THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE

COLLEGE RECORD 2020 THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE

Visitor Meyer, Dirk, MA PhD Leiden The Archbishop of York Papazoglou, Panagiotis, BS Crete, MA PhD Columbia, MA Oxf, habil Paris-Sud

Provost Lonsdale, Laura Rosemary, MA Oxf, PhD Birm Craig, Claire Harvey, CBE, MA PhD Camb Beasley, Rebecca Lucy, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf, MA Berkeley Crowther, Charles Vollgraff, MA Camb, MA Fellows Cincinnati, MA Oxf, PhD Lond Blair, William John, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA, FSA O’Callaghan, Christopher Anthony, BM BCh Robbins, Peter Alistair, BM BCh MA DPhil Oxf MA DPhil DM Oxf, FRCP Hyman, John, BPhil MA DPhil Oxf Robertson, Ritchie Neil Ninian, MA Edin, MA Nickerson, Richard Bruce, BSc Edin, MA DPhil Oxf, PhD Camb, FBA DPhil Oxf Phalippou, Ludovic Laurent André, BA Davis, John Harry, MA DPhil Oxf Toulouse School of Economics, MA Southern California, PhD INSEAD Taylor, Robert Anthony, MA DPhil Oxf Yassin, Ghassan, BSc MSc PhD Keele Langdale, Jane Alison, CBE, BSc Bath, MA Oxf, PhD Lond, FRS Gardner, Anthony Marshall, BA LLB MA Melbourne, PhD NSW Mellor, Elizabeth Jane Claire, BSc Manc, MA Oxf, PhD R’dg Tammaro, Paolo, Laurea Genoa, PhD Bath Owen, Nicholas James, MA DPhil Oxf Guest, Jennifer Lindsay, BA Yale, MA MPhil PhD Columbia, MA Waseda Rees, Owen Lewis, MA PhD Camb, MA Oxf, ARCO Turnbull, Lindsay Ann, BA Camb, PhD Lond Bamforth, Nicholas Charles, BCL MA Oxf Parkinson, Richard Bruce, BA DPhil Oxf O’Reilly, Keyna Anne Quenby, MA DPhil Oxf Hunt, Katherine Emily, MA Oxf, MRes PhD Birkbeck Louth, Charles Bede, BA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf Hollings, Christopher David, MMath PhD York Kringelbach, Morten Lindtner, BSc MSc Kelly, Steven, BSc Dub, DPhil Oxf, ARIAM Copenhagen, DPhil Oxf Gault, Joseph Frederick, MSc Imp, PhD Norbury, Christopher John, MA Oxf, PhD Lond Institut Pasteur & École Polytechnique Sarooshi, Dan, LLB NSW, LLM PhD Lond, Metcalf, Christopher Michael Simon, MA Edin, MA Oxf MPhil DPhil Oxf Doye, Jonathan Peter Kelway, BA PhD Camb Whidden, Seth Adam, BA Union College, AM PhD Brown, MA Ohio State Buckley, Mark James, MA DPhil Oxf Wisnom, Laura Selena, BA DPhil Oxf Aldridge, Simon, MA DPhil Oxf Müller, Carolin Anne, Dip Ulm, PhD Nott Timms, Andrew, MA Camb, MPhil PhD Brist

2 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Kets, Willemien, BSc MSc Nijmegen, PhD McColl, Sir Colin Hugh Verel, KCMG, MA Oxf Tilburg Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy John, OM, KBE, MA Stacey, Jessica Anne, BA MA PhD KCL Oxf, FRS Chomicki, Gullaume, BSc Manc, PhD Munich Kelly, the Rt Hon Ruth Maria, PC, BA Oxf, MSc Lond Prout, David, MA Oxf, PhD Lond Atkinson, Rowan Sebastian, BSc Newc, MSc Kasberger, Bernhard, BSc Vienna University of Oxf Economics and Business, PhD Vienna Bowman, Alan Keir, MA Oxf, MA PhD Toronto, Robertson, Alexander William, MPhys Durh, FBA DPhil Oxf Gillen, the Hon Sir John de Winter, BA Oxf Smith, Michael Ambrose Crawford, BA College of William and Mary, MA PhD Princeton Lever, Sir Paul, KCMG, MA Oxf, Hon LLD Birm Turner, Jonathan, BA MSt BCL MPhil DPhil Phillips, Caryl, BA Oxf, FRSL Oxf, LLB Birkbeck Stern, Nicholas Herbert, Lord Stern of Seigal, Anna, BA MMath Camb Brentford, Kt, CH, MA Camb, DPhil Oxf, FBA, FRS Keating, Jonathan Peter, MPhys Oxf, PhD Bristol Hill, Hugh Allen Oliver, BSc PhD Belf, MA DSc Oxf, FRS Abell, Catharine Emma Jenvey, BA Adelaide, PhD Flinders Reed, Terence James, MA Oxf, FBA Mancall, Peter Cooper, BA Oberlin, PhD Low, Colin MacKenzie, Lord Low of Dalston, Harvard CBE, BA Oxf Weatherup, Robert Stewart, MEng PhD Camb Beecroft, Paul Adrian Barlow, MA Oxf, FinstP Walden, Daniel Kitt Schelly, BA Oberlin, MPhil Budd, Sir Alan Peter, GBE, BSc Lond, MA Camb, PhD Harvard DPhil Oxf, PhD Camb Kiener, Maximilian, BA Regensburg, BPhil Bogdanor, Vernon Bernard, CBE, MA Oxf, FBA DPhil Oxf Morris, Colin, MA Oxf, FBA, FRHistS Ariga, Rina, MBBS Imperial, DPhil Oxf Eisenberg, David Samuel, AB Harvard, DPhil Muhammed, Kinan, MBBS Imperial, DPhil Oxf Oxf Marinkov, Viktor Vidinov, BSc Utrecht, MSc Carwardine, Richard John, MA DPhil Oxf, Barcelona FBA, FLSW, FRHistS Carrillo de la Plata, José Antonio, BA PhD Hacker, Peter Michael Stephan, MA DPhil Oxf Grenada Margalit, Avishai, BA MA PhD Hebrew Laskey, Ronald Alfred, CBE, MA DPhil Oxf, Honorary Fellows FMedSci, FRS Hoffmann, Leonard Hubert, the Rt Hon Lord Frankland, Alfred William, MBE, BM BCh DM Hoffmann of Chedworth, Kt, PC, BA Cape Oxf, FRCP Town, BCL MA Oxf Christensen, Clayton Magleby, BA Brigham Tucker, Sir Richard Howard, MA Oxf Young, MBA DBA Harvard, MPhil Oxf Morgan, Kenneth Owen, Lord Morgan of Barrons, Sir Richard Lawson, KCB, CBE, MA Aberdyfi, MA DPhil DLitt Oxf, FBA, FRHistS Oxf

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 3 Abbott, Anthony John, MA Oxf Harries, Phillip Tudor, MA DPhil Oxf Griffith Williams, the Hon Sir John, MA Oxf Rowland, The Revd Christopher, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf Turner, the Hon Sir Mark George, MA Oxf Ball, Sir John Macleod, MA Camb, MA Oxf, Donnelly, Sir Joseph Brian, CMG, KBE, MA DPhil Sus, FRS, FRSE Oxf Dobson, Peter James, OBE, BSc PhD S’ton, Watt, James Chi Yau, MA Oxf MA Oxf Booker, Cory, BA Oxf, BA MA Stanford, JD Yale Supernumerary Fellows Garcetti, Eric, BA MA Columbia, MA Oxf, PhD LSE Maclean, Ian Walter Fitzroy, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA, FRHistS James, Ioan Mackenzie, MA DPhil Oxf, FRS Constantine, David John, MA DPhil Oxf Sloboda, John Anthony, OBE, MA Oxf, PhD Lond, FBA, FBPsS Irving-Bell, Linda, MA DPhil Oxf Wills, Clair, MA DPhil Oxf Jacobs, Justin Baine, BA Tulsa, MPhil PhD Camb Madden, Paul Anthony, MA Oxf, DPhil Sus, FRS, FRSE Browne Research Fellow

Emeritus Fellows Fayet, Annette, MSc ESPCI Paris, MSC DPhil Oxf McGuinness, Bernard Francis, BPhil MA Oxf Kaye, John Marsh, BCL MA Oxf Beecroft Junior Research Fellow (in Acheson, Richard Morrin, BSc MA DPhil Oxf Astrophysics) Dimsdale, Nicholas Hampden, MA Camb, MA Bellini, Emilio, BA MSc Trento, PhD Padova Oxf Foster, Michael Antony, MA DPhil Oxf Laming Junior Fellows Neumann, Peter Michael, OBE, MA DPhil DSc Bardazzi, Adele, BA RHUL, DPhil Oxf Oxf Arnaldi, Marta, BA Turin, MA Pavia, MSt DPhil Edwards, Christopher Martin, MA DPhil Oxf Oxf Rutherford, John David, MA DPhil Oxf

Baines, John Robert, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA Full-time Lecturers Pearson, Roger Anthony George, MA DPhil Peters, Christine, MA DPhil Oxf Oxf, FBA Sorgiovanni, Benjamin, BA Curtin, MA Bowie, Angus Morton, MA PhD Camb, MA Melbourne DPhil Oxf Katsampouka, Eleni, BA Athens, DPhil Oxf McLeod, Peter Duncan, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf Woodbury, Beau, BA DPhil Oxf Gautrey, Michael Sidney, MA Oxf Chaplain Salmon, Graeme Laurence, BSc Tasmania, MA DPhil Oxf Price, The Revd Katherine Magdalene, MA MSt Oxf, BA Sheff

4 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 CONTENTS

From the Provost 6 Articles 102 From Translating Illness to Reports and College Activities 9 Translating COVID-19: a Humanities Response to Senior Tutor’s Report 9 the Pandemic 102 News from the Fellowship 12 Bridging the gap between science Academic Distinctions 29 and the arts: Clifford Norton From the Bursar 36 Fellows and Students at Queen’s 105 Outreach 38 College Servants and Vacation Admissions 41 Employment: Insights from Oxford’s Archives 109 A Year in the Library 42 A Year in the Archive 44 Obituaries 114 A Year in the Chapel 46 A Year in the Chapel Choir 50 Morrin Acheson 115 Chapel Roof Project 52 James Adams 117 Centre for Manuscript and Clayton Christensen 118 Text Cultures 56 Albert Cox 120 The Queen’s Translation Exchange 60 Bill Frankland 121 A Year in the MCR 63 Michael Gautrey 124 A Year in the JCR 65 John Gray 125 Student Clubs and Societies 66 Martin Green 126 Athletic Distinctions 83 Barry Hoffbrand 127 Keith Maslin 129 Old Members’ Activities 84 Brian McGuinness 130 Development and Old Member John Pearson 132 Relations Report 84 John Simson 133 From the President of The Dick Stewart 135 Queen’s College Association 86 Richard Tucker 136 Gaudies 88 Pieter Zwart 137 40 Years of Co-Education at Queen’s 89 Benefactions 138 Appointments and Awards 96 Publications 99 Information 148

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 5 FROM THE PROVOST From the Provost

I am writing this article in September 2020 knowing that, by the time you will be reading it, the College will have completed a Michaelmas term like no other. As I write, staff and Fellows are beginning to reopen the College buildings after their six-month closure due to the pandemic. We are all greatly looking forward to welcoming students back and to doing everything we can to make their experiences rich and to keep them and the rest of our community safe.

Dr Claire Craig CBE My frst year at Queen’s began, like that of other freshers, with the excitement of meeting all the remarkable people connected with the College: students, Old Members, staff and Fellows. Michaelmas term included learning how to handle the Loving Cup and welcoming the Visitor, the outgoing Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Chapel. The President of the Seychelles visited, as a result of Lindsay Turnbull’s work on the Aldabra coral reef, researching ecosystem impacts and working with DPhil student April Burt who co-led a project to remove 25 tonnes of plastic waste.

Then in March the pandemic struck. The College had one of the early positive cases of COVID-19. We completed Hilary term due to the incredible fortitude, good sense and hard work of staff and students alike. Throughout the Easter Vacation, Fellows worked hard to move all teaching and exams online. So, with the College buildings shut and most support staff on furlough, we completed Trinity term virtually. We are all particularly proud of our Finalists: the College had more Firsts than in any previous year and, as importantly, all our students worked hard to complete their studies in extremely difficult circumstances.

I am grateful to my predecessor Paul Madden for leaving the College as a strong place, capable of dealing well with the emergencies and difficulties that beset it this year. It is also due to him and others of even earlier generations, including those who have supported the College through donations, that Queen’s remains better placed than many places of higher education to weather the economic hardships we all face. The fnancial impacts of the pandemic so far have included the inevitable devaluation of the endowment, the loss of conference income and reduced rents from commercial properties. Because of the College’s underlying fnancial strength we have, however, so far been able to continue to provide hardship funds for students and to maintain the full salaries of staff when they were on furlough.

6 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 From the Provost

As well as dealing with the consequences of COVID-19 for the College, students and academics have also contributed in major ways to tackling the pandemic. To mention a few, with apologies to the many others, Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths’ modelling has been regularly discussed in the national media; and Queen’s academics have contributed to work on ventilator and vaccine technologies, and on the economic impacts of the pandemic. Reflecting the role of a college in being a place where different disciplines are in conversation with each other, Laming Research Fellow Marta Arnaldi organised a fascinating series of seminars on Translating Illness.

While everyone in the UK was still in lockdown, the storm of events associated with the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movements created major debates across the College’s communities. The College’s statement on 9 June committed it to considering how to create an even more inclusive environment for the future. The statement stimulated much further thoughtful discussion, and Fellows, staff and students worked together on practical actions in areas from recruitment to student support. As always, what the College is and does matters, but where it will have the biggest long term impact is in its traditions of intellectual enquiry and debate, in how it educates students and in the research contributions of its Fellows.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 7 We were delighted, for example, together with the History Faculty to be able to announce the new Brittenden Fellowship in Black British History, and to welcome From the Provost back the former Harmsworth Professor of History, Barbara Savage, to be on the appointment panel.

A further storm hit in August during the fnal stages of admissions. Those of you in the UK will know that the government’s method for predicting A-level grades was found to be systemically biased against students from state schools and therefore deeply flawed. Like other colleges, Queen’s had UK offer-holders whose admission was conditional on their A-level grades and who initially appeared to fail to meet their conditions. The situation for these young people was incredibly difficult. Meanwhile each college’s decisions on admissions had implications for faculties, other colleges and the University and for fairness between student cohorts. The College considered each of its outstanding cases carefully and, in the light of the changed evidence, admitted all of them. The result is that the matriculating year of 2020 will be the largest ever. It also contains the highest proportion of UK admissions coming from state schools (and this was true before the conditional offer holders were admitted).

In 2021, due to the generosity of a donor we will be able to recruit a coordinator to work full time on collaborative outreach in the North East of England, helping us to go further to support the brightest young people, whatever their start in life.

Finally, as I write, the Chapel has just emerged from its year-long seclusion behind scaffolding and sheeting. Its roof has been repaired (a project delivered on budget and to time by our former Clerk of Works, David Goddard), possibly for the frst time since it was built. The frst events on the newly reopened site were weddings – the frst the marriage of two Old Members who met when they were in the choir together, and the second between Emeritus Fellow Angus Bowie and College Lecturer Almut Fries.

Throughout everything, the College’s guiding approach is to focus on its core purposes: teaching, learning and researching – and to be safe. We have all tried, and will continue to try, to do that in ways that are characteristic of the best of Queen’s throughout time: resilient, brave and kind. I would like to continue to pay particular tribute to the current generations at the College for the ways in which they have responded throughout.

8 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 SENIOR TUTOR’S REPORT Reports and College Activities

The College elected twelve new Fellows this year. Professor Jon Keating FRS joined us as the new Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy. He was formerly the Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics in Bristol, and Chair of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research. His research interests include random matrix theory and its applications to quantum chaos, number theory, and the Riemann zeta function.

Nicholas Owen Our new Fellow in Philosophy, replacing Professor John Hyman, who moved to the Grote Professorship of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College, London, is Professor Catharine Abell. She comes from the University of Manchester, where she has worked since 2006. Her most recent book is Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis (Oxford, 2020), which develops a philosophical account of fction as a social practice, providing original explanations of the nature of fction, the norms governing its understanding and interpretation, and the nature of fctional entities. Her next research project will address the nature and importance of artistic style.

Professor Steve Kelly, our Browne Research Fellow, has become our second Fellow in Biological Sciences, in association with a Royal Society University Fellowship at the Department of Plant Sciences. He works on photosynthesis, evolution, gene expression and bioinformatics. His research group aims to identify the molecular regulators and mechanisms that control the expression of photosynthesis genes in the world’s most important food crops, the grasses.

We also elected a second Fellow in Materials Science. He is Professor Robert Weatherup and comes to us from a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the USA, and a Diamond-Manchester Fellowship at Diamond Light Source. His research concerns reactions occurring at material interfaces in batteries and catalytic reactors. He is leading a new project, funded by the Faraday Institution, to develop characterisation methods for probing buried interfaces in lithium-ion batteries.

We were also joined this year by a new Fellow in Applied Mathematics: Professor José Carrillo. Professor Carrillo was Professor of Applied and Numerical Analysis at Imperial College London from 2012 to 2020. He has recently been awarded a European Research Council grant which will fund his research on non-local partial differential equations for complex particle dynamics. This research focuses on systems involving a large number of individuals showing collective behaviour, and investigates how to

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 9 Reports and College Activities obtain averaged information from them. Applications include weakly nonlinear plasmas in fusion energy, zebra fsh patterning formations in developmental biology, and grid cells for navigation in mammals.

Our Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History this year was Professor Peter Mancall. Professor Mancall is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, and Professor of History and Anthropology, at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on the history of early America, the early modern Atlantic world, the history of medicine, environmental history, and Native American history. While with us in Oxford, Professor Mancall published The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England (Yale, 2019).

Our new Junior Research Fellow in Music is Dr Daniel Walden. He comes from Harvard, where he studied as a Presidential Scholar and Harvard Horizons Scholar. His research develops his doctoral work on the politics of tuning and temperament, and examines the political forces that shaped the development of comparative musicology, psychoacoustics, and score-based analysis. Dr Walden is also a pianist and harpsichordist, aiming, through performance and recording, to broaden the keyboard repertory and blur the boundaries between historical and contemporary approaches.

Dr Rina Ariga has come to the College as a Junior Research Fellow in Pathology. She studied Medicine at Imperial College, London, and trained at various London hospitals before winning a British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellowship to complete a doctorate in Cardiovascular Medicine at Oxford. She is interested in using computational approaches in cardiovascular disease to integrate multivariate data from diagnostic electrocardiogram, imaging, blood and genetic tests to improve our understanding of pathophysiology.

Dr Kinan Muhammed is Junior Research Fellow in Clinical Sciences. He too has come from Imperial College, London, to a position as Clinical Lecturer in Neurology at Oxford. His research interests lie in cognitive neuroscience, and focus on exploring the mechanisms of motivation and memory within neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. He aims to develop novel strategies for detection and risk stratifcation in dementia using behavioural and physiological assessments.

Professor John Hyman’s European Research Council project on ‘The Roots of Responsibility: Metaphysics, Humanity, and Society’ makes provision for two post-doctoral Research Fellowships in Philosophy at Queen’s. The frst of these is held by Dr Maximilian Kiener. He completed a doctoral thesis at Oxford in 2019 on voluntariness, consent, and justifcation in medical procedures, and is now exploring parallels between consent and responsibility, examining the metaphysical presuppositions of liability and responsibility, and explaining voluntariness as a key concept in moral philosophy.

10 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 In association with the Department of Economics, we also elected a new Career Reports and College Activities Development Fellow. Dr Viktor Marinkov was awarded a doctorate by the European University Institute in Florence. His research spans productivity growth, expectations in macroeconomics and monetary policy. He aims to improve understanding of productivity differences between countries and, more generally, the importance of deviations from rational expectations in explaining macroeconomic phenomena.

Dr Marta Arnaldi is our new Laming Fellow in Modern Languages. Her research concentrates on modern and contemporary literature originally written in, or translated into, different languages and different media. At Queen’s, she will be looking at the interaction of translation and medicine, by exploring the therapeutic potential of translation in contemporary English, French and Italian poetry. Her own frst collection of poems, Itaca (Milan, 2016) has won two international literary prizes.

I am unable to share the College’s position in this year’s Norrington Table as the University decided to stop publishing an interim Table. The Table will now be available only at the end of Michaelmas term each year, in order to incorporate appeal outcomes or other result adjustments. I can, however, report that our fnalists achieved a very impressive set of results: 51 undergraduates were awarded a First class degrees, with 38 gaining a 2.1. While satisfaction surveys are properly regarded with a certain scepticism, the College’s ‘learning experience’ also attracted very high levels of satisfaction from its students (94.5%). In June 2020, the College issued a statement in response to the ‘Black Lives Matter’ campaign and, in August, a statement on the application of a flawed algorithm to A-level results.

The third term of the academic year was, inevitably, much affected by the coronavirus. The College site closed and tutorials and classes were conducted using video- conferencing. Final examinations were also held remotely, with students following an ‘open book’ system and an honour code. Several of the College’s researchers have been pursuing solutions to the crisis. They include Professor Peter Robbins’ work on a clinical drug trial aimed at raising oxygen levels in the blood to assist patients’ chances of recovery; Professor Chris O’Callaghan’s work as a medical consultant at the John Radcliffe Hospital and his leadership of the Academic Centre for UrgenT and Emergency Care (ACUTECare); and Dr Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths’ research on the mathematical modelling of virus transmission.

At the time of writing, Queen’s is once again open for teaching, learning and research in the usual way, with mitigations such as social distancing and mask-wearing to make the College site as safe as possible for everyone. It is my hope – and that of everyone at Queen’s – that my successor as Senior Tutor, Professor Seth Whidden, will be able to report a substantial return to normality next year.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 11 Reports and College Activities NEWS FROM THE FELLOWSHIP

Catharine Abell (Philosophy)

Since arriving at Queen’s in September 2019, most of my research time has been spent completing a book, Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis (OUP 2020). In it, I argue that fction is an institutional social practice, and that construing it as such enables one to provide accounts of various aspects of fction, including the determinants of fctive content and what it is to understand and to interpret a work of fction. On the account I develop, although authors’ intentions play some role in determining the contents of works of fction, this role is much more limited than many philosophers have taken it to be. Understanding a work of fction deploys one’s knowledge of the content determining rules of fction institutions, while interpreting it involves drawing inferences to the best explanation of why its author produced a work to which the rules assign those contents.

Other research has concerned the evaluative role of realism in flm, theatre and television productions. Realism is an artistic merit. We often consider such productions good because they are realistic. However, the view that works are better artistically the more realistic they are has controversial implications. Because non-traditional casting is often pursued at the expense of realism, it suggests that non-traditional casting is artistically unmotivated. I have written a paper arguing that the artistic norms of realism are sensitive to productions’ contents and media. Consequently, considerations of realism proscribe non-traditional casting far less often than is sometimes assumed and, in certain contexts, provide artistic motivation for it.

Marta Arnaldi (Modern Languages)

The frst year of my Laming Research Fellowship at Queen’s started with a visit to the University of Jyväskylä, in the western part of Finland, where I took up the position of writer in residence. During this period, I delivered a course in creative writing in a foreign language (English) and gave a paper at the University’s yearly symposium on wellbeing and the arts. This visit marked the beginning of Translating Illness, the interdisciplinary research project that forms the core of my Fellowship. This two-year project consists of a programme of international collaborations (Columbia, Yale, Florence, Oslo), invited lectures (Columbia, Princeton, Central Florida), and a

12 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 seminar series held in College. Soon after my appointment, I was awarded a double Reports and College Activities research grant from the Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) and the John Fell Fund, Oxford, in order to undertake this multi-layered research with public engagement programme.

From April 2020, when in-person activities were suspended, I launched Translating COVID-19, a series of video conversations activated as an emergency response to the pandemic. Available on the College’s YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/ queenscollegeox), the videos have proved to be very popular. I have also had the honour to be invited as a keynote speaker at several institutions (Princeton, The Open University, American Translators Association, to name a few) and/or as part of cutting- edge international projects, such as the British Academy-funded The Languages of COVID, Belfast. In addition, I was invited to judge the prestigious Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2020.

This range of activities led to a number of publications: an article accepted by Literature and Medicine, John Hopkins; a chapter to be included in the volume Women in Transition: Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders, edited by Maria-José Blanco and Claire Williams (Routledge, 2020); and a COVID-related article written in collaboration with colleagues in Liverpool and Oslo. Finally, I am thrilled to announce that Alibi, the frst anthology of contemporary Italian poets in the UK, which was edited by Luca Paci and myself, will be published by Ensemble, Rome, in September 2020.

John Baines (Egyptology – emeritus)

For the 2019-20 academic year I have held a visiting professorship in the ancient world grouping in the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. This position is specifcally for older scholars, which is a delightful idea for those who are invited. I have led interdisciplinary seminars and presented a set of four public lectures on ancient Egyptian biography that are to be worked up into a book for publication. The experience has been a double one, on site and meeting many people in the frst semester in Munich, but in the second semester lecturing remotely along with almost everyone else, in my case from Oxford. During the year there appeared a book, Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World, that I co-edited with Tim Rood, a former Junior Research Fellow in Queen’s, and two other colleagues. Its chapters range from ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the biblical world, through China and classical antiquity, to the Classic Maya.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 13 Reports and College Activities Rebecca Beasley (English)

Several articles and my long-term book project were published this year: a chapter on visual culture in The New Ezra Pound Studies, ed. Byron (Cambridge University Press), a chapter on ‘non-translation’ and internationalism in Modernism and Non-Translation, ed. Harding and Nash (Oxford University Press), an article on the teaching of literature at Black Mountain College, the mid-twentieth century experimental institution near Asheville, North Carolina, in the journal Modernist Cultures, and Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 1881-1922 (Oxford University Press). Since March, though, research has had to be put aside. As Director of Teaching and Deputy Chair in the Faculty of English, I was in charge of planning and executing the Faculty’s shift to online teaching and assessment in Trinity 2020, and I am now working with colleagues across the University on developing the mix of face-to-face and online teaching that we expect to be delivering in Michaelmas 2020.

John Blair (History)

Since the publication of my major book Building Anglo- Saxon England in 2018, I have been rounding off various past commitments and paving the way to new projects. Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape, the outcome of a collaborative project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, appeared in May 2020, and two articles on aspects of Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement in the Wychwood region are currently in press. The big landmark for me is retirement, after nearly forty years as a Tutorial Fellow of Queen’s. I am deeply grateful to the Governing Body for electing me to an Emeritus Fellowship. This allows me to remain fully a part of the College community, and gives me the best possible research base to work towards my projected book on regional diversity in medieval England.

Angus Bowie (Literae Humaniores – emeritus)

After publishing my commentary on Iliad 3 for Cambridge University Press, I have continued my engagement with Homer by working on a big commentary on Iliad 21-24 which was commissioned by the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla in Milan. In this, ignoring the advice that cobblers should stick to their last, I’m adding to the usual features of a commentary material that situates Homer’s poetry in the religious, political and cultural milieu of contemporary

14 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 and earlier Indo-European and Mesopotamian cultures. Other works that have Reports and College Activities appeared, or are about to, discuss Aristophanes’ handling of obscenity in the religious parts of his plays, narratology and emotion in Homer and honey in ancient Egyptian, Hittite and Greek religion. In the midst of this, the College very kindly allowed Almut Fries and me to get married in the Chapel, and all involved ensured this was a very agreeable occasion, despite the restrictions imposed.

José A. Carrillo de la Plata (Mathematics)

I recently joined Queen’s in April 2020. My research in the 2019-20 academic year has followed my endeavours in the theoretical, numerical and applied side of Partial Differential Equations (PDE) in the sciences. They constitute the basic language in which most of the laws in physics or engineering can be written and one of the most important mathematical tools for modelling in life and socio-economical sciences. I have been interested in long-time asymptotics, qualitative properties and numerical schemes for nonlinear diffusion, hydrodynamic, and kinetic equations. I have also worked in the modelling of collective behaviour of many-body systems with application in charged particles transport in a plasma cell movement by chemotaxis or cell sorting by adhesion forces.

I received an ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grant 2019 to develop my research in nonlocal PDEs for complex particle dynamics: phase transitions, patterns and synchronization. The proposed research is centred on developing tools underpinning the analysis of long time asymptotics, phase transitions, stability of patterns, consensus and clustering, and qualitative properties of collective behaviour models in terms of the analysis of their PDE descriptions. I will also focus on the important case of the Landau equation with applications in weakly nonlinear plasmas by means of the gradient flow techniques. In addition, I will showcase the developed tools in patterns and consensus by focusing on zebra fsh patterning formation, as an example of spontaneous self-organisation processes in developmental biology, and grid cells for navigation in mammals, as prototype for the synchronization of neural networks.

I have been elected as the head of the Mathematics Division of the European Academy of Sciences for the next two years; and I am the current Program Director of the SIAM Activity Group on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations. I gave a plenary lecture at the 2nd SIAM/CAIM Annual Meeting and a Distinguished Lecture at the INS of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 15 Reports and College Activities Nicholas Dimsdale (Economics – emeritus)

I wrote a paper with James Cloyne (University of California, Davis) and Natacha Postel-Vinay (LSE) ‘Interwar Tax Multipliers: New Narrative Evidence from Britain’, which was published as NBER Working Paper WP 24659. I presented the paper to the Monetary History Group in HM Treasury, the Seminar on Financial History at Darwin College, Cambridge and the CSO (Central Statistical Office) conference at Kings College, London.

During the year I worked on a project on ‘UK Business and Financial Cycles since 1660: A Narrative Overview’ with Ryland Thomas (Bank of England). This was due to be published by Palgrave Macmillan, but publication has been postponed and the project is being extended to include the current recession.

Pete Dobson (Engineering – emeritus)

I have been appointed to the UKRI Quantum Technology Advisory Board for three more years, and I have been heavily involved in assessing projects and defning strategy in this important area. My company activities continue, and I have helped with two new ones in particular: Zamna Ltd is a company set up by a Hertford College alumnus which uses blockchain technology to secure passenger information for boarding with airlines. I have assisted with adding medical data, especially COVID-19 data to the passenger details; Nanolyse Ltd is a new spin-off from Earth Sciences that measures the presence of toxic metals in water and soil. I continue to advise around ten other companies on an ad hoc basis.

I continue to publish papers and patents, with three more this year, including one that is a simple, rapid, generic platform for virus detection (with colleagues at UCL). My collaborations with UCL, King’s and the Chemistry Department in Oxford are ongoing. In the latter case I am assisting with developing new methods of generating hydrogen from waste plastic, and in the generation of aviation fuel from carbon dioxide and hydrogen.

Annette Fayet (Biological Sciences)

This year was the frst in over ten years where I didn’t go on a feld research expedition, with my annual summer feld trip to study Atlantic puffins on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, cancelled due to COVID-19. Similarly, a short visiting fellowship I was awarded by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science to visit colleagues

16 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 in Japan will also be postponed to next year, as is the Reports and College Activities World Seabird Conference at which I was invited to talk. Nonetheless, the 2019-2020 academic year has been a busy one. I had the pleasure to give guest seminars at Bristol and Cambridge University, where I met new colleagues and even started a few new collaborations, including with a mathematical biologist, a new feld for me but one which I have enjoyed exploring. I also became secretary of The Seabird Group, a UK-based charity promoting seabird science and conservation.

This was also a fruitful year for publications (details of which can be found at annettefayet.com), including one reporting a new tool use behaviour in puffins, which was a fun collaboration with a primatologist and attracted a lot of media interest (google ‘scratching puffin’ to fnd out more!). But my greatest satisfaction was to fnish writing an important paper about a key project of my Junior Research Fellowship, aiming to uncover the causes of puffin population declines in the northeast Atlantic, which will hopefully be published next year. Finally, a proposal led by BirdLife International for a new Marine Protected Area for seabirds in the North Atlantic, in which some of my data on puffin migration were used, was accepted this spring (official announcement postponed to 2021), and it is a real reward to see my work having a real-world impact on conservation policy.

I gave a boost to my outreach skills by attending two Science Communication ‘Bootcamps’ organised by National Geographic in Munich and London, where I was taught how to improve my public speaking and received social media training at the London headquarters of Facebook, Twitter and Google, no less. I put the skills to good use by taking part in a National Geographic Explorer Classroom at the beginning of the lockdown, sharing my experience as a seabird scientist in a live online session with an audience of over 1000 children from all over the world. I’m also trying to be more active on social media to share results of my research and raise awareness of seabirds’ plight – you can fnd me on Twitter and Instagram @AnnetteFayet.

