ISSUE NO.18 may 2012 Floreat Domus BALLIOL COLLEGE NEWS

Special Feature: Matthew Lynn Balliol’s Crime writers of Balliol on the Euro and 750th Three successful crime writers talk about their motives writing thrillers Anniversary Contents Welcome to the 2012 Annual Record: edition of Floreat Domus. news and notes Please fill in and return the ‘News Contents and Notes’ card enclosed in this issue of Floreat Page 1 College news Page 26 Pass it on Domus by 17 July to How three Old Members Page 7 College success be included in this inspire young minds year’s Annual Record. Page 9 Student news Pages 18-19 Page 28 An Interview Page 11 Student success with Matthew Lynn Financial journalist, Matt Lynn, on Page 13 College features the Euro and writing thrillers Special feature Pages 30-32 Pages 24–25 Page 13 Balliol’s Page 30 Special feature: outreach initiatives Crime writers of Balliol Page 15 Nick Trefethen’s Three successful crime writers index cards talk about their motives

Page 33 Bookshelf Features A selection of books published Page 16 Balliol Olympians by Old Members Balliol’s part in the greatest sporting competition on earth Development Page 18 Global Balliol News Old Members tell us why Singapore is a great place to live and work Page 35 Balliol’s 750th anniversary – celebrating Page 20 Modern Day Explorer a remarkable point in the An alternative lifestyle – how College’s history Robert Twigger makes it work Page 7 Pages 20–21 Page 36 The Annual Fund: Page 22 Right of Reply another record year Letters regarding an article printed in the 2011 issue of Floreat Domus Page 37 Classics at Balliol; Balliol Economics and Page 24 Big Society Capital Andrew Graham Is it possible to combine social investment with financial returns? Page 38 Benefactors to Balliol

our special feature about the uncanny number Publication details Editorial of Balliol crime writers (page 30). We’ve also given space to strongly-felt reaction to an article Editor: Sophie Petrou, Welcome to the latest issue of Floreat Domus. printed last year. There is a lot to celebrate in the year of 2012: Publications & Web Officer Ideas for articles come to me via many Design: RBDA Studio Professor Sir Drummond Bone joining the College channels: some as suggestions of Fellows and Print: Hunts as the new Master (page 1), more female faces Old Members – such as the article on Balliol’s Editorial advisory board: Nicola Trott, on the Fellows pages (page 4), and the much- outreach initiatives (page 13); some are Seamus Perry, Adam Swift anticipated 2012 Olympics, in honour of which developed from the suggestions of the Senior we have our own Balliol Olympians article on page 16. As always, we had a great response from Tutor, Nicola Trott, such as the new series of Contact details students and Old Members who were not only Global Balliol articles, the first of which is on willing but happy to write articles for this issue. page 18; and others are based on news we receive Balliol College, With any luck this is reflected in the variety of regarding Balliol alumni. I am very grateful to Broad Street, content, which ranges from financial articles, such these sources and I am always interested to hear Oxford OX1 3BJ as the interview with Matthew Lynn (financial from Old Members and Current Members alike, Telephone: +44(0)1865 277768 journalist and thriller writer) and the article on who are working on interesting or inspiring Email: [email protected] Big Society Capital, to pieces about education – projects. I look forward to hearing from you and, Website: www.balliol.ox.ac.uk the organisation Teach First and Robert Peston’s in the meantime, I hope you enjoy this issue. Cover picture: Speakers for Schools initiative (on page 26) – and Sophie Petrou, Editor Balliol College at night by Ian Taylor

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From the Master

By Drummond Bone

My first piece for Floreat Domus is being written early in the New Year, and the beginning of my second term as Master does not feel quite so strange as the beginning of my first, only three months ago – in fact, it already feels like home. Coming back to your College as Master may be ‘coming back’ indeed, but it is still a pretty odd feeling, all but 40 years on, and a career lifetime including four other Universities in-between.

Has the College changed much? Not, I think, in its essentials, its commitment to the highest intellectual quality in its teaching and research, the next couple of years they will be, which is the country, so that it will be actually less and its equal commitment to a broad social good news, even if the transitional period from expensive to study in Oxford than in most other responsibility. We have both men and women late 2013 on is going to be a little difficult. universities, particularly for those who come here now of course, but at least in the 60s there One of the reasons behind my return – the from less fortunate backgrounds. Rather, our always seemed to be women about in any case, main reason of course is simply: ‘who could pressing need is to be able to fund more Fellows, so not much sense of difference there – and turn down such a possibility?’ – was to come to ensure, as University funding falls, that we indeed we could do with more women at both closer again to a genuine academic community, as a College can maintain the tutorial system, undergraduate level and on the Fellowship. The having for many years as a Vice-Chancellor and and maintain our presence in those subjects graduate body has grown considerably – in my President of Universities UK been essentially our students want to take. Our £30 million day the MCR was one tiny room off the JCR, a business manager or politician, at least in so campaign associated with our 750th painted by our own hands in a truly ferocious far as my day-to-day activities went, inevitably Anniversary in 2013 now stands at yellow I recall – now it represents half of the in a large organisation at some remove from £25.1 million, but there is still a long way student body, while Holywell Manor no longer teaching and research (though I had continued to go, and even that target represents probably feels like an outpost, but is an integral part to do just enough of both to be able to look at about half of what would be needed to be of the College. This is a real change driven myself in the mirror of a morning). And I’m comfortable. We are of course very grateful for by a number of factors both intellectual and pleased to say that that seems to be developing, all the support alumni have already shown us. economic, and unlikely to be reversed. The partly just in the immensely friendly and We have been struggling a little in the buildings in the garden quad, which were new in collegiate atmosphere, but specifically in having Norrington table over the last three years, and the sixties, are – to put it politely – not new now, been asked to give academic seminars in both while statistically this particular league table is although interestingly in my meetings with first Broad Street and Holywell, and even, shortly, certainly no more reliable than many others, year students (these meetings and handshaking to give some undergraduate tutorials. The close and while First Class degrees are not the only continue much as you will remember) they do integration of all aspects of academic life seems measure of a student’s worth, we cannot be not receive the brickbats one might expect. To to me to be one of the qualities which make satisfied with 18th position, or thereby. The say the College kitchens are not new would be Oxford so distinctive, while the level of attention Fellowship has been looking very seriously at another euphemistic turn of phrase, but within paid to individual undergraduates is still what might have been happening, and we will frankly staggering – and, of course, staggeringly do our best to change what needs to be changed expensive to provide. and can be changed (there is an apparent Andrew Graham gave generously of his time relationship at least between resources and during the handover, and there is no doubt that success). But in student satisfaction we have he handed over a College in very sound shape. continued to perform strongly – according to Financially the position is reasonable, thanks to the National Student Survey 2012, while 93% increasingly entrepreneurial use of our buildings of final year students at Oxford agreed that for conferences, summer schools and the like, ‘Overall, I am satisfied with the quality of my but ‘reasonable’ is not enough, except in the course’, the equivalent figure for Balliol was 96%. ‘going-concern’ sense. The College must And recent data for graduate destinations show increase its endowment pretty dramatically if some 38.1% of all students pursuing further it is to stay at the forefront in the range and study, 46.2% going in to full-time work, and quality of education it can offer. Perhaps, only 3.8% unemployed (a figure that rises in counterintuitively, the immediate problem is not some colleges to 10 or even 11%). Planning for Drummond undergraduate student bursaries – not only is 2013 is now beginning to pick up serious speed and Vivian Bone Balliol already a leader in Oxford in financial – and by then I will no longer be ‘new’. I do hope at the Balliol support for its students, but the University’s that if we have not met before then, that 750th ‘Commem’ Ball in 1969 provision for the new fee arrangements is anniversary year will provide an opportunity. generally acknowledged as the most generous in Floreat Domus!

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When asked his thoughts on becoming the Visitor of Balliol, he responded with New Visitor genuine pride: ‘I felt honoured and delighted The Master and Fellows of Balliol to be made the Visitor – not only because of elected the Right Honourable Lord the prestige attached to the position but also because Balliol has the unique privilege of Reed, PC, to serve as Visitor from electing its own Visitor.’ He also said he felt 28 July 2011. Balliol is delighted to humbled by his predecessors, Lord Rodger have such a distinguished member and Lord Bingham: ‘both of whom were of the judiciary to follow in the persons for whom I had the greatest respect’. footsteps of Lord Rodger. Lord Rodger But, having been a pupil and friend of Alan Rodger, he wished it could have been under was elected Visitor of Balliol on different circumstances. And what in his 10 November 2010 and died in office, view, would be his role as the Visitor?, I aged 66, on 26 June 2011. asked. To which he replied that as well as official adjudicator (see FD 2010 for more Lord Reed was educated at George Watson’s information on this and other aspects), the College at the University of Edinburgh position is largely what the Visitor and the (graduating with First Class Honours) and at college choose to make of it. ‘I am keen to play Balliol College, Oxford, where he earned his a meaningful role,’ he told me. ‘Partly because doctorate. He was admitted to the Faculty of I owe a considerable amount to the College and Advocates in 1983. He has been a judge of the would like to give something back, and partly Court of Session since 1998 and was appointed because I enjoy participating in an academic to the Inner House in 2008. He is an authority community.’ Lord Reed will be available as a on human rights law in Scotland, and serves as source of constructive support to the Master one of the UK’s ad hoc judges at the European if and when he feels that it might be helpful Court of Human Rights. Lord Reed was to discuss any matter with him. He hopes to appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court bring a different experience and perspective in December 2011. to bear on issues affecting the College.

Tenth Anniversary The OII tenth anniversary dinner, 2011 of the Oxford Internet Institute

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). In 2000 the first seeds of what were to become the OII were planted when Derek Wyatt, a former student, wrote to Colin Lucas, the then Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, about how Oxford was slipping behind other universities due to its lack of an internet institute – a place of research where the effects of the internet could be measured and analysed. The Master at the time, Andrew Graham, also agreed that this was essential for Oxford and the stamina and commitment of Graham and Lucas helped to nurture and turn Wyatt’s ideas into a reality, while the constant belief and enthusiasm of Richard Susskind (1993) and Michael Warburg (1949) meant the project received the financial backing it needed and helped to convince Dame Stephanie Shirley of its being worthy of her generous support. Ten years on, it is fair to say that their convictions were well- founded. OII Internet and Society Awards were launched to mark the tenth anniversary and to celebrate the success of the OII. The awards were presented at an Anniversary Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony in September 2011 and provided an opportunity to recognise some of the individuals and organisations who have played a pivotal role in shaping the extraordinary ecosystem that is today’s internet. To find out about the winners go to http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/awards/

2 floreat domus balliol college news Balliol Society Balliol Society Educational 2011: a dinner Trust By Paul King (1958), for two Masters Chairman By Lee Moore (2004) The Balliol Society was founded in 1926 by Kenneth Bell to The first weekend of October 2011 saw the annual meeting strengthen the ties between the of the Balliol Society. The weather was uncharacteristically College and its Old Members. warm and sunny, pleasingly allowing the drinks reception The Educational Trust dates from the same era, and continues to to be held in the Fellows’ Garden. The main part of the be a practical and very personal weekend was of course, the tremendous three course meal, means of strengthening those served in Hall. has a rather interesting history; ties. The trustees are drawn it is a miniature version of a full from a spread of Balliol years In total, 206 people attended the a large number of alumni and sized marble bust made in 1851. from the 1960s to the 1990s, Dinner comprising Old Members friends. Andrew’s Mastership saw Although several casts of this and are assisted by a Secretary ranging over 60 years of Balliol many developments at Balliol, miniature were likely made, the based in the College. The Trust history, as well as a handful of perhaps the most notable being one owned by Balliol is the only makes grants up to a total current Fellows and staff. College the creation of the Oxford Internet listed copy. John Jones discovered of some £12,000 each year welcomed back the matriculation Institute (see opposite), the launch this bust lurking at the back of towards the educational needs year of 2004, 71 of whom were of the Balliol Interdisciplinary the silver cabinet some 30 years of the children of Balliol men present at the dinner. We were also Institute, and the opening of the ago. It was a rather fortunate and women. happy to welcome the new College College’s Historic Collections turn of events that led to a replica In most cases the need Visitor, Lord Reed, and his wife to Centre at St Cross (a project led being created for the Society to arises as a result of the death the Balliol Society. But there was by another long-serving member present to Andrew. Recently, of a parent, but occasionally an additional element of ceremony of College, John Jones). While Andrew was approached by a we respond to other forms of to be undertaken: Andrew the College was keen to keep banker who wished to have some hardship. Sometimes grants Graham stepped down as Master Andrew until 2012, he had opted replicas of this bronze bust made have been substantial. We once on 30 September 2011 and so the to step down a year early, to allow (for himself, the Governor of covered, for example, the fees of inauguration of the new Master his successor sufficient time to the Bank of England, and The a refugee student from overseas (Professor Sir Drummond Bone, settle in before the College’s 750th Adam Smith Society). John was at a university in this country. Balliol 1968) was to take place after anniversary in 2013. asked to undertake the necessary More often grants are quite dinner. It was therefore a delight Naturally, the Balliol Society arrangements for commissioning small, funding music lessons to be joined by Sir Drummond wished to make a presentation these replicas, which were or a school trip abroad. and Lady Bone. to Andrew, both to thank him produced at the workshops of the Sometimes, where there Andrew has had a long and and celebrate his time as Master. Royal Academy. It was around has been bereavement, there distinguished career at Balliol, so He was presented with a replica this time that John learnt of the are no financial difficulties but it was fitting that the handover of of a bronze bust of Adam Smith, intentions of the Balliol Society to a letter from the Trust offering the Mastership would take place the original of which (by Carlo make a presentation to Andrew, help if needed has been much at an event where his contribution Marochetti) was in Andrew’s study and he thought that a replica of the appreciated as a sign of the to Balliol could be recognised by while he was Master. This bust Smith bust would be an excellent concern of the College. This has and appropriate gift for the first led to continuing friendly contact economist to be the Master of between the Trust and the family. Balliol. With the agreement of In all cases it is this personal link Seamus Perry and Douglas Dupree, with the College which counts as an extra replica was created and much as the financial help. presented to Andrew (who had Thanks to personal networks, absolutely no idea it had been and the contact which the made) after the Society Dinner. College maintains with Old The inauguration of the new Members, we hope that we Master was led by the Visitor, Lord manage to pick up most of the Reed. The ceremony itself was cases of need. However, we beautiful both in its simplicity and are always glad to hear from its symbolism; the handing over Old Members about friends or of the College keys from Andrew contemporaries who might be to Sir Drummond. Although his in need. Please bear the Trust words upon officially taking up in mind, and if you know of the Mastership were few, they were anyone we might help, please very well received, and we are all write to the Secretary of the looking forward to the continuing Balliol Society Educational Trust success of Balliol College under at Balliol, Catherine Wilbery at the leadership of Sir Drummond. catherine.wilbery@balliol. From what I have seen of Professor ox.ac.uk. She will proceed with Bone so far, the College is in very the utmost discretion. safe hands.

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New Fellows Jan Machielsen Jan is Junior research fellow in the Humanities (History). He is a departmental lecturer in early modern european History at balliol, currently James Belich teaching early modern british and James is beit Professor of commonwealth general history. He has been awarded and imperial History. He has worked a british academy Postdoctoral as a historian and university lecturer in fellowship, and took up his Junior new Zealand. He held the inaugural research fellowship on 1 January 2012 Keith sinclair chair in History at the to study the role that witchcraft played university of auckland and then became within the early modern university research Professor of History at the stout curriculum. research centre, Victoria university of wellington. He has held visiting positions at the universities of oxford, cambridge, georgetown, and melbourne. He is currently working on the causes of early Michael Bailey William european expansion. michael joins balliol as John g winant Visiting Professor of american Coleman government. He is the colonel william is Visiting fellow and oliver william J walsh Professor of american smithies lecturer (economics). His government in the georgetown principal research interests are in university department of government microeconomic theory, the History of and the georgetown Public Policy economics, and monetary economics. institute. He is co-author of The william is editor of Agenda, the quarterly Constrained Court: Law, Politics and journal of the anu college of business the Decisions Justices Make, which is and economics, he is a columnist for forthcoming from Princeton university the social affairs unit web site, london, Press in the summer of 2011 (with and he was convenor of the australian forrest maltzman). conference of economists 2011.

Luca Guidoni luca is Visiting fellow and oliver smithies lecturer (Physics). luca holds a cnrs researcher position at the mPQ laboratory of the denis diderot university in Paris. His research activity is mainly devoted to the experimental aspects of light-matter interaction with a particular interest in quantum optics and laser cooling of atoms and ions.

Jane Kershaw Jane joins the college as Junior research fellow in the Humanities (archaeology). she will also take up a british academy Postdoctoral fellowship in the institute of archaeology. Jane’s research focuses on early medieval metalwork, specifically on how its form and style can serve as a historical source for contemporary culture, gender and politics.

4 floreat domus balliol college news Jamie Warner Manuela Jamie joins the college as a Junior research fellow in the sciences Zaccolo (materials). He is also a royal society manuela is university lecturer university research fellow in the and tutor in biomedical sciences. department of materials. during the she joined the college as a tenure of the Jrf, he will investigate fellow in Pre-clinical medicine methods to produce synthetic graphene and Professor in cell biology using chemical vapour deposition, and in January 2012. Her research perform atomic resolution imaging using focuses on how cells sense transmission electron microscopy to external stimuli and how these elucidate the structural details. are processed to produce a functional outcome.

Peter Tufano Peter is Peter moore’s dean of saïd business school and Professorial fellow at balliol. Peter’s recent research, course development, and engagement with business and policy audiences is primarily focused on topics around consumer finance and is aimed at understanding how this vital sector of the economy works – and how it can be improved. His work is credited with influencing two us policy initiatives and a new class of savings products in the us.

Carl Wunsch Lisa Walker carl is george eastman Visiting lisa is fixed-term fellow and tutor Professor (Physical oceanography/ in biomedical sciences. she has been climate). He is the cecil and ida green a lecturer at balliol college for the last Professor of Physical oceanography four years. she is a practising clinician, at mit. carl has worked on many and following training at ucl, great aspects of physical oceanography ormond street and cambridge, is now and its climate implications, with a consultant in clinical genetics at emphasis on the global scale, including the churchill Hospital, oxford. she is satellites and acoustic tomographic Head of cancer genetics for the oxford observation methods. regional genetics service, covering a population of 3.5 million.

Andrew Pontzen andrew is Henry skynner Junior research fellow in the sciences (astrophysics) and joins the university as a James martin fellow in astrophysics. since finishing his Phd in 2009, he has been a research fellow at emmanuel college, cambridge. andrew’s research interests are centred on cosmology; he studies aspects of the early universe and its later evolution, and has written papers on a wide range of topics from general relativity to computer simulations of galaxy formation.

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Bollywood at Balliol Oxford was the location for a new Bollywood film and several days of shooting took place at Balliol. Although Oxford is no stranger to the big screen, this is the first time that it has been used as the setting for a major Bollywood film. Desi Boys stars the renowned Akshay Kumar as a new student at Trinity College, Oxford, along with the likes of John Abraham, Deepika Padukone and Anupam Kher in leading roles, with Chitrangada Singh as the main female lead. Over the days of filming, Balliol quad was crowded with ‘students’ wearing uncharacteristically flamboyant blue and gold gowns, while

Copyright of NQ (Mid, Wales & SW) Oxfordshire Wales (Mid, NQ Copyright of scaffolding and cables covered the lawn, along with suited and booted execs smoking cigars Awards for the College’s and directing the somewhat sedentary shots. As requested by the crew, the kitchen provided St Cross Project burgers and chips for the filming in Hall. It’s certainly not a meal that has ever been on the menu By John Jones before, one member of kitchen staff remarked, but the banner The restoration of St Cross Church and its conversion into an Historic Collections Centre said ‘Trinity’, so … ! Desi Boys was released in November 2011 have been completed on time and within budget. All the costs of the project have been met for those who are intrigued. by a magnificent donation from the Shirley Foundation and generous support from some 150 other benefactors. Environmentally-controlled secure units have been established in the aisles, and the College’s rich archive and manuscript collections have been moved in, releasing space in the Library on the Broad Street site. The first researchers visited the nave study area in October last year.

All Balliol’s aims have thus been achieved without The work has been independently recognised drawing on its basic endowment. But the College as outstanding: locally by the judges of the Oxford and the broader scholarly community the Centre Preservation Trust (equal best of the year’s projects serves are not the only beneficiaries. By the time in the conservation section, along with work on Floreat readers see this report, the first service will the Sheldonian Theatre) and by the judges of the have been held in the refurbished Chancel, which Royal Institute of British Architects (best of the remains available for occasional use. And one of year’s projects in South East England). Robert the oldest buildings in the City, with parts nine Montgomery our architect (who has numerous hundred years old and with spectacular Victorian other elegant projects around the City to his credit) painted ceilings and stained glass, has been brought and I hope we can be forgiven for looking pleased back from the brink of irreversible decline and as we showed off the trophies in the Church for the preserved for posterity. Oxford Mail. Yale exchange programme at Balliol College Starting in Michaelmas Term 2012, first year literature and Old English. Balliol, which, for the English Department at Yale, called English majors at Yale will be able to study in the Oxford English faculty has access to the Balliol programme an ‘extraordinary English literature in a year-long programme the largest English department in the UK, opportunity’ for English majors. He said, at Balliol College. The programme, which is will accept three to five English students ‘Balliol places a greater emphasis on one of only two major-specific study abroad from Yale in 2012–13. Students will commit historical breadth in its English literature programmes offered at Yale, allows students to studying here for their first year, but no courses than Yale does.’ Plus Yale students at to explore courses within their field beyond students from Balliol will study at Yale. John Balliol will also get to experience Oxford’s the ones offered at Yale, such as in medieval Rogers, director of undergraduate studies tutorial system.

