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 CHR-18862 COVER.indd 1 Christ Church 3 Obituaries Professor Sir Henry Harris 72 The Dean 13 Professor Norman Brown 79 The Revd Desmond Minty 82 The House in 2014 18 Paul Robertson 83 The Archives 27 The Cathedral 29 Senior Members’ Activities The Cathedral Choir 32 and Publications 85 The College Chaplain 33 News of Old Members 101 The Development & Deceased Members 108 Alumni Office 35 Final Honour Schools 110 The Library 39 Graduate Degrees 115 The Picture Gallery 42 Notice of University Prizes 118 The Steward’s Department 47 Andrew Chamblin Memorial The Treasury 49 Concert 120 Tutor for Admissions 52 Information about Gaudies 121 Tutor for Graduates 54

Graduate Common Room 56 Other Information Junior Common Room 58 Other opportunities to stay The Christopher Tower at Christ Church 123 Poetry Prize 61 Conference at Christ Sports Clubs 63 Church 124 Publications 125 Study visit to Borgo Pignano 67 Cathedral Choir CDs 126

Hugh Trevor Roper: Review 69 Acknowledgements 126

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CHRIST CHURCH

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Dean Percy, The Very Revd Professor Martyn William, BA Brist, MEd Sheff, PhD KCL.(from September 2014)

Canons Gorick, The Ven Martin Charles William, MA Camb, MA Oxf Archdeacon of Oxford Biggar, The Revd Professor Nigel John, MA PhD Chicago, MA Oxf, Master of Christian Studies Regent Coll Vancouver Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology Foot, Professor Sarah Rosamund Irvine, MA PhD Camb Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History Ward, The Revd Graham, MA PhD Camb Regius Professor of Divinity Newey, The Revd Edmund James, MA Camb, MA Oxf, PhD Manc Sub Dean

Students Ryan, John Francis, MA (BSc PhD Edin) Professor of Physics and Research Student Pallot, Judith, MA (BA Leeds, PhD Lond) Professor of the Human Geography of Russia and Tutor in Geography Rutherford, Richard Browning, MA DPhil Tutor in Greek & Latin Literature Cartwright, John, BCL MA Professor of the Law of Contract, Tutor in Law and Censor Theologiae Darlington, Stephen Mark, MA DMus FRCO Organist and Tutor in Music Hine, David John, MA DPhil Peter Pulzer Tutor in Politics and Development Adviser

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Judson, (Richard) Lindsay, MA DPhil Tutor in Philosophy Andreyev, (Constance) Catherine Laura, MA DPhil (PhD Camb) Tutor in Modern History Nowell, David, MA DPhil (MA Camb) CEng, MIMechE Professor and Tutor in Engineering Science and Senior Censor Simpson, Edwin John Fletcher, BCL MA Tutor in Law Howison, Samuel Dexter, MA MSc DPhil Professor and Tutor in Mathematics Williamson, Hugh Godfrey Maturin, DD (MA PhD DD Camb) FBA Regius Professor of Hebrew and Librarian (until September 2014) Edwards, Mark Julian, MA DPhil Tutor in Theology McCulloch, Malcolm Duncan, MA (BSc, PhD Witwatersrand) Tutor in Engineering Science Obbink, Dirk, MA, PhD Stanford Tutor in Greek Literature Rowland-Jones, Sarah Louise, MA DPhil Professor of Immunology and Research Student Jack, Belinda Elizabeth, MA status, D.Phil. (BA Kent) Tutor in French McDonald, (Duncan) Peter, MA, DPhil Christopher Tower Student in Poetry in the English Language Neubauer, Stefan, MA Oxf, MD Würzburg, FRP Ordinary Student, Professor and Clinical Reader in Cardiovascular Medicine Parkinson, Brian, MA (BA PhD Manchester) Tutor in Experimental Psychology and Junior Censor Tandello, Emmanuela, MA DPhil Tutor in Italian and Curator of Pictures Moran, Dominic Paul, MA (PhD Camb) Tutor in Spanish Wilkinson, Guy, MA DPhil Reader in Particle Physics and Alfred Moritz Student in Physics Davies, Roger Llewellyn, (BSc Lond, PhD Camb) Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics and Lee Reader

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Bell, Sir John Irving, KB BMedSc Alberta, MA DM FRCP Regius Professor of Medicine Johnson, Geraldine A, (BA Yale, MA Camb PhD Harvard) Tutor in History of Art and Tutor Cross, Jonathan Guy Evrill, MA DLitt (BA Brist, PhD Lond) Professor of Musicology and Tutor in Music Clark, Anna, DPhil (MA MLitt St And) Tutor in Roman History and Librarian (from September 2014) Young, Brian Walter, MA DPhil (BA Durh) Charles Stuart Tutor in Modern History and Curator of Common Room Davis, Jason John, DPhil (BSc Lond) Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry Pelling, Christopher Brendan Reginald, MA DPhil Regius Professor of Greek Bose, Mishtooni Carys Anne, MA MPhil DPhil Christopher Tower Official Student in Medieval Poetry in English and Tutor for Graduates Yee, Jennifer, (BA Sydney; DEA, doctorate Paris) Tutor in French Kuhn, Axel, (PhD Kaiserslautern) Tutor in Physics Lawrie, James Cameron Fitzgerald Seymour, (MA Camb) Ordinary Student and Treasurer Aarts, Dirk, MSc PhD Utrecht Tutor in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Cragg, Stephanie Jane, DPhil (MA Camb) Tutor in Medicine Wade-Martins, Richard, DPhil (MA Camb) Tutor in Medicine Kwiatkowski, Marek, MA Ordinary Student and Development Director Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska, BA Rochester, PhD Yale Professor of International Economics and Tutor in Economics (until Sept 2014) Schear, Joseph, BA California at San Diego, PhD Chicago Tutor in Philosophy and Tutor for Admissions Keene, Edward, BA MSc PhD Lond Tutor in Politics

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Mortimer, Sarah, MA MSt DPhil Oxf Tutor in History Upton, David, (BA Meng Camb, PhD Purdue) American Standard Companies Professor of Operations Management McGerty, Kevin, BA Camb, PhD MIT Tutor in Mathematics Linières-Hartley, Pauline Anne, BA, MA Oxf Ordinary Student and Steward Sternberg, Karl, MA Oxf Ordinary Student Bérczi, Gergely, MSc Eotvos Lorand, PhD Budapest Fixed Term Student in Mathematics Elder, Liesl, BA Carleton Ordinary Student and University Development Director Dadson, Simon, BA Oxf, MSc British Columbia, PhD Camb Tutor in Geography Spagnolo, Benjamin James, BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) Western Australia, BCL DPhil Oxf Penningtons Student and Tutor in Law Newstead, Simon, BA Bath, PhD St And Tutor in Biochemistry King, Kayla, (BSc British Columbia; MSc Concordia; PhD Indiana) Tutor in Biology Camilleri, Anna, BA MA Durh, DPhil Oxf Fixed Term Student in English Joosten, Jan Thijs Alfons, Lic DTh Brussels, ThM Princeton Theological Seminary, PhD Hebrew Regius Professor of Hebrew (from October 2014) Barker, Richard, BA Oxf, MPhil PhD Camb Tutor in Management Studies (from October 2014)

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Honorary Students Wilkinson, Sir Denys Haigh, MA (MA ScD Camb) FRS Armstrong, Robert Temple, the Rt Hon Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, GCB KCB CB CVO MA Carr, Sir (Albert) Raymond (Maillard), MA DLitt Gurdon, Sir John Bertrand, MA DPhil FRS Urquhart, Sir Brian Edward, KCMG MBE DCL (Hon LLD Yale) Acland, Sir Antony Arthur, KG GCMG CVO MA Howard, Professor Sir Michael Eliot, OM CH CBE MC DLitt FBA FRHistS FRSL Hassan ibn Talal, HRH Prince of Jordan Lawson, Nigel, the Rt Hon Lord Lawson of Blaby, MA PC Girouard, Mark, MA PhD Morris, Jan, CBE FRSL MA Williams, Rowan Douglas, Most Revd and Rt Hon Archbishop of Canterbury MA DPhil DD FBA Oppenheimer, Nicholas Frank, MA Scholey, Sir David Gerard, CBE (Hon DLitt London Guildhall) FRSA Smith, Douglas, MA Wood, Sir Martin Francis, OBE DL (Hon FEng UMIST Hon DSc Cranfield on DSc Nott Hon DTech Loughborough Hon DEng Birm) FRS Drury, the Very Revd John Henry, MA Oxf (MA Camb) de la Bastide, Michael, TC QC Blair, Ian Warwick, Baron Blair of Boughton Kt, QPM, MA Oxf Curtis, Richard Whalley Anthony, CBE Moritz, Michael Jonathan, BA Rothschild, Nathaniel Charles Jacob, the Rt. Hon. Lord, OM, GBE Harris, Sir Henry, MA DPhil DM (BA MB BS Sydney) FRCP FRS (died October 2014) Ronus, Robert, BA Oxf McDougall, Douglas, OBE Neuberger, David Edmond, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury, PC, QC Paine, Peter S, Jr., LLB Harvard, BA Princeton, MA Oxf, Order National du Merite Preston, Simon (John), CBE, MusB MA Camb Beard, Alexander F, MA Oxf Lewis, The Very Revd Christopher Andrew, MA DPhil Oxf, PhD Camb

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Emeritus Students Asquith, Ivon Shaun, MA Oxf (PhD Lond) Benthall, Richard Pringle, MA (MA Camb) Bowman, Alan Keir, MA (MA PhD Toronto) FBA Burn, Edward Hector, BCL MA Butler, (Ian) Christopher, MA Oxf Cheetham, Anthony Kevin, MA DPhil FRS Conrad, Peter John, MA FRSL Gardner, Sir Richard Lavenham, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, FRS Grossel, Martin Christopher, MA (BSc PhD Lond) Haigh, Christopher Allan, MA Camb, MA Oxf, PhD Manc, FRHistS Hamer, Richard Frederick Sanger, MA Harris, Sir Henry, MA DPhil DM (BA MB BS Sydney) FRCP FRS (died October 2014) Harris, John Graham, MA FIH Kent, Paul Welberry, MA DPhil DSc (BSc PhD Birm) FRSC Lund, Peter Gradwell, MA Matthews, Peter Bryan Conrad, MA DM DSc (MD Camb) FRS O’Donovan, the Revd Oliver Michael Timothy, MA DPhil Oppenheimer, Peter Morris, MA Parsons, Peter John, MA FBA Paton, Jack Ellis, MA (BSc St And, PhD Birm) Pulzer, Peter George Julius, MA (MA PhD Camb BSc Lond) FRHistS Rice, (David) Hugh, BPhil MA Robinson, Christopher Frank, MA Sansom, Mark Stephen Perry, MA DPhil Speedy, Andrew William, MA (MA PhD Camb) Stacey, Derek Norton, MA DPhil Thomas, William Eden Sherwood, MA FRHistS Thompson, Ian David, MA (PhD Camb) Truman, Ronald William, MA DPhil Vaughan-Lee, Michael Rogers, MA DPhil Ward, the Revd (John Stephen) Keith, BLitt (DD Camb) Wayne, Richard Peer, MA (PhD Camb) Williamson, Hugh Godfey Maturin, MA Phd Dd Camb, DD Oxf, FBA Wright, Jonathan Richard Cassé, MA DPhil

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Censor of Degrees Mayr-Harting, Henry Maria Robert Egmont, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA Truman, Ronald William, MA DPhil

College Chaplain Williamson, Ralph James, (BSc Lond) MA MTh Oxf

Curator of the Picture Gallery Thalmann, Jacqueline Margot, (MA Berlin, Dipl. Lond Courtauld)

Fowler Hamilton Visiting Research Fellows Stadter, Philip Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Wrathall, Mark Professor of Philosophy, California at Riverside

Lecturers Abecassis, Michael, MA status Oxf, MLitt St And French Aksentijevic, Dunja, BSc, PhD Hull Biochemistry Ansorge, Olaf, Neuroanatomy Archer, Rowena, MA DPhil Medieval History Archer, Sophie, Philosophy Arnautou, Charlotte, French Lectrice Azfar, Farrukh, BA MA John Hopkins, PhD Pennsylvania Physics Baines, Jennifer, MA DPhil Russian Barrera, Olga, Engineering Science Bennett, Kate, MA DPhil Oxf (until Sept 2014) Bitel, Anton, Classics Brain, Keith, Pharmacology Breward, Christopher, MA MSc DPhil Mathematics Bullock, Philip BA Durh, MA DPhil Oxf Russian Caria, Antonio Stefano, Economics Carlucci, Alessandro Italian Cotton-Barratt, Rebecca, Mathematics Deckers, Marc, German Lektorat Frazier, Robert Lewis, (BA W Wash, MA PhD UMASS, Amherst) Philosophy Gilbert, James, Clinical Medicine Goddard, Stephen, French 9

Goodman, Martin David, MA DPhil FBA Roman History Gray-Davies, Tristan Mathemtatics Haarer, Peter, BA DPhil Oxf Ancient History Harris, Stephen, Biological Sciences Hollings, Christopher Mathematics Kohl, Michael, BSc Lond, DPhil Oxf Medicine Littlewood, Timothy James, (MB BCh FRCP FRC.Path MD Wales) Medicine Lunt, Alexander, MEng Engineering Science Ma, John, MA DPhil (PhD) Ancient History Marsland, Rebecca, English Maw, David, MA DPhil Music McIntosh, Simon, Engineering Science McIntosh, Jonathan, Philosophy Merchant, Alan Clive, MA DPhil Physics Naylor, Tristen, Politics Norton, Roy, MA MSt Oxf Spanish Ostrowski, Marius Politics Papanikoloau, Dimitris, Modern Greek Pazos Alonso, Claudia, Portuguese Pires, Jacinta, (MSc Leics) Economics Rhoades, Peter G, College Art Tutor Roberts, Ian Simon David, FRCPath, MRCPath, MBChB, BSc Hons Pathology Robertson, Sara Psychology Rushworth, Jennifer Italian Schroeder, Severin, Philosophy Scott, Kathryn MA MSci PhD Camb Biochemistry Skipp, Benjamin, Music Thien, Shaun Medicine Thompson, Samuel, Organic Chemistry Todea, Ana, Linguistics Upton, (Ann) Louise, BA Oxf, PhD Lond Medicine Varry, Cecile French Lectrice Vilain, Robert, MA DPhil German von Below, David, Economics Wilkins, Robert James, MA DPhil Physiological Sciences Willden, Richard, M.Eng, PhD DIC Engineering Science 10

Wright, John David Maitland, MA DPhil (MA Aberd) Mathematics Yong, Caleb, Politics Zanna, Laure Physics

Junior Research Fellows Boyd-Bennett, Harriet, BA Oxf, MMus Lond Music Bradbury, Jonathan, MPhil Camb, MA Oxf Modern Languages Ferguson, Laura, BA Oxf, PhD Camb Zoology Fergusson, Samuel Modern Languages Hartmann, Anna-Maria, Greek Mythology Holmes, Ros Chinese Culture Jostins, Luke, BA MPgil, PhD Camb Statistical Genetics Killing, Nils Psychology Plassart, Anna, MPhil Camb Dingwall JRF in History Prodi, Enrico, Classics Rüland, Angkana Mathematics Sloan, (Robert) Alastair, Earth Sciences Smith, Sophie, BA MPhil Camb History Tropiano, Manuel, BSc MSc Parma Chemistry Watt, Robert, Philosophy White, Rebekah, BSc MPhil ANU Psychology Yates, Christian, BA MSc Oxf Mathematics Zaid, Irwin, Biophysics

Senior Associate Research Fellow Hesjedal, Thorsten, Physics Ogg, Graham Stuart, DPhil Molecular Medicine Stuckler, David, Sociology Thornton, Thomas, MA PhD Seattle Environmental Change

Millard and Lee Alexander Post-Doctoral Fellow Heazlewood, Brianna, BSc PhD Sydney Chemistry

McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life Orr, James

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Postdoctoral Research Fellows Carlson, Laura, Law (from Oct 2014) Farrell, Patrick, Mathematics Langlet, David, Law (until Sept 2014) Lowe, John, Linguistic Rashbrook-Cooper, Oliver Philosophy Sarkar, Bihana, BA MPhil DPhil Oxf Oriental Studies Schaar, Elisa, Art History von Goldbeck-Stier, Andreas, European Law

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THE DEAN

It was said of a new Dean of Yale, some years ago, that he was invited to speak at a banquet to close an academic conference at an English University. He rose, and said “as you know, I am from Yale, and I want to base my speech around those four letters”. His listeners looked hopeful, and he began. “Now, ‘Y’ is for youth in our society…” – and he proceeded to speak for twenty minutes about youth. “‘A’ is for ambition”, he continued, “one of the great drivers of change in our world” – and spoke for a further twenty minutes. “‘L’ is for learning” – and another twenty minutes passed, before finally ending with another twenty minutes on ‘E’ for education. He finished and sat down, clearly pleased with his mnemonic, and turned to his English host. “How did I do?”, he asked. “Oh, just fine”, came the reply, “but we are all so glad you are not from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology”. By tradition, the Annual Letter from the Dean is seldom a long missive, and as a newcomer, I won’t vary the custom. I do want to begin, however, with some words of thanks to all at Christ Church for the warmest of welcomes to ‘the House’. For all the staff in their unfailing kindness and support – both before and upon our arrival; to the Governing Body and Canons for their wisdom and counsel as we have been settling in; and of course to my predecessor, Christopher, for enabling a smooth decanal handover. As we have (inevitably) been discovering in the first few months of the life in the Deanery, Christ Church is an inimitable institution, with its own sense of time and tradition. Indeed, it is a uniquely blended trinity: of college, cathedral and community. Yes, indivisible, co-substantial and (probably) co- eternal; but certainly and singularly unique. It is also, first and foremost, a home. Not just for those who actually live here, but also an academic home of learning and formation, which through its shared life helps to lay a foundation for the deepest kind of education. Colleges, at their best, offer a comparatively simple trinity of life: learning, eating and journeying together. They do this rooted in a shared history that seeks, in the best sense, to be an inclusive house of hospitality. It was Archbishop William Temple who once opined that the most influential of all educational factors are the conversations we have at home. At Christ Church, we typically speak of ‘members’ of such a home – old members or junior members. And it is through membership, all continue to 13 contribute to the nature of the house, and its ultimate future well- being. ‘Membership’ is something that normally evokes an image of belonging to some kind of club, or perhaps a rewards or loyalty scheme with a shop. But ‘membership’ has deeper meanings – rooted in the idea that ‘members’ of a body are ‘incorporate’, and vital to the whole, and for betterment of what lies beyond it. Yet we rarely speak of ‘members of society’ these days – a pity, as our membership refers to the deep intra-connections that bind us together. Some forty years ago, Elliot Jaques (1917-2003), the eminent Canadian psychoanalyst and organizational psychologist, penned his ground-breaking General Theory of Bureaucracy (1976). He criticised those who tended to think of institutions in organisational terms, and argued that something like a College was more of ‘association’, and tellingly, those learning and contributing to that body, as its ‘members’. The potential for parallels with modern higher education hardly need spelling out. Today, there is an enormous risk that higher education might turn into a simple series of utilitarian and functional courses or units, which are simply designed to pass on knowledge and skills to those consumers – who somehow manage to acquire enough resources to purchase them. In such a world, education becomes contractual and mechanistic; the ends justify the means, and the system as whole simply serves the continual commodification and consumption of knowledge. ‘Higher’ education should be radically different. It has a vocation to set us free, raise our vision, and to discover new horizons of possibility. To be in higher education is to be focused on truth, wisdom, formation, character and virtue – not only the acquisition of new knowledge, but pressing the boundaries of research. Higher education is for personal and social transformation. It speaks in a language of the soul and heart, as much as the head; it is higher. The African-American literary scholar, bell hooks writes:

To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can learn. That learning process comes easiest to those of us who teach who also believe that there is an aspect to our vocation that is sacred; who believe that our work is not merely to share information but to share in the intellectual and spiritual growth of our students. To teach in a manner that respects and 14

cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin… (Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations, London, Routhledge, 1994, p.13).

The subtle and simple nomenclature of ‘the House’ carries such rich cadence for our shared membership within the body of Christ Church. Proverbs 24 proclaims that ‘by wisdom a house is built’. Yet Christ Church is not just any ‘house’; it is a home – and a home for wisdom. It is a place of hospitality; a place of development; a habitat for our humanity. Homes, of course, are only as good as the warmth and wisdom they share with the wider world. There is little point to a nice home kept all to itself. That's not what Christ Church is here for. Our resources are for offering to the wider world: for sharing our education and the possibility of deep social transformation. That’s why our membership of the house is necessarily permanent. We continue to remain a part of the home that formed and educated us, and continues to do so for others. You could perhaps be forgiven for thinking that this is all very well, but laden with such an august history, how does a House like this, with such an illustrious pedigree, ever move forward? Yet great art and architecture are not just for preserving; they are also for fostering debate and critical thinking. Appreciating our history is not supposed to keep us securely locked into the past. It is supposed to cause us to pause and think; but then to open our eyes to face the present, and the future. So each new Dean has an opportunity: not only to be faithful to the past, but to pledge an allegiance to what our members aspire towards in the future. For this place is still to become; because, like all homes, it is never completely finished. So contributing to that future development is my own personal pledge. But it is a future that must be rooted in preserving the very best from the past and present, as much as it might be in finding the right ways forward in our development. Speaking of the past and present, there is no question that one of the great privileges of an Oxford education is our profoundly precious tutorial system. It is arguably our richest treasure – a jewel in the crown – and creates unique structures of pedagogical attentiveness and closeness in learning.

