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annual gazette

issue 88 w september 2014

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© The Master & Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge Ted Hughes (1930–1998), poet by Peter Edwards CONTENTS Editor’s Note 4 From the Master 5 A. WRITINGS AND TALKS Sermon – James Gardom 11 Marjorie’s War – Reginald and Charles Fair 14 The Third David Andrews German Lecture – Walter Myer 21 The Rosenthal Art Library – Rosalind P Blakesley 28 Tributes to Howard Erskine-Hill – 24 Richard McCabe and Robert Macfarlane Dame Ivy Compton Burnett Prize for Creative Writing 34 B. COLLEGE NEWS New Fellows 47 Fellows’ News 57 Gifts to the College 59 The Dean’s Report 62 Development Office Report 64 The Valence Mary (1997) Endowment Fund 70 College Clubs and Societies 71 C. THE COLLEGE RECORD The Master and Fellows 2013–2014 97 College Officers 2014–2015 103 Matriculation 2013–2014 104 Annual Examinations, First Class Results 2014 109 College Awards 112 Graduate Scholarships and Awards 118 Higher Degrees Conferred 119 D. THE PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY Members’ News 125 Annual General Meetings of the Society 128 Dinners and Receptions 129 Local Contacts 135 Rules of the Society 137 Presidents of the Society 139 E. DEATHS AND OBITUARIES List of Deaths 143 Obituaries 146 F. BOOK REVIEWS AV Grimstone, Pembroke Portraits (2013) 179 G. MEMBERS’ CORNER The Frozen North – Baffin Island Expedition 2014 – Rhian Jones 185 4 | pembroke college

EDITOR’S NOTE This year’s Gazette celebrates the publication of Bill Grimstone’s fascinating Pembroke Portraits, both with a book review on p 179, and by using some of the portraits featured in Pembroke Portraits to mark the divisions of the different sections of the Gazette. The Frontispiece features a portrait that was acquired too late for inclusion in Pembroke Portraits – Peter Edwards’ splendid study of Ted Hughes, that now graces the Dining Hall. As usual, thanks are owed to my secretary, Frances Kentish, for doing so much work to help produce the Gazette and in particular her work on selecting the excerpts from Marjorie’s War that are reproduced in the first section of the Gazette. I am very grateful to the Fellows and students of the College, and Becky Coombs, Sally Clowes, Pat Aske, Sally March, David Franks and Angela Anderson for all their contributions to this year’s Gazette. Particular thanks are owed to Brian Watchorn and Ian Fleming for their obituaries of Howard Erskine-Hill and Tom Rosenthal, respectively; to Reginald and Charles Fair for giving permission to reproduce extracts from their magnificently researched Marjorie’s War; to Richard McCabe and Robert Macfarlane for allowing us to reproduce their tributes to Howard Erskine-Hill at his memorial service; and to Rhian Jones for rounding out this year’s copy of the Gazette with her account of her expedition crossing Baffin Island to raise money for the Youth Adventure Trust – proof, if proof were needed, that there is no corner in any foreign field that has not been touched in some way by people who have spent time at this remarkable College.

Nick McBride

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FROM THE MASTER This year’s introduction to the Gazette leads on from last year’s – and the three things that I highlighted then pleasingly continue to apply, but each one in fact strengthened. We have had another outstanding set of Tripos results with more than a third of our undergraduates taking Firsts. The endowment has grown by another ten million pounds to £70 million, with the Development Office having raised a record £6.79 million in the year to 31 July 2014 (the rest being accounted for by the revaluation of property assets). Finally, there has been continued progress towards development of the Mill Lane site, with the College expecting to secure agreement with the University during 2015 over the area allocated to Pembroke and the timing of its development. This steady upward trend in our ‘key performance indicators’ is of course the result of formidable team and individual efforts by the whole College community – and it is gratifying when those are so clearly rewarded by such positive results. I said last year we should resist the temptation to over-interpret the conclusions to be drawn from a single year’s Tripos results. However, I believe they do point towards good teaching, robust admissions policy and decisions, consistently good performance in the Sciences and the Arts across a range of subjects in all years and striving to meet our access targets without compromising on the College’s top-level academic performance. The Senior Tutor, the Admissions Tutor, the Teaching Committee and Directors of Studies have worked hard to achieve success in each of these areas, but doing it in all of them together is what has made this a vintage year. This year’s development activity has been distinguished by two important donations, both of which play to one of Pembroke’s long-established academic strengths – what used to be called ‘oriental studies’. Bita Daryabari, a California- based philanthropist, has given the College US$2million to sustain Persian Studies, and which will also greatly assist Professor Melville in completing his definitive catalogue of Shahnameh illustrations. The Mohamed Noah Foundation in Malaysia (the family foundation of the Razaks, who have provided the majority of Malaysia’s post-war Prime Ministers) has given Pembroke £2.5 million to endow a Lectureship in Asian Politics in the University, with a Fellowship in Pembroke. The linked appointment, as it is called, breaks new ground in the University as it is the College which receives and holds the money and then guarantees the funds to meet the salary and other costs. The first incumbent will be an expert in Islamic Law and complements appropriately other areas of related scholarship amongst the Fellowship. I would also like to thank the many other generous donors who have given to the College this year, and made it our best fundraising year. I remain reluctant to say too much at this stage about the Mill Lane site development because the University has quite literally kept shifting its ground. However, we are confident that we will get a large slice of it, but now more probably on the south side than the north side. The College is pleased with this prospect, though it may mean diminishing our interest in the Pitt building. This would be disappointing, given the iconic significance of that building for the 6 | pembroke college

College, but it would still be a price worth paying if we are able to realise all of our other ambitions for the site. In my remaining year as Master (some members seem to have been under the impression that I was leaving this August) I hope we can go firm on our plans for the site development and how we will finance it. With a hundred plus rooms to be built and other facilities to be acquired or constructed, it will most likely be the largest expansion of the College in Pembroke’s long history – altogether a significant but very exciting challenge, and satisfying to be doing this directly adjacent to the College site not in another part of town. We are already thinking in terms of a linking tunnel under Trumpington Street! I do not usually draw attention to my own lectures in the Gazette (rather those that invited lecturers deliver at the College). However, I am making an exception because a recent lunchtime lecture that I gave at the Royal United Services Institute on 7 July has attracted interest and attention like no other lecture I have given since I retired from The Secret Intelligence Service in 2004. The lecture can be viewed live on the RUSI and College websites. The core of my argument is that it is time for the government to adopt a more proportionate approach to countering the terrorist threat and a more balanced approach to the distribution of its intelligence and security resources across a broader range of threats to national security.Islam is at war with itself and though our own Muslim communities are, and will be, caught up in the war between Sunni and Shia, we are bystanders, no longer the primary targets that we were for Al Qaeda. The strength of the response to this thesis (every major news channel requesting interviews and many other requests besides) suggests to me that my views may well be widely shared, though no-one in authority, or with authority, has so far expressed them. Of course it is always risky to suggest a diminution in our preoccupation with countering terrorism; one determined radicalised individual can make your argument look premature, at best, or simply wrong. However, even if it is too soon for the government to be listening to this advice, and it probably is, it is not too soon to start asking questions about our national stance so that looking beyond the next election the post-9/11 policies and attitudes which have dominated national security thinking (including my own) might be reconsidered. In conclusion, I will not venture a view on the referendum for an independent Scotland, except to remind members that Pembroke has a large number of Scottish members in Scotland and that Pembroke’s annual Edinburgh dinner is one of the largest of any Oxbridge college. Having attended those dinners frequently, I have become well aware of the drawing apart of aspects of university education north and south of the border. It would be a great shame, whatever the outcome of the referendum, to see that drawing apart moving towards separation – and I know that many Pembroke members, Scottish and English, would also be saddened by it. When commentators speak of the referendum they never seem to mention the thousands of small associations, like the Pembroke alumni, which will be affected and not one feels for the better. The ‘universal’ part of universities sits uncomfortably with separation. I am well aware that I have omitted any comment about the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. However, I did not want to repeat my piece annual gazette | 7 in the Martlet about the significance of the anniversary to Pembroke. I would urge you to read it if you have not done so. This edition of the Gazette appropriately has several more contributions to this theme.

R.B.D.

A. WRITINGS AND TALKS

Nicholas Ridley (1502–1555), Bishop of London Artist unknown

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Sermon James Gardom The following sermon was preached by the Reverend Dr James Gardom, Dean of Pembroke College, on Remembrance Sunday, November 10 2013, in Pembroke College Chapel, on Amos 5:18–24 and Matthew 25:1–13. … F A H Atkey Yorkshire Regt. A B Hoare Loyal N Lancs Regt. E S Phillips Monmouthshire Regt. T R Stoney King’s Own Scottish Borderers. F R Armitage R.A.M.C. C H Eyre Kings Royal Rifle Corps. K I Singh Indian Medical Service. A C Sturdy R.A.M.C. H S Bligh Royal Naval Division. G H Foord Royal Army Service Corps. E V Hemmant E Africa Volunteer Force. G H Millar R Naval Division R Air Force. G G Napier 35th Sikhs Indian Army. J B Partington Devon Regt. T Riley Royal Field Artillery. C H Schooling Chaplain to the Forces… And so many many more… What is our relation to the war dead? 120 have turned up at the war memorial this year, and 50 have come on into chapel, and I think we can ask, Why? What have we come to do? What is our relationship with these long dead, and these memories? In one sense, and perhaps far more here than in many places, our relationship can be one of imaginative identification. This place is not so much changed. They signed their name in the matriculation book. They studied engineering or law, or classics, or science. They ate in that hall. They knew this chapel. The lived and slept, in many cases, in the rooms in which we live and sleep. Imaginative identification, can, up to a point, give us a deeper sense of the reality of these war dead. Men really quite like me and like Professor Melville and Professor Gelsthorpe sat in these seats and reflected when they heard of the deaths of former students. Students who had been promising, witty, clever, serious, or chaotic, or beautiful or funny or wise. It does not take much of a stretch for us to make that imaginative transition. For each George, or Albert, or Edward on the memorial we can quite easily imagine a Harry, an Alex, an Olly. And I think that we should do so. It is a memorial. Part of our relationship with the war dead is a relationship of anamnesis. We make present by remembering, and the vividness of remembrance that is available in this place should not be neglected or evaded. You could choose a name on your way out, and think about it in your heart as Theodore, or Richard, or Rupert. Our relationship with our war dead can be one of drawing close in imagination and shared experience, but it seems to me that even with this there are dangers, and I would like to name two. The first is that we can think that we really know what it was like for these young men, and what it is like for those who fight today. One side we can know in imagination – the wavering perhaps, the courageous decision, farewells to fellows and tutors. Maybe prayers in this place. We can imagine the fears and griefs of parents and lovers. 12 | pembroke college

But all the time another side is really hidden. We have not been surrounded by danger and death, bravery and cowardice. We have not been asked to kill or seen our friends die. Not even war poetry can open to us the hidden gnosis of war. There is another and worse danger. The danger is that we think it is enough just to remember. In our Gospel reading we hear a parable of the wise and foolish bridesmaids. Their vigil for the bridegroom is an image of those who await the Kingdom of God, the rule of justice and peace and righteousness. The wise ones are prepared, active and ready to play their part. It is not enough just to be there, to remember… This can be made worse, in this place, in that we may be beguiled by the ceremony, the poignancy, the solemnity. The more beautiful the music, the stronger the words and the prayers, the greater the danger. We do not come here to crown a heroic sacrifice with beauty. Amos rages against the temple worship that serves to disguise, to mystify the deep wrongs of his time. If, by what we do in this place, on this day, we make the deaths of those soldiers, and the wars in which we engage any easier to live with, then we have failed, and failed their memory. We are gathered here for a Requiem, a prayer for peace. Any communion service and a requiem particularly, brings into one sacramental and imaginative space the living and the departed. It treats the humanity of those who have died as not less real, no less present, than the humanity of those who are still alive. We are here and they are here. We are all together. We are gathered in the sacramental and imaginative space of the Lord’s Supper, where the one who has died and conquered death is the host. This sacramental or imaginative space binds together ourselves and those who fought for peace, and even those they killed and those who killed them. They are here and we are here, and the peace for which they fought is also here, prefiguring the peace of the world. It is a sacramental space created and bounded by Christ – the conviction of a victory accomplished, death and sin conquered. That is our Requiem But this is also a Requiem Mass. The Mass, the traditional word for Communion, It takes its name from the final words of the Latin service “Ite missa est”, “The dismissal is made, Go”. The equivalent in today’s service, “Go in peace, to love and serve the Lord”. We come here so that we can then go. We are sent out to be and to do what we have found in this sacramental space. Human beings. Peacemakers. Sinners set free. Ite Missa Est – Go in Peace. At the end of this service we must go. We must go out, not with a sense of a duty done and an uncomfortable memory wrapped in beauty. We must go out with an active conviction that we can turn imaginative identification into imaginative action, as citizens, engineers, scientists, teachers, theologians, as Master, Fellows and Scholars. It is almost 100 years since the start of the First World War. And here is a final thought. So here is a final thought. Active conviction without hope is hard to sustain. With God’s help, in 2014, the peace they fought and killed and died for is perhaps within our grasp. For the first time in history there are groups of countries, and indeed whole continents, where war is almost unimaginable. annual gazette | 13

Europe, North America, most of South America. This is not because of the fear of an emperor, or even because of the fear of nuclear devastation, but because it no longer enters our imagination as a way of resolving our differences. So maybe this is our relationship with our war dead. Unlike them we have a real chance to build peace. To honour them we must grasp it. If we can do so then we can enter with them, joyful and unashamed the kingdom of our Saviour Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. 14 | pembroke college

Marjorie’s War Reginald Fair and Charles Fair In 2012, Reginald Fair (1947) and Charles Fair (1985) published Marjorie’s War (Menin House Publishers), which is made up of letters and diaries composed during World War I by members of four families, all linked with Marjorie Secretan. Two of the writers featured in the book were Pembroke graduates: Charles Fair (1904) ( father of Reginald, and grandfather of Charles) and Carl Champion (1906). They both fought in World War I. Charles Fair went to Marlborough and studied Classics at Pembroke, before becoming a teacher at Haileybury in 1912. He enlisted on 10 August 1914 and rose to the rank of Major; he was awarded the DSO in April 1917. Charles met Marjorie Secretan – whose fiancée, Toby Dodgson, was killed on the Somme in 1916 – in July 1917 at a concert at Haileybury Charles Fair as Captain of the while studying at the Senior Officers’ School at Aldershot. They Pembroke 1st XV rugby team were married in September 1917. Charles was invalided out of the army in January 1918. Carl Champion studied Engineering at Pembroke and knew Charles, both from the fact that they overlapped at Pembroke, and the fact that Carl – like Charles – taught at Haileybury. He joined the army in 29 September 2014 as an officer. He was awarded the DSO in 1918. After the war, Carl met Marjore’s sister, Esmé – who was at Haileybury helping to treat boys with flu – and they were married in 1921. Charles Fair died on 29 July 1950; and Carl Champion died on 12 June 1963. In the extracts from Marjorie’s War that we reprint below – with the kind permission of Reginald and Charles Fair – we focus on letters written by Charles Fair to members of his family, and Marjorie. 16 October 1915: Charles to his father, on being sent from England (where he was working as a musketry officer at training camps) to join the 141st Infantry Brigade in France It’s a bit of a shock, isn’t it, but I don’t complain though everyone thought I had got a job which would keep me with the Brigade. But it is the first time they have asked for captains and two – Stokes and myself – with two subalterns are going from our Battalion… Though I dislike the prospect naturally, there is a certain amount of relief in feeling that one has at last done the whole thing: to be still in England after fourteen months at war is beginning to seem almost a disgrace… 7 November 1915 (north of Loos): Charles to his father We got into the trenches yesterday. I am in charge of the Company so was a bit worried about the routine, as we are very short of officers. However, I am gradually getting the hang of things. Where we are is very quiet at present… 12 November 1915: Charles to his father We are having our fill of trench life! We took four and a half hours to get to this particular spot through a maze of water-logged trenches. It has rained almost without stopping for four days and you simply can’t imagine what we look like. annual gazette | 15

We haven’t had our clothes off since Friday and haven’t washed or shaved since Wednesday… Our food gets through to us all right and yesterday we had bacon and eggs for breakfast, though the Huns are less than two hundred yards away! It is quite exciting when both sides are using artillery for all they are worth. I am glad I know what it is like: it would have been very difficult to have remained in England all the war and then had to face anyone who had been through it. 13 January 1916: Charles to Helen, his sister I have time for once to write. I am not sure it is a good thing as we are all feeling pretty fed-up with existence. We have just finished eight days in the trenches and were due for four days’ rest, but for some reason our rest consists in hiding in filthy dirty cellars only about four to five hundred yards from the Hun, unable to walk about in daylight, rather short of food, very short in the temper, shorter still in the wind (from lack of exercise) but not short of money, as there is no possibility of spending it! I have only had my clothes off once this year and haven’t had a bath since before Xmas! Altogether we’re feeling rather ill-used as the men have worked most awfully hard. We took over a line of trenches which had been occupied for many months by the French, and they devote all their energies to actual fighting and neglect all sanitary arrangements, or even make their parapet bullet-proof. We’re all feeling very itchy and one of my subalterns has actually got creeping things innumerable. Hitherto I have escaped, but it can’t go on much longer. 13 February 1916: Charles to his father My Company has a sort of post of honour and is probably in a unique position as regards the British front. We are in a long trench on the top of a huge slagheap of a coal mine: the other half of the heap is occupied by the genial Hun. Between us and him there is a great gulf fixed, most of which is barbed wire. It is rather a strain as we are short handed both in officers and men. I have a dugout near the foot. At first I only got two hours’ sleep during forty-eight hours and that was broken, but last night I managed to get about three straight off. 19 March 1916 (Vimy Ridge): Charles to his father …We are back in the trenches, but at present we are getting on all right. The previous occupants had let things slide very much and we have had to put in a tremendous amount Charles Fair in uniform as a Major, 1917 16 | pembroke college

of spade-work to get the trenches in fighting order… The German trenches were also in a bad way and there has been a temporary stoppage of hostilities while both sides have been digging and wiring. It has been rather uncanny to see men on both sides walking about in the moonlight in full view of each other. Apparently neither side at present finds its position good enough to start ‘strafing’ the other, and it remains to be seen which side will begin again first. Stokes is ill and is quite likely to go home with enteritis. 28 April 1916: Charles to his sister Mabel Our time in the trenches had a pretty exciting finish, as the Germans blew up a mine on the last evening just between our front line and theirs. It did quite as much damage to their line as ours… Whenever a mine goes up all the artillery on both sides who are anywhere in the neighbourhood lay for all they are worth. This time it was an awful sight… I was standing in my trench when I suddenly saw a column of earth and smoke rise in the air followed by a sheet of flame of the most appalling size. I at once ordered all my Company into their dugout, and rushed for my telephone to communicate with Battalion HQ. Immediately the most appalling crash of artillery began and every kind of thing streaming over us. All telephones except mine broke down, so that I was the only Officer who could communicate with my CO…. At every sign of a lull I dashed up into the trench to see how my lot was faring and to try to get an idea of what was going on in front. Then came a short lull and I had to call for a volunteer to go to the furthest Company for news. Two men went up (I loathed sending them). Thank goodness they got there and back all right. I never thought to see both unhurt again. 19 September 1916: Charles to his father, describing his involvement in capturing High Wood, as part of the Battle of the Somme I haven’t time to describe the battle of 15th September properly. I am all right, but Col Hamilton was killed. I feel as if I had lost a brother, we have been so constantly side by side in every sort of corner for nearly eleven months. I was not allowed to come up to the very front line till he was hit, as all 2nd-in-command officers were kept back in case of casualties to the COs. He was rallying all men of all battalions after the first direct attack on the wood had failed and, as he led them over the top, a machine-gun bullet killed him. It was just like him to dash in like that but it was not really his job and we feel that he has thrown himself away… Of all the soldiers I have ever known out here he was the finest and he was one of the most absolutely lovable men I have ever come across… 24 September 1916: Charles to his father We are right back now for a short spell at the same place whence we started before moving up to the line. Everyone seems enormously proud of what the Brigade, and our Battalion in particular, has accomplished. At any rate we did what many others have failed to do and took a place which has cost many thousand casualties and which is the last of the really high ground which the Germans occupied in this part of the world. We had a pretty rough time and lost many of our very best. I still feel very strange and lost without Hamilton and the annual gazette | 17 others, but on the whole we are in splendid spirits and are receiving new drafts almost daily to make us up to strength again. 17 December 1916: Charles to his father Thank you and Agnes for sundry letters and parcels including the glove mittens from the school children. They are really very good: I wore them this morning while doing my rounds and they made my hands so hot I had to take them off… We hope to give the whole Battalion roast pork and beer sometime during the festive season. Needless to say, the actual beer will be the gift of the present Commanding Officer! I believe I am to be sent on a six days’ course for COs on December 31st, if I can be spared. I hope it may enable me to fill some of the most obvious gaps in my military knowledge. We are not much excited about the change of government [Lloyd George becoming PM in place of Asquith]. We have learnt to distrust all politicians. If they could import some of the French Staff I think it would be a good thing… 28 May 1917: Charles to his father Did I tell you that I had a visit from Champion the other day [22nd May]? He discovered we were in the same neighbourhood at last and walked eight miles in order to have tea with me in the trenches! Friendship could go no further. 3 September 1917: Marjorie to Charles, the day after he proposed marriage My Dear Charley, I hardly know what to say to you. I still feel I must be dreaming and that I shall wake up and find you are not really there at all. It is rather like stepping suddenly out of a cold, dark winter into the warm sunlight, so that all I can do is to sit still, rather dazedly, and enjoy the bright light. But it’s oh! so splendid to feel happy again and to see other people happy about me, too. 12 October 1917: Charles to Marjorie Charles and Marjorie on their wedding day, …We are still in trenches and 18 September 1917. The photo appeared on the still being rained upon. I am getting front page of the next day’s Daily Mirror. very dirty… We have shifted our quarters and have not gained by the exchange. Your husband can’t stand upright anywhere in the new place! Of course we feed, read, work and write entirely by candle light. Those little collapsible candlesticks I bought at the Army and Navy at Aldershot are proving awfully useful. Our mess is about two-thirds the size of your sitting room. Three of us sleep, wash and live 18 | pembroke college

in it. At meals we are joined by three others. There are two wooden beams sticking up through the table and it takes some juggling to hand the plates round without accidents. 26 October 1917: Charles to Marjorie Your letter and the book have just reached me (dated 22nd)… By the same post I had a letter of congratulations and good wishes to us both from Champion; he is still out here. …Today we came part of the way in motor lorries. …It was also simply pouring. We then tramped for about two hours to our trenches. The weather has become very bad and all the familiar discomforts of the winter are with us. 10 November 1917: Charles to Marjorie Your husband thought he was wet and dirty last night, but tonight beats anything seen since Xmas 1915! I went round at 5.30 this evening and it took three hours. Even then I missed out a bit. The water and mud is clean through my breeches and there is no chance of taking them off tonight, so I am sitting in them rather squishily! I sat down in the trenches four or five times. It was so dark we had to feel our way. The water was over my knees in places and the smaller men are getting stuck in the mud. It is quite one of the worst nights I remember. 12 November 1917: Charles to Marjorie …It has been a simply lovely day here and I have been very busy getting things ready for the arrival of the Battalion tomorrow evening. I have ridden more than a dozen miles and my horse simply loves a touch of frost in the air. I get so awfully angry at the continuous comfort in which the Staff live, most of whom have never seen a trench and never intend to. They can get materials for deck-chairs, bed, arm-chairs and tables, while we have to beg and steal to get anything to sit on at all or eat our meals off. This is no exaggeration as I have been doing it for two years now and everywhere we go we have to make our own simple furniture, while those who stay behind the lines have more or less perpetual homes and makes themselves really comfortable. However, it is good to be out of the trenches at all and it is more than good to be Marjorie’s husband. 16 December 1917: Charles to Marjorie A very bad tempered husband today, though on the face of it he ought to be pleased. We are at least right back at last – rather further than the place where Toby [who was engaged to Marjorie before being killed on the Somme] is buried. But (a) No post for two days. (b) It is snowing. (c) I had only three hours sleep last night. (d) We are in the worst camp I have ever seen. This is what ‘they’ provide as a rest place for men who have unquestionably gone through hell: huts which are utterly un-weatherproof – walls splitting apart – floors full of holes (your husband has fallen through the floor of the Mess three times already!) – three bunks for a whole Battalion to sleep on – two tables, two forms: this is all the furniture. No washing water within a mile. The CO sharing annual gazette | 19 one of these luxurious palaces with eight other officers. This is all to my mind an absolute disgrace to all concerned. How can we buck up the men (who badly need it) either in mind or body in such a place? Every time anyone walks across the floor the candles fall over on the tables and between the cracks in the floor we can see the refuse of the last inhabitants! I hope I am not unduly grumbling, but it is maddening to see, as I have done over and over again, the luxury in which many of the mighty and their underlings live and the poor devils who fight their battles and die for them have such places as these given them for a long-promised ‘rest’. 21 December 1917: Charles to Marjorie We are trying to give the men a bit of an Xmas dinner, but of course all our original plans were spoilt by our move. The best we can do at present is roast pork, apple sauce, pudding, cigarettes and beer. But each man will have a parcel provided by the worthy folk of St Pancras and Camden Town. They are very good to us. I can’t help feeling that the mere fact of someone making peace will prove very infectious, even though we may not consider it a good time for us. Still, there is no doubt that they can’t go on demanding impossibilities of the fighting men of all nations and, if the winter is a hard one, the working classes in all countries on both sides will probably kick a bit. 23 December 1917: Charles to Marjorie A very tired but very, very loving husband and, in a sort of way, a contented one because, though in a sad way, he has really been in touch with Marjorie today. I have found Toby’s grave, darling. The roads are so frost-bound that I gave up hope of riding over to look for it, so after lunch today I took Fox and set off on foot. It was a long tramp but we first got there while there was still enough light to search. I knew nothing except you had said it was south-west of the village and I had seen the photograph. The last mile or two we steered straight across country and came almost straight on to it. It is quite all right, very easy to find, both the crosses standing quite upright and the wire round it and the other grave, on which I couldn’t read the name: was it Toby’s orderly? You can understand, darling, the mixture of thoughts that ran through my head as I stood there. I think you were very present with me. I had taken a white card and I tied it on the cross with this on it: From Charles and Marjorie Fair Xmas, 1917 It is well away from the roads. All around is every sign of war, but today the horror was all concealed by the snow and in the mixture of light – half sunset, half moonlight – it looked weirdly beautiful. I suppose you know what is on the crosses. The one at the head has just the name, regiment and date. The other has the same and, near the bottom, ‘Translated from the warfare of the world into the peace of God’. I copied that down and then we just saluted and came away. Somehow I had a strange feeling of comfort, my darling, because at last even all those miles away from you I had been able to do a little thing for someone you loved, and something that I knew would please you. 20 | pembroke college

13 January 1918: Charles to Marjorie No letter from you yesterday, as I more than half feared. I had a bad day altogether, as when I was going round about midnight, I fell into a 7ft trench, unnoticed in the dark, and have strained some ligaments in the left leg so badly that I am helpless crock in my own dugout! I don’t know what is to be done about it: I must see them through this tour, and then I think the doctor will insist on sending me somewhere where it can be x-rayed, as he is rather anxious about the most tender spot just at the top of the fibula. It is an awful nuisance just now. What I dread most is that I shall be sent to hospital in France long enough to lose command of the Battalion, but not a sufficiently bad case to come home. That would be a maddening combination of circumstances. Meanwhile. I am quite helpless and pretty uncomfortable, as the leg has swollen a lot. I am having it massaged by a stretcher-bearer… 21 January 1918 (Le Havre): Charles to Marjorie I hope I shall see you almost as soon as this reaches you, but I can’t let a day on which I don’t see you go by without writing. I left Le Tréport at nine last night (Sunday) and arrived here at ten this morning. I don’t know when we shall sail, nor when we shall arrive. I hope and pray I shall manage to get to London so that there will be no difficulty about your coming to see me as soon and as often as possible. Isn’t this one of the very things we foresaw when we decided to get married? I am getting dreadfully impatient for my beloved and am cursing the red tape, or whatever it is, that keeps me waiting about when we are so far on our journey. Never mind, it will be worth it a million times when I hold you in my arms again. It’s no good either of us minding kissing in public (if we ever did!) because you shall have to do it for a bit, I expect. My darling, there are millions of them owing to you. Shall post this as soon as possible after landing. All my love, Charles annual gazette | 21

The Third David Andrews Lecture: ‘Culture and Conflict 1914 – 2014: Reflections in the World War One Centenary Year’ Walter Myer On 3 March 2014, the Third David Andrews Lecture on modern German culture took place in the McCrum Theatre on Bene’t Street. The series is generously sponsored by David Andrews, founder of the London-based business processing company Xchanging, and a William Pitt Fellow of Pembroke College. Following guest addresses in previous lectures of the series from film director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and diplomat Henry Kissinger, the bar had been set high for discussion in this, the centenary year of the outbreak of the First World War. The panellists didn’t disappoint, and each brought a distinct perspective to this year’s subject, ‘Culture and Conflict 1914 – 2014: Reflections in the World War One Centenary Year’. Chairing the discussion was Ned Lebow, a Bye-Fellow of Pembroke College whose most recent book, Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! A World Without World War I, presents a stimulating counterfactual history of the 20th Century; also on the panel were David Reynolds, a fellow of Christ’s College and a member of the advisory committee for the Imperial War Museum, and Christopher Clark, a former student of Pembroke and current fellow of St Catherine’s College, whose most recent work, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, has already sold over 100,000 copies since publication in 2012. The guest lecturer was Professor Martin Roth, the current Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, before which position he had served as Director General of the Dresden State Art Collections. Following an introduction provided by Chris Young, who resumes his role as Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages at Pembroke next year, Professor Roth began his address, in which he examined the unique relationship between public museums and war. He drew upon the example of the British Museum, which has only closed its doors twice since its founding in 1753 – during the First and Second World Wars – as an indication of the incompatibility of war and museums. This incompatibility he perceived as one of the great ironies of the museum concept, which, in its preservation of a society’s culture, constitutes an active response to the threat of cultural loss that accompanies war. In a sense, then, museums and cultural exhibits matter all the more when they are most at risk. He closed his comments with an inversion of the well-known ‘lest we forget’ of Rudyard Kipling’s Recessional; instead, Professor Roth called for a positive intervention in our processes of remembrance, with the exhortation ‘let’s remember’. The other panellists then took discussion in a different direction, examining in particular the tone with which official commemorations of the centenary had been marked in Britain. Ned Lebow described the First World War as a Rorschach test, in that the attitudes of successive generations towards the war tell us more about the values of those generations than about the war itself. He noted the way in which distinct national narratives grew out of the war, and observed that these narratives were only now, in the centenary year, beginning to converge. 22 | pembroke college

Christopher Clark was somewhat less optimistic about the reconciliation of European remembrance of the war, decrying the contemporary memory culture in the United Kingdom as a collapse back into Anglocentric nation state narratives. This was in direct reference to the accounts put forward in recent months by historians such as Max Hastings and by the politicians Michael Gove and Tristram Hunt – Gove in particular has set off a high-profile debate in the nation’s press, notably clashing with Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, Richard Evans, after Evans charged Gove with promulgating a brand of ‘narrow, tub-thumping jingoism’. David Reynolds expressed concerns similar to those of Professor Clark on the nationalistic attitudes toward the commemoration, and spoke in praise of the new Cambridge University Press History of the First World War, edited by Jay Winter. Importantly, none of the titles of the work’s 76 chapters contains the name of a country, indicative of a conscious effort to compose an authentically transnational work. He went on to note that, while the countries of Western Europe now can and should move into a transnational understanding of the war, the same is not necessarily possible for many of the former Iron Curtain states, some of which are only two decades into recasting their own state identities, and for whom a national war narrative remains a part of that process. The topics of discussion converged when the panellists began to debate the role of museums in the context of transnational remembrance. Christopher Clark and David Reynolds were quick to point out that museums are often national institutions, and that their debt to the nation state can compromise their objective presentation of historical artefacts – as Professor Reynolds observed, many such institutions had, in the past, served to glorify national wars. When a question from the audience drew the panellists attention to the disagreement characterising planning for the House of European History in Brussels, Professor Lebow provided a fascinating anecdote relating the strong political opposition met by an American colleague of his after he’d attempted to include Japanese historical accounts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings alongside the American account in the National Aerospace Museum. Both this and further discussion concerning the failures of the House of European History provided a remarkable glimpse into the way in which political processes can still determine a cultural institution’s portrayal of the past. Crucially, the subject of the Ukrainian Crisis was never far from the surface. Professor Roth recounted the attempts of the National Art Museum in Kiev to acquire the trebuchet constructed in the Maidan; Professor Lebow alluded to the conflict as a real threat to the ‘fundamental and profound reconciliation among former adversaries’; however, perhaps most significant of all was the empty chair at the side of the stage – Simon McDonald, the British Ambassador to Germany, had intended to join the panel, but had been instructed at the last minute to stay at his post due to the crisis. The spectre of the conflict loomed throughout the conversation, and formed part of Christopher Clark’s comparison between the worlds of 1914 and of 2014 – both, unlike the bilateral stand-off of the Cold War years, feature a weary titan (Britain then, the US now), a rising power (Germany annual gazette | 23 then, China now), and rising levels of unpredictability made manifest in regional crises worldwide. Irrespective of the actual danger posed by today’s international climate, the panellists shared in their contention: as Britain and the rest of the world commemorates the First World War over the next four years, efforts must be made on the behalf of museums and historians worldwide to transcend national narratives and develop a collective understanding of the First World War. A comprehensive cohesion of understanding is, after all, surely our best defence against further lapse into the conditions that made war possible one hundred years ago.

From left to right: Professor Chris Young, Professor Martin Roth, Professor Richard Ned Lebow, Professor Christopher Clark, Professor David Reynolds 24 | pembroke college

The Rosenthal Art Library Rosalind P Blakesley The Rosenthal Art Library was officially opened on 3 December 2013. Below our Director of Studies in Art History pays tribute to the gift from Tom Rosenthal that has transformed our holdings of books on Art History. Any alumni choosing to revisit the sites of their fevered exam revision in Pembroke library will notice a significant change these days in the form of the Rosenthal Art Library, housed in the western room on the ground floor. Announced in the elegant lettering of Eric Marland, who carried out Pembroke library’s other inscriptions in the entrance hall, the library stands testament to the insight, discernment, and generosity of one of the college’s great bibliophiles, Tom Rosenthal (1956). The son and father of two other distinguished members of college – one a fellow in oriental studies, the other the recent historian of the National Theatre – Tom rejoiced in the art of the book in many ways: initially as a publisher (and, notably, the model for the bearded and bow- tied protagonist of the veteran Snipcock and Tweed cartoon in Private Eye); but also as a writer, critic, and reviewer, and through active and devoted association with the National Book League. In each of these spheres of activity, he left an indelible mark. But the art of collecting books brought Tom a very specific joy. He would read them, reread them, open them, stroke them, and sing their praises to generations of captivated audiences. He would travel great distances to find the most apposite new addition to his library, and – health issues in later life notwithstanding – lug the precious acquisition home. He would devour his books’ visual and verbal delights as they teetered in precarious piles on his desk or elbowed their way to the front of bookshelves in every single room (not to mention the corridors and staircases) of the explosion of culture that was his and his wife Ann’s north London home. And then, towards the end of a life of incident and intrigue, of conviviality and conversation that was second to none, he decided to donate his remarkable collection to Pembroke. The result is a gift of some 1,700 books, as well as scores of rare and valuable catalogues, that were published during a critical half-century of art history, and cover over two centuries of artistic and cultural life. The collection’s major strength is twentieth-century art, complementing Tom’s own research interests annual gazette | 25 in such diverse but ever-engaging artists as Ivon Hitchens and Josef Albers, L.S. Lowry and Paula Rego. Indeed, the collection came to Pembroke together with a fabulous Rego portrait drawing of Rosenthal – aptly laconic – that hangs in the Rosenthal Art Library. A longstanding and close friend of Tom’s, Rego portrayed him more than once, and, together with other friends, they celebrated many a new year in style at Ann and Tom’s annual party. But Pembroke students and scholars also benefit from a wealth of catalogues of foreign exhibitions, including groundbreaking shows at the Musée d’Orsay, that are often rare in any British library, let alone those of Cambridge. There are valuable publications on art of a much earlier era, such as the magnificent two-volume catalogue raisonné of Sir Joshua Reynolds, that would have been beyond the reaches of the library’s budget but will support teaching and research for centuries. There are curious foreign-language volumes, too, including original publications by members of the Russian avant-garde. Behind every volume lies its own priceless Tom tale. When asking him about his rare volume of poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky, he informed me that he went to Moscow just the once. But when he did, he visited none other than Evgeny Yevtushenko, iconic poet of the Soviet era, in his flat just minutes’ walk from the centre of power in the Kremlin that Yevtushenko would quietly challenge in his troubled and troubling verse.

Tom’s bequest makes Pembroke one of the strongest Cambridge libraries for art historical research, and almost certainly the best Oxbridge college for the study of modern British art. Lovingly cleaned and catalogued by the Librarian, Pat Aske, and her team, it bespeaks the passions, friendships, and foibles that can by 26 | pembroke college

nurtured by books. Indeed, the college owes thanks not only to Tom but to Pat, too. Visiting Tom over many years, Pat came to understand the strength of his relationship with his library. Appreciative of what a wrench it was when the time came for Tom and his books to part, Pat personally supervised the packing of every volume in London, their transport up the M11, and the cries of delight and clouds of dust that accompanied their unpacking in Cambridge. Tom’s work is done, as is Pat’s with regard to his books. They stand proud on shelf after oak shelf in the Rosenthal Art Library. Those of us with work still to do are the art historians and art lovers who will lose ourselves in Tom’s books, admire, absorb, and contest their ideas, and quietly express thanks for Tom’s legacy for generations to come. Tom Rosenthal died on 3 January 2014, one month after the opening of the Rosenthal Art Library. Ian Fleming’s obituary for Tom is at p 168. We reproduce below the text of Tom Rosenthal’s speech at the opening of the Library. Master, Duncan, Ladies and Gentleman, this is for me a moment of great happiness and I would like to thank the Master, Fellows and staff of the college, particularly Pat Aske the Librarian who tackled the daunting task of transporting and shelving in some semblance of order, nearly two thousand weighty art books and for making this Herculean effort look like an Art Library. I also want to express much gratitude to Duncan Robinson for postponing his trip to America so that he could perform this ceremony today. Originally it was my intention to bequeath the fruits of six decades of reading, publishing and collecting these books so that I could keep them in all their glory at home till I fell off the twig. But, one day, I was thinking of my father Erwin, wishing so often that I could still talk to him and hear what he could tell me about what was going on in our beloved Pembroke; I’m sure many of you here today will remember him. Then, irresistibly came into my mind his maxim ‘It’s always better to give with a warm hand.’ That alone made me want to change the bequest into a gift and, if I am honest, this change would enable me to take part in today’s ceremony and surely enjoy it rather than putting any erroneous belief in life after death. Pure vanity for which I apologize. When I was a schoolboy here at the Perse, I reached the fifth form with a severely alienated view of art, being incapable of painting and deadly bored by the depiction of brushes in a jam jar. The art class was the last of the day and it was my habit, as the last minutes crawled by, to fasten my bicycle clips to expedite my ride home. The art master noticed this and yelled at me ‘Rosenthal, you are a wretched scruffy East End tramp’. Be that as it may, when it came to the sixth form our relationship warmed because I was the only boy who engaged with him in art appreciation as I began to become a regular visitor of the Fitzwilliam and, when I could afford it, an overwhelmed student of the big London exhibitions. I joined the art publishing house of Thames & Hudson and, whenever my father took me into dinner in hall, followed by the rituals of the Parlour, I would be accosted by the then Master, S C Roberts, not an academic but the head of the mighty CUP, always with a humorous glint in his eye and the words ‘Hello Tom, annual gazette | 27 still publishing those ridiculously expensive books, eh?’ Happily I can report that quite a lot of what SC thought over-priced now grace these shelves. Since publishing, then as now, was singularly ill paid, I doubled as critic and broadcaster to survive in London and my proudest moment as a freelance, apart from assuming the art critical chair of The Listener once occupied by Wyndham Lewis and Herbert Read, was to be asked by the BBC to do four twenty minute broadcast talks on Picasso. These were sent out under the rubric of ‘Sixth Form Talks for Schools’ and word got back to me that my old enemy, the art master, had re-organized the Perse timetable so that his current pupils could listen to his ‘star pupil’ to whom he had taught all he knew. So much for the ‘wretched East End tramp’. We all sometimes think of posterity. Mine consists of Ann’s and my two sons who have greatly overtaken my own performance, the books I have written, all of which are still in print and, last but by no means least, the Art Library being celebrated today. I am honoured that Pembroke College has done it so proud. Thank you. 28 | pembroke college

Howard Erskine-Hill – Tributes Howard Erskine-Hill, Fellow of Pembroke since 1980, died on 26 February 2014. A memorial service was held for him in Pembroke College Chapel on 26 April 2014. We reproduce below the addresses at the memorial service given by Professor Richard McCabe, Tutor in English at Merton College, Oxford, and Dr Robert Macfarlane (1994), Fellow in English at Emmanuel College. The address given by the Reverend Brian Watchorn (1965) serves as Howard’s obituary and can be found at p 155 of this Gazette.