6 floreat domus balliol college news Justice of New the Supreme Year Court Lord Reed, balliol’s new Visitor, honours was sworn in as a Justice of the supreme court in february Four Old 2012. lord reed is the fourth Members have Justice to be sworn in since the supreme court was been mentioned inaugurated in october 2009. in the 2012 New His appointment, announced Years Honours in december 2011, follows the death of lord rodger Commonwealth List for 2012 of earlsferry last year and Writers’ prize sees a continuation of the Rana Dasgupta (1990) won the Dr Andrew Burnett (1970), tradition, begun in the House 2010 commonwealth writers’ deputy director, the british of lords, that two of the Prize with his novel of two museum, was appointed a supreme court’s Justices have halves, Solo; it was the first time cbe for services to the british comprehensive experience of the commonwealth writers’ museum and numismatics. the scottish legal system. His area of academic interest awards ceremony was held in and specialisation is the india. dasgupta’s first novel, coinage and history of the Tokyo Cancelled – a thirteen- roman republic. part story cycle – was published President in 2005 to widespread acclaim The Hon Dominic Asquith and has been translated into CMG (1975), formerly of The nine languages. Solo follows a Hm ambassador, egypt, hundred-year-old bulgarian was appointed Knight Global chemist, ulrich, as he embarks commander of the order on an armchair journey through of st michael and Health the violent politics, forbidden st george (Kcmg). music and failed experiments Graham Avery (1961), Programme of the 20th century. the second half of dasgupta’s novel formerly director, european Dr Trevor Mundel (1985) has agreed to lead the bill and melinda commission, brussels, was explores ulrich’s long prophetic gates foundation’s global Health Programme. Previously daydream of the 21st century appointed cmg for services global head of development for novartis Pharma ag, based in to european affairs. in which unique characters switzerland, he joined the foundation in december 2011. both – boris, a gypsy, Khatuna, a John Barnard Bush OBE bill and melinda gates were delighted with the new appointment gangster’s mistress, and her (1955), lord liutenant of saying that mundel brings with him tremendous scientific and brother irakhli, who is a poet wiltshire was appointed cVo. medical acumen in the lab and clinic and will be a major asset in and whose poetry makes an improving the health of people in the world’s poorest countries. appearance through the second half set in new york – live a life beyond utopia. according to the chair of judges, the Honourable 2011 Prince of Justice nicholas Hasluck, an australian author, ‘the format of Asturias Prize dasgupta’s book puts him at the cutting edge of responding to Bill Drayton (1965), Honorary the chaos of our times’. fellow of balliol, was awarded spain’s prestigious Prince of asturias Prize for international cooperation. drayton is the founder and current chair of the innovators for Public – a non-profit organisation dedicated to finding and fostering social entrepreneurs worldwide. drayton’s philosophy is that social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. the prize foundation described him as a ‘driving force behind the figure of social entrepreneurs, men and women who undertake innovative initiatives for the common good.’

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Her Majesty’s Fellows of the Ambassador Royal Society In May 2011, Professor Hagen Bayley (1970), Professor of to Libya Chemical Biology in the Department of Chemistry, Oxford, The Honourable Dominic Asquith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Two former (1975), in addition to being awarded Junior Research Fellows at Balliol were also elected Fellows a knighthood (see New Year – Professor Alan Grafen (JRF 1983–1986) currently honours on page 7), was appointed Professor of Theoretical Biology Department of Zoology, her Majesty’s Ambassador to Libya Oxford, and Professor Clare Grey (JRF 1990–1991) in November 2011. He is taking over currently Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor and from Sir John Jenkins KCMG. Mr Head of the Inorganic Chemistry Sector at Cambridge. Asquith is a career diplomat who Fellows joined the FCO in 1983. Over a career of nearly 30 years to date, he of the has served overseas as Ambassador to Iraq and Egypt and worked British throughout the Middle East, South America and the US. Academy In July 2011, the British Academy elected the following Members of Balliol as Fellows – Professor Timothy Barnes FRSC (1960), Professor Robert Crawford (1981), Professor Simon Frith (1964), together with Professor Andrew Hurrell – current Montague Burton Fellow of International Relations at Balliol, and Professor Lyndal Roper, recently elected Regius Professor of History at Oxford. New Chancellor of the University of Canterbury OxTalent Pro-Chancellor and former New achieving his MA in Politics, Philosophy Zealand ambassador to the United and Economics at Balliol, and, in 2006, Teaching States, Dr John Wood (QSO), will be he was awarded an honorary doctorate the next Chancellor of The University by the University of Canterbury Council. of Canterbury, New Zealand, from He has been Pro- (Deputy) Chancellor award January 2012. of the University since 2008, when he was College lecturer in Dr Wood (1966) gained an MA from also made a Companion of the Queen politics Scot Peterson the University of Canterbury before Service Order for Public Service. was awarded an OxTalent award for his integration of Oxford’s Virtual Learning Environment into his Doctoral tutorial teaching. He also won an Oxford University Research Award Teaching Award for his use of the system. College lecturer Standa Živný’s DPhil thesis, ‘The Complexity and Expressive Power of Valued Constraints’, was awarded the 2011 ACP Doctoral Research Award. The award is given every year by the Association for Constraint Programming to a promising young researcher working in this field. His thesis is a detailed examination of the expressive power of valued constraints and related complexity questions. It is available to read on the Oxford University Research Archive. http://ora.ox.ac.uk

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What I did with my project grant Each year a number of students are successful in their available via the College Trust Funds. Many grants go application for College Grants for academic-related towards assisting students attending conferences to aid projects. These project grants, which range from £25- their studies but some go towards helping students get £2,000, are derived from generous bequests and donations involved in some interesting and inspirational projects from Old Members or people who have often had a around the world. Here, three students tell us how these connection with Balliol, and are made grants have made a difference to their time at Balliol.

nanchong. Here, like my four-year-old self, i was forced to repeat those first few tentative steps into the classroom; only this time as a teacher. old fears came flooding back: what if the kids are mean? what if i’m not good enough? where’s my mummy? the most pressing fear was the potentially calamitous language barrier, but despite resigning myself to hour-upon- hour of charades i was saved by pupils who were simply astounding. the students’ hunger to learn was insatiable and allowed us to have a positive, if brief, impact, while their attitude drew constant, and flattering, comparisons with the work ethic of students back in the uK. meanwhile the 7am to 10pm school day confirmed that, despite a slightly bemusing passion for karaoke, dolly Parton (‘9 to 5’) had never been translated into mandarin. in the end it was the people whom we met in china and who embraced us so whole-heartedly, that made the trip so special. there were lows, including a sharp test of my affinity for the humble rat, and being told more than once that i looked like Justin bieber, but each horror was easily eclipsed by the highs: 2000 feet can feel quite heady for a norfolk-boy, even Volunteering in a school in China without the accompanying pandas, which i had never thought to see without the complement of By Ben aLLen (2010) david attenborough’s dulcet tones. but whether i was surrounded by skyscrapers, trees or students ‘How was your trip?’ The impossible physical blow. i was then left reeling by the city i felt immersed in a truly astonishing country. question; how can you summarise a in which we had landed, where the squalid and i shudder to think that i would use the words ‘life changing’ and i’ve painstakingly tried to month of highs (and lows) into one the beautiful blended into one (poverty dressed up in gucci) while flocks of metal cranes swept avoid any reference to a personal ‘journey’ but measured response? The answer, when over the city urging it upwards; towards what i sometimes you just have to give in to the power caught in a fit of adolescent obstinacy, never figured out. of the cliché, and thanks to freezing showers, is of course simple … ‘it was alright’. we soon left the city behind and spent our mad taxi drivers and great friends, it was an Similarly, the Wikipedia page of my time in the more rural cities of mingshan and experience that will always stay with me. trip might read, ‘Last July I travelled to Sichuan province in China. I volunteered with the charity TravelAid. I taught English in two schools. The students were 14–18 year olds.’ Exciting stuff, but neither truly account for an experience which was both surprising, and entirely extraordinary. i flew out to china on sunday 3rd July 2011 having finished my final Prelims examination on friday afternoon, so stepping off the plane in chengdu felt as if i had stepped straight out of balliol’s library. this is usually a pleasant experience but in reality the airport’s air conditioning had masked the sheer heat and humidity of the region which hit me like a

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Graffitti on a wall in downtown Guatemala, reads in Spanish: ‘We want a free life, without violence or soldiers’.

The first time I passed through the armed checkpoint, it didn’t occur to me to feel Researching frightened. Only later that night did I remember to be a little shocked at what I had just done. I was two weeks into eight months of field research on urban violence in urban violence high-risk communities in Guatemala City, kindly assisted by Balliol College’s Gregory Kulkes Scholarship in Law and a graduate research travel grant. Using primarily in Guatemala ethnographic methods, I’m exploring how some of the city’s most vulnerable residents perceive and respond to persistent and evolving forms of insecurity in their lives, By Katherine saunDers-hastings (2010) including gangs, organised crime, narco-trafficking, and social cleansing. i had passed the barricades into a region patrols have arisen in others due to factors such ones. my experiences here regularly confuse described by one author as ‘guatemala’s most as extortion, street violence, and police abuses. me and force me to question my assumptions notorious barrio.’ and on the other side, i came many guatemalans describe levels of and expectations. However, i’ve come to across a lively street market, met an engaging insecurity and violence as impossible and appreciate that the same dissonances that group of kids at the church i was visiting, and untenable; yet in striking and moving ways confound me are also crucial to understanding heard from more than one person i spoke with they work tremendously hard to maintain the complexity of living at the intersection that they considered their neighbourhood the possibility of the everyday. the disarming of multiple forms of urban violence and perfectly safe (though they complained of the juxtaposition of extraordinary insecurity insecurity. now at the mid-point of my stigma that came with living there). the local and daily life that i encountered that first fieldwork, i am beginning to look forward to narco-traffickers, at pains to keep residents saturday morning has become a familiar returning to oxford to work on a dissertation satisfied enough to avoid police intervention occurrence. i’ve found small children playing that i hope will contribute to understanding in their affairs, provide strict order and with tiny puppies in a rehabilitation home for how individuals and communities cope with security. other communities around the city hardened gangsters, seen extended families insecurity in one of the most violent regions are obviously less satisfied. rapid depopulation picnicking on the cold floors of a prison, and of the world. i am continuously grateful for is apparent in a number of marginal opened christmas circulars advertising gifts all of the support i receive from the balliol neighbourhoods while paramilitary security of bulletproof vests and handguns for loved community that makes this work possible.

help thinking that, if it did erupt, I would beginning of the dig, I thought it was Digging the ‘Dark be greatly consoled by the idea of future simply absurd that someone could tell archaeologists digging us all up. that ‘this soil is clearly darker dark brown Side’ of Vesuvius My participation in this dig is wholly than that dark brown’. But by the end thanks to a £250 Classics travel grant of the three weeks my eyes were newly By Justine Potts (2006) from Balliol, which went towards not only attuned, not to mention sore from all flights and the £200 participation fee, but, the soil I got in them. I am exceptionally Armed with an archaeological trowel and, perhaps most significantly, my first, very grateful for the funding I received from of course, a wide-brimmed hat to protect from the diggers’ claws could be seen own trowel. With the trowel came great Balliol for this experience which was of against the strength of the Neapolitan in parts of the Roman masonry. responsibility that resulted in a steep so much academic as well as personal sun, last June I left Balliol’s blissful shade The excavation, begun in 2004, has learning curve. I was hugely surprised value. It is rare for the participation cost for the blistering north slope of Mount significantly increased our understanding at the volume of information that can of an excavation to be as small as £200; Vesuvius to participate in the 2011 of life in Roman Campania, which be ascertained by even the swiftest in fact often the fees are in the thousands, excavation campaign of the ‘Apolline hitherto had been overshadowed by sweep of trowel and scan of eye. My so, as excavation costs increase, the Project’. Located on the ‘dark side’ of the opulence of Baiae, Pompei and ability to discern pre-eruption soil from funding of young archaeologists to gain Vesuvius, in the ancient territories of Nola Herculaneum. Most people are aware post-eruption soil, and to differentiate practical experience has never been and Neapolis, this is a multidisciplinary of the eruption of Vesuvius, in AD 79, the different stages of pyroclastic flow, so important for securing equality of research project, directed by a talented which destroyed these places, but how improved rapidly day-on-day. At the opportunity in the discipline. Oxford DPhil candidate, Dr Girolamo many know of the eruption of AD 472 Fernando De Simone, who recently which brought an equally disastrous end received the European Archaeological to settlements to the north, such as the Heritage Prize for the project’s site at Pollena Trocchia? As the site was achievements. The site on which I worked inhabited very soon after AD 79, there was a post-AD 79 Roman villa with bath are encapsulated details of life under the complex in the modern town of Pollena high and late Roman Empire, together Trocchia, discovered in the 1980s, but with the story of cultural development then spectacularly ignored and buried between AD 79 and 472, the growth under tonnes of refuse in an illegal dump. of Christianity, and indications of the Unfortunately, this meant that much of the imminent fall of the Western Roman context had been mixed up with rubbish Empire. As we worked, Vesuvius, from the 70s and 80s (which made for apparently due for another eruption, interesting archaeology too), and marks loomed over us ominously. I couldn’t

10 floreat domus balliol college news BAFTA competition winner Vice thomas Phipps (2007) entered the british academy of the top three scripts and so went to the new york Chancellor’s film and television (bafta) competition and came tV festival. there our script extract was performed civic award through an intense judging process to become one of on stage, by proper professional actors, directed by three writers to have their work selected. the winning a professional director, accompanied by purpose- Doireann Lalor (2007) has script, ‘mayflower investigations’, was co-written composed music, in front of an audience of more than been granted one of only with Peter bowden whom he met while editing The 150 people.’ that must have been amazing i venture. seven Vice-Chancellor’s Oxymoron, a satirical oxford-based magazine. ‘it was pretty terrifying,’ says tom. ‘especially as we Civic Awards for 2011, ‘in the sitcom script about some graduates who start then had to go on stage and defend the thing that had recognition of her outstanding a private detective agency came from two sources, just been performed; it was very nerve-racking.’ individual achievement in and mr Phipps reveals. ‘one was our love of detective so what happens now, i ask? ‘we have an agent, the commitment to volunteering in stories and movies (raymond chandler, the third first script is very slowly making its way through the the local community and wider man, etc); the second source came from the central development process, and we’re hard at work on the world’. Lalor was nominated character, a rich playboy who represents the worst second!’ he says excitedly. balliol wishes them good because of her involvement in excesses of the idiotic student hipster: wealth and luck and will look out for them in the future. a variety of grassroots climate ill-founded arrogant fashion. oxford has so many change initiatives, within both of these that every day offered a new source of the student body and the wider inspiration. combined with a slightly more level- community. These initiatives headed and genre-specific straight man, the central all centred on enabling people duo of the script was born.’ it took them the best to cut their carbon footprint part of a year to write thomas tells me, as they were in practical, hands-on and teaching themselves how to write a coherent script creative ways, something Lalor with characters and jokes. by a stroke of luck they feels strongly about. ‘I am heard about the competition later, just as the script passionate about developing was finalised and so they submitted a ten-page extract. positive, locally-based solutions the scheme itself is a joint venture organised by to the threats posed by bafta and the rocliffe forums, which put on staged climate change – solutions rehearsed readings of as-yet-unpublished writers’ which I believe can also help scripts. ‘this was the first year they were taking the to bring about more socially scheme to new york and accepting applications from inclusive, vibrant and resilient all over the country,’ says thomas. ‘we were among communities,’ she says. The Vice-Chancellor’s Civic Awards are granted in recognition of exceptional and inspirational Arabella Currie’s translation of individual achievement and personal commitment to Clytemnestra on at the Playhouse improving the state of society and our world. A panel made up congratulations to arabella a Queen’s college graduate – last michaelmas, when he was of representatives from both the currie (2008), whose translation chose the play and made the putting together his production University and the community of Clytemnestra was the 2012 successful pitch to the Playhouse; bid, and started working on the choose the winners and the ‘oxford greek Play’. this happens he also made all the artistic translation then so that they could awards are presented by the every three years or so and is decisions. arabllea met with him send an extract to the Playhouse. Vice-Chancellor at a celebratory traditionally in the Playhouse, ‘i spent the christmas vacation dinner as part of the Encaenia although, there is no official link, ploughing through the greek and ceremony at Rhodes House. so each time the production crew scrutinising every word, trying to Lalor says she felt honoured needs to pitch their ideas to the understand what aeschylus, who to win, as the awards ‘draw theatre and persuade them that is quite impenetrable, was getting attention to the importance for they will sell enough seats. the at,’ says arabella. ‘it then took the students – many of whom will director, raymond blakenhorn – next term to write the translation, go on to be change-makers in and it was ready in time for society – to be involved with the actors to use to help them their community and engaged rehearse and learn lines. ‘was it with social issues whilst they well received?’, i ask her. ‘i think are at University, rather than that what this production did just burying their heads in extremely well was to trust in the text-books!’ beauty and rhythm of aeschylus’ language, and use that to shape the play and their movements. to hear the greek used in that way was an important experience,’ she says. ‘lots of the reviewers seemed slightly baffled by what they had just seen, unsure of what to make of it and unable to relate it to anything else, but, in their bafflement they were also moved. i think it was great that people enjoyed it and were affected by it Lalor receivng her award without really understanding why.’

issue no.18 may 2012 11 student success

Mastermind of Balliol ian bayley (1997) won this year’s mastermind competition in april 2011. recorded as long ago as october 2010, ian bayley’s triumph was somewhat overdue, having reached the final in 2008 only to be beaten narrowly to first place by nancy dickmann, the first female winner for twelve years. this year he triumphed beating Peter reilly to win the title. in the final, he answered questions on paintings in the national gallery. dr bayley, who studied for a dPhil in computation at balliol, is no stranger to national Quiz titles having won bbc radio 4’s brain University Challenge of britain competition in 2010. well done to the balliol team, andrew challenge, but balliol came out whitby (2007), liam shaw (2009), victorious, beating merton 170 points simon wood (2008) and James Kirby to 160 to win a place in the quarter- (2007), with tom arnold (2007) as finals. However, they met their match in reserve, who got through to the quarter- Pembroke college, cambridge, and were finals in the 2011/12 series of University beaten by a considerable score of 240 to Challenge, presented by Jeremy Paxman. balliol’s 160. luckily they got a second- they narrowly beat Homerton college, chance to go through to the semi-finals cambridge, in the first round, 205 points as best runner-up but after beating to 200, and then went on to beat merton Homerton, they then lost to ucl who college, oxford, in the second round. it tore away with 235 points to balliol’s 145. was fairly even and uncharacteristically we congratulate this year’s team on a calm for a close round of university strong performance nonetheless.

Wild CRU awarded The Elephant studies success Queen’s Anniversary Prize lucy King’s (2005) research on migratory species at the end of (featured in last year’s Floreat november in norway to receive The Queen’s Anniversary Prize Chancellor and the Chancellor of Domus, page 9) won a coveted her prize-cheque and to present a has been given to the Wildlife Oxford University, for a reception environment research prize from 30-minute talk to the conference. conservation Research Unit to be given at Buckingham the united nations environment ‘i’m over the moon at this news’, (WildCRU), Dept. of Zoology, Palace by the Queen and Duke Programme (uneP/cms thesis lucy commented. ‘it is a huge chance University of Oxford for the of Edinburgh later this month. Prize) for showing how bees can for us to present our research on a year 2011. Arjun Gopalaswamy Arjun Gopalaswamy has be used to reduce conflict between global stage and to be recognised at a (2009), a third year DPhil been studying tigers for about elephants and people. Her research un level. this is very much an award student featured in last year’s a decade. His DPhil research proved that beehive ‘fences’ can keep for save the elephants, balliol college Floreat Domus (page 9) for his work focuses on addressing elephants out of african farmers’ and fritz Vollrath’s group at the work studying the conservation the methodological challenges fields or compounds as the animals oxford Zoology department too – of tigers in India, has been of studying meta-population are scared of bees, which can sting a true collaboration for which invited, together with two dynamics of tigers in the them inside their trunks, and i am the privileged person to have other graduate students, the Western Ghats landscape flee when they hear buzzing. the had the time to pull all our ideas and Director of WildCRU, the Vice- in India. chairman of the jury board said it data together into one document. was a unanimous decision among http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science- the judges and they enjoyed environment-15836079 reading her thesis. as the prize is awarded only every three years lucy felt lucky to have finished her thesis in time to be eligible. she was invited to the convention Saksit Simchoeren Saksit

12 floreat domus balliol college news college features Balliol’s outreach initiatives By saLLY murraY (2009)

If anyone had doubts about the value of Oxford and Balliol’s outreach work, those doubts would quickly be dispelled by conversations with current undergraduates, or by visiting a Balliol Open Day. Oxford and Balliol’s access schemes are crucial in dispelling the misrepresentative myths about Oxbridge, which are off-putting to potential applicants, and replacing these with positive, accurate messages: that Oxford, and Balliol, is a centre for excellent, exciting learning; that most students at Oxford are friendly as well as academically interested, that they are ‘human beings just like you’; and that, ‘since these students are just like you, you have a chance too, so go for it!’ to so many of us (especially those who, like me, came from state schools with low records of sending students to oxford or cambridge), all this makes all the difference: we wouldn’t have applied without it. there are, however, still barriers to balliol’s capacity to encourage applications from the hardest-to-reach students. some of the key focuses for balliol at present are:

