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one hundred and first annual report 2005 jesus college • cambridge

one hundred and first annual report 2005 photo: frances willmoth Above, two men paddling in a boat; below, Jonah emerges from the fish’s mouth and clutches a tree

From July to December this year the Fitzwilliam Museum is showing a most magnificent exhibition of illuminated manuscripts, many of which are from college collections. Jesus was not asked to lend anything for this exhibition – ‘as most of our manuscripts are of the working kind and not elaborately decorated’. Some of the college manuscripts, however, do have illuminations. A 13th century Holy Bible in the college’s collection (Q.A.11: no. 11 in M. R. James’ 1895 catalogue) not only has beautiful writing but ‘historiated initials of more than usual interest’. So that readers can see something of what the Fitzwilliam has missed, this year’s Annual Report carries a number of illustrations taken from that Bible.

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Message from the Master 5 The College Year 2004–5 7 College News 7 Domestic Bursar’s Notes 13 The Old Library and College Archives 15 Chapel 17 Chapel Music 19 Art 20 Sculpture in the Close 21 Development Office 24 Development Director’s Report 24 Society of St Radegund 24 Bequests 24 Report of Events 24 Calendar of Events 2005–6 30 M.A. Dining 30 Jesus College Cambridge Society 31 Executive Committee 31 Draft Minutes of AGM 24 September 2005 32 Annual General Meeting and Annual Dinner 2006 33 Reports of JCCS Events 2004–5 33 Forthcoming JCCS Events 33 Awards 35 University Prizes, Grants and Scholarships 35 University Tripos Prizes 35 College Awards, Elections and Prizes 35 Tripos Results 39 Approved for Ph.D.s 40 College Societies 42 The Undergraduate Art Collection 48 College Sports Clubs 49 Jesus College Boat Club Trust 60 Years Ago 62 Women at Jesus – An Anniversary Event and Exhibition 64 The Anniversary Event 64 The Exhibition: History of Women at Jesus College 66 Reminiscences 75 Early American Connections 78 Organ Scholars 83 Members’ News 84 Births and Marriages 88 Publications and Gifts to the College Libraries 90 Obituaries 95 A Short but Memorable Life 115 Return Forms Records Update CDs from Jesus College Jesus College Cushions Annual Fund photo: neville taylor Saint Radegunda from a window by Morris & Co in Chapel, designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones message from the master | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 7

Message from the Master

This year the Annual Report begins its second century. Through its pages we can all share in the successes of the college’s senior members, graduates and undergraduates and of its old members. If we missed Jesuan names in the honours lists, the Annual Report can be relied on to tell us who they were. We can learn from it of the achievements of our fellows, what prizes they won, their promotions, elections and appointments. Society and club reports keep us informed about all that happens on the playing fields, courts and river and the awards section proclaims students’ achievements in the examination rooms. Once again there were some superb results and we have continued to rise in the academic league tables – Jesus is now one of the top Cambridge colleges. The women’s 1st VIII went Head of the River in the May Bumps and six of our other boats won their oars. In addition to this, the cricket team won Cuppers. And, to dispel any myths about rowing and academic excellence being incompatible, our Captain of Boats and our President of the University Women’s Boat Club obtained firsts, as did a number of others in both our first boats. The longest section of this year’s report celebrates the single most important change in the history of Jesus College, the admission of women undergraduates in 1979. There is an account of the Women’s Day in September 2004, a fascinating article on the exhibition held in the Quincentenary Library on the history of women at Jesus and an abstract of reminiscences recorded during the Women’s Day. As if in further celebration, the college in May elected Dr Jana Howlett as its first female president. The Works of Art Committee chose five women out of seven exhibitors for the successful Sculpture in the Close exhibition held in College this summer. Professor Michael O’Brien, much honoured this year for his book on the intellectual history of the American South, has written an article on Early American Connections. Much of this will be new to most of us and it invites us to reflect on how much the college owes to those who come to it from overseas, as well as how much it exports through those Jesuans who live and work abroad. The college continues to encourage donors who wish to set up scholarships or bursaries to help those from abroad who would not otherwise be able to afford it. Some of these bursaries are mentioned in College News. Photographs have enlivened the Annual Report for a number of years, but before 1995 they were all black and white. Coloured photographs first appeared in the quincentenary edition and each year there seem to be more of them. The editor tries to balance pictures of the courts and buildings, which I hope will bring back happy memories to Jesuans who do not manage to get back to College, with those of sports and other events which illustrate the things we get up to. There are also some photos of the construction and renovation that has been taking place. Last year, I said that ‘the College will be something of a building site.’ The domestic bursar’s report gives details of what has been achieved: the Prioress’s Room has been refurbished, the cricket pavilion extended, the new maintenance and gardeners’ compound completed, and a refurbished North Court again has a full complement of undergraduates. We are fulfilling our commitment to provide the best facilities we can afford. The hundred and first edition of the Annual Report is full of interest and information and reminds us all what a marvellous thing it is to be a member of such a distinguished college. Degree Day in July particularly highlighted this for me. Starting with the photograph in Chapel Court (endless adjustments of gowns and hoods), then marshalling by the praelector in First Court, the procession was led by our head porter in top hat to the Senate House, where it gave me enormous pleasure to confer degrees 8 message from the master | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

on our very talented graduands. The lunch in College afterwards with their proud parents is a celebratory occasion, tinged with some sadness that this really is the end of an era. Although it is goodbye to student life, it is clear that many of the friendships made here will endure. And, of course, it is emphatically not goodbye to the college. At the Graduation Dinner, I remind those leaving that they have been extremely fortunate to have been resident members over the past few years of a very distinguished college, but that it is not over. All Jesuans have lifelong membership and we very much hope that they will come back and visit – they are always welcome. I see many of the final year undergraduates on an individual basis – to review what they have made of their time here at Jesus and to find out what they are planning to do with their lives. In preparation for the meeting I ask them to write a brief summary. It is always heartening to read what they write of their experiences. Recently one young woman wrote: ‘Jesus College has changed my life more than I could ever have imagined’. Earlier I referred to league tables. Cambridge has recently been ranked second in a prestigious world league table (Harvard again winning top ranking). As the university celebrates its achievements and faces the many challenges of the coming years, so will Jesus strongly support it – and the college will continue to change the lives of its students more than they could ever have imagined. Robert Mair photo: nicholas ray The new extension to the cricket pavilion the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 9

The College Year 2004–5

College News A memorial service for the life of Sir Robert Jennings was held in Great St Mary’s on Saturday 11 December 2004; there was an address by H.E. Judge Rosalyn Higgins, D.B.E., Q.C. One for the life of Derek Taunt was held in Chapel on Saturday 20 November 2004; Dr Jim Roseblade gave the address. On 8 June, HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, Chancellor of the University, made an informal visit to the college after engagements elsewhere in Cambridge. He was entertained to dinner in the master’s lodge by the master and Mrs Mair, college officers and other fellows. At drinks beforehand he met students of the college. On Sunday 8 May the Most Revd and Right Honourable Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, preached at choral evensong. After the service undergraduates and others talked with Dr Williams over drinks in the cloisters. The last time an archbishop of Canterbury was in Jesus chapel was in March 1956 when Geoffrey Fisher attended the commemoration of the 4th centenary of Cranmer’s death, but he did not preach.

Chaplain & Archbishop photo: jim roseblade

A dinner was held on 1 November to celebrate the 80th birthdays of Professors Austin Gresham (1 November), Kenneth Johnson (19 March) and David Fieldhouse (7 June). The master and each of the guests of honour gave speeches.

From left to right: Austin Gresham; Kenneth Johnson; David Fieldhouse photos: jim roseblade 10 the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Professor Lord Renfrew was elected to an honorary fellowship. He was also awarded the Balzan Prize for Prehistoric Archaeology, for his outstanding contributions to archaeology. He was presented with the prize by the President of Italy at a ceremony in Rome in November 2004. The prize is awarded by the Fondazione Internationale Balzan. Professor Sandra Dawson, honorary fellow, has been appointed Dame of the British Empire for services to higher education and management research. Professor Sir Martin Rees, honorary fellow, was in August appointed to the House of Lords as a non-party political peer sitting on the cross benches. He has taken the title of Lord Rees of Ludlow. He will begin his five-year presidency of the Royal Society on 1 December 2005. Lord Rees was also a joint recipient of the Crafoord Prize 2005, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for ‘contributions towards understanding the large-scale structure of the universe’, especially ‘for his early recognition of the importance of dark matter for the formation and properties of galaxies’. Sir David Hare, honorary fellow, received the degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) at a congregation of the Regent House on 22 June 2005. When he presented Sir David to the chancellor, the orator delivered a Latin speech whose translation follows. This is a hare coursed and caught in his youth by Dionysus himself: while still a student he had formed a company of actors. He used to act himself, he used to direct, he still writes a variety of things, but pre-eminently he writes plays. Of all who busy themselves in the world of theatre, it is truly said that posterity remembers best the names of playwrights. When he began, there was a good deal of Juvenal’s scorn and indignation in him. The energy of that remains, combined with a rare talent for going straight for the point at issue and staying on it, but his female characters in particular are now drawn with the sympathy of a larger human understanding. In his play photo: nigel luckhurst Sir David Hare, M.A. Plenty, Susanna is someone you may at first dislike; when she has put her whole case you may also feel the opposite, and the character called Alice may impress you similarly. To a considerable extent each works in reaction to the other. In his play Teeth ‘n’ Smiles, there is a character called Margaret (In vino veritas could be her motto, but other substances come into the picture) who suddenly says, ‘There are no great, there are no beautiful, there is only the thin filth of getting old.’ He seldom writes so poetically, but he is always political (Stuff Happens is the clearest example), in that his plays are penetrated and shaped by the whole wider world in which they happen, and the perceptions of it are expressed by characters who, as people without a privileged intelligence, may well speak with a shrewdness beyond their own understanding. And will plays born of a contemporary concern find readers in the future? They will indeed: scholars are at work on his oeuvre already, and his plays will continue to find theatres too, because actors enjoy them. With their force goes a wit: I laughed out loud when I heard Susanna say, almost as an aside, ‘And I don’t really like young men. You’re through and out the other side in no time at all.’ The two Muses have endowed him most richly. I present to you Sir DAVID HARE, M.A., Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, playwright

In September 2004, Professor Robert Mair gave the Jennings Lecture in Johannesburg. He spoke on Underground construction in urban areas – recent advances in research and practice. Professor Mair has also been appointed one of the Septemviri for two years. Ian Paterson, professor of organic chemistry, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He is distinguished for his contributions to the stereo-controlled synthesis of biologically active natural products and for pioneering work on new methods and reagents for the total synthesis of polyketides, which include anti-cancer agents, antibiotics and immuno suppressants. the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 11

Professor Alastair Compston was the 2004 Croonian Lecturer of the Royal College of Physicians of London. He has also become editor of Brain, the leading journal of neurology. Professor James Crawford has been awarded a degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa from the Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest. Professor Roberto Cipolla was awarded a 2005 Pilkington prize for excellence in teaching. Professor Bruce Ponder has given a number of important invited lectures during the year including plenary ones to the American Society of Human Genetics, Los Angeles, and to the Australasian Human Genetics Meeting, Perth; he also gave the Wick Williams Memorial Lecture, Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA and the Meyenburg Lecture, DKFZ, Heidelberg. In February Professor Juliet Mitchell gave the opening Wolfson lecture Speaking of others in Oxford. She has also lectured at the Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists, San Francisco, New York University, the American University of Beirut and the University of Bilgri in Istanbul. Professor Jean Bacon held a successful exhibition of watercolours at the Art Centre, King’s College, Cambridge. Professor Ian White has been appointed chairman of the council of the School of Technology for two years. Professor Michael O’Brien’s book Conjectures of order: intellectual life and the American south, 1810–1860, volumes 1 & 2, published in 2004 by The University of North Carolina Press, caused him to be nominated as a finalist (with two others) for a Pulitzer Prize in Letters and was the reason for his winning two of the most coveted honours in history. The Organization of American Historians selected him to receive the Merle Curtis Award ‘for the best book published in American social, intellectual, or cultural history’ whilst the trustees of Columbia University chose him as one of three winners of Bancroft prizes, awarded to the authors of books of exceptional merit in the fields of American history, biography and diplomacy. The Bancroft prize jurors commented ‘In what can only be described as magisterial fashion, O’Brien has chronicled the lives and works of antebellum Southern writers and thinkers – from dissenters like the Grimke sisters to the man Richard Hofstadter called the Marx of the Master Class, John C. Calhoun, and almost everyone in between.’ Dr Natasha Berloff was awarded a 2005 Pilkington prize for excellence in teaching. Mr Nicholas Ray delivered the second Brick Development Association Annual Lecture at the Building Centre, London. His title was About a millimetre, or less: Alvar Aalto and the technology of the twentieth century. Mr Ray’s book Alvar Aalto has recently been published by Yale University Press. John Cornwell’s book Hitler’s scientists: science, war and the devil’s pact has won the Scientific and Medical Network book of the year prize 2004.

Professorships were established from 1 October 2005 for Drs Jean Bacon, Stephen Heath, Michael O’Brien and Simon Redfern. A readership was established from 1 October 2005 for Dr Ian Wilson. 12 the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Drs Mary Laven and Paul Alexander were promoted to university senior lectureships from 1 October 2004 and Natalia Berloff and Stuart Clarke from 1 October 2005. The master will be taking sabbatical leave for Lent and Easter terms 2006, so that he can prepare for and deliver the Rankine Lecture, a major international lecture on the very latest research developments in geotechnical engineering, sponsored by the British Geotechnical Society and the Institution of Civil Engineers. It is given first in London and then at various international locations, where Professor Mair will also be able to host a few Jesuan receptions. For the period of the master’s leave Professor Stephen Heath has been elected vice-master. So that a new president might have a term’s experience before the master’s leave, Mr Antony Bowen generously resigned from his position as president a term before he need have done. The Society elected Dr Jana Howlett to be president for one year from 1 October. Dr Howlett is the first woman to hold this position.

Dr Roger Bowers retired from his readership in medieval and renaissance music. Professor Michael Waring gave up being fellows’ wine steward and fellows’ steward after a distinguished ten years. Dr Janet Soskice was appointed fellows’ steward to replace him and Dr Alexander was appointed fellows’ wine steward. Dr Howlett has resigned her position as tutorial adviser. Ms H. J. McDonald has been appointed a tutorial adviser. As part of the university’s gender studies programme, Carol Gilligan and Juliet Mitchell were in discussion with the actress Jane Fonda about her autobiography. The event took place in Great St Mary’s Church. In recognition of the significant contribution made by Dr Picken to music both internationally and in college, the music room will be renamed the Picken music room. Alan Watchman, sometime senior bursar, retired as a director of Lynxvale Ltd, a company set up by the university to let and supervise its major building projects. For the first five of his nine years service, Alan was chairman of the company.

There have been five elections to class ii fellowships this year: Dr Gregory J. DiGirolamo (psychology), Dr Miranda Gill (French), Dr Andrew R. Johnston (law), Dr Walter Federle (zoology) and Dr Simon J. Wadsley (mathematics). Gregg DiGirolamo is a U.S. citizen aged 42. After a B.S. at Harvard he went to the University of Oregon, Eugene, where he obtained an M.S. in 1996 and two years later a Ph.D. His specialization is cognitive neuroscience and his dissertation was on Costs and benefits of novelty and object processing. From 1998 to 2000 he held a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since then he has been a university lecturer in the department of experimental psychology here in Cambridge. He studies the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory addressing familiarity and novelty, executive control and visual cognition. At the beginning of the year Miranda Gill was elected to a research fellowship at Pembroke College; six months later she had to give it up because of her appointment to a university lectureship (in nineteenth-century French studies). She chose to come to Jesus. From Oakham School in Rutland, Miranda went to read modern languages at St John’s College, Oxford, where in 1996 she was awarded a Casberd scholarship; in 1999 she was awarded the the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 13

Gibbs prize for the highest first in modern languages finals. A year later, she obtained a master’s degree with distinction for her work on textual structuring and fragmentation in the writing of Gérard de Nerval. In 2002 she moved for her doctoral work to Christ Church with a senior scholarship. Her D.Phil. dissertation was on Eccentricity and the cultural imagination in nineteenth-century France. Miranda’s next research project is Paranoid imagination in French culture, 1830 to the present. Andrew Johnston is 34. He comes to us from Sheffield where he has been a lecturer in the department of law for two years. Originally from Liverpool he read law here at Jesus (1990–93) and in 1994 was awarded a distinction in the diploma in legal practice at the College of Law, Chester. Since his solicitor’s training at Herbert Smith, Andrew has worked in the Treasury Solicitor’s Department, lectured for two years and been a research assistant to Professor Sadurski at the European University Institute, Florence, where he studied European company law and corporate governance and where, in 2004, he was awarded a Ph.D. for a dissertation on Theories of the company, employees and takeover regulation. Walter Federle, who is 38, comes to us from Würzburg, where he studied biology at the university from 1988 to 1998 and violin at the conservatory. From 1990 to 1994 he studied ant colonization in the peat swamp forests of West Malaysia and from 1995 to 1998 wrote a doctoral dissertation on Mechanisms structuring the ant community of a myrmecophyte. Since 2002 he has been a junior group leader in the department of zoology at Würzburg University. He has been a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard (1998–99) and at Berkeley (2001–02). He has performed violin solo concerts with the Würzburg Conservatory Orchestra, the Telemann Orchestra Nürnberg and the Munich Youth Chamber Orchestra. He also plays jazz violin in various bands. Simon Wadsley is 27 years old. He is a pure mathematician who works principally in algebra but teaches across the board of pure mathematics. He was an undergraduate and graduate student at Gonville and Caius College. In 2002 he won a Smith-Knight prize for work on The tensor square of modules for group algebras of nilpotent class 2 groups and obtained his Ph.D. in 2004 with a dissertation on Representations of Noetherian Algebras. In May he was appointed to an EPSRC postdoctoral fellowship in mathematics, which he will hold for three years.

A new research fellow arrived in October 2005. Dr Neil D. Drummond is 26 years old. He was educated at Fortrose Academy (1990–6) and the University of Edinburgh (1996–2001), where he won prizes for first- and second-year mathematics and obtained first class honours in mathematical physics. He came to Clare College in 2001 to do research in the calculation of energies of molecules and crystals from first principles. Amongst other projects he calculated optical gaps and electron affinities of nanometre-sized diamonds. The title of his Ph.D. dissertation is Application of quantum Monte Carlo methods to electronic systems. His interests include cycling, badminton and choral music. Four new research associates were appointed for three years from 1 December 2004: Dr Oliver Hadeler, a German engineer, who works in the engineering department’s centre of molecular materials for photonics and electronics and is an accomplished bassoonist; Miss Harriet V. Hunt, a geneticist who has been tracing the development of broomcorn millet, a grain of archaeological interest, and who plays first board for the English women’s chess team; Dr Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín, a Spaniard, is working towards a biologically realistic model of lexical processing in the brain, using English, Arabic, Dutch and Serbian to test languages of different morphologies and Dr Lutwina (Linda) Otten, a Dutch biochemist, who is working on enzymes, varying them as a way of understanding their means of reaction. 14 the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Mr Christopher Hare resigned his fellowship from 17 July 2005 to take up a senior lectureship at Auckland University. Dr Serena Margadonna resigned her fellowship from 30 September 2004 to take up a post at the University of Edinburgh. Dr Marta Mazzocco resigned her fellowship from 31 December 2004 to take up a post at the University of Manchester. Dr Kristina Shea resigned her fellowship from 30 September 2005 to take up a position of professor of applications of virtual product development at the Technische Universität, Munich. Dr Jane Reid has resigned her research fellowship from 1 January 2006 to take up a Royal Society research fellowship at the University of Aberdeen followed by a lectureship there. Dr Alexander Paseau came to the end of his research fellowship and went to Oxford as a university lecturer in philosophy. Dr N. Gambino, one of last year’s research associates, resigned to take up a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Quebec at Montreal.

After very many years of loyal devotion to the college as assistant keeper of the records and keeper of the records, Mrs Muriel Brittain will retire at the end of 2005. Her indefatigable work for old members and the annual report will long be remembered. She will leave college and return to South Mimms to live in Ingham Lodge, the house where she was born. photo: nigel luckhurst Muriel Brittain in 1987

Gurnee Hart, Society of St Radegund, has retired from ‘Cambridge in America’ after seven outstanding years of service, first as a director of the American Friends of Cambridge University and the Cambridge University Development Office in the USA and, since 2000, as the first chairman of the Board of Cambridge in America. Gurnee has now joined the college’s development campaign committee.

Professor Michael Mann from the University of California at Los Angeles UCLA, Pitt professor for the academic year, was a member of high table from January to August 2005. Dr Ralph Gillis was a visiting member of high table for Lent and Easter terms 2005, whilst he was working with Professor Crawford at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. Under the Cambridge colleges’ hospitality scheme Dr Sos Khachikyan spent a month at the college in the summer. Dr Khachikyan is an Armenian expert at the Economic Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Armenia. Dr Farooq Ahmad, an astrophysicist with a deep understanding of the statistical mechanics of gravitating systems, last here in 2001, came to college for six weeks in the summer to continue his collaboration with Bill Saslaw. Dr Ahmad is head of the physics department at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar. the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 15

Professor Bernard Balleine, a research fellow here from 1992 to 1995, was in college during the summer, whilst on sabbatical from the University of California at Los Angeles. Bernard worked for a month at the department of experimental psychology on the neurobiology of learning memory.

The Wong Foundation has given £30,000 for the creation of the ‘S.K. and Margaret Wong Fund’ which will provide one or two undergraduate bursaries of up to £1,000 each year for designated students, giving priority to a student involved in swimming or with a strong involvement in college sports. Mr A. Marshall, a graduate of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, has been selected as the first Kenneth Sutherland memorial scholar. He will be studying for a Ph.D. in geotechnical engineering. Council accepted the offer from the JCCS of £1,000 a year for five years to fund two travel awards each year to be called the Jesus College Cambridge Society Travel Awards. This year those chosen were Laura Lane, for travel to Ecuador to work with Grupo FARO on a project to improve state education, and Martha Stickings, for travel to Thailand to act as team leader for a party of ten Cambridge students working on a water system construction project organised by the Karen Hilltribes Trust.

The family of Mr Leonard Curzon (1930) has given to the college a large collection of Mr Curzon’s diaries which offer an interesting insight into life here in the 1930s. Council acceded to a request of Professor H. W. Livermore (1932), who owns Sandycombe Lodge and lives there, that the college be designated a patron of the Sandycombe Lodge Trust, jointly with the Royal Academy. Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham, is the only known building designed by J. M. W. Turner, R.A., who also lived there. A blue plaque was erected at 1 Salisbury Villas, Station Road, Cambridge, with the words: From January 1938 to November 1939 twenty-nine Basque children, refugees from the Spanish Civil War, were cared for by local volunteers in this house provided by Jesus College.

In November 2004 Andrew Roberts was sentenced at Norwich Crown Court to five years’ imprisonment (reduced on appeal to 21/2 years) for the manslaughter in the previous May of Kenneth Sutherland, whose death was reported in last year’s report.

Domestic Bursar’s Notes Student accommodation. The refurbishment of North Court commenced at the end of June 2004 with a completion date of September 2005. The building, like many others from the 1960s, was showing signs of distress. Large areas of the concrete façade required repair, the flat roof could no longer resist heavy rain and the building as a whole had not stood the test of time. In addition to restoring the fabric of the building, the work converted the existing shared gyp areas into 85 en suite student study bedrooms with communal kitchens, dining rooms, laundry and storage areas located in the lower ground floor areas. College facilities. The extension to the cricket pavilion has been completed and provides changing rooms, showers and toilets. These better facilities are used for weddings and conferences as well as by sports players. The architects were Nicholas Ray Associates. New maintenance and gardens workshops have been built in the space west of the tennis courts behind North Court. The new building, also designed by Nicholas Ray Associates, is so well camouflaged that anyone looking from Jesus Green would find it almost impossible 16 the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

to detect. It blends into its surroundings, making it green both physically and environmentally. The building has a timber frame, creating lots of open space within which key facilities have been arranged. The design is flexible so that as the needs of the department change walls can be removed or relocated to meet them. The outer walls are clad in cedar and the roof is topped with sedum. The Prioress’s, Alcock and Cranmer rooms have all been refurbished. photo: jim roseblade photo: focus first The Prioress’s room photo: colin steward The gardeners’ compound

College chapel. The other major project during the year was the rewiring and lighting of the chapel. This was the most complicated task initially involving a number of different designs and trials before a satisfactory solution was agreed. The work also included the complete redecoration of the interior. The building looks magnificent with its new lights and fresh coat of paint.

Several members of staff gained long service awards this year: 10 years – N. Sajadi, housekeeping; Ashley Meggitt, IT manager; Jacky Poskitt, college nurse; Grahame Appleby, head porter 15 years – Tony Johnson, maintenance department; Susan Chapman, housekeeping; Alison Rolfe, web and information officer 20 years – Brenda Welch, secretary to tutor for graduates and chapel secretary; Charlie Moore, IT networking and ex-college electrician 25 years – Peter Fowler, porter; Michael Morris, gardener the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 17

During the year there have been a number of staff changes. The most noticeable was the appointment of the college’s first female porter, Helen Stephens. Although in the past there had been enquiries from women regarding vacancies in the lodge, this was the first time that one had applied for a job. Helen filled one of the vacancies caused by three retirements at the end of 2004. A farewell dinner in Upper Hall was given for Peter Stretton, deputy head porter. Peter came to Jesus from St John’s almost twenty years ago. He was a legendary squash player and captain of the staff cricket team. Hank Wingett left after serving the lodge well for almost 19 years. Hank was renowned for his sense of humour and his quick-witted retorts. Gordon Guest also retired, after nearly seven years service. Last year saw Cheryl Green, admissions secretary, retire after almost 10 years with the college. Initially Louise Hind and Jenny Jenyon took on her duties in addition to their own, but more recently this photo: jim roseblade prompted a restructuring with the appointment of Janet Nurse as fellows’ secretary, now Peter Stretton based in the tutorial office; Janet also provides support to the tutorial team. Charlie Moore, network engineer and college maintenance engineer, died on 30 June 2005 a few weeks after having an inoperable cancer diagnosed. He became a permanent member of staff in 1985 but for more than thirty years before that had been associated with the college as an apprentice and employee of the college’s contractors Matthews Electrical. It was thanks to Charlie that Jesus was the first college to install a college- wide IT network system that included all its student houses. He will be remembered not only for his technical skill and knowledge of the college’s infrastructure but also for his love of the college, its members and staff. Charlie was regularly present at college events – May races, May balls, graduation dinners and sculpture exhibitions – and was an enthusiastic member of the Chariots of Fire teams. For many years he played Father Christmas after the Christmas carol service. Martin Collins, Domestic Bursar

Charlie Moore photo: ashley meggitt

The Old Library and College Archives 2004–5 The Old Library was inaccessible to visitors for most of Lent term of 2005, because of the activities of electricians rewiring the Cranmer and Alcock Rooms. This meant that some of the Old Library’s floorboards had to be lifted – a ticklish process in itself – and much ferreting- about took place underneath them to identify the routes of old wiring and substitute the new. The boards could not be refixed until it was certain that the work was satisfactorily completed. One advantage arising from this situation was that the space beneath the floor could be cleared of dust and rubbish and closely inspected, possibly for the first time since the room was constructed. The reed construction of the Cranmer Room ceiling below was revealed. All the dust and debris removed was bagged up, labelled with its exact source, and preserved for 18 the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 photos: frances willmoth David seated plays on three bells. A king with a sword; below, Above, Boaz with staff; below, Above his head is an organ, a queen with green apple or cup Ruth stretches her hand up to it: below his feet is a harp below her, a reaper in close cap

sifting and examination by archaeologists. No significant finds among the dust have been reported. The potentially most interesting material was not removed: some chunks of broken plaster with traces of painted decoration were found in the area closest to the Old Library Annexe. This seems to indicate that the wall that lies just below the floor was originally decorated and considerably taller; it must have been at the gable end of a nunnery building and cut off without ceremony when the new College ‘Library’ room was created. Before and after the period of closure, the Old Library received visits by a number of readers studying our medieval manuscripts. One came from Stockholm and several from the USA – from Mississippi State University, Berkeley, Stanford and Notre Dame. There were also postgraduate students and other academics from Cambridge itself, including some from the Fitzwilliam Museum cataloguing particular items in connection with a forthcoming major exhibition of illuminated manuscripts. (We have not been asked to lend anything for this exhibition, as most of our manuscripts are of the working kind and not elaborately decorated, but it is good that the illuminations we have will be recorded in this important reference work.) Readers of college archives have included an art historian interested in the Bray family (sponsors of the college in its earliest years) and a postgraduate history of science student interested in identifying the sixteenth-century Rede Lecturers (the Master of Jesus was a trustee of the supporting fund), as well as the usual run of local historians and people seeking information about former college properties. the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 19

The most significant change in the archives office has been the presence of Mrs Susan Sneddon, who started work as modern records manager in September 2004. She is surveying the records held by each department, compiling a retention schedule to ensure that things are kept or thrown away at the appropriate times, clearing out great weights of dusty paper from forgotten basements and overseeing the weeding of material stored in the modern records room. At the same time, she has dealt with matters relating to Freedom of Information, under the new act that came into force in January 2005; the college has received and successfully handled several FoI inquiries. Mrs Sneddon is also involved in improving our management of electronic records and in promoting the development of a disaster plan, with the aim that as many essential records as possible can be protected and retrieved in the event of any major disruption. All this has ensured that the archivist has more time to deal with the ever-growing stream of enquiries and other archival tasks. Through the summer of 2004, much of her time was taken up by preparations for the 25th anniversary of the admission of women undergraduates, working with a research assistant to compile the exhibition described elsewhere in this report. In due course a version of this exhibition will be made accessible through the college website. A successful first experiment on a smaller scale has already been carried out, with the mounting on the website of last year’s exhibition on John Eliot. In recognition of the award of an honorary degree to Sir David Hare, in June 2005, an exhibition of his work was put on in the Quincentenary Library. Dr Frances Willmoth, Archivist

The Chapel The long awaited restoration of the interior of the chapel took place over the course of the Long Vacation of 2004, transforming it from its somewhat dingy and dark former state into one dramatically lit and freshly painted. The last major work on the chapel interior took place in the 1950s, and since then there had been only occasional repainting (on occasion with the wrong sort of paint, which caused problems with damp affecting the stonework), and more or less improvised lighting expedients. Now the old paintwork was stripped back to the original stonework or plaster, and stonework that was capable of remaining exposed was left unpainted; on the rest a single, slightly warmer shade of paint was applied over the whole chapel, unifying the building while remaining true to the traditional colours chosen for the interior. Care was taken to ensure that the walls can ‘breathe’, though the process of drying out is likely to take several years. During the removal of the old paint on the north wall of the nave a sketch of flowers and foliage was revealed, as well as a lion’s head. These are probably the sketches done by William Morris at the time he was designing the nave roof, and proposing to the college that he do the walls as well, a proposal rejected. It would certainly have given a very different feel to the nave – whether it was an opportunity missed is rather a matter of taste. At any rate, the sketch has been left uncovered for historical interest. Interestingly, the stripping away of unnecessary paintwork and the stabilising of surfaces has meant that the chapel has become significantly more resonant. While the scaffolding was up to the level of the tower roof the tower ceiling was cleaned, and small areas of the nave, chancel and transept ceilings were cleaned to get an photos: jim roseblade idea of what lies beneath the dirt of decades – but their full-scale cleaning, which would again have a dramatic effect on the colour of the interior, must wait until funds permit. Other smaller works were done at the same time. The transepts and nave were tidied of accumulated furniture and objects, and most of the pictures of one sort or another have been put into store. The picture of the Presentation in the north transept remains, and the large picture of the Last Supper hanging over the stalls has been cleaned and restored, revealing a much more spectacular work than one would have suspected. The black curtain behind the 20 the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

altar is to be re-hung in the organ chamber, and the hope is to borrow an altarpiece to focus the eye to the east wall. The Morris curtains and the Pugin altar cloth are undergoing conservation reports with regard to their restoration. Meanwhile, the kneelers have been recovered with Pugin design fabric, and other cushions restuffed. The restoration itself was completed by the rewiring and relighting scheme. The old wiring was dangerous, and the lighting inadequate even when it was working. The new scheme seeks to make the building as flexible as possible in terms of the many uses to which it is put, and to enhance its many beauties. In this it has been signally successful, especially given the complexity of the constraints that come with the layout and historic nature of the fabric. A proper sound reinforcement and loop system has also been installed. This project, while vital to the long-term future of the chapel, has raised its own short-term problems this year, not least because the project over-ran into the Michaelmas term by some four weeks making the opportunity to introduce freshers to the chapel more difficult. Fortunately, through the kindness of our neighbours at Wesley House, we were able to use their chapel with its pipe organ for choral services. The Wesley House chapel, however, is small and acoustically dead, though this did have a tonic effect on the choirs’ precision, as there could be no hiding behind an echo. Chapel life has continued to flourish within these constraints. Two members of the

photos: jim roseblade congregation, Rachel Holdforth and Chris Trundle, were confirmed at the University Confirmation, with Rachel herself being baptised in Chapel earlier in the year. Two innovations this year have proved of lasting value. The first is the holding of Taizé services, with their reflective and meditative music, a couple of times each term, by drawing on the expertise of Catherine Sikorski and Richard Hewitt, who run the weekly university Taizé services. The second is the introduction of short addresses, known as ‘nanosermons’ to Tuesday evensongs, preached by student members of the college. These have drawn in friends and supporters, and have uncovered homiletic talent which bodes well for the Church of the future. The faithful round of morning and evening services, enriched by the choirs, continues and attracts a considerable number of people over the course of the academic year. There is a steady stream of occasional services, encompassing compline, special sung eucharists, corporate communion, carol services and Holy Communion on the Eve of the Commemoration of Benefactors in conjunction with JCMS. There have been some particular high points during the year. One was the dedication of the new lighting scheme at the Advent Service by the Visitor of the College, the Bishop of Ely, and another the visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury in May to preach at evensong; both occasions drew more than 300 people. Other preachers of note include Bishop John Taylor (Jesus 1950), and a ‘flying bishop’, the Bishop of Richborough, Keith Newton, who has pastoral care of the college living of St Clement’s, Cambridge. The retreat this photo: jim roseblade Natasha Awais-Dean talking year was at Launde Abbey, and as a pre-exam jaunt there was to the archbishop a day trip to Walsingham. Those who have served within the chapel have done much to keep going the practicalities of maintaining high standards of worship and welcome through a period of disruption and change. They include the chapel secretaries, Jamie Barron, Gordon Lawrence, Rachel Holdforth, Hanna Weibye, Lucy Razzall and Guy Willis, together with the chapel clerk, Ed Morgan, and the dean’s clerk from Westcott House, Camilla Campling. Jonathan Collis, Chaplain the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 21