Professor Richard McCabe: I first met Howard in 1977 when he agreed to supervise my doctoral dissertation and our subsequent friendship, all thirty-seven years of it, was rooted in that association. Our first official meeting was very formal, and I was particularly tense. I wondered if Howard realised that we had met once before, anonymously at a seminar where we had disagreed strongly about a passage in Jonson. I wondered if his formality was the product of manner or memory. Only at the end, as I got up to leave, did he say, ‘you are the young man from the Jonson seminar, aren’t you?’ Nervously I confessed that I was. He smiled, stretched out his hand and said, ‘It is very good to meet you again’. I tell that story because it illustrates Howard’s character so well. He was interested in scholarship not discipleship. As a supervisor, he helped me to find my own critical voice, not ventriloquize his. It didn’t take me long to realise that he was possessed of what Pope described as ‘a knowledge both of books and human kind’. We got to know one another through literature, and went on a number of literary vacations together, one to Alfoxen and Nether Stowey on the trail of Wordsworth and Coleridge, one to Crabbe country, and one to the south of Ireland, to visit sites associated with Spenser, on all occasions taking our complete editions with us and reading passages to one another as we walked. On my last visit to Howard, when he was already quite confused about many things, I was surprised to find that he still remembered our trip to Kilcolman Castle and the difficulty we had in reaching it across a field of fearsome nettles. But then, all of my memories of Howard have strong scholarly associations: as a JRF here in Pembroke I remember showing him the hidden panels in the Gray Room before he too became a fellow of the college; I remember the jolly dinner in London after his Warton lecture at the British Academy; and, of course, I remember the wonderful evening in the Old Library to celebrate the presentation of the festschrift that David Womersley and I had the pleasure of editing. Howard’s scholarly career began in Nottingham where he studied the eighteenth century as an undergraduate under Vivian de Sola Pinto and went on to take his doctorate on Pope. Appointed to his first job at Swansea in 1960, he published a much admired edition of Pope’s Horatian Satires and Epistles (1964). He retained great affection for Nottingham and Swansea throughout his life, but it was at Cambridge, where he moved in 1969 as a Fellow of Jesus College, that he produced the book that firmly established his scholarly reputation: The Social Milieu of Alexander Pope, published to great acclaim by Yale in 1972. It is a remarkable piece of scholarship but also remarkably characteristic of its author. annual gazette | 29

What Howard was interested in here was the human context that shaped Pope’s poetics, the many relationships with friends, and antagonisms with foes, that helped to mould the social conscience underlying the satires. The work is structured to move through a series of meticulously researched biographies, drawing upon a mountain of previously neglected archives, to an over-arching analysis of Pope’s handling of the great themes of benevolence, social justice, and philanthropy. Reviewing the book for the Modern Language Review, the poet Donald Davie remarked, ‘this is one of those very rare books that truly deserve the description: humane scholarship’. That description applies not just to the first book but to Howard’s entire canon. For him, as for Pope, ‘the proper study of mankind was man’, and the tradition in which he laboured was very much the Humanist tradition. It was that tradition, as he understood it, that he always felt impelled to defend. His celebrated opposition to Derrida, for example, was born of the fear that the humanity of letters was precisely what would be lost in deconstruction. Some would debate that, but for Howard, as for Pope, a principle had to be ‘a principle profest’. He regarded it as a moral duty to speak out, and speak he did from this college on national television, framed in a great spoke-backed chair. And he was only mildly embarrassed, when I told him how wonderful it was for me, a lapsed Catholic, to hear someone other than the Pope speak ex cathedra. Reread now in retrospect, The Social Milieu demonstrates a deepening sense of empathy between its author and its subject, the sense that many of Pope’s ideals were also becoming Howard’s ideals, as Pope’s religion would later become Howard’s religion. Politically, too, he became Pope’s fellow-traveller, making the wonderful collection of Jacobite medals and memorabilia so proudly displayed to visitors at Chesteron Road. The Social Milieu readily demonstrates why Pope came to preoccupy Howard’s imagination to the degree that he did, and given the part that Pope played not just in Howard’s work but in his life, it is peculiarly fitting that his final monograph, now being prepared for the press by his friend, Alex Lindsay, should be a biography of Pope. Shortly after joining Pembroke, Howard produced what is probably his most celebrated work, The Augustan Idea in English Literature, published by Edward Arnold in 1983. This is a masterly achievement which examines the manner in which an ambitious, and sometimes ruthless, politician called Octavian transformed himself into the cultural icon known as Augustus, and how generations of poets and commentators have responded from Roman times, through figures such as Petrarch, Shakespeare and Jonson, to Pope and his contemporaries. As Howard presented it, it involved nothing less than the shaping of Western culture, what he termed ‘this great subject of the Humanities’. The depth of knowledge he displays in expounding that subject is stunning and his control of argument exemplary. The work culminates in a brilliant set of essays on Pope’s imitations of Horace mingling acutely close readings of the texts with minute attention to the political circumstances in which tThank you.hey were written. To no-one’s great surprise in 1985, just two years after the work appeared, Howard was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, and a D. Litt. followed three years later. 30 | pembroke college

It has often been noted, and sometimes critically noted, that the politics in which Howard was interested were almost exclusively the politics of state. He freely acknowledged that, but did not regard it as a limitation. For him, politics provided the public theatre in which personal principle was tested, and he was fascinated by the various acts of courage, compromise and betrayal that it produced, and how they came to be presented on page and stage. The culmination of this interest was the simultaneous publication by the Clarendon Press in 1996 of the two companion volumes Poetry and the Realm of Politics and Poetry of Opposition and Revolution, dealing between them with political literature from Shakespeare to Wordsworth. A particular strength of the project was its analysis of the ways in which various writers such as Milton, Dryden, Pope, Dr Johnson, and Wordsworth struggled to encompass experiences of political defeat, disaffection, or disappointment. For private as well as professional reasons, Howard was always fascinated by the lost cause, the missed opportunity, the road not taken. Although his themes involve high politics, Howard’s focus, through the attention he pays to the relationship between poetic language and private circumstance, is as much on the personal as the political, a feature of his writing that is particularly evident in the fine analysis of Wordsworth’s Prelude that concludes Poetry of Opposition and Revolution. For Howard everything depended on that ideal of ‘humane scholarship’ identified by Davie as the hallmark of his first monograph. And I know from our private conversations that he found its ultimate expression, very appropriately, in his favourite poet. In sketching the character of the perfect Humanist towards the end of the Essay on Criticism, Pope encapsulated the ideal that Howard tried to embody. And to a very large extent, as teacher, colleague, and certainly as friend, he succeeded. Friendship was a dominant theme in Howard’s work, but perhaps the defining theme in his life, a refuge against the loneliness that so often threatened to break in. I am sure that many of us here have had the same experience: the phone would ring around nine in the evening and Howard would be on the line, and you always sensed that whatever the immediate reason for the call, and it was often a scholarly reason, the important thing was the call itself, the contact with a friend. I shall miss the calls, and the letters, and the dinners at the ‘Oxford and Cambridge’, as shall many here, but by way of consolation we have the memory of someone who was entirely sincere in his emotions, and the intellectual legacy of undoubtedly one of the greatest scholars of his generation. In that respect Pope’s lines on the ideal critic seem to me to constitute a very fitting epitaph for the Howard I knew as teacher, colleague, collaborator, and friend, and I shall conclude by reading them in his honour: But where’s the man, who counsel can bestow, Still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know? Unbiassed, or by favour, or by spite: Not dully prepossessed, nor blindly right; Though learned, well-bred, and though well-bred sincere; Modestly bold, and humanly severe: Who to his friend his faults can freely show, annual gazette | 31

And gladly praise the merit of a foe? Blessed with a taste exact, yet unconfined; A knowledge both of books and human kind; Generous converse, a soul exempt from pride; And love to praise, with reason on his side? (Essay on Criticism, 631–642)

Dr Robert Macfarlane: My first meeting with Howard was the most intellectually frightening experience of my life. It was the winter of 1993, I was 17 and callow, and Howard and Mark Wormald were interviewing me for possible admission to Pembroke. I was shown into Howard’s room, greeted warmly by Mark, and then realised that of my other interviewer I could see nothing but a silhouette. This was in the days before interview training: we’re now taught how to set students at their ease, pay attention to the layout of the rooms in which we interview, and generally to offer a feng shui of calm and parity. Not back then. Howard was seated in front of a window through which white winter sunshine poured, backlighting him so that he was only an outline. The outline proceeded to interview me, piercingly. Occasionally there came a lethal twinkle from his spectacles. The event has the clear impress in my memory of all such primal scenes: he asked me about Keats, and I offered inanities about urns and nightingales. He allowed me to talk about Seamus Heaney, which I did with energy but imprecision. And then he asked me about Henry Fielding, and whether I knew why Fielding had turned from drama to prose fiction. By huge chance I did: Walpole’s Theatrical Licensing Act of 1737, a piece of stage legislation that unintendedly changed the course of the English novel. The silhouette paused briefly and nodded, clearly surprised that I had salted this fact away. It was the straw of hope to which I clung while waiting to hear if an offer was forthcoming. One was, I came to Pembroke, and for my first year there was not only taught by Howard, but also found myself his neighbour on N-Staircase: a proximity he bore with remarkable tolerance. In that year I did little to endear myself to Howard, including – unaware of his life’s commitment as a scholar – telling him that the one Augustan I didn’t want to study was Alexander Pope, whom I found ‘tedious’. Howard was still fond of reminding me of that faux pas nearly twenty years later. It has been one of the consolations of reading the many tributes sent in by Howard’s former students to learn that I was by no means the only person thus to have calumnied his hero. Patiently, though, and with the austere passion that characterised much of Howard’s life, he led me – as so many others – into the magnificent intricacies of literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, introducing me to writers of whom I cannot now imagine being innocent: Vaughan, Herbert, Traherne, the antic canticles of Kit Smart and his cat Jeffrey, and the wunderkammerish arcana of Thomas Browne’s prose. Somehow, he made the devotional and political contexts of these distant writers at least visible to us. His knowledge was so 32 | pembroke college

exceptional in its density that I felt it first as a reprimand, then as a spur. If it seemed at times that he understood the decades of Jonson or Dryden or Browne more subtly than he did the 1990s, this was itself a form of inspiration, whereby scholarship – after the Paterian example – could act as a kind of time-travel. Jodie Ginsberg, another former student, recalls the same sense of out-of-epochness about him, noting that she would not have been surprised to discover, in the Collected Poems of Alexander Pope, ‘An Epistle to Professor Erskine-Hill’. Howard’s tastes were by no means confined to the long eighteenth century, though. Although the Derrida affair means that he is recalled unfavourably in certain quarters as an anti-avant-gardeist and a conservative, he could in fact be open both to experiment and to contemporaneity. He was one of the pioneering supporters in the Faculty of the study of what was then called Commonwealth Literature, and he often put difficult modern work in front of his students: I remember Thom Gunn’s poetry of the AIDS crisis, plenty of Beckett, the strange prose mysticisms of Robertson Davies, BS Johnson, even once some Jeremy Prynne. Approaching a supervision with Howard, whatever the subject, you were always nervous, for you knew that there you would be tested. There was no winging it. Dan Burnstone nicely remembers ‘the steep and echoing climb to Howard’s room, where he would be found sandbagged by stacks of books and papers, the typewriter on the table’. Howard possessed an X-ray vision, which was able to see through flannel and fibs. Ignorance was acceptable to him, but laziness was not. I speak mostly of my own experience of Howard’s teaching not because I think it to be singular but because I know it to be typical. Time and again, in the memories of former students that have reached me, the same virtues and qualities are mentioned: a generous wish to share knowledge rather than to hoard it. An asceticism of manner that could not disguise a warmth of heart. Courtesy, principle, loyalty. A wit, sharp-edged sometimes; a fondness for comedies of manners both on the page and in life. Patience with confusion, a readiness to teach the average with the same commitment as the brilliant. He was not, certainly not, an easy supervisor, and his manner did not, certainly not, work for every student. There were those who found his shyness to be an aloofness, his distance a kind of chilliness. But he was, at core, a teacher as well as a scholar. Kate Beales recalls overhearing him saying once, wistfully, that ‘All I want to do is to inspire my students with a love of literature’. Alex Went speaks of a ‘dry but kindly inquisitor who always seemed to carry his learning lightly.’ Nick de Somogyi describes him as ‘a man of utter principle, above all in the spiritual generosity of his – and blessedly our – education (a word for which he lived),’ and notes acutely that Howard wanted ‘to encourage thinking, not acolytes’. Saul Rosenberg recalls him as ‘the single most formative influence on my intellectual life’; Saul went on to write a doctoral thesis on Faulkner, which he dedicated to Howard. When I graduated, Howard bought me from the market a little late 19th- century edition of Henry Vaughan, bound in soft calfskin, with a gilt owl impressed onto the cover, and an inscription in his slanting copperplate. I still annual gazette | 33 remember my pride at the beauty of the book, and the generosity of the inscription. I later found out that, characteristically, he had bought and inscribed a book for every English graduate that year. Mine was signed off, ‘In friendship, Howard’. But the notion of becoming friends with Howard was then preposterous. What would we say to each other? What interest could he possibly find in conversation with me? However, like numerous other former students here today, I did become friends with Howard. It took time – more than a decade in fact; time for me to mature and him to unbend. Though dissimilar in numerous ways, we shared a city, a profession, a love of literature, and a passion for mountains and mountain culture. We met, talked, drank – usually in the Champion of the Thames. I felt guilty when I did not see him for six months, anxious at his loneliness, aware of my busy-ness. He was supportive of my writing, about which he wrote me letters I greatly value, and he watched my academic career within Cambridge and the English Faculty with paternal vigilance. More than once, I know, he stepped in to do battle on my behalf, though typically he did not tell me had had done so until long after the conflict had ceased. In March last year, I took Howard out for lunch. He drank red wine, apologetically, and we talked about Pope, mountains, sailing, Macedonia, and limestone. He wept a little, as he did more and more often in his final years, and as we were bidding farewell he took from his knapsack a huge leather-bound and gilt-tooled book, entitled Footsteps of Dr Johnson, by George Birkbeck Hill, published in 1890, and rich with maps and engravings. He gave the book to me – as he had been giving books, I knew, to others. It was a means of divesting himself of his chattels as he aged, yes, but also a substitute means of expressing affection, given the difficulty he found in speaking plainly of emotion. ‘To Robert’, the inscription began, and it ended: ‘From his old teacher, Howard Erskine-Hill’. We embraced awkwardly, my old teacher and I, and that – until the hospital – was the last time I saw him: walking stiffly off down Pembroke Street towards College. It felt that a great distance had been travelled since I first met him as my interviewer, and though I could not help him with his unhappinesses (as no one could help him), I felt intensely glad (as many have felt) first of his teaching, and then of his friendship. The silhouette had been filled in, and the man was unforgettable. 34 | pembroke college

The Dame Ivy Compton Burnett Prize for Creative Writing 2014 This year the prize was judged by the poet and prize-winning children’s author, Kevin Crossley-Holland. He wrote in support of the winning entry: ‘I have read and several times revisited the six shortlisted entries for this year’s College creative writing prize. To my mind, ‘Apricots’ and the poems accompanying it are estimable, and the two short stories (‘Surely Now our Household Hearths are Cold’ and ‘Under Cover of Darkness’) are both outstanding. But, I think the sequence of poems ‘Corelines’ has the edge. Turning on the connective tissues between harp and heart, often with stunning imaginative force, these fine poems are hard-won and yet immediate. And they show time and again how infinitely precious, elastic and musical our language is. So their author is my nominee for this year’s prize. The author of ‘Corelines’ is Phoebe Power, an English undergraduate at Pembroke College.

Corelines Harp Duet Clarsach Wren Chapel Sleeping in his Harp-Case Mary’s Dreams Compline Easter Windows Drag Harpist Dido for Anna Corelines annual gazette | 35

Harp Duet two heads, four shoulders, passing notes hardwristed veins pumped with steel and wood, eyelids pierced with cold; gold irises. Dark sleeves sift the space between, fingertips run in and out of weftline, forcefields, hands brush eyebeam, his hand, her hand sprung into the gap of suspension, counterpoint, pointed, gold nails. Stroking a heart the size of a house between them, inking arches, arched eyebrows, the arch of the harp’s mahoghany back bound to the window’s night: a harp picture, one harp and two harpists, two halves of a heart. Conceiving and expanding wings, great arms embracing art or children, or pilgrims or mothers, a boy and a girl holding space by strings but never touching each other 36 | pembroke college

Clarsach

They lift the girl-harp in a hammock of silver wire not to touch the ground or snap

a clavicle. Her feet are blades not pedals. They change the key in naturals

and sharps. On the lawn, she tingles her clitoris, and notes sprinkle with the grass-seed in the air. annual gazette | 37

Wren Chapel

gridline windows– whiter stare– or bluer– greener squares glass-cake ceiling– sky invoked columns pieced from air

voices bent to bells reciting Bibles– share in Chloe– Testament intoned voltas– turns– hard oak stalls

beards– bald spots– pearls Service – Order– crisped A4 sheepskin gloves– sherry gleam God– sits on a marble chair 38 | pembroke college

Sleeping in his Harp-Case

Harry’s bed was locked up but the harp was still there, sphinx-serena in her case. He shifted the robe from her slim dark shoulders and she made no sound, but bare strings shone white in the night electrics. Head too large, hips too narrow, feet a foetus coiled at one end. That night, Harry slept in his heart-case. annual gazette | 39

Mary’s Dreams

First Immaculata arrived with her briefcase of tweezers, plucked and flossed me, Felicity buffed and filed, I was gargled, lips vaselined and sealed. They prised my navel for disinfection but left it, blinking, smelling of nothing.

*

On the terrace, hair washed and dried for a sunlit breakfast, watching the blue ocean: Anne came, whispering annunce, annunce, and Teresa rinsed my pores and slipped in the whitegold. We sat there, after, sewing angels’ wings.

*

Then Natalie with her wide white face and dark brown eyes sat with me, rubbing my flanks to be haylike and warm, while the animals moved in closer and I rocked in the weak light, under the stars like milk on ink. 40 | pembroke college

Compline

Each time we breathe we collect, let go, forget, feeling the grey edges lift from our eyes as we lose understanding of upright, our flesh parts unstringing in dimness

of line, notes unpicked from the husk of the bass, to leave this light fruit, ferial melody sputtering its wind- tripping-trickle for weekdays, barefoot

in chapel, a girl like a mute dart lighting more corners with candles so walls disappear and presses the glow-worm choirlights to fill us with stars,

pouring each paper cup with a circle of cocoa dissolved in hot milk. The air in Pembroke is sweet, laid out like the leaves of an old book. Now it is late. Let me

stretch out, under your warm wings. annual gazette | 41

Easter Windows

They began blue, greyblue, aquamarine and said, take, eat, this is my body chapel light but the night was shadow unto a place called Gethsemane window squares darkened to ink and he went out, and wept bitterly where the crucifix hung among stained glass departed, and went and hanged himself deepened as the text progressed, slowly they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote edges absorbed into the glassdark vinegar to drink, mingled with gall like a stain seeping blacker, plummets the ninth hour… Eli, Eli, Lamasabachthani! sublimates, till it altogether lost shape 42 | pembroke college

Drag Harpist

I encrust my harp with strawberry-flavoured, gold-painted MDF, covering the body within. This I alone ever see, when I stand at the mirror in my underpants, brushing my teeth.

I sometimes perform in a Baroque wig. Othertimes it’s Georgia, beauty spots and gold teeth. I must cut my fingernails, they’re out of hand, not harpist hands: magenta varnish chipping off. Fucking cheap stuff.

Just sometimes, there’s so much crêpe I can’t quite play, the notes won’t come, always flat – never that tight, white note, bone in the centre of a room, that heart hanging from a string. annual gazette | 43

Dido for Anna

If I could have siphoned his silence, his saturate dumb fuck all just my body hot lithe body in a cave I’d live in that space, my fury unhooking itself, shoulders growing rounder, falling away in warm water. If I’d had a piece of his silence. I kept it from you, sister, in daylight I danger, delicious, cool silvered azure, lips sculpted, I Dido, delicious in daylight. In my flamethrown room I sweated, wore away sandals, bits of leather, hair in knots, loose tresses, knuckles cut shaving wood for the pyre. I’ll wear my finest – or maybe I’ll wear nothing – I’ll squeeze my nipples to pulp. I’ll wear my sandals loose, unknotted. I believed I was in this alone. Soulmate, backturned I was bound in a burning quiver of Madness, and fired myself with you and our city, baby Carthage – the flames spread over everything. I pulled the fire around me and turned my back. Afterwards, you cleaned my gashes with water. You mopped up the blood with the dress you were wearing. My darling, you opened me with your lips as I closed, and when I left you stayed, stilled in my breath. 44 | pembroke college

Corelines

after Mallarmé: ‘Sainte’

Unpicks itself of its gilt, sandalwood harp in the corner brushes free of its own Magnificat streams,

outbreathes a haze, gold flakes of paint, quavers and lashes flicker the space.

Fingerbone tightened to break, your palms rubbed to their stringed-up gut, nails

softened and brown, now you are like a saint, body bled to its wire in hammering

labour, muscle held between metal, inside the carved DNA of birds and twigs – the corelines – the heart. B. COLLEGE NEWS

Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626), Master of Pembroke and Bishop by Joseph Buckshorn

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NEW FELLOWS Nine new Fellows of the College introduce themselves to the Pembroke College Cambridge Society in their own words: ANTHONY ASHTON was admitted to Pembroke in October 2013 as the Stokes Fellow in Mathematics. He writes: I grew up in the seaside town of Rhyl on the North Wales coast and came up came up to Cambridge in 2002 read for a degree in Mathematics at Peterhouse. Having thoroughly enjoyed my time as an undergraduate, I decided to stay on for Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. During this one year course I studied a range of subjects, from Quantum Field Theory and Acoustics to Functional Analysis and Operator Theory. On completing Part III in 2006, I took up a PhD in DAMTP, under the supervision of Prof. A.S. Fokas. During my PhD I worked on problems in the theory of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), particularly on developing new methods that could be used to study elliptic boundary value problems. This particular area of research allowed me to use techniques from pure mathematics to solve important problems in applied mathematics -- I felt I got the best of both worlds! I finished my PhD in 2009 and managed to win the EPSRC prize fellowship in DAMTP. This 9 month fellowship allowed me to extend many of the results I obtained during my PhD. Based on this work I won a Junior Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College, where I stayed from October 2010 until September 2013. I am now the Stokes Fellow here at Pembroke, and I continue to work on the theory of elliptic boundary value problems. I also supervise a range of different courses from the Mathematical Tripos, which means I often get to spend time doing mathematics with the undergraduate mathematicians in the college. I currently lecture two courses for the Mathematics Department: Part II Integrable Systems and Part III Distribution Theory. This gives me an opportunity to wax lyrical about subjects I find interesting and tell bad jokes to a captive audience. AMBROGIO CAMOZZI was admitted to Pembroke in October 2013 as the Keith Sykes Research Fellow in Italian Studies. He writes: The eldest of four boys, I was born in the city of Milan, Italy, but always felt at home on the mountains between the lake of Como and Switzerland, where I spent most of my childhood. I loved exploring and the dry Costiera dei Cech suited me well. Now, as the Keith Sykes Research Fellow in Italian Studies, I find myself exploring other sorts of ‘grounds’. I am studying medieval texts and, in particular, Dante’s Commedia. I became interested in this work, its sources and influence, when I started my first degree in Italian Philology at the University of Milan. I found the extreme complexity of the many stems of Dante’s poem, and at the same time its wondrous unity, one of the greatest examples of what the human mind can 48 | pembroke college

achieve, and something that would be sure to keep me enthralled long enough to form a life-long activity. During my first degree I took a year off to complete a research programme at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, in Sciences historiques et philologiques. In Paris, I enjoyed a very fruitful time in terms of research, making good use of the public libraries that were so much more efficient than those I was used to on the other side of the Alps. At the Bibliotheque Nationale de France I looked directly, for the first time, at medieval manuscripts trying to make sense of the handwritings and gather information from their codicological features. My final dissertation drew the attention of professor Zygmunt Baranski, soon to become my supervisor here in Cambridge. Zyg invited me for a first meeting at The Mad Bishop and the Bear, in Paddington Station, London: a pub, as I was to discover. In order to complete my university education and have the chance to work with Baranski, I enrolled for an MPhil in European Literature and culture at Cambridge University. I then went on to start my PhD, being lucky enough to benefit from the generosity and vision of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As a Gates Scholar, I completed a doctoral dissertation on the relationship between Dante and the medieval traditions of Alexander the Great. I am currently working on three editorial projects. Firstly, I am turning my Ph.D. dissertation Dante and the Medieval Alexander into a book. Work is already well under way. My second project, Dante as Satirist, looks at the canons and conventions of medieval satire, and their influence on Dante’s poetic career. I have completed the major research work and published an exploratory study on the topic for a new academic journal, Le Tre Corone. The third editorial project is focused on Dante’s Convivio, the poet’s unfinished prose summa. With this Italian study, I will present my very own reading of Dante’s ethics, the political purposes of the treatise and its anti-hierocratic stance. I have also been working on classical mythology in medieval culture, medieval dreambooks and the magic lore. I am the cofounder of Esperimenti Danteschi (an international course on Dante studies), and the creator of CAMA, a project set up to provide new students of Italian at the University of Cambridge with a free first- hand experience of the territory of Firenze, Siena e Arezzo. I am a keen footballer and hope to play (and score) again for the PCFAC. I am married to Tess and we have Tom, Jasper and one very little girl, Beatrice. (Not because of Dante!) ANDREW CATES was elected Bursar of the College in October 2013. He writes: As the unplanned sixth child born to two Bristol doctors at the end of 1965, I have always taken life as a bit of a bonus. I grew up in the days when it was normal to expect a six year old to walk three miles home alone from school every day, where central heating was unknown and where our black and white television worked only briefly after each visit from the Radio Rentals repair man. My school reports were generally handed to me unopened by parents, I was in “remedial reading”, rarely did homework and when 12 was told by my school with annual gazette | 49 my parents that I would never get to university and should learn a trade. The next year I had an inspiring English teacher and suddenly started reading copiously; the following year I had an inspiring maths teacher as well. I thus came up to Trinity to read Part IB Maths in 1983. I enjoyed being an undergraduate; alongside Tripos, a half Blue and three BUCS medals, I was neither caught nor killed in a wide range of (sober but technically challenging) undergraduate misdemeanours. I met my future wife, Carolyn, when she came up to read medicine in 1987, and she helped me to grow up a bit. After a PhD I ended up as a Junior Research Fellow at Emmanuel working on turbulent combustion. I went into the Oil Industry and by 1993 was managing all of Shell’s interests in Cote d’Ivoire (in French speaking West Africa). Work went well, but over three years living there I took on a concern about the plight of street children which I carried through the next eight years of my career in Shell. This was worsened by the deaths of several close friends out there, with children I had helped teach to count potentially ending up on the street. All but a few very close friends were surprised when, in 2004, I quit being in charge of Shell’s European gas and power operations to move to Cambridge and run a small charity looking after orphans in the developing world. Last year, I started feeling I could put down some of my burden about African children; the ones I knew closely had largely grown up, the charity had grown many times over and was able to help far more children much more completely. I had been on Cambridge University’s Audit Committee for a while and I thought moving to a College as Bursar was interesting. Carolyn and I had both reflected that Pembroke was the College we would both have rather gone to as students. I was delighted when the vacancy came up, and even more so to be appointed. PAUL CAVILL was admitted to an Official Fellowship in October 2013. He is also a University Lecturer in Early Modern British History. He writes: Having grown up in the London suburb of Wimbledon, I went to study at Oxford in 1998. My college, Corpus Christi, was founded in 1517 by Bishop Richard Fox of Winchester, sometime master of Pembroke, whose portrait hangs in the dining hall. Appropriately enough, my interests have focused on the history of early Tudor England, including several dimensions of Corpus’s foundation: the impact of Renaissance humanism, the public role of churchmen, and the rise of Protestantism (Luther’s challenge being coincidental with the college’s establishment). I was at Corpus for seven happy years as an undergraduate and postgraduate student. In 2005 I moved next door to Merton College as a junior research fellow, where I spent two years turning my doctoral thesis into a book. Then in 2007 I left Oxford for a lectureship at Bangor University, where I gained experience of teaching and enjoyed living on Anglesey and walking in Snowdonia. Two years later, I took up a lectureship at the University of Leeds, where I appreciated the academic environment but found the city rather lively. 50 | pembroke college

After four years there, I was delighted to be appointed to a lectureship in the Faculty of History, and hence to have the privilege of joining Pembroke. My type of history is political, and my angle constitutional, governmental, and legal. I am interested in how the English polity worked from centre to locality and from top to bottom and vice-versa, and in how it adapted during a period of extensive, even profound, intellectual, religious, and social change. These issues first engaged me as a graduate student when working on parliament in the reign of Henry VII (1485–1509). Studying parliament may seem an old-fashioned form of history. For me, however, as the only forum in which the whole realm was supposedly present, parliament illuminates political life powerfully. Through parliament, I have attempted to reconstruct the horizontal and vertical ties that bound together the English polity (for instance, in the development of nationwide remedies to social problems), and also the issues that on occasion divided it (for instance, over the royal prerogative and the rule of law). Henry VII’s parliaments are notorious for being terribly documented. Trying to discover more about these intractable sessions whetted my appetite for archival research. Working my way through obscure classes held at the Public Record Office, I found the quantity daunting, but the documents fascinating. I relished piecing together links between different sources, both there at Kew and at local record offices throughout the country. My historical method remains an exercise in detection: to find revealing but overlooked documents and to write about them. Originally, religion was a minor part of my work, but few historians of the sixteenth century can resist that subject for long. For someone with my interests, the English Reformation is exciting as the most drastic act of government in centuries. Modern scholarship has tended to emphasize its pietistic and devotional dimensions, but to have hived off the politics. Two discrete, somewhat unconnected, accounts of the Reformation have resulted. Recent work that seeks to reunite these two elements has encouraged me to apply the sources that I use to study governance to religion. Thus I have explored how heresy, although a purely religious offence in canon law, nevertheless enmeshed church and state, clergy and laity in sustained jurisdictional, procedural, and interpersonal co- operation and conflict. My latest research has brought to the fore one aspect of this subject that deserves to be better known: the punishment of heresy, not by burning (which dominates the literature), but rather by forfeiture of property. I have discussed how the action and inaction of so-called heretics and their families, of their neighbours, friends, and enemies, and of local magistrates, officers, and jurors affected the process of confiscation. In the future, I hope to examine what the idea of heresy meant to royal and ecclesiastical governors and to the clergy and the laity in general in the three decades preceding the break with Rome. I count myself fortunate to be developing these ideas in so scholarly and stimulating a setting. SANNE COTTAAR was admitted to Pembroke in October 2013 as the Drapers’ Research Fellow. She writes: I was born in the Netherlands as the second of eventually five children. My family never settled down; moving on average every two years and living abroad in Belgium and the United States. This made for an annual gazette | 51 exciting childhood and my parents taking responsibility for several years of my education in the US. When I was 13, living in the south of the Netherlands where small earthquakes occur, I tried to find a relationship between the orientation of people’s beds towards the fault and if an earthquake would wake them up. In hindsight that was my first study in seismology, although my only conclusion could have been that people don’t make good seismometers. After my BSc and MSc in geology/geophysics from Utrecht University (including a semester at the Colorado School of Mines), I did my PhD in global seismology at the University of California, Berkeley. Last September I shipped my home across the pond for the sixth time to settle in Pembroke College. My research is on probing the structure and dynamics of the Earth using seismic waves. The broad questions that are being answered are: What is the overall composition of the Earth? How did the Earth form (compositionally and thermally)? How do dynamics at depth relate to surface features? During my PhD I worked on mapping complexities and flow at the boundary between the mantle and the core. One of my projects was the discovery of a 3000-km deep anchor to hot upwelling material causing Hawaiian volcanism. A multi-disciplinary aspect of my work was to tie the seismic observations to geodynamics and mineral physics. As a side note: suitable earthquakes for this research need to be large, but also deep and therefore cause little damage. During my Draper’s Company Fellowship, I plan to shift up in the Earth, and focus on the boundary zone between the upper and the lower mantle around 400–700 km deep. The prevailing minerals here transition into higher density phases, creating sufficient jumps in seismic velocity to reflect and refract seismic waves that we can then observe. It remains a challenge to create a consistent view between different seismic data sets and mineralogical models of these boundaries. The boundary zone is quite important in the global dynamics; its thermodynamics hinder overall mantle circulation. On a broader scale, I would like to quantify how much material crosses this boundary, and to what degree the entire mantle is convecting or else if layered convection is occurring. Otherwise I enjoy playing board and card games. My brother and I had a short stint playing on the Dutch youth bridge team, before we decided we preferred science and wanted to live and study abroad. I like to broaden my horizon through travel, hillwalking, volunteer work, and benefitting from everything Cambridge has to offer. HILDEGARD DIEMBERGER was appointed as a Fellow and College Lecturer in Human, Social and Political Sciences in October 2013. She writes: Born at the foothill of the Alps from an Austrian father and an Italian mother who shared a passion for mountaineering, I have always been fascinated by mountains and mountain environments. Rather than being attracted by summits, however, I developed a special interest for the people who live with the mountains on a day 52 | pembroke college

to day basis. Having experienced the Andes and the Himalayas as a teenager, I decided to study social anthropology and Tibetology at the University of Vienna. During my studies and my early career, I carried out extensive anthropological fieldwork in Tibet and the Himalayas and promoted cooperation between western and Tibetan academic institutions when this was still very much a novelty. This pioneering experience offered me unprecedented opportunities to engage in anthropological fieldwork on a wide range of themes, from spirit possession to environmental knowledge, and to collaborate with Tibetan scholars making ground-breaking discoveries: the retrieval, translation and publication of the history of the area north of Mt Everest (Pasang Wangdu and Diemberger 1996, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna); the retrieval, translation and publication of the 11th century and earliest known version of the chronicle narrating the foundation of the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet (Pasang Wangdu and Diemberger 2000, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna); and, more recently, a monograph on the fifteenth century biography of the Tibetan princess Chokyi Dronma (Diemberger 2007, Columbia University Press, New York). Having acquired an almost intimate understanding of this extraordinary woman through the Tibetan account of her life and having visited many of the places where she lived and travelled in Tibet I developed a particular interest in Buddhist women as (often unrecognised) cultural and social innovators, which I still pursue. In 2000, when the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit established by Professor Caroline Humphrey expanded to include the Tibetan plateau and the Himalayan regions, I was offered a teaching and research position that enabled me to join one of the world’s most exciting teams studying Inner Asia. Thanks to the support of the then Head of the Department of Social Anthropology, Stephen Hugh-Jones, it was possible to establish a formal collaboration between Cambridge and the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences in Lhasa and set up a wide range of research projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK. Exploring Tibetan collections In Tibet and the Himalayas as well as the UK it was possible to engage not only with the content of literary artefacts but also to develop a special interest in Tibetan book technology which is reflected, among other things, in the exhibition Buddha’s Word – the Life of Buddhist Books in Tibet and Beyond at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (May 2014–January 2015). When I moved to Cambridge I also started to teach at the department (now Division) of Social Anthropology, which I have been doing with great passion up to the present, making the most of the distinctive Cambridge ‘research led teaching’. In the last few years, as issues surrounding the changing climate took centre stage world-wide I returned to my long standing interests in the way people understand and make a living in mountain environments – now with an eye to the disappearing ice. Collaborating with Barbara Bodenhorn, an anthropologist specialising in the arctic and a former Pembroke fellow, we set up an interdisciplinary network on climate histories, which became the basis for a annual gazette | 53 string of grants, collaborative schemes, outreach activities to local schools and the teaching of an environmental component in the paper ‘Science and Society’ at the Division of Social Anthropology. Drawing on this experience I have also become a member of the Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment. Finally, as the general secretary of the International Association for Tibetan Studies I have been promoting collaboration and cross-disciplinary research on Tibet and the Himalayas world-wide. JOHN DURRELL was admitted to an Official Fellowship in October 2013. He is also an Assistant Director of Studies in Engineering. He writes: After growing up in Stockport I studied Physics at Imperial College. In 1997 I started a PhD in Materials Science as a member of Jesus College. My PhD was supervised by the late Prof Jan Evetts, an old member, and sometime Fellow, of Pembroke. My research then, as now, was aimed at understanding the relation between magnetic and crystalline properties in Superconductors, with a view to developing practical materials for applications. In 2001 having finished my PhD I swore to myself I would move on from Cambridge and left for a research assistant appointment at the University of Linz. After a happy year in Austria I, somewhat to my surprise, found myself returning to Cambridge to take up a Research Associate position in the Materials Science Department, again with Jan Evetts as my supervisor. In 2005 I was very fortunate to be awarded an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship which provided me with five year’s salary and independent funding. During my research fellowship I concentrated on trying to understand how grain boundaries in ceramic superconductors affect current flow and engineering performance. In 2006 I was appointed to a Research Fellowship at Hughes Hall, where I also served as a Graduate Tutor and Director of Studies for Natural Sciences. In 2010 I was appointed a Senior Research Associate in the Engineering Department working with Prof David Cardwell. In this role I work with Boeing Research and Technology developing characterisation techniques for bulk superconducting materials, high performance superconducting materials and potential applications for engineering superconductors. These potential applications include the use of friction free superconducting bearings for energy storage flywheels, low cost compact MRI systems, magnetic targeting for drug delivery and non-destructive testing systems for aerospace applications. I am delighted to have been lucky enough to be able to join Pembroke as a Fellow. The College is an exceptionally vibrant and welcoming academic community of which I am proud to be a part. I am particularly enjoying teaching mechanics and materials science to IA and IB engineers, as has often been noted I find that you only really understand something when you come to teach it. MAXIMILIAN STERNBERG was admitted to an Official Fellowship in October 2013. He is also a University Lecturer in Architecture. He writes: It is a particular privilege to be elected as fellow at the college where I was also a student. I joined 54 | pembroke college

Pembroke as an MPhil student in 2001, and following my PhD I returned to Cambridge as a Research Associate at the Department of Architecture in 2007. Pembroke generously extended its hospitality once more by appointing me as an Academic Associate at a time. I started a permanent Lectureship in the Department in 2012, and felt very honoured to join the fellowship in October of 2013. It is now by pleasure to direct Studies in architecture, inheriting a thriving community of students from Dr William Fawcett, who has led the discipline in Pembroke for the past decade. Born in Munich to a German mother and Polish father, my education first at French than at International School, gave me a transnational outlook from the outset. Following a degree in history at King’s College London, a year in investment banking the City made it clear to me that my vocation was in academia. A scholarship from the Gates Trust enabled me to return to university and find an intellectual home in architectural theory and urban studies. My research covers both contemporary and historical areas of architecture and urbanism. The common thread running through my various projects is an emphasis on the wider role of architecture and the urban environment in mediating conflictual social, religious and cultural tensions. My research interests fall into three distinct areas. My work as a project partner on the ESRC-funded project ‘Conflict in Cities’ is brought together in a co-authored book entitled The Struggle for Jerusalem’s Holy Places (2013). It focuses on the interplay of politics, religion and spatial practices in ethno-national conflicts in Jerusalem. I am now adapting this approach to urban conflict in a new context. With the help of a recent grant from the British Academy, I explore the role of public space in transnational interactions in Polish- German border towns. My second area of interest is the social meanings of architecture in the Middle Ages. My monograph Cistercian Architecture and Medieval Society (2013) draws on my doctoral work and focuses on the complex relationships between Cistercian abbeys and cities in the Languedoc in the thirteenth century. Recently I have shifted my angle on medieval history to exploring the ongoing role of Romantic conceptions of History in Modernism. Finally, I am co-editing a volume entitled Phenomenologies of the City (to appear later this year) that explores the interface of philosophy, architecture and urban studies. My aim in this is to represent and bring into dialogue the multiple approaches in this domain of architectural theory. I vividly remember the support I received as a student in Pembroke and I am committed to doing my part in passing this on to the undergraduates and graduates that I have the pleasure of accompanying through their studies at Pembroke. annual gazette | 55