1. To change negative perceptions of Oxbridge among teachers and their students. 2. To attract more women to Balliol, and thus address the gender gap in the sciences and PPE. 3. To do all this and more with a relatively small budget. i was sceptical about the real impact of teachers’ negative stereotypes until i helped at two balliol open days and an interview period. my own experience of applying left me in no doubt about the influence of teachers – but i couldn’t imagine such influence being anything other than encouraging. sadly, conversations with students from across the country revealed this wasn’t the case, and although many teachers do an excellent job (and i’ve insufficient evidence to speak about what is ‘typical’), again and again, stereotypes learnt from certain teachers (and the media) poured out: ‘is it right that if you’re from a state Behind the smoke screen school, they’ll try and catch you out by asking it’s so important that school students, and this is because oxford tutors favour students about really sophisticated books they know those influencing them, understand the truth from private schools. the explanation: you won’t have read?’ or ‘my teacher said there and the lies behind such stereotypes. for students from state and private schools have are lots of private school students here, and example, a truth: the percentage of private exactly the same success at gaining places at that i might feel like i don’t fit in. How do school students at oxford far exceeds the oxford, once they apply. the discrepancy you cope with that?’ or, ‘do you know anyone representative proportion of private-to-state arises because a smaller proportion of state here from the north?’ school students in the uK as a whole. the lie: school students are applying. investigations

issue no.18 may 2012 13 college features into balliol’s ‘gender gap’ have revealed a groups! this easter balliol will be hosting a parallel picture: female applicants have the • Target talented students likely to ‘uniQ’ study day for maths, targeting students same success rate as men once they apply, but be discouraged from applying in schools that currently send few students to again, in many subjects, fewer women than (while never neglecting or turning oxbridge, or even university. several balliol men are applying. away interested schools) students already partake in e-mentoring given that oxford and balliol are treating schemes, or have spoken about oxford and all applicants with an even hand (and pouring • Open and sustain dialogues balliol in their old schools. and all this is not time and money into increasing ‘access’ every with teachers to mention balliol’s headline access events: the year), what is deterring so many promising summer open days, which this year saw over potential candidates? no doubt the new • Combine visiting schools with 2,000 visitors to the college over three days. costs and confusion over tuition fees aren’t welcoming students into Balliol this hubbub of effective activity is sustained helping, but this factor is a new one, while by student volunteers and the tutors and staff the problem of access has a much longer • Keep all activities highly interactive who work tirelessly to organise opportunities history. conversations with students at • Give students an honest and for them to represent balliol and the university open days (students who’ve even made in general. unlike many oxford colleges, it that far!) do suggest that ironically, and inspiring glimpse of life at Balliol, balliol, until now, has not been able to source tragically, those teachers and journalists putting current students at the external funding to employ staff to work full who do spread discouraging information forefront of all our access work. or part-time on outreach, and this has meant about elitism and exclusion at oxford bear that almost all outreach work was achieved in considerable responsibility for the statistics the (elusive) ‘spare time’ of tutors and students. they deplore. looking at the tangible things we do, we However, recently one of our old members once here, you rarely notice which friends achieve a great deal with our small budget! has generously offered to help fund an access are from state or private schools, and a small as a result of oxford’s regionalisation policy and outreach post and to provide some money imbalance in a year’s gender mix will make linking each college with specific uK areas, for access and outreach activities – with a very no difference to your social life in a college of balliol has particular responsibility for valuable top-up from a second donor. over 700 students. outreach in Hertfordshire, and in 2011 balliol we are rightly proud of what we are visited Hertfordshire schools, held open days achieving, through the enthusiasm and Actions to increase access in the county, and ran a particularly successful thoughtfulness of those on board with Having seen oxford and balliol’s access work Hertfordshire ‘women in science’ day (see balliol access, and see balliol ‘success stories’ from the inside, i can also confirm that we rebecca bayliss’ account below). we also every michaelmas term in the new cohort already work very hard to widen access. continue work across the country, maintaining of ‘freshers’. but it’s not enough, and neither However, access issues haven’t lost their links with old members who teach, and balliol, nor talented state school students and importance. for the sake of giving hard-to- responding positively to all schools’ requests young women, must be allowed to fall behind. reach students the best, fairest chances, and in for visits to college. when school groups visit therefore, we’ll keep pursuing ways to satisfy order to boost the institution’s own academic balliol, our current students provide tours of our great ambitions for balliol’s outreach work, achievement, we must, and will, do more. the college, admissions tutors give a short to ensure that more of the most exceptional given the challenges balliol faces, our talk, and maths and philosophy tutors have students make it to what we know is our rather approach to access has the following core tenets: even volunteered free master-classes for the exceptional college.

Dr Giovanna Bridging the gender gap Scataglini-Belhitar giving a talk at the By reBeCCa BaYLiss (2009) Women in Science Conference 2011.

on 16 november 2011, balliol hosted the more applications from young men across inaugural women in science conference the sciences as a whole in 20102. in conjunction with hosts st albans High delegates listened intently to talks from school for girls in Hertfordshire. invitations dr giovanna scataglini-belghitar (deputy were sent for every school in Hertfordshire to tutor for undergraduate admissions) on the send delegates, resulting in the participation range of science courses available at oxford, of close to 20 schools, contributing over 150 and on the destination of balliol postgraduates. high-performing students from both the state the famed oxford tutorial system and the and independent sector. dreaded interview process were discussed to the conference aimed to engage the inspire the pupils, and dispel the many myths girls, who are at a critical time for making that surround the dreaming spires. choices about their future, with the young, enthusiastic science students of balliol. in 1. Department for Education, 2010. GCE/Applied GCE A/AS and Equivalent Examination Results holding a women’s only event, presented in England, 2009/10. [online] Available at http:// almost solely by female scientists, balliol www.education.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/ hoped both to inspire the scientific thinkers s000964/index.shtml [Accessed Jan 2012] of tomorrow and give them the confidence to 2. University of Oxford., 2010. Undergraduate apply to oxbridge courses. despite the fact Admissions Statistics: 2010 entry. Available at that a similar number of male and female [Accessed Dec 2011]

if you are interested in talking about balliol to your old school, or you are a teacher who would like to get involved with balliol’s outreach initiatives, please contact the tutor for undergraduate admissions, dr sophie marnette ([email protected]).

14 floreat domus balliol college news Pick a card Sean Whitton talks to Nick Trefethen about his recently published Index Cards.

The idea of an intellectual carrying around a notebook and filling it with the thoughts that arise in his mind from day-to-day has been capitalised on in recent years by various companies. The market for serious-looking notebooks confronts us in every bookshop. Many people buy notebooks with this purpose in mind but not many have them published. And, historically, famous thinkers whose notebooks have ended up being published, such as Quine, Samuel Butler, and Georg Lichtenberg, have only managed twenty or thirty years worth of notes at best. these facts make balliol’s nick chapter the cards are arranged in anyone who does any kind of trefethen, university Professor of chronological order, so when advanced maths recognises that a lot of numerical analysis, quite unique. reading it’s interesting to compare work is done by the notation that has since 1970 when he was 14, trefethen the development of thought taken centuries to develop; without the has been typing down his thoughts across chapters. ease of doing simple, routine moves onto index cards, initially at 3 inches trefethen’s initial motivation purely symbolically, our minds would by 5 inches, at some point switching for the cards came from The Glass be too cluttered to work on the more to 4 inches by 6 inches, which he has Bead Game by Hermann Hesse. interesting things. the thought from used ever since, now writing roughly this work of science fiction is set this index card is that this seems to two or three per month. after forty in a fictional european province apply to all other kinds of thought too, years of writing cards, trefethen has dedicated to intellectual pursuits, in and more as one gets older. made a selection of them public as which economic and other material through his cards trefethen aims Trefethen’s Index Cards, published by pursuits are kept to the minimum both to construct his world, and keep world scientific this year. necessary. the pinnacle of scholarly it safe from the ravages of time. and by there is a striking consistency of pursuit within this country is playing publishing some of these cards he has quality throughout the cards: they a game with glass beads, through enabled us to engage with that carefully all show that trefethen which all the knowledge constructed world too. is a master of concise and belief mankind has expression. while the Although the gathered through the arts, index card format was index card format humanities and sciences initially just a convenient was just a way to is brought together. way to store thoughts, deep connections it became a constraint, store thoughts, hitherto unknown are training the mind in it became a uncovered through the brevity. trefethen writes, process of playing. ‘once i’ve put an idea on constraint, trefethen hoped that a card, it becomes a piece training the mind he might make a start on of my mental framework, in brevity collating all knowledge in a principle i will refer to this way with his cards. for the rest of my life.’ this He explains that as he consistency is also striking. trefethen grew older he realised that not only characterises the development of his is it unfeasible for one man ever to thought as additive: there are very collect all knowledge like this, but few cards containing opinions he has also that various philosophical results now turned his back on. it is thus suggest that the task is impossible that Trefethen’s Index Cards gives even for all humanity banded us a unique opportunity to see the together. but the inspiration to create complete, systematic structure of a a glass bead game remained. modern scientific mind, a mind that an awareness of the intellectual we can all learn something from, nature of his project is visible in other and probably all find something with places. and the best example of this which to disagree. draws upon trefethen’s profession, the book is organised into mathematics. on page 24 trefethen chapters titled by card topic, says, ‘as the years go by and memory beginning with ego, and moving becomes less reliable, i think the through Kids, living with others, habit of writing takes on a special the meaning of life and then onto significance. in interacting with Politics and society, education, the written page, we can edit and the life of the Professor, writing adjust and keep on track even at an and literature, memory, science, age when on the hoof, our thoughts mathematics and computers, would ramble and we’d be at a loss to and more besides. within each recall every third name.’

issue no.18 may 2012 15 features

flag to the King before complaining about their defeat in the tug-of-war to a team comprised of Balliol Olympians liverpudlian policeman wearing their habitually ‘grippy’ boots. By oLiVer murPhY (2008) The 1908 Summer Games wilfrid Johnson (1904) represented britain The year 2012 marks the third occasion of the city of London hosting the in lacrosse and won a silver medal, while the Olympic Games and, as such, it appears to be an appropriate time to reflect brilliant musician frederick septimus Kelly (1900) won gold in the single sculls. He was on Balliol’s unique contribution to the rich history of the greatest sporting described by Hylton cleaver as ‘the greatest competition on earth. Right from the start, when the Olympic Games were amateur stylist of his time’ and had represented established in 1896 by the enigmatic Pierre de Coubertin, Balliolites played oxford in the boat race. His last rowing race key roles in both organisation and competition. fittingly was the triumphant olympic final, before he turned his prodigious talents to constantine manou (1894), a balliol alumnus, of the matterhorn on three separate occasions composition. tragically Kelly fell at the somme, was crucial in bringing the first modern olympic or rowing across the channel. during his time unable to fulfil truly his potential in so many games to greece and his oxford connections at oxford, he rowed twice in the boat race, fields. many stars of the 1908 games would proved invaluable in securing the participation participating in the famous ‘dead-heat’ of 1877. meet with similar fates – desborough lost two of many of britain’s best amateurs in a games after oxford he found time to be sons for whom he had a monument contested by a measly 14 nations. President of the marylebone cricket erected by the same man who had the early olympics were marked by a club, the lawn tennis association designed the medals. but the glory prevailing spirit of amateurish chaos from both and the amateur fencing of the 1908 games was only made competitors and organisers, with one of the association. somehow among all possible by desborough’s titanic tennis stars of the games, a friend of manou’s these responsibilities he found time efforts. He opened the games with from oxford, being invited to play on the day of to be a member of Parliament for a curt speech in driving rain, and the finals while he happened to be holidaying in both the liberals and latterly the made an equally curt request of athens. there were similarly eccentric ideas of conservative Party before he became edward Vii to declare it officially what constituted sport, which would be alien to lord desborough in 1905 and opened. He ended it as a champion the hardnosed professionals already in training could turn his hand to what really of organisation, feted on all sides by for this summer’s games: medals were given for mattered, organising an olympic those who had doubted whether it architecture and horse jumping. the latter may games. that funding proved an Justin Frishberg (1991) could ever be possible. not appear out of the ordinary, until it becomes issue for desborough need not surprise us when apparent that the horses were without riders and we think of the wrangling over modern olympic From farcical to professional the event was in fact horses taking part in a long- budgets, but that he applied for, and successfully the early olympics are full of examples of this jump competition with no perceptible human secured, funding from the daily mail of all happy amateurism and of oxbridge students interaction. an integral figure in this atmosphere newspapers seems astonishing. the current taking the weekend off from studying to pick of whimsical chaos was one of britain’s greatest london mayor and fellow balliol alumnus, boris up a gold medal; as the decades progressed the polymaths, another balliol alumnus and the Johnson (1983), would surely meet with more idea of professionalism, more readily termed President of the london 1908 games, william hostility if he were to pose the same question a ‘looming spectre’ by amateur opposition, grenfell, also known as lord desborough (1874). today. after securing the budget, desborough got began to be introduced into this previously grenfell was robotically proficient at anything on with the organisation of what could at times completely amateur enterprise. the 1924 he turned his mind to during his life, whether it be rancorous games, in which the american games of Paris are remembered more than was mountaineering and his successful ascent team caused controversy by refusing to tip their anything for the filmically-celebrated exploits of Harold abrahams and eric liddell, but the latter was competing in the final against a former rhodes scholar and balliol alumnus, david Johnson (1923), who was representing canada. Johnson, no doubt disappointed by missing out on a medal and any hopes he had of one day being portrayed by a leading actor in a film of the race, dusted himself off to run the 4x400m relay. astonishingly he would have raced against fellow rhodes scholar of the same year and fellow balliol graduate, bill stevenson (1922), who was running for the us. Johnson unfortunately came fourth once more, but fellow balliolite stevenson ran second leg for a then world record time of 3 minutes 16 seconds to bring home gold for the americans. balliol was clearly attracting the best sportsmen the us had to offer at this point, as stevenson was joined as a gold medallist by alan Valentine (1922) whose rugby fifteen triumphed over france in an acrimonious final in which the french star player adolphe Jaureguy was poleaxed by ferocious american defence in the opening stages. the victorious americans were given a police escort to help them off the pitch, but they received their medals regardless, although one was unconscious having been King Harald V (1960) visiting Balliol struck by a missile thrown from the crowd.

16 floreat domus balliol college news among this number was balliol graduate alan Valentine, who duly received his medal, and, since rugby was eliminated from the olympics following this farcical tournament in which only the romanians bothered to send another team, Valentine remains the only ex-balliol reigning olympic champion. after this great achievement he took on a less challenging role, aiding the truman administration in dealing with the economic fallout from world war ii, but it is for his triumphs in Paris that he should be fondly remembered by balliol students, past and present. Fewer Balliol Olympians balliol presences become scarcer as the decades go on and professionals begin to enter events previously dominated by oxbridge graduates, who no longer had the resources to compete in this new era. nevertheless, balliol is still represented, particularly by foreign students. Matthew Syed (1991) graham bond (1961) competed for australia at gymnastics in three separate games from 1956– a supreme honour for a young man who had occasions. His position as chair of great britain 1964. His lack of medals should not diminish not yet even competed for his country! wheelchair rugby will doubtless mean that he any admiration for his ability to participate in in recent times, balliol participation in the plays a vital role in the organisation of the event three games, for such a physically demanding olympics becomes still less common. matthew in london this year, while the desire to carry on discipline and, indeed, in a time when the sport syed (1991), now an award winning sports competing following defeat in beijing has meant was dominated by soviet gymnasts – who journalist, represented great britain table tennis his appearance in the finals this year remains a won 11 out of a possible 17 gold medals at the at the 1992 games in barcelona and at sydney strong probability. 1956 games. King Harald V (a Prince when he in 2000. His style of defensive play, which olympic history is rich with stories of matriculated in 1960) followed his father olaf simon barnes described as involving defensive unlikely competitors, personal tragedies and in representing norway in yachting at the 1964, shots with ‘roof-threatening parabolas’, did not astonishing triumphs and this brief summary 1968 and 1972 games, but perhaps his greatest unfortunately secure olympic medals, but a tV has hopefully shown that balliol graduates have olympic moment was his opening the 1994 documentary on ‘china and table tennis’ did played a vital role in creating and sustaining this winter olympic games in lillehammer as a result win a bronze medal at the olympic gold rings heritage. although balliol graduates are not as of his history of involvement in the olympic ceremony in lausanne. balliol’s most recent readily found in competition as they were in movement. only just out of balliol in 1964, the olympian appears to be Justin frishberg (1991) the glory years of amateurs turning up on the crown Prince was selected to bear norway’s flag who graduated alongside syed in 2001 and has day, the sheer force of a character such as lord into tokyo’s olympic stadium, which was surely competed twice for great britain in 2004 and desborough in managing to piece together 2008 in the wheelchair rugby tournament, where such a staggering success from the chaos of the unfortunately he followed david Johnson’s build-up to the 1908 games is testament to a 1924 example and finished fourth on both balliolite’s importance to the very foundations of the games as we know them today. we can only hope that 2012 is less chaotic and that any other balliol graduates involved share his astonishing powers of organisation.

Lord Desborough (1874)

Frederick Kelly (1900)

issue no.18 may 2012 17 features Global Balliol: Singapore By Sophie Petrou

‘The world is your oyster’ – the ominous slogan banded around by friends and relatives alike when you graduate; and many UK graduates do move away for work or for a fresh start in a new country, but for others it’s a daunting prospect and one that’s not given much thought. There are Balliol alumni living and working all around the world and in this article, the first of a series, Arjuna Mahendran (1978) and Clarence Tang (1993) tell us what it’s like to live and work in Singapore.

What do you like about Arjuna Mahendran (1978) Managing Director Singapore? at HSBC Private Bank in Singapore I like Singapore’s multi-culturalism. It is a country that has been a racial Describe your career path ‘Asia’ essentially did us a disservice in and religious melting pot for centuries. after leaving Balliol. amalgamating such varied cultures From its humble beginnings as a tropical and geographies into one region. outpost of a minor Malay sultan’s Having graduated in PPE with territory, it became a free port under economics as a major in 1981, banking Travelling from Jeddah to Jakarta is quite a challenge given the paucity the East India Company and has since was an interesting option. I went attracted traders from across the globe. into central banking to deepen my of airlines in the region. The second challenge is getting Today its government trumpets the knowledge of monetary economics virtues of its openness to varied cultures and its practical applications. adequately qualified and experienced bankers in Asia. Since the growth and nationalities. Even its political culture Following the ‘big bang’ is beginning to emerge in a more vibrant of the region and its modernised deregulation of the city of London form than has been the case until now. during the Thatcher years, I was financial architecture is relatively involved in similar deregulation recent, managing manpower Is there anything you miss efforts in Asia which resulted in resources in a sector which requires about the UK? the eventual opening to foreign intensely personalised service The weather; the silence and peacefulness investment of stock markets in India standards and high levels of of the Oxford countryside; and fresh air. and China. Eventually I moved over financial probity and rectitude is Singapore has been likened to a into investment banking as a research a huge challenge. ‘swamp at low tide’. In addition to the analyst and acquired in-depth unrelenting humidity, Asia is generally knowledge of the major banks and How have you come to be an over-crowded place with too much corporations listed on Asian bourses. based in Singapore? What noise, bustle and increasingly intolerable I now advise High-Net-Worth factors have influenced you? air pollution. families in Asia on how to set about I migrated to Singapore from Sri fulfilling their investment needs. Lanka in the early 1990s, principally What does your current to further my knowledge and outreach position involve? in the banking sector. Singapore and Hong Kong had a head-start in Asia’s Private banking is a specialised area financial development since they were of banking business which offers trading and financial hubs for several services to clients with large centuries going back to the time of investment portfolios. I work with a the British East India Company. team of investment professionals who They never succumbed to the tide service a large number of Asian High- of communism/socialism that swept Net-Worth clients from Singapore. through Asia after World War II, What do you enjoy about so they have had the benefit of several your job? What are the decades of smooth evolution of their more challenging elements? financial and corporate architecture, Meeting up and hearing the life- including the support structures such stories of the generation that as an efficient provision of legal and re-awakened Asia from decades accounting services etc. A prime of communism and socialist state- example of this is in the area of controlled economies is a fascinating corporate dispute resolution and and rewarding experience. I want to arbitration whereby Singapore has record this time in my memoirs. evolved into a hub for such activity Travelling across Asia’s numerous which cuts across the varied legal and time zones and vast distances is the jurisdictional challenges facing firms principal challenge. The ancient that seek to do business in several cartographers who coined the term Asian countries.

