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CLARE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL 2011-12 THE CLARE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL 2011 - 2012

CONTENTS

Page EDITORIAL 3

Mr DON HOLISTER A tribute by K.F.Riley 6 Lord WEDDERBURN of CHARLTON Obituary 11

COLLEGE NEWS 14

MASTER & FELLOWS A formal listing 29

BENEFACTIONS & GIFTS 35

RODNEY SHIRLEY AT CLARE (1948-1951) A reminiscence 48 A STUDENTSHIP IN CHINA by Jonathan Foxwell (2009) 52 THE PORTRAITS IN THE COMBINATION ROOM by Peter Knewstubb (1950) 54

THE MASTER’S MESSAGE 68 THE CLARE ASSOCIATION Report from the Alumni Council 70 The Lady Clare Fund 71

“OLD CLARE” NEWS 73 OBITUARIES 86 NOTICES 108

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1 ILLUSTRATIONS Page Illus 1 The new silver ewer and basin 4 Illus 2 Mr F.D. (Don) Holister 5 Illus 3 Lord Wedderburn of Charlton, QC, FBA 12 Illus 4a At Dr Gordon Wright’s wedding; signing the register 4b ditto ; progressing to the reception 13 Illus 5a Dr Maciej Dunajski receives an honour in Poland 5b Michael Nunn, pictured about 1992 16 Illus 6 Images of the Combination Room Portraits William Butler, Isaac Bargrave, Nicholas Ferrar, John Moore 43 Illus 7 more Combination Room Portraits William Whiston, young and older Martin Folkes, Thomas Woodroofe 44 Illus 8a Combination Room Portrait: William Loudon Mollison 8b Rodney Shirley in his study at home 45 Illus 9a The Great Wall at Mutianyu 9b City walls at Pingyao 46 Illus 10a View from the South Peak of Hua Shan 10b Tsinghua University campus 47

Acknowledgements: Illus 1 by Peter Allinson Illus 5a source unknown Illus 6,7,8a by Mr Douglas Atfield, copyright to Clare College Illus 8b by Rodney Shirley Illus 9,10 by Jonathan Foxwell

Other illustrations by the Editor, including the outside cover.

2 EDITORIAL

I assemble this, my 17th issue of the Clare Association Annual, with the hope that this year we can avoid the arrangement of a subscription payment for a printed copy. I am told the funding for such purposes is in better shape than two years ago, and the printed version may, besides being free, also have some coloured illustrations again. During the year, one Fellow, Don Holister, has died and is remembered in a memorial tribute. In College News there is information on seven new Fellows, so the total number has risen again. Something similar is true of the Honorary Fellows, where we have lost one by the death of Lord Wedderburn, and we note the election of four new Honorary Fellows. There is updated information in the Benefactions and Gifts section. A very interesting reminiscence is contributed by Rodney Shirley (1948), which will strike chords with alumni of that era, who are still quite numerous. A contrast is offered by the very recent memories of Jonathan Foxwell (2009), on a ‘working visit’ to China. You may marvel at some of his pictures, and probably you will wish we had room for more. Alumni and students have occasional chances to visit the Fellows’ Combination Room on H staircase. I offer biographical details about each of the eight alumni portrayed. They are an interesting group, each with a different character. I find Nicholas Ferrar the most interesting, with a story which could be the basis of a historical novel, or even a stage play or opera! Perhaps this arises from the extreme diligence with which Mansfield Forbes wrote about him. In my extract, his text is severely compressed. It seems to be an unavoidable trend that the major contribution of alumni news is in death notices: I express my thanks for families and friends who offer draft obituaries. But I am still available, and

3 most pleased, to get other news of alumni progress and successes, or just ‘how things are now’ (can be more than 140 characters!). I think it is true to say that there have been no prominent changes in the Fellows’ garden or in the layout of the College. Careful maintenance is constant, but often inconspicuous. There has been work at the Colony site, completing major landscaping of the space in front of Castlebrae. The plans for this were drawn up by the Chelsea Show gold medallist, Robert Myers. A feature of this is the banning of car parking in front of the original mansion, giving space for ornamental planting which is expected to offer greater amenity, once it is established. Alumni attending reunion dinners are likely to see a new piece of silver, a ewer and basin (see below), which is generally admired for its style and originality. The funding for this was through a trading-in of heavy Victorian silver, purchased in the 19th century by the College, but which was no longer in use or needed. P.F.K. e-mail address [email protected]

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Illus 2 Mr F.D. (Don) Holister

5 FREDERICK DARNTON HOLISTER

A Tribute for Don Holister at his Memorial Service, 12th November 2012

I think that I can fairly claim to have known Don Holister for all of the time that he was a Fellow at Clare, as I was just one place above him in the College’s Order of Seniority – a ranking that seems to have no particular purpose. Well, that isn’t strictly true. It is a measure of how dangerously close one is to being appointed as an Oley Trustee; and having to decide whether or not the Vicar of Gransden should have a winter fuel allowance.

******************* We were both admitted as Fellows just over fifty years ago and during most of that time, Don Holister was, in practice, Clare’s Architect in Residence. He was also the College’s first Domestic Bursar, a role in which he served for much of the same period. Under both Brian Cooper and Brian Smale-Adams, he kept the College ‘estate’ in good order. He also left his mark, if not his signature, on so much of the fabric of the College; in the architectural designs he drew up and then saw through to fruition; and, on those occasions on which the College did employ an outside architect, in the input he supplied to make sure that the end product was one that suited Clare’s needs. Let me select one or two examples from the many available. (1) When Clare decided to go mixed, with the first admission of female junior members in 1972, many Fellows used to say, rather flippantly, that, in terms of infrastructure, all the Domestic Bursar had to do was to install a few long mirrors. Of course, this was done to try to emphasise just how easily a progressive College like Clare could take such a major step in its stride. The reality wasn’t quite so simple. In order to avoid cutting the number of male freshers too drastically, the decision was also made to increase the

6 overall annual intake; with the additional thirty or so rooms that would be needed being fashioned in the roof spaces of some staircases in Memorial Court. The conversions that Don and the outside architects together devised proved so attractive and popular, that, when it came to the second- and third-year rooms ballot, after the Old Court rooms had gone these were the next to be taken. (2) Much the same can be said about the time when Clare and the other Cambridge Colleges were forced to go seriously into the conference trade by a Treasury that assumed that we already had, and reduced the University’s block grant accordingly. In order to get that trade, most of Clare’s Memorial Court rooms had to be made en-suite, and, although some of us didn’t care much for the vertical radiators, the successful conversion owed much to Don’s eye for detail and his devotion to the task. (3) As a further example of Don’s permanent contribution to the structure of the College, I should mention Clare Bridge. Well, No, he didn’t either design or build it – he was older than many people imagined, but not quite that old! I like to think that, as my one and only contribution to the College’s more permanent fabric, I persuaded the Finance Committee to pave and cobble the Bridge. Those who have been here for more than about twenty five years will recall that the stretch from the end of the Scholars’ Garden to the Warren Gates used to become a sea of mud, following even the most modest of showers. Well, once it was approved, Don and Dave Parfey, the Clerk of Works, made sure that the paving scheme was properly thought out, and equally properly executed. Probably without realising it, thousands of people each year have reason to be grateful to the pair of them – as cleaning one’s shoes once or twice a day is hardly something to be enjoyed. I might also add that, as was only to be expected from a man with such loyalty to the College, when it became Clare’s turn to nominate a University Proctor, Don answered the call. And Dave Parfey was one of his Bulldogs.

7 Don’s architectural contributions were not limited to Clare’s buildings. When, in the mid-sixties the College decided to found Clare Hall, and so re-establish the name abandoned in 1856, Don was very much in the forefront when it came to drawing up the building specification, and then in proposing Ralph Erskine as the architect to carry it through. I, personally, do not like the building’s roof – at least as viewed from the Members’ Stand at the Grange Road Rugby Ground – but the way that the new Clare Hall has flourished and grown, is testimony to many things, but not least to its physical lay-out and design. Another set of buildings, this time away from Cambridge, to the design of which Don contributed significantly were those of the independent University of Buckingham. Although I have never seen it, one of Don’s neighbours at Apple Court told me that amongst his proudest possessions is a photograph of him being presented to the Queen and Prince Philip when they officially opened the new campus. As this is, of course, a balanced assessment of a very nice man, perhaps I should also mention the only case I can think of in which his plans for the College’s buildings didn’t go too well. Until the mid-eighties, the Forbes Library, as it was then called, was housed in the South Range of Old Court. It had no adequate heating, and tended to be too cold to work in during the winter months. Don’s scheme was to install ceiling heating panels. Now, as every Physicist – but apparently not every Architect – knows, hot air sitting above cold air in a confined space is a very stable configuration. And the result? Our heads were boiled, whilst our feet remained as frozen as ever! Needless to say my own closest professional contact with Don was in connection with his role as the College’s Director of Studies in Architecture. As it happened, I had all the architectural students amongst my tutorial pupils. Now, – even though several of them are probably sitting in front of me – I have to say that they and their

8 Tripos were probably the most way-out of all the subjects available in Cambridge. Everything depended upon the studio design work – and I mean everything! It was almost impossible for anyone to get a Tripos class that was different from that awarded to their design portfolio. Yes, there were several written papers as well, but they seemed to count for nothing. Literally, in some cases. I recall one of Don’s students – a Canadian, who had impressed his admissions interviewers largely on the basis of some jewellery he had designed – who got zero marks for his Materials and Structures paper, but still managed to get a first overall. Don clearly knew what really mattered. But one can only hope that the buildings that the first- class architect later designed, whilst they would undoubtedly be full of design flair, could also stand up by themselves! Another indication that written papers didn’t matter much in the Architecture Tripos was the incident reported to the Board of Examinations in 1985. The candidates would arrive somewhat late, and furthermore, instead of going into the examination room, would sit around outside reading text books, only going into the room when they appeared to have completed their revision. However, be that as it may, as a practising architect, Don was able both to present a fine example of what was needed, and to keep a watchful eye on his potentially errant flock. When I had retired from the Senior Tutorship and my University post, and taken up the slightly more leisurely post of Tutorial Bursar, I could arrange to go to the Small Hall for lunch at roughly the same time each day, shortly after one o’clock. When I got there, there were hardly ever more than four other Fellows already at the table – but three of them would almost certainly be Brian Smale-Adams, Tim Thompson and Don. Sadly, Brian is no longer with us, and Tim cannot be here today. However, he has let me have a few notes on some of the things they talked about at lunch – in particular, on Don’s time in the Army.

9 He served in the Royal Engineers and was very proud to be a Sapper Officer – commissioned at the young age of 19. At that time in the late 1940s, this country was littered with unexploded bombs as a result of the wartime air raids. Many of these were booby-trapped, difficult to defuse, and buried underground. Don’s Squadron was assigned to the very dangerous work of disposing of them, and he served for three years in this demanding role. I don’t know the exact sequence of events in Don’s life after that, but it included a spell at Harvard, before he finally settled in Cambridge and Clare. What I do know is that at Clare he was renowned for his courtesy and for his concern for others. He always found time to have a word with any member of the College he encountered – even if they didn’t really have time to have a word with him – and, in particular, he loved to chat with Members of the College Staff, whose welfare he really cared about. He meant a lot to the whole Clare community and we will all miss him greatly.

K.F. Riley (1955)

[Don Holister died on the 10th of August 2012. Ed.]

10 KENNETH WILLIAM WEDDERBURN

LORD WEDDERBURN OF CHARLTON, QC, FBA, died on 9.3.2012, aged 84. He became a Fellow of Clare in 1952, having read Classics and Law at Queens’ College and after National Service in the RAF. He left Clare for the London School of Economics in 1964 on appointment to the Cassel Chair of Commercial Law. Bill Wedderburn was a greatly respected teacher of Law to Clare undergraduates, who recall his bracing supervisions as well as the warmth of his concern for their welfare. Both Fellows and students of that time were appreciative of his good humour, the firmness of his convictions and his invariable fair-mindedness. As a lecturer in the Law Faculty, Bill persuaded sceptical colleagues to agree to the introduction of a course in Labour Law, a subject of which he was a pioneering scholar and in the development of which he was to have an outstanding role throughout his career. His book, The Worker and the Law, a standard text in successive editions for some 25 years, was a vivid and innovative account which was written from the perspective of working people themselves. It was followed by equally notable comparative studies in Labour and Commercial Law, establishing their author as a lawyer of international renown. In the 1970s he had a leading role in the drafting of employment legislation which fortified the rights and protection of working people. Bill was made a life peer in 1977 as Lord Wedderburn of Charlton (acknowledging a life-long allegiance to Charlton Athletic FC). As a Labour peer he was loyal to his party but remained consistently independent in speaking up for workers’ rights and against religious discrimination and all forms of injustice. He resigned the Labour Party whip in 2006 in protest against the decision to make war on Iraq and the ‘cash for honours’ episode, but remained a member of the party, resuming the whip when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister.

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Bill was proud to discover that an ancestor, Robert Wedderburn, born to a slave woman in Jamaica in the 18th Century, had been an active campaigner against the slave trade. Bill was an academic of great distinction, a prolific and lucid writer, a combative and principled politician of the Left, and a man of loyal and courteous comradeship. He leaves his beloved wife Frances, their son, and three children of a previous marriage.

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Illus 4a At Dr Gordon Wright’s wedding; signing the register 4b ditto ; progressing to the reception 13 COLLEGE NEWS

FELLOWS

We regret to report in this issue the death of Mr Don Holister, a Fellow here since 1962, on 10.8.2012. A tribute on page 6 records our appreciation of all he did for the College. In academic promotions we note, with congratulations, the advancement to Readerships for Dr Helen Thompson (Social and Political Sciences) and Dr Andrew Friend (Geography). Also, Dr Julian Huppert has been appointed as a Lecturer in Physics, although remaining on leave to fulfil his duties as MP for Cambridge. Clare Fellows have attracted many honours this year. The Master has been elected a Fellow of the Society of American Historians, recognising his literary distinction in the writing and publishing of history and biography. The Society's fellowship combines academic historians and professional writers of American history. Membership, by invitation only, is limited to 250 authors and 14 publishers. Professor Badger is the only UK-based academic ever invited to become a Fellow. The Council of the Royal Society have awarded a Royal Medal to Prof Andrew Holmes, FRS, for ‘his outstanding contributions to chemical synthesis at the interface between materials and biology, and pioneering the field of organic electronic materials’. Prof Simon Franklin has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Dr Fred Parker has won one of the University Pilkington Prizes for teaching, for over 25 years, in the Faculty of English. He is credited with ‘eliciting the best from students, from undergraduate to PhD and in the wider world. As Director of Graduate Studies, Fred has devised new courses and enhanced the student experience with faculty shadowing schemes, peer writing-

14 groups and electronic seminars. His undergraduate students, too, praise him as “excellent” for the clarity of his lectures’. Prof Neil Greenham has been awarded the Kavli Medal, and will deliver the associated Lecture on 17.4.2013. Dr Maciej Dunajski has been awarded the title of Professor in Poland, conferred personally by the President of the Republic. The occasion is nicely shown in Illus 5a, page 16. Dr Elizabeth Foyster has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, lasting 18 months, beginning 1.10.2012. This is to conduct a project called 'Managing mental illness and disability in the English family 1660-1800'. Drs Josip Glaurdic and Rory Naismith have been elected to Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships for three years. Dr Timothy Potts, briefly the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, has now been appointed as Director of the Getty Museum, in Los Angeles. Prof Ottoline Leyser has been elected as a Foreign Associate to the National Academy of Sciences In January 2013, we hear that Dr Stephen Dalby will shortly be leaving Clare, after three and a half years of research, published in nine research articles. We congratulate him on his appointment as Senior Scientist at Merck, New Jersey, USA. Also in January, the news of Mr Stephen Jolly is that he will take up the position of Ministry of Defence Director of Media & Communications. We congratulate him on this advance, and thank him for his help to Clare in the matter of public relations on a number of important occasions. After 7 years in retirement, Dr David Hartley, formerly Director of the University Computing Service and, more recently, the College's Steward, has started a new career in museums. In the last few years he has been chairman of the British Computer Society's special interest group in Computer Conservation and found the subject so much fun that he has been appointed Museum Director of the National Museum of Computing located at Bletchley Park. 15

Illus 5a Dr Maciej Dunajski (centre) receives an honour in Poland 5b Michael Nunn, pictured about 1992 16 The museum is arguably the foremost in the UK and one of the best in the world, holding and displaying many seminal early computers, most of which have been restored or rebuilt. David comments that there is nothing more dull than a museum full of dead computers; his are mostly alive and are regularly demonstrated to visitors. They include a rebuild of the Colossus computer, built in World War II to help decipher the Lorenz cypher used by Adolf Hitler and his generals, and the original restored Harwell Dekatron - without doubt the oldest working computer in the world. Within a year or two, these will be joined by a working replica of the Cambridge EDSAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic computer to go into regular service."

In December 2012, the Fellows and staff were invited to attend the wedding of Dr Gordon Wright to his fiancée, Elizabeth Macleod. The news was also announced at the Alumni Council, and was greeted with acclamation. Gordon’s sister assisted as ‘best man’, and included in her speech, after the wedding in the Chapel, that he was just a few weeks short of age 95. He appeared to be in good command of the occasion (see Illus 4, page 13).

The Governing Body has, during the year, elected seven new Fellows, raising the total number to 137 (including 9 Bye-Fellows). The new Fellows introduce themselves as follows:- Ms Jocelyn Wyburd was elected a Fellow of Clare from January 2012 and is the Director of the University’s Language Centre. She read Modern and Medieval Languages (Italian and French) at Trinity College, Cambridge before working for several years in both the charitable and private sectors variously in Nepal, Italy and the UK, managing international projects for the raising of educational standards, as well as awareness of the projects and their need for funds.

17 These experiences led her to discover a vocation to foster greater multilingualism, and she trained as a language teacher (Italian, French and German) for the state sector. She joined the University of Cambridge as the Language Centre Director in 2011 after 12 years in a similar role at the University of Manchester, where her work was recognised by the award of a National Teaching Fellowship. She is keen to build on the Language Centre’s reputation for exploitation of technology to support language learning within and beyond the University. She has spoken internationally on the role of language centres in achieving European Union goals for multilingualism and the enabling of greater student mobility, and has developed workshops for staff in numerous institutions of higher education. She has also for many years led outreach initiatives to promote and support language teaching and learning in secondary schools.

