Christ Church 3 Obituaries Janet McMullin 80 Ronald Gordon 83 The Dean 13 Harry Craig 88 Robin Moore 90 The House in 2015 20 Bruce Wykeham Watkin 91 The Archives 23

The Cathedral 25 Senior Members’ Activities The Cathedral Choir 29 and Publications 94 The College Chaplain 31

The Development & News from Old Members 109 Alumni Office 33 The Library 37 Deceased Members 121 The Picture Gallery 40 The Steward’s Department 44 Final Honour Schools 123 The Treasury 46 Graduate Degrees 128 Tutor for Admissions 50

Senior Common Room 52 Award of University Prizes 131 Graduate Common Room 54 Junior Common Room 57 Information about Gaudies 134 The Christopher Tower Poetry Prize 60 Other Information: Sports Clubs 62 Other opportunities to stay at Christ Church 136 Conferences at Christ Slavonic Studies at Oxbridge: Church 137 Some Historical Reflections 66 Publications 138 Cathedral Choir CDs 139 The Christ Church Chemists’ Affinity Group 74 Acknowledgements 139

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Dean Percy, The Very Revd Martyn William, BA Brist, MEd Sheff, PhD KCL.

Canons Gorick, The Ven Martin Charles William, MA Camb, MA Oxf Archdeacon of Oxford Biggar, The Revd Professor Nigel John, MA PhD Chicago, MA Oxf, Master of Christian Studies Regent Coll Vancouver Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology Foot, Professor Sarah Rosamund Irvine, MA PhD Camb Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History Ward, The Revd Graham, MA PhD Camb Regius Professor of Divinity Newey, The Revd Edmund James, MA Camb, MA Oxf, PhD Manc Sub Dean Harrison, Carol, MA DPhil Oxf Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity

Students Ryan, John Francis, MA (BSc PhD Edin) Professor of Physics and Research Student (until September 2015) Pallot, Judith, MA (BA Leeds, PhD Lond) Professor of the Human Geography of Russia and Tutor in Geography Rutherford, Richard Browning, MA DPhil Tutor in Greek & Latin Literature Cartwright, John, BCL MA Professor of the Law of Contract, Tutor in Law and Censor Theologiae Darlington, Stephen Mark, MA DMus FRCO Organist and Tutor in Music

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Hine, David John, MA DPhil Peter Pulzer Tutor in Politics and Development Adviser Judson, (Richard) Lindsay, MA DPhil Tutor in Philosophy Andreyev, (Constance) Catherine Laura, MA DPhil (PhD Camb) Tutor in Modern History (until September 2015) Nowell, David, MA DPhil (MA Camb) CEng, MIMechE Professor and Tutor in Engineering Science (and Senior Censor until August 2015) Simpson, Edwin John Fletcher, BCL MA Tutor in Law (and Tutor for Graduates from September 2015) Howison, Samuel Dexter, MA MSc DPhil Professor and Tutor in Mathematics Edwards, Mark Julian, MA DPhil Professor of Early Christian Studies and Tutor in Theology McCulloch, Malcolm Duncan, MA (BSc, PhD Witwatersrand) Tutor in Engineering Science Obbink, Dirk, MA, PhD Stanford Tutor in Greek Literature Rowland-Jones, Sarah Louise, MA DPhil Professor of Immunology and Research Student Jack, Belinda Elizabeth, MA status, D.Phil. (BA Kent) Tutor in French McDonald, (Duncan) Peter, MA, DPhil Christopher Tower Student in Poetry in the English Language Neubauer, Stefan, MA Oxf, MD Würzburg, FRP Ordinary Student, Professor and Clinical Reader in Cardiovascular Medicine Parkinson, Brian, MA (BA PhD Manchester) Professor of Social Psychology, Tutor in Experimental Psychology (and Senior Censor from August 2015) Tandello, Emmanuela, MA DPhil Tutor in Italian and Curator of Pictures Moran, Dominic Paul, MA (PhD Camb) Tutor in Spanish Wilkinson, Guy, MA DPhil Reader in Particle Physics and Alfred Moritz Student in Physics

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Davies, Roger Llewelyn, (BSc Lond, PhD Camb) Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics and Lee Reader Bell, Sir John Irving, KB BMedSc Alberta, MA DM FRCP Regius Professor of Medicine Johnson, Geraldine A, (BA Yale, MA Camb PhD Harvard) Tutor in History of Art Cross, Jonathan Guy Evrill, MA DLitt (BA Brist, PhD Lond) Professor of Musicology and Tutor in Music Clark, Anna, DPhil (MA MLitt St And) Tutor in Roman History and Librarian Young, Brian Walter, MA DPhil (BA Durh) FRHistS Charles Stuart Tutor in Modern History (and Junior Censor from August 2015) Davis, Jason John, DPhil (BSc Lond) Professor of Chemistry and Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry Pelling, Christopher Brendan Reginald, MA DPhil Regius Professor of Greek (until September 2015) Bose, Mishtooni Carys Anne, MA MPhil DPhil Christopher Tower Official Student in Medieval Poetry in English (and Tutor for Graduates until September 2015) Yee, Jennifer, (BA Sydney; DEA, doctorate Paris) Tutor in French Kuhn, Axel, (PhD Kaiserslautern) Tutor in Physics Lawrie, James Cameron Fitzgerald Seymour, (MA Camb) Ordinary Student and Treasurer Aarts, Dirk, MSc PhD Utrecht Professor of Chemistry and Tutor in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Cragg, Stephanie Jane, DPhil (MA Camb) Professor of Neuroscience and Tutor in Medicine Wade-Martins, Richard, DPhil (MA Camb) Professor of Molecular Neuroscience and Tutor in Medicine Kwiatkowski, Marek, MA Ordinary Student and Development Director Schear, Joseph, BA California at San Diego, PhD Chicago Tutor in Philosophy and Tutor for Admissions Keene, Edward, BA MSc PhD Lond Tutor in Politics

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Mortimer, Sarah, MA MSt DPhil Oxf Tutor in History Upton, David, (BA Meng Camb, PhD Purdue) American Standard Companies Professor of Operations Management McGerty, Kevin, BA Camb, PhD MIT Tutor in Mathematics Linières-Hartley, Pauline Anne, BA, MA Oxf Ordinary Student and Steward Sternberg, Karl, MA Oxf Ordinary Student Bérczi, Gergely, MSc Eotvos Lorand, PhD Budapest Fixed Term Student in Mathematics Elder, Liesl, BA Carleton Ordinary Student and University Development Director Dadson, Simon, BA Oxf, MSc British Columbia, PhD Camb Tutor in Geography Spagnolo, Benjamin James, BCL DPhil Oxf, BA LLB Western Australia Penningtons Student and Tutor in Law (and Curator of Common Room from August 2015) Newstead, Simon, BA Bath, PhD St And Tutor in Biochemistry King, Kayla, (BSc British Columbia; MSc Concordia; PhD Indiana) Tutor in Biology Camilleri, Anna, BA MA Durh, DPhil Oxf Fixed Term Student in English Joosten, Jan Thijs Alfons, Lic DTh Brussels, ThM Princeton Theological Seminary, PhD Hebrew Regius Professor of Hebrew Barker, Richard, BA Oxf, MPhil PhD Camb Tutor in Management Studies Manova, Kalina, AB AM PhD Harvard Tutor in Economics Hiscock, Simon, MA DPhil Oxf, PGCE Ordinary Student and Director, Botanic Gardens Hutchinson, Gregory Owen, MA DPhil Oxf Regius Professor of Greek

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Honorary Students Wilkinson, Sir Denys Haigh, MA (MA ScD Camb) FRS Armstrong, Robert Temple, the Rt Hon Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, GCB KCB CB CVO MA Gurdon, Sir John Bertrand, MA DPhil FRS Urquhart, Sir Brian Edward, KCMG MBE DCL (Hon LLD Yale) Acland, Sir Antony Arthur, KG GCMG CVO MA Howard, Professor Sir Michael Eliot, OM CH CBE MC DLitt FBA FRHistS FRSL Hassan ibn Talal, HRH Prince of Jordan Lawson, Nigel, the Rt Hon Lord Lawson of Blaby, MA PC Girouard, Mark, MA PhD Morris, Jan, CBE FRSL MA Williams, Rowan Douglas, Most Revd and Rt Hon Archbishop of Canterbury MA DPhil DD FBA Oppenheimer, Nicholas Frank, MA Scholey, Sir David Gerard, CBE (Hon DLitt London Guildhall) FRSA Smith, Douglas, MA Wood, Sir Martin Francis, OBE DL (Hon FEng UMIST Hon DSc Cranfield on DSc Nott Hon DTech Loughborough Hon DEng Birm) FRS Drury, the Very Revd John Henry, MA Oxf (MA Camb) de la Bastide, Michael, TC QC Blair, Ian Warwick, Baron Blair of Boughton Kt, QPM, MA Oxf Curtis, Richard Whalley Anthony, CBE Moritz, Michael Jonathan, BA Rothschild, Nathaniel Charles Jacob, the Rt. Hon. Lord, OM, GBE Ronus, Robert, BA Oxf McDougall, Douglas, OBE Neuberger, David Edmond, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury, PC, QC Paine, Peter S, Jr., LLB Harvard, BA Princeton, MA Oxf, Order National du Merite Preston, Simon (John), CBE, MusB MA Camb Beard, Alexander F, MA Oxf Lewis, The Very Revd Christopher Andrew, MA DPhil Oxf, PhD Camb

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Emeritus Students Andreyev, (Constance) Catherine Laura, MA DPhil (PhD Camb) (from October 2015) Asquith, Ivon Shaun, MA Oxf (PhD Lond) Benthall, Richard Pringle, MA (MA Camb) Bowman, Alan Keir, MA (MA PhD Toronto) FBA Burn, Edward Hector, BCL MA Butler, (Ian) Christopher, MA Oxf Cheetham, Anthony Kevin, MA DPhil FRS Conrad, Peter John, MA FRSL Gardner, Sir Richard Lavenham, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, FRS Grossel, Martin Christopher, MA (BSc PhD Lond) Haigh, Christopher Allan, MA Camb, MA Oxf, PhD Manc, FRHistS Hamer, Richard Frederick Sanger, MA Harris, John Graham, MA FIH Kent, Paul Welberry, MA DPhil DSc (BSc PhD Birm) FRSC Lund, Peter Gradwell, MA Matthews, Peter Bryan Conrad, MA DM DSc (MD Camb) FRS O’Donovan, the Revd Oliver Michael Timothy, MA DPhil Oppenheimer, Peter Morris, MA Parsons, Peter John, MA FBA Paton, Jack Ellis, MA (BSc St And, PhD Birm) Pelling, Christopher Brendan Reginald, MA DPhil (from October 2015) Pulzer, Peter George Julius, MA (MA PhD Camb BSc Lond) FRHistS Rice, (David) Hugh, BPhil MA Robinson, Christopher Frank, MA Sansom, Mark Stephen Perry, MA DPhil Speedy, Andrew William, MA (MA PhD Camb) Stacey, Derek Norton, MA DPhil Thomas, William Eden Sherwood, MA FRHistS Thompson, Ian David, MA (PhD Camb) Truman, Ronald William, MA DPhil Vaughan-Lee, Michael Rogers, MA DPhil Ward, the Revd (John Stephen) Keith, BLitt (DD Camb) Wayne, Richard Peer, MA (PhD Camb) Williamson, Hugh Godfrey Maturin, MA Phd Dd Camb, DD Oxf, FBA Wright, Jonathan Richard Cassé, MA DPhil

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Censor of Degrees Mayr-Harting, Henry Maria Robert Egmont, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA Truman, Ronald William, MA DPhil

College Chaplain Williamson, Ralph James, (BSc Lond) MA MTh Oxf (until April 2015) Hayns, The Revd Clare, BA Warw, NSc RHUL, PFDip Oxf Brookes (from 2015)

Curator of the Picture Gallery Thalmann, Jacqueline Margot, (MA Berlin, Dipl. Lond Courtauld)

Fowler Hamilton Visiting Research Fellows Muller, Stephanus Associate Professor and Director, Documentation Centre for Music, Stellenbosch

Lecturers Abecassis, Michael, MA status Oxf, MLitt St And French Aksentijevic, Dunja, BSc, PhD Hull Biochemistry Ansorge, Olaf, Neuroanatomy Archer, Rowena, MA DPhil Medieval History Archer, Sophie, Philosophy Azfar, Farrukh, BA MA John Hopkins, PhD Pennsylvania Physics Bailey, Hannah, English Baines, Jennifer, MA DPhil Russian Barrera, Olga, Engineering Science Bitel, Anton, Classics Brain, Keith, Pharmacology Breward, Christopher, MA MSc DPhil Mathematics Bullock, Philip BA Durh, MA DPhil Oxf Russian Cohen, Sarah, Ancient History Cotton-Barratt, Rebecca, Mathematics Frazier, Robert Lewis, (BA W Wash, MA PhD UMASS, Amherst) Philosophy Gilbert, James, Clinical Medicine Goddard, Stephen, French Goodman, Martin David, MA DPhil FBA Roman History Harris, Stephen, Biological Sciences

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Hoffstetter, Celia French Lectrice Kohl, Michael, BSc Lond, DPhil Oxf Medicine Littlewood, Timothy James, (MB BCh FRCP FRC.Path MD Wales) Medicine Lunt, Alexander, MEng Engineering Science Ma, John, MA DPhil (PhD) Ancient History Maw, David, MA DPhil Music McIntosh, Simon, Engineering Science McIntosh, Jonathan, Philosophy Madrinkian, Michael, English Merchant, Alan Clive, MA DPhil Physics Mishra, Challenger, Physics Nelson, Geoffrey, Physical Chemistry Norton, Roy, MA MSt Oxf Spanish Papanikoloau, Dimitris, Modern Greek Pazos Alonso, Claudia, Portuguese Pires, Jacinta, (MSc Leics) Economics Rembart, Franz, Mathematics Rhoades, Peter G, College Art Tutor Roberts, Ian Simon David, FRCPath, MRCPath, MBChB, BSc Hons Pathology Robertson, Sara Psychology Schroeder, Severin, Philosophy Scott, Kathryn MA MSci PhD Camb Biochemistry Skipp, Benjamin, Music Thien, Shaun Medicine Thompson, Samuel, Organic Chemistry Upton, (Ann) Louise, BA Oxf, PhD Lond Medicine Varry, Cecile French Lectrice Vilain, Robert, MA DPhil German Wilkins, Robert James, MA DPhil Physiological Sciences Willden, Richard, M.Eng, PhD DIC Engineering Science Wright, John David Maitland, MA DPhil (MA Aberd) Mathematics Zanna, Laure Physics

Junior Research Fellows Billingham, Paul, BA MPhil Oxf Politics Boyd-Bennett, Harriet, BA Oxf, MMus Lond Music

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Ferguson, Samuel Modern Languages Giles, Samantha, MSci Brist Geology Hartmann, Anna-Maria, Greek Mythology Hill, Peter, BA MSt Oxf Languages Holmes, Ros History of Art Jostins, Luke, BA MPgil, PhD Camb Statistical Genetics Kolling, Nils Psychology Meinecke, Jena, BSc UCLA Physics Plassart, Anna, MPhil Camb Dingwall JRF in History Prodi, Enrico, Classics Rüland, Angkana Mathematics Sloan, (Robert) Alastair, Earth Sciences Smith, Sophie, BA MPhil Camb History Tropiano, Manuel, BSc MSc Parma Chemistry Watt, Robert, Philosophy White, Rebekah, BSc MPhil ANU Psychology Zaid, Irwin, Biophysics

Senior Associate Research Fellow Clein, Natalie Music Hesjedal, Thorsten, Physics Ogg, Graham Stuart, DPhil Molecular Medicine Stuckler, David, Sociology Thornton, Thomas, MA PhD Seattle Environmental Change Wright, John David Maitland, MA Aberd, MA DPhil Oxf, FRSE Mathematics

Millard and Lee Alexander Post-Doctoral Fellow Barz, Stefanie, Staatsexamen Mainz, PhD Vienna

McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life Orr, James Christian Ethics and Public Life

Postdoctoral Research Fellows Al Mahli, Hadia, Chemistry Farrell, Patrick, Mathematics Heazlewood, Brianna, BSc PhD Sydney Chemistry Paju, Jaan European Law

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Rashbrook-Cooper, Oliver, PhD Warw Philosophy Sarkar, Bihana, BA MPhil DPhil Oxf Oriental Studies Schaar, Elisa, MSt DPhil Oxf Art History Schneider, Fabian, Astrophysics Stott, John, MPhys Oxf, PhD Durh Astrophysics von Goldbeck-Stier, Andreas, European Law

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THE DEAN

The House is in fine shape – and as I write this, on the 500th day of my Decanal service here – I am pleased to begin by reporting that we are back in our splendid Dining Hall, thanks to all the great work by our team at the House. The work cost us an arm and a leg; but if the suspect beam that caused all the problems had fallen on you from such a height, it might (more literally) have cost you an arm and a leg. We had no choice but to repair and restore, and we owe it to our successors to not simply leave the House as we found it, but even better than the heritage bequeathed to us. I thank all our friends, colleagues and benefactors for all your help, support and labour in this great enterprise. Slipping off the roof and on the ground, there have been some very fine achievements in sport for the House, including both our women and men’s rowing crews in the Summer Eights. Academically, we are in a steady and strong position in all subjects, and we continue to build patiently on the fine work of our Tutors. It has also pleasing to see our students move into so many different spheres of work after their graduation. Our graduate students continue to push the frontiers of knowledge and research. Occasionally, you might have noticed, Oxford gets in to the news. Sometimes it is for all the right reasons. It has been very good to welcome our new Vice Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson from St. Andrew’s University, via the USA and Dublin, and the first woman to hold this position in a near eight hundred year history. Then there is the other news coverage for Oxford: access, diversity, Cecil Rhodes, and more besides. We live in an age in which people are highly-sensitised to how our language, institutions and culture can be a cause of oppression. Over the last few decades, many societies, including our own, have made great strides on inclusiveness and fairness. Equality and diversity agendas have, I think, quite rightly, become an integral part of the self-consciousness not only of caring institutions, but also those that are serious about becoming more critically-self-aware. I don’t say, for a moment, that we as a university, or as Christ Church, have arrived – or even begun to arrive. Access is an issue for us, and one, let me assure you, that we are addressing at every level – from our ground-breaking and innovative programme in partnership with IntoUniversity on the Blackbird Leys estate, to our work on

13 admissions for schools. More could be done, I know – but I do encourage you to look beyond the headlines in the newspapers and see what is actually happening on the ground. Our graduate student population – up from under 70 in 1986 to over 225 in 2016 – is increasingly diverse and international. Two of the most popular dinners now hosted at the Deanery are Thanksgiving for Americans and Canadians, which is a long-established custom. But a new innovation in 2016 was a Chinese New Year celebration, which saw almost three dozen of our own students attend – from Korea, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. We have a highly variegated student body, and the House is all the richer for it. This year, for the very first time, the JCR and GCR were able to fly an LGBT flag in Peck Quad (with permission, I should add), which has given the House a real opportunity to own and show another kind of diversity and celebrate that, and in solidarity with our junior members. The House is the happier and the heathier for this. It is another sign of an inclusive place of welcome: the House is a Home. In all this, the dilemma for some of our students – and certainly for our media – seems to be, how to balance the valuing of equality and diversity with the right to free speech. Universities across the country have recently been discussing the platforms they offer to speakers who may hold values and opinions that are not necessarily shared by others. In all this, feelings can run high, and at times appear to slip into a kind of rage. Institutions need to be wise when the political, cultural and moral temperature starts to become feverish. I don’t mean by this that institutions are bound to adopt cool, dispassionate and disinterested distances. The sense of rage and revolt can tell us some important things about the experience of powerlessness that measured discourses sometime fail to communicate. Good institutions are obliged to engage deeply with strongly held convictions and their accompanying passionate intensity. But institutions, equally, can’t afford to be governed by the every emotive evocation. A university is all about discovering your passions and proclivities, but to live with these, and see the wisdom and moral and political centre of such, and not merely be governed by whatever the prevailing emotional weather or cultural mood happens to be. So we need a balance, as Ursula Le Guin argues in an influential essay, between the cool, rational detachedness of ‘father tongue’, and

14 the coarse, earthy passion of ‘mother tongue’, if we are to understand what it takes to speak and hear on issues that divide us. It is easy to say, for example – in such a cool and calculated way – that we only take the best students, and we only take the best candidates for Junior Research Fellowships, Lecturers and Professors. The logic is unfaultable, seemingly. But we do have to engage with the fact that we have so very few black, Latino and Asian faculty. And we have to ask what message that sends to our students, and to potential applicants. (And perhaps the Prime Minister might ask the same question of his Cabinet, in relation to our nation). The problem is hardly confined to the United Kingdom. Yale’s African-American Faculty numbers have grown at the rate of one percent each century – so from 0% in 1701 to 3% in 2015. Things are better on gender, granted; but you could hardly say there is not room for improvement. So you can begin to see the logic for students of using their right to speech to push in different directions. To sometimes challenge the hegemony of ‘illiberal multiculturalism’. And at other times, to promote and campaign for greater equality and diversity. A university has space for both of these agendas. What a university is not for, however, is to be a ‘safe space’ that cocoons students from bracing challenges to their beliefs, ideas and intellects. We are here to challenge plausibility structures, as well as personal and social constructions of reality. Indeed, this is a shared conversation, in which we journey together as a learning community. To join a university is to join a community where provocative, disturbing and unorthodox ideas will be encountered, and where we learn to evaluate these. What we give to our students in this is the gift of space and time to consider, reflect, and then recalibrate our minds and hearts. As Wittgenstein once said, the one thing a philosopher can say to another is ‘give yourself time’. Lectures take us out of our comfort zones. Universities are meant to be guardians of robust debate and challenging ideas. The call for campuses and colleges to become ‘safe spaces’ is less about physical security and more about psychological sensitivity. We need to be careful that the language adopted by groups to promote sensitivity does not become a cloak for smothering free speech. But free speech, equally, must respect diversity and equality. History, like literature, is messy and complex and should not be reduced to a bland consensus designed to avoid offence. In education, a safe space

15 can risk becoming the communal reification of a closed mind. We need minds open, not closed. Offense means to strike; some ideas are striking! I am quite certain that institutions, societies, colleges and universities should not go out of their way to offend their own members, or indeed wider society. But universities must also be vigilant, and guard the boundary between offensiveness and challenge with great care and critical scrutiny. Central to the notion of offence is the idea carried within the etymology of the word – of striking, or assault. To be offended is to experience a verbal or visual slap – or an aural or olfactory one, for that matter. Offensiveness stings us into reaction and then action. Offence can be divisive and demeaning. But being challenged is integral to a University education, and we should not shrink from exposing our students to ideas that are uncomfortable, including histories and ideologies of which we now might feel somewhat ill-at-ease with, or possibly even ashamed. To be sure, we don’t uncritically laud and celebrate our past – and all the characters, personalities and their achievements that now construct our history and identity, and indeed our opportunities – in some kind of hermetically-sealed zone that does not permit fresh perspectives and more critical appraisals. But nor do seek to expunge our past of those characters and episodes that we now find uncomfortable. To do so is hubris, and dare one say it, even a vanity of late modernity. We can’t look at our past from a great moral height, knowing that we live and know better now. In some senses we do, I’m sure. But in other respects, we are further adrift from values, ideologies and moral frameworks that perhaps raise questions about our present – and indeed, future directions. I simply want to remind us that good education requires challenge; and it may even occasionally offend sensibilities. I am not sure that is a bad thing at all. Because the education that did not do this would, in itself, begin to feel quite oppressive. Good education requires a reckoning with the past – in the sciences, arts, humanities and medicine – because until we understand how were shaped by the past, we cannot easily shape the present and the future. The task of education is not to its purge our memories, cleanse our histories or sanitise our sentiments. It is, rather, to deal with what we were, so we can deal in what we shall be. The Spanish Jesuit scholar, Louis Bermejo, suggested almost thirty

16 years ago that any community or institution often needs to go through four phases of life in order to reach a place of peaceable wisdom, and where the possibility of civilised disagreement could be actualised. He suggested that these four phases were: communication, conflict, consensus and community. He graciously pointed out that most institutions – universities, colleges, churches, denominations, families and marriages – would try and avoid the second phase, namely conflict. But conflict, argued Bermejo, though sometimes difficult and testing, was often also refining and perfecting. Out of tense antitheses and competing ideologies there often emerges a better, third way. Consensus – true consensus – is often only possible when all those negotiating have laid aside their earlier positions, and realised that the better solution is now to be found through consensual reforms that could not have been imagined without the opportunity for disagreement and conflict. Our Governing Body here, I have to say, is one of the most agreeable bodies I have ever worked with. The expertise, wisdom, counsel and care is exemplary – mutual concern for one another, and for the institution and all its’ people as whole. But even we all have our moments – even the very best institutions do. But these moments, when they arise, are, in fact, moments of opportunity, growth and new development. To paraphrase the ancient Chinese wisdom, ‘never let a crisis go to waste – the moment is both danger and opportunity’. And I often reflect that as such moments are witnessed by our junior members, who sit in for part of the meetings each week they meet in term, they truly present a real sense of how the hidden curriculum in an institution works. There are no courses our modules you can sign up for on ‘Modelling Good Disagreement’, or for that matter, ‘Constructive Dissent: A Beginners Guide to New Institutional Vision and Collegial Capital’. But good governance, and good Governing Bodies, do in fact model some of the highest virtues in the collective, collegial sharing of responsibility for the welfare, development and future of institutions. And here, I simply want to pay due homage to my colleagues at the House here on just this point. They continue to teach me much, for which I am truly grateful – not just in what they speak, but in how they are with one another. This is a caring community; a House where the members look out for each other. Members are well-practiced at being together for the common good; and like St. Paul’s metaphor of the