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As William Butler Yeats once remarked, education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. It touches, evokes, energises the very depths of the human, liberates peoples to realise their potential and transform the world. Education has an almost sacral dimension to it, because it is the means by which we maintain ourselves through renewal. Education teaches to entertain thoughts without necessarily accepting them; it turns mirrors into windows; it is a movement from darkness to light. It is not the preparation for life, so much as life itself. Some of the early highlights of my first few months have been spent on initiatives focussed on access. An evening in London saw an Appeal launched for Ovalhouse, about to develop a new purpose-built theatre in Brixton. The roots of Ovalhouse can be traced back to the 1930s as Christ Church (Oxford) Clubs, founded by our own graduates. It has a rich history in drawing in young people from disadvantaged areas in South London for sports, skills training and other activities. In the early 1960’s, Ovalhouse re-focused its energies into theatre and the arts, and has since become one of most important centres for pioneer fringe theatre groups in the country. Notable artists who began their careers at Ovalhouse have included Steven Berkoff, Howard Brenton, Pierce Brosnan, Stella Duffy, Tamsin Greig, David Hare and Storme Toolis. Ovalhouse continues to programme innovative, cutting edge theatre; and to champion accessible arts programmes and theatre schooling for some of London’s most disadvantaged young people. Closer to home in Blackbird Leys, Christ Church (enabled by a generous donation and ongoing support from an old member of the House, Anthony Ling), are working in partnership with the University of Oxford and the Queen’s Trust in supporting the children’s educational charity, IntoUniversity. This work will benefit hundreds of children in south and east Oxford, creating a learning centre which will work with the local schools and teachers to offer 900 young people each year the support required to achieve a university place or another education pathway. The centre will also offer an annual programme of visits to university colleges. Christ Church will be hosting one of ‘graduations’ for the schoolchildren later this year. Staff will be supported by up to 80 student volunteers, from Christ Church and the University, who will act as mentors, tutors and role models. The centre will work closely with local schools and community organisations to achieve the aims of the programme, working with participants from the

16 age of seven over the long-term up to their post-school education and beyond. The most influential of all educational factors are those conversations we have at home. IntoUniversity begins here, and aims to help many more gain access to higher education, beginning with our youngest learners from the age of seven. Like all good education, this is reciprocal; those who give also receive. So our hope for the House is that we continue to offer truly transformative teaching that is rooted in our vocation to educate and liberate. Our best hope for the future is to continue to develop a rich tradition of ‘connected teaching’. Socrates spoke of teachers as midwives – and so our responsibility is to draw out truth from our students, enabling the richest kinds of education and formation. ‘Connected teaching’ understands we all remain members of the House, in which wisdom is at home. Our future, then, is directed towards both preserving and improving – towards increasing student access across the country – and from all over the world. Towards creating a place of opportunity in which all can flourish. Towards developing our junior members, that through receiving the benefits of the best education, will then help develop our world. And towards enhancing and improving the House in the present, so that future generations will be enabled through the generosity of the legacies we leave. So, in this, my first decanal letter, let me once again thank all members for your warm welcome to the House. It has been good to arrive at the Deanery to discover Sampras the tortoise and Julie the cat continuing to flourish, and are now joined by our bearded collie, Pippa. Over the coming years, I very much look forward to meeting you all at events here, and elsewhere. Our present membership of the House is integral to the collective welfare of future generations. Together, may we savour the duty and joy of our shared responsibilities and vocation to maintain and develop this unique and remarkable House – Aedes Christi. The Very Revd. Prof. Martyn Percy

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THE HOUSE IN 2014

2014 was an historic year for the House, as it saw the end of Christopher Lewis’s eleven years’ tenure, and the beginning of Martyn Percy’s time, as dean of Christ Church. I was elected to my tutorship in 2003, the year in which Christopher Lewis began his period of office; it seemed to me that he had already been in post for some time, such was his natural, affable, and urbanely stylish authority – he looked every inch the naval officer he had once been – and, similarly, his impressively graceful, lapidary, and amused (and amusing) chairmanship of Governing Body and a myriad of college committees, concomitantly added to the illusion. The one aspect of Dean Lewis’s character that his hieratic portrait in Hall signally fails to communicate, alas, is his sense of mischief and quiet hilarity; his eyes are constantly on the move, looking for the initiative and the opportunity to do something slightly naughty, but always to ends that will amuse everyone involved: to employ the customary, rather witless language of our times, his humour is invariably ‘inclusive.’ He was an adroitly decisive head of house, and a much respected member of the Conference of Colleges. Junior members were among his warmest admirers, and their regard for him was shared by the many Old Members with whom he came into daily contact, and whose company he in turn much enjoyed, both formally and informally. Due to what the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography coyly refers to as ‘private information’, I happen to know that he plays a mighty mean game of charades: all who witnessed his performance of Leviathan will never forget it; perhaps the most elegant beast ever to play by ships in the waters. (Thomas Hobbes would have enjoyed the scene, for a great many reasons). Christopher Lewis is that rare thing, a clergyman with a sense of the ridiculous. In an inversion of the usual scheme of things, academics and clergy (and a fortiori academic clergy), have a tendency to be solemn without being in any way serious, but both Christopher and his successor, Martyn Percy, are becomingly serious without being even remotely solemn. The occasion of Christopher’s retirement was marked with a dinner in Hall, during which memorable speeches were given by him, and on behalf of Governing Body, by Judy Pallot, and there was much humour about domesticated fowl and Morris Minors; one had to be there, I suppose! Not only is Christopher Lewis much missed, but so

18 also is Rhona: I have lost count of the many penetrating questions she asked me which I signally failed to answer. The many undergraduates (and graduates) who studied Ancient and Koine Greek with her, learned a lot, and not only linguistically. The Lewis years in the Deanery were quietly glorious, and their departure was a sad day for the college. But one of the many qualities of Christopher and Rhona was an open commitment to the future, and they made the advent of a new dean and a new family in the Deanery both easy and natural. The image I have of Christopher Lewis might (characteristically, perhaps) seem odd, but nonetheless, it is real to me – ‘in a very real way’, as they say in the modern Church of England. Shortly after his retirement, I found myself in Antwerp, largely on a pilgrimage to the city of Rubens and the Plantin Press, and also the city which a late uncle of mine had helped to liberate, when serving in the Royal Navy, in 1945. The Cathedral contains one of the greatest works of religious art in the world, Rubens’ Deposition from the Cross, the equivalent in painting of Bach’s B Minor Mass: all the chattering that generally pervades the cathedral falls silent immediately before the triptych, such is its delicately-realised painterly power. One of the back panels consists of a representation of St Christopher, a burly, muscular, authoritative, powerful, and unusually direct and decisive figure: whilst in no way resembling Dean Lewis physically, Rubens’ St Christopher nevertheless conveys the same sense of witness and presence that, in his agreeably undemonstrative way, is so signally true of Christopher Lewis. But I will now return to earth; permit me to do so, however, as befits a member of an occasionally naval family, via water. A college boat was recently launched, named after Christopher; consequently, “Dean Lewis” will still be seen regularly in Eights’ Week! Martyn Percy and Christopher Lewis have much in common; both are graduates in Theology of the University of Bristol, and both have played senior roles at Ripon College, Cuddesdon. Christopher Lewis took his doctorate at Cambridge, and Martyn Percy studied for his at King’s College London, where he is also an honorary member of its Theology and Religious Studies Faculty. Dean Percy, who served for over ten years as Principal of Ripon College - having previously undertaken parish work and the chaplaincy of Christ’s College, Cambridge - works on the sociology of religion; anyone who visits him in his study in the Deanery knows that he is unusually erudite, and not only because of the richness of his personal library, but also through the 19 understated breadth of his knowledge: one can quite genuinely pay him the more than merely customary compliment that he wears his learning lightly; and he is agreeably learned, as an Anglican priest ideally ought to be, and particularly a dean of Christ Church, the college – and the cathedral – of John Fell, one of the architects of the Restoration Settlement, and consequently and inspiringly of the spirit and the genius of the Church of England. I have no doubt that, just as Christopher Lewis persuaded me that he was already some time in office when I joined Christ Church, so new members of Governing Body have found the quiet authority of Martyn Percy equally persuasive. We wish him well in office, just as we wish Christopher well in retirement. And, a joy to relate, Dean Percy has a dog, a charming old wastrel called Pippa. One can always trust a dog man. 2014 was the centenary of that sound Christ Church anticlerical, and honorary DD, Hugh Trevor-Roper. An erstwhile graduate student of a notably eccentric Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Canon of Christ Church, Trevor-Roper did not complete his doctorate, but instead turned his thesis into the vastly entertaining and wittily incisive Archbishop Laud, 1573-1645 (1940), a volume that appeared as the young historian began his wartime career in Intelligence, where he worked alongside such Christ Church legends as Gilbert Ryle, A.J. Ayer, and Charles Stuart, united alike by their hostility to the clergy and their commitment to the life of the mind. The rest, as they say, is [H]istory. The accident of fortune, and the patronage of Sir Dick White (House man and subsequently head both of MI5 and MI6, respectively), led him to the enquiries which resulted in his classic study, The Last Days of Hitler. Trevor-Roper had come to Christ Church from Charterhouse as a classicist, and his study of Hitler and his court was written in the ironic tones of Tacitus, a great favourite of the sixteenth and seventeenth-century members of the Republic of Letters in whose company Trevor-Roper would subsequently come to spend many intellectually productive hours. Although, as everyone tiresomely remarks, Trevor-Roper never wrote the magnum opus he desired to produce, he was undoubtedly the greatest historical essayist since Macaulay; indeed, I would go further, and insist that he is a rather better historical essayist than Macaulay. If I were to nominate his best essay, and the one which most signally attests his deep humanity as well

20 as his literary and intellectual integrity and power, it would be ‘The Great Tew Circle’, which is to be found in Catholics, Anglicans, and Puritans: seventeenth-century essays (1987). Some people rather absurdly argue that historians of religion ought really to be believers; the example of Hugh Trevor-Roper demonstrates just how seriously wrong-headed (and all too often narrowly self-serving) that judgement is. As he himself observed in his recently-published Wartime Journals, ‘The reading of an ecclesiastical historian must inevitably include so many dry polemics, dull sermons, pious fables, and other trash, that he must be excused if his writing is seasoned with an occasional grain of levity or scepticism.’ The greatest quality of mind and disposition an historian can possibly possess is scepticism, and Trevor-Roper was, to his fingertips, a sceptic. Elsewhere, the young Trevor-Roper delivered himself of the following disquisition, which immediately appealed to me when I first heard it read - as a six-year-old, I had intuited that the then much- mooted ‘meaning of life’ (this was in that peculiarly heady year, 1969), was an utterly ridiculous and meaningless category, since life had no inherent meaning beyond what we individually chose to give it: we breathe and get on with it, and the rest is noise:

And then there was that moment in the summer of 1936, when, walking round the Christ Church Meadow, and pondering on the complicated subtleties of St Augustine’s metaphysical system, which I had long tried to take seriously, I suddenly realised that metaphysics are metaphysical, and having no premises to connect them with this world, need not detain us while we are denizens of it. And at once, like a balloon that has no moorings, I saw the whole metaphysical world rise and vanish out of sight in the upper air, where it rightly belongs; and I have neither seen it, nor felt its absence, since.

Was anything more genuinely profound or important ever thought through on such a constitutional around the very Meadow which Trevor-Roper would later do so much to save from a deadly combination of the Oxford City Council and bien pensant dons? Nor are such principles in any way incompatible with conformity to what Gibbon – Trevor-Roper’s hero, and mine – once described as ‘our dear

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Mamma the Church of England.’ Has ever anyone better described the unlikely history of the Church and its liturgy than Trevor-Roper, wrapped in thought during Evensong in Peterhouse chapel? Better, however, to read this letter in full – in the volume reviewed in the Annual Report by the first winner of the Dacre Prize, Rory Allan – than for me to paraphrase it, or else to quote it irresistibly in extenso. It was one of the great privileges of my life to get to know Hugh Trevor-Roper in his old age; he was generous to young scholars, and I learned much from him. What he demonstrated was that scholarship is an inter-generational enterprise, or it is nothing; the same is true of teaching: what is a college such as Christ Church but an inter- generational enterprise? It was, therefore, especially pleasing to see the mixture of young and old who attended the Dacre Day, organised by Blair Worden, Trevor-Roper’s literary executor, and fellow members of the Dacre Trust. One could hardly move in the Examination Schools on that memorable early January day, and this despite the fact that many had planned to come but were halted in their tracks by the heavy rains that had effectively cut London off from Oxford. Fortunately, this did not prevent Nigel Lawson, editor of the Spectator when the letters of ‘Mercurius’ were published in its pages, from answering a question on their authorship, elegantly and evasively. This answer was a fine instance of the characteristic sodality of Christ Church. The day ended with a roundtable discussion, in which I had the honour to participate, as did another erstwhile Christ Church member, Colin Kidd. Professor Kidd, of St Andrews and All Souls and saviour of the Union in 2014, gave the first lecture in a series of Dacre Lectures in Michaelmas term, of which I had the pleasure to give the penultimate lecture. No greater honour could possibly be given to a Christ Church History tutor. The Dacre Essay Prize for 2014 took an unusual form this year, in that it was won by a drawing: Ksenia Levina, a finalist in the History of Art, has been commissioned to paint a portrait of Hugh Trevor-Roper to mark his centenary year, the preparatory drawing for which richly merited the award of the Dacre Prize. (A photograph of the drawing can be found elsewhere in this number of the Annual Report). It is, characteristically, a drawing of great sensitivity, and Ms Levina thoroughly prepared for it by immersing herself in Dacre’s essays and his many published letters. How fitting that Dacre should be so wonderfully commemorated by a Christ Church art historian! Art

22 history, especially as pioneered by Jacob Burckhardt, was a field explored by Trevor-Roper to great effect. Portraits in Hall are now covered in sheets; indeed, Hall looks like an installation by Cristo. Death watch beetle has been active in the roof, and work has been continuing to put this right. A temporary collection of portraits, broadly conceived, by college members is now in place; a witty reversal of roles has been implemented over the portrait of Dean Drury: Twiggy would be highly amused. Elsewhere, a photograph of your editor was taken by our Physics tutor, Axel Kuhn; it currently hangs over a drawing of Darth Vader: is there something I should be told? (Yes, my instincts in that peculiarly daft series of films are entirely with the Empire). It is a bold and imaginative way of considering the Hall during this period of enforced postmodernism; personally, I have to confess that I infinitely prefer the result to the work of Sean Scully, although both exhibitions are the inspired ideas of Jacqueline Thalmann, who writes about the latter in her report on the Picture Gallery. Nor is such work exclusively concerned with the interior of college; due to the generosity of two old members, Martin Alderson Smith and Christopher Ainsley (both 1976), we now have a new Jubilee Bridge connecting the Meadow with the Liddell Building. A pretentious and generally illiterate adoption of the American mispronunciation of Liddell, by the way, is currently widely and regrettably infecting college: it must be stopped, immediately. Quite the most ridiculous excuse I have heard for its adoption is to prevent it being confused with the cheap and cheerful supermarket chain; such petty and unbecoming snobbery is totally inexcusable in an age of necessary austerity. As is customary in these editorials, I will close by noting the departure and the arrival of Senior Members of Christ Church. 2014 saw the retirement of Hugh Williamson, Regius Professor of Hebrew, and the recipient of an OBE in the New Year Honours List for 2015. Hugh was a splendid colleague, possessing an unusually sharp and precise mind, and a scholar of great personal integrity; I am not the only member of the college who will miss his bracingly acute conversational style and the conviviality of his company. Oxford’s loss is Suffolk’s gain; Professor Williamson lives not too far from Aldeburgh, the retirement home of Dean Lewis: perhaps Christ Church can open an East Anglian University of the Third Age. Beata Javorcik, one of our Economics tutors, was promoted to the Chair in International 23

Economics, which carries with it a fellowship at All Souls College. Jan Joosten, that rarest of beings, a Belgian Protestant, succeeded Hugh Williamson as Regius Professor of Hebrew; fittingly, Professor Joosten is also excellent company. We welcomed back to Christ Church an old member, Richard Barker, who now combines holding a chair at the Said Business School with the college’s tutorship in Management Studies. Our Fowler-Hamilton visiting fellows were respectively, Philip Stadter, professor of classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a specialist in Greek historiography, and Mark Wrathall, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, who works on Heidegger. Our annual quota of newly-elected Junior Research Fellows was constituted by Samuel Ferguson, a graduate of New College, in modern French literature; Ros Holmes, a graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, who is completing a doctorate at Oxford in modern Chinese art; Nils Kolling, who works in psychology; and Angkana Rüland, a graduate of Bonn University, in mathematics. Bihani Sarkar, late of St Hilda’s College, was appointed British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Sanskrit. David Orr, an authority on Augustine, is the new McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life. Sadly, towards the very end of last year Alexandra, Lady Harris, rang me to inform me of the death of her husband, Sir Henry Harris, FRS, Regius Professor of Medicine Emeritus. Sir Henry was one of the most learned, hospitable, witty, and incisively sharp-minded members of Christ Church. His erudition was stunning; he had not only read all three massive volumes of Jonathan Israel’s controversial study of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, but he expertly explained to me why he disagreed with Israel on many points. A graduate in modern languages of the University of Sydney, Sir Henry was a fine example of why the Americans might well be right to insist that all students of medicine graduate in another subject before pursing their medical studies. I do not wish to anticipate the appreciations of Sir Henry Harris given in this Annual Report, but I do wish to report how greatly I miss his civilised and civilising presence. For some sense of his immense achievements as a communicator as well as an experimentalist, I can only recommend a reading of his elegant Romanes lecture; the Romanes lectures are given only by the most distinguished of speakers – there was, however, an uncharacteristic lapse in a recent choice of lecturer, entirely due to politics – and Sir Henry Harris very fittingly 24 belonged in their company. T.H. Huxley gave a great Romanes lecture on evolution and ethics; Sir Henry Harris, a sceptically serious thinker about a great many issues, was a deserving successor. It falls to my successor to record the moving memorial event held late in March this year to mark Sir Henry’s contributions to medical science and the wider world (Dean Percy was not exaggerating when he emphasised his contribution to ‘humanity’), but I would like to thank, in addition to members of Sir Henry’s family, many members of the House: Sir Richard Gardner, who spoke with his usual eloquence, Peter Oppenheimer, who read beautifully in his native German (he is bilingual), and to Henry Mayr-Harting and Kevin McGerty, who made music, on the piano and cello, respectively. Music is integral to the identity of the House – as is clear in Stephen Darlington’s contribution below (and his modesty forbids him from mentioning that the account of the Eton Choirbook he and the choir recorded made the shortlist for the choral category in last year’s Gramophone awards); and I often think of Augustine’s wise comment, when I sit in the stalls during Matins or Evensong, that he who sings, prays twice. My successor as editor, Professor Mark Edwards, knows a great deal about Augustine – and is the most variously and deeply learned of all my colleagues in Christ Church – so more of such things anon. This is my last editorial of the Annual Report, and more than ever, I would like to thank Jackie Webber, without whose martyr-like patience and considerable powers of initiative, the annual appearance of the Annual Report would, quite simply, be impossible. That she combines this with a hugely demanding role as Tutorial Administrator, as well as annual appearances in pantomime and a busy role as a school governor, is quite humbling; her powers of organisation are such that I can only envy. The reason for my demitting as editor of the Annual Report is at once straightforward and genuinely daunting: I am due to start my stint as Junior Censor this summer; and thence to two years in the Senior Censorship. There is one great consolation when contemplating the many demands of that office: it was once held by John Locke, and also by Hugh Trevor-Roper. I will attempt to be properly worthy of such a succession, as is entirely suitable to the Charles Stuart Student and Tutor in Modern History. I close this editorial on the eve of the general election; my thoughts on the matter are akin to those noted in his Wartime Journals by the

25 young Trevor-Roper: ‘The Christ Church manner, that assumption of effortless superiority, is said to be galling to those who weren’t at Christ Church. But we can’t expect the world to be run for the benefit of those who weren’t at Christ Church.’ How true, sadly, but oh, for a worthy Prime Ministerial heir to the third marquess of Salisbury! Brian Young

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THE ARCHIVES

Use of the archive by researchers, both external and internal, continues to rise. The number of ‘productions’ (books, papers, volumes, etc.) increased by over 100% in 2013 and by another 50% in 2014. There was a particular rush of researchers very early in the year as those giving papers at the centenary Dacre Conference in January visited to use that large and important collection. Accessions have been varied and interesting. Old members are as generous as ever: among many gifts are early photographs of Christ Church purchased for the archive by Steven Joseph; Bruce Rosier donated a wonderful stoneware tobacco jar bearing the Christ Church arms, and ensured its safe delivery all the way from Australia; and Richard Hamer gave a washing set of bowl, pitcher, and jar from the days before running water in undergraduate rooms. Lady Chadwick is most kind in adding to the archives documents and anecdotes from the period of her husband’s deanery. st The anniversary of the outbreak of the 1 World War has been commemorated in new accessions presented by old members of the House. Letters written by Roger Draper (ChCh 1909) to his new wife just before his death at Gallipoli in 1915 were deposited through the agency of Robert, Lord Armstrong, and William Gladstone donated copies of his published transcript of Charles Gladstone’s diary from 1914 when he was serving with the ‘Old Contemptibles’. Even more clothing has come to the archive, including some early sports caps which were uncovered during renovation work in the pavilion, and a Boat Club blazer from the 1930s given by Ted Harrison, the son of Peter (ChCh 1931), who rowed for Christ Church. These items create new problems of preservation; the last thing we wish to do is introduce moths into the archive, so great care has to be taken to ensure that the garments are clean, boxed, and protected against bugs. The humble moth ball has become a new addition to the archivist’s arsenal! The wave of ‘born-digital’ records, whilst not quite at tsunami proportions, is definitely turning into a substantial roller. Most significant are the records of the continuing maintenance work on, seemingly, every building on site, and the records of services and events in the cathedral. In addition to the records which arrive in the archive in electronic form, the archivist has made a first step towards the 27 digitisation of some of our more important and well-used records. The Book of Evidences, which is a post-Restoration account of all Christ Church’s property, is currently being photographed and it is hoped that, with the advent of a ‘Document of the Month’ section on the archives page of the revamped college website (coming soon!), that more will follow. As ever, the archivist would like to thank all members of Christ Church for their support of the archive. Judith Curthoys

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THE CATHEDRAL

2014 has indeed been a busy year for Christ Church Cathedral. After nearly three years of careful planning, we were delighted to announce the launch of Christ Church Cathedral Music Trust at St James’s Palace in March this year in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen, Visitor of Christ Church, and His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh. The Cathedral Choir is set apart from all other collegiate and cathedral choirs in serving both an Oxford College and the diocese of Oxford. The aims of the Cathedral Music Trust are simple: to preserve, in perpetuity, a tradition of the best choral music at Christ Church; to increase scholarship funding for Choristers to ensure that affordability is no impediment to Christ Church attracting the best voices; and to support ancillary facilities and projects befitting a choir of such quality. At a time when many choirs across the country are under threat, Christ Church has made a strategic commitment permanently to guarantee the quality and standing of the Choir, as it is of fundamental importance to the College, the Cathedral, and the wider community. As 2014 marked the Centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, many of the events and services held at the Cathedral throughout the year explored themes of war, peace and commemoration; we reflected upon what relevance this tragedy might still have in contemporary society. In particular, we joined many churches and th Cathedrals across the country on the 4 August to mark the centenary with a vigil of music, readings and prayers. In January, Christ Church hosted a lecture series called ‘Oh What a Lovely War?’, organised by Oxford University’s McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics and Public Life in conjunction with the Cathedral. The reflection continued in March with a talk by the Iraqi Christian Aid partner, Sarjon Toma entitled Healing the Scars of War. Toma spoke about Christian Aid’s continuing work in Iraq and beyond, and discussed faith, hope, conflict and the role churches can play in building peace. Remembrancetide in November took on special significance in the light of this momentous anniversary and the service th on the 11 November was notably well-attended. Our voluntary choir, the Cathedral Singers of Christ Church, also joined in the First World War commemoration with their annual