Anthony Gardner (Fine Art)

This has been my last year as Head of the Ruskin School of Art, the University’s fne art department, and what a year to end on! It began with a residency in Beijing in August and a keynote presentation for the Setouchi Asian Art Forum in Japan’s inland sea region, followed by a series of talks in Hungary and the UK and another keynote at UCL to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (the subject of my 2015 book, Politically Unbecoming). I then delivered lectures at the University

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 17 Reports and College Activities of Copenhagen and the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art before the pandemic struck.

Despite the pandemic, the year has still been surprisingly productive for publications as well, with new essays exploring curatorial histories appearing in the book Of(f) Our Times: Curatorial Anachronics (Sternberg Press, 2019) and the journal documenta studies (March 2020) and my artwork, I Am A Revolutionary (Apologies to Carey Young), exhibited at the Royal Academy Schools to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Red Mansion Trust awards. I am on sabbatical leave for the 2020-21 academic year, but will be working on some new projects focused on my main research areas of contemporary art and exhibition-making, including one on art and democracy, together with Dr Sarah Hegenbart (Munich), following our successful European Commission Horizon 2020 Grant with colleagues from Germany, Austria and elsewhere in Europe.

Christopher Hollings (History of Mathematics)

Much of my research this year has been linked to an ongoing project on the historiography of ancient Egyptian mathematics, pursued in collaboration with Richard Parkinson. This began with the discovery of previously overlooked letters within the pages of books in the College’s Peet Library, and has expanded into a study of how we come to know what we know about ancient Egyptian mathematics, with a particular focus on the differing approaches to the subject made by Egyptologists on the one hand and mathematicians on the other. An article on this subject should appear soon in the journal Historia Mathematica. Other work, concerning the Egyptologist and sometime Fellow of Queen’s, Thomas Eric Peet (1882-1934), is underway. I have spoken about this work at conferences and seminars (in Maynooth, Frankfurt and Oxford), and have also used it as the basis of an outreach lecture.

In May 2020, I published Meeting under the Integral Sign? The Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the eve of the Second World War, with Reinhard Siegmund- Schultze and in collaboration with Henrik Kragh Sørensen (History of Mathematics, volume 44, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI).

A long-term editorial project should also be reaching its end in 2020. In collaboration with Philip Beeley (History Faculty/ Linacre College), I am co-editing a volume entitled Beyond the Academy: The Practice of Mathematics 1600–1850, to be published by Oxford University Press. As the title suggests, the book is a collection of articles on the uses and study of mathematics outside the university context over several centuries. My own contribution concerns the appearance (or not) of mathematics in the programmes of the Literary and Philosophical Societies that sprang up throughout the British Isles during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

18 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Bernhard Kasberger (Economics) Reports and College Activities

This was my second year of three as a Junior Research Fellow in Economics at Queen’s. In this year, I published an article called ‘On the clock of the combinatorial clock auction’ in the journal Theoretical Economics (joint work with Maarten Janssen). The article is based on a chapter of my dissertation at the University of Vienna. It provides a thorough theoretical analysis of an auction mechanism that has been used in spectrum auctions around the world. Having an objective and scientifc understanding of this complicated auction format is critical in designing spectrum auctions in favour of the wider public instead of a narrow group of rent-seekers. A lot is at stake in these auctions as they shape the telecommunications industry for years and typically generate billions of revenue. I presented other papers at conferences and seminars in Seattle, Leipzig, Vienna, Klagenfurt and Manchester. As a Junior Research Fellow, the most important aspect of my job is to develop new ideas, and this is what I have enjoyed most in the last academic year. I am delighted that Queen’s gives me this incredible opportunity for another year.

Jon Keating (Mathematics)

I arrived at Queen’s in September 2019 and have greatly enjoyed the intellectual life of the College. In November 2019 I took over the Presidency of the London Mathematical Society. In July 2020 I fnished my fve-year term as Chair of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research. My own research has centred on developing the theory of random matrices, and on exploring applications ranging from number theory to machine learning. I have published several papers on the moments of the moments of characteristic polynomials of random matrices. I gave a Plenary Lecture on this work at the Congress of Chinese Mathematicians in Guangzhou in November 2019. I would have given a Distinguished Lecture on the same subject at the University of Hong Kong, but the political unrest there prevented this from taking place.

I recently solved a problem relating to mixed moments of characteristic polynomials of random unitary matrices that I have been thinking about, on and off, for twenty years. The solution is rather pretty and I gave a lecture on it at a conference that was due to take place at New York University in May 2020, but that ultimately moved online because of the coronavirus. I did manage to give a talk in the Queen’s College Symposium in February 2020.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 19 Reports and College Activities Max Kiener (Philosophy)

In the last academic year, I published an article on ‘Coercion’ in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2020) and on ‘Fictionalising Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law’ in Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (2020). I wrote for The Conversation on ‘Infecting a Volunteer with coronavirus to develop a vaccine – here’s what consent should look like’, published in June 2020.

I also organised a workshop on the ethics of consent, which was scheduled to take place at Queen’s in June. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, however, it had to be postponed to December 2020 and will now be an online event.

Jane Langdale (Plant Sciences)

Funding for the multinational C4 Rice project (www. c4rice.com) that I lead was renewed in December 2019 for a further fve years. We had our ‘phase IV’ launch meeting in Bangkok in December and everyone was fred up for a big year of research in 2020. Of course things ground to a halt in March in all of the consortium labs except for those in Germany, and even now most people can only work three day shifts. So it has been a time for everyone to catch up on thinking, reading and writing papers.

In May 2020, I was elected a Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science. I published four research papers, in the journals Frontiers in Plant Science, Communications Biology, BMC Plant Biology and Development. I taught what turns out to be my last face to face 16 lecture module on Plant Developmental Genetics and Evolution for third year undergraduates on the Biological Sciences course in Michaelmas term – the 2020 version will be online and then in 2021 we transition to teaching the new Biology course. In February I went to Japan to talk to secondary school students about careers in scientifc research, and the week before lockdown I gave a research seminar at the University of Lausanne. I had a busy travel schedule planned from April-June but instead became an expert on Zoom. I also learnt to appreciate the fact that I have a great view of my garden from the kitchen table, which is fortunate as it is likely to continue to function as my office for some time to come.

Charlie Louth (German)

Most of my research time over the past year was spent on the production process of my book on Rilke which I fnished writing a year ago thanks to a Leverhulme Fellowship

20 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 and was published in June: Rilke: The Life of the Work. Reports and College Activities It turned out to be an embarrassingly long book, though that at least helped me understand why it had taken me so long to write. What time was left was largely swallowed up by the demands of the coronavirus, which has destroyed the vital division between term time and vacation and so made research more difficult than usual. But I have gone back to an old project, which is to translate the entirety of the letters of Friedrich Hölderlin. I have already done a good selection of them; they appeared together with his essays in 2009, but no complete edition exists in English, unlike in French, Italian and I expect other languages too. And translating was a good way to spend the early mornings of lockdown in the 250th year since Hölderlin’s birth. Otherwise, I published various small things on Rilke, including a piece on his late poems about gongs, which appeared in a book exploring Rilke’s relationship with music: ‘Zu Rilkes Gong-Gedichten’, in Rilkes Musikalität, ed. by Thomas Martinec (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2019). This coming year, I am looking forward (a manner of speaking) to serving as the College’s Tutor for Undergraduates.

Viktor Marinkov (Economics)

In 2020 I was awarded a grant from the UK’s Money Macro and Finance Society (MMF) for organising and hosting a high-profle economics conference at the University of Oxford. The conference will be on the topic of ‘What have we learned about the macroeconomic effect of forward guidance?’ and will take place in 2021 featuring international experts from both academia and policymaking. Forward guidance is a novel monetary policy tool that central banks began using since the fnancial crisis and one that I have focused on in my own research.

Kinan Muhammed (Medicine)

I started at Queen’s in 2019 as an Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow in Clinical Sciences. Since joining the College, I have continued with my clinical work in neurology and research in cognitive neurosciences. This academic year I contributed to publications in The Journal of Psychopharmacology, Cortex, Neuropsychologia and Brain focusing on neural mechanisms of motivation and memory in neurological diseases. Outside of my clinical and academic work, I gained a place on the frst

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 21 Reports and College Activities cohort of Future Leaders in Industry, Enterprise and Research (FLIER), a UK leadership programme developed by The Academy of Medical Sciences. In addition, I was elected as a representative for The Joint Neurosciences Council and have now also become a clinical lead for the education platform eBrain where I head the development of the neurosciences course for medical students.

Poorna Mysoor (Law)

The academic year 2019-20 began with two guest lectures I delivered. The frst was at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) at the Law Faculty, University of Cambridge. I spoke on a methodology for implying copyright licences. I received incisive and helpful feedback from the audience. The second was at the LTEC Lab, School of Law, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. I spoke on the right of communication to the public and the internet and how implied licences can help resolve some of the copyright issues online.

I was invited to be a Visiting Fellow at the EW Barker Centre for Business Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. I spent the whole month of February there, conducting my research and engaging with the academic community. I gave a seminar at the Centre on issues of copyright infringement on the internet. While I was in Singapore, I also received an invitation to present at the School of Law, Singapore Management University. I spoke on the influences of private law on copyright law.

I also had an opportunity to present at the webinar organised by the Faculty of Law at Oxford on ‘Property Law Connections’. I presented a paper on ‘Form and Copyright – A Property Debate’, which was well received. This paper is part of my larger Leverhulme project which examines the analogies of tangible property principles in copyright law. A paper derived from this presentation is being published by the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA in its summer 2020 issue.

Chris O’Callaghan (Medicine)

In early 2020 I broke several bones in a cycle accident coming down Headington Hill and by the time I was ft again the coronavirus pandemic was upon us. All teaching and non-COVID research were shut down in the clinical departments and I rapidly became immersed in full-time clinical duty on the ‘frontline’ in acute general medicine and in renal medicine. I still do general medical ‘takes’ – seeing people with acute illness and caring for

22 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 them if they are admitted to hospital – and even in normal times this can be very busy Reports and College Activities with unwell people, but the pandemic was unlike anything I have ever experienced.

COVID-19 is a fearsome pathogen and day after day I saw young and old people brought to the hospital gasping for breath and terrifed that they were infected. While some improved and recovered, sadly others did not. Soon members of staff were falling ill too and some did not survive. The sad consequences of the pandemic on patients and their loved ones are well known and seeing this at frst hand and at scale was painful.

In this context, I was hugely impressed with my medical, nursing and other colleagues, who continued to come to work and care for patients despite signifcant personal risk. People really did go out of their way to help each other and this and the positive morale was inspiring. To their great credit, some of our clinical students volunteered to help in the hospital and the sixth year students graduated early to take on a professional role.

Let us hope that we never see anything like this again, but it has been, for me, a very real reminder of the great power of people to be kind and help other, even when the going gets tough.

Richard Bruce Parkinson (Egyptology)

A sabbatical year allowed me to revive a long-standing project to write a commentary on The Tale of Sinuhe. The sabbatical began in October with a trip to Cairo to teach at the annual Académie hiératique at the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (podcast: bit.ly/RBP- oct19). I was able to examine the copies of the poem in the Institut’s collection and to visit locations that feature in the poem; some lectures for the Excellency cluster ‘Temporal Communities’ in Berlin gave me a chance to re-visit the papyrus of the poem there. Progress was assisted by a three month stay in Denmark as a visiting researcher in the Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, generously enabled by the Nordea Foundation, and a frst draft of the commentary has been completed. A planned recording of a companion poem with actress Barbara Ewing was postponed while she was locked-down in New Zealand, but our earlier work on Sinuhe was featured in the TORCH Light Night in November 2019: bit.ly/source-code2019.

I’ve learnt a lot from working with Christopher Hollings on the reception of Ancient Egyptian mathematics, and in the next years we will develop this historiographical project (which has strong links to Queen’s). Research on LGBT+ history continued with two articles on the reception of Ancient Egypt in twentieth century queer writers, Marguerite Yourcenar and E.M. Forster, and the British Museum’s touring exhibition ‘Desire, Love,

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 23 Reports and College Activities Identity’, based on earlier work, reached the last of its fve venues. Over 260,000 people visited the exhibition during the run, making it the most successful British Museum touring exhibition for the last six years. During the year, two doctoral students submitted their theses. My publications include an article for a volume on Ancient near Eastern traditions of libraries (OUP) and one for the Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology.

Jim Reed (German – honorary)

My new book, Genesis. The Making of Literary Works from Homer to Christa Wolf is due to be published in New York on 15 September. An earlier book, The Classical Centre. Goethe and Weimar 1775-1832 was re-issued this year. Last autumn I gave a Kafka lecture in Prague, ‘Kafka häuslich’, since published in Oxford German Studies. With no new project in hand, I am currently writing some informal memoirs.

Owen Rees (Music)

My research this year reflected intersections between historical musicology and performance, focusing on the period from the late ffteenth century to the seventeenth, with particular emphasis on music in England and the Iberian Peninsula. A long-term project to record – with my ensemble Contrapunctus – music from the most important manuscript source of Tudor sacred music, the Baldwin Partbooks, reached its fnal stage with the editing work on an album of motets with psalm texts, by such composers as White and Mundy. Editorial reconstruction of many of these works was required in order for them to be performable, and several pieces had not been recorded before. Within the sphere of Iberian music I completed a book chapter and musical editions for an international project on Spanish and Portuguese polyphonic styles c.1500, examining the evidence for modular and formulaic ways of creating polyphony, the traces of which survive in a group of works preserved in Portuguese sources.

A busy performing schedule between the autumn and the spring included a concert by Contrapunctus of ffteenth-century Burgundian works as part of the Laus Polyphoniae Festival (Antwerp), and a concert at Queen’s as part of Contrapunctus’s Oxford University residency, presenting little-known sacred music from seventeenth- century Italy by Giovanni Legrenzi and contemporaries. I also spoke on Radio 3 about Contrapunctus’s new CD Salve, salve, salve: Josquin’s Spanish Legacy (Signum Classics), which explores how Spanish composers such as Morales, Guerrero, and Victoria emulated a favourite compositional device of Josquin Desprez.

24 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Alex Robertson (Materials) Reports and College Activities

I’m now in a position where I fnally feel that I’ve secured the founding of my group. My two DPhil students are well on their way to fnishing their projects: one student (Shengda Pu, of Queen’s) has already published his frst major lead author paper in the high impact journal ACS Energy Letters, where he identifes and flms in real-time the growth of calcium metal dendrites in an operating calcium-ion battery cell at nanoscale resolutions. I’ve managed to secure a few modest grants, including one with enough funding to hire my frst post-doctoral researcher – Dr Sapna Sinha – albeit only for less than a year! She will be researching how the atomic level structure of catalysts affects their performance, how this structure changes over their lifetime, and how those changes lead to performance loss. This work has important applications in making certain crucial reactions for energy applications commercially viable, and is being done in collaboration with my partners at the Korea Institute of Energy Research. The shutdowns of the past few months have rather stymied our research recently unfortunately, as we are heavily laboratory based, so we are glad that things are opening up now in the latter half of the year – and hopefully won’t have the need to reverse!

Ritchie Robertson (German)

I translated from German into English a 600-line poem in classical metres about Finland written by August Thieme (1780-1860). Originally published in 1808, the poem has now been issued by the Aue-Stiftung (a foundation dedicated to cultural relations between Finland and Germany) in a scholarly edition and accompanied by translations into Finnish, Swedish and Russian as well as English. I spoke at a symposium marking the public presentation of this edition in Helsinki in September 2019.

Otherwise I have published an article on seventeenth-century German drama, ‘“Verdammte Staats-Klugheit / die Treu und Bund heist brechen!” Reason of state in Lohenstein’s Cleopatra’, Journal of European Studies, 50, i (Feb. 2020), 77-90.

I was elected an Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, and attended a ceremony and dinner there in November 2019.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 25 Reports and College Activities Peter Robbins (Physiology)

As for many people, the COVID-19 pandemic changed my immediate research plans. Major therapeutic approaches to COVID-19 include development of vaccines, immunomodulation to make the disease less severe and antivirals. However, we have been intrigued by the very low blood oxygen levels that can develop in patients who otherwise do not appear particularly unwell. These low levels of oxygen have proven more resistant to therapy with high oxygen than perhaps is common in other diseases. This type of hypoxia arises from the development of ‘shunt’ blood flows in the lung, where the blood never gets close to the gas and so cannot pick up oxygen in the normal way.

From my physiological interest in the lung, I was aware of an old French drug called almitrine that can preferentially constrict the blood vessels in the lung through which shunt flow occurs. Thus this drug could give us a way of increasing oxygen levels in the blood that higher levels of inspired oxygen are not able to treat. It could also provide a means of treating patients in low income countries that do not have the infrastructure to provide oxygen. A medical charity called LifeArc has given us a grant to pursue a trial of using almitrine in hospitalised patients, and at the time of writing, the almitrine is being manufactured. It is also true at the time of writing that the number of cases of COVID-19 in the UK are now too low for us to be able to undertake the trial. I fnd, for the frst time in my life, that I fervently wish to continue to be unable to undertake a piece of research that I have planned.

Anna Seigal (Mathematics)

An academic highlight of the year for me was being awarded the Richard C. DiPrima prize from SIAM (the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics) for contributions of an early career researcher in applied mathematics.

My research in the past year has focused on some algebraic and statistical directions. On the algebraic side, my paper on ‘Ranks and Symmetric Ranks of Cubic Surfaces’ was published in the Journal of Symbolic Computation, and a follow-up project on ‘Ranks and Singularities of Cubic Surfaces’, with UC Berkeley undergraduate student Eunice Sukarto, was accepted for publication in Le Matematiche. I had an enjoyable visit to TU Münich in February to work with my collaborators Carlos Améndola, Kathlén Kohn, and Philipp Reichenbach on a project that connects the pure mathematical area of invariant theory to statistical applications in the context of parameter estimation.

26 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 In January I gave a plenary outreach talk at the ‘It all adds up’ conference at the Reports and College Activities Mathematical Institute in Oxford: an event for 250 school girls, which aims to encourage their mathematical interests. More recently, many conferences and visits were cancelled but I gave virtual seminar talks at the Chennai Mathematical Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, as well as a colloquium talk at the University of Amsterdam.

Macs Smith (French)

In December I signed a contract with MIT Press for my frst book, Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City, which will be published in May, 2021. That was an extremely exciting milestone. One of the central themes of the book is how public health and sanitation intersect with hospitality; I completed the manuscript at my partner’s family home at the height of the lockdown in April, and it was an uncanny feeling to send the book off to the editor in those circumstances. This year also saw the publication in Modern Language Notes of an article I wrote on the obscure French poet-philosopher, Jules Romains. This summer I’ll start work in earnest on a book chapter discussing representations of Dante Alighieri in Italian street art and graffiti. That will be published in an edited volume of scholarship on Dante in contemporary society celebrating the poet’s 700th birthday. This was my second year as the Hamilton Junior Research Fellow and, it turns out, my last, as I’ve been appointed to a Career Development Fellowship in French at Queen’s and will be taking on new teaching duties in Michaelmas. I had my frst opportunity to teach Queen’s students this year and I’m looking forward to doing much more of it.

Robert Taylor (Physics)

I have been working on two major projects this year. The frst related to the way nanostructures couple to each other and to optical cavities based on InGaAs quantum dots, and GaAs coupled quantum dots. The second involves the emission properties of nanostructures based on perovskite materials, where we have measured lasing and stimulated emission in these systems. This work will continue in the coming year. I published seven research articles in various journals. I was also Chair of Physics Finals this year, which proved somewhat challenging given the coronavirus epidemic!

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 27 Reports and College Activities Daniel Walden (Music)

This was my frst year as a Junior Research Fellow in Music at Queen’s. After receiving my PhD in Music Theory from Harvard University this past November, I began work on my book manuscript, focused on the political entanglements of European and Asian theories of musical tuning and temperament. I spent February in India, scouring archives for primary sources on Hindustani tuning theory and interviewing singers and harmonium players on the post-colonial politics of Indian musical research. I am scheduled to present my fndings at the 2020 annual meetings of the Royal Musicological Association, Society for Music Theory, and the Group for Analytical Approaches to World Music.

My Fellowship has also provided me with the opportunity to pursue other projects in research and performance. My chapter ‘Pitch vs. Timbre’ was published last October in the Oxford Handbook to Timbre, and my review of new publications on François- Joseph Fétis and the global music theories of nineteenth-century France will be published in the next edition of Journal of Music Theory. I also gave a lecture-recital on the music of Frédéric Chopin and Johanna Kinkel at the Cobbe Collection in Surrey on Chopin’s own Pleyel, and the world premiere of Clara Iannotta’s ‘Eclipse Plumage’ for harpsichord and electronics at Gaudeamus Festival.

I greatly enjoyed the opportunity before lockdown began to meet the talented musicians at Queen’s and Oxford while giving tutorials and collaborating in recitals. I look forward to our return to campus and to making chamber music together again.

28 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Reports and College Activities ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS (* denotes distinction)

Please note that this is not a complete list of our students; some candidates have chosen to opt out of public results listings.

DPhil: Kathryn E. Acheson (Cardiovascular Science) Alessandro Alcinesio (Synthetic Biology) Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou (Zoology) Michael B. De La Bedoyere (Medieval and Modern Languages) Jack K. Fitzsimons (Engineering Science) Christopher C. Fowles (Philosophy) Pablo Gonzalez Martin (History) Julia C.F. Hamilton (Oriental Studies) Thomas K. Hiron (Clinical Medicine) Henry O.C. Jordan (Experimental Psychology) Dimitrios Marios Kanellakis (Classical Languages and Literature) Joely Kellard (Ion Channels and Disease) Ying Kai Loh (Inorganic Chemistry) Irina-Elena Lupu (Cardiovascular Science) Haoyu Niu (Inorganic Chemistry) Evangelos Oikonomou (Medical Sciences) Edmund A. Paxton (Partial Differential Equations) Chiara E. Salvador (Oriental Studies) Segye Shin (Economics) Isabelle A. Taylor (Environmental Research) Iris Tome Valencia (Oriental Studies) Yixuan Wang (Partial Differential Equations) Zhemeng Wu (Experimental Psychology)

BCL: Samuel L. Gerber*

MFA: Joshua B.R. Alexander*

MJur: Christoforos Tsavatopoulos*

MPhil: Angela Falezza (Classical Archaeology) Ho Wang Fong* (Egyptology) Nadia F. Haworth (Egyptology) Jennifer J. Wang (Economics)

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MPP: Nousheen N. Zoarder

MSt: Morgan A. Daniels (English and American Studies) James R. Fellows (Musicology) Samuel D.B Moriarty* (English and American Studies) Marie-Gabrielle A.M. Pélissié du Rausas* (Greek and Latin Languages and Literature) Samuel G. Teague (Musicology) Chenxi Zhang (Ancient Philosophy)

MSc: Yuan Ting Janet Chan* (Law and Finance) Emilia C.L. Jenkins (Japanese Studies) Arthur A. Kosmala* (Mathematical and Theoretical Physics) Anthony C. Munson (Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science) Yue Ren* (Pharmacology) Wells P. Shaw (Financial Economics) Yang Tao (Japanese Studies) Eirini A.Tsoutsou* (Law and Finance) Jun Xie (Financial Economics) Qing Yu (Mathematical and Theoretical Physics)

BM: Sarah S. Ahmed Molly M. Nichols Emma M. Roberts John Z. Tait* Mark J. Zorman

PGCE: Elizabeth M.B. Bevan Samantha J. Drewett Samantha Kelly Marco F. Narajos Mallika Singh

Diploma in Legal Studies: Charlotte A.M. Jalenques

30 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 FINAL PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS Reports and College Activities

Biological Sciences Fine Art Second Class Division One Second Class Division One Louise Cooke Olivia J.A. Allen Sarah E. Whelan Sophia Y.W. Wee

Chemistry History First Class First Class Kibum Park Tilly A.F. Guthrie Karandip Saini Philippa Monk Second Class Division One Classics with Oriental Studies Sean T. Eke Laura C. Gill First Class Serena K. Parekh Paul Hosle Henry Lewis History and Modern Languages English and Modern Languages First Class Susannah T. Finlay (French) First Class Kanak Shah (French) History and Politics English Language and Literature Second Class Division One Nicolai R. Haekkerup First Class Ebrubaoghene Abel-Unokan Isaac Troughton Jurisprudence First Class European and Middle Eastern Benjamin O. Egan Languages Second Class Division One Second Class Division One Jacob G. Alston Edward J. Tolmie (French and Arabic) Rebecca J. Brimble Megan K. Howells Experimental Psychology First Class Jessica Martin Ella F. Peake Miri Yasuda

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 31 Reports and College Activities Literae Humaniores Second Class Division One Zahra N. Choudhury First Class Sahara Pandit Annis Easton Jack M. Wilson Second Class Division One Wilfred Sandwell Modern Languages First Class Materials Science Saskia V.M. Brown (Italian and Spanish) First Class Samuel F. Davis (French and German) Dylan Murray Gemma C. Smale (French) Second Class Division One Second Class Division One Johann Perera Thalia M.C. Kent-Egan (French and Cai I. Richards German) Katie B. Lawrence (Spanish) Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Modern Languages and Lingustics Distinction William F.B. Stone First Class Ross I.R. Lawrence (French) Merit Mingwei Ma Second Class, Division One Nicole Bussey (Russian) Mathematics Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Second Class Division One Angelika Ando First Class Alexander Haoxuan Cui Joshua J. Downe Mathematics and Statistics Shakira K. Mahadeva First Class Second Class Division One Dominika K. Bakalarz Malgorzata Kasprzak Qizhao Chen Matthew H.M. Goh Music Second Class Division One Xinyang Li First Class Chikashi Shirakawa Rison Stephanie K.R. Franklin Sarah E. Mattinson James R. Tomlinson Medical Sciences First Class Neuroscience Beinn S.S.A. Khulusi Esme M. Weeks Second Class Division One Rebecca Janska Sophie Templer

32 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Oriental Studies Physics Reports and College Activities First Class First Class Hugo C.A. Cook (Egyptology and Gongqi Li Ancient Near Eastern Studies) Mingyu Liu John Grieve (Chinese) Second Class Division One Edward Platts (Chinese) Luke C. Concollato Sara E.F. Pripitu (Arabic) Thomas Swift Second Class Division Two Philosophy and Modern Languages Diptarko Chowdhury First Class Joseph A.J.M. Tulloch (Italian) Psychology, Philosophy, and Linguistics Philosophy, Politics, and Economics First Class First Class Alvin W.M.M. Tan Alexander Chalk Harry Croasdale Second Class Division One Sam W. Appleton Kaspar G.W. Klemm Louis Pincott

FIRST PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS

Honour Moderations Moderations

First BM Literae Humaniores Law Zahra Alawoad Shaurya A. Kothari* Second Class Division One Marcus D. Roberts Ivan Myachykov* Flora L.S. Brown Bethan L. Storey Kevin A. Speranza Katherine De Jager Emily P.B. Thompson Afra M. Sterne-Rodgers Elizabeth C.B. Whitehouse Eleanor Whiteside Eleanor A. Woods

Preliminary Examinations

Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics Lottie R. Shipp Daniel E. Storey

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 33 Reports and College Activities UNIVERSITY PRIZES

Allen & Overy Prize in Corporate Finance Law: Yuan Ting Janet Chan Gibbs Prize for the best performance in Linguistics Papers in the FHS in Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics: Alvin W.M.M. Tan Gibbs Prize for the best overall performance in the FHS in Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics: Alvin W.M.M. Tan Gibbs Prize for the best overall performance in the Honour School of Mathematics and Statistics Part C: Matthew H.M. Goh Gibbs Prize for the best overall result achieved across all aspects of the FHS in Fine Art: Josiah McNeil Gibbs Prize for the best practical portfolio in the FHS in Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics: Alvin W.M.M. Tan Harold Lister Sunderland Prize 2020 for performance in the Greek literature papers in the FHS of Literae Humaniores: Henry J.A. Lewis Law Faculty Prize for Best Performance in FHS Advanced Criminal Law: Megan K. Howells Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Part II Thesis Prize (first place): Kibum Park Scott Prize for the top 1st in the BA Physics: Gongqi Li Turbutt Prize for performance in 2nd year Practical Organic Chemistry examinations: James M. McGhee Turbutt Prize for practical performance in 1st Year Organic Chemistry: Jaka Sivavec

2019 Prizes (notice received after the publication of last year’s College Record):

Craven Prize for the second highest overall average in the FHS of Literae Humaniores, Classics & English, Classics & Modern Languages, Classics & Oriental Studies, Ancient & Modern History and Classical Archaeology & Ancient History: Brian H.S. Theng Gibbs Prize (Thesis in Latin Language and Literature): Brian H.S. Theng 2nd De Paravicini Prize for the best performance by a Course II student in the FHS of Literae Humaniores: Brian H.S. Theng

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Alan Webster Prize: William Cashmore (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Cecil King Prize: Jay D. Staker (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Chandrasekhar Prize: Mingwei Ma (Mathematical and Theoretical Physics) Chowdhury-Johnson Prize in Medicine: Mark J. Zorman (Medicine) Chowdhury-Johnson Prize Proxime Accessit: Beinn S.S.A. Khulusi Jack Wooding Prize: Bethan L. Storey (Medical Sciences) Many Prize: Ebrubaoghene Abel-Unokan (English Language and Literature) Temple Prize: Haoyu Ye (Mathematics), Xiaoyan Zhao (Mathematics)

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 35 Reports and College Activities FROM THE BURSAR

It has been quite a year. In the space of a few weeks in March, the values of the College’s investment assets fell by a signifcant amount and many of its commercial tenants began to ask for deferrals or waivers of their obligations. At the same time, it became clear that we would earn relatively little student rent in Trinity term, as a result of the closure of the College’s main site during the lockdown, and also that our commercial conference and summer school revenues would most likely be wiped out in not just the Easter vacation but also the Andrew Timms summer. The College thus faced simultaneous fnancial challenges from almost every conceivable angle; it seemed to be the wrong year to be a Bursar.

At the time we estimated that income for the year (which ends in July for fnancial purposes) would be perhaps 11% less than the budgeted fgure of £5.7 million, and this turned out to be nearly correct. At the end of the year, student residence income was more than £650k less than budgeted; conference income was around £400k lower. However, tuition income was not signifcantly affected by the crisis, and the College received nearly £375k from the government’s Job Retention Scheme (in respect of the nearly 100 staff who were furloughed). Moreover, the reduction in the level of College activity meant that considerable savings were made in expenditure. In the meantime, the College’s equity investments recovered a large proportion of their (unrealised) losses, and it became clear that the College’s relatively cautious approach to spending had protected it from the need to make redundancies or signifcant and painful cuts. So – for the College – what began as a shock did not turn into a disaster, but we are of course very mindful of the fact that many other individuals and businesses (including some other colleges in Oxford) are suffering to a much greater extent.

The outlook is one of cautious confdence. The experience of Michaelmas term 2020 suggests that demand for residential education has not been signifcantly impaired (or impaired at all, indeed), and it does not seem improbable that elite institutions offering good facilities and face-to-face contact with experts will continue to thrive. The alternative view would present a fundamental challenge to the College’s fnancial model (and indeed its existence in another sense). On the assumption that the College will emerge reasonably strongly from this period, we have decided to press ahead with various capital projects, including most notably the construction of a new porters’ lodge which will offer, for the frst time, level-access to the College from the High Street, and thus signifcantly improve the physical accessibility of the site to those with disabilities. Further projects on a similar theme are expected to follow.

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The role of the Bursar is nowadays a rather broad one, and to some extent it oversees nearly all of the College’s activities outside of the academic sphere. It would be an even more challenging role were it not supported by a body of staff who, in the past 12 months, have demonstrated their commitment and loyalty to an extent that has been breath-taking. I am enormously grateful to them for their tireless efforts in keeping the College functioning. Oxford colleges are sometimes criticised for being undynamic or traditionally minded: the past year has demonstrated just how nimble and energetic an institution we are. The extent to which our activities continued – whether in lockdown or after – was impressively high; all critical systems continued without disruption.

My end is in my beginning: it has been quite a year. I sincerely hope that the next few will be thoroughly dull in comparison.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 37 Reports and College Activities OUTREACH

At Queen’s, we want to make sure that we are attracting applications from the best and brightest students, regardless of their social or economic background. The outreach work the College undertakes aims to help young people – typically from backgrounds not traditionally signifcantly represented at Oxford – to develop the confdence, skills and knowledge they need to make an application to highly selective universities.