17 body, each part of the body values the other parts, and the whole. To conclude, then, and as you will know, I have a very simple ambition for the House – to be the Best of the Best. It will take time to get there, but I truly believe that Christ Church has a vocation to be the best College in the best university in the world. I don’t think this is at all elitist. Not even a bit. Because the best does not just mean top of this, or first in that. It is, as I say, a vocation – to serve, and to produce the best kinds of students and the best kinds of results. But these are not the ones that the world always recognises, values and cherishes. As one of our former official students, Einstein, once famously said, 'Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.' We have a great past, one which is already contributing much to the history and legacy of this country, and of countries and continents far beyond. We believe we are living up to that record today. But change takes time; and it will be time well spent. Time is fluid there. Oxford, located one degree, 15 minutes and 24 seconds west of the prime meridian at Greenwich, is technically 5 minutes and 2 seconds behind. But when it’s 9:05 p.m. in the rest of Great Britain, Great Tom, a six-ton bell in the gate tower of Christ Church College, tolls — not nine times to mark the hour, which would make some kind of sense, but 101 times. In 1664, Christ Church had 101 students. Curfew was 9 p.m. Ergo, 101 peals every night ever since, calling those now former members out of the pub and into their beds. The rest of the city still follows Christ Church’s lead. Each college, each church, richly endowed with bells, has its own sense of time. They ring out the hour, the quarter hour and the half hour a few minutes either side of what your modern, synchronized watch says, making the city sound as though it’s in a perpetual state of celebration. No wonder, then, that Charles Dodgson, and better known as Lewis Carroll, has this to say in Alice In Wonderland: “If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him.” “I don’t know what you mean,” said Alice. “Of course you don’t!” the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. “I dare say you never even spoke to Time!” “Perhaps not,” Alice cautiously replied: “but I know I have to beat time when I learn music.” “Ah! that accounts for it,” said the Hatter. “He won’t stand

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beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he’d do almost anything you liked with the clock.” Time, indeed. But nearly five hundred years on, it is still on our side. Yet we are in such a hurry today, in our busy, feverish world. So I encourage you, for a moment, to step back, and think about what the gift of time does for you, and might do for those who come after you. And to invest in that, here, in the House, for future generations. As the saying goes, If you want to plan for five years ahead, plant a seed. If you want to plan for ten years ahead, plant a tree. If you want to plan for a lifetime ahead…educate. The Very Revd Professor Martyn Percy, Dean

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THE HOUSE IN 2015

For many at the House, the great event of 2015 was the reclamation of the Great Hall, which in the previous year had been found to be harbouring death-watch beetle in places too high to have been observed in the course of routine maintenance. In the days of Henry VIII it would have been possible, no doubt, to lift up a man on a pulley, and when he fell to lift up another and then another until the job was done. Modern health and safety regulations prescribed the erection of a huge scaffolding which afforded protection to diners, a spectacle to visitors and a temptation to amateur climbers. Although a few events were relocated, there was little sign of general emaciation; on the other hand, no-one who has studied the fall in revenue from tourists during the period when the hall was closed would have wished to see it closed for a second summer. A regrettable, though inevitable, corollary of its reopening was the removal of the pictures that junior members had created to shield the portraits; it was almost a surprise, when the makeshift Anubis vanished, to discover that underneath it all the time there had been a recent Dean and his dog. The Governing Body enjoyed a different kind of aesthetic pleasure just before the beginning of Michaelmas Term, when an off-site meeting at Eynsham Hall introduced them to some exquisite specimens of topiary. In the course of the day there was prolonged discussion of many important matters, and profound reforms are to be expected, so far as this is consonant with the traditions of the college. Carol Harrison, elected to the Lady Margaret Chair of Divinity in 2014, arrived to take up the post in Trinity last year. An expert on St Augustine, Professor Harrison is the second woman to hold a Christ Church canonry; at the same time, she restores the custom (unbroken till 1992) of having at least one canon professor who publishes work at the highest level in early Christian studies. Christopher Pelling retired at the end of September after twelve years as Regius Professor of Greek, to be replaced by Gregory Hutchinson. Professor Hutchinson, like his predecessor, has not only come but returned (in the words of Aeschylus) to the college at which he was formerly a Research Lecturer. Katya Andreyev also retired in September after 28 years of magisterial guidance to undergraduates in Modern History. Appointed as a C.U.F. she left as an Associate Professor, this being the title conferred by the university on its postholders in the belief that it gave a truer sense of

20 their academic distinction to our Transatlantic colleagues; at Christ Church the unintended but felicitous result of making everyone a professor has been to enhance the resemblance to J.K. Rowling’s Hogwarts. Both institutions are famous for their horticulture, and last year the Governing Body was pleased to welcome Simon Hiscock, a professor in the Department of Plant Sciences and the new director of the Botanic Gardens. It was also our good fortune to appoint Kalina Manova to the vacant post of Official Student in Economics, Christ Church being perhaps the only place in the world where one can be a student and a professor at the same time. Those who were once Research Lecturers are now Junior Research Fellows, and, as ever, some have returned to the vale of tears while others have come to fill their places. Those who have joined the college this year are Paul Billingham (Politics), Samantha Giles (Geology), Peter Hill (Arabic studies) and Jena Meinecke (Physics). We also welcome Jaan Paju as the Stockholm Postdoctoral Fellow in Law, Dr Stephanie Barz as Millar and Lee Alexander Postdoctoral Fellow and Dr Brianna Heazlewood in her new role as Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry. We must already say goodbye to Professor Stephanus Muller, a musicologist who held the Fowler Hamilton Visiting Research Fellowship from September to December 2015. Now that the university finds it easier to secure funds for research than to create permanent teaching lecturerships, an increasing number of short- term posts are supported by the college: those who assumed or resumed college lecturerships at Christ Church in 2015 were: Dr Hannah Bailey, William Humphries and Dr Michael Madrinkian in English; Dr Jennifer Baines in Russian; Adam Gal and Franz Remart in Mathematics, Dr Samuel Gartland in Ancient History; Dr Jennifer Johnson in History of Art; Dr Michael Kohl in Medicine; Dr Jonathan McIntosh in Philosophy; Dr Challenger Mishra in Physics; and Dr Joram Van Rheede in Psychology. Celia Hoffstetter comes as French Lectrice and Kristin Knabe as German Lektorin. The price that we pay for the new accessions is the loss of Joshua Bennett, Dr Jay Biernaske, Professor Philip Bullock, Dr Laura Carlson, Marc Deckers, Sam Jindani, Dr John Lowe, Marius Ostrowski, Dr Anna Plassart, Sara Robertson, Dr Elisa Schaar, Shaun Thein, Cecile Varry, Professor Mark Wrathall and Dr Christian Yates. We wish them well in their new careers, and hope that, as in the past, some will return in a still more honourable capacity.

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For eighteen years the furtherance of religion, which is one of the college’s statutory aims, was represented to junior members by Ralph Williamson, who has now left to become vicar of St Peter’s, Eaton Square. Over the summer his duties were performed by Justin White (now chaplain of Dulwich College), but since September our permanent chaplain (and the first woman to hold this post) has been Clare Hayns, who trained as a social worker before her ordination and subsequent curacy in the Blenheim Benefice. A special word must be said of Hadia AlMahli, a professor of chemistry at the University of Cairo, who is one of a number of Syrian academics to have come to Oxford under the auspices of CARA, the Council for At-Risk Academics. The college is proud to participate in this revival of a scheme which enabled Christ Church to offer asylum to Einstein in the 1930s. It is salutary to remember that Oxford colleges have never been merely hives of cerebral industry, and that when the term “humanities” was coined to denote the study of Greek and Latin outside the scriptures, it implied that nothing human is excluded from the domain of scholarship. One event must be recorded with great sadness. Even among the senior members of the college, there are few who can remember a time when Janet McMullin was not a constant presence in the library, first as assistant to John Wing, then as Senior Assistant Librarian. For ten years she performed this role with undiminished courage as her struggle with multiple sclerosis forced her into a wheelchair but seldom induced her to take a day’s respite from work. Before the start of Michaelmas Term last year she died as a result of a fall whose effects were aggravated by her condition. The college extends its condolences to her family, above all to her husband Peter and their children, and its thanks to Anna Clark, Judith Curthoys and the rest of the library staff for maintaining the smooth operation of the library at the busiest time of year. It remains to thank Brian Young for his astute and patient editing of the college record over the past nine years. Dr Young has succeeded Brian Parkinson as Junior Censor, while Professor Parkinson has taken over the office of Senior Censor from David Nowell. It is a pleasure to congratulate Professor Nowell on four years of diligent service in both offices, and to note that his successors have so far maintained the discipline of the college so efficiently that the majority of junior members still do not know what a censor is. Mark Edwards

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THE ARCHIVES

Christ Church’s wonderful collections continue to attract researchers in large numbers. In the 2015 calendar year 136 people studied in the archive and the number of ‘productions’ (books, papers, volumes, etc. supplied for those readers and for internal use) was once more well in excess of 1000. Items used by the archivist to answer telephone or e- mail enquiries (letters are rare things these days) are not counted. As usual, the Dacre papers have their own dedicated following with seventeen readers and innumerably more correspondents. More publications of Hugh Trevor-Roper’s writings have appeared in the bookshops over the year, the editors of which have spent much time in the Brewhouse. Accessions have been both every-day and exciting. Lady Chadwick continues to delight with useful, enlightening, and intriguing papers from the late dean’s files. Old members and their relatives are as generous as ever: among many gifts is an Edwardian photograph album which belonged to Michael Harry Godby (ChCh 1901) which includes rare ‘action’ photos of the athletics team. Topically, another accession is an account of the life of Alan Mackintosh MC who died on active service with the Seaforth Highlanders in 1917. Every-day material includes staff files, cathedral diaries, Governing Body minutes, Development Office publications, menus, and records relating to the work on college and cathedral buildings. In fact, it is the buildings that have been the predominant topic for 2015. The unexpected work on the Hall roof generated all sorts of accessions to the archive, including reports on the stained glass; dendrochronological analyses of the timber; and odd ‘finds’ such as musket balls, a George III cartwheel penny, a pair of shoes, and a small brush with flecks of gold leaf presumably left behind after the last cleaning in 1979/80. Two firewatchers’ tin hats turned up in a cupboard in Peck just as work was beginning on the east side. These small additions, including a DVD of archaeological work on the refurbished Priory and Cloister Houses and a matchbox containing a note from builders working on a fireplace in Fell Tower in 1939, are swamped by the seemingly never-ending stream of papers and files generated by the House Surveyor on everything from the Hall roof repairs to the relocation of the flagpole. The archivist has also completed a post-graduate certificate in the history of architecture.

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Members will remember that 2015 saw the sad and sudden death of Janet McMullin, the Assistant Librarian. Since October, the archivist has been attempting to stand in her shoes as temporary manager of the library, and would like to thank all members of Christ Church for their continued support while the archive has been running at a slightly slower pace than usual. Judith Curthoys

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THE CATHEDRAL

2015 was an exciting year for the Cathedral which continues to attract great interest, not only for its unique position as both a College Chapel and the Cathedral Church of the Diocese of Oxford but for the superb quality of music sung and played within its walls. The Cathedral is home to a vibrant community with a rich worshipping tradition, enjoying a world famous Cathedral Choir. It hosts a wide range of services, diocesan events, music, art and drama. Hundreds of thousands of people visit our Cathedral each year to pray, worship, or simply enjoy the stillness and the profound sense of history it inspires. As the New Year started so too our After Eight services of contemporary worship recommenced. The After Eight format is two 4- week series with overarching topics and distinguished speakers: the first ‘Enduring War … Engaging with Peace’ gave us speakers each with expertise in present day conflicts; this was followed by ‘When I needed a neighbour’, with four speakers each discussing exercising differing ministries on the margins of modern life. A great testament to the quality of the music at the Cathedral, and its cultural significance, is BBC Radio 3 continuing to feature our services. As has now become a tradition , a January Evensong was broadcast on Radio 3 live, during which the choir sung Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Stella quam viderant Magi and John Sheppard’s Regis Tharsis. The Christmas season ended with our beautiful Candlemas service in the Cathedral. This is one of the most lovely and atmospheric services of the year. In March, and not to be missed, the Cathedral Choir joined forces with the choirs of Magdalen College and New College to sing Evensong together for the first time in 30 years. This magnificent sound was last heard in the eighties. It is hope to make this an annual fixture. In Lent, a series of Complines culminated in a version of the Tenebrae liturgy in Holy Week and, in addition to our Holy Week Addresses and performance of the St John Passion, we welcomed Lord Carey of Clifton to preach at Palm Sunday Matins. In April, the Mariposa Trust held its ‘Goodbye Service’, at Christ Church Cathedral. This service supports those who have lost a child at any stage of pregnancy, birth or infancy.

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We were delighted to welcome from Durham University, the eminent Patristic scholar, Professor Carol Harrison, as the new Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church. She was installed as a Canon during Evensong on Saturday 25 April. A celebratory service of Carols and Readings for Eastertide was held in May, and in June we welcomed the Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Bishop Angaeolos, to preach at Choral Eucharist as part of the Oxford series of events Palestine Unlocked. In July 2015 the Cathedral Choir conducted a second tour of China; a follow up to their first highly successful tour in 2012. There it sang a series of concerts in five of the most prestigious concert halls in the country starting with the Qintai Concert Hall in Wuhan. The concert programme took audiences from the 14th to the 21st century, including works by Handel, Parry, Gershwin, Tippett, Walton and Canteloube. The Cathedral’s annual Summer Lectures on ‘The Poetry of Faith’ took place in July and August and were well attended and in August we once again welcomed The Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance to perform the sacred ritual dance ‘Moving Visions’. The new House website was launched in summer 2015 and the Dean and Canons took this opportunity to more fully promote more the Cathedral and all it offers. This is in the fledgling stage but we are pleased to be making headway. To replace our regular newsletters, we have produced a new What’s On booklet which will be issued on a regular basis and we hope that this new attractive and readable format will further extend our reach within the community. In September the Cathedral held a service to mark the Women’s Institute National Centennial. Over 300 members of the WI assembled at Christ Church and processed with banners depicting some of the Institution's 140 divisions in Oxfordshire, before going into the Cathedral for a lunchtime service. Special services are indeed an integral part of the Cathedral’s calendar, and in 2015 themes ranged from “Steam Dreams” – in which the steam train, Cathedrals Express, came to Oxford and passengers attended a Christmas Carol Service at the Cathedral - to a Santa Lucia service - a traditional Swedish service of carols and readings with a candlelight procession, during which ‘Santa Lucia’ wears a crown of candles. The latter is a biennial fixture and the singing by the guests is always sublime. Late in 2015, we heard the exciting news that the former Archdeacon of Buckingham, Karen Gorham, was to be appointed as the 36th Bishop

26 of Sherborne. Through her Archdeaconship Karen has developed strong links with Christ Church Cathedral, and last year preached at the Ordination Services. Canons and vergers from the Cathedral made the trip to Westminster Abbey to witness her Consecration in February, and we send her all our good wishes as she steps into her new role. In March, we said a fond farewell to the College Chaplain Ralph Williamson, who has moved on to become Vicar of St Peter’s Church, Eaton Square, London following 18 years of dedicated ministry to Christ Church. The occasion was marked by a service, followed by a short concert and tributes in the Cathedral. We were delighted to welcome the Revd Clare Hayns as our new College Chaplain and Welfare Co-ordinator. Clare had previously been parish priest at the Benefice of Blenheim in north Oxfordshire. As befits its place in the University, the Cathedral continues to develop as a platform for education and in 2015 a new Education Officer was appointed. Jackie Holderness arrived in January and manages and supervises school groups visiting the Cathedral, assisting by a team of experienced volunteers, many of whom are former teachers. Regular school visits with pupils from reception age to 6th form are the norm in term time but we also offer “Grill a Canon” sessions, where 6th form students can meet and question Chapter Canons on aspects of faith. We regularly have placement students from Theological Colleges to shadow vergers and members of the clergy and they help organise services and observe how the Cathedral functions day-to-day; this makes up a key part of their Ordination training. Religion and art so often go hand in hand, and this is always celebrated at the Cathedral. During 2015 the Cathedral hosted a wonderful and unique sculpture exhibition, Madonnas and Mad Hatters, by renowned sculptor, Peter Eugene Ball. His exhibition in the Cathedral, which was both secular and religious, showed the variety of his work. Inspired by the college's links with Alice in Wonderland and this 150th anniversary year, he created his own interpretation of a couple of the characters from the book, including Alice and the Mad Hatter. The Cathedral has now purchased his sculpture of St Frideswide, which can be seen in the Latin Chapel, and is seeking to fund the acquisition of the Oxford Madonna and Child, presently on loan in the Lady Chapel. The Cathedral could not manage without the help of our dedicated band volunteers who offer their services willingly in many guises. From

27 welcoming at the entrance, bell ringing, the Cathedral Singers voluntary choir which sings when the Cathedral choir is down, to the embroiderers and flower arrangers and many other groups. The Dean and Canons are greatly indebted to them for their commitment and help. Always though, the daily offering of worship to God is at the heart of Christ Church Cathedral so when back at Christ Church do come whether for a single service or more regularly. John Briggs Cathedral Registrar

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THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR

Readers of the annual report will already be aware that the Cathedral Choir has acquired a stellar reputation, both for its high standards in the daily Cathedral services and also for its recordings, concerts and tours. Two special examples from the summer serve to reinforce this reputation. In each case they involve collaborations with other groups, something which is a very important aspect of the Choir’s activities and, moreover, they are both repeat invitations. First, in July, the choir made a second visit to the St Alban’s International Organ Festival, this time in collaboration with the choirs of Westminster Cathedral and St Alban’s Abbey. This exciting festival revolves around the world’s most prestigious organ competition, of which Clive Driskill-Smith, our Sub-Organist, is a former prize-winner, while I am its former Artistic Director. The annual Three Choirs Concert has become a highlight of the festival. The concert programme included cori spezzati pieces by Gabrieli and Guerrero, involving brass consort, as well as James MacMillan’s stunning Tu es Petrus which opened the papal mass at Westminster Cathedral on the occasion of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit in 2010, and Arvo Pärt’s De profundis. This celebration of choral music presented a rare opportunity to hear three great choirs on their own and in ensemble: a real treat. Secondly, in August, the choir went to China for a repeat visit to the prestigious National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing as part of the annual choral festival. There were concerts in the Grand Theatre in Shanghai, the Concert Halls in Wuhan and Shenzhen, and the Opera House in Guangzhou, where we collaborated in performance with two local choirs. In his book China in Ten Words (2012) the author Yu Hua entitles one of his chapters ‘Reading’. He explains the extraordinary experience of lengthy queues for coupons in 1977, when the demise of the Cultural Revolution resulted in previously banned books being published once again. Discussing the ‘mysterious power’ of literature he writes:

One can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter a sensation that is one’s very own.

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This is surely a notion which can be applied to music as well, and it is certainly the case that the palpable hunger for our choral music was immensely striking when we visited China in 2012 and again in 2015. Notwithstanding the importance of the daily round of services in Christ Church, this is a vital way in which we can touch the lives of vast numbers of people in another continent and promote the College and the University. The year began with a BBC broadcast of Choral Evensong in January and ended with numerous carol services and concerts, both in the Cathedral and elsewhere, a particular highlight being the annual Christmas concert in St. John’s Smith Square and a joint performance of Tallis’s Spem in alium with the vocal group The Cardinall’s Musick. There were also other concerts: ‘Sacred Choral Music for the Divine Office’ (Martin Randall), Haydn’s Harmoniemesse with Oxford Philharmonic in the Sheldonian, and J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion with Oxford Baroque in the Cathedral. The latter was particularly remarkable for outstanding performances by two former Christ Church clerks, Stuart Jackson as Evangelist and Will Gaunt as Christus. In the field of recording, the third volume of Music from the Eton Choirbook, Courts of Heaven, was nominated for a Gramophone Award, like volumes one and two. Amongst the many special services in the Cathedral, there was a memorable joint Evensong with the choirs of Magdalen College, New College and Christ Church: the first time this has happened in living memory. During my sabbatical in Trinity Term, Clive Driskill-Smith was in charge of the Cathedral’s music. We owe him a debt of gratitude for doing this so admirably. We also owe a continuing debt of gratitude to all those who support the Cathedral Music Trust. Stephen Darlington

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THE COLLEGE CHAPLAIN

What a year this has been. This time last year I was a Curate in Bladon and was preparing for my interview at Christ Church and praying hard that I’d be chosen to be Chaplain. I still pinch myself that I was picked as it has been the most wonderful year. My family and I moved into our home in Blue Boar Street in August and we’ve settled in well and quickly got used to having a White Stuff and Costa within a few metres of our home. I knew I’d learn a lot in this role, but what I’ve learned this year has been unexpected. Here are some snippets:

1. I’ve learned what a serious game Lawn Bowls is. On the last hot day of the year in September a group of Christ Church staff took a trip to Cambridge for the Trinity Sports Day. As numbers were lower than usual the only sport on offer was Bowls, not something I’d ever done outside before. But by the end of a very long and serious match, where sitting down at any point was strictly forbidden, unless you wanted to be shouted at by a rather scary Trinity scout, Christ Church was victorious and came home with a large silver trophy. I now know how to bowl and what a ‘jack’ is: I still have no idea how the scoring works though.

2. I’ve learned to bake. I had imagined that ChCh students would be far too busy thinking about the latest engineering breakthroughs and out clubbing to be bothered with something as mundane as baking, but it seems I was wrong. This is the ‘Bake Off’ generation and everyone loves Mary Berry (she was even at the Oxford Union in Hilary Term). So a different group of bakers gathers in my kitchen each week and we chat about life, the world and how to bake the perfect scone. We then eat them all at a ‘Brain Strain Tea and Cake’ session each week, where up to 30 hungry students crowd into my study to relax and consume sugar.

3. I’ve learned that early mornings can be a good time for students to worship. Before arriving at ChCh I couldn’t believe that the main student service was at 9am on a Sunday morning. Surely young people wouldn’t get up that early to come to Church. It turns out that they do come, and those who do really value the quiet stillness

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of the Cathedral at that time in the morning. From Michaelmas 2016 this service will be at 8.45am to accommodate slight changes in the other Cathedral service times, but I’m confident that students will still come and experience God’s presence at this lovely service.

4. I’ve learned that the Cathedral is a wonderful place to spend the night. In December a group of students, staff and Canons took the ‘Advent Sleepover Challenge’ and slept in the Cathedral to raise money for the Church Urban Fund. After an evening of dressing up as nativity characters (the Sub-Dean made a wonderful donkey), games and night prayer we actually got a decent night’s sleep, which was broken only by a midnight visit from the Dean, and an almighty clatter as yours truly fell out of her camp bed! We raised over £4,000 which was a triumph and will be doing it again next year.

5. Finally, I’ve learned that Christ Church is a most wonderful place to live and work. I feel enormously privileged to be here and am truly thankful to all the staff, students, canons and senior members who have provided us with a wonderful home, welcomed me and my family over the past year, and have helped to made us feel so at home in this House. Thank you. Revd Clare Hayns Chaplain

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Dr Katya Andreyev, who retired in September 2015. Revd Clare Hayns, College Chaplain who joined in August 2015. Janet McMullin who worked in the Library for 25 years. The heron perched on Mercury biding his time before diving for the fish. THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI OFFICE

The Dean, Censors and Governing Body, through the Development Office, express their gratitude for the continued generosity and support from Members and Friends of the House, both financially and in terms of time and expertise. All gifts, of whatever size and allocation, support the In perpetuity programme with the single objective to underwrite the core values of the House, namely the tutorial system, maintenance of the historic fabric, an open and competitive admissions process, research, sporting and cultural activities. Headline figures for fundraising in 2014-15 were lower than in the previous two years, reflecting, by comparison, a smaller number of very major gifts, which have historically boosted the total. At £3.3 million, the distribution between endowment and expendable gifts remains heavily weighted in favour of the former (88%) in line with targets and projections. The cumulative amount given since the inception of the In perpetuity programme in 2008 remained ahead of the straight-line target to reach £65 million by 2023. From 2016 onwards, however, the targets will have been re-set to reflect revised cost, revenue and funding gap projections in the light of a number of external influences. These are now available in the second In perpetuity document, published in January 2016 and available from the Development Office. Other indicators were generally favourable with 25 new Members qualifying for Board of Benefactors (cumulative gifts or pledges of 25k+) bringing membership up to 312. The total number of gifts at that level continued its upward trend (45 during the year), reflecting a number of repeat gifts, as earlier pledges have come to the end of their instalments period. Smaller gifts (under £25,000) have remained steady at around 600 annually. As mentioned, however, there were relatively few very large gifts during the year, most notably a further £250,000 from Martin Alderson-Smith (1975) for the Geography tutorial funds and new pledges from Luke Chappell and Oliver Evans of £59,000 each as part of their match for the second Classics post. The legacy programme, and membership of the 1546 Society, sustained recent progress, with 25 new legacy pledges during the year. This brings the total of known legacies to 191.

