasional, and no wheelbarrows are involved. ur knowledge of the changing shape and appearance of OTrinity’s buildings and grounds has been augmented this year Another interesting photograph has come from Mark Charter, by two particularly fine nineteenth-century images. Tom Knollys sometime resident of St Kea in Cornwall. It shows a memorial (Alumni Relations Officer) has donated a hand-coloured copy of J. window in the parish church there which is dedicated to a Trinity and H. Storer’s 1821 engraving of the Old Library range from the graduate, Allan Stewart Laing (1805). Readers with long memories garden. This shows the overgrown yew hedge that then covered the (or capacious bookshelves) will remember the excellent article by president’s garden wall, with two charming female figures plus small John Fraser (1952) in the 2001 edition of this Report, describing child, dog and parasol in the foreground; and it gives a tantalising Laing’s infamous career as the Hatton Garden magistrate who came glimpse of the back elevation of the late seventeenth-century to be used by Dickens as the model for Mr Fang in Oliver Twist. A Bathurst Building behind. notoriety which goes strangely with the ‘pious memory’ and tranquil biblical scene depicted in this beautifully coloured window. Not long after the ‘Bathurst’ was demolished to make way for the new President’s Lodgings (1888), a photograph was taken of the Stephen Clarke, a reader in the Archive, has kindly donated copies newly built stone piers that flank the Broad Street gates. We are very of his article about Herbert Maynard Smith (1887) entitled ‘I fear I grateful to Trudy Watt for adding this to the excellent collection of am altogether done for’, in the Book Collector (summer 2009). Mr Trinity prints, photographs and postcards that she has so generously Clarke tells of Maynard Smith’s lifetime of toil editing the diaries purchased for the Archive during her years as Senior Tutor. As with of John Evelyn. He dedicated the first volume to his Trinity tutor all Victorian photographs, there is a wealth of detail to be seen, H. E. D. Blakiston (Scholar 1881, Fellow 1887, President 1907–28), including the rough surface of Broad Street; the elegant gaslight; the with whom he corresponded regularly about the great work. One barely visible cedar sapling in its protective cage, and the vicious cannot but warm to a man whose preface—‘in tone relaxed, line of metal spikes along the gate and college wall. informal, unbuttoned’—explains in a marvellous equine metaphor just why his annotations exceed the text so greatly in length: ‘Hobby- Our knowledge of the nineteenth-century inhabitants of Trinity has horses come out of their stables in the holidays, and with this been augmented too, by some most welcome and interesting gifts. particular hobby-horse you may prance as far as Naples, or trot at Caroline Cannon-Brookes has given a copy of her article on the leisure by the banks of the Loire’; and, ‘most people will say I have Bowles family of Abingdon, published in Aspects of Abingdon’s a fine beast, but its tail is too long for its body’. Sadly, after ‘the early Past. Richard Bowles (1747) endowed the Bowles Lecture at St life’ appeared, no publisher could be found for a second volume. Nicholas’s Church, Abingdon, in 1812. This was intended to benefit both the local population, who were edified by a sermon every H. E. D. Blakiston appears again as the author of two wartime Sunday morning, and also one Fellow of Trinity, who would be paid postcards sent to Edward G. T. Liddell (1914, Fellow 1921–40), to walk or ride out to Abingdon to preach it. One of the most which have been donated by Edward’s son Harry (1942). Both cards determined Abingdon Lecturers was Tommy Short (Fellow 1816– are written with Blakiston’s characteristic air of well-meaning 79), who in later life told the story of how once when he had set off tetchiness: ‘all right; you can come up on Thursday’, he begins in to perform his duty: ‘I got to Cold Haven near the railway bridge— April 1918. We are particularly grateful to Harry for a further gift of what was my horror to find the floods across the road. I had just his father’s silver match case, which is inscribed as a gift from made up my mind that there was nothing for it but to walk through ‘J. H. W.’ in 1917. This exquisite item is a pleasure to hold; it bears when luckily a fellow came with a wheelbarrow and I was wheeled a very fine enamel Trinity crest and has a wonderfully smooth 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 41

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opening action, whereupon—it even contains some matches typewriter he said he had no further use for, although I suspect he venerable enough to be ninety-years old! The temptation to light one benevolently lied. This was the machine, a Royal, by now already on the case’s cleverly designed striking surface is very great, but, somewhat battered, that had accompanied him on his many travels, we are proud to say, we have so far managed to resist. and on which many of his major scripts both for theatre and film had been typed or amended. Another Great War member of Trinity was Felix Brunner (1916). Felix’s son Hugo (1954) has kindly made copies of some of his From the estate of Rattigan’s exact contemporary, Evan M. James father’s letters home from the front, where the Trinity community (1930), we have received a mounted photograph of a late Victorian was regularly in his thoughts, as he mourned for instance the death eight on the river. This joins others that Mr James generously gave of his contemporary L. A. Joscelyne (1915), ‘killed the other day us during his lifetime, and includes his father, Arthur G. James shortly after he had got the MC’. More peaceful and better news also (scholar 1895) at bow. Sir John Moreton (1936), meanwhile, has appears, as when Felix notes with pleasure that ‘the President of loaned some fascinating snapshots taken at a College Mission camp Trinity [Blakiston] has been nominated as Vice-Chancellor’. in the years before the Second World War. The college missioner, Father Knell, relaxes in his shirt sleeves, while one undergraduate Two interesting twentieth-century images of Trinity have been given sports a knotted handkerchief on his head, and the boys stand at ease to the Archive this year. From Charles Webster, emeritus fellow of beside neatly folded blankets for their daily kit inspection. Sir John All Souls’ College, has come a brilliantly executed scraper-board was one of many whose Oxford studies were interrupted by the engraving of the entire college seen from the south-west. It may date declaration of war in September 1939; all too many of his from the mid-1920s, for the War Memorial Library, then under contemporaries did not survive. One of the 133 Trinity men who construction, appears distinctly out of proportion to the rest of the gave his life was Henry Melvin Young (1934) who has been so well scene. Nicola Morris (née King) (1995) has donated a curious commemorated by Arthur Thorning (1963) in The Dambuster who watercolour showing the back of the Old Library and Lodgings with cracked the dam: the story of Melvin ‘Dinghy’ Young (2008). We are the wall of the president’s garden in the foreground. The painting is grateful to Arthur for placing in the college archive the very not dated, but was surely completed in high summer, given the riot comprehensive collection of photographs, letters and other records of colour in the border. In addition we thank Nicola for a supper that he amassed during his research for this book. menu from the Commemoration Ball of 22 June 1926. We were pleased to see ‘Trinity Trifle’ on the menu, and also the elegant final Another distinguished member of the famous 617 ‘Dambuster’ treat of ‘Consommé en Tasse au Départ’. Cuppa Soup… no, we squadron was Ralf Allsebrook (1939). The college’s collection of haven’t noted it served at any recent Trinity Ball. Second World War records has been greatly augmented by the addition of two photographs of Ralf with his bomber crew, and a The subtleties of undergraduate society of this period are beautifully fascinating recording of an interview he gave about his experiences observed in First Episode, the earliest stage play of Trinity’s as a bomber pilot, which have come from his brother Geoffrey celebrated playwright, Terence Rattigan (1930). We were very glad (1937). It would be impossible to exaggerate the courage of Ralf and to receive from Adrian Brown (Exeter College 1949) a facsimile of his crew as they flew home from a raid on Mannheim in February the original typescript of this play, and yet more pleased—indeed, 1943. In his words: we feel very honoured—to be given the actual typewriter which Rattigan used. This is Adrian’s account of it: We bombed all right but they hit the port engine and just as we left the target it seized solid. We were at about 12,000 feet but lost height As I was myself an aspiring writer at the time [the mid 1950s], and very quickly, we heaved everything we could spare overboard and so naturally impoverished, Terry very kindly gave me a portable flew on very slowly losing height. For a long time no-one spoke… I 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 42

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told the crew we would have to jump if we were still losing height at honing the bursarial skills needed to steer a college through first a 3,000 feet… The sky was dark blue and bright with stars but as we depression and then a World War? kept coming lower we got into an icing cloud layer at about 4,000 feet. Everything iced up, the air speed indicator froze and the It has been an annus mirabilis for Landon archives. Mrs Joan artificial horizon stopped working. We could not see a thing and two Landon, the widow of Philip’s nephew Theodore, has fulfilled her or three times we stalled. The last time I did not think I could get her husband’s promise to return to Trinity the portrait of Philip by under control again. I gave the crew the first order to prepare to bail Edward Halliday, which was exhibited in the Royal Academy out and they got their parachutes on and jettisoned the emergency Summer Exhibition of 1958. It shows him sitting in his rooms on doors in the fuselage. But she came out and at last we broke cloud Staircase 16, wireless to hand beside his comfortable armchair at about 2,500 feet, still over land… The petrol was getting low, (which he subsequently bequeathed for the use of the Senior because although we were drawing on all the tanks for the good Common Room). Mrs Landon has in addition given us a number of engine, we had to fly at full throttle to keep going. At last we got to absorbing documents that span the whole of Philip Landon’s adult the enemy coast.

Their fuel finally ran out within sight of search lights on the English coast, and Ralf successfully ditched his aircraft—‘poor old G for George’—and got every man safely into the dinghy. After twelve hours they were rescued by ‘a motor anti-submarine boat that came out to look for us when the Coast Guard first reported us’: ‘another crew safe to fly another day.’ On the night of 16 September 1943 Flight-Lieutenant Allsebrook DSO DFC and all his crew were killed as they took part in the ill-fated raid on the Dortmund Ems and the Mittelland Canals.

Another very well-known name amongst Trinity’s fallen is that of Richard Hillary (1937). George Beckmann (1955) has very generously donated a framed commemoration of Hillary’s Squadron (the 603 City of Edinburgh), of his aeroplane (the Vickers Supermarine Spitfire Mk 1), and of Hillary himself, which will be a most welcome addition to the photographs and prints that adorn the walls of the Archive Reading Room.

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life. Known to later generations as a patron of college sport, here he in turning out for the termly dances at St Hugh’s, while among the is as a participant, playing hockey for the university while an speakers at the Gryphon Club in Trinity term 1920 we find the young undergraduate at BNC. Landon embarked on a successful career at A. L. P. Norrington, addressing the Club on the subject of ‘Jane the Bar, saw five years of unbroken military service in the Great War, Austen’. and then—there is a letter, perhaps from a family friend, addressing the crucial question of whether to accept a fellowship at Trinity or It is always gratifying when gifts to the archive complement items return full-time to the Bar. already in the official records. Since the late 1920s recipients of the James and George Whitehead Travel Bursary have been required to In 1949 Landon chose to keep a cutting from the Daily Express, sent write a report on their travels, and in the Archive we have eight to him by the late David Hunter (1946). Beneath the headline decades-worth of such reports now filling several boxes. The ‘undergraduates call hunger talks’, we read that the members of one purpose of the Bursary, as envisaged by the founder Sir George college JCR were resentfully discussing the motion that their Bursar Whitehead (1880), was to prepare young men, who would otherwise was ‘redundant’, while meals in Trinity on the other hand are not have had the opportunity to travel, for a life in business. One flatteringly described as ‘well-organized’ and ‘packed’. But perhaps report, by Wright Rhodes (1931), carefully chronicles his travels in most interesting of all is Landon’s rather touching correspondence Australia and New Zealand in 1936, and mentions just briefly a stop with Patrick Nowell-Smith (Estates Bursar 1951–7) and Sir Arthur in Hollywood on the way home via the USA. So we were delighted ‘Thomas’ Norrington (President 1954–69), concerning his pension, this year to meet Wright’s daughter Liz, who has kindly donated or rather, his lack of one. For Landon had been elected under the copies of some photographs and press cuttings relating to her father’s 1882 statutes with their generous non-contributory pension experiences in screenland. His visit to Hollywood was of course arrangements, which made discretionary payments out of college undertaken solely for business reasons; and this photograph posing funds, and now there was no money in the pot. After some sensitive with Shirley Temple was entirely for the purposes of research. enquiries Norrington was able to report on the Governing Body’s decision. ‘First, we elected you Emeritus Fellow, and this was done with great warmth. I am not at all sure that you know what respect, and I think I may say affection for you, lies behind the very different outlook on life of our younger Fellows!’ It was agreed unanimously that Landon in retirement should have the benefit of the same terms—‘that is without payment for rent of rooms, service, light, heat etc. and partake of the free Common Table’—that he had enjoyed as a Fellow. It was a very generous arrangement on both sides. Norrington concluded touchingly, ‘Bless you for all you have done for Trinity. I hope you will include the Freshmen… among your innumerable friends.’

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A photograph can stimulate many memories. We thank Richard Hare from you. Records of the Claret Club have been further enriched by (1947) for a series of vivid reminiscences, inspired by the faces in copies of two menu cards made by Iain Brooks (1957). The dinners the college group taken in the summer of 1947. Donald Pearse of December 1959 and May 1960 look truly mouth-watering, and (1947) has sent in two press cuttings, showing their age but still in the list of wines and port is more tantalising still. excellent condition. What superior paper the Illustrated London News was printed on! Two images from the edition of 11 June 1949 The records suggest that the Claret Club was considerably more show the celebrations as Trinity rowed over as Head of the River organised than were Trinity’s graduate students at this date, for the for the sixth consecutive year (not including the War): we see the MCR was not founded until 1964. Mrs Barbara Warhurst, widow of cox being thrown into the river, and the crowded street scene— Dr Philip Warhurst (1957) has donated the letter that her husband motor vehicles, bicycles and undergraduates—as the Trinity received in the summer of 1957, offering him a place to read for the contingent carry a boat back to College to be burnt. A much more B.Litt. at Trinity. It is remarkable how much historical information sedate affair was the elegant assembly on the lawn for the joint this single letter contains. It is a pre-paid sixpenny air letter franked garden party with St John’s, which was published in The Times on with an image of the young Queen Elizabeth. It is signed by 27 June 1955. President Norrington himself, for these were the days when the head of the college still had the time, and the power, to run admissions. This year we have received a splendid array of archives that illustrate Norrington explains the start date of Michaelmas term, and then goes the 1950s. Peter Wood (1951) has donated some of his own on to list the payments that would be due on coming into residence: photographs of his Trinity days, including an evocative view of the £20 college entrance; £5 college advanced student fee; £6 University front gates and an al fresco lunch party of volunteers at the mission matriculation fee; £5 university admission fee; 15 shillings [75p] for to hop-pickers in Kent. We thank Lord Coleraine (1951) for a use of the Library and JCR membership; 3 shillings and sixpence transcript of a hilarious cutting from The Daily Telegraph, recording [17½p] for the college nurse; and a wonderfully old-fashioned one a dastardly prank played on an unnamed officer of the University guinea Clubs’ entrance fee, plus a compulsory £4 subscription for Liberal Club. As the unfortunate victim presided over a committee the year. election in his first-floor room, a rival polling booth had been cunningly set up in the rooms below… Moving into the 1960s, we have received a further portfolio of exceptionally beautiful photographs from Sir Charles Chadwyck- Sydney Wood (1953) has sent a copy of a photograph of Michael Healey (1958). His pictures include a charmingly informal shot of Maclagan (Fellow in History 1939–81) leading the March of the the Queen and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on the day they Clan Hay in 1953, which was published in the ‘Past Times’ column came to lunch in November 1960, and another of President of the Press and Journal in May 2005. Michael is in full heraldic Norrington and the Chief Constable surveying the happy crowd from regalia and strides out confidently, seemingly oblivious to the the steps of the Lodgings, while a group of carefree undergraduates menacing claymore being carried by the clansman behind him. watch cheerfully (and to modern eyes, dangerously) from some Meanwhile his history colleague at Trinity, the legendary John P. nearby scaffolding. There are some excellent images of the river, of Cooper (Fellow 1952–78), has appeared even more unexpectedly, a cold looking winter’s day on the rugger field, and of members of commemorated in the menu of a Claret Club dinner held on College waiting to be photographed for the annual group 4 December 1956. We thank F. Gordon Cochran (1954) for this photograph. J. M. Q. Davies (1960) may possibly be somewhere in beautifully preserved and inscribed item, complete with claret ribbon the crowd. From his rooms at the top of Staircase 9 he painted a view and bow. As their second course, diners enjoyed some splendidly of the Trinity gardens looking across the President’s garden towards named ‘Potage Cooper’. If any member of the Club can recall the Wadham, and we thank Georghios Georghallides (1961) for a nature or flavour of Cooper Soup, we would be delighted to hear photograph of this treasured picture. 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 45

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Now, who of our readers can remember the Green Light Rule? From (2005) came a plastic sports trophy, inscribed ‘‘TCFC 2ND XI at least the 1920s, all undergraduates in the possession of motor PLAYER OF THE YEAR’, which was first awarded in 2004/5. vehicles were required by the proctors to register their ownership, Marta Kwiatkowska (Professor of Computing Systems) has drawn and to undertake not to bring them into the city centre except on our attention (by the simple expedient of making a print) to Trinity’s Sundays and on other days between 7 p.m. and midnight, and then first appearance in Jorge Cham’s on-line cartoon strip ‘PhD Comics’. only when carrying ‘a green lamp fixed in a conspicuous position on Jorge gave a lecture in Oxford, and dined at High Table as Marta’s the front of the vehicle, preferably on the near side’, which lamp was guest, on the very day that the US Presidential election result was to be permanently connected with the lighting system of the car. announced. In our favourite scene, Jorge and his hostess walk down There were eight separate rules, and four more regarding vehicle into what is obviously the Old Bursary, beneath the caption ‘after a registration, and we were very pleased to receive a copy of them all 2-hour 5-course meal, we move to another room for ‘second dessert’. from Peter Barlow (1963). Even better, Peter has given us the actual ‘Don’t you people ever work?’ asks Jorge. ‘This is work’ comes the green lamp that was attached to his car—‘it was a 1951 VW Type 11 reply. (Beetle) deluxe, left hand drive, with crash gearbox (halcyon days) and split rear window’—plus a subsequent notice, issued by the We thank Matt Johnston (1999) for some exceptionally well-ordered proctors in Hilary term 1967 that they were replacing green lamps tennis records, both photographic and on CD, and Jana Uehlecke with ‘a licence which is to be displayed in a conspicuous position on (2006) for a file of Chapel archives, organised with equal efficiency the vehicle’. Peter recalls the registration of his vehicle—HTA and thoroughness. Our final accession of this academic year was 794D—and has apologised most graciously for having mislaid the purchased from its editors, Charlotte Trainer and Catherine ‘Miggs’ fixing nut and washer for the lamp. It is good to know that the 1960s Wallace (both 2006). It is the ‘2006 Yearbook’: a lavish record, in generation is taking the needs of the college archive so seriously! their own words, of the thoughts and experiences of the students who We’d love to hear from anyone else who ever used—or didn’t—a matriculated in that year. We wait with interest to see whether this green light. We also thank Peter for a 1964 cutting about the award commercial venture will become a fixed item in the Archive’s annual of the Wheatley Prize for indexing to Michael Maclagan (apparently budget. his index of Clemency Canning (1962) was particularly praised for its abstract entries such as ‘executions, indiscriminate’); and for a Clare Hopkins, Archivist 1985 ‘Barlow’ column (no relation) by the late Miles Kington (1960). Bryan Ward-Perkins, Fellow Archivist

The 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s have been relatively quiet in the Archive this year. We thank Robert Weaver (1976) for a copy of his Schools Eight crew photograph of 1977. They made five bumps, and had big hair and small vests (apart from Robert, who sports a rather natty blazer and boater). Peter Wood (1951) has donated a series of Claret Club menu cards of the early 1980s, when he was a college lecturer and acting as the Club’s senior member. And Nigel Armstrong- Flemming has cleverly unearthed a menu card of the Oxford University OTC Dinner, which was held in Trinity in 1981, and attended by Nigel’s cousin, Colonel Guy Hatch CBE.

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BUILDINGS REPORT Staircase 6 The full refurbishment of this staircase began in August and will include the installation of en suite shower pods to all accommodation Staircase 1 (Broad Street Cottages) rooms; the two existing communal shower areas being converted to t had been some years since any significant work was carried out two additional bedrooms, increasing the rooms on this staircase to Ion the interior of Staircase 1 and a decision was made at the start twenty-five. The shower pods are manufactured by Taplanes of of Trinity term to carry out more than just a redecoration of certain Yorkshire, and they have previously been installed successfully in rooms. The college maintenance team, assisted by a small firm of Christ Church, St John’s College, Worcester College and Oxford painters, completely redecorated all accommodation rooms, Brookes University. The works include new built-in desks and staircases and landings. Maintenance staff replaced all bedroom wardrobes, redecoration and re-carpeting, in a similar fashion to the washbasins with new sanitary ware and units, as well as completely recent very successful upgrading of Staircase 14 in 2007/2008. The refitting and re-tiling the WCs and installing new cubicles. first lightning protection system at Trinity College is also to be Replacement continued of some the 1970s wooden windows, which installed on the remaining chimney of the Jackson Building during were bespoke manufactured in the college workshop, and the contract. replacement of mirrors and some wardrobe doors was included in the work specification. Accommodation department staff then JCR Kitchen arranged for complete recarpeting, post-contract cleaning and some This kitchen has received heavy and regular use by JCR members furniture replacements. Both departments managed to complete the since its previous improvements some ten years ago, and a decision successful transformation in two weeks; the staircase was therefore was made to refit completely all cookers, grills and microwaves, and ready for summer accommodation lettings very swiftly. increase its capacity. In conjunction with the installation of new cooking equipment, the kitchen was re-tiled, a new ceiling installed Kettell Hall Boiler Room and new catering flooring was added. A new powerful kitchen The gas boilers and heating plant installed in the early 1980s had, extract system was installed to modern regulations, where none some five years ago, been determined by our consultants to be well existed previously. At the time of writing further works continue to beyond their design life. This boiler room, situated underground re-route this kitchen’s drainage away from sensitive areas above between the southern end of the Jackson Building and Kettell Hall, parts of Blackwells’ Bookshop. served staircases 1, 2 (Kettell Hall and Marriot House) and 3. It is clear from previous college five year plans, that it had long been an Main College Kitchens aspiration to supply the Jackson Building with heat and hot water The college kitchens are annually deep cleaned by specialist from the same plant room, in any future refitting. Following a contractors and summer 2009 was no exception. After this regular decision by the college to refurbish and install en suites to all and obligatory work had been completed, the kitchens were Jackson Building accommodation rooms, with Staircase 6 as phase redecorated and extensive improvements were made to the lighting one of this project, it seemed the ideal opportunity to realise this diffusers. At the time of writing works continues to replace or aspiration. internally sleeve the old cast iron drains below the kitchen.