18 floreat domus balliol college news Clarence Tang (1993) Deputy Director, Higher Education at the Ministry of Education of Singapore

Describe your career path as for my current after leaving Balliol. position, it is an Having been sponsored by the singaporean exciting time for higher government for my undergraduate studies at education in singapore. oxford, i returned to complete my military service we have created many after graduation and joined the singapore civil more education pathways to cater for a broader service in 1999. i spent my initial years at the range of abilities and interests, and there is ministry of manpower (mom) working on areas currently a review to see if we can do even more.

such as workforce skills development, employment the funding challenge posed by a diverse higher istockphoto.com/oneclearvision assistance and regulation of employment standards. education landscape, is that we need funding this was followed by a year at the university policies that are flexible enough to meet the Would you recommend of michigan where i did a masters in Public unique needs of programmes, and are equitable. working/living in Singapore? administration on a fulbright scholarship. i was as we think about expanding pathways, funding subsequently assigned to head the work injury policies also need to be designed such that definitely. the sense of optimism compensation department back at mom, and was growth in the sector is fiscally sustainable. and creativity it entails seems posted to the ministry of education in early 2011, boundless in asia’s thriving How have you come to be based where i oversee higher education financing. metropolises. the sky is the limit in Singapore? What factors have in these spaces with their teeming What does your job involve? influenced your choice? populations and their craving for the higher education portfolio at the ministry this is home for me. my career choice has also material and spiritual uplift. asian of education covers singapore’s publicly funded played a big part in me being based here. societies still have that underlying universities, polytechnics and the institute of What do you love about Singapore? sense of continual wonderment with technical education, among other things. my two material progress accompanied by a main responsibilities are in institutional financing this is a tough question as one tends to take lack of the cynicism and self-parody and student financing. the focus of the former is things for granted at home. if i were to pick one that has crept into the more developed on sustainable resourcing of institutions to deliver thing, it would be how singapore has combined societies of the world. this is mainly quality education outcomes; the latter focuses urban and natural spaces within this small city because the populations are still young on ensuring the accessibility and affordability of state. the nature reserves and parks around with high population growth rates, higher education. the island are great retreats if one knows how which engenders a will to continually to avoid the crowds (it is possible!). one of my innovate and thrive. What do you enjoy about your job? favourite places is the botanic gardens, which so, if you want to be in an What do you find challenging? is a great place to spend a weekend with friends environment which is just starting i get to work on issues that i care about and have and family. i am looking forward to more spaces to throw off its historic restraints on been blessed with great co-workers through my like this as singapore continues to create more political and artistic self-expression career who are also keen to make a difference, green communal spaces under the city in a while continuing to build on a strong whether it is through reviewing a policy, garden initiative. commitment to material well-being, implementing a new programme or improving Is there anything you miss about singapore is the place to come to. a public service. the UK? this might actually sound strange but i miss the weather! i enjoyed the seasons marking the passing of a year, which we don’t get in tropical singapore. another thing i miss is british humour. i get my fix through bbc programmes on cable tV. Would you recommend working/ living in Singapore? this is another difficult question to ask of someone who is part of a public service that seeks to build singapore as a home for talent, without the answer sounding like a sales pitch! the unbiased answer is that it depends on the individual. if safety, cleanliness, green spaces, reliable public services, a well-connected public transport network, multiculturalism and having a good place to raise children rank highly on one’s choice of where to live, then singapore is a really good match. i should add that there have been many studies on liveable cities, and someone who is considering singapore but places a greater value on other factors should check out those

istockphoto.com/oneclearvision studies to see how singapore rates.

issue no.18 may 2012 19 features Modern day explorer By soPhie Petrou

If you were asked to draw an ‘explorer’, beige khaki clothes, a monocle, binoculars, heavy boots with white socks pulled up and a pith helmet might come to mind; probably a cartoon-like image – and also a dated one. ‘The Golden Age of Exploration’ has long since ended and who knows what a modern explorer looks like? The words ‘modern’ and ‘explorer’ seem like a paradox. I don’t know any explorers; it’s not a common vocation. And where is there left to explore? So when I read the article in The Independent about Old Member Robert Twigger (1982), it was refreshing and inspiring. Here was an explorer, and more than that, here was a different way of living. But it also filled me with questions – how was it viable? How did he make it work? And how had he escaped the rat race?

robert twigger (1982) is an explorer. His travelling is easier now than ever before, most recent trip was walking across the great so an explorer doesn’t necessarily need to make sand sea of the sahara, which involved a expeditions with teams of people. ‘because of 27-day crossing and – more to the point – easy flights, expeditions can be short now and the walking where no-one had been for 6,000 ideas of micro-exploration, and diy exploration, years. Previously he has crossed borneo in seem fruitful ones to me. you don’t need to be search of ancient menhirs and is planning a hampered by sponsors and tV gear,’ he says. but much about exploring a place in a new circumnavigation of the globe via the great surely the main element fundamental to being way, entering it from a new route, say, and, in rivers. i’d had no idea that ‘explorers’ existed. an explorer is discovery? are there any places doing so, seeing things that previous explorers to clarify – i assumed explorations today left to ‘explore’, i wonder? and if not, how does haven’t seen, as discovering somewhere new involved large-scale expeditions to the farthest- one become known as an explorer? ‘i’m actually altogether. as he argues in his article in The flung corners of the globe, such as the Poles, listed as one of forty modern explorers in a Independent (‘the call of the wild’): ‘instead of and that only a very select few, with the forthcoming thames and Hudson book – so i thinking of exploration in terms of its results – necessary background and scientific skills, must be one’, says robert in mocking retort. ‘but the places found, the species discovered, the trade would ever be lucky enough to be involved. the question of “discovery” is a tricky one’, he routes started – i think it is worth looking at i’d also assumed that exploration today involved explains. ‘many people, wrongly, think the world exploration as a psychological need, something a huge support team based at some isolated is all explored. actually, a third of all peaks over that makes us human. exploration is the result research station like the amundsen-scott south 6,000 metres in tibet are still unclimbed, much of succumbing to the urge to explore, just as Pole station. many graduates today embark of the sahara has never been walked over and books are the result of succumbing to the urge on adventurous globe-trotting after they finish the car visits are limited to easy-access areas, and to write, the urge to express yourself. the urge university or take a gap year and get involved by using another form of transport one changes to explore is within all of us and demands an in a Vso project of some kind, but that’s not one’s viewpoint and so one becomes an explorer outlet.’ a persuasive argument; robert believes really true exploration says robert: ‘travelling again. for example, by using a canoe to travel that being an explorer is more than finding a new and tourism isn’t “exploration”’, he confirms. between islands in the Pacific instead of a sailboat place – it is a fundamental need of human nature. ‘to qualify as an explorer, one should bring you have a completely different experience.’ maybe certain people are more tuned-in to this back news after making a unique, difficult, Here then, is the modern view of exploration. urge. robert himself seems always to have had and dangerous expedition. a war reporter it’s not so much about discovering new places an adventurous side. as a boy of 16, his first solo isn’t an explorer because the trip is not unique. but re-discovering places and seeing them from expedition was an attempt to take an aluminium a tourist does not bring back news; they merely a new point of view. there are still places left to army canoe down the stour river and into the visit the already visited. but a long-term tourist discover, but they are rare, and for robert it’s as avon. ‘the canoe had outriggers and was rather can get hints of what is out there and then go heavy and the river, near the source, only a few back as an explorer.’ inches deep – so it involved a lot of dragging,’ he tells me. ‘the canoe trip meant going through a private forest that was so overgrown it was like a jungle. the feeling of the challenge, of being in a wild spot, that was what i

20 floreat domus balliol college news A great adventurer reports By anthonY smith

Anthony Smith (1944) was featured in last year’s ‘Great Adventurers’ article (page 32) – for his mammoth undertaking of crossing the Atlantic by raft. Balliol is very pleased to say that he has returned safely to terra firma and we enjoyed reading his lively summary below. ‘I am happy to report that one Balliol member not only came to his senses but to the Atlantic’s other side more or less where he plus crew had intended for the conclusion of their voyage. The West Indian island they selected (from the considerable number on offer) seemed in keeping with their venture. St Martin may be only seven miles by seven but has been governed by two nations, the Netherlands and France, since 1648. There is even a frontier between them with the food superior and the language French in the northern half. The purpose of our crossing, if there has to be one, was to suggest that elderly people can still do interesting things apart from coffee mornings, dead-heading roses and swallowing pills. A raft did seem ideal. There is no need to rearrange its steering more than very occasionally. No great distances are involved to reach everywhere on board. The speed is relaxed – we averaged 2,1 loved’, he says. something in robert’s argument knots for our 66 days at sea – and I even gave strikes a chord with me. i’m pretty sure that up reading after the half-way point. The sea was most office workers have felt utter frustration adequate entertainment, whether flat calm and and boredom at times with a 9–5 office-based good for swimming or sending major waves which job; it certainly doesn’t feel like a natural human threatened to engulf but only heaved the raft’s rear behaviour to be in one room all day, for five days end high into the air. Our flotation was achieved a week, staring at a screen. robert advocates the by water pipes, sealed at each end, and bonded alternatives to this: ‘in this life you can choose to together by wooden saddles plus powerful ratchet be time rich or money rich – very few combine in nuclear subs i’d be away nine months at a time’, straps. A single sail provided thrust and the east-west both – even those poor old fat cats who bank he says. ‘and good friends will always make time current also helped us on our way. It was, in short, their city bonuses are doing the 9 to 5 in some to see you.’ He is also at home for three quarters a doddle. crappy office. i realised i’d rather own all my of the year during which time he is either writing Major mishaps did not occur, save for heading in time rather than “do time” until i retired early.’ or doing talks, both of which involve regular reverse for two lengthy periods. (We also ran out of robert finances his explorations routines. you might argue that those Shreddies.) Major excitements were countless, such by writing books and making tV men and women with city jobs that as two whales who partnered us for hours, and 70 programmes. He also gives talks In this life you involve working until late at night, Dorado fishes whose 3-foot bodies kept us company, in schools, which he says he loves. and weekends too, will actually, over can choose to be and frigate birds whose massive wingspan (greater ‘money is never the problem, the the course of the year, spend less time rich or money than an albatross’s) did not prevent them from problem is always inside your head’, quality time with their families and catching flying fish – seemingly when they chose. he says philosophically. ‘sometimes rich – very few friends than robert who is master of Perhaps the most remarkable fact of all is that we you have to bite the bullet. for my his own time. on the other hand, to combine both adored the nights, considering them a far better time first book i went home for nine play devil’s advocate: if we all chose of day. Hear a whale expelling air almost explosively months and lived with my parents – this way of life then our societies, and in the darkness to understand that preference. i was 30 and it felt like a step back but it was our culture, everything about the way we live We called ourselves inverted Walter Raleighs the only way i could save money for my next today would collapse. we need some stability. all for taking potatoes – grown in Essex – from the trip. to fund trips you have to save money or cultures need some constants – some people who Old World to the New. Others, such as yachtsman, get sponsors. to save money you have to live act as the anchor to stop life being in a constant thought us daft for welcoming such gentle speed. I in very cheap or free housing – boats are pretty flux of comings and goings. we – as a society – now have no idea what we should be called, if names good for this. but you have to be impartial to need people who like routine and stay rooted. are necessary, but Balliol can take some blame. I well the usual comforts.’ and here, at least, robert agrees: ‘you’re either remember receiving £25 (of good money then) from so there is a sacrifice to be made and it’s that a settler or a nomad … and they both need each a seasickness pill manufacturer following a late JCR you have to live, at least initially, very humbly and other – if everyone was like me no one would evening which had spawned the great idea of testing avoid the trap of materialism. as robert says, ‘if make this nice computer i am writing on!’ their product on camel-back, normally so upsetting. you have a goal then the money is secondary; if so while to some degree one person’s freedom There is no need for such medicine, by the way, when you have no goal then money rules your life.’ is enabled by another’s anchored routine, which upon a raft, with the experience too invigorating for i’d assumed the compromise would be that seems unfair, a part of me, the instinctive part, thoughts of nausea, but 25 quid will always come in he didn’t have a partner or found it hard to can’t help but agree with robert – perhaps it is a handy whatever venture comes to mind. Long may maintain relationships, being away a lot, but fundamental need of human nature that we are such thoughts arise.’ robert lives in england and has a wife and two denying. and in spite of my cynical misgivings, kids in school: ‘my wife knows this is my job and it’s inspiring to hear of someone who has chosen as i sometimes remind her – if i was in the navy this lifestyle and is making it work for them. issue no.18 may 2012 21 features

Right of reply: Clean the Windows on Ramallah Windows on By Jonathan saCerDoti (1998) anD JeremY Cohn (1982) The writers of this letter have never met, the article was one of three billed having matriculated 17 years apart. as being about aid work undertaken by balliol alumni. it was introduced Ramallah as proud alumni of balliol, we were as a special feature describing work angry, and upset, that balliol allowed in development, but the anonymous In Floreat Domus 2011, Balliol published itself to be used in the ongoing diarist did no such thing. rather than the article ‘Windows on Ramallah’ by propaganda war against israel, the only ‘talk about aid work’ – which s/he an anonymous author. A number of Old parliamentary democracy in the entire does not a jot – s/he drips insidious Members felt that such a politicised article middle east. comments onto a bed of half-truth we have issues with both the mixed with innuendo, to create a dish should not have been published. Objections style and the content of the article of one-sided, defamatory political focused mainly on the anonymity of the ‘windows on ramallah’, but our biggest comment. and all this after only a author, Floreat Domus as an unsuitable forum disappointment is that balliol published month in the country. for this sort of article, and the misleading link it at all, let alone in this form. the article, though apparently between the cover strapline – ‘Three Balliol israel is a tiny country, but suffers offering objectivity and balance (‘who from a disproportionately large amount to believe?’) is written in such a way as Old Members talk about aid work’ – and of attention, mostly negative, especially to make clear who the author wants us this particular article’s content. On behalf in europe and specifically in the to believe. we say ‘the author’, because of the editorial board of Floreat Domus, uK. even if we assume that there is s/he chose anonymity. this is a stunt; we apologise for any offence caused. legitimate interest in the relationship you can take any position you want between israel and the arabs living on the so-called ‘israel-Palestinian regarding the issue of anonymity, the author in the biblical territories of Judea and debate’, but so many people take the perceived him/herself to be at risk (not from israel samaria (the west bank of the Jordan author’s position, including many but at risk nonetheless) and, given this, we felt it river), Floreat Domus is emphatically western politicians, ngo workers was not for us to include the name of the author. not a remotely suitable forum, if only involved with arabs in gaza, Judea it was felt that in the circumstances a right because of the emotions involved; and samaria, a sizable portion of the of reply was proper. the letter that follows is and ‘windows on ramallah’ was foreign journalists in israel and even representative of those received. emphatically not a proper form. some israelis, that not only is it almost

Reply from the author of about conversations that have taken 17.2% or 2.7%? place, that i wilfully deceive readers the west bank is currently divided ‘Windows on Ramallah’ and that i surreptitiously imply that into three administrative zones, all of israel is Palestine, in line with known as areas a, b and c. the terrorist ideology. these claims are Palestinian authority is responsible all false. i hope that the authors i would like to thank the authors of ‘clean for security and civilian-related will agree in hindsight that the the windows on ramallah’ (henceforth, policies in area a, while israel retains inflammatory comments cited above ‘the authors’) for their response to my piece. partial or full control in the remaining are inappropriate. they will not be territories. there are different Preliminary Comments addressed in my response. approximations of the relative sizes in their letter, the authors do an admirable The Occupation of areas a, b and c because there are job of trying to remain impartial on an different calculation methods in use issue they clearly feel passionate about. the authors question whether (e.g. should we include land that israel However, they also make a handful of Palestinian territories are occupied by has annexed in the calculations?). provocative claims that i believe are israel. i follow the international court whatever the differences, all inappropriate. these include that i of Justice, un, eu and uK in saying calculations place the overwhelming fabricate observations, that i may lie that they are. majority of the west bank outside of

22 floreat domus balliol college news de rigueur in certain circles, it is most 1964, when the Plo was first founded how the embassy supposedly lost certainly not dangerous. you can say (three years before israel even took adam’s application is a mystery; Final right many nasty things about israel, and control of Judea and samaria, during but the author would have done some of them might even be true, the six-day war). adam a better personal service of reply but you cannot claim that it is the Fortnight Journal, where this had s/he informed him that Jonathan Sacerdoti dangerous to say them. the anonymity piece first appeared, pairs contributors passport renewals are handled and Jeremy Cohn of the author subliminally suggests at ‘with well-established mentors in by the ministry of interior (the Floreat Domus is not the least a perceived threat to personal their discipline’. the author’s mentor Jerusalem office of which is as well correct forum for a debate safety, and, in doing so, presents a (according to the Fortnight Journal attended by arab citizens as by on this complex conflict, pernicious falsehood. website) was rifat odeh Kassis, any other). which is why we object to the author talks, in the same who openly advocates boycott of, the author takes issue with thinly disguised propaganda paragraph, about both a ‘Palestinian- divestment from and sanctions against israel’s security fence, a uniquely appearing in our alumni israeli’ and ‘arab-israelis’. true, in israel, and who has been accused by successful non-violent anti-terror magazine. Yes, everyone countless surveys, many east Jerusalem an author from the Hudson institute measure. that s/he neglects to has their own view, but arabs say that following a future peace of ‘outright falsehood’. the author mention the reason it was built is nobody should try to present deal they would prefer to stay in israel has clearly been taught well: s/he more than an oversight or mere hearsay and opinion as than a Palestinian state. However, claims to have seen the men break omission, it is wilfully misleading. casual observations of fact. one wonders whether s/he would be their ramadan fast, followed by the author claims that 2.7% The ‘diarist’ now decides to prepared to shout in ramallah that local kids playing ball, and then to of the west bank is governed wish away the uncomfortable there is such a thing as an arab israeli have witnessed the sunset. Perhaps independently by the Palestinian presentation of the truth, (such as those that sit in parliament or israel produced a false sunset to trick authority. no less an authority and ignores our very specific on the supreme court or play football the ramadan fasters, but muslims than the Palestinian authority exposures of poetic license. for the national team) who is not a worldwide only break the ramadan accepts that the figure is 17.2%. The website of the PLO’s Palestinian. if all arabs in israel are fast after sunset. when dealing with israel is not an apartheid state. Negotiations Affairs Department Palestinians, and if, as s/he asserts, an author willing to fabricate details Floreat Domus, is, however, not claims the Palastinian Authority israel has occupied Palestine (although, like this, you have to wonder about the forum for this debate. balliol controls ‘only 17.2% of the at the time of writing, there is neither the rest of their observations. should never have published this occupied West Bank’1. This is political nor historical nor geographical now, the author may or may not article, not in the guise of an article by land mass. If you measure truth in such a statement), then, s/he have met an israeli arab called adam on aid work, not anonymously, not by population, then the figure must be implying that all of israel, and in Jerusalem, and adam may have with such lack of balance, not with is 55%. And if you add area not just the west bank, is Palestine. claimed that israel was refusing to such a huge amount of hearsay B, which is under Palastinian this has been the banner under which renew his passport. Quite why the (both attributed and not) and Authority civil control, then Palestinian terror has reigned since author treats us to a long story as to innuendo. not at all. you reach 41% by land mass and 96% of population. If you include the Gaza Strip, which is entirely under Palestinian control, the rate of self- governance becomes 98%. We nowhere claimed that Palestinian territories are not occupied, but to say that ‘Palestinian territories are occupied’ is to be specifically vague. In the absence of what ‘Palestinian’ means (nation? state? geographical description of population?), meaningful discussion is impossible. That is part of the wider problem. It also allows the ‘diarist’ both to misrepresent the amount of territory at stake and yet deny that their position means that all of Israel is Palestine. The full Palestinian control. according is that i am a national of a country on this conflict that set out the ‘diarist’ seems to believe what to the authors, the Palestinian where travel to israel and Palestine international community’s views they are not prepared to say: authority claims to independently is banned, and where my safety on how best to move forward. that all of Israel is occupied Palestinian territory. govern 17.2% of the west bank. in my would be at risk if it were known that i also recommend the international 1 Please, Balliol, let’s telephone conversation today with i had defied this rule. some of the court of Justice’s 2004 advisory keep Floreat Domus out dr ghassan Khatib, the director of authors of ‘clhe umn aware of this. ruling on the illegality of the of calumny. the government media centre in the thus, separation wall, and the 2008 report Palestinian authority, he confirmed i am unsure why they have persisted by the un special rapporteur on that the area they independently with their claim that my real 1. http://www.nad-plo.org/ the situation of human rights in the userfiles/file/maps/palisr.pdf govern constitutes 2.7% of the west objective is to deceive readers about Palestinian territories. bank at a push. politics with immunity. once again, i would like express Editor’s final Anonymity Remaining Questions my appreciation to the authors for their thoughts, and Floreat Domus comment the editorial board of Floreat Domus for those questions i could not for giving space in this edition to No further piece or have worked hard to preserve my address, i direct interested readers to broaden the debate. comments regarding this anonymity ever since they asked me the dozens of un general assembly article will be published. to write for the magazine. the reason and security council resolutions 1. 9 November 2011

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As with any new political policy, the an important aspect of big society is the Conservative Party’s flagship ‘Big endorsement of social enterprises to take over Big Society’ came under criticism after responsibility for the delivery of public services, such as the establishment of alternatives to state schools its launch in the run-up to the 2010 by local parents. david cameron championed the election: some claimed it was simply big society as a move away from top-down projects Society a gimmick, a utopian vision which which he claims sap responsibility, innovation and sounded good but had small hope of action: while central government can be clumsy and realisation; others accused the party of unresponsive to specific local needs, the thought is that local alternatives to state providers could Capital trying to justify savage spending cuts better react to demand and show true ingenuity. and stripping back of the state with little Past evidence is on his side – social ventures of the By sarah eDWarDs (2010) more than a ‘figleaf’ of social enterprise. sort big society promotes have contributed 1.5% of In July 2011, the launch of Big Society gdP and provided 800,000 jobs, especially for those Capital took the first steps towards who are vulnerable and find it hard to obtain work, according to a government paper. as well as this dispelling both arguments with the help economic benefit, the very fact that the schemes are of three Balliol Old Members, Ian Davis run by locals has a positive benefit on the morale (1969), Sir Richard Lambert (1963) and of a community. However, social enterprises are far Dr Geoff Mulgan (1979), appointed to from taking on the role that the government would two expert boards to run it. like, and so in his speech on 19 July 2011, the Prime minister outlined three areas in which government must act to cause the change to make big society a reality: decentralisation, transparency and providing finance. it is the third of these which the big society capital, and our three balliol old members, are concerned with. Supporting social ventures any firm wishing to start a new project requires capital. getting a bank loan can be a struggle for any start-up, but since the 1970s much investment has gone into venture capital: early stage high-potential but high-risk business investment in exchange for equity, which the investors hope will generate a return at a later date. unfortunately, the market for this form of funding is extremely small when it comes to social projects; part of the problem lies in the very nature of social ventures: they must bring a benefit to society, not just an economic return. in effect this creates an externality, or a benefit for which there is no market, as the social return does not create profit for investors. social enterprises must look elsewhere for capital, predominantly to government grants and charities, and yet these do not provide long-term, sustainable funds. many initiatives cannot find the capital to get off the ground and very few have sufficient funds to grow to a self-sustainable size. although they face different challenges, the link between venture capital and social investment is clear, and the sector is looking to business solutions. this is part of the reason why sir ronald cohen, founder of venture capital firm apax Partners and social equity firm social finance, has become so integral in social investment schemes, including the big society bank, and was the key motivation for sir richard lambert, former editor of the Financial Times, member of the monetary Policy committee and director general of the confederation of brit- ish industry, to get involved: ‘i’ve known sir ronald cohen for years, and we’ve often talked about the scope for this kind of approach,’ says lambert. ian davis, a long-time managing director of manage- ment consultancy mcKinsey & company (until 2009), was similarly influenced by both cohen and lambert: ‘i agreed to become a director of the big society trust: richard lambert is a non-executive chairman and is the other board member from the private/business sector. His and sir ronald cohen’s involvement are a key factor in my participation, although of course the topic is one very close to

