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The College Record is edited and encountered the work of Jackson Pollock produced by the Pembroke Development and other Abstract-Expressionist painters. Office. However, this considerable task He was one of the British artists to adopt would not be possible without the copious the movement but he also found other amount of time, effort and patience influences - in African sculpture and Zen put into gathering in all the information Buddhism. and content by Mrs Jo Church. We are He trained at the Edinburgh College of indebted to Jo for all her hard work, care Art in the late 1930s. In 1942 he won the and enthusiasm for this very important Guthrie Award for the best painting by a annual project. Please note that any errors young artist at the Scottish Royal Academy which may creep into the final publication summer exhibition. He went on to gain are the responsibility of the Development international recognition and today he Office. is considered by many to be one of the We are also grateful to the Committee most important British artists of the post- of the JCR Art Fund for permission to war era. His work can be seen in galleries reproduce the image that appears on the and museums worldwide, in Britain these back cover, Without Devices by Alan Davie. include the Tate and the Scottish National Alan Davie was born in Scotland. He Museum of Modern Art. served in the British army and worked as a jazz musician before taking up a career Front cover: Samuel Johnson circa 1742- in the arts. He was inspired by a trip across 1824, © University of Oxford Europe from 1948 to 1949 during which he

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Contents

Master’s Notes...... 4 Master and Fellows 2008-2009...... 7 Welcomes and Farewells in the Pembroke Community...... 12 Fellows’ Awards...... 17 Staff News...... 20 Fellows’ Publications 2008-2009...... 20 University and other distinctions...... 34 College Societies...... 39 JCR...... 39 MCR...... 40 Music and Drama...... 42 College Choir...... 43 Ball Report...... 45 Blackstone Society...... 46 On-line Magazine...... 47 Ornithology Society...... 47 Wine Society...... 48 College Sports...... 49 Damon Wells Chapel...... 61 The McGowin Library...... 63 The Emery Gallery...... 64 College Archives...... 66 Dr Samuel Johnson...... 69 The “Oxford Tradition” Summer Programme...... 76 Music and Pembroke...... 77 A Sung Grace for Pembroke College...... 78 So What Is The Record?...... 80 “….. We will Remember them”...... 83 Alumni News...... 87 The Pembroke Society AGM...... 94 Obituaries...... 96

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It was pleasing to welcome no less than Charles MacKinnon. Bob Clarke was one five new Fellows during the year: three of the original appointees as an Advisory Tutorial Fellows, one Fellow by Special Fellow in 1998 and Charles was appointed Election and one Advisory Fellow. two years later. Bob came to this role Brian A’Hearn (Economics) and Eamonn on the Governing Body from a long and Molloy (Management) were additional distinguished career as a captain of industry appointments, increasing to two our and his wisdom and experience, together number of Fellows in each of their subjects with his obvious devotion to the College, and reflecting our strength as a College proved to be a wonderful resource in the in those subjects. Clive Siviour joined as Governing Body and its Committees. In Fellow and Tutor in Engineering as the the case of Charles, in addition to his role replacement for Janet Smart (previously on the Governing Body, he had a long spell Efstathiou). These are all very welcome as Chair of our Investment Committee. additions to the strength of our Tutorial We are extremely grateful to them both for Fellowship. We welcomed back Roger their unstinting efforts on behalf of the Boning to the Governing Body as a Fellow College. by Special Election after an interval of a There was one retirement from amongst few years. Roger had previously spent 10 the academic members of Governing years on the Governing Body while Finance Body: after long and committed service Director of the Oxford University Press to the study of Law in Pembroke over and we know from that experience how some 35 years, Dan Prentice retired as valuable Roger’s contributions will be to a Professorial Fellow, having previously our deliberations once again. I commented served as a Tutorial Fellow in Law. We last year on the distinctiveness in Pembroke thank him warmly for all he did for the of the concept of Advisory Fellows and College. how important their external perspective is To round out the Fellowship news, we on the Governing Body. It was a pleasure were delighted to elect Dr Kenji Tanaka to welcome Beatrice Hollond as a new from Japan as an Honorary Fellow of Advisory Fellow. She was one of the first the College. Dr Tanaka has been a intake of women undergraduates to enter pioneer in the field of global education, the College (in the late 1970s). Beatrice working throughout his professional life brings very considerable experience in to promote international understanding the world of investment management and through educational opportunities. His her Advisory Fellowship is added to the achievements in this regard have been position she recently took up as Chair of recognised by awards in the United States our Investment Committee. and France. It was his combination of During the year we said farewell to two engagement in educational ventures and Advisory Fellows, Sir Robert Clarke and institutions around the world and in

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 4 11/12/2009 14:49 particular the integrity of his heartfelt funded by our own JCR committee, and visionary approach to international culture will subsequently attend a week’s residential exchange which led the Governing Body to course of their choice at Villier’s Park, an honour this distinguished but low-profile educational trust that offers such courses philanthropist. to ‘gifted and talented’ sixth formers, An exciting new Pembroke academic usually from poorer performing schools or initiative began during the last two years. backgrounds. This was our collaboration with Brooke We plan to keep developing the House Sixth Form College in Hackney. collaboration along the same lines in This began in the Spring of 2008, initially 2009/2010, with a new intake of Year as the occasional visit between the two 12 students. The overall aim at present institutions culminating in a week-long is not so much to encourage applications summer school in the College in August to Pembroke or Oxford specifically, but 2008 for a small group of sixth formers rather to raise their aspirations and skills to experience a ‘week in the life’ of an in order to apply to a research-intensive undergraduate at Oxford. The scheme has University. Participation in this scheme since gone from strength to strength, with has also been a stimulating experience for Newham Sixth Form College (New Vic) those of our own students who have been joining the collaboration, and a year-long involved. programme of extra-curricular lectures 2009 was the Tercentenerary of the birth and seminars around the theme of the of probably our most famous alumnus, Enlightenment delivered by our tutors and Samuel Johnson. A separate note in this local teachers to the new Year 12 group issue describes the splendid and much in both East London and Oxford. This applauded conference held in the College has culminated in a second very successful to mark the Tercentenerary; and the week’s residential course in August 2009 opportunity that was taken during it to for the new group. The students were name the former Staircase 8 as the Samuel mentored by five of our undergraduates Johnson Building. This remedied what I throughout the week, and received have always seen as an extraordinary void tutorials from three of our postgraduates in Pembroke not having any outward and at the beginning and end of the week. Two visible memorial to this great man. recent alumni also attended and delivered a There is no doubt, however, that for careers session to the sixth formers. the College officers and myself a major The three students who submitted the continuing preoccupation during the year best essays and were considered to have has been the project to create a fourth contributed the most to the programme Quad on land adjoining Brewer Street, to during the year have received ‘Scholar’ be connected to the main site by a bridge and ‘Exhibitioner’ prizes very generously from Chapel Quad. It is something of a

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 5 11/12/2009 14:49 miracle that we have been able, through my continuing responsibilities in the four separate transactions with different College. However, it has been fascinating sellers, to assemble a large piece of land in and fulfilling to attempt to improve the the centre of Oxford and right next door way in which Colleges relate to each to the main site of the College. The project other and collectively interact with the involves the building of a highly significant central University. I have certainly gained range of new facilities for the College greater insight into the way in which the immediately adjacent to the main site and complex federal structure which is Oxford joined to it by a bridge. The impact on University works. In this role I was an the College will be transformational. The ex officio member of the Council of the project received huge impetus during the University and have now been elected to year by receiving all the necessary planning continue as a member of Council for a permissions and by seeing the bank debt further year as an additional representative required as part of the financing put in place of the Conference. on very good terms. Our appreciation and My role as Chairman of the Conference thanks go to our Bursar, John Church, for of Colleges brought me into close contact his painstaking efforts leading the project with the then Vice-Chancellor, Dr John on behalf of the College. Hood, who has just stepped down at The missing piece in the jigsaw is the the end of his five year term. No Vice- sizeable portion of the finance which Chancellor can possibly please everyone all must come from fundraising. We have the time. However, I strongly believe – and made a good start on this, particularly know my view is widely shared – that John having regard to the difficult financial and Hood’s arrival as Vice-Chancellor in 2004 economic climate. Our gratitude goes to was timely and fortunate. In particular: those donors who have encouraged us by he brought a set of skills that enabled making significant lead gifts or pledges. perceptive analysis of the issues then However, we still have a significant way to affecting the financial and administrative go on fundraising before we will feel able structures of this University: a set of skills prudently to set sail by going out to tender that also enabled him to produce and for the construction. oversee a comprehensive and effective plan Not least because of the fundraising just of action to tackle those issues; and the mentioned, I have travelled extensively character and determination to see the plan during the year. My travels have taken me through, difficult as that was to achieve. to the US, Hong Kong and three times to Oxford has been fortunate to have him as the Middle East. It is always stimulating to Vice-Chancellor during this period. meet existing and new potential supporters We now warmly welcome the new Vice- of the College and explain our aims and Chancellor, Professor Andrew Hamilton ambitions. and look forward keenly to working with The academic year which ended in him. September saw the end of my two year period of office as Chairman of the Giles Henderson Conference of Colleges. This is a time- Master consuming role to carry out alongside

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Master PAUL WILLIAM SMITH, MA (BSc London, MSc Southampton, GILES IAN HENDERSON, CBE, PhD London), AMIEE (elected 1991) BCL, MA (BA Witwatersrand) (elected Reader in Engineering Science, Tutor in 2001) (Formerly Senior Partner, Slaughter Engineering Science and May) MALCOLM REGINALD Fellows GODDEN, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb) (elected 1991) Rawlinson and BRIAN JOHN HOWARD, MA, Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon (MA Camb, PhD Southampton) (elected 1976) Professor of Chemistry, Tutor in JEREMY SIMON HUDSON Physical Chemistry, Frank Buckley Fellow TAYLOR, MA (BSc Bristol, PhD in Chemistry London) (elected 1992) Tutor in Physiological Sciences, O’Brien-Abraham KENNETH MAYHEW, MA (MSc Fellow London) (elected 1976) Professor of Education and Economic Performance, STEPHEN DOUGLAS Tutor in Economics WHITEFIELD, MA, DPhil (elected 1993) Professor of Comparative Russian LYNDA CLARE and East European Politics and Societies, MUGGLESTONE, MA, DPhil Tutor in Politics, Rhodes Pelczynski (elected 1989) Professor of the History of Fellow in Politics English, Tutor in English Language and Literature HELEN WENDA SMALL, MA (BA Wellington, New Zealand; PhD Camb) MARK DAVID FRICKER, MA (elected 1996), Dean, Tutor in English (PhD Stirling) (elected 1989) Vicegerent, Literature, Jonathan and Julia Aisbitt Tutor in Biological Sciences Fellow in English Literature ALEJANDRO KACELNIK, MA, OWEN RICHARD DARBISHIRE, DPhil (Lic Enciado en Ciencias Biologicas, MA (MSc, PhD Cornell) (elected 1996) Buenos Aires) (elected 1990) Professor of Tutor in Management Studies, Sue Behavioural Ecology, Tutor in Zoology, Cormack Fellow in Management EP Abraham Fellow ADRIAN MARK GREGORY, MA TIMOTHY JOHN FARRANT, MA, (MA, PhD Camb) (elected 1997), Tutor in DPhil (elected 1990) Reader in Nineteenth Modern History, Damon Wells Fellow in Century French Literature, Tutor in Modern History Modern Languages

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 7 11/12/2009 14:49 CHRISTOPHER MELCHERT, REBECCA ANNE WILLIAMS, MA (AB California at Santa Cruz; MA BCL, MA (PhD Birm) (elected 2005) Princeton, PhD Pennsylvania) (elected Tutor in Law, Blackstone-Heuston Fellow 2000) Abdullah Saleh Fellow in Arabic ANNE E HENKE, MA, DPhil RAPHAEL HAUSER MA (Dipl. (DipMath Heidelberg), (elected 2005) Math ETH, MSc, PhD Cornell) (elected Tutor in Pure Mathematics 2001) Reader in Computing Science, Tanaka Fellow in Applied Mathematics GABRIEL UZQUIANO CRUZ, MA (Lic Barcelona, PhD MIT) (elected BENJAMIN GUY DAVIS, BA, 2006) Tutor in Philosophy, Robert and DPhil (elected 2001) Professor of Rena Lewin Fellow in Philosophy Chemistry, Tutor in Organic Chemistry LINDA MARIE FLORES, MA (BA STEPHEN GEORGE NEWSAM Penn; MA St Louis, PhD UCLA) (elected TUCK, MA (BA, PhD Camb) (elected 2006) Tutor in Japanese Studies, TEPCo 2003) Tutor in History Fellow in Japanese THEO MAARTEN VAN LINT ANDREW SETON, MA BPhil (MA, PhD Leiden) (elected 2003) (elected 2007) Strategic Development Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Director Armenian Studies HILDE de WEERDT, MA (BA CHRISTOPHER MARK Leuven; PhD Harvard) (elected 2007) TUCKETT, MA (MA Camb, PhD Tutor in Chinese History, Stanley Ho Lanc) (elected 2002) Professor of New Fellow in Chinese History Testament Studies, Tutor in Theology IRENE TRACEY MA DPhil (elected JOHN EDWIN CHURCH, MA (MA 2007) Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetic Camb), ACIB, C.Dip.AF (elected 2003) Science Bursar RvAdrewe ’d n Robert ARIEL EZRACHI, MA, MSt, DPhil Francis Xavier TEAL, BA (LLB, BB Coll. Man Tel Aviv) (elected PhD Birm, MA PGC Oxf, PGCE Oxf 2003) Tutor in Law, Slaughter and May Brookes, (elected 2008) Chaplain Fellow in Competition Law DAREN GEORGE BOWYER, ANDRÉ MARTIN FURGER, MA MA (BA Bristol, MPhil Camb, MA PhD (BSc BEd, PhD Bern) (elected 2003) Cranfield) MInstRE (Elected 2008) Home Tutor in Biochemistry Bursar GUIDO BONSAVER, MA (Dott BRIAN JOSEPH A’HEARN, MA Verona; PhD Reading) (elected 2003) (BA American University, Washington Deputy Dean, Tutor in Italian DC, PhD Berkeley)(Elected 2008) Tutor in Economics BRIAN JAMES ROGERS, MA (BSc, PhD Bristol) (elected 2003) Professor of EAMONN MARK MOLLOY, MA Psychology, Tutor in Pschology (BA, PhD Lanc)(Elected 2008) Tutor in Management JONATHAN LLOYD REES, MA (MB. BS, MD London), FRCS (Eng), CLIVE RICHARD SIVIOUR, MA FRCS (Tr&Orth) (elected 2004) Fellow (Msci PhD Camb)(Elected 2008) Tutor by Special Election in Engineering Science, The Richard and Ester Lee Fellow in Engineering

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 8 11/12/2009 14:49 ROGER CHARLES BONING MA, COLIN NICHOLAS JOCELYN Dlitt Oxf (Elected 2008) Fellow by Special MANN CBE, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Election Camb) FBA ERIC GERALD STANLEY, MA A CADEMIC DIRECTOR (PhD Birmingham) FBA

JOHN MICHAEL EEKELAAR, ZBIGNIEW ANDRZEJ BCL, MA, LLB Lond, FBA. Senior Tutor, PELCYNZSKI, OBE, MA, MPhil, Tutor for Admissions, Dean of Graduates, DPhil (MA St Andrew’s) Dean of Visiting Students JOHN HUGH COLIN LEACH MA GORDON HARLOW WHITHAM, AVI D SorY FELLOWS MA, (PhD Manchester) PETER JOHN FARTHING MA IAN PHILIP GRANT, MA DPhil, (to 2010) FRS JULIAN SCHILD, MA, ACA (to 2012) MICHAEL JOHN GORINGE, MA, DPhil, (MA, PhD Camb) BEATRICE HOLLOND, MA, (to 2013) JOHN RAYMOND ROOK, MA (BSc, PhD Manchester) ERME ITUS FELLOWS ALAN JONES, MA (MA Camb)

DOUGLAS GRAY, MA (MA New THE MOST REVEREND Zealand), FBA METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS TIMOTHY WARE OF PETER JOHN CUFF, MA DPhil DIOkLEtIA, MA, D.Phil EDGAR LIGHTFOOT, MA (MSc Lond, PhD Leeds), CEng, FICE, FISE JOHN SEBASTIAN (dec’d) KNOWLAND, MA, DPhil PIERS GERALD MACKESY, MA, REVD JOHN EMERSON PLATT, DPhil, DLitt , FBA MA, DPhil, (MTh. Hull) ARTHUR DENNIS JOHN MICHAEL EEKELAAR, HAZLEWOOD, BPhil, MA (BSc. BCL, MA (LL B London) FBA (Econ) Lond) MARTHA KLEIN, BPhil, MA, DPhil PAUL RAPHAEL HYAMS, MA, (BA Reading) DPhil IAN JAMES McMULLEN, MA, SIMON WALTER BLACKBURN, DPhil (MA PhD Camb) FBA MA (PhD Camb) FBA DANIEL DAVID PRENTICE, MA (LL B Belfast; JD Chicago) VERNON SPENCER BUTT, MA (BSc, PhD Bristol) REVD COLIN MORRIS, MA, FRHistS, FBA

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 9 11/12/2009 14:49 SPRUMU E N ERARY H ONOrarY FELLOWS FELLOWS JAMES McNAUGHTON ALEXANDER CRAMPTON HESTER, MA, DPhil (BA Princeton) SMITH, MA, (MB, ChB Edinburgh) NORMAN STAYNER MARSH, DA, FFARCS CBE, QC, BCL, MA (Dec’d) COLIN JAMES RICHARD SHEPPARD, MA, DSc, (MA, PhD Camb) IVOR SEWARD RICHARD, The Rt Hon Lord Richard of Ammanford, PC, JOHN ROBERT WOODHOUSE, QC, MA MA, DLitt, (PhD Wales), FBA ROBERT DOUGLAS DAVID STEPHEN EASTWOOD, CARSWELL, The Rt Hon The Lord MA, DPhil, FRHist.S Carswell, Kt, PC, MA (JD Chicago), Hon ANDREW JOHN KEANE, MA, DLitt Ulster DSc (BSc, MSc London, PhD Brunel) RICHARD GREEN LUGAR, MA ROBERT SAMUEL CLIVE DAMON WELLS, CBE, MA (BA GORDON, MA (PhD Camb) Yale, PhD Rice University) CHARLES CARROLL MORGAN, MICHAEL RAY DIBDIN MA, (BSc New South Wales, PhD Sydney) HESELTINE, the Rt Hon The Lord PHILIP CHARLES KLIPSTEIN, Heseltine, CH, PC, MA MA, (PhD Camb) ALAN JACKSON DOREY, MA, ROBERT WILLIAM THOMSON, DPhil, (Hon) DCL MA, (BA PhD Camb), FBA PETER BOLTON GROSE, MA MARTIN BRIDSON, MA, (MS, PhD (BA Yale) Cornell) RT HON SIR JOHN FRANK PIERRE FOËX, MA, DPhil, (DM MUMMERY, Kt, PC, MA, BCL Geneva) JOHN OLAV KERR, Lord Kerr of MIRI RUBIN, MA, DPhil, (MA Kinlochard, GCMG, BA Jerusalem; PhD Camb) JOHN ALASTAIR CAMERON, ROGER CHARLES BONING MA, The Rt Hon Lord Abernethy, MA Dlitt Oxf SIR ROGER GILBERT HELENA JANET SMART BANNISTER, Kt, CBE, MA, MSc, (EFSTATHIOU) MA (PhD Durham) DM, FRCP SIR ROBERT CYRIL CLARKE, SIR ROBERT cyril CLARKE, Kt, MA Kt, MA CHARLES FULLERTON HRH PRINCESS BASMA BINT MACKINNON MA TALAL, DPhil

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 10 11/12/2009 14:49 SIR PHILIP MARTIN SIR PETER RICKETTS, KCMG, BAILHACHE, Kt, MA MA HON. SIR ROCCO JOHN HIS MAJESTY KING VINCENT FORTE, Kt MA ABDULLAH II Ibn Al Hussein SIR MALCOLM KEITH SYKES, JONATHAN ROBERT AISBITT, Kt, MA (MB, BChir, MA Camb) MA HON PHILIP LADER (MA SIR IAN DUNCAN BURNETT, Michigan, JD Harvard) QC, MA SIR LEONARD HARRY PEACH, KENJI TANAKA, (BA LLM Keio, Kt, MA Japan) SIR GRAHAM HART, KCB, BA FNDTOU A ION WALTER SEFF ISAACSON, MA, (BA Harvard) FELLOWS HRH PRINCE BANDAR BIN ANDREW GRAHAM STEWART SULTAN McCALLUM, CBE, MA

SIR ROD EDDINGTON, Kt, DPhil IAN DONALD CORMACK, MA (BE, MEngSci Western Australia) ROBERT BOCKING STEVENS, KAI HUNG MICHAEL LEUNG, MA, DCL (LL.M Yale) (BA University of Hong Kong) THE LORD KREBS, Kt, MA, ABDULLAH MOHAMMED DPhil,FRS, FMedSci, Hon DSc SALEH SIMON WALTER BLACKBURN, DAVID ROWLAND MA, (MA, PhD Camb), FBA STANLEY HO, OBE COLIN NICHOLAS JOCELYN CHRISTOPHER CHARLES MANN CBE, MA DPhil, (MA, PhD Camb), FBA ROKOS, MA

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 11 11/12/2009 14:49 Wlcomese : which resulted in tighter financial controls and a substantial reduction in the level Brian Ahearn of UK service overheads. He also turned around a major IT project, and had the Dr. Brian A’Hearn vision to see the opportunities for the arrived at Pembroke Press and the University presented by the in the summer of old paper mill site at Wolvercote. 2008 as Fellow Roger Boning had the Honorary Degree and Tutor in of Doctor of Letters conferred upon Economics. A native him by the University of Oxford in May of the Washington 2009 in recognition of his outstanding DC area, he earned service to the University. The award was his doctorate at described in the following terms in that the University of California, Berkeley, “his commitment to the Press’s traditions and taught at the Universities of Munich has been whole-hearted; he has been a and Glasgow, and at Franklin & Marshall great servant to both the Press and the College in Pennsylvania, before joining University”. His considerable expertise Pembroke. In 2006 he was a Fulbright will be greatly appreciated at Pembroke scholar and visiting Professor at the in many areas. Pembroke is delighted to University of Rome - Tor Vergata. welcome him back. His research interests are in European economic history, particularly Italian. Eamonn Molloy Roger Boning I am absolutely delighted to be Roger Boning appointed as Fellow in (1969) read Greats Management Studies at Pembroke and at Pembroke College. was appointed a On the teaching front, Professorial Fellow in I’ve joined an excellent 1996, then becoming team consisting a Supernumerary of Ken Mayhew, and Brian A‘Hearn in Fellow for a short teaching undergraduate Economics and period before his Management. We normally have good return this year as a Fellow by Special students too. Presently, my role is to tutor Election. first year Introduction to Management Roger Boning worked in accountancy and final year Technology and Operations before joining the Oxford University Management. In addition I will continue Press, where his distinguished career to teach a range of classes for the Said spanned some 16 years in the International Business School where I previously held a Division and then as Managing Director post as University Lecturer in Operations from 1985 to 1995, overseeing the Press’s Management. This includes MBA operations across four continents. In Electives in Project Portfolio Management, 1996 he was appointed Group Finance Environment, Organisations and Director and, over the next decade, he Sustainability, and a module on the new played a central role in turning the Press MSc in Major Programme Management. into an organisation capable of generating In addition, I am also involved in setting up the funds that underpinned the transfers and teaching on a new MSc in Sustainable totalling some £300 million which have Urban Development that is being offered been made to the University. He was by The University of Oxford Department responsible for a number of key reforms for Continuing Education and the Prince’s

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 12 11/12/2009 14:49 Foundation for the Built Environment. am currently just about halfway through On the research front, I have a number doing the Munros (284 hills in Scotland of projects in the pipeline, each at over 3000ft). Among my many vices is a various stages of their life cycle. Nearing share in a Yakovlev 52, a Russian aerobatic completion is a piece of work looking at aeroplane that I fly whenever time, money, the relationships between new medical weather and frame of mind permit. If I technologies and the professional identities can’t walk or fly, I might be trying to teach of Surgeons. Supported by an ESRC myself piano, or, with the kind assistance Advanced Institute of Management award, and dwindling patience of my partner this research will shortly be published in Sasha, wrestling with the logic of Russian the journal Human Relations. In a more grammar. recent project, I’ve been using the Oxford English Corpus, a vast database of over two Clive Siviour billion words of English used by Oxford Dr Clive Siviour University press to track the development is Pembroke’s new of the English Language, to explore Fellow in various aspects of management language. Engineering, and a This includes a theoretical paper that asks University Lecturer why ‘verbing’, the process of turning in the department of nouns into verbs, is popular in academic Engineering Science. management discourse, a paper that He teaches Mechanical explores the difference between the terms Engineering to ‘project’ and ‘programme’ and a paper undergraduate students and performs that explores the association of the terms research on the behaviour of materials and ‘project’ and ‘programme’ with ‘success’ structures under impact loading. After and ‘failure’. The latter two papers will be graduating with a degree in Experimental published in the International Journal of and Theoretical Physics from the Project Management. In the early stages University of Cambridge, he continued to of development is a project that explores a PhD in the same institution, working on the link between capital theory and the development of new techniques for current policy framings of sustainability, understanding mechanical properties of in particular through concepts such as materials under rapid deformation. He natural capital and eco-system services. moved to Oxford in 2005, to take up Initial findings suggest that a good the position of Departmental Lecturer, deal of economic and natural science concurrently with a teaching post at St theory is being overlooked in the rush to Hilda’s College, which he held for three accommodate economic considerations years before starting his current position. in environmental policy. Further out still, I have in an interest in investigating how As well as improving our understanding we understand the sky, and linking this to of how the microstructure of materials debates around commodification of space affects their mechanical properties, and place. research into impact is of great significance As well as teaching and research, I’ve in improving safety and reducing pollution welcomed the opportunity to become associated with activities such as transport. involved in other aspects of College Dr Siviour’s research involves developing business and have accepted invitations to novel techniques for loading materials at join the Finance and Planning Committee speeds of up to 200 m/s to simulate, for and, for this academic year, to be a example, ingestion of foreign objects by a College Welfare Officer along with Hilde jet engine. These experiments are observed de Weerdt (Fellow in Oriental Studies). by cameras that operate at speeds of over Outside of College I enjoy hill walking and one million frames per second; the use of

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 13 11/12/2009 14:49 advanced optical analysis techniques giving NwH e oNORARY Fellows crucial insight into how materials and structures respond to impact events and Dr Kenji Tanaka how they can be improved to be safer and Dr Kenji Tanaka has been a pioneer in more lightweight. the field of global education and a leader throughout his career. In 1959, his family Beatrice Hollond founded the Tokyo Television Advanced Beatrice Hollond Technology School, today known as (nee Hare) came Technos College, to meet the needs of up to Pembroke students and industry in a rapidly changing College, Oxford in society. 1979 and was one Mindful of the increasing of the year’s first interdependence of the global community, intake of women. Dr Tanaka has worked throughout his She read Oriental professional life to promote international Languages (Arabic) understanding through educational and on leaving in 1982 started working in opportunities. In 1990 he established the the investment management industry firstly Tanaka Memorial Foundation in memory at Morgan Grenfell and then at Credit Suisse of his father, Juichi Tanaka, the founder First Boston, where she became the first of Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan. female Managing Director in the Group The Foundation promotes collaborations outside the United States. She specialised between Japan and other nations through in managing central bank and government culture exchange programmes. Pembroke assets, investing in the global currency and students take part in this programme. fixed income markets, with clients around The holder of three degrees from the world from Chile to China and many Keio University in Tokyo, Dr Tanaka has Middle Eastern institutions as well. received numerous honorary degrees from In 2001 she resigned from Credit Suisse institutions of higher education around the Asset Management and has subsequently world. In 1991, the government of France been appointed to the investment awarded him La Médaille de la Jeunesse committees of several family offices where et des Sports and in 1993, President Bill she is in charge of selecting investment Clinton honoured him as a Distinguished managers across multiple disciplines as Educator. Numerous international well as being responsible for overall asset foundations and associations benefit from allocation decisions. She was also appointed Dr Tanaka’s time and expertise. to the investment committee of Pembroke Dr Tanaka has been a Foundation College’s endowment fund, which she now Fellow at Pembroke since 1999. The chairs. Most recently she was invited to be Governing Body of the College elected an Advisory Fellow of Pembroke College. Dr Tanaka to an Honorary Fellowship of She is also a Governor of Bryanston Pembroke College in recognition of his School, Dorset, a Trustee of the Esmee philanthropic engagement in educational Fairbairn Foundation, a Trustee of the ventures and institutions around the world Conservative Agents’ Pension Fund and a and his innovative approach to education deputy treasurer of the Conservative Party, and the integrity of his heartfelt yet reflecting her main interests in education, visionary approach to international cultural the arts and politics. She has been married exchange. to James Hollond since 1985 and they have four children, two daughters and two sons aged between 19 and 10.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 14 11/12/2009 14:49 Frewella Charles MacKinnon Charles became an Sir Robert Clarke Advisory Fellow in In 1998 the College decided 2000 and served on to appoint three advisory Governing Body for 8 fellows to the Governing years. Body. The then Master, He arrived at the Robert Stevens, saw them College in 1973 to read as the Oxford equivalent of Human Sciences and was non-executive directors who would bring part of the (some would say) healthy rowing a broader range of experience to GB as it tradition of the College. On graduating, he moved to put Pembroke back onto a sound entered the reinsurance industry, working financial footing. Bob Clarke was one of in London and the US. In 1984-5 he spent these three alongside Bill Dorey (a former a year acquiring an MBA at INSEAD after Registrar of the University) and Jonathan which he joined Goldman Sachs for whom Aisbitt. All three of them had been he worked for 15 years. He then changed students at Pembroke and Bob was already direction completely, starting his garden in close contact with us, having been made design business. Before leaving Goldman an honorary fellow in 1994. He served on Sachs he had taken the RHS General GB for 10 years until the summer of 2008. Exam in Horticulture and subsequently Bob came to Pembroke in 1949 after he obtained an MA in Garden Design. two years’ national service. He read However, the lure of the City proved too Modern History and played soccer and strong and Charles dived back into its rugby for the College. Immediately after murky depths when he established his own graduating he joined Cadburys and ten flourishing asset management company. years later was managing director of its On GB he was always cheerfully confectionery division. He held a variety irreverent, willing to question long of other senior positions in the company established assumptions and thus able to until joining United Biscuits where he was offer a fresh perspective on many difficult managing director from 1977 until 1984 issues – one of the functions we had hoped and subsequently group chief executive that Advisory Fellows would perform. until 1990. Meanwhile he was heavily Towards the end of his period on GB he involved in fund raising for the Great started to doubt his own judgment when Ormond Street Hospital for Children. In he found himself too often agreeing with 1988 he started to move off solids and into the author of this note. Needless to say water becoming a non-executive director the said author firmly believes that these of Thames Water, where he served as doubts were entirely unwarranted. Chairman from 1994-99. As a Supernumerary Fellow he continues The College has been immensely lucky to be actively involved in College affairs, that someone with such a distinguished most importantly serving with a small private sector pedigree was prepared to group of other alumni from the City on devote so much time and energy to its our Investment Committee. Indeed until affairs. His participation went far beyond recently he was an extremely effective Chair GB, involving numerous committees and of this committee and continues to make ad hoc groups. Those of us who have an important contribution to developing had any role in managing the College will policies and procedures for managing the also have many memories of the discreet, College’s assets. cheerful and effective support he gave to us as individuals in difficult times. Ken Mayhew Ken Mayhew

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 15 11/12/2009 14:49 Dan Prentice our members, both academic and non- academic and of course students. When When, some time in called upon he has devoted prodigious 1973, Francis Reynolds amounts of effort to making sure that and I interviewed a “we” act with fairness and decency. fresh-faced applicant But of course, Dan is a lawyer, and an for the lectureship in academic. And I’ll tell you something, he business corporations really likes law! There have been many and a tutorial fellowship times when we have conversed about at Pembroke, I was some new developments which have already in my eighth year as a Fellow at really excited him: you know, the usual Pembroke. So when we appointed Dan, no “Dan” conversation, with all those spoken doubt I should have acted as some kind of footnotes - actually, conversed is the wrong mentor to my junior colleague. word - unless occasional interjections of Now is the time to acknowledge publicly, “yes” “good heavens” “amazing” can be as you might think is obvious for all to said to be one side of a conversation. But see, that I was a rotten mentor. But it is others will know more of Dan’s enthusiasm not because of how Dan has turned out, in and contributions to company and but because the mentoring and guidance commercial law. What I want to say is that, went the other way around. However I can while keeping all that going, Dan always only plea in some mitigation that it was an saw his role as teacher as paramount. As a uneven relationship: there was just myself Tutorial Fellow he never held back on his on one side, at that time, and on the other, college teaching, even brushing up Land there were two of them: Dan and Judith. Law to make up a full college portfolio: In the years I have known him I can no and after becoming a Professor, which more think of Dan without also thinking absolved him from College tutorial duties, of Judith than one could think of, say, he continued to look after and teach the (well, here fill in your own blanks : Romeo College’s BCL students, for which again I without Juliette – too slushy: Sullivan am grateful, and from which those students without Gilbert??) benefited so much. All this while devoting We know that when you take an issue his major teaching efforts in University to Dan and seek his views or guidance, he lectures, classes and seminars, developing will invariably have “taken advisement”, the Corporate Finance course, supervising so what you get back is this extraordinary graduates – and of course examining and enhanced form of wisdom. I certainly doing other things for the Faculty. The have benefited personally from this in University could not have had a better many ways, as I am sure others have, and I “good citizen”. want to thank them for this now. And teaching for Dan was always much Dan’s work as a lawyer and his more than simply imparting knowledge. contribution to the legal profession have I know, as his students will know, that it been celebrated on other occasions at meant genuine concern and interest about this time. Here we should think especially the student, and he will also know from about his life in the college. What I his ties with former students around the think is remarkable about Dan’s time world. at Pembroke has been the way he has Dan’s attachment to Pembroke could not identified so intimately with the whole have been more visibly shown than when college community. You seldom hear he specifically asked that he be allowed to Dan refer to “Pembroke” or even to the stay at Pembroke if he was appointed to “College” - but to “we” or “us”. So he has the Allen & Overy chair: which of course been deeply concerned how Pembroke, he was. I would like to think that one reason as an institution, that is: “we” – treat all why he has been so attached to Pembroke

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 16 11/12/2009 14:49 is that he saw something of himself in it. chemical biology with an emphasis on A friend of mine who often visits Oxford carbohydrates and proteins. In particular, and knows a number of colleges quite well the focus is on synthesis and methodology, recently told me that what he liked about inhibitor design, protein engineering, drug Pembroke was, compared to other colleges, delivery, molecular modelling, molecular its members (all of them, not just the biology and glycoscience. The work by the academics) were not “stuck up”: I asked Davis Group has already received the 1999 what he meant: he said he meant they were Royal Society of Chemistry Meldola Medal not “full of themselves”. Hopefully there is and Prize, the 2001 Carbohydrate Award, a some truth in that in regard to Pembroke. DTI Smart Award, a Mitzutani Foundation It is absolutely true of Dan, for whom for Glycoscience Award, the 2002 Philip pomposity and pretentiousness are among Leverhulme Prize, the 2005 Royal Society the cardinal failings known to man. Mullard Prize and Medal, the 2005 Corday- But while the College has I think mostly Morgan Medal and the 2006 International lived up to Dan’s standards, it has, like most Association for Protein Structure Analysis institutions, sometimes lost its way a little and Proteomics Young Investigator Award. bit. We have been fortunate that Dan’s This work focuses on the biological sensitivity has kept us from going too far roles of carbohydrates and it is becoming wrong in this respect, and fortunate in the increasingly clear that oligosaccharides, enormous part he has played in helping us carbohydrates in small clusters, act as markers keep to them. in important recognition processes such as microbial infection, cancer metatastasis Speech given by John Eekelaar, Academic and cellular adhesion in inflammation. The Director, at the Retirement Dinner held for application of understanding such systems Dan Prentice on 3rd October 2008. on a fundamental level leads to the design, synthesis and modification of potential F eLLOWS’ Awards therapeutic and biotechnologically applicable systems. In 2005, Ben Davis was appointed to the NORMAN HEATLEY Editorial Board of Carbohydrate Research AWARD 2009 and elected the UK Representative and Secretary of the European Carbohydrate Professor Ben Davis, Organisation. In 2006, he joined Professor of Chemistry, the Editorial Board of Organic and has won the 2009 Biomolecular Chemistry. Norman Heatley Professor Davis, together with Dr Award from the Royal Antony Fairbanks, is the co-founder of Society of Chemistry Glycoform, a small biotechnology company for his outstanding which works in the field of the therapeutic and innovative contributions to protein- potential of glycoproteins. In 2003, he carbohydrate chemical biology. This is a new was named as among the top 100 young award, sponsored by Pfizer,and is awarded innovators in the world by Technology Review, to highly promising career researchers the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in order to recognise and promote the (MIT)’s magazine of innovation. importance of inter-disciplinary and multi- In 2008, Professor Davis was awarded disciplinary research between chemistry the Wain Medal for Chemical Biology and and the life sciences. Professor Davis gave a was the first UK recipient of the American lecture at the 15th European Carbohydrate Chemical Society’s Horace S Isbell Award. Symposium in Vienna in July in connection In 2009, he was also the recipient of with this award. the Carbohydrate Research Creativity in The work of Professor Davis is on Research Award.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 17 11/12/2009 14:49 deR oBERTIS Prize some circles that the coexistence of contradictory narratives can be satisfactory The Argentinean in the long-term, arguing that the duty of Society for scientists and other scholars is to develop Neurosciences awarded a progressively evidence-based and hence its de Robertis prize for convergent view of the world. He explained 2009 to Professor Alex that while rationality for psychologists and Kacelnik, E.P. Abraham philosophers concerns whether actions and Fellow and Tutor for beliefs are based on reasoning as opposed Biology at Pembroke, in to resulting from emotions or unconscious recognition for his trajectory in research processes, theoretical economists are and education. Professor Kacelnik received unconcerned with how behaviour comes a commemorative medal and delivered about, and their notion of rationality his acceptance lecture, entitled Concepts of focuses on the consistency across sets of Rationality, at the Society’s annual meeting actions, labelling as rational those agents in Córdoba, Argentina, in September 2009. from whose behaviour it is possible to Alex Kacelnik studied biology at the devise an overarching preference criterion. University of Buenos Aires, and then In contrast with these two concepts, took a D.Phil in Oxford with research in the paramount organising principle of animal behaviour. He has been a fellow of biological theorising is evolution by natural Pembroke since 1990 and is also the head of selection, and the concept of rationality the Behavioural Ecology Research Group used by biologists is thoroughly dependent in the University’s Department of Zoology. on this. Besides his Oxford-based research he has The research for which Alex Kacelnik been a researcher or visiting professor at was recognised spans studies of insects, the universities of Groningen, Cambridge, toads, lizards, fish, birds, humans and Leiden, Lyon, Princeton, Buenos Aires, other mammals, dealing with topics as Alberta and the Free University in Berlin. diverse as the acquisition of preferences In recent years, Professor Kacelnik was by individual animals, the criteria used awarded the Zurich based Cogito Prize by birds to choose whether to fly or to for interdisciplinary contributions to the walk, how animals measure time or make social and natural sciences, was Fellow innovations in the use of tools and, for of the Institute for Advanced Studies in humans, whether it makes sense to trust a Berlin, and was elected a member of the partner taking into account whether he or Academia Europaea. she smiles or not (it does, Alex Kacelnik Alex Kacelnik’s research has roots in says with a smile). evolutionary Biology and branches into When asked which of his achievements Economics, Psychology, and Decision he was most proud of, Alex Kacelnik did Theory. In his acceptance lecture he not hesitate: “the many undergraduate, argued that theorising in each of these graduate, and postdoctoral students that fields attributes some form of rationality accompanied me so far and are now to the behaving agents it studies, be this working across most continents with -I humans, other organisms, or institutions, hope- some influence from my way of but that due to an unfortunate lack of looking at things, This allays the doubts I, interdisciplinary understanding, the as everybody else, occasionally have about concepts of rationality used in each the value of my contribution. I can’t ask discipline are often at odds with those for more.” in the others, thus hindering rather than promoting the scientific knowledge of the natural and social world. He expressed his disagreement with the view held in

