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2017 annual Contents

Master’s News

From the Master ...... 5

Features

Fellows’ Research: Gary Gerstle ...... 9 Catherine Sumnall ...... 11 40 Years of Women at Sidney ...... 14 A New Organ in the Chapel ...... 19 Engineering the Perfect Bake – Andrew Smyth ...... 21 Unveiling of the Cromwell Plaque ...... 23

College News

Examination Performance ...... 25 Admissions and Schools Liaison ...... 27 Graduate Tutors’ Report ...... 29 New Fellows ...... 31 Academic Visitors ...... 35 News from Fellows and Former Fellows ...... 38 Alumni and Development ...... 41 International Programmes ...... 44 Staff News ...... 48 College Buildings ...... 52 Music and Chapel Choir ...... 53 The Year in Chapel ...... 56 The Library ...... 58 Muniment Room ...... 60 Honorary Degrees, 1926 ...... 63 Handover of World War I Medals ...... 65 Garden Notes ...... 66 2 Student Life

Report of the MCR ...... 69 Report of the JCR ...... 70 College Societies, Events and Awards ...... 72 College Sports Cubs ...... 81 Research and Professional Experience Grants and College Travel Awards ...... 91 Officers of the Students’ Union 2017...... 96

The Register

Appointments, Awards and Destinations ...... 99 Births, Marriages and Occasional Offices...... 101 Obituaries ...... 102

The College 2017–18

The College 2017–18 ...... 135 Members of the College 2017–18 ...... 147 Examination Results 2017 ...... 169 Degrees Conferred ...... 176 Notices ...... 181 Alumni Benefits...... 182

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From the Master When the end of the academic year comes around again, I always wonder how time can conceivably have gone past so quickly and, conversely, how members of the College could possibly have packed so much in. This year has been no different in that respect, but it has had a distinct theme of celebration of the important milestones in Sidney, in the past and planning for the development of the College as it faces its future. We have had wonderful year-long celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the admission of women to College. In today’s climate it feels very strange to acknowledge that women students and Fellows have played a part in Sidney’s life for what is still less than 10% of the existence of the College. Rightly nowadays women have equal opportunity to become part of our community and have contributed fully to the success of the year. I’m very grateful for the work of the 40th anniversary committee, led by Professor Rebecca Kilner, which has delivered such a varied and interesting programme of events, including subject events, a women-focused series of Sidney Greats lectures and a Boat Club dinner, among many others. The highlight of course was the launch day for the events in October 2016, a suberb gala validation of everything that women have brought to Sidney. It was attended by a large number of matriculands from 1976, men as well as women, and it was wonderful to hear reflections from all present. A particular highlight was the talk given by Professor Sue Gibson about the history of Sidney, seen through the lens of one of the early Sidney women. This year will see the completion of a 10-year programme to refurbish all the major accommodation blocks in Sidney and replace the rooms to be lost when we hand back the hostels in Portugal Street at the end of their lease. This has been a tremendous achievement and the College is now in excellent condition to face the next decade and more, albeit at a cost of over £12 million. We have also been fortunate to take delivery of the wonderful new Flentrop organ in the College Chapel. Pausing only briefly to draw breath, and as a result of an extremely generous donation, we have been able to begin the equally costly project to bury the College kitchen under the Master’s Garden and convert the current kitchen into a second much-needed dining hall. This at least will take only three years, rather than a decade, but the usual summer peace and tranquillity of the Master’s Garden was sadly somewhat disturbed by excitable archaeologists and heavy machinery.

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The year has seen further very pleasing progress in academic performance from our students, with a rise of three places in the Baxter Tables. The College yet again increased its proportion of Firsts and there were top or near-top of Tripos results from students in Chemical Engineering, Engineering, English and Natural Sciences. English students in particular excelled and Sidney was again that best-performing College in that subject. However, it’s equally pleasing to see how the entirety of our students work so hard, sometimes in extremely trying circumstances, to achieve at all levels of academic performance. No Cambridge degree is easy to complete and I am proud of each of them. Many congratulations to them all. Fellows have also been excelling, with a raft of senior appointments and prizes. Emma Rampton, appropriately in this year of celebrations, has been appointed as the first female Registrary in the University’s 800-year history and Andy Neely has been appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relations. Paulina Sliwa and Yannis Galanakis both won well-deserved promotion to Senior Lectureships and Henry Mares was appointed to a fixed- term lectureship in the Faculty of Law. In external honours, Gary Gerstle was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, Steven Lee won the Marlow Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry, Tim Blanning won a British Academy medal for his book on Frederick the Great, and Ann Dowling the James Watt Medal from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. We have once again been very successful in attracting new Fellows to the College. Dr Catherine Sumnall has just completed her first cycle as our new Admissions Director and Fellow in Geography; Dr Ljiljana Fruk has joined us as Fellow in Chemical Engineering, Dr Rhys Jones as Research Fellow in History, Dr Georg Meisl as Research Fellow in Chemistry, Dr Owen Weller as Fellow in Earth Sciences and Professor Magda Zernicka-Goetz as Fellow in Natural Sciences. In further celebration of the 40th anniversary we elected two of our distinguished women alumni as Honorary Fellows, Ann Mather and Hon. Mrs Justice Ingrid Simler. Sadly Fellows also have to leave us but we always wish them well as they move on to the next stage in their careers. Dr Julius Ross has left to become Assistant Professor in Mathematics at the University of Illinois, Dr David Beckingham to be Assistant Professor in Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham, Dr Jo Craigwood to a post in the University Administrative Service, Dr Jennifer Bishop to be a Teaching Fellow in History at King’s College London, Dr Lorna Ayton to a Fellowship at Churchill College and Dr Sara

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Harris to Oxford. Professor Bill Jones retires this year and has served the College in many capacities, including Senior Tutor. He will continue to serve us in retirement in his most important role to date – that of wine steward. One final sad goodbye is to Joan Andrew, who passed away this year. Many alumni and Fellows will remember her as the wife of former Bursar Roger Andrew. One of the most interesting and enjoyable parts of the Master’s role is to meet so many alumni, both in College and in the world outside Cambridge. This year has included events in New York (another excellent 40th anniversary event), in Westminster Abbey, the Banqueting House and the Doggett’s Coat and Badge pub for contrast (for the excellent Sidney Sussex Society Christmas event – one I can thoroughly recommend if you’ve never been). I’m always struck by the diversity of occasions on which I meet alumni, this year incongrously including my uncle’s funeral. Wherever it is, and however unexpected, it is always a great pleasure. Finally Sidney simply would not function without the hard work and dedication of the entire College community – fellows, staff, graduate and undergraduate students and of course alumni. So many people have given their time over the last year to serve on committees, give advice and support, organise events and activities – I’m extremely thankful for all your efforts. One person, however, who has had a profound and transformative influence on Sidney over the last decade is our bursar Nick Allen. Nick has sadly decided to retire in the New Year and there will no doubt be a much fuller appreciation of all that he has done for us in the 2018 annual. In his place we have elected Sarah Bonnett, who will bring us considerable experience from her senior roles at University College London Hospitals and from running her own business. In a final nod to the 40th anniversary, it is serendipitous that she will be Sidney’s first woman bursar. I want therefore to take the opportunity, on behalf of the College, to thank Nick for all the great things he has done for us and to wish Sarah the best of luck for the challenges in the years ahead. Richard Penty

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Fellows’ Research ■■Professor Gary Gerstle, FBA (Fellow, 2014; Mellon Professor of American History)

Reckoning with the Age of Trump I write these words eight months after the election of Donald Trump and six months after he assumed office. What the Trump presidency will ultimately yield is not yet clear; part of that depends on whether it lasts a full term. But there can be no doubt that Trump’s election signifies a profound upheaval in American life. Politics in the United States has always been a rough-and-tumble sport, but the Trump presidency is in many ways unprecedented. Witness his hurling thunderbolts of invective and insult at his opponents, publicly demeaning judges and members of his administration as he attempts to enforce submission, merging private profit-making with affairs of state on an epic scale, and showing such indifference to the traditions of the American republic that in his inaugural address he failed to even mention the documents that almost all Americans hold sacred – the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Internationally, Trump has been an equally disruptive force, threatening to upend decades of American commitment to free trade, international cooperation and regional defence and replace it with a regime of protectionism, unilateralism and belligerence. When I was finishing my most recent book, Liberty and Coercion (published 2015), a history of government and politics in the United States from the founding to the present, virtually no one (myself included) imagined that the star of The Apprentice and World Wrestling Entertainment, a real estate developer with a chequered past, and a man who had never held an elective or appointed government office might be a serious candidate for the American presidency. Yet, the decay of American democracy these last 30 years, chronicled in the last chapter of Liberty and Coercion, may help us understand how a figure such as Trump could emerge. The Republican Party during this time, I argue, became so enraged at the gap between its ideological influence (which was great) and its ability to bend government to its will (which was limited) that its members more and more indulged in a corrosive contempt for government itself. The contempt they showed for public officials, from presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to the most ordinary civil servant, was so pronounced that it

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became permissible in Republican ranks to regard the entire federal government in terms that Trump would later promote – as nothing but a swamp that had to be drained. Consider conservative activist Grover Norquist’s delight in talking about ‘drowning’ the federal government in a bathtub, or the Republican Party’s cavalier attitude towards shutting down the federal government, a step it took three times in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. By the start of the 2016 presidential campaign, the incendiary language that Trump used with such devastating effect to castigate his opponents and rally his supporters had been a part of the Republican playbook for more than 20 years. The party’s rhetorical and tactical recklessness during this era paved the way for and sanctioned Trump’s recklessness. Yet if part of Trump’s campaign for the presidency was the culmination of a long-gestating style of Republican politicking, another part was a rebuke to Republican Party doctrines. As a candidate, Trump’s politics were recognisably populist. He presented himself as standing up for the ‘little guy’ – especially members of the white working class – against an unholy Washington alliance of economic and political elites. The core positions that Trump articulated during his campaign – protectionism for American industry and American workers, immigration restriction, generous welfare benefits for the right kind of Americans (meaning white Americans) – broke with Republican neo-liberal orthodoxies that stressed the free movement of capital and labour across national boundaries, the privileging of capital accumulation over workers’ rights, the elimination of welfare and the drastic shrinking of the regulatory state. We would do well to remember that much of the political commentary during the presidential campaign itself focused on how Trump was ripping the Republican Party apart. He was at odds, nearly constantly, with much of the party establishment. Since the election, Trump and the congressional Republicans have worked hard to paper over their differences. They have good reason to. With control of the presidency and both houses of Congress, with a majority on the Supreme Court and with a lock on more than half of the state governments, the Republican Party has an opportunity to enact the farthest-reaching conservative agenda in generations. But the potential for Republican success should not obscure how serious Trump’s ideological challenge to modern Republicanism has been. Historians may one day regard ‘Trumpism’ as the moment when 40-year-old Republican Party shibboleths about free trade, deregulation of the economy, and small government began losing their hold on the American imagination. They

10 features may also regard it as the moment when American international hegemony began to wane, and when a fitful and dangerous struggle among nations to establish a new world order commenced. The forces roiling America are roiling other countries, too. The unevenness of the recovery from the Great Recession of 2008 has given lie to the proposition that all countries and citizens within them would benefit from unfettered globalisation. Polarisation has deepened and voter volatility, powered by a social media revolution, has made elections harder and harder to call. Mainstream parties, such as the Socialists in France, have been shoved aside or, in the case of Labour in Britain, turned upside down. Amidst this chaos there are signs of democratic resurgence, of the ‘people’ saying they must be sovereign and must use the power thus gained to strengthen the democratic character of political institutions. These sentiments are amply on display in the US, in the mass demonstrations against Trump and in the fierce determination by both the courts and the press to maintain their independence and to expose wrongdoing in high places. But the forces promoting authoritarianism are also strong. In truth, no one knows what the future holds. These are the kinds of times that historians love to study, for so much is at stake. But the experience of living through these moments is not so salutary, as we reckon every day with the possibility that history might not go our way.

■■Dr Catherine Sumnall (Fellow, 2016; Admissions Director, Geography) It can be a tricky gig to work on historical demography. We are famously, according to one of our number, the only people in the world who can make sex and death boring. So, when I began working on births outside marriage in 19th- and 20th-century Austria, I knew I needed a good set of anecdotes to keep a future life as a book at bedtime at bay. It all started so brightly. I was at a party, in Austria, in 2006. You can picture the scene: a recent Sidney graduate at the tender age of 21, living abroad for the first time and developing a taste for pine-needle schnapps, accordion music and snowy mountain lodges. We’ll leave Lederhosen out of this particular version. At this party, my friends and I got talking about a story that had been in the local paper that day: that over 50% of births in Carinthia, Austria’s most southerly

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province, took place outside marriage. From that moment, my non-academic life was over. That post-Cambridge sense of cool I had been cultivating left me immediately and I reverted to type: the type of the historical demographer. For I was transported back into my third-year undergraduate lectures, with the magnificent Professor Richard Smith, peering at a map of Europe on a wonky overhead projector transparency (even in 2005, a contraption at least a decade out of date), showing a black smudge of very high illegitimacy ratios where the Alps ought to have been. I became interested in why, in certain parts of Austria, the overwhelming majority of births took place outside marriage, and in particular the history of illegitimate fertility in the 19th- and 20th-century Alpine world. It seemed unlikely that, in such an apparently pious country, with wayside shrines at regular intervals and a strong association between church, state and law, that such children could have been the result of a very contemporary attitude towards cohabitation. So what, then, could have enabled such high levels of extra-marital fertility in the first place? What kinds of processes and geographies sustained this behaviour over long periods of time? And what shocks to this system might have caused its eventual downfall… and perhaps, a little later, its resurgence? Ever the geographer, I made sure that my research areas were located in areas of natural beauty and chose to investigate in detail the Gurk Valley, located in Carinthia, in the Nockberge National Park. The area is, even now, rather remote. Although the little town of Gurk has at its heart a grand cathedral and bishop’s palace dating back to the 11th century, those same friends who got me into this mess at their party enjoyed referring to my little parishes as lying ‘am Arsch der Welt’. Over the past 10 years, and through a combination of record links from parish registers and lists of souls held at the diocesan archive in Klagenfurt, and oral history interviews with elderly residents of the Gurk Valley, I have pieced together a story of demographic continuity, change and eventually continuity once more. The biggest surprise is that these small, remote parishes have the highest levels of births outside marriage we have ever seen in Europe. At times in the late 19th century, 90% of all births in some parishes of the Gurk Valley were illegitimate. This could tell us a story of creeping progress, and, as the great Edward Shorter might have it, the iceberg of sexual restraint melting across a changing continent. Or, alternatively, it might tell us about the collapse of traditional forms

12 features of social control and the demise of religious authority. I would, however, argue that neither of these caricatures of modernity does justice to the complexity of the Gurk Valley. Here, in fact, births outside marriage have a far older history and might better be associated not with change, but with its absence. Up until 1868, there were severe restrictions on who could marry in Austria. It’s a coarse representation of Malthus, but we might see echoes of some of his ideas in the need for peasants to demonstrate their ability to support a family before permission to marry would be granted. In these circumstances, it is not a surprise that illegitimate births rose; again, as Malthus might put it, the passion between the sexes remained undiminished. What is surprising, though, is that illegitimacy rose to its highest level in the Gurk Valley after the repeal of the Ehehindernis, before falling dramatically after Anschluss with Nazi Germany. I suggest that this is important in three ways. First, it tells us that illegitimacy can be rational. It was possible in the Gurk Valley of the 19th century for child-bearing outside wedlock to be a pathway to economic security. For having an illegitimate child, if you were one of the many landless women servants in husbandry, never destined to own property – always the Kuhdirn, never the Bäuerin, if you will – was a way to obtain a place that did not require you to look for a new annual contract in a household every Candlemas day. Such women became inmates, and were often poorly treated in service in exchange for the security of their residence: we see glimpses of their precarious world in oral histories, some of which tell dark tales of abuse. But many servants nonetheless did have a child outside marriage, and took on these lives within farming households. Second, these children of servants were by no means the only kind of birth outside marriage; we can see a different picture of births outside wedlock than that of the d’Urberville-esque model. In a changing demographic regime of increased longevity, men and women destined to own property had to wait ever longer to inherit, and thus the age at which it was possible for them to marry, and take over headship of their farming household, grew higher. In this case, waiting until her forties to marry meant that the reproductive career of a woman might be over by the time she and her intended were able to make their way to the altar. Stable unions between men and women who had several children together, but not within marriage, therefore arose. The children of these unions were often retrospectively legitimised by the later marriage of their parents. This must surely make us question the validity of illegitimacy as a measure within demography, and as an indicator of social change at all.

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Finally, it suggests that this relatively closed system changed in response to an exogenous shock, rather than internal shifts and slow modernisation. Certainly there was emigration over the period 1868–1938: the Gurk Valley had little in the way of employment beyond farming, and its population, especially the non-inheriting segments, would otherwise have grown beyond the valley’s capacity for support. But emigration was the valve that made the status quo possible for those who stayed. Only when the Nazi authorities arrived was illegitimacy suddenly a social problem, rather than a normal part of wider courtship patterns. Then single mothers, and especially the poorest, were enumerated, and threatened with sterilisation. But come 1943, and the focus of Nazi German attention elsewhere, illegitimacy in the Gurk Valley slowly began to creep back up. Illegitimacy, it seems, was not only resilient and traditional. We might even see it as an act of resistance.

40 Years of Women at Sidney

■■Editor’s Note To mark the 40th anniversary of the admission of women to Sidney we publish below two articles, the first by Professor Rebecca Kilner (Fellow, 2005), who coordinated the College’s activities to mark the event, and the second by Sally Simmons (1976), a director of Cambridge Editorial, who manages the production of the College Annual and was herself one of the first cohort of women students. Here she writes about the experience of applying to Sidney, of which neither she nor her family had any prior knowledge.

Ever since the General Election earlier this year, it has become quite the fashion to spot the parallels between the issues of the day and the state of affairs in the 1970s. One way to play this game is to highlight the grimmer similarities between the two decades: a hung Parliament, for example, or a US president threatened with impeachment. Or the high prevalence of male facial hair. But a more uplifting approach is to focus on the many changes for the better that were instigated in the 1970s and that we now take for granted in our everyday lives, like the Equal Pay Act or the right to be granted maternity leave. In Sidney, we have spent the past academic year celebrating an innovation that is now so integral to college life that it is almost impossible for anyone under 50 to imagine the College that existed beforehand. This is the admission of female undergraduates, which began 40 years ago in October 1976.

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We have marked this transformative event in the College’s history in multiple ways, with events small and large. Many have been organised by the diverse elements that comprise Sidney’s past and present community, by repurposing their existing activities to focus on this important anniversary. From the Boat Club alumni dinner to the Vets and Medics dinner, subject and society dinners were each given a 40th anniversary flavour through the invitation of female keynote Professor Sue Gibson speakers. A panel that comprised Dr Lesley Mayo, delivering her keynote Susan Harding, Joanna Barnden and Lisa Naylor, speech on 22 October provided an insightful discussion of women in SSBC before the largest-ever alumni Boat Club Dinner, while Dr Neha Pathak (2006) joined us as guest speaker at the Medical and Veterinary Society Triennial Dinner. The prestigious annual Thornely Lecture in London was given by distinguished barrister Poonam Melwani, QC, while Professor Maggie Snowling, CBE (President of St John’s College, Oxford), Professor Sue Gibson, OBE (1978, Director of the Graduate School at Imperial College), Ms Bridget Kendall, MBE (Master of Peterhouse) and Mrs Laura Wyld, now Baroness Wyld of Gosforth in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, were invited as distinguished guests at the Foundation Feast. Meanwhile, the Sidney Greats lecture series this year for the first time featured only female speakers: Professor Janet Todd on Jane Austen’s Emma, Professor Dame Anne Dowling on ‘Silent Aircraft?’, Dr Clare Chambers on feminist political philosophy, Dame Fiona Reynolds on Octavia Hill, Professor Rebecca Kilner on ‘Behaviour and Evolution’ and Dr Anna Whitelock on Elizabeth I. To complement this smorgasbord of celebration, each term we marked the anniversary with a central, special occasion dedicated to highlighting the different positive consequences that have come from the Fellowship’s decision to admit women undergraduates to Sidney. In the Michaelmas Term, we had a special day on 22nd October – organised with tremendous verve and flair by Jillaine Seymour and her team in the Development Office. What a wonderful, inspirational event it was. Attended by current students, Fellows and alumni, including the men and women who matriculated in 1976, the day was filled with reminiscences, laughter, warmth and the strong sense of community for which Sidney is well known.

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There were two panel discussions in the afternoon, held in parallel, with one focusing on science subjects (chaired by me), the other focusing on the arts and humanities (and chaired by Professor Dame Sandra Dawson). The panel members were Baroness Young, 2000, Dr Denise Reed, 1977, Professor Alison Blunt, 1987, Professor Joanne Martin, 1978, Ms Fiona Parkin, QC, 1989, Dr Neha Pathak, 2006, Ms Diane Samuels, 1979, Mrs Sue Toft, 1976, Head of Learning and Development, British Council, Mrs Rebecca Evans, 1997 and Ms Carol Vorderman, MBE, 1978. They gave extraordinary accounts of their experiences and lessons learned, engaging in lively, good-humoured debate with each other as well as with members of the audience. Next we were treated to a keynote speech from Professor Sue Gibson, OBE (1978) in which she cleverly and wittily retold Sidney’s history from a female perspective, weaving it together with landmarks in her own distinguished academic career. Then followed the world premiere performance of Martha and Mary, composed to mark the 40th anniversary, by Joanna Marsh (1989), Sidney’s Composer in Residence 2015–16, and beautifully sung by the College choir in the Chapel. The day concluded with a Formal Hall at which we toasted the Class of 1976, and the Fellows who took the radical decision to admit women undergraduates.

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The Lent Term event was organised to coincide with International Women’s Day, on 8 March. The global theme for this year, ‘Be bold for change’, chimed perfectly with our local celebrations in Sidney and our desire to mark this anniversary by thinking of the College’s future as well as celebrating its recent past. We marked the occasion by making a small piece of College history, with the first ever official female-only Formal Hall. Under the gaze of Lady Frances Sidney’s portrait in Hall, the female members of the College gathered to appreciate the many social, economic, cultural and political achievements of Sidney’s women in the past 40 years. It was particularly inspiring to dine with so many female undergraduate and graduate students, and an important reminder of the vital role that Sidney plays in inspiring talented young women from all backgrounds to achieve their potential and contribute so much to wider society during their lives. Sandra Dawson gave a short speech to conclude the meal in which she emphasised the significance and symbolism of those in attendance comprising solely women, almost certainly for the first time in the College’s history. And so to Easter Term and the final event of the year, an extra leg in the marathon of end-of-term fine dining and rejoicing that is unleashed once exams are out of the way. This year, and exceptionally, we held an extra (In)Formal Hall after the last Friday of term on 16 June. The intention was to include every member of the current College community, with maximum conviviality and minimum formality. College staff dined alongside students and Fellows. High table was abandoned and many decided to forgo wearing a gown. The Master began the meal with a short speech focusing on the legacy of the 40th anniversary celebrations, and the many ways in which the College can build on the hugely successful decision to admit women undergraduates with similarly progressive actions in the future. The meal that followed provided a relaxed and entertaining way to conclude this special anniversary year, with an eye on the past but our focus very much trained on the way forward. Now, and every day at Sidney, the positive effects of the decision to admit women undergraduates can be seen everywhere, from the remarkable and diverse individual achievements of the many women who have attended Sidney in the last 40 years, to the enrichment of the College community as a whole. Professor Rebecca Kilner, Fellow 2005

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In 2001, the Master, Professor Dame Sandra Dawson, sent an invitation to all the women who came up to Sidney in 1976, pointing out that it was 25 years since the first 25 women had come up to Sidney, that she was the 25th and first female master, and that she thought we deserved a party. It was a very good one; there was even a bouncy castle thoughtfully provided for the children. It was probably at that party that I first began to appreciate the importance of the arrival of women in terms of Sidney’s history. In terms of my own history, my application to Sidney had more to do with cowardice and naivety than anything else. I applied to Cambridge when I realised I would never be able to handle life as a student in London, which was where I was headed. And I chose Sidney from a catalogue. When you applied to Cambridge then (and it might be the same now) you received two prospectuses, the official one and an alternative prospectus written by students. I sat in the kitchen with my parents and read out the students’ descriptions of all the colleges I could apply to and when I got to Sidney Sussex they both said at the same time, ‘That one sounds nice’. It was small, friendly, and none of us had heard of it. It seemed perfect for me. If I had known then that only 25 women would be admitted, and that we would all have to be at least Exhibition standard, I would have given up at that point. But I didn’t know anything, and so I found myself blazing a trail of which I was totally unaware. When I think back to that time now, and how ridiculously easy it all seemed, I find myself thinking more and more about another kind of trail. My four grandparents were all born in the first five years of the last century, too young to be involved in the First World War and too old to be on active service in the second. And they all left school at 13. One grandmother went into service; the other went to the Peek Freans biscuit factory in the East End and knocked dents out of biscuit tins (at least, that’s what she always told us). My grandfathers, both highly intelligent boys, spent their last year at school helping to teach the smaller children. My paternal grandfather wanted more than anything to be a doctor, but that was out of the question. He became a village milkman in Kent, and later worked at the Arsenal. My mother’s father went into the London docks, where he was a stevedore. Then the Second World War shook everything up; my father emerged from it a fledgling naval officer and my family found

18 features themselves in a completely different social position. It was my place at the end of that trail that brought me to Sidney. That journey, that process of educational suffrage over three generations, has enormous personal significance for me. The fourth generation, of course, is supremely indifferent to it all. For my two boys, for many years after that party in 2001, Sidney was the place where we went to eat our sandwiches when we were in town, although I’m glad to say that they eventually stopped moaning that the bouncy castle had gone. Sally Simmons, 1976

A New Organ in the Chapel

Writing this article for the inauguration of the new organ, which took place on Sunday, 20 November 2016, I realise that it has taken almost 10 years to complete this project. When Cees van Oostenbrugge (Director of Flentrop Orgelbouw, 1998–2008) first visited the Chapel in 2007, he was aware that the present location was not the most ideal position for a new organ from an organbuilder’s perspective. He came up with two possible solutions. One of them was a daring design positioned above the entrance at the west end, where the present carvings and mouldings were ingeniously incorporated into the design. This plan had to be abandoned for various reasons. The other plan was for a new three-manual organ in the gallery, knowing that it would be a challenge to build a good organ in that position. It was not until 2012 that the project came alive again. By then awareness had grown that Cees’s three-manual design, with a Rückpositiv in the middle arch, was not really viable due to the lack of space. The design was reconsidered and revised and a two-manual option was presented. Together with the consultant, David Titterington, some alterations to this plan were made. Finally a contract was signed in 2013. The big challenge in building this organ has been to create an instrument that would be tonally satisfying, a vocal sound that does not overwhelm but embrace. A sound that would blend well with the human voice and at the same time would be able to play a wide range of musical literature. Another challenge was to make the organ look like it belongs in the Chapel. The carvings and other elements in the outward appearance of the organ were inspired by the beautiful existing decorations of the Chapel. Taking the difficult situation into

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consideration, this was not an easy task. The limitations inspired us to be creative. The decision was made to have the Great and the Pedal divisions divided into two separate cases, left and right of the console. The two windchests of the Great were positioned sideways with the lower pipes at the rear and the higher pipes towards the front. The space between the façade pipes was made larger than usual to allow the sound to come out of the case as freely as possible. The Principal choruses 8, 4 and 2 have double pipes in the treble to create tonal presence without having to force the sound. To achieve a good balance between the Great and the Swell, shutters were built not only at the front of the Swell division but also on both sides. This was done to allow the sound of the Swell to be reflected into the Chapel as much as possible. The tonal concept was not based on a historic example. However, the extensive experience that Flentrop Orgelbouw has gained during many restorations and reconstructions of historic instruments has been implemented in this organ. It was never the intention to build an English organ, but a new Flentrop organ with its own vocal character, specially designed for musical practice in the Chapel at Sidney. We hope that this organ will touch the hearts of listeners and that it will be a source of inspiration for musicians and singers in the years to come. Frits Elshout, Chief Designer, Builder and Voicer, Flentrop Orgelbouw

This piece was written for the inauguration of the new organ.

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■■Editor’s Note Andrew Smyth’s encounter with Prince William followed an earlier encounter that Professor Derek Beales had with the prince’s father when the Prince of Wales was an undergraduate at Trinity. Professor Beales recalled this meeting when toasting the Foundress at the Confrat dinner in February (see page 73). Engineering the Perfect Bake

At the end of 2015 I made the decision to apply for series 7 of The Great British Bake Off. I’d been toying with the idea for a few years and decided to bite the bullet with an admittedly last-minute application. I didn’t expect to hear anything back, let alone get through the numerous audition stages and find myself standing in the iconic tent for the first time in April last year. What followed was an intense, hectic but phenomenal 10 weeks of frantic recipe testing, long days filming in the tent and remembering not to look directly at the camera. The most frustrating part of the whole experience was the wait between the end of filming (mid-June) and the bakers ‘going public’ at the end of August. I’d been working full-time and had mysteriously been missing for large chunks of time at work but couldn’t explain why to anyone. Then came the announcement. I’ve never experienced anything like it in my life. My phone was ringing off the hook, journalists somehow found my direct line at work and some of the bakers’ families were door-stepped by the tabloids. In terms of getting used to being in the spotlight, it was a baptism by fire. I had my fair share of ups (rotating pies and star baker) and downs (Jaffa cake orientation and THOSE jousting knights…) during the series. Regardless of my performance each week, the support from folks back home in Northern Ireland and from Sidney was fantastic and unwavering. I feel incredibly grateful for the 12 months since Bake Off aired. They’ve been filled with many opportunities I never thought I’d have, from giving a TEDx talk to baking a jet engine cake for Prince William and now being a regular chef on ITV’s Lorraine. Engineering is still my day job and I love it, working four days a week with Rolls-Royce. I want to use the Bake Off platform to get the next generation inspired about engineering and hopefully break a few stereotypes about what a typical engineer is. I’m presenting my version of ‘bakineering’ at interactive

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workshops and science festivals around the country. In the longer term, I’m pursuing work in science and engineering broadcasting and (fingers crossed!) presenting an engineering and baking TV show. I’m often asked if it was during my time at university that I started baking in earnest. Although I rustled up a few drizzle cakes and biscuits during my time at Sidney, I was too preoccupied with my haphazard supervision work to really push the boat out. It was during my time in College that I discovered that microwave mug cakes should be avoided at all costs unless you enjoy eating tyres. It was with much delight, then, that during a visit to Sidney in February this year, I was tracked down by some affable Freshers who invited me to test their cake in the newly refurbished Garden Court kitchens. Let’s hope the baking legacy at Sidney continues; with those fantastic new facilities there is no excuse for a soggy bottom. Andrew Smyth, 2009

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Unveiling of the Cromwell Plaque Although the burial place of Oliver Cromwell’s head is commemorated in the College ante-chapel, it is a curious thing that in the city of Cambridge, until very recently, there was no memorial of any kind to the former Sidney man, who became the MP for Cambridge and rose to become the head of state, the Lord Protector. The Cromwell Association, in partnership with the Cambridge Blue Plaques Committee, took the initiative to correct that anomaly. After some discussion the site agreed for the plaque was a wall in nearby Market Passage, the site of the former Black Bear, the meeting place of the Committee of the Eastern Association in the early stages of the Civil War. Cromwell, as one of the town’s MPs and one of the 16 commissioners for Cambridge, would have been a frequent attender at the meetings. On Saturday 3 December 2016, following a very well attended lecture by Dr Clive Holmes on the Eastern Association, the Cromwell Association held a reception in College to mark the occasion of the erection of the plaque. The guest of honour, the Rt Hon Sir John Major, unveiled the plaque and spoke warmly of both Cromwell and the importance of commemorating our history. For more information about the Cromwell Association see www. olivercromwell.org.

