Contents

2 From the President

4 From the Development Director

6 Your Gifts

8 Graduate Scholars

12 Special Grants

18 Access and Outreach

22 Buildings

26 Why I Give

30 Financial Report

32 Roll of Benefactors

Including Summary Financial Report, Sources and Use of Funds for the year 2018–19

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1 From the President

St John’s continues to make progress on all fronts and I’m delighted to be able to share our news in this edition of Benefactors.

This academic year we are celebrating the 40th anniversary will be independent evaluation of the effectiveness of since women were first admitted to St John’s. The this programme and we are hopeful that we have a great programme of events has been interesting and thought- model that can deliver a significant impact and that could provoking and has put a clear focus on issues of diversity, be rolled out more widely. equality and inclusion, not only in our day-to-day activities in College but also in our continuing efforts to attract the It was excellent to celebrate the opening of the new Study brightest and best to St John’s, irrespective of background. Centre last October and a wonderful opportunity to thank the donors who helped make the project happen. The College – and the University overall – are making We continue to invest substantially in the renovation significant progress on access. You may be aware of of College buildings with work in 2020 on St Giles the new Opportunity Oxford programme: students House, a redesign of the Lodge, and on the third and invited onto Opportunity Oxford are made the standard final phase of the Library project, including conservation offer for their course and then take part in a supportive improvements to the Old Library and Laudian Library bridging programme in the run-up to their first term. and the restoration of the Paddy Room to its original The programme is designed to explore and develop configuration of five tutor rooms. high-level academic skills that will help students with their studies here. It also gives an insight into what life You can read more about the College’s overall aims and as an Oxford student will be like so, when participants ambitions in the Strategic Plan (you’ll find it on the arrive to start their degree course, they can feel confident website). I am always interested to hear your views and and know exactly what is expected of them and what ideas, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch. to expect from Oxford. In the 2019 admissions round we offered five ‘Opportunity Oxford’ places, with 116 I look forward to meeting many of you during 2020, offers being made across the University as a whole. whether here or abroad, at a Gaudy, a lecture or a party. In addition, 50% of the offers made by St John’s to UK candidates were made to disadvantaged students Thank you again for your support and your encouragement and 67% were made to UK state-school applicants. – it means a very great deal to all of us in College.

50% of the offers made by We have also made great strides in outreach, opening up College to many students who may not otherwise have considered applying to Oxford. Our Inspire programme St John’s to UK candidates were is truly innovative with a stimulating digital offering. Thanks to a very generous donation, we have now also made to disadvantaged students launched a three-year Pre-GCSE programme, working Maggie Snowling CBE FBA FMedSci with younger secondary students and collaborating President closely with their schools, on a sustained and regular and 67% were made to UK contact programme with a large group of students. There state-school applicants

2 3 From the Development Director

My first full year at St John’s has flown by and what a year it has been!

A transformational gift to St John’s has enabled the year we welcome Conor Jordan to St John’s, who will College to establish a brand new extension to its already manage our regular giving programmes and is keen to ambitious access programmes and our wonderful new meet our alumni too. Library and Study Centre is now up and running – both projects which are at the core of the College’s aspirations I have been given an extraordinary warm welcome by and both made possible through philanthropy. and non-academic staff here, but I would also like to say thank you to all the alumni I have met who have These two areas are very obvious – the first made so by been equally welcoming. Your commitment to St John’s is the ever-growing numbers of potential students from very apparent in all that you do for the College; I very much schools who visit the College each term and the latter by look forward to meeting more of you in the year to come. the very beautiful new building which already feels like a very natural part of St John’s – but gifts from alumni also help to fund our Fellowships, provide graduate Top Row: Robert Crow, Jacob Ward, James Driscoll scholarships to outstanding young men and women and, Bottom Row: Stephen Kinnaird, Angharad Jones, Conor Jordan, Alexandra Lindqvist Jones perhaps most importantly, help all of our undergraduates make the most of their time here, regardless of their personal finances. Robert Crow St John’s was not amongst the first colleges to establish a Development Director Development Office but, in the past financial year alone, over a thousand alumni chose to make a gift to this + Crow Hufton College, supporting all of the areas I’ve mentioned – and more – and we are extremely grateful to every one of you. We also hope that more of you will make the same choice this year!

Achievements such as this are very much a team effort; Your commitment to St John’s is I am grateful to a wonderful team for all that they do. very apparent in all that you do Jacob Ward continues to be an extremely able deputy to me; Angharad Jones and Alexandra Lindqvist Jones do for the College; I very much look a marvellous job of running our events programme and forward to meeting more of you welcoming alumni back to College. James Driscoll and Stephen Kinnaird keep the office running smoothly; this in the year to come.

The new Library and Study Centre

4 5 Your Gifts Your gifts have a significant impact on every aspect of St John’s life. In the 2018–19 financial year your gifts, totalling £2,161,532, were directed to the following areas: 2% 2% Tutorial Posts Library and Study Centre 1% Other

8% Academic Programmes

10% Student Support 39% Access and Outreach 14% Wherever the need is greatest

25% Graduate Scholarships

6 7 Morgan Mohr Lamb and Flag Scholarship

Rosie McMahon (DPhil Music, 2016)

Rosie McMahon embarked on a DPhil in Music, supported by the Lamb and Flag Scholarship and the AHRC. She writes about her research on the Teatro Amazonas, an iconic belle époque opera house in the Brazilian Amazon.

Following extensive archival research and ethnographic and at the (in June 2019). fieldwork in Brazil, I wrote up a thesis entitled ‘Music I also spoke at the Latin American Music Seminar, in the Urban Amazon: A Historical Ethnography of the hosted at Senate House, UCL (in May 2019), and at the Manaus Opera House’. During my time in Manaus, I TOSC@ Paris 2019 opera studies conference. At the observed rehearsals and attended over 50 performances British Forum for Ethnomusicology, Aberdeen (in April at the Teatro Amazonas. These performances ranged 2019), I presented both a paper and a poster. from opera to classical chamber music, popular regional music, indigenous Amazonian rituals, a Beatles tribute Alongside my doctorate, I have been lucky enough to band, jazz, hip-hop, drama, and a Linkin Park tribute work for St John’s College as co-organiser of a concert band. I also conducted interviews and spent a substantial series called the World’s Music at Oxford. The series, amount of time on site with members of the Teatro’s which I founded with two other St John’s students in permanent staff, having casual conversations and 2016, has now been running for four years. It blends observing the opera house’s daily life. research into global musics with live performance, and aims to provide a platform for voices and musical The Lamb and Flag scholarship (alongside generous styles rarely heard in Oxford. By using music as a funding from the St John’s College Special Grant) allowed platform to cultivate diversity, the series responds to me to spend this invaluable research time in Brazil and press reports scrutinising diversity at UK universities. to write up my findings. My thesis is the first substantial It also engages with topical social issues; for example, English-language study of the Teatro Amazonas. Besides we hosted a Windrush 70th anniversary round table presenting a significant amount of information about and concert in July 2018. Moreover, the events foster this little-known opera house, it also seeks to combat the dialogue between researchers, performers, and tendency to reduce the Amazon region to a utilitarian members of the public: performances often include function or resource. By examining the Teatro’s activities, lecture-recitals, discussion panels, and Q&A sessions. Graduate past and present, it moves beyond an antagonistic Recent concerts have featured Bengali folk music, discourse of conservation versus development, presenting reggae, flamenco, and Korean taegum music. a critical examination of music in the urban Amazon. For more information on the series and photographs I have also gained substantial experience in disseminating of past events, see: www.theworldsmusicatoxford.com research during my DPhil, presenting my work at a number of conferences. I was invited to give papers at Scholars conferences in Campinas, Brazil (in September 2018), 8 9 Kendrew Scholarship

Qiujie Shi (DPhil Geography and the Environment, 2017)

Qiujie is reading for a DPhil in Geography and the Environment, funded by the Kendrew Scholarship. She writes about her research, whose title is Beijing and London compared: How can fast cities broaden our urban knowledge?

Our world has changed. The heartland of economic and census data, I have found that both cities have a young, urban development has been shifting towards places that male-dominated, and highly-educated workforce. Their are traditionally labelled ‘developing’. Cities coordinating comparable economic capabilities in attracting many the world’s economy have been increasingly challenged young, ambitious, and well-educated newcomers have by those that have been perceived as inferior for a long played a key role. Economically, globalisation has brought time. Walls that divide cities along various manipulated Beijing closer to London than ever before. But when it lines (such as North/South) are no longer impermeable. comes to changing institutional arrangements, Beijing Instead, urban comparisons across the walls are ever more acts much more slowly. The retirement age there has possible. This possibility is inspiring. It allows our current remained unchanged since the 1950s, and caregiving is urban theories to be applied, examined, and developed in still almost all shouldered by women. different contexts. It encourages new urban knowledge to be generated elsewhere. It advances a more global urban These ‘stubborn’ local practices have given Beijing a agenda, a future where most learning is no longer one-way. slightly younger and more male-dominated workforce than London. A global–local dialect thus emerges, in My current research fits into the changed world order, which the global force pushes cities together and the local the renewed comparative stances, and the more global one intervenes in the process, a dialect that could be a urban agenda. One focus of my research was comparing useful analytical lens for a more global urban research. the age, gender, and educational structures of the This comparison was published in Cities, and for the workforce between Beijing and London. Using the academic year 2018–19, I have had three of five peer- reviewed papers published.

