November 2012 | issue 36

Magdalene Matters the newsletter of Magdalene College Cambridge MAGDALENE MAT TERS

Making Monarchs in Contents November 2012 | issue 36 Medieval Maghrib Page 5

Fellows’ News 3–4

Making Monarchs in Medieval Maghrib 5–7

Funding a Cambridge Education 8 Funding a Cambridge Insert: ANNUAL DONORS’ REPORT Education Page 8 Yemen – Arabia Felix? 9–11

Transforming International Biodiversity Conservation 12–13

Centre for History and Economics 14

Members’ News 15 Yemen – Arabia Felix? Forthcoming Events & Reunions 16 Page 9

COMMENT from the Development Director

Dear Member, seating plans! We also welcomed around 190 Members and their families to our second Family Day in the Fellows’ We welcomed 107 undergraduates as well as an Garden this summer and, in September, met dozens of unprecedented 99 graduates to Magdalene this Michaelmas Magdalene Members and friends in Hong Kong and term and look forward to introducing the new intake to the Singapore at a number of events. Later that month, we delights of the College. This year, the JCR got the process thanked and entertained donors to the Annual Fund at our underway by hosting a tea party in Hall for the freshers and annual Donors’ Day. Look out for the photographs of these their parents, then, having sent the parents on their way, occasions; we hope they will entice you to join us next time. taking the new intake to the real party... in the Pickerel! As you know Michaelmas Term 2012 is the last term for the Record numbers of Members who matriculated in the late Master, Duncan Robinson CBE FSA, DL and his wife, Lisa, 1980’s and the early 1990’s came back for their Reunion as they will be leaving the Master’s Lodge in December. I Dinners, and, I am told, the Pickerel, featured once again am delighted to say that their connection with the College in many a Member’s programme for the day. Many of will not end however as the Governing Body has elected you will know Michael Keall, the Alumni Secretary, whose Mr Robinson as an Honorary Fellow. tireless efforts have ensured the continued success of the Reunion Dinners. He has decided that it is time to step Corinne Lloyd (2010) down after almost two decades of service. Our grateful Editor and Development Director thanks to him for all his work, his energy and his ingenious [email protected] Professor Sir John Gurdon Nobel Laureate

The entire Magdalene community rejoices at the award of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to our former Master and Honorary Fellow, Professor Sir John Gurdon, FRS. His pioneering work in the field of stem cell research, which began in the 1960s with a series of experiments in the cloning of frogs, has long been recognised by scientific awards from all over the world. Today he remains as research active as ever, often dining at High Table after a day’s work in the Wellcome/CRC Institute for Cell Biology and Cancer which he helped to establish in Cambridge, and which was named the Gurdon Institute in his honour in 2004.

For those of us privileged to know John as a colleague and a friend, it is especially gratifying that someone who carries his distinction so lightly, and so often with a self-deprecating smile, should be given the highest international accolade of all. On behalf of the whole College, I salute our Professor Sir John Gurdon at the admission of Nelson Mandela Nobel laureate. – Duncan Robinson, Master. to his Honorary Fellowship

John Gurdon began his research career in Oxford at a John, who moved from Oxford to Cambridge in 1972, time of pivotal importance in biology. Various researchers, went on to tackle the question of how particular genes many of them in Cambridge, were just then establishing are switched on in particular cells. He kept ahead of the chemistry of inheritance. John was intrigued by one his competitors by imaginative micro-manipulation of the most pressing problems in biology – if every cell in experiments with amphibian embryos, including the an organism contains the same set of genes (messages), injection of single genes rather than whole nuclei into how is it that the many different kinds of cells in an specific cells. Meanwhile Martin Evans, who joined adult come to develop differently from one another? One John in leading the Welcome Trust and Cancer Research possibility was that particular genes are lost or at least Campaign Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology somehow turned off irreversibly along any given line of cell (now the Gurdon Institute), discovered ‘stem cells’ – development. That this is not the case was shown by John’s isolated from mice. These cells can be cultured in the first breakthrough, published in 1962. He established that laboratory, and turn into many different kinds of adult differentiated cells can still contain in a functional state cell, given the right conditions. The race was then on all the genes necessary to control the development of an find the chemical signals that would turn adult cells of unfertilized egg up to the stage of reproductive adult. This mammals into stem cells, especially with a view to their fundamentally important point was shown by taking a being used in medicine. It proved to be a hard problem to nucleus from a fully differentiated cell in the gut lining of a crack. Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University, who shares tadpole, and injecting it into an enucleated egg, which then the Nobel Prize with John, was the first to succeed – in developed into a normal fertile frog. The task of extracting 2006. After many abortive attempts, he was surprised to the nucleus from one gut cell (about one hundredth of a find that he could do it by adding just four genes. It turns millimetre in diameter), and injecting it into an egg is easier out that in other vertebrates the formula doesn’t work, and said than done! Great skill and lots of practice are needed. John’s team is still trying to solve the problem for mature John’s experiment was the first case of what came to be cells of amphibians. We hope so much that his team will known as ‘cloning’ an animal – familiar to most people in win the race for this type of animal! the much later work on Dolly the sheep. – Professor Peter Grubb (1960)

3 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Fellows’ News

We welcome the following new Fellows to Magdalene

Dr Emily So (2011) MICE Director of Studies in Architecture, University Lecturer in Architectural Engineering is an internationally recognised researcher in the field of human casualties in earthquakes and received the Shah Family Innovation Prize for 2010, an award given annually by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) to promising young The Magdalene College Choir practitioners or academics. Dr So and Professor Robin Spence (1960) The Director of Music, Mr Jonathan Hellyer Jones (2002) reports are working closely with the Alumni that the Choir’s Tour in Yorkshire was most enjoyable and successful. He was & Development Office in organising delighted that a number of Magdalene Members attended the concerts which a Reunion Dinner for Magdalene were held during early July. Architects on 8 December (please see back page for more details). postdoctoral position related to the Ms Midge Gillies joins us as the Dr David Stuckler (2011) Official geochemistry of rocks from Greenland. Royal Literary Fund Fellow and is Fellow and a University Lecturer His work is particularly rooted in currently researching the lives of in Sociology, is a research fellow of fieldwork with experience in Canada, military wives from the Crimea to the the London School of Hygiene and Norway, Greenland, Scotland, France, present day. Tropical Medicine, Chatham House Australia and and senior research fellow of Public South Africa. Professor David Fitzpatrick, Health Foundation of India. Michael an Australian, who is Professor of Hetherington Modern History at Trinity College, Dr Alex Thom (2005) the new Dublin, where he has taught since (2012) was elected Henry Lumley 1979, joins us as the Parnell Fellow. He to an Official Research Fellow, was last year’s is one of Ireland’s most distinguished Fellowship from Donaldson Bye-Fellow in History, historians with exemplary and 1 July 2012. He and continues his work in the field of acclaimed publications on emigration, is Director of late sixteenth Century Literature. Dr the Great Famine, local politics, labour Studies in Chemistry. Fei-Hsien Wang joins Magdalene as a history, education, women’s history, Junior Research Fellow in the Centre Australian history and much else. A The College for History and Economics. member of the Royal Irish Academy, welcomes two he is currently researching the Orange new Junior Ms Sara Harris (2006) has Order in its international context and Research Fellows. been elected to the Donaldson hopes to complete a history of the Dr Olivier Bye-Fellowship in English, and Orange Institution in Ireland since Namur (2012) Ms Kirsty (Yixin) Wan (2006) 1795 during his time at Magdalene. is the new Nevile Fellow, who moved to the Kingsley Bye-Fellowship in to Cambridge in 2011 for his first Mathematics.

4 MAGDALENE MATTERS Making Monarchs in the Medieval Maghrib by amira k. bennison (2010)

The thread that connects my work as a historian is my enduring fascination with North Africa and the processes of legitimation at play there in the Islamic era. My research focuses especially on Morocco, a land of striking landscapes and a rich Arabic historical tradition, and the neighbouring Iberian peninsula, known in Arabic as al-Andalus, which has an equally vibrant Arab-Islamic historical corpus. Legitimacy is a pretty broad subject and I have tackled it from various angles always using Arabic sources in conjunction with other materials to get an inside view of how Muslims understood their political culture at different times.

My interest in this aspect of legitimation was triggered by my involvement in cultural tourism. Lecturing, while travelling brought the relationship between landscape and history to life. There is nothing like a coach journey along the hairpin bends of the Tiz-n-Tichka pass across the High Atlas to illustrate the achievement of the Almoravid dynasty, who crossed the mountains with their camels in the mid-eleventh century to conquer both Morocco and southern Spain. However, it was lecturing in Seville, Fes, Marrakesh, Cairo and Aleppo with stunning buildings all around which encouraged me to study urban planning as a mode of legitimation.

The question at the heart of what I am doing is how medieval North African dynasties, who sometimes had very little in common with their subjects, made their rule I began by exploring the importance of jihad as a palatable to them. As the famous fourteenth century North legitimating ideology for the Moroccan sultans in the African historian, Ibn Khaldun, clearly perceived, most nineteenth century and how it was brought into question dynasties came from the tribal countryside but they needed by the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. I used Arabic cities to create a state. However, the relatively well-educated archival materials to reveal how Moroccans understood and sophisticated populations of towns tended to view tribal the colonial onslaught, how it impacted on their sense dynasties with the disdain of the urbanite for the country of political self and how they resisted. This research was bumpkin. They endured them because of their military published as Jihad and its Interpretations in pre-colonial might but they needed to be persuaded or coerced into active Morocco (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002). More recently, support. In the countryside, dynasties of tribal origin had to I have worked on the myriad ways in which monarchs differentiate themselves from other tribes while also showing shaped the urban landscape in order to convey messages to that they had not lost their characteristic toughness and their subjects, cow them into submission, or gain their favour. virility by settling in towns. continued ...

5 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE ... continued Although Spain and Morocco tend to be seen as historically This indicates that the Umayyads were more concerned separate because they are distinct nation-states today, I am to impress the Berbers than the Christians and also that unconvinced by the idea that the Straits of Gibraltar are the many Berbers witnessed the model of kingship developed border between two different cultural zones – Europe and in Cordoba and were in a position to transfer and apply Africa. Therefore, one underlying theme of my research is to the ideas in Morocco’s main city, Fes, and then later in consider al-Andalus and Morocco as a single cultural area Marrakesh and Rabat. The Straits of Gibraltar were prior to the Christian conquest of Islamic Iberia, completed definitely a bridge not a barrier at this time. This can be by the submission of Granada in 1492. As a result, my seen most clearly with the twelfth-century Almohad dynasty starting point is Cordoba, the largest Muslim city in al- who took numerous motifs and ideas from the Umayyad Andalus and northwest Africa for centuries and the seat period and applied them in Morocco while also introducing of the iconic Umayyad dynasty whose ancestors ruled the a striking new form of militant monumental architecture to entire Islamic world as caliphs from 661 to 750. al-Andalus and their North African territories.