TIMOTHY WEIL was admitted to an Official Fellowship in October 2013. He is also a University Lecturer in Zoology. He writes: I was born outside of Chicago, Illinois, USA, famous for Blues music, Al Capone, deep dish pizza, Michael Jordan, President Obama and being ‘windy’. Chicago is in the ‘mid-west’, that is the region of the USA between New York and California, said to be ‘friendly’ and ‘have family values’. This differs from the coasts where the ‘heartless’ traders of Wall Street and ‘hapless’ hippies of San Francisco reside. I attended a large state high school (secondary school) that fit most of stereotypes seen in films. I graduated near, but not at, the top of my 700 person class, played soccer, basketball, track and volleyball throughout. I believe my upbringing, both a strong family unit and local environment, have structured my values system and personality traits that govern the decisions I have, and will make. I attended Washington University in St. Louis and majored in Biology with minors in Drama, Pre-Med and Legal Studies. University was thoroughly enjoyable and in addition to the second-to-none education I received in the classroom, my education outside the classroom was just as important. I was a member of a fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon, again fitting most of the stereotypes seen in films. Most importantly, I made meaningful friendships that continue to the present day. While an undergraduate I was fortunate to attend summer programs in London and Costa Rice setting the stage for future career choices. As a graduate student at Princeton University in the Molecular Biology Department, I was first introduced to the fruit fly as a model organism, the beginning of a love affair that still burns strong. Working with Professor Liz Gavis, a wonderful mentor and even better person, I studied how Drosophila pattern their body. A number of serendipitous events lead to a collaboration with a group at the University of Edinburgh which resulted in my living there. After a productive year and a half among the thistles and bagpipes, I returned to Princeton, wrote up and received my PhD. I was awarded a Fellowship from Marie Curie Actions which enabled me to return to the UK for post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford. I continued to work on fly body patterning with Professor Ilan Davis who educated me in science and the British way of doing things. For the majority of my first year in Oxford I was able once again to collaborate with an international group to address exciting science questions. This time I lived in Utrecht, NL for 9 months working with Catherine Raboulle on state-of-the-art electron microscopy techniques. Once I returned to Oxford, I was first a member of Jesus College (MCR) and then a Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College. In an attempt to assimilate, I played college rugby, football and cricket whenever I had the chance. In the end however, I relapsed to yankee youth and joined the Oxford University Basketball Club. This led to playing point guard for two years with the Blues team and also meeting my partner Laura who played for the women’s team. This past October I joined the Zoology department here in Cambridge which is a dream come true. I continue to work on the fruit fly and below is a brief 56 | pembroke college

explanation of the research I carry out using this model organism for the non- scientific members of Pembroke: You are made up of trillions of cells all working together for your entire life. However, at one point in your life, you were a single cell. Think about that for a second, a single cell developed into a trillion cell organism with the ability to function almost like a machine. For example, your cardiac tissue contracts 50+ times a minute for your entire life. Your bones provide structure to your body and your neurons transmit signals from your toes to your brain and back in mere milliseconds. Isn’t it baffling to think how we can ever begin to understand this process? My work uses a model organism that is often referred to as a “miniature human with wings”, the fruit fly, yes just like the one you might see flying around your fruit bowl. The fly has a surprisingly high amount of genetic similarity to humans and has been successful in modeling many human diseases including cancer and Alzheimer’s. I explore how the symmetric egg of the fly is able to define which side will become the head vs tail, left vs right and up vs down. By understanding how the simple fruit fly can develop from one cell to many, we can begin to understand how this same process takes place in humans. For any afficionados, here is a more satisfying introduction to my work. The primary embryonic axes of many animals are established through the localization and translational control of transcripts prior to fertilization. Drosophila is an ideal model organism for answering universal questions about axis determination and mRNA because of its experimental tractability and homology to other complex multicellular systems. In Drosophila, precise temporal and spatial regulation of gurken and bicoid mRNA translation is essential for the body plan establishment. My work explores how bicoid and gurken are regulated at different stages of egg and embryo development using a combination of microscopy, genetics and biochemistry. It is with great honour and humility that I join the fellowship of Pembroke College. The rich history and progressive spirit of the college leads me to believe that my inclusion in the fellowship will be mutually benificial. I have been moved by the kindness and accomodating nature of the Pembroke community and I look forward to building lasting relationships with all of you in the near future. annual gazette | 57

FELLOWS’ NEWS Sam Barrett’s two-volume edition and study, The Melodic Tradition of Boethius’ De consolatione philosophiae in the Middle Ages, was published by Baerenreiter. Rosalind Blakesley’s co-edited volume of essays, From Realism to the Silver Age: New Studies in Russian Artistic Culture, was published by Northern Illinois University Press. Hildegard Diemberger co-curated (with Mark Elliott), and produced the catalogue for, the exhibition on Buddha’s Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond at the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. William Fawcett’s article ‘The Post-war Traditionalists in Oxford and Cambridge’ was published in Oxford and Cambridge, the 11th issue of the annual Twentieth Century Architecture, published by the Twentieth Century Society. The article includes a section on Pembroke’s Orchard Building of 1957 and its architect, Marshall Sisson. Norman Fleck was awarded the 2013 ASME Koiter medal for International Leadership in Mechanics, and the 2014 AA Griffith medal (awarded in recognition of distinguished work in any branch of Materials Science) by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. He was also made a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering and awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Eindhoven University of Technology. Robin Franklin was appointed to the Chair of Stem Cell Medicine at the Clinical School and Head of Translational Science at the Wellcome Trust-MRC Cambridge. Renaud Gagné’s book Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece was published by the Cambridge University Press. He also co-edited Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy for Cambridge University Press, and Sacrifices humains: Perspectives croisées et représentations for the Presses Universitaires de Liège. Loraine Gelsthorpe’s co-edited collection of essays, A Restorative Approach to Family Violence: Changing Tack was published by Ashgate. She was also elected to a further year as President of the British Society of Criminology. Clare Grey was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Lancaster University. Bill Grimstone’s book Pembroke Portraits was published by the College. Alex Houen’s edited collection of essays States of War: Sovereignty, Terrorism, and the War on Terror was published by Routledge. A collection of essays co-edited with Dominic Janes and entitled Martyrdom and Terrorism, Pre-modern to Contemporary Perspectives was published by Oxford University Press. His chapbook of poetry, Rouge States, was published by Oystercatcher Press. He was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2014–15 to work on a project on Sacrifice and Modern War Literature. Lauren Kassell was awarded a £1 million Strategic Award by the Wellcome Trust to continue her work on The Casebooks Project: A Digital Edition of Simon Forman’s and Richard Napier’s Medical Records, 1596–1634 (www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk). 58 | pembroke college

Colin Lizieri was awarded the David Ricardo Medal by the American Real Estate Society for his ‘innovative and extensive publications on real estate office markets and the role of capital in urban development.’ Nick McBride’s book Great Debates in Jurisprudence (co-authored with Sandy Steel) was published by Palgrave Macmillan. Toby Matthiesen was elected as an Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations for 2014. Sarah Nouwen’s book Complementarity in the Line of Fire was published by Cambridge University Press. Mike Payne was awarded the 2014 Swan Medal by the Institute of Physics for ‘the development of computational techniques that have revolutionised materials design and facilitated the industrial application of quantum mechanical simulations’. Maximilian Sternberg’s book Cistercian Architecture and Medieval Society was published by Brill. Colin Wilcockson served as the guest editor for the 2014, volume 25, 1st issue of Anglistik: The International Journal of English Studies, focussing on literary illustration. The issue included essays by Colin Wilcockson (‘Introduction: illustrations in works of literature’ and ‘Illustrating Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Eric Gill’s woodcuts for the Golden Cockerel Press’), Charles Melville (‘Fantasy and animal fables: the illustration of Persian literature in English’), and Mark Wormald (‘The great Irish pike: Ted Hughes and the art of poetry’). annual gazette | 59

GIFTS TO THE COLLEGE From – Lady Adrian, Ferdinando Targetti’s Nicholas Kaldor: the Economics and Politics of Capitalism as a Dynamic System, plus four other books. John Bell, Simon Whittaker’s The Development of Product Liability, and 14 books on international law. Barbara Bodenhorn, ten books on anthropology and social science. Richard Butler, a copy of his book, Secular and Domestic: George Gilbert Scott and the Master’s Lodge of St John’s College, Cambridge. Paul Cavill, Peter Burke’s History and Social Theory, plus two other history/social science books. Owen Chadwick, a 19th century family copy of A Romance by John Inglesant. Patrick Derham, two books he edited: Cultural Olympians: Rugby School’s Intellectual and Spiritual Leaders, and Liberating Learning: Widening Participation. Mrs Dixon, Peterhouse: An Architectural Record. Howard Erskine-Hill, a bequest of a number of books to Pembroke College Library to enhance the English section of the Library. He also left us a 5th edition, published in 1661, of Lancelot Andrewes’s Sermons. Before he died, he also donated a memoir of Professor Ian Jack, which was published in the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy XI. The parents of Merryn Everitt (2007), a 30oz Victorian silver wine ewer (London, 1877). Michael Faraday, copies of his books The Herefordshire Musters of 1539 and 1542, and The Herefordshire Chantry Valuations of 1547. William Fawcett, Twentieth Century Architecture: Oxford and Cambridge, which contains an article by him. Ian Fleming, a copy of Alison Wilson’s Changing Women’s Lives: a Biography of Dame Rosemary Murray. Loraine Gelsthorpe, Vicky Pryce’s Prisonomics, and six other books on criminology. Tom Gibbons, Rooms in the Darwin Hotel: Studies in English Literary Criticism and Ideas 1880–1920. Terry Gifford, two volumes of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism for us to add to our Ted Hughes holdings. Colin Gilbraith, five books by Alexandre Dumas. Iain Goldrein, the 2013 edition of Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service. 60 | pembroke college

Stephen Halliday, Insider Dealing by Sarah Clarke Ardyn Halter, The Water’s Edge: Eleven Prints by Ardyn Halter with poems by Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Gabriel Levin, Michael Longley, Jamie McKendrick, Paul Muldoon, Don Paterson, Stephen Romer and Ardyn Halter. Dr R. Harding, A History of Women’s Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (edited by Jo Catling), and The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941–56. Brian Holderness, eight books, including Joan Thirsk’s The Rural Economy of England. Tony Hopkins, three books on International Studies. Cynthia Johnston, a copy of Blackburn’s Worthy Citizen: the Philanthropic Legacy of R.E. Hart. Andy Jones, David Englander’s Culture and belief in Europe, 1450–1600: An Anthology of Sources. Mrs Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, a copy of her book, Art in the Time of the Colony. Tom Kirkwood, a book by Yasheng Huang, a previous Visiting Scholar, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics. Karen Lain, seven books by Pablo Neruda. Jeremy Lawrence, three Pembroke publications for the Archives: The Pem June 1922, The Broke, June 1923, A Poet at Pem Lent 1951. Gerald Mars, 60 volumes in the International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology Series. Toby Matthiesen, a book he has contributed to: The Gulf States and the Arab Uprisings (edited by Ana Echague). Nick McBride, various books on law. Charles Melville, Painting the Persian Book of Kings Today: Ancient Text and Modern Images, with a foreword by him. Stephen Nash, a book he contributed to, Albania and the Balkans, as well as two other books from his own collection. Simon Pearson, a copy of his book The Great Escaper: the Life and Death of Roger Bushell – Love, Betrayal, Big X and the Great Escape. (Roger Bushell came to Pembroke in 1929 to study Law.) Yvonne Perret, The Journal of a Prominent Australian: the Hon. C.E. Isaac OBE MLC. The family of F.W. Roberts (1904) – a Major in World War I – a photo album, containing about 60 black and white photographs, some relating to Pembroke, and others of military personnel. annual gazette | 61

Daniel Rosenthal, ten books on film history. Tom Rosenthal, some 1,700 art books to the Pembroke College Library. In his honour the Art Library has been named The Rosenthal Art Library. In addition, a copy of his festschrift, Life in Books, published by Menard Press in 2005. Martin Roth, Art and Design for All: the Victoria & Albert Museum, edited by Julius Bryant. Glen Scarcliffe, George Goodwin’s Fatal Rivalry: Flodden 1513. Hugh Taylor, a copy of his book, Edward J. Dent: Selected Essays. Christopher Vanier, a copy of his book Caribbean Chemistry: A Memoir from St Kitts and Antigua 1942–1961. Colin Wilcockson, a copy of Anglistik, Vol. 25, 2014, containing articles by Charles Melville, Mark Wormald and Colin Wilcockson. Dr Tony Wilkinson, 29 books from his own library of fine art and private press books, including Babou, Henry (ed.), Les Artistes du Livre. Some of these books were exhibited at this year’s annual Plate Display. Mark Wormald, a copy of the book he co-edited, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected.

Publications mentioned in the Fellows’ News section of the Gazette were donated by: Renaud Gagné, Toby Matthiesen, Sarah Nouwen, Maximilian Sternberg.

Publications mentioned in the Members’ News section of the Gazette were donated by: Bernard Adams (1958), David Clark (1958), Michael Counsell (1956), Hillary Don (1952), Timothy Dudley-Smith (1944), Emma Jones (2010), John Loft (1944), John Nicholas (1961), Daniel Rosenthal (1990), Tom Rosenthal (1956), Martin Rowson (1978), Cedric Watts (1958), James Wood (1988). 62 | pembroke college

THE DEAN’S REPORT Pembroke House This has been a very good year for Pembroke House, and the charity continues to find new ways to serve the local community, and retaining strong links with Pembroke College. The biggest new project is IntoUniversity, a rapidly growing University Access programme, helping young people from backgrounds which would not normally consider University to understand the value of University, and how to choose an appropriate course and place. IntoUniversity works with six local primary schools, and six local secondary schools, offering academic support, undergraduate mentors and study weeks. The arrival of this project at Pembroke House has opened a whole new range of volunteering possibilities for Pembroke students, who have gone in term time and in University vacations to assist with the work. They have also been involved in welcoming Students from IntoUniversity to Cambridge. The projects that have been built up over the years continued to flourish. To mention just some: The Pembroke Academy of Music is running very smoothly, with excellent tutors, and is working on a “Baby PAM” extension to work with 0–4 year old children and their parents and carers. We had an outstanding shared workshop at Pembroke College, which brought out the extraordinary skills that PAM has developed in enabling people at very different stages in their musical education to make music together. The Community Garden at Pembroke House is a resource for all the other projects as well as being a place for members of the local community (who often have no access to a garden of their own) to do some gardening. The Choir with No Name now seems to have settled with Pembroke House as its South London home. It is a choir for people who have been homeless, or who are vulnerably housed, and they particularly appreciate the fact that at Pembroke House they can meet and get involved with the other projects. Pembroke College Chapel choir visited at the end of the Michaelmas Term to sing for the annual Advent Carol service. As usual we were made very welcome, and the service forms an excellent end of term event for the Chapel choir. It is matched by a visit from St Christopher’s church later in the year, when they come to celebrate communion with us in College. We have been working to strengthen links between undergraduate and graduate members of the College and Pembroke House. This has involved a number of visits from the Chapel Team, and from students who have expressed an interest and a willingness to be involved. We go into the new academic year with a nucleus of students who have had positive personal experiences of Pembroke House, and who will be able to explain to Freshers why this is an important and exciting thing with which to be involved. The Residency is becoming an increasingly important resource for Pembroke House. It offers a substantially reduced rent to people who are working as volunteers on projects within Pembroke House. annual gazette | 63

Once again the Subscribers have contributed greatly to the financial stability of the House. Because they provide a constant income, and one which is not tied to particular projects, they make it possible for Pembroke House to face the future with confidence, and we are very grateful to Andrew Morris and Brian Watchorn for their hard work in recruiting and sustaining this group.

Pembroke Chapel The Pembroke Chapel Choir is really good. It has been especially strong this year. This is not in itself unusual, but we have deliberately chosen not to participate in the Choral Scholarships process. We rely on enough good singers turning up every year and choosing to sing in the choir. We set a pattern of Choral involvement which enables ambitious singing but does not require members to put Chapel music before their work, or an ordinary social life. The result, from my perspective, is a Chapel Choir composed of people who really want to be present, and who represent the community for which they sing. Thanks go to this year’s organ scholars, Theodore Hill & Richard Parkinson who, under the guidance of Sam Barrett, our Director of Music, have made this arrangement work so well. Particularly memorable at the Leavers’ Evensong was Finzi’s Lo the full, final sacrifice¸ in which it was possible to sense Aquinas, Crashaw, Finzi and the Chapel Choir all cooperating to express the mystery. It is worth noting that we are in an era of boomerang Organ Scholars. In addition to Theodore & Richard we have two “Emeritus Organ Scholars” from previous years – Joseph Ashmore and Greg Drott, who are graduate students. Greg will be directing music in Chapel in the coming academic year while Sam Barrett is away in the USA. This year has been notable for the presence in the Chapel community of an unusual number of Clergy and Ordinands, present as Fellows, Senior Members of the College, Graduate Students and students on placement. We have gathered (11 of us in total) on a number of occasions as the “Pembroke Clericals”, and really enjoyed comparing notes and learning from each other. We are especially grateful this year for the work of Stephen Coleman, a student on placement from Westcott House, who has been immensely generous with his time, full of interesting ideas and proposals, and an important pastoral presence for a significant number of people. A big feature of the coming year will be the commemoration of the beginning of the First World War. Remembrance Day is always a very poignant event in the College, as we gather by the Memorials in the Cloister, and then proceed to a Requiem in Chapel. We hope to use the centenary years to ensure that these generations of Pembroke students understand the Memorials, and have some sense of the lives that were lost.

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DEVELOPMENT OFFICE REPORT From the Development Director I write at the beginning of July, at a time when the College might expect to have calmed down. After all, the undergraduates have either graduated or gone on extended internships (which is how so many now spend what most readers of this would have regarded as vacations), the PhD candidates are still noses down in their academic endeavours and the Fellows are able to concentrate fully on their research again. However, early July witnesses the College welcoming hundreds of international students onto its prestigious summer courses, and the work of my office goes on too, unfettered by the discipline of committees and other formal meetings. That work is extraordinarily varied and I would challenge anyone to find another line of work that was so subliminal and so ridiculous, that was so strategic and so mired in fine detail, as this. It is what makes it addictive and thrilling, and when things go well, as they have particularly done in 2013–14, then there is tremendous reward for all concerned. An example of such strategy and such fine detail can be found in our recent contribution to the 650th Anniversary celebrations of the Drapers’ Company. The College sent a begging letter to the Company in 1655, the like of which would send today’s ‘professional fundraisers’ into contortions of agony, but it worked. It would appear, however, that in a move (or lack of it) that would cause equal cries of anguish from my professional colleagues, the College then went quiet with the Drapers for exactly 300 years, before a visionary collaboration between the Company and the College was embarked upon in 1955 with the creation on Drapers’ Company Research Fellowships. These have persisted and thrived to this day, and it was a privilege for the College to be part of their 650th Anniversary proceedings in London on 4th and 5th July, about which my colleague Sally March has published online (www.pem.cam.ac.uk/?p=15107). What it does show is the importance of relationships – the Drapers are part of the College’s wider fabric, hosts as they are to our annual London dinner, as well as sponsors of an extraordinary sequence of leading academic minds who have gone on or are going on to great distinction in their chosen fields; some have moved successfully outside academia. The College provides to the Company a regular report, an annual dinner with the Master and Fellows and keeps in touch in a variety of ways. It is a great example of a benefactor/institution relationship, and I am pleased to record that we have a good number of those. We are not complacent, though, and my colleagues and I are acutely conscious of the need to keep Pembroke donors and non-donors alike informed about life at the place, about how the money which is donated is spent, and about how the direct beneficiaries (principally the students and academics) are doing. There is much work on our part to do to ensure that Pembroke continues to matter to you, even as I argue that it matters outside our immediate purview. This is the focus of the work of the Development Board, ably chaired by Peter Jackson (1995), does. We have seen signs of that working, and as we brace ourselves for the challenge of raising funds for an exciting and once-in-a-century annual gazette | 65 project like the Mill Lane site, it will need to work all the more, and be a collective effort in which you take part. Every gift matters, and the College is grateful to everyone, every institution and every company that has supported our endeavours. Individually and collectively, those donations have brought great benefit to the people of the College by improving their environment, giving bursaries for those in need, providing travel awards to help broaden horizons and supporting research. Two particularly large donations made this year exemplify the way in which the way in which Pembroke life is enriched by philanthropy also means that the wider world benefits. In July 2013, Mrs Bita Daryabari saw the importance of the study of Persian history and culture that Charles Melville had for so long championed and gave an extraordinary gift of $2M to enable that work to carry on in perpetuity, thereby firmly establishing Pembroke as a global centre for this subject and enabling it to continue its tradition of academic leadership in the field that includes among its past luminaries such Pembroke scholars as E.G. Browne and A.J. Arberry. In the spring of 2014, thanks to the encouragement of Pembroke members in Malaysia, the Mohamed Noah Foundation gave £2.5M to endow a University Lectureship, and Fellowship at Pembroke, in Asian Politics. The first incumbent of this post will be admitted as a Fellow in October of this year. The growing importance of a better understanding in the West of the politics of the East cannot be overstated. The gift also marked a ground-breaking collaboration between a college, department and a school of the University. These gifts are leading examples of what all gifts (which amounted to £6,687,000 this year) do at Pembroke, in that they make a difference to someone or something, within and outside the College. Pembroke really matters and your support for it all the more so. Thank you. P.S. While Pembroke’s Development team is, in my view, full of excellent and long-serving people, special mention must be given to Mrs Angela Anderson, who retired at the end of July as PA to the Development Director and Office Manager after more than 16 years’ brilliant service. She will be greatly missed by a group of grateful colleagues, as well as by many thousands of Pembroke Members who have been in contact with her over the years. The PCCS Committee above all will miss her sterling support and, as a mark of its gratitude to her, members of the Committee past and present gave Angela a generous retirement present which will enable her to stay in touch with family and friends at Pembroke and beyond for many years to come.

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The Matthew Wren Society The 17th meeting of the Society was held in College on Saturday 19 October 2013. 81 members of the society, and their guests, were entertained to lunch in Hall, following a reception hosted by the Master in the Senior Parlour and the Inner Parlour. Membership of the Society is open to anyone who has notified the College of an intention to benefit the College by a bequest. Matthew Wren (1585–1667), undergraduate, Fellow and President of the College (1616–24), and Bishop of Ely (1638–67), had been a notable benefactor (his body is interred in the crypt of the Chapel, which he had built as a gift to the College, in 1665). The Society has a membership of 425. The names of those who have consented to be identified – together with a number of recent bequests received – are listed below. To all, the College is extremely grateful.

Mr I A Ewen (1933) Mr E B O Sherlock CBE Mr A H Isaacs MBE (1954) Mr I N Turner MBE (1938) (1950) Mr I Meshoulam (1954) Mr C A Price (1944) Mr J J M Barron (1951) Mr R L Allison (1955) Mr P B Mackenzie Ross Dr A B Carles OBE (1951) Sir Michael Bett CBE (1945) Mr J L Dixon (1951) (1955) Mr D R Smith OBE (1945) Dr A M Hall-Smith (1951) Mr J E Bowen (1955) Mr G R Evans (1946) Mr R T Kingdon CBE Mr D W Eddison (1955) Professor K N Palmer (1951) Mr C Gilbraith (1955) (1946) Mr R T Lawman (1951) Mr D A Hewitt (1955) Sir Robert Sanders KBE Mr K A C Patteson (1951) Mr J D Hind (1955) CMG (1946) Mr G B Smethurst (1951) Mr T R Hopgood (1955) Dr M W Thompson (1946) Mr M B Whittaker (1951) Mr N La Mar (1955) Mr P R Langham MC Professor J P Barber (1952) Dr H J F McLean CBE (1947) Mr J C R Downing DL (1955) Dr H G Penman (1947) (1952) Mr G S Pink (1955) Mr R M L Humphreys Mr J J Fenwick CBE DL Mr N M Pullan (1955) (1948) (1952) Mr J M P Soper (1955) Mr J M D Knight DL Mr R N Field (1952) Mr R J Warburton (1955) (1948) Dr G R Hext (1952) Mr P W Boorman (1956) Mr J G Parker (1948) Mr T J Milling (1952) Professor B M Fagan Mr R N Quartano CBE Mr M J Munz-Jones (1952) (1956) (1948) Mr P J Pugh (1952) Professor D H Mellor Mr C J Addison (1949) Mr D F Beckley (1953) (1956) Mr R Bonnett (1949) Mr I D Crane (1953) Mr K E Piper (1956) Mr H J L Fitch (1949) Mr I D McPhail (1953) Mr M A Roberts (1956) Mr J F K Hinde (1949) Mr A N Paterson (1953) Mr M A A Garrett MBE Mr R H King (1949) Mr J D P Phillips (1953) (1957) Mr E D Peacock (1949) Mr N A Robeson (1953) Mr T R Harman (1957) Mr R L Stewart (1949) Mr N F Robinson (1953) Mr T J Harrold (1957) Mr P L Tennant (1949) Mr P H Vince (1953) Professor J M H Hunter Mr M J C Annand (1950) Mr J M Whitehead (1953) (1957) Mr P C Flory (1950) Mr C Beadle (1954) Mr J B Macdonald (1957) Mr A N Savage ISO (1950) Mr N I Cameron (1954) Mr D W H McCowen Dr G F Fooks (1954) (1957) annual gazette | 67

Mr R B Wall (1957) Mr J A Stott (1963) Mr A S Ivison (1974) Mr P J Yorke (1957) Dr J C D Hickson (1964) Mr S G Trembath (1974) Sir Michael Atiyah OM Mr S F Kelham (1964) Mr P W Blackmore (1975) FRS (1958) Mr D J Shaw (1964) Dr R A Hood QVRM DL Mr R A C Berkeley OBE Mr C R M Kemball MBE (1975) (1958) (1965) Mr R D Jacobs QC (1975) Mr O C Brun (1958) Mr J J Turner (1965) Dr K P Van Anglen (1975) Mr R J M Gardner (1958) Dr J G Vulliamy (1965) Dr M J Burrows (1976) Mr J D Harling (1958) Dr R G H Bethel (1966) Mr N P McNelly (1976) Mr J Lawrence (1958) Dr E M Himsworth (1966) Mr P C Nicholls (1976) Mr J G G Moss (1958) Mr R I Jamieson (1966) Mr N G Walker (1976) Mr A E Palmer CMG CVO Dr D J Atherton (1967) Mr N J Brooks (1977) (1958) Mr C R B Goldson OBE Mr J E Symes-Thompson Professor G Parry (1958) (1967) (1977) The Rt Hon Sir Konrad Mr M Goodwin (1967) Major General S M Schiemann (1958) Mr C R Webb (1967) Andrews CBE (1978) Mr J Sutherland-Smith Mr I C Brownlie (1968) Revd Father J C Finnemore (1958) Mr I P Collins (1968) (1978) Mr A H Wakeford (1958) Mr G N Horlick (1968) Mr M K Jackson (1978) Mr W R Williams JP (1958) Mr D E Love (1968) Mr D S Walden (1978) Dr J N Woulds JP DL Mr P D Milroy (1968) Mr P S J Derham (1979) (1958) Mr T J H Townshend Dr L J Reeve (1979) Mr H A Crichton-Miller (1968) Mr J P Snoad (1980) (1959) Mr J P Wilson (1968) Mr M E Bartlett (1981) Mr P N Jarvis (1959) Mr P G Cleary (1969) Mr S D Morgan (1981) Mr M G Kuczynski (1959) Mr B C Heald (1969) Mr J S Davison (1982) Mr J A McMyn (1959) Mr J H Kellas CBE (1969) Mr D J Hitchcock (1982) Mr B G Tunnah (1959) Dr C J D Maile (1969) Mr D N Pether (1983) Professor Y A Wilks (1959) Mr M G Pillar (1969) Dr S J Rosenberg (1983) The Hon W I C Binnie CC Mr W R Siberry QC (1969) Dr P Wilson (1983) (1960) Mr R B Swanston (1969) Mr J R Baker (1984) Mr R J Gladman (1960) Professor J R Wiesenfeld Ms V J Bowman (1984) Dr J P Warren (1960) (1969) Mr A D Marcus (1984) Mr J B Wilkin (1960) Dr J R Deane (1970) Mr J P Johnstone (1986) Mr P G Bird (1961) Dr W S Gould (1970) Mr R D R Stark (1986) Mr J A H Chadwick (1961) Mr A J C Graham (1970) Miss C M Thomé (1987) Dr S Halliday (1961) Mr A McDonald (1970) Mr A E K Vanderklip Professor H R Kirby (1961) Dr H J Perkins (1970) (1987) Mr J C Robinson (1961) Mr I R Purser (1970) Mr N K C Chan (1988) Mr R M Wingfield (1961) Mr D A Walter (1970) Mr A T McIntyre (1988) Mr R W Jewson (1962) Mr R H Johnson (1971) Dr J W Laughton (1989) Dr M J Llewellyn-Smith Dr R Kinns (1971) Miss L Rice (1989) AM KStJ (1962) Mr M H Thomas (1971) Ms L J Walker (1990) Professor K M McNeil Mr S C Lord (1972) Dr G P Shields (1991) (1962) Mr M S Oakes OBE (1972) Professor J P Parry (1992) Mr R C Sommers (1962) Mr A G Singleton (1972) Professor A M R Taylor Professor J C R Turner Mr K J Russell (1973) (1992) (1962) Mr M A Smyth (1973) Mr M A Bagnall-Oakeley Mr S C Palmer (1963) Sir Charles Haddon-Cave (1994) Mr P D Skinner (1963) (1974) Dr A Guha (1994) 68 | pembroke college

Mr H P Raingold (1994) Mr H R Perren (1998) Mr J Mayne (2004) Ms H E M Walton (1994) Mr G R I Llewellyn-Smith Mr M R Mellor (2006) Mr A R B A Mydellton (2003) Miss C L Sutherell (2011) (1997) Mrs J A Gore-Randall Miss J A Davies (1998) (2004) The College apologises for any inadvertent omissions, and invites members willing to see their names listed in future to write accordingly to Sally March at the College.

Bequests The College acknowledges with gratitude the following bequests which were received between 1 July 2013 and 30 June 2014 –

Dr G J Williams (1958) £5,000 Mr N T Beazley (1978) £1,000 Dr D R Ives (1959) £2,000 Mr W M Brimicombe (1939) £1,000 Mr J L Lewis OBE (1942) £200 Mr R O Booth (1935) £1,000 Mrs M P Hodgart £100 Mr F C South (1934) £5,000 Dr P W Hayward (1947) £5,000 Dr A J Oxley (1949) a further £17,720 Sir Guy Millard KCMG CVO (1935) £1,000 Mr M D Jepson OBE (1940) £2,000 Mr J B H Knight (1939) £539 Mr N W Hayman (1961) £5,000 Revd J W Bell (1950) £5,000 Mr P R Spurgin (1948) £48,687 A Legacy to Pembroke College Cambridge, helpful information on making a legacy, can be obtained by telephoning Sally March on (01223) 339079, writing to her at the College, or on e-mail ([email protected]).

J.C.D.H.

The 1347 Committee Parents Luncheon The 20th 1347 Committee Parents Luncheon was held at the beginning of the Lent Term, on Sunday 12 January 2014. 167 parents and other family members joined current members of the College for the occasion in Hall after drinks in the Old Library. Peter Bradshaw (1981), the British writer and film critic for the Guardian, was this year’s guest speaker. The Committee would like to thank all those who attended this year’s Lunch and those who made donations. The £4,000 raised has been given to a College fund that directly supports Pembroke students in need of financial assistance. The next Parents Luncheon will be held on Sunday 19 April 2015 and details will be circulated to the parents of Junior Members early in 2015. annual gazette | 69

1347 Committee 2013–2014 Officers President: J I Hirschowitz (2011) Vice-Presidents: L Aitchison (2011), E Fairhurst (2011), E C Hughes (2010), E C Morgan (2009) Secretary: R R Pourkarimi (2012) Publicity Officer: E L Gould (2012)

1347 Committee 2014–2015 Officers President: H Lazell (2011) Other officers will be elected at the outset of the 2014–15 Academical Year

Master’s Society The 12th meeting of the Master’s Society was held in College on Saturday 22 February 2014. 96 guests were entertained to an enjoyable lunch in the Hall following a drinks reception in the Senior Parlour. The Master thanked all those present for their generous support. Membership of the Society is open to anyone who has made gifts totalling £2,000 or more to the College in the financial year prior to the event; invitations are also sent to donors for the two years following a gift of £5,000 or more, and for five years following a gift of £10,000 or more. Donors of £50,000 or more will be granted indefinite membership of the Society. To all, the College is very grateful. Among those attending this year’s lunch were:

Mr N M Bachop (1965) His Honour Judge N T Mr C A Payne (1979) & Sir Michael Bett CBE Hague QC (1950) Mrs A Payne (1955) & Lady Bett Mr A R Hewitt (1967) Mr D R Pritchard (1979) & Mr G D Blyth (1972) Mr D N Howard (1956) & Mrs F Judd QC Mr J A H Chadwick (1961) Mrs J E Howard Dr I F Pye (1960) Dr P L Clarke (1971) Professor N Itoh and Mrs Dr P R Radford (1961) & Mr H A Crichton-Miller P Trebilcock Mrs P M Radford (1959) Dr K Itoh Helsby & Mr T D Mr C L Reilly (1966) Mr J N Crichton-Miller Helsby Miss J S Ringrose (1997) (1953) Mr R W Jewson (1962) and Professor M Mills Mr J D Dinnage (1969) Mr A D Marcus (1984) Mr C P Robinson (1960) Ms H Dolby (1986) and Mr Mr R D Marshall (1981) & and Mrs C Douglas F Power Mrs S A Kissane Mr G W F Rynsard (1971) Mr J V P Drury (1966) & Marshall Mr S Sayeed Mrs C E C Drury Dr M C Martin (2000) Mr G M Scarcliffe (1975) & Professor P G Farrell Mr S S McGlashan (1974) Mrs B A Scarcliffe FREng (1965) & Mrs C McGlashan Mr H M Skipp (1965) Mr C M Fenwick (1957) Mr I C Melia (1969) & Dr J Mr R Slater FRGS (1966) & Mr R N Field (1952) and Melia Mrs J N Slater Mrs E Phillips Mr J K Overstall (1955) & Mr R G N Spencer (1977) Mr M C Foster (1956) & Mrs A D Overstall & Mrs C T Spencer Mrs R Foster Mr R J Parmee (1970) and Mr K G Sykes (1965) Mrs V Gérard Powell Mrs B White Mr P Tao (1985) 70 | pembroke college

Mr M J Ternouth (1986) & Mr D A Walter (1970) & Mr C C Williams & Mrs G Mrs L Ternouth Mrs M N Walter Williams Mr N G Walker (1976) and Mr R J Warburton (1955) Mr J A Wilson QC (1977) Mr S Rose & Mrs B R Warburton & Mrs S T Wilson Mr A K A Wallis ACA Mr C R Webb (1967) Mr R C Wilson (1966) & (1979) Mr H A White (1946) and Mrs E C W Wilson Mr D White

The College was represented by:

The Master & Mrs S H Stobbs Miss N Morris Lady Dearlove Sir Roger Tomkys KCMG Mr J I Hirschowitz (2011) Dr M R Wormald DL & Lady Tomkys Mr R Sanders (2011) Mr M R Mellor Mr H P Raingold Miss Z Walker (2012) Mr M G Kuczynski Ms S A March

Invitations for the next meeting of the Master’s Society, to be held on Saturday 7 March 2015, will be sent out in the autumn.

THE VALENCE MARY (1997) ENDOWMENT FUND The Trustees of the Valence Mary (1997) Endowment Fund were informed at their meeting in June that the total value of the Fund, comprising equities, cash and fixed interest investments, now stood at £2,369,931 and that, since inception, £744,356.85 had been received in contributions. It is also worth noting that grants of £873,000 have been made to the College over the life of the Fund. A copy of the annual accounts is available on request to Andrew Cates (Treasurer and Bursar of the College). annual gazette | 71

COLLEGE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

BADMINTON 2013–2014 has been another successful year for Pembroke College Badminton Club. The club continues to grow, cementing its position as one of the largest and most popular sports teams in college. Building on the platform of the 2012–13 season, the Men’s Firsts asserted themselves in the college league in excellent style. An unbeaten Lent Term saw them win Division 2 and promotion to the top flight for Michaelmas Term next academic year. The season highlight was undoubtedly the formidable partnership between Rupert Barton and Matej Janecek, who kept their cool and won vital games whenever the team was under pressure. With the strong fresher intake this year, the Men’s Firsts stand in a very good position to compete in the top league in the University next year. After back-to-back promotions last year, the Men’s Second Team have consolidated their position in Division 4. Under the captaincy of Richard Stockwell, they recorded a symmetrical three wins and three losses in both the Michaelmas and Lent Terms. Their league position ranks them as the fourth best college second team, which is great testimony to the strength and depth of Pembroke badminton. The team also entered the annual Cuppers competition, advancing past a very strong Girton Second team before losing out to Churchill Firsts. The Men’s Thirds provided an excellent opportunity for new players to enjoy the excitement and team spirit of competitive badminton in the college leagues. Over 10 players represented the Men’s Thirds, which is great credit to captain Ahrandeep Aujla’s tireless enthusiasm to the sport. Unfortunately, the Pembroke Ladies did not relive their success of last year, suffering relegation to Division 2 at the end of Lent term. However, Emma Cai (Women’s captain), Victoria Wang and Yan Zhang were excellent throughout Pembroke’s Mixed Cuppers campaign, where we stormed into the semi-finals before narrowly losing to St. Johns College. The final match of the season was the annual Old Boys’ match. Despite fielding an extremely strong team consisting of numerous ex-captains and ex- First Team players, the Old Boys’ team was not able to reclaim the Tom Karkinsky Memorial Trophy from the students. It was a highly enjoyable afternoon and an eventful Pembroke Badminton Annual Dinner rounded off the yearly celebration of the club in spectacular fashion. Any Old Boys or Girls who would like to attend the annual dinner and match next year should contact Oliver Lockwood ([email protected]) to be added to the mailing list.

