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The Eagle 2016 The Eagle 2016 THE EAGLE 2016 Volume 98 THE EAGLE Published in the United Kingdom in 2016 by St John’s College, Cambridge St John’s College Cambridge CB2 1TP johnian.joh.cam.ac.uk Telephone: 01223 338700 Fax: 01223 338727 Email: [email protected] Registered charity number 1137428 First published in the United Kingdom in 1858 by St John’s College, Cambridge Designed by Cameron Design (01284 725292, www.designcam.co.uk) CONTENTS & Printed by Lonsdale Direct (01933 228855, www.lonsdaledirect.co.uk) Front cover: Art and Photography Competition 2016: ‘Survivors’ taken at the May Ball 2015 by MESSAGES Bernadette Schramm (2012). Bernadette’s image was the winner of the ‘College life’ category. Previous page: Art and Photography Competition 2016: ‘Dewy footprints’ by Katherine Smith (2013) Facing page: New Court by Paul Everest The Eagle is published annually by St John’s College, Cambridge, and is sent free of charge to members of the College and other interested parties. 2 | THE EAGLE 2016 THE EAGLE 2016 | 3 CONTENTS & MESSAGES CONTENTS & MESSAGES CONTENTS College life Editorial. 7 Kathryn Wingrove – Par for the course . 132 Message from the Master . 8 JCR . 136 SBR . 139 Articles Johnian Society. 141 Holly Mason – A need for speed . 14 The Choir. 143 Frank Salmon – The horns of a dilemma. 19 St John’s Voices . 149 Mary Dobson – Sir Robert Talbor: an intriguing life and a ‘secret cure’ for malaria . 24 Student society reports. 151 Alan Gibson – Why don’t young doctors want to be psychiatrists? . 30 Student sports team reports . 171 Robert Tombs – Brexit: the historical perspective . 35 Donors The academic year 2015/16 List of donors . 200 Message from the Senior Tutor: The future starts here . 42 Donors to the Library. 223 Interview with Mete Atatüre. 45 The Master and Fellowship . 48 The last word Anna Hollingsworth and Jonathon Simpson – À la carte . 231 Members’ news . 52 Obituaries Owen Chadwick, 1916–2015 . 66 John Emerton, 1928–2015 . 70 Jack Goody, 1919–2015. 73 Hugh Griffiths, 1923–2015 . 77 John Horlock, 1928–2015 . 81 Toby Milsom, 1923–2016. 85 Reginald Prince, 1927–2015 . 88 Alumni obituaries. 91 4 | THE EAGLE 2016 THE EAGLE 2016 | 5 CONTENTS & MESSAGES Photo: Ben Lister. Ben Photo: EDITORIAL Welcome to The Eagle 2016. Chief among the many exciting developments in College this year was the launch of the new St John’s Studentships in April, designed to fund the living costs of students from low-income backgrounds. Many staff, Fellows and alumni have been involved in planning these bursaries over the last few years, so there is a great feeling of shared accomplishment as new students start to arrive and actually benefit from this support. The Senior Tutor explains the thinking behind the studentships on page 42. Regular visitors to St John’s may have noticed that the stone yales on the pillars of Kitchen Bridge Gate disappeared for a short time last winter. After 300 years in this exposed position, the original carvings were in desperate need of replacement. You can read the full story of their design, and the history of yales at St John’s, on page 19. We always try to bring you stories of inspiring and fascinating Johnians, and for this issue we look at two alumni who fit the bill perfectly. Our inspiration comes from student Holly Mason, who took on the enormous challenge of training for and riding in the Varsity Horse Race earlier this year. And your curiosity will surely be piqued by Dr Mary Dobson’s investigations into Sir Robert Talbor – a seventeenth-century ‘quack’ who claimed to have discovered a ‘secret remedy’ for malaria, and who attracted the attention of two kings. The Editors would like to thank Anna Hollingsworth and Jonathon Simpson for their hard work as Editorial Assistants on this year’s Eagle, and alumnus Colin Greenhalgh, who very kindly volunteered to edit our reinstated alumni obituaries section. As ever, the whole editorial team wish to thank the alumni, Fellows, students and staff who have contributed to this issue. You can read previous issues of The Eagle and share your favourite articles online at johnian.joh.cam.ac.uk/theeagle Editors: Jennifer Baskerville, Alumni Relations Officer (Publications), and Mark Nicholls, Librarian and Head of Information Services and Systems. Editorial Assistants: Anna Hollingsworth (2015) and Jonathon Simpson (2012). Obituaries Editor: Colin Greenhalgh (1960), with thanks to Fiona Colbert, Biographical Librarian. If you are interested in submitting an article for a future issue of The Eagle, or if you have an enquiry or some feedback, please email [email protected] or write to: The Eagle, Development Office, St John’s College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP. EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS, JONATHON SIMPSON AND ANNA HOLLINGSWORTH THE EAGLE 2016 | 7 CONTENTS & MESSAGES CONTENTSARTICLES & MESSAGES to so many others in the College community, A key focus of the College Council, and MESSAGE FROM THE MASTER over the past four years. I am happy to say