Balliol College Annual Record 2009 The College was founded by John Balliol of Barnard Castle in the county of Durham and Dervorguilla his wife (parents of John Balliol, King of Scotland), some time before June 1266, traditionally in 1263. Editor Denis Noble Assistant Editor Jacqueline Smith H Balliol College Oxford OX1 3BJ Telephone: (01865) 277777 Fax: (01865) 277803 Website: www.balliol.ox.ac.uk Printed by Oxuniprint Oxford University Press front cover: Coverage of a protest at the Clarendon building against the Proctors’ leafleting ban, Daily Telegraph, 4 June 1968. Contents Visitor, Master, Fellows and Lecturers, Preachers in Chapel 1 The Master’s Letter 7 Balliol’s Revolution 1968–1975 Denis Noble Introduction: the view from Holywell 11 Neil MacCormick 1968 and all that 13 Alan Montefiore Memories of turbulence 16 Martin Kettle It was right to rebel 19 Richard Jenkyns The revolution that wasn’t 22 Stephen Bergman The Balliol revolution: an American view 25 Jon Moynihan The events of ’68: a social, not a political, phenomenon 30 Philip McDonagh Justifying Jowett: an Irishman at Balliol, 1970–1974 36 Penelope J. Corfield Christopher Hill: Marxist history and Balliol College 39 Balliol graffiti 42 Obituaries: Sir Neil MacCormick 43 Vernon Handley 45 Tuanku Abdul Rahman 48 Bernie Brooks 49 Book Reviews: Ian Goldin: The Bridge at the End of the World, by James Gustave Speth 51 Paul Slack: The Ends of Life, by Keith Thomas 52 Ben Morison: From Empedocles to Wittgenstein, by Anthony Kenny 53 Hagan Bayley: The Dyson Perrins Laboratory and Oxford Organic 55 Chemistry 1916–2004 by Rachel Curtis et al Jonathan Long: A Tangled Web: A British Spy in Estonia, by Mart 57 Männik, translated by George Carlisle Poetry: Philip McDonagh 59 Ian Blake 59 Andrew Blades 60 Carl Schmidt 61 Carmen Bugan 62 Sally Bayley 62 Vidyan Ravinthiran 63 Letters to the Editor: Jack Reynolds 64 Alastair Walsh Atkins 65 John Colligan 65 Amanda Wrigley 67 Gazette: First Year Graduates and Undergraduates 69 The William Westerman Pathfinders Programme 74 Firsts and Distinctions 75 University and College Prizes 76 College Scholarships 77 Doctorates of Philosophy 78 The Library 80 The College Archives 82 The College Staff 84 College Societies 86 College Sport 92 Members’ News: Honours 102 Births, Marriages, and Deaths 102 News and Notes 105 Portrait of the Master, Andrew Graham, by Robbie Wraith, 2008 Oxf, FBA, Tutor in Politics. Balliol College O’HARE, Dermot Michael, MA DPhil Oxf, Septcentenary Fellow, Professor of Chemistry, and 2008–2009 Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry. BROWN, Judith Margaret, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf, FRHistS, Professorial Fellow, and Beit Professor Visitor of the History of the British Commonwealth. CONWAY, Martin Herbert, MA DPhil Oxf, FRHistS, The Rt Hon Lord BINGHAM of Cornhill, KG, PC, MA, MacLellan-Warburg Fellow, and Tutor in History. Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, High Steward of NYE, Piers Charles Gillespie, MA Oxf, PhD California, the University of Oxford. Septcentenary Fellow, and Tutor in Physiological Sciences. Master VINES, David Anthony, BA Melbourne, MA PhD Camb, GRAHAM, Andrew Winston Mawdsley, MA Hon DCL. MA DPhil Oxf, Lord Thompson of Fleet Fellow, Professor of Economics, and Tutor in Economics. Fellows ZANCANI, Diego, Laurea Milan, MA Oxf, Dott JONES, John Henry, MA DPhil Oxf, CChem, FRSC, Bocconi, Tutor in Modern Languages (Italian), and FRHistS, Septcentenary Fellow, and Fellow Archivist. Praefectus. HANNABUSS, Keith Cyril, MA DPhil Oxf, Billmeir- O’BRIEN, Dominic Christopher, MA PhD Camb, MA Septcentenary Fellow, Tutor in Mathematics, and Vice- DPhil Oxf, Eastern Electricity Fellow, Reader in Master (Academic). Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science, and SCHMIDT, Aubrey Vincent Carlyle, MA Oxf, Tutor in Tutor for Undergraduate Admissions. English. SKINNER, Simon Andrew, MA MPhil DPhil Oxf, BULLOCH, Penelope Anne Ward, MA PhD Camb, MA FRHistS, Keen Fellow, and Tutor in History. DPhil Oxf, ALA, FSA, Librarian. FORDER, James, MA DPhil Oxf, Hofmeyr- DUPREE, Hugh Douglas, BA Univ of the South, Septcentenary Fellow, and Tutor in Economics. Tennesse, MA DPhil Oxf, MDiv Virginia, Chaplain, TREFETHEN, Lloyd Nicholas, AB Harvard, MA Oxf, and Dean. MS PhD Stanford, FRS, Professorial Fellow, and KIRWAN, Frances Clare, BA Camb, MA DPhil Oxf, FRS, Professor of Numerical Analysis. Professor of Mathematics, and Tutor in Mathematics. ENDICOTT, Timothy Andrew Orville, AB Harvard, LLB MCQUAY, Henry John, BM MA DM Oxf, FRCP Edin, Toronto, MA DPhil Oxf, Dean of Law Faculty. Professorial Fellow, and Nuffield Professor of Clinical LAMOND, Grant Ian, MA BCL DPhil Oxf, BA LLB Anaesthetics. Sydney, Frankfurter Fellow, and Tutor in Law. SWIFT, Adam Richard George, MA MPhil DPhil Oxf, ABRAMS, Lesley Jane, MA Oxf, MA PhD Toronto, Tutor in Politics. FRHistS, Colyer-Fergusson Fellow, and Tutor in WILSON, Timothy Hugh, MPhil Lond, MA Oxf, FSA, History. Professorial Fellow, and Keeper of Western Art. FIELD, Robert William, BA PhD Camb, MA Oxf, CEng, BUCKLEY, Christopher Paul, MA DPhil Oxf, FIMMM, MIChemE, Tutor in Engineering Science. FIMechE, CEng, Lubbock Fellow, Professor of REICHOLD, Armin Josef Hermann, MA Oxf, Diplom Engineering Science, and Tutor in Engineering Science. PAS Dr rer nat Dip Dortmund, Tutor in Physics. HAZAREESINGH, Sudhir Kumar, MA MPhil DPhil DUTTON, William Harold, BA Missouri, MA Oxf, MA Balliol College Record 1 PhD SUNY, Professorial Fellow, Professor of Internet BROOKE, Christopher Robert, AM PhD Harvard, MA Studies, and Director of the Oxford Internet Institute. Oxf, Isaiah Berlin Research Fellow in Politics. ROPER, Lyndal Anne, MA Oxf, BA Melbourne, PhD PAOLI, Sandra, MA Oxf, PhD Manc, Research Fellow in Lond, FRHistS, Lucas Fellow, Professor of Early Romance Linguistics. Modern History, and Tutor in History. GOLDIN, Ian A, BA BSc Cape Town, MSc LSE, MA MELHAM, Thomas Frederick, BSc Calgary, MA Oxf, DPhil Oxf, AMP INSEAD, Professorial Fellow, and PhD Camb, FRSE, Professor of Computer Science, Director of the James Martin 21st Century School. Tutor in Computation, and Tutor for Graduate THOMAS, Sarah Elizabeth, AB Smith, MS Simmons, Admissions. MA PhD Johns Hopkins, MA Oxf, Professorial Fellow, PERRY, Seamus Peter, MA DPhil Oxf, Massey Fellow, Director of University Library Services, and Bodley’s Tutor in English, and Vice-Master (Development). Librarian. JAMES, Alastair D, BA York, MA Oxf, Development