The Umayyads (757–1031) slowly transformed Visigothic Having worked on the dynasties from the eighth to Cordoba into an Islamic capital. After they reclaimed twelfth centuries, I am now looking at the urban and the caliphate in 936, they founded Madinat al-Zahra’, a rural legitimating strategies of the Banu Marin or Marinid new palatine city connected to nearby Cordoba by a long dynasty (c. 1248–1465) as part of a two year research boulevard. This created a huge urban area which the project funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The Marinids Umayyads used as a stage for all kinds of royal processions were newly Islamised, semi-nomadic Zanata Berbers from and celebrations, recounted in loving detail in the chronicle what is now western Algeria whose own dynastic chronicler of Ibn Hayyan. For me the most important aspect of these described them as comparable to a ‘flood’ or ‘locusts’, a sure descriptions is the evidence that Umayyad urbanism and sign of a legitimacy deficit at the beginning of their reign! So ceremonial had a major impact upon the North Africans. how did they make themselves into Islamic monarchs in the Although they have often been interpreted as a display for established North African and Andalusi mould? northern Christian audiences, Ibn Hayyan’s chronicle gives much more attention to Berber visitors from North Africa Some of their strategies are well-studied: they used typical than to northern Christian embassies. Islamic titles such as ‘Commander of the Muslims’ and

6 MAGDALENE MATTERS they built numerous madrasas (theological colleges), a new in military progresses was a tribal feature but their display institution in North Africa which enabled them to create a in fine garb reflected the new wealth of a monarch. At the loyal scholarly establishment and also invigorate the urban battle of Talagh between the Marinid sultan Ya‘ qub b. ‘Abd economy through employment. They also founded grand al-Haqq and Yaghmurasan b. Zayyan of Tlemsen in 1267 palatine cities outside existing cities such as Dar al-Bayda’ both sides mustered their women and possessions to show (Fes), Binya (Algeciras), al-Mansura (Tlemsen) to garrison their confidence and power: their armies and show their power to city folk while maintaining a tactful distance between the latter and the Each side prepared his army and arrayed his sometimes rowdy military. contingents. The women of each lined up behind the armies in their howdahs, carriages, and tents, These urban aspects of legitimisation are relatively easy finely dressed and bare-faced wearing jewellery to research because there are extant descriptions of cities and embroidered fabric to urge on the champions written by partisan chroniclers who clearly state what rulers against the champions. Like mixed with like and the were expected to do as ‘good’ Islamic monarchs. However, riders intermingled. Songs came from the tents and the majority of the population were rural and it is therefore the armies advanced on each other and each sought vital to think also about the countryside, despite the his opponent. (al-Dhakira al-Saniyya, p. 115) scantiness of the sources. The twelfth-century Almohads, for instance, took a copy of the Qur’an which was said to have These snippets are a handful of the many short passages been used in Umayyad ceremonies in the great mosque of and comments scattered through the medieval Arabic Cordoba, and paraded it through the Moroccan countryside chronicles of al-Andalus and Morocco which help to in a richly decorated, jewel encrusted case, mounted on a construct a picture of monarchy in the western regions of similarly ornamented litter carried by a camel, giving what the Islamic world. I intend to tie up the loose ends over the had been an urban artefact a whole new rural function. coming year and finish writing a book tracing patterns of legitimation from eighth century Cordoba to eleventh and To preserve their often shaky control over the countryside, twelfth century Marrakesh and ultimately fifteenth century the Marinids developed a semi-peripatetic style of monarchy Fes. This will add a new dimension to our understanding which involved regular movement from one city to another of legitimation in Islamic societies over time, and delineate and smaller military expeditions from each urban base. some contours of the cultural connectivity between the two During their military movements, the Marinids displayed shores of the Straits of Gibraltar in medieval times. I am recognisable symbols of monarchy including banners, also working on a history of the Almoravid and Almohad drums, magnificent, richly embroidered tents, and finely dynasties and a general cultural history of the ‘two shores’ caparisoned thoroughbred horses. Although it was not as that I hope will engage and encourage people to appreciate important to them as to the Almohads, they also carried the richness of the history and culture of the western flank around the Qur’an mentioned above, creating symbolic of the Islamic world. continuity with their Almohad and Umayyad predecessors. As well as signalling the sultan’s presence, the waving of Amira K. Bennison is Reader in the History and Culture of the Maghrib banners and beating of drums announced military victories. and was elected a Fellow of Magdalene College in 2010. One vivid paragraph describes what happened after Abu Yusuf Ya‘ qub’s first successful campaign against the She became interested in the Castilians in al-Andalus in 1275: Middle East and North Africa while studying for her BA Hons in The drums were struck as customary in celebration History and Arabic at Cambridge. following the practice God laid down for conquests. After graduating, she went to live Alms were distributed, and the standards of the in Cairo for a year before studying ‘infidels’ were hung upside down from the top of the for a Masters at Harvard University minaret of the Qarawiyyin [in Fes] and the minaret and a PhD at SOAS. She went on of the Kutubiyya in Marrakesh so that the townsman to the University of Manchester and the countryfolk and those coming and going as a Leverhulme Research Fellow would notice them. (al-Dhakira al-Saniyya, p. 160) before moving to the University of Cambridge in 1997 where she is currently Reader in the History and Culture of the Maghrib. Dr Bennison Luxurious tents, carriages and horses were equally has appeared in several TV programmes about the history of the important status symbols. Unusually, the early Marinids Middle East and North Africa including ‘Europe’s Lost Civilisation’, often took their womenfolk, dressed in the finest textiles and ‘The Thirties in Colour’ and ‘Islamic Science’. She is also a regular jewellery, on campaign too. The visible presence of women contributor to Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’ with Melvyn Bragg.

7 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE FUNDING A CAMBRIDGE EDUCATION AT MAGDALENE by corinne lloyd (2010)

The cost of higher education continues to rise, and with the advent of higher fees to help cover those costs, the University and the Colleges are increasing efforts to provide funding for all qualified students in need of financial assistance. Collegiate Cambridge has always been committed to ‘needs-blind’ admission – that is, to admitting the most qualified students regardless of their financial status.

Students who have little or no means are offered bursaries worth a maximum of £3,500 via the Cambridge Bursary Scheme (CBS), a scheme which is administered by the Newton Trust on the University and the Colleges’ behalf. Students are able to receive additional funding worth £1,000 from other sources without impacting their full bursary from the CBS. Magdalene is committed to raising the money needed to award every one of our incoming undergraduates eligible for this scheme a bursary worth £4,500 per annum for the duration of his or her undergraduate course. In addition, the College awards a number of bursaries on a sliding scale to those The living costs for the academic year (30 weeks) are students coming from families with incomes up to £42,000. estimated to be in the region of £7,500 to £8,000 per annum and include charges for accommodation, kitchen facility charges, College meals, transport costs, study materials and personal expenses. The University prohibits undergraduates from working during term-time as the work load during the 8 week term is heavy and students are expected to participate in the wide range of extra-curricular activities in their Colleges and the University. We are fortunate in that the generosity of past Members allows us to offer a number of prizes, travel awards and The maximum maintenance grant available to students from scholarships which are available to students after their first families with an assessed income of £25,000 or less is £3,250. year. Furthermore, we have a Student Hardship Fund to which The University and the Colleges are committed to offering both undergraduates and graduate students may apply if they every qualifying student an additional bursary worth £3,500 are suddenly facing financial difficulties. We are grateful to all which allows the recipients to cover their living costs for of our supporters as we raise significant sums year on year for the full academic year without having to take on the added the Student Hardship Fund from our Annual Fund, to which burden of maintenance loans on top of tuition fee loans over 15 percent of Magdalene members and friends contributed which will result in new graduates starting their working during the last financial year (1 July 2011 – 30 June 2012). lives with debts in the region of £27,000 to £36,000. Please contact the Alumni & Development Office by emailing Every student who is means tested and qualifies will receive [email protected] or calling the office on 01223 some financial help. Anyone from a family with an income of 332104 if you would like more information about our bursaries less than £60,000 can be means tested if they wish. for undergraduates.

8 MAGDALENE MATTERS ANNUAL DONORS’ REPORT 2012 from the master

In my introduction to last year’s report, I stressed the importance we attach to ensuring that admissions to Magdalene are needs-blind. In other words there must be no financial barriers to prevent the ablest and the best of school leavers from accepting places at our College.

not deter them from interfering, and College, not least because over 28% imposing unacceptable conditions of the graduating class of 2012 made for the meagre gruel of their support, a gift to support Magdalene. In many but the time must surely come when ways they understand better than we can say thank you, but no thank many of us how lucky they were to you. Financial independence is no graduate before fees escalated to longer a pipe dream, it is a necessity daunting levels; their willingness to to carry on as we are, at the top of give back is a shining example to us the international league tables, and all. And just in case there is a danger even more fundamentally, to preserve of complacency, may I draw your academic freedom. attention to the announcement by one of our peer group, not among the All the more reason to celebrate a Ivy League of American colleges but record year in terms of fund-raising. by Exeter College, Oxford, that they We can do so only thanks to the have achieved an outstanding 37% support we have received from all of of alumni participation. Personally, I our donors and their contributions, find it hard to believe that Magdalene large and small. Obviously we are men and women are any less loyal or grateful to those who can make appreciative of their College, and so I substantial donations to increase the pass on the challenge to you all. value of the endowment, but more modest gifts to the Annual Fund It remains only for me to offer my For many of us who matriculated are also appreciated because they sincere thanks on behalf of the College under a very different system, at put money into the current account, to those of you who have given, along a time when it was assumed that which in turn relieves pressure on the with the profound hope that your higher education was available freely endowment to yield income at a time example, and that of the latest cohort to all who qualified, irrespective of when interest rates are at an all of our graduates, will inspire every personal circumstances, it is difficult time low. single member of this wonderful to adjust to the reality of the twenty- institution to invest in it, each first century; that governments, This year I am pleased to report a according to his or her own means. whatever their political persuasion, are substantial increase in the percentage Not to put too fine a point on it, its unwilling to invest in us. This does of Members contributing to their future is in your hands.

1 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Giving to the College

The ongoing support of our Members, friends and the Fellowship is particularly welcome and much appreciated during these challenging economic times. Over the course of 2011–12, the College gratefully received in total, donations of £1,019,891, a significant increase from last year’s figure of £736,450.

The donations received by the Alumni & Development Office have been 3% Total Donations received broken down into five key areas: 1% General Purposes, Student Support, during the financial year Teaching and Research, Buildings and 2011/12: 24% Gardens, and College Activities (such as sporting clubs and access visits). General Purposes: 58% 58% Student Support: 14% Teaching and Research Teaching and Research: 24% The supervision system – the teaching Buildings and Gardens: 3% 14% of undergraduates as individuals College Activities: 1% or in small groups, by an expert in their field – is at the heart of a Cambridge education. This format of focussed teaching not only ensures that our students receive the best possible education, it also helps to Breakdown by source 9% develop and maintain the social fabric of donation: of College. Alumni: 40% Student Support Fellows/Friends of the College: 17% 40% Most Magdalene Members enjoyed Legacies: 34% 34% their undergraduate education for free. Trusts/Foundations/Corporations: 9% The current 1st year undergraduates are the first to pay £9,000 per annum Approximately three quarters of donations are in tuition fees. We are committed to from Members of the College. Although we are 17% working on increasing the level of support raised offering our students financial support from trusts and foundations, we continue to rely when needed. Those of you who have heavily on the generosity of our Members. given towards Student Support have not only assisted in providing scholarships and bursaries for those who might and the addition of Cripps Court has College Activities otherwise struggle to be able to afford enabled us to offer accommodation For many of our Members, the activities to study at Cambridge, but also help to every undergraduate student outside of lectures and supervisions will the College to continue to reach out to throughout his or her time here. All have indeed forged stronger memories the best possible candidates regardless of our buildings, however, need to than almost anything else. Magdalene of their ability to pay. be maintained on a regular basis to is committed to ensuring that societies preserve the fabric of the College that and sporting clubs are equally supported Buildings and Gardens has made Magdalene such a rich and in order to allow current students to Magdalene’s facilities have been vibrant environment for Members experience Cambridge to the full, as greatly improved over the past decade, both past and present. many of you have in the past.