Outgoing Committee: Incoming Committee: Captain – Terence Kwan Captain – Tom Ogier Women’s Captain – Emma Cai Women’s Captain – Louisa Guyon Second Team Captain – Second Team Captain – Sam Rowntree Richard Stockwell 72 | pembroke college

Third Team Captain – Third Team Captain – Ahrandeep Aujla Mark Hammond Treasurer – Ben Laird Treasurer – Bryan Cheung

Rupert Barton

BOAT CLUB PCBC began the 2013–2014 season off the back of a severely depleted pool of rowers from the previous season; however the tireless efforts of our Lower Boats Captains Greg Drott, Tony Barker, Chloe Ramambason and Maev Conneely, along with the invaluable coaching from Andrew Watson, saw Michaelmas term field an impressive 78 rowers, with most able to compete in the Fairbairn cup. This began a great Pembroke presence on the river that was to continue to subsequent terms. The Novice men placed an impressive 9th and 40th, with NM3 not able to row due to bad weather. The Novice women placed 21st and a second DNS due to weather. The Senior side had a shaky start to their racing season with M1 placing 18th and W1 placing 21st, with M2 (IV) in 19th. In the week prior to Lent Term, PCBC saw the inaugural Lent Term Training Camp to Seville take place. We fielded four boats worth of seniors and novices, with four coaches – Eddy Flower, Adam Lister, Matt Stallard and Alan Marron. The twice/three times a day training regime in the lovely climate and setting of Seville provided absolutely invaluable training that would take months to obtain on the Cam, and also a fantastic bonding experience for all the members of PCBC. Many thanks must go to the coaches for their dedication to the crews. A video scrapbook is available to watch on the PCBC website, under ‘News’. On return from camp, PCBC were greeted with very poor weather, and boating restrictions due to building work on the Cam. Careful planning by the Captains however allowed us to build on the successes of the camp and Michaelmas to field five boats in the Lent Bumps (three Men’s and two Women’s). PCBC were set to have a few more boats, however the multiple yellow and red flag mornings meant that our novices particularly struggled. The weather also took a major victim in this year’s Pembroke Regatta, which was unfortunately cancelled. Nonetheless, M1 managed a good bumps of going up 3, with M2 being chased by successive M1 crews hence going down 3, with M3 going up 2. The Women’s side had a more difficult bumps with W1 going down 6, and W2 going down 1 but not without an intermediate bump up on First and Third II. The poor weather also hindered the club’s off-Cam race plans in Lent, with our crews having to be withdrawn from Hammersmith Head, WEHORR and HORR. In the latter case, M1 were on the start line ready to row, when the umpires called the race off! With the difficulties of Lent Term, the club’s objective was to regain the participation of past years in time for May Bumps. The club achieved this in style, with the largest entry to May Bumps of any college with 11 boats (six Men’s, five Women’s). The Getting on Race shaved this down to eight, which was still first annual gazette | 73 equal in terms of the number of boats competing in Mays. The Men’s side had a mixed bag of results, with M1 going up 2 to 5th in the first division, M2 dropping 4 places into the third division, M3 having a remarkable double overbump on one day and going up 8 places overall, M4 going up 2, and M6 going up 2. M5 did not get on. The Women’s side had a more difficult year, with W1 and W3 both dropping 4 places, and W2 dropping 6. Many of these results, however, were not representative of the progress that the crews made in the term, and the large number of seniors rolling over this year to the 2014–2015 season gives the opportunity for PCBC to have a string of future successful years. As of writing, M1 are expecting a representation at Henley Royal Qualifiers in the Geoffrey Perret II in The Prince Albert Challenge Cup event. Many thanks to PCBC’s sponsors, King and Spalding, The Master Sir Richard Dearlove, and all alumni who have supported the club in various forms over the past year. A particular thanks goes to Kevin Bowles, our Boatman, who has to put up with all the breakages PCBC imposes upon him! Also, Andrew “Gripper” Watson’s role in coaching this year has played a large part in PCBC’s success, so thanks go to him too. The boat club website provides recent boat club news at www.pembrokecollegeboatclub.com. Men’s 1st Boat: Tony Barker, Tom Wileman, Tom Hoier, Walter Myer, Theo Clark, Tom Zawisza, Scott Warden, Archie Wood, Arav Gupta (cox). Women’s 1st Boat: Hannah Townsend, Ery Hughes, Holly Clothier, Charlotte Chorley, Chloe Ramambason, Maev Conneely, Catherine Vincent, Sienna Tompkins, James Roberts (cox). Outgoing Captains: Incoming Captains: Overall Captain: Scott Warden Overall Captain: Gregory Drott Men’s Captain: Archie Wood Men’s Captain: Theo Clark Women’s Captain: Ery Hughes Women’s Captain: Chloe Ramambason

Scott Warden

CRICKET After an extremely successful year in 2013, the cricket club aimed to push on and continue its fine form of recent years. The loss of a number of key players was countered by a strong intake of freshers, leaving me optimistic about our chances of Cuppers glory. Early-season friendly form was encouraging, featuring a good performance and unfortunate loss against a strong Christ’s side, including an excellent spell by fresher Harry Hudson. The next game’s performance left something to be desired, as we were beaten by the 9 men of Hetairoi, with only a strong rearguard action from James Perry and Sajeed Ali bringing us close to their total of 157. The following weekend we came up against the Trevor Munns Invitational XI. After watching Matt Leggett plunder 42 from our attack, we turned to the unlikely figure of William Burrow to open our innings. He took to 74 | pembroke college

this task with great gusto, if absolutely no footwork, bludgeoning a brisk 41. Strong performances from James Norton-Brown and Jon Whitby took us close to the 192 required to win; unfortunately, we then proceeded to tie the game from a position of 6 required from 3 overs, with the opposition bowlers cunningly repeatedly pitching it outside off stump and watching as we missed ball after ball. The friendly season was rounded off with the traditional fixtures against the Idlers, won (as ever) by the Idlers, and the Staff and Fellows, which the college side won by 42 runs with a strong team performance. Thankfully, our cuppers season was rather more successful. Our first group game was against Queens’, our quarter-final opponents the previous year. Expecting a tough game, we arrived an hour early for extensive fielding practice, and I therefore decided to bat first. An excellent 61 from Harry McNeill Adams (during which he took advantage of an extremely short boundary to hit perhaps his first ever six), along with 31 from Norton-Brown , helped carry us to a strong total of 166 from our 20 overs. The game was essentially won within the first six overs, as three quick wickets from Perry knocked over the Queens’ top order, leaving Queens’ to limp to 93, Izhan Khan returning impressive figures of 4–6 from his four overs to seal a 73-run win for the college. We took on Girton II in our other group game, bowling them out for 49 with wickets for Hudson, Burrow and Khan, before chasing the total down in under 5 overs for a conclusive 7-wicket win. The highlight of the game had to be a loose delivery from Perry getting the ‘Dilscoop’ treatment from the Girton opening batsman, who had confessed to me to ‘barely playing cricket’. Our quarter-final opponents were Jesus, the college’s football Cuppers nemesis. Jesus won the toss and elected to field, and proceeded to bowl and field extremely well to restrict Pembroke to 96–8, showing the virtues of bowling full and straight. In reply, Pembroke took to the field in good spirits. After keeping it relatively tight for the first six overs with pacey spells from George Smith and Perry, Khan struck three times in quick succession to slow the Jesus scoring, leaving them behind the rate at the halfway stage. Ultimately, we were unable to keep taking regular wickets, and Jesus were able to reach their target of 97 at the start of the final over despite a monumental effort from the Pembroke men. Pembroke lost in the end by six wickets, and really were at least 20 runs short of a par score. This was the second consecutive season that Pembroke has lost to the eventual Cuppers champions, and was an immensely enjoyable season of cricket. Congratulations must go to Izhan Khan for his first-class debut this year in the four-day Varsity match at The Parks. Looking forwards, the club will retain a good pool of talent for next year, particularly in the bowling department. Next year’s Captain will be James Norton-Brown, and next year’s Secretary will be James Perry.

Squad: George Sydenham (Captain), Harry McNeill Adams (Secretary), George Smith, Peter Fletcher, Izhan Khan, Richard Phillips, Bharat Ganju, Josh Hirschowitz, Paul McMullen, Richard Stockwell, James Perry, James Norton- Brown, Harry Hudson, Tom Fairbairn, Rob Oldham, Fergus Kent, Sajeed Ali, Joel annual gazette | 75

Reland, Hamish Lazell, William Burrow, Jon Whitby, Jeremy Wikeley, Rishi Bhabutta, Pete Harries, Elspeth Fowler, Lee Sharkey, Adam Truelove (official scorer), Tom Williams (assistant scorer)

George Sydenham

FOOTBALL (MEN’S) I wish I could present to you a story of unparalleled success – of a winning a league and cup double and an invincible season to top it off. How close we came to that dream! Just twenty minutes stood between PCAFC and eternal glory. But alas, football is sport, sport is life, and life is unpredictable: it was not to be. Despite this, we can all take much pride from one of PCAFC’s most successful seasons of all time. Gaining promotion, winning Division 2 unbeaten with a game to spare, and reaching the Cuppers’ Final are all immense achievements. But let us not forget how close such a successful team came to stumbling at the very first hurdle – Magdalene away on a windy October afternoon. Were it not for great link-up play by supersub combination Griggs and Valov to rescue a 2–2 draw, our unbeaten league campaign would have ended rather quickly. Certainly in the first half of the season we had difficulty imposing ourselves from the start and had not yet developed the veneer of invincibility that would come to define us in the second half. Conceding early goals put us in trouble against Magdalene, Trinity and Robinson, while the 7–3 extra-time victory against Tit Hall belies what was an incredibly tight match for the first 90 minutes. Following an edgy start to the season we surged from strength to strength, recording memorable, joyous routs against Trinity (7–1), Queens (5–1) and Churchill (7–1). Winning became an attitude, and we responded when tested, most notably against Homerton (3–1), where we came back from 1–0 down with 20 minutes remaining, and Caius (2–0) in the Cup Semi-Final. Pembroke faced Jesus in the Cuppers Final, a Division 1 side who had been fortunate to dispatch Pembroke in the quarter-finals the previous year. Jesus started the sharper, but it was Pembroke who opened the scoring, Nielsen netting for his 22nd goal of the season. Shortly afterwards, and with the momentum firmly in their favour, Pembroke lost their captain Scott following a clash of heads with a Jesus player. Despite this, Pembroke looked the stronger side, and were unfortunate not to go into break further in front. Jesus came out determined to overhaul the deficit, and were rewarded with two quick-fire goals. Pembroke responded impressively, with Hudson bundling in from close- range to draw level. As the match headed into the final 20 minutes, Coan whipped in a cross which was met by Harries, who finished at the second-time of asking. At 3–2, Pembroke sought to close out the match, but Jesus, who had suffered a defeat in the final the previous year, were not to be denied the trophy again. They equalised following a goal-mouth scramble, before scoring the decisive goal ten minutes from time. The Cuppers Final was an incredible occasion, both for PCAFC as a footballing side and for Pembroke as a college. 76 | pembroke college

Pembroke turned out in force, with students, fellows and staff all forming a blue army that kept the side going throughout. To what can we attribute such success? There are perhaps three key aspects to any great football club: strength in depth, determination, and sheer quality. This year Pembroke has had all three in abundance. Our quality has been demonstrated week-in, week-out. Attacking-wise the threat that Nielsen has brought to the club and his understanding with Hirschowitz turned us from a side of potential during the 2012–13 season to a side that has scored goals for fun this year. The combination in central midfield between Carroll, Hinksman and Scott, with Reland adding further panache, has been better than any we’ve faced, while the threat provided down the wings by Harries, Coan, and Griggs and the long-throw capability of Scott have provided us with further outlets. But attack is, of course, only half of the story. Hudson, King, Bittlestone and Ogier, in front of the dominating Kent in goal, have provided the solid foundation for many of our successes this year. But quality is only part of this season’s story. Strength in depth across the board has been essential to our success this year. It is very unusual for a college side to be able to draw upon the wealth of talent that Pembroke has this year, but with three squads it should come as no surprise. Not only has the input of Messers Valov, Griggs, Reland, Layton, Adams, Sivathas, Weber and Mills in no way diminished the quality of the side on the field, but each has brought something different to the team when they have represented PCAFC this season. Finally, and perhaps the greatest differentiating factor between us and other college sides this season has been the determination and desire to succeed that we have shown. Very few colleges train for two hours come rain- or-shine on Friday afternoons, almost none get up at 7.30am on a Tuesday morning and trek to the pitches in the freezing cold for a fitness session, and absolutely none have got a coach and a mentor of the quality and commitment that Trevor Munns has shown this year. The success of the Pembroke First XI has been matched by the Second XI, who earned promotion to the third division following an impressive unbeaten league campaign in which they scored 28 goals, conceding only 5, dispatching division four champions Queens IIs in the process. This promotion means that the Pembroke IIs have now risen three divisions in only four years, a truly remarkable achievement. The Pembroke IIIs endured a difficult season, suffering relegation to Division 7. Yet, the IIIs saw over 44 players represent the side, amassing a total of 200 appearances in 12 matches, demonstrating that love of the beautiful game runs deep within Pembroke. It has been a truly incredible season for the entirety of the football club, and it would not have been possible without the continued support of Trevor Munns who remains the most invaluable member of PCAFC. I’d also like to thank the outgoing committee for their help over the season, and wish Mark, Freddy and Jack the best of luck for the coming campaign. annual gazette | 77

2013–14 Season Committee: 2014–15 Season Committee: Captain – Rory Scott Captain – Mark Bittlestone Secretary – Mark Bittlestone Secretary – Tom Ogier Vice-Captain – John Carroll Vice-Captain – Matt Hudson Second Team Captain – James Weber Second Team Captain – Freddy Mills Third Team Captain – Joseph Spencer Third Team Captain – Jack Capel-Shyu

Rory Scott

FOOTBALL (WOMEN’S) The 2013/2014 season held much promise for Pembroke Ladies. After years of stagnation, with many of our finest players graduating and very few girls coming in to take their places, I was inundated with requests from freshers hoping to join the football team. Not only were these new players enthusiastic, but they soon proved that they were talented and provided the breath of fresh air needed for this to be the strongest ladies team I have played for during my three years at Pembroke. Not only did we make it into the Cup for the first time in years but also managed to retain our place in the top division of the league. Pembroke Ladies seem to have an inexplicable amount of bad luck when it comes to playing league football. Despite some fantastic play, our finishing has left much to be desired, which has been reflected in the scorelines. However, for many years we have managed to cling to our position in the top division and this year was no exception. We sustained heavy losses to Fitzwilliam and Christ’s early in Michaelmas Term – unsurprising given the large number of university players on both those teams. We were also unlucky in losing 4–2 to Jesus who, until recently, had the rare luxury of fielding a first and a second ladies team. Many other teams might have lost heart after such a start to the season but every one of our players battled valiantly through every match, cheered on by unfailingly enthusiastic encouragement from player of the year Gaia Laidler: ‘C’mon girls, we only need four more goals in the next five minutes, that’s nothing!’. Our first game of Lent Term was against St. Johns in the league, a daunting prospect given the relative size of our two colleges. Fortunately, we benefited from some well-timed international signings from the recently arrived American exchange students. Pembroke commanded play from the beginning, making use of Liz Robinshaw and Claudia Acha’s abilities to take the ball past anyone down the wing. Following some fantastic saves from defender (reluctantly) turned goalkeeper Katie Threadgill we came away with a much deserved 2–1 victory. Following a number of walkovers, we finished fourth in the top division, outside of the relegation zone. Unlike the league, our Cuppers run started strongly. In the opening match against St Catz a loss would send us into the competition for the plate and a win would enable us to compete for Cuppers glory. Despite missing some key players we secured a comfortable win. This meant that we were up against much tougher opponents in the Cuppers competition but we relished the 78 | pembroke college

challenge as we were drawn against Trinity. An unfortunate miscommunication of directions meant we started with only six players but as reinforcements eventually arrived we took control of the game. After early goals from each side, we broke the 1–1 stalemate ten minutes before the final whistle and it seemed impossible that we would not progress to the quarter finals. However, with the last kick of the game Trinity sent a long ball into the top corner which forced us to extra time. For almost the full half hour it seemed we would have to relive the penalty shootout which had sent us out of the cup last year but, again, with the last touch, Trinity chanced a shot from outside the box and got lucky. I have no doubt that, as I leave the team in the capable hands of new captain Cassie Cope, the taste of playing in Cuppers and a year’s experience will propel the team to greatness next season.

Susie Wright

HOCKEY (MEN’S) Following last year’s near double promotion, Pembroke College Men’s Hockey team had a lot to live up to. Changes in the league system initially looked as if they might cause problems; however, these were largely overcome and Pembroke were able to put out strong teams every week, consisting of new recruits and seasoned veterans alike. The evidence for this is clear from the outstanding achievements both in the league and the cup. In our first game of Michaelmas, we demonstrated a determination and hunger for victory that set the standards for the entire year. Despite unfortunately conceding early and then the heavens breaking upon us, a strong defence and attacking plays saw a number of balls narrowly passing the opposition posts, with Pembroke putting pressure on the opposition. This led to two goals being scored before the half was up, followed by another shortly into the second half. Encouragingly, Pembroke continued to press and if it were not for an embarrassing miss from the captain Fletcher, could have seen the game put to bed. However, a determined Emmanuel team began to ask questions and would eventually dominate in the final quarter. Thankfully the skill of goalkeeper Norris, as well as the effort of our defence, saw Pembroke hang on to a 3–2 victory. Pembroke were strong throughout Michaelmas and finished third in the league with five wins and two losses, however, it was our performance in the cup which was truly encouraging. We managed to progress to the quarter finals, beating Division 1 Girton at penalty flicks, before losing to the eventual winners, Jesus. This was a great achievement and sets our sights for next year on reaching finals day. Moving into Lent, Pembroke became more clinical in their play with a fluid passing game, complemented by some tremendous deflections. Key to the success in Lent was the near impenetrable fortress that was the Pembroke defence. Indeed we achieved the best defensive record in the Lent league, only allowing 4 goals to be scored in 7 games. Between Norris and Ganju the goal line annual gazette | 79 itself was heavily defended, with game saving performances coming from both keepers. Our backline was reinforced with new recruits; Atti English (Player of the Season), James Perry (Player’s Player – Michaelmas) and Charlie Cummins (Most Improved Player). Alongside them the veteran Hamish Lazell, the up and coming Joseph Spencer and captain Peter Fletcher, completed a defensive line that was capable of denying the overwhelming majority of attacks. Surging forward was a pacey attack, with pivotal distributing players such as James Hutt and the skill and finesse of Adam Jackson (who indeed was greatly missed after he suffered a freak injury late in the season). We received further reinforcement on a number of occasions from the ladies side, with Charlotte Ivers, Anna Robinson and Steph Willis, stepping in and showing strength and ability which matched any of our opponents. With Jack Tawney and Andrew Percival wreaking havoc amongst the opposition defence, some questioned the tyrannical demands of the captain to take the short corners, which lead to his corrupt rise on the top scorers’ list. More deserved goals were well distributed throughout the forwards, with flair, precision and the employment of a highly practised deflection routine. Our 22 goals in the 7 matches of Lent saw us joint top scorers. The commitment shown by all those who represented Pembroke allowed us to finish top of division 2, with five wins, two draws, no losses. This is a fantastic achievement and means that Pembroke are looking forward to playing hockey in the top division come next year. My personal thanks go to all those who gave their time and effort to the club this season. Particularly, I wish to thank Jack Tawney, who as Secretary has been of great assistance in the running of the club and a real fountain of organised fun. I am thoroughly looking forward to the future of Pembroke College Men’s Hockey Club. Next year will be a challenge, a step up in our standard of hockey and we will unfortunately lose some outstanding players. However, we are in safe hands. I pass the captaincy on to a player who has shown unquestionable commitment to the club. Under the leadership of James Perry and the continued efforts of all our members I believe we can top the achievements of this year and have an outstanding 2014–15 season.

Outgoing Captain: Peter Fletcher Outgoing secretary: Jack Tawney Incoming Captain: James Perry Incoming Secretaries: Charlotte Ivers and Charlie Cummins

Peter Fletcher

HOCKEY (WOMEN’S)

2014 squad: S Willis (outgoing captain), H Matheson (incoming captain), A Robinson, C Ivers (incoming social secretary), P Dale, L Robinshaw, C Hogg, G Banham, L Adams, E Carter, F Crole, J Simpson, J Bullock, J Padley, K Griffiths, K Anne, K McCrudden, K Threadgill. 80 | pembroke college

Record: Played 8, Won 4, Lost 4.

It has been something of a varied season for Pembroke Women’s Hockey. This year’s fresher contingent arrived full of hockey talent and enthusiasm providing a much-needed injection of players into what had been slightly dwindling ranks. Several bastions of Pembroke hockey continued to show their steadfast support for the team and a few 2nd and 3rd years who had not played before got coaxed into getting involved. In Michaelmas, three 1–0 wins and two opposition teams not managing to get a team out meant that we were promoted to division 1 in Lent. Those three wins were all of rather unique character despite all having the same score line. We beat Emma in a lovely game of passing hockey, we beat Christ’s by shear grit and determination from the defence and we beat Clare with a 7 man team at the expense of the health of most of our players but all worthwhile for the glory of PCHC. Increasing numbers of injuries in the team and opposition sides full of university players made the term in Division 1 pretty tough. Trying to play Murray Edwards with 7 players was a painful experience which resulted in a 7–1 loss. Our solitary division 1 win came from a hard fought match against John’s in which the team really worked hard together to maintain their 2–1 lead to the end. Emma Carter was awarded player of the season for her outstanding defensive play at every match. In a fitting end to the season Anna Robinson, a stalwart of Pembroke Hockey for the last 4 years, was awarded third prize in the Peter May Sports awards.

Stephanie Willis

NETBALL Team: Defence: Becca Hitchings, Rhianna Ilube (Player of the Year), Tamara Bell Centre court: Catherine Hogg, Jessica Farmery, Janneke Simpson, Ciara Scott, Connie Chapman Attack: Katie McCrudden, Jaspreet Khaira, Fabia Crole, Charlotte Ivers Pembroke Ladies Netball has had another successful season. The year got off to a good start with the recruitment of a number of talented players. Particular mention must go to Charlotte Ivers and Katie McCrudden who stepped straight into the squad as shooters, a position which the team had lacked in recent years. The strong defensive trio of Rhianna Ilube, Tamara Bell and Becca Hitchings also provided a consistent challenge for our opposition each week. Centre court was dominated by Jessica Farmery, Ciara Scott and Connie Chapman. In Michaelmas Term we started in Division 3 (out of 6) and quickly bonded as a team with half of our players being new-recruits. While we won several matches, the highlight of the term was the match against Homerton I. Despite losing this match we showcased some of our best netball of the term against a annual gazette | 81 team that included two Blues players. Pembroke continued to fight until the final whistle and I was impressed with how the team coped with the faster pace of play. Sadly at the end of the season we narrowly missed out on promotion due to goal differences. Lent Term saw some tough matches against teams demoted from division two. However, the Pembroke defence particularly came into their own. At the end of this term we have remained in the third division. Netball Cuppers was a fantastic morning of netball for the team. We lost three matches against Trinity Hall (who eventually went on to win Cuppers), Trinity I and Murray Edwards I, but then hit our stride and comfortably beat Peterhouse and Emmanuel II. I was proud of the team and how they were equally enthusiastic in all matches played. The biggest challenge we have faced this year was the lack of reliable netball court access. The Pembroke Court on Grange Road is unsafe for play and so we have been using the St Catharine’s College Court. I must commend the netball team on their ability to adapt to often changing locations of netball matches. It has recently been confirmed that a new Pembroke netball court is to be built at the Pembroke pitches in time for next Michaelmas term. This is excellent news and will hopefully help in our aim to be promoted to the second division. The incoming captain is Charlotte Ivers, both a talented netball player and a comfortable leader. I have no doubt that she will ensure the continuing growth of Pembroke Ladies Netball Club and look forward to hearing how the team gets on our new home ground!

Catherine Hogg

RUGBY

President: Howard Raingold Captain: Will Burrow Secretary: Felix Nugee Incoming Captain: Rob Sanders Incoming Secretary: Richard Phillips

Squad: Adam Barker, Mark Bittlesone, Will Burrow*, Rupert Cowan*, Jack Di Lizia, Ross Elsby*, Michael Georgiou, Tom Hoier, Hamish Lazell, Roger Lightwood, Felix Nugee, Yemi Ogunyemi*, Jamie Robson, Rob Sanders, James Savage, Rory Scott*, Lee Sharkey, George Smith*, Will Snowden, Alex Stride, George Sydenham, Josh Hirschowitz, Josh Wade, Jon Whitby*, Choi Seonghoon*, Rory Burford*, Richard Phillips, Tim Bond, Adam Truelove, John Suzuki, Adam Robinson, Skandar Keynes, Bharat Ganju, Haydn Morgans, Tom Fairbairn, Tim Weil. *University representative 82 | pembroke college

The 2013/14 season proved to be a challenging one for PCRUFC. Relegation from Division 1 proved a bitter blow, as did defeat in the cuppers plate semi- final. The departure of the majority of last year’s starting XV left the side facing an uphill task from the very first game of the season. However, despite that fact, the squad threw themselves into pre-season fitness and training in the hope of being able to remain in the top-flight. Another positive was the very strong intake of freshers who joined the side and who should provide the backbone of a push for promotion next season. As it did last year, the first fixture came in the form of a pre-season friendly against CCK, in which many of the first years were blooded into college rugby for the first time. Even though the game was lost many of the signs were positive. Indeed, this positivity continued into the first game against Selwyn-Peterhouse, which resulted in a narrow defeat despite Pembroke missing a number of their ‘star’ players. Whilst some of the verve may have been stripped from the side by departures from the back-division, there were some new found powerful forward runners amongst the freshers, most notably those who joined the front-row. After the Selwyn-Peterhouse game, however, injuries really began to grip the side. For the games against John’s, Jesus and Downing across the remainder of Michaelmas, team selection became increasingly challenging, with the list of unavailable players longer than that of those who were available. This was only exacerbated by the increasing unavailability of players who were preparing for Varsity matches. There were some particularly notable moments during the Michaelmas Term. It was pleasing to see, once again, so many members of PCRUFC representing Cambridge in the annual Varsity series against ‘the other place’. Last year’s secretary, George Smith made a try-scoring contribution to a thrilling u21 victory at Twickenham, whilst Rupert Cowan (PCRUFC’s resident gentleman) finally achieved his university colours. The club also continued to receive excellent hospitality at the Free Press and its resident Paul McCartney lookalike. Credit must go to the LJ, Mr Robson, for his superb management of the ever-enjoyable Kangaroo Court. On a less positive note the term also saw terrible injury befall one of the die-hard members PCRUFC. Adam Barker suffered a broken Femur in a tightly contested 12–0 loss to Robinson. It was pleasing to see, however, the way in which the club really came together in making sure he was bombarded with visitors at Addies, to all of whom he was delighted to show his X-Ray! Unsurprisingly, Mr Barker became only the second winner of the recently inaugurated ‘John McClane Diehard Award’ at the annual dinner. After the Christmas vacation, Pembroke returned as a different animal. The remaining members of last year’s ‘golden generation’ became available once again, and the strong batch of first years really came into their own. Lent Term started with an away fixture to John’s. Despite leading throughout much of the game, all efforts were eventually in vain as we came out on the wrong side of a 31–19 thriller! One of the most notable changes from Michaelmas was the return of fluidity in our back division, with the return of the pace and power of Messrs’ Smith and Elsby. The front row also began to rampage and spent the whole 80 minutes of the match tearing into their opposite numbers from annual gazette | 83

John’s. The following week a bonus point victory against Jesus raised hopes that we might be able to stay up and was a result which left Mr Raingold jumping for joy. Unfortunately this hope was dashed two weeks later as dogged Robinson defence once again denied us a deserved victory in a tightly fought game. Cuppers’ glory also eluded Pembroke once again, this time in the Cuppers Plate. A 40–0 battering of a John’s second team took us into the semi- final, in which we played Girton. Their inability to contest scrums (much to our annoyance) removed one of our most potent weapons, and despite prop Tom Fairbairn’s dancing try in the corner late on (whilst also carrying upwards of four Girton defenders with him) we unfortunately missed out on a place in the Final at Grange Road. It was not the greatest season on paper for PCRUFC, however, it was one in which we were plagued with bad-luck and injury, neither of which helped our cause. Following on from the success of last year’s ‘golden generation’ was always going to be a hard task but I hope that with a strong intake of freshers, the club can once again drive for promotion back to the big time. Huge thanks must go out to Trevor Munns, who was superb in keeping the pitch in order despite the deluge of rain this winter. There were times when the Pembroke pitches were playable even when Grange Road was not, which was superb! As ever, Howard Raingold has been extremely supportive of the club, and a thank you must also go to Sir Richard Dearlove, who has continued to show interest in how the rugby club has been getting on (even when it was not easy going). There must also be a particular mention for Mr James Savage, an institution in his own right at PCRUFC, who will be remembered by anyone who has played for the club since 2008. After years of great service to the club he is now moving on, having slimmed down in preparation for a new career as a fly-half. PCRUFC has left all of us who have been involved with many great memories, whether they be based around bop evenings or great victories. It has also forged many great friendships, which I am sure will last once those of us who are leaving have departed. I would like to take this final opportunity to wish next year’s committee all the best of luck, especially Rob Sanders as Captain and Richard Phillips as Secretary. I hope that when you are reading this report next year it can tell the tale of our glorious promotion back to Division 1.

Will Burrow

PEMBROKE PLAYERS

Outgoing Committee Incoming Committee President – John King/Jack Heywood President – Constance Chapman Artistic Director – James Lowther Artistic Director – John King Treasurer/Tech Officer – Joseph Spencer Treasurer – Joseph Spencer Front of House Manager – Front of House Manager – Jake Wood Katie McCrudden Secretary – Sydney Wesley-Weeks Secretary – Laura Moulton 84 | pembroke college

Comedy Representative – Comedy Representative – Rob Eyers Mark Bittlestone Publicity Officer – Maria Bergamasco Publicity Officer – Lizzie Hibbert IT and Communications – Beth Swords IT and Communications – Caroline Sautter

The past year has seen the Pembroke Players go from strength to strength. We have maintained our position as Cambridge’s most prolific drama society, staging over sixteen events in New Cellars and elsewhere. We were strongly represented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August, through our collaboration with Strung Up Theatre Company, a student theatre group set up by former Valencian Charlie Bindels. Two very different pieces were staged at C Nova, show-casing the wide range of talent on offer in Cambridge. All Strung Up was a circus piece based on Chaucer’s ‘The Franklin’s Tale’, featuring puppetry, story-telling, physical theatre and original music, as well as stunts on the trapeze and silks. This show was a sell-out success, and proved especially popular with children. The second show was a revival of Snap Out of It!, a verbatim play about mental health which had been staged in New Cellars last year. After each performance, the cast set aside ten minutes to interact with audience members about the project in the C Nova foyer, which was a rare and rewarding opportunity. The show was featured on the BBC 3 programme ‘Free Speech’. Five Pembroke students took part in these two shows in various capacities: Charlie Bindels, Jamie Hansen, Constance Chapman, John King and Annie Woodcock. The home run of the Japan Tour kicked off Michaelmas Term for the society, with our production of Two Gentlemen of Verona in Corpus Playroom in October. Other highlights from our season included the annual Sticky Floor Smoker in New Cellars and Woody Allen’s Play it Again, Sam in Corpus Playroom. This was followed by a staged reading of Dustin Lance Black’s 8, presented in association with the American Federation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact, who were a constant presence during the rehearsal process. The play, comprised of the transcripts of the 2010 Californian court case on Marriage Equality, was supplemented by a cast blog on the project, and a series of audience discussions which took place after each show. Trans* activist and Lib Dem councillor Sarah Brown gave a moving speech after one performance on her experiences of marriage and civil partnership in the UK. The show was staged as a fundraiser, and raised an incredible £750 for PACE, a London-based mental health charity. Michaelmas was brought to a festive close by the annual Pembroke Players Freshers’ Pantomime, which, as always, was written, directed and performed by Pembroke first year students. In Lent Term, we staged no fewer than eight shows, reaffirming our position as Cambridge’s most prolific college theatre society, beginning in Week 1 with Terminus, a rhyming monologue play by Mark O’Rowe. This was staged in the Corpus Playroom and received three five-star reviews from student press. It was followed by our second piece of LGBT+ Theatre of the year, The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman, in New Cellars. The freshers of Pembroke once again trod the boards two weeks later, with an innovative and daring modern reimagining of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. Other highlights from the season include Pompeii, a annual gazette | 85 piece of new writing by Eli Keren, and our annual Black Tie Smoker in the Old Library. Our Lent season drew to a close with a triple bill of de Musset’s Les Caprices de Marianne, Mark Ravenhill’s The Cut, and a stage adaptation of Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs – all of which had concurrent five-night runs, and attracted great audiences. Looking back, I am very proud of the variety brought to the Cambridge theatre scene by Pembroke Players in 2013/14. We did not stick to “safe” plays, offering audiences Shakespeare, circus, new writing, and verbatim theatre, whilst remaining a focal point of the Cambridge comedy scene. The presidency now has passed into the capable hands of Constance Chapman, who has led the new committee through the annual Golden Gods Smoker, which was a sell-out night in New Cellars, featuring both first time performers and Footlights regulars. On the immediate horizon, we have our upcoming May Week show, The Clouds by Aristophanes, and a one-off sketch show headed by our new comedy rep, Rob Eyers. As for the future, we are approaching our 60th anniversary next year, and this milestone will not pass uncelebrated. New Cellars has received a drastic make- over, and been fitted with new house lights, making it a more versatile space. We are sending three shows to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August – Occupied, a new political comedy by Harry Buckoke, The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood, and UCAS!, a quirky new musical about applying for university. We are sure that all three shows will do very well with Fringe audiences. This year’s annual Japan Tour sets off in September with a production of The Merchant of Venice, directed by Emma Wilkinson. Over the past few days, our inboxes have been flooded with applications for next term’s shows. We are continuing to grow as a strong presence in Cambridge theatre and abroad; more Pembroke students than ever have become involved in theatre in the past year, and as the society enters its seventh decade, we can say with absolute certainty that the future of Pembroke Players looks very bright indeed.

John King

MUSIC SOCIETY Pembroke is fast becoming the venue for Lieder in Cambridge. This year saw the College build on the reputation of the Sir Arthur Bliss Song Series by launching a unique venture, the Pembroke Lieder Scheme. At the beginning of the year, four duos were chosen from applicants across the University to receive specialist training in Lieder from the College Musician (Joseph Middleton) and visiting professional singers (Amanda Roocroft, Joan Rodgers and John Mark Ainsley). After a year of intensive coaching, the duos performed to an enthralled audience gathered in the Old Library early in the Easter term. Names to watch include Joel Williams (tenor) & Douglas Tang, who won national prizes for their Lieder performances in the course of the year, and Jonathan Hyde (bass-baritone) & Edward Picton-Tuberville, who treated us to a strikingly mature rendition of 86 | pembroke college

arguably the earliest song cycle, Beethoven’s An die Ferne geliebte. The Scheme will run for a further year before donors are sought to sustain a distinctive contribution to Cambridge’s cultural life. The Bliss Series continued to attract an array of leading Lieder singers to the College thanks to the ongoing financial support provided by the Kenderdine Fund. Joseph Middleton, fully recovered from a wrist injury, continued his interrupted Britten celebrations with two concerts in Michaelmas Term, the first with Marcus Farnsworth & Robert Murray, the second with Ruby Hughes & Nicholas Mulroy (deputizing for Andrew Kennedy). Alish Tynan dashed from London on the afternoon of 25 January to stand in for John Mark Ainsley, leaving nobody disappointed with the late substitution. John Mark will return in November for his much awaited recital. Two further recitals were equally starry, as Carolyn Sampson beguiled us with a recital of flower songs and Iestyn Davies justified his billing as one of the world’s leading counter-tenors. No less professional in outlook, third-year music student Benedict Collins Rice continued his remarkable series of concerts with The Façade Ensemble. Sunday evening regulars were treated to a remarkable performance of Judith Weir’s chamber opera The Consolations of Scholarship in Michaelmas Term, and in Lent Term an evening of music by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in honour of the Master of the Queen’s Music’s 80th birthday. Both concerts would not have been possible without substantial donations from the Lob Fund. Serious advantage was also taken of Pembroke’s two organs during the year, both the restored main organ dating back to 1708 and the Aubertin chamber organ that arrived exactly 300 years later following a donation from Geoffrey Perret (Pembroke, 1948). Pembroke organ scholar and latterly Assistant Organist of St George’s Chapel, Windsor, Roger Judd (Pembroke, 1963) returned in early November to give a recital marking the 50th anniversary of his matriculation. Both the Kenderdine (Theodore Hill) and Graham Maw (Richard Parkinson) organ scholars offered Sunday evening recitals, and Honorary Fellows were treated to a recital of organ duets given by two previous organ scholars now in residence as graduate students (Gregory Drott and Joseph Ashmore) along with the Director of College Music. Amidst all of this, invited artists Michael Bonaventura & Huw Morgan mixed live and manipulated sounds in a wash of sound rarely heard in chapel. Other inspired recitals of different kinds included Ensemble Matisse’s programme of chamber music related to birds, Georgina Feary’s exploration of ever more experimental twentieth-century works for clarinet, and Rachel Kay’s authoritative performances of movements from Bach’s cello suites and Debussy’s late sonata. More social forms of music making also thrived through the year. The PCMS Orchestra continued to prove a testing ground for ambitious conductors. In Michaelmas, Theodore Hill tackled Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances and Jack Oades directed Delius’ On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring. In Lent Term, Yannick Mayaud lead the way in a performance of the first movement of Mozart’s 40th Symphony. The ‘Lovely Choir’ (a distant relative of the Valence Mary Singers) gave its annual concert of light choral arrangements at the end of Lent Term. Pushing the boundaries further, the Pembroke Blues Band joined Fitz Swing for annual gazette | 87 a Jazz and Blues Night in the middle of Lent Term. The jazz continued to flow in recitals by Jack Oades and Ben Jones, as well as at the highly rated PCMS May Week Garden Party. For co-ordinating a wealth of activities during 2013, the outgoing Chair of PCMS, Georgina Feary, deserves much praise. The Chapel Choir, fresh from the summer tour of the East Coast of the United States, continued to sing the round of college services to the highest standards. This year was particularly notable for visits to Lichfield and St Edmundsbury Cathedrals, the former enabled by an annual donation from old choir member, Raymond Nasr. Musical highlights included an almost indecent amount of Howells (including the sumptuous Take Him Earth for Cherishing in the Passion Service) and a May Week Choral Evensong capped by Gerald Finzi’s setting of Richard Crashaw’s Lo, the Full Final Sacrifice. Individual choir members are rarely mentioned in dispatches, but particular mention must be made this year of three leavers, Francesca Sanders Hewett (soprano), Katharine Smith (alto) and William Snowden (bass), who have a combined experience of over 15 years in Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Gregory Drott, who takes over as Director of College Music during my forthcoming sabbatical year, will have to search long and hard to replace such talented and dedicated choir members.

Sam Barrett Theodore Hill, the Senior Organ Scholar and current Chair of the Music Society, writes separately about a joint concert between Pembroke Academy of Music, an open access music project based at Pembroke House in Walworth, south east London, and PCMS: On Saturday 1 March we welcomed a large party from the Pembroke Academy of Music, led by Elizabeth Andrews, for a collaborative project. Last year PCMS joined children from the Pembroke Academy in a performance of a choral anthem, alongside separate items that they had prepared in advance. This year saw us make music together for the whole day, culminating in a well-attended afternoon concert that featured a joint choral performance of Wesley’s "Lead me, Lord" (directed by Jack Oades) and combined orchestras in the second movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony. The highlight was a moving ensemble performance of Jesus’ Blood never failed me yet by Gavin Bryars. We look forward to welcoming PAM back next spring for what has become a highly enjoyable fixture in our musical calendar. 88 | pembroke college

After the roaring success of the Stokes Society Annual Garden Party, the newly elected Stokes Society Committee continued to take Pembroke’s science society to new levels of popularity, excitement and greatness this year. The 2013 Annual General Meeting saw the conception of ‘Speakers Officer’ as a stand-alone role, tasked with finding the biggest and the best scientists to speak at our meetings. Lachlan Stibbard Hawkes rose to the challenge, filling every week of both Michaelmas and Lent Term with interesting speakers before the academic year had even begun. Things were off to a good start. The first term started with a bang with Professor Chris Howe’s talk entitled ‘DNA, Manuscripts and Persian Carpets’ drawing in the crowds to the Nihon Room, leaving not a seat or table spare. As a Cambridge biochemist, he described how his team have been applying genome sequencing and analysis technology to ancient scripts such as the Canterbury Tales, revealing how the texts have been altered and evolved over time. Pembroke’s own Professor Mike Payne delivered an inspiring talk about his life experiences in the field of quantum mechanics and showed physicists and non-physicists alike how they can turn their research into a successful business. The diversity of talks in Michaelmas Term was astounding, ranging from the biology of bacterial DNA to the secrets of extinct organisms and even how the internet works. We also took the opportunity to socialise with other science societies around Cambridge this year, and our Christmas formal and cocktail party was enjoyed by members of Christ’s College’s ‘Darwin Society’, Downing College’s ‘Danby Society’ and St. John’s College’s ‘Larmor Society’. The end of Michaelmas Term saw the Stokes Society Committee having the unique opportunity to delve into the society’s history, with Pembroke’s librarian, Pat Aske, allowing us to view the Stokes Society archives. Meticulously kept minutes dating back to 1909 were uncovered and we were particularly amused to find that the nature of the society in those days (previously called ‘The Germs’ and later ‘SPOONS’) was more for the purpose of presenting the students’ own research. We attempted to document some of these treasures and the pictures can be found on the Pembroke College Stokes Society Facebook page. Naturally, we added our own contribution of posters annual gazette | 89 and term cards to the archive and we hope that future committees will continue to do this for generations to come. The line-up of speakers for Lent Term was awash with professorships and knighthoods. To mention but a few, Professor Sir Robert Mair told us about how engineers are constructing London’s Crossrail tunnels whilst keeping Big Ben upright, and Professor Bruce Hood, an experimental psychologist at the University of Bristol, explained why the idea of the ‘self’ is an illusion and why there is in fact no ‘you’ inside your head. A particular highlight came at the end of the term, with Professor David Nutt enlightening a captivated audience on the controversies surrounding drugs policy. Many of the speakers featuring in our Lent term card had previously given Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and many of them commended the committee on their professionalism as well as the first class treatment of their guests – dinner at arguably the finest formal hall in Cambridge and honorary life- membership of Stokes Society. Students and fellows of Natural Sciences also indulged themselves at the Stokes Society Annual Dinner with President, Craig Burns, giving a rousing speech to conclude the evening. A round-up of the year would be incomplete without mentioning the society’s grand finale. Professor Lord Robert Winston, renowned for his contributions to the development of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and for presenting television documentaries such as ‘Child of Our Time’, was a beacon of hope, wisdom and humour in the midst of the Easter Term exam turmoil. The talk was unconventional in several ways, not least because its popularity meant that a ticketing system had to be put in place to prevent the masses descending upon the Old Library (almost certainly a first for the Stokes Society)! Topics explored ranged from how he got into and subsequently left the field of medicine, his experiences in politics and the ethics of IVF, sparking some interesting debates. This year’s committee were all sad to leave their posts after a year of fantastic events and talks, meeting great scientists and learning new things from outside our own fields. We now pass on the Stokes Society baton to an enthusiastic, new committee and hope that they carry on the success of this year and have as much fun as we had.