24 floreat domus balliol college news Ian Davis (1969) Sir Richard Lambert (1963) Dr Geoff Mulgan (1979) my heart.’ dr geoff mulgan, on the board of big unfortunately, this does not mean that all of of the pressing social issues of our time. society capital itself, has years of experience in this money would be available to the bank imme- the opportunity of course lies in the social enterprise from his work as chief execu- diately: the money in the accounts still belongs to fact that the solution to many social problems tive of the young foundation directly involved customers and before it can be used there must has a monetary value and this is the gem of in bringing entrepreneurship to meet social first be a drive to reunite customers with their the idea behind both social impact bonds and needs through ventures such as the open uni- accounts. combined with foot dragging on the subsequently the big society bank.’ these social versity, and is now chief executive of the national part of banks and building societies, there was impact bonds, created by sir ronald cohen and endowment for science technology and the arts. an accusation from critics that only a tiny frac- social finance, are outcomes-based contracts together they aim to help bridge the gap between tion of the assets, estimated around £60 million, which align investor returns with social returns. the funds available and the funds required by would actually be available by the time of the many social problems are expensive to the public strengthening the market of social investment. launch of the bank, and this simply would not purse, so the government agrees to make payment big society capital provides an elegant solu- be a big enough pot to start with. However, in for the achievement of a defined social outcome. tion. as well as providing some capital itself, the february 2011, the merlin deal provided a solu- investors buy into this bond to provide funding bank will support social investment by linking tion. although primarily motivated to encourage for a social enterprise which aims to achieve this intermediary organisations, which provide fund- greater lending from banks and smaller bonuses social outcome. the investors do make a return if ing for social projects, and both with investors for employees in the aftermath of the financial they have invested wisely in a successful project: to provide capital and entrepreneurs wishing to crisis, the banks also agreed to provide £200 mil- they take on the risk instead of the government. start a project. organisations such as the char- lion capital to the big society bank, which will currently the bonds are in practice funding ity bank and the big lottery fund, which invest bring the eventual total of capital to £600 million. charities aiming to resettle ex-offenders in in social schemes, will receive resources and capitalisation was not the only hurdle facing Peterborough, with investors looking at a future expertise from the bank. social organisations the bank. the first and most important next step £8 million pay-out from the government if the would need to make a return: the investors are was obtaining permission from the european scheme is successful, from expected savings on not giving to charity but trying to make a profit. commission – a safeguard to check that the the police and welfare budgets. these bonds have but the bank should open up a greater reserve plans abide by eu state aid rules which protect now opened up the possibility of money-making of capital to those involved in social initiatives, against government providing unfair financial social programmes. as well as greater opportunities for charitable advantages to businesses. without this approval, there is good news on the investors front as funds intermediaries to have a new middle choice the government could play no part in capitalis- well: new guidance in october from the charity between giving money away and making profit- ing the bank. Just in time for christmas, brussels commission has allowed charitable funds to able investments. in the long run, gave the plan the green light, calling make social investments which further the the social investment sector could be the project ‘innovative’. the final reg- charity’s aims, even if the investment risks below- strengthened to the stage where social Social ulatory step will be receiving approval market returns. Previously, it had been unclear investment is a real alternative for all organisations from the financial services authority, whether charities could make investments which banking institutions and investment would need to which should be ready by the end were not expected to maximise profit, but the intermediaries, and the outcomes of of the first quarter of 2012. the real new guidance makes clear that ‘programme- the social ventures are real and effi- make a return: factor determining the success of big related’ or ‘mixed-motive’ investments are allowed cient alternatives to public provision. the investors society capital is the balance that is even if they cannot be justified purely on financial struck between making a return while return as long as they help the charity’s intended Raising capital are not giving to still making sure that funding gets beneficiaries. this could make hundreds of until those initial investors are charity but trying directed to social investment. lam- millions more available to social enterprises. attracted to the idea, some capital to make a profit bert describes how it is with this that the future looks promising for big society is going to be necessary to start the big society trust is concerned: ‘the capital: the motivation, theory and logistics are bank off. the dormant bank and trust’s job is to make sure that big so nearly in place, and, until it has full approval, building society accounts act 2008 allows the society capital stays true to its mission – track- the bank is already operating through the interim government to collect and distribute funds from ing the progress of bs capital against its objec- big society investment fund. the first investment accounts where there has been no customer tive of improving the funding available to social of £1 million to a social investment fund run by activity for 15 years, with the condition under entrepreneurs and ultimately helping to establish the Private equity foundation was made in June, section 18 that the money is used for a social social investment as a serious asset class. in other and following the recent eu approval £3.1 million investment wholesaler, as the bank aims to be. it words, we on the trust board are like trustees, from dormant bank accounts has now been is estimated that there are around half a million and bs capital is accountable to us.’ invested in further projects, including the crea- of such accounts worth upwards of £400 million. tion of the first ever social stock exchange. ‘the idea to use dormant funds originated under Business meets social investment there is a while to go before the vision is com- the labour Party administration’ davis explains. is this balance actually possible? davis certainly plete, but within a few years the bank could see ‘it was an inspired thought to make use of this to thinks so: ‘the business sector and the social the social investment market grow into a billion provide the backing for big society capital.’ sector have to work together to solve some pound industry.

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Pass it on First Teach It’s a tough world out there for kids growing up today; with youth unemployment reaching record levels in the UK they’re at a disadvantage before they even start, and they need all the help they can get. In a world of uncertainties, the development and progress of our children is our only safe investment for the future so we need to ensure that their young minds are nurtured with our time and skills in order to grow. Three Old Members – John Colenut (1981), Chief Operating Officer at Teach First, Caitlin Carmichael-Davis (2008), a graduate on the Teach First programme and journalist Robert Peston (1979), tell us how they are working to inspire young minds.

educational performance between rich and Chief Operating Officer at Teach First poor has narrowed after successful reforms based on levelling ‘up’ not ‘down’. By John CoLenutt (1981) teach first works with schools in low- income communities to break the link between i joined teach first in the new role of chief their socio-economic background is shameful. low family income and poor educational operating officer in January 2011, after a educational disadvantage perpetuates attainment by recruiting top graduates with 22-year career in investment banking with inequality and confines thousands of young the potential to be inspirational teachers. we cazenove/JPmorgan cazenove. Joining people up and down the country to a life of equip them with the skills and support to the charity gave me an exciting and unique unrealised potential. raise the achievement, aspirations and access opportunity to be part of a fast-growing the negative correlation between to opportunity of children from low socio- organisation that is making a big impact on educational attainment and income is stronger economic backgrounds, while developing the uK education system. the switch of career in the uK than in almost any other developed a network of leaders committed to ending from the city wasn’t quite as surprising a country. indeed, while 96% of children from educational inequality from both inside and move as it might appear, given that i taught for independent schools progress to university, outside the classroom. two years when i left oxford and have been a just 16% of children receiving free school after six weeks of intensive teacher training, governor of a Hertfordshire primary school for meals will achieve this milestone. this is run in partnership with some of the country’s the last ten years. wrong, wrong for the thousands of individual top teacher training universities, participants teach first was created to confront one of children who are not fulfilling their potential, begin what will undoubtedly be one of the most the most enduring social problems in the uK, and wrong for society as a whole. but it doesn’t challenging periods of their lives, teaching that of educational disadvantage. the fact that have to be this way. there are many examples a real classroom of real pupils. throughout children’s educational success is limited by around the world where the disparity in the two years that participants are required

straight after completing my something that looked good on and intractable than i had degree and enabled by the my cV and i really needed to appreciated. walking into classes generous balliol teach first start earning some money. of anarchic 13-year-olds and bursary (founded by the wilson- some of these motivations disenfranchised 15-year-olds on wilson trust), i joined teach now seem to be rather naïve. the verge of expulsion quickly first. i’m not completely sure worryingly, i believed that destroyed my arrogance and a what motivated my decision. the i could single-handedly end good part of my self confidence. ethos of teach first certainly many of the difficulties my these schools come up against appealed; as an independent placement school was facing. really tough barriers. easy charity it works towards deep down i was certain targets such as ‘better discipline’ reducing the impact of that i would be able show the and ‘more rigorous academic the link between family established teachers where they standards’ mean very little income and educational were going wrong. of course, when faced with the harsh and Case Study attainment. i wanted the problems experienced by my complicated reality. my year 8 By CaitLin CarmiChaeL-DaVis (2008) to do something that placement school were much class is made up of twelve and made a difference, more nuanced, deep seated thirteen-year-olds. many of them

26 floreat domus balliol college news to commit to the programme, years, with many being promoted they receive high levels of support, to senior leadership positions in

Teach First Teach Speakers for Schools: delivered by experienced colleagues their schools. others leave teaching in their schools and by university to pursue successful careers in a summary mentors. although the programme business, government and in the is challenging, over 90% of the third sector (with a growing number By roBert Peston (1979) participants successfully complete it. of ambassadors setting up their own the charity has grown rapidly social enterprises). the great majority Speakers for Schools is all which made me what I am since being set up 10 years ago. in of these ambassadors continue to be about getting inspirational today (for better or worse), 2011 we recruited 770 involved in teach first’s speakers into state secondary and I am a great fan of participants to teach in mission of addressing schools, especially the more comprehensives. So it was a schools in challenging educational disadvantage disadvantaged schools. All the matter of some concern to me circumstances, making by, for example, mentoring talks are completely free for the around four years ago that I teach first the fourth sixth-form students to schools. The aim is to inspire started receiving invitations to largest recruiter of help them progress to students, give them exciting speak in schools but almost all graduates in the country university, or coaching the knowledge that’s outside the the invitations came from leading – just behind the big next generation of teach core curriculum, encourage them independent schools (Eton, accountancy firms – and first participants. to set their sights high and be Harrow and so on) rather than the largest recruiter of in order to help the ambitious for themselves. from the kind of school I attended. oxford and cambridge many thousands of young I did a bit of research and graduates. teach first people across the country Getting the speakers discovered that these independent continues to grow, with from low socio-economic One of the great things about schools take for granted that 1,000 participants being backgrounds teach John Colenutt being a journalist for as long as I people like me will go and talk to recruited this year and first has to grow, but to have been in the trade – almost their students for free, whereas even larger numbers planned in grow we require increasing financial 30 years – is that I have got to state schools rarely if ever get top the years ahead. resources. teach first currently know thousands of fascinating, people in to talk to their students there is now a gathering body receives funding from the department successful, inspirational people. – because state schools typically of evidence that teach first is for education to bear some of its So in setting up Speakers for lack the networks of contacts having a measurable impact on expansion costs and schools also Schools I cajoled many of them and the confidence to issue the lives of pupils. a recent pay us a fee when they employ a into becoming speakers, and then the invitations. university of manchester study, participant (to reflect the investment some of them recruited great Speakers for Schools is my for example, found that there are the charity has made in each teacher). speakers from their respective attempt to level the playing field a statistically significant differences However, the key need in the future is networks. Today we have around bit in this respect between state between the average gcse results to secure sufficient voluntary sector 800 speakers (and rising) – who sector and independent sector of teach first and non-teach first funding and unlock the other sources are leaders in science, the arts, and currently half the schools in partner schools. the quality of the of income that will allow us to recruit politics, business, the media, the country have applied for talks. training offered by teach first and more participants and help change the engineering and so on. My All our speakers commit to give our university partners has also lives of more young people. initial aim is to expand the at least one talk per year for free been praised, with ofsted rating the last year has been fascinating. list to 1,000 speakers. See in a state school. If nothing else, the provision ‘outstanding’ in all switching careers from investment www.speakers4schools.org we are hoping to demonstrate 44 of the categories assessed in a banking to the third sector has for more about us. to the students in these schools 2011 inspection. been challenging at times but very that they really matter, that they the long-term success of teach satisfying. many of the high spots Good question are valued, and that they should first will reflect not just the impact have been on school visits where i The best question I have been aim high – in part because what in the classroom of a growing have met participants – a bright, very asked when on a visit is one that they make of themselves will number of teachers in schools in committed and energetic group – and I am often asked: ‘why should I determine how the UK emerges challenging circumstances, but seen the very real impact that these bother to go to university when from its challenging economic also the thousands of ambassadors teachers are making in the classroom. it has become so expensive?’ and social circumstances. (alumni) who have gone through to find out more about the To which I answer, perhaps the programme. almost 60% of work of teach first and how you sanctimoniously, that there is participants continue to teach after can support the charity visit no better investment any of us they have completed their two www.teachfirst.org.uk can make than in improving our own skills and in deepening our knowledge. are very, very small. i thought i such support has enabled me to Motivations was moderately scary and they see real progression, both in my The decision to set up Speakers were impressionably young. they own techniques and in the pupils for Schools stems almost totally threw the inside of their glue- i teach. lessons where students from my own educational sticks on the ceiling. rather than stay back to complete work, experience. I went to a revealing this to anyone, i spent enthusiastically relate tasks to comprehensive in North London, break time standing on the tables, their own experiences, and simply pulling the glue off the ceiling and listen to what i am tying to tell putting it back in the glue-sticks. them, have begun to outweigh statistically, however, teach those that leave me exhausted first works and as my first year and disillusioned. a pupil in progresses i have begun to see the bottom set told me last why. although the beginning week ‘i didn’t think i was good of the process was hard, the at anything until i did science training and support you receive with you’. maybe i am making a as a participant is truly amazing. difference, some of the time.

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I can see the theory to back it AC: How do you feel London as a global financial up, but when you get into the centre is faring in all of this? detail of it, it’s just catastrophic. It’s kind of an experiment: ML: London has always been a financial centre you don’t really know how it’s and always endured as one. There are a lot of going to work out until you’ve things going on in the world. It’s not just the tried it. Economics can be very Euro crisis. You also have a debt crisis, and theoretical. You can still have we have problems of our own – just as the US arguments with people who has problems of its own – which are nothing say ‘Well, the theory works. to do with the Euro. We went through a bad In theory this three decades where we built up currency should We came off the massive debts, and now we’re work’, so they looking to lose that debt. Financial assume it does Gold Standard in markets manufacture debt. That’s work, but there’s 1971... And it’s what they do. That’s one of their clear evidence that it’s products. And that product is now not working. Countries not a coincidence, in decline. So it’s a bit like being in keep going bust, and at that you then had the tobacco business. You can be AC: You’re perhaps some point you need to a huge increase quite an efficient and competent best known for your pause and say ‘Well, alright, cigarette manufacturer, you might ‘day job’ as a financial it’s clearly not working’. It’s in debt and a be profitable, you might be good at columnist. In a recent article causing these depressions across financialisation of what you do, but fundamentally your for MarketWatch, you list ‘Ten Europe. Greece is having a deep business is declining. And it’s going Surprises for 2012’. How optimistic recession with a 16% contraction the universe to fall by 5% per year whatever you are you about the year ahead? of GDP. I looked up the figures the do. I think London’s a bit like that. other day, and the Great Depression in the US Fundamentally its product was manufacturing ML: Not very. I’m very pessimistic was 30% contraction of GDP from 1931–1933. debt and nobody wants that anymore. So it about the Euro. I’m a PPEist by background So they’re not quite in that territory yet, but probably has a longer term problem but I think and I think if you’re interested by both politics they’re getting into that kind of ballpark in it’s hard to know with the Euro situation. They and economics, then it’s a fascinating saga. Greece, and the same in Ireland, and in Italy, probably will clamp down on the City. They I wasn’t that anti-Euro at the start. It’s a very where they plan a 16-20% contraction of GDP. hate the City and particularly the French and polarised debate in the UK. A lot of people It’s catastrophic and a big thing to do so I’m the Germans are baffled and angry about why were ideologically opposed to it, but I was pretty gloomy about it. I don’t think the people this currency doesn’t work. They lash out and perfectly relaxed about it and when it was in charge seem to have any understanding of blame it on the traders and speculators, but it’s introduced I thought it was quite a good idea. what they’re doing in these countries so it’s nothing to do with the speculators. It’s their hard to be optimistic about that. own fault. But people never blame themselves, do they? They always find someone other than themselves to say ‘it’s all their fault’.

AC: In a recent piece for The Spectator you point out that market crashes ‘Market Forces’: are becoming an ever more frequent occurrence, with each one being more extreme than the last. What will it take to an interview halt the cycle? ML: We came off the last remnant of the Gold Standard in 1971 to have with Matthew Lynn money that’s purely manufactured by the government. And it’s not a coincidence, I By Anna Camilleri (2007) think, that you then had a huge increase in debt and a financialisation of the universe. Everything became very dominated by Anna Camilleri talks to Matthew Lynn (1981) about bankers, but that’s what you get when the state of the economy, his views on the Euro, and you have an economic system dominated his career as a financial columnist and successful by finance. You also get an acceleration author of fiction. of financial pressures, and these things didn’t happen when you had more real money. We talk about the effects in politics too. We have a much less equal society, and it’s hard to trace the linkages to that, but on the other hand it’s probably not a coincidence.

28 floreat domus balliol college news if you make a change to the economic system an interesting genre to be working in. one of then things start happening, and you have to the interesting things about popular fiction start assuming that they’re linked. all kinds of is that it’s very reflective of what’s happening bad stuff has happened since we moved away in the world, there are quite a lot of wars in from more real money, and at some stage we’ll our current times. for a long time we had the have to go back to that system. throughout cold war and writers like ian fleming, who’s human history money has always been linked a rubbish writer and massively overrated, but to something real, mostly gold, or the largest there were writers like len deighton and economy in the world, which usually links John le carré who really were very good. so its own currency to gold. but it doesn’t really for a long time you had spy fiction because matter what it is, it could be oil, could be the cold war was all about spies and all the rice, or it could be some other kind of real fighting was done by spies – actual soldiers commodity that has some sort of tangible value, never fought. but the cold war ended a long so that the pound, or the euro, or the dollar, time ago and we now do a lot of fighting and represents a little bit of something. but if you have constant wars. we have constant small don’t have that something, it just represents an wars and we also have constant special forces imaginary construct by a central bank, which wars, fought by small teams put behind enemy says it’s worth a pound – so it is. then it all lines. we don’t have big world-war-i-type starts to become a bit unhinged and starts to go book and i enjoyed it, but i wouldn’t have read wars any more with a few 100,000 men on a bit crazy. it’ll be interesting to know what the it if you hadn’t been coming to give this talk’. each side; it’s four guys against four guys process is going to be. it’s very hard to predict. so, the two were much more connected when and i felt there were quite a lot of interesting in some ways it’s happening naturally – these i wrote financial thrillers, but then i started stories to tell about that. my own fiction things tend to happen naturally – central banks writing military thrillers instead, which aren’t is quite reflective. the first book [Death will start to want more gold, and will start really connected to my financial writing at Force] was set in Helmand, and i think it’s buying gold again. they don’t trust the dollar or all. i think these days people tend to be very remarkable that there are so few novels set in the euro, they don’t trust the pound, so they’ll specialised. People just do one thing, and i Helmand. although afghanistan is a major start linking future payments to something they think that’s a bit boring. People in Victorian war and there are a lot of interesting stories, do trust. once we get back to having a more times did lots of stuff. they were much more it’s a confusing war for the nation. there’s solid basis for money, then i think we might open to having multiple careers. they might something very interesting about the number stop the cycle of market crashes, because at write some fiction and they might also be of wars that we fight and the ambivalence we the moment they’re just accelerating. i looked scientists, or they might run the Post office feel about them. even in popular fiction and up the figures in more detail after that piece like trollope, but the idea that you can have spy fiction and thrillers, hardly anyone was for something else i was writing, and really more than one job was writing about Helmand. so that’s how i got significant movements, like, say, a 15% annual much more accepted in into writing military thrillers. movement in the dow Jones index, only Victorian times. the world i enjoy writing them: they’re happened between 1933 and 1970 around once slightly disapproves of it interesting stories to write and every 25 years. but now it happens every day. it these days. which i think they’re very contemporary. happens in the morning. it’ll be down 15% in is a mistake, actually. you the morning, then up 20% by lunchtime, so it’s only get one life, and it’s AC: You’ve observed elsewhere much less stable. less interesting to just do that Balliol has a longstanding one thing. there are all connection with detective fiction. AC: Your contributions to financial journals sorts of interesting things Why do you think this is? demand rigorous grasp of facts; do you find one could do, but people writing fiction a liberation from that kind of now feel you have to be ML: it’s hard to know how empirical commitment or an extension of it? a financial specialist, or much your college influences you have to be a banker, you. they do have distinct ML: they’re not that linked, of course. i started or you have to be an personalities, colleges, and it’s out writing financial thrillers ages ago. i was academic, or you have to a very unregulated sort of place, working as a financial journalist for the Sunday be a doctor, rather than balliol. they’re very hands-off. Times and wrote two financial thrillers for allowing you to do two or colleges attract certain types random House. there was a period in the 90s three things. of people, so to a degree it’s when publishers thought that financial thrillers self-selecting. it’s a very non- were the next big thing and they would pay AC: You’ve written a conformist college, so it’s more you quite a lot of money to write them, which series of military thrillers, the ‘Death Force’ likely to attract the kind of people was good, but they didn’t ever sell that well. series, the latest of which, ice force, is coming who become writers, because writing itself is People don’t read financial thrillers. they think out this year. What attracted you to the genre? non-conformist. it’s not a ‘proper’ job. when it’s too complicated. it’s not really what they i was doing the ghost writing, people would want to read about. i remember going up to ML: there was an interlude when i did quite a ask what it was like and i’d say ‘it’s better than a readers’ group in solihull. i always think of lot of ghost writing for a military guy. i wrote working’, and it is better than working. it’s fun, solihull as the epitome of middle england. if five of those books and they did really well – you get quite well-paid, but it’s nothing like people like your books in solihull then you’re they got to number one in the best-seller list having a proper job. it’s not like going into an doing well; but if they don’t like them you’re and made quite a lot of money. office, and you certainly don’t have to fit in dead. i was talking to a woman who said ‘i what really got me into military writing with anyone else’s worldview or toe any kind was glad that you came because i read your was working with him. it was a change and of party line.

issue no.18 may 2012 29 features Crime writers of Balliol By soPhie Petrou

More than 30 published crime writers have either taught or been educated at Balliol: Godfrey Benson (1883), Lord Gorell (1903), Ronald Knox (1906), GDH Cole (1908), Glyn Hardwicke (1940), Anthony Lejeune (1949), WJ Burley (1950), Donald Serrell Thomas (1955), Robert Barnard (1956), Tim Heald (1962), ‘Francis Beeding’ (pen name for two Balliol men – Hilary St George Saunders (1919) and John Palmer (1905)), Martin Walker (1966), Charlie Spencer (1973), Martin Edwards (1974) and Mick Herron (1981), and an honourable mention must be made to Dorothy L Sayers for her creation of Balliol man Lord Peter Wimsey, to name just a few. It’s a Floreat Domus article that has been waiting in the wings (or lurking in the shadows) for the last few years. But what is it about Balliol, and Oxford, that inspires so many crime writers?