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 18 11/12/2009 14:49 PROFESSOR KEN Ken continues to edit Oxford Economic Papers and of the Oxford Review of MAYHEW Economic Policy and to be actively involved in the national and international Last year Ken Mayhew policy community. He has advised a was made Professor number of Whitehall departments, the of Education and European Commission and the OECD, Economic Performance. as well as several foreign governments Ken retains his teaching and their agencies in, for example, Poland, responsibilities in Belgium, Sweden and Australia. He was Pembroke but these on the Academic Advisory Board of the days also spends much of his time working National Skills Taskforce. as the Director of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational READERSHIP Performance (SKOPE). SKOPE is a multidisciplinary centre, founded in 1998, Tim Farrant, and is based in the Oxford Department of Pembroke’s Fellow Education and the Cardiff School of Social and Tutor in French, has been awarded the Sciences. It is concerned with analysing title of Reader in the determinants of economic success, be Nineteenth-Century it of the organisation, the individual or the French Literature. His nation publications include Ken’s own current research work Balzac’s Shorter Fictions: lies mainly in four areas: labour market Genesis and Genre segmentation, the ageing workforce, the (Oxford: O.U.P., 2002), economics of higher education and low and An Introduction to paid work in the UK and Europe. He has Nineteenth-Century French Literature (London: just finished participating in a large multi- Duckworth, 2007). Balzac’s Shorter Fictions national project considering the future of questions received ideas about the author low end work in Europe and the US. Whilst as purely a monumental novelist, asking the UK, the US and Germany have a high how other genres informed the conception incidence of low pay, France, Denmark and and reception of Balzac’s work, whilst the Netherlands do not. The project has the nineteenth-century Introduction brings attempted to explain why the fortunes of Tim’s teaching and research to a worldwide those in the lower reaches of the labour audience. Tim is active in numerous force are so much better in some countries national and international societies in than in others. Interested readers may like French nineteenth-century studies and to buy the UK study (Low Wage Work in modern languages and has served on the the UK, edited by C. Lloyd, G. Mason and Dfes Higher Education Languages Ladder K. Mayhew and, Ken says, available from Panel. Tim has recently been awarded an Amazon at an unbelievably reasonable Arts and Humanities Research Council price). Ken’s research on higher education Grant for his current book on short fiction suggests that its rapid expansion in the UK in nineteenth-century France, a project in recent years has done little to improve which takes him, inter alia, onto territory the country’s economic performance explored with distinction by Pembroke’s and that it could well be having perverse first Fellow in French, Robert Baldick distributional effects, actually worsening the labour market prospects of working class kids.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 19 11/12/2009 14:49 STAFF NEWS FELLOWS’ PUBLICATIONS

Farewell To Brian Jordan BRIAN A’HEARN

Brian Jordan, who has worked for the Published Articles College as a night porter for ten years, retired in June 2009. Before joining ‘Quantifying Quantitative Literacy: Age Pembroke, Brian had spent his entire Heaping and the History of Human working life at British Leyland but he had Capital’, forthcoming, Journal of Economic clearly missed his vocation, for a better History, vol. 69, no. 4 (2009). personality could not have been found to With Jörg Baten and Dorothee Crayen, be the welcoming face of the College to students and visitors alike. Brian, who once ‘Height and the Normal Distribution: coxed for the City of Oxford Rowing Club Evidence from Italian Military Data’, has clearly relished all aspects of College Demography, vol. 46, no. 1 (2009). With life and has been a true Pembrokian. He Franco Peracchi and Giovanni Vecchi. will not be too far away from Pembroke and we hope to continue to see him in ‘Russian Living Standards Under the College. Tsars: Anthropometric Evidence from Daren Bowyer, Home Bursar the Volga’, Journal of Economic History, vol. 68, no. 3 (2008), pp. 900-929. With Boris Mironov.

GUIDO BONSAVER

Editor, with Martin McLaughlin and Franca Pellegrini, Sinergie narrative: Cinema e letteratura nell’Italia contemporanea

Brian Jordan and John Church, Bursar (Florence, 2008)

‘Mussolini’s Fascism, Literary Censorship Long Service Awards and the Vatican’, Primerjalna Književnost 31.Special Isssue (2008) pp. 53-64 The three recipients of a Long Service award this year, all marking 10 years are: Elio Vittorini: Letteratura in tensione (Florence, August 2008) Mini Amin (Hall) Geoff Greenwood (Scout/Maintenance) ‘Fascism and the Italian Intelligentsia’’, Brian Jordan (Night Porter) in: The Oxford Handbook of Fascism (Richard Bosworth (ed) OUP, Oxford, 2009), pp. 109-126

Dall’uomo al divo: un’intervista con Paolo Sorrentino, The Italianist, 29 (2009), 325- 337

‘Cent`anni di Elio Vittorini’, La Rivista dei Libri, 19.3 (2009), 31-34

(From left to righ) Brian Jordan, Geoff Greenwood and Mini Amin

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 20 11/12/2009 14:49 ‘Conversazione in Sicilia e la censura ‘Allyl Sulfides are Privileged Substrates in fascista’, in Esposito E. (ed.), Il demone Aqueous Cross-Metathesis: Application dell’anticipazione, Milan: Fondazione to Site-Selective Protein Modification.’ Mondadori, 2009, pp. Y.A. Lin, J.M. Chalker, N. Floyd, G.J.L. 15-29. Bernardes, B.G. Davis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 9642-9643 DAREN BOWYER ‘Reagent Switchable Stereoselective β(1,2) Chapter ‘The Moral Dimension of Mannoside Mannosylation: OH-2 of Asymmetrical Warfare: Accountability, Mannose is a Privileged Acceptor.’ K.J. Culpability and Military Effectiveness’ in Doores, B.G. Davis. Org. Biomol. Chem. The Moral Dimension of Asymmetrical 2008, 8, 2692-2696 Warfare. Counter-terrorism, Democratic Values and Military Ethics. Th. A. van ‘Chemical Site-Selective Prenylation of Baarda and D.E.M. Verweij (Eds.). (Leiden Proteins.’ D.P. Gamblin, S.I. van Kasteren, NL: Brill, 2009). G.J.L. Bernardes, J.M. Chalker, N.J. Oldham, A.J. Fairbanks, B.G. Davis. Mol. BEN DAVIS Biosyst. 2008, 4, 558-561

‘Probing the Glycosidic Linkage: Secondary ‘Facile Conversion of Cysteine and Alkyl Structures in the Gas Phase.’ J.P Simons, Cysteines to Dehydroalanine on Protein E.C. Stanca-Kaposta, E.J. Cocinero, B. Liu, Surfaces: Versatile and Switchable Access to B.G. Davis, D.P Gamblin, R.T Kroemer. Functionalized Proteins’ G.J.L. Bernardes, Phys. Scr. 2008, 89, 058124 J.M. Chalker, J.C. Errey, B.G. Davis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 5052-5053 ‘Conformational Choice and Selectivity in Singly and Multiply Hydrated ‘Chemical Approaches to Mapping Monosaccharides in the Gas Phase.’ E.J. the Function of Post-Translational Cocineroa, E.C. Stanca-Kaposta, D.P. Modifications’ D.P. Gamblin, S.I. van Gamblin, B.G. Davis, J.P. Simons. Chem. Kasteren, J.M. Chalker, B.G. Davis. FEBS Eur. J. 2008, 14, 8947-8955 J. 2008, 275, 1949-1959

‘Glycomimetic Inhibitors of Mycobacterial ‘From Disulfide- to Thioether-linked Glycosyltransferases: Targeting the TB Cell Glycoproteins.’ G.J.L. Bernardes, E.J. Wall.’ R. Lucas, P. Balbuena, M. Squire, S.S. Grayson, S. Thompson, J.M. Chalker, J. C. Gurcha, M. McNeil, G.S. Besra, B.G. Davis. Errey, F. El Oualid, T.D.W. Claridge, B.G. ChemBioChem 2008, 9, 2197-2199 Davis Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 2244-2247 ‘Solvent Interactions and Conformational Choice in a Core N-Glycan Segment: ‘Olefin Metathesis for Site-Selective Protein Gas Phase Conformation of the Central, Modification.’ Y.A. Lin, J.M. Chalker, B.G. Branching Trimannose Unit and its Singly Davis. ChemBioChem 2009, 10, 959-969 Hydrated Complex E.C.’ Stanca-Kaposta, D.P. Gamblin, E.J. Cocinero, J. Frey, R.T. ‘Chemical Modification of Proteins at Kroemer, A.J. Fairbanks, B.G. Davis, J.P. Cysteine: Opportunities in Chemistry and Simons. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, Biology.’ J.M. Chalker, G.J.L. Bernardes, 10691-10696 Y.A. Lin, B.G. Davis. Chem. Asian J. 2009, 4, 630-640

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 21 11/12/2009 14:49 ‘Systemic Inflammatory Response HILDE DE WEERDT Reactivates Immune-Mediated Lesions in Rat Brain.’ S. Serres, D.C. Anthony, Y. Books Jiang, K.A. Broom, S.J. Campbell, D.J. Tyler, S.I. van Kasteren, B.G. Davis, N.R. Songdai yanjiu gongju shukan zhinan— Sibson. J. Neurosci. 2009, 29, 4820-4828 xiudingban . Guilin: Guangxi shifan daxue chubanshe, 2008. 233 pp. ‘Carbohydrate-Aromatic Interactions: A Computational and IR Spectroscopic Book Chapters Investigation of the Complex, Methyl alpha-L-Fucopyranoside•Toluene, Isolated ‘The Cultural Logics of Map Reading: in the Gas Phase.’ Z. Su, E.J. Cocinero, E.C. Text, Time and Space in Printed Maps of Stanca-Kaposta, B.G. Davis, J.P. Simons. the Song Empire.’ In First Impressions: The Chem. Phys. Lett. 2009, 471, 17-21 Cultural History of Print in Imperial China (1000-1300). Ed. Lucille Chia and Hilde ‘Sugars & Proteins: New Strategies in De Weerdt. Under consideration, Brill. Synthetic Biology.’ B.G. Davis. Pure Appl. Chem. 2009, 81, 285-298. ‘Introduction’, co-authored with Lucille Chia. In First Impressions: The Cultural History ‘Peptide Secondary Structures in the Gas of Print in Imperial China (1000-1300). Ed. Phase: Consensus Motif of N-linked Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt. Under Glycoproteins.’ E.J. Cocinero, E.C. Stanca- consideration, Brill. Kaposta, D.P. Gamblin, B.G. Davis and J.P. Simons. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, ‘Neo-Confucian Philosophy and Genre: 1282-1287 The Philosophical Writings of Chen Chun and Zhen Dexiu.’ In Neo-Confucian ‘High Purity Discrete PEG Oligomer Philosophy. Ed. John Makeham. New York: Crystals Allow Structural Insight.’ Springer, forthcoming. R. Kreizman, S.Y. Hong, J. Sloan, R. Popovitz-Biro, A. Albu-Yaron, G. Tobias, ‘Centers of Imperial Power: China’s B. Ballesteros, B.G. Davis, M.L.H. Green, Early Capitals.’ In Europalia China. Sons R. Tenne. Angew. Chem. Intl Ed. 2009, 48, of Heaven. Ed., Jean-Paul Desroches and 1248-1252 Ilse Timperman. Brussels: Mercatorfonds, 2009, forthcoming. ‘Core-Shell PbI2@WS2 Nanotubes from Capillary Wetting.’ R. Kreizman, S.Y. Hong, Journal and Web Articles J. Sloan, R. Popovitz-Biro, A. Albu-Yaron, G. Tobias, B. Ballesteros, B.G. Davis, ‘Maps and Memory: Readings of M.L.H. Green, R. Tenne. Angew. Chem. Cartography in Twelfth- and Thirteenth- Intl Ed. 2009, 48, 1230-1233. Century Song China.’ Imago Mundi: International Journal for the History of ‘Glyconanoparticles Allow Pre- Cartography 61:2 (2009), 1-23. symptomatic In Vivo Imaging of Brain Disease.’ S.I. van Kasteren, S.J. Campbell, “Court Gazettes’ and ‘Short Reports’: S. Serres, D.C. Anthony, N.R. Sibson, B.G. Official Views and Unofficial Readings of Davis. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2009, Court News.’ Hanxue yanjiu (Chinese Studies) 106, 18-23 27:2 (2009), forthcoming.

‘Glycoprotein Synthesis: An Update.’ D.P. Gamblin, E.M. Scanlan, and B.G. Davis Chem. Rev. 2009, 109, 131-163.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 22 11/12/2009 14:49 ‘Mapping Communication from Mingzhou: John Eekelaar, ‘Law, Family and Networks of Correspondence.’ ‘Society Community’ in Gillian Douglas and Nigel for Song, Yuan and Conquest Dynasties Lowe (eds), The Continuing Evolution of Studies,’ 2008. Family Law (Jordan Publishing, 2009). Abbreviated in ‘Mapping Communication from Mingzhou: Networks of John Eekelaar, ‘Partners, Parents and Correspondence.’ Journal of Sung-Yuan Children: Grounds for Allocating Studies 38 (2009), forthcoming. Resources across Households’ in Bea Verschraegen (ed), Family Finances Book reviews (Jan Sramek Verlag, 2009)

‘Hong Mai’s Record of the Listener and Its Song ARIEL EZRACHI Dynasty Context’ by Alister D. Inglis, The China Review, 8:1 (2008), 170-173. Books

‘The Woman Who Discovered Printing’ by T. H. A Ezrachi, EC Competition Law, An Barrett, SHARP News 18:1 (2009), 10-11. Analytical Guide to the Leading Cases, Hart Publishing (2008) Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann and Georges Metailie: Graphics and Text in A Ezrachi & U Bernitz (Eds), Private the Production of Technical Knowledge in China – Labels, Brands and Competition Policy, The Warp and the Weft,” Bulletin of the School The Changing Landscape of Retail of Oriental and African Studies 72:1 (2009), Competition, OUP (2009) 213-216. A Ezrachi (Ed), Article 82 EC: Reflections Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy, and Steven Yao, on its Recent evolution, Hart Publishing eds. ‘Sinographies: Writing China,’ International (2009) Journal of Asian Studies 6:1 (2009), 113-115. Papers ‘ABYSMAL: A Critique of Cartographic Reason’ by Gunnar Olsson, World History A Ezrachi, ‘From Courage v. Crehan to Connected, forthcoming. the White Paper: The Changing Landscape of European Private Enforcement and Christian Meyer: ‘Ritendiskussionen am Hof the Possible Implications for Article der nordlichen Song-Dynastie (1034-1093): 82 Litigation’ in Art. 82 EC: New zwischen Ritengelehrsamkeit, Machtkampf und Interpretation, New Enforcement intellektuellen Bewegungen’, Bulletin of the School Mechanisms? (Eds, Mackenrodt, Conde of Oriental and African Studies 72:1 (2009), Gallego, Enchelmaier) Springer 2008 205-207. A Ezrachi, ‘The Interplay between the ‘Hong Mai’s Record of the Listener and Its Song Economic Approach to Article 82 EC and Dynasty Context’ by Alister D. Inglis, The Private Enforcement’, Global Competition China Review, 8:1 (2008), 170-173 Litigation Review (2008)

JOHN EEKELAAR A Ezrachi, ‘Merger Notification Thresholds: Reflections on the degree of Mavis Maclean and John Eekelaar, ‘Family exposure to competition law regimes world Law Advocacy: How Barristers wide’ (2008) 60 ICFAI Reader 13 Help the Victims of Family Failure’ (Hart Publishing, 2009)

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 23 11/12/2009 14:49 A Ezrachi, ‘Advertising, Brand Boddy, L., Hynes, J., Bebber, D.P. and Competition and Private Labels’ (with J Fricker, M.D. (2009) Saprotrophic cord Reynolds) in Own Labels, Branded goods systems: dispersal mechanisms in space and Competition Policy, The changing and time. Mycoscience 50 9-19. doi: landscape of retail competition (Eds, A 10.1007/s10267-008-0450-4 Ezrachi & U Bernitz), OUP (2009) Lehmann, M., Schwarzländer, M., Obata, A Ezrachi, ‘The Commission’s Guidance T., Sirikantaramas, S., Burow, M., Olsen, on Article 82 EC The (Uncertain Future) C.E., Tohge, T., Fricker, M.D., Moller, of the Effect Based Approach’ in Article B.L., Fernie, A.R., Sweetlove, L.J. and 82 EC “ Reflections on its Recent evolution Laxa, M. (2008) The metabolic response (Ed, A Ezrachi), Hart Publishing (2009) of Arabidopsis roots to oxidative stress is distinct from that of heterotrophic A Ezrachi, ‘The Darker Side of the Moon: cells in culture and highlights a complex The assessment of excessive pricing relationship between the levels of and proposal for a post-entry price-cut transcripts, metabolites, and flux . benchmark’ (with D Gilo) in Article 82 EC Molecular Plant 2 390-406. doi: 10.1093/ “ Reflections on its Recent evolution (Ed, mp/ssn080 A Ezrachi), Hart Publishing (2009) Rotheray, T.D., Jones, T.H., Fricker, M.D. MARK FRICKER and Boddy, L. (2008) Grazing alters network architecture during interspecific Peer reviewed papers: mycelial interactions. Fungal Ecology 1 124-132. doi:10.1016/j.funeco.2008.12.001 Furch, A.C.U., van Bel, A.J.E., Fricker, M.D., Felle, H.H., Fuchs, M and Hafke, *Tlalka, M., *Bebber, D.P., Darrah, P.R., J.B. (2009) Sieve-element Ca2+ channels as Watkinson, S.C. and *Fricker, M.D. relay stations between remote stimuli and (2008) Quantifying dynamic resource sieve-tube occlusion in Vicia faba. Plant allocation illuminates foraging strategy in Cell (in press) Phanerochaete velutina. Fungal Genetics and Biology 45 1111-1121 doi: 10.1016/j. Marty L., Siala, W., Schwarzländer, M., fgb.2008.03.015. *equal contribution Fricker, M.D., Wirtz, M., Sweetlove, L., Meyer, Y., Meyer, A., Reichheld, J.-P., Fricker, M.D. Boddy, L. and Bebber, Hell, R. (2009) The NADPH-dependent D.P. (2008). The interplay between thioredoxin system constitutes a functional topology and function in fungal mycelial backup for cytosolic glutathione reductase networks. Topologica 1, 004. doi:10.3731/ in Arabidopsis. PNAS, 106, 9109-9114. topologica.1.004 doi: 10.1073/pnas.0900206106 Ingle, R.A., Fricker, M.D. and Smith, Schwarzländer, M., Fricker, M.D. and J.A.C. (2008) Evidence for nickel/ Sweetlove, L.J (2009) Monitoring the in proton antiport activity at the tonoplast vivo redox state of plant mitochondria: of the hyperaccumulator plant Alyssum Effect of respiratory inhibitors, abiotic lesbiacum. Plant Biology. 10: 746-753. doi: stress and assessment of recovery from 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2008.00080.x oxidative challenge. Biochimica Biophysica Acta 1787 468-475 doi:10.1016/j. bbabio.2009.01.020

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 24 11/12/2009 14:49 *Schwarzländer, M., *Fricker, M.D., Müller , Samalova, M., Fricker, M.D. and Moore, C., Marty, L., Brach, T., Novak, J., Sweetlove, I.R. (2008). Quantitative and qualitative L., Hell, R. and Meyer, A.J. (2008) Confocal analysis of plant membrane traffic using imaging of glutathione redox poise in living fluorescent proteins. Methods in Cell plant cells. J. Microscopy. 231, 299-316. Biology 85 353-380. DOI: 10.1016/S0091- *equal contribution. Doi: 10.1111/j.1365- 679X(08)85015-7 2818.2008.02043.x Meyer, A.J. and Fricker, M.D. (2008). Tlalka, M., Fricker, M.D. and Watkinson, Imaging thiol-based redox processes in S.C. (2008) Imaging long distance live cells. In: Sulfur Metabolism in Phototropic *-aminoisobutyric acid transport dynamics Organisms. Ed: C. Dahl, R. Hell, D. Knaff, T. during resource capture by Serpula lacrymans. Leustek. (in press) Applied Environmental Microbiology 74, 2700-2708. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02765-07 Fricker, M.D., Bebber, D.P. and Boddy, L. (2008) Mycelial networks: structure and Fricker, M.D., Lee, J.A., Bebber, D.P., Tlalka, dynamics. In: Ecology of saprotrophic M., Hynes, J., Darrah, P.R., Watkinson, S.C. basiodiomycetes. Eds L. Boddy, J.C. and Boddy, L. (2008) Imaging complex Franklin and P. van West. Pp 3-18. ISBN- nutrient dynamics in mycelial networks. J. 13: 978-0123741851 Microscopy 231, 317-331. MALCOLM GODDEN Morgan, M.J., Lehmann, M., Schwarzländer, M., Baxter, C.J., Sienkiewicz-Porcuzek, A., The Old English Boethius: an Edition of the Old Williams, T.C.R.1, Schauer, N., Fernie, A.R., English Versions of Boethius’s De Consolatione Fricker, M.D., Ratcliffe, R.G., Sweetlove, Philosophiae, 2 vols., edited with S. Irvine L.J., and Finkemeier, I. (2008) Manganese (Oxford, 2009). superoxide dismutase is essential for protection of tricarboxylic acid cycle ‘King and counsellor in the Alfredian activity and maintenance of mitochondrial Boethius’, in Intertexts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon redox balance. Plant Physiol. 147 101-114. Culture Presented to Paul E. Szarmach, ed. V. doi:10.1104/pp.107.113613. Blanton and H. Scheck (Tempe, Arizona, 2008), pp. 191-207. Symposia and Book Chapters: ‘Ælfric and the Alfredian Precedents’, in A Fricker, M.D. Boddy, L. Nakagaki, T. Companion to Ælfric, ed. H. Magennis and M. Bebber, D.P. (2009) Adaptive biological Swan, forthcoming, 2009. networks. In Adaptive Networks: Theory, Models and Applications. Eds T. Gross and H. ‘The Alfredian Project and its Aftermath: Sayama (in press) Rethinking the Literary History of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries’, Proceedings of Hafke, J.B., Furch, A.C.U., Fricker, M.D. the British Academy (forthcoming). and van Bel, A.J.E.(2009) Forisome dispersion in Vicia faba is triggered by ‘The Alfredian Project and its Aftermath: Ca2+ hotspots created by concerted action Rethinking the Literary History of the of diverse Ca2+ channels in sieve element. Ninth and Tenth Centuries’. Sir Israel Plant Signalling and Behaviour. 4 (in press). Gollancz Memorial Lecture, The British Academy, London, January 2009.

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The Last Great War: British society and the Anne Henke and Rowena Paget. Brauer First World War, (Cambridge University algebras with parameter n=2 acting on Press November 2008) . tensor space. Algebr. Represent. Theory 11 (2008), no. 6, ‘Examinations’, in, History Skills (Routledge, 545-575. London 1996, 2008) Ming Fang, Anne Henke and Steffen (Forthcoming, Blackwell 200‘The United Koenig. Comparing GL_n-representations Kingdom’ in J.Horne (ed.) Blackwell by characteristic-free isomorphisms Encyclopaedia of the First World War 8) between generalized Schur algebras. With an appendix by Stephen Donkin. Forum ‘Adieu a tout cela; Comment les Anglais Math. 20 (2008), no. 1, 45-79. sortirent la guerre’ in, S.Audoin-Rousseau and C.Prochasson(eds) Sortir de la Grande Robert Hartmann, Anne Henke, Steffen Guerre ( Editions Tallandier, 2008), pp.47- Koenig and Rowena Paget. Cohomological 67 stratification of diagram algebras. Provisionally accepted by Math. Annalen The Last War: British Society in the era of the (32 pages). First World War (Cambridge UP, 2008) ‘Z_2-graded number theory’, A. Henke, O. Armageddon: A new History of the First Hadas& A. Regev, to appear in Arch. Math World War, Contract signed with Oxford University Press for delivery 2010. ‘Explicit formulas for primitive orthogonal idempotents of S(2,r). A. Henke, S. Doty Book Review & K. Erdmann, to appear in J.Alg.

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‘Adieu a tout cela; Comment les Anglais Isomorphisms between generalized Schur sortirent la guerre’ in, S.Audoin-Rousseau algebras, joint with M Fang and S Koenig. and C.Prochasson(eds) Sortir de la Grande Forum Math. 20, no. 1, 45--79 (2008). Guerre ( Editions Tallandier, 2008), pp.47- 67 (2) On Brauer algebras acting on tensor space, To appear in Algebras and The Last War: British Society in the era of Representation Theory. Published on the First World War (Cambridge UP, 2008) Online First (30. May 2008) Armageddon: A new History of the First World War, Contract signed with Oxford University Press for delivery 2010

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2008 “Improving the human capital of older workers”, Ageing Horizons, 2008 (with M. Martin S. Shapiro, Steven Siller, and Elliott & B. Rijkers) Alex Kacelnik, (2008). Simultaneous and Sequential Choice as a Function of “Returns to training at the firm level: Reward Delay and Magnitude: Normative, evidence form the Workplace Employee Descriptive and Process-Based Models Relations Survey”, a report commissioned Tested in the European Starling (Sturnus by City and Guilds, 2008 (with R. vulgaris). Journal of Experimental Fernandez) Psychology: Animal Behavior 34; 75¬93 DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.34.1.75 Low Wage Work in the UK, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2008 (edited with 2009 C. Lloyd and G. Mason)

Freidin, E, Cuello, M I, and Kacelnik, A. “Knowledge, skills and competitiveness”, (2009) Successive negative contrast in a bird: in F. Rauner and R. Maclean (eds), Handbook starlings¹ behaviour after unpredictable of TVET Research, 2009 (with E. Keep) negative changes in food quality. Animal Behaviour 77;857-865. “Low-paid work in the UK: an overview”, doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.12.010 in C. Lloyd, G. Mason and K. Mayhew (eds), Low Wage Work in the UK, 2008 (with Freidin, E. Aw, J and Kacelnik, A. G. Mason and M. Osborne) (2009) Sequential and simultaneous choices: Testing the diet selection and “Low pay, labour market institutions and sequential Choice models. Behavioural job quality in the UK”, in C. Lloyd, G. Processes 80:218:223. doi:10.1016/j. Mason and K. Mayhew, Low Wage Work in beproc.2008.12.001 the UK, 2008 (with G. Mason, M. Osborne and P. Stevens) Aw, J.M, Holbrook, R.I., Burt de Perera, T., and Kacelnik, A. (2009) State-dependent “Capitalist economies and wage inequality”, valuation learning in fish: Banded tetras Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Spring 2009 prefer stimuli associated with greater past (with W. Salverda) deprivation. Behavioural Processes 81: 333-336. doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2008.09.00 “Older workers and skills in Scotland”, a paper commissioned by the Scottish Wimpenny JH, Weir AAS, Clayton L, Rutz Government, 2009 C, Kacelnik A (2009) Cognitive Processes Associated with Sequential Tool Use in ‘Industrial relations, legal regulations and New Caledonian Crows. PLoS ONE 4(8): wage setting’, in Gautie, J., and Schmitt, e6471. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006471 J., eds. Low Wage Work in Wealthy Countries, 2009, New York: Russell Sage (with G., Kacelnik, A. (2009) Tools for thought Bosch and J. Gautie). or thoughts for tools? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ‘The story’, in Gautie and Schmitt (eds), 106 10071¬10072. doi:10.1073/ Low Wage Work in Wealthy Countries, 2009 pnas.0904735106 (with G. Bosch et al)

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 27 11/12/2009 14:49 “The impact of institutions on the supply ‘BBC English. In the Beginning’. In: side of the low wage labour market”, Schwyter, Jürg Rainer; Maillat, Didier; in Gautie and Schmitt (eds), Low Wage Mair, Christian (eds). Broadcast English. Work in Wealthy Countries, 2009 (with N. Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik Westergaard Nielsen et al. 33, G. Narr, Tübingen (2008), pp.197-215.

CHRISTOPHER MELCHERT ‘The Oxford English Dictionary; 1857- 1928’. In A. Cowie (ed.), The Oxford ‘The Life and Works of Abu Dawud al- History of Lexicography. 2 vols. OUP, Sijistani’, Al-Qantara 29 (2008): 9-44. 2008. pp.230-259, vol.I.

‘The History of the Judicial Oath in ‘’Living history’: Andrew Clark, the /OED Islamic Law’. Pages 309-26 in Oralité et lien /and the language of the First World War’. social au Moyen Âge (Occident, Byzance, In I. Tieken Boon van Ostade and Wim Islam): Edited by Marie-France Auzépy van der Wurff (eds.), _urrent Issues in and Guillaume Saint-Guillain. Centre Late Modern English. Peter Lang. 2009: de recherche d’histoire et civilization pp. 229-249. de Byzance Monographies 29. Paris: ACHCByz, 2008. ‘Benjamin Smart and Michael Faraday; The Principles and Practice of Talking EAMONN MOLLOY Proper in Nineteenth-Century England’. Forthcoming in M. Adams and A. Curzan Molloy, E and van Donk, D. 2009 (eds.) Contours of English and English ŒRationality and Irrationality in Projects¹ Language Studies: In Honor of Richard W. Financial Times, Fast Track to Success: Bailey. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Project Management, Prentice Hall. Press.

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Eamonn Molloy ‘Strategizing ‘“The Illusions of History”: Words in Communication’ 16 November 2008 Time and the OED’. Forth coming in G. Iamartino and M. Sturiale (eds) English LYNDA MUGGLESTONE Words in Motion, Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher. (2009) The Oxford History of the English Language (ed.), (Oxford University Press, ‘Received Pronunciation’. Forthcoming in Paperback edn. Sept 2008). A. Bergs and L. Brinton (eds.), Historical Linguistics of English, Mouton de Gruyter ‘Samuel Johnson the Undergraduate’, (2009). Transactions of the Johnson Society (2008), 5-11. The Oxford English Dictionary. Forthcoming in _Die großen ‘The Rise of Received Pronunciation’. Lexika Europas (Great European In M Matto and H. Momma, Blackwell Lexicons: European Dictionaries and Companion to the History of the English Encyclopaedias_) ed. U. Hass. Mouton de Language. Oxford: Blackwells (2008): 243- Gruyter 250.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 28 11/12/2009 14:49 JONATHAN REES ‘Retention of arthroscopic shoulder skills learned with use of a simulator. ‘Long term outcome of frozen shoulder’ Demonstration of a learning curve and C Hand, K Clipsham, J L Rees, A J Carr loss of performance level after a time Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery delay.’ Howells NR, Auplish S, Hand GC, 2008 Mar-Apr; 17(2):231-6 Gill HS, Carr AJ, Rees JL. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2009 May;91(5):1207- ‘Objective assessment of arthroscopic surgical skills: an application of motion ‘Prediction of rotator cuff repair failure by analysis’ N Howells, M Brinsden, H S Gill, histological analysis’ T. J. W. Matthews, M. A J Carr, J L Rees Arthroscopy 2008 Mar; D. Brinsden, N. A. Athanasou, J. L. Rees, A. 24 (3): 335-42 J. Carr Shoulder and Elbow 2009 Vol 1 (1):10-14 ‘A patient-reported questionnaire to assess outcomes of elbow surgery: development ‘Genetic influences in the progression and validation in a prospective study.’ of tears of the rotator cuff.’ Gwilym SE, J Dawson, H Doll, I Boller, R Fitzpatrick, C Watkins B, Cooper CD, Harvie P, Auplish Little, J L Rees, C Jenkinson, A Carr. S, Pollard TC, Rees JL, Carr AJ. J Bone J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2008; 90-B:466-73. Joint Surg Br. 2009 Jul;91(7):915-7.