Outgoing committee Incoming committee President – Craig Burns President – Cameron Dashwood Secretary – Ollie Stephenson Secretary – Siobhan Botwright Treasurer – Victoria Wang Treasurer – Emily Whettlock Speakers Officer – Lachlan Hawkes Speakers Officer – Will Gayne Publications Officer – Amy Danson Publications Officer – Coco Day Events Officer – Susie Wright Events Officer – Jessica Farmery Membership Officer – Chloe Scott Membership Officer – Kathy Darragh IT Officer – Graham Edgecombe IT Officer – Patrick Szmucer Careers Officer – Joanna Buckland Graduate Representative – Matthew Lim Graduate Representative – Heidi Howard

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IVORY TOWER SOCIETY It was a relatively quiet year for the Ivory Tower Society after a later changeover of leadership. The ITS may be a bit lost in the woods at the moment and is searching for its identity in a crowded Cambridge society world. That’s not to say there wasn’t any excitement – ITS did have several standing-room-only events throughout the academic year. In Michaelmas Term, Tom Blees, president of the NGO Science Council for Global Initiatives, stopped by on his way to speak with the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Mr Blees delivered a talk entitled “Planning a Peaceful Global Revolution”. This revolution, he argued, would be a radical change in the provision of energy, water, and other essential industrial services. He brought us several technologies from the frontlines of sustainability science, including a novel nuclear reactor systems (eats its own waste!), an all- electric lorry, an all-consuming arc furnace for toxic waste (powers itself and spits out road building material!), and a water desalination system. In Lent Term, Dr Peter Stern, a senior editor at SCIENCE, exposed the innards of the manuscript selection and editing process to a packed house of voyeuristic graduate students, postdocs, and fellows. We can be sure that knowing how the science editing sausage is prepared will be of benefit to both our future publication efforts and the sanity of the editors who clearly have their work cut out for them! We also hosted a fascinating talk and discussion with Karel Janecˇek, a Czech mathematician-entrepreneur-billionaire-turned-democracy-theorist-and- advocate. If that sounds like quite the title, it was proven very much deserved by his lecture on voting theory, his self-sponsored anti-corruption prize competitions, and experiences with taking on the powers-that-be in the Czech Republic. A long conversation over wine, cheese, and crackers expanded our appreciation of the complexities of fair voting systems – including Janecˇek’s attempt to make this ‘worst-except-for-all-other-forms’ of government just a little bit better. We stride forward – by this time next year, the Ivory Tower Society may have a new name but with its same old spirit revived. After all, how can we fail when there’s such superb energy and assistance from the likes of James Gardom, Dean of the Chapel and longtime ITS guide; Nami Morris, indefatigable speaker-finder; Ken Smith, infinitely patient facilities fixer; and Jaspinder Sagoo, the energy behind the society? We’ll be back – watch this space.

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JUNIOR PARLOUR

President: Stephanie Willis Disabled Students Officer: Liam Hammond Vice-President: Paddy Kirkham IT Officer: Niall Rutherford Treasurer: Oliver Watson Hostels Officer: Alison Humphreys Entertainments: Simrun Basuita Publications Officer: Matthew McConkey Welfare Officer: Katharine Griffiths Senior Access Officer: Joël Reland Women’s Officer: Lily Maxwell Junior Access Officer: Tom Ogier Men’s Officer: Will Popplewell Green Officer: Amy Dolben LGBT+ Officer: Alex Kemp Food and Bar Officer: Marion Priebe Ethnic Minorities Officer: Jeffrey Xiao Charities Officer: Helen Denyer International Officer: Kate Cheng

It has been an enjoyable and productive year for the JPC. Excellent relations with the College authorities have allowed the JPC to initiate material and system improvements to college facilities and procedures. Regular Consultative Committee meetings with the Bursar, Dean and Senior Tutor have been productive and harmonious affairs. My predecessor oversaw a change to longer opening hours for brunch after the huge popularity of Pembroke brunch meant that queues were becoming very long. Rather insistent pressure from the JPC may or may not have accelerated the release of an electronic room booking system. Either way a system is now in place and working well, to the delight of all who book rooms in college on a regular basis. The JPC supported the Senior Tutor in the design of a tutorial questionnaire aimed at reviewing and improving the current tutorial system. In terms of material changes the JPC have initiated 3 different projects. Additional cycle storage capacity is being installed at the front and the back of college. The New Common Room was redecorated and refurnished by the College and the JPC funded the purchase of a projector for the room. The JPC are also supplying tea and coffee supplies for the room for use by those students who live outside of college. Recent discussions have started theprocess of improving the air conditioning and the quality of the machines in the college gym. The welfare team, led by Katharine Griffiths, have organised yoga, zumba, biscuit breaks and massages for students throughout the Easter term and have continued to oversee the provision of sexual health supplies for the college. The JPC has continued to run BOPs twice a term which have been well attended and the Publications Officer has produced two excellent issues of Pembroke Street showcasing Pembroke writing and artistic talent. The JPC is now focusing on organising an end of term garden party and then on running a smooth, informative and enjoyable Fresher’s week for the next generation of Valencians

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GRADUATE PARLOUR

President:Paul McMullen External Officer: Jon Reimer Vice-President: Florian Schroeder LGBT Officer: Julia Schulman Secretary: Stephen Gage International Officer: Treasurer: Alice Ievins Charlotte Schoonman Welfare Officer: Ailith Pirie GP Steward: Joseph Harvey Events Officer: Marion Messmer IT Officer: Katrina Malone Women’s Officer: Melisa Trujillo

For the Graduate Parlour the 2013–14 academic year has been characterised by growing diversity, camaraderie and community. Maintaining the momentum created by last year’s Committee, the GPC has sought this year to make the Pembroke graduate community as inclusive and supportive as possible. A very enthusiastic and active matriculating year-group has invigorated the Graduate Parlour this year. With a growing contingent of international students, the diversity of views as well as backgrounds has been deeply refreshing. Pembroke grads enjoyed another year of diverse GP events, including whiskey and chocolate tastings, real ale nights, and the tongue-in-cheek internationally themed party ‘Dr. Internationalove (or ‘How I learned to stop worrying and love the foreigners’)’, with the year beginning, as always, with the high-paced gauntlet of Freshers’ Week. In addition to a cinema excursion, the wonderful silliness of the GP pub-crawl, and what are fast becoming the GP’s traditional Gin and Tonic evening and opening ‘P is for Pembroke’ themed BOP, Freshers’ Week this year saw Pembroke grads enjoy an inter-collegiate LGBT+ event with several other colleges at Gonville & Caius. We were also pleased to expand the repertoire of GP events by hosting two picnic days for Pembroke graduates with families and children. The GPC wanted to continue the great work of last year’s committee in reviving the GP Families scheme, helping new Pembroke graduates to feel at home in Cambridge by giving all GP members the chance to connect closely with their fellow new arrivals. Just how much the GP Families scheme contributed to the life of the GP was clear to see from the enthusiastic and fraternal atmosphere emanating from the space and the community from the very first weeks of this academic year. The tireless efforts of our Welfare Officer ensured that Pembroke grads had regular access to enjoyment, support and community, through film nights, the student-to-student support provided by the Pembroke Listeners, and – most important of all – the guarantee that members of the GP were able to consume their respective bodyweights in tea and cake on a weekly basis. The inclusive vibe of the GP in 2013–14 is perhaps best exemplified by the Pembros’ Knit-Along. An initiative started by non-committee members, being part Welfare initiative, part shameless celebration of all things woollen, the Knit-Along grew from a tight-knit group of graduates to incorporate into its meetings at times hefty swathes of the GP community, rejoicing in the craft and the camaraderie, and never left short on irony. We welcomed the college’s renovation of the entrance to the GP in Lent Term, featuring a ramp and automatic door, which importantly has increased the annual gazette | 93 accessibility of our communal space. In Easter term new lockers were installed in the GP, particularly for use by graduates living outside of college. Having concluded an agreement with the help of CUSU, the GP took up a subscription to Sky TV in Michaelmas term, which, somehow defying the expectations of the Gen.-Y stereotype, has served to foster social links between Pembroke grads and their seemingly sports-crazed undergraduate counterparts, helping in the process to break down the exclusivity between the JP and GP communities. The Committee was also pleased to bolster the ranks of Associate Members of the GP, expanding the Pembroke GP network, offering support and camaraderie to our Associate Members, and creating opportunities for Pembroke graduates to forge professional and social links with longer-term visitors to Cambridge from beyond the college, university and the UK. Easter Term also saw the incorporation by vote of an Environmental Officer into the GPC – an exciting prospect, and one long overdue, which will allow the GPC to work more closely with the college’s Environmental Awareness Committee, and secure for Pembroke graduates a clearer route to decisive input into environmental policy and decision making within our college. We are also pleased to announce the renovation of two rooms within the college to create a computing and working space exclusively for graduates, which will be completed over the summer. With space at a premium within the walls of all Cambridge colleges, we are extremely grateful to the college for its support of graduate learning. In an outwardly facing vein, the GPC, in collaboration with the college’s Development Office, is in the process of putting together a Graduate Video Prospectus. Filming and interviews with Pembroke graduates are underway, with a view to producing an accessible guide to graduate life at Pembroke. We hope that this will provide useful information for prospective applicants to the college, and help to disentangle myth from reality, encouraging greater transparency about the Cambridge experience and providing concrete information for prospective members of our college. The GPC has kept close ties with the Cambridge University Students’ Union (CUSU) this year. Our Vice President and External Officer in particular have represented the interests of Pembroke graduates at decision-making meetings of CUSU, helping to keep the GP abreast of the goings-on at inter-collegiate and university levels. The Graduate Union (GU) is slowly recovering from the difficulties it faced last year, however there is still some way to go, with limited engagement between the GU and MCRs this academic year coming as a consequence. This, however, did nothing to hamper the connection between Pembroke graduates and their counterparts at other colleges. The GP enjoyed a combined BOP at Murray Edwards, and swaps with Peterhouse, Trinity, St. John’s, Gonville & Caius, Trinity Hall, and Darwin, to name but parts of the whole. Organised by our Women’s Officer, the GP marked International Women’s Day over a full week, celebrating the contribution of women to academia and our communities, and doing our part to raise further awareness of the malignant dangers of sexism inside and outside of academia. Grads were engaged in film screenings, group discussion sessions, and an interactive display of images and 94 | pembroke college

aphorisms in the GP, which encouraged members of our community to contribute ideas and questions of their own. In addition, a fundraising effort coordinated wonderfully by our Women’s Officer raised several hundred pounds for the Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre. A similarly inspiring week was coordinated by our LGBT Officer at the opening of International LGBT+ History Month: a celebration of queer culture, and an attempt to continue to raise awareness of the rights of all to individuality, self- identity and personhood. The week included film screenings, group discussions, a themed BA Dinner, an inter-collegiate debate and information session, a week- long decoration of the GP, and the availability of literature to help raise awareness, bolster discussion and inspire debate. On behalf of the whole GP community, the Committee would like to extend its thanks and appreciation to a number of representatives of the college for their consistent, considerate and energetic support: to Becky Coombs, Frances Kentish, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Mark Wormald, Andrew Cates, James Gardom, Andrew Enticknap, Michaela Koseoglu, Caroline Adams, John Spelzini and the lovely Pembroke Porters, Alan Rogers and the staff of the IT Department, David Harwood, Savino Cafagna and the tireless kitchen and serving staff, Ken Smith, and the Graduate Tutors. For anyone wishing to reconnect with the Graduate Parlour, you can catch up with the latest goings-on through the GP website (www.srcf.ucam.org/pemgp/) and the Facebook page (www.facebook.com/PembrokeCollegeGraduate Parlour?fref=ts), or by contacting the GPC President ([email protected]). I am very pleased to congratulate my successor to the Presidency of the GPC, Nikola Novcic, together with the other incoming members of the Committee. With the GP in excellent hands for the coming academic year, we all await the developments for the Pembroke graduate community with great anticipation and excitement!

Paul McMullen C. THE COLLEGE RECORD

Christopher Smart (1722–1771), poet attributed to Thomas Hudson

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THE MASTER AND FELLOWS 2013–2014

THE MASTER

Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, MA (2003), KCMG, OBE

FELLOWS

1956 Malcolm Cameron Lyons, LittD (1997) 1958 Albert Victor Grimstone, PhD (1958), MA (1959) 1961 Leslie Peter Johnson, BA Newcastle, DPhil Kiel, MA (1959) 1964 James Christopher Durham Hickson, MA (1964), PhD (1966) 1979 Nicholas Barry Davies, MA (1977), DPhil Oxon, FRS, Professor of Behavioural Ecology 1982 (1961) John Peter Dougherty, MA (1960), PhD (1961) (1977) Jan Marian Maciejowski, MA (1976), PhD (1978), Professor of Control Engineering President of Pembroke College Norman Andrew Fleck, MA (1983), PhD (1984)), FREng, FRS, Professor of the Mechanics of Materials, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics 1984 Michael Christopher Payne, MA (1985), PhD (1985), FRS, Professor of Computational Physics 1985 Charles Peter Melville, MA (1976), PhD (1978), Professor in Persian History Trevor Robert Seaward Allan, BCL Oxon, MA (1983), Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Law 1992 Jonathan Philip Parry, MA (1982), PhD (1985), Professor of Modern British History Mark Roderick Wormald, MA, DPhil Oxon, PhD (2008), College Lecturer in English 1993 Donald Robertson, MA (1987), MSc, PhD LSE, University Senior Lecturer in Economics 1994 Loraine Ruth Renate Gelsthorpe, BA Sussex, MPhil (1979), PhD (1985), Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice Torsten Meißner, MA Bonn, DPhil Oxon, PhD (1997), University Senior Lecturer in Classics 1995 Robin James Milroy Franklin, PhD (1992), Professor of Stem Cell Medicine Christopher John Young, MA (1994), PhD (1995), Professor of Modern and Medieval German Studies Silvana Silva Santos Cardoso, BA, MEng Porto, PhD (1994), Reader in Fluid Mechanics and the Environment 98 | pembroke college

1996 Sylvia Huot, MA (2004) BA California, PhD Princeton, FBA, Professor of Medieval French Literature 1997 Nicholas John McBride, BA, BCL Oxon, College Lecturer and James Campbell Fellow in Law (2000) Nigel Robert Cooper, MA (1995), DPhil Oxon, Professor of Theoretical Physics 1998 Kenneth George Campbell Smith, BMedSc, MB, BS, PhD Melbourne, MA (2000), FMedSci, Professor of Medicine and Head of Department of Medicine, Honorary Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Alan Garth Tunnacliffe, MA (1994), PhD London, Professor of Molecular Biotechnology Lauren Tamar Kassell, BA Haverford, MSc, DPhil Oxon, Reader in History of Science and Medicine 1999 Vikram Sudhir Deshpande, BTech Bombay, MPhil (1996), PhD (1998), Professor of Materials Engineering 2001 Demosthenes Nicholas Tambakis, MA (1993), PhD Princeton, College Lecturer and Pyewacket Fellow in Economics Nilanjana Datta, MA (2008), BSc, MSc Jadavpur, PhD ETH Zurich, College Lecturer and Overstall Fellow in Mathematics John Stephen Bell, BPhil Gregorian University Rome, MA(1978), DPhil Oxon, FBA, Professor of Comparative Law Timothy John Bussey, BSc Victoria BC, BSc Vancouver BC, PhD (1995), Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Laurea, Politechnico di Milano, PhD (2001), ScD (2013) Professor of Nanotechnology 2002 Rosalind Polly Blakesley, MA (1996), DPhil Oxon, Reader in Russian and European Art 2003 Alexander William Tucker, MA (1989), VetMB (1992), PhD (1997), University Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Public Health 2004 Arwen Fedora Deuss, MSc Utrecht, DPhil Oxon, PhD (2008), University Lecturer in Theoretical Geophysics 2005 Simon Learmount, BA, MA University of East Anglia, MBA (1996), PhD (2000), University Lecturer in Corporate Governance Alan Michael Dawson, MA (1978), PhD (1994), Director International Programmes Jorge M Gonçalves, MSc, PhD MIT, Reader in Engineering Samuel James Barrett, BA Oxon, MPhil (1996), PhD (2000), University Senior Lecturer in Music 2006 Alexei Shadrin, MSc, PhD Moscow, University Lecturer in Numerical Analysis James Theodore Douglas Gardom, BA Oxon, PhD King’s College London, Dean and Chaplain annual gazette | 99

Katrin Christina Ettenhuber, BA (2000), MPhil (2001), PhD (2005), College Lecturer in English 2007 Matthew Robert Mellor, BA Oxon, MA (2010), Development Director Stephen O’Rahilly, KCMG, MD, MB, BCh, BAO Ireland, FMedSci, FRS, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine Gábor Csányi, MA (1994), PhD MIT, Reader in Engineering Menna Ruth Clatworthy, BSc, MBBCh Wales, PhD (2006), University Lecturer in Transplantation Medicine Ashok Ramakrishnan Venkitaraman, MA (1993), PhD London, MB, BS Vellore, India, FMedSci, The Ursula Zoellner Professor of Cancer Research 2008 David John Huggins, MChem, DPhil Oxon, Research Associate, Cambridge Molecular Therapeutics Program, and Supernumerary Fellow 2009 Colin Martyn Lizieri, BA Oxon, PhD LSE, Grosvenor Professor of Real Estate Finance Alexander Houen, BA, MPhil Sydney, PhD (1999), University Senior Lecturer in English Renaud Gagné, BA, MA, Montreal, PhD (2007) Harvard, University Lecturer in Classics Mina Gorji, BA (1996), MPhil, PhD Oxon, University Lecturer in English Caroline Burt, BA (1999), MPhil (2000), PhD (2004), College Lecturer in History, Admissions Tutor Siân Katharine Pooley, BA (2005), MPhil (2006), PhD (2010), Temporary University Lecturer in the Faculty of History Sarah Maria Heiltjen Nouwen, LLB, LLM Utrecht, MPhil (2005), PhD (2010), University Lecturer in Law 2011 Krzysztof Kazimierz Koziol, MSc Silesian University of Technology, PhD (2005), Royal Society Research Fellow Joanna Ruth Bellis, BA (2007), MPhil (2008), PhD (2011), Harry F Guggenheim Research Fellow Sky Trillium French, BA, MSci (2008), PhD (2011), Drapers’ Company Research Fellow Moritz Toby Matthiesen, BA Berne, MA SOAS, PhD SOAS, Abdullah Al Mubarak Al Sabah Research Fellow Randall Scott Johnson, BA/BS Washington, PhD Harvard, Professor of Molecular Physiology and Pathology Christoph Loch, Diploma-Wirtschafts-Ingenieur Darmstadt, MBA Tennessee, PhD Stanford, Director and Professor of Management Studies at the Cambridge Judge Business School Clare Philomena Grey, BA Oxford, DPhil Oxford, FRS, Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor of Chemistry 100 | pembroke college

Maria Abreu, BSc LSE, MPhil Amsterdam, PhD Amsterdam, University Lecturer in Land Economy 2012 Anna Mollie Young, MEng (2008), MA (2011), PhD (2012) Maudslay-Butler Research Fellow Chloe Nahum-Claudel, BA (2005), Trebilcock-Newton Trust Research Fellow Stephen David John, BA (2000), MPhil (2002), PhD (2007) University Lecturer in Philosophy of Public Health Warren Robert Joseph Daniel Galloway, BA (2004) MA (2007) PhD (2008) Post- doctoral Research Associate in Organic Chemistry Ernst Henning Edmund Grunwald, BA (1997) PhD (2003) University Lector in Modern German History 2013 Andrew Thomas Cates, BA (1986) PhD (1989) Treasurer and Bursar Paul Ross Cavill, MA, MSt, DPhil (Oxford) University Lecturer in Early Modern British History John Hay Durrell, MSci (Imperial) PhD (2001) Senior Research Associate in the Department of Engineering Maximilian Jan Sternberg, BA King’s College London, MPhil (2002), PhD (2007) University Lecturer in Department of Architecture Hildegard Gemma Maria Diemberger, PhD (Vienna) College Lecturer in Human, Social and Political Sciences Sanne Cottaar, BSc, MSc (Utrecht), PhD (California) Drapers’ Company Research Fellow Anthony Charles Lewis Ashton, BA (2005) PhD (2010) Stokes Research Fellow Ambrogio Pistoja Camozzi, BA (Milan), PhD (2013) Keith Sykes Research Fellow in Italian Studies Timothy Thomas Weil, BSc (St Louis), PhD (Princeton) University Lecturer in Zoology

EMERITUS FELLOWS

Charles William McElroy Pratt, MA (1953) Anthony William Nutbourne, MA (1954) Richard Hawley Grey Parry, ScD (1983) Colin Gilbraith, MA (1975), MVO Amyand David Buckingham, CBE, ScD (1985), FRS Colin George Wilcockson, MA (1958) Michael James David Powell, ScD (1979), FRS Antony Gerald Hopkins, FBA Ian Fleming, ScD (1982), FRS John Ryder Waldram, MA (1963), PhD (1964) Howard Henry Erskine-Hill, LittD (1988), FBA Sir Roger Tomkys, KCMG, MA (1973) annual gazette | 101

William Bernard Raymond Lickorish, ScD (1991) Robert Joseph Mears Leo Brough Jeffcott, MA (1994) Sathiamalar Thirunavukkarasu, MA (1971) Nicholas Stanislaus Baskey, MA (1998) Brian Watchorn, MA (1965) Howard Peter Raingold, MA (1982) Richard James Jackson, MA (1968), PhD (1968) Michael David Reeve, MA (1966), FBA Michael George Kuczynski, MA (1972) Susan Helen Stobbs, MA (1970) Rex Edward Britter, MA (1979) Geoffrey Richard Edwards, MA (2008) Barbara Ann Bodenhorn, MPhil (1979), PhD (1990) Christopher John Blencowe

HONORARY FELLOWS

1983 Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, MA (1956), PhD (1955), Hon ScD, FRS Ray Milton Dolby, Hon OBE, PhD (1961), Hon ScD 1988 Sir John Frank Charles Kingman, ScD (1969), FRS 1992 The Rt Hon James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior of Brampton, PC, MA (1970) Sir Constant Hendrick (Henry) de Waal, KCB, MA (1955), LLB (1952) Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson, MA (1985), FRS Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood, CBE, MA (1967), Hon MusD 1993 James Gee Pascoe Crowden, CVO, MA (1955) 1998 Sir John Anthony Chilcot, GCB, MA (1973) The Rt Hon Sir Konrad Hermann Theodor Schiemann, PC, MA (1965), LLB (1962) The Rt Hon Sir Alan Hylton Ward, Lord Justice Ward, PC, MA (1968), LLB (1963) 1999 Emma Louise Johnson, MBE, MA (1992) 2000 Sir John Edward Sulston, PhD (1982), Hon ScD, FRS 2002 William Hall Janeway, PhD (1971) 2004 Sir Michael Bett, CBE, MA (1977) Roger Walton Ferguson Jr, MA (1976), PhD Harvard Sir Christopher Owen Hum, KCMG, MA (1971) His Excellency George Maxwell Richards, TC, PhD (1963) Sir Marcus Henry (Mark )Richmond, ScD (1971), FRS The Rt Hon Christopher Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, PC, MA (1977), PhD (1979) 2005 Amyand David Buckingham, CBE, ScD (1985), FRS 2006 Stephen John Nickell, CBE, BA (1965), FBA Martin Biddle, OBE, MA (1965), FBA Peter Stuart Ringrose, MA (1971), PhD (1971) 2007 Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew of Donegore, MA (1971), PhD (1974) Stephen Jay Greenblatt, MA (1968) 2008 David Anthony Brading, BA (1960), LittD (1991), FBA Jeremy Bloxham, BA (1982), PhD (1986), FRS 102 | pembroke college

2010 The Rt Hon Sir Patrick Elias, Lord Justice Elias, PC, PhD (1974) Clive Vivian Leopold James, BA (1964) MA

WILLIAM PITT FELLOWS

1996 Sir Mark Henry Richmond, ScD (1971), FRS Richard Tak Sang Chiu, BA (1971) 1997 Peter Stuart Ringrose, PhD (1971) 2001 Jeremy Henry Moore Newsum, BA, Reading 2003 Barrington John Albert Furr, OBE, BSc, PhD, Reading 2008 Ismail Kola, PhD, University of Cape Town, South Africa 2009 Richard John Parmee, BA (1973) 2010 Sir Michael Derek Vaughn Rake, FCA Kai Dai, MD, BSc, Shenyang University, EMBA (2012) 2012 Robert Carlton Booker, BSc, University of East Anglia; MFin, London Business School 2013 Peter Douglas Hancock, BA, Oxford Barry John Varcoe, BA, University of the South Bank, PhD Glasgow Caledonian

BYE-FELLOWS

2001 Jayne Sinclair Ringrose, MA (1970) 2008 Daniela Passolt, BA Hamburg, MSc SOAS, PhD LSE 2009 Rebecca Lucy Coombs, BA Bristol, PhD Paris Andrew Enticknap, MBA UEA Mark Reinhard Norbert Kotter, MD Graz, MPhil (2001), PhD (2006) 2010 William Fawcett, MA (1974), PhD (1979) 2011 Mark Strange, BA Durham, MSt, DPhil Oxon Katharina Rietzler, MA PhD UCL 2013 Richard Ned Lebow, MA Yale, PhD New York

FELLOW-COMMONERS

2004 George Simon Cecil Gibson 2005 John Andrew Hulme Chadwick, MA (1968) Keith Gordon Sykes, MA (1973) Randall Wayne Dillard, LLM (1983) 2006 Norman Mcleod Bachop, BA (1968) 2007 Anthony Harwick Wilkinson 2009 Christopher Bertlin Turner Adams, MA (1957) John Charles Grayson Stancliffe, MA (1952) John Kevin Overstall, BA (1962) 2013 Paul David Skinner, BA (1963) annual gazette | 103

Master: Sir Richard Dearlove

COLLEGE OFFICERS 2014–2015

President: J Maciejowski Senior Tutor: M Wormald Dean and Chaplain: J Gardom Treasurer and Bursar: A Cates Praelector: T Meißner Librarian: N McBride Tutorial Bursar: L Kassell College Proctor: D Tambakis Steward: M Mellor College Curator: C Melville Tutor for Graduate Affairs: L Gelsthorpe Admissions Tutor: C Burt Tutor for Graduate Admissions: N McBride Development Director: M Mellor Assistant tutors: M Abreu, S Barrett, K Ettenhuber, J Gardom, M Gorji, H Grunwald, S John, N McBride, T Meißner, M Mellor, S Nouwen, A Tucker Graduate tutors: C Burt, A Deuss, J Durrell, J Gardom, D Huggins College lecturers: C Burt (History), N Datta (Mathematics), H Diemberger (Archaeology and Anthropology, Human, Social and Political Sciences, and Politics, Psychology and Sociology), K Ettenhuber (English), G Kolios (Economics), N McBride (Law), D Tambakis (Economics), M Wormald (English) Directors and Assistant Directors of Studies: Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic: P Russell Archaeology and Anthropology: H Diemberger Architecture: M Sternberg, E Ashman Rowe Asian and Middle Eastern Studies: C Melville Chemical Engineering: S Cardoso, K Mahbubhani Classics: T Meißner Computer Science: C Hadley Economics: D Tambakis, D Robertson Education: E Taylor Engineering: G Csanyi, V Deshpande, J Durrell, A Ferrari English: M Wormald, K Ettenhuber History: C Burt, P Cavill History of Art: R Blakesley, J Munns Human, Social and Political Sciences: H Diemberger Land Economy: M Abreu Law: N McBride, S Nouwen Linguistics: D Willis Management Studies: S Learmount Mathematics: N Datta, A Shadrin Medicine: A Tucker, M Clathworthy Modern Languages: S Huot, A Wiesl-Shaw, C Young Music: S Barrett, D Mordey Natural Sciences: T Bussey, N Cooper, S Cottaar, A Deuss, W Galloway, L Kassell, K Koziol, G Micklem, M Payne, T Weil 104 | pembroke college

Philosophy: S John Theology: J Gardom Veterinary Medicine: A Tucker Director for International Programmes: D Jarvis Lectrice in French: A Le Gallou Lektorin in German: M Tießen Academic Associates: Anatomy: A May Classics: M Arbabzadah Economics: T Greve Engineering: F Torrisi French: S Qadri Mathematics: M Castle Physics: F Lee Social Anthropology: M Magalhaes Zoology: J Gerlach

MATRICULATION 2012–2013

MICHAELMAS TERM 2013 Abdullahi, Hanad (Uxbridge High School Academy Trust) Abebe, Rediet (Harvard University, USA) Abrahams, Joshua Ian (Dartford Grammar School for Boys) Adams, Elizabeth Kate (King’s College School, London) Adjei, Ellen Julienne Adjoa (St Michael’s Catholic Grammar School, Finchley) Aebischer, Sebastian Francis (Bishop Wordsworth’s Grammar School, Salisbury) Ahmad, Saif (University of London) Alderazi, Sayed Hasan (University of Nottingham) Ali, Mohsin (McMaster University, Canada) Ali, Sajeed (King Edward’s School, Edgbaston) Allgaier, Benjamin (Heidelberg University, Germany) Alvarez-Piñera, Jesus (University of Oviedo, Spain) Amin, Eshaa (Sevenoaks School) Andre, Ryan (Vermont Law School) Aus, Andrew (Birkbeck, University of London) Baldwin, Jacob John William (Ermysted’s Grammar, Skipton) Beardsworth, Nathan (St Dunstan’s College, London) Bhabutta, Rishi (Bancrofts School, Woodford Green, Essex) Blaxter, Tam Tristram (Oxford University) Bleasdale, Amy (Oxford University) Bond, Timothy (Watford Grammar School for Boys) Bruton, Derek Jackson (Brigham Young University, Utah) Buerki, Silvianne (University of Berne, Switzerland) Bulang, Christine (Fachhochschule, Hof, Germany) Burford, Rory Joshua (Ludlow College) Cadwallader, Beatrice (St Marys School, Ascot) Carey, Fabienne (Loreto Grammar School, Altrincham) Carter, Emma (Invicta Grammar School, Maidstone) annual gazette | 105

Chandler, Andrew (Trinity School, Croydon) Cheung, Chun Hin Bryan (Colchester Royal Grammar School) Choi, Seonghoon (The Alice Smith School, Kuala Lumpur) Chow, Chi Fung (German Swiss International School, Hong Kong) Clark, Theodore (The Perse School, Cambridge) Cloutier, Theresa Kruse (Brown University, Rhode Island) Coan, Quinn (Occidental College, LA) Cope, Cassie (Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge) Cousins, Shaun (University of Sydney) Cullen, James (The Latymer School, London) Cummins, Charles (St Paul’s School, London) Cutler, Sebastian James (Reading School) Dani, Amrita Shashi (Harvard University, USA) Darke, Alexander Ian (The King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth) Dashwood, Cameron Darling (Brighton College) Davies, Louis Nigel (Watford Grammar School for Boys) Day, Jessica Coco (The Blue School, Wells) De, Eleanor Katurani Janet (Brighton College) de la Peña Fernández-Garnelo, Francisco de Borja (Kings College London) Deer, Camille (European School, Culham) Deradjat, Dominik (Aachen University, Germany) Dolben, Amy (Howell’s School, LLandaff, GDST, Cardiff ) Droogleever Fortuyn, Michael (Loughborough Grammar School) Ellison, Alexandra (European School, Brussels 1) English, Max Atticus O’Rourke (Abingdon School) Evans, Sian (James Allens Girls School. London) Eyers, Robert William (Alton College, Hampshire) Fairbairn, Thomas (King’s College School, London) Farmery, Jessica (Oxford High School GDST) Fawcett, Laura Joy (Central School of Speech and Drama, London) Fernando, Anushan (The Latymer School, London) Forbes, Annie (Firrhill High School, Edinburgh) Friend, Daisey (Rugby High School) Gayne, William Joseph (Tytherington High School, Macclesfield) Glennie, Andrew Nigel Forbes (University of Warwick) Godawatta, Julien (Lycee Victor Duruy, Paris) Gooder, Isobel (Downe House School, Thatcham) Gordon, Kathleen Eilidh (Bearsden Academy, Glasgow) Grenfell, Sophie Elizabeth (Bromsgrove School) Griffiths, Jessica Louise (Vyners School, Middlesex) Grommet, Angela (Kansas State University) Guy, Benjamin David (Brown University) Hall, Dominic Thomas (Groby Community College, Leicestershire) Hammond, Liam James (Sheldon School) Händel, Teresa (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany) Hayler, Alice Eleanor (St George’s Academy, Sleaford) Hengeveld, Anne Christel (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Heywood, Susanna (Wheatley Park School, Oxfordshire) Hibbert, Elizabeth Mary (Wilmslow High School) Hippisley-Gatherum, Kane (Morrisons Academy Crieff, Scotland) 106 | pembroke college

Holiday, Georgina Anne (Colchester County High School For Girls) Howden, Sarah (The Tiffin Girls School, Kingston-upon-Thames) Hudson, Henry William (The Cherwell School, Oxford) Ivers, Charlotte (Dean Close School, Cheltenham) Jenkinson, Fiona (Kings School, Canterbury) Jennings, Sally (University of Bristol) Jobanputra, Rishi (Dr Challoners Grammar School, Amersham) Johnson, George (Norwich School) Jones, Benjamin (Tonbridge School) Karmann, Till (Oxford University) Katsos, Charalampos Isidoros (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens) Katz, Harley (University of Maryland) Kavoosi, Kia (University of New South Wales, Sydney) Kay, Rachel (St Albans High School for Girls) Kennan, Aoife (Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne) King, Haydn James (Jesus College, University of Cambridge) Kitzing, Andreas (London School of Economics & Political Science) Kondratowicz, Monika (Alcester Grammar School) Kurin, Gennady (SOAS, University of London) Laforgue, Raphaël (Sorbonne University, Paris) Laidler, Gaia (Westminster School) Lambrick, Sam Morgan (Loreto College, Manchester) Landers, Courtney Amaryllis (Australian National University, Canberra) Lange, Lukas (Technische Universitaat, München) Law, Richard (St Paul’s School, London) Lawlor, Ciaran James (Royal Latin School, Buckingham) Leitao, Antonio Francisco De Atao Resende (University of Strasbourg) Lejeune, Audrey Claire (Lycee Francais de Shanghai) Li, Kuang (Jilin University, China) Lim, Lucy Gabrielle (Westcliff High School for Girls, Westcliff on Sea) Lin, Teresa Ye (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Liu, Lun (Tsinghua University, Beijing) Logan, Georgina (Headington School, Oxford) Lyons, Alice (Claremont McKenna College, California) Malone, Katrina Sophie (University of Melbourne) Marshall, Richard Benjamin (Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School, Aylesbury) Maxwell, Lily Olivia (Altrincham Girls Grammar School) Mayaud, Yannick Jacques (Beaumont School, St Albans) Mayes, Darion (Springwood High School, King’s Lynn) McCall, Taylor Jane (Courtauld Institute, London) McGee, Thomas (Sevenoaks School) McKee, Rona Elizabeth (St Helen & St Katharine, Abingdon) Medek, Akos Vince (Mihály Fazekas Primary and Secondary Grammar School, Budapest) Menzies, Sam (University of Bristol) Messmer, Marion Gudrun (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts) Mihan, Shiva (Alzahra University, Iran) Moulton, Laura Pascale (Tunbridge Wells Girls’ Grammar School) Naddell, Sophie (Hutchesons’ Grammar School, Glasgow) Naslidnyk, Mariia (TG Shevchenko University, Kiev) Neumüller, Kathrin Maria (St Andrews University) annual gazette | 107

Nielsen, Marcus (Aylesbury Grammar School) Nolan, Charlotte Emma (Bishop Heber High School, Malpas) Norton-Brown, James (Monmouth School, Monmouth) Nospickel, Anne (University of Cologne, Germany) O’Callahan, Patrick Gaughan (Brown University) Ogier, Thomas Hiroto (The Guernsey Grammar School & Sixth Form Centre) Oldham, Robert (Westminster School) Orsman, Seren Josephine (Surbiton High School, Kingston upon Thames) Ottaway-Ware, Charlotte Louise (The King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth) Owens, Eloise (Barnard College, New York) Padley, Jessica (The Queen Elizabeth’s High School, Gainsborough) Parker, Anna (The London Oratory School) Parkinson, Chad Louis (Wath Comprehensive School, Rotherham) Parkinson, Richard John (Reading School) Perry, James Edward George (Charterhouse, Godalming) Petersen, Katrine Tilgaard (Ordrup Gymnasium, Copenhagen) Phillips, Richard James (Lancaster Royal Grammar School) Pinnen, Elena (University of Bologna) Popplewell, William (International School of Geneva, La Chataigneraie) Potterton, Catherine Christine (Wolfson College, University of Cambridge) Powers, Christine (Pace University, New York) Powlesland, Katherine Lucy (Newnham College, University of Cambridge) Pruzina, Helen (Grosvenor Grammar School, Belfast) Purcell, David (University of East Anglia) Qiao, Jiayu (Caterham School) Quay, Michelle Marie (University of California, Los Angeles) Raeymaekers, Sven (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) Riley, Errin Christina (Lancaster Girls Grammar School) Roberts, James (The Grammar School at Leeds) Roelofs, Aurora (Highgate Wood School, London) Rogers, Douglas (Edinburgh Academy) Rouzé, Cambyse (Ecole Centrale de Paris, France) Rowland-Simms, Ciara Anna Simone (Colyton Grammar School, Devon) Rowntree, Samuel Oscar (Greenhead College, Huddersfield) Roy, Helena (Dr Challoner’s High School for Girls, Amersham) Rozumalski, Jason (University of California, Berkeley) Ryabchynskyy, Kostyantyn (Clifton College, Bristol) Sanghera-Warren, Mala (Highams Park School, London) Sautter, Caroline Grace (Bancrofts School, Woodford Green, Essex) Scott, Andrew William Peter (Edinburgh Academy) Scott, Ciara (St George’s School, Harpenden) Shah, Priya Radhika () Shao, Peng (London School of Economics & Political Science) Shing, Judy Yik (Georgetown University, Washington DC) Simpson, Alexander (Harris Academy Dundee) Singha, Karan (Uppingham School, Rutland) Starling, Andrew Elliot (University of Pennsylvania) Sterlini, Giorgio (Dame Alice Owen’s School, Potters Bar) Sun, Bo (Peking University, Beijing) Sutton, Jason Paul (Kings College London) 108 | pembroke college

Suzuki, Jion (College Du Leman International School, Geneva) Szmucer, Patrick Jaroslaw (XIV High School, Wroclaw, Poland) Taape, Tillmann (Clare College, Universtiy of Cambridge) Tan, Yi (Hebei University of Medicine, China) Taylor, Hannah Grace (Winstanley College, Wigan) Teng, Clare Siew Chin (Havergal College, Canada) Terry, Isabelle Louise (The Judd School, Tonbridge) Tham, Yan Ping (Raffles Junior College, Singapore) Thomson, Sophie Jane (The King’s School, Chester) Titley, Mark (Marple Sixth Form College, Stockport) Tomlinson, Patsy Roseanne (University of Birmingham) Tompkins, Daniel Justin Keith (Highgate School, London) Tompkins, Sienna Victoria Beatrice (Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe) Totz, Keiler James (St. Michaels University School, Canada) Townsend, Hannah Millicent (Wellesley College, Massachusetts) Truelove, Adam (The Priory Academy LSST, Lincoln) Tsai, Yu-Fung (University College London) Turner-Bridger, Benita (University of Edinburgh) Ulrich, Stefan (Royal Grammar School Guildford) Valentine, Alastair (City of London Business School (now London Metropolitan University)) Valov, Victor Yovchev (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) van der Heijden, Frieda (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) Virk, Jasvir (University of Wolverhampton) Wang, Ann (California Institue of Technology, Pasadena) Waters, Matilda Scindia Penrose (Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe) Watkins, Richard (Rugby School) Wehmann, Eileen (Jacobs University, Bremen) Wileman, Thomas Mathew (University of Lancaster) Wilkinson, Roberta Judith Jameson (Parrs Wood High School, Manchester) Willis, Holly (North London Collegiate School) Wilson, Cavin Boyd (Australian National University, Canberra) Wood, Myfanwy Christine Elizabeth (University of Melbourne) Xiao, Jeffrey Zhi Peng (Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet) Yashar, William Montgomery (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Zeifman, Emmett (Yale University, Connecticut) Zhang, Genghua (London School of Economics & Political Science) Zhang, Yan (City University, London) Zulawski, Piotr Pawel (IV Liceum Ogólnokszta c ce im. KEN w Bielsku-Bia ej, Poland) ł ą ł LENT TERM 2014 Acha, Claudia (University of Pennsylvania) Arima, Yusuke (Waseda University, Tokyo) Bacarella, Nicholas John (University of California, Berkeley) Bae, Seongyeon (Smith College, Massachusetts) Bruch, Joseph (University of Pennsylvania) Chua, MengShuen (California Institute of Technology) Das, Satyajit (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau) Deng, Wenyan (Wellesley College, Massachusetts) Diamond, Anna Myrup (Wellesley College, Massachusetts) Ganju, Bharat (University of Pennsylvania) annual gazette | 109