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Endowment, particularly for tutorial posts, continued to be the main fundraising focus, with successful completions of the second Classics post and near completion of the two Geography posts, the Human side of which will recognise Professor Judith Pallot’s major contribution to the subject, on her retirement in 2016. Significant gifts are still required to finish the Chemistry, English and Law posts; and, with the brochure now published, Modern Languages will be one of the main areas for future attention. With the Christ Church contribution to the Oxford Bursary Scheme fully covered by a most generous gift of £6 million in 2011 from Alex Beard (1985), the emphasis is henceforth to complete a £2.8 million endowment fund for discretionary bursaries and hardship, specifically for Christ Church undergraduates. During 2015, gifts to this area increased by £600,000 and included £200,000 in smaller gifts, leaving a further £450,000 to reach the target. Support for graduate scholarships continued to build, though unspectacularly, both for endowment and individual fixed-term commitments. The Boat Club endowment project has a target of £1.6 million (generously helped by a 1:1 matched gift offer from Alex Beard) to endow its activities, including coaching, travel, boathouse maintenance, and equipment purchases. The project has made some good progress, having received just over £300,000 qualifying for the match by the year- end. The Moritz-Heyman Project, directed specifically towards Members within five years of leaving, also started in 2015. In addition to raising revenue, the purposes are to increase overall participation and to establish a culture of giving early on. The project is generously supported by Sir Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman, such that any eligible Member who pledges a minimum of £60/$100 per year will have the full gift value matched 1:1. Pledges are taken to be for a maximum of five years, unless a shorter period is specified. During the first year, the project generated gifts in excess of £25,000, which is the maximum eligible for the match in any one year. The sixth Gaudy Year Telephone Campaign took place in January 2015, calling 1982 to 1990 matriculands. The total amount pledged was £215,500 which exceeded expectations and surpassed the total raised in 2014. Overall participation was, for the first time, above 60%. As in previous years, the majority of funds raised were directed towards

34 discretionary bursaries, of which the first £90,000 is to cover our commitment to current students, with the excess swept into the Bursaries Endowment Fund. This has become an increasingly important part of our fundraising programme, emphasising that smaller gifts in large numbers can make a very substantial difference. The contribution from North America continues to be of major significance. During the year, Christ Church received close to £1 million through the American Friends. Of the total, £170,000 was from the annual mailing, mainly supporting American Friends’ Scholarships. Particular thanks are now extended to Sir David Scholey (1955) who, after years of steering first the Campaign for Christ Church and latterly the Development Board as its Chairman, has given so much to the House. His leadership, counsel and generosity will be long remembered. A warm welcome is extended to Lord Charles Cecil (1967) who succeeds Sir David as Chairman; and we wish him a long and successful tenure. A broad range of Alumni Events were organised during the year. The annual Christ Church Association Dinner, in the Autumn of 2014, had a distinctly musical flavour: guests were treated to a performance by the acclaimed The English Concert (alongside the Cathedral Choir), with performances interspersed between dinner courses in Hall. Gaudies for 1987-90 and 1991-93 matriculands, were held in October (2014) and June (2015) respectively, the latter in a marquee in the Masters’ Garden because of ongoing work on the Hall roof. These were in addition to the normal 50 year out reunion, on this occasion for Members coming up in 1965, and the Board of Benefactors’ Gaudy for qualifying Members and their guests. Outside Oxford, various events took place in London: an Autumn reception for recently-left alumni was held at The Fentiman Arms, Vauxhall. In December, Members and friends enjoyed the Cathedral Choir’s annual concert of Christmas music at St John’s Smith Square. We are grateful to members who have organised events on behalf of the Association, namely this year, Catherine Blaiklock (1981) for the annual Norfolk Lunch, at her home, and His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch (1972) inviting Members, families and friends of the House to a splendid day out at Boughton House, Northamptonshire. There were two overseas visits to introduce the Dean to Members of the House. In Hong Kong/ Singapore he was accompanied by the Treasurer and attended receptions kindly hosted by Marc Harvey

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(1987), Tim Beardson (1970), and Anurag Das (1990). In New York, the Dean and members of the Development Office were kindly hosted at two further receptions by Samuel Robinson (1991) and Bill Broadbent. During the University Alumni weekend in Vienna in April 2015 the House held a traditional dinner for over 20 people. Alongside events for alumni, members of the Family Programme (for parents) received a warm welcome from the new Dean at a Tea Party in Hall (October 2014). Many also attended the Christmas Drinks Reception in November and – by kind invitation of the Dean – a Summer Drinks Reception in the Deanery garden. There were also opportunities for those with an interest in sport: Members and friends supported House crews at Torpids and Eights, at the Head of the Charles in Boston, and also gathered at Henley Royal Regatta in July. Meanwhile fans of rugby cheered on the Dark Blues at Twickenham for the Varsity Match in December 2014. The Development Office saw one staffing change as the Alumni Relations Officer’s baton was passed from Leia Clancy to Dr Anna Port (née Burson) (2002). Marek Kwiatkowski Development Director

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THE LIBRARY

This academic year in the Library was at its end overshadowed by the untimely death of Janet McMullin, Senior Assistant Librarian, on 12th September 2015. The Library lost a dear and loyal friend as well as a tremendous source of institutional knowledge, as Janet had been at Christ Church for nearly 25 years. The Library staff have coped with tremendous resilience with the practical consequences of this sad event and the Librarian is very grateful to them, and to Judith Curthoys, our Archivist, for taking over management of the Library until Michaelmas 2016. Alongside her other duties, Janet had spent some further time this year compiling a handlist of the ‘Alice’ material for which she had a particular fondness and on which she was an expert, and we have made plans to have this work completed in her memory. The Library staff spent a lot of time trying to make the space and collections in the Lower Library work more effectively for undergraduate and graduate readers. Rachel Pilgrim was on maternity leave September to September, but Lauran Richards and Angela Edward in Reader Services, with the support of Elizabeth Piper, have achieved a great deal. In response to a reader survey from Trinity Term 2014, various steps were swiftly taken, such as creating cubby holes to prevent students ‘nesting’ and monopolising valuable desk space, and providing approved water bottles to readers. Consultations on space planning on a bigger scale took place this academic year and are now being taken forward, and the possibility of 24-hour opening is also being explored, despite the practical difficulties of making this work in a listed building. It is hoped that new seating and lighting and a better arrangement of space will be in place in the next two or three years. The working collection in the Lower Library has also been reorganised to make it simpler to find material, and to create space for newer books. As ever, every effort has been made to gather up reading lists and to ensure that the Library contains as many and as up-to-date books as possible as needed by undergraduates and graduates. The team hopes that the rationalisation will lead to a re-classification in line with other libraries. 156 external readers visited the Library this year, which is a small reduction on 2013-14 figures, but the drop can partially be accounted for by the Driberg papers moving to the archive. Our annual statistics

37 show 3815 visitors to the Upper library in 2014-2015. A large number of workshops, classes, talks and special events have been organised in the Upper Library, as well as exhibitions. The latter were curated by Dr Cristina Neagu in collaboration variously with Dr Thomas Mannack, Dr Claudia Wagner, Nicholas Stogdon, Michael Phillips, Edward Wakeling and Dr Allan Chapman, and included: Alice Liddell's Drawings and Watercolours (Summer 2014); The Ecclesiastical Antiquarian: Ancient and Modern Coins in the Collection of Archbishop Wake (Hilary 2015); Copper Impressions: Printmakers & Publishing in the 18th Century (Trinity 2015) and The Other Side of the Lens: Lewis Carroll and the Art of Photography in the 19th Century (Summer 2015). The team working on special collections-related projects has grown this year. Cataloguing the Hebrew collections of early printed books and manuscripts began in April 2015, and for this project the Library has been the fortunate beneficiary of important grants from the Rothschild and Marc Polonsky Foundations. The team directly involved in the study of the Hebrew collection consists of Dr Rahel Fronda and Sabine Arndt, and many other Hebrew specialists have regularly been consulted, including Dr César Merchant-Harmann and Jeremy Pfeffer. In order to assist Dr Neagu in dealing with the large number of photographic orders, Alina Nachescu’s hours were increased to 16 per week from August 2015, in part through the generosity of a Mr Robert Ronus. With Alina’s help, the photographic orders have been fulfilled more rapidly. Some projects have been finalized, such as the conservation of the manuscript scores collection, which was made possible by an award from the National Manuscript Conservation Trust and the work of specialist conservators from the Oxford Conservation Consortium. The Western Medieval and Renaissance MSS Catalogue, edited by Dr David Rundle and Prof Ralph Hanna, is nearing completion and will be submitted for publication early in 2016. David Stumpp has continued the cataloguing of our early printed book collections. As ever, we are deeply grateful to Mr Robert Ronus for his generous support with this important project (and with manuscript digitization). Dave has principally worked this year on pamphlets related to the civil wars. He spent part of the year researching a work-in-progress version of ‘The Excommunication of Paradice’, a pamphlet published in 1647 by the self-declared prophetess

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Lady Eleanor Douglas and previously known only in its final form. He has also discovered a significant folder dedicated to the 18th century controversy surrounding the Vinerian Professorship of English law, including one item previously entirely unknown. The manuscript digitization project (involving Dr Cristina Neagu, Alina Nachescu, Lynda Sayce, John Barrett and the collaboration of the Bodleian Library) is progressing at full speed. Hundreds more pre-1800 books and manuscripts have become available online either in the form of detailed bibliographic records or electronic copies. As far as the latter are concerned, we are now able to provide a viewing environment of digitized images for a selection of very important manuscripts. At the moment these include the Epistolary commissioned by Thomas Wolsey (MS 101); the Ordinances of the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception, an illuminated manuscript depicting King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York in prayer, by a French scribe (MS 179); Walter de Milemete’s De Nobilitatibus, Sapientiis, et Prudentiis Regum (MS 92); an endlessly exquisite calligraphic manuscript by Esther Inglis for Queen Elizabeth I (MS 180); a ninth century Byzantine chorography (MS 5); a unique seventeenth century Hebrew manuscript containing three opinions on the question whether the children of the secret Jews in Portugal born of Christian women have the same rights in the Jewish world as the Jews themselves (MS 199); an early copy of a famous correspondence between the head of the Jewish community in Cordova, Spain and the king of the Khazars - originally written around the year 960 (MS 193); a rare sixteenth century ‘table book’ containing antiphons, etc. and experimenting with an ingenious format (MS 45); the oldest extant copy of William Byrd’s Mass for 3, 4 and 5 voices (Mus 489-493); five partbooks copied and formerly owned by John Baldwin (c.1575-81) (Mus 979-983); and Robert Dow’s partbooks, copied in Oxford around 1580 (Mus 984-988). These sets rank among the most beautiful of all Tudor music manuscripts, and are also an important and authoritative source for the works they contain. Featured composers include William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Robert White, Robert Parsons, Philip van Wilder and Alfonso Ferrabosco Sr. The fully digitized manuscripts are now available under 'Digital Library', on the library pages of the college website (http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/library- and-archives/digital-library). More manuscripts are being finalized and will become available during the next academic year. Dr Anna Clark

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THE PICTURE GALLERY

Christ Church and the Picture Gallery celebrated the 250th anniversary of General John Guise’s art bequest this year – the extraordinary art benefaction of almost 2,000 drawings and 200 paintings. The celebrations led to an increased awareness of the Picture Gallery and its collection, leading to a rise in visitor numbers. It also brought to the surface people’s openly expressed support and interest for the gallery; an interest and support that is unfailing and once again demonstrates the national and international importance of our old master collection. In this anniversary year it manifested itself in the 250 cards we received for our 250 Reasons for 250 Years display: a wall with 250 cards from people of all ages and wakes of life expressing why we should have and treasure our museums, collectors and the art in it. The comments ranged from congratulations for making art accessible to the public for almost 250 years, from the Tate’s general director Nicholas Serota, to Oscar Frost, a teenager’s response saying, “Art is important to me because it brings people together from all backgrounds and all ethical beliefs”. Other stations in our celebratory year were a series of concerts, in collaboration with the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments in June, for which the Bate Collection lent us a copy of an eighteenth century harpsichord and the popular anniversary talk ‘In the Light of Raphael’ in November, given by Prof Arnold Nesselrath from the Vatican Museum. Furthermore, the Picture Gallery’s exhibition programme brought out some of our most celebrated works. Our drawings exhibitions began with Raphael’s legacy and Italian design in the 16th century (12 February to 25 May 2015), continued with Undisputed Masterpieces: General John Guise’s Swans - Leonardo, Michelangelo, Titian (3 June to 5 October 2015) and finished with Printing Ideas and Ideas for Printing: Select examples of Venetian printing culture (23 October - 15 February 2016). The latter show coincided with an outstanding exhibition of Venetian drawings at the Ashmolean Museum, to which we contributed fifteen objects from our own collection (see below) and an essay for the exhibition catalogue on Guise and his interest in Venetian drawings.

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A number of smaller displays focused on individual works in our collection or highlighted the celebratory mood of the year. During the renovation of the Hall, we took down the portrait of Cardinal Wolsey, cleaned it and displayed it in the Picture Gallery in an in-focus show called, Up close and personal – a portrait of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (19 March to 31 May 2015). Then there was the already mentioned, 250 Reasons for 250 Years (12 June 2015 – 31 January 2016) and keeping with the theme of Venice prevailing in Oxford in the autumn of 2015, another gem-like exhibition, A View of Venice: An exploration of a rare and unknown panorama of Venice from the late 16th century (23 October – 8 February 2016). It concentrated on our newly cleaned and relined Panorama of Venice from 1580. The painting had not been on display in the Picture Gallery for the last twenty years and this was an ideal opportunity to explore this rare cityscape up close. In 2015 we contributed to fewer exhibitions with loans, as we wanted to keep the works in Oxford for the 250th anniversary celebrations. Still, one small panel of Christ crowned with Thorns (Schmerzensmann) by a Follower of Sandro Botticelli, travelled to the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin for their exhibition The Botticelli Renaissance (25 September 2015 to 24 January 2016). By far one of our most generous loan contributions in recent years went to the Ashmolean Museum. Our two Ridolfi albums, one drawings portfolio and twelve of our most treasured Venetian drawings (Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto, Bassano, Veronese et al) were shown in Titian to Canaletto: Drawing in Venice (15 October 2015 to 10 January 2016). One of the major functions of museums, galleries and historic sites is the preservation of their collections for future generations. In order to boost this mindset we organised an enjoyable one-day conservation and conservation housekeeping course for the Picture Gallery staff and interested scouts. Christopher Powell from Virtue Conservation was a most engaging and entertaining teacher. The frame survey by Tim Newbery has been finished and we are now embarking on detailed research on a group of exceptional eighteenth century French frames. As is to be expected, the collection is also rich on original British frames, which still surround the paintings they were intended for – especially among our portrait collection. We have identified a number of frames which would benefit from some conservation work, which will carried out over the next years.

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In June and October 2015 we X-rayed ten of our paintings. This was done in the Picture Gallery with a mobile X-ray unit. No extraordinary findings were made, but we could ascertain that there were no repairs in the chest of the portrait of Francis Bernard, by John Singleton Copley. Bernard’s policies, while governor of Massachusetts, had enraged the colonists and it is known that a portrait of him, then at Harvard, had fallen victim to iconoclasm in 1769, when students cut out Bernard’s “heart”. It had been suspected that our painting might have been the one, but with the x-ray images we could establish that ours was not the portrait that had been attacked. As usual our loans were carefully prepared before we allowed them to leave Christ Church. In this we were helped by our paper conservator Kate Colleran and the Ashmolean’s paintings conservator Jevon Thistlewood. Ruth Bubb and her team worked on the View of Venice (see above). The portrait of Cardinal Wolsey was cleaned and conservation framed, by Sara Stoll. There remain just a few other things for report. The gallery had to be closed for a couple of weeks in autumn for the installation of a fire curtain. The testing project alerted us to a number of forthcoming building challenges. In February 2015 a new Curatorial Assistant, Hannah Lyons, started her three year curatorial traineeship at the Picture Gallery. David Wilson, the first incumbent in this post, came to the end of his tenure. He took up a new role as collections officer at the RAF Museum in London. Three new part-time invigilators were appointed in spring: Helen Frost, Alice Narramore and Lucy Hudson. They take over from Mrs Johanna Triffit and Ms Martina Vescera, who have moved away from Oxford and John Whitehead who wished to pursue a career as a historian. Our splendid volunteers from the Ashmolean Education department are still helping with our regular Monday guided tours and with many other pre-booked group bookings. The Curator of the Picture Gallery, on an initiative by the Master of Campion Hall, collaborated on talks about art and theology in front of paintings in different venues all over Oxford. The first set of talks took place in Holy Week, From Darkness into Light: An Artistic Pilgrimage through Holy Week (1 April to 5 April), during which the Dean and the Curator of the Picture Gallery discussed Jacopo Bassano’s late painting

42 of the Mocking of Christ in the Picture Gallery. The success of the series encouraged us to adapt the format for Christmas, Heaven & Earth in Little Space (28 November to 12 December 2015). The Picture Gallery teamed up with Magdalen College School for their Arts Festival with a number of events; from curator-led tours to a nature and art drawing course in the gallery and the Christ Church gardens, led by the Curator of the Picture Gallery, the Head Gardener and the Arts Tutor. The Picture Gallery increased its social media efforts with Twitter (@ChChGallery) and Facebook and can report raising numbers of followers. Research and teaching are ongoing, scholars, curators, collectors and students regularly visit the Picture Gallery to study paintings and drawings not normally on show and under supervision. Peter Pulzer wrote on the card he gave to the gallery for the 250th anniversary – ‘Work sustains, Art enriches’ – and it is this enrichment that allows ideas to become truly creative and intelligent and makes Oxford one of the leading universities in the world. Benefactors like General John Guise know this and their gifts encourage bold creative thinking and the development of the ‘extra dimension’ in people’s personalities. Jacqueline Thalmann (Curator of the Picture Gallery)

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THE STEWARD’S DEPARTMENT

The optimism expressed in last year’s report that the Great Hall would be ready for use by the end of Hilary term 2015 proved to be unfounded. Unforeseen problems emerged in the roofing timbers. The delay required the rearrangement of junior member meals, the Summer Gaudy and many of our commercial events. Nevertheless we coped well, and my sincere thanks go to all the staff who tirelessly and without complaint managed the situation with aplomb. Our special interest weekend on Jane Austen in Oxford was a great success and this was followed by a very hectic summer conference season. Visitor tours and Mad Hatter’s Tea Party events continue to be popular. We also introduced an exclusive event suitable for up to ten guests: The Chef’s Table, which was advertised to old members. It quickly sold out, and a group of old members and their partners enjoyed fine food and wines in the Wolsey Kitchen. We plan a repeat later this year. There are exciting events in the offing. This year’s special interest weekend on William Shakespeare: The History Plays from Page to Stage will mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death. It will take place between 31 March and 3 April, and is already sold out. The programme for the special interest weekend on 23-26 March, 2017 on Royalty and the Reformation is near completion. If you would like to take part in Royalty and the Reformation, or book a place on one of our Mad Hatter’s Tea Party events, then please go to the Christ Church website for further details and on-line booking: www.chch.ox.ac.uk; or, if you prefer, please contact Emma Seward by telephone 01865 286848, or email: [email protected]. Emma will be delighted to take your booking over the telephone or to send you a copy of the details by post. This year has seen a number of comings and goings amongst the staff whose contribution to the life of Christ Church is so vital. Retirements this year have included: the House Manager, Lyn Palmer; Custodians Wilbert Barry and Ron Watson; Buttery Assistant Cyril Watts; Liddell Manager, Frank Butler; Senior Scout, Mo Aldridge and Staircase Scout Lorraine Harvey. We thank them all most warmly for

44 their dedicated service to the House and we wish them long and happy retirements. We also said farewell to Senior Custodian Marianna Brazda, Assistant Hall Manager Krzysztof Meckien, to Scout Justyna Skorupinska and to Junior Sous-Chef Adam Whitehead. We say goodbye to two apprentices, Dominic Slee and Abbey Hawkins. We thank them all for their personal contributions to the House and we wish them well in their future endeavours. Should you wish to book accommodation at the House during the Easter or summer vacations then please go to the Christ Church website www.chch.ox.ac.uk or contact Emma Seward or Haley Greenhough in the Conference office: [email protected] or telephone: 01865 286848. Pauline Linières-Hartley The Steward

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THE TREASURY The Endowment 2015 proved a good year for the Endowment. In the 12 months to 31 July 2015, the House’s year end, the value of the Endowment increased by £57m to £421m after paying £10.7m to support the House’s operations. The directly held property portfolio increased in value by £21m reflecting, in particular, the sale of 125-year leases on the Island and Jam Factory sites in Oxford’s West End to Nuffield College. We also benefited from a return of £20m by the Oxford Endowment Fund (OEF), managed by Oxford University Endowment Management, which represents 40% of the Endowment. As directly held property has been sold, we have developed relationships with two or three smaller property managers to manage bespoke portfolios for the House in residential and commercial property. The sale of a block of flats in Stratford East, in which the House held a 30% interest, was the principal source of a £6m total return from those investments. We continue to purchase rural property directly with an eye to developing the land in the medium term. In December, we bought a 17% direct interest in Fawley Waterside, a redundant power station on the Solent, which may yield development profits over the medium term. During the summer we retained the services of an Economics DPhil candidate to prepare an estimate of the Endowment’s time weighted returns since 2002/03 when we adopted an arm’s length valuation for all our investments. Over the period to 31 July 2015, the Endowment has generated a total return of £305m whilst providing £108m to support operations. The average annual return has compounded at 9% nominal or in excess of 6% real with direct property achieving 12% nominal or £142m. OEF, in which we have been invested since January 2009, has produced an average annual return of 10% nominal or £77m. Set out below are the performance numbers which the research project produced:

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The latter part of 2015 saw increased volatility in markets. However, the value of the Endowment has remained broadly constant, reaffirming the importance of a diversified portfolio. As mentioned last year, the House’s land at Carterton in North Oxfordshire has received planning permission for the building of 700 homes, which should lead to a significant capital gain in calendar 2016. Whilst at the time of writing the economic vista remains cloudy, further potential development opportunities in the directly held portfolio hold out the prospect of returns significantly above inflation.

Income & Expenditure Governing Body maintains a strict conceptual differentiation between the Endowment, which is in effect an annuity fund, and ‘Corporate’, which carries out the day-to-day operations of the institution. To the extent that Corporate’s expenditure exceeds its income, including the subvention from the Endowment, the resultant loan from the Endowment incurs a 7% interest charge reflecting the perceived opportunity cost to the Endowment. As a result, there is considerable pressure to reduce such loans and Governing Body targets an annual net surplus of £0.5m. During 2014/15, Corporate generated a net

47 surplus of £0.6m thereby reducing the cumulative deficit to £2.5m, represented by a small cumulative surplus on operations and Corporate’s interests in shared-equity properties, valued at cost, of £2.5m. The main feature of the year was the negative impact of the repairs to the Hall roof. Visitor income fell £0.4m as a result of the closure of the Hall and we spent an unbudgeted £0.7m on the emergency repairs. Fortunately, it was possible to absorb these additional costs, principally by delaying other building works, and achieve the net surplus already referred to.