Ms Francisca Malarée was elected to a Fellowship in November 2011, to be our new Director of Development. She graduated BSc. (Economics) from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1995. This qualification was then extended (part-time) to MA in Later Modern British History, also at LSE. From 1996, partly whilst also studying for her Master’s degree, she was part of the LSE team working on a range of approaches to alumni relations. She then moved to Cambridge, with a position initially as Assistant Development Director at Girton College, then taking full charge as Development Director at Girton from November 2000. She was thus concerned from the start of this college’s strategy, and registered very considerable success with it. She lists interests which include politics and policy, international economic development, and the playing of various energetic sports. 18

Professor Ottoline Leyser was admitted to the Fellowship in May2012, having moved to Cambridge to join the newly established Sainsbury Laboratory as its first Associate Director in 2011. The Sainsbury Laboratory is a new research institute situated in the Botanic Garden, focusing on understanding the mechanisms that regulate plant development, by combining diverse molecular, cellular and genetic approaches with computational modeling. Ottoline’s research fits well with this theme. She is working on the regulation of shoot branching by a network of systemically moving hormonal signals, using the model plant Arabidopsis. She is particularly interested in the role of this hormonal network in allowing plants to adjust their branching habit in response to environmental conditions, such as nutrient availability. She is interested both in the molecular mechanisms that allow such plasticity in shoot branching, and in natural variation in shoot branching plasticity and its contribution to contrasting life history strategies. Ottoline did her BA and PhD in Genetics at Newnham College, and after three years post-doctoral research in Bloomington Indiana and a year back in Cambridge as a Research Fellow at Newnham, she took up a lectureship at the University of York, where she spent 16 years before her return to Cambridge in 2011.

Professor Giancarlo Corsetti was admitted a Fellow in April 2012, having joined the University as Professor of Macroeconomics in the Faculty of Economics. He previously taught at the European University Institute, the University of Rome III, Bologna, and Yale. His main research and teaching interest is in the international dimensions of economic policy. His contributions range from theoretical and empirical work on 19 fiscal and monetary policy in the presence of financial frictions, to analyses of currency and financial crises and their international contagion. He is currently co-editor of the Journal of International Economics and the International Journal of Central Banking, and Programme Director at Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. Regarding his research interests, Professor Corsetti has long collaborated with monetary authorities in Europe and overseas, including the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His latest work is focused on the fiscal multipliers and budget consolidation policies during financial crises, based on macro models of stabilization in economies plagued by sovereign risk crises, as well as on micro analysis of the output effects of fiscal shocks. In a recent article, widely discussed in the press, he has exploited the strong contraction of spending on public work associated with the dismissal of city councils for mafia infiltrations in Italy, to provide an estimate of the impact of budget consolidation on economic activity. His most recent work is on central bank liquidity provision as a shield against self-fulfilling runs on public debt, the ‘mystery of the printing press’.

Dr Andrew Ferguson joined Clare as a Fellow in May 2012. He has been in the Cavendish Laboratory since 2007, where he holds the Hitachi research fellowship. Previously, he spent 4 years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He is an experimental physicist and works in the field of spintronics. He investigates how the intrinsic angular momentum, ‘the spin’, of electrons can be used in electrical circuits. At present the overwhelming majority of electrical circuits use the ‘charge’ property of the electron, but the ‘spin’ may have advantages in terms of energy efficiency or in

20 enabling new functionality. A main theme within his research group is the development of novel microwave techniques to access the dynamical behaviour of electron spins.

Dr Martin Smith joined Clare as a Junior Research Fellow in October 2012, after completing a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (University of Toronto) and an MSc in Earth Sciences (Sidney Sussex College, 2008). His research addresses the origin and explosive diversification of complex animal life some 540 million years ago, and his work at Clare will target a new class of exceptionally well-preserved microfossils with untapped potential to illuminate the diversity and rate of evolution in the earliest animal communities.

Dr Adria de Gispert was admitted to the fellowship of Clare in October 2012. He was born in Barcelona and he received the degree of Telecommunications Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. In 2006 he received his PhD in Statistical Machine Translation at the same university. He came to Cambridge in January 2007 and has taken various positions (Research Associate, fixed-term Lecturer and Senior Research Associate) at the Machine Intelligence Laboratory of the Department of Engineering. In 2008 he joined Clare as College Research Associate, where he has also been College Assistant Lecturer. His research work is focused on designing and building statistical pattern matching engines that are capable of translating text or audio from any language to any language given a set of previously-translated examples. The goal is for this engine to be adaptive to user feedback and robust enough to support effective world-wide communication in the globalised world. 21 HONORARY FELLOWS

The College has a self-imposed limit of 24 Honorary Fellows. The number having recently fallen below this number, a further four elections were offered to, and accepted by, the following:-

Professor Sir David Cannadine, DPhil, LittD, FBA, Dodge Professor of History, Princeton University. Sir Mark Walport PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci, FRS, Director of the Wellcome Trust. From April 2013, he will be the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser. Professor Sue Alcock PhD, Director of the Joukowsky Inst. for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, RI. The Very Reverend Vivienne Faull, Dean of Leicester, recently approved as the next Dean of York.

We look forward to greeting them, when they are next able to attend College events.

FORMER FELLOWS AND VISITORS

Dr Rupert Sheldrake’s new book The Science Delusion is said to have sold out in four days. We congratulate him on this evidence of successful writing. Canon Andrew White’s most recent book Faith under Fire was voted as the ‘Ultimate Christian Library’ book for 2012. He was the Eric Lane Fellow in Lent term 2003, and is noted for his constant work to restore peace to Iraq. In January 2013 we hear of the death of Mary Bliss, who gave the Lady Elizabeth Bell to the College; I hope to offer more on this in the next issue. (Ed.)

22 GRADUATE STUDENTS

The President of the MCR, Moos Peeters, after consulting her members, writes:- The MCR is a great place to socialise, meet people from really diverse backgrounds and learn about the traditions of other nationalities. All members are very knowledgeable and passionate about what they study! It's friendly and inclusive and there's always plenty going on, ranging from the graduate Friday formal dinners, to welfare tea, whisky tasting and seasonal activities like pumpkin carving. It is a very easy-going and welcoming environment and it makes me feel very included in college life.

The Clare Annual Report 2012 indicates that we had a total of 267 graduates for this academic year, 200 of whom were studying for the PhD degree. The following are noted as having their theses approved for the PhD degree in the year 2012:- G.Akdeniz G.E.Gentsch A.M.Pauly J.M.Alsiö T.Gershon C.A.L.Reams H.Ayetey J.M.H.Green M.Roode E.M.Batty M.L.Hanin M.Schenk H.Brandstaetter C.L.Hutchinson N.A.A.Schoenmakers V.R.L.Bridges B.W.Jagger N.C.Seinen S.P.J.Byrne A.Kaus L.F.R.Sutcliffe T.Chandra A.J.Key A.C.Tristram F.L.Cole A.C.Meldrum V.A.Vorontsov D.J.C.Coutts R.H.Merrill G.L.Walkden M.D.Eddleston R.C.Mulherin R.W.R.Wallbank A.Finnemore D.Narendra H.Wang T.P.Flower S.Nuernberg C.E.White

COLLEGE PRIZES

Some comment on the recent performance of current students in the Tripos can be found in the Clare Annual Report 2012. Here we again restore an item which appeared in the earliest issues of the

23 Clare Association Annual, with a report that named College Prizes were awarded for the academic year as follows:- PRIZE given for RECIPIENT(S) Allan History J. Mathieson Prust History A. Eccles Newnes English B. Davies William Senior Law E.B.M. Mortimer Milon Banerji Law M. Evans Mallinson Modern Languages G.E. Durham Royalton Kisch Music T.B. Kung Davies Economics T. Jain Paine Economics M.A. Yoganayagam Christopher McCann Economics C. Steele William Butler Medical Sciences K. Biddle Owst Classics not awarded Owst Mathematics W. Padungwech Harry Paten Mathematics S.E. Penington Amiya Banergi Mathematics N.M. Wilkins David Hartley Computer Science not awarded Perret Arch & Anth M.E. Brinkley or Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Murgoci Physics A. Nikolic Chibnall Biochemistry S. Forster Olive Ward Chemistry H. Rees Godwin Life Sciences I. Braithwaite, C.E. Thakker Horne Physical Sciences A.M. Bevan, A.D. Bowden, N.J. Caldwell, M.J. Cole, J. Dixon, C.I. Fowers, C.S. Harwell, T.F. Ingleby, P.J.S. Lowth, H. Popplewell, C.E. Pulman, T. Taape, J.J. Taylor-West, K. Wagstyl, D.J. Waterhouse, J. Williams Pressed Steel Engineering (Year4) not awarded (Year3) C. Wang (2) S.R. Burnell, S. Shiangoli, J.P. Waite, Y. Xia (1) A.J.R. Hunt, J.C.Y. Lee, A.J. Sanders

24 Robins further research C. Gleeson, T.E.Z. Kearey Lester Brough College Music H. Ogg Gordon Wright Medicine K. Goffe Lady Clare Humanities A.B. Lewis Precious Pearl or Social Science Greene Cup pietatis causa A.M. Buchanan Hughes Greene Cup general learning A.J. Morgan Stephens Theology J. Kershaw Stephens (Reading, by Dean’s nomination) C. Purse Bauckham Theology J. Kershaw Richard Gooder creativity (arts) N.E.M. Moss John Northam poetry&prose H. Ogg Duncan Robinson art F. Crossley

It is likely to be noticed by alumni that new prizes have been established quite recently. Those which have been added to the list of named prizes since the list for June 2009 are:-

PRIZE awarded for

Christopher McCann Prize the best performance in Economics Part I given by Christopher McCann (1966) Bauckham Prize a first in any Part of Theology & Religious Studies given by Miss Catherine Fawcett Milon Banerji Law Prize for the best result in Law IA or IB given by Mr Gourab K Banerji Hartley Prize for the best result in any part of the Computer Science Tripos given by Dr David Hartley (1956, Fellow in 1986), Secretary of the Alumni Council

CHAPEL & CHAPEL CHOIR

The Dean, Dr Gregory Seach, writes:- The sign on the entrance to Chapel reads: The Chapel exists to the glory of God and as a place of prayer. It is a centre of Christian worship within the life of this College community. You are very welcome to enter, look around or simply pause, pray or rest quietly. That this is both a very real statement of the purpose of 25 the Chapel, yet only part of what the Chapel offers and does within the College, was made abundantly clear in the past year. As a space of great beauty (I often refer to the wondrous dome in the antechapel as one of Cambridge’s greatest ‘undiscovered gems’), tourists and visitors to the College often make their way to it. The increasing number of school groups, who are most welcome at Clare, are always taken into Chapel: its very structure – the aptly named ‘collegiate seating’ (where worshippers sit facing one another across the central aisle) – indicates our aspiration that this is a community where people encounter one another (and sometimes worship God) alongside and in the midst of their neighbours: ‘College’ necessarily implies ‘collegiality’, and stems from the same linguistic root as ‘colleague’. Christian worship, of course, takes place in the Chapel every day except Saturday: the regular round of Choral services – Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday Evensongs, and thrice-termly Complines – are the great ‘set pieces’ of the week. But Morning and Evening Prayer are said Monday to Friday so that, conscious of it or not, all members of this community (and that includes those who are no longer ‘in residence’ – alumni/æ, former Fellows and staff) are held in prayer every day. The keeping of an hour of silence, between noon and 1 p.m. every day, allows those who may be cautious of ‘set’ worship, or of no faith, a place for quiet reflection or a chance just to stop and rest. A small but faithful few still attend Sunday morning Communion services and then continue their table fellowship over breakfast. The sense of the Chapel as a space for a large number of College members to gather was never more painfully realised, however, than in the course of this past year. The tragic death of Rebecca Chamberlin just before the beginning of Easter Term, saw large numbers of Rebecca’s friends and colleagues from the Boat Club attend times of quiet reflection and recollection – a time when grief and shock were acknowledged, shared, and given space. The term ended with a moving Memorial Service in Chapel: a chance to 26 reflect again after the business of a full term. In a sense that, hopefully, will never need to be repeated, the Chapel thus provided “a centre… within the life of this College community” for grieving, pausing, recalling, contemplating. Rebecca’s was the most searing Memorial Service held this year, but not the only one. Fellows, staff and former students, as well as family members, were able to gather to give thanks for the life, work, integrity and friendship of Don Holister. Also we note that alumni/æ returned to their Chapel in good numbers for weddings; and, again, a particularly memorable one at the end of 2012, was held for Dr Gordon Wright who, at 94, married Dr Elizabeth McLeod in a small but beautiful and moving service. As I frequently write in these reports, at the annual Matriculation service I always tell students that ‘just as they are members of Clare for life, so this is now their Chapel for life’ – regardless of their own faith commitment. This year has concretely shown that to be so at all stages and ages of life. Because the God worshipped in Chapel says, in Jesus Christ, “Come to me all…”, the Chapel continues to extend the same invitation.

For the Choir, Abigail Gostick writes:- The Chapel Choir continued to provide services for the liturgy in College, with many notable services within the three academic terms. After a successful tour to France and recording of the Imogen Holst Choral Works CD in the summer of 2011, the Choir of Clare College sang a live BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong in St Matthew's Church, Northampton in September, including Walton’s Chichester Service and Britten’s Festival Cantata Rejoice in The Lamb. As a grand finale of St John's College's Quincentenary celebrations in November, they formed part of a massed student chorus for two performances of Walton's Belshazzar’s Feast in Ely Cathedral and in London’s Royal Festival Hall, both with the Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Andrew Nethsingha.

27 The Choir gave their annual appearance at St John’s, Smith Square, London in December 2011 with a programme of Advent music framed by the Great ‘O’ Antiphons, as used for the days leading up to Christmas. Soon after, they departed for a tour of the Netherlands, with concerts in Vlissingen, Kampen, Amersfoort and Nijmegen, performing this Advent programme devised by the Director of Music. The concerts were very well received and each one concluded with a standing ovation for the Choir’s efforts. On New Year’s Day eight members of the Choir were broadcast on BBC Radio 4 singing some traditional eighteenth-century toasting songs, recorded in the College's Senior Combination Room with David Owen Norris and John Sergeant. In January 2012 the Choir formed part of a large chorus of the top Cambridge Choirs, in collaboration with Cambridge University Music Society orchestral players, in a concert of Debussy and Act III of Wagner’s Parsifal with Sir Mark Elder in King’s College Chapel. In April the Choir were re-invited to St Paul’s Cathedral to sing the Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli in a Eucharist service, and in July they returned to Westminster Abbey to sing Choral Evensong. Between these two prestigious services, the Choir recorded the Advent programme in All Hallows’ Church, Gospel Oak and in St Alban's Cathedral, directed by Graham Ross and produced by John Rutter, due for release on the Harmonia Mundi label in 2013. The academic year ended with a major three-week tour to Australia with Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, giving eleven performances of Beethoven’s famous Ninth Symphony in Sydney Opera House, Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and finally Perth, before braving the 22 hour flight home to the UK to enjoy the last few weeks of the summer.

STAFF NEWS

In 2012, we marked the retirement of Michael Nunn, after 20 years of service with the gardening staff. He was hailed for great 28 precision in lawn-mowing, but did many other things, with clear willingness. Those with long memories may recognise him from an early photograph (Illus 5b, page 16). As mentioned a year ago, Ms Fran Malarée joined Clare in January 2012 as the new Development Director, after holding a similar position in Girton College for ten years. She conducted two development campaigns there, with great success. In January 2013 we hear that Luca Patriccioli, our Head Chef, won the silver medal for his ‘main course’ entry at the British Open Cookery Championships, and a certificate of merit for his ‘starter’. We congratulate him on this further success: more description of the dishes can be found at www.clareconferencing.com .

MASTER AND FELLOWS at 1st October 2012

[In this list academic appointment or promotion since the previous list, for Oct 2010, is indicated with * . The date is that of ELECTION (by calendar year)]

