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BALLIOL COLLEGE ANNUAL RECORD 2019 1 ANNUAL RECORD 2019 Balliol College Oxford OX1 3BJ Telephone: 01865 277777 Website 2019 BALLIOL COLLEGE ANNUAL RECORD 2019 1 ANNUAL RECORD 2019 Balliol College Oxford OX1 3BJ Telephone: 01865 277777 Website: www.balliol.ox.ac.uk Editor: Anne Askwith (Publications and Web Officer) Printer: Ciconi Ltd FRONT COVER The JCR after refurbishment, 2019. Photograph by Stuart Bebb. Editorial note This year’s edition of the Annual Record sees some changes, as we continue to heed and act on the views expressed in the alumni survey 2017, review how best this publication can record what goes on at Balliol during the academic year, and endeavour to use resources wisely. For the first time theAnnual Record has been printed on 100% recycled paper. We are distributing it to more people via email (notifiying them that it is available online) and we have printed fewer copies than we did previously. To change your preference about whether you would like to receive a print copy of the Record or to be notified when it is available to read online (or if you would like to change how Balliol communicates with you or how you receive any of our publications), please contact the Development Office at the address opposite or manage your preferences online at www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/balliol. ‘News and Notes’ from Old Members (formerly in the Annual Record) is now published in Floreat Domus. We welcome submissions for the next edition, including news of births and marriages, and photographs: please send these by email to [email protected]. Deaths will continue to be listed in the Annual Record; please send details to the Development Office at the address opposite or by email to [email protected]. Obituaries of Old Members for the Annual Record are welcome, but there is a limit of 400 words. Please contact the Editor if you would like to write one. The cut-off date for information in the Annual Record is 31 July. The lists of examination results (which exclude students who have chosen not have their results published), graduate degrees, prizes, and scholarships and exhibitions may include awards and results made since that date in the previous academic year, as indicated. We are happy to record in future editions any such awards and results received after that date, if requested. The Editor is contactable at the address opposite or by email: [email protected]. Contents The Master’s Letter 6 College Life 63 Balliol College 2018/2019 9 Library and Archives 64 Senior Members: Chapel 70 Visitor, Master and Fellows 10 Middle Common Room 76 Emeritus Fellows 14 Junior Common Room 79 Honorary Fellows 16 Clubs, societies and sports 82 Fellow Commoner 17 Foundation Fellows 17 Features 97 Academic Visitors 18 Godfrey Fowler and John Jones: Lecturers 18 Norway and the United Kingdom, New Fellows 20 or more especially Balliol College, Junior Members: Oxford 98 First-year undergraduates 26 Malcolm Whyte: A Peculiar Rhodes Visiting students 30 Scholar 103 First-year graduates 30 Book reviews: College staff 35 Risín Watson: The Voices of Nîmes by Suzannah Lipscomb 106 Review of the year 37 Oswyn Murray: The House of Augustus, by T.P. Wiseman 110 Achievements and Awards 49 Simon Skinner: How We Fell in Love with Undergraduate Scholarships and Italian Food, by Diego Zancani 113 Exhibitions 50 Graduate Scholarships 52 In Memoriam 119 College prizes 52 Deaths 120 Non-academic College awards Obituaries: 54 Paul Streeten 122 University prizes 54 Julia Delafield Hore 129 Firsts and distinctions 55 James Cadzow Smith 133 Doctorates of Philosophy 57 Ronald McIntosh 136 Other research degrees 59 David Hindley 137 Honours, appointments and Timothy Potts 138 awards 60 Peter Wetherall 139 William Field 140 Benefactors 143 The Master’s Letter Dame Helen Ghosh I know that the wise advice to gardeners, when they acquire a new plot, is that they should wait and watch for a year, to see what comes up through the seasons. As my study looks out on our bosky Garden Quad, it seems an apt analogy for my first year here. I’ve now seen as Master the full annual cycle of life at Balliol, from welcoming Freshers to celebrating their success as they graduate. I’ve had a hand in appointing new Fellows, and said farewell to others – among them Robert Field, retiring after 18 years as a Tutorial Fellow in Engineering. And I’ve met Old Members around the world and at our many alumni events here in College. Of course, though, reading through the various lively and fascinating reports in this Record, I realise that I’ve missed much that’s going on. I was particularly pleased to read of the launch of the BME Society, for students from ethnic minority backgrounds, and of our new eminence in water polo! As the academic year began, I found meeting our Freshers very moving. So much