With energy conservation in mind, new systems were designed and College Roofs installed, utilizing modern efficient condensing boilers, to run In the past year we have had to carry out roof repairs to several Staircases 1, 2, 3 and 6 immediately, whilst allowing for the addition buildings, and regretably the inevitable ugly scaffolding was the only of Staircase 5 in a future phase two development. way to make safe access to reach the defects. 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 47

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On the main college site, isolated areas of slates were replaced and pumps and the installation, allowing the Staircase 4 accommodation lead-work repaired above both the SCR and Staircase 11. More to be brought back into use quickly. specialist repairs were carried out above Staircase 7, where some replacements of the local Oxfordshire Stonesfield slates were Steve Griffiths required. Stonesfield slates and similar materials are the traditional Buildings and Maintenance Manager roof coverings for Cotswold buildings and also many Oxford college roofs. These roofing materials were once quarried locally in West Oxfordshire, but these workings are now closed. They are consequently more difficult and expensive to procure.

Self-seeded Buddleia and Betula species had taken root in the roof fabric of the Library and in the more modern 106 Woodstock Road, causing water penetration and tile displacement. Scaffolding once again had to be erected to remove and repair both buildings; in the case of the Library, we were grateful for the co-operation of the adjoining Bodleian Library, to allow us access.

Staircase 4 The 1960s design of the entire Cumberbatch Quad development included some unusual services installations and features, in order to manage the problems caused by the deep excavations to form the Norrington Room (in Blackwells Bookshop). It is clear, from reading the site reports and correspondence at the time of construction, that the ground-water problems encountered were considerably greater than expected by the engineers and architects, which necessitated some design changes to the waterproofing of the basement walls and ground-water management. Large concrete tanks were constructed below Staircase 4; one as a ‘release’ tank for displaced ground water; and the other as a tank for the collection from all waste/sewage pipes from bathrooms in the building above.

The system to empty the storm and the foul water tanks regularly was principally governed by means of four large electric pumps, which had operated more or less successfully for forty years, until summer 2009, when three out of the four began to fail. The work to replace these pumps was exacting and carried out by the contractors in very unpleasant conditions; it was necessary to install the new submersible pumps within the foul tanks themselves. The college is grateful for the speed of the local pump specialist in procuring the A roof-top view of the bell turret from the chapel 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 48

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GARDEN REPORT Our garden open days under the National Gardens Scheme were a great success. We opened once in March and again in July, and raised almost £3,000, over £1,000 of which went to a local Alzheimer’s Lawn restoration Club. am delighted to inform you that phase one of our lawn restoration Iworks in scarifying the main lawns went extremely well. This was The herbaceous borders, at their best in summer, were very late in a result of good team work together with the correct machinery getting off the starting blocks this year and were quick to go over. which enabled us to execute the work within a reasonable timescale. We had spent considerable time installing a leaky hose in Starting the work in September helped us ensure that there was anticipation of a hot summer, but alas it failed to materialise. Still, enough recovery time for the grass species to grow back before the the gardens were enjoyed by many, with the Trinity Players hosting onset of winter. its lawns play The Insect Play and, later in the season, the Oxford Theatre Guild putting on a production of Henry V. At present the lawns are looking very chlorotic as we are mowing the lawns closer and closer prior to us implementing phase two of The Trinity tortoises, Toby and Plum, are both well and enjoying the our programme. Considering that when we complete the task the President’s garden, and will probably still be waiting for summer to lawns look more like an Australian cricket wicket, the timing can be start when they realise that it is Christmas, and time to hibernate. difficult to gauge, especially when we are also conscious of the weddings that are taking place in the same month. It is for this reason As Michaelmas term gets underway, Luke, Aaron and I will be that we opted to delay the work until the third week of September. hoping that our works on the lawn will be successful and, with the purchase of some new and exciting plants for the borders, that the Looking ahead to next year we hope to maintain a cutting height of gardens will continue to complement this beautiful college. 10-12mm, which will guarantee a more prestigious look to the lawns, not forgetting a faster playing surface for croquet. For this work to Paul Lawrence be successful we rely on a period of respite, when we have no option Head Gardener but to put the lawns out of action until recovery has been achieved. So a big thank you to the current members for their continued patience.

The gardening year And now for the weather… what a summer…what a winter!!!

During the first week of February, Oxford was no more the city of dreaming spires, but a hidden landscape clothed in white. Public services were stretched to the limit whilst roads struggled to remain open. Cars had been left abandoned, whilst many described the traffic chaos on the streets. Outside our walls it appeared that the city had fallen victim of this strange phenomenon called snow—but within all appeared serene. The lawns, which had been recovering from last year’s scarifying, were now covered in a thick cushion of perfect snowflakes and played host to staff and students alike. 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 49

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LIBRARY REPORT The library continues to be very well used, with loans continuing the upward trend of the past few years and now totalling 35,000 transactions a year (as against 22,000 in 2006). We now have JCR o begin on a personal note, you may remember that Alison and MCR library representatives and I look forward to working with TFelstead was seconded to the Bodleian from Trinity Library last them to explore ways to improve yet further the services the library year to work on several projects to streamline workflows within the provides. A rather unusual use of the library this year was to provide Collections and Resource Description Department. I was seconded a backdrop for a photo-shoot by an Italian fashion company, with to Trinity from the Saïd Business School to cover her absence. A lot some Trinity students acting as models. can happen in a year and, earlier this summer, Alison applied for, and was appointed to, an important new role within the University Interest in the Old Library continues to rise, with a steady stream of Libraries as Head of Technical Services Liaison. She brings many visitors and enquiries. We have recently obtained a visitors book in talents to this post and I am certain that she will excel in it. In the order to document the wide variety of visits. It was particularly meantime Governing Body very kindly offered me the opportunity enjoyable to introduce open evenings for current students in Trinity to become permanent librarian at Trinity. I was more than pleased to term and for the American summer school students in early August. accept since, in the short time I have been at Trinity, I have been very Both events were remarkably popular. Open events were also held impressed by the friendliness of the college community and by the for the Trinity Society Weekend, a number of Gaudies and the popularity of the library. I would particularly like to thank Chris Parents’ Lunch events. Other visits over the year included tours for Wallace, Fellow Librarian, Alan Coates, Honorary Librarian of the the Maryland Society and for the Partners of Heads of House, the Old Library, Paul W. Nash, our antiquarian cataloguer and Clare latter organised by Lady Roberts. In September the Library hosted Hopkins, Archivist, for their help and encouragement. Of course, I an exhibition of Samuel Johnson memorabilia, in a joint would also like to thank Alison—not least for her wonderful library Library/Archive venture as part of the ‘Johnson at 300’ conference. manual which has been my bible over the past months. Alison has reported previously on the Trinity Library items lent to This year saw the completion of several initiatives started by Alison. the Bodleian for the exhibition ‘Beyond the Work of One: Oxford The air conditioning in the lower library proved its worth during the College Libraries and their Benefactors’ held last summer. I am glad few hot days of early summer (which, of course, coincided with to report that the exhibition was very highly regarded and broke all exams) and was much appreciated by overheated Finalists. It would previous ‘box office’ records with over 40,000 visitors. be wonderful to extend this facility to the upper library at some point in the future. The lower library was further enhanced by the arrival During 2008-2009 a further 600 books from the Old Library, mostly of smart new chairs in October and by extra storage shelves built on dated between 1801 and 1850 (but including a few later editions), have to the desks by the workshop staff. Thanks to Alastair, the computer been catalogued by Paul Nash. This was the second year of a three-year manager, we now have two smart new ‘sunray’ terminals in the project to catalogue all Trinity’s post-1800 rare books (excluding the upper library, with access to the library catalogue. Danson Library, which will be a separate undertaking). The project is running according to plan, with more than 1,200 books now catalogued Nearly 2,000 books have been added to the library this year. Total on OLIS to antiquarian standards, and, we think, fewer than 600 library holdings stand at nearly 51,000 and our book purchases are remaining. The final tally of nineteenth-century books in the Old Library always augmented by generous donations, listed at the end of this will be known in 2010 when it is hoped the project will be completed. report. This year it has been possible to add Trinity’s printed journal holdings to the university library catalogue making them more Finally on the Old Library I am very pleased to report that Dr Alan visible to library members. Coates (1980), in conjunction with Dr Lesley Smith (1979) and Dr 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 50

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Richard Gameson (1982), have offered to undertake the extremely PROFESSOR JOHN BLACK (1949) gave a copy of the 3rd ed. of important work of cataloguing the 121 Trinity College manuscripts his Dictionary of economics, co-authored with Nigar Hashimzade housed in the Bodleian. This project was reported in greater detail and Gareth Myles (OUP, 2009). in an article in the winter 2009 Trinity Newsletter. PETER BROWN, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, presented a copy We have been very lucky in the past year to receive a very generous of Performance, iconography, reception: studies in honour of Oliver donation towards library funding from Dr Owen Murphy (1966). we Taplin edited by Martin Revermann and Peter Wilson (OUP, 2008). also received a notable donation of classics books from Paul Collins (1966) and a generous donation to buy some new classics texts from SIR HUGO BRUNNER (1954) presented Miles Jebb’s The Lord- Jeremy Westhead (1995). lastly we were delighted to be offered the Lieutenants and their deputies (Phillimore, 2007). de la Mare family collection of art books by Giles de la Mare (1955) which includes a large number of important titles published by FATHER DAVID CATON (1947) paid for a copy of his Faber—where Giles and his father Richard were both art editors. electronically published book Jordan and Spirit: images of baptism in Holy Scripture and after (2008) to be printed and bound for the The complete list of book donations to the Library and Archive for library. 2008-2009 is as follows. The names of college members are in upper case, and the date given is that of matriculation. Thank you to all of SIR CHARLES CHADWYCK-HEALEY (1958) presented them for their kindness, which is much appreciated. copies of his biography of his grandfather, CECIL LUBBOCK (1891): Cecil Lubbock: a short biography (Penchant Press, 2008) to PROFESSOR THOMAS ACTON, OBE (1966) gave a number of the Library and the Archive. books including his own titles Counter-hegemony and the postcolonial ‘other’ (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006) and PAUL COLLINS (1966) donated a large number of classics texts Travellers, gypsies, Roma: the demonization of difference edited with and historical studies from his own library including Loebs and Michael Hayes (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007) Oxford Classical Texts.

JEREMY ATKINS (1978) presented three of his titles to the SOPHIE COULOMBEAU (2002) presented a 1697 edition of Archive: 75 years of port & balls: the history of the Oxford & William Congreve’s The Mourning Bride. Due to the rarity of the Cambridge Sailing Society & Imperial Poona Yacht Club (J. Atkins, volume it will be kept in the Old Library—though it will still be 2009); A hundred years of sailing at Oxford University: the accessible to any students or researchers wishing to view it. centenary history of the Oxford University Yacht Club 1884-1984 (J. Atkins, 1984) and 25 more years of sailing at Oxford University GILES DE LA MARE (1955) presented, in addition to the (1984-2009) (Jeremy Atkins, 2009). substantial donation detailed above, three volumes of his grandfather Walter de la Mare’s short stories: Short stories 1927-1956; Short THE HONOURABLE MICHAEL J BELOFF, Q.C., President stories 1927-1956 and Short stories for children. Giles edited all of 1996-2006, continues to donate copies of his speeches and papers the volumes, which are published by his Giles de la Mare publishing as well as the law journals Counsel and The Barrister. house and include some stories published for the first time.

Professor James Binney presented a copy of The physics of BEATE DIGNAS, Lecturer in Ancient History, presented two of quantum mechanics (Cappella Archive, 2008) which he co-authored her recent works: Practitioners of the divine: Greek priests and with David Skinner. religious officials from Homer to Heliodorus (Center for Hellenic 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 51

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Studies, 2008) and Rome and Persia in late antiquity: neighbours the Oxford modern languages and literature monographs series, on and rival (Cambridge University Press, 2007). whose editorial committee Dr Griffin serves.

Professor T F Earle, King John II Professor of Portuguese Studies, DAVID HALLCHURCH (1949) presented a copy of The law is not donated a copy of Antonio Ferreira’s Poemas lusitanos 2nd ed. a bore (David Hallchurch, 2008), containing humorous anecdotes (Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, 2008). from his career at the Bar.

Maureen Emerson presented Escape to Provence: the story of MAJOR JOHN HARPER-NELSON (1940), a regular donor to Elisabeth Starr and Winifred Fortescue and the making of the Colline the library of books on ‘Australiana’, presented his recent title The des Anglais (Chapter and Verse, 2008). This book has been added to decline and fall of the British umpire (Access, 2007). the Richard Hillary collection, kept within the Archive. It was Winifred (Peggy) Fortescue who first encouraged RICHARD HILLARY to DR ARIEL HESSAYON (1987), Lecturer in History at Goldsmith’s write, as she entertained him regularly at her home near East Grinstead London, presented a copy of his Gold tried in the fire: the prophet Hospital, where he was recovering from the terrible burns sustained Theaurau John Tany and the English Revolution (Ashgate, 2007). when he was shot down in the Battle of Britain. Judith Hill presented her book In search of islands: a life of Conor DR ROGER FRY, CBE, Sir Thomas Pope Fellow, presented Max O’Brien (Collins, 2009) for the Archive. Conor O’Brien, who came Beloff’s The Great Powers: essays in twentieth century politics up to Trinity in 1899, made history in 1925 having circumnavigated (Routledge, 2009) and New dimensions in foreign policy: a study in the globe in a small yacht. British administrative experience, 1947-59 (Routledge, 2009). Both books are part of the Routledge Revivals series. Dr. Fry also donated NICK HUDSON (1953) presented copies of his Modern Australian two issues of Foro Hispano Britanico. usage Rev ed. (OUP, 1997) and The Vedgymight history of Australia (Hudson, 1987) which was written under the pseudonym C. Below. Keith Gardner presented a copy of his Navestock 2000: the companion to the Millennium map (Dopler Press, 2005) for the Dr J T Hughes donated a new edition of his work Thomas Willis Archive. 1621-1675: his life and work (Rimes House, 2009).

Annie Gauger, a previous member of the University of DR SIMON HUMPHRIES, former Fellow & Tutor in English, Massachusetts summer programme at Trinity, presented a copy of presented a copy of Christina Rossetti’s Poems and prose (OUP, Kenneth Grahame’s The annotated Wind in the Willows (W. W. 2008) which he both edited and introduced. Norton, 2009), which she edited. MIKE INWOOD, Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy, donated copies DR KANTIK GHOSH, Fellow & Tutor in English, presented a of The Cambridge companion to Hegel ed. by Frederic C. Beiser copy of his book The Wycliffe Heresy: authority and the (Cambridge University Press, 1993); Aristotle on rhetoric: a theory interpretation of texts, part of the Cambridge Studies in Medieval of civic discourse by George A. Kennedy (OUP, 1991) and volumes Literature series (CUP 2002, repr. 2009). 2 and 3 of Augustine’s Confessions with commentary by James J. O’Donnell (Clarendon Press 1992). He also presented copies of DR CLIVE GRIFFIN, Fellow & Tutor in Spanish, donated a copy Murder near the sanctuary and Murder at the city Dionysia by his of Ruth Cruickshank’s Fin de millénaire French fiction: the late wife, Christiana Sourvinou Inwood (both Vanguard Press, 2008). aesthetics of crisis (OUP, 2009). This is one of the latest volumes in 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 52

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ANTHONY JENNINGS (1963) presented a copy of his latest book site: the story of their role in creating the colony of Maryland by Oil and Gas Production Contracts (Sweet and Maxwell, 2008). This Arthur Pierce Middleton and Henry M. Miller (Maryland Historical is a sequel to his Oil and Gas Exploration Contracts, which he Magazine, vol. 103 (2) 2008) previously donated to the library. DR ALAN MILNER, Emeritus Fellow continued to present the CAROLINE JEPSON (1992) donated a number of French New Law Journal and bound volumes of foreign law reports textbooks from her own library. published by his company Law Reports International. Volumes donated this year include the Cayman Island law reports, 2007; The PROFESSOR NEIL JONES (1967) presented a copy of Guernsey law report 2007-8 and the Jersey law reports for 2007 and Microsurgical reconstruction of the upper extremity: state of the art 2008. Vol. 23 (1) of the journal Hand Clinics (Feb. 2007) for which he was guest editor. DR CHARLES MORE (1965) presented a copy of his book Black Gold: Britain and Oil in the Twentieth Century (Hambledon DAVID KIRK (1974) donated a handsome and limited edition Continuum, 2009). Dr More had previously donated copies of his facsimile of the Oxford Domesday (Alecto Historical Editions, 1990) other books to College.

PROFESSOR ALEXANDER KORSUNSKY, Fellow and Tutor GARRY MULLENDER (1989) presented a copy of Paul Teyssier’s in Engineering Science, presented a copy of the 2007 and 2008 A Língua de Gil Vicente (INCM, 2005) editions of Current themes in engineering science: selected presentations at the World Congress on Engineering. These comprise PAUL NICOL (1977) donated a number of books on materials vols. 1045 and 1138 of the AIP Conference Proceedings, edited by science from his own library. Professor Korsunsky. DAVID PARRIS (1965) donated Albert Cossery, montreur SUSAN LEWIS (née LEACH) (1995) donated Peñas arriba by d’hommes: l’oeuvre en langue francaise d’unn auteur egyptien José María de Pereda (Cátedra, 1988) (Peter Lang, 2009).

TIM MARSHALL (1970), who regularly donates new history titles THE RT REVD STEPHEN PLATTEN (1973), Bishop of to the library, presented Fighting for the cross: crusading to the Holy Wakefield, presented a copy of his work Augustine’s legacy: Land by Norman Housley (Yale University Press, 2008) and authority and leadership in the Anglican Communion (Longman & Christopher Kelly’s Attila the Hun: barbarian terror and the fall of Todd, 1997). the Roman Empire (Bodley Head, 2008) Dr Peter Raina donated A.V. Dicey: general characteristics of Henry Miller donated several publications to the Archive and English constitutionalism. Six unpublished lectures (Peter Lang, Library relating to the early history of Maryland, following his visit 2009) The book includes the Trinity portrait of Dicey which has to Trinity in the footsteps of Baltimore’s founders, GEORGE pride of place in the lower library. CALVERT, first Lord Baltimore (1594) and his son CECIL, second Lord Baltimore (1621). The publications include Silas D. Hurry’s CLAUDIA RENTON (2000) donated 101 world heroes: great men Once the metropolis of Maryland: the history and archaeology of and women for an unheroic age (Quercus, 2007) which she co- Maryland’s first capital (2001) and John Lewgar and the St John’s authored with Simon Sebag-Montefiore and Dan Jones. 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 53

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PROFESSOR NICHOLAS ROE (1975) presented three of his Stephen Baxter (OUP, 2007); Saints and their communities: miracle own titles: John Keats and the culture of dissent (Clarendon Press, stories in twelfth century England by Simon Yarrow (Clarendon 1997), The politics of nature: William Wordsworth and some Press, 2006); Music in the Holocaust: confronting life in the Nazi contemporaries. 2nd ed (Palgrave, 2002) and Fiery heart: the first ghettos and camps by Shirli Gilbert (Clarendon Press, 2005) and life of Leigh Hunt (Pimlico 2005). P.A. Cavill’s English parliaments of Henry VI, 1485-1504 (OUP, 2009). All are titles from the Oxford Historical Monographs series PROFESSOR SIR JOHN ROWLINSON (1944) donated a copy which Bryan Ward-Perkins co-edits. of Chemistry at Oxford: a history from 1600-2005 which he co- edited with Robert J.P. Williams and Allan Chapman (RSC ANTHONY WERNER (1960) presented a copy of The diamond Publishing, 2009). and the star (Shepheard-Walwyn, 2009) by the late JOHN WARDEN (1953). TONY SIMMONDS (1988) presented Skills for lawyers 2009/10 which he co-authored with Annabel Elkington, John Holtam and M SARAH WICKHAM (née RAWLING) (1992) continued to pay Gemma M. Shield (College of Law, 2009). for the library’s subscription to the Church of England Record Society and its publications. DR RALPH TANNER (1954) presented his latest works. These include Burma 1942: memories of a retreat. The diary of Ralph NICK WILLIAMS (1961) donated a number of legal texts from Tanner, 2nd Battalion the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry his own library, in addition to a back run of issues of the New Law (History Press, 2009) which he co-authored with his son David. He Journal. also donated a copy of his Spirituality and well-being (Concept, 2009). THE REVD CANON TREVOR WILLIAMS, Emeritus Fellow, presented a copy of his latest book The ultimacy of Jesus: the Clive Taylor presented a copy of his recently completed dissertation language and logic of Christian commitment (Aureus, 2009). The regency period metamorphic library chair, submitted as part of his MA in Antiques at the University of Central Lancashire. As part Dr Julian Wilmot Wynne presented a copy of his book Jane Austen of this dissertation, Clive investigated the provenance of the and Sigmund Freud: an interpretation published by Plum in 1998. metamorphic chairs held in the Old Library, including a rare example of a Morgan & Sanders chair. The following recent graduates, postgraduates and undergraduates gave us books from their own libraries: ARTHUR THORNING (1962) donated, to the Archive, a further copy of his life of the distinguished Trinity pilot of World War Two ANDREW CAIRNS (Chemistry, 2007); MATTHEW D’NETTO The dambuster who cracked the dam: the story of Melvin ‘Dinghy’ (Life Sciences, 2007); ALEX HEARNE (MBA, 2009); YU LIN Young (Pen & Sword, 2008); and also the history of the American (ELAINE) HUANG (Economics and management, 2005); TIM school attended by Young, Thompson Webb. Vol 1: the years at Webb O’RIORDAN (DPhil organic chemistry, 2002); PETA RUSH School, 1922-1975 assembled, with introduction, notes and (Law, 2006) and GREG STEVENS (Physics, 2005) memories by Thompson Webb, Jr and Thompson Webb III (Webb, 2005) Sharon Cure BRYAN WARD-PERKINS, Fellow and Tutor in History, donated Librarian The earls of Mercia: lordship and power in late Anglo-Saxon by 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 54