29 summer concert entitled Remembrance,s which included works by Purcell, Part, Greene, Parry, Whitbourn, Tavener, Burgon and others. Education remains a strong focus of the Cathedral’s ministry providing good quality visits for Key Stages 2, 3 and 4 classes from local C of E Primary Schools. The visits tie in with the National Curriculum: ‘Cathedral Life’ (looking at how the Cathedral works as a community and as a place of worship), and ‘Pilgrimage’ (re-enacting a medieval visit to the Shrine). We are also delighted to offer ‘Grill a Canon’ sessions th alongside 6 Form Seminars. The increasingly popular After Eight services of informal evening worship, held during term-time in the Cathedral, continued. Themes this year included Conversations with Islam; Poetry, Place, Faith; A lifetime in moments and A Particular Place. The Lent course in 2014 was called Credo: Christian Belief in a Secular Age, and the themed summer lectures explored How to be an Anglican. The Cathedral saw a great deal of artistic activity throughout the year, beginning with the installation of The Thornflower, a sculpture by internationally renowned London-based artist Charlotte Mayer, in the Bell Chapel in April. This is the sculpture’s third residence in a Cathedral, having previously been displayed at Salisbury Cathedral in 2009, and at Southwark Cathedral in 2011. The sculpture represents what Charlotte describes as “an urgent wish to make a sculpture uniting opposing elements of thorns and flowers, and which would speak of reconciliation, peace and oneness”. A temporary installation of work by Rachel Williamson, inspired by the legend of Saint Frideswide, Oxford’s patron saint, was exhibited in the ‘Watching Loft’ for two weeks in July. Later in the year two hundred colourful figures, the work of pupils at Summer Fields School and Wolvercote Primary School, colonised the Shrine in association with an artist in residence, Edwina Bridgemen. The Rambert Ballet School once again brought their sacred ritual dance performance to the Cathedral over the summer, with a piece called Moving Visions. There were several changes to the Cathedral staff in 2014. In July we said goodbye to The Dean, the Very Revd Christopher Lewis, after eleven years of ministry at Christ Church, and in October we welcomed the Revd Canon Professor Martyn Percy as the new Dean. The Cathedral will also be appointing a new Lady Margaret Professor of

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Divinity in 2015, following the departure of Canon Pattison in 2013. Jessica Hallion, our Canon’s Verger and Sacristan, left Christ Church to take up the position of Head Verger at Portsmouth Cathedral. We also welcomed Miranda Hockliffe, who joined the Cathedral staff as Assistant Visitors’ Officer and Verger in August. As Cathedral to the Oxford diocese, we said goodbye to the Bishop of Oxford, the Right Revd John Pritchard, who retired in October after 7 years in post. The Bishop of Dorchester, the Right Revd Colin Fletcher will be Acting Bishop of Oxford for the duration of the vacancy. The Revd Canon Judy French was appointed as the first Archdeacon of Dorchester in June. In farewell, Bishop John preached at the Grand Day Out, an open air communion service on the Christ Church Meadow, to more than 2,500 members from the three counties of our diocese, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. His final service in the Cathedral was on 30 September followed by a reception in the Town Hall. The process of appointing a new bishop is underway, and we look forward to welcoming a new Bishop in 2015. John Briggs Cathedral Registrar

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THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR

Foreign tours are a regular feature of the Cathedral Choir’s programme and this year we were thrilled to give concerts in North America and Canada in March and April. We visited San Clemente, Los Angeles, Charlotte and Toronto. There were undoubted musical highlights in all these cities, including some ambitious outreach work, but I am sure the choristers would tell you that for them the high point was visiting Los Angeles and spending a week by the beach in San Clemente! Our grateful thanks go to Chris and Alison Rocker, Berenika Schmitz, Robert and Ann Ronus, and Rob Paterson, for their help in making this tour such a success. As for concerts closer to home, the choristers performed twice in the Sheldonian Theatre: first, as part of the continuing Britten celebrations in a performance by massed choirs of his Friday Afternoons, and secondly, with the Oxford Philomusica. There were also concerts in St John’s Smith Square as part of the Christmas Festival in which we have now become an annual fixture, the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and carol concerts at Le Manoir, and in the Cathedral for Music at Oxford. In the field of new music we repeated Francis Grier’s wonderful Missa Aedes Christi and sang Harrison Birtwistle’s Pange Lingua as part of the celebrations of his honorary DMus from the University of Oxford. Her Majesty The Queen’s decision to attend the formal launch of the Cathedral Music Trust at St James’s Palace was a powerful reminder of the extent to which this choir is valued beyond the confines of Christ Church. The evening was unforgettable for all those involved. In the field of recording, the choir’s latest release of music from the Eton Choirbook (Volume 3, AVIE AV2314) has been extremely well received. Courts of Heaven consists almost entirely of previously unrecorded Eton Choirbook works and proved to be another thrilling project for the choir. We also released a compilation of Christmas music on the Nimbus label (NI 7096) which attracted plaudits from the critics. As you can tell, the choir continues to be in good health. This is a special opportunity for me to thank not only the musical team of organists and singers, but also the Dean, Christopher Lewis, in his final year for his enthusiastic support of the Cathedral music during his tenure. Stephen Darlington

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The Very Revd Professor Martyn Percy – The Dean Christ Church Lodge – before and after the extensive renovations Professor Hugh Williamson, Regius Professor of Hebrew Emeritus The birdcage scaffolding needed to repair the Hall roof The opening of the Jubilee Bridge with Martin Alderson Smith (1976) and Christopher Ainsley (1976) “Lord Dacre” by Ksenia Levina, winner of the 2014 Dacre Prize Dean Lewis naming the new boat ‘Dean Lewis’

Cake made for Dean Lewis on his farewell to Christ Church Outgoing Editor of the Annual Report – Brian Young THE COLLEGE CHAPLAIN Looking back over 18 years

When it began, I had no idea that 2014 would be my last full year at Christ Church and that by December I would have been appointed as the Vicar of St Peter’s, Eaton Square, in London. I will leave with excitement for the challenge which lies ahead, and deep thankfulness for the 18 years we have spent at Christ Church. I cannot think that there are many other institutions which have both the resources and the commitment at every level to provide a learning and working environment which is so nurturing, and it has been a privilege to be part of an institution which seeks to enable learning at the highest level without losing sight of Christian principles and compassion. I have made pastoral care the heart of my work here and have my vocation to be constantly rewarding. Working with students and staff in times of challenge, stress and crisis, has been humbling and moving. Seeing people survive and overcome the challenges they have faced has been a source of constant joy, and I have been grateful to work as part of a wider team of welfare staff, tutors, friends, doctors and family who have enabled so many people to cope, overcome, and succeed. Over the last two decades a lot has changed in the Church in Britain, but although there may be fewer young people in our community who could articulate a clearly Christian faith, attendance at services has been remarkably consistent. The College Communion Service early on Sunday mornings was made up of about ten people in the first few years after I came and now it is never quite that small, with about 15 people normally attending, and a peak of over 20 just a couple of years ago. On Sunday evenings too, Cathedral Evensong with College Prayers can see a surprisingly large attendance of undergraduates and graduates, and many attend other churches in the city. My sense is that the church is slowly catching up with its own gospel, and that an inclusive, welcoming and generous spirituality is attractive and valued by people who may not have had a lot of formal church experience. My own academic and spiritual life has been nurtured by Christ Church, and I was grateful for the chance to undertake a Masters in Applied Theology, writing a 25,000 word dissertation about Dalit Christianity in India. From this grew the widely supported Saakshar School Appeal slum education charity which has been a wonderful 33 reminder of the need for education at every level, in every country. More recently Christ Church enabled me to train as a Psychodynamic Counsellor, which culminated in 2014 in an MSt dissertation on Counsellors’ work with overseas students. I have also been involved in the College and Cathedral’s wider presence as Website Editor, and photographed many aspects of college life, and I will leave an archive of photographs which will contribute to the new website being launched in 2015, and other publications. It will be hard to leave the institution which has been our home and my all-consuming life for 18 years, but I look forward to seeing many old members and friends in London, and hope to hear that Christ Church continues to flourish. I thank you for all you have shared with me and with our family since 1997. Ralph Williamson

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THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI OFFICE

The In perpetuity document has been the blue print for development over the last five years (and is now in the process of a re-write). It has uniquely focussed on delivering permanent solutions, primarily through endowment. The emphasis has shifted away from single, project-led campaigns towards an understanding of the financial requirements of the House as a whole, bridging the funding gap to deliver a gold standard experience in perpetuity. Fundraising was well supported in 2013-14, with a total of £4.3 million received in cash and pledges. Endowment gifts continue to make up the larger part of the total, which has been a feature of the In perpetuity plan. Very major gifts during the year included £0.5 million to endow the Sub Organist at the Cathedral and £310,000 from the Southdown Trust (the late John Wyatt (1957)). The Gaudy Year Telephone Campaign in January raised an impressive £168,000 in smaller gifts, primarily towards bursary and hardship support. This was particularly encouraging as it was supported by 58% of those who were contacted. Board of Benefactors gifts counted 23 new Members bringing the total to 287. There were also eleven additional Board Members repeating or increasing their contribution to the House. The cumulative figures now show that the amount given since 2007 is still well ahead of the straight line target of £65 million by 2023, as presented in the original document. Tutorial posts continue to be a major point of focus for endowment gifts. A legacy gift from Philip Cox (1938) has made a substantial contribution towards the House’s second geography post, covering the research work of Simon Dadson. Both this and Professor Judy Pallot’s post are now 2/3rds endowed, as is the Paul Kent Tutorial Fund. The exceptional generosity of Oliver (1995) and Chandler Evans, supported by a number of other classicists has made the full endowment of a second Classics post an attainable target. On the other side, the loss of at least one of the three English posts has left a major funding requirement in that subject. Support for House bursaries has continued, both through endowment gifts and the annual gaudy year telephone campaign. Most notably, the fund set up in memory of Chris Elliss (1981), and

35 supported by so many of his contemporaries has, by the end of year, reached just over £200,000, and therefore within a distance of achieving its target of £250,000. This money, though available to support any student in need, will focus on those who also offer a wider contribution to college life, through sport and other activities. The total bursary endowment, excluding the £6 million gift from Alex Beard towards our share of the Oxford Bursary Scheme, now stands at £1.9 million from a total of £2.75 targeted to meet all current needs for student support. The Jubilee Bridge was opened in June, thanks to the great support of geographers Martin Alderson-Smith and Christopher Ainsley (both 1976) who have covered the cost of its construction and, through endowment, its regular maintenance. A commemorative plaque will be put up when the renovation of the sports grounds is completed and the bridge is then available to provide access. The Boat Club Endowment Fund has made progress towards the £1.5 million target to celebrate its bicentenary in 2017 and offer a promise for the next 200 years. It aims for a ring-fenced annual income which will fully cover the boatman, coaching, travel and maintenance of the boathouse and equipment. The offer of a £ for £ matching gift from Alex Beard (1985) up to a total value of £800,000, has given this project a major boost and will hopefully encourage past and present members to support it generously. The Cathedral Music Trust was launched on March 4th 2014 at St James’s Palace and attended by Her Majesty the Queen. To date it has raised £1.3 million of the £9.5 million necessary to cover the cost of the Choir and enhance the scholarship levels of Cathedral school choristers. The Music Trust offers opportunities, individually or collectively, to endow choristers, music and choral scholars, lay clerks, tours and recordings. Legacies continue to be an important part of the development mix, with at least 12 new bequests made during the year. Alumni events were well supported during the year, the aim being to offer a varied programme of small events to attract members of all ages, with varied interests, with as broad a geographical spread as can sensibly be managed. Thus in addition to the two year group Gaudies (1982-86, and 1987- 90) Hall was also the venue for a ChCh/Old Etonian dinner in January th (continuing the series of Schools’ Dinners), the 50 Reunion dinner for members matriculating in 1964, Christopher and Rhona Lewis’ farewell 36 dinner and a splendid Christ Church Association Dinner and Concert by The English Concert. A successful Commemoration Ball was held at the House in June. The Alumni Chemists Affinity group, (Ch)^3 held a very successful summer event in the gardens, the annual Andrew Chamblin Memorial Organ Concert took place in June, and legators were treated to a lunch as members of the 1546 Society in September. Three Family programme occasions were also enjoyed by parents and students together. The Boat Club Society was as active as ever in 2014 despite Torpids being cancelled on account of extreme stream conditions. In addition to their three annual meetings, there was a Boat Race gathering, a BBQ and Pimm’s tent on the Saturday of Summer Eights, the usual Boat Club Society Dinner at the end of Trinity term, and drinks on the Saturday of Henley Royal Regatta. Numerous events were also held in London. The Chairman of the Christ Church Association, Nick Nops (1968), organised a fascinating tour of Lloyd’s of London followed by lunch; Nicholas Baatz, QC, (1973) hosted a drinks and canapés reception for lawyers at the Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln’s Inn Field to help fundraise for the Law Tutorial Fund at Christ Church; Luke Meynell (1983), sponsored the fifth Charles Stuart Society dinner, at Brook’s in St James’s Street, for those supporting the House’s History Tutorial posts; younger alumni members enjoyed a relaxed get together at a South London pub in October; and members were introduced to the new Dean at a reception at the City of London Club in November. In December your Year Rep’s met at the Savile Club, nearly 50 people joined the Christ Church coach at the Rugby Varsity match, and the annual St John’s, Smith Square Carol concert saw both the Cathedral Choir and Howard Goodall in fine form. As regards events further afield, Catherine Blaiklock (1981) kindly hosted another Norfolk lunch in May, and 100 members and family joined up for a splendid weekend in Northumberland with a visit to Alnwick Castle (with thanks to His Grace the Duke of Northumberland (1975)), followed by dinner, and a morning at Bamburgh Castle, followed by Sunday lunch. Members of the Development and Alumni Office also followed the Choir as they toured the West Coast of the USA, and Toronto; and then joined with many North American members at the Oxford

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Reunion in New York, where events included the Boat Race dinner, the Dean’s lunch, and the ever enjoyable Angler’s Club dinner. Of our two graduate assistants from 2013 Jacob Ward (2008) became a full time member of staff as a Development Officer, and Helen Popescu, who helped hugely with both the Boat Club project and the Cathedral Music Trust project, left to teach at Cheltenham Ladies College. We wish her well. Finally we would also like to thank all those members and Friends of Christ Church who have supported the House in other ways; notably through supporting events, giving of their time on committees, with careers advice (especially Tony Hart (1973) the Association Careers Rep.), or as Year Rep’s, and generally those who have shared their expertise, and good will for the benefit of the House. Marek Kwiatkowski Development Director

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THE LIBRARY

In the course of the past year, the Library staff undertook a survey of the views of current junior members on the Library, its furniture and its services. The results were very interesting, and as a result of the comments and suggestions we have introduced various changes. The Library now opens at 8am during term time, and we are actively investigating the possibilities of 24-hour opening during term. We have introduced a “clear desk” policy, whereby the reader tables are cleared every morning. Cubby holes have been created in which readers can store overnight books and papers which they will require the following day, with an up-to-date “please leave” form. Readers are now sent two courtesy notices (one three days before the due date, the second the day before the due date) reminding them of the need to return or renew books. These changes appear to have improved reader satisfaction levels. We are also looking at the use of space in the ground floor reading rooms and considering the furniture, which we know is less than ideal, having been designed at a time when the college was all-male and before the advent of laptop computers. As a result, many of today’s students are sitting at too low a level, typing notes with their wrists at potentially harmful angles! We hope that in the course of the coming year we will reach a design plan for the reading rooms which will lead the Library into the twenty-first century. In the Law Library, staff have conducted an audit of the section of text books and replaced many which were missing or outdated. After reviewing the journal subscriptions, more money has been made available to keep the collection of monographs relevant and up to date. The circulation statistics show a noticeable increase again in the number of books borrowed (25,004 in the academic year 2013/14, as compared with 20,386 in the previous year). This is chiefly the result of the changes in loan periods reported last year, coupled with the introduction of fines (25p per book per day) for overdue items. The increase in the number of loans is reflected in the numbers of books which have to be re-shelved each morning. The number of new books added to the catalogue was 1213 in 2013/14, a gratifying increase on the figure for the previous year (1039). The number of visiting scholars has remained consistent with that of previous years (after discounting the spike in numbers consulting our music collections, probably inspired by last year’s Music Study Day). 39

However, the number of visitors to the Upper Library continues to increase. Visitor numbers have been swollen by a number of printing workshops, led by Alan May and Martin Andrews, using a fully functioning “one-pull” press, built by Alan May for a programme commissioned by BBC4, The machine That Made Us. Exhibitions in the Upper Library have included Other worlds and imaginary beings (January-May 2014), which explored pagan and Christian imagery about monsters and ethereal beings, an exhibition of Archbishop Wake’s coins in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum (from October 2014), and a display of Alice Liddell’s sketches and watercolours, to coincide with Alice’s Day in July 2014. This last was made possible by the generosity of one of our old members, who purchased a number of lots from the 2001 Sotheby’s sale of the collection of Alice Hargreaves, née Liddell, the Dean’s daughter who inspired Charles Dodgson to write Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The collection had been on deposit at Christ Church for over twenty years until the family decided to sell it in 2001. Several of the most important lots had already been placed back on deposit in the library, but in June 2014 a further three lots arrived to join them. We are very pleased at the confidence thus shown in our custodianship of this important material, and at the generosity which allows us to display it and make it available to researchers. David Stumpp has continued the cataloguing of our early printed book collections. We are as ever grateful to Mr Robert Ronus and others for their generous support of this project. Dave continues to discover interesting and unique items on a regular basis, many of which are reported in the Library’s newsletter, which comes out each term, available in hard copy and also on the Library’s website. The Library statistics also reveal another massive rise in the number of photographic requests. In order to assist Dr Cristina Neagu in dealing with the large number of photographic orders, the Library has, since the summer of 2014, enjoyed the services of a photographic assistant, Alina Nachescu, half of the costs being met by the generosity of Mr Ronus. With Alina’s help, the photographic orders have been fulfilled more rapidly. The Library has joined efforts with the Bodleian Library in a new digitization project with the aim of opening up the rich repository of manuscripts and rare early printed books at Christ Church. Over the

40 course of the next few years, thousands of pages will be made freely available online to researchers and to the general public. To date, MS 92 (the treatise of Walter de Milemete, written for Edward III) has been digitised and is available on the website. Important music manuscripts (Mus. 979-983, the Baldwin part books) have just joined the website in digital form. The day to day work of the Library has continued through various changes of staffing. Our Graduate Trainee in 2013 was Lauran Richards, who has proved such an asset that we have subsequently continued her employment, giving her day release to study librarianship one day per week at UCL. Rachel Pilgrim, our Reader Services Librarian, returned to work part-time, job-sharing with Angela Edwards, but is currently on a second period of maternity leave. During her absence, her work is being covered by Lauran and Angela, with the addition of Elizabeth Piper as Library Assistant. 2014 has been a busy and demanding year. The small Library team has received considerable help from volunteers, some of them from the Cathedral, and we are immensely grateful to those who have given their time and energy to help us, particularly in supervising visitors to our exhibitions. Anna Clark Librarian

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THE PICTURE GALLERY

2014 brought a new Head of House with an immediate impact on the Picture Gallery – the clucking, crowing and calling of the chickens and guinea fowl surrounding the gallery from the Deanery has been replaced with the occasional gentle barks of a dog, called Pippa. A further change was the redesign of the new flower borders against the old wall in the ‘gallery garden’ and we look forward to their bloom in summer. Apart from that there have been no alterations in the day-to- day running. The gallery’s activities this year, as well as the preparations th for the forthcoming 250 anniversary of the Guise Bequest in 2015, continued with undiminished energy. The Picture Gallery’s exhibition programme in 2014 was even more varied than in previous years and included one of our most ambitious loan exhibitions so far. The shows in chronological order were: The Florentine Innocenti: Vincenzo Borghini and the Art Scene in Florence (23 October to 24 February 2014), examining the crucial role of Vincenzo Borghini, the prior of the Florentine Foundling Hospital (of whom we have a portrait in the gallery), in Florentine art matters. A small display entitled Drawing in Siena – from Sodoma to Salimbeni: Ten rarely-seen drawings from the Christ Church collection (5 February to 19 May) introduced Sienese draughtsmanship to a wider public and to our undergraduates in preparation for our first visit to Pignano (see below). The exhibition Inferno – Purgatory – Paradise: Geoff MacEwan interprets Dante’s Divine Comedy (12 March to 5 May) showed how Dante’s Divine Comedy still inspires artists, such as the British print-maker Geoff MacEwan, who displayed his visual interpretation of the text during the Oxford Literary Festival. The most sensational show was Sean Scully Encounters - A New Master among Old Masters (30 May to 31 August). It brought to Christ Church (and to Oxford) almost forty four works by the leading international abstract painter Sean Scully. The exhibition was not only extraordinary in its results and reviews, but also most enjoyable to curate; with my co-curator Kelly Grovier, a Christ Church alumnus and in close relationship with Sean Scully himself. The exhibition juxtaposed the paintings by this major contemporary artist with the sixteenth and seventeenth-century masterpieces in our collection. The precision of first choosing the works and then placing them, in order to

42 generate conversation between paintings, was even more important in the curation of this show, than it usually is. It was an unforgettable, eye-opening artistic encounter to see Annibale Carracci’s Butcher’s Shop next to Scully’s Dark Wall 5.06, or Jacopo Bassano’s Crowning of Thorns with Scully’s Abend. This dramatic and bold show was followed by a much gentler one: Goddesses - Designing Female Beauty in the Renaissance and Baroque (12 September to 23 December); an exhibition investigating artists’ quests in creating an idealised female beauty, worth of Venus, Diana and Juno. Mounts, Mats & Marks: How Collectors took Ownership of their Drawings (12 September to 2 February 2015) was a display that introduced visitors to the ‘archaeology of drawings’, with the aim to explain some of the clues which were left on the paper – be it by the artists themselves or by later collectors, clergymen, dealers, experts and librarians. We contributed again to national and international exhibitions with works from our collection. A drawing by Rosso Fiorentino, An ornamental panel with scenes illustrating Petrarch was lent to Pontormo e Rosso, Le divergenti vie della 'maniera' (8 March – 20 July 2014), Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. Two drawings (Lorenzo Costa, Christ in the House of Simon the Pharisee and Giorgio Vasari, Pope Leo X processing through Piazza Signoria) were shown at The National Gallery in London in the exhibition Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting (30 April to 21 September). Jacopo Ligozzi’s Dante surrounded by the Three Beasts travelled to Florence to Jacopo Ligozzi - A Painter Unique (27 May to 28 September 2014) at the Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti. And our beautiful, two-sided sheet with Studies for the Coronation of the Virgin by Paolo Veronese was in the exhibition: Paolo Veronese (5 July to 5 October 2014) at the Palazzo della Gran Guardia in Verona. We also had a large number of incoming loans this year. Above all we succeeded in borrowing eleven large paintings and thirty-three prints from Europe and America for Sean Scully Encounters: A New Master among Old Masters (30 May to 31 August). This constituted a feat that was only achieved with the generous support from Timothy Taylor Gallery and Sean Scully himself. A bronze bust of Albert Einstein by Jacob Epstein came on loan to the Picture Gallery from the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish

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Studies; the sculpted portrait looks as if it was made for the gallery and it will be difficult to let it go again, when the time comes. Geoff MacEwan offered us thirty of his prints for the exhibition Inferno – Purgatory – Paradise: Geoff MacEwan interprets Dante’s Divine Comedy (12 March to 5 May). Conservation is a constant item on curators’ minds, but in order not to repeat the mistakes of past centuries of over-cleaning, using damaging materials and fanciful retouching – decisions on how and when to intervene have become highly complex. For years we have been working on a comprehensive conservation plan which would cover our entire collection, much over 7,000 items. We engaged a number of colleagues and institutions for this task: Celia Bockmuehl, Ruth Bubb, Kate Colleran, Katrina Powell, Sara Stoll and Jevon Thistlewood have helped and advised in matters of conservation and Emma Dadson, Jane Eagan and Mark Norman also advised in regards to emergency planning, conservation and sustainability. We have spoken with conservators and curators from the Hamilton Kerr Institute in Cambridge, The Ashmolean Museum, The National Gallery in London, the Paper Consortium in Oxford and the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence. It is a subject that one thinks about and discuses at almost every encounter with colleagues, in the hope that the names of the best people in the field are secretly passed on, but also of those whom to avoid and not to entrust that irreplaceable Michelangelo drawing. The plan is almost finished and includes all the data we gathered over the last few years, such as our store room survey and decant in 2013. The latter also lead to a grant from the Disbursement Group and a number of paintings have been conservation-framed and hung in Lecture Rooms 1 and 2, among them the portraits of Sir Roy Harrod, Charles Moss, William James, Herbert Westphaling, and Milo Smith. Sara Stoll also re-framed Cornelius van Cleve’s Adoration of the Shepherds and a painting of the Last Supper by a Venetian artist, both on display in the gallery. The portrait of George Gilbert Murray (Regius Professor of Greek) by Francis Henry Newbery has been prepared to go on long-term loan to the Classics Faculty. In December we began a frame survey, carried out by Tim Newbery, who had just finished the conservation/restoration of Grinling Gibbons’ frame around the portrait of Elijah Ashmole in the

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Ashmolean Museum. And, as always, all loans listed above were carefully condition checked and conserved ready and safe for transport and display. At the beginning of the year we also had some staff changes, Donna Ho (Wood) is our new part-time PR assistant, taking over from Jennifer Hassan. Martina Vescera and Johanna Triffitt were new on the invigilation team, but both have left the gallery already – Johanna gave birth to a baby girl in December and the family have decided to emigrate to Canada and Martina returned to her native Italy. Ksenia Levina and Craig Simms have been our art history interns this year – Craig, stayed for the whole academic year. His enthusiasm, be it with Cinderella-like tasks of tidying up boxes of screws and stuffing envelopes or more cerebral work of writing display labels, was unfaltering. Grant Lewis was our summer intern. Grant had just finished his History of Art degree at Cambridge and gave experienced help with the identification and cataloguing of the photographs of the Aldrich prints. The days in the gallery are filled with all the above mentioned activities and also with the giving of talks, tours and lectures, answering queries and giving advice in art matters. It also means research on the collection and using the Picture Gallery to promote Christ Church, be it by hosting the College Art Group or an evening for the parents of the Cathedral School pupils. Or as a preparation for history and art history undergraduates who followed the generous invitation of Sir Michael Moritz to Pignano for a study week. A discussion between Gervase Rosser and me on Sienese (and Tuscan) art in front of our paintings and drawings was the ideal starting point for this unforgettable experience. The reading week in the Tuscan hills was interspersed with site visits – the ideal way of learning; not just looking at an image of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or reading about Galileo’s Leaning Tower of Pisa Experiment, but actually climbing or standing under it, has led to a deeper knowledge and understanding. There remain only three items to be reported. I spent an extraordinarily happy research month as a Curatorial Fellow at the Yale Centre for British Art in New Haven in autumn, working on General th Guise and 18 century collecting (all to be revealed in 2015). The portrait of the departing Dean, The Very Revd Dr Christopher Lewis, by Saied Dai, was hung in the Great Hall. And the transformation of Hall during the roof refurbishment into a ‘contemporary art space’ with 45 the most impressive sculptural scaffolding and with our Call for Portraits – thank you to all who responded. Jacqueline Thalmann (Curator of the Picture Gallery)

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THE STEWARD’S DEPARTMENT

2014 has been another hectic year with a very successful Special Interest weekend on Politics, Patronage and Prostitution: Evidence of Medieval Women and another very full summer conference season. Commercially, the college has continued to produce good results and tourist numbers increased slightly to 425,449 this year. Our tours and Mad Hatter’s tea parties continue to be immensely popular and we have a number of new offerings for 2015 including several new themed teas. Unfortunately, as I write the Great Hall is shrouded in a bird-cage scaffold to enable repairs to the beams so providing meals is a bit of a challenge! However, we hope to be back to normal by the end of Hilary term all being well. Our special interest weekend (16-19 April) 2015, was Jane Austen in Oxford. We had excellent speakers, including Professor Kathryn Sutherland (St Anne’s College, Oxford), and Professor Fiona Stafford (Somerville College, Oxford). To book a place(s) on one of our Mad Hatter’s or themed tea parties, then please go to the Christ Church website for further details and on-line booking: www.chch.ox.ac.uk or, if you prefer, please contact Emma Seward by telephone 01865 286848 or email: [email protected]. Emma will be delighted to take your booking over the telephone or to send you a copy of the details by post. In 2016 we will be offering a special interest weekend on William Shakespeare: The History Plays from page to stage (31 March – 3 th April) to mark the 400 anniversary of the Bard’s death. I am sure this will appeal to both history and literature enthusiasts. This year, has seen a number of comings and goings amongst the staff whose contribution to the life of Christ Church is so vital. Retirements this year have included: the Manciple, Jenny Gay; Custodians Alan Butler and Robert Evans; Assistant Hall Manager, Nooshin Vincent and Lodge Porter, Peter Green. We thank them all most warmly for their dedicated service to the House and we wish them long and happy retirements. We also said farewell to Relief Porter, Chris Cotton, Scouts Jesus Quintana, Justyna Gaidamovic and Lilija Damaseviciene. Having recently qualified as chefs, we say goodbye to two apprentices, Suthida Janthawong and Robert Eddington and to Sous Chef Tim Gills. We

47 thank them all for their personal contributions to the House and we wish them well in their future endeavours. Should you wish to book accommodation at the House during the Easter or summer vacations then please go to the Christ Church website www.chch.ox.ac.uk or contact Emma Seward or Haley Greenhough in the Conference office: [email protected] or telephone: 01865 286848. Pauline Linières-Hartley Steward

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THE TREASURY

Endowment performance The Endowment was valued at £372m as at 31 July 2014. This reflected a total return for the year of 10.2%. Performance in 2013/14 was supported by an increase in the property portfolio of over one-fifth mainly in the value of the rural portfolio. Christ Church’s direct property portfolio is held primarily for development over the medium term and a number of interesting opportunities to realise value in our commercial and rural portfolios are currently under consideration. In particular, we have received planning permission to develop 700 houses on farmland at Carterton. On a longer view, the compound annual return over the 10 years to July 2014 has been 8.0%, which is equivalent to UK RPI plus 4.8%. By comparison, US endowments valued at over US$1bn compounded at 8.3% albeit in a slightly lower inflationary environment. We spent a total of 4.0% of the endowment on direct and indirect management charges and costs and on contributing to the House’s annual costs (£9.9m in 2013/14). Following the portfolio review carried out by Lane, Clark & Peacock and the change of ownership of the Towers Watson Partners Fund referred to in previous reports, we decided to redeem our £75m investment in the fund, equivalent to 20% of the overall endowment. As about 15% of the fund is in illiquid investments, the process of finalising the redemption may take a number of years. In addition to a small investment in an emerging markets tracker to maintain our weighting, we have been gradually reinvesting the bulk of the redemption proceeds from TWP in a portfolio of the largest 100 stocks in the MSCI AW index by market capitalisation. However, rather than invest in the proportions dictated by market capitalisation, we have invested in an equally weighted portfolio so that at the outset we have 1% of the portfolio in each of 100 shares. This portfolio is rebalanced annually. Historic analysis indicates that the implicit bias to lower market capitalisation companies provides a small amount of outperformance with a similar degree of volatility. We own the shares directly giving us the ability to adjust investment parameters as we think fit and the portfolio is administered by a custodian at a very competitive cost.

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During the year Zynga, a games company, made a £317m recommended takeover offer for NaturalMotion, an Oxford University spinout company, which produces among other things the successful ‘CSR’ and ‘Clumsy Ninja’ games. Christ Church invested £107k in NaturalMotion in 2002 and received £1.9m for our shares. We continue to look for interesting one-off investment opportunities where we see the prospect of long term capital gain allied to attractive yields. During the year, we increased our exposure to Long Harbour’s private rented sector fund with an additional £10m subscription to support the purchase of a block of flats in Stratford East.

Income and expenditure Christ Church seeks to operate on a broadly break-even basis although we continue to target an annual surplus of around £0.5m a year to reduce the interest bearing loan from the endowment to college which currently totals about £3m. Although we have been extremely successful in developing healthy and profitable conference and tourism activities, these have reached maturity with income expected, at best, to rise in line with inflation. Income from fees has risen as a result of the increase in student fees to £9,000 a year. However, a considerable part of the increase goes to the university not least to support generous bursary provision for children from disadvantaged families. Moreover, it seems unlikely that future governments will allow fees to keep up with inflation and there may even be a reduction in fees which is unlikely to be recompensed in full from other government sources. This means that Christ Church will be increasingly reliant on the support provided by the endowment, which is projected to increase to over 50% of our operating income over the next five years.

Buildings We had an exceptionally busy year looking after our buildings. We spent £4.7m, of which £3.7m related to specific building projects as opposed to staff, routine maintenance and reactive repair. We completed the refurbishment of the Sportsground Pavilion, the upgrading of the Undercroft bar and the modernisation of the Porter’s Lodge. The latter project involved fascinating (and expensive) archaeological discoveries relating to the timber. It is clear that the 50 lodge was completed by Wolsey and may even have originally formed part of a magnificent canonry before being converted to its present use. Of even greater significance, as the year drew to a close, one Saturday morning in July the cleaning staff found a pile of dust on the tables in the Hall. On further inspection it became clear that a purlin, a 20 ft long oak roof timber bearing a two tonne load, had slipped and only by a handsbreadth of sound timber, which caught on a cross beam, had it not crashed 40 ft to the floor. As I write we are still in the process of repairing the roof and a full description of its condition and the repairs we are effecting will be included in the next Annual Review. Suffice it to say that the expenditure was not budgeted! On a more positive note, the magnificent Jubilee Bridge was lowered safely into place across the Cherwell and opened with much fanfare in June. It is now in daily use by Christ Church undergraduates and children from the Cathedral school as they make their way to the Sportsground or the university pool. None of this work could be completed without the tremendous commitment of my colleagues in the Treasury including the Clerk of Works team and the Gardening team. In particular we said goodbye to Tony Morris who retired as Clerk of Works at the end of July. Tony had worked at Christ Church for 28 years and had been Clerk of Works for 19 of those. I would also like to thank Christopher Lewis for his unstinting support in my time at Christ Church not least for shepherding the enormously time consuming Blue Boar refurbishment project to successful completion. James Lawrie Treasurer

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TUTOR FOR ADMISSIONS

Applications were up to nine hundred and eight from the previous year’s six hundred and eighty two, a substantial uptick indeed. Applications practically doubled from our target access regions (Norfolk, Suffolk, and the London Borough of Barnet). For this we owe thanks in no small part to Hannah Wilbourne, our recently hired Access and Outreach Officer. Hannah has been working tirelessly to inspire students to apply to Oxford, and has been especially keen to emphasise the college’s commitment to attracting academic talent and potential no matter where it comes from. Our IntoUniversity initiative, in partnership with Oxford University, is up and running in Blackbird Leys in the South East of Oxford. This is a local learning centre that inspires young people through tutoring and mentoring to do well in school and apply for higher education. A number of our undergraduates are volunteering at the centre on a regular basis, as well as hosting students when they visit the college for “graduation ceremonies”, GCSE preparation days, and other learning programmes. It is a privilege and a pleasure working with this ambitious charity. We are grateful to Anthony Ling (1984) for his generous support to make our participation possible. We ran the first ever “Application Preparation Day” in early October just before applications were due, and it was very well attended. The day would not have been possible without the generous help of the college’s wonderful group of Junior Research Fellows, who kindly offered guidance and advice on interviews and other allegedly horrifying aspects of the admissions process. We targeted schools that do not have established training schemes for demystifying Oxbridge admissions (though the day was open to anyone interested). With several other access initiatives in the works – for examples, a PPE day to encourage young women to apply to the degree, and a seminar series on social mobility – the access and outreach side of the admissions office is charging ahead at full speed. As for the admissions exercise itself, it ran rather smoothly this year, I am pleased (and relieved!) to report. We have fifty or so undergraduate “ambassadors” who help us run things during this supremely hectic two week period, without whom we would be

52 defeated. And of course our seasoned administrator Sally Boardman held it all together with characteristic fortitude. Joseph K. Schear Tutor for Admissions

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TUTOR FOR GRADUATES

In last year’s report, I described the efforts of my predecessor in this role, John Thanassoulis, to secure funding to support postgraduate studies at Christ Church, and celebrated the success of the securing of several graduate scholarships, thanks both to generous support from donors and to the hard work of the Development Office. This year, I am pleased to add another scholarship to this list: the Stone Music Scholarship, which will support a D.Phil. student for three years’ study at Christ Church. This will enable us to fund one of the most highly gifted doctoral students, as identified by my colleagues in the Faculty of Music every three years, and will bolster Christ Church’s already formidable reputation for fostering and showcasing the considerable musical gifts of many of its junior members. An alliance of this kind with our near neighbour in Oxford, the Faculty of Music, is a very natural development for us, as we are able to offer accommodation close to its buildings. So yet again I am pleased to use the opportunity of writing for this Report to record my profound gratitude to my colleagues in Development, in addition to thanking publicly Mr. Stone himself. The fact that the reporting year for this publication is the calendar, rather than the academic, year affords the not unpleasing opportunity for narrative cliffhangers. Last time, I referred briefly to the pleasure of conducting Dean’s Collections for postgraduates, which happens every Hilary Term. This is an invaluable opportunity to gain an aerial view of the various kinds of advanced research being conducted by junior members of the college. A largely pleasant and untroubled way of monitoring academic progress, as well as providing an important and relatively informal opportunity for postgraduates to voice concerns about their studies or living circumstances, it also gives one humbling insights into the calibre of research being conducted here across all the disciplines, and by students from as wide a social and international range as one could wish to encounter. It also serves as a stark and most welcome challenge to pessimistic and deterministic narratives in the media about the lack of employment opportunities for young people, about apathy and lack of initiative. It is a privilege to see how resourcefully individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, countries and educational institutions negotiate this phase of life, given all the academic and personal difficulties that can arise when the cultural 54 scripts that, regardless of individual circumstances, support so many of us from the ages of 5-21 run out, and have to be reconsidered, updated, or rewritten altogether. As ever, I am warmly grateful to Miss Melanie Radburn for her hard work with our postgraduates, for her institutional memory (a truly invaluable quality in an administrator) and for her wisdom when assisting me with the various duties associated with this post. Mishtooni Bose Tutor for Graduates

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GRADUATE COMMON ROOM

Despite the fact that the Christ Church Graduate Common Room (GCR) is so deeply rooted in many of our hearts, it has thus far had a relatively short lifespan. In a place like Oxford, approaching half a century in age means that the GCR has only begun to navigate its way th out of childhood. Following the celebration of the 90 birthday of Dr Paul Kent in 2013, the GCR was given a chance to reflect on its origins. At the time when Dr Kent founded the GCR, having a separate common room for graduates was not common at all (the GCR is the second-oldest graduate common room). As there previously existed no naming convention, we were named ‘Graduate Common Room’, while the more familiar name of ‘Middle Common Room’ (MCR) only became convention later on. Paul Kent’s visionary work was commemorated in the summer of 2013 with the unveiling of his portrait in the Les Jones Room, where he now resides, overlooking his successors. Moreover, to this day the oddity in our name remains and exemplifies that the GCR and its members are a little bit different than other MCRs. Housed in the rooms that were once inhabited by both Albert Einstein and Lewis Carroll, our GCR provides a home and social environment for our comparatively small graduate community. Unlike the JCR, however, many students stay only for a year and come from very international and diverse backgrounds. Therefore, having an open and accessible community away from stereotypes was the top priority when Josephine Rendall-Neal (Secretary), Franz Rembart (Treasurer), and I took over as GCR executives in 2014. Much of the work of the executive committee goes on behind the scenes, which is why our predecessors have put much work into streamlining various processes. The GCR has fully formalised the criteria for those who wish to become Associate Members (mostly used by partners of ordinary members and visiting students), and instead of deciding on membership during an Ordinary General Meeting (OGM), this is now taken care of by a separate committee. Being open to Associate Members plays an important role in the GCR, which we have now underlined with the introduction of special ‘Christ Church Associate Member’ status, allowing access to college and the dining hall for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The GCR has also just created a Charities Subcommittee, which, similar to the larger Christ Church 56

Grants Committee, carries out the necessary research and due diligence required to make sure that the charities that we donate money to are in line with our visions for creating small, but lasting, changes in the world. In terms of more visible changes, our goals of creating a friendly, close-knit and lively environment were actively supported by the whole GCR committee. This year, we coordinated to organise Freshers’ events over the course of three weeks rather than one, which gave new arrivals a longer, less pressurised period to settle into the GCR. The committee also worked hard to rebuild enthusiasm for GCR events and community, through social exchanges with other colleges, cake nights, welfare teas, trips to plays and concerts, as well as through the continuation of the famous Champagne Sundays. We also introduced some new events that proved very popular, such as blind Scotch whisky tastings, Port and Prosecco nights, Exotic Fruit night, and an annual Eurovision gathering. We discovered that strong bonds within the GCR committee translate into strong bonds throughout the larger GCR body, and we hope that our community will continue to grow warmer and more welcoming over the years. This year, a ‘House Family’ system was introduced to help our newcomers adjust to life in college and in Oxford. Freshers were paired with volunteering GCR members who offer support and friendship, much like the JCR college families. We also began to foster stronger links with the JCR, through joint events as well as through better communication and coordination amongst committee members. The GCR now has a Photography and Social Media Representative – to better document our events through pictures and to increase our online presence through social media, as well as a Senior Common Room Liaison Officer – to facilitate the organisation of joint events with the SCR through intellectual and social exchanges. In the words of Lao Tzu, ‘If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.’ In an ever-changing world of boundless new ideas and opportunities, we aim to improve ourselves as a community through constant change, with a similar unconfirmed, yet exciting, vision as that of Paul Kent at the time of the GCR’s founding. With a bright future ahead and a lot more to come in 2015, I look forward to continuing to be a part of the GCR community at Christ Church. Erfan Soliman, GCR President 57

JUNIOR COMMON ROOM

It’s safe to say that 2014 was a year of change and excitement for Christ Church, and I feel greatly privileged to have been a part of this, especially since I took over from Chris Hutchinson as JCR President in June. I am so grateful to the JCR Committee for their staunch support and commitment to doing their jobs so well. This past year was incredibly busy and I hope you enjoy this brief round up of the JCR’s 2014 highlights. st On Saturday 1 March we had the pleasure of welcoming members of our sister college, Trinity Cambridge, for the now annual Trinity Exchange. Nearly 100 Tabs braved the three hour coach journey to take our age-old rivalry to the sports field, with matches between our respective rugby, netball, lacrosse and football teams. Our dean, The Very Reverend Christopher Lewis, played a leading role in proceedings; he was our decisive team member in the traditional tug of war and kindly presented the trophies for the day, including one in his honour, the Christopher Lewis trophy for Sportsperson of the Exchange, which went to Christ Church fresher and lacrosse maestro Kathryn Gamble. As evening set in we swapped the orange quarters for a delicious formal in hall and social in the JCR, and, thanks to the wonderful hospitality of the Christ Church students, and perhaps a helping hand from the Buttery, bridges were built and rivalry turned seamlessly into friendship. It was a great day and we are already excited to head over to Cambridge next March. Without a doubt, however, the high point of the year was the st Commemoration Ball, which took place on Saturday 21 June. The ball committee, which was made up predominately of JCR members and lead by president Anna Hughes (a second year musician), had worked incredibly hard for a year to plan this huge event, and their efforts were not wasted; it was indisputably the Oxford ball of the year. We were delighted to welcome back many alumni to the ball, and even more delighted to see certain members of the class of ’82 still making the most of the silent disco at 5am. Fortunately, the weather was perfect, and the ball opened with a champagne reception in Tom Quad with a phenomenal firework display at dusk, set to a ‘Best of British’ soundtrack arranged by second year musician Jake Downs in line with the ball’s ‘English Eccentrics’ theme. The college was transformed to host the ball, with the Master’s Garden housing the main musical stage, 58 where Laura Mvula headlined. It was a truly unforgettable event for everyone who attended, and I would like to thank everybody who was involved with its organisation for their mammoth effort, and college for continuing to allow this event to go on! The ball also provided a lovely way to say goodbye to Reverend Lewis, who had announced his retirement in February after eleven years at the house. He is much missed, and will continue to be, but the new dean, the Very Reverend Professor Martyn Percy, whom we welcomed in Michaelmas with a dinner attended by staff, JCR and GCR members, has settled in extremely quickly and won himself many supporters among the JCR by offering students the chance to walk his lovely dog, Pippa, if they so desire; a great method of stress-release indeed! Dean Percy wasn’t the only new house member who arrived in Michaelmas; as ever, we welcomed a new cohort of first years. One aspect of my role that I’ve loved is getting to know the new freshers, and so far they’ve shown themselves to be a fantastic year. They have thrown themselves into all areas of college and university life, including several people running for JCR committee roles in their first term, and our sports teams have never been better populated. It’s great to have such an engaged and enthusiastic first year who have really breathed an extra spurt of energy into college life. A new addition to the Freshers’ Week programme this year were sexual consent workshops. These were nd th facilitated by volunteers from our 2 -4 year members, who were trained to do this by the OUSU Women’s Officer, and the sessions were intended as discussion-opening conversations about issues of consent. The feedback from the freshers about their experience of the workshops was immensely positive and they will now be an element of Freshers’ Week every year, which is something I am personally very proud of us for. In both college and university life, Christ Church students continue to be heavily involved, and many members are making names for themselves in university-wide extra-curricular activities. A group of our freshers put on an excellent devised piece of drama for the Freshers’ Drama Cuppers competition in November, and our sports teams have enjoyed success across the board. Torpids was unfortunately cancelled due to tropical-storm level rainfall over Christmas and Hilary, but our rowers were back with a bang in Summer Eights, with our Womens 1 crew widely considered to have been the fastest women on the river. 59

One aspect of extra-curricular involvement we’re really pleased with is the continuing success of our Ambassadors scheme. Thanks to the efforts of our excellent Access and Academic Affairs Officers Lindsey Cullen and Fran D’Argenio, in 2014 the scheme has grown and grown, and we have a huge number of students from different year groups and disciplines regularly volunteering their time to give tours, talks, Q and As and much more to visiting school pupils. It makes me very proud that so many JCR members are willing to take time out of their busy schedules to work towards inspiring people to apply to Christ Church, as well as debunking some of the myths that surround Oxford and our college in particular, and it’s lovely to hear the wonderful words students giving tours often speak about their experience here. Lindsey and Fran also did a brilliant job organising the admissions period, where again the enthusiasm of student helpers and candidates alike was a delight to see. It is wonderful how many students are involved with college life in some form – it truly contributes to making life at Christ Church the pleasure it is and should be, and no doubt all the events we’ve been lucky enough to have this year – not just the ball but the guest dinners, the concerts, the exhibitions – have played a large part in this. As I am sure everyone reading this remembers, it is easy to become complacent about Christ Church, so writing this has been a great reminder of just how privileged every JCR member and I are to be part of this institution. Here’s to 2015. Thank you for reading, Louise Revell JCR President, 2014-15

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THE CHRISTOPHER TOWER POETRY PRIZE

The 2014 theme of News was judged by poets Olivia McCannon and Kei Miller, along with Peter McDonald. They considered 630 entries from British schools and colleges.