Building Works The next major project is the refurbishment of Peckwater Quad. Sensitively conceived to improve the building without altering its essential personality, the project is intended to be handled in three phases, one wing at a time. The first staircases, 6, 7 and 8, are being renovated in the 2015/16 academic year. The works include a new roof and insulation, fire-stopping, new electrics, gas central heating, draught stripping and refurbishing the windows, and en suite bathrooms on the top floor. The project was delayed by adverse weather preventing the erection of the temporary roof and by the discovery of unidentified asbestos once the building was stripped out, but the eventual result will ensure that this much loved building will be a more comfortable, energy efficient and safer place for our undergraduates for decades to come. 2015 was a very busy year for the Treasury team and I would like to pay tribute to their hard work in ensuring a successful outcome, both in financial and physical terms. Particular credit should go to the House Surveyor, Jon Down, who worked tirelessly to ensure that the work to the Hall roof was carried out to the highest possible standard and to limit, as much as possible, the inevitable disruption. He was ably supported by the new Clerk of Works, Keith Aldridge, whose appointment was confirmed in March following his many years’ service as Assistant Clerk of Works. Tribute should also go to Keith Stratford, the College Accountant, whose calm management ensures that the accounts and budgets have been prepared with the minimum of fuss. Last, I would like to mention the sad loss in December of the ‘Assistant Treasurer’, Fred, our West Highland Terrier who spent many hours in the Treasury during my first decade at Christ Church, paying

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TUTOR FOR ADMISSIONS

Let me start with the good news. For the first time in the history of Christ Church, more females (84) than males (71) won offers. We had been having a problem attracting female applicants. This persistent gender inequality has meant that, amongst other things, we’d been failing to attract the best possible pool. Was this year’s encouraging turn a fluke or the beginning of a more balanced trend? Watch this space. A second piece of good news is about IntoUniversity Oxford Southeast, a local learning centre for which we are founding partners. They’ve had an extraordinarily successful first cycle. 74% of school leaver IntoUniversity students progressed to higher education in 2015. Compare this to a higher education participation rate for Oxfordshire of 46%, and for Blackbird Leys, where the centre is located, of 7.5%! We’ve hosted many events in college for the students of the centre throughout the year and we provide student and staff volunteers. (The bus service to Blackbird Leys is excellent.) Widening access to Oxford and widening participation in higher education more generally is hard work. We feel supremely fortunate to be linked up with such a fantastically effective charity. Our own outreach activity is more robust than ever, and this is the third piece of good news. Our full-time Access and Outreach Officer, Hannah Wilbourne, has organised 121 events with 374 schools in the last academic year, reaching over 6000 students. This year we hosted our second annual ‘PPE Women’s Day’ to encourage more females to apply to this male-dominated degree, in addition to a ‘taster day’ for Geography. We have hosted and supported two prominent University access programmes – UNIQ and Pathways. In addition to IntoUniversity, we are developing another external initiative with The Brilliant Club. Hannah drives and organises all these efforts with remarkable agility. But it must also be said that the heavy lift here is genuinely collective: without the access representatives of the JCR, the student ambassadors, and some motivated senior members, we wouldn’t be able to do nearly as much. The not so good news? These are extremely uncertain times for young people who are considering whether to pursue higher education, much less apply to Christ Church. Tuition fees have trebled since 2012. English students now face some of the highest tuitions fees in the world, and the highest average debts at graduation. The government is

50 poised to lift the cap on fees even higher when they (in all likelihood) introduce a new university assessment exercise, the so-called ‘Teaching Excellence Framework’. And in a surprise move by the Treasury, maintenance grants for living expenses will be replaced by maintenance loans, as of Autumn 2016. This all makes our job – attracting the best and the brightest applicants no matter what their background – more challenging indeed. As if we didn’t have enough problems with a media landscape keen to name and shame a “grand old Oxford college”, often quite unfairly. What is to be done? We must bolster our efforts. We must experiment more to find out what works best. We must deploy our resources however and wherever we can. Only then might Christ Church appear as it is: an academically serious college that welcomes young people based solely on their academic potential. Professor Joseph Schear Tutor for Admissions

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Our Common Room continues to flourish, as one of the warmest and most welcoming societies in Oxford. Of course, that flourishing is, in part, due to the splendour of Christ Church and the excellence of our staff. However, the conviviality of the Common Room, the lively attendance at its events and the eagerness of new Members to learn its traditions also owes much to the dedicated example of Members such as Brian Young, Katya Andreyev, Chris Pelling, Ralph Williamson and Kit Yates, who, in addition to their warmth and wisdom, have liberally given of their time to serve on the Common Room Committee. In 2015, Kit Yates took up a post at the University of Bath, Ralph Williamson was collated and inducted as Vicar of St Peter’s Eaton Square and Chris Pelling and Katya Andreyev (a former Deputy Curator) retired to become Emeritus Students. The Common Room is very much the richer for their contributions. The Common Room is particularly indebted to Brian Young, who has presided as Curator since 2012 with quiet efficiency, authority and care. Brian exchanged Curatorship for Censorship in August, and Christ Church can be confident that he will bring to his new role keen insight and an evener keener sense of humour. SCR Butler Trevor Jones began his career in the House as a ‘Senior Common Room Assistant’ in August 1975, and remains a reliable constant in our common life, faithful in his duties and expert in his knowledge of Common Room tradition. When, in October, Trevor accepted our invitation to dinner in recognition and celebration of forty years’ loyal and distinguished service, High Table overflowed with current and former Members, all conveying their sincere appreciation and their warm good wishes for Trevor’s continuing role in Common Room and in Christ Church. The Common Room also congratulates Assistant Butler Sandra Nowacka, whose son Fabian was born just before Christmas, and welcomes Mrs Iffat Hussein to the staff while Sandra is on maternity leave. Building repairs are another constant in college life, and the Common Room this year negotiated restoration of the Hall roof and refurbishment of the Butler’s Pantry. The consequential disruption did nothing to diminish enthusiasm for the Common Room’s annual series of events, as exemplified by the pleasing turnout at the newest addition to our calendar, a termly Fellows’ and Lecturers’ Evening. Karl

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Sternberg’s February After-Dinner Talk, ‘Nine Lessons from the 2007 Crisis’, was well matched by carols – almost – in Martin Grossel’s November presentation on Havergal Brian, ‘An Unknown (Musical) Warrior’, and Bihani Sarkar’s performance of classical Indian song at informal dessert for St Cecilia’s Day. These engaging, informative and moving events attest to the breadth of expertise and depth of talent in our community. The November Common Room meeting concerned itself with customary minutiae regarding periodicals, as well as constitutional matters relating to membership, but reserved its most concerted debate for the new Curator’s trial of a different arrangement of furniture in the (Old) Common Room. The animated but characteristically amiable discussion recalled the minute of a Common Room meeting in November 1977: ‘There was a long discussion of the future of the relics of the retardist taste of the 1960s, i.e. the carpet, chandelier and linoleum. The Curator said he was against keeping them all, in varying degrees.’ I claim to emulate neither John Mason’s vehement views about décor nor his witty and elegant style of recording but I do share the genuine appreciation evident in his minute books for the privilege and pleasure of serving as Curator, and I am particularly fortunate to do so alongside Deputy Curator Kevin McGerty. Dr Benjamin Spagnolo Curator of Common Room

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GRADUATE COMMON ROOM

Compared to Christ Church’s founding in the 16th Century, the Graduate Common Room (GCR) is still in its youth. Dr Paul Kent founded the GCR in 1960; his portrait is hung in the Les Jones dining room to keep an eye on GCR Members and happenings. Even given its relatively recent conception, it is the second oldest common room for graduates in Oxford. Since its founding, the GCR has been an active and ever-strengthening graduate community in Christ Church. This past year is no exception and we have been working hard to build on the work of previous GCR Committees and adapt to remain a community that we are proud to be a part of. The uniqueness of Christ Church and its traditions are no exception when comparing the GCR with other graduate – or the usually named “middle” common rooms. Not least for its history and famous former residents. The rooms of the GCR themselves were occupied by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) while he wrote about Alice’s adventures in Wonderland. Albert Einstein once stayed in the rooms as a research fellow at the college. Situated in the corner of Tom Quad, the GCR provides the location for our memorable events and the social centre for graduate life at Christ Church. Inclusivity, happiness, and welfare of all GCR Members are the values Kathrin Jansen (Vice President), Emily Seward (Treasurer), and I have prioritised during our term as the GCR Executive Committee (Exec). Since the admission of women to Christ Church in 1980, we are proud to have been the first all female Exec. As our time overseeing the running of the GCR comes to an end, it is a good moment to reflect on the GCR’s achievements over the last year. In an effort to raise awareness of issues facing the graduate community at Christ Church and university wide, the GCR ran interactive workshops to address problems that we as a collective feel are important. For the first time we ran Racism Awareness Workshops for all the graduates. For the second year running we successfully ran Sexual Consent Workshops. In addition to these, this year was a first for Christ Church as a whole - in collaboration with the Junior Common Room (JCR) and with support from College, the LGBT flag flew for the whole of LGBT History Month (February). Following this successful trial, we hope to continue this tradition in subsequent years. This simple gesture has helped to support the LGBTQ+ members of

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Christ Church and to raise awareness of issues facing the community as a whole. This academic year started with a whole month of Fresher’s events to welcome new graduates to the GCR. This momentous effort included a huge range of activities to ensure everyone felt welcomed and got to know each other. As part of the year’s programme, we successfully continued the College “families”, pairing up current and new students to help everyone settle in smoothly. We also continued the GCR favourites such as after dinner cake, an annual Eurovision screening, games nights, movie nights, welfare teas, guest nights, exchange dinners with other colleges, pool tournaments, whisky tastings, cultural outings, bops, and much more. The hard working GCR Committee volunteer their time to put all of these events on to make the GCR a thriving and supportive community. As well as the GCR classics, we have been working to adapt to the current members and have started up new events in order to put on a wider variety of entertainment to keep the graduates involved. This term saw the introduction of after dinner talks, where two GCR Members give a 20-minute talk on their subject with port provided. These have been hugely successful and well-attended evenings that take advantage of the diverse range of knowledge and backgrounds we are proud to host in the GCR. Efforts have been made to include those GCR Members with children by working to ensure attending Hall is more accessible, and we have hosted family friendly events. Some notable achievements over the last year include the Christ Church Women’s 1 rowing team achieving blades at Torpids, bumping every day of the races. The team then went onto be named the fastest collegiate women’s crew in Oxford and they topped off their run of success by winning the Women’s College Race against Cambridge at the Henley Boat Races. Many GCR Members were in the boat including the GCR Vice President. Along with this sporting success, students at Christ Church also won the coveted prize of 100 tubs of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream! Through the work of the Environment Officers of both the GCR and JCR, Christ Church had the highest number of students that completed a climate quiz out of all Oxford colleges. This quiz and prize was part of the Student Switch-Off campaign, an international campaign to encourage students to save energy. A lot of the work put into running the GCR is behind the scenes, many hours of the committee members’ time are spent on ensuring that

55 the GCR runs smoothly, and its members are happy. Some of the less glamorous but extremely important happenings over the last year include a complete review and update of the GCR constitution and statutes. We are also pleased to announce that the GCR now has a new website. The GCR has seen two major clear outs over the past year, which along with a lot of junk, we uncovered a letter dating back to the 1950’s and a long missing, quite valuable print which is now back on display. As the graduates of Christ Church, it is our hope to continue to strengthen our ties with the other common rooms of the college. We have worked closely with the JCR over the last year to host joint events and continue our successful collaboration on tackling issues in College. We jointly hosted a summer garden party, a welfare petting zoo, and regular yoga classes. We continue to work towards holding GCR and Senior Common Room (SCR) intellectual and social events through the work of the SCR Liaison Officer position formed by the previous Exec. The GCR has come a long way since its inception but we continue to grow, adapt, and learn from all of its members. We constantly strive to create an inclusive environment for every graduate at Christ Church to live, work, and have fun in during their time at Oxford. In the ever- changing nature of the GCR, we welcome in the new Exec and committee who we are confident will continue to build upon the efforts of past committees and work towards a bright future for the GCR and its members. I leave my term at President looking forward to continuing life in Christ Church and the GCR community. Laura Prichard GCR President 15/16

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2015 has been yet another exciting and packed year for the undergraduate common room, and I have had the pleasure of experiencing all this and being right in the centre of the action since the summer, when I took over from Louise Revell as JCR President. One certainly can’t begin to capture the absolute smorgasbord of events and activities that members of the JCR have been involved in, or have put on, but over the course of the next few paragraphs I hope to give you a crash course as to what we’ve been up to in 2015, and how things are looking for the new year. Our year began with the extremely tragic news of the death of James Trickey, an old member of the House who graduated in 2013, in a road accident in late December 2014. The JCR were inspired by his passions for cycling and fundraising – James raised over £1000 for the Stroke Association in 2012 over a three-week, 1900-mile cycle ride from his home in Cheltenham to Brindisi, Italy – and so we held a 10km run in his memory which raised over £2500 for the Stroke Association. Many members of the House came down to the meadow to either run or support those who were, and the occasion was very poignant and special. Next February 2016, there are plans to hold a memorial concert to celebrate some of the many musical works James wrote during his time as a chorister. We hope that the James Trickey run will become an annual event to celebrate the life of James, and inspire future generations of students at the House. February saw over one hundred JCR sportsmen and women trek to out sister college in “the other place” (Cambridge) to take part in the yearly sporting rivalry that is the Christ Church-Trinity Exchange. Although none of our teams were victorious, Trinity showed themselves up when they failed to provide our members with a meal in their hall, and instead ordered us all pizza; I like to think this makes us the real champions. Nevertheless, we all very much look forward to inviting Trinity college back to Oxford in 2016, with the promise of even more sporting events, even greater college participation, and another chance “shoe the tabs”! Our beloved college tortoise, Sampras, awoke in April. In true Christ Church fashion, we held a party in celebration of this, complete with lambrini and even a shark fin ‘cozy’ flown in from Canada. Sampras was not the only one to have a party in the Master’s Garden –

57 we ended Trinity Term with a joint garden party with the graduates of the GCR, complete with pimms, sandwiches and strawberries, garden games and badminton. Despite the odd drizzle (there was quite a lot of rain), it was lovely to see the junior members socialising between common rooms, and there were even rare sightings of finalists, despite being Trinity Term. Over the summer vacation, when the quads emptied and students returned home, the new JCR committee set to work to prepare for the new academic year. We designed a new JCR website with up-to-date information, and a welfare handbook to distribute to the freshers that contained important information and contacts in college and the wider university. Furthermore, our access reps helped run three open days over the summer, and were helped as ever by a host of enthusiastic JCR volunteers. In October we welcomed over 130 freshers to the JCR, and had a packed freshers week. In addition to the sexual consent workshops introduced last year, we also ran racism workshops. For the first time we created college stash – sweatshirts with the Christ Church coat of arms on them – and these were very popular. Freshers week also included a live band in the Masters’ Garden, exploration of the night life, and ended with our first Bop of the academic year. The freshers have been very activate and have integrated right into our community. In terms of sports, we had a freshers’ week event that recruited over 140 freshers and older years to represent college teams over Michaelmas term. This culminated with a ‘Santa Dinner’ whereby all those who participated celebrated by dressing up as Santa and going for a meal out! Furthermore, a group of ten freshers wrote and performed a play – ‘The Will of Lady Summers’ – which won drama cuppers, the intercollegiate drama competition, as well as winning awards for best supporting actor and best new writing. Over the Christmas period we had another successful admissions and interviews round, with over thirty JCR volunteers staying behind after term ended to help. Our access reps also ran ten access events this Michaelmas term. Moreover, in addition to the introduction of a new levy to support refugee students wishing to attend Oxford University, ten JCR members flew out to Kos, a Greek island, to aid with the refugee efforts there.

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Looking to the new year, preparations will be underway for our next Commemoration Ball in 2017, and we look forward to seeing what that will bring. Finally, in celebration of LGBT History Month in February 2016, the JCR will be hoisting the LGBTQ+ flag on our very own temporary flagpole in Peck Quad for the first time in Christ Church history. It has been an absolute honour and delight to see the enthusiasm of so many Christ Church students over the last year, and in particular, in Michaelmas term with the new intake. As I go through old emails and updates to write this, I am reminded of just how much has gone on this last year, and just how far we have come since 2014. In particular, the JCR committee have played a central role in this, and I am very grateful to each and every member for their support and commitment to making studying and living at Christ Church the incredible experience it is! 2015, it’s been a blast, and I look forward to seeing what 2016 will bring for the undergraduates here at Christ Church. With best wishes from the JCR, Luke Cave JCR President 2015/16

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THE CHRISTOPHER TOWER POETRY PRIZE

The 2015 theme of Cells was judged by poets Ian McMillan and Helen Mort (a Tower Poetry winner herself in 2004), along with Peter McDonald. They considered 727 entries from British schools and colleges.

The 2015 winner was Isla Anderson of Woldingham School, Surry, with her entry entitled ‘The Forensics of Salt-Licking’. The runners-up were Max Thomas, of Hampton School, Middlesex, and Lewis Harrington from Wilson’s School, Wallington, Surrey.

THE FORENSICS OF SALT-LICKING

Poem, this. Laboratory. Strip -lit, search-lit, clean. Fluorescence shuttering the tremor of it all – the blur of all these fingertips, adrenalin as refugee. Circulating, curdling the blood; receptorless, and never where I needed it to thrash. Him, hook. Him twenty-something, liquor tongued and warm; him hand past the ladies’ toilets, out beneath the Kapok, silted feet. Baby let me show you something, yeah? Gospel, this. My stumble-drunk consent, my false sixteen. Body just. Saying so what if it happens here like this? Brush my teeth. Forget his slow mastectomy smile – years on, try to swab him from the lining of my cheeks,

60 to magnify. On the glass, it seems his cells remain like salt-lick in my mouth; put in focus, all that’s left is gutted lime.

The 2015 prizegiving was held during a lunchtime reception in the McKenna Room on 20 April attended by, amongst many others, the Lord Mayor of Oxford, Councillor Mohammed Abbasi, and the Deputy Lieutenant and Director of the Story Museum, Oxford, Ms Tish Francis. This was followed in the evening by a well-attended poetry reading from Helen Mort and Frances Leviston in the Crown, in association with the Woodstock Bookshop.

A newly redesigned and responsive website for Tower Poetry was launched in July where a lecture given by Peter McDonald, Director of Tower Poetry, at Christ Church to mark the 2015 relaunch of PN Review, on 27 November can be found as a podcast.

The anthology Something to be Said (edited by Jane Griffiths and David Wheatley, the tutors for the 2014 Summer School) was published and launched on 14 October at the Albion Beatnik Bookshop, Jericho, Oxford by kind permission of Dennis Harrison (Old Member).

Copies of the 2015 booklet of winning poems, as well as all our publications, are available from the Christopher Tower Poetry Prize office. Full details of Tower activities are to be found at http://towerpoetry.org.uk.

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SPORTS CLUBS

FOOTBALL After picking up our first win for over a year in the last match of 2014, the Christ Church football team gathered momentum throughout 2015. The first two matches of the year saw 2-0 and 5-0 wins to move the team off the foot of the table where it had been positioned for much of the previous 2 years. Despite a couple of poor results following this, the season finished strongly with 2 draws against Oriel and another win for the team against Somerville to finish the season in mid-table. Hilary term also saw two matches against the Old Boys. In the first the Old Boys came out on top 6-3, while the current students won the fixture on Barrie Hearne Day played at Iffley by 2 goals to nil. Both of these games were great events enjoyed by all the current students and we look forward to welcoming the Old Boys back again in 2016. At the end of the season we said farewell to a number of players who had contributed massively over their time with the team. Charlie Bryant, James Spiers, Sabian and Tyler were all key members of the turnaround in fortunes of the team over the season. A special farewell was also said to Niles, ChCh FC legend and Cuppers winner; we all very much look forward to welcoming them all back in the near future! The captaincy also changed hands with George Carter passing the armband to myself. The new league season got off to a promising start with a 4-3 pre- season win over Premier League side Keble. However, the first match of the season proper saw a thumping 8-1 loss against Somerville, bringing the team crashing back down to Earth. A week later we lost our Cuppers tie against Jesus too, unfortunate to lose 3-1 despite being on top for large spells of the game. However, this wasn’t to phase the team as we then went on to win the next 4 matches of 2015; a 3-2 win against Hertford, a 4-3 win against Trinity, a 6-1 hammering of Oriel and a last minute 2-1 win against Corpus. A key factor in these successes was the regular addition of Peder Beck-Friis to our starting line-up along with some good additions from the Freshers, combining well with the strong contingent who had forced the turnaround in fortunes the year before. This led the team to finish the annual year with very realistic promotion hopes for 2016. Matthew Bowen

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MIXED HOCKEY Having only been born in the term before, the Christ Church hockey team were the newest addition to the league, and cautiously proceeded to step into the unknown under the captaincy of Will Vaudry. However, with several opposition teams either failing to arrange games, or failing to show up having actually scheduled some fixtures, Christ Church found it relatively easy to compete for promotion once more. For instance, having made the incredible trek up north to the Dragon School for a game against LMH – a college only a stone’s throw away from the grounds – Christ Church found themselves having to fill in for several of the LMH first team in order for the match to go ahead. When we did play the odd league game, we found them highly spirited affairs. However, with stars such as Rowan and Kieran Vaghela leaving us at the season’s end, and Will hunting for the next academic year’s captain, the future of the team was shrouded in uncertainty. Michaelmas was a term of drastic overhaul. As mentioned, several strong players were forced to leave us behind. Mark Lilley and Will Vaudry began pushing harder than ever for University Blues positions; an achievement all sports players dream of, but an achievement that nevertheless renders college players ineligible for college league matches. Still, there were some promising positives. With some exceptional new recruits to the squad from the influx of freshers, new grad students, even more motivated incumbent Housemen taking part, and also the rapid development of individual players such as Katie Marshall, Jenny Soderman, James Lowe and Ben Ely, Christ Church began striding forward with optimism. Having done such a stellar job from previous seasons, Lupton remained on as social secretary, and, under the captaincy of Jaskaran, the team won its first game against Balliol in dramatic fashion. Unfortunately, a couple of ill-fated thrashings from St. Catz and Hertford left the team having to scramble out of the jaws of relegation, in the final few moments. By unleashing our secret weapon, David Liang, as goalkeeper in times of emergency, the team ended up third in a league of six teams; a remarkable achievement. Although this is a report of 2015, it is worth noting that the hockey team is currently performing stronger than ever, with a 100% win record in 2016. Jaskaran Rajput

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ROWING At the time of writing this, the men and women of Christ Church Boat Club are preparing for Summer VIIs, to take place on 25-28th May. The college has entered three men’s and three women’s crew, and are hoping to continue with the successes achieved so far this year. In October, 2015, an alumni Men’s VIII and a current Women’s coxed IV represented the college at the Head of the Charles in Boston. The event hosts over 11,000 athletes, 1,900 boats and 300,000 spectators, making it one of the largest and most publicised rowing events in the world. The women’s crew rowed a strong race across the 5km course, placing 19th out of 35 boats in their division. The trip was a great success and the best way to prepare for Torpids and Summer VIIIs. Made possible by the generous support of Simon Mungall (1994) and Rob and Susan Spofford in Boston, both crews acquitted themselves well and had a great time. Numerous Old Members turned up to support, despite the cold, and also enjoyed two brunches and a drinks reception. We are hoping to send two crews to Boston again this October, as the trip was a very good way to commence preparations for racing later on in the season. The rowing season started very strongly for the Boat Club. We recruited over 70 novices who competed in Christ Church Regatta in 7th week. Training ran smoothly, with all novices attending erg tests to determine which boat they will row in. Special congratulations to our top boats who made it to the final day races, particularly Women’s A who placed 4th out of over 50 boats. The returning senior rowers also successfully competed in Isis Winter League races throughout both Michaelmas and Hilary Term. 2016 brought bad weather and poor conditions, making water sessions challenging and infrequent. The Club, however, worked hard on land to produce varied results in Torpids. The men fielded three crews, each demonstrating skill and determination. M3 were particularly successful, placing in the top 5 crews in rowing on and remaining at 10th position in Division VI. Unfortunately M2 dropped from position 2 in Division III to position 5 in Division IV, whilst M1 dropped from position 4 to position 6 in Division I. In contrast, the women’s crews triumphed in Torpids. W1 moved up four positions from 8th to 4th in Division I, securing blades. They over-bumped St Edmund’s Hall and St John’s on Wednesday and Thursday, and bumped bookies favourite’s University on Friday and Wadham on

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Saturday. W2 moved up five positions from 10th to 5th in Division V, also securing blades. They bumped Brasenose W3 on Wednesday, Wadham W3 on Thursday, St Anthony’s W2 and Hertford W2 on Friday, and St Catherine’s W2 on Saturday. As the fastest collegiate women's crew in Oxford, the Women’s first crew also qualified to compete against representatives from Cambridge at this year’s Henley Boat Races. They raced on the 19th March against Jesus, Cambridge, winning the race by four lengths. The win proved that determination and dedication is key to success in rowing, and was an excellent way to finish the term. Overall a mixed year, but with hopes to end on a high, and with great performances throughout. A sign of good things to come. Anna Murgatroyd Boat Club President 2015-2016

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SLAVONIC STUDIES AT OXBRIDGE: SOME HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS Robert Evans When Christ Church wished to mark Katya Andreyev’s retirement with an academic event in September 2015, I was gratified to be approached for a talk on some appropriate scholarly topic. My qualifications for this honour were twofold: firstly, close collaboration with Katya during the thirty years since she arrived as a member of the Oxford History faculty ‒ we have been responsible for the history of adjacent terrains, hers Russia, mine central and eastern Europe; secondly, an earlier acquaintance still, as I learned Russian at Cambridge with Katya’s father (and that meant, in Katya’s house!) when she was still quite a young child. In the circumstances, it seemed natural that I should use the occasion to consider the field of Slavonic Studies which had brought us together. This text is a more polished version of what I said then. The subject area grew out of interrelated theoretical and practical shifts in early nineteenth-century Europe. The new discoveries of Indo- European philology identified a ‘Slav’ group of languages, and thus, as anthropology, ethnology, and other (pseudo-)sciences developed, the presumption of a Slav group of peoples and a Slav race too. At the same time there emerged the greatly enhanced role of Russia as international arbiter in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, and as an expansive empire in both Europe and Asia. This duality introduced a tension between erudite theories about language and national identity, on the one hand, and practical power politics, on the other; as also between a fraternity of twelve equal linguistic partners ‒ maybe twelve dialects of the same basic tongue? ‒ versus a hegemony of the far most numerous one. Notably, the founders of the subject were mainly non-Russians (the great names are the Czech Josef Dobrovský, the Slovene Bartholomaeus Kopitar and the Slovak Pavel Šafárik); whereas its political implications inevitably favoured Russia, the only independent Slav state at that time, if we leave aside the tiny mountainous principality of Montenegro. Thus was born the famous ideal or bête noire of ‘pan-Slavism’, with repercussions far beyond the Slav world. Did it also yield a coherent area of study? I’ll return to that question.

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Wider international interest in the Slavonic world initially took root mainly in Germany and France. In the UK Oxford came first. It even staged a prologue, in 1814, the year of victory over Napoleon, with Tsar Alexander I and Kopitar as guests (on separate occasions). That was soon forgotten; but initiatives resumed as early as the 1840s for a chair in ‘Slavonic Languages and Literatures’, as part of the newly-founded ‘Taylor Institution’, or Taylorian. Nothing came of that either; and hardly more from the real appointment of a first professor of ‘modern European languages’, Francis Trithen, who had a part-Russian background and precocious expertise, and who even gave his inaugural lecture series on the Slavs, since the poor man went off his head within two years. Then it was the turn of the fourth earl of Ilchester (William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways), a cultured diplomat who, while on assignments across Europe, studied Russian geology and collected Italian pictures (he gave some of them to establish the gallery at Christ Church, his old college) and became an enthusiast for things Slav, especially for the Poles. Ilchester died in the 1860s and bequeathed to Oxford University a thousand pounds ‘for the encouragement of the study of Polish and other Slavonic Languages, Literature and History’. The first lecturer on this foundation was William Richard Morfill, who lived the life of a cramming tutor based for decades in Park Town while he turned himself into the greatest general Slavist Britain had yet produced, and quite a pan-Slav partisan too. Only gradually did the university show a sustained interest in Morfill. He was eventually appointed reader in Russian in 1887, and professor at last from 1900, when on the brink of retirement. He never held a college fellowship. At least nowadays, unlike most of those who did, Morfill is commemorated with an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque. Russian remained marginal to the concerns of the college-based university, but hardly more so than other modern languages: all became degree subjects together a few years later. And in the age of the Triple Entente at least one individual Russian could make a lustrous Oxford career, the amazing (Sir) Paul Vinogradov, expert on English feudalism, who held a chair in Constitutional Law without even being a trained lawyer (and while still a professor at Moscow as well). And others could come as students, e.g. Felix Yusupov, who went on to murder Rasputin, having (post hoc ergo propter hoc?) studied forestry at University College.