Comparisons between Beijing and London can be carried out on a continual basis, and this is my research interest for the foreseeable future. Outside of Cities coordinating the academic work, I have also become more involved in world’s economy have been many activities in the University, joining the Student Advisory Group and volunteering to give geography increasingly challenged by taster sessions to Year 11 pupils. those that have been perceived as inferior for a long time

10 11 Enriching the student experience with Special Grants Special Grants UK North America Asia In the academic year 2018–19, In the UK, students attended conferences and The most popular country visited by St John’s students Asia was a popular destination for students – 26 competitions, made use of archives and libraries, and was the USA, with 29 students travelling to present students travelled to this continent, and their trips conducted research in Aberdeen, St Andrews, Edinburgh, posters at conferences, visit US universities they are took them to 13 different destinations, including 186 St John’s students were Glasgow, Belfast, Durham, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester considering for postgraduate study, and participate in Borneo, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Israel, awarded Special Grants and London. An additional 15 students were able to stay technical sessions at international meetings. Canada Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Singapore, in Oxford over the Long Vac, to participate in projects, and Cuba were also visited. Sri Lanka, central Turkey and Vietnam. St John’s organise conferences and complete research. students volunteered with charities teaching English, 118 68 presented at conferences, and learned about the Undergraduate Graduate South America culture and history of the places they visited. Students Students Europe 3 students visited South America, 2 travelling to Brazil Europe was the most popular continent for students for conferences and 1 volunteering at a wildlife research travelling with their Special Grant. 26 destinations were centre in the Amazon rainforest in Bolivia. Australasia visited by 94 students: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, the 7 students went to Australasia, including Papua 51 6 countries continents Canary Islands, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Africa New Guinea, Vanuatu and Australia, to meet with St John’s students Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia, external supervisors, attend conferences and enrich travelled to Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, 5 students used their Special Grant to travel to Africa, their research. Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and visiting , Egypt, Mozambique and Zimbabwe Turkey. They took part in a variety of conferences, to conduct research for their theses, volunteer at wildlife N.B. The total number of grants awarded is less than the In total, in completed intensive language courses, and visited sites research centres and present posters and talks at total number of student visits, as several students used £44,958 of archaeological, historical and cultural importance. conferences. their grant to visit more than one country. Special Grants was awarded

12 13 Roman Archaeology

Jemma Moorhouse (BA Classical Archaeology & Ancient History, 2017)

Jemma is reading Classical Archaeology and Ancient History. She was awarded a Special Grant to travel to Italy, working on an excavation and visiting archaeological remains. Nemi Bronzes, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. The site of Aeclanum is a perfect case study for a multi- In the afternoons I chose to dedicate the majority of 14/07/19 method archaeological investigation because it is almost my time to helping clean and sort any ceramic or bone entirely untouched archaeologically and has never that had been found. I particularly enjoyed sorting the been built over. The site consists of a forum, theatre, ceramics, having studied some of the types of pottery bathhouse, macellum, residential area and an early we were finding in the ‘Roman Archaeology: Cities Christian church. I requested to work in the house with and Settlements of the Empire’ paper. It was interesting the peristyle (a court or indoor garden surrounded by to be able to categorise the pottery into their types columns) because of my interest in domestic architecture: to understand more about the trade connections of My time in Italy was whilst in this area of the site I worked in two trenches. Aeclanum. I found that the activities in the afternoons full of memorable The late antique phase of the peristyle was unearthed helped me appreciate the artefacts that we were finding by excavators in the 1950s, and the goal during the 2019 in the trench. They also allowed me to learn more experiences which I will excavation was to look for evidence of previous phases about what was happening in the other trenches, past forever cherish and use of occupation and construction of the structure and to and present. I loved my time at Aeclanum and found establish its developing relation to nearby buildings, excavating to be a fulfilling job; it was nice to see the finds in relation to my degree. ‘Garden Room’ fresco from the Via Appia. 15/07/19 particularly the nearly adjacent Christian basilica. I that we had discovered in the morning being washed and Villa of Livia, Palazzo Massimo alle It was incredibly special found my time during the trench incredibly interesting categorised in the afternoon, knowing that they helped to Terme. 14/07/19 and educational as I developed the skills that I had been contribute to the wider investigation. to work on an excavation taught last year as well as learning new ones. for two weeks and On the day we arrived in Rome we visited the Pantheon A small trench had been opened near the entrance to the and Trevi Fountain before walking to the Forum of visit the archaeological house, but unfortunately, this trench was near completion Trajan, Colosseum and Arch of Constantine. For our first remains that I have at the start of my two weeks. As a consequence, the first full day in Rome we visited the Palazzo Massimo alle two days in trench consisted of taking measurements Terme and Capitoline Museum. It was incredible to be studied for the past and photos, documenting them, and then ensuring able to see the artefacts, frescos, mosaics and sculpture year and will continue that everything had been completed to a high standard that I have studied over the first two years of my degree. before closing the trench. Following this, a new trench I particularly enjoyed seeing the ‘Garden Room’ fresco to study, especially was opened over a threshold that joined the peristyle from the Villa of Livia and the Nemi Bronzes. On the alongside my courtyard with another room. This was the trench in final day we got the train out to Ostia Antica. It was which I worked for the rest of my time at Aeclanum. amazing to be able to walk down the Roman streets and coursemates with whom In each of the two trenches we opened, we had the see the remains of two-storey buildings. My two favourite I could share my passion satisfying experience of immediately finding evidence – a buildings were the Forum Baths and Capitolium, due to wealth of loose tesserae pointing to early Imperial or late their impressive scale and level of preservation. for the Roman world. All Republican mosaic flooring in the first trench, and walls of this was thanks to the whose placement and construction techniques indicated a very different earlier design to the structure in the second. Forum Baths, Ostia Antica. 16/07/19 Capitolium, Ostia Antica. 16/07/19 St John’s Special Grant.

14 15 Hibernating Bears in Alaska

The Katmai landscape as viewed from my plane Yi-Ge Huang (DPhil Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, 2018)

The view of Naknek Lake from Brooks Camp

Yi-Ge is reading for a DPhil in Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. He was awarded a Special Grant to travel to Alaska to study hibernating animals.

I am very grateful to St John’s College for being awarded and then a one-hour boat ride across Naknek Lake to a Special Grant to travel to Alaska to observe and learn the mouth of the Brooks River. Weather conditions about hibernating animals in their natural habitat. in South-West Alaska are notorious for being harsh Alaska has vast and diverse subarctic and arctic regions. and unpredictable, so I was fortunate that all of my I chose Katmai National Park and Preserve because it journeys were on time (travel insurance is essential!). offered the best chance of seeing hibernation-capable animals such as the brown bear (Ursus arctos). Katmai I finally arrived in the afternoon at Brooks Camp, in is located in the South-West Alaskan peninsula, and is an area with one of the highest densities of brown the stepping stone to the Aleutians (a chain of volcanic bears globally. I brought my own sleeping bag and mat, islands that stretches across the Pacific all the way to the but had to rent a tent and other camping items from Russian Far East). It was established in 1918 to protect Anchorage. Other necessary precautions included a a region that was devastated by the eruption of the can of bear pepper spray and a fog horn. There were This was a trip that Novarupta volcano, and has been an important habitat twenty or so other campers from every part of the surpassed my expectations for salmon and thousands of brown bears, among other world, and I got to know almost every one of them. We wildlife. I stayed in Brooks Camp, a campground famous would walk together as a group (safety in numbers) and truly amazed me. It for the opportunity to view bears. to the river and to Brooks Falls (where many bears was made possible by the were observed feeding on salmon). We spent most Getting to Brooks Camp was not easy. It involved of our time on special raised viewing platforms that generosity of St John’s (as taking a four-hour flight to Anchorage from Vancouver allowed up-close but safe bear viewing. I learnt that well as tons of planning (where I was already, presenting my research at the if the bears ate enough salmon, they would either World Sleep conference), another one-hour flight from go into hibernation early or they might have enough and some good luck!) Anchorage to King Salmon (on a very small plane), energy to completely avoid going into hibernation.