MASTER 2002 A.J.Badger PhD Paul Mellon Prof. of American History

FELLOWS 1954 R.G.West ScD, FRS Emeritus Prof. of Botany 1955 T.J.Smiley PhD, FBA Emeritus Knightbridge Prof. of Philosophy 1958 G.H.Wright MD formerly Univ. Lect. in Anatomy 1960 V.Heine PhD, FRS Emeritus Prof. of Physics 1961 M.G.Bown PhD Emeritus Fellow formerly Univ. Lect. in Earth Sciences C.C.Turpin LLB Emeritus Reader in Public Law K.F.Riley PhD formerly Univ. Lect. in Physics 1962 R.L.Tapp PhD Emeritus Fellow formerly Univ. Senior Lect. in Physiology 1964 P.F.Knewstubb PhD formerly Asst. Dir. of Research in Physical Chemistry 1965 N.O.Weiss ScD, FRS Emeritus Prof. of Mathematical Astrophysics 1966 M.J.Mitchinson MD, FRCPath Emeritus Reader in Cellular Pathology R.M.Blackburn PhD Emeritus Fellow; formerly Reader in Sociology 29 1969 R.S.Schofield PhD, FBA, LittD formerly Coll. Lect. in History; formerly Hon. Reader in Historical Demography 1970 J.M.Newton Emeritus Fellow formerly Coll. Lect. in English 1971 A.S.Sinclair PhD Prof. of Modem Spanish Literature and Intellectual History 1972 D.Lynden-Bell PhD, CBE, FRS Emeritus Prof. of Astrophysics R.D.Gooder PhD Emeritus Fellow formerly Coll. Lect. in English 1973 A.B.Holmes ScD, FRS formerly Prof. of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, now ARC Federation Fellow, CSIRO, Australia 1976 W.A.Foster PhD Univ. Senior Lect. in Zoology E.M.Freeman LLM formerly Coll. Lect. in Law T.H.Moore PhD formerly Univ. Lect. in Linguistics A.M.Snodgrass PhD, FBA, FSA, Hon.DLitt Emeritus Fellow; Emeritus Prof. of Classical Archaeology 1979 J.Woodhouse PhD Prof. of Structural Dynamics T.C.Brown Praelector P.F.Leadlay DPhil, FRS Herchel Smith Prof. of Biochemistry 1980 S.C.Franklin DPhil, PhD, FBA Prof. of Slavonic Studies G.F.Parker PhD Tutor; Univ. Senior Lect. in English 1981 P.A.Cartledge DPhil, PhD, FSA President of the Fellowship; A.G. Leventis Prof. of Greek Culture A.L.Johnson Fellows’ Steward, Computing Co-ordinator; Univ. Senior Lect. in Engineering 1982 P.J.Ford PhD FBA Prof of French and Neo-Latin Literature A.Lucas MD, FRCP, FMedSci MRC Emeritus Clinical Research Prof.; Director, MRC Childhood Nutrition Research Centre Inst. of Child Health 1985 D.R.Howarth LLM, MPhil Reader in Private Law, Dept. of Land Economy 1986 D.F.Hartley PhD Emeritus Fellow formerly Director of the Univ. Computing Service A.G.Thomason PhD Prof of Combinatorial Mathematics 1987 D.J.Scott PhD Emeritus Fellow; formerly Univ. Senior Lect. in Philosophy 1988 N.H.Woodcock PhD Reader in Earth Sci. L.C.Paulson PhD Prof. of Computational Logic A.R.L.Travis PhD Emeritus Fellow; formerly Univ Lect in Engineering G.Brown CBE LittD Emerita Fellow; formerly Prof. of English as an International Language 1990 J.M.Goodman PhD Admissions Tutor (Science); Reader in Chemistry M.Lapidge LittD, FBA, FSA Emeritus Fellow, Hon. Archivist; Emeritus Prof. of Anglo-Saxon 30 1991 P.A.W.Edwards PhD Wine Steward; Reader in Pathology M.J.Grant LLD Emeritus Fellow; now Provost of Univ. College, London 1992 R.T.Phillips PhD Prof of Physics B.A.Hepple (Sir Bob) QC, LLD, FBA Emeritus Master; Emeritus Professor of Law 1994 * H.E.Thompson PhD Reader in Social and Political Sciences 1995 * N.H.Andrews BCL Professor of Civil Justice and Private Law 1996 C.J.Clarke DPhil Prof of Theoretical Astrophysics T.W.Knighton PhD Emerita Fellow, formerly Coll. Lect. in Modern Languages, now Research Prof of 16th Cent. Music at Barcelona Univ. N.C.Greenham PhD Prof of Physics 1997 R.M.Harris PhD Tutor, Dir. of Studies in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Senior Language Teaching Officer in Arabic 1998 W.A.Harris PhD Professor of Anatomy P.Fara PhD Senior Tutor; Affiliated Lect. in History and Philosophy of Science M.M.Lahr PhD Reader in Biological Anthropology M.Sprik MSc, PhD Prof of Computational Chemistry D.Hedley PhD Reader in the Philosophy of Religion 1999 A.Philpott PhD Graduate Admissions Tutor; Reader in Oncology T.Follini PhD Dean of Students, Coll. Lect. in English Literature W.A.Pullan PhD Univ. Senior Lect. in Architecture 2000 C.H.Duff BM BCh FFPHM Dir. of Studies in Clinical Medicine; Deputy Regional Director of Public Health, East of England P.D.Bristowe PhD Reader in Computational Materials Science H.Jahn PhD, Dr. phil. habil. Tutor; Univ. Senior Lect. in History T.M.Lewens PhD Reader in History and Philosophy of Science N.B.Holdstock VetMB PhD Tutor; Univ. Lect. in Animal Reproduction M.Frolova-Walker PhD Reader in Music History R.Glen PhD Unilever Prof of Molecular Sciences Informatics L.K.Tyler PhD MRC Prof of Cognitive Neuroscience, in Experimental Psychology. N.S.Clayton PhD FRS Prof of Comparative Cognition, in Experimental Psychology G.I.Ogilvie PhD Reader in Mathematical Astrophysics 2001 M.J.Weeks PhD Univ. Senior Lect. in Applied Economics R.E.J.Dyball VetMB, PhD, ScD Emeritus Univ. Senior Lect. in Anatomy D.P.Hearn Bursar 2002 H.Griffiths PhD Prof. of Plant Ecology 31 J.S.Gibson PhD Reader in Pathophysiology, in Veterinary Medicine M.Dunajski PhD Graduate Tutor; Coll. Lect. in Pure Mathematics 2003 H. van Veen PhD Univ. Lect. in Pharmacology J.A.Guy PhD Fellow in Tudor History C.Weiss PhD Coll. Lect. in Classics, Tutor; Univ. Language Teaching Officer in Greek and Latin E.A.Foyster PhD Dir. of Studies and CoIl. Lect. in History T.A.H.Wilkinson PhD formerly Development Director, now Head of the Cambridge University International Office 2004 P.H.Jones PhD Dir. of Studies in Clinical Medicine; NHS Research Consultant J.A.Tasioulas PhD Financial Tutor, Coll. Lect. in English Literature 2005 W.J.Byrne PhD Reader in Engineering S.Lazar PhD Graduate Tutor; Univ. Lect. in Social Anthropology H.L.Sanson PhD Univ. Senior Lect. in Post-Medieval Italian Studies F.M.C.Toxvaerd PhD Univ. Lect. in Economics S.W.C.Jolly MA Univ. Director of Communications M.J.Petty Steward 2006 R.Sterckx PhD Needham Professor of Chinese F.L.Edmonds PhD Librarian (Fellows' Library); Univ. Lect. in Anglo- Saxon, Norse and Celtic Studies I.Lestas PhD Research Fellow in Information Sciences: Control Theory R.K.Semple PhD Univ. Clinical Biochemistry Research Fellow R.G.Cacho PhD Admissions Tutor (Arts)(Mich); Univ. Senior Lect. in Spanish and Portuguese A.M.Preston PhD Tutor; Univ. Senior Lect. in History 2008 * A.D.Friend PhD Fellows’ Steward; Dir of Studies in Geography; Reader in Earth Systems Science J.Glaurdic Research Fellow in Political Science C.A.Russell PhD Research Fellow in Infectious Disease Epidemiology The Revd. G.J.N.Seach PhD Dean P.C.Fletcher Bernard Wolfe Prof of Health Neuroscience A.P.Balmford FRS Prof of Conservation Science A.M.Stillman PhD Tutor and Fellow in English 2009 T.F.Potts PhD formerly Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum; now Director of the Getty Museum J.Prabhu PhD Univ Prof of Business Management Studies D.A.Hodell PhD Woodwardian Prof of Geology in the Dept. of Earth Sciences P.Faulkner PhD Rooms Tutor, Coll. Lect. in Economics S.Dalby PhD Research Fellow in Synthetic Organic Chemistry

32 R.Naismith PhD Research Fellow in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Studies N.Crilly PhD Burrell Fellow in Engineering 2010, Univ. Lecturer in Engineering Design K.E.Hughes Turpin-Lipstein Fellow in Law, Admissions Tutor (Arts)(Lent & Easter), Coll. Lect. in Law P.M.Allmendiger Univ. Prof. of Land Economy 2010 K.E.McDougall PhD Brit. Acad. Post-Doctoral Fellow in Linguistics A.Carter PhD Fellow in Structural Biology; Group Leader, MRC LMB A.Brown PhD Research Fellow in Biophysics W.Quillen Research Fellow in Music G.A.C.Ross College Director of Music J.C.Robertson PhD Univ. Prof. of the History of Political Thought R.I.Watson DPhil Univ. Lect. in African History 2011 C.E.Roberts PhD Junior Research Fellow in English W.Cavert PhD Junior Research Fellow in History of early-modern Britain C.Melnyk PhD Junior Research Fellow in Plant Sciences 2012 J.Wyburd Tutor; Head of the Cambridge University Language Centre F.Malarée Director of Development O.Leyser Prof of Plant Development G.Corsetti Prof of Macroeconomics A.Ferguson PhD Hitachi Senior Research Fellow in Microelectronics M.Smith Junior Research Fellow in Evolutionary Biology A.Gispert de Ramis PhD College Lecturer in Engineering

BYE - FELLOWS 1973 D.J.Thompson PhD FBA Bye Fellow; formerly CoIl. Asst. Lect. in Classics 1982 R.O’Hanlon PhD Bye Fellow; Prof. of Indian History and Culture, Oxford 1995 D.D.Robinson Bye Fellow; formerly Director and Marlay Curator of the FitzwiIliam Museum; Emeritus Master of Magdalene 2001 J.P.Ostriker PhD Bye Fellow; Emeritus Plumian Prof. of Astronomy Revd. R.D.Greeves Bye Fellow: Proctor, formerly Dean and Tutor 2002 A.Manica PhD Univ. Senior Lect. in Population Biology 2006 D.F.Swensen PhD Bye Fellow; Chief Investment Officer, Yale Univ. 2007 H.L.(Skip) Gates Jr PhD Bye Fellow; Alphonse Fletcher Univ. Prof. and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Inst. for African and African American Research, Harvard Univ.

33 2009 * J.L.Huppert PhD Bye Fellow; worked at the Physics of Medicine research centre; elected MP for Cambridge in 2010. Now elected, while on leave, to a Lectureship in Physics

HONORARY FELLOWS 1967 Prof. James Watson ScD, KBE, FRS, Nobel Laureate 1962, Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA 1976 Sir Michael Stoker CBE, FRCP, FRS, FRSE, Pathologist, President of Clare Hall 1980-87 1980 Sir David Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, ScD(Hon), FRS, Broadcaster and Naturalist 1987 The Rt Revd Mark Santer, formerly Bishop of Birmingham 1989 Sir WaIter Bodmer PhD, FRS, FRCPath, Principal of Hertford College, Oxford 1996-2005, formerly Director General, Imperial Cancer Research Fund; currently involved in a genetic survey of the UK 1990 Sir Roger Norrington CBE, Chief Conductor (Stuttgart); Musical Director of London Classical Players 1992 Sir Nicholas Barrington KCMG, CVO, High Commissioner to Pakistan 1989-94 1992 Sir Frederick Catherwood formerly MP, MEP, Vice-President, European Parliament 1989-91 1992 Sir Philip Dowson CBE, RA, RIBA, FCSD, Architect, President of the Royal Academy 1993-99, Senior Partner at Ove Arup 1994 Sir John Boyd KCMG, Master of Churchill College 1996-2007, H.M. Ambassador to Japan 1992-96 1994 The Most Revd and Rt. Hon. Dr Rowan Williams DPhil, DD, FBA, Archbishop of Canterbury 1997 Prof. Sir Andrew Wiles KBE, PhD, Hon DSc FRS, Professor of Mathematics (Princeton) 1998 Lord Wilson of Dinton GCB, Master of Emmanuel, formerly Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service 1998 His Excellency Fernando H. Cardoso, LLD, formerly President of the Federative Republic of Brazil 2001 Dr J.M.Rutter DMus Lambeth, CBE, Hon FGCM, Composer and Conductor 2001 Sir Timothy (Tim) Hunt PhD, FRS, Nobel Laureate 2001, Head of the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratory for cell cycle control 2004 Prof Frances Kirwan DPhil, FRS Fellow of Balliol, Prof. of Mathematics (Oxford) 2006 P.Ackroyd CBE, FRSL, Hon DLitt, writer, biographer and poet; Chief Book Reviewer, The Times, since 1986 34 2006 Mr M.F.Parris MA, author, political commentator, journalist and broadcaster 2006 Prof. J.D.Spence CMG, PhD, Sterling Prof. of History, Yale Univ. 2012 Prof. Sir David N. Cannadine DPhil, LittD, FBA, Dodge Prof. of History, Princeton Univ. 2012 Sir Mark Walport PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci, FRS, Director, Wellcome Trust 2012 Prof. S. Alcock PhD, Director, Joukowsky Inst. for Arcaeology and the Ancient World 2012 The Very Rev’d Vivienne F. Faull Dean of Leicester

ELIZABETH De CLARE FELLOWS 2008 R. Lerner A.Gillespie MA PhD I.Riley MA MEng 2010 C.Forbes PhD

BENEFACTIONS AND GIFTS

As the 700th anniversary of the College’s foundation approaches in 2026, Clare is planning to secure its future in an increasingly volatile financial world. The strategy is to raise £50 million by the time of this milestone to cover the following crucial areas:  £20m for the complete refurbishment of Old Court – to be carried out on a scale not seen since about 1850, including a new roof, new attic windows, new services (entailing digging up the entire floor of the Court) and fire-walls in between the staircases.  £10m for support of undergraduate and postgraduate students who would not otherwise be able to study at Clare.  £10m for teaching in College: the supervision system is under some threat as faculties make increasing demands on their employees who are also fellows in colleges. Clare

35 wants to employ the world’s best teaching fellows and to ensure students continue to benefit from small-scale supervision  £10m for the College’s endowment: this stands at about £70 million presently and is crucial for our current expenditure and our future ability to be as independent as possible of state funding. Suffice to say, all donations of whatever size from alumni will be crucial to the success of this campaign. Also as important will be to increase the number of alumni remembering the College in their wills. This is easily done via a Clare codicil form available from the Development Office. The challenge is always to increase the percentage of members supporting the College on a regular basis, since this will be the key to Clare’s future wellbeing. Currently about 20% of alumni make donations. A complete list of donors is normally published annually in a supplement to the spring/summer edition of Clare News.

DONOR RECOGNITION

Clare is very happy to recognise benefactions by naming bursaries, scholarships, Fellowships, and other aspects of College life according to the wishes of the donor. The College has established special forms of recognition for benefactors at different levels:

Elizabeth de Clare Fellow (£500,000) The Governing Body of the College elects Elizabeth de Clare Fellows on the recommendation of the Master, to recognise individuals who, through generous benefaction, contribute to the present and future life of the College. Elizabeth de Clare Fellows are officially recognised as senior members of the College. As full members of the Senior Combination Room, Elizabeth de Clare Fellows enjoy the same rights and privileges as Honorary Fellows.

36 Master’s Circle (£100,000) Members of the new Master’s Circle will be invited to an annual private dinner hosted by the Master in the dining room of the Master’s Lodge. This event will provide a unique opportunity for individuals to strengthen their involvement in the current and future life of Clare. The 1326 Society (£25,000) The 1326 Society recalls the year of the College’s original foundation. Members are invited with their spouses/partners to the annual Benefactors’ Dinner and to periodic special events in College. Benefactor (£10,000) Benefactors are invited with their spouses/partners to the annual Benefactors’ Dinner in Hall, preceded by a concert in Chapel. The Samuel Blythe Society is named after the 17th century Master of Clare whose generous bequest to the College guaranteed its continuing success and prosperity. The Society has been established to recognise during their lifetime those who have made provision for Clare in their will. Members of the Society are invited with their spouses/partners to an annual lunch in College, hosted by the Master and Fellows, on the second Saturday of May.

MAKING A GIFT OR BEQUEST

Gift forms may be downloaded from the College website (www.clarealumni.com) and are also available on request from the College Development Office. The College is a registered charity, which means that gifts to Clare by UK taxpayers count as charitable gifts. For cash donations of any amount, UK taxpayers can take advantage of the Gift Aid scheme, under which a donation of £80 is worth £100 to the College but costs the donor just £60 (if he or she pays income tax at 40%). Regular gifts by Banker’s Order can also be made under the Gift Aid scheme.

37 US taxpayers can support Clare by making a tax-efficient gift to Cambridge in America, P.O. Box 9123 JAF BLG, New York, NY 10087-9123. When sending your gift, you should include a covering note suggesting that the Directors of Cambridge in America exercise their discretion and allocate your gift to support Clare College. Canadian taxpayers can make tax-efficient gifts directly to Clare College. Taxpayers in many European countries can also make tax- efficient gifts to Clare – please contact the Development Office for further details. For further details on tax-efficient giving, visit the website www.clarealumni.com and click on ‘Supporting Clare’.

Legacies to Clare may reduce the inheritance tax payable on your estate, because of the College’s charitable status. When you make or update your will, please consider leaving a legacy to Clare. The Development Director, Francisca Malaree, or the Deputy Director, Mr Rowan Kitt, are happy to talk confidentially to members and friends of the College who are considering leaving a legacy. Detailed information, including answers to frequently asked questions, is available on the legacy pages of the College website: www.clarealumni.com/legacy.

The Development Office, Clare College, Cambridge CB2 1TL Telephone: +44 (0)1223 333218 Fax: +44 (0)1223 362473 Email: [email protected] Website: www.clarealumni.com

38 CLARE’S LIAISON WITH SCHOOLS

Clare College continues to undertake Schools Liaison work on behalf of the University in our four Link Areas: Coventry, Warwickshire, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and London Borough of Hackney. We welcome visits to Clare throughout the year and the Schools’ Liaison Officers also visit schools to run sessions or attend Higher Education Fairs. Our work with schools has two main objectives; one is to encourage as many gifted and talented applicants as possible to apply to Cambridge by dispelling common misconceptions about the University and the applications process. The other is to raise aspirations at all stages of education. The latter aim means that this year we are working with children as young as 8 years old in order to instil a sense of confidence and pride in their own academic achievements. We have recently recruited a new Schools Liaison Officer to come on board half-time, Ruth Dewhirst, who will be working specifically on expanding our programmes in the Borough of Hackney as well as providing support for activities across all our Link Areas. We have continued our successful schools visits to the College, at both Primary and Secondary level, from students across our Link Areas with students taking part in a variety of workshops, both University & subject-themed, both in College and in University departments. We are continuing to work closely with sixth-forms to ensure that they have access to accurate, honest and detailed information about Cambridge and the applications procedure, and to dispel the myths surrounding the University. Occasionally we work with schools from outside our Link Areas, usually because of particular links to the College (e.g. alumni now in teaching). The College also participates in University-wide Access initiatives such

39 as the University Science Festival Masterclasses, the Shadowing Scheme and the Teachers’ Conference. Dr William Foster has been appointed as the Tutor for Access and Outreach and is responsible for coordinating the College’s outreach activities and the work of the two School Liaison Officers, Anthony Fitzpatrick and Ruth Dewhirst.

CLARE AND BERMONDSEY

Clare has been linked to Bermondsey, South London, since 1730 when it gained the patronage of the parish church of St Mary. Late in the nineteenth century, Clare decided to extend this involvement and chose Bermondsey for the site of its mission. Since that time, many Clare students have worked in the area and with Bede House. Thus for many years, the College has supported the community centre in the London district of Bermondsey, and the Bede House Association was recently celebrating its foundation in 1938, over seventy years ago. The centre has several Clare alumni on its management committee, and the College sponsors recent graduates on six-month internships each year. To find out more about the placements sponsored by the Clare Bermondsey Trust, contact the Director, Nick Dunne, at [email protected]. Detailed information on the range of social projects in train can be found at www.bedehouse.org.uk. Also, Clare News 30 (autumn/winter 2012) has up-to-date comment from Katrina Ramsey (chair of Trustees), and also comment from Mark Brinkley (2008), newly graduated from Clare.

QUEENS’-CLARE OVERSEAS EDUCATION FUND

Ollie Imray writes, for the QCOEF Committee (2012-3):- After some time in the wilderness, the Queens’ and Clare Overseas Education Fund is proudly making a long-overdue return.

40 Across the last twenty years, QCOEF has been involved in some truly fantastic projects, supporting a number of teaching charities around the world. Unfortunately, the Fund has spent the past couple of years on the outer reaches of college life, with little money raised and none at all donated. Therefore, we are tremendously excited to announce the re-launch of QCOEF, as well as to inform you of our progress to date. Our biggest decision so far has been to fund a ‘Tools for Self Reliance’ project in Sierra Leone. This venture is especially pertinent to the work of QCOEF, having been suggested to us by former Chair, Abi Gleek – now working at ‘Tools for Self Reliance’ herself. With our assistance, the charity is looking to tackle extreme youth unemployment in impoverished communities within the Moyamba, Tonkolili and Kambia districts of Sierra Leone. The charity provides a mixture of vocational, entrepreneurial and even life training, as well as the equipment needed to put these skills into action. The hope is that such work will empower marginalised youths to lift themselves out of poverty, with knock-on effects for the communities around them. Our donation was enough to start ten such projects, beginning in March 2013. For more information about ‘Tools for Self Reliance’, we encourage you to visit their website: www.tfsr.org. Of course, the money we were able to give to this lovely little project only emerged through contributions from within the colleges. At present, QCOEF is heavily reliant on college bill donations, but we are always looking for new ways to bring in money. We have a number of fundraising events planned for next term, ranging from pub quizzes to jazz nights to charity formal halls. At present, there are few people left in Queens’ and Clare that were here when the charity was last prominent; we hope that such events will not only raise money, but awareness of our cause, bringing it to prominence in college life.