Chapel Music Given that the chapel was out of action for the first month of Michaelmas term, the college choirs began the year in exile, singing services in the chapel of Wesley House. This proved to be a good opportunity to blend, balance and develop the new choirs in a building with no acoustic, where every fine detail can be heard. Early in the term, the mixed choir spent a day at Ely Cathedral, filming an edition of Songs of Praise for the BBC. Following its recent transmission on Trinity Sunday, the programme prompted a healthy post-bag, with many favourable letters. Both choirs have visited college livings for events, including a concert in Guilden Morden and a sung mass at St Clement’s Church in Cambridge. In addition to the four weekly sung services during term time, the gentlemen of the choir have sung compline on Friday nights, three times a term. This has proved a popular extra in the chapel calendar, with congregational numbers rising as high as sixty. Other ‘special’ services included memorial services for Sir Robert Jennings in Great St Mary’s and for Dr Derek Taunt in chapel. Out of term, both choirs have undertaken concert projects. During Holy Week the mixed choir gave two sell-out performances of Bach’s St John Passion, one in Lavenham Parish Church and the other in Chapel. The choristers rounded off Michaelmas term with a Christmas concert; they raised over £250, which they gave to ‘Make Poverty History’. Towards the end of Easter term, the mixed choir joined King’s College choir at the honorary degree ceremony, and both choirs recorded a portrait CD, to be used by the development and admissions offices, raising the profile of chapel music at Jesus. In July, the choristers hosted a singing day for primary school children as part of the Cambridge summer music festival, before embarking on a tour to Ireland. All of these activities would not take place were it not for the support of the master, chaplain and dean. Amongst the choir, we have been fortunate to have had a particularly sociable group, made up mostly of Jesus undergraduates and postgraduates. We are also grateful to the choristers and their families, who give their time and enthusiasm to all that is chapel music. Overseeing all of this, I am particularly grateful to the organ scholars, James Kennerley and David Humphreys, without whom we would not be able to train and nurture both choirs simultaneously. James Kennerley took up the organ scholarship at St Paul’s Cathedral this autumn. Daniel Hyde, Director of Chapel Music photo: nigel luckhurst Daniel Hyde with choirsters 22 the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Art At the end of his stay here, Fung Ming Chip, artist in residence during Michaelmas term, gave a demonstration in Cloister Court of his mural work. An exhibition Calligraphy in Action of some of his works on paper was mounted in Chapel. On a fine morning at the end of April there was a brief ceremony in College when the master thanked the staff and children of Park Street School for their art display that for the past year has enlivened the hoardings around North Court. The Last Supper, a work of the 16th century that hangs in Chapel, has been cleaned to dramatic effect. For a long time it was thought to be by a member of the Bassano family. After examination by experts, the question of attribution has been opened up again. The painting dates almost certainly from around 1570, and several artists from Venice and the Veneto are currently being considered as possible authors. It was last cleaned in 1955 when Chanticlere described the painter as ‘anonymous’. The Works of Art Committee made a number of purchases for the permanent collection of pieces that had been on display during this summer’s successful Sculpture in the Close exhibition, described below. They bought Red Woman by Sand Laurenson, a young artist not long out of the Royal Academy School, and Moon Landing by the very well- established Cornelia Parker. Moon Landing, bought with the aid of a grant from the Woodward Charitable Trust, was made especially for the fellows’ garden and will remain on display there. A permanent position has not yet been chosen for Red Woman. The committee also bought three of Sand photo: jim roseblade ‘Red Woman’ by Sand Laurenson Laurenson’s drawings. Dr Alan Earp has given a group of prints of views of the college. An anonymous Jesuan has made a magnificent gift to the college of more than twenty- five prints by contemporary artists, with more to come. Some of these will go into the undergraduate collection. Rod Mengham, Curator photo: jim roseblade Children from Park Street School in front of their art display the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 23

Sculpture in the Close For six weeks from 26 June the ninth biennial Sculpture in the Close took place in College. To help celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the admission of women undergraduates, the Works of Art Committee had selected five female and only two male artists. Five of John Gibbons’ steel angels hung between the chandeliers in Hall whilst a twin audio-visual photo: jim roseblade display by Sam Taylor-Wood was on display ‘Excavation (Jesus College)’ by Kate Whiteford in Chapel. Some of Sand Laurenson’s more delicate pieces were shown in Upper Hall. Other exhibits were all outdoors in the college gardens. Kate Whiteford’s Excavation (Jesus College) took up most of Chapel Court and invited the visitor to reflect on more than 500 years of continuous habitation here while Cornelia Parker’s Moon Landing demanded an equal amount of reflection about the college’s position in the cosmos. Diane Maclean contributed a kinetic sculpture, Aeolus, while Eilis O’Connell’s Carapace intrigued visitors with its deceptive structure. Mark Firth’s Primary Sections dominated Library Court because of its architectural scale and design. Between three and four hundred people came to the opening on a brilliant summer’s Sunday. In his speech the master pointed out that for over ten years hardly any of the substantial costs of the sculpture exhibitions had fallen on the college, that with this exhibition the profits from the Quincentenary portfolio of prints would be finally expended and that the money-raising photo: jim roseblade Geoffrey Clarke, Phillip King and Colin Renfrew baton had been handed on to The Friends of Art at Jesus College, whose appeal had raised enough to keep modern art on the agenda for another few years. He referred to Alexander and Elisabeth Kasza-Kasser to whose memory the exhibition had been dedicated and to the handsome donation received ten years ago from the Kasza-Kasser Foundation to fund the preparation of the portfolio. He welcomed Alexander and Elisabeth’s daughter, Mary Mochary, together with her daughter and grand-children. Robert Mair finished by inviting Phillip King, recently retired president of the Royal Academy and for forty years one of the country’s most distinguished sculptors, to open the exhibition. Phillip King’s opening speech is printed below. “Thank you Robert for that very kind introduction. I was very thrilled, and honoured, when I was asked to open the exhibition but became a little bit worried when I discovered I was expected to say some words about sculpture, knowing that the radical ear of Colin Renfrew would be listening to my probably much too conservative remarks photo: nicholas ray about sculpture. Before I foolishly pronounce on the subject, I would like to say how lucky any sculptor is to be in this exhibition. The college has some of the most magnificent settings a sculptor could ever hope to show in. When I showed some pieces two years ago, I became truly enchanted with the place. The 24 the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

venue is unique and extraordinarily varied. Some of my work, much exhibited before, never looked better. I would like to pay tribute to Colin, for his extraordinary insight, energy and courage in setting up the Biennale backed up, of course, by a wonderful team of supporters and true lovers of sculpture, now led by Rod Mengham. What makes it all possible is the generosity of benefactors. Some of them are here, and on behalf of the college I would like to thank them warmly. I would not like to miss mentioning the gardeners – who sculpt these wonderful dark green Yew eggs dotted about the well kept lawns, like those marble eggs in hencoops encouraging us sculptors to lay our own eggs – not forgetting the team of art handlers, who are amongst the best. So, what is sculpture? I ask myself that all the time. What seems to me one of its main attributes came to me one day, when I was visiting the Louvre during my national service and was looking at a marble torso of an early Greek sculpture in one of the rooms where there was no attendant. This work particularly fascinated me. And as there was no guard I put my hand on the surface to feel the form. To my amazement, there was a life of forms going on which I couldn’t see. It was absolutely there, but invisible. It struck me then, that sculpture had a paradox, built in, at its very core. Sculpture being the most visible of all the arts, is nevertheless the art of the invisible. Rodin once said that sculpture is the art of the cone, the cube and the cylinder. It doesn’t make sense when you look at his work. But the rippling flame like surface hides behind it a structured universe. I can believe in those words. Following on, can a cube ever be a real cube in sculpture? Can sculpture ever be literally there, nothing more than a fixed reality that meets the eye? This great conundrum has occupied much of the concerns of modern sculptors, many attempting to blur the division between Art and reality. Probably not! Its very nature is anti-literal. So what is the condition of sculpture? I have just made the claim that it is visible but invisible. Another inescapable condition is that it is subject to gravity more than any other art form. You can never get away from it. How a sculptor deals with it can have a profound effect on the viewer. The apparent liberation of sculpture from the effect of gravity can and does have a transcendental effect on what you see. A wonderful example of that is Brancusi’s endless column, which I recently saw in Turgu ju in Roumania. The sculpture seems to link the earth to the sky. It is literally uplifting. You feel lighter on your feet and naturally in your heart as you look at it. So sculpture is there in our world, occupying the same space as people, as objects, like chairs and trees. There and yet separate. This separateness, if we can get into it, is liberating and transcendental, it opens up other realities. It transforms our everyday awareness, making new connections. It is there in front of our nose, but we can sense something beyond. I believe that all the sculpture here on view for us to enjoy attempt each in their own unique way to do just that. The work of object makers like Mark Firth, John Gibbons and Eilis O’Connell do it no less than the more consciously transcendental works of Cornelia Parker and Sam Taylor-Wood. Kate Whiteford, Sand Laurenson and Diane Maclean bring to consciousness awareness of other realities, through processes, memories, almost before we experience the visual reality of the work itself, a reverse order of experiencing sculpture, first the thought then the object. But the result is the same. A liberating experience. Through looking at these unusual objects that live in the boring everyday world in which we all live, we are forced to take notice precisely because it turns out that the real world is not as we expect it to be. We become alive. Paradoxically, we are going to feel more real within ourselves by doing just that. And I now declare the exhibition open.”

A full catalogue can be viewed on http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/news/sculpture/2005.htlm Rod Mengham, Curator the college year 2004–05 | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 25 photo: jim roseblade Rod Mengham helping to make ‘Excavation (Jesus College)’ 26 development office | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Development Office

At the Society of St Development Director’s Report Radegund dinner ... The year has once again been a busy one. To thank the increasing numbers of Jesuans choosing to support our Annual Fund we held our first Donors’ Garden Party, an addition to our existing regular programme of events. Held in early May when the grounds of College were looking quite superb, this afternoon event proved extremely popular and will be repeated in future years. I am particularly grateful for the continuing support of our campaign committee under the chairmanship of Christopher Rodrigues (1968). Its original purpose was to advise on the establishment of our current development campaign. With the Annual Fund now James Hudleston successfully underway, we have agreed that greater focus is now needed on potential sources of funding for the college’s larger projects. To address this, a dedicated sub- group has been formed under the chairmanship of Richard Briance (1971). In this future endeavour we hope to be helped by the umbrella of the University of Cambridge’s 800th Anniversary Campaign. This will be a campaign for the university as a whole with funds donated to the colleges counting toward the overall campaign target. The goals of the 800th Campaign include a strong college dimension, aiming to sustain and enhance our educational role. Richard Dennis Charles Rawlinson

Society of St Radegund On 23rd June 2005 the annual dinner for members of the Society of St Radegund was held in the Master’s Lodge. Prior to dinner a ceremony was held to induct the Society’s 17th member, Mr James Hudleston, a recent and generous benefactor. Mr Hudleston is taking a particular interest in our project to replace the Mander organ in Chapel.

Bequests Firdaus Ruttonshaw The college wishes to record its great gratitude for the following bequests received in the academic year 2004–5: Dr D. R. Taunt (1936): £5,000; Mr C. L. Kirby (1940): £1,000; Mr B. H. McGowan (1943): £1,000; Mr N. R. L. Thomas (1955): £20,000; Mrs I. E. E. C. Brain (widow of Dr F. H. Brain (1926)): £2,000.

Report of Events

Richard Bawden Reunion Dinner 24 September 2004 The master and fellows invited as their guests those who matriculated in 1953, 1954, 1955 and 1956 to dine and spend the night in college on 24 September 2004. The following accepted this invitation: 1953 E T. Boddye, R. Carr, E. E Cliffe, P. A. Colinvaux, D. T. I. G. Davies, J. M. Davies, R F. Davies, J. P. M. Denny, A. L. Dowding, M. J. Fairey, V. R. Goodwin, R. A. C. Meredith, D. G. B. Mitchell, M. C. Mitcheson, T. G. Munro, G. C. Partridge, P. J. Pybus, J. W. S. Rickett, R. D. H. Roberts, P. Spufford, F. A. Strang, A. T. Traill, A. J. Truelove, A. J. H. Weber, photos: jim roseblade Geoffrey Granter P. O. G. White, J. A. Williams, D. A. Wright, M. Zander development office | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 27

1954 G V. Baguley, R. H. Crawshaw, M. G. Delahooke, G. F. Dimond, N. D Durand, A. C Dyball, J. M. B. Gotch, A. G. Ground, W. B. L. Hallam, B. G. Harrison, C. Haynes, J. K. Henwood, K. P. Hicks, P. A. Littleton, J. P. Martin, R. C. Maxwell, C. H Mills, G. H. Morris, M. H. O’Neill, T. G. Penny, A. O. Russell Vick, N. M. Scott-Brown, W. G. Studdert-Kennedy, C. J. Turner, C. M. Turner, I. H. C. Waters, T. J. Willis, P. L. Wright 1955 B D. Bartlett, J. D. F. Bellamy, B. J. S. Bull, M. T. A. Bulman, D. W. Cairns, M. J. Chapman, M. W. J. Clegg, F. Dickenson, B. J. Dicker, M. F. A. Dove, W. H. Durran, P B. M. Early, A. M. Edwards, A. E. Furness, A. W. Gethin, M. F. Harcourt Williams, M. W. Harvey, M. P. Jackson, J. A. Jefferis, R. D. Killick, G. N. Leah, D-G. A. d’A Lumsden, R. C. Mackenzie, J. A. P. Marriott, D. Nudds, M. E. Nugent, P. J. Padley, D. M. Parr, P. O. Prior, J. N. Rhodes, A. G. Slater, J. F. Spencer-Jones, M. Stafford Good, P. J. G. Stow, W. H. C. Streatfeild, A. E. T. Stroud, K. M. Treves-Brown, J. R. H. Walker, J. A. Wesley 1956 J C. Beveridge, M. V. L. Foss, T. J. Gowan, C. H. Green, N. Hartley, N. Horner, J. Keenan, R. F. Kinloch, R. C. Maingay, M. J. Massy-Beresford, J. R. Meadows, N. J. F Neve, M. E. Peach, J. M. Peirce, R. M. Polhill, B. Powell, J. C. A. Rathmell, J. D. Rimington, D. R. Robinson, J. B. Spooner, J. R. Stanbridge, B. H. I. H. Stewartby, A. J. Walker, A. B. Wigginton, P. J. E. Woods, B. L. Wright

City Alumni Reception 12 October 2004 The second annual City reception in support of the college’s development campaign was held on 12 October 2004 at the Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, London. This event was again made possible thanks to the generous support of Cubitt Consulting (Simon Brocklebank-Fowler (1979)). The following accepted the invitation: Prof Robert Mair, Mrs Margaret Mair 1949 J. P. Charkham 1954 J. M. B. Gotch 1956 J. Brill 1958 G. P. Blaker 1959 M. J. Booth, C. B. G. Masefield 1960 T. G. Barker 1961 J. P. Gerry 1963 D. W. Mann, A. N. Utley 1966 E. S. Funnell, D. J. Hall, S. A. Hockman, P. M. Hollins 1967 S. P. Hardy 1968 W. Allan, C. J. Rodrigues, F. S. Ruttonshaw 1969 I. W. Goldie, D. H. Wootton 1970 A. B. Vowles 1971 R. H. Briance, H. A. G. Lee, R. H. A. Muray, G. V. B. Thompson 1972 R. J. Fort 1973 R. C. Aylard, N. J. Dumbreck, C. J. Weight 1974 C. J. Hopton, P. N. G. Wilson 1975 M. A. Clarke, K. M. Keegan, A. P. Levinson, K. McCarten, A. J. B. Mitchell, A. H. Wettern 1976 N. E. Burstin, D. J. A. Casserley, W. O. A. Coales, R. A. Collins, J. A. Fry 28 development office | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

1977 D. I. Rawlinson 1978 S. J. Henbrey, R. W. Rogers, E. B. Tompkins, C. J. Wigglesworth, T. R. F. Wilson 1979 F. M. Birt-Llewellin, S. E. Brocklebank-Fowler, M. Harrison, A. L. Scott, D. R. West 1980 M. D. D Chaloner, N. D. R. Goddard, A. T. M. Wyles 1981 C. W. Grant, E. M. G. Pearson, N. J. Walmsley 1982 A. W. Davison, T. P. Murray 1983 D. Miller Smith, A. E. D. Patterson 1984 N. J. Hyslop, M. I. Jaffe 1986 T. W. Carruthers, A. J. S. Cohen, J. N. Darlow, S. P. Lonergan, S. Watt 1987 D. E. Brown, O. Hiwaizi, D. H. Martin 1988 R. J. Lewis, H. Ronte 1989 S. W. G. Cohen, N. S. Dove, C. V. S. Hoare Nairne, R. J. Landauer, S. R. Middleton 1990 W. J. F. Carpmael, N. J. Clarry, M. A. Pink 1992 T. A. Bristowe, S. Broadhead, R. D. Rawlings, J. G. M. Traynor, D. M. Yates 1993 V. Z. Chorniy, C. Demetriou, J. E. Shenton 1994 V. S. Georgiadis, R. P. Stuber 1995 P. M. A. Lane, S. A. Oppler 1997 L. J. Ficenec 2000 R. J. P. Dennis

1496 Lunch 27 February 2005 On Sunday 27 February a lunch for parents was organised by the 1496 Committee of second year undergraduates chaired by Rachel Powell (2003). There were 89 parents, 46 students and 8 fellows at the event, which raised just over £1,100 to fund the annual 1496 student bursary.

Glanville Williams Society Reception 2 March 2005 The fourth Glanville Williams Society reception was held at Exchange House, Primrose Street, London, on 2 March, and was generously hosted by Clive Barnard (1978), Gareth Roberts (1979), Charles Howarth (1986), Stephen Wisking (1990) and Alex Kay (1991). The following Jesuans connected with the Law attended the event: Prof Robert Mair, Mrs Margaret Mair 1949 R. D. Bartle 1951 G. J. Tayar 1956 J. W. Youngs 1963 B. A. Fireman 1964 D. J. Burnstone, J. G. Rhodes 1965 S. J. Barton 1966 S. A. Hockman 1967 P. R. Glazebrook, R. M. Jackson, J. C. Rees, C. M. Treacy 1969 M. P. Kendall 1971 P. Crook, N. P. Ready 1972 G. R. F. Hudson, S. J. Irwin, J. P. Wotton development office | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 29

1974 A. R. Kennon 1975 D. J. Moss 1976 R. S. Tolson 1977 S. J. Paget-Brown 1978 C. D. Barnard, R. J. Cowper 1979 P. H. Hawkins, M. D. Kerr, C. P. Mullen 1980 T. D. Huckle 1981 R. S. Parlour, N. J. Walmsley 1984 R. C. H. Alexander, S. S Bhakar 1986 C. B. P. Howarth 1988 M. P. C. Oldham 1990 A. M. Clason, S. L. Fietta, S. Wisking 1991 A. Kay 1992 J. R. Crawford, G. M. Flood, C. C Fowkes, M. R. Parker 1993 E. J. Cawte, R. A. Stocks, D. S. White 1994 E-J Horton 1995 N. L. Davies, A. J. Evans, N. P. Fetto, M. J. Lampert, A. V. Nawbatt 1996 H. L. d’Arjuzon, H. K. V. Fetto, G. H. Kirk, I. M. Maxwell, J. J. McNae, R. S. Moretto, J. E. Rees 1997 I. J. Hudson, T. E. Rolls, J. A. Thackray 1998 A. E. Coultas 1999 O. P. Markham, M. E. Page, F. A. R. Rees 2000 R. S. Brown, R. J. P. Dennis, S. J. Hollander, A. M. V. Jeffrey 2001 A. J. M. Lee, J. L. T. Nichols 2002 H. E. Burns, L. A. Humphries, C. T. Singleton, K. L. Smith 2003 R. S. Boyd, S. J. Hlásková Murphy, C. Olsburgh, B. J. Sander, K. G. Sutton 2004 E. M. Davies, G. L. Huang, K. P. Mawdsley, P. J. Nicholas, K. Parlett, B. A. Pykett, J. P. Santos, M. Thompson, E. Wei

Reunion Dinner 8 April 2005 The master and fellows invited those who matriculated in 1957, 1958 and 1959 to dine and spend the night in College on 8 April 2005 as their guests. The following accepted this invitation: 1957 P. J. D. Allen, A. J. Almond, I. C. Balfour, J. Beveridge, M. J. Bowtell, P. D. Bowyer, W. P. J. Brandon, T. C. Brooke, M. G. Brown, J. H. Champness, R. Cole, H. D Craig, C. M. Cripps, R. B. Davison, P. Dawson, E. C. T. Edwards, W. R. Edwards, M. A. Finlay, T. P. Francis, A. J. Gordon, D. R. Harrison, A. G. Jackson, B K. Johnson, M. D. C. Johnson, G. A. Johnston, J. M. Lowe, J. A. Morrison, F. Navab, C. J. Nicholson, N. P. O’Farrell, E. G. J. Oliver, R. A. Peters, D. L. Setchell, J. P Smith, P. B. Steghart, K. W. G. Valentine, P. J. van Berckel 1958 S. J. Alexander, J. S. Banks, J. B. Barbour, J. D. N. Bardolph, W. J. A. Beeston, G. P. Blaker, B. J. R. Blench, M. A. H. Bond, A. B. M. Braithwaite, D. A. Brooks, C. F. Churchill, L. F. East, J. G. Farnhill, T. R. Finlow, B. D. Foord, S. R. Foster, C. J. S. Garner, J. E. Gillett, C. R. Gordon Jones, E. A. Hackford, D. A. Hogg, R. N. Ingram, R H. Jordan, C. M. Kenyon, J. M. Loughridge, A. R. McCormack, D. P. V. McLaughlin, P. J. P. Mulhall, J. S. Neiger, G. A. Neilson, B. A. Noble, 30 development office | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

G. C. Powell, J. S. Ransom, C. H. Reeson, M. Reupke, A. E. A. Ridgway, H. Salmon, R. B. Sinker, R F. B. Smith, A. Stillmark, I. R. Streat, C. Tabeart, R. C. Tanner, W. I. M. Taylor, P. W. Thomson, A. C. Thorne, J. D. C. Vargas, J. A. D. Webb, P. G. F. West, A. C. White, R. S. Wornell 1959 C. H. Adams, C. F. L. Austin, R. C. Baker, L. V. Barber, R. E. Beale, P. W. Bearman, J. R. Bone, M. J. Booth, O. C. K. Boydell, J. A. Carrington, C. J. Date, C. G. Dean, W. J. Elliott, C. J. Fallows, J. I. Farquharson, R. M. Freeman, M. H. Goss, D. C. Hanna, G. N. Harby, P. J. Herring, D. A. Johnson, W. A. C. Knowles, G. W. Lowick, C. B. G. Masefield, T. G. Melling, R. D. Merer, A. A. Mitchell, J. D. Moore, P. W. Newman, R J. Nuthall, K. W. L. G. O’Flaherty, N. H. Osborne, N. T. Otty, J. C. Pillans, J. H. B. Rew, F. C. Schneider, D. Schulster, S. G. H. Sinclair, D. G. Smith, I. R. Spence, A. F. Tongue, J. A. Tuck, B. E. Walton, R. P. Watson, M. F. R. Whalley, J. S. Whitehead, J. Winney

Donors’ Garden Party 7 May 2005 To thank all those who donated to Jesus College during 2004 the college organised its first donors’ garden party, which took place on 7 May 2005. Over 200 Jesuans, their partners, parents and friends of the college attended this popular event. Various activities were available throughout the afternoon, including sculpture tours by Prof. Lord Colin Renfrew and Dr Jim Roseblade, a talk on cancer by Prof. Bruce Ponder, tours of the Old Library by Dr Stephen Heath and tours of the gardens and grounds by the head gardener. This was followed by tea in a marquee overlooking the cricket pitch. The day culminated in Chapel with evensong. The following Jesuans and parents attended: Prof Robert Mair, Mrs Margaret Mair 1937 D. W. Pennick 1940 W. N. Jeeves 1945 R. J. Gates 1946 K. M. L. Benson, P. G. A. Ramsay 1947 R. L. S. Blackadder 1948 J. L. Pattinson 1949 R. D. Bartle, J. P. Charkham, M. A. Salmon 1951 M. H. S. Muller, S. J. Robinson 1952 W. J. Chandler, M. W. Clegg, M. J. Marshall, A. D. Moss, J. S. W. Pulford, C. F. M. Rawlinson, R. H. Stone, D. G. Winter 1953 M. J. Fairey, A. J. H. Weber 1954 M. G. Delahooke 1955 R. D. Killick, W. H. C. Streatfeild 1956 J. E. Everitt, M. V. L. Foss, R. C. Todd 1957 T. P. Francis, D. J. Lawrence, R. A. Peters, P. B. Steghart 1958 B. A. Noble, P. M. Slotkin, J. Wilton-Ely 1959 C. F. L. Austin, A. M. Bateman, M. Fireman 1960 P. A. Oppenheim 1961 D. R. Tant, R. B. Woodd 1962 J. E. Beeson, J. A. K. Douglas, J. G. Ross Martyn 1963 P. Beasley-Murray, C. G. G Born, R. H. Leech, J. Marshall, R. H. Mayo, N. L. Wicks development office | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 31

1965 A. H. Farley, J. E. Roseblade, A. Sutton, M. J. Waring 1966 R. W. Allchin, P. M. Hollins 1967 J. D. Barber, P. Burnham, R. J. Haygreen, R. A. McKee 1968 F. S. Ruttonshaw 1969 I. F. Perry, D. H. Wootton 1970 E. J. W. Houghton 1971 R. H. Briance, G. Gardner, J. G. Morgan, N. Paterson 1972 N. S. Hoult, D. R. Martin 1973 M. W. Canby 1974 P. N. G. Wilson, D. N. Yeandle 1975 K. McCarten 1976 D. C. C. Dodd, A. M. L. Tottenham 1979 S. E. Brocklebank-Fowler, C. E. Gonzalez-Carvajal 1981 J. E. Evison 1982 G. C. Harcourt 1983 D. R. Birch 1985 J. G. Whitehead 1986 T. W. Carruthers 1987 H. J. Cordell 1988 P. K. Murphy 1992 E. M. Bartnovskaya, D. M. Yates 1994 R. P. Dufresne, G. F. Hart 1995 R. J. Graham 1996 M. Brittain 1997 L. J. Ficenec 1998 T. M. McCann 1999 L. Y. Pickering, S. T. C. Siklos 2000 S. E. Ambrose, R. J. P. Dennis 2001 R. S. M. Chrystie, A. R. I. Newman 2002 A. D. Basford, K. I. Birkwood, R. L. Filby, C. R. Lewis, S. R. Thorp 2003 E. J. Amos, C. A. Boulden, L. K. Monaghan-Pisano, R. A. Powell, T. N. Ready, R. I. C. Ross, N. W. K. Wong 2004 S. Gardiner, J. Collis, J. N. Banfield

Parents D. & C. Bailey, G. & C. Basford, G. & B. Birkwood, A. & M. Chrystie, R. Filby, R. & K. Gardiner, P. & L. Hawker, R. & M. Oettle, A. & C. Ross, M. & S. Thomas, A. & G. Thompson, T. & A. Waldock, N. & V. Wong

Bumps Saturday at the Paddock 18 June 2005 A large crowd of Jesuans and their families gathered at the paddock to cheer on the Jesus boats in the May Bumps. A combination of glorious weather and Jesus’ outstanding performance on the river created a lively atmosphere which all enjoyed. 32 development office | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Anniversary Dinner 2 July 2005 An anniversary dinner was held in college on 2 July 2005 to commemorate the 10th, 20th, 30th and 40th anniversary of those who matriculated in 1995, 1985, 1975 and 1965. The following attended: 1965 K. Balkow, S. J. Barton, J. V. Betts, A. Bond, J. L. Burston, S. B. Crooks, J. S. Curtis, J. F. Drinkwater, T. J. Ellis, M. G. Emmison, A. H. Farley, R. J. Frost, M. Harford-Cross, T. C. Harris, M. D. Hendry, C. J. Hudson, M. P. W. Lance, P. J. Mason, J. L. Miller, J. A. Morgan, P. S. Morrell, T. R. T. Morris, E. F. V. Perrott, R. B. Posey, M. C. Preston, P. A. Ray, P. W. J. Rigby, M. J. Rudkin, R. Sinclair, S. J. Skeates, M. J. Soley, J. Spurrier, A. Sutton, R. Thornton, G. A. Trantham, R. F. Vellacott, P. Virley, R. E. Walker, M. J. Waring, A. C. Wheating, G. J. White, B. L. Wignall, C. C. Wilson, C. B. Woodd, A. Youle. 1975 A. J. Barnes, E. J. Broadbent, J. G. W. Bruce-Jones, M. A. Clarke, B. Derby, A. P. Harbor, K. Hodge, K. E. Jones, K. M. Keegan, A. P. Levinson, N. R. W. Long, D. J. MacAlister, K. McCarten, A. J. B. Mitchell, P. G. Murphy, D. T. O’Reilly, R. J. Parker, H. G. Rees, C. H. Richardson, G. M. Swallowe, C. T. H. Townshend. 1985 H. F. Alexander, R. D. Ashwell, S. D. Barker, A. J. Blewett, W. L. C. Buckland, M. Callaway, A. E. Eady, A. S. A. Evans, R. B. Findlay, M. Hall, T. R. Holt, C. A. Holwell, C. T. Jones, J. D. C. Langtry-Langton, P. W. H. Marsland, I. J. McDonald, S. H. McDonald, R. J. Montague, A. M. Moseley, R. C. Nolan, P. S. Rowbotham, S. Sansbury, D. G. Simon, K. Solomon, G. M. Williger, D. I. Wilson. 1995 V. S. Altman, M. J. Blakemore, J. E. M. Carmichael, R. J. M. d’Arjuzon, G. Gilkes, G. L. Gower, L. M. Handley, M. G. Harries, D. A. S. Hugh-Jones, R. L. Johnson, H. O. Linklater, E. A. Mitchell, M. L. W. Padilha, D. E. J. Padua, C. Perry, S. M. Pirie, L. V. Reid, A. C. Robinson, K. J. Shaheen, L. T. Singer, R. A. Skidmore, L. J. Skowron, J. A. Tighe.

Calendar of Events 2005–6 8 March 2006 – Glanville Williams Society Reception, Middle Temple Hall 25 March 2006 – M.A. Congregation (1999) 7 April 2006 – Reunion Dinner (1981, 1982, 1983) 1 July 2006 – Annual Fund Donors’ Garden Party 17 June 2006 – Marquee at the paddock, Fen Ditton 1 July 2006 – Anniversary Dinner (1966, 1976, 1986, 1996) Except for 17 June 2006, invitations to all these events will be posted or e-mailed to those concerned. If, however, you wish to attend any of these events but do not receive anticipated postal or e-mail notification please contact the Development Office (tel: 01223 339301) or visit the alumni events section of the college’s website (www.jesus.cam.ac.uk) where details are also posted.

M.A. Dining Members of M.A. or similar status are invited to dine at high table free of charge twice a year and to bring a guest at their own expense. The master and fellows very much welcome the opportunity to maintain contact. Because of staffing arrangements there is no dining on Saturdays but it is usually possible to accommodate visitors on Sundays during term. Other available days are usually Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. It is always advisable to book in good time by phoning the manciple’s office on 01223 339473. jesus college cambridge society | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 33

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Executive Committee as at 24 September 2005 2001 PROFESSOR R. MAIR (Robert) (President and Chairman)

Officers First Elected 1953 M. J. FAIREY (Trustee) (Michael) 2003 1957 A. G. JACKSON (Trustee) (Andrew) 1982 1963 J. MARSHALL (Hon. Dinner Secretary) (Jim) 2005 1965 DR J. E. ROSEBLADE (Trustee) (Jim) 2000 1970 A. D. C. GREENWOOD (Hon. Secretary) (Adrian) 1998 1971 T. SLATOR (Hon. Treasurer) (Tom) 2002 1985 DR D. I. WILSON (College Council Rep.) (Ian) 2000 1998 Dr J. P. T. CLACKSON (James) 2004 (College Council Rep.)

Members Period of Office 1979 F. M. BIRT-LLEWELLIN (Fiona) 2002–6 1976 M. P. HAYES (Mark) 2002–6 1997 L. J. FICENEC (Lucy) 2002–6 1996 K. T. D. EAMES (Ken) 2003–7 1963 R. F. LEWIS (Roger) 2003–7 1956 J. D. RIMINGTON (John) 2003–7 1987 M. P. VOS (Mariel) 2003–7 1963 G. H. HADLEY (Graham) 2004–8 1983 M. A. SAWARD (Anastasia) 2004–8 1983 M. E. SHIACH (Morag) 2004–8 1995 I. O. STEED (Ian) 2004–8 1960 M. R. HADFIELD (Max) 2005–9 1971 J. G. MORGAN (Guy) 2005–9 1989 C. V. S. HOARE NAIRNE (Charles) 2005–9 1992 K. L. SLOWGROVE (Katie) 2005–9 2000 R. J. P. DENNIS (Richard) Co-opted

Honorary Treasurer T. SLATOR, Walnut Tree Farm, South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 5US

Honorary Dinner Secretary J. MARSHALL, 56 Melody Road, London SW18 2QF

Honorary Secretary A.D.C. GREENWOOD, 91 Lynton Road, London SE1 5QT 34 jesus college cambridge society | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Draft Minutes of Annual General Meeting 24 September 2005 The Annual General Meeting of the Jesus College Cambridge Society took place on Saturday 24 September 2005 in the Prioress’s Room at Jesus College. The Master, Professor Robert Mair, was in the chair. Some twenty-five members of the Society were present and some fifteen members had sent apologies for absence, including twelve members of the Executive Committee.

Minutes The minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 25 September 2004 were approved and signed as a correct record.

Secretary’s Report The honorary secretary reported that the Annual Report, for which the college now has total responsibility, and which is being edited by Dr. Jim Roseblade will be published in November. It will contain the 2005 AGM minutes and notice of the 2006 AGM. The secretary encouraged members to attend the JCCS London Reception on 22 November 2005 at The House of Lords. The secretary informed members that the committee had decided to establish the JCCS Travel Bursary. This summer bursaries had been awarded to two undergraduates, one visiting Ecuador (Laura Lane) and the other Thailand (Martha Stickings).

Treasurer’s Report In the absence of the honorary treasurer, the honorary secretary presented the annual audited accounts to 31 December 2004. These showed an income surplus of £1,528. The accumulated fund stood at £52,521. The committee had previously approved a donation to the JCSU of £2,000. The meeting agreed to receive the accounts.

Appointment of Auditor The meeting agreed to appoint N. J. Mitchell F.C.A. as auditor for 2005. Dinner Arrangements for 2006 The secretary announced that the 2006 dinner would take place in college on Saturday 23 September 2006. Partners will be welcome. The guest of honour will be Sir Nigel Wicks (1961).

Election of Officers The meeting agreed to elect for one year Adrian Greenwood as honorary secretary, Tom Slator as honorary treasurer and Jim Marshall as dinner secretary. A vote of thanks was recorded to the retiring dinner secretary, Max Hadfield.

Executive Committee The meeting agreed to elect the following as members of the executive committee to serve for 4 years in succession to those retiring by rotation: Max Hadfield (1960), Guy Morgan (1971), Charles Hoare Nairne (1988) and Katie Slowgrove (1992).

Any Other Business Members agreed to record a vote of thanks to Andrew Jackson whose term of office as trustee expires in March 2006. Andrew has served on the committee continuously since the late 1970s and was treasurer for over 20 years; under his stewardship the finances of the JCCS strengthened considerably.

Date of 2006 AGM Saturday 23 September 2006 in College. The date is fixed to coincide with the University Alumni weekend. jesus college cambridge society | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 35

Annual General Meeting and Annual Dinner 2006 Next year’s AGM will take place at 6.30 pm on Saturday 23 September 2006 in the Prioress’s Room in College. This will be followed by the annual dinner. The guest of honour will be Sir Nigel Wicks (1963). Spouses and partners are warmly invited and the dress code for men will be black tie. Tickets will be on sale from May 2006.

Reports of JCCS Events 2004–5 Centenary Dinner 25 September 2004 The Jesus College Cambridge Society (JCCS) was founded in 1903 as a means for all Jesus graduates to maintain contact with each other and the college. From the beginning it has enjoyed the support of successive masters and fellows. It was the JCCS that first produced and published the Annual Report, although the college took on full responsibility for this from the early 1970s. There were 124 members present at the first annual dinner in 1904 held in London; tickets cost 10s 6d (exclusive of wine). The centenary dinner was held in Hall on 25 September 2004. There were 145 people present including partners and spouses of members. The guest of honour was Jeremy Gotch (1954) who served on the committee from 1966 to 2003, as dinner secretary and trustee. At the start of its second century, the JCCS committee continues to seek to provide opportunities for Jesuans to meet together and to support the college.

London Reception 9 November 2004 The London autumn cocktail party for Jesuans and their guests took place in the Picture Room of the Athenaeum on 9 November 2004. The event was again very well supported.

Buffet Lunch 18 June 2005 The Buffet Lunch was once again well attended, with nearly 40 Jesuans and their families enjoying fantastic weather and a delicious lunch in the fellows’ garden. Many then went down to the paddock in Fen Ditton to cheer the Jesus boats on to many successes on the river. photo: jim roseblade Mr and Mrs Gurnee Hart Western Regional Party 6 August 2005 talking with Stephen Thirty five members and guests met at the Cheltenham Cricket Festival to see the fourth day Waters at the buffet lunch of Gloucestershire’s match against Hampshire on Saturday 6 August. We were fortunate with the weather and that the match lasted till well after the tea interval, though the likely eventual result had become clear during the day. We much enjoyed an excellent lunch and tea prepared by Cheltenham College Catering, who also provided a television so that we could keep up with the Edgbaston test match. Although this was a new departure for JCCS it was well supported by a wide range of Jesuans, including next year’s college cricket captain.