‘Transfering simulated arthroscopic skills BRIAN ROGERS to the operating theatre: a randomised blinded study.’ N R Howells, H S Gill, A Rogers, B.J., Colam, C and Cant, C (2008) J Carr, A J Price, J L Rees J Bone and Joint Sensitivity to disparity modulations in Surg [Br] 2008; 90B: 494-499 ground plane surfaces,’ Journal of Vision 8 6 1087. ‘The pathogenesis and surgical treatment of rotator cuff tears’ J L Rees. J Bone Joint Rogers, B.J. (2008) ‘Helmholtz’s celestial Surg Br. 2008 Jul;90(7):827-32. sphere and the perception of straight lines,’ Perception 37 p125 (supplement). ‘Post-traumatic flexion contracture of the elbow: operative treatment with anterior Rogers, B.J. (2009) ‘Optic arrays and retinal capsular release.’ M D Brinsden, A J Carr, images: Discussion’ Perception 38 159- J L Rees. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery 163. and Research 2008 Sep 10; 3:39. Rogers B, Braunstein M L, Harris M, ‘Comparative responsiveness and minimal Lappin J S, Ono H, (2009), ‘Rogers and change for the Oxford Elbow Score Graham’s 1979 paper’ Perception 38(6) following surgery.’ J Dawson, H Doll, I 907 – 919. Boller, R Fitzpatrick, C Little, J L Rees, A J Carr. Qual Life Res. 2008 Dec; 17(10):1257- Rogers, B.J. (2009) ‘‘Deep implications’ or 67. Epub 2008 Oct 29. ‘an oversimplified approach’? – Gibson’s ideas 50 years on,” British Journal of ‘The morphological and Psychology 100 273-276. immunocytochemical features of impingement syndrome and partial- Rogers, B.J. (2009) ‘Are stereoscopic cues thickness rotator-cuff tear in relation to ignored in telestereoscopic viewing?’ outcome after subacromial decompression.’ Journal of Vision 9 8 288. Benson RT, McDonnell SM, Rees JL, Athanasou NA, Carr AJ. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2009 Jan;91(1):119-23.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 29 11/12/2009 14:49 Rogers, B.J. (2009) ‘Binocular Disparities, P Li, N Petrinic, CR Siviour, R Froud, JM motion parallax and geometric perspective Reed, ‘Strain Rate Dependent Compressive in Patrick Hughes’ ‘Reverspectives’ Properties of Glass-microbaloon Epoxy Perception 38 p60 (supplement) Syntactic Foams.’ Mater. Sci. Eng. A 515 (2009), 19-25, doi: 10.1016/j. Rogers, B.J. and Rogers, C. (2009) ‘Visual msea.2009.02.015 globes, celestial spheres and the perception of straight and parallel lines’ Perception 38 JL Jordan, CR Siviour and JR Foley, ‘Mechanical Properties of Epon 826/DEA CLIVE SIVIOUR Epoxy.’ Mech Time-Depend Mater, 12 (2008), 249-272, doi: 10.1007/s11043-008- CR Siviour, SG Grantham, DM Williamson, 9061-xd WG Proud, JE Field ‘Novel measurements of material properties at high rates of PROF I TRACEY strain using Speckle Metrology,’ The Imaging Science Journal, in press. ‘Physiological noise modelling for spinal functional magnetic, Pain relief as an CR Siviour and SG Grantham ‘High opponent process: a psychophysical resolution optical measurements of investigation.’ Leknes S, Brooks JC, specimen deformation in the split Wiech K, Tracey I. Eur J Neurosci. 2008 Hopkinson pressure bar,’ The Imaging Science Aug;28(4):794-801. Epub 2008 Jul 30. Journal, in press. PMID: 18671736 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] F Fosberg and CR Siviour ‘3D deformation and strain analysis in compacted sugar ‘Remembering John Newsom-Davis’ using X-ray microtomography and digital contribution to human imaging in Oxford.’ volume correlation.’ Meas. Sci. Technol. 20 Matthews PM, Radda GK, Johansen-Berg (2009) 095703 (8pp) doi: 10.1088/0957- H, Tracey I, Cowey A. J Neuroimmunol. 0233/20/9/095703 2008 Sep 15;201-202:250-4. Epub 2008 Aug 3. PMID: 18675466 [PubMed - MR Arthington, CR Siviour, N Petrinic and indexed for MEDLINE] BCF Elliot ‘Cross section reconstruction during uniaxial loading.’ Meas. Sci. Technol. ‘Resonance Imaging Studies.’ Brooks JC, 20 (2009) 075701 (9pp) doi: 10.1088/0957- Beckmann CF, Miller KL, Wise RG, Porro 0233/20/7/075701. CA, Tracey I, Jenkinson M. Neuroimage. 2008 Jan 15;39(2):680-92. Epub 2007 Sep R Gerlach, A Pabst, A Hornig, J Wiegand, 20. PMID: 17950627 [PubMed - indexed N Petrinic, CR Siviour and W Hufenbach for MEDLINE] ‘The interface between matrix pockets and fibre bundles under impact loading.’ ‘Investigation into the neural correlates of Compos. Sci. Technol. 69 (2009), 2024-2026 emotional augmentation of clinical pain.’ doi:10.1016/j.comscitech.2009.04.021. Schweinhardt P, Kalk N, Wartolowska K, Chessell I, Wordsworth P, Tracey I. CR Siviour, ‘A measurement of wave Neuroimage. 2008 Apr 1;40(2):759-66. propagation in the split Hopkinson Epub 2007 Dec 23. PMID: 18221890 pressure bar,’ Meas. Sci. Technol. 20 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE (2009), 065702 (5pp), doi:10.1088/0957- 0233/20/6/065702.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 30 11/12/2009 14:49 ‘Regions of interest analysis in ‘Determination of the human brainstem pharmacological fMRI: how do the respiratory control network and its cortical definition criteria influence the inferred connections in vivo using functional and result?’ Mitsis GD, Iannetti GD, Smart structural imaging.’ Pattinson KT, Mitsis TS, Tracey I, Wise RG. Neuroimage. 2008 GD, Harvey AK, Jbabdi S, Dirckx S, Mar 1;40(1):121-32. Epub 2007 Dec 3. Mayhew SD, Rogers R, Tracey I, Wise RG. PMID: 18226552 [PubMed - indexed for Neuroimage. 2009 Jan 15;44(2):295-305. MEDLINE] Epub 2008 Sep 24. PMID: 18926913 [PubMed - in process] ‘A common neurobiology for pain and pleasure.’ Leknes S, Tracey I. Nat Rev ‘Identifying brain activity specifically Neurosci. 2008 Apr;9(4):314-20. Review. related to the maintenance and perceptual PMID: 18354400 [PubMed - indexed for consequence of central sensitization MEDLINE] in humans.’ Lee MC, Zambreanu L, Menon DK, Tracey I. J Neurosci. 2008 ‘Imaging pain.’ Tracey I. Br J Anaesth. 2008 Nov 5;28(45):11642-9. PMID: 18987200 Jul;101(1):32-9. Review. PMID: 18556697 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] ‘Imaging CNS modulation of pain in ‘Volunteer studies in pain research-- humans.’ Bingel U, Tracey I. Physiology opportunities and challenges to replace (Bethesda). 2008 Dec;23:371-80. PMID: animal experiments: the report and 19074744 [PubMed - in process] recommendations of a Focus on Alternatives workshop.’ Langley CK, Aziz ‘Blood oxygenation level dependent Q, Bountra C, Gordon N, Hawkins P, functional magnetic resonance imaging: Jones A, Langley G, Nurmikko T, Tracey current and potential uses in obstetrics and I. Neuroimage. 2008 Aug 15;42(2):467-73. gynaecology.’ Vincent K, Moore J, Kennedy Epub 2008 May 29. S, Tracey I. BJOG. 2009 Jan;116(2):240-6. PMID: 18599315 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] CHRISTOPHER TUCKETT

‘Neurocognitive aspects of pain ‘Gospels and Communities. Was Mark perception.’ Wiech K, Ploner M, Tracey I. written for a Suffering Community?’ in Trends Cogn Sci. 2008 Aug;12(8):306-13. R. Buitenwerf, H. W. Hollander, J. Tromp Epub 2008 Jul 5. Review. PMID: 18606561 (eds), Jesus, Paul, and Early Christianity: [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Studies in Honour of Henk Jan de Jonge (NovTSup, 130),Leiden, Brill, 2008, pp. ‘Neuroimaging of pain mechanisms.’ 377-396. Tracey I. Curr Opin Support Palliat Care. 2007 Aug;1(2):109-16. Review. ‘Jesus Tradition in non-Markan Material common to Matthew and Luke’, in ‘An fMRI study measuring analgesia T.Holmen and S.Porter (eds.), The enhanced by religion as a belief system.’ Handbook of the Study of the Historical Wiech K, Farias M, Kahane G, Shackel Jesus, Leiden, Brill, forthcoming N, Tiede W, Tracey I. Pain. 2008 Oct 15;139(2):467-76. Epub 2008 Sep 5. ‘Jesus and the Sabbath’, in T. Holmen (ed.), PMID: 18774224 [PubMed - indexed for Jesus in Continuum (WUNT), MEDLINE Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2009 forthcoming

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 31 11/12/2009 14:49 ‘Form Criticism’, in W. H. Kelber and S. ‘Bad Company Generalized” Forthcoming Byrskog (eds), Jesus in Memory.Traditions in a special volume of Synthese on the Bad in Oral and Scribal Perspectives, Waco, Company Problem edited by Øystein Baylor University Press,2009 forthcoming Linnebo. (schduled November 2009) ‘Frege Meets Zermelo: A Perspective on ‘The Church as the Body of Christ’, in J. Ineffability and Reflection” (with Stewart Schlosser (ed.), Saint Paul et l’unité des Shapiro) The Review of Symbolic Logic, Vol. chrétiens, Leuven, Peeters, forthcoming 1:2, August 2008, 241-66. (keynote address at 2008 Colloquium in Rome) Work in Progress

‘The Current State of the Synoptic Prob- ‘Quantification’ ‘How Many Angels lem’ (keynote address at 2008 Colloquium Can Dance on the Point of a Needle?” in Oxford, due for publication in confer- Trascendental Theology Meets Modal ence volume to be published by Peeters, Metaphysics (with John Hawthorne) Leuven). STEPHEN WHITEFIELD Co-Editor of the Oxford Early Christian Gospel Texts series”. ‘Understanding Divisions in Party Systems: Issue Position and Issue Salience in 13 Post- GABRIEL UZQUIANO Communist Democracies’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), Comparative Political Articles Studies, 42 (2), 2009, 280-313.

‘Before-Effect without Zeno-Causality’ ‘The Europeanization of Political Parties in forthcoming in Noûs. [Penultimate version] Central and Eastern Europe? The Impact of EU Entry on Issue Stances, Salience ‘How to Solve the Hardest Puzzle Ever in and Programmatic Coherence’ (with Two Questions” forthcoming in Analysis. Robert Rohrschneider). Journal of Post- [Penultimate version] Communist and Transition Studies, 25 (4), 2009. ‘Mereological Harmony’ forthcoming in D. Zimmerman (ed.) Oxford Studies in ‘Russian Citizens and Russian Democracy: Metaphysics. Vol. 6. Oxford University Press. Perceptions of State Governance and Democratic Practice, 1993-2007’. Post- ‘Ineffability within the Limits of Soviet Affairs, 25 (2), 2009. Abstraction Alone’ (with Stewart Shapiro) 1-25. forthcoming in Ebert and Rossberg (eds.), Abstractionism in Mathematics - Status Belli. ‘Representational Consistency: Stability and Change in Political Cleavages in ‘Quantification without a Domain’ Central and Eastern Europe’ (with Robert forthcoming in O. Bueno and Ø. Linnebo Rohrschneider). Policy and Politics, 37 (5), (eds.) New Waves in the Philosophy of 2009. Mathematics. Palgrave. ‘Consistent Choice Sets? The Stances ‘Which Abstraction Principles Are of Political Parties towards European Acceptable? Some Limitative Results’ Integration in 10 Central East European (with Ø. Linnebo) The British Journal for the Democracies, 2003-2007’ (with Robert Philosophy of Science, Vol. 60: 2, June 2009, Rohrschneider), EuropeanJournal of 239-252. Public Policy, 2009, 37 (4).

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 32 11/12/2009 14:49 ‘Understanding Cleavages in Party Systems: Issue Position and Issue Salience in 13 Post- Communist Democracies’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), Comparative Political Studies, 42 (2), 2009, 280-313.

REBECCA WILLIAMS

Conference Paper ‘Causal Responsibility for the Actions of Others’ Charles University of Prague October 2006 (forthcoming publication of Conference papers).

Book

R. Williams, Unjust Enrichment and Public Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2009), 320pp.

Refereed Journal Articles

R. Williams, ‘Deception, Mistake and Vitiation of the Victim’s Consent’ (2008) 124 Law Quarterly Review, 132-159.

R Williams and R Shiers, ‘FII GLO (Chancery) and F J Chalke; tax and restitution developing harn-in-hand (2009) British Tax Review 365 (Cast Note)

R Williams and N Padfield, ‘Le Cas Anglais: L’absence d’interactions?’ in Genevieve Giudicelli-Delage, Stefano Manacorda (eds.), Cour de Justice et Justice Penale.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 33 11/12/2009 14:49 University and other distinctions

FI Rsts IN FINAL HONOUR SCHOOLS

Fachiri, Miss M. (Biological Sciences) Harris, C.J. (Biological Sciences) Cheng, F. (Medical Sciences) Bolger, J (Music) Hodesdon, Miss K. (Mathematics and Philosophy) Wickens, A.S. (Mathematics and Philosophy) Phelan, Miss S-J. (Mathematics) Milburn, N.P. (Engineering Science) - Institute of Civil Engineers Prize for best performance in Civil Engineering Duda, Miss A. (Experimental Psychology) – George Humphrey Prize in Psychological Studies (best overall performance in Psychology In FHS) and joint winner of the Gibbs Prize in Psychological Studies (best performance in Experimental Psychology FHS) Tophof, Miss N. (Experimental Psychology) Farrington, B. (Chemistry) Gerstberger, Miss S. (Chemistry) Russell, S. (English Language and Literature) Armstrong, C (History) Arnold, Miss E.M.M. (History) Hoyle, Miss C. (History) Matthews, D.J. (History) Jayne, Miss L. (Arabic) – Joseph Schacht Memorial Senior Prize (outstanding performance in Islamic Religion, Law or History in FHS) Butcher, R. (History and Politics) Hazell, W. (History and Politics) Jackson, Miss K. (Modern Languages) Deliss, L. (PPE) Banerjee, Miss R. (Jurisprudence) Kelleher, C. (Jurisprudence) Chin, Miss R. M. (Economics and Management)

OTHER AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

Brett, A. (Turkish) – Distinction in Oral Examination Jeffery, Miss C. (Arabic with Islamic Studies) – Distinction in Oral Examination Tarnowska, Miss A-C, (Arabic) Mustafa Badawi Prize in Modern Arabic Literature

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 34 11/12/2009 14:49 University and other distinctions DITNCS I TIONS IN GRADUATE FINAL EXAMINATIONS

Waite, Miss A. (M.St. English) Monk, I.P. (Accelerated Medicine) Skelton, Miss H.F. (Accelerated Medicine) Ball, Miss H. (MSc. Modern Chinese Studies) Ramzaitsev, D. (MSc. Financial Economics) Wall, J. (BCL)

FI DIRsts/ STINCTIONS IN FIRST PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS

Ainsworth, C. (Oriental Studies, Chinese) Evans, Miss R. (First BM Part II) Mansell, Miss S. A. (Experimental Psychology) Andrea, Miss P. (Fine Art) – Geoffrey Rhodes Commemorative Bursary Prize (for highest overall result in FPE) Tan, K. (Chemistry) Ahmad, M.F. (Engineering Science) – Crown Packaging UK Prize (for best performance in FPE) Williams, J.R. (Engineering Science) Bacharach, J. (Music) Crane, Miss J. (PPE) Du, Miss L. (PPE) Huempfer, S. (PPE) Johnson, Miss E. (PPE) Temple, A. (PPE) Mehta. Miss R. (Arabic and Islamic Studies) Smith, S. (Chinese) Baudouin, Miss C. (History and Economics) Idsater, H. (History and Economics) Judd, P. (History) Forshaw, M. (Mathematics) Pipalia, M. (Mathematics) Doyle, Miss A. (English Language and Literature) Paddock, Miss A. (English Language and Literature) Musker, W. (History and Politics) Sandkamp, A. (Economics and Management) Singh, Miss A. (Economics and Management) Tan, Miss M. Y. (Economics and Management) Dominik, Miss P.D. (European and Middle Eastern Languages)

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 35 11/12/2009 14:49 OTRP HE RIZES AND AWARDS

Duffield, Miss R. (Year 1 Arabic) – Joseph Schacht Memorial Junior Prize 2009 for outstanding performance in Islamic Religion, Law or History in FPE

C POlleGE RIZES

Sir Roger Bannister Scholarship: W. Hooton Bannister Medical Scholarship F. Cheng Blackett Memorial Prize O. Sadeghi-Alavijeh George Bredin Travel Fund T. Hill (not taken up) Arthur Felix Broomfield (History) E. Durbin Cleoburey Prize A. Wickens Crystal Prize (Law) Miss L. Wright Currie Prize Miss P.D. Dominik Farthing Prize for Constitutional Law Miss L. Wright Hansell Travel Fund C. Ainsworth A. Cockburn K. Cocks Miss H. Pearson Miss C. Daly M. Dowdall G. Hochberg R. Holtom V. Jeutner Miss N. Korotana A. Lindley Lovells Prize Miss C. Daly Monk Prize for Criminal Law Miss H. (Ruth) Kennedy Patrick Higgins Travel Scholarship Miss J. Romano Pier Giorgio Frassati Scholarship J. Plant Technos Prize Miss A. Duda Technos International Week Participants W. Cooke M. Dowdall L. Upton Miss S. Chu Paul Martins-BP Scholarship C. Read Picot Prizes Miss N. Badiey P. Gledhill Miss J. Goetz Miss P. Jarman Miss S. Paterson Miss M. Waszczuk Brian Wilson Scholarship (Chinese) M. Gigi Singing Scholarship Miss N. Singhal TEPCo Prizes Miss N. Griffiths Mrs. R. Hogben

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 36 11/12/2009 14:49 GAU R D Ate SCHOLARSHIPS Collingwood Prize E. Glucksman S. Wills Senior Studentships Arts: E. Bonfiglio R. Nicolson Science: C. Armstrong Miss S. Kazan TEPCo Scholar Miss H. Fu Graduate Scholars P. Monteiro E. Bonfiglio J. Rosaler Miss Y. Sadeghi Miss G. Kostka

S POrts

** Denotes University Team Captain * Denotes University Team Vice Captain Zillah Anderson Blue (Netball)** Oliver Baggaley Blue (Karate)** Marc Baghdadi Blue (Lawn Tennis) (Secretary Blues Club) Emma Baker Half-Blue (Archery) Rebecca Bayliss Blue (Judo) Rebecca Bayliss University Women’s Cricket Club Captain Charlotte Butler College Colours (Tennis) Charlotte Butler College Colours (Netball) Timothy Catling Blue (Rugby) Keith Cocks College Colours (Rowing) Keith Cocks College Colours (Hockey) Gbemisola Coker College Colours (Rowing) Matthew Cottee Half-Blue (Karate) Jonathan Coppel Half-Blue (Lightweight Rowing) Jonathan Coppel College Colours (Rowing) Gareth Davies Half-Blue (Water Polo) Etiene Ekpo-Utip College Colours (Rugby) Etiene Ekpo-Utip College Colours (Football) Etiene Ekpo-Utip College Colours (Tennis) James Finch College Colours (Rugby) James Finch College Colours (Cricket) Richard Haigh College Colours (Rugby) Jake Harris Blue (Ice Hockey)* Alexandra Hildyard College Colours (Rowing) William Hooton Half-Blue (Athletics) Omar Islam College Colours (Tennis) Omar Islam College Colours (Hockey) Omar Islam College Colours (Basketball) William Johnson Half-Blue (Athletics) Natalie Lister Blue (Lacrosse) Natalie Lister College Colours (Lacrosse)

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 37 11/12/2009 14:49 Natalie Lister College Colours (Netball) Georgina Mant College Colours (Rowing) Charles Oakes College Colours (Tennis) Charles Oakes College Colours (Hockey) Charles Oakes College Colours (Football) Jigar Patel College Colours (Cricket) Jigar Patel College Colours (Rugby) David Pickford College Colours (Football) David Pickford College Colours (Rugby) Alexander Sants College Colours (Rowing) Alexander Sants College Colours (Rugby) Rod Shephard Half-Blue (Rackets)** Rod Shephard College Colours (Squash) Rod Shephard College Colours (Hockey) Georgina Weetch Blue (Netball) Charlotte Williams College Colours (Rowing)

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 38 11/12/2009 14:49 College Societies

Th ni e Ju or Common Room

From the first, nervous suitcase unloaded more eclectic pursuits of women’s cricket on North Quad at the beginning of and mixed lacrosse. October to the final liberating picnic Music and drama have enjoyed similar consumed on Chapel Quad in the closing success. The Master’s Recitals this year days of Trinity; the JCR has permeated have been of an extremely high quality, every slice of undergraduate life in the last the Cuppers entry of Frost/Nixon was year. Pembroke College is an extraordinary accomplished and the musical ‘Into institution and an excellent place in which the Woods’ was a roaring success. The to live and study. It is permeated by an highlight of the varied Arts’ Week unfaltering sense of community spirit and programme this year was surely the play ‘a characterised by the wholly friendly nature comedic take on ‘Alice in Wonderland’ with of its many members. The JCR is central a focus very much on participation and to Pembroke’s student experience and I homegrown ‘talent’ with all cast members feel privileged to have played such a large being Pembrokians. One might say that part in its organisation over the last twelve this came at the expense of much actual months. acting talent but it was packed to the brim Entz, as ever, plays a prominent role at every performance and the spectacle was in Pembroke life. The new intake of first hugely enjoyed by all. To end the week on years and visiting students alike were a high, we were treated to the ‘Through introduced to the nuances of Oxford the Looking Glass’ Ball and Pembroke life with an excellent Freshers’ Week was transformed for one evening into programme including the annual ‘Name ‘Wonderland’ complete with live bands, Bop.’ Culminating in a hugely enjoyable shisha tent, silent disco and casino. foam party at the close of Trinity, The JCR Art Fund has been a particular undergraduates have been treated to a strength. The Fund seeks to advance both wide array of entertainment throughout academic and social aspects of College life the year. Particular highlights include the and continues to provide hardship and travel various formal dinners, a sunny trip to grants. The annual student art exhibition Thorpe Park and a JCR visit by Santa Claus profited from a change of location to the and his reindeer. Oak Room in the Master’s Lodgings and Pembroke remains a force to be reckoned the standard this year was extremely high. with on the sports field. From the serious We were additionally proud to host the nature of the rowing to the inflatable sumo artist Angela Palmer who came to discuss wrestling organised as part of a barbeque, her work with particular reference to the the JCR has maintained its reputation as a piece we have in the Emery Gallery. strong sporting college. Netball, football But it is not all fun and games. The JCR and rugby are the stalwarts but particular has an important function in representing success this year has been found in the the opinions and interests of its members

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 39 11/12/2009 14:49 on a wide range of college and university disseminate information to existing and committees. This task has been undertaken prospective students. It is hoped that this with great enthusiasm and the JCR is role will fill the gap by facilitating an up- pleased to take part in all aspects of internal to-date website as well as maintaining and and external decision making. A topic of distributing useful publications such as the particular interest is the ‘Fourth Quad’ Freshers’ guide and alternative prospectus. plans and undergraduates have contributed As can be identified, the JCR is always their views on many aspects of the project striving to do more for its members. A ranging from the intricacies of student particular weakness was noted in the help bedrooms to the seating arrangements in given to first years when they are initially the theatre. exposed to the Oxford housing market. In Pembroke JCR is rightly proud of the light of this, a housing guide was produced College’s illustrious history and is fully to assist them in finding accommodation committed to maintaining its special and a workshop was organised in traditions. Nevertheless, given the November with representatives present transitory nature of the undergraduate from OUSU, the Council and private estate body, it is entirely apt that the JCR should agencies. undergo a perpetual process of evolution I am pleased to report on a hugely and improvement. This year, the physical successful year for the JCR. My Committee surroundings have experienced a complete has been incredibly hard-working, helpful overhaul. Two skips were filled to the brim and good humoured and the achievements in September with many years worth of throughout the year are entirely attributable junk festering in the JCR Office and Ward to their great efforts. Despite total Perkins room. Following this gargantuan exhaustion at various points, I am very effort, small improvements were made proud to have led the undergraduate body throughout Michaelmas term including as JCR President and hope that I have the purchase of several new sofas. This made a positive difference to the College aesthetic enhancement culminated in the Community. renovation of the Ward Perkins room over the Easter vacation. It now plays host to Caroline Daly, JCR President a mural commissioned by the JCR and painted by a first year Fine Art student Penny Andrea. t ddhe Mi le Common The undergraduate body continues to be very supportive of the Access initiative Room and recently voted to provide a scholarship I am happy to announce that we have had allowing the most promising students on yet another successful year in the Middle the Brooke House scheme to undertake a Common Room (MCR), improving on summer school at Villiers Park-a charitable our ever-growing reputation as one of organisation that helps very able young the most active, cohesive, and spirited people to get into top universities. Another graduate communities in Oxford. As important advance has been the instigation always, we kicked off this academic year of an Alternative Prospectus- a document with Freshers Week, the magical and that the College is currently sadly lacking. frightening time of initial impressions, It is anticipated that this publication will be countless personal introductions, and the ready for distribution in the next academic odd bout of homesickness. Our annual year. “P-Party” rounded off the nine-day fun- To continue in this vein, the JCR now marathon, an opportunity for everyone has a dedicated publications officer. As to showcase their fancy-dress skills in the things stand, it is clear that Pembroke jovial atmosphere of our common room. is behind other colleges in its ability to

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 40 11/12/2009 14:49 Pachyderms, priests, prisoners, pirates, the launch of the gender-themed online parrots, and polka dots took the dance magazine Agendered, and through a floor for one night only in a colourful traditional afternoon tea party where our tribute to the lucky letter at the start of British students showcased the virtues of our college name. The year was properly white tea, clotted cream, and cucumber underway. sandwiches to previously unenlightened souls. We continued our discovery of Magical Michaelmas cultural Britain at the Gielgud Theatre Sufficiently acquainted with each other and in London, where we attended the play open to the indulgences of Michaelmas Enjoy! (Alan Bennett) as part of a day-trip Term – after all, exams were eight led by our in-house drama guru, Eleanor months away back then! – we enjoyed Decamp. We honoured our College an unparalleled range of events in those colours with a cerise-themed evening and early months. To walk off the stiffness even stepped back in time – to dance the of Matriculation Day, Master Henderson, Charleston – at our 1920s-themed Bop. All his wife, Lynne, and their two dogs, led us of us were now familiar with the rituals on a ramble through the beautiful autumn of Formal Hall, making exchange dinners countryside. In the cozy comfort of our with Green-Templeton College, including beautiful Wood Room, we tasted wine and a visit to their unique observatory, and to cheese at our “Soirée”, the gastronomic Worcester College, perhaps the second (!) treats carefully selected by Christopher most beautiful of them all, unforgettable. Best, MCR Sommelier extraordinaire. Our musicians, playing alongside the Berlin- Meanwhile, musicians Emilio Bonfiglio based conductor Christoph Ostendorf, and Laura Shearing led two mesmerizing treated a jam-packed chapel audience to yet classical music concerts in the intimacy another sublime classical music concert. of our Chapel, introducing many of us to Finally, we bid goodbye to Hilary with the objects of their artistic passion for the the first ever Research Seminar, where, very first time. by way of oral presentations set in the Master’s Lodgings, members Christopher In those eight inaugural weeks we Armstrong (pigeon navigation), Michael attended formal meals regularly and Finch (military history), and Femke shared the delights of our Hall experience Broekhuis (conservation biology) offered at dinner exchanges with Lady Margaret up a glimpse at what they do when they’re Hall, Hertford, and Brasenose Colleges. not stretched out on the MCR’s legendary At our SCR/MCR Seminar, Dr Bettina sofas. Wittneben and Dr Eamonn Molloy, a Pembroke Fellow, taught us the intricacies Work hard, play hard of economic theory and its relationship with environmental conservation. We Trinity Term is always a period of great played football, rowed, danced, watched change in the MCR, with exams and movies, ate pizza, played poker, and coursework (and croquet in the sun) taking enjoyed the black-tie Michaelmas Banquet precedence over social events, and with in record numbers. Amazingly enough, we newly integrated Committee members even did some work before coming up for frantically learning the ropes in preparation air just in time for the holiday season. for the next academic year. There’s always room for culture, however, and several Celebrating diversity members took time off from their busy schedules for another Decamp-inspired With a brand new calendar year and day out, this time to Stratford-upon-Avon Hilary Term upon us, we celebrated the to experience the Shakespeare comedy As rich cultural diversity of our community You Like It. with the first ever “Asia-Pacific Day”,

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 41 11/12/2009 14:49 The fruit of years of planning, Trinity’s Wood Room Prize (the first annual MCR MCR/SCR Seminar proved one of the essay competition) Benjamin Lundin highlights of the year, featuring Mark Henderson, Science Editor of The Edvard Glücksman, MCR President Times (and son of Giles and Lynne), in conversation with Peter Donnelly, Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Mcadusi n Drama Genetics. The theme of the evening was This year saw the continuation of the high the importance of genetics in society, level of quality expected of Music and a timely topic covered in Henderson’s Drama at Pembroke. As always there was a recently released book entitled 50 lot to offer students, from Cuppers Drama Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know to frequent music recitals, to Ceilidh (Quercus). Over 60 guests, including dancing in Arts Week. former-Chief Scientific Adviser to the At Fresher’s Week a large number of new Government, Sir David King, packed into students expressed interest in the music and Broadgates to participate in the one-hour drama scene, with many joining the Choir discussion, ending with a question posed and others both within College and across by the author’s mother. The Seminar was the University. The first event of the year followed by a High Table dinner, chaired was Cuppers Drama, the Inter-Collegeiate by the Master, including several guests of drama competition that is held in 5th Week honour and many members of the SCR of Michaelmas. This year our team chose and MCR. Only a few days later, at the MCR Collingwood Dinner, a group of Pembroke Students sang, for the very first time, the College Grace to music arranged by Christoph Ostendorf. A version of the score, signed on a scroll, was presented to the Master and will be kept in the College archives. Also at the Banquet, I handed over the reins to the new President, Laura ‘Alice In Wonderland’ cast Taylor, and to her newly elected Committee. The Committee, composed mostly of ‘Frost/Nixon’, and was ably directed by newcomers as of this year, are dedicated, Sam Smith. A lot of effort went into it, enthusiastic, and proactive: a sure sign and although it didn’t win any awards, it that, despite losing over half our members was very well received and a large crowd of this upcoming summer, the exceptional Pembroke students turned out to support spirit and outstanding camaraderie that it, and the whole cast greatly enjoyed characterises our Middle Common Room performing. Throughout the year we made will live on for yet another year. a concerted effort to start up a scheme to encourage students to go to performances, PRIZES AND AWARDS both acting and musical, by Pembroke W.H. Pembroke Prize (for service to the students which were taking place outside community): Christopher Best, Luigi of College, such as the prestigious OUDS Tanzini, Laura Taylor plays ‘A Few Good Men’ and ‘Don Carlos’, which featured Pembrokians in major Collingwood Prize (for academic roles. While there were always various achievement): Edvard Edvard Glücksman, other events taking place, the next project Samuel Wills of note was of course the annual Musical, this year taking place in 6th Week of Hilary.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 42 11/12/2009 14:49 ‘Into the Woods’ (Stephen Sondheim) was produced by Tom Sandeman, who was also This year also saw the start of what we head of Pembroke College Music Society, hope will become a tradition in the years and was ably assisted by Natasha La Force. to come – the Pembroke Photography Their experience from the previous year Competition, with the theme being really helped to pull off a spectacular ‘anything to do with Pembroke’. An performance: the costume and set design unprecedented number of students sent were both fantastic, transforming the Hall in entries, from pictures of the Pimms into a magical forest, and both the orchestra Party at the start of Trinity, to photos of and actors themselves were brilliant. While the College in the snow. Daren Bowyer, there were of course students from the Home Bursar, was the judge, and students from other colleges involved, after much careful deliberation, Galina there was a good number of Pembrokians, Stepanova’s entry was chosen as the and we hope that they will continue the winner. All the photos have been put up fine tradition of the Pembroke Musical in the college bar, and no doubt there will next year. be plenty more to add next year. Preparations for Arts Week began in the Throughout the week there were last few weeks of Hilary Term, and involved various lunchtime concerts in the Chapel, the two Music and Drama reps, as well as including an organ recital by Laurence the JCR President and the Art Fund rep, Lyndon-Jones, and a performance by a Caroline Daly and Hattie Noble. The whole fusion band playing an exciting mix of team was busy right up until Arts Week Western and Indian instruments, featuring itself, which was 3rd Week of Trinity. The Pembrokian Ramya Arnold on the veena. highlight was undoubtedly the play, which The Pembroke Ball brought Arts Week was Alice in Wonderland in order to tie in to a close, and while the whole team was with the theme of the 2009 Pembroke Ball, understandably exhausted, everyone felt ‘Through the Looking Glass’. The play was that the week had been a huge success. written and directed by Second Year Martin Sadly it was the last event of the year, Dowdall, and featured students from all since the exam period started the following years, including a large number of the JCR week and noise had to be kept to a Committee! Although rehearsal time was minimum. However it was an enjoyable limited, both performances of the light- and busy year, and was proof yet again hearted and witty play were incredibly well that the arts thrive in Pembroke. We hope received, to the point that many people had that this long-established tradition will to stand during the second show. However continue next year, and for many years to there was a lot more on offer during that come. week. We organized a Ceilidh, complete with a traditional ceilidh band, on the first day of Madeleine Bromige and Natasha Griffiths, Arts Week to be held in the marquee on Music and Drama representatives Chapel Quad, however bad weather meant that it had to be moved at the last minute to the Hall. A large number of students C OlleGE hoir came to the event, and despite the fact that It has been quite a ground-breaking year the majority had never done it before, it for the Pembroke choir including a CD was a huge success with many students recording in December and a tour to asking for another one next year. Other Milan in June. It was also a challenging events included performances by the year personally as for the second year Oxford Imps, and improvisation comedy running I was the only organ scholar. The group, and the Oxford Belles, a female- choral scholarship scheme is growing and only a cappella group, as well as a Circus we were delighted to welcome Eleanor Skills workshop.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 43 11/12/2009 14:49 Higgins as a new soprano choral scholar, Our wonderful host Giampiero Innocente and the choral bursaries system helped us provided us with lots of free ice-cream and to remain strong throughout the year. food throughout our brief stay, which went In Michaelmas term 2008 I was desperate down very well with the choir! We sang a for us to record a CD, which is often the programme of English choral music at hall-mark of a successful choir. There is two very well attended concerts in Lodi no recent evidence of a CD recording by and Crema, which were both broadcast Pembroke choir so the project was quite live on local radio. We also sang at a mass a challenge. Thanks to many different in St. Mark’s Basilica in Milan, a church sources of help in College, we were able with a very rich musical history featuring to accommodate a choir, two sound musicians such as Mozart and Verdi. My engineers and a producer at Pembroke for personal highlight of the tour was singing a few days to record in the Damon Wells Ding Dong Merrily on High to airport chapel. We were privileged to have the very staff at Parma airport at about 2am after Ryanair had landed us at the wrong airport, something I will never forget! Despite the circumstances, singing brought everyone together and it was probably one of the most enthusiastic performances of the piece ever heard. These two big events were not all the choir achieved last year. Other highlights include the ever-successful Christmas service and concert, and also carols at the JCR Christmas dinner. The choir particularly enjoyed singing a version of Gershwin’s I’ve got Rhythm to the words “I’ve got mince pies”! The choir was also accompanied by harpsichord, two violins and a ‘cello in the Buxtehude cantata Walts ‘Locus Iste’ Gott, Mein Werk Ich Lasse in Hilary term. experienced choral director Barry Rose as Last year’s achievements simply would not our producer, whose career has included have been possible without many different being the Master of Music at St. Paul’s and people. The chaplain Andrew Teal really St. Albans Cathedrals. After a few days of has been the driving force behind much intense rehearsal we recorded the entire of the recent success of the choir and his disc in sessions over two days. Then the support for the choir is quite incredible. long process of editing began, including a Myles Hartley, whose playing you can hear very hectic visit to York to see the sound on the new CD including some solo pieces engineer Lance Andrews in order to select by Purcell, was a tremendous help all year the best parts from many different “takes”. in providing very able accompaniment for The CD features a piece called Locus weekly evensong and the CD. The Master Iste written by Pembroke alumnus Tarik Giles Henderson continues to be a fantastic O’Regan, amongst other choral works and supporter of music at Pembroke and of organ music. Locus Iste is also the title of the choir in particular, without which the CD, as other tracks include the famous we would find it much more difficult to Bruckner motet of the same name as well flourish. The CD project brought together as a setting of the same text by David Halls. a number of departments in College and it In the summer of 2009 the choir toured was amazing to have the support of each to Milan and the surrounding area, staying of them, many thanks go to all involved. in a catholic college in the town of Lodi. Special thanks go to the annual fund and

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 44 11/12/2009 14:49 the JCR for providing us with vital funding Pressure, Bohemian Rhapsody and We Will for the CD and the tour, and also to the Rock You before completing the night with development office led by Andrew Seaton a curtain call and We Are the Champions. The for their support and advice. Quad was also the central point for food Next year there are plenty of new and drink during the evening. Classic party exciting plans including visits to sing at nutrition of a BBQ, pizzas and fajitas were Westminster Cathedral and another tour well received whilst the luxury cocktail bar abroad. I also look forward to working – serving ‘super premium’ Oval vodka – with our new organ scholar Sam Baker was in constant flow. who will be starting at Pembroke this term. Elsewhere, in North Quad, the JCR and Locus Iste is available in College from the Ward Perkins rooms provided additional conference office priced at £10. entertainment. The JCR was transformed into a psychedelic ‘silent’ headphone Laurence Lyndon-Jones disco and was popular from its opening Organ Scholar at midnight until the end of the evening – rarely has Pembroke been treated to such a collection of audibly out of key signing! B EAll R PORT The Ward Perkins meanwhile hosted a casino and, with the top chip winners On Friday June 15th Pembroke College played host to the bi-annual ball, an Alice in Wonderland night which promised to take guests “Through the Looking Glass” and into a fantasy realm of numerous delights. Although constantly threatened by rain, the night proved a spectacular success, the weather holding off leaving the 750 guests dry but no less cold! The College’s transformation saw North Quad Through The Looking Glass Ball 2009 become an enchanted forest featuring a stage packed with lively entertainments taking home prizes, including a case of including performances by Oxford vodka, there was a Las Vegas-esque high University Big Band, a jazz quartet and the stakes atmosphere. Oxford University dance team who put on Greatest praise, however, was saved for an exhilarating display before teaching even the Hall’s role as the venue for the Mad some of Pembroke’s most leaden-footed Hatter’s Tea Party. Those lucky enough to how to impress on the floor. The bike be amongst the first to join the Hatter were shed was turned into a rabbit warren which treated to an extraordinary array of cakes, played host to a well-received whiskey chocolates and vodka jellies laid out across tasting session. On hand was a Scottish the Hall, which created what one guest whiskey expert, guiding guests through described as “a truly magical atmosphere”. the six options and managing to retain his The arrival of Alice herself added to the sense of humour all the way until 3am! spectacle, as did music from critically Chapel Quad hosted the main stage which acclaimed Oxford a capella group Out of was filled by local bands at the beginning The Blue. of the night, before up-and-coming No Oxford, least of all Pembroke, ball ISK delivered the music connoisseur’s would be complete without sufficient bar performance of the evening. The biggest options to keep even the most discerning screams of delight, however, were saved of guests satisfied. Of particular credit for Monarchy – the UK’s top Queen to the night as a whole, however, was tribute band – who played classics Under that even those unable to partake fully in

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 45 11/12/2009 14:49 this traditional element had an enjoyable either studied law or have since entered the experience; 4th year Emma McMahon legal profession. commenting ‘even for us self-limited Several other dinners and drink finalists it was a really good night, although receptions have also been held throughout we didn’t go altogether thirsty!’ the year, sponsored by top law firms. One To all of the guests we, the Ball of these, the Lovells High Achievers’ Committee, thank you very much for Dinner, has now become an important attending and hope that you had every annual event at which current Law bit as enjoyable a night as we had. It is, as Students have the chance to celebrate both with all parties, the company which makes the achievements of recent Pembroke an event such as this truly special, and it graduates and the award of the Lovells was great to have been able to enjoy it with Prize for Academic Achievement. The so many of you. We hope to see you there prize is given to the law student who, by again in two year’s time! Hilary Term of their second year, has made the most significant academic progress James Finch, President since arriving at Pembroke. This year the winner was Caroline Daly, and we were BAK L C StoNE SOCIETY very pleased to welcome back to the event The Blackstone Society, the Law Society of Pembroke College, has had a great year in respect of speakers, lectures and dinners for Pembroke lawyers and their guests. The Society meets on a number of occasions throughout the academic year for talks, drinks and dinners, both formal and informal. At the heart of the society are of course the current Pembroke law students, but alumni, students from other disciplines and other Colleges also regularly Lord Carswell attend Blackstone events. Alex Harrison, a Pembroke alumnus and Particularly exciting this year was the Lovells associate, to award the prize. Last Inaugural Blackstone Society Grand year’s winner was Christopher Kelleher. Dinner, held in Trinity term. This event As part of the event we also celebrated saw the gathering of law tutors, current the achievements of Christopher Schuller, students and alumni together for an a former Pembroke lawyer who won the excellent evening thoroughly enjoyed by Manches Prize for Family Law in Final all. We were grateful and honoured to Honour Schools in 2008. He and Chloe have Lord Carswell as our speaker for the Mattison (a Somerville student who studied evening. Lord Carswell studied Classics administrative law alongside Pembroke and Law at Pembroke and was appointed students) held a discussion with the current a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 2004. undergraduates about their tips for success We hope that this will become an annual and for improving academic performance. event, providing current students with the In January, the Slaughter and May opportunity to meet former law students dinner was held to thank the firm for their of Pembroke and allowing alumni to continued support in the Pembroke Book maintain links with the College, and we Scheme through which the firm have been have provisionally scheduled the 2010 generously providing each student with a Blackstone Dinner for 30th April. The core text for every subject. Slaughter and dinner is open to all Pembroke alumni who May of course also sponsors the position