The 2014 winner was Dominic Hand of Magdalen College School Oxford, with his entry entitled ‘Annunciation’, based on a work by the nineteenth-century artist George Hitchcock. The runners-up were Sam Buckton, of Rudolf Steiner School, Hertfordshire, and Masha Voyles from Charterhouse, Surrey.

ANNUNCIATION after George Hitchcock, 1887

On the brink of a late- nineteenth century twilight, this girl is still at the edge of the lake. See how silently she gathers each stem – the wavering rows like a passage of time – as between the layers of lilies like a veil, her agitated movements go unseen.

The water is hard in the milky light, taut as her dress in the labouring wind. And behind her the deserted fields recede into an empty sky. This is the way we enter in: threading back down to the horizon, back to before the birth of god.

Eyes closed, she does not know that a bud has slipped from out of her grasp. How, in an instant, like a bead of glass, it will break the surface of the upturned sky. And, like a wing unfurling, the world will loosen into beauty.

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Here it will set the seed of sorrow at the heart. Here at the quiet centre of each minute, she holds the lilies in her pure white frame.

So she waits with patience for the aftersong of silence, forever as the world becomes undone.

th The 9 Tower Poetry Summer School was held in August, when 13 students spent three days in poetry workshops with the poets Jane Griffiths and David Wheatley. In the evenings, poetry readings and talks were given by Jane Draycott and Mishtooni Bose.

Copies of the 2014 booklet of winning poems, as well as all our publications, are available from the Christopher Tower Poetry Prize office. Full details of Tower activities are to be found on our website, http://towerpoetry.org.uk.

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SPORTS CLUBS

FLOORBALL For this past year, the Oxford University Floorball Team (for which I play defender) placed sixth overall in the national tournament for the UK. (For those of you who are unfamiliar with Floorball, it's essentially ice hockey in a gym, with no skates and a ball instead of a puck.) Our team plays in the highest division in the UK against other universities and local club teams, and went past a number of more experienced teams to qualify for the tournament and then to reach the quarterfinals. Oxford narrowly missed out on making it to the semi-finals, but nevertheless enjoyed a successful season and gave much to build on for coming years. Matthew Thomas

MIXED HOCKEY The newly re-founded Christ Church hockey team has had fantastic calendar year. For a team that only played its first match in Trinity 2014, and so entered the inter-college league system in Division 4, achieving promotion to Division 3 in the following Michaelmas term reflected the enthusiasm and commitment that the players have put into the sport. Admittedly, the most common path to victory so far has been by means of walkovers, as other colleges have struggled to get out teams. In contrast, the House managed to have a match-day squad of twenty-two players for one game, which, I am told, is a figure without precedent in Division 4. A few of the team’s standout performers this year have been Rowan Callinan, Aine Donnelly, Kieran Vaghela and Freddy Bruce, and they, as well as the rest of the team, look forward to another successful year ahead. William Vaudry

MIXED LACROSSE Christ Church mixed lacrosse has had a very successful season this year. In the annual Cuppers tournament, which took place in Trinity term, we reached the semi-finals, sadly to be defeated by New College.

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Michaelmas brought with it an injection of first year talent to the team and we were undefeated in all of our weekly matches against rival colleges in Michaelmas. Hilary will bring the Trinity Exchange match against Cambridge, and in Trinity we are hoping to go one step further than we did this year and make the final. It’s looking promising! Imogen Green & Kathryn Gamble

NETBALL Throughout 2014 the Christ Church Netball team has maintained a good position in division 2. In Hilary 2014, the team won the majority of their weekly inter-college matches, which resulted in finishing in the top half of the division by the end of the term. The annual cuppers tournament took place in Trinity 2014 and was a day of mixed success. Although one player down for the majority of the day, the netball team persevered and was able to gain some points. Unfortunately in 2014 we did not move through into the final rounds of the tournament. Building on our success from Hilary 2014, Michaelmas 2014 was a very successful term for the netball team. With a brand new kit and a new intake of enthusiastic first year students, the netball team was bigger and more motivated than ever. This motivation translated into our weekly matches in which we achieved some big wins throughout the term. By the end of Michaelmas the Christ Church netball team was in the top three of division 2, only a couple of points behind the number one team of the division.

ROWING On returning to Oxford in early January we were met with widespread flooding and a training camp which saw not a single outing on the water. This trend continued throughout the term, meaning the Men’s and Women’s 1st Eights had to travel to Dorney Lake at the weekends to get some water time, and eventually resulted in the cancellation of Torpids. After a dry Easter vacation, finally the river levels fell and at the start of Trinity the 2nd and 3rd Eights were back out on the water. Eights week came and yielded mixed results. The Men’s 1st Eight down one to third, despite coming very close to Pembroke on two days. The Men’s 2nds down three and the Men’s 3rds down one. The Women’s 1st Eight, bumped Balliol on day 1 and rowed well to hold the fast starting

64 crew behind to hold 6th on the river. The Women’s 2nds down three, similar to the men and the Women’s 3rds even. Christmas came very early for the women’s squad with a brand new Filippi. The boat was christened at the end of Trinity Term 2014 and named after the departing Dean, Christopher Lewis. The current academic year started well, with great recruitment and history for the boat blub with the Men’s Novice ‘A’ boat winning Christ Church Regatta. The women also put in a great performance but were unlucky to be knocked out by the eventual winners Regents Park in the quarter finals. Overall a mixed year, but definitely ending on a high, and with great performances throughout. Hopefully a sign of good things to come. James McCormick President, Christ Church Boat Club

RUGBY It would be fair to say that rugby entered 2014 with high hopes, having come a close second in the first division in Michaelmas. Unfortunately the team was unable to replicate the stellar performances of the previous term, having to forfeit some matches and losing others. The result of this change of fortunes was relegation from the first division, an outcome which certainly did not reflect the quality of the squad. The term ended with a close quarter final loss to the eventual cuppers winners St Anne’s and St John’s. Trinity term saw the departure a number of key players from the club, including two captains and all the players from seven to twelve. This exodus meant that, come Michaelmas 2014, the rugby club was heavily dependent on a strong fresher influx. Fortunately the first-years more than delivered, with almost fifteen joining the club. Riding the wave of this enthusiasm, Queens and Lincoln were quickly dismissed in the first matches of the new season, although the team suffered several injuries to key players during these games. The season unfortunately did not continue to go so easily, with hard-fought but decisive losses leaving the team in the middle of the table for the end of the first round of league matches. A good break over Christmas, and more time spent training and playing together, however, meant that the club entered 2015 on a clear upward trajectory. The combination of a very

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ND TH VISIT TO BORGO PIGNANO 22 -27 MARCH 2014 by Christ Church Historians and Art Historians

21 undergraduates reading History and Art History travelled to Borgo Pignano and had a stimulating and successful visit. They were accompanied by five senior members: David Hine, Katya Andreyev, Brian Young, Rowena Archer (lecturer in Medieval History) and Jacqueline Thalmann (Curator of the Picture Gallery). Historians take a paper called ‘Disciplines of History’ in the FHS. It is taught during the second and third year and undergraduates discuss a wide range of historical approaches, methods and sources. We thought that a visit to Italy should focus on the kinds of issues which they would discuss for this paper and tried to integrate questions of Italian history, culture and thought. The undergraduates were given a reading list in mid-Hilary, which included general works of Italian history, Siena and Tuscany, as well as more specific reading on Art History, and work by Machiavelli which were to be discussed. Also Jacqueline Thalmann gave a talk in the Picture Gallery in order to look at Sienese art. We flew to Pisa, and the undergraduates had a couple of hours in Central Pisa so that they could look at the Duomo, Baptistry, Camposanto (the cemetry) and they could go up the leaning tower if they so wished (I am not aware that anyone actually did so.) We then went by coach to Pignano. On Sunday, we began with a lecture from Rowena Archer on medieval Italy in order to provide a background to many of the things we were going to see. David Hine followed this by a talk on modern Italy, in which he emphasised the radical politics of Siena and Tuscany and raised the question as to how far modern local identity had its roots in the medieval city states. In the afternoon Brian Young led a seminar discussion on Machiavelli’s The Prince. The question of bad government was also raised as this was a theme of the fresco: the Allegory of Good and Bad Government by Lorenzetti in the Palazzo Publico which we were due to see next day. On Monday, we spent a lot of time looking at this fresco and some of the other work in the Palazzo Publico – and our discussions began with presentations on various works of art prepared by the art historians. In the afternoon we looked at the Duomo. On Tuesday we went to Volterra, which is the local town to Pignano. This had been a very important centre for trade

67 and there were Etruscan and Roman remains as well as medieval and renaissance buildings. In the afternoon we held the second session of the discussion of Good and Bad Government in Machiavelli as portrayed in his Discourses. On Wednesday we returned to Siena to look at the Maesta in the Opera. From Siena we went to San Gimigiano, a hill town with impressive towers and views as well as a Duomo and Museum. On Thursday we flew back to the UK. The trip was successful in introducing some people who had never previously visited Italy to Italian history, culture and history of art. Others deepened their understanding of these subjects. We also produced a good balance between getting a general impression and studying certain works in greater depth. I was delighted with the interaction between the undergraduates, and it was very pleasing to know that not only David Hine thought that we had an exceptionally nice group of students but also that the Italian staff at Pignano were very impressed by their behaviour. The undergraduates had been very excited by the prospect of a trip to Italy. They all enjoyed themselves and found it historically interesting and culturally valuable. The trip was further enhanced by the exceptionally comfortable accommodation at Pignano and the truly excellent food that we had there. We were very fortunate to have David Hine with us. Not only was he an Italian speaker and dealt with questions such as the hire of buses and minibuses, but he had been to Pignano and was keen that the trip should be a success. The position of Pignano and the lack of public transport means that mini-buses or cars would always need to be hired. If a group lacked an Italian speaker, then I would hope that the staff at Pignano would be able to help with this aspect of the trip. We are very grateful to have been given the opportunity of taking a group of undergraduates to Pignano. Michael Moritz’s generous hospitality was greatly appreciated as well as the support we received from Christ Church. The trip was most enjoyable and very worthwhile and benefitted all those who came. Katya Andreyev

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ONE HUNDRED LETTERS FROM HUGH TREVOR-ROPER REVIEW:

‘Never apologise for long letters: I love them…It is very sad that so few people write long letters now: the telephone and the motor-car have killed them by removing the need for them: one sees one another, or talks to one another, so much more. And yet it is such a pleasure to receive genuine letters. I even like writing them. I think it is a good thing to write them. If one never writes real letters one can never acquire the art of expressing one’s self; and at times it is such a relief to do so’. Writing to his stepson, James Howard-Johnston, in 1960, Hugh Trevor-Roper articulates the animating sentiment that is at the heart of this collection of one hundred letters – chosen from thousands that he composed – selected for publication at the time of his centenary. The art of expressing one’s self was one at which Trevor-Roper was an undoubted master; these letters, as with his historical prose, pullulate with his visual imagination which inform the set piece metaphors that coat each composition with a literary gloss that both delights and enlivens the reader. And yet despite the craft that clearly went into the writing of them, these letters were essentially private correspondences. ‘Who of us,’ he asks his future biographer in one letter, ‘would wish to be judged by our private letters, in which one is licensed to be frivolous and irresponsible?’ Both frivolity and irresponsibility are some of the most delicious aspects of this collection, but as Trevor-Roper makes clear to his stepson, his letters were also something more. These correspondences are self-consciously an attempt to participate in a contemporary ‘Republic of Letters’ (a favourite phrase of Trevor- Roper’s, who would insistently ask in the last few weeks of his life what news came from that cosmopolitan world); to consecrate in writing the ideas, the gossip, the absurdities, and the pleasures of his age. As his editors tell us, they place him in a literary tradition which stretches back to the epistles of Madam de Sévigné and Horace Walpole, and form an indelible part of their literary legacy. Lambasted both in life and death for his failure to produce the ‘great book’ which his admirers believed him capable of, and his detractors saw as the necessary justification of his profession, Trevor-Roper always enjoyed truancy. These letters are part of that escape; not for him a guilty evasion of labour, but a necessary corrective from the social and professional pressures of 69 conformity – essential both to a balanced mind and life. Suffused as these letters are with extended quotation from Latin and Greek verse (treasured by Trevor-Roper by memory), ruminative historical parallels and theses, they also abound with irreverent caricature and gleeful gossip. As such, they form a graceful lattice of interplay between the disciplined and rigorous mind of a professional scholar, and the wry and twinkle-eyed mischief always alert to the comédie humaine of his friends and foes. To many, Hugh Trevor-Roper will still be the grand historian taken down a peg or two by the fiasco of his authentication of the forged Hitler diaries. And yet here, for the first time, we have the sorry episode recounted with self-reproach and causal exculpation by the man himself, in a letter to Frank Giles of July 1983, which tells a more nuanced tale of a wide-eyed academic caught up in the frenzy of a journalistic whirlwind, one in which – no surprise – the true villain of the piece is revealed to be Rupert Murdoch. But these letters also couch and cashier the public image of Trevor-Roper, that tweed-clad and cutting Oxford don; the man who could, even to his close friends, be dauntingly aloof and emotionally distant. In them we see a figure of deep kindness and tortured loneliness; from his struggle to save the lives of a family of orphaned hedgehogs, to his reaching out to an isolated stepson in the grips of depression, to his efforts to comfort, with wicked humour, a dying man suffering from terminal cancer. But perhaps the most extraordinary and personally revealing two letters in this collection are those to his wife, Lady Xandra Haig, discovered upon his death in a secret draw of his desk, and astonishing in their emotional honesty to those who knew him. They were written during a crisis in their relations, and in them Trevor-Roper lays his soul bare. They tell of his solitary and unloving childhood, his ‘terrible, almost physical difficulty in expressing emotion’, and whilst in one sentence he confesses that ‘ I use a private language, patter away on the twigs of things, and leave the root to be deduced from my actions’, in the next he delivers a beautifully eloquent and achingly moving testimonial of troubled love: ‘I give my heart to you – rather a complicated object, you may say, like a sea-urchin, prickly outside and untempting within; but you asked for it and must connive at some of its limitations’. Such a mark leaves itself implicitly on almost all the letters; they are, fundamentally, expressions of affection from one who found sentimental exposure wincingly painful; he is reaching out to 70 friends young and old, craving contact from them. Many of them contain some variant upon a persistent theme, his desire for replies. His urging of Gerald Brenan in March 1968 – ‘Do write again: I love your letters, and I long to hear of you, and from you’ – is typical. Letters, for Trevor-Roper, were more than a means of entertaining and informing, but were the media through which an inhibited man sought to connect. Trevor-Roper was a well-connected man, and whilst the volume might well have included letters to such familiar celebrities as George Orwell, Harold Macmillan, Freddie Ayer and Margret Thatcher, the editors have sensitively eschewed such name-dropping sensational appeal, acknowledging that the vast majority of his most interesting letters (with the exception perhaps of Kim Philby, who is included) were to less prominent people. The introduction to the collection elegantly combines the skill of both editors – his biographer, Adam Sisman, and the editor of a previous collection of Trevor-Roper letters and his wartime journal, Richard Davenport-Hines – with a loose biographical sketch artfully interspersed with nuanced and perceptive insights into the mind and character of their subject. As these letters show, it is a mind and character of an historical great. Trevor-Roper once wrote of his great hero, Edward Gibbon, that ‘however remote his subject, however erudite his sources, Gibbon never forgets he is a man th of the world and of the 18 century world at that. He loved polite conversation, society. He is interested in everything around him; his th th information on all topics is up-to-date’. Replace the 18 with the 20 century, and this is Trevor-Roper. Rory Allan

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PROFESSOR SIR HENRY HARRIS (1925 – 2014)

Henry Harris joined the Senior Common Room in 1979 on being appointed to the Regius Professorship of Medicine. Even following retirement in 1992, he continued to be an active and very committed member of the House until shortly before his death on 31 October, 2014, at the age of 89. Henry was born in Russia on 28 January 1925 to Jewish parents who moved to Australia in 1929 to take up residence in the Bronte Beach area of Sydney. His secondary education was completed at the Sydney Boys’ High School, which he described as a highly selective, competitive and academic institution. From there he gained a university bursary and public exhibition to the University of Sydney, where he first read Modern Languages and then Medicine. He claims to have been drawn to medicine by an obsession with doctors in literature, and a consequent ambition to become a latter day Chekov. He dabbled in experimental work during the course of his medical training, with excursions into visual and renal physiology which engendered a passion for laboratory research rather than clinical medicine that he retained for the rest of his life. On qualifying as a doctor in 1950, he married Alexandra Brodsky, also of Russian Jewish origin, whose family had moved to Australia from Belgium after the war. Having at that time won an essay prize in bacteriology, he had an encounter that was to set the pattern of his future life. To quote his own words…

“…I got a telephone call from Hugh Ward, the Professor of Bacteriology, to say that he had Florey in his office and would I like to meet him. I said I must be dreaming. You mean the Florey. He said “Yes. Come on over”. So I dropped what I was doing, and I went over and there was Florey. He looked very much like a moderately successful business man, but his speech was very laconic, very direct and he said “Ward tells me that you like doing experiments Harris, is that right?”. I said “Yes, I quite enjoy myself, break a bit of glassware, make a noise”. He said “Well how would you like to come to Oxford?” I said “Well It’s like asking a man in the desert whether he would like a drink.” And he said, we’ll see what we can do.”

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The upshot was that Henry arrived in Oxford in April 1952 on an Australian National University travelling scholarship to do a D.Phil in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology under the supervision of Howard Florey who, as Professor of Pathology, had earlier led the team that demonstrated the clinical efficacy of penicillin. The thesis project assigned to Henry by Florey was to study the phenomenon of chemotaxis, the movement of cells in relation to gradients of what, at that time, were entirely hypothetical biological molecules. It was not to his mind a very inspiring topic and once he had gained his D.Phil in 1954, he suffered the wrath of Florey by telling him so. Eventually, the great man relented and allowed Henry the freedom to follow his own interests. Once he had gained his DPhil, he remained at the Dunn School for the next five years as director of research for the British Empire Cancer Campaign. Following a year in the US and a further three as head of cell biology at the John Innes Institute at Bayfordbury, Hertfordshire, he returned to the department to succeed Florey as Professor of Pathology. It was shortly thereafter that Henry made a seminal discovery that was to shape the course of his future research. He found that the inactivated form of a virus causing respiratory infections in mice could fuse cells together very efficiently, essentially regardless of type or species of origin. The product of fusion was either a cell in which the chromosomes of the participants remained in separate nuclei or, much more usefully, true hybrids in which all were encompassed within a single nucleus. Such hybrids could continue to proliferate and tended to shed chromosomes more or less haphazardly as they did so, thus offering a way of determining on which chromosomes particular genes resided. The inspired way Henry chose to exploit this propensity was to fuse cancer cells with their normal counterparts, which typically resulted in malignancy being suppressed. This enabled him to determine which particular chromosome of the normal partner had to be shed for cancerous behaviour to recrudesce. Subsequently, by using X-rays to break up chromosomes, the location of the malignancy-suppressing gene could be pinpointed more precisely, and by use of DNA technology was found to code for a protein that resided in the matrix surrounding most types of cells. This pioneering work was the very first to demonstrate the existence of ‘tumour—suppressor’ genes, of which many have now been unearthed. A further important legacy of cell 73 fusion was the development of monoclonal antibodies which are proving of increasing value clinically. Henry’s scientific achievements were recognized by many awards, including election to the Royal Society in 1968, and a knighthood in 1993. Henry was extremely proud of his long association with the Dunn School, not only for its very distinguished tradition in research, but also because both the original building and its setting were unusually attractive for a science laboratory. Thus he made his acceptance of the Regius chair conditional on his continuing to serve as its head. He also took great care to ensure the surrounding gardens were well maintained and robustly fought off repeated attempts by the University to purloin them for car parking. Moreover, he declined many offers of very prestigious appointments elsewhere. Henry was very unusual as head of a scientific institution in continuing throughout his career to undertake much experimental work with his own hands, particularly the culture and manipulation of cells. This he was able to do only by ruthlessly restricting time spent on conferences and other outside engagements. He was also very protective of the time of members of staff who were particularly engaged in research, employing such measures as recruiting extremely distinguished retirees to assist with the teaching of microbiology. History was very important to Henry, not simply within the confines of biology and medicine, but more generally. It gave him great pleasure that the founder of the House not only established the Regius Professorship of Medicine but also linked it with the Mastership of the almshouses in the beautiful mediaeval Oxfordshire village of Ewelme. These almshouses were founded in 1437 by Geoffrey Chaucer’s grand- daughter Alice and her third husband, Thomas de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk. Henry took the mastership very seriously, and his and Alexandra’s regular use of the master’s apartment was much appreciated by the residents with whom they became well acquainted. th In his 80 year Henry had to undergo major heart surgery from which, after initial concerns, he made a full recovery, and soon returned to writing. Apart from penning engaging short stories, of which 13 appear in a book entitled Remnants of a Quiet Life, he also continued writing on various scientific subjects as well as producing a new translation of a monograph on cancer by the distinguished German embryologist, Theodor Boveri. Henry felt that this very prescient work should be brought to the attention of a modern readership. This 74 necessitated extensive annotation which was accomplished rather cleverly by printing the translation in black and Henry’s appropriately placed comments in red. Among other writings during his very productive retirement were three books dealing with biological subjects from an historical perspective. The first was on his own area of research in cellular genetics and the second on the origin of cell theory in which he convincingly challenged conventional wisdom as to where principal credit was due. The third was on spontaneous generation in which he showed how surprisingly difficult it was to design really incisive experiments to disprove its occurrence. As many members of the SCR can testify, Henry belonged to that rare breed of truly polymathic don, and his presence at lunch on most Thursdays invariably ensured stimulating exchanges on a wide range of topics. Henry is survived by his wife Alexandra, his son Paul and his two daughters, Helen and Ann. Sir Richard Gardner

Henry’s commitment not merely to scientific endeavor but to scholarship in general and to humane values showed itself in a variety of ways. European languages and literature, the field of Henry’s first degree, afforded him lifelong pleasure and conversational enthusiasms. Among other examples one recalls his relishing Volker Braunbeherens’ acclaimed volume Mozart in Vienna (memory is uncertain as to whether Henry waited for the English translation to appear in 1989 or had read the original German version some years earlier). In 1993 he delivered the Romanes lecture under the title, Hippolyte’s Club Foot: the medical roots of realism in modern European literature. In January 1985, Henry was one of the few big names (Sir Kenneth Dover being another) to sign the original Manifesto to Congregation against the proposed award of the customary Honorary Degree to Margaret Thatcher deploring as he did her philistine attitude to the higher education sector. Henry wrote a remarkable autobiography, The Balance of Improbabilities: a scientific life (Oxford, the Clarendon Press, 1987). Peter Oppenheimer

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PROFESSOR SIR HENRY HARRIS Memorial Address by Michael Bramwell

First, I feel very privileged to be able to contribute some memories of Henry to this special occasion and to acknowledge the support, encouragement and help that he gave me over more than 30 years. I first met him at the John Innes Institute after he had offered me a position in his team, in the new Cell Biology Unit at Bayfordbury near Hertford. I had responded to an advertisement in Nature for someone to work on nuclear RNA. But as I was doing a post doc in Princeton at the time there was no face to face interview. So on a cold winters day in 1962 I drove up the long drive to the lab and viewed the imposing Georgian mansion set among the fields of genetically interesting plants and manicured lawns. As I shook hands with Henry I sensed here was a man who knew where he was going and how he was going to get there. I also felt that the Bayfordbury estate was almost too good to be true, a lab situated in several hundred acres of countryside with greenhouses and orchards and overlooking a sizeable lake. However, I soon settled in and Henry encouraged me to finish off some work I had been doing for my PhD. Henry was always one to encourage his staff to follow their own ideas and he would say that even if experiments went wrong there was always something to be learned. Amongst the people in the lab the talk at this time was all about messenger RNA, did it exist or didn’t it? Henry was of the latter opinion largely based on experiments that he and his first D.Phil student John Watts had performed. They showed that the so-called rapidly - labelled RNA was broken down in the nucleus of animal cells, so how could it function as a messenger? It was during discussions about this that Henry revealed his Antipodean upbringing! The experiment was done by pulsing the cell with a radioactive precursor of RNA and then chasing it with non-radioactive one, this was so-called cooling the pool!! It was Francis Crick who first proposed the so-called Central Dogma in which the information in DNA -was transcribed to RNA which then coded for Protein. Initial studies were on bacterial systems which apparently exhibited no turnover of RNA but It wasn't until mRNA was actually isolated some years later that Henry accepted it. But such was the force of Henry’s logic and persuasiveness, that the rest of us took years to believe the notion.