Annual Dinner 24 September 2005 Following the society’s AGM on 24 September 2005, the company adjourned for the annual dinner, at which there were 111 members and their guests present. The secretary proposed the health of Lord (Alan) Watson. Lord Watson replied and proposed a toast to the College, to which the master replied.

Forthcoming JCCS Events 17 June 2006 Buffet Lunch in College 23 September 2006 AGM and Annual Dinner in College Further information about these events will be posted on the web in due course (see www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/events). Alternatively, please call the Development Office on 01223 339301 for further details. 36 awards | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Samuel throned, points to a cloud; four men kneel on left

Christ speaks to four mailed men with surcoats

Tobit, blind; Raphael leads away the child Tobias;

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Awards

University Prizes, Grants and Scholarships Robert Gardiner Memorial Scholarship John F. Lysaght Schiff Studentship 2004–5 Sam D. Waller Henry Arthur Thomas Travel Exhibitions, 2005 Georgina M. Morgan Eric Evans Fund Steven Stuart Kettle’s Yard Travel Fund, 2005 Macarena Ibarra, Karolina A. Watras Oliver Gatty Studentship Janos. T. Locsei Smith-Knight Prize Christopher J. Heaton

University Tripos Prizes The Anglia Prize for Part IIB Archaeology Iona H. Robinson (awarded jointly) The William Vaughan Lewis Prize for Amy H. Gunn outstanding Part II dissertation The Hartree and Clerk Maxwell Prize Richard Hewitt The Frank Smart Prize Anna E. Brookfield The Sociology/Psychology Part IIA Prize Russell H. Russell

College Awards, Elections and Prizes

The Raymond and Helen Kwok Research Scholarship: Ms Rui Zhang to study for a Ph.D. in the Department of Engineering, supervised by Dr Y. J. Jhi. Ms Xinbei Zhao to study for a Ph.D. in the Department of Genetics, supervised by Professor D. Glover.

Choral Scholarships: Rosemary S. Taylor, Timothy W. K. Willott

Instrumental Exhibitions: Kate E. Conway, Laurence S. C. Lok, Rosemary S. Taylor, Lei Wang, Timothy W. K. Willott

Thomas Cook Travel Scholarships: Samuel Waldock, Victoria M. Yuan

Edward Daniel Clarke Travel Bursary: Anna E. Brookfield

James Baddeley Poole Bursaries: Alexander N. Fergusson, Catherine A. Sikorski, Andrew J. Widgery 38 awards | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Sir Moses and Lady Finley Travel Bursaries: Rebecca A.Barr, Tawfique Hasan, Faye S. Karababa, James R. McMahon

Jesus College Cambridge Society Travel Bursaries: Laura A. Lane, Martha E. Stickings

Sir James Knott Bursary: Martyn G. Frampton

Scholarships for Graduate Students (awarded in Michaelmas 2005 for 2004 results): Hannah G. Davies, Sarah D. I. Drummond, Sarah J. Hlásková Murphy, Patrick James, Muireann Maguire, Matthew Pritchard, Martin Stein

Scholarships: Andrew P. Acred, Bilen S. Ahmet, Toby A. S. Austin, Joseph H-C. Bae, Gargi Banerjee, Deborah E. Banks, Natalie C. Barker, Duncan W. A. Barrett, James, A. A. Barron, Louise C. Bazalgette, Stephen J. Benjamin, Jocelyn P. Betts, Emma E. Blackhurst, Kate E. Bland, Andrew R. Borrell, David G. J. Broady, Anna E. Brookfield, Elinor C. Browne, Christopher Burnie, Paul M. Burton, Will D. Carroll, Peter J. Collins, James C. Dacre, Jeremy G. H. Davies, Matthew J. Davis, Alexandra L. De Lorenzo, Nisha A. Doshi, Alison J. Drewitt, Sian E. Dutton, Ian R. Evans, Victoria E. Eyre-Brook, Nisreen Fahmy, Michael E. B. FitzPatrick, Martin N. Fox, Paul J. Fox, Manjeet S. Gill, Amy H. Gunn, Olaf T. Henricson-Bell, Richard Hewitt, Kate E. Hillier, Richard N. E. Hodge, Hannah J. Hope, Louise M. Hopper, Jennifer B. Houghton, Timothy H. Hughes, Johanna M. K. Hull, Philip A. Hunt. Timothy D. Hutt, Simon J. Jackson, Matthew O. Kitching, Laura D. Kotseroglou, Mahesh S. Kudari, Lydia Y-W. Lee, Charles J. D. Le Grice, Kai Lin, James R. Marson, Lisa A. McAdam, Douglas J. McMahon, Francisco N. Newby, Sarah O’Connor, Thomas Ogden, Christopher P. O’Rourke, John Pratt, Lucy M. F. Razzall, Katy J. Read, Samuel J. Richardson, Sarah A. Richardson, Christopher Rimmer, Iona H. Robinson, Rosalyn A. V. Robison, Rebecca I. C. Ross, Susanne-Marie Rothe, Olivia Rowlands, John B. Russell, Rupert H. Russell, Jonathan Scragg, Leo Shapland, Anna Shawcroft, Fred Smith, Elizabeth E. Stratford, Nicole L. Taylor, Philip Tooke, Gareth A. Walton, Matthew Westlake, Johannes Wieland, Andrew C. Wild, Benedict J. Wilkinson, Charles P. Williamson, David J. Wilson, Louise Woods

Exhibitions: Richard J. Bartholomew, Nicholas A. W. Bell, Tobias R. Constantine-Cort, Kate E. Conway, Alice C. Coombs, James-Patrick Crilly, William H. George, Joanna A. Hepworth, Thomas J. Heritage, Mohamad I. Idris, Samuel F. Lees, Thabodhan Mahendiran, Georgina M. Morgan, Timothy Moss, Dimple Patel, Jennifer C. Peters, Joshua P. Phillips, Gwendolen M. Pinches, David J. Simner, Clare L. Southworth, James Waters, Andrew D. Wimbush, Anna M. Young awards | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 39

Prizes: Senior Keller Iona H. Robinson Leo Shapland Keller Andrew R. Borrell Jeremy G.H. Davies Gareth A. Walton photo: jim roseblade Robert Malthus Benefactor’s Richard Hewitt, Rupert H. Russell, (1766–1834), the first Philip Tooke, Nisha A. Doshi, of the Cambridge Timothy H. Hughes, economists, who entered the college in 1784 Alexandra L. De Lorenzo, Louise Woods Sir Leslie Martin (Architecture) Alison J. Drewitt Farrell (Greek Studies) Benedict J. Wilkinson Brereton (Classics Part IA) Kate E. Conway and Georgina M. Morgan Carruthers (Computer Studies) Part IA David J. Simner Part IB Paul J. Fox Part II Toby A. S. Austin Malthus Economics Johannes Wieland SPS Rupert H Russell Evans (Engineering) Thomas J. Heritage Engineers’ Timothy H. Hughes Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jeremy G. H. Davies and (English or any arts subject) Christopher P. O’Rourke Newling (History Part I) Elinor C. Browne Schiff (History Part II) Jocelyn P. Betts Russell Vick (Law) Kate E. Hillier Glanville Williams (LL.M.) Nicholas M. Bender Bronowski (Mathematics Part IA) Samuel F. Lees Ware (Mathematics Part IB) Bilen S. Ahmet Spencer Jones (Mathematics Part II) Emma E. Blackhurst Watchman (Mathematics Part III) Janos T. Locsei Eliot (MML Part II) Gareth A. Walton Perrett (Medical Sciences Part IA) Matthew J. Davis Duckworth (Medical Sciences Parts IA & IB) Anna Shawcroft Roberts (Pathology) Jennifer B. Houghton Gulland (Natural Sciences (Biological) Rebecca I. C. Ross Parts IA & IB) Gulland (Natural Sciences Part II) Richard Hewitt Sir Alan Cottrell (Natural Sciences Joseph H-C. Bae, Lydia Y-W. Lee (Physical) Part II or Part III) McKie (Natural Sciences Part II or Part III) Hannah J. Hope, Anna E. Brookfield Allhusen (Chemistry) Victoria E. Eyre-Brook Corrie & Otter (Theology and Kate E. Bland Religious Studies) 40 awards | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

G F Hart (History Prelims to Part I) Edwin T. Bond Gilbertson Prize (for the third or fourth Hannah E. Burns year undergraduate most deserving of a first who did not get one) Glanville Williams (Law Part IA) Charles P. Williamson Lovell (Law Part IB) Johanna M. K. Hull Sir Peter Gadsden (for the best result Sarah J. Hlásková Murphy by an Australian doing one-year taught Master’s course in 2004) Crighton (Music) Louise F. Steele Gray Reading Prizes Chapel Sarah V. Williams Hall Luke B. Busbridge Morgan (English essay) Duncan W. A. Barrett Prawer (dramatic criticism) Lucy M. F. Razzall Roe (for a tripos dissertation) Louise Woods, Amy H. Gunn and James R. Marson Sir Denys Page Award (for a classics student Benedict J. Wilkinson and to travel to Greece) Georgina M. Morgan Renfrew (for the most significant Katherine I. Birkwood contribution to the musical life and Simon J. Jackson of the college) Waring (for sporting achievement) Anush R. I. Newman

College Prizes: Archaeology & Anthropology Part IIA Nicole L. Taylor Chemical Engineering Part IIA David G. J. Broady Economics Part I Dimple Patel Engineering Part IIA Fred Smith English Prelims to Part I Andrew D. Wimbush Geography Part IA Timothy Moss, Joshua P. Phillips Geography Part IB Christopher Rimmer Geography Part II Amy H. Gunn Linguistics Peter J. Collins Medical & Veterinary Sciences Part IB Gargi Banerjee Modern & Medieval Languages Part IA Clare L. Southworth (Russian) Modern & Medieval Languages Part IB Louise M. Hopper Music Part II Lisa A. McAdam Natural Sciences (Biological) Part IA William H. George Theological & Religious Studies Part IIA James C. Dacre awards | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 41

Tripos Results

2005 2004 2003

Number of Examinations taken 513 508 477 Number obtaining First Class (or stars) 113 112 105 Number obtaining Second Class (Upper) 241 230 212 Number obtaining Second Class (Lower) 67 73 78 Number obtaining Second Class (Undivided) 26 30 27 Number obtaining Third Class 17 15 11

Degree Day: Andrew and Margaret Chrystie

Degree Day: Dr and Mrs Kudari photos: jim roseblade Degree Day: Iona Robinson, winner of a Senior Keller prize, with her parents Degree Day: waiting for the procession of graduands 42 approved for ph.d.s | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Approved for Ph.D.s

The following were approved for Ph.D.s. The title of each dissertation is shown after the name of the person by whom it was submitted. T. D. ARCHER Computer simulations of calcite R. M. BENITES DA COSTA Endodermal patterning in Xenopus laevis J. W. G. BOS Synthesis, structures and properties of new double perovskite oxides A. R. DAVIES Novel applications of monolithic tunable laser diodes for optical communication systems C. T. EAGLETON Instruments in context: telling the time in England, 1350–1500 K. T. D. EAMES Dynamics of infectious diseases on mixing networks M. V. FERNÁNDEZ-SERRA First principles characterization of natural matter: biomolecules and water J. M. FITZPATRICK The development and use of tachyzoite c-DNA micro asseys P. M. FOWLER Characterization of an essential determinant of gammaherpesvirus latency S. HOFMANN Low temperature growth of high aspect ratio nanostructures S. JOSEPH Proust and Joyce in dialogue B. KALLENBERGER Transcriptional repression mediated by nuclear receptors in health and disease J. M. J. KEELING Thermodynamics and signatures of Bose-condensation of excitons and polaritons F. LEA Uncertainty between inspection reporting and material quantities and properties J. LEE The impact of venture capital participation on firm performance: evidence from Korean IPO’s on the KOSDAQ market A. L. LE SAGE Somalia and the war on terrorism: political Islamic movements and US counter- terrorism efforts L. LIU An examination of national and local industrial policies and challenges they face in the epoch of global business revolution: the cases of China’s domestic appliance industry and Haier, Hisense and Aucma E. J. LONGSTAFF Good enough parenting? Youth crime and parental responsibility R. J. McLAUGHLIN Authority and naval peacekeeping: peace operations in the territorial sea A. O. MILLER Emerging institutions in global business ethics E. J. MITCHELL Patronage and politics at Barking Abbey, c.950–c.1200 S. P. MULLIGAN On the uses of legitimacy in international relations P. NAMASIVAYAM Molecular and cell biological study of winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus L. spp. Oleifera) embryogenic cultures Z. NORGATE Gene expression in rat uterine natural killer cells H. NOWELL Determinatin of molecular crystal structures from powder diffraction data R. L. O’MALLEY Time resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy studies of electrogenerated species M. OMURA Property rights and natural resource management: a theoretical and empirical investigation into their linkages and evolution A. ORAKHELASHVILI The effect of peremptory norms in international law A. E. PHIPPS Women’s education in science, engineering and technology: researching the arena of activity S. M. REID-HENRY Cuban biotechnology: an experimental milieu M. A. ROBISCHON Cytokinins and poplar transformation D. P. ROWLANDS Seismic investigations of active volcanoes in extensional tectonic settings G. J. RUSHTON High-pressure turbine shroud leakage C. RUSSELL Romance and the ethics of response, 1765–1837 approved for ph.d.s | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 43

F. S. SCOTT Approved under special regulations F. P. SCHULLER Dirac-Born-Infeld kinematics, maximal acceleration and almost product manifolds T. A. STENHOUSE The development of an O[3, NO and NO[3 measurement system for the urban boundary layer K. L. STOKES Welsh kingship, A.D. 383–1063: a reassessment of terminology and political formation K. T. TAN Enhanced performances 1.3μm quantum dot laser for fibre optic communication Y. TATENO Studies towards the total synthesis of superstolide A C. J. TAYLOR Intracellular pH regulation in rat brain endothelial cells N. S. THOMPSON The nativeness of settlers: constructions of belonging in Soviet and contemporary Chukotka R. D. C. THOMPSON The status of anti-Nazi resistance in post-war Western Germany, 1944/45–1957 M. D. G. P. TOSCANO Studies on enzymes of the shikimate pathway M. WEBER Curve and surface reconstruction from images and sparse finite element level-sets H. J. WESTON Seeking cultural safety: NGO responses to HIV/AIDS among South Asians in Delhi and London A. J. WILLS Studies on oxazolidines, oxazolines and oxazoles J. ZENG Globalisation and competitiveness in the telecommunications industry: a case study of China Telecom G. ZWIRN Essays on the relationship between human agency and social structure in the writings of Ludwig v. Mises, Friedrich A. v. Hayek, and Ludwig Lachmann: a realist analysis and development 44 college societies | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

College Societies

Student Union Our first event was a bop in aid of the Tsunami appeal. The theme of ‘Pimps, Whores and Labradors’ saw people flashing their money around and donating generously. In the end we made more than £350. After all the partying, we settled down to the serious business of re-writing the JCSU constitution. Changes to the constitution included giving a formal status to the welfare committee and highlighting the different JCSU financial accounts. The new constitution was passed by a referendum and by College Council and came into force in October 2005. The JCSU also teamed up with the college to renovate the Marshall room. Our beloved broken leather sofas were moved into the post room to make way for a selection of lovely new sofas (no more having to sit on the floor!) in the TV room. We now have a coffee machine in permanent action for those late night library sessions and a new widescreen TV. Everything was a bit quieter in Easter term, while preparations were going ahead for Suicide Sunday, when there was entertainment galore. We had the usual barbecue and water-fight, but also hired sumo suits and a bouncy castle. On the music front we had our Ents boys DJ-ing, The Swing Band, live acoustic sets and Midnight Schemes. We had people from virtually every college coming round and the day was a massive success. Adam Watson. President

Graduate Society An enthusiastic and fresh-faced committee welcomed freshers with two weeks of daily events and socialising. Drinks with the committee, ‘Latino’ night, ‘nightcaps at nine’ and cheese-and-wine evenings helped to break the ice. Cinema, curry, punting and a pub crawl aimed to give the freshers a whirlwind tour of what the city has to offer. As in previous years, the fortnight culminated in the phenomenally successful ‘safari’ night dinner, with new grads and old mixing over dinner in the comfort of their own homes. Having been coaxed out of their shells a little, the new grads were happily bewitched by Hallowe’en. An excellent standard of costumes and an impromptu visit from the Macbeth witches helped to make this fiendishly good fun. To help break up the long cold Cambridge winter, Christmas dinner trumpeted the seasonal festivities into action in Hall. Traditional turkey, crackers, mince pies and mulled wine together with the unstoppable DJ Bubbleman helped to keep the cold at bay. January signalled the highlight of the social calendar that is Burns night. With speeches and whisky toasts ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime and the post-haggis shindig organised by ceilidh maestro Karl Sanderman in Hall, this was an outstanding event for the GradSoc. We are also pleased to report that feeling of goodwill extended to raising £120 for Tsunami relief through the charity raffle. As ever, the ‘end of year’ dinner provided a sophisticated conclusion to the year with a string quartet to accompany pre-dinner drinks and the ‘Kaiser Six’ swing band to play out the event. The weekly grad halls that provide the backbone of the GradSoc social scene have been particularly well attended and were occasionally spiced up by an international theme. Without input from the grads, the Mexican, Thanksgiving, St Patrick’s, Australian, Swiss, Czech and Turkish nights wouldn’t have been quite so authentic or have tasted so good! To maintain the sense of community out of term, we have enjoyed the special grad halls arranged in the more intimate setting of the Prioress’s room. Jesus’s reputation as the friendly college once again earned us many invitations to sample other colleges. college societies | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 45

In a more experimental vein, we were fortunate to host a well-attended master class on film narratives, with screenings by film directors Zsuzsanna Ardó and Mark Lewis from London. To satisfy the grad appetite for knowledge further there was a tour of the college’s Old Library and wine cellars and a visit to the Scott Polar Research Institute. A kids’ Hallowe’en party was a huge success with costumed kids of all ages enjoying all the usual treats. Busy parents appreciated the chance to meet fellow parents in college. In November we marked last year’s tragic loss of Kenneth Sutherland by planting a Canadian sugar maple in the grounds. On the sports field, participation was encouraged at all levels of experience and ability and this paid off handsomely as graduates helped make this an outstanding year for college sport. In football, the captaincy of Laurie Shaw saw the graduate team bring the cuppers trophy back to Jesus, adding to two other cups earned with the skill of seasoned graduate footballers. We shall also remember cricket cuppers under the captaincy of Dan Vaca and an embarrassment of accolades for rowing, recorded elsewhere. Once again we owe a debt of thanks to fellows, in particular Geoff Harcourt and Jonathan Collis, for their continued support of graduate events. We have had the good fortune to work with Simon Hawkey, a very understanding manciple, the porters and the ever popular Steve T. Barman. We are also grateful to the graduate tutor, Dr Minden, and his secretary, Brenda Welch, for all their efforts on our behalf. Alex Corbett, Vice President.

Creative Writing The college arts magazine, eliots face continues to thrive. The photocopying and pritt- stick of the old days have been replaced by completely computer-based editing this year, and Jesus’ many talented artists and photographers have made the most of the transformation in picture quality (special thanks to the cover artists, Sophia Davis and Lei Wang). In fact, eliot has had more contributors than ever before, a full twenty for the Michaelmas issue. Iain Mobbs, the first editor not to be reading English, took over in Lent, and produced a flawlessly elegant magazine on the back of a grisly poster campaign: he thanks Elliot Furminger, his muse, for the latter. Some exceptionally talented poets – Rosie ˇSnajdr, Hannah Fenton, Luke Pagarani – left College last summer, and we’re very grateful to all the freshers and other new contributors who have taken their place. In particular, there have been a lot of excellent prose poems and very short stories. This is eliots fifth year, and thanks to the JCSU’s generosity we celebrated by publishing a May Week special edition, with selected poems from all previous issues. From the nonsense verse that started it all (“I saw T.S. Eliot’s face in a bowl of soup...”), via eliots long-time editor Julia Gillick, to acute recent poems by people like Marta Ciechanowicz (“If you hold me up to the light / To see where I’m fragile I’ll be/ Honest as light, though it hurts, / Though it hurts my fragility”) and Chris O’Rourke, the standard was very high. Jeremy Davies, Editor

Drama Society In 2004–5, JCDS took over the Forum bar and set about putting it on the Cambridge theatre map. Following the successful Michaelmas pantomime – Troy Story or My Big Fat Greek Blood Shedding, featuring Ali G, a host of togas, the chaplain ‘shaking that ass’ and much cheesy music (superbly played by Simon Jackson) – the double of Ellie Decamp 46 college societies | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

and Bella Watts’ Antigone and Rebecca Leigh’s Closer started Lent term off with a bang. In February, the JCDS touring wing, ‘Cock Around the Block’, was formed to present two staged readings at the Corpus Playroom: Crave by Sarah Kane and A Number by Caryl Churchill. These were both expertly helmed by Rebecca Leigh and starred JCDS presidents Duncan Barrett and Chris O’Rourke, together with Alexa Lamont and Matilda James. The college freshers’ play, Jim Cartwright’s Road, directed by Vikki Newton and Ros Velds, was a bold and resounding success, transforming the Forum with an inventive diagonal seating arrangement and three separate playing spaces. Week 8 saw two simultaneous productions: Leigh’s masterful The Dybbuk, which drew crowds to the Corpus Playroom, and Barrett’s Lear (by Edward Bond), which turned the Forum into a blood-soaked house of horrors (special commendation goes to props-maker Susie Batey). An Easter term production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia had to be postponed until next year after Rebecca Leigh broke her leg – which happened on stage, during Chris O’Rourke’s May Ball ‘pandamime’. Sadly, this meant Leigh also had to postpone taking Plenty, by David Hare, to Edinburgh. But JCDS will still be represented on the Scottish stage, as Lear is taken on tour by the Ariel Society along with a new production of Richard II. Having a semi-permanent base has made all the difference to JCDS this year. Bleak and urban, freezing in winter and sweltering in summer, the Forum is the antithesis of the safe, cuddly world of mainstream Cambridge theatre, and, lit by Chris Rimmer, it glows with glorious deathly splendour. JCDS has carved out a niche this year for dark, provocative, edgy and experimental drama. Warmest thanks go to the outgoing committee: Jez Davies, Rebecca Leigh and Barrie Sander. Duncan Barrett and Chris O’Rourke, Presidents

Law Society It has been a busy year for the Jesus College Law Society. It kicked off with freshers’ cocktails in the Prioress’s Room, a great chance for all the new first years to meet the old hands. More socialising was done at the Christmas drinks, where an array of party games was enjoyed by all and which was accompanied this year with a cheesy Christmas songs soundtrack. Returning after the Christmas vacation, the first- and second-years underwent collections in college but their hard work was rewarded with a Valentine’s soirée, kindly sponsored by MacFarlanes. Lent was also the term of the Magdalene–Jesus moot, a great event hosted by the Magdalene Law Society and followed by a tasty dinner. The first-years then trod in second-year footsteps as the first-year mooting competition was hosted in college. The finalists went on to be judged in a moot by Dr Munday of Peterhouse; Ben Pykett was awarded the Glazebrook prize for mooting. Another social event enjoyed by all who attended was the Glanville Williams reception, hosted by Herbert Smith in their London offices. It was a good chance for the current students to meet with former Jesuan lawyers. Easter term began with the annual Law Society dinner in Upper Hall, which all the Jesus lawyers attended. They were privileged to welcome Mr Justice Rupert Jackson back to Jesus College as guest speaker. The year ended on a relaxed note as the annual garden party, generously sponsored by Herbert Smith, was held in the fellows’ garden on a sunny May Week Thursday with the sipping of Pimms accompanied by a jazz band. Lily Humphries, President college societies | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 47

Medical Society Now in its 5th year, the Medsoc is going from strength to strength. A host of talks have broadened our medical knowledge beyond the realms of dreary textbooks. Social events have been numerous and fun-filled, providing opportunities for medical students across the years to relax together. A number of Jesuans have returned to speak to us about their experiences in practice. In Michaelmas, Lydia Eccersley and Lionel Tan spoke about their work in Uganda and the challenges facing healthcare in the developing world. Lent term saw Barry Kay return to discuss allergy and Daniel Birch to talk about atherosclerosis. The social side of the society has flourished. Freshers’ week saw the ever-enjoyable ‘safari’ supper and obligatory post-dinner partying. The Medsoc ‘give up’ in January raised £250 for Merlin, a charity providing medical support in areas affected by the Boxing Day Tsunami. Lent term saw the highly enjoyable annual dinner. In particular, guest speaker Andrew Unwin’s discussion of the NHS gave an intriguing insight into the challenges which lie ahead in clinical practice. May week brought the Medsoc garden party held in all the splendour of post-tripos sunshine. Huge thanks go to James Warland, vice-president, and Helen Matthews, treasurer. Rebecca Charlton, President photos: frances willmoth Tables I and XI from Browne’s Anatomy, 1681

Music Society Building on the success and development in the last few years, JCMS has continued to hold termly concerts and Wednesday evening recitals, featuring many fine musicians within and outside College. The opening of the new music room and the installing of a new lighting system in Chapel are both assets this year, and JCMS benefits from them both. The year started with the traditional Freshers’ Concert, hosting a range of musical talents in the Forum. The Michaelmas term photo: jim roseblade Kate Conway at the concert was equally successful, beginning with Sullivan’s overture Freshers’ Concert to Iolanthe and ending with Beethoven’s First Symphony. 48 college societies | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Lent term was very busy for JCMS. With the financial support of the David Crighton Fund, a strings coaching evening with Chris Hirons was organised. The Lent term concert, held in Chapel, featured an impressive and inspiring performance of Poulenc’s Organ Concerto by James Kennerley, conducted by Simon Jackson. Also in the programme were Beethoven’s Coriolan overture, conducted by David Humphreys, and Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony, conducted by James Kennerley. This was followed by the David Crighton concert, supported by a generous benefaction by Hitachi Limited to the David Crighton Music Fund. To a packed West Road Concert Hall, the world- renowned Endellion String Quartet performed string quartets by Mozart, Haydn and Britten. The stark contrast of the Endellion’s refined interpretation of the Mozart and Haydn, and the intense and thought-provoking performance of the Britten, provided the audience with a wonderful and memorable evening. The term ended in the Forum with the annual ‘JCMS Ent’, which hosted a mix of groups from close harmony to gospel choir, from swing band to solo playing and singing. The May Week concert included a delightful, skilled and virtuosic performance of Crusell’s Third Clarinet Concerto by clarinettist Louise Steele. Louise was also presented with the David Crighton prize in recognition of her contribution to the musical life of the college. The concert also featured Brahms’ St Anthony Variations, Vaughan Williams’ English Folksong Suite, and Britten’s Soirées Musicales, conducted by Laura Lane, James Kennerley and Simon Jackson. During the interval, the audience enjoyed strawberries and wine with music from the swing band. During the year there were weekly Wednesday evening recitals, with many talented musicians and a loyal and appreciative audience. These are made possible by the hard work put in by members of the JCMS committee. It has been a privilege to be a member of the music society. Laurence Lok, Secretary

May Ball ‘In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree …’ – Coleridge would have been proud of this year’s May Ball Committee, inspired by his poem to create a ball called Xanadu. He would have looked out from D staircase to see origami cut-out birds strutting on lawns edged with bamboo, and, in the distance, trees in the orchard decorated with Chinese lanterns and declared that the college grounds looked lovely. As for the other pleasures, he would have approved of the fire eaters, Chinese Lion Troupe and Tai Chi shows. Just what he would have made of the Champion Deluxe Scale Electrix (model cars for big kids) or the funfair on the hockey pitch or The Cambridge University Rock ‘n’ Roll Team is anyone’s guess. Had he ventured out and mingled with the crowds he would have seen and heard the impressively energetic Tyler James, been captivated by Nizlopi with their original mix of double bass and beatboxing and been encouraged by Kings of Queen to sing along to Bohemian Rhapsody. Wild boar and apple might have been familiar to him but we can only speculate on whether he would have enjoyed kangaroo and red wine or emu and cracked pepper. One thing is certain: he would have seen how very much everyone else had enjoyed themselves and written a note of the warmest congratulation to the May Ball committee, whose months of preparation and hard work had come to such wonderful fruition. For the May Ball Committee college societies | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 49

The Roosters The most enjoyable Roosts this ninety-eighth year have shown that simple good fellowship is the key to good Roosting, structured by the rules of the Codex Gallorum and our traditions. Of the Roosts this year who can forget the Christmas pantomime The Spanish Armada or Carry on Roosting? Fuelled by mulled wine, this was acted out all over the college, including the Porters’ Lodge. It included a half-mile chase sequence, and concluded with an epic call for town and gown to unite against the callous King of Spain. Also worthy of note were the Winter Cocklympics which had the game of ice skating as its centrepiece, using pucks of ice shoved by broomsticks across Chapel Court. Bishop Alcock was condemned for criminal acts against the Nunnery of St. Radegund in a trial presided over by the vice-president, T.W.B. Mr. Jack Chickles Q.C. (Quiller-Coucher), with the counsel for the prosecution (Old Cock) facing his adversary the devil’s advocate (Mr. Guy ‘squawks and a rope’ Willis). In a compromise measure Bishop Alcock was sentenced to be executed and then raised to the Archbishopric of Canterbury. The celebrations in honour of the Chinese Year of the (green wooden) Rooster began in the early morning as we unfurled a banner (courtesy of Miss Georgie Fowl) on the gatehouse. On a hot day in June the Breakfast-at-Lunchtime saw T.W.B. Mr. Robbie ‘the spurious spurious’ Dean, elevated to the Grainsack as the new – 195th (& 171st-pending) – President, Old Cock. We celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar with high-serious toasts from T.W.B. Jim ‘Cockrates’ Marshall (131,108), Mary Hilton, Esq.; the A.C.S.&M. of Roosting from T.W.B. Bob ‘Jesus’ Green (98,76), the Old Cock responding; and an all-too impressive presentation by the Rooster Arkeologist T.W.B. Mr. George Giri (71, 50), who presented us with a gallinaceous metal rooster tea-pot, salvaged from the ark, which had unfortunately run dry. There were many other Roosts.

The Red Herrings The Companions surfaced for fish and chip supper shoals in Michaelmas and Lent terms as guests of the Dame mmuriel before Carriages or Porter’s Trolley. New Companions (CRH): Ian S. ‘Brooding’ Blaney (170th GMRH), Jack Chickles, Chick Morris, Luke ‘Eggs’ Bennedict Busbridge, Jonathan ‘Port’ Collis, Verity Moorhen, James ‘round and round the’ Burberry ‘bush’, Robbie ‘spurious, spurious’ Dean (171st GMRH pending). T.W.B. Mr. Ian S. ‘Brooding’ Blaney 194th & 170th

Science Society The science society continued to organise talks by graduate students, showing the diversity of research carried out by members of the college. These covered subjects ranging from gene function in human embryonic stem cells and the role of proteolysis in coordinating mitosis to the formation of white dwarf-neutron star binaries and automated detection of musical structure. They provide an opportunity both for graduate students to present their work to a non-specialist audience and for other members of college to find out about the fascinating research undertaken by graduates in the college. We were also privileged to have as guest speaker one of the physical sciences editors of Nature magazine, who gave a talk entitled How to publish in nature, a subject close to the heart of many scientists. Jonathan Keeling, President 50 the undergraduate art collection | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

The Undergraduate Art Collection

Elsewhere a passage from the Annual Report of 1955 is reprinted about the setting up of a loan scheme for students of pictures and other works of art. Michael Zander (1953) and M. R. Cornwall-Jones (1953) are the surviving members of the original committee of five. Amongst the nine pieces bought during the first year of the scheme were Autumn Woodscape by Ivon Hitchens, currently hanging in the Fellows’ Parlour, and Leaf figure by Henry Moore, on display in the Marshall Room. The collection now has over 200 pictures, including works by Michael Ayrton, John Bellany, Hugh Casson, Barry Flanagan, Elisabeth Frink, John Piper, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Long, Joan Miró, Paul Nash and Utamoro. The college makes an annual grant to the scheme of £1,000. New work is bought each year by the undergraduate curator and committee. They are advised by the senior treasurer (James Clackson) and Jonathon Miles from the Trumpington Gallery. There are also occasional gifts made to the collection. Fellows are charged rent to borrow pictures, but junior members only pay a deposit. The organisation of the collection this year owes much to Rina Sinha, the junior curator. The junior curator for 2005–6 is Tom Watson, a history of art student. photo: jim roseblade ‘Autumn Woodscape’ by Ivon Hitchens college sports clubs | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 51

College Sports Clubs

Athletics This has been the most successful year for Jesus athletes for a long time, owing to more enthusiasm from the college and to some very talented freshers. In Michaelmas term we sent a strong team to Cuppers and, despite a few injuries preventing people competing, the men finished 4th and the women 5th. Bilen Ahmet deserves special mention for his commitment to the team and for doing so many events. After some impressive runs, Will George and Steve Stuart were both selected for the freshers’ match against Oxford and Will won the 1500m. In Lent term Jesus sent a much weaker team to compete in the inter college field events and relays match, because it clashed with BUSA athletics and a rowing regatta. However, Louise Steele impressed in the throws and Bilen Ahmet in the jumps. There are no college competitions in Easter term, but members of Jesus were selected for the varsity match. Will George, Richard Reader and Louise Steele competed for the blues teams, while Rob Buxton, Rich Hewitt, Steve Stuart and Bilen Ahmet competed in the second team. Will George and Richard Reader were also selected for the Oxford & Cambridge US tour. Next year’s captains will be Bilen Ahmet and Louise Steele. Richard Reader, Captain.