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 46 11/12/2009 14:49 held by Dr Ariel Ezrachi, one of the two wide online feminist magazine. The law Fellows and a University Lecturer in launch of the first issue was celebrated Competition Law. in Pembroke, with a keynote address by On the 16th of May, Professor Jack Oxford academic, Deborah Cameron Beatson, Justice of the High Court, (the author of the book “The Myth of gave the 31st annual Blackstone Lecture Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women entitled ‘Reforming an Unwritten Really Speak of Different Languages?”), Constitution’ which, as with previous and a poetry slam by Oxford alumna, Blackstone Lectures, was followed by Sian Robins-Grace. The large group of lunch in Pembroke’s Hall for Professor attendees then retired to the Pembroke Beatson and other distinguished lawyers MCR for champagne and chocolates. associated with the College. Earlier in the year, the Blackstone Society also hosted a Milos Martinov, Managing Editor. lecture and seminar given by John Guess, a solicitor in the Attorney General’s Office, entitled ‘imperfect union or imperfect ORI N THOloGY federalism? Or something perfect in the middle?’. This was especially useful to SOCIETY the first year undergraduates who were Pembroke Ornithology Society (POS) was studying devolution in Constitutional founded in Michaelmas term 2008. The Law in preparation for their Moderations, aim of the Society was to run a series of and the two events were open to undergraduates, postgraduates and Faculty across the University. (At present all such lectures are held in the St Cross Building of the Faculty of Law, but we hope that in future, with the construction of the new Pembroke Auditorium, we will be able to host them in College). We have thoroughly enjoyed being the Blackstone Society presidents and are sure Bird box that the Society will continue to flourish events ranging from those for genuine bird under its president(s) for 2009-10, Rosie enthusiasts to those with just a general Duckworth and Sophie Cuthbertson. We interest and with birds involved at some are grateful to the Master, and to our tutors, level! The first steps of the Society were to Ariel Ezrachi and Rebecca Williams for establish a committee, a constitution and their continued support and enthusiasm apply for official club registration with the for the Society and of course, the Catering Proctors. This was all successful, with vital and Conference Departments, in particular funding from the university (£125) and Juanita Hughes from the Development JCR (£100), with additions to these sums Office, for all her help. from membership fees. Having established the basics, and with the aid of senior Clara Zhang and Natalie Lister, Blackstone member John Quinn, POS’s activities Society Presidents could then get underway. We visited the North Norfolk coast for a winter trip to Cley, helped in counts by the RSPB, such ONMNLI E AGAZINE as the annual garden birdwatch, and placed six bird boxes in Pembroke and, thus far, Milos Martinov is the co-founder and two at other colleges, which enabled us managing editor of Agendered magazine to partake in national nest box week, and (www.agendered.com), the first Oxford- which will hopefully lead to a long term

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 47 11/12/2009 14:49 project looking into bird cognitive ability. evening was a most thorough and pleasant This is in addition to meetings throughout introduction to some of the best wines the term, trips to Port Meadow, a termly available from France. Later in the year we and growing publication, The Birdsheet, and had the opportunity to take a closer look social events such as an Easter egg hunt in at wine growing in France when our guest Pembroke’s North and Chapel Quads, and speaker, Tim Ford, of the award-winning the POS Annual Summer Ball. In Hilary Domaine Gayda, based in the Languedoc, term 2009, Howie Watkins, former BBC generously provided the society with several “Really Wild Show” Presenter had agreed to cases of wine and gave an introduction to give the Society a talk on penguins, though each wine and a fascinating overview of sadly he had to cancel at short notice. the production of wine. In what was our The second year is likely to determine the final and largest event of the year we were long term future of the Society, but given guided through four of Lanson’s finest the level of interest in the College, there champagnes by Lisa Bennett from Lanson. is no reason why POS cannot become a The champagnes were accompanied by a permanent fixture in Pembroke’s illustrious selection of mouth-watering chocolates collection of societies. and strawberries. The feedback from those who have Alastair Cockburn, Pembroke Ornithology attended the tasting evenings has been Society President overwhelmingly positive. Everyone has gained a great deal from these informative introductions and many are beginning to WINOI E S C ETY develop a real appreciation for fine wine. The appeal of the society to a broad cross- The Pembroke Wine Society has had a section of Pembroke society is also evident most successful year hosting several sell- in our committee which is made up of two out tasting evenings in college. From first first year students, a finalist and our senior year undergraduates to senior members member, John Church who has been a great of staff, all have enjoyed the fine wines, help in the organisation of every event. We delicious nibbles and informative also have been very lucky to have had the presentations offered at every event. support of Pembroke’s Steward, Robert After the formation of a new committee, Wilson, and the Hall staff. The society’s Michaelmas began with an introduction tasting evenings have become a highlight to the wines and cheeses of France by of term for many a student and even after Pembroke’s very own Bursar, John Church, I have left Pembroke this summer, I look and his wife, Jo. In our whirlwind tour of forward to returning for the exciting events, French wines, we tasted a variety of red, which I know that next year’s Presidents, white and dessert wines, each accompanied Oliver Ford and Paris Penman-Davies, are by carefully selected cheeses. Whilst it is of already planning. course impossible to experience all that the French vines have to offer in two hours, the Amanda Taylor . Co-President, Wine Society

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Me n’s Boat Club the coaching responsibilities – and the results were noticeable. The first top 100 finish (67th) by an Oxbridge college in the Four’s Head was soon achieved, as well as a very positive result at the Fairbairn’s cup in Cambridge. Having finished a disappointing 5th the year before, well adrift of First and Third Trinity in first place, PCBC achieved a well deserved 2nd place, only five seconds off the overall winning time from First and Third Trinity. To go to the Cam and beat almost all of MI the colleges there on their own water was a sign of things to come, and put the crew The 2007/8 season was another one of in a much stronger position at the end of ‘almosts’ for PCBC – the Men’s first VIII Michaelmas compared with the previous had found itself just missing out on the year. Coupled with a collection of strong Torpids Headship, and due to equipment and enthusiastic Freshers, it looked as if failure slipping down three places in Hilary term was only going to see further Summer Eights. Earlier in the season they improvement from PCBC. had been denied a respectable place at the After the disappointment of the previous Fairbairn cup, and similar misfortune had year, the VIII found themselves in 2nd struck at the Four’s Head when a victory place at the start of the campaign. Despite was certainly on the cards until a rather the annual problem of heavy flooding, poor piece of coxing from the crew being and added obstacle of serious snow fall overtaken by PCBC led to a crash. this year, a solid 10-14 sessions of training 2008/9 started at PCBC with far more a week was undertaken, and it paid off. intent – a new committee was complimented The Wednesday of Torpids saw a calm by an almost complete returning men’s 1st and controlled row that allowed Magdalen VIII, bolstered by some new talent – be to exhaust themselves early on in the it returning visiting students or oarsmen race before bumping them in front of fresh out of school. This year saw the Pembroke boathouse. Finally Pembroke return of Christ Church regatta, after the had achieved that elusive bump on MCBC. disappointment of the previous year, as Thursday was a very easy and controlled well as a return to both the Four’s head row over; several lengths clear of Magdalen and the Fairbairn’s cup by the Men’s first who were bumped by Christ Church/ VIII. John Gearing, the Master In Charge Kellogg. Friday was a slightly more exciting of rowing at Radley School took over – M1 rowed over clear of Christ Church/

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 49 11/12/2009 14:49 Kellogg by a matter of inches. Indeed, a finish line. Balliol got off to a flying start, few times down the course the pursuer and coming onto Boathouse Island were achieved overlap, only for PCBC to pull two lengths ahead. From there on out, away again. Finally on Saturday, with PCBC produced one of the gutsiest rows the stage set for a titanic battle, Christ of the season. With the rate rising to 42, Church/Kellogg caught PCBC. The two and the roar of the crowd driving the boat crews, many lengths ahead of 3rd place, on, Empacher met Empacher just before fought it out down the Greenbanks, the the line. Saturday saw us chasing a Christ rate never dropping below 40 for either Church Kellogg boat containing some crew. Eventually, in front of University ‘imported’ talent, and sadly a fairytale College boat house, where they had briefly headship was not to be. Despite closing achieved overlap the day before, PCBC to within ¾ of a length at one point, the surrendered the headship. Whilst it was power of the opposition proved to be too certainly a bitter pill to swallow at the great, and Pembroke finished the season end of the week, particularly considering 2nd on the river, ready to mount another the crew were certainly faster than Christ serious challenge next year. Church/Kellogg over the length of the Further down the club, M2 went up one whole course, such is the nature of bumps place and, despite coming within ¾ of a racing. length of taking the second VIII headship, Further down the club, the lack of water also remain second on the river. M3 find time due to the heavy flooding told on themselves in a similar position, second on both M2 and M3. Two crews that were the river in the 3rd VIII category. largely full of Freshers failed to make any Next season PCBC, again, is in serious bumps, and despite some truly valiant contention for head of the river not just performances, the combination of lack of in Torpids and Summer Eights, but also water time and a sprinkling of equipment in the Fairbairn’s Cup in Cambridge. This failure meant that, whilst it was perhaps would be a serious achievement to gain not a vintage year for the lower boats of all three, and well within our grasp next PCBC, it certainly planted the seeds of season. The only improvement we can revenge for the following term… now make is to hold three headships, Summer Eights was a far more successful which is a wonderful position to be in. affair, certainly for the men’s side, than Set to be expertly led by Captains James the year before. On the Wednesday, M1 Gillies and Jonathan Ross, who will in bumped Magdalen in under a minute with turn be aided by President Patrick Elder, an extremely powerful row, to move them 2009/10 looks to have all the ingredients up into 4th place on the river – fitting for another vintage PCBC season. That revenge for the previous year. Thursday being said, the club can be extremely saw them chasing Oriel, who were proud of what it has achieved this season eventually caught down the Greenbanks – and will in itself be a hard act to follow. after M1 perfectly executed their race plan. The ensuing collision, however, was not so Alex Sants, PCBC President, 2008-9 controlled. The result was a four boat pile up involving Pembroke, Oriel, Magdalen and Univ. Every boat, apart from the w oMen's Boat Club Pembroke boat, sustained some form of serious damage, with Oriel even losing The Women’s Season last year was their Cox overboard. Friday went slightly certainly an interesting one. As is the case less to plan. Whilst Pembroke still achieved every season for PCBC’s women, it was the intended bump on Balliol, a degree on a case of identifying potential Fresher complacency on our part meant that it was talent to supplement the returning blades. achieved about thirty metres before the The weather in Michaelmas term certainly

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 50 11/12/2009 14:49 did not help matters this season – a large hold off the larger and more experienced amount of rain left all of the colleges Hertford crew and were bumped coming desperately seeking water time for their in the gut. On Friday, the girls rowed over novice rowers. strongly. Unfortunately, they fell victim to The women’s senior squad was this year Magdalen on Saturday, ending the week bolstered by the addition of two school having been bumped twice. girl Fresher rowers, as well as the return Whilst the season was certainly not a of a fourth year language student, Emma vintage one for the girls, it has set them in McMahon, with a couple of years rowing good stead for the 2009/10 season, with under her belt. The squad were ably led by many of the girls returning, as well as in Charlie William, and coached this year by the inevitable influx of eager and talented Leander rower Robin Dowell. With little Freshers, who knows what the season will prospect of racing in first term, and little hold… opportunity to get onto the water, the Gbemisola Coker, Women’s Captain girls embarked on a gruelling land training programme, aiming to build a foundation for later in the season. Whilst there was BST A KE BAll the aim of rowing with the men at the Fairbairns cup at the end of the term, it Pembroke Basketball had another strong was deemed that the squad had not had year. A large squad of players, with, enough time in a boat together to warrant surprisingly, no visiting students for the doing this - a pity considering the amount majority of the year, played consistently of time the girls had put into their training, well and were unlucky to progress further but ultimately probably the best course of in the cup competitions. The first term action. saw Pembroke come second in our league After winning blades at Torpids in the and put into the top division for Hilary previous season, bettering that was always Term. In Hilary, we managed to qualify for going to be a tough ask. With a strong the playoffs but, unfortunately, could not Fresher contingent in the boat, as well as progress further with a tight game against limited water time prior to Torpids week, Magdalen. lack of bumps experience was certainly Cuppers in Trinity, therefore, was very the main obstacle facing the girls of W1 disappointing when Pembroke tied for that week and unfortunately lost their 1st place with two other teams in our strong position of 8th on the river, being group, but was eliminated on a technicality. bumped down to 12th place. W2 provided As Captain, I would especially like to a diamond in the rough, successfully commend the finalists who have played managing to row over every day at the head immaculately for the last three years and of their division. are now leaving: Joe Downie, Leo Deliss, Eights week came around in 6th week Adam Alagiah and James Anderson (who of Trinity, and by this point the line-up of may return for a fourth year). the crew had changed considerably. Gbemi Coker, fresh from Osiris, returned to the Freddie Schwier, Captain boat, whilst the Torpids boat lost three girls to an unfortunate combination of finals and biology field trips. The river was heaving CCKT RI E (WOMEN’S) as ever, especially come the Saturday, and there was certainly support for PCBC out In a year which saw the England women’s in considerable force. The girls began the triumph in both World Cups, and Oxford’s week brightly, missing out on a bump only own Claire Taylor being the first woman to to the klaxoning of their division. Despite be named one of the five Wisden Cricketers their best efforts, they were unable to of the Year; Pembroke College has also

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 51 11/12/2009 14:49 championed the recognition of women’s coin fell in their favour. That was the sum cricket. With the relaxed objective of total of their luck, as Pembroke’s vibrant “just having fun”, Pembroke College fielding prevented any one batter scoring Women’s Cricket Club utilised both the more than three runs before meeting their emerging talent and enthusiasm from the end, and led to two wickets, one a catch off fresher year, and the seasoned experience rookie bowler L. Holt, as well as a run out. and dedication from senior members to The senior bowlers then brought the storm proceed undefeated until the final of the with a torrent of flying stumps (one to R. Cricket Cuppers Competition. Harrison as part of a wicket maiden over, Pembroke finished emphatically on top one to L. Paley and three to R. Evans) that in the group stages; undefeated against cut their innings down to 38 in 14 overs. the four other teams; always succeeding in Pembroke chased this down comfortably batting out their full overs in every match; in 8 overs, thanks to opening batter never failing to bowl out the opposition and R. Harrison’s purposeful running and always being the most vocally-supportive highly celebrated boundaries. She was and unified team in the field. backed up beautifully by E. Johnson and A. Eyres. After being conceded to by St Hilda’s, Pembroke faced a truncated team from St. Peter’s. Their batting innings was carried by their Captain and definitively closed with the fall of her wicket in the 16th over. Pembroke’s tight fielding kept their score down to 44 runs, and featured two magnificent catches in the field by K. Esfahani. In the spirit of the game, this Women’s Cricket Team excellent fielding continued as Pembroke lent over half the batting line up to make Merton-Mansfield were the first up the fielders for the opposition when our opposition to fall. In a match which turn came to bat. This gave them a good saw Pembroke field no-less than five view as L. Paley led the highest scoring debutantes, we lost the toss and were put partnerships that were the foundations of in to bat first. All who batted contributed the run-chase with her decisive batting and to racking up a total of 82 runs (including fearless running. several boundaries from big hitters Christ Church denied the mainly L. Paley and R. Harrison and fabulous novice side crucial match experience by running from new-comers J. Wright and offputting and eventually conceding the K. Esfahani), with the loss of only five semi-final fixture. Our side was then out- wickets in the 25 overs. Merton-Mansfield played (though not out-classed) in the final were dismissed for 59 runs with two overs against Worcester. In the first innings, to spare thanks to the deadly accuracy of their aggressive batting proved difficult the bowlers, including two wicket maidens for our side to keep in-check; despite a in a three wicket haul from the captain. wicket maiden from R. Bayliss. Then, a Particular note goes to new bowler few unlucky turns early on in the second A. Al-Douri whose economic bowling left saw the end of Pembroke’s senior batters. the batters standing idly at the crease for Immense credit goes to G. Blackman (who two overs, and exquisite keeping from A. also took a wicket in her first over when Eyres who had donned the gloves for the bowling), A. Al-Douri and L. Holt for first time. being a thorn in the side of Worcester’s In the second game of the group stage, bowling in denying them the final two LMH-Trinity elected to bat first after the wickets for well over a third of the innings.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 52 11/12/2009 14:49 Despite the loss, it was Pembroke’s fielding The club provides fun and informal Latin that brought the pitch alive with smiles, and ballroom lessons to all Pembrokians, laughter and positivity; while Worcester from both the JCR and MCR. Lessons played out the game in drab and taciturn have been held weekly in the Rockefeller fashion. As the final wicket fell, it was Room at the GAB during term time, and Pembroke players who mobbed the pitch to involve one Latin and one ballroom dance congratulate their team mates, and despite taught by Bruce Richardson, a professional the fact that Worcester’s JCR was all of 20 qualified teacher from Oxford University feet away, the supporters at the boundary Dancesport. With years of experience and were sporting Pembroke colours. Although numerous anecdotes to go with it, Bruce Pembroke lost the fixture, they gained an has made dancing entertaining and easy army of new fans and admirers, as well as to learn. Students of all levels of ability inspiring future recruits. have attended the lessons, from complete After such success with players who, beginners to those who have more dancing before the start of Trinity term, would not experience. During the year, members have known which end of the bat to hold had the chance to learn steps from many (and in some cases had not even heard of dances, including the jive, cha cha, waltz, cricket), it is clear that the driving force Viennese waltz, quickstep, Argentine of women’s cricket at Pembroke is the tango, rumba, samba and paso doble. The dedication and unity of its players. The dance club has proved to be a great way no pressure approach created a haven of to relax, meet fellow Pembrokians and try social and sporting enjoyment that made something new. cricket the highlight of the term for all involved. This year will have set a legacy for Women’s Cricket at Pembroke College which cannot failed to be capitalised on in future years. With such a positive atmosphere, P.C.W.C.C. will continue to recruit new players and encourage the emergence of new talent for a game which is making leaps and bounds for mainstream recognition.

Rhiannon Evans, Women’s Cricket Captain Dance in action In Trinity term, the club entered a DCAN E team into the intercollegiate Dancesport Cuppers Competition. The couples did In October 2008, Pembroke College Dance extremely well, with one couple reaching Club was formed. I decided to establish the semi-final of the waltz. the club after attending dance classes at The dance club committee included Keble College during the previous year, myself as President and Katie Allen as thoroughly enjoying the lessons and Secretary, undertaking fundamental roles wishing Pembroke offered something in the running of the club. Further to similar. Although Pembroke had a thriving this, Chris Armstrong was instrumental as Music Society and numerous drama Treasurer with Nishita Singhal in the role of opportunities, I felt dance was under- Cuppers Co-ordinator. The dance club was represented. After talking to many students able to provide the lessons at a discounted and members of staff, I decided to set up a rate through the help of donations from club at Pembroke to encourage students to the Annual Fund Committee and the JCR. dance and to give them the chance to enjoy Fay Ashcroft-Hawley, Dance Club President it as a college activity.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 53 11/12/2009 14:49 D 1 Arts performances, indicative of a healthy future for the Pembroke team. Further 2008/9 has been a hugely successful year important cameos came from Adam for the Pembroke College Darts Team. Taylor, Ashley Grossmann and William After a disappointing relegation last year, Hazell. It has been a pleasure to captain the first team started the season with the side and I will not forget my time as a point to prove and they did this by a member of P.C.D.C. Good luck for the emphatically beating Balliol 11-1 in their future and I look forwarding to returning very first match. This was an indication next year to throw a leg or two in Lens. of things to come as the team went on to win every single league match, home Tim Horrocks, Captain 2008-09 and away, including an outstanding effort away at Exeter, where a six man team, two short of the usual eight, and forfeiting MCF R OotBALL three legs as a consequence, managed to win seven of the remaining nine legs and The Smurfs (MCR football team) 2008- claim the most unlikely victory. The team 2009 Season. Won 4 Drawn 3 Lost 4 secured a comfortable promotion as league In the history of the Smurfs 2007-2008 champions, and a deserved return to the was the best season on record. Brilliantly first division next year. As for Cuppers, the led by Ed Glucksman the MCR team eight man team, university champions two managed to win 2 games and complete a years ago and losing finalists last year, were full set of fixtures. unlucky to be knocked out in the quarter The general feeling going into the new final by Oriel, in a match they should have season was that this could be an even won. The four man team however exacted more successful year. Having had a testing their revenge by defeating the same Oriel ‘friendly’ where we were on the wrong team a few days later 4-0 with a clinical side of a big reversal against Christchurch and breathtaking display in a match lasting we began our Cuppers campaign. A hard less than half an hour. The four man team fought victory against New College was of Horrocks, Ainsworth, Finch and Lamb followed up by a display of ‘total football’ went on to win the competition, again against Brasenose. The partisan crowd winning 4-0 in the final and losing only two were treated to a spectacle as Taylor legs along the way. lashed in a hat trick and 7-2 was indeed a Individually three members of this year’s modest total in relation to our complete team represented the University against dominance. Thus needing only a point to Cambridge in the annual Varsity match, secure progression into the second round remarkable for an eight man team. These of the Cup, we took on Corpus Christi. were Captain and three times blues player Unfortunately, we were unable to field Tim Horrocks, fellow finalist and Vice- a strong team and though we held them Captain Hadrian Ainsworth and second for half an hour, in the end, we were year James Finch, who will be taking on comfortably beaten. Fate then conspired the Captaincy next year. Other notable against us, although we should have been performances throughout the season through to the quarter finals as group came from finalist Barney Sich, a stalwart runners up, a bizarre and totally unfair of Pembroke darts and second years system meant we missed out on goal Philip ‘Beefy’ Lamb and Rod Shephard. difference. In addition, freshers Paul Higham, Rob Licking our wounds we lined up for our Figuereido and Jamie Williams became first league against New College. Having vital members of the team, immediately previously beaten them in the cup, we felt acclimatising to the often intimidating confident going into the game. However a playing conditions with some excellent much improved New College managed to

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 54 11/12/2009 14:49 sneak home a 3-2 victory, Adam Brown’s not) slide tackles, Vladimir Ryabchenko, double to no avail. Poor finishing in the whose on pitch encouragement was a joy next game meant that our start to the to behold and, finally, the Smurfettes who league was a poor one as Adam Smith’s came to watch on several occasions, even early brace was quickly cancelled out by though they coincided with our worst Hertford, the game finally ending 3-3. performances of the season. We then travelled to play against a strong University College side. Step forward Michael Hills goalkeeping maverick David Webster. In the closing twenty minutes, with the game in the balance at 2-2, Webster made a F OotBAll II string of miraculous saves to deny the fleet footed University forward, saving Following PCFC II’s league-winning one cross shot at point blank range. A season last year, this season had much to great team performance was only soured live up to. We were plagued by a series of through the hamstring injury to James misfortunes, including the absence of a ‘sicknote’ Tromans. Another strong display permanent goalkeeper (using 5 different was shown against St Johns, and, although keepers over the course of the season), we lost 3-0, that put us in good stead as we an ever-changing back-four and a nasty comfortably dispatched Green and Jesus injury to their inspirational Captain in the (Glucksman scoring a sumptuous lob) first game of the season, which was to rule before ensuring that the season ended on a him out for almost every game. Despite high note with a morale boosting fightback some good performances, the lack of against St Anthonys. Seemingly out of the consistency ultimately cost us relegation game at 2-0 down with twenty minutes to to the 2nd Tier of reserve football by the go, Otmani produced some nifty foot work slimmest of margins. In cuppers, after an before taking a well timed tumble in the excellent 1-0 win against a strong Wadham penalty area. The penalty was dispatched side, courtesy of a Chris West goal, we fell and then, after throwing everything at victim to a heart-breaking last minute of the opposition goal, a real touch of class extra-time winner against St. Catz. from James Tromans, bending a 25 yard Our best performance of the season free kick into the top corner, enabled was undoubtedly a 4-1 win against Jesus, us to go home with a well earned point. which saw the Captain-turned-Manager Though we fell short of the promotion employ a cunning 3-5-2 formation, which that we felt was within our capabilities, was evidently too much for the opposition the improvement that the team made over to handle. The tireless James Wheeldon the course of the season was clear to see. turned in a man-of-the-match performance The full squad needed to be used (28 with a goal and two assists, whilst Jonny players in total) as unfortunately we never Baker and Lawrence Barclay contributed saw the midfield generals of Absalom with a brace and a goal respectively. Special and Cussen play together, but each player mention should go to the PCFC II veterans played their part in the unprecedented who have turned in their last performances success of the team. Special mentions for the team - Oli Baggaley, Charlie must go first to Adam Brown who was Spencer, Leo Sloley, Lawrence Yong, top scorer with seven goals from central Lawrence Barclay, Jon Harris, and Barney midfield (albeit a very attacking one), Bilal Sich, who all made their last performances Bidat who, at times bamboozled defenders for the Club, and will be sorely missed. but left it until the 10th game to register On the upside, we have found capable on the score sheet, Tony Hurley who replacements in the form of Chris West, crunched many a good centre forward who contributed consistently throughout with some fantastically timed (and others the season with goals and assists, Jonny

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 55 11/12/2009 14:49 Baker, Aziz Ahsan, and, of course, our a strong Queens opposition. The game former England International Penelope was finally decided on Penalty flicks after Andrea, who embarrassed countless neither side had been able to capitalise opponents with her great vision and touch. truly on their chances during the game. Finally, I would like to wish Jonny Baker However, with the likes of Omar, Chris and Penny Andrea the best of luck. They West and, finally, the Captain stepping will be joint captains of the team next up coolly to convert, this provided little season. I have every confidence that, with problem, as the Queens keeper was left a little more luck, they will guide PCFC II’s sprawling time after time. Oli B also put in league-winning team back to the top tier a sterling effort to keep our goal safe. After of college reserve football, where we truly this, we were unfortunate enough to come belong. across a formidable Worcester side who, despite a strong effort all round, beat us Leon Upton, Captain PCFC II easily and went through three one. However this was an improvement on HK OC EY (MEN’S) last year and, with a strong mid table finish in the league, hopes were high as we looked Pembroke Hockey this year has seen a forward to the summer and mixed cuppers. series of mixed fortunes. Playing with When we were drawn against Queens, a side Teddy Hall in the league for the second we had already beaten twice, we thought year we had, on paper at least, what looked perhaps that finally our luck had come in. like a fine side. Last years Captain, Ashley However, sadly, it was taken away straight Grossman, was once again a stalwart in the afterwards as the game was scheduled for midfield, and, for the second year running, the morning after the College Ball. So with we had the University two’s captain playing admittedly heavy hearts (and indeed heads) for us as well in the form of Tom Whitely. eleven of us took to the pitch. Despite a With the prospect of capped blue Omar fine effort under the circumstances, we Islam returning for cuppers and the could only limit Queens to two goals and towering figure of Oli Baggaley in goal it so had to bow out from the competition. seemed set to sparkle. However this was All in all, a mixed year, however although sadly not to be the case. Throughout the culminating in a strong finish and the league season we were plagued by injury promise of much to look forward to next and over committed players. Special year. It also gives me great pleasure to mention should be made at this point of announce that the captaincy for the 2010 Oli Ford, a promising fresher who went season will be passing to one of our most on to be awarded a mountain biking blue, promising freshers: Oli Ford. For me, it sadly impacting on his availability for was a pleasure and an honour, and I wish hockey. Eventually in the league this began him every success. to tell on us, and it was a sad day when, at the end of Christmas, we were demoted Keith Cocks, Captain from the first division. However, we bounced back strongly and, with cuppers on the horizon, began to HK OC EY (WOMEN’S) string together some strong performances in the league, noticeably beating teams such In the past year Pembroke Ladies Hockey as Magdalen and Queens, despite both of has been rejuvenated. Dwindling members them managing to field strong sides. Before last year resulted in matches often having too long, cuppers was upon us and without to be forfeited and as a result we dropped our core of Teddy hall players it looked down to the bottom division in the League. like there could be a struggle. However This year, however, saw the dawn of a new we bravely came together to cruise past beginning.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 56 11/12/2009 14:49 With the Freshers came a number of lost several key players from that campaign enthusiastic and talented players that more we aimed to maintain our position in than doubled the size of the team. As Division One and to exceed our semi-final a result we started the Hockey League performance from the previous year in in Michaelmas term with a newfound Cuppers. optimism. After our first opponents, Exeter College, forfeited we went on to beat Season 1 – Michaelmas Term a strong Oriel side 7 to 3, with exceptional Our season opened up with an away performances from new members Hannah match against St. Peters – a ground at Lewsley, Sophie Cuthbertson and Nayela which Pembroke rugby has achieved little Wickramasuriya. Fresh from our success success in recent years. A promising start we hoped to beat St Hugh’s in our final allowed us to open up a 3-0 lead through match of the term. This was not to be the boot of Tim Horrocks, picking up as St Hugh’s were unable to put a team from where he left off the previous year together, so despite having only played with his reliable right foot. Following a one match we went on to move back up break in the game for a St. Peters injury, a division. however, the tide changed. Our new scrum Hilary term saw the start of the Cuppers half/fly half combination struggled getting tournament and on a familiar note our clean ball through our backs’ hands whilst a first opponents, St Edmund Hall, were strong Peters midfield broke our defensive forced to forfeit. Moving straight to the line repeatedly. The second half proved quarterfinals we met St Hilda’s, where disastrous and we lost 27-10, an eye- despite putting up a strong fight we were opening start to our first division debut. well beaten. It must be noted, however, that seven of eleven of the Hilda’s team Our second match at home to LMH was were Blues or Half-Blues and despite this it a forfeit as they were unable to raise a team, was still a close match. Several of our team allowing us an extra week to prepare for have also assisted Pembroke Mens Hockey St. Catz – a game likely to decide whether side on a number of occasions in matches or not we’d stay in the top flight. The where they have been short of players, so performance summoned on that day was a special thanks to Caroline Daly, Hannah arguably the first of the year. The new look Lewsley and Sophie Cuthbertson for this. back line seemed to have benefited from Although we did not play as many games the additional practice time and linked as we would have liked this year, being up magnificently – Geoff Absalom in able to play as a full side and win matches particular adjusting well to his position at has been no small feat. I hope that this centre, scoring an early try. Shortly before will continue for years to come and that half-time Number 8 James Finch crashed ability of current and future players will over for the second try, opening up a 20 take us up a further division (or two) in point lead. The second half turned into the League. a rout, the electric back three of Ekpo- Utip, Chou-Lambert and Haigh combining Rosie Evans and Caroline Daly, for four tries. The result was 55-0, all but Joint Ladies Hockey Captains guaranteeing safety and firmly marking PCRFC’s arrival in the big time. The firm test was to come a week RGBYU later, away to Teddy Hall. Pembroke’s performance was magnificent and, led by We entered this year with high expectations Horrock’s penalty kicking, we opened up a having achieved unprecedented double 6-0 lead at half time. The second half was promotion into the top flight of college a much tougher test and defensively the rugby in the 2007/08 season. Although we effort was outstanding – Chou-Lambert

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 57 11/12/2009 14:49 exemplifying the effort with several huge penalties awarded to either side prevented hits culminating in a concussion which Horrocks from exercising his usually was, tragically, to force his retirement reliable boot. Trailing by 9 with minutes to from rugby. With a 9-5 lead and no time go, an interception by Ryall set up Ashley left Thornton’s kick to touch was rescued Grossmann, undisputedly the player of the on the line by a Hall winger, the defence season, to score under the posts. It was too was tired (and at 14 men due to Lamb’s little, too late, however, and we were left sin-binning) and a last-minute score in the to rue the numerous scoring opportunities corner resulted. The crushing nature of squandered throughout the clash. the 12-9 defeat served to bring the team A home game against Christ Church the together, comfortable with our division following week provided an opportunity one status moving into the second season. to get the title contention back on track and resulted in the most dramatic finish Season Two – MT/Hilary Term imaginable. An early individual try by Having survived our first campaign, spirits Taylor had appeared likely to set the tone were high and the aims likewise, and a for the entire match, but complacency league title was not considered outside the crept in and, by midway through the realms of possibility. The season opened second half, the game was tied at 10-10. again with St. Peters, this time at home. A penalty with minutes to go by Christ An ill-tempered game resulted in four Church left us staring at the possibility of sin binnings but Pembroke, unwilling to a relegation battle and the loss of a perfect release a 17 game home winning streak home record. With little time left Christ dating over two full years, proved the Church kicked a penalty to touch; the better side – winning 9-0. lineout at half way was to be the last play The next match, against Keble away, of the game. Turned over, the ball was was billed as a possible title decider. Keble passed through the hands to Thornton had not lost for three years in the league who made several yards. Phases of and had looked predictably invincible in forwards “Persian” ball around the fringes the previous season. Despite a shaky start seemed ineffective until Butcher, the tall Pembroke began to assert themselves and, second row, broke to within yards of the through the usual stubborn defence, kept line. The ball was quickly distributed by Keble away from the try line. Shortly Sheinwald and caught the Christ Church before half-time a sliced defensive Keble backline unaware - Horrocks receiving kick fell into the hands of the reliable it at centre, dummying left then cutting wing Haigh who, running at pace, was back inside for a memorable try. The able to beat his opposing winger to score conversion was successful and with the in the corner. An exceptional conversion final whistle came huge cheers from the by Horrocks from the corner ensured largest crowd of the year, it finished 17-13. Pembroke entered half time with a 7-6 Elsewhere Keble had continued their lead that we did not surrender. Strong, dominance making the final game of the nerveless, defence kept Keble out of the season against Teddy Hall lack importance other half for much of the last fifteen for us, as we turned our attention to minutes and, when Thornton found Cupper. Our opponents needed victory touch to end the game, Pembroke became by a significant margin to escape a first favourites to win the league. ever relegation and fielded a side boasting An early Hilary term match against several university players. Despite being Magdalen saw Pembroke unable to field under-strength the Pembroke performance several key players including inspirational was magnificent. A first half try from previous captain Piers Holden. The game Finch allowed a lead to be taken into half was controversially refereed and the lack of time. With no time left, and trailing by 7, substitute Edward Sorby broke from

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 58 11/12/2009 14:49 the 22 and scored – leaving Horrocks a interest at the start of the season, it was difficult conversion chance to secure a difficult to put out another team each week draw. The miss to the left meant a second and the decision was taken to remove the heart-breaking defeat at the hands of Hall, 3rd team from the league. Competition to but the damage had been done and they represent Pembroke was therefore fierce, were relegated regardless. particularly amongst the Freshers. Results around the University meant that The 1st team had a promising mix of we finished second in only our second old and new, having kept the numbers 1, attempt at Division One, achieving our 2 and 3 in Rod Shephard, Harry Biddle aim of mere survival comfortably and and all-round superstar Ashley Grossmann setting up Pembroke rugby for a title from last year. The addition of freshers challenge next year. Cuppers ended in Phil Judd and Sophie Cuthbertson to the huge disappointment as a Pembroke team set-up had an immediate impact and we without its two Blues (Tim Catling and began with victories over St. Peters 1, Will Johnson) could not match University Queens 1 and Lincoln 2, proving that College’s collection of university players we could compete with strong squash and bowed out in the quarter-finals. colleges. Hilary Term began with three 5-0 The season as a whole was immensely whitewashes of Keble 1, Univ 2 and St. enjoyable both on and off the pitch. John’s 3. The season was completed with a Pembroke’s unbeaten home record now 4-1 victory over Brasenose 1 and a narrow extends beyond three years, several 3-2 win over New 2. This left us unbeaten of those leaving have never known a and unassailable at the top of division 6. “fortress” defeat. At the end of the year Many of the players felt they were playing we say goodbye to four incredible players below their standard and in many ways it is who made exceptional contributions a shame we cannot progress faster through across all three or four years of their time through the divisions to a spot more at the College; Ashley Grossmann, Tim fitting. We can only hope that the matches Horrocks, Piers Holden and Adam Taylor, are more equal in division 5 next year. as well as consistently impressive Bobby A thank you to Ash for his effort in Butcher and Tom Hughes. The gaps left by playing every week for the club and not them will not be easily filled, and they will losing a match over the course of his be missed by all involved with the Club. career. The loss of his chunky physique Pembroke also had success at the university and prowess round the court will make level with Will Johnson appearing in sure the number 3 spot is tough to fill. several Test Matches for the USA and Tim Pembroke 2nds also had a good year, Catling stealing the show with a hat-trick made up of 4 freshers – Tony Hurley, at Twickenham and countless headline James Williams, Matt Frampton and James inches! We look forward to welcoming Pierce, and the guiding hand of 2nd year Will, Tim and the rest of the guys back Will Payne. They ended 2nd in division next year under the capable hands of new 7, again making a promising start with captain Paris Penman-Davies. victories over LMH 2 (4-1), Corpus 2 (5-0), and Queens 2 (5-0). A lack of availabilities James Finch, Captain 2008/09 towards the end of the season resulted in losses to New and Balliol but leaves us with the prospect of promotion - a well-earned SUQ A H result. It is great to see over half of the players The Pembroke Squash Club has in their first year, and with only Ashley experienced an exceptional year, with leaving, Pembroke are set to continue their both the first and second teams gaining run of good form into 2009/10 under the promotion. Despite a large amount of captaincy of Phil Judd. This is all the more

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 59 11/12/2009 14:49 impressive for the lack of training facilities the other team 16-2 on sets. The 2nd at Pembroke and the effort made to train round was played against a strong Keble at Iffley Sports Centre is encouraging for side which included 4 University players. the future. The Team fought as hard as they could Good luck to all those playing next year but the lack of experience at such a high level showed, and we were knocked out Rod Shephard, Captain of the tournament. The rest of the games were played against the other Division 2 sides in the league. Morale was low after TENI N S the cuppers defeat and the next few league matches were narrowly lost. Towards The 2009 tennis season was looking to be the end of Trinity term, it was proving a very promising one as there was keen difficult to get a side together to complete interest from the incoming year group. the rest of the remaining fixtures. With Having lost no players from the previous visiting students returning back home and season, the team already had a strong others being made unavailable due to core. Last year’s squad consisting of Marc academic commitments, the services of Baghdadi, Charlie Oakes, Adam Alagiah, Ashley Grossman and Jake Harris were Paul Chappell, Ben Lundin and myself was called upon. The final match was played further strengthened by the introduction with great spirit and determination but of Gerald Heng and Josh Rosaler. Pembroke were unable to end the season The first fixture of the season was against on a high. I would like to thank leavers Pembroke rivals Christ Church. This was a Adam Alagiah, Gerald Heng, Josh Rosaler closely contested match played on the and Ben Lundin for their commitment to Christ Church grass courts and Pembroke the Tennis club and wish them all the best were unfortunate to lose. The final match for the future. of the fixture involving Josh Rosaler ended I hope next season will prove to be with an epic tie-break that finished as the more successful and I believe Pembroke Sun was setting. Pembroke’s first victory tennis has a good opportunity of getting of 2009 came against Magdalen College promoted to Division 1. A good influx of in the first round of Cuppers. With the freshers should help us achieve this and experienced Blue, Marc Baghdadi in the allow us to progress further in Cuppers. Team, we were confident going into the match. The boys won with ease, crushing Omar Islam, Captain