Sir John Major unveiling the plaque The plaque in position

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Examination Performance 2017 has seen the best undergraduate examination performance by Sidney students for a number of years. Our students, and the Directors of Studies, supervisors and Tutors who have supported them, deserve to be congratulated on a strong set of results. The College celebrates our undergraduates’ Tripos achievements by awarding academic distinctions based on a student’s rank by average mark in the University Order of Merit for their Tripos (Prizes for top 10% performances; Scholarships for top quartile outcomes; Exhibitions for results in the 35th–26th percentile range, and for large year-on-year improvements in the ranking). This system is unaffected by grade inflation, so it was especially pleasing to be able to write to the largest number of Sidney undergraduates in many years with the good news of an award. Our share of Firsts is fractionally ahead of the University average, having risen strongly for two years in a row in relative as well as absolute terms (there is grade inflation: the University share of Firsts in total passes has risen from 26.7% to 29.4% over the period). Moreover, our share of Firsts and Upper Seconds combined is at the University average, and our percentage of Thirds is once again lower than the University’s. A number of Sidney undergraduates were able to achieve Honours passes at the end of a difficult year, resulting in the lowest number of non-completions for several years. In 2016–17 we experienced no emergency withdrawals from the examinations, no failures to satisfy the Examiners, no withdrawals from the course and a significantly lower number of intermissions: in total, only five Sidney undergraduates did not complete the year with a pass, less than half the figure in each of the two previous years. This is a significant achievement for the students themselves, and for the pastoral support system, which was able to provide practical and emotional help, both through the year and often in an emergency during the examination period. For students in sometimes extremely difficult personal circumstances, an Honours class is a high achievement, regardless of class. Seen in this light, the marginal increase in weaker examination outcomes (2.1 and 3) relative to last year is simply the flip side of a most welcome increase in the completion rate (which is above that for the University as a whole). Among the larger subjects (10 or more students sitting classed examinations), English enjoyed the strongest performance of any Sidney subject, improving further on its already considerable recent track record with six Firsts (including

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the top finalist) out of eight classed students. Over the last three years, English undergraduates achieved seven more First-class passes than could have been statistically expected based on the University-wide outcome: this impressive track record also yielded the top spot in the unofficial ranking of colleges known as the Baxter Tables. Other noteworthy subject performances include Chemical Engineering (with two University Prizes); Classics, driven by its finalists’ performance (three Firsts, two Upper Seconds, a cohort average percentile ranking of 34, and 42 across the three years); Economics, with excellent first-year results (four Firsts out of seven students, and an average percentile of 41); Human, Social and Political Sciences (HSPS), the Tripos in which both the current and previous JCR Presidents achieved Firsts; Mathematics, with significant improvements both in average percentile ranking (from 57 to 49) and in value-added balance (the difference between the number of students improving their percentile ranking by more than 10%, and those whose ranking has deteriorated by the same margin). Max Beber, Senior Tutor

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Admissions and Schools Liaison This year has been one of change in admissions, both at Sidney and within the wider University. We began by saying farewell to Dr Kirsten Dickers, the College’s Admissions Director for nine years. Kirsten has been greatly missed by everyone in the Sidney community this year, and our debt of gratitude to her is certainly ongoing, as are our very best wishes for her success in her new role at Ashford School in Kent. It speaks volumes about Kirsten to say that her departure created not one but two new arrivals in the Admissions Office at Sidney. Chief among them is the College’s first dedicated Schools Liaison Officer, Grace Dickinson. Grace is a Sidney graduate, and completed her MML degree in 2016, specialising in Russian. She has regaled groups of visiting pupils all year with her experiences of her lively year abroad in Moscow, and worryingly in-depth knowledge of pop songs about Vladimir Putin. Grace is a wonderful addition to Sidney’s admissions team, bringing an enthusiasm for the College and for Cambridge, alongside an authenticity and originality that have allowed her to make her new role her own within months of starting. She has particular skill in the delivery of ghost tours, and would surely welcome any additional material from readers. I have also returned to Sidney, after several years away, to take up the position of Admissions Director. While sadly not quite so recent a graduate of the College as Grace, it has been a joy to me to come back home, and to be reminded of the supportiveness, kindness and dedication possessed by all members of the Sidney community. The old-timer of the team is therefore our inimitable Admissions Officer, Sophie Comiskey, now in her second year at Sidney! Sophie is, quite simply, the foundation of all we do, and I certainly would not have survived my first admissions round without her and her invaluable work. Not content with running a smooth administrative process in admissions, she is now working on updating the College website for prospective applicants, and expanding our work on social media, too. We would be delighted to see new followers on Twitter, Facebook and beyond among our Sidney members. Apart from the changes inside Sidney, this year also saw the introduction of university-wide admissions assessments for all subjects at Cambridge, except Mathematics and Music. These assessments are a new part of our admissions process, providing us with common information on a global field of applicants, who take a wide variety of qualifications. We recognise, of course, the additional

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The Admissions team, from L: Sophie Comisky, Dr Catherine Sumnall, Grace Dickinson

investment of time this requires, not only on the part of our applicants, their teachers, parents and supporters, but also from our own markers and interviewers. I have been thankful for the understanding, patience and hard work of everyone involved, in the first year of this project. Admissions, however, battles on through all changes and new initiatives. In August 2016, Sophie and Kirsten confirmed the offers of 102 of our offer holders for entry in October 2016, joining the four deferred offer holders from the previous year. Together they have formed a happy and successful cohort, now already at the end of their first year with us at Sidney. They were joined by a new intake at Michaelmas from among the 143 offers of admission made in the last round. Of these, 8% of our offer holders came from the European Union, and 16% were from elsewhere overseas. Of our ‘home’ offer holders, 70% came from schools in the maintained sector, 10% from areas of the United Kingdom where progression to higher education is low, and 16% from backgrounds traditionally under-represented at Cambridge. The fate of these offer holders occupied us for much of July and August, as we eagerly awaited news of the school examination results before the whole cycle began again! Sophie, Grace, and I spend a substantial part of our time working with schools in our link areas of Staffordshire, Lancashire, Kensington & Chelsea,

28 college news and – for the first time – parts of Peterborough. In addition to regular visits to these areas, to deliver masterclasses to pupils and provide guidance to teachers, we are delighted to continue to take part in the University’s HE+ programme, which we will be expanding to a new consortium in Stoke- on-Trent in the autumn. Closer to home, subject taster days ran in MML, Geography and Economics this year, to enable prospective applicants to gain a deeper insight into studying their subject at the highest level. And, as we have done for many years, we host pupils on residentials tailored to the needs and interests of their year group, where we provide guidance on post-16 subject choices, as well as aspiration-raising academic sessions from Sidney’s Fellows and graduate students. We also use our current undergraduate students as outreach ambassadors for the College: they showcase the very best of Sidney, both personally and academically. We are especially grateful to the current and previous SSCSU Access Officers, Fola Afolabi, Alia Khalid and Caitlin Saunders, and Ella Nixon, the Access Initiative Officer, for their tremendous support. I learned in my first 10 months as Admissions Director that although admissions is now a year-round job, it is a hugely fulfilling one, and I am sure one where we can build on the College’s excellence and warmth in the years to come. More than that, it is a team game, and I am enormously grateful to Team Sidney past and present for everything that it has done, and will continue to do. Catherine Sumnall, Admissions Director

Graduate Tutors’ Report

The Sidney graduate student body has continued to make considerable contributions to the intellectual, musical, sporting and social life of the College. Many students enjoyed the stimulating and friendly atmosphere of our Graduate Seminars, where current graduates present their work, as well as Graduate Suppers with Fellows. Graduates contributed to College music events through the Chapel Choir and the June Event performance. Graduates also participated in sports – some earned well-deserved blues or half-blues. The relaxed and friendly atmosphere of MCR social events throughout the year, such as the Graduate Wine Tasting and the Summer Garden Party, attracted many graduates and their guests. It is a privilege for us, the Graduate Tutors, to be able to support this environment of academic interaction and social and cultural exchange.

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Sidney continues to provide our graduate students with pastoral, academic- pastoral, administrative and other logistical support throughout the year, whether in or outside term-time. Many graduates participated in conferences and field trips thanks to the research funding provided by the College. The College remains committed to supporting students through hardship funding, helping those who encounter unforeseen financial difficulty to complete their degrees. The College is especially grateful to all the benefactors who make such awards possible. Sidney takes a proactive role in supporting research students through co-funded PhD studentships. In October 2017 we welcomed Benjamin Williams (Chemistry) and Maura Malpetti (Clinical Neuroscience), who have each been awarded a Gledhill Research Studentship, as well as Maayan Menashe, who has been awarded Evan Lewis-Thomas Law Studentship. In addition to such awards for formal courses of study, the College also participates in schemes that allow academic visits and exchanges between Sidney and universities overseas. The Fox Fellowship Scheme (see International Programmes, page 44) offers our students the chance to spend time at Yale University, while also providing a base for Yale students to come to Cambridge. Last year Charlie Jeffries (History) went to Yale while Emma Goldberg (Political Science) spent an extremely productive year in Cambridge. This year we welcome Tasneem Deo (Law) and Alicia Steinmetz (Political Science) as our incoming Fox Fellows, while Johanna Lukate (Psychology) and Margot Dazey (Politics and International Studies) are in Yale. As Graduate Tutors we would like to praise the whole MCR committee for their enthusiasm and hard work. The Graduate Suppers, the MCR Garden Party and Graduate Wine Tasting would not have happened without them. We would especially like to thank Sarwat Baig, past MCR President, for her commitment in developing MCR-related activities over the year, supported by Saite Lu as Treasurer. We welcome Christof Gaunt as the new MCR President, supported by Melanie Jans-Singh as Treasurer. Last year we saw considerable changes in the Graduate Office team. We wish Angela Parr-Burman a happy retirement. Her dedication and hard work helped us to sustain the continuously increasing complexity and demand of graduate tutorial business. We enthusiastically welcome Gillian Johnstone as the new Graduate Tutors’ PA. Our work would not have been possible without her having confidently and quickly settled into the role.

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We are grateful to the College staff, especially in the Tutorial Office, Conferencing, the Kitchens, Housekeeping and the Porters’ Lodge, with the Bursar, the Senior Tutor, the Chaplain, the Nurse and both the outgoing and incoming Domus Bursars playing central roles, for helping to maintain the well-being and vibrancy of the graduate community at Sidney. Berry Groisman, Andy Neely, Jo Craigwood and Julius Ross, Graduate Tutors New Fellows ■■Dr Ljiljana Fruk Ljiljana Fruk was born in Krapina, site of Krapina neanderthal in Croatia, but although exposed to fossils from the early age, did not go down the archaeologist route but studied chemistry in Zagreb. She obtained a PhD in biospectroscopy at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and then went to Germany, as a Humboldt Fellow and Marie Curie Fellow, to do post- doctoral research in nanotechnology at the University of Dortmund. She was then research group leader at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for seven years, during which she also completed her habilitation in organic chemistry. She is a lecturer in bionano engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, where she works on light-triggered chemical reactions, the design of artificial enzymes, bio-inspired materials and optoelectronic devices based on DNA and proteins. In her spare time she turns unpublishable results into art, acts as a curator of science-inspired exhibitions and likes to engage in making chemistry more likeable, such as by making molecular chocolates.

■■Dr Rhys Jones Rhys Jones received his BA and MPhil in History from Robinson College, Cambridge, and completed his PhD at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 2017. He is a historian of time and power. His research assesses the ruptures in temporal and historical perceptions occasioned by the revolutions of the late-18th and early-19th centuries in Europe and America.

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■■Mrs Ann Mather, Honorary Fellow Ann Mather is an alumna of Sidney who matriculated in 1978 and took Part I Geography and Part II Land Economy. She has held a series of successful positions in major film studios and production companies around the world, including Walt Disney. She joined the board of Google as non-executive director and subsequently the boards of Ariat International, SmartPak Equine, Netflix, Solazyme and MGM Holdings (where she is senior director) as well as several other companies. She is a regular visitor and donor to the College. She was elected a member of the 1596 Foundation in 2013. Anne has served on the Cambridge in America board, stepping down only recently.

■■Dr Georj Meisl Georj Meisl completed his undergraduate studies in Natural Sciences at Cambridge and MIT, then obtained a PhD in Biophysical Chemistry at Cambridge. His main research interest is in biological phenomena related to protein aggregation, which include the processes involved in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, with a particular focus on developing fundamental theoretical models and applying them to real data.

■■Mrs Justice Ingrid Simler, Honorary Fellow Dame Ingrid Simler completed her BA in Law at Sidney (1982) and went on to do a Diploma in EEC Law at the University of Amsterdam. In 2014 she was appointed to be a Justice of the High Court (Queen’s Bench Division). Her legal career has focused on administrative, employment and taxation law. As a High Court judge she has been appointed President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal and is the first woman to hold that position. She is also general editor of Jordans Employment Law and co-author of Butterworths Discrimination Law. Dame Ingrid returned to College in 2011 to be guest speaker at the Sidney Sussex Student Law Society Dinner.

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■■Dr Catherine Sumnall, Admissions Director Catherine is an alumna of Sidney: she matriculated in 2002 and read Geography. She returned to Sidney as a graduate student, and in 2011 completed her PhD on extra-marital fertility in 19th-century Austria (see page 11). Since then, she has been a post-doctoral researcher in History at the University of Birmingham, conducted admissions research at the University of Cambridge, selected graduate students for the LSE, and directed studies and held a bye-fellowship in Geography at Jesus College, Cambridge.

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■■Professor David Titterington, Fellow Commoner Professor Titterington is Head of Organ at the Royal Academy of Music. David was an organ scholar at Oxford University before studying with Marie- Claire Alain in Paris, where he won a Premier Prix à l’unanimité avec les félicitations du Jury. He made his solo debut at the Royal Festival Hall in 1986 and his BBC Proms debut in 1990. He has performed in recitals and concertos at major festivals throughout the world. He has been organ consultant to Pembroke College, Oxford, the Chapel Royal at HM Tower of London and St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and currently Canterbury Cathedral. In 1999 he was awarded a fellowship (honoris causa) by the Royal College of Organists, and an honorary doctorate and professorship by the State University of Budapest. In 2010 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Huddersfield. In 2007, David was appointed as Artistic Director of the International Organ Festival at St Albans. David was appointed Head of Organ at the Academy in 1996 and was awarded honorary membership of the Royal Academy of Music in 2008.

■■Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Magdalena is Professor of Mammalian Development and Stem Cell Biology in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and an alumna of Sidney: she was a Senior Research Fellow, 1997–2003. After her PhD, Magdalena spent two years as a post-doctoral EMBO Fellow with Sir Martin Evans in Cambridge. In 1997, she started her own group in Cambridge where she was a Lister Institute Senior Research Fellow (1997–2002) and subsequently a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow. She was awarded a professorship at the University of Cambridge in 2010. She was elected Member of the EMBO in 2007, Fellow of the British Academy of Medical Science, 2013, and Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2016 and became a winner of the People’s Vote for Scientific Breakthrough of the Year (2016) by Science magazine. Apart from science, art is her passion.

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■■Dr Owen Weller Owen is an alumnus of Pembroke College, Cambridge: he matriculated in 2006 and read Natural Sciences. He went on to complete a DPhil in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford, researching the formation of the Tibetan plateau, graduating in 2014. He conducted a post-doctoral fellowship at Nagoya University in Japan during the latter half of 2014, analysing high-pressure rocks from the region, followed by two years at the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), mapping the terra incognita of the Canadian Arctic. He is now a lecturer in the Earth Sciences department, where he will continue to collaborate with the GSC to develop our knowledge of Arctic geology, and in turn geological processes operating during early Earth history. Academic Visitors ■■Dr Bhargavi Kalaenahalli Shivarudraiah (Pavate Fellow), Michaelmas 2016 Bhargavi completed her Masters in Physics from the University of Mysore in 2009 and followed it by a PhD from Karnatak University, Dharwad, in 2014. Since 2015 she has been working as an Assistant Professor at the Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, Karnataka, India. Her research centres on transport properties of semiconductor nanostructures.

■■Dr Harshan Kumarasingham (Visiting Fellow), Michaelmas 2016 Dr Harshan Kumarasingham is a political historian of British decolonisation and the subsequent state-building that followed across the world. He is a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Prior to this he was Smuts Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge. Harshan’s

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latest book is Constitution-Making in Asia – Decolonisation and State-Building in the Aftermath of the British Empire. While at the College he worked on a monograph that examined the Crown and its legacy in Asia.

■■Dr Shrishail Ramappa Gani (Pavate Fellow), Lent 2017 Dr Gani is an Assistant Professor at Karnatak University’s Karnatak Arts College, Dharwad, India. He graduated from Karnatak University, Dharwad, India and in 2006 completed his PhD on stochastic modeling of infectious disease dynamics. He was then Assistant Professor in Statistics at the Maharani Science College for Women, Mysore, India and returned to Karnatak University, Dharwad, in 2008. His research is in the mathematics of infectious diseases. Current projects include models of influenza strain dynamics, models of HIV mother-to-child transmission dynamics, models of the impact of media awareness programmes on controlling infectious diseases and deterministic and stochastic optimal control analysis.

■■Professor Jesús Palacios (Visiting Fellow), Lent 2017 Jesús is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Seville, Spain. He is an internationally recognised developmental psychologist who is particularly well- known for his contributions to research on the effects on children’s development of adoption and being in care and the development of policy in relation to adoption and fostering informed by research and developmental theory. His contributions in this domain are many and widespread; he has advised policy-makers throughout Europe (including here in the UK), North America, and Latin America, where his books are treated as definitive manuals and treatises.

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■■Professor Xiao-Ping Chen (Sandra Dawson Visiting Professor), Easter 2017 Xiao-Ping Chen is currently Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs at the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington. Professor Chen’s research interests include cooperation and competition in social dilemmas, teamwork and leadership, entrepreneur passion, Chinese guanxi, and cross-cultural communication and management.

■■Dr Jayashree Vivekanandan (Pavate Fellow), Easter 2017 Jayashree Vivekanandan is Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, South Asian University, New Delhi. Prior to joining SAU, she worked at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and was subsequently associated with the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. Her research interests include the interface between history and international relations, Indian strategic thought and practice, the politics of memory, critical security studies, and trans-boundary resource governance in South Asia.

■■Dr Tomasz Bilczewski (Visiting Fellow), Easter 2017 Tomasz Bilczewski, PhD, is Assistant Professor and Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. His academic interests include comparative literature, literary theory and history. He has authored two books, 40 papers and over 30 translations into Polish. His current projects include a world history of Polish literature; traumatic modernity: (post)memory and (Polish) literature; literary theory in Poland, 1914–2017; and comparative literature and national literature: representations, interpretations, translations.

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■■Professor Elie Ofek (Sandra Dawson Visiting Professor), Easter 2017 Elie Ofek is the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Professor Ofek’s research explores links between new product development and marketing decisions and looks at how companies can best integrate marketing input when formulating innovation strategies. His research also examines the implications of digital technologies on firms’ marketing mix decisions. His work has appeared in top management journals and he has co-authored a book on assessing the commercial potential of innovations. He has also written many business case studies and teaching materials.

■■Professor Don Hambrick (Sandra Dawson Visiting professor), Easter 2017 Don Hambrick is Evan Pugh University Professor and the Smeal Chaired Professor of Management, Smeal College of Business Administration, at Pennsylvania State University. He is also Bronfman Professor Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. Don is the author of numerous articles and books on strategy formulation, strategy implementation, executive psychology, executive staffing and incentives, the composition and processes of top management teams, and corporate governance.

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Dr Helen Castor’s TV programme on Women, Sex and Society was shown on the BBC in November 2016. Given that this year is the 40th anniversary of women being admitted to Sidney, it was apposite that Helen used the BBC archives to study the transformation of the rights and roles of women over the last 100 years. Professor Eugenio Biagini was one of the speakers on Radio 4’s In Our Time: Garibaldi and the Risorgimento in December 2016 and on Saturday 7 January

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2017 Radio 4’s Archive Hour was devoted to the life and work of Lord Asa Briggs (see obituary in the 2016 Annual, page 108). In March there was coverage of the Commons’ Foreign Affairs Committee reporting on the implications of the UK leaving the EU without a deal. Professor Kenneth Armstrong presented a great deal of evidence to the Committee and will have heavily influenced its conclusions. Following on from Kenneth Armstrong’s evidence to Parliament, Professor Michael Pollitt appeared before the BEIS select committee warning that withdrawing the UK from the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) would have a potentially serious effect on tackling climate change. On 16 June Kenneth Armstrong was on BBC’s Look East and the following day featured in the BBC World Service Weekend show, discussing Brexit negotiations. Also in March, the research of Dr David Skinner, Osborn Director of Music, was covered in an article in the Sunday Telegraph. It reported on the unearthing of a work by Thomas Tallis with words by Katherine Parr. King Henry VIII’s sixth wife collaborated with Tallis to write music to rally her husband for war. David oversaw the 21st-century debut of Tallis’s Gaude gloriosa Dei Mater, accompanied by words written in English by Parr herself. In April the work received its first London performance in more than 470 years, given by the Alamire choir at the Tenebrae Holy Week Festival in St John’s Smith Square on Good Friday. The event was covered both on BBC Breakfast and the Today programme as well as BBC’s In Tune, the Daily Mail, Country Life, and various web blogs. The CD was released in November 2017 by Obsidian Records. An article in the Times in March reported on a new discovery at Herculaneum. It was prompted by Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill’s sold- out talk at the Science Festival about the reconstruction of a Roman roof and painted wooden ceiling that survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79. New Fellow Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz’s work on artificial mouse ‘embryos’ grown from stem cells received extremely wide coverage across the scientific and popular press. Another of our new Fellows, Dr Owen Weller’s paper on Nature Geoscience also appeared in the New Scientist the following week. Christopher Page (Fellow, 1985) writes: ‘The Consortium for Guitar Research at Sidney Sussex College once again held a three-day conference in April 2017. For the first time, invitations were sent to a number of graduates and doctorate students so there were 18 delegates in all. The Old Library proved a perfect venue for a range of papers on historic plucked instruments between

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the 17th century and the 19th. These will be published next year in the OUP journal Early Music. On Friday 19 May the Choir was joined by Professor Rosamond McKitterick at a special evensong showcasing our wonderful Taylor & Boody chamber organ, which Rosamond helped finance. The choir sang Byrd’s Second Service (one of the earliest verse services for choir and organ), and, by special request, Lord let me know mine end by Maurice Greene. Professor Dame Ann Dowling was guest editor of Woman’s Hour on Radio 4 on 28 June. She discussed why girls make the decisions about which subjects they study at GCSE, A-Level and degree level, as well as the huge breadth of modern engineering – from medical imaging and therapy, to wifi and mobile phones. Ann also combined her research on aircraft noise with her passion for opera, as she discussed the power of the human voice. In his new book, geographer Dr David Beckingham looks at the rigorous licensing regime that Liverpool’s authorities put in place in the 19th and 20th centuries to tighten their grip on problem drinking in the pubs that proliferated across the city. Similar attitudes frame today’s perceptions of public and private alcohol consumption. The Licensed City charts a period when Liverpool saw phenomenal growth as a booming port with global reach across Britain’s empire. Its population grew tenfold – soaring from just 77,000 in 1801 to 700,000 at the end of the century – as the city absorbed workers seeking employment on ships, in its docks and allied industries. The Licensed City: Regulating Drink in Liverpool, 1830–1920 is published by Liverpool University Press. Ajit Bhalla (Fellow, 1997–2001 and President of the Sidney Club of Geneva) published two books this year: Imperial India: A Pictorial History (London, New Millennium Publishing) and a second and expanded edition of Poverty and Exclusion of Minorities in China and India (London, Palgrave Macmillan). Chris Page has been invited to become a member of the Academia Europaea, which aims to promote a wider appreciation of the value of European scholarship and research. Rick Sowerby shared the award for best first monograph for his bookAngels in Early Medieval England from the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists. The College celebrated the 80th birthday of Professor James Mayall, Editor of the College Annual, on the last Friday Formal Hall of Lent Term, followed by a garden party at his home.

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Alumni and Development ■■The Development and Membership Office The past year has been an exciting and productive one for the Development and Membership Office. The office has enjoyed a period of continuity in staffing that has increased our capacity and, we hope, improved the quality of service we are able to offer our alumni and friends. I am grateful for the hard work of my colleagues and their support, as well as that offered by College members and friends, and I very much look forward to the prospect of another successful year in 2017–18. I would also like to express my personal thanks to our student intern, Philip Wilkinson (2016), for his enthusiastic and valuable support, as well as to Georgie Tyas (2013), who joined us for last year’s highly successful telephone campaign, and Tony Willenbruch (1970) who very helpfully volunteered his time to work with us from January to March.

■■Fundraising This year has been a successful one for fundraising, with gifts for the year ending 30 June 2017 totalling £4.7 million. The College is hugely grateful for the support it receives, at whatever level, from its alumni and friends. Thanks to the immense generosity of its donors, the College has been able to attract and support the very best students irrespective of their circumstances by providing financial, academic and pastoral assistance. We have been very grateful, in particular, for significant support for bursaries offered this year by

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Mrs Ann Ewart (in memory of Charles Ewart, (1956)), Mr Keith Frey (1960) (in memory of Frances L. Frey), Mr Nadir Mahmud (1977), Dr Dirk Pouli (1959) and Ms Mary Pouli-Sosnowski (in memory of Wilhelmina Nieuwland Pouli) and Mr Steve White (1969). The College is also committed to fostering an outstanding experience for the entire Sidney community. This includes providing the resources needed for academic and extra-curricular success – we would like to express our particular gratitude to Mrs Patricia Brown (Montagu Fellow) for her support for Sidney’s choir – while transforming our historic buildings into world-class facilities for the 21st century. Sidney is about to embark on an exciting building project: the relocation of the College kitchen and the creation of a second dining space. We are delighted that we have secured a major gift that will go a long way to making this once-in-a-generation project a reality and look forward to keeping alumni and friends updated with news of progress on this ambitious proposal. The College has once again had reason to be grateful to those who have remembered Sidney in their wills. The Lady Frances Sidney Circle was established to acknowledge the proposed generosity of those leaving a legacy to the College in their lifetime. In September 2016, members were invited for lunch in Hall, which was preceded by a wonderful lecture and recital by Dr Ceri Owen, Research Fellow in Music, and baritone Dominic Sedgwick, a Jette Parker Young Artist at the Royal Opera House. The support of those who are considering leaving a legacy to Sidney makes an important contribution to the College’s future, for which everybody here is very grateful. Similarly, the 1596 Foundation enables us to recognise our most generous supporters and has grown to over 130 members. The annual 1596 Foundation Dinner was this year held on Saturday 6 May, and Dr Owen was able to persuade Dominic Sedgwick to return to Sidney once more, to general acclaim. We were delighted that Mrs Shalni Arora (1989), Mr Chris Gill and Mr Paul Zatz (1958) were able to join us for their induction into the 1596 Foundation in recognition of their generosity to the College. In the past year, we were also pleased to offer membership of the Foundation to Mr Peter Allen (1959), Mr Keith Frey (1960), Mr Nadir Mahmud (1977), Dr Dirk Pouli (1959), Mrs Mary Pouli-Sosnowski, Mr Steve White (1969), Mr David Wong (1983) and Mr Michael Young QC (1990). The College appreciates their commitment and support very much.

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■■Events, Reunions and Societies This year we took the opportunity to mark 40 years since the admission of women as undergraduates at Sidney in 1976. The year of celebrations began with a launch event on 22 October 2016. Alumni were invited to join members of the Fellowship, students and staff for a day that featured two fantastic panel discussions involving women from the Sidney community past and present, followed by a fascinating whistle-stop tour through the history of women at the College from our keynote speaker, the eminent research chemist Professor Sue Gibson (1978). The evening began with the world premiere of Joanna Marsh’s (1989) specially composed anthem Martha and Mary by the Choir. Pre-dinner drinks followed in the Audit Room, before a special formal dinner in Hall. In March, a group of Sidney members based in the USA joined the Master and Development Director for dinner after a panel discussion and reception celebrating 40 years of women at Sidney, Selwyn and Trinity Hall, hosted by Cambridge in America. We were delighted that Ms Kym Taylor (2001) featured on the stellar panel of alumnae at this event, which celebrated the remarkable achievements of women at Cambridge. (See also articles by Professor Rebecca Kilner and Mrs Sally Simmons, pages 14–18.) The formal inauguration and blessing of the College’s new organ took place on 19 November 2016. The spectacular Flentrop organ, the acquisition of which was made possible by the generosity of Montagu Fellow and 1596 Foundation Member Mrs Patricia Brown, took centre stage at a special recital by Professor David Titterington (Fellow Commoner). In December, the enthusiastic support from the Sidney members who joined us at Twickenham was rewarded with the first Varsity Match victory since 2009 for Cambridge’s men’s side. On 21 January 2017, the Sidney Sussex Boat Club Alumni Dinner brought a record 116 current rowers and former members back to College for a double celebration of 180 years of rowing and 40 years of women. Alumni, Fellows and students came together in February for the Triennial Dinner of the Sidney Sussex Medical and Veterinary Society, at which Dr Neha Pathak (2006) gave a fascinating talk as guest speaker. Reunions provide us with the opportunity to welcome alumni back to College. On 24 September 2016, 145 matriculands of 1995, 1996 and 1997 and their guests enjoyed afternoon tea in Cloister Court before College members dined together in Hall. The following day, those who joined Sidney in 1959 and before, together with matriculands from 2000 to 2009 returned for their Decade Reunion Lunch and in July, we were delighted to host those who matriculated

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in 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1963 at their reunion. It has been a pleasure to see so many members return to Sidney for these events, which provide an opportunity to reconnect with old friends and catch up with news from the College. Sidney’s various alumni societies have arranged a lively selection of events in the course of the last year. The Sidney Sussex Society enjoyed a day at Huntingdon Races under the expert guidance of Dr Colin Roberts (Fellow in Veterinary Medicine) in October, before gathering at the Doggett’s Coat and Badge, Blackfriars, for the annual Christmas Reception. In April, the Society made its fourth visit to Westminster Abbey where the Choir sang Evensong before a drinks reception at the Old Star. In July, a group enjoyed a weekend trip to Durham to tour the University and Cathedral. Also in April, Quadrant Chambers hosted the 13th annual John Thornely Lecture, which was delivered by leading silk Poonam Melwani, QC (1985). On a personal note, I was delighted to join the Sidney Club of Geneva for their Annual Dinner in May and am grateful for the warm welcome I received. For more information on forthcoming events or Sidney’s alumni societies more generally, please visit www.sid.cam.ac.uk/alumni/societies. Dr Jillaine Seymour, Development Director

International Programmes

The College is involved in several international exchange programmes at post- graduate and undergraduate level. We reported last year (2016 Annual, page 52) on the establishment of the Pavate Travel Bursary following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the College and the University of Karnatak at Dharwad. The first holder of the bursary in 2016 was Dr Edward Wilson-Lee, although in the event he visited Dharwad in January and February 2017 and was attached to the English Department. He was accompanied by his wife and children and his impressions of his visit follow immediately after this report. The 2017 bursary has been awarded to Dr Davendra Namburi,

44 college news a post-doctoral research associate in the Engineering Department. He has been appointed also to a Research Associateship in Sidney and will hosted by the Physics Department in Dharwad. The three Pavate fellows to visit Cambridge this year were Dr Shrishail Ramappa Gani, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Karnataka Arts College, Dharwad, who worked in DAMTP on the mathematics of infectious diseases, particularly the transmission of HIV; Dr Jayashree Vivekanandan, Assistant Professor in International Relations at South Asian University, New Delhi, who was based in the South Asia Centre and POLIS and conducted research on the politics of post-colonial display in British museums; and Mr Ketan Laxmikant Deshpande, who joined Judge Business School in September to study the marketing of social entrepreneurship projects in Karnataka and India. The Fox International Fellowship Programme was endowed by Joseph Carrère Fox (Yale, 1938) and his wife Alison Barbour Fox. After graduating from Yale, Joseph Fox studied at Cambridge and in 2001 he was made a Fellow Commoner of the University. The Fox International Fellowship Programme funds student exchanges between Yale University and 12 other international universities, including Cambridge. Sidney is the Cambridge connection for the programme. Each year Sidney hosts students from Yale and coordinates the Cambridge selection process. The Graduate Tutors’ Report (pages 29–31) provides details of the students who took part in the programme last year and are taking part this year. The Erasmus exchange programme provides opportunities for undergraduates to spend a year at another European university. This year Anna Scriven went to the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier, where she studied German and French, and Lucy Mahon went to Poitiers, Paris, to study Law. Sam Parker went to Universidad Complutense de Madrid where he studied at the Philological Faculty. The incoming students were Adeline Arniac, who was the French Lectrice and studied English; Thomas Grelier, who studied Law; Giovanni Farina, who studied Mathematics; and Pedro Barbero-Alvarez from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, who studied English. Under an exchange programme with MIT, Jacques Elliott went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Smriti Pramanick came to Sidney. Both studied Computer Science. Professor James Mayall

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Dr Edward Wilson-Lee (Fellow in English, 2010) the first holder of the Pavate Travel bursary, writes: Over the last decade and a half, Sidney’s Fellows have been lucky enough to host a different Indian scholar every academic term, brought over by the generosity of the Pavate Foundation in honour of the memory of D. C. Pavate, a Sidney graduate (and a Wrangler in 1929) who went on to have an enormous impact on India during the turbulent period following his return from Cambridge, culminating in his appointment as the Governor of Punjab. In hopes of extending and deepening this relationship, the Pavate Foundation has now inaugurated a fund to take Cambridge scholars to the university created in its present form by D. C. Pavate in Dharwad, a town in Karnataka state in central southern India. I was delighted to be selected as the first recipient of this award, which allowed me to travel to India (for the first time) from December 2016 to February 2017, taking with me my wife, two sons, research work, and many unanswered questions about the country. It was wonderful to find upon arriving that Pavate’s link to Sidney meant that many there already felt a connection with the College, making our welcome more like a homecoming than a step into the unknown. During our two months in Dharwad I was attached to the Department of English, where I gave lectures and practical criticism- style classes, as well as spending time talking to research scholars about their work and sharing ideas from our fields that might develop or challenge our methodologies. There were many extraordinary, engaged and engaging students – Edward and sons at the Chandramouleshwara often rather shy and reluctant at Temple in Hubli, Karnataka first, but quickly afterwards warm

46 college news and generous with their thoughts – who made teaching there a pleasure, and helped greatly to expand my knowledge of Indian literature and culture (while hopefully gaining something from my own expertise). The campus of Karnatak University is an island of leafy calm, set back from the bustle of the city, and we were delighted to spend two months ensconced among the innumerable wild pigs and the monkeys that lounged on the top of the university buildings holding meetings, lectures and seminars of their own. The campus’s ‘green library ‘, which provides an outdoor space designed for study, seemed like a particularly desirable pattern to imitate as life at Cambridge evolves. Dharwad also served as an excellent base from which to explore southern India, though given the riches of Karnataka state there was little need to venture too far. The extraordinary 16th-century temple complex at Hampi, which deserves to be every bit as famous as the Valley of the Kings or Machu Pichu; the Golconda Fort and Charminar at Hyderabad, birthplace of the biryani (though some might dispute that claim); broad-avenued Mysore; the Western Ghats, mountains that swoop up and down between Goa and Dharwad, with trees at impossibly steep angles and jaguars, forest elephants and giant hornbills; and Goa itself, an immaculate Indo-Portuguese confection, filled with extraordinary hybrids of these two worlds – each of these places was a revelation in its own right, and together made for an eye-opening couple of months. It is hoped that this new scheme will send another Cambridge academic to Dharwad every year from now on, with a preference for Sidney Fellows and graduate students (but other members of the University getting a look in every now and then). The links to students and academics at Dharwad will doubtless have a lifelong effect on my thinking, teaching, and writing, and at their end they proved endlessly open and receptive to what a Cambridge exchange has to offer. It is wonderful to think that a single person’s connection can establish a portal between two parts of the world that feel very distant from one another, but needn’t be.

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Staff News

As another year passes at Sidney, we welcome a number of new members of staff and say farewell to others. The Domus Bursar, Keith Willox, retired after 10 years at the College. He is replaced by Albie Ray, who was previously at the Royal Opera House. Former Sidney student Grace Dickinson joined the Admissions team as Schools Liaison Officer. The Porters’ Lodge welcomed two new members, David Wright and Colin Every. Angela Parr-Burman retired from her role as Graduate Tutors’ Assistant and was replaced by Gillian Johnstone. Andrea De Leo joined the Kitchen team as a Kitchen Porter and Amaya Delgado Adalid returned to her role of Senior Catering Assistant. Hannah Bostock replaced former Sidney student Lou Cantwell as Development Administrator in August. Head House Porter John Bushell and Porter Jan Dean retired and we also said goodbye to Karolina Jankowska, Christina Sanchez Avila and Flavia Bartoletti from Hall, Jane Fowler from Housekeeping and Colin Tye from IT. Four members of staff received long service awards at the Staff Annual Meeting in December, all of whom had clocked up 10 years’ service with the College. They were College Nurse Jenny Taylor, House Porter Nabil Bousquet, Bedmaker Jane Fowler and Deputy Head Chef Phil Crouch.

