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DOWNING COLLEGE 2017 Alumni Association Newsletter Magenta News College Record C ONTENTS DOWNING COLLEGE A LUMNI A SSOCI ATION NEWSLETTER Officers and Committee 2016–2017 5 President’s Foreword 6 Association News 8 Next Year’s President 8 Contact with the Association 9 The 2016 Annual General Meeting 10 Other News from the Executive 12 The Alumni Student Fund 13 The Association Prize 14 Downing Alumni Association Photographic Competition 14 College News 16 The Master Writes 16 The Senior Tutor Writes 21 The Assistant Bursar’s Report 23 Forthcoming Events 25 Why does the College have an Art Gallery? 26 From the Archivist 29 ‘300 Years of Giving’ Since the Most Important Legacy of All 29 Future Archive Projects: Can you Help? 36 Remembering the First World War: One Hundred Years Ago 36 Features 45 “To Downing College” – Postscript 45 University Challenge 1975–76 45 Tour of Caen 48 College Cricket – not like Other Sports 50 Perfect Squares and Groundsmen 50 Downing Blues Pre-War – Including Migrants 53 1970s – The Glory Years 54 Increasing Representation 58 So Nearly Cuppers Finalists 59 Mixed Success and Leaving Long Road 60 News of Members 62 Memories of a TV Director 62 Members’ Recollections 64 Lord-Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants and their Role 65 Recent Biographies 67 For the Record 69 Awards, Honours and Appointments 69 Publications and Performances 70 Marriages and Anniversaries 72 Births 73 Obituaries 75 Glynn Jones Scholarships for Business and Management Education 111 Visiting Cambridge 112 Editorial Acknowledgements 114 C OLLEGE R E C OR D 217 Downing College 2016–17 217 News of the Fellowship 226 Obituaries 226 New Fellows 229 New Foundation Fellow 230 New Wilkins Fellows 230 Awards, Honours and Appointments 231 Reports from the Fellows 232 College Clubs and Societies 238 Sports Teams Results 2016–17 238 Reports 239 Blues, Half-Blues and Colours 2016–17 243 Admissions, Degrees Conferred and Awards 244 Scholarships, Prizes and Awards 2017 244 Examination Results 2017 249 Postgraduate Degrees Conferred 2016–17 255 Undergraduate and Affiliated Admissions 2016 258 Graduate Admissions 2016 262 Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in the articles in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Downing College or the Downing College Alumni Association. Downing College Alumni Association Newsletter 2017 O FFI C ERS A N D C OMMITTEE 2016 –2017 P RESI D ENT C G Blackmore MA PhD The Rt Hon Sir David Lloyd (Liverpool) (1991) Jones MA LLB D J Riddoch MA PhD (1995) S Walker MA (1975) VI C E P RESI D ENTS K E Fish MA ACA CTA (2008) P Thomson MA Ex-officio Committee Members J G Hicks MA FREng G B Williams BA PhD, F Weiss MA Senior Tutor THE E XE C UTI V E C OMMITTEE G Bennett BA (Virginia), Development Director The President (to January 2017) The Immediate Past President R J Tonkin BA (Glamorgan) L H Judd MA ACIM, Events Officer The President-elect T A S Meadows, JCR President J N Tait MA CEng FICE (to 14 February 2017) S Gatens, JCR President (from The Honorary Secretary & Editor 15 February 2017) B W Hunt MA MEd (Exeter) N V Soane BS (MIT), MCR CMath FIMA President (to December 2016) The Assistant Secretary A Bedorf MSc (Bonn), MCR (College Record) President (from January 2017) K McNamara BSc (Aberdeen) Co-opted Committee Members PhD K Dyer MA MB BChir DRCOG The Honorary Treasurer MRCGP N Berger MA A R Farmer MA PhD MIET Elected Committee Members K E Storey MA LLM D J Garforth-Bles MA MSc (City H ONOR A RY AU D ITORS University) FRICS ACIArb DipPropInvest (RICS) (1976) M J Mays MA PhD FRIC D K James MA MB BChir MD R J Richards MA PhD FRCOG DCH (1968) ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER 2017 P RESI D ENT ’S F OREWOR D F OUN da TION S TONES Last September, my wife Annmarie and I enjoyed a glorious afternoon at the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson’s “Academical Village”, in the company of Richard Guy Wilson, Professor of Architectural History at the University of Virginia and a former Virginia Fellow of Downing College. Amongst many architectural delights, Richard showed us the rotunda, newly restored in preparation for this year’s bicentennial, literally as the last lick of paint dried before its re-opening. We also saw, at Pavilion VII, the University’s cornerstone, laid on 6 October 1817 in the presence of three Presidents of the United States of America, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe. A few days later, we were taken on a