potential, so much talent, and so many opportunities they could grasp while here with us. Thinking back to my own arrival at Oxford many decades ago, I urged the undergraduates on their first day here to ignore ‘imposter syndrome’. We had chosen them all, whatever their background and previous educational experience, because we believe in them and their potential. I remember how hard it is to believe in yourself, when you find you are surrounded by so many clever and gifted people. Six weeks on, and I met each of the Freshers at the Master’s Interviews. When I asked, ‘What has surprised you most?’ the almost universal answer was ‘That people are so normal’ – in other words that they hadn’t encountered the out-of-touch, privileged elite that the media portrays. Meeting our graduate Freshers was a treat too, though they are rather harder to encounter collectively. One opportunity is at the Graduate Freshers’ Dinner, at which I reminded them of Balliol’s tradition as an international, outward-looking College. If you look down the list of graduates we welcomed this year, you will see that we are as just as international as always. Life at Holywell Manor is as lively as ever too and I was able to meet more of them there at the Praefectus’ and Dervorguilla Seminars and at the subject lunches for graduate students and their College Advisers, which have been a very successful innovation these past two years. 6 BALLIOL COLLEGE ANNUAL RECORD 2019 December in Oxford means one thing: undergraduate admissions. That too I found very moving to watch, as so many talented and hopeful young people arrived more or less nervously, to try to achieve their ambition. Our JCR gave them a warm welcome, and I hope a good memory of Balliol to take away, whatever the outcome. It was a cause of great celebration that, for the first time in our history, we made the majority of undergraduate offers to women, which means that 52% of Freshers arriving in Michaelmas Term 2019 will be women. In Hilary Term, we celebrated the rare event of a Balliol Fellow being admitted as one of the University Proctors. We have plenty of experience of this, historically, since our first recorded Balliol Proctor was Robert de Derby in 1360, and we have supplied one about every 12 years since then. Fellows of the College formed an impressive (and reasonably orderly) procession down Broad Street to the Sheldonian to see Professor Sophie Marnette (Dervorguilla Fellow and Tutor in French) sworn in as Junior Proctor. The Master (front row, fourth from left) with Professor Sophie Marnette (on her right) and Fellows, following Professor Marnette’s election as Junior Proctor. Photograph by Stuart Bebb. BALLIOL COLLEGE ANNUAL RECORD 2019 7 In Trinity, we had another red-letter day when students moved into the first block to be completed of the new buildings at the Master’s Field. These were graduate students who had to be ‘decanted’ from the Martin and Dellal buildings due for demolition in the next phase. When all the buildings are complete, we will be able to offer our undergraduates accommodation for all of their time with us, and some 70 more rooms (around 44% of the total available now) to our graduate students. With rents so high in the city, this will help us both to continue to attract the most talented students and to support them while they are here. Trinity is of course examination season. Balliol undergraduates secured the top Firsts in several subjects, including Classics and Computer Science & Philosophy, and we maintained our place in the top ten of the Norrington Table, coming ninth again this year. We rounded off the term with a party at which I and Fellows thanked all our staff for their hard work and commitment through the year, without which the College would not be the welcoming, supportive and successful place that it is. Finally, to turn my own question to the Freshers around: what has surprised me? I knew when I arrived something of the stress that modern life puts on our students, from social media, peer group pressure and the many uncertainties of the world into which they will move next. But I have been bowled over by the energy and optimism that they have, and I rejoice that they find the time to grapple with the big issues of the day, be they climate change or social equality. And of course, I could never have imagined that by the end of the year, an alumnus would have just become Balliol’s fourth Prime Minister! 8 BALLIOL COLLEGE ANNUAL RECORD 2019 Balliol College 2018/2019 Visitor Reed, Right Honourable Lord, PC, LLB Edin, DPhil Oxf, Hon LLD Glas, FRSE Master Ghosh, Dame Helen, DCB, MA MLitt Oxf Fellows Hazareesingh, Sudhir Kumar, MA MPhil DPhil Oxf, FBA, Associate Professor, Fellow and Tutor in Politics; Senior Fellow O’Hare, Dermot Michael, MA DPhil Oxf, Professor of Chemistry, SCG Fellow and Tutor
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