From left: Nabil Bousquet, Jenny Taylor, Jane Fowler

The Catering team had another successful year at competitions, with Robert Blackwell gaining silver and best in class for his chocolate petits fours at the Hospitality Show at the NEC. Rob also earned a gold and best in show for

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his selection of afternoon desserts at the TUCO competition held at Warwick University. In addition, Tomasz Zaborowski, who has recently become an apprentice Chef having been Kitchen Porter for a number of years, received a merit in his first competition for his vegan entry at the Hospitality Show. Last year we were approached by the ITV show Grantchester requesting the use of one of our hostels for their new series. We were happy to oblige and enjoyed meeting the stars of the show and watching the team transform the hostel into a 1950s-style house.

The Master’s PA and The Bursar’s PA with James Norton

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Congratulations to our Head Porter Colin Maxted who was shortlisted for a Student-Led Teaching Award in the Pastoral Support category. Over 600 nominations were received from students in the various categories, which were then narrowed down by a series of student judging panels. Another year brings more celebrations among the staff. Housekeeping Assistant, Malgorzata Liszewska gave birth to a baby boy on 11 November 2016 and Master’s PA Sheryl Anderson welcomed her first grandchild, Esme, in December.

Librarian Alan Stevens married his partner Laura on Saturday 1 July 2017 in a ceremony at Haslingfield Methodist Church, the first wedding to be held there in 10 years. On Saturday 1 July David Graves (Tutorial Office Manager) was among a group of 12 riders who rode for just over 4 hours 30 minutes, covering 43 miles, along the tracks and bridleways of North Essex and South Cambridgeshire, all in aid of the Arthur Rank Hospice. Thanks to the kind donations of our colleagues, friends and families they raised £1,745 (£2,131.25 including Gift Aid) for this truly deserving charity.

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Anna Volund in the Accounts Office walked 10,000 steps every day in June (150 miles in total) and raised over £400 for Cancer Research UK.

Staff and Fellows enjoyed the annual Christmas lunch at Christ’s College in December, a Christmas service and party for the children and a summer barbecue in the Master’s Garden in July. We also held an Easter Egg Hunt and competition for the best Easter bonnet. Sharon Bentley, Bursar’s PA and HR Assistant

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College Buildings

The College’s programme of upgrading all its student accommodation ended in 2017. Around £12 million has been spent on accommodation, of which about 50% has been funded by the generosity of our alumni and friends. The 44 rooms in the Portugal Street houses that we leased from St John’s have been replaced with rooms in College. The last two houses in Portugal Street will be surrendered in 2018. Thirty-five additional student rooms have been created. The final phase of the project is the renovation of Kent and Harrington Houses in Sussex Street. These properties have six flats for Fellows and 11 student rooms. The project will create an additional four student rooms and a large eat-in kitchen. The project is proving particularly challenging as we are having to deal with UK Power Networks, so we hope we will not have a renovated building but no power. The next phase of the building programme will be the kitchen and dining room project. The plan is to extend the basement of the Mong Hall under the terrace in the Master’s Garden to create a new kitchen. The current kitchen will become a new dining hall and an expanded servery. Having obtained planning consent, the first phase of the project will start in July 2018. This phase involves digging the hole for the kitchen and undertaking the archaeology. Assuming that the archaeology does not throw up any issues, we will start the second phase in October 2018, during which the new kitchen will be built. The final phase, when the old kitchen is stripped out, and the new servery and dining room created, will start in July 2019. The project has been phased so that we can continue with catering throughout the project and without the cost of a temporary kitchen. Nevertheless, the project will be disruptive to life in College. The Master’s Garden will be a building site, the passage by the Mong will be closed for a term, the Mong Hall will be closed for much of the programme, we will lose the use of the Malcolm Street car park and the Master’s Lodge will be out of use for five months. Despite all this the life of the College will go on. The project is expected to cost something over £10 million and we have already received over £3 million in donations. We will have additional event space, increased capacity and greater flexibility for catering. We will be able to hold events, such as formal dinners, concerts, talks and plays in the Hall and still feed the College. It will mean we will be able to run catering throughout the day and serve cafeteria food well into the evening. This is something students want – eating together and socialising is an important part of College life. Nick Allen, Bursar 52 college news

Music and Chapel Choir

This was an exceptional year for the Chapel and Choir, marked by a number of events surrounding the arrival of our Flentrop organ in September 2016 and the start of our Choir Endowment project. The year also included a high- profile CD release as well as tours to Germany, Rome, Dubai and Amman. In Michaelmas Term the Choir was young and there was much to do, so little time was spared in gearing up to our usual standard. With returning Choir members in place, we welcomed our new Organ Scholar, Jim Cooper, and new Choral Scholars Katie Kirschbaum, Jacob Henstridge, Wilf Jones, Tim Fairbairn, Mark Thornton and Ollie Winters. The scene was set, the Organ Scholars were familiarising themselves with the new organ, and we were raring to go. First up was a new work, Martha and Mary, by our Composer in Residence, Joanna Marsh, written to commemorate the 40th anniversary of women in Sidney and first performed on 22 October. This was followed by the Flentrop Inauguration on Saturday 19 November, when we were first able to perform publicly with the new organ. After a short ceremony, this marvellous instrument burst forth in its full glory at the hands (and feet) of our former Musician in Residence, Stephen Farr, who delighted us with a Toccata by Dutch composer Maurius Monnikendam, displaying not only Farr’s virtuosic skills, but also the range and compass of our new organ. The Choir then sang Charles H. H. Parry’s epic Hear my words, which clearly demonstrated that Sidney now has an organ that perfectly complements its Choir. The following day we enjoyed a thoughtful and beautifully played inaugural recital by our Organ Consultant and Fellow Commoner, Professor David Titterington, which preceded the first Choral Evensong with the Flentrop in full use. Our first term and annual carol service complete, the Choir toured its ‘English Advent’ programme in Germany, with concerts in Bonn, Cologne, Frankfurt and Offenbach am Main. The traditional Christmas markets were perfect venues for ad hoc singing, and we even had time to enjoy one of the ice-skating rinks in Frankfurt. We returned earlier in the Easter break to sing Evensong at Westminster Abbey, a now popular alumni event complete with the singing of the College Grace at the tomb of Lady Frances Sidney. Next up was a return to Rome in April for our now traditional ‘Four Basilicas’ tour. Singing in St Peter’s, Vatican City, is always a memorable experience, as it is in the other basilicas of St John, St Mary Major and St Paul’s, but thanks to our Italian agent, Marcella Medaglia, we also had concerts in Sapienza University and in

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Sidney Choir on ice in Frankfurt Singing in Rome’s Colosseum

the small ancient town of Melfi, some hours south of Rome, in celebration of the 1,000th year of its foundation. There we were greeted enthusiastically, and appeared in the local newspaper and on television. But certainly the highlight of our tour was performing in the Flavian Amphitheatre (the Colosseum) on 21 April, Rome’s 2,770th ‘birthday’. Our tour also coincided with a CD release of music by Roman composer Claudio Dall’Albero, which was met with universal praise in both the Italian and English press. In Easter Term the Choir was hard at work not only for the end-of-year examinations, but also in preparation for our summer tour and return to Dubai. We were there some four years previously, but this time we decided to offer something quite new to the Middle East in the form of a ‘Choral play’, which was devised by Joanna Marsh, with a script written and directed by Sidney soprano Alice Chilcott. It is a story of a mean and cantankerous Music Man (played by the Osborn Director of Music) whose daughter Aisha wished to marry a young

Sidney Choir posing among the ruins of the Joint performance of Arabic music, Temple of Hercules in Amman complete with ouds

54 college news man, Xavier, who could not sing. Xavier travelled around the world so he might learn the vocal skills required to appease the Music Man. His adventures brought him to South Africa, the Antarctic and the USA in search of song, which was delivered by Sidney Choir in various disguises. We staged the production in the new Dubai Opera house with four Taking the plunge in Wadi Al Salayta packed performances. We then took the outside Amman two-hour flight northwest to Amman in Jordan, where Xavier and Aisha’s Amazing Choral Adventure was performed twice again and we completed our Amman experience by taking part in a joint concert with two Jordanian choirs. After Sidney Choir’s set, the three choirs joined together for two Arabic songs complete with a band of 10 ouds (a very early version of the western lute). But we also had time for sightseeing and adventure. Highlights included a visit to the Amman Citadel, with an amazing combination of Roman, Christian and Muslim ruins, as well as a trip to Wadi Al Salayta, where we were guided through the bottom of a deep valley with dives into deep freshwater pools and even some abseiling. It was certainly a most memorable year, and we were sad to say our farewells to the leavers. We wish the very best of luck to Charlotte Rowan (Senior Choral Scholar), Emily Russell, Sarah Lorimer, Sarah Howden, Robert Folkes, Nicholas Lee, Nicholas Wong and David Lawrence. I want to thank all members of the Choir for their hard work, patience, dedication and superb musicianship. I am also grateful to my colleagues at Sidney for their continued support, including the Master, Bursar, Senior Tutor and College Chaplain. We look forward this year to further Roman collaborations, a CD dedicated to the music of Joanna Marsh and a summer tour to the USA. Sidney music stays strong and vibrant thanks to the generosity of our donors, to whom we are eternally grateful. The Choir Endowment, thanks to David Harrison and most recently Patricia Brown, now covers six of our 24 singers. I’ve had many goals in my now 11 years at Sidney, and, when accomplished, this will complete the hard work we have all put into securing the future of Sidney music for many generations to come. David Skinner, Osborn Director of Music

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The Year in Chapel

■■Editor’s Note The new nave altar illustrated here has been made possible by a gift from Heather Jemson in memory of her husband David Jemson (Natural Sciences, 1951), who died on 18 April 2015 (see 2015 Annual, page 115).

My second academic year as the Chaplain and Pastoral Tutor of Sidney Sussex has been a momentous one. Perhaps the highlight of the year in terms of Chapel came in the Michaelmas Term, when, in a celebratory weekend in November, we dedicated our magnificent new Flentrop organ – the installation of which had turned the Chapel into a building site for most of summer 2016. If it has been some time since you’ve visited College, it is worth returning for an Evensong just to see and hear this wonderful instrument. Beyond the new organ, Chapel has continued to be a place where musical excellence is to the fore. Our Choir is going from strength to strength – this year having toured Germany, Rome, the Gulf States and Jordan – and their support and participation in the weekly round of services continues to grace the

56 college news worship in this Chapel with something special. At the more secular end of the musical life in the Chapel, this year saw it hosting an incredibly well supported performance of Purcell’s short opera Dido and Aeneas by the Sidney Sussex College Music Society. And in the Easter Term we began a series of keyboard recitals before Sunday Evensongs as a way to showcase the fine piano, organs and harpsichord the Chapel currently contains. But music in a Cambridge Chapel is always, and in the end, instrumental to another purpose. It is there to enhance the provision and quality of the worship on offer. And that round of worship, be it Choral Evensong, Latin Vespers, Corporate Communion, or just the Chaplain and whoever else might turn up to say prayers on a wet weekday morning, is the very purpose of a Chapel. Its purpose is to keep alive, at the centre of collegiate life, a perspective on a broader horizon than the prosaic and empirical. It is there, as I said last year, to provoke ‘a deeper level of questioning and wondering, both individual and corporate’. To that end, in addition to worship and prayer, preaching also remains at the heart of the Chapel’s life. This year saw a raft of excellent and challenging sermons by, among others, Bishop Stephen of Ely, Sam Wells (Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London), and Elaine Storkey, a past president of Tearfund, as well as a noted theologian and social commentator. We also heard a sermon by a relatively recent alumna of Sidney, Dr Ruth Jackson, a promising theologian and philosopher of religion who returned in the new academic year to take up a Research Fellowship in the College. Cambridge is a place of constant innovation and yet deep continuity. Things keep changing, but other things maintain the steady beat of tradition. In our Chapel we aspire to capture both tenors of Cambridge life. Here an old faith is ever new, drawing on the wisdom of centuries, but doing so to speak afresh today. Here the music and prayers of centuries find a place, alongside attempts to speak the realities behind that music and prayer in innovative and challenging ways to a new generation of students. That is, simply, what we do here. Reverend Dr Brett Gray, Chaplain

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The Library During the summer of 2015, although I never mentioned it in the 2016 report, we rearranged the Law stock, bringing the lending and reference books together in the Mackenzie Stuart Room, and putting various less-used things into storage. This left us with more easily accessible free shelf space at the far end. Since then, and especially since the summer of 2016, we have taken advantage of this space to do a lot of stock editing, a process of taking unissued books from the shelves, consulting with the Archivist and the Directors of Studies, offering remaining books around the libraries of the University, and finally sending books for sale online. Adding books that Fellows had donated for sale, we sent 40 boxes of books away this year. Various magazines from the New Parlour now find their way into the Library after an interval of a few months, including Private Eye, History Today and the New York Review of Books. They can now be found on newish shelving in the Armchair Corner. This leads me to talk about our various upcycled furniture items, collected over several years of keen scavenging. The DVD display units at the foot of the spiral staircase are from Saffron Walden Library, the tall pale shelf units in the Armchair Corner and on the end of Classics are from the old Central Science Library, and the dark wood shelves near the book lift were plucked from a skip in the King Street car park. I could go on. In fact I will: a small shelving unit came from my previous neighbours, the lockers on the Ground Floor were previously in the Post Room, and the large shelving units against the outside of the spiral staircase once languished despairingly beside a skip in the Malcolm Street car park. On Wednesday 3 May, following student feedback, discussions at the Education Committee, consultation of the Library Committee and logistical pondering by staff, we suspended the Ground Floor laptop ban as an experiment. It was a huge success, leading to increased use of the Ground Floor, a better balance between use of the floors and no observed or reported problems with excessive noise. I’m pleased to report that on 13 June the Library Committee decided to recommend to Council that the laptop ban be permanently removed. After discussions with the Academic Welfare Officer, we also transferred out onto the Ground Floor various items previously held in the Library Office, including some sets of medical flash cards, the model brain and the model larynx (‘What’s that thing?’ ‘It’s not as cute as the panda, is it?’)

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I spy in this year’s photograph: Natural Sciences undergraduate Isobel Ollard being very patient while I take photographs; the larynx; a laptop in use on the Ground Floor; a poster for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017 and the shortlisted books on display below it; the Archivist’s notes for the ‘Cromwell’s Cambridge’ exhibition; the header for the Sidney Sussex Boat Club exhibition – ‘By far the greatest boat club the world has ever seen’; boxes of books waiting to be sent off for sale online; psychology books on offer to other libraries in the University; and decorative Easter term butterflies on the Library Office windows.

On Monday 24 April a robin flew into the Library. Being a Cambridge robin, it didn’t panic, make a mess and obsess about mealworms, but instead showed a clear preference for Mediaeval European history, and 19th-century French literature. After we cut down its exit options by standing in tactical positions (thank you, Luca Donini) it flew back out via an open window to audition for a part in Trevor’s Garden Notes. The next time you see one perched on a spade, it may be pondering complex problems in Balzac studies, or the fate of the Carolingian Empire. Alan Stevens, Librarian

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Muniment Room The Muniment Room has now recovered from the flood of June 2015. The Old Strongroom was redecorated and new carpet tiles laid in the strongroom and the Basement. Then on 2 March 2017 38 boxes and four crates of flood- damaged items returned from Harwell, where they had been treated. The Archivist spent much of the Lent and Easter Terms assessing and relocating the material. There were, fortunately, only a few cases where the damage was too severe for conservation. Those archives that were in archival boxes or folders were mostly protected from the worst of the water damage. As part of their conservation service Harwell provided replacement folders for these items. In October–December there were nine external visitors, consulting 12 items. These included Dr Lovas, of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, who came to examine our copy of the Explicationes of the Transylvanian Unitarian Bishop György Enyedi. Access to the Muniment Room was limited in the Lent Term because of the Archivist’s absence first on jury service and then on sick leave for an eye operation. The Librarian’s assistance in dealing with enquiries during this period was much appreciated. It was possible to enable eight external visitors to consult 22 items. In the Easter Term there was a sudden rise in the use of the Muniment Room, with 91 items consulted by 13 external visitors. This increase was largely due to a systematic examination of the Micklethwaite collection carried out by Dr Theodor Dunkelgrün of St John’s and Scott Mandelbrote of Peterhouse, which yielded much new bibliographical information about this important collection of early Hebraica. Further books were identified as having belonged to 16th-century English Hebraists. Judah Halevi, Sefer HaKuzari Thanks to the great generosity of John (Venice: Meir Parenzo, 1547), with Osborn, in April 2017 the digitised version of ownership inscription in Arabic Ward MS B, Samuel Ward’s draft translation script (Y.5.18).

60 college news of 1 Esdras for the King James Bible, accompanied by a commentary by Jeffrey Miller, was made available as the first Sidney item to be hosted in the Cambridge Digital Library: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-WARD-B/1 It is hoped that, as funding becomes available, further items from Sidney’s collections will be made available to scholars in this way. In March Françoise Richard of the Conservation Consortium completed the repair of three 18th-century maps of College property in Saleby and Thoresthorpe, Lincolnshire (Box 33/3, 4, 10). Marked ‘of little use, the Parish being inclosed’, these maps and the accompanying terriers are valuable cartographic records of pre-enclosure Lincolnshire. Also completed at the same time was the extensive repair of the collected works of William Pattison, ‘the Sidney poet’, published posthumously in 1728. The Consortium also carried out minor repairs on various other items, and prepared mounts for the exhibitions. The Michaelmas Term exhibition, ‘From Foundress to Fellow’, marking the 40th anniversary of the admission of female undergraduates at Sidney, looked at the impact of women, from Masters’ wives to bedders, on the College prior

Saleby windmill, detail from terrier of Saleby and Thoresthorpe (Box 33/3).

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H.T. Ferrar’s Cap, awarded in 1898 Spectators at May Week races, c. 1886, detail (on loan from private collection) from photograph by Scott & Wilkinson

to 1976. Women featured included Martha, the wife of Samuel Ward, and their daughter Mary Birchmore, the first female inhabitants of Sidney; Edith Phelps, who chose the present College colours; and Lilian Eunice Neville, the first Fellow’s wife. Visitors were also remembered, such as the group of suffragists who called on Robert Phelps in 1883 and Dorothy L. Sayers, who lectured on Dante’s Inferno at Sidney. Two exhibitions were mounted for the Lent Term, a display of works by Luther and his opponents, commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, and a selection of illustrations of heraldic beasts. In the Easter Term the 180th anniversary of the College Boat Club was commemorated by a display, entitled ‘By far the greatest Boat Club the world has ever seen!’, which mixed minute books, poetry, photographs and rowing memorabilia. The Archivist was assisted in the selection of material by Mr Tim Schmalz, a graduate student. Fellows’ publications by Professor Armstrong, Professor Biagini, Professor Gerstle, Dr Gray, Dr Lambert, Dr Skinner and Mr Wilmer were received by the Muniment Room. The following gifts were received: Claudio Dall’Albero, Trittico di Cantabrigia per organo (Roma, 2016), a composition for the new organ, presented by the composer. Ajit Bhalla, Glimpses of Medieval Switzerland (London, 2015), presented by the author, 2017. John Davis, The Greatest Gift (Swanage, 2012), presented by the author (matric. 1945).

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Richard Flower, Imperial Invectives against Constantius II (Liverpool, 2016), presented by the author, 2017. Hew Strachan, Wellington’s Legacy: The Reform of the British Army, 1830–54 (Manchester, 1984), presented by Professor Beales, 2016. Jonathan Darby, the son of Geoffrey Darby (1948, d. 2012) presented an interesting collection of papers relating to his father’s time at Sidney, including the poster for his production of Hamlet at the ADC. A menu and seating plan for the Honorary Degree Luncheon held at Sidney on 29 October 1926 was transferred from St John’s archives to the Muniment Room (see below). The Archivist completed his revision of the online bibliography of monumental brasses and incised slabs, originally published by the Monumental Brass Society in 2002. This was made available in autumn 2017. Nicholas Rogers, Archivist

Honorary Degrees, 1926

A welcome addition (Box 79/16) to our collection of College menu cards, transferred from St John’s archives, is the menu and seating plan of the luncheon on 29 October 1926 preceding the Congregation at which Honorary Degrees were conferred on the economist Sir Josiah Stamp and the composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski. Sidney was the location since the Vice-Chancellor at the time was the Master, the Revd George Arthur Weekes. Josiah Stamp (1880–1941) began his career in the Inland Revenue and soon developed a reputation as an expert on taxation policy. In 1924 he was one of the experts who helped formulate the Dawes Plan, which revived the German economy and thereby eased the burden of war reparations. After a brief time in the chemical industry, in 1926 Stamp became President of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (‘viarum rector ferratarum’, as the Orator put it). He served as an economic adviser to the government throughout the 1920s and 30s, and became associated with Chamberlain’s cautious policy towards economic preparation for war. He was killed, together with his wife and eldest son, in an air raid in 1941. Paderewski (1860–1941) was one of the most talented of a large group of late 19th-century Romantic pianist-composers. His extensive concert tours were often undertaken for philanthropic purposes. The Pheon reveals that he gave

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a recital in the Master’s Lodge on this occasion, filling it ‘with incomparable music’. When presenting him for his Mus.D., the Orator also alluded to his role in Polish politics. He had served as Prime Minister in 1919 at a critical point in the establishment of Second Republic and later represented Poland at several international conferences. By 1926 he had retired from active politics, but at the end of his life he returned to serve as head of the National Council, the parliament in exile based in London. Those attending the luncheon included a good number of Heads of House and their spouses as well as the Fellows of Sidney and their wives. Cambridge economics was well represented by John Maynard Keynes, while his wife, the ballerina Lydia Lopokova, provided a link with the world of music. The event took place shortly before the appointment of E. J. Dent as Professor of Music, but two Cambridge composers were present: Cyril Rootham, a fine but somewhat neglected choral composer who was organist at St John’s, and Edward Naylor, of Emmanuel, whose church music included a Mass setting in memory of W. T. Kingsley, recently revived by the Sidney Choir. Another figure prominent in Cambridge music, both as a performer and concert organiser, was Mrs Lily (‘Lys’) Hackforth, the wife of Professor Hackforth of Sidney. She was eventually awarded an honorary MA for her services. As to the meal served on that occasion, many of the dishes, such as maraschino jelly, turbot Mornay and chicken Marengo, were familiar on

64 college news late-Victorian menus. Reform cutlets, a dish originally devised by Alexis Soyer at the Reform Club in the 1840s, appear to have been something of a Sidney speciality. In his memoirs, Harry Littlechild, a long-serving College chef, recalls demonstrating how to make the sauce for Reform cutlets at an evening class in 1959. Afterwards, he was approached by an elderly lady who said how much she had always enjoyed the Reform cutlets at Sidney. The lady was Mrs Dorothy Thacker (1889–1977), who had been present in 1926, though not her husband Dr Cecil Thacker, who shortly afterwards resigned his Fellowship because of ill-health. As Dorothy Dale, while still an undergraduate at Newnham, she had collaborated on papers with the Sidney physiologist G. R. Mines (who died in a laboratory accident in Toronto in 1914). Nicholas Rogers, Archivist

Handover of World War I Medals

In May the College hosted Bob Allen (1965) and his wife Jilly when he handed over former Master Tommy Knox-Shaw’s WWI medals, which are now housed in The Muniment Room (MED 4).

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Garden Notes The summer of 2016, though quite wet, passed through quietly. Only a couple of crows (attempted murder?) came to survey and scratch about on the lawns but didn’t give us too much to worry about. With the rain the garden stayed green and colourful throughout the summer. The kitchen project in the Master’s Garden was looming like a gathering storm so we started to propagate from plants that we needed to save. Clumps of old crane’s-bill geraniums, bergenia and iris were dug up and cuttings were taken from penstemons and an unusual shrub called a Euonymus myrianthus. Our old greenhouse had been getting quite rickety over the years. Repairs had taken place but it had got to the stage where it was so rotten that there was nothing to repair it to. It started to spit panes of glass out like an old man losing his teeth. A decision was made that we needed a new greenhouse but we wanted an exact replica. Made from western red cedar, it was put up in the early 1960s but the winding mechanisms that open and close the windows pre-date that and I wanted them saved and put back in the new greenhouse. Such were the intricacies and magnitude of the task that several carpenters came to price the job, tutted, shook their heads and walked away. We started to look into cheaper option greenhouses because we didn’t think we could find a carpenter to take it on. Then I was introduced to a young carpenter, Daniel Miles, who calmly looked it over and said that he would be prepared to take on the challenge. He went on to explain the angles, joints and joists, mitres, binders and braced butts… all this to a man who is still trying to get his head around decimal coinage. As Daniel spoke I nodded my approval; in fact I approved so much that I found myself nodding a little while after he’d stopped talking. The thing is, the closest I get to carpentry is treating my fence with, erm, fence treatment. As soon as he went into the mathematics it was a case of ‘down periscope’. DIVE! DIVE! DIVE!

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Daniel said that he would start the job at the end of September and it should take six weeks to complete and that is exactly what he did. Rarely in my life have I seen a tradesman work in such a calm, methodical and exact manner. Apart from providing him with cups of tea and the occasional trip hazard – strewn wheelbarrows, partially coiled hosepipes, that sort of thing – we kept well out of his way. The timber used was accoya, renowned for its toughness and longevity. Everything went back in exactly as it was. All of the Victorian metalwork fitted in precisely. Modern heating controls were installed and we now have a fabulous new greenhouse. Watching a tradesman working to that level of precision can have an influence on us all. Whenever Daniel explained to me what he was doing I still never understood him but I made sure my nodding ended on point. It all got finished in time for us to raise the plants for this year’s summer bedding, which flourished, with the begonias in Garden Court being the brightest of them all. In mid-July the first of the heavy machinery was moved into the Master’s Garden to start the excavations for the new kitchen. With my faith in British craftsmanship fully restored we look forward to setting about the Master’s Garden when the building work has been completed. This project is going to take at least a couple of years so we have to turn a key, walk away and return when it’s all over. Trevor Rees, Head Gardener

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Report of the MCR

If I were to describe Sidney’s graduate community this past year, it would have to be ‘fully charged’. Kicking off with Freshers’ Week in October 2016, the year felt dynamic, and the rhythm kept its pace over the rest of the year. We welcomed our new graduates by organising diverse events all around Cambridge, ranging from a walk and river swim to Grantchester (for those of us brave enough), a College-wide scavenger hunt, welcome breakfasts, lunches and dinners, a rainy BBQ at Herne Lodge, a Cambridge ghost tour and even a bop. We can be sure that the incoming and continuing students within Sidney MCR had a baptism of fun and were fed and watered plenty. This year hailed as one of the most exhaustive and successful for Sidney graduates in terms of the diversity and number of events run. Some of them were well known and enjoyed, such as Graduate Suppers, College Swaps, Sidney Greats, the highly oversubscribed fortnightly MCR formal halls, the Burns Night supper and the annual wine tasting led by the wine cognoscente, Professor Jones. Others new to the playing field included Inspirations and Chill, a weekly welfare event focused around a TEDx talk and philosophical discussion, MCR film nights led by the authoritative Oli Jones, subject dinners, book club, climbing club, a newly bolstered basketball team and the unsurprisingly popular gin and whisky tastings. In particular, Sidney Sussex MCR boasted an impressive year with regard to green events and initiatives. Headed up by Melanie Jans-Singh, we saw successes such as the National Student Switch Off, an energy-saving competition won thanks to all members of College reducing their energy consumption, leading to us being crowned ‘Greenest College’; a prosperous year of gardening in the Herne Lodge allotment (special thanks to Alex Wright and Adeline Arniac); the reintroduction of food waste composting in all graduate accommodation; student trips to local recycling plants, all culminating in the well attended ‘How sustainable is Sidney?’ talk and Low Carbon Formal, championed by Head Chef Stephen Mather. The Easter term saw the end of a thrilling 40 Years of Women in Sidney, a year-long series of events, talks and dinners celebrating the achievements and contributions of women alumni and students at Sidney. Boat Club graduates had a highly successful year, with M1 comprised of the formidable Timothy Schmalz, Günther Turk, Markus Baschnagel, Jeremy Smith, Sam Wilson and

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Katie Cudmore achieving Blades in May Bumps, the first time in 22 years, huge congratulations and a well-deserved trophy! The famous end of year MCR Garden Party was a complete success, widely described as ‘typically English’; the graduates celebrated the end of the year despite lashings of rain, donning Sumo Suits, competing at volleyball, Connect 4 and croquet. The graduates remaining in Cambridge were not forgotten over the summer, with a kayak and camping trip, an inter-college sports day, Graduate and Fellow mixers and summer formals planned for the warmer weeks. It has been incredibly rewarding to be part of the MCR committee, both as the Welfare Officer in my first year and now as President in my second. What a privilege it is to interact with so many enthusiastic and interesting students, Fellows and staff on a regular basis. A special thank you must go to Dr Berry Groisman, and the recently departed Angela Parr-Burman and Keith Willox, for their continued contributions to graduate life here in Sidney. None of this would be possible without the hard work and time invested by the outgoing and incoming MCR committee – a huge thank you to everyone involved. I cannot wait to see what we can achieve in the new academic year and look forward to another ‘fully charged’ and dynamic year. Christof Gaunt, MCR President

Report of the JCR

For Sidney’s JCR, 2016–17 was a fantastic year, continuing the great work in previous years to increase engagement and visibility within the student body. Open meetings have increasingly become a valuable forum for students to engage in, with growing attendance throughout the year. Highlights included a discussion around the proposed student boycott of the NSS, with Amatey Doku, the Cambridge University Student Union President, and Max Beber, the Senior Tutor, offering their views. Publicity at Sidney continues to develop, with a refocus of weekly publicity emails on what is happening within College. Various officers have also begun to set up their own social media presence to engage further with the student body. Our Access Officer, Caitlin, has used her email presence to increase student involvement with Access. The CUSU Shadowing Scheme was testament to this, and we received great feedback about Sidney students involved in the scheme.

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Our Welfare Officers have had a strong presence within College, arranging an array of welfare events while providing crucial welfare services. These included yoga, massages and various themed events around Hallowe’en, Christmas and Easter. Their pinnacle Easter term Bouncy Castle event was a great success, and provided Sidney students with a well-deserved break. Green issues have been at the forefront at Sidney over the past year. Meat- free Monday began in Michaelmas, and has continued with great enthusiasm. Our Green Officer, Emma Bryan, ran a ‘Spotlight on Food’ month in February, which included a presentation on ‘How Sustainable is Sidney?’ and a Green Formal. Sidney won the Student Switch Off, with a 4.3% energy reduction, and participation in various green events. Advocacy for various student concerns has been a significant part of the JCR this year. To begin, our LGBT+ Officers have had a strong presence this year, continuing what is now becoming an annual event, to raise the Rainbow Flag during LGBT+ month in February. Moreover, Mitch Hubner followed through on their previous work to increase gender-neutral facilities in College, to great success. College is now committed to doing so in various ways over the next few years. Our Academic Welfare Officer, Sanjana Sanghavi, pushed to remove the laptop ban in the Ground Floor of the Library; it was lifted early in Easter Term, much to the appreciation of all the studying students! Last, our Disabled Student Officers, initially Alyssa P’ng, and now Oli Newnam, have been looking to increase mental health provisions in College. Following a range of student consultations, we are now working alongside College staff to do so. It was also a significant year for Sidney in that in 2016–17 we celebrated 40 Years of Women at Sidney. The JCR, and particularly our Women’s Officers, Marina Scott and Alannah Lewis, were involved in organising these events, notably Sidney’s first-ever Women-Only Formal Hall, which was a fantastic evening. Our Ents team had a great beginning to the year, during Freshers’ Week, running some of their most successful events to date – the Silent Disco was a huge success, and enjoyed by all. Throughout the year, whether the event was a bop, or an acoustic night, the Sidney community had opportunities to come together, thanks to a great effort by our Ents. On a more administrative side, the JCR has made some exciting progress. For the first time, we have elected an Accommodation Officer, who will represent students for all accommodation-related issues, and lead the ballot process. I am working alongside our Vice President, Jay Ojha Vinayak, to update

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our constitution and standing orders, ultimately with the goal of separating our constitution from the MCR, and writing a memorandum of understanding between the two unions instead. This should be completed later this year. I have thoroughly enjoyed my role as President, and look forward to my final term this Michaelmas, with a great committee by my side. Lastly, I would like to extend my appreciation to the College community – staff, Fellows and students – for all your support over the past year. Fran Jenkins, JCR President

College Societies, Events and Awards

■■Chorley Geography Society For the Chorley Society 2017 marked an important year, as it would have seen the late Professor Richard Chorley’s 90th birthday. Professor Chorley was a Fellow in Geography at Sidney from 1962, and served as the College’s Vice Master between 1990 and 1993. He sadly passed away in 2002 at the age of 75. In 2003 the Sidney geography community decided to rename the society in his memory. Earlier this year we received a letter from Rosemary Chorley, Professor Chorley’s wife, in which she wished the Sidney geographers well. She also drew our attention to Professor Chorley’s entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Furthermore, the guest speaker at our Annual Dinner was Professor Joe Painter from the University of Durham. He spoke about his time as a student at Sidney in the 1980s and recalled memories of Professor Chorley. Fifteen years after Professor Chorley’s death, the Society is doing well. Over the past year we have hosted three speaker events. Early in Michaelmas Term we heard from Dr Alice Evans of Newnham College about her research on the garment industry. She critically analysed the work of the International Labour Organisation and a provided a fascinating insight into trade union gender dynamics. Later in Michaelmas Term the Society held a joint speaker event with the Confraternitas Historica, Sidney’s history society. Both societies listened to Professor Alison Bashford talk about her recently published book, The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus. Malthus is considered to be the founder of population studies, thus making the talk directly relevant to Sidney’s geographers.

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Finally, Lent Term saw Chorley host Mr Sam Strong, a PhD student at Fitzwilliam College. Drawing on his PhD research in Wales, Sam pointed to local economic dynamics to highlight the complexity behind particular regions voting to leave the European Union. He also suggested that Brexit is intricately linked to austerity. Joe Moore

■■Confraternitas Historica This academic year, the Confrat community welcomed a number of excellent speakers. Opening the new year was Sidney’s very own Dr Tom Lambert, speaking on medieval feuds and providing us with a glimpse into his recent publication on law in Anglo-Saxon England. Continuing recent tradition, Professor Alison Bashford’s talk on Thomas Malthus provided the perfect opportunity for a joint Confrat-Chorley event, in which she shared her own discovery of the fascinating character of Thomas Malthus. To complete the Michaelmas talks, Dr Christopher Meckstroth spoke on the political thought of the 1848 revolutions, discussing the seminal figures of Kant, Hegel and Marx. Term was rounded off with the annual undergraduate dissertation evening, in which four of our finalists presented their own academic research. This year, research had been conducted into the Labour Party in the late 1980s; the role of missionaries in the late-19th century; classical anti-sacral humour on Greek vases; and political corruption and racism in America.