2 MAGDALENE MATTERS Donors’ Report 1% Income for 2011/12: College 9% 22% Tuition Fees: 22% Research: 3% Members Rents: 18% Finances 3% 27% Members Catering: 9% The primary sources of income for Commercial Conferences: 11% Magdalene are tuition fees, rents and 18% Endowment: 27% catering charges, and income from Net Donations after Development commercial events and conferences 11% Office Expenses: 9% as well as your donations, which now 9% Other Income: 1% account for 9% of the College’s income (an increase of 2% over last year).

Along with the income from the 5% Expenditure for 2011/12: College’s accumulated endowment, the 2% College uses these revenues to fund Teaching, Tutorial and the cost of the supervision system, to 14% 30% Admissions: 30% provide subsidised accommodation and Research: 6% catering to its junior members and to Scholarships, Grants and maintain and develop its buildings and 12% Student Facilities: 6% facilities. Accommodation for Members: 25% 6% Catering for Members: 12% A summary of the College’s financial Commercial Conferences: 14% activities for the 2011–12 financial 25% 6% Investment Management: 2% year is provided here. Other: 5%

1542 Society Our Donors The College has very recently established a new Magdalene’s participation rate (the number of society, known as the 1542 addressable alumni who make a gift to the College Society, which has been in any given year) has risen from 11.12% in created to recognise the 2010/2011 to 16.17% in 2011/2012. We are most generosity of Members and grateful to all of our donors for their ongoing Friends who have given support and look forward to our Members more than £1,000 (over a three year period) or have matching our graduating class’s participation rate been steadfast, regular supporters for five years or more. of 28% in the coming years. The College pin displayed above denotes membership of this group and is exclusive to members of the 1542 Society. The name has been chosen in recognition of the refounding of the College by Lord Audley of Walden. All new members of the 1542 Society will be sent their College pin before the end of the year.

3 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE MAGDALENE COLLEGE LIST OF DONORS

1st july 2011 – 30th june 2012

The Master, Fellows and Scholars of Magdalene College wish to thank and honour those who have generously made donations to the College during the last financial year.

1926 Mr John G W James Mr Anthony J Nicholson Mr Kenneth J Dean Mr John Y Smart (d) Mr Robert F MacLeod Mr Joe Palmer Mr Thomas J G Mr John J Saxby Professor William Tordoff Edmondes (d) 1931 The Reverend John Y R Mr Edmund T S Fry (d) Mr Norman V Meeres (d) 1944 Tucker Mr Stephen M Haskell Squadron Leader Mr Euan Hooper 1935 Donald Chapman 1948 Mr Felix Jaffé Professor Sheppard S Frere Dr Edgar J Feuchtwanger Mr Dieter Baer Dr Ian M Jessiman Mr Carol Hogben Mr Roger Goodenough Professor Hans J Kaesman 1936 Mr Ian MacDonald Sir Antony Jay * Mr Michael L Keane Mr Francis H Terry Mr George M Pilkington (d) Mr Timothy G Kirkbride 1945 Mr Brian M Rutherford OBE Sir Michael J Turner 1938 Professor Andre J M A Mr Sandy White Mr John J S Veisblat Mr Eric L Allsup Bourde (d) Mr Nigel Ventham Mr Hugo C Baring Mr Harry C Cockerill 1949 Dr Michael L N Willoughby Mr Raymond W Dawes Dr Andrew Fairley (d) Mr John K Buckenham The Reverend C H Mr John C Yandle Mr Philip P Harris 1952 MacGregor Professor George M Mr John Butler 1946 Hughes (d) Mr Michael W Chester 1939 Mr Philip O Beale Mr Ronald J Jenkinson Professor Joel E Gordon Major John C C Green- Mr Donald Cargill Mr Norman A Kirke Dr Brian B Hunt Wilkinson MBE MC Sir Robin Chichester-Clark Mr Alec Samuels Mr John A Ingram Mr Braham J Myers The Reverend Mac Lieutenant-Commander Mr Christopher J James Sir Anthony F Tuke (d) Farmborough MBE R Y C Sharp Mr Brian M Jones His Honour Stanley S Gill (d) Dr Geoffrey A Shippey Mr Andrew P R Mapplebeck 1941 Mr David H Goodland Mr Bartle J C Woodall Dr Denis C L Savage Dr Felix J Buckle Mr Michael L Herzig (d) Mr John Stallebrass The Reverend E A Quin Mr Stephen King 1950 Mr Christopher B Sykes Mr Anthony C W Lee Mr Colin Craven Mr Steuart A Webb-Johnson 1942 Mr Max Phillips Mr David L Gardiner Mr John W Wilson The Reverend Canon Mr Henry H Tomlinson Mr Brian W Hungerford Anthony Caesar CVO Sir John K Wood Dr Michael C Johnson 1953 Mr Michael W Cornwallis Mr William T G Minshull Mr Nick Bennett Mr William P P Hite (d) 1947 Mr John R Pretty Mr Jeremy N Davis Mr John Smalley Dr Samuel G Bayliss The Reverend P S Pullin Mr John L Dobson The Reverend Dr H John Mr Sherban G Mr Christopher R Simpson Dr Thomas F Hering M Turner Cantacuzino CBE Mr John R Stourton Professor John D Hudson Sir Peter G Cazalet Dr John P James 1943 Professor Terence R Lee 1951 Mr Roger Jewison Mr Ronald D J Botting Mr Patrick J Lloyd Mr John H Allsopp Professor Sir Richard Jolly * Mr Derek M Edge Mr Robert I H Lloyd-Jones (d) Mr George V Bateson Major Dennis F Morgan

4 MAGDALENE MATTERS Donors’ Report Mr George M Nuttall Mr Michael R Poyser Mr Richard S G Sale 1959 Mr Robert B Parker Mr Willam J C Sager Mr Anthony W A Mr Christopher F J Berry Mr Morley D Tidy Mr Simon R Smallwood Spiegelberg DL Dr Julian D Blake Mr Christopher J F Trott Mr John R White Mr Thomas S Blower Mr John L Turner The Revd Canon Mr John A S Bristol Mr John Vallins OBE Dr Timothy E Yates “I am extremely grateful Mr Graham H Butler Mr Michael C Wallis to receive a bursary Mr Timothy W H Capon 1956 Mr Peter D Cowie 1954 Mr Robert F Allen from Magdalene as Sir James A Cropper KCVO Mr David A Barker Dr Mark H Ball it allows me to enjoy Mr Christopher J Davison Mr Richard P Benthall Dr Gwilym E Beechey Mr Daryl J A Delmotte Mr Jeremy J G Brown Mr Wilfrid M Caldwell my time at Cambridge Mr Robert S Firth Mr Andrew E Buxton Mr John A C Cann without financial worry. Mr Martin H T Gairdner Mr Peter L Durlacher Mr Arnold J Clift Without this support, Mr Anthony M Gethin Mr George M T Foljambe Mr Andrew C Green Mr Anthony Goodfellow KStJ Professor Peter J Grubb * Mr Michael J L Hardy I would not be in the Mr Peter E Hawley Mr Michael J Hallett Professor Robin K Harris comfortable and happy Mr Robert S Hill Emeritus Professor Mr Patrick M Harris Mr Angus P Hitchon Michael J K Harper Mr Randal Hibbert position that I find Mr David W Hussey Mr David J Henwood Mr Thomas P H Lachelin myself in now. I hope Professor David R Jowitt Mr David H Jennings Mr David J Leonard Esq Professor Radoslaw that one day, thanks Mr Godfrey Meynell MBE Mr Michael Moreland J Ladzinski Mr Peter J Morley-Jacob Mr David R Orchard to the generosity of Mr Edward B Lynch Mr Peter J R Oxley Mr Christopher Pinto Magdalene and its Mr Martin P M Prentice Mr Victor N Petty Mr Charles Pope Mr Richard C M Pumphrey Mr Peter B Powles His Honour Judge Members, I will be in a Dr Rodney P A Rivers Mr David M Richards E V P Reece position to give back to Mr Anthony J Sadler CBE Group Captain Hugo R Mr Alan C Reed Professor Martin the College” (3rd year Simpson Mr Arnold J Shone H N Tattersall Mr Patrick H D Toosey Mr Anthony M H Simpson Undergraduate student) Mr David Tebbs Mr Francis J Willy Mr Wilfrid B Stoddart The Right Honourable The Reverend Canon Mr Michael D Webb the Lord Hothfield David Yerburgh Mr Timothy M Wilson 1958 Mr Oliver F Walker Mr Tim K Agerbak Mr Geoffrey Weaver 1955 1957 Dr Angus Armstrong Mr Michael B Wood Mr John D W Birts Mr Brian Atkinson Mr Adrian A Bridgewater The Very Reverend Dr Robert D Blacklidge Mr Edward L Bell Mr Brian E Costelloe Michael Yorke Mr Charles A W Blackwell Mr David J H Birt Mr James A Cran Mr John K B Burke Dr John B Boyling Mr Jim Crossley 1960 Mr Colin Carter Mr Ian R Elliott Mr Derek W Curtis Dr John E Agnew Mr James R Chesterton Mr Donald S Gale Mr Peter D Falk Mr Nicholas A Bourne The Reverend R J Dixon Dr Charles N Garstang Mr David S Fletcher Mr Jonathan H M Dudley Mr Ian M Evans MBE Mr Charles S Gibbs Mr Colin E Funk Mr Bob Eagle Mr John A Fixsen Mr Michael F Godsal Mr Gordon S Guild Mr Thomas Evenson Mr Bamber Gascoigne * Mr Oliver H Gosnell Colonel H O Hugh Smith Mr Vish Hebbar Mr John A Glasbrook Mr Michael V D Haggard Mr Stephen C Knight Mr David G Hemming Mr John F Green Mr Hugh Hollinghurst Mr Neil McMillan Dr Ronald Hyam * Mr Simon K Haviland Mr Richard C G Jenyns Mr Aelred J Morgan (d) Mr Clifford W Jolly Dr Tom Heydeman Mr David Jones Powell Mr John W Prince Mr Peter J Maydon Mr Ian H Hutchinson Mr John M Leach Mr Richard A M Purver Mr David J Polgreen Sir Peter Hutchison Mr Jeremy G A Lyon Mr Richard A Ripper Mr H J Campbell Pulley His Honour Judge C P James Dr Jeremy S Metters Mr Peter P Salinson Mr Kenneth L Saxby Mr Terry James Mr Martin E Payne Professor Neil M Stratford Mr Robin G Sturdy The Reverend R D Jenkins Mr David L Pope Mr Jocelyn T H Thomas Mr Mark J H Weedon Mr James E A Knowles Dr Peter E Reynolds * Mr Robert J Wakeford (d) Mr Richard W Wright Mr Richard J Phillips Sir Michael K Ridley KCVO Mr Robin A F Wight Mr John F Porter Mr Kenneth S Rokison Mr Robert S Winter