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At JI at this time was John Fincham, a fungal geneticist and according to Henry it was he who first gave him the idea of being able to fuse cells of different species, since fusion in some fungi was a common feature. However, I hadn’t been at JI long before a government decision was made to move all government -supported research institutes to be near a University environment. This was based on a report by Sir Solly Zuckerman the Government chief scientific advisor. The fact that Bayfordbury was halfway between London and Cambridge with excellent rail connections to both, was of no consequence! Ironically Bayfordbury is now part of the University of Hertfordshire with, curiously several large telescopes! Professor Zuckerman also moved to Norwich to set up a Centre for Environmental research so perhaps there was an ulterior motive in his recommendations! It is good to know that the JI has gone from strength to strength over the succeeding years. Henry was opposed to the proposal from the beginning. He liked Bayfordbury and its situation and did not want to move to Norwich which he considered off the beaten track. However, about this time Howard Florey retired from the Dunn School and Henry applied and was successful in getting the position that he really coveted. In addition Hertford or Norwich could hardly compare with Oxford and the Dunn school, with the aura of the penicillin era still present. However, many people thought he must be a botanist coming as he did from a Horticultural Institute and were not so keen! But he soon disabused them of this idea and set about building a Cell Biology Unit. This was supported by the British Empire Cancer Campaign. Since by now we had no Empire it soon was changed to the Cancer Research Campaign and more recently it joined with the ICRF to become simply Cancer Research UK The early years at Oxford were productive for Henry and it was then that he together with John Watkins performed the first inter species cell fusion between human and mouse cells...... He used to say that big leaps in science were made by the introduction of new instruments or new techniques and so it was with cell fusion. It opened up a veritable Pandora’s box of experiments and applications both in Oxford and around the world. These included mapping the human genome, analysis of differentiation, monoclonal antibodies, tumour suppressor genes and delineation of the many differences found between malignant and non-malignant cells. The fact that inter-species 77 hybrid cells were viable was a surprise to many scientists and following Henry’s lecture to the Royal Society on cell fusion, the Nobel laureate Max Perutz was heard to say to a colleague “do you really believe that”. This discovery also encouraged a whole raft of graduates, post-docs and other visitors to come to Oxford from all over the world, enriching all our lives! In 1967 Henry and David Kirby an embryologist were invited to take part in a television programme as one of a series called “Towards Tomorrow”, this one was to be called “Assault on Life”. It purported to illustrate the ground-breaking research going on in South Parks Road but turned into a polemic against “irresponsible scientists who do not consider the possible outcome of their work”. Henry & David complained to the BBC about the programme and in response to a letter in the Times, Henry commented that “people had more to fear from the ability of the mass media to distort, misrepresent and terrify than from any of experiments depicted”. For example this head line in a popular magazine “Why scientists create monsters” an article discussing the possibility of “Tree /Men”. Henry was a man who seemed to know a lot about everything, which was disconcerting for us lesser mortals.... I once came back from Wales having spotted one of the very few, at that time, Red Kites...ah said Henry, Malvus Malvus! He was not known for his ornithological interest up till that point! Another memorable incident occurred when Margaret Thatcher was Minister of Science and Henry had to sit on committees with her, he said to me... “if she ever becomes Prime Minister I will leave the country”...She of course did...... but fortunately he didn't! He was a keen observer of people and published many short stories, initially in the University Gazette but later in book form. His material was garnered from College and Departmental life and his colleagues would wonder whose foibles did he use to make up his fictional characters? In conclusion I would like to say how much he inspired and encouraged generations of students, graduates and post-docs with his incisive mind and encyclopaedic knowledge and ....strove to improve their written words with the help of his red pencil. I quote from the publisher’s preface to one of his books “he was one of the longest serving and most respected members of the University and at the same time one of the most distinguished scientists of his generation”! 78

PROFESSOR NORMAN BROWN (26.8.1922 – 19.4.2014)

Professor Norman John Peppin Brown was born in Dover, Kent, on August 26, 1922. With the exception of the war years, during which time his school, Westminster, was evacuated, he spent his childhood in London and was a King’s Scholar of Westminster where he studied Classics and where he was school organist. With the other Scholars, he participated in the Coronation of George VI and Elizabeth in 1937 in singing the Vivats in the anthem “I was glad” by Hubert Parry. During the war years, the School was evacuated to three locations: Lancing College, Exeter, and Whitbourne. In his final year at Westminster, 1941, which was spent at Whitbourne in a lovely manor with a moat and swans, Brown was deeply honoured to be appointed Captain of the King’s Scholars. Following the great tradition established between Westminster and Christ Church, Brown matriculated at the College in 1941, but his studies were interrupted by the war during which time he worked in the Friends’ Ambulance Unit (the Quakers). While at Christ Church, he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) for his B.A., later specializing in Philosophy, culminating in his M.A. and B.Phil. He greatly admired the tutorial system. He chose to pursue a B.Phil. as he felt it would best prepare him for his goal: to teach at a university. His thesis, completed in 1948, was Aristotle’s Contribution to the Concept of Teleology in Ethics. It was around this time that he converted from the Church of England to Roman Catholicism, receiving instruction at Saint Aloysius Parish, the Oxford Oratory, having been strongly influenced by John Cardinal Newman and the Oxford Movement. In 1952, he became the founding member of the Philosophy Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland which was expanding its programs (Newfoundland had voted to cease being an English colony in 1949 and joined the Canadian Confederation). Brown’s program development in the Philosophy Department included Introduction to Philosophy and Logic, Moral Philosophy, Modern Philosophy from the Renaissance to the 19th Century, Ancient Philosophy (Thales to Plato, and Aristotle to Augustine), Medieval Philosophy, Philosophies of the 20th Century, and Philosophy of Mind (Some Philosophical Discussions in

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Psychology). In 1961, he undertook a sabbatical year at Oxford. Driven by a desire to be part of a large department, he accepted an appointment at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1965 where he remained until his retirement in 1987. During his time at Queen’s, he taught Medieval Philosophy, Logic, and Ethics and became well known in the community as a Thomist, influencing countless students. He also pursued an interest in linguistics and wrote a book on Searle and the concept of speech acts which is unpublished. Although he had very positive views of women, he disagreed with feminist and post-modernist theories and the increasingly atheistic character of the university. He regretted the absence of the wearing of gowns in classes and across campuses. Upon his retirement from Queen’s, he continued to pursue music, which he had undertaken in parallel throughout his career and at which he excelled as a church musician despite little training. He published a slim volume entitled For God and the People: In Defense of Traditional Church Music which contained articles written while President of the Royal Canadian College of Organists. He was Honorary President of the College from 2008 until his death on April 19, 2014, in Kingston. Christ Church – its ideals and physical beauty – captured Brown’s imagination and embodied his spirit: ideals – education, peacefulness, and balance – reflected in its physical beauty. The beautiful structure of Tom Tower through which one enters the quadrangle was once above Brown's living quarters, now the porters’ office. He had a clear view to the reflecting pool with the Mercury statue, symmetrical pathways leading to its peaceful centring position. There is the quiet sound of water. The quadrangle is beautiful, organized; a place to travel through, to greet people. The two towers, one known as Tom and that of the Cathedral, represent ideals to strive for, high viewpoints on the world and its needs, closeness to God. Hall: a place to gather for nourishment and fellowship, portraits of forefathers, mental connection. The Mercury statue, the ancient messenger, is a symbol of communication and language, transmitting the mind. The Cathedral: the Latin Chapel and the Lady Chapel, morning prayers, Pre- Raphaelites. Other elements: Peckwater Quad, Canterbury Gate, Meadows, Blue Boar. All beautiful. Christ Church was always present in Brown’s mind. It was a cherished part of his English and English-

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THE REVEREND DESMOND MINTY (30.12.1925 – 11.5.2014)

The Reverend Desmond Minty, who died in May 2014, was an example of a type of schoolmaster sadly no longer common, a man who served one school for most of his adult life. Born in 1925 and educated at Doncaster Grammar, he came up to the House on a Fell Exhibition in 1944 to read Latin, Greek, Ancient History and Philosophy. After a short period of teaching in Scotland, he joined the staff of Wrekin College in Shropshire in 1951 and remained there for 35 years in the various positions of teacher in Greek, Latin and Ancient History and subsequently Russian: after ordination into the Anglican Church in the 1970’s, he also became first Assistant Chaplain and then Chaplain to the School, housemaster of Windsor from 1964 until 1979, and finally Senior Master, deputy to the Head. He retired in 1986 and entered the full time ministry, as Vicar of High Ercall and Rowton, close to his beloved Wrekin from 1989 to 1995. Desmond was a fine sportsman and musician, a brilliant linguist and a man of absolute modesty. He was the finest of housemasters, pastoral and passionate, dedicated and kind. He persuaded me to apply for Christ Church and drove me personally to the interviews in order to be able to drive me back to take part in the inter-house rugby final. He is survived by his widow Valerie and one son and one daughter. Lord Blair of Boughton, Kt, QPM, MA (Oxon)

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PAUL ROBERTSON (27.4.1988 – 18.5.2014)

Paul Robertson came up to Christ Church in 2010, having completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Leeds, to read for a M.Sc. and D.Phil. in Neuroscience. He quickly became a greatly loved and respected member of the graduate community here. Paul had an extraordinarily warm heart and a ferociously quick mind, and he was generous with these gifts. He brought to every occasion such charm - with his smile and the genuine sparkle in his eye and of course his laugh - that it was always a joy when he was around. Paul undertook his doctoral research project in the lab of Professor Richard Wade-Martins, working of the genetic biology of Parkinson’s Disease and making a vital contribution to the work of the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre. He chose a challenging project, combining the development of novel stem cell purification techniques with intensive computational analysis of the resulting datasets. These are both highly specialised and disparate skills. It is rare to find a single individual who is accomplished at both, yet this is exactly what Paul was. He took his work very seriously. At the bench, he was meticulous, careful and thorough, but he also passionate about communicating his research, almost always with a wild-eyed sense of joy and curiosity that anyone who has had the pleasure of talking to Paul will testify to. 83

Paul also devoted a great deal of his energy to the well-being of the Graduate Common Room. Over his time, he has been a returning officer (twice), computing officer, film rep, social secretary (twice), honorary bar crawl rep and on the executive committee as the GCR secretary. They were roles he took on because he wanted to help nurture a community that was inclusive, kind, moral, supportive and fun: all qualities that Paul had in abundance. The Oxford community is immeasurably richer for him having been part of it. For the Graduate Common Room the loss is immense, as we have lost not only a dear friend, but also great colleague on our committee through a tragic accident. This year, Paul would have finished his DPhil degree and would have gone to achieve many more things. It saddens us that he is not here to celebrate with us as we complete our time at Christ Church, but we will always keep him in fond memory. Narin Hengrung DPhil (2010) Alexander Drong (MChem 2006, DPhil 2010)

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SENIOR MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES

The Revd Professor N Biggar Under the auspices of the McDonald Centre Nigel Biggar ran a series of public lectures to mark the centenary of August 1914 (“Oh, What a Lovely War?”), a colloquium on Robert and Edward Skidelsky’s book How Much is Enough?, another colloquium with Chatham House on the lessons to be learned from the First World War, and a conference on his own book, In Defence of War. He lectured on just war thinking, including the ethics of Britain’s going to war in 1914 and of military intervention generally, to historians at Cambridge and the Open University, to ethicists in Slovenia, to public audiences at Canterbury Christ Church University and in Dublin, and to parliamentarians in the House of Lords. He spoke on the role of the humanities in forming moral virtue at the British Academy, and on the contingency of rights at Emory University. His publications included Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation and articles on Scottish independence in Standpoint, on the place of religion in secular medicine in the Journal of Medical Ethics, and on the right against torture in Studies in Christian Ethics.

Professor S Foot Publications ‘Women, prayer and preaching in the early English Church’, in Prayer and Thought in Monastic Tradition: Essays in Honour of Sr Benedicta Ward, ed. Santha Bhattacharji, Rowan Williams and Dominic Mattos (Bloomsbury, 2014), pp. 59-76 ‘Households of St Edmund’, in Religion and the Household, ed. John Doran, Charlotte Methuen and Alexandra Walsham, Studies in Church History 50 (Boydell and Brewer, 2014), 47-58 ‘The Abbey’s armoury of charters’, in Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest, ed. Tom Licence (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2014), pp. 31-52 ‘The earliest English Benedictines? Monasticism in England before the Conquest’, in Keeping the Rule: David Knowles and the Writing of History, ed. Dominic Aidan Bellenger and Simon Johnson (Downside Abbey Press, 2014), pp. 15-39

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‘Cuthbert and the search for a patron’, in Durham Cathedral: History and Evaluation, ed. David Brown (Yale University Press 2014), pp. 9-25

Professor J Cartwright Publications: Formation and Variation of Contracts: The Agreement, Formalities, Consideration and Promissory Estoppel : Sweet & Maxwell 2014. Equity’s Connivance in the Evasion of Legal Formalities : in Law & Equity: Approaches in Roman Law and Common Law (ed. E. Koops & W.J. Zwalve, Martinus Nijhoff, 2014), p.107

Professor S Darlington CDs Courts of Heaven, Music from the Eton Choirbook, Vol. 3 Christ Church Cathedral Choir Director of Music: Stephen Darlington AVIE AV2314 Christmas Music Christ Church Cathedral Choir Director of Music: Stephen Darlington NIMBUS NI7096

Professor C C L Andreyev I have various publications in Russian: (eds ) Andreeva, E. and Belobrovtseva, I “Tol’ko Vy poimete sleduyushchiy tekst...” Perepiska N.E. Andreeva i L.F. Zurova. Baltiiskij Arkhiv: Russkaia kultu’ra v Pribaltike, 13, Tallinn 2013. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, 298 pp. E. Andreeva “Moe ponimanie russkoi emigratsii.” Ezhegodnik doma russkogo zarubezhiya imeni Aleksandra Solzhenitsyna 2013, Moscow 2014 p 7-15. E. N. Andreeva ‘Obshchestvo zashchity nauki i znaniy v Velikobritanii i pomoshch russkim uchenym emigrantam.’ Ezhegodnik doma russkogo zarubezhiya imeni Aleksandra Solzhenitsyna 2013, Moscow 2014 p 67-101.

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Professor M J Edwards Article, “Origen” for Stanford On-Line Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Entries for De Gruyter on-line Encyclopedia of Biblical Reception on: eternity, eternal life, hanging, Hebrews (Epistle), humility, hymns, king, kingdom. “Astrology and Freedom: The Case of Firmicus Maternus”, in A. Torrance and J. Zachhuber (eds), Individuality in late Antiquity (Farnham: Ashgate), 29-46.

Professor S Rowland-Jones I joined the Board of Trustees of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2013 and in 2014 I became Chair of the Meetings Committee, responsible for organizing a series of educational and research meetings in the UK and in the tropics. After over a decade as an Academic editor of the high impact open access journal, PLOS Biology, I was asked to join the Advisory Board for the journal. My research collaborations on adolescent HIV infection in Zimbabwe have continued and our laboratory capacity building efforts have benefited from funding support through the Medical Sciences Division from the John Fell fund and the Wellcome Trust Infrastructure Support fund. Together with colleagues in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Norway and South Africa we were awarded a grant of over six million dollars from the Norwegian Research Council through its Globvac programme, to carry out a randomized controlled trial testing the benefits of Azithromycin therapy for HIV-infected older children suffering from chronic lung disease. This grant will also allow us to explore the aetiology of this major life-threatening complication in older children who were infected with HIV as infants. My group published 29 papers in journals including PLOS One, Clinical and Experimental Immunology and Tissue Antigens.

Dr B Jack I have given a further six public lectures at the City of London Museum in my capacity as Gresham Professor of Rhetoric. My over-arching title is ‘The Mysteries of Reading and Writing’. This in turn led to invitations to write for the Times Higher Education, and to contribute an article on Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther and copycat

87 suicide for the inaugural issue of the Lancet Psychiatry. I recorded a podcast with two psychiatrists for their website. I have also continued to contribute occasional reviews to the TLS and to give an annual lecture at City University to students reading for an M.A. in Creative Writing.

Professor S Neubauer In 2014 Professor Neubauer has published 24 scientific manuscripts and has raised grant funding of ~£7m.

Professor B Parkinson Over the past academic year I have commenced work in my role as co- ordinator of an international collaborative project (funded as part of the Open Research Area, ORA) investigating how emotion expressions communicate information about evaluations and motives in interpersonal interaction. Of particular is the question of how inferences about strategic intentions moderate the effects of emotion expressions on other people. An accessible summary of my latest approach to related issues is available on-line: Parkinson, B. (2014). How emotions affect other people. Emotion Researcher, August, at: http://emotionresearcher.com/2014/08/emotions-and-social- engagement/ I have also recently taken over as co-editor (with Professor Maya Tamir) of the influential book series “Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction” published by Cambridge University Press in association with Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.

Dr D Moran It has been a busy and rewarding academic year. In October I made my first visit to Lima, to speak at an international symposium on Peru's great avant-garde poet, César Vallejo, and immediately afterwards I hosted a one-day conference to mark the centenary of the Argentine writer, Julio Cortázar. The event took place in Christ Church and experts on Cortázar's work from Britain and the U.S. gave papers. I have been devoting what little time I have to spare to teaching my twenty-two month old son the alphabet, which he now seems to know better than I do.

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Professor G A Johnson Publications: ‘A Taxonomy of Touch: Tactile Encounters in Renaissance Italy,’ in Sculpture and Touch, ed. P. Dent (Ashgate Press, 2014), pp. 91-106. ‘Beyond the Visual: The Multi-Sensory Reception and Display of Renaissance Sculpture,’ in The Challenge of the Object/Die Herausforderung des Objekts, ed. G.U. Grossmann and P. Krutisch (Germanisches National Museum, 2014), pp. 348-51.

Other Activities: I was invited to give the keynote lecture at an international conference at the Clark Art Institute at Williams College, USA, in September. The title of the lecture was ‘Photographing Sculpture, Sculpting Photography.’ In October, I gave an invited lecture at the University of Edinburgh entitled ‘Photo-Sculpsit: Sculpture, Photography and the History of Art.’ I was elected to the UK Committee of CIHA (Comité international d’Histoire de l’Art) and, at Oxford, I served as both Head of the History of Art Department and Coordinator of the MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture.

Professor J Cross Publications ‘How do you make an opera without a narrative? Journeying with Ulysses and Outis’, in G. Ferrari (ed.), Le théâtre musical de Luciano Berio (Paris: Harmattan, 2014) ‘Reflecting on Birtwistle at 80’, Tempo, Vol. 68, Issue 270 (Oct 2014) ‘Some thoughts on Stravinsky’s “Apotheosis”’, in M. Locanto (ed.), Igor Stravinsky: Sounds and Gestures of Modernism (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014).

Lectures and other activities th Keynote lecture, 8 European Music Analysis Conference, Leuven, Belgium Five public lectures as part of ‘Listen to the 20th Century’, Singapore International Festival of Arts in association with Southbank Centre London and London Sinfonietta Convenor, ‘Birtwistle at 80’ symposium, Barbican Centre in association with the BBC and the Institute for Musical Research

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Various BBC Radio 3 appearances discussing, among other things, Birtwistle, Harvey, and the musical legacy of the First World War.