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George Roberts, an old Sidneyite himself, commenced Lent Term by delivering a talk on the topic of Tanzania and its global connections during the Cold War period. In early February the Confrat annual dinner took place, at which Sheila Lawlor delivered an after-dinner speech on education. This traditional event welcomed new faces to the community, and was also an opportunity to catch up with many of those who had recently graduated. This was followed by Philip Wood, who provided a thought-provoking discussion on teaching Islamic history at the level of higher education, which raised a number of methodological questions from the audience. Finally, Rhys Jones completed the year with his talk on time during the French Revolution. Finally, after the busyness of Easter Term, scones, strawberries and Pimms could mean only one thing: the Confrat annual garden party. We were lucky that the British weather decided to co-operate and we all shared a lovely afternoon, relaxing and reminiscing over the past year. Katie Pearce and Chloe Hayes

■■A Green Year for Sidney Sussex This year our College took green efforts to heart, aiming to show our members how sustainable Sidney is while pushing our boundaries. The JCR and MCR Green Officers (Emma Bryan and Melanie Jans-Singh) worked together for the

74 student life first time, in close collaboration with staff and Fellows, to achieve College-wide changes. Food waste composting was reintroduced in College accommodation following student demand. Interested in what happens to our waste once it leaves College premises, the Environmental Committee set up a relationship with Amey Cespa – the recycling and landfill facility for Cambridge – to arrange visits. A jolly mix of staff, Fellows, undergraduates and graduates all got together to get a new perspective on waste, hopefully the first of many more visits from Sidney. A well-attended talk entitled ‘How Sustainable is Sidney?’ informed students about the sustainable food production organised by the Head Chef, and raised awareness about the challenges the kitchen staff overcome daily to produce minimal waste and high-quality food in Hall. The talk was followed by our first Low Carbon Formal, where all the food served was seasonal and locally sourced. Having taken part in the National Student Switch Off campaign for many years, we took the platinum award and won the competition. Over the year, students filled in the quizzes, reduced their electricity consumption by 4.3% in the Switch Off week, and posted numerous photos showing their awareness of energy reduction measures to social media. To celebrate, the NUS donated

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£250 for a garden party, which was hosted with success by the Vegetarian Society at the end of May Week! This academic year brought a new wave of energy to our environmental efforts, clearly illustrated by our blossoming allotment in Herne Lodge. The prolific yield this year is mostly thanks to Alex Wright and Adeline who discovered their green fingers after a sumptuous vegan gluten-free afternoon tea Helen held at the Lodge to incentivise participation. Please feel free to contact the MCR Green Officer, Helen Beckwith, to participate in this edible garden project! Melanie Jans-Singh, MCR Green Officer

■■June Event One of the most beloved Sidney traditions is undoubtedly the biennial May Ball – an important tradition that celebrates all the hard work done in College by students and staff alike throughout the year. However, with the garden project preventing the possibility of a full May Ball until 2020, College Council approved students’ plans to hold a June Event – an alternative May Week

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formula well known to Cambridge students that typically operates on a smaller scale and at a lower price point while retaining many popular elements of the all-inclusive May Week celebratory experience. Our aim was to demonstrate that this alternative event could successfully work as a substitute May Week event for the College in the interim years until the garden project is complete, and potentially begin a tradition of biennial June Events alternating with the May Ball thereafter. Early on in the planning process, the Committee chose the night’s theme to be ‘Childish Things’, which aptly characterised our intentions to bring Sidney a fun and light-hearted May Week event. Overall, the theme was received very well. The Committee brought it to life in many ways, both in the publicity and artwork advertising the June Event and on the night itself, with playful creative installations such as giant inflatables and multi-coloured umbrellas, candy floss, ice cream, pick’n’mix and a variety of candy-inspired cocktails, as well as a giant ball-pit, inflatable obstacle course and fortune tellers. One of the standout factors of the June Event, however, was undoubtedly the wide variety of Sidney’s artistic talent on display. With our affectionately named ‘Little Stage’ exclusively showcasing Sidney musicians and their bands, and the Knox Shaw Room hosting intimate acoustic sets from some of Sidney’s most talented singers and duos, the June Event retained a quintessentially Sidney feel, which was received well by the large number of Sidneyite ticket holders.

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Nonetheless, while the intimate Sidneyite feel and lively theme characterised much of the June Event, it also included typical May Week staples! We were fortunate enough to host some brilliant acts, such as Dr Meaker and Island Club, who both delivered exceptional sets on the main stage that fired the crowd up ahead of the Midnight Silent Disco, where past and present May Week committees chose the songs, playfully competing for the crowd’s affections and entertaining our guests into the late hours. This was complemented by some beautiful garden lighting, artisan cocktails made from rare liqueurs, sushi canapés and – everybody’s favourite! – mac ’n’ cheese, in a bid to deliver to guests the full May Week experience. Special thanks must go to the Master, Fellows and staff of Sidney who all helped make the June Event possible, in particular Albert Ray, Colin Maxted and his team of porters, Colin Faiers, Trevor Rees and the gardeners, Marianne Oyler and Vicki Sealy from the Conference & Events Office, David Soley, Karolyn Duke and the Housekeeping Department, Keith Halls and the maintenance team, the Development Office and, especially, Keith Willox for all his help and advice to students planning events over the years. Organising the June Event was a privilege for all of us on the committee, and we sincerely hope that it will return again in the years to come! Max Gibson, President

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■■Music Society It has been a very exciting year for the Sidney Sussex College Music Society (SSCMS). As I mentioned in last year’s Annual, on being elected as President of the Society I was keen to develop the ethos of the society as one that supported fully all musical endeavours and interests of Sidney students, and I am pleased to report considerable progress. One of the shining achievements of SSCMS this year has to be our production of Dido and Aeneas early in Michaelmas Term. With a cast of 16 singers and a small orchestra, the production showcased some of the finest musical talent of both our College and Cambridge as a whole. The production was skilfully directed by Marcus Ellis, aided by Ollie Pickard and Laurence Carden as Musical Directors. All three deserve considerable praise for the sheer quality of the production they managed to pull off in restricting circumstances, both in terms of rehearsal time and the inflexibilities of the Chapel as a venue; while accessible to the College I think it’s fair to say that the Chapel is not the easiest place to put on an opera! My thanks must also go to the Chaplain for allowing us to use the space. I can honestly say I was thrilled by the reception Dido received: for both of the nights it played we sold out the Chapel, and everyone we spoke to afterwards seemed to enjoy it. It received 8/10 in The Cambridge Student and 4/5 stars in Varsity where it was described as ‘far greater than the standard college music society performance’. Sidney, too, seemed to relish the change a short Baroque opera brought to the often all-too-similar repetitions of College life, with a senior member of College calling it ‘the best thing to happen to Sidney in over five years’. In terms of music made wholly by Sidney students themselves, our non- auditioning choir, Sidney Singers, has continued to thrive. Every Monday evening, the Chapel can be heard ringing with the sounds of students using music to dissipate the stresses of life at Cambridge. I am extremely proud of our determination to ensure musical opportunities are open to all at Sidney, and for me this choir is representative of this. Students who were initially reluctant to join have found it a dependable way to relax and enjoy themselves, learning harmonies to popular songs. Their most recent performance was at the Music Society Garden Party, where they delighted their audience with popular tunes such as That’s What Makes You Beautiful, Raspberry Beret and Hey Jude. My heartfelt thanks go to Laurence Carden for his continued enthusiasm and vision for this choir. He resigns his position as Director of Sidney Singers at the end of this term, and we are very excited that second-year Finlay Stafford will

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be taking up the position from Michaelmas. I am sure he will take the choir in new and exciting directions. As of January this year Sidney can now boast a new, rising choral group. The ladies of Sidney’s Chapel Choir decided that they wanted to have a change from singing religious music from the stalls, and formed their own a cappella choir, The SusSex Pistols, and we are delighted to support them. The Pistols have got off to a flying start: having only formed at the start of Lent term, they sang at two May Balls, Queens’ and Magdalene, the Sidney June Event and several garden parties, including that of the Music Society and the Boat Club. The group has already gained an enthusiastic following both inside and outside College, and has enjoyed singing at some open-mic nights around the University as well. I think the initiative is a fantastic opportunity to increase links between the Chapel Choir and the rest of College, and I hope next year to open up auditions to the rest of College to deepen this connection further. Our year was rounded off in style by the first ever SSCMS Garden Party, on the Thursday of May Week. Despite it being the day after Sidney’s June Event, it was very well attended, with over 80 people coming down to Cloister Court. Guests enjoyed Pimms and burgers, and the opportunity to relax after a long term, while listening to a stellar line-up of acts, including sets from Nicola Stebbing, Jono Faber, Rosie Musgrave, Finlay Stafford and Fionn Connolly, the Sidney Singers and the SusSex Pistols. Finally, we were extremely lucky that Cadenza joined us for outstandingly good sets both at the Garden Party and later in Sidney Chapel in their May Week Concert, after giving a beatboxing workshop open to the whole University. The musical line-up for the Garden Party was especially poignant for me as I felt it encapsulated everything I had wanted for SSCMS when I wrote this report last year: providing musical opportunities for all at Sidney, showcasing outstanding musical talent from Sidney students, and bringing the best of university music-making to the College for their enjoyment. With a new drum-kit installed and ready to go, and our staple concert series A Little Night Music going from strength to strength, I look forward to the opportunities next year will bring! Isla Stevens

■■Stephenson Society We had many successful Stephenson Society events this year, with speakers from a large range of companies. We started off the academic year with the annual

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icebreaker, where students and fellows competed to build the highest tower out of straws that could hold a certain mass. This became very competitive, especially among some of the Fellows! The Michaelmas Term speakers were from Xaar, Ford and JBA Bentley. Our Lent speakers were from Hilson Moran, BT, Caterpillar and Cox Powertrain. The chief engineer from Cox Powertrain came and spoke at the annual dinner, a four-course meal held in the Mong Hall and enjoyed by all. Mercedes Baxter Chinery

College Sports Cubs

■■Basketball Sidney Sussex Basketball is a College sports club that provides students with the opportunity to play leisure and competitive basketball. Supported by SSCSU, there are weekly courts booked at Kelsey Kerridge Sports Centre and made available to College members. In addition, Sidney Sussex Basketball Club also participates in the University’s College league, where we compete with other colleges weekly. At the end of Lent Term, there is also a Cuppers competition in which we take part. This year, the club continued to see a healthy influx in participation. Starting the year in the 3rd Division of the College League, the team came in

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second and qualified for the promotion match against Christ’s College from Division 2. A strong turn out and improved team dynamics led to a hard-fought win, earning the team a promotion to the 2nd Division for the next year. In the Cuppers competition, the team made it to the round of 32, facing the Lithuanian Society from Division 1, which had been consistently strong throughout the year. The team put up a competitive match, trading treys and making strong drives to the basket. Unfortunately, a few members succumbed to injuries in the match and the team eventually conceded to the highly skilled Lithuanians after a close match. This year has also seen an increase in social outings within the club. The club organised formal halls for the members and watched NBA games over pizza in the MCR. It has been a great pleasure and honour serving as the Captain of Sidney Sussex Basketball. In the following years, the helm of Sidney Sussex Basketball will be taken by Rex Li and we look forward to welcoming more Freshers into the team. C. J. Ong, Captain

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■■Boat Club The Boat Club remains an integral part of College society and the Cambridge experience where everyone is encouraged to try rowing, no matter their ability. Sidney is right to be proud of its friendly participation spirit and with around 100 members the Boat Club continues to champion this attitude. Successes of the year include: the best-ever attended Alumni Dinner to celebrate our 180th anniversary and 40 Years of Women in Sidney; the purchase and naming of a new men’s IV; fielding seven novice crews in Michaelmas Term; and excellent progress in the Lent and May Bumps, with M1 achieving blades in the Mays. The Boat Club began its 180th year in Michaelmas Term optimistically, with seven novice crews. We continued with the recent tradition of naming our novice crews after previous Captains of the Boats with four men’s (Woods, Marsh, Worrall, Homer) and three women’s (Shipley, Meegan, Snow). We also welcomed back many old faces for the end-of-term Boat Club Dinner and the alumni Fairbairn Cup race as part of the Lord Protector Boat Club. The LPBC Women’s +IV came second in their category, the LPBC Men’s VIII also raced but suffered a mix-up with subs, meaning our previous Captain of the Boats, Camille Lardy, unexpectedly raced the course twice in the space of a few hours. The Boat Club Alumni Dinner held on Saturday 21 January 2017 was a fantastic event with alumni and current students alike remarking on their enjoyment of the panel discussion before dinner, when the audience enjoyed tales of the Boat Club over the past 40 years from a panel of prominent past and present female rowers. It would appear few things have changed in SSBC, with early mornings, last-minute sub requests, and the Beam Challenge remaining a

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favourite post-Boat Club dinner exercise. In addition to these festivities we also celebrated the 25th anniversary of Tim Rhodes as our Boatman. Tim has been a constant for many generations of SSBC students and we are incredibly grateful to him for sharing his knowledge and expertise over the years. Sidney fielded two men’s and one women’s crew for the Lent Bumps. The men’s side suffered a few rough races, putting up a tough fight in each, and

84 student life performed strong row-overs for most days. The women’s side started off with spectacular promise, bumping up the first two days but tragedy struck on the third and fourth days with catastrophic rudder failures ending a strong campaign. Easter Term began well with four senior crews and a mixed novice crew training throughout and with all senior boats entering the May Bumps. The Bumps began with M2 making the sports headline of the local Cambridge newspaper (twice!) with their strong row-over, but the glory of this season goes to M1 who achieved blades finishing with a spectacular textbook bump on First and Third on First Post Corner. This is the first time our M1 has got blades since 1995 so we have joyfully celebrated their victory and hope for many more. Martina Cheadle, Captain of Boats 2017–18

■■Football – Men Played: 13 (League and Cuppers) Won: 10 Drawn: 1 Lost: 2 Player of the year: James Campsie Top Scorer (‘Fox in the Box’ Award): Tireni Alijore

What a year for Sidney Sussex College Men’s Football Club! League winners (and promotion to Division 1), unprecedented Cuppers success and a whole lot of fun had by all. When I joined Sidney as a young, wide-eyed Fresher, the football club was hardly its pride and joy. Back then, we were languishing in Division 4 (out of 9) and spent most of our time playing larger colleges’ II and III (and even IV) teams. Thanks to an influx of extremely talented players, and an amazing collective team spirit, these days things are very different. This year, we stormed to the Division 2 title and, perhaps more impressively, got to the semi-finals of the historic College Cuppers competition. Along the way, we beat the first teams of juggernaut colleges like Pembroke, Emmanuel, Trinity, King’s and Churchill. Despite our small size, Sidney now really is one of the best college football teams on the circuit. Being captain of such a successful team has been an absolute pleasure. We have some excellent players (including University representatives James

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Campsie and Henry Makings), and a squad really committed to, and passionate about, Sidney football. In truth, we won Division 2 at a canter, often scoring six or seven goals, with teams unable to cope with our pace and skill – exemplified by the devastating attacking triumvirate of Campsie, Tireni Alijore and James Yianni. Other honourable mentions go to Sidney legend Kelvin Yeung, who completed his fourth (and last) season as Sidney’s goalkeeper. Kelvin has been a Sidney stalwart and could always be relied upon to keep our defence out of trouble and restore a sense of calm. Michael Grayling (in what now must be his 10th season at Sidney) was at the heart of our success this season, putting his years of experience to good use as our main centre-back. Will Deeley was another ever-present at right-back, demonstrating remarkable athleticism and determination throughout the entire season. Every player in the squad deserves recognition for his contribution over the season; to win the League and advance so far in the Cup, and in such emphatic fashion, really was a remarkable achievement. Sidney really should be proud of its football team.

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Next year will be difficult, with some important players leaving and a step-up in quality to Division 1. Despite this, I have every faith that the team (led by Tireni and James) will enjoy further success next season, and will continue to do Sidney proud. Johnny Hugill

■■Mixed Lacrosse Sidney’s Mixed Lacrosse had a fantastic year, with an enthusiastic team turning out each week no matter the weather. Michaelmas started off well, with a lot of interest from the Freshers who picked up the game quickly, despite most of them never having played before. Many of them soon proved to be some of the best on the team and together we came third in our division (admittedly the lowest division of three). In Lent, the enthusiasm of the team didn’t wear off and with the Freshers now experienced players we managed to win all but one of our matches, firmly securing first place, along with a promotion. While we had less luck in Cuppers, unsurprisingly losing against some of the best teams of the University, it was still an enjoyable day and it was great that we could put in a team, despite everyone knowing we had little chance of progressing beyond group stages. We look forward to facing Division 2 next year and hope the success continues. Tim Havard and Patrick Lucescu, Co-Captains

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■■Netball It has been another great year for the Sidney Sussex Ladies Netball Team, with a notably large intake of new netballers in the club, forming one of the biggest teams the College has had in many years. After a strong performance last year, the team remained in the first division and did not fail in both earning and retaining their spot in the League, this time kitted out with dazzling new dresses. Michaelmas term saw a superb set of results every weekend, leading to the team placing second in the table after losing just one game. A reshuffling of the colleges playing in the first division led to a more challenging Lent Term with much more competitive games. This was no setback to the determination of the team, with many more victories, ending on a mid-table finish. This was followed by an outstanding performance in Lent Cuppers, leading to a place in the quarter-finals against Corpus Christi. The extremely intense and tight match ended on a one-goal difference, unfortunately seeing Corpus go on to the semi-final. Despite not having a Mixed Netball Team competing throughout the year, we managed to enter Sidney into Mixed Cuppers. It was an extremely fun day had by all and demonstrated a promising performance to form a mixed team to compete in the League next year. The end-of-year Netball Dinner was a great way to finish the season and hand over to my successor, Chloe Allenby, who will undoubtedly lead the team from strength to strength next year. We are looking forward to the start of the 2017–18 season and excited to see what talent the Freshers will bring. Sharna Willis

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■■Rugby Team Review: Inspector Dreyfus once said, ‘If I had 10 men like Clouseau, I could destroy the world.’ If Sidney rugby had 10 men, we could put together a team. We wouldn’t destroy the world, but we could at least try. The Varsity against St John’s Oxford was well fought, but the opposition ended up winning soundly. The Dashwood Cup was scrabbled away to a valiant loss, with the Old Boys scoring a 42–17 win. An outnumbered Sidney put in a noble effort but, like the band on the Titanic, were unable to do anything save watch as the tide overwhelmed them. This has been a theme this year – valiant efforts and heroics, undone by a simple shortage of players – a shortage that meant that the team was living from match to match. If we have players, we can field a team. If we can do that, we can play more regularly. If we can do that, we will start to improve as a team. And when that happens, there’s everything to play for. A wise man once wrote of a great football team that ‘the promise of the highs is always worth the pain’. Well, let next year bring the pain of building a team. Let it bring more players. And let it bring another page in the history of Sidney rugby. To borrow from another wise man, this year is not the beginning of the end; it is the end of the beginning. What that beginning will lead to remains to be seen. Lewis Thomas, Head of Press

Captain’s Report: No one could suggest that this year has been very successful for Sidney rugby. The season saw a team divested of former stalwarts: graduations, years abroad and continued defections to a resurgent Sidney soccer team led to a somewhat withered roster. Only the EU was not to blame in this litany of (very justified) excuses as one star player was unable to return this year when his EU-administered funding fell through – I hope your consciences are clear. Nevertheless, amidst the crumbled infrastructure, the dark days of defeat and the ignoble hectoring of the Leave campaign, there remained some promising signs: Sidney rugby continues to be a primarily social endeavour – few tries but many lagers, little glory but much singing. Friendships were forged where sporting success was not.

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I stand down as possibly the worst captain of Sidney Sussex rugby in recent times (both in talent on the pitch and administrative verve off it) but I do so in the knowledge that Sidney rugby is still standing. Most notably, a sizable crop of very talented first-year players augurs well for future years, so perhaps greener pastures lie ahead. And although Sidney rugby’s many, many burdens persist, I turn to Kundera: ‘The heaviest of burdens is therefore an image of life’s most intense fulfilment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.’ And this year has been as real and truthful as they come. Radu Thomas

■■Tennis This year, Sidney entered one tennis team in the League, and two Cuppers teams. We came joint fifth in Division 3, beating Magdalene, but losing to Clare and Queens’. Due to the typically awful weather, several of our matches were cancelled, having to be rearranged, as well as additional matches among the team being arranged in their place. Our first team did very well in Cuppers, just missing out on a quarter-final place, being beaten by Emmanuel. The second team lost to Churchill in the first round, but made it to the quarter- finals in the consolation competition, sadly losing to Pembroke in Lent Term. Mercedes Baxter Chinery

■■Sporting Distinctions 2016–17 (B blue HB half blue) Athletics Adebayo, Tiwa (HB) Theology & Religious Studies, Part I Dancesport Ouvarova, Maria (HB) Biological Sciences, PhD Football Campsie, James (HB) History, Part I Gymnastics Chang, Felicia (B) Engineering, Part IA Korfball Willis, Sharna (HB) Linguistics, Part IIA Lacrosse (Women) Nicholls, Ayesha (B) Modern & Medieval Languages, Part IB Powerlifting Ghareeb, Ali (B) Clinical Medicine, Year 3

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Rowing Wilson, Sam (HB) Engineering for Sustainable Development, MPHIL Rugby League Parker, Sam (HB) Modern & Medieval Languages, Year Abroad Water polo Norcliffe, Alex (HB) Natural Sciences, Part IA

Research and Professional Experience Grants and College Travel Awards

Each year, the College is in the fortunate position of being able to support its junior members through the distribution of a large number of travel awards. These grants enable our students to visit different lands, experience different cultures, and apply their learning and skills beyond what they could afford otherwise: for this, they and the College are extremely grateful to the many benefactors who have built up the Travel Award Fund over successive generations. As well as enabling students to widen their experiences through foreign travel, the generosity of Sidney’s alumni and friends in response to the Annual Appeal has made it possible to support students wishing to deepen their involvement in their subject by means of research placements in Faculties and departments of the University, or seeking to explore career possibilities by means of internships in the arts or in voluntary organisations (where paid internships are often not available). A total of 18 such Research and Professional Experience Grants were awarded for the 2017 Long Vacation, supporting Sidney students in a wide range of fields. These included assessing the traditional ecological knowledge systems relevant to conservation issues of the Maasai communities of East Africa as part of the Cambridge University Wildlife Conservation Society and Cambridge University Expedition Society’s 2017 Kenya expedition and a placement at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics here in Cambridge, conducting research into fluid flow using various experimental and theoretical techniques. Demand for Travel Awards is high, and each year the Tutors face the unenviable task of choosing the successful candidates from a large number of worthy applicants. In the Easter Term 2017, travel awards were granted to the following Sidney students:

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Gérard Boulton Travel Awards Anna Lawrence Geography (2014) Greece William Tai Engineering (2014) Greece

College Travel Awards Arthur Beard Modern & Medieval Languages Iran (2016) Wen Yee Chan Law (2016) France Daria Holdenried-Chernoff Natural Sciences (2013) Bolivia Patrick Lucescu Mathematics (2015) Norway Joshua Pike Theology & Religious Studies Sri Lanka (2015) William Roberts Modern & Medieval Languages Russia (2014)

L.A. Hamlyn Travel Award Thomas O’Grady Natural Sciences (2015) Egypt

Otto Smail Travel Award Jonathan Leibowitz History (2014) Israel Paavan Sawjani Geography (2016) India

Parry Dutton Travel Scholarship Amirul Bin Adnan Merican Engineering (2014) USA Daisy Cragg History (2015) USA Georgemma Hunt Architecture (2015) USA

Ratcliffe Travel Awards Chloe Allenby Linguistics (2016) South Korea Catherine Morris Geography (2016) Azores Laurel Townsend Manufacturing Engineering (2013) Japan

Mark Wainwright Memorial Award Oliver Turvey Natural Sciences (2015) Spain

Wilkinson Travel Award Matthew Pyman Natural Sciences (2015) Spain

Hentsch Travel Award Darcy Levison Human, Social & Political Sciences Switzerland (2014)

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Students’ reports on their travels offer vivid glimpses, both literary and visual, of our students’ experiences, varying from the fascinating, to the moving, to the hilarious (with the latter occasionally having to be filtered by the Tutors before the readership of the Annual is regaled with the tale). For the 2017 edition, the following two reports have been selected by the Senior Tutor for full publication.

Francesca Jenkins (Human, Social & Political Sciences, L.A. Hamlyn Travel Award) For two months over this past summer, I travelled to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to work with the Cambridge Development Initiative. This is a student-run society that focuses on implemented sustainable development projects in the areas of health, entrepreneurship, education and engineering. I worked in a group of five students on the Health Project, which involved creating a not-for- profit social enterprise that we later called Afya Yetu, ‘our health’ in Swahili. It was a unique opportunity to engage with a local community in Dar es Salaam, a rapidly sprawling city containing many informal settlements, and try our hand at developing an innovative solution to meet their needs. Our work was fascinating, rewarding and challenging. Afya Yetu equips local health workers who visit households in the community with a portfolio of basic health products to sell at a very low price. They earn a commission on the number of products they sell each week. The benefits to the community are two-fold; first, access to basic healthcare products is increased, and second, by increasing their earnings, health workers can commit more time to providing healthcare to households. Within the project, I was responsible for developing a financial model and a business plan, managing the employment and training of staff, and organising a supply chain and distribution network. It was interesting

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to see how a business could act as a solution to social problems within society, and I have consequently developed an interest in the role of social enterprise in development. However, the project work was not as smooth as planned. It often felt that as we took one step forward, we took two back, as we worked with local regulatory authorities and various suppliers. Moreover, we had to integrate ourselves into the network of non-governmental organisations in our local community, Vingunguti (an informal settlement of approximately 100,00 people), which in itself proved challenging as we had to ensure that our interests didn’t overlap. Regardless, lessons were learned, and we kept moving forward until our business officially opened on 10 September. Under local management it will complete a one-year trial, until next summer when CDI will undertake a thorough review. One of the best parts of working with CDI was the ability to work alongside current Tanzanian university students in implementing our project. On our arrival in Dar, we met five Tanzanians who were to join our team, people we became good friends with along the way. This allowed us to gain a deeper insight into life in Dar, not only contributing to the engagement of the community in our project, but also to our personal understanding of how life differs in Tanzania from England. It was ultimately an enriching summer, where I developed soft and hard skills that will be applicable both to my studies and in my career. More importantly however, it was a wonderful opportunity to live in Tanzania and become immersed in their culture. I had an amazing summer, and it has undoubtedly impacted the shape of my future.

Gillian Sandford (Chemical Engineering, Gérard Boulton Travel Award) This summer, I spent five weeks in Peru volunteering with WindAid, an NGO that focuses on providing a sustainable source of electricity in developing communities. I was keen to see a different side to engineering, compared to that seen so far in my degree, and also experience a new culture. Despite our not knowing each other prior to the trip, the other volunteers and I quickly bonded and immersed ourselves in Peruvian life. For our first three weeks, we were based in Trujillo, a city along Peru’s northern coast. Weekdays were spent in the workshop, making the parts for a small 500W wind turbine and replacement parts for a larger 2.5kW turbine needing maintenance. The experience was a steep learning curve for everyone: as a chemical engineer

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many of the practical skills such as welding and soldering were new to me, whereas to others it was the theoretical background that was new. Wanting to make the most out of our short time in Peru, we used the weekends to explore more of the country. One weekend was spent in Chachapoyas, a long, 15-hour bus journey from Trujillo, where we hiked to a waterfall and visited the ruins of Kuelap. Another weekend was spent in Huaraz, a town in the Peruvian Andes known for trekking. The highlight of this was a trek to Laguna 69, a bright blue lake surrounded by the snowy Andean peaks. This was physically challenging, with steep inclines and high altitude, but worth it for the magnificent scenery and memories made with new friends. The fourth week was spent in the community of Playa Blanca. This remote fishing village relies heavily on WindAid’s projects: it has no mains electricity, so its primary source of electricity is from the wind turbines WindAid has constructed. To date, 18 households in this small village have electricity thanks to the NGO, with plans in place for remaining households to receive turbines. Installing our turbine was a day-long process and involved everything from digging holes for foundations and mixing concrete by hand, to wiring the LED lights for the house. Seeing all the parts made in the workshop come together to form a fully functioning wind turbine is something I shall never forget. Our remaining time in Playa Blanca was filled with other tasks. We worked on WindAid’s new base in the village, putting a door and window in the small plywood and bamboo hut, and performed maintenance on a larger nearby turbine at a scallop farm. We also spent time with the local children, teaching them about engineering and the importance of sustainability, while they taught us more Spanish and about everyday life in Playa Blanca. I spent my last week in Peru travelling solo around the country, visiting the more common tourist areas of Cusco, the Sacred Valley and Lima. I also used

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this time to practise my Spanish, and grew far more confident in my abilities as time progressed. This trip was an incredible experience. I learnt so much about renewable energies and was truly inspired by the work WindAid does and felt proud to be a part of the large impact it has had so far in Peru. Officers of the Students’ Union 2017 Chairman Massimo Beber, MPhil

Senior Treasurer Nick Allen, MA

The Executive Committee SSCSU/JCR President JCR Vice Chair Francesca Jenkins Lewis Thomas

JCR Vice President/External Officer JCR Publicity Officer Darcy Levison Beth Goulson

MCR President JCR International Student Officer Christof Gaunt Jay Vinayak Ojha

MCR Treasurer JCR Freshers’ Representatives Melanie Jans-Singh Eleanor Pitcher Josh Lloyd JCR Junior Treasurer Timothy Fairbairn JCR Green and Ethical Affairs Officer Emma Bryan

JCR College Council Representative JCR Computer Officer Nick Matthews Nick Matthews

JCR Academic Welfare Officer JCR Admissions Officer (Access) Sanjana Sanghavi Caitlin Saunders

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JCR Male Social Welfare Officer Bar Manager Alfie Denness Tim Havard

JCR Female Social Welfare Officer Entertainments Representatives Katie Roberts Ella Monkcom Charlie Spicer Niamh Reid Paavan Sawjani

JCR Women’s Officer MCR Committee Alannah Lewis Secretary Elise Siove JCR Disabled Students’ Officer Alyssa P’ng Social Officers Nathan Jay JCR LBGT+ Officer Jieyi Kang Mitch Hubner Lay Ping Ong

Co-opted Posts External Officer Access Initiative Representatives Jack Fraser Ella Nixon Bryony Pearce Women’s Welfare Officer Jenifer Varzaly Bar Committee Eléo Fox Sam Kitson-Platt Laura Barrett Computer Officer Rex Li Tony Harris Georgia Everest Green Officer Gym Officer Helen Beckwith Joshua Pike LGBT+ Officer Black & Minority Ethnic Officer Taushif Kara Tiggy McDowell Gym Officers Simon Larmour Ajun Sharath

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Appointments, Awards and Destinations

AYTON, Dr Lorna (Research Fellow, 2014), was awarded a 5 year EPSRC fellowship to continue work on understanding and developing new noise reduction mechanisms for aerofoils in unsteady flow through the use of analytical mathematics. BECKINGHAM, Dr David (Fellow, 2009), has been awarded an Assistant Professorship position in Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham from September 2017.* BILL, Dr Stanley (Fellow, 2014) was instrumental in securing permanent funding for Polish Studies in Cambridge. An agreement between the University and the University of Warsaw was signed on 14 July by the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge and the Rector of the University of Warsaw to endow the Polish Studies Programme at Cambridge. The programme’s research output will aim to stimulate research in Polish culture and society, and promote greater understanding of Poland’s role in European history, as well as its position as a rising economic power. BISHOP, Dr Jennifer (Research Fellow, 2014) has been appointed as a Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History in the Department of History at King’s College London. BLUNDELL, Professor Sir Tom (Fellow, 1995) has been awarded the International Union of Crystallography’s Ewald Prize ‘for his work as one of the worldwide leaders in crystallographic innovation, especially at the interface with life sciences’. Professor Blundell was also one of five international scientists to be elected to the Brazilian National Academy last summer in Rio to celebrate the centenary of the Academy. BROBERG, Professor Morten (Visiting Fellow, Lent 2016) received the Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize 2016. CASTOR, Dr Helen (Bye-Fellow) has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. CRAIGWOOD, Dr Joanna (Fellow, 2010) has been appointed a role in the University’s Assistant Staff Office, where she will be leading the team that administers personal and professional development training to University staff. DOWLING, Professor Dame Ann (Fellow, 1977) was awarded the James Watt International Gold Medal of the Institution of Mechanical Engineering.

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GALANAKIS, Dr Yannis (Fellow, 2013) has been promoted to a Senior Lectureship. GERSTLE, Professor Gary (Fellow, 2014) was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. GRAYLING, Rt Hon. Mr Christopher (1981) was appointed Secretary of State for Transport following the General Election and the announcement of the new Conservative administration. GREER, Professor Lindsay (Fellow, 1984) was presented with the Leibniz Medal, in October 2016, to recognise his contributions to the work of the Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper-und Werkstoffforschung, Dresden. Earlier in October Professor Greer gave the Edward DeMille Campbell Memorial Lecture in the United States. HILL, Professor Christopher (Fellow, 2004) was invested at the Italian Embassy in May as an Ufficiale dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia (Member of the Order of the Star of Italy). LEE, Dr Steven (Fellow, 2014) has been presented with the Marlow Award (and medal) from the Royal Society of Chemistry. This is ‘in recognition of the most meritorious contributions to physical chemistry or chemical physics’ and was awarded to Steven for the development of novel single-molecule super-resolution fluorescence techniques. LIDINGTON, Rt Hon. Dr David (1975) was appointed as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice following the General Election and the announcement of the new Conservative administration. LI, Professor Arthur Kwok Cheung (Honorary Fellow, 1996) has been awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal (the highest award of the Hong Kong honours and awards system) in recognition of his lifelong contribution to the well- being of Hong Kong. McKITTERICK, Professor Rosamond (Fellow, 2001) has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Professor McKitterick has also been elected as an Associé Correspondant Etranger of the Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France. NEELY, Professor Andy (Fellow, 2015), has been appointed as Pro-Vice- Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relations. PAGE, Professor Christopher (Fellow, 1984) has been awarded the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize from the American Musical Instrument Society for his book The Guitar in Tudor England: A Social and Musical History.