5 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

1961 Mr Colin G C Grant 1963 Dr Henry N C Mawson Mr Oliver D Christopherson Lieutenant-Commander Mr Richard D Bell Dr Duncan L D Mitchell Mr Peter B Clark Stuart L Hall Mr Jock Birney Dr Kevin O Thompson Sir David C Clarke Mr Robert S Jagger Mr Colin H Bond Sir Stephen H Mr Tony Colman Dr Richard M Latto Mr David S Bowman Waley-Cohen Bt Mr Clive W Crawford Dr Peter J Lewis Mr Anthony H Corin Mr Henry L Wilson Mr Ian B Crockett Mr Brian N Lock Mr Alan K Cox Mr Donald M Green Mr James R H Loudon Dr Thomas A Cummins 1966 Mr John W Hackman Mr Robert Mercer Mr Patrick W L Findlater Dr Michael D Beary Dr Victor R Holland Mr Richard E B Mews Mr Robin W Gibson OBE (d) Professor David N Best Mr John D Mole Sir Brian W Pomeroy CBE Mr Patrick A F Gifford Mr James D Buxton Mr John P D Pattrick Mr Oliver H Russell His Honour Judge J D Lord Flight Mr Charles F C Mr Jonathan B S Sams Griggs Mr Peter R L Friedmann Spencer Bernard Dr Michael C Saunders Mr Andrew P G Holmes Mr John B Hardwick Mr David R Steeds Mr Joe Scott Plummer Dr Jeremy C Lade Mr Christopher J P Joubert Professor Roger E Thomas Dr Andrew F Sheer Mr Michael Osborne Mr Hugh J Kevill-Davies Mr Piers E Wilson Mr Anton B Shellim Mr Ross S Peters Mr Robert A Leivers Mr John Smith Mr Charles F Robinson Mr Herbert H Maxwell 1962 Mr Victor F Taylor Mr Henry J Roche Mr Martin E Pettman Dr Charles G Barber Mr Christopher B Tetlow Mr David H White Mr Godfrey S Room Mr William A Blackburne Mr Roger H Vignoles * Mr Anthony M Whittome Mr Frederick B Rossiter The Reverend Derek Cottrill Mr Michael G Wadham Mr John R Sampson Mr Edward P Eagar Mr Christopher J Wells MBE 1964 Mr John A Scholfield Mr James R J Braggins Mr James R Sharp Mr Lionel J I Browne Mr Robert C Solomon Mr Charles A Casement Mr Paul E Stibbard Annual Donors’ Day Mr Brian M Deakin (d) * Professor Gary F Waller Mr Peter C Edwards Mr Thomas M Warne Mr Richard S T Ferro A most enjoyable time was had by all at the second Dr David S Forman 1967 annual Donors’ Day on 23rd September. We are most Mr Peter H Frank Mr Paul W R Bell grateful to Dr Stoddart, Dr Chang and Mr Skelton Professor David Gordon Sir Nicholas J G Blake QC for taking part and entertaining us with a range of Mr Marcus J Gregson Dr Andrew M C Brown * fascinating lectures, which were then followed by an Mr Ian G Kennedy Professor David C Brydges enthusiastically received keynote lecture by the Master. Mr David Kyd Mr Roger P Cheever Donors’ Day in 2013 will take place on Sunday 29th Mr Michael A F Mr Allan F Colver September, and is open to all those who donate £50 or Macpherson of Pitmain Mr Richard J Coward more to the College in the preceding financial year. Dr Christopher J Mr Timothy J Eyres McCullough Mr Keith W Faulkner Mr Paul W Mitchell Mr John F C Heatly Dr John B Murray Mr Richard H J Kerr-Wilson Mr Alistair C Pirie Mr Roderick A McFarlane Mr Christopher W Poupard Mr Nigel H Morley-Smith Mr Timothy J Price Mr Peter J Munday Mr Christopher J F Scott Mr Timothy D Pigott Mr Giles E F Wright Mr Adrian M Pollitt Mr Edward J Pybus 1965 Mr William I Walkden Mr Robert H Blackadder Professor Michael D Wheeler Mr Hedley A Burrough Mr Peter H Davidson 1968 Mr Michael J Davis Mr Julian N R Amey Mr Martin H Flash Sir Paul J J Britton CB Dr Stephen C Gregory Mr Michael E A Carpenter Emeritus Professor Mr Simon D Chater David R Hemsley Dr Peter Drury Dr Ian C Lovecy Dr Robin N Goodchild

6 MAGDALENE MATTERS Donors’ Report

Mr Richard E Hardie Mr Jeremy M Harding Mr Clive E H Renton 1974 Mr David J Hetherington Mr Charles R A Hardy Dr Nigel J Robson Mr Mark W Allsup Mr Martin J Hooker Mr Terry Hitchcock Mr Peter M Rodney Mr Hugh G Arthur Mr Peter A H Hyams Mr William Holmes Mr George R Sandars Mr Andrew R Belt Sir Brian G Ivory CBE Professor Ian H Kunkler Mr Paul G Sheppard Mr Peter Bennett-Jones Mr Thomas A Mr John W Marrin QC Mr David G F Thompson Mr Peter D Bruce Livingstone-Learmonth Mr James Roundell Dr Robert C Williams Mr Andrew G Cozens CBE Mr John G Pettit Professor David E Simpson Mr Michael J A De Graeve Mr Michael Read Dr Robert J Stockley Mr Leo Fraser-MacKenzie Mr Stephen J Richards Mr Philip R Taylor “I have maintained Mr Stephen N Games Dr David A Smith a close relationship The Reverend I Howarth Mr Dugald Stewart 1971 Mr William R H Inglis Sandeman The Honourable with Magdalene for Mr Duncan J F Innes Dr Mark Wilson David Brigstocke 35 years now, and the Mr Stevenson S Kaminer Mr Charles P G Ziar Dr Konrad J W Bund Mr Peter T Kindersley chance to support Mr Timothy P B Charge Mr Timothy L Kirkup 1969 Mr Giles R M Elliott the College whilst my Mr Oliver R C Larminie Mr Gordon D Arthur Mr Richard P J Foster employer matches my Mr William J Maunder-Taylor Mr Chris Babbs Mr Robert H Gladstone Mr Timothy J Moon Mr Adrian J Bruce Dr John A J Horberry donations seems too Mr Adney Payne Mr Jeremy F Burdett Mr Eric A Huxter good an opportunity Mr Andrew M Sheaf Dr Harvey Chalmers Mr Alastair R Marlow to miss. I have a strong Mr Paul J Sillis Mr Sean A Collins Dr Richard G Menzies Mr Peter R Styles Dr Frank R Crantz MD Dr Rory O’Donnell personal commitment Mr Boon Seng Tan Dr Jeremy H C Davis Mr John P H S Scott to higher education Mr Charles L T Dr Charles A M Mr Thomas O Seymour Temple-Richards and the matched giving de Bartolome His Honour Judge Mr Edward D B Way Mr Nicholas J Desmond R J Simpkiss approach is a fantastic Dr Charles P Wood Mr Andrew R F Fenning Mr Eamonn S Vincent way to demonstrate this Mr Peter C Fletcher Mr Mark L Walker 1975 Mr David L Gresham Dr David R Williams directly” (Andrew Mr Julian C Amey Mr Alastair R Handcock Mr Timothy M S Young Sheaf, 1974) Mr Kimball Bailey Sir Richard D S Head Professor Jonathan L Brown Mr Jeremy F Helm 1972 Mr Thomas H Butcher Mr Charles P Helmore Mr Andrew J Adcock 1973 Mr John A C Dalrymple Dr Robin R Jacobson Mr Keith N Atkey Mr Peter W Adler Dr Matthew C Francis Mr Michael E P Lloyd Mr Timothy J W Barnard Mr Simon P Cavanagh Dr Anthony J M Garrett Mr Colin J Mackenzie-Grieve Dr Peter S Baxter Mr Geoffrey I A Chapman Mr William M C Grant Mr Patrick R Maguire Professor Michael Dr Simon J Davis Mr Iain A D Low Mr Rod Marlow A Carpenter * Baron Michael Mr Stephen W Lowe Mr Richard P Parry The Honourable E D de Styrcea Mr Simon A Mackintosh Mr Thomas J P Ramsden Andrew Colville Mr Michael K Green Mr Mark W Nicholls Mr Richard J Rusbridger Professor David K C Cooper Mr Jonathan R H Hale Mr Rupert H Orchard Dr Martyn H B Thomas Professor Neil Dalton Mr Ian D Hutchinson Mr Charles C T Pender Mr Martyn J Waring The Reverend H J Graham Dr Peter M Kingston Mr David R Simpson Dr Andrew J Watts Mr Richard M Griffiths Mr Robert B C Ogilvie Mr Christopher J Sugden Mr Ethan Hack Professor Richard B Peiser Mr Mark J Turvey 1970 Mr Paul Harrison Mr Jonathan D Shanklin Dr James B Anderson Mr Richard T Hudson Mr Matthew J Shaps 1976 Mr Richard D Balme Dr Nicholas J Hurd The Reverend C J Skilton Mr Robert W Baxter Mr George F Barbour Dr Charles G Mr Richard L Stratford Mr Richard C M Butler Mr Mark A Bingley Mackworth-Young Mr Martin R Taylor Dr Andrew J Bywater Mr Jonathan B S Burrell Mr Donald I N McKenzie Lord 7th Baron Huntingfield Mr Jonathan D Darrell Mr Michael J Butler Mr Timothy C Monckton Joshua C Vanneck Mr Edward M Douglas Mr Michael L Dineen Mr David J Newman Mr Rhoderick P G Mr George R N Ellis Dr Nicholas R Dunn Mr Frank Nicholson Voremberg Mr Thomas R Faire Mr Christopher Gosling Mr George E Ramsden Mr Stephen M Willis Mr John Holtby