16 17 Developments on the The Inspire Programme is a series of events, Inspire Programme visits, workshops and online contact for Maren Fichter, Inspire Project Support Officer pupils in Years 9 to 13 from non-selective In recent years, Oxford has been increasingly focused on expanding its state schools access and outreach work in order to attract and better support high- achieving applicants from backgrounds underrepresented at Oxford.

At St John’s, we have expanded the activities of our access and outreach team, notably including the launch of the St John’s Inspire Programme in 2018. The Inspire Programme is a series of events, visits, workshops and online contact for pupils in Years 9 to 13 from non-selective state schools; each component of the programme targets different age groups with unique forms of engagement, making this a complex and dynamic programme focused around pupils’ needs at different ages. The in-person elements of the programme currently centre on our linked London Boroughs of Harrow and Ealing, but we are delighted to be able to open the digital component of the programme to non- selective state-school pupils across the entire UK.

Our innovative Pre-GCSE Inspire Programme launched its trial in October 2019 with 24 participating schools and 336 Year 9 pupils enrolled across Ealing and Harrow. We have appointed Teacher Coordinators in each school, who deliver fortnightly after-school clubs across a variety of subjects to their cohort of pupils. In Michaelmas 2019, our coordinators delivered workshops focusing on DNA, human health, global justice and poverty. In Hilary 2020, Access and we are developing clubs in Languages & Linguistics and Physics: pupils will learn how to tackle unfamiliar languages with some surprisingly simple tools and tricks, 2019's Year 11 Summer School featured educational visits and experiment with lenses to learn about imaging a to the Oxford Botanical Garden (left; photo by summer . school participant Roli-Beatrice), as well as fun outings such as a punting trip that allowed participants to explore Oxford In addition to these after-school clubs, we have also Outreach (above; photo by summer school participant Pavan Sidhu). planned six full-day Aspiration Days per borough running 18 19 The first pair of Aspiration Days took place in the London Science Museum, where pupils explored the museum Wonderlab's hands-on exhibits.

For each after- school club, we provide Teacher Coordinators with resources packs that include lesson plans, educational videos and all materials that they need to deliver STEM Coordinator Ana presents a preview of the DNA the sessions. Here we after-school club at an in-school launch event for the Pre- are preparing physics GCSE Inspire Programme in October 2019. resource packs. 2019's Year 12 Summer School participants gather for a group photo at the Botanic Garden (photo by summer school participant Zara Hussain). on weekends over the next two terms; these include trips enrolled on the course, which will culminate in a Each component of the Inspire Programme aims to aims to make higher education more accessible to to the London Science Museum, an animal roadshow summer school with 60 places in August 2020. As part encourage pupils with exceptional promise to aim high, high-achieving pupils regardless of background, and held in schools, and workshops led by the Globe Theatre of the summer-school application process, pupils will to stretch themselves academically and to be confident we are excited to see where the coming years take the and the UK Parliament Education Team. All pupils will answer the course’s central question using what they have in making well-founded applications to a top university programme, as well as the pupils enrolled on it now. be invited to attend Study Days at St John’s in March and learned throughout the year. Through the Year 11 course, like Oxford. In the Pre-GCSE Inspire Programme, we June, at which they will meet current undergraduates, we are also directing pupils to further opportunities at encourage pupils to engage with their subjects beyond attend academic tasters and visit museums around the University: from learning about their link college to what is covered in the classroom, helping them to Oxford, and we will also hold a summer school in July discovering Oxplore, we aim to build a connection with develop confidence in their skills and discover new 2020 which will feature more of these activities. We will these pupils that goes beyond the online course itself. interests. Given the success of our online Year 11 course, Each component of the be working with these 336 pupils throughout the next we will soon be expanding our digital offerings to include Inspire three years, with each year involving a unique programme Our Year 12 Inspire Programme features a STEM and Year 10 pupils; this will allow us to work with more Programme aims to encourage of in-school activities, field trips and visits to Oxford. an Arts & Humanities strand, each of which consists of pupils than ever in expanding their subject interests pupils with exceptional a series of five Twilight Sessions at schools and sixth- and practising their essay writing as they prepare to sit We also coordinate an online course for Year 11 pupils at form colleges in Ealing and Harrow. Sessions include a their GCSEs. At Year 12, when focus shifts to detailed promise to aim high, to stretch non-selective state schools across the entire UK, hosted combination of academic taster talks by scholars from information on choosing a university course and the themselves academically and on our website sjcinspire.com. The course focuses on Oxford, and expert guidance on skills development and subsequent application process, we aim to give pupils the one central question (this year’s is: ‘What is the power how to make an effective and competitive application to confidence and knowledge they need to make competitive to be confident in making well- of a volcano?’), approached from a variety of academic university. As with the other components of the Inspire applications and informed academic choices. In line with founded applications to a top subjects; each class includes articles, quizzes, games Programme, participants will be invited to apply for a the goals of other Oxford initiatives like Opportunity and essay-writing competitions. 578 pupils are currently residential summer school in August 2020. Oxford and the Foundation Year, the Inspire Programme university like Oxford.

20 21 Hufton + Crow

The new Library and Study Centre The Library and has already begun to attract awards Study Centre as well as much Described in the Observer as ‘a quiet triumph of artistry, invention and positive attention environmental responsibility’, the new Library and Study Centre has already begun to attract awards as well as much positive attention.

More importantly still, it has proved hugely popular with staff and students alike. Although it’s fair to say that opinion remains divided about the day beds on the top floor, the 120 new desks

double the amount of space available to readers – + Crow Hufton and they are much in demand.

None of this would have been possible without the generosity of 165 donors, who between them contributed over £2m to the project. Larger gifts are commemorated in the names of the rooms and other spaces like the Sidonie Thompson Bridge that links the twenty-first century building to its seventeenth-century neighbour.

The Mark Bedingham Seminar Room is one of the most prominent of these places, and provides exemplary accommodation for teaching as well as some wonderful views of the garden. Nearby are the Lin Family Study Room and the Felicia Taylerson Study Room, which is named in honour of an inspirational economics teacher, three of whose students went on to read PPE at St John’s.

And the work isn’t over yet. Having built the new library, attention now turns to a restoration of the old. In the Laudian Library, built in the 1630s to house a scientific collection that included a mermaid and a ‘monstrous flea’, the nineteenth-century bookcases will be restored and unsympathetic additions removed, enabling more and better accommodation for readers. In the Old Library, the changes of the 1970s will be undone and an area for quiet reading and Buildings exhibitions created. 22 23 Underneath the Old Library, the plan is to take the Paddy Room and return it to its original form: a Edward Hocknell row of five separate sets. These rooms will be fitted (Literae Humaniores, 1980) up for tutorial teaching and named in honour of distinguished current and former fellows. Generous I came up to read Classics in 1980. I was taught by the great Donald Russell, who alumni have committed to raise the funds – and gave me several excellent pieces of advice: I should not apply for a job at the BBC, already we look forward to welcoming them back as television is a trivial medium; and I should marry a Scotswoman, because they when these state-of-the-art resources are re-opened. are excellent bakers. I left College armed with the arrogant but useful belief that if I couldn’t understand something, then it’s quite possible that it doesn’t make We are enormously grateful to all those whose sense. This has proved immensely useful in the world of finance. generosity has already helped transform the College in these important ways. There remain opportunities I supported the new library in gratitude for what the College has given me; and to for alumni and other benefactors to contribute further help it to attract others, like me, who are not from typical Oxbridge backgrounds. and help complete this transformative project. I’m sure that Maggie, our President, will ensure that this is achieved while maintaining the College’s lofty academic standards. Professor Mark Freedland is one of those tutors whose students have endowed a room for him. Here he reflects on this honour:

‘It is the most immense honour to have a tutor’s room named after me, and I rejoice at the fact that this has been a way of attracting the benevolence of alumni

to the College and to the restoration of the Library + Crow Hufton + Crow Hufton in particular. I feel that I am in noble company in receiving this recognition, while being very acutely aware that there are other colleagues at least equally deserving of it. It seems to me most especially fitting – Peter Thompson on the one hand obviously deserved beyond question, (PPE, 1976) but on the other hand happily fortuitous as to its timing – that one of these rooms is being named after St John’s changed my life. I matriculated in 1976 Donald Russell, surely the college tutor par excellence as the typical (I think) grammar school entrant and of his and my generation, and that he himself knew of amongst the first generation of my family to attend this during his lifetime.’ university. Three years studying PPE at St John’s taught me, above all, to think and gave me the tools for a successful, and relatively short, financial career. At the same time, I made lifelong friends. I know that my excellent education and accommodation were even then subsidised by the College. So, I am delighted to be able to be a regular donor to support the College’s ever improving education and research; I just regret that I did not start giving earlier. My recent donations have allowed me to Hufton + Crow Hufton achieve two things. First, I, together with two of my alumni from grammar school, have been able to recognise an inspirational school teacher who got us to Oxford; the Felicia Taylerson Room in the new library is named in her honour. I was also delighted that the College agreed to name part of the new library in memory of my daughter who died young in a tragedy. The Sidonie Thompson Bridge is a wonderful way to remember her and a visit we shared to the College some years ago.