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RAMAGE, Dr Michael (Fellow, 2008) has been elected to a Fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries. RAMPTON, Ms Emma (Fellow, 2015) has been appointed as Registrary, following her year in the role of Acting Registrary. The Registrary is the principal administrative officer of the University and the head of the University’s administrative staff. Given that Emma will be not only the 27th Registrary in the University’s 808-year history, but also the first woman, this is a particularly pleasing announcement in the 40th year anniversary of the admission of women to Sidney. SLIWA, Dr Paulina (Fellow, 2012) has been promoted to a Senior Lectureship. STRELCHUK, Dr Sergii (Fellow, 2013) has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at DAMTP for the next three years. He will be working on quantum algorithms and entanglement structure for emerging quantum computers.

*The Editorial team would like to express their gratitude to David Beckingham for the exceptional help he has provided in the production of the Annual, both in his official capacity as College webmaster and as unofficial photographer in residence.

Births, Marriages and Occasional Offices

■■Births Katharine Butler (Management Studies, 1997) and Will a daughter, Mary Josephine, born on 5 October 2016. Octavia Stott (English, 1998) twins, Duncan and Edie, born on 8 May 2017.

■■Marriages Trevor Stirling (1980) and Sarah Watts were married at Chelsea Town Hall on 9 March 2017, with a blessing on 11 March 2017 at St Mary’s Church, Kersey, Suffolk. Sarah Catherine Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Professor Bill Jones (Fellow, 1980) and Thomas James Liddle were married in Chapel on 26 August 2017.

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Obituaries BELL, Colin James, 1956, MA; born 19 July 1937; ed. Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Blackburn; read Mathematics. We are grateful to Colin’s wife, Kathleen for this obituary. Colin was born in Blackburn in Lancashire. After a successful school career both on and off the sports field he was awarded an Exhibition in Mathematics at Sidney Sussex where, on his first day he met David Murdoch. They became lifelong friends and died within a few months of each other (see page 116). David acted as best man when Colin married Kathleen Whalley in 1960. He was awarded a rowing blue for the University, captained the College football team, and was a member of the Hawks Club. After a year working at the Atomic Energy Authority – his first experience of computers – he joined the Computer Department at Leeds University and in 1965 gained a doctorate in Computer Science. His career was with three of the largest American companies, first with IBM Research at Yorktown Heights NY, and later Los Gatos, California. He returned to the UK in 1969 to establish the IBM Scientific Centre in Peterlee, County Durham and subsequently joined the Development Laboratory in Hursley, Winchester. His particular interest was in the ways that computers could be used in national and local government, the health service and banking. A year spent in Brussels was followed by four years in IBM European Headquarters in La Défense, Paris. Colin joined General Electric as Geisco Vice President, Europe in 1986 and became CEO of AT&T UK before setting up his own telecoms company, Aztec International Ltd., where he remained until his retirement in 2005, after which he worked as a consultant in the satellite and telecommunications industry. He was an honorary fellow of both Harvard and Yale and a Freeman of the City of London. Colin died of cancer in Maidstone Hospital on 9 January 2017 and is survived by his wife Kathleen, and their three children, Alex, Marcus and Adam.

CARPENTER, Kenneth John, 1941, MA, PhD, ScD; born 17 May 1923; ed. Merchant Taylors’ School; read Natural Sciences. After graduation, Kenneth studied for a PhD with Dr Egon Kodicek at the Dunn Nutritional Laboratory; this was interspersed with war work on nerve gases under Edgar – later Lord – Adrian, at the Physiological Laboratory.

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Characteristically, he combined all this with enrolling himself as an external student and obtaining a First in Economics at the University of London. In 1948 he was appointed Scientific Officer at the Rowett Research Institute, necessitating a family move (he had married Daphne Holmes in 1945) to Aberdeen, where he worked intensively on the availability of energy and protein in animal feeds, ending with a year’s sabbatical at Harvard. He then came south to Cambridge again on his appointment in 1956 as a Lecturer at the School of Agriculture and election in 1962 as a Fellow of his old College, Sidney Sussex, where he played an enthusiastic part in collegiate life. An important area of his research both at the Rowett and in Cambridge was on estimating lysine availability, and how it was affected by heating. For his work on improving the diet and nutrition of people around the world, in 1993 he received the Atwater Medal from the USDA. He was promoted to a Readership in Nutrition in 1971. In 1974, Daphne died after a long and debilitating illness, with unfailing care and support from Kenneth. In 1977, after a successful year at the University of California, Davis, he accepted an appointment as Professor of Experimental Nutrition at Berkeley. Meanwhile, he met his second wife, Antonina (Nina) Borgman, and they set up home permanently in Oakland. At Berkeley his interests began to move towards the history of nutrition. In 1986 his magisterial History of Scurvy and Vitamin C appeared. It was read and admired by mainstream historians and laymen alike, and focused on a profound question at the heart of nutritional science: Why did it take so long to realise that scurvy was due not to a harmful agent, but to a dietary deficiency? Other major publications included: Protein and Energy: a Study of Changing Ideas in Nutrition (1994), Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B: a Disease, a Cause, and a Cure (2000), and finally the four-partShort History of Nutritional Science in the Journal of Nutrition (2003), a remarkable achievement by anyone, let alone an octogenarian. Kenneth was a man of exceptionally wide interests. As a boy he horrified his parents by wasting his pocket money – as they saw it – on collecting antiques; he had a particular passion for English delftware, some of which he presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum, and early paintings and prints: yet in Aberdeen he equally enjoyed attending the local music hall, and sessions of all-in wrestling.

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He was someone of immense integrity, whose penetrating critical intelligence might have been frightening were it not that he was exceptionally kind and supportive both of his family (he greatly enjoyed his role as a substitute father for Nina’s children, who in turn have provided unceasing support during his last years, when dementia began to limit what he could do) and of his colleagues, and especially the many students whom he encouraged and nurtured. He also had a strong social conscience, and after retirement devoted a great deal of time to the personal tuition and mentoring of disadvantaged local students, helping them to obtain university places. Kenneth died peacefully on 13 October 2016 in Oakland, California. He will be very greatly missed by everyone who knew him. He is survived by Nina, Roger, the son of his first marriage, grandchildren Alison and Jamie, great- grandchildren Maxim, Cleo and Rafe, and Nina’s children, Marcus, Giana, Andrea and Lucia, and grandchildren Nicolas, Lily, Jameson, Ramsey and Luke.

EROUKHMANOFF Nicolas, 2011, MSc (Imperial College London), born 24 September 1987; ed. Chimie Paris Tech; PhD student, Chemical Engineering. We are grateful to Nicolas’s brother Fabrice for this obituary. In 2015, only a few weeks after he submitted his doctoral dissertation, Nicolas was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. He survived his lethal condition longer than most, and did so with exceptional bravery and the utmost determination to defend his doctoral thesis exactly as originally planned; Nicolas was hence successfully approved for the degree of PhD in 2016. It was a true challenge for Nicolas to be a son, a brother, a fiancé, or a friend under these conditions, yet his courage and love were endless. His family and fiancée meant everything to him and thanks to them and his many friends, he managed to keep his tremendous appetite for life up to the very end. His creativity and never-ending thirst for knowledge helped him to fulfil his short but productive scientific career, which he dedicated to the study of construction materials and recycling technologies, from a sustainable perspective. Nicolas presented his findings in Beijing in 2014 and successfully published them in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Concrete Modelling. Nicolas was born in Paris in 1987, and already as a young child he was fascinated by the wonders of the physical world. Indeed, Nicolas loved many

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FARRAR, John Michael, 1950, MA; born 6 March 1929; ed. Dulwich College; read Classics. We are grateful to John’s wife, Gillian for this obituary. Michael was born in Malvern, Worcestershire but moved with his parents, first to Eltham, and then to Dulwich from where he won a county scholarship to the College and on completion of his studies, and following national service in HM Forces where the army taught him shorthand, typing and office management, which stood him in good stead in his professional life, he took his place at Sidney Sussex College. On graduating, he completed a course at University College, London, studying archives. He found employment in his chosen field not easy to obtain, so had to move around and spent time as an assistant archivist in Ipswich, Plymouth and Maidstone Record Offices, gaining valuable experience before in 1961 he moved to Cambridge. He became County Archivist to Cambridgeshire, and the Isle of Ely and finally the enlarged Cambridgeshire, which included Huntingdonshire and Peterborough, retiring reluctantly in 1994. In 1980 he moved to live in Great Shelford and was elected to the County Council, representing the Shelfords area, becoming a Parish Councillor and also a school

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governor at Great and Little Shelford School for many years. On moving to live in Stapleford in 1991 he again became a Parish Councillor, serving as Chairman for a time. After retiring as a Parish Councillor he became Parish Clerk for a number of years. He was a keen supporter of local politics, the Royal British Legion and the work of those working for peace in the world. Aside from local authority duties and interests, he was also involved and served as an officer on many local and national history societies. Even when he had to spend two months in hospital in the spring of 2016, he was dealing with local history matters from his bed. His interests were many and broad, including classical music, education for all, architecture, theatre and travel. Unfortunately he was not able to achieve his desire to visit mainland Greece, but visited Egypt, a place of great interest to him, as shown by the number of volumes on his bookshelves along with Moscow and St Petersburg, Rome, Venice and many other cities, including two brief trips to Florida and Brazil. He was a fighter to the end and was annoyed when his heart determined it was time to slow down. He found the last few months difficult, eventually being taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital on 4 February where he passed away early on 5 March 2017. Michael was a very kind and gentle man and will be greatly missed for his quiet wisdom by so many people. He leaves a widow, children, stepsons and grandchildren.

FRASER DARLING, Richard, 1967, BA; born 2 March 1949; ed. Repton School; read History. We are grateful to Richard’s wife Nina and his friends for this obituary. RFD, as he was known, was born in 1949. He went from the Dragon School in Oxford to Repton, where he became Head of School, Captain of Fencing and editor of the school magazine. After graduating from Cambridge he took an MA in War Studies from King’s College London. His mother died when he was eight years old and in school holidays he lived with his father, Sir Frank Fraser Darling, a leading ecologist, conservationist and author, in the Highlands of Scotland, where he was Director of the West Highland Survey. Despite being in the Cadet Force at Repton and then in the Territorial Army, RFD joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1971. His first overseas

106 the register posting was to Finland and in 1984 he was posted to the British Embassy in Washington DC. After a highly successful tour of duty he was posted back to London in 1989 where he worked, until his retirement, in a series of desk jobs of national importance. In 2003 he bought a neglected country property, Strathaird House, on the Isle of Skye. He also became a trustee of the John Muir Trust, a Scottish Conservation Trust – in this he was in many ways continuing his father’s work. RFD was an exceptionally intelligent and talented man, who excelled at lateral thought, particularly during his latter years in the FCO when he became a successful troubleshooter for some of the more sensitive and challenging work of the Department, which included the early identification of Osama bin Laden, before Osama became a household name. Although he never suffered fools gladly, his slightly extrovert personality endeared him to both his colleagues and sensitive points of contact around the globe. This was particularly true during his Washington tour when he became revered by those US agencies that he worked closely with – he demonstrated an innate ability to negotiate with the Americans skilfully, sometimes with firmness, while also winning their trust. RFD was also an exceptional cook and gave excellent dinner parties and barbecues, which helped oil the wheels of his relationships. But on retirement he returned, with his wife Nina, to his roots in the Highlands, where he had spent many of his formative years.

FRENCH, Anthony Philip, 1939, MA, PhD; born 19 November 1920; ed. Varndean School, Brighton; read Natural Sciences. This obituary is based on material published online by MIT Physics Spotlight on 17 April 2017. Tony French came to Sidney with a major scholarship, following an early interest in science developed at school, especially classical mechanics. He was particularly interested in lectures by Egon Bretscher, a Swiss physicist at Cambridge, who steered him towards nuclear physics. After graduation, he was recruited by Bretscher into the Tube Alloys Project, Britain’s code name for its atomic bomb research. French’s job was helping Bretscher measure fast neutron cross-sections, information needed to design a bomb. In 1944, the British effort was merged with the American Manhattan Project, and Tony was sent with the British mission to Los Alamos. Tony

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worked with Bretscher in a group led by Edward Teller, who wanted to develop what would eventually become the hydrogen bomb, the so-called ‘Super’. After the war he married Naomi Livesay, a mathematician from Montana who had also worked at Los Alamos. They spent their honeymoon driving around the American northwest in a car they bought from fellow Los Alamos researcher and, later, convicted atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs. In 1946, they moved back to Cambridge, where French directed studies in Natural Sciences at Pembroke and earned his doctorate in nuclear physics using declassified results from his work at Los Alamos. He also worked briefly at the new Atomic Energy Research Establishment, at Harwell. In 1955 he took a faculty position at the University of South Carolina and shortly after became Chair of its Physics Department. In 1962, he moved to MIT where he developed a new curriculum for introductory physics. In the 1970s, as Associate Chair of Physics, he managed and led the teaching of MIT’s large introductory physics course and wrote four of the MIT Introductory Physics series of textbooks. He also played a role in physics education beyond MIT. From 1975 to 1981 he was Chairman of the Commission on Physics Education of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and from 1983 to 1986 he was successively Vice-President, President-Elect, President, and Past-President of the American Association of Physics Teachers. He retired from MIT in 1991 but remained active in the community of physics educators. In 1993 he chaired the committee that set the examinations for the XXIV International Physics Olympiad. During his career Tony received many prestigious awards for his contributions to the teaching of physics. Although he remained in the United States, living in Cambridge, Mass., he kept in touch with Sidney and in 2000 was admitted as a member of the 1596 Foundation. His first wife, Naomi died in 2001. In 2002 he married Dorothy Jensen-French, and is survived by her. He is also survived by his children Martin French and Gillian Peck; by his stepchildren Peter, Christine, Katheryn and Lisa; and by his granddaughter. He died on 3 February 2017.

GOODMAN, His Hon. Michael Bradley, 1949, MA; born 3 May 1930; ed. Broughton Hall, Staffs, Aldenham School; read Law. This obituary is based on material provided by Dr Sheila Cameron in The Church Times on 7 July 2017, by Mark Hill QC of the Ecclesiastical Law Society, and the tribute that the Rt Hon. Jack Straw delivered at Michael’s funeral.

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Michael was the only child of Captain M.G. Goodman, a company director, and his wife Irene. He came up to Sidney in 1949 to read law and stayed in touch with the College throughout his life. He was a benefactor of the College and a founding member of the 1596 Foundation. Taught by John Thornely, he expanded his interests into many different parts of the law, as well as enjoying all aspects of College life. He adored being part of the University community and throughout his life continued to draw strength and happiness from the people and communities around him – his family, chambers, courts, choirs, clubs and church. Michael was called to the Bar in 1953 and spent the next 20 years as a barrister in the Middle Temple. Jack Straw, who was his pupil, recalls that ‘Michael loved the law, was very good at it, and cared deeply about his clients and representing their interests to the very best of his abilities. Indeed, sometimes he cared too much, worried too much, when perhaps a little detachment might have made his life easier.’ From this point of view, becoming a circuit judge in 1983 ‘was a boon for him’, as Dr Cameron recalled. He became the senior Civil Judge at Croydon County Court, where he also became President of the South- East London Magistrates Association from 1989 to 1996 and of the South-East London Family Mediation Bureau from 1999 to 2010. Throughout his career, he was a huge encourager of the young, always willing to discuss his work with students or give advice on legal careers. Michael also had a particular interest in ecclesiastical law. Mark Hill adds: ‘Michael held chancellorships in glorious plurality: Guildford (1968–2002), Lincoln (1970–1998) and Rochester (1971–2005). He was Vicar General of the Province of Canterbury from 1977 to 1983 and Chairman of the Ecclesiastical Judges Association from 1987 to 1997. For a quarter of a century he brought wit and wisdom to the Legal Advisory Commission of the General Synod.’ He was the first editor of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal (1987 to 2002), establishing that publication as a serious legal periodical. He was also responsible for developing one of the world’s most prestigious holdings of Anglican canon law in Middle Temple’s Library. All his friends and colleagues agree that Michael had an extraordinary zest for life, and as Jack Straw put it in his Tribute, ‘an infectious enthusiasm which made him enormous fun to be with’.

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Michael died on 17 May 2017 and is survived by his wife Patricia, his daughters Sarah and Catherine (1990) and grandchildren Freddie and Alice.

HUNT, Lester Roland, 1959, MA; born 2 March 1938; ed. The Crypt Grammar School, Gloucester; read Natural Sciences. We are grateful to Peter Allen (1959) for this obituary. Lester Hunt came up to Cambridge after National Service in the army. At school he had been a keen sportsman and was awarded the all-round prize for his academic and sporting ability and this continued. At the end of his first year at Sidney he was awarded the Preliminary Examination Prize and at the end of his second year was elected to a minor scholarship. He was a regular member of the rugby first team and in 1961 was a member of the rugby rowing eight, which made five bumps, thus gaining his oar. Lester made the most of his time at Sidney. He was full of energy and enthusiasm with a thirst for knowledge, not only for the subjects he was reading, but for life in general. After Sidney his main career was using his chemistry knowledge in marketing and sales with Rio Tinto, particularly Borax Europe, where he became a board director. Lester’s positiveness, resilience and determination to lead a full, rewarding life came to the fore when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in his early fifties. He was not into self-pity and he stepped up his interests, which continued all his life. He was a keen sailor and had a share in a boat, sailing to France, Ireland and in the Mediterranean. He loved birdwatching both here and abroad, in South Africa, Namibia, Israel, Ethiopia, Tajikistan, Antarctica and India. He was a keen photographer, interested in archaeology – on one trip he met Gabriel Horn, a former Master, who was working on the site – and in architecture. He was determined to speak French well and was attending classes up to just before he died. Lester was always good company and he could see the ridiculous and funny side of life. He was kind, considerate, grounded and very independent. However, he was not inclined to suffer fools gladly. In 2013, while on one of our walks, Lester asked if I had seen that the next reunion for our year was in 2017. He went on to say that it was a long time ahead. It was clear what he was saying, so I asked him if he would like me to

110 the register organise a reunion and he said he would. In September 2014 we gathered at Sidney for our reunion. With his wife Sandra’s help Lester was able to attend a formal dinner in College, together with a good number of his rugby and other friends. We were back 55 years to our undergraduate days, having good food, good wine and good conversations with lots of reminiscing and bantering. It was a very happy occasion for Lester and all of us. Lester and Sandra had two daughters and 11 grandchildren of whom he was very proud. He died peacefully on 18 February 2017 surrounded by his family.

LAWRENCE Thomas Geoffrey, 1951, MA, born 12 May 1931; ed. Brentwood School; read Mechanical Sciences. We are grateful to Geoff’s wife, Daphne for the information on which this obituary is based. Geoff developed his interest in outdoor and practical activities early on – as a teenager he built a sailing canoe. After leaving school he spent a year as an apprentice with Marconi in Chelmsford before coming to Sidney. In Cambridge he was awarded a half blue for swimming and water polo and captained the Sidney swimming team. After graduating he did his National Service in the Technical Branch of the RAF where he was trained to teach radar. For a time he then taught engineering at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University). Geoff and Daphne met at a ballroom dancing class in Cambridge and were married in 1962. In 1966 they moved to Colchester where Geoff taught computing and acoustics at the Colchester Institute. They bought an ex-gamekeeper’s lodge with over an acre of land, where they kept geese, chickens, ducks and bees, and grew vegetables and fruit. At work Geoff was promoted to Senior Lecturer and he gained a Diploma in Computer Studies at Essex University. He also joined Cambridge University Colchester Society and attended several of their functions before their final move to Wivenhoe. Geoff retired early due to rheumatoid arthritis, but remained active with a range of hobbies that included making wooden furniture, sailing, walking, cycling, composing music, swimming, gardening and tandem touring holidays. He was a member of several Wivenhoe groups and took an active interest in what was happening in the village, town, country and world.

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He bore his last illness with great fortitude. He died on 30 May 2017 and is survived by his wife, three children and two grandchildren.

LILLISTONE, Derek Robert Michael, 1953, MA; born 1 August 1933; ed. The Royal Latin School, Buckingham; read Geography. We are grateful to Derek’s brother Brian Lillistone (1958) for this obituary. Derek won a State Scholarship to Sidney after being head boy at his school. At both school and at Sidney, Derek excelled on the sports field. He swept the board on school sports days and became All England Schools’ High Jump Champion with a record jump at Port Sunlight that stood for many years. After National Service in the Royal Air Force Derek came up to Sidney in 1953 and soon found a place in the University Athletics Team. He represented the University in the high hurdles and the hop step and jump but his best event at Cambridge was the long jump. He was awarded a blue for Athletics and at the White City in April 1955 he beat his Oxford opponent by almost a foot with a winning jump of 21 feet 5 inches. He was a member of the Achilles and the Hawks Clubs. He also found time to be a member of the College hockey team. Derek remained active on the sports field playing hockey until he was over 70 and turning out for the occasional cricket match. He then joined the Ramblers. After Cambridge he entered the Colonial Service and was a District Officer in Tanganyika, as it then was. Derek loved Africa, so after the independence of Tanzania he retrained as a teacher at Makerere University in Uganda. He taught in Tanzania for a number of years, where he is still remembered for building a running track and promoting athletics and sport at the school in Tabora. He was a proficient Swahili speaker, and once delivered a whole geography lesson in Swahili! Derek married Jill, also educated at the Royal Latin School, in 1967 and they returned to England in the early 1970s after the birth of their daughter Susan. Derek spent most of his subsequent teaching career as Senior Geography Master at Deben High School in Felixstowe, Suffolk. At Deben, Derek organised many geography field trips and promoted and organised The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme for many years.

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He died on 12 October 2016 after suffering from Parkinson’s and then cancer. He is survived by Jill and their three children, Susan, Jonathan and Katheryn, as well as by five grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

McCLAFFERTY, (née Cooke) Gillian Pamela, 1983, MA; born 8 January 1964; ed. Wallingford School; read Modern Languages. We are grateful to Gill’s husband, Sean, for this obituary. Gillian Pamela Cooke was born in Solihull, Birmingham, the daughter of Roy and Pamela and sister of Paul. The family moved to Wallingford, where after school she took a year out to travel on her own around the world visiting the USA, Australia and Asia, before coming to Sidney to study German. One of her four years at Cambridge was spent abroad in Germany. In 1988 Gill started a PGCE course at Sheffield University in order to teach German and French, and it is here that she met her husband to be, Sean, who was also training to be a language teacher. Gill started her teaching career in Barnsley at Kirk Balk School and then after two years moved to Eckington school in Derbyshire where she became Head of German before returning part-time after the birth of her two children, Megan and Euan. During the last six years Gill also worked part-time for Sheffield University, mentoring new teachers to the professions. She loved this role as it challenged her professionally and she enjoyed being part of bringing on the new generation of language teachers. Megan has, in fact, been accepted on the PGCE course at Sheffield University to teach Biology, exactly 27 years after Gill met Sean on the same course. Euan has developed his mother’s love of languages and is now studying Spanish and French at Newcastle University. Gill loved playing hockey at university and in later life was a season ticket holder at Sheffield United, where she attended games with her family. Her favourite times were spent with family and friends and in particular with her mother, who she visited every week. Gill was diagnosed with secondary cancer in April 2012, having initially been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003. Gill passed away surrounded by her family and friends at home on 4 March 2016.

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McCOSH, William Gow, 1968, MA; born 21 July 1949; ed. Rugby School; read Law (Part I), Land Economy (Part II). We are grateful to William’s wife, Mary, for this obituary. William was born outside Glasgow, the eldest of four brothers. He attended a school in Edinburgh before going on to Rugby, where he thrived both academically and on the sports field, playing both hockey and rugby for the school. He was a dedicated member of the CCF and a moving force in the wild life clubs and fly tying. His enthusiasm for natural history was enhanced by his visit to Australia and New Zealand before taking up his place at Cambridge. There he developed his lifelong love for trees, which culminated in his most excellent work in developing the arboretum at his home Glenericht in Perthshire. William’s years at Cambridge were some of the happiest of his life. He took full advantage of all that Cambridge has to offer an undergraduate both in College and the wider University. He was awarded a half blue for clay pigeon shooting and represented the College in rowing and hockey. On leaving Cambridge he returned to Scotland, taking up a position as a chartered surveyor with Kenneth Ryden and Partners in Edinburgh. At first he worked in estate management, which he loved, before moving on to the housing side. In the summer of 1976 he married Mary Wiltshire and they had four daughters. In 1993 he left Edinburgh to take on the running of a small hotel near his home in Perthshire. Although he very much enjoyed this, the long hours damaged his health. He retired in 2000 and devoted his latter years to Glenericht. William died on 4 September 2015.

McQUAIL, Paul, 1954, MA; born 22 April 1934; ed. St Anselm’s College, Birkenhead; read English. We are grateful to Paul’s wife, Susan, for this obituary. Paul was born in London to Irish parents, Christopher and Anne (née Mullen). During the war the family – now including two younger brothers – moved to Holyhead before settling in Birkenhead. After school Paul learned Russian during National Service. Cambridge was a key time for him. His studies built on his love of reading and of books. He participated enthusiastically in the social life of the University

114 the register and made many friendships. His talent for making and keeping friends and the habit of collecting books were lifelong. As President of the English Club, he was responsible for inviting W.H. Auden to speak. Paul recalled that the poet remarked that the films he most enjoyed were those where animals talk with human voices. Paul moved to Hampstead to begin his working life. We met on the London Underground and moved, newly married, to a house in Peckham Rye, which became a much-loved home, where both our children were born, where we entertained many friends over the years and where we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 2015. Paul was a civil servant for all his working life. He served principally at the Department of the Environment under ministers in governments of various hues, with diligence, and some forbearance. He was Secretary to the Royal Commission on the Press in the 1970s and Chief Executive of the London Borough of Hounslow in the 1980s. He held on to the possibilities of good governance until he retired. His career reflected the responsibility he felt to serve society usefully, with intelligence and purpose. A feature of his working life, and a legacy of his Irish heritage, which quietly always mattered to him, was his identification with the underdog, apparent in his involvement with Britain’s inner cities. In retirement he continued to serve as Chair of Alcohol Concern where, as he remarked, he was keen to give something back for all the pleasure he had had from drink; also as a director of Sustrans – which reflected his cycling habit as a regular commuter and pilgrim to European destinations, including Santiago. He recorded the cycling journeys in a privately published volume enjoyed by many. Work left space for a lifetime of indulging his many passions, including books, plays, concerts, the cinema, fine art, architecture, foreign travel, hill- walking, and good food in good company. There were few subjects about which he was unable to comment with both wit and insight. His curiosity in other places and other people was a constant in his life. He was both a Catholic and catholic. Despite a diagnosis of dementia he remained very much himself until near the end. Paul died on 4 November 2016, and is remembered by former colleagues as an excellent man, enriching, erudite, professional and humane, and by friends including the oldest of them, his brother Denis, as brave, wise and as a wonderfully thoughtful companion. He is survived by me, Denis, our children and three grandchildren.

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MEDLICOTT (née Holman), Debbie, 1978, MA FRIC; born 12 September 1959; ed. Brighton & Hove High School and Haywards Heath Sixth Form College; read Economics and Land Economy. We are grateful to Debbie’s husband, William, for this obituary. Debbie was born and brought up in Sussex, arriving at Sidney in 1978. Her first year coincided with the first year of women in all undergraduate years of the College. She was a diligent student as well as being a keen coxswain and even turned out for rugby with the Land Economy faculty. Following graduation she joined Richard Ellis as a trainee surveyor and qualified in 1984. She continued in general practice with Richard Ellis until 1987 and then moved to be part of an innovative property management consultancy at Deloitte. She worked for Deloitte in London and in Benelux, acquiring proficiency in French and Dutch on her way. Debbie met her husband William (1978) at Sidney and they married in 1983, at the relatively young age of 23. It was always the intention to travel and they did so – to Africa, Asia, Australia and America as well as working and holidaying in Europe. In 1996, their son Tom was born and two years later their daughter Alexandra. The determination to be an excellent mother forced Debbie to conclude that she would cease full-time work to focus on the family and other interests. This she did with huge energy and enthusiasm. She was a capable fundraiser for a variety of causes and passionate about art and crafts. Latterly she ran a gallery with friends in Sussex and relished being in and part of the local community of artists in Sussex. In 2005 Debbie was diagnosed with breast cancer and successfully treated at the Royal Marsden. Debilitating as the treatment was, she never complained, and returned to her active life as soon as she could, resuming an interest in horses and riding as well as everything else. In 2014 the disease returned and once again she confronted the challenge with calm determination. She died peacefully on 23 December 2015. Throughout her life she was determined, loyal and always interested in friends and the world around her. She was a wonderful wife and a brilliant mother to our two children, of whom she was so proud.

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MILLER, Jack, 1964, MA, PhD; born 20 February 1940; ed. Cornwall Collegiate Vocational School, Ontario, McGill University; Post-Doctoral research student in Chemistry. We are grateful to Jack’s wife, Professor Mary Jane Miller, for this obituary. Jack Miller grew up in Cornwall, Ontario, and received his first PhD from McGill in 1964, from where he went on to Cambridge to do post-doctoral work in Chemistry with Harry Emeléus. At Harry’s suggestion he lived in College for the first year and loved it. Jack found meeting and talking with the variety of people and their subjects at Sidney Sussex to be a valuable part of his time there – an education in itself, as well as giving him lifelong friends. He often talked about those years with his wife Dr Mary Jane Miller who had gone to Birmingham (a red brick! She was doing research on the BBC in London). At her insistence, he punted her down the Cam on their honeymoon in 1980. Their long friendship had turned into courtship and eventually into a very happy, 36 year-long marriage. Jack joined Brock University in St Catharines in 1966 when it was quite small and, as Brock grew, participated vigorously and creatively in its governance, in the formation of new departments and in curriculum planning. He chaired his own department twice and also two other struggling departments while running a lab, mentoring grad students and post-docs and publishing extensively in his field. He retired in 2004 as AVP Research and Dean of Grad Students and immediately returned as Special Consultant on Buildings and Space, an avocation of many years. He had a remarkable memory for spaces and how they fit together and who was in them. He could talk to both architects and academics, so was part of the planning and construction of most buildings at Brock. Jack was an active member of B’nai Israel Synagogue for almost 50 years. He also loved food shopping and cooking. Jack and Mary Jane read widely and gardened both at home and up at their cottage. They both loved the theatre. In the years when Mary Jane was doing research on CBC television he watched and then discussed the programmes with her as well as reading and commenting on drafts of her papers and books – a change from reading the papers and chapters in chemistry that he refereed. He was an excellent editor. They travelled extensively throughout their married life but the UK was always their first love. Jack died on 21 April 2016 of a massive heart attack.

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MURDOCH, David Hamilton, 1956, MA, FRHistS; born 11 November 1937; ed. Oldershaw Grammar School; read History. We are grateful to Mrs Sue Murdoch for this obituary. It was Cambridge and Sidney in particular, to which he came with an Exhibition, that set David on his subsequent academic career. However his vast range of reading and interests ensured his opinions and wise counsel were valued also in the political, economic and business arenas. On his first day in Cambridge he met Colin Bell, his lifelong friend and twice his best man. They died just a few months apart (see page 100). Until retirement in 2003 he taught American History at the University of Leeds, where he was Senior Lecturer. He chaired the Senate Group on Student Exchange 1983–91, more than doubling the number of US exchange students to the University, enjoying troubleshooting trips to US universities and making lifelong friends. His principal research field was the American Revolution era, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of his work. His research involved ground-breaking use of documentary evidence and film analysis to explore the mythologies informing American culture. Later, he turned to the Wild West for light relief – and to annoy colleagues who thought it wasn’t ‘proper history’. His teaching on US history was unique in the UK at the time. He is credited with moving American history from decline to one of the most popular areas in the department. He worked tirelessly in student pastoral care and undergraduate admissions. His meticulous planning and ability to bring together disparate interests meant he was much in demand as a committee chairman. Among his many activities, he was summer session Visiting Lecturer, Queens College, New York (1968–71) and worked with the American Bibliographical Center. He published books and articles on US history, appearing in several BBC radio and TV programmes along the way. He was also co-founder of and secretary to the Northern Universities American Studies Group (1976–84), a member of the Advisory Board to the European Bibliographic Centre Oxford, Schools Council adviser, and a US embassy sponsored visitor to NATO during the 1970s. It was in the interaction with students, family, friends and colleagues, however, where his true enthusiasm lay. He was a rigorous interlocutor, abhorring woolly thinking, appreciating the cut and thrust of debate. David’s

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NEWELL David, 1949, PhD (Newcastle), MA; born 16 January 1929; ed. Sutton Valence School; read Mathematics. This obituary is based on one by Professor Geoffrey Berry in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society with additional material provided by David’s wife Judy. David was born in Greenwich. After national service he came to Sidney, staying on after graduation to obtain the Diploma in Mathematical Statistics. His first position was in the Department of Industrial Health at the University of Newcastle. He remained in that department from 1953 to 1967. Initially David was one of only two statisticians in the university and his teaching covered courses for a wide variety of students, but in 1967 he was appointed as Professor of Medical Statistics and held this position until 1987. David was appointed to the Computer Board for UK Universities (1970–72) and then to the Department of Health and Social Security Advisory Committee on Medical Computing (1972–76). He also crossed the border to serve on two similar Scottish committees. Further afield, he was a World Health Organization Consultant in Pakistan (1977), attempting to identify and train future medical statisticians. In 1987 he moved to Australia where he worked for Siromath, a consultancy firm in mathematics and statistics associated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, first in Melbourne and then as Managing Director in Sydney. From 1989–90 he served as Deputy Director to the newly formed National Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Centre based at Sydney University. His last position was as Senior Consultant in the Department of Community Medicine at Sydney University, before he retired in 1994.

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Throughout his career David published regularly. His last full-length paper was on intention-to-treat analysis published in the International Journal of Epidemiology in 1993. Some reviewers considered there was nothing new in it. David did not dispute this but pointed out that this aspect of analysis was often being ignored and the message needed to be re-emphasised. That he was correct and that he could explain the topic clearly to those reporting on clinical trials was proved by the fact that this is his most cited paper. David’s abiding interest outside work was choral singing. He started in the Cambridge University Musical Society in 1949 and finished singing with the Sydney Philharmonia Choir, particularly enjoying performances in the Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. His wife also recalls his enjoyment of hiking and gardening: ‘After he moved to Australia, hiking became bushwalking; in 1996 we bought a campervan and travelled all around the coast of Australia for five months. We spent every second year travelling in the UK or on the continent with David’s son and his family. The alternate years we mainly spent in the far north of Queensland visiting various parts of the Great Barrier Reef and its islands.’ David is survived by his wife Judy Simpson (Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Sydney) and his son James (Professor of International Public Health, Leeds University).