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SCHOOLS LIAISON REPORT Last year, with the assistance of the former JCR Access representative, Georgia Barrie (2006), we were able to organise an inaugural ‘back to school’ meeting. This meeting was designed to ince Trinity term 2008, Trinity has played host to, or been equip Trinity students with information in order to be able to speak Sinvolved in, the following Schools Liaison activities: to students from their old school effectively and accurately about Trinity and the Oxford Admissions process. Seven students visited • Thirteen school visits hosted at Trinity their former school and allowed us to pursue contact with teachers • Nine school visits hosted at schools within these schools. • Twelve tours for other Colleges/Departmental Open Days • Twenty-one events organised by/attended by Trinity Trinity once again received an increase in applications during the Fellows/lecturers previous admissions round. This compares favourably with other • Meals and tours for OUSU’s Target Schools Shadowing Day colleges which do not employ a dedicated Schools Liaison Officer. • Three Durham residential visits • Three College Open Days In total, the many different events which Trinity has participated in has put us in contact with well over 500 students over the past Trinity’s relationship with County Durham continues to be the academic year, with approximately 200 of these prospective strategic lynchpin behind the college’s Schools Liaison activity. applicants having attended an event within College. Our schools During the past twelve months, the college has hosted three cohorts liaison and access activities not only ensure that Trinity is seen as of students for the annual residential programmes and the Schools an open and welcoming college for bright students from any Liaison Officer has visited the region three times. In addition to the background, but also that the college is well placed in young residential visits, the programme includes a mini Oxbridge students’ minds should they decide to apply to Oxford. conference in January, attendance at the region’s UCAS HE fair and individual school visits. In all, the activities organised with County Durham have allowed us to contact thirty-seven out of forty of the Jonathan Downing state schools within the Local Education Authority. Schools Liaison Officer

This year marked the tenth anniversary of the Trinity Durham connection, which was initially set up by Professor Egdell alongside Brenda Stephenson from Durham Aim Higher. An article on the Durham link was included as part of a newsletter sent to Oxford alumni in the Houses of Parliament and in the Northern Echo. We received six applications directly to Trinity this year, with two receiving a conditional offer. Similarly, I have also been able to extend the reach of the Durham link by visiting other schools in the wider North East region. Specifically, through my frequent travels to the North East I have been able to develop contacts within a number of schools in Sunderland. Particularly instructive in this regard has been the opportunity to work closely with tertiary and sixth-form colleges in the area, which complements Trinity’s membership of the Further Education Access Consortium well. 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 55

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OBITUARIES

PROFESSOR IRVING JOHN ‘JACK’ GOOD To statisticians, Good is one of the founding fathers of Bayesian (1916-2009) statistics, an approach to the discipline based on work of Thomas Bayes in 1764. The Bayesian paradigm, as it is now called, was little Fellow and Tutor 1964 to 1967 used before Good’s work but was given an important boost by his ack Good was a statistician by training, and a county chess writings, and is firmly established today. His books include Jchampion, who made fundamental contributions to probability Probability and the Weighing of Evidence (1950), The Estimation of theory, drawing on ideas developed while working as a codebreaker at Probablilities: An Essay of Modern Bayesian Methods (1965) and Bletchley Park during the Second World War. He played a key role Good Thinking: The Foundations of Probability and its Applications among the codebreaking team at Bletchley, to which he had been (1983). He died on 5 April 2009. recruited from Cambridge in 1941. The mathematical team, of which was part, enabled the Allies to read much German naval and military From obituaries in The Times, the Daily Telegraph and the radio traffic for a large part of the war. The resulting intelligence—the Guardian. Ultra secret—played a key part in winning the Battle of the Atlantic.

Good followed two of his colleagues at Bletchley Park, AlanTuring JOAN BARTON (1922-2009) and Max Newman, to the University of Manchester in 1947, where College Secretary 1975-1989 he was involved in work on the first computer (in the modern sense of having an internally stored program), the Manchester Mark 1. t was with great sadness that College received the news of the Then, in 1948, he went to work for Government Communications Ideath in February of Joan Barton, our College Secretary from Headquarters (GCHQ), the successor to Bletchley Park, where he 1975 until her retirement in 1989. stayed until 1959. Joan was born in Ipswich and, on leaving grammar school, worked In 1964 he was appointed a senior research fellow at Trinity, where for the local Educational Office until World War II broke out and he continued his interest in computing in the Atlas Computer she joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service, rising to the rank of Laboratory, as well as his work on statistics. Though apparently well Chief Petty Officer. College had good cause to be grateful for the suited to Oxford life—where he enjoyed chess, and threw parties disciplined and demanding training she received in the WRNS. After noted for the attractive women who attended—Good said he found the war she worked as secretary to the Senior Tutor of Trinity Hall, Oxford ‘a little stiff’, and left in 1967 to take up a chair in statistics Cambridge and at Church House, Westminster, before marrying at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), John, who took various positions as curate and vicar in Yorkshire where he spent the rest of his career, retiring in 1994. before becoming a hospital chaplain. When John came to work in the Oxford hospitals, Joan was soon snapped up by the colleges: Soon after arriving in the US he visited Hollywood to advise the film Somerville first and then, to her great delight, Trinity. director Stanley Kubrick on scientific matters relating to his film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). He was elected Fellow of the Those were very different days: typewriters, instead of computers, American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995 and in 1998 he and Gestetner stencil duplicators, with their clumsy handles, rather was presented with the Computer Pioneer Award of the Institute of than photocopiers. Joan ran a tight ship in her realm beneath the Electrical and Electronics Engineers. President’s Lodgings, but life was less fraught, and the College 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 56

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Office was the hub of college life and conviviality. Many Old MILANKA BRIGGS (1962–2009) Members will remember the friendly welcome they received from Hall Supervisor and SCR & Hall Steward 1998 – 2008 Joan on their first day in Trinity. Those Fellows who served with her have fond memories of being rung at 4.00 p.m. on their birthdays (she had the files, and knew all about us) and summoned to examine some spurious paper, only to be greeted by a party, with one of the wonderful cakes baked by Pat Rogers, Joan’s assistant and close friend. One Fellow has recalled, ‘Joan was that rare combination of cheerful friendliness and unfussy but impeccable efficiency, and to know her was to love her. To go down those steps to the basement was not a chore, it was a pleasure. She gave a tone to life at Trinity that helped to perpetuate its deserved reputation as a friendly and happy college.’

Joan served under three Presidents: Sandy Ogston, Tony Quinton and John Burgh. She gently initiated new Presidents and Fellows into the mysteries of college administration and they were invariably content to leave much of it to her. In his retirement speech Tony Quinton spoke for all of us: ‘she was the most wonderfully undisapproving of coverers up. Without her constant help I should have had to leave the college years before’.

As we came into the computer age (Joan became an enthusiast before many Fellows), she reached retirement age and left Trinity, only to become secretary to the Warden of Merton until, eventually, she and John retired properly to Kent. Several of us continued to exchange news with Joan, and she was delighted with Clare Hopkins’s history of Trinity. Her final Christmas letter, last year, was full of characteristic cheerfulness, as she wrote of her contentedness and many blessings. She died in Sidcup soon after her 87th birthday. t is with deep regret and sympathy that we record the untimely College was well represented at her funeral. Ideath of Milanka Briggs, in Serbia, on 15 September 2009. She was visiting her family in her home village of Tabanovac when she Clive Griffin, was admitted to hospital in Belgrade. Tutor in Modern Languages

Milanka was born in July 1962 in the village of Tabanovic in what is now north-west Serbia. After receiving her secondary school diploma she left home to work in Germany and then emigrated to Toronto. In 1988 she was appointed to run lounge and room services at the prestigious King Edward Hotel, where she honed her skills in 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 57

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organising special functions and banquets. By 1994 she was OBITUARIES OF MEMBERS OF managing waitress services at the award-winning William Tell Restaurant in Vancouver and it was there that she met and married COLLEGE David Briggs, which led to her coming to Oxford. EOFFREY ‘GEOFF’ AKERMAN (Minor Scholar 1959) was a businessman with a passion for foreign travel. He came up to Milanka joined Trinity in February 1998 as a Hall Supervisor and G College in 1959, as an Exhibitioner, from Merchant Taylors School, was promoted to Hall Steward in January 1999. She assumed the London. His award required him to read law, though PPE would dual responsibility of SCR and Hall Steward in July 2000, on the undoubtedly have suited him better. retirement of Albert Greenwood, an appointment she held until June 2008. It must have been daunting for her to follow in Albert’s Whilst at College, he hitchhiked round most of Europe during the footsteps after his fifty-seven years of employment here. But she vacations and it was no surprise, therefore, that on graduating, he filled the niche admirably, and during her ten years at Trinity she joined an international company, Gillett. In due course, he was made a real impact. Her efficiency and ready smile won her friends posted to Persia, as it then was—a country whose history, culture with Fellows, staff and students alike and her contribution and people he loved. undoubtedly strengthened Trinity’s reputation for the best food and service in Oxford University. She had a particular aptitude for He later worked as an Export Manager for Youghall Carpets, an Irish training and monitoring new Hall staff in very swift order and several company, before joining a Suffolk-based company, Munton & Fison, Hall Supervisors, similarly, benefited hugely under her tutelage. in the early 1980s. The company produced malt for the international brewing industry and soon appointed Geoff their Export Director. In Milanka and David suffered a terrible blow in 2003 with the loss of this capacity, he travelled the world and derived great satisfaction their baby son Daniel. He was commemorated by a circular bench from negotiating commercial contracts for the company, especially situated in the beautiful and peaceful surroundings of the Wilderness, in the Far East. After leaving Munton & Fison, Geoff worked, part in the college garden, which Milanka loved so much. Sadly, time, as a Consultant for the Essex Business Advisory Service, she never fully recovered from her bereavement. Milanka fought a giving advice to small businesses in that county. long battle against depression that ultimately led to her departure from Trinity. Her tragic death, aged only 47, will be mourned by the In retirement, Geoff continued to travel extensively, visiting many whole Trinity community. May she rest in peace. of the world’s finest museums and galleries, as well as some of its best-known gardens. His other great interest was music and his John Keeling, favourite form of music was the opera (he was, throughout his life, Domestic Bursar a regular visitor to Covent Garden). He was also a talented pianist and organ player. I recall arriving in College for tea (as one did in A memorial service, conducted by the Reverend Emma Percy and those days) to find Geoff playing the organ in chapel. Wishing to Canon Trevor Williams, was held on Thursday 29 October. Over sound more knowledgeable than I was, I asked whether the piece seventy Fellows, staff, students, friends and former colleagues was by Buxtehude. Geoff smiled indulgently: ‘It could have been’ attended. Mr David Mills and Emma Percy gave eloquent addresses he said ‘but it was in fact by Geoffrey Akerman’. which reminded all present of Milanka’s strengths and her contribution to Trinity over the years. The accompanying hymns and Geoff moved from Wimbledon to Lavenham in 1983 and very much music provide a poignant and fitting finale for one of the college enjoyed life in Suffolk. He died on 21 July 2009, aged 69. Lewis community’s valued and colourful members. The service was followed Isaacs (Brasenose) by tea in Hall, an apposite location in which she had served so well. 58 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2008-9

PROFESSOR TANJORE RAMACHANDRA ANANTHARAMAN (Rhodes Materials Science and Technology was established in 1978 which Scholar 1951) was Trinity’s first Rhodes Scholar from India. He offered the first MTech programme in Materials Science and studied for a doctorate in metallurgy, under the supervision of Dr Technology in India. (later Professor) Jack Christian. He went on to become a hugely influential figure in the development of metallurgical science and During his scientific career, Anantharaman published more than 250 engineering in India. Remarkably, more than fifty of his students research papers, mainly on the structure and properties of non- also became professors, not only in India, but also in other countries ferrous metals and alloys. He was especially interested in novel such as the USA, Germany and Australia. microstructures produced by rapid solidification processing. He published widely on the properties of metallic glasses, and on the Anantharaman had a brilliant academic career. He topped Madras behaviour of an unusual class of substances known as quasicrystals, University at every stage of his educational career and obtained his which have internal architectures that are unknown in conventional BE degree in metallurgy in 1950 from the very first batch of graduates crystalline materials, for example exhibiting five-fold and ten-fold of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He won the only Indian symmetries. He also became deeply involved in studies of India’s Rhodes Scholarship of his year, arriving at Trinity at a time when the scientific and technological heritage, and published a monograph college was unaccustomed to non-white members. Some of the social entitled The Rustless Wonder: A Study of the Iron Pillar at Delhi. challenges he faced are recorded in an article he wrote for the Report in 1988-89, and are also recounted in Clare Hopkins’ history of the A Fellow of all three Science Academics of India and a Fellow of college (see pp. 370 and 418-419). His courteous and tolerant attitude the Indian National Academy of Engineering, numerous national and to his ‘special status and importance as the first “black man” in international honours came his way, including a DSc from Oxford Trinity’ helped pave the way for the transformation of the college into in 1990. Well-versed in Sanskrit and German (he wrote two books the multi-racial community that it is today. in German), beside Tamil, Hindi and English, he was deeply interested in spirituality, religion and philosophy. He published over After two years of postdoctoral research in Germany, he returned to fifty articles and two books on Indian philosophy, religion, Yoga, India in 1957 to take up a faculty position at the Indian Institute of Sarvodaya and society. He was also the Founder President of the Science, Bangalore. He moved to Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Indian Academy of Yoga. He naturally tended to interpret matters in 1962 to head India’s first ever metallurgy department where he built spiritual in terms scientific. One result was his book entitled Ancient up one of the finest research schools in metallurgical science, a Yoga and Modern Science published in 1997. After retirement from discipline that was witnessing a metamorphosis into materials science. BHU, he became Kula Acharya (Chancellor) of Ashram Atmadeep, With his magnetic personal charisma he attracted young talented a research institute for the secular-spiritual heritage of India, students over whom he held a magical sway that inspired them to bring focussing especially on the study of yoga and allied subjects. He out their best. He pioneered international collaboration by establishing continued to travel the world until the age of 80, lecturing and exchanges between his department and universities in Britain and writing on both scientific and spiritual subjects. Germany. His extraordinary academic leadership of his young team had the infectious effect of spreading research culture beyond BHU He died on 18 June 2009, aged 81, survived by his wife Priyamvada, and into metallurgy and materials science schools across India. two sons and a daughter. Professor George Smith, Fellow and Reader in Materials Science, based on a tribute by P Rama Rao. His efforts were duly recognised when his department was declared the first ever Centre of Advanced Study in an engineering field in NIGEL ANTONY RICHARD BACKHOUSE MVO (1974), died on 16 the country. Anantharaman came to wield unmatched influence over December 2008. An appreciation of his life will appear in the next the new science funding agencies in the country. The School of edition. 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 59

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DAVID HARRY SINCLAIR BIGGS (1947) was born in 1926. His father, Director and a Visitor; he joined the Oxford branch, on moving to Trinity physicist H F Biggs (1921), died when he was seven. Soon Oxfordshire in 1993. In addition to being a Samaritan, David was a after this, he went to Christ’s Hospital, on a place reserved for ‘a steward at Christ Church Cathedral. Throughout his life he was a child of a distinguished scholar’. He lived all his life with high modest and compassionate man, always concerned for others, and ethical standards, instilled in him at Christ’s Hospital, and he greatly appreciated wherever he went. He loved his lifetime’s links remained involved with the school all his life. He went on to Kelly with Oxford. College and joined the Navy in 1944. He served on two North Atlantic convoys to Russia as a midshipman, in dreadful conditions He died suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart attack on 9 May 2009. in the depths of winter. Based on the tribute given at his funeral by Keith Weatherald, friend. Before going up to Trinity to read PPE, David worked as a forester in the New Forest, which gave him a passion for trees, and nature in A recollection of his time at Trinity from David Biggs’ memoirs: general, which it was his joy to share later with his children and grandchildren. ‘It is only in later years that I fully appreciated how privileged we were, to be up at Oxford in those post-war years. Most of us had At Trinity, knowing that College had been Head of the River since been in the Services, and were in our 20s. 1938, David decided to have a go at rowing. After some practice, in a stationary ‘tub’ attached to the banks of the Cherwell, a crew of ‘Because college accommodation was very limited, I only lived in keen novices was put into the college 2nd VIII for Torpids, achieving College for two terms out of my two years. My rooms were in the a remarkable eight bumps, and much the same crew achieved seven Garden quad, on the ground floor, looking out on the Chapel quad. bumps in the summer Eights. In the summer of 1949 he got into the They consisted of a high-ceilinged seventeenth-century room, with 1st VIII (which included several Blues and distinguished oarsmen: J two windows with window-seats, a sofa, an arm chair, a table, and B C Robin, A D Rowe, R O Bowlby, R M Collins, T D Raikes, D N a worn carpet; it was ‘heated’ by a tiny fireplace. When the scout Callender, and C G V Davidge) and the crew duly retained its (Carter) laid and lit the fire, it burned brightly (though producing Headship, the event being marked with the usual ceremonial burning very little heat in the room, as it roared up the chimney) for about of a boat in Garden Quad and a celebratory Bump Supper. Food was an hour, and then went out. The room was often very cold in winter still rationed at this time, and David recalled the 1st VIII being given time. A small, short passage led off, to the tiny bedroom. In the special rations of whale-meat to build up their muscles! passage was a washstand, with basin and water jug (no running water, of course). I remember the water in the jug freezing on several On leaving Trinity in 1949 he joined the Sudan Political Service and occasions. The loos and bathhouse were across the quad, along a briefly studied Arabic at the School of African and Oriental Studies passage, and out into a back yard.’ in London. He had an adventurous life as an ADC in the Sudan, which he enjoyed immensely. However, he and his wife Vivien CHRISTOPHER HILEY LUDLOW BATHURST, THE RT HON THE returned to England from the Sudan in 1954, and in 1959 went to VISCOUNT BLEDISLOE QC (Minor Scholar 1955) came to Trinity live in Lesotho, where he worked in the administration until 1967. from Eton and after serving, for his National Service, in the 11th Back in the UK, he was involved with decimalisation at the Royal Hussars, with which he saw action in the Malayan insurgency. He Mint, and later became a lecturer in Management soon came to the conclusion that Oxford would only delay the progress of his career, and he left after a year. He did, however, find David was a man for others, evidenced in his work for Samaritans time to run a roulette syndicate at Christ Church with, among others, for nearly forty years. He started in Reigate as a volunteer, becoming Stuart Wheeler (later the pioneer of spread betting). After working 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 60

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on the family’s Lydney Park estate, he followed his father to the Bar, Chemicals, Company Secretary and Head of Legal Affairs at Miles being called in 1959 and joining what was then 2 Crown Office Row. Laboratories (later Bayer Pharmaceuticals), and, finally, joining the Department of Health, as a Parliamentary draughtsman amongst He was a leading practitioner at the commercial Bar, with a other roles. formidable intelligence and capacity for work. His was generally regarded as the quickest brain in a set of chambers not lacking in A true bon viveur with a wide circle of friends, he enjoyed a long intellectual firepower. He was appointed QC in 1978 and from 1989 and active retirement in his beloved Notting Hill, pursuing his many to 1994 he was a vigorous and effective head of Fountain Court interests. He never lost his thirst for knowledge and travelled widely Chambers, and was particularly helpful to young people starting out until poor health slowed him down in the last two years of his life. on their careers. But, outside chambers, his affections were engaged Although never short of a glamorous lady on his arm, Philip never chiefly by the institutions which he loved—his estate and garden at married, but he was an influential figure in the lives of his seventeen Lydney Park, the Cresta Run and the House of Lords. He became nephews and nieces. He died on 2 February 2009. Michael Bowles, increasingly active in the House of Lords as a popular and nephew. industrious cross-bencher, and was proud to come high in the ballot of hereditaries after the passing of the House of Lords Act, a JOHN EDWIN GEORGE BOXSHALL (Scholar 1942) came up to Trinity recognition of the work he had done in negotiating its terms. from Eton, to read PPE. He died peacefully at his home in south- west London after a long illness. He did much to promote and improve the estate and the garden (created by his father) at Lydney. He was an expert on trees and a THE REVEREND PATRICK LAURENCE BROCK MBE (Minor Scholar serious horticulturist, and introduced many new varieties to the 1937) came up to Trinity from Shrewsbury School to read Literae garden. He died of heart failure on 12 May 2009, aged 74. His Humaniores. He trained for ordination at Ripon College and was marriage was dissolved in 1986 and he is survived by two sons and ordained deacon in 1957 and priest in 1958. He served as curate of a daughter. Based on the obituaries in The Times and the Daily St Mary’s, Great Malvern and, from 1959 to 1962, as curate of St Telegraph. Martin-in-the-Fields before becoming vicar of Belsize Park and then, from 1972, rector of St Mary’s, Finchley. He was Rural Dean of RICHARD STEWART BODDINGTON (1948) came to Trinity from Central Barnet from 1980 to 1986 and in 1980 was made a Rugby School to read history. After National Service he qualified as prebendary of St Paul’s Cathedral. He died on 26 October 2008, aged a chartered accountant for a firm in Manchester. He retired in 1987. 90, in his sleep, the night following the funeral of his wife, Patricia. He died peacefully at South Cheshire Private Hospital on 19 March 2009, aged 79 years and is survived by his wife Doreen, a son and a (WILLIAM) NICHOLAS SAVILE CALVERT (1956), son of Jack and Joy daughter. Calvert, of Ockley, Surrey, died on 3 April 2009. ‘Doc’ Calvert, as he was known to Etonian friends because of his professorial PHILIP PETER CRANTON BOWLES (Naval Probationer 1944) was appearance, was more outdoors man than scholar, though he born in Oxford and educated at St Edwards. Before Trinity, he served possessed a fine intelligence. He entered Eton in the summer of in the Navy and was involved in the liberation of Singapore’s Changi 1948, taking ‘Upper Fourth’, a high academic level for his age. Later, jail from the Japanese. he joined the highly-select Sixth Form as a historian and won the Chess Cup. Called to the Bar following pupilage with the eminent QC Rodger Winn, he then joined the Oxford Circuit for ten years before moving Eton was followed by National Service in the Army from 1954 to to London and into commerce; in the Legal Department at Shell 1956, where Nick deplored the ‘bullshit’, but quite enjoyed a posting 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 61