24 25 Yet, these were only part of the enrichment I encountered. St John’s, and Oxford more broadly, inspired a grander world view. I met people from Zimbabwe, Burma and Madagascar, was selected to teach at a school in Nepal, In recent years, the earned a Half-Blue playing lacrosse, capsized a third boat in the Christ Church Regatta and cultivated a lifelong zeal involvement of our for vindaloo. I was also able, through the enterprising flexibility and graciousness of Dr Teal and Dr Bevan, to alumni in the life arrange separate tutorials in Economics at a vital moment in the European Monetary Union experiment. Both Bill of the College has Clinton and Boy George came to the Union to speak, while Tony Blair was on the cusp of becoming PM. My markedly increased, abiding memory of Oxford was waking up and believing anything was possible, and that there were people around and with it brought who could help me pursue whatever goals and ambitions significant benefits I had. to the College. Why do you believe giving is important? Attending SJC was a privilege, as is being a College Michael McDonough member today. I have had the fortune of attending “peer” (Visiting Student Programme, Classics 1994) institutions outside of the UK and I believe no university offers such a commitment to intellectual inquiry as Michael is the Senior Managing Director and Portfolio Oxford. I also believe SJC, with its fabled rigour and its Manager of Blackwells Capital, an alternative investment best-in-class facilities, is the cynosure of the very best manager focused on global fundamental and special parts of Oxford. Part of our responsibility as alumni is situation investing in public and private securities to bridge the gap between the extraordinary quality of across the capital structure. Previously, Michael was teaching and scholarship at St John’s with the means for a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at SAC the College to achieve its aims. Capital and Portfolio Manager at Perry Capital and Pine River Capital. He has served on public and private equity As someone who has spent his career as an investor, I boards of companies in the technology, medical device/ believe the case for SJC is strong. It is a timeless place healthtech, consumer/retail, and financial services with a proven track record and dynamic leadership with industries. He has lived and worked in Hong Kong, an ethos of relentless self-improvement. The Fellows of Tokyo, London, San Francisco, New York and the Middle the College and the team in the Development Office are While traditional financial philanthropy remains an integral focus of the work of East. Michael is an Arabic and Persian speaker. Michael “out for the best” and treat every benefactor as a partner. the Development and Alumni Relations Office, there is also a new group of donors is a major benefactor to St John’s, a member of the There is gratitude and stewardship. While Oxford has emerging. In recent years, the involvement of our alumni in the life of the College Development Board, and has hosted alumni events in received criticism for its federal structure, its collegiate has markedly increased, and with it brought significant benefits to the College. Boston, New York, and Hong Kong. system ensures that philanthropy has a direct and Without the willingness of alumni to give up their time to the College, whether it targeted impact. be for speaking at events, mentoring current students or providing career advice, the experiences of our students would not be as varied as they are today. Below, Why do I give? It is also worth emphasising that Oxford is a special we discuss with Michael McDonough and Hannah Gilbert what motivates them not St John’s forever changed the trajectory of my life. I arrived place the world over. It’s an institution that celebrates only to donate in the traditional way, but also to give their time to St John’s. to read Classics, and certainly there wasn’t a better place robust debate, extols learning for its own sake and, the world over to do it. My tutorials from Dr Malcolm while delighting in the occasional eccentricity, strives Davies were challenging, and as apt to venture into successfully for real-world relevance at the working level. Poussin’s mythological portraits in the Ashmolean as they Amidst the polarising foment of political and social were to parse early Greek lyric poetry in his study. New to invective sweeping universities more broadly, Oxford Oxford from America, Dr Davies and his sparkling wife, nurtures idealists. Its insistence on civil discourse, and Dr Kathirithamby, looked out for every aspect of my time its tradition of presuming the very best intentions in the at SJC, inviting me to weekly dinners at their home as spirit of dialogue, is to be cherished and protected. Giving well as lectures and events throughout the University. It ensures a financial independence that perpetuates an Why I Give was a sensational and sublime academic experience. intellectual one. 26 27 Hannah Gilbert What motivated you to join the Steering (Arabic and Islamic Studies, 1993) Group for the SJC Women’s Network? The celebrations to mark the 2000th woman matriculating Hannah is one of the Client into St John’s drew together the vibrant community of Directors at Moneyhub, a women connected to the College. The SJC Women’s financial technology provider Network was born out of that remarkable weekend with and open banking pioneer, a the aim of celebrating, inspiring, and empowering all role that brings her passions St John’s women, past and present. for digital technology and financial wellbeing together While I have kept in touch with many of my to deliver better outcomes for contemporaries from my time at St John’s, I have also people, businesses and their enjoyed the opportunity to connect with other generations communities. Hannah has of alumnae and current members of the College. previously had an extensive corporate career in the mobile, A recurrent theme at SJC Women’s Network events is the telecoms and media industries power of proximal role models. Neither of my parents spanning over 15 years. went to university, and my mother had a traditional role as a housewife, so sharing challenges with women Alongside her undergraduate degree from St John’s, whose experiences are relatable to mine within a trusted Hannah has two Master’s Degrees, one in Economics community has been a bonus. Alumnae from earlier from SOAS, University of London, and another in years offer great perspective on career trajectories and Sustainable Tourism from the University of Western changes as well as the perennial questions of work–life Sydney, both of which inspired her desire to close the balance. Alongside this, younger alumnae can offer loop between money and its impact. She is also currently a refreshing perspective on College today and their on the Executive MBA programme at Cass Business aspirations, which broadens the dialogue. Both groups School. Hannah is also the mother of two daughters and provide insights that are useful elsewhere, not least at a qualified yoga teacher. work when framing recruitment, retention and flexible working policies. Hannah is Chair-Elect of the SJC Women’s Network, a group designed to bring together existing and new events and initiatives for the female community of St John’s Do you believe it’s important for the alumni under the banner of one network. Hannah is also a of St John’s to ‘give something back’? member of the Rawlinson Society, having pledged a legacy to St John’s in her will. Here, she discusses what Giving something back, in whatever way one can, is an motivates her to volunteer for the SJC Women’s Network appreciation of the opportunities the College and earlier and, more generally, to give to St John’s. benefactors have given. Current students face a different financial landscape. Financial and non-financial support Why did you decide to give up your time for from the alumni community plays a role in ensuring continued progress in widening diversity of admissions the SJC Women’s Network? and attainment. While I make regular financial donations to the College, However, I have also found that the relationship and have pledged a legacy in my will, I welcomed is definitely not one way. It is reciprocated in the the opportunity to support the College in a different intergenerational and intragenerational connections way. When I became involved in the SJC Women’s that are flourishing in the benefactor, alumni and wider Network, I was returning to work after a career break College community. when my children were young, so giving my time matched my available resources, and added a new thread to my CV as I burnished it for wider circulation. If you would like further information about how to get Volunteering my time brings a direct, and personal, involved with the SJC Women’s Network or any other connection to the College and alumni network. initiatives within College, please contact the Alumni Relations team via [email protected] or telephone 01865 610873.

28 29 Summary Financial Report £30,000,000 Sources of and Use of Funds for the year 2018/2019

The College presents its results for the year ended 31 July 2019 in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice on Accounting and Reporting by Charities issued by the Charity Commission in 2014. A summary of the College’s consolidated financial activities is as follows:

2019 2018 £25,000,000 £’000 £’000 Incoming College Resources Resources from charitable activities 6,898 6,396 Unrestricted revenue legacies and donations 500 732 Restricted revenue legacies and donations 848 464 Income Trading income and other generation of funds 729 671 Funding from endowments 8,975 8,263 £20,000,000 Revenue donations Funding from the College Endowment Commercial Investment income and interest 17,447 16,160 Capital gains 600 1,650 Residential Capital gains used to fund restricted activity 99 173 Academic 18,146 17,983 Total Incoming Resource 27,121 26,246 £15,000,000 Expenditure College Expenditure College works Teaching and research 28,336 24,734 Domestic Public worship 95 84 Fundraising and alumni relations 613 558 Administration Trading and sundry expenditure 597 588 Interest Total Expenditure 29,641 25,964 £10,000,000 Alumni and Development Net College Revenue (2,520) 282 Academic

2019 2018 £’000 £’000 Summary of Endowment Movements Opening Endowments 551,546 525,775 Investment gains 33,911 44,201 £5,000,000 New endowments 87 939 Endowment costs (6,388) (6,096) Gains used to fund operating activity (600) (1,650) Gains on restricted endowments used to fund operating activity (99) (173) Gains used to fund fixed assets (5,000) (11,450) Closing Endowments 573,457 551,546 £0 Total net return 44,970 54,265 2019 Income 2019 Expenditure 2018 Income 2018 Expenditure as % opening endowment 8.2% 10.3% Returns as % opening endowment used to fund: Revenue activity 3.3% 3.4% The full Annual Report and Financial Statements are now available at: Revenue activity and fixed asset changes 4.2% 5.6% www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/finance-and-funding.