NICHOLLS, Clive Victor, QC, LLB (Trinity College, Dublin), LLM; born 29 August 1932; ed. Brighton College Sussex; Dublin University; read Law. We are grateful to Colin Nicholls QC, Clive’s twin brother, for this obituary. Although Clive’s leadership of the defence team in the extradition of Augusto Pinochet is regarded as the pinnacle of his legal career, his real legacy is to be found in the case reports of the succession of high-profile extraditions he defended and prosecuted in the appellate courts of the Commonwealth and beyond from the 1970s until 2016. Typical was his successful argument on behalf of the Danish Government in 1984 in its attempt to have Jens Nielsen extradited from the UK, which persuaded the House of Lords to overturn over 100 years of established case law and placed the law of extradition on its modern foundations. As Julian Knowles QC, Clive’s co-author with Clare Montgomery QC of the leading textbook on the subject

120 the register has commented, ‘If anyone can claim to be the father of modern extradition law, Clive can.’ Clive was called to the Bar in 1957, and practised in trial courts until the advent of his international practice in the 1970s. He took silk in 1982, was appointed a Recorder of Crown Courts in 1983 and elected a Bencher of Gray’s Inn in 1990. He was called to the Bars of the Australian Capital Territory, Hong Kong, the Bahamas, Malaysia, Ireland and Fiji and advised in cases in Asia, the Middle East, the USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, South America and eastern and western Europe on mutual assistance, money laundering, US and UN sanctions, corruption and human rights, as well as extradition. He was head of chambers at 3 Raymond Buildings from 1994 to 2010. Under his leadership the chambers became a centre of international, public, regulatory and human rights law, as well as of extradition and domestic crime. Clive had a great eye for talent and loved working with teams as they loved working with him. As Clare Montgomery, who worked with Clive on the Pinochet case, wrote: ‘He was a humorous, optimistic and hugely energetic man, a generous host, charming and entertaining companion, a constant source of stories, often about his work, his family and the law, always full of fun and the sheer pleasure of life.’ Professor Dame Sandra Dawson, former Master of Sidney who admitted him to the 1596 Foundation, agreed: ‘Clive’s intellect, wit, commitment to those things, principles and people in which he had faith and to which he gave support all wrapped into his engaging personality created a unique distinction. Sidney is very proud to number him among our most distinguished ranks.’ Clive met his wife Alison while they were students at Trinity College Dublin. They married in 1960 and had six children, five grandchildren and a great-grandchild. He loved sailing and fly fishing in Devon and had bought a large house there where he was restoring the garden and enjoyed entertaining his family and friends. He died surrounded by his family on 9 February 2017. He was still in active practice and previously in good health.

PHELPS, Arthur (Sandy), 1945, MA; born 6 September 1921; ed. Sherborne School; read Theology. This obituary is based on the tribute by Mgr Eugène Harkness, published online by Keith Morris for the Diocese of East Anglia on 26 October 2016. Sandy was born in New York, the son of German immigrants. On his mother’s side he was the grandson of Franz von Rottenberg, who had a distinguished

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career in the German government under Bismarck until he retired to become Rector of Bonn University before the outbreak of World War I. Sandy spent his early years in America but when his parents divorced, the ensuing scandal led his mother to leave for Europe and she settled in Bournemouth. She subsequently reverted to using her mother’s maiden name and also changed the surnames of her two sons to Phelps. Sandy finished his schooling at Arosa in Switzerland before coming to Sidney to read Theology. He had intended to become an Anglican clergyman but conversion to the Catholic faith changed the direction of his life. He was accepted for the Diocese of Portsmouth and was sent to the Beda College, Rome. He was ordained in March 1955 and had some parish assignments in the Portsmouth diocese. Later, he spent some time in Switzerland at a monastic hermitage of the Camaldolese Order. On his return to England he made his home in the diocese of East Anglia. Devotion to Our Lady and the Cenacle movement figured large in his life along with that to the Divine Mercy. These elements formed his future years as a priest in Cambridge and led him to an active and much cherished life at St Philip Howard Parish. He will be remembered for his humility, his brilliant mind, his enjoyment of music, both sacred and secular, but most of all for his uncompromising love of God and the Catholic Church, which manifested itself daily. He died quietly and surrounded by parishioners on 22 October 2016.

STEPHENSON, Donald F. 1940, MA; born 18 April 1922; ed. Newcastle Royal Grammar School; read History. We are grateful to Donald’s son, Paul, for this obituary. Donald came up to Sidney in 1940 before joining the army, where he served with distinction, participating in the Normandy landings. He completed his degree between 1946 and 1948. Following Cambridge, he worked as a journalist for Kemsley Newspapers before joining Shell for the remainder of his career, working in Brazil, Uruguay, New York, Houston and London. He grew up in Northumberland. At school in Newcastle, he discovered boxing and cricket and served as head of school during the school’s evacuation to Penrith in 1939. It was then that he developed his lifelong love of the Lake District.

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He was pleasantly surprised to win an Exhibition to Sidney after being confronted with a piece of medieval Latin in the unseen paper. However, he had the good fortune of being interviewed by David Thomson, later Master of the College, who interceded on his behalf with the then Master. David Thomson became a lifelong friend and mentor. Donald found Sidney a perfect fit and loved his Cambridge years passionately, always describing them as ‘the golden years’. His first letter home, written in October 1940, began: ‘First let me say that Cambridge has exceeded my wildest expectations, and that, up to the moment of writing, this place seems to me to be the nearest approach I have met to heaven on earth.’ A guiding theme of his life was the importance of taking part and contributing. ‘I believe’, he wrote later, ‘that our duty on earth is to improve the shining hour and that the chance to work hard is a privilege and a blessing.’ He threw himself energetically into College and University activities. He boxed in three Varsity matches, captaining the team in his final year. He played cricket whenever possible; was a devoted member of the Confraternitas Historica, contributing papers and taking delight in its dress code of dinner jacket, red sash and socks; relished May Balls; and served as JCR General Secretary. He maintained his connection with Cambridge throughout his life. He was a lifelong member of the Hawks Club and wore its tie around the world. For many years an inviolate date in his diary was the annual dinner he helped organise with his Sidney contemporaries. In his later years he greatly enjoyed periodic visits from fellow Sidney historian, David Pittaway (1973). He was married for almost 68 years to Joy and the proud father of four children. He stressed to all the importance of pursuing excellence in all parts of life, no matter how mundane the task. He became a doting and involved grandfather, taking especial delight in coaching his grandsons at cricket. He faced Parkinson’s with the same clarity and courage with which he met all other challenges in his life. In his final year, he was splendidly cared for at the Royal Star and Garter Home, where all knew him as ‘the man with the golden smile’. He died on May 8, 2017.

STEWART, David Edwin, 1954, MA; born 17 December 1934; ed. Stowe School; read Mathematics. We are grateful to James Olrod, David’s friend and business partner, for this obituary.

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David was born in Cheam and came to Sidney with a minor scholarship in Mathematics. After graduation he followed his father as a Lloyds underwriter and through the family insurance business came the opportunity to set up and run Stewart Smith Computer Services. Although created initially to serve just the family business, it rapidly grew to become a significant entity in its own right as other major insurance and allied businesses sought its expertise. While he would never have described himself as a pioneer, he was certainly in the forefront of his field. In 1977, a time of consolidation in the City, the family sold the business. For David this was another opportunity and so he started Stewart Olrod, providing consultancy and bespoke software for the service industries. His clients were many and varied, ranging from industrial chemicals to shipping, admiralty charts, underwriting agencies and paper merchants. By the late 1980s, however, he was experiencing debilitating ill health and spent increasingly longer periods at his beloved home in Kenya. In 1996 he returned to London permanently, enjoying an active social life and almost daily bridge. After a truly heroic and prolonged battle with dementia he died peacefully on 22 October 2014.

STEWART, John, 1962 (Jesus College), BA, PhD; Junior Research Fellow, 1968–71, born 1 July 1943; ed. Latymer Upper School. This obituary is based on material published on the King’s College website on 15 November 2016. Born in Pinner, John was appointed a Junior Research Fellow at Sidney in 1968 before moving to Munich where he was Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute. He returned to Cambridge in 1975 and was appointed Senior Research Fellow, and then subsequently Fellow and College Lecturer in 1978 at King’s College, two years after his appointment as University Lecturer in Applied Mathematics. John retired as Reader in Gravitational Physics in 2010, but continued to be active in the College and department until the week before his death. He was a student of Dennis Sciama and then George Ellis, graduating with his PhD from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) in 1969. He was appointed as a DAMTP Lecturer in 1976. He was universally admired as a superb teacher by successive generations of

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TEE, Richard, 1972, MA; born 18 August 1953; ed. Bishop’s Stortford College; read Law. We are grateful to Richard’s College friend James Thorne (1972) and his son Charlie (1998) for this obituary. Richard came up to College with an Exhibition in History but read Law, securing a ‘good’ 2.1 without too much trouble. He spent a fair amount of his time playing sport – in the winter months, hockey for the University 2nd XI for three years as a stalwart centre- back and cricket for the College in the summer. He developed an interest in late-night films at the Arts Cinema literally across the wall from Sidney – we had to climb back in after midnight. He did not take the mainly foreign films of the nouvelle vague as seriously as they took themselves; a particular favourite was Le Genou de Claire, with the title alone enough to make Richard laugh. He was also a regular at concerts by indie folk rock bands, which unusual taste for better or worse he maintained later in life. He had a strong sense of humour, falling about with laughter when a friend did a modern dance version of a masque in The Tempest at the Arts Theatre. Richard was always destined for life as a solicitor; after University and articles in Norwich he joined the family firm of Stanley Tee & Co in Bishop’s Stortford where he had grown up. He became the firm’s Senior Partner in 2006; though his family connection helped, his undoubted talent would have been sufficient. He was a very capable, thoughtful and sound solicitor who was much in demand from his clients. He retired as a partner in 2011, staying on as a consultant until his death. He served his community in a way that is nowadays becoming rarer; among numerous charitable roles, he was a governor of Bishop’s Stortford College for 23 years; a leading member of the local Rotary Clubs in Bishop’s Stortford and North Norfolk, where he was mainly based after retiring from full-time work;

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and a mainstay of the cricket club in Clavering well into middle-age, bowling off-spin and playing with a straight bat (with a top score of 96 not out!). Richard married his girlfriend at University, Louise Taylor (Newnham 1972), in 1976. They had three children, the eldest of whom, Charlie, followed Richard both to Sidney and after History at University into the law. The marriage ended in 1990 and Richard subsequently met and married Sue in 1995 (gaining a step- daughter) and remained happily married for the rest of his life. It was a great tribute to all of them that Louise and Sue became good friends. Richard remained interested in College life and College friends; he joined a group of his contemporaries who met to mark 40 years on from matriculation and, illness permitting, at each annual gathering afterwards. Richard bore his illness with fortitude and without complaint, supported by his wife and family. He died on 16 May 2017.

TRIPP, Graham, 1940, MA; born 25 January 1922; ed. Canford School, Wimborne; read Engineering. This obituary is based on an interview that Graham’s wife, Betty, gave to the New Milton Advertiser and Lymington Times (A&T ) in November 2016. Graham Tripp was born in Newcastle. According to his wife Betty, his parents sent him away to school to get rid of his Geordie accent but throughout his life he could always reproduce it very well, together with the jargon. He studied engineering at Sidney early in the war and then joined a reserved occupation on the River Wear, making landing gear for ships. When his Canadian cousin, a bomber pilot, was killed he decided he should play a more active part in the war and joined the army. As he was an experienced shot, they wanted him as a sniper but he insisted on joining the Royal Engineers. He served in London, Holland and Germany. ‘Digging out dead bodies left a lasting impression,’ Betty said. His first post-war job was with Sir William Halcrow, designing the hydroelectric scheme at Kinlochleven in Scotland, after which he became chief engineering assistant at Tees Valley Water Board. It was there that he met his future wife, Betty, with whom he shared a love of poetry and literature, at a writing class. He was also an active sportsman, in his younger days enjoying rock climbing with the Northumbrian Mountaineering Club and racing Austin 7s at Silverstone and later playing golf at the New Forest and Brockenhurst golf clubs and sailing his dinghy with his sons. Graham and Betty married in 1954 and after the birth of their first son, the family moved to Southampton. He was appointed as deputy manager at

126 the register the city’s water works. A post with the Medway Water Board followed, until in 1968 he was appointed Engineering Manager at Southampton Municipal Water Corporation, prompting the family’s move to their final home in Lyndhurst. His final job was as Hampshire area divisional manager at the Southern Water Authority, retiring when it was privatised by Margaret Thatcher. Thereafter he took up a part-time non-executive directorship with the Bournemouth and West Hampshire Water Company where he attended monthly meetings until the age of 79. Graham suffered a stroke in July 2016 and after a short spell at the Southampton General Hospital, went to live at Hartwood House care home where his family visited him daily. He died peacefully on 26 October 2016, and is survived by his wife Betty, their four children and three grandchildren.

URQUHART, Ian Bligh, 1946, MA; born 1 November 1924; ed. Charterhouse and Geelong Grammar School, Australia; read Economics. We are grateful to Ian’s daughter Sally Hordern, and her husband Angus, for the material on which this obituary is based. Ian Urquhart was born in Colombo, Ceylon, the son of Hugh Webster Urquhart, a merchant, and his wife Frances Hope Bligh. In 1941 Ian moved from school in England to Australia from where he was commissioned as a midshipman into the Royal Australian Navy in 1942 and promoted to sub-lieutenant in 1944. According to his daughter Sally, Ian always maintained that he had a good and lucky war, although her account suggests that it contained a number of hair- raising adventures. Once while he was serving on board a patrol boat off New Guinea, his boat was sunk by US forces in error. On another occasion in the middle of the night off the west coast of Australia, a new Officer of the Watch took the helm of HMAS Nizam and executed a course so dramatically that he turned the ship too hard resulting in a tilting 90°. Despite rescue attempts men were lost overboard. Ian remembered the funnels of Nizam hitting the ocean and filling with water. Luckily, a wave righted the ship, otherwise she would have been sunk. Ian was fortunately below deck and survived the ordeal and terror. Nizam went ahead of the fleet for the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay. Ian recalled being very close to the USS Missouri on board where the surrender was signed, and watching an American fighter taking out a Japanese plane that

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was diving towards the fleet. After the war Ian was posted back to Port Arthur. He used to go out into Bass Strait every day to sweep the mines, in his view the most terrible job he had in the war because of the heavy seas. After graduating from Sidney, where he read Economics and played hockey and squash for the College, he joined his father in Colombo and for a time they both worked for Whittal and Co, before returning to live in New South Wales. Ian married Sheila Higden and they had three children, Robert, Heather and Sally. He died in Sydney on 22 June 2016.

WARWICK Ivor, 1955, MA; born 19 March 1934; ed. Sale High and Manchester Grammar Schools; read Natural Sciences. We are grateful to Ivor’s son Trevor for this obituary. At school Ivor proved a keen and talented sportsman, particularly as a tennis player. He hugely enjoyed his time at Cambridge, spending as much time as possible playing tennis, while still working hard enough to gain his degree. He was rewarded with a blue in his first year, was twice part of the victorious team against Oxford and became University champion in his final year. Vacations were mostly spent playing tennis at tournaments around the country, at one of which he met his future wife. During this time he also played internationals for England, and was proud to have been chosen as captain for one of these matches. After Cambridge, and a brief period at Johnson-Matthey, Ivor took a job with J Lyons & Co, in the Work Study department, and from this start his successful career continued for the next 40 years with the same employer. After various roles in subsidiaries, his analytical ability was recognised and he was one of the first members of the company’s internal management consultancy that reported directly to the board, in time being promoted to lead this department. Sport, and particularly tennis, continued to take up a lot of his time outside work. He played at the Wimbledon Championships for 15 consecutive years in the Men’s Doubles, and also in the Singles and Mixed competitions. He was a member of the Lancashire team at the County Championships for 21 years in a row. He also found time to play squash, and in middle-age took up golf, where he had great success at club level. He was still enjoying playing tennis with friends at the AELTC after 50 years of membership, at the age of 78.

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Ivor Warwick died on 4 June 2017. There had been a family celebration of his 60 years of happy marriage to Anthea a few weeks earlier. He will be very much missed by Anthea, his two sons, family and friends.

WRAITH, Eric Douglas, 1954, MA; born 15 July 1935; ed. The Leys, Cambridge; read Natural Sciences. We are grateful to Julian Wraith for this obituary. Eric was always referred to as Douglas, or ‘Dougie’ and was born in Manchester in 1935. Brought up in Lymm, Cheshire with his sisters Patricia, who sadly passed away at a young age, and Sheila. Douglas was schooled from the age of eight at Terra Nova, Jodrell Bank and at the age of 13 was then educated at the Leys, Cambridge until 1954. Showing a natural passion for sports, particularly rugby, he played in the Leys’ rugby team until a knee injury forced him to stop. He had further passions for cars, motorsport, aeroplanes, sailing and a beer on the bridge by The Mill. Following Cambridge, he went on to study Dentistry at the University of St Andrews and obtained a degree in Dental Surgery. Following university, he specialised in oral surgery at the Royal Free Hospital, London, and then at the Royal Dental Hospital, School of Dental surgery, Leicester Square, London. From 1969 on, he moved to general practice in Warrington, Cheshire, then moving to community dentistry close by in Sandbach and Warrington. Following this he was in general practice in Northwich, Cheshire until his retirement. After retiring, he continued to live for a while in Cheshire but then moved to Hereford. In 2013, he moved back to Cambridge to live on Histon Road, close to the centre. It was his parents Jessie and Frederick, who were both medical practitioners, who gave him his interest in medicine. His father was a general practitioner and his mother a consultant radiologist. He was a brilliant and gifted surgeon and a conscientious and hardworking general practitioner. He was very talented and had a sharp and intelligent brain. On 31 March 1970, he married Jennifer Smith and had two sons Paul (b. 1971) and Julian (b. 1976). He had four grandchildren, Iris, Lucas, Miles and Mia whom he loved very much. He sang them funny songs, told them jokes and they were always afraid he would pull out a loose tooth! He died on 14 February 2016.

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WRIGHT, Nicholas, 1950, MA, MB, BChir, DPM, FRCP, FRCPsych; born 20 March 1932, ed. Royal Grammar School Newcastle; read Medicine. We are grateful to Nick’s sons, Alex and Ian, and members of his family for this obituary. Nick, like many children of his generation, had an early life that was disrupted during the war years. He and his elder sister were evacuated from their city home in Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the relative safety of the countryside. He later reflected that this was a period in which he had ‘missed out on life’. Perhaps it was his unhappy experience as an evacuee that made him so determined to make up for this lost time with such zest and joie de vivre. He felt passionately that life was very much for living. Alongside a number of other clever grammar school boys from the North East, Nick went up to Sidney – on a County Major Scholarship – to read Medicine. He and his companions formed a bond held together not only by ties of friendship but also a shared love of Tyneside culture, including Newcastle United (called by them colloquially ‘Wor Jackie and the Lads’). Although these were years of austerity and rationing, Nick made the most of what early-1950s Cambridge could offer, throwing himself, alongside his medical studies, into activities as diverse as tennis (at which he was talented and represented Sidney), solo whist, dining, coffee shops, punting, Scottish dancing evenings, May Balls and cinema (he had a particular enthusiasm for the films of Billy Wilder). On leaving Cambridge, Nick finished his medical training at St Thomas’ Hospital, qualifying in 1956. Drawn to psychiatry, he then moved to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Netley, where he completed two years’ National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He later studied at the Maudsley Hospital in London, where he became Senior Registrar to the charismatic advocate of innovative physical methods of treatment in psychiatry, William Sargant. In 1966 he was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist to Park Prewett Hospital, where he provided the psychiatric service for the city of Winchester. Exhibiting throughout his career a lively compassion for his patients, he was admired by colleagues for the terse intelligence and concentrated brevity of his reports. He developed an interest in forensic psychiatry, and later worked as the first Visiting Psychiatrist to HM Prison Winchester. Following retirement from the NHS, he gave evidence in court until well into his seventies. He served too on

130 the register the Parole Board, where he argued with a formidable independence of mind against the injustice of the indeterminate sentence. Nick enjoyed sport throughout his life, especially Real Tennis, which he played regularly and enthusiastically at Canford and Hampton Court: he won the British Open Real Tennis Senior Doubles Championship in 1983. He was an eager bridge player with further interests in opera, food, travel and gardening. He died on 2 October 2016, aged 84, after a typically stoic few years having treatment for cancer. He is survived by his wife Rosemary, his children, Alex (1984) a publisher and Ian Ellison-Wright (1984) a psychiatrist, and grandchildren.

YOUNG (née Grattidge) Elizabeth, 1976 MA; born 9 January 1957; ed. Bedford High School, read Law. We are grateful to Elizabeth’s husband John (1975) for this obituary. Elizabeth was born in Bedford in 1957, the daughter of two teachers. She left school with A levels in Maths, History and French, all at Grade A. She was one of the first 25 women admitted as undergraduates at Sidney Sussex and subsequently graduated with a first class BA in Law. Having originally toyed with becoming a barrister, Elizabeth changed course in her final year at University and went on instead to qualify as a solicitor – with some success, joining Coward Chance (subsequently Clifford Chance) as an articled clerk in 1980. She was awarded the Daniel Reardon Prize for coming among the top five in Solicitors’ Final Examinations that year, as well as the John Marshall/Henry Strouts Prize for best performance in the Probate paper, the City of London Solicitors’ Company Prize for most promising articled clerk in the City of London and the Wig and Pen Law Prize for most promising articled clerk in the City of London and Westminster. She went on to specialise in commercial real estate work, becoming a partner in Clifford Chance in 1988. Her most notable work included leading the real estate aspects of a number of government privatisations in the 1990s (water, the rail industry, the coal industry and Nuclear Electric) as well as involvement in many of the development agreements relating to the construction of London’s Canary Wharf business district. While at Sidney, Elizabeth met fellow undergraduate John Young, who also became a solicitor. However, their real interest in common was mountaineering. Having both had an interest in hillwalking in their school days, they developed the interest together into more ambitious fields, including rock climbing,

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Scottish winter climbing, alpine mountaineering, trekking and ski touring. Elizabeth’s proudest achievements included climbing all the Munros (Scottish mountains over 3,000 feet), a self-guided traverse of the summit of Mont Blanc and a 48-day crossing of the Pyrenees from coast to coast via the Haute Randonnée Pyrénéenne. While Elizabeth loved being a lawyer she was never wholly comfortable in the commercial rough and tumble inherent in being a partner in a modern law firm. Thus it was that she resigned her partnership in Clifford Chance in 2007, when she was 50. In retrospect it was a mercy that she did so, as the first symptoms of the Alzheimer’s that was ultimately to claim her life manifested themselves only a few months later. Elizabeth bore her affliction with stoicism, but hers was a steady downhill path that had only one possible, tragic, end. She died on 21 November 2016. Elizabeth retained a lifelong loyalty to Sidney Sussex, being admitted as a founder member of the 1596 Society in 1999 and later representing the College on the Campaign Council advising on Cambridge University’s 800th anniversary appeal. She is survived by John, who retains strong links with the College.

ZEWAIL Ahmed, Linnet Visiting Professor 2002, DSc, (Hon.) 2006, PhD (Philadelphia); born 26 February 1946; awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1999. This obituary is based on those written by Sir John Meurig Thomas for the Al-Ahram Weekly in Egypt and the Guardian on 25 August 2016. Ahmed Zewail was born in Damanhur, in the Nile Delta. As a teenager he roamed freely around the countryside of his beloved Egypt, before he became, within a few short decades, successor in California to the greatest chemist of the 20th century, Linus Pauling. Like Pauling he was destined to shape much of modern science. He took his initial degree at the University of Alexandria, before moving to the University of Pennsylvania for his PhD. He then worked for two years as IBM Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, before being appointed to Caltech, where he stayed for the rest of his life. Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1999. At the Stockholm ceremony, Professor Bengt Norden introduced him with the following words: ‘Zewail’s use of the fast laser technique can be likened to Galileo’s use of his telescope, which he directed towards everything that lit up the vault of heaven.

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Zewail tried his femtosecond laser on literally everything that moved in the world of molecules. He turned his telescope towards the frontiers of science.’ To appreciate the magnitude of the advance that Zewail introduced to chemistry, one has to ponder the minuteness of the time intervals that he could routinely employ with his special lasers: a femtosecond is a millionth of a billionth of a second. Apart from the Nobel Prize, he was the recipient of numerous other honours. He was an honorary doctor in 50 universities, including both Oxford and Cambridge. He visited Sidney as the Pasadena Linnett Professor of Chemistry in 2002. He was a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743. In 2009, President Obama appointed him to the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and in the same year he became the first US Science Envoy to the Middle East. In 2013 he joined the UN Scientific Advisory Board. Sir John Meurig Thomas described his legacy for generations of future natural philosophers: ‘Two things made him so unusual as a scientist: first, he combined in a singular manner patience, passion, pertinacity and perspicacity. Second, he described his work in beautifully elegant and memorable ways: every sentence and every illustration of every paper of his was the product of deep contemplation and lucubration. His unique legacy is that he made a multitude of wide-ranging, far-reaching, uplifting and long-lasting contributions.’ Ahmed Zewail died on 2 August 2016. He is survived by his wife Deema and their four children.

We have also heard of the deaths of:

ANDREW, Joan (wife of former HENDERSON, Andrew (1950) Bursar, Mr Roger Andrew) HIRSH, Alan (1958) BATES, Arthur (1944) JACOBS, John (1937) BEARDMORE, Michael (1951) KEENE, John (1945) BEATTY, Dermot (1957) LANCASHIRE, Alan (1945) BRAZIER, Francis (1958) MARSHALL, Elisabeth (1981) BURGESS, Alan (1946) MOORE, Michael (1960) FENN-SMITH, Clive (1953) NOBLE, Andrea (1986) FOTHERINGHAM, Donald (1950) OSMOND, Christopher (1953) HALE, Brian (1945) ROBERTS, Peter (1948) HASZLEDINE, Robert (1947) ROOKE, Rodney (1958) HEAP, Robert (1938)

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Visitor The Right Honourable Philip John Algernon Sidney, Viscount De L’Isle, MBE, DL

Master Professor Richard Penty, PhD, FREng

Vice Master Michael Ramage, PhD

Senior Tutor Bursar Massimo Beber, MPhil Nick Allen, MA

Tutors for Graduate Students Development Director Berry Groisman, PhD Jillaine Seymour, DPhil (Oxon) Stanley Bill, PhD Domestic Bursar Tutors Albert Ray, BA María Noriega-Sánchez, PhD Colin Roberts, PhD Steward Edward Wilson-Lee, PhD Ron Horgan, PhD

Admissions Director Wine Steward Catherine Sumnall, PhD William Jones, PhD

Dean Praelector Bernhard Fulda, PhD David Skinner, DPhil (Oxon)

Chaplain Keeper of Manuscripts and The Revd Dr Brett Gray, PhD Archives Rosamond McKitterick, LittD, MA, PhD

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Keeper of Pictures Computer Officer Richard Humphreys, MA Andrew Flewitt, PhD

Keeper of Silver Editor of the College Annual Janice Stargardt, DLett (Paris) James Mayall, MA, FBA

College Librarian Note: further information about the Fellow: Massimo Beber, MPhil College and its officers may be found Librarian: Alan Stevens, MA (Oxon) on the College’s website: www.sid.cam. ac.uk/people Communications Officer Tom Lambert, PhD

■■Directors of Studies Subject Tripos Part Directors of Studies (all terms unless otherwise indicated) Anglo-Saxon, Norse Part I.a, I.b, II Dr Ahern* & Celtic Archaeology Part I Dr Kohring* Architecture Part I.a, I.b, II Dr Ramage Asian & Middle Part I.a, I.b, II Dr van-Ruymbeke* Eastern Studies Chemical Engineering Part I, II.a, II.b Dr Fruk Classics Part I.a Dr Jackson~ Part I.b, II Dr Galanakis Computer Science Part I.a, I.b, II Mr Ireland* Economics Part I, II.a, II.b Dr Roddie Engineering Part I.a Prof Flewitt Part I.b Dr Longley Part II.a Dr Garcia-Mayoral Part II.b Prof Al-Tabbaa English Prelim to Part I, Dr Wilson-Lee Part I, II Geography Part I.a, I.b, II Dr Sumnall

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History Prelim to Part I Dr Fulda Part I Dr Fulda Part II Dr Lambert History & MML Part I Dr Bill and Dr Fulda History & Politics Part I Dr Fulda and Dr Eilstrup-Sangiovanni History of Art Part I, II.a, II.b Dr Salmon* Human, Social & Part I Prof. Mayall Political Science Part II.a, II.b Dr Duschinsky (Sociology) Dr Eilstrup-Sangiovanni (Politics and IR) Dr Stasch (Soc. Anth) Land Economy Part I.a, I.b, II Prof. McHugh Law Part I.a Mr Mares Part I.b Dr Bordin Part II Mr Mares LLM and MCL Dr Bordin Linguistics Part I, II.a, II.b Dr Buttery, Dr Caines*(MT) Management Studies Part II Prof Pollitt Manufacturing Part II.a, II.b Prof. Neely Engineering Mathematics Part I.a Dr Boucher~ Part I.b Dr Groisman Part II Dr Groisman Part III (& MAST) Dr Boucher~ Medicine Part I.a Dr Lawrence~ Part I.b Dr Flynn Part II Dr Jackson Clinical Studies Dr Gurnell Modern & Medieval Part I.a Mrs Franklin Languages Part I.b Dr Noriega-Sanchez Year Abroad Dr Bill Part II Mrs Franklin Music Part I.a, I.b, II Dr Skinner

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Natural Sciences (i) Part I.a (Phyiscal) Dr Eiser Part I.a (Biological) Dr Wilkinson~ Part I.b (Physical) Dr Doran (Physics) Dr Ranasinghe~ (Chemistry) Dr Steven Lee (Chemistry) Part I.b (Biological) Dr Leggett Part II and III (Biological) Dr Flynn Dr Gurnell Dr Jackson Prof. Kilner Dr Roberts Dr Sliwa Dr Weisblatt* Dr Weller Dr Zernicka-Goetz Part II and III (Physical) Dr Fernández-Pachero Prof Greer Dr Lee Dr Ranasinghe~ Dr Weller Philosophy Parts I.a, I.b, II Dr Sliwa Psychological & Part I, II.a, II.b Prof Lamb (MT), Behavioural Dr Cheke* (LT, ET) Sciences Theological and Part I, II.a, II.b Dr Gray Religious Studies Veterinary Medicine Part I.a, I.b, II, and Dr C. Roberts Clinical NB: * = external Director of Studies; ~ = CTA; ^ = Bye-Fellow

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■■The Fellows

Elected 1955 Professor Derek Beales, PhD LittD FBA, Emeritus Professor of Modern History 1962 Dr Paul Scott, PhD, former University Lecturer in Physics 1965 Professor Tim Blanning, PhD LittD FBA, Emeritus Professor of Modern European History 1966 Mr Donald Green, MA, former University Lecturer in Engineering 1972 Dr Roderick Woods, DPhil (Oxon), Emeritus Fellow, former University Lecturer in Physiology 1973 Dr Peter Collier, PhD (London), former University Lecturer in French 1973 Professor Alan Hughes, MA, Emeritus Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies, Judge Business School 1976 Professor Keith Glover, PhD (MIT) FRS FREng, Emeritus Professor of Engineering 1977 Professor Dame Ann Dowling, OM PhD SCD DBE FRS FREng, Professor of Engineering 1980 Professor William Jones, PhD (Wales), Emeritus Professor of Chemistry 1982 Professor Barry Nisbet, PhD (Edinburgh) LittD, Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages 1982 Professor Ronald Horgan, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics 1984 Professor Paul McHugh, PhD, Professor of Law and Legal History 1984 Professor A. Lindsay Greer, PhD, Head of The School of Physical Sciences 1985 Professor Christopher Page, DPhil (York) FBA, Professor of Medieval Music and Literature 1990 Professor Timothy Cox, MD FRCP FMedSci, Emeritus Professor of Medicine 1992 Dr Antony Jackson, PhD, University Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry 1993 Dr John Longley, PhD, University Senior Lecturer in Engineering 1994 Professor Michael Pollitt, DPhil (Oxon), Professor of Business Economics 1995 Professor Sir Alan Dashwood, MA KCMG CBE QC, Emeritus Professor of European Law 1995 Professor Sir Tom Blundell, DPhil (Oxon) FRS FMedSci, Director of Research and Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry

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1997 Professor Abir Al-Tabbaa, PhD, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering 1997 Professor Sir John Walker, DPhil (Oxon) Hon DSc (Oxon) FRS FMedSci, Emeritus Professor of Molecular Bioenergetics 1998 Professor James Mayall, MA FBA, Emeritus Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations 1998 Professor Dame Sandra Dawson, DBE MA former Master, Emeritus KPMG Professor of Management, Judge Business School 1999 Professor Andrew Flewitt, PhD, Professor of Electronic Engineering 2000 Dr Christopher Doran, PhD, Fellow in Natural Sciences 2000 Mr Massimo Beber, MPhil, Senior Tutor and Fellow in Economics 2001 Mrs Natasha Franklin, MA, University Senior Language Teaching Officer in Modern and Medieval Languages 2002 Dr Janice Stargardt, DLett (Paris), Emeritus Fellow in Geography 2003 Dr Jillaine Seymour, DPhil (Oxon), Development Director 2003 Dr Frances Hall, DPhil (Oxon) FRCP, Hon Consultant Rheumatologist, Addenbrooke’s Hospital 2004 Professor Christopher Hill, DPhil (Oxon) FBA, Emeritus Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations 2004 Dr Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, PhD, (European University Institute), University Senior Lecturer in International Relations 2005 Professor Rebecca Kilner, PhD, Professor of Evolutionary Biology 2005 Mr Clive Wilmer, MA, Emeritus Fellow in English 2005 Dr Colin Roberts, PhD (Open University), FRCVS Fellow in Veterinary Medicine 2005 Dr Paul Flynn, PhD FRCP MRCPI, Consultant Physician, Acute and Metabolic Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Hospital 2007 Dr Bernhard Fulda, PhD, Austin Robinson Fellow in History 2007 Dr David Skinner, DPhil (Oxon), Osborn Director of Music 2007 Professor Rosamond McKitterick, PhD LittD, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History 2008 Mr Nick Allen, MA, Bursar 2008 Dr Erika Eiser, PhD (Weizmann Institute), Reader in Soft Matter Physics 2008 Dr Michael Ramage, PhD, Vice-Master and University Senior Lecturer in Architecture 2008 Professor Michael Lamb, PhD (Yale), Professor of Psychology