7 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Mr Andrew J Hutton Mr Timothy J Jackson 1979 Mr Robin D Horder Dr Jonathan C Jobling Mr David C F Jones Dr James E T Baumgartner Mr Stephen E H Howard Mr Andrew S MacLay Dr Carl A Kirker-Head The Reverend G W Dobbie Mr Nicholas W Ivell Mr Kenneth A Mitchell Mr Alexander T M Shiel Mr Andrew J Edwards Mr Andrew J H Lownie Mr Graham D Phillips Dr Simon K F Stoddart * Mr Martin G S Gibson Mr Nigel P Morris Professor Francis J Pott Mr Robert M Wise Mr Tim Gillow Mr Oliver J Nicholson Mr William A G Ramsay Mr Julian E Gorst Mr Timothy G Orchard Mr Charles C H Rickett 1978 Mr John D Grossart Mr Edward C R Paice Mr Martin A F Shenfield Mr Michael Brodtman Mr Linton J Guise Mr John A Saker Mr Edward G R Speed Mr Jonathan D Byrne The Reverend Mr Richard C Williams Mr Christopher P Thorpe Mr William W Darley Geoffrey M S J Hoare Mr Jeremy Withers Green Mr James D Wellesley Mr David L Gibbons Mr Michael D Keane Mr Ing Loong Yang Wesley Mr David E Gill Mr James D Miller Professor Neil L Kent Mr Thomas V Milroy 1982 1977 Mr Winston K Leong Mr Richard P Pearey Mr John S Bourdeaux Mr Philip L G Allen Mr Adrian N V Maconick Mr Giles A Proctor Mr Robert Chartener Mr Ian D Ballard Mr Rory O’Brien Mr Michael H Rutledge Mr Charles D Crole Mr Manu Bhaskaran Mr Simon P Robert-Tissot Dr Patrick J Seal Mr Simon W D Feather Mr Robert A Bing Mr Alistair G Schaff QC Mr Adrian P Smart Mr David M Grace Mr Christopher H Bowen Dr Colin G Steward Mr Christopher J Vermont Mr Nigel R Hill Mr Geoffrey J Craddock Mr William G H Thatcher Mr Thomas M Walker Mr Christopher R Hoyle Mr Edward Fenton Mr Henry W Tuck Mr Matthew Williams Mr Anthony G King Mr Peter J Flynn Dr Rupert O Wace Dr Charles J Knight 1980 Mr Jonathan E Lowe Group Captain Keith Mr Alan Matthews Chapman The Reverend Magdalene’s Annual Fund Mr Denis H Clough Dr A Megahey (d) * Mr Lucian H Comoy Mr Keith J Miller Mr Robert G Davy Mr Simon C Mitchell We are delighted to report that our Annual Fund Mr Stuart A Fraser Mr Jonathan J D Myers this financial year raised over 300,000£ , due to the Professor Michael D Hughes Mr Michael M J O’Sullivan generosity of many Members and friends. The Annual Mr Ian C Kroch Mr Richard A Pickering Fund aggregates a large number of donations to make The Reverend Dr S A M’Caw Mr Shailen C Popat a significant impact on the College’s most pressing Mr John A D McConnel Mr Benet C Wace and ongoing needs. During the Easter vacation, a Dr Stephen J O’Connor Mr Graham R Walker team of Magdalene students participated in the Mr Ross G Reason Mr David I Wilson Telephone Campaign, and they did a tremendous job Mr Alan E Rogers Mr William J R Wilson in reconnecting Members with their College, as well as Mr Neville J Shave Mr Stephen J D Yorke building support for our fundraising endeavours. The Reverend Christopher G Spencer 1983 Mr Patrick Stoner Mr Ian P Benton Mr Christopher Thomas Mr James B Caldwell Mr Benjamin R Walls Mr Stephan C Ford Mr Rory Graham 1981 Mr Alistair W D Greer Mr Richard W Adams Dr Dieter A Halbwidl Mr Henry J Angell-James Mr David R Jennings Mr Mark P Ansell Mr Mark D M Jones Mr Joseph B Bannister Mr Mark P G Lewis Mr Anthony H Barnett Dr Christopher Pieroni Mr Edward A P Benthall Mr George W Pothecary Mr Philip E P Bergqvist Mr Rupert J Preston-Bell Mr David W Clayton Mr Philip C Richardson Mr Rajen K Dodhia Dr Richard Seymour Mr Lincoln E Frank Mr Julian G Mr Andrew J Gosden Smyth-Osbourne Mr Thomas B Holliday Mr Gordon D Sombrowski

8 MAGDALENE MATTERS Donors’ Report Mr David C Taylor Mr Richard J Price Mr Thomas T Y Ng Mr Nicholas J S Clark Dr James R Thallon Mr Simon J Thompson Mr Giuliano P Procida Dr Christopher R S Daykin Mr Jonathan L Venn Mr Giles P D Toosey Mr Martin B Storey Mr Martin W P Geminder Mr Curtin Winsor III Ms Jeanette P Thompson Mr Martin N Haycock 1984 Mr Duncan C Wood Mr Peter J Lake Dr Philip J Agg 1987 Mrs Amy E M Lim Dr Anthony R Armstrong Mr Paul Bowtell Dr Gregory F Maggio Mr Simon J Bryan QC Mr William S G A Cazalet “My time at Magdalene Mr Ian J Metcalfe Mr Thomas M Budd Mr Alexander J Clarke Miss Juliet M Owens was wonderful, and Dr Campbell G Calder Mr Rory Delaney Esq. Mr Simon C Parkin Mr Paramjit S Gill Mr Ian D Ferguson I want to ensure that Mr Ross T Phillips Mr Gavin Hastings Mr Damian R Fessey Dr Stefan Schmitz future generations Mr David J Jones Mr Alexander D Hardy Mr Amarjit J Singh Mr David Y L Lim Mr Rupert J H Higgins can enjoy the same Mr Michael Small Dr Alexander Lin Lieutenant-Colonel Mr Alexis G Stirling experiences that I had” Dr Nicholas J London Peter F Hill The Reverend P J Taylor Mr Parasaran Mohan Dr Jane Hughes * (Ian Beaton, 1989) Mr Michael D Winterbotham Mr Lawrence P Rao Mr Martin D MacConnol Mrs Rachel E Wright Mr Peter J Soer Mr Robert F Seabrook Miss Amy Yau Mr John C Torlesse Mr Charles B G Shippam 1990 Mr Alan E Walker Mr David C B Soanes Mr Alastair D G Adam 1993 Mr James R Stevenson Mrs Suzanne C Allen Mrs Rachael H Bradford 1985 Miss Jeanne M E Bianco Mrs Catherine E Braganza Mr Dominic E M Armstrong 1988 Mr Leighton T Bohl Dr Andrew J Brent Dr Oliver M Burnham Mr Andrew E Axon Ms Naomi A Carry Dr Saeed Hamid-Khani Mr Andrew C Cross Mrs Lynne Barker-Privalova Mr Andrew J Cole Mr John J Hammill Mr Raoul S J Dowding Mrs Laura C Dr Youlin J Li Mr Noam D Handler Mr Paul Drohan Bayntun-Coward Mr Mark E L Maydon Dr Gunter Klatt Dr Hugo E R Ford Mr Charles R W Bond Mrs Justine R McCool Dr Tze Liew Mr Mark J Grainger Mrs Clare J Harvey Mr Sean D Ramsden Mrs Caroline S L Malim Dr Charles E Hill Mrs Alejandra Dr Daniel J S Roberts Dr Kevin R McGerty Mr Nicholas D Hopton Echenique de Hopton Mr Max Rumney Ms Wendy J Meharg Dr Jeffery D Lewins * Miss Rachel P Horn Dr Hilary A Snaith Mrs Laura A Moorhead Mr Aidan P Maguire Dr Philip T Irwin Miss Clare L Walker Mr Ian R Porter Mr Gavin M J Pomeroy Mr Oliver Lippold Mr Huw E Roberts Mr Oliver H Rowe Mr Jonathan L Midgley 1991 Mr Robert C Schmults Mr Thomas R Sharp Mr Russell A R Napier Dr Abdulla S Baabood Dr Malcolm P Sharpe The Reverend A J B Symes Mr Suhail A Nathani Mrs Catherine J Baker Mr Matthew Sturman OBE Mr R J Thomson Mr Neil K Panchen Mr Mark S Craig Miss Emma C Tomlinson Mr Mark R Wakeford Mr Nicholas P R Steel Mr Paul Diamond Dr Robert I Trezona Mr Charles P Whitworth Mr Paul G Vick Mr Dominic F Doyle Dr Nicholas H Tyas Mr Rajko Vujatovic Lieutenant-Colonel 1986 Mr Richard D Youngman Marcus H Evans 1994 Mr David J Barker Mr Gary R Griffiths Mr Daniel Bayfield Dr Jonathan K Cox 1989 Dr James E Kennedy Mrs Dorothy M Brannan Mr Nicholas S Cronkshaw Mr Paul R Allen Mrs Emma A E Kennedy Mrs Rhiannon E Chisholm Mr James P H Entwisle Mr Peter D Allwright Mr Oliver J F Lewis Mr Timothy J E Cox Mr Jason N Mr Christopher S Bates Mr William H G Oxley Mrs Siobhan Cox Galbraith-Marten Mr Ian E Beaton Dr Brian G Romanchuk Mr Olivier A Desbarres Mr Timothy J Gibbons Professor Paul N Cornish Mr Christopher W Thompson Mrs Emma L Dorn Mr Richard J Hodges Mr Michael J Elliff Mr Richard F Edge Mr Alexander S Justham Mrs Alexandra J Elwin 1992 Mr James S Hickie Mr Matthew J Dr Justin A Green Mr Dean J Atkins Dr Neil G Jones * Kimpton-Smith Ms Shani L Hinton Miss Victoria S D Barber Mr Pericles Markaris Mr Richard O Lucas Mr David K Kelly Mr Alastair M Bicknell Mr Allan J Mulholland Mr Bruce G A Middleton Ms Melinda Lim Mr Paul Burnham Mrs Rosamond K Munoz Mr Michael J Patton Mr James R Murray Miss Elizabeth A Chubb Mr David Ng