Guo, Mengtian (Mount Holyoke College) Hersh, Adam Klein (University of Pennsylvania) Hirvonen, Heidi Susanna (Wesleyan University, Connecticut) Hoang, Binh Quoc (Yale University) Kasper, Kenneth Michael (University of Pennsylvania) Kisch, Tian Lee (Harvard University) Kramer, Benjamin (University of Maryland) Lafferrandre, Katherine Ann (Sewanee: The University of the South) Linder, Christy (University of Pennsylvania) Lombardi, Lucia (Polytechnic University of Milan) Mata Matthews, Bonnie Jane (University of California, Berkeley) Mathialagan, Nevatha (Wellesley College, Massachusetts) Novetsky, Rebecca (Barnard College, Columbia University) Packer, Brent Alexander Sandhaus (Wesleyan University, Massachusetts) Papp, Olivia Janet (Mount Holyoke College) Prathanrasnikorn, Soracha (Wellesley College, Massachusetts) Ran, Jing (University of Pennsylvania) Russell, Anna Sankey (Yale University) Sasson, Tehila (University of California, Berkeley) Shah, Natasha Zohra (Smith College, Massachusetts) Shevin-Coetzee, Michelle (George Washington University) Suseendran, Aashika (Arcadia University, Pennsylvania) Van Reed, Hanna Wagner (Oberlin College, Ohio) Zhang, Ruoxi (Cornell University, New York)

ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS, FIRST CLASS RESULTS 2014

Preliminary Examination for Part I of the Preliminary examination for Part IA of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos Classical Tripos Rogers, Douglas Hudson, Henry William Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Part I Classical Tripos, Part IB Colwill, Elisabeth Ellen Hill, Theodore Alexander Archaeology and Anthropology, Part IIB Classical Tripos, Part II Back, Anna Louisa Oakes, Sophie Madeline Brownlee, Emma Claire Wesley-Weeks, Sydney Elgar Architecture, Part II Computer Science, Part II Norris, Thomas George Edgecombe, Graham Philip Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Part IA Economics, Part I McGee, Thomas Cutler, Sebastian James Roy, Helena Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Part II Tham, Yan Ping Keynes, Alexander Amin Casper King, Jennie Natasha Eve Economics, Part IIA Hazell, Jonathon Alexander David Chemical Engineering Tripos, Part IIA Hudson, Matthew Stephen Hoier, Thomas Peter Tan, Jan Joo Huang, Anqi 110 | pembroke college

Engineering, Part IA English, Part II Abrahams, Joshua Ian Greaves, Abigail Davies, Louis Nigel Kaner, Hannah Frances Droogleever Fortuyn, Michael Peres, Tessa Penelope Carkeek Medek, Akos Vince Schwarz, Gabrielle Phillips, Richard James Temple, Joseph Ryabchynskyy, Kostyantyn Preliminary Examination for Part I of the Szmucer, Patrick Jaroslaw Historical Tripos Totz, Keiler James Deer, Camille Engineering, Part IB Historical Tripos, Part I Arshad, Samad Bittlestone, Mark Christopher Downing, Tristan Alexander Lee Innes, Matthew James MacDonald Forbes, Thayne Juliusz Lam, Pui Hei Historical Tripos, Part II Ormond, Bryan John Burrow, William Oliver Prior, Daisy Cordelia Charlotte Gildea, Florence Hazel White, Charles Rory McCrudden, Kathleen Theodora Rosalia Wong, Hok Hei Nicholas Wikeley, Jeremy Benjamin Engineering, Part IIA History of Art, Part I Bardsley, Oliver Paul Tompkins, Daniel Justin Keith Griggs, Philip John Human, Social, and Political Sciences Lobo, Arun Joseph Tripos, Part I Obeyesekere, Danton Gamini Farmery, Jessica Sears, Luke William Lim, Lucy Gabrielle Willis, Stephanie Isabelle Wojtecki, Alexander Lucian Land Economy, Part IB Guyon, Louisa Antonia Elisabeth Engineering, Part IIB Barton, Rupert Anthony Law, Part IB Jackson, Adam John Robert Bergamasco, Maria Lorenza Ravi, Neeraja Innes, Mairi Catriona Tapner, Frederick James Law, Part II Warden, Scott Kumar, Ashish Xiangyi Watson, Alexander Richard Scott, Rory Alexander Mccall Preliminary Examination for Part I of Master of Law the English Tripos Creelman, Gavin Shields Hibbert, Elizabeth Mary Malone, Katrina Sophie Howden, Sarah Oldham, Robert Linguistics, Part IIB Taylor, Hannah Grace Bennett, Sarah Elizabeth Stockwell, Richard English, Part I Chorley, Charlotte Mary Mathematical Tripos, Part IA Cochrane, Harry James Campbell Godawatta, Julien McConkey, Matthew Sam Mayes, Darion Metcalf, Eleanor Charis Nielsen, Marcus Mathematical Tripos, Part IB Barker, Antony William Willis, Catherine Rosemary annual gazette | 111

Mathematical Tripos, Part II Natural Sciences, Part IB Boyd, Michael Edward Anketell, Matthew James Pike, Sarah Victoria Byfield, Peter John Stibbard Hawkes, Darragh, Kathy Lachlan Philip Llewellyn Griffiths, Katharine June Turton, Sam Edward Laird, Benjamin David Nicol-Harper, Alex Master of Advanced Study Degree in Piette, Anjali Amélie Alison Applied Mathematics Weber, James Michael Rouzé, Cambyse Natural Sciences, Part II: Biochemistry Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Part IA Wang, Victoria Min-Yi Padley, Jessica Natural Sciences, Part II: Chemistry Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Part IB Scanes, Robert John Hoope Garside, Benjamin John Elliot Matheson, Hannah Mollie Natural Sciences, Part II: History and Seah, Tiffany Philosophy of Science Wild, Philip Hayden Kirkham, Patrick Maurice Ramsden, Jack David Final M.B. Examination Part I, Pathology Heywood, Richard Martyn Natural Sciences, Part II: Pathology Brayne, Adam Bamlett Final M.B. Examination Part II, Clinical Smith, Catherine Anne Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Williams, Thomas George Samuel Heywood, Richard Martyn Natural Sciences, Part II: Physics Modern and Medieval Languages, Ader, Jacob Samuel Part IA Lazell, Hamish William Adjei, Ellen Julienne Adjoa Wood, Archie Edward Merriman Modern and Medieval Languages, Natural Sciences, Part II: Physiology, Part IB Development and Neuroscience Myer, Walter Rupert Hordern Khaira, Jaspreet Kaur Modern and Medieval Languages, Part II Natural Sciences, Part II: Plant Sciences Evans, Imogen Watson, Oliver John Fowler, Elspeth Marinha Claire Natural Sciences, Part II: Psychology Music, Part IA Waxman, Ruth Toby Jones, Benjamin Natural Sciences, Part II: Zoology Natural Sciences, Part IA Threadgill, Katrina Rose Domenica Burford, Rory Joshua Choi, Seonghoon Natural Sciences, Part III: Chemistry Chow, Chi Fung Officer, Hannah Lindsey English, Max Atticus O’Rourke Natural Sciences, Part III: Geological Evans, Sian Sciences Fernando, Anushan Hughes, Ery Catherine Hammond, Liam James Tweed, Lucy Emily Langran Jenkinson, Fiona Marshall, Richard Benjamin Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III: Materials Titley, Mark Science Stone, Isobel Claire 112 | pembroke college

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III: Physics Politics, Psychology, and Sociology, Part IIB Lim, Matthew Alexander Brady, Phelim Peter James Penney, Camilla Emily Jitendra, Abhaya Rama Kelly, Dominic Patrick Politics, Psychology, and Sociology, Part IIA Theological and Religious Studies, Part IIB Ilube, Rhianna Kemi Adesuwa Louise Pangsrivongse, Pongsit Kulkarni, Priyanka Lloyd, Lewis Alexander

COLLEGE AWARDS 2013–2014

Kilby Prize Bethune Baker Prize best undergraduate performance for Divinity McCrudden, KTR Pangsrivongse, P Blackburne-Daniell Prize EG Browne Prize best second-year performance for Oriental Studies Cochrane, HJC; Downing, TAL; Keynes, AMC Hazell, JAD; Hill, TA; Ilube, RKAL; Cadell Prize Lloyd, LA; Nicol-Harper, A; Prior, DCC; for Architecture or History of Art Seah, T Norris, TG Peter de Somogyi Memorial Prize Collins Prize special merit in an Arts subject for English Brownlee, EC; Hudson, HW; Kumar, AX; Peres, TPC Pangsrivongse, P; Peres, TPC; Stockwell, R Ginsberg Prize for Classics Hansen Prize Hudson, HW for outstanding first or second-year performance in the Arts Ginsberg Award Hill, TA for Classics Hill, TA; Oakes, SM; Wesley-Weeks, SE Satish Kumar Aggarwal Prize for outstanding first-year performance in Hadley History Prize Mathematics or Natural Sciences usually for Part II of the Tripos Mayes, D McCrudden, KTR Crowden Award Sir William Hodge Prize for a distinguished contribution to for Mathematics or Natural Sciences College life Nicol-Harper, A Kirkham, PM; McNeill Adams, HG Hodgson Memorial Prize Adrian Prize for Part IIB Engineering Project for Medical and Veterinary Sciences Barton, RA; Warden, S Seah, T Howard Raingold Prize Atiyah Prize normally for Part I of the History Tripos for Part III Mathematics Innes, MJM Rouzé, C annual gazette | 113

Joslin Prize Dr Stoneley’s Prize for Economic History for Geology and Geophysics Gildea, FH Hughes, EC Lancaster Prize Henry Sumner Maine Prize for Engineering for Archaeology and Anthropology Davies, LN Brownlee, EC Lander Prize Tomkys Prize for History of Art for Social and Political Sciences Tompkins, DK Lloyd, LA Legg Prize Trebilcock Prize for Mathematics for Economics Boyd, ME Hazell, JAD Ann Ellen Prince Prize Turner Prize for Modern Languages for Music Evans, I Jones, B BM Roberts Prize Ubaydli Prize for Part III Chemistry for Computer Science Officer, HL Edgecombe, GP Marie Shamma’a Frost Prize S M Jamil Wasti Prize in Oriental Studies (Arabic) for Part I English King, JNE Cochrane, HJC Robin Shepherd Memorial Prize Willoughby Prize for Chemistry for Private Law Scanes, RJH Innes, M Shilling Prize Ronald Wynn Prize for Land Economy for Engineering Guyon, LAE Jackson, AJR; Sears, LW G C Smith Prize Ziegler Prize For Material Sciences for Law Stone, IC Kumar, AX Dr Stevens Prize for Natural Sciences Penney, CE; Tweed, LEL; Wang, VM-Y; Waxman, RT

Foundress Prizes

Ader, JS (Natural Sciences) Byfield, PJ (Natural Sciences) Back, AL (Archaeology and Anthropology) Colwill, EE (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic) Bardsley, OP (Engineering) Cutler, SJ (Economics) Bennett, SE (Linguistics) Darragh, K (Natural Sciences) Bergamasco, ML (Law) Downing, TAL (Engineering) Brady, PPJ (Politics, Psychology and Greaves, A (English) Sociology) Huang, A (Chemical Engineering) 114 | pembroke college

Ilube, RKAL (Politics, Psychology and Ramsden, JD (Natural Sciences) Sociology) Ravi, N (Engineering) Khaira, JK (Natural Sciences) Smith, CA (Natural Sciences) Kulkarni, P (Politics, Psychology and Stockwell, R (Linguistics) Sociology) Tham, YP (Economics) Lim, LG (Human, Social and Political Sciences) Threadgill, KRD (Natural Sciences) Mayes, D (Mathematics) Turton, SE (Mathematics) Metcalf, EC (English) Watson, OJ (Natural Sciences) Phillips, RJ (Engineering) Wikeley, JB (History) Pike, SV (Mathematics) Wild, PH (Medical and Veterinary Sciences) Prior, DCC (Engineering)

College Prizes

First year Abrahams, JI (Engineering) Howden, S (English) Adjei, EJA (Modern and Medieval Languages) Jenkinson, F (Natural Sciences) Burford, RJ (Natural Sciences) Marshall, RB (Natural Sciences) Choi, S (Natural Sciences) McGee, T (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies) Chow, CF (Natural Sciences) Medek, AV (Engineering) Deer, C (History) Nielsen, M (Mathematics) Droogleever Fortuyn, M (Engineering) Oldham, R (English) English, MAO (Natural Sciences) Padley, J (Medical and Veterinary Sciences) Evans, S (Natural Sciences) Rogers, D (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic) Farmery, J (Human, Social and Political Roy, H (Economics) Sciences) Ryabchynskyy, K (Engineering) Fernando, A (Natural Sciences) Szmucer, PJ (Engineering) Godawatta, J (Mathematics) Taylor, HG (English) Hammond, LJ (Natural Sciences) Titley, M (Natural Sciences) Hibbert, EM (English) Totz, KJ (Engineering)

Second year Anketell, MJ (Natural Sciences) Matheson, HM (Medical and Veterinary Arshad, S (Engineering) Sciences) Barker, AW (Mathematics) McConkey, MS (English) Bittlestone, MC (History) Myer, WRH (Modern and Medieval Languages) Chorley, CM (English) Ormond, BJ (Engineering) Forbes, TJ (Engineering) Piette, AAA (Natural Sciences) Garside, BJE (Medical and Veterinary Sciences) Tan, JJ (Economics) Griffiths, KJ (Natural Sciences) Weber, JM (Natural Sciences) Hudson, MS (Economics) White, CR (Engineering) Laird, BD (Natural Sciences) Willis, CR (Mathematics) Lam, PH (Engineering) Wong, HHN (Engineering)

Third year Brayne, AB (Natural Sciences) Jitendra, AR (Politics, Psychology and Burrow, WO (History) Sociology) Griggs, PJ (Engineering) Kaner, HF (English) Hoier, TP (Chemical Engineering) Kelly, DP (Politics, Psychology and Sociology) annual gazette | 115

Third year continued Kirkham, PM (Natural Sciences) Stibbard Hawkes, LPL (Mathematics) Lazell, HW (Natural Sciences) Temple, J (English) Lobo, AJ (Engineering) Williams, TGS (Natural Sciences) Obeyesekere, DG (Engineering) Willis, SI (Engineering) Schwarz, G (English) Wojtecki, AL (Engineering) Scott, RAM (Law) Wood, AEM (Natural Sciences)

Fourth year Creelman, GS (Law) Malone, KS (Law) Fowler, EMC (Modern and Medieval Tapner, FJ (Engineering) Languages) Watson, AR (Engineering) Lim, MA (Natural Sciences)

Fifth year Heywood, RM (Clinical Medicine)

Sixth year Roche, AM (Clinical Veterinary Medicine)

Elected to a Foundation Scholarship

Anketell, MJ (Natural Sciences) Laird, BD (Natural Sciences) Arshad, S (Engineering) Lam, PH (Engineering) Barker, AW (Mathematics) Lloyd, LA (Politics, Psychology and Sociology) Bennett, SE (Linguistics) Lobo, AJ (Engineering) Bergamasco, ML (Law) Matheson, HM (Medical and Veterinary Bittlestone, MC (History) Sciences) Byfield, PJ (Natural Sciences) McConkey, MS (English) Chorley, CM (English) Metcalf, EC (English) Cochrane, HJC (English) Myer, WRH (Modern and Medieval Languages) Colwill, EE (Anglo-Saxon,Norse and Celtic) Nicol-Harper, A (Natural Sciences) Darragh, K (Natural Sciences) Ormond, BJ (Engineering) Downing, TAL (Engineering) Piette, AAA (Natural Sciences) Forbes, TJ (Engineering) Prior, DCC (Engineering) Garside, BJE (Medical and Veterinary Sciences) Seah, T (Medical and Veterinary Sciences) Griffiths, KJ (Natural Sciences) Stibbard Hawkes, LPL (Mathematics) Guyon, LAE (Land Economy) Tan, JJ (Economics) Hazell, JAD (Economics) Watson, OJ (Natural Sciences) Hill, TA (Classics) Weber, JM (Natural Sciences) Hudson, MS (Economics) White, CR (Engineering) Ilube, RKAL (Politics, Psychology and Wild, PH (Medical and Veterinary Sciences) Sociology) Willis, CR (Mathematics) Innes, MC (Law) Willis, SI (Engineering) Innes, MJM (History) Wojtecki, AL (Engineering) Kulkarni, P (Politics, Psychology and Wong, HHN (Engineering) Sociology) 116 | pembroke college

Foundation Scholarships continuing

Ader, JS (Natural Sciences) Ireland, AT (Natural Sciences) Aitchison, L (Modern and Medieval Lazell, HW (Natural Sciences) Languages) Liu, S (Engineering) Bardsley, OP (Engineering) Obeyesekere, DG (Engineering) Boyd, ME (Mathematics) Pike, SV (Mathematics) Cymes, T (Clinical Medicine) Ramsden, CM (Clinical Medicine) Fitch-Bunce, JB (Modern and Medieval Scanes, RJH (Natural Sciences) Languages) Sears, LW (Engineering) Flesher, JD (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) Sivananthan, SH (Engineering) Gradel, A (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) Turton, SE (Mathematics) Griggs, PJ (Engineering) Wang, VM-Y (Natural Sciences) Hoier, TP (Chemical Engineering) White, MW (Engineering) Huang, A (Chemical Engineering) Wood, AEM (Natural Sciences)

Retrospective awards to Commoners

Back, AL (Archaeology and Anthropology) Malone, KS (Law) Brady, PPJ (Politics, Psychology and Sociology) McCrudden, KTR (History) Brayne, AB (Natural Sciences) Oakes, SM (Classics) Evans, I (Modern and Medieval Languages) Ramsden, JD (Natural Sciences) Fowler, EMC (Modern and Medieval Rouzé, C (Mathematics) Languages) Schwarz, G (English) Hughes, EC (Natural Sciences) Stone, IC (Natural Sciences) Jitendra, AR (Politics, Psychology and Threadgill, KRD (Natural Sciences) Sociology) Waxman, RT (Natural Sciences) Kaner, HF (English) Wesley-Weeks, SE (Classics) King, JNE (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies) Wikeley, JB (History) Kirkham, PM (Natural Sciences)

Foundation Awards

Kumar, AX (Law) Penney, CE (Natural Sciences) Lim, MA (Natural Sciences) Pangsrivongse, P (Theology) Mellor, NS (Veterinary Medicine) Stockwell, R (Linguistics) Officer, HL (Natural Sciences) Williams, TGS (Clinical Medicine)

Foundation Awards continuing

Ashmore, JL (English) Ross, IFW (Veterinary Medicine) Harvey, JE (Mathematics) Thompson, RP (Natural Sciences) Howe, EK (Natural Sciences) Walker, MI (Engineering) Ievins, AMAN (English) Willis, JCW (Natural Sciences) Little, CE (Clinical Medicine) annual gazette | 117

College Scholarships

Abrahams, JI (Engineering) Jones, B (Music) Adjei, EJA (Modern and Medieval Languages) Lim, LG (Human, Social and Political Sciences) Burford, RJ (Natural Sciences) Marshall, RB (Natural Sciences Choi, S (Natural Sciences) Mayes, D (Mathematics) Chow, CF (Natural Sciences) McGee, T (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies) Cutler, SJ (Economics) Medek, AV (Engineering) Davies, LN (Engineering) Nielsen, M (Mathematics) Deer, C (History) Oldham, R (English) Droogleever Fortuyn, M (Engineering) Padley, J (Medical and Veterinary Sciences) English, MAO (Natural Sciences) Phillips, RJ (Engineering) Evans, S (Natural Sciences) Rogers, D (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic) Farmery, J (Human, Social and Political Roy, H (Economics) Sciences) Ryabchynskyy, K (Engineering) Fernando, A (Natural Sciences) Szmucer, PJ (Engineering) Godawatta, J (Mathematics) Taylor, HG (English) Hammond, LJ (Natural Sciences) Tham, YP (Economics) Hibbert, EM (English) Titley, M (Natural Sciences) Howden, S (English) Tompkins, DJK (History of Art) Hudson, HW (Classics) Totz, KJ (Engineering) Jenkinson, F (Natural Sciences)

Searle Reading Prize Derek Rose Memorial Studentship Lyons, AI McGee, T

Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett Prize Nicholas Powell Travel Bursary for creative writing King, JA Power, PRA Christine Hansen Music Travel Peter Clarke Science Writing Prize Scholarship Danson, AF Maynaud, YJ

Kenderdine Organ Scholarship Peter Ringrose Africa Travel Scholarships Hill, TA Hammond, LJ

Graham Maw Organ Scholarship Jack Lander Travel Scholarships Parkinson, RJ Oldham, R

Idle Scholarship Peter May Award King, JNE for Tripos and University sports Fowler, EMC; Lloyd, LA; Ormond, BJ; Monica Partridge Award Ravi, N; Willis, SI Balkan Studies Colfer, B

Keith Sykes Awards Chapman, CAS 118 | pembroke college

Blues Awards For a Half Blue Hall, C (Lightweight Rowing) Ginsberg Awards For a Blue Hanspal, M (Cricket – 2012/13) Kent, F (Football) Hengeveld, A C (Women’s Volleyball) Khan, I (Cricket) Khan, I (Cricket – 2012/13) Kondratowicz, M (Lawn Tennis) Ravi, N (Cricket) Ormond, B (Sailing) Willis, S (Equestrian)

GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS 2013–2014

The following named scholarships and awards were made for the academic year 2013–2014:

Arabic & Islamic Studies (E G Browne Fund) Shiva Mihan (PhD in Asian & Middle Eastern Studies) from Alzahra University (Iran).

Boustany Scholarship in Astronomy Harley Katz (PhD in Astronomy) from the University of Maryland.

Keith Sykes Studentship in Medieval Italian Literature Katherine Powlesland (PhD in MML: Italian) from Newnham College, Cambridge.

Lander Studentship in the History of Art Taylor McCall (PhD in History of Art) from the Courtauld Institute.

Monica Partridge studentship Elena Ilioi (PhD in Psychology) already a member of Pembroke College.

Nahum Graduate studentship in Physics Florian Schroeder (PhD in Physics) already a member of Pembroke College.

The College part-funded two University studentships

Till Karmann (PhD in Politics & International Studies) was awarded a CHESS studentship Myfanwy Wood (LLM) was awarded the Davis McCaughey Australian Scholarship.

The College also made significant ad hominem awards from various funds:

Pembroke College fund for MPhil study or equivalent study Joseph Ashmore (MPhil in Medieval & Renaissance Literature) already a member of Pembroke College. Tom Foxall (MPhil in Classics) already a member of Pembroke College. Max Jamilly (MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise) already a member of Pembroke College. Sadia Shafquat (MPhil in Education) already a member of Pembroke College. William Snowden (MPhil in Classics) already a member of Pembroke College. Cassie Tickell Painter (MPhil in Economics & Social History) already a member of Pembroke College. Laura Fawcett (MPhil in Theology & Religious Studies) from Fitzwilliam College. annual gazette | 119 and from the Ziegler fund: Gavin Creelman (LLM) already a member of Pembroke College. Julia Schulman (LLM) already a member of Pembroke College.

Pembroke Research Funds Emily Groves (PhD in Medicine) already a member of Pembroke College. Courtney Landers (PhD in Pathology) from the Australian National University. Mark Nelson (PhD in Engineering) already a member of Pembroke College. Elena Pinnen (PhD in MML: Italian) from the Universita degli Studi di Bologna. Tillman Taape (PhD in the History & Philosophy of Science) from Clare College, Cambridge.

HIGHER DEGREES CONFERRED

PhD

Abdulla, F Y A A, European Union Policies and Socioeconomic Development in the Southern Mediterranean

Adkins, I H, Sound, Space and Christological Self-Giving (with special reference to William Vanstone, Sarah Coakley, Rowan Williams and Donald MacKinnon)

Bartonicek, N, Computational Studies on the Biogenesis and Function of Small Non-Coding RNAs

Benesh, M J, Charge Transport Dynamics of Surface Acoustic Waves in a GaAs/A1GaAs 2DEG

Black, P M, Genetics education, science-talk and dialogic pedagogy: Developing 14- to 16-year-olds’ school science concept of genetics and inheritance, in the context of human health and disease

Camozzi Pistoja, A, Dante and the Medieval Alexander

Chan, T S, Development of quantitative fluorescence microscopy techniques for the study of protein amyloids

Collins, B S L, New Catalytic Methods and Strategies for Chemical Synthesis

Conroy, R T, Ecological Modernization, Environmental Governance and Transformations in the UK’s Waste System

Deacon, W J, Quantification of cell and tissue behaviours during morphogenesis

Echtermeyer T J, Graphene Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics

Ferrari, A C, Moving into Space: the Art of Henri Laurens (1885–1954)

Firestone, E, Seeming Probable: Cognitive Approaches to the Improbable in Shakespeare 120 | pembroke college

Fowler, C J, Identification of a ciliary defect associated with pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial disease

Guerry, E D, The wall paintings of the Sainte-Chapelle

Hiller, B T, Sustainability Dynamics of Large-Scale Integrated Ecosystem Rehabilitation and Poverty Reduction Projects

Johnson, J A, Chilungamo? In Search of Gender Justice in Matrilineal Malawi

Kim, D-J D, The Political Economy of Trade and Development in the Multilateral Trading System: the World Trade Organisation’s Aid for Trade Agenda

Kimbriel, S C, Friendship as Sacred Knowing

Lee, J, The Regulation of Fas Ligand Trafficking in Human Lymphocytes

Lombardo, A, Graphene nanoelectronics and optoelectronics

Mahbubani, K T A, Vehicles for the Oral Delivery of Live Bacteria

Mardilovich, G, Printmaking in Late Imperial Russia

McDonald, K L, Language Contact in South Oscan Epigraphy

Msibi, T P, “We are what you think we are not”: a study of black South African male teachers who engage in same-sex relations

Murray, M J, The role of microRNAs in paediatric malignant germ cell tumours

Obaid, D R, Coronary atherosclerotic plaque imaging

Page, G W, Risks, Needs and Emotional Rewards: Complexity and Crisis in the Drug Interventions Programme

Pawelec, K M, Tailoring Ice-Templated Scaffold Structures for Biomedical Tissue Repair

Pitt Ford, C W, Unsteady Aerodynamic Forces on Accelerating Wings at Low Reynolds Numbers

Plumb, J A, Targeting Coenzyme A Biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using a fragment-based approach

Popa, D, Ultrafast fibre lasers mode-locked by carbon nanotubes and graphene

Powell, G, A critique of the ecclesiology, missiology and sociology of the Mission-shaped Church report

Sobers, A H, Slaves without shackles: forced labour and manumission in the Galata court registers, 1560–1572

Stubbs, T M C, The plantation overseers of eighteenth-century Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia annual gazette | 121

Szlachta, W J, First principles interatomic potential for tungsten based on Gaussian process regression

Torrisi, F, Nanomaterials-based dispersions, inks and composites for flexible electronics and photonics

Wivel, M, Colour in Line – Titian and Printmaking

Master of Law

Creelman, G S Schulman, J L Wood, M C E Malone, K S

MPhil

Armstrong, L, Modern European History Mansfield, T H, Medieval History Arnold, R D, International Relations Masciandaro, M J, Political Thought & Boreham, J W, Economics Intellectual History Burns, D I, International Relations Matthews, H R, Biological Science Cabrero Vilatela, A, Micro- and (Biochemistry) Nanotechnology Mohr, P T M, Engineering for Sustainable Dalgleish, E C, Russian Studies Development Evans, F M M, English Studies: Modern and Morrissey, P D, Politics Contemporary Literature Nelson, M W, Nuclear Energy Fleming, A J, Management Pelletier, J F, Physics Frecknall, J C, Early Modern History Pickworth, F I, Classics Gage, S G, Architecture Plastina, M C, Modern European History Gammell, C P W, Middle Eastern and Islamic Qiu, C, Economic Research Studies Robertson, N F, European Literature Goodhead, R J, Economics Runyon, R S, Biological Science (Pharmacology) Groves, E L, Clinical Science Schriever, A R, Theology and Religious Studies Hoyos, T, Innovation, Strategy and Straus, M I, Early Modern History Organisation Walsh, A M, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Ilioi, E C, Public Health Wang, A A, International Relations Kim, J M J, Innovation, Strategy and Webb, R C M, Social Anthropology Organisation Weidenfeld, C D, European Literature Kroon, A, Development Studies Wilson, G P, Energy Technologies Lai, L, Modern Society & Global Transformations

MMast

Emerson, K J, Pure Mathematics Schroeder, F A Y N, Experimental and Reuvers, R J P, Applied Mathematics Theoretical Physics (see p 107 2013 issue) (see p 106 2013 issue) Schmitz, FR, Applied Mathematics (see p 106 2013 issue) 122 | pembroke college

MEng

Barton, R A Gold, I S E Tawney, J J A Bush, A A Jackson, A J R Vickery, A J Chai, A S L Mas, J A Vincent, C M Cowan, R M Ravi, N Warden, S Elsby, R A Rew, O G Watson, A R Foster, J E Tapner, F J

MBA

Khubchandani, R Schoenberg, M O Chang, J M

Executive MBA

Abbs, I C Dilov, D Parodi-Huml, L Antonova, Daria Faye, R van Niekerk, A Cervantes, E Laniel, S Zherdeva, O del Bigio, P V P

MSci

Bankes, E T Lim, M A Selvackadunco, A Cole, N L Officer, H L Stone, I C Hughes, E C Penney, C E Tweed, L E L Lightwood, R A Robinson, A C

MB

Anderson-Witty, R C Monk, E J M Winder-Rhodes, S

BChir

Breslin, R C King, J A Savage, J H Bruton, E C

Vet MB

Roche, A M Sanders-Hewett, F A D. THE PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY

William Pitt (1759–1806), Prime Minister by George Henry Harlow

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MEMBERS’ NEWS

1943 Sydney Afriat’s The Index Number Problem: Construction Theorems was published by Oxford University Press. 1944 Timothy Dudley-Smith’s A Mirror to the Soul: 30 Contemporary Hymns Based on Psalms was published. John Loft’s translation, The Mirror of Falconry by Pierre Harmont and the Falconry of Francois Sainte Aulaire, was published. 1952 Hillary Don’s Across the Pacific Ocean with Paddle Steamship: China was published by Belvedere. 1955 Sandy Holt-Wilson was awarded an OBE for raising the standard of eye care in Ethiopia. 1956 Michael Counsell’s She Was the First Apostle: Mary Magdalene Tells Her Story was published by Createspace Print. The latest, 2015, edition of his The Canterbury Preacher’s Companion was published by Canterbury Press. Tom Rosenthal’s On Art and Artists: Selected Essays was published by Unicorn Press. 1958 Bernard Adams’s translation of Andras Kepes’ The Inflatable Buddha was published by Armadillo Central, and his translation of Márton Csombor’s Europica Varietas was published by Corvina Press. David Clark’s Russia Through the Looking Glass was published. Andrew Parkin’s novel Private Dancers or Responsible Women was published by Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co. Cedric Watts’ Shakespeare Puzzles was published by Publish Nation, and his Final Exam: A Novel (by ‘Peter Green’) was also published. 1959 Christopher Andreae’s biography of Joan Eardley was published by Lund Humphries. 1960 Ian Binnie was made a Companion of the Order of Canada (in 2012) for his contribution in the legal profession and his commitment to legal education and the rule of law. 1961 Richard Berengarten (aka Burns) was elected a Fellow of the English Association. He was also made an honorary citizen of Kragujevac, Serbia, in recognition of his book of poems The Blue Butterfly. His new book of poetry (Manual: Selected Writings 6) and two new chapbooks (Imagems 1 and a translation of Twelve Poems by the Croatian poet Tin Ujevic´) were published by Shearsman Books, Bristol. A Chinese translation of part of his poem ‘Tree’ by Wang Ying appeared in the Chinese People’s Daily on November 5, 2013: the first time that the work of a non-Chinese poet has been published in this journal. John Nicholas’ Main Line to the West: The Southern Railway Route between Basingstoke and Exeter – Part 4 was published by Irwell Press Ltd. 1962 Peter Taylor was the recipient of the Royal Television Society’s 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award for Television Journalism, in recognition of his programmes on Northern Ireland, South Africa, the Brighton Bomb, the decision to invade Iraq, and Al Qaeda. 1963 Richard Kellaway was elected Mayor of Windsor and Maidenhead. 126 | pembroke college

Paul Skinner was awarded a CBE for Services to Business and Infrastructure. 1964 Anthony Campbell was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and to the Council of the Linnean Society. 1965 Starling Lawrence’s novel The Thief of Words was published by Quantuck Lane Press. 1966 Richard Mead’s The Last Great Cavalryman – The Life of General Sir Richard McCreery was published by Pen & Sword. Richard Slater’s book of photographs People in London – One Photographer, Five Years, The Life of a City was published by Elliott & Thompson. 1967 Andrew Swanston’s The King’s Exile, the second volume in his Thomas Hill Trilogy, was published by Corgi. 1968 Peter Fitzpatrick’s dual biography The Two Frank Thrings was published by Monash University Publishing, and won the 2013 Australian National Biography Award. 1971 The second edition of Men and Masculinities in Europe, co-edited by Keith Pringle, was published by Whiting & Birch. 1972 Sam Blyth was awarded the National Order of Merit (Gold) by the King of Bhutan for his services to education. 1973 David Prior was appointed Chairman of the Care Quality Commission. 1974 Rajeshkumar Thakker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. David West’s Social Movements in Global Politics was published by Polity. 1975 Rupert Booth was awarded an MA (with Distinction) in Economics for Competition Law by King’s College, London. Richard Jacobs was appointed co-head of Essex Court Chambers. 1976 Simon Donaldson was one of the five winners of the 2014 Breakthrough Prizes in Mathematics, a new award designed to recognise major advances in the field of mathematics. Simon Donaldson’s prize was awarded for his work on invariants of 4-dimensional manifolds and for the study of the relation between stability in algebraic geometry and in global differential geometry. 1978 The book of Martin Rowson’s exhibition (in April 2014 at the Dylan Thomas Boathouse, Laugharne) Dylan’s Progress: A Centenary Entertainment was published. 1979 Patrick Derham co-edited Cultural Olympians: Rugby School’s Intellectual and Spiritual Leaders, published by University of Buckingham Press. 1983 George Courtauld’s England’s Best Loved Poems: The Enchantment of England was published by Ebury Press. 1984 Raymond Nasr was appointed as a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, California. 1985 Ian Collins was appointed to a personal chair in Medicinal Chemistry at the Institute for Cancer Research, University of London. 1987 Andy Farrell’s The 100 Greatest Ever Golfers was published by Elliott & Thompson. 1988 James Wood’s collection of poems, The Anvil’s Prayer, was published by Ward Wood Publishing. annual gazette | 127

1989 Richard Penty was appointed Master of Sidney Sussex College. 1990 Daniel Rosenthal’s The National Theatre Story was published by Oberon Books. 1992 Mark Ellwood’s Bargain Fever: How to Shop in a Discounted World was published by Portfolio Penguin. 1996 Ray Newman and Jess Slack (1997)’s Brew Britannia: The Strange Rebirth of British Beer was published by Aurum Press Ltd, under the noms de plume Jessica Boak and Ray Bailey. 1997 Jess Slack co-authored Brew Britannia with Ray Newman (1996): see above for details. 1999 Tristan Stubbs won the 2013 Hines Prize for the best first book relating to any aspect of the Carolina Lowcountry and/or the Atlantic World. The book which won him the prize – The Plantation Overseers of Eighteenth- Century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia – will be published by the University of South Carolina Press in their Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World series. 2002 Miranda Stearn co-edited a book on Challenging History in the Museum: International Perspectives, published by Ashgate. 2003 Matthew Wilburn King contributed a chapter on ‘Environmental governance and peacebuilding in post-conflict Central America’ to a book on Governance, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding published by Earthscan. 2004 Kate Epstein’s Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain was published by the Harvard University Press. 2007 Fred Rowson was awarded the London Shorts short film award at the 2013 London Film Festival. 2008 Daniel Popa was appointed as a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. 2010 Phin Adams won bronze in the category ‘Speech Radio Personality of the Year’ at the Radio Academy Awards, for his weekly radio show ‘Phil’s Barmy Bunch’ on Cam FM. Emma Jones co-edited a book on Carvings, Casts and Collectors: The Art of Renaissance Sculpture, published by the Victoria and Albert Museum. 128 | pembroke college

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY

AGENDA FOR THE 2014 AGM Thursday 20 November; The Drapers’ Hall, London; drinks at 7.00 pm, dinner at 7.30 pm Nominations for 2014–2015 President: Mrs C F Holmes Vice-Presidents: J G P Crowden, Lord Prior, Sir Roger Tomkys, H P Raingold Secretary: M R Mellor Treasurer: A Cates Editor of Gazette: N J McBride Secretary of London Dinner: A S Ivison Secretary of Scottish Dinner: R M B Brown Secretary of South Western Dinner: A B Elgood Secretary of Northern Dinner: D R Sneath Committee to 2015: C B Hall, R J A van den Bergh, C R Ottey, A M Lloyd-Williams, E J Williamson, S E Ruthven Committee to 2016: J W S Macdonald, R K Perkin, A G Singleton, E C S Price, T C Young, J A Bashford Committee to 2017: F C Simeons, N P H Meier, C A Haddon-Cave, M P Dunfoy, J M Ginsberg, C E Macallan

MINUTES OF THE 2013 AGM Thursday 14 November; The Drapers’ Hall, London; drinks at 7.00 pm, dinner at 7.30 pm Nominations for 2013–2014 President: The Master Vice-Presidents: J G P Crowden, Lord Prior, Sir Roger Tomkys, H P Raingold Chairman of Committee: Mrs J E Morley Secretary: M R Mellor Treasurer: A Cates Editor of Gazette: N J McBride Secretary of London Dinner: A S Ivison Secretary of Scottish Dinner: R M B Brown Secretary of South Western Dinner: A B Elgood Secretary of Northern Dinner: D R Sneath Committee to 2014: A E Palmer, J B Meyer, R B Tregoning, A J Sheach, R M V Blaney, E K Lee Committee to 2015: C B Hall, R J A van den Bergh, C R Ottey, A M Lloyd-Williams, E J Williamson, S E Ruthven Committee to 2016: J W S Macdonald, R K Perkin, A G Singleton, E C S Price, T C Young, J A Bashford annual gazette | 129

DINNERS AND RECEPTIONS

Pembroke College Cambridge Society London Dinner

The 87th annual dinner of the Society was held at the Drapers’ Hall on the evening of Thursday 14 November 2013. The Toast to the College was proposed by Mr Noel Manns FRICS (1977), President of PCCS, and the response was given by Professor Jan Maciejowski, President of the College.