30 31 Roll of Benefactors 32 33 This section contains the names of major benefactors, current as of 31 December 2019, and all donors who have given Casberd Benefactors (£50,000 +) between 1 August 2018 and 31 July 2019. Anonymous 1954 ∆ Member of the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors Michael Barclay 1951 ◊ Member of Vice-Chancellor’s Circle Professor Dorothy Bishop Hon Fellow Professor Wendy Erber 1982 and Professor Gary Hoffman Brenda Fielding Friend David Fischel 1976 Angela Y Fu Friend Major Benefactors Brian Hill 1950 Nick Hunsworth 1976 Sir Thomas and Lady White Benefactors (£1,000,000 +) Robert Kipling 1974 Dr Hugo Madden 1967 The Lord Fraser of Corriegarth 1965 ∆ Michael McDonough 1994 Professor Ioan James Hon Fellow and The late Dr Rosemary James Dr Nigel Meir 1975 Angus McLeod 1982 ◊ David Ryan 1978 Graham Sharp 1979 ∆ Gavin Sanderson 1976 Bernard Taylor CBE DL 1975 and Hon Fellow ∆ North Benefactors (£25,000 +) Laud Benefactors (£750,000 +) Anonymous 1957 Anonymous 1994 ◊ Anonymous Fellow Rawlinson Benefactors (£500,000 +) Christopher Barfoot 1952 Roger Barnes 1957 Nicholas Bratt 1967 ◊ Alexander Bashforth 1988 and Dr Pauline Bashforth 1988 Edward Hocknell 1980 ◊ The late Ronald Duff1951 Daniel Slifkin 1984 ◊ Michael Fitzpatrick 1975 The Thompson Family Charitable Trust Sir Stuart Hampson 1966 and Hon Fellow Graham Heald 1971 Holmes Benefactors (£250,000 +) David Hutchinson 1980 and Melanie Hutchinson Peter Jarvis 1990 Anonymous Friend Simon Jay 1978 John Appleby 1962 ◊ Martin Jones 1987 Mark Bedingham 1974 Nicholas Jones 1981 Dr Peter Fan 1954 Dr Alastair Lawson Friend Dr Yungtai Hsu 1971 ◊ Dr James Lin 1991 and Nisa Lin Matthew Lindsey-Clark 1981 and Frances Lindsey-Clark 1981 ◊ Peter Loose 1953 Roger Short 1958 and Susan Short ◊ David O’Connell 1982 and Janet O’Connell 1982 Peter Thompson 1976 Dr Geoffrey Penzer1962 in the name of J Ronald Penzer 1928 Fereday Benefactors (£100,000 +) Timothy Polglase 1980 William A Scott 1975 Stephen Barber 1974 Howard Smith 1986 The late Professor Elizabeth Fallaize and Professor Alan Grafen FRS Fellows Dr David Standring 1970 Dr Eugene Lambert 1984 and Jana Lambert Robert Tann 1976 Michael Pragnell CBE 1965 Dr David Thomas 1970 Dr Simon Tong 1994 Richard Wake 1966

34 35 John Waters 1984 Piers Kenyon 1986 and Helen Kenyon Dr Trudy Watt Friend ◊ Dr Helen Lambert 1979 Norman Webster 1962 Cressida Legge CBE 1987 Mark White 1973 The Hon Keith Long 1976 William Mackesy 1978 Juxon Benefactors (£10,000 +) Neil Matheson 1976 Anonymous 1949 Carl Michel 1981 Anonymous 1957 Denis Moriarty 1956 Anonymous 1982 The Revd Peter Moth 1957 Jonny Allison 1993 Sandy Muirhead ACA 1972 Henry Amar 1957 Jonathan Nash QC 1981 Rupert Atkin 1977 Robert Needham 1952 Garry Borland 1994 Toby Owens 1989 Dr Ian Bostridge CBE 1983 and Hon Fellow Dr Robert Oxlade 1959 Dr Anthony Boyce 1957 and Hon Fellow Will Pack 1990 Dr Alexander Bridges 1968 Dr Anthony Pawley 1962 Richard Burns 1979 Bleddyn Phillips 1975 Sir Nigel Carrington 1975 and Hon Fellow Dr John Richards 1975 Bill Carson 1952 The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Richards 1968 and Hon Fellow Michael Collett QC 1989 Alastair Robinson 2000 and Rachel Robinson 2002 Philip Collins CBE 1973 Graham Robinson 1992 and Dr Esther Robinson 1994 Rupert Cox 1983 Sir Michael Scholar KCB Hon Fellow and Lady Scholar 1954 David Cullingham Michael Servent 1989 John Davidson 1978 Pratik Shah 1992 Geoffrey Davies1973 Robert Shaw 1974 Jonathan Davies 1965 Dr Kevin Singleton 1975 Peter Davies 1967 Patrick Smith 2000 Michael Deeming 1963 Dr Gill Sutherland in memory of Alister Sutherland 1953 Jim Dempsey 1974 Rupert Swyer 1965 Michael Diamond 1984 Dr Rashmi Tank 1988 John Eckersley 1949 Sir Geoffrey Tantum CMG OBE1966 David Elmer 1968 1982 Thomas Ewing 1995 and Claire Ewing 1995 Dr Michael Tappin Dr Robin Fabel 1955 His Honour Judge Robert Taylor 1957 Professor Stephen Ferruolo 1971 Corrinne Teo 1994 Robert D Garvin 1972 Professor Gwynne Thomas MRCP FRACP FRCP 1973 Dr Francis Goodall 1951 Roger Thomas 1974 John Graham 1970 Ben Travers 1953 Dr Joseph M Hassett 2007 Dr Jay Watson 1984 Dr Andrew Hodgson 1976 Matthew Whittell 1983 Michael Hodgson 1986 John Wilshaw 1956 Alastair Hunter 1975 Dr Jonathan Wittmann 1970 Peter Jones 1963 Steven Woolley 1975 Allan Kaufman 1983 The Rickety Charitable Trust