41 We would like to ask for your help, too. Donations from alumni have long been a crucial part of QCOEF’s success – any contribution, large or small, will be welcomed readily. Further to this, we would love to hear from anybody who is involved in overseas education at present; in an effort to promote the college element of QCOEF, we are keen to work with charities dear to former students. If you are interested in proposing a charity for future terms, or possibly visiting to speak to current students about your work in the field, please do get in touch. Feel free to contact me ([email protected]) or our Chair, Ed Bentsi ([email protected]) – or to visit our website at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/qcoef.

ERIC LANE FUND

The fund was established by a generous gift from Mr E.A. Lane (Clare 1920) for the support of projects relevant to the advancement of peace and social harmony. It is used to support a Visiting Fellow for one term each year, and to give an Award and grants for student projects that fall within the Fund’s remit. The Eric Lane Visiting Fellows are not usually academics, but people who work ‘closer to the coalface’, and the College community gains greatly from engaging with their experience and concerns. Ms Sonja Biserko was the Eric Lane Fellow for the Easter term 2012. She is an eminent Serbian human rights activist, President of the Helsinki Human Rights Committee in Serbia, and a former senior diplomat who has been deeply involved also in the anti-war movement, from the early days of the break up of Yugoslavia. Her project while she was here was to continue her research and writing on the nationalist and anti-democratic forces that still have considerable power in Serbia and impact on the wider region.

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Illus 6 Images of the Combination Room portraits:

William Butler Isaac Bargrave

Nicholas Ferrar John Moore 43

Illus 7 more Combination Room portraits:

William Whiston (young) William Whiston (older)

Martin Folkes Thomas Woodroofe

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Illus 8a Combination Room Portrait: William Loudon Mollison

Illus 8b Rodney Shirley in his study at home

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Illus 9a The Great Wall at Mutianyu 9b City walls at Pingyao

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Illus 10a View from the South Peak of Hua Shan 10b On Tsinghua University campus

47 RODNEY SHIRLEY AT CLARE (1948 - 1951) A reminiscence

October 1948 wasn’t a particularly memorable month for most people. Yes, the War was over, but there was little sign of prosperity, and food rationing was still widely in force. But for me it was a few days of sudden exciting transformation as, in a great rush, I was demobilised from the Army and came up to Clare College, Cambridge, in the nick of time to read for a Natural Sciences degree. Like many boys at school, on reaching the age of 18, military service beckoned as almost the only option, though I think a few occupations (such as medicine or coal mining) were exempt. So I was called up, for what was initially an indefinite time in the Army, with only an uncertain hope of joining my preferred college, Clare, at some time in the future. For the next two years, or even longer, all places at most universities were quite rightly being taken up by demobilised service men (and women) released from much longer war service. The Army, to its credit, did run a two-week ‘Pre-Release Course’ which I attended towards the end of the summer of 1948, although without any assurance that Clare could accept me in the autumn of that year. I remember that the course was pitched at quite a high standard, to brush the cobwebs away after two years of military thinking. For scientists, there were lectures to remind us of binomial theorems and differential equations and to refresh us on the laws of physics, chemistry and biology. Also, which was quite new to me, a study and reading of T S Elliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ in preparation for an optional English elective. Then, on return to my base at Aldershot, one Friday ten days later I suddenly got a message from Clare saying they could accept me if I could be released to start the term in four days time. It was a mad rush, but the University, Clare College, and the Army pulled all the stops out and my release papers were prepared on Saturday, signed (I think)

48 on Sunday. The next day, Monday, I was formally sent home (demobilised) and I took the train to Cambridge on the Tuesday with my trunk, bicycle and belongings. University life was a great change from Army life. For two years there had been Daily Orders telling what one should do, and when, 24 hours a day. I half-kept looking on college and laboratory notice boards to find out what was happening and at what time. It took several weeks to work out that it was entirely up to me to attend lectures (or not) and to work out my reading and learning programme. The only obligatory attendances seemed to be college dinners and the weekly tutorials. Looking back I think I was lucky in my tutors. My college tutors were Dr (later Sir Brian) Pippard for Physics, my main study subject. My other principal subject was Mineralogy (or Crystallography) for which I had Dr R C Evans, a distinguished academic who died only a few years ago aged 96. In one of my second-year tutorials a perceptive comment by Dr Evans was instrumental in switching my outlook, and my subsequent career. For my first year I had ‘digs’ in about the most remote suburb of Cambridge—at the far end of Kings Hedges Road. All the better and more central rooms had been allocated earlier on but I was glad to take what I had been offered. I soon learned to bicycle to and fro, somehow balancing a pile of books for the day and, if necessary, holding an umbrella. I think I only fell off once. Fairly soon I got used to the travel to and fro—most lectures were in the Cavendish Laboratory precincts--where I well remember the rows of austere photographs hanging in a long corridor with the central figures of giants such as J J Thompson, Lord Rutherford, the Braggs, father and son, and perhaps even Lord Kelvin too. Sir William Lawrence Bragg (the son of Sir William Henry) was still lecturing there. A month or so after settling in I had worked out how best one might allocate one’s time: 25% in lectures and academic study; 25% in sport; 25% in clubs and societies and ‘extra-mural’

49 activities, and 25% in socialising. This of course excludes a good night’s sleep but overall I found it was a good guide. The second year I had a convenient room in Memorial Court, and for my third year some rather superior rooms in Bridge Street, close to the centre of things where I could more easily entertain on a modest scale. I knew quite a number of friends from school (Stowe) who were in Trinity, St John’s and Magdalene, and my third-year rooms were well placed accordingly. Half way through my second year one or two things happened which changed my career intentions. I had in mind taking a Part II in Physics and then perhaps taking up academic research into nuclear structures. I was having tea with an attractive girl called Felicity from one of the women’s colleges and (it must have been my leading) the conversation turned to the Quantum Theory of Max Planck. ‘Who?’ said Felicity ‘I’ve never heard of him’. This threw me back - surely this wasn’t possible. I sort of explained but afterwards I was remorseful - the fault was mine for presuming that what I thought was such a fascinating topic was necessarily so to someone like Felicity who was studying Italian and Spanish. Not long after, another incident occurred in one of my tutorials with Dr R C Evans. At one stage he turned to me and (very politely) said “Shirley, I don’t think you’re quite at home in reciprocal space”. Actually he was quite right, I was not at home in reciprocal space (which was a fundamental concept underlying crystallographic analysis) and I thought he hadn’t noticed that. I went home chastened, and from that point started to switch my thinking away from reading Part II Physics, with its quite heavy emphasis on fairly advanced mathematics. One of the hidden benefits of Military service was that I was allowed to gain a full BA degree after two (rather than three) years. Therefore at the end of year two, provided I got a reasonable Part I degree result - which I did, with a 2.1 - I decided to switch subjects and take up English. In 1950-51, my third year, I therefore selected a group of topics from the English Tripos which, helpfully,

50 embraced the very wide range ‘English Literature, Life and Thought: 1300 to the present day’. It was a move I never regretted. I’ve always maintained an enthusiasm and respect for the physical sciences, but a year of reading English opened my eyes to the previously neglected world of the arts, classics, literature and poetry. My college tutor was Dr John Northam, later Senior Tutor of Clare and my subject tutor was a delightful amiable professor Dr. Guy Pocock who I shared with another science student who also had switched subjects for his third year. Moreover, there was no doubt that the work load was much lighter than in Natural Sciences which was considered then (and I believe is still now) a ‘heavy’ tripos. There were of course ‘set books’ of which I recall several Shakespeare plays, Sisam’s ‘14th century Verse & Prose’, especially ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’; Grierson’s ‘Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th century’; and Thomas Browne’s rather dreary ‘Urn Burial’, coupled with a wide range of lectures available from the normal Part I and Part II syllabuses. When the year-end came, the main papers typically had up to 100 questions from which one could choose just 4 or 5. So one could usually pick those topics one had specialised in, or had some background in (e.g. ‘Discuss the influence of science on literature in the 17th and 18th centuries...’). At the end of the year I don’t recall any classification being awarded other than a ‘Certificate of Diligent Study’ to add to the full BA I had gained already. Then, after 3 years, and payment of something like £12, I became entitled to cite ‘MA Cantab’ as my top Cambridge qualification. Later on, after two years spent at the Harvard Business School (1954-1956), I was able to add ‘MBA Harvard’ to my academic letterhead.

Rodney Shirley (1948) (Ed. See a photograph of Rodney Shirley on page 45)

51 A SUMMER STUDENTSHIP IN CHINA

We are glad to celebrate our link with Professor Babak Javid (a former Fellow) in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Starting in 2012, through his good offices, there is an opportunity for two Clare undergraduates to spend 8-10 weeks of the summer at either of the Schools of Life Sciences, or of Medicine, at Tsinghua. We can note that Prof. Javid’s web page at www.tsinghua.cn opens with the phrase ‘Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide and in China’, and not be surprised that some of the research work is in this area. The object of the studentship is to foster links between Tsinghua and Cambridge. The students will have the opportunity, not only to perform cutting-edge basic research in the top university in China, but also to explore aspects of Chinese culture, and to travel locally after the studentship. Two Clare undergraduates were awarded places, and one of them, Jonathan Foxwell (2009) offers his account of the trip to this issue of the Clare Association Annual:- ‘This summer, I was fortunate enough to be one of four students from Cambridge on a new studentship scheme with Tsinghua University, Beijing. This studentship involved an 8-10 week placement in one of the laboratories in the bioscience faculties at Tsinghua. I joined the group of Prof Babak Javid – the Mycobacterial Pathophysiology Laboratory – and spent ten weeks constructing new reporter genes in order to assay rates of mistranslation in species of Mycobacterium. I also worked on a secondary project involving investigating the effects of sub-lethal concentrations of antibiotics on mistranslation rates and bacterial survival, and gained some experience of teaching basic biochemical techniques. In addition, the scheme involved meeting other Principal Investigators and students at the university, and talking to them about their research, giving insights into current research and

52 how it is performed, as well as the role of science in Chinese society. The lab and the university had a very welcoming atmosphere, and I have made many new friends over the summer; both Chinese, and students from Harvard and the University of Chicago who were also on exchange schemes. Together, we found time to explore much of Beijing, and gain some insight into Chinese culture and history. I now feel I have a much better understanding of a somewhat mysterious country, and have developed a fascination with many aspects of it. I even managed to pick up an extremely limited amount of Mandarin. It was also interesting to meet people with a different perspective on the West, and I hope I have been able to satisfy some of their curiosity as they did mine. The structure of the studentship also allowed for a week’s travelling at the end, where I was able to see a small amount of a very large area, in Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan provinces. The self-reliant learning style expected in my host lab, while initially daunting, has given me excellent experience and increased confidence in performing independent experimental research, and I now also feel much more assured in teaching others. This is in addition to gaining knowledge in a number of areas and techniques in biological research. I felt sorry to leave the lab, and am glad that someone is carrying on my project and that I can keep in contact. I am also certain I will return to China at some point, with so much more to see. ‘ Editor’s note: Jonathan had many interesting photos from his trip, from which I show only four. The city walls of Pingyao are doubtless restored, but originally 14th century. On the Great Wall we see Shivun Khosla (Caius coll.), Jonathan, and Jonathan Lam (also Clare). The stylish bridge on Tsinghua University campus is a relatively new construction. The view from the South Peak of Hua Shan is breathtaking, but very peaceful. See Illus 9 and 10, pages 46, 47.

53 PORTRAITS IN THE COMBINATION ROOM

I am grateful for appreciative comments on the article in last year’s issue, about portraits in the Hall. This year, I offer the following paragraphs about portraits in the Combination Room, which most alumni and students have occasional chances to see. Again, I try to pick out interesting (and possibly memorable) features of each career, rather than give a detailed and comprehensive account, and there seems to be advantage in taking them in chronological order of their birth.

William Butler (1535-1618) 1, 2, 3 William Butler was born in Ipswich, Suffolk in 1535, and lived a career as a prominent physician. He may have matriculated in 1558 at Peterhouse, becoming BA in 1561 and MA in 1564, but was definitely elected a Fellow of Clare Hall (as it then was) in 1572. Furthermore, in October 1572 the University of Cambridge granted him a licence to practise physic. He was usually styled ‘doctor’, though he never took the degree of MD. He acquired an outstanding reputation in his profession, becoming known for his eccentric manner and methods of treatment. He combined traditional Galenical (natural remedies) with Paracelsian (chemical) techniques, representing an intermediate stage in English medicine. Our picture of him shows him wearing the rich gold-upholstered skull cap of the President of the College of Physicians. (see page 43) He came to the attention of King James I, partly as a result of an eccentric cure. A parson had been studying hard, then found himself unable to sleep. The parson’s wife then gave him opium, but gave too much and the parson could not be aroused in the morning. William Butler, with the agreement of the wife, had one of her cows killed, and put the parson into the warm belly of the freshly-killed cow. The parson revived. There are many similar stories of eccentric cures. On the other hand, Butler is also credited with being able to recognise changes in the face of a patient as death approached. At the last illness of Henry, Prince of Wales, he saw these signs and 54 did not pursue any aggressive treatment, but simply approved what others were doing to help. He was very generous to Clare Hall, giving three fine pieces of silver, which are among the oldest in our collection of plate. He died at Cambridge on 29 January 1618, and was buried in Great St Mary's Church: on the south side of its chancel there is a mural monument with his bust and a Latin inscription describing him as the first among medical men of the time. At his death, he left all his books to the College and also bequeathed the sum of £260, for the purchase of ‘finest gold’ from which a communion cup and paten were made, with his specified engravings on them. He has also been commemorated by a pub sign at Ye Olde Dr Butler's Head near Guildhall in London, and by a sort of ale called Dr Butler's Ale.

Isaac Bargrave (bap. 1586 – 1643) 1, 3, 5 Isaac Bargrave, who became a proud man of Royalist persuasion, and dean of Canterbury, was baptised in 1586, in Kent. He was educated at Cambridge, receiving the BA degree from Pembroke in 1607, then MA from Clare Hall in 1610. In 1612 he was ordained deacon and priest at Peterborough, and later that year became rector of Eythorne in Kent. He maintained his Cambridge connections, but seems to have held this Kent living for thirty years. Between 1616 and 1618 he served as chaplain to a kinsman, Sir Henry Wotton, English Ambassador to Venice. On his return to England in 1618 he carried a letter of introduction from Wotton to King James. On presenting this, with its testimony to ‘his discretion and zeal’, Isaac’s career prospered. In 1622, Isaac received the DD degree at Cambridge, and was appointed a prebendary of Canterbury Cathedral, where his brother- in-law, John Boys, was dean. In the same year he was granted the living of St Margaret’s, Westminster, and became royal chaplain to Prince Charles, an office which he retained after Charles began his reign in 1625.

55 Also in 1625, John Boys had died, and Isaac Bargrave was able to succeed him as dean of Canterbury. In the following year, he obtained the vicarage of Tenterden. His Westminster post earned him ‘great esteem with the Parliament … who took the sacrament constantly at his hands’. His sermons displayed a marked independence, and one in particular offered to Parliament ‘… against Popery, Evil Counsellors and Corruption’ incurred the displeasure of the king. As dean of Canterbury, Bargrave introduced musical and liturgical innovations, and tried to follow Anglicanism as a middle way between extremes. After the accession of Charles I, he firmly declared himself in favour of the divine right of kings. He incurred increasing disfavour from Parliament over their Bill for the abolition of deans and chapters, and presented petitions against the Bill from the University of Cambridge and from Canterbury Cathedral. At the beginning of the Civil War in 1642, Colonel Sandys marched his troops to Canterbury and attacked the deanery. Bargrave was absent, but his wife and children were cruelly treated. Col. Sandys found him at Gravesend, arrested him and sent him to Fleet prison. After three weeks, Bargrave was released without having been brought to trial. He returned to Canterbury broken in health, and died at the deanery in January 1643. He was buried in the Lady Chapel, alongside other deans of the period. The picture (see page 43) is believed to have been painted by Cornelius Johnson, in 1636. It shows Bargrave holding a seal of office, which looks (at full size) like the Cambridge University seal. If so, this may relate to his holding the office of Taxor in 1612. This office, like a Proctor but now obsolete, was for the regulation of student rents, and more widely in matters of checking weights and measures of goods.

Nicholas Ferrar (1592-1637) 1, 2, 5 Nicholas Ferrar was born to a very stable and caring family. His father (of the same name) was a popular merchant adventurer, 56 who traded widely in the world. His mother guided all her family diligently, with daily practice of reading from the scriptures, or Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. There was also home education in singing and instrumental music, needlework and selected passages of history. Nicholas learnt his lessons very well, and at the age of seven was sent to school at Enborne, where he continued to progress superlatively. By the age of thirteen, his teacher was already talking of his going to university. Nicholas Ferrar came to Clare Hall, probably in 1607 at the age of fifteen, and was entered for his first year as a ‘pensioner’, of limited means. His parents thought he might progress to a status of fellow-commoner in his second year, through his own merit. His tutor was so impressed with him that Nicholas’ status advanced even faster than expected. He graduated BA in 1610, and was made a Fellow in the same year. The other Fellows valued his company very highly. Nicholas seemed set for an academic career, where the combination of education and community had a special resonance for him. The health of Nicholas had been of concern to his friends, and Dr William Butler (q.v.) had offered the opinion that Nicholas should travel. An occasion for this arose in 1613, when he was presented to Princess Elizabeth, newly married to the Count Palatine, who was travelling to her new home. Nicholas was pleased to go in her train of courtiers as far as Amsterdam, but then begged leave to make his own way. For a full five years he travelled around Europe, making shorthand notes of his wide range of adventures, which at one point included a narrow escape from Mediterranean pirates. He rejoiced in learning more languages, and felt better for all the exercise. He returned to his family in London in 1618, a man of much widened experience. There was talk of the Virginia Company, a fairly new venture in America. The colonists in their plantations could supply many goods to Britain, but most notably tobacco. There was a novel proposal that, rather than just work to orders 57 from London, they might operate through a General Assembly of the local people. Nicholas Ferrar was most interested in this, and when it was so established in 1619, joined with the MPs and statesmen who were shareholders to promote its success. He showed a remarkable skill at managing, from London, a good result in all manner of detail. His skill at provisioning each new expedition was appreciated, and he made valuable contacts with France about sources of silkworms, and their care. The latter enabled a silk trade to be started in Virginia. He was made King’s Counsel for the plantation workers. Consulting with Sir Edwyn Sandys, Nicholas wrote a constitution by which the colonists could work, which was published in 1621. The Virginia Company was very successful, but thereby aroused the opposition of King James I, who wanted to promote the import of tobacco from the Spanish colonies, rather than the Virginian produce. This contest became gradually more severe, and scandalous (as is traced in great detail in Forbes’ book) 2, with Nicholas taking a leading role in promoting the Company. The conclusion of this contest is seen in quoting Forbes from his page 430 thus:- “Nicholas Ferrar was sent to the House of Commons with a petition, which was well received, but James forbade Parliament to meddle with colonial matters, and this hope was dashed to the ground.” So it was, in 1624, that the King revoked the Virginia Company’s licence to trade, and the colony ceased to prosper. After all the legal processes of this conflict, Nicholas and his elder brother John had lost most of their financial resources, and were understandably disheartened. Nicholas modified his own aspirations, resolving to seek a simple life. Indeed, it is related that he had received, through a rich friend with a daughter, an attractive proposition of marriage, with a large dowry, which he most elegantly refused. By the spring of 1625 he had purchased in his mother’s name “the complete lordship” of Little Gidding (Forbes page 463). In the summer of that year there was also the funeral of James I and the 58 accession of Charles I, which gave Nicholas little joy. Of more serious concern was the appearance in London of the plague, initially near the river and the docks. Nicholas urgently sent his mother and remaining family into the country. He risked remaining in London to clear up financial and other matters for himself and brother John; he also found tenants for their London home. John had gone to make some preliminary arrangements at Little Gidding, and with the turn of the year, Nicholas joined him. With much to do in their new home, one matter had precedence. Nicholas contacted his former tutor and Dean at Clare, Dr Lindsell, seeking help in becoming ordained as deacon, for which he had been making diligent preparation. It was so arranged that, early on Trinity Sunday, Nicholas Ferrar and Dr Lindsell rode to Westminster chapel, where the Dean (soon to be bishop) Laud conducted the laying-on of hands. As deacon, Nicholas could then minister to his family community. The community, initially all family members, numbered around forty and settled into a simple pattern of life: the small chapel would hardly accommodate all at once. The surrounding pasture was rented to tenants, and other local sources of necessities would readily sell produce at a helpful rate. It was a great joy to both Nicholas and to George Herbert (the notable Anglican poet) that they lived only six miles apart, and they had frequent meetings. After Herbert’s death in 1633, Nicholas Ferrar played a major part in the publication of George Herbert’s poems. (Barnabas Oley, another Clare Hall Fellow, later published an edited version of them, with a preface.) Much has been written about the community, but this lies beyond the scope of this article. Nicholas Ferrar died in 1637, and was buried near his chapel; it was fortunate that he did not see the wanton damage which it suffered in the Civil War, when the Roundhead troops made a bonfire of the organ and church panelling. It seems that Nicholas Ferrar was admired by all who met him in his life (except King James!).