that indeed of the Fellowship in general, over the Frank and his wife Catharine are proving to be course of this year has been to continue to Photo: Ben Minnaar. Ben Photo: very worthy successors indeed, and both have develop a coherent strategy for all aspects of adapted to the changes in their lifestyles with the future development of the College. As this supreme ease and remarkable cheerfulness! year is the 500th anniversary of the admission of the first undergraduates to St John’s, One of the very special occasions during the following its foundation five years earlier, it is year took place in October when HRH the particularly appropriate that high on our list of Duke of Cambridge, a member of the priorities has been the intellectual well-being College, visited St John’s to open the of their modern successors. And although one refurbished School of Pythagoras, the new should not put too much emphasis on league home for the College’s magnificent tables it is very pleasing that this year the collection of archival documents. This visit College has risen yet higher in the was the fulfilment of a generous promise intercollegiate ‘Tompkins Table’ with some made during the Duke’s stay in the College brilliant performances by our students across in 2014, and was a highly appropriate way of the whole range of subjects. Indeed, my arm celebrating the completion of this award- has been aching recently as a result of writing winning project. Many of the items within letters of congratulation to the very large the collection predate the foundation of the number of our students whose efforts have College and include records of the Hospital been recognised through prizes and awards of St John the Evangelist that, like the from the University and from a host of School of Pythagoras itself, started its life external societies and other bodies. some eight centuries ago on the site now Welcome to this year’s edition of the Eagle. I hope very much that you enjoy reading about the occupied by the College. One of the One of our top priorities as a world-leading activities of a wide range of members of the College, and learning more about some of the many highlights of the day was the opportunity to centre of academic excellence is to ensure events that have taken place in St John’s during the last twelve months. show the Duke an early copy of the Magna that we can continue to attract the most Carta, a wonderful document in the College outstanding applicants to the College At the beginning of the academic year we Council and the Governing Body on just archives, the full significance of which was regardless of the increasing financial pressures welcomed into his office the newly elected about every aspect of College business. Frank identified by a visiting scholar just a few that are associated with reading for a degree. President of the College, Dr Frank Salmon, took over from the Revd Duncan Dormor, months before the Duke’s visit. It was a I am therefore thrilled that we were able to Fellow in the History of Art. The position of Dean of Chapel, when the latter completed particularly timely discovery, emerging launch in April a pilot scheme involving the the President is a vital and increasingly his four-year term as President, a role in which during the year in which many celebrations most comprehensive package of financial important one, as it involves not just ensuring he served the College with deep commitment were held to mark the 800th Anniversary of support offered by any college in Cambridge that our large Fellowship feels well informed and great skill. I cannot thank him and his the sealing of the original document that laid or Oxford. As well as covering the living costs and well looked after, but also acting as a key wife Catherine enough for all the support that the foundations for the rights of the of those of our undergraduates from families source of advice and wisdom to the College they have given to me and to Mary, and indeed individual in this country and beyond. with particularly modest incomes, we shall be 8 | THE EAGLE 2016 THE EAGLE 2016 | 9 CONTENTS & MESSAGES CONTENTS & MESSAGES supporting many more of our students in a the individuals involved, and ensuring that we with its impact on time management, health red blazers just before the Railway Bridge, to wide variety of different ways, for example provide the best possible infrastructure and and fitness, and indeed interpersonal skills. go Head of the River. This feat was the through a new ‘summer bursary’ scheme to the most enthusiastic and capable support culmination of a concerted strategy over promote activities ranging from academically staff, is another of the challenges that the There have been exciting developments too in several years to enhance the fortunes of focused research projects to career-related College is addressing with its usual energy and the musical life of St John’s during the course LMBC, involving not just tremendous efforts internships, including several that are linked to vigour.

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