36 37 The Revd Barry Entwisle Sir Stuart Hampson Hon Fellow Neil Goldman The Revd Nicholas Lowton, Dr Ronen Ghosh Fr Nicholas King, SJ Martin Haworth FRSA William Hadman Andrew McNab Dip TP MRTPI Charles Mitchell Dr John Mathias Donations 2018/2019 Robin Harcourt-Williams FSA Philip Quarterman Dr Stephen Postle Dr James Robertson Roger Hobby The Revd Geoffrey Richardson Hugh Roberts Dr Nicholas Robinson George Hodgkinson Sir Geoffrey Tantum CMG Dr David Treacher, FRCP Jonathan Toll Robert Mackenzie OBE Barry Wild 1943 1953 Don Herbison-Evans Robert Thirlby Nicol McGregor Dr David Webster 1973 Gilbert McMillan Anonymous Alexander Leckie Dr Robert Tomkinson Peter Robinson Graham Wood 1970 Mr Richard Axford Douglas Nicholson David Faulkner Dr Malcolm Merrick Robert Waterhouse Damien Tunnacliffe Anonymous Graham Belcher Michael Harris The Revd Peter Moth Dr Christopher Winfield CBE, 1967 Dr Andy Boyd Dr Alan Bishop 1944 Peter Holland Professor Michael Pratt 1961 FRCP Dr Michael Atkinson Professor Sir John Cunningham Alistair Blair Philip Bowcock Dr Peter Howard Professor Keith Robinson Anthony Addis Dr Nigel Buttery Timothy Day The Revd Canon Adrian Gordon Parke Peter Loose Martin Shelton Clive Bransom 1964 Peter Davies Dr Robert Dingley Botwright Alan Spooner Professor Robert Cameron Anonymous Dr David Giachardi, FRSC Charles Dodd Clayton Brammall 1946 1954 His Honour Judge Robert The late Gyles Cooper Tony Billington Richard Hoare Nicholas Downes Dr Thom Braun James Minnis Anonymous (3) Taylor Professor Peter Griffiths Dr John Brocklehurst Dr Michael Langdon John Graham John Coull The late Gerald Moriarty QC Professor John Carey FBA Michael Walker John Hemming James Cooke Martin Lee Roderick Halls Richard Dell Hon Fellow Colin Wiseman Dr Dick Hill Tony Foster Adrian Lloyd Dr Michael Kerry Graham Downing 1947 The Revd Alan Cliff Ian House Ian Hall Andrew Lynn The Rt Revd Jonathan Meyrick Gary Duckworth Professor Robert Spencer David Cullingham 1958 Dr John Lingard Stephen Lloyd Dr Hugo Madden Dr Robert Pleming Nigel Fisher Dr Peter Fan Anonymous Richard Pettit Professor Amiya Mukherjee Dr Michael Orr Dr Peter Purton Dr Scott Frazier 1948 John Pollard David Bastow Tim Price Dr Alan Butt-Philip Dr John Patchell John Schultz CBE Brian Gambles MBE Dr Hugh Dingle The Revd James Whysall Dr Rodney Bessent Dr Roger Pritchett Michael Pye Dr David Standring John Hauge The Revd Frank Wells Dr Clifton R Cleaveland, MACP Andrew Rawlings Martyn Robinson 1968 Dr Jonathan Wittmann Nigel Hunt 1955 Robert Crawley Dr Richard Sawyer David Royle John Allan Peter Johnson 1949 Anonymous (2) Denis Finning Nevill Smith-Spark Dr John Schofield Graham Ashurst 1971 Andrew Lane Dr Robyn Cain Dr Michael Baxendine Dr Charles Fryer Brian Swale Peter Slater Dr Alexander Bridges Gareth Allinson Dr Eric Marshall Dr John Thompson CB CVO Michael Cross David Harwood Dr Barry Thomas Norman Smith David Elmer The Very Revd Peter Atkinson Dr Peter Moore Michael Godfrey Clive Horsford Dr Richard Trounce Tony Smith Dr Philip Gamlen Dr Mike Bissett John Newlands 1950 Michael Goldsmid Jon Jeffery Nigel Underwood Professor Andreas Teuber Kevin Alton Honeywell Dr Pat Call Mark Pitter Anonymous Richard Gowing Graham Laurie Peter Walter Nick White David Howard Dr George Dempsey Professor Barnaby Reeves Professor Anthony Guest CBE Nicholas Lynam Nicholas Leonard Dr Roderick Woods Adrian Mitchell Timothy Down Dan Reynell QC FBA Professor Jack Matthews Michael Mann 1965 Edward Peacock Simon Egan William Ruff Professor Paul Harvey The late Geoffrey Poole Alan Matthews 1962 Anonymous Charles Price Professor Stephen Ferruolo Axel Salander Peter Hughes Charles Salisbury Stephen Orr Anonymous (2) Ian Alexander-Sinclair The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Dr Robert Galeta Professor Roger Woods Alan Jacobs Dr Michael Anson William Bailey Richards Hon Fellow Graham Heald Dr Damian Wren Michael Moriarty and Rachel 1956 1959 John Appleby Jeremy Baster Tim Roberts Richard Horrocks Moriarty Christopher Barclay Anonymous (2) James Berry Dan Bernard Anthony Robin Dr Yungtai Hsu 1974 Richard Brooks Peter Allan David Bodger Michael Bousfield Peter Robinson Nigel Inkster CMG Anonymous 1951 Dr Keith Corless David Brierley Robert Chase The Lord Fraser of Corriegarth Dr Andrew Russakoff Dr John Jolleys Stephen Barber Anonymous (3) Peter Hayes-Davies Charles Dixon Richard Harper Jonathan Davies Christopher Sawyers Dr Maurice Leslie Edward Bickham Michael Barclay Sir Michael Partridge KCB Dr William Anthony Gladstone Grahame Higginson Professor Michael Grace Michael Thomas Dr Giles Mercer Donald Castle Sir Alan Bailey KCB Hon Fellow Hon Fellow Peter Goodchild Ian Ingram Dr Peter Humphrey Crispian Villeneuve Oliver Payne Jim Dempsey Dr Francis Goodall Professor Robert Picken Robert Lyons Michael Lowe Dr David Hunt Baron Alexander von Ungern- Ed Rispin The Revd Jonathan Edwards The late Revd Canon Brian Peter Scott Professor Bryce Nelson Richard Moyse Marek Kwiatkowski Sternberg Alan Sandall Dr John Eyers Hardy Richard Timms OBE Dr Robert Oxlade The late Julian Nott Michael Pragnell CBE Professor Simon Watts David Scivier Dr Timothy Goldsack Brian Hussey John Wilshaw Christopher Parker Dr Anthony Pawley Dr Andrew Salmon Professor Stephen Sheppard Dr David Hope Michael O’Hanlon Peter Sadler Dr Geoffrey Penzer Anthony Whitestone 1969 Michael Staples Dr Nicholas Hyde Professor Brian Upton 1957 John Ingham Smith David Phillips Dr Christopher Wright David Antcliffe Jeremy White Andrew Mitchell Anonymous Peter Whittaker Michael Ross Tyler Baker Bruce Williamson Professor Lawrence 1952 Henry Amar Dr Peter Smail 1966 Geoffrey Bourne Oppenheimer Bill Carson Colin Bagnall 1960 Robert Wilson Anonymous (1) Philip Butcher 1972 Michael Phillips William Clarance Dr Anthony Boyce Hon Fellow Professor Ervand Abrahamian Peter Brown Jeremy Butterfield Professor Thomas Carbonneau Dr Michael Prior Dr Alistair Fuge Eric Coates His Honour Richard Behar 1963 Sir William Callaghan Andrew Campbell (in memory of his brother Robert Shaw The late Peter Mather Dr Alfred Frohlich Roy Collins Ian Armitage Phillip Drummond Canon Jeremy Cresswell Gregory) Duncan Straughen The Revd Canon Michael Robin Guenier Stephen Higginson Ralph Cake Professor Stephen Mitchell Clive Duncan Robert D Garvin Chris Tavare McAdam The Venerable Brian Halfpenny His Honour Judge Andrew Philip Cunliffe-Jones Hon Fellow Peter Evans Dr Daryl Goodwin Roger Thomas The late Ron Middleton Dr Raymond Harley Patience QC Michael Deeming Dennys Guild Geoffrey Forrest Nigel Hughes Roger Titford