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Slavonic Studies at Cambridge were kick-started around 1900 by two modest donations. One came – for no very obvious reason – from Sir David Salomons, inventor, horologist, and pioneer motorist (inter alia he was president of the Self-Propelled Traffic Association, the body which liberated drivers from having to follow a red flag!). The other sponsorship derived from the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers in London. That’s an equally puzzling source, though possibly it had something to do with the renewal at just that time of Gresham’s School, which was a company foundation. But these grants left little mark on the university as yet. The first Slavonic lecturer commuted once a week from Cheltenham. Cambridge was soon overtaken by Liverpool, where a full Bowes chair of Russian History, Language and Literature existed from 1908, with commercial funding from the Baltic traders Rankin & Gilmour. There followed, once World War I had broken out, the first moves in London to found what became the School of Slavonic Studies (later renamed the School of Slavonic and East European Studies), an institution directed by Bernard Pares, who moved from Liverpool as the first acclaimed British historian of Russia, and by Robert William Seton Watson, the country’s best-known expert on central and eastern Europe. Between the wars, however, the impetus faltered, blighted by Bolshevism and the collapse of commercial and cultural contacts with Russia. For that the enhanced profile of some other Slav nations, especially the Czechs (notably through President Masaryk’s patronage of the SSS in London), provided only limited compensation. At Cambridge A P Goudy taught for thirty six years, but made very few waves. At Oxford Morfill’s student Neville Forbes, the first schools’ candidate ever in Russian (1906), followed his master in producing Slavonic grammars and readers; but he attracted few pupils, and still enjoyed no college role. His rather frustrated and sad life was cut short by suicide in his forties. By the 1930s there were signs of change - even if the contemporary attraction of Soviet Communism does not seem to have yielded much linguistic stimulus. New departures were associated with the arrival of Russian émigrés and initiate a theme of interplay between expatriate and domestic contributions to the field. Sergej Alexandrovich Konovalov, son of a businessman and politician (in 1917 his father had actually been head of the provisional government for two days after the resignation of Kerensky), studied economics at Oxford in the twenties

68 and soon became simultaneously professor of Russian in Birmingham and lecturer in Slavonic Studies at Oxford. Meanwhile in Cambridge the inert Goudy was succeeded in 1936 by a young, vivacious, rather outrageous half-Russian woman, Elizabeth Hill, of whom more later. World War II and its aftermath were crucial. Whether friend or enemy, the USSR now mattered hugely, and the international Slav dimension was augmented too, with what became the Warsaw pact bloc intimating a fusion – short-lived, as it proved – of the two themes which I introduced at the outset. The British response, by 1947, took the form of a ‘Report of the Interdepartmental Commission of Enquiry on Oriental, Slavonic, East European and African Studies’, in brief the ‘Scarbrough Report’ (from the title of its chairman, with his quaint old aristocratic spelling of the place-name). This provided a brief historical digest and much detail on the current needs for Russia and for ‘other Slavonic and East European studies’. It yielded some money too, most famously for a Russian course available to those on national service, but also for expanding university departments. At Oxford Konovalov now became a professor. His ‘Oblomov manner’ might be commented on, and even his biographer concedes that ‘his lecturing skills ... tended to discourage attendance beyond the third week of term’; but Konovalov was dignified and charming, and a highly effective administrator. He raised the number of students in Slavonic Studies from a handful to some twenty five per annum. Thus and otherwise the subject’s academic profile was much enhanced. The warden of All Souls College, no less, was a Slavist: Humphrey Sumner – remember his unconventional and stimulating Survey of Russian History, with its reverse chronological sequence? There was even a chair in Czechoslovak History, with funding from Prague, designed for Seton Watson, the most famous British commentator and activist on matters Slavonic. Actually Sumner soon died of overwork, and the ageing Seton Watson proved a shadow of his former self. But Konovalov brought to Oxford three scholars, all at different points on the scale of émigré experience. At one extreme Boris Unbegaun, who had served in the White Russian cavalry before settling in France and then surviving Buchenwald concentration camp (where he kept his hand in professionally by noting down the argot of the Slav prisoners). After teaching in France again and in Belgium, Unbegaun moved to Oxford,

69 as the first holder of a chair designated for Comparative Slavonic Philology, and eventually retired to the USA. At the other extreme: John Simmons, an Englishman to the core – son of a Birmingham jeweller. But he became the greatest of Slavonic librarians and bibliographer extraordinary. It’s his centenary this year, and exactly a decade since he died, almost to the day as I speak. So I’m proud to be able to sport today the tie which he designed for special occasions and presented to his friends as members of his Four Cs club (it had no other purpose than this purely symbolic sodality). The third incomer was an amphibian, belonging to both worlds. Dimitri Obolensky, scion of a princely Russian family, had been schooled in Britain and studied at Cambridge. In 1948 he joined Christ Church and took up a university post in Russian and Balkan history, above all in the role of Byzantium and its legacy, which he very much made his own, besides earning celebrity with his Oxford Book of Russian Verse and other more popular compilations. Cambridge witnessed a completer transformation, with Hill as the first professor and a whole new team for Slavonic Studies. Almost overnight, around that same year 1948, it could boast a hundred and more students, from two a decade earlier, and ten staff instead of one. Among these latter was a totally fresh immigrant cherry-picked for the purpose, a Russian expatriate straight out of a Soviet military gaol: Nikolay Efremovich Andreyev. Andreyev had been born in St Petersburg in 1908, into a family of teachers. They fled Russia in 1919 for the new republic of Estonia. Nikolay was educated there and in Prague. Many Russian émigrés relocated to the young Czechoslovakia – a significant chapter in the modest annals of Slav reciprocity, encouraged by Masaryk ‒ and founded several universities and high schools in exile. Practical expectations of a swift return helped condition attitudes; but there was also a strong sense of preserving Russian cultural values for their own sake. Nikolay Efremovich espoused this cause, in a particularly pure form. He became a historian of old Muscovy, especially of its visual heritage. He joined an institute in Prague just founded in memory of Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov, an expert in icon-painting. By age thirty Andreyev was already its director. Remarkably, he kept the Kondakov foundation going during World War II and German occupation.

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Ironically he remained free and active till Russian troops liberated Czechoslovakia. Then he was cast into prison. Cambridge gave Nikolay freedom and a job. It proved a mixed blessing. He was highly valued as a teacher of Russian language and (modern) literature and married one of his students. He revelled in the upbringing of his own children, among whom Katya, the eldest was born in 1955. But he enjoyed little scope or appreciation for his learned work on Muscovy or on iconology, though he kept it alive as best he could. He felt at arm’s length to the university; and he was indeed literally a long walk away, operating from his home, College Holt, opposite Girton College. It’s an apt commentary on Nikolay Andreyev’s status as an émigré in Cambridge that he initially found little need, and indeed little encouragement, to learn fluent English. Not till the 1960s did that change, when – as Katya recalls – he found that new, less well-prepared students couldn’t deal with his Russian. I was one of them, once I’d invested in a bicycle to take me to his lair. As a supervisor he proved genial, conscientious, stimulating, considerate. A detail I remember is that he liked to predict his pupils’ exam results. Somewhere I’ve preserved the holograph letter he kindly wrote me when I managed to perform better than he had expected. In any event Nikolay Efremovich Andreyev became an integral part of the landscape of Slavonic Studies in Oxbridge, at their zenith. The peak of their expansion across the UK was reached about 1970. I still have a copy of the Oxford University Calendar for that year, when I took up a post here. At that time, besides those already named (Obolensky, Simmons) some twenty more Slav experts are listed (rather less than half of them in Russian Language and Literature). They range from Sir Isaiah Berlin to the lecturer in Soviet economics, and include Jovan Petrov Plamenac, i.e. the noted political theorist John Plamenatz, who had been born in Cetinje before the First World War as son of a Montenegrin foreign minister. Provision was similar in Cambridge, though there Lisa Hill, with her stress on practical teaching outcomes rather than research, occupied the commanding heights. Even so, there was rich variety within the department: to recall only those who taught me, from the historian of Nicholas I’s secret service, Peter Squire, to the erudite and fastidious littérateur, E R Sands; from the Pole Lucjan Lewitter and the Czech Karel Brušák to the taciturn and slightly furtive librarian, Kosta

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Pavlović, a former Serb diplomat. More widely there were the likes of E H Carr, he of the massive unfinished History of Soviet Russia – though Katya had to find her own graduate supervisor in London. Oxbridge mirrored developments across the whole UK higher education sector, fuelled by further reports (‘Annan’ and ‘Hayter’), and including Slavonic departments at most universities and Russian teaching in many schools. An ever-extending range of graduate degrees (comprehensively catalogued by John Simmons) complemented a strong undergraduate presence too. As a result, at Oxbridge Slav practitioners, long mainly on the university side of the fence, as lecturers and professors, finally gained recognition as college fellows and tutors too. One of these, of course, over the past three decades, has been Katya Andreyev. However, by the time she came (back) to Oxford in the mid- 80s, the retreat had already been signalled. A trio of further official enquiries: ‘Atkinson’ at the end of the seventies, later ‘Wooding’ and ‘HEFCE’, proved to be exercises in retrenchment. Russian collapsed as a school subject no less rapidly than it had risen. That process was accompanied by the closure of many university departments. Even at Oxbridge a diminution has taken place in personnel and in ancillary provision, and a serious narrowing of linguistic and literary focus. Today there is, for example, no more Comparative Slavonic Philology at Oxford, and no more teaching of any but the core east-European languages at Cambridge. Yet this decline was part of a trend which has brought credits as well as debits: a trend illustrated by Katya’s own career at Christ Church. Slavonic and east-European expertise is now far more likely to be deployed in wider, comparative contexts. At least for historians, that means greater openness to dialogue with other areas within the profession. On the other hand it may tend to blind us to a persistent element at the heart of Slavonic Studies in Britain, which again Katya’s career richly embodies: the continued inwardness of the Russian émigré world (only the Poles are remotely similar among the rest), retaining the loyalty of its members in ways even well-informed members of the host country find it difficult to grasp adequately. So there’s still a tension (but a creative one, I hope) between the demands of teaching in Slavonic fields, often quite basic and maybe even unrelated to language acquisition, and those of research, often highly technical and conducted on seemingly remote topics, such as

72 those in which Nikolay Andreyev had expertise. It’s the gap between practical and scholarly reasons for such study. And that takes us back to the initial polarity between intellectual and political which, as we saw, stimulated the discipline in the first place. I’ve roughly charted the rise and – in some measure – the fall of ‘Slavonic Studies’ as a distinct branch of knowledge. Nowadays it is increasingly subsumed in ‘global’ approaches, which weaken the specifics of Slav competence and coverage, but enhance their broader impact and relatedness. ‘Slavonic Studies’, at Oxbridge or anywhere else, need to contribute to, and interact with, something else – as Katya has so clearly demonstrated in her teaching. But in the process they also generated their own internal history, as Katya has so clearly demonstrated over her research career. There are useful outline surveys of the development of Slavonic Studies in this country (both in English) by Gerald Stone, in Beiträge zur Geschichte der Slawistik in nichtslavischen Ländern, ed. J Hamm and G Wytrzens (Vienna, 1985), 361-98 (to 1945) and by Malcolm V Jones, in Contributions à l’histoire de la slavistique dans les pays non slaves, ed G B Bercoff et al (Vienna, 2005), 267-301 (since 1945). For their origins at Oxford, see J S G Simmons, ‘Slavonic Studies at Oxford. I: The Proposed Slavonic Chair at the Taylor Institution in 1844’, Oxford Slavonic Papers, iii (1952), 125-52; and id., ‘Slavonic Studies at Oxford, 1844-1909’, ibid. NS xiii (1980), 1-27. There is an excellent brief overall history for Oxford, by Gerald Stone, at http://www.mod- langs.ox.ac.uk/files/docs/russian/slavonic_studies.pdf. For Cambridge there is some information in the inaugural lecture by Elizabeth M Hill, Why Need We Study the Slavs? (Cambridge, 1951). Her extravagant but entertaining reminiscences, In the Mind’s Eye. Memoirs of Dame Elizabeth Hill, ed J Stafford Smith (Lewes, 1999), are also a source of a kind. More measured and evocative are those of Dimitri Obolensky, Bread of Exile. A Russian Family (London, 1999). And for Nikolay Andreyev we have, of course, his own recollections, now available in Katya’s edition as A Moth on the Fence: Memoirs of Russia, Estonia, Czechoslovakia, and Western Europe (Kingston upon Thames, 2009), though they do not extend to his Cambridge days. See also the brief appreciation in Poetry, Prose and Public Opinion: Aspects of Russia, 1850-1970. Essays Presented in Memory of Dr N.E. Andreyev, ed. W Harrison and A Pyman (Letchworth, 1984).

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THE CHRIST CHURCH CHEMISTS’ AFFINITY GROUP

The Christ Chemists’ Affinity Group was formed early in 2014 with a view to providing a forum for college members to meet together and to promote increased awareness of chemistry, and of science in general, by those directly linked with Christ Church and amongst the wider public. Membership (which is free) is open to anyone associated with the college. To date we have organised several events all of which have been very well supported. In July 2014 we held a family afternoon in college at which there was a treasure hunt and a photographic competition for the younger attendees and I gave a talk about Lewis Carroll. In October 2015 we organised an afternoon of lectures to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the publication of Robert Hooke’s Micrographia, supported in part by both the Governing Body and the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Allan Chapman, Anna Camilleri and Judith Curthoys gave a historical perspective on Hooke’s work and language, and life in the college in the 17th century, after which Dirk Aarts, Steven Lee (Cambridge) and Eiichi Nakamura (Tokyo University) provided an introduction to current state-of-the-art microscopy. Later that evening Professor Nakamura also entertained us with a flute recital. The meeting was over-subscribed and all of the talks were very much appreciated by those working in the field as well as the many non-specialists present. (Each of the talks can be viewed via the University’s podcast website: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/units/christ-church). Early in January 2016 a dinner was held which was attended by a broad cross-section of college alumni (from 1955 to the present day). This was preceded by a fascinating talk by Allan Chapman surveying Chemistry activities at Christ Church from the reign of Charles II to that of Queen Victoria. Future plans include regional events, dinners, and an afternoon of lectures (in March 2017) about the contributions made by Christ Church scientists during the two World Wars. Full details can be found on our website at www.chchchem.org.uk I am most grateful for the support that I have received from all those who have joined the organising committee, the Development and the Conference Offices, and particularly from Richard Wayne, Fiona Holdsworth (Vice Chairman) and David Dunmur (Treasurer). Martin Grossel (Chairman)

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SERMON TO MARK THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF STEPHEN DARLINGTON’S APPOINTMENT AT CHRIST CHURCH Saturday 7th November 2015

Improvised Introduction: I think I need to begin this address tonight by saying that it is almost impossible to add a short homily to the anthem we have just heard. Perhaps like me, you still have goose-bumps. That extraordinary sense of your heart, mind and soul being awakened by the music – music so powerful, deep, beautiful and resonant – that your body reacts. Goose- bumps. The body registers that it has been disturbed, moved and inspired in a way that words on their own don’t. Can’t. This is my experience, week-by-week with Stephen’s music, his conducting, and his orchestration not just of the choir, but of us, as a congregation. And to do that, you need yourself to be a body possessed. Possessed here by the music; incarnating its beauty, tone, depth, cadence and timbre. Possessed too by the Spirit – of God – that allows the orchestrators to be an instrument of praise in God’s hands. I often give thanks for the fact that Christianity is a religion of incarnation. Not just words. It is not merely cerebral. We believe in God reaching us through all the senses. The eyes and what we see. The ears and what they hear. Our noses and what they smell. Our tongues, and what they taste. Our hands and bodies, and what they feel and touch. Christianity inhabits all of you. That’s why we can be moved by the feel of a cherished old leather bible, even before we read its pages; or a well-thumbed prayer book, even before we intone its canticles and psalms. The smell of fresh flowers in a church on a spring day, or incense in the midst of a Mass, takes us to a place of imagination that words alone can’t carry us. The taste of wine and bread; the sight of an icon, or a shaft of sunlight through a stained glass window; the touch of reassurance at the exchange of peace – that all shall be well; and, of course, the sound of music. All of these are incarnate in worship. The Spirit of God alive in our senses. The senses in tune, with and through, worship. All of this needs, of course, people who are prepared to have their senses inhabited by the Spirit of God, so that we might too become

75 possessed of that same Spirit. So I’ll say more about Stephen – as the music – in a moment. But first, and as a mildly avid collector of light-bulb jokes, here are some you’ll perhaps already be familiar with:

How many altos does it take to screw in a light bulb? None, they can't reach that high.

How many sopranos does it take to change a light bulb? Just one. They hold the bulb and the world revolves around them.

Why are soprano jokes all one liners? So the tenors can understand them.

How long does it take for a conductor to screw in a light bulb? Nobody knows because no one paying attention!

Homily: But not paying attention is hardly relevant to tonight’s subject. So I want to begin with some words from T.S. Eliot

For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts. These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action. The hint half guessed , the gift half understood, is Incarnation… (T. S. Eliot, “Dry Salvages”, in Complete Poems and Plays, London: Faber 2004, 190).

So, ‘you are the music, while the music lasts’ seems the perfect text to say just a few words about Stephen Darlington this evening. Because in a real sense, Stephen is the music. I don’t know if you have ever watched Stephen conduct?

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I do, intensely; and his footwork that is most impressive. Maybe you don’t notice this much; but this Dean does. Stephen almost dances as he conducts. The music fills his body. Yes, of course he keeps his hands and arms moving in the usual, restrained Anglican way. This is not Pentecostalism. But it is passionate, and you can see this week by week, anthem by anthem, psalm-by-psalm; canticle-by-canticle. You can see it in the feet. The whole body, actually. The music fills the man; the music overflows, and fills the House. It is an epiphany; a moment of incarnation. Of course, none of this is intended or explicit. But it cannot be contained, and it runs through Stephen. It is deeply implicit, and rarely becomes apparent and explicit. Now, this word ‘implicit’ is suggestive. Normally used as an antonym with ‘explicit’, the terms have a complex etymological history. ‘Implicit’ is derived from the Latin implicare, a term that suggests involvement, interweaving, and entanglement, plicare conveying the notion of ‘folding’ – in the sense of mixing and combining, rather as one might expect to ‘fold’ an ingredient into a recipe. Thus, ‘implicit’ suggests the meaningful folding together and close connecting of a variety of strands. Correspondingly, ‘explicit’ suggests the un-folding. This is what Stephen does with the notes on the page and the voices in his hands. He turns raw material into art; implicit into explicit. The result is…well, goose-bumps. We hear this every day. Not just in music. But in the man too; the character behind the music. Our conductor. Our orchestrator; our inspirer. Stephen Darlington was organ scholar at Christ Church, Oxford during the early 1970s, studying under Simon Preston. After this he was appointed assistant organist at Canterbury Cathedral, where he stayed for four years before being appointed as Master of the Music for St Albans Cathedral Choir, where he was also music director of the International Organ Festival. In 1985 he returned to Christ Church as organist and tutor in music. His recorded works amount to over 50 CDs, of which several have won awards and other recognition such as Gramophone recommendations. He has travelled worldwide both with the choir and as an organist and conductor, directing, He is currently Choragus of the University of Oxford. But I want to mention aspect of his work that probably goes unremarked, and is taken for granted, and yet binds us together. It is Stephen the Teacher. Like many people with any kind of schooling, I

77 look back now, and realise how remarkable our teachers were. They were patient, and they were faithful. They believed in teaching. They believed in their pupils. They planted seeds of new ideas. They expanded our minds and our horizons of possibility. Few were lazy, and even fewer were poor. They were committed to this midwifery. Teachers, you see, are characters that inspire us with their love. Here is what one writer has to say about algebra – not my favourite subject, I hasten to add:

I had a teacher who loved algebra, and made me feel it meant the world to him that I could love it too. When I do algebra, I think of him. I see his face, I hear his voice, and when I get stuck on a problem in mathematics, or maybe even a problem, you know, in life, I think of how it was he talked with me. I hear his voice as I think the problem through, it’s like I talk with him about it. To me, algebra is what it felt like to learn it with Mr Norton, Interview with James Day; James Conroy (ed.), Catholic Education: Inside- Out/Outside-In, Dublin: Veritas, 1999, p. 277)

For algebra and Mr Norton, read music and Dr Darlington. That is what we are here to celebrate tonight. Someone whom, the minute you hear a piece of Taverner, or Goodall…you think of Stephen. Education should be an interaction of love, says Nicholas Wolterstorff, (Education for Life, 2002, p. 105). And St Bernard of Clairvaux, no less, has this to say:

There are many who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge: that is curiosity. There are others who desire to know in order that they may themselves be known: that is vanity. Others seek knowledge in order to sell it: that is dishonourable. But there are some who seek knowledge in order to edify others: that is love. (Quoted by Mark Schwehn, Exiles from Eden, Oxford: OUP, 1993, p. 60)

We are here tonight, simply, to celebrate someone who has taught us a more excellent way. Who in music has not only taught countless

78 hundreds, but has, by his life and example, pointed us beyond ourselves to what the music witnesses to. That is, Stephen, a remarkable gift. Because it requires humility, humour and joy, combined with utterly reliable competence, imagination and great wisdom. So, thank you Stephen for giving us music, and giving us yourself. Because it is in that, as Eliot says, we glimpse a shaft of sunlight,. We smell ‘the wild thyme unseen’ we sense the ‘winter lightning’, and we hear the waterfall…music heard so deeply…’. Yes, goose-bumps. Your work and ministry, Stephen, moves us – deeply. And we thank you for that, truly. We look forward to many more years of Stephen’s ministry here with us in the House. Meanwhile, and as our Old Testament tonight reading has it: “Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out”. Amen. Martyn Percy (The Dean)

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JANET McMULLIN

26 November 1961 - 12 September 2015

For twenty-five years anyone entering Christ Church library was greeted by the sight, and almost always the smile, of Janet McMullin at her desk. She died suddenly at home on 12 September 2015. The cause was later discovered to be a massive pulmonary embolism. Janet Fish was born in East Horsley on 26 November 1961, and was brought up, along with her younger sister Lesley, in a house that she loved, designed and built by her father. She went on to attend Rosebery School in Epsom, which fostered two further loves that she retained all her life, one for Latin poetry – library readers and staff were often taken aback by an unexpected line of Catullus or Ovid quoted from memory – and one for music. It was a very happy family life, though the motorhome holidays that it featured were not the happiest feature: muddy fields were a speciality, and a lifelong loathing of camping was the result. In 1981 she came to Lady Margaret Hall. That love of Classics – she insisted on reading Mods A, the course for those with A-levels in both Greek and Latin, instead of the Mods B for which she was admitted – culminated in a first in Greats in 1985. One of the authors of this tribute had the privilege of teaching her some of the Greek course, and the even greater privilege of pouring her a glass of sherry in his room, conveniently situated in Univ., when she emerged quaking from her viva. She was sure she had disgraced herself; the result suggested that this was not exactly the case. Musically, she had a beautiful and rich soprano voice. For the fiftieth anniversary of the college chapel John Tavener, a friend of the chaplain, had been commissioned to write a piece for female voices: the end result was a piece for female choir, melismatic solo soprano and handbells. It was not quite clear whether he knew whether there was anyone capable of taking on the solo part. Luckily there was: just one. Afterwards Janet said Tavener had asked her to sing the solo part as if she were an uninhibited wild girl from Knossos. ‘But I'm a nice girl from Surrey!’ had been her retort. A college Christmas party featured something rather different, performances of ‘I saw Momma kissing Santa Claus’ and ‘Baby it’s cold outside’ along with her tutor Richard Jenkyns. She carried on singing in early music groups throughout her life.