Badminton

Men The first half of the season in division two was very successful. The team included last year’s captain as well as several new members and won every game they played. Chris Limmond and Josh Phillips were especially useful and proved a good pairing. The second half, in division one, proved more of a challenge. Jesus easily beat Fitzwilliam 6–3 and, after some long battles in a most exciting game, also beat Queens’ 5–4. They were worthy opponents of Trinity but lost to them (3–6), as they did to Wolfson, Christ’s and Churchill. Two wins were not enough to prevent relegation. The team for Cuppers included Sam Lees and Jan Moellers; they easily won their first few games but lost against Trinity in the quarter-finals. Sadly Jesus were missing John Booth, their star player, whilst a German international was playing for Trinity. Next year’s captain will be Chris Limmond. Dan Barnes, Captain

Women Thanks to a combination of seasoned players and eager freshers, women’s badminton enjoyed increased popularity at Jesus this year and we were able to field a team in the annual Cuppers tournament. After coming through the first round unscathed we were unfortunately beaten 2–1 to a place in the quarter-finals by Newnham. In the women’s intercollegiate league we retained our place in the third division by winning a fair number of our weekly matches in both Michaelmas and Lent terms. The season ended with an 8–1 victory over Clare. Next year’s captain will be Jo Hepworth. Rosie Young, Captain 52 college sports clubs | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Basketball Because the majority of last year’s team had graduated, and because we were competing for the first time in recent years in the top flight of college basketball, this season proved a difficult one for Jesus College Basketball Club. The season started with promise, as old faces James Hyslop and Guillermo Ramos-Tomas combined with freshers Liam Atwal and Nick Bell to see off Emmanuel and Pembroke in the opening games. As the fixtures built up, however, a lack of squad strength began to show and a further victory against Peterhouse did not help Jesus avoid relegation. In a transitional period for Jesus, the second division could prove the ideal environment to foster new talent. Next year’s co-captains will be Liam Atwal and Nick Bell. Patrick Herron, Captain

Boat Club This year has seen a real turnaround in the fortunes of Jesus College Boat Club. The year began with success for the men’s 1st IV in the University IVs races. Victory, however, was not repeated in Fairbairn’s with the 1st VIII losing out to Caius by one second, and the 1st IV to Pembroke by three. Nevertheless these were the best results in several years. The women’s boats, with many women trialling for the university, had a more difficult time. The novice boats achieved strong results throughout the term, particularly in Fairbairn’s – the women came in second and the men fourth. After a highly successful training camp at Banyoles in Spain, the men returned to Cambridge in top form, winning the Head to Head and recording the fastest time by a college crew at the Head of the Nene. In the Lent bumps the first VIII went up from seventh to fifth, a pleasing result. The 2nd VIII (all of whom were novices) had a strong week of row-overs only to be bumped on the final day by a blades-winning crew. The 1st women (four of whom were novices) won Newnham Short Course and held their own in bumps, going down only one to a swift Clare boat. This year Jesus has a number of rowers in the university boats. James Orme and Ed Sherwood were in Goldie for the second year running, Kate Hillier (president) and Louise Hopper were in the blue boat, Jen Hawton (JCBC captain) and Rachael Robinson rowed in Blondie and Junaid Fukuta was Goldie’s cox. Fiona Parry was in the lightweight VIII. The May Bumps were our most successful for many years with seven out of ten crews winning their oars. The highlight was without doubt the 1st women’s VIII taking the headship rowing in the Muriel Brittain, photo: jim roseblade a new boat purchased thanks to the JCBC Trust and donations from old members. From fourth place they bumped on each of the first three days, taking the headship from Emmanuel on Grassy Corner on At the May Bumps: Friday, before rowing over in style on Mariah Mansvelt and Saturday. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th women’s Michelle Bradfield; Bronwen VIIIs all won their blades, as did the 2nd, Byrnes in the background 3rd and 4th men’s boats. The 1st men’s VIII had a mixed week, bumping Magdalene on Wednesday, only to be bumped back after an accident the next day. They regained tenth place on the river on Friday and were left with nothing to chase on Saturday when the crew in front bumped out. Nevertheless, the boat moved up for the first time in eleven years. college sports clubs | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 53

The break the club has made with the past few years of disappointments can be attributed to two factors: the re-emergence of a boat club spirit in college – people enjoying their rowing and the camaraderie of other rowers – and the efforts of our new boatman and head coach, Don McLachlan. Next year’s captains will be Stephen Benjamin and Siobhan Maguire. James Marson, President

Chess Society The newly revived Jesus College Chess Society had an excellent first year, fielding two teams successfully in the university league. The first team, captained by myself, won the 2nd division with seven victories and just one defeat, ensuring promotion to the top division. In Cuppers they progressed to the semi-finals, knocking out first Kings and then St John’s (a first division team) on the way, before being eliminated by a strong Downing side. Stephen Chester, Tim Segal, Geoff Stanning, Tim Swain, and John Wong were all crucial in the team’s success, whilst the best individual performance was by Laurence Hunt, who remained unbeaten throughout the season. Laurence also provided one of the highlights of the season by winning his game against Queens’ second board in just five moves, to the amazement of all. The second team, under the captaincy of Patrick Snow, played in the third division, and any worries that the team would not be strong enough to compete were quickly forgotten as they started the season strongly before finishing in a mid-table position. Overall, the first year of the reformed society has been a great success and as most of the first team players will still be here next year to compete in the 1st division the future looks promising as we try to emulate the successes of past Jesus college chess teams. Richard Mycroft, President.

Cricket After years of under-achievement in Cuppers the cricket club has finally met its own expectations. Trouncing Churchill in the final was the reward for the 1st XI after being forced to dig deep in the preceding rounds – most notably batting all the way down the order to squeeze out a talented Hughes Hall in the quarter-final. Matt Bunning’s match-winning lower-order innings in both this game and the semi-final are emblematic of the determination, commitment and strength-in-depth that have turned a talented side into champions. Leaving Cuppers aside, the club has once again shown itself capable of playing a good standard of friendly cricket against local and touring sides of considerable repute. The only loss of the season came against the Jesters. A draw against Stoics and four wins rounded off another good season. The 2nd XI also played, encouraging more players to get involved, and recorded wins against the Old Spring as well as our friends of the St. Radegund pub. The future of the club seems bright. We are sad to lose ‘player of the-year’ Anush Newman, whose performance and wisdom have been invaluable, and Ed Morgan, whose thoughtful bowling will be missed, but they are the only two leavers from the Cuppers- winning XI. In particular the club will be able to call on the services of Sam Grimshaw, Dave Madden and James Loxam, all of whom have averaged above 30 with the bat, as well as look to Alex Fergusson to lead the way with the ball as he has done so convincingly 54 college sports clubs | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

this season. The fresher intake was strong this year, with James Waters and Ed Bush in particular making valuable contributions, and next year’s captain, Fran Newby, making 240 runs. James Burberry, Captain

Cross Country The Jesus team has had another very successful year, maintaining a high position in the first division in all of the college league events. The first event of the year was the ‘freshers fun run’, where we saw a fantastic performance from first-year Will George, who finished an impressive fourth overall. This form continued in all the events and Will always finished in the top three. He gained a place in the blues team. Cuppers saw Jesus reach second place, thanks to a determined race from everybody concerned. Rich Hewitt secured a place in the second (Spartans) team. Special thanks are owed to Ian Blaney, whose commitment to the college team has been excellent, and to Pete Leek. It is a shame that we have not always been able to sport a full women’s team at every event, but many thanks go to Marina Bradbury and Jessie Barker for their dedication throughout the season. All in all, it has been another very successful year for the college. Will George will be next year’s captain.

Football

Women From the outset I was confident that we had a very strong team which had the potential to do extremely well this year. They did not disappoint. The return of Kim Smith, Sarah Ambrose and Jane Reid from last season gave us a very strong midfield and the arrival of talented freshers, Rebecca Mahoney and Jo Minikin provided strength at the back and pace on the wing, respectively. We had a highly successful league run, winning all-but-one of our matches. Particular high points were the 2–0 victory over St Catharine’s, who beat us in the Cuppers semi-final last year, and the 9–1 victory over Sidney Sussex, where we were able to demonstrate our skill with superior elegance. A weakened Jesus side lost 3–0 to Newnham in the league and this meant that our final match against King’s was a crucial league decider. Unfortunately our 4–0 victory over King’s was not enough and we missed the title by two goals, finishing in second place. Determined to make up for missing the league title, we went into the Cuppers competition with full force. After convincing victories against Downing and Clare, our first real challenge of the competition came in the quarter-final against Emma. Finding themselves 2–0 down at half time, the Jesus girls gave a hundred per cent to drag the score line up to 3–3 at full time, and eventually won on penalties. The Cuppers final was equally eventful, with Newnham taking the lead after five minutes. Jesus fought hard with tremendous passion to find the equaliser ten minutes from time. The back four of Megan Goldman, Rebecca Mahoney, Susie Thorpe and Anne Blackham were a real asset to the Jesus side, proving solid throughout. The midfield and attacking players were certainly not lacking in talent either; Laura Kotseroglou, in particular, had an outstanding match. The whole team put in maximum effort, giving Jesus a much deserved Cuppers victory: we eventually won 7–6 on penalties. This season’s top goal scorer was Sarah Ambrose and ‘player of the season’ (as voted for by the team) was Jane Reid. It has been a pleasure to captain such a talented and committed team. Next year’s captain will be Rebecca Mahoney. Lisa Grimes, Captain college sports clubs | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 55

The women’s football team; Lisa Grimes holds the cup

Men’s First XI The first XI had a successful season, winning the inter-collegiate cup to become the first Jesus side to do so since the war. Second half goals from Laurence Brenig-Jones, Tim Swain and a hat trick from Will Stevenson secured an emphatic 5–0 victory in the final against Christ’s. Yet the road to Cuppers glory was far less straightforward. Narrow victories against Girton and Emma were followed by a dramatic semi-final against Fitz. With the score level at 1–1 after extra time, Jesus won 10–9 on penalties in a shoot out that involved all eleven out-field players. The league campaign was slightly overshadowed by the cup run. An unlucky opening- day defeat against Fitz, who went on to win division 1 without dropping a point, meant that our league challenge was effectively over before it had begun. Having gone into Christmas in second place, we eventually finished fourth as Cuppers took over in the second half of the season. The year’s success was built on rock-solid defence. Richard Corns, in his seventh season of college football, was superb throughout and was deservedly voted ‘player of the season’. Alfie Atkinson, who partnered Corns in central defence, was also indispensable, and will play a vital role as vice-captain next year. Going forward, Will Stevenson and the new captain, Laurence Brenig-Jones, scored several crucial and spectacular goals. There were also regular quality performances from Sam Richcardson, Geoff Stanning, Martyn Frampson, Tim Swain, Vesa Kangaslahti and ‘fresher of the season’ Ed Bond. The season’s other highlight was the 4–1 victory against the Old Boys. The fixture this year was the first to be played in honour of Nick Webber, whose death is reported elsewhere and whose memorial trophy should be hotly contested in the years to come. John Russell, Captain

Men’s Second XI It has been a season of high achievement for Jesus II. After the previous season’s promotion-winning antics, we found ourselves in division 3 of the league, and, with the loss of some key players, had fears for the team’s survival at this higher level. These fears were dispelled by a strong pre-season drubbing of Queens’ (4–1). The following game, however, was lost 2–0 to league leaders Trinity Hall. This proved to be the only loss of the season; the famous Jesus II spirit pulled us through the remaining six games 56 college sports clubs | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

unbeaten. Particular highlights included a 3–2 victory over Clare in which we were 2–0 down with half an hour to play, and an 8–1 destruction of Girton II. Emerging as division 3 champions and with a trophy to prove it, this was perhaps the most successful season in Jesus II’s history. Division 2 awaits next year’s team and their captain Mark Thompson. Olaf Henricson-Bell, Captain

The men’s second XI, division 3 champions

Hockey

Women Jesus 1st team had yet another good season but were unfortunately unable to repeat last year’s league-winning form and finished second behind rivals St Catharine’s. The start of the season saw an extremely successful club day, bringing male and female hockey players of all abilities together to play in a mixed tournament. It proved an excellent way to introduce the freshers to the club and was followed by the traditional hockey club curry in the evening. The season started well with a convincing 5–0 victory over Newnham. Subsequent opposition was not so obliging and in the absence of several of our regular players we suffered a couple of defeats that were to cost us the league title. This didn’t damage our confidence and we resolved to make Cuppers our aim. Unfortunately, we were knocked out by Trinity in the quarter-finals but later avenged this loss with a victory in the league. The season came to an end with a satisfying 7–0 victory over St John’s followed by the annual club dinner in Upper Hall. Once again the fresher influx greatly strengthened the Jesus team, with special mentions to Sarah Martin, Sophia Cuenes-Grandidier, Alice Coombs and Anna Lewis. This year’s ‘top goal scorer’ was Verity Threlfell and ‘player of the season’ was Lindsey Plenderleith. Full blues were awarded to Clare Skirrow and Claire Frith. Special thanks go to vice-captain Katie Harries and Sophia Davies for all their help on and off the pitch. Next year’s captain will be Sarah Martin. Clare Skirrow, Captain

Men Initial worries about the loss of some senior players were soon quelled by the influx of many talented freshers, boosting the club at all levels. We took this optimism into our first league matches, beating Clare 8–0 and Robinson 5–2, and continued to develop as a side throughout Michaelmas term. However, some tight results before the winter break woke us to the need to raise our game. After Christmas, a reinvigorated Jesus side thrashed Trinity 10–0 and Magdalene 7–1 and beat a strong Caius side 3–2. Overall we finished third in the league, a commendable performance from a young side. However, all thoughts of the league fade into distant memory in comparison to our success in Cuppers. We followed an 8–2 thrashing of Corpus in the first round with a college sports clubs | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 57

15–0 drubbing of Peterhouse in the second, before claiming a hard fought 1–0 victory over APU in the quarters. The semi-final brought a battle against the old foes, St. John’s College. Despite largely dominating the league competition, John’s were paralysed by some excellent Jesuan possession hockey, and by half-time Jesus were 2–0 up courtesy of goals from Wong and Grimshaw. A second half opposition goal raised the tempo of the last quarter, but a chaotic John’s team were unable to make a further breach in the impregnable Jesuan defence and the result was a deserved 2–1 win to Jesus. In the final, Jesus faced St. Catherine’s, the self-proclaimed favourites for the title. However, despite St. Catherine’s wealth of university players, their pedigree was notably absent as Jesus seized the upper hand through an early Wong goal, and proceeded to dominate the first half. Unfortunately, a surprise Catz equalizer on the stroke of half-time caught Jesus off- guard and after the break the balance of play started to shift in favour of the defending champions. St. Catherine’s then launched a sustained siege of the Jesuan castle, which ultimately proved fruitless as the resolute Jesus defence held firm. Goalkeeper Anush Newman put in the performance of his life to ensure that the scores remained level at full-time. In the frenetic ten minutes of extra time, both sides came close to scoring, with Jesus demonstrating character, resolve and commitment to the very end. With the scores still tied, the result was to be decided on penalty flicks. Jesus shot first and were 4–3 up by the time of the final St Catherine’s flick. However, the pressure proved too much for the opposition and the last Catz flick-taker faltered under the towering presence of Newman and shot wide, handing Jesus the Cuppers title they so deserved, and ending St. Catherine’s 18 match unbeaten run in the competition. At the annual dinner, colours were awarded to Bush, Gordon, Hunt, Lemoine, Waters and Wong. Sam Grimshaw was named ‘top goal scorer’ (32 goals), Chris Rimmer was ‘most improved player’ and Nick Wong was awarded ‘player of the season’. A ‘lifetime achievement award’ was presented to Anush Newman as he leaves the college after many years faithful service to the club. Dave Madden is next year’s captain. Chris Boulden, Captain

Mixed Jesus Mixed Hockey team had a characteristically relaxed season. They lost 1–0 in the first round of Cuppers to arch foes John’s in a very competitive, enjoyable game. Remarkably, twenty or thirty fans came to cheer them on, on a cold Friday night in November. The pace and spirit with which the game was played made it feel like the final. With cup distractions out of the way Jesus played a friendly against local club side Cambridge South and a mini series against Pembroke which they won 2–1 overall. Three Jesus sides entered the May Week John’s 6 a-side tournament which was followed by barbecue and beers. Mixed hockey has been well represented this year at Jesus, giving both new and experienced players a chance to play relaxed, fun hockey. Anna Shawcroft and I were captains this year; next year’s will be Anna Lewis and Paddy Gordon. Sam Grimshaw

Pool With many of last year’s players still here, and a new batch of freshers, hopes were high that we could build on last year’s 4th place. With a strong side let down by a few key games last year, we entered the fray with a confidence-boosting 6–3 win over last year’s 58 college sports clubs | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

champions, Magdalene. Our next match was a tightly fought contest against the pre- season favourites, Catz, boasting three university players, who narrowly took us in a match that could have gone either way. Another two losses left us in danger of relegation and holding little hope of a serious challenge at the top spots. However, all the team found their form and the re-emergence of traditional Jesus flair pool, combined with use of world rules tactics, led to some spectacular pool and we won the five remaining games. The final frame of the final match decided the league. We finished 4th again, with only a few points separating the top 4 teams. In Cuppers the team started off well, beating a good Cauis side, and then exacted retribution on a full strength Catz side by knocking them out of the tournament. Reaching the quarters was a serious improvement on last year’s first round exit against John’s, but, missing several players, we were beaten by Magdalene. All in all, it was a very creditable year for the Jesus 1st team. The second team attempted to regain their position in the second division, but, despite some good results, finished just below promotion. David Hirsch will be next year’s captain. Patrick Snow, Captain

Rugby

Men With very much a new-look team, including several stalwarts of last year’s 2nd XV, the season started well with a solid win against newly-promoted Trinity Hall. This was followed by an emphatic 34–13 win against a strong St Catherine’s side, our best performance of the season, with outstanding individual performances from ‘fresher of the season’ Rich Bartholomew and fellow fresher John Messer. Girton conceded a walk- over so we entered the first big test of the season against John’s at the top of the table. With the mercurial Mickey Barr controlling a game played at a ferocious pace, we eased into a 6–0 lead only to concede a sucker punch of a try to go in at half-time trailing. After the break the tempo dropped and the opposition pack proved too strong, granting John’s first blood. Under the temporary leadership of ‘player of the season’ Rich Houston, the side were then narrowly defeated by a technically superior Downing pack, but deservedly won against Trinity Hall and Girton. After victory over St Catherine’s, the team lost to John’s because of a couple of momentary lapses in defence during a bizarre game with uncontested scrums due to John’s temporary lack of front row. Our last game of the season was a second place against Downing, who forced themselves into a four- point lead with twenty minutes to go and desperately clung on for a narrow victory. In Cuppers we overcame a poor King’s side with ease; full-back James Marson crossed their line four times and confirmed his status as top points scorer this season. In the next round we were again overpowered by John’s, the eventual winners, whose pack was back up to full strength. Other highlights of the season included the hugely successful Maris-Piper bingo social and the club dinner in March. There was also a match against the WD Invitational XV in which Jesus displayed some sublime moments of skill including a hat trick from Jesus débutant Will Swift. Next year’s captain will be John Messer. Jonathan Hopkins, Captain college sports clubs | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 59

Women Despite playing most of our rugby sevens matches short of players, team spirit was infallible, with regular training resulting in vast improvements in everyone’s play. This season saw almost a complete turnover of girls – with only two regulars left, experienced loose head prop Rowan Williams and captain Anna Shawcroft (out for most of the season due to injury). We had a large intake of first-years and recruited players from Christ’s and Caius colleges, who were lacking teams, to make up numbers. Acting captain Clare Southworth used her prior match experience well to direct play on the pitch; Rebecca Faulkner and Anna Young proved a solid defence, whilst hooker Verity Moore made good use of her football skills consistently to gain possession of the ball in contested scrums. With a full team of Jesuans we reached the second round of the Cuppers tournament – Jo Hepworth shone and the talented university forward Lisa Grimes gave indispensable help. The team’s league performance suffered due to lack of pace on the wing because our fastest player, Sophie Cuene-Grandidier, was out with a shoulder injury. Lisa Grimes won a half-blue. Anna Shawcroft, Captain

Squash Despite a general lack of fresher talent, the squash season at Jesus promised much as we retained the core of our squad from last year. Chris Burnie, last year’s captain, battled back from long-term injury to reclaim his place in the team, alongside the ever- consistent Chris Akerman. James Wood was persuaded to dig out his enormous racket bag, which alone was enough to cast fear into the hearts of opponents. Leo Shapland and Will Brown made significant improvements to their game thanks to intensive training sessions with the university squad. Any team member was capable of beating any other on their day, and this strength proved to be our main asset as we dominated the second division in Michaelmas term, winning it without losing a single rubber. Exuding confidence and kitted out in shiny new team t-shirts, we took on far tougher opposition in the top division in Lent term. The highlights were fantastic team performances in narrowly beating Cauis and the title favourites, Downing. Though never officially confirmed, due to the usual poor league organisation, it is almost certain that we won the college title. During Lent term there was even sufficient enthusiasm to field a second team, who held their own in the fourth division, ably captained by Bilen Ahmet. Four of the five first team players moved on in the summer. Newly refurbished courts, now among the best any college can offer, will help encourage freshers to replace them. Will Brown, Captain

Table Tennis The club continued the upward trend of the last three years. The first team usually included Adam Edelshane, Will George, Sam Richardson, Johannes Wieland and John Wong and reached the semi-finals in Cuppers for the third consecutive year. There was a most rewarding 5–1 win against St John’s in the first round. In the league Jesus 1 was narrowly beaten into second place, one up from last year. Jesus also fielded a second and, for the first time in years, a third team. With great enthusiasm from Bilen 60 college sports clubs | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Ahmet, Patrick Gordon, Yi Li, Tim Willott, and Ed Young-Lidard among others, these teams fared almost as well as the first. I would like to thank the club’s ex-captain, Sam Richardson, who will be leaving us this year, for his outstanding contribution and dedication during the last three years. Johannes Wieland, Captain

Tennis

Men Although last year saw the loss of several quality players, we were lucky to have a large quantity of fresh talent. With Martin Fox as captain we managed to win the college tennis ladder with little difficulty. We overcame Downing and Christ’s to secure this, thanks to the help of Sam Lees and Andrew Papanastasiou who proved to be an excellent pairing. Unfortunately Cuppers was not as successful. Our first match against Clare II was a simple warm up and we knocked them all over the court. The next game against Caius was a little trickier but with Jamie Macpherson and Martin Fox at first pair we easily brushed them aside. Selwyn was our next challenge and they proved to be too much for us. Jamie and Martin could not quite manage to beat the blues number one player. We lost narrowly in the end winning some close matches in the second and third pairings. I would like to thank Tom Watson, Josh Phillips and Paul Burton for their on- court endeavours. It has been an enjoyable term of tennis. Dan Barnes, Captain

Women Things were looking very promising for Jesus women’s tennis team when more than ten new faces turned up to trials to battle against two hours of rain. With fresher talent, particularly in the form of Anna Lewis, Helen Macintyre and Gemma Grass-Orkin, together with the captain, Alexa de Lorenzo, we looked set to have as successful a season as last. However, our reputation clearly preceded us and on many occasions we were given walkovers which left us eager but frustrated. Nevertheless, we remain high in our league division, with a particularly convincing win against Magdalene. Despite being knocked out of Cuppers in the quarter finals by Trinity Hall, who boasted three university players, this was our most challenging and exciting match. Sophie Cuene-Grandidier, who showed impressive stamina in the stifling heat, did particularly well to be the only one to win her singles match. To make up for the lack of inter-college play this term, an American mixed doubles tournament was organised after exams. It made for a very enjoyable afternoon and the standard of play was consistently high. Alexa de Lorenzo, Captain

Ultimate Frisbee Jesus College said goodbye to almost the entire team of 2004 and in their place welcomed a new crop of keen freshers, most of them meeting the game for the first time. The lack of experience showed in the winter league and Cuppers and many games frustratingly slipped away in the closing stages. The Corinthian spirit of the team, however, never dipped as they picked up the wooden spoon for being the best of the rest at the winter Cuppers tournament. Easter term saw the departure of old hands Paul Hunter and Nathan Dimmock from the team but in spite of this the squad went from strength to strength, receiving many wise words of advice from ‘player of the season’ and self-appointed coach Dounan Hu. The college sports clubs | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 61 summer league again ended with Jesus picking up the wooden spoon as they defeated a joint Clare–Magdalene team in the play-off. The summer Cuppers tournament is the highlight of the Ultimate calendar and Jesus did more than their fair share to make it so. The squad, comfortably the largest in any college, was daubed in war paint and performed the Haka à la All Blacks before every match, leaving the opposition quaking in their boots – or giggling. Almost inevitably the team won the wooden spoon, finishing 9th out of 12 teams but it also won the ‘spirit award’ for the team with the best attitude and approach to the sport. Jess Eisenstein and Kelly Hogan represented the university team. There was excellent play from Adam Tun, Ben Heidlage and the incoming captain Pete Budge. Nick Wong, Captain

Volleyball With legendary names (Phil Hewinson and Matt Harwood) and unpronounceable ones (Atsushi Tateno) moving on to sunnier climes, a season of rebuilding appeared to be on the cards but living legend Jean and Martin Weber were still in Cambridge so the foundations were in place for a good season. The arrival of two superb freshers proved a massive bonus. Blues star Helen MacIntyre settled in instantly as outside hitter, and, in this world of sexual inequality, was even worth an extra two points per game despite being better than anyone on the opposing teams. Greek setter Andrew Papanastasiou was deservedly involved in the university Jean Jacquet making a kill at John’s set-up. Phil Hunt and Duncan Brewer were plucked from obscurity and proved excellent additions to the team, imitating Richardson’s own style of play, by waving their hands around and staying out of the way at vital moments. The race for the league championship, which Jesus had not won in living memory, started in the best possible fashion. St John’s were humbled for the third time running, as Jesus stormed to a straight sets victory. Once the highly-fancied Churchill and dark horse Pembroke had been dispatched in similar fashion, defending champions Emma dared not stand in the path of the Jesus bandwagon and were walked over. With an historic championship within reach, Jesus even managed to win a game without Jacquet, as Darwin were narrowly beaten; Caius went the same way. The only loss was to Downing. The second team, promoted last year, coped admirably in division 3, finishing safely in mid-table and winning the second-team championship. The first team now holds a position of uncontested dominance at the head of college volleyball: Jesus holds all three major trophies, Beach Cuppers, Cuppers, and, at last, the league trophy. Sam Richardson, Captain 62 jesus college boat club trust | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Jesus College Boat Club Trust

The results in the Mays described in the boat club’s report – the women’s 1st VIII Head of the River and seven crews (the top 4 women’s and the men’s 2nd, 3rd and 4th) winning their oars – represent a marked turnaround in JCBC’s fortunes and reflected the efforts of recent captains, crews and coaches. They are a particular credit to the quite exceptional leadership of James Marson, president and men’s captain, and Jen Hawton, women’s captain: both have done very well indeed. The success owes a huge amount also to the expertise and enthusiasm of Don McLachlan, our head coach and boatman, whose brief has been to set about the lack of rowing technique and basic fitness and to reverse the drift towards mediocrity of recent years. Don has indeed brought about a culture change within the club, to one where members are keen to train and to work hard to earn success, and to enjoy that success when it comes (and success is not limited to the river: six firsts and eight 2.1s in the men’s and women’s 1st VIIIs). He has been assisted throughout the year by a number of dedicated coaches, including his wife Mary. We are very grateful to Don and all the other coaches who have given so much of their time and energy to the club. The results of the year also show the benefit of investment in the club by the trustees and other supporters. At the beginning of the year the trustees asked Don to set out his view of how the club might reform itself over the coming years and where he would like investment made. His top priority was a gym and a significant quantity of weight training and other equipment was acquired by the Trust, leased to the college and installed in a new gymnasium in one of the squash courts, creating an easily accessible and highly effective training facility which has helped the crews become amongst the fittest on the river. The trustees again supported a week’s training camp for men’s and women’s crews in Banyoles in Spain and one for the men on Loch Ard, thanks to James Cowderoy. Sensing in the autumn of 2004 the potential of this year’s women’s crews and the fact that the JCBC is no different from any other club in needing the best equipment to obtain the best results, the trustees initiated the Women’s 25th Anniversary Appeal directed at past women members – to mark the founding of the JCWBC – to raise money to acquire a new women’s 1st VIII ahead of normal schedule. Muriel Brittain very kindly agreed to be president of the appeal and we were delighted that she performed the ceremony in May naming the boat with her own name. We were all delighted to see ‘Muriel Brittain’ rowing Head past the Paddock – where Muriel was watching – on the last night of the Mays. It has always been, and will continue to be, the policy of the trustees not to spend the capital of the fund, but to invest in the club out of income. With the other expenditure approved by the trustees, the income of the Trust was insufficient to pay for the new women’s VIII. The proceeds of the appeal did not meet the full costs of the new boat and the trustees agreed, exceptionally, to make a loan out of capital so that the boat was ready when needed. The generosity of those past members who contributed to the appeal, and those who gave last year to the 2004 Capital Appeal, is very much appreciated. The Women’s 25th Anniversary Appeal remains open and the trustees are keen to receive further contributions so that the ‘loan’ can be repaid and their long established policy maintained; they would, therefore, be delighted to hear from members who would like to support the appeal. Our investments, under the prudent management of our investment sub-committee and with the benefit of external advice, have performed very well, with the aim of generating high income while preserving or growing the capital value. The trustees are willing to jesus college boat club trust | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 63 invest where they can see that the expenditure will produce results, but needless to say, given what we have to spend to give the crews the chance they deserve, we are always looking to increase our resources. We continue to publish our termly newsletter, edited by Richard Tett and distributed by e-mail to all those on the development office’s database who have indicated an interest in the JCBC and have given an email address. Others who wish to receive the newsletter should contact [email protected]. There is also a JCBC alumni web page on http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/boatclub.html and an up-to-date JCBC website at jcbc.jesus.cam.ac.uk with news, results and photographs. We maintain our aim of bringing together those able to give practical guidance and support to the club and the captains. An evening gathering was held in London in September. We encourage direct links between alumni and the current JCBC: last November a number of alumni dined with the club in Formal Hall, and we plan to repeat this very happy occasion. The trustees remain very grateful to the master and college for their continuing support throughout the year. We are very pleased that this year’s results on the river show JCBC in better form. We have discovered in recent years that going down is very easy. Stopping the descent and going up takes a great deal of effort, application and hard work, which have been amply shown this year. Staying up, and continuing to go up, takes increasingly more of the same: we believe that we now have in place the ingredients for precisely that, and we wish the club, under the new captains, Stephen Benjamin and Siobhan Maguire, all success in the coming year. David Wootton, Chairman photo: jim roseblade The Jesus refreshment tent at the Paddock 64 years ago | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Years Ago

Seventy-five Years Ago From the twenty sixth annual report, July 1930. ‘George William Neville, who died last January, was justly known as one of the grand old men of West Africa. He was one of the founders of the Bank of British West Africa, and took part in the punitive expedition to Benin in 1897. He has left a memorial in the splendid bronze cock of ancient native workmanship which he brought back and presented to

photos: jim roseblade the College …’

‘The Roosters are numerous and vociferous in debate. They have recently published Codex Gallorum, a new edition of the rules of the Society, which provides a worthy example of that peculiar type of humour developed under the influence of Mr. Fred Brittain. Old Roosters will find it well worth reading.’ ‘A new event on the Cam is the lock-to-lock race for the Fairbairn Cup, open to all colleges, though it remains in the hands of the J.C.B.C. Last autumn fourteen clubs and twenty-seven eights took part. The Newnham eight was the slowest – but only just.’

‘Prominent over the gateway from the new court to the Close are the arms of the Bishop of Ely supported by two angels. The sculptor was Mr. Eric Gill, celebrated for his original and daring work. The angels are much admired by those who can rise superior to the anatomical prejudices of the Creator.’

Sixty Years Ago From the forty-first annual report, July 1945 ‘The censorship has hitherto prevented us from telling our readers that half or more of the College was occupied by the Royal Air Force from the beginning of the war until the spring of this year. years ago | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 65

On 6 September 1939 an advance party of four officers arrived to set up the headquarters of the 1st (soon afterwards styled the 2nd) Initial Training Wing in the College. In order to provide their Wing with an office they commandeered the ground floor of D Staircase, which at the time was occupied by the College Office and Shield Library. The College, before the war began, had arranged to move the Office and Library to North House, but the new premises were not ready. Consequently, the office files and library books had to be moved hurriedly on a barrow. The office found a temporary home in the undergraduates’ Common Room, the books in heaps on the floor of North House. About 250 members of the Wing – officers and others – arrived next day. We can still see them sitting on the grass in brilliant sunshine in First Court, waiting for orders shouted from time to time from their new office, out of which barrow-loads of books were still being trundled. No one who was present is likely to forget the scene in Hall after dinner that night, when our guests lined the walls and our venerable Master, Mr Arthur Gray, who had been at the College since 1870, welcomed them all with a charming speech, just as photo: frances willmoth he had welcomed the men of 1914.’ Signing into Hall, 1941 Fifty Years Ago From the fifty-first annual report, July 1955 ‘The College has joined the ranks of those which have a scheme for building up an art collection for loan to undergraduates. The scheme has been established by the Amalgamated Clubs and will be run by a committee of undergraduates and Fellows. It has been decided that the collection is to be exclusively of original works of art, and that sculpture may be included. So far, 150 undergraduates have promised to subscribe a guinea a year and the College Council is making an initial loan to the fund equal to the money subscribed this year. The collection will inevitably move slowly towards meeting the demand for pictures, and the subscribers are willing to accept this slowness in the hope that the collection will become a valued possession of the College and also for the interest of seeing and living with actual works of art. No buying policy has been laid down, but for obvious reasons the purchases are likely to be mainly of contemporary English work.’ 66 women at jesus | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Women at Jesus – An Anniversary Event and Exhibition

The Anniversary Event On 18 September 2004, nearly one hundred female Jesuans visited Jesus for a celebration marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first admission of women undergraduates to the college. The event was acclaimed a great success. It had taken more than a year of planning and organisation, carried out by a working party established for the purpose in February 2003. This group was chaired by Professor Madeleine Arnot and also consisted of Dr Mary Laven, Professor Juliet Mitchell, the Development Director and two student representatives – Alison Phipps (as JCGS Women’s Officer) and Emma Broadbent (JCSU Women’s Officer). They were later joined by old member Carolina Gonzalez-Carvajal (1979, one of the first women undergraduates), Dr Frances Willmoth (Archivist) and the Reverend Jonathan Collis (Chaplain). Professor Michael Waring, as Fellows’ Steward, facilitated the provision of lunch, refreshments and the afternoon activities. Terrie McCann, Development Office assistant, played a pivotal role in arranging practical details of the day and ensuring the event ran smoothly. photos: neville taylor At the reception At the lunch

The event opened with a reception in the master’s garden. At lunch the master made an introductory speech of welcome, noting “that our College is dedicated to St Radegund, a saint who fostered female learning, and that the ancient buildings that form the core of the college were occupied first by women, more than 800 years ago.” He went on to state that “the decision to admit women undergraduates in 1979, after a gap of nearly 500 years, has been one of the most important events in the entire life of the college. Everyone agrees that it was one of the best things that has happened to Jesus.” Later, a succession of speakers took the floor to present their memories of their particular eras in college: Julia Swindells (1981) spoke on behalf of Lisa Jardine (the first woman fellow, 1976), who was prevented from being present by illness; she was followed by Clare Sambrook (JCR President 1983–4), Holly Linklater (JCSU President 1996–7), and Kate Lonie (Graduate Society President 2002–3). Clare suggested that it took about five years for the presence of women to be fully accepted and to begin to be taken for granted by all residents, by which time a noticeable alteration in the attitudes (and manners) of some of the men had become evident. During the afternoon, the guests split into groups to take part in a wide choice of activities. A few brave rowers went out on the river, in spite of the unpromising weather, while others of a sporting disposition played croquet in Chapel Court. Former members women at jesus | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 67 of the Chapel Choir joined the present Mixed Choir in rehearsal in order to sing evensong later in the day. Lord Renfrew led a very popular tour of the college’s works of art, ending with a glass of wine as an antidote to the damp. Drier indoor tours of the Quincentenary Library and Old Library were conducted at intervals through the afternoon, by Rhona Watson and Frances Willmoth. The Quincentenary Library also provided a base for two interviewers (Alison Phipps and Philip Raymont), who invited old members to record reminiscences of their time in College; more than a dozen took up this invitation. Tea-time refreshments were provided for all the participants and their families, to help them recover from the exertions of the afternoon. Evensong at six brought the day to a harmonious close. This took place at All Saints Church in Jesus Lane, just across from the college entrance, because Chapel was closed for rewiring and refurbishment. Built in the 1860s, All Saints was designed by G. F. Bodley and decorated by William Morris and his associates; consequently it has features reminiscent of the college chapel, upon which they also worked. The service was led by the Reverend Dr Jane Tillier, who as Pastoral Assistant at Jesus from 1984 to 1988 was the first woman to occupy a chaplain’s stall in a Cambridge college; the Reverend Emma Percy (née Bray, 1982) gave an excellent sermon; Carolina Gonzalez-Carvajal and Terrie McCann read the lessons: Proverbs 31, v. 10–31, which describes the capabilities, hard work and managerial skills of the “virtuous woman” whose “price is far above rubies”, and Mark 15, v. 33–41, which comments on the role of women followers of Jesus at the crucifixion and as supporters of His earlier ministry. The choir’s contribution included the anthem ‘O be joyful’ by Benjamin Britten. A retiring collection was donated to the work of CAMFED International, a charity that supports the education of girls in western and southern Africa. In her sermon, Emma Percy began by reflecting on the distance travelled in the twenty- five years since the first admission of women: “What felt like a momentous change then seems pretty ordinary now ... and earlier debates about women in trousers at high table and whether to use the term freshwomen seem quaint.” She went on to draw a comparison between developments in the education system and the situation in the Church of England since the first ordination of women priests ten years ago: in both education and the church, “it is recognition and opportunity that women have sought and a chance to offer their insights into the way we all work together.” She then turned to the lessons just read, commenting that, despite the ways in which theology has been used to the detriment of women, encouraging “snapshots of achieving women” have survived in Biblical narratives. These had informed her view “that my very femaleness may contain insights about both the God in whose image I am made and the humanity of which I am a normative part,” and encouraged her “to write about my experiences of motherhood and the insights that experience has to offer in terms of leadership and human community relations”. In the wider world, the last quarter of a century of women’s achievement may perhaps be followed by a period in which “women become secure enough to allow their experiences to change the worlds in which they work and for men to become secure enough to listen and learn from those whose experience of being human is subtly different and yet equally normal.” The men might even learn something about multi- tasking! In conclusion, Emma observed that in celebrating 25 years of women students at Jesus College, “we hope for a time when human beings will be truly valued for their diversity and men and women confidently able to learn from one another and we do so trusting in a God who is beyond gender, who created men and women in the divine image, that through the richness of human experience we may learn more of the divine and be a blessing both to God and each other.” 68 women at jesus | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

A further feature of the day’s event, offering another means of reflecting on recent experience, was an exhibition in the Quincentenary Library: Women at Jesus: History and Reminiscences. The historical part of this was founded upon research specially commissioned by the college and carried out by Philip Raymont as research assistant, in close collaboration with the archivist. The resulting exhibition, housed in the Creswick Room, presented detailed records of discussions surrounding the 1974 decision to admit women, and of the subsequent stages of the implementation of that decision – the first female fellow, the first female postgraduates, the first female research fellow – culminating in the arrival of the first women undergraduates in October 1979. It also offered illustrative material from a much longer historical background – recalling the site’s former occupation by a medieval nunnery and the sometimes invisible but often indispensable presence of women throughout earlier centuries of college life. This display has remained in place during the 2004–5 academic year, and a version of it will find a long-term home on the college website. The other, complementary but more informal, display occupied the Garden Room during the anniversary celebration; assembled by Carolina Gonzales-Carvajal, it aimed to reflect the experience of women members of Jesus College during their time here and their contribution to college life and the wider world. It included a number of evocative photographs and memorabilia loaned by alumnae, written reminiscences, records of professional careers, jewellery made by professional craftswoman Alison Levy (1985), and an impressive array of book- jackets and publications, representing the work of current female fellows.