We work with schools from all over the country; however, Katharine Wiggell through the University’s Regional Outreach Strategy, Schools Liaison, Queen’s provides the frst point-of-contact for schools Outreach and in regions in the North West of England (Cumbria, Recruitment Officer Lancashire, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen), as well as the London Boroughs of Lewisham and Sutton.

Most of our outreach work is therefore aimed at students attending state secondary schools in these areas. Where possible, we prioritise working with those schools and colleges that have not seen a large number of their students progress to highly selective universities in recent years. We offer visits to Queen’s, allowing students the chance to experience life here on day trips or residential programmes, and I also visit students in their local area to run talks and workshops. We also enjoy collaborating with others to deliver sustained contact programmes, such as the Lewisham Oxbridge Programme, which we run in partnership with Lewisham Council and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

The start of the 2019-20 academic year was busy, with the usual visits to schools and colleges in our link regions. We focused our provision in Michaelmas term on working primarily with Sixth Formers: giving ‘Demystifying Oxbridge’ talks to Year 12 students and their supporters and advising them on ways to engage with their subject throughout the course of the year, and also delivering ‘Admissions Advice’ sessions to Year 13 students as they prepared to send off UCAS applications and prepped for their upcoming interviews. We were really pleased to see some familiar faces when it came to the December admissions round, with students who had attended the previous Open Days Plus and North West Science Residential being invited for interview. (Some of them will be starting their studies at Oxford in October 2020!)

Hilary term began with a number of in-house visits from link schools, as well as a couple of trips to the North West for me, to speak at the Cumbria Student Conference in Workington and to visit schools in the surrounding area with my Cambridge counterpart from Fitzwilliam College. Throughout the year, work continued behind

38 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 the scenes with colleagues at Corpus Christi, Pembroke and St Peter’s to develop a Reports and College Activities new programme of Outreach provision targeted at state schools and colleges in the North West. Whilst plans for a launch road-trip to the area in the summer months of 2020 unfortunately had to be postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are hopeful that the Oxford for North West programme will be able to commence soon, and we can foster new relationships with students and educators.

Plans for UCAS Fairs and our North West Science Residential unfortunately had to be cancelled as we approached the Easter vacation and the UK went into lockdown. As a result of the pandemic, we had to rethink our support for schools, and digital events and resources replaced long train rides to our link regions to deliver in-person workshops and talks. We added to our bank of online resources, sharing super- curricular suggestions with students on social media, and creating a College tour video which was extremely popular during the Oxford University Virtual Open Days on 1 and 2 July 2020. During Michaelmas and Hilary, I had worked with our Head of Communications, Emily Downing, on a new video with local company, Angel Sharp Productions, which also proved popular when released in Trinity, amassing over 2,000 views so far. The video, entitled ‘Words to know before coming to Oxford University’ went through some of Oxford’s more unusual vocabulary – such as Collections, JCR, Porters, and many more – that may confuse some applicants. It also showed our students in their natural habitat, whether partying in the Beer Cellar after the Oxmas Formal, studying in the Library, or relaxing in the JCR.

Katharine flming the tour of College, with undergraduate Mukahang Limbu

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Our fantastic Student Ambassadors continued to give up their time whilst studying at home during Trinity term, answering questions during the July Open Days, creating ‘Meet the Students’ videos for the College’s YouTube channel, and interacting with prospective applicants on our ‘Ask Queen’s’ page. This initiative, set up in partnership with The Access Platform, allows school students to message our current undergraduate ambassadors with queries about life at Oxford and at Queen’s, and for application advice and guidance. During the UK lockdown, we saw a signifcant increase in the number of prospective applicants using the platform, with some really insightful and supportive conversations taking place. We also worked with The Access Platform to host virtual Little Open Days during June 2020. Hopefully some of these virtual events will be able to continue even when life returns to ‘normal’ as they have allowed us to support prospective applicants from all around the globe in ways that we had not previously explored.

We are hopeful that we will soon be able to welcome school visits back to Queen’s. Whilst adapting to online provision has been an exciting challenge and has allowed us to develop our existing resources, we are aware that experiencing Oxford in person is really the best way for prospective applicants to discover if it is a place they will enjoy living and studying in for the next few years of their lives. Plus, nothing can quite beat the feeling of seeing a group of students, wide-eyed and excited as they see our impressive Front Quad or magnifcent Library for the frst time; or the look of relief on their faces when they meet our lovely Student Ambassadors in person and realise that they are, in so many respects, just like them.

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Outreach by the colleges is one of the prime means by which the University seeks to reach its admissions objectives. The success of these outreach endeavours is reflected in the increasing percentages of Oxford’s UK intake that are from the state sector and disadvantaged backgrounds (these trends can be seen in the University’s Admissions Statistical Report that is published annually). Although the data at the college level can vary more from year to year, it is noteworthy that the Queen’s 2020 intake had a record proportion Jon Doye from state schools. Tutor for Admissions This year the University’s new Access and Participation Plan was submitted to the Office for Students with particular targets to further increase the numbers of students from disadvantaged backgrounds at Oxford. One of the flagship programmes to help achieve this is Opportunity Oxford, a scheme to help better prepare offer holders from under- represented backgrounds to flourish at Oxford. The frst cohort on the programme have just started at Oxford, including two students at Queen’s. A foundation year programme (Foundation Oxford) is also in the advanced stages of development.

The effects of the coronavirus pandemic have had a signifcant impact on admissions: frstly, as already mentioned by the Provost, through the challenges arising from the A-level grading fasco. It will also mean that in the upcoming admissions exercise all interviews will take place remotely.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 41 Reports and College Activities A YEAR IN THE LIBRARY

There has been an element of Alice in Wonderland about this year – with things getting curiouser and curiouser as the year has gone on. The College and Library went into lockdown towards the end of March and plans are currently underway to reopen by mid- September but in a carefully moderated way to ensure that both staff and students can work and study safely.

September 2019 saw the departure of our Librarian Amanda Saville, who left behind the fabulous New Tessa Shaw Library as one of her many legacies from the eighteen Acting Librarian years she was at Queen’s. It is hoped that by the time you read this the new Librarian Dr Matthew Shaw will have joined us, from the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. The interregnum has seen me as Acting Librarian, combined with the role of Reader Services, alongside my colleagues Sarah Arkle, Technical Services Librarian and Dominic Hewett, the Library Assistant. We have taken a flexible and adaptable approach to our job roles during lockdown in order to best meet the varying needs of our readers. Happily, we have been rewarded with the recognition that we have done this well and the use of online resources has never been greater. It might be that the pandemic represents the crossing of the Rubicon, with less reliance on printed books and more sustained use of electronic resources. The cooperation and communication across the Oxford libraries, in addition to many publishers granting free e-access to their titles, have been key features in delivering resources and supporting academics and students throughout this period.

September 2019 to the end of February 2020 did have some highlights on which I can report. Laetitia Pilgrim, a fnal year History student, made history by curating the frst ever undergraduate exhibition – ‘Sensing the Sacred: the materiality and aurality of religious texts’ – coupled with a well-attended talk in the Shulman Auditorium. The linked podcast (along with the previous two in the series) can be accessed at podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/libcast-queens-college.

Professor Jon Keating, the newly arrived Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy, also made history by turning the handle on the Orrery in the Upper Library. It is a privilege reserved for the post holder and the Patroness of the College – for reasons that are not entirely clear. Whilst the handle has been turned, previously it has never been opened up as an event to everyone in College and characteristically the invitation was met with an enthusiastic response. In hindsight, it was an evening of comparative wild abandon, fettered as we now are by social distancing. A time-lapse recording can be viewed at bit.ly/queens-orrery.

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The Orrery in the Upper Library

Dr Katherine Hunt, Career Development Fellow in English and Dr Christopher Hollings, Clifford Norton Senior Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics made use of the special collections for teaching purposes. Undergraduates and graduates have been able to learn from these unique texts with very positive feedback: ‘having the Library’s collection so easily accessible has been vital to developing the palaeographical skills required at Master’s level, as well as enabling me to further improve the quality of my scholarship.’ The New Library accommodation has lent itself particularly well to facilitating this use of the special collections.

A number of collections were enhanced over the course of the year. The welfare and wellbeing collections in the Library are now better able to provide all members of College with access to resources to support them in their studies and College life. These were selected following consultation with the College welfare team and recommendations from the wider University, including the Disability Advisory Service. The general reading section has been refreshed with titles from a diverse range of authors – more accurately reflecting the diversity of the Queen’s community and the world outside Oxford. The collection of modern foreign language flms has been much improved following a collaborative project by both MFL students and academics to recommend titles.

In summary, 2020 is a year that defnitely landed marmalade side down! However we have found ways of working to support the College community and there has been a coming together across College that bodes well for the future. The advent of Michaelmas term will be the next big step and I hope when these notes are written next year that there is less of ‘I don’t know’ and more certainty for us all to rely on.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 43 Reports and College Activities A YEAR IN THE ARCHIVE

This report really should be titled ‘Half a Year in the Archive’ as the Archive closed down entirely from April to September 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the main College site to close and I was put onto furlough.

This meant that, sadly, one of the projects I described in last year’s Record was unable to proceed. We planned to appoint an Assistant Archivist to allow us to re-catalogue the entire Archive. Obviously, this Michael Riordan was impossible while I was furloughed, and even on Archivist my return the need for more flexibility in working from home would make it difficult to carry out a project where physical access to the records is essential. It also seems unwise to add an extra member of staff into the New Library, which already has fve members of staff sharing office space. We hope it will be possible to start the project in 2021.

We were, however, thankfully able to start our second project: the cleaning, repair and rehousing of the College’s medieval deeds. These had been kept since 1930 in the Bodleian and are now in the Historic Collections and Archive Store in the New Library. They have been kept in the same, rather decrepit, boxes since 1930 and are now being rehoused in specially designed envelopes and boxes which will ensure their long term preservation. So far 690 of them have been cleaned and rehoused; this is less than we hoped as the Oxford Conservation Consortium also had to close for three months due to the pandemic. However, work has begun again and a further 182 deeds are currently in the conservation studio.

For the frst half of the year the Archive’s normal activities continued, including an exhibition of documents showcasing the College’s relationship with the North. I also gave a talk on College history to Old Members at the Jubilee Matriculation Lunch and a (very wet and bedraggled) tour of the College for those attending the study day on the Chapel’s 300th anniversary. Before we closed the doors there were 18 researchers who visited to carry out research in the Archive, and I answered a further 121 enquiries by email which included queries about Thomas Hardy, Reginald Jacques (whose ‘green’ book will be familiar to carol singers!) and the College’s cook in the 1820s who was running a hotel in Cheltenham on the side!

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A map of Wheldale, Yorkshire, 1769. The manor of Wheldale was given to the College by Lady Betty Hastings to fund the Hastings scholarships.

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‘Now, O Lord, who hast enabled us to build this House for thine honour and our own Happiness, let thy Holy Spirit sanctify it, and us.’ (Provost John Gibson, sermon on the consecration of the Chapel, 1 November 1719)

On All Saints’ Day 1719, when the Fellows of the College gathered to celebrate the consecration of their new Chapel by the Archbishop of York, they undertook to keep the building in good repair and to hold regular services. This year, the College has certainly been The Revd Katherine Price keeping the frst part of that promise. The re-roofng Chaplain has gone to schedule and with minimal disruption to Chapel activities, although the shutdown put paid to my hopes of posing on the roof in a cassock! Many thanks are due to David Goddard, who has retired as Clerk of Works but stayed on to oversee the project.

The gradual removal of scaffolding from the Chapel building in August (photo by Grace Finlay)

46 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Regular services have been a different Reports and College Activities matter. We started the academic year with a celebration of the Chapel building, and we could scarcely have imagined we would end by learning to manage without it. For me, the highs and lows of this past year have only reinforced the importance of sacred space. As many of us have been experiencing the challenges of life when ‘work’ and ‘home’ are the same room, we can appreciate anew the necessity of a place set apart, where we take up Jesus’ invitation to ‘come away with me to a quiet place.’

At the start of the 2019-20 year, the Chapel welcomed a new occupant to the Provost’s stall. Dr Claire Craig has fully engaged with Chapel as an integral part of the College’s life, and we gave her a memorable frst term, with a schedule of events to coincide with the Chapel’s three- hundredth anniversary. On 3 November Archbishop Sentamu in the College Chapel we hosted the College Visitor, the Most Revd and Rt Hon. Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, for his fnal visit to the College before his retirement this year. In his sermon, he described the Chapel as ‘a home for God to be hospitable.’

The following week, we were joined for a study day by historians Dr Geoffrey Tyack, the Revd Professor William Whyte, and the Revd Dr Andrew Braddock, alongside our own Professor Owen Rees and archivist Michael Riordan. I was especially amused by Professor Whyte’s observation that we owe the preservation of the Chapel’s unspoiled eighteenth century interior to the stick-in-the-mud attitude of the College’s northern Fellowship, who were sceptical of spending money on the latest fads! (Some might say this remains a proud Queen’s tradition…) The talks were followed by a sell-out choir concert of music by Bach and Handel.

That was the culmination of a challenging but exciting programme for the choir. We also shared our tercentenary celebrations with the nation, welcoming back BBC Radio 3’s Choral Evensong crew for a live broadcast on 30 October, as well as recording a second evensong for later broadcast on International Women’s Day in March. Live broadcast worship was a new experience for me, and rather a hair-raising one! I was enormously grateful to hand over the sung parts of leading the service to my co‑chaplain for the term, the Revd Laurence Price. (The youngest and arguably most musical member of the Price household remained outside in his pram, ably watched over by our newly-arrived Professor of Philosophy!)

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 47 Reports and College Activities It was very strange to see the Chapel and Old Tabarders’ Room transformed into a recording studio, and to be writing prayers in October to be broadcast in March. For those in the Chapel it felt very different from our regular act of worship, but thanks to those who got in touch to let us know it was a prayerful experience for the listeners. And it proved to be good practice for what was to come! By the time the recorded service was broadcast on 8 March we were already living in a different world, even if we didn’t yet fully realise it. As at the time of writing (August), the altar table is still dressed for Lent and the last entry in the services register records the suspension of worship in the fnal week of Hilary term. The shutdown of the entire College site has at least spared me the sensitive decisions which have divided some of my colleagues in the wider church.

So for Trinity term, eighteenth century architecture gave way to twenty-frst century technology. The last couple of weeks of the Easter vacation were a crash course in video, audio, and website editing – not exactly the main ministry skills I’d expected to be exercising as Chaplain! – in time for the launch of our Virtual Chapel on YouTube and Facebook. Fortunately I could rely on an excellent back catalogue of choir recordings, and the willingness of College members to contribute, as well as their inexhaustible tolerance of my bloopers (with special thanks to Owen Rees on that score!). It was a little nerve-wracking watching the live viewing fgures go up and down on my frst ‘e-vensong’, but maybe the payoff is being able to record 1.5K ‘views’ in the attendance register…! The services will remain available online at www.queens.ox.ac.uk/virtual-chapel and on the College YouTube channel www.youtube.com/QueensCollegeOx.

The Virtual Chapel has certainly been a lot of fun. We have been joined by Old Members and other friends from across the world, who would not have been able to attend in person, and given current members of the College a taste of Evensong without their needing to leave their bedrooms! The video format allowed us to be creative. For instance, we celebrated Pentecost with a collage of words and music in honour of the College’s strengths in languages and translation. Nevertheless, a due formality was not lacking where appropriate. Those who tuned in for the Revd Professor Paul Fiddes’ University Sermon on the Trinity will have seen the Preacher properly attired as per University regulations, albeit with the backdrop of his fling cabinet!

But none of that will fully make up for what’s been lost this year, not least for our fnalists. Many of them are the year group I welcomed as freshers in my own frst year, and it feels inadequate to say goodbye to them via video rather than our customary Leavers’ Service. I cannot subscribe to the glib sentiment, ‘the church is the people not the building’. The Chapel has never been just for a regular club of churchgoers. The beauty of the architecture and choral music communicates the love of God to the whole College community and beyond. Indeed, making the videos has given me a fresh appreciation of the Chapel building, seeing hidden details through David Fisher’s exceptional new photographs.

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A detail of one of the stained glass windows at the east end of the Chapel, above the altar, showing the baby Jesus on Mary’s knee (photo by David Fisher)

The College very much is the people, of course. But people are embodied, and the Christian faith affirms a God who became flesh to live with his flesh and blood people. How do we live an incarnational faith in a virtual world? I have once again taken inspiration from the Ascension, the subject chosen by our eighteenth century predecessors in the College to preside over all our gatherings in the Chapel. In the Feast of the Ascension, and in the closely following feast of Corpus Christi, we are reminded that Christ’s physical presence does not give way to physical absence. Rather, free from the limitations of his pre-resurrection body, he is liberated to be tangibly present everywhere that his people pray or act in his name. In the words of St Theresa of Avila: ‘Christ has no body now on earth but ours.’ As the College regroups, and we begin to see the long-term impact of this year’s events on our community, we will only see more clearly the value of those things for which the Chapel has stood for three hundred years.

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Organist Prof. Owen Rees; Senior Organ Scholar Laurence John; Junior Organ Scholar Tom Dilley; Maurice Pearton Choral Scholar and recipient of the Hilde Pearton Vocal Training James Tomlinson; Hildburg Williams Lieder Scholar Jacob Clark; Librarians Sarah Mattinson, Jake Sternberg

A particularly busy schedule of autumn engagements for the choir began – bizarrely but memorably – with a performance of music from the Harry Potter flms beside Owen Rees ‘Platform 9¾’ at King’s Cross Station, as part of the Organist now famous annual event to mark the departure of the Hogwarts Express on 1 September. A few weeks later members of the choir – resplendent in period costume – were at the Ingatestone Hall in Essex to flm the Boar’s Head Carol for BBC 2’s A Merry Tudor Christmas with Lucy Worsley. The celebrations of the 300th anniversary of the consecration of the chapel included a live broadcast of Choral Evensong on BBC Radio 3 featuring music by composers associated with the college (Herbert

The choir performing Handel’s Messiah in the University Church

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Howells, Bernard Rose, Kenneth Leighton and David Bednall), and a concert of music contemporary with the completion of the new chapel, by Bach and Handel. For the performance of Handel’s coronation anthem Zadok the Priest the current choir was joined by a large number of previous choir members, producing an absolutely thrilling effect. The instrumental ensemble for this concert was the Oxford-based Instruments of Time and Truth, with whom the choir again collaborated for a concert performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 in Hilary term.

In the fnal week of Michaelmas term the choir gave a concert of Christmas music at Great Milton, in the series hosted by Raymond Blanc’s hotel and restaurant Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons. There followed a performance of Handel’s Messiah to a capacity audience in the University Church, which was also the choir’s frst performance with the Academy of Ancient Music, one of the world’s leading period-instrument ensembles. A CD recording project with this ensemble, scheduled for June, was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the pandemic also of course led to the cessation of choral services, but the choir came together during Trinity term to make a virtual-choir recording of Brahms’s Geistliches Lied (bit.ly/choir-brahms).

The choir’s recording of Christmas music by Michael Praetorius and modern composers, and featuring Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, was issued as the cover CD of the December 2019 issue of BBC Music Magazine, and a BBC Radio 3 recording of Choral Evensong (recorded in Michaelmas term) was broadcast in March 2020 to mark International Women’s Week. All the music on the broadcast, including the psalms hymn, and organ voluntary, was by women composers, including Judith Bingham, Roxanna Panufnik, Rebecca Clarke, Cecilia McDowall and Ethel Smyth.

Particular thanks go to our Senior Organ Scholar, Laurence John, who has given three years of excellent service to the choir, chapel and College.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 51 Reports and College Activities CHAPEL ROOF PROJECT

In August 2019 the College began a 54 week project to replace the entire lead work on both Chapel and Hall roofs. Due to the condition of the lead sheeting, both had become vulnerable to water ingress, as several of the large bays of lead had started to slip and many of the sheets and guttering had developed large splits. Within the College records there is no reference to the roof coverings previously being replaced on this building at any time within its 300 year history.

David Goddard The programme of work comprised replacement of Project Consultant the existing lead fnishes to both the north and south roof slopes, along with the parapet gutters around the perimeter of the building. Up to date methodology, along with newer building control regulations, stipulated that the maximum size of the new lead sheeting would have to be smaller in width than that of the existing. In essence this means that along each slope an additional eight bays had to be incorporated. Four additional bays have been created at the hip end west elevation of the Hall, and a further nine bays added to the semi-circular east end. One of the main reasons for the change to the regulations was to reduce the potential for excess expansion and contraction and to avoid the lead sheets splitting. A ventilation detail to the central ridge section and perimeter gutter also had to be incorporated within the new design. All of these changes required advance approval from the local conservation authority.

Before and after shots of timber boards that sit directly underneath the leadwork

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Defective stonework prior to replacement and a newly- repaired section

In order to obtain safe access to the roof and building elevations, it was necessary to construct a comprehensive independent scaffolding, which included a temporary roof for weather protection and an electronic hoist for the safe transportation of heavy materials.

In addition to replacing the lead sheeting, various other elements of refurbishment and upgrade were undertaken which included:

• Extensive structural timber repairs to the base of several of the primary trusses which had started to decay due to water ingress. The locations were concealed beneath the gutter and not generally visible within the roof void.

• Minor repairs to the copper sheeted domed roof above the clock tower.

• Specialist cleaning and repair of the stained-glass windows.

• Stone repairs to all three exposed facades, including the bell tower and the carved fnials around the perimeter of the College clock.

• An upgrade of the lightning protection system to incorporate fve additional vertical conductors along with excavation of associated earth connection pits.

• Installation of a new trace heating and leak detection system to alleviate the potential issue of water ingress associated with the freeze and thaw cycle of snow and ice build-up.

• Installation of a leak detection system at the gutter outlet sumps to give early warning of any blockages in these locations.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 53 Reports and College Activities • An upgrade of the fre detection system to a more efficient aspirating air sampling system with new discreet detector heads concealed within the ceiling’s sculptured plasterwork.

• Essential repairs to the College clock, including an adjustment to the timing motor to correct an ongoing issue, along with a major service and overhaul.

• Complete replacement of the internal roof insulation in both Hall and Chapel roof void.

• Installation of a new fall arrest anchorage system, in order to comply with current safety measures and facilitate future maintenance tasks.

This was an extremely challenging project, considering that both the Chapel and Hall are at the heart of the College community, and that both buildings had to remain functional throughout the programme of work. The project was further compromised in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced a temporary suspension. When the site was reopened, the project was fve weeks behind schedule. However, due to the expertise of the project management team and willingness of the contractors to work additional hours, I can report that the delay was subsequently recovered and the project was successfully completed on time, and ready for the College to host its frst post-lockdown event which was a wedding on the 29 August 2020.

The new roof (photo by Jamie Unwin)

54 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 On behalf of the College, I would like to acknowledge our gratitude to the following Reports and College Activities members of the construction team:

Sidley’s Chartered Surveyors (design, contract administration and cost control) Wooldridge and Simpson (main contractor) Vaughn Lawfull Associates (structural engineers) Andrew Alder Associates (safety advisors – CDM consultant) Scaffold Designers Ltd (scaffold design) N Lee and Son Ltd (lead work) OG Stonemasonry Contractors Ltd (stone repairs) Holywell Glass Ltd (stained glass restoration) Cliveden Conservation (ceiling modifcations and localised restoration) Lowe and Oliver Ltd (electrical installation) H & H Contract Scaffolding Ltd (scaffolding contractor) Omega Red Group (lightning protection and fall arrest system) Trinity Fire and Security Systems (fre detection) SSH Civils Ltd (groundworks) ECO Environmental Services Ltd (bird control) Cliff Newport Carpentry Ltd (carpentry) Floyd Consultant (timber survey) Cotswold Metal Roofng Ltd (copper roofng) ORAC Ltd (air conditioning service and maintenance) Diamond Controls Ltd (leak detection and trace heating) Mr J. Richards (horologist) Martin North Services (chimney sweep) Chris Lewis Fire and Security (access control) The Queen’s College Workshop (roof access joinery)

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 55 CENTRE FOR MANUSCRIPT AND TEXT Reports and College Activities CULTURES

Thanks to generous support from the College, the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures (CMTC) was launched in the academic year of 2018-19 as an inter- and cross- disciplinary research centre for the study of material text cultures and their written artefacts. The Centre builds on, and substantially expands – methodologically and in scope – the activities of the Workshop for Manuscript and Text Cultures (WMTC), which has been running successfully in the College since 2012. The members of Queen’s involved the organisation of the Centre are John Dirk Meyer Baines (Egyptology), Angus Bowie (Classics), Charles Fellow in Chinese and Crowther (Ancient History), Fabienne Heuzé (Sanskrit, Director of CMTC John P. Clay Scholar), Christopher Metcalf (Classics), Dirk Meyer (Chinese Philosophy), Selena Wisnom (Sumerian and Akkadian); but we had much help, technical and otherwise, from colleagues in Oxford and elsewhere.

‘Manuscript and Text Cultures’ describes a phenomenon that begins when written documents start to circulate more widely and knowledge transmission becomes increasingly text-centred and no longer a predominantly oral exercise. The Centre offers a platform for both established scholars and research students engaged in the recovery, decipherment and interpretation of texts from a broad range of pre- modern cultures across the globe in which this phenomenon can be observed. Our activities are designed to enable scholars to share their experiences and develop new, collaborative research topics across disciplinary boundaries. The Centre combines traditional approaches, such as philology, epigraphy and papyrology, with new methodologies inspired by communication theory, information science, philosophy, and other disciplines, so as to generate a common language for the study of the material conditions of meaning production and memory across time and space. Its interdisciplinary approach sets out to drive our understanding of processes underlying human creation of knowledge and meaning in new ways with clarity and rigour. In this way the Centre hopes to enable informed debate across subject boundaries and to contribute to shaping an emerging feld of enquiry into the material factors of knowledge production in literate societies.

56 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Since we launched the Centre Reports and College Activities it has gained in international visibility, and its activities have expanded to include new partners. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed last year with the Jao Tsung-I Academy (JAS), Hong Kong Baptist University, to promote scholarly exchange and research collaborations between the two centres over the next fve years. We also completed the international competitions for the designs of the Centre’s logo and journal, Manuscript and Text Cultures.

The academic year 2019-20 Signing ceremony for the Memorandum of was an exciting albeit sometimes Understanding between CMTC and JAS in challenging year for the Centre. November 2019 Owing to the epidemic we had to cancel our activities for the latter half of Trinity term.

A. Lunchtime colloquia As part of the Centre’s activities we hold twice-termly lunchtime colloquia (in weeks 2 and 4) with two speakers each. The colloquia are designed to give research students and early career scholars working on different aspects of manuscript and text cultures in literate societies the opportunity to present their work at an academic event outside their usual department, and to receive critical yet supportive comments by specialists working on related questions in different felds: www.queens.ox.ac.uk/lunchtime-colloquia.

B. Workshops Central to our activities are our once- termly workshops. At these events leading local and international scholars present a research paper, followed by long and intense discussions. Speakers in the last academic year were Dr Stewart Brookes (Oxford) in MT19, who read ‘Hebrew palaeography and iconography Japanese scroll from the Edo period from a computer-assisted perspective’; and Professor Peter Kornicki (Cambridge) in HT20 who read a paper on ‘Keeping knowledge secret in Edo Japan (1600–1868)’. The TT20 paper had to cancelled owing to the pandemic: www.queens.ox.ac.uk/workshops.

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Yuelu Academy, Hunan University, founded in 976 for the study of metaphysics

C. International conferences The Centre held three international conferences in the academic year 2018-19. Conference activities in 2019-20 were naturally quieter. The activities of the previous year are now being worked up into peer-reviewed journal issues. The Centre organised a three-day international conference on ‘The Materiality of Knowledge in Chinese Thought, Past and Present’ (3-6 September 2019), held at Yuelu Academy, Hunan University, Changsha, one of the four ancient universities in China. Accepting that knowledge is shaped, sustained, and framed by socio-material factors, the conference explored ways in which materiality has affected, and will continue to affect, the perception, processing, and production of knowledge in China. To disrupt the usual reflex of seeing the world through a western-specifc lens, the conference was conceived as the frst of two events: the frst conceptualised the feld on the materiality of knowledge in China, while the second will reach out into cross- and inter-disciplinary research with an inter-cultural focus: www.materialityofknowledge.org.

D. The Journal Manuscript and Text Cultures Work on Manuscript and Text Cultures continues apace. The journal will appear once a year digitally and in print on demand in themed issues. It is double-blind peer- reviewed. With the journal we follow a strict open-access policy.

The frst journal issue, ‘Transposition and Monumentality of Writing in Pre-modern Epigraphic and Manuscript Traditions’ has now been fully peer-reviewed, and we are currently getting the infrastructure in place for the Open Access online platform and print-on-demand.

58 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 The frst issue contains eight articles covering various civilisations, from Northern Reports and College Activities Europe to Southern America:

• In the Midst of Great Kings: The Monumentalization of Text in the Iron Age Levant • The function of wax-covered writing boards in the transposition of texts in the Kassite period • The Page as Monument: Epigraphical Transposition in the runica manuscripta Tradition of Early Medieval England • Ego sum lapis: representing Latin textuality in medieval Scandinavian runic inscriptions • Monumentalizing Metaphors: Diphrasis in the Murals of Tulum (Mayan) • From Royal Court to Ancestral Shrine: Transposition of Command Documents in Early Chinese Epigraphy • Monumentalizing ritual texts in ancient Egyptian pyramids • Manuscripts and monuments: the ten contracts of Djefai-Hapi and economies of knowledge (Egypt) The peer-review processes for volumes 2 (Navigating the Text: Textual Articulations and Divisions Across Cultures) and 3 (La page monumentalisée) have already begun. 3 3

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College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 59 Reports and College Activities THE QUEEN’S TRANSLATION EXCHANGE

When we founded the Queen’s Translation Exchange (QTE) in 2018, our focus was on establishing in-person interaction and exchange. We wanted to bring together people of all ages to discuss and share literature from across the globe. This kind of personal and creative interaction, we were sure, would foster a love of languages and encourage participants to engage with international culture, to learn new languages and – in the case of our youngest members – to go on to study languages at university. Charlotte Ryland Director of the Queen’s The pandemic posed a clear challenge to this focus Translation Exchange on real-life encounters, but we were determined that school closures should not prevent pupils from engaging creatively with other languages and cultures, nor lockdown stop adults from reading and writing together. To this end, during spring and summer 2020 QTE developed a series of virtual creative encounters that have changed forever how we run.

The year began with our very frst residency, with Canadian poet and translator Erín Moure and Galician poet Chus Pato spending time at Queen’s and running a lively series of events for every contingency from school pupil to postgraduate and beyond. Their visits culminated in a stirring bilingual reading in the Shulman Auditorium, together with Alba Cid (poet and Director of the John Rutherford Centre for Galician Studies). Visa delays and the looming lockdown did not dampen the excitement of our Hilary term residency, with Russian poet Galina Rymbu and British translator Helena Kernan, which gave the pair their frst opportunity to collaborate and perform in person.

The Book Club choice for May, with its translator Jenny McPhee who joined the online discussion from New York

60 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Our International Book Club gathered momentum as we welcomed celebrated Reports and College Activities translators Marilyn Booth (Fellow at Magdalen) and Antonia Lloyd-Jones to Queen’s for discussions of authors Jokha Alharthi (Oman) and Olga Tokarczuk (Poland), winners of the International Booker Prize and Nobel Prize respectively. The Club’s efforts to engage local readers who otherwise do not attend University events began to bear fruit, with over 80 attendees across the two sessions, including many non-members of the University.

In Michaelmas and Hilary, ffteen students from across the University were trained by Old Member Gitanjali Patel (Portuguese & Spanish, 2008) and literary translator Rahul Bery to become ‘Creative Translation Ambassadors’. Working in groups to design workshops for primary and secondary pupils, the ambassadors were primed for action just as school closures struck. Six of them managed to transfer their workshops into virtual sessions hosted on the Queen’s YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/ queenscollegeox), and the chair of our student committee even produced a series of video talks on studying languages at Oxford.

That swift change to virtual programmes set the tone for Translation Exchange events throughout the summer. Our Book Club became more ‘international’ than we had ever expected, with participants and guest translators joining online meetings from across the globe. The potential to recreate the warmth and vitality of an in-person discussion – through plenary sessions as well as smaller ‘breakout rooms’ – was a welcome surprise to us all, and led us to add an additional Book Club: one for UK Sixth Form students. In July, 50 sixth-formers joined us online from across the country to discuss The Island by Ana María Matute (Penguin Classics), translated into English by Queen’s Spanish Fellow Laura Lonsdale. This initiative is one that we are now developing into a regular fxture, in partnership with the college’s Outreach department.