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Music at LMH had a further important consequence, for her accompanist for a singing exam was a Music student called Peter McMullin. In his address at her funeral he recalled arriving for practice at the Talbot Hall: he was unprepared for the recently polished floor, and his top half stopped at the door while his bottom half carried on. As he picked himself up, eyes watering, he ‘experienced for the first time Janet’s unique, cackly laugh which was absolutely infectious to anyone who heard it. I remember with great fondness when she would totally lose it playing word games with Gilly and Katie; we would all literally be crying with laughter’. Janet and Peter married in 1986. After the academic librarianship course at UCL she spent a year at the Bodleian, then took up a post at Lambeth Palace Library in London. That involved a hefty commute from their home in Abingdon, and in 1990 she began at Christ Church as deputy to John Wing who was, as Janet herself later became, a Christ Church institution. Neither was ever far from a desk piled high with books and papers, and neither seemed at a loss to answer any request from undergraduates or researchers. After a few years, on John’s retirement, Janet took over as the Senior Assistant Librarian and occupied the desk in the entrance hall from that day forward, with only the briefest of absences around the births of Gilly and Katie. Janet knew a great deal about a great many parts of the library’s collections but the Carrolliana was, perhaps, her particular speciality. Her knowledge, of the papers and photographs as well as of the lives of Dodgson and the Liddells, was almost unsurpassed. She often gave talks, in the Upper Library until she could no longer manage the stairs and then in the West Library, and had a knack of making everything interesting. Her jokes were often terrible, but could keep an audience – whether formal, or just the library’s staff – in stitches. And once she got the giggles, then there was no hope for any work being done for quite some time! Her last ten years were clouded by the onset of multiple sclerosis. She bore this dreadful disease with stoicism, and never allowed her life to be defined by it: she took only two days off sick during those ten years as a direct consequence of it. One of the saddest aspects was the effect on the muscles, weakening her control of breath and pitch. Still, she had promised years before that she would sing at the funeral of a member of the congregation at the University Church, and so she did, propping herself upright against a pillar in the Chancel. And it was the University Church, where she had been such an active and contributing

81 member of the congregation and where she had sung in the choir for so long, that was packed for her funeral. Peter followed his address by playing Schubert in her honour. In February of this year, Gilly and her fellow musicians in the Behn String Quartet played Bach and Ravel in a short concert in the Upper Library in aid of the MS Society. Those two great features of her life continue in the paths taken by their daughters, with Gilly now following her History degree at Cambridge with study at the Royal Academy of Music and Katie following in her mother’s footsteps, about to head for university to read Classics. The last word can rest with one of the messages that Peter received after her death. ‘To the outside observer she always seemed to be Mozart in B flat, the Great Man’s sunniest key, but also with profound music composed in it.’ Judith Curthoys Christopher Pelling

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Portsmouth Cathedral Evensong, Sunday 17th Jan 2016, with interment of the remains of Bishop Ronald Gordon

The Right Revd Dr David Stancliffe

The Twelve: Words: W.H. Auden (1907-1973) Music: William Walton (1902-1983)

[This address takes the form of a commentary on the poem, which can be found on pp. 815-6 of W.H. Auden, Collected Poems, ed. E. Mendelson, London: Faber, 1991.]

For his last stipendiary post, the unassuming Ronald Gordon found himself back in Oxford, as Subdean of Christchurch Cathedral. When his time as Bishop at Lambeth – whither he’d been poached by Robert Runcie from the see here – was coming to an end, he’d explored one or two possibilities where the spirituality was catholic but unfussy, and the music of the highest order. The Twelve, which you have just heard, is an unusual work in that it is a joint commission; the Dean of Christchurch in 1964, Cuthbert Simpson, had asked two distinguished old members of the college, W.H.Auden and William Walton, to work together. The resulting cantata – it’s really rather more than a conventional anthem – has been in the repertoire of Christchurch ever since, and Ronald must have heard it there often. It is a particular gift that we should have it tonight; in these days of Epiphany, when the mantra of Mission is waved in our faces by the lectionary as well as the C-of-E.org, it is good to hear Auden’s take on the apostolic life, and I am going to use The Twelve as a yardstick to reflect on the apostolic ministry of Ronald Gordon, bishop of this diocese between 1975 and 1984. In the first place, says Auden, those who have been summoned to step into a joyless world are ‘to bring it joy.’ It was the bishop of a neighbouring diocese who once actually announced in his characteristically dead-pan tones, ‘The theme of this morning’s sermon is Christian Joy’. Ronald would have never spoken so self- contradictorily: he did not need to, since it was clear that his whole life and ministry were of a piece and radiated that serene contentment and

83 delight, which is what Auden found the most compelling witness among the Twelve, and named joy. True joy is compelling because you can’t fake it! It has little to do with the ingratiating, smiling bonhomie that is paraded by some clergy and most presenters on Radio 3; it has more to do with deep, personal security. I am clear that the only essential qualification for ordination is that you are at ease with who you are, and are content with what you are being called to do. This was Ronald to a tee, and I never heard him express dissatisfaction with what he had found himself doing. Curate in Stepney, on the staff of Cuddesdon, vicar of Springhill in Birmingham, then to the University Church in Oxford – in all of these he was part of a community of clergy, sustained by a common life. ‘Released into peace from the gin of old sin, men forgot themselves in the glory of the story told by the Twelve.’

Auden’s almost Cockney rhyming phrases manage to capture those days of bachelor, catholic clergy, serving selflessly and joyfully in a multitude of unlikely places with delight in the freedom brought by the gospel. Among the curates of Stepney, with the young men in training for ministry in Cuddesdon, with the would-be ordinands coming to experience parochial life at Springhill, surrounded by the explorers at the university, even later as the Chairman of ACCM (as the church’s process for recruiting and training clergy was known in those days) Ronald was never far from the questions of how to select and form a new generation of apostolic ministers. And in those days, carefree confidence and a sparkling originality were valued more highly than a tickbox of competencies. Ronald belonged in a world of interesting and accomplished men, united by the sacrificial life they were called to lead. But the ministry of a diocesan bishop is not quite so carefree. However convivial and supportive your fellow bishops, in the diocese to which you are called life can be lonely as well as seemingly powerless. ‘I have come to realize,’ said Bishop Ronald to me once, ‘that the bishop can’t do much except make appointments.’ And it’s true. In spite of the popular image of the bishop as the manager, the commanding officer, the person at whose slightest whim everyone leaps to attention, the reality is that while bishops have immense influence they have very little power. And a good thing too, though you wouldn’t know it from the way some bishops are seduced into behaving! But never Ronald. He knew that his ministry was to work with the grain of what he had

84 been given, to give people permission to be themselves and to do what they enjoyed – ‘That’s what I like to see my canons doing,’ he said to me, finding me sitting on the floor in Blackwells just a few days after I’d been installed, and reacting guiltily to being caught not working (as I’d thought) – and to encourage them to feel some of that deep well-spring of delight that sustained him. That more private part of his disciplined life was never on display, and Walton was surely right to set the central stanza of Auden’s poem as a solo, then duet for two boy’s voices.

O Lord, my God, though I forsake thee forsake me not, but guide me as I walk through the valley of mistrust, and let the cry of my disbelieving absence come unto thee.

This psalm-like section reflects the loneliness and self-doubt that any parish priest or bishop feels from time to time. Boyce set similar sentiments – ‘The sorrows of my heart are enlarged’ – as a duet for two trebles in his anthem Turn thee unto me, O Lord; and the rather wistful yearning for what is just beyond the reach of experience or understanding is typical of great English composers from Byrd to Howells. At the heart of Ronald’s spirituality was this waiting on experience and understanding in the deepest but most hidden longing and contentment. It was this quality that remained tangibly present at the very end of his life, when much else had been stripped away. The last time we saw him in Wantage, his gracious contentment at the small and simple things being done for him were the fruit of what we call formation – that deep patterning of behaviour and response that only pours out unchecked in extremis from a lifetime’s conscious absorption of Christ. The parallel to what happens to a person who has ‘put on Christ’, and so exudes this joyful contentment is the kind of formation that a performing musician undergoes. As a schoolboy at Rugby, Ronald had performed a Brahms piano concerto with the school orchestra, but those whose first-hand experience of his musical accomplishments was

85 limited to watching him play his party piece – the National Anthem played with hands crossed, lying upside down beneath the piano – probably never knew the depths of his musical talents. If you are to perform a work, and turn the notes on the page of a score into music, you need to let the music absorb you and form you so that you become part of it: just like the prayer of the liturgy. Music is not a diversion – a pastime or hobby: music fills your life and takes you over – like the gospel, and the outcome is a deep serenity.

This is why Auden’s third stanza is so important:

Children play about the ancestral graves, for the dead no longer walk. Excellent still in their splendour are the antique statues: but can do neither good nor evil. Beautiful still are the starry heavens: but our fate is not written there. Holy still is speech, but there is no sacred tongue: the Truth may be told in all. Twelve as the winds and the months are those who taught us these things: envisaging each in an oval glory, let us praise them all with a merry noise.

After the limited or incomplete visions of the truth provide by ancestral graves, antique statues, the starry heavens or even the speech of a sacred tongue have been dismissed as only partial revelations – Walton catches Auden’s sense that the whole is far greater than the sum of the parts, and so sets the final words of Auden’s poem as a wonderful fugue. No one voice or word is enough by itself: ‘the Truth may be told in all. Twelve as the winds and the months are those who taught us these things.’ Each of the twelve must be envisaged in an oval glory – each voice in a fugue, while absorbing in itself, adds to the rich harmony of complementary diversity. This is the truth of the gospel as evidenced on the day of Pentecost: the truth is not a loud and boring unison, but a rich harmony, so that each may hear the truth in his own language. Christians do not speak with identical voices, but with complementary insights. Our lives are not lived on a single level, but in a multiplicity of interlocking relationships. This inconvenient truth is anathema to

86 those who think that the truth can be definitively encapsulated in propositional pronouncements, and who have not learned (like it appears the Lambeth Fathers) – or had the good fortune to experience – that God speaks to us in the Word made flesh, the real presence, and that truth is essentially relational. I learnt this not from Auden, but from Ronald. Maybe to those who didn’t know him well he appeared rather reserved and shy, but behind the public profession of just ‘making good appointments’ lay a radical determination to change the culture of the diocese. The celebration of our relationship with the Provinces of West Africa, the search for and nurturing of a diversity of vocations, the fostering of a sense of being a diocese rather than just an agglomeration of parishes with the Eucharist one Sunday here in the Guildhall Square, and going on pilgrimage together to get a charge from the archbishop in Canterbury were the outward expressions of Bishop Ronald’s determination to widen horizons. But at its heart lay a disciplined devotion to his Lord, and to the commitment to growing up expressed in tonight’s second lesson from the letter to the Ephesians: ‘We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine . . . . But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knitted together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body’s growth in building itself up in love.’ I hope that you can recognize the Ronald that you knew in these threads; and that you can use your different and rich experiences of his life and ministry to weave your own tapestry – compose your own fugue. For although, as we lay his mortal remains to rest this night in his cathedral, we could list a multiplicity of achievements and tell endless anecdotes, the truth – as Auden says – is not in any one of these so much as in the totality of Ronald Gordon, bishop in the church of God, who knew The Twelve.

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DR HARRY CRAIG, (1949) FRCGP 25 September 1927 to 25 September 2014

Retired GP John Davies remembers alumnus Harry Craig as the ‘quintessential family doctor.’

Harry Craig was a general practitioner at St Clements Surgery, Winchester, for over thirty years. A family doctor of the old school, he treated each of his patients the same whatever their means or social status. When things went well and health was restored, he rejoiced in the individual’s good fortune; and when things went badly or someone died, he felt it personally and shared in the grief - he was a doctor who really cared. Harry’s sense of duty and his considerable energy enabled him to pursue his aptitude in two further branches of medicine - teaching and adolescent health. At the time Harry entered general practice, formal training for would-be GPs was rudimentary at best, so he embraced with enthusiasm the early years of the new training scheme instituted in the 1960s designed to properly instruct future practitioners in the art and craft of general practice. There will be countless patients all over the country who have good reason to be grateful to Harry Craig for preparing their own doctor so well. For his skill and dedication in this over many years he was honoured by election to fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners. For many years he was also one of the medical officers to Winchester College where he gave outstanding service to many generations of Wykehamists. During his time at Oxford he stroked the Christ Church boat to a number of glorious victories. His success in the boat was clearly matched by his enjoyment of victory for, after celebratory boat club

88 dinners, he found himself in Mercury - the pond in the great Tom Quad - on more than one occasion. As a clinical student, he once drove his Austin 7 up and down the central colonnade at St Thomas’s Hospital – for a bet! It was, after all, the era in which Richard Gordon was writing his famous tales of Simon Sparrow as ‘Doctor in the House’. Perhaps it was such feats of daring that attracted Angela, a beautiful and charismatic Nightingale nurse, who later became his wife. Harry’s youthful approach to life was always near the surface: he was a keen dinghy sailor, took up and embraced ski-ing long after the age many had given it up, organised staff barbecues with his Heath Robinson roasting spit powered by an old washing machine engine and, thanks to me, was persuaded to take to the river again when his days as an oarsman should have been long past. One occasion was the Winchester College Regatta. I convinced the don in charge, John Lever, himself a Cambridge Blue and future head of Canford School, that the GPs of St Clements could enter a four worthy of the challenge made by a Common Room crew (school teaching staff). So with a total age between us of nearly 200, David Shedden, Robert Reichenbach, Harry Craig and myself - and Caro Crawford, who coxed - began training. On our last practice before the regatta we rowed the full course under race conditions – that is, full tilt. Coming to rest crossing the finishing line there was a breathless silence in the boat. Only the evening birdsong could be heard. Eventually, after a lengthy pause, slumped over his oar at stroke Harry issued an almost inaudible murmur - is anyone behind me still alive? In the event, we beat the Common Room crew, which included John Lever himself. Harry was not perfect: he had a passionate temperament and wore his heart on his sleeve. The son of a Scottish professor of classics, he was a stickler for accuracy and perfection, and these qualities were further instilled in him during his National Service in the Royal Marines. He is survived by Angela, his widow, elder son David – now with his own family of three children in New Zealand - daughter Alison and younger son Alex.

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ROBIN MOORE

Robin came up to the House to read Greats in 1952 but following the sudden death of his own father, switched to Engineering with the idea that this was more likely to earn him a living than archaeology! Peter Lund was his tutor and when I in turn come up to read Engineering in 1983, Peter was also my tutor and delighted in telling me stories of my Father’s very sketchy grasp of many aspects of science and maths. Robin was able to graduate with a pass degree and this was sufficient to get him onto a graduate apprenticeship with Rolls Royce in Derby. Here his amateur passion for electronics was put to good use developing early instrumentation and computing systems and he flourished. After RR failed in 1972 my father moved to Atkins where he set up and latterly was director of their management consulting arm. Our family association with the House is extensive and I hope will continue. My Grandfather, Ralph Moore, took a double first in Greats. Both my Father and his younger brother were at the House. In my generation, and as a result of these more enlightened times, I (Engineering Science), my wife Katheryn Moore nee Jones (Pure and Applied Biology) and my younger sister Sophie Hiscock nee Moore (Classics) all came up to the House in our turn. My eldest son (also Ralph Moore, named for his Great Grandfather) is hoping to come up to the House next year. He is a Classics Scholar at Trinity College Dublin in his final year heading for a double first and has applied to do his Masters at the House and is waiting to hear. John Moore (1983)

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BRUCE WYKEHAM WATKIN 17 April 1917 - 9 September 2015

founder member of Mass Observation, author, town and country planner.

Bruce Watkin observed and wrote about people, buildings, and the English countryside. He was the author of two Shell County Guides – on Surrey and Buckinghamshire, both with his own photographs as well as text – and at the age of 83 ‘Medieval Wellington’. He was also one of the main contributors to The Pub and the People, published in 1943 as by Mass Observation. Watkin was born in 1917 in Bloomsbury, London, the younger son of Frank Arthur Bailey and Eve Lewis, a journalist and travel writer. His parents separated when he was a few years old, and he was brought up by Dr Paul Watkin and Mrs Watkin who were GP and Nurse in Plaistow, East London. He was a boarder at Bishop’s Stortford College, and in 1935 he won an Exhibition to Christ Church, Oxford, where he succeeded in beginning with Classics and ending with Geography – while studying for a diploma in Engineering on the side. Although his sympathies at the time were close to being Communist, and he had little money, he was known as giving some of the best parties in Oxford – including one with his friend Alan Hodge for Robert Graves and Laura Riding on their literary visit there in 1937. He was a founder member of the Experimental Theatre Club in Oxford – and in London of Mass Observation, the pioneering organisation for social research. Mass Observation’s members included the anthropologist Tom Harrisson who had first conceived the project, the film-maker Humphrey Jennings, and the poet Charles Madge and his wife the poet Kathleen Raine, famously beautiful, whom Watkin in old age described as the Muse of the organisation – ‘we were all in love with her.’ Watkin was part of the ‘Worktown’ project where over three years from 1937, eighty or so observers descended on the Lancashire town of Bolton to record the details of the daily life of the people. The Mass Observation method initially, as summarised by Harrisson, ‘concentrated on describing what observers could see and hear without doing anything to alter the situation.’ Watkin and John Sommerfield were the main observers of people in pubs and collected qualitative material in the form of notes of conversations and comments. (Watkin, who was never

91 enthusiastic about alcohol, was glad to warm himself up with it after nights in unheated lodgings.) According to Madge and Harrisson, Watkin and Sommerfield were originally designated as co-authors of the book that became The Pub and the People. The War interrupted the project, and eventually their reports were edited by Harrisson from a barracks room he shared with 29 other soldiers. Watkin had applied for the RAF, and on account of the Engineering Diploma he was diverted to work, from 1941-1946, in Harry Ricardo’s RAF workshop developing and testing burner-atomisers for the first jet engines. After the War his working life included town planning in Leeds, Staffordshire, and London. He added to his educational portfolio in 1953 with a Diploma in Town Planning. Later he was one of the first students at the Open University where he obtained a BA in Earth Sciences in 1975. He was Field Advisor for the National Parks Commission where he was the chief advocate of setting up the Exmoor National Park; Deputy Secretary of the Royal Fine Art Commission; and Chair of Civic Societies in Hampshire, Wiltshire and Somerset. In his seventies he was Secretary of the Somerset Archaeological Society. Watkin was married first to Brigitte Paneth, from an Austrian family of distinguished doctors and scientists. They had two sons, Brian (b.1942) and Keir (b.1945), and brought up from infancy a nephew and niece, Nicholas and Penelope Paneth. After divorce from his first wife, in middle life Watkin moved to the South-West and lived with a companion, Joan Keenleyside. Some years after her death he was married secondly to Joan Haldane, widow of Major Desmond Haldane, and through her sons, Seán, Robin, and Niall became a much loved member of three new families. Watkin was a small and agile man, as active and versatile physically as he was mentally. He walked and drove long distances, planted and gardened, and rode a bicycle until the age of 91. He was astonishingly well-read in a variety of subjects, and was as much at home with maps as with books. He was always out-spoken, and his mind worked ‘outside the box’ – to his enemies’ fury but to his friends’ delight. (His outspoken-ness was simply candour, as when his Shell Guide to Buckinghamshire was published in 1981 and a Shell company Memo asked him whether he actually liked the county. “The answer was not ‘no’ but that I was disappointed with it”). He could talk as openly with young people as with his progressively fewer contemporaries, and had a vast fund of jokes. His mobility was reduced in the last months of his

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The Revd Professor N Biggar In 2015 Nigel Biggar lectured on the justification of killing at the US Military Academy at West Point, NJ; on political forgiveness at La Roche-sur-Yon, France; on assisted suicide in the Palace of Westminster; and on applying ethics to public policy at the Athenaeum, London. He spoke about nuclear weapons on BBC Radio Wales and on Cecil Rhodes on South African and Australian radio. He published a response to commentaries on his article on the place of religion in secular medicine in the Journal of Medical Ethics, and contributed a chapter on reconciliation as a military goal in The Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics. He wrote on Trident for The Scottish Review, on Gallipoli for The Irish Times, on Scottish independence for Standpoint, and on Iraq, Syria, Rhodes, and Charlie Hebdo for the London Times.

Professor J Cartwright In October, became Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law (www.iecl.ox.ac.uk) in the Oxford Law Faculty

Professor L Judson In 2015 I published ‘Aristotle’s Astrophysics’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 49 (Winter 2015), 151-92. This reconstructs Aristotle’s integration of astronomy and physics, and argues that - contrary to the usual picture painted in histories of science - his theory embodies a high degree of comprehensiveness, sophistication, and elegance, which no one could rival for two thousand years.

Professor S Howison Professor Sam Howison has stepped down after five years as Head of Department in Mathematics. Achievements during his term of office included the construction and move of the department to the stunning new Andrew Wiles Building on the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter and, following the Government’s periodic assessment of research quality, the

94 result that Oxford’s Mathematical Sciences are (by some margin) the best in the UK.

Professor M J Edwards Macarius Magnes; Apocriticus, translated with commentary by Jeremy Schott and Mark Edwards (Liverpool University Press). Religions of the Constantinian Empire (Oxford: Clarendon Press). “The Delayed Fulfilment of Prophecy in Early Christian Fiction”, in I. Ramelli and J. Perkins (ed.), Early Christian and Jewish Narrative (Mohr Siebeck), 135-146. “Origen of Alexandria”, in K. Parry (ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Patristics (Oxford: Blackwell), 98-110. “One Origen or Two? The Status Quaestionis”, Symbolae Osloenses 89, 1-23. “Antioch, Alexandria and the Formula of Reunion”, in C. Brouwer, G. Dye and A. van Rompaey (eds), Hérésies: une construction d’identités religieuses (Brussels: University of Brussels), 27-42. “Willed Causes and Causal Willing in Augustine”, in A. Marmodoro and B. Prince (eds), Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity (CUP), 237-252. “One Nature of the Word Enfleshed”, Harvard Theological Review 108, 289-306. “Austin Farrer: Anglican Genius”, in P. Groves and John Barton (eds), The New Testament and the Church (London: Bloomsbury), 146-159. “Gospel of John” (Medieval), “Jannes and Jambres”, “Leopard”, “Logos” in De Gruyter Encyclopedia of Biblical Reception.

Dr B Jack As Gresham Professor of Rhetoric, I gave six public lectures in the Museum of London under the general title of ‘The Mysteries of Reading and Writing’. The Gresham lectures now reach a wide audience as podcasts, with overall some million hits. Two of mine have also found other, more specialist, audiences: my lecture on Thomas Gray’s Elegy written in a Country Churchyard forms part of the celebrations of his three hundredth anniversary at his birthplace, Stoke Poges, and my lecture on T. S. Eliot’s, Four Quartets is available at the T. S. Eliot Society’s website. I have been invited to give a further set of Gresham lectures in 2016-17 which will focus on rhetoric in the sense of

95 the persuasively writerly techniques of a number of major authors from Jane Austen to Emily Dickinson. I also gave a special lecture on Cliché for the MSt students on the Oxford Creative Writing Course. I published an article on the rise of the medical humanities in the Times Higher Education which explored the many links between literature and medicine, including the insights into the human mind to be found in poetry. I continue to review for the Times Literary Supplement.

Professor D Obbink Published: “Family Love: New Poems by Sappho”, The Times Literary Supplement, Feb. 5, 2014, cover title and p. 15 “Two New Poems by Sappho”, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 189 (2014) pp. 32-49 “New Fragments of Book 1 of Sappho”, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 189 (2014) pp. 1-28 (with S. Burris and J. Fish) “An Ancient Commentary on Pindar, Olympian 1”, in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXIX (London 2014) no. 5201 pp. 116-124 (with †W. S. Barrett) “A Fifth Century A.D. Circus Programme”, in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXIX (London 2014) no. 5218 pp. 188-9

Professor S Neubauer In 2015, Prof. Neubauer published 25 scientific manuscripts. He obtained project and equipment grants of £1.6M and was one of the main applicants for the UK Biobank imaging enhancement population studies (planning to obtain brain, heart and abdominal MRI scans in 100,000 subjects in the community), which were funded in December 2015 with £28M. He also opened the £3M new floor extension of his centre (Oxford centre for clinical magnetic resonance research) in March, providing 600 sqm of additional research space.

Professor G A Johnson Publications: Translation into Thai of Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2005).

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Review of History of Photography: The Sculptural Photograph in the Nineteenth Century, published in The Sculpture Journal, vol. 24 (2015).

Other Activities: In 2015, I served as both Head of the History of Art Department and Coordinator of the M.St. in History of Art and Visual Culture. I also led a successful funding-raising bid for a Visiting Professorship in American Art, which will be underwritten by the Terra Foundation. I was invited to give a lecture at Somerville College, Oxford, on Marian imagery in the Renaissance and founded a new research seminar on the history of photography. Mindful of the need to share the fruits of our research with a wider audience, I began serving as the academic consultant for a major television drama series on the Medici. Whether the production company takes any heed of my suggestions remains to be seen!

Professor J Cross My three-year term as Chairman of the Music Faculty Board came to an end in September. I am now on research leave (2015–16), based at the Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique (Ircam), Paris, where I am working on a project on French spectral music. In 2015 I was elected a Member of Academia Europaea (the Academy of Europe).