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2008 Professor Eugenio Biagini, PhD (University of Pisa), Professor of Modern British and European History 2008 Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, DPhil (Oxon) OBE FBA, former Master, Emeritus Fellow 2010 Dr Edward Wilson-Lee, PhD, 1596 Foundation Fellow in English 2010 Dr María Noriega-Sánchez, PhD, University Language Teaching Officer in Modern and Medieval Languages 2011 Dr Berry Groisman, PhD (Tel Aviv), Knox Shaw Fellow and Taylor Lecturer in Mathematics 2012 Dr Yannis Galanakis, DPhil (Oxon), University Lecturer in Greek Prehistory and Fellow for CRASSH 2012 Professor Monojit Chatterji, PhD, Fellow in Economics 2012 Dr Paulina Sliwa, PhD (MIT), University Lecturer in Philosophy 2013 Dr Sergii Strelchuk, PhD, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Mathematics 2013 Professor Kenneth Armstrong, LLB (Glas), LLM (Toronto), PhD (Glas), Professor of European Law 2013 Dr Ricardo Garcia-Mayoral, PhD (Madrid), University Lecturer in Engineering 2013 Professor Rodolphe Sepulchre, PhD (University of Louvain), Professor in Engineering 2014 Dr Amalio Fernández-Pacheco, PhD (Zaragoza), Winton Advanced Research Fellow for the Physics of Sustainability 2014 Dr Fernando Bordin, PhD, John Thornely Fellow in Law 2014 Professor Gary Gerstle, PhD (Harvard), FBA Mellon Professor of American History 2014 Dr Steven Lee, DPhil (University of Sussex), Royal Society Research Fellow in Chemistry 2014 Dr Stanley Bill, PhD, (Northwestern University), Fellow in Polish Studies 2014 Dr Rupert Stasch, PhD, (University of Chicago), University Lecturer in the Division of Social Anthropology 2015 Dr Matthew Cliffe, DPhil (Oxon), Ramon Jenkins Research Fellow 2015 Dr Ruth (Ceri) Owen, DPhil (Oxon), Research Fellow 2015 Mr Henry Mares, LLM (University of Sydney), John Thornely Fellow in Law

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2015 Reverend Dr Brett Gray, PhD Chaplain and Fellow in Theology 2016 Dr Tom Lambert, PhD (University of Durham), Osborn Fellow in Medieval History and Culture 2016 Dr Robert Duschinsky, PhD, University Lecturer in the Department of Health and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine 2016 Dr Mark Gurnell, PhD FRCP, Parish Fellow in Medicine, University Senior Lecturer in Medicine 2016 Professor Andrew Neely, PhD, Head of Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relations 2016 Dr Charles Roddie, PhD (Princeton University) Fellow in Economics 2016 Ms Emma Rampton, MA (Oxon) Registrary, University of Cambridge 2016 Mr Rhys Jones, MSci, Research Fellow 2016 Mr Georj Meisl, MPhil, Ramon Jenkins Research Fellow 2016 Dr Ljiljana Fruk, PhD (University of Strathclyde), University Lecturer in Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering 2016 Dr Catherine Sumnall, PhD, Admissions Director, Fellow in Geography 2017 Dr Owen Weller, DPhil (Oxon), Fellow in Earth Sciences 2017 Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PhD (Warsaw & Oxon), Professor of Mammalian Development and Cell Biology 2017 Dr Tania Demetriou, PhD, University Lecturer in Drama 2017 Dr Ruth Jackson, PhD, Research Fellow 2017 Dr Natasha Morrison, DPhil (Oxon), John & Delia Agar Research Fellow 2017 Professor Ira Katznelson, PhD, Pitt Professor of American Institutions

■■Honorary Fellows Elected 1977 The Rt Hon. Lord (David) Owen, MA MB BChir PC CH FRCP, formerly Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1991 The Hon. Sir Patrick Neville Garland, MA LLM, formerly Judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division 1991 Lord (David) Stevens of Ludgate, MA 1994 Mr David Gwilym Morris Roberts, MA CBE FREng FICE FIMechE Hon FIWEM, Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers and for- merly Chairman of Acer Group Ltd

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1995 Dr Ramon Barton Jenkins, MA MD, formerly Chairman of the Department of Neurology, Washington Hospital Center and Attending Neurologist at the Children’s Hospital, Washington DC, USA 1996 Professor Arthur Kwok Cheung Li, GBM MA BChir MD FRCS FRCS(E) FRACS FACS Hon. FPCS, Foundation Professor of Surgery and Chairman of Surgical Services at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, formerly Vice- Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China 1999 The Most Reverend Archbishop Desmond Tutu, MTh (London), Hon. DD, Emeritus Archbishop of Cape Town 2000 Mr John Philip Madden, MA, Theatre, Film and Television Director 2003 Professor Anthony John Badger, MA PhD (Hull) Hon. DLitt (Hull), Emeritus Paul Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge, formerly Master of Clare College, University of Cambridge 2003 Baroness (Barbara) Young of Old Scone, MA DipHSM, Chair of the Woodland Trust 2004 Sir Ravinder Nath Maini, MB BChir FRCP FRCP(E) FMedSci, Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology, Imperial College London 2005 Dr Alison Brown, MA SM PhD, President and CEO, NAVSYS Corporation 2005 The Rt Hon. Sir William Gage, MA, formerly Lord Justice, Court of Appeal 2005 The Rt Hon. Peter John Robert Riddell, PC CBE MA, Commissioner for Public Appointments, British Government 2007 Lord Karan Bilimoria of Chelsea, CBE FCA DL MA, Chairman of Cobra Beer 2007 Major General John Drewienkiewicz, CB CMG MA, Consultant, Peace Support Operations 2008 Professor Herman Waldmann, ScD (Hons) PhD MRCPath MRCP FRS, Emeritus Professor, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology 2012 Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, LLB LLM PhD, Judge, International Court of Justice 2012 Mr John Osborn, MA, formerly Chief Executive, Alexon Group plc 2013 Sir Simon Campbell, PhD CBE FRS FmedSci, formerly Head of Research at Pfizer 2014 Dr Michael Purshouse, PhD, FREng, CEng, FIET, FlnstP, FIMA, VDI, Engineering Consultant, formerly Technical Director with Thales and President of Cambridge University Engineers’ Association.

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2016 Ms Ann Mather, MA, Director of Alphabet and Netflix 2016 The Hon. Mrs Justice (Ingrid) Simler, MA DBE, President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal

■■Visiting Fellows 2016–17

Dr Harshan Kumarasingham Michaelmas 2016 Professor Jesús Palacios Lent 2017 Dr Tomasz Bilczewski Easter 2017

■■Montagu Fellows Elected 2015 Mrs Patricia Brown 2016 Mrs Kyoko Gledhill

■■Fellow Commoners Elected 1993 Dr Stewart Lang, PhD 2011 Mr Christopher Pyatt, MA 1999 Ms Priscilla Barrett, BA MICE FIHT 2000 Dr Graham John Davies, PhD 2015 Ms Carol Vorderman, MA 2003 Dr Richard Chisnall, PhD MBE 2006 Mr David Purchase, MA 2015 Mrs Victoria Penty, BA 2008 Mr Henry Dawson, MA 2016 Professor David Titterington, 2009 Mr Richard Humphreys, MA MA, Hon DMus, Hon DUniv, 2009 Dr George Reid, PhD Hon FRCO, Hon RAM

■■Bye Fellows Elected 2011 Mr Nicholas Rogers, MA MLitt 2013 Dr Helen Castor, MA PhD 2016 Dr Emma Gilby, PhD 2017 Mr Albert Ray, BA

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■■Academic Visitors 2016–17 Dr Bhargavi Kalaenahalli Shivarudraiah Michaelmas 2016 (Pavate) Dr Shrishail Ramappa Gani Lent 2017 (Pavate) Professor Xiao-Ping Chen Lent 2017 (Sandra Dawson Visiting Professor) Professor Elie Ofek Easter 2017 (Sandra Dawson Visiting Fellow) Professor Don Hambrick Easter 2017 (Sandra Dawson Visiting Fellow) Dr Jayashree Vivekanandan Easter 2017 (Pavate)

■■1596 Foundation Members

Elected 2000 Dr Alan Diamond OBE 2002 Dr Gerald Avison 2000 Mrs Sheila Diamond 2003 Mr David Purchase 2000 Mr Hugh Easterling 2004 Dr Chris Dobson* 2000 Mr Edmond Harbour 2004 The Hon. Matthew Bullock 2000 Dr Stewart Lang* 2004 Mrs Ann Ewart* 2000 Mr Gwilym Roberts CBE, 2004 Professor Michael Scott FREng Morton 2000 Mr John Young* 2005 Mr José Álvarez Stelling 2001 Mr James McNeill QC 2005 Mr Prakash Melwani 2001 Sir Simon Campbell CBE, 2005 Mr Richard North FRS* 2005 Mr John Gibbon 2001 Lady Jill Campbell* 2005 Mr Gareth Jones 2001 Mrs Kyoko Gledhill* 2005 Mr David de Saxe 2001 Mr Peter Ellis* 2005 Mr Ken-Yu Chou* 2001 Dr Leslie Illing 2005 Ms Sherry Coutu CBE 2002 Dr Dennis Hui* 2006 Mr Peter Lipscomb OBE 2002 Mr John Thornely 2006 Mr Richard Hartley QC 2002 Dr Julia Thornely 2006 Mr John Osborn* 2002 Mrs Patricia Wills 2006 Dr David Bieber 2002 Mr Richard Phillips QC 2006 Mr Roger Siddle 2002 Dr David Fyfe* 2006 Ms Anne Farlow* 2002 Mr Malcolm Gammie CBE 2006 Mrs Wang Mei-Wen Chou* QC* 2006 Mr John Collis 2002 Mr Peter Espenhahn* 2006 Mr Andrew Sheard 145 sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2017

2006 The Rt Hon Lord Stevens of 2012 Professor Alex So* Ludgate* 2012 Mr William Dolben 2006 Mr Mark Rawlinson 2012 Mr Gifford Combs* 2007 Mr Nick Gray 2012 Mr Brian Moody 2007 Mrs Penny Price-Larkum 2012 Mr Malcolm Strong 2007 Mr Malcolm Basing* 2012 Ms Liz Copeland 2007 Mr Charles Sherwood 2013 Professor Sir Tom Blundell 2007 Mr Gordon Chilton FRS 2007 Mr Michael Blake 2013 Lady Lynn Blundell 2007 Mr Edward Chandler 2013 Mr Julian Boardman-Weston 2007 Mr Anthony Morris 2013 Mr Kevin Tuffnell* 2008 Mr Chun-Chi Chou* 2013 Ms Carol Vorderman MBE 2008 Mr John Brock 2013 Mr Nigel May 2008 Mr Jackson Deans 2013 Ms Ann Mather 2009 Mr Iain Oldcorn* 2013 Mr Ian Stephen 2009 Dr Christopher Hoare 2013 Dr Richard Lowe 2009 Mr Mike Styles 2014 Mr Anthony Willenbruch 2009 Mr Laurie Heller 2014 Mrs Patricia Brown* 2009 Mr Antony Watson QC 2014 Commander John Taylor OBE 2009 Mr Keith Nicholson 2014 Mr Simon Philips 2009 Mr Christopher Khoo 2014 Mr Richard Espenhahn 2009 Dr Martin Scott 2015 Mr David Mong* 2009 Ms Hanadi Jabado 2015 Ms Cynthia Mong* 2009 The Nasr Family 2015 Mr Stephen Mong* 2009 Mr Christopher Lucas 2015 Mrs Kristin Gill 2009 Mr Norman Shepherd 2015 Mr Charles Pope 2009 Professor Herman Waldmann 2015 Mrs Mary Buckley FRS 2015 Mr YY Hung 2009 Mr Donald Luker 2016 Mr John V Anderson OBE DL 2009 Mr Albert Levy 2016 Mrs Ruchanee Tuffnell* 2010 Mr John Beale 2016 Dr Donald (Clint) Peddie 2010 Mr Adam Glinsman 2016 Mr Christopher Gill 2010 Dr Murray Clayson 2016 Mr Paul Zatz 2011 Dr Alison Brown 2017 Mr Peter Allen 2011 Mr Alan Redfern 2017 Dr Dirk Pouli* 2011 YB Dato Paul Supramaniam 2017 Ms Mary Pouli-Sosnowski 2012 Professor Rosamond 2017 Dr David Wong McKitterick 2017 Mrs Shalni Arora 146 the college 2017–18

2017 Mr Steve White* 2017 Mr Nadir Mahmud* 2017 Mr Michael Young QC KEY 2017 Mr Keith Frey* *1596 Foundation life member

Members of the College 2017–18

■■Continuing students matriculated at Cambridge Doctoral Students

Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic Ouvarova, Maria (University of Harris, Anthony William (University Cambridge) of Reading) Radoux, Christopher (University of Sussex) Applied Mathematics at CCA Hocking, Laird Robert (University of Biological Science British Columbia, Canada) Chovanec, Peter (University of York) Wyczesany, Katarzyna Barbara Woods, Laura May (Imperial College (Technische Universität Berlin, London) Germany) Wagih, Omar (University of Toronto, Canada) Archaeology Cvetko, Filip (University of Oxford) Suryanarayan, Akshyeta (University Tzelepis, Konstantinos (National & of Cambridge) Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) Architecture Chen, Rongweixin (University of Chemical Engineering Cambridge) Curry, Nathan (Imperial College London) Biochemistry Kahm, Walter (University of Copoiu, Liviu (University of Cambridge) Cambridge) Kotze, Romilde (University of Pilger, Domenic Leonard (University Strathclyde) of Cologne, Germany) Krausser, Johannes (Technische Rannikmae, Helena (Edinburgh Universität München, Germany) University) Thomas, Sherine Elizabeth Chemistry (University of Kerala, India) Benson, Raz Lior (University of Cambridge) 147 sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2017

Jiang, Kun (Fudan University, China) Education Jin, Jialu (Nankai University, China) Cheng, Marisa (Smith College, Overvoorde, Lois May (University of United States) Cambridge) Nketia, Patrick (Faculty of Education) Rimas, Zilvinas (University of Browning, Peter John (University of Cambridge) East Anglia) Schneider Rauber, Gabriela Dowling, Simon (University of (Universidade Federal de Santa Oxford) Catarina, Brazil) Toprakcioglu, Zenon (University Engineering College London) Baig, Sarwat (University of Cambridge) Clinical Neurosciences Cirillo, Giuseppe Ilario (University Craig, Michael Murphy (University of Padova, Italy) College London) Hirmer, Stephanie Andrea Gaunt, Christopher Michael (University of Warwick) (University College London) Kalsi, Hardeep (Imperial College London) Computer Science Koehler-Sidki, Alexander Mark Saville, Philip James (University of (University of Nottingham) Oxford) Pagnano, Dario (Università degli Schaarschmidt, Michael (University Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy) of Hamburg, Germany) Racz, Gergely Zsigmond (University Tsipenyuk, Gregory (Moscow College London) Institute of Transport Engineers, Requeima, James Ryan (University Russian Federation) of Manitoba, Canada) Shi, Fengyuan (Huazhong University Criminology of Science & Technology, China) Hanstock, Richard Simon (Kaplan Trivedi, Shrey (Uttar Pradesh Law School) Technical University, India) Larmour, Simon Robert (Carleton Wilson, Mark William (University University, Canada) of Leeds) Wu, Tien-Chun (University of New Development Studies South Wales, Australia) Lu, Saite (University of Ulster) Yang, Yumeng (University of Birmingham) Divinity Zhao, Xinyu (University of Deese, Adrian Montrell (Georgia Cambridge) 148 State University, United States) the college 2017–18

Jans-Singh, Melanie Kiren (Imperial Schmalz, Timothy (Georgetown College London) University, United States) Payne, Andrew Timothy (University Sulovsky, Vedran (University of of Kent) Rijeka, Croatia) Warr, Simone English Wilson, James David (University of Wright, Alexander Robert (University Cambridge) of Oxford) Italian Geography Di Franco, Manuela (Università Gibson, Sebastian Matthew degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy) (University of Exeter) Potter, Ellen (University of Land Economy Cambridge) Kang, Jieyi (University of Electronic Science & Technology of China) History Luan, Bo (Tsinghua University, Burridge, Claire Pippa Saling China) (University of North Carolina at Ti, Seng Wei Edward (National Chapel Hill, United States) University of Singapore) Earles, Charles Graham (University of Cambridge) Law Evans, Robert Arnold Hughes Fasel, Raffael Nicolas (University of (University of Cambridge) Fribourg, Switzerland) Griffin, Tristan Alexander Robert Nicholson, Rowan Alexander (University of York) (Macquarie University, Australia) Hitchings, Philip Richard Varzaly, Jenifer Arezu (University of (University of Oxford) Adelaide, Australia) Jóhannesson, Sveinn Mani (University of Iceland) Management Studies Kara, Taushif (McGill University, Fraser, Jack Lewis (University of Canada) Pennsylvania, United States) Loner, John David (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Materials Science United States) Huq, Tahmida Najmatul (Imperial Morash, Christopher (University of College London) Oxford) Ding, Boning (Imperial College Passabi, Gabriele (King’s College London) London) 149 sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2017

Ramachandran, Arathi Welbourne, Alexander (University of (Massachusetts Institute of Cambridge) Technology, United States) Welbourne, Emma (University of Thirumalai, Sundararajan Cambridge) (Technische Universität Zupkauskas, Mykolas (University of Darmstadt, Germany) Cambridge)

Medical Science Physiology, Development and Barton, Philippa Rose (Durham Neuroscience University) Coombs, Caroline (University of Kostiou, Vasiliki (National & Warwick) Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) Polar Studies Benedek, Corinne Laura (University Medicine of Cambridge) Ong, Lay Ping (University of Cambridge) Politics and International Studies Richoz, Nathan (Université Claude Bray, Donald Patrick Bernard Lyon 1, France) Dazey, Margot Hélène Lizika Kandasamy, Narayanan (Royal Hirsch, Philipp Alexander College of Physicians) Maximilian (University of Potsdam, Germany) Music Petkanas, Zoe (George Washington Pardoe, Charles Edward Adam University, United States) (Brunel University) Sharath, Arjun Narayan (Yale University, United States) Philosophy Van Der Tol, Marietta Dorothea Wrigley, Wesley Duncan (University Clementine (Utrecht University, of Cambridge) Netherlands)

Physics Psychology Deacon, William Michael Almeida, Telma Sofia De Sousa (University of Leeds) (Universidade Católica King, David Andrew (University of Portuguesa, Portugal) Cambridge) Amodio, Piero (Università di Stoev, Iliya Dimitrov (Edinburgh Firenze, Italy) University) Andrews, Samantha Jane (University of Cambridge) 150 the college 2017–18

Goncalves, Nuno Reis (University of Other Graduate Courses Birmingham) Lukate, Johanna Melissa Applied Mathematics (MASt) Sandu, Rebeca Denisa (University of Turk, Günther (University of Bucharest, Romania) Cambridge)

Public Health and Primary Care Clinical Medicine (MB/BChir) Beckwith, Helen Lucy (University of Arnold, Charlotte (University of Newcastle) Cambridge) Beverley, Jodie (University of Pure Mathematics and Cambridge) Mathematical Statistics Cowley, Ben Jie (University of Girão, Antonio Jose Ferra Gomes De Cambridge) Almeida (University of Cambridge) Deeley, William (University of Cambridge) Radiology Dong, Jiawen (University of Abela, Stefan (King’s College London) Cambridge) Foong, Ke Wei (University of Social Anthropology Cambridge) Lardy, Camille Michele Helene French, Jamie Phillip (University of (University of Cambridge) Cambridge) Mogstad, Heidi (University of Gao, Jovia (University of Cambridge) Copenhagen, Denmark) Harris, Alexander (University of Ugarte Pfingsthorn, Ana Sofía Cambridge) (Pontificia Universidad Católica Hughes, Noemi Jacqueline de Chile) (University of Cambridge) Mahon, Ciara (University of Surgery Cambridge) Wesley, Brandon Tyler (Villanova Neelson, Siddharth Umapathy University, United States) (University of Cambridge) Pujari, Rathin (University of Zoology Cambridge) Can, Geylani Qin, Xueqi (University of Meenakshi Sundaram, Cambridge) Sankaranarayanan (Shanmugha Stewart, Max Edward (University of Arts Science Technology & Cambridge) Research Academy, India) Turberfield, Catherine Sarah (University of Cambridge) 151 sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2017

White, Heather Tammy (University Geographical Research (MPhil) of Cambridge) Lawrence, Anna Mary (University of Yazdanian, Bijan (University of Cambridge) Cambridge) Yeoh, Su Ling (University of Graphene Technology (MRes) Cambridge) Jay, Nathan Victor (University of York) Classics (MPhil) Ezra, Ethan (University of Legal Studies (CPGS) Cambridge) Meagher, Jacob Joseph (Victoria University of Wellington, New Computer Science (CPGS) Zealand) Day, Benjamin James (University of Menashe, Maayan (Hebrew Cambridge) University of Jerusalem, Israel) Isaacs, Joseph Owen Sutherland (University of Cambridge) Medical Science (MPhil) Mikhailiuk, Aliaksei (University of Taylor, Alice Victoria (University of Bristol) Cambridge)

Education (Med) Philosophy (MPhil) Blayney, Philip William (University Kotak, Aakash Mehul (University of of Sheffield) Cambridge) Buxton, James (Nottingham Trent University) Sensor Technologies and Jones, Wilfrid (University of Application (MRes) Cambridge) Schack, Sina (Lindenwood Thompson, Eleanor May (University University, United States) of Cambridge) Siouve, Elise (ESPCI ParisTech, France) Gas Turbine Aerodynamics (MRes) Social and Developmental Boyle, Patrick Richard (Imperial Psychology (MPhil) College London) Franklin, Matija (University of Ma, Kwun Yeung (University of Cambridge) Cambridge) Veyrat-Charvillon, Alan (Ecole Social Innovation (MSt) Nationale Supérieure des Mines Bekele, Aida (Harvard University, de Nancy, France) United States) 152 the college 2017–18

Stewart, Joshua (United States Veterinary Medicine (VetMB) Military Academy, United States) Ashford, Matthew Tyndale, Imogen (Macquarie Dyke, Frederick George Edwin University, Australia) Kitson-Platt, Sam Vopni, Lauren Kaye Booth (Queens Rhodes-Cheong, Hannah University at Kingston, Canada) Yip, Daryl Lai Kay (King’s College Zoology (MPhil) London) Jameson, Tom Julius Morpeth (University of Cambridge)

■■Graduate Matriculations 2017–18 Doctoral (Probationary/CPGS)

Applied Mathematics and Clinical Neurosciences Theoretical Physics Malpetti, Maura (Vita-Salute San Grayson, Katherine Margaret Raffaele, Italy) (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Engineering Baltasi, Gulsum Sevde (Middle East Architecture Technical University, Turkey) Choma, Joseph (Rensselaer Stoychev, Andrey Vladimirov Polytechnic Institute, United (University of Manchester) States) History Biochemistry Defrates, Lewis Thomas (Durham Kim, So Yeon (University of University) Edinburgh) Quené, Laura Jeanine (University College London) Chemistry Westland, Owen Thomas Khan, Fahmida (University College (Australian National University, London) Canberra) Sharpe, Daniel Joshua (Durham University) Medical Science @ MRC CU Williams, Benjamin David Abbas, Sujath (Kuvempu University, (University of Oxford) India)

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Physics Business and Management (BUSN) Hickey, Alexander John (University Baker, Charles Stuart George of Oxford) Bean, Michael Robert Bonsall, Philippa Ruth Public Health and Primary Care Crossingham, Lee Bakkum, Lianne (Hogeschool Dussman, Clare Bridget Inholland, Netherlands) Garg, Shreeya Lockwood, Laura Knowles Social Anthropology Soejima, Sayuri Moon-Little, Edward M (University Yuan, Jie of Oxford) Criminology (MPhil) Other Courses Ang, Eng Seng (National University of Singapore) Advanced Computer Science (MPhil) Economic Research (MPhil) Hartt, Martin (King’s College Xu, Yiming (University of California London) Los Angeles, United States) Khan, Akbir (University College London) Economics (MPhil) Kong, Ying (University of African Studies (MPhil) Southampton) Njica, Siyabonga (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Energy Technologies (MPhil) Fatras, Nicolas (University of American History (MPhil) California, Berkeley, United States) Monaco, Brennan Philip (Indian River State College, United States) Engineering for Sustainable Wilkinson, Phillip Hoyt Cordero Development (MPhil) (Yale University, United States) Hazelgrove-Planel, Alex Lucien (Cardiff University) Applied Mathematics (MASt) Höppke, Christoph Maria (University Finance (MFin) of Dortmund, Germany) Morrow, Adam Christopher Woon, Christopher Wenlong Astrophysics (MASt) Witstok, Joris Nicolaas Gas Turbine Aerodynamics (MRes) (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, Thari, Ali Kazim Jawad (Technische 154 Netherlands) Universiteit Delft, Netherlands) the college 2017–18

Industrial Systems, Manufacture, Henn, Michael (University of and Management (MPhil) Heidelberg, Germany) Eilhardt, Malte (University of Mirzoyev, Sanan (University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Pretoria, South Africa) Quelhas Lima, Francisco, Manuel International Relations (MSt) Sampaio De Freitas (Universidade Brookshire, Jonathan Michael Católica Portuguesa, Portugal) (Northern Virginia Community College, United States) Law (MCL) Chahine, Nadine (American Paradeisiadis, Ioannis (National & University of Beirut, Lebanon) Kapodistrian University of Athens, Channer, Edward Adam (University Greece) of Nottingham) Cole, Joshua John (University of Machine Learning, Speech and Exeter) Language Technology (MPhil) Labedays, Florence Emmanuelle Ball, Philip John (University of (Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Oxford) France) Chalus, François (ETH Zurich, Phillips, Richard Thomas Ryder Switzerland) (BRNC Dartmouth) Management (MPhil) International Relations & Politics Fielmann, Sophie Luise (Medical (MPhil) School Hamburg, Germany) Carpenter, Christine Corrine (Lafayette College, United States) Mathematical Statistics (MASt) Ebrahim, Nadeen Hazem Mohamed Crawford, William (London School Alieldin Mohamed (American of Economics & Political Science) University in Cairo, Egypt) Lemaire, Emeric Kouakou (Ecole Centrale de Paris, France) Law (LAW) Achermann, Katja Francesca Medieval and Renaissance (Bucerius Law School, Germany) Literature (MPhil) Chirillo, Gaspare (Queen Mary, Baker, Eleanor May (Royal Holloway, University of London) University of London) Goalen, Angus Darshan McNicol (University College London) Modern British History (MPhil) Hedegaard, Johannes David Govan, Dexter Henry (University of (University of Copenhagen, Aberdeen) Denmark) 155 sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2017

Music Studies (MPhil) In addition, the following Cotter, David Thomas (Durham matriculated in 2016–17 University) Chemistry (NOTAF) Physics (MPhil) Sideris, Dimitrios Ion (University of Raghavan, Arjun (University of Sussex) North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States) Engineering (NOTAF) Mak, Michele Win Tai (Politecnico Political Thought and Intellectual di Milano, Italy) History (MPhil) Hunt, Thomas William Seymour Legal Studies (CPGS) (Trinity Western University, Lee, Wei Lun Ivan (University Canada) College London) Pacitti, Cara (University of Oxford) Materials Science & Metallurgy Scientific Computing (MPhil) (MPhil) Muir, Heather Alexandria (University Liu, Zipeng (Beijing University of of Queensland, Australia) Chemical Technology, China)

Sensor Technologies and Physiology, Dev and Neurosci Application (MRes) (NOTAF) Franck, Christoph Otto (Karlsruhe Kaluthantrige Don, Mewanthi Institute of Technology, Germany) Flaminia (Brunel University)

Technology Policy (MPhil) Do not matriculate Cheong, Joshua Renjie (Singapore University of Technology & Fox Fellows Design) Incoming Deo, Tasneem Ravindra (Law) Theology, Religion, and Philosophy Steinmetz, Alicia Marie (History) of Religion (MPhil) Lyonhart, Jonathan David (Ozark Outbound Christian College, United States) Dazey, Margot Hélène Lizika (Politics) World History (MPhil) Lukate, Joanna Melissa (Psycology) Warin, Naomi Margaret (Durham University) Erasmus Exchange Programme 156 Schoenemann, Dennis (Chemistry) the college 2017–18

■■First Year Undergraduate Students 2017–18

Archaeology Kirkpatrick, Stella Eve Chesterfield High School, Liverpool

Architecture Hossain, Rifayat Wallington High School For Girls, Wallington

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Povey, Francesca Charters School, Ascot

ASNC Fox, Helena Claire Annick Tormead School, Guildford

Chemical Engineering via Engineering Papadimitriou, St Lawrence College, Athens, Greece Achilleas Krisna

Classics Bennett, William King’s College School, London Revel-Chion, Lucia Alice University College School, London Roscoe, Megan Joan Canon Slade Church of England School, Bolton

Computer Science Coalter, Andrew The Wallace High School, Lisburn Lewis, Kate Rossett School, Harrogate Marshall, Benjamin John King Edward VI Five Ways School, Birmingham

Economics Gilbert, Luke David Methodist College, Belfast Hughes, Henry Southend High School for Boys, Southend-on-Sea Ismagulov, Abylaikhan Cardiff Sixth Form College, Cardiff Khera, Paramvir Singh Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood

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Tan, Bryan Kwang Shing Hwa Chong Institution, Singapore Yin, Zixin Wuhan Britain-China School, Wuhan, China

Engineering Athar, Abdullah Lahore Grammar School Defence, Lahore, Muhammad Pakistan Jones, Ryan Lomax Hazelwick School, Crawley Keh, Zong Hao Kolej Yayasan UEM, Tg Malim, Malaysia Olawore, Olufayojimi Lancaster Royal Grammar School, Lancaster Omotoso Poland, Angus Benjamin Bristol Grammar School, Bristol Ruaux, James John Bancrofts School, Woodford Green Richard Smallwood, Alexander Dr Challoners Grammar School, Amersham John Vogdanos, Christos Campion School, Athens, Greece Vuolo, Anna Wallington High School For Girls, Wallington Wong, Stan Tze Yang Concord College, Shrewsbury

English Banerjee, Caroline Varndean College, Brighton Rebecca Bollard, Rebecca Joan Notting Hill & Ealing High School, London Hancock, Alexander Faringdon Community College, Faringdon Mulcare, Benedict Magdalen College School, Oxford Joseph Teale

Geography Bailey, Charlotte Tonbridge Grammar School, Tonbridge Bartlett, Abigail Ruth The Latymer School, London Porteous, Samuel Mark Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar, Rossendale

History Chan, Phyllis Royal High School, Bath Davidson, Sarah Jasmine Elsa High School, Hong Kong Day, Michael Xaverian College, Manchester Fennings, Gianni New Hall School, Chelmsford

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Ince-Jones, Edward James Wymondham High School, Wymondham Lee, Chantelle Diss High School, Diss Newbold, Kathryn Thomas Rotherham College, Rotherham Phillips, Imogen Channing School, Highgate

History and Politics Hall,Iris King Edward VI Camp Hill School, Birmingham Houghton-Grimshaw, Winstanley College, Wigan Camille Womack, Jessica Kate Uppingham School, Oakham Hilton

Human, Social, and Political Science Best, Ieuan Hereford Sixth Form College, Hereford Cressman, Danilo St Stephen’s School, Rome, Italy Gledhill, Georgina Loreto College, Manchester Catherine Seagrave, Jacob Luke All Saints Roman Catholic School, York Williamson-Sawyer, Lydia Camden School for Girls , London

Land Economy Grady, Matthew Alex Winstanley College, Wigan Kelsall, Anna Isobel Hull Collegiate School, Hull

Law Bailey, Emily Victoria Denstone College, Uttoxeter Cheng, Yong Ter Frederick Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore Ding, Sarah Yuqi Phillips Academy, Andover, United States Golusin, Jenna May Lauriston Girls School, Victoria, Australia Walker Howard, Emilia Anna Gymnasium Oberalster, Hamburg, Germany Lee, Elizabeth Hui Ling Kolej Tuanku Ja’afar, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

Linguistics Renard, Martin Eric Rosa Parks High School, Neuville-sur-Saone, Antonin France

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Mathematics Dayan, Benjamin Li Westminster School, London Mu, Yuxuan Confucius International School, Shandong, China Nevill, Ryan Bishop Wordsworth’s Grammar School, Salisbury Young, Elliot Norwich School, Norwich

Medicine Bhatti, Aniqah Littleover Community School, Derby Davies, Emilia Charlotte Canford School, Wimborne Dohle, Marthe Esmee Vossius Gymnasium, Amsterdam, Netherlands Hassan, Refaat Twynham School, Christchurch Lopez-Ruiz, Ana-Maria Mearns Castle High School, East Renfrewshire Mohamed, Kara Adel Loreto College, Manchester Osman Podgorski, Szymon Brigshaw High School and Language College, Castleford Urquhart, Calum John George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh Xu, Hai Feng Yew Chung Education Foundation, Hong Kong

Modern and Medieval Languages Calder, Anna Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge Day, Henry Warwick School Warwick Guenault, Lily The Latymer School, London La Guardia, Alexandra Lycee Francais Charles De Gaul, London Logan Vella Bonnici, Francesca King Edward VI High School for Girls, Maria Birmingham

Music Bryan, Madeline Grace Presdales School, Ware Redding, Frederick Sheldon School, Chippenham

Natural Sciences Alex, John London Academy of Excellence, London Barber, Benjamin Edward Colchester Royal Grammar School, Colchester

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Chandrasekaran, Westminster School, London Bavankanth Chong, Boon Keat Kolej Yayasan UEM, Malaysia Comish, Ella Jane Colchester County High School, Colchester Elston, Henry Charterhouse, Surrey Gilbert, Daniel Westcliff High School for Boys, Westcliff on Sea Harris, Anna King Alfred’s Academy, Wantage Hryniv, Sofia Durham Johnston Comprehensive, Durham Irving, Samuel Rupert The Sixth Form College Farnborough, Farnborough Kelly, Amy Bancrofts School, Woodford Green Kong, Xiangmeng King Edward’s School, Bath Lao, Cheng-Cheng Cardiff Sixth Form College, Cardiff Leong-Son, Patrick Reed’s School, Cobham William Sauchelli, Oscar American School of Barcelona, Spain Vaughan, Elliot Charterhouse, Surrey von Stengel, Clemens City of London School, London Wood, Gregory Samuel Watford Grammar School for Boy, Watford

Philosophy Glover, James Ming King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford Svenungsson, Sven Tor Kungsholmens Gymnasium, Stockholm, Sweden Manfred

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Medlen, Natasha Kesgrave High School, Ipswich

Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion Seager-Fleming, Harriet Simon Langton School for Boys, Canterbury

Veterinary Medicine Bint Saifullah, Rumaysa Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge Haldane, Francesca Ripon Grammar School, Ripon Karina Maria

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■■Scholarships, Awards and Prizes 2017–18

Graduates The College is in the fortunate position of being able to support Graduate Students through various awards, bursaries and exchange programmes. The College is extremely grateful to the benefactors who have contributed to the establishment of these grants over successive generations.