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 60 11/12/2009 14:49 Damon Wells Chapel

Oxford Colleges must appear curious itself. We are grateful for the services reminders of the thoughts and ideals that of Andrew Haine our Chapel Clerk for shaped the past – most Colleges have, his care and attention, continuing on obviously somewhere to eat, places to from Alice Hill before him, and for the study, and often in a commanding location, choir and regular faces whose hospitality a place to pray, play instruments and makes the Chapel a pleasant place to be. simply be. That seems a luxury in a time Over the year the Chapel Choir has of austerity. But actually the Damon Wells continued to grow in competence and Chapel is a place where students, staff and numbers, I have spoken elsewhere about visitors seem to be at once overwhelmed the CD and Laurence Lyndon-Jones. by the decoration, and curiously at home Laurence Lyndon-Jones, our senior Organ in its intimacy. That doesn’t happen by Scholar has reflected on the choir. Sunday

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 61 11/12/2009 14:49 by Sunday in Full Term there have been weddings, and this is partly due to an services, for the most part rather well- explicit change in our policy to encourage attended – our lowest number this year was and enable as many as possible without 31, our highest 62 (excluding the always putting too much pressure on the staff or very well-attended Carol Services and the system. They are always deeply moving Concerts). I don’t think that the last episode and wonderfully joyful. Should any former of the TV successor to Morse, Lewis, member wish to consider the Chapel being filmed in Chapel and around College for a wedding, please contact us. There contributed to a cult of celebrity (although have been baptisms and other occasional the episode starred British and Gurkha services which themselves are an indicator heroine Joanna Lumley!), but people find of the sense of ‘place’ the Chapel has in something accessible and challenging many people’s lives. and inspiring here: me among them. Next year, amid choir trips and the Our preachers have been of good business of all that happens here, I hope quality and often of national calibre - that still, in the corner of Chapel Quad will we’re grateful for Fr Nick King SJ, stand this building, Stoic on the outside, Metropolitan Kallistos, the Bishops of decorous on the inside, as a place where Dudley and Oxford, the Director of students and staff and visitors can come Mission of the Church of England, and and be, and find themselves accompanied many others who have brought diverse by all who have done just that in the past perspectives for us to consider and digest. – in their moments of joy and perplexity. Among the most commanding speakers The Choir and Chaplain will continue to have been members of our own college, do all they can to celebrate all that has been who have produced articulate, intelligent and all that is, but we remain enormously and commanding addresses. The social life grateful for the support, practical and around the Choir and Chapel community prayerful from many people who feel, continues to be open and inviting, we eat regardless of religious ideology, a palpable and drink together, and next year plan sense of solidarity and gratitude. to extend this to a regular weekly event. There are this year a large number of Andrew Teal, Chaplain

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 62 11/12/2009 14:49 The McGowin Library

Our readers welcomed the introduction funds achieved: a slideshow was created of of the new user interface, called SOLO, to digitised items from a selection of copies the online union catalogue and electronic held on the College’s computer network, resources. This new search tool provides including the archive DVDs, and a display an easier way to find items amongst the of printed copies at full size next to their vast collection of resources available in original. Oxford’s libraries. Features of SOLO are The archival position has been vastly improved to previous search systems, made permanent, thereby assuring the so, for instance, finding books held only at continuation of an effective archival Pembroke library is now an easy task. service. The digitisation of some of our most The library wishes to thank the following important and valuable library and archive for donations received: materials has now been completed: Dr R. Arndt; M.K. Barritt; A. Black; manuscripts, autograph letters and college Dr G. Bonsaver; A. Boxer; British Institute foundation documents were scanned at the of Florence; Prof. A. Coats; Dr D. Dwyer; Bodleian Library’s photographic studio. Prof. T. Earle; J. Eekelaar; M. Francis; These were digitised using state of the art Prof. N. Fukuda; Dr A. Gregory; technology to the highest possible digital Dr N. Griffin; C. Hardy; J.B. Hattendorf; quality. C. Haydon; M. Hills; Dr R.J. Jackson; This digitisation work will aid the long- V. Jeutner; A. Jones; Mr J. Kay; term preservation of vulnerable items; as Dr P. King; B.M. Lodwick; well as enabling us to deliver electronic Dr M. Martynova; D. McAvoy; versions to researchers wherever they are Dr J. McMullen; J. Miller; located, preventing the need to disturb the Prof. L. Mugglestone; O. Radley-Gardner; delicate originals. Printed copies of some A. Al-Douri; T. Richardson; Russell Sage of these items are on permanent display Foundation; K. Saretsky; R. Sikorski; in the library. Dr H. Small; S. Smith; Dr T. Sowerby; The digitisation work was funded by the Rev. A. Teal; C. Thomas; Dr J. Wilmott Helen Roll charity, and we were pleased Wynne; Prof. A. Yoshimi; and several to have the opportunity to show two anonymous donors. of the charity’s trustees the digitisation process and therefore what the donated Lucie Walker, Librarian

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 63 11/12/2009 14:49 The Emery Gallery

The Emery Gallery has once more had world. As part of Arts Week in Trinity a busy and exciting year, and, as always, term, the annual student art exhibition Pembroke students have relished the was run, with an unprecedented number opportunity to become involved with and of entrants, and what all agreed was a very benefit from the Gallery and the Art Fund. high standard of work from Pembrokians. The annual opening in Freshers’ Week The Exhibition was combined with a visit was very well attended, and the committee from Angela Palmer, whose piece “Head” took the decision to open the Gallery to we are lucky to have in the Emery Gallery. students at other points during the year. Angela gave a fascinating talk about her Meanwhile those living on site are still glad career and work processes, and chose the to borrow works to brighten the walls of best of our student artists. Meanwhile, their rooms and inspire them during a work our Wyndham Lewis piece was returned crisis or two. With regard to the benefits to the Gallery from the National Portrait provided by the Gallery and Art Fund, the Gallery’s Exhibition on the Artist, but will applications for travel grants have been shortly be making its way to the Fundaciòn overwhelming, while our capacity to give Juan March in Madrid next year as part of out hardship grants has also been well used. a retrospective about his work. In Michaelmas, we ran a competition Many alumni will remember “Bullfrog”, among Ruskin students to design a a sculpture by Lynn Chadwick which mural-like piece to adorn a wall in the was bought by the JCR Art Fund for Ward-Perkins room, and it was pleasing the collection in 1952. The sculpture that the JCR chose Pembrokian Penny was damaged several years ago and Andrea’s design, based on the Pembroke was returned to the artist for repair. Mr crest. The work, together with a lick of Chadwick requested that he would like paint, has transformed what was a rather to use this as an opportunity to cast an dingy room. Additionally, the Committee edition of nine bronzes. As an interim liked second-placed Kinga Lubowiecka’s measure, one of the bronze casts was interpretation of Pembroke Hall so much loaned to the JCR Collection and was that they purchased a smaller-scale version placed in the strong room in the Library of the piece. That term we were also very for safe keeping. As some time has gratified to be visited by Anthony Emery’s elapsed since the damaged sculpture was daughter, Alison Harrison, who came for sent for repair, we are delighted to report lunch with the Committee and to view the that, with the kind co-operation of the Gallery, which is the fruition of her father’s Chadwick estate, we have now exchanged vision. She took our best wishes and a 90th the bronze cast we had in our possession birthday card over to Anthony in Canada. with the original sculpture, and it can now The Gallery continues to have an impact be seen in all its splendour on display in both within College and in the wider art the Emery Gallery.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 64 11/12/2009 14:49 Williams was born in 1929 and studied at St Martin’s School of Art and The Royal College of Art. She is a painter, drawer and sculptor and, amongst the numerous exhibitions she has featured in over her career, she has had two pieces exhibited in The Royal Academy’s 2009 Summer Show. A wide selection of her work is available to view on her website www.evelynwilliams. com. We are very happy to add her to the list of artists who are part of the JCR Collection.

‘Bullfrog’ courtesy of ‘Lypiatt Studio’ I am pleased to add that the future of the Gallery and the Art Fund is looking bright. Despite the tough economic climate, the fund continues to perform relatively well, ‘Lament’ and we were thrilled to be able to buy a work to add to the collection. Over the We are also very excited to note that summer some Committee members visited there are plans for a purpose-built Art the studio in London of Evelyn Williams, Gallery in Pembroke’s new building, which a fascinating and compelling artist. We will not only allow us to display more of chose a large piece called “Lament 2 (Then our work but also increase the gallery’s Trouble came)”, which we feel sure will accessibility. take a worthy place in the Collection. It is I am sure I can speak for all those on a large work of 112 x 152 cm painted in oil the Committee when I say that it has on canvas and depicting a close-up of six been an enormous pleasure and honour faces in the process of, as the title would to be closely involved with the Emery suggest, “lamenting”. It is a piece that is Gallery this year, and that it continues at once both powerful and striking, and to be a precious and much-loved part of graceful and reflective, and we feel it will Pembroke life. make a real impact in the Gallery. Evelyn Harriet Noble, Art Fund Representative

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 65 11/12/2009 14:49 College Archives

Progress on the cataloguing project Since the last edition, the finance records have been completed together with domestic administration and estate papers.

Domestic Administration This includes a wide variety of papers

and volumes relating to the day to day In this example we can see the account for ‘Mr. Savage’ for 27th running of the College, including an November 1790, during which times he displays a particular fondness for almost complete run of Battels or Buttery toast and muffins!” Books dating back to 1633. We have room rent books showing exactly which E state Papers rooms students were living in and various volumes recording information about Pembroke College has historically owned the management of catering, services properties, land, clerical livings and rent and utilities in College. We also have the related incomes in a number of different domestic accounts of various College counties: Berkshire; Buckinghamshire; clubs and records relating to staff. Derbyshire; Devon; Gloucestershire; Hampshire; Leicestershire; London/ Middlesex; Oxfordshire; Surrey; Sussex; Wiltshire; Worcestershire; and Yorkshire. The College estate papers contain many of our oldest documents in the form of deeds, and this can prove an invaluable source for researchers into local history. The oldest document in our collection is an order, dated 2 Jan 1474, made by Thomas Rotherham, Bishop of Lincoln, This menu card of 4th November 1862 shows the wide range of food regarding a dispute between John Kirkby, on offer including exotic game such as woodcock, snipe and plover! vicar of Chalgrove, and the Abbot and Convent of the Cistercian monastery of Apart from the battels volumes, the the Blessed Mary of Thame. Kirkby had oldest item in this series is the account claimed that his stipend was too small and, book of Mrs. White, pastry woman, in this order, the Bishop defines the rights dated 1790 – 1794, in which she recorded and the duties of both parties, stating accounts for general comestibles including that Kirkby is entitled to all profits from tea, bread, butter, muffins, toast, eggs, Chalgrove parish church, that portion water, gruel, cake, cheese and meat. of the tithes in “Clobkote” (Clapcot)

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 66 11/12/2009 14:49 belonging to the parish church and the Postcard exhibition greater tithes of hay and corn from the We recently had an exhibition in the villages of Berwick, Benson and Rooke library showing the wide variety of and the barn at Berwick. postcards that have been produced featuring Pembroke College, ranging from standard photographic views to more inventive images including historic scenes, illustrations and a particularly unusual etching of an aerial view.

Order of 2nd January 1474

The next oldest document is a grant, dated 20th December 1490, relating to the Can Court Estate at Lydiard Tregoze, near Swindon, Wiltshire. In it, Roger Tocotes, soldier, John Wroughton Snr., knight, and Robert Quynteyn, grant to John Quynteyn “Canne Court” farm, Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, and a farm in Orcheston St. Mary, Wiltshire, which was originally granted to the former by Alice Quynteyn, widow and heiress of Richard Litelcote Postcards [sic].

New Accessions We are always keen to bring new items into the archive and recently these have included: -The College Grace – the original music score for the College Grace, arranged by German conductor Christoph Ostendorf. -A variety of postcards showing various aspects of the College. -A number of certificates that were Grant of 20th December 1490 awarded to Sir Roger Bannister by various academic, scientific and sporting I am now working on the Bursars’ institutions and which he has kindly correspondence files from the 1920s to deposited with us. the 1970s. These papers cover the WWII -A JCR food suggestions book. years and they are are poignant as they -A large collection of photographs which include correspondence with families of have been transferred to the archive from those Pembroke students who lost their the Development Team. lives in the conflict. In addition, there is information on the wartime requisitioning -The Pembroke Bullfrog- 4 Copies Hilary of College buildings as well as numerous 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962. other files on a variety of College issues with letters dating from 1904 to 1978.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 67 11/12/2009 14:49 A ccess

The archives are available for consultation and research, by appointment, on Wednesdays, 1.00 – 4.00 and Thursdays – Fridays, 9.00 – 4.00. If you have any enquiries about the archives, please email [email protected]. Amanda Ingram, Archivist

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 68 11/12/2009 14:49 Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

In October 1728, Samuel Johnson – the the use of language as he was overheard celebrated lexicographer, literary critic, chastising his fellow undergraduates for writer, and, of course, conversationalist what he regarded as their “loose” use of - came to Pembroke College to begin his words. life as an undergraduate. Pembroke was the natural choice for the continuation of However, finances were to prove a major his education as his uncle, godfather and a stumbling block for Johnson depriving family friend were all Pembroke graduates; him of the opportunity to complete his it was, however, only made possible by studies (though the regularity with which a bequest of £40 made to his mother. he was fined in his final terms also suggests While his father’s occupation as bookseller other pressures on his resources). The in Lichfield kept the young Johnson small legacy intended to fund his studies plentifully supplied with books, it did not was soon exhausted, and the impecunious produce the kind of profits which might Johnson left Pembroke after only thirteen secure a university education. months. However, as Johnson left a box of books behind, it would seem that he Johnson’s room at Pembroke was on the hoped his departure would be temporary second floor above the gateway over the rather than permanent – and that he would entrance to College. Johnson made his mark one day return and resume his studies. This from the outset by his range of reading and hope, however, remained unfulfilled; the his critical independence, as well as by his books were reclaimed some five years later rebellious attitude, which could mean that and Johnson’s aspirations of completing he went skating on Christ Church meadows his degree came to an end. ‘No man but rather than attending the lectures of his a blockhead ever wrote except for money’, tutor, or chose to write pieces of work other as he later declared; rather than Oxford than those he had been set. His scholarship scholarship, he embarked on a life of could nevertheless be exemplary. A task set writing in London in 1737. at the end of his first term was to translate into Latin Alexander Pope’s “Messiah”, and In 1755, just before publication of the this was so successful that his translation Dictionary, Johnson was instead awarded was to reach the poet himself. His wit, an honorary MA from Oxford, signalling too, was in evidence, and he is described the public confirmation of achievements as by his contemporaries as laughing and a man of letters. It is this title which was chatting by the College gates “with a circle proudly inscribed on the title page of his of young students about him, whom he Dictionary; as poet, essayist, dramatist, and was entertaining with wit and keeping now lexicographer, his academic abilities from their studies”. In the Hall, Johnson had now moved far beyond the confines of was already displaying his sensibilities on the degree he had begun almost a quarter

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 69 11/12/2009 14:49 of a century before. an immense bibliography of the works of James Boswell, Johnson’s biographer Samuel Johnson (completed posthumously and frequent companion, writes in his in 2000). In 1984, David Fleeman Life of Johnson that Johnson “contracted organised the first Johnson conference a love and regard for Pembroke College at Pembroke to celebrate the Bicentenary which he retained to the last”. Johnson of his death. This was well attended by had a lifelong friend in William Adams, leading Johnsonian scholars, many of whom he had first met on his first day whom have returned this year to mark the as an undergraduate, when Adams was a Tercentenary. young Fellow of Pembroke. Adams went on to become Master of Pembroke, and, The association between the English in 1776, Boswell describes how Johnson Faculty at Pembroke and Johnson continues went walking in the Master’s Garden and today. Professor Lynda Mugglestone was the Common Room at Pembroke in the appointed Fellow in English Language in company of Dr Adams. 1989, and is a recognised expert in the field of the history of the English language and In 1784, the year of his death, and the cultural, social and linguistic history of following a prolonged illness, Boswell dictionaries. She was elected President of records that Johnson had a great desire to the Johnson Society of Lichfield for the go to Oxford and that, as they approached, year 2007-8. In 2005, College convened a Johnson seemed uplifted, and they conference entitled “Celebrating Johnson: again stayed with Dr Adams. Johnson (1755-2005) to coincide with the 250th and Boswell appear to have enjoyed the Anniversary of the publication of the superior elegance of the Master’s House, Dictionary. This was followed, in 2007 the pleasures of College life and the when Professor Mugglestone again company of ladies. Miss Hannah Moore organised a further conference on Johnson records in her memoire that Johnson and the Theatre. was noticeably delighted to take her on a guided tour of Pembroke, and to show her The Tercentenary of Johnson, which his old rooms and recount something of marks 300 years from his birth in Lichfield his undergraduate days. on 18th September 1709, has been celebrated across the world. The BBC Pembroke has always taken great pride in has run a series of programmes, repeats its connection with Johnson. The College and events to mark the occasion, one of has among its possessions some of which “The Dictionary Man” provided Johnson’s books, two of his undergraduate viewers with a tour of Pembroke and essays and the manuscript for Prayers and Johnson’s rooms guided by Professor Meditations, his desk, and his distinctive Lynda Mugglestone. As part of the Proms blue and white teapot and gruel mug. In Literary Festival, Lynda Mugglestone 2008, the College was able to purchase at also took part in a general discussion on auction the last letter which Johnson wrote Johnson with the journalist, Matthew to William Adams in 1784, a few months Parris, on 12th August 2009. Pembroke before his death. College marked the Tercentenary with a “Johnson at 300” Conference held over The election of Dr David Fleeman to five days from Monday 14th September to a Fellowship in English at Pembroke in Friday 18th September 2009. 1965 was to take Johnson studies to a new level. Dr Fleeman became President of the Johnson Society of Lichfield (1971) and the Johnson Club (1972). He was a distinguished scholar who embarked upon

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 70 11/12/2009 14:49 Th inge Nam of The but by facilitating the study of others. Mary Hyde Eccles became the first woman Samuel Johnson Honorary Fellow at Pembroke in 1984. Building And The The Naming Ceremony of the Mary Hyde Eccles Samuel Johnson Building and the Room Mary Hyde Eccles Room on 17th September 2009 Mary, Viscountess Eccles (Mary Pembroke was delighted to welcome Lady Hyde Eccles) 1912-2003 Lansdowne, the step-daughter of Mary Hyde Eccles accompanied by Anthony In April 1940, the newly married Mary Eccles, the step-grandson of Mary Eccles Hyde Eccles gave her husband Donald first to attend this important naming ceremony editions of Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the Samuel Johnson Building and the of the English Language and James Mary Hyde Eccles Room. Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson L.LD. Over the following years, the Hydes became avid collectors of ‘Johnsoniana’, establishing the foundations of what would become the foremost collection in the world of materials relating to the life and work of Samuel Johnson and his associates. After Donald’s death in 1966, Mary – a scholar in her own right as well as a patron of study – continued to add to the Collection, first on her own and then supported by her second husband David, Viscount Eccles. Following her own death in The Bursar, John Church, provided 2003, the Collection was bequeathed to the the background to the project recounting Houghton Library at Harvard University. Johnson’s continued affection for Pembroke The Hyde Collection is remarkable and and, in particular, his visits to his friend, includes not only virtually all of Johnson’s Master William Adams between 1755 (the published works, more than half of his date of the publication of the Dictionary) surviving letters, authorial manuscripts, and Johnson’s death in 1784. The Bursar works of art and personal artifacts, but also explained that until 1929, this building had includes the documentation of many of served as the Master’s Lodgings and was his immediate circle. The Hydes dedicated therefore the building in which Johnson their lives to this extraordinary collection had stayed during his visits to the College and their home at Four Oaks Farm in during William Adams’ time as Master New Jersey became a crucial and accessible of Pembroke and where he had spent source for study. many happy hours. The building is one of the most historically significant on the The connection was forged between Pembroke site and was one of the buildings Pembroke and Mary Hyde Eccles through in greatest need of refurbishment until its David Fleeman, who spent much time at renovation in 2005. It was constructed in Four Oaks Farm in his pursuit of compiling 1699, and also stands on the footprint of a a vast bibliography of Johnson’s work. fifteenth century building which had earlier Johnson study thrived, nurtured by the housed the Master of Broadgates. The Hydes, not only by their own scholarship original Palladian-style building featured a

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 71 11/12/2009 14:49 façade reminiscent of that of Kew Palace been the introduction of access ramps with six gables to east and west, together and other facilities to ensure the whole with fine mullioned and transomed building conforms to the requirements windows. The Master’s front door gave of the Disability Discrimination Act. access across the diagonal pathway to St Aldate’s Church, where successive Masters During this important Tercentenary of Pembroke often served as Rectors. year, and following the completion of this An additional floor was added in major renovation project, the Governing 1857, and the building was converted to Body of College decided to honour student accommodation in 1928 (when College’s relationship with Johnson by a the Wolsey Almshouses were converted lasting memorial to him. They approved into the current Master’s Lodgings). The the renaming of the late seventeenth principal alterations at that time included century building known as ‘Staircase the blocking of the front door and the 8’ as the “Samuel Johnson Building”. subdivision of most rooms into study bedrooms. Thankfully many seventeenth- The lecture room was also to be century features, such as the handsome renamed, the “Mary Hyde Eccles Room” turned-oak balustrade staircase, were in memory of the late Mary, Viscountess retained. It was not materially updated nor Eccles, an Honorary Fellow of College refurbished until 2005, when the College who died in 2003 leaving a bequest of spent £1.6 million on renovating and $1 million to College, which partially enhancing this Grade 2* listed building. funded the refurbishment of the building. In particular, the bequest played a Today, the former ‘Staircase 8’ and which significant role in enabling College to have is now “Samuel Johnson Building” provides the confidence to go ahead with this costly accommodation to 12 current students, renovation. Mary Eccles herself was both as well as containing a Fellow’s Guest a Johnson expert and philanthropist, and Room, two seminar rooms, a workspace it makes the naming of this lecture room for junior academics, and a beautifully entirely appropriate as a memorial to her appointed lecture room which looks out within the newly designated “Samuel onto Pembroke Street. One of the most Johnson Building”. Future plans to restore significant changes in the renovation areas of College include a proposal to programme has been the reopening of restore Johnson’s own rooms when he was the ‘Master’s front door’ which, as in at College. These are in the Tower building Johnson’s day, now once more faces St over the Lodge on entering College. Aldate’s Church and Pembroke Square. This allows residents and visitors to enter The Master, Giles Henderson, gave a short into the stair hall as originally intended. address welcoming visitors and particularly Architecturally, and with the help of Rob members of Viscountess Eccles’ family, Dunton of Donald Insall and Associates, and then proceeded formally to rename specialist architects, every effort has been the former “Staircase 8” as the “Samuel made to restore the building in a style and Johnson Building”. He quoted from a detail close to that which it would have letter written by Johnson in August 1766 had in the seventeenth century, using high to William Drummond in which he wrote: quality materials at all times. The joinery and colour palette have been designed to “Let it be remembered that the efficacy reflect this period, while fire screens and of ignorance has been long-tried, and has temporary newel supports have also been not produced the consequence expected. removed from the staircase to allow it to be Let learning and knowledge, therefore, appreciated in its original form. An important take its turn; and let the patrons of twenty-first century improvement has privation stand awhile aside, and admit

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 72 11/12/2009 14:49 the operation of positive principles”. aspects of Johnson, with discussion panels focussing on language and on religion, The Master stated that it was “with on the commemoration of Johnson, on enormous pride and pleasure that portraits and visual representation, on the tonight I formally name this Building challenges of reception and reputation, on the Samuel Johnson Building”. He then Johnson’s politics as well as his last days, proceeded formally to name the room and on ‘Collecting Johnson’. The David in which the naming ceremony took Fleeman Memorial Lecture, named in place as the “Mary Hyde Eccles Room” honour of the late David Fleeman who was a Fellow at Pembroke, was delivered by James McLaverty, Emeritus Professor of Th n e Joh son at Textual Criticism at Keele University. 300 Conference Away from study, a series of events took place, including an eighteenth-century held at Pembroke musical recital by the Platnauer Quartet College and Evensong in the College Chapel, using Johnson’s Prayers and Meditations, led by Monday 14th – Friday 18th the College Chaplain, the Rev. Andrew Teal. A visit to the College wine cellars was September 2009 a must, and delegates were able to reconcile this activity with the fact that Johnson The ‘Johnson at 300’ Conference at rebuked Boswell with the remark that “Sir, Pembroke attracted 113 Johnsonians, you are without any skills in inebriation”. who arrived for five days of Johnson debate, study and activities. Many of A tour of University College was those who had first attended in 1984 provided to explore one of Johnson’s (some also participating in the 2005 and favourite Oxford haunts during the last 2007 conferences) returned once again to two decades of his life and where he had Pembroke. Delegates came from the UK, many friends. Further respite from work US, China, Japan and Australia. Leading came in the form of Johnson exhibitions scholars mixed with gifted amateurs with at Trinity College and the Bodleian Library, buoyant enthusiasm on the occasion of as well as a display of the Johnson artefacts this most special celebration. at Pembroke. A trip down memory lane for some returning delegates was a display Johnson continues to fuel academic of conference memorabilia from the ideas, debate and theory. A writer whose earlier 1984 conference. At the end of the range of works supply a rich source Conference, delegates could take a trip by of opinion and material for comment coach to Johnson’s birthplace at Lichfield (as well as diverse constructions of his to continue celebrations on the anniversary own identity and beliefs), participants at of the day Johnson was born exactly 300 the conference probed precisely which years ago. ‘Johnson’ was up for discussion. He can be interpreted as both an intellectual bully During the Conference, the Master and a kind tolerant man, a religious bigot or performed the renaming ceremony of the “very liberal in his thinking” according to building, previously known as Staircase Boswell, as well as a lonely depressed man 8, as ‘The Samuel Johnson Building’ as a suffering from Tourette’s syndrome or a lasting memorial to Samuel Johnson in the convivial conversationalist who loved good year of his Tercentenary. In addition, the company. The conference was wide ranging largest room in the building, previously in its examination of all these intriguing known as Lecture Room 8, was renamed

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 73 11/12/2009 14:49 the ‘Mary Hyde Eccles Room’ in honour the back of the seal states that it is carved of and as a lasting memorial to Viscountess in Beijing during the late summer with Eccles. The College was delighted to the approaching Johnson Tercentenary in welcome Lady Lansdowne and Anthony mind. Eccles, Mary Hyde Eccles’ step-daughter and step-grandson respectively to the The evening culminated in a Gala Dinner naming ceremony. in the Hall and final speeches from the Master, Giles Henderson, and a response The naming ceremony was followed from Nicholas Cambridge, President of by the drinks reception which preceded the Johnson Society of London. The the Gala Dinner on the final evening of Master welcomed those attending and the Conference. Howard Weinbrot of spoke of Johnson’s fondness for Pembroke Wisconsin University presented the Master and how fitting it was to be able to rename with the Harvard University Johnson the renovated building in which Johnson at 300 Houghton Library Symposium had enjoyed so many happy hours. It now Programme, which took place at Harvard meant that there is a permanent and visible between the 27th – 29th August 2009. memorial to Johnson in Pembroke. Paying This was accompanied by the Catalogue tribute to the late David Fleeman, he for the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection mentioned the first Johnson Conference in of Dr Samuel Johnson at the Houghton, 1984 and of David’s dedication to Johnson an Exhibition which accompanied the studies, which has left a continuing legacy. Symposium. This followed Mary Hyde The friendship he forged with Mary Hyde Eccles’ bequest of her Collection to Eccles led to a connection which had Harvard in 2003. The Catalogue book resulted in Mary becoming an Honorary was signed by the Exhibition Curator, Fellow at Pembroke. It was her substantial John Overholt and the Editor Thomas bequest which had enabled the renovation A Horrocks. The Exhibition entitled “A to be undertaken to establish the Samuel monument more Durable than Brass” Johnson Building. The Master expressed was taken from a Johnson quotation in his equal pleasure in being able to rename the Rambler No 106, in which Johnson the largest room in the building, formerly reflects on the durability of literature. The Lecture Room 8, as the Mary Hyde Eccles Exhibition was dedicated to Donald and Room, as a lasting memorial to her. He was Mary Hyde. delighted that members of her family could be present on this occasion. W Kang Tchou presented the College with the gift of a Chinese signature ‘chop’ The Master outlined a further tentative in the late Qing dynasty imperial style with project recently decided by the Governing a coiled dragon as decoration. It bears the Body of College to renovate Johnson’s old name of Samuel Johnson in Chinese seal room and the Tower Staircase leading to it script. It was presented on behalf of the in order to create another lasting memorial Tchou family on the occasion of Johnson to Johnson. The Master welcomed ideas at 300. The signature seal is made of semi- at this early stage and he hoped that the precious longevity stone and, reading location would provide a permanent vertically from right to left, the translation display of Johnson memorabilia, accessible of Samuel echoes the name of China’s to visitors, but which would also enable the first historian and Johnson is rendered room to be used for day to day purposes, simply as the son of John. The chop was most likely as a Fellow’s room. A campaign designed and carved by Professor Jin is being launched to raise £200,000 for this of the Beijing Central Academy of the purpose. Arts, who is a descendant of the Manchu Imperial Household. The inscription on Giles Henderson also announced that

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 74 11/12/2009 14:49 College had agreed to fund the prize welcoming delegates back in the future for the Johnson Society of London and mentioned that a forthcoming planned Essay Competition, which has just been expansion of College into a new quad launched to mark the Tercentenary. This adjacent to the existing site would mean will be an annual competition, open to that they may see significant changes all, and the theme for this year’s entry is when they return. He wished delegates Commemoration, which is appropriate “bon voyage” and toasted Samuel Johnson in many ways. The winning essay will be and all Johnsonians. Nicholas Cambridge awarded £500 and will be considered replied thanking all those who had made for publication in the Johnson Society the Conference such a success among of London’s annual periodical “The events to mark the Tercentenary. New Rambler”. The Master thanked Jim Basker, a good and long standing friend of Feedback from delegates was Pembroke and one of the speakers at the hugely positive and they described the Conference and the Bursar, John Church, Conference as “stimulating” and sociable, for making donations to the College to complimenting College on the variety of fund the prize. events provided and the good food and convivial company. The next celebration The Master expressed his admiration at would seem due in 50 years, but it is unlikely the breadth and depth of the Conference, that Johnson scholars will be prepared to and thanked the organisers both academic wait that long before convening another and administrative for their considerable Johnson Event. efforts in making the Conference such a success. The Master closed his speech Jo Church

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 75 11/12/2009 14:49 The “Oxford Tradition” Summer Programme Marking a 25 Year Relationship with Pembroke

Our conference business may be seen qualified range of academics, with Rhodes, by many – not least our students who Fulbright, Gates and Marshall scholars well must pack up and leave their rooms each represented among them. vacation – as an inconvenience and a It enjoys a well deserved reputation distraction from our primary purpose; both for the strength of its academic and nevertheless it is a vital part of our financial cultural programme, and for the standards planning and contributes over 10% of the of its pastoral care. With a straight forward College’s income annually. Despite having no-nonsense approach to discipline, the relatively limited facilities (for the moment) programme both ensures that its students Pembroke has regularly been amongst the are well cared for and safe, and that the top ten conference income earners of College is not negatively affected by its Oxford colleges. This is in no small part presence. Many of the senior staff have, due to our long-established relationship like Jim, been coming to Pembroke for with the “Oxford Tradition” Summer many years and are rightly looked upon as School programme, which has been a old friends. major client now for 25 years. This year, to mark the twenty-fifth year Founded by US professor Jim Basker, of the “Oxford Tradition” summer school an alumnus of both Oxford (DPhil, basing itself in Pembroke, Jim Basker Christ Church as a Rhodes Scholar) and was invited to become a member of the Cambridge (MA) where he runs similar SCR and he, his wife Angela Vallot, and summer schools, the programme offers senior members of the programme’s month long study opportunities in a wide administrative staff enjoyed a high table range of disciplines, for children aged 16- dinner hosted by the Master. We all look 18 (there are also programmes, hosted forward to a long continuation of what elsewhere, for a younger age-group). has become rather more than a successful Students must follow both a ‘major’ and business relationship. a ‘minor’ course, supplemented by a very impressive line-up of VIP guest speakers, Daren Bowyer cultural visits and social events. Courses Home Bursar are taught by an impressively well-

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 76 11/12/2009 14:49 Music and Pembroke

We are very fortunate to have an energetic academic year, many students from the number of undergraduate musicians College, supported by some very helpful at Pembroke College ably guided and members of other College Choirs, made inspired by Dr Guy Newbury, who has also a CD recording under the direction of the supported and encouraged the development former organist of St Paul’s Cathedral, as of other musical ventures. The Master and well as Laurence Lyndon-Jones our Senior Mrs Lynne Henderson have made the Organ Scholar, and the able assistance of Lodgings available for regular Master’s Myles Hartley who supports us on a regular Recitals, which have encouraged people of basis. The experience of a week’s practice many different musical abilities and styles to and recording was indeed splendid: by the share their gifts in a friendly and supportive end of that we were all singing much more environment. The Music Society and, more musically and with an attention to each recently, the MCR Concerts have been a other that was (whatever your theological highlight of College life. Of course, there beliefs) quite spiritual. Thank you to all has always been music, but the recent who have contributed to this wonderful visible support and encouragement have blossoming of talent and creativity. I hope really borne fruit. that as many of you as can will purchase One such example is the expansion of this CD which will be available from the College Choir – this year there are College and through the web site, and also tours to Milan and St Alban’s Cathedral enjoy this musical flourishing! planned, and for 2010 we are looking at the possibility of a tour to Norway. Andrew Teal, Chaplain Over the Christmas vacation in the past

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 77 11/12/2009 14:49 A Sung Grace for Pembroke College

The first time I attended an MCR Banquet wooden ceiling and the smooth stoned was in Michaelmas Term 2006. I had surface of the floor. It was therefore at the arrived in Oxford only a few weeks earlier Michaelmas Term Banquet in 2007 that, as a graduate student at Pembroke, and for the first time, a vocal quartet performed my eyes were thirsty for the beauty of the a Renaissance motet of Adriano Banchieri ancient stones of Oxford, its fabulous from the balcony of Pembroke College libraries and the allure of what seemed to Hall. The tradition of singing at the MCR me to be a continuity and timelessness in banquet had thus started! its ancient traditions. In particular, the sight The vocal quartet who sing for the of Pembroke Dining Hall with its tables banquets is generally composed of two elegantly laid for the MCR Banquet was so Pembroke undergraduates – a soprano striking that this memory remains as fresh and an alto – by myself as tenor and by and vivid to me to this day. The Hall was a German musician as bass. His name is shining in all its glory, gracefully decorated Christoph Ostendorf and, for the past with colourful flowers, silver candlesticks two years, he has been a regular guest at along the tables and with contrastingly Pembroke College. With Christoph, I had crisp tablecloths. the privilege to perform as an ensemble in When, at the end of my first year at several concerts, which take place regularly Pembroke, I was elected Secretary of the in Pembroke College Chapel. It was after Middle Common Room, my role at the one of these concerts that the initial idea banquets suddenly changed from that of composing a musical setting for the of cheerful spectator into that of active Pembroke Grace came about. After a organiser. The organisation of such event, recital in which Christoph and I, together in fact, involves the energy and creativity with a group of talented music students of all members of the MCR committee. from Pembroke and other Oxford colleges, Everyone is called upon to play a role in performed two keyboard concertos of Bach it and everyone contributes to it in a way and Handel, works of Sweelinck and some which exploits their particular skills and Caccini’s arias, it was Mr John Eekelaar, abilities. When I was asked how I would like Academic Director and Pembroke Fellow, to improve the banquet events, I instantly who made the suggestion to us of writing had the idea of singing something in Hall the music for the Grace of Pembroke before grace is read, just after all the guests College. John told Christoph about the are standing at their seats. After a quick Oxonian tradition of choir-foundations inspection in Hall, I realised that the room and evensongs, and that there were some was suitable to conduct such an experiment, colleges where a tradition endured of the for its acoustics are truly exceptional, thanks choir singing before dinner. Back home to the crystalline resonance created by the in Berlin, Christoph took the decision to perfect combination of the high vaulted write the music for the Pembroke Grace,

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 78 11/12/2009 14:49 in tradition, had to be recreated for the while I arranged that all should be ready music of Pembroke College Grace. Thus the at College for this to be performed at next liturgical form of sung intercessions and its MCR Banquet. syllabic homophone structures was taken The Composer’s challenge was to write in as a model, in order to create a composition musical language, which would be in unison rooted in and inspired by historical and harmony with the unique atmosphere examples, but which, nevertheless, has a of the Oxonian colleges. Christoph started clear modern stylistic pattern, recognizable developing some structural and musical especially in its use of tonalities. ideas based on several impressions which Pembroke College Sung Grace was first had caught his attention during his visits to performed on the 22nd of May 2009, on Oxford. What struck him – I understand the occasion of the Trinity Term MCR – was the distinctive combination of Banquet. The original score of the Grace centuries-old architecture and traditions was offered in sign of friendship to the which combined with modern forms Master Giles Henderson, and it is now and needs, a characteristic which is very kept in the archives of Pembroke College. palpable in the design of contemporary and

historical Oxonian architecture. The same Emilio Bonfiglio combination of old and new, of innovation

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 79 11/12/2009 14:49 So What Is The Record? A Short History