59 The picture (see page 43) is an 1867 copy of the original, dated 1617 and held at Magdalene College; the copy was possibly given by the Revd H J Carter about 1897.

John Moore (1646 – 1714) 1, 2 John Moore, who became Bishop of Ely, was born near Market Harborough and came to Clare Hall as ‘sizar’ (receiving some help from the College) ‘and pupil to Mr Mowsse’ in 1662. He graduated as BA in 1666 and was elected a Fellow in the following year. In 1670 he became chaplain to Heneage Finch, who was subsequently lord chancellor and first earl of Nottingham. John was ordained priest by the bishop of Ely in 1671. This event, and his subsequent elevation to the episcopate, were said to cause John’s father, Thomas, great displeasure. He had given his son a good education, but ‘never intended him for the Episcopate order’. John was obliged to repay the cost of his education. He was installed as a canon at Ely in 1679. John Moore was a popular preacher, and filled many pulpits in London, including sermons delivered, from 1689, as chaplain to William III and Mary II. He was consecrated bishop of Norwich in 1691, and continued to preach, with many of his sermons being published, and some in several editions. Many of his sermons were warnings against Catholicism, and a collection of such works was translated into Dutch and published in Holland. A further collection was soon produced, in both Dutch and French editions. While bishop of Norwich, John built up his extensive library of books and manuscripts. In this task, he was helped by successive chaplains, one of whom was William Whiston (q.v.). Forbes 2 indicates that John Moore helped Whiston significantly, both as an undergraduate and in his starting of his career. In 1707, the new Queen Anne promoted John Moore to the bishopric of Ely, although he was a ‘low-churchman’ and she generally preferred high-church clergy. When he visited Cambridge in 1708, he received an address from his college which refers to his munificent gifts to Clare Hall Library, and to the help 60 he had given in the rebuilding of the College. Since becoming bishop of Ely, he had begun to rebuild and repair the Episcopal house in Ely Place, Holborn. By 1712, he had moved and organised there his enormous collection of books, which he was happy to display to visitors. His friend, Richard Bentley, was proposed as bishop of Chichester in 1709, and had John’s support. Then, in 1714, John Moore was the Visitor for Trinity College, and had to conduct a trial of Bentley, Master of Trinity, ‘for encroaching on the privileges of the college fellows’. During the long sittings at Ely house which the trial demanded, John caught cold and died, before being able to pass judgement on Bentley. John Moore was buried in Ely Cathedral, and there is a monument to him in the south aisle. His library, of some 29,000 volumes and 1,790 manuscripts, was eventually sold to King George I, who gave it to the University of Cambridge in 1715. It immediately became known as the Royal Library, and brought the university library into international prominence.

William Whiston (1667 – 1752) 1, 2, 5 William Whiston was educated at home by his father, for whom he also acted as amanuensis, and he attended grammar school at Tamworth between 1684 and 1686. As the second surviving son he inherited the family library and provision for university ‘that he may be an able minister of the New Testament’. He entered Clare Hall, Cambridge, as a sizar in September 1686. He excelled as a student, taking a keen interest in Mathematics, and graduated BA in 1689. Two years later, he was elected to the Exeter Fellowship, and in 1693 was promoted to probationary Senior Fellow. He established himself as a tutor at Clare Hall, and counted among his students the nephew of Archbishop Tillotson (a portrait of whom hangs in the Hall). He was ordained a deacon by William Lloyd, the bishop of Lichfield, who is described as a ‘prophetic exegete’, and may have contributed to William Whiston’s interest in biblical prophecy. 61 In 1694, his poor health prompted him to resign his tutorship, and transfer his pupils to Richard Laughton. William then replaced Richard as chaplain to John Moore, bishop of Norwich (q.v.). Though now travelling more, William retained his fellowship at Cambridge and made further efforts to understand the work of Isaac Newton. He thought highly of Newton’s mathematics and wrote his own book, A New Theory of the Earth, dedicated to Newton, in 1696. In it, he combined Newton’s physics with John Woodward’s geology, offering confirmation of scriptural accounts of the creation and the flood. He also suggested that planets were built up from comets, and that the near approach of a comet had started the diurnal rotation of the earth, and perhaps also, condensation of the comet’s tail had caused the flood. (! Ed.) The New Theory book attracted much attention, and went to several editions, with translations into German and French. In 1698, Bishop Moore secured a living in Suffolk for Whiston, replacing his chaplaincy at Norwich, and putting 2000 parishioners in his care. The next year, William resigned his fellowship at Clare Hall, and married, as it happened, the daughter of his headmaster at Tamworth. Shortly after this, Newton called him to Cambridge, with the full income of the professorship; by this time, Newton himself had become Warden of the Royal Mint. In December 1701, Newton resigned his chair, and in 1702 Whiston was elected as the third Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. In this post, he published many more books re- expressing the new mathematical theories in a way more accessible to students than Newton’s original publications. Less helpfully, he continued to write on biblical prophesy, and embraced an anti- trinitarian theology, similar to Arianism, and sought the support of the vice-chancellor of the university for his views. He also contacted the archbishops of York and Canterbury, and published a heretical work, Sermons and Essays, in 1709. He was, as a result of all this, expelled from his chair and from the university. William Whiston then withdrew to London, and lectured on astronomy and physics, and gave tuition in mathematics. His 62 prosecution as a heretic was begun, but never reached a verdict. Course notes are still preserved which cover a wide range of topics describable as ‘natural philosophy’, and the relevant lectures were delivered next door to the Royal Society, in Crane Court. Whiston also played an important role in early eighteenth- century attempts to determine longitude at sea, having been interested in this problem from his days as Lucasian professor. He was convinced that a reliable method would benefit both safety and trade. He suggested a number of methods, which were ingenious, but impractical. Another facet of his activity was a study of scriptural prophesy. He studied the texts, sometimes suggesting corrections of ‘previous errors’, and picked out many records showing prophesies being fulfilled. He then looked for contemporary events which might be fulfillment of prophesy. He suggested that earthquakes in London, in 1750, might be divine judgment on the wicked city of London. William Whiston eventually fell out of sympathy with the Anglican liturgy, and was more drawn to the General Baptists. Nevertheless, after his death in 1752, he was laid to rest in an Anglican church. He wrote many books, but one of his best-known achievements was his translation of the writings of Josephus, a Jewish historian of the first century AD. The translation was published in 1737. Clare has two portraits of Whiston: (see page 44) his depiction as aged about 53 is a copy of one in the National Portrait Gallery, which is itself a copy of an original dated 1720. The ‘younger Whiston’ was purchased by the College in 1987, and is believed to have been painted in the 18th century (so he would have been at least 34).

Martin Folkes (1690 – 1754) 1, 2, 5 Martin Folkes was born in 1690 to a father of the same name, who was one of the benchers at Gray’s Inn. His son was educated privately for seven years by a teacher who had formerly been a professor of Hebrew at Saumur University. Shortly after his 63 father’s death in 1705, he was sent to Clare Hall, and he was admitted as a fellow-commoner in 1706. He had inherited a substantial estate from his father, which allowed him an easy life of leisure and study. Martin made such impressive progress in his studies, particularly in Mathematics and Philosophy, that he was proposed for membership of the Royal Society at the age of just 23. He made such continual advancement, with publications mainly on astronomical subjects, that he was elected as vice-president in 1723 (with Sir Isaac Newton as president). On Newton's death in 1727, Martin Folkes participated in a heated contest for the presidency with the other vice-president, Sir Hans Sloane, a contest which he lost, and he was dismissed from the Royal Society's committee. Later, for just over two years, 1733- 35, Martin took his family on a tour of Germany and Italy. They spent some time in Venice, Rome and Florence. Martin developed an interest in antiquities, but in Rome his wife, Lucretia, ‘grew religiously mad’, to the extent that, on their return to England, she was confined to a lunatic asylum. From notes made on his tour, Martin was able to write a dissertation on ancient coins, and to publish other papers on subjects such as Roman columns. But he kept up an interest in scientific subjects, and with his friends in the Royal Society. In 1739, he and his son visited France, to see the Academies there, and to make further contacts. When, in 1741, Sloane resigned his position as president of the Royal Society for health reasons, Martin Folkes was unanimously chosen to succeed him. In 1742, he was elected a foreign fellow of the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris, and various other honours followed. He was also President of the Society of Antiquaries, and gained for that body a charter from the king in 1751, after which its members could be called fellows. In his later years, his health gradually failed, and he requested that his papers should be destroyed, and this was done after his death in 1754. Among his bequests was an annuity for his wife. 64 During his lifetime, he gave Clare a fine pair of candlesticks. The portrait, a copy of the Hogarth original (1741), was given by the Revd H J Carter in 1895. (see page 44)

Thomas Woodroofe (1750 – 1817) 3, 5 We have remarkably little detailed information about this alumnus. He was admitted sizar in 1765, and became a scholar in his progress to BA in 1770, and MA three years later. Thomas was elected a Fellow in 1770, ordained deacon in 1773, and priest in the following year. He is recorded as being Rector of Ockley (Surrey), 1784–1817, and of Oving (Sussex), 1799–1814, and twice married. The portrait (see page 44) is dated as 1770, the year he became a Fellow, but the painter is unknown. It was bought by the College in 1934, and presumably shows the fashion of a Fellow in Georgian times.

William Loudon Mollison (1851-1929) 4, 5 William Mollison was born at Aberdeen in 1851. He came to Clare in 1872 with a Ferguson Scholarship from the University of Aberdeen. In the next year he won a Foundation Scholarship at Clare, and in the Tripos of 1876 graduated as Second Wrangler and Second Smith’s Prizeman. He was immediately elected to a Fellowship, and became a remarkably successful ‘coach’ in Mathematics. However, the strain of teaching large numbers of pupils was too much for his health. He was glad to devote himself entirely to college work on his appointment as Junior Tutor in 1880. Two years later, he succeeded Rendel Harris as Mathematical Lecturer. In 1894, he became Senior Tutor at Clare on the death of the incumbent. During all these years his energy, vigour and business capacity were ungrudgingly devoted to the service of the College. His election to the Council of the Senate in 1892 showed that these qualities were appreciated in the University generally. He had a unique knowledge of University statutes and regulations, and he became the confidential adviser of more than one Vice-

65 Chancellor. In 1904, he was made Secretary to the General Board of Studies. On the death, in 1915, of Dr Atkinson, who had been Master of Clare for nearly sixty years, Mollison was unanimously elected to succeed him. But the mastership came to him (to use his own words) ‘ten years too late’. The thirty five years of tutorial work had made heavy demands on one who was never robust. He was greatly troubled by persistent insomnia, which nothing seemed to relieve. The death of his wife in 1917 was a blow from which he never fully recovered. She had been his guide and counsellor – an adviser whose judgement he trusted implicitly. He resigned his seat on the Council and other outside appointments, though he continued to take a keen interest in the welfare of the College, and in the progress of the War Memorial Court, which was solemnly dedicated by the Visitor (Lord Balfour) on Armistice Day, 1924. The Master’s last public appearance was at the Sexcentenary Celebration in 1926, when the College entertained Princess Mary, Lord Lascelles and many old Clare men who came up for the festivities. Already his health was failing, and in 1928 he became seriously unwell and, by doctor’s orders, left Cambridge in October. Early in 1929, he was moved to a Nursing Home, where he died, peacefully in his sleep, on the 10th of March. After a funeral service in Clare Chapel, he was laid to rest, beside his wife, in St. Giles’ cemetery. The portrait, by Henry Lamb, R.A., was commissioned by the College in 1926. (see page 45)

The published obituary continues:- William Mollison was much more than a mathematician: at Aberdeen he had acquired a fair knowledge of Greek and Latin, and a love of literature which he never lost. He was a student of history, especially political history, and of natural science. The best poetry was an unfailing delight to him, Keats, Browning and Matthew Arnold being his favourites among the moderns; and he enjoyed a 66 good novel. His pupils had been known to say that, when they discussed with him the subject they were studying, they found that the Tutor knew more about it than they did. In many ways he was the ideal Tutor; he would not tolerate serious breaches of College discipline, and the undergraduates respected his authority. At the same time, they realised that he was always ready with counsel and sympathy in their difficulties and troubles. He knew his men thoroughly, and followed their careers, both at Cambridge and afterwards, with kindly interest. It added to his influence that he was eager for the success of the College at football, cricket and on the river. One of the last questions he asked as he lay dying was ‘How has the Clare boat fared in the Lent Races?’. He was greatly cheered by the news that it had made four bumps. Under him, Clare grew steadily in numbers and reputation. Many generations of Clare men remembered gratefully his work as Tutor. After the War, in which 200 of his pupils laid down their lives, he seemed to lose something of his old vigour and alertness, and to take a rather pessimistic view of the world. But he never wavered in his love for Clare, nor in his desire to promote what he believed to be its best interests.

References: 1. A very full description is often available in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford Univ. Press), and this has been the principal source of information in most of these sketches. 2. Clare College 1326 - 1926, ed. M Forbes (2 Vols). 3. Alumni Cantabrigienses by J & J.A. Venn (2 Parts). 4. Clare Association Annual published with Lady Clare Magazine 1929. 5. Comments about the paintings are drawn from a catalogue by J.W. Goodison (Cambridge Antiquarian Records Society, 1985).

Peter Knewstubb (1950)

67 THE MASTER’S MESSAGE

This year was overshadowed by the tragic death of a final year- student, Rebecca Chamberlin, on the eve of the Easter Term. A hugely talented and popular student of English, Rebecca was a vital force in the College: former president of the Christian Union, member of the May Ball Committee, and cox of the College First VIII. She was killed in a car accident on the way to the Boat Club training camp at Marlow. It is difficult to convey the sense of loss and shock in the College and one could not fail to be impressed by the bravery of her family and friends and the support that members of the College community showed each other through a very difficult term. Rebecca will be remembered in our hearts but also in a boat named after her and in a beautiful bench that will be part of the re-designed garden in the Colony. It was also the year that, in the fiftieth anniversary of his election to a Fellowship, we lost Don Holister. Don was the College’s first Domestic Bursar and the college’s first Fellow in Architecture. Over the years with Brian Cooper, and later Brian Smale-Adams, as Bursar, Don was responsible more than anyone for the development and maintenance of the college buildings – both an aesthetic and a practical task. He was deeply involved in the setting up of Clare Hall. However, primarily we remember him as a deeply courteous and caring man who was loved by many in the College and who will be sorely missed by all members of the Clare community. The establishment of Clare Hall was one of three decisions during Eric Ashby’s Mastership that defined the modern College. The other two decisions were linked and were the two most important decisions taken by the College in the twentieth century. The first was the switch to a meritocratic admissions policy – to seek out the best students irrespective of school and class background. The second complementary decision was to admit the best students irrespective of gender. This year marked the 40th anniversary of the admission of women to Clare. That decision 68 improved the College’s academic results, the intellectual distinction of the Fellowship and profoundly shaped the atmosphere of the College. The presence of the highest proportion of female Fellows in a previously male college has, I believe, significantly improved the rationality of the decision-making and the ordering of priorities in Clare. I note that we have had two outstanding female senior tutors in Polly O’Hanlon and Patricia Fara, but also that, during my time as Master, we have had no female president of the Union of Clare Students. In this coming year I am delighted that the College will be able to send a student to the Athena Global Leadership Institute at Barnard College in New York, which brings together aspiring young female leaders from the around the globe. This will be the latest in a number of remarkable international opportunities for our students thanks to the generosity of members of the College: for example, internships and research opportunities at James Watson’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, with Mark Poznansky at Massachusetts General Hospital and, last summer for the first time, Babak Javid’s laboratory at Tsinghua University in Beijing. It was a great personal pleasure to have the opportunity to meet so many members of the College in Australia in the summer when the choir toured with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. The tour was a remarkable success for Graham Ross and the choir: selling out the Sydney Opera House twice, playing to over 20,000 people in all, and singing with an internationally acclaimed orchestra and soloists. The performance of Beethoven’s 9th was voted by Limelight magazine as the best orchestral concert of the year in Australia. We owe a huge debt to Daryl Dixon for making that tour happen. Finally, for all our fears of the impact of large fees on the numbers of students applying to University and on the deterrent effect on students from less advantaged backgrounds, I can report that applications this year to Clare went up by 10%. Seventy per cent of the home students admitted this October came from the state sector. I am also pleased to report that out finalists topped the 69 university in their exam results and the Natural Scientists did particularly well. None of this success would be possible without the support of our members. It is that support that makes being Master of Clare such a privilege.