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to Cyprus. He was wrongly thought not to possess leadership anti-deportation campaigns, from the late 1970s defending, with a potential, and was therefore not commissioned, but he was not marked degree of success, the right of resident of asylum seekers bothered by this lack of promotion. and others threatened with deportation. He was successively an early member of the South Manchester Law Centre, a founder and first Nick entered Trinity in 1956, and had no difficulty in acquiring a director of the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit and a Second in PPE. He specialised in Economics, and endorsed the member of the No-One-is-Illegal group. fashionable theories of Keynes. He continued to play chess, and took up bridge. He was born in Prestwich, Manchester, to a Jewish family of Eastern European immigrant origins; his ideals derived as much from his He spent the year after coming down in 1959 in the US, a country interpretation of his Jewish heritage as from the waves of radical that he got to know well, and then returned to join the stock market dissent which flowed across Britain in the 1960s, and the Trotskyist research firm, Moodies, an American organisation, the English Socialism which he embraced in 1968. His horror at the kinds of branch of which was headed by his father. anti-Semitism which had threatened his forebears translated into an opposition to racism in all its varieties and into a fierce sense of the Nick married Prue Mumby on 20 April, 1968; the union produced injustice of excluding anyone from entering Britain and enjoying to Charles, Antonia and Sophia. It is good to record that Nick and Prue the full its freedoms and opportunities. were grandparents at the date of his death. His business career ended with his period as head of the ‘civil service’ of the British shoe From Bury Grammar School, he won an Exhibition in 1963 to Trinity industry. I twice visited the office, where he was obviously popular. to study law. He gained an LLM at the University of Birmingham in At their home in Surrey, Prue and he constructed a remarkable 1968 and was called to the Bar in 1969. After only months of practice garden from the wilderness. as a successful criminal lawyer, he sacrificed a potentially lucrative career as a barrister for ill-paid (and unpaid) work as a community Though not physically a powerful man, Nick was wiry, and lawyer, at the same time becoming engaged in a range of social and possessed exceptional stamina, that led him to take a lot of exercise. political activities which included the setting up, in 1970, of the first Perhaps his exertions, by running down his resistance, lay behind adventure playground in Manchester’s Moss Side. the attack of leukaemia that struck him down in the 1980s. Mercifully, thanks to the support of Prue and his children, and In 1968 he joined the Trotskyist International Marxist Group. wonderful medical care, he survived for two decades and saw his However he left in 1974 to build his own campaigns for social children grow up. He faced death with uncomplaining courage, and justice, particularly for those refused entry to Britain. His chief retained his sense of humour to the end. Tom Miller (New College). allegiance was then to the Jewish Socialist Group.

DR PHILIP RHODES CLAY (1941) came up to Trinity from Stowe Steve was a prolific writer. Always a polemicist, he wrote a series School. He served as a Surgeon Lieutenant in the RNVR from 1947 of pamphlets defending his views on immigration and the women’s to 1949 and was then a Senior Paediatric Registrar at the Radcliffe movement. No one was safe from his critical insights: his most Infirmary in Oxford. He died on 3 October 2009, survived by his impressive pamphlet, That’s funny, you don’t look anti-Semitic son and two daughters. (1983), was an attack on the anti-Semitism of the Left, and in particular on the expression of criticism of Israel (which he shared) STEPHEN WILLIAM COHEN (1963) was one of Manchester’s leading in terms which he took to be anti-Semitic. He was an ardent fighter human rights lawyers and political radicals. A specialist in for Palestinian rights, and for others such as the Irish and Pakistanis. immigration law, he initiated and devised some of Britain’s earliest Admired as an authority on immigration law, with a finely tuned 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 62

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legal brain, he was sought after as a speaker and adviser by academia follow him to the University. Roger lived his life by the tenets he and the legal profession. A man of action as well as intellect and learned on the playing fields of England, and believed in the ‘healthy ideals, he participated in most of the street-based campaigns of those body, healthy mind’ ethos. He was patriotic to the last with facing deportation, including campaigning on behalf of Viraj unswerving loyalty to Queen and country and was well summed up Mendes, the Sri Lankan student who found sanctuary in the Church by one of his shooting chums as being ‘an old warrior, personifying of the Ascension in Hulme. true British Grit and humour’.

He died on 8 March 2009 and is survived by his son and daughter He remained healthy until his last weeks and was in his beloved and two grandchildren. Paul Morris (1972). Cornwall just before his death, on 27 July 2009. He leaves his wife of fifty-five years, three children and nine grandchildren, and has (IVOR) ROGER HARDING CURTIS (Naval Probationer 1943) was born passed on his sense of duty and family to them. His kind are seldom in Bath in 1925, the brother of Michael (1937), who died in the seen, and he is sorely missed. Nick Curtis, son. 1980s. Their father, John, ran the family’s cattle feed business based in Bristol. JOHN WHITEHEAD DE PUTRON (1948) came of an old Guernsey family; he was a grandson of the founder of the Whitehead Travelling In 1943, after schooling at Cheltenham College, Roger won a naval Scholarship. He came up to Trinity from Eton to read PPE and on bursary to Trinity, to study military history, a subject he loved until graduating took articles with Price Waterhouse. When he qualified the end of his days. After a year, however, he volunteered for the Royal as a chartered accountant he worked for some years as a management Marines and earned the coveted ‘Green Beret’. He was commissioned consultant for PA Consulting. He returned to Guernsey in the late as a 2nd Lieutenant in September 1944 and posted to 48 Commando. 1960s to take over a long-established (but at that stage moribund) He saw action in Holland and Germany, and used to tell of the accountancy practice in the Island. By hard work, example, and a incredible destruction he witnessed there. His Commando was selected shrewd selection of subordinates he turned the practice round until to spearhead the invasion of Japan and jungle training followed, but by the time he retired it had become one of the leading accountancy the dropping of the bomb brought the war to a conclusion. firms in the Island with an international reputation.

Demobbed in 1946, too late to return to Oxford to complete his Like his father before him, John was elected to the States of degree, he commenced legal articles with Pepperell Pitt and qualified Guernsey (the Island’s parliament) where he sat for some twenty as a solicitor. A posting to the Development Bank of Ethiopia years, attaining high office; he was for many years President of the followed. There he met and married Marysia Grabowska whose Post Office Board which enabled him to unite his love of philately father, pre-war Minister of Justice of Poland, was Chief Justice in with his political career. Addis Ababa. They settled in Wareham, where they brought up two boys and two girls, and Roger was a partner at Humphries Kirk, a A keen golfer, he sought out and encouraged up-and-coming young Dorset legal practice. He established and commanded the Poole golfers in the Island, funding bursaries to allow them to compete on detachment of the Royal Marines for more than twenty-five years a wider circuit than the Channel Islands allowed. with his life revolving around his family and his main pursuits— shooting, sailing, and dogs. John is survived by his widow, Bunty, by his two sons and daughter, and by a quiverful of grandchildren. Alan Donaldson (1958). His family has had a long association with Oxford and his mother had been one of the first women students; he was delighted to see ROBERT ‘BOB’ JULIAN DIX (1950) was born in Rangoon, where his one of his daughters and his eldest grandson, who graduated in 2009, father worked for the Imperial Indian Bank, and came up to Trinity 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 63

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from Marlborough College, to read law. He went on to Middle CHRISTOPHER ‘CHRIS’ JOHN DOUGLAS-MORRIS (1971) came up to Temple and was called to the Bar, but then joined the staff of the Trinity from Sherborne, to read PPE. If you were at Trinity in the Inland Revenue. In the late 1950s he was sent to work in Northern early seventies you will remember Chris. Whether it was the Ireland, which he enjoyed, both for its people and for its countryside, originality of his thinking, the freshness of his perspective, the shock which he enjoyed walking in with his dog. By the late 1970s he was of his uniquely personal sartorial style or the passion of his politics living in north Oxfordshire and was a stalwart of the Banbury Rotary (‘What do we want? C.S.U. When do we want it? Now!’) life was Club from 1977. He was an enthusiastic traveller and had a wide- always more interesting, more amusing and more intense when Chris ranging knowledge and love of literature. He died on 14 August was around. Initially in the rooms he shared with Phil Lough and 2009, aged 78. later at Bardwell Road (where an invitation to dine was in fact an invitation to cook) Chris would invariably be at the centre of all BRYAN LEONARD CHARLES DODSWORTH MC (1938), who died on things interesting. 26 June 2009, was a passionate Yorkshireman throughout his life; an avid follower of Yorkshire cricket and a loyal supporter of York On coming down from Trinity, Chris pursued his passion for City, who was proud to be a Freeman of the City of York and who filmmaking, ultimately helping to edit one of Cubby Broccoli’s loved the Yorkshire countryside. many Bond films, whilst intermittently indulging in disastrous attempts at rally driving in obscure forests in Scotland and Wales. His peers at Rugby School and Trinity remember him as prankster: Originally based in Acton and subsequently, and more stylishly, in one of his well-told tales was of a bet to hit a golf ball through the Holland Park, Chris experimented with various forms of communal centre of Oxford, which he won, buying a Hardy fly rod with the living. Like the ‘prog-rock’ groups of the day the commune line-up proceeds. constantly changed but Chris’s generosity of spirit was always in evidence. He left Trinity early to enlist in the Royal Regiment of Artillery (York) at the onset of the Second World War. Although he never In the midst of this Chris discovered his true gift, and gift it surely really talked much about the war, the citation which set out his was, of anticipating and interpreting popular culture and he set up recommendation for the Military Cross describes his courage in the his own company, Statics, with long-time friend Andy Quayle. From face of heavy machine gun fire at Blanville, near Caen, in June 1944. his discovery of ‘Purple Ronnie’ to the creation of the Alibi brand of watches, Chris toured the world feeling the pulse of the times and Having taken his articles with the family firm of solicitors he joined creating products to match. For those of us living overseas it was Raleigh Industries (as it was then known) in 1948, taking on the role not unusual to come home to find Chris had arrived, completely of Company Secretary on his second day, when his predecessor unannounced, to settle in for a few days, in his quest for the new and resigned. He retired in 1975. the original.

He was a passionate birder and an avid gardener, with a special The last time I saw Chris was at Richard Haigh’s wedding in Los enthusiasm for chrysanthemums, magnolias, rhododendrons and Angeles. As always, when Chris arrived somehow the tempo of the particularly irises; he was president of the Iris Society and was occasion rose and life seemed more vivid and intense as the peals of awarded the Dykes Medal on a record twelve occasions. his laughter echoed around the room. Chris seemed in great form but then shared with us the challenges he was facing with a recurring He is survived by his wife, Jill, and two sons and a daughter from of heart problem and periodic bouts of severe depression. This latter his first marriage. From a tribute given at this funeral. battle was the one that overcame him in January 2009. 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 64

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So it was that we assembled in Shepherds Bush in March for a He was a very gifted man with wide ranging interests, particularly a celebration of Chris’s life. Lovingly prepared and organized by love of sailing. On his boat he was in the habit of perching on one Giselle, Chris’s wife and the mother of his lovely daughters, Nicola of the thwarts with his knees drawn up to his chest and a grin on his and Amy, the event chronicled Chris’s life. Amongst others Phil rather ‘beaky’ face, looking for all the world like a heron. Then he Lough and Richard Nathan recalled their memories of Chris, would make some utterly outrageous remark about religion or some sometimes hilarious, always poignant and both his daughters other subject on which the majority of people had accepted views, contributed in a very moving way. and then survey his crew to see who would challenge him. He always looked ‘unsmart’. His clothes looked recycled and even new clothes I can pay Chris no greater tribute than to recall that day. So many hung on him as if they had been worn for years. people who had come from so many parts of the world to show how significant he had been in their lives. So much life. So much laughter. He showed enormous kindness and concern for others and his So much stimulation and inspiration. So much fellowship. We will generosity knew no bounds. He hated formality, stuffiness, miss him always. Mark Hider (1972). pretension, pomposity. He much preferred the quieter conversation to the noisy cocktail party. He had an independence of mind that ROGER ANDERSON BROWNSWORD DRURY FRCP (1940) was questioned all accepted conventions and was evident in his views on educated at Gresham’s School. His father, Sir Alan Drury, was an a variety of subjects, which were expressed honestly and frankly. He experimental pathologist, director of the Lister Institute in London, died on 11 June 2009 and is survived by his wife Gill and his three and masterminded the establishment of the National Blood children. Nigel Armstrong-Flemming and with thanks to Transfusion Service. His mother Daphne was an eminent botanist. Bill Bevington and Chris Lunn.

After Trinity, with the war still being fought in Europe, he served in HUGH THOMAS FATTORINI (1955), company director, rare book the Royal Army Medical Corps and completed his national service collector and administrator of Skipton Castle, was born in Ilkley and in Austria before returning to work at University College Hospital, went to school at Ampleforth (where, as a school librarian, he the beginning of a long and distinguished career as an eminent developed his interest in books) followed by National Service in pathologist. He published countless articles on many aspects of 1953. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery and served in the pathology, specialising in the pathology of cancer and lymphomas, Anti-Aircraft Regiment, training at Oswestry and Tonfanau in Wales. in which field he was a world authority. He wrote textbooks and in He was stationed finally at Edinburgh Castle, one of his duties being particular cooperated on the rewriting of, and repeatedly re-edited, in charge of the One o‘clock Gun. In September 1955, shortly after Carleton’s Histological Technique. his mother died, he came up to Trinity to read History.

He spent two years working in Uganda, and was there during the Following his graduation, in the autumn of 1958 he began working bloody coup in 1971, in which Idi Amin ousted Milton Obote. Roger with his elder brother Tom in the family mail order business in worked tirelessly through these difficult days; his team would Manchester (the family also ran the badge, medal and insignia become smaller by the week as many of his staff mysteriously works, Thomas Fattorini Ltd., in Birmingham). disappeared. He held the department together and befriended and continued to support young colleagues, doctors and technicians. In 1967 Hugh married Frances Robertson and in 1971, the mail order Later he took up a post as consultant pathologist in Plymouth, business having been sold, the family returned to Yorkshire and the spending fifteen years there in clinical practice, continuing to write, following year they moved into Skipton Castle, which had been publish, examine and mentor. purchased by Hugh’s father in 1956. 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 65

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Settling in Skipton, Hugh began collecting and dealing in antiquarian Impressionist manner which was to become a consistent feature of books, his special interest being British ornithological books with his art, followed by an exhibition in Paris. In 1937 Gore secured a hand-coloured illustrations, about which he became an authority. For teaching post at the Westminster School of Art, and two years later eighteen years, from 1974 to1992, he served as a non-executive had a one-man show of his landscapes at the Stafford Gallery. During director on the Board of Skipton Building Society, and he served the Second World War he served with the Army. Between 1949 and from 1984 to 1987 on the committee of the Society for the History 1962 he enjoyed a series of one-man shows at the Redfern. He also of Natural History at the Natural History Museum in London. He returned to teaching, notably at St Martin’s, where he was appointed was also a Patron of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. head of painting 1951 and vice-principal in 1961, a post he retained until his retirement in 1979. During his tenure St Martin’s established Hugh succeeded his father as Administrator of Skipton Castle in the a reputation as an important nursery of talent over a broad range of late 1980s. He was deeply interested in the history of the castle and visual arts and design. He was also chairman of the Royal the historical figures associated with it. He wrote and published the Academy’s exhibitions committee from 1976 to 1987. first colour guidebook and arranged for the illustrated tour sheet to be translated into eight languages. Hugh was keen to preserve the Gore’s own painting—though influenced, he said, by Jackson castle for future generations to enjoy and it gave him great pleasure Pollock, Klee and Kandinsky—continued to suggest Post- to welcome visitors from around the world and share with them his Impressionism in its brilliantly-coloured, freely painted treatment of knowledge of the castle and his love of the Dales. He died on 23 landscape and cityscapes. For landscape, he was always drawn to June 2005, survived by his wife and their four sons. From an the Mediterranean: Greece, Majorca and particularly Provence, often obituary in the Ampleforth Journal. painting the same few places over and over again. Gore showed regularly at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition, and in 1991 FREDERICK JOHN PIM GORE CBE RA (1932) was that rare thing in his long association with the Academy was celebrated in a the art world: a prolific and successful painter who also managed to retrospective exhibition. He died on 31 August 2009, aged 95, and sustain several active and parallel careers, as teacher, art-school is survived by his wife, Connie, and a son and two daughters. From administrator and committee man. He was the son of the Camden an obituary in the Daily Telegraph. Town painter Spencer Gore, regarded by most of his contemporaries as the leader of the modern art movement in London before the First CHRISTOPHER DAMIEN HARRIS (Minor Scholar 1952) died on 5 World War. Though Spencer Gore died just a few months after January 2009. The expression ‘small but perfectly formed’ might Frederick’s birth, the aura of affection and respect in which he was have been coined for him; although slight of build he was always held remained an important element in his son’s later career. particular as to his appearance and tidy in his thinking: a dapper dresser and an admirer of Byron. At some stage he lost the sight of After Lancing, Frederick came up to Trinity, ostensibly to read his left eye but this did nothing to restrict his activities and the Classics. In the event he spent more time painting in the Ruskin occasional wearing of an eye patch merely enhanced his piratical School of Drawing. He exhibited at the shows organised by the good looks. Ruskin’s distinguished Master, Albert Rutherston, at the Maddox, Cooling and Mayor galleries in London. He came up to Trinity as a scholar from Downside to read Modern Languages (French & Spanish). He was anything but an academic Gore left Oxford determined to follow a career as a painter, and he pot-hunter. On the contrary, he beavered away at that which went on to the Westminster School of Art and then the Slade. In his interested him but sometimes left undone much of that which, final year Gore had his first one-man show. He then went to Greece, though prescribed, was not to his taste or fancy. where he produced richly coloured landscapes in the Post- 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 66

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Christopher soon developed a wide circle of friends and became as He was born in 1911 in London, but his family soon moved to well known for his parties as he was for his patronage of the tailors’ Upwood, the house near Oxford where he was brought up and to shops in the High. which he was to return in 1959, remaining there for the rest of his life. He went to Durnford Prep School, where he was a contemporary On going down he was called up for National Service by the Royal of Ian Fleming (who just beat him into second place in a story- Navy and was assigned to the Russian translators’ course, which led writing contest) and then to Eton, before coming up to Trinity in to months on the shores of the Black Sea and to further months in a 1930 to read Greats, though he later switched to PPE. barracks in Aberdeenshire translating largely irrelevant radio traffic. On discharge from the Navy, Christopher went straight into Lloyd’s On leaving Trinity he became a solicitor at Williams & James, his as a Life-Risk underwriter; he remained there until retirement in father’s firm. But this life did not appeal to him, and so he applied 1994. During these years he was a voracious reader and capable of for a job as private secretary to a Labour MP, John Parker. However, being a fierce critic of both the style and the content of what he read. he left soon after for America, where he had various adventures, His knowledge and comprehension of both literature and poetry in including illicitly riding on the platform of freight trains and joining several languages was prodigious. a two-man logging team. Back in England, he once walked from Oxford to London in a day, which he found rather boring, particularly After moving from London to north Essex, Christopher bought a being offered lifts by so many people. It was in London that he met share in a small cruising yacht which he used for coastal cruising Joan McMurray, a visiting American student. They planned to marry and occasional trips abroad. Post-retirement he and his wife, Judy, in Istanbul—her father was US Ambassador to Turkey—but that was would summer in their house in the south west of France. He took a in September 1939, and instead they had to leave hurriedly on one of short course in business studies at La Rochelle, later enrolling in the the last trains back to London and marry in Oxfordshire. Literary MA course at Essex University, passing with distinction, and eventually studying for a PhD. Sadly, he died before the date set Evan started his war as a reserve policeman, while in the Propaganda for the conferral of his doctorate; he was looking forward keenly to Research Department of the BBC, but he was soon accepted for the the ceremony and the privileges that would have attended his RNVR. He was sent to the USA in 1943, first to Boston, and then to enhanced academic status. Such, he insisted, would have included Pensacola in Florida; his job was liaison between the RNVR and the the obligation to address him as ‘Dr Harris’ rather than as plan ‘Hat’: US Navy. a name by which he was affectionately known by many at Trinity. Keith Topley (1955). After the war, Evan became the Clerk to the Merchant Taylor’s Company in London, a demanding job, particularly because much JAMES IAN HUSBAND CBE (1937) was born in Srinagar, Kashmir and of the Company’s property had been heavily damaged by bombing. came up to Trinity from Wellington College to read Modern Moving from London to Upwood in 1959 led to Evan’s decision in Languages. He joined the Colonial Service, working in Sierra Leone 1962 to retire from this post, and to take up an appointment as and Kenya and latterly he lived in Switzerland, where he died in 2006. Steward (domestic bursar) of Christ Church. His contribution to the major improvements to the college which took place during those EVAN MAITLAND JAMES (1930) led a long life of great variety. sixteen years was considerable and he is warmly remembered by his Throughout it, he remained a unique and endearing character, with colleagues there as a highly entertaining companion, and as a good- his own special philosophy. His chief delight was always with humoured and hospitable friend. people. He had an amazing and endless curiosity about them. He particularly loved entertaining children, including his own Joan died in 1989 and a sad period ensued, but Evan’s wonderful grandchildren and great grandchildren. ability to make friends found its greatest fulfilment in his meeting 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 67