The Record originated from the founding short lived. It is also a story of practical of the Pembroke Society in 1932 with the change with the numerous building projects intention that it would be the vehicle for and donations to restore and improve the keeping College members in touch with built environment. one another. The Record was to contain Whilst the publication records the major detailed information about College and events and changes taking place in College, the activities of its members “who keep it is also a social history which captures the themselves informed of its affairs, and changing attitudes and norms of both the who are ready, should occasion arise, to Pembroke community and the wider world. place their knowledge, their experience, Signs of the world changing were indicated and their interest at its disposal”, as well when lady guests were invited to the Teasel as to ensure the regular organisation of dining club for the first time in 1965. the London Dinner. The responsibility When Master Pickering became Master in for editing the publication lay with the 1968, he declared with some surprise in Secretary and Treasurer of the Pembroke his Master’s Notes that ‘undergraduates Society and, as only Society members now expect serious notice to be taken of would receive a copy, the first circulation their opinions’. Ladies’ hours were always was a modest 200 copies, with the funding contentious in this period, being extended for its production coming from the £1 per to midnight with a late key system in 1968 capita lifetime membership subscription of but, by 1971, students objected to guest the Pembroke Society. hours ending at 2.30 a.m., and the JCR The circulation numbers grew in line with sought to abolish gate hours entirely. the steady expansion of the Society, but it The most extensive social change, of was not until 1966 that Governing Body course, came in 1977 when Governing established that admission to Pembroke Body voted to change the statutes to College would carry with it automatic enable women to be admitted, not membership of the Pembroke Society, and only as Fellows, but as graduates and it awarded the Society direct funding from undergraduates. Master Geoffrey Arthur College at the sum of £1 a head, which records his trepidation at presenting this provided a welcome boost to the resources to the Pembroke Society where some cries available for the production of the Record. of “shame” were apparently audible, but The Record reflects the changing he concluded that most old members had interests of matriculation years and their decided to grin and bear it! In the event, the combinations in the clubs and societies transition is recorded as having taken place of their time at Pembroke – of societies most smoothly and the Master’s Notes formed, then disappearing, sometimes to of 1980 state that he has not mentioned re-emerge later with different names, and women in College because ‘their presence others which were most definitely more has so quickly been accepted as normal’.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 80 11/12/2009 14:49 In a year which has celebrated the opening connections with their own families and of the Samuel Johnson Building and the many other varied articles. Mary Hyde Eccles Lecture Room, it is Pembroke’s distinguished scholars and appropriate to note here that Lady Eccles visitors are listed. Professor Tolkien spent was recorded as the first ever female nearly 20 years as a Fellow. The Record of Honorary Fellow in the1986 copy of the 1936-37 refers to the recent publication Record. of ‘The Hobbit’ as being “one of those The Record was not always produced children’s tales which can be read with every year and its fortunes have fluctuated profit and amusement even by the most depending upon circumstances in College mature”. The Johnson Society records and, as we see from the gap of 8 years the paper given by C S Lewis on ‘Is during the WWII years, external events Literature an art?’ and, the 1950 visit of have also shaped its publication schedule John Betjeman, when it celebrated its and content. The post World War II catch- 1000th meeting, while John Masefield, up edition inevitably recorded a tragically during his time as Poet Laureate was also long list of those who had perished a visitor. during the war years. Brian Wilson (1948) Some societies were of greater has written an article included in this intellectual merit than others. One Record which gives brief portraits and editor of the Record is censorious in his circumstances of the deaths of some of disapproval of the Teasel Dining Club, the Pembroke men who were lost in both stating that it is not easy to compile a world wars. record of the activities of a club whose In addition, there was a long period when members ‘devote themselves chiefly to the the calendar year and not an academic year art of living well’. was covered by the Record but, in 1994, Of note, the war years saw student the Record reverted back to its earlier numbers falling from 140 in 1939 to 23 by practice of covering an academic year, 1945, and the College was requisitioned for thus running from October at the start of use by Government Departments, most the academic year. notably by the Intelligence Service. After Over the years, many have contributed the war, College refilled with a wide range to the Record and there have been long of age groups, many of whom already had periods of continuity of editorship, with families by the time they were demobbed the period from 1932 to 2000 seeing only and either returned to or took up a place a handful of individuals involved in its at Pembroke. Among them, of course, was production. The first few editions, which Anthony Emery, who founded the JCR Art listed only 8 Fellows and 34 freshmen, Fund in 1947. The late Dr Ral Leatherdale, steadily recorded the expansion and whose obituary appears in this edition of fluctuation of College numbers. The the Record, contributed his recollections Record began to take shape, and, while of being in a reserved occupation as a earlier sports reports merely listed sports medical student at Pembroke during the results, longer more detailed reports began war, recalling only 14 students in the to appear, and obituary lists became full JCR with no grace or high table and with articles detailing the lives of departed organised sport almost non-existent. He alumni. The Bursar and Editor, Mr Bredin recalls compulsory chapel for C of E began to expand the content of the Record students which was rigorously checked with numerous historical articles and this by the then Head Porter, Mr Ponsford. sterling work was continued by others, of Attendance did not become voluntary until particular note the work of the Rev Dr 1954. Dr Leatherdale recalled a Pembroke John Platt and Miri Rubin and the many which helped and looked after its own, alumni who have generously offered their recalling Bursar Bredin’s efforts to help time to write on the history of College, its with reasonably priced accommodation

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 81 11/12/2009 14:49 for those returning from the war with for posterity either as brief anecdotes families. of their time at Pembroke, which can be In the light of the potential Hall and combined with recollections from others Kitchen refurbishment currently underway or, alternatively, if time allows, we should at Pembroke, it is interesting to note that welcome full articles. Now is the time the Record of 1950 mentions its new to invite those who matriculated in the kitchens, which meant that Pembroke at 1960s, 70s and 80s and beyond to enable that time had the best equipped kitchen of continuity in these recollections. any Oxford College, being state of the art We already remain very grateful for the by virtue of its lift to send up food, new information flow coming in from alumni, gas stoves and washing machines. especially with regard to obituaries, thus We are always conscious of errors fulfilling the founding purposes of the creeping into the Record and the death of Pembroke Society as so clearly stated one member of College was most certainly in 1932 by placing their knowledge and exaggerated when recording his death in experience at College’s disposal. Although, the International Brigade fighting with sadly, the Minutes of the Pembroke the Spanish Republican Armies during the Society included in this edition will be the Spanish Civil War, when, in fact, he was, last, we remain very much in need of that invalided out with wounds, shell shock and knowledge and experience. typhoid. For those of us who live in fear Previous copies of the Record are in of omission and error, the precedent was bound copies in the Pembroke Library somewhat reassuring in the knowledge freely available for those who wish to that our predecessors were not entirely refresh their memories. The College infallible. There is still time yet despite Archivist, Amanda Ingram, is currently our best efforts and the speed of modern engaged on a project to give more communications to repeat such errors, but prominence and accessibility to the Record we most sincerely hope not! by transferring it from hard copy onto a This short article is in no way intended computer database, which will improve to be a comprehensive history of the future accessibility and the ease with Pembroke Record but merely a brief which particular copies and articles can snapshot of some of the highlights in be located. its publications and have been selected The Development Office would be entirely according to the interests of the delighted to receive your contributions by writer and the links to items appearing email, letter or telephone or by email to in this copy of the Record. It is hoped [email protected] that this glimpse into the Record might inspire alumni to add their recollections Jo Church

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 82 11/12/2009 14:49 “…….WE WILL REMEMBER THEM”

The year 2009 marked the death of the had averaged 38 from 1911 to 1913, fell last British veteran of the First World War, to seven during the war. Several of those and it is therefore timely to remember the seven undergraduates, in their turn, joined men of Pembroke who lost their lives in the army, two of whom were awarded the world wars. These brief portraits of the Military Cross. men and the circumstances of their deaths highlight the horrors of war, accentuate The first Pembroke man to die was the suffering of the bereaved families, Warren Wardell, a Foundation Scholar in and serve to underline the need for 1885, who became a professional soldier reconciliation between former combatants. and who died on 14 November 1914 near Lille, at the age of 48. He held the TFI HE Rst WORLD WAR rank of Major with the 39 Garwhal Rifles when the Indian Army was quickly moved Kenneth Dodgson, BA, who had to confront the initial German advance matriculated in 1910, was reading for Holy through Belgium. Eleven other alumni died Orders but volunteered for the Army in Belgium in 1915, including Geoffrey on the day war was declared, 4th August Walsh, in April, a Gainer Scholar, whose 1914. He joined his local regiment, as father had been killed on HMS Good did many thousands of others, in the Hope only a few months before. universally held belief that “it would all be over by Christmas”. A lieutenant in the When Russia, under severe pressure Devonshires, he was one of 59 Pembroke from the Ottoman Army in the Caucasus, alumni who died before Armistice Day requested a Second Front, Winston 11th November 1918. These included Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty two Rhodes Scholars, one from Natal used erroneous Turkish troop strengths one from Canada, an Indian national and supplied by Lt. T.E. Laurence to plan a three Australians. The matriculands of naval expedition. This was against the 1912 and 1913, “in statu pupilari “, also advice of Lord Fisher, First Sea Lord, who volunteered in large numbers and 13 of resigned. The Gallipoli campaign was a them died, including seven Scholarship disaster. At sea, nine warships were sunk holders. Robert Sterling, a King Charles out of a combined flotilla of 18 British and Open Scholar and winner of the coveted French vessels, and, on land, the casualty University Newdigate Prize in 1914, rate was 60% on each side. There were died aged 21 during the 2nd Battle of 75,000 British casualties, including two Ypres in April 1915 when the Germans Pembroke men - 2nd Lt.Marcus Oliphant were the first to use poison gas. The two of the Norfolk Regiment, then 51, and College Quads became almost silent as John Dauber, MB, FRCS, aged 46, who, the number of annual matriculations, that as Ltn.Col. RAMC, was in charge of the

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 83 11/12/2009 14:49 Helles Casualty Clearing Station. These Captain John Brown of the Highland men died on the 12th and 13th August Infantry, who had matriculated at Balliol 1915, respectively. and become a Pembroke Fellow on the Consolidation Foundation in 1911, was The victorious General Mustafa Kemal among the front-line casualties. Lt. John Ataturk, who had suffered 251,000 Derrick, a 1908 matriculand, on an 8 year Ottoman casualties (and was to become Townsend Scholarship for the study of the creator of modern Turkey), wrote Divinity, had enrolled in the Public School the following on the Anzac memorial and University Battalions. He survived commemorating 35,000 Australian and two years in Flanders, and was promoted New Zealand casualties:- “Those heroes that Captain in July before being killed on 27 shed their blood and lost their lives……. You August 1918 during the Third Battle of are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Ypres, where the Passchendaele swamp Therefore rest in peace……..There is no difference was created by 4.3 million British shells between the Johnies and the Mehmets where they and the British suffered 300,000 casualties. lie side by side in this country of ours……. You, The last alumnus to die was Henry Jalland, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away a Foundation Scholar in 1905 who was countries, wipe away your tears. Your sons are a lieutenant in the Black Watch. He was now lying in our bosom and are in peace. Having killed on 18 October, 1918. lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well”. 1914-1918 Memorials

The war on the Western Front ravaged In all the wars fought over many centuries towns and villages in France and Belgium in Europe, involving several million and developed into trench warfare, with deaths, no burial sites were recorded intense machinegun fire and artillery before the Great War of “lions led by bombardments, leading to high fatality donkeys”. Fabian Ware, later knighted, was rates among the officer platoon leaders. a British Red Cross commander when he Lt. Cyril Cook, former head boy at formed a unit that was incorporated into Abingdon, who had come up on an the British Army in 1915 to undertake Abingdon Scholarship in 1912, died of his that task. That year, the repatriation of wounds at Loos, and was one of the 13 remains was banned, because it was felt Pembroke 2nd Lieutenants to die in 1916 that it would conflict with the feeling and 1917. of brotherhood developed between all ranks; and it also avoided the nightmare The four months long First Battle logistics in the return of so many bodies. of the Somme in 1916 cost 420,000 The Imperial (later Commonwealth) War British casualties. In the inevitably rapid Graves Commission was created in 1917 promotions, Andrew Hutcheson, a to establish cemeteries, with individual matriculand of 1913, who was awarded headstones for each identified combatant, a Military Cross, died at the age of 21 as and memorials to the fallen, including those a Captain in the Cameronians. Edward at Menin Gate near Ypres, at Thiepval on Fergusson, a Foundation Scholar in 1912, the Somme (containing 72,096 names). was Mentioned in Dispatches and a Captain These were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens at 22 in the Seaforth Highlanders. Eric and other eminent architects. By 1918, Beaumont, a Cleoburey Scholar in 1913, some 587,000 graves had been identified, was awarded the Military Cross as a Captain with a further 559,000 casualties having no in The Kings (Liverpool ) Regiment, aged known grave. 22. Cuthbert King, a Boulter and Ratcliff Scholar held the rank of Major, when he The Governing Body commemorated died aged 23 in the Machine Gun Corps. the Pembroke alumni casualties by

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 84 11/12/2009 14:49 commissioning for the ante Chapel he died in an accident in the first month of a large stained glass window of the the war. In April 1941, Flt lt. Ian Mackie, Crucifixion (“IN PIAM MEMORIAM “somewhere over Europe”, was the second ALUMNORUM COLLEGGII to die among the 14 who joined the RAF PEMBROCHIAE QUI PRO PATRIA and who flew over France, Germany, the MILITATES VITAM PROFUNDERUNT Western Desert, Malta, Italy and Burma. HANC FENESTRAM ORNANDAM They included Lewis Malone, Hull Open CURAVERUNT AMICI”) and two Classical Scholar, who was awarded the plaques with a list of 59 names (“THEIR DFC, and Luxmore Evans, MA, Dip.Ed., NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE”). grandson of a former Master, who was a They were made in 1921 by the stained Beaufort navigator with 404 Squadron in glass firm started by another alumnus, the 1000 bomber raids. Charles Eamer Kempe (1837-1907), who had previously completely redecorated the Two alumni, 2nd Lts Raymont and Chapel in neo-Renaissance style, with eight Ridehalgh of the Welsh Guards died statuettes and eight stained glass windows. protecting the British Army’s retreat at Dunkirk in 1940. Signalman Hayes and TEHE S COND WORLD WAR Private Sherwood died in the Japanese invasion of Malaya in 1942, where Kenneth The Allies, impoverished and depleted by Bancroft, MCS, a King Charles Scholar war, imposed harsh terms on Germany at in 1924, died a POW on the Japanese the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, which was Siamese railway. The Eighth Army Captain described by the economist J M Keynes at Pollard, B.A., died age 24 at Tunis in 1943. the time as “economically oppressive”. The The Italian battles claimed the deaths of Depression of the 1930s also saw 6 million three alumni, including Gurhka Captain Germans unemployed and conditions were Huban, an Indian national; and tank favourable to the emergence and rise of commander, Captain Wrigley, MA (Eng.), European Fascism. This was to lead to Mentioned in Dispatches. The long Burma another war, involving even more of the Road Campaign of the Chindits took six world, and which was a very different kind Pembroke lives, including those of Captain of conflict. Some 51 Pembroke men lost Wright, an Indian national, and Private their lives in the 2nd World War. Arthur Broomfield of the RAMC, whose mother donated an annual History Prize in Five Pembroke men joined the Fleet his memory. Air Arm. Sub-Lt. Aitcheson died in May, 1940 when flying from HMS Sparrowhawk The D-Day landings in Normandy 1944 in the Orkneys to support the Home claimed the lives of Captain Wilkinson Fleet, and two others, Brian Burleston (Parachute Regiment) and Major Borrett and Charles Carr-Gregg died in Trinidad (the Queens Royal Regiment), both aged and Egypt. The war memorial at the Lee- 24, Captain Geoffrey Wellington MA on-Solent War Memorial records Cedric in History and two younger BAs. John Watson, as an “airman with no known Eagleston, the 1929 Gainer Classics grave but the sea”. John Bairstow, joined Scholar, was killed far into Germany just the Royal Navy and died when the escort two months before VE-Day. Major Lloyd cruiser, HMS Curacoa was rammed and S Ackerman of the US Army died in China sunk in 1942 by the SS Queen Mary, in a two months before VJ-Day in August submarine-avoiding zigzag; he was 22. 1945. Two Pembroke men were killed by Irgun terrorists in administering the John Hanbury, a matriculand in 1928, left UN Mandate in Palestine, Lt. Dyson in Pembroke to join the RAF, and was fully February 1946 and Captain Patterson in trained and promoted to Pilot Officer when January 1947.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 85 11/12/2009 14:49 S econd World War Memorials

The sculpture of three mourning women to commemorate the fallen and their widows, mothers and fiancées was commissioned in 1947 from John Harvey by, and for, the JCR; it is now on the lawn by the Chapel in which the Chaplain, Rev. Andrew Teal, conducts services of remembrance. The Governing Body commissioned for the Dining Hall two stained glass windows of the service insignia of the fallen, which were produced by Kenneth Banner and installed in 1955.

Brian Wilson (1948)

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 86 11/12/2009 14:49 Alumni News

RODNEY FITZGERALD (1942) was good hacking horse. awarded an MBE, for services to Local Government in the City of London. After MICHAEL BATEMAN (1953) A book has Pembroke, Rodney’s career has included been published in 2008 entitled “A Delicious the role of Managing Director of Lloyds Way to Earn a Living” (Grub Street 2008, brokers. He was elected to the Court of London ISBN 9781904943921)) being a Common Council in 1981, and became collection of Michael’s best and tastiest Deputy to the Ward of Bread Street in food writing with an editorial written by 1993. He served in the Office of Sheriff his widow, Heather. This collection of his in 1983-84 and is a Past Master of the prolific writing ends at the point at which Worshipful Company of the Gold and he began working for the Independent Silver Wyre Drawers and the Worshipful on Sunday and inclusions date from the Company of Loriners. He is also a Past 1960s to the 1990s. A further volume is Master of Aldersgate and Bread Street anticipated shortly which will contain his Ward Clubs and Member of the Ward Club weekly columns from the Independent on for Lime Street. Sunday. Those praising the volume include Raymond Blanc, Antonio Carluccio, BRIAN WILSON (1948) We are grateful Caroline Conran, Sophie Grigson, Gordon to Brian for his help in procuring an Ramsay and many others. Michael was excellent new photo portrait of Senator seen as a pioneer of food writing in the J William Fulbright (1925) which has 1960s when this type of journalism was been most kindly sent to College by the regarded by many as an unfashionable University of Arkansas. It now hangs in non-subject. Michael was an enthusiastic a prominent place in the Senior Common researcher and the depth of his knowledge Room Parlour. Brian Wilson (1948) writes is reflected in the fascinating articles about the solid foundation for life he contained in the book. What he knew received from an education at Oxford, about the simple potato, apples, spices or which prepared him for a varied career at local Cornish delicacies makes fascinating home and abroad. This is featured on the reading. There is even a comparative study University website: http://www.campaign. of prison food included in this varied ox.ac.uk/news/news/brian_wilson.html# collection, which charts the revolution of interest and increasing sophistication of DICK WILLIAMSON (1952). We are British interest in food. He was also one of sad to announce that Dick’s horse Double the first to make the connection between Header, the “Pembroke Racehorse” has health and food, imparting his considerable had to retire from racing. During his knowledge about subjects from nutrition in racing career Double Header made several baby milk to vitamin C and the BSE crisis. contributions to the Annual Fund from This book educates and enchants us. his winnings. He is still capable of being a

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 87 11/12/2009 14:49 PROFESSOR MARTIN TAYLOR FRS has four grandchildren - Jamie, Tom, Joe (1956) received a Knighthood for services and Lola in London and he lives in Cardiff. to Science. Professor Taylor is Professor His motto is Deus illuminatio mea only of Pure Mathematics at the School of when in synagogue.” Mathematics, University of Manchester and, prior to its formation and merger, HOWARD MASKILL FRC CChem (1961) UMIST, where he was appointed to a has won the Josef Loschmidt Prize 2008 for Chair after moving from Trinity College, his significant contributions to physical and Cambridge in 1986. mechanistic organic chemistry, including the discovery and characterisation of new WILLIAM HAMER (1957) has been carbon-nitrogen bond-breaking reactions. travelling with his wife, Dorothy, since In addition to research publications, he retirement visiting both the US and Europe. has published three textbooks, a sonnet, Their son William Hamer III has just been a Haiku and recently edited a monograph confirmed into the Catholic Church of the on the investigation of organic reaction Church of the Good Shepherd, Beverley mechanisms. Since 2000, he has held Hills. visiting professorships at universities in Japan and Spain, and is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Huddersfield MICHAEL PICARDIE (1958) came to and Guest Member of Staff at Newcastle Pembroke to read History after graduating University. He says that he was introduced with a B.A. Honours in Politics at the into this field by his tutor at Pembroke, University of the Witwatersrand. He was Mark Whiting. arrested during the state of emergency declared after the Sharpeville shooting MARTYN BAKER (1962), received an in 1961 and returned to the U.K. He was OBE for services to local government. lecturer in Applied Social Studies at Barnett Martyn is Director of Economic House from 1968-1973 and received his Development of the Corporation of the M.A (Oxon) status then by decree. He City of London. went from Oxford to Cardiff University and then back to Southern Africa where he ROBERT JACKSON (1962) has been became a senior lecturer in social work at made an Associate Fellow of Chatham Botswana University from 1995-1997. He House in International Security switched from sociology and social work to theatre studies - his first love - and has BLAIR WORDEN (1963), one of written, directed and acted in his own plays Britain’s pre-eminent historians on the and in others by South African, British 17th century, has published a new book and American writers. His M.Phil (2009) entitled “The English Civil Wars” which is dissertation accepted by Aberystwyth intended as a short, accessible distillation University is: “The Drama and Theatre of decades of academic research on an era of Two South African Plays Under which still has a strong hold on historical Apartheid.” This is obtainable through the imagination in Britain. “If Charles I had Aberystwyth University On-Line Research not been executed “, he has asked, “would Depositary. His surviving daughter Justine we still have a monarchy now?” Picardie went to Milham Ford Grammar School in Oxford and to Cambridge TIMOTHY HARDING (1966) has (Selwyn College) where she read English. had the degree of Doctor in Philosophy His late daughter was Ruth Picardie who conferred upon him by Trinity College went to Bishop Kirk school in Oxford and Dublin for his thesis in History. to Kings College, Cambridge where she He explains that it is called PhD in Dublin read Archaeology and Anthropology. He not D.Phil.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 88 11/12/2009 14:49 ADAM PEAT (1968) received an OBE named “Lawyer of the Year” by the and is the Public Services Ombudsman for National Law Journal for his work in Wales. ensuring the department’s fulfillment of its motto: “who prosecutes on behalf of PROFESSOR ALAN PATERSON (1969), justice.” During a difficult year for the received an OBE for services to legal Justice Department, Glen Fine and his team education and to law. Professor Paterson emerged as leading independent lights as is a Professor of Law at Strathclyde they thoroughly investigated problems and University. revealed where the department had gone off track; recommended steps for restoring GRAHAM LAYER (1971) is being the department’s position to department appointed to serve as President, Section of leaders and to Congress, thus restoring the Surgery, at the Royal College of Medicine. department’s reputation as the nation’s pre- The term of office is one year. The title eminent law enforcement agency . of his inaugural address will be “Surgical Darwinism – The Survival of the Fittest”. RADOSLAW SIKORSKI (1983) currently Foreign Minister of Poland has had his M R SUKHUMBHAND PARIBATRA book on Afghanistan, which was originally (1971 ) has been elected the 15th Governor published in English under the title “Dust of Bangkok by a large majority, winning of the Saints a journey to Heart in time of 45% of the votes cast. war”, now published in the Polish language.

JOHN HATTENDORF (1973) has been TIM RICHARDSON (1986) has presented with the Department of the published a book linking the history of Navy Superior Civilian Service Award English Landscape Gardening with its for his service on the Secretary of the political context. “The Arcadian Friends, Navy’s Advisory Subcommittee on Naval Inventing the English Landscape Garden” History by the College President, Rear (Bantam Press 2007 London, Toronto, Admiral James P. Wisecup, U.S. Navy. Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg: ISBN This Award is the second highest of the 9780593052730) examines the English three medals that the Navy awards to its Landscape Garden from 1680 to 1750, civilian employees. Professor Hattendorf when such gardens as Castle Howard and was cited for having demonstrated superb Stowe were created. Tim argues that the management abilities, innovative thinking, baroque formality of the late 17th Century and outstanding leadership during his starts to clash with a new more naturalistic tenure as the Chairman. As the College’s landscape style, reflecting the liberal politics Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime of the Whigs and the cultural, philosophical since August 1984, Professor Hattendorf and social changes taking place during the also serves as Chairman of the Maritime Enlightenment. The more natural gardens History Department and Director of the are perceived as creating encoded support Naval War College Museum. for William and Mary as future monarchs of Great Britain by incorporating Dutch NICHOLAS WARREN (1974) has simplicity of style with English garden taken up a new post as Professor in the aesthetics to reflect aspirations for a new Department of Literature at Fukuoka order in politics. The book traces the Women’s University and has also been clashes of style which echo Whig versus doing some work as a consultant for the Tory until the mid 1730s, when aesthetic OED Online prior to 2000. concerns began to dominate again, with a firm return to aesthetic idealised visions GLEN FINE (1979), Inspector-General by 1750 with the gardens of Capability with the US Dept of Justice, has been Brown. The critical period covered by

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 89 11/12/2009 14:49 the book provides gardens of surprise, Caspian region rank among the ten largest episodic planning, variety and whose rich in the world. His job entails reporting on complexities reveal different perspectives the politics of pipelines, ferreting out the and a new way of seeing. It is argued that details of billion-dollar deals, advocating a time of ideas and experimentation in the for U.S. trade and investment, and work of Joseph Banks, Newton and John occasionally flying via helicopter to tour Locke is reflected in the infinite possibility the offshore facilities of some of the most which these gardens seem to imply. The technically challenging – and expensive – book also contains a list of gardens to engineering projects in the world. visit and it is inevitable that future visits Kazakhstan’s North Caspian region will be enriched after reading this volume. is estimated to contain some 25 billion Tim Richardson has also written on barrels of oil, and it is expected that a yield Pembroke’s gardens for the Pembrokian of close to this capacity can be extracted this summer and states that “for all its for use. Kazakhstan itself encompasses reticence, Pembroke contains one of the a territory roughly the size of Western most dramatic garden moments of all”. Europe and its economy is larger than that of the other four Central Asian countries DR DESIREE COX (1987) has been combined. appointed as Ross University’s Director The terrain and environment are of Community Clinical Education for the particularly harsh in winter, when Bahamas campus from January 2009. She temperatures drop to minus 30 degrees joins the Faculty as Associate Professor of Celsius. Kevin says his family doesn’t Behavioural Sciences and will be involved mind the weather, however as “my wife in teaching Behavioural Sciences to Lesya is from Ukraine, so she’s used to the medical students, as well as some aspects cold, and my sons Timothy and Daniel love of the Integration of Clinical Medicine sledding, skating, and building ice castles in courses. In her capacity as Director of the courtyard.” Community Clinical Education, Dr Cox Nevertheless, revolutionary technology, will be working with the Grand Bahamas large infrastructure, and a courageous, medical community to facilitate student enduring workforce are needed to recover exposure to clinical cases and basic aspects Kazakhstan’s “black gold.” The Kashagan of clerking patients. project, expected to produce oil in 2013, has already used six times the amount of KEVIN COVERT (1989) has realised that steel required to build the Eiffel Tower. Its it is now 20 years since he matriculated. onshore processing plant is six stories high He and his wife Lesya and their two boys and 1.2 kilometers in length, and costs for Timothy (8) and Daniel (2) have moved the first phase alone are projected at some to Astana, Kazakhstan where he works at $38 billion. the US Embassy as the Energy Officer, The oil fields are of enormous monitoring the oil and gas sector, where importance both politically and strategically Kazakhstan has significant oil exports and to the United States. The U.S. has invested has wide ranging forms of energy available. billions of dollars in oil exploration and They are enjoying the new environment, production, including tens of millions of which includes six foot snowdrifts but also dollars in regional environment and social the joys of ice skating, sledding and snow development projects. shoeing. Since its independence in 1991, high Kevin wrote the following short article level US officials have highlighted the on living and working in Kazakhstan. strategic importance of Kazakhstan’s “KEVIN COVERT is an energy officer at oil and gas sector with regular visits to the U.S. Embassy in Astana, Kazakhstan, establish strong relationships with officials where the oil and gas fields of the North and U.S. businesses in the area.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 90 11/12/2009 14:49 U.S. Ambassador Richard Hoagland PAUL FERNANDEZ (1992), a teacher toured the North Caspian oil fields at Radley College in Oxford, has broken on an information gathering exercise three Guinness World Records this year. In in November 2008, and praised the January he set a new Guinness World Record commitment of U.S. companies. He for ‘Fastest Marathon Dressed as a Clown’ reassured those involved that a slowing in at the Gloucester Marathon in 2:50:44. In the world economy would not impact on May he broke the Guinness World Record continued interest and development. for ‘Fastest Marathon Dressed as Elvis’ at Output at Kazakhstan’s largest oil the Edinburgh Marathon in 2:49:47. More producer, Tengizchevroil, is now running recently he was part of the team that broke at approximately 540,000 barrels of oil the record for “Furthest distance ran on per day but, by 2014, this is expected to a treadmill in 48 hours by a team of 12”. approach one million barrels a day. As They covered 868.64 km. Paul ran 45.7km pipeline capacity becomes saturated, the in his 4 hours (in 20 minute stints). search is on for new and expanded oil export routes, to which end, Kazakhstan TOM KAPLAN (1982) and his wife supports a policy which prohibits any one Daphne were in Oxford for a very special country trying to exert a monopoly over oil event: the dedication of a new research export routes. centre and diploma course in conservation The U.S. Government supports this practice at WildCRU, the University’s policy and the expansion of the Caspian Wildlife Conservation Unit. Pipeline Consortium, which transports Tom, who read history at Pembroke, 80% of Tengiz crude oil to the Black Sea is now a passionate advocate of big cat and is currently the only pipeline crossing conservation projects around the world, Russian territory which is not wholly has funded WildCRU buildings and owned by the Russian Government. It is research for many years with substantial also hoped to ship one million barrels a gifts, and recently extended his generosity day of crude oil across the Caspian Sea by to the endowment of new Research tanker for onward transmission to world Fellowships and Scholarships for WildCRU markets.” conservation specialists to allow them to enjoy the benefits of a College association DR BILL BAKER (1990), who is Head of at Pembroke. Tom Kaplan and Giles Palm Research at the Royal Botanic Gardens Henderson, Master of Pembroke, both Kew won the Linnean Society’s Bicenenary spoke at the dedication ceremony on 7th Medal for his achievements in palm August. research, the breadth of his international collaborations and his broader contributions to capacity building and the systematics RICHARD BROWN (1993) has been community. Bill manages and develops reminiscing with Rachel Shute about days cutting-edge research on the evolution and at Pembroke. He has been training in stematics of the palm family and Kew’s long Paediatrics since leaving St. Mary’s, and term interests in the palm flora of Southeast recently started a consultant post in sunny Asia, especially New Guinea. There is a Peterborough. Paediatric Neurology is his strong commitment to capacity building in “thing” - which may seem ironic, after partnership with botanists in less developed criticism of his College essay that his tutor countries. Bill has also co-authored a new had his own copy of Kandel and Schwartz. benchmark monograph of the palm family, Richard and his wife Tamsin live in which has been awarded the Council on Cambridge, with their three children Daisy, Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Josca and Sunny. They got married in 2004, Award for a Significant Work in Botanical or having lived in Australia for a period of Horticultural Literature. time.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 91 11/12/2009 14:49 ARASH FARIN (1996) recently took time research performance and also his huge off from investment banking to explore contribution to the Faculty. From 1st other opportunities, and is currently September 2009, Dr Reisberg has been serving as Interim CFO to Aqua Sciences, appointed as Vice-Dean for Research a pioneer in atmospheric water generation at UCL Laws. Dr Reisberg also acted as technologies. Aqua Sciences’ machines are a Tutor in Company Law at Pembroke able to produce purified drinking water between 2001-2005. in any climate around the world at costs which are more economical than current FRASER CAMPBELL (2000), who methodologies. The water generation currently works for Clifford Chance, was technology is particularly useful for disaster included in a ‘Future Stars of the City’ list relief, and the company is in discussions of ten young solicitors destined for the top with many foreign governments around of the profession in a recent times feature. the world who have expressed interest in adopting the technology for their countries. RICHARD DARBOURNE (2000) who Arash would be happy to answer any is founder and Managing Director of questions and is keen to network with Living Learning was named one of the anyone who might find this technology Future 100 Young Entrepreneurs for interesting. Arash can be contacted at 2008 during Global Entrepreneurship [email protected], [email protected], and Week. The Future 100 awards, profiles Aqua Sciences’ website is http://www. young entrepreneurs aged 18-35 who are aquasciences.com. demonstrating entrepreneurial flair and innovation in progressing a responsible TARIK O’REGAN (1996) has been business venture; one which demonstrates a nominated in two categories, Best Classical balance between economic, environmental Album and Best Choral Performance for and social goals to achieve ultimate the 51st Annual Grammy Awards for his business success. Threshold Of Night with Conspirare/ Craig Hella Johnson. Tarik has written his SIMON ROTHENBERG (2002) married first opera, “Heart of Darkness” which ELIZABETH JONES (2004) on 15th is due to be produced at the Royal Opera August 2009 at Pembroke College. Over House, Covent Garden later this year at the 20 other Pembrokians were in attendance Operagenesis workshop. Tarik’s ‘Scattered as guests. Rhymes’ is part of the portfolio of Robina G Youngs, who has been nominated for MICHAEL BERLINER (2004) has won Producer of the Year. the Straight 8 2008 competition with his second short film “Looking for Marilyn”. HUW EDWARDS (1999) has been This led to a UKTV prime time screening offered a place at Harvard Business School on Channel 4 as a Three Minute Wonder to study for an MBA starting September and a screening at the 2008 Cannes Film 2009. Festival. It has also just been shortlisted for DepicT – a competition for 90 second ALEX McRAE (1999) has won the 2009 films at Encounters Short Film Festival in Eric Gregory Award for poets under 30. Bristol, “The UK’s most important short Alex works as a broadcast journalist and film festival” producer for BBC World News Television.

DR ARAD REISBERG (1999) has been promoted to Reader in Corporate and Financial Law at UCL Faculty of Laws in recognition both of his outstanding

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 92 11/12/2009 14:49 DAVID BLAGDEN (2004) was a PPE student at Pembroke a few years ago (Technos prize 2006) and comes back to Oxford from the University of Chicago as a fully funded doctoral student. He was also awarded the Morton A Kaplan Prize for best MA Thesis in International Relations for the 2007-8 cohort by the University of Chicago.