During the summer term, sixth- formers were also busy entering our brand new translation competition for schools, named in honour of the great translator Anthea Bell OBE. We brought forward the launch of the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators to June 2020, in order to provide young linguists with a creative outlet during school closures. The 295 entries that we received from Undergraduate Charlotte Murphy taking part in a short teenagers across the UK were flm that formed part of the teaching packs for the testament to the excitement Anthea Bell Prize and creativity that translation can bring to language-learners.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 61 Reports and College Activities As the academic year drew to a close we found one more outlet for that excitement and creativity, by re-imagining our in-person translation workshops as virtual collaborative projects. With support from Queen’s French Fellow Seth Whidden, we gained permission to publish the frst-ever English translations of an extraordinary blog that began to appear in Le Monde during the pandemic. Fiamma Luzzati’s comics-style blog depicts the pandemic from multiple perspectives, portraying the experiences and reactions of ordinary people as their lives are suddenly changed. It is deeply moving and thought-provoking, with plenty of humour, and presents a real translation challenge. Led by QTE, in June a total of 122 participants from across the world began to translate sections of the blog in small groups, with the resulting translation published on the QTE website in October 2020. You can read some of the participants’ responses in the QTE blog, along with accounts of our other activities. Translation enables vital connections, even in the virtual sphere, and we look forward to developing these in the years to come.

www.queens.ox.ac.uk/translation-exchange

A panel from Fiamma Luzzati’s blog, translated into English

62 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 A YEAR IN THE MCR Reports and College Activities

President Nadia Haworth; Vice-Presidents Emilia Jenkins, Tristan Johnston-Wood and Sean Telford; Victualler David Kaufman

Having come to the end of what has undoubtedly been one of the most eventful academic years in recent history, it has been inspiring to see how both the MCR and Queen’s as a whole have pulled together to tackle the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic head-on.

Nadia Haworth The MCR and I would like to thank the Provost, for MCR President assembling a COVID-19 taskforce to lead the College’s response to the pandemic, and the wonderful Library team, who have worked tirelessly to help students access vital reading material. We also deeply grateful to the College Porters, the Domestic Bursary, the Steward, and in particular the Scout team for their brave work in maintaining a clean and safe environment within the College, and looking after students during this difficult time.

Throughout the year, the MCR Committee has worked tirelessly to support MCR members, and to promote postgraduate life at Queen’s. Following Freshers’ Week, the success of which was due in great part to the efforts of our Social Secretary, Tristan Johnston-Wood, and our Treasurer, Dominic Spencer Jolly, other highlights this year have included regular academic symposia organised by Alberto Corrado, the QCS and SCR Liaison Officer, and the continuation of the tutoring scheme by Christopher Magazzeni, the JCR Liaison Officer, through which doctoral students have the opportunity to hold tutorials for undergraduate students.

Credit should also be given to our Victualler, David Kaufman, in his unrelenting struggles with the somewhat notorious MCR coffee machine, and his tireless efforts to help keep the MCR space clean and tidy for all members, though this at one point even involved him wrestling against a collapsed tap in the kitchen area with an umbrella.

The challenges of lockdown also brought out the best in our MCR community. Emilia Jenkins, our Welfare Officer, sent regular ‘Good News’ newsletters to postgraduates at Queen’s to boost morale, and many MCR members also actively participated in Oxford COVID-19 Mutual Aid, a city-wide community support group formed to mitigate the effects of the pandemic on those most vulnerable. The Environment and Charities Secretaries, Marie-Gabrielle Pélissié du Rausas and Hannah Willis, further organised a scheme through which MCR members could write letters to isolated elderly or vulnerable people within Oxford, particularly those living in care homes.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 63 Reports and College Activities Some students were also involved in projects such as the development of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. One student, Andrew Orr, was even part of the University OxVent project, which developed rapidly deployable ventilators to be used by the NHS during the crisis.

This Trinity term, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, our BME Officer, Tegar Ramadan, led the MCR’s response in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, helping draft an open letter to the College and reaching out to BME postgraduate students. Sean Ketteringham has also been particularly active in promoting the cause, helping to represent the MCR alongside me in a College-wide Working Group organised by the Provost, and aimed at promoting the interests of BME students and staff. The MCR hopes that the College will continue to channel the momentum generated in response to this movement to enact positive change.

I would like to thank the rest of the Committee, the College staff, and the MCR as a whole for their continued support and engagement in postgraduate life at Queen’s College.

64 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 A YEAR IN THE JCR Reports and College Activities

President Hattie Bates; Vice Presidents Isabelle Gibbons and Aqsa Lone

This year in the history of The Queen’s College JCR has been a remarkable one. Its beginning, however, was rather the same as ever. We welcomed a new year group with a fairly smooth Freshers’ Week, and I’ve been particularly impressed with their contribution to the vivacity of the JCR this year, for which we are all grateful. I consider it a mark of a strong and kind community Hattie Bates when newcomers quickly become active within it, and JCR President I’ve been really lucky to witness this. Minor behavioural hiccups throughout the year included drinking in the library at the Michaelmas end of term event, and a very dirty beer cellar at rather too regular intervals. We thank the College staff for bearing our antics with good grace and patience!

The year moved on through Hilary, and then came March. Our term fnished officially on 15 March, only a week before the imposition of a national lockdown. We witnessed College change dramatically in the last few weeks of term: mass deliveries of microwaves for the students who were self-isolating in their rooms; cancellation of evensong; and a general growing sense of anxiety that we were facing a very different life than that we had been used to. We held our end of term event nevertheless (government advice at the time was to hold events as usual). Perhaps with the gift of hindsight I would have called this off, but, with this same hindsight, I’m very fond of the last memories of signifcant normality with the community in which I feel at home.

Throughout the Easter vacation and the beginning of Trinity term, it became clearer that residence would not be resumed for the remainder of the academic year. Speaking on my behalf alone, I held out hope for as long as possible that I would get to see my friends again, and was really devastated to lose this precious time in such an amazing place. The JCR continued its meetings via Zoom, but I couldn’t help but feel our community had suffered a little. Reflecting back, it is clear that initial frustration had evolved into quiet resignation as we settled into many months of changing government guidelines, which affected almost all parts of normal life. It is odd living as a young person currently: the feeling of the world stalling around us just as we enter independent adulthood will, I believe, leave a lasting impression on our memories of university, and our collective psyches. As a historian, I’m curious to see what the legacy of this pandemic will be, whilst at the same time honoured to be a part of the College through an important part of its history.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 65 Reports and College Activities STUDENT CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

1341 SOCIETY President: Theodora Beadle

Over the academic year, the 1341 Society was delighted to host two Hall Luncheons for the friends and family of current Queen’s students. Sadly, we were unable to host a Garden Party in Trinity term this year. The Society exists to raise money to fund students’ extracurricular activities, and this year the committee has worked hard to support a broader range of College events. For the frst time, we were able to provide subsidised tickets for the Queen’s Burns Night event. We also worked alongside the Addison Society (Queen’s political discussion society) to provide more subsidised places to its dinners for those for whom the cost may have prevented them attending.

Both of this year’s events began with drinks in the beautiful Upper Library, followed by a luncheon in the Hall. The Oxford Gargoyles, an a cappella group with many Queen’s students, gave spectacular performances at both luncheons which were thoroughly enjoyed by all the guests.

Of course, neither of this year’s luncheons would have been possible without the hard work and support of many members of College staff. We would like to thank Dawn and the catering team for providing delicious meals, as always, and the library staff for allowing us to use the Upper Library for both events. We are also very grateful to the Provost for attending our luncheons and supporting our endeavours across the year. Finally, I would like to thank this year’s committee for their work – Joseph Botman (Secretary) and Jonathan Sheinman (Treasurer). My role has been handed over to James McGhee, who I know is working hard to fnd ways to continue to support the 1341 Society’s endeavours in the year ahead.

THE ADDISON SOCIETY Co-Presidents: Laetitia Pilgrim and Serena Parekh, Treasurer: Harry Croasdale

The Addison Society has hosted three successful sell-out events, attended by a wide range of JCR members. In Michaelmas we welcomed Secretary of State for Education, Gavin Williamson MP, to speak on the British education system. He arrived a little late: understandable, given that Parliament were in the throes of the historic vote on the October 2019 Queen’s Speech. Unflustered despite the day’s events, Williamson delivered a brilliant talk, met with plenty of pointed questions from Queen’s students. The comments in our guest book (now full, ready for the archives) describe a ‘thought-provoking evening’ where it was ‘great to see a variety of strong views come face to face’.

66 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Later that term, Dr Jennifer Cassidy, UN consultant and academic, gave an insightful Reports and College Activities talk on women and diplomacy. She captivated the audience, covering Brexit and the future of the Irish border. Cassidy relayed via Twitter how much she enjoyed the evening, attaching a wonderful photo in the style of Ellen’s Oscar selfe.

The selfe taken by Dr Jennifer Cassidy

Not knowing this would be our last event, in Hilary term we invited Jonathan Liew, sports writer for the Guardian and winner of the Sports Columnist of the Year award in 2019. Liew is a ‘Raise Your Game’ mentor for the Kick it Out campaign which strives for racial equality within football. He provided anecdotes from the frontlines of elite sport, proving that his sharp wit is not just limited to the page. Liew gave us plenty to discuss afterwards, not least over the politics of VAR.

The Addison Society is grateful to the 1341 Society for facilitating a subsidised ticket system which has continued to expand the Society’s accessibility. This year we particularly encouraged freshers to attend; approximately 30% of attendees at the Society’s frst event were in their frst year. The Society thanks Dr John Davis for his support and lively contribution to the dinners. We had a record number of applications to lead the team in the upcoming academic year and consider this to be a testament to the Society’s increased visibility within the JCR. We are pleased to announce that Mary Oboh, Myla Sayyed and Afra Sterne-Rogers will take over for 2020-21.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 67 Reports and College Activities BADMINTON Men’s Captain: Cameron Brooks, Women’s Captain: Sarah Gruitt

The Queen’s College Badminton Club enjoyed a year of social training sessions at the East Oxford Games Hall. Boasting the highest number of sign-ups of any sport at the Queen’s Freshers’ Fair, enthusiasm for badminton was reflected in high turnout at weekly Wednesday night sessions, with 12-20 players attending consistently throughout Michaelmas and Hilary terms to enjoy a well-earned break from the stresses of work. A variety of different playstyles were observed in these sessions, with a range of techniques being employed to gain the upper hand from skilful feints and tricks, to friendly jests!

In a historic frst for the club, both a Men’s and a Women’s team were entered into the Hilary term Cuppers tournament. Competing with one of the strongest men’s sides I have seen in my three years playing badminton at Queen’s (Matthew Goh, Len Ma, Eric Ruiting, Kevin Speranza, Nicolai Hækkerup and Cameron Brooks), we were unfortunate to draw last year’s champions Exeter College in the frst round. Notwithstanding some inspired displays against quality Blues-level opposition, Queen’s succumbed to a 5-1 defeat. It was brilliant to see such a great turnout for Women’s Cuppers this year, and we were ecstatic to be able to feld such a strong team (Jessica Wen, Griselda Revia, Lisa Erlmann, Qizhao Chen and Sarah Gruitt). Thanks to some exceptional individual and team performances, Queen’s celebrated a 5-1 victory over our frst-round opponents, Exeter. Both teams were incredibly supportive, making for a fantastic and wonderfully friendly match atmosphere. Unfortunately thereafter, the global pandemic intervened and the tournament was cut short.

From total beginner to seasoned veteran, every Queen’s badminton player has improved their game over the course of the year, and this is testament to the friendly and social environment of the society that has enabled many players’ talents to flourish. Badminton is such an accessible and enjoyable sport, and we hope that the new captains Kho Wen Hao and Jessica Wen will succeed in bringing their experience and love of the game to next year’s sessions.

Despite the pandemic cutting short our tenure as captains, it was a great privilege to have held this role, and we wish each of our players good health in these times.

BOAT CLUB – MEN’S ROWING Captain: David Vahey

I think it is fair to say this has been a punishing year for the entire boat club with consistently fast river flow, storms, flooding and fnally COVID-19 all conspiring against us. However, a tight knit group have remained resilient throughout a year driven by land training with water time available on the Isis at a bare minimum.

68 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 During Michaelmas, due to high water levels, time on the water was severely limited for Reports and College Activities both novices and seniors alike. That being said the novices remained enthusiastic on the ergs – most notably showing a strong performance at the newly christened ‘Christ Church Ergatta’.

We opened Hilary with a four-day training camp at Eton Dorney – commuting from Oxford daily. This was hugely benefcial for the entire men’s side in restoring and building technique on the water that we were unable to strongly develop in Michaelmas. Although poor weather is a reality for most years, it was the consistency of these poor conditions that meant that this year was widely regarded to be the worst seen on the Isis in the last 40 years. As a result we returned to Dorney for some weekend training within term. The eventual cancellation of Torpids was painful and the global pandemic wiped out Trinity term activities, meaning that Summer Eights was cancelled for the frst time since 1943.

Despite this, a lot of progress was made as evidenced by some brilliant 2k scores at the end of Hilary term – proving the ‘erg-athon’ that was Oxford rowing in 2019-20 paid its dividends. It is with the resilience and motivation shown this year that we will build for the 2020-21 campaign.

BOAT CLUB – WOMEN’S ROWING Captains: Vicki Patel, Zuzanna Borawska and Kwok Cheung

With the river unfortunately at red flag for the majority of Michaelmas and Hilary terms, there were very few outings for any of our crews, particularly novices. Both Christ Church Regatta in Michaelmas and Torpids in Hilary were cancelled, and then the pandemic meant the suspension of all rowing during Trinity.

Nevertheless, we continued to train on land and we did manage to compete as a boat club – in Michaelmas there was ‘Christ Church Ergatta’, in place of the usual Regatta. This was a relay of 500m on rowing machines with four people rowing and a cox in each team. Our teams included both novices and seniors and, while we did not come close to winning, it was still a memorable experience and good team effort. In Hilary term, many members of QCBC took part in ‘Tug of Warpids’ organised by Pembroke College Boat Club in place of Torpids. Of course, it wasn’t completely serious and included no rowing whatsoever but one of the QCBC teams (teams were mixed, including both men and women) reached the quarter-fnals.

Moreover, this year QCBC has been working on measures aiming to develop a more cohesive and inclusive environment in the club. The work is still in progress and was largely interrupted by the pandemic outbreak in Trinity, but by and large we are the frst sports club in College to start a discussion on welfare issues within a college sport community. We hope that the measures once implemented will beneft not only the boat club but our College as a whole.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 69 Reports and College Activities THE EDGAR LOBEL SOCIETY President: Joseph Botman

The Queen’s College Edgar Lobel Society, named after one of our famous former Classics dons, is devoted to composing verse in Latin and Greek. Every week, we meet in a small group and discuss our translations of English verse into either one of the classical languages over a glass of wine. There is also frequently room for original compositions, for example small epigrams in Latin about something that happened that week. Each meeting, one member of the group gives a presentation about a piece of classical verse or about a technical aspect of the composition of Latin or Greek verse. Over the past terms, we’ve had students talk about the best order in which to ft words into a line of verse, about different kinds of metre in Greek, and about selections of Vergil, among other subjects. The Society was founded with the idea that additional practice in using these classical languages can signifcantly help one’s understanding and feel for the original text, leading to greater enjoyment and swifter reading. While we still learn to write Latin and Greek prose over the course of a Classics degree, verse is no longer common. We welcome more individuals than just classicists, but obviously some background in Latin or Greek would be ideal!

THE EGLESFIELD MUSICAL SOCIETY President: Rachel Howe

It is a pleasure to report that The Eglesfeld Musical Society (EMS) remains one of the University’s most vibrant college music societies. Whilst famously the oldest music society in Oxford, EMS has sprung into 2020 with renewed enthusiasm and technological innovation to combat the year’s unexpected challenges. Furthermore, the society continues to foster a welcoming, inclusive atmosphere and is proud to provide exciting opportunities for musicians within Queen’s and throughout the wider Oxfordshire community.

Our largest ensembles, The EMS Orchestra and The EMS Singers, have both performed to an exceptionally high standard this year under the able direction of Queen’s music students, Tom Dilley and Tamsin Sandford Smith. The Michaelmas term concert was a particular highlight and also featured several stunning solo and small ensemble performances by members of the Queen’s JCR. The EMS Singers concluded the term singing Christmas carols in the Broad Street Christmas Market, raising a fantastic £305 for local charity, Homelessness Oxfordshire. The EMS Jazz Band made an equally triumphant return this year thanks to the leadership of Hugo Till and Will Cashmore, and the popular ‘5th-week blues’ nights in Michaelmas and Hilary will be sure to continue in years to come.

Throughout the academic year, EMS has continued its two popular recital series: the Wednesday organ recitals and the Saturday lunchtime recitals. These weekly

70 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 concerts are free, open to the public and provide valuable performance opportunities Reports and College Activities for musicians from Oxfordshire and from further afeld. Publicity for the recitals has also improved this year and we have seen an encouraging increase in audience sizes and the number of recital ‘regulars’.

Perhaps the society’s most momentous achievement this year was the Hilary Term Music Festival. The week featured a different musical event each day, including a special launch collaboration with the Queen’s Arts Representatives, consisting of a drinks reception, Australia-themed art exhibition, and fnally a chamber concert. Altogether the event raised over £150 for WWF Australia, supporting their admirable work in the wake of the 2020 bushfre crisis.

The Festival launch concert in the Shulman Auditorium, with Bethy Reeves (piano), Max Cheung (cello) and Sarah Mattinson (flute)

Having concluded Hilary term on such a positive note, we were disappointed at the prospect of a remote Trinity. However, despite the unfortunate cancellation of the annual outdoor musical, we initiated an exciting new project: the EMS Virtual Recital Series. This series was delivered entirely online via Facebook and YouTube and consisted of recorded recital videos aired each Saturday throughout the term. The popularity of the series was thoroughly gratifying and inspired two virtual summer concerts (‘EMS Summer Concert: A Double Bill!’). All performances are still available to watch on our Facebook page and through our YouTube channel: www.bit.ly/Eglesfeld.

As President, I would like to express my gratitude towards this year’s committee for their tremendous hard work and commitment: Zachary Walker (Vice-President), Tamsin Sandford Smith (Secretary), Jake Sternberg (Events and Recitals Manager), Hugo Till (Treasurer), Tom Dilley (Webmaster and Publicity Officer), Charlotte Jefferies

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 71 Reports and College Activities (JCR Representative), and Sean Telford (MCR Representative). Thank you also to Senior Treasurer, Owen Rees, for his guidance and encouragement, and to the Queen’s porters, catering staff, and to all those in the Conference Office. It is with great confdence that I hand over to next year’s leadership team, directed by Charlotte Jefferies, and I wish them all the very best of luck.

For more information about the society and to keep up to date with future events, please visit our website (www.eglesfeldmusic.org), Facebook page, or Instagram (@Eglesfeldmusic).

FILMS FOR EUROPE SOCIETY Presidents: Jack Franco and Sam Lachmann

Films for Europe has now come to the end of its second year as a Queen’s society and we continued from the frst, with weekly screenings throughout Michaelmas and Hilary terms. Whether projected, flickering and wonky, even on one occasion in slow motion, onto the wall of Lecture Room B or in the luxury of the Shulman Auditorium, the flms we showed attracted a varied and interesting crowd into College.

In Michaelmas we showed a variety of European flms including a four flm run under the heading ‘How Italy Changed Cinema’. We could have picked four flms from almost any European country and shown them under such a heading given the continent’s – and our Society’s – rich heritage, but Italy prevailed and it was nice to enjoy these flms, from a Dino Risi comedy flm to a Fellini masterpiece, alongside a mix of students and staff, and lots of Italian speakers.

In Hilary term we alternated showing European flms with flms made outside of Europe: the USA, the Caribbean and Hong Kong among others. For some reason the winter months of Hilary coincided with a slump in attendance of the screenings but we never charge entry on principle – uniquely for an Oxford flm society – and it’s a nice mystery from week to week to see how many people and who will show up.

With coronavirus it may be difficult but we hope to resume screenings next year as with such a large and varied flm library at our disposal in Oxford we have a great opportunity: to watch them on a big screen and with others interested in doing so. Having branched out of Europe this year, perhaps we will make a leap into the twenty- frst century this coming one but some of the highlights of our year’s screenings were: Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ , Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, Chaplin’s City Lights, Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Godard’s Vivre Sa Vie.

72 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 QCAFC Reports and College Activities Captain: Matt Suter

Following several player departures, 2019-20 was something of a transitional season for QCAFC’s men’s teams. Things began promisingly with a hard-fought away victory over rivals Teddy Hall on the opening day, as Queen’s mixed an attractive brand of football with a steely desire to win, running out 3-1 victors to go top of the First Division.

However, this early season optimism evaporated as QCAFC struggled to maintain their form. A Cuppers exit at the hands of Hertford proved a key turning point, as early promise gave way to defensive frailty and an inability to create goal scoring opportunities. The scars of this defeat were lasting, and QCAFC suffered a long winless run to fnd themselves at the wrong end of the table and facing a relegation battle going into Hilary term.

The new year brought little change in fortune, and while every game saw sustained periods of Queen’s dominance, lapses of concentration at the back and inefficiency going forward meant this was not converted into points. QCAFC were unable to repeat their late season heroics of 2019, ending the season four points adrift of safety and having to look forward to life in the Second Division next year.

Despite this, cause for optimism remains. A talented group of freshers will be looking to become major players next season, while a strong end to the season from the 2nds

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 73 Reports and College Activities secured a respectable mid-table fnish, suggesting Queen’s have a solid platform from which to build. Thanks to outgoing players Eddie Tolmie, Henry Lewis, Ross Lawrence and Cai Richards for their years of service to the club; all will be missed. Thanks also to Martin Cross, Pete Southwell and Martin Edwards for their continued support. It’s been an honour to captain this club and I wish incoming captain Findlay Thompson all the best.

QCWAFC Captain: Emily Jones

This year, the women’s team a.k.a. ‘Eagles’ cemented their record as the most successful of The Queen’s College football clubs in recent years. The means may have been murky and the match-play lacking in elegance, but a season of determination, grit, and fun culminated in the Cuppers quarter-fnals against arch rivals, Teddy Hall, in University Parks in February. In well-worn Eagles style a meticulous, neck-and-neck frst half gave way to a second half trouncing that was hard to take after early glimmers of a semi-fnals appearance. For a team who never quite managed to fnd time for training, by the season’s end a promising format had emerged consisting of our defensive trio – Flora Brown, Katherine de Jager and Lizzy Whitehouse – and midfeld stars, Afra Sterne-Rodgers (incoming captain) and Louise James.

Next year will therefore be a hugely exciting one for QCWAFC. We look forward to the much needed return of goalkeeper Marte van der Graaf and all-rounder Greta Thompson to the team.

74 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 It is difficult not to wonder what Trinity term might have held in store for the Eagles, Reports and College Activities given that the quality of play was at its best at the very end of the Cuppers season at the close of Hilary. Nonetheless, this cutting short meant that Queen’s women’s football of 2019-20 went out on a high note with the Cambridge tour in 8th week where we played excellently against some of Cambridge’s fnest teams, including their own league winners, Queens’, and where we achieved as many wins in a weekend as we had all year!

A special thank you must go to Jess Martin, our social secretary this year, who organised all the football calendar highlights such as the Santa dinner, football dinner, and tour.

MCR FOOTBALL Captain: Simon Nadal

This 2019-20 year, Queen’s MCR football team joined forces with Pembroke and Somerville MCRs to feld a joint team competing in the MCR’s 2nd division. Strengthened by this new alliance and a new kit, the team started well equipped in what turned out a good season, obtaining an honourable fourth place in the MCR league and bringing Queen’s MCR to the Cuppers quarter-fnals for the frst time in its history. With the next season comes a change of captaincy, Lewis Wales – 2nd year DPhil in Inorganic Chemistry – taking over from Simon Nadal.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 75 Reports and College Activities QUEEN’S HOMELESS SUPPORT President: Ying Ying Teo

Walking through the streets of Oxford as freshers who had just matriculated into the University, we were met with sights of people sleeping right outside our College walls. Queen’s Homeless Support is born out of an acute awareness of the city’s jarring disparity that coexists with our privileged institution.

Homelessness has always been part of Oxford’s landscape and there are already pre-existing student organisations that provide food and other necessities to those sleeping rough. However, while on our rounds, we realised that the rough sleepers in East Oxford, a disproportionately disadvantaged community, have been underserved. And so, we set out with the goal to fll this gap – with three evening shifts a week to provide help to the homeless in East Oxford.

Founded on the eve of the outbreak of COVID-19, the society had to put its activities on hold as we were sent home to complete Trinity term. The pandemic has put into perspective how the homelessness crisis in Oxford is a ticking time bomb. Once emergency legislation runs out and when the economic impact of the outbreak bites, we anticipate that homelessness will worsen in Oxford. There is a long way to go in battling homelessness structurally and as a Queen’s community, we should do more to help the homeless who are the most vulnerable in times of crises.

Over the past few months, we have also been in talks with the College kitchen for donation of excess food to the society, so that food access for the homeless and reduction of food waste can be achieved simultaneously. We look forward to implementing these goals in the coming year!

KORFBALL Captain: Hamish Smeaton

Although the annual Trinity Korfball Cuppers did not go ahead due to the pandemic, Queen’s students have been influential in the success of the sport this year. As a relatively niche sport, the majority of University players begin from scratch, so it was great to see several Queen’s students signing up at Freshers’ Fair and attending the Michaelmas beginner-oriented taster sessions run by the Oxford University Korfball Club.

At a more experienced level, three Queen’s members represented the University during the year, with Ellie Woods making several strong league appearances for the second team, while Gemma Smale and Hamish Smeaton enjoyed successful seasons in their fnal year with the club.

76 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Gemma quickly established herself as a frst team starter, helping her team secure Reports and College Activities safety in the Oxfordshire Korfball League’s 1st division as the club’s top female goal- scorer. The frst team also qualifed for the BUCS Championships, making them one of the best 16 university teams in the country, but the tournament was cancelled due to COVID-19. Gemma started the 33rd annual Varsity match against Cambridge, earning her half-blue in a tightly contested 16-15 victory, and completing a clean 4-0 sweep for the Dark Blues.

Hamish primarily played for the seconds, performing well in a standout season for the team, including a comfortable 17-4 win over Cambridge 2s in the Varsity match and a silver medal at BUCS Plate after winning the Southern qualifer event. In the league, the team narrowly missed out on promotion to the 2nd division, fnishing as runners up with Hamish as the team’s top goal-scorer.

Cuppers would have been an excellent fnale to an incredible year for Oxford Korfball, with Queen’s well placed to improve upon their second-place fnish in 2018. Unfortunately, the cherry on top wasn’t to be, but this doesn’t take away from a fantastic season for OUKC with impressive Queen’s individual performances.

THE LAW SOCIETY President: Kwok Cheung

The Law Society began the year by hosting two Law Firm Dinners with Freshfelds and Debevoise. In Trinity, we invited Lord Hoffmann to be Guest of Honour at our Annual Law Dinner (now postponed to next Trinity).

The Society would like to thank its leavers: Becca Brimble, Jake Alston, Meg Howells and Ben Egan. You’ve been the absolute best role models to us, and we can’t wait to see what your futures hold.

QUEEN’S COLLEGE MEDICAL SOCIETY President: Sahara Pandit

The purpose of the Queen’s College Medical Society (QCMS) is to bring together medical students, bio-medical students, medical graduates and tutors of The Queen’s College to share their interest and passion in the subject. For our annual dinner in Michaelmas term, we welcomed special guests Professor Mike Tipton, a Professor of Human and Applied Physiology at the University of Portsmouth and Professor Stephen Powis, the National Medical Director of NHS England. Professor Mike Tipton, the UK’s leading cold water expert, shared his knowledge and experience of working with the human body in extreme environments. An Oxford alumnus, Professor Stephen Powis shared his experiences of studying and practicing medicine and what he believes to

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 77 Reports and College Activities be the weaknesses and strengths of the NHS and its long-term plan. We thank our speakers for making the evening that much more enjoyable and interesting. During the dinner, we were also able to announce the winners of the frst Chowdhury-Johnson Prize in Medicine, an essay competition for medical students which will be held again next Michaelmas term. Overall, the QCMS dinner was a great success. The QCMS dinner in Michaelmas

In Hilary, we held the frst ever QCMS Medical Innovation Conference, hosting speakers Justin Hean, a Principal Scientist at Evox Therapeutics, Dr Krishan Ramdoo, an NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur and CEO of TympaHealth, and medical students Iain Broadley and Ally Jaffee who are co-founders of Nutritank. We also heard from Professor Shaf Ahmed, a laparoscopic cancer surgeon and renowned healthcare innovator and Professor Elizabeth Molyneux, a paediatrician and founding member of the WHO course on Emergency Triage, Assessment and Treatment. We thank all those who attended the conference and our speakers for delivering such fascinating and inspiring talks. We hope the QCMS conference will become an annual event.

I have thoroughly enjoyed my year as President of QCMS and would like to whole- heartedly thank Esme Weeks and Zahra Choudhury for their support as Vice-President and Treasurer of the Society. I am very proud of what we have been able to deliver and achieve as a team. We look forward to next year with the newly elected committee: Yedidiah Tilahun, Elfe Baker and Becky Howitt who will be taking over as President, Vice-President and Treasurer respectively. 2020 has so far been a very signifcant year in Medicine and we believe that now, more than ever, is the time for us to keep up to date with happenings in the feld and so it is important for QCMS to continue to come together with our shared interests in Medical and Biomedical Sciences.

NETBALL Captains: Angharad Kellet and Jessica Martin

QCNC started off the year optimistically after recruiting many new members, including males as we could now feld a mixed team – one positive to come out of the disappointment of being relegated to division two the previous year. With many fresh faces to the game and the regularity of being able to take seven players plus subs (many thanks to next year’s captain, Pandora Mackenzie, who roped freshers in at the last minute), we thought we were on to top the leader board. However, within the rapid eight-minute halves, it turns out sporting a team where half of you haven’t ever stepped foot on a netball court before isn’t always a success! Despite this, we always showed up with enthusiasm after cycling ten minutes to Lady Margaret Hall to play

78 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 netball for only 20 minutes, typically in the rain. Although a couple of matches were Reports and College Activities played in a downpour after spending a morning convincing the other team it wasn’t meant to rain and we should play, we had a whole lot of fun and with some very talented players it resulted in some great wins for QCNC.

In Michaelmas, we saw only one win, over Oriel (12-7), placing us seventh in our division. However, in Hilary we crept up a place in the table to sixth with two huge wins – one over Lincoln (9-1) and the other LMH (8-2) – and another closer victory against Christ Church (12-8). These wins never went unacknowledged by Harri Kellett, who would always rush to write them on the chalkboard outside the Porters’ Lodge. Our Hilary fxtures saw an improvement on the Michaelmas record, consolidating QCNC’s new recruits and playing some great netball. We fnished in a very respectable mid- league position, retaining our division 2 status. It’s been a great year and we both look forward to seeing what QCNC gets up to in 2020-21.

The club would also like to pay homage to outgoing members Jessica Martin, Elizabeth Whitney and Pip Monk for their dedication.

QCRFC Captain: Wilf Sandwell

I would call the QCRFC season of 2019-20 a success in all the most important ways, meaning in anything but results. A large fresher intake was a very welcome bonus at the beginning of the season, but it didn’t translate into results with a frst score of 81-7 to the Brookes 4th XV, our only try being scored by a player they lent us. It was a laughable and ftting introduction to our new players that Queen’s rugby is thankfully

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 79 Reports and College Activities never about the result, and much more about those you play with. And with that realisation, things changed. The rest of Michaelmas term ended with two victories, one loss and a draw. The highlight was a 50-0 destruction of Merton Mansfeld, admittedly with some help from a team made of many visiting guest stars but with an excellent Man of the Match performance from our incoming VC, Max Higdon.