Publications Igor Stravinsky (‘Critical Lives’ series) (London: Reaktion, 2015), 224 pp., ISBN 9781780234946 ‘Of shadows and mirrors: reflections on Birtwistle in the new millennium’, in D. Beard et al., Birtwistle Studies (Cambridge: CUP, 2015), 293–303

Professor J Davis The research team have continued to develop a range of switchable and analyte-recruiting interfaces and have developed sensitive capacitative and immittance function based diagnostic platforms. The basis of quantum capacitative detection has been theoretically introduced and experimentally demonstrated. Exosome based diagnostic assays are being developed and the development of a highly sensitive Pancreatic

97 cancer triple marker panel is ongoing. New molecular-surface assembly protocols have been developed and are being applied to the specific detection of cations and anions of environmental impact. A range of protic and 19F nanoparticle based resonant contrast agents continue to be refined. The work has been supported by awards from the MRC, The Royal Society and the EPSRC. 1. A.V. Patel, F. Bedatty-Fernandez, P.R. Bueno, J.J. Davis, Immittance electroanalysis in diagnostic assaying, Analytical Chemistry, 2015, 87, 944-950. 2. W. Wang, W. Wang, J. J. Davis, X. Luo, Ultrasensitive and selective voltammetric aptasensor for dopamine detection based on reduced graphene oxide doped conducting polymer nanocomposite, Microchimica Acta, 2015, 182, 5, 1123-1129. 3. Santos, J.J. Davis, P.R. Bueno, Fundamentals and applications of impedimetric and redox capacitance biosensors, Journal of Analytical & Bioanalytical Techniques, 2014, S7:016.doi: 10.4172/2155-9872.S7-016 4. G. Davies, A. Brown, O. Blackburn, M. Tropiano, S. Faulkner, P.D. Beer, J.J. Davis, Ligation driven 19F relaxation enhancement in self assembled Ln(III) complexes, Chemical Communications, 2015, 51, 2918-2920. 5. Q.Xu, H. Cheng, J. Lehr, J.J. Davis, Graphene oxide interfaces in serum based autoantibody detection, Analytical Chemistry, 2015, 87, 346-350. 6. A.V. Patel, F.V. Fernandes, JJ. Davis, Graphene based biomarker diagnostics, Bioanalysis, 2015, 7, 725-742. 7. G.P. Morris, R.E. Baker, K. Gillow, J.J. Davis, D.J., Gavaghan, A.M. Bond, Theoretical analysis of the relative significance of thermodynamic and kinetic dispersion in the DC and AC voltammetry of surface-confined molecules, Langmuir, 2015, 31, 4996-5004. 8. P.R. Bueno, G.T. Feliciano, J.J. Davis, Capacitance spectroscopy and density functional theory, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2015, 17, 9375-9382. 9. W. Wang, X. Fan, S. Xu, J.J. Davis, X. Luo, Low fouling label free DNA sensor based on polyethylene glycols for the detection of breast cancer markers, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2015, 71, 51-56. 10. J. Lehr, M. Tropiano, P.D. Beer, S.F. Faulkner, J.J. Davis, Reversibly redox switchable lanthanide emissive interfaces, Chemical Communications, 2015, 51, 6515 – 6517.

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11. J. Lehr, S. Faulkner, P.D. Beer, J.J. Davis, Ratiometric oxygen sensing using lanthanide luminescent emitting interfaces, Chemical Communications, 2015, 51, 15944-15947. 12. J. Lim, P.D. Beer, J.J. Davis, M. Cunningham, Halogen bonding- enhanced electrochemical halide anion sensing by redox-active ferrocene receptors, Chemical Communications, 2015, 51, 14640-14643 13. P.R. Bueno, T. Azevedo Benites, J.J. Davis, Mesoscopic electrochemistry, Scientific Reports, 2016, 6, 18400. 14. F.C. Bedatty-Fernandez, A.V. Patil, P.R. Bueno, J.J. Davis, Optimised diagnostic assays based on redox tagged bioreceptive interfaces, Analytical Chemistry, 2015, 87, 12137-12144.

Dr B W Young I was invited to a number of international conferences and gave papers at the University of Haifa in Israel in January on late Enlightenment thinking in eighteenth-century England; at St Andrews in March on Scottish depictions of England in the inter-war years of the twentieth century; to the Europaeum at Leiden University in late September on the Glorious Revolution of 1688; and, in November, on Gibbon and medieval history at Lausanne University. I also gave a talk on the study of intellectual history at the European University in Florence in April.

Dr J Yee Most of my research time in 2015 was taken up with the completion of my book (The Colonial Comedy, forthcoming with Oxford University Press in June 2016). 2015 did however see the publication of my chapter on ‘Exoticism and Colonialism’, in the Cambridge Companion to French Literature, edited by John D. Lyons (Cambridge University Press, pp. 151-167). I also gave a paper on Émile Zola’s novel L’Argent (‘Zola’s Wild Child: Recuperation or Contamination?’) at the Nineteenth- Century French Studies conference in Princeton. In Oxford itself I gave an introductory speech on ‘Exoticism and Auto-Exoticism’, for the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) workshop on ‘Auto-Exoticism’.

Professor S Cragg Stephanie Cragg’s publications included original research articles on dopamine neurotransmission, and its disruption in Parkinson’s disease,

99 published in the Journal of Neuroscience (Brimblecombe and Cragg 2015a), the Journal of Physiology (Brimblecombe et al. 2015), ACS Chemical Neuroscience (Brimblecombe and Cragg 2015b), Neurobiology of Disease (Jennings et al. 2015), and a collaborative work with Dr SL Ang (UCL) in PNAS (Pristera et al 2015). She co-authored a review on Parkinson’s disease with Prof R Wade-Martins (Christ Church) in Trends in Neuroscience (Hunn et al 2015). Professor Cragg gave platform presentations at the British Festival of Neuroscience in Edinburgh, the Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Chicago, and the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Parkinson’s disease in New Hampshire, USA, and others. She joined the editorial board for npj Parkinson’s Disease, and was awarded research funding from Parkinson’s UK.

Dr G Berczi As a member of the geometry group in the Mathematical Institute of Oxford my work focuses on symmetries of geometric objects coming from physics. The group of symmetries in some sense determines the complexity of the object, and my interest lies in so-called non-reductive symmetry groups when the ring of invariant functions is not necessarily finitely generated. In a joint project with Frances Kirwan I am working on non- reductive group actions in algebraic geometry, and constructions of orbit spaces of these actions, the so-called moduli spaces. I am particularly interested in computing topological invariants of these moduli.

Recent publications: G. Berczi, A. Szenes: Thom polynomials of Morin singularities, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 175 (2012), pp 567-629. G. Berczi, F. Kirwan: A geometric construction for invariant jet differentials, Surveys in Differential Geometry, Vol XVII, 2012, pp 79-126. G. Berczi: The Popov-Pommerening conjecture for linear algebraic groups, arXiv:1304.7719. G. Berczi: Tautological integrals on curvilinear Hilbert schemes, arXiv:1510.09206. G. Berczi, B. Doran, T. Hawes and F. Kirwan: GIT for graded unipotent groups and applications, arXiv:1601.00340

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Professor S Dadson This year, Simon Dadson participated in an Oxford-led research consortium, REACH: Improving Water Security for the Poor, which was awarded £15m by the UK Department for International Development. The project will advise on how water resources can be better managed to help millions of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Bangladesh. Simon was also awarded funding by the Leverhulme Trust for a three-year project to investigate the extent of African lakes and wetlands during the African Humid Period (approximately 9,000-5,000 years ago). This year saw the launch of the OECD’s Report on Water Security and Economic Growth, of which Simon was a co-author. Other publications this year include:

Sadoff, C.W., Hall, J.W., Grey, D., Aerts, J.C.J.H., Ait-Kadi, M., Brown, C., Cox, A., Dadson, S., Garrick, D., Kelman, J., McCornick, P., Ringler, C., Rosegrant, M., Whittington, D. and Wiberg, D. (2015) Securing Water, Sustaining Growth: Report of the GWP/OECD Task Force on Water Security and Sustainable Growth.University of Oxford, UK. 180 pp. ISBN:978-1-874370-55-0. Marthews, T.R., Dadson, S.J., Lehner, B., Abele, S., and Gedney, N. (2015) High-resolution global topographic index values for use in large-scale hydrological modelling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19: 91-104. Marthews, T.R., Otto, F.E.L., Mitchell, D., Dadson, S.J., and Jones, R.G. (2015) The 2014 Drought in the Horn of Africa: Attribution of meteorological drivers. Bulletin American Meteorological Society. Whitehead, P.G., Bussi, G., Bowes, M.J., Read, D.S., Elliott, J.A. and Dadson, S.J. (2015) Dynamic modelling of multiple phytoplankton groups in rivers with an application to the Thames river system in the UK. Environmental Modelling and Software, 74: 75-91.

Dr B Spagnolo I was honoured and delighted that the Chief Justice of Australia, the Hon. Robert French AC, launched my book, The Continuity of Legal Systems in Theory and Practice (Hart Publishing 2015), in Perth in December.’

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Professor R Barker Publications Barker, R. (2015). Conservatism, Prudence and the IASB’s Conceptual Framework (ICAEW P.D. Leake Lecture). Accounting and Business Research, 45(4): 514-538. Barker, R. and McGeachin, A. (2015). ‘Is the IASB Consistent on Conservatism? An Evaluation of the Concept and Practice of Conservatism in IFRS.’ Abacus, 51(2):169–207.

Professor J Joosten Jan Joosten preached the McBride sermon on Psalm 8 in Hertford College, on 25 January, and gave his inaugural lecture, “Hebrew: a holy tongue?” on 27 October. Outside of Oxford he taught in Jerusalem and Berlin and participated in conferences in Jerusalem, Eisenach, Strasbourg, Syracuse, Paris, Fribourg (Switzerland) and Atlanta. Together with Eberhard Bons and Regine Hunziker-Rodewald he published an edited volume on Biblical Lexicology: Hebrew and Greek. Semantics – Exegesis – Translation (Berlin, 2015). With Ron Hendel from UC Berkeley he is working on a book titled How Old is the Hebrew Bible?

Professor G Hutchinson Publications ‘Space in the Aeneid’, in E. Cingano and H. Günther (edd.), Studies on Vergil in Honour of Mario Geymonat (Freiburg, 2015), 258-94; ‘Appian the artist: rhythmic prose and its literary implications’, Classical Quarterly n.s. 65 (2015), 788-806.

Professor K Manova During 2015, Associate Professor Kalina Manova published one article in a top general-interest journal in economics (Review of Economics and Statistics), two articles in top field journals (Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics), and an invited review article on a growing area of international trade that she helped establish (Annual Review of Economics). She also organized two AEA conference sessions and presented her work at 9 university seminars and 11 conferences, including a keynote address. She continued interacting with the policy world by contributing a chapter

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Dr R Archer Rowena E Archer was consultant and contributor to the exhibition at The Tower of London to mark the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt 2015 and wrote ‘War Widows’ for the volume ‘The Battle of Agincourt’ eds Anne Curry and Malcolm Mercer.(Yale 2015). Lectured on the Battle in Montreuil sur Mer in September 2015.

Publication of ‘Alice Chaucer, duchess of Suffolk (d.1475), and her East Anglian Estates’ in ‘Wingfield College and its Patrons. Piety and Prestige in Medieval Suffolk’, eds Peter Bloore and Edward Martin (Woodbridge, 2015)

Dr K Brain During 2015, Dr Brain was elected as a Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society, and continues on the editorial board of their main journal. His research output includes collaborative work with groups in Birmingham (with Kirchhof, Frabritz and others on optical electrophysiology in the heart; Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, doi:10.1080/21681163.2015.1081079) and India (with Appukuttan, S. and Manchanda, R. on “A computational model of urinary bladder smooth muscle syncytium: validation and investigation of electrical properties,” Journal of Computational Neuroscience 38: 167-187). He was also appointed as external examiner (Pharmacology for Pharmacy) at the University of Cardiff.

Professor T Littlewood I am vice-president of the British Society for Haematology (HSH) and will become president in April 2016. At the April 2016 meeting of BSH I am giving the main lecture on the topic of medical education. In 2015, I am an author of 6 articles in peer reviewed journals.

Mr A Lunt This year Alexander Lunt has been finishing his thesis entitled “a study of the yttria partially stabilised zirconia-porcelain interface in dental prostheses”. He has also published 7 first authored international journal articles including 2 invited reviews, one of which was awarded “best

103 mechanical engineering paper” at the World Congress on Engineering 2015. Looking forwards, Alexander has recently been offered a senior fellowship at CERN which he will be taking up at the end of his stipendiary lectureship.

Mr C Mishra As a graduate researcher at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, I have been working on the geometry of extra dimensions of space in superstring theory, with a particular focus on Calabi-Yau threefolds.

Publications “Hodge Numbers for CICYs with Symmetries of Order Divisible by 4”, Philip Candelas, Andrei Constantin, Challenger Mishra, arXiv:1511.01103, accepted for publication in Fortschritte der Physik. “The Family Problem: Hints from Heterotic Line Bundle Models”, Andrei Constantin, Andre Lukas, Challenger Mishra, arXiv:1509.02729, accepted for publication in the Journal of High Energy Physics. “Calabi-Yau Threefolds with Small Hodge Numbers”, Philip Candelas, Andrei Constantin, Challenger Mishra, arXiv:1602.06303.

Dr S J Schroeder Publications: ‘Mathematics and Forms of Life’, in Nordic Wittgenstein Review, Oct 2015; 111-30. ‘Wittgenstein: Gebrauch, Sprachspiel, Regeln’, in Nikola Kompa (ed.), Handbuch Sprachphilosophie, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2015; 207-15. ‘A Mixed Bag’: Article review of The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, in: British Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (2015) 2, 368-79.

Dr S Thompson Tohru Yamashita, Peter C. Knipe, Nathalie Busschaert, Sam Thompson, Andrew D. Hamilton – ‘A Modular Synthesis of Conformationally Preorganised Extended β-Strand Peptidomimetics’ (Hot paper). Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, front cover: p. 14,653 [DOI], cover profile: p. 14,657 [DOI], article: pp. 14,699- 14,702 [DOI].

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Jonathan E. Ross, Peter C. Knipe, Sam Thompson, Andrew D. Hamilton – ‘Hybrid diphenylalkyne-dipeptide oligomers induce multi-strand β-sheet formation’. Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, pp. 13,518- 13,521 [DOI]. Oleg V. Kulikov, Sunil Kumar, Mazin Magzoub, Peter C. Knipe, Ishu Saraogi, Sam Thompson, Andrew D. Miranker – ‘Amphiphilic oligoamide α-helix peptidomimetics inhibit islet amyloid polypeptide aggregation’. Tetrahedron Lett., Invited contribution for the Special Issue in memory of Professor Harry Wasserman, 2015, 56, pp. 3670-3673 [DOI]. Peter C. Knipe, Sam Thompson, Andrew D. Hamilton – ‘Ion- Mediated Conformational Switches’. Chem Sci., Invited perspective, 2015, 6, pp. 1630-1639 [DOI]. Elizabeth A. German, Jonathan E. Ross, Peter C. Knipe, Michaela F. Don, Sam Thompson, Andrew D. Hamilton – ‘β-Strand mimetic foldamers rigidified through dipolar repulsion’. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, pp. 2649-2652 [DOI]. Madura K.P. Jayatunga, Sam Thompson, Tawnya C. McKee, Mun Chiang Chan, Kelie M. Reece, Adam P. Hardy, Rok Sekirnik, Peter T. Seden, Kristina M. Cook, James B. McMahon, William D. Figg, Christopher J. Schofield, Andrew D. Hamilton – ‘Inhibition of the HIF1α-p300 interaction by quinone- and indandione-mediated ejection of structural Zn(II)’. Eur. J. Med. Chem., Invited contribution for the Special Issue: Protein-Protein Interactions: Mechanisms, Inhibitors and Stabilizers, 2015, 94, pp. 509-516 [DOI].

Dr A L Upton Publication S Wright, K Hashemi, L Stasiak, J Bartram, B Lang, A Vincent and A.L. Upton (2015) Epileptogenic effects of NMDAR-antibodies in a passive transfer mouse model. Brain 138(11):3159-67

Professor R Vilain In August 2015 Robert Vilain demitted as Head of the School of Modern Languages in Bristol and took over as the 10th Warden on Wills Hall.

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Mr R Hamer Publication A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse, revised and expanded edition (Faber & Faber, 2015).

Professor J K S Ward I continued as a Fellow of the British Academy and as a Research Professor at Heythrop College, London. I published a book, ‘Christ and the Cosmos; a reformulation of Trinitarian theology’.

Professor J R C Wright I co-edited with Steven Casey, Mental Maps in the Era of Détente and the End of the Cold War 1968-91 (Palgrave) and contributed a chapter on ‘Willy Brandt and Helmut Kohl’.

Prof Henry Mayr-Harting Henry Mayr-Harting gave five lectures on Ottonian Art at the V & A, and a talk on Confession in Norwich. He was also drawn into the Magna Carta eighth century bonanza, giving one lecture on it in deepest Somerset on a Sunday afternoon in winter to an audience of 160 (he usually has to cultivate what Edmund Burke called ‘the art of addressing empty benches’), and another to a good audience at Beaminster, near the birthplace of David Hine. Late in 2015 he gave a faculty lecture on Ottonian learning in Vienna. He published an article in that field in a Cologne series, and his book, Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 1066-1272 (2011), was re-issued after a false start by the publisher.

Dr H Boyd-Bennett Publications ‘Modernist mise-en-scène: Luigi Nono and the Politics of Staging’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association 140/1 (April 2015), 225-35.

Conferences Organised panel on ‘America in the Interwar European Imagination’, at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (Louisville, Kentucky, November 2015).

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‘Italian Workers’ Songs c. 1924’, Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (Louisville, Kentucky, November 2015). ‘Gothic Opera: Hearing Englishness in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, 1954’, Annual Conference of the Society of Italian Studies (University of Oxford, September 2015). ‘An Operatic giallo: On Hearing Englishness in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, 1954’, First Transnational Opera Studies Conference (Università di Bologna, July 2015).

Other Secured book contract with Cambridge University Press for forthcoming monograph The Politics of Opera in Postwar Venice (forthcoming 2017).

Invited evening talk for Bury Court Opera and The Wagner Society, ‘Stravinsky and The Rake’s Progress’ (St Botolph’s Church, London, in February 2015).

Dr B Haezlewood Dr Haezlewood was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2015-2018), held in the Department of Chemistry.

Publications Published five articles in peer-reviewed journals in 2015, including an invited review article with Professor Tim Softley for the Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry.

Dr R Holmes Invited to give a public talk at The Royal Academy of Arts on “Ai Weiwei, Social Media and online Activism”, in conjunction with the major Ai Weiwei retrospective they organised last year.

Dr J Meinecke Publications: J. Meinecke et al. PNAS 2015 H. S. Park et al. Phys. Plasmas 2015 C. M. Huntington et al. Nature Physics 2015

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Awards: IOP Very Early Career Female Physicist of the Year 2015

Other: Hosted the UK's 1st Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics CUWiP. Elected National Ignition Facility User Group Young Researcher Board Member. Through the Women of the Future Programme: opened London Stock Exchange & tea with the Speaker

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NEWS OF OLD MEMBERS

1959 Richard SENIOR Is a Life Trustee of Northwestern Hospital Foundation.

1960 Professor Robin ATTFIELD In 2015 Professor Attfield published with Edinburgh University Press the second edition of The Ethics of the Global Environment. He also gave an address at the University of Vienna on Forest Ethics.

Patrick CASEMENT My light-hearted autobiography, "Growing up? A journey with laughter" was published in August 2015 by Karnac Books, details on Amazon.

Professor Michael OSBORNE I have now retired from the position of Vice-Chancellor and President of La Trobe University (in Melbourne) after 16 years in office. Prior to that I was Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Currently I am Professor Emeritus, the University of Melbourne and Guest Professor at Peking University, Beijing Foreign Studies University and the Hellenic Education and Research Center (Athens). Awards etc: Fellow of Australian Academy of Humanities, Academy of Athens, Hungarian Academy of Engineering, Australian Institute of Management, Greek Epigraphic Society; Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts; Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Honours: Hon D.Litt. (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens); Hon D.Litt. (La Trobe University). Honours for services to Hellenic Studies and promotion of links between Greece and China (PRC): Centenary Medal (Australia); Niki Award (Australia); Honorary Distinction (Republic of Cyprus); Aristotle Award (Greece); Gold Crown of World Congress of the Greeks of the Diaspora; Award of Oecumenic Hellenism of Academy of Institutions and Cultures (Greece); Honorary Professor of numerous Chinese universities. I am married to a Chinese citizen (Liang Wenquan) with whom I have a son, Leon. We split our year between residence in Melbourne, Beijing and Athens.

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Lord YOUNG of COOKHAM I have published a book - I'm Keeping Young - the Everyday Life of an MP. A light hearted look at a career in politics.

1962 Mark RATCLIFFE I have jointly published a book titled: "Best Practices in Managing Competitive Intelligence Research: For Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Managers". This is the first book examining the role of competitive intelligence (CI) and how best to managed it in the pharmaceutical industry. It is available through Amazon and on Kindle.

1964 Stephen CUNLIFFE After retiring from his more conventional career ten years ago, Stephen Cunliffe continues his second and unexpectedly successful career as a nature photographer. He has won several awards at both the national and local level. His work can be found on his website www.admiraltyimages.com. He lives with his wife on the Olympic Peninsula, in a far-flung corner of the American Pacific Northwest, and contributes the proceeds of his work to local nature conservation. He is very happy to offer both accommodation and guidance to any member of the House who would like to visit this obscure but naturally wonderful part of the world.

Professor Michael MORLEY Publication: A Pianist's A-Z. A Piano Lover's Reader. By Alfred Brendel. English version by the author with Michael Morley. Faber, 2013.

Christopher SLOAN I have spent 36 years in Germany teaching German youth the rudiments of English. During that time I got interested in schools debating (in English) and discovered that since 1988 there has been an annual international competition, called the World Schools Debating Championship, which takes place in a different exotic location (Singapore...Calgary...Cape Town...Dundee [yes, the jute-and- marmalade town in Scotland]) each year. So we started sending a

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German national team annually. This year we thought that you really can’t get more exotic than Stuttgart, so WSDC 2016, with 60 national teams and 550 participants, will take place in Stuttgart from 19th - 29th July. (I’m not the king pin, but just a member of the organising committee.) If any of the Class of ’64 are around in South-west Germany at that time, and would like to see a debate or two, I shall be delighted to welcome them

1965 Antony PERCY Has just had an article published in History Today, titled ‘The Undercover Egghead’ (see http://www.historytoday.com/antony- percy/isaiah-berlin-undercover-egghead). Since the piece concerns a notable Oxford figure, I suspect it may provoke some healthy local discussion. The piece is based on a seminar I led at Buckingham University in October 2013 (and reported on at the time by BBC Radio Oxford, who interviewed me), where I am about to complete my doctoral thesis in Security and Intelligence Studies.

1966 Simon ROTHON Simon has been awarded a PhD by the School of European Languages, Culture and Society at University College London. His Doctoral studies investigated ideologies of manly heroism in French and British adventure fiction 1870 to 1900. He is currently chairman of the council of Trustees at Roedean.

1968 Nigel PALMER I have just finished a further B.A. in Theology at St Stephen's House, in Oxford, but have taken the opportunity to exercise my dining rights in Christ Church Hall on occasion during my time at "Staggers", scaffolding, or no scaffolding. I go on this coming academic year (2015- 2016) to do an M.A. at King's College London, in Biblical Studies.

Haydn ROWSTRON I recently received a letter from the French Minister for Culture awarding me the honour of Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et Lettres for my contribution to French culture and to music and opera in general. I

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1969 Patrick WHITWORTH Patrick has recently published (May 2015) a new book on Church History entitled Three Wise Men from the East : The Cappadocian Fathers and the Struggle for Orthodoxy. It charts the struggle of Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzen and Gregory of Nyssa in defence of the Trinity during the 4th Century Arian Controversy. Renowned for their service to the poor, their mystical writings and the beauty of their doctrinal statements, they make a fascinating study. In his Foreword Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene Cambridge, writes “Wonderfully comprehensive and clear. We are able to see the Cappadocians not as counters in the board of controversy but as complex human figures wrestling with challenges of internal and external crises for the Church. This will be a really welcome tool for all students of early Christianity, and excellent and accessible reading for anyone who wants to understand better the formative period of Christian teaching. It is a message that the church of our own time should take very seriously”. Published by Sacristy Press Durham £13 - may be purchased from their website- 243pp

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1970 Professor Simon KAY I continue as a Consultant Plastic Surgeon, and Prof of Hand surgery at the University of Leeds. I am the editor of the forthcoming Oxford Textbook of Plastic Surgery. Our near neighbour University of Bradford was kind enough to bestow an honorary DSc on me this year for my work in reconstructive microsurgery. I have also become the Director of Hand Transplantation here as the NHS England has designated our unit as the first and only National Centre: it sounds a small success but anyone who has battled the hydra of NHS organisation will recognise its weight!

1971 Hew DUNDAS Hew Dundas had a diverse career in oil platform construction, motor racing (owning and managing the HRD Racing team, which had more than 60 race wins) and law (including being General Counsel of a FTSE100 oil company) before establishing a career as an international arbitrator (including being President, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 2007) and playing a key role in the creation of the Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010 (including co-authoring the definitive textbook on it) and authoring more than 200 articles on arbitration law in learned journals. He has also been active in the City of London Livery, having been Master of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators in 2011-12 and being a Liveryman of both the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights and the Honourable Company of Master Mariners and a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians; he is also a member of the Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh and is a Burgess of the City of Edinburgh.

1972 Professor James BINNEY James Binney “flexibly retired” to 55% of a full-time appointment as a professor to concentrate on running his research group, which is largely funded by the European Research Council. It is using data from the Gaia satellite, launched by the European Space Agency in Dec 2013, and complementary data from ground based telescopes to understand how our Galaxy works as a machine and (hopefully!) how it was assembled. In his 45% of free time he still tutors second-year students

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Professor Peter CLAISSE I retired in 2014 and am now an Emeritus Professor at Coventry University and have published two books: Transport Properties of Concrete, a research monograph, Elsevier (Woodhead imprint) 2014; Civil Engineering Materials, an undergraduate textbook, Elsevier (Butterworth Heinemann imprint) 2015

David SOLOMONS Music composed by David Solomons is now becoming more widely known, especially his works for flute and for choir which are being performed in the USA, Chile and elsewhere. For more details please visit his website www.dwsolo.com

1973 Dr Martin WEST I completed a DPhil in English Local History. I did this through the OUDCE programme for which I was/am a member of Kellogg

1975 Gregory DOWLING My historical novel, Ascension, set in 18th-century Venice, was published by Polygon in September 2015 (historical fiction Book of the Month for The Times).