Places with a history have an atmosphere – old buildings and their associations have a depth of character that can be created only by Tim Heald (1962) the passing of time. Perhaps it’s just that as you walk around these places, there’s so much to but tim is also known for his trigger the senses – the smells, the sounds, the mystery novels featuring simon bognor glimpses of the old mixed with the new – the as special investigator and serialised by past mingling with the present. in oxford it’s thames tV. more recently, he has been the quiet cobbled back-streets, the darkened the creator of dr tudor cornwall in a narrow alleyways leading to crooked pubs, or new crime trilogy published by robert famous college buildings, such as balliol, where Hale ltd – Death and the Visiting Fellow, you know the great and the good have passed Death and the D’Urbervilles, and A through the gates; it awakens the imagination Death on the Ocean Wave. He recently and the characters and stories you create in returned to the newly-knighted simon your mind can take on a life of their own. bognor and has published two new creating the right atmosphere and setting the novels, Death in the Opening Chapter right scene is crucial to the success of any crime and Poison at the Pueblo. novel and oxford certainly provides plenty He always wanted to be a writer, of inspiration. but more than this, oxford is although he chose journalism and not renowned as a place of culture – for academic crime writing mainly because this was success and educated debate; for its calming tim Heald’s post-balliol career as the more obvious option available to rivers and dreaming spires – but not necessarily a journalist for various broadsheet him. ‘i tried writing literary fiction as a city of crime. and perhaps this is exactly papers is well documented and he has when working as a researcher for the draw – the idea that discord lies beneath the published over thirty books, including randolph churchill, and wrote a lot veneer of civilised society is a potent premise official biographies of HrH Prince (more than 30,000 words at a guess) for a crime novel. three old members of Philip, duke of edinburgh (The Duke and showed it to the late michael balliol, whose novels have made a real impact – A Portrait of Prince Philip), and HrH dempsey, then at Hutchinson. michael on this genre, tell us what inspired them to Princess margaret (Princess Margaret – said, kindly, that there was enough write crime fiction. A Life Unraveled). there to suggest that i was a writer

30 floreat domus balliol college news a conversation, a newspaper article, Martin Edwards (1974) a holiday,’ he says. ‘when i wanted to create a gifted Victorian detective martin edwards is author of books knew no writers – and persuaded me for a short story, i remembered the such as the coffin trail, the to study law (although we knew no brilliance of benjamin Jowett, master cipher garden and the arsenic lawyers, either). this is why i was a of balliol, and the mind of the master labyrinth. He has had a love of student of Jurisprudence at balliol became one of my more successful storytelling for as long as he can rather than of english, say, or History short stories.’ coming up with the remember, he tells me. ‘the urge or german.’ luckily he enjoyed his ideas isn’t the problem edwards tells to write mysteries dates back to time at balliol and even enjoyed me – it’s having time to write them up. my first encounter with agatha studying law, and once qualified edwards not only writes crime christie, whom i started reading as a solicitor, enjoyed solving legal fiction but is also an archivist for the when i was nine,’ he says. ‘i was problems for clients. but writing crime writers association and the fascinated by the puzzles, the clues, mysteries has always remained his detection club, so he has read a lot the red herrings, and the surprise great passion. of other authors’ works, old and new. solutions; and my dream was to the plot of a good crime novel How has crime fiction changed over write stories that beguiled others as is often complex and intricate the years, i ask? ‘crime fiction has hers beguiled me.’ but edwards was with unexpected twists and turns changed significantly since the days of persuaded to study law at balliol guaranteed to raise the heart rate; a the earlier crime writers’, edwards tells – a career his parents deemed to be good crime novel is like watching me. ‘one of the changes in the genre more suitable: ‘my parents wanted good magic unfold until the climactic since their day is that, in the last 60 me to have a ‘proper job’ – we and revelatory finale leaves you amazed years or so, there has been a steadily and wondering how it was done. so increasing focus on psychological it’s reassuring to discover that crime suspense, rather than ingenious fiction takes a lot of thought and puzzles. character and setting have planning: ‘i relish complex puzzles, become increasingly important. but so i plot my books (or at least, their it is still possible to fuse a complex solutions) in advance – so as to be mystery with literary merit, and that sure that i’ll finish up with a story that continues to be the aim of plenty of “works”,’ edwards reveals. ‘the starting authors, including myself.’ point for me is the enduring mystery of human character and behaviour – what powerful, and perhaps unusual, Favourite crime novel: motive would cause this particular person to kill that particular victim?’ ‘A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine, because it Human nature is an endless source of combines a dazzling plot with sophisticated and inspiration but is there a limit to how atmospheric writing. My favourites among Balliolites many crime novels one person can include Robert Barnard and Tim Heald, who are think up? not when your inspiration fellow members of the Detection Club, and the late is taken from everyday life, edwards WJ Burley, creator of Superintendent Wycliffe.’ explains: ‘anything can spark an idea:

but that this wasn’t a novel. nor even come from i ask? ‘i start with an successful cambridge crime writer a potential one’, says tim. but after idea – monks, dogs, old fleet street, (colin dexter) had to come to taking an offer of redundancy from the canada – then i write a description of oxford to create morse,’ he says Express, he found an old thesis he had how a corpse became a stiff and take it with a twinkle of humour. Perhaps submitted for a trevelyan scholarship, from there’, he says, adding flippantly, there is something in the water which he had failed, and thought but perhaps more revealingly: ‘the then; or perhaps it’s just that it takes the brief account of time spent with ideas tend to be recycled journalism an astute mind to write a crime the cowley fathers, the nashdom (nothing wasted!).’ novel – to assimilate ideas and benedictines and crucially the cerne there are so many balliol crime themes in an irregular order until abbas franciscans, could be turned writers – is there something in the air they form a unified and revelatory into a crime novel. ‘there was a lot of here, i ask tim? i am, of course, only whole at the end – the likes of which sturm and drang but my agent finally joking but tim is quick to dismiss can be found aplenty in oxford. sold it to Harold Harris at Hutchinson,’ the idea that balliol is somehow to be he says. since then there have been singled out by reminding me of the glut over a dozen full-length simon of oxbridge crime writers in general: Favourite crime novel: bognor novels, a lot of short stories ‘J.i.m. stewart a.k.a. michael innes mainly for Ellery Queen’s Mystery (christ church), bruce montgomery ‘I was brought up on Magazine and the tudor cornwall a.k.a. edmund crispin (st Johns), J.c. Dorothy Sayers, especially, trilogy. tim was also chairman of the masterman (worcester), bob robinson The Nine Tailors but english crime writers association in (magdalen), gyles brandreth (new anything by Doyle is a the early 80s, and, along with martin college), simon brett (wadham), treat. I’ve read quite a edwards, is another member of the dorothy sayers (somerville) and they lot of Balliol crime and detection club. with so many books are just off the top of my head’, he particularly admire Bob under his belt, tim makes it seem responds. ‘more striking is the oxford Barnard (1956) in Oz.’ easy, but where does his inspiration win over cambridge. even the most

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Martin Walker (1966) martin walker runs global Policy council, a with strict discipline, i write 1,000 words a us-based think-tank on the global economy. day for three months.’ in fact, his job also after balliol he did graduate work at Harvard, provides some inspiration for his novels: then became a speechwriter for us senator ‘my job helps, since globalisation itself (and ed muskie. He then went on to work for its impact on small communities) provides the Guardian for 25 years, mainly as foreign ideas but mainly the plots flow from my correspondent, after which he moved to the life in my french village and my interest woodrow wilson international center think- in french history to which richard cobb tank, then ran united Press international, and introduced me at balliol.’ Having written so only after 2007 took up his current role. He many books, which one did he enjoy writing is also author of such books as The Cold War: most? ‘my 2002 novel, The Caves of Perigord, A History, and Clinton: The President They my first attempt at writing about the part of Deserve. a busy career history, to say the least, france where i spend as much time as i can, but not one that seems conducive to writing and an attempt to re-create the kind of pre- fiction. so what inspired walker to write historic society that might have produced the crime novels? He reveals that one specific cave art of lascaux. already published in the person inspired him to write the bruno uK, us and spain, it also comes out this year books: ‘in my village in france, i came across in german.’ a first-class History graduate a wonderful character, my tennis partner of balliol, it is i suppose to be expected that and friend, Pierrot, who is also our village walker’s novels involve an exploration into policeman, a great cook and hunter. it made fractious french history, but they also flaunt me want to write about someone like that and a sense of joie de vivre and an appreciation power of fear and violence in the context of the first bruno book followed.’ of good french food. what are his thoughts crime. the threat of crime is these days far as director of global business Policy, on how crime writing has changed over more complex with fraud and cyber-crime it’s no surprise that walker has a strategic time? walker suggests that crime writing and technology’, he says. method of planning his novels: ‘i spend a has changed as the nature of crime itself crime fiction has progressed from a lot of time writing the synopsis, chapter by has changed: ‘Just as the cold war gave us ‘locked-room’ style where a crime – almost chapter, writing notes on the characters and the espionage genre, the end of the cold always a murder – is committed under blocking out the action like a stage play. then, war means that most people experience the supposedly impossible circumstances, i.e. at a crime scene that no intruder could have entered or left, hence ‘locked-door’. it progressed to a detective-focussed style of writing – agatha christie’s Hercule Poirot, and arthur conan doyle’s sherlock Holmes, to name two such instrumental detective series. current crime fiction spends time developing the character analysis and psychological suspense – as tim Heald says, from a ‘whodunit’ to a ‘how and why’ – stieg larsson’s popular cult fiction, the millennium trilogy, is a perfect example of this. However, what all good crime novels share is a ripe location to set the scene. larsson’s modern-day sweden is stark and brutal, while doyle’s ill-lit Victorian london smoulders with mystery. Perhaps this is, in essence, why oxford has inspired so many crime novels. as martin edwards says, ‘it may be because the city has so many possibilities – the unique nature of the mix of town and gown means that there are endless characters, as well as the potential for countless extraordinary incidents. so it is a place that offers the potential for diversity in plot, characterisation and a wonderful setting, the key ingredients for successful crime fiction.’

Favourite crime novel:

‘Sherlock Holmes, a tie between Study in Scarlet and Valley of Fear. They are thoroughly modern tales, involving globalisation, politics, passion and revenge.’

32 floreat domus balliol college news argument by presenting Gil with a stark truth after he attempts Bookshelf to sabotage his Father’s work – The following titles by Balliol Old Members that his Mother may be a carrier hit the shelf in 2011/12. for Huntington’s disease and that the mice that Jude is about to fears about migration’s long-term release are being used to try to Exceptional People: find a cure; it’s a simple enough How Migration contributions and social dynamics but they show how migrants in plot but it’s a clever way to deal Shaped Our World today’s world connect markets, with what is a complex issue. and Will Define fill labour gaps, and enrich social our Future diversity. Finally they suggest that The Crowded Grave Ian Golding (Balliol Professorial future policies will dramatically Martin Walker (1966) Fellow), Geoffrey Cameron determine whether societies (Quercus, 2011) and Meera Balarajan can effectively reap the benefits (Princeton University Press, 2011) that migration can offer, while This is the fourth novel in managing the risks of the twenty- Martin’s series featuring Bruno This insightful book looks at the first century. Courrèges chief of police, set advantages of increased human in the fictional town of Saint migration, challenging the view ‘exceptional People is packed Fifty Fifty Denis in the Dordogne region that dramatic growth in migration with surprising insights.’ Sarah Loving (1980) of France. The Crowded Grave is undesirable, and proposing The Economist (Piccadilly Press, 2011) builds on Bruno’s character – new approaches for governance honest, calm, fastidious in his that will embrace international This is Sarah Loving’s first novel planning, and a great cook – and mobility. The book is divided into – an exciting thriller about a it also involves a love triangle three major sections: past, present teenage boy’s fraught relationship between the policeman, his and future. ‘The past’ describes with his scientist father. The British lover, and Isabelle, the patterns of human migration, trouble starts when the teenager, great love of his life. In this novel, adopting evidence from the most Gil, becomes friends with Jude, the investigation involves recent recent genetic research, while a charismatic young animal human remains found at the site ‘the present’ section focuses rights activist, after which, his of an archaeological dig, Basque on the policies and impacts of relationship with his father, who separatists who are threatening current migration. It suggests that uses animals for scientific testing the security of a Franco-Spanish immigration is largely unpopular in in his lab, disintegrates further. summit being held in a local rich countries which overestimate The story follows Gil as he tries to château, and animal rights the costs and underestimate the figure out his feelings about what campaigners targeting producers benefits. The authors indicate that his father does. Loving negotiates of foie gras. In the Bruno series, most current migration policies the tricky balance of presenting Walker has built a charming and are based on misconceptions and both sides of the controversial civilised world juxtaposed with an odd sense of menace, at the forefront of which lies the French love of the good things in life – Rossetti traditions, conversation, good J.B. Bullen (1973) clothes, and, above all, fine food. (Frances Lincoln Limited, 2011) ‘a satisfyingly intriguing, Receiving this book to include on the Bookshelf wish-you-were-there read felt like a real treat. It is a big weighty hardback with lashings of gastroporn.’ book with a beautiful cover. In fact, it is The Guardian. beautiful throughout. Chapters are arranged in chronological order tracing the development of Rosetti’s painting and poetry in the context of his life. Even if Rossetti isn’t to your taste, this book is no less fascinating. Rossetti led an interesting, scandalous life, replete with passionate love affairs, fame and infamy, and drug addiction. Bullen shows how Rossetti’s developments and affairs are reflected in his works. For example, it’s not difficult to guess that Fannie Cornforth, the subject of the provocative ‘Bocca Baciata,’ which graces the cover of the book, was his paragon of physical desire. There are some stunning pictures of Rosetti’s art throughout the book, which are large enough to display the skill and beauty of his work at its best; this book is a treat for the eye and would make a fabulous present.

issue no.18 may 2012 33 The Perfect Man: The Muscular Life and Times of Eugene Sandow, Victorian Strongman David Waller (1981) (Victorian Secrets Limited, 2011) An intriguing title and an even more intriguing biography about Eugene Sandow (1867–1925) the famous Victorian strongman who had what was deemed to be the most perfect male body. His story, fabulously told by David Waller, takes us back to the era of bustling music halls and variety shows – flying girls, performing dogs and frequently a curly-haired muscleman from Prussia – cue Eugene Sandow. He rose from obscurity to become Saving the World’s a music-hall sensation in late Victorian London and went Wildlife on to achieve great success as a performer in North Alexis Schwarzenbach (1991) America and throughout the British Empire. In a cruel (Profile Books Ltd, 2011) twist of fate he lost his fortune at the time of the First World War and he ended up being buried in an This book reveals a story that many unmarked grave in Putney Vale Cemetery. Written with people probably do not know. The humour and insight into the popular culture of late World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Victorian England, Waller’s book shows why Sandow was founded in 1961, specialising deserves to be resurrected as a significant cultural figure. in conservation, research and environmental restoration, and the ‘waller’s lively, colourful and fascinating book should help restore interest in an unjustly non-governmental organisation forgotten icon.’ The Telegraph has accumulated over five million supporters worldwide. Based on previously inaccessible archives and F inding Poland: Mind-bending a wide range of interviews with WWF From Tavistock puzzles and VIPs, this book tells the remarkable to Hruzdowa and fascinating facts story of how the idea of a few British naturalists turned into the world’s back again Paul Williams largest environmental organisation. (The Book Guild, 2011) Matthew Kelly (1994) Schwarzenbach was granted (Vintage, 2011) This book is Williams’ personal unrestricted access to the private Kelly’s forebears came from the collection of conundrums and papers of Prince Philip and Prince Kraków area of south-east Poland ‘factoids’. It is divided into five Bernhard of the Netherlands, each of near the site of present-day sections ranging from easy to whom served as WWF president for Auschwitz, and were staunch fiendish – some of which involve 15 years. The book is sumptuously Catholics. His book is about his mathematics, while others relate to illustrated throughout with some family trying to find their feet in language, logic problems, science amazing and endearing photographs inter-war Poland and follows their and a collection of ‘miscellaneous’ by world-famous wildlife and nature deportation to the USSR after items. Some of the entries are photographers. Also included are the the country is divided between quite interesting – in the ‘Difficult’ earliest photographs taken of pandas the Nazis and the Soviets. Kelly’s section, for example, I liked the in the wild. This is a fantastic book great grandmother and her two description of Fermat’s theorem, which all animal lovers should own. daughters were deported to the letters of his family. Finding Poland and the page on how to calculate East and the story takes them, and is part memoir, part history, part your chance of winning the lottery. many thousands like them, from travelogue and a profound account But there are other parts of it that Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to of the experience of displacement feel a little out of place, such as a Persia, India and – finally – Devon, and exile. page-long description about the behaviour of ‘cuckoos and bees’. in England’s lush West Country, ‘a fascinating blend of while their male relatives endure Nonetheless, thumbing through it biography and history, which is quite entertaining as you never a parallel journey: arrested, exiled, poignantly evokes the pain and held as prisoners of war. The know quite what you’re going to and loss attendant on exile ... ’ come across – there’s a refreshing book provides a detailed picture of The Telegraph Poland’s plight under both Stalin range of matter covered and the and Hitler, which is brought to life ‘easy’ section would be fine for by the personal photographs and children. If you’re going on a car-journey and you want an eclectic mix of puzzles that all the family can dip in and out of, this would do just the trick!

34 floreat domus balliol college news development news Balliol’s 750th anniversary: celebrating a remarkable point in the College’s history

Next year Balliol will celebrate the 750th anniversary That Balliol has flourished in these colleges’ endowments. Our endowment of its foundation, in 1263. In addition to a series of difficult economic times is, in no small must be increased significantly if Balliol events throughout the year, to mark this important part, down to the financial support the College is to remain one of the very best College has received from so many of academic institutions in the world. As anniversary the College is committed to a campaign you. Balliol’s endowment is significantly the College’s anniversary approaches we to raise at least £30 million to begin the process of smaller than that of many of the other will be asking all of you to contribute to securing the College’s long-term financial health and leading Oxford colleges; there are help ensure that Balliol continues to be independence, and to ensure future generations of significant links emerging between a first-class place at which to study and students can benefit from the tutorial system. academic performance and the size of to learn. Since the launch of the Campaign over £25 million has been raised in gifts and pledges thanks to the generosity of our Old Members and other benefactors. Last year, over 1,900 donors made a gift to Balliol, supporting many different aspects of College life. English at Balliol Earlier this year it was announced that the funding for the Historic Collections Centre at St Cross Church (see page 6) Its remarkable history, ongoing success was completed. Balliol’s Annual Fund, which supports current and the current need for support undergraduates and graduates, grows ever stronger (see page 36); other donors have been contributing very generously to Balliol people have long made an colleges. If the University funding is the College’s endowment funds which provide annual income important contribution to English frozen or stopped, colleges must either to support Balliol’s educational activities. We are particularly literary history. John Wyclif, John take on the entire cost of these posts delighted that so many have chosen to support our academic posts Evelyn, Adam Smith, Robert Southey, or not reappoint to them. Balliol is very by endowing them (see page 37), thereby securing these posts in Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, fortunate to have Seamus Perry as one uncertain financial times. Encouraged by the great warmth and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hilaire Belloc, of our English Fellows; since we are generosity shown by so many to the College, plans are also being A.C. Bradley, Graham Greene, Aldous committed to having two English developed to endow other core Fellowships at Balliol (see page 37). Huxley, L.P. Hartley, Anthony Powell, posts, last year the College embarked Robertson Davies (to name a few) were on a fundraising campaign to raise all members. £1.2 million to endow the College When English was established in the cost of the currently vacant post. University, in the 1920s, Balliol was Gifts to English will have an one of the first colleges to appoint a additional, long-term benefit. The Fellow in the subject. Previous Fellows Teaching Fund was established by include Roger Lonsdale, editor of The the University in 2010 to address New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century this funding shortfall. Using surplus Verse; and Christopher Ricks, John income from the University Press, the Carey, and Stanley Wells (editor of Fund is able to ‘match’ donations to the Oxford Shakespeare), who held endow particular posts. The Fund has Research Fellowships. English, either agreed to guarantee annual income as a single or joint school (usually equivalent to £800,000 of endowment coupled with History, Classics or if the College meets its target of Modern Languages), has continued £1.2 million. This will effectively mean to flourish. On average, 46% of our that the entire cost of the post is English undergraduates are awarded endowed. By reaching this goal, the Firsts each year. College would also be able to appoint When Carl Schmidt retired last year, a Junior Research Fellow with greater the future of one of our core posts frequency using income from its was, however, in doubt. The ongoing existing endowment. cuts to higher education, particularly to Over £300,000 has so far been the Humanities, have meant that the donated and pledged by Old Members University has been forced to suspend and we hope that, in the coming or, in some cases, abolish its part of months, many more will contribute the funding for certain Fellowships to secure this important Fellowship which it funds jointly with individual at Balliol.