conducted tour of the Capitol Building in Washington DC. The guide explained that the foundation stone of the Capitol had been lost. It was believed, she said, that it had vanished when the British burnt Washington in the War of 1812. “We have looked everywhere and can’t find it anywhere”, she told us. Perhaps they should try the British Museum. Six years after Jefferson became the first President to be inaugurated in the new capital, Washington, and just a decade before he founded the University of Virginia, the foundation stone of Downing College was laid on 18 May 1807. That too has been lost. While it is reasonable to assume that it remains where it was originally placed, communal memory within the College as to its precise location has failed. We do know, however, that the inscription it bears includes the following statement: Haec vero aedificii primordia magister, professores et socii posuerunt quod ad religionis cultum, juris anglicani et medicinae scientiam et ad rectam juventutis ingenuae disciplinam promovendam feliciter eveniat. (These foundations of the building were laid by the Master, Professors and Fellows that it might proceed successfully with a view to the cultivation of religion, and the knowledge of English law and medicine and in promoting the right instruction of free-born youth.) This year marks the 300th anniversary of the execution of the will of Sir George Downing, Third Baronet, the founder of Downing College. While it would not be true to say that the last thing he wanted to do was to found a College in Cambridge, it was certainly not the first. As a splendid exhibition in the College Library to mark this anniversary explains, four cousins had to die without heirs before the College would be founded. Miraculously for the eventual foundation, this came to pass and eventually Downing’s College received its Royal Charter, 51 years after his death and 83 years after he signed 6 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER 2017 his will. There is a rich irony in the fact that many years in the interim and much of the estate were wasted on litigation in the Court of Chancery, a precursor of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, as a result of an attempt to prevent the foundation of the College which, in time, would become a beacon for the study and teaching of law in the common law world. Today George Downing’s foundation flourishes as an outstanding academic institution. Its buildings are landmarks in English architecture and the College boasts fine facilities including a theatre and an art gallery. As the reports which follow in this Newsletter and College Record demonstrate, the College continues to maintain the highest academic standards, current Downing students continue to achieve distinction in sport, music, drama and many other activities, and Downing alumni in so many different fields continue to make a vital contribution to the life of this and many other nations. I am very proud to have been the President of the Downing College Alumni Association in this anniversary year. The Association, through its activities, does a great deal to promote the communal memory of the College, to support current students and to maintain links between the College and its old members. This is achieved, in particular, through the dedication and hard work of its Officers and Committee Members, all of whom are devoted to the College. I thank them very warmly for their support throughout my year of office and for all they continue to do for the College and the Alumni Association. In particular, I wish to acknowledge the outstanding contribution of Barrie Hunt, who stands down this year after seven years’ distinguished service as Secretary of the Association and Editor of the Newsletter. I have greatly enjoyed their companionship over the last year. It has been an enormous pleasure over the last twelve months to take part in so many College activities, formal and informal – including the celebrations for the 80th birthday of my tutor, John Hopkins – and to renew the friendship of many of my Downing contemporaries, of former supervisees from my years as a Teaching Fellow in Law and many other old friends. Throughout the year I have been struck by the huge affection in which the College is held by its old members and our shared sense of loyalty and gratitude for what it has given us. I suspect that if Sir George Downing were to visit his College today he would be rather bemused but extremely proud to observe what has become of his bequest to the nation.