THE CLARE ASSOCIATION REPORT OF THE ALUMNI COUNCIL 2012 The Alumni Council comprises: Chairman: The Master, as President Deputy Chairman: Dr Ian Hill OBE (1966) Secretary of the Association: Dr David Hartley (1956) Editor of the Clare Association Annual: Dr Peter Knewstubb (1950) Development Director: Ms Francisca Malarée Year Group Representatives and representatives of the Boat Club and Friends of Clare Music; Union of Clare Students and Middle Combination Room representatives

The constitution of the Alumni Association requires the Alumni Council to publish an annual report of the Association’s activities. This is the eighth such report since the Association was reformed and the Council established in 2005. The Alumni Council has two committees: the Annual Fund Committee, which advises on fund-raising for the annual fund, and the Events Committee, which advises on the programme of events organised for the benefit of alumni. The Council and its committees conduct most of their business through electronic mail, the Council itself meeting once a year and the committees twice a year. In 2012, the Annual Fund had raised £320,000 targeted at undergraduate and postgraduate student support and College teaching, and the focus for 2013 would also include the refurbishment of Old Court and the College endowment. The Events Committee reviewed the growing diversity of alumni events which now include reunion and other special dinners, dinners and reunions held abroad and specialised visits such as to sporting and

70 other relevant venues. The Committee paid particular attention to how to encourage year group representatives and other alumni to organise events in regional and international localities. The Council established the annual Alumnus of the Year Award in 2009, and has announced that the recipient in 2013 will be Jonathan Lane OBE (1976). The winner has custody of a bronze sculpture made by Clare alumna Ms Angie Harlock-Wilkinson, and is also invited to address the Half-Way dinner attended by second- year students. A major item for discussion by the Council was the new development strategy which looks forward to the College’s 700th anniversary in 2026. This will involve a campaign to raise £50 million to fund a range of new initiatives, engaging the combined efforts of the fellowship and alumni. Finally, the Council reviewed its own way of working. It has followed a practice of holding its meeting in December, and this is now considered both inflexible and increasingly inconvenient for members. It was decided to move the meeting to late September to enable a fuller day of meetings and discussion groups. The next meeting will therefore be held on Saturday, 21 September 2013. David Hartley (1956)

THE LADY CLARE FUND

Council of the Lady Clare Fund Chairman: The Master College Members: Dr. Ken Riley, Prof Tim Smiley, Mr.Colin Turpin, Prof Alison Sinclair Members elected to represent the Association: Dr. Gordon Wright, Dr Paul Austin, Dr. Michael Bown, Ms. Elisabeth Marksteiner Hon. Secretary: Mr. Colin Turpin Hon. Treasurer: Dr. Michael Bown

The Lady Clare Fund was founded in 1934 by members of the Clare Association to provide help on a strictly confidential basis to 71 alumni of the College, or their dependants, who find themselves in financial difficulties. 'Dependants' include those of deceased members. Need may arise through old age, ill health, widowhood or natural disabilities; temporary help may be needed with completion of professional training or with expenses arising from taking up new work, perhaps following redundancy. These latter may be met by short-term loans. For the Fund to carry on its work effectively, continuing support from donations and bequests is needed. Contributions should be sent to the Honorary Treasurer, Dr M.G. Bown, at Clare College. The Fund is a registered Charity and reports annually to the Charity Commissioners. Donations from UK taxpayers may be enhanced by Gift Aid, as for donations to Clare (see page 37) The Fund’s income comes from dividends and donations, and of course from the repayment of loans. There is no financial support from the College as such. Our dividend income has been significantly reduced, and despite a steady level of donations we have perforce been less generous than formerly with grants and loans. This year we made grants totalling £4,500 to three qualified applicants, one to help recover his career after a business failure, the others to help them in starting their careers. Loans in total £2,750 went mostly to a man after a business failure, with some hope of recovery. Our financial position will be improved, if and when more of the outstanding loans can be repaid. There has been some improvement, but the total owed is still about 6 times the annual revenue. By its reports in last year's Clare Association Annual, and through the Clare News, the Fund has informed past members about how to apply for financial help. Despite the above figures the Fund's finances still allow us to offer financial assistance, in cases of real need, consistently with the aims of the Charity. Applications may be made to the Honorary Secretary, Mr C.C. Turpin, Clare College or to the Master or one of the Tutors. Anyone who thinks

72 that another alumnus or a dependant of one may be in need of help is asked to get in touch with one of these.

‘OLD CLARE’ NEWS

1927 William Scott Morton—has died, aged 103, probably the oldest alumnus at this time; see obituaries.

1928

1929 Terence V.H.Coffey—news reaches us of his death, ‘a few years ago’.

1930 P.Noel Hartley—reached his 100th birthday on 12.12.2011, and was interviewed for Clare News 29, plus a photo. Now news reaches us of his death on 12.4.2012, aged 100.

1931

1932 Garth L.Doubleday—news reaches us of his death on 26.9.2012, aged 99. He read Agriculture. Maurice Pettitt (The Rev’d)—news reaches us of his death on 11.4.2012, aged 98.

1933 Paul E.Queneau—we have news of his death, after a brief bout of ‘flu, at the age of 101; see obituaries.

1934 Derrick N.Lawley—news reaches us of his death on 27.2.2012; he read Mathematics; see obituaries. 73

1935 Anthony T.Chapman-Purchas—sadly, news reaches us of his death on 20.9.2012; he was aged 96, and seemed to have outlived all his close Cambridge contemporaries.

1936

1937

1938 Donal R.Barnes—news reaches us of his death on 7.8.2012, aged 94. Arthur Terence Lecky—we hear that he ‘passed away’ on 16.11.2012, aged 93; he read Modern & Medieval Languages. Donald W.O’Connell—news reaches us of his death on 10.10.2012; he read Economics.

1939 Anthony R,Buckley—news reaches us of his death on 21.9.2012. Arthur Park--news reaches us of his death on 10.10.2012; he read Mechanical Sciences.

1940 Patrick I.J.K.Sparrow—news reaches us of his death on 26.5.2012; he read Mechanical Sciences.

1941 Ian M.D.Potter—news reaches us of his death on 24.7.2012; he read Mechanical Sciences. James G.(Tim) Tatham—news reaches us of his death in June 2012, aged88; he read Engineering Sciences.

74 1942 year representative: Mr Alan Swindells Graham B.S.Chase—news reaches us in September 2012 of his passing away ‘recently’. J.A.(Tony) Farrer-Halls—news reaches us of his death in Devon, peacefully in his bed after a long struggle with failing health, on 17.4.2012. Michael E.F.Howarth—news reaches us of his death on 16.7.2012, aged 88; see obituaries. A.A. (Alec) Robinson—news reaches us that he died on 4.11.2012, after a fall in the garden, when he was collecting apples; see obituaries. Thomas F.Stanton—news reaches us of his death on 9.7.2012; he came to Clare from Repton, and read Natural Sciences. Charles K.M.Stewart—news reaches us that he died in August 2012; he read Agriculture. P.F.T.C.Stillwell—news reaches us of his death on 11.1.2012, aged 87; he read Natural Sciences and Chemical Engineering.

1943 year representative: Mr John Appleton Arthur P.A.Cargill—came here on a Naval Short Course in 1943; news now reaches us of his death on 5.2.2012. Peter R.Doidge—news reaches us of his death on 11.3.2012, aged 85. Harry M.Fairhurst—news reaches us of his death on 17.10.2011; he was the elder brother of Ian Fairhurst (1948), whose death was noted, with an obituary, in the last issue of the Annual. See obituaries for an appreciation of Harry Fairhurst. Anthony McClellan—(CBE); news reaches us of his death, aged 86, on 8.4.2012. Kenneth R.Wallace—news reaches us of his death on 8.12.2011; he read for Medicine.

1944 year representative: Anthony W.Furse—news reaches us of his death. He contributed a note of encouragement to the Annual just two years ago. 75

1945 year representative: Gordon Homer Evans—news reaches us of his death on 4.3.2011, aged 83; he read Natural Sciences. C.B.H.Gill—news reaches us of his death on 7.3.2012, aged 84; he read Law. Derek R.D.Gransden—news reaches us of his death on 15.2.2012, aged 84; he read Chemical Engineering. Roger N.Hilton—news reaches us of his death on 20.6.2012; see obituaries. W.(Bill) Johnson—news reaches us of his death on 17.10.2012; he read Physics.

1946 year representative: Dr Michael Bown B.A. (Bernie) Abeywickrama—news reaches us of his death in Sri Lanka on 3.5.2011; see obituaries. John W.Glen—in the summer of 2010, was interviewed by someone from the British Library for their programme National Life Stories: an Oral History of British Science. Lintorn T.Highett—his death was noted in the last issue; now see obituaries. William D.Oxenham—news reaches us of his death, aged 84, on 8.2.2012.

1947 year representative: Dr Duncan Poore Derek A.L.Paul—participated as a panelist on New Economics, in Ottawa, at a symposium hosted by the Canadian Association of the Club of Rome, October 2011.

1948 year representative: David W.Atkinson—news reaches us of his death on 27.10.2012, aged 86.

76 1949 year representative: Mr Andrew Stuart CMG John M.Attenborough—news reaches that he passed away on 9.11.2012; he read Modern Languages, and was the younger brother of Sir David Attenborough. James C. McVeigh—news reaches us of his death.

1950 year representative: Prof Alan Gillett OBE DSc The Rev’d David P.Brewster—news reaches us of his death in September 2012. John G.Marks—news reaches us of his death on 31.10.2012. Frank A.Ruhemann—news reaches us of his death on 24.1.2012, aged 81.

1951 year representative: Mr Dermot Hoare William (Bill) G.Shepard—news reaches us of his passing away on 12.9.2012; he is survived by his wife, Etel; see obituaries.

1952 year representative: Dr John Owen MBE David C.Knight—news reaches us of his death on 12.2.2012; he read biochemistry, and also was ordained in the Church. G.M.H. (Martin) Murphy—has recently had two books published in Spain, under titles Ingleses de Sevilla (2012) and El Ensueno de la razon: la vida de Blanco White (2011). K.W.(Bill) Wedderburn—(Fellow, and Hon Fellow), died peacefully at home on 9.3.2012; see obituary on page 11. Robert B.Woodd-Walker—news reaches us of his death on 15.12.2011; he came to Clare from Rugby, and read for Medicine.

1953 year representative: Mr David Kirkman Donald C.M.Corbett--news reaches us of his death on 23.11.2012; he read Agricultural Science. Simon Whitmore—news reaches us of his death on 4.6.2012, aged 79; he read Law.

77 1954 year representative: Mr Michael Woods Jonathan D.Bird—news reaches us of his death, aged 78, on 7.5.2012; he read Law. Peter J.D.Marshall—news reaches us of his death on 9.6.2012, aged 78; he was noted as a Yorkshire philanthropist; see obituaries. Timothy (Tim) J.Rix—news reaches us of his death on 8.11.2012, aged 78; see obituaries.

1955 year representative: Mr Michael Sullivan A.G.Munro (Sir Alan)--for an extended review of his diplomatic career see Clare News 30.

1956 year representative: Mr Stephen Jackobi OBE Edward St J.Brice—‘died peacefully in his sleep on 29.7.2011, after a short illness’; see obituaries. Michael G.Downey—news reaches us of his death.

1957 year representative: Mr Ruscombe Westmacott

1958 year representative: The Rt Hon. the Lord Hacking Paul Grundy--news reaches us of his death in January 2013; he was an Emeritus Prof. in Structural Engineering. William S.Woolcock—news reaches us of his death on 16.9.2012.

1959 year representative: Mr Brian Hughes Brian G.Odell—news reaches us of his death; see obituaries.

1960 year representative: Mr John Biggs A.Jonathan (Jon) P.Jackson—news reaches us of his death on 29.12.2011; see obituaries.

1961 year representative: Prof Hugh Macmillan, Mr Robert Wootton

78 1962 year representative: Mr John Naylor OBE, Mr Charles Wright Anthony Barker—(QC); news reaches us of his death in March 2011. F.D. (Don) Holister—(Fellow); we record his death on 10.8.2012; see the tribute on page 6.

1963 year representative: Dr P K Chatterji, Mr John Clare Brian T.Colvin--awarded a Queen’s Medal by Queen Mary College, Univ. of London ‘for an exceptional and sustained contribution over many years’; for more comment and a photo see Clare News 30. Nicholas M.Keen—news reaches us of his death on 1.7.2012, aged 66.

1964 year representative: Col. Colin Heggie Ronald D.Parkinson—news reaches us that he ‘passed away’ in November 2012; he read Architecture and Fine Art; see obituaries.

1965 year representative: The Rev’d Roger Stoakes Richard P.L.Beauchamp—news reaches us of his death, aged 64, on 1.10.2011; he read Mechanical sciences.

1966 year representative: Mr Norman Dawson

1967 year representative: Mr John Speed Michael Kinghan--awarded the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list ‘for services to sustainability and biodiversity in Staffordshire and the West Midlands’. Stephen B.Rofe—news reaches us of his death on 21.2.2012.

1968 year representative: Dr Laurence Gerlis

1969 year representative: Mr Mohammed Amin 79 Malcolm Adams—news reaches us that he passed away on 2.1.2013, aged 62 years. He was Prof. of Clinical Psychology at the Univ. of East Anglia. A.C.S.Allan (Sir Alex)—created KCB in the New Year’s Honours List.

1970 year representative: Brig. Rod Croucher CBE

1971 year representative: Mr Peter Jones TD M.J. (Sir Mark) Walport—(recently elected an Hon Fellow at Clare) has been selected as the Government’s next Chief Scientific Adviser, from April 2013.

1972 year representative: Mr Nigel Puttick Paul C.Austin—news reaches us of his death on 13.10.2012; Paul's funeral was held in Cambridge UK on Oct 25. A Memorial Service was held at St Andrews-on-the-Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand, on Dec 22.

1973 year representative: Lady Jackson, Mr Andrew Stott Sophie C.Hamilton—became a senior partner in the law firm Forsters from 2001-08 – one of the few women to occupy that role in a leading West End firm. Sadly, she died in November 2012, aged 57; see obituaries.

1974 year representative: Ms Yvonne Jerrold Kathryn A.Foster (née Johnson)—news reaches us of her death about three years ago. Judith A.Newman--awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list ‘for services to scholarship’; Judith is Prof. of American Studies at the Univ. of Nottingham. G.F. (Fred) Parker—(Fellow); awarded a University Pilkington Prize for teaching.

1975 year representative: Dr David Livesley 80

1976 year representative: Dr Antony Socrates Jonathan W.M.Lane—(OBE) elected through the Alumni Council as Alumnus of the Year for 2013. Jon began his career with the charity Water Aid, where he applied his skills as a civil engineer to help people in developing countries secure ready access to clean water. He went on in this, to become Executive Director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Council at his retirement in 2012. Eric Perkins—news reaches us of his death on 31.3.2011.

1977 year representative: Mr Harvey Brough, Mrs Jocelyn Miles Andrew W.Sentance—appointed CBE in the New Year’s Honours List.

1978 year representative: Mrs Maxine Taylor

1979 year representative: Dr Choon Joo Kho Alice Welbourn—was elected as Clare’s Alumna of the Year for 2012. She spoke movingly to the second-year students at their Halfway Hall dinner in February on awareness of AIDS, and on her personal involvement in the syndrome. See Clare News 29 for a complete account of her talk.

1980 year representative: Mr Dominic Haigh Philip J.Greenwood—news reaches us of his death in 2012; he read Engineering.

1981 year representative: Dr David Smith, Mr Anthony Davis

1982 year representative: Miss Clare Gough Paul Klenerman—now Professor of Immunology at Oxford, and seeking vaccines for hepatitis C. For a career survey and a

81 current picture, see Clare News 29, where it is also recalled that, in 1984, Paul fenced for the British Olympic team at Los Angeles.

1983 year representative: Marian B.Holness—shared, with one other, the Sedgwick Prize 2012 for an essay in Geology or a related topic.

1984 year representative: Mr Robert Damms

1985 year representative: Ms Elisabeth Marksteiner

1986 year representative: Dr Ratul Roy

1987 year representative: Ms Miranda Fyfe

1988 year representative: Ms Sophie Palmer Neil C.Greenham—awarded the Kavli Medal of the Royal Society, and will deliver the linked Lecture on 17.4.2013.

1989 year representative: Mr Benjamin Rigby Paula R.Daniels (Dr Harrison)—news reaches us of her death, after a short illness, on 20.9.2012, aged 41; see obituaries.

1990 year representative: Dr Matt Walpole Emma-Jane Carter (née Little)—news reaches us of her death on 13.8.2012, aged 41; see obituaries.

1991 year representative: Ms Kirstin Green

1992 year representative: Mr Christopher Withers

1993 year representative: Miss Melanie Gerlis, Ms Sally Hotchkin

82 1994 year representative: Ms Jessica Spence, Dr Anna Dempster

1995 year representative: Mrs Anna Forrest

1996 year representative: Miss Emily Benson

1997 year representative: Mr Ashish Gupta

1998 year representative: Mr Stuart Middleton

1999 year representative: Dr Richard Flower

2000 year representative: Mrs Simone Münich Jacqueline Rose--has won the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize, awarded to the best book on British history by a debut writer. For more, see Clare News 30.

2001 year representative: Mr Richard Eyre Harriet Muller—is pursuing a very successful career as an artist, and is now living in Bournemouth. She is said to be open to commissions. For more, with a current picture of her, see Clare News 29.

2002 year representative: Dr Richard Haddon

2003 year representative: Mr Joshua Alexander

2004 year representative: Mr Michael Malley

2005 year representative: Mr Johnny Langridge, Miss Imogen Begg

2006 year representative: Miss Yuelin Li

83 2007 year representative: Mr Stuart Sheppard Jutta Wellmann—a PhD student who died, after a short and sudden illness, on 4.9.2011, aged 28. She had been a researcher at the Gurdon Institute.

2008 year representative: Amy Buchanan-Hughes--instead of pursuing a PhD study, as first intended, she founded a charity called TASTE for Science, and will be spending the next four years teaching science in Uganda; for more see Clare News 30. Tillmann Taape—awarded the Lipton Prize for the best overall performance in Part III of History and Philosophy of Science.

2009 year representative: Mr William Wynell-Mayow Rebecca J.Chamberlin—a third-year student, who tragically died in a car accident on 19.4.2012; see the Master’s Notes for further information. Maximillian Evans—awarded the Falcon Chambers Prize for Land Law. Theodor Kung—awarded the Donald Wort Prize for the highest mark in a musical recital. Anne Turberfield—spent nine weeks at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, as the first recipient from Clare of a J.D.Watson Scholarship, on which she was congratulated in last year’s issue of the Annual. For more, see Clare News 29.

2010 year representative: Alexandra Batchelor--was elected J.D.Watson scholar for 2012, and spent ten weeks of the summer at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; for more, see Clare News 30. William Cole—is congratulated on winning the Clare College Chamber Music Composition Competition; his trio for clarinet, violin and ‘cello will be premièred by three Clare musicians on Sunday the 4th of March in Clare College Chapel.

84 In November 2012, William was also declared the winner of the Carol Composition, with a setting of Rorate caeli which ‘showed great imagination and skill’. His carol will be premièred in the Advent Carol service. Tom Ingleby—awarded the Wiltshire Prize for the sciences of Geology and Mineralogy, and also the Mapping Scholarship of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain.