38 39 Nicholas Walden 1977 Philip Best Shaun Spiers Dr Christopher Brown Ganesh Gudka Dr Tish Sheridan Luke Jacobs Nicholas Walsh David Adkins The Revd Nigel Bourne Robert Sulley Professor Richard Burgess, Ali Hampton Fiona Speirs Dr James Lin and Nisa Lin Paul Clarke Dr Pritpal Buttar John Trimbos FRSC Maurice Jones Dr Ian Stares Kilmeny MacBride 1975 Andrew Dell Michael Coffey Peter Wienand Dr Alexander Connock Christopher Kennedy Dr Julian Sutton Dr James Murray Anonymous Keith Douglas Tim Daw Dr Wolfram Diederichs Piers Kenyon and Helen Dr Rashmi Tank Darren Reeve Andrew Armitage Steven Fox Helen Graham 1982 Olu Fajemirokun-Beck Kenyon Lauren Taylor Dr Nicola de Savary Dr Christopher Burton Andrew Grand Alderman David Graves Anonymous (2) Sacha Farley Alastair Levy Dr Grant Taylor Juliana Snelling Christopher Chambers Geoff Hine Dr Philip Gunning David Batchelor Ira Feinberg Remmy Mahdi Yoong Kang Zee Dr Kirsten Travers-Uyham John Coleman Ian Hornby Anthony Kendall Lucy Baxandall Jonathan Hudston Christopher Penny David Dunn Brent Isaacs Matthew Kirk Dr Desmond Bermingham David James Meriel Pymont 1989 1992 Barry Elkington Dr James Keeler Howard Perkins Vincent Katz and Vivien Dr Eugene Lambert and Jana Paul Sherliker Denise Barrows Paula Aamli Bill Hanlon Larry Lowenstein Dr David Thomas Bittencourt Lambert Dr Edmund Stephens Professor Ricardo Martinez- Peter Banks Martin Homewood Jack Masri Alison Chadwick John Lee Sarah Thomas Botas Dr Jonathan Cooper Alastair Hunter Stephen Nokes 1980 Councillor Mary Clarkson Dr Sarah Marsden Lucy Vaughan Sarah Box Andrea Cornwell John Larocque Gavin Potter Johnny Aisher Richard Fedrick Toby Mason Alison Poole (neé Ward) Dr Jason Breed Dr Annick Depuydt The Rt Hon Lord Justice Dr Christopher Roberts Peter Allwright Anthony Forshaw Andrew Mitchell Joanna Broadbent Jeremy Douglas Lindblom Hon Fellow Dr Hugh Series Professor John Brosnan, FRSC Rupert Glasgow Dr Rod Morrison and Lynda 1987 Isabella Clarke Rosie Hemmings Dr Nigel Meir Fred Squire Cheryl Burgess Professor Wendy Erber and Morrison Dr Bill Calthorpe Richard Collins, FCA John Henderson Professor Andrew Morrall Boyd Steemson Polly Caffrey Professor Gary Hoffman Christopher Murgatroyd Professor Alexander Chase Desmond Duffy Alastair Holland William A Scott David Thomas Ruth Cox Rowan Howard Stephen Pells Dr Lisa Cowey Professor Bernard Haykel David Irvine Dr Kevin Singleton Sir Mark Warby Sarah Deaves Dr Catherine Lemon Andrew Ruffhead Robert Farrer-Brown Simon A Jack Peter King Dr John Strudwick Matthew Wilson Frederick Dove Angus McLeod Jurgen Rupp Jacqueline Bulman (neé Professor Jonathan A Jones Richard Parry David Turnbull James Goodman Dr Douglas Mintz James Ryan Garside) Dr Judith Landsberg Melanie Peeke Michael Waldman 1978 Dr Val Hennelly David O’Connell and Janet Dr Stephen Goddard Louisa Mander Jeremy P Smith Simon Waldman Jonathan Alexander Thomas Hill O’Connell 1985 Dr Michael Hicks Timothy Martin Philip Tippin Steven Woolley Mark Ashworth Ian Mumby Niels Sampath Jeremy Amies Dr James Lide Toby Owens Malcolm Walters Martin Bluemel Dr Frances O’Connor Rachel Sever Simon Artymiuk Ginny McCloy Kirsty Payne Dr Stuart Warwick 1976 Tim Bridges Michael Page Barbara Slater OBE Hon Fellow The Rt Revd Jonathan Baker Natalie Morley Michael Servent Dr Charlotte Woodford Anonymous (3) Tim Connolly Dr Isobel Pinder Tim Swain Hugh Boileau and Caroline Daniel Norcross Surinder Toor Peter Brodie Mark Everett Timothy Polglase Dr Michael Tappin Boileau Rosemary Parkinson Victoria Western 1993 Peter Brown Ian Hargrave Mark Pritchard Lois Thorley Professor Francois du Bois Alice Pedder Antony Woodhouse Anonymous (2) Paul Buckley Professor Andrew Harrison Dr Hugo Slim Dr Gary Watson Anne-Therese Carpenter and Nicki Robinson Jonny Allison The Revd Professor Euan Hon Fellow Matthew Spencer Douglas Carpenter Andrew Twigger 1990 The Revd Verena Breed and Cameron John Holmstrom Martin Symes 1983 Linda Flanagan Dr Katharine Wilson Dr Matthew Angling Dr Jason Breed Colin T. Clarkson Patrick Ingram Nick Williams Anonymous Dr Karin Galil Dr Patrick Woodford Sarah Angling Alexander Cameron Simon Dundas Ian Jameson Hugh Woolhouse Philippe Barbour Stephen Green Dr Glenn Baggley Alison Collins Dr Paul Fage Keith Jewitt Timothy Bennett Nick Hampton 1988 Simon Banks Dan Evans The Rt Hon Lord Hamblen David Leonard 1981 Professor Alexander Bird Jeanette Holland Dr Paul Agnew David Campbell Professor Stephen Fox Hon Fellow William Mackesy Christopher Adams Dr Ian Bostridge CBE Hon Fellow Nigel Hufton Ashish Bhadra Victoria Clark Hannah Gilbert Dr Peter Fyne Paul Maddox Jill Aisher Christopher Brunker Anne-France Morand Jason Davis Dr Gordon McKeaveney-Davis Dr Daniel J Guhr Clive Gerrard Dr Peter McDonald Kenneth Bailey Andrew Buckingham Patrick Moriarty John Hayns Melanie Denyer Peter Houlihan Richard Groves Roger Orr Susan Barrington Christopher Clinton Dr Christopher Norris Joanne Henton Bruce Gardiner Dr Glenn Leighton and Jeremy Harvey Dick Perkins Lawrence Brown Ian Corfield Sheila Pulham Dr Neil Hindle Dr Andrew Graham Nathalie Leighton Lakhbir Hayre Brian Porritt Dr Piers Clifford Mark Evans Mark Roper Dr Geoffrey Hudson Victoria Gravier Dr Rachel Patel (neé Dr Andrew Hodgson Anthony Pralle Brendan Cook Damian Gardner Ed Simnett Ryan Jarvis Anne Heaton-Ward Smallridge) Nick Hunsworth David Ryan Evan Davis Hon Fellow Dr Jonathan Gibson Nigel Slater Dr Ian Lilley Jonathan Inkson Dr David Phillips The Hon Keith Long Iain Sach Martin Gillespie Professor Peter Goddard Michael Spencer Ed Loach Peter Jarvis Chivonne Preston Neil Matheson Robin Schneider Joanne Harrison-Gross Martyn Holmes Dr Edmund Thomas Merryck Lowe Dr John King Adam Sandman Eamonn Matthews Johnnie Seidler Julie Horne Richard Klingler Henrietta Wallace Dr Nicola Luckhurst Michael Lamb Dr Yoshinori Sano Alan Morrison Dr Nick Starling Dr Kate Ince Ben Page FRSA FaCSS Charles Woolnough Melissa Makwarimba Dr Erika Milburn Dr Emma Slaymaker Dr Luke Newman Rupert Steele OBE Nicholas Jones Brendan Roche Jason Mann Dr Robert Mitkus James Perkins Richard Sutton-Mattocks Matthew Lindsey-Clark and Peter Warner 1986 Stuart Mercer Anne-Marie Milner-Moore 1994 Mark H Robson Dr Anthony Ringrose-Voase Frances Lindsey-Clark Frances Whitaker Anonymous Heidi Merrett Professor Marcus Munafo Anonymous Gavin Sanderson Ian Watson Catherine Mallyon Hon Fellow Jeremy Burke Julian Milford Alex Peeke Margaret Allen Michael Shallcross Christopher Wilson Carl Michel 1984 Clare Campbell-Smith Geoff Morgan Captain Greg Toyn Daniel Annetts Peter Thompson Gary Mitchell Anonymous (2) Sohrab Daneshkhu Christopher Norris and Helen Garry Borland Nicholas Tongue 1979 Dr Andre-Louis Rey Dr Myles Allen Hon Fellow Professor Andrew Fisher Norris (neé Stephenson) 1991 Claire Brice Dr Max Whitby Anonymous (3) Tim Sawyer and Sheila Sawyer Jonathan Berman Dr Rosalind Glasspool Dr Tamsin O’Connell Anonymous (2) Dr David Crosby Dr Martin Wood Sarah Beazley Dianah Shaw Rupert Boswall Professor Hans-Johann Glock Edward Sharp Rachel Barclay Dr Stuart Macdonald