The Oxford English Faculty, the largest in Britain, is ranked second in the world (2011), just behind Harvard, in the latest QS Top Universities World University Rankings.

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year, adam constable (1991) The Annual Fund: chaired the 1991–1993 gaudy committee which raised £162,400 in gifts and pledges. matthew another record year westerman (1983) has agreed to chair the summer gaudy For the third year running, Balliol’s Annual Fund has broken committee (1981–1983) this year all previous records – over £650,000 was received in gifts – and we know that he and those on the committee are looking Mystery thanks to the continuing generosity of Old Members and forward to contacting old friends other supporters. to ask for their support. donation this level of support is of great tutorial support where there is Balliol calling Last year the Development importance to the college. given a particular demand for more last year current balliol students Office received a very kind balliol’s limited endowment, teaching; better facilities and an called old members to reconnect gift of £500 to Balliol’s money donated to the annual increased level of funding for them to the college and to ask Annual Fund in response fund, which is mostly used for balliol’s numerous sports clubs them to consider a gift to the to our autumn appeal. All expenditure, helps us to continue and societies. annual fund. Just over 61% the credit card details were to fund a number of areas of of those reached decided to correctly filled in, the form college life which directly benefit Gaudy campaigns make a gift – which is extremely was signed, but it had no current undergraduates and balliol’s gaudy campaigns have encouraging – and £247,000 was further information, just an graduates. the college would been running for pledged and given Irish postmark. Try as we might, we have not been able have needed the equivalent of twelve years and We are most by those called. this an additional £16 million in continue to play year’s appeal took to match the signature to any endowment to have generated an important role grateful to the place in march and we have on file so the card £650,000 so we are most grateful in this success by hundreds of donors old members have remains uncharged and, more to the hundreds of donors who encouraging old already committed importantly, we have been contribute each year. members to make a who contribute over £200,000 in unable to thank the donor. Are their generosity allowed the special contribution each year confirmed gifts and you our mystery Irish donor? college to make 373 financial in their gaudy year. pledges. some of Did you happen to take a awards in 2010/11, ensuring that committees, those called wished to Balliol gift form with we continue to attract and retain chaired by old members, take time to consider their level you on a trip to Ireland? Have the most promising students from encourage their balliol of support; we hope that these you made a gift of £500 and a wide variety of backgrounds. contemporaries to support the unconfirmed gifts, once finalised, not been thanked by us? the annual fund also enables college and many choose to do will be sufficient to match last If so, please contact us – balliol to provide additional so, often for the first time. last year’s success. [email protected]

36 floreat domus balliol college news funding for the latin fellowship, owing to Classics at Balliol the current cuts to higher education, and the future of the post was in doubt. However, Professor Rosalind Thomas, Tutorial Fellow in Ancient History, and given the strength of support for classics from Dr Adrian Kelly, Tutorial Fellow in Ancient Greek Language and Literature, our old members the college has decided to report on how Literae Humaniores continues to flourish at Balliol. reappoint to this post. this will return us to the number and it is with very great pleasure that the college to the ancient greek literature post, given strength of fellowships which has kept classics can announce that excellent progress has in honour of Jasper griffin. this enabled at balliol at the forefront in the university, been made in our efforts to endow balliol’s the college to bid successfully for ‘matched’ and at a time when the subject is thriving: the classics posts. a fundraising campaign was funding from the newly established teaching university continues to have record numbers launched in 2005, its primary aims being fund, a mechanism put in place by the of applicants to read classics, even though this to raise funds to re-establish the post in university to endow the university cost of is the first cohort to face the new fees structure. ancient greek literature, previously held by tutorial fellowships once the college costs we look forward to having two full literature Jasper griffin, and to secure any remaining were secured, which means that the post has fellows again, and to the next challenging endowment for the latin literature post, turned from being one which was fully funded decades. as balliol’s current classics fellows once held by oliver lyne, and the ancient by the college to a full lectureship to which we would like to take this opportunity to History post held by oswyn murray (until the university contributes. express our heartfelt thanks to all the balliol 2004) and now by rosalind thomas. once this was a very important development alumni and other donors who have made these funds were in place the college was to since it freed up funds for the latin fellowship, this possible, and also to nicola trott, who move to securing endowment for the ancient which became vacant when bob cowan (who as senior tutor discovered and negotiated Philosophy post. held the post after oliver lyne’s untimely a difficult course through the university’s after considerable twists and turns death) was appointed to a position at sydney labyrinthine procedures, and to andrew following the financial crisis in 2008, the university. when bob left, the university graham, who as our previous master did so college received a very significant donation was compelled to suspend its portion of the much to establish and support the campaign.

Balliol Economics and Andrew Graham

When Andrew Graham stepped down as Master last October, plans were already underway to mark his enormous contribution to the College. many old members will have got to know (Philosophy, Politics and economics) in andrew during his years as master but oxford as a modern alternative to classics his connection to balliol goes back much or ‘greats’. notable alumni who read PPe further, to when, in 1969, he became a include edward Heath, roy Jenkins and tutorial fellow in economics, a position christopher Hitchens; robert Peston and he held until 1997 when he became acting stephanie flanders are key reporters of the master of balliol. it is fitting therefore, and financial issues we continue to face. today, very pleasing, that we can report that the balliol remains the pre-eminent college in Andrew Graham Fellowship in Economics has oxford at which to read PPe, and is, been established at balliol, to recognise not by a considerable margin, the top choice only everything andrew has done for the for undergraduates. subject but, of course, for the college as well. our ambitious goal is to endow the entire balliol’s distinction in the subject can cost of the post for which we need to raise be traced back to one of the college’s £1.5 million. as Floreat Domus 18 goes most famous old members, adam smith, to print, thanks to the generosity of many credited with being the leading pioneer who were taught by andrew, this target in creating modern economics; his book, has been very nearly reached; this sum, The Wealth of Nations (1776), is widely combined with the funds we currently have, regarded as one of the most important is sufficient to endow fully our economics and influential books ever written. in the posts. the college is most grateful to those 1920s, it was balliol which established PPe who have honoured andrew in this way.

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Frederick Dreyer Professor Peter Nicholas Tyacke Benefactors to Balliol Christopher Fildes Wiseman Anthony Williams Frank Foster Paul Zador Simon Wratten Peter Gear 2 anonymous Colin Wyman The College gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the contributors donors Alexander 1960 (37%) listed here to Balliol’s campaign for its 750th anniversary, whose gifts were Hopkinson-Woolley received between 1 August 2010 and 31 July 2011. The percentage of donors in 1958 (38%) Timothy Ades John Jones Jonathan Allison Professor Robert each matriculation year who have contributed during this period is included. David Killick Lord Arran Ashman In this and future publications we shall list donors who have given during the Professor Sir Martin Biggs John Atkinson previous academic year; therefore those who have made a donation since August Anthony Leggett David Blakely John Besant-Jones 2011 will be included in a future publication. We have respected the wishes of George Mandel Professor Anthony Peter Bleasby Alan Mayhook Bryer OBE John Colligan those who have asked for their gifts to remain anonymous, and we thank them Professor George Richard Cann Robert Dyson too for their support. We apologise for any omissions. Nicholson John Cottrell Les Fixter Reid Robinson John Crow Mike Fox 1935-1939 (35%) 1946 (47%) Alan Marchant James Fairfax The Hon John Sears Philip Danby Professor David John Bury Douglas Allison Derek Nightingale Rodney Leach Maurice Simmons Howard Davies Goldsworthy Leonard Hamilton William Ash Neil Rees Professor Ian His Honour Judge Brian Dickinson Professor Keith Lord Healey Professor John Professor Melvin Macdonald Edward Slinger Tony Dignum Griffin His Honour Blandy Richter Sir Geoffrey Owen Professor Paul Smith Rodney Donaldson Chris Gutch Dr John Lincoln Kenneth Brown George Rogers Hugh Roe Hedrick Smith Professor Ian Trevor Hanslip Professor Amyan Evan Cameron Warren Rovetch Colin Simpson Jeffrey Stanyer Douglas George Herrick Macfadyen John Clunie Richard Royston Alan Spencer Andrew Strachan Peter Evans Stephen Hodge Sir Ronald McIntosh Norman Franklin Leslie Russell David Sylvester Professor Gilbert Nicolas Myant Myles Glover Harold Seaman Professor Charles Professor Alexander John Kentleton Strang Fetter Professor Donald Professor Harry Emeritus Professor Taylor Professor Martin West The Revd Ian Ker Russell Goldsmith John Stewart Sir Keith Thomas Christopher Gomm John Lewis William Wilkie Laurence Gretton Professor Michael Adrian Hamilton Sir Jack Stewart- Bruce Webster 1 anonymous donor Professor Roger Samuels Bruce Harris Clark Bt 2 anonymous donors Anthony Hanna Lonsdale 2 anonymous donors Ronald Ireland Michael Walker 1956 (27%) Stewart Hawkins John Macfarlane 1953 (23%) Peter Aitken Sir Richard 1940 (42%) Philip McGuinness Michael Warburg Bill Miller Lord Brooke of Professor Sir George Heygate Bt Matthew Nimetz Mark Gore Gordon Munro 1950 (30%) Sutton Mandeville Alberti Ray Jennings Michael Parsons John Lee John Phillips John Alexander John Carey The Hon David Bruce The Revd Paul King Hartley Slater Keith Stephens The Rt Hon the Richard Baines George Fayen John Cochrane Tony Lane The Revd William John Williams Lord Rees-Mogg Marvin Durning Neville McFarlane Malcolm Cohen Paul Lewis Sykes 1 anonymous donor Ronald Siddons Lord Hutton James Miller Tom Field Kerin Lloyd Roger Symonds The Revd Canon Kenneth James Francis Nichols 1941 (35%) Raymond Walters Malcolm Fluendy Henry Lloyd The Revd John Ian Adams Trevor Knight Peter Nobbs The Revd Dr Christopher Long Tarrant Otto Fisher 1947 (24%) Malcolm MacInnes Brian Precious Dick France Professor Steven Nick Vanston Colin Haines David Benn John Mallet Professor Tapan Professor Jasper Lukes Lawrence Tom Hughes-Davies Donald Craig Michael Rodmell Raychaudhuri Griffin Alastair Mack Warwick-Evans James Michelmore Norman Curry Professor George Ken Reich Nicholas Hughes Professor Euan Ian Watson Hugh Myers Professor Norman Steiner Donald Rickerd Professor Oliver Johns Macphail Robert Wilson Weland Stone Emeritus Professor Doenges Stephen Stamas Patrick Kalaugher Sir Bruce MacPhail 3 anonymous John Postgate William Haines Christopher Streat John Stoker Professor Ved Mehta Donald Marshall donors David Mellors 1 anonymous donor David Watson FRSL Dermot McDermott 1942 (56%) 1961 (31%) Professor Eric Robert Plumb Graham Nesbitt Bill Ayers 1951 (36%) 1954 (35%) Abdulla Bishara Sainsbury Emeritus Professor Robin Benson Ted Pocock Geoffrey Redman- William Burridge The Rt Hon Graham Bond Daniel Gronow Robin Barlow The Rt Hon the Dennis Samuel Brown the Lord Taverne His Honour Judge David Robson The Hon Simon Peter Jarvis David Boll Lord Bingham KG Buxton Roger Till Reginald Stanton Jonathan Scott Charles Jessel Peter Cornall David Brooks Richard Carter Jasper Tomlinson Jeremy Syers Robert Shaw Joseph Merz Alan Dowding Professor David Professor Des Anthony Taylor Arnold Shipp Geoffrey Thomas 1948 (42%) Martin Foley Chandler Clark-Walker Michael Thornhill Mark Smith 2 anonymous donors Alan Brooke Turner John Graham Colin Clements Geoffrey Clements Tom Ulrich John Smith David Foster Michael Hell Eric Crook Thomas Cookson 1943 (33%) Philip Varley Charles Tyzack Professor John Mr Justice James Ray Downing Lord Selkirk of Michael Innes Professor Michael Fraser Hugessen Rob English Peter Usborne Douglas Ralph Sexton Warren Professor Robert Brian Knox Jeremy Eyre Professor Eric Professor Mark Emeritus Professor Hinde Roger Marjoribanks Colin Finn 1 anonymous donor Waddell Martyn Webb Franklin Robin Jessel David Miller Eliot Hawkins 1957 (27%) Professor Robert Professor Roger 1944 (28%) Kenneth Matthews Patrick O’Hea Sir Colin Imray John Bazalgette Wagner Green James Ellery Professor Emeritus Colonel Andrew Maurice Keen Gerald Bevan Ted Whybrew Andrew Hallan Edward Gelles Kenneth McRae Remson Jr Denis Langton Iain Brash 1 anonymous donor Brian Hodgkinson Professor David Jack Osborne Professor Don John Littler Iain Buchan 1959 (27%) Professor David Hewitt Christopher Portal Sherburne Brian Marshall Tony Crook Andrew Beith Kirk Professor Paul Streeten John Sands John Snell Leif Mills Pablo Foster Malcolm Brahams Frederic Kreisler Professor George Wolf Lionel Scott His Honour Clive The Revd John Professor Emeritus Peter Buckman John Tayler 1945 (42%) Ed Spencer Morris Kenneth Hilborn Terry Cooper Londesborough James Taylor Lord Avebury 2 anonymous donors Norman Pilkington Tony Hillier David Davies James Macmillan Barry Taylor Thomas Brown 1949 (44%) Senator Paul Anthony Hodson Roy Dennett Richard Morris Michael Townsend Douglas Darcy Paul Almond Sarbanes David Ives Mike Doyle John Peters Raymond Wirth The Rt Revd Professor William Professor Paul Sheats Roger Jefferies Frederick Herlihy Sir Adam Ridley Ronald Gordon Barber Stephen Younger Geoffrey Slater David Kingston Professor John Doug Rosenthal Malcolm Hardwick Alan Brown 1 anonymous donor Mervin Spearing Richard Mallinson Howie Ram Seegobin Leon Kitchen John Davey 1952 (32%) Christopher White Patrick Montague David Hutton Robert Sleeper Professor Donald David Dell Professor Michael 1 anonymous donor Robert Morris Powell Hutton Peter Smith Michie John Dunbar Bennett 1955 (41%) Robin Newson Christopher Jones Ray Thorp Fraser Murray Sir Matthew Farrer David Burditt Nigel Bacon Ronald Pritchard Sir David Keene Robert Webb Martin Pinnell Professor Kenneth Cavander Professor Baruch Jeffery Sherwin Robin Murray David Wickham Professor Ivan Roitt Monty Frey John Claricoat Blumberg Stuart Spence Howard Northam Professor Jonathan Irwin Stein The Revd David Diarmid Cross The Revd Dr Professor John- Professor Richard Wisenthal Derek Taylor Gardner Michael Crump Peter Davison Christopher Spender Rubenstein Noel Younger Thompson Peter Higgins Brian Davidson Professor Jack Sir Mathew Thorpe Donald Shaw 3 anonymous Tim Tewson Jim Lindars Martin Davies Dennis Martin Vasey Stuart Swift donors

38 floreat domus balliol college news 1962 (36%) Bowman Cutter Andrew Scull Ramsey Peter Stacey Nicholas Demery John Ralfe John Adams Jonathan Davies Robin Shawyer Karel Riha David Vernon-Jones Colonel Keith Professor Michael Roger Betts Professor Graeme Nicholas Shrimpton David Satter Paul Viita Galbraith Sandel Professor Thomas Davison Jonathan Sunshine Bill Seibert Professor Robin Alan Goodwin Richard Taylor Campbell The Revd Hamish The Reverend Michael Shea Wood Iain Gray Anthony Teasdale Reid Chambers Fullerton Canon Barry David Sheraton 2 anonymous donors Brian Groom Chris Turner John Cookson Sandy Gray Thompson The Hon Richard 1971 (23%) Professor Chris Charles Unwin Alwyn Farey-Jones Professor Philip 4 anonymous donors Stearns Désiré Basset Hendrickson 1 anonymous donor Grier Paul Findlay 1967 (29%) Nicola Tee Jonathan Cox Anthony Hotson 1976 (19%) Timothy Heyman Robert Guy Ted Allett Professor Nigel Andrew Craig Lawrence Hutter Gordon Barthos Morton Kahan Thomas Martin Hammond Peter Bastow Professor Peter Alan Jones Chesley Crosbie Tony Kahane Peter Hirst Joel Bernard Gordon Thompson Gilbert Tim Middleton Andrew Franklin Julian Lewis Alan James Ronald Brigish Professor David Donald Gogel Roy Niven Andrzej Glowinski David Long Ulph Chris Jelley Paul Brown Charles Gordon Stephen Norman Richard Hocking Gordon Jenkins Professor David Professor Nicholas 3 anonymous donors Tom Palley Lutzer Chris Hardy David Holdsworth Alan Jones Coles 1969 (25%) Robin Illingworth Peter Sowden Isadore Jermyn Professor Sir John Macgregor David Gowan Tom Brown Neil Stuart Howard Marks Martin Joughin David Kogan Andrew Likierman Christopher Grayson Professor John Philip Modiano Ian Tranter Dimitri Kullmann John Mallinson Professor Robert David Hooper Cooper Alastair Walton Munford Oliver Moore Guy Leech Graham Massey Brendan Horton Ian Davis The Revd Nigel Sean Neill Professor Philip James McGinley Eamon McKeown Ian Ibbotson John Dewhurst Warner Kenneth Picton Nord Devadas Moodley Matthew Melliar- Professor Paul Robert Eales Laurence Weeks Paul Pressly Paddy Payne Professor Gillian Smith Jankowski Derrick Eden Wing Commander The Hon Jed Rakoff David Rawlings Morriss-Kay Anthony Metcalfe Professor Richard Geoffrey Ellis Stephen West Gerald Robertson Patrick Salisbury James Ogilvie Derek Minor Jenkyns Paul Evans Neil Williamson Jim Rogers Thomas Sancton David Rossington Humphrey Morison Ron Katz Michael Freeman Douglas Young Professor Malcolm The Hon Kurt Professor Tom Mike Morris Bob Kennedy Paul Futcher Schmoke 1 anonymous donor Schwartz Edward Mortimer Schofield Professor Mark Peter Gavan John Scott 1974 (23%) Stephen Richard Parker Nicholas Stoy Killingsworth James Grant Harbajan Singh Thomas Barron Shuttleworth Lord Patten David Taberner Patrick Lavin Charles Harmon Stephen Soden Professor Maxine Bill Tonks Richard Rowland Charles Thacker Julian Le Fanu Professor Richard Vikram Tanna Berg Hunt Williams Philip Spender 2 anonymous donors Jonathan Long Healey Simon Walker Darien Bernstein Tjalling Ypma David Stanton 1965 (23%) Father Gregory Sir John Holmes Ian Wilson Michael Betterton 3 anonymous Euan Sutherland Richard Ashton MacLeod Kevin Honner 2 anonymous donors John Brook donors Norton Tennille Professor Roger Jon Moynihan Kent Johnson Miles Burgess 1977 (33%) Jim Townend Cashmore 1972 (33%) Robin Nonhebel His Honour Judge Alan Clucas Philip Baker James Tyler David Cleland Tim Allen Paul Packman Peter Jones Howard Cook James Barker Brian Westcott Martin Cree Cyrus Ardalan Roy Pinkerton Richard Keshen Justin Dowley Jonathan Bayliss Professor the Hon Emeritus Professor John Bowler Professor Todd Murat Kudat Simon Hallett Kenneth Been Robin Wilson Paul Crittenden Rakoff Stuart Brant Andy Lane Tim Hardy Jim Berkman 1 anonymous donor James Davis Charles Rickett Philip Lemanski Russell Caplan Anthony Chapman Martin Harris Professor Andrew 1963 (29%) Bill Drayton Steve Schaffran Nicholas Mansergh Nigel Clark Professor John Black Paul Bamberg Professor Anthony Professor Daniel John Masten Anthony Coombs Helliwell Phil Boydell The Hon David Dugdale Shapiro Mark Parkinson Eric Engstrom Torgeir Finsaas Neville Jennings Malcolm Boren Anthony Sheppard Sir Julian Priestley Brinkworth Alan Gayer Martin Fisher Martin Kochanski Professor Russell Eddie Teo The Revd Professor David Carter Phillip Gordon Nicholas Thacher Richard Grant Anthony Markham Bryant Alvaro Ribeiro SJ Richard Pardy David Christie John Green Arthur Thomas Michael Stewart Sanjeev Gupta David Chalmers Jon Pavey David Crook Mohamad Fazal John Grimond John Walker François Thérien Joe Hughes Stanley Jones Sir Sebastian Roberts Professor Huw Peter Ford Ben Heineman John Walters Fred West Dixon John Kahn Mark Roe Robin Gilbert Tim Hirst Frank Waterland 3 anonymous donors Francis Dodds Peter Lewy Gerald de Senneville Ronald Hamowy Paul Joachim Charles White John Dunleavy 1970 (25%) Benjamin Lopata Sinclair Stockman Gordon Howie Alan Kaye Sir Alan Wilkie Andrew Exley Michael Levene Professor David His Excellency Simon Ward Robert Irving 1968 (33%) Aschman Neil Forsyth Gordon Littlewood Bobby McDonagh Professor Neil Muhammad Ishaq Christopher Allen Hew Balfour Anthony Giles Ian Mertling-Blake His Honour Judge Whitehead Peter Ward Jones Robin Ashton Mark Whitlock Andrew Whittaker Richard Gillis Sir Richard Lambert Michael Orr David Morgan Jonathan Bayly Blundell Nicholas Morris Ian Yellowlees The Hon Jonathan Roger Lewis Bill Rawlinson Hamberger Sir Drummond Alan Bramley Patrick Nealon 1 anonymous donor Jan Libourel Berel Rodal Bone Jim Hawkins Robert Brown David Osborne John Nicoll 5 anonymous donors Andrew Buxton 1975 (25%) Richard Jones Gordon Cockburn Gareth Pearce Professor Michael 1966 (25%) Professor Terrell Charles Alexander Jeremy Kimber Stephen Daniels Philip Pennock Player Richard Allan Carver Leopold Amery Jeremy Mayhew Professor Russell Professor Stefanos Professor James Professor Charles Michael Crane Daniel Blickman Davies Pesmazoglou Stephen Minter Richardson Baden-Fuller Jim Crawford Tim Boardman Logan Delany Neil Record Michael Mitchell The Revd Brian James Bayliss Chris Dunabin Chris Bower Stephen Dobson Jens Roesner Simon Orme Roberts Ronald Berenbeim Edward Eadie Rod Bull Ian Pearson Judge Francis Ed Rosen David Siddons Charles Brookes Miles Emley Goddard Geoffrey Chambers David Pollack Edward Sawbridge Paul Swain John Cook Professor James Professor Dennis The Revd Michael Ser-Khoon Quak Gary Sibley Richard Tatlow Ian Copland Fawcett Goldford Cullinan Scott Rafferty David Simms Major General Christopher Currie David Gartside Peter Grebenik Paul Edwards Brian Rigley Greg Spanier Charles Vyvyan Captain Bill Griffin Professor David Eric Hanson John Firth Professor Philip Andrew Thompson Joe Wood Professor José Hierro Gowland Sir Launcelot Donald Fuller Scowcroft 5 anonymous donors Simon Humphries Professor Peter Henderson Andrew Watson Alban Gordon Howard Shaw 4 anonymous donors 1964 (34%) Gordon Johns Hayes Michael Hodges Roger Gray Chris Start The Hon Justice Eero Kaprio Alan Hopkinson David Jones 1973 (26%) Stephen Grosz Stuart Urban David Baragwanath Martin Kaufman Peter Hutchinson Edward Jones Arthur Aufses III Robin Hardie Michael Wainwright Jeffrey Branch Michael Ling Philip Kay Professor Craig Joyce Mark Bautz Stuart Jamieson Richard Walker Donald Brand Bob Lyke Pedro Lluberes Julian Lewis Professor Kim Mark Jones Chris Warmoth Professor Stephen Terence MacDonogh David Lowe John Lund Beazley Bernard Keating Ernst von Clark Philip Maxwell Alan MacDermot Peter Misselbrook Ian Bell Lieutenant General Weyhausen Colonel Michael Philip Minor Aldo Maria Mazio Richard Parry Hakeem Belo-Osagie Simon Mayall CB John Whiston Craster William Parkinson David Merrick Richard Salter David Benello Stephen Moss John Winters Stephen Crew Professor Peter Pope Professor Stephen Andrew Burnham Julian Powe 3 anonymous Robert Cummings Christopher Pelling Professor John Smith Leo Cahalan David Railton 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issue no.18 may 2012 39 development news