Professor J Davis The research team have continued to develop a range of emission switchable, analyte-recruiting and responsive interfaces. These have included the first examples of controlled lanthanide supramolecular 1-3 assembly and switchable lanthanide emissive surfaces. A range of hydrogel and graphene non-fouling films have been used to underpin a 4 range of diagnostic assays. These developments have been supported by the award of £1.5 million of funding to explore potent diagnostic 5-8 assays for Pancreatic cancer and Parkinsons Disease. A diverse library of nanoparticles have been engineered in seeking a means of delivering therapeutic payloads to live cells and developing responsive high 9-12 magnetic resonance contrast. (1) Lehr, J.; Lang, T.; Blackburn, O. A.; Barendt, T. A.; Faulkner, S.; Davis, J. J.; Beer, P. D. Anion Sensing by Solution- and Surface- Assembled Osmium(II) Bipyridyl Rotaxanes. Chem.-Eur. J. 2013, 19, 15898–15906. (2) Lehr, J.; Bennett, J.; Tropiano, M.; Sørensen, T. J.; Faulkner, S.; Beer, P. D.; Davis, J. J. Reversible Recruitment and Emission of DO3A-Derived Lanthanide Complexes at Ligating Molecular Films on Gold. Langmuir 2013, 29, 1475–1482. (3) Lehr, J.; Beer, P. D.; Faulkner, S.; Davis, J. J. Exploiting Lanthanide Luminescence in Supramolecular Assemblies. Chem. Commun. 2014. (4) Luo, X.; Davis, J. J. Electrical Biosensors and the Label Free Detection of Protein Disease Biomarkers. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2013, 42, 5944–5962. (5) Bryan, T.; Luo, X.; Bueno, P. R.; Davis, J. J. An Optimised Electrochemical Biosensor for the Label-Free Detection of C- Reactive Protein in Blood. Biosens. Bioelectron. 2013, 39, 94–98. (6) Bryan, T.; Luo, X.; Forsgren, L.; Morozova-Roche, L.; Davis, J. J. The Robust Electrochemical Detection of a Parkinson’s Disease Marker in Whole Blood Sera. Chem. Sci. 2012, 3, 3468–3473. (7) Xu, Q.; Evetts, S.; Hu, M.; Talbot, K.; Wade-Martins, R.; Davis, J. J. An Impedimetric Assay of Α-Synuclein Autoantibodies in Early Stage Parkinson's Disease. RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 58773–58777.

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(8) Xu, Q.; Cheng, H.; Lehr, J.; Patil, A. V.; Davis, J. J. Graphene Oxide Interfaces in Serum Based Autoantibody Quantification. Anal. Chem. 2015, 87, 346–350. (9) Huang, W. Y.; Davies, G. L.; Davis, J. J. Engineering Cytochrome-Modified Silica Nanoparticles to Induce Programmed Cell Death. Chemistry-A European Journal… 2013. (10)Huang, W.-Y.; Davies, G.-L.; Davis, J. J. High Signal Contrast Gating with Biomodified Gd Doped Mesoporous Nanoparticles. Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 60–62. (11) Davies, G.-L.; Kramberger, I.; Davis, J. J. Environmentally Responsive MRI Contrast Agents. Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 9704– 9721. (12)Davies, G.; Brown, A.; Blackburn, O. A.; Tropiano, M.; Faulkner, S.; Beer, P. D.; Davis, J. J. Ligation Driven 19F Relaxation Enhancement in Self-Assembled Ln(III) Complexes. Chem. Commun. 2015.

Professor C Pelling Publications: Christopher Pelling and Maria Wyke, Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times (Oxford). I was appointed by Michael Gove to lead a Department for Education initiative to promote and support the teaching of Latin in state schools. nd On 2 October I was on Melvyn Bragg’s ‘In Our Time’, discussing Julius Caesar.

Dr B W Young My year began and ended with the privilege of being invited to participate in celebrations of the centenary of Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Dacre of Glanton, the greatest historian produced by Christ Church. On the Dacre Day held in the Examination Schools in January, I was a member of a round-table of historians reflecting on Dacre’s many achievements; I spoke about how his resistance to conversion, be it to Marxism or Catholicism, in the 1930s informed a rewardingly sceptical intellect that later enabled him to become the consummate historian of the seventeenth century that he was, as well as an unequalled commentator on Hitler and his court, and on the world of Intelligence in which he spent his way years. In November I gave a

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Professor R Wade-Martins Richard heads the Molecular Neurodegeneration and Gene Therapy Research Group in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG), University of Oxford, and leads the Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC; www.opdc.ox.ac.uk). The OPDC brings together scientists and clinicians across Oxford studying all aspects of PD, focused on targetting the earliest pathology with a view to developing new therapies. I am delighted to report that the Monument Trust Discovery Award from Parkinson’s UK which funds the OPDC has been renewed at £5.8M from 2015 to 2020. Professor Stephanie Cragg (Christ Church and DPAG) is a co-applicant on the OPDC renewal and the two groups continue to work closely together. Richard and Stephanie would also like to thank the Pitts-Tucker Family Trust and the Moritz donation which have together funded a second student, Rebecca Wallings, as a DPhil student at Christ Church, who started a research project in October 2014 working on Parkinson’s disease. In 2013-2014 the group published a number of papers in leading international journals, including Human Molecular Genetics, Neurobiology of Ageing, Neurobiology of Disease and a collaborative study with Professor Cragg in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. During 2013-14 the group's work was funded by Parkinson’s UK, The Wellcome Trust, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Ataxia UK, the Medical Research Council, the British Heart Foundation, Cure Parkinson’s Trust, the Michael J Fox Foundation, the UCB Oxford/Alliance and the European Union FP7 Program. In 2013-14 Richard presented his research work on neurodegenerative diseases at several invited seminars including at the Karolinska Institute, the University of Helsinki, the Alzheimer's Association International Congress (Copenhagen), the Society for Neuroscience (San Diego), the Montreal Neurological Institute and the National Institutes of Health

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(Bethesda MD). Richard also continues to present his work to general audiences giving a public lecture at the Royal Institution in London and speaking at open events for Parkinson's UK and Alzheimer's Research UK. You can also follow our work at Twitter accounts: @WadeMartinsLab; @ARUKOxford and @OxfordPDCentre. In 2014 Richard played a leading role in the award of the UK Dementia Platform (DPUK), a national initiative funded by the Medical Research Council following Prime Minister's Dementia Challenge laid down at the G8 Summit in London, December 2013. The DPUK is a national £52 million program to better understand dementia in our ageing population and to develop new treatments (www.dementiasplatform.uk). Richard heads the DPUK five-year national research program to establish a network of six Dementia Stem Cell Centres (£8 million; 2015-2020) to develop stem cell-based models of dementia to uncover molecular mechanisms of disease and screen for new drugs and targets. Richard sits on the DPUK Executive Committee and DPUK Oversight Board responsible for the successful implementation of the DPUK program. In 2014 Richard completed his six year stint on the Scientific Advisory Board of Alzheimer’s Research UK and continues to serve on the Research Advisory Panel for Parkinson’s UK. Sadly, in May 2014 we mourned the death of Paul Robertson (Christ Church and DPAG), an extremely bright and talented DPhil student with a tremendous enthusiasm for neuroscience. It was a pleasure and privilege to have Paul as part of our group and we shall all miss him greatly.

Professor K McGerty I was a Simons Visiting Professor at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley for the Fall semester of 2014, and gave talks at various conferences, including most recently at a workshop organised by Kyoto University in Japan this February.

Dr G Berczi As a member of the geometry group in the Mathematical Institute of Oxford my work focuses on symmetries of geometric objects coming from physics. The group of symmetries in some sense determines the complexity of the object, and my interest lies in so-called non-reductive

93 symmetry groups when the ring of invariant functions is not necessarily finitely generated. In a joint project with Frances Kirwan I am working on non- reductive group actions in algebraic geometry, and constructions of orbit spaces of these actions, the so-called moduli spaces. I am particularly interested in computing topological invariants of these moduli.

Publications: G. Berczi, A. Szenes: Thom polynomials of Morin singularities, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 175 (2012), pp 567-629. G. Berczi, F. Kirwan: A geometric construction for invariant jet differentials, Surveys in Differential Geometry, Vol XVII, 2012, pp 79-126. G. Berczi, F. Kirwan: Invariants for non-reductive group actions, arXiv:1305.4099 G. Berczi: Moduli of map germs, Thom polynomials and the Green- Griffiths conjecture, Contributions to Algebraic Geometry, edited by P. Pragacz, EMS, 2012, 141-168. G. Berczi: The Popov-Pommerening conjecture for linear algebraic groups, arXiv:1304.7719

Professor S Dadson This year, Simon Dadson was awarded funding from the UK Natural Environment Research Council to study the impacts of climatic extremes including drought on river systems in the UK. He was appointed to the OECD’s Global Task Force on Water Security and Economic Growth. He gave an invited lecture at the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting in San Francisco, USA and chaired a panel discussion on adaptation to climate extremes as part of Oxford’s Water Network. Publications this year include: Hall, J.W., Grey, D., Garrick, D., Fung, F., Brown, C., Dadson, S.J. and Sadoff, C.W. (2014) Water Security: Coping with the curse of freshwater variability. Science, 346(6208): 429-430.

Professor R Barker Richard Barker hosted the inaugural Research Forum of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Held at the Saïd

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Business School in October, the event was attended by members of national accounting standard-setting bodies from around the world. Richard Barker gave the 2014 P.D. Leake Lecture on the topic “Is IFRS Conservative?” The P.D. Leake is the annual academic public lecture of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW).

Professor J Joosten 2014 (September – December only) Publications Edited volume Rémi GOUNELLE, Jan JOOSTEN, eds., La Bible juive dans l’Antiquité, Histoire du Texte Biblique 9; Prahins, Zèbre, 2014 (J. Joosten, “Préface,” p. 5-8). Article to Exorcize’ in Qumran Aramaic and‘ גער Jan JOOSTEN, “The Verb Beyond,” Dead Sea Discoveries 21 (2014), 347-355. Conferences 12-14/09/2014, Eichstätt, “Characteristics of the language of Syriac Ben Sira,” Conference on Textformen des Sirach-Buches, University of Eichstätt. 3-5/11/2014, Madrid, “How old is the Targumic tradition? Traces of the Jewish Targum in the Second Temple Period, and vice versa,” Fifth Centennial of the Complutensian Polyglot, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 20/11/2014, Berkeley, “Pseudoclassicisms in the Hebrew of the Second Temple period,” Symposium on How old is the Hebrew Bible. 22-25/11/2014, San Diego, SBL conference, two papers: a) “The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew — A Philological Appraisal”; b) “Syriac Evidence for Primitive Aramaic Gospel Terminology.”

Professor C Breward In 2014, Chris Breward started an 8-year Co-Directorship of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Industrially Applied Mathematics. The programme is a partnership between EPSRC, the University of Oxford and over 40 partner companies, and involves a mixture of academic and industrial training for around 55 doctoral students.

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As Unit of Assessment Academic Coordinator Oxford's Mathematical Sciences submission for REF2014, Chris was immensely proud of the result: Oxford was top for Mathematical Sciences in all the subcategories (research papers, environment, impact) and top overall across the country. In 2014, Chris published one paper: Bruna M and Breward CJW (2014) The influence of nonpolar lipids on tear film dynamics. J Fluid Mech., 746, 565-605. DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2014.106 with numerous others in the pipeline.

Professor T Littlewood Three publications in 2014. Appointed vice-president of the British Society for Haematology 2015- 2016 and president for 2016-2017.

Mr A Lunt I have jointly submitted 10 journal articles this academic year, the second year of my doctoral study. These have mainly focused on my continuing synchrotron radiation research into the microstructural behaviour of a wide range of materials, from human dentine and enamel, to carbon fibres and yttria partially stabilised zirconia. My participation in the European consortium iStress has also lead to several publications focused on residual stress analysis at the microscale. This year also saw the acceptance of my paper on a brand new experimental technique to extract single crystal elastic constants from neutron diffraction of polycrystalline materials.

Dr D Maw Dr David Maw delivered the following papers: The Art of Diminution in Fascicle 8 (Conference on Fascicle 8 of the Montpellier Codex, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, March 2014) From Ballade to Rondeau: the Mimetic Basis of Pure Music in Machaut’s Songs (Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, University of Birmingham, July 2014). In Boethius’s Long Shadow: Jacques de Liège and the End of Medieval Music (Dept of Classics, University of Liverpool, May 2014) Chord-Voicing and Chord-Type in Oscar Peterson’s Standard Playing

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of 1959 (European Music Analysis Conference, Leuven, September 2014)

Dr S Robertson Wildschut, T., Bruder, M., Robertson, S., Van Tilburg, W.,Sedikides, C. (2014). Collective nostalgia: A truly group- level emotion that confers unique benefits on the group. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 844-863.

Dr S J Schroeder Publications: ‘Mathematical Propositions as Rules of Grammar’, in: Grazer Philosophische Studien 89 (2014), 21-36. ‘Wittgenstein sur l’explication de l’action’, in: R. Clot-Goudard (ed.), L’explication de l’action : Analyses contemporaines, Grenobles: Recherches sur la philosophie et le langage 2014; 23-36. ‘Art, Value, and Function’, in: The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, no.46, 2013 [2014]; 47-62.

Dr S Thompson Peter C. Knipe, Ian M. Jones, Sam Thompson, Andrew D. Hamilton – ‘Remote conformational control of a molecular switch via methylation and deprotonation’. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2014, 12, pp. 9384-9388. Peter C. Knipe, Hannah Lingard, Ian M. Jones, Sam Thompson, Andrew D. Hamilton – ‘A Lewis acid-mediated conformational switch’. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2014, 12, pp. 7937-7941. Ian M. Jones, Peter C. Knipe, Thoe Michaelos, Sam Thompson, Andrew D. Hamilton – ‘Redox-dependent conformational switching of diphenylacetylenes’. Molecules, Invited contribution for the Special Issue: Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding, 2014, 19, pp. 11,316-11,332. Hannah Lingard, Jeongmin T. Han, Amber L. Thompson, Richard T.W. Scott, Sam Thompson, Andrew D. Hamilton – ‘Diphenylacetylene-linked peptide strands induce bi-directional β- sheet formation’ (Hot paper). Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, p. 3521 (front cover); pp. 3650-3653 (article). Madura K.P. Jayatunga, Sam Thompson, Andrew D. Hamilton – ‘α- 97

Helix mimetics: Outwards and Upwards’. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., Invited review, 2014, 24, pp. 717-724. Madura K.P. Jayatunga, Sam Thompson, Tawnya C. McKee, Mun Chiang Chan, Kelie M. Reece, Adam P. Hardy, Rok Sekirnik, Peter T. Seden, Kristina M. Cook, James B. McMahon, William D. Figg, Christopher J. Schofield, Andrew D. Hamilton – ‘Inhibition of the HIF1α-p300 interaction by quinone- and indandione-mediated ejection of structural Zn(II)’. Eur. J. Med. Chem., Invited contribution for the Special Issue: Protein-Protein Interactions: Mechanisms, Inhibitors and Stabilizers, 2014, doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2014.06.006 (in press). James E. Egleton, Cyrille C. Thinnes, Peter T. Seden, Nicola Laurieri, Sui Po Lee, Kate S. Hadavizadeh, Angelina R. Measures, Alan M. Jones, Sam Thompson, Amy L. Varney, Julien Dairou, Graham M. Wynne, Ali Ryan, Edith Sim, Angela J. Russell – ‘Structure- activity relationships and colorimetric properties of specific probes for the putative cancer biomarker human arylamine N- acetyltransferase 1’. Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2014, 22, pp. 3030-3054.

Revd R Williamson Having qualified as a Psychodynamic Counsellor last year, in 2014 I completed the fourth year of the University of Oxford’s Masters programme in Psychodynamic Practice and gained an MSt. My thesis was an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study considering the lived experience of psychodynamic counsellors working in university counselling services with students from other countries. Analysing interviews with counsellors in four different institutions, I explored the unique demands of this work, where the dislocation of international study, varieties of cultural difference and personal development intersect. The study highlighted the emotional intensity of ‘transference’ relationships, the complexity of language issues and the development of counsellors’ theoretical understanding and ways of working with experience.

Professor A K Bowman Was appointed Vice-President (Humanities) of the British Academy for 2014-8.

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Published: The Roman Agricultural Economy. Organization, Investment and Production ed. with A.I. Wilson, Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy, 2013.

Dr R W Truman I have continued in the role of Associate Editor of Humanistica Lovaniensia and have served as assessor of work submitted for publication in two other journals. My own work on sixteenth-century Spanish humanists and the intellectual history of the period has made progress. One publication: ‘[Góngora]: “De lágrimas los tiernos ojos llenos”: Soledad I: 360-506: the político serrano’s discourse’, in A Poet for All Seasons: Eight commentaries on Góngora, edited by Oliver Noble Wood and Nigel Griffin, Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (New York, 2013).

Professor J K S Ward I am still a Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, London. This year I am publishing ‘Christ and the Cosmos: a reformulation of Trinitarian doctrine’ with Cambridge University Press (Autumn, 2015).

Dr Harriet Boyd-Bennett Publications ‘Staging Crisis: Opera aperta and the 1959 Venice Biennale Commissions’, The Opera Quarterly 30/1 (Winter 2014), 49-68. ‘Futurism in Venice, Crisis and la musica dell’avvenire, 1924’, Journal of California Italian Studies 4/1 (March 2014), «http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3xt580tr». Review: ‘Crosscurrents’, Tempo 68/270 (October 2014), 100-102.

Invited talks and conference papers ‘Music, Museums and Media: Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress (1951)’, Music Colloquia Series (State University of New York, Stony Brook, November 2014). ‘Noisy legacies’, On Rethinking Italian Realism (Panel), Conference of the Royal Musical Association (University of Leeds, September 2014). ‘Futurism in Venice, 1924’, Music Colloquia Series (University of Oxford, March 2014). 99

‘Futurism on Tour c.1924’, Music Colloquia Series (King’s College London, February 2014).

Other Awarded my PhD: ‘Modernising Opera: Recuperation and Renewal in Venice, 1951-1961’ (King’s College London, 2014). Invited blog post ‘The PhD Viva: A Survivor’s Story’, for the Student Blog of the Royal Musical Association (1 August 2014). Co-founded new research group on ‘Interwar Cultures’ and held first meetings in Oxford and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Dr Brianna Haezlewood I’ve published a few articles in peer-reviewed journals, in addition to writing an invited review article for the Annual Review of Physical Chemistry.

Publications: B.R. Heazlewood & T.P. Softley, “Low-Temperature Kinetics and Dynamics with Coulomb Crystals”, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 66, 475-495 (2015). DOI:10.1146/annurev-physchem-040214-121527 E.W. Steer, K.S. Twyman, B.R. Heazlewood & T.P. Softley, “Accurate determination of the relative concentrations of ammonia isotopologues in a cold, electrostatically guided molecular beam”, Molecular Physics, published online [volume to be determined] (2015). DOI:10.1080/00268976.2014.1002825 K.S. Twyman, M.T. Bell, B.R. Heazlewood & T.P. Softley, “Production of cold beams of ND3 with variable rotational state distributions by electrostatic extraction of He and Ne buffer-gas- cooled beams”, Journal of Chemical Physics, 141, 024308 (2014). N. Deb, B.R. Heazlewood, C.J. Rennick & T.P. Softley, “Laser- induced rovibrational cooling of the linear polyatomic ion C2H2+”, Journal of Chemical Physics, 140, 164314 (2014).

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NEWS OF OLD MEMBERS

1943 Professor Richard WILSON Professor Wilson has been awarded the following:- 2001: Honorary Doctor; International Sakharov Environmental University (ISEU), Minsk 2006: Ettore Majorana (Erice) Prize: Science for Peace “For his long-lasting involvement in “the Spirit of Erice” and its promotion to people of different culture and various civilizations with remarkable success, thus allowing the new generation to envision the future with home and confidence. Confidence and hope rooted in Scientific Culture of which Professor Wilson has been an illustrious contributor.” 2007: Dixy Lee Ray Award, American Society for Mechanical Engineers “For significant contributions to the science and engineering of environmental protection, particularly methodology or risk assessments, risk assessment of specific pollutants, risk assessment of nuclear power including nuclear waste, and ethics in environmental science and engineering.” 2008: Presidential Citation, American Nuclear Society “For mentoring students for over 50 years in nuclear science, engineering and technology and his tireless efforts promoting peaceful application of nuclear power in support of “Getting the Word Out”. Through over 900 papers and publications, and myriad lectures, he has provided invaluable insight and wisdom giving the nuclear community a profound legacy from which to draw knowledge. Professor Wilson’s distinguished career is an inspiration.” 2010: Dick Wilson – applying Uncommon Sense to Risks by Greenberg and Lowrie. 2011: Andrei Sakharov Prize of the American Physical Society “For tireless efforts in defense of human rights and freedom of expression and education anywhere in the world, and forinspiring students, colleagues and others to do the same.” 2012: The Society for Risk Analysis - presented a “Distinguished th Educator Award” on December 11 2012 at their San Francisco meeting.

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2012: Life Achievement Award – presented at Dinner meeting of th Atlantic Legal Foundation on Monday March 11 2013 in Washington DC.

1958 Tony SCHUR From the Cam to the Zambezi, edited by Tony Schur, was published under The Radcliffe Press imprint of I B Tauris in October 2014. The book is set in Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) and covers the last few years of colonial rule and, in some of the chapters, the early years of the new nation after it gained independence in 1964. The authors are individuals, including Tony, who attended the 1961-62 Overseas Services Course held in Cambridge, and three of their wives.

Tom SHARRAT Tom Sharratt has been elected an honorary alderman of Lancashire County Council. He served on the council for 32 years, 1981 – 2013.

1960 Robin ATTFIELD Reports that the second edition of his textbook ‘Environmental Ethics’ was published in February 2014 by Polity of Cambridge.

1962 Jonathan N. L. CONNOR Jonathan Connor retired from the School of Chemistry, University of Manchester in December 2011 as Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Chemistry. Subsequently, he has been awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus st Fellowship for twenty four months from September 1 , 2013. The Fellowship will allow him to complete his research on “Novel Theories for the Dynamics of Chemical Reactions.” It provides travel and subsistence expenses for him to visit Sweden, Spain and Australia for collaborative research, as well as a contribution of £1000 towards a new computational engine.

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1963 John BENNETT In October 2013 I was elected to be Chief Commoner of the City of London Corporation, the elected body which acts as local authority of the City of London, having been elected Member for Broad Street Ward in 2005. I was installed as Chief Commoner on 1 May 2014 and will serve for one year. The Chief is the senior Common Councilman for the City and represents the elected Members interests, rights and privileges as “Leader of the House”. I also represented the City Corporation at major events in the City and with the Livery and have overall responsibility for hospitality in Guildhall, the site of City government. In the role I work alongside the Lord Mayor and the Chairman of the Policy & Resources Committee in promoting the City to government, both national and local, business, and the international community.

1965 Derek TAYLOR After a career in broadcast news, from ITN’s Middle East correspondent to Chief Executive of Associated Press TV News, I’ve now retired and returned to my first love, fostered at the House in the mid-60s, history. To mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, my book Magna Carta in 20 Places was published by The History Press in May 2015.

1966 Brian GRUMBRIDGE Brian has recently published a detailed history of St John the Baptist Church, St John's Road, Isleworth, Middlesex built in 1855/56.

1971 Revd Douglas DALES In 2013 I published a major study of the early medieval scholar Alcuin. It was published in two volumes by James Clarke & Co. Cambridge. It was the first comprehensive and extensive study of an important figure in Western Christian culture and it draws together scholarship from the Continent as well as the English-speaking world. It is intended for the general reader as well as Scholars in this field.

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For many years I was Chaplain of Marlborough College and am now a parish priest in the Oxford Diocese.

Matthew HUTTON Matthew was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Norwich in Norwich Cathedral on 5 July 2014, to serve his half-time non-stipendiary curacy at St Stephen’s Norwich.