40 41 Michael McDonough Allen Wang Harriet Roberts Dr Mark Jenkins Warendra Balakrishnan Julia Eales Sally Le Page Friends Jenny Rimbault The Revd Sven Waske Alastair Robinson Claire Jones Ruth Ball Ben Ellis Alexandar Peshev Anonymous (2) Phillip Scarr Professor Tyler Vander Weele Dr Katie Taylor Nathaniel Kent Helen Cullis Tess Ellison Gillian Pink Sarah Darby Corrinne Teo Christopher Lillywhite Robert Drabble Alexander Gozney Paolo Ronchi Dr Katharine Earnshaw Professor Matthew Wright 1998 2001 Natasha Mander-Wood Peter Griffiths Geoffrey Hall Dr Justine Schluntz Dr Laetitia Edwards Matthew Armstrong Emily Black Calum Kennedy-McConnell Cathy Han John Harfield Will Todman Angela Y Fu 1995 Karen Ashtiani Linsey Cole Alison Moreton Dr William Hwang Nicholas Higgins Uchechukwu Ukachi Professor Helen Fulton Anonymous James Ballance Henry Elliott Genevieve Shaw Gareth Jones Hugo Holmes Sam Ward Tanya McDonagh Maria Bohn Dr Ryan Baron Dr Alex Feldman Dr James Edwards-Smallbone Alan Kyffin The late Simon Kay David Wray Dr Marie Surridge Christopher Bowles Tim Bridle Stuart Glass Felicita Wallace Dr Yvonne Kyriakides Gabriel Lenagh-Snow Professor Bill Wagner Guy Bradbury Zoë Daligault Dr Henry Leventis Maurice Walters Peter Lockwood Martha Mackenzie 2011 Dr Trudy Watt Dr Dominic Brittain Olivia Hagger Dr Sarah Myers Elizabeth Warren Kieran Mahanty Fleur Mason Anonymous Joe Eagle Dr Oliver Holt William Naylor Timothy Williamson Nennia Orji Anthony Nutt Jennifer Appleton Thomas Ewing and Claire Justine Isemonger Alexandra Prior Laura Williamson James Osun-Sanmi Joel Phillimore Franz Bauerlein Staff Ewing Alison Lakey Sanjaya Ranasinghe Dr Peter Wright Mary Penman Jon Phillips Thomas Beauchamp Anonymous (3) Sarah Gauden Professor James-Mark Lazenby Stephen Robin Yaa-Hemaa Obiri-Yeboah Tom Perry Tabassum Rasheed Ophelia Cai Adale Bennett Dr Thomas Jestadt Dr Thomas Lockhart Sarah Robin Phoebe Sanders Charlotte Roberts Caecilia Dance Robert Crow Claire Kennedy Dr Andrew Plumb Michael Sew 2004 Dr Hazel Shepherd Sandra Stupar Alexander Edwards Denise Cripps Emma Krousti Dr Konrad Rusch Dr Joanne Taylor Anonymous Grace Wong Marta Szczerba Holly Ellis Dr Katherine Doornik Dr Quentin Mason Hilary Spencer Philip Anastasi Sarah Turner Fagan Harris Dr Georgy Kantor Zoe McKinnon Dr Sachi Srivastava 2002 Dr Robert Avis 2007 Simon Wardle Emily Hinson Professor Barry Murnane Dr Sven Peyer Laura Tavares Anonymous Esther Barrett Edward Barnes Edward Weng Marius Kat Professor Kate Nation Dr Eoin O’Sullivan Alison Turnbull Dr Alistair Bird Rajiv Bhala Mike Bryant Dmitri Zaporozhets Dr Chen Li Professor Maggie Snowling Anita Sharman Jack Waley-Cohen Dr Sungmin Chun Dr Lennart Brand Dr Laura Castelli Hamaad Mustafa Jacob Ward Edward Smith Robert Cook Dr Paul Crewe Alexander Chadwick 2009 Giulia Roverato Judge Ram Winograd 1999 Alexander Cooper Faatwima Diljore Carmen Chan Anonymous Jake Savile-Tucker Benjamin Wood Dr Lucy Astle Eleanor d’Arcy Bethany Farrand Thomas Cullis Helen Austin Benjamin Scrace Organisations Emily Bell Dr Jamie Darling Dr Rebecca Harris Nassali Douglas Annabel Barratt Hannah Seston Apple Matching Gifts 1996 Lorna Coventry Stacy Davies Andrew Holloway Jeremy Evans Jack Bradley-Seddon Jacob Swain Programme Anonymous Richard Diffenthal Natalie Dyce Kate Horsey Dr Richard Fawcett Helen Brooks Romilly Tahany Deutsche Bank Alison Baily Tate Greenhalgh James Hall Ellie Jestico Amelia Field Jack Clift Suyi Zhang Goldman Sachs Helen Ballard Louise King Andrew Henderson Harry Kretchmer Rebecca Findlay Siobhan Coote Google Via Benevity Makeda Bristol-Smith Andrew Kirton-Vaughan Dr Katherine Hyde Kelly McAree Dr Marcus Gildemeister Jessica Cummings 2012 Mackesy Charitable Trust Dr Jan Dehn Dr Steven Laurie Samuel Joyce Dr Hannah Pimperton James Gin Duncan Edwards Mohit Agrawal Macquarie Group Limites Neil Enright Thomas Mason James Littlewood Dr James Ross Michael Girkin Hannah Evans Robyn Ashley St Cross Centre for the History Dr Jutta Huesmann Sarah Miller Stephen Martin Joe Skeaping Matthew Green Dr Annette Fayet Sean Cannon and Philosophy of Physics Dr Jiejin Li Thomas Morfett Dr Catriona McAllister Dr Christian Honey Tarun Gupta Benjamin Eisert Zoe Lourie Matthias Osthoff Susannah Meeke 2005 Naoya Koda Fakhri Karimli Dr Olli Lupton Andrew Miller Dr Ewa Pilka Laura Poots Arjun Ahluwalia Rachel Loomes Dr Eliz Kilich Tanya McKinlay Dr Victoria Morgan Helen Sanders Rachel Robinson Yuk Cheung Henry Naish Apeksha Kothari Lauren Newman Anne-Catherine Ries Tristan Walker-Buckton Dr Louise Sherlock Sarah Davies David Parsons Jennifer Lowe Rustin Nourshargh Peter Ward Dr Martin Ward Kulveer Taggar Stacey Davies Nabeel Qureshi Dr Edward Peveler Dr David Obert Thomas Wu Dr Gemma Lewis-Williams Dr Christopher Turnbull Gemma Farnworth Jack Randall Thomas Preston Edward Rarity Bethany Walker Martin Henstridge Gabrielle Reason Laura Richards Dr Anna Zawilska 1997 2000 Dr John Weir Dr David Hewings Aled Richards-Jones Tristan Rogers Ying Zhang Anonymous Lesley-Anne Brewis Jonathan Wiseman Natalie Hockham Kate Rockliffe Sean Ruscitto Jennifer Back Antony Clegg Dr Alexander Woods Lucinda Ingram Dorota Sakwerda-Chrobak Rhian Stansfield 2013 Dr Tim Boyd James Folan Simon Worthington Rhys Jones Dr Ruth Slatter Adam Trepczynski Ameen Chekroud Dr Colin Coward Dr Vincent Hamlyn Dr Mantha Zarmakoupi Gareth Lott Ravin Thambapillai The late Dr Chris Waller Symeon Hunt Dr Steffan Davies Ryan Hayward Clement Naylor Benjamin Waterhouse Abidine Sakande Professor Linda Doerrer Mark Higgins 2003 Emily Palmer 2008 Victoria Skornia Dr Jacob Dunningham Sarah Innes Peter Clayburn Elise Passamani Anonymous 2010 SLt Danny Waldman RN Cecilia Fellows Dr Camille Koppen Neil Davies Dr Ben Pilgrim Hira Aamer William Balcombe Nadia Motraghi James Lakey Jonathan Day Dr Adam Povey Dr Dominic Affron Jessica Edge 2015 Alison Nicholls Selena McGuinness Natalya Dragicevic Kim Sofroniou Philip Bartlett Beth Lazzarato Edwards Isobel Fewster Jones Zoe Porter Dr Benjamin Mort Andrew Freer Yao Zhou Dr Jonathan Daly Dr Jessica Fay Yee-Lin Richardson Dr Aisha Phoenix Duncan Gould Dr Sarah Davidson Emily Fradd David Sheldon Marcus Pollard Alexander Halban 2006 Eugene Duff Jennifer Hegarty Charlotte Tillett Dr Thomas Rowlands-Rees Dr Leon Harrington Anonymous Alexander Dungate Megan Highcock

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Gifts in Kind Dr Hannah Alfonsa JRF – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Mark Bedingham 1974 – host of an Alumni Reception and Dinner in Singapore Professor Dorothy Bishop Hon Fellow – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Professor Katherine Blundell Fellow – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Sir Keith Burnett CBE FRS Hon Fellow – opened the Library and Study Centre Sir David Cannadine 1972 and Hon Fellow – delivered the 2019 Founder’s Lecture Dr Katherine Doornik Fellow – speaker at the 2019 annual Women’s Network Dinner and speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Mike Fitzpatrick 1975 – host of an Alumni Reception in Melbourne Robin Gorna 1984 – Chair of the SJC Women’s Network Diana Holmes Friend – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Ruth Huddleston 1980 – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Nicholas Hunsworth 1976 – host of an Alumni Reception and Dinner in Hong Kong Kate Kirkpatrick Friend – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Hermione Lee Friend – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Cressida Legge CBE 1987 – speaker at the 2019 annual Women’s Network Dinner Michael Lok 2012 – host of an Alumni Reception and Dinner in Hong Kong Professor Carolyne Larrington Fellow – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Dr Sabina Lovibond Friend – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Professor Philip Maini Fellow – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Michael McDonough 1994 – host of an Alumni Reception in Boston Professor Linda McDowell Emeritus Research Fellow – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Professor Ross McKibbin Emeritus Fellow – speaker at a 40 years of Women event Jenny Oliver 2005 – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Professor Gillian Rose Fellow – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Professor Angela Russell Fellow – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Neha Shah Friend – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Professor Rebeccah Slater Fellow – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Dr Peter Southern Friend – donated the library and papers of his late father, Sir Richard Southern President 1969-81 Professor Amia Srinivasan Fellow – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Bernard Taylor CBE DL 1975 and Hon Fellow – chair of Development Board Sue Vermes 1979 – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event Eve Worth Friend – speaker at a 40 Years of Women event

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