2011 year representative: Damian Platt—a graduate seeking a Master’s degree studying International Relations, was awarded the MBE for his previous work in the favelas, or shanty towns, of Rio de Janiero; he received the award at Buckingham Palace in December 2011.

85 OBITUARIES

BARTHOLOMEUSZ ARISTIDES ABEYWICKRAMA, a botanist from Sri Lanka, died on 3.5.2011 at the age of 91. He was educated in Ceylon (as it then was called), and distinguished himself academically at Royal College, Colombo, before entering the University of Ceylon, Colombo, in 1937. A scholarly achievement of his schooldays was a precursor to his later life. The school he was attending offered a prize in ‘Christian knowledge’. Though Bernie (as he was familiarly known) was, and remained, a devout Buddhist all through his life, he decided this was interesting, took up the challenge of studying this religion and won the prize. His studies at the University gained him an external BSc degree of the University of London in 1941. He was appointed an Assistant Demonstrator in Botany at the University College, Colombo in 1942. He was then awarded a Government Science Scholarship for research on temperate woodlands, which brought him to Clare in 1946. Bernie very much enjoyed this period, which included going on his bicycle to his locations of research. He obtained his PhD in 1949 for his thesis A Study of the Variations in the Field Layer Vegetations of Two Cambridgeshire Woods and returned to the University of Ceylon to take up an appointment as Lecturer. He was appointed Professor of Botany in 1965. His services were then much sought after, until he retired in 1985, being appointed Emeritus Professor and receiving an Honorary degree of DSc. He also had the signal honour of being appointed as the first Vice-Chancellor of the (amalgamated) University of Sri Lanka. While he enjoyed all he set his mind to, he took particular satisfaction in his assignment as member of the UNESCO Advisory

86 Committee to the Director-General on Humid Tropics Research (1959-1964). His contribution to the revision of Trimen’s Flora of Ceylon is another of the scientific works for which he will be remembered, both locally and internationally. A noteworthy incident occurred during his term on the first Board of the Central Environmental Authority. At a Board Meeting it was reported that the waters of the Beira Lake had turned green and that the Prime Minister, Ranasinghe Premadasa, (under whom the CEA functioned) had been advised that an industrial establishment had been dumping green paint into the lake. Professor Abeywickrama looked thoughtful on hearing this, asked for a sample to examine under a microscope and established that it was a case of eutrophication by minute algae and other micro- organisms due to pollution of the lake. The Police, for one, were extremely grateful for this information since they were being pressed from above to apprehend those who were guilty of dumping green paint into the lake. Another aspect during his service on the Board of the CEA was his battle against a poorly-conducted ‘Forestry Master Plan’. The country owes a considerable debt of gratitude to Professor Abeywickrama for his selfless and protracted exertions on this matter against much opposition. If that Master Plan had gone through in its original form, it would have been disastrous for the forests of his country.

EDWARD St JOHN BRICE died ‘peacefully in his sleep’ on 29.7.2011, after a short illness. His father, Walter Brice, was at Clare in the years 1929-32. Edward was educated at Tonbridge School, where he was noted for his playing in cricket and Rugby, and was Head Boy in 1954. Before going to Cambridge, he was commissioned in The Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs), in 1955.

87 He came to Clare in 1956 to read Law and Economics, and also played Cricket and Rugby for the College. After graduation, Edward returned to Kent to run the family farm, but really devoted most of this life to working for the County of Kent. He was a Kent County Councillor, Warden of Rochester Bridge Trust, Governor of East Malling Research Station, Chairman of Kent County Agricultural Society and Chairman of Governors at his old school, Tonbridge. Besides all these, he was appointed High Sheriff of Kent and Deputy Lieutenant of Kent, and was Master of the Skinners Company in London 1990-91 and also Director of Weald Granary. Edward was a keen sportsman, but particularly in golf; he was a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and Captain of several Golf Clubs and Societies. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, a son and a daughter and five grand-daughters.

EMMA-JANE CARTER (née LITTLE) was diagnosed as having stomach cancer at the age of just 41. She came to Clare in 1990, read Modern and Medieval Languages (German and Russian), and was a choral scholar. She made many friends, and the news of her death will be a surprise to many of them, as she did not publicise the fact of her cancer. The illness was discovered in December 2010, when their youngest child was only six months old, and she none the less enjoyed pressing on, establishing with Martin a lovely home with a settled routine of school and other activities for all three children. She dwelt on making things normal, as far as possible, and even began learning the violin in the 18 months of her illness. From early July 2012, Emma was in Cheltenham Hospital and well attended in a quiet and comfortable room. She was able to enjoy watching the Olympic Games transmissions, notably the men’s tennis final, and appreciated the flowers and visits from family and a few friends. 88 A website at www.martinandemma.com/emma/index has a few more details; she died peacefully in her sleep on 13.8.2012.

HARRY MARSHALL FAIRHURST, OBE, MA (Cambridge and Manchester), Dip.Arch., FRIBA, FUMIST, architect, died on 17th October 2011. He was the eldest of three brothers, all at Clare; Ian and Alan pre-deceased him. Towards the end of wartime days at Clifton College (evacuated to Bude), Harry had an interview at the War Office to determine fitness, as his hearing had deteriorated following live firing exercises. It was suggested that, while he might get into the Pay Corps or the Pioneers, he should rather go to university and learn something that would be useful after the war; Cambridge and architecture it would be. Harry came to Clare in 1943, and Henry Thirkill, the Master, evidently made an early impression at a drinks party for ‘freshers’, in saying “Gentlemen, I shall only presume to give you one piece of advice; pay cash.” Harry applied himself with a will at the school of architecture on Scroope Terrace. He lived for two years in Memorial Court and was part of the college fire brigade; wartime duties included washing up in the college kitchens. A profoundly public-spirited man, he had an enduring regard for those that fought, and for the sort of country to which they came back. From Cambridge he took his Architecture Diploma at North London Polytechnic, obtaining experience of practice with Louis de Soissons. In 1949 he joined his father at the family firm in Manchester, Harry S. Fairhurst and Sons, (later Fairhursts and now Fairhurst Design Group), becoming a partner in 1950. He entered private practice in 1981. His professional life was in two parts: early work was in industrial and technical buildings, including Manchester’s medical school; in private practice he focused on conservation, especially work with churches and cathedrals.

89 Among his early works were the Shirley Institute in Manchester and buildings for Reckitts, and work for ICI in Alderley Park began in 1952. The firm also built much of Christie Hospital, a pioneering centre of excellence for cancer treatment. Harry enjoyed working for research, visiting hospitals in Scandinavia, laboratories in North America. There was a long association with the Manchester Guardian buildings, ending only with their decision to relocate to London. On a domestic scale, he found time to design some ingenious conversions of old buildings into new homes. Harry understood how the imaginative use of materials affects the cityscape and public perception, not just the buildings concerned. He encouraged and employed many working in the applied arts. He commissioned sculpture from Lynn Chadwick, notably the Manchester Sun (1963) for the university. Stained glass artist and sculptor Tony Hollaway installed a major work on the chemistry building in 1964. Harry worked again with Hollaway from the 1970s to commission Manchester Cathedral’s beautiful expressionist stained glass windows in the west wall: Genesis, Mary, Denys, George and Revelation. Harry was Manchester Cathedral’s architect from 1970 to 1990. His care for it, from vestments to masonry, was meticulous and imaginative; it set standards in intelligent conservation for future generations. Interested in acoustics and musicianship despite his deafness, he supported Nicolas Kynaston’s proposals for a new organ in the cathedral, believing that an instrument modest in scale and better sited would be desirable. Probably, Harry would regret that a much more ambitious scheme has since been approved. He carried out quinquennial inspections of churches and supervised grant-assisted work to repair historic buildings on behalf of the Ministry of Works. In 1991 English Heritage commissioned him to survey all English cathedrals; he re-surveyed several years later. In retirement he helped to establish the register of Architects Accredited in Building Conservation and was a familiar face as he

90 continued to supervise grant-aided work all over the country. Ever courteous on site, he was always attentive to the needs and value of experts and good craftsmen; he celebrated good stewardship. Among various offices, he was founding chairman of the Cathedral Architects Association, former Chairman of the Redundant Churches Uses Committee, and served as President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. He took a close interest in local affairs, charities for children, forestry, gardening, the Portico Library, the 20th Century Society and the Manchester Art Gallery. He was awarded a Civic Trust medal for Holt House; an honorary degree from Manchester; fellowships of RIBA and UMIST; an OBE for services to architecture. Once he finally retired he received a Maundy purse from the Queen (who was also 80 years old), at Manchester Cathedral in 2005. Harry is survived by his wife Elizabeth and their children Kate, Rachel, Philippa and Tim.

SOPHIE CHARLOTTE HAMILTON, a talented lawyer, died after ‘a short and dreadful illness, borne with her customary patience and fortitude’, on 19.10.2012, aged 57. She was educated at St Mary’s Calne, Marlborough, and came to Clare in 1973, the second year of admitting women undergraduates. Of course, she read Law. She joined the law firm Frere Cholmeley in 1977, and rapidly made her mark as a commercial property solicitor, becoming a partner in 1985. Her ability to give lucid advice on complex matters made her a much sought after adviser. Theatre was one of her particular interests, and when the company ‘Cheek by Jowl’ was formed in 1981 she gave good

91 advice. Not only that, but she remained on its board as adviser, director and, later, chairman. The firm Frere Cholmeley prospered and grew, and eventually a small group of partners, including Sophie, broke away in 1998 to found a new firm called Forster’s. This was a small firm specialising in real estate and private wealth, which grew under her guidance. Sophie was noted also for her charitable work, unstintingly given, as in a trek to Machu Picchu to raise funds for Christian Aid. She held positions such a Governor of Nottingham Trent University, and was a Trustee of Church House. In these and many other connections, she will be sorely missed.

PAULA ROSAMUND HARRISON (née DANIELS), a very successful research worker in biochemistry, died on 18.9.2012, aged only 41. She came to Clare in 1989 to read Natural Sciences, and amongst other activities was a keen rower. She was in a Bumps crew who won ‘blades’. Paula’s PhD thesis (working in York) concerned the human papilloma virus, thought to cause cervical cancer. After this, she worked for a time with Pfizer, involved in identifying small molecules as potential drug candidates for a range of diseases. She married Richard Harrison in 2001, and moved to a senior scientist position with Cambridge Antibody Technology. She was a key inventor of the medicine Mavrilimumab, a human antibody designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis. The drug, now in clinical trials, targets and blocks a protein implicated in the inflammatory process.

92 Paula’s success in all her work led to her promotion to ‘team leader’ in 2005. As a result, she became responsible for leading many projects on drug screening for many respiratory and inflammatory diseases (e.g. asthma and rheumatoid arthritis). Success led to further promotion and a widening range of projects, bearing also on cancer, diabetes and various neurological diseases. The degree of success was all the more remarkable for her sharing of research time with raising a family, one child born in 2003 and the second in 2005. She was also a person of great energy, with many interests in sport and the local community, and herself playing piano and violin. Sometime in 2011, Paula was diagnosed with cardiac amyloidosis, usually considered rare in young people, in which there is an impediment to proper operation of the heart. She is survived by her husband, Richard, and their son and daughter.

LINTORN TREVOR HIGHETT, awarded the MC for courage in the war, has died at the age of 90, on 6.1.2012. He was just 18 when the war broke out, and we must guess that he finished his education at Bradfield College and offered himself for military service. The principal story told of his service sees him in the Dorsetshire Regiment, fighting in the Assam hills of north-eastern India in 1944. The military imperative was to retain control of the mountain roads, which would be, for an enemy, a strategic route to the Indian plain. The Allied garrison of the village of Kohima had been fighting for two weeks, in slit trenches, against relentless shelling. Descriptions of the scene are reminiscent of the first World War.

93 The Dorsetshires were given the task of taking control of the District Commissioner’s bungalow complex. This had a dominant position above the road, along which any tanks would have to travel. The Japanese were dug in to the steeply-terraced hillside, while the Dorsetshires, supported by the Royal Berkshire Regiment, counter-attacked. At one stage, each side held part of the bungalow’s garden, with a tennis court as a no-man’s-land between them. Hand grenades were being lobbed across like tennis balls. Captain Highett, in an armoured car, ran the gauntlet of mortar and artillery shelling, bringing food and ammunition to an isolated company until his vehicle was knocked out by a direct hit from a 75mm gun. After sappers bulldozed a track up the spur, a tank managed to climb up to the Dorset’s HQ and slide down onto the tennis court. Acting as liaison officer, Highett selected targets for further tanks that got through to the Dorset’s position. Firing over open sights, they wreaked havoc on the enemy’s defences, and the Japanese fled onto the waiting rifles of the Dorsets. For this, and other incidents demonstrating extreme bravery, Captain Highett was awarded the Military Cross in 1945. Lintorn Highett came to Clare in 1946, to an unusual situation. He was one of a large proportion of students five or six years older than the other ‘freshers’, and with a vastly wider experience of the world. He read Classics, and in Part I of the Tripos was noted for Distinction in Latin verse. In the post-war situation he was able to take his degree in two years, but in that time also got a Blue in tennis. After teaching in a prep school for a time, he was recruited into the intelligence services, with some postings in Africa. In 1961 he became a councillor for Clapham, on the London County Council, and later worked for the RAC as its director for roads. He retired to London, and remained active into old age with interests in tennis,

94 bridge and fell walking. In 1951 he married Jean Montagu, who survives him, with their son and two daughters.

ROGER NORMAN HILTON, mycologist, was born in Birmingham in 1927, and died peacefully in Perth, Western Australia, after heart failure on 20.6.2012. He was educated at Chigwell House Birmingham and Solihull Grammar School Warwickshire, and went on to read Natural Sciences at Clare College Cambridge, 1945-1948. Here he came under the influence of Harry Godwin, Humphrey Gilbert-Carter and E.J.H.Corner, previously Assistant Director of Singapore Botanic Gardens. Roger’s tendency to asceticism came easily in a 1940’s Clare College, with (some might say) its near monastic ethos, plus rationing even of bread, potatoes and coal, and no central heating to temper the easterly winds sweeping across the fens of East Anglia. Upon graduation he was appointed Plant Pathologist to the Rubber Research Institute of Malaya. He made a major contribution to the control of disease in rubber plantations in Malaya by the publication of his seminal Maladies of Hevea in Malaya (Rubber Research Institute, 1959), for which he commissioned a set of remarkable colour plates by Hoh Choo Chuan, printed by the Kynoch Press, Birmingham. In his review of the book S.D.Garrett wrote ‘The Rubber Research Institute of Malaya has led the world and has won a lasting place in the history of plant pathology: the mycologist will be no less in debt than the rubber planter to Mr Hilton for this admirable adjunct to his knowledge’. For a time during the Malayan Emergency, over the governing of Malaya after the War, Roger was seconded as Settlement Officer for the resettlement village of Semenyi, a key part of the Briggs Plan to deny manpower, money and food to the communist Chinese guerrillas. This was a difficult and at times dangerous task for him

95 and he was commended by the State of Selangor for his skill and tact in managing initially hostile squatters. He took a wide interest in Malayan life and in the establishment of Templer Park as a 1300 hectare forest reserve close to Kuala Lumpur. His monograph on The Basic Malay House was published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1956. He gave much support to the maverick editor of Young Malayans Richard Sidney, an ex-Headmaster of the Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur, recognising in him a fellow being who was not prepared to follow the herd without question. On Malayanisation of his post at the Rubber Research Institute in 1964, he was appointed as a Lecturer in Botany at the University of Western Australia, Perth, where his experiences in South-east Asia, and delight in its people’s culture, were reassuring to students from that region. He and his students made many advances in the knowledge of the fungus flora of Western Australia: his former students Neale Bougher and Katrina Syme acknowledged his inspiration and help in their land-mark book Fungi of Southern Australia, and he was instrumental in promoting the knowledge of the larger fungi to a wider public. As in Malaya, he quickly became part of the life and culture of his new country and took Australian Citizenship in 1989. He was a Volunteer Guide in King’s Park, Perth, showing parties round the extensive plant collections there. Visitors said that he sounded like David Attenborough: this was not surprising, as he followed him at Clare, taking the same Natural Sciences courses. After retirement he was for a time President of the Volunteer Guides. In 1992 he gained an honours Degree in South-east Asian Studies from Murdoch University. Overall, Roger’s very full life was devoted to education, in the tradition of his family of four generations of teachers. He is sadly missed by his wife Leila (nee Looesli), whom he married in 1967, and by his daughter Line and his son Willoughby. 96

MICHAEL EVELYN FRANK HOWARTH, born in 1924, has died on 16.7.2012. He came to Clare in 1942, and graduated in Physics in 1945. Michael joined the staff of the Research Laboratory at Kodak, based in Harrow, and establishment he served loyally until his retirement in 1984. He then moved, with his wife, Madeleine, to Colwall, a village between Ledbury and Malvern, where he enjoyed his years in retirement. He received regularly the Clare Association Annual and other Clare publications, which were, presumably, amongst his pleasures.

ANTHONY JONATHAN PENDLEBURY JACKSON was born in 1941, the son of a naval officer and an actress. At the age of 12, in Singapore, Jon (as he was usually called) contracted polio, which affected his whole life. It being before the days of effective vaccines, Jon completely lost the use of his left leg, and much of the capacity of the other. The next year, Jon was sent to Radley College and got on with his life in a purposeful and determined manner. Despite his disability, he pursued an interest in sport, which was a powerful influence. He became involved with the boxing team, as a ‘second’ and coach. His contribution was such that he was awarded his boxing ‘colours’, an unusual honour. However, he seemed to have serious difficulty in managing technical, mechanical or electrical things. This led to his attempt at taking part in rowing, as a cox, not being a real success. Jon’s school work went well, and he gained a life-long interest in geography. Jon came to Clare in 1960, and read Geography. After graduation, he moved to the USA, where he was involved in urban development in Atlanta, Georgia, and afterwards in Boston. He also spent some time in Canada, in the same line of work. By the 97 mid 1980’s, Jon’s mother was becoming unwell, and Jon moved back to the UK, to help to support her. He settled in Felpham, West Sussex, and became involved with assisting a number of charities concerned about mobility of the disabled – a field in which Jon had intimate knowledge. In 1988, in his capacity as Editor of the Arun Voice, he interviewed Rosemary Orpin, the then mayor of Littlehampton, about her organisation of a trip for war veterans to visit the Somme. This was the beginning of a lasting friendship, based on their shared participation in charitable work; they married in May 2003. By this time, Jon’s health became an increasing concern. He had twice broken a leg, and had diagnoses of cancer and diabetes. Yet he remained cheerful and busy. In the summer of 2011, he was travelling towards a holiday in Guernsey when the vehicle had to brake hard; Jon fell from his wheelchair, and broke both ankles. During treatment for this, he was found to have chronic kidney failure. Recovery was slow, and in December he had to have his left leg amputated. Rosemary managed to organise his release from hospital, so that he could spend Christmas at home. However, the strain on his system was too great, and on the 29th December he suffered a massive heart attack, from which he did not recover.