9 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Mr Brian N O’Donovan Dr C C Augur Pearce Mr Thomas E Page Mr Chris M Fish Mr Charles K Scobie Dr Claire P Pritchard Miss Catherine A Pease Mr Giorgos Georgopoulos Mrs Sarah H Stevens-Cox Dr Thomas A J Pritchard Mrs Catherine M D Plant Mr Jonathan Hellyer Jones * Professor Helen H Vendler * Miss Emma G Rose Mr Ewan L Townsend Miss Gillian R Jackson Dr Helen L Vollmer Mr Russell Yeadon Dr Zhong-Ming Zhang Miss Jennifer C Meech Miss Alexandra J L Wren Dr Andrew C Morley-Smith Mrs Karen A H Young 1998 2001 Ms Emily H W Scott Mr Nicholas Zervoglos Mr James E Catton Miss Georgia Mrs Samantha Smith Chevalier Dr Rafael H M Chrysostomides Mr Benjamin J W Smith 1995 de Weryha-Wysoczanski Dr Lachlan J M Coin Mr Peter O Smith Mr Stephen M Bell Ms Agapi Fylaktou Ms Julie H Cooke Mr Niall C Taylor Miss Tanya S Boardman Mr Matthew J T Hoggarth Dr Edward J Costar Ms Laura J Whittle Miss Rocio d T Cifuentes Mr Paul J P Kenny Miss Emma S Fulton Dr Philip C Dixon Mrs Naomi A L M Ladenburg Mr Jonathan M Gee 2003 Miss Julie A Flower Mr Colin Lawson Dr Stefan Halper * Mr Steven R J Clarke Mr Daniel A W Jaggard Mr Peter P G MacDonald Mr Wayne A Hanson Dr Jeremiah M Ngondi Dr Alexander F Jeans Mr Oliver Mulvey Dr Jonathan J H Heffer Dr Michael C Scott Mr Andrew B Kingston Mr Mark C Plewes Miss Mala Kapur Miss Sara Wray Mrs Aimée The Reverend Miss Charlotte M Morley La Gorce-Jeans Dr Andrew E Starkie Mr James R H Morton 2004 Dr Kim R Locherer Miss Charlotte J Thomas Dr Henry A Nash Dr William T Collins Mr Christopher J Mellor Mrs Katharine Vigus Mrs Tessa E Niland Miss Kate L Grimes Mr Rory E Mullan Mr John J Niland Mr John M W Kyffin Mr Patrick A Nolan 1999 Ms Tara N Walsh Miss Rowan O’Neill Mr Yasir B Al-Wakeel 2005 Ms Barbara Yu Mr Christopher S Mr Bertram Kloss Asselin-Miller “From the inspirational Mr James R Larcombe 1996 Mrs Rachel L Asselin-Miller supervisors, to early Miss Hannah E Latham The Honourable Mr Russell E Balkind Mr Paul R M Magee Miss Donna M Barnes Mr James M Cork mornings on the Cam Mr Tristan T Matthews Miss Erica I C Calogero Mr Brendan M Goss with MBC and the Ms Silke C Mentchen * Mr Martin Dean Mr William A Hooker Mr William A E Parker Mr Charles E Fletcher Mr Christopher D Laws fantastic candle-lit Mr Jai N Patel Dr Stephen W Hainsworth Dr Alan W L Leung formal halls, I can’t Miss Jenna Patel Dr David O Jones Mrs Kate Mayne Mr Andrew E Pay imagine anything Miss Isabelle P L Kan Dr Gimhan K Miss Ailsa L Redhouse Mrs Zoe D Laarman Senarath-Yapa coming close to my time Miss Stephanie C Sgoda Mr David A P Lloyd Dr Tara E Stewart at Magdalene, which is Mr Liam P Townson Miss Vikki Madias Mrs Olivia E Stone Miss Zilan Wang Mr Adam K A Mortara Mr Luke Webster why I chose to make a Dr Peter D Nellist * donation to support the 2006 Mr Christian B U Perwass 2000 Ms Myrna Carlebur College” (Madelaine Dr Amanda C J Treadaway Mrs Julia K Breatnach Mrs Jo Dickson Mr Roland H Woolner Miss Jennifer A Burns Scragg, 2009) Miss Faye C A Dorey Dr Duncan S Young Mr Thomas P Cropper Miss Rachel L Falconer Mr Feng Guo Miss Sinead L Flanagan 1997 Dr Anna R Henderson 2002 Miss Isabella A Gage Miss Ruth E Boichot Dr Stephanie M The Master Miss Sarah J Gay Mr David J Boyle Irlbacher Fox Mr Jonathan E Allcock Mr Jason P Hafler Miss Nola K Donachie Mr Edward C Jones Mr Jonathan P Andrews Miss Sarah A Hubbard Dr Alastair D G Donald Dr Javed I Khokhar Mr Christopher M Ashford Miss Claire M Kearns Mr Christopher J Eldridge Dr Annette Kolodzie Miss Briony J Balsom Mr Alistair Mills Mrs Aude Fitzsimons * Mr John E Miller Mr Graeme A Bartlett Miss Jennifer A Scott Dr Pat Marsh Dr Jonty M Mills Mr James T R Bowen Miss Nilima Shah Dr Daniel B Moult Dr Roisin S Monteiro Mrs Sarah Bowen Mr Benjamin T Tucker Mrs Rebecca N Pallot Miss Frances J Munnelly Mr Matthew D Bullivant Mr Thomas C Wilson Mr John W Partridge Dr Edmund A Nash Miss Gemma L Donaldson

10 MAGDALENE MATTERS Donors’ Report 2007 Miss Tommy Crowley Mr Dominic McDonald Contemporary Watercolours Mr Matthew G M Campbell Miss Sophie Daud Mr David Shipton Mr Charles A Cook Ms Sharon L Christy Ms Laura Gallagher Mrs Julia Trocmé-Latter The Cripps Foundation Miss Julia M Collins Mr Michael Gilson Mr Andrew Webster The Donner Canadian Miss Charlotte Jago Mr Jes Hansen Foundation Miss Suzanna E Martin Miss Laura Heath 2011 The E J Thompson Mr Steven J Morris * Reverend Philip P Hobday * Mr Daniel Agbiboa Memorial Fund Miss Rosie F Tegelaars Ms Germaine Liu Mr Fred Bromley Mr D Gilbertson Miss Emily Mynott Miss Kerrie Daly Mr Stuart Gordon 2008 Mr Alastair Neilson Miss Emily Garside Mr D Hudson Dr Alexander K Buell * Mr Cyril Ng Lung Kit Mr Alexander McKinnon Professor Andrew Huxley Mr Henry Chan Miss Emily Parsloe Miss Nora Ni Loideain Investec Mrs Cara L Cooper Mr Darshan Patel Professor E Lowe Mr Loyd D G Grossman Mr Alex Quinn The Orr Mackintosh Miss Emilie M Jouffroy Mr Tanjil Rashid “Over 28% of the Foundation Mr Alexander J M Russell Miss Katharine Relph Mr William H Parry Miss Cecile C Tholly Miss Madelaine Scragg graduating class of 2012 Mrs Elizabeth Peters Dr Daniel Trocmé-Latter Mr Michael Sharp decided to make a gift Mrs Georgina Rhodes Mr Rupert J Willis Mr Thomas Shirley Professor Prasenjit Saha Mr Simeon Wallis to support the College” Miss Kate E Siddiqui 2009 Miss Emily Winstanley Mrs Jillian Tomlinson (d) Mr Richard Alam The Val A Browning Mr Jake Arnott 2010 Friends Foundation Miss Hannah Baker Mr Jack Collier Mr Kevin J Bentley Dr Alan J Walton Miss Abigayil Blandon Mr Brad Fried * Mr John Braybrook Mr Deryck Chan Mrs Corinne D Lloyd * Mr Richard Callender

Buckingham Society list of Members

This society, which was established to thank those Members who have made a bequest to Magdalene during their lifetime, will hold its third annual luncheon on 8th June 2013.

Dr David W Abecassis 1970 Mr John P Battersby 1967 Mr John A C Cann 1956 Mr Mark R Adamson 1983 Dr Gwilym E Beechey 1956 Mr Philip E Carne 1958 Mr John H Allsopp 1951 Mr Edward L Bell 1957 Mr Nigel H Carruthers 1949 Mr Kenneth H Arbuckle 1944 Mr Graham R Bell 1991 Mr Robert Chartener 1982 Mr Maurice J R Armytage 1952 Mr Peter Bennett-Jones 1974 Mr Michael W Chester 1952 Mr Derek E Ayres 1949 Mr Edward A P Benthall 1981 Mr Ted Childs 1956 Mr Kimball Bailey 1975 Professor David N Best 1966 Mrs Diana Coatney 1991 Mr John G L Bainbridge 1938 Dr Mark D Billinge * 1971 Mr Richard J Coleman 1980 Mr Peter C Baker 1960 Mr John D W Birts 1955 Professor David K C Cooper 1972 Mr David L Bankes 1937 Dr Michael Brooke 1968 Sir Colin R Corness * 1951 Mr Robert W Barber 1954 Mr Jeremy J G Brown 1954 Dr Adrian J Crisp 1968 The Reverend J R P Barker 1958 Mr John K Buckenham 1949 Mr John H Davidson 1961 Mr Stuart D Barr 1990 Mr Ian J Burton 1961 Mr Brian P Davis 1957 Mr Colin V G Basford 1951 Mr Andrew E Buxton 1954 Professor Glen Dudbridge 1959

11 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Mr Anthony J H Durham 1942 Dr Charles J Knight 1982 Mr Simon R Smallwood 1955 Mr Derek M Edge 1943 His Honour Dr Colin Kolbert * 1968 Mr Michael N Snowman 1963 Mr Giles R M Elliott 1971 Mr John M Kolbert 1960 Mr Gordon D Sombrowski 1983 Dr Claude E Evans 1978 Mr Harry J Laurence 1951 Professor Sarah M Springman The Right Honourable Lord Ezra * 1936 Mr Timothy A Lebus 1969 OBE * 1988 The Reverend Mac Farmborough Dr Jeffery D Lewins * 1985 Mr John K Spry 1980 MBE 1946 Mr Patrick J Lloyd 1947 Mr Benjamin W Staveley 1974 Mr Colin E Funk 1958 Mr Jeremy D Lunn 1953 Mr John R Stevens 1957 Mr John J S Garrick 1980 The Reverend C H MacGregor 1938 Mr John B B Stewart 1950 Mr Martin G S Gibson 1979 Mr Ian S Mant 1946 Mr Matthew Sturman OBE 1993 Mr Julian A Gizzi 1975 Mr Richard H W Marten 1961 Mr John G Sugden 1946 Mr John E Goldsworthy 1949 Mr John R V Mason 1943 Professor Sir Malcolm K Sykes 1944 Mr Julian E Gorst 1979 Mr Timothy J McCarron 1980 Group Captain Mr Andrew R Mr Peter L Graham 1964 Mr Ian H McCorquodale 1956 Thompson * 2001 Mr William M C Grant 1975 Mr Paul McNamara 1967 Mr Henry H Tomlinson 1946 Mr Howard E Green 1964 Mr Mark D Moorman 1987 Professor William Tordoff 1947 Mr Jeremy B Greenhalgh 1967 Dr Charles W R D Moseley 1981 Mr Christopher J F Trott 1953 Mr Joseph Grimberg 1952 Mr Denis J H Murphy * 1957 The Reverend Dr H John M Turner 1942 Mr Linton J Guise 1979 Mr Braham J Myers 1939 Mr Harold A R Turner 1948 Dr Stefan Halper * 2001 Mr Anthony J Nicholson 1947 Sir John B Ure 1953 Mr Richard Hamilton 1958 Mr Barry P Nicholson 1948 Mr Francis A B Valentine 1956 Dr Timothy N Harper * 1989 Dr Rory O’Donnell 1971 Mr William B Vincent * 1937 Mr Philip P Harris 1949 Mr Timothy G Orchard 1981 Mr Chris I von Christierson 1969 Mr Richard D Hewlett 1950 Mr David F Oxley 1959 Mr Michael G Wadham 1962 The Honourable Mr Thomas Mr Mario V Pampanini 1974 Mr Graham R Walker 1982 A Hewlett 1971 Mr Michael D P Parker 1973 Dr James M Waller 1959 Mr Randal Hibbert 1956 Mr Ian M Paton Dr John D Walsh 1948 Mr Anthony D Hignett 1956 Mr Alan H Pattillo 1953 Dr Alan J Walton 1988 Mr Timothy E B Hill 1956 Mr Malcolm L Pearce 1984 Mr Arthur F Warren 1941 Mr Terry Hitchcock 1970 Mr Richard J Phillips 1955 Mr David F Weatherup 1980 Air Vice Marshal David A Hobart 1989 Professor Maurice W M Pope 1944 Mr John R White 1955 The Reverend R V Hodgson 1947 Mr Ian J Prowse 1970 Dr J Barrie Whittaker 1956 Mr Carol Hogben 1944 Mr H J Campbell Pulley 1960 Mr Alan P Wright 1966 Mr Andrew P G Holmes 1963 Mr Peter J Pursglove 1983 Mr John C Yandle 1945 The Reverend Canon John How 1934 Mr Richard A M Purver 1958 Professor George S Yip 1966 Professor John D Hudson 1953 Professor James Raven * 1990 Dr Ronald Hyam * 1960 Mr Christopher T A Ray 1943 Mr Leonard F Isaac 1944 Mr Ross G Reason 1980 Mr Terry James 1955 Mr Peter M H Robinson 1949 * Indicates that the donor Captain Charles C B James 1957 Mr Peter F C Roden 1961 is a Fellow Emeritus Professor John R G Mr Max Rumney 1990 Jenkins 1948 The Right Honourable the Lord Ryder (d) Indicates that the donor Mr David R Jennings 1983 of Wensum OBE PC 1968 is deceased Mr Roy A Jennings 1942 Mr Alec Samuels 1949 Mr Roger Jewison 1953 Mr Gregory W D Saunders 1980 Captain James W Johnsen 1979 Mr Christopher D W Savage 1948 Dr William J Jordan 1967 Mr Michael K Scott 1957 Mr John M Kalmanson 1946 Dr Richard H Seebohm 1954 Whilst we endeavour to ensure that Mr Michael Keall * 1989 Mr Andrew M Sheaf 1974 these lists are accurate, we apologise if Professor Neil L Kent 1978 Mr Anton B Shellim 1962 any name has been omitted. Please do Dr Frank A Kirk 1963 Dr Geoffrey A Shippey 1949 let us know if this is the case. Mr Norman A Kirke 1949 Mr Arnold J Shone 1956 Mr Michael J Knight 1958 Mr Nigel Slater 1962