DOUGLAS STEBILA (2004) has completed his PhD in Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario and is now a post doctoral researcher at the Information Security Institute at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 93 11/12/2009 14:49 The Pembroke Society AGM

The Annual general meeting of the Society In the discussion which ensued, Alan took place in the Mary Hyde Eccles room Garner suggested that the paucity of in the Samuel Johnson Building at 5.00 pm members from his year, 1949, attending on 26th September 2009. this dinner, indicated that the Development Office had not succeeded in keeping in 17 members attended the meeting with touch with members. John Barlow pointed Catherine McMillan from the Development out that it had been particularly difficult Office in attendance. to find anyone from the older age groups to act as a Year Group Leader but that Apologies were received from the Secretary, all members would have received several James Forde-Johnson and Keith Jeffery. notices of this and all other events via the The President, Rev Dr. John Platt called the Pembrokian and the website as well as from meeting to order at 5.10 pm the University. Greg Neale and Geoffery Crookes added that, despite what the 1. The minutes of the previous meeting Development Office was doing, there was held on 20th September 2008 were still a role for the Society in representing approved. members to the College as a body rather than as individuals. It was pointed out, 2. Matters Arising whilst the Development Office had gone There were no matters arising. to great lengths to communicate and consult with members over the past twenty 3. Treasurer’s Report or so years, especially, in recent times, through the Annual Meeting, the Society John Barlow reported that, there having in that time never submitted any corporate been no activity on the account during the resolution or view to the College apart from past year, the balance stood at £787.50. introducing the concept of the Annual Garden Party and, later, the Activity Day. Its 4. Proposals from the Committee principle function for the past many years Following a period of consultation of had been to plan the format of the Annual the full membership, the Committee have Dinner and select someone to preside and submitted the following three proposals:- speak. Graham Layer and Malcolm Cooper argued that the Society had ‘run its course’ a) “That the Society be ‘wound up’, acknowledging and that we should accept the reality of its great success in keeping members in touch with the situation that it no longer had a ‘raison the College over the past 77 years on the grounds d’être.’ The Motion that the Society be that the ‘Objects’ of the Society have been fulfilled wound up was proposed by Malcolm for several years now by the Development Office”.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 94 11/12/2009 14:49 Cooper and seconded by Graham Layer. It the services of all Office Bearers, past and passed with 11 in favour, 3 against and 3 present abstentions. End of Minutes b) “That the remaining funds be put towards purchasing a suitably engraved piece of silverware In accordance with Item 4 (b) in in commemoration of the Society.” John Platt commemoration of the Pembroke Society, reported that he had already asked Brian a three handled silver sconcing bowl (as Wilson (1948), author of ‘A Gentle History shown in the attached photo) has been of The Silver Collection, Pembroke selected and engraved with the legend:- College, Oxford, 2005’ to recommend some SOCIETAS COLLEGII suitable pieces. The Meeting authorised the PEMBROCHIAE MCMXXXII- MMIX Officers of the Society to make the final choice. Proposed by Nicholas Crispin, seconded by Geoffrey Crookes, nem con. c) “That the President be requested to write a short history of the Society.” Proposed by Peter West, seconded by Terry Slesinski- Wykowski & passed nem con 5) Any Other Business. Graham Layer expressed the thanks of Silver Sconcing Bowl the meeting on behalf of all members for

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 95 11/12/2009 14:49 Obituaries

The deaths of the following members have been notified since the last edition of the Record

Brian Parker 1940 Mrs Eileen Wilks Philip Perry 1947 (widow of John Wilks, Emeritus Fellow) R Ian Horsell 1948 Peter Oldreive 1951 Patrick Woodcock 1953 Brian C Birch 1958 Roy Edward Weaver 1958 Peter Edward Hodgson 1960 Frederick Brendon Loughridge 1961 John Michael Talbot 1962 Michael Day 1964 David Elias 1971

The following obituaries are included in this edition

Norman Marsh (Honorary Fellow) Edgar Lightfoot (Emeritus Fellow) William Richard Keatinge (Previously Fellow 1961-68)

H W S (Wimburn) Horlock 1935 Robert Anthony Leatherdale 1941 Rex Herbert Thomas 1942 Reginald Severn 1948 Benedikt Sigurdur Benedikz 1951 Brian Rees 1952 Geoffrey Lund 1954 Gareth Price 1956 George W Clayfield 1958 Patrick McCarthy 1960 David Charles Theaker 1962

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 96 11/12/2009 14:49 NORMAN STAYNER Bath, and read law at Pembroke. He held a Vinerian scholarship and, in 1937, took MARSH the degree of BCL (bachelor of civil law) HONORARY FELLOW with first-class honours. In the same year he was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple and was awarded a Harmsworth 1913-2008 scholarship. He became a pupil of Gerald Gardiner, who was later to become Harold Norman Marsh was one of the most Wilson’s first Lord Chancellor, and joined distinguished lawyers of his generation the Western Circuit, supplementing whose work resulted in wide sweeping his uncertain income by lecturing. legal reforms. He was a man of great vision and his strongly held ethical beliefs Norman Marsh went to Germany in in fair trial, free speech and respect for the 1936 to improve his German, and there he individual translated into practical reform met Christel Christinnecke, who worked of the legal justice system. Remarkably, for as an apprentice bookseller. They became a man of such academic intellect, he also engaged with plans to marry in Germany. possessed the persuasive powers to inspire In 1939 Christel was forced to flee from and motivate those in authority to give Germany when she was denounced to the practical application to his beliefs. He was Gestapo for making anti-Nazi comments, also a highly cultured individual who made and they were therefore married in his mark in many areas of activity and good England. It was to be a marriage which causes during his lifetime. lasted more than 60 years until her death in 2000 and Christel’s reputation was one Norman Marsh played a leading part in of a lady of great character and charm. the foundation of two major English legal institutions. In 1958, with Lord Denning, A fluent German speaker, Norman the merger took place of two narrowly Marsh was recruited into the Intelligence focused legal bodies to become the present- Corps at the beginning of the war and he day British Institute of International then served in the Control Commission and Comparative Law. Its remit remains for Germany as a lieutenant-colonel until worldwide in its promotion of the rule his demobilisation in 1946. His knowledge of law in international affairs. In 1965, of German led to his employment in the together with his former pupil-master interrogation of German PoWs, including a Gerald Gardiner, the then Lord Chancellor, number of generals. When, after the war, the Norman Marsh effected the reform of harsh interrogation methods of the British English law in his role as a founder member during the Northern Ireland Troubles of the Law Commission, which reformed were exposed in proceedings brought by the principles of Criminal Law in the UK. the Irish Republic in the European Court As Secretary-General of the International of Human Rights, Norman Marsh was Commission of Jurists, he initiated wide profoundly shocked, saying that, although debate on the rule of law in a free society. the pressure was always intense to get information quickly, in the questioning Norman Stayner Marsh was born in in which he had been engaged, it would Bath in 1913, the son of Horace Marsh, a have been inconceivable to do anything jeweller and watchmaker, and Lucy Marsh, worse than deprive a prisoner of sleep. In who had a dressmaking business. Unlike addition, he wrote a report arguing that the his parents, Norman was absorbed by carpet bombing of Germany only served learning and books and was liberal in his to strengthen morale and ‘Bomber’ Harris, politics, thus showing independence of on seeing this report, wanted to have him spirit from the accepted family view. He court-martialled. Stories abound about was educated at Monkton Combe School,

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 97 11/12/2009 14:49 his time in Germany and include one directed by a comprehensive working paper on his apparent arrest by the Americans prepared by Norman Marsh. Norman as a spy and Eisenhower’s personal Marsh was instrumental to the success and apology, a highly improper journey into importance of these organisations. the Soviet Union to retrieve a cache of weapons belonging to his Luftwaffe-pilot In 1958, he returned to Oxford, but brother-in-law and other such escapades. was shortly to join Lord Denning in merging two smaller legal bodies into At the end of the war, Norman Marsh the establishment of the British Institute did not return to the bar but, in 1946, he of International and Comparative Law. was appointed Stowell Fellow of Civil Law Norman Marsh took up his appointment at University College, Oxford, and served as its first Director and General Editor of as the Estates Bursar of there from 1948 the International and Comparative Law until 1958. He had many eccentricities, Quarterly in 1960, and he and Christel a tendency to forget his pupils’ names, moved back to London. During the five and was noted for his erratic driving years of his directorship, he oversaw the but he proved a wise and hard-nosed merger of the membership of the two bursar, investing soundly in commercial organisations, which had diverse aims properties. but came together into a consolidated institute, with a far wider ranging remit. His interests remained wide ranging and This was to promote the interest in he was fascinated with the rule of law both and understanding of the rule of law at national and international levels. His in international affairs and comparative interest in the broader importance of the legal systems, supported by high quality rule of law led him to seek leave of absence research, publications and a programme from his college in 1956 in order to take of meetings and conferences. Although up a two-year appointment as Secretary- he left the Institute in 1965, his work with General to the International Commission it continued as a member of Council and of Jurists at The Hague. It was the time of of the editorial board of the International the end of Empire, the sudden emergence and Comparative Law Quarterly, and his of many new independent nations and the commitment and influence on its direction coming of the Cold War which created the and expansion continued until he was well need for new international organisations into his eighties. In 1987, the Institute if freedom and justice were to prevail published “Access to Government-held in such fluctuating times. This position Information”, of which he was editor and ideally suited Norman Marsh’s talents and part author. beliefs in freedom and justice. Even in his undergraduate days, he was an ardent Throughout this period, he maintained supporter of the League of Nations, his association with the International and later played a prominent part in the Commission of Jurists and became a United Nations Association. Under his member of the Council of Justice, in its guidance the Commission drew attention British section. He was one of the first in its publications to many instances of organisers of Amnesty (later Amnesty the oppression of the individual by the International), and a friend of its founder State, and he visited numerous countries Peter Benenson. He played an important to further this work. This untiring activity role in its early days, and was a member reached its climax with a congress of of its Policy Committee, as well as being jurists in Delhi in 1959, at which 185 a manager of its Prisoners of Conscience judges and lawyers from 53 countries met Fund. He continued as an active member to discuss the operation of the rule of law well into his eighties, travelling by coach to in a free society. Their deliberations were Paris and back to attend meetings with the French section.

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 98 11/12/2009 14:49 In 1965, his former pupil-master, Gerald difficulty in defining his professional life by Gardiner, who had by then become stating that “it seems that it is impossible Lord Chancellor under Harold Wilson’s to fit him into any simple professional Government, appointed him as one of the category. He was not a natural academic first law commissioners, and two years later since he was a deeply practical and moral he took silk. The Law Commission was man who wanted to change the world established to review and reform the law. rather than just describe and criticise it He served as a law commissioner under the from the sometimes snide and Olympian chairmanship of Sir Leslie Scarman (later sidelines of academia. He was too eccentric Lord Scarman) with Professor Jim Gower, and modest, far too uninterested in self- Andrew Martin, QC, and Neil Lawson, aggrandisement to be a successful member QC, as the other members. Here again, he of the establishment. He was not a natural found himself in a congenial pioneering leader – not because he failed to command role. He worked as joint chairman of the respect – but because there was little of the working party on general principles of the competitive, alpha male in him. He had, criminal law and of the working party on instead, an almost child-like, innocent view matrimonial property. The reports which of the world, enthusiastic and interested in followed led to substantial changes to the everything he saw but with an utterly clear existing laws. He also served as a member sense of moral purpose and without a trace of the Younger Committee on Privacy and of vanity or self-importance”. Yet all who the Royal Commission on Compensation knew him were impressed by his vitality, for Personal Injury. Norman Marsh also his idealism, his capacity for work, and his led the Commission’s team on remedies ability to discern and direct profitable lines in administrative law which produced the of research which the more prosaic would recommendations which eventually led to overlook. the new procedure for judicial review in the Supreme Court Act 1981. He acted Norman Marsh was appointed an as a commissioner until his retirement in honorary QC in 1977 and CBE in 1977. 1978, by far the longest term of office Not content with his regular employment, of any commissioner, and it remains very Norman Marsh believed in filling every unlikely that others will ever achieve a possible moment with worthwhile activity. similar tenure of office. He continued to In 1963, as a devoted resident of Clapham, work thereafter in a consultant capacity, he was instrumental in the creation of the playing a major role in the preparation Clapham Society, which was set up for the of the Commission’s recommendations purposes of encouraging the preservation and report on breach of confidence. He and improvement of public amenities in also served as a member of the Pearson Clapham. As Chairman, Norman Marsh commission (1973-78) on civil liability and drew on the strengths and abilities of other compensation for personal injuries. skilled people in such matters as architecture and planning but contributed his own skills Although at times he could be difficult in legal knowledge and campaigning tactics. to work with (because of his refusal to He remained Chairman for 10 years, when, let awkward detail get in the way of on expressing his desire to stand down, he a grand design), he was held in great was invited to become its first President. affection by his colleagues. It is difficult Norman Marsh took equal delight in his to place Norman Marsh as a lawyer. He Welsh retreat in Radnorshire, and he took was certainly not a practitioner, nor an an eager interest in life in the Welsh Valley, orthodox academic lawyer, and showed a where he lies to rest alongside his late wife, preference for ideas rather than a liking Christel. for the niceties of legal drafting. One of He was one of the founders of the his sons, Dr Henry Marsh, describes this Gilbert Murray Trust, to which he devoted

35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 99 11/12/2009 14:49 much time in procuring bursaries for He took the world and his work seriously, promising students. As well as involvement but rarely, if ever, did he take himself in setting up the Prisoners of Conscience seriously. I think we all greatly respected Fund, he was a vice-chair of Age Concern. him as a father but we most certainly were He was active in many good causes. not in awe of him.” Christel, his wife of over 60 years, shared his activities and she worked as a volunteer One of his Assistants at the Institute for Amnesty from its start in a basement of International and Comparative Law, in Mitre Court, Temple. She started the who went on to become one of Australia’s first card index of political prisoners most eminent judges, said of him: and became responsible in particular for gathering information on prisoners in East “Norman was a lovely man. He was a Germany. kind and generous person, easy to work with…(he) had a strong commitment to On resigning his college fellowship in social justice, and would not tolerate any 1960, Norman Marsh and his wife moved kind of hypocrisy; he would comment to London and for 40 years lived in a large adversely when he encountered any falsity Queen Anne house overlooking Clapham or self-aggrandisement. He himself never Common on the North Side. There was hesitated to lend a hand with the mundane scarcely a room that was not filled with work of the Institute when the pressure books, not least his extensive law library. was on. His unfailing courtesy to those After his wife’s death in 2000, Norman who worked for him won respect and Marsh moved to a flat a short distance affection. Norman had a penetrating and away. His tireless partner in his last years formidable mind, and a real understanding was Marlys Deeds, another early supporter of legal and social issues. His strong of Amnesty. She too was from Germany, intellect was sometimes masked by a having escaped in one of the Kinder rather absent minded approach to practical transports of Jewish children in 1938. She things. He was rather untidy, and I seem survives him along with the two sons and to remember frequent phone calls to find two daughters of his marriage to Christel. where he had left his pen, umbrella, brief case or other items”. Norman Marsh began to write his memoirs with the intended title of Another colleague spoke of Norman “The Fortunate Englishman in the 20th Marsh as Editor of the Journal of Century” but he did not progress it beyond International and Comparative Law: his childhood. “He always stood out as completely lacking in any kind of self-importance…. Obituary compiled from various sources he was distinguished enough to have been thoroughly arrogant, but there was EXTRACTS FROM A TRIBUTE FROM never the slightest trace of it. His high HIS SON, DR HENRY MARSH standing in the eyes of the world seemed to take him rather by surprise. He treated “It would be hard to find anything other everyone he met as potentially fascinating, than good to say of him. Indeed, if he always listening and responding without had any failing at all it was that he was ever hijacking the conversation. He treated too reasonable, too right-minded and too me with the same friendly interest as he generous, which certainly caused problems would the Lord Chief Justice!” for me when I was a rebellious teenager. “The stories he told us were mainly As one of his colleagues and friends against himself – he took great delight in wrote to us after his death, “the world is a recounting his eccentricities and mistakes. better place for his having been in it”.

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 100 11/12/2009 14:49 EXTRACTS FROM A TRIBUTE FROM EDGAR LIGHTFOOT HIS DAUGHTER MRS BRIDGET CHERRY Emeritus Fellow Norman Marsh lived half his life in 1920-2009 Clapham, moving there before it was at all fashionable and he embraced its As a fellow Northerner myself, albeit one history. He was active in both the Clapham born within sight of the Irish rather than Antiquarian Society and the Clapham the North Sea, from my first encounter with Society, where be served first as Chairman Edgar some forty years ago, I recognized and then President for some 30 years. He in him so many of the traits which make felt a particular affinity for those early 19th up the very best side of that character century Clapham residents such as William – sturdy commonsense, the tell-it-as-it-is Wilberforce who shared his interests in approach, a strong loyalty to family, friends campaigning for human rights and penal and valued institutions. But my overriding reform. Mrs Cherry recalls the hospitality and enduring impression of Edgar was of her parents and how her father took that of his warmth – a warmth epitomised home a complete stranger who stopped to and expressed in the beautifully modulated ask him about the Clapham Sect, and how burr of his native Teeside. a lifelong friendship was formed from this chance encounter. She describes how her The third of four children of a Hartlepool father’s courtesy, generosity and desire to family, he went on from a successful school be helpful, especially to foreigners and to career there to become an engineer, a the young, was deep-rooted. reserved profession which would have excused him from active service in the “He also took great delight in second war. Inspired perhaps by the example of hand bookshops as a source for his ever his elder brother, who was killed in the increasing library. Collecting came to him RAF, Edgar instead volunteered for the naturally”. Royal Engineers. He served with them throughout the war – most notably in the “Being surrounded by his family was long and bloody Italian Campaign where always a greatest happiness for him. He his principal task was the building of was good at enjoying life” the ubiquitous Bailey bridges across the seemingly endless succession of rivers as With grateful thanks to Mrs Bridget the army fought its way up the peninsula. Cherry, Dr Henry Marsh and Mrs E Edgar was profoundly influenced by his Ramsay, Norman Marsh’s children, for wartime experiences and later made a allowing the use of extracts from the number of contributions to the records of snapshots of Norman Marsh’s life, which his unit’s history. Moreover, he retained a formed the basis of family tributes to their lifelong love of Italy, its language, music father at his funeral, and to the Clapham and culture. Society for allowing the use of material written in their magazine supplement on After the war, Edgar returned to study, the Life of Norman Marsh. research and teach engineering, specialising in the structural side of the subject. Awarded degrees from London and Leeds, he spent ten years at the latter University before moving to Oxford in 1961 to a University Lectureship in conjunction with a Fellowship in Engineering at Pembroke.

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 101 11/12/2009 14:49 In so doing, he became the first Fellow in When it came to retirement, Edgar was that subject in the history of the College. a splendid example of those whom one wondered how they had ever had time I cannot myself speak of his work in to go to work, so great was the extent of the University Department though I know his activities – art, bridge, music, Italian, a he was greatly respected there and that lively social life and, above all, golf. he was an especially valued supervisor of research students. To the six or so Of Edgar the family man, there are undergraduates who came up each year to those here, of course, who know all there the College, having been carefully vetted is to be known. What was palpably evident by him in the admissions process, Edgar was his devotion to all its members – to was a wonderful tutor. He took a genuinely his beloved wife, Alice, from who he was personal interest in them which extended so sadly bereft twenty-seven years ago, and well beyond their academic studies. They to Chris, David, Rosie and their children. could always count on his support in any Your hearts are full indeed and your sense problems they encountered but, equally, of loss profound. But, as you well know, he would let them know in no uncertain you have so very much for which to be fashion if he judged they were going off thankful as you consider the manner of the rails. No wonder they held him in such man he was. high regard. From them, as from all who knew him, Edgar commanded affection Address by the Rev’d Dr. John Platt at the and respect in equal measure. They saw, funeral service at Oxford Crematorium on 23rd as did we all, a clever man but also, more February 2009 importantly, a wise one. RECOLLECTIONS OF EDGAR FROM That Edgar was proactive in his A FORMER COLLEAGUE thoughtfulness, I can testify from my own experience. In the early 70s, when he took FROM SIR ROD EDDINGTON, Kt, on the College post of Dean of Graduate Dphil (BE, MEngSci Western Australia) Students, he noted that I was struggling “I taught Thermodynamics and Fluid to complete a doctorate at the same time Mechanics as a research lecturer at as being an active college chaplain and, Pembroke College for a few years in the entirely on his own initiative, persuaded late 1970s. Edgar offered me that chance Pembroke to grant me a term’s sabbatical -- he was a civil engineer himself and was leave to enable me to progress my studies. very keen to see his students taught by those closest to their subjects of choice As a keen sportsman, - himself a and those areas were my passion. He talented player in his younger days with was a wonderful mentor throughout my Hartlepool Rovers, - he was especially time at Pembroke. His commitment to interested in his students’ activities on the his students was always strong. He knew sports field. I well remember the occasion them well, and wanted to see them make when no fewer than five Pembroke men the most of their time at College both were in the Oxford squad for the Varsity in and out of the classroom. He enjoyed Soccer Match and Edgar and I went to see seeing them succeed beyond their Oxford them play at Wembley Stadium. He was student days and took real pleasure in particularly pleased when the one who was seeing a number of them rise to very his own student scored with a magnificent senior jobs in the engineering profession. header. We lived next to one another in the same village, Tubney, for a couple of years. He was a wonderful neighbour who enjoyed

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 102 11/12/2009 14:49 village life. The only engineering problem used approximate methods because they I ever saw get the better of him was that were easier. Ironically, it was the increase posed by the persistent tunnellers -- moles in the power of computers that allowed -- who played havoc with his front lawn. the accuracy of approximate methods Even then, I think the civil engineer in to improve (computers are very good him had a sneaking respect for their earth at approximating solutions and iterating moving capabilities!” towards an accurate response – lots of number crunching), thus relegating exact RECOLLECTIONS OF EDGAR FROM analysis to specialist tasks for high-value FORMER STUDENTS designs. One of his most cited publications was FROM DONALD DUGGAN (1973) written with Andy LeMessurier (another Pembrokian) in 1974 – “Elastic analysis Edgar Lightfoot had intense enthusiasm of frameworks with elastic connections”, for Structural Engineering, and I was lucky in which he and Andy developed a enough to have some of that enthusiasm mathematical model of beam and truss infect me. elements with flexible connections to a Edgar was my DPhil. adviser in the larger frame. This model is one of the mid 1970s. At that time there had been building blocks for development of the several high profile collapses of motorway nonlinear finite element programmes bridges during construction. In typical which are still in use today. I have recently Edgar fashion, he saw an opportunity for completed an analysis of underground focused research, raised the funding from water pipelines crossing an earthquake the Construction Industry Research and fault using similar elements. Information Association (CIRIA), secured During my time at Pembroke, Edgar a huge space for structural testing (the old was more than just an adviser. He Oxford Power Station by the canal), and was a mentor, guiding me through the recruited me to do the work. I knew of difficult transition to the Oxford academic him before I came to Oxford because I environment, and helping me focus on the was applying finite element techniques to goal. It was clear to me then that he really planar structures, and there was significant cared about his students – undergraduate convergence between the analysis I was and postgraduate. It came across in his doing and his research interests. tutorials, his communication with outside Edgar saw very early the advances that examiners, and the way in which he ran the development of computers would his lab. It is to my great regret that I bring to structural engineering. His 1960 never told him, then or later, how much paper in The Structural Engineer, “Some of an influence he had had on my life, and applications of the electronic computer how much my love for the profession of to structural engineering” predicted structural engineering is owed to him. applications that would not take hold in the profession until the mid 1970s, and (Donald Duggan is a practising are now performed on a laptop by every engineer living in Oakland, California. structural engineering student. His early Most of his work is directed towards work was in computational methods for the protection of infrastructure from the single plane grillage structures (typically effects of earthquakes. His clients include bridge decks, parking structure decks, etc.). water utilities, electric and gas utilities, He was particularly interested in “exact” transportation networks and Federal and analysis – using equations that accurately state agencies responsible for power and represent the relationship of stress, strain water). and displacement. He was a bit disdainful of those of us in the profession who

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 103 11/12/2009 14:49 some terms of art which stuck with FROM ANDY LE MESSURIER (1969) us. “Statically indeterminate” was one. To the uninitiated, that might suggest a On reflection I think that Edgar’s most propensity to instability and collapse; not precious gift to us was not perhaps his characteristics ever displayed by Edgar’s considerable engineering knowledge and engineers (as far I can recall). So when expertise but his ability to nurture those the Pembroke Engineers formed an for whom the ivory towers of Oxford eight in 1974 to compete in Eights Week may have been very intimidating at first. (alas cricket in the Parks - temporarily! I believe this warmth to newcomers - prevented my involvement),there was probably came both from the inherent only ever going to be one name for it - hospitality from his northern England “Statically Indetermineight”. roots and from his own experience when he was a newcomer to Oxford. FROM GRAHAM BUCKEL (1984) During my six years under Edgar’s tutelage, first as an undergraduate then Graham Buckel recalled with sadness undertaking research, I witnessed many his fond memories of tutorials with Dr occasions when Edgar’s warmth helped Lightfoot. “I was very sad to hear the news people settle in to the Oxford environment about Dr Lightfoot. He was a constant - and it wasn’t just towards those under presence during my time at Pembroke, and his tutelage - my wife Jenny (née Booth contributed to some very fond memories”. of Somerville reading Latin and French) remembers Edgar as one of the Oxford FROM MARK FIDLER (1980) dons she felt most at ease with. “As undergraduates”, Mark Fidler writes, (Andy LeMessurier lives in Perth, Australia, “the Pembroke engineers became a having specialised in the structural design close group and most of us are still in of offshore structures working with Shell contact. Edgar was certainly a strong and and Worley Parsons). independent tutor – always clear in his views! I probably drove him to despair as FROM KEITH BRIDGEMAN (1972) I was not exactly a model student. Our relationship improved once I graduated, Keith Bridgeman wrote to say how much doubtless partly because my academic he was influenced by Edgar with his quiet, shortcomings were no longer a concern to sardonic humour, and carefully observed him! I will remember Edgar with fondness understanding of undergraduates. “I am and appreciation – he was always charming, sure my abiding interest in the subject is interested in me and my background, and a tribute to his own enthusiasm and love supportive of my career after Pembroke. of learning, this last has, I think, stayed I respected the fact that he was clear in with me”. his values, but also receptive to other opinions”. FROM KEITH HOWICK (1972) FROM MARTIN ROBERTS (1979) Edgar took great personal interest in his undergraduates, and their development Martin Roberts adds that he had the both as engineers and as people. He was privilege to be tutored by Edgar for three keen to support sporting interests, and crucial years of his life. “His kindness and sympathetic (perhaps overly so) to at guidance will live with me always”. least one scholar who played too much university sport. We were all fond of Edgar because of the interest he showed. Being a “structures” man, Edgar had

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 104 11/12/2009 14:49 Before taking up his place at Cambridge, WlliamR i ichard his adventurous spirit led him to go off with a friend around Sweden until their Keatinge canoe was smashed on rapids. During FELLOW AT his time at Cambridge, he and five of his friends drove a battered RAF lorry PEMBROKE (1961-68) to Istanbul – covering some 6000 miles in all. On the way back, he climbed the 1931-2008 Matterhorn with one of the group. As well as skiing, mountaineering and sailing, he William Richard later learned to fly and took up gliding. Keatinge, known always as Bill, was born on the Medical studies were completed at 18 May 1931 in London. St Thomas’s Hospital, London. Then He spent the early part followed National Service with the Navy of his childhood on his in Cambridge (1956-58), having been asked grandfather’s farm at Risby, in East Anglia, by the Navy to find out why there was which his father managed for his father-in- such heavy loss of life, some 30,000 in law. It was a happy time where Bill enjoyed all, from cold immersion in the sea during working during the school holidays, most the war, in spite of flotation equipment. particularly at harvest time. In 1940, he was They needed to know how to reduce evacuated to Canada for 4 years, fortunately deaths from cold, and so began a lifelong to family friends who had offered to interest for Bill in the human response look after him and his sister Brigitte. He to extremes of temperature, although he attended Upper Canada College and he always regretted not having been able to had happy memories of summers at 6 do research into how the brain worked. Away lake, particularly enjoying boating He then took up the post of Director of and fishing. After his return to England Studies in Medicine and a Junior Fellowship in 1944, he was educated at Rugby at Pembroke College Cambridge (1958-60). School until 1949, where a dedicated and He subsequently spent one year in San enthusiastic science teacher inspired in him Francisco as a Fulbright Scholar, before an interest in science. In his last year, he returning to England where he took up won a major scholarship to read medicine a Medical Research Council appointment at Pembroke College, Cambridge. As there in 1961 and a Fellowship at Pembroke were still some months of the school year College, Oxford. By this time, many left, it was suggested that Bill spend the questions on immersion deaths had been time in the school library, where he read answered. mainly volumes on Ancient History and Philosophy, which gave him a lifetime In 1969, he joined the Department of interest in these subjects. In later life, he Physiology at the London Hospital Medical was seldom without a paperback edition College (LHMC) as Reader in Physiology, in his pocket on these subjects, particularly and was promoted Professor in July 1970. taking delight in seeing plays in Ancient Greek when on sailing holidays in Greece. During the seventies, he had been alerted It was not by accident that his leaving to the fact that there were a number present from Queen Mary and Westfield of unexplained casualties during working College, in 1996, was several volumes of dives in the North Sea. He led a group into Ancient Greek Literature. researching this, and found that there was a problem with the heating system used for the divers in that it depended on the divers

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 105 11/12/2009 14:49 adjusting the temperature, but, if they continued to attract grant funding and were already too cold, they might have pursue his research interests. He retained been too confused to do this properly. an office and facilities at Queen Mary and concentrated on environmental problems He was appointed Head of the such as global warming, and the fact that Department of Physiology in October cold caused far more deaths than heat. He 1981. He served as Preclinical Dean at was frequently interviewed by the media, the LHMC, at a time of considerable at times of extreme cold and during heat change and uncertainty. The merger of waves. the preclinical departments at the LHMC, with those at Bart’s and the move to He ran an active and successful research QMW (Queen Mary and Westfield group, which was highly rated and grant College) eventually happened, but only -supported by the Medical Research after discussions lasting some 20 years. In Council for many years. Among his the clashes of vested interests and bruised many publications are important articles egos, he was a beacon of practicality, on survival in cold water and local moderation and trustworthiness. mechanisms for controlling blood vessels. He had many international collaborations, Following the merger of the Basic developed especially close links with Medical Sciences Departments from Russia and led a large EU Eurowinter LHMC and St Bartholomew’s Hospital grant, which coordinated research in eight Medical College (Bart’s) with Queen European countries. This looked at the Mary and Westfield College (QMW) in impact of cold on public health across 1990, Professor Keatinge became Head those 8 countries. Following the break up of Physiology in the joint school. A new of the Soviet Union, it became possible building at QMW and a new curriculum for him to extend his Eurowinter project were initiated at the time of the merger to Siberia. Professor Keatinge found it in 1990 and he played a leading role in very difficult not being able to converse in designing and implementing these changes. Russian and at the age of 65, he made full He also made substantial contributions use of the advantages of being part of a to the teaching of human physiology multi-faculty environment at Queen Mary, to undergraduates and postgraduates University of London, by forging a link throughout his career. He organised the with the Russian Department and learning entire body and nutrition module in the to speak the language well enough to be Integrated Curriculum introduced in 1990 understood on his visits to Russia. This at QMW for the large combined intake of enabled him to read and enjoy Russian medical students at the new Mile End site. literature – particularly Russian poetry and to make many good friends there. In 1991, he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences at Professor Keatinge was a prolific writer QMW. This presented much challenge who wrote over 100 research papers – as student numbers increased while staff sometimes as sole author and sometimes appointments were reduced, and he was a in collaboration with others, principally on most competent administrator under such temperature regulation and the control of difficult circumstances. In 1994, his term blood vessels. He is credited with showing as Dean ended and, on his retirement in that those in temperate climes are more 1995, he was made Emeritus Professor. vulnerable to death from heat or cold He was content to leave administration than those accustomed to more extreme behind to concentrate on his research, temperatures, who routinely take measures which was of paramount importance to to protect themselves against the elements. him. Well after official retirement, he He lectured all over the world from Alaska

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 106 11/12/2009 14:49 to Riyadh – from Iceland to the USA, and As well as a lifelong interest in classical was a member of over twenty committees, archaeology, and history, Professor Keatinge including the Research and Ethics enjoyed Poetry, and, in particular, James Committee at the Ministry of Defence. He Elroy Flecker and Robert Service and, on a served on this committee for over 30 years, lighter note, the novels of Damon Runyan. and the Chief Scientific Advisor described His earlier travel and adventurous exploits his contribution as “providing invaluable as a student continued into later life. He scientific and technical advice”. accompanied the long distance swimmer Lynne Cox when she swam between the In particular, during the 1980s, there Alaskan Island of Little Diomede and was much media publicity regarding excess the Russian Island of Big Diomede as winter deaths among elderly people in her medical advisor. He undertook this in the UK. Originally, many were thought an ancient walrus-skin boat, having been to be caused by hypothermia. However, given a needle and thread because the boat subsequent research by Bill and his team was of doubtful safety! showed that cold exposure caused death even when elderly people were chilled to His colleague at QMW, Margaret Bird, levels insufficient to cause hypothermia. described him as an “old school” gentleman A series of experiments on volunteers “quiet and not showy at all”. He was a man showed that both cold and heat stress who enjoyed and put much energy into all caused changes in blood composition that aspects of his life – his family, his career promote arterial thrombosis. Clinically, this of research, teaching and administration, is manifested as an excess of deaths from his life in London and in the charming heart attack and strokes. village of Teffont Evias in Wiltshire, in which his family had lived for many years. The conclusion of his research was that One feature of his work which reflected practical measures, such as keeping warm the integrity of Bill was that he would both indoors and outdoors, could help never allow an experiment to be carried older people limit their risk in winter and out on anyone but himself, if there was any reduce the number of deaths. He extended possibility of its being dangerous. his scope to epidemiology, notably finding Bill was first married to Annette Hegarty that free central heating did not prevent in 1955, who predeceased him, and with excess cold-related mortality in residents whom he had three children, Richard, of a large UK housing association. His Claire and Mary. He subsequently found colleague at QMW, Margaret Bird, recalls happiness again with Lynette Nelson who his advice in cold weather always to wear became his second wife. His children and a hat as so much body heat can be lost Lynette survive him. He was diagnosed from the head. In addition, he also found with incurable prostate cancer in 1992, that heart attacks and strokes are again the facing his illness with courage and dignity. largest cause of death in heat waves, when He continued his active career until a few water and salt are lost in sweat, so that weeks before his death at the age of 76, blood becomes more concentrated and and completed the write-up of his final more liable to form clots that block arteries projects in a distinguished research career. supplying the heart and brain. He will be greatly missed not only by his family but also by his many friends and Professor Keatinge was elected to colleagues. membership of The Physiology Society in 1968, served on the Committee from 1977 Obituary compiled from various sources to 1981 and was a member of the Editorial With grateful thanks to Mrs Lynette Keatinge Board of The Journal of Physiology from and Dr Richard Keatinge, his son, for their 1979 to 1986. contributions.

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 107 11/12/2009 14:49 RECOLLECTIONS FROM ONE In 1969, Bill was working on his book OF PROFESSOR KEATINGE’S “Survival in Cold Water.” I was shown STUDENTS DR JEFFREY GRAHAM chapters in draft form, and when I showed (1966) an interest was invited to join Bill to study for a PhD. This book summarised From 1966 to 1969, I was a preclinical Bill’s work since, as a newly qualified medical student at Pembroke. Bill taught doctor, he had been ordered by the Royal physiology, and was one of my three tutors Navy to report to Cambridge and conduct together with Percy O’Brien (Biochemistry) research. From the questions raised by and Saville Bradbury (Anatomy). Though this book, Bill shaped his career. He Bill preferred research to teaching, he was relentlessly studied the effects of cold a conscientious teacher and never missed water on sailors, swimmers and divers. a tutorial. After a while, I got good essay He moved from research in large cold marks by following Bill’s two simple rules water tanks to the membrane physiology – that essays should begin with a little of arterial smooth muscle cells that history, and should include graphs. determine part of the body’s response to cold. Having largely solved the problems Bill was less of a “college man” than of humans in cold water, Bill moved on my other tutors. He had a young family, to land and studied the effects of cold and so had to get home after work, rather on elderly people and people who chill than dine in Hall. He had a laboratory after collapsing ill in cold weather. And away from Pembroke, and this was his then, having largely exhausted this field, real working base. And he was terrified Bill moved on to the effects of heat – of his office, high up in an old house in just in time for the growing awareness of Pembroke Street. He was warned about global warming. In this career, Bill moved fire on the wooden staircase, as this was effortlessly from whole body physiology, a death trap. Bill had a fire escape, a large to membrane physiology, to international red cylinder bolted to a rickety wall near epidemiology. In his wake, Bill left quite a window. In the box was a coiled steel a few casualties among scientists whose wire attached to a canvas harness. The work he reinvestigated and found wanting. instructions said that, in case of fire, it was quite safe to sit in the harness and jump Scientists have special respect for a out of the window. At first, your fall would colleague who opens up a profitable be rapid, but after a moment springs field—in Bill’s case temperature regulation. would engage and slow your descent, so But there is less love for the scientist that you landed gently on tiptoe. Bill was a who solves all the important problems big man and a realist, so he always listened himself, and virtually winds up that new for the crackle of flames. field. Bill’s scope was often feared by his contemporaries. Bill may have been keen to get back to his family, but he was generous in Bill gave his students a great deal of inviting his students to share his family advice, much of which I still remember. life. Annette was a kind hostess, and it was Some was intensely practical – “If you enjoyable to watch his children as they spill something in the laboratory, wipe grew up. Children were less ideological it up at once, or you will only fall over.” than undergraduates in the revolutionary Some dealt with the romantic side of life – 1960s, and made relaxing company. Some “Marry a calm woman if you want a career years after Annette died, Bill married in science—they are less distracting”, and Lynette, who helped him support and of children “Three is enough.” But Bill’s enjoy his growing family. most noble advice related to academic excellence. He insisted that clear writing is

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 108 11/12/2009 14:49 essential, because it reflects clear thought. Army training as an officer cadet was Bill insisted that apparent success should ended by a damaged knee and, in 1942, be tested by the most rigorous criticism. He he joined the Civil Service initially in had been an undergraduate at Cambridge the Ministry of Agriculture, which was when Hodgkin and Huxley were drafting much preoccupied with war time food their Nobel Prize winning papers, and saw production. After the war, he was involved successive drafts being circulated round in the preservation of the Green Belt the whole department, so faults could be around Oxford and the West Country. quickly corrected. Bill’s own papers were sent first to Sir Bernard Katz, another He met his wife, Robin Tanner, in London Nobel Prize winner; only afterwards were in 1960, where she had been a Deputy others allowed access. Matron at Guy’s Hospital. She had just been appointed Matron at King’s College As well as direct advice, one could Hospital and had been sent to Sweden, learn from Bill’s example. He would tackle Finland, Switzerland and Germany to write any problem, beginning by repeating his a report on how nursing was being taught at catechism “This cannot be beyond the the universities. However, in those days, the wit of man.” And Bill set a standard for hospital considered marriage incompatible treating others, with endless consideration with nursing, and Robin’s dynamism was and courtesy. He was an English gentleman. thus lost by the profession. The couple were married at St Mary Abchurch in the City of London and had their reception WIMBURN in Saddlers’ Hall. It was a long and happy marriage and they always supported HORLOCK (1935) one another in their respective activities. Initially they lived in Bath but subsequently 1915-2009 moved to Swiss Cottage in London where part of the house they bought was being Wimburn Horlock was the second child used as a nursery school for three children. of the Rev. Henry Horlock, a doctor of Robin took this over and the school Divinity and his wife, Mary, and was born soon grew to accommodate 30 children. at Coome Down, Bath in 1915. He was Realising that there was a great demand for privately educated at home in Dulverton, pre-preparatory schooling, they bought a Somerset and gained a place at Pembroke substantial house with an acre of garden in where he graduated in 1939 in Agriculture Fitzjohn’s Avenue, Hampstead, which had and Estate Management. His funeral tribute been used as a retreat for Roman Catholic stated that Pembroke made him the man he priests. After renovation, including the was and that he was always to remember replacement of many stained glass windows this with gratitude. It was at this time and and redecoration, Stepping Stone School encouraged by the Master of Pembroke thrived and expanded until there were 240 that he was introduced to Freemasonry, children and 40 members of staff. Wimburn which was to become an abiding interest. devoted much time and energy helping He would be seen walking out in his best Robin run Stepping Stone pre-prep School suit, carrying a little leather case. Another and he was much loved by the children. younger undergraduate asked where he was going and soon afterwards Wimburn Wimburn joined the Livery of Saddlers’ proposed this friend into Masonry and they Company in 1937 as a liveryman at the became life long friends. This was an early age of 21, where his mother’s side of the example of Wimburn encouraging those family had been members of the Company younger than himself to take part in activities for generations. However, he only began which he enjoyed and thought worthwhile. to take an increasing interest in City of

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 109 11/12/2009 14:49 London matters after the couple had Rny A (To ) moved to London. He joined the Court of Common Council in 1969, serving Leatherdale (1946) for 33 years. He was elected Lay Sheriff in 1972; Master of Saddlers’ Company 1923 - 2009 in 1976; and became Deputy of the Ward of Farringdon Within in 1969, Throughout his life Tony had a very serving for 33 years. During his time in strong link with Pembroke College, after the Ward of Farringdon Within, he was all it was where his father had gone and elected Chairman of the West Ham Park he had loved his time there. His father Committee and of the Police Committee, had obtained a place before the First where, much to his amusement, one of the World War but could not take it up as City Police horses was named after him. there was insufficient money available to He joined the Parish Clerks’ Company in send him. However having served in the 1966, becoming their Master in 1981 and war one of the officers told him about a he was a keen supporter of the Church of scheme available to those whose education England and a member of the Plaisterers’, had been interrupted by the war and he Fletchers’ and Gardeners’ Companies. As was therefore able to go. He originally if all this was not sufficient, he was an intended to train as a teacher but was so active member of the City of London horrified by his experiences of the war he Sheriffs’ Society (Chairman 1985-2003); decided to study religion, going on to be a Farringdon Ward Club (President 1978); parish priest in Cranleigh, Farlington and United Wards Club (President 1980); and later a Canon of Ripon Cathedral. City Livery Club (President 1989). Not surprisingly Wimburn and Robin became very well known and highly respected When Tony was looking for a university in the square mile. Whatever city club or place to study medicine, his father society Wimburn joined, he became an approached the Master at Pembroke and enthusiastic member of it, always reaching asked if the college would take Tony. The the top as Master, President or Chairman Master said “of course he can join us” but and thereafter remaining loyal in his then rather apologetically added “well I am support for their respective objectives. afraid since he wants to study medicine he He was devoted to his family and friends will have to take some entrance exams”. and to voluntary and public service, a Tony passed these with no difficulty and perfect gentleman with an impish sense of so started his great link with the College. humour and a twinkle in his eye. He insisted He studied at Pembroke during the Second on high standards and had an absolute World War and vividly remembered a large integrity and maintained an interest in, water tank being placed in Chapel Quad as and care and encouragement of others. part of the defence against any attack on the city. Visiting the college much later he In retirement, Wimburn and Robin was able to trace where the tank had been lived in Upper Slaughter in the Cotswolds and was also struck by the large number of and maintained a flat at the Barbican students compared to the fifty or so who for their frequent trips to the City. had studied with him. Wimburn Horlock died peacefully at home while still “Father of the Saddlers’ After qualifying as a junior doctor Tony Company” on 26th August 2009. worked at the Radcliffe Infirmary before moving to Guy’s Hospital, London a year Obituary compiled from various sources later. In 1948 he was commissioned and With grateful thanks to Mrs J Robin Horlock served for two years as an anaesthetist at the British Military Hospital in Salonika,

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 110 11/12/2009 14:50 Greece. Tony enjoyed this time very watching sports particularly the cricket much and the experience convinced him test matches, a passion he passed on to that Anaesthetics was the speciality for both of his daughters, Sarah and Annie. him. In later years he recalled working in Living in Poole meant that the sea played Greece when the NHS was established and a part in his life and the family brought a being amazed to find a large number of yacht which allowed his son, Anthony, to elderly Greek ladies presenting themselves develop a keen interest in sailing. Tony at the hospital’s doors waiving marriage was a slightly more nervous sailor however certificates dating back to WW1 when and when he was asked it was usually too they had married British soldiers serving windy or too calm to take it out for a in Greece – word of the free health care sail. We think that secretly he would have available to the dependants of British preferred what was disparagingly called a personnel appeared to have reached even “gin palace” with a nice sturdy motor and the most remote Greek village. no sails. Tony spoke excellent French, and the family spent many happy holidays in After military service Tony returned to France where he was able to indulge his Guy’s during which time he met his wife, love of good wine and food, although he Mary, and together they moved back to never really had to leave home for the food Oxford in 1951 so that Tony could take as he married a fantastic cook. on the role of Senior House Officer in Anaesthetics at the Radcliffe. Family was a very important part of his life and sitting regaling stories of the past We so often heard about ‘Prof Mac’ and his travel and medical experiences and (Professor Sir Robert Macintosh), the his memories of Oxford were always a joy first Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetics to listen to. He was always so proud of at Oxford. Tony worked for the Prof and his children, although like all children, they the Prof took Tony and Mary under his managed to challenge his patience whether wing. The bursar of the time rented them it be the telexes from Sarah in South a flat in the College (now used as student America that funds were getting short or accommodation), at a rent that they could the time that Anthony was fed up with afford, and it was here that Sarah, their boarding school and cycled home where first daughter, was born. She was baptised Tony, after making sure that Anthony in the chapel, and Anthony, their only son, was well fed, then took him back. He was also born at the College. When the was generally unflappable. Every week, College needed the flat back they bought without fail, he would write to the children a house in Headington for the growing at boarding school (or wherever in the Leatherdale clan to rent. Tony qualified world they might be). The letters usually as a senior registrar whilst working at the enclosed cuttings from newspapers he had Radcliffe and took part enthusiastically in read of places the children had been or the extra tasks which the post allowed such were about to visit, or topics he knew they as research, lecturing and teaching. Later were interested in. This habit persisted the family moved down south and Tony right up until his admission to hospital this went on to become Head of Anaesthetics summer. at Poole General. Tony was a man of great integrity, firm Tony had many other interests in his convictions, a wicked twinkle and an life as well as medicine including sport, absolute stubbornness. He loved Oxford holidays, good wine and good food. He and how thrilled he was to be able to take played the occasional game of tennis his granddaughter, Jessie, round Pembroke or squash but above all he really loved just before she too joined the College to read Medicine, and later to sit and reminisce

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 111 11/12/2009 14:50 with her about their respective experiences Thomas to share their memories. Rex lived at the College. He will be happily in Fowey for some 50 years, arriving in 1959, remembered and sadly missed by his wife and was very well known in the community, Mary, his three children Sarah, Anthony having taught generations of pupils. Many and Annie and his five grandchildren. former pupils kept in touch and Rex took enormous pleasure in encouraging Peter Wynter Bee (son-in-law) achievement. A private memorial service Jessica Wynter Bee (2005) (granddaughter ) was held for family and close friends.