The second term followed in a similar vein, but the highlight occurred in the two rematches against Merton Mansfeld who had strengthened their team. The return league game resulted in a close loss, notably including an unheard of hat trick from outgoing VC, the stalwart Tom Swift. The next week was the real deal though, as we came up against the same foe in the Cuppers quarter-fnal. In short, we lost. But it was perhaps my most memorable game and proudest moment in a QCRFC shirt. Despite unfortunately missing our Blues of Louis Pincott and Dan Stoller to injuries and Under 20s commitments, and club talisman ‘The Hammer’ Hamish Smeaton to korfball, the old core pulled together, even managed a training session, and delivered one of the grittiest performances I have witnessed. Max Higdon was again excellent alongside a powerful Ebruba Ayovunefe in the row, but physicality came from all over, especially in Maurice Gedney and Alex Chalk, despite waiting three years to join the club. Henry Gray was dynamic in centre and Diptarko Chowdhury a frightening tackler alongside him. In the forwards, old timers like Tom Swift, Beinn Khulusi and Louis Makower combined with the young and quite aggressive newcomers of Levi Fraser and Ebube Anyanechi to form a very effective pack. And this was complemented by Findlay Thompson’s impressive command of a trio of club legends in Sam Caygill, Jack Wilson and Cai Richards. A few bounces of the ball a different way could have changed the result entirely, and the likes of Luke McGrath, Luke Geoghegan and Harry Turner on the bench promises much for the future.

80 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 But I am far more excited about the future off the pitch. Despite the large intake, Reports and College Activities the incoming members took in the spirit of a very close club: an odd assortment of individuals who when together looked after each other and tried to make the environment around them better. Our official sponsorship by Movember was an honour and I hope will ensure a legacy of the positive use of team spirit within the club. The questionable team barbeque with faulty barbeques in November, for me, will be remembered forever. And despite of course the curtailing of the season by COVID, one of my favourite memories of the 2020 lockdown will be the frequent and ridiculous club Zoom calls organised by Jack Wilson. This is the end of my stint at QCRFC, and of my second captaincy. It has been an honour and a pleasure to associate with such a group of men who I would cherish meeting for a drink at any time. That to me is the essence of the club, that an unusual group all became bonded to every individual, despite admittedly little rugby skill, even with an old 4th year like me. I pass on to a very capable new Captain Jack Wilson, VC Max Higdon, and Social Secs of Harry Turner and James Hawke. I hope the club carries on like this, never taking itself too seriously, and built on a core of simply good people, for a long time to come.

QUEEN’S COLLEGE SYMPOSIA (QCS) Alberto Corrado

This year the QCS has seen lively discussion of topics as wide-ranging as Japanese literature and quantum mechanics, and has been a great nexus for sharing ideas across disciplines between the Middle and Senior Common Rooms. Participation increased signifcantly since last year, with attendees from across the College. We’ve been delighted to have speakers from both the common rooms. From the SCR we invited both junior members (namely, two Junior Research Fellows and a Laming Fellow) and were also pleased to welcome the new Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Jon Keating, who gave an extremely well-attended talk on his research. From the MCR we invited both doctoral and Master’s students, and the symposium is seen as a fantastic opportunity for newer members of the College to present their research to an audience of mixed MCR and SCR. Unfortunately the Trinity term sessions were not able to go ahead due to the COVID outbreak, but we look forward to continuing next year and possibly trialling holding events at lunchtime to increase participation even more.

SWIMMING Ada Taggart

Oxford University Swimming Club (OUSC) is the University’s competitive swimming team, and this year the team members from Queen’s included Declan Pang, Janet Chan, Maarten Swart and Ada Taggart.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 81 Reports and College Activities In Michaelmas, Janet and Declan competed at the annual BUCS competition in Sheffield. Entering 100m breaststroke, 50m breaststroke and 50m freestyle, Janet achieved the times of 1’20.53, 36.91, and 29.64 respectively. Meanwhile Declan entered 100m butterfly, fnishing in 1’01.80. Both of their performances were impressive, and overall Oxford ranked 19th – an improvement on last year by six places.

The most important gala for OUSC, Varsity, took place in Hilary at Oxford’s Rosenblatt Pool. In the Seconds’ match, Janet and Ada both raced the 50m breaststroke. Janet swam incredibly, achieving a comfortable frst with 37.85, while Ada attained a PB and third place with 39.94. Janet also competed in the women’s 4x50m medley relay, which the team completed in 1’59.33. Maarten swam the 200 m freestyle, coming in fourth place. On the whole, the match was tense and exciting, concluding with a narrow victory for Oxford of 95-81. The Blues’ match was just as close: a mere six points separated the two teams at the end of the individual races and the fnal score was 97-83 to Oxford. Unfortunately, Declan was unable to compete. Nevertheless, his coaching of the Seconds certainly contributed to their success against Cambridge.

Both the third season of swimming and annual college cuppers gala were unable to take place this year. Still, OUSC participated in weekly land training sessions via Zoom, as well as several virtual socials, throughout Trinity. Overall it has been a very successful year for the club and I am immensely proud of all its achievements.

TENNIS Captains: Hannah Brock and Rohan Rao

We had a huge sign-up from this year’s freshers which was really fantastic – of more than 35 people, from the JCR and MCR. Although we weren’t able to play any official matches this year, Queen’s students are welcome to go down to the court and play any time they want and quite a few members did take the time to do so. We hope this level of interest in the club will continue and that competitive matches resume in 2021.

AMALGAMATED SPORTS CLUBS COMMITTEE President: Henry Lewis Secretary: Jessica Martin IT Representative: Findlay Thompson Senior Treasurer: Dr Martin Edwards

82 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 ATHLETIC DISTINCTIONS Reports and College Activities

Blues

Fred Newbold Hockey Henry Patteson Hockey Johann Perera Hockey Agamemnon Crumpton Lightweight rowing Daniel Stoller Rugby

Half-Blues

Joseph Tulloch Baseball Xiongfei Zheng Baseball Gemma Smale Korfball Jinlin Chen Volleyball Louise James Volleyball

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 83 DEVELOPMENT AND OLD MEMBER

Old Members’ Activities RELATIONS REPORT

To echo the remarks of others, the 2019-20 academic year was obviously not quite the year we were expecting in the Old Members’ Office. Indeed, it was very much a year that moved from excitement, to uncertainty and then to disappointment as we were forced to cancel Old Member events as the year progressed.

Yet while the Old Members’ events programme divided into two very distinct halves, the disruption caused by COVID-19 was surprisingly not mirrored in the year’s Justin B. Jacobs overall fundraising totals. Fundraising at Queen’s during Director of Development 2019-20 was some of the strongest the College has seen with 659 donors contributing to a New Funds Raised fgure of £5,413,600 – only the third time Queen’s has ever surpassed the £5M New Funds Raised total in a fnancial year.

This fgure is a clear reflection of the continued goodwill, willingness to support and generosity of Queen’s Old Members and friends, and their collective desire to ensure the College is as well-positioned fnancially as it can be to meet the challenges its students and the tutorial system will likely face in the years to come. In the Development Office, we tend to see this support as also having something of a historical and enduring quality to it, as it is due in large part to the support of previous years (to which this year’s donations will be gratefully added) that Queen’s fnds itself in a position to ride out some potentially very turbulent seas.

84 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 One of the highlights of the College’s stewardship of its donors is being able to recognise their support and generosity. Here in the College Record we have listed all Old Members’ Activities of those Old Members and friends who chose to support Queen’s in 2019-20, and in the annual Development Report we detail the impact their support has had on the College community.

Of particular note for the 2019-20 year were the following gifts received by Queen’s:

• A permanent endowment gift from the Carlsberg and Pettit Foundations to create the Erel Shalit Carlsberg Foundation Research Fellowship in Behavioural Neuroscience.

• A permanent legacy endowment gift from F.H. Brittenden (Modern History, 1946) to support History teaching at Queen’s, which will create the fully endowed Brittenden Fellowship in Black British History.

• An anonymous non-endowment gift to create an Access and Outreach Officer post to focus on building up links between Oxford, Queen’s and the Northwest of England over the next two years. This creates a second access and outreach position for Queen’s and doubles our investment in this important area.

• An anonymous non-endowment gift to support the early-stage growth of the Queen’s College Translation Exchange, an access and outreach initiative built around introducing local school students to the world of languages, literature and translation (www.queens.ox.ac.uk/translation-exchange).

Governing Body was also able to recognise key milestones in the amount of lifetime support received from certain Old Members and friends. In 2019-20 Governing Body elected three new Eglesfeld Benefactors (in recognition of lifetime giving in excess of £100,000) and two new Philippa Benefactors (in recognition of lifetime giving in excess of £10,000). The College always takes a special pride in being able to bestow these Benefactorships on those whose lifetime support of Queen’s has merited special recognition.

On behalf of Queen’s I would like to say thank you again to all of those who have chosen to support the College this year. We look forward to seeing you back in Oxford just as soon as we can.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 85 Old Members’ Activities FROM THE PRESIDENT

It is an obvious understatement to say that it has been an unusual year. Reflecting my optimistic nature, however, I refuse to believe that things will never be the same again. Medical scientists (doubtless Oxford ones!) will fnd a solution to the current pandemic. They are a special breed as epitomised by Old Member and Honorary Fellow Dr A.W. ‘Bill’ Frankland MBE, DM, FRCP. Bill, who died earlier this year at the age of 108, was the College’s and the University’s oldest Old Member. His dedicated work on allergies spanned Paul Newton nearly ninety years. He popularised the pollen count to President of The Queen’s help clinicians and patients understand what triggers College Association their seasonal allergies and amazingly completed his last paper in March of this year, only a few weeks before he died. This paper can be accessed through the College’s website (bit.ly/bill-frankland). A tribute to him and his life can also be found there, and his obituary appears later in this year’s Record. Bill led an incredible life which included a period spent in a Japanese prisoner of war camp following the fall of Singapore in 1942. He was, unsurprisingly, the camp doctor treating fellow prisoners in conditions we can only imagine.

The current COVID-19 pandemic meant that this year’s Old Members’ programme disappointingly divided into two very distinctive halves. Events during the frst half continued as normal, culminating in the Queen’s Women’s Network Dinner: In Conversation with the Provost. This event took place in early March at the University Women’s Club in London as a continuation of the celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Co-Education at the College. If anyone missed this event, it is possible to watch the Conversation online at the College’s YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/ queenscollegeox).

Other events during the frst half that offered Old Members opportunities to eat heartily, drink copiously and reminisce unashamedly, lest we forget what these occasions entail, included the Jubilee Matriculation Gaudy Lunch (1949 / 1959 / 1969); the Ten Years’ later Lunch (2009); the MA Reunion Lunch (for undergraduates who matriculated in 2012 and who are now eligible to take their MA); the Boar’s Head Gaudy (1996 / 1997) and the Needle and Thread Gaudy (2004 / 2005). They were enjoyed by nearly 500 people, representing a signifcant proportion of the Old Members’ community.

The second half of the year’s Old Members’ programme unfortunately saw the cancellation of a reunion dinner in Berlin and a US trip which would have included dinners in New York and Washington, DC. Summer in-College events were also

86 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Old Members’ Activities

cancelled: the Benefactors’ Dinner and the Garden Party, which would have been the closing event for the year-long activities for the 40th Anniversary of Co-Education. Sadly, it has been announced recently that all face-to-face Old Members’ events have been cancelled until January 2021. The College plans to introduce some virtual events this year. Over time these will be incorporated as welcomed additions or natural accoutrements to the Old Members’ programme. For example, and particularly beneftting overseas Old Members who do not fnd it easy to return to College on a regular basis, topical lectures and talks can be streamed to an online global audience.

I am sure that other Old Members join me in hoping that this virtual style of attendance is not a harbinger for the future and that it will soon also be possible to enjoy Old Members’ events with the same level of exuberance and closeness as we have done in non-plague/pandemic times. The College incontrovertibly continues to exist today as a highly respected and very much alive institution which will survive this pandemic as it has survived many plagues and pandemics over hundreds of years, even though – and as an open plea to our Provost to stay safe – our Founder and Provost, Robert de Eglesfeld, reputedly died from the plague in 1349.

On behalf of all Old Members I wish to thank Jen Stedman and her team, as well as Justin Jacobs for his oversight as the Director of Development, for the excellent work that has been done in organising events and encouraging the excellent relations with the Old Members’ community in very trying circumstances.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 87 Old Members’ Activities GAUDIES – FUTURE INVITATIONS

Due to cancellations caused by COVID-19, invitations for the Boar’s Head Gaudy and the Needle and Thread Gaudy have been rescheduled as follows:

Boar’s Head Needle and Thread

Year Matriculation years Year Matriculation years 2020 cancelled 2021 cancelled 2021 1986/1987 2022 1976/1977 2022 1998/1999 2023 2006/2007 2023 1988/1989 2024 1978/1979 2024 2000/2001 2025 2008/2009 2025 1990/1991 2026 1980/1981

650TH ANNIVERSARY TRUST FUND AWARD REPORTS

Due to the pandemic, no awards were made this year.

88 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 40 YEARS OF CO-EDUCATION AT QUEEN’S Old Members’ Activities

In 1979 the frst cohort of women students joined Queen’s. 40 years later, and with over 1000 female students having passed through Front Quad, the College community set out to celebrate this important and historic milestone.

To mark the anniversary, a group of Queen’s women from all four decades joined with the College to plan a series of events and initiatives to forge connections across the generations and build an ongoing network and legacy for all women at Queen’s.

Our thanks go in particular to the then Director of Development Anna Thorne, who was responsible for driving the anniversary plans forward; to the Head of Communications, Emily Downing, for her fantastic work on the ‘Shining a Light’ Exhibition that remains on view around the College; and to Jen Stedman and Henry Cosh in the Old Members’ Office for entering into the spirit of the celebration, for their hard work and support, and for keeping us on track.

Working groups focussed on four main strands of activity: Archive, Celebrate, Lobby and Network.

Archive Over the last 18 months Alison Sanders (née Spargo; PPE, 1979) and Christine Smith (Modern Languages, 1979) built an online archive to commemorate the 40 years of coeducation at Queen’s.

In the ‘Back to the Future’ section, there are memories from Fellows, staff and students about the momentous decision to admit women to the College and the experiences of everyone involved with the College following their arrival. In addition to the fascinating written memories there are also video interviews with Professor Kenneth Morgan and with a group of the female 79ers conducted by Guto Harri (PPE, 1984). Michael Riordan, the College Archivist, also researched the College’s relationship with women before 1979.

The second section, ‘Women of Queen’s’, celebrates the women who attended or worked at the College over the last 40 years and includes the ‘Shining a light’ series of photographic portraits. There is also a wealth of memories from Queen’s women on the theme of ‘What Queen’s means to me’.

‘40 years in 40 Objects’ is an eclectic visual collection of pictures and 3D objects (making best use of new technology) which are of signifcance to the spirit and the journey of the women who have been and are part of College life. The items included range from the statue of Queen Philippa, in whose name the College was founded,

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 89 through to sports teams, memorable food, fabulous clothing, Queenie magazine and Old Members’ Activities the notorious Izal hard toilet paper which was very much in evidence in Queen’s in the 1970s. Its removal was one of the frst tangible changes made to daily life in College upon the arrival of women!

The frst Women’s Eight, 1982

The fnal section of the archive looks to ‘The Future’ with items about Reginae, our undergraduate female network, and a pen portrait of one the current female undergraduates. This section also marks the establishment of the Queen’s Women’s Network.

A great debt of thanks is owed to so many people who helped to make the archive: Emily Downing (Head of Communications) for her support in the publication of items and the Cabinet project; Michael Riordan, the College Archivist, for uncovering so many amazing treasures of the College, as well as all the contributors. In addition to those already mentioned, we thank the late Professor Brian McGuinness (Philosophy, 1953), Ivor Timmis (Modern Languages, 1977), Phil Tellwright (Geography, 1977), Sue Williams, and Ken and Val Wyatt. Thanks also to all the Queen’s women who shared their memories so openly and generously.

90 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Celebrate Old Members’ Activities 40 years of women at Queen’s, in a College whose history dates back to 1341, felt like a milestone to be celebrated with a party – what better way to mark the start of a legacy for future generations!

On 16 March 2019, we held our ‘40 Years of Co-Education Celebration Dinner’, arranged by our team of Elizabeth Pilkington (Mathematics, 2000), Lauriane Anderson Mair (Modern Languages, 2007) and Wendy Burt (née Hayes; Modern History, 1979), in partnership with the Old Members’ Office. Former students from all four decades – including mother and daughter, Jane (née Chapman; PPE, 1979) and Katy Welsh (Physics, 2015) – current students, Fellows and College staff came together for this historic, frst all-female (with a few welcome exceptions!) gathering in Hall.

The event began with a chance for friends and new acquaintances to catch up over afternoon tea in the Shulman Auditorium. A charm bracelet exclusively designed by designer Sibylle de Baynast, whose son studied at Queen’s, was available to attendees to mark the occasion and, following informal presentations, a group photo was taken to capture the moment. Highlights of our Archive were on display in the Magrath Room, with thanks to Michael Riordan for curating this.

The group photo in the Shulman Auditorium

One touching highlight of the day was the Chapel Service conducted by Revd Katherine Price, with an all-women choir made up of current and former choristers, led by Professor Owen Rees and featuring a specially composed piece by Eleanor Graff-Baker (Music, 1980). Drinks in the Upper Library provided a further opportunity to speak with peers and connect with Queen’s women from across the generations, sharing our common experiences and memories. We convened for dinner with a

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 91 nostalgic menu that featured several Old Members’ Activities College classics, rounded off with the showcase dessert of Bombe Alaska. Our gratitude goes to former Head Chef Andy Field, Dawn Grimshaw, and the catering staff for obliging our specifc requests. Speeches from Old Members and Mrs Alison Madden were warmly toasted, as was the commemorative sterling silver bowl by Graham Stewart, which was presented to the Provost by the 1979 frst cohort of women.

Merriment continued in the Beer Cellar, with bop-style entertainment, sound-tracked by tunes that had been nominated from decades past and present. A beautiful celebratory cake was served, which helped to sustain energy on the dancefloor! Thanks to Sue Tutty and Sean Meade for keeping the G&Ts flowing.

The dinner proved extremely popular and with numbers limited to 140, was oversubscribed. By agreement with the Old Members’ Office, we therefore planned to theme July 2020’s College Garden Party around Queen’s women through the ages, to round off the extended year of celebration. Due to the COVID-19 situation, unfortunately this event was cancelled. However, we look forward to future Network events to continue to build on the spirit of celebration and community generated together!

Lobby: Equality and Diversity in Recruitment for Senior Roles Diversity has received a great deal of attention in the news recently, notably because of the Black Lives Matter movement, and with the realisation that COVID-19 has been affecting certain groups of people disproportionately. But how can organisations take concrete steps to increase the diversity of their leadership and populations? Often, they start with the largest under-represented population – women – on the basis that, although each under-represented group faces different challenges and has different experiences, some of the changes made to increase the representation of women can act as a contribution towards the systemic changes that will also lead to increases in representation of other groups.

This was the founding principle on which the Lobby working group – Jackie Rolf (Modern Languages, 1981), Claire Taylor MBE (Mathematics, 1994) and Sarah McMahon (Literae Humaniores, 1982) – wanted to build. We looked at the governance of the College and whether there was an opportunity to make the College’s policies and procedures more inclusive of diversity. We believe that this work, largely carried out in 2018-19, will also beneft the College’s current and future work on increasing diversity in other areas, such as race and socio-economic disadvantage.

92 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 The frst priority was to look at the College’s student gender balance. Sarah carried out an extensive gender audit of all Oxford colleges and, much to our delight, we Old Members’ Activities discovered that we could be really proud of Queen’s. After Hertford College it has led the way in consistent, balanced gender undergraduate intakes over the last decade. This excellent record provided another good reason to celebrate our 40 Years of Women anniversary in 2019.

Next, we turned our attention to the Governing Body. Quite quickly, we realised there was an important event coming up – the appointment of a new Provost, to follow Paul Madden – and that the process for recruiting his successor would be an opportunity to consider how senior appointments in College were made. We discussed with Professor Jane Mellor, Professor of Biochemistry and Equalities Fellow, whether workshops on diversity in the recruitment process might be welcomed. Jackie has extensive experience as Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at two multinational organisations. She had designed a range of leadership interventions focussing on minimising subjectivity and unconscious bias in recruitment, which can lead to organisations excluding well-qualifed diverse candidates, particularly at senior levels, and hence not always focussing on who is the best person for the role. It was agreed that she would run two diversity workshops with members of the Electoral Body (which consisted of all Fellows who were members of Governing Body).

The workshops began by understanding the neuroscience behind implicit, or unconscious, bias – which we all have – and raising awareness of how it can affect decision-making, particularly regarding under-represented groups. One of the key messages in the presentations was an encouragement to think differently about diversity – the end goal was not to recruit a specifc type of ‘diverse’ candidate (e.g. a woman or a person from the BAME community), but rather to ensure that any potential biases were removed from an assessment of the capabilities of all candidates, whatever their characteristics or background, which would then give all qualifed candidates a level playing-feld on which to compete for the role, instead of the unequal one which is often the case.

We then looked at research showing the benefts of increasing diversity, and discussed a range of concrete actions that could be taken in order to ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process. The Electoral Body fully engaged with the discussions, and we welcomed their decision to choose an executive search frm with specialist experience in diversity to assist with the appointment.

At the end of a rigorous selection process, the Electoral Body offered the role to Dr Claire Craig, and she became the frst female Provost in the College’s 679-year history. We were delighted to be able to contribute to the process.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 93 Network Old Members’ Activities The Queen’s Women’s Network has been set up to provide professional and social networking opportunities for current and Old Members, especially women. The aim is to help everyone, within and across the generations, to celebrate success, promote equality and inclusion and champion change. The Network also aims to provide career support and, in the future, to establish two-way mentoring.

The events and activities have been designed and organised by Janet Hayes (née Dyson; Modern Languages, 1981), Judith Bufton (née Leeming; Classics and Modern Languages, 1979), Jane Welsh (née Chapman; PPE, 1979), Catherine Palmer (Jurisprudence, 1993) and Anna Howard (née Parks; Modern Languages, 1995). Our thanks also go to the other Old Members who have provided speakers and venues and facilitated events, including Catherine Palmer at Joseph, Mark Evans (Modern Languages, 1977) at RSM and Kate Cooper (née Sheen; English and Modern Languages, 1999) and Holly Pirnie (née Insley; Jurisprudence, 2000) at Freshfelds.

We have been delighted with the response to the network which has been very successful in its overall aims, particularly in providing networking opportunities for Old Members in London and the South East. Attendees at the four in-person events have come from all generations of Queen’s women as well as a handful of Queen’s men. Between 40 and 70 people have attended each event. Topics have included:

• the Network launch, when executive coach Mia Forbes Pirie spoke of fnding and appreciating our unique talent and then ftting out (not in);

• Nicola Waterworth (Modern History, 1998) leading a discussion on the challenges and opportunities for women in politics from her study of Women, Power, Politics: what’s changed in 100 years for the British Council;

• Janet Hayes speaking on her MSc research into women’s journeys to leadership and the concept of ‘having it all’, followed by a panel discussion with Nishi Grose (née Somaiya; PPE, 1998), April Burt (DPhil in Environmental Research, 2017) and Freshfelds Partner, Caroline Stroud.

The two-year anniversary of the launch of the Network was marked by a conversation (pictured) with the College’s frst female Provost, Dr Claire Craig, and a dinner at the University Women’s Club where views were sought on the future of the Network. See the Queen’s YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/queenscollegeox) for a video of the conversation with Claire.

94 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 The Network’s frst online event will be held in September 2020. By hosting this on Zoom, we will enable many more people to attend, irrespective of location. The event Old Members’ Activities will focus on how volunteering can support career progression, illustrated by Alison Sanders (née Spargo; PPE, 1979) speaking on her experience as a Magistrate with her colleague, Jane Macaulay.

Building on the experience to date, we plan to have at least one formal meeting a year in London, plus one informal get-together. However, we are also very keen to run events outside London and so, where possible, will host our own event when the Old Members’ Office starts to travel again around the UK and possibly more widely. If you would like to run your own event locally, please contact the Old Members’ Office.

We also hope to draw on the wealth of career and life experience of our Old Members by setting up a two-way mentoring scheme both between Old Members and with current students. There is plenty of enthusiasm amongst Network members; we just need the means to make it easy to organise and run. Again, please contact the Old Members’ Office if you have any ideas on how to help with this or on the Network more generally.

We look forward to seeing you at one of our events!

In summary, it has been a fun and busy year of celebration and commemoration: recording memories of 1979 and looking at what the decision to admit women has meant for College life; fnding out what 40 years of women at Queen’s looks like and meeting lots of them; and creating a legacy to sustain and develop those connections.

Thanks to the many Queen’s women who have helped to make the 40th Anniversary such an enjoyable and successful occasion and contributed to the establishment of the Network. Final thanks must go to Lord Blake and the Governing Body for inviting women into the Queen’s family 40 years ago and to Paul and Alison Madden and Claire Craig for recognising the importance of this milestone in College history and celebrating it with us.

Thank you to Judith Bufton, Wendy Burt, Janet Hayes, Lauriane Anderson Mair, Elizabeth Pilkington, Jackie Rolf and Alison Sanders for writing this article.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 95 Old Members’ Activities APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS

1953 Victor Hoffbrand Elected as a Public Governor to the council of governors of The Royal Free Hospital, London.

1963 Tariq Hyder Chosen to represent Pakistan at the Moscow Non-proliferation Conference and at the EU Conference on Non-proliferation and Disarmament.

1967 Philip Schlesinger Reappointed in September 2019 until March 2022, as a Visiting Professor in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

1968 Tim Connell Appointed as an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, having stepped down as Vice-President after 17 years.

1973 Martin Riley Awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Business Administration (DBA) by the University of Greenwich for his contribution to their business school teaching.

1975 John Barker Inducted as Vicar of All Saints’, Harrow Weald, Diocese of London.

Daniel Moylan Nominated for a peerage by the Prime Minister, in July 2020.

1976 Peter Clarkson Awarded the Senior Anne Bennett Prize 2020, by the London Mathematical Society, in recognition of his work to support gender equality in UK mathematics and his leadership in developing good practice among departments of mathematical sciences.

96 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 1977 Old Members’ Activities Giles Orton Appointed Priest-in-Charge, Derby St Anne’s, in July 2020.

1984 Jonathan Woolfson Appointed Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, in October 2019.

1986 Andrew Mitchell Appointed Director General, Markets and Supply Chains, at the Department for International Trade, July 2020.

1987 Gary Meggitt Appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

1988 Mark Beards Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Sutura Therapeutics Limited, Birkenhead. He assumed this role in April 2020, from his prior role as Non-Executive Director of the Company.

1990 Keith Hatton Is a Senior Software Engineer at Sainsbury’s Digital.

1991 John Attwater Appointed Principal of King’s Ely independent school in August 2019.

1992 Phillip Miller Is now a Principal Security Advisor with Amazon Web Services. Previously he served as the Chief Information Security Officer for Brooks Brothers. He is also a member of the board of directors for Hoof, Paw, and Claw, a U.S. based non-proft corporation.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 97 1996 Old Members’ Activities Helen Munn Awarded a CBE in the 2020 New Year Honours, for services to the advancement of medical sciences. Helen was previously Executive Director at the Academy of Medical Sciences.

2002 Sanjib Bhakta Has received an ASEM-DUO 2020 Professorial Fellowship. This ASEM-DUO international programme was created to facilitate educational exchanges between Asia and Europe and encourage academic research collaborations on a balanced and permanent basis.

2004 Robert Lepenies Was elected to the executive committee of the Global Young Academy (GYA). The GYA was founded in 2010 to provide a voice for young scientists around the world and empower early-career researchers to lead international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational dialogue by developing and mobilising talent from six continents. Its purpose is to promote reason and inclusiveness in global decision-making. Members are chosen for their demonstrated excellence in scientifc achievement and commitment to service.

2011 Abda Mahmood Completed a PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Emily Motto Awarded the Gilbert Bayes Award, for early career sculptors, awarded annually by The Royal Society of Sculptors to a small group of outstandingly talented sculptors.

2016 Jake Davies Awarded the Governor Phillip Scholarship to pursue a full-time Research Master’s at the University of Sydney. This scholarship was established after the bicentenary of Governor Arthur Phillip’s death and its purpose is to promote the bilateral exchange of outstanding students from Australia and the UK to study at postgraduate level at leading universities in both countries. Jake is the frst Governor Phillip Scholar to be going from the UK to Australia.

98 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 PUBLICATIONS Old Members’ Activities

Bettison, Norman (1983) Hillsborough Untold: aftermath of a disaster (Biteback Publishing, 2016)

Blacklock, Mark (1991) Hinton (Granta Publications, 2020)

Camp, Gregory (2007) Howard Hawks: Music as Communication in Film (Routledge, 2020)

Ellis, Harold (1943) Tales of the Operating Theatre and other essays (The Association for Perioperative Practice, 2019)

Fenn, Michael (1978) Consulting Skills for 2030 by Fenn, MGP and Sutton, CMB (Centre for Management Consulting Excellence, 2019)

Frankland, Bill (1930) ‘Fungal Threats Good and Bad’, published on The Queen’s College website (bit.ly/bill-frankland), 2020

George, Richard (1987) ‘Fulgentius: the hazard of laurels’, HQ: The Haiku Quarterly 50 (2019); ‘Clerihew in the accent of Jacob Rees-Mogg’, Orbis Quarterly International 186 (2019); ‘The roll-off factor’, Fortean Times 394.57 (2020)

Hacker, Andrew (1951) Downfall: The Demise of a President and His Party (Skyhorse Publishing, 2020)

Hoganson, Kristin (2015) Editor of Crossing Empires: Taking US History into Transimperial Terrain (Duke University Press, 2020)

Johnson, Alex (1988) Shelf Life: Writers on Books and Reading (British Library Publishing, 2018); Book Towns: Forty-Five Paradises of the Printed Word (Francis Lincoln, 2018); A Book of Book Lists (British Library Publishing, 2017)

Olabarria, Leire (2010) Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 99 Lewis, Claire (1983) Old Members’ Activities She’s Mine (Aria, 2019)

Mawson, Timothy (1996) The Divine Attributes (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Pasternak Slater, Nicolas (1958) Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Folio Society, 2019)

Rikhof, Herwi (1976) Een schatkamer voor pelgrims. De Cenakelkerk van de Heilig Landstichting (Valkhor Press, 2018) – translates as ‘A Treasure Trove for Pilgrims. The Cenacle Church of the Holy Land Foundation’. Wij geloven. Rooms-katholiek en protestant: één geloof. De geloofsbelijdenis van Nicea/ Constantinopel, uitgelegd door Bram van de Beek en Herwi Rikhof (KokBoekencentrum, 2019) – translates as ‘We believe Roman Catholic and Protestant: one faith. The Creed of Nicaea/ Constantinople, explained by Bram van de Beek and Herwi Rikhof’.

Rowley, Sarah (2003) Latin Rocks On (Unicorn Publishing Group, 2020)

Sagar, David (1965) A Strange Fire – Spirituality for the 21st Century, new edition (Lulu.com, 2019)

Singh-Lal, Vandana (1999) So all is Peace (Penguin, 2019)

Smyth, Gareth (1976) ‘Killeen Group Water Scheme’ and ‘The Name on the Lake: Hounds and the Booley’, AnChoinneal magazine (2019); ‘Wine and Islam’ in Tears of Bacchus: A History of Wine in the Arab World, edited by Michael Karam (Gilgamesh, 2019)

Stehly, Ralph (1971) Introduction à l’islam – Fondements et Croyances (Éditions Érick Bonnier, 2019)

Sutton, Christopher (1982) Consulting Skills for 2030 by Fenn, MGP and Sutton, CMB (Centre for Management Consulting Excellence, 2019)

Tam, Henry (1978) Editor of Whose Government is it? – The Renewal of State-Citizen Cooperation (Bristol University Press, 2019); The Evolution of Communitarian Ideas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

100 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Teague, Anthony known as Brother Anthony of Taizé (1960) Translator, Living in silence (White Pine Press, 2019); Rabbit’s Tale (Homa and Sekey Old Members’ Activities Books, 2019)

Timmis, Ivor (1977) The Discourse of Desperation: Late 18th and Early 19th Century Letters by Paupers, Prisoners and Rogues (Routledge, 2020)

Williams, Matt (2005) ‘Adventure on Puffin Island’, Creative Countryside magazine, August (2019)

Wright, Hugh (1957) The Webbs of Odstock (Downside Abbey Press, 2019)

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 101 ARTICLES Articles From Translating Illness to Translating COVID-19: a Humanities Response to the Pandemic

Dr Marta Arnaldi, Laming Research Fellow

The 1998 flm Sliding Doors, directed by Peter Howitt and starring American actress Gwyneth Paltrow, follows two parallel storylines, showing the divergent paths the protagonist’s life could take depending on whether or not she catches a train. In the past months, I have been haunted by the realisation that we are, just like this character, continuously asked to make a choice between the real and the virtual, the vigilant and the impulsive, the rational and the absurd. The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has certainly diverted our journey; but is there a right train?