1977 David HUDD I was appointed Deputy CEO of Hogan Lovells in 2014.

1978 Professor Logan BROWNING Publisher and Executive Editor, ‘SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900’, and Professor in the Practice of English and Humanities, Rice University. SEL received the 2014 Voyager Award from the

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Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) for excellence in scholarship treating the years 1500-1800.

Penny CHALONER Published Organic Chemistry: A Mechanistic Approach in 2014.

1979 Charles EWALD Charles Ewald is a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching Foundations of Impact Investing.

Frank HANCOCK I’ve spent the past 20 years working on cross border M&A out in India, first with Warburg, then ABN AMRO for whom I ran investment banking, and now Barclays. In the process I’ve assisted the leading Indian business houses - like TATA, Bharti, Mahindra, Cipla etc to acquire abroad, worked on large trades, and had a lot of fun. I’ve just resigned from Barclays but am staying on in India; I am taking on a portfolio of advisory roles through which I will continue helping my Indian clients satisfy their global growth plans.

1980 David JONES David Jones would like to report that in 2014 his former roommate R C JACKSON was installed at Westminster Abbey by the Archbishop of Canterbury as Bishop of Lewis

1982 Dr David LEADLEY In 2015 David Leadley became Head of Physics at the University of Warwick and ran a marathon for the first time, finishing under three hours. Celebrating 25 years since wedding in ChCh Cathedral to Rebekah (nee Graham, Somerville 1984).

1983 Tony CROOKS Married Ruth Kawira Njagi in December 2014.

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1984 Simon BRADLEY Some publications (all books) to mention in the next Annual Report: Cambridgeshire, a revised edition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides series (Yale University Press, 2014); The Railways: Nation, Network and People (Profile, 2015); Churches: An Introduction (Pevsner Introductions series, Yale University Press, 2016). Now working on a revised edition of the Pevsner volume for Oxford and South Oxfordshire, as a Research Associate at St John's, Oxford.

1987 Dr Kieron WINN In August 2015 I published The Mortal Man, my first collection of poems, featuring work that initially appeared e.g. in The Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, New Statesman, and on BBC TV and radio; you may have seen a full-page advert in Christ Church Matters recently. A description of the book is on my website: www.kieronwinn.com

1989 James MULRAINE On July 25th 2015, James Mulraine (1989) married Zachary Innes. Tom Church (1989) was Best Man; friends and family included Kirsty Crawford née Fowkes (1990) and Nicholas Dibley (1989).

1990 Dr Cormac NEWARK In January 2015 I was appointed Head of Research at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

1991 Dr Vahni CAPILDEO Two more books of my poems have been published, Simple Complex Shapes (Shearsman, 2015) and Measures of Expatriation (Carcanet, 2016); Measures of Expatriation is shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2016.

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Nat GREENE I co-authored Wedged, which examines the root causes behind American political polarization and can be found on Amazon. Also in December 2014 I skied to the South Pole. Boy that was hard.

1995 Thomas MORRIS In March 2015 I left the BBC after 17 years as a producer for Radio 3 and Radio 4. I am writing a book about the history of heart surgery, which will be published in 2017 by Bodley Head.

James TILLEY Despite, or possibly due to, not knowing each other at college, Claire Vickers (1995) and James Tilley (1994) got married in Oxford in April 2015.

1996 Amelia KNIGHT (nee ROWLAND) On 24th April 2014 I gave birth to George, who joins his older brothers Freddie and Charlie in bringing chaos and merriment in equal measure to the family.

Rana NAWAS Welcomed her first child into the world on 21 December 2014. George Malek Patrick Davies is already outsmarting her. In the summer of 2016 Rana was appointed President of Ellevate Dubai. Ellevate is a premier global businesswomen’s networking platform headquartered in NY: ellevatenetwork.com. Ellevate Dubai’s mission is to connect, grow and inspire Dubai’s professional women.

Sarah ALLATT & Martin PORTER are very pleased to announce the arrival of their third son Matthew Edward Allatt Porter in October 2015. Matthew is the fourth grandson for Graham ALLATT (1967).

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1997 Harriet RÖSSGER (née SPENCE) Hattie and Tobias, a Berliner, married in June 2015. Life remains challenging and exciting...

1999 Tom GREGGS Tom Greggs was translated into the Marischal Chair of Divinity at the University of Aberdeen; founded in 1616, this is the oldest separate chair of divinity at the university.

Rosemary JOHNS (née CLEMENTS) I now write fantasy and dark fiction as Rosemary A Johns and head the Dreaming Spires Group in Oxford. I also write as R. A. Johns for short stories and have been published this year in a number of anthologies, including those by Horrified Press and Thirteen O’clock Press (for example, War, Toybox and Tales from the Blue Gonk Café). I give performances and readings, most recently at the “Hello, Darkness” festival event.

2000 Erkki SEPPANEN Erkki continues to work as an independent entrepreneur. He has released eight albums with his bands and just completed a tour ranging from St. Petersburg to Irkutsk, Siberia, with his bank KYPCK where he sings and writes lyrics in Russian. He has three children and lives in Tampere, Finland.

Jessica WARDHAUGH (née IRONS) Dr Jessica WARDHAUGH (née IRONS) and her husband are pleased to announce the birth of their third son, Laurence, in April 2015. Now an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, she also published her third book - an edited volume on Politics and the Individual in France, 1930-50 - with Legenda.

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2001 Riz AHMED I was cast in the forthcoming instalments of the Star Wars and Bourne film franchises.

Nicola BAZZANI Since 2014 I have been working as a diplomat in the political section of the EU Delegation in Baghdad, Iraq. In September 2016 I will conclude my work at the EU and I will go back to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome, as diplomatic Counsellor, for a period of training for career advancement. I have been working in diplomacy (Italy and EU) since 2003.

Kathryn WILSON I recently had a solo exhibition in Dubai. Further information can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/hhc4my4

2003 Natalie JOHNSTON-McDOWELL My husband Richard and I welcomed a baby boy, Wilfred Arthur, on 2 December 2015, in London.

2004 David McKINSTRY David has been appointed Director of the Historic Environment for England and Wales at the Georgian Group. The Georgian Group was founded in 1937 and it is the national charity, in England and Wales, dedicated to preserving Georgia buildings, townscapes and planned gardens and landscapes of circa 1700-1840.

2005 Nick HAINES My wife, Erin (née Lane, LMH 2005) and I are delighted to announce the birth of our first child, Charles Timothy Gordon, on 21st February 2015 at the John Radcliffe hospital, Oxford.

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2007 Iris FINKEMEIER (former JRF) Appointed as full professor for Plant Physiology at the University of Munster in 2015.

2009 Torsten HOFFMANN I am an entrepreneur based in Australia. Recently I have written, produced and directed my first film: a 60 minute documentary about money, finance, technology and the controversial Internet currency Bitcoin. The film has now been released and already won several awards at festivals (2 x Las Vegas, Amsterdam). I am sure that many alumni of Christ Church are now working in the finance sector, so information about this project might be valuable to them. I am happy to answer any questions, write a short article, create a promo code, and/or send some artwork. Looking forward to your feedback. Here ae some links: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4654844/ https://medium.com/@TorstenHoffmann/7-reasons-wjy-i-made-a- documentary-about-bitcoin-ea7964290fae http://theendofmoneyasweknowit.com/press-kit https//vimeo.com/ondemand/bitcoin https:///twitter.com/theendofmoney http://cointelegraph.com/news/11486/crowdfunded-documentary- bitcoin-the-end-of-money-as-we-know-it-premiers-online https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmjjKmkAD 2gl1dYGqS16MHA https://www.facebook.com/bitcointheendofmoneyasweknowit

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DECEASED MEMBERS

Hugh Desmond AMOS, [1953]. 22 December 2015 aged 82. Professor James Henry APPLETON, [1938]. 27 April 2015 aged 96. Mark Richard Henry BAILY, [1959]. August 2014 aged 73. Lewis Laurence BOYLE, [1960]. 6 October 2015 aged 73. Michael John CALDER, FCA, [1953]. 31 August 2015 aged 83. Sir Albert Raymond Maillard CARR, [1938]. 19 April 2015 aged 96. The Revd. Canon Peter George COBB, [1956]. 26 May 2010 aged 72. Professor Michael Kevin CRADDOCK, [1954]. 11 November 2015 aged 79. Harry Lindsay GRAIG, BM BCh FRCGP [1949]. 25 September 2014 aged 87. The Revd. Ronald Humphrey DARROCH, [1967]. 28 January 2015 aged 69. David Gareth Philips DAVIES, [1953]. 26 March 2015 aged 80. Samuel Alexander (Sandy) FARIS, [1940]. 28 September 2015 aged 94. Charles FARRELL, MC,[1937]. 28 April 2015 aged 96. Cyril Trevor FLETCHER, [1946]. March 2015 aged 85. Ian Duncan FRASER, OBE DSC, [1937]. 7 March 2015 aged 96. Justin Tomas FRYER, [1958]. 18 April 2015 aged 74. The Rt Revd. Bishop Ronald GORDON, [1991]. 8 August 2015 aged 88. Anthony Philip GRAHAM-DIXON, QC, [1948]. 6 March 2012 aged 82. John Richard Daniel GREEN, [1944]. 14 February 2015. Nicholas Francis Barnaby JARMAN, [1959]. 17 February 2015 aged 76. William Peter LONGHURST, [1957]. 27 April 2015 aged 77. Peter George MEDWAY, [1959]. 17 January 2015 aged 73. Robin Christopher MOORE, [1952]. 17 December 2015 aged 82. David Myles MORRIS, [1953]. 23 November 2015. William David Mungo James MURRAY, The Right Hon. The Earl of Mansfield, [1950]. 21 October 2015 aged 85. David Alphy Edward Raymond PEAKE, [1955]. 7 September 2015 aged 80. Martin Harold ORDE, OBE [1940]. 2 January 2015 aged 92. Edmund NEVILLE-ROLFE, [1939]. 3 February 2015 aged 95. Michael Denison PALMER, [1970]. 8 September 2015 aged 81. Charles Henry PETRE, [1954]. 6 October 2014 aged 74.

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Derek Brian Anthony, PAPPIN, [1953]. 24 September 2015. Robert S PIRIE, 15 January 2015 aged 79. Thomas Frederick RICHTER, [1958]. September 2014 aged 76. Christopher Murray ROWE, [1978]. 27 July 2015 aged 66. Timothy Frank SALE, [1963]. 2015 aged 71. The Revd. Dr John William Kervyn SANDYS-WUNSCH, [1956]. 29 September 2015 aged 79. Brigadier Fraser SCOTT, [1937]. 6 July 2015 aged 95. The Revd. John Eric SCOTT, [1945]. 2 December 2015 aged 99. Patrick John Edward SHEAHAN, [1951]. In 2015 aged 86. David Branco SILVA, [1998]. 27 November 2013 aged 38. Maxwell John SISTERSON, [1956]. 30 August 2014 aged 78. Thomas Henry SNAGGE, [1955]. 17 April 2015 aged 80. Basil Henry George SPARROW, [1939]. 15 April 2015 aged 93. David Douglas Hooper SULLIVAN QC, [1944]. 9 July 2015 aged 89. The Revd. Arthur Sydney VALLE, [1936]. 6 March 2015 aged 97. Professor Bryan Reed WASHINGTON, [1980]. 31 December 2015 aged 57. Bruce Wykeham WATKIN, [1935]. 9 September 2015 aged 98. Philip Arthur WHITCOMBE, [1947]. 11 August 2015 aged 92 Corinne Elizabeth WILLIAMS, [1983]. 2015 aged 51. Muhammadu Diko YUSUFU, [1956]. 1 April 2015 aged 83.

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FINAL HONOUR SCHOOLS

Unfortunately there was an error in last year’s list of Final Honour Results, with the results for Chemistry being reported incorrectly. We apologise for this and list below the correct results for Chemistry Final Honour Schools in 2014.

Chemistry 2014 1 Andrew Baxter 2.1 Ryan Bower 1 Ju Won Cha 2.1 Christopher Hutchinson 1 Katrina Mennie 1 Adam Smith

2015 Biochemistry 1 Brendan Farrell 1 Alexander Robinson 2.1 Haneesh Sidhu

Biological Sciences 2.1 Chloe Brooks 2.1 John-Paul Flavell 2.1 Clementine McAteer 1 Ethan Moss 2.2 Emma Preedy 2.1 Benjamin Turner

Chemistry 2.1 Charles Bryant 1 Ewan MacAulay 1 James Spiers

Economics and Management 2.1 Benjamin Hodgson 1 Philip Jin 2.1 Ben Thorpe

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Engineering 2.1 William Badham 2.1 Rowan Callinan 2.1 Yi Hui Nicole Chew 1 Matthew Deakin 1 Nicholas Hazell 1 Daniel James

English 2.1 Tyler Alabanza-Behard 2.1 Lauren Benson 2.1 Rosalind Brody 2.1 Alice Cairns 2.1 Rachael Gledhill 2.1 Constance Greenfield 1 Luke Howarth 2.1 Timothy Leichtfried 2.1 Hebe Stanton 1 Anna Thorne

Fine Art 1 Irina Iordache 1 Jose-Mateo Revillo

Geography 2.1 Susannah Davis 1 Fraser Eccles 2.1 Harriet Ensor 2.1 Adam Knox 2.1 Tallulah Le Merle 2.1 Jessica Wright

History of Art 2.1 Samuel Simms

History 1 Hannah Barton 2.1 Harriet Bland 2.1 Thomas Featherstonhaugh

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1 Samuel Lane 2.1 Charles Malton 1 Sam Mottaheden 2.1 Nicholas Mutch 2.1 Clare Pleydell-Bouverie 1 Louis Seigal

History – Ancient and Modern 1 Robin Brenninkmeijer

History and Politics 1 Benjamin Sullivan

Languages – Classics 1 Nicholas White

Languages – European and Middle Eastern 2.1 Jack Gallagher 1 Gabriel Henry

Languages – Modern 1 Grace Dyer 2.1 Sarah Gingell 2.1 Thalia Ilsen Nunn 2.1 Georgia Lotter 2.1 Laurence McGinley 2.1 Roxana Tooti 2.1 Maxwell Turner

Languages – Modern with Linguistics 2.1 John King

Law 2.1 Rebecca Butler 2.1 Lindsey Cullen 2.1 Stefan Dior 2.1 Suzanne Marton 2.1 Paul-Raphael Shehadeh

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Law with Law Studies in Europe 2.1 Emily Davies 2.1 Anca-Simona Georgescu

Literae Humaniores 2.1 Hannah Barrett 2.2 Rupert Cunningham 1 Daniel Malcolm 2.1 Theo Oulton 2.1 Imogen Sadler 2.1 Christopher Smith

Mathematics – 4 Year 1 Piotr Bajger 2.1 Sabian Chauhan 2.1 Kibriya Rahman 1 Ruolin Wang

Mathematics – 3 Year 2.1 Sam Bentham 2.1 James McCormick

Medicine 2.1 Yosef Amel Riazat-Kesh 2.1 Edward Appleby 2.1 Ralitsa Slivkova

Music 2.1 Alexander Campbell 1 Jacob Downs 2.1 Alexander Pott

Oriental Studies (Japanese) 2.1 Karolina Bednarz

Physics (4 year) 1 Timothy Crothers 2.1 Diego Granziol

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2.1 Andrew Griffin 1 Michael Hardman 2.1 Naomi Holland 1 Alexandra Rollings

PPE 2.1 Declan Davis 1 Erik Hammar 1 Dongwook Lee 2.1 Isaac Lee 2.1 William Neaverson 2.1 Matthew Reid 2.1 Charlotte Ritchie 2.1 Andrew Wilson

Psychology – Experimental Psychology 2.1 Oliver Bray 2.1 Samantha Comben 2.1 Love Hedman

Psychology – Psychology and Philosophy 2.1 Clara Twamley

Theology 1 Joshua Skidmore

Philosophy and Theology 2.1 Esme Neale

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GRADUATE DEGREES

The following Christ Church graduates successfully completed their courses and passed examinations in 2015:

D.PHIL Rachel Abramowitz English Language and Literature Chay Allen Fine Art Joshua Bennett History Marisa Benoit History Eugene Birman Music Edoardo Borgomeo Geography and the Environment Nicola Brandt Fine Art Tom Bregman Zoology Elizabeth Buchanan History Tom Clucas English Jess Draper Fine Art Alex Drong Genomic Medicine and Statistics Thomas Fedrick-Illsley Theology Tyler Franconi Archaeology Narin Hengrung Structural Biology Jagadishwor Karmacharya Geography and the Environment Polina Kosillo Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics Meelis Lootus Life Sciences Interface (EPSRC CDT) Thibaut Louis Astrophysics Phil Ostrowski Cardiovascular Medicine Marie-laure Parsy Structural Biology Thapakron Pulampong Particle Physics Habibur Rahman Inorganic Chemistry Anand Segar Musculoskeletal Sciences Vid Simoniti Fine Art Max Sloan Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics Michael Tee Biomedical Sciences: NIH-OU Alice Thorneywork Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Ana Todea Comp Philology and Gen Linguistics Annette von Delft Clinical Medicine Katherine Wright Structural Biology

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BCL Samuel Brodsky Civil Law Distinction Pok On B C Chiu Civil Law Gretal Scott Civil Law Distinction Rhea Thrift Civil Law Distinction

MBA Mariko Carding Business Administration Distinction Georgina Fleming Business Administration Teun Kraaij Business Administration

M.Phil Donald Brown Modern British & European History Jirakiat Jirarattanachan Economics Liam Kirwin Economics Joseph McCrave Theology Nabeel Qureshi Judaism & Christianity in G/R World Josephine Rendall-Neal Modern British & European History Distinction Eileen Tipoe Economics Distinction

M.Sc Francisco Ayuso Gallego Mathematical and Computational Finance Distinction Arno Blaas Mathematical and Computational Finance Distinction Maria Blochl Neuroscience Yannick Brun Financial Economics Distinction Davide Folloni Neuroscience Saso Gorjanc Biodiversity Stella Schuck Financial Economics Distinction Cristiana Vagnoni Neuroscience Michelle Valentine Water Science Policy and Management Distinction KeLin Ye Financial Economics

M.St Henrietta Bailey-King English (1900-present)

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Sergei Bogdanov English (1550-1700) Distinction Kevin Graham Oriental Studies Carlos Munoz Cadilla Classical Archaeology Rachel Ruisard Music (Musicology) Distinction Cosima Stewart Late Antique & Byzantine Studies Distinction Tommy Wong Music (Musicology) Ro Han Yung Gen Linguistics and Comp Philology Distinction

MJur Laura Jung Distinction

PGCE Rebecca Alexander Alexander Murray Sarah-Jane Poole

Diploma in Legal Studies Jordi Llorens-Terrazas Distinction Morgane Praindhui-de-Bays Distinction Baptiste van Dijk

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NOTICE OF AWARDS AND UNIVERSITY PRIZES AWARDED TO JUNIOR MEMBERS 2014 - 2015

Matthew Lubbock Prize for the best performance in the Honour School of Engineering:

Matthew Deakin

Gibbs Book Prize in Biochemistry:

Brendan Farrell

Gibbs Prize in Classical Archaeology & Ancient History:

George Green

Gibbs Prize in Management in Economics & Management FHS:

Philip Jin

Gibbs Prize in Economics & Management Prelims:

Jaskaran Rajput

Gibbs Prize in Engineering Science for best Part B Project (Team):

Constance Crozier

Gibbs Prize in English Language & Literature Prelims:

Christopher Archibald

Gibbs Prize in Geography & the Environment:

Fraser Eccles

Gibbs Prize (Speaking) in Physics:

Frances Buist

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Gibbs Prize (Group Project) in Physics:

Samuel Stinson

Gibbs Prize (Written Paper) in Politics:

Erik Hammar

The Craven Prize 2015 (joint winner):

Nicholas White

Law Faculty Prize 2015 – European Private Law: Contract

Gretel Scott

Diploma in Legal Studies Prize for best overall performance:

Morgane Praindhui-de-Beys

The Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers Prize 2015 – Personal Taxation:

Samuel Brodsky

Law Faculty Prize in Roman Law:

Lindsey Cullen

The Mustafa Badawi Prize in Modern Arabic Literature:

Gabriel Henry

Thomas Whitcombe Greene Prize for best overall performance in Classical Art or Archaeology in the FHS:

George Green

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History of Art Departmental Prize for the greatest contribution to the Department during their studies, over and beyond their academic work:

Samuel Craig Simms

The 2015 Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse:

Joseph Badawi-Crook

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GAUDIES

One of the most tangible representations of the lifelong link between the House and its members is the tradition of Gaudy hospitality. Gaudy dates are necessarily linked to Term weeks and are normally held on Thursdays in late June and late September/early October. The Governing Body customarily confirms the arrangements, including the date, about four months in advance of the event and invitations are posted around two months ahead. It is, of course, important that you keep the House informed of any change of address. Any old member who is considering advance travel plans is urged to check with the Alumni Relations Officer before making firm commitments. The college hopes to welcome as many old members as possible and therefore, as you may know, this is not an occasion to which it is possible to invite spouses, partners or other family members. It is hoped to adhere to the following schedule, which is based on year of first matriculating as a member of the House:

1997-1999 23 June 2016 2000-2002 29 September 2016 2003-2005 Summer 2017* 2006-2008 Autumn 2017*

* date not yet available

With your invitation you will be sent a letter confirming the details for the occasion, including parking arrangements. Bookings may be made by completing and returning the form enclosed with your invitation or via our online booking system. A guidance document for using our online system will be emailed to all invitees for whom we hold an email address when the invitations are posted. At the time of booking you will be asked to advise us of any special dietary or accessibility needs, whether you would like overnight accommodation. There will also be space to note any seating or room requests. An e-receipt will be emailed, or posted, in all cases to confirm your booking, requirements and requests.

The Gaudy programme is normally as follows:

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Thursday 3.30pm Academic lecture and Q&A 4.30pm ‘The House Today’ Forum 6.00 pm Evensong in the Cathedral 7.00 pm Pre-dinner Drinks 8.00 pm Dinner in Hall

Friday 8.15 am to 9.30 am Gaudy Breakfast in Hall 9.00 am to midday Refreshments available 9.30 am Finance and Investment Presentation 10.00 am Walking tours

There will be a display of archival material, related to your year of matriculation, in the Upper Library.

Dress code: Dinner Jacket – Decorations. The Governing Body has decided that Gowns will no longer be worn at Gaudies.

Charges: the only charge is for a room overnight, if required.

For further information, please contact the Alumni Relations Officer: [email protected]

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OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO STAY AT CHRIST CHURCH

Christ Church has a small number of guest rooms available in term and vacation, which Old Members are welcome to book, subject always to availability. Please contact the Conference & Events Assistant, Miss Emma Seward, on 01865 286848 or e-mail [email protected] or [email protected]

The college’s Liddell Building at 60 Iffley Road offers very comfortable three and four-bedroom flats with self-catering facilities, and these are often available during July, August and September. If you would like to enquire about making a booking please contact the Conference and Events Assistant, Miss Emma Seward, on 01865 286848 or email emma.seward @chch.ox.ac.uk. Owing to their convenient location and the comfortable appointments of these flats, they are in great demand: early booking is recommended.

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CONFERENCES AT CHRIST CHURCH

Day Meetings The McKenna Room, an attractive and well-equipped private room, is available for day meetings throughout term time. Our College Catering Team can provide refreshments during the meeting and lunch can be taken in Hall. Maximum capacity – 60 Theatre Style.

Dinners The McKenna Room is also available for private dinners. Wide selections of menus are offered and wines are available from the College cellars. Maximum dining capacity – 47.

Banquets The Great Hall can be hired during vacation for banquet dinners. A unique opportunity to experience one of Oxford’s premier college venues. Maximum capacity – 300.

Conferences For many weeks each year Christ Church makes available its accommodation, catering services, meeting rooms and the services of an experienced staff for conferences, meetings and seminars. The newly refurbished Blue Boar Quad has 75 ensuite rooms and a lecture theatre for 120. We are able to accommodate up to 300 for residential conferences (including 120 ensuite rooms).

If you would like further information and a copy of the College’s Conference Pack please contact the Conference & Events Administrator, Miss Joanna Malton on 01865 276174 or e-mail [email protected].

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PUBLICATIONS

The following Christ Church publications are available from the Library: Some Scientists in the Life of Christ Church, Oxford, by P W Kent. Christ Church, Oxford: The Portrait of a College, by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Cartulary of the Mediaeval Archives of Christ Church, ed. by N Denholm-Young. Christ Church and Reform, 1850-1867, by E G W Bill and J F A Mason. Education at Christ Church, 1660-1800, by E G W Bill. The Building Accounts of Christ Church Library, 1716-1779: A Transcription, with an Introduction and Indices of Donors and Craftsmen, ed. by Jean Cook and John Mason. The Emergence of Estate Maps: Christ Church, Oxford, 1600 to 1840, by David H Fletcher.

For information on prices and postage, please contact the Library at: [email protected]

The following catalogues are sold by the Picture Gallery. Requests for purchases should be directed to the Picture Gallery staff. Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford, by J Byam Shaw. Paintings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford: Catalogue, by J Byam Shaw.

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CATHEDRAL CHOIR: CDs

Full details of CD releases with reviews and the option to purchase via Amazon or iTunes may be found on the Cathedral Choir website under Discography:http://www.chchchoir.org/discography

For CDs currently available for purchase at Christ Church, please contact The Chapter House Shop, Christ Church, Oxford, OX1 1DP. Telephone: 01865 201971. Email: [email protected]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Photographs Ralph Williamson Micah Hayns

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