12 MAGDALENE MATTERS Donors’ Report YEMEN – ARABIA FELIX?

by nicholas hopton (1985), hm ambassador to yemen

A common misreading of the College’s motto Garde Ta Foy is “look after your liver”. Some would argue that this advice is as valuable to new undergraduates at Magdalene as the true translation, “keep your faith”. On learning that Yemen, the conflict-torn south western corner of the Arabian peninsula, was historically known as “Happy Arabia” I wondered whether – as at Magdalene – there was a double meaning hidden in the Latin.

A view of the stunning and austere landscape near the capital Sana’a

Since taking up the post of Ambassador in Sana’a in January A few facts to start with: Yemen is the poorest country 2012, I have gathered considerable evidence to justify in the Middle East. Half of the country’s population the country’s sobriquet and counterbalance the common of approximately 25 million do not have access to safe Western perception that Yemen is an irredeemably tragic drinking water. Almost as many (10 million according country. The people and geography are extraordinary, to the World Food Programme) do not have enough to the sun shines much of the year and in the capital the eat, and 13% are starving or close to it. Almost half of all temperature rarely moves far from a temperate 26 degrees children under 5 years old are chronically malnourished. centigrade. The country also has natural riches, such as fish Partly as a response, the vast majority of the population, (though not salmon, in spite of the film) and agriculture. including many children, spend most afternoons chewing How much oil and gas remain to be discovered is unclear. the expensive and mildly intoxicating leaves of the qat bush

9 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Yemeni women voting in Sana’a in the Presidential election, February 2012

– a pastime which damages the economy, health, water as the country tottered at the edge of civil war. As the Arab resources and agriculture of the nation. Public services Spring spread political change in the region, protesters are lacking in much of the country and the impact of against the 33 year rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh conflict on vaccination programmes led to over 170 gathered in Yemen’s main cities. A massacre of protesters by children dying of measles at the start of this year. In regime snipers in Sana’a on 18 March catapulted the country short, though the humanitarian crisis in Yemen rarely gets into political turmoil. The army divided, between those media coverage in the UK, the situation is comparable loyal to Saleh and those supporting the revolutionaries, and to that in the Horn of Africa just across the Red Sea. conflict spread. Districts of Sana’a were shelled and when on 2 May an explosion at the mosque in the presidential The humanitarian challenge is, however, only one aspect palace badly wounded Saleh and killed a former prime of the country’s present plight. Al Qaeda have been active minister, it looked like full blown civil war was inevitable. in Yemen for over a decade. In 2000, a suicide mission Long standing conflicts in the north, between the Iranian in Aden port blew up the USS Cole. More recently, they supported Houthis and the Saudi Arabia backed Salefists, have mounted attacks on the US Embassy in Sana’a and in the south, where extremists in the southern (2008) and British diplomats (2010). Murder of Yemeni independence movement sometimes used violence to promote security personnel is commonplace. In 2009, Al Qaeda their cause, made the situation even more precarious. In in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), as this affiliate group addition, piracy off the coasts added to the fragile security. based in Yemen is known, achieved a high international profile when one of their number with explosives in The international community has risen to the challenge. his underpants was foiled as he tried to blow up an Diplomatic interventions in support of a political transition international airliner over Detroit. Further audacious plan put together by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) plots directed at Western interests have followed, for countries and backed by the UN Security Council and EU example an attempt to blow up transatlantic aircraft averted the worst. In November all the main parties signed using explosives concealed in printer cartridges. The up to this plan and since then the new President and Unity terrorist threat emanating from Yemen is considered by Government have been implementing it step by step with many to be the greatest facing the UK and its allies. the support of the international community. So far, though the security situation remains very fragile and none of the As if the humanitarian situation and terrorist threat were not underlying causes have yet been properly addressed, the sufficient, in 2011 the perfect storm gathered over Yemen political transition remains just about on course.

10 MAGDALENE MATTERS Given the complexities, dangers and difficulties of There are now 40 countries or international organisations Yemen today, some might be forgiven for wondering participating in this group, so ensuring coherence and why anyone in their right mind would want to take up a avoiding duplication and confusion is a significant challenge. posting in a place like this. I joined the FCO in 1989 on leaving Magdalene after a four year French and Italian The UK also has a leading role at the UN Security Council course. After EU policy work in London and a posting in in coordinating the Council’s decisions on Yemen and in Morocco, I was delighted to be posted to first Rome then ensuring the right messages when the Council regularly Paris. On return from Paris I worked mainly on security reviews progress. In Yemen, I participate in meetings of issues and international organisations, such as the UK’s different international groupings. The most unusual of engagement in the UN. To an extent this prepared me these is the G10, which emerged last year bringing together well for the new challenge of leading an embassy in a the permanent members of the UN Security Council, conflict country, as I was able to draw on my multilateral the GCC countries and the EU delegation. Its uniqueness experience as well as some background in the Arab world. and effectiveness in driving forward the transition, through The major difference, of course, was that now I was its engagement in Sana’a with all the main actors, has led to expected to deliver, not in Whitehall, but at the frontline. some suggesting such a model to solve the impasse in Syria.

So far, it has been an extraordinary and rewarding experience. The Embassy has about 25 UK staff (the exact numbers fluctuate constantly as people rotate through and take breather breaks out of country every couple of months). There are many more local staff, the majority of whom are involved in some way in protecting the Embassy. I am constantly impressed by the resilience and good humour of my Yemeni colleagues – they have been through so much and daily life is a struggle, yet they are invariably cheerful and The UK’s links with Yemen go back a long way – Aden was optimistic now that there is the prospect of a better and more essentially a British colony from the late 1830s to 1967. stable future for Yemen. Partly because of this, Yemenis look to the UK to help resolve the question of Southern independence. My role has Since the suicide attack on my predecessor but one in involved encouraging the various factions – including those 2010 and the explosion of violence last year when the in exile, e.g. in Cairo – to engage in the ongoing process of embassy and staff accommodation was sometimes too close dialogue and reconciliation. for comfort to the fighting, all UK staff have moved out of their houses and flats and now live on the embassy site in Of course, there are the duties that any ambassador has what is best described as a fort. It is not uncomfortable, to fulfil, such as looking after the local British community. though living for long periods cheek by jowl at your place Relatively few British citizens remain in Yemen – the travel of work in a reinforced metal “pod” – essentially a well- advice is clear that people should stay away and the risk appointed caravan – is an acquired taste. There are mornings of kidnap is high. However, for the hardcore British and a when the challenges of the day inspire great enthusiasm and mixture of Yemeni and international contacts, I hosted a an I-wouldn’t-want-to-be-anywhere-else mentality; there are party to mark the Queen’s Jubilee in June. The security staff others, especially if suffering from “the Sana’a diet” (known came close to outnumbering the guests. But it all seemed elsewhere as “Delhi belly”) which people go down with worthwhile when Yemenis commented that they really regularly, when it is harder to get motivated and out of bed. appreciated the gesture and that the UK had not allowed the Perhaps the main downside to the job is being apart from terrorist threat to dictate. The importance of UK solidarity the family for extended periods and missing key events in with Yemen was underlined when the Foreign Minister gave the life of one’s children. the toast to the Queen and broke his habit of a decade of declining invitations to national days. It is hard to describe a typical day as things change so quickly and each week brings new challenges. As Such moments are a reminder what a privilege it is to serve Ambassador from one of the countries most active in its in this job. Also, how important it is for the UK not to lose support for the transition and the new President and his sight of the valuable role it can still play in less fortunate government, I spend a great deal of time working to keep corners of the world, such as Yemen. The country has stared international efforts aligned and effective. The UK co- into the abyss but now has the potential, in time, once again chairs with Yemen and Saudi Arabia a Friends of Yemen to live up to its ancient sobriquet of Arabia Felix. group that meets every six months or so at ministerial level.

11 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Transforming international biodiversity conservation: the Cambridge Conservation Initiative

by mike rands (2011), fellow commoner and executive director of the cambridge conservation initiative

Cambridge is world renowned as the centre of ‘Silicon Fen’ – the cluster of high-tech businesses drawn together geographically by the benefits of a world-leading research- intensive University and rich networking opportunities.

Much less well known, but no less significant, is the fact that Cambridge is home to one of the world’s largest clusters of people and institutions working to understand and conserve global biodiversity.

Life on Earth is at risk from an unprecedented rate of environmental change that threatens the natural resources on which humanity depends. Biodiversity – the myriad of genes, species and ecosystems that comprise nature – provides food, fuel, medicines and other vital ‘ecosystem services’, along with countless intangible benefits, for society. However, biodiversity is in steep decline, and its sustainable management is a major challenge for the 21st century. An increasing body of research, including significant contributions from Cambridge, shows that people are destroying species, habitats and ecosystems more rapidly and more extensively than ever before. Extinction rates of species are estimated to be more than 1,000 times higher humanity through interdisciplinary and innovative research, than would occur through natural evolution and, if climate learning, leadership and action. In 2009, I was appointed as change continues at present levels, a third of all living species the first Director of CCI enabling me to build on my earlier are likely to be committed to extinction by 2050. A global career as a conservation scientist and Chief Executive of assessment of ecosystem services concluded that 60% are BirdLife International. being seriously depleted or used unsustainably. It has become clear that such widespread impacts on biodiversity have Cambridge is uniquely placed to contribute to the profound negative implications for human wellbeing and, conservation of our planet’s rich but vulnerable biological ultimately survival. diversity. The University has a wealth of scholars studying many facets of wild nature, and the area is home to a large In response, Cambridge researchers from diverse disciplines, and diverse range of conservation bodies, ranging from large along with conservation practitioners and policy experts – all international intergovernmental organisations through to linked to global networks – have created the Cambridge small local charities, with a dynamic mix of national players Conservation Initiative (CCI). As a partnership between the and private companies as well. Over the next three years, University and world leading conservation organisation, CCI our vision is to create a centre of international conservation aims to help secure a sustainable future for biodiversity and excellence in the heart of the University on a prime city