PRESENT

The Master Professor R V Mrs C F Holmes 1945 Dr R A Kaner M Litt Thakker FRS Dr J E Morley DPhil 1975 Mr C Comninos Mr R O H Morley 1953 Mr I D Crane Mr S F Glanvill 1985 Mr G B M H du Parc 1955 Mr G S Pink Mr S J Shotton Braham 1956 Mr D N Howard 1976 Mr N H Denning 1986 Mr M L Bicknell 1957 Mr C M Fenwick Mr A M Lloyd- Mrs J Bonner Dr C B Hall Williams Mrs S A Davies Mr J W S Macdonald 1977 Mr M A Anderson Mrs O F M du Parc Mr F C Simeons Mr R J Bampfield Braham 1958 Mr J H Jones Mr N A Cadwallader Mr A H Gillespie- 1959 Mr M G Kuczynski Mr P N Earle Smith Mr G K Toland Mr R J Edwards Mrs H C Gillespie- 1960 Mr C Barham Carter Mr A J Fryza FCIB Smith 1961 Mr J A H Chadwick Mr P S Kirkby Mr N L L James Mr P A O’Leary Mr M S Lavelle Mrs R S James Mr C D D Woon Professor J M Mr J P Johnstone 1964 Dr J C D Hickson Maciejowski Mr R D R Stark 1966 Mr J V P Drury Mr N G H Manns Mr D L Taylor Mr R B Tregoning Mr D J Morum Mr C J T Woolley 1967 Mr W P Merrick Mr C J F Silcock 1987 Mr H T Baker 1970 Mr T J Barwood Mr J A Wilson QC Mr N A Pink Mr J A C Drake 1978 Revd Father J C Mr N F Regan Mr D A Walter Finnemore Miss C M Thomé 1971 Mr H R Jacobs Mr D E Knox 1994 Dr A J Bennett Mr J J P Lincoln Mr M Russell-Jones Mr H P Raingold 1972 Dr N C A Bradley 1980 Mr A Bateman 1995 Mr A L B Neame 1973 Professor A N Mr N M Heilpern Dr S C Tomkins Cormack Mr J D R Howard 1997 Mr N J McBride Mr D E Dickson Mr P B Kempe Mr T C Young Mr D M Edwards Mr C R Kingdon 1999 Mr J A Buckley Mr O Heald QC MP 1981 Dr P Campbell Dr J Lapinski S J Machin Esq Mr D M Holland QC Dr P M McCormack Mr M A Smyth Mr S E Lugg 2000 Mr A W Morris 1974 Sir Charles Haddon- Mr A J Sheach ARAM Cave 1982 Mr A M Fox Mrs R F Wilkins Mr A S Ivison 1983 Dr A G Miller 2001 Mr E P R Orr Mr P R Pentecost 1984 Mr S J Hilton Mr P G Wilkins 130 | pembroke college

2002 Mr O G Lockwood Miss E D Burns Mr T A Michaelis Mr D M Matanhelia Miss K B Cooke Miss A Shyy Mr A D N Robson Mr P D Dewhurst 2009 Miss A M Fulwood Dr D R Shouler Miss O M C Dobell Miss E C Morgan 2003 Mr W E J Bakewell Dr J T D Gardom Miss K E Nicholson Mrs I J D Clarke Miss M K Keyworth Mrs A Petreanu Mr O J Clarke Miss K J Leake 2010 Miss E C Hughes Mr R J Swan Miss J H Lowes Dr I Karimi 2004 Miss H G A Bill Mr A P McKee Mr S Warden Dr R C D Blevins Mr M R Mellor 2011 Mr W O Burrow Dr T M Funnell Miss O J O’Sullivan Miss E Fairhurst Miss C N Kissin Mr W E Pinkney Mr J I Hirschowitz Miss S C Lambie Mrs F J Potts Mr H Lazell Dr S C Picot Miss S E Ruthven Mr H G McNeill Mr A J Smith Mr J M Sengendo Adams Dr J P Sturgeon Mr J M Sharp Mr R Sanders Mr M S Williams Mr J C S Tan 2012 Miss K Y H Cheng 2005 Miss H E Burt Miss E Thornhill Mr P I McMullen Mr M A Copestake Mr G B Towers 2013 Dr A T Cates Miss N K Jacobs 2007 Mr M D McLean Mr E R G Button Mrs A C Swan 2008 Miss C K Cooke Ms S A March 2006 Miss H S Baker Mr M E Hoyt Miss N Morris

The 88th annual dinner of the Society will be held at the Drapers’ Hall on the evening of Thursday 20 November 2014. The Toast to the College will be proposed by Sir Charles Haddon-Cave (1974), and the response by the Master, Sir Richard Dearlove KCMG OBE, President of PCCS.

Scottish Dinner

The 63rd Annual Dinner in Scotland was held at the New Club on Friday 8 November 2013. The College Representative was the Master, Sir Richard Dearlove KCMG OBE.

PRESENT

The Master and 1959 Dr S Crampin Mr W Roxburgh MA Lady Dearlove Mr H A Crichton- FRICS 1945 Mr P B Mackenzie Miller 1970 Mr D A Walter Ross Dr D B Taylor 1979 Mr J W S Macfie 1950 Mr A Gilchrist OBE 1961 Mr P L Dix 1981 Dr I M McClure Mr A H Trevor Professor H R Kirby 1984 Mr A J Clarkson 1954 Mr C Beadle 1964 Mr D M Grant 1986 Dr B A Cuthbert 1955 Mr C Gilbraith 1965 Mr N M Bachop 1988 Mr A Kennedy 1956 Mr K A MacKinnon 1966 Mr I M Tait Professor A J McNeil CVO Mr J N Wright QC 1989 Mr R M B Brown 1957 Professor J A A 1967 Dr D MacIntyre 1995 Mr A W Barklie Hunter OBE 1997 Mr D I Forrester annual gazette | 131

1998 Dr A F Bell 2009 Dr C Burt Miss N Morris Mr T A C Record

Robbie Brown (1989) has arranged to hold the 64th Annual Dinner in Scotland at the New Club on Friday 7 November 2014. The College Representative will be the Master, Sir Richard Dearlove KCMG OBE, President of PCCS.

Northern Dinner

The PCCS Northern Dinner was held at the Leeds Club, Leeds, on Friday 28 March 2014. The College representative was Ms Sally March from the Development Office.

PRESENT

1952 Dr D Blackburn and 1966 Mr D A Salter & 1980 Professor D P Miss E M Mrs A R Salter Newton & Whettlock (2012) 1966 Mr D R Sneath TD Mrs X Liu 1953 Mr H Howard and DL & Mrs J C Margretts Ms H Whittaker Mrs C Sneath (widow of Mr G F 1964 Mr P D Ogden 1966 Mr R B Tregoning & Margretts (1961)) 1966 Mr J V P Drury & Mrs G M C Mrs C E C Drury Tregoning Ms S A March

It is intended that the next Northern Dinner will be held in Spring 2016. If you would like to record your interest, or recommend a venue, please contact David Franks in the Development Office ([email protected]).

South Western Dinner

The 13th Annual South Western Dinner was held at the Clifton Club on the evening of Friday 1 November 2013. The College representative was Mr Nick McBride, Director of Studies in Law and Editor of the Gazette.

PRESENT

1957 Professor Sir John 1970 Professor A D Dr J W Lumley Kingman FRS & Buckingham CBE 1978 Dr S N Kukureka Lady Kingman FRS & Professor J H Tobias 1961 Mr R H Jarratt & Mrs J Buckingham & Mrs I Tobias Mrs S E Jarratt Mr J K Pritchard & 1980 Professor V K 1962 Mr R C Sommers Mrs K M Pritchard Aggarwal FRS 1964 Mr J D Midgley & 1971 Mr F G D Montagu &1983 Dr M V Kyle Mrs J A Midgley Mrs O Montagu 1984 Mr J C Garner & 1966 Mr N A Rogers 1972 Mr A B Elgood Ms N Feaver 132 | pembroke college

1985 Dr S V Griffin & 1991 Dr J R D Murray 2001 Miss A V J Midgley Mr D P Griffin 1997 Mr N J McBride 1989 Mrs E C Neill & Ms S A March Mr S D Neill (1989)

Tony Elgood (1972) has arranged to hold the 14th Annual South Western Dinner at the Clifton Club on the evening of Friday 7 November 2014. The College representative will be Professor Mike Payne FRS.

Paris Dinner

The inaugural meeting of PCCS Paris Society met for drinks and dinner at the Les Philosophes, 28 rue Vieille du Temple, Marais, Paris, on Wednesday 2 April 2014, organised by Professor Andrew Parkin (1958).

PRESENT

1957 Mr J Altman 1977 Professor J M Dr J J-M Randon- 1958 Professor A T L Maciejowski & Furling Parkin & Mrs M Dr D Yang Mrs F Parkin Maciejowski 2004 Mr M R Nowlis 1961 Mr C P Sparks & 1989 Miss J Kirby 2007 Miss K E A Poston Mrs B Sparks 1997 Mr T C Young 2011 Miss G Butterworth Mr C R Vanier & 2002 Mr D P Mascarenhas guest

San Francisco Dinner

A San Francisco dinner was held at the University Club of San Francisco, 800 Powell Street

San Francisco, on Tuesday 14 January 2014, organised by Mr Peter Cleary (1969) and Mr Raymond Nasr (1984). The College representative was Sir Richard Dearlove, Master of the College.

PRESENT

1952 Dr H F Don & Dr A J Wilkes & 1983 Mr M P Bridges & Mrs J Don Mrs M Wilkes Ms J Thirasilpa 1959 Mr D P Robinson & 1976 Mr P C M 1984 Mr R G Nasr Mrs E Robinson Thornycroft & 1989 Mr J S Kirk & 1969 Mr P G Cleary & Mrs A Thornycroft Mrs J Kirk Mrs P Cleary 1980 Mr R P Douglass & 1991 Mr A G Ioannou & 1975 Mr H S Simon Mrs S Douglass Ms V Imbeni 1981 Mr J W Montgomery 1993 Dr S W P James annual gazette | 133

2003 Miss K Lange & 2004 Sir Richard Dearlove Mr M F Ferraro Mr B Rhoan KCMG OBE Mr M Kaufmann

Toronto Dinner

A Toronto dinner was held at the National Club, 303 Bay Street, Toronto, on Wednesday 4 December 2013, organised by Dr Arnie Guha (1994).

PRESENT

1959 Mr J A McMyn FCA 1988 Mr J W Wood 2008 Mr S P X Lynch & & Mrs J McMyn 1994 Dr A Guha Ms J Kent 1972 Mr G D Blyth 2007 Dr G Csanyi 2009 Dr C Burt 1977 Mr D J Morum

Tokyo Dinner

A PCCS Japan dinner was held at Washoken Marunouchioazo, 5F, 1-6-4, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, on Tuesday 24 September 2013, organised by Mr Peter Itoh (1966) and Mr John Sunley (1973).

PRESENT

1959 Mr M G Kuczynski 1985 Mr C M F Viner 1998 Miss K Kodama 1960 Mr T Kazuhara 1990 Professor A Utsugi Mrs M Tateishi- 1966 Mr T P Itoh 1993 Mr T Ueda Inoue 1973 Mr J A Sunley 1994 Dr A Mabuchi 1980 Mr M R Gilchrist 1996 Mr N E J Weindling Mr Y Kawamura 1982 Mr K Nishizaki Mrs S Saito Professor N Itoh

Hong Kong Dinner

A Hong Kong dinner was held at the Hong Kong Club, 1 Jackson Road, Central, on Saturday 30 November 2013 and organised by The Hon Peter Wong GBS OBE (1962).

PRESENT

1962 The Hon Peter Wong 1979 Mr J K S Foo Mr C I-J Tsai & GBS OBE & 1985 Mr P Tao Mrs C Tsai Mrs W Wong 1994 Mr B P H Li 1996 Miss H Y B Law 1964 Dr J C D Hickson Mr M K-T Mok 2004 Mr H A T-T Kam 1970 Mr J R James 134 | pembroke college

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LOCAL CONTACTS

Australia Mob: +86 1380 1358 781 China office: +86 10 84868099 Dr M J Llewellyn-Smith (1962) US office: +1 570 506 9850 27 Kate Court, Adelaide SA 5000 Email: Germany michael.llewellyn.smith.1962@ Mr K M M Bosch (2009) pem.cam.ac.uk Email: Mr A G Shelton (1976) [email protected] Level 2, 88 Collins St Melbourne VIC 3142 Hong Kong Email: The Hon Peter Wong GBS OBE (1962) [email protected] Flat 1D, Ewan Court 54 Kennedy Road Mr A J R Barker (1994) Email: 35 Harcourt Street [email protected] Hawthorn East VIC 3123 Email: Japan [email protected] Mr T P Itoh (1966) Miss L J Sproston (1995) (Sydney) Aozora Securities Co Ltd Email: Shiroyama Trust Tower 36th Floor [email protected] 4-3-1 Toranomon Mr R E Shadforth (1996) (Sydney) Minato-ku Email: Tokyo 105-6063 [email protected] Tel: + 81 3 5425 3511 Fax: + 81 3 5425 3512 Canada Mr J A Sunley (1973) Dr A Guha (1994) Ashton Consulting Limited Phase 5 Research 8F Landic Toranomon Building No 2 99 Spadina Avenue, Suite 400 Toranomon 3-7-8 Toronto ON M5V 3P8 Minato-ku Email: Tokyo 105-0001 [email protected] Email: [email protected] China Qatar, Abu Dhabi and UAE Mr T D P Kirkwood (1987) Mr P W Blackmore (1975) Kirkwood & Sons LLC Email: 3610 Capital Mansion [email protected] No. 6 Xin Yuan Road South Chaoyang District Beijing 100004 Email: [email protected] 136 | pembroke college

Singapore Mr C P Robb (1976) 161 East 79th Street Apt 12B Mr B D Clarke (1981) New York NY 10021-0433 Raffles City PO Box 1456 UK Singapore 911749 Email: London: Mr A S Ivison (1974) [email protected] CMS Cameron McKenna Tel: +65 6775 0542 Mitre House Mob: +65 9277 0028 160 Aldersgate Street London EC1A 4DD Turkey Bristol: Mr A B Elgood (1972) Mr A M Walsh (2008) Upper Hounsley Farm Email: Hounsley Batch, Winford [email protected] Bristol, Somerset BS40 8BS Email: USA [email protected] Mr D W H McCowen (1957) Leeds: Mr D R Sneath TD DL (1966) Beaver Lodge 7 Kirkby Road 5520 Gardner Road Ravenshead Metamora MI 48455 Nottingham NG15 9HD Email: Mr P G Cleary (1969) [email protected] 531 Diamond Street San Francisco CA 94114 Scotland: Mr R M B Brown (1989) 79 Hamilton Place Ms C E Llewellyn-Smith (2007) Aberdeen AB15 5BU (New York) Email: cassie.llewellyn.smith.2007@ pem.cam.ac.uk annual gazette | 137

RULES OF THE SOCIETY

1. The Society shall be composed of past and present Members of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and shall be called the ‘PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY’.

2. The objects of the Society shall be: (a) To promote closer relationship among Pembroke Graduates, and between them and the College. (b) To compile an Address Book of past and present Members of the College, to publish an Annual Gazette, and to issue these free to all Members of the Society. (c) To make grants to the College.

3. The subscription for Life Membership of the Society shall be decided from time to time by the Committee.*

4. The Officers of the Society shall be a President, one or more Vice- Presidents, a Chairman of Committee, a Treasurer, a Secretary (who shall be a resident Fellow of the College), a Dinner Secretary, an Editor of the Gazette, and such local Secretaries as may be desirable. The Officers shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting and shall hold office for one year. Nominations, with the names of the Proposer and Seconder, shall be sent to the Secretary six weeks before the Annual General Meeting. The retiring President shall not be eligible for re-election for a period of three years after his retirement.

5. The Management of the Society shall be entrusted to a Committee consisting of the following Officers, namely the Chairman of Committee, the Treasurer, the Secretary, the Secretary for London, the Dinner Secretary, the Editor of the Gazette and not less than twelve other Members of the Society to be elected annually. Nominations for the Committee, with the names of Proposer and Seconder, shall be sent to the Secretary six weeks before the Annual General Meeting. Of the elected members of the Committee, six shall retire annually by rotation according to priority of election, and their places shall be filled at the Annual General Meeting; a retiring member shall be eligible for re- election after a period of one year from his retirement. The Committee shall have power to co-opt additional members for a period of one year.

6. The Capital Fund of the Society shall be vested in the Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College, who may administer this Fund both as to capital and income as they in their discretion may think fit, provided always that it be primarily applied to making contributions to the funds of the Society. 138 | pembroke college

7. The income and expenditure of the Society shall be administered by the Committee through its Secretary. The Committee may at their discretion add to the Capital Fund vested in the College, but shall have no power to require withdrawal from this Fund.

8. The Committee shall meet at least twice in every year. At all meetings of the Committee seven shall form a quorum.

9. The Committee shall arrange an Annual Dinner or other Social Meetings of the Society in London.

10. The Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held on the day fixed for the Annual Dinner or other Social Meeting. The Secretary shall send out notices of the Meeting at least one month before it takes place.

11. The Committee in their discretion may, and upon a written request signed by twenty-four Members of the Society shall, call a Special General Meeting. Fourteen days’ notice of such a Meeting shall be given and the object for which it is called stated in the notice.

12. No alteration shall be made in the Rules of the Society except at a General Meeting and by a majority of two-thirds of those present and voting, and any proposed alteration shall be stated on the notice calling the Meeting.

*The Committee decided (10 December 1982) that, for the time being, the Life Membership subscription shall be nil. This decision was made possible by an offer from the College of an annual subvention from the Bethune-Baker Fund which, it was hoped, would provide a sufficient supplement to the Society’s income to enable expenses to be met, particularly the expenses of printing and postage of the Annual Gazette. annual gazette | 139

PRESIDENTS OF THE SOCIETY

1924 J.F.P. Rawlinson 1973 H.F.G. Jones 1925 E.G. Browne 1974 G.C. Smith 1926 G.R. Eden 1975 A.E.C. Drake 1927 L. Whibley 1976 J. Campbell 1928 F. Shewell Cooper 1977 J.G. Ward 1929 A. Hutchinson 1978 D.R. Denman 1930 F.S. Preston 1979 W.L. Gorell Barnes 1931 E.H. Minns 1980 M.C. Lyons 1932 J.B. Atkins 1981 D.A.S. Cairns 1933 H.G. Comber 1982 M.V. Posner 1934 E.H. Pooley 1983 P.R.E. Browne 1935 J.C. Lawson 1984 Lord Adrian 1936 J.E. Singleton 1985 J.G.P. Crowden 1937 J.K. Mozley 1986 L.P. Johnson 1938 M.S.D. Butler 1987 Lord Prior 1939 J.C.C. Davidson 1988 J. Baddiley 1946 S.C. Roberts 1989 T.J. Brooke-Taylor 1947 R.A. Butler 1990 J.C.D. Hickson 1948 M.S.D. Butler 1991 P.J.D. Langrishe 1949 J.W.F. Beaumont 1992 J.R. Waldram 1950 J.T. Spittle 1993 G.D.S. MacLellan 1951 P.J. Dixon 1994 S. Kenderdine 1952 H.E. Wynn 1995 Sir Peter Scott 1953 W.W. Wakefield 1996 A.V. Grimstone 1954 V.C. Pennell 1997 The Rt. Hon. Lord Taylor 1955 E.H. Pooley 1998 The Master 1956 B.E. King 1999 Sir John Chilcot 1957 H. Grose-Hodge 2000 C. Gilbraith 1958 S.C. Roberts 2001 J.K. Shepherd 1959 H.F. Guggenheim 2002 B. Watchorn 1960 W.V.D. Hodge 2003 R.H. Malthouse 1961 C.B. Salmon 2004 M.G. Kuczynski 1962 A.J. Arberry 2005 Sir Patrick Elias 1963 A.G. Grantham 2006 Sir John Kingman 1964 B. Willey 2007 Ms V Bowman 1965 G.W. Pickering 2008 M.G. Kuczynski 1966 M.B. Dewey 2009 R.H. King 1967 J.M. Key 2010 J.S. Bell 1968 W.A. Camps 2011 R.G. Macfarlane 1969 D.G.A. Lowe 2012 M.R. Wormald 1970 W.S. Hutton 2013 N.G.H. Manns 1971 R.G. Edwardes Jones 2014 The Master 1972 T.G.S. Combe 2015 Mrs C.F. Holmes

E. DEATHS AND OBITUARIES

Sir George Stokes (1819–1903), mathematical physicist by Lowes Cato Dickinson

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LIST OF DEATHS

The College notes with regret the deaths of the following members

1934 Frank Campbell South (6 April 2013) 1935 Roger Ormerod Booth (10 July 2013; BA Law) 1936 Donald John Ingram West (20 June 2013; BA History/English; awarded CBE 1978) 1938 Greville Arthur George Selby-Lowndes (31 May 2014; BA Archaeology & Anthropology) 1939 William Marcel Brimicombe (1 July 2013; BA Modern & Medieval Languages) Thomas Lindsay Clark (date of death unknown; BA Mechanical Sciences) 1940 Derek Heseltine Barlow (18 May 2014; BA Mechanical Sciences) John Cloudsley-Thompson (4 October 2013; see obituary p 151) Michael Denis Jepson (7 December 2013; see obituary p 159) Kenneth Elmslie Munn (20 June 2013; see obituary p 164) 1941 Michael Francis Meredith Hardy (24 October 2013; BA Engineering) Patrick Malcolm Brogden Sutcliffe (31 January 2014; BA Agriculture/Estate Management; aide-de-camp to The Queen 1970–1975; awarded MBE 1966, CBE 1983) 1942 Arthur Norman Apthorp (2 November 2013; BA Mathematics/Natural Sciences/History; Archdeacon of the Country, Diocese of Perth 1966–72) William Hurst Leigh (January 2013; see obituary p 161) 1943 John Fergusson Burdett (10 December 2012; BA Mechanical Sciences) Henry Nelson Mills (date of death unknown; BA Natural Sciences) John Denis Milne (29 March 2013) Anthony Derek Spottiswoode (2 February 2014; BA Law; Partner Herbert Smith 1952–83; Priest 1987) 1944 Anthony Melland Gaskell (3 April 2013) 1945 Michael George Foster-Taylor (13 May 2013) Ian Robertson Lilburn (30 September 2013; BA Modern & Medieval Languages) 1946 Richard George Bennett (10 April 2014; BA Modern & Medieval Languages) William Norman Blyth (15 December 1985; BA English) Herbert John Fenton Taylor (2012; BA Moral Sciences) 1947 David William Couch (17 July 2013; BA Natural Sciences) Ian Michael Jaques Mair (22 January 2014; BA Natural Sciences) 1948 Patrick McLellan Forman (17 April 2014; BA History/English) Richard Alexander Lang (9 September 2013; see obituary p 160) Hamish McNaughton Henderson (19 October 2013; BA Classics) Anthony Stafford Rudkin (29 April 2014; BA Economics/History) John Pieter Voltelin van der Byl (2 September 2013; BA Moral Sciences) 144 | pembroke college

1949 Brian Earnshaw (2014; BA English/History) Marcus Frederick Honywood English (19 December 2013; BA Estate Management) John James Putnam (23 December 2013; see obituary p 166) 1951 Malcolm David Taggart (2014; BA English) 1952 Robert Thornton Smith (11 February 2014; BA Mechanical Sciences) 1953 David Gerald Hepburn Beatt (18 June 2011; BA Natural Sciences) Neil McShane (4 June 2013; see obituary p 162) Frank Victor Scott (28 January 2013; BA Mechanical Sciences) Thomas Hindle Weeks (26 December 2013; BA Mathematics) 1954 Richard Penry Ambler (23 December 2013; see obituary p 147) Robin Crawford (2014; BA History/Theology) Jack Ronald Hall (20 January 2014; see obituary p 158) Christopher Leonard Kirch (24 May 2010; BA History) Edward Blake White-Atkins (18 January 2014; see obituary p 176) 1955 Alexander Daniel Holt-Wilson (7 May 2014; BA Natural Sciences, BChir, MB; awarded OBE in 2013 for raising standard of eye care in northern Ethiopia) 1956 Conrad Alexander Blyth (7 August 2012; see obituary p 148) Thomas Gabriel Rosenthal (3 January 2014; see obituary p 168) 1957 Ray Milton Dolby (12 September 2013; see obituary p 152) David Evans (23 October 2013; BA Mechanical Sciences) 1958 Edward Luke Stone (26 April 2013; BA History) Thomas Bowater Vernon (11 September 2013; see obituary p 175) 1960 Robert Meric Dymond (14 April 2014; BA Mathematics) John Johnstone (27 October 2013; BA Classics) Lewis Varley Luxton (11 December 2013; BA Law) 1961 Robert Victor Adkinson (16 December 2013; see obituary p 146) Nigel Ward Hayman (20 October 2013; BA Chemical Engineering) 1962 Charles William McElroy Pratt (23 November 2013; Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine at Pembroke 1962–87) Graham Stuart Brandon Street (17 September 2013; BA Natural Sciences; Fellow of Pembroke College 1968–1970) 1964 Ryszard Janusz Hamilton (12 July 2013; BA Modern & Medieval Languages) Richard James Stibbs (1 September 2013; see obituary p 172) 1965 Clive Vincent Thompson (16 May 2013; BA Modern & Medieval Languages) John Fridolin Winteler (July 22 2013; BA Law) 1966 John Bryant (22 May 2013; PhD Chemical Engineering) 1967 Martin Lawrence Stote (7 June 2014; see obituary p 174) 1969 Ernest Wilson Nicholson (22 December 2013; see obituary p 165) 1970 Martin Simon Davies (July 2013; BA English) Roy Henry Ivan Sean Fergus Kaulback (18 June 2013; BA Arch & Anth/Land Economy) Anthony Kevin McGuinness (2013; BA Classics) annual gazette | 145

Adrian Peter Caswall Rolt (6 April 2011; BA Law) 1971 Nathaniel Bumstead (20 April 2004; BA Natural Sciences) Kenneth Albert King (30 March 2014; BA English) 1972 David Wright (Summer 2013; BA Engineering) 1980 Howard Henry Erskine-Hill (26 February 2014; see obituary p 155) 1985 Glen Leroy Richards (August 2009; PhD History) 1988 Carol Helen Johnston (22 January 2012; BA Mathematics) 1991 John Christian Schmeidel (25 June 2013; see obituary p 170)

This Gazette also carries obituaries for Robert Roddick Ackrill Breare (p 149), Timothy James Doyle (p 153), and Robert Keith Middlemas (p 163). whose deaths were announced in previous editions of the Gazette. 146 | pembroke college

OBITUARIES

Robert Victor Adkinson 27 July 1943 – 16 December 2013 Obituary by Stephen Nash (1961) Robert (Bob) Adkinson was a publisher, with a reputation for brilliance as an editor of art books. For some 20 years he worked with Thames and Hudson, and edited many of their most successful volumes. Father of two daughters, Olivia and Sophie, and grandfather of three grandsons and one granddaughter, Robert remained devoted to family, despite matrimonial breakdown. Pembroke was the one institution for which he retained a life-long love. Bob and I first met in October 1961 when we both arrived at Pembroke, he to study English. Bob was born and raised in Macclesfield, the Cheshire mill town; there he had attended the 500-year old grammar school, the King’s School. He had completed his ‘O’-levels at 14 and ‘A’-levels at 16. When he won an Exhibition, he was still too young to go up to Pembroke, and so spent a gap year working in a hotel on the Scilly Isles. He was Bob to us at Cambridge, and only later in London did he become Robert. He would have been very aware of North/South differences, but was soon habituated to the ambience of Cambridge and later to NW6, NW5 and NW1. From Pembroke, small groups of us would be invited to go north for long week- ends in Macclesfield, where his mother, to whom he was devoted, looked after us. Bob was a most entertaining and engaging companion, who had a wide group of friends from different backgrounds, ranging from the raffish to the preppy. He liked to regale us with accounts of time spent with the fair sex. He tried his hand at student drama, and early on had a leading part in a Pembroke Players’ production of Pirandello’s ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’; then a lead role in a university production of Lorca’s ‘Blood Wedding’. From that early ‘60s era, I recall Bob as a great stylist, an aesthete. One aspect of this was his embracing of French culture. In Bob’s room on V staircase, one drank real black coffee, out of French railway bistro cups with saucers, often in the company of his friend Nicholas Fry who lived next door. The first cars we bought were inevitably Citroens: later I recall trips, jammed in the back of the On leaving Cambridge in 1964, Bob took a job in the English Faculty of the University of Liège, where he met Danielle, one of his students, whom he later married. From Liège, they moved to Paris where Bob had landed an editorial job with the French life-style magazine, Réalités. I remember visiting them in their small flat not far from the Eiffel Tower, when Olivia was a baby. Eventually, they returned to London, where Bob remained for the rest of his publishing career. He worked with the novelist Andrew Sinclair at Lorrimer, publishing classical film scripts. According to Sinclair, Robert had the most brilliant pictorial imagination, enabling him to ally pictures to text in a way that very few non-artists can do. annual gazette | 147

After an abortive business flirtation with Robert Maxwell and his publishing empire, Bob joined Thames and Hudson, as Commissioning Editor, and remained with them until his retirement. There his reputation for publishing excellence grew. T&H appreciated his keen eye, combined with an extremely cultured, well-educated and interested mind; and also his ability to turn an inadequate manuscript into a totally acceptable book. Not only did he commission books, but he often injected his own knowledge and rewrote chunks of them himself, although this was not apparent to the reader. George Plumptre, with whom he worked on ‘The Water Garden’, describes Robert’s talent for ‘pulling brilliant books out of the bag’. He was also responsible for whole series of successful T&H titles, such as ‘The Way we Live’, ‘The Most Beautiful Villages’, and latterly ‘Paintings in Proust’ and important volumes on Art Deco. Having decided that he would retire to the Dordogne, he duly purchased a house in Domme. The idea of Bob assuming a boulevardier life-style in his later years seemed entirely appropriate. Sadly this purchase never led to his actually moving to Domme, and a French sunset on his life was not to be. During his last few years, his health deteriorated with the onset of an incurable lung condition, and the ambit of his life became confined to NW1, where he developed a coterie of new friends. The last time I saw him, and already speaking with difficulty, he summoned up the energy to lecture me on the relative merits of Verdi’s operas! Bob/Robert was a person who lived an intense, highly-charged life, and who, in his professional career, achieved an unsurpassed degree of excellence. But what will be our abiding memory was his mischievous joie de vivre which made him an unforgettable friend, father and grandfather.

Richard Penry Ambler 26 May 1933 – 23 December 2013 Richard Ambler was an outstanding scientist who became a Professor of Protein Chemistry at Edinburgh University and specialised in studying the evolution of bacteria, thereby providing us with vital information about how bacteria might become resistant to antibiotics. Richard was born in Bexley Heath, Kent. When he was seven, he and his family moved to Kirkee, India, where his father had been appointed Chief Inspector of Military Explosives. After the war ended, Richard went to boarding school at Haileybury College. After having done National Service with the Signals Regiment, Richard won a Scholarship to Pembroke College in 1954 to study Natural Sciences. He then did a PhD in ‘Structural Studies in Bacterial Proteins’ and was made a Drapers’ Junior Research Fellow of Pembroke College in 1959. Having obtained his PhD in 1961, Richard undertook three years’ worth of postdoctoral research with Fred Sanger in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge. In 1965, Richard became a Lecturer at the new Department of Molecular Biology that Martin Pollock had been asked to set up at the University of Edinburgh. Richard 148 | pembroke college

eventually rose to become head of the department in 1984 and was awarded a personal chair in protein chemistry in 1987. Richard’s research career focussed on answering questions relating to the evolution of bacteria; one of the reasons why he was attracted to working with Martin Pollock was that Pollock was interested in determining the reasons for penicillin-resistance in bacteria. Much of the resistance is due to the production of an enzyme, penicillinase or lactamase, which destroys the antibiotic. This capacity to resist antibiotics was seen in diverse bacteria, and Richard asked whether this capacity had a common origin, or had evolved independently in the bacteria that manifested this capacity as a result of their being exposed to antibiotics. Using amino acid sequencing information to analyse bacteria, Richard determined in 1978 that the most common penicillinases had a common origin, while other enzymes had originated independently. Richard was able to use amino acid sequences and protein sequences in order to investigate the origins of chloroplasts, which conduct photosynthesis in plant and algae cells, and mitochondria in cells that make up plants and fungi and many other living things. He was able to trace links between the cytochromes and copper proteins in photosynthetic bacteria and the proteins in chloroplasts, and links between the sequences of cytochromes in some bacteria and those of mitochondria. These studies suggested that organisms evolved, not only through the mutation and selection of genomes, but also through the acquisition of genes that had evolved in separate organisms. This process of lateral gene transfer accounted for the ability of bacteria to resist antibiotics, as was shown by Richard’s studies of penicillinases. Richard met his first wife, Pat, when they were undergraduates at Cambridge. They married in 1957 and had two daughters, Anne and Jane. After their marriage broke up, in 1990 Richard met Sue Hewlett, with whom he had worked at Edinburgh in 1969. Sue’s younger two daughters from a previous marriage, Gemma and Nicola, effectively became Richard’s daughters, and Sue’s elder two daughters, Heidi and Juliet, became part of the family too. Sue died in 2003. He is survived by his daughters, and four grandchildren.

Conrad Alexander Blyth 12 July 1928 – 7 August 2012 Obituary by Dougal Blyth Conrad Blyth was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. At the University of Otago he was awarded an MA in Economics with First Class Honours and in 1953 came to Cambridge on a scholarship with his wife June. He took up a prize Fellowship at Pembroke in 1955. (Here began a lifelong friendship with Malcolm Lyons, now Pembroke’s most senior surviving Fellow.) Conrad received his PhD in 1957, and continued as a University Lecturer and Fellow until 1960. Following the publication of his first book he returned with his wife and two children to New Zealand for five years as the founding Director of the NZ Institute of Economic Research in Wellington, where June and he had their third child. annual gazette | 149

After a Professorial Fellowship at the Australian National University in Canberra (1965–8), and four years in London as Deputy Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Conrad returned again with the family to New Zealand in 1972. There he held a Chair in Economics at the University of Auckland until his retirement in 1993 and served two long stretches as Head of Department, as well as on many university committees, including the University Council; during this period Conrad was appointed as the NZ envoy to a Commonwealth inter-governmental economics forum, and he spent the years 1978–82 on secondment as Director of Social Affairs and Industrial Relations at the OECD in Paris. Pembroke College welcomed him back as a visiting scholar for much of 1988, and during this stay the first of Conrad’s grandchildren was brought to Cambridge from New Zealand to meet him and June. After his retirement he continued to teach, publish and consult for several years, but further grandchildren and other family matters began to occupy more of his attention, along with his continuing interest in rugby and cricket, current affairs, wine and fine food, the beach, modern history, short stories, theatre and classical music. Conrad’s particular fields were the economics of public policy, international economics and the international economy (in particular business cycles), and the economic development of the South Pacific and New Zealand. He published over a hundred books and articles. He was a major contributor to the Ross review of taxation in New Zealand in the late 1960s, and in 1969 published American Business Cycles 1945–50, and in 1977 Inflation in New Zealand, and later in his career much work on government expenditure in New Guinea. Conrad’s New Zealand students included several subsequent Cambridge PhDs in Economics (including one who later married his son), a Minister of Finance for the New Zealand Government, a Governor of the New Zealand Reserve Bank, an Acting Vice-Chancellor and a Chancellor of the University of Auckland, the latter also Chairman of the Board of one of Australasia’s larger companies. His wife June died shortly after him and they are survived by the three children and six grandchildren.

Robert Roddick Ackrill Breare 18 March 1953 – 12 July 2013 Robert Breare was a remarkable British businessman, who was involved in 100 or so companies, specialising in the areas of hospitality and entertainment. Robert was educated at Eton, and came to Pembroke in 1972 to study Law, becoming Boat Club Captain in 1975 and obtaining a Blue in rowing in 1976 (a year when Oxford won the Boat Race). On graduating, he went to work for his family’s newspaper group, R Ackrill. Robert’s father resisted Robert’s plans to expand the business, and eventually – when Robert’s father retired – Robert sold the business in 1983 to United News & Media, the owners of the Yorkshire Post, for £5m. Robert invested the money in the Westminster Press newspaper group, selling the business three years later to Emap for £18m. 150 | pembroke college

Robert then became, in 1987, the chief executive of Parkdale, a Leeds-based commercial property developer. Robert had Parkdale acquire a portfolio of hotels, golf courses, and country clubs. This increased Parkdale’s profits from £1m to £8m and in 1989, he agreed a takeover of Parkdale by Pavilion Leisure. Robert moved on to found Arcadian in 1990, a hotels business which came to own the Malmaison chain, the Great Eastern Hotel, a dozen historic hotels, and three resorts in Europe. However, Arcadian had rocky beginnings: within a few months of the company being created, the UK went through a major recession and Robert ‘went from a house in Chelsea and a Ferrari Testarossa to a leased apartment in Clapham and a share of an old Golf.’ However, Robert weathered the storm and turned Arcadian into a company that he would sell in 1998 for £100m. Robert then founded the Noble House Group. Robert’s vision was to use this Group to create a chain of pubs and restaurants that would ‘sing and dance’ through strong control over their approach to food provision, branding, décor, and atmosphere. With that in mind, Robert announced his intention to make a £470m bid for Wolverhampton & Dudley, Britain’s regional brewer, having already bought Oriental Restaurants – the company behind the Yellow River Café chain – for £14.4m, and having expressed an interest in acquiring the 3,000 pubs, valued at £1.5bn, being auctioned off by Whitbread. The family managers of Wolverhampton & Dudley resisted Robert’s approach as ‘all froth and no Breare’ and a firm bid for Wolverhampton & Dudley never materialised, as Robert wasted time making more and more, and more and more bizarre, requests for information (such as for the firm’s laundry bills, and a breakdown of the types of whisky sold). Wolverhampton & Dudley’s shareholders, fed up with Robert’s prevarications, voted to remain independent and Robert was labelled ‘Britain’s most shambolic corporate raider’. Robert moved on to run the Scotsman Hotels group, and helped to turn that group around; but he had a less happy experience with Merchant Inns, a boutique hotel operator that he founded with Sir John Ritblatt but was fired from in August 2009. Robert would, however, enjoy one last – through truncated – hurrah with Snoozebox, a company which was set up to provide ‘pop up’ hotels for special events. The hotels consisted of stackable shipping containers that had been converted into en suite bedrooms complete with air-conditioning, television and free wi-fi. The idea for Snoozebox had come to Robert when attending the 24 Hours race at Le Mans, facing a 20 minute walk to stand in a 20 minute queue to visit a filthy lavatory at 3 am. ‘There’s got to be a better way,’ was his thought. The first event covered by Snoozebox was the 2012 Grand Prix – with Snoozebox providing a 40 room hotel for people attending the event – and Snoozebox was subsequently floated on the stock exchange for £20.5m. However, difficulties with a contract to provide portable hotels for the 2012 Olympics resulted in a loss of £4.4m and Robert’s resignation from the company. Robert’s idea was, however, a great one and Snoozebox reported much better results the following year, and provided a pop-up hotel at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. Robert was married three times, and is survived by his four sons. annual gazette | 151

John Cloudsley-Thompson 23 May 1921 – 4 October 2013 John Cloudsley-Thompson was one of the leading natural historians of our time, specialising in the study of wildlife in desert areas. John was born in India but his family soon moved back to the UK, and he was educated at Marlborough. He went to Pembroke College in 1940 to study Natural Sciences, but after the evacuation of British forces from the continental mainland in June 1940, he decided that he had to make some contribution to the British war effort. Too young to join the army, he volunteered for farm work until, a few months later, he was old enough for armed service, and was put into a tank regiment, the 7th armoured division. In October 1941, John arrived in Egypt and immediately saw action in the desert. It was here, in North Africa, that his lifelong interest in desert wildlife began. He bought a baby desert fox from the locals and he and his crew completely tamed it, and one day saved its life when it strayed into the engine compartment of the tank, at the cost of holding up an entire squadron while they searched for it. John’s tank was involved in the Battle of Gazala against Rommel’s forces around Tobruk in Libya. John’s leg was seriously injured in the battle and he was invalided home. He spent 1943 helping to train soldiers at Sandhurst, but he then convinced the authorities that he was healthy enough to take part in the D-Day landings. He was assigned a tank, which landed at Bayeux, but was then destroyed in action at Villers-Bocage. John and his tank crew managed to escape and took part in the Caen offensive in another tank. John returned to the UK in November 1944, and resumed his studies at Pembroke, obtaining a BA in Natural Sciences in 1946, and a PhD in Entomology in 1950. He then took up a Lectureship in Zoology at Kings College London, before getting the chance in 1960 to return to the desert as Professor of Zoology at Khartoum University in Sudan. He was to stay there for 11 years, undertaking expeditions into the desert and laying the groundwork for the over 50 books that he would subsequently produce on The Diversity of Desert Life, Spiders and Scorpions, The Desert, Sahara Desert, Insects and History, and Camels. John became Professor of Zoology at Birkbeck College, London, from 1972–86. He continued to publish prolifically, on Biological Clocks, Microecology, Rhythmic Activity in Animal Physiology and Behaviour, The Temperature and Water Relations of Reptiles, and The Diversity of Amphibians and Reptiles. His last major book on biology was written when he was 84, in 2005: Ecology and Behaviour of Mesozoic Reptiles. John’s achievements were recognised with the Peter Scott Memorial Award (given to him by the British Naturalists’ Association in 1993), the Royal African Society Medal, the JH Grundy Memorial Medal, a festschrift for his 80th birthday (Ecology of Desert Environments, edited by Ishwar Prakash), a special edition of Euscorpius (on scorpion research) for John’s 90th birthday, an Hon DSc from Khartoum University, and visiting Professorships and Fellowships all over the 152 | pembroke college

world. He was President of the British Arachnological Society (1982–85), the British Society for Chronobiology (1985–87), and the British Herpetological Society (1991–96). John’s wife, Anne, whom he married during the war, died in 2012. He is survived by their three sons, Hugh, Tim, and Peter.