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with Miriam at an Oxford dinner party. In 1992, they were married, Harvey was a scholarly schoolmaster, always reading and opening a new golden age for Evan. researching new ideas to aid his teaching. He made the subject interesting, and was held in high regard by his classes. In particular He was very proud to be the son of a Trinity man and was a regular he was most appreciated by his Sixth Form students who went on to and generous donor to the archive (see page 41). He died on read History at Oxford, Cambridge and other prestigious 5 December 2008, after a day’s illness. His memorial service was universities. He will be remembered by many for his wonderful held at Trinity, a reflection of his love of College. From the eulogy mastery of History and the intelligent way in which he engaged with given by George Nissen, cousin. the pupils that he taught. He died on 8 May 2009. Fraser Mitchell, brother. GILBERT CHARLES CHARLESWORTH NORRIS LIVSEY (1955) came to Trinity from Haileybury. He wanted to change subject from NIGEL GRAHAM MORGAN (1957) came up to Trinity from Stowe English to Law, but wasn’t able to and so left after four terms. School. He left after only two terms and emigrated to Australia. He Having gone to night school to take A-levels in sciences, and died on 10 July 2008, aged 69. following in his father’s footsteps, he became a patent agent in 1962. He died on 17 February 2009 and is survived by his wife Sylvia. ANTHONY RICHARD WILLIAMSON MOUSLEY (Colonial Service Student 1960) had fought in the Far East during the Second World JOHN REGINALD FRANKLYN LUSHINGTON (1946), who died in 1997, War and had worked in Indonesia after the war ended before he was was born in Ceylon, where his father was a tea planter, and came up admitted to Trinity as a Colonial Service student, while working for to Trinity from Sherborne School. He worked in Dar es Salaam until the Overseas Civil Service in Uganda, in the labour department and February 1967, when, with his wife Tonia, his intention was to in the office of the Prime Minister. In 1963 he moved to New ‘retire’ to Ireland, to buy himself a pub and spend most of his days Zealand, where he worked for Kodak and then as a management fishing, but they never reached Ireland, moving en route to a house consultant, before, in 1980, joining Oxfam for two years, in charge belonging to Tonia’s father on the Isle of Man, where they then of overseas personnel. From Oxford he retired to New Zealand, but settled. John became involved with a local building firm and worked returned to England in 2006, where he died in February 2009. in its administration until he retired. With thanks to Tonia Lushington and Peter Wood (1951). CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM OXLEY ‘BILL’ PARKER JP DL (1939) was very much a man of Essex: born in Colchester, his family had bought HARVEY WILLIAM MITCHELL (1967) was a teacher; the defining the Faulkbourne Hall Estate in Essex in 1898 and Faulkbourne Hall elements of his life were his music, and his books, (most especially was Bill’s pride and joy, but perhaps his special love was the history books), and he leaves behind a considerable collection of woodlands which he planted and personally tended. The willows both. along the River Brain provided cricket bats for many a Test player.

From the age of 11 he attended St Bartholomew’s Grammar School He went to school in Colchester, Kent and then Eton and went on to in Newbury, from whence he came to Trinity to read History and Trinity to read History, but the following year was called up for the English. Study at London University to become a teacher followed Second World War. He became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Essex and in September 1972 he was offered a post at Langley Grammar Yeomanry but eventually was invalided out of the army. School, where he was to remain for the next thirty years. He became Head of History in 1976, and he also extended his teaching into In 1944 Bill began his career with Barclays Bank in Wantage as a Sociology. cashier and then went from branch to branch as a local Director 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 68

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trainee (it was during a posting to Newcastle that he met his wife- he used others’ notes for those he missed. With some of his good to-be, Jo). The bank sent him to Kings Lynn, then Rhodesia, back to friends he went on an occasional holiday. A skiing trip made a Cardiff, then Cambridge and finally to be local director of Barclays particular impression on him when he would go tobogganing down in Chelmsford from 1950 to 1983. He continued as a non-executive the slopes, a sign of the indomitable spirit of adventure and risk- director until he was 72. He also played a very full part in the life of taking that remained with him throughout his life; it was particularly Essex. He became a magistrate in Witham and was on the Bench for evident when he acquired a motorised buggy for daring trips on to thirty-five years. He was High Sheriff in 1961 and amongst other the North Yorkshire Moors, where he was a landowner for most of positions he was for many years Chairman of Essex Boys Club. He his last forty years, and from which he would lean out to plant and was a Director of Strutt & Parker Farms; Chairman of Essex Forestry tend to trees. Society, President of Essex Club one year and President of both Maldon and Braintree Conservative Constituency Associations. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1955, but instead of practising, he became a director of the family’s Hargreaves Group He had wider national interests and responsibilities too. He was on of companies. He served as a county councillor on the old North the National Trust Properties Committee from 1974 to 1989, on the Riding County Council in the 1960s, and was a member of the North Executive Committee for Country Landowners Association from York Moors National Park planning committee for a decade. He 1959 to 1973 and a member of the Grocers Livery Company in the succeed his father in the peerage in 1966 and made his mark not only City. All this time he lived in Faulkbourne, which he had moved to on the floor of the House, becoming a champion of the disabled, but in 1952. He had a deep steadfast faith and worshipped every Sunday also as the founder of the Parliamentary Prayer Group. in the parish church, of which he was Church Warden for twenty- five years. He died on 23 April 2009, aged 88 years, and is survived A few months before his death, on the way back from attending a by his son Jonathan and his daughters Alison and Claire. wedding, he made a nostalgic return trip to Trinity. He sat and reminisced in his wheelchair outside his old room and, revisiting the MARTIN RAYMOND PEAKE, THE RT HON THE VISCOUNT INGLEBY gardens, recalled how nature had provided respite to him even in his (1948) was the son of Osbert Peake, the Conservative MP for North student days. Leeds who was created 1st Viscount Ingleby in 1956. Martin was wheelchair-bound for most of his life, but his disability did not stop He died on 14 October 2008, aged 82 and is survived by his second him from living a full life, enjoying the outdoors and his passion for wife Dobrila, whom he married in 2003, and his four daughters; his forestry. son Richard died in 1975. With thanks to Lady Ingleby and from obituaries in the Daily Telegraph and the Yorkshire Post. After leaving Eton he was commissioned in the Coldstream Guards just after the war ended, and was posted to Palestine and then sent NIGEL ROGER PEARCE SMITH (1957) was born in Kent and came up to Egypt, where he contracted polio and returned home paralysed to Trinity from Radley to read PPE. He died, aged 73, on 27 June 2009. from the neck down. (He gradually regained the use of the upper half of his body, and was able to walk down the aisle in callipers at MICHAEL ‘MIKE’ GEORGE CAM PIMBURY (1951) came to Trinity his wedding, in 1952, to Susan Landale.) from Cheltenham School, which had nourished in him what became two for the greatest pleasures of his life: the theatre and cricket. Like He came to Trinity, to read History, as the college’s first wheelchair- most of his generation he did two years’ National Service before bound student, adopting an iron self-discipline—which included coming up. He was commissioned in his local Gloucester Regiment preparing for bed at 8 p.m. and rising around 5 a.m. He relied on and did most of his service in Somaliland. fellow students to carry him upstairs in his wheelchair to lectures; 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 69

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He came into residence in 1951 and read the Honours School of nearly three years in minesweepers, mainly in the Mediterranean. English Language and Literature. In his work he took most interest He returned to Trinity in 1947 to continue reading modern in the drama (especially Shakespeare) where experience in theatre languages. On obtaining his degree, he went out to the Middle East could provide insights into the text which his tutor, who had never to work for the Anglo Iranian Oil Company until it was nationalised ventured on to the stage, sometimes lacked. He played a very in 1951 by the then Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossaleq, forcing significant part in the undergraduate theatre of his day and was Nigel to return home, but not before spending an uncomfortable, but elected President of the OUDS. His most important roles were as happily short lived, time in a Persian prison on a trumped up charge King John and Edward IV in the society’s special productions in the of espionage. Playhouse. Thereafter he spent most of his working life with BP in this country. When he went down he joined the Shell Oil Company and for some After retirement he devoted much of his time and energy to Young part of the time worked abroad with them. For the rest of his life he Enterprise, a charity that encourages schoolchildren to learn about lived in London where he seems to have enjoyed a very happy the ways of the business world. He maintained his connection with retirement. He was a very active member of the Church and had a the Navy after the war, serving for many years in the RNVR and wide circle of friends. The theatres were close by. His other RNR for which he was awarded the Volunteer Reserve Decoration passion—for cricket—was boundless. He and a friend (whose wife’s and Bar. fear of flying so exceeded her own love of cricket that she refused to go with them) spent many long winters following the English Nigel met his wife Sheelah, always known as Shah, in 1954 and they cricket team around the world. He was a member of the MCC and married a year later. They started married life in London, moving to spent many happy hours at Lord’s. True to his earlier background he Waltham St. Lawrence in Berkshire in 1960, where he played an was an ardent supporter of Gloucestershire Cricket Club and was active part in village and church affairs, including fund raising for elected one of its Vice-Presidents. the RNLI.

In July 2004, after extensive genealogical searches led him to believe A devoted family man of great charm, modesty and humour, Nigel that he was the last surviving member of the Pimbury family, he was much loved by all his many friends as evidenced by a packed appeared on Radio 4’s Today programme, in a widely reported church at his service of thanksgiving in April. He is survived by his interview, in which he hoped another living Pimbury might yet be wife Shah, his son Richard, his daughter Nicky and four discovered to continue the name. He told John Humphrys, ‘I’m 73 grandchildren. Peter Jenkins (1943). and I’ve had a lot of girlfriends but I’ve never got married—so I’m afraid that’s the end of it.’ BRIAN ANTHONY FEARON READ (1948) was born in Salam and educated at Harrow and, to escape the threat of invasion in the late He was throughout his life a very loyal and generous member of the 1930s, Michaelhouse, Natal. He came up to Trinity after four years college and was present at many of its functions for Old Members. in the army, and his subsequent career included working for Shell- He died on the 6 December 2008, and is survived by his sister Mex & BP in London; the Overseas Civil Service in the Josephine, wife of Michael Wilkes (1955). Dennis Burden, Bechuanaland Protectorate; the Sierra Leone Development Co, and Emeritus Fellow. Newcastle, Witwatersrand (South Africa) and Birmingham Universities. Following the death of his wife, Enid, he lived in NIGEL POSTON (Naval Probationer 1943), following in his father’s Botswana for a time, before returning to settle in South Africa. He footsteps, came up to Trinity from Malvern at Michaelmas 1943 on died in 2008. a six month Naval Short Course. Commissioned in 1944, he spent 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 70

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ANDREW JOHN KER REID (1949), who has died aged 78, founded BRIAN JOHN STALL (1951) came up to Trinity from Greenford Andrew Reid and Partners, a trouble-shooting business for heating County School, Middlesex. He worked for Riofinex Ltd in Saudi ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems that had defeated Arabia and later for the RTZ mining group. He suffered from poor their designers. Andrew used to call his firm ‘the lifeboat service’. health in later years and died in May 2009, in Malaysia. Significant projects included the Guildhall School of Music, in 1977, and the Barbican Arts Centre, in 1982. The high point in Andrew’s SIR JAMES WALLACE STUART-MENTETH Bt (1945) was educated at career came with work on the Sainsbury Wing of the National Fettes, the University of St Andrews, and Trinity College, and served Gallery; to ensure that the paintings are not damaged, the air- in the Second World War with the Scots Guards in North Africa conditioning has to be totally reliable. His firm was called in during before embarking on the amphibious landings at Anzio in January the commissioning phase and worked intensively for eight months 1944 with the 24th Guards Brigade, where he lost both legs above to complete the work in time for the opening by the Queen in July the knee. 1991. He later made a successful career with ICI, becoming managing Andrew was born in London but in 1933 his family moved to Farm director of the alkali and paints division, and devoted much of his Cottage in Old Bosham, West Sussex, where he remained until his considerable energies to the cause of servicemen who had lost their death. At the age of three he burned his hands badly when he fell into limbs through the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen’s Association a fire, and became the first child to have pioneering plastic surgery. (Blesma). His forceful personality frequently enlivened as well as accelerated the Association’s proceedings. Intolerant of bureaucratic After Bradfield College and national service aboard HMS Vengeance delay or excuse, he was outspoken and assiduous in proposing aircraft carrier, he came up to Trinity where he obtained an practical steps to advance the cause of the disabled. Returning once engineering science degree. In 1952 he began a career in HVAC with to his car which he had parked in Whitehall, he found it had been GN Haden Ltd, where he remained until founding Andrew Reid and towed away. Sitting on the pavement to demonstrate his own Partners. disability, he refused to move until the police capitulated and his car was returned. Although elected to Blesma’s executive council, he He loved the sea and sailing. This began in his youth with Pintail, a resigned after just over a year, asserting that councils stultified 15ft open sloop that he developed with deck cabin and mizzen mast. initiative. Yet he was a compassionate man always ready to go to the With friends he would take Pintail on adventurous cruises across the assistance of others. Channel and right around the British Isles. In 1983 he bought Flying Light, a ‘First 42’ yacht. He redesigned and re-engineered her, James Stuart-Menteth played a significant role in the establishment enabling a friend to enter and complete the Single-Handed of the Blesma Venturers. This hardy group of individuals undertook Transatlantic Yacht Race in 1988, after which they sailed back two- aquatic activities such as sailing and long-distance canoeing as well handed across the Atlantic. as a dramatic parachute jump into the Solent, becoming an inspiration for many young, post-Second World War amputees. He Born into a family of journalists, Andrew was an acute observer of was also responsible for persuading other local landowners in his the political scene, an avid reader, and rarely without useful insight home area to open forest trails to provide wheelchair access. He and opinion. He pursued diverse causes and interests and was an consistently urged Blesma to pursue a policy of creating more inspiration to many in their battles against injustice. Latterly his outdoor pursuits for limbless servicemen, something that is coming interests, inspired by his partner, Natasha Player, who survives him, very much to the fore in the work to rehabilitate those injured in the spread to art galleries, opera, ballet and travelling the world. Hugh conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Hubbard. 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 71

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He succeeded to the baronetcy of Closeburn, Dumfrieshire, and said that later the police would cross the street to avoid confronting Mansfield, Ayrshire, on the death of his father in 1952. His wife, him. He was a brave and gallant Englishman who gave more than a Dorothy, survives him with two sons. He died on 9 October 2008, little in the service of his country and the Royal Navy. There were aged 85. From an obituary in The Times. few quite like him. John W Herbert.

(RUPERT) CLIVE WILKINSON DSC (1940) died on 11 June 2009. It PETER ALEXANDER WOOD (1938) came up to Trinity from Lancing is strange, but fitting, that after all the dangers he faced he should College. He worked for a time for ICI and latterly lived in Budleigh have died peacefully and painlessly, watching cricket. Salterton, Devon, moving to Oxfordshire in the last year of his life. He died on 7 February 2009. He served in HMS Victorious in 1943 when she was lent, lock stock and barrel, to the United States Navy and became an integral unit of the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet. Earlier he had passed through HMS St Vincent and had done his flight training with the US Navy at Pensacola. Clive was tall and imposing, with a mass of blond hair, and was a unique character—one of a kind. He rarely wore uniform, although that didn’t prevent him being well respected.

At the end of 1943 his squadron went aboard the Assault carrier HMS Pursuer and, having merged into 881 Squadron, saw much action throughout 1944. In a period of nine months the Fleet Air Arm in Pursuer got over thirty awards, doing mainly ground attack flying, and Clive was in the thick of it. In April and in November and December of 1944 Clive flew in operations in Norwegian waters and the Arctic, while in August 1944 he was heavily involved in attacking troops vehicles, tanks and trains in the South of France Invasion, for which he received the DSC. In September he was doing much the same thing in the Aegean.

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JCR REPORT refurbishment of all communal onsite facilities was proposed and subsequently approved by College in Hilary. This was timely, given tudents so quickly move from Fresher to Finalist that it is often the comparatively poor facilities offered to the JCR, and the more Sthought that this is the most rapidly changing aspect of life at stable financial situation due to past cost saving measures. ‘G&T’s Trinity. Yet for an institution steeped in tradition, this yearly report on the Lawns’, organised by the capable Claire Carmichael, JCR acutely shows how the ebb and flow of staff and students can so Secretary, Joanne Leonard, JCR Entertainment Rep, and Abbasali quickly shape the past, present and future of the college. As Sir Arthur Haji, was a great success, despite the very English weather. Open to Conan Doyle said, a change is as good as a rest; it is even more so in all of Oxford, it was a joy to show off why Trinity is famous! This the JCR, where the quick turnover of officers brings inevitable changes has allowed us to plan and begin the restoration of the JCR to its in attitudes and objectives. With some trepidation I, with the rest of former glory, with high-tech AV additions, and to upgrade the JCR the committee, took over what seems like only yesterday. kitchen to the modern facility Trinity really deserves. This could not have been achieved without the help and advice of John Keeling, The smooth handover period at the end of Michaelmas was followed Kevin Knott, Steve Griffiths, the entire domestic and workshop by what can only be described as a baptism of fire. Constitutional team, and the ongoing support of Old Members, which we truly changes in the MCR had a direct impact on fourth year JCR appreciate. members, who would now be forced to choose one common room or pay for the privileges of both, whilst the refurbishment of Disaffiliation from OUSU, the central Student’s Union, continued. Staircase 6 required twenty second years to live out of College in Far from being a detriment to the Common Room, what has been the next academic year. Difficult decisions had to be made by the accomplished this year would not be possible for a JCR without past committee and I sincerely hope that we found satisfactory committees’ work in this area. My heartfelt thanks to all of this year’s resolutions for future development and the good of the college. committee for the enthusiasm, efficiency and professionalism each has brought to their roles. Welfare socials, JCR teas and Peer Undeterred, a hectic two terms has followed, as no doubt reflected Support, Halfway Hall, free chlamydia screening, the printing of our in the society reports that follow; the wealth of activity in College excellent Alternative Prospectus, Bops, updating all our essential amongst the junior members is almost impossible to keep up with. advice booklets, the first JCR Photo in many years and many other The JCR has continued to support its clubs and societies financially; projects simply do not happen without a lot of effort and of particular note are the Boat Club and the Trinity Players both of commitment. which had an incredibly successful year. New endeavours included the first Trinity Yearbook, film society and martial arts society. Altruistically we have continued to meet our objectives by Finally, the thread literally weaving us together, The Broadsheet, supporting charities through direct donations and also by donating went from strength to strength under the energetic leadership of to the foreign charities with which our members were involved. Clare Macaulay, with pages of content added to each successive Almost £2,000 was donated to projects all around the world under issue. Congratulations are due to all captains, presidents, organisers, the Travel Aid banner, and students travelled as far as China and directors and editors who have made this an extraordinary year. Peru to help those less fortunate than themselves. We are also always delighted to hear of charitable projects led by alumni and support Both the future and practical considerations weighed on our minds them through our Charities Rep. as a committee this year. A strategic plan of fundraising followed by 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 73

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As we look ahead to Michaelmas, Freshers’ Week is taking shape Committee and particularly JCR President Andrew Cairns, who under the excellent Freshers’ Committee; it certainly will be the best somehow managed to appear both charming and highly efficient at organised yet! Elections, policy and constitutional reviews, and our times of crisis. We are very grateful to Alastair Johnson, Trinity handover to the next committee are all challenges yet to be faced. I computer guru, for the inspiration and help in changing the way the am confident they can be; college pride has never been so apt as this Guest Nights are organised. The abolition of the separate booking year, and long may it continue. system and separate MCR/JCR tables will bring both common rooms closer together. Many thanks to all JCR members who took Andrew Cairns interest in joint MCR-JCR events; I do hope it will be the beginning JCR President of a true reform of the traditional relationship between the two common rooms.