The Exhibition: History of Women at Jesus The research carried out in preparation for the main event and the exhibition has provided many fresh insights into the college’s recent and less recent history. Some will be illustrated in what follows here, with the aid of evidence from the college archives, Society and Council Minutes, the college magazine (The Chanticleer, alias Chanticlere) and the college’s Annual Reports (J.C.C.S. Annual reports until to 1971). A final section, offering a picture of Jesus College as experienced by its women members in the past twenty-five years, is based upon the interviews taped on 18 September and associated written reminiscences. These capture the ease with which the first women fitted into the college, though always aware of their minority status. St Radegund. Its full title – “College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St John the Evangelist and the Glorious Virgin St Radegund” – is a reminder that the college, founded by Bishop John Alcock in 1496, occupies the site of a Benedictine nunnery founded in the twelfth century outside the Cambridge town boundary. The nunnery was technically a priory, ruled over by a prioress, and was dedicated to St Mary and St Radegund. Remnants of its buildings survive at the core of the college today and this history accounts for the distinctively peaceful and spacious character of the site. While a dedication to the Blessed Virgin Mary or St Mary is not unusual among Cambridge colleges, the dedication to St Radegund is unique to Jesus. Radegund was a sixth-century Queen of the Franks, who separated from her husband to live as a nun in a monastic house she founded at Poitiers. Links between that region and England multiplied following the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1152, and more than one of the people involved in supporting the Cambridge nunnery had associations that might have led them to seek St Radegund’s favour. Countess Constance, the widowed daughter-in-law of King Stephen and sister of Louis VII of France, is likely to have looked to Radegund as a patron of widows; she made a significant gift to the nuns before returning to France. King Malcolm IV of Scotland women at jesus | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 69

(Earl of Huntingdon and Cambridge), visited Poitiers, the centre of Radegund’s cult, in the course of a military campaign around the time of his main benefaction to the nuns. King Malcolm was traditionally credited with founding the nunnery and certainly gave the land on which the nuns’ church – now the college chapel – was built; but Constance has recently been put forward as a more plausible originator of the dedication. Bishop Alcock chose to preserve the name (probably to give an impression of continuity between the nunnery and his new college) and it has been perpetuated in connection with college properties and activities: one can find Radegund Buildings in Jesus Lane, Radegund Road in the Station Estate, the St Radegund pub in King St, The Rhadegunds as a society for college sportspeople (specifically blues), and, in more recent years, The Society of St Radegund, created in 1994 as a way of honouring the college’s modern benefactors. St Radegund (sometimes spelt Rhadegund, Radegunda in Latin and Radegonde in French) was a woman with whom, in retrospect, the college might be well pleased to associate, as she not only fostered female learning but is said to have exhibited such virtues as strength of character, humility and wisdom. Details of her life were recorded by her friend Venantius Fortunatus and by one of her nuns, Baudonivia; she also found a place in Gregory of Tours’ Historia Francorum. An anonymous verse Lyfe of Saynt Radegunde, possibly by Henry Bradshaw, a monk at Chester, was published in 1525. The story goes that Radegund was a Thuringian princess who was captured as a child by Clothaire I, a Frankish king, and later forced into marriage with him, becoming one of his seven recognised wives. He was a violent and unscrupulous man. Around the year 552 AD, he treacherously murdered Radegund’s brother and she fled from the court; as she had by then adopted the Christian faith and became acquainted with the saintly Bishop Medard, she sought sanctuary with him at Noyon and begged him to ordain her deaconess. The bishop at first refused on the grounds that her married state disqualified her. With the pursuing king and his warriors at the door of the church, she hurried to the sacristy and, laying aside her rich clothing and jewelled girdle, put on a religious habit she found there, then returned to the altar and said to the bishop: “If thou shalt refuse to consecrate me, and shall fear men rather than God, let the soul of the sheep be required of the shepherd at thy hand!” Struck by this solemn adjuration, he consecrated her deaconess. Through the mediation of another bishop, Germanus, the king was induced to consent to a separation, and Radegund retired to Poitiers, where she founded a double monastery. Living under the Rule of Caesaria of Arles, the cloistered sisters were required to be able to read and write, and to devote several hours of the day to reading the scriptures and copying manuscripts, as well as such traditional female tasks as weaving and needlework. Radegund herself was not the abbess, but lived as a simple nun; she became renowned for her saintliness and was consulted by rulers of state. Her former husband was eventually persuaded to respect her aims. A copy of the 1525 Lyfe of Saynt Radegunde reached Jesus College as a gift from Dr Farmer, Master of Emmanuel College, in 1792. In 1926 Freddy Brittain republished this book as a complement to his 1925 work Saint Radegund, Patroness of Jesus College, Cambridge. The earlier volume provided a brief sketch of the saint’s life and cult and was the result of a visit the author had made to Poitiers in 1924. He expressed the hope that the book might have broader appeal than just to the membership of Jesus College, but “it will have achieved its object, even if it succeeds only in eradicating the error which leads some to refer to the third and most distinctive patron as ‘he’”. 70 women at jesus | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

This suggests that the college’s memory was either short or very selective. In 1886 the wives and sisters of some members of the college, led by Mrs Morgan, the master’s wife, had contributed to the placing of a statue of St Radegund on the eastern side of the newly completed Carpenter building. It was designed as a companion to St John, on the western side, and the Virgin Mary, on the southern side, both presented by the master, Henry Morgan. All three were “from the studio of Mr Singer” – John Webb Singer of Frome (working with his sons Herbert and Edgar). The Chanticleer reported that while the men had noticed how “our patron saint sheds her sweet influence from an elevated niche in the Chapel Court … We are ashamed to say that we haven’t the least idea of who St Rhadegund is.” While considerable evidence of St Radegund’s career remains to us, most surviving records of the Cambridge nunnery are property deeds. This has not deterred attempts to portray its daily life. Arthur Gray, master from 1912 to 1940, wrote The Priory of St Radegund, Cambridge, published in 1898; his personal papers preserved in the college archives include a notebook containing material relating to his work on the book. He also made use of his research to provide a background for one of his ghost stories (published as Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye, 1919), though its plot is entirely fictional. More recent associations with the nunnery have come through excavations, undertaken for various practical purposes, which have resulted in the bones of nuns and of their medieval parishioners being disturbed and recovered. Women in College. While some members of the college sporadically looked for inspiration to its forerunners and name-saints, the place and role of ordinary women in the college over the centuries has varied. They were, at times, invisible, but were often indispensable; and sometimes their contribution was appreciated. Some of these women lived at the college as wives and daughters of the master. Edmund Pierpoint, master from 1551 to 1557 was the first married master; it was only after 1882 that fellows were also allowed to marry. Other women dedicated their working lives to the college as members of staff, including one college cook, Mrs Willis, who succeeded her late husband in that onerous role in 1830. Others still enhanced the life and reputation of the college through generous benefactions and gifts. Texts of the annual Commemoration of Benefactors service preserved from earlier centuries illustrate very clearly the generosity of several women in funding scholarships. Later gifts might be valuable additions to the Mrs and Henry Morgan with speaking trumpet women at jesus | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 71 collection of works of art, like Mrs Gordon’s presentation of silver candlesticks, fine tankards and a collection of plate in 1969, or Lady Martin’s gift in 1971 which enabled a portrait of James I to be acquired, or academic, like Mrs Allhusen’s foundation in 1905 of a science prize in honour of her husband, Mr F. E. Allhusen. Finally there were some women who wrote about the college and its members. In 1914, Iris and Gerda Morgan, daughters of Henry Morgan, published The Stones and Story of Jesus Chapel Cambridge, a project which they started many years earlier as a small volume containing drawings and a short history of the chapel; their completed volume is over three hundred pages in length. Iris also published a Memoir of her late father in 1927. A few decades on, Phyllis Tillyard, wife of E. M. W. Tillyard (Master 1945–59), compiled a detailed history of the Master’s Lodge. Students, of course, had relatively little contact with the master’s family but much more with college staff. If the annals of the college magazine are any indication, the women employed as bedmakers held a special place in the hearts of college men. Sometimes it was suggested they interfered a little more than they might, and protest might be recommended “To make you see that I will brook None of your damned domestic interference!”; there were also frivolous debates as to whether ‘bedders’ should be abolished. But reports of these stand alongside grateful acknowledgments of their often life-time devotion to the college and its students. In 1943, for example, Mrs E. Gray retired after fifty-six years as a bedmaker having served earlier as a ‘help’, adding up to From Chanticlere, Michaelmas term 1924 a period of sixty years in the service of the college. At the same time two others retired having spent twenty-nine and twenty-five years in their posts. The first College Nurse was appointed in 1946 and she also gave long and meritorious service, staying until her retirement in 1975. Still other women, closer to their own age, enlivened the lives of the students, especially in the earlier part of the twentieth century. Young ladies might perform at a college concert, or alongside the men on the stage, or appear as partners at a May Ball. Recounting a successful ball in 1902, a Jesuan noted that at four o’clock in the morning, when the photograph was taken, not only was “the sun shining brightly, the birds singing”, but “The complexions of the ladies stood the ordeal of morning light most nobly”. Sometimes, it might be said, the men thought of themselves as exuding great charm upon the ladies, as a 1949 poem by Hobson entitled Sexual Behaviour of the Jesus Male suggested: I’ve a girl up at Girton who will sometimes come to tea; I’ve another up at Newnham who will not; There’s another at Homerton whose name I’ve quite forgot – She’s an Homerton foot beagler – and her scent’s enough for me. 72 women at jesus | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

As students at the women’s colleges became more numerous and less firmly chaperoned, members of Girton and Newnham participated in lively debates against those of Jesus; several such occasions are recorded in Chanticlere and in the Roosters’ minutes (where it is difficult to guess what the visitors thought of some of the jokes made at their expense, though they were quick to respond in kind). But Jesuan debaters also burdened themselves with more serious issues – whether women should be admitted to the professions, whether it was acceptable for women to smoke, and even whether women should be entitled to join them as academic equals. Some in Lent Term 1888 felt “knowledge turned sour in the female mind and made them acid”, others were concerned that the admission of women into the professions would bring normal domestic life to an end, while still others liked women as they were and insisted that there would be dangers in setting women on an equal footing. When it came to the question of smoking, the Common Room in Lent Term 1890 voted in favour of women being allowed to smoke, mainly because they favoured women’s rights and a gentleman “would not deny his fair friends a pleasure in which he indulged himself”, but this was only after some opponents had attempted to draw a line between ladies and women, only the latter being permitted to smoke. Even in 1889, some members of the college recognised that their views on the place of women might be seen in future years as examples of bigotry. One writer in the 1889 Easter Term edition of The Chanticleer suggested that in 2070 AD a female Fellow when speaking of the college “during the dark ages” might mention the shape of an eight oar and the incredible brutality of football, while recognising that ladies, due to the bigotry of men, were not allowed to be members of the male colleges. Discussions about admitting women. The college did not wait until 2070 to alter its composition. The first archival record to allude to the possibility that Jesus College might consider admitting women is a Society minute of 8 June 1964. This states that “Notice was given of a proposal ‘that the Council be asked to investigate and report on how the College could be made a mixed Society of men and women.’” But the climate was not yet right for the matter to be taken any further – the proposal seems never to have been put to Council – and the next relevant document comes from a decade later. This is a paper entitled, ‘Admissions for 1974’ written by the then senior tutor, Bruce Sparks, in the January of that year. It indicated that he was concerned about the continuing decline in the number of applications by men to Cambridge colleges; while Jesus College had actually received one more application than the year before, the ratio of applicants to places of 1.75 to 1 was no cause for satisfaction, even though the college usually met its need for 125 men by taking a few pool students. While he was comfortable enough with that situation, it was obvious that the senior tutor was looking longingly at the increasing number of applications, for a reduced number of places for men, being obtained by the colleges that were already accepting women students: “It seems likely from present experience that mixed colleges will be popular and likely to have a larger share in better quality applicants.” To avoid being accused of succumbing to changing societal attitudes associated with the political cry of equality of opportunity for both sexes, Sparks was emphatic that “these arguments concern only the intellectual standards of the College”. Momentum was maintained with the election of Sir Alan Cottrell as master on 16 April 1974. Further discussions, highlighting a greater range of reasons for admitting women, soon followed. A paper submitted to the Society by Dr John Adkins made a number of points. First, he stated that, in the context of current social attitudes, a mixed society made for a more happy, stable, enjoyable and stimulating community. Secondly, because the University of Cambridge accepted only seventeen per cent of women as opposed to a national average of thirty per cent, it was clear that women were being rejected who were better than some of the men admitted, a situation exemplified by the decision of King’s College to admit “on women at jesus | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 73 purely academic grounds” a proportion of women undergraduates which represented forty-five percent of their intake. Thirdly, any college “which drags their feet over this issue” would lose out in the short term by the greater restriction on possible choices and in the longer term by gaining an image that would do harm for many years, not least in how it would affect the quality of the fellowship. The opposing position, expressed by the retired dean, Dr Percy Gardner-Smith, preferred profound caution and close observation of “the result of a feminine invasion in other colleges which have taken the plunge” before taking any action; he was less concerned with the academic rationale for the admission of women and was keen that the college should be seen as much more than an institution producing graduates: “there is no denying the character of the College would be changed”. In highlighting this apprehension he wondered if old Jesus men, whose devotion to the College was revealed in their generous response to various appeals, “might lose their enthusiasm for a co-educational establishment”. Opinions might differ amongst the fellowship, but the J.C.R. Executive was clear in its belief that “support for co-residence within the undergraduate body is known to be great”; it had been pressing for this reform for some time. Undergraduate opinion in favour of co- residence was predicated on a belief that education should be open to all those capable of gaining from it, regardless of sex, as well as other social and financial factors. To that end, the J.C.R. Executive’s submission to the Society regarding amendments to the College Statutes (10 June 1974) argued that a larger degree of equality could only be obtained within Cambridge by a change in the admissions procedures of most colleges, involving, at the very least, removal of the restriction based on difference of sex. Their submission contended that the 8,000 students of the university were as united as any group of that size could be in wishing to see an end to discrimination on the grounds of sex. On the broader question of what ‘equality’ might actually be, the J.C.R. were of the opinion that Jesus men favoured “free academic competition” whereby places were offered to the best applicants irrespective of their sex, as opposed to the Cambridge Student Union’s stated position of “positive discrimination”, where women would be favoured in faculties where it could be argued they had been disadvantaged at school. Unlike the senior tutor, who seemed most anxious to base his support for women on the need to improve academic standards, the students’ submission indicated that this argument had not been influential amongst undergraduates. The J.C.R. Executive believed that the improvement the Senior Tutor sought would be an inevitable consequence of equality of opportunity. On the 13 June 1974, only three days after this J.C.R. document was submitted, the Society decided that it was “desirable that the College should have the power to admit women as members if they wished to do so”. This power could only be obtained by abolishing or amending the 1926 College Statute, Statute 1.6, which stated “No woman shall be elected or admitted as Pensioner, Scholar, Officer, Fellow, or Master of the College”. To assist consideration of how the change could best be made, the Senior Tutor was asked to prepare a statement of conditions which should govern the admission of women. At the next Society meeting, he reported that the interconnected questions – about whether to impose quotas, admissions procedures, women fellows, domestic segregation and the timing of the entry of women – were “all perfectly soluble if there is the slightest will to resolve them”. He thought 1977 the earliest year that women could be admitted, and in summation claimed that “the only real decision is whether to admit women”. In keeping with his previous pronouncements on the reasons for admitting women, Sparks was keen to promote the introduction of women into the fellowship; but he saw no justification for electing women fellows on criteria different from men, and at disproportionate expense. He was sure that many of the male fellows would be just as well equipped to advise women as might “a middle-aged spinster in a women’s college”. He opposed segregated living, believing this demonstrated a lack of trust, though he was 74 women at jesus | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

prepared to countenance “an odd loo or two with appropriate pictorial symbols in this non- literate age”. As a matter of principle, he held the view that women could make the choice to apply to the college or to “opt out if they objected to being treated equally with men”. On 22 November 1974, the Society decided that Statute 1.6 should be repealed (amongst a series of alterations to other college statutes). But the desire to move towards admitting women had not only to gain the support of the Society; it had also to negotiate a range of protocols put in place by the Colleges’ Standing Consultative Committee on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women. This body existed to ensure an orderly and gradual transition towards co-residence across the University, thereby allaying certain fears of the women’s colleges (chiefly, the fear that they might lose out if the best female applicants were suddenly all attracted to former men’s colleges). During March 1975 negotiations took place with the Consultative Committee to establish an acceptable timetable for admissions to Jesus College. On 30 May 1975 the Society formally adopted a new set of statutes for the College by a margin of thirty-seven to three, with two abstentions, and duly submitted them for the approval of “Her Majesty in Council” (the Privy Council). They were approved on 4 March 1976. In the meantime, a time-table was agreed; a statement of intent to admit women for the first time in 1980 was issued on 21 July 1975. The first action taking advantage of the new statutes came at a Council meeting on 10 May 1976, when Dr Lisa Anne Jardine was elected a fellow, on the proposal of the master and the senior tutor. Jardine was at that time a fellow and assistant lecturer in English at King’s College, Cambridge. Having read mathematics and English as an undergraduate at Newnham College, she had pursued research at the University of Essex, as a research fellow at Girton College and as a post-doctoral fellow at Cornell. Thus this daughter of Dr Jacob Bronowski (1908–74), a sometime scholar and honorary fellow at Jesus, became the first photo: dona haycraft woman entitled to membership of the College. Less than one month later, the Graduate Lisa Jardine not long after becoming a fellow Tutor, Dr John Killen, pointed out to the College Council that other colleges that had changed their statutes to permit women becoming members were proposing to admit women graduates. He thought no particular problems would arise from such a move, and, while the college’s two graduate hostel-keepers were not enthusiastic, they were resigned to the change and could envisage no problems arising. Council concurred and the first women postgraduates (five of them) were admitted in 1978. The idea of having to queue along with other colleges before being permitted to implement the admission of women undergraduates created a sense of frustration. Another ingredient hastening change was the Sex Discrimination Bill, which was before Parliament in the summer of 1975 and came into force, as the Sex Discrimination Act, in January 1976. College Council was concerned about the likely effects of provisions of this Act and consequently resolved, on 15 December 1976, to admit women as undergraduates in 1979. This would be a year earlier than had previously been indicated to the Colleges’ Standing Consultative Committee, but was the date ultimately adhered to. To complete, as it were, the set of forms of membership, the first woman research fellow was elected on the 14 February 1977. This was Vivian Law, the holder of a Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship at Girton, with first class honours in both classics and German from McGill University. Her research subject was “Anglo- and Hiberno-Latin grammatical treatises of the seventh and eighth centuries and their influence on Continental grammarians”. (Dr Law remained in Cambridge as lecturer in the history of linguistics, latterly reader in the history of linguistic thought and a fellow of Trinity College, until her untimely death in 2002.) While at Jesus, she was joined by two research fellows in English, both admitted in October 1978: Dr Susanne Kappeler (studying the works of Henry James) and Kathleen Wheeler (an expert on Coleridge, looking closely at his Biographia Literaria). women at jesus | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 75

While these decisions about women gaining membership were taking place, significant changes were also being made to accommodate the needs of female guests. In 1975 the fellowship moved to change dining arrangements for wives of fellows, Jesus College being only one of three colleges still maintaining a distinction between these and academic women. The Jesus College Cambridge Annual Report of 1975 announced the changes, which abolished the former annual ‘Ladies’ Nights’ and provided for women guests, including wives, to be introduced at High Table on most ordinary nights and at the four Lesser Exceedings. Along with the changing economic circumstances came changing social norms which affected the feminisation of student life. One of the more symbolic events was the decision of Council in February 1975, following strong representation from the J.C.R., to abolish the sex distinction previously applied in guest regulations. The Tutorial Board, in making its recommendation on this matter, agreed to support the change because the detection of breaches of the rules had become impracticable, but at the same time it wished to affirm its disapproval of the accommodation of women guests in men’s rooms. Council From Chanticlere, Michaelmas term 1949 expressed the hope “that members of the College will share its view that women guests should be accommodated in the guest rooms available”. As the J.C.R. noted, Tutorial Board and Council objections were based entirely on moral considerations, for the regulations permitted male guests and female family members to stay in undergraduate rooms. While keen that undergraduates (all of whom were over the age of legal majority) should be assumed to be capable of deciding their own moral position, the J.C.R. also argued that the moral force of the college’s position was unclear given that the appropriate rules were never strictly enforced, and, when they were, it placed an unfair burden of choice – between reporting students and turning a ‘blind eye’ – upon porters and bedders, who if they worked in most other colleges would not be faced with such a dilemma. The decision to admit women students meant that the college authorities needed to consider domestic and tutorial implications. A comprehensive report was prepared in February 1977 by a committee led by Lisa Jardine. They took the view that there should not be any overall percentage quota of women and that in making the necessary arrangements with reference to showers, bathrooms, washbasins, lavatories, launderettes, hostels and gyp facilities, “women should be assured of comfort and privacy in the first instance and that we should be prepared and ready for further modifications as experience dictates”. The committee recommended that women should be in mixed tutorial groups, but, on any occasion that a specific problem arose, a woman or married family man could be called upon as a ‘consultant’ tutor. The college received 125 applications from women for admission in 1979, representing thirty per cent of total applications. The thirty-one women who arrived in early October 1979 constituted twenty-seven percent of the total number of students accepted. Twenty- one percent of the awards were gained by women, three as scholars and eight as exhibitioners. At the same time, no loss of interest by male applicants was experienced; 76 women at jesus | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

on the contrary, their total number exceeded that in the previous year, which had already shown a dramatic increase “quite atypical of the University”. There was overall an increase in post-A-level applications, to be considered on A-levels and interview alone, though very few were accepted on this basis; more were told to go away and take the entrance examination. In providing such details for the information of the fellowship, the senior tutor observed “Women are apparently far less nervous at interviews than men, but seemingly lose their cool more easily if needled or provoked”. He also added: “True to the College traditions we have accepted a girl whose other qualifications include swimming in the 100 and 200m butterfly in the Commonwealth Games”. Curiously, the most negative reaction to the new situation did not come from within College but just outside, from a band of women with a territory of their own to guard. The fellow for rooms met with considerable resistance when trying to make arrangements for women undergraduates’ accommodation during the 1980–1 academic year, as all but one of the lodging-house keepers expressed strong opposition to the accommodation of female undergraduates, either in mixed or single-sex houses. The reasons they gave were described by the fellow for rooms as ludicrous. Comments in reminiscences by students suggest the lodging-house keepers’ protests were probably expressed in terms of practical issues – that young women would demand high standards of domestic comfort and use unacceptable quantities of hot water – while the underlying problem seems most likely to have been a perceived threat to their own well-established dominance over houses full of young men. But this seems to have been the one real hiccup in an otherwise smooth transition. The women quickly established their presence in student life: Elizabeth Bellamy became the first woman on the J.C.R. Committee, which looked forward to having its first woman president (achieved with the election of Helen Warburton in the year 1981–2). The first chapel service sung by a mixed choir took place on St Radegund’s Day 1981, with the formal foundation of the Mixed Choir occurring soon afterwards. Many women took up rowing and other sports: in the first year a women’s novice eight was formed, constituting the start of J.C.W.B.C, and a ladies’ squash team was assembled; a mixed hockey team was joined in 1981–2 by a Women’s 1st XI, which had the chance to play in a new women’s league in the following year. Netball appears in the club reports from 1983–4 and Ladies’ Football from 1984–5; 1986–7 was the first year in which a ladies’ team played league badminton, and in 1987–8 there was a four-woman team of swimmers. Women’s rugby was in existence by 1990–1.

Women’s Rugby Union Football Club 1990–1 Women’s eight 1979–80. Kindly lent by Carolina Gonzalez-Carvajal

By the time of the Quincentenary celebrations in 1996, there were enough female Jesuans for a Women’s Dinner to form part of the festivities, and this event was repeated on a grander scale in 1997. In 1996, too, Mrs Muriel Brittain was appointed a life fellow- commoner, “in recognition of her unique and devoted contribution to the life of the College for a period exceeding twenty-five years” (as the wife of former fellow, Freddy Brittain, Muriel was given special permission in 1965 to live in College with her husband; since his death she has played an invaluable role in maintaining records of old members, women at jesus | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 77 keeping in touch with them, and helping to compile Annual Reports). In the late autumn of 1996, honorary fellow Jessye Norman (1989) sang at a memorable celebratory concert in Chapel. In recent years women’s creative work has appeared in a college setting through the participation of women artists in the biennial sculpture exhibitions. The first such exhibitor was Veronica Ryan, originally from Montserrat, who spent 1987–8 at Jesus as ‘artist in residence’ (as Kettle’s Yard Arts Council Fellow). She showed four sculptures in the first exhibition in 1988, which she helped organise. One of the most memorable contributions was displayed in 1996: in Nina Saunders’ installation Pure Thought Part 1, “the windows of the south side of first Court were all obscured by panels of white leatherette,” in imitation of padded furniture. Her related sculpture Pure thought Part 2 took the form of a pregnant sofa, placed in Chapel. These challenging works could be taken as a reminder not to become complacent about progress. To help mark the 25th anniversary, the Works of Art Committee decided to include five female artists as participants in this year’s exhibition.

Reminiscences Well, was it a total success? What did the women who benefited from these decisions think? Seventeen of the returning alumnae responded to the invitation to record on audiotape some of their thoughts about the college. They were asked to comment on why they applied to Jesus, their first impressions of the place, any emblematic stories or reminiscences, what it was like to be a woman here, and finally what those days meant to them in retrospect. The group was made up of undergraduates from throughout the period (reading for a broad cross-section of disciplines) a number of graduates, including one part-time mature student, a pastoral assistant and a fellow. Their comments complement the reminiscences recorded on paper by other alumnae, included in the Garden Room section of the exhibition and now preserved in the college archives. The analysis that follows must be read with one caveat in mind: those reminiscing were a self- selected sample. The contributors’ mixture of reasons for coming here and their initial impressions were much as one would expect of any cohort of students, male or female; the graduates had slightly different concerns, but again without any obvious link to gender. Many undergraduates, from whatever background, came from co-educational schools or at least had experienced being taught in mixed groups; they show no signs, at any stage, of having worried about sharing their academic activities with the opposite sex. Most of the doubts senior members may have had about it were soon overcome; one fellow has commented that, although he was initially reluctant to see the college’s character altered, he swiftly changed his mind on finding that the women students were much keener to work hard than their male counterparts. Where the students’ remarks about their first impressions include any negative comments on gender-related issues, they tend not to concern academic matters but aspects of general culture and attitudes: “being excluded from a number of college activities and institutions due to my sex”, the dominance of sport and sporting clubs, particularly for rowing and rugby, in which women had no immediate place, and the emphasis on consuming large quantities of alcohol. There was also one comment that the fact that the serving staff and porters were all male tended to give the place “a rather Dickensian” atmosphere. Some of these issues are echoed again in women’s more general comments on their college experience. There is some variation depending on the era, but even in the 1990s, when women made up around a third of the undergraduates, it could seem that tokenism was at times exercised towards the women and that the College was still an “Old Boys’ 78 women at jesus | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Club”. For the women who played sport, however, it seems that such issues were comparatively unimportant; from the earliest years, some specifically say that, although there was a very male atmosphere, they fitted in because they were very “sporty”. A graduate squash-player continued to play in the men’s league as well as the women’s once the latter had been created (after the arrival of the undergraduates), though she was irritated to find that on earning her half-blue in the sport she was not invited to join the Rhadegunds. In general, the variety of opportunities to participate in sports was widely valued, and those who did so reported that the men were generous and encouraging to the women’s sports teams. A successful rower commented: “we were respected because we did well at rowing, in fact made to feel a bit special”. A couple of the first graduates were welcomed on board men’s eights as coxes – at least until the captain of boats and college boatman found out. At the same time, a few of the shyer or less sporty women could feel threatened by the rowdy and “lecherous” behaviour of the “rugby boys”, along with “initiation ceremonies, tribalism and the destructiveness of the men’s drinking societies”; the idea of women founding their own drinking societies could be viewed with some ambivalence by other women. Whilst agreeing that these should, in principle, have an equal right to exist, one commentator at least found it disappointing to see women so committed to imitating male traditions when a more critical and radical approach could have been hoped for. Another observed, with some regret, that her fellow women undergraduates were not political and mostly resisted or ignored any attempts to radicalise them. Graduate students judged that it was in their circle that women had the highest profile, and a far greater impact than their numbers would have suggested: one recalls that Graduate Hall was transformed into “a wonderful social occasion”, because “members felt much more comfortable inviting their wives/girlfriends to dine when there were guaranteed to be other women present”. The women valued having a variety of other students to talk to, appreciated the facilities available – their own rooms and computers, the use of a computer room and research costs paid – and were grateful that they were being helped towards getting a job. At the same time, they could not but be aware from their observations of the undergraduate and senior sectors of the college that it remained predominantly a male institution. One, who was a member of College Council and had set up a feminist group to discuss women’s and leftist issues, recalls her surprise at the low profile of women; there were not many women on Council and she felt that some fellows had “an unthinking disinterest” in women. On the other hand, the relative scarcity of women fellows might mean that their presence was especially noticed: students at all levels mention their appreciation of Lisa Jardine’s encouragement and helpfulness; other women fellows were appointed in due course, and students could also turn for advice to Jane Tillier, Pastoral Assistant to the Dean from 1984, and to Ros Hunt, the first female chaplain, from 1988. Graduates and undergraduates shared an appreciation of many other positive features of college life. For the first groups, there was the pride and pleasure associated with being pioneers and being part of the college’s history, which made them willing to put up with some of the inconveniences inevitably attached to that status. They were often pleasantly surprised by the welcome they received – for instance, the first graduate student to sign in at the Porter’s Lodge in 1978 recalled that “Mr West, then Head Porter, was thrilled to welcome ‘the first woman since the nuns left’”; others noted their appreciation of the way the porters seemed to look out for women students. For those who came later, there was the perception that the college’s culture was gradually changing in ways that made women more comfortable (one commenting that the men had been “tamed” even by 1981), and that they could assist in ensuring that process continued. In the late 1980s security issues came to the fore, with self–defence classes provided, and lights and alarms placed in the women at jesus | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 79 basements and cellars where students did their washing and took their baths. The development of a statement of ‘policy and guidance on harassment’ for students and staff was another landmark, in 1994. At all stages, the support provided by other women was of great importance to many. It arose in an informal way through individual friendships, but was also fostered by events organised by the Women’s Officer, such as a regular ‘women’s breakfast’. The Quincentenary celebrations in 1996 included a Women’s Dinner, at which Lisa Jardine, as guest of honour, recalled the hazards of being inducted to her fellowship in Chapel while in the late stages of pregnancy. A second Women’s Dinner in the following year was held in Hall, on a grander scale; Professor Sandra Dawson was guest of honour, and special tribute was paid to Lady Renfrew for her contribution to college life during her husband’s mastership (1986–96). A participant noted that in the same year a survey was made of Jesus women graduates and a ‘resource book’ of contact details compiled to aid networking; she added that “one of my strongest memories is of a rather feminised graduation – with Jana Howlett marching us all proudly to the Senate House” (Dr Howlett was the college’s praelector from 1992 to 2002). When the interviewees were asked, “Looking back, what did it mean to you to have spent those years at Jesus?”, words like “fantastic”, “honoured” and “privileged” rang from their lips. Intellectually, they believed they had received an extremely high-quality education, in a place that was a kind of “half-way house”, teaching them through the experience of supervisions to have confidence in themselves and talk to anyone without feeling intimidated. It was also a “half-way house” socially, where the women felt safe to enjoy their freedom to be themselves, and to develop a range of extra-curricular activities – not only sports, but theatre and music. They enjoyed a great deal of camaraderie, while learning to fend for themselves under the oversight of the porters and senior members. A few look back with regret for all the interesting people they could have met but didn’t, as they now realise they had been too young to appreciate some of the opportunities available. But most respondents said the overall result was “altogether a great experience”, and one that left them with a warm affection for the institution that had provided it. One added “It’s a hard act to follow”. The celebration thus not only commemorated the historic decision made in 1974 and first admission of women undergraduates in 1979, but reflected twenty-five years of the successful integration of women into college life. In 2004 the college was home to nineteen women fellows, ninety women graduates and two hundred and thirty-seven women undergraduates. One alumna attending the celebration expressed her delight that the college now has more female than male undergraduates, and that a baby had been present at the celebratory lunch. The process of development has, of course, been a gradual one, and not merely a question of numbers; it has included, for instance, the increasing chance that women might be taught by women, as well as by men, and might encounter them holding other offices as the variety of posts held by women has expanded. The opening up of sporting and club activities to women’s participation was also something that did not happen overnight. Recent minor landmarks include the arrival of the college’s first female porter, Helen Stephens, which attracted some interest from the press, and in the appointment of Nicola Rogers (1990) as the university’s first ever female Esquire Bedell. A major landmark has just been reached, with the announcement of Jana Howlett’s election by the Society as the college’s first female President. Dame Sandra Dawson (once a fellow here) was elected Master of Sidney Sussex in 1999, but the election of the first female Master of Jesus is still to come. Frances Willmoth, Philip Raymont, Mary Laven and Madeleine Arnot, for the Working Group. 80 early american connections | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Early American Connections

The links between Jesus College and the British colonies in North America were not extensive. This was typical of most Cambridge colleges, except, famously, Emmanuel College which supplied so many pulpits in New England and helped to created Harvard College. For its part, Jesus sent the occasional minister, received the stray sons of planters, and looked upon these far parts with much indifference. In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, little or no distinction would have been made between those colonies which subsequently became the United States, Canada, and various West Indian countries, for all belonged to a zone of British power, unstably holding its own against imperial competition from France, the Netherlands, Spain, and the Native Americans who tried to resist conquest and avoid extinction. So the college would have regarded as “American” undergraduates like Thomas Fultun and Samuel Alpress, who came from Jamaica as pensioners in 1713 and 1756, and Butler Fenton and Joseph Webbe who came likewise in 1732 and 1733 from the “West Indies”, about which the college records are thus vague. It is probable, though difficult to prove – we have only scraps of information – that familial connections with Cambridge were often of moment. This was certainly the case with Maryland’s Peter Dent (b.1667), who came from St. Mary’s County on the Western Shore of Chesapeake Bay to the college in 1700.1 The Dents were originally a Yorkshire family from Gisborough in the North Riding, who migrated in substantial numbers to the Americas. Of those that remained in England, another Peter Dent (ca. 1628/9–89) of Ormsby in Yorkshire attended Trinity College, Cambridge, became an apothecary, surgeon, and botanist in the city, where he came to own properties in the parish of Holy Sepulchre and belonged to the circle of friends who gathered around John Ray, to whose Historia Plantarum (1686–1704) Dent contributed useful observations.2 His cousin, a third Peter Dent (1637/8–1717) also lived in Cambridge and seems to have furnished food to colleges. So the Peter Dent who came from Maryland, matriculated at Jesus College as a sizar on 13 November 1700 at the unusually-advanced age of 23, was given a Mr Marsden as a tutor, but never obtained a degree, arrived in a Cambridge where family members were much to hand. His father was Captain John Dent (ca. 1645–1712) and his mother Mary Hatch (1647–1725/26). It is likely that the former was born in Yorkshire and was a nephew of the more-notable Thomas Dent (1630–76), who went to Maryland in about 1660, became a barrister and judge, and made a tidy extra living by arranging the transportation of indentured servants; at his death at “Nanjamie”, his plantation, he owned more than a thousand acres and had an estate valued at £596.8.0, or, as hard- headed local usage had it, the equivalent of 130,129 pounds of tobacco. The estate included, among other things, six slaves and eight indentured servants. John Dent – his military title came from being militia Captain of the Foot for Chaptico Hundred – was scarcely less affluent but more turbulent, since he played a role in the insurrection of 1681 which tried to overthrow, and that of 1689 which succeeded in expelling the proprietary rule of Charles Calvert, the third Lord Baltimore. (Calvert was Roman

1. The best source is Harry Wright Newman, The Maryland Dents: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Judge Thomas Dent and Captain John Dent Who Settled Early in the Province of Maryland (Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, 1963); excerpts from it can be found at http://members.aol.com/lewilde76/genmain/dent/john1_mdd_article.html.