Translating Illness: Imagined Design As a former student of medicine and a scholar of comparative literature, I have always been fascinated by the ways in which the psychical and the mental worlds interact with, and shape, one another. Translation is a vital vector of this exchange; we translate to replicate our Logo designed by Eoin Kelleher cells, protect our life, and communicate to people who could not otherwise understand or being understood. Sometimes, through the invisible paths of contagion and trauma, translation can even make us ill. This is how and why I have asked myself what different concepts and practices of translation have to do with one another, and to what extent translation in the scientifc sense (translational medicine, knowledge translation) is different to the way in which we relate to a foreign language.

I created Translating Illness (www.queens.ox.ac.uk/translating-illness) to explore these ideas. Supported by a Laming Research Fellowship at Queen’s, this interdisciplinary project was awarded a double grant from the Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund and the John Fell Fund, Oxford, in order to promote, alongside primary research on modern poet-translators, a series of research and public engagement activities. In October 2019, I was writer in residence at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, where I delivered a masterclass in creative writing in a foreign language, i.e. English. In January 2020, I inaugurated a College-based seminar series which was turned into podcast episodes (podcasts.ox.ac.uk/people/marta-arnaldi). On 1 March 2020, I took a plane to New York in order to start a visiting fellowship at the Department of English and

102 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Other planned visits included archival work at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, a translation workshop to be delivered at the University of Central Florida, and an invited lecture at Princeton.

As alarming news was coming from China and my home country, Italy, I came to Articles terms with the fact that my project was no longer a theoretical matter; it was, in fact, an articulation of the global crisis we were living through. Coronavirus disease had become the illness we were asked to translate.

Marta giving the introduction at the Translating Illness Inaugural Lecture

Translating COVID-19: Emergency Response I activated Translating COVID-19 (www.queens.ox.ac.uk/translating-covid-19) as an emergency response to the pandemic. I designed and hosted a series of fve video conversations with world-leading experts in translation studies and epidemiology, with the aim of discussing the translational implications of coronavirus disease. The episodes – which attracted almost 3,000 views in fve months – touched upon questions of race, conspiracy and (lack of) medical evidence connected with the current health, ethnic, and environmental crises. In the frst episode, Nicola Gardini, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Oxford, invited us to reflect on the language we use and the metaphors we resort to in order to capture the ineffability of illness. The second episode in the series featured Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool and AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for Translating Cultures. Professor Forsdick highlighted the ways in which translation creates connections that can protect us from isolation both on public and private levels. He explored the many meanings which the experience of confnement has

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 103 taken across different linguistic, societal and ethnic contexts, thus tackling issues of mental illness, class, and race. A similar attention towards non-dominant languages and cultures characterised Professor Karen Thornber’s contribution, which disclosed

Articles the role literature in translation plays in retrieving examples of non-Anglo-Euro- American medical practices. Karen Thornber, who is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, proposed a solution to the health, environmental and racial issues gripping our society by tracing the model of a world policy of care (see her newly-published book Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care, published by Brill in 2020).

In the fourth episode, I spoke with Eivind Engebretsen, Professor of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at the Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo. Professor Engebretsen offered the perspective of a scientist invested in humanities research that is not secondary, but fundamental to clinical advancements. He pointed out that medical discoveries, policy and practices are culturally determined; despite our common perceptions, science does not provide universal truth, and this is particularly evident in the case of face masks. The fnal episode was dedicated to the transnational paths of contagion seen through the lens of twentieth-century cinema. Kirsten Ostherr, the founder and director of the Medical Humanities Program and the Medical Futures Lab at Rice University, Texas, drew on her expertise as a media scholar, health researcher and technology analyst to discuss visual culture’s paradoxical power to represent the invisibility of infection.

As emerges from this overview, Translating COVID-19 has been a profoundly collaborative endeavour, one that proved to be both challenging and enriching. It led me to unspecifed destinations on a train I did not plan to catch, but on which I was not alone. I would not thank the virus or months of social distancing for this serendipitous diversion; rather, I would like to acknowledge the support of colleagues and mentors who make academia a place of renewal and transformation, and whose work shows us the many ways in which we, as humanists, are not just humanitarians but also medics in the face of the unknown.

Sometimes we have no control over which train to take. Yet, we can decide how and why to wander.

104 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Bridging the gap between science and the arts: Clifford Norton Fellows and Students at Queen’s

Dr Christopher D. Hollings, Clifford Norton Senior Articles Research Fellow

Over the last half century, Queen’s has hosted more than a dozen researchers working on topics in the History of Science, with the History of Medicine and the History of Mathematics being the two major themes. This association between the College and the History of Science grew, at least in part, from a bequest made to the College in 1964 by an Old Member, the diplomat Sir Clifford Norton (1891-1990), who sought to forge a new link between the sciences and the humanities.

Clifford John Norton was born in Greenwich in 1891. He studied at Rugby School, before entering Queen’s as a Foundation Scholar in 1910. His tutor was the classicist, and future Provost of the College, E. M. Walker; Norton took a First in Classics Moderations in 1912 and then a Third in Literae Humaniores in 1914. He served at Gallipoli and in Palestine with the Suffolk Regiment during the First orldW War, and eventually entered the Foreign Office in 1921; throughout much of the 1930s, he served as private secretary to the permanent under-secretary Sir Robert Vansittart, before being posted to Warsaw in 1937. After a further foreign posting to Bern, he was appointed British Ambassador to Athens in 1946, a position that he held until his retirement in 1951. Upon returning to the UK, he sought to re-establish his connection with Queen’s, and was for a time President of the Queen’s Association; in 1963, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College. Norton died in London in 1990, seven months short of his one-hundredth birthday.

As early as 1952, Norton had written to the Bursar to signal his intention of leaving a bequest of £2,000 to the College, and was already wondering whether to earmark it for a specifc purpose. Discussions appear to have taken place between Norton and members of the College, and by 1960 he had accepted the suggestion that his bequest (now having risen to £10,000) be used to fund a ‘Clifford Norton Research Fellowship’. By 1964, Norton Sir Clifford John Norton, by Walter had decided to turn his proposed bequest Stoneman. Bromide print, 26 August into an immediate gift, and was musing 1948, NPG x186891 (© National Portrait on possible subjects for the Fellowship: Gallery, London)

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 105 ‘The subject is still vague in my mind. Is there anything that might be a bridge between Science & the Arts?’

Articles Norton’s suggestion may have been motivated by the recently aired views of C. P. Snow, concerning the ‛Two Cultures’ of the sciences and the humanities.

Having initially asked for his bequest to be kept confdential, Norton then permitted the following announcement to appear in the College Record for 1964:

‘Sir Clifford Norton (1910), Honorary Fellow, has endowed a new Junior Research Fellowship, which will be known by his name. This generous gift substantially increases the provision for opportunities of research, the promotion of which has long been a cardinal feature of College policy, and is especially welcome at a time when the need for qualifed academic teachers is become increasingly pressing. It is hoped to make the frst election to the new Fellowship for October 1965.’

A committee was formed within the College to consider appropriate subjects for the new Fellowship, and returned the recommendation in January 1965 that it be advertised in the History of Science or Medicine – but that if no suitable candidate were found, it should be re-advertised in Ancient History, Classics and Modern History. Although these latter subjects would not have met Norton’s interdisciplinary intentions, they would at least have mirrored his own studies in Oxford and subsequent career. The position was duly advertised, and a suitable History of Science candidate was found in the form of Robert Fox from Oriel, a historian of physics who was then completing a DPhil dissertation entitled ‘The Study of the Thermal Properties of Gases in Relation to Physical Theory from Montgolfer to Regnault’. Fox was elected to the Fellowship in October 1965, and when he left Oxford a year later to take up a lectureship at the University of Lancaster (he would subsequently return to Oxford in 1988 as Professor of the History of Science, and Fellow of Linacre), the subject of the Fellowship was changed to Linguistics or Psycholinguistics. Over the next thirty years, the post cycled through several subjects, all of which fulflled Norton’s tentative suggestion of something ‘that might be a bridge between Science & the Arts’: History of Science, Linguistics, Economics and Psychology (see Table 1). The research topics of Fellows ranged from the social history of twentieth-century British medicine (Bryder) to schema theory (Bowers) and conversation analysis (Geluykens). Amongst the historians of science, History of Medicine was a particularly prominent theme (represented by Lindsay Sharp, Linda Bryder and Harriet Deacon).

The fnances underpinning the Fellowship, however, were never entirely robust. From the start, it had been acknowledged that it might be necessary for the College to supplement the salary of the Clifford Norton Fellow in order to bring it to a level appropriate for a Junior Research Fellowship. Indeed, fnancial considerations seem to have been behind at least some of the gaps in Table 1: the Fellowship was funded by the income from a ‘Clifford Norton Trust’, established on the basis of Norton’s original bequest, but in 1975-1981, for example, the income simply wasn’t sufficient. In 1983,

106 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Years Name Subject 1965-1966 Robert Fox History of Science

1966-1969 Philip Twitchell Smith Psycholinguistics Articles 1969-1972 Geoffrey Richard Sampson Linguistics 1972-1975 Lindsay Gerard Sharp History of Science 1975-1981 Vacant 1981-1983 Stephen Noel Broadberry Economics 1983-1984 Vacant 1984-1988 Linda Bryder History of Science 1987-1988 John Maxwell Bowers Psychology 1988-1989 Vacant 1989-1992 Ronald Geluykens Linguistics 1992-1993 Vacant 1993-1997 Harriet Jane Deacon History of Science

Table 1: Clifford Norton Junior Research Fellows the then-Provost, Lord Blake, wrote to Norton, seeking permission (which was duly granted) to use the capital from the Trust as well as the income to provide for future Fellowships. It was intended gradually to run the fund down, though on at least one occasion money from an outside source was used to subsidise the Fellowship: during her fnal year at Queen’s, the bulk of Linda Bryder’s salary was supplied by a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.

By the mid-1990s, however, the money had run particularly low, and it was decided to demote the Clifford Norton Fellowship to a Studentship (i.e. a junior research post ranked below a Junior Research Fellowship), and to make it a non-stipendiary position. Hereafter, the post was to be intended for, but not restricted to, postgraduate students completing their DPhils. At the same time, the post was fxed permanently to the History of Science, and ceased to cycle through different disciplines. But even within this narrower focus, the incumbents of the Studentship (see Table 2) still covered a broad range of topics. The History of Medicine remained a prominent theme: for example, the frst Clifford Norton Student, Viviane Quirke, used the post to complete a DPhil dissertation entitled ‘Experiments in Collaboration: The Changing Relationship between Scientists and Pharmaceutical Companies in Britain and France, 1935–1965’; whilst at Queen’s, she also wrote for the College Record (1998) on the work of the Nobel-Prize-winning former Provost, Lord Florey. Two of the subsequent Students (namely, Catherine Kelly and Harry Wu) also worked in the History of

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 107 Medicine. But the History of Mathematics has also featured – in the work of the present author, but most notably following the appointment of the late Jackie Stedall, a specialist in early modern English mathematics, as Clifford Norton Student in 2000.

Articles Stedall came to Queen’s having just completed a PhD at The Open University on the 1685 Treatise of Algebra of the Oxford mathematician John Wallis; her own copy of Wallis’ text now resides in the College library. Stedall subsequently became a Junior, and then a Senior, Research Fellow of the College.

Years Name 1997-2000 Viviane Quirke 2000-2003 Jacqueline Anne Stedall 2003-2005 Alexander John Marr 2005-2008 Catherine Jane Kelly 2008-2011 Harry Yi-Jui Wu 2011-2013 Christopher David Hollings

Table 2: Clifford Norton Students in the History of Science

Sadly, the current fnancial situation does not allow for a Clifford Norton Student, but when the present author returned to Queen’s in 2015 to take up a Senior Research Fellowship, the Governing Body chose to name this the ‘Clifford Norton Senior Research Fellowship’ – so, although the College no longer has a junior research post in the History of Science, a visible link to Sir Clifford Norton’s original bequest remains.

108 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 College Servants and Vacation Employment: Insights from Oxford’s Archives

Dr Kathryne Crossley, Kellogg College Articles ‘Diary (Butler’s) 1854-1898’ is a slim, nineteenth-century volume, its binding only loosely holding the foxed pages together. I encountered it on a visit to the Queen’s College Archive while researching my DPhil on the history of Oxford college servants. My thesis is a comparative study of nineteen Oxford colleges, and I have spent many hours with a fantastic variety of sources, including this diary, which provides a glimpse into college life from the perspective of a long-serving member of staff.

The second page of the diary records the appointment of the college butler, William Owen in 1857. I hoped the diary would offer some insight into an important tradition: college servants’ employment at resorts in the Long Vacation. Several college histories mention that servants often worked at resorts in England, Scotland and Wales in the Long Vacations, but existing accounts provided very few details. Preliminary research suggested that Owen was a key fgure in the organisation of resort employment for servants in the Long Vacations.

Butler’s diary, showing William Owen’s appointment in 1857

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 109 Owen kept the diary for many decades; most entries are only a line or two, and in some years, he wrote nothing. He recorded a variety of events, particularly the appointments, promotions and deaths of Queen’s servants. In some cases, this

Articles diary provides the only surviving evidence of the employment of these men and women. However, Owen offers no comment on his own work. He does not describe his responsibilities, nor those of his colleagues; there are no details of his working conditions, nor his satisfaction or dissatisfaction with those arrangements.

Not surprisingly, the most detailed entries usually concern good food. Owen wrote appreciatively of dinners given by Fellows for the servants. On 29 December 1864 he wrote, ‘All the servants, 26 in number, dined and supped in College at Dr. Farrar’s expense – on the occasion of his leaving Coll. for his new appointment of Professorship of Eccl. Hist. to Durham University.’ In 1878 Owen noted that, to mark the event of his election as Provost, Rev. Magrath ‘kindly presented to every servant of the College (33 in number) a fne Turkey for their Christmas-day dinners.’

Unfortunately, William Owen’s diary is silent on the subject of vacation employment.

The highly seasonal nature of Oxford’s economy and the problem of precarious employment were well known at the time. Most servants could expect a signifcantly reduced income for approximately half the year; the effects of this were compounded by servants’ dependence on perquisites and gratuities – which typically comprised a third to one-half of their remuneration. Year-round employment was guaranteed only for senior servants; it was not until after the Second World War that conferences began to provide enough work to keep most servants employed during the vacations.

An article in Jackson’s Oxford Journal provided a clue to the origins of the scheme. Mayor Thomas Randall described how three years earlier, in 1856, he was struck by the length of that year’s Vacation, which began in early June, and the difficulties faced by junior servants particularly, who ‘had to rely only on the little resources they made during term’. If a young servant was able to save anything, Randall explained, ‘he oftentimes found that at the end of Long Vacation that it was not only gone, but that he was in debt’. Junior servants did not typically receive a cash wage from the colleges, relying only on customary tips.

Randall recalled that while travelling in the summers, he was struck by the difficulties hotels had hiring seasonal waiters, during precisely the same months that many college servants needed work. Randall approached senior members of the University in January 1856 to discuss his idea for the scheme, but without much success. He was disappointed to fnd a general belief prevailed among those men that ‘it would be impossible to induce the junior college servants to leave Oxford to obtain employment until all their money was spent’.

There were few local opportunities for employment in the summers; some servants looked for agricultural work, hay-making and bringing in the corn. Some colleges

110 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 paid a small retaining wage, some offered odd jobs. The summers were largely taken up with maintenance and decorating, but there was not enough work, and in some colleges, not enough money to afford to keep a full staff on year-round. Articles Randall persevered and on 29 December 1859, the mayor, together with Vice Chancellor Francis Jeune, presided over a meeting of college servants to discuss the problem of unemployment in the Long Vacation. The meeting concluded with a resolution to form a committee to provide organisational support, acting as an employment agency matching resort jobs with college servants. Randall estimated that 75-100 junior servants might be expected to fnd resort employment during the summers. William Owen led the committee for more than twenty years, coordinating the employers and servants, matching offers and recommendations.

Colleges immediately acknowledged the benefts of resort employment. Chief among these was keeping servants productively occupied. Idleness, especially among the younger male servants, led to mischief. ‘“What”, exclaimed Rector Tatham [of Lincoln College], after hearing from [Subrector] Radford of thefts in the College, “have the idle bedmakers been about? Through the whole of the Long Vacation they have nothing to do and the thieves take advantage of their indolence and negligence!”’1

In its frst summer, the College Servants’ Summer Employment Society received 34 applications from servants looking for a summer position; jobs were found for only 12 of them.2 Actual fgures for the numbers of men who found summer employment through the committee were later reported in the minutes of the College Servants’ Society (CSS), a working men’s club for college servants founded in 1872, with premises on King Edward Street. These range from 40-60 positions flled annually. By 1881, the CSS had completely taken over the work of the summer employment committee from William Owen. Advertisements placed after 1881 suggest that the CSS tried to fnd work for a larger group of servants with a broader array of businesses. One such advertisement appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette and offered that the CSS could supply ‘proprietors of hotels and other places of business cooks, waiters, clerks, and porters from the present time until October’.3 Despite this, in 1885, the Society’s minutes note that there were still not enough summer positions for servants who wanted them. The CSS dissolved around the time of the First World War, and although the organisation of summer employment was lost with it, individual servants continued to make arrangements for this work.

1 LC/B/C/4 Letter from E. Tatham to Subrector Radford, 9 September, no year is given. Also quoted in Vivian Green, The Commonwealth of Lincoln College 1427-1977 (Oxford, 1979), p.417. 2 JOJ 16 June 1860; Two servants from Wadham, two from New and one from Magdalen Hall went to the Castle Mona Hotel in Douglas; one from University went to the Royal Victoria in Swanage; one from Magdalen, and two from Exeter went to the Station Hotel in Hull; and three from Exeter went to the Burdon Hotel in Weymouth. 3 Pall Mall Gazette 28 June 1882. The same advertisement appeared in the North Wales Chronicle on 1 July 1882.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 111 Not all servants could work away from Oxford, even when these positions were available. Married servants with families likely found the prospect of months away from home after the long working hours of the terms to be burdensome. Articles One particularly sad case concerns Daniel Styles, a young college servant at All Souls, who worked as a butler’s assistant in the late nineteenth century. He was a keen cricketer with the college servants’ team, an active member of the College Servants’ Society and appeared assured of a successful career in college service. In the summer of 1892, Daniel fell ill and died of kidney failure while working as a waiter at the Granby Hotel in Harrogate during the Long Vacation. Styles left behind his pregnant widow Kate and several young children. The CSS held a fundraiser to raise money for Kate Styles to set up in business as a licensed lodging-house keeper, work she continued until her retirement.

Most female college servants similarly suffered a loss of income in the vacations, but resort employment was only available for men. Outside of terms, there was little work for college laundresses and only a few senior women were employed year-round in other positions, typically as cleaners on the staircases and in the kitchens. Many of these women looked for work in private households as charwomen.

During the terms Eliza Haynes, a scout’s assistant at Oriel College in the late nineteenth century, worked on the staircases in the mornings. She took on other domestic work in the afternoons, including working as a cleaner for Rev. Walter Lock, the Warden of Keble College. It was through Lock that Haynes found summer employment, traveling with Lock’s family each summer to their home on the Isle of Wight where she worked as their cook. Her daughter Alma went along as well, to provide help in the nursery with the family’s younger children.4

Resort work paid relatively well and many servants recalled enjoying the experience. In his 1953 autobiography, Fred Bickerton, the long-serving head porter at University College wrote:

‘The under-scout had no salary from the College; he depended on what his undergraduates gave him, and the Term’s emoluments rarely came to more than ten pounds. Moreover, there were only three Terms, and they left six months in the year during which we had to fnd alternative employment. It was the custom for us to take jobs as waiters in seaside hotels where there was a seasonal demand. I must say the experience was useful, as well as the money, and it certainly helped us to serve more efficiently in College. I went one year to Llandrindod Wells and two years to Lowestoft and busy as it was, I always enjoyed the change of place and the crowds of new faces. …After those three years the College always found some work for me to do during the Vacations, and so I remained in Oxford.’5

Bob Dickens and his father, then both servants at New College, worked as waiters in the Lake District during the Long Vacations. Dickens recalled that in 1919, the lack of

112 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 year-round employment alongside frustration with low wages motivated some college servants to join a trade union. Dickens felt that junior servants wanted unions because ‘times were “really bad”, [there was] discontent when they had to fnd other work in the vacations, when the College gave them only 10 s. a week retaining fee; and they Articles found out that if people could get away in the summer… you could make half a year’s wages in 3 months. It was hard work, but it paid them to do it.’6

Of course, to work away from Oxford in the Long Vacation was to forego the pleasures of summer sports. From at least the mid-nineteenth century, college servants were enthusiastic participants in athletics, bowls, football, tennis, cricket and rowing. There was little time for leisure during the terms, however during the vacations, servants had the use of the playing felds and the college barges.

One of Queen’s beloved members of staff, Albert Piper, was celebrated for his achievements in football, rowing and cricket. An article in The Isis from 1920 describes Piper with great admiration, listing his considerable personal and professional accomplishments. A few months earlier, Piper hosted a dinner at Worcester College, part of the festivities held for the biennial Oxford and Cambridge College Servants’ Cricket Match and Boat Race, which began in 1850 and continued for a century. The competitions were usually extended into a weekends, held alternately in Oxford and Cambridge during the Long Vacations, and recalled with great fondness by many college servants. Both the article and the dinner programme were pasted into the Bursarial Diary held in the Queen’s archive, kept by the Senior Bursar Rev. George Cronshaw, who was a guest at the dinner.

College life was transformed after the Second World War, and resort employment in the Long Vacations largely disappeared. The Butler’s Diary and the Bursarial Diary are just two of the sources that highlight the fascinating history of these workers; there are many more in the Queen’s Archive and in other colleges as well. In this strange summer when archives are closed, it is a particular pleasure to revisit them, along with William Owen and Albert Piper and to look forward to visiting again soon. Albert Piper, College Messenger

4 Phyl Surman, Eliza of Otmoor (Oxford, 1976). In 1904 when she was fourteen, Alma Haynes’s frst permanent position in domestic service was as a housemaid to J.R. Magrath, the Provost of Queen’s College. 5 Fred Bickerton, Fred of Oxford: Being the Memoirs of Fred Bickerton, Until Recently Head Porter of University College, Oxford (London, 1953). 6 G.A. Jonge and A.J. Purkis, ‘Interview with Bob Dickens’ 20 June 1969.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 113 OBITUARIES Obituaries

We record with regret the deaths of the following Old Members:

1930 Dr A W Frankland MBE, DM, 1953 Mr A E R Beesley FRCP (Honorary Fellow) Dr V S Butt Mr A Daniels 1939 Mr L A Bullwinkle Dr B F McGuinness 1940 Cmdr M S Richards (Emeritus Fellow) Mr W G Methven 1942 Mr J S Ross Prof P D Robinson Mr G B Thompson Mr P Wade 1943 Prof T G Griffith The Right Reverend C A Warren Mr T E Lowther Mr T C Whitehead Mr J S Rees 1954 Ambassador I Jazairy 1944 Mr F R Ogden The Revd G F Wharton 1945 Mr K W Carter 1955 Mr P Hamilton Mr G A Corkill Mr K Holding Air Vice Marshal M M J The Revd K M Lintern Robinson CB Dr R G H Metzner Mr R D Weeks Mr R E Stewart Mr M V Ward 1947 Mr R M Browning 1956 Mr P E Krebs 1948 Dr W R Heslop Mr J S Mor Mr J E Pearson 1957 Mr J W Robinson 1949 Mr J M Collins Mr M A Johnston 1958 Mr D J Barnes Mr C P Lynam 1959 Dr D S Andrew 1950 Mr A W Cox OBE Prof W G O Carson Mr D H Karp Prof A S Fogg Sir Richard Tucker Mr P H Zwart (Honorary Fellow) 1961 Mr J M Cummins 1951 Sir James Adams Mr A M Kay Mr P W Batty 1962 Mr S J N Barker Mr S N P Marks Mr J F Wadsworth Mr J H F Simson Mr R N Smith 1963 Mr J W Bryant Prof R A Burchell 1952 Mr R Best Dr B I Hoffbrand FRCP 1964 Mr I C Sallis Mr G L Kinter

114 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 1967 Dr B P Gardner 1984 Dr J M C Gray Ms H J Sowerby 1968 Dr D M Littlewood

1969 Dr K T Maslin Obituaries Emeritus Fellow Dr R M Acheson 1970 Dr J E M Clarke Emeritus Fellow Mr M S Gautrey 1972 Dr N J Walton 1973 Dr M R Green 1975 Prof C M Christensen The news of the deaths of Old Members (Honorary Fellow) comes to the notice of the College through a variety of channels. The 1976 Dr J R Moxey College is unable to verify all these 1979 Mr A N Smith reports and there may be some omissions and occasional inaccuracies.

MORRIN ACHESON

‘…when the time comes I hope that I will remain in your memories for a short while like Lewis Carol’s Alice in Wonderland’s Cheshire Cat. The Cat disappeared but the grin remained.’ – Morrin Acheson, at his 90th birthday celebration in Basel, 25 February 2015.

Emeritus Fellow Dr R. Morrin Acheson died on 4 July 2020, at the age of 95. Morrin was associated with the College and its community for nearly 70 years. He tutored over 200 chemistry undergraduates at Queen’s from 1953, when he was appointed to a College lectureship, and subsequently a teaching Fellowship in 1958, until his retirement in 1986.

Morrin also ran an active research laboratory in the Biochemistry Department. His main interest was heterocylic chemistry, whose structures are at the heart of many natural products as well as many pharmaceuticals. In addition to over 100 Part II and DPhil students from throughout the University, he attracted visiting scientists from around the world.

He was held in great regard by his former students and researchers for his kindness, encouragement and infectious enthusiasm. Morrin was punctilious in keeping in contact with them after they left Oxford and was indefatigable in sending letters, and later emails, congratulating them on new appointments and milestones in their careers and personal lives. They have gone on to pursue careers in accountancy, banking, the

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 115 church, journalism, flms and tourism, as well as paths with a more direct chemical connection. What united them was an affection for Morrin, his sense of humour and his zest for life. Obituaries

Before coming to Queen’s, Morrin was an undergraduate and graduate at Magdalen, gaining a First in Natural Sciences (Chemistry) in 1946, then a BSc by research in 1947 and DPhil in 1948. He was a Medical Research Council fellow at the University of Nottingham from 1948-49 and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago from 1949-1950.

Morrin had very broad research interests. Although based in the Biochemstry Department, his work, by and large, was frmly rooted in organic chemistry. The main body of his work was investigating the chemistry of a highly reactive substance, dimethyl acetylene dicarboxylate, known affectionately as ‘the ester’ with a vast miscellany of heterocyclic compounds, starting with pyridine. His early work sought to identify the structure of the products frst seen by the great German chemist, Diels. Morrin was pioneering in his use of then new spectroscopic methods particularly NMR to solve the structures. It was this work that led to the H A Iddles award for 1966/67, from the University of New Hampshire. He held the distinction of being the frst recipient from outside the USA. In all he published over 220 scientifc papers, of which over a third were related to addition reaction of heterocylic compounds with ‘the ester’. The reaction of ‘the ester’ with heterocycles often produced previously unknown ring structures, which were of great interest to the pharmaceutical industry as novel drug templates. He consulted for several pharmaceutical companies including Pfzer, where one of his former pupils invented the block buster cardiovascular substance amlodipine/Norvasc®. He was also named as an inventor on several patents.

Morrin wrote two signifcant books. The frst was a monograph on acridines, a class of heterocycles with a wide range of biological properties, from a bitter taste to use as dyes and the basis of various antimalarial drugs (1st Edn 1956, 2nd Edn 1973). The second was his text book, An Introduction to the Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, (1st Edn 1960, 2nd Edn 1967, 3rd Edn, 1976; also Japanese and Spanish editions) which systematically described this rather disparate group of substances in a clear, concise and palatable form.

This latter book was dedicated ‘To My BT and 3 LT’s’ - a reference to his wife, Greti, and his three children, Corina, Marita and Michael. Morrin’s family was extremely important to him and he was careful to strike a balance between work and home life. He was devoted to Greti, whom he had met during his post-doctoral studies in Chicago and married in 1953. They shared a passion for dancing, which led to the establishment of the Oxford University Ballroom Dancing Club (now OU Dancesport) in 1968. He was also senior member of the OU Company of Archers.

From an early age, Morrin was an active mountaineer of some distinction. He was a member of the OU Expedition to Tehri-Garhwal in the Himalayas in the summer

116 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 of 1952. On retirement to the Engadin in Switzerland he continued to climb, ski and dance. Many of his friends, including former students and researchers, gathered in Basle in February 2015 to celebrate his 90th birthday. Obituaries

Sadly, Greti predeceased him over 30 years ago, but Morrin remained active until a few days before his death and in active email communication with many former students. His enthusiasm and vitality will continue to be an inspiration to many.

Gordon Wright (Chemistry, 1970)

JAMES ADAMS

Sir William James Adams died peacefully on 24 April 2020, aged 87. Born in Wolverhampton, he was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and Shrewsbury School. He studied Modern History at The Queen’s College, under John Prestwich.

He worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and trained as an Arabist, learning the language at Shemlan Arabic school in Lebanon, which was famous for spies such as Kim Philby who worked for Russia. One of Sir James’s earliest jobs was with the British Residency in Dubai, and he later worked for the British Embassies in Paris and in Rome and for a member of the House of Lords in London. His diplomatic posts included British Ambassador to Tunisia (1984-1987) and British Ambassador to Egypt (1987-1992). He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.

Due to his fluency in Arabic (and French and Italian), he was sometimes asked by the Queen to assist as interpreter to her Arabic-speaking visitors and he was once asked with his wife Donatella to spend a weekend at a house in Cambridge as hosts to the Shar of Iran and his wife.

He is survived by Donatella, his three children, Andrew, Charles and Julia, and nine grandchildren.

Robert Adams

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 117 CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN

Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business School’s Obituaries (HBS) Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, acclaimed author and teacher, and the world’s foremost authority on disruptive innovation, died on January 23, 2020, surrounded by his loving family. Christensen was

Credit: Evgenia Eliseeva Credit: 67 years old.

Christensen joined the HBS faculty in 1992. He earned a BA with highest honors in Economics from Brigham Young University (1975); an MPhil in Applied Econometrics from Oxford University, where he studied at Queen’s as a Rhodes Scholar (1977); and an MBA with High Distinction (1979) and a DBA (1992) from Harvard Business School. He was granted tenure at the School in 1998 and named to a chaired professorship in 2001.

‘Clayton Christensen was one of the world’s greatest scholars on innovation and a remarkable person who had a profound influence on his students and colleagues,’ says Dean Nitin Nohria. ‘His research and writings transformed the way aspiring MBAs, industries, and companies look at management. He was a beloved professor and role model whose brilliant teaching and wisdom inspired generations of students and young academics. Most importantly, Clayton had a passion for helping others be their best selves that permeated every aspect of his life. His loss will be felt deeply by many in our community and his legacy will be long-lasting.’

A gifted teacher across all of Harvard Business School’s educational programs, Christensen developed and taught for many years the MBA elective curriculum offering, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, which uses a general manager’s lens to evaluate theories about strategy, innovation, and management to predict which tools, strategies, and methods will be most effective. His Online course, Disruptive Strategy, has engaged more than 5,000 learners – more than 10% of Online’s cumulative learners to date. He also led doctoral seminars, served on a number of doctoral thesis committees, and was a member of the Doctoral Policy Committee. And he was a (highly sought-after) regular in a number of the School’s comprehensive leadership and focused Executive Education program offerings. In everything he did, Christensen sought to help his students understand the powerful way they could be a force for good in society and in the lives of others as managers — managers who energised and uplifted those around them.

A distinguished scholar, Christensen was one of the most influential business theorists of the last 50 years, according to Forbes, and was twice ranked at the top of the Thinkers 50 list among many other awards and accolades. His research and ideas focus on identifying and managing factors that shape the way frms introduce advanced technologies to existing and prospective markets, and the process by which innovation transforms – or displaces – companies or entire industries. He frst

118 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 introduced the notion of ‘disruptive innovation’ in his seminal book, The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. It became a New York Times bestseller and received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published in 1997. More than two decades later, business leaders from around Obituaries the world continue to credit Christensen’s work on disruptive innovation for their ability to innovate, grow, and compete in today’s global economy.