MCR REPORT The character of the MCR is greatly changed by the incoming students and it is impossible to predict its character until the end of hen I was an undergraduate in Moscow, we used to talk with Freshers’ week. In the past year we have enjoyed a very diverse Wawe about Oxford, awe fuelled not only by Oxford’s MCR where both the serious and the light-hearted have mixed formidable reputation and its ancient walls but also by its famously together well. We have endeavoured to help those new to Oxford to outrageous social life. I am pleased to say however that nothing discover the best of it. It may be that the Oxford we think we know particularly outrageous happened in Trinity MCR during this year is not a concrete reality, but to a great extent a product of our (at least not to my knowledge!). imagination. Still, it is a unique and wonderful place and I hope that all MCR members have enjoyed, and will continue to enjoy, this The difficulties of the first few weeks we faced as an MCR mixture of serious study, every conceivable sport, and frivolous Committee of two ended with the elections in 4th week of dancing at bops in silly outfits—for these are all fundamental parts Michaelmas term when our fantastic team was formed. Sarah De of Oxford. Haas, our wonderful Welfare Officer and I were joined by Jenni Tilley, a Treasurer of formidable strength of character (who will And of course for all of us Oxford is inseparable from Trinity. Trinity succeed me as the MCR President this coming year), Ben Bertoldi, College is our own sanctuary supported by its members of staff. Let Social Secretary with the highest score of controversial bop me thank once again all the members of college academic and support costumes in the entire University, Alana Richards, our dedicated staff who run the college. I would especially like to thank Dr Trudy Secretary, and Henry Shevlin, the Committee Member who made Watt, the Senor Tutor, Mr John Keeling, the Domestic Bursar and Mr himself available for coffee and engaging conversation in our on- Kevin Knott, the Estates Bursar who helped the MCR with both advice site MCR at all hours. Many thanks to Sarah, Jenni, Ben, Alana and and financial support. I would also like to thank all Old Members who Henry who ensured that the committee work for the year was very contributed to the Annual Fund this year, their generous donations enjoyable. have guaranteed the quality and variety of the social and pastoral services our members have enjoyed throughout the year. I consider the committee’s best achievement during the year to be the greater integration of the JCR and the MCR communities. This Olga Shvarova could not have been achieved without the help from the JCR MCR President 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 74

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES galvanised by the arrival of Tim Goundry, next year’s captain; he has experience of club-level basketball and his skill and knowledge of the sport has allowed Trinity to improve vastly. In Michaelmas, ATHLETICS REPORT the team, with a new knowledge of tactics and the addition of his year has seen considerable success for our Trinity Athletics enthusiastic Fresher’s, gave their all. We came exactly mid-table, Tteam. In Michaelmas term Trinity annihilated the competition with only joint-college teams and Magdalen ahead of us. We lost to with a points score of over 200 (Oriel in second place could manage Magdalen by only five points and had victory stolen by Keble right only eighty). Notable performances came from Rosie Batty who won at the death (44-43), certainly the closest match played, a true the 400m hurdles and also performed well in the field events, spectacle with tempers running high. Had these close matches gone Rosemary Lobley who won the 800m, and Andy Whitby and Steffen our way, Trinity’s position would have better matched the efforts Hoyemsvoll, who both proved they could do well in field and track displayed. This was a term of dramatic improvement as the team alike. Mention must also go to the men’s team which racked up many learnt to play under Goundry’s guiding hand. points in all the field events, if only by its members’ cunning scheme of strength through numbers. Hilary term also saw a number of good It was in Hilary term that we really consolidated our position coming performances: David Taylor narrowly missed out on first place in second in the newly formed Division B. Trinity was on brilliant the 3k chase despite having already run in the 1500m less than an form, beating every other side in the league, proving that we deserve hour earlier, and Andrew Smith and Victoria Ward also came second to be among the best. We lost only to a joint St Catz/Balliol team, each in their respective events. Special mention must again go to arguably the best of both divisions. Despite raised eyebrows over Steffen Hoyemsvoll, who scored highly in all of the many events he the fairness of a team composed of two colleges (each on their own entered, however his top performance was in the 400m hurdles twice the size of humble Trinity) as well as the profusion of Blues which earned him a place on the Varsity team, where he went on to and twos players that seemed to be suspiciously swelling the run a half-blue time. Together these Cupper successes have meant Catz/Balliol ranks, Trinity battled hard, keeping the score that Trinity has reclaimed the title of Athletics Cuppers Champions respectable. Hilary term saw both the debut and last game of Michael and we are now holders of the coveted Chavasse Trophy. Marsh. The American TVMP [Term’s Most Valuable Player] was only here for a term but he caught every rebound and kept the work As well as our Cupper successes, we also found the time to enter a up throughout all games. His inspirational set plays and his wall-like team of runners into the 2009 Teddy Hall Relays, started this year defensive style was sorely missed come Trinity term. The team was by Sir Roger Bannister in honour of his 80th birthday. Rosemary also blighted by injury, Tim Goundry, who was out with a damaged Lobley, Victoria Ward and Simone Dogherty ran well against many knee for the majority of the season, and Guy Davis, who broke his university and external teams to finish comfortably in the middle of leg, both great losses. Tim is set for surgery this summer and will be the final rankings. back in Michaelmas and Guy is also on the mend. In their absence special thanks should go to Ben Mason and Max Root who did a Victoria Ward great job of filling their large shoes. Thanks should also go to the female contingent of Trinity’s team; Rosie Batty and Charlotte Bauccio were two of the most reliable players and surprised many BASKETBALL other teams with their ability. Charlotte Trainer’s provision of half time oranges also deserves a mention. Basketball is not a traditional Trinity sport, but its exciting appearance and addictive but accessible nature has caused it to A good Cuppers run ended our season, weakened by injury and become a force within College. The current team has been exams we were beaten by St Catz/Balliol and New/Teddy Hall, 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 75

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which ended our Cuppers. Both are Division winners and together In addition to their decisive win at Autumn Fours, the first Women’s their players make up most of the Blues team. Despite this we were IV, coached by new recruit Alex Gaspar of Leander and Oxford not totally outclassed. There were moments when brilliance showed, Brookes, also won outright the Novice category at Wallingford Head, a ten point unchallenged run against St Catz gave us temporary hope. while another IV and the Women’s 8+ delivered strong results. In truth, basketball is a game of inches and it is the occasional missed Somewhat less fortunate, the men, still trained by the highly able basket or poor pass that resulted in our losses. We have many Bob Newby, finished rather closer to the middle of the pack in their beginners in the team, but thanks to the enthusiasm and dedication VIII and two IVs—but this difference was to be made up later in the of our members, we have put up a brilliant fight against more year. experienced and technically accomplished teams. That said, with regular training and continuing commitment, Trinity is set to become Kicking off Hilary with a training camp as usual, spirits were high. a serious contender for Cuppers 2009/2010. Captain Tim Goundry With many returning after Christ Church and more experienced is planning weekly training sessions for the men’s team and also oarsmen and women joining the flock, the excitement was palpable. intends to start a women’s team following much interest from female members of the college. All of our players get a game, and training As the climax of the term’s work, Torpids was an extraordinarily sessions see a regular attendance of over twenty people. We hope to successful event. ‘The most successful undergraduate college on the continue to be this accessible while at the same time creating a more river’, now emblazoned across our (brand new) website homepage, elite team. Forget rowing, cricket or croquet; Basketball is the new was the phrase on everybody’s lips after a week of intense racing, king of Trinity Sports. Let’s just hope for some tall freshers! and with good reason. After a great performance at Rowing On, both captains, Jamie and Rosemary, were able to enter three crews. In Luke Collett-Fenson Division 5, the 3rd (Schools) VIII was unfortunate to miss out on blades on the Saturday after three bumps before gut, as were the 2nd VIII due to a crash in their division on their second day. The true THE BOAT CLUB courage, however, lay in the performance of the Women’s 1st VIII. The Boat Club, as always, began its year with a strong start. Sandwiched between Divisions 2 and 3, the crew was forced to row Following brilliant sunshine and strong attendance at our ‘taster the course a total of eight times before their victorious bump up into day’, the club was lucky enough to sign on a record seventy-eight Division 2. The Men, on the other hand, were both more and less nd rd new members. Little did we know, but this enthusiasm from day one fortunate. The heroes of the competition, both the 2 VIII and 3 was to be a real hallmark of the year to come. VIII delivered blades—a feat unmatched by any other club on the river, or by Trinity since 1981. Both crews excelled themselves, st Both the Men’s and Women’s novice squads performed very strongly. bumping before the gut in every race and bumping a 1 VIII each in st After a solid showing from both teams in the first Isis Winter League the process. Well done Trinity! Tragically, the 1 VIII found itself of the year, our Women’s Novice ‘A’ crew made it to the semi-final of trapped directly in front of several crews with hopes for blades, and Nepthys Regatta with the men not far behind. At Christ Church regatta found itself bumped down three places after very nearly moving up we were finally able to race a record six crews. Unfortunately, our on the first day. women were cheated out of a semi-final place by Hertford and our men unlucky enough to suffer from an equipment failure in the third Moving into Trinity term, the senior squad had three things to look round, but it must be said that both crews demonstrated enormous forward to—firstly, an excellent debut into the summer racing season st determination and potential. Indeed, this is true across the board, as with entries for both the Men and Women’s 1 VIIIs into the Head th th the ‘A’ crews were both supported by highly dedicated ‘B’ and ‘C’ of the River Races. The crews placed 286 and 217 respectively, crews, with Trinity men’s ‘B’ making it all the way to Saturday racing. both up on their starting positions of 291 and 293. Also in the Easter 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 76

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vacation, Trinity’s senior squad travelled to Soustons, France, for its The Women’s 1st VIII, having proven their heroism in Torpids and annual training camp. Fantastic in every way, be it the training put in all the work necessary (and more) during Trinity, was sadly facilities available, the accommodation, the improvements made or denied its blades as well by a crash mid-week which saw them the atmosphere, we remain indebted to the generosity of our Old emerging with a single bump by the end of Saturday after re- Members and Friends which allows Trinity to get such quality work bumping Corpus and finishing off Lincoln. It should, however, be in—thank you all very much! mentioned that performance in their other races should act as a testament to their real drive, strength and heart as a superb crew. Thirdly, Trinity had the 155th Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race to look forward to, for, sitting in the 3-seat was Alex Hearne, Trinity’s first The men, too, ended the week with a positive result. Having really men’s heavyweight Blue since 1956. With Oxford’s three-and-a-half gelled as a crew in the two weeks before competition, the desire to length victory, the Trinity Men’s 1st VIII looked forward to prove themselves after Torpids was very much an overriding welcoming Alex for Summer Eights, and to the experience of rowing concern. The rivalry with St. John’s, who had bumped Trinity M1 with him in the weeks before. on the Saturday of Torpids, finally came to a head on the Thursday after a klaxon had ended the race the previous day—having entered After the prestige event of entering the Eights Heads, we had a term the competition expecting not only to bump Trinity again but also of almost weekly racing (and winning) to look forward to. Starting to leave the week with a new set of blades, John’s left with nothing with City of Oxford Bumps, the team’s results were stellar as usual, as Trinity pulled away into clear water. Bumping Queen’s on the if still as nail-biting and so near to perfect. Making good use of our Friday, the week was finished with yet another klaxon to give both new Stampfli 4+, kindly donated by Harry Fitzgibbons and named the Men’s and Women’s 1st VIIIs results which were undeniably after his victorious crew ‘Barstow-Fitzgibbons-Colquhoun-Williams positive, but failed to show their true prowess on the water. Both ‘58/’59’, every one of Trinity’s four crews bumped at least once. With crews left confident in their strength, wanting only to show it again the Women’s’ 2nd IV moving up a place and the Men’s 2nd IV inches on the water in the coming year. away from a blades-winning fourth bump, tensions were high as the Women’s’ 1st IV also had a close brush in the final to finish with three Congratulations finally to Ellie Horrocks and Rob Morton who have bumps, and the Men’s 1st IV retained its place as the highest ranked been elected the new Women’s and Men’s Captains, and to Charlotte college crew on the river at 3rd in Division 1. In line with this success, Bauccio and Matt Mair, our new Secretary and Treasurer the men raced a week later at Chiswick Amateur Regatta, winning respectively. It looks to be an exceptional year ahead for the Trinity both the IM3 and Novice 4+ categories, and the Women proceeded College Boat Club. Thank you also to Rosemary Lobley (Women’s’ to do the same at Putney Town Regatta in their Novice 8+. This trend Captain), Simone Dogherty (Secretary) and Ellen Kempston was continued later in the term with a victory at Marlow Town Regatta (Treasurer), who are standing down. And thanks most of all to Ben in the Men’s IIx event and second place in the Men’s IV and VIII. Thurston, who has been a guiding hand for us all over the past two years as both Captain and President. Stepping down but taking up Summer Eights was therefore entered into with a great deal of hope. the position of OURCs Secretary, we can only be thankful that he Sadly, and rather unexpectedly, the Men and Women’s’ 3rd VIIIs will still be around in our hour of need. Thank you Ben, thank you failed to qualify, but both the Men’s and Women’s 2nd VIIIs, Trinity and thank you most of all to the Old Members and Friends however, managed to secure three bumps each in the first three days, who make what we do possible. tragically missing out on blades by mere inches in their final races. For the men, it was St. Antony’s bumping out while they nearly held On a last note, please visit our new website at overlap, and for the Women, it was St. Hilda’s just pulling away in www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/boatclub. It is being perfected as I write, but is the crucial final stages of the race. already very much operational. Please contact me at 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 77

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[email protected] with any comments, questions Trinity recently, I hope you will come to a Sunday evensong and or suggestions. I look forward to seeing you all at our Annual Dinner hear the choir for yourselves. in Hilary! Details to follow… Catherine ‘Miggs’ Wallace Jamie Thetford

CRICKET CHOIR This season was one of great success for Trinity on the cricket field. It has been a busy year for the Chapel Choir. In October there was a An influx of talented Freshers were instrumental in filling the shoes of healthy intake of freshers and numbers remained high. The quality important senior players who unfortunately for them had much of their of singing increased and the choir was able to take on more ambitious attention focussed on exams. A run to the quarter-finals of the Cuppers projects. The carol service was the first major event and went without competition in the early part of the term was the highlight of the season fault. It was great to see so many at the service and the choir members as we belied our third division status by knocking out two first division particularly enjoy being able to meet Old Members and Friends. sides, in Jesus and Pembroke. Alex Gilmore and Horatio Cary’s contributions with both bat and ball, along with James Schneider’s wily Hilary term was the busiest term the choir has had in my time as leg-spin, were instrumental in our progress to a quarter-final showdown organ scholar. In addition to the weekly service, the choir recorded with Merton-Mansfield. Unfortunately, we were unable to replicate the a CD as well as singing in a number of extra services. The CD was form of the previous rounds, as Merton’s team included an Australian a fantastic achievement and the professionalism of the choir was postgraduate (of all people!). Our form in Cuppers translated to some commented on by the producer. Everyone worked immensely hard impressive performances in the league as we sustained a charge for for ten hours, giving up their free time at the beginning of term. I promotion. Tom McClellan played a remarkable innings against Oriel, think the results speak for themselves. hitting 142 in a thirty overs-a-side match! His array of shot-making earned him the player of the season award. Ed Case was however not Trinity term was more relaxed for singing but with the added to be outdone when it came to clearing the ropes, playing some pressure of exams choir activities were to prove a relaxing break extremely entertaining yet crucial innings in the middle order. from the library. A particular highlight was the Trinity Sunday Unfortunately, in a decisive final match, a slightly over-zealous and service, attended by former organ scholar Jonathan Clarke, at which competitive Said Business School won promotion at our expense. the choir sung responses written by Jonathan whilst he was at Trinity. The year ended with a successful tour to Rome singing in a number The women also managed to enter a team into the women’s Cuppers of inspiring churches, including St. Paul’s Outside the Wall and this year. Many of them had never played before and it proved to be Santa Maria Maggiore, two of the major basilicas. It was a great a valuable and worthwhile experience. Hopefully we will continue experience for the choir to sing in buildings with such large to enter a team and go from strength to strength. acoustics—a big difference from the Trinity Chapel! Henry Evans The last three years the choir has developed and has been a joy to work with. The choir will be in the capable hands of Daniel Sharpley CHRISTIAN UNION from Michaelmas and there are many plans, including a tour to Paris Trinity Christian Union is a group of people within College, who and Notre Dame. The choir is grateful to the college and Old have one thing in common—Faith in Christ Jesus. We meet regularly Members for all the support it receives and if you have not visited to share God’s Word together and enjoy each other’s friendship. 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 78

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Over the past year the CU has put on several events aimed at sharing induced absences and ended up losing because of our first half the gospel with our friends in College. Events have included a lunch performance; possibly demonstrating that we would have shown the and talk in Freshers’ week and a Champagne and Truffles event at ‘tabs’ their place if we’d had time to warm up. However, it’s nice to which a panel of Christians of all ages were asked many questions have something to aim for next year! A fantastic season, with our about Christianity. Aside from big events, we meet weekly to study Cuppers success being complemented with a good performance in the Bible either in College as a small group or in a church in Oxford the league, and a high placing in the summer five-a-side where we meet with the CU’s from other colleges to worship championship. together. Rowan Dalglish If anyone has any questions about the CU, churches in Oxford or indeed any question about Christianity do please get in touch we will be happy to find the answer for you! GRYPHON SOCIETY The Gryphon enjoyed another successful and idiosyncratic year Rose Kyte under newly elected Master, Matt Mair. The Society continued in its modern tradition of meeting after Hall on Sundays to convene debates, but this year those debates often took a more light-hearted WOMEN’S FOOTBALL tone. Well-attended were motions on ‘This House has Obama-mania’ This has been another tremendous season for the combined LMH and ‘This House believes things couldn’t get any worse’. The and Trinity women’s football team, in which Trinity has been Master’s enjoyment of the high quality of debating on show was particularly dominant. For the second year running we managed to only a little hampered by the rapacity with which his guests enjoyed beat off competition from every other team in the University to win the port customarily provided. the Cuppers championship, an unprecedented achievement. The year started well, with a new kit generously provided by both colleges. The Gryphon also continued its newer tradition of holding the Our winning streak in the first term was only interrupted by one Michael Beloff After-Dinner Speaking Prize, this year judged by match, in which we could only field nine players. This could have Gerald Peacocke (1951). A witty and diverse selection of speeches been disastrous for our Cuppers chances, but fortunately, we made was delivered, consisting of (among others) a reflection on the it through as the highest scoring group runners-up. Ironically we then tedium of waiting in lifts. Joe Cooke’s semi-improvised rhetoric faced the same team again in the quarter-finals, but after an epic two- eventually won the day and the prize, while the Master’s guests again hour match, not ideal after the long and indulgent Christmas consumed his port with an enthusiasm bordering on the insatiable. vacation, we were able to regain our rightful position. We drew Christ Church/Oriel for the semi-finals, and after a decisive victory, Looking forward, the Society will be led by a woman, Gracie Mae, were set for a repeat of last year’s final against a vengeful for only the third time in its history. If the passion and enthusiasm Somerville. The first half was closely fought in torrential rain, and she has shown for debating is matched by her skill as Mistress, then several times it seemed as if the enormous Somerville crowd would Trinity’s oldest society is assured another good year in 2009-10. I be celebrating that night. However, with an improvement in the wish her luck sating the intellectual and alcoholic thirst of Trinity’s weather came an improvement in our play, and eventually we won many fine debaters. a thrilling final 8-5. Matt Mair Trinity term saw the team travelling to Cambridge to play its champions, Jesus College. There we suffered from academically 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 79

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HOCKEY squad, with two teams being entered into the collegiate league this Interest at the beginning of the year led to the formation of Trinity’s season. The A team began in Division Three, and in Michelmas term own hockey team after a gap of some time. The club proceeded to we won seven of our nine matches, leading to promotion to Division enjoy a successful year with promotion being gained in both the Two. In Hilary term competition was much tougher, but we Michaelmas and Hilary term leagues. Michaelmas saw victories over managed to hold our own in Division Two, coming fifth out of ten St Hilda’s and University with the aid of the expert stick-work of teams. A particularly proud moment for the A team was beating a Tom McClellan and Horatio Cary. The talent of the ever-varying previously unbeaten college team in the last week of term. The B team allowed Trinity to go on to beat Brasenose and Linacre, among team began the league late in Michaelmas term, meaning that we others, at the start of Hilary term. The team was well led by the lost some games by default, causing us to be demoted to Division skilful Greg Dunning and James Baggott, with Rachel Hargrave an Five. However, after a successful showing in Hilary term, at times ever-present rock in the defence. The season ended in a crucial beating several practising A teams from other colleges, we came victory against a strong Keble side that had been promoted with us second in the league and so were promoted to Division Four, where in the previous term, and had narrowly beaten us to the Michaelmas we start the next season. In addition to such a successful league title. performance in the league, Trinity performed strongly in the Cuppers competitions, both mixed and non-mixed. Due to an Overall it was a great first year and given that Trinity has such a great unfortunate draw against the top team in the league for non-mixed Hockey-playing past, it’s great to see a team flourishing once more. Cuppers, the team did not manage to progress beyond the group games. However, we managed a close second place in our group. Ed Case In mixed Cuppers we had a very successful showing, thanks to the combination of netball know-how from the girls and a welcome injection of height and basketball skills from our boys. We narrowly LAW SOCIETY missed out on the place in the semi-finals due to goal difference. All in all it has been a very successful year for Trinity netballers, The Law Society enjoyed another eventful year. Events included an and we look forward to the new season in Michaelmas, where we inter-collegiate Roman Law moot, hosted in the Danson room, where hope to build on what we have achieved this year. the Trinity Lawyers acquitted themselves admirably with Trinity first-year Joseph Cooke being rewarded for his skill as an advocate. Abby Brehcist & Laura Pickering Another highlight was the annual Michael Beloff Law Society Dinner, which returned to Trinity. Guests, current students and many Old Members enjoyed a drinks reception, sumptuous dinner and TRINITY ORCHESTRA lively speech on constitutional reform by guest speaker Lord Neuberger. Trinity Orchestra gave three concerts this year, one under new conductor Alexander Dowding in Trinity Term, and two under Emer Morrison departing conductor Daniel Reeve. All were to the ensemble’s usual high standard, and it was great to see Old Members in the audience for each. The music performed this year has been extremely varied, NETBALL from a programme of Schubert, Debussy, and Beethoven in Michaelmas term that would have challenged a professional This season has been one of great success for Trinity’s netballers. orchestra, to a beautiful rendition of a Chopin piano concerto with Over the past year there has been a growth in both team membership Trinity first-year Charlotte Lynch as soloist, and a fun performance and in the enthusiasm of the team, which has paid off for the netball 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 80

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of pirate music (Mendelssohn and Hans Zimmer) in Trinity term, TENNIS very successful in its aim of providing some much-needed light relief The Trinity Tennis team marched into the 2009 season with to stressed exam candidates. The atmosphere of this non-auditioning confidence and a well-earned reputation. Having won the ensemble continues to be friendly and enthusiastic. Premiership last year and been seeded at two for this year’s Cuppers competition, there was a lot of expectation on our shoulders to retain We would be delighted to send details of forthcoming concerts to our title. However with a completely different team and some strong anyone interested in attending; enquiries should be directed to opposition we knew it was not going to be easy. [email protected] or the Alumni & Development Office. We got the ball rolling by netting a hard-fought win over Merton, Daniel Reeve last year’s runners up. This included an admirable performance from tail-ender Claus Groot, whose grit and determination eventually handed us the victory. Our second match, against Worcester, served SQUASH as somewhat of a reality check. While every player gave it their all, We started the year having been promoted to the top division of we found it hard to get a grip on the opposition and ended up failing Oxford Squash and so had reached the pinnacle of the sport in to string together many wins. It was in matches such as this one that Oxford. Losing last year’s captain, Oli Plant, to a year abroad we we missed Oli Plant, the hardened campaigner who has been sunning knew we needed to bring in some new talent. Thankfully we were himself in Spain on his year abroad but will be back to do battle next rewarded with a raft of new players, the three most notable season. members being Alex Gilmore, Gus Logan and Andy McCann. With last year’s number two, Sam Halliday, moving up to take the top In Cuppers, having received a bye, we came up against New College spot, a very capable Alex Gilmore stepped in to take the second in the second round. Due to unfortunate circumstances we ended up string. Fred Burgess remained at three to provide much needed playing on grass in some of the wettest conditions I have ever seen. ballast to the side and continued his three set epic matches. Gus Needless to say the match became something of a lottery and we Logan, a former captain of his college side in Cambridge, took the ended up losing narrowly. However it is a testament to the team’s fourth spot showing our strength in depth and gave us some much character that we came back the following week to beat the same needed points and, finally, Andy McCann completed the side after team convincingly in a league match. veteran Charlie Hill stepped down. In Michaelmas, relishing the challenge of the top league, we managed to come a respectable Having finished the season in the bottom half of the table there were fourth of six and hoped to build on our position in Hilary. However, certainly no lavish celebrations like last year, but there were some it was not to be as a very strong Jesus side came up and, after solid performances, with thanks going particularly to Sam Halliday, struggling early in the term due to a few slight injury problems, we who captained our team with enthusiasm. Next year’s captains Andy were left bottom of the league with one match to play against our Whitby and Claus Groot certainly have the potential to restore glory demotion rivals; a 4-1 win would have secured our position but to the team, and with the new college courts scheduled to be ready sadly we only managed 3-2 against Oriel. Hopes are high for next by next season, there is a lot to look forward to. year as we will retain all our players and gain back Oli, and also perhaps some new talents, which would leave us in a good position Fred Burgess to challenge the top league once again.