12 MAGDALENE MATTERS centre location, bringing together over 500 professional often result in recommendations that can improve the efficacy conservationists from across organisations and University of legislation and international agreements. departments. This initiative will facilitate and sustain the flow of conservation research and practical solutions, enhance A priority for CCI has been the establishment of various global conservation capacity and leadership, and help to ways to increase and improve the capacity and leadership transform public understanding of nature. skills of people and institutions in biodiversity-rich developing countries. The Department of Zoology, Our detailed knowledge of the status and distribution working with RSPB and TBA, have run a fantastically of species and ecosystems, and of the threats they face, successful Student Conference in Conservation Science is growing rapidly. An impressive range of government (www.sccs-cam.org) in Cambridge, bringing together legislation and policy for biodiversity conservation and graduate students from all over the world each year to wider environmental management has appeared over share their findings, participate in collaborative workshops the past 25 years, at local, national and international and build their research and conservation networks. Sister scales. Public understanding of nature, its beauty, value Conferences have now been launched in Bangalore (India) and rapid demise, has grown enormously. Such public and New York (USA), with plans for future meetings in interest and concern has resulted in an increasing number Australia and China. A flagship programme of the CCI of organisations that carry out a wide range of practical partners, led by the Department of Geography, is a conservation programmes. Yet, despite such progress, new Masters Programme in Conservation Leadership extinctions continue and habitat loss remains a major threat (www.geog.cam.ac.uk/graduate/mphil/conservation/). to life on earth and human wellbeing. If progress is to be sustained, there needs to be a new approach that will bridge the gulf between research, policy, practice and capacity building in biodiversity conservation. This challenge is at the heart of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

CCI has had some early successes. Horizon-scanning – a process to systematically identify different trends, novel technologies, new issues and even original solutions that relate to biodiversity conservation – has been instrumental in our efforts to highlight emerging topics of relevance to sustaining the world’s natural environment. We have been able to bring together researchers, policy makers, business This MPhil trains students to address the challenges leaders and practitioners in collaborative exercises to carry of biodiversity conservation in an integrated and out horizon-scanning and then use this to help inform interdisciplinary manner. It develops conservationists decision making. Had such approaches been made before with enhanced research skills and greater awareness of current policy on biofuel production been set, it is likely that the complex drivers of biodiversity loss, but also fosters many of the negative ecological, climate change and social the ability to act and lead effectively. It helps develop impacts of the large-scale expansion of biofuels could have professional management and leadership skills, such as been avoided. strategic planning, finance and accounting, entrepreneurship and the management of change, through teaching Similarly, CCI has established a Collaborative Fund to programmes provided by the rich mix of University support new interdisciplinary projects between researchers departments and conservation organisations present in and practitioners. In the last four years, over £1m has Cambridge. 24 students, including two from Magdalene, been dispersed to 19 such projects involving 40 different have already graduated from the course, with a further collaborators, including nine University departments. For intake starting this October example, one project has identified new ways to practically measure and quantify the ‘ecosystem services’ provided by Cambridge already represents the largest cluster of biodiversity at individual sites. The study looked at sites as conservation expertise in the world but the creation of a new diverse as Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire and Shivapuri- conservation campus will deliver a step change in our ability Nagarjun National Park in the Himalayan region of Nepal to attract researchers, engage with the policy sector and the and is now developing a more generic web-based Ecosystem business community, and deliver training and outreach. CCI’s Services Toolkit for use throughout the world. Several CCI goal is to harness Cambridge’s exceptional power to shape collaborations specifically examine the biological, social and thinking of mainstream decision makers and to exert decisive economic consequences of particular policy decisions, and influence globally for the benefit of nature and humanity.

13 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS

Since 2010, the Joint Centre for History and Economics has been based at Magdalene College and King’s College in Cambridge, and at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.

This year, the Cambridge Centre has moved fully into its new premises at Magdalene, in Half Moon Yard on Quayside. Since its establishment in 1991, the Centre for History and Economics has promoted research and education in fields of importance for historians and economists. It aims to provide a forum in which scholars can address some of their common concerns, whether through the application of economic concepts to historical problems, through the history of economic and social thought, or through economic history.

The objective of the Centre is to encourage fundamental The EHC in Half Moon Yard on Quayside research in each of the two disciplines. It also encourages the participation of historians and economists in addressing This year the Joint Centre has also launched ‘The History issues of public importance. These include economic security, Project’, an initiative supported by the Institute for New globalization in historical perspective, poverty and inequality, Economic Thinking, with the object of encouraging a new and the relationship between politics and religion. Since the generation of historians of the economy and economic life. establishment of the Joint Centre in 2007, the Cambridge Plans are afoot to begin a programme of undergraduate Centre, in collaboration with its counterpart in Harvard, exchanges between the Cambridge and Harvard Centres. has undertaken research projects and organized workshops, seminars and exchanges of faculty and graduate students. A major initiative launched in the time that the Centre has been at Magdalene came into fruition over the summer. The College was delighted to welcome Professor Emma This is a project on the ‘Transnational History of Health in Rothschild, the Director of the Joint Centre, to Magdalene Southeast Asia’, funded by the China Medical Board, to mark as a Senior Research Fellow in 2010. Professor Rothschild is the 2014 centenary of its medical education and research in Honorary Professor of History and Economics in Cambridge China and Southeast Asia. In July, the Centre held a project and Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at workshop in Yogyakarta, Central Java, with participants Harvard University. from ten countries, including a sizable Magdalene contingent: Dr Tim Harper (1990), Fellow, who is Associate Director The hub of the Centre’s activities is its new home in Half of the Centre, Dr Lily Chang (2011), Andrew Jarvis (2008), Moon Yard. Inga Huld Markan, the Executive Officer, and and Inga Huld Markan. In July 2013, Magdalene will host a Amy Price, the Webmistress, who are members of staff residential Summer School for young research scholars from at Magdalene, work out of here. Amy’s newly redesigned Southeast Asia in this field, coordinated by Dr Chang. website www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk, lists forthcoming projects and events. In addition, three new post-doctoral Other recent Centre visitors to Magdalene include Justice research fellows join the Centre this Term, including Dr Stephen Breyer, of the US Supreme Court, who spoke on the Fei-Hsien Wang, whom we also welcome to Magdalene as a work of the court, including recent landmark cases on health Junior Research Fellow. care and Guantanamo Bay.

14 MAGDALENE MATTERS Members’ news

Dark Designs Dear Alumni and Friends of Magdalene College,

As you will no doubt remember from your time at Magdalene, our London, 1928, enchanting white tie May Ball is second to none. Now, over one gunshots in hundred years after the first Magdalene May Ball, we are working Mayfair. A secret hard to ensure that the 2013 Ball maintains its reputation for society with sophistication, quality and pure class. On the night of 19th June murderous intent. 2013, our college will host this awe-inspiring event of fine dining, Archaeological supreme entertainment and elegance within the walls of our historic treasures and college from dusk until dawn. medieval tombs. A conspiracy that can shake post-war The Magdalene May Ball Committee cordially invites you to share Europe to its very core. A chance this experience with us. Tickets will go on sale on Monday 3rd encounter and a sudden death. December with booking available online at www.magdalenemayball. Reverend Christopher Cushing is com for dining pairs and non-dining pairs. New to this year, we have thrust from his rural backwater an area exclusively for alumni of the College: “The Pepys Club”, into a battle against time, dodging where extra care will be taken to see you have an even more special the bullets of hired assassins. He night. These will be open to availability by emailing president@ uncovers evidence of a monstrous magdalenemayball.com. plot that goes to the heart of the establishment and soon realises We very much hope that you will be able to attend what promises to that he can trust no one in be an extraordinary night. authority. Cushing and his friends race across Europe, searching for With very best wishes, long-lost relics from the time of The Magdalene May Ball Committee the Crusades. They have little time to solve the mystery before the conspirators plunge the world into chaos.

by Timothy Kimball (Kimball Bailey, 1975)

What Echo Heard times past. Canadian writer Peter Oliva writing in secret at the age of eight. observed, “This is a beautiful collection Forty one years later his husband What Echo Heard of tales: warm, beguiling in its humour, pushed him out of the writer’s closet is a collection of and heart-felt. It has the confident and into submitting a story – it was stories, universal voice of a town insider, a consummate published. He came up to Magdalene in nature, but storyteller, one who cares about these in 1983 for his LLM and never quite set in Fernie immigrant characters, and a time that left. Currently working on his second in the Rocky has (only recently) disappeared. Each novel the first sits on his book shelf Mountains of story seems to say: ‘Come, sit on this daring him to publish it. When not British Columbia bench. I have a secret to tell you.’” writing he helps guide his family’s before it became Available through Amazon.co.uk. business and volunteers with emphasis a ski-resort. The on the arts in Calgary, Alberta and “good old days” are not always good Gordon Sombrowski (1983) grew up Fernie, British Columbia. but not all bad either in this telling of in the Rocky Mountains and began

15 MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Forthcoming Events Reunions

17 November 2012 6 April 2013 Reunions in 2013 Choir Association Reunion Dinner Magdalene Association Dinner at Magdalene Friday 12 April 11 May 2013 Dinner for those who matriculated in 28 November 2012 MA Day. Invitations will be sent to 2003–2004 The Master’s Farewell Drinks at everyone who matriculated in 2006 the Portland Gallery Saturday 4 May 8 June 2013 Lunch for those who matriculated 29 November 2012 Buckingham Society Luncheon. up to 1955 Magdalene Dinner in the House of Commons for all Members 30 June 2013 Friday 20 September Family Day for all Members Dinner for those who matriculated 1 December 2012 and their families in 1994–1996 Law Dinner at Magdalene 29 September 2013 Friday 27 September 8 December 2012 Annual Donors’ Day. Invitations Dinner for those who matriculated Architects’ Dinner at Magdalene will be sent to everyone who has in 1997–1999 given to the Annual Fund during 16 February 2013 the academic year 2012/13 Invitations will be sent out 3 months Medics’ Dinner at Magdalene, open in advance. Please note that the to past and present Medics Please note that other events programme usually begins at 4.30pm may be added to this list. Always with tea and coffee in the Senior 20 February 2013 check our College website www. Combination room. This is followed The Annual Investec Lecture at magdalenecambridge.com on the by Evensong in Chapel and then pre- Magdalene will be delivered by ‘Events’ pages and read the updated dinner drinks in the Cripps Gallery at Kevin Roberts (CEO, Saatchi & listings in Magdalene E-Matters. 7.15pm or Pepys’ Cloisters, with dinner Saatchi) and is open to all Members being served in Hall from 8pm. and their guests Please email [email protected] to Those who matriculated in 2006 will 22 February 2013 register your interest in any of the be invited to take their MA in person Pepys Dinner, by invitation only above events. or in absentia in 2013.

Non-resident Members’ Guest Nights

23 November 2012, 26 January 2013, 15 February 2013, 9 March 2013, 27 April 2013, 25 May 2013, 7 June 2013

These evenings are hosted by a group of Fellows and include pre-dinner drinks. They offer Members the opportunity of bringing one guest to dine at High Table. Please note that numbers of NRMs are limited to a maximum of ten at any one night. Please book via the Alumni & The 1962 Magdalene Boat Crew take to the river once more, following a reunion in College Development office.

The views expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily represent the views of Magdalene College, Cambridge