1973 Peter EDBURY Professor Peter Edbury (Research Lecturer 1973-1977) retired from his chair of Medieval History at Cardiff University on 31 December 2013. In June 2014 he was presented with a Festschrift: Deeds done Beyond the Sea: Essays on William of Tyre, Cyprus and the Military Orders, ed. Susan B. Edgington and Helen J. Nicholson (Ashgate).

1977 Simon KIRK After four years in Hong Kong as Chief Executive of the Jardine Schindler Group, Simon Kirk returned to Switzerland in January 2012 and joined Mettler-Toledo International Inc, a Swiss-American precision instrumentation company, as Member of the Group Management Committee and Head of its Product Inspection Division worldwide. Sylvie, Simon and the three children enjoy the lakes and mountains surrounding their home in central Switzerland, but are also frequently in the UK.

1978 The Revd Paul SWANN Has been appointed Spirituality Adviser to the Diocese of Worcester and Associate Priest to All Saints Church, Worcester.

1979 Prof George CARRAS Paul, Josephus and Judaism: The Shared Judaism of Paul and Josephus (2012, E-version, Oxford)

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Book Reviews: Jan Bremmer and Marco Formisano, Perpetua's Passions, Oxford University Press, 2012; Religious Studies Review, June 2013, Vol. 39 Issue 2, 105-106 Thomas J. Heffernan, The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, Oxford University Press, 2012; Religious Studies Review, June 2013, Vol. 39 Issue 2, 106 Karl-Gustav Sandelin, Attraction and Danger of Alien Religion, (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 290) Mohr Siebeck, 2012; Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2014, Vol. 45 Issue 3, 432-434

Awards, Affiliations: Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, Va – 2013-15 Associate Faculty, Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, January – July, 2013 Visiting Fellow, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, January – July, 2013 Visiting Scholar, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, January – June, 2013 Research Visitor, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, 2011-2015

Charles COASE Charles has left Diageo after nearly 26 years in the company, where he has held a variety of finance roles and spent time in Scotland, Ireland and Asia as well as London. Along the way he has gained experience as a pension scheme trustee and this will be the main focus for the next stage of his career – he will continue as chairman of the trustee boards of Diageo’s pension schemes in the UK and Ireland and play a similar role for some other companies. He has also this year been appointed to the Governing Authority of University College Dublin (one of Europe’s leading universities with some 25,000 students), where he chairs the Finance, Remuneration & Asset Management Committee. He now lives in Dublin with his wife Eimear and three school-age children.

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James WOODALL As a writer (four print books published - trade, not academic) I have only the news that Amazon launched in its Kindle Singles store last December a digital book I have written on The Beatles. It is called The Story of The Beatles’ Last Song and arrived in the top 10 of the 100 bestselling Kindle Single non-fiction titles in mid-January and has been there since (currently at no.8: it changes from day to day, or at least week to week). The link, just for your interest, is below. I'm proposing another such book, also on The Beatles (an earlier period), for 2015-16. I’ve lived in Cambridge for just over 5 years and since 2012 have been working for Jesus College: I edit and write for its annual alumni magazine, Jesuan News - 2015 edition any minute now...!’

Mike WRIGHT Mark has moved to New York with his family, having taken up a role as the global CIO for McKinsey and Company. He would observe that reports of America being lower tax and lower cost than the UK are seriously exaggerated!

1985 Laura EVANS (Pamplin 1985) Laura and Howard are this year celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, having married in the Cathedral in 1990.

Dr Nicholas HARDWICK Published, as Guest Editor, ‘Coinage from Japan to the Mediterranean’, International Numismatic Conference, The University of Sydney, 16-18 July 2009, Selected Papers, The Journal of The Oriental Society of Australia (JOSA) 45 (2013), pp. 55-117.

1992 James MOON James Moon has been appointed professor of cardiology in UCL, where he heads the Heart Hospital Imaging Centre, focusing on Cardiac MRI scanning. He is leading the development of cardiac imaging at the new Barts Heart Centre which opens in March 2015 - which will be one of

106 the largest cardiac hospitals in Europe, opening in a new hospital on the Barts Square next to St Paul’s Cathedral.

1995 Amin ASLAM I am the former Minister of State (Environment) for Pakistan and am currently the Vice President (Global) for IUCN as well as the Chair of Green Growth Initiative in KPK province of Pakistan as well as being the Central VP for PTI (Pakistan's second largest political party and ruling party in KPK). The Green Growth Initiative is a flagship initiative in Pakistan whereby the ruling political party (PTI led by Mr. Imran Khan) is redefining the whole development growth model with a politically led green initiative encompassing clean energy, forestry and creation of national parks in the province. Also being the Central VP of this political party, I had designed and am now implementing this initiative. (Am attaching below links to this initiative as picked up by Rueters International, which will give you more information on it) http://www.trust.org/item/20140319102957-wsm07/?source=hptop http://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/blog/green-growth-initiative- %E2%80%93-vision-implementation http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/12/18/pakistan-hydropower- idINKBN0JW1LO20141218 http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/12/18/pakistan-hydropower- idINKBN0JW1LO20141218. As a part of the overall Green Growth Initiative, one of the main projects is the “Billion Tree Tsunami” which is targeting massive afforestation over a four year period. This project is currently underway and financed by the provincial Government. (Am attaching below a link to the OP-Ed in the Tribune on this issue) http://tribune.com.pk/story/845800/the-billion-tree-tsunami/

2002 Duncan LIDGITT th Duncan and Laura Lidgitt welcomed Isobel Olivia Lidgitt, born on 7 June 2014, a baby sister for Charlotte to play with.

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DECEASED MEMBERS

Eleanor Ghislaine AZFAR, [1987]. 7 July 2014 aged 44. Michael Thomas BARSTOW, [1939]. 11 November 2014 aged 94. Christopher Ingram BOSTOCK, OBE, FCA, [1942]. 14 October 2014 aged 91. Alan Howard BOXER, [1950]. In 2014. Gavin William BROWN, FRCO Hon RAM, [1943]. 13 August 2014 aged 89. Peter Charles David CATON, [1951]. November 2014 aged 83. John Edward COFFELL, [1990]. 2 November 2014 aged 42. John MacFarlane CONNELL, [1942]. March 2014 aged 89. Philip Charles COX, [1938]. Peter Alfred Max CURRY, [1951]. November 2014 aged 84. Assim Kumar DATTA, [1947]. (Arthur) Graham DOWN, [1952]. September 2014 aged 85. Humphrey Robin DUTHIE, [1959]. March 2014 Peter Desmond Noel EARLE, [1947]. 15 February 2014 aged 90. Walter Albert EBERSTADT OBE [1939]. 26 February 2014 aged 92. Zvi EIREF, [1956]. 17 April 2014 aged 75. Professor Radu FLORESCU, [1943]. May 2014 aged 88. Norman Eric FLOWERS, [1948]. 27 December 2014 aged 86. The Revd. Malcolm Norris FRANCE, [1949]. 7 July 2014 aged 85. Brigadier Myles Richard FRISBY, [1962]. 16 December 2014 aged 71. Richard (Dick) John GOULD, [1946]. 7 June 2014 aged 91. (Robin) Robert Fraser Bentick GREIG, [1951]. 16 March 2014 aged 80. Professor Sir Henry HARRIS, FRS FRCP FRCPath, [1978]. Emeritus Student, Honorary Student and Former Governing Body Member of Christ Church. 31 October 2014 aged 89. David Charles Egerton HELME, [1939]. 31 August 2014 aged 93. Rustam (Russi) HORMUSJEE, [1936]. 16 May 2014 aged 96. Donald Michael JACKSON, [1954]. 24 July 2014 aged 79. George Joseph JAMES, [1951]. 12 February 2014 aged 81. Dr Alec James KELLAWAY, [1971]. 20 June 2014 aged 61 Christopher Walter Edward KIRK-GREENE, [1945]. 23 September 2014 aged 88. The Hon Sir Andrew Tristram KIRKWOOD, [1962]. 8 May 2014 aged 69. Peter Emil KROYER, [1939]. 22 January 2014 aged 94. 108

Karl Derek LINES, [1986]. 12 May 2014. Michael Charles Fox LLOYD, [1947]. Aged 88. Dr Piers Gerald MACKESY, FBA, [1947]. 30 June 2014 aged 89. (Iain) John Daniel MACLACHLAN, [1951]. 22 November 2014 aged 95. Matthew Dimitri MARKOPOULOS, [1988]. 10 August 2014. Patrick Cecil Norris MARSTON, [1951]. Declan William McCLOUGHLIN, [1960]. August 2014 aged 72. John Eric George McILDOWIE, [1954]. May 2014 aged 78. Professor John Bryce McLEOD, [1950]. 20 August 2014 aged 84. The Revd Kenneth Desmond MINTY, [1944]. 11 May 2014 aged 88. The Reverend Prebendary Michael Joseph MORETON, [1946]. 25 September 2014 aged 97. George Barber MUNROE, [1949]. 19 August 2014 aged 92. Victor Donald PIPPETT, FRACGP, [1947]. 11 May 2014 aged 85. Anthony Richard PLATTS, [1954]. Aged 81. Dr Frederick William PONTING, [1938]. 30 May 2014 aged 94. Michael Brian READHEAD, [1965]. 4 June 2014 aged 67. David Martin RENSHAW, [1953]. 8 September 2014 aged 80. Sibley Putnam REPPERT, JD, [1967]. 21 August 2014 aged 69. Ronald Ellis Wyn ROBERTS, [1952]. 2 January 2014 aged 82. Hugh William STUBBS, [1936] 25 February 2014 aged 96. Vaughan THOMAS, [1979]. 22 June 2014 aged 57. James TRICKEY, [2010]. Former Academical Clerk. 23 December 2014 aged 22. Professor Nigel David WALKER, CBE, D.Litt, Hon FRCPSYCH, Hon LLD, [1935]. 13 September 2014 aged 97 John Geoffrey WYATT, [1957]. 31 May 2014 aged 77.

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FINAL HONOUR SCHOOLS 2014

Biochemistry 2.1 Paul Batty 2.1 James McIvor

Biological Sciences 2.1 Matthew Reynolds 1 Eleanor Tew 1 Serge Wicker

Chemistry 1 Andrew Baxter 2.1 Ryan Bower 2.1 Ju Won Cha 1 Christopher Hutchinson 2.1 Katrina Mennie 1 Adam Smith

Classical Archaeology and Ancient History 2.1 Katie Paul

Economics and Management 1 Kirsty Harrison 2.1 Hannah Keenan

Engineering 2.1 Caroline Ames 2.1 Alexander Bucknell 2.1 Corey Martin 2.1 Harriet Partridge 2.1 Alexander Phillips

Engineering, Economics and Management 2.1 James Alderson Smith

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English 1 Ashley McGovern 2.1 Michael Rabbitte 2.1 Christy Reynolds 2.1 Maisah Thompson 2.1 Charlotte Warwick

Experimental Psychology 2.1 Stephanie Atherton 2.1 Roisin Kelly 2.1 Meltem Osman 2.1 Chloe Phillips

Fine Art 2.1 Olaoluwatunji Adeniyi-Jones 2.1 Imogen McGuinness

Geography 2.1 Rebecca Alexander 2.1 Thomas Moat 1 Kate Pope 1 Alice Tusa

History 2.1 Charles Bridge 2.1 Eleanor Cook 1 Jack Cottrell 2.1 Alice Doorly 2.1 Thomas Gibbs 1 Lawrence Houldsworth 2.1 James Kitchin 2.1 Liesl Rowe 1 Cosima Stewart 1 John-Joseph Tyldesley

History and Politics 1 Max Edwards 2.1 Holly Webb

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History of Art 1 Lucy Costelloe 2.1 Felix Goodman 2.1 Alexandra Talbott

Languages – European and Middle Eastern 2.1 Katharine Wheatcroft

Languages - Modern 2.1 Alfred Lewis 2.1 Constantina Marshall 2.1 Elena Rundle 2.1 Gordon Shishodia 1 Gregory Suter 2.1 Tom Turner

Languages – Philosophy and Modern Languages 2:2 Nisha Julka 2.1 Fraser King 2.1 Rosalind Tan

Law 2.1 Aaron Bradley 2.1 Fiona Bushell 2.1 Leonore Carron-Desrosiers 2.1 Soojean Choi 2.1 Zoe Cooper Sutton 2.1 Camilla Higgins

Law with LSE 2.1 Laura Burt

Literae Humaniores 2.1 Andrea Bellettato 2.1 Peter Gearing 2.1 Zoe Glen 1 Oliver Jones

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Mathematics (4 year) 2.1 Thomas Lewin 1 James Peters 1 Zachary Wilmott

Mathematics (3 year) 2.1 Rosemary Brewin 2.1 Zichen Zhang

Medical Sciences 1 Anna Carlqvist 1 Kyle Myers 2.1 Luke Parker 2.1 Joshua Peppiatt 1 Lavinia Woodward

Music 1 Chloe Bradshaw 1 Savitri Grier 2.1 Ghislaine Reece-Trapp 1 Hazel Rowland 1 Samuel Wood

PPE 2.1 George Greenwood 1 John Hintze 2.1 Kishan Koria 2.1 Saket Kumar 2.1 Jonathan Martindale 2.1 Alex Medhurst 1 Ely Sandler 1 Oliver Schofield 2.1 Clara Tiphine 2.1 Jack Wightman

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Physics (4 year) 1 Mate Hartstein 1 Henry Hesten

Psychology and Philosophy 2.1 Frida Printzlau

Theology 2.1 Isabella Aust

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GRADUATE DEGREES

The following Christ Church graduates successfully completed their courses and passed examinations in 2014:

D.PHIL Jack Alexander-Webber Condensed Matter Physics Relja Arandjelovic Engineering Science Melanie Beer Biochemistry Camille Bonomelli Biochemistry Timothy Carlisle Particle Physics Vladimir Chernyy Mathematics Meenali Chitnis Medical Oncology Tom Clucas English Amandine Collado Zoology Oskar Cox Jensen History Simon Desbruslais Music Yeupeng Dong Engineering Science Jessica Draper Fine Art Simone Finkmann Classical Language and Literature Marie Forest Statistics Tyler Franconi Archaeology Tyler Grant Engineering Science Edward Hancock Engineering Science Sonya Hanson Biomedical Sciences: NIH-Oxford Stephanie Hudson Oriental Studies Torben Kasparek Radiobiology Robert Kiwanuka Engineering Science Harvey Lederman Philosophy Simon Lord Medical Oncology Lucy Maas Politics Michal Molcho Ancient History Ruxandra Mutihac Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics Filip Ostrowski Cardiovascular Medicine Dragos Petrescu Experimental Psychology Aisha Saad Geography & the Environment Andreas Schmidt Philosophy

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Matthias Schmidt Systems Approaches in Biomedical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT) – Biochemistry Siti Aminah Setu Physics & Theoretical Chemistry Ho Yuen Tam Plant Sciences Alexander Thompson Atomic & Laser Physics Jiahe Xi Computer Science

BCL Stephanie Batsakis Civil Law Alison Hammond Civil Law Distinction Kristina Lukacova Civil Law Distinction Sophie Millington Civil Law Wei Jia Zhang Civil Law Distinction

MBA Angela Darby Business Administration Katharine Machtiger Business Administration Distinction

M.Phil Zachary Crippin International Relations Peder Beck-Friis Economics Nicholas Fenech Modern Languages Distinction Jirakiat Jirarattanachan Economics Liam Kirwin Economics Becky Lu Music (Musicology) Josephine Rendall-Neal Modern British & European History Eileen Liong Tipoe Economics James Van Dyke Theology Chloe Wellings Greek and/or Roman History Distinction

M.Sc Graeme Clements African Studies Lindsay Edwards Environmental Change & Management Distinction Michael Gomez Mathematical Modelling & Scientific Computing Distinction Anna Kalashnik Financial Economics

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Hannah Leckie Water Science, Policy & Management Mahala McLindin Water Science, Policy & Management Distinction James Ryan Water Science, Policy & Management Thomas Swartz Nature, Society & Environmental Policy Wei Weng Water Science, Policy & Management

M.St Rory Allen Modern British & European History Distinction Adrienne Atkins Greek and/or Roman History Jordan Black General Linguistics & Comparative Philology Brittany Chalfin English (1830-1914) Laura Franchetti History of Art and Visual Culture Nandhan Maniratnam Theology Distinction

PGCE Sara Ahmed Chemistry Rhiannon Tooze English

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NOTICE OF AWARDS AND UNIVERSITY PRIZES AWARDED TO JUNIOR MEMBERS 2013 - 2014

Gibbs Prize for best performance in FHS Engineering Science (Parts A & B combined):

Matthew Deakin (Engineering Science)

Gibbs Prize for performance in the Preliminary Examination in English Language and Literature:

Andrew Dickinson (English)

Gibbs Prize in History:

Elizabeth Brown (History of Art)

Gibbs Book Prize in History:

Cosima Stewart (History)

Gibbs Prize for the highest mark in General Management (Prelim):

Annapurna Bain (Economics & Management)

Gibbs Prize for the best performance in the Philosophy Papers in the Honour School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics:

Oliver Schofield (PPE)

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OUP Prize for Personal Achievement:

Cayla Riley (Chemistry)

Law Faculty Prize in Law and Society in Medieval England:

Alison Margaret Hammond (BCL)

John Hicks Foundation prize for best overall performance in Quantitative Economics in Economics & Management.

Kirsty Harrison (Economics & Management)

Dacre Essay Prize

Ksenia Levina (History of Art)

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ANDREW CHAMBLIN MEMORIAL CONCERT 2015

The ninth annual Andrew Chamblin Memorial Concert will be given by Lorenzo Ghielmi at 8pm in Christ Church Cathedral on Thursday th 11 June 2015. Mr Ghielmi will play an hour-long programme of Baroque organ works by Scarlatti, Pasquini, Zipoli, Bruhns and Bach. Admission is free and there are no tickets required.

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GAUDIES

One of the most tangible representations of the lifelong link between the House and its members is the tradition of Gaudy hospitality. Gaudy dates are necessarily linked to Term weeks and are normally held on Thursdays in late June and late September/early October. The Governing Body customarily confirms the arrangements, including the date, about four months in advance of the event and invitations are posted around two months ahead. It is, of course, important that you keep the House informed of any change of address. Any old member who is considering advance travel plans is urged to check with the Alumni Relations Officer before making firm commitments. The college hopes to welcome as many old members as possible and therefore, as you may know, this is not an occasion to which it is possible to invite spouses, partners or other family members. It is hoped to adhere to the following schedule, which is based on year of first matriculating as a member of the House:

1991-1993 25 June 2015 1994-1996 1 October 2015 1997-1999 23 June 2016 2000-2002 29 September 2016 2003-2005 Summer 2017* 2006-2008 Autumn 2017*

* date not yet available

With your invitation you will be sent a letter confirming the details for the occasion, including parking arrangements. Bookings may be made by completing and returning the form enclosed with your invitation or via our online booking system. A guidance document for using our online system will be emailed to all invitees for whom we hold an email address when the invitations are posted. At the time of booking you will be asked to advise us of any special dietary or accessibility needs, whether you would like overnight accommodation. There will also be space to note any seating or room requests. An e-receipt will be emailed, or posted, in all cases to confirm your booking, requirements and requests.

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The Gaudy programme is normally as follows:

Thursday 3.30pm Academic lecture and Q&A 4.30pm ‘The House Today’ Forum 6.00 pm Evensong in the Cathedral 7.00 pm Pre-dinner Drinks 8.00 pm Dinner in Hall

Friday 8.15 am to 9.30 am Gaudy Breakfast in Hall 9.00 am to midday Refreshments available 9.30 am Finance and Investment Presentation 10.00 am Walking tours

There will be a display of archival material, related to your year of matriculation, in the Upper Library.

Dress code: Dinner Jacket – Decorations. The Governing Body has decided that Gowns will no longer be worn at Gaudies.

Charges: the only charge is for a room overnight, if required.

For further information, please contact the Alumni Relations Officer: [email protected]

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OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO STAY AT CHRIST CHURCH

Christ Church has a small number of guest rooms available in term and vacation, which Old Members are welcome to book, subject always to availability. Please contact the Conference & Events Assistant, Miss Emma Seward, on 01865 286848 or e-mail [email protected] or [email protected] The college’s Liddell Building at 60 Iffley Road offers very comfortable three and four-bedroom flats with self-catering facilities, and these are often available during July, August and September. If you would like to enquire about making a booking please contact the Conference and Events Assistant, Miss Emma Seward, on 01865 286848 or email emma.seward @chch.ox.ac.uk. Owing to their convenient location and the comfortable appointments of these flats, they are in great demand: early booking is recommended.

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CONFERENCES AT CHRIST CHURCH

Day Meetings The McKenna Room, an attractive and well-equipped private room, is available for day meetings throughout term time. Our College Catering Team can provide refreshments during the meeting and lunch can be taken in Hall. Maximum capacity – 60 Theatre Style.

Dinners The McKenna Room is also available for private dinners. Wide selections of menus are offered and wines are available from the College cellars. Maximum dining capacity – 47.

Banquets The Great Hall can be hired during vacation for banquet dinners. A unique opportunity to experience one of Oxford’s premier college venues. Maximum capacity – 300.

Conferences For many weeks each year Christ Church makes available its accommodation, catering services, meeting rooms and the services of an experienced staff for conferences, meetings and seminars. The newly refurbished Blue Boar Quad has 75 ensuite rooms and a lecture theatre for 120. We are able to accommodate up to 300 for residential conferences (including 120 ensuite rooms).

If you would like further information and a copy of the College’s Conference Pack please contact the Conference & Events Administrator, Miss Joanna Malton on 01865 276174 or e-mail [email protected].

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PUBLICATIONS

The following Christ Church publications are available from the Library: Some Scientists in the Life of Christ Church, Oxford, by P W Kent. Christ Church, Oxford: The Portrait of a College, by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Cartulary of the Mediaeval Archives of Christ Church, ed. by N Denholm-Young. Christ Church and Reform, 1850-1867, by E G W Bill and J F A Mason. Education at Christ Church, 1660-1800, by E G W Bill. The Building Accounts of Christ Church Library, 1716-1779: A Transcription, with an Introduction and Indices of Donors and Craftsmen, ed. by Jean Cook and John Mason. The Emergence of Estate Maps: Christ Church, Oxford, 1600 to 1840, by David H Fletcher.

For information on prices and postage, please contact the Library at: [email protected]

The following catalogues are sold by the Picture Gallery. Requests for purchases should be directed to the Picture Gallery staff. Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford, by J Byam Shaw. Paintings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford: Catalogue, by J Byam Shaw.

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CATHEDRAL CHOIR: CDs

Full details of CD releases with reviews and the option to purchase via Amazon or iTunes may be found on the Cathedral Choir website under Discography:http://www.chchchoir.org/discography

For CDs currently available for purchase at Christ Church, please contact The Chapter House Shop, Christ Church, Oxford, OX1 1DP. Telephone: 01865 201971. Email: [email protected]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Photographs by Ralph Williamson, Ben Spagnolo and Axel Kuhn.

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