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TRINITY PLAYERS Next year, the Trinity Players will be in the capable and wonderful This past year, well, as Sinatra sang, it was a very good year. For the hands of Charlie Mulliner and Chloë Courtney, who have already first time, certainly in recent memory, the Trinity Players ventured given so much, and I look forward to witnessing their undoubted beyond the Curly Gates and 5th week of Hilary term saw the success. company take up residence in the Moser Theatre in Wadham for a Cicely Hadman four-night run of Knuckle, by David Hare. A dark play, ripe for resurrection, malign in texture and full of the taut, punchy rhythms of power, Knuckle was a story of disappearance and deception, self- referential in that it acted as its own private eye to reveal the rot at the heart of our capitalist society. With energy and panache, and not a little black and white charm, the cast and crew met the challenge of creating the tangle of truth and illusion in the parodied atmosphere of the film noir detective story; and garnered four-star reviews from the OxStu and Cherwell in the process.

The Trinity term production of The Insect Play by the Brothers Čapek, performed on the lawns in 6th week, with a very British two fingers up to the contrary weather and curious helicopters, though similarly successful, was certainly a contrast of genre. A huge and chameleon cast of Trinitarians trod the, er, grass in a fabulous roaring-twenties ensemble piece which holds up a magnifying glass to humanity via the colourful world of the insect. Against an art deco backdrop and, of course, Trinity’s glorious greenery, a tipsy tramp, a leaping lepidopterist, a flurry of flapper butterflies, a confusion of crickets, a Brummie of beetles, a lisp of snails and finally an army of Russian Communist ants, complete with brave, if inauthentic, accents, entertained and delighted the week’s audiences and claimed four stars. Much fun was had by all.

None of this could have been achieved without the hard work and generosity of spirit/time/financial support/ expertise of the Players themselves, of many members of the college staff, of the JCR, of the Trinity Society and of various individuals with links to the college, and for all this, and more, I would like to thank them. Putting on plays is a notoriously expensive business, yet it is a tradition of artistic involvement and expansiveness integral to Trinity and one which I know has attracted many people to the college. Any support given to strengthen the foundation of the Players, which remains, sadly, though perhaps artistically, shaky, is endlessly appreciated. 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 82

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BLUES Myles Matteson Fencing Half-Blue

James Baggott Charlotte Mulliner Windsurfing Half-Blue Mixed Lacrosse Half-Blue

Fred Burgess Sian Roberts Rackets Half-Blue Tennis Blue

Horatio Cary Claire Strauss Real Tennis Half-Blue Lacrosse Blue (President)

Susan Jishan Chai Wanzhen Tang Table Tennis Half-Blue Dancesport Half-Blue

Matthew D’Netto Leah Templeman Ultimate Frisbee Half-Blue Lacrosse Blue (Women’s Captain)

Sam Hall Football Blue

Sam Halliday Real Tennis Half-Blue

Alex Hearne Rowing Blue

Charlie Hill Cricket Blue

Felix Hofmann Gliding Half-Blue

Gus Logan Small Bore Rifle Half-Blue

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‘FFYRST, A CHALICE…’—MYTHS sacramental framework of traditional religion’ (Duffy, 2005, p526), it is not surprising that Pope should ensure his new college chapel AND TRUTHS CONCERNING THE had the wherewithal for the necessary rites and ceremonies. Pope FOUNDER’S CHALICE sent three consignments of vestments and ornaments, in May 1556, January 1557 and April 1557. The original indentures, evidencing Matthew Rushton the careful receipting of these items, are preserved in the college rinity College was founded by Sir Thomas Pope during the archives, and list a dazzling array of copes, vestments and clerical Treligious upheavals of Tudor England. The early years of its wear of a variety of fabrics and decorations, plate and metalwork, chapel highlight the issues facing the church in England at that time Eucharistic vessels and liturgical books. The first item listed is ‘a and in the subsequent development of the Church of England, chalice with a patent [paten] gilt, weyingee xx. oz. iii. quarters.’ revealing intriguing stories of loyalty, treachery and religious (Warton, 1780, p336): the Founder’s Chalice and paten. devotion1. Although the only part of the original chapel building still to exist is the Founder’s tomb, there remains another physical link The chapel, built in the early 1400s for a monastic community, had to the foundation of the college and its first chapel: the Founder’s never been used for reformed worship in the Edwardine sense, since Chalice and its accompanying paten. These remarkable and rare Durham College had lain empty since 1544. With the foundation of pieces illuminate, in worn but shining silver-gilt, the historical and Trinity College a new community could move in, a Catholic theological issues affecting the development of Trinity College in congregation, fully supported and equipped, ready to take up its first years, and illustrate aspects of the history both of the college worship in a chapel still redolent of incense and the echoes of chapel and of the wider church. polyphony and plainsong. What better example of the Marian ideal expounded by Duffy (2005), that the Catholic restoration was not The ‘proper fayr Chappell’2 reactionary or revolutionary, but a natural resumption of the It is somewhat ironic that Durham College—the monastic cell in preferred worshipping habits of the nation? Oxford of the Benedictine community at Durham Cathedral—should have been the site for Pope’s new educational foundation, since he However, it is puzzling as to why the provision of equipment for the was an influential figure in the dissolution of the monasteries, being chapel was quite so lavish and comprehensive. Blakiston comments Treasurer of the Court of Augmentations, the body that conducted that ‘all the great houses in England must have been full of these the administration and process of dissolution. Appointed to this post spoils of monasteries and churches’ (Blakiston, 1898, p72) and Pope, in 1536, Pope was to amass his considerable wealth mainly at the with his role at the Court of Augmentations, benefited personally expense of the dissolved monasteries. He enjoyed his zenith under from the readily available land and property, so it is not surprising the reign of Mary Tudor following her accession in July 1553. that he was able to obtain such an impressive hoard of ecclesiastical Despite his enrichment through the dissolution, there seems little tat. However, parish churches may well have found the acquisition doubt that Pope was a devout Catholic and given this enthusiasm, and installation of the equipment necessary for Catholic ritual and the Marian church’s desire to ‘reconstruct the ritual and prohibitively expensive, and, according to Duffy, ‘the Crown and

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bishops were well aware of these financial problems’ and ‘the most obvious way of easing them was to recover as much as possible of the confiscated goods, many of them still in the hands of the commissioners or their delegates’; Duffy provides examples of commissioners ‘being hounded’ for the ‘return of goods to the churches in their remit’ and individuals being ‘forced to regurgitate their gains or a cash equivalent’ (Duffy, 2005, p548-9). Pope was one such commissioner and an individual who may well have acquired liturgical equipment during the process of dissolution. Being a Privy Councillor and confidant of the Queen, he may have been safely above such restitutionary wrangling, but it is at least possible that his largesse in relation to providing (or over-providing) for Trinity College chapel was to avoid the risk of having to account for or return the items.

Such ecclesiastical opulence was not to last. Mary Tudor died on 17 November 1558 and the accession of Queen Elizabeth was followed swiftly by the death of Sir Thomas Pope on 29 January 1559. The wheel had turned, and Trinity found itself out of step with the Figure 1: The Founder's Chalice, 1527 (Trinity College Archive) religious programme of the new regime. In 1570, displeasure was delaying tactics described by Duffy, or the concealment of at least expressed at the ornaments and furnishings remaining in the chapel some items of Catholic ornament. There is reference to some of the and the college was commanded by the Queen’s commissioners and chapel’s plate still existing in 1642, when any remaining items ‘given the College Visitor (the puritanical Bishop of Winchester, Robert by the founder’ that had survived the 16th century were ‘granted to Horne, imposed by the Crown) to ‘cause to be defaced all the church king Charles the first in the year 1642’ and that ‘it is well known that plate and church stuff’ by a deadline and, a week before that all the colleges in Oxford contributed their plate to that monarch’s deadline, warned that ‘filthy stuff used in the idolatrous temple … necessities’ (Warton, 1780, p336n). It is almost unbelievable that the remain in your college as yet undefaced’ and requiring the college chalice and paten, which will now be examined in more detail, ‘forthwith, upon receipt hereof … to deface all manner such trash’3. included in that first consignment from Pope in 1556, should survive Indeed, it appears that the college not only still used the trappings the dissolution under Henry VIII and the destruction of church of Catholic worship, but had continued the acquisition of ‘such ornaments by his offspring in the 16th century, the financial trash’, including a consignment of church plate and vestments from requirements of Charles I and the subsequent puritan vandalism Pope’s widow in 1564 (and also the erection of the founder’s tomb, during the Commonwealth in the 17th century. originally painted and gilded, by 1567). ‘I will take the cup of salvation…’ Despite this, the college had no choice but to comply: ‘most of the The Founder’s Chalice (Fig.1) and paten (Fig.2) are still in use in the chapel’s ornament and equipment had to go’ (Hopkins, 2005, p50, present chapel to this day. They are of significant artistic and historical 52). There is some evidence that Trinity, that most Catholic of importance, with a fascinating story behind them, perhaps more so colleges, retained a spirit of resistance that manifested as either the than has been previously acknowledged or at least articulated.

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The chalice is clearly a work of considerable skill and beauty, as is the paten, but they tend to be overshadowed, in Oxford at least, by more extensive or well known collections such as Bishop Fox’s plate at Corpus Christi College (the earliest English hallmarked gold vessels to have survived), or particularly rare items, such as the silver pax of circa 1500 at New College (the only known English precious metal pax) (Schroder, ed., 2008, p26-27). However, in its own way, the chalice and paten set at Trinity is as remarkable and significant. There are very few items of medieval plate to have survived, particularly without having been lost or hidden and subsequently rediscovered, so the set could be regarded as outstanding if only for that reason, particularly given the events outlined above that could have seen its destruction or loss. The controversial history surrounding the chalice is explored below, but the actual design of the items reveals much of importance.

In the recent exhibition at Goldsmiths’ Hall in the City of London4, a number of pre-Reformation chalices, with or without matching patens, were displayed, and two in particular are of a similarly Figure 2: The Paten, Trinity College, Oxford (Trinity College striking design to the Founder’s Chalice. The first is a chalice of circa Archive) 1500 from Leominster Priory (Fig.3), the second circa 1525 from Wylie, Dorset; both are silver-gilt and remain in use (if only of the chalice foot from a large circular shape in the 13th century, to occasional). The Wylie chalice, although smaller, represents a a smaller hexagon by around 1350, to an elaborate sexfoil around development in style from the Leominster chalice, but all three 1500 (Schroder, ed., 2008, p22). Thus, the Wylie chalice is described chalices are within the same general design of a bowl with the gothic- as ‘one of the latest English medieval chalices and the form of the style inscription CALICEM SALUTARIS ACCIPIAM ET NOMINE foot represents the final stage in its pre-reformation evolution’7. The DOMINE INVOCABO (I will take the cup of salvation, And call upon Founder’s Chalice, hallmarked 1527 (i.e. two years later than the the name of the Lord)5 or a shortened version of it, cablework running Wylie chalice), however, displays further developments from the down the hexagonal stem, a similarly designed knop6, and what Wylie chalice, in that the ‘embattlement’ is larger and almost Blakiston described as ‘an embattlement just above the … foot’ separated from the foot to create a secondary knop and the foot has (Blakiston, 1898, p72). On the Wylie chalice, however, the knop is not one, but two circular stages above the sexfoil base, with the proportionately larger and slightly more elaborate than the inscription on the lower stage, and a crucifixion engraving over both Leominster chalice, the ‘embattlement’ is taller and more elaborate, stages. Also, there is delicate tracery in the panels of the stem in the and the foot is a more elaborate sexfoil formula than the hexagonal Founder’s Chalice, whereas the Wylie chalice has blank panels (the foot of the Leominster chalice, displaying the general development Leominster chalice also has tracery of an ogee-style pattern). The

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exhibition (silver-gilt, circa 1533, St Edmund’s Salisbury), and it is feasible that, in the era of pre-reformation hagiographic cults, the vernicle was a common device, but, if not unique, a surviving paten bearing this device is certainly rare.

From St Alban’s to Oxford? The chalice, together with the paten, was delivered to the college with the consignment of other ornaments and chapel equipment received in May 1556. It is possible to speculate as to where Pope obtained this and other items for the chapel, but the legend has developed that the chalice was taken from St Alban’s Abbey at its dissolution. Indeed, St Alban’s Cathedral has a replica of the Founder’s Chalice (Fig.5) (although, interestingly, not the paten), dedicated with other new communion plate in 1880, on the basis that this replica was of a chalice that had been in the possession of the Abbey but was now in the possession of Trinity College—this was no doubt an understandable attempt to link the foundation of the new Cathedral with its glorious past as a monastic institution and Figure 3: The Leominster Chalice, circa 1500 (St Alban's pilgrimage site, but at least demonstrates that the Dean and Chapter Cathedral Archive - reproduced with kind permission) at that time fully believed the reported provenance of the Founder’s Chalice. Hopkins dismisses this notion and states that there is ‘no Founder’s Chalice can, therefore, be properly described as being the evidence for the romantic tradition that the chalice and paten, sent latest both in date and stylistic development. by Pope for use in the college chapel, had ever belonged to St Alban’s Abbey’ (Hopkins, 2005, p8), supporting Blakiston’s opinion The paten (Fig.2) is remarkable for its very existence. Moffat’s Old that there is ‘no evidence’ of such a link (Blakiston, 1898, p54). The Oxford Plate notes that the paten ‘has no marks, but is undoubtedly description in Moffat’s Old Oxford Plate is no more encouraging, of the same date as the cup and made to go with it’ (Moffat, 1906, but does speculate as to the source of the story, stating that ‘it is p155) and it is rare to find a medieval chalice with its accompanying believed to have belonged to the Abbey of St Alban’s, but the only paten, especially one that is of the same design scheme (note the foundation for this tradition seems to be that Pope, acting as one of identical script and inscribed words). Neither the Leominster nor the King’s Commissioners, received the surrender of St Alban’s in Wylie chalices were displayed in the Goldsmiths’ Hall exhibition December 1539, from the last Abbot, Richard Stevenage, and that with a paten of similar design scheme. Also, the paten’s central he acquired a good deal of the Abbey property’ (Moffat, 1906, p155). engraving is not simply a representation of the head of Christ: it is a ‘vernicle’, or the cloth of St Veronica on which Christ wiped his face The St Alban’s Cathedral Archive contains a transcript of the on the way to Calvary (Blakiston is the only commentator to note inventory of the ‘late monastery of Seynt Alkbones within the that the picture is a vernicle, although he does not explain what a Countie of Hertf’ detailing ‘Alle the goods & Catalls found & vernicle is (Blakiston, 1898, p72)). A similar paten (without remaining at the dissolucon of the same monastery like as herafter accompanying chalice) was exhibited at the Goldsmiths’ Hall shallbe conteyned & specifyed’ with detailed descriptions, mostly 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 87

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The first reference to the link between the chalice and St Alban’s appears to be in a guide book to the abbey church, written by the Rector of St Alban’s and published in 18579. There is an illustration of the chalice and a note (Fig.4) leaving little doubt as to what was the received version of events from the St Alban’s point of view three centuries after the chalice began to be used at Trinity. The paten is, again, ignored.

The illustration is generally accurate, but has some significant differences to the Founder’s chalice—the inscriptions are different and the crucifixion on the foot of the Founder’s chalice is missing, replaced by a small and simple, equal-sided cross. The inaccuracy of the illustration begs certain questions. Had Mr Shaw FSA actually seen the Founder’s Chalice or was he working from an inaccurate drawing himself, or were his notes incorrect? Or, in fact, is this an illustration of an entirely different chalice (since there are in existence similar chalices, as has been noted above) and was the illustration an accurate one of the chalice taken from the Abbey at the dissolution (with a Figure 4: From St Alban's Abbey guidebook, 1857 (St Alban's pictorial record somehow surviving through the centuries) but only Cathedral Archive - reproduced with kind permission) assumed to be the one preserved at Trinity, because of its similarity?

of vestments, and whether they were ‘reserved for the Kynges Whatever the answers to these questions, there is no doubt that, in 8 highness’ or sold, with notes of the payments . ‘Thomas Pope the middle of the 19th century, there was an upsurge in interest in all Esquire’ is the first name in the list of ‘Kyngs Commissioners’, but things medieval and gothic, as part of the Anglo-Catholic revival in there is no specific reference to the chalice and paten in question, the Church of England (a revival in which Trinity placed a only a reference to ‘7 Chalices with their patents gilte’ weighing 173 significant part, since John Henry Newman studied here), and it is ounces: it appears that the commissioners were more concerned with not surprising that the Rector of St Alban’s should be interested in what value could be obtained for the metal itself when melted down. the ornamental heritage of his church. Perhaps this enthusiasm However, the chalice was clearly commissioned by a (probably) fuelled the myth of a lost chalice surviving in Oxford, but it does wealthy church, and the inventory at least puts Pope at the scene of not explain the origin of the rumour, and the truth could be anywhere the crime, even though there is no smoking gun. In truth, though, between an entirely unsubstantiated intuition that Sir Thomas Pope Pope could have obtained the chalice from any of the monasteries must have taken the chalice donated to his college from the most from which he received a surrender or acquired property, or high-profile of his monastic surrenders, to the existence of a genuine inventoried, such as the Cluniac abbey of Bermondsey in Southwark oral tradition over 300 years that both Trinity College and the clergy (Hopkins, 2005, p6), or he could have acquired the chalice and paten and officers of St Alban’s preserved and was completely accurate. (and indeed the other ornaments and equipment he sent for the Nevertheless, a request for a copy of the chalice was made by St chapel) from elsewhere, whether legitimately on the open market or Alban’s (Fig.5), and the college archives record a meeting on through more suspect means. Tuesday, 11 March 1879, in which it was resolved ‘that the President 8St Alban’s Cathedral Archive, ‘Abbey goods at the Dissolution’ 9St Alban’s Cathedral Archive, Guide Book 1857 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 88