In Christensen’s 2003 book, The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, Christensen summarises a set of theories that can guide managers trying to grow new businesses with predictable success. Drawing on years of in-depth research, the book shows that innovation is not as unpredictable as most managers have come to believe, and teaches managers how to think about the issues that limit – and provide – growth in organisations.

In Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change, published in 2004, Christensen presents a framework for predicting outcomes in the evolution of any industry. Based on theories outlined in The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution, he offers a practical model that helps decision- makers spot the signals of industry change, determine the outcome of competitive battles, and assess whether a frm’s actions will ensure or threaten future success.

More recently, Christensen focused his innovation lens on two of the country’s most vexing social issues: education and health care. Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (2008), named one of the best books on innovation that year by Businessweek, looks at the root causes of why US public schools struggle, and offers a blueprint for how technology can be effectively applied to the classroom. The Innovator’s Prescription (2009) examines how to fx our healthcare system, a personal topic for Christensen, who had long had diabetes, but then in his ffties suffered a heart attack, cancer and stroke.

In 2011, Christensen published two books: The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out and The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators.

Throughout his life, Clayton was candid about the health struggles he faced, and the talk he gave to the MBA Class of 2010 – later captured as a wildly popular article in Harvard Business Review and in book form as How Will You Measure Your Life?— epitomised the thought with which he approached every challenge and his innate love of teaching. The Harvard Business Review article of the same name won the McKinsey Award for best article of year.

Although Christensen’s legacy will live on through his ground-breaking theories, best- selling books, and the countless generations of students, scholars, and executives he taught and mentored, he will also be remembered for his generosity, kindness, and the individual people whose lives he has touched, most especially his family.

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 119 Christensen was committed to both community and church. In addition to a stint as a White House Fellow, he was an elected member of the Belmont Town Council for eight years, and served the Boy Scouts of America for 25 years as a scoutmaster, Obituaries cub master, den leader, and troop and pack committee chairman. He also served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Republic of Korea from 1971 to 1973, spoke fluent Korean, and was a leader in his church.

He is survived by his loving wife Christine; fve children – Matthew, Ann, Michael, Spencer and Catherine (Kate); and nine grandchildren.

This is an abridged version of the obituary published by Harvard Business School on their website, on 26 January 2020.

ALBERT COX

Albert William Cox OBE was considered by all those who knew him as ‘a real British gentleman’ of great intellectual curiosity. His daughters most particularly remember his encyclopaedic knowledge and interest in history, only surpassed by his general love of books and his typical response to questions: ‘let’s look it up’, as he had a book for everything.

The elder of two sons, Albert was born in Cheshunt (Herts) in 1930 and died at the age of 90 in April 2020. He was educated at the Enfeld County Grammar School and was known as a fun-loving and hardworking student. As a child, even during the war, he devised all sorts of money- making schemes (such as making clothes pegs and mending clocks and watches) so that he could start investing in his collection of Penguin paperbacks. He then did his national service in the army where he also taught English, before attending The Queen’s College where he studied modern languages and thereby found his vocation.

Albert very much enjoyed his time at Oxford, investing in books and good sherry and often spoke of those years with great pride. After graduating, he left England to move to Strasbourg for work and this was where he met the love of his life, Sonia, who became his wife some years later. He often remembered their carefree moments cruising around on his Lambretta, as well as their holidays in the south of France. They then moved to Paris where he commenced his lifelong career as an international civil servant, using his superlative talent and passion for languages, in particular French. He was valued for his absolute discretion in the workplace, especially given the particularly interesting and challenging context of post-war Europe and the Cold War. In the 1960s they moved to Brussels, where he remained until his retirement. Later in this period, Albert’s keen interest in modern technology led him to introduce the use of computers in his department, thoroughly revolutionising his workplace. He was awarded an OBE in 1993.

120 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 The dedication he showed to his wife and two daughters was extraordinary, returning from Brussels to England, where they had settled, every single weekend for almost 20 years. He took an active interest in his daughters’ education and careers – supporting them until his very last days – and in his two grandsons’ wellbeing. Indeed, Obituaries in retirement, albeit not in great health, Albert committed his time to his family and to reading, always wanting to increase his knowledge. He was a voracious reader on a vast array of subjects from law to Roman history, medieval English history and philosophy, from Trollope novels to Montaigne and other French literature. His love of history, politics, languages and the importance of the English language and its correct usage were always at the forefront of his thoughts. His jokes, made with a twinkle in his eye, often involved a clever pun on the English language and revealed the delightfully fun side of his character. He was a very wise person who only ever offered a considered opinion and if he didn’t know the answer, he would always have a book that would be able to help! His ability to see ‘the bigger picture’ led him to be a quiet campaigner for the ‘Remainers’ during the Brexit period, writing to politicians and national and local newspapers in recent years to try to persuade them of the folly of leaving the EU.

His natural curiosity and his optimism for future generations was manifested in his interest in scientifc discoveries in the feld of medicine and in his last weeks, he recounted how he was so very pleased and proud that it was Oxford University that was leading pioneering work on a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus. Hope was so important to Albert and right up to the end he always saw brighter times ahead.

Our father’s vast knowledge, his wisdom and his quiet yet clever sense of humour will be missed by all who knew him. He is survived by his two daughters and two grandsons.

Lara Cox and Tanya Cox

BILL FRANKLAND

Alfred William Frankland, always known as Bill, died on 2 April 2020. Recognised throughout the world as the ‘Grandfather of allergy’, he matriculated at Queen’s in October 1930, and maintained an association with his ‘beloved Queen’s’ for almost 90 years. On his death he was the University’s oldest alumnus.

Born in March 1912 in Sussex, the smaller of twin boys, weighing just 3lb 1oz; his chances of survival were slight. But such predictions were very wrong. Aged two, his family moved to Dacre in Cumberland, when his father was appointed Vicar. During childhood Bill was strongly influenced by two Oxford alumni: his father, Henry Frankland (Wadham, 1897), who taught of the importance of Christian living,

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 121 and George Hasell (Queen’s, 1867) who provided fnancial support for Bill’s schooling. Attending St Bees School from 1926, he came up to Queen’s in 1930, receiving a Thomas Exhibition. On arrival he noted that the Provost had not been seen for over Obituaries ten years, but the College did brew its own beer. Taught by such luminaries as Charles Sherrington and John Eccles, Bill also listened to Gandhi speaking at a small public meeting in the town.

Graduating BA in 1934, Bill moved to St Mary’s Hospital for clinical training. Here his teachers included Sir Almroth Wright, Alexander Fleming (who warned students of the likely development of antibiotic resistance) and Leonard Colebrook (who demonstrated the life-saving effects of ‘Prontosil rubrum’ in puerperal sepsis). An accomplished middle-distance runner, Bill always found it amusing that he returned to Iffley Road to ‘compete for a University (London) of which I am not a member, against my own.’

Qualifying BM, BCh in 1938, Bill’s frst appointment was House Physician to Sir Charles Wilson (later Lord Moran). The winds of war were blowing through Europe and on 1 September 1939 Bill volunteered for the Royal Army Medical Corps, aware that there would be a great demand for doctors. After two years of service at home, he sailed from Liverpool in September 1941, destination unknown. His ship berthed in Singapore one week before the tumultuous events of Pearl Harbor. Over the next three months he witnessed the Japanese attacks, and only avoided being bayonetted to death by ‘the toss of coin.’ Just two days before capitulation he ensured the safe passage of 35 nurses to Singapore Harbour where they boarded a ship requisitioned for evacuation.

Taken prisoner on 15 February 1942, Bill spent the next 18 months in Changi Camp where he witnessed the effects of starvation, deprivation and wanton cruelty on his fellow prisoners, whilst at the same time practising medicine with few, if any, basic medical supplies. In November 1943 he was sent as medical officer for 300 men on the island of Blakang Mati (invariably called ‘Hell Island’) where his skilled medical care, despite a lack of medical supplies, ensured that not one man died whilst captive on the island. The two years of incarceration were marked by hardship and suffering during which Bill came close to death on more than one occasion.

With the dropping of the atom bomb in August 1945 Bill was freed, although continued to look after many sick prisoners in Singapore. Finally returning home in late 1945, he was asked if he wished to see a psychiatrist. ‘No’, he replied, ‘I wish to see my wife.’ Returning to London he decided to put his war-time experiences behind him and pursue his medical career. Back at St Mary’s he soon developed an interest in clinical allergy, and over the next 70 years made outstanding contributions in this area. In 1954, whilst working as Clinical Assistant to Sir Alexander Fleming, he published the frst ever double-blind controlled trial in seasonal asthma, a paper which continues to be quoted throughout the world. He developed and popularised the daily pollen count to inform those suffering from seasonal hayfever. His drive to learn more about allergic responses led him to self-experiment with a blood sucking

122 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 insect, a study which resulted in an anaphylactic response, causing him to collapse, feeling a sense of ‘impending doom.’ Fortunately, nursing staff were able to inject adrenaline and he recovered. Obituaries

Bill’s workload, be it clinical or academic, was prodigious. In the mid-1960s he saw some 6000 patients with seasonal asthma in one year but was asked by managers to ‘see fewer patients’, a suggestion that was not greeted warmly. He was a prolifc author and was known throughout the feld of clinical allergy as a great supporter of younger colleagues. His attitude towards patients remained unchanged, treating them as best he could, ‘be they a pauper or a head of state.’ His opinion was sought throughout the world, not least in the late 1970s when he was summoned to treat President Saddam Hussein. Bill advised his patient to stop smoking but had little belief he would. He was wrong and the man whom he described as ‘my most grateful patient’ later invited him and his family back.

Official retirement meant little for Bill; for over 20 years he worked as an honorary consultant at Guy’s Hospital. He continued to travel and lecture, giving his last lecture when aged 105, and his last interview on his 108th birthday. He acted as an expert witness aged 100, and his publication record stretched from 1941 until 2019.

Queen’s always had a special place in Bill’s life, and he was thrilled to be elected an Honorary Fellow in 2012. He described this as ‘the nicest thing that’s ever happened to me – aside from the day my late wife accepted my marriage proposal.’ Bill greatly enjoyed attending the Boar’s Head Gaudy, especially listening to the choir. When the College re-introduced its own beer, he was tremendously proud that it was called ‘Frankland Ale.’ Bill was a generous benefactor to the College, in recent years supporting a doctoral student researching factors influencing the development of atherosclerosis. Bill was particularly pleased to hear that the thesis had been successfully defended and was looking forward to reading it himself.

Bill was a remarkable man, who accomplished so much during his long and varied life. Guided by an unwavering Christian faith he set and expected high standards, but was always keen to help his fellow man, regardless of their race, religion or creed. Not only was he a very caring person, he was also great fun to be with; the University, and especially the College, are poorer places following his death.

Paul Watkins

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 123 MICHAEL GAUTREY

Michael Sidney Gautrey, Emeritus Fellow, died on 20 Obituaries December 2019 at the age of 86. He was Domestic Bursar at Queen’s from 1985 until his retirement in 1999. Born in 1933, he spent 26 years in the flying branch of the Air Force as a fghter pilot and he was promoted to the rank of Wing Commander. He was then Bursar at a school before coming to Oxford as Administrator in the Department of Nuclear Physics in 1980.

John Moffatt, Physics Fellow at Queen’s was appointed Provost in 1987 and, in anticipation of this, encouraged Michael to apply for the post of Domestic Bursar which he took up in 1985.

Like many twentieth-century bursars, Michael brought the training and experience of a services career to the very different society of an Oxford college. That was not necessarily an entirely easy mix, and some bursars found it hard to reconcile their expectations of authority, and of clear chains of command, with our non-hierarchical culture. But it was a transition that Michael made remarkably well. He sought clarity, which could occasionally rub up against long-entrenched practices and expectations, but he always acted sensitively and with conspicuous fair-mindedness. He ran the domestic side of the College compassionately as well as fairly, and showed patience and forbearance in the face of occasional personnel difficulties. Fellows who were College officers in his time will remember him with affection.

Michael was also a skilled organist. His musical life started as a chorister at St John’s College, Cambridge. At Oxford he played the organ at St Nicholas Church, Old Marston, across the road from his home. He was organist there until he could no longer manage the steep stairs up to the organ loft. When James Dalton, Music Fellow and Organist at Queen’s retired in 1993, Michael stepped in to hold the fort until the appointment of a new Music Fellow in 1997.

Michael is survived by his wife Patricia, a son, daughter and fve grandchildren.

John Blair and Graeme Salmon (Emeritus Fellows)

124 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 JOHN GRAY

John Michael Campbell Gray grew up in north Belfast during the Troubles and attended his local grammar Obituaries school, Belfast Royal Academy. In keeping with a family tradition, he did his frst degree at The Queen’s College, where he studied biochemistry. He received an open entrance scholarship awarded for excellence in the entrance examination and interview.

Although John was from a family of doctors, he was initially reluctant to follow this well-worn path. On completing his studies at Oxford, he returned home to Northern Ireland and became a full time residential worker at the Corrymeela Christian Community, promoting reconciliation and peace building. John loved connecting with people in every walk of life and later spent time working in the NI probation service, counselling juvenile offenders.

Ultimately John decided he could best serve others by applying to Queen’s University Belfast to study medicine. After qualifying he undertook a surgical training path, initially giving him invaluable experience in managing both blunt and penetrating trauma. After gaining a training post on the very competitive NI general surgery rotation, John realised that he enjoyed more varied patient contact, and elected to retrain in emergency medicine. He found his niche as a caring, patient centred, hands-on, shop floor consultant in the emergency department.

John frst joined the Ulster Hospital’s emergency department in 2002 as a trainee, where he met his future wife, Sarah, who worked there as a nurse. His career as a consultant began in the Mater Hospital, Belfast Trust, in 2008, close to where he grew up. He later returned to the Ulster Hospital, South Eastern Trust, as consultant in 2016. He was committed to providing the highest standard of care for patients attending the emergency department and was passionate about education. While responsible for delivering formal training to medical staff, trainees, and students in the department, he always ensured that the nursing team and other allied health professionals were also welcome. John’s quiet, approachable, friendly, unassuming manner meant that any member of the team knew they could ask for advice, and he would always remind them ‘that’s why I am here!’

Cruelly unexpected and sudden, John’s death from a cerebral haemorrhage occurred while he was enjoying time with his wife and their children on the north Antrim coast. It is a marker of his gentle, loving and generous nature that over a thousand friends, grateful patients, and members of staff from every discipline imaginable, throughout Northern Ireland, joined John’s family for a service of thanksgiving at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, east Belfast, on 2 August 2019. Because of the large numbers, many had to stand outside, where the service was relayed on loudspeakers. The recurrent eulogies from his colleagues referred to a good humoured and highly skilled

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 125 team player, recognised for his humility and generosity. John served others even in his last breath as it was always his wish to donate his organs, an act that has undoubtedly transformed many lives. Obituaries

John leaves Sarah and their three children: Thomas (8), Anna (7), and Matthew (5). His elder siblings, Peter and Helen, have lost a dear brother. Few of us, medics or not, could ever live up to his very high standards and kind work ethic. His motto – ‘Be kind to one another’ – will be remembered as we continue to treat patients in some very challenging times. We are all devastated at the loss of this gentle giant.

D J Unsworth (originally published in BMJ 2019;367:l5869, and reprinted with their permission)

MARTIN GREEN

Dr Martin Green FRSC, who spent six years at Queen’s from 1973, reading Chemistry as an undergraduate, then staying on for his DPhil, died suddenly from a brain haemorrhage on 16 September 2019.

He was born in Belfast in 1953, and lived there until his mid-teens, attending Royal Belfast Academical Institution, until his family moved to Lincolnshire at the onset of the Troubles.

At Queen’s he was a notable sportsman, representing the College in rugby and rowing, with an enthusiasm that led one of his tutors to remind him that, ‘You’re here to read Chemistry, not Rowing.’ He obviously listened, progressing to do a doctorate, but still prone to distractions: he met Monika, another chemist who was to become his wife and companion for 40 years, as they both worked in the labs on South Parks Road.

Martin was a rare one-company man, working at Unilever from his frst job until his retirement in 2015 as Head of Human Biology in the Life Sciences Group. Being a research chemist was his forte, turning leading-edge science into products of practical value. He specialised in skin repair and rejuvenation treatments, reversing brittle bone disease, stimulating hair condition and growth, gum health, vascular health and wound healing.

He was an early proponent of gene technology. A notable success was when he led the Unilever team which identifed plant lipids that could activate a regulatory gene called PPAR that is present in skin cells and can slow down the ageing process. He and his research teams were granted an unusually large number of patents – more than 40.

126 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Martin was unusual in his sense of consideration, kindness and practical care for others. At work this meant he could bring out the best in the teams he led. After his father Richard’s death he took responsibility for ensuring that his mother Mary and sisters Debbie and Lucy always had the practical help and support they needed. His Obituaries sense of service meant that he was the ideal person, after he retired, to be secretary of the X-press Boat Club in Cambridge. ‘He has been the cement that has held this club together,’ said one colleague at the funeral.

Sport, most of all rowing, remained his passion. He was particularly proud that his two children not only followed in their parents’ footsteps to Oxford, but also became accomplished rowers – James in a successful Pembroke First VIII, and Joanna winning a Blue with the Lightweight Women’s Boat in 2015.

Martin had rowed regularly for ‘old boys’ boats after the family moved to Cambridge in the early 1990s. He was due to row, early on the morning after his death, in a training outing on the Cam with the X-press VIII. His daughter Joanna took his seat in the boat; she and the rest of the crew silently rowing through their shock and grief. It was a ftting tribute to a great team player.

Martin Green is survived by his wife Monika, children James and Joanna, and sisters Debbie and Lucy.

Rob MacLachlan (PPE, 1973)

BARRY HOFFBRAND

We were probably unique for Queen’s: two brothers from the same school who arrived at the College only one year apart, to read the same subject, Medicine. Although Barry, who matriculated in 1952, was only one year ahead of me he seemed a lot wiser. He was a bright undergraduate who took an active role in many of the College’s activities. He played for the Queen’s College cricket team and remained a keen follower of cricket. Despite his Yorkshire origins he later became a Member of the MCC. His name is engraved on the Quondam’s Cup, the silver trophy kept behind the bar in the College’s sports pavilion. He achieved this distinction by drinking two pints of ale in the remarkable time of 13.6 seconds.

After Oxford, Barry continued medical studies at University College Hospital, London. He was appointed Consultant Physician to the Whittington Hospital in 1970 and rapidly built up a reputation as a brilliant diagnostician and for his wise medical opinion. Over his nearly thirty-year tenure of this post, he was regarded as the

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 127 physician other doctors would consult about medical problems suffered by themselves or members of their families. He became a national leader in postgraduate medical education. From 1980 to 1994, he was Editor of the Postgraduate Medical Journal Obituaries which he transformed into a viable and successful clinical educational journal to rival the best. Barry was Director of the Academic Centre for Postgraduate Medicine at the Whittington Hospital from 1975 to 1981. In this capacity he helped countless junior doctors succeed in passing challenging postgraduate medical examination. He published numerous scientifc papers, reviews and chapters in textbooks based on his research into hypertension and renal diseases.

Barry was also an Honorary Physician to the Royal Northern Hospital, St John and St Elizabeth Hospital and the Italian Hospital. This last appointment led him to learn Italian so that he could converse with his patients there. He held a number of other key positions in the medical world. He was Honorary Secretary, Honorary Librarian and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Medicine and President of its Clinical Section, on the Council and an Examiner for the Royal College of Physicians, and Editor of the Journal of the Apothecary Society. He served as President of the Harveian Society of London and of the London Jewish Medical Society.

After his retirement in 1999, Barry became a Governor of the Whittington Hospital. He also developed the talent he had already shown at Bradford Grammar School, becoming an accomplished artist. He showed at exhibitions and sold many of his paintings, the proceeds going to one of his favourite charities. Barry also took a serious interest in art history and developed an ability to spot previously unnoticed medical features in well-known works of art. He contributed a number of articles and gave invited lectures about his fndings.

Barry was an unusually kind, compassionate doctor with reassuring reliability not only for his patients but also for family and friends. He combined his wide range of interests and achievements with an infectious and irreverent sense of humour. He was wonderful company. My greatest honour has been to be known throughout my life, as at Queen’s, as Barry’s brother. In 1960, Barry married Marina, a fellow student at University College Hospital, London, who became a psychiatrist. He was devoted to his wife and their three children, Sara, Julia and Rachel. Barry is survived by Marina, his children and seven grandchildren.

Victor Hoffbrand (Physiological Sciences, 1953)

128 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 KEITH MASLIN

Dr Keith Thomas Maslin (1946-2020) beneftted from the nurturing love and devotion of his parents, and he Obituaries and his friends were lucky to have as their headmaster the late Joseph Cross, who fought the Inner London Education Authority to set up a science sixth form at Canterbury Road Secondary Modern in South London, allowing pupils to cultivate their individual interests, from music to physics to poetry.

‘A gentle, patient, illuminating teacher – I always looked forward to his tutorials,’ a former Lampeter student said of Maslin. He was able to present complex ideas in accessible forms, using, for example, episodes of Star Trek, and with a liberal sense of humour. This came across whether he was teaching A-level philosophy students at Esher Sixth Form College or mature students at adult education colleges, philosophy summer schools run by the University of Oxford’s Department of Continuing Education, or The Open University. Another of his lasting contributions is his Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (2007), written when he was Head of the Philosophy Department at Esher Sixth Form College. A Farmington Fellowship (1996) at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, and a fellowship at Selwyn College (2007), University of Cambridge, were instrumental in its completion, and it has been praised for its clarity, breadth and depth. Whilst primarily aimed at A-level students, it is used by various universities and has been translated into Brazilian.

His friends found him lively and inspirational, for he possessed wide interests and an intense appetite for learning – literature, poetry, music, art, cinema, politics, butterflies, foreign cultures and languages. His undergraduate study at Keele University was where he discovered philosophy, and he developed his passion for arguing logically at The Queen’s College where he obtained his BPhil (1971). His postgraduate studies culminated in a DPhil (1986) from Birkbeck College, University of London – his thesis exploring whether self-deception is possible. He embarked upon this after four years of teaching philosophy at De La Salle, a Roman Catholic University in Manila, where he was appointed Associate Professor and paid a local salary as he went to the Philippines under his own steam.

Whilst in the Philippines, he was a keen learner of Philippine culture and Tagalog, one of the major languages in the Philippines. In retirement, he took up Mandarin Chinese and German – the latter, one suspects, driven by his passion for Schubert’s Lieder. Indeed, he loved listening to and sharing his enthusiasm for music – from Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner, to Sidney Bechet, Cole Porter, Nina Simone and Kurt Weill – and he enjoyed playing the piano. He was a member of the West London Gastronomico-Philosophical Society, where he continued to explore his philosophical interest in self-deception. Apart from his enthusiastic philosophical contributions, the group remembers him for his fantastic Indonesian satay barbecues, on the banks of

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 129 the River Cherwell, and his Peking duck with Mandarin pancakes, which he always prepared meticulously. His Philippine-born wife, Dr Zielfa B. Maslin, and his daughter, Dr Philippa Z. Maslin, have these (and many more!) fond and vibrant memories of him Obituaries to counter the debilitating pain that he suffered towards the end of his life. They feel extremely fortunate to have been part of his life.

Zielfa B. Maslin and Philippa Z. Maslin

BRIAN MCGUINNESS

Brian McGuinness, who died aged 92, was a distinguished philosopher who held academic posts in four different countries and was internationally recognised as one of the world authorities on Ludwig Wittgenstein.

The son of a Nottingham civil servant, he was born at Wrexham on 22 October 1927. He was christened Bernard Francis, but changed his forenames to ‘Brian’ in youth. Brian was educated at Mount St Mary’s College in Chesterfeld and won an exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford, in 1945. There he was tutored in Philosophy by the renowned ethicist Richard Hare, and quickly displayed a great talent for the subject. Having obtained a First in Classical Moderations he went on to win a First in Literae Humaniores in 1949.

McGuinness’s philosophical studies were interrupted at this point by the need to do National Service. From 1949-51 he served in the Royal Artillery. On returning to Balliol he enrolled for the BPhil, a graduate degree in philosophy, supported by a War Memorial Studentship. In 1959 he was the prize-winner of the John Locke scholarship. No sooner had he obtained his BPhil than he was elected a tutorial fellow of The Queen’s College.

A year after joining Queen’s McGuinness took leave to spend a year as a junior fellow in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton. While in the United States he met a Vassar graduate, Rosamond Ziegler (known to all her friends as ‘Corky’). They were married in 1957, and went on to have a son and three daughters.

In 1964-65 McGuinness served Oxford University as Junior Proctor. It was a difficult time. Indeed, it was the very year in which student radicalism got underway in Oxford. The main issues were connected with apartheid: some students were disciplined by the proctors for an insult to the South African ambassador. The official history of the University states: ‘In the summer, angry undergraduates pioneered an unsavoury tactic by telephoning proctors in their homes.’ Worse than that, the McGuinnesses’ telephone number was posted up in a nearby US Air Force base as the contact number for a brothel.

130 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 As a tutor at Queen’s, McGuinness was responsible for teaching ancient philosophy to the classical students, and in conjunction with Lorenzo Minio-Paluello he conducted a University seminar on the legacy of Aristotle. This was much appreciated by the more erudite connoisseurs. But his own research interests came to focus more and more Obituaries on Ludwig Wittgenstein and the circles to which he belonged. In 1959 he published, jointly with David Pears, a translation of Wittgenstein’s early work Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus. This was designed to replace the 1921 translation by C K Ogden, though some readers continued to prefer the earlier, less accurate but more florid version.

McGuinness was a fluent linguist, and the next major publication he edited was published in German, Wittgenstein und der Wiener Kreis (1967). This appeared in English two years later as Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle. Later he was responsible for the publication of an extensive series of volumes of writings of the major fgures of the Vienna Circle.

Wittgenstein’s own major writings appeared posthumously in the decades after his death in 1951: they were edited, and sometimes translated, by the literary executors he had named in his will, Elizabeth Anscombe, Georg Henrik von Wright and Rush Rhees. But the executors gave McGuinness permission to publish minor elements from the Nachlass, in particular items of correspondence. Thus, in 1968 there appeared an edition of Paul Engelmann’s correspondence with Wittgenstein, along with a memoir. This was followed in 1971 by Prototractatus, an edition and translation of an earlier version of the Tractatus that McGuinness had previously translated with Pears.

By this time McGuinness’s frst marriage had broken up. In 1970 he was married a second time, to Elizabeth Groag of Brno in Czechoslovakia. By her he had a second son. However, the marriage did not last until the end of the decade, and fnally ended in divorce in 2008.

Throughout his life McGuinness collected material for a biography of Wittgenstein. The frst volume of this appeared in 1988 under the title Wittgenstein, a Life: Vol. 1. Young Ludwig. This was widely admired; it was reissued as a Penguin and translated into French and German, but no further volumes ever appeared. Perhaps McGuinness felt that he had been upstaged by the less philosophical but more popular biography of Wittgenstein published by Ray Monk in 1990.

None the less, McGuinness continued to publish volumes of Wittgensteinian correspondence. In 1995 he produced a volume of Cambridge Letters, including some of great philosophical interest from Russell, Keynes, Moore and Ramsey. This appeared in a much amplifed fourth edition in 2012, under the title Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951.

While an Oxford tutor McGuinness held visiting professorships in Seattle, Beijing, Leyden, Rome, Graz and Stanford. In 1988 he left Queen’s and Oxford, and for the next two years held a post at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. In

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 131 1990 he found his fnal home as a Professor (ordinario – a full tenured position) at the University of Siena, where for three years he was director of the faculty of social sciences and philosophy. Obituaries

In the last decades of his life he wrote many essays and vignettes on Wittgensteinian themes which, it is to be hoped, will be collected in a posthumous edition. His fnal contribution to Wittgenstein studies was his edition of the philosopher’s family letters (translated by Peter Winslow) in 2018. Some reviewers were disappointed by the fact that only a quarter of the volume was written by Wittgenstein himself rather than by other members of his family. But some other reviewers found it the warmest of the publications of the philosopher’s letters.

McGuinness’s third marriage, in 2008, was to the Italian Giovanna Corsi, eventually Professor of Logic at the University of Siena. She took care of him during his fnal illness before his death in Florence.

Though a most meticulous scholar, McGuinness in person was far from a desiccated pedant. He had a great sense of humour, and could lead one up a preposterous garden path while keeping a perfectly straight face. He will be long remembered by all those who knew him.

Originally published in The Telegraph (© Telegraph Media Group Limited 2020)

JOHN PEARSON

The quintessential 1960s jetsetter, my father spent a large part of his life travelling to a multitude of countries, working for the steel company, Richard Thomas and Baldwin (RTB), which later was absorbed into the British Steel Corporation. In his capacity as a sales executive for tinplate he was able to spend time enjoying the cultures and the languages of the places he visited whilst surviving a military coup in South America, engine failure over Vietnam and witnessing frst hand some of the events that shaped modern Europe, such as the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and the Paris riots of 1968.

He was born in Mumbles, Swansea in 1928, an only child who quickly showed talent both academically and on the sports feld, particularly in hockey. After attending Dean Close School he completed his National Service, just as the war ended, and in 1948 was accepted at Queen’s to study history, his favourite era being the Georgians. For a man who appreciated elegance, wit and national pride this isn’t, perhaps, surprising. In fact, it was his own sense of loss of national pride that ushered his departure from Britain later in his life.

132 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Not one for a small town existence, he moved to London after he graduated, working frst at the department store, Simpsons, in Piccadilly, where he met his frst wife, Meryl, before accepting a position with RTB. Here his travels took him to Europe, North and South America, and the Far East. He became particularly fond of Japan where some Obituaries of his clients and colleagues became lifelong friends. Similarly, in Europe he made many friends and, inspired by his love for the Mediterranean, he learnt to speak both Spanish and Italian.

However, frustrated by the direction of economic and political travel in Britain in the late 1970s, especially the demise of the steel industry under nationalisation, he moved to Paris where, given his market experience, he was chosen for a new role pursuing strategy in the tinplate sector. Sadly, Meryl died shortly after their move, but through a friend he met his second wife, Marlene, a German fashion designer, also recently widowed, from Koblenz. They lived very happily in St Germain-en-Laye until his retirement when they moved for a few years to Normandy before returning to London in 2004. In later life they travelled extensively, enjoying fne wine and food and exercising their linguistic skills.

He died of heart problems in a care home in February, and is survived by Marlene who also lives there due to severe dementia. He leaves two children, Sian and Mark, and four grandchildren.

Mark Pearson

JOHN SIMSON

John Simson, who has died aged 88, was a successful businessman, notably as Chairman of Constantine in which capacity he managed the acquisition, flotation and de-merger of Connell plc.

He was born in London on 12 October 1931, when his parents Gerry and Virginia had returned from Iraq where his father, a squadron commander of the Poona Horse, was serving as Inspector of Cavalry for the Iraq army. Virginia was the daughter of Vicente Echeverria Larrain, Consul General of Chile in London. John was educated at Wellington College where the tuition of the Master, Wilfrid House DSO, prepared him to win an open scholarship at The Queen’s College in 1951.

He joined The Royal Scots as a national service recruit and later trained at Eaton Hall where he was appointed Senior Under Officer and awarded the Best Cadet Cup. He was employed as Weapon Training Officer for the Lowland Brigade and completed his service in the 15th Scottish Battalion of The Parachute Regiment, at that time under

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 133 the Command of Colonel Alistair Pearson DSO MC. John remembered standing in the door of a C119 under close mock attack by Sabre jets preparing to drop in a training assault on a US Air Station. Obituaries

At Oxford, where he obtained a First Class Honours Degree, he had been tutored by Peter Russell, Professor of Spanish. He became a member of the Bullingdon and represented the Club at the cricket match played on the Worcester College ground in 1954 against the Oxford City Police (a victory for the Club).

In December 1956 he married Anne, daughter of R. A. Constantine. Their frst home was in Rio de Janeiro where John was employed by Shell International, later moving to Cape Town. After which, they settled in London where John worked as a management consultant with Urwick Orr & Partners. Later he was invited by his brother-in-law, Joe Constantine, to join the family business where he was responsible for the Group’s diversifed property interests, subsequently becoming Chairman.

Property services proved to be the most rewarding of these activities and included the acquisition of estate agents, Connell, in 1969 for £1.3 million. In 1990, having earned agency income from annual sales of over 20,000 houses, in addition to professional fees of £18m, the shareholders accepted an offer valuing the company at £48.3 million.