2. F. Horsman, “Peter Dent,” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Volume 15, Daly-Dewar, ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 851–52. early american connections | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 81

Catholic, the Dents Protestant.) The Captain prospered and lived well, not least by owning and then selling Cool Spring, whose waters were said – mostly by him – to possess healing powers. In his will, dated 3 September 1711, he disposed of 2591 acres to his various children, of whom he had nine, Peter Dent of Jesus College being the eldest.3 The will gives a clue that all had not been well between father and son. That Peter Dent came to Cambridge as a sizar, that is, an undergraduate who paid his way by serving in hall, would suggest that he came without his father’s blessing and money. In 1711, at least, the father seems to have been very uncertain about his son’s fate. Land was reserved for him in the will, but only “if my son Peter Comes to Maryland to settle”, which he evidently never did and so never obtained, among other things, “all that tract of Land Called Horserange 200 acres”, which by default went to his sister Christian. Peter never obtained a Cambridge degree, either, and it seems likely that he stayed in England, in a manner and place now lost to memory. Less obscure is East Apthorp (1733–1816), who sounds like a village, but was in fact a worldly Anglican minister from Boston, where his father was a merchant.4 The younger Apthorp was educated at the Boston Latin School, then matriculated at Jesus College in 1751, received his B.A. in 1755, his M.A. in 1758, won the Chancellor’s Medal in 1755, and was a fellow from 1758 to 1761. Then he became a missionary for the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the particular foreign part being Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Apthorp established the first Anglican congregation, Christ Church, amid that sea of Congregationalists and set himself up with a munificence which much troubled the locals, inclined to stern minimalism.5 From his inheritance, Apthorp built what John Adams was later to speak of as “a great house, at that time thought to be a splendid palace”, set in many acres, extending down to the Charles River. The house still survives, is still called Apthorp House and now serves as the Master’s Residence for Adams House of Harvard College. In the early 1760s, however, it came to be called the “Bishop’s Palace”, to denote the inhabitant’s pretensions and ambitions. In 1764 Apthorp, much bruised by Congregationalist abuse (especially from Jonathan Mayhew), returned to England and there rose with unspectacular regularity through the hierarchy: he was vicar of Croydon (1765–93) and rector of Saint Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside (1778–92). In about 1790, he became blind and briefly became Chancellor of St. Paul’s Cathedral (1791–92) and in 1796 a prebendary of Finsbury, a lucrative sinecure attached to the same cathedral. In his last years, he came back to Cambridge, which is how he came to rest in the North Transept of the college chapel, where he lies beneath a black marble slab. Apthorp was a dutiful and orthodox author, who delivered worthy and unnoted discourses on prophecy, missionary work, “the felicity of the times”, the “character and example of a Christian woman”, sacred music and poetry – he thought well of the fine arts which “under the conduct of a good imagination, have so much influence in polishing and humanizing the mind” – but he was fleetingly and best known for contributing to those “vollies of ... Ecclesiastical ordnance”, which tried to pepper Edward Gibbon. Apthorp’s Letters on the Prevalence of Christianity, Before Its Civil Establishment: With Observations on a Late History of the Decline of the Roman Empire (1778) is said to have earned him preferment at Saint Mary-le-Bow. At the time, the historian was less than amused, even a little startled, but did note that Apthorp said little or nothing of

3. The text can be seen at http://members.aol.com/lewilde76/genmain/dent/john1_will.html.

4. Evert A. Duyckinck and George L. Duyckinck, eds., Cyclopedia of American Literature (New York: Charles Scribner, 1856), 1:144. The best source is John C. Shields, “East Apthorp,” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Volume 2, Amos-Avery, ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 309–11.

5. See http://hcs.harvard.edu/-adams/history.php. 82 early american connections | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

substance in the mere three pages devoted to refuting Gibbon and but promised a future volume, which was never to appear. In retrospect, in his memoirs, Gibbon recovered his amusement and observed that, by his useful skepticism, he had “enjoyed the pleasure of ...collating Dr Apthorpe to an Archiepiscopal living”.6 So Apthorp is best known, as many eighteenth-century clerics are, for being the object of Gibbon’s wit. The fact is unrecorded on the tombstone, which instead speaks of Apthorp’s expectation of Christ’s mercy in life eternal, which is a different sort of immortality. But Apthorp, who liked music in sacred places, might be pleased to know that today the chapel’s grand piano often sits above his grave. Of the Jesuans who went from east to west, the most famous, of course, is John Eliot, the so-called “Apostle to the Indians”, the founder of the Roxbury Latin School, and the translator of the Bible into the Algonquin language. He has been much described, not least, recently, with useful crispness on the college’s website, so a repetition here is unnecessary. Less famous in modern times, but perhaps more notable in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was Francis Higginson (1588–1630). Even in 1891, a little eccentrically, a New York publisher thought it worthwhile to include him as one of the “Makers of America”, in a series which memorialised figures like John Winthrop, Thomas Jefferson, and Charles Sumner.7 Earlier, Cotton Mather, the most indefatigable of Puritan historians and, infamously, the chief agitator of the Salem Witch Trials, in the Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), that majestic and wayward jeremiad celebrating the founding of New England and chastising its subsequent degeneracy, thought it right to place Francis Higginson as the first of Puritan divines. Subsequent histories, notably the canonical work of Perry Miller on the Puritan mind, have not endorsed that judgement, but Boston in 1702 thought otherwise. Francis Higginson’s father John was also a Jesuan – his M.A. came in 1568 – who became the Perpetual Vicar of Claybrooke in Leicestershire, and had several sons, one of whom, John, was later described as “a gentleman that kept high company”. This can scarcely be said of Francis, who in Cambridge came to haunt evangelical circles, which tended to the middling and stern. In the nineteenth century, his descendant and biographer Thomas Wentworth Higginson – himself famous for being an abolitionist, an advocate of women’s rights, and an officer during the Civil War in the Massachusetts 54th, an experience he documented in the classic Army Life in a Black Regiment (1869) – was to speak of visitors to his ancestor’s old college, who observed “the somewhat isolated and stately air of Jesus College; its sombre brick walls and ancient gateway; its heavy tower surmounting a chapel of the twelfth century; and the meadows, extending to the river, and still making the situation beautiful,” which was thought somehow to explain Francis’s proclivities. (It did not, of course.) Upon graduation, Higginson returned to become his father’s curate and began to acquire some reputation as a preacher, but one inclining more and more to nonconformity, a man inclined to be fussy about excluding “ignorant and scandalous persons” from communion, someone given to fasts and often consulted by the anxious about, as Mather was to put it, “their interiour state”, people who like Higginson were worried by the “hour and power of darkness” emanating from William Laud, then Bishop of London. It was logical, therefore, that Higginson responded to a call from the Massachusetts Bay Company, who were

6. Patricia B. Craddock, Edward Gibbon: Luminous Historian, 1772–1794 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), 130; Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, ed. Georges Bonnard (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969), 160.

7. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Life of Francis Higginson: First Minister in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Author of “New England’s Plantation” (1630) (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1891) remains the only biography. Subsequent information is drawn from this, unless otherwise specified. early american connections | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 83 planning to send five ships to their barren plantation in 1629 and needed ministers to tend souls and enlist God’s help for their purpose. He probably gave a sermon – there is some dispute over the authorship – to outline the cogency of migration. His reasons were many and apocalyptic: among them, to spread the gospel and “raise a bulwarke against the kingdom of Antichrist which the Jesuits labour to rear up in all places of the world”, to find a refuge against the “general destruction” threatening Europe, and to ease the strain on an England whose “land grows weary of her inhabitants”. In what might have been a commentary on his old college, whose Master in 1629 was Roger Andrewes (denoted even now as “overbearing, quarrelsome, and unscrupulous”),8 Higginson also lamented that “schools of learning and religion are so corrupted, as ... most children (even the wisest, wittiest, and of fayerest hopes) are perverted, corrupted and utterly over powered by the multitude of evill examples and licentious governors of those seminaries.” His wife Ann did not agree with this logic, for she “fell a weeping” at the prospect of leaving Leicestershire, but to no avail. In theory, Higginson got a good bargain: £30 to prepare for the voyage, £10 for books, an annual salary of £30 for three years and, during that time, provision of “family necessaryes of diuett, housing and firewood”, which extended to a house, land, cattle, and care for his widow (which turned out to be necessary). He was even promised “a man servant to take care and look to his things, and to catch him fish and foule and provide other things needful and also two maid servants to look to his family.” Two documents give greatest insight into Higginson: the journal he kept on board the Talbot, which sailed in company with the Lion’s Whelpe from London on 25 April 1629 and reached New England on 27 June; and his propaganda pamphlet, New-Englands Plantation, or, A Short and True Description of the Commodities and Discommodities of That Countrey, Written by a Reverend Divine Now There Resident (1630), published in London by Michael Sparke “dwelling at the Signe of the Blew Bible in Greene Arbor in the little Old Bailey”.9 The former is one of the best extant accounts of such a voyage: its delays (“staying for a wind”), storms (“sore and terrible”), quarrels (“a notorious wicked fellow that was given to swering and boasting of his former wickednes ... mocked at our daies of fast, railing and jesting against puritans”), progress (“a fayre gale of winde”), sporting aquatic life (“an abundance of grampus fishes, 2 or 3 yards long, and a body as bigg as an oxe”), sights (“a mountayne of ice shining as white as snow like to a great rocke or clift on shoare”), illness (“some of our men fell sicke of the scurvie and others of the small pockes”), and death. The Higginsons lost a four-year-old daughter, whose loss was “a griefe to us her parents and a terrour to all the rest”. The latter is a document of artful sensuality, full of intoxicating lists intended to encourage further migrants and written when Higginson was newly established as the schismatic minister at Salem. It gives an extended account of what was blessed and cursed in New England, whose qualities were quaintly classified by reference to earth, air, fire and water. All God’s plenty is said to be in Massachusetts: “good Clay to make Bricke and Tyles”, rich grasses which fatten “Kine and Goats, Horses and Hogges”, new plants and old ones “bigger and sweeter then is ordinarily to be found in England”, “Penyroyall, Wintersaverie, Sorrell, Brookelime, Liverworr, Carvell and Watercresses”,

8. See http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/college/history/masters.html#andrewes.

9. The former is reprinted in Higginson’ biography and excerpts from the latter can be read on the college website, but the full text is online at the Early English Books website (http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home). See also Perry Miller and Thomas H. Johnson, eds, The Puritans: A Sourcebook of Their Writings, rev. ed., rev. George McCanlish, reprint, 1938 (New York: Harper and Row, 1963), 1:122–25. 84 early american connections | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

“plenty of single Damaske Roses”, “Wolves, Foxes, Beavers, Otters, Martins, great wild Cats”. The rivers and ocean furnish richness (lobsters, bass, salmon, whales, “Herring, Turbot, Sturgion, Cuskes, Hadocks, Mullets, Eeles, Crabs, Muskles, and Oysters”). The air is clean and agreeable, with the happy effect of driving away “Cold, Melancholy, Flegmatick, Reumaticke temper of Body”. Birds crowd the sky and the earth. Of “discommodities”, on the other hand, Higginson speaks with evasive brevity. Indeed he mentions but four difficulties. There are mosquitoes in the summers, which he admits are hot. In winter there is snow and “Frosts, something more sharpe then is in old England”. The woods abound in “Snakes and Serpents of strange colours and huge greatnesse”, not least the alarming rattlesnake, which will “flye upon” a man “and sting him so mortally, that he will dye within a quarter of an houre after”. The population is scanty. But these are the only problems. Even the Indians, who are curious people with strange ways, are manageable: “We use them kindly, they will come into our Houses sometimes by halfe a douzen or halfe a score at a time when we are at victuals, but will aske or take nothing but what we give them.” Still, it was pertinent to note that “we have great Ordnance, wherewith we doubt not but we shall fortifie our selves in a short time to keepe out a potent Adversarie.” And God was on their side. Higginson quickly separated himself from the Church of England and carried many with him, for he was as skillful a preacher as he was an artful writer. Local tradition spoke of him as not tall, but “slender and erect”, with a manner said to have been “courteous and obliging”, a man “well cultivated in the fields of literature and divinity” and “able to convince gainsayers”. But he had little chance to exercise these charms and skills, for he was dead scarcely more than a year after his arrival. All the benign gifts of New England did not prevent consumption and a “hectic fever”, as Mather has it. He was only forty- three. He left a widow, who moved to New Haven and lived another ten years, but the couple had had nine children, of whom one (Neophytus) was born in Salem; eight survived their parents. Not all stayed in New England. Francis (b. 1617) went back to England and became a minister in Westmoreland. Three became mariners, who captained East-Indiamen and plied the Jamaica trade. Most of the numerous Higginsons of New England are descendants of the eldest son, John, who became a minister and eventually took over his father’s congregation at Salem, where he became notable for standing against the frenzy of the Salem Witch Trials. Michael O’Brien photo: jim roseblade One of John Gibbons’ angels hanging in Hall during Sculpture in the Close organ scholars | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 85

Organ Scholars

Last year’s article on ‘The Organ Lofts of England’ elicited a number of very helpful letters from old members; the editor is most grateful. The main conclusion to be drawn from them is that we are even better than we thought we were: Malcolm Archer (1972) is organist at St Paul’s Cathedral and James O’Donnell (1979) organist at Westminster Abbey. Can any other Oxbridge college claim to have had two of its members in the top organist posts in England? Our concentration on organ lofts of England led us to neglect John Turner (1957), the longest serving organist in Britain, who has been organist and director of music at Glasgow Cathedral for nigh on forty years. We also omitted David Butterworth (1973) who was organist of St Mary’s Nottingham from 1967 to 1983 and Jim Wrightson (1975). We have learned that Roddy Shaw (1977) is based in Cologne as a freelance conductor, pianist, organist and harpsichordist and plays with the Kölner Kammerorchester (possibly as resident pianist). He is married to soprano Camille van Lunen. We are grateful to Richard Lloyd (1952) for some of this information and also for pointing out that he was deputy headmaster of Salisbury Cathedral School and not as stated in last year’s report. The editor apologises for this error. photos: frances willmoth Joshua holds up his hand toward the sun in a cloud with four men behind Hannah with Samuel kneels at altar; behind her Elkanah and a youth with a pitcher on his shoulder 86 members’ news | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Members’ News

P. M. ACKROYD (1979) has been awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Edinburgh. His dissertation was on The Unwelcome Bridle: Peter Martyr Vermigli, the Doctrine of the Church, and the English Reformation. M. J. ARCHER (1972) is organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral. The Very Revd J. E. ATWELL (Chaplain 1977) has been appointed Dean of Winchester from March 2006. He has been Dean of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich since 1995. He was this year’s preacher at Mere’s Commemoration, in St Benedict’s Church, Cambridge. J. L. A. AUSTIN (1959) has retired after a busy and successful career as a photographer and is now living in France. T-S. AW (1995) has had his first novel The Harmony Silk Factory published by Fourth Estate. It was on the long list for both the Man Booker and the Guardian First Book prizes. J. D. N. BARDOLPH (1958) stopped full-time teaching in schools in 1993 and has since taught English as a foreign language and had a four-year spell at a teachers’ training college in Oman. He is also a tour escort taking coach parties to Europe, Scandinavia, Finland and North Africa. The Very Revd D. A. BELLENGER (1969) has been made a Chaplain of Magistral Grace of the Knights of Malta and a visiting scholar at Sarum College, Salisbury. Helen BERRY (1995) is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Dr F. N. K. BHATTI (1987) became a Doctor of Medicine in 2004. M. BIRKS (1993) is a registered architect in practice with Monahan Blythen, Architects. Dr M. E. BRAMLEY (1964) was appointed OBE for services to the environment. Dr P. J. BUSSEY (1964) has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, University of Cambridge. Dr J. M. BUTTERFIELD (Fw 1981), currently senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, has been elected into a senior research fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1 October 2006. M. W. J. CLEGG (1955) worked in Baghdad as legal counsel to the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq for the elections in early 2005 and later advised on the new constitution and associated referendum. Dr R. COLE (1957) received an honorary doctorate of civil law from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle last year. He served as a governor of that university, 1994–2003, and as chairman of its audit committee for seven years. R. J. COLES (1960) has retired as Deputy Group Solicitor at ICI. Lizzie COLLINGHAM (Fw 1998) has had her book Curry: a biography. published by Chatto & Windus. T. C. COX (1963) has built a library to house his collection of 11,000 books about horse- racing and make them accessible to researchers. F. G. CROZIER (1962) has retired to live in Spain. H. H. DAVIS (1968) was awarded an honorary doctorate by Kazan State University, Russian Federation. members’ news | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 87

Canon C. P. DOBBIN (1971) was awarded an M.Phil. from Birmingham University in 2005; his subject was ‘mutual fulfilment theology’. P. DOWDING (1962) retired in 2004 after 36 years’ teaching at Trinity College, Dublin. He now grows trees on his 46 acre farm near Dublin. C. T. (Katy) EAGLETON (1995) has joined the curatorial staff in the department of coins at the British Museum and been promoted to the curatorship of modern money. E. F. ELSWORTH (1968) is currently a senior lecturer and undergraduate programme director in computer science at Aston University. Professor N. FLECK (1976) has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society. P. K. FLORENCE (1983), co-founder and director of the Guardian Hay Festival, was appointed MBE for services to literature. Dr Helen J. FRASER (1994) has been appointed university lecturer in physics at Strathclyde University. A. W. U. FURLONG (1969) resigned as dean of Clonmacnoise and as rector of Trim and Athboy in May 2002. Trixie GADD (1982) sailed as core crew in BG SPIRIT, overall winner of the Global Challenge (round the world the ‘wrong’ way) yacht race in 2004–5. The boat arrived back at Portsmouth on 16 July 2005, after a journey of some 29,000 miles, and beat its nearest competitor by half a mile in the final leg. The Ven. T. A. GIBSON (1958), formerly archdeacon of Ipswich, became archdeacon emeritus on his retirement on 31 January 2005. B. GUTTRIDGE (1974) has been appointed director of the Southwest Peninsular Health Protection Unit. M. HALLMARK (1986) is working for the Royal Bank of Scotland in Milan. A. J. HARDING (1969) left the department of English, University of Saskatchewan, in June 2005 and moved with his wife to Nova Scotia. D. J. HARLEY (1972) is a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales Law School, Sydney. S. HOCKMAN QC (1966) was in July elected chairman of the Bar Council, unopposed, and will hold office for the calendar year 2006. R. J. HOWAT (Fw 1979) has completed his AHRB research fellowship at the Royal College of Music and since September 2003 has been keyboard research fellow at the Royal Academy of Music. J. W. HUDSON (1979) became headmaster of St George’s Junior School, Weybridge, in 2003. J. M. D. HUGHES (1997) was ordained deacon on 3 July 2005 and has taken up a curacy at St David’s with St Michael and All Angels, Exeter. S. IRWIN QC (1972) was chairman of the Bar Council in 2004. Professor Susan IVERSEN (Fw 1981) was appointed CBE for services to higher education and to science. Prof. Lisa JARDINE (Fw 1976) was appointed CBE for services to education. Professor H. LIVERMORE (1932) has been awarded the Grand Cross of Prince Henry the Navigator for his services to Portuguese historical and literary studies. 88 members’ news | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

The Revd A. C. MACROW WOOD (1989) became priest-in-charge of the Oakdale team ministry, Poole, in July 2004. Prof. E. S. MASKIN (Fw 1976) has been elected into an honorary fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge A. T. A. McCLURE (1965) has received the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service for work with the Belfast Central Mission. Emily J. MITCHELL (1995) is a librarian in the rare books department of Cambridge University Library and has been appointed assistant library officer. The Revd M. MORETON (1960) has retired and is living in Bewdley. The Ven. J. A. MORRISON (1957), formerly archdeacon of Oxford, will be master of the Spectacle Makers’ Company in 2006. Dr J. R. MORTON (1955) has retired after six years as professor of biology at the University of Papua New Guinea, three years farming with his son in Vanuatu, eight years as the EU regional biometrician for the Pacific ACP states and seven years as a consultant biometrician in Fiji. He is living near Brisbane. N. A. NAGLER (1964) retired as director general of the Board of Deputies of British Jews in January 2005. He is now working as director of the Sternberg Foundation and as interfaith consultant to the Board of Deputies. He has been elected vice-chairman of The Inter Faith Network for the United Kingdom. Penelope NEVILL (2001) has been elected into an official fellowship at Downing College, Cambridge. T. N. NUNNS (1971) is a licensed lay reader in the Church of England. N. B. PEPLOW (1986) works at Barclaycard, Northampton. M. J. L. PERCIVAL (1983) is chief of manufacturing engineering in combustion systems at Rolls Royce and team leader of their university liaison team with Cambridge. D. G. PHILLIPS (1990) is director of music at King’s College School, Wimbledon. G. C. POWELL (1958) was appointed CBE for services to financial regulation and to the community in Jersey. J. RANDALL QC (1974) was elected a bencher of Lincoln’s Inn in December 2003 and completed a three year term as head of St Philips Chambers, Birmingham, in May 2004. In the second half of 2004, he taught at the University of New South Wales Law School, in Sydney. D. W. RATHBONE (1975) has been appointed professor of ancient history at King’s College, London. This appointment brings to three the number of Jesuan classics professors in London University; the other two are C. CAREY (1969) and N. S. R. HORNBLOWER (1967), both at University College. Prof. T. W. ROBBINS (1968) has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society. The Revd Claire ROBSON (1996) has been appointed a minor canon chaplain at St Paul’s Cathedral. Nicola ROGERS (1990) has been appointed administrative officer, grade I, Cambridge University. Clare SAMBROOK (1982) has had her first novel, Hide and seek, published by Canongate. members’ news | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 89

K. M. SANDS (1991) is teaching at the British Council, St Petersburg. R. J. SCIVER (1981) is finance director of Unilever in Poland. Professor G. M. SHELDRICK (Fw 1960) received the Max Perutz prize at the 22nd European Crystallographic Meeting, Budapest, in August 2004. Dr H. J. P. SINGH-RAUD (1999) was appointed OBE for services to education and to diversity. T. H. SMITH (1989) has been elected to a fellowship at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, for research in philosophy. D. A. J. TAYLOR (1951) was appointed OBE for services to the hospitality industry. Julie J. TAYLOR (1999) was elected a Rhodes scholar in late 2002 and took up a place at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, in 2003. In February 2005 she was selected for the Oxford University women’s lightweight boat competing at the Henley boat races. J. M. E. TOOK (1947) has been chairman of the Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust since 1998. R.A.C. TURNER (1970) is head of biology at Ashford School, Kent. The Revd D. J. WARNES (1969) was ordained deacon at St Edmundsbury Cathedral in June 2004. Lord WATSON (1960) was made Grand Officer of the Rumanian Order of Merit, for service to the government of Rumania. Zoe C. WILLIS (1981) was appointed head of finance with Novartis Consumer Health B.V. in Breda, The Netherlands, in March 2004. Professor J. WILTON-ELY (1958) delivered the 2004 Soane lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons. His subject was From conception to construction: Sir John Soane and the architectural model. J. M. WINTER (1973) has been seconded to Australian Aid for three years from April 2005. M. P. WINTER (1975) took up the post of director of the British Council, São Paulo, in September 2004. He has been appointed OBE for services to the British Council. D. H. WOOTTON (1969) has been elected alderman for the ward of Langbourn, City of London. He succeeds Sir Alan Traill (1953). Professor M. ZANDER, QC (1953) has been elected a fellow of the British Academy.

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Births and Marriages

Births Jane (née GARWOOD) (1985) and Simon BEAUFOY have two children: Ellen, born 2001, and Kit, born 2004. Jonathan COLLIS, chaplain, and his wife Judith have a second daughter, Lily Veronica, born 26 May 2005. Dr Fiona GREEN (Fw 2001) and Peter RODGERS have a daughter, Martha Frances, born 15 July 2005, a sister to Molly and Joseph. Dr Beverley INKSON (Fw 1994) has a son, Mark Lucas Mobus, born 29 April 2004, a brother for Sebastian. Dr Marco KAMPP (1999) and Maria have a daughter Elisabeth Sophie, born 23 March 2005, a sister for Jacob, born 11 October 2001. Vicky MASTEN (1993) and Paul STEARN have a son, Jack Sebastian, born 5 July 2005. Tom and Corinne LEWIS-REYNIER (1991) have a daughter, Loanne. Nicholas PEPLOW (1986) and Joanne have two children: Holly, born 1999, and Jack, born 2002. David REID (1991) and his wife Elizabeth have a son, Finlay Robertson Reid, born 27 July 2005. Olga and Keith SANDS (1991) have a daughter, Yeva Catherine. James SHENTON (1993) and Natalia BONDARENKO have a daughter, Anna Olegovna, born 9 June 2005. Alison SMITH (née GOURLAY) (1984) and Alastair have 3 sons, Rory, Max and Freddie. David STEPHENSON (1977) and his wife, Anna, have a son, Hector John Westgate, born 20 June 2004. Andrew WHYMAN (1991) and his wife Fran are parents to Lily, born 19 October 2002, and Frederick, born 15 November 2004. Peter J. WILLIAMS (1989) and Kathryn (née EELEY, 1991) have a son, Leo David, born 25 May 2005.

Marriages Dr Emma BALLISON (1994) married Dr Mike SEDDON (Magdalene 1993) in Suffolk on 26 July 2003. Dr Helen BERRY (1995) married Dr Scott ASHLEY in chapel in April 2003. Malcolm BIRKS (1993) married Katherine M. DAYNES (1996) at St Martin’s, Bryanston, Dorset, on 14 August 2004. G. J. A. BUSUTTIL (1988) married S. H. N. NIELSEN in St Margherita Ligure, Italy, on 27 August 2004. births and marriages | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 91

James CLACKSON (Fw 1998) married Véronique MOTTIER (Fw 1999) in Lindos, Greece, on 8 September 2005. Joshua GOODMAN (2000) married Anna LUMELSKY in Woodcliffe Lake, New Jersey, on 5 June 2005. Matthew HAZELL (1993) married Mine SOBACI in Izmir, Turkey, on 3 December 2004. Debjani JASH (1983) married Charles MILLER SMITH on 26 June 2004. Lucy G. KENNEDY (1993) married Elia MONTANARI on 30 April 2005. They live in Belgium where women do not take their husband’s surname, so she is now Mrs L. G. Kennedy. C. M. MUTTER (1988) married Odile OLLAGSON on 15 July 2005. Deborah RAMSBOTHAM (1992) is now Mrs Dick. Nicholas B. PEPLOW (1986) married Joanne in 1997. K. M. SANDS (1991) married Olga in 2002. Robert SMITH (1990) married Lucienne MAYHEW in March 2004. Andrew SUTTON (1965) married Jane CARTER on 24 October 2003 and acquired three teenage stepchildren. Fay TINNION (1992) married Ft. Lt. Steve BLOOMER in County Durham in April 2004. photo: jim roseblade North Court, 2005 92 publications and gifts | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Publications and Gifts to the College Libraries, 2004–5

Books and articles by members and old members (* Denotes a gift to the college libraries) Please note that the donations acknowledged here are those received before the end of July 2005. Any items received after that date will be listed in next year’s Report. * ACKROYD, Peter (1979), Strangers to Correction: Christian discipline and the English Reformation (St Antholin’s Lectureship Charity Lecture, 2003) AW, T-S. (1995), The Harmony Silk Factory (Harper Perennial, 2005) BACON, J. M. (Fw 1997), (i) Invited keynote address for Int. Assoc. of Science and Technology for Development: ‘Expectations and reality in distributed systems’, in T. Fahringer and M. H. Hamza, eds, Proceedings of IASTED Int. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (Insbruck Austria, February 2005), pp. vii – xiv; (ii) with N. Dimmock, D. Ingram, and K. Moody, ‘Risk models for trust-based access control (TBAC)’, in Proceedings of the Third Annual Conf. on Trust Management (iTrust 2005), vol. 3477 of LNCS (Springer, May 2005) * BELLENGER, D. A. (1969), with S. Fletcher, The Mitre and the Crown: a history of the Archbishops of Canterbury (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2005) * BLAKE, R. J. (1967), George Stubbs and the Wide Creation (Chatto and Windus, 2005) * BURROWS, E. W. (1960), ‘To me to live is Christ’: a biography of Peter H. Barber (Paternoster, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, and Waynesboro, GA – USA, 2005) * COLLINGHAM, E. M. (1998), Curry: a biography (London, 2005) COMPSTON, D. A. S. (1990), (i) editor of Brain (the world’s leading journal of neurology) from 2004; (ii) ed. 4th edition of McAlpine’s Multiple Sclerosis (2005) * COOPER, B. N. (1938), The Murder Column (2003) * DATE, C. J. (1959), Database in Depth: relational theory for practitioners (O’Reilly Media, Sebastopol, California, 2005) * DE LACEY, G. J. (1957), with others, Accident and Emergency Radiology: a survival guide, 2nd edn (Philadelphia, 2005) DOWDESWELL, J. A. (Fw 2002), (i) with S. Evans (Emer. Fw), ‘Investigations of the form and flow of ice sheets and glaciers using radio-echo sounding’ Reports on Progress in Physics, v. 67 (2004), pp. 1821–186; (ii) with J. O. Hagen, ‘Arctic glaciers and ice caps’ in J. L. Bamber and A. J. Payne, eds, Mass Balance of the Cryosphere, (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 527–557; (iii) with T. J. Benham et al., ‘Form and flow of the Devon Island Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic’ Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 109 (2004), F02002, doi:10.1029/2003 JF000095; (iv) with C. Ó Cofaigh and C. J. Pudsey, ‘Thickness and extent of the subglacial till layer beneath an Antarctic paleo-ice stream’ Geology, v. 32 (2004), pp. 13–16; (v) with C. Ó Cofaigh and C. J. Pudsey, ‘Continental slope morphology and sedimentary processes at the mouth of an Antarctic palaeo-ice stream’ Marine Geology, v. 204 (2004), pp. 203–214 publications and gifts | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 93

* EAGLETON, C. T. (1995), contributor to An Elizabethan gilded pocket sundial by Augustine Ryther, dated 1585, published by Trevor Philip & Sons Ltd [London, 2005] * EDMONDS, R. D. (1959), Fit for a Queen: by Matt (privately published, 2004) * FINLAY, T. E. (1962), contributor to G. Dunn and C. Ambidge, eds, Living Together in the Church – including our differences (2004) * FISKE, S. J. H. (1959), with Lisa Freeman, Living with early oak: seventeenth-century English furniture then and now (Belmont, Vermont, 2005) * GILBERT, W. J. (1959), with S. J. Vanstone, An introduction to mathematical thinking: algebra and number systems (Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2005) * GIMLETTE, J. E. (1982), Theatre of Fish: travels through Newfoundland and Labrador (Hutchinson, 2005) * HAPPÉ, P. (1978), Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays: a comparative study of the English Biblical cycles and their continental and iconographic counterparts (Amsterdam and New York, 2004) * HARCOURT, G. C. (Fw 1982), (i) ed. with C. Bliss and Avi J. Cohen, Capital Theory, 3 vols. (Cheltenham, Glos.: Edward Elgar, 2005); (ii) with S. Turnell, ‘Some reflections on Keynes, policy and the Second World War’, in T. Aspromourgas and J. Lodewijks, eds., History and Political Economy. Essays in Honour of P.D. Groenewegen, London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 236–44; (iii) ‘The economics of Keynes and its theoretical and political significance: Or, what would Marx and Keynes have made of the happenings of the last 30 years?’, in G. Magnusson and J. Jesperson, eds., Keynes’s General Theory and Policies (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Iceland, 2004) pp. 17–32; (iv, v) biographies of William Brian Reddaway (1913–2002) for the Biog. Dict. of British Economists (2004) and Sir (E.) Austin G. Robinson (1897–1993) for the ODNB (2004) * HEATH, S. C. (1964), César (British Film Institute Film Classics series, London, 2004) * HORNE, A. A. (1948), Friend or Foe: an Anglo-Saxon History of France (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2004) HORNBY, N. P. J. (1976), A Long Way Down (2005, Penguin Viking) ITALIA, I. M. (1988), The rise of literary journalism in eighteenth century: anxious employment (Routledge, 2005) KEARNS, G. (Fw 1996), (i) ‘Mother Ireland and the revolutionary sisters,’ Cultural Geographies 11 (2004), pp. 459–483; (ii) ‘The political pivot of geography,’ Geographical Journal 170 (2004), pp. 337–346 * LEWIS, R. F. (1963), with Q. Whitlock, How to Plan and Manage an E-learning Programme (Aldershot, 2004) * LIVERMORE, H. V. (1932), Portugal: a traveller’s history (Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, 2004) MAIR, R. J. (Master 2001), (i) with S.M. Gourvernec et al., ‘Ground conditions around an old tunnel in London Clay’ Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Geotechnical Engineering 158, (2005), Issue GE1, 25–33; (ii) with A. Klar et al., ‘Soil- Pipe-Tunnel Interaction: Comparison Between Winkler and Elastic Continuum Solutions’, Géotechnique 55, No. 6, 461–466 94 publications and gifts | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

* MENGHAM, R. (Fw 1973) (i) ‘Failing Better: Salcedo’s Trajectory’, in Doris Salcedo, Neither (London: White Cube, 2004), pp. 9–11; (ii) ‘A Wild Nursery for the Arts: the Site of the V&A’, in V&A Magazine 5 (Winter 2004/5), pp. 56–64; (iii) ‘Auden, Psychology and Society’ in The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden, ed. S. Smith (CUP, 2004), pp. 165–174; (iv) ‘The Thirties: politics, authority, perspective’, in The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature, ed. by L. Marcus and P. Nicholls (CUP, 2004), pp. 359–378; (v) Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems, ed. Rod Mengham and J. Kinsella (Salt Publishing, 2004); (vi) ‘Waterworld’, in Anselm Kiefer, Für Chlebnikow (London: White Cube, 2005) and several more articles and translations * MORSE, M. A. (1992), How the Celts Came to Britain: druids, ancient skulls and the birth of archaeology (Tempus, Stroud, 2005) * MURRAY, A. L. (1949), (i) ‘The Bishop’s Castle, Glasgow, 1598–1744’, Proc. of the Soc. of Antiquaries of Scotland, 133 (2003), pp. 343–358; (ii) ‘A memorandum on the customs, 1597’, in Scottish History Society Miscellany XIII (Edinburgh 2004) * O’BRIEN, M. (1993, Fw 2002), (i) Henry Adams and the Southern Question (University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2005); (ii) review of Bill Clinton, My Life, in The Times Literary Supplement 5291 (27 August 2004), pp. 3–4; (iii) review of Jimmy Carter, The Hornet’s Nest, in The Times Literary Supplement 5297 (8 October 2004), p. 22 * PAWSON, J. M. (1949), Gematria: the numbers of infinity (Sutton Mallett, 2004) PECHEY, G. K. (1967) ‘“The scop’s twang”: Adventures of the monosyllable in English verse’, published in three parts in PN Review 161 (January-February 2005), 162 (March-April 2005) and 163 (May-June 2005) * READY, N. P. (1971), ed. Brooke’s Notary, 12th edn (Sweet and Maxwell, 2002) * REES, T. D. M. (1950), translator of Lord Byron’s Life in Italy, by Teresa Guiccioli, ed. by P. Cochran (Associated University Presses, Cranbury, New Jersey, 2005) * RENFREW, A. C. (1986), ‘A Panoramic Synthesis’, in Premi Balzan 2004; laudationes, discorsi, saggi (Fondazione Internationale Balzan, Libri Schweiwiller, 2005) * RIMINGTON, J. D. (1956), C L Reynolds, MA: Headmaster, Nottingham High School, 1925–54 (London, 2004) * SAMBROOK, C. T. (1982), Hide & Seek (Canongate, Edinburgh/New York/Melbourne, 2005) * SLOTKIN, P. M. (1958), translator of Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and the Psychoanalysis of children and adolescents, by Alex Holder (H. Karnac Books Ltd, London, 2005) * SUTCLIFFE, J. V. (1947), Hydrology: a question of balance (International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Int. Assoc. of Hydrological Sciences Special Publication 7, 2004) * TABEART, C. (1958–61), Australia New Zealand UK Mails to 1880: rates routes and ships, out and home (published by the author, Fareham, 2004) * TAYLOR, S. J. C. (1986), ed. with C. Jones, Tory and Whig: the parliamentary papers of Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford, and William Hay, M.P. for Seaford, 1716–1753 (Woodbridge, 1998) * THEOBALD, S. (1985), Trix (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2004) * THOMPSON, J. B. (Fw 1979), Books in the Digital Age: the transformation of academic and higher education publishing in Britain and the United States (Polity Press, 2005) publications and gifts | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 95