DERRICK NORMAN LAWLEY, a statistician, died ‘peacefully at Murrayfield House’ on 27.2.2012. He came to Clare in 1934, studied Mathematics and was listed as a ‘wrangler’ (i.e. first class) in Part II of the tripos in 1936. He took Part III the following year, with a mark of ‘special credit’, and graduated BA. Derrick Lawley was considered to be an excellent statistician, and was especially noted for his work on ‘factor analysis’, an unravelling of the effects of several influences on some observation, made repeatedly under controlled conditions. Lawley’s work on this is still quoted in statistical textbooks.

98 Antony Fielding, Professor of Social and Educational Statistics in the Department of Economics at the University of Birmingham, worked with Lawley in Edinburgh and described him as a fairly shy effacing man. He thought his work with Maxwell and Joreskog helped to make factor analysis something that statisticians could think seriously about in the early years. He wrote that he had a lot of respect for Lawley and thought that he did not have the high profile he deserved when working on what was, in those far-off days, an unfashionable subject amongst statisticians. Some say that Lawley’s book with Maxwell, Factor Analysis as a Statistical Method helped to make factor analysis statistically respectable.

PETER JOHN DIXON MARSHALL was an idiosyncratic Yorkshire philanthropist, who persuaded many others to follow his example. He spent his wartime childhood at Bolton Abbey, and developed a deep love of nature in all its aspects. He was educated at Oundle, where he played rugby in the 1st XV. After a National Service commission in the Yorkshire Light Infantry, he came to Clare in 1954 and read History. At a very early stage, he was enlisted on the board of the family’s wholesaling business, Wilkinson & Warburton, and was joint managing director in 1970, when the company floated on the stock exchange. He succeeded his father as chairman from 1976 until the family sold its interest in the late 1980s. His abiding passion was for philanthropy, which he exercised to good effect in managing the charitable trust originally set up by his uncle (Sir George Martin). Grants from the trust rarely exceeded £10,000, and went to many causes in Yorkshire. But Peter Marshall also had skill in fund-raising, which he used well, achieving larger sums, mostly in support of Yorkshire charities. 99 In 1991, he launched the UK Charitable Trust Initiative, which ran seminars around the country, explaining the mechanisms of philanthropy to wealth managers and their clients. More than a hundred foundations came into being as a result, with assets exceeding £ 150 million. He was also the driving force behind the Craven Trust, which raised a Dales Recovery Fund of more than a million pounds after the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in 2001. Peter liked the story of a stricken hill farmer, who rang for help because his electricity had been cut off when he failed to pay the bill. “We’ll ring you back”, a volunteer told him. “Better be quick” came the reply, “They’re cutting the ‘phone off tomorrow.” A cheque was issued that very day. Peter stood as a Conservative candidate in elections in 1959 and 1964, but failed to dislodge the Labour MP. He was high sheriff of West Yorkshire in 1991, and also on the regional committee of the National Trust. He created his own charitable trust, and was a trustee of many others; he was appointed OBE in 1996. An individualist who enjoyed solitude, he was also a farmer, fisherman, birdwatcher and dinghy sailor. He was widely read in politics and history, loved watching cricket, and was a quietly devout churchman. In 1986, he married Pamela Dawson, who survives him, with their son and daughter, after his death on 9.6.2012.

WILLIAM SCOTT MORTON, a man of many parts, was for some time the oldest living alumnus of Clare. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he entered Clare in 1927 and received his bachelor's degree from Clare College in 1930 with a First in Classics. Later, he received his divinity and doctoral degrees from Edinburgh University. He went out to China as a missionary in the 1930s, and escaped in 1941 on the last British boat out of Japan, to land in the USA a 100 month before Pearl Harbor. During the war he served as a chaplain in the Royal Air Force. Returning to Scotland, he was called to minister to a church that been destroyed during the war. Later, called to a church in the US, he began lecturing at New York University, eventually becoming a professor of Asian history at Seton Hall University. During this period he produced articles and books on China and Japan, some of which are still in use by universities. William died on March 29 at the age of 103, in New York, and is survived by children of his first wife, Alice Gleysteen Morton: Michael, Alistair and Keith Scott Morton and Margaret Gail Scott Morton Hampson; seven grandchildren and nine great- grandchildren; and his wife, Phyllis Stock-Morton.

BRIAN GEOFFREY ODELL has died of the rare illness amyloidosis at the age of 71. Brian studied Natural Sciences at Clare from 1959 until 1962, and most notably was mentioned in three issues of Clare Association Annual of the time, under ‘College News’. In the 1960 issue he was named, with nine other first-year students, for congratulation on his Tripos results. In the next year it is noted that he was among eight second-year students (over all subjects) gaining a First, and in 1962 he was one of three Natural Sciences students gaining First in Part II. He was also awarded the Robins Prize (for a student proceeding to further research) and went on to obtain a PhD in Organic Chemistry at Cambridge in 1965. He was a keen member of the Clare College soccer team and a popular contributor to many other college activities. Subsequently Brian spent some years doing research at Southampton and Cornell universities, followed by teaching and research at Cambridge (Downing) and Leeds universities. He then settled in York where he became Head of the Department of Mathematics and Science at the College of Ripon and York St John. 101 Later he moved to administration where, as Deputy Registrar, he was involved with academic standards and also with much of the detailed work required to move the College to university status. Brian was a life-long hill and mountain walker. He was passionate about the ‘right to roam’ and argued the Ramblers' case for access to a number of contested sites in North Yorkshire, with considerable success. He surveyed a number of areas including some sections of the Ramblers’ proposed coast path in Yorkshire in the fight for access to the entire coast of England. Brian was a very keen orienteer; he spent much time on the technical aspects of the sport, on setting courses and as a competitor. To increase his fitness he ran with friends on a weekly basis - for about 25 years. Brian had a lovely sense of humour and a ready wit. He leaves Cathie, his wife of 46 years, two daughters Carol and Sue and nine grandchildren. He will be sorely missed by family members and his many friends.

RONALD DENNIS PARKINSON, a long-serving assistant curator at the Victoria & Albert museum (V&A), died on 20.11.2012, aged 67. He is said to have had a rather strict upbringing in South London. He attended St Dunstan’s College, Catford, and then came to Clare in 1964. Ron (as he was usually known) read Architecture and Fine Art. His tutor was ‘the brilliant and unconventional’ Michael Jaffé, later Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum. The composer John Rutter was among Ron’s friends at Clare, and together they produced John’s first album of carols, while still students. Apparently, Ron planned a PhD thesis on English Collectors and Patrons of Painting: 1780-1840, of which Jaffé had great expectations, but it was never completed. After a brief period as a research assistant at the Paul Mellon Foundation of British Art, Ron joined the V&A in 1972. After a year or two there, he had four years as an assistant keeper at the 102 Tate Gallery, then returned, in 1978, to the V&A as its deputy head of education. Sudden death of the head of that section resulted in Ron taking her position. Under Ron Parkinson the educational mood changed from ‘instructional appreciation’ to discussion of what viewers could ‘see’ in a painting. Educational courses were very successful, and Ron earned the description, from the Director of the V&A, as ‘the best history of art scholar I had’. Ron’s specialty remained British painting, and he compiled the V&A’s Catalogue of British Oil Paintings (1820-1860), published in 1990. In 1998 he brought out the popular guide Constable, The Man and his Art. These were only two of many valued successes in Ron’s work at the V&A. He retired early, because of ill health, in 1998. He was found dead at his home in Tooting, South London; his partner of 30 years, Derek, predeceased him in March.

PAUL ETIENNE QUENEAU, Emeritus Professor of Engineering, died peacefully on 31.3.2012, after a brief bout with ‘flu, at the age of 101. His father was an engineer, and took his family to a number of different countries as Paul grew up, prompting him to learn other languages. He turned 18 in the same year that the stock market crashed. He had gained admission to Columbia University in 1927, and he persevered in his schooling through the depression, working part-time as a waiter. Paul Queneau gained degrees at Columbia of BA (1931), BSc the next year and Engineer of Mines in 1933. He then came to Clare, presumably for more study in Engineering. He found employment in laboratory work at the alloy plant of International Nickel (INCO), in West Virginia.

103 Alert to world affairs, Paul noted the rise in Nazi forces and tried to enlist in the US armed forces. He was told that he was more valuable as a civilian engineer. But when there was news of the attack on Pearl Harbour, Paul (with the full support of his wife Joan, married since 1939) appealed to the Pentagon directly, and was enlisted. He was eventually deployed to Europe as part of the Corps of Engineers. He spent some years battling from the Normandy beachhead to the Rhine, and was decorated for his service. In 1945 he returned to the Army Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. Paul was proud of what had been achieved, but suffered from extreme post-traumatic stress, from which he felt he was rescued by the devoted care of Joan, his wife. In 1949, Paul explored, mapped and photographed the Perry River region of extreme Northern Ontario, by 13-foot canoe. This was in the company of artist and ornithologist Peter Scott and zoologist Harold Hanson, working for the US government. Scott wrote about it in Wild Geese and Eskimos: a Journal of the Perry River Expedition of 1949. This book included some of Paul Queneau’s photographs. After the war, Paul had resumed his career at INCO, advancing eventually to be Assistant to the Chairman by about 1970, when he retired with academic honours for his work. He set about further study, and earned a doctorate degree from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, at the age of 60. He then joined the faculty of Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, in Hanover NH, where he taught for the next 25 years! Paul and Joan made their retirement home at a farm in New Hampshire, living out Paul’s boyhood dream of being a farmer. They also visited their friends worldwide. Joan died some years ago, and likewise his brother Roland and three sisters. Paul is survived by one brother (Bernard, soon to be aged 100) and also

104 mourned by a son and daughter, six grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

TIMOTHY JOHN RIX, one of the most respected and successful publishers of his generation, has died at the age of 78. He was educated at Radley College, then did his National Service in the Royal Navy. He thus came to Clare at the age of 20, in 1954. He read English and was awarded a Mellon Fellowship at Yale for a year. Tim then joined Longmans, the publisher, in 1958, starting a long career in that line of business. After six months of training, he was posted to Kuala Lumpur as publishing manager for the Far East and South-East Asia regions. He returned to Britain in 1963 to be a senior publisher of English Language Teaching (ELT) materials, an area in which Longmans became a market leader. Tim had previously admired the work of the research unit at University College, London, supported by Longman, which studied spoken and written English. In 1964 he became head of Longman ELT; in the course of twelve years, he advanced to be its Chairman. Among many successful publications, many will know the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, now in its fourth edition. This evokes memories of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755), which was published by Longmans. Tim Rix was noted for a style of leadership which involved the staff in the progress of the business. He pioneered the provision of annual reports for staff, including data on sales. He also encouraged staff to ‘put something back’ in various ways, and was very approachable, remembering the names of most of them. He served as Chairman of some official and charitable bodies, even after his retirement in 1990. He was appointed CBE in 1997. He is

105 survived by his wife, Gillian, and their son and daughter, and by a daughter from his first marriage.

ARTHUR ALEXANDER ROBINSON, a leading manager in the field of computing, died on the 4th of November 2012 after a fall in his garden, while collecting apples. He came to Clare in 1942 and, on the compressed scale of study in wartime Britain, graduated and commenced his career in 1944. Alec first worked for English Electric Ltd, as a student apprentice, then as a development engineer. Crucially during this period he studied for a PhD degree at the University of Manchester (1947-49), where he worked on the design of the hardware multiplier, for the early Mark 1 electronic computer. He then transferred to Ferranti Ltd, where he worked as Senior Development Engineer. Alec was one of the main contributors of the many improvements introduced into the Ferranti Mark 1. For example, he introduced more parallelism into his original multiplier, so that it ran on average five times as fast. In 1962, Alec moved to the University of London as General Manager of Computers (Bloomsbury) Ltd, then became Director of their Computer Centre, which had one of the three Atlas computers available at that time. For five years from 1969, he was Director of the National Computing Centre. He then became Director of the Computer Centre at the University of Wales, in Cardiff, until retirement in 1991. Alec died at the age of 88, and saw enormous changes in that lifespan. He is survived by his wife, Sylvia, and his family.

WILLIAM GEORGE SHEPHARD, always known as Bill, has died at the age of 84. He was born in Kent, and did his national service with the RAF in Malaya, just after the war. He was mainly talking Australian pilots through landing procedures, and enjoyed that job. He returned home in 1948, to a job in advertising with 106 evening classes at London University, where the teacher encouraged him to apply to Cambridge. Bill came to Clare in 1951 to read English, and took Part II of the tripos in 1953 with first class honours. We read that here he also joined the Communist party, made many lifelong friends, and met his future wife, Etel; they married in 1954. Bill took Part III of the English tripos in 1955, and graduated BA. Bill moved to different jobs in the Midlands: studying East Anglian dialects in Leeds; teaching in a comprehensive school in Huddersfield; teaching English, as a foreign language, in Birmingham. In 1962 he returned to Cambridge, to work at the Examinations Syndicate, in charge of overseas O- and A-level English. Bill clearly throve in this job, and remained there until taking early retirement in 1989. He was summed up as a highly intelligent, quiet man who was a wonderful father to his four daughters. He would read to them, play the piano for them, and make puppets and dolls’ houses. After retirement, Bill joined the Cambridge Guitar Orchestra, the University of the Third Age and the Cambridge Men’s Group. He was also a keen cyclist, until he fractured his hip at the age of 82. After that he never recovered the same health, but remained alert and agile in his mind. He is survived by Etel, his daughters, eleven grandchildren and a greatgrandson.

107 NOTICES

REUNION DINNERS 2013 Friday 22nd March: those matriculating in 1960 and 1961. Friday 20th September: those matriculating in 1970 and 1971. Friday 27th September: Up to 1955.

REUNION DINNERS 2014 Friday 21st March: those matriculating in 1980 and 1981. Friday 19th September: those matriculating in 1990 and 1991. Friday 26th September: those matriculating in 2000 and 2001.

REUNION DINNERS 2015 Friday 20th March: those matriculating in 1962 and 1963. Friday 25th September: those matriculating in 1972 and 1973.

Invitations will be sent by the Development Office well in advance.

DINING RIGHTS Clare alumni are entitled to dine on High Table once a term, free of charge. Bookings are subject to availability and must be made in advance with the Fellows’ Butler (tel: 01223 333224 or email Peter Allinson on [email protected]). Members may dine on Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday evenings during Full Term, and may bring a guest at their own expense. For further information, please contact the Steward, Mr Mick Petty on his e-mail [email protected]

B&B IN COLLEGE FOR ALUMNI Clare College is delighted to launch special alumni rates for Bed & Breakfast from 2013. You can view availability, book and pay online by visiting this link www.clareconferencing.com/accommodation/BandB.html Enter the code CLAREALUM and you will receive a 10% discount on the room rate. 108 COLLEGE CONFERENCE FACILITIES The College provides facilities for residential conferences during the Long Vacation and at Easter. Enquiries should be made to the Conference Manager on 01223 333203.

Clare Development Strategy: A new campaign Under Toby Wilkinson, Clare established a professional fundraising and alumni relations organisation, which successfully raised the funds to build Lerner Court. Although it is still some way off, the 700th anniversary of Clare’s foundation (which we will celebrate in 2026) should provide a focus for an ambitious fund-raising campaign to build on this success.

WHY DO WE NEED TO RAISE MORE FUNDS? Like other Oxbridge colleges, Clare has a large endowment. Why does it need more money? Public funding for UK higher education is increasingly uncertain, and its contribution to Clare’s budget is very unlikely to increase. At the same time, increasing global competition to attract the best academics is inflating salaries and leading University departments to cut posts to balance their budgets, with less provision for teaching. If teaching standards are to be maintained, colleges must fill the gap. Meeting equal access requirements leads to increasing needs to provide financial assistance to students at both undergraduate and graduate level. Clare’s endowment income is already fully utilised at the existing level of college teaching and student support, and to increase provision sustainably will require the endowment to increase.

109 While the college’s income provides for the routine maintenance of its buildings, Old Court will soon require a major refurbishment. This would wipe out around a third of the entire current endowment if funded directly, with a commensurate effect on future income and hence on the academic objectives of the college. As well as these specific objectives, the college expects that the future will bring new funding challenges which cannot yet be foreseen. Increasing the endowment will provide a buffer to help the college to meet such challenges without lowering standards. In broad terms, the fundraising targets are: Further endowment for College Teaching to secure the supervision system: £10 million Further endowment for student support (both postgraduate and undergraduate): £10 million Refurbishment and provision of new facilities in Old Court: £20 million Securing additional general endowment funds: £10 million

The College estimates that it needs to raise these targets, amounting to £50 million (at today’s prices) by 2026 to meet these requirements, which can be achieved by roughly doubling the current rate of fundraising. Although the overall targets are high, all donations, whatever their level, can make a difference. For example if every Clare alumnus pledged to give £500 this would raise £5 million in a year with Gift Aid.

110 DONATION FORM Your Name and Matriculation year

Your home address and postcode (to check our records)

If you are using international bank transfers please use: IBAN: GB 35 BARC 2017 1930 0333 16 or SWIFTBIC: BARC GB22

For a regular gift: I would like to make a regular gift to Clare College, Cambridge of £ (in figures) per  month  quarter  year starting on (write date) for a period of years. Please pay to: Barclays Bank plc, 9-11 St.Andrews St, Cambridge CB2 3AA Sort Code 20-17-19 A/c No,30033316 Name ‘Clare College Development’

Instruction to (name and address and postcode of your bank)

Your A/c No. Sort Code:-

Signed: Date signed:-

For a single gift: I would like to make a single gift to Clare College, Cambridge of £ (in figures). I enclose  a cheque made payable to Clare College, Cambridge OR  a Charities Aid Foundation voucher OR Please charge my  Visa  Mastercard  Switch Card Number Valid from:- Expiry:- Card security number (on the reverse):- Maestro issue:-

Signed: Date signed:-

Please allocate my gift to support  College Teaching  General  Student Support  Old Court  Other

111 Please tick if you wish to:

 I would like my gift to remain anonymous

 I am interested in leaving a legacy to Clare College

 Please send me more information on current fundraising priorities

GIFT AID DECLARATION

As a registered charity (No. 1137531), Clare College can reclaim basic rate tax on all gifts, provided that you have paid an amount of UK income tax or capital gains tax equal to the tax we reclaim. This means that every £10 donated is worth £12.50, the difference being paid by HMRC, at no cost to you. If you pay tax at the higher rate, then you can reclaim further tax relief on your self-assessment tax return.

Please treat all donations I have made in this tax year, and in the four previous tax years, and all donations I may make from the date of this declaration, as Gift Aid donations, until I notify you otherwise. I understand that I must pay an amount of UK income tax and/or capital gains tax at least equal to the tax that Clare College reclaims on my donations in each tax year.

Signed: Date signed:-

Please detach this form neatly and return it to the Development Office, Clare College, FREEPOST CB422, Cambridge, CB2 1BR

This form extracts directly relevant items from a larger (A4) form, also available from the Development Office. The larger form can, of course, set out further detail on the matter of Giving to Clare.

112 NNUAL A LARE C 2011 - 12 SSOCIATION A

CLARE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL 2011-12