GREEN, Leslie, BA Queen’s Canada, MA MPhil Director. DPhil Oxf, Professorial Fellow, and Professor of the FOSTER, Brian, OBE, MA DPhil Oxf, BSc Lond, FRS, Philosophy of Law. Professorial Fellow, and Professor of Experimental MAGIDOR, Ofra, BSc Jerusalem, MA BPhil DPhil Oxf, Physics. Fairfax Fellow, and Tutor in Philosophy. SHIMELD, Sebastian Mordecai, BSc S’ton, MA Oxf, COLLIER, Richard Hale, BSc US Naval Academy, LLM PhD Manc, Julian Huxley Fellow, and Tutor in Camb, DrJur Cornell, MA Oxf, Finance Bursar. Zoology. NOE, Thomas H, BA Whittier, MBA PhD Texas at THOMAS, Rosalind, BA PhD Lond, MA Oxf, Dyson Austin, MA Oxf, Professorial Fellow, and Ernest Macgregor Fellow, Jowett Lecturer, and Tutor in Butten Professor of Management Studies. Ancient History. LATSIS, John Spiro, BA Oxf, MSc Lond, PhD Camb, LUKAS, Andre, BSc Wuppertal, MA Oxf, Dr phil TU Junior Research Fellow in Social Sciences. Munich, Professor of Physics, and Tutor in Theoretical ERDOS, David, MA Oxf, MA PhD Princeton, Nicholas Physics. de B Katzenbach Junior Research Fellow in Law. MARNETTE, Sophie, MA Oxf, PhD California, HURRELL, Andrew, MA DPhil Oxf, Professorial Fellow, Dervorguilla Fellow, and Tutor in Medieval French. and Montague Burton Professor of International KOHL, Peter, MA Oxf, MD Berlin, PhD Moscow, Tutor Relations. in Biomedical Sciences. KELLY, Adrian David, BA MA Melbourne, DPhil Oxf, LUCAS, David M, BA DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Physics. Tutor in Greek Literature. RICKS, Christopher Bruce, BLitt MA DLitt Oxf, FBA, MOSS, Jessica Dawn, BA Yale, PhD Princeton, Samuel- Professorial Fellow, and Professor of Poetry. Leveson-Gower-Septcentenary Fellow, and Tutor in MINKOWSKI, Christopher Z, AB PhD Harvard, MA Ancient Philosophy. Oxf, Professorial Fellow, and Boden Professor of WALLACE, Vesna, PhD California, Professorial Fellow, Sanskrit. and Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies. WALLACE, David M, MPhys BPhil DPhil Oxf, Fairfax HAMDY, Freddie Charles, MBChB Alexandria, MD Fellow, and Tutor in Philosophy. Sheffield, LRCP-LRCS FRCSUrol Edin, LRCPS COWAN, Robert William, MSt DPhil MA Oxf, Fairfax Glasgow, Professorial Fellow, and Nuffield Professor of Fellow, Jowett Lecturer, and Tutor in Classics. Surgery. BARFORD, William, BSc Sheff, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, KING, Jeff, BA Ottawa, LLB BCL McGill, MSt Oxf, Tutor in Physical Chemistry. Blanesburgh Fellow, and Tutor in Law. 2 Balliol College Record ASHLEY, Andrew Edward, MChem DPhil Oxf, Junior FFPH, DCH. Research Fellow in the Sciences. MORTON, Keith William, MA (PhD New York). MRAZOVA, Monika, Ing ECP, Dip-Ing TU Wien, MSc STAPLETON, Barbara Jane, MA, DPhil (BSc New South LSE, Junior Research Fellow in the Social Sciences. Wales, PhD Adelaide, LLB ANU). MARGULIS, Lynn, AB Chicago, MSc Wisconsin, PhD DAVIES, Paul Lyndon, MA (LLM London and Yale), Berkeley, Supernumerary Fellow, George Eastman FBA. Visiting Professor. LONSDALE, Roger Harrison, MA, DPhil, FRSL, FBA. LOPEZ MUNOZ, Juan Manuel, PhD Seville, KEEN, Maurice Hugh, MA, DPhil, FRHistS, FSA, FBA, Supernumerary Visiting Fellow (French). OBE. RAMSEY, John T, AB Harvard, MA Oxf, PhD Harvard, MCFARLAND, David John, MA, DPhil (BSc Liv). Supernumerary