* THOMSON, P. W. (1958), The Cambridge History of British Theatre, 3 vols (Cambridge University Press, 2004) * VALENTINE, K. W. G. (1957), (i) with P. N. Sprout, et al., Soil Landscapes of British Columbia (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1978); (ii) Soil Resource Surveys for Forestry: soil, terrain and site mapping in boreal and temperate forests (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986) WARING, M. (Fw 1965) (i) with J. B. Chaires, eds, Topics in Current Chemistry, Vol. 253: DNA Binders and Related Subjects (Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 2005); (ii) with C. Bailly, J. Kluza et al., ‘DNase I footprinting of small molecule binding sites on DNA’, Methods in Molecular Medicine 288 (2005), pp. 319–342; (iii) with Y. D. Tseng, H. Ge et al., ‘Atomic force microscopy study of the structural effects induced by echinomycin binding to DNA’, J. Mol. Biol. 345 (2005), pp. 745–758 * YOUNG, F. R. (1943), Cavitation (Imperial College Press, 1999)

Other Gifts R. A. BAWDEN (1947) has presented a copy of A Guide to Japanese Art Collections in the UK (The Japan Society, Amsterdam, 2004). R. S. CORNISH (1950) has presented a copy of Frank Fletcher, 1870–1954: a formidable headmaster, by John Witheridge, a book to which he contributed as an adviser to the author. T. C. COX (1963) has sent us a copy of an article in Racing Post 7, Apr. 2004, about the opening of his new library. A. L. DOWDING (1953) has given a copy of John Arlott, Jack Hobbs: profile of ‘the Master’ (1981), Hobbs having been the son of a Jesus College groundsman. M. G. EBISON (1952) has donated a copy of M. Brittain et al., The Jesus College Cambridge Boat Club, 1827–1994 (1995). J. L. EVANS (1974) has given a complete set of tapes of two Radio 3 series he wrote and presented: ‘The Romantic Road: a journey through the European novel’, parts 1 (Apr. 2000 – Mar. 2001) and 2 (Apr. 2001 – Mar. 2002), each of 10 programmes. R. D. M. IVY (1946) has given a revised copy of his collection of poems, ‘Through a range- finder darkly’, and a typescript of ‘Leaves from the Cam: Town and Gown’. C. Lindberg has presented a copy of his King Henry’s Bible, MS Bodley 277, the revised version of the Wyclif Bible, vol. IV: The New Testament (2004), noting our ownership of two manuscripts of Wyclif’s text. Christine McKie has presented an original copy of the first printed map of Cambridge (published by Georg Braun, 1575) to the College Archives. Presented on behalf of the late E. C. READ (1933), An Exact and most Impartial Accompt of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial and Judgment ... of Twenty Nine Regicides (London, 1679). C. A. P. REYNARD (1967), as a publisher, has presented a Collector’s Library case of 16 reprinted literary classics to the Quincentenary Library. We have received a copy of Sanford Schwartz, William Nicholson (Yale UP, New Haven and London, 2004), in acknowledgment of the reproduction in it of Nicholson’s portrait of ‘Q’. The widow of Ronald Smith (Schoolmaster Fw 1983, died 28 July 2004) has presented to the Old Library, in his memory, Thomas Arnold, The Second Punic War (London, 1886). 96 jesus college | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 photo: jim roseblade obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 97

Obituaries

SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI, born 7 March 1924, was elected an honorary fellow in 1994. He died on 22 April 2005. photo: ida kar © National Portrait Gallery, London

The following notice by Frank Whitford is reprinted here by kind permission of The Guardian, where it first appeared on Saturday 23 April 2005. Relentlessly creative sculptor and printmaker whose legacy ranges from pop art to monumental public works. Of the few British artists who came to international prominence soon after the second world war, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, who has died aged 81, was one of the most inventive, prolific and various. Chiefly a sculptor (and one of the first to react against the all-pervading influence of Henry Moore), he was also a highly original printmaker, some of whose collage-based silkscreen images are among the finest examples of pop art – the style he was instrumental in shaping. Paolozzi’s career was the more remarkable for its unpromising beginnings. His parents, immigrants to Scotland from the remote Italian province of Frosinone, ran a small ice-cream parlour in Leith, where Paolozzi was born. Although seemingly destined to inherit the business, he liked drawing so much that he thought of becoming a commercial artist. His ambitions became more elevated, however, partly as a result of his determination to make his name in a country which he never regarded as entirely his own. Paolozzi’s father admired Mussolini, and sent Eduardo to a fascist youth camp in Italy every summer, where he acquired a liking for badges, uniforms and aeroplanes. When Italy declared war in 1940, his father was interned as an enemy alien. So was Paolozzi; he spent three months in Saughton jail, Edinburgh, while his father and grandfather were transported to Canada on the Arandora Star. The ship was sunk and they drowned. Although not embittered by the tragedy, Paolozzi had nothing but contempt for most British politicians for the rest of his life. His internment over, he helped his mother make and sell ice cream, while he also attended Edinburgh College of Art, learning calligraphy and lettering. Conscripted in 1943, he spent more than a year with the Pioneer Corps, aimlessly bivouacked on a soccer pitch in Slough. Feigning madness to secure his release, he enrolled at the Slade School of Art, then evacuated to Oxford. Paolozzi’s natural gifts as a draughtsman quickly became evident. So did his enthusiasm for the unconventional. Although he copied old master paintings in the Ashmolean, he preferred to draw the tribal art at the Pitt-Rivers museum. Once the Slade returned to London, he also discovered Picasso, of whom his teachers deeply disapproved. 98 obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Picasso’s influence is plain in the primitivistic sculptures, energetic drawings and elegant, cubist-derived collages which Paolozzi produced as a student. Their quality was immediately recognised, and, in 1947, he was given a one-man exhibition at the Mayor gallery, in London. Everything on show was sold. Soon after, the celebrated magazine Horizon published an article about his work. By then – and before completing his studies – Paolozzi had moved to Paris, armed with letters of introduction to Brancusi, Braque, Giacometti and several other famous artists. He intended to remain permanently in France, but, after failing to attract the interest of dealers and critics, he returned to London, somewhat crestfallen, in 1949. None the less, he saw and learned a great deal in Paris, above all about Dada and surrealism. His sculptures at this time combine organic and mechanistic forms so as to suggest strange artefacts or mysteriously exotic growths. They share something with Giacometti’s surrealist objects, but are less threatening and strikingly assured. It was also while in Paris that Paolozzi produced rudimentary collages from advertisements in American glossy magazines, the lurid covers of cheap novelettes, and illustrations from scientific books. They were inspired by Dada photomontage, but were made chiefly for his own amusement and only shown to friends some years later. Today, they are regarded as important early examples of pop art. Back in London, Paolozzi briefly shared a studio with Lucian Freud, and then with William Turnbull, whom he had met at the Slade. He also came into contact with Francis Bacon, and was stimulated by the painter’s determination to take risks and by his use of photographs as source material. Paolozzi’s closest friendship, however, was with Nigel Henderson, the brilliant experimental photographer. They taught together at the Central School of Art and founded a shortlived company, Hammer Prints, which made and sold textiles, wallpaper and tiles decorated with silkscreen images. During the early 1950s, Paolozzi worked on several architectural projects, making a fountain for the Festival of Britain and another for the 1953 Hamburg Garden Show. In the same year, he was a finalist in the much publicised international competition to design a monument to the unknown political prisoner. At the Central School, Paolozzi used silkscreening not only as a means of decoration but also to make limited edition prints. Many of the stencils were reproduced from drawings (some by young children), cut up and rearranged to make seemingly spontaneous compositions reminiscent of American abstract expressionist paintings, then virtually unknown in Europe. Collage remained central to Paolozzi’s methods, both as printmaker and sculptor, for the rest of his career. Everything he created began as an accumulation of unrelated images culled from a wide variety of sources which, when rearranged, achieved a new and surprising unity. In his prints, crude outlines of heads and standing figures were filled with fragmentary diagrams of automotive parts, and other machines, to suggest primitivistic robots. His sculpture was similar. The surfaces of his roughly cast, rudimentarily formed bronze heads and figures were thickly encrusted with the impressions of nuts, bolts, bits of toys and junk collected from dustbins and scrapyards. By turns horrifying, pathetic and comically ramshackle, these figures seemed to allude to the results of nuclear destruction, or to reflect the existential angst then current throughout Europe. They touched a contemporary nerve, and they made his reputation. Many of these sculptures were begun in the isolated cottage on the Essex coast to which Paolozzi moved soon after marrying in 1951. His wife, Freda Elliot, was a textile designer whose handsome English looks made a striking contrast with his thick-set Mediterranean appearance. Mounting success enabled him to lease a studio in Chelsea, where he lived alone obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 99 during the week. He quickly came to lead two largely separate lives: one in London, the other as a weekend visitor to the country, where Freda soon began to feel isolated, especially after their three daughters had left for boarding school. During the 1950s, Paolozzi became involved in the Independent group, a loose association of young members of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. They met to discuss ideas and enthusiasms then ignored by the art pundits, above all, science, technology and popular culture, especially American movies and science fiction. In 1952, at the group’s first meeting, Paolozzi projected a large number of his collages on to a screen. For most of his audience, the juxtaposition of the weighty and trivial, the artistic and technological, was a revelation. The collages suggested a radically new aesthetic, which, before the end of the decade, was to form the basis of pop art. Paolozzi’s determination to make his art mirror a wide range of disparate ideas and information also resulted in contributions to several unconventional and imaginative exhibitions. The most important were Parallel Of Life And Art (1953) and This Is Tomorrow (1956), both of which used photographs and installations to illustrate unexpected connections and affinities between art, science, technology, ethnography and archaeology. During the same period, Paolozzi also established a reputation abroad. His work was shown at the Venice Biennale of 1952, in New Images of Man at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1959, and at Documents, in Kassel the same year. In 1960, there was a retrospective at the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale. By then, his sculpture had begun to change. A visiting professor at the school of art in Hamburg between 1960 and 1962 (where he taught Stuart Sutcliffe, one of the original Beatles), Paolozzi regularly visited the dry docks, collecting discarded components from the wrecking yards. He used these, together with standard engineering parts ordered from catalogues, to create sculptures which simultaneously suggested curious machines and totems from some lost, but technologically advanced, culture. The earliest were cast in bronze, but later examples were made by welding. Some were painted in bright colours so as to emphasise their geometric elements. Many were constructed at an engineering works near Ipswich, with which Paolozzi remained associated for several years. The craftsmen there showed him the advantages of working with assistants, and, from then on, he regularly employed model-makers and technicians at every stage of his sculptural production. Paolozzi also treated printmaking with a new seriousness, and, in 1965, created one of the masterpieces of pop art, As Is When, a portfolio of 12 screenprints improbably inspired by the life and work of the philosopher Wittgenstein. Based on elaborate collages, the prints employ fragments of texts, abstract patterns, pictures of aeroplanes and other machines, together with Disney characters. Other print portfolios followed, most notably Moonstrips Empire News (1967). The 1960s were one of the most creative periods of Paolozzi’s career. Towards the end of that decade, however, his abstract sculptures in welded aluminium and chromium-plated steel betrayed a decline in invention and originality, and his prints became repetitive. Some thought that slightly later works, designed to satirise minimalism and other fashionable kinds of contemporary art, reflected a creative crisis. They dominated Paolozzi’s only full retrospective in Britain, at the Tate gallery in 1971, which was a critical flop. This was the lowest point in Paolozzi’s artistic development. But he began to work with renewed energy in 1974, after being invited to West Berlin. There, he spent almost two years creating several portfolios of ravishingly beautiful abstract prints (especially 100 obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Calcium Light Night) and a number of impressive reliefs assembled from small, standardised wooden elements. Some were later cast in bronze. Paolozzi loved Germany. He was exhilarated by the dynamism of its cities and the high regard in which artists were held. He also relished the attention given him by German critics and collectors. Between 1977 and 1981, he was a professor at the Cologne Fachhochschule and, then, more happily at the Munich Academy, where he taught until regulations forced him to retire in 1994. However, he retained his London studio, continued to teach part-time at the Royal College of Art (which had appointed him in 1968), and regularly flew back and forth between Heathrow and Munich, always accompanied by copious suitcases stuffed with plaster maquettes, sketchbooks and the makings of collages. In Munich, he would sleep on a camp bed in his cluttered studio, and eat, usually surrounded by admiring students, at a local pizzeria. Commissions for public sculptures multiplied, first in Germany and then in Britain. He made doors for the Hunterian museum in Glasgow, an abstract monument for Euston Square in London, and mosaic decorations for Tottenham Court Road underground station. He also created a large sculpture for the headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh, and a bronze figure of Isaac Newton for the entrance of the British Library. The last two works revealed a growing interest in classicism, which had begun in Munich, where Paolozzi frequently visited the Glypothek, the outstanding collection of Greek and Roman statuary. But even his neoclassical heads and figures continued to employ collage and assemblage. Constructed from unconnected fragments, or cut into sections before being rearranged, many of them appear mechanistic, as though informed by a classicising aesthetic modified to reflect a modern distrust of absolute values. Powerful though it is (and, in its eclectic, postmodernist use of allusion, very much of its time), the work of Paolozzi’s last period lacks the freshness and originality of the sculpture and prints of the 1950s and 1960s. Yet it is on this later work, no doubt, that his considerable reputation will continue to rest. As a man, Paolozzi was a mixture of childlike enthusiasm, unquenchable curiosity and powerful intelligence. He could grasp the essence of a book or the argument of a scholarly article from a few hastily read paragraphs. He was at ease with abstract ideas. He was impressively well informed about the latest trends in music, the theatre and cinema, and, in his studio, listened constantly to Radio 3, which, as he put it, had been his only education. He tried to keep in shape with the aid of judo (he was a black belt), gymnastics, swimming and a variety of diets, though he never seemed able to concentrate on anything for long. Those who knew him rarely saw Paolozzi at work. His day seemed to consist of diversions. He would flip idly through magazines or folders filled with clippings, go for a drink at the Chelsea Arts Club close to his studio, lunch at the Royal College of Art, or dine in one of the several restaurants where, thanks to gifts of his sculpture or prints, he never saw a bill. But he was prodigiously productive, working for several hours very early in the morning and late at night, when he knew he would not be interrupted. Remarkably generous to his friends, to whom he would hand out artists’ proofs of prints, plaster maquettes and expensive books like sweets, Paolozzi was nevertheless subject to black moods, during which he could be woundingly insensitive. He was represented by very few dealers, and stayed with none of them for long. He was made a CBE in 1968, an RA in 1979 and a knight in 1989; he was awarded numerous honorary doctorates, one by Cambridge University, where he was also an honorary fellow of Jesus College; he was even a member of the Athenaeum. Such recognition delighted him; he was especially pleased to appear on Desert Island Discs. obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 101

Discreet about his private life, Paolozzi was attractive to women. Apart from his wife, three were important to him: the collector Gabrielle Keiller, the Berlin art dealer Helga Retched, and Marilee Robinson, who acted as his personal assistant for more than a decade and arranged for him to fill the vacant, Ruritanian post of Queen’s sculptor in ordinary in Scotland. She also organised Paolozzi’s defence after his wife, to his surprise and shock, brought divorce proceedings in 1988. Towards the end of his life, Paolozzi became increasingly concerned about his posthumous reputation. Eager to shape it, he began to write an autobiography and donated countless prints and sculptures to museums in Britain and abroad. He relished every visible sign of his eminence, especially from Scotland, and his emotional attachment to Edinburgh became increasingly evident. In 1994, he offered a large quantity of works to the national galleries of Scotland. The Dean gallery, in Edinburgh, contains his works in many media, his large and varied library, a reconstruction of his chaotic London studio, and examples of the surrealist art from the collections of Roland Penrose and Gabrielle Keiller, which crucially inspired Paolozzi at every point of his career. Paolozzi spent his final years in a nursing home, paralysed from the waist down and unable to talk, an especially tragic fate for a man to whom lively conversation meant so much. His daughters, Louise, Anna and Emma survive him. Copyright Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005

ADAMS, Robert (Bob) (1965) died on 27 January 2005 aged 59. Bob Adams, born 1945, attended Downer Grammar School, Edgware. He read natural sciences and economics then went on to the London Graduate School of Business Studies where he took an M.Sc. in 1970. At Jesus he was a sportsman and a member of the Union. He joined Rio Tinto in 1970 in the planning department and was director of planning and development from 1991 to 1998. From 1995 he was a director of Rio Tinto (Australia) Limited. A shy man who avoided the spotlight whenever possible, Adams was a key figure in building Rio Tinto into one of the most successful mining groups. ‘He hired people he trusted and let them get on with it.’ He was a non-executive director of Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust (1998–2005). Remembered for his wit and warmth, his passions were his family, his work and watching cricket; he loved the theatre and opera. He married Lesley Ann Thomasson in 1982. She and their two daughters survive him.

ARDITTI, Samuel (Sam) Jack Victor (1945) died on 25 February 2005 aged 78. Sam Arditti, born 1927 in Didsbury, Greater Manchester, went to Rydal School, Colwyn Bay. His time at Jesus was interrupted from 1946 to 1948 by national service as a 2nd lieutenant in The Royal Tank Regiment. He took his degree in natural sciences in 1950. From 1952 he ran the Stockport-based family textile business Victor S. Arditti and Son, which he sold to William Baird plc in 1988; he remained a director of Baird until 1995. As chairman from 1994 to 1997 of Trafford NHS Healthcare Trust, Sam Arditti was particularly proud of the Seymour unit for the rehabilitation of the elderly opened in 1997 and the Macmillan cancer treatment unit opened in 1998. He was honorary consul for Spain (1973–86) and for Mexico (1987–2001). He played a vigorous part in the affairs of Greater Manchester and was a member or trustee of many charitable organizations there. Arditti was High Sheriff (1992–3) and director of the Chamber of Commerce and 102 obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Industry (1987–94). He was Chief Commandant of Cheshire Special Constabulary (1956–91) and in 1965 received a Special Constabulary long service medal. He was appointed MBE in 1984. Arditti was married first to Cynthia Rayman and they had a son and a daughter, and secondly to Carol Ann Morgan. His son Michael came up in 1972.

ARGENT, Christopher Quentin (1984) died on 9 October 2004 aged 40. Christopher Argent, born 1964, came up from King’s School, Rochester where he was organ scholar, as he was at Jesus; he read music. In 1986 he became an Associate of the Royal College of Organists and won the Sawyer, Durrant and Doris Wookey prizes. After graduating he was assistant director of music at Coventry Cathedral (1987–90), director of music at Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford (1990–3), assistant organist at Christ Church cathedral (1991–2), head of academic music at St Edmund’s School, Canterbury (1993–4), deputy organist at Lichfield cathedral (1995–9) and organist and choirmaster at Shrewsbury School (1994–2003). From 2003 he was director of music ministry at St Matthew’s Anglican Church, Ottawa. He loved to travel and had visited most countries in the northern hemisphere on his own or on choir trips. He was a modest, self-taught chef. His brother Nick and a sister survive him.

BARKER, Anthony (Tony) Hugh (1971) died on 7th February 2005 aged 52. Tony Barker, born 1952 came up from Manchester Grammar School to read classics. His friends remember long nights in his smoky rooms drinking fresh coffee, listening to his highly idiosyncratic rock music and discussing everything from linguistics to political matters relating to his deep compassion for the powerless. After graduation Tony worked as a health service manager in the north-west and later became director of mid-Staffordshire Mind, the mental health charity. He enjoyed the countryside and historic buildings, eventually moving to Shropshire, where a vegetable garden cultivated with his second wife Jean gave him much pleasure. Friendship mattered deeply to him, and despite his personal difficulties in later years he maintained many close connections. Those who had taken the time to know him loved him for his concern for other people’s lives, and his delight in good-natured teasing. He leaves two daughters from his first marriage.

BIRDSALL, James Neville (1946) died on 1 July 2005 aged 77. Neville Birdsall, born 1928 in Leicester, son of a timber yard foreman, came up as an exhibitioner from Alderman Newton’s School, Leicester, to read English, but changed to theology after two years. He played hockey for the college 2nd team and was a member of the Student Christian Movement and Robert Hall (Baptist) Society. Birdsall became a redoubtable biblical scholar, publishing over a hundred articles and writing numerous detailed, sometimes trenchant, reviews. Whilst a minister of the Baptist Union (1951–6) he undertook research, first as Stanton student at Trinity College, Cambridge, into the ninth century Byzantine patriarch Photius, then as part-time research student at the University of Nottingham into an important ninth-century manuscript of Paul. He obtained a Nottingham Ph.D. in 1959. After four years as an assistant lecturer in biblical studies at Leeds University he moved to Birmingham, where he stayed until he retired in 1983 as professor of New Testament studies and textual criticism. He made important contributions to knowledge of Georgian and Armenian literature and from 1965 to 1966 was visiting professor of Caucasian languages at the University of California, Los Angeles. In the 1970s Birdsall did a vast amount of work as executive editor of the International Critical Greek New Testament Project, eventually published under his successor. Birdsall was a stalwart of the Association of University Teachers and, as president of its Birmingham branch at the end of the 1960s, showed wisdom and courage during the difficult period of student unrest. He married Irene Adams in 1951 obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 103 and together they worked to spread the Christian message and to support developing countries They established an education fund in the Saki region of Nigeria and in 2001 the Okere of Saki conferred on Birdsall the title Alawajoye of Saki, meaning Honorary Chief. Irene died in 1998; they had two sons and two daughters.

BRASHER, Norman Henry (1941) died on 15 September 2003 aged 81. Norman Brasher, born 1922 in Cheltenham, son of an insurance agent, came up as a scholar from Cheltenham Grammar School to read history. He rowed and played rugby for the college and enjoyed tennis and squash. His time here was interrupted by four years’ war service in Europe as an officer in the Airborne Division of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, the Parachute Regiment and the Devonshire Regiment. After two years (1946–8) as assistant archivist for the Northamptonshire Record Society, Brasher returned to Cambridge in 1948 for a year to train at the Department of Education as a teacher. He spent 13 years at Beckenham and Penge County Grammar School (1949–62) then moved to Bexley Grammar School, where he was head of history and from 1973 director of studies; he retired in 1982. He was a quiet, unassuming man, keen on sport, who enjoyed coaching the school hockey and cricket teams. Throughout his teaching career and for another ten years he served as examiner, chief examiner and moderator for Cambridge University Examination Board. Brasher wrote several history books for use in schools and by a wider public: Studies in British Government (1965), Arguments in history (1968) and The young historian (1970); he co-authored Britain in the twentieth century, 1900–64 (1966). He was a schoolmaster fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1968. He met his wife Marguerite Noble at a tea dance in Cambridge Guildhall in October 1945 while she was training for teaching at Homerton College, and they married in 1947. He is survived by Marguerite and their two sons.

BRAY, Denis Campbell (1944) died on 8 July 2005 aged 79. Denis Bray, born 1926 in Hong Kong, son of a Methodist minister, went to school in Chefoo, N. China until 1939 and then at Kingswood School, Uppingham, Rutland. He read mathematics for a year and then changed to physics because the Ministry of Labour and National Service required him to do so to help meet the great demand for men with qualifications in that subject. He was secretary of the boat club and rowed for the first boat, which won numerous races in Cambridge and elsewhere, including the Grand Challenge Cup at Marlow and at Henley in 1947. After graduation he did national service for two years as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy and was then at the London School of Economics for a year on a Devonshire course training for the Colonial Service. For thirty- five years, from 1950 until he retired, Bray had a distinguished career working for the Hong Kong government in the colonial administrative service, as colonial administrator (1950–71), district commissioner for the New Territories (1971–3) and secretary for home affairs (1973–7; 1980–5). From 1977 to 1980 he was Hong Kong Commissioner in London. He was appointed CVO in 1977 and CMG in 1975. Bray also played an immensely active part in Hong Kong affairs. He was chairman of the English Schools Foundation (1986–92), the Jubilee Sports Centre (1985–92) and Christian Action Hong Kong from 2001. He was executive director of the Hong Kong Community Chest from 1985 to 1992 and president of the Hong Kong Yachting Association (1990–1). He was a director of the Hong Kong Symphony Orchestra from 1985 and chairman of the Jesus College Cambridge Society in Hong Kong from 1998. He belonged to numerous clubs. He is survived by his wife Marjorie Bottomley, whom he married in 1952, and by their four daughters. He and Marjorie had sold up in Hong Kong last December and were just starting life in their Edwardian house in Headington, Oxford, when Denis died. His younger brother Jeremy Bray came up in 1949. 104 obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

BRICE, John Russell (1959) died on 19 August 2004 aged 66. John Brice, born 1938 at Barton on Humber, attended Barton on Humber Grammar School. He did national service before coming up and was awarded the GSM Cyprus in 1959. He read natural sciences (metallurgy), played cricket and was in the 2nd Rugby XV. He became a management consultant. Fly fishing was his recreation. In 1964 Brice married Ann Wright who, with their three sons, survives him.

CHAPPEL, William (Bill) Arthur Brian (1943) died on 21 December 1999 aged 74. Bill Chappel, born 1925 in Bedford, son of a major-general in the Indian army, came up from Marlborough on an RE short course. Commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1945, he at once volunteered for parachute training and joined 591 Airborne Squadron just before they flew to Norway to supervise German prisoners clearing land mines. Postings to Palestine and Schleswig-Holstein followed. In May 1949 he became an air portability instructor at Brize Norton and while there played rugger for the Corps. After a short spell as second-in-command at Chatham, he became adjutant of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers in 1954. Two years later he was posted to Malaya where he was adjutant of 51 Field Engineer Regiment in Kluang. He then joined the Malayan Federation Engineers and became officer commanding 2 Malay Field Squadron at Ipoh, building the Ipoh Road. After a few years in Germany and at home, he was posted to HQ Wales District where he was much involved in the aftermath of the Aberfan disaster. His final appointments were with HQ Engineer Support Group at Woolwich and in London from 1971 until 1977, when he retired from the army and joined Halcrow Engineer Consultants as an administrator. The success of the organization when it combined with Balfour for a massive job in Saudi Arabia was largely owing to Chappel’s persistence, hard work and good humour. Chappel retired from Halcrow in 1990, after suffering heart trouble followed by a stroke. He leaves his wife Sheila (née Ibbotson) and their two sons.

COLLINSON, Peter Robert Holt (1948) died on 9 February 2005 aged 75. Peter Collinson, born 1929 in Manchester, went to Manchester Grammar School. After a year at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, he came up as an exhibitioner to read mechanical sciences. He played hockey and tennis at college level and was a half-blue at lacrosse in each of his three years. He spent 35 years in the Royal Navy in the submarine service, rising to the rank of captain. In the 1970s he was assistant director of submarine weapons systems at the Admiralty Establishment, Portland, Dorset, and spent some time at Cape Canaveral. His last appointment in the Navy was as captain of HMS Collingwood. In 1982 Collinson became general manager of Marconi Underwater Systems in Portsmouth and in 1985 changed career to become district general manager for West Cumberland health authority. In 1993 he returned to Hampshire to indulge his passion for fly-fishing for trout in chalk streams. He is survived by Elaine, his wife of 52 years, and their daughter.

COX, Cecil Gordon (1946), died on 11 May 2005 aged 82. Gordon Cox, born 1922 in Madras, India, disliked his first name and resented that the computer age often forced him to use it. He went to Bedford School and then to the University of Birmingham, but only for a year. He saw war service in the Royal Engineers from 1942 and reached the rank of major. Cox read mechanical sciences, played scrum half at rugger and represented the college at tennis. After graduation he joined the Colonial Engineering Service. He was executive engineer for the government of Nyasaland (1949–55) and director of public works for the governments of British Solomon Islands (1955–65) and of Fiji (1965–8). He returned to the UK to work for obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 105

Shoosmith Howe & Partners (1968–71), as project engineer for the large grain-handling terminal in the new Seaforth Docks in Liverpool, and then as principal engineer for the Crown Agents (1971–81). Besides administering road construction projects in several overseas countries, including Sierra Leone and Ethiopia, Cox was a member of teams investigating development proposals for international aid donors. From 1981 until 1985 he was director of J. W. Pilgrim Associates, consultants for rural development works overseas, notably in Papua New Guinea. He was appointed OBE in 1963. He is survived by Jean (née Crane) whom he married in 1952.

DAICHES, David (Fw 1951) died on 15 July 2005 aged 92. David Daiches, born 1912 in Sunderland, was the son of a Lithuanian immigrant, the distinguished Rabbi Salis Daiches. His brother Lionel became a famous advocate, David an equally famous scholar and critic in the fields of modernist and Scottish literature. In 1919 the family moved to Edinburgh, where David was brought up. He went to George Watson’s College and, with many prizes and a scholarship, to Edinburgh University and then, with more prizes and the Elton exhibition, to Balliol College, Oxford. He returned to Edinburgh in 1935 as an assistant in English and a year later became a fellow and lecturer at Balliol. In 1939 Daiches went to the University of Chicago, where he was stranded by the war until 1943 when he got work with British Information Service in New York. In 1944 he transferred to the British embassy in Washington as second secretary. He came home after the war, but not for long. He went to Cornell University in 1946 and remained there until 1951 when he came to Cambridge as a lecturer. Daiches was elected a fellow of Jesus in 1957 and stayed for four years. In 1961 he moved to Sussex University, the first of the new universities that began the expansion of higher education, and helped build up a department that has remained strong to this day. He was professor and dean of English studies until he retired in 1977. In 1980 he moved back to Edinburgh and for six years was host and mentor to foreign scholars at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Throughout his academic career Daiches was a prolific author and wrote on numerous topics including The novel and the modern world (1939), Virginia Woolf (1942), Robert Burns (1950) and A critical history of English literature (1960). His best loved book was Two worlds (1956), in which he described his upbringing and his loving relationship with his unworldly father. A second autobiographical volume – A third world – was published in 1971. He also wrote an authoritative account of Scotch whisky (1969). His first wife Isobel Mackay died in 1977. He married Hazel Neville in 1978 and she died in 1986. He is survived by two sons and a daughter of his first marriage.

DUNCAN, Paul Saville (1938), died on 24 November 2004 aged 84. Paul Duncan, born 1920 in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, came up as an exhibitioner from Nottingham High School to read classics. When he came back from the war, he changed to English. He was to earn the gratitude of scholars and traditional singers by arranging the publication of eight volumes of traditional Scottish songs collected between 1904 and 1914 by Gavin Greig and James Duncan, Paul’s grandfather. From 1940 to 1946 Duncan served in the Sherwood Foresters in Britain and West Africa; he rose to the rank of major. He was director of English at Mill Hill School (1946–57) and principal lecturer in English and warden of the Town Halls at Loughborough Training College (1958–62). From 1962 to 1975 Duncan worked for the British India Steam Navigation Company, for four years as director of education on school ships Devonia and Nevasa and then as senior education officer organizing school cruises. From 1975 until 1983 he was head of establishment and finance at the central bureau for educational visits and exchanges. His recreations were cricket, tennis, squash, bridge and travel. He married Mary Burleigh in 1944 and leaves one daughter. 106 obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

FALKINER, Franc Norman (1936), died on 21 March 2004 aged 86. Franc Falkiner, born 1917 in Melbourne, Australia, attended Geelong Grammar School. He came up in January 1936 to read general and military studies. In 1940 he married Gwynneth Morris. From 1940 to 1945 Falkiner was a captain in the AIF, the special force set up by the Australian government for service ‘at home or abroad as circumstances permit’. After the war he was a consultant to Falkiner Collins, Sharebrokers, which became Falkiner’s Stockbroking Ltd., and a member (1946–76) and committee member (1966–73) of the Melbourne Stock Exchange. In his later years Falkiner became legally blind and extremely frail but his mind remained clear and he greatly enjoyed ‘talking books’. He is survived by Gwynneth and their two sons.

FITZWALTER, Brook Plumptre, 21st Baron FitzWalter (1934) died on 14 October 2004 aged 90. Brook FitzWalter, born 1914 in Barbiton, South Africa, was at Diocesan College, Capetown. At Jesus he read estate management. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he joined the Buffs, went with them to France and took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk. He later served in India. After the war he started to farm and until 1980 managed the family property at Goodnestone, Kent. In 1951 he married Margaret Deedes and in 1953 when his father’s older brother died Brook succeeded, as 21st Baron, to one of the most ancient baronies. (To understand how he came to succeed, knowledge is needed of the intricacies of lineage.) In 1955 they moved into the house at Goodnestone Park that had been the family home since 1704. In 1959 it was seriously damaged by fire and FitzWalter carefully reconstructed it. He and Margaret were notably successful in restoring and developing the gardens of Goodnestone Park, which are now widely admired. During the 1970s and 1980s they bred Sussex beef cattle and built up the Deedstone herd (whose name is made up out of Deedes and Goodnestone), one of the most renowned in the breed’s history. Brook was a quiet, modest countryman who was active in the Country Landowners’ Association and was a popular president of its Kent branch. He was also a magistrate and a governor of King’s School, Canterbury. Lord FitzWalter leaves his wife and five sons, one of whom, the Hon. W. G. Plumptre, came up to the college in 1975.

GOULD, James William (1932) died in May 2004 aged 92. James Gould, born 1911 in Durban, Natal, went to Durban Boys’ High School and from there to the University of Cape Town. In 1930 he obtained a bachelor’s degree with distinction in pure mathematics; he took an MA in English the following year. He came to Jesus as an affiliated student and took part II mathematics in 1934. He was known as a mountaineer. From 1935 for three years he was a lecturer in Natal University and then joined Prudential Assurance Co. After war service in the South African Air Force (1940–5) he went back to work for Prudential until 1972 when he retired as their Actuary for South Africa and moved to Macquarie University, Sydney, as senior tutor in actuarial studies (1973–80). He married Wilhelmina Kelfkens in 1940; they had two sons and a daughter.

HABERSHON, Richard Percy Rix (1937) died on 29 January 2005 aged 85. Richard Habershon, born 1919 in Sheffield, came up from Gresham’s School, Holt, to read mechanical sciences. He was a member of the Umbrage club. After graduating he joined the family steel business. During the Second World War the works produced steel components for the Spitfire and Hurricane. Apart from this important contribution to the war effort, Habershon joined the Home Guard ack ack unit in Sheffield. He was co-director with his cousin of J. J. Habershon & Sons until the 1960s. Habershon was a motor enthusiast and in his twenties competed at Silverstone, Goodwood and Prescott; at various times he drove a obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 107

Maserati, a Bugatti and a Delage. Later he competed in several Monte Carlo rallies. He rebuilt and ran a 21. Ballot. Habershon was also a talented photographer and pianist. In the 1950s he made several promotional films for Castrol Oil and in the 1960s made a number of visits to Jordan to search for the Dead Sea Scrolls. His film Search in the desert was shown by the BBC. He is survived by his wife Joan (née Hulme) and their two daughters.