After that event, and conforming with a strategy to achieve diversifcation by the acquisition of a new sizeable core business, Elddis Caravans (later Explorer Group), a caravan and motor home manufacturing company, was acquired for £8.7m in 1994. John retired in 2001. Constantine announced the sale of the caravan business for £26.9m in May 2017.

John died at Gallery, a property on the bank of the North Esk River which he and Anne had bought in 1998 on leaving London. Together they organised the renovation of this classic laird’s house originally built in 1680. Anne died in 2006 and John is survived by his son James; his daughters Louise, Teresa and Alexandra; and grandchildren Sophia and Charles.

Written by John himself

134 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 DICK STEWART

Richard E. Stewart died at age 85 on 13 October 2019. After graduating summa cum laude from West Obituaries Virginia University, he came to Queen’s in 1955 to study Jurisprudence as a Rhodes Scholar.

Following Oxford, he served in the US Army providing legal assistance to soldiers of the 43rd brigade of Hawaii which had been distinguished for its bravery during World War II. He then earned his jurisprudence degree with honors from Harvard Law School in 1959. He was the Superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department from 1967 to 1971, and became a leader in insurance in the United States and recognised internationally. He initiated legislation that transformed insurance regulation in New York State and nationwide. Among his innovations were an exploration of the potential of no fault auto insurance; establishing an insurance pool to make essential fre insurance available to residents of urban ghettos; and a program to make auto insurance more widely available, to protect consumers against insurance cancellation and against loss due to insurer insolvency. Governor Nelson Rockefeller described Stewart as ‘the best Superintendent of Insurance in the history of the State’.

Dick went on to be Senior Vice President and General Counsel of First National City Bank, now Citibank and Citigroup. In 1973, he became Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Chubb & Son. In 1981, he left to start his own frm, Stewart Economics, Inc., a consulting frm that specialised in insurance and insurance regulation. His major work became consulting for legal teams involved in major controversies such as water pollution and the national breast implant cases.

He was a member of the Special Panel for the US Senate Committee on Presidential Campaign Practices (1974) and the United Nations Panel of Experts on Transnational Bank Failure. He was a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Associates, The Century Association in New York City and the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C.

In 2006, when he reduced his work load, Dick began a new life in San Francisco where he became involved with the effort to protect the city’s waterfront from over- development. He played a major role in a pair of ballot measure campaigns in 2013 and 2014 known as the ‘No Wall on the Waterfront’ where voters overwhelmingly rejected excessive waterfront height increases and approved permanent waterfront preservation rules. He now leaves a beautiful and protected waterfront for all to use and enjoy.

Besides his varied and consequential achievements, positions and accomplishments were his extraordinary memory of past events and people; keen, sharp intellect; and

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 135 a wide-ranging, broad comprehension of current issues and ability to place them into historical and even philosophical context. Despite his increasing health problems, Dick remained upbeat, acknowledging his frailties but never complaining about Obituaries them or letting them interfere with his life, continuing to have a very positive outlook on life and a confdence in the people around him including his doctors and their medical interventions. He was always interested in trying new things and embraced technological innovations with an almost child-like fascination and pleasure.

The College is very grateful for his support and generosity over the years. He was an Eglesfeld Benefactor and member of the Taberdars’ Society. Dick is survived by his two cats, Kitzmiller (named after his childhood cat) and Lionel, and his wife and scuba diving companion, Barbara Dickson Stewart.

RICHARD TUCKER

Sir Richard Tucker was educated at Shrewsbury School, and following National Service read Jurisprudence at Queen’s from 1950 to 1953. He joined Lincoln’s Inn and was called to the Bar in 1954, became a Bencher in 1979 and subsequently Treasurer in 2002. As a junior barrister he practised in Birmingham, then on taking silk in 1972 moved to London chambers where he built up his extensive practice covering crime and civil work. He was appointed a Recorder in 1972 until 1985 when he was appointed to the High Court Bench.

He was also appointed Presiding Judge of the then Midland & Oxford Circuit (1986- 90). After his official retirement, he carried on sitting as a deputy High Court Judge, was a member of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (1986-2000) and of the Parole Board (1996-2003). He also worked as a Commissioner at the Jersey Royal Court (2003-2010) and The Cayman Islands.

Sir Richard’s lifelong passion at Queen’s was for rowing, and he became Captain of Boats in 1952 when he also rowed for Isis at Henley. Other recreations included sailing, shooting and gardening, and later in retirement he built a fne model railway. He married three times and is succeeded by his wife Jacqueline, three children and four grandchildren. His fondness for Queen’s was rewarded when he was made an Honorary Fellow in 1992.

Lady Jacqueline Tucker

136 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 PIETER ZWART

Pieter loved his time at The Queen’s College. He was born in Cape Town of Dutch parents and after a frst Obituaries degree at Natal University, he was thrilled to be offered a place at Oxford to read Law in 1959. I met him on Cherwell, the University’s student newspaper, of which he became deputy editor. We became engaged in the Nun’s Garden at a Summer Ball and we were married for 57 years.

From Oxford, Pieter went on to become The Daily Mirror’s frst graduate trainee. He eventually joined The Times in the obituary department. Despite his brilliant start, his life was dogged by mental illness and he had to take early retirement. However, after our move to Woodstock, he was much involved in voluntary work especially for Art in Woodstock Week and the Stroke Club. He also delighted in spending time with his four children and ten grandchildren.

One of the highlights of Pieter’s later years was the acceptance by the Provost of Queen’s of his gift of a picture of the Queen’s College from the High Street. He was so thrilled when we were invited to lunch to see it hanging in the MCR.

Christine Zwart

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 137 BENEFACTIONS Benefactions

The College is grateful to the following Old Members and Friends who made donations to Queen’s during the financial year 2019-20 (1 Aug – 31 July). For a full list of Eglesfield and Philippa Benefactors please visit: www.queens.ox.ac.uk/recognising-your-support. Eglesfield Benefactors Anonymous x2 Mrs Julia Eskdale (1987) Dr Bill Frankland (1930) Mr Chris Eskdale (1987) Mr Michael Boyd (1958) Pettit Foundation Mr Rick Haythornthwaite (1975) Carlsberg Foundation Mr Paul Newton (1975)

Philippa Benefactors Anonymous x2 Em Prof Rod Levick (1964) Dr John Long (1942) Mr John Clement (1965) Mr Mike Woodhouse (1948) Dr Juan Mason (1967) Prof Roger Pain (1949) Mr Paul Clark (1968) Mr John Palmer (1949) Mr Alan Mitchell (1968) Dr Brian Savory (1951) Dr Howard Rosenberg (1968) Lord Lennie Hoffmann (1954) Mr David Seymour (1969) Revd Canon Hugh Wybrew (1955) Mr Richard Geldard (1972) Mr Barrie Craythorn (1956) Mr Tom Ward (1973) Mr Tim Evans (1956) Mr Robin Wilkinson (1973) Mr Walter Gilges (1956) Mr Philip Middleton (1974) Mr Barry Saunders (1956) Mr Richard Sommers (1975) Mr Martin Bowley (1957) Mr Stuart White (1975) Mr Charles Frieze (1957) Mr Fred Arnold (1976) Dr John Hopton (1957) Mr Gerry Hackett (1977) Mr David Wilkinson (1957) Mr Tom Pütter (1977) Mr John Parsloe (1959) Mr John Ford (1980) Dr Ray Bowden (1960) Mr John Smith (1980) Mr Gordon Dilworth (1960) Mrs Diana Webster (1980) Mr Ron Glaister (1961) Mr Jonathan Webster (1981) Prof Stephen Scott (1961) Mr Joseph Archie (1982) Mr Dave Brownlee (1962) Mr Mark Williamson (1982) Mr Philip Hetherington (1962) Mrs Sia Marshall (1990) Mr Andrew Parsons (1962) Mr Cameron Marshall (1991) Prof Peter Bell (1963) Mr John Hull (1994) Mr Raymond Kelly (1963) Mrs Anna Hull (1995) Mr Clive Landa (1963) Mr Chris Woolf (1995) Dr Ken Morallee (1963) Mr John Startin (1997)

138 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Old Members Anonymous x23 Mr Bob Cristin (1956)

Prof Geoffrey Wilson (1942) Dr John Place (1956) Benefactions Maj George Brown (1943) Dr Bill Roberts (1956) Mr Ray Ogden (1944) Mr Brian Sproat (1956) Mr Mike Absalom (1945) Mr Christopher Stephenson (1956) Mr Charles Sutherland (1945) Mr Graham Sutton (1956) Mr Jack Cadogan (1947) Revd Canon Michael Arundel (1957) Mr Graham Lewis (1948) Prof David Catchpole (1957) Mr David Thornber (1948) Mr Ian Chisholm (1957) Mr Peter Lynam (1949) Mr Keith Dawson (1957) Revd Bill Mason (1949) Mr Ted Hartley (1957) Dr Duncan Thomas (1949) Mr Colin Hughes (1957) Mr Harold Searle (1950) Mr Roger Owen (1957) Mr Michael Bradford (1951) Dr Brian Salter-Duke (1957) Dr John Cuthbert (1951) Mr Martin Sayer (1957) Mr John Hazel (1951) Mr Russell Sunderland (1957) Mr Allan Preston (1951) Mr Peter Thomson (1957) Dr Keith Jacques (1952) Dr Dick Williamson (1957) Prof Keith Jennings (1952) Mr Malcolm Dougal (1958) Dr Tony Lee (1952) Mr Gerald Evans (1958) Mr John Percy (1952) Dr Michael Gagan (1958) Mr Geoff Peters (1952) Mr Nigel Hughes (1958) Mr Jim Ranger (1952) Mr Graham Thornton (1958) Revd Aylward Shorter (1952) Mr Frank Venables (1958) Revd Mike Atkinson (1953) Mr Barrie Wiggham (1958) Mr Michael Atkinson (1953) Mr Michael Allen (1959) Mr Bill Burkinshaw (1953) Mr John Bainbridge (1959) Mr Jim Glasspool (1953) Mr David Beaton (1959) Prof Victor Hoffbrand (1953) Mr Michael Brunson (1959) Mr Robin Kent (1953) Mr Philip Burton (1959) Mr David Bryan (1954) Mr David Dawson (1959) Mr Donald Clarke (1954) Mr John Foley (1959) Revd Keith Denerley (1954) Prof David Goodall (1959) Mr Mike Drake (1954) Dr Roger Lowman (1959) Mr Robin Ellison (1954) Prof John Matthews (1959) Dr Edwin Gobbett (1954) Mr Ian Parker (1959) Mr Gerry Hunting (1954) Mr Peter Prynn (1959) Revd George Wharton (1954) Mr John Rix (1959) Mr Strachan Heppell (1955) Mr John Seely (1959) Dr David Myers (1955) Prof Peter Williams (1959) Dr Bill Parry (1955) Mr Robin Bell (1960) Mr Howard Shaw (1955) Right Revd Graham Dow (1960) Mr Philip Thompson (1955) Mr David Foster (1960) Dr Adrian Weston (1955) Mr Jim Gilpin (1960)

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 139 Mr Michael Lodge (1960) Mr Tony Turton (1964) Mr John Price (1960) Mr Philip Wood (1964)

Benefactions Mr James Robertson (1960) Mr John Wordsworth (1964) Mr Bill Wheeler (1960) Mr Andy Connell (1965) Dr David Williamson (1960) Mr Peter Cramb (1965) Mr Chris Bearne (1961) Mr Rodger Digilio (1965) Mr Philip Bowers (1961) Prof John Feather (1965) Dr Norman Diffey (1961) Prof Christopher Green (1965) Prof David Eisenberg (1961) Mr Peter Hickson (1965) Lord Colin Low (1961) Lord Roger Liddle (1965) Prof Andrew McPherson (1961) Mr David Matthews (1965) Mr Richard Nosowski (1961) Mr Ian Swanson (1965) Mr Godfrey Talford (1961) Mr David Syrus (1965) Revd Graham Wilcox (1961) Sir Stephen Wright (1965) Prof Nicholas Young (1961) Mr Alan Beatson (1966) Mr Neil Barker (1962) Dr George Biddlecombe (1966) Prof John Coggins (1962) Mr Roger Blanshard (1966) Mr Martin Colman (1962) Mr Richard Coleman (1966) Dr Steve Higgins (1962) Prof Peter Coleman (1966) Sir Paul Lever (1962) Dr Michael Collop (1966) Mr Adrian Milner (1962) Mr Peter de Moncey-Conegliano (1966) Mr Richard Mole (1962) Mr Andrew Horsler (1966) Mr Donald Rutherford (1962) Mr John Kitteridge (1966) Prof Peter Tasker (1962) Dr Paul Schur (1966) Mr George Trevelyan (1962) Mr Gregory Stone (1966) Prof Brad Amos (1963) Prof Peter Sugden (1966) Mr Richard Batstone (1963) Mr Derek Swift (1966) Mr Jonathan Cundy (1963) Mr Richard Atkinson (1967) Sir Brian Donnelly (1963) Dr Tony Battilana (1967) Mr Rod Hague (1963) Dr Mike Minchin (1967) Mr Patrick Hastings (1963) Mr David Roberts (1967) Mr Charles Lamond (1963) Prof Philip Schlesinger (1967) Prof Ron Laskey (1963) Mr Mike Thompson (1967) Prof Alan Lloyd (1963) Mr Rob Bollington (1968) Dr Dennis Luck (1963) Dr Mottram Couper (1968) Dr Jeffrey Russell (1963) Mr John Crowther (1968) Mr Alan Wilson (1963) Mr David Hudson (1968) Mr Philip Beaven (1964) Mr Andrew King (1968) Mr John Gregory (1964) Mr Steve Robinson (1968) Mr David Jeffery (1964) Prof Andrew Sancton (1968) Mr Paul Legon (1964) Mr Richard Shaw (1968) Dr John Lewis (1964) Mr Jon Watts (1968) Dr Graham Robinson (1964) Dr John Windass (1968) Mr Ian Sallis (1964) Mr Neil Boulton (1969) Prof Lee Saperstein (1964) Prof Mark Janis (1969)

140 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Mr Anthony Prosser (1969) Dr John Wellings (1972) His Honour Judge Erik Salomonsen (1969) Mr Andrew Barlow (1973)

Mr Chris Shepperd (1969) Mr Phil Beveridge (1973) Benefactions Revd Dr Brian Sheret (1969) Dr Mark Eddowes (1973) Mr Alan Sherwell (1969) Dr Klaus Jaitner (1973) Mr Nigel Tranah (1969) Mr Tony Middleton (1973) Mr Frederik van Bolhuis (1969) Mr Robert Perry (1973) Mr Ian Walton-George (1969) Mr Peter Richardson (1973) Prof Hugh Arnold (1970) Mr Dick Richmond (1973) Dr Martin Cooper (1970) Mr Martin Riley (1973) Revd Dr Richard Crocker (1970) Mr David Sims (1973) Dr Richard Heaton (1970) Dr Alan Turner (1973) Mr Benedict Kolczynski (1970) Mr Simon English (1974) Mr Jamie Macdonald (1970) Mr Tim Finton (1974) Mr David Marsh (1970) Mr Havilland Hart (1974) Mr David Stubbins (1970) Mr Henning Niederhoff (1974) Mr Andy Sutton (1970) Mr Tim Shaw (1974) Mr Eric Thompson (1970) Mr Oliver Burns (1975) Canon Peter Wadsworth (1970) Mr Chris Corrin (1975) Mr Christopher West (1970) Dr Rhodri Davies (1975) Mr John Clare (1971) Mr Chris Finch (1975) Mr Chris Counsell (1971) Mr Simon Fraser (1975) Mr Anthony Denny (1971) Dr Chris Hutchinson (1975) Mr Winston Gooden (1971) Mr Andrew Jones (1975) Mr Francois Gordon (1971) Mr Martin Moore (1975) Dr Ulrich Grevsmühl (1971) Mr Nevill Rogers (1975) Dr Christopher Huang (1971) Mr Jamie Sykes (1975) Dr Michael Hurst (1971) Prof Peter Clarkson (1976) Mr John Peat (1971) Dr Nick Hazel (1976) Mr Anthony Rowlands (1971) Mr Raymond Holdsworth (1976) Mr Derek Townsend (1971) Mr Paul Marsh (1976) Dr Stephen Wilson (1971) Mr Mark Neale (1976) Mr Alaric Wyatt (1971) Dr Martin Osborne (1976) Mr Nigel Allsop (1972) Mr Brian Stubley (1976) Mr David Bowen (1972) Dr Christopher Tibbs (1976) Mr Lou Fantin (1972) General Sir Richard Barrons (1977) Mr Peter Farrar (1972) Mr Paul Bennett (1977) Mr Stephen Gilbey (1972) Dr Michael Cadier (1977) Mr Peter Haigh (1972) Dr Paul Cartwright (1977) Mr Will Jackson-Houlston (1972) Mr Mark Evans (1977) Mr Matthew Kangas (1972) Mr Paul Godsland (1977) Mr John McLeod (1972) Mr Francis Grew (1977) Mr David Palfreyman (1972) Dr Gregor Jason (1977) Dr Keith Pringle (1972) Mr Martin Kelly (1977) Mr Andrew Seager (1972) Mr Terence Keyes (1977)

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 141 Mr John Morewood (1977) Mr David Strachan (1981) Mr Michael Penrice (1977) Prof Marcela Votruba (1981)

Benefactions Mr Philip Tellwright (1977) Mrs Cathy Driscoll (1982) Mr Mike Thompson (1977) Mr Ian English (1982) Mr Nicholas Train (1977) Mr Richard Lewis (1982) Mr Graham Aldridge (1978) Mrs Janet Lewis (1982) Mr Steve Anderson (1978) Mr Alec Osbaldiston (1982) Mr Charlie Anderson (1978) Mr Mark Pearce (1982) Mr Paul Dawson (1978) Mr David Price (1982) Dr Mike Fenn (1978) Mr Tom Webber (1982) Mr John Gibbons (1978) Mr Andy Bird (1983) Mr Peter Hamilton (1978) Mr Andrew Campbell (1983) Mr Jeremy Jackson (1978) Mrs Rose Craston (1983) Mr John Keeble (1978) Mr Edmund Craston (1983) Dr Simon Loughe (1978) Dr Robert Hughes (1983) Dr Howard Simmons (1978) Mr Alun James (1983) Mr Jervis Smith (1978) Mr Adrian Robinson (1983) Dr Trevor Barker (1979) Mrs Antonia Adams (1984) Mr Chris Bertram (1979) Mr Miles Benson (1984) Dr Nicholas Edwards (1979) Mr Mike Cronshaw (1984) Mr Philip Epstein (1979) Prof Phil Evans (1984) Dr Tamas Hickish (1979) Mr Simon Gotelee (1984) Dr Ron Kelly (1979) Dr Nigel Greer (1984) Dr Cath Rees (1979) Mr Richard Hopkins (1984) Dr Christopher Ringrose (1979) Dr Katherine Irving (1984) Mrs Alison Sanders (1979) Mr Robert Lawson (1984) Mr Gary Simmons (1979) Mrs Rachel Lawson (1984) Mr Simon Whitaker (1979) Mrs Liz Patel (1984) Mr Phillip Bennett (1980) Mr Tiku Patel (1984) Mr James Clarke (1980) Dr Jan Pullen (1984) Dr Louise Goward (1980) Mr Steve Thomas (1984) Mrs Carrie Kelly (1980) Mr John Turner (1984) Dr Tim Shaw (1980) Miss Ching-Yin Watt (1984) Dr Peter Wyatt (1980) Dr Udayan Chakrabarti (1985) Dr Mark Byfeld (1981) Mrs Claudia Coles Gallagher (1985) Mr Maurice Donnelly (1981) Mr Steve Evans (1985) Dr Paul Driscoll (1981) Mr Ed Kemp-Luck (1985) Mr Michael Hall (1981) Dr Philippa Moore (1985) Ms Janet Hayes (1981) Revd Matthew Pollard (1985) Mr John Kampfner (1981) Mr Adrian Ratcliffe (1985) Ms Catherine Palmer (1981) Mr Martin Riley (1985) Mr Donald Pepper (1981) Mr Juan Sepulveda (1985) Mr Michael Porter (1981) Mrs Julie Smyth (1985) Ms Jacqueline Rolf (1981) Dr Daniel Strauch (1985) Mrs Linda Sapsford (1981) Mr Michael Tsang (1985)

142 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Major (Retd) Matthew Christmas (1986) Dr John Sorabji (1991) Ms Jude Dobbyn (1986) Mr Dev Tanna (1991)

Dr Genevieve Fairbrother (1986) Miss Sarah Witt (1991) Benefactions Mr Steve Jones (1986) Mr Jonathan Woolf (1991) Mr Simon Miller (1986) Mr Jonathan Buckley (1992) Mr Gerald Rix (1986) Dr Rebecca Emerson (1992) Dr Susan Schamp (1986) Mr James Holdsworth (1992) Mr Rob Tims (1986) Mrs Claire O’Shaughnessy (1992) Mr Charles Adams (1987) Dr Nia Taylor (1992) Mr Robert Burgess (1987) Mr Ian Brown (1993) Dr Richard Fynes (1987) Mr Matt Keen (1993) Mrs Vikki Hall (1987) Mrs Jenny Kelly (1993) Mrs Sarah Kucera (1987) Mr Matt Lawrence (1993) Mr John Morgan (1987) Mr Said Mohamed (1993) Ms Susan Sack (1987) Mr Neil Pabari (1993) Mrs Rachel Thorn (1987) Mr Peter Sidwell (1993) Mr John Bigham (1988) Mr Christian Stahl (1993) Dr Andrew Carpenter (1988) Mrs Helen von der Osten (1993) Miss Celestine Eaton (1988) Dr Anna Bayman (1994) Mr Tim Grayson (1988) Ms Christine Cairns (1994) Dr Jules Hargreaves (1988) Dr Jo Nettleship (1994) Mr Alastair Kennis (1988) Prof Tim Riley (1994) Dr Adrian Tang (1988) Mrs Clare Stebbing (1994) Mrs Ann Marie Dickinson (1989) Mr Nick Stebbing (1994) Dr Susan Ferraro (1989) Dr Francis Tang (1994) Mr Ben Green (1989) Ms Claire Taylor (1994) Prof Blair Hoxby (1989) Mrs Emma Widnall (1994) Ms Hetty Hughes (1989) Mr Alistair Willey (1994) Mr Jim Kaye (1989) Mr Tim Claremont (1995) Mr Matthew Perret (1989) Mr Tim Horrocks (1995) Dr Peter Backé (1990) Mr Torsten Reil (1995) Ms Anna Burles (1990) Dr Nick Seymour (1995) Mrs Penny Crouzet (1990) Mr Adam Silver (1995) Mr Jason Hargreaves (1990) Mrs Georgina Simmons (1995) Mr Keith Hatton (1990) Mr Jeremy Steele (1995) Mrs Morag Mylne (1990) Mr Michael Barker (1996) Mr Nik Everatt (1991) Dr Gavin Beard (1996) Mr Paul Gannon (1991) Mr Olly Bonavero (1996) Mrs Kay Goddard (1991) Miss Catherine Carr (1996) Mr David Holme (1991) Mrs Helen Geary (1996) Dr Christopher Meaden (1991) Mr Alex Grant (1996) Dr Kausikh Nandi (1991) Mr Richard Gray (1996) Mr Stephen Robinson (1991) Mr Nicholas Haworth (1996) Dr Christoph Rojahn (1991) Miss Nadia Kershaw (1996) Dr Vicki Saward (1991) Mr Alexander Menden (1996)

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 143 Dr Helen Munn (1996) Ms Nicky Ellis (2000) Mr David Smallbone (1996) Mr John Ferreira (2000)

Benefactions Dr Jonathan Smith (1996) Dr Claire Hodgskiss (2000) Mrs Rachel Taylor (1996) Mrs Holly Pirnie (2000) Ms Bianca Watts (1996) Mr David Ainsworth (2001) Mrs Nathalie Allen Prince (1997) Mrs Laura Ainsworth (2001) Ms Sara Atkins (1997) Mrs Chrissy Findlay (2001) Dr Konstanze Baron (1997) Miss Zecki Gerloff (2001) Dr Tyler Bell (1997) Mr Mike Hallard (2001) Dr Ruth Bonavero (1997) Mr James Klempster (2001) Mr James Bowling (1997) Mr Nick Kroepfl (2001) Mr Ed Cox (1997) Mr Oliver Leyland (2001) Dr William Goundry (1997) Ms Alex Mayson (2001) Mr Endaf Kerfoot (1997) Dr Matthew Osborne (2001) Mr Andrew Kojima (1997) Mrs Cassie Smith (2001) Mr Rob Lawton (1997) Miss Elinor Taylor (2001) Ms Alison McKenna (1997) Mrs Zoe Wright (2001) Mr Gareth Powell (1997) Mr Nikhil Aggarwal (2002) Mr Stuart Prince (1997) Mr Matt Allen (2002) Dr Robin Schlinkert (1997) Mrs Fran Baker (2002) Mr James Taylor (1997) Miss Sarah Berman (2002) Ms Jennifer Armson (1998) Mrs Anushka Herath (2002) Dr Martin Birch (1998) Mr Tom Pearson (2002) Miss Marie Farrow (1998) Mrs Karishma Redman (2002) Mrs Nishi Grose (1998) Mr David Richardson (2002) Dr Owen Hodkinson (1998) Mr James Salter-Duke (2002) Miss Jacqueline Perez (1998) Mrs Rhian Screen (2002) Mr Charlie Sutters (1998) Mr James Screen (2002) Mr David Traynor (1998) Dr Abigail Stevenson (2002) Dr Premila Webster (1998) Mrs Iris Tinius (2002) Dr John Ealing (1999) Dr Ian Warren (2002) Miss Kelly Furber (1999) Mr Christopher Wright (2002) Mr Douglas Gordon (1999) Dr Jessica Blair (2003) Mr Jim Hancock (1999) Ms Sarah Buckley (2003) Mr James Levett (1999) Mr Ahmet Feridun (2003) Mr Jim Luke (1999) Mrs Olivia Haslam (2003) Mr Gareth Marsh (1999) Dr Jon Hazlehurst (2003) Ms Kat Stephens (1999) Ms Rebecca Patton (2003) Mr James Walton (1999) Dr Enrique Sacau (2003) Mr Mark Bowman (2000) Mr Dane Satterthwaite (2003) Ms Sam Burns (2000) Dr Guy Williams (2003) Dr Cecily Burrill (2000) Mr Hervé Hansen (2004) Mr Rory Clarke (2000) Dr Harriet Hansen-Stone (2004) Mrs Louisa Cox (2000) Ms Claire Harrop (2004) Miss Cécile Défossé (2000) Dr Jen Jardine (2004)

144 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020 Dr Robert Lepenies (2004) Corporal Tom Whyte (2006) Mr Paul O’Donovan (2004) Miss Lauriane Anderson Mair (2007)

Dr Philippa Roberts (2004) Dr Caitlin Hartigan (2007) Benefactions Dr Tony Thompson-Starkey (2004) Mr Tony Hu (2007) Dr Marc Williams (2004) Dr Bernhard Langwallner (2007) Mr Omry Apelblat (2005) Mr Matthew Watson (2007) Mr Andy Bottomley (2005) Dr Emma Adlard (2008) Dr Marco Egawhary (2005) Dr Shaoyan Liang (2009) Miss Katelin Fuller (2005) Mr Andrew Robertson (2009) Dr Robert Gaunt (2005) Mrs Maude Tham (2009) Miss Eloise Newnham (2005) Mr James Dinsdale (2010) Mr Daniel Shepherd (2005) Ms Bethany Pedder (2010) Dr Peter Sloman (2005) Miss Emily Shercliff (2010) Mr Charles Taylor (2005) Miss Amy Down (2011) Miss Emma Whitehouse (2005) Mr Alexej Gornizki (2011) Mr Ho Yi Wong (2005) Mrs Ana Gaunt (2014) Mr James Berridge (2006) Mr Robert Jaeckle (2016) Ms Katie Berridge (2006) Mr Kenichi Oka (2017) Dr Matthew Hart (2006)

We are grateful to receive support from the following people within the College: Anonymous x2 Dr Phillip Harries Prof Sir John Ball Dr Justin Jacobs Prof John Baines Mr John Kaye Dr Claire Craig Dr Ludovic Phalippou Dr Charles Crowther Queen’s College Senior Mr Chris Diacopoulos College Fellows (SCF)

The College thanks the following friends for their support: Ms Janine Barber Mrs Sue Morrow Mrs Susie Barker Mr Abul Rahman Mr David Beamish Most Revd Peter Riola Dr Douglas Burrill Mrs Jill Sutherland Mr Andrew Dickinson Mr Simon Thorn Mr David French Dr Philippa Tudor Ms Jane Hart Mrs Margy Wooding Mrs Lynam Mr Eric Wooding Mrs Christine Mason

College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 145 The following organisations have supported the College directly, or through matched giving schemes with Old Members:

Benefactions Amazon UK British Centre for Literary Translation Chevron Humankind Coca-Cola Foundation DJANDCO Limited Google Independent Schools Modern Languages Association (ISMLA) Rolfe Charitable Trust Sannox Trust St Hugh’s College, Oxford Sundry Swire Education Trust Ward Family Fund

The College is also grateful to the following Old Members and Friends who made bequests to Queen’s: Mr Fred Brittenden (1946) Prof John Merrills (1960) Mr Anthony Petty (1948) Prof Philip Smith (1964) Mr Timothy Shaw (1950) & Mrs Anne Shaw

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INFORMATION Information

College Record 2021

Please submit your news, such as details of any awards or publications, for inclusion in the 2021 College Record here: www.queens.ox.ac.uk/college-record-2021. Alternatively, you can send this information by post to the Old Members’ Office in College. The deadline for entries is 1 September 2021.

You are also invited to submit obituaries of Old Members. Please send these to the Old Members’ Office.

Visiting the College

Old Members are usually welcome to visit at any time, except during the Christmas closure period, although we have had to close the College to all visitors during the coronavirus pandemic. Please contact the Lodge ahead of your visit to ensure that we are open (01865 279120 or [email protected]).

Once the College is able to open once more, please present yourself at the Lodge with an item of ID (preferably your University alumni card) so that the Porter on duty can check your name against the list of Old Members. Advance notice, particularly if you would like to visit the Library, is preferable although not essential. If you are intending to bring a group (other than your immediate family) you will need to arrange this in advance. The Upper Library is accessible during Library staffed hours and we encourage Old Members not to visit the Library during Trinity term as this is a critical time for our students.

The Old Members’ Office can assist you with your visit: call 01865 279214 or email [email protected]. If you require level access, please telephone the Lodge on 01865 279120.

Degree ceremonies

MAs can be taken by BA and BFA graduates 21 terms after their matriculation date. Usually, Old Members can choose to attend a University degree ceremony or receive an MA in absentia, but in-person conferrals are currently not possible. To take your MA in absentia, or to enquire about dates for future ceremonies, please email [email protected].

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Transcripts and certificates

If you require proof of your exam results, or a transcript of your qualifcations for a job application or continuing education purposes, a transcript or degree confrmation letter can be ordered through the University’s online store: www.oxforduniversitystores. co.uk/product-catalogue/degree-conferrals.

If you need a copy of your degree certifcate, then information can be found at the University’s Student Records and Degree Conferrals Office: www.ox.ac.uk/students/ graduation/certifcates.

Updating your details

If you have moved or changed your contact details, please complete the online update form: www.queens.ox.ac.uk/update-my-details or email [email protected].

Overnight stays and guest rooms

We are pleased to be able to offer overnight stays in College for Old Members and accompanying guests. Rooms are en suite and are clean, comfortable and serviced daily. While not equipped to a four-star hotel standard, they are provided with towels, toiletries, tea and coffee making facilities, and free internet access. Breakfast in Hall is included.

We have two rooms specifcally designated for use by Old Members, which can be booked all year round, when the College is open: one twin room in Back Quad and a single room in Drawda. Please note that the single room can only be accessed via a steep staircase and is not en suite – bathroom facilities are available along the corridor. These rooms can be booked by contacting the Old Members’ Office directly ([email protected] or 01865 279217). Payment will be made by invoice on departure and the Old Members’ Office can advise you on current rates.

In addition, we can also offer en suite student bedrooms over the Easter and summer vacations, when rooms are not in use by conference guests. These can be booked directly via the Conference Office website www.queens.ox.ac.uk/bed-breakfast. Payment for these rooms is taken up front. We do offer a discounted rate for Old Members. Please contact the Old Members’ Office for the discount code prior to booking.

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