Mrs Thomas recalls that “When Rex was in the Navy and he landed troops REX HERBERT onto one of the beaches in Normandy THOMAS (1942) on D-Day, two of his friends were killed. They were only 19 and 20. He always remembered them and knew how lucky 1924 – 2009 he was living such a long, happy life”. She also recalls that like many young Rex Thomas attended men who had gone through the war and the Crypt School in survived, Rex was determined to make the Gloucester from where world a better place. “He was an optimist. he took up a place He thought the future belonged to the at Pembroke to read younger ones and that the world could Modern History on become a better place by educating them”. a Dame Joan Cooke Exhibition in 1942. Rex Thomas is survived by his wife, He went into the Navy during the War as Peggy, and their two children, Helen an officer but returned to Pembroke to (Somerville 1978) and Martin (Exeter complete his studies after demobilisation 1982). Martin is now Professor of in 1946. Finals in 1948 were followed by a Colonial History at Exeter University. Dip.Ed in 1949 and a long career in teaching. In 1959 he was appointed Peggy Thomas head teacher of the grammar school in Fowey, Cornwall until 1967, when he took over as head teacher of St Austell Grammar School, transferring in 1974 REGINALD to become head of the new sixth form SEVERN (1948) college. He finally retired as Principal of St Austell Sixth Form College in 1984. 1926-2009 While doing research into all the Sixth Reg was born and brought up in Form Colleges then in existence, he was North London between the wars. awarded a “Schoolmaster Fellowship” at After being evacuated to Somerset, he Pembroke, and very happily made it his went to Haberdasher Askes School. base in the early months of 1970. The When old enough, he volunteered and Masters Degree pursued at Pembroke joined the Fleet Air Arm, which meant resulted in a paper on which Cornwall travelling on the Queen Elizabeth to County Council based its decision to the States – dodging U-Boat packs – create a sixth form college in St Austell. for flight training as a fighter pilot. Friends, past pupils and colleagues He loved the States: the flying, the people attended a celebration of the life of Rex and the music of Glenn Miller, Frank

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 112 11/12/2009 14:50 Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. He was about to be awarded his wings when war Reg was a devoted husband to Gill, ended, training stopped and he was soon a loving father to James and Fiona and back in Portsmouth and later demobbed. grandfather of three. Towards the end of his life, he had to contend with Parkinson’s After the navy, Reg joined Pembroke and Disease, knee replacements and a heart loved his time there reading English. Sport bypass operation: never once was he heard was a huge part of his life. He played rugby, to complain and was always grateful for rowed for the College, was in an athletics the opportunities that had come his way. team and, of course, boxed. He was awarded Blues in 1948 and 1949 and captained the Gill Severn team in 1950- 17 fights in total, of which 16 were k.os and one he won on points! He was FROM THE OLD BOYS OF WEST also elected a member of Vincent’s Club. DOWN SCHOOL’S WEBSITE written by The OUBC emblem was designed by him. Jerry Cornes, Headmaster until 1982 In 1950, Reg started his long teaching career at West Downs School in Winchester The Old Boys of West down School’s preparing boys for many public schools, Website posted a fitting tribute to Reg from including Eton and Winchester. He taught the Headmaster when he had first arrived English, Maths and Latin to all ages and there. His Headmaster writes that Reg was was particularly good at bringing light out remembered not only as a ‘forthright and of darkness for those who were struggling. efficient Headmaster and caretaker of the West Downs tradition during its last six Once again, Reg was in his element as years but more will recall him from way every day he would be coaching on the back in the fifties when he was a young man sports field – rugby, soccer and cricket. straight down from Pembroke College, Cricket was his greatest interest and he Oxford, teaching English and Maths in the spent hours in the nets demonstrating Middle School, and a notable boxer and the art of spin bowling and getting to rugger player and keen cricketer. That’s the pitch of the ball. He was never heard what he was when I first came to the school to say “sorry, I haven’t got time”. When in 1954, for he had already been here for school commitment allowed, he played for nearly 4 years. In 1958, feeling perhaps the Hampshire Hogs, the Broadhalfpenny that there was no future for him at West Brigands and the Forty Club. In 1978, Downs, Reg left for a neighbouring prep- while playing for the Hogs against the New school. During the first four years of my Zealand Test Side (including Hadlee, Cairns Headmastership, he had already made his and Congdon) he took 3 for 23 in 3 overs, mark as Head of the English Department, collecting the “Man of the Match” award. the producer of an ambitious school play, Toad of Toad Hall, Master of Ceremonies In 1982, Reg became the Executive at the Christmas Dance and Second-in- Head of West Downs School until its Command of Scouting. Fortunately for closure in 1988. This duty he carried out us, he was back again in 1962 and, recently with energy and dedication maintaining married, a house had to be built for him. high academic standards and morale and This was done and, in 1964, he took over the still took a full part in teaching and sports. very difficult but rewarding job of helping doubtful common entrance candidates to And so, to retirement in 1988 to Sutton get into their public schools and also acted Waldron, Dorset. What retirement? He as Master-in-Charge of Upper Sixth Form was involved as a church warden and amongst other important duties for some Chairman of the Parish Council with 24 years. his usual enthusiasm and good humour.

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 113 11/12/2009 14:50 When his predecessor left, it seemed that BENEDIKT SIGURDUR he would be irreplaceable but Reg proved that he was just as good, if not better, at BENEDIKZ (1951) patiently bringing light out of darkness for boys who were at first confused by 1932-2009 the binary system and other concepts of Ben Benedikz, who the New Mathematics, and in Latin the died on 25 March usage of the Passive Voice. Our record of 2009, shortly before common-entrance passes during the late his 77th birthday, Sixties and the Seventies is ample proof was a student at of his success. Reg also ensured that our Pembroke College Troop kept abreast of the ways in which from 1951-1954, the Scout Movement tried to widen the taking his M.A scope of badges available, ie interpreter in 1958. He was and car maintenance, and, in other respects, among the last of the scholar-librarians to adapt to modern times. who have done so much to safeguard and enhance the collections of rare Our Troop liaised more with other books and archives in their care, patiently Winchester and District Troops by maintaining their crucial importance both providing the venue for the Annual Scout to scholarship and to the reputation of Sports, sometimes camping with them at their parent institutions. When his career weekends and so forth. In Cricket too, as began they were often regarded as the the organiser of the Hampshire Hogget “ivory tower” of librarianship; when it Fixtures, he enhanced our local standing ended they were firmly in the main stream. and improved the performances of our Ben was born in Reykjavik on 4 April First Eleven by hiring County cricketers 1932, the eldest son of the diplomat and to coach and spending hours himself bibliophile Eirikur Benedikz (1907-1988). at the Nets and in fielding practice. It is In 1944, when his father was appointed truly remarkable that he kept on with all Chargé d’Affaires to the newly established these time consuming duties when he was Icelandic Legation in London (retiring as Executive Head of West Downs during its Minister-Counsellor in 1978), Ben moved last six years. to England, which remained his home for the rest of his life. As it was wartime This deserves a separate paragraph. It he had to travel light and having to leave was a very difficult job to maintain high his teddy bear behind in Iceland caused academic standards and morale over those him more distress than the fact he knew years. The scholarship results, including only a few words of English. He was 6 to Winchester College, are sufficient educated at Trinity School, Croydon and witness to his success. There were also Burford Grammar School before going some remarkable entrance results, boys up to Pembroke to read English. Until coming to West Downs for a year and yet the age of twelve he had spoken only succeeding”. Icelandic and Danish. Gaining a place at Oxford to study English was, therefore, Extracted from the Old Boys of West Down a considerable achievement and an School Website indication of the formidable linguistic skills that were to become such a feature of his career. His time at Pembroke was energetic; he attended lectures by Tolkien, played a great deal of rugby (which rather impaired his agility in later life) and took

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 114 11/12/2009 14:50 lessons in singing. He was a fine operatic Laybourn, herself a librarian. They married tenor, as fellow students remember, and in 1964, having spent part of their courtship appeared in several of the University cataloguing the collection of the See of Operatic Society productions. This was an Durham at Auckland Castle. It was at interest which remained throughout his life Durham that Ben’s reputation as a rare book and he had a semi-professional career as a man really took off. He was responsible soloist for a few years after leaving Oxford. for acquisitions in the Main, Science and Oriental Studies libraries and had to After graduating he settled on search antiquarian catalogues for special librarianship as a career, which his family collections material. He also spent a year in background made particularly appropriate. charge of the library at St Chad’s College, His grandfather had collected every work where he gathered all the rare book holdings published in Iceland for a certain period into a special collection and also made close and this collection is now in the National friendships with many young ordinands. and University Library in Reykjavik. His father also had a fine collection of There followed three years in charge Islandica and worked for many years on of the humanities collection at the New an Icelandic dictionary. Ben spent his University of Ulster, where he had to build “practice” year as an assistant in the library up the teaching and research collections at University College London. He now from scratch, two teaching bibliography had five modern languages under his belt in Leeds and his final move, in 1973, (Danish, English, Norwegian and Swedish, was to the University of Birmingham as as well as his native Icelandic) and he Head of Special Collections, where he also had Latin, which came in handy one remained until his retirement in 1995. summer vacation when his father sent His quiverful of languages had now him round the eastern Mediterranean in a been increased with French, German, tramp steamer. Obliged to spend a night Italian, Russian and medieval Greek. ashore Ben accepted hospitality in the cell of an orthodox monk. The only language As a practising Anglican Ben was as at they had in common was Latin and Ben home in a cathedral cloister as in a library used to enjoy relating his host’s explanation or lecture room. He had ample scope for of their separate sleeping quarters with the all three areas of activity at Birmingham. words: “Cubiculum meum – cubiculum His particular forte lay in acquisitions and tuum”. His Scandinavian expertise was collection-building. Thousands of rare put to good use at UCL, since he had to books, the papers of Charles Masterman, work on the classification schedules for Oliver Lodge, Oswald Mosley and the the College’s Scandinavian collections. Church Mission Society all came to In 1955 he moved to the UCL School Birmingham during his tenure. He nurtured of Librarianship and Archives, where he and developed the two “star” collections took his diploma in Librarianship in 1956. – the Avon and Chamberlain papers - maintaining excellent relations with the Ben’s first professional post was with families who had donated them. He taught Buckinghamshire County Library. Here he bibliography, palaeography and Old Norse, was able to indulge his love of music by thus helping to set the library at the heart being given the responsibility for founding of the university, and he was consultant the county’s new music collection. He at the cathedral libraries of Lichfield and continued to sing regularly and in 1959 Worcester and the magnificent library he was offered two positions – one in the of Bishop Hurd at Hartlebury Castle. chorus at Covent Garden and one in the University Library at Durham. Wisely he His scholarship was many-sided. He chose the latter and here he met Phyllis edited On the novel, a Festchrift presented

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 115 11/12/2009 14:50 to Walter Allen, in 1971 and published a hilariously tangled. He once remarked, string of papers on Icelandica, Byzantine when Virginia Woolf’s Orlando was studies, bibliography, modern political mentioned, “Ah yes, that’s the one about papers and medieval manuscripts. The her cat”. A quick piece of lateral thinking work which gave him most satisfaction suggested that he was confusing it with was The Varangians of Byzantium. This book the children’s classic Orlando the marmalade was a revision and substantial rewriting cat, and further mental detective work (you of the Væringja saga, a history of the had to be well-informed in Ben’s team) Byzantine mercenary regiment which made it clear that what he was probably included Norsemen, by Sigfús Blöndal, really thinking of was her biography of who had died before he could revise and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s dog Flush. see it through the press. Its publication After his retirement Ben continued to in Reykjavik in 1954 had attracted little work in the two cathedral libraries and to attention and in 1960 Blöndal’s widow carry out research, particularly on Dean invited Ben to produce an English edition. Savage of Lichfield and Bishop Lightfoot It was published by Cambridge in 1978, has of Durham. An especial pleasure in 1999 recently been issued in paperback and is was his election to membership of the soon to be published electronically. For this College of Benefactors at the University of and other published work the University Nottingham. This was in acknowledgment awarded him a doctorate in 1979. He was of the family’s gift of his father’s outstanding elected FRHistS in 1981 and FSA in 1985. collection of Islandica to the library. He became closely involved with Viking Genuine eccentrics are fast disappearing studies there and delivered the first of the from academia but Ben was certainly one biennial Fell-Benedikz lectures in 2000. of them. Before his arrival at Birmingham a colleague remarked of him “Mr Benedikz Ben was not the most practical of always strikes me as the sort of person any men and was rarely completely at self-respecting university library ought to home with the more tedious aspects of have one of ”, and, indeed, no-one quite library management, but his devotion like him had been seen there before. to scholarship and to teaching was Snatches of grand opera would waft up never in doubt. He encouraged and and down the lift shaft and imitations of inspired an entire generation of students Churchill would enliven the reading room. and researchers, who remember He was a familiar figure every morning him with gratitude and affection. in the senior common room, laden with He is survived by his wife Phyllis, his antiquarian book catalogues, picking up on daughter, son and five grandchildren. the gossip and keeping the biscuit suppliers in business. A polymath in the tradition of Christine Penney Dr Johnson, who had also been a student at A shortened version of this obituary appeared in Pembroke and whom he resembled both in The Times on 28 April 2009 build and intellect, he had an encyclopaedic knowledge of the most diverse facts. He was a walking Who’s who of theologians, politicians and academics, alive or dead. Cataloguers rarely had to consult reference books, for he could tell them immediately the correct name of a monk in the monastery of Fulda, the author of a long- forgotten Victorian children’s novel or the name of an obscure French dramatist. Occasionally the facts would become

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 116 11/12/2009 14:50 BianJmesr a over the years he accumulated a very substantial library – the source of his Rees (1952) stories, anecdotes, quotes with which he regaled his friends. He had great respect 1932 – 2008 for Charles James Fox and Samuel Johnson and for a number of years he was Treasurer Brian was born in and Membership Secretary of the Johnson the mining village Society of London. He loved theatre but of Rossington, near his first love was films, if they passed his Doncaster, Yorkshire, tough criteria for what he considered a to where his parents, good film. His sense of humour drew James and Gladys him to the early silent comedies. He often Rees had moved from considered himself as unmusical – he sang South Wales in order in monotone – but he loved opera and lieder. for James to find work in the mines. The I have to say he was difficult to travel with family were financially very poor as his as he often wandered off when something father lost an eye in the pit and was unable took his attention and he usually neglected to work. However, with the help and to say where he was going or for how long encouragement of his teachers at Maltby – his curiosity and interest in the world Grammar School he went up to Pembroke around him were insatiable. He also was a to read PPE. Before going up he did his great animal lover – at our wedding I think I National Service in the RAF although I was merely the proxy for my dog. Although don’t think he ever came anywhere near we married too late to have any ourselves, an aircraft – he seems to have spent most children loved Brian because when he was of his time reading Jane Austen. In later with them he became a child himself, as the life his anecdotes and demonstrations on children of some of our friends will testify. sloping arms were highly entertaining – he One, now a University student, wrote, often got himself into trouble on parade! ‘When the barrier of children and adults existed Brian was the bridge’ – he has His working career began in Social Work memories of an elephant hunt in the Surrey but being assigned to deal with children woods led by the intrepid hunter Brian. and their problems caused him too much In fact, his approach to religion in some distress so he tried teaching in Bethnal ways was very much as a child – he kept Green but he was no disciplinarian and did religion at arm’s length for most of his not last very long at that. His experiences in life (although he had a strong moral code the classroom left him with a great respect and compassion for those in need) but for teachers. He did some research jobs and a few years ago, influenced mainly by finally joined the Civil Service and spent the the works of C D Lewis and Cardinal latter part of his working life at the Sports John Henry Newman, he embraced Council where he especially enjoyed his Catholicism with a childlike trust in God. contribution to the establishing of sports injuries clinics. He relished the memory of Sadly his last years were spent coping his presence at Roger Bannister’s record- with what the doctors diagnosed as breaking run – a pleasure redoubled when ‘probably’ Lewy bodies dementia the he worked with him at the Sports Council. weakening effects of which caused him finally to succumb to an infection on 11th Brian was a bibliophile from his April 2008. Although the illness took away childhood when his aim in life was to get his skills to handle anything practical it was hold of books – he went to the Chapel his difficulties in finding the right words, or Sunday Schools just so that he could win latterly at times, making himself understood a book. That love of books meant that that caused him most frustration. Even so,

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Sheila Rees Gareth Price was born and brought up in Cardiff, where he lived for 16 years. Following a family move to Gloucestershire, he became Head Boy at Chipping Camden GEOFFREY LUND Grammar School and won the Townsend (1954) Scholarship to Pembroke College. 1934 - 2007 He served as an officer in the Royal Air Force prior to arriving at Pembroke, where Geoffrey Lund died on he spent six years studying Chemistry, 16th December 2007 leaving in 1962 having completed his following a diagnosis of D Phil. oesophageal cancer in March 2006. Gareth was an accomplished sportsman, captaining the college teams in rugby and After graduating in tennis, and also representing the college at 1957, Geoffrey took soccer when there was no rugby match. a teaching position for a short time in Gütersloh, Germany, in an RAF base. At Pembroke, and in subsequent years, he On his return to England, he took up a was known as much for his wholehearted teaching position in Lancashire and, for commitment and enthusiasm for life as for many years, taught German and French at his considerable ability. Hutton Grammar School, Preston. In 1960 Gareth married Maureen and On his retirement in 1986, he continued they lived in a small flat in Stratfield Road. to give private tuition and taught himself It was at this time that Gareth developed a Russian and became very interested in love of woodwork and wood turning as a Russia. He also wrote and translated hobby, skills that were very useful in their poetry. Geoffrey was a lifelong Methodist, flat and which led to many beautiful pieces acting as a local preacher and playing the of furniture and toys for the children. organ for services. On leaving Pembroke, Gareth joined In March 2006 he was diagnosed as Shell International, initially as a research suffering from oesophageal cancer. He was chemist, and he and Maureen moved to treated by chemotherapy and radiotherapy Surrey. Between 1964 and 1973, Gareth and faced the illness with courage, and Maureen had three children – David, continuing with his usual interests and Carolyn and Valerie – and life became very activities. He became acutely ill on 14th family oriented in spite of several moves December 2007, was taken into hospital around the world. Working for Shell and died on 16th December. continued for over 30 years, including periods living in the USA, Australia and He leaves a sister, a twin brother and Venezuela, as well as shorter assignments sister-in-law, two nieces, three great in many countries and an Advanced nephews and one great niece. Management Programme at Harvard.

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 118 11/12/2009 14:50 the early 1970s, he became part of Shell’s cubs in St Andrews and another in England! scenario planning team, which he later described as ‘an event that would change Gareth had moved a long way from my life’. The team foresaw a coming crisis Wales but always felt very Welsh. His last as power shifted to OPEC oil producers. holiday consisted of taking all his children This crisis occurred in 1973, shortly after and grandchildren to Wales, to experience Gareth joined Planning, with the Yom the places he had known as a boy. Kippur war, but the fact that it had been anticipated enabled the effects to be Whilst having some human frailties, managed. Scenarios also warned of the Gareth was a man of integrity, always ‘second oil crisis’ which came after the ready to stand up for what he thought was Shah of Iran was deposed in 1979. right, even when it was unpopular, and he encouraged his children to do likewise. A This was a very busy but exciting time loving family was very important to him, for Gareth, since it allowed his flair and and he was extremely proud of his children independence of spirit great scope to and five grandchildren. ‘think the unthinkable’. Gareth died at home on 10th January As the scenario planning method was 2009 after a long struggle with cancer, developed in the 1980s, Gareth believed which he handled with fortitude, good grace that the linking of scenarios to strategy and humour – reporting his condition to should be more widely applied and, in doctors in terms of the distance he could 1988, he was seconded as a Professor to hit a golf ball. On the day of his funeral the University of St Andrews, becoming in Surrey, a simultaneous memorial service the founding Chief Executive of St was held in St Andrews. We all miss him. Andrews Management Institute, set up as a partnership of the University, Shell The Price family and Scottish Enterprise. Projects were undertaken for many large organisations and included studies on Russia, India, China GEORGE WILLIAM and South Africa. When a Chief Executive for whom a project had been done said CLAYFIELD (1958) “Thank you Gareth, you have taught my 1940– 2009 company to think”, it was worth more to Gareth than any prize. He loved his work George William and only retired following a stroke. Clayfield was born on 18th July, 1940 in South Gareth’s main leisure interest was golf, London. Britain was at which he took up while at Pembroke. war with Germany, and While in the US in the early 1960s, he got when George was ten his golf handicap down to scratch, and he months’ old, the family had a single figure handicap for most of home was badly bombed his life. Gareth enjoyed passing on his and George and his parents went to live golfing wisdom, and - like many golfers – with his paternal grandmother. George he sometimes took it all a bit too seriously. was educated at Archbishop Tenison’s Grammar School, near the Oval cricket Apart from periods overseas, the family ground, and from there he won an Albright lived in Surrey after leaving Oxford. When and Wilson scholarship to Pembroke Gareth was a Professor at St Andrews, he College, Oxford in 1958 to read chemistry. kept a flat there and commuted up and George had already been at Oxford three down, naturally keeping one set of golf

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 119 11/12/2009 14:50 years when I matriculated in 1961. He most at home, and this was to be St. Alban’s. used to go round in a long raincoat and Also in the congregation was an attractive trilby hat, smoking a pipe, which made him young teacher, Angela Whitehouse.Co- appear much older than he really was. In incidentally George and Angela also met as fact, I discovered much later, that he was a result of becoming Samaritan volunteers only 18 months older than me. We were at the same time. George and Angela fell drawn together as friends, largely through in love and it was not long before they the fellowship of the College chapel, were married. The ceremony at St. Alban’s where we both shared an enthusiasm for was very much a Pembroke affair. The the Catholic tradition of the Church of Revd John Arrowsmith was one of the England. officiating clergy, and the best man was George Baugh-both exact contemporaries. George had begun his faith journey as I was an usher. a Methodist. His mother’s sister was a Methodist local preacher, but at Oxford In 1968 George left Albright and Wilson he discovered a liturgy which was richer to take up a position with the Upper and more satisfying. The College chaplain, Thame Main Drainage Authority, and Colin Morris, prepared George for the remainder of his working life was to Confirmation and this duly took place at be spent in the water industry. He held a St. Aldate’s. George had a great enthusiasm number of senior appointments, finishing for worship, and encouraged a number of his service as a divisional scientist with his friends to accompany him to Sunday the Severn-Trent Water Authority. When morning services in many different the water industry was privatised he took Oxford churches to appreciate the variety. advantage of an offer of early retirement, One of this group, Humphrey Bowen, tells and thereafter did consultancy and other the story that when they were visiting the freelance work. Presbyterian church, the climax of a long sermon called fervently for a commitment The move to Severn-Trent had meant a to Christ with the words:”Do you hear family move to Nottingham. By this time Christ knocking at your heart now?” At George and Angela had been blessed with this point-and surely totally unrelated- a daughter and a son, Rachel and Adrian. came the sound of steady thumping and They lived first in the village of Aslockton, knocking from the gym next door! The and then in a much larger bungalow at group from Pembroke found it hard to Hickling where George had plenty of contain their laughter at this point. As well space for indulging in his passion for as organising trips to Churches, George tinkering with cars, and managing a very was also a great organiser of games of large garden. By good fortune, I myself bridge. He played chess, participated in the was serving for six years in the 1970s as a Oxford-Borstal Camps, and was always a parish priest in the Nottingham area, and genial and friendly presence wherever he so we were able to see quite a lot of the went. Clayfield family. George and Angela very kindly agreed to be godparents of our After George graduated in 1962, he daughter Charlotte, and it was a particular continued his studies by taking the further pleasure for us that when Charlotte was research degree of D.Phil. Then the big married in 2007, her godfather George was wide world beckoned, and George obtained amongst those who offered a prayer at the a position with Albright and Wilson, the ceremony. firm that had sponsored his scholarship. This meant moving to Birmingham. As George’s journey of faith had had still a conscientious churchman he looked more twists and turns. He felt increasingly around for a church where he would feel disillusioned with the Church of England,

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 120 11/12/2009 14:50 and in the mid 1990s was received into the PATRICK McCARTHY Roman Catholic Church. Meanwhile his wife Angela was suffering severely from (1960) cancer, a disease which she fought very bravely, and she died in 1999. Subsequently 1941-2007 George met Ann, a fellow worshipper, and Patrick McCarthy, was also recently widowed. They married and a highly respected and made their home at Radcliffe-on-Trent. reknowned Professor at Their new home was not as large, nor the the University of grounds so extensive as “Long Ridge”, Johns Hopkins’ Bologna Hickling, but there were plenty of practical Center. He died in his jobs to do, plus three new stepchildren who sleep on 22nd March recall that George always brought along 2007 after a long fight his toolbox on family visits to assist those with Parkinson’s disease shortly before his whose D.I.Y. skills were limited. 66th birthday on 28th March 2007. George was diagnosed with cancer early Patrick McCarthy received his doctorate in 2006, and this required major surgery. with first-class honours from Oxford He was well enough in January, 2009 to and for several years taught at Haverford attend the baptism of a granddaughter, College in Pennsylvania as well as at SAIS Rachel’s first child, but his health collapsed in Washington. He also held teaching soon after that. At his funeral at St. Anne’s appointments at Vassar College and Cornell Catholic Church, Radcliffe-on-Trent, the and Cambridge universities. parish priest spoke warmly of George’s commitment to the Church, and of his In 1977, he was named an Associate contribution to worship as a eucharistic Professor, a position he held until 1979. minister and server. He also added a He returned to the Bologna Center in 1986 reminder of the George I remembered and, in 1988, was named resident Professor from Oxford days when he said that of European studies, a position he held George was not always entirely uncritical until 2001. He was most recently research of the Catholic liturgy! I was privileged to professor of European studies. offer a tribute as the person present who had known George the longest, and one McCarthy’s expertise ranged from all of his stepsons spoke warmly of George’s aspects of Western European Politics to final years. the sociology of sports. Fluent in four languages, he wrote on French and Italian I am pleased and proud to have known politics for European newspapers and George Clayfield for well over forty years. wrote regular reviews for The Times Literary Our own paths in life were different but he Supplement. remained a true and loyal friend. He was a man of great intelligence, of immense His linguistic talents, his broad range intellectual curiosity with a passion for all of interests — from political novels things mechanical. He had a great sense of to political economy — were always humour and could be a very good mimic. combined with rigorous self-discipline, an Above all, he was a man of the greatest underlying moral balance, great humour integrity. He was devoted to his family, his and irony, and a durable capacity for Lord and his Church. He is greatly missed. outrage. He brought a fresh insight into the contemporary analysis of Europe and Rev’d David Nash America and his talents were well adapted to the interdisciplinary programme at the

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 121 11/12/2009 14:50 Bologna center. “ It has been stated that, and as eloquently phrased as ever. Those “these were the qualities that made him of us, like myself, who knew Patrick as a a particularly insightful and forever fresh friend and colleague mourn his passing. analyst of contemporary Europe and However, it was already tragic that a America. His ardent spirit and generous man whose conversation was unfailingly talent infused all of those who taught and original, unexpected and funny, and whose studied in the European programme.” brilliance as a teacher was unsurpassed, should have virtually lost the power of One of those who studied under Patrick speech. McCarthy is John Harper, Resident Professor of American Foreign Policy and Italy was only a part of Patrick’s world. European studies at the Bologna Center. “I His first love, in point of time at least, was first met Patrick in 1969, when he taught France. In fact, he brought to the study me French literature at Haverford. He of modern Italy a vision informed by his was a mentor, a colleague and a friend, great knowledge of three or more cultures. the person more than any other who Patrick’s first training was in literature, inspired me to devote myself to teaching and to judge from the results one could and writing. There was no more valuable wish that more political scientists had a commodity to me than his praise”. similar background, and that their studies had been underpinned by an equal grasp Patrick McCarthy wrote or edited more of le vécu, life as it is really lived. In Italy, than a dozen books, whose subjects Patrick practised a kind of instinctive included Celine, Camus, The Crisis of anthropology, or participant observation. the Italian state, relations between France During the visit which he made to and Germany, and a post-war political Bologna in 1984 before returning to teach history of Italy. Recent works include at the Johns Hopkins Center, he had France-Germany, 1983-1993, Italy Since time to indulge his immense and varied 1945, France-Germany in the Twenty- curiosity about all spheres of Italian life, First Century and Language, Politics and from football to the relationship between Writing: Stolentelling in Western Europe. Roberto Longhi and Pasolini, and to Italian The Bologna Center recently honoured financial manoeuvres. Berlinguer came to Patrick McCarthy by naming a classroom occupy a place in his personal Pantheon after him, made possible through donated alongside the heroes of the great age of funds. Welsh rugby football, George Orwell, and Pasolini. But his active imagination and Patrick McCarthy is survived by his wife, his partisanship never dimmed what was Veronica Pye, who directs student and essentially a very hardheaded and realistic academic services at the Bologna Center, view of Italian politics. and their daughter, Kate. Patrick’s most substantial contribution FROM PROFESSOR ADRIAN to Italian studies was his masterly book LYTTELTON on The Crisis of the Italian State (1st ed. London 1997), reinforced by the volume With the death of Patrick McCarthy, the on Italy since 1945 that he edited for the Journal has lost one of its most valued Short Oxford History of Italy. Someone contributors. It is a testimony to the who wanted to discover the originality of courage and determination with which Patrick’s approach and the multiplicity of Patrick fought against the inexorable his interests, however, could do no better advance of Parkinson’s disease that the than read his contributions to the Journal. contributions kept on coming right up I think particularly of the article which he to the end, as shrewd, as knowledgeable wrote in 1997: ‘Italy: a new language for

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 122 11/12/2009 14:50 a new politics?’ It is characteristic that the DAVID CHARLES first footnote in this article refers to Seamus Heaney. Language, and its uses in literature THEAKER (1962) and politics formed the axis around which many of his most original insights 1936-2008 turned. For him, as for the historians of David Charles Theaker the ‘linguistic turn’, language was the basic was born in Hull in 1936 material of politics: ‘language calls into with a career expectation being the political community’. In the same of becoming a trawler article, Patrick showed how important the fisherman like his family imagery of sport is in Italian culture and before him. At the politics. The importance of Milan and of beginning of the War, the azzurri in the construction if Forza his Father was called Italia’s image is well known; Patrick pointed into the Merchant Navy and David and his out in addition how Prodi’s carefully Mother were evacuated to a South Yorkshire constructed image of himself as a cyclist, mining village to escape the heavy German used to pedalling hard up steep hills, bombing of Hull City. His education at 5 contributed to his successful incarnation years old began in a system which expected as the anti-Berlusconi. Many of Patrick’s that children would eventually be employed contributions and reviews to the Journal by the local colliery when they left school, dealt with sport in all its forms, though and often, when David had completed his with calico at the centre, as it should be. lessons early, he was sent into the School Here again one can see in Patrick’s writings garden to work. The local GP recognised a characteristic blend of passion and irony; his need to read and gave him books by he would not have been such an effective which he began a life-long journey of self- critic if he had not been a genuine tifoso. education. We are left with a deep regret at the After the War, his Mother decided to stay loss of a scholar who was uniquely free in South Yorkshire and David eventually from the vices of hidebound academic took a job on the coal face, where the wages specialization. He played a tutto campo. were high, and spent the rest of his time studying at night school in order to gain Adrian Lyttelton, Florence, April 2007 mining certificates. He became a member of the National Union of Mineworkers and From the Journal of Modern Italian Studies 12 moved from the coalface into the industrial (2) 2007: 151-152, (with the kind permission relations section of the Industry. One of of the author, Professor Adrian Lyttelton, and the highlights of this period was a trip to the Publisher of the Journal). Russia to join the World Youth Festival in Moscow. Mr Arthur Scargill, who was later to become the President of the Union, was also in the delegation. It enabled both of them to meet and converse with people from all parts of the world and to understand the kind of struggle they had to deal with on a day to day basis.

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35751 College Record 2009 v3.indd 123 11/12/2009 14:50 when he first heard of Oxford University as a schoolboy. He particularly enjoyed Philosophy. His future wife lived in Buckinghamshire but, on his graduation, was happy to accompany him back to his roots in South Yorkshire, where he became a college lecturer in Business Studies, with a fervent mission to see that able young students were not diverted from following the quickest route to a fulfilling education. During his lectureship, he took a Master of Science degree in Computer Studies and, although he taught the subject, he eschewed the ownership of a computer as a recreational occupation, much preferring his own extensive library. Towards the end of his life he began a serious study of Latin. He and his wife shared a love of music, literature and world travel and enjoyed playing chess together. He thought one of the most satisfying moments of his academic life was when the Master went on holiday and entrusted David with the care of his cat.

David died suddenly, just as he was settling down to watch the men’s finals at Wimbledon, his favourite spectator sport. His wife was at his side.

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