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And so, the magnificent silver chalice continues to be used regularly at St Alban’s Cathedral, as does the ‘original’ in Trinity’s chapel. However, a final footnote to this saga could perhaps assuage any residual guilt felt on the part of the college or its members. In some unattributed handwritten notes, preserved in the St Alban’s Cathedral Archive, is a diary note for 4 January 1880 (the date of the dedication service—see above) describing the new plate, including the replica chalice, and recounting the usual story of its seizure and donation by Pope, and in which the following is noted: ‘It [the replica chalice] is presented by the Members of Trinity College in this and the neighbouring Diocese of Rochester’. Was the replica paid for by these ‘Members of Trinity College’? If so, the inscription on the inside base of the chalice (‘Presented to the First Bishop of St Albans MDCCCLXXIX’) does not record this generosity, but perhaps those ‘Members of Trinity College’ went some way to righting a wrong of theft and undeserved enrichment, which, whether or not it occurred in relation to the Founders’ Chalice, certainly did happen on countless occasions throughout the worst period of artistic and Figure 5: Replica of the Founder's Chalice, St Alban's Cathedral, architectural vandalism in England’s history. 1879 (St Alban's Cathedral Archive - reproduced with kind permission) Final thoughts The Founder’s Chalice is one of those significant ecclesiastical be [empowered?]10 to lend the chalice for the purpose of having a artefacts that have been described by Archbishop Rowan Williams duplicate made for the Cathedral of St Alban’s under proper as ‘a mark of continuity as well as a sign of the shifts and reversals safeguards’11. All very gentlemanly, it appears, but a cutting from a of history’ (Schroder, ed., 2008, Foreword). But it is the personalities local newspaper, reporting the dedication service for the ‘new involved in the various stages of the chalice’s 481 year story that communion silver’ on 4 January 1880, notes, after describing how underline its importance. From Sir Thomas Pope, the servant of the the new chalice was copied from an original ‘which had been seized throne, trying to balance his faith with his loyalty, through John at the Dissolution… and presented to the Trinity College, Oxford’, Henry Newman, who would undoubtedly have received from this goes on to report that ‘in 1880 this college was unwilling to return chalice, seeking a revival of his church and engaging with like- it to St Alban’s, so a copy was made’12. So, a request for the actual minded Christians in the University community, until the present return of the chalice had apparently been made, so convinced were day: imagine all those, both famous and unsung, who have received the Dean and Chapter of their prior claim! It is interesting that no from this chalice, and who are part of the stories of Trinity College, note of this request survives in the college archive, so it was Oxford University and the Church of England (and particularly its evidently never put before the governing body. Was it conveniently relationship with the Roman Catholic Church). The chalice is still ignored? in use today by a contemporary, Anglican, worshipping community,

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at the heart of an inclusive and enlightened academic community, THE TRINITY BORSTAL CAMPS representing a Church that, somewhat like the Founders’ Chalice, still attempts to fulfil its intended purpose through service to God 1962-9 and His people, whatever events or circumstances arise. Richard Incledon (1946)

he Oxford-Borstal camps began in the late 1950s with one SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Tconducted by Pembroke; other colleges followed suit, and when I came to the Roman Catholic Chaplaincy in 1961 I found that next summer my old college was going to take the plunge. The BLAKISTON H E D, 1898. Trinity College. London commandant would be James Lambert, and Leslie Houlden, who’d been chaplain for two or three years, would work with him. I was DUFFY E, 2005. The Stripping of the Altars, 2nd Edition. London delighted to join the team, the more so since I’d already worked and New Haven: Yale University Press under James, in my undergraduate days, on the team which he led every summer to a hopfield in Kent during the hopping season. HOPKINS C, 2005. Trinity: 450 years of an Oxford college Community. Oxford: OUP We duly joined forces with H.M. Borstal, Usk, and Hugh Morris, an old Trinity man, found us a campsite at All Stretton in Shropshire— SCHRODER T, ed., 2008. Treasures of the English Church—A needless to say a welcoming local community was an indispensible Thousand Years of Sacred Gold and Silver. London: The third wheel in the venture. Goldsmiths’ Company and Paul Holberton So one Friday in July 1962 James, Leslie and I and thirteen WARTON T, 1780. The Life of Sir Thomas Pope. London undergraduates arrived in the selected field and spent the weekend setting up the camp—a big marquee for all our joint activities; July 2008. Treasures of the English Church—a thousand years of individual tents for the senior staff; larger ones for the young men sacred gold and silver. Goldsmith’s Hall, London to sleep in, in three groups of eight; two church tents; and of course, in a discreet corner of the field, latrines—hearty undergraduates dug Trinity College Archives, Oxford them, but Leslie and I put up the screens. (My church was in those years dipping a tentative toe in the unexplored waters of ecumenism, St Alban’s Cathedral Archives, accessed through correspondence and I’ve often said—not entirely in joke—that this shared work did with (and provision of documentation electronically by) the more for my sense of Christian unity than any amount of theological Cathedral Archivist. discussion. Leslie said it showed we were agreed on fundamentals.)

Once the Borstal boys arrived all regulations would apply equally to the undergraduates and to them, e.g. they couldn’t pop down to the local phone box to ring their girlfriends, so neither could our lads. More to the point, they couldn’t touch alcohol, so neither, for the duration, could we. Like camels preparing for a dry trek in the Sahara, our men prudently prepared for this by giving the village pubs a roaring trade over the weekend. (This they did to such purpose that one year I was woken in my tent at dawn by police 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 90

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officers pursing the matter of a car which had wrapped itself round so one of my tasks was to drive him to the shops and discreetly ensure a telegraph pole somewhere in the Welsh Marches—without that he bought the sort of nice unhealthy stodge that the lads would personal injuries, fortunately. One of the passengers told me that the appreciate. (I’ve no idea whether he ever realised what I was doing.) driver’s first utterance after the impact was ‘Why’s it stopped?’) The other twelve were teamed up with the Borstal boys, in teams of Twelve Borstal boys and an officer arrived on the Monday. I know four—two teams to a tent and to a table in the marquee for meals. I’d woken in my tent that morning with butterflies in my tummy, not On the Tuesday and Wednesday each four went off to do some work sure whether I mightn’t be dead, or at least maimed, by nightfall. which had been arranged in the neighbourhood—helping on a farm, Rubbish of course. It wasn’t that sort of Borstal. The lads were all weeding the churchyard, and so on. On Thursday we all went on a in for petty theft, taking and driving away, that sort of thing. (There coach outing—the Welsh coast one year, Hereford another (Bulmer’s was one lad in for Grievous Bodily Harm. The drawing of blood is cider factory, I think—which in the conditions was a bit like twisting enough to justify this charge. He had come out of the pub with his the knife in the wound). On Friday each of the fours hiked to a pre- darts in his pocket and been presented with the rear view of a stout arranged destination where they spent the night, probably sleeping P.C. doing up his shoelace… There was just enough blood to make in a barn provided by a local farmer, and hiked back in time for the charge stick.) Saturday supper. On Sunday morning Leslie and I celebrated in our respective tents, and in the evening there’d be a fairly rough-and- You’ll have noticed that there were thirteen Trinity men to twelve ready concert—entertainment of a, let’s say, robust nature, with inmates—the thirteenth being the cook. In the first year the man in plenty of digs at the senior staff. (James Lambert told me he’d never question was suspected of entertaining notions about healthy eating, realised how much he stammered till one of the lads did a take-off of him.) And on Monday we all went back to the Borstal, where till Saturday we enjoyed their hospitality—the undergraduates still accepting whatever restrictions applied to their mates.

The camp was repeated every year, with no significant variation of the pattern, till 1969 inclusive. I’d moved on to Cambridge in 1965 but continued to come back for this very rewarding fortnight. Then Leslie was appointed Principal of Cuddesdon, and, as James Lambert and Hugh Morris were both conscious of advancing years, our teams dissolved. There were further Trinity camps, but for the history of that I’d have to refer you to Trevor Williams. For some years I joined a camp run by the chaplain of Cat’s, Cambridge, who as an undergraduate at Pembroke had been on one of the earliest Oxford camps. Borstal camp group photograph, with Leslie Houlden (in dog collar) and James Lambert (far right). Others in the photograph But what were we trying to do? Clearly the whole inspiration of the include: Peter Armstrong, Adrian Bark, Chris Brearley, Ben de la camps was Christian—the original idea had come from a Yorkshire Mare, David Garaway, John Hill, Stewart Jeffrey, David Jones, Paddy Madigan, Kenneth Noakes, Chris Smyth, Lawrence Stuart- rector who was a friend of the Pembroke chaplain. Nearly all of the Jones and Geoff Summers. Old Members who would like to share undergraduates were practicing Christians (at least four, to my their memories of the camps, are encouraged to contact the knowledge, have since taken orders—including the health- Archivist, who would be delighted to hear from them. conscious cook). We did have one professed atheist, who—apart 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 91

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Still, I can tell a couple of heartening tales to suggest that the enterprise was fruitful as well as thoroughly enjoyable. One is specifically my own. Very early in the first camp one of the Borstal boys developed a sore tooth and had to go to the dentist in Church Stretton. Like may otherwise brave and sturdy men, he was terrified of dentists, and I had not only to drive him there but sit by him and all but literally hold his hand in the waiting-room. For which he was ever after my devoted fan. I used to visit the Borstal every now and then in the vacs and stay for two or three days, and for a while he was the orderly in charge of the guest wing, so I saw a fair amount of him; even once got leave to take him and a mate for an afternoon drive in the Valleys.

Years later, when we were setting up the camp, the new Rector of Tea, with the Borstal Officer (in the striped shirt) and Richard Church Stretton dropped in to the campsite. ‘Which of you is Father Incledon (with hat) Richard?’ he asked. When I made myself known, he told me how he’d been driving in his previous parish and had picked up a young from skipping discreetly out of the marquee before night prayers— man hitch-hiking home from work. In conversation it came out that took a full and very effective part in everything. But we weren’t he was about to move to Church Stretton. Immediate burst of directly evangelising; in fact in picking our teams we rather fought enthusiasm: ‘Oh, I was there camping with Oxford students when I shy of the more overtly evangelistic. Any Christian message would was in Borstal and it changed my life. Tell Father Richard that be implicit in how we behaved. I’d say our aim was simply this: to Barry’s got a wife and a couple of kids and a steady job.’ let the Borstal boys find themselves accepted by a local community; to have them mix for a spell with young men of their own age and The other story concerns Bill. Given up for adoption to a very strict find they weren’t creatures of a different species but actually had and upright couple, he was rejected by them when he got into quite a bit in common (well, they all liked girls, pop music, fish and trouble. His Oxford mate at the camp was a cheerful grammar school chips, to say nothing of the drink they were all pro tem. deprived boy. They kept in touch, and when Bill was discharged his Oxford of); and so to realise that their offences hadn’t stranded them for mate’s mother calmly added him to her large household until he got ever on the wrong side of an unbridgeable gulf, but that a law- on his feet (and incidentally traced his real mother). He also kept in abiding life was still a possibility for them and might even be quite touch—still does, I believe—with Leslie Houlden. When last heard good fun. of, he held a chair at a Canadian university. The subject? Wait for it—security engineering. And did it work? In the nature of things, there’s not the kind of evidence available that a scientific researcher would look for to Melud, I rest my case. prove the exercise worthwhile. Very early on the Governor of Usk warned us: ‘they’ll promise to keep in touch, but they won’t—it’s not that they’re not grateful; they just want to put the whole Borstal bit behind them.’ And, he might have added, for many of them writing wouldn’t come easily anyway.) 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:02 Page 92

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SAILING AT TRINITY However, Trinity was represented in the Oxford University Sailing Club’s earliest surviving membership list (1895): the Commodore Jeremy Atkins (1978) was listed as a Trinity man, the Revd G F Eyre (1891), and L Reiss (1895) was a member. 009 is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Oxford & Cambridge Sailing Society—a club with a limited 2 A golden era for sailing at Trinity was the late 1920s and early 1930s. membership, made up almost entirely of sailing Blues. For a small The likes of P V (Bee) Mackinnon (1927), H K Andreae (1928), J R college, Trinity contributes a surprisingly large proportion of the 399 C de Quincey (1930) and R G de Quincey (1933) contributed people who have been elected; it is only beaten by New and significantly to both Varsity Match teams and to sailing at Oxford. Brasenose among the Oxford colleges. Of the eleven times the Sailing Cup was presented between 1928 and 1932, it went to a Trinity man on eight occasions! A Cuppers The college archivist, Clare Hopkins, was surprised by this, and sailing competition started in 1926. Sadly few results exist, but one could only think of three Trinity sailors—Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch suspects that for some of these years it would have been a battle (1881), his son Bevil (1910), and the round the world yachtsman between Trinity and New College, the other pre-eminent sailing Conor O’Brien (1899). In fact, there is no record of any of these college at the time. three having been members of the Oxford University Sailing Club (as it was then), which was founded, during Quiller-Couch’s time as Away from Oxford, Roger de Quincey twice won the oldest an undergraduate, in 1884 (and so is celebrating its 125th anniversary international sailing trophy for dinghies, the New York Canoe Club this year). International Challenge Cup, and Bee Mackinnon won it once.

Although there were distinguished Blues and sailors in the intervening years, the next golden era was the early 1960s, with Trinity men in the Varsity Match team every year from 1962 to 1966, including Peter Andreae (1959), Malcolm Green (1960), Ken Merron (1962) and Nigel Hodson (1963).

There is then a gap until the 1979 Varsity Match, when Trinity boasted two members of the team—Miles Cowdry (1977) and Jeremy Atkins (1978). Thirty years later, we are still waiting for someone to bring sailing glory back to the college!

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Oxford & Cambridge Sailing Society, its history has been published, bound together with that of its less serious rival, the Imperial Poona Yacht Club, which was formed to make fun of the newly formed Society and the imperial attitudes prevailing at the time. This book (75 Years of Port & Balls), with a foreword by the Duke of Edinburgh (a member of Poona), is in the College Archive, alongside two histories of sailing at Oxford, Oxford University Yacht Club, 1963 – Malcolm Green (seated, all written by Jeremy Atkins. Copies can also be ordered from him centre) and Ken Merron (standing, back right) via the Alumni & Development Office. 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:03 Page 93

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BOOK REVIEWS

CHARLES CHADWYCK-HEALEY, CECIL LUBBOCK: A SHORT BIOGRAPHY The Penchant Press, 2008 (ISBN 978 0 9543756 3 8) Cecil Lubbock came up to Trinity from Eton as a classical scholar in 1891. Here he gained a First in both Mods and Greats, going on to a very distinguished career in business and in the Bank of England. His grandson Charles Chadwyck-Healey (1958) has now written this short, and affectionate, memoir of his grandfather.

Cecil was born to one of those distinguished Victorian families whose members numbered politicians, sportsmen, businessmen and intellectuals. His own choice of career, after a brief period as a Civil Servant, was in brewing, as a managing director of Whitbread— where he immediately flourished, serving as Master of the Brewers’ Company from 1913 to 1919. In 1909 he also became a Director of the Bank of England, which he remained for thirty-three years, retiring from this post only in 1942, and serving as Deputy Governor on two occasions (in 1923-5 and 1927-9).

My bald thumbnail summary of Cecil’s career conceals much of interest, and indeed drama: for instance, as a brewer during the Great War, Cecil Lubbock played a major role fighting off attempts to nationalise the industry by a government swayed by the temperance H K Andreae sailing at Port Meadow in the late 1920s movement, and, as a banker in the 1920s and ‘30s, he saw the World The author was pleased to find that he was in Clare Hopkins' history economy go through boom, and bust, while Britain rocked in and of Trinity, even if not mentioned by name, as the sailing Blue who out of the gold standard. All of this Charles Chadwyck-Healey was present at the college’s first Blues dinner, in 1979. He recounts, economically and effectively, drawing extensively on remembers the evening well: contemporary letters and diaries to flesh out Cecil’s role and feelings.

After High Table and dessert in the Old Bursary, we moved to the But the driving force behind this brief biography is not the wish to SCR, above the chapel arch, for postprandial drinks. By this time, laud a distinguished career, but to remember a gentle, modest and the rest of college had gathered below and were entertaining Balliol slightly old-fashioned man, who evoked great loyalty and great with their singing. The President, Anthony Quinton, opened the affection from both friends and family. Cecil Lubbock was not window and held out his hands to quieten the crowd before someone to push himself forward, despite his considerable talents addressing them: 'It is at times like this we should remember the and achievements—he rejected the offer of a knighthood in 1917, college motto.' And after a pause: 'And I wish I could!' This went and in 1920 of a baronetcy. All of this comes out very clearly in down very well with the assembled throng! 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:03 Page 94

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Charles Chadwyck-Healey’s account—for me the man, and the have used the indefinite article and the plural. Deprived though he affection he evoked, are encapsulated in a delightful photograph of was of pen and paper, let alone laptop, the author manages to Cecil, aged 83, seated on a bench, properly dressed in tie and recollect or reconstruct, a sequence of episodes that punctuated his waistcoat, and holding the hand of a small boy, his youngest long months of captivity in jungle and mountain. Although he was grandchild. Charles has done his grandfather proud, in a booklet being held for ransom under the illusion that he was—contrary to worth much more than a knighthood. the facts—a wealthy man (albeit Honorary Director of the Colombian British Chamber of Commerce), the shadow of death Sadly, the same cannot be said for Trinity in the first half of the hung over him not least because the guerrillas were themselves the twentieth century. One of Cecil Lubbock’s few worldly ambitions target of the national army. He paints pictures of both those who held was to be elected an Honorary Fellow of the college, to which he him hostage, armed bandits and their female camp followers, and was devoted all his life. But it was not to be—Trinity in the ‘20s and those who shared his captivity—notably Pati, an attractive ‘30s elected a host of bishops, judges and academics, and Cecil’s Colombian lawyer politician, whose rescue ultimately preceded his life-long friend Cyril Alington, Headmaster of Eton and Chaplain to own. He also had the chance to observe that Colombia is filled, in George V, but not Cecil. the phrase of the Australian national anthem, with ‘creatures rich and rare’, and the book is—somewhat curiously—punctuated with With grace and generosity, Charles Chadwyck-Healey has forgiven attractive photographs of fauna and flora, as if it were a tourist guide Trinity its thoughtlessness, and linked his grandfather’s name with rather than a tale of human endurance. Little things mitigate the the college in a way which, true to Cecil’s character, is deeply general misery, aggravated when a pig destroys his warmest jacket: supportive and helpful—by establishing Cecil Lubbock Memorial games of chess; two novels transported to him from his family once Scholarships for graduates at Trinity in the Humanities and Social contact was established—Middlemarch and The Adventures of Augie Sciences. March—sapient choices for their length as well as their quality; cleansing swims, and occasional debate with his captors for whom Bryan Ward-Perkins he has (reasonably) little sympathy, but not, alas, comparative Fellow and Tutor in History reflections on the douceur de vivre at Trinity in the early sixties.

He vividly brings to life the experiences of a captive in a foreign DAVID HUTCHINSON, THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS land, but, though mercifully now free, he does not conceal that he The Memoir Club, 2008 (ISBN 978-1-84104-174-2) looks back in anger as well as sorrow. ‘Back home’ he bleakly concludes ‘I am ruined’. In my first term as President, familiarising myself with the nuts and bolts of the office, I noted that third year linguists had the benefit of He is now, however, not the only Trinity member to fall victim to a year abroad, and that one of the options open to the Hispanists was the guerrillas. Midway through my presidency, I was informed that a sojourn in Colombia. My lawyer’s reaction (after a sudden gulp) an incoming fresher had also been captured in the same anarchic was to ask what advice was given to those who chose this country. There was an anxious wait for news until with the destination, and whether the college was insured. This riveting book, impetuous courage of youth he engineered his own escape; arrived authored by a more mature Old Member (but one year younger than in time for his first term; and turned his own experiences into a story your reviewer) shows how right (if unusually) I was. for Telegraph newspapers, the fee for which made a substantial contribution to his undergraduate expenses. So even in such a special The book’s subtitle ‘An Englishmen kidnapped by the Colombian context, (try Googling ‘Trinity, Colombia, guerrillas’) lightning does guerrilla’ accurately summarises its theme—though a pedant might 6837:Layout 1 01/12/2009 09:03 Page 95

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strike twice—but in this instance it was the first strike which DEGREE DAYS palpably left the deepest mark. There are eight Degree Days during the academic year, always on Michael Beloff QC Saturdays. Trinity is allowed to enter twenty-one candidates in President 1996 - 2006 person at each ceremony in October and November, twenty candidates at the two July ceremonies and twenty in May. There is no time limit by which a degree has to be taken.

Former undergraduates of the college who have taken the BA or who are eligible to take it, are eligible to take the MA from the twenty- first term after their matriculation.

Former undergraduates who matriculated between 1993 and 1998, and who read for a four-year Masters degree (MChem, MPhys, MMath etc), should check their eligibility with the Tutorial Administrator before booking. Those who matriculated in or after October 1999 are not eligible to supplicate for an MA.

It is essential to book a place on a Degree Day in advance, whether you plan to ‘supplicate’ in person or in absentia: booking forms and further information are obtainable from the Tutorial Administrator at Trinity College ([email protected]).

Holders of the MA become life members of Convocation, which elects the Chancellor and Professor of Poetry. Those who are not eligible to supplicate for an MA and former graduate members who have other Oxford degrees may also apply for membership of Convocation in or after their twenty-first term from matriculation on payment of a £20 fee.

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Degree Day Dates 2010 GAUDIES

Hilary Term 2010 1960-1965 23 January (in absentia only) 10 April

Trinity Term and Long Vacation 2010 1978-1982 25 June 22 May 17 July 2001-2003 31 July 1 October 25 September Invitations are sent out about three months before each gaudy. Michaelmas Term 2010 23 October 6 November 27 November

Hilary Term 2011 22 January (in absentia only)

Trinity Term and Long Vacation 2011 28 May 16 July EDITOR’S NOTE 30 July This edition of the Trinity College Report was edited by Tom 24 September Knollys, the college’s Alumni Relations Officer. He welcomes feedback, and can be contacted by post or email: Michaelmas Term 2011 [email protected]. 22 October 5 November He is especially grateful to Clare Hopkins, the previous editor, 26 November for her patient help and advice in producing this edition.

The next edition of the Report will cover the academic year 2009/2010. The editor is always glad to discuss possible articles for the Report and is particularly grateful for contributions and suggestions relating to the Obituaries section. The Report accepts for review books of a biographical or autobiographical nature relating to past or present members of Trinity. 6837_cover:S4493_cover 23/11/2009 11:17 Page 3

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