1978 (26%) Gavin Glover Dunstan Vavasour Karlsefne Huggett Jeremy Burchardt Emma Hardy 1994 (17%) Professor Dilip Matthew Hamlyn 3 anonymous donors Anne Kiltie Judith Burchardt Michael Holmes Charles Bailey Abreu Mark Hudson 1983 (21%) Geoffrey Klineberg André Burgess Kathryn Jenkins Kok Cheng Paul Anderson Felicity Hunt David Bakhurst Halik Kochanski Georgia Cerillo Alex Johnson Michael d’Arcy Witek Biskupski Philip Kolvin Professor Matthew Richard Locke Jonathan Clyne Joseph Johnson Adam Dixon Carter Brandon Stephen Maher Bell Lisa Lodwick Leonard Cohen John Masters David Eckford Marty Burn Paul Mason Paul Berman Douglas Mace Alexander Dreier William McDonnell Ali Husain Andrew Curry Andrew Morgan Ravindra Chetty Samjid Mannan Simon Fuge Andy Morris Louise Hutton Tom David James Nye Daniel Cohen Ned Mersey Raj Gandesha Ewan Nettleton Edmund King Richard Fisher Denise Réaume Charles Conn Hugh Powell Adam Joy Henry Ormond Robert McCaw Nick Gillham David Reid Katherine Cook Marcus Smith Henry King Todd Peterson Christopher Nixon Simon Green Catherine Roe Douglas Craig Solomon Soquar Dr William Lamb Gerard Russell Andrew Oliver Walter Greenblatt Jonathan Scherer Timothy Davenport Daniel Storey Elizabeth Mills John Sandhu Michal Shavit Kenneth Greig Professor Adam Michele Deitch Wah-Piow Tan Professor Kenneth Vanessa Welsh Dominik Treeck Harald Hamley Schulman Lt Colonel Roberta Ronald Tenpas Mills Adam Zoia Josep Turro-Bassols Phil Hare Adam Shuttleworth Ewart Daniel Terkla Russ Muirhead 3 anonymous donors Barnaby Wilson 1 anonymous donor Fiona Mylchreest Professor Stephen Professor Duncan Professor Michèle 1992 (20%) Silvie Zamazalová Harrison Tate Paul Nix Flournoy 1986 (20%) Bettina Banoun 11 anonymous Charles Hindson Peter Telford Sarah Seed donors Paul Fox Bronte Adams John Birney Richard Hooker 2 anonymous donors Shukri Souri Charles Garland Julian Allen Philip Carney 1995 (20%) Richard Lock Ralph Walmsley 1981 (19%) Louise Gitter Sebastian Boyd Megan Clark Rebecca Ashton Jonathan Lowe Julian Wellesley Richard Barnett John Lazar Clare Brown Benjamin Dalby Richard Ashton Arjuna Mahendran 3 anonymous donors Professor Miguel Brian Lewis Kyren Burns Andres Devoldere Luke Bradley-Jones Edward McCabe Orellana Benado Barney Mayhew Michelle Cale 1989 (18%) Ben Ebert Carolyn Campbell Paul Overton Professor Arthur Sarah Miller Andrew Chesny Siân Alexander Lucy Fair Charlotte Clabburn Mark Parry Burns Toby Miller Alasdair Cross Rupert Angel Simon Holloway Guy Edsall Nicholas Prettejohn John Colenutt Alexander Morris Adam Duthie Fiona Bolton Julian Howarth Ben Evans The Rt Hon Lord Michelle Cox Stephen Rabinowitz Guy Evans Adrian Bradley Robert Keane Philip Haines Reed Professor Daniel Beverley Robertson John Fleming Luke Farrer Paul Keilthy Adam Heppinstall Tom Reid Esty Professor Richard Ian Fox Andrew Forbes Henrik Klagges Barbara Jeffery James Shaffery David Foster Susskind David France Detlef Gartner Dan Leedham- Jerry Kalogiratos John Smith Brian Hall Professor Christine David Gittleson Justine Hatter Green Liora Lazarus Robert Wardle Wayne Henderson Sypnowich Duncan Greatwood David Howarth Pei-Ji Liang Sarah Lippold Michael Wilcockson Mark Hume Matthew Westerman Michael Guy Katie Jamieson Felix Martin Joanna Murdock 2 anonymous donors Paul Jenkins David Witty Janet Kentridge David Lewis Iona Martin Fionn Pilbrow 1979 (31%) Professor Frances Fiona Witty Sarah Mace Nuria Martinez- Christian Mehnert Saritha Pilbrow Rod Batchelor Kirwan 2 anonymous donors Gillian Marshall Alier Barnaby Maunder Abigail Purrington Clive Baxter Matthew Lynn 1984 (26%) Edward Morgan Andrew Ovey Taylor Mike Purrington Robin Baynham Aldo Manzini His Excellency Jason Morris Rory Pope Tonia Novitz Douglas Rogers Elena Ceva-Valla Glenn Moramarco Donald Bobiash Mark Perlow Piers Ricketts Adrian Pay Richard Sanderson Robin Cohen Andrew Mosely Jonathan Brooke Professor Samuel Justin Scott Oliver Pooley Frank Snyckers Rebecca Colenutt Vishwajit Caroline Clarke Rickless John Taylor Jonathan Savidge Alan Thein Louise Collins Nimgaonkar Owen Darbishire Jeffrey Rosen Ed Welsh Giles Shilson Jack Walsh Steve Curzons Jonathan Ostry Claire Foster-Gilbert Professor David 3 anonymous donors William Stenhouse Caleb Wright Ted Delofski Brian Rance Anthony Frieze Shaw 1990 (12%) Helen Thomas 6 anonymous donors Catharine Driver Christian Roby John Gardner Giles Slinger Andrew Aldwinckle Claire Tracey 1996 (23%) Professor Timothy Nick Smith Gary Gibbon Andy Smith Olly Blackburn Douglas Watkinson Dan Beary Elliott Mark Storey William Guttman Daniel Talbot Katrin Boege Charles Wiles Chris Becher Andrew Evans Robin Stuart Thomas Hirschfeld Luke Walton Anna Chilczuk Simon Woods Julia Bellwood- Warwick Fairfax Peter Tron Reyahn King Alastair Wilkins Nick Delfas 3 anonymous donors Monument Martin Fraenkel David Waller Martin Kirk 1987 (20%) Adrian Elliott Thomas Besch 2 anonymous donors 1993 (23%) Bennett Freeman William Landale Ignacio Barandiaran Penny Falk Mandy Bazile Sophie Brodie Nigel Hall 1982 (23%) Kenneth Lapatin Patrick Blakesley Christopher Hardy Barley Birney Ruth Cairns Ian Harnett Peter Batty Ronald Lehmann Adam Brown Sean Houlihane Katharine Collier Sam Carr Jens Hills Mimi Bick Jens Meurer Simon Chapman Laura Hoyano Jim Crawfurd Susanna Clasby Melissa Hirst-Chaple Richard Blackford Professor Cheryl Professor Michele Jack Leonard Jarrod Farley Hugh Clements- Nicola Horlick Jeremy Cohn Misak Gamburd Barry MacEvoy David Farrar Jewery John Hutchinson Susan Cooksley Hunter Monroe Carl Garland Anne Mackenzie Moritz Freyland Michael Follett Jost Leuschner Piers Daubeney Laurence Mutkin Michael Gibson Parag Prasad Alasdair Hamblin Neeru Garg Mark Lovewell David Drysdale Yoshi Nishio Harald Gossner Stephen Preece Luke Hatter Charles Goldsmith Professor Philip Lloyd Evans Jingui Qin Gregory Jones Marc Read Helen Hayes Iain Gray Maini Harriet Quiney Robert Fraser Helen Kenny Kitty Stewart Harriet Jaine Lucas Green Tom Minney Mark Quiney Lucy Goodhart Julian Knowles Lori West Suresh Kanwar Eleanor Greenwood Caroline Miskin Andrew Robinson Larry Grafstein Ramani Langley Mary Whalen Vikki Keilthy Jason Herrick The Revd Dr Paul Professor Steven Lawrence Gray Karen Lester Abigail Wroe Mary Leng Gail Leckie Moore Schneider Charles Hayes Bill Lipscomb 1991 (22%) Alistair Ligertwood Ben Lynch Brett Mudford David Shaw Rupert Holderness Kathleen Katerina Nicoletta Adrian McGowan Hilali Noordeen Simon Stevens Yolanda Holderness McLaughlin Alexandraki Momigliano Claudia Mercer Sor-Hoon Tan Siân Rees Andrew Keyser Arthur Moore Axel Baeumler Stephen Morgan Sally Nevrkla Martin Thoma Mark Robinson Yung Kong Julian Mylchreest Tina Bennett Martin O’Neill Michael O’Sullivan Judith Tossell Paul Shotton Jonathan Langman Louise Partridge Mojo Billington Dinusha Ricken Patel Debbie Smith Professor Peter Tom de Waal Zia Rahman Jeremy Breaks Panditaratne Duncan Randall The Revd Dr Manning Gavin Watters Vicki Reeve Lindy Cameron John Sargent Saskia Roberts Stephen Spencer Andrew Marshall 6 anonymous donors Paul Roberts Adam Constable Julie Smith Jenny Robinson 6 anonymous donors Nick Moakes 1985 (16%) Stephen Smith The Revd Lydia Philippa Southern Simon Robinson 1980 (18%) Clare Moriarty Johnny Acton Robert Stein Cook Thomas Southern Bernhard Sakmann Rupert Aspey Sean Murphy Jonathan Broomberg Chris Tomlinson Alexander Cooper Ruju Srivastava Clyde Seepersad Andrew Boucher Tim Nicholson Vaughan Clark Patrick Vernon Iain Corby Alison Spencer 6 anonymous donors Richard Brait Mitch Preston Lucy Cope Paul Williams Rebecca Dale Stephens 1997 (24%) Nicholas Copley Michael Reed Adrian Darbishire 3 anonymous donors Gavin Ezekowitz Jonathan Tudor Judith Allen Raji Davenport Matthew Taylor Keith Fisher 1988 (17%) Mark Falcon James Windle Aleksander Askeland Sally Fabre Bankim Thanki Martin Fitzpatrick Camilla Bingham Christopher Fermor Jayne Woodcock The Hon Rosemary Morel Fourman Danny Truell Jason Hubert Kit Bingham Eleanor Gordon 5 anonymous donors Bailey

40 floreat domus balliol college news David Battley 5 anonymous donors Jonathan Mathews Guilia Tavolato Pascal Brixel Professor Les Green Marion Whalley Archie Campbell 1999 (16%) Jamie McKerchar Ray Thornton Daniel Carden Miriam Griffin Lady Williams Andrew Chrisomalis Mark Annear William Mulholland Rupert Try Olivier de France Flora Hall Professor Timothy Geoff Cowling Laura Birch James Rollinson Emma Windham Andrew Gimber Ruth Hewetson Wilson Tara Cowling Andrew Cohen Hazman Sallahuddin Etay Zwick Paul Thiekoetter Julia Hore James Wong Jonathan Dale Geoffrey Evatt Alexa Shipman 7 anonymous donors 2007 (3%) Margaret Joachim Adrienne Woodward Michael Fullilove Rachel Farlie Rachna Suri 2004 (19%) Dawei Fang Sir Anthony Kenny Samuel Yin Jo Garvey Edward Hughes Constantinos Markus Bihler Nicholas Harper Professor Sung Hee 11 anonymous Symeonides Kim Rose Grimond Helen Le Mottee Johannes Brumm Joseph Spooner donors Corin Taylor Jean Knight Philip Jockelson Peter Murphy Oliver Butler Michael Urban Companies and Louise Thomas M Letheren Sarah Johnson Ramanan Jesse Crozier Foundations Amy Trotter 2008 (6%) Professor Steven Nicholas Jones Navaratnam Kimberly Douglas Balliol Society 3 anonymous donors Liz Chatterjee Levitan Kirtee Kapoor Aisling O’Brien Brian Flanagan Frances Jones Judy Longworth J Paul Getty Alia Knight Gavin Orde 2002 (17%) Rebecca Hodes Museum Michael McCarthy Sir Colin Lucas Lucien Lafaille Shira Schnitzer Sam Brown Rhodri Jervis Goldman, Sachs Emmanuel Slautsky Sophie Marnette Charlotte Leslie Edward Swann Anne-Marie Yoosun Koh & Co. Robert Tarantino Mark Mazower Andrej Machacek Mark Thakkar Bryceson Ami Komoda The Harry Frank Carla Meehan Barnaby Martin Marina Vickers Leonora Buckland Other Old Guggenheim Ruth Larkin David Mela Jade Newburn Charles Wells Emma Cavell Members Foundation Leo Li E Mesritz James Paterson Vicky Wells Ronnie Chiu Charlotte Gosden Lazard & Co James Mackenzie Joan Miller Sam Sandiford Harry Westall David Cormode Smith (2009) The Andrew W Professor Christopher Anthony Shuster Andrew Crawford Gian Pasini (2009) Mellon Foundation Emma Whale Rick Malins Minkowski Stuart Tait Jonah Wilberg Louise Eggett Neda Minakaran Riccardo Ranzato Microsoft Han Toh Richard Eschwege (2009) Shirley Morton Paul Williams Kurt Mitman Judith Nedderman Millennium Menna Van Praag Rolf Zapffe Elizabeth Field Graham Morris Alexandra Sokolova Pharmaceuticals Michael Vivian Gergely Hidas (2009) J E Osborne 4 anonymous donors David Mossop Seamus Perry The Gordon and The Hon Robin Valerie Hume Maurice Hoogeveen Betty Moore 2000 (17%) Ngoc Nguyen Wendy Price Walker MP Georgy Kantor (2010) Foundation Rachel Armitage Mark O’Brien Mary Ramsell 7 anonymous donors Edward Knapp Other Supporters Nirman Foundation Adam Brown Richard Ollerhead Julie Record 1998 (21%) Jamie Lee of Balliol UBS Warburg Ruth Connelly Hephzi Pemberton Rosemarie Reynolds Mary-Therese Anna Lissina Professor Joel Wentworth Golf Gillian Dow Maxim Polyakov Janice Rickards Barton John Mallonee Aberbach Club Claire Ferguson Nic Ramsden Peter Roberts Leanne Bell Hannah McIntyre Lesley Abrams Julia Finch Victoria Reynolds Professor Sir Adam Legacies Received Michael Birshan Thomas Miller R E Adams Simon Glassock Desmond Ryan Roberts Nevil Norway (1919) Rosemary Black Amy Shapiro Howard Allen Luke Gribbon Peter Thomas Professor Lyndal Owen Lidwell (1933) Bethan Brown Sean Thompson Patricia Ash Fonger Ypma Roper Desmond Gregory Jennie Han Matthew Williams Joan Asquith Richard Collins 3 anonymous donors Professor Daniel (1934) Paul Durban Ed Hatton 4 anonymous donors Ursula Aylmer 2005 (12%) Rubenstein Sir James Benjamin Harding Patrick Hennessey Sheila M Barber 2003 (21%) Daniel Ashley Jane Ruffle Colyer-Fergusson Piers Horne Farrah Jarral William Barford Kristin Javaras Craig Abrahams Sam Baars E A Ryman Bt (1935) Daniel Klusmann Alice Biggins Professor Wilfred Lucy Neville Lucy Crehan Margaret Sayer Sir Kenneth Barnes Chris Knowland Peter Dunbar Beckerman Dara Price Henry Cullen Professor Frederick (1940) Sunil Krishnan Sarah Elliott Diana Bristow David Russell Christopher Evans Schauer Peter Eden (1949) Tomila Lankina Sunita Entwisle Professor Emeritus James Sherwin- Nicholas Farrelly Anne Simpson Earnest Lau (1952) Sarah Longair Ludger Evers John F Burke Smith Benjo Fraser Simon Skinner George Halahan Dorota Lyszkowska- Kamaljeet Gill Martin Burton Oi Wah To Adrian Groves Pamela Smith- (1963) Becher Alexandra Gowlland Ockshin Carter Nicole Voelker David Knezevic Stanleigh Roger Butler (1970) Robert Mahapatra Babiker Hassanain Kevin Chau Matt Widdop Mary Livingstone Professor Ian Alfonso Moreno Gang Hu Victor Christou C Storey Other Legators to 5 anonymous donors George Matthews Dave Pollard James Hume Roger Cooke Per Svanes Balliol Ted Maxwell Vanessa Regester 2001(16%) Phil Killingley J R Coombe B Taylor Helen Brotherton Diana Ples Justin Reid Vlada Brofman Megha Kumar C J Crowe Professor Rosalind Marjorie Burnett Olivia Reilly Jamie Robinson Peter Cleland Justin Lewis-Oakes Margaret Dubner Thomas Evgeniya Rubinina Richard Scullion Anna Cosi Jonathan Lo Professor Bill Dutton Nicola Trott Paul Sagar Luke Shepherd Katherine Fisher Stephen Matthews R S Emmitt David Wallace Philip Thorne Nicola Smith Sharanjit Gill David McConkey Barbara Ennis Hannah Wallace Dan Snow Tomas Hellebrandt Katherine Reid Keith Tse Clara Freeman Diane Warner Peter Trotter Melissa Holloway Laura Sheen Silas Xu Peggotty Graham Professor Stephen Rama Veeraragoo Chip Horne Christopher R ay Ye George Gray CBE Wearne George Wigley Craig Looker Skillicorn 2006 (4%) Professor Harry Richard Wellesley Timothy Williams Pedro Machado Paulina Sliwa Stuart Adams Gray Stephanie West

Calendar of events up to September 2013

Saturday 23 June 2012 Saturday 29 – Sunday 30 Saturday 16 March 2013 Friday 20 – Sunday 22 Summer Gaudy September 2012 Spring Gaudy September 2013 (1981–1983 matriculation Balliol Society Weekend (1954–1958 matriculation years) Oxford-wide Alumni Weekend years) (invitation enclosed) Tuesday 16 April 2013 Friday 27 – Sunday 29 Saturday 30 June 2012 Thursday 15 November 2012 Master’s Lunch September 2013 Family Day (booking form Usborne Dinner Balliol 750th anniversary enclosed) Saturday 25 May 2013 celebration weekend Saturday 9 March 2013 Parents’ Lunch Friday 14 – Sunday 16 Greville Smith Society Lunch September 2012 Saturday 22 June 2013 Oxford-wide Alumni Summer Gaudy (1972–1974 Weekend matriculation years)

issue no.18 may 2012 41 A lasting legacy

Leaving a gift to Balliol in your will is an easy and cost-effective way to support the education of future generations of students. Bequests given to the College continue to fund our core activities; over the centuries, such gifts have endowed numerous Fellowships, established enduring scholarships, supported the Library and helped to fund Balliol’s thriving clubs, sports teams and societies.

More than 200 Old Members and friends of the College have already told us they have chosen to remember Balliol in their will; they have been invited to join the Greville Smith Society in recognition of their generous and long-term commitment. Members of the Society and their guests meet for lunch in College each year; it is one of the most special and convivial occasions in our annual events calendar. We hope that you will consider joining them. Piers Nye

To request further Laura Bianco, Campaign Officer, Balliol College, Oxford, OX1 3BJ information on how your bequest can Telephone: +44 (0)1865 277704 help the College, please contact: Email: [email protected]