NEW AWARD HOLDERS 2017–18 Gledhill Research Studentship Malpetti, Maura (jointly with the Cambridge Trust) (PhD Clinical Neurosciences) Williams, Benjamin (PHD Chemistry) Evan Lewis-Thomas Menashe, Maayan (PhD Law) Law Studentship (jointly with the Cambridge Trust) Fox Fellowship Deo, Tasneem (JSD Law) (incoming from Yale) Steinmetz, Alicia (PhD Political Science) (outbound from Sidney) Dazey, Margot (PhD POLIS) Lukate, Johanna (PhD Psychology) Erasmus Student Schoenemann, Dennis (incoming from (MPhil Chemistry) Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg) Andrew Semkov Travel Award Turberfield, Catherine (MB/BChir Clinical Medicine)  Yazdanian, Bijan (MB/BChir Clinical Medicine)  Yeoh, Su Ling (MB/BChir Clinical Medicine) Christopher & Edward Hoare Foong, Ka Wei (MB/BChir Clinical Medicine)  White, Heather (MB/BChir Clinical Medicine) Yazdanian, Bijan (MB/BChir Clinical Medicine)

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Tristan Barber Fund Turberfield, Catherine (MB/BChir Clinical Medicine)  Yeoh, Su Ling (MB/BChir Clinical Medicine) Kirthisigha Fund White, Heather (MB/BChir Clinical Medicine) Parry Dutton Fund Hughes, Naomi (MB/BChir Clinical Medicine)

CURRENT AWARD HOLDERS Osborn Research Studentship Sulovsky, Vedran (PhD History) (2016–17) Passabi, Gabriele (PhD History) (jointly with AHRC) Howard Sidney Sussex College Benedek, Corinne (PhD Polar Studies) Research Studentship (2015–17) Craig, Michael (PhD Clinical (jointly with the Cambridge Trust) Neuroscience) Evan Lewis-Thomas Varzaly, Jenifer (PhD Law) Law Studentship (2015–16) (jointly with the Cambridge Trust)

Undergraduates *Title of Scholar ˆResearch Scholar Elected to a Scholarship for one year

NAMED SCHOLARSHIPS Paul Micklethwaite Architecture Avram, Lara Thomas Ireland Chemical Engineering Sandford, Gillian* Shahrour, Mohammad* Arthur Beattie Classics Ezra, Ethan* Wilhelmina Nieuwland Classics Lewis, Sophie* Pouli Philip Haswell Computer Science Sun, Sizhe Peter Blundell Economics Ajilore, Tireni Bartol, Jedrzej Kamienska, Aleksandra Miller, Joscelyn Yi, Kuishuai

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Thomas Ireland Engineering Chow, Anthony* Corsham, Alexander Elliott, Jacques* Everest, Georgia Griffiths, Reece* Havard, Timothy* Ong, Chern* Upstone, Alexander* Yeung, Siu Zheng, Timothy William Barcroft English Ben-Shaul, Jonathan Darby, Alex Dawson, Gina Mather, George* Norris, Louis Tahajian, Talin* Downham Yeomans Geography Lawrence, Anna* Moore, Joseph* Smith, Isobel Charles Whittaker History Faber, Jonathan Fairbairn, Timothy Hayes, Chloe Leibowitz, Jonathan* Nixon, Ella Edward Laurence Lumb History Denness, Alfie James Johnson HSPS Gaston, Anju* Gibson, Max* Hubner, Imogen Hudson, Oliver* Jenkins, Francesca* Richardson, Thomas Dorset HSPS Monkcom, Ella Peter Blundell Land Economy Wilkinson, Philip Leonard Coling Law Humphreys, Megan Lim, Gabriel* Martin, Ellen* Nadeem, Mohib Seal, Jacob* 164 the college 2017–18

Arthur Sells Linguistics Allenby, Chloe Flint, Emma Ford, Elliot* Thomas Ireland Mfg. Engineering Holt, Edward William Pochin Mathematics Hanley, Angus Hugtenburg, Kai Shport, Maxim Zielinski, Thomas* Howard Agg Medical & Veterinary Arnold, Charlotte* Sciences Boscott, Rachel Dong, Jiawen* Farmer, George Gao, Jovia* Goulson, Bethany Porteous, Benjamin* Stewart, Max* Arthur Sells Modern & Medieval Lande, Zachary Languages Marshall, Hollie* Samuel Taylor Natural Sciences Benson, Razˆ Donini, Luca* Henderson, Lucy Hitchcock, Thomas Huang, Ailun Inzani, Isabella Jameson, Tom* Lamba, Adiyant Law, Kar* Matthews, Nicholas* Moore, Joseph* Naylor, Remy* Norcliffe, Alexander Ollard, Isobel Patel, Savya Seal, Trina* Thornton, Mark Turner, Abigail* 165 sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2017

Charles and Ann Ewart Natural Sciences Iranipour, Shayan Thomas Lovett Philosophy Hugill, Edward* Karlsson, Yvonne James Johnson Psychological and Zafar, Bushra Behavioural Sciences

Awarded an Exhibition for one year

College Exhibitions Architecture Hunt, Georgemma Upton, Luke Wong, Jian Lin Classics Bicknell-Found, William Burton, Isobel James, Fenella Computer Science Isaacs, Joseph Economics Barley, David Colonna, Filippo Kitchin, Sophie Mong, Perlie Engineering Jaroszewski, Jakub Spicer, Charles History Masters, Nils Stevens, Isla Human, Social & Political Science Afolabi, Fola Froud, Noah Hull, Charles Laurence, Leo Law Maruscak, Jozef Napieraj, Aleksander Manufacturing Engineering Ellwood, Samuel Modern & Medieval Languages Knipe, Rhys Thompson, Jack Natural Sciences Adler, Zoe Chadwick, Matthew Chen, Owen Delaney, James

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Hanlon, Mia Lomakin, Artem Loyd, Joshua Martin, Deborah Munby, Hannah Powell, Fergus Sefton, Daniel Psychological & Behavioural Sciences Abram, Sanjeeta Lewis, Kathryn Skene, Kayleigh Theology & Religious Studies Moore, James

Named Exhibitions Subject Dr David Richie Ives Classics Verity, Rosa

The following Exhibitions are all given by the Alan and Sheila Diamond Charitable Trust. Diamond-Larkum English No award Diamond-Larkum History Campsie, James A.W. Woolf Law Travers, Michael Diamond Mathematics Motzkin, Alexander Dr Arnold Green Medicine Mahon, Ciara

College Prizes

NAMED PRIZES

Editor’s Note: In 2016 David Lewis (Master in Corporate Law) was awarded The Sidney Sussex College Master’s Prize in Law for academic distinction. Reginald Hackforth Classics Ezra, Ethan Prakash Melwani Economics Ajilore, Tireni Yi, Kuishuai Donald Green Engineering Chow, Anthony Kelvin Pollard Engineering Upstone, Alexander Ronald Bentham Green English Tahajian, Talin Julian Blake (Tripos) HSPS Hudson, Oliver

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Anne Peachey History Leibowitz, Jonathan Michael Lyndon-Stanford Law Martin, Ellen Frank George Engineering Ong, Chern Graham, Day, Bellerby MML Marshall, Hollie Martin Jacks Natural Sciences Inzani, Isabella Matthews, Nicholas Thornton, Mark Norman Swindells Medical and Veterinary Gao, Jovia Sciences Vensi Thawani Mathematics Thomas Zielinski

College Tripos Prizes Chemical Engineering Sandford, Gillian Shahrour, Mohammad Engineering Havard, Timothy English Mather, George Norris, Louis History Denness, Alfie HSPS Gaston, Anju Gibson, Max Linguistics Ford, Elliot Mathematics Hanley, Angus Hugtenburg, Kai Medicine Farmer, George Natural Sciences Benson, Raz Moore, Joseph Naylor, Remy Ollard, Isobel Patel, Savya Seal, Trina

University Prizes Ong, Chern Engineering Royal Aeronautical Society Prize in Aeronautics Ong, Chern Engineering Morien Morgan Prize Mather, George English Derek Brewer Prize Tahajian, Talin English Mrs Claude Beddington Prize Tahajian, Talin English Austin Dobson Prize 168 the college 2017–18

Lawrence, Anna Geography William Vaughan Lewis Prize Monkcom, Ella HSPS Biological Anthropology Prize Marshall, Hollie Modern & Kurt Hahn Prize Medieval Languages King, David Natural Sciences BP Nevill Mott Prize Moore, Joseph Natural Sciences Goldsmiths’ Prize and Medal Turk, Gunther Physics Cavendish Laboratory M.A.St. Prize Sandford, Gillian Chem Eng The Winifred Georgina Holgate- Pollard Memorial Prize Shahrour, Chem Eng The Winifred Georgina Holgate- Mohammad Pollard Memorial Prize

Examination Results 2017 (*Distinction, mMerit, cCommendable Performance. dDistinguished Performance)

Architecture Tripos Chemical Engineering Part IB Part IA Tripos Class II (Div.1) Class I Part I Butcher, Evie Avram, Lara (Class I) James, Fenella Shahrour, Mohammad Rhodes, Elizabeth Class II (Div.1) Wong Jian Lin Part IIA Part II Class I Class I Class II (Div.2) Sandford, Gillian Ezra, Ethan Nachas, Anastasiya Lewis, Sophie Class II (Div.1) Verity, Rosa Part IB Omkararuban, Denesh Class II (Div.1) Class II (Div.1) Hunt, Georgemma Classical Tripos Burton, Isobel Parekh, Jay Part IA Poon, Mang Yee Class II (Undivided) Part II Bicknell-Found, Computer Science Class II (Div.1) William Part IA Upton, Luke Chinegwu, Jessica Class II (Div.1) Geelan, Noah Mills, Gideon 169 sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2017

Class II (Div.2) Class II (Div.2) Griffiths, Reece Hou, Haolin Mackey, Hannah Havard, Timothy Moosa, Aiden Part IIB Class II (Div.1) Part IB Class I Hollingsworth, Edward Class I Kamienska, Marino, Tomas Sun, Sizhe Aleksandra Class II (Div.2) Part II Class II (Div.1) Baxter Chinery, Class I Colonna, Filippo Mercedes Isaacs, Joseph Laskowska, Julia Blaiklock, Jamie Liu, Karen Gilmore, Miran Class II (Div.1) Mong, Perlie Li, Yat Arnold, Matthew Ngan, Sue Engineering Tripos Economics Tripos Part IA Part IIA Part I Class I Class I Class I Corsham, Alexander Jaroszewski, Jakub Bartol, Jedrzej Everest, Georgia Kitchin, Sophie Zheng, Timothy Class II (Div.1) Miller, Joscelyn Bin Adnan Merican, Yi, Kuishuai Class II (Div.1) Amirul Barrett, Laura Bogomil, Aleksandr Class II (Div.1) Blythe, Robert Cheadle, Martina Guo, Xingyu Chang, Felicia Shewale, Shweta Patel, Ronak Chen, Yuetong Tai, William Dyer, Roderick Class II (Div.2) Spicer, Charles Class II (Div.2) Abrar, Aman Walton, Jack Fisher, Thomas Zhang, Huaqiang Makings, Henry Part IIA Zhong, Qinyu Class I Class III Ajilore, Tirenioluwa Barnwell, James Part IIB Barley, David Successful Part IB Barakonski, Bartoszm Class II (Div.1) Class I Blackett, Katiem Wentzel, Simeon Chow, Anthony Ma, Kwunm

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Ong, Chern* Class II (Div.1) Human, Social and Upstone, Alexander* Dobson, Jessica Political Sciences Vega Kurson, Anam Tripos Ye, Congm Part II Part I Yeung, Sium Class I Class I Lawrence, Anna Monkcom, Ella English Tripos Part I Class II (Div.1) Class II (Div.1) Class I Franks, Bradley Hull, Charles Ben-Shaul, Jonathan Lobl, Joanna Moystad, Linn Mather, George* Newnam Oliver Norris, Louis Historical Tripos Part I Part IIA Class II (Div.1) Class I Class I Akoulitchev, Octavia Denness, Alfie Gibson, Max Dickinson, Sophie Hubner, Imogen Class II (Div.1) Jenkins, Francesca Part II Campsie, James Class I Cragg, Daisy Class II (Div.1) Darby, Alex Masters, Nils Afolabi, Fola Dawson, Gina Stevens, Isla Barth, James Tahajian, Talin* Stout, Kit Froud, Noah Thomas, Radu Gaston, Anju Geographical Tripos Zoob, Anastasia Laurence, Leo Part IA Richardson, Thomas Class II (Div.1) Part II Hutton, Edward Class I Class II (Div.2) Lobo, Hannah Hayes, Chloe Abdulrahim, Diamond Morris, Catherine Leibowitz, Jonathan* Sandall, Joseph Part IIB Sawjani, Paavan Class II (Div.1) Class I Shah, Yasmin Cornes, Eleanor Hudson, Oliver Garnett Sammons, Part IB Henry Class II (Div.1) Class I Pearce, Katie Levison, Darcy Moore, Joseph Williatte, Benoit MacKeith, Edmund Smith, Isobel McCluskey, Chelsea

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Renshaw, Jack Class II (Div.1) Mathematical Tripos Russell, Sophie Cherrie, Corinna Part IA Sauter-Cooke, Niamh Travers, Michael Class II (Div.1) Cai, Erli Land Economy Linguistics Tripos Motzkin, Alexander Part IA Part I Pronczuk, Michal Class I Class I Revell, Edward Wilkinson, Philip Allenby, Chloe Stafford, Finlay Threadgold, Matthew Law Tripos Part IIA Part IA Class II (Div.1) Part IB Class II (Div.1) Willis, Sharna-Louise Class II (Div.1) Chan, Wen Lucescu, Patrick Humphreys, Megan Part IIB Marwaha, Pavan Nadeem, Mohib Class I Scott, Hamish Park, Jung Eun Flint, Emma* Wrench, Anna Ford, Elliot* Class II (Div.2) Shorthouse, George Class II (Div.2) Class II (Div.1) Sherratt, Eva Saunders, Caitlin Part II Class I Part IB Manufacturing Hanley, Angus Class I Engineering Tripos Hugtenburg, Kai Martin, Ellen Part IIA Class II (Div.1) Class II (Div.1) Class II (Div.1) Ellwood, Samuel Anson, Ben Bull, Ludwig Hughes, Thomas Maruscak, Jozef Part IIB Ong, Shin Yin Napieraj, Aleksander Successful Wilkinson, Justin Ojha, Jay Ahmadi Dastgerdi, P’ng, Alyssa Ashkanm Class II (Div.2) Holt, Edward* Duncan, Alexander Part II Townsend, Laurelm Class I Part III Lim, Gabriel Successful Seal, Jacob Shport, Maxim* Zielinski, Thomas*

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Medical and Modern and Medieval Moridi, Leyly Veterinary Sciences Languages Tripos Nicholls, Ayesha Tripos Part IA Part IA French Part II Class I Class I Class I Farmer, George Knipe, Rhys Marshall, Hollie* Thompson, Jack Class II (Div.1) Class II (Div.1) Alexander, Florence Class II (Div.1) Bretton, Amy Birk, Dylan Pitcher, Eleanor Mayes, Alexander Biswas, Sophie Morris, Rosie Boscott, Rachel German Spence, Magnus Mui, Chun Class II (Div.1) Wilson, Daniel Oxley, Catherine Beard, Arthur Ranasinghe, Chavin Stebbing, Nicola Music Tripos Sutharson, Mythiri Thompson, Jack Part IA Class II (Div.1) Part IB Russian Cooper, James Class I Class II (Div.1) Kennedy, Rachael Goulson, Bethany Beard, Arthur Porteous, Benjamin Part IB Spanish Class II (Div.1) Class II (Div.1) Class II (Div.1) Carden, Laurence Chacko, Reuben Knipe, Rhys Connolly, Fionn Chlubek, Marta Pitcher, Eleanor Roberts, Katherine Stebbing, Nicola Part II Class II (Div.1) Class II (Div.2) Part IB Shaw, Katerina Ly, Ha Class I Mushtaq, Maryam Lande, Zachary Class II (Div.2) Penrose, Leo Rowan, Charlotte Rao, Anoop Class II (Div.1) Sanghavi, Sanjana Darwent, Katherine Head, Laura Lake, Eloise Lee, Alice

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Natural Sciences Class II (Div.2) Kitson-Platt, Sam Tripos Abdelhamid, Amin Leech, Rebecca Part IA Alishaw, Christina Mahon, Ciara Class I Davin, Michael Pickard, Oliver Lamba, Adiyant Kejriwal, Anish Qin, Xueqi Norcliffe, Alexander O’Grady, Thomas Sheehan, Conor Ollard, Isobel Pyman, Matthew Patel, Savya Robinson, Jenna Class II (Div.2) Sefton, Daniel Bogusiewicz, Dominika Thornton, Mark Class III Cox, Horatio Allen, Jacob Gregory, Joseph Class II (Undivided) Turner, Andrew Neelson, Siddharth Brister, Jirayut Tsui, Tsun Chen, Owen Part II Zhang, Mengqin Glass, Samuel Class I Gouyez-Benallal, Elias Delaney, James Part III Hernan Martin, Sergio Dong, Jiawen Class I Ho, Chi Gao, Jovia Benson, Raz Lomakin, Artem Hanlon, Mia Chadwick, Matthew Loyd, Joshua Huang, Ailun Hitchcock, Thomas Reid, Niamh Inzani, Isabella King, David Smith, Tommy Iranipour, Shayan Martin, Deborah Jameson, Tom Matthews, Nicholas Class III Law, Kar Moore, Joseph Pell, Charles Powell, Fergus Naylor, Remy Seal, Trina Part IB Stewart, Max Class II (Div.1) Class I Turner, Abigail Drury, Joanna Donini, Luca Holdenried-Chernoff, Class II (Div.1) Daria Class II (Div.1) Alder, Zoe Lu, Guanpeng Bryan, Emma Arnold, Charlotte Reed, Samuel Dhiman, Mohit Beverley, Jodie Thorpe, Daniel Henderson, Lucy Broadfield, Lauren Leach, Kathryn Chronias, Michael Class II (Div.2) Munby, Hannah Cowley, Ben Atkinson, Benjamin Turvey, Oliver Harris, Alexander Lorimer, Sarah

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Philosophy Tripos Class II (Div.1) Preliminary Part IA Armstong, Rhian Examinations Class II (Div.1) Leaver, Adam Class II (Div.2) Historical Tripos Merker, Ivan McDowell, Tenage Part I Successful Part IB Part IIB Faber, Jonathan Class I Class I Fairbairn, Timothy Karlsson, Yvonne Skene, Kayleigh Konstantopoulos, Christos-Stavros Class II (Div.1) Class II (Div.1) Nixon, Ella Khalid, Tara Franklin, Matija Thomas, David Roberts, Isobel Walton, Charles Part II Class I Theological and Examinations Not Hugill, Edward Religious Studies Leading to a First Tripos Degree Class II (Div.1) Part I Kotak, Aakash Class II (Div.1) First Examination Adebayo, Tiwalolu for the Batchelor of Psychological and Isaac, Samuel Theology for Ministry Behavioural Sciences Degree Tripos Part IIA Class II (Div.1) Part IA Class II (Div.1) Pittman, Louisa Class I Lyons, Gerard Zafar, Bushra Pike, Joshua Law LLM Examination Class II (Div.1) Part IIB Class I Lewis, Kathryn Class I Baschnagel, Markus Musgrave, Rosie Moore, James Erdunast, Paul McCaig, Ewan Part IIA Class I Class II (Div.1) Abram, Sanjeeta Grammatopoulou, Maria Guidera, Hugh Shukla, Anshuman

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Master of Advanced Part II Final Veterinary Study in Mathematics Successful Examination Successful Foong, Ke Wei Part II Goldsmith, Daniel Hughes, Noemi Successful Kalayanamit, Panasm Turberfield, Catherine Ashford, Matthew Kreutzer, Lars White, Heather Dyke, Frederick Too, Linus* Yazdanian, Bijan Xu, Guangyu Yeoh, Su Ling Part III Successful Master of Advanced Part III (Clinical) Shiels, Rhonda Study in Physics Successful Successful Ghareeb, Ali College Examinations Turk, Guentherd Gregory, Rosalind in English Jeyabelen, Hari Part I Final MB Examination Naruka, Vinci Successful Part I Patel, Ronak Bandukda, Mishal Successful Peutherer, Catherine* Henstridge, Jacob Deeley, William Yang, Dorothy* Lewis, Alannah Pujari, Rathin Zheng, Xueying Nightingale, Anna Scott, Marina Sive, Alexandra

Degrees Conferred * In absence

PhD 2017 01 April 28 January Cantwell, Louisa 2016 Acetta, Kelly Paltieli, Guy 22 October Aveson, John William *Trajtenberg, Nicolas *Martyn, Kendal Roger Eliffe, Craig Macfalane

*Huber, Sabrina 29 April 26 November Manuela Balsari-Palsule, Sanna *Longo II, Michael Kuplyants, Hayk Linnea Anthony Qureshi, Tanvir Shams Comandar, Lucian

Warrington, Rachael Corneliu Helen Leonardi, Tommaso

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Mellers, Gregory James *Barnes, Sophie Gao, Yun Han Shapiro, Jenna *Cook, Shaun James Ghareeb, Ali Shivkumar, Maitreyi *Hitchens, Sheridan Gregory, Rosalind Kate Jehangir Mayo 20 May Harrison, Kate Joanna Won, Kanghee 20 May Hayward, Andrew *Alcock, Nicola Claire Hopkins, John Mark 21 July Alleck, Amit Hore, Rosalind Campsie, Alexandre Arbuthnot, Mollie Houston, Alexander Michael Atkins, Caroline Louise Hoyt, Magdalen Marisa Chang, Hui Chang Bardsley, Thomas Wedden *Fu,Zhidong Barr, David James Huang, Ruoxi *Gershon, Yehudah Mack Hunter, Catriona Nataniel *Baxter, Luke Morwenna Rose Gladstone, Jonathan Bootland, Niall James Iliffe, Emily James Brookes, Ellen Mary Kamenou, Isabelle Kaser, Muzaffer Peirson *Kasoar, \Timothy Ottewill-Soulsby, Brookes, Thomas Aneal Samuel George Zachary Kernick, Nicolas Song,Dajin Jennifer Chatterjee, Ophelia Khan, Bilal Harry Vallejo Bermeo, Jose Katherine Kurtinyte, Saule Andres Cohen-Lask, Noami Landa, Adam Young, Laurence Joseph Collett, Catherine *Lee, Elaine Ci En Helen Levy, Hannah MA Cope, Rosanne Marie Linford, Edward Alice Geoffrey Denis 2016 Daley, Rosemary Anne Liu, Fangzhou 22 October Davies, David Lewis McAuliffe, Stephanie *Moshenska, Joseph Deslandes, Laura Grace McCarthy, Amy Eliezer Salkie Downes, Emily Rose *Macklon, Laurens *Shannon, Ruth *Duffield, Olivia Martin, Toby

Caroline Matthias, James 26 November Duru, Kristy Ngozi *Michell, Harry *Seel, James Estdale, Katherine Jane Mills, Lydia

Faulkner, Natasha Musiol, Szymon Karol 2017 Rhian Oh, Seong Joon 28 January *Fellows, Virginia Alice Oon, Isabel *Ableson, Michael Franklin, Philippe Patel, Maya James 177 sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2017

Perez-Storey, Richard 21 July Houston, James Phillips, Nicole Campsie, Alexandre William Pillinger, Octavia Michael Hu, Chou-Hui Pirrie, Andrew *Ross, Donald Iain Hull-Bailey, Timothy Pulsford, Emily *Scholes, Richard Frederick Robinson, Sarah-Louise James *Kamphuis, Maarten Ross, James Jan Rubin, Katie LLM Ly, Kevin Kwon Che Sanduleac, Ovidiu-Dan Martin, Thomas Max 2017 Sangani, Krishma *Oktaba, Nikolas, 30 June Seddon, Thomas Harry Yakov Baschnagel, Markus *Shaw, Caroline Shin, Jaewon Stefan Shaw, Catherine Mary Zhang, Zhiyuan Erdunast, Paul Joseph Sheldon, James Grammatopoulou, Sinclair, Rachel 26 November Maria Elisavet Singer, Jonathan *Barcia, Daniel Guidera, Hugh Singler, Sofia Anja *Ibekwe, Chiedozie McCaig, Ewan Smith, Jonathan Tony-Jude *Shukla, Anshuman Smith, Thomas Craig Songi, Matt 2017 MRes Souter, Anna Louise 28 January Stephenson, Anthony 2016 *Carreira-Wham, Sofia Peter 22 October *Goodsir, Thomas Taylor, Hannah Rose Huq, Tahmida David Toyn, Jeremy Malcolm Najmatul Lo, Ka Hing Justin Veale, George Jans-Singh, Melanie Voignac, Joseph Marcel Kiren 01 April *von Rudno, Markus Shi, Fengyuan Wou, Constance Waller, Jonathan Tang, Xinke Chen-Hwa Patrick Walsh, Conor MPhil 20 May Ward, Alexander Voignac, Joseph 2016 Edward Marcel 22 October Wood, Matthew Joseph Bruinsma, Wessel Worrall, Daniel Ernest 21 July Pieter Young, Oliver Barqawi, Sara *Dunne, Emily *Yung, Janet Pui Qun *Barraza-Ingstrom, Florence Zong, William Wenyu Sergio De Valdez Gillespie, James Ewen 178 the college 2017–18

Cheeroth, Salim Ma, Kwun Yeung MFin Mohan Ong, Chern Juin Cheng, Marisa Townsend, Laurel 2016 *Fleet, Thomas Upstone, Alexander 26 November Joseph Peter *Lee, Shi Qin Jones, Oliver David Vega Kurson,Ana Desmond Kara, Taushif Ye, Cong Kasdin, Isabel Leah Yeung, Siu Hang Kelvin 2017 Lang, Tobias 20 May Puangjit, Sirikorn 21 July *Casas, Sebastian Ciro Schwarz, Julia Barakonski, Bartosz Xu, Xiaotian Michal MMath/BA MSci/BA MEd 2017 2017 30 June 2017 30 June Shport, Maxim 01 April Atkinson, Benjamin Zielinski, Thomas Bates, Jennifer Benson, Raz Lior Chadwick,Matthew MASt 29 April Drury, Joanna Frances Rutherford, Fiona Hitchcock, Thomas 2017 Holdenried-Chernoff, 21 July 21 July Daria Zoe Romana Goldsmith, Daniel Minsky, Debra Kia Emar Kreutzer, Lars King, David Andrew Thomas MBA Lorimer, Sarah Molnar, Matyas Lyu, Guanpeng David 2017 Martin, Deborah Gill Too, Linus Ho Yi 29 April Matthews, Nicholas Turk, Günther Goldstein, Simone Edward Elizabeth Moore, Joseph Frost MEng/BA Gomes Peres, Cassiano Naylor, Remy Ricardo Reed, Samuel 2017 Ivanov, Alexey Thorpe, Daniel 30 June Owens, Daniel Robert Ahmadi Dastgerdi, Ryan, David John Ashkan Sirilerkpipat, Amarisa Blackett, Katie Wei, Xiangjun Holt, Edward Marshall

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MB Gao, Jovia Mayes, Alexander Garnett Sammons, George 2017 Henry John Mong, Perlie Pui Yee 20 May Gregory, Joseph Moore, James Edward Cope, Rosanne Marie William Morris, Rosie Grace Alice Harris, Alexander Neelson, Siddharth Kamenou, Isabelle Hayes, Chloe Elizabeth Umapathy *Shaw, Caroline Hudson, Oliver Ong, Shin Yin William Pearce, Katie VetMB Hughes, Thomas Poon, Mang Yee 2017 Robert Powell, Fergus Jack 30 June Hugill, Edward Qin, Xueqi Shiels, Rhonda Lynn Inzani, Isabella Renshaw, Jack Isaacs, Joseph Owen Roberts, Isobel BA Sutherland Rowan, Charlotte Jameson, Tom Julius Hannah 2017 Morpeth Russell, Sophie Claire 30 June Jen-Wei, Gabriel Lim Saunders, Caitlin Adler, Zoe Ann Kamienska, Aleksandra Rhoswen Anson, Ben Kitson-Platt, Sam Sauter-Cooke, Niamh Arnold, Charlotte Kotak, Aakash Mehul Hannah Arnold, Matthew Peter Laskowska, Julia Seal, Jacob George Beverley, Jodie Agnieszka Shaw, Katerina Bogusiewicz, Dominika Law, Kar Man Joyce *Skene, Kayleigh Bretton, Amy Louise Lawrence, Anna Mary Spence, Magnus Jake Burton, Isobel Leech, Rebecca Louise Stewart, Max Edward Cherrie, Corinna Leibowitz, Jonathan Tahajian, Talin Colonna, Filippo Levison, Darcy Elizabeth Cornes, Eleanor Elizabeth Travers ,Michael Christina Katya Lewis, Sophie Ann Tsui, Tsun Wai Cowley, Ben Jie Liu, Karen Xuetong Upton, Luke Darby, Alex Lobl, Joanna Lilian Christopher Dawson, Gina McCluskey, Chelsea Verity, Rosa Dong, Jiawen Elize Wilkinson, Justin Ezra, Ethan MacKeith, Edmund Jan Williatte, Benoit Louis Flint, Emma Mary Mahon, Ciara Budi Ford, Elliot Marshall, Hollie Wilson, Daniel Franklin, Matija Rebecca Franks, Bradley 180 the college 2017–18

Notices Dates of Full Term, 2017–18

Michaelmas 2017 begins 3 October ends 1 December Lent 2018 begins 16 January ends 16 March Easter 2018 begins 24 April ends 15 June

Dates of Congregations, 2017–18 Ordinary congregations for the award of degrees will be held as follows, at 2.00pm on Saturdays unless otherwise stated:

Michaelmas 2017 Lent 2018 Easter 2018 Long Vacation 21 October 2017 27 January 2018 28 April 2018 29 June 2018 (Friday) 25 November 2017 24 February 2018 19 May 2018 20 July 2018 (Friday) (in absence only) (in absence only) 31 March 2018

It is expected that Sidney students will graduate at the Congregation on Friday, 29 June. Members of the College who wish to proceed to degrees at General Admission only should contact the Tutorial Office, telephone +44 (0) 1223 338847, or email [email protected]. At this Congregation, only the fol- lowing degrees may be taken: LLM, MEng, MMath, MSCI, VetMB, MusB, BA and BTh. For all other Congregations, please contact the Praelector’s Assistant, Mrs Gillian Johnstone, telephone +44 (0) 1223 338810, or email gcj22@cam. ac.uk, at least three weeks in advance.

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Alumni Benefits If you matriculated at Sidney Sussex College, then you are a Member of the College for life. We hope you will come back to visit and continue to keep in touch with us. You are welcome to take advantage of the alumni membership benefits, but do please ensure that we have all your up-to-date contact details.

Dining privileges All members of Sidney Sussex College, who hold the degree of Master of Arts or another graduate qualification (including PhD, MPhil, MBA, MEd, LLM, PGCE) taken while in residence at the College, are entitled to dine free of charge at High Table three times per academic year on a Wednesday or Sunday evening during term time. These dining privileges start three years after members have obtained their Bachelor’s degree. For catering reasons, we ask that you give at least 48 hours’ notice of dining. Alumni are permitted to bring one guest, which is encouraged. Your meal will be free of charge; however, you will be charged for wine and your guest’s meal. To make arrangements to dine and to check there will be a High Table on the day you wish to dine please contact the Steward’s PA. Email: [email protected], telephone +44 (0) 1223 338882.

Alumni accommodation The College can accommodate individuals or groups for bed and breakfast out of term time. For more information please contact the Housekeeping Manager, Mrs Karolyn Duke. Email: [email protected], telephone +44 (0) 1223 338880.

Getting married in Sidney Sussex Chapel The Chaplain welcomes all enquiries from alumni considering a wedding at Sidney. Email: [email protected], telephone +44 (0) 1223 338837. www.sid.cam.ac.uk/life/chapel/weddings.

Host your next event at Sidney Sussex Sidney alumni can arrange to hold receptions and social gatherings in the College gardens, as well as private dinners, parties, weddings and conferences in College. For more information, please contact the Conference and Events Manager, Mrs Marianne Oyler. Email: [email protected], telephone +44 (0) 1223 338850.

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Archives and special collections The College’s archives and special collections are managed by the Archivist, Nicholas Rogers. Email: [email protected], telephone +44 (0) 1223 338824.

The Richard Powell Library Members of the College are welcome to use the library by prior arrangement with the Librarian. Email: [email protected], telephone +44 (0) 1223 338852.

University of Cambridge alumni benefits As soon as you matriculate at Cambridge, you become a lifetime member of the University. See www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/benefits/

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All photographs courtesy of Sidney Sussex College unless otherwise indicated. The College would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce photographs:

Sheryl Anderson 41, 50; Matt Arnold 87; James Barnwell 81; David Beckingham 24, 65; Helen Beckwith 74, 75; Cambridge News 23; Justin Chan 82; Martina Cheadle 83, 84; Chris Constanpoloulos 87; Cromwell Association 23; David Graves 51; Reece Griffiths 81; Melanie Jans-Singh 74, 75; Zak Thomas Johnson 77; Rex Li 82; Gabriel Lim 74; Patrick Lucescu 73, 87; James Mayall 40; Venkatesh Muthukrishnan 15, 16, 18; Sid Neelson 83, 84; Angus Parker 83, 84; Edmund Rogers 60–62; Rolls- Royce 22; Isobel Smith 88; Alan Stevens 50, 59; Edward Wilson-Lee 46; Kelvin Yeung 86.

The College is also grateful to Adrian Tuchel for permission to reproduce the ink sketch on pages 33.