HALLAM Henry Adrian Newton (1953) died on 8 January 2005 aged 72. Henry Hallam, born 1933 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, was at Winchester College until 1951. He did national service in the Intelligence Corps, mostly spent in Cambridge in the Army School of Languages learning Russian. He took his B.A. in Russian and German. His time here overlapped that of his brother W. B. L. Hallam (1954). A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Hallam worked from 1960 at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, as a cataloguer of material in Western European languages; he later played a significant part in the library’s computerisation. In 1988 he retired to Suffolk to look after his wife Maggie, but continued to help Balliol College library and to work on his own project of listing books printed in Suffolk.

HARRIS, Richard (1941) died on 9 July 2005 aged 84. Richard Harris, born 1922 in Taunton, son of the managing director of Taunton and District Gas Company, came up in January 1941 from Taunton School with an exhibition. He read history and took part II in 1943. He had been rejected by the army in 1941 because of extreme short sight, but in November 1943 became a temporary assistant with the Foreign Office, which was classed as national service. In 1945 he was promoted to technical assistant, but at the end of that year transferred to an executive post in the Inland Revenue at Llandudno. He left there in 1947 and spent a year at the London School of Economics. Because he had become too old to return to the Foreign Office he went to the School of Librarianship at the North-Western Polytechnic, finishing in June 1951. Harris pursued a subsequent career as a librarian.

HOBBS, Peter Joseph (1954) died on 5 May 2005 aged 72. Peter Hobbs, born 1932 in Hornsey, Essex, was at Enfield Grammar School. He did national service as a lance-corporal in REME before coming up to read natural sciences. After graduating, Peter followed in the footsteps of his father who was product manager at Murex Welding Processes Ltd. He began in 1957 as a research metallurgist and rose to be marketing manager of BOC Murex. From 1965 to 1992 he was managing director of subsidiary companies of the UK branch of the Swedish welding and cutting company ESAB. He was vice-chairman of the Welding Manufacturers Association board and chairman of various committees of the European Welding Association. Hobbs was a fellow from 1980 of the Welding Institute, Cambridge, and in 1998 received its distinguished service award. His recreations were walking, bowls, ballet and conservation. He married Valerie Brooks in 1959 who survives him. They had two daughters.

INGLE, George Thomas David (1943) died on 5 November in 2001 aged 76. David Ingle, born 1923 in London, came up from Felsted School, where his father, the Rev. G. E. Ingle (1919), was a housemaster. He read mechanical sciences. He worked in the field of electrical engineering for companies such as Compton Parkinson, Masch Fabrik Oerlikon, an electrical company in Switzerland and ASEA, a major Swedish electrical manufacturer. His recreation was amateur radio. Ingle was twice married, first to Janet Andrews and secondly to Lydia Rivera; both marriages ended in divorce. He leaves a daughter of his first marriage and a son and daughter of his second. 108 obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

IRELAND, Kenneth Frederick Gardnor (1943) died on 9 November 2004 aged 87. Kenneth Ireland was born 1917 in Eastbourne. From Canford School, he went in 1937 to the London School of Economics, spending eighteen months there, then worked for the Bank of England until 1942. After a short period in the Royal Navy serving on HMS Caballa in 1943, he came up to read history. He was captain of college hockey, played for the University Wanderers and was president of the Natives. Ireland became a schoolmaster and was head of history at Ardingly College (1948–50). Between 1950 and 1960 he taught history and English at Strathallan School, Perthshire, and at other schools. After 1960 he was of independent means and engaged in the study of history of art. He had a lifelong interest in that subject and in historic houses, particularly those in the Palladian style, and wrote British Art Galleries and Connoisseur Houses, but both remained unpublished. His older friends could remember him as a keen tennis player, golfer and sportsman.

JAMSON, Maurice William (1945) died on 12 January 2005 aged 77. Maurice Jamson, born 1927 in Nottingham, son of a grocer, came up as an exhibitioner from Nottingham High School where he was captain of boats and played rugby for the county. He read history. He was in the first rugby XV and also took part in dramatics. After national service in the RAF, he took up the offer in 1950 of a traineeship at Imperial Tobacco Ogden’s in Liverpool and stayed there until he retired as factory manager aged 58. He then travelled a great deal. Jamson loved skiing and golf and had had a sporting career in rugby football, playing for Waterloo and Lancashire. He was made a JP and elected to the Juvenile Bench from which he retired at 70. He leaves his wife Hazel, whom he married in 1957, and their son.

JEFFERY, John Gilbert (1949) died on 6 April 2005 aged 76. John Jeffery, born 1928 at Rushey Green, London, son of an estate agent, was at Colfe’s Grammar School, Lewisham. He came up after national service in the RAF and read French and German, taking part II in 1952. After a year to gain a post-graduate certificate in education, he was a foreign language assistant in France and Germany (1953–7) and then became a teacher. From 1957 for nine years Jeffery taught in Cheshire and London. In 1966 he became a lecturer in French at St Mark and St John, Chelsea, and was then lecturer, senior lecturer, head of languages and assistant registrar at Avery Hill College, London. He moved in 1983 to be principal lecturer and colleges’ liaison officer at the University of Greenwich. Jeffery was chairman of the European Association of Teachers (UK) (1979–97). His main outside interest was the Church of England and he was secretary of Tooting Deanery from 1997. He was co-secretary of Natural Justice from 1999. He married Gillian Manthorp in 1957. They had three sons and two daughters.

JENKINS, David George (1958) died on 28 November 2004 aged 67. David Jenkins, born 1937 in Bath, one of twin sons of an accountant, was at King Edward’s School, Bath. He came up after national service in the Royal Signals at Catterick and read mechanical sciences. He was awarded an exhibition on his part I results. He was a member of CICCU, played in the first XV and rowed in the 4th and 5th boats. In 1962 he took part as a support worker in the medical Cambridge South India Expedition. After a master’s degree at Imperial College, London (1965) he followed a career in systems technology, serving in Hawker Siddeley (1962–4), ICI (1965–70) and Pilkington (1970–3). Realising the importance of investment in people, he moved in 1973 to teaching, first as lecturer in computing science at Glasgow University (1973–9) and then as senior research fellow at Paisley. After he retired he was a consultant to the Scottish Council for Educational Technology and partner in Jenkins Associates. His strong Christian faith and desire to obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 109 serve the worldwide church in a professional capacity led him to a breathtaking régime of activity, publication and visits which helped the developing world as well as the community on his doorstep through his ministry in West Glasgow New Church. Following long and successful stem-cell treatment, this time as a patient, he was able to admire the sophisticated technological treatment, until he succumbed to a more minor infection. He leaves a son.

KIRBY, Cyril Leonard (1940) died on 16 July 2004 aged 82. Cyril Kirby, born 1922 in Lincoln, son of a draper and outfitter, came up from Lincoln School which he represented at tennis. He read mechanical sciences for two years. In 1942, found unfit for military service, he was taken on as a junior stressman by Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, which counted as war work. After the war Kirby became a municipal engineer, with Lincoln City Council (1945–48) and Nottingham City Council (1948–51). In 1951 he returned to Lincoln as City Engineer. He was a governor of Lincoln School from 1964 to 1998. His recreations were tennis and badminton. He maintained close contact with the college. He is survived by Gwendoline (née Fox), whom he married in 1964, and by their daughter Jill. Jill Kirby came up to Jesus in 1984.

LOCKE-WHEATON, John Antony Charles (1972) died on 29 January 2005 aged 52. John Locke-Wheaton, born 1952 in Chiswick, came up from King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth, to read mathematics. In 1975 he joined Mobile Data Communications, Sema Group plc as a consultant and stayed there until 1999. In 2000 he became founding managing director of Above the Horizon Limited, a telecommunications training firm. In October 2004 he was diagnosed with cancer. He is survived by his wife Margaret Hunt, whom he married in 1977, and by their son and daughter.

LUSHINGTON, Roger Geoffrey Law (1954) died on 4 October 2004 aged 71. Roger Lushington, born 1933 in Ceylon, was the son of a retired tea planter. His grandfather and two great-uncles had been at Jesus in the 1870s. He was at Wellington College. After national service as a 2nd lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, he came up to read natural sciences. After graduating he was with Shell Chemical (1957–68), Formica (1968–71) and Rockware Glass (1971–7). From 1977 to 1999 Lushington was a self-employed market research analyst operating under the name RGL Associates. In 1967 he published Plastics and you. He is survived by Diana (née Sugden), whom he married in 1959, and by their three daughters.

MACKIE, John Beveridge (1941) died on 25 May 2005 aged 73. John Mackie, born 1923 in London, son of a regular army colonel, came up from Downside School to read medicine. He played rugby for the first XV and was a member of the Natives but failed medical qualifying examinations and left in 1944 without a degree. He continued with medicine in London for a short while and later in Glasgow, but without success. He did national service in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and by January 1947 was an acting captain with an appointment as a personnel selection officer in Singapore. For most of the rest of his career he was with Union Carbide International Company. He is survived by his widow, Frances, who lives in Miami, Florida.

MALEY, John Hugh Patrick (1954) died on 26 January 2005 aged 69. John Maley, born 1935 at Southend-on-Sea, came up from Charterhouse to read economics. He was captain of the boat club in 1957 when Jesus was head of the Lents and Mays. He retained a close connection with college all his life. From 1957 to 1959 110 obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Maley did national service as a flying officer in the Royal Air Force. He won the Sword of Merit at the RAF Officers’ Training College in 1957. After three years in the textile industry with Courlak Ltd, he joined the management consultants McKinsey and Company and worked for them from 1962 to 1970 (and again in 1975), becoming a principal. In 1968 Maley went to live in the USA; he transferred in 1971 to Technicare. He became president and chief executive officer of a subsidiary which he named Invacare Corp – now the leading company in the durable medical equipment industry. After buying Chatanooga Group, he became its chairman, president and chief executive officer (1976–94) and built it into the leading company in the physical therapy products industry. Maley retired from Chatanooga in 1994 and formed Magister Corporation, which makes and markets simple rehabilitation and fitness products. He was also involved with other companies in the medical device industry – as chairman of Compex Technologies, Minneapolis, and a director of Atrion Corporation, Dallas. In 1991 he was the recipient of the Magistro Award from the Foundation for Physical Therapy and in 1995 was made an honorary member of the American Physical Therapy Association. He married Anne Reinhold in 1964; they had a son and a daughter.

MARLOW, Roy George (1950) died on 11 October 1988 aged 57. The editor apologises for the wholly inadequate notice about Roy Marlow that was published in the 2004 annual report and for any distress it may have caused his friends and relatives. Roy Marlow, born 1931 in Bulwell, Nottingham, son of a coal miner, came up to read classics as a scholar from Nottingham High School, where he had been vice–captain of rugby and a prefect. He was taught classics there by a Jesuan, C. H. Beeby (1932). Although he had wanted to do his national service before university, his hopes had been thwarted by his rejection for military service on a footling medical technicality. Like many boys from that school he had ambitions inclined towards public service and thought that in preparation he ought to change from classics to Modern Greek and Russian, but his director of studies talked him out of it. On leaving the university he worked first for Unilever and became an executive in their West African subsidiary, G.S. Ollivant. In 1966 he fulfilled his earlier ambitions by late entry to the Foreign Office. His distinguished career took him as first secretary to Calcutta in 1967, to Bogota in 1971 and back to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1973. After spending four years from 1976 as head of chancery and consul in Quito and three as consul-general in Manila, he was British Ambassador to the Dominican Republic from 1983 to 1985. He was consul- general in Karachi when he died.

McCRAE, Angus Wilson Ritchie (1953) died on 15 August 2004 aged 72. Angus McCrae, born 1932 in Putney, was one of twin sons of William McRae, a physician. From 1940 to 1944 he lived in Canada, and had an early start in entomology at St Catharine’s in Ontario, where there was an experimental station. In 1945 he went to the Leys School, Cambridge. After national service as an officer in the Royal Signals, he came up to read natural sciences and took part II zoology in 1956. In 1955 he was senior secretary of the Cambridge Natural History Society. He took part in two Cambridge expeditions, to Nigeria in summer 1955 and to Nyasaland in summer 1956, which gave him experience for later survey work. After a year as a research assistant in the midge control unit, University of Edinburgh (1957–8), McRae went to Africa, where he was an entomologist at the Ugandan ministry of health in Kampala from 1958 to 1966 and principal research officer at the East African Virus Research Institute at Entebbe (1966–7). From 1971 he worked for a year for the Medical Research Council (MRC) obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 111 attached to the Hope Department of Entomology, Oxford University. After a year as a consultant for the World Health Organization in Ghana (1972–3) he worked for the MRC again until 1977 and was in the Gambia (1974–5). From 1977 to 1982 he was at the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology and, following four further years as a WHO consultant, became reader at the London School of Hygiene (1986–7), then Scientific Information Officer at CAB International (1989–92). The final stages of his career were spent as a Leverhulme emeritus fellow at Oxford, where he was also an associate curator at the University Museum. In 1977 he obtained a Cambridge Ph.D. under special regulations. His marriage in 1963 to Janet Gregory was dissolved in 1991. They had two sons.

McLACHLAN, Geoffrey (Geoff ) Roy (1949) died on 17 January 2005 aged 81. Geoff McLachlan, born 1923 in Cape Town, went to school at Diocesan College, Cape Town. He was always passionate about nature and wildlife and became an internationally renowned ornithologist, respected natural scientist and imaginative museum director. From school he went to the University of Cape Town (UCT) but his studies in zoology and geology were interrupted by three years’ war service as a pilot in the South African Air Force. He returned to UCT and gained an M.Sc. He came up to Jesus as a research student in geology and obtained a Ph.D. in 1952. For two years he was a departmental demonstrator in the geology department in Oxford, where he was attached to Jesus College. In 1954 McLachlan returned to South Africa to become director of the Port Elizabeth museum and snake park and later took the lead in the establishment of Port Elizabeth’s new museum, snake park and oceanarium at Humewood. He saw to it that a very large room was constructed to house a reconstructed brontosaurus, the dimensions of which were calculated from a fossilized thigh bone that he had discovered. In 1955 he married Paula deKock at the deKock family farm at Addo. From 1957 to 1978, with Richard Liversedge, McLachlan was responsible for revising later editions of Roberts’ birds of Southern Africa. In 1966 he moved near Cape Town to start the Tygerberg Zoo, with which he was involved until 1975 when he joined the South African Museum in Cape Town as a herpetologist. He was responsible for several books on birds; a lizard, Cordylus mclachlani, was named after him. He retired to a property in Plettenberg Bay full of bird-attracting indigenous plants. In 1972 he was made an honorary life member of the South African Ornithological Society. To the end he was working on distribution maps of snakes in South Africa. He is survived by Paula, their two daughters and son.

PAGAN, Henry (1926) died on 11 April 2005 aged 97. Henry Pagan, born 1908 at Alburgh, Norfolk, where his father was rector, came up from Westminster School as a Rustat and a Tew scholar. He read classics and rowed for the college in Cambridge and elsewhere. He was an advertising copywriter with Godbolds Ltd from 1931 to 1939. During the war Pagan served as a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He afterwards became a bee farmer in Norfolk and from 1961 to 1968 was chairman of the Bee Farmers’ Association of Great Britain. In the 1970s he was a district councillor for South Norfolk and from 1984 to 1986 president of the South Norfolk Liberal Democrat Association He is survived by Annette (née Green),whom he married in 1943, and by their three daughters.

PARKER-WOOD, Basil Frederick Howard (1931) died on 17 December 2004 aged 93. Basil Parker-Wood, born 1911 in South Africa, son of a commercial traveller, came up from Diocesan College, Cape Town, and read medicine. He was a house surgeon and physician at Lambeth Royal Hampshire and Essex County hospitals (1940–2) and at 112 obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Severall’s Mental Hospital (1945–6). From 1942 to 1945 he was a general practitioner in Colchester and from 1946 in Cape Town, where he became an honorary consultant to the South Peninsula hospitals group. He was a member from 1946 and life member from 1986 of the South African medical authority. His recreations were the Bible, bowls and fishing. He married V. A. Cliff in 1940; they had a son and daughter.

PATEMAN, John Anderson (1931) died on 18 January 2005 aged 92. John Pateman, born 1912 in Leytonstone, Essex, came up as a scholar from Christ’s Hospital. He read classics and was given a distinction in Latin verse composition in part I. He played rugby for the college and later for the Eastern Counties. He was Cambridge secretary of the College Boys’ Club in Camberwell. Pateman became a teacher and was at Loretto School from 1934 to 1940. During the war he served with the Royal Scots in Shetland, West Africa and in the department of chemical warfare at H.Q. Western Command in Chester. He went back to Loretto in 1946 as housemaster, stayed for two years and in 1948 accepted an invitation to become headmaster of Hilton College, Natal, where he stayed until giving up teaching in 1953. He was awarded the Queen’s Coronation Medal for services to education in Natal. From 1954 to 1972 he was in charge of staff recruitment in London for Anglo-American and then for Charter Consolidated and later became a consultant for the Overseas Mining Association. Pateman was a first rate athlete, hugely well read and with a strong sense of service. He was always involved with voluntary work, especially for the under-privileged. When he retired he became secretary and trustee of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution and for the last 25 years of his life was bookkeeper and archivist for the Friends of Highgate Cemetery, founded by his wife who is still chairman. He married Jean Ouseley-Smith in 1946 and they had two sons and a daughter.

PERKIN, Harold James (1945) died on 16 October 2004 aged 78. Harold Perkin, born 1926, son of a builder, came up from Hanley High School, Stoke- on-Trent, and read history. In spite of finding the curriculum narrow and constrictive, he graduated with a starred first. In 1948 he married Joan Griffiths, who became a much- published social historian. After national service in the RAF (1948–50) he was for fifteen years lecturer in the novel subject of social history at Manchester University. In 1965 he moved to the University of Lancaster, where he was a senior lecturer until 1967 and from then until 1985 held the country’s first professorship of social history. For almost twenty years he dealt with the employment issues of non-academic staff there and was much valued for his fairness and equity. Perkin’s classic book on The origins of modern English society 1780–1880, published in 1969, ‘made his academic reputation’. He became president of the Association of University Teachers and wrote its history: Key profession (1969). Perkin founded and became chairman of the Social History Society (1976–85). In the 1970s he was much concerned with two television series for Granada, which appeared as The age of the railway (1970) and The age of the automobile (1976). In 1985, disenchanted with Thatcherite England, Perkin took up a professorship at North Western University in Chicago where in 1989 he published The Rise of the professional society: England since 1880. This was followed in 1996 by The third revolution: professional élites in the modern world. In 1997 Harold and Joan returned to London where both of them were regular and much–valued visitors at the Institute of Historical Research. In 2002 he published his autobiography The making of a social historian, recording his remarkable life of striving, self-help and upward social mobility. He is survived by Joan and their son and daughter. obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 113

REDMAN, Noel Vernon (1940) died on 5 February 2004 aged 83. Noel Redman, born 1921 in Cheltenham, came up from Cheltenham College to read law, but in 1941 enlisted in the 5th Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment. He later transferred to the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. He was mentioned in dispatches. After the war, Redman joined the Colonial Service and served in the Bechuanaland Protectorate (1946–8) and as private secretary to the UK High Commissioner in South Africa (1948–51). Later appointments included principal, Commonwealth Relations Office (1958–61), permanent secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Botswana (1962–6) and training administration manager for the Agricultural Industry Training Board (1967–86). Redman was chairman (1984–96) and president (1996–8) of the Haywards Heath branch of the Royal British Legion and a member of the UK Botswana Society. He was appointed OBE in 1966 and in 1980 received the Rhodesia Medal for services as an election supervisor. He leaves a wife, Vera (née Hodgkin), whom he married in 1952.

SAMARA, Hilmi (1944) died on 2 April 2002 aged 80. Hilmi Samara, born 1922 in Palestine, was at the Arab College, Jerusalem, until 1939 and then at University College, Nottingham, where he obtained a B.Sc. in mathematics and physics. He obtained a Cambridge Ph.D. in 1948. Our information is that he returned to Palestine to teach.

SANDERS, Francis (Franc) Norman (1945) died on 20 November 2004 aged 77. Franc Sanders, born 1927 at Erdington, Birmingham, son of a diemaker and toolmaker, came up from Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, to read natural sciences. He served as an officer in the Royal Artillery from 1946 for two years and returned in 1948 to complete his degree. In 1950 he began work in the research department of B & P Plastics Ltd, Manningtree, and in 1958 joined the National Coal Board as a materials engineer at their mining research and development establishment, Bretby. The NCB sent him to Oxford in 1965 (Jesus College) for a one-year diploma course in the science of materials. He was head of British Coal’s non-metallic materials branch when he retired in 1986. His wife Patricia survives him.

SAVILL, John (Jo) Loscombe Lydall (1936) died on 28 March 2005 aged 87. Jo Savill, born 1917 at Chobham, Surrey, son of a surveyor, came up from Radley College to read archaeology and anthropology then geography. He was captain of the boat club and a member of the Natives. He rowed at 5 in the 1938 Cambridge crew and at 4 in the winning 1939 crew. After Sandhurst in 1940, Savill was an officer in the Irish Guards; he was wounded and awarded the Croix de Guerre de Belge avec Palme. After the war he worked for the family property and estate management company Alfred Savill & Sons (now F.P.D. Savills) and was a partner from 1962 to 1982. He was a director of Clockhouse Property Limited from 1962. Jo Savill was a member of the Hawks Club, of Leander and of the London Rowing Club. Besides rowing he was keen on fox hunting, rugby and sailing; he belonged to the Royal Yacht Squadron. He married Betty Mence in 1952. Their son Jolyon died in 1992 but their two daughters, Amanda and Belinda, survive him. Amanda is married to Alan Walden-Jones (1973).

SCOTT, Patrick Henry Fowlis (1948) died on 24 February 2005 aged 79. Patrick Scott, born 1925, son of H. P. F. Scott (1902), went to Monkton Combe School. He came up at 23 to read theology. He was a member of the boat club and the Student Christian Movement. He was ordained in 1953, becoming curate at Milton-next-Gravesend, and priest in 1954, when he was appointed vicar of New Hythe, 114 obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

Kent. In 1957 he joined the Royal Army Chaplains Department where he remained until 1980. He was awarded the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977. In 1953 he married Anne Jupe and they had a son and two daughters.

SMITH, Robert Higson (1935) died on 15 April 2005 aged 87. Robert Smith, born 1917 in Lincoln, son of a Sheffield MP, came up from Rugby School and read mathematics then geography. He had been in his local branch of the Royal Air Force Reserve before he came up and was an extremely active member of it during his time here. He was an officer in the Royal Air Force from 1937 to 1959 and rose to the rank of wing commander. As a squadron leader, he was reported missing while serving in the Middle East in 1942 and was in prisoner of war camps in Italy. After his release he served in Singapore and Egypt. He was appointed OBE in 1959.

SPROT, Gerald Hugh Cleghorn (1938) died on 25 July 2004 aged 84. Hugh Sprot, born 1919 at Strathvithie, St Andrew’s, Fife, son of Hereward Sadler (1895), came up from Shrewsbury School to read for the chemistry/general B.A. He became secretary and, like his father, captain of the boat club. Hugh belonged to the Natives, Red Herrings and Roosters. He was called up in 1940 and in March 1941 sailed for Calcutta, as 2nd lieutenant in his father’s regiment, the 3rd Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards. He served in India and Burma and ended up as a major in the Allied Control Commission in immediate post-war Western Germany, where he met his wife Elizabeth. After demobilisation Sprot learnt farming the hard way in the Scottish borders before taking over the family estate and its farms at Strathvithie. He was soon drawn into management of the family firm of Sadler & Co. in Middlesborough and worked there from the late 1950s to the late 1960s, transforming it into a highly successful fuels and storage business, eventually taken over by Hays Wharf. Hugh Sprot played a central role in the Royal Ancient Golf Club at St Andrew’s and served on the original links management committee. He chaired the local Conservative Association and the board of governors of New Park School. He is survived by Elizabeth, his wife of 58 years, their daughter and three sons.

VANRENEN, John Charles Douglas (1934) died on 30 December 2004 aged 90. John Vanrenen, born 1914 in Lahore, Punjab, son of a major in the Indian army, came up from Clifton College. He read agriculture. As a giant of a man (6ft 7ins), he was persuaded to box heavyweight in university championships. After failing his examinations he worked on a farm in Suffolk before returning to Pakistan. During the war he served with Probyn’s Horse. After his mother, Ysobel Aimée, was murdered during the chaos of Indian partition he moved to farm in South Africa.

WEBBER, Nicholas George (1994) died on 11 October 2004 aged 28. Nicholas Webber was born in Malawi but grew up in Littlehampton and Climping, Sussex. He came up from Worthing Sixth Form College to take a first in history and represent the college at football. After graduating in 1997 he toured Africa with friends and fell in love with Malawi. He went on to University College, London, where he completed a master’s degree in the history of medicine and in 1999 travelled round the world with his girl friend Jane Bowers, who came up to Jesus a year after him. After two years training in the litigation department of the law firm Ashurst, where he was heavily involved in their community programme and spent hours giving free legal advice at a centre in Islington, he had returned to Malawi for five weeks to work for a human rights organisation. He died there in a car crash. Nick was loved for his dry wit and exceptional talent to help others. His sister Mary Webber came up to Jesus in 1996. obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 115

WELLER, John Eric (1938) died on 7 January 2005 aged 86. John Weller, born 1918 in Selston, Nottinghamshire, son of R. D. Weller, rector of Finchhampstead, was at Haileybury College and spent a year at the Royal Military Academy, Chatham, before coming up to read mechanical sciences. Commissioned in 1938, Weller spent 32 years as an army officer in the Royal Engineers. He served during the war, was mentioned in dispatches in 1940 and in 1945 won the Military Cross (N. W. Europe). By 1963 he had risen to the rank of colonel and from 1966 to 1969 was chief engineer for Scotland. He retired in 1970 to live at Bradninch, Exeter. He is survived by his wife Barbara (née Campbell) whom he married in 1951.

WELLINGS, Paul (1947) died on 7 December 2004 aged 75. Paul Wellings, born 1929 in London, son of a clergyman, came up from Marlborough College where he was a foundation scholar; he read natural sciences. He rowed in the first May boat in 1950. He served for three year in the RAMC from 1954 to 1957, obtained a diploma in child health from University College, London, in 1959 and became senior house surgeon at Booth Hall Children’s Hospital. From 1960 to 1990 he was in general practice at Henfield, Sussex. His recreations were making furniture, walking and gardening. He married Margaret Connell in 1960 and they had a son and daughter.

WILTSHIRE, Edward (Ted) Parr (1928), died on 8 July 2004 aged 94. Ted Wiltshire, born 1910 in Gorleston on Sea, Norfolk, son of a solicitor killed at Arras in 1917, came up from Cheltenham College to read classics and got a first. He became a consular official whose spare time was spent studying and collecting butterflies and moths. At his prep. school, Tyttenhanger Lodge, Sussex, the headmaster and his wife encouraged the boys to take an interest in butterflies and moths, and Ted became hooked on entomology. While still at Cheltenham he hatched the already rare Large Blue butterfly which remained the only British example in his collection. At Jesus he edited Chanticlere and was secretary of the University Natural History Society. He stayed up for a fourth year to study modern languages and economics for the Civil Service examinations and shared digs with Alistair Cooke, who became a lifelong friend. Like Cooke he was a contributor to Granta. Much of his career in the consular service was spent in the Middle East, which proved a rich source for his passion for moths and butterflies. In 1932 Wiltshire became vice-consul in Beirut; he then went to Mosul in Iraq and in 1935 to Baghdad. He published articles in the Entomologist’s Review illustrated with his own photographs taken on collecting trips. In 1937–8 he was in Tabriz and Ahwaz; and back in Persia posted to Teheran when war broke out. In 1940 he was in the consulate in Shiraz, where his love for Persia and its people was confirmed. Two years later he returned to Iraq, this time to Basra, where in 1944 he became ill. During home leave Wiltshire transferred his collection from Norwich Castle Museum to the Zoological Museum at Tring, Hertfordhire. Subsequent postings took him as consul to New York, Cairo and Baghdad and then in 1957 to Rio de Janeiro, where he was ‘bewildered by a new insect world’. He was political agent in Bahrain (1959–63) and consul general in Geneva (1963–7). In 1967 he returned to London and for eight years was director of the Diplomatic Service Centre. In 1968–9 he was editor of Habitat. He was appointed CBE in 1965 and in 1980 made an Honorary Associate of the British Museum of Natural History. His classic work The Lepidoptera of Iraq was first published in 1944 (in a ‘rather scrappy’ edition) by the Government of Iraq and published in full in 1957. He also wrote A revision of the Armadini (1979). He married in 1942 Gladys Stevens (‘Steve’), who died in 1995. He leaves a daughter. 116 obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005

WIND, Herbert Warren (1937) died on 30 May 2005 aged 88. Herbert Wind, born 1916 in Brockton, Massachusetts, son of a tanner, came to Jesus after graduating from Yale. He read English. During the war he served in the US Army Air Force and was in China in 1944. A fine golfer, who competed in the 1950 British Amateur Championship, Wind became a staff writer for The New Yorker (1947–54; 1960–90) and for the magazine Sports Illustrated (1954–60). With a fluid, graceful style, he was a master of golf prose, renowned for his lengthy profiles, and for many years wrote wonderful stories about the Masters’ Tournament and the players who competed in it. He was on first name terms with the legends of the game and in collaboration with Ben Hogan wrote the classic Five lessons: the modern fundamentals of golf. He wrote or edited more than a dozen other golf books. He was also renowned for his dress: even in the hottest months of the year, he would always wear a tweed jacket, tie and cap and carry a walking stick. In 1992 the Professional Golfers Association presented Wind with its lifetime achievement award and in 1995 he was the first writer ever to receive the Bob Jones Award of the United States Golf Association. He is survived by a brother and three sisters.

WOOD, Arthur Christopher (1934) died on 10 July 2003 aged 88. Christopher Wood, born 1915 in Murree, North India, came up with a Rustat exhibition from Rossall School. He read classics and law and played for the first XV. From 1937 to 1939 and again from 1946 to 1952 he worked for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Baghdad and Abadan. The interruption was caused by war service in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps, on the Burma front in 1943 and in India and Assam. From 1952 until 1963 he was secretary of the Cameroons Development Corporation. In 1964 Lt. Col. Wood was administration officer at the Royal Society of Chemistry, a post he held until his retirement in 1980. He is survived by his wife Bridget.

WRIGHT, Edward (Ted) Barlow (1947) died on 28 March 2005 aged 81. Ted Wright, born 1923 in Kettering, was at Wellingborough School until 1940, when he went to work at Grassmoor Colliery, Chesterfield. From 1941 to 1942 he studied for the external London Intermediate B.Sc. as a mining engineering student at Chesterfield Technical College. At the end of 1942 he volunteered for military service and in 1943 was commissioned in the Northamptonshire Regiment. Seconded to the 4th Somerset Light Infantry in 1944, he was injured by an anti-tank shell during the Rhine crossing. After six months at the military hospital for head injuries in Oxford he opted for a desk job and became adjutant at 270 POW camp, Luton, with the rank of captain. Wright came up to Jesus on a war department grant and read natural sciences with part II in botany. He took four years because he spent most of his second term back in hospital. After graduating he spent his time in the Scientific Civil Service, the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) and thence Harold Wilson’s Ministry of Technology (Mintech) in Millbank Tower. For eight years from 1950 he was personal assistant to the director of the food investigation organisation of the DSIR and was then responsible for allocation of money and manpower resources to a wide range of DSIR (and subsequently Mintech) research laboratories, setting up the Ministry of Technology, running the Queen’s Award for Technology Office and serving on the Committee of Awards to Inventors. In 1964 when Frank Cousins was appointed Minister of Technology, Ted Wright was a prime mover in the exhausting business of reorganising the scientific pieces of DSIR into the new Mintech. He spent half the day in each, writing to himself with one hat on and replying wearing another. He progressed steadily up the promotion ladder and became assistant secretary and, for a time, head of Research Establishments, Management Division. He retired in 1983 and returned from his flat in Bloomsbury to obituaries | Jesus College Annual Report 2005 117 live in the house his parents had built in the kitchen garden of the one where he had been born. He became chairman of the Kettering Book Society and vice-chairman of the Civic Society until 2000 when he was appointed life honorary vice-president.

A Short but Memorable Life Robert Rollason (1950) writes of an old friend: the late David McCUTCHION, who came up, also in 1950, to read modern languages under Freddie Brittain and Trevor Jones, died in 1972 when he was only 41. In his short life he achieved more than many of us in our three score years and ten, and his scholarship is still very much alive today. At Cambridge he was a keen member of the Tagore Society and after graduating went out to Calcutta where he worked for most of the rest of his life, eventually as a reader in comparative literature at Jadavpur University. During his two decades in India, David made major – and pioneering – contributions to the study of both temples and scroll paintings. The monumental Brick temples of Bengal (Princeton, 1983) used his writings and hundreds of the 10,000 temple photographs he had taken. In the preface to this book his great friend the film director Satyajit Ray wrote of ‘David’s adventures’ in collecting this mass of original material, ‘for adventures they truly were, comic and tragic by turns, triumphant and despondent in equal measures.’ In spite of the hazards, David’s expertly shot transparencies and prints have a serene quality; the collection is now housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The other original strand of David’s scholarship was his work in the field of ‘Indian writing in English’, now fashionable in many western universities. His 1961 publication The novel as sastra on the writer Raja Rao was a critical landmark and led to his 1969 collection Indian writing in English which helped to open up this new subject of study, until then all but ignored in Europe and the USA. After the success of such writers as Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth and Anita Desai, this subject has risen to prominence both in universities and among the reading public. David’s work is still in print and is regularly cited, most recently in 2004 in a new study of Rao by Letizia Alterno, a young Italian academic at Manchester University. David came back to England as a visiting lecturer in the School of African and Asian Studies at Sussex University for the year 1970–1 and was due to return to the UK again in 1972 to complete his book on Indian temple architecture and another on Bengal terracottas. He also had in mind a study of ‘pata’ painting and ‘patua’ scrolls, but sadly none was completed by him. Briefly back in Calcutta, he suffered a virulent attack of polio and died shortly afterwards, to the consternation of his family and many friends in England and India. Besides David’s major work on temples, his study of scroll painting was also completed after his death, in this case by Professor Shurid Bhownick of Midnapore University who published it in 1999. In 1972 a volume of tributes, David McCutchion Shraddhanjali, appeared in India and, shortly after, David was posthumously awarded the Tagore Prize for literature. Those who knew him will be pleased to hear that this Jesus graduate is still remembered on the sub- continent and in Europe. David McCutchion made his mark: as The Times concluded in its obituary in February 1972, ‘he did more for Anglo-Indian friendship than a government or an ideology can undo’ and this good effect continues today.

Corrections to 2004 Obituaries ISARD, John Oliver (1940) was 81 when he died, not 79. He was a member of the Royal Society of Arts, not of Literature. TAUNT, Derek Roy (1936) was born on 16 November 1917, not as stated. The editor apologises for these errors.

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Jesus College is an Exempt Charity No X8511 When completed please return this form to: The Development Office Jesus College Cambridge CB5 8BL Tel: 01223 339301 E-mail: [email protected] Please do not send the form directly to your bank.

Regular Donations: Bank Standing Order Mandate

Name and address of your bank:

Your account details:

Bank sort code Account number Account name Please make the payments detailed below, debiting my/our account shown, until the last payment has been made, or until earlier notice. Please pay to Barclays Bank plc (20-17-19), 35 Sidney Street, Cambridge for the credit of Jesus College, Cambridge (Development Campaign account no 40055069) on the day of 20 the sum of £ (in words: )

For annual payments: and the same sum on the same day annually until * payments in all have been made *For annual payments the number of years

For quarterly payments: and the same sum on the day of every three months for years making * payments in all *For quarterly payments the number of years x 4

For monthly payments: and the same sum on the day of each month for years making * payments in all *For monthly payments the number of years x 12

Signed Date

Full name

Address

Postcode

The Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign

In 2009 the University will celebrate its 800th anniversary. A major fundraising campaign is planned that will help secure Cambridge’s excellence in teaching and research for future generations.

Gifts to Jesus College count towards the total funds raised for the Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign.

However if you also wish to make a gift to the University itself please tick this box and we will pass your name to the University Development Office.

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