Ray Milton Dolby 18 January 1933 – 12 September 2013 Ray Dolby was a genius, whose inventions transformed the enjoyment of music and cinema lovers from the 1970s onwards. Ray was born in Portland, Oregon, and from an early age showed a fascination with sound, studying the vibrations of his clarinet reeds as a child. His mechanical talent was spotted early on, when Alex Poniatoff, the founder of the video and audio recording firm Ampex, visited Ray’s school and Ray – at that point, 16 years old – volunteered to act as projectionist for a talk that Poniatoff was giving and showed Poniatoff a camera rig he had put together. Poniatoff invited Ray to work for him at Ampex, and Ray (who was far ahead in his studies at school) subsequently spent half his time at Ampex, filing his first patent at the age of 19. Ray went to Stanford University to study Electrical Engineering, graduating in 1957. He then obtained a Marshall Scholarship which allowed him to come to Pembroke College to do a PhD on long wavelength X-rays. In 1960, Ray was elected a Fellow of the College as the Drapers’ Senior Research Student – the first American ever to be made a Fellow of Pembroke College. Ray was made the Drapers’ Research Fellow after receiving his PhD in 1961. In 1962, while he was at Cambridge, Ray met his future wife, Dagmar Bäumert, a summer student from Germany. They were reunited in India, where – after having left Pembroke in March 1963 – Ray worked for two years for Unesco as a scientific adviser. While he was in India, Ray used his spare time to record Indian musicians, and he set up his own home studio. On returning to the UK in 1965 with Dagmar, Ray set up Dolby Laboratories, a company based in London. Dolby Laboratories’ first invention was the Dolby A- 301 professional noise reduction unit. This built on an idea Ray had had in India as to how to deal with the then persistent problem of tape hiss on pre-recorded cassette tapes. His idea arose out of the fact that the problem of tape hiss was particularly severe at points when the music on the tape was particularly quiet, or of low frequency: at those times the background tape hiss, which was also at low frequency, would be particularly noticeable. Ray’s idea was to invent a machine that boosted the strength of low frequency signals as they were recorded onto tape, and which then reduced the strength of those signals when the tape was played back. Doing this meant that when the tape was played back, low frequency notes that had been recorded onto the tape were heard perfectly normally, but the low frequency tape hiss was substantially reduced on playback. The Dolby A-301 annual gazette | 153 machine was a great success: the machines were initially sold to Decca for use in all their recording studios (and were first used in 1966 on a recording of Mozart’s Piano Concertos 8 and 9 by Vladimir Ashkenazy), and quickly became an industry standard. Dolby Laboratories followed up the success of the Dolby A noise reduction system by introducing in 1968 the Dolby B system, which was intended for use in home recording systems. Over time, Dolby Laboratories would produce further, and better, noise reduction systems such as Dolby C (1980), Dolby SR (1986), and Dolby S (1989). All these innovations came after Dolby Laboratories relocated to California in 1976. The shift was not prompted by a desire to get involved with Hollywood, but rather Ray’s desire to give his first child the kind of upbringing he had enjoyed. However, Dolby Laboratories’ focus did soon shift to working on revolutionising the use of sound in cinema. By the mid-70s, Dolby Laboratories had developed Dolby Stereo, which allowed a film encoded in Dolby Stereo to carry sound in four channels – left, right, centre, and surround for speakers at the sides and back of a cinema for ambient sound and special effects. The system was first used on the 1976 remake, A Star is Born, but the real breakthrough came the next year when cinemagoers were amazed by the quality of the immersive sound experience afforded by watching Star Wars and Close Encounters of Third Kind – both films made with Dolby Stereo technology. Further innovations soon followed: Dolby Surround (1982) (for use on home video systems), Dolby Digital (1992) (the film industry successor to Dolby Stereo), Dolby Digital Live (2005) (for video games), and Dolby Atmos (2012) (which allows for a film to carry 128 discrete audio tracks, and up to 64 unique speaker feeds). Ray Dolby’s achievements were marked with an OBE in 1987, two Academy Awards in 1979 and 1989 for his ‘contribution to motion picture sound’, an Emmy in 1989 and a special lifetime achievement award at the 2003 Emmys, a US Medal of Technology in 1997, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2014. By the time of Ray’s death, he held more than 50 American patents. Ray and his wife Dagmar were noted philanthropists, particularly in the field of scientific research and health care. Ray is survived by his wife Dagmar, their two sons, Tom and David, and four grandchildren.

Timothy James Doyle 1931 – 3 August 2011 Obituary by Judith Doyle Knowledge of commercial law and many years’ experience as a member of the London Stock Exchange were pivotal when Timothy Doyle worked in the New Zealand Department of Justice (Commercial Affairs) towards establishing the New Zealand Securities Act 1978. He later worked for the New Zealand Securities Commission, an independent crown entity — the main regulator of investments — which was established in 1979. In May this year, 33 years on, the commission was replaced 154 | pembroke college

by the Financial Markets Authority, which still operates on the basic principles worked out in those early years. Born in Poole in Dorset (‘delivered by my grandfather,’ he liked to relate), his family moved frequently, as his father was a Colonel in the British Army (Royal Engineers). During World War II, then living in London, his parents decided that the family should move out of the path of German bombers, so the young boy was delighted to leave his much-disliked prep school and attend a village school in Hope Cove, a picturesque coastal village in Devonshire. He revelled in it. But disaster! His prep school was evacuated to the selfsame village, so back to stern discipline and strict regulations he had to go. Secondary education was at Charterhouse School in Godalming, Surrey, where he especially enjoyed music and history. His aptitude for maths led to a less respectable activity as the school’s bookie. (He later lived not far from Epsom Downs Racecourse in Surrey. Here he would rush from bookie to bookie to get the best odds at the Epsom Derby, the Oaks or some other race meeting). It was at Charterhouse, too, that he discovered a talent for chess which he later played by correspondence against opponents in different parts of the world. He was New Zealand Correspondence Chess Association champion in 1999 and has passed on an aptitude for chess to his elder son. Tim attended Pembroke College where he graduated in Economics and Law. He was a member of the London Stock Exchange from 1958 until 1974 when he emigrated to New Zealand with his three children and Kiwi wife. They settled in Roseneath, Wellington. He joined the New Zealand Justice Department (Commercial Affairs) in 1976 when the antiquated Companies Act of 1955 was being adapted and updated to current needs. (In the absence of substantial securities laws, New Zealand had seen the collapse of some major companies that had acquired funds from the public). As a research officer in Commercial Affairs, he took a prominent role in establishing New Zealand’s first Securities Act, consulting with lawyers, accountants, sharebrokers and parliamentary law draftsmen in the process. The key statement in the Bill was that ‘No security shall be offered to the public for subscription unless the offer is made in or accompanied by a prospectus.’ Establishing a commission was seen as vital to achieving this end. Finally, despite opposition from Treasury, the Reserve Bank, Cabinet and the Prime Minister (Rt Hon. Robert Muldoon at that time), a commission was approved because nearly all of the many public submissions wanted one. From 1978–1987, Tim was Director of Research in the Securities Commission, the last two years on secondment to National Companies and Securities Commission in Melbourne. On his return to New Zealand, he became manager Corporate Trust Services, Bank of New Zealand, for four years, and later Chairman of the Unit Trust Association of New Zealand. After retirement, he pursued his lifelong interests in music (especially opera) and history. European travels with Tim were always enlivened by an account of the goings-on of royalty or heads of state, in whatever country he was in at the time. He revelled in opera tours round Europe and opera music flooded his home much of the time. His dry wit and ability to remember poetry, proverbs and historical annual gazette | 155 facts were legendary amongst his family and friends. Told that his first grandchild was to be called Jarvis, he sat back, puffed on his pipe for a while, and said, ‘Mmm, HMS Jervis. Hit by torpedo during the war, off Gibraltar, I think.’ After much ill-health in the last few years, he died peacefully of a heart attack at Mary Potter Hospice, Newtown, leaving his wife, two sons and one daughter.

Howard Henry Erskine-Hill 19 June 1936 – 26 February 2014 Obituary by Brian Watchorn (1965 Howard was a Yorkshire-man by origin, born in Wakefield. His mother stemmed from the well-known Poppleton family of worsted spinners and knitters in the nearby mill town of Horbury where Howard grew up with his cousin John. Horbury is perhaps best known as the place where Sabine Baring-Gould was curate in the 1860s and wrote for the Sunday School procession the hymn ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’. Not quite Howard’s taste in hymnody, militant though he could be. Howard’s father, Henry Erskine-Hill, was Scottish, an architect who came close to designing a new Episcopal cathedral for Aberdeen but was pipped at the post by Ninian Comper. There was a strong Anglican tradition in the Erskine-Hill family; Howard’s grandfather became first Provost of what was to become Aberdeen Cathedral and his great uncle was Vicar of Horbury and Canon of Wakefield. Secondary schooling was however at a Methodist boarding school, Ashville College in Harrogate, where Howard came to know the hymns of Charles Wesley which he greatly admired. The standard of teaching there he did not admire except for one inspirational master: the teacher of English. And so it was that, exempt from National Service on account of his asthma, Howard read English with Philosophy at Nottingham University, graduating BA (1957), then PhD (1961) with a dissertation entitled Tradition and Affinity in the Poetry of Pope. Thus the die was cast. During the Second War Howard’s father served as an army officer but thereafter the marriage fell apart. He was to remarry and have two children, Stephen and Diana, whom Howard eventually discovered and got to know. After the death of Stephen Howard particularly developed a strong bond with his half- sister, though she was profoundly deaf, and they went walking together in the north, following up family traces and places. In a poem called ‘Family Affairs’, Howard recorded how ‘Strange to meet half-brother and half-sister,/ And through them see again my errant Dad./ With my mother in the USA/ When news of my Dad’s death finally came through;/ My mother who at least never walked out on me,/ I would not leave alone in the USA’. His father died in 1989; the poem is dated October 2013 – a long time for grieving. Howard was immensely protective of his mother who had been left in difficult circumstances such that from his student grant he sent her 10 shillings each week, a notable sum. She came to live with Howard in Chesterton Road and died 156 | pembroke college

in 1991, and it is in her grave at Fen Ditton that Howard was buried after the Requiem Mass at the RC Chaplaincy, Fisher House. The loss of his mother was partly filled by Diana, herself a published poet, who to his grief in turn developed cancer and died in Dun Laoghaire only last November, just as Howard was himself losing his bearings. In his latter fantasies he spoke much of his mother. And friends have detected, despite much hospitality and camaraderie, a depth of loneliness through his life that is not unknown in the single man. After Nottingham Howard held posts at Swansea University for some nine years before being appointed Lecturer in English in Cambridge in 1969 and Fellow of Jesus College. Disagreement there led to deep unhappiness which prompted Professor Ian Jack to attract him to a Fellowship at Pembroke in 1980. Howard could himself be prickly, for at heart he was a man of deep principle. As a student and young lecturer he demonstrated on the Left (a photograph at home visible on the sideboard shows him proudly wearing his CND badge) whilst at Cambridge he ended up supporting the Right: first the Tories, then an annual subscription to UKIP out of his ardent antagonism to the European enterprise. He was also passionate in opposing fashionable thinking, notably taking a prime part in rousing opposition to the award of a Cambridge Honorary Degree to Jacques Derrida, the deconstructionist, in 1992. What an excitement that was, but for Howard something deeply important was at stake not only for academia but for human flourishing. As he put it in a subsequent account of the affair in the Cambridge Review: ‘Not only education and research, but the practical conduct of everyday life, depend on the notions of probability and truth. No truth, no tenure, one reporter wrote satirically, to which I answer: no truth, no thought.’ Howard was promoted Reader in Literary History in 1984, then Professor in 1994 until retirement in 2003. He had been elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1985. In retirement he and I came to share the Emeritus Fellows study in Pembroke, so were frequently together as friends as well as colleagues. But soon after I had become Dean and Chaplain of Pembroke in 1982, Howard had started to appear at Sunday Evensong in Chapel. He was quietly leaving the atheism of his more radical days and finding a home in the Book of Common Prayer. He discovered our Friday Evensong was sung to plainchant and gradually got the hang of it, unaccompanied as it was. He regularly read the First Lesson from the Old Testament of the King James Bible, often quizzing me before and after; if asked to read the New Testament he often came close to tears. Howard was never one to do things by halves. Having come to faith in the Church of England and unhappy at the ordination of women as priests, he was received into the Roman Catholic Church. Fisher House became a spiritual home which of course he took seriously, dutiful at Sunday Mass, going on retreat, joining a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, helping to organise a fortnightly poetry reading group with Sister Anna Mary, and forging a deep friendship with Father Alban the then chaplain, who spoke movingly at the Requiem on Howard’s favourite text, John 21. Howard did not however leave his College Chapel behind. The rich beauty of Evensong still nourished him, Fridays and Sundays, which were followed by the companionship and nourishment of High Table. annual gazette | 157

Howard was himself hospitable. Many of us have doubtless shared his table at Chesterton Road, cleared of books and scholarly papers tumbling to the floor, or at his London club. In his will he made provision at any Memorial Service not only for ‘good music’ from choir and organ but for ‘good refreshments afterwards for those present: good wine, good food, good tea (Lapsang Souchong; Darjeeling)’. Glasses were duly raised in the Old Library in his memory. There were also bibulous occasions in College, especially around 30th January, the feast of Charles king and martyr, when Howard’s Jacobite passions came to the fore. His favouring the Stuarts chimed of course with his literary interests and Scottish background, but sceptics like myself and our organ scholars were readily persuaded to stumble along in the late-night singing of ‘When the king enjoys his own again’. The seriousness of this interest is evidenced also by the considerable collection of Jacobite prints, portraits and coins that he collected with the advice of his friend and executor Richard Sharp. These frames however had to compete for space at home with Howard’s wider interest in art which included modern work and led to his friend Professor Monica Partridge bequeathing her substantial collection to Pembroke, though Nottingham University was her own background. Howard’s love of paintings, which led to the creation of the College’s Fine Arts Committee, will be continued, we hope, with any donations made in his memory. Howard was admitted to hospital on December 1 2013 thanks to the vigilance of friends and neighbours, suffering from jaundice. Alas, his liver was beyond repair and a subsequent fall in hospital meant that he would not walk again. His mind became very confused, though not without laughs. Howard remained the gentleman in his sickness, always concerned to offer a cup of tea to the band of faithful visitors to his Care Home, and though wasting away retaining that gentle smile. He slipped quietly away in the morning of 26 February, having previously received anointing. Howard’s prodigious scholarship is spoken of elsewhere. Also his deep affection for his students; his little volume on Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels has the rare dedication: ‘To my undergraduate pupils at Cambridge.’ But this most importantly was also a Christian soul. His will opens: ‘I commend my soul to God and my body to the grave looking for that resurrection which is spoken of in the Christian creeds.’ And it is to that rich band of Christian souls in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the wide range of topics on which Howard lectured, that I turn for a final picture. Not Mr Honest or Mr Standfast or Mr Greatheart, fitting as they might be, but Mr Valiant-for-Truth, who finally, at the river’s brink, called for his friends and said: ‘I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I have got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who will now be my rewarder…’ So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side. 158 | pembroke college

Jack Ronald Hall 28 July 1934 – 20 January 2014 Jack (‘Ron’) Hall virtually invented the art of investigative journalism in the UK as one of the three founding members of the Insight team on the Sunday Times. Ron was born in Sheffield, and educated at the local grammar school, Dronfield, where he met his future wife, Ruth: he was the head boy and she was the head girl. He studied mathematics and economics at Pembroke College from 1954–57. On graduating, he got a job as a journalist at the Glasgow Herald, subsequently moving to the Daily Mirror, where he was responsible for running the ‘Old Codgers’ letters column. In 1962, Ron – together with Jeremy Wallington and Clive Irving – was recruited by Michael Heseltine, at that point an ambitious young publisher, to run a weekly news magazine called Topic, which would analyse the key events in the news that week in depth. Topic was a commercial failure, but won the admiration of many in Fleet Street, including Denis Hamilton, the then editor of The Sunday Times. When Topic closed, Hamilton approached Clive Irving, Topic’s editor, and suggested that he work for The Sunday Times, providing detailed analysis of stories in the news. Irving agreed, but only on the condition that Ron and Jeremy Wallington came with him. The three members of what became known as the Insight team arrived just as the Profumo scandal broke. Covering that story gave the Insight team the chance to hone their style, pulling a complex story into a coherent and sensational narrative, usually beginning with a dramatic account of some incident that would play a key part in the story. But the Insight team really made its name with a story written by Ron, about Peter Rachman, the corrupt slum landlord who would routinely harass his tenants in order to get them to move out so that he could sell his properties to more lucrative clients. ‘Rachmanism’ and ‘Rachmanite’ – terms coined by Ron – entered the English language. The following year, Ron became editor of Insight. His team went on to cover a huge number of important stories, including the Philby spy scandal and the thalidomide tragedy, while the Insight style of investigative journalism was copied worldwide, including by the Washington Post, which broke the story of the Watergate scandal. In 1963, Ron (with Clive Ivring) published an account of the Profumo affair, in Scandal 63. Rod followed this in 1970, with The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst (co-authored with Nicholas Tomalin), about a story first broken by Insight, about Crowhurst’s faking his voyage around the globe in a round-the-world race. Ron’s days at The Sunday Times were numbered as soon as Rupert Murdoch acquired The Times and The Sunday Times in 1981. Harold Evans, the then editor of The Sunday Times, moved to become editor of The Times. The two principal candidates to become editor of The Sunday Times were Ron, who was by then editor of The Sunday Times magazine, and Hugo Young, The Sunday Times’ leader writer and political columnist. Murdoch appointed Frank Giles, the foreign editor, as annual gazette | 159 interim editor and Ron and Hugo Young as his deputies, in order to see who would be more aggressive in trying to elbow their way into the top job. However, neither showed any taste for the fight that Murdoch wanted them to have, and Murdoch had Ron fired and Hugo Young demoted. Ron went on to edit the Sunday Express magazine, but when the Express group was acquired by United Newspapers in 1984, he was summarily dismissed by David Stevens, the chairman of United Newspapers. In 1986, he became associated editor of the London Daily News, which was intended to rival the Evening Standard, but decisively lost the ensuing circulation war. Ron then worked as a consultant editor for Scotland on Sunday, before being invited by Clive Irving to become the London editor on Condé Nast’s Traveler magazine, which enjoyed a huge amount of acclaim under Ron’s leadership, particularly for its 13,000 word report on 50 Greek islands, which sold out all over the world. In 1981, Ron’s first wife Ruth died at the age of 48. Ron subsequently re- married twice, in 1982 to Christine Walker, his secretary at The Sunday Times, and in 2008, to Pat Glossop, a research editor on Traveler. In 2004, Ron was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, which subsequently developed into the much more serious Parkinson’s with Lewy bodies. He had no children.

Michael Denis Jepson 28 April 1921 – 7 December 2013 Obituary by Rowland Jepson Michael was born in 1921, the second son of Rowland Walter and Margaret Jepson, in South London. As a boy, he went to Mercers’ School, where his father was Headmaster. Michael went on from Mercers’ to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1940, to read Engineering. Due to the war, he completed his degree in two years. He rowed in the University Pairs in 1942, the oar from which hangs at Ffynnonau, between the Cambridge oars of his father and his elder son (who was also at Pembroke). By October 1942, Michael was in the Navy: he served as an Engineering Officer on the London, the Scylla and the Milne, in the Arctic convoys, and was on the Scylla for the D-Day landings and later for the landing in Salerno. Michael was able to announce in 2013 that he had finally been awarded the Arctic Star, although he was sorry that so many of his colleagues had not lived long enough to receive their recognition. Michael met Ursula when home on leave: she was sharing a flat in London with his sister Anne – Anne was going out on a date and told her brother to take Ursula out. He and Ursula were married in March 1948 in Brecon, and they lived in Manchester, where Ursula taught, and Michael worked for Metro-Vicks. From there, they moved to Northumberland, where Michael designed marine gas turbines. In 1953, they moved again, to Ilkley, where Michael worked for Spooner Industries, designing paper-making machines. In 1965, the family (with 4 children now) moved to Kent, and three years later to Newport, while Michael 160 | pembroke college

worked for Black Clawson International as their Managing Director. His main hobby through these years was sailing. In 1971, the family moved to Ffynnonau, Brecon, Ursula’s childhood home, and did not move again. After a year of commuting to Newport, Michael left engineering and started farming on the small family farm surrounding Ffynnonau. He farmed for 10 years, and then ‘retired’. However, ‘retirement’ for him consisted of doing many new jobs! He served as a Governor of Christ College, Brecon, he worked with a company building wind generators, as a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, he lectured part-time at Bath University, acted as a consultant, and as an expert witness in an industrial ‘spying’ case, he served twice as president of the Old Mercers’ Club, creating the Mercers’ School Memorial Trust and the Memorial Professorship of Commerce at Gresham College, he ran the appeal to strengthen the tower of Brecon Cathedral and install new bells, raising over one million pounds, for which he was awarded the OBE. At home, he designed and built a band saw and planted many acres of woodland, and at his local church he installed heating and built the lych-gate. His abiding interests were the sea, Mercers and Pembroke, correct English, his family and Ffynnonau.

Richard Alexander Lang 10 November 1925 – 9 September 2013 Obituary by Howard Bowser (1948) Richard was born in Abatabad, India – the only child of a serving British Officer. At an early age he was shipped back to England into the care of his grandmothers. Prep school was St Alban’s, Rottingdean, followed by Radley College where he won a scholarship to Pembroke, but first he had war service. He served in the Royal Artillery. He was stationed in Austria where he went on a Russian Interpreter’s course. When he came up to Pembroke (1948) that language together with Latin became the subject of his Tripos, in which he gained Honours in 1950. His first teaching post was at Ardvreck, a boy’s Prep school near Perth. Here he met Helen, a junior matron. They fell in love, married in August 1954, and had a family. Their marriage lasted a happy 56 years. His second and final post was at the curiously named Old Malthouse, Langton Matravers, where they were houseparents for a while before moving to nearby Swanage. Our lifelong friendship began in Hall, and grew despite or perhaps because of a huge difference in temperament. Neither of us was athletic but Richard was great on a bike and we had cycling holidays together in France, Scotland and England and we went skiing in Austria. I was his Best Man at his wedding in Dundee and celebrated in person both his Silver and Golden Weddings. And we were Godfathers to our respective firstborns. annual gazette | 161

Careful, deliberate, patient and kind, his daughter Fiona said he had 3 loves; his wife and family, Scotland and his pupils. He was an ideal teacher for boys at what Lord Baden Powell described as the red-hot stage of enthusiasm. I would add a fourth love: for most of his life he and Helen always seemed to have a couple of dogs at their heels! Above all he was a true gentleman and as a staunch Christian he served for a while as Churchwarden at his village church. Sadly his last few years were clouded. Without his beloved Helen who had gone before him, he died peacefully in his sleep in his care home in Swanage. He was my best and lifelong friend and I shall miss him a great deal. He leaves a son, two daughters and six grandchildren.

William Hurst Leigh 10 January 1924 – 26 January 2014 Obituary by Hannah Kent William (‘Bill’) was born in Marton, Blackpool, and attended Blackpool Grammar School from his 10th birthday. In 1942, Bill was awarded a scholarship to Pembroke where he read English. After one year, he was called up into the army, eventually earning a commission. Active service in Holland and Germany included the Rhine crossings. Bill was in Hamburg on VE Day and never overcame his shock at the damage that had been done to that city and its people. Although he never spoke of the more harrowing aspects of his wartime service, he considered being involved in World War II as one of the most formative experiences of his life. In Cambridge, Bill had met a Classics undergraduate from evacuated Bedford College. Audrey came from Chipping in Lancashire, less than 30 miles from Bill’s home town, and they had many things in common, not least their shared sense of humour. Bill married Audrey in 1945 during a few days of unexpected leave. After demobilisation in 1946, Bill returned immediately to Pembroke and took his degree in 1947. The following year, Bill and Audrey’s first daughter, Hannah, was born, and Bill completed a third year at Pembroke. He gained a Diploma in Education in 1949. Bill subsequently taught English at Preston Grammar School for five years, during which his second child, Peter, was born. In 1954 he became second English Master at Wigan Grammar School, and then head of English at Kingswood Grammar School on the outskirts of Bristol in 1960. His and Audrey’s third child, Judith, was born the following year. Bill continued teaching at Kingswood (subsequently renamed Kingsfield School) until his retirement in 1983 – his preference for teaching over administration meant that he did not go down the route to becoming a headmaster, though he did, however, serve on examining boards and the Schools Council, as well as being involved in BATE, the Bristol Association for the Teaching of English. Retirement freed Bill for a range of new activities. As a member of The Mayor’s Corps of Honorary Guides in Bath, he developed specialised walking tours. He also became involved with the Building of Bath organisation, and the University 162 | pembroke college

of the Third Age where he enjoyed being in a choir and organised architectural walks in local towns. He was also a committed and regular participant in the French Circle, and the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution. Despite the physical limitations of old age, Bill kept a lively mind to the last, continuing to buy new books that provided a stimulus both for him, his wife Audrey, and anyone who visited him.

Neil McShane 11 June 1935 – 4 June 2013 Obituary by Rupert McShane (1981) and Loder Bevington (1953) If ever there was a man of many parts, it was Neil McShane. He was a charismatic, generous and enthusiastic man whose love of company and parties, honed at Pembroke, never left him. Horses framed his life. His father owned racehorses, and Neil became a much lauded point to point jockey, winning the undergraduate race at Cottenham before going on to win the Essex four mile open four times on ‘Adagio’ – who clearly was anything but, being nicknamed ‘Adago’. Educated at Sedburgh, he read medicine, but had a more productive relationship with the double bass than with his textbooks. Had the late hours of the University jazz club not so effectively precluded his attendance at physiology lectures, he would perhaps have made a good surgeon. He played 1st XV Rugby and followed the national teams all his life. Neil treasured his memories of his national service in the Royal Marines: Malta, playing polo, leading his men. He was deeply honoured to represent the regiment at Churchill’s funeral. His career in retail was set following a chance meeting with an attractive member of a supermarket dynasty. His direct experience in store management, and then consultancy, put him in good stead when he decided to move into the City where he brought several companies to the market before becoming an analyst in the retail sector for several stockbroking firms. His enthusiasm led him into unexpected projects. He spent several years helping bring to fruition John Morrison’s (Wolfson) vision of how Greek oared warships should work. The trireme was built by the Greek navy, then powered by British and American undergraduates around Pireaus and the Thames: living archaeology par excellence. He enjoyed order and tradition. Once the family started, he moved back to his and Caroline’s origins in north Essex, where he became an announcer at point to points. In retirement, Neil collated and wrote what is now the definitive account of the many unique hunt buttons, which are awarded by the Master of a hunt to its loyal servants. He was church warden and guide at Dedham church, steward at the Munnings museum, and Grand Master and subsequently Almoner of the Middlesex Lodge. He was, above all, loyal. Friends he made at Pembroke lasted a lifetime, and he loved holidays – sailing with Murray Fox, fly fishing with Ronald Brown, moving water buffalo up the Orinoco with Nick Wykes. Many came to his and Caroline’s annual gazette | 163 golden wedding party – to celebrate a marriage that had endured through thick and thin, including the loss of their daughter Lucy. He leaves Caroline, two sons (Rupert and Rory), and seven grandchildren.

Robert Keith Middlemas 26 May 1935 – 10 July 2013 Robert (‘Keith’) Middlemas was a leading historian of modern British society and a prominent public intellectual. Keith was born in Alnwick, Northunberland, and was educated at Stowe School. He went from school straight into doing National Service in the Northumberland Fusiliers, where he saw active service in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising. He then went to Pembroke in 1955 to study History. His age, experiences and academic ability (he obtained a First in History) gave him a distinction that his contemporaries could not pretend to, and which Keith enjoyed. The then Master, SC Roberts, remarked, ‘I never know if I quite live up to his expectations of me.’ Keith also met his future wife, Sue Tremlett, in Cambridge, in the Soup Kitchen in Petty Cury, where she was working as manageress. (He also came across Sylvia Plath, whom he helped after she fell off her bike.) After graduating in 1958, Keith toured Canada as a member of a British rifle- shooting team before being appointed as a Clerk in the House of Commons. In his spare time, Keith started writing history books: Command the Far Seas (1961) (about German battle cruisers in the First World War), The Master Builders (1963) (about the first great international engineering contractors), and The Clydesiders (1965) (about the struggle for power by left-wing activists on the Clyde). These books prompted Asa Briggs, then the first Professor of History at the University of Sussex, to invite Keith in 1967 to join the History department there. Keith joined the department as a Lecturer and stayed for 30 years, becoming a Reader in 1976 and Professor from 1986–98. While at Sussex, Keith wrote a huge number of books. One of his key works was Politics in Industrial Society (1979), which argued that the UK government had ensured social stability and high employment by sharing power with employers on the one hand, and trades unions on the other. So the UK existed as a ‘corporatist’ state where political power was shared among interest groups, rather possessed by a single body. This was an analysis that could not survive the advent of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister and Keith subsequently modified it in his three volume work Power, Competition and the State (1986–91), covering the periods 1940–61, 1961–74, and 1974–90. Among his many other publications, Keith also published a three volume edition of Thomas Jones’ diaries (1969–72) (Thomas Jones was a confidant of Lloyd George, Andrew Bonar Law, and Stanley Baldwin), a 1,000 page biography of Stanley Baldwin (1969), and The Double Market (1975), on the art trade and art thieves. His final book, As They Really Were (2011), based on drawings of citizens of Alnwick in 1831, brought him full circle back to his beginnings. 164 | pembroke college

Keith’s distinction as an historian made him an international figure, and he served as a visiting Professor at Stanford University in 1984, and at Beijing University in 1989 in the immediate aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre. He played a key part in the completion of the Cahora Bassa Dam in Mozambique in 1974. Having been commissioned to write a history of the construction of the dam, he had earned sufficient trust from everyone involved in building the dam to operate as an effective intermediary when Portugal’s withdrawal from Mozambique in the aftermath of the fall of Portugal’s military government threatened to halt the dam’s construction. His interest in buildings and art meant that he was regularly consulted by Sotheby’s and Christie’s. After his retirement in 1998, Keith travelled the world lecturing on European democracy, and working as chief executive of a consultancy firm, advising international firms on European political and economic trends. Keith is survived by his wife Sue, their son, and three daughters.

Kenneth Elmslie Munn 1 April 1921 – 20 June 2013 Obituary by Richard Munn (1977) Kenneth came up to Pembroke in 1940 to read Natural Sciences after spending seven years at Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood. It was at school that he first developed his interest in Science, especially Physics, his love of rugby ( or rugger as he called it) and his interest in scouting. He continued with these interests whilst at Pembroke by playing rugby for the college and becoming involved with the University scouts. The Scouts, in particular, gave Kenneth the opportunity to broaden his horizons by joining camps in the UK and Europe after the war, as well as the chance to develop life-long friendships. After three years, his studies were interrupted by the war and, given his scientific background, he joined the Army Operational Research Group, with his main focus being the air defence of London. It is fascinating reading some of his reports and his hand-written notes on some of the projects, including improving the efficiency of London’s searchlights and Project Bullseye relating to the training of new RAF crews. He also spent many hours in and under Hyde Park working with anti-aircraft gunners and could recount several amusing stories of Winston Churchill’s visits to their bunker. After the war Kenneth returned to Cambridge and finished his degree in 1947. He then started teaching at Haileybury College, where he was to spend the next 36 years as a dedicated schoolmaster, including stints as a Housemaster and Head of Science. He also found time to play a leading role in the association for science teachers as well as being one of the founders of the Combined Science course for O-Level, as it was then. In the early years he continued playing first class rugby for Old Merchant Taylors, who, in those days. numbered clubs, such as Bath, Gloucester and Harlequins among their opponents. until age and other commitments brought his rugby playing to an end. annual gazette | 165

Kenneth married Margaret in 1951 and they had two children. Richard followed in his father’s footsteps to Pembroke in 1977. Whilst Kenneth had maintained good contacts with the members of college, such as Gerry Smith, this gave Kenneth the chance to renew these contacts. On retirement in 1983, Kenneth and Margaret moved to Fairford in Gloucestershire, where Kenneth quickly became involved with St. Mary’s Church. He played a major role in the extensive renovation of the stained glass windows in the 15th century church – a project which gave him much satisfaction. Pembroke played an important and enjoyable role in Kenneth’s life and he always looked forward to the college reunions until failing health took its toll.

Ernest Wilson Nicholson 26 September 1938 – 22 December 2013 The Reverend Professor Ernest Nicholson was a leading scholar on the Old Testament, as well as serving as Provost of Oriel College, Oxford from 1990–2003. Ernest was born in Portadown, Co Armagh; the son of a farmer. He failed his 11-plus and spent four years at the Portadown technical college. Having ambitions to enter the church, he mastered enough Latin to enable him to move to Portadown Grammar School and then to Trinity College Dublin to study Theology. He did his PhD on the literary history of the book of Deuteronomy at Glasgow University. In 1962, Ernest married Hazel Jackson – whom he had met as a teenager in Portadown – and took up a Lectureship in Hebrew and Semitics at Trinity College Dublin. In 1967, Ernest published his first book, Deuteronomy and Tradition, which was based on his PhD thesis. He also moved to Cambridge, becoming a University Lecturer in Divinity and a Fellow of Wolfson (at that time, University) College. Two years later, Ernest was ordained in Ely Cathedral and moved to Pembroke College, becoming the College’s Chaplain and later its Dean. While at Pembroke, Ernest published Preaching to the Exiles (1971) and Exodus and Sinai in History and Tradition (1973). In 1979, Ernest moved to Oxford, taking up the post of Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture and a Fellowship at Oriel College. He continued to produce books on the Old Testament: God and His People: Covenant and Theology in the Old Testament (1986), and The Pentateuch in the Twentieth Century: The Legacy of Julius Wellhausen (1998). He also initiated efforts to produce an official history of Oriel College, which was published in November 2012. Ernest was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987, and was awarded the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies by the British Academy in 2009. He served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1993–2003. Ernest is survived by his wife Hazel, their three daughters, Rosalind, Kathryn and Jane, and six grandchildren. Hazel and Ernest’s son, Peter, died in Mexico, where he had married and settled. 166 | pembroke college

John James Putnam 28 June 1929 – 23 December 2013 Obituary by Roger Putnam My brother John was a man of many parts and many talents. John was the middle brother in a family of three boys. In due course we all three came up to Pembroke. In our much younger years, we all became keen Crusaders and it was through them that we learnt to enjoy camping. As a Boy Scout John’s shirt was practically covered with proficiency badges of which he was quite proud. He became Head Boy of his prep school. He was made Head of House and a senior prefect of Haileybury & Imperial Service College. In sport, he was selected for the school’s first teams in five different games, an unusual feat, including being made captain of hockey. John’s National Service in the Royal Artillery saw him posted to Ceylon, as it was called in those days, where cricket featured prominently in the Army’s sporting calendar. He was so saddened when, years after his time there, civil conflict broke out in the country which he knew could be such an idyllic place in which to live. After his two years in the Army, John came up to Pembroke College for three years to read English and History. While here he also developed interests in art, architecture, education and farming. On leaving Cambridge he took a job as a management trainee in the Chief Cashier’s Office in the Bank of England, working in the City of London. At about this time he went on holiday in Austria, and there he met Myra, who’d travelled over from Dublin to join the same holiday group. A year or two later, they married in Dublin. They lived first at Windsor and then moved to Tilehurst near Reading. Soon came big changes, with John leaving the Bank of England, where he’d found he wasn’t really at heart a City person. Instead he took a job teaching English and History to sixth-formers at a large Roman Catholic school in Reading, Presentation College, which later he said gave him some of the most satisfying work he’d ever done. Then followed the golden years, with the arrival of three gifted girls, followed later by a talented brother for them. John was utterly devoted to his family. He did his utmost to protect their interests, to support Myra and the children in all they did, and in helping them to further their ambitions where he could. Having taken to the school teaching, in fact proving to be a natural teacher, John, with Myra’s help, took over a primary school in Tenterden, Kent. They worked tremendously hard to build it up to over a 100 pupils, at a time when their own three girls were growing up fast. They ran it for six years as a thriving institution, but the demands placed on them were very high indeed. They decided on a complete change of occupation and lifestyle. They left the school and moved down to the West Country to run summer holiday-lettings. They started with an old mill in the South Hams and built that business up by adding cedar-wood chalets in the grounds. annual gazette | 167

After several years there and a short interregnum, the family moved to a stone farmhouse with a barn and outbuildings, also in the South Hams. The heavy physical work involved in modernising and converting the buildings, however, took its toll on John’s back. While recovering from the back injury, lying on a board, John decided, with Myra, that it was essential, whilst continuing to run the summer-lettings, to find an occupation that involved less heavy lifting and bending. So, using his knowledge of pottery gained during his teaching years, John designed and made some miniature, model ceramic cottages of typical vernacular architecture for sale. He called them ‘Heritage Houses’. After the first seventeen models were launched at the Torquay Gift Fair, they began to sell in considerable numbers. Buyers soon wanted a wider range, so John added more designs of houses and also pubs, shops, churches, stately homes and a castle. Eventually John was making over two hundred different models. The business expanded to meet the demand. John took on more staff, he exhibited the models at gift fairs in this country and abroad and sales increased still further. He added a range of ceramic model cars which he called ‘Character Cars’. John derived a great deal of interest from the business and made many friends amongst customers and fellow-exhibitors alike. Some American collectors of the houses would drop in unexpectedly to have a chat and buy models to add to their collection. John and Myra at home provided a warm and stimulating environment, first for their three daughters and son and later for their much-loved grandchildren. Their homes in the South Hams gave them space and proximity to wild country which they all loved. Apart from having many interests, with views on practically every subject, John was a great conversationalist who did so much enjoy a lively chat with whomsoever he came into contact. He could promote his opinions strongly, but he liked to hear other people’s views too. A man of honour, compassion and kindness, John’s family and friends will miss his leadership, his counsel, his fund of ideas and his sense of fun. Athlete in his youth, Gunner Officer in his National Service, banker, schoolteacher, headmaster, entrepreneur, craftsman, bee-keeper, builder, country-lover and philosopher, John was always ready to help others where he could. He had great sympathy for people in genuine need, his own interests often becoming, to him, minor considerations. John will leave a huge gap for his family and friends but thoughts of shared past times together will live on warmly in our memories. John is survived by his wife Myra, their daughters Kate, Shelagh and Helena and son James and grandchildren: Caroline, Nicholas, Thomas and Jonathan. Tradition was followed when his grand-daughter Caroline came up to Pembroke in 2005 to read Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, graduating in 2008. 168 | pembroke college

Thomas Gabriel Rosenthal 16 July 1935 – 3 January 2014 Obituary by Ian Fleming (1956) Larger than life when he was an undergraduate from 1956-1959, Tom went on to live an extraordinarily full and successful life as a publisher, author, broadcaster, bibliophile and critic. Tom was born in London. His parents, Erwin and Elisabeth, were refugees from Germany after Erwin lost his first academic post in 1933—Jewish academics were among the first to be deprived of their jobs after Hitler was elected Chancellor. After a time in London, Erwin was given an academic post in Manchester, where Tom and his younger sister Miriam spent their early years. The family moved to Cambridge in time for Tom’s sixth form studies at the Perse. Erwin was a member of Pembroke from 1955 and eventually became a Reader in Oriental Studies in the University, and in 1962 a Fellow of Pembroke. After National Service as an officer in the Royal Artillery, Tom came to Pembroke as an exhibitioner to read history, changing to English for Part II. He was active in the Footlights, the Pembroke Players, Varsity and the ADC, where he was a memorable Jew of Malta (see photograph, left). On going down he got a job with the art-book publishers Thames & Hudson, where he rapidly advanced, becoming Managing Director of Thames & Hudson International in 1966. He was the art critic of The Listener in this period, and began another career as a broadcaster, talking about opera in his gloriously deep and authoritative voice. Opera-going became a large part of his life. When I showed him my home projector, using the DVD of Berlioz’ Les Troyens, he remarked that he had been at that performance. Earlier, when Mary and I wanted to see Deborah Warner’s production of Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne, I asked for his help in getting tickets. Without hesitation, he suggested that he would buy the tickets, and we would bring his mother, now a widow living alone in Cambridge, and a hamper of food. He brought the champagne. In 1970 Thomas Tilling, who ran Secker & Warburg’s parent company, approached Tom for advice about a potential successor to Fred Warburg. Tom offered himself—making several wise conditions. Tilling made him Managing Director, a post which he held with great success, artistically and profitably, from 1971 until 1984. He was less happy to move up the corporate ladder, in 1980, to become Chairman and Managing Director of the parent company Heinemann Inc.; but he kept his office and his afternoons at Seckers, where he was much happier— reading manuscripts and talking to their authors. Notably, in this Pembroke context, one of them was Tom Sharpe. There was a custom in the office that if Tom Rosenthal’s door was shut, and laughter could be heard inside, no one annual gazette | 169 was to disturb him. It meant that he was reading Sharpe’s latest. To support Sharpe, he got Seckers to give him a salary large enough to live on for several years before the books became best sellers. Even at the top of the corporate tree, Tom read all the books he published and some of those he rejected. In 1984, he abandoned the businessman’s life at Heinemann and dedicated himself again to books, by becoming Chairman and Managing Director of the private publishing house of Andre Deutsch, initially sharing the posts with André Deutsch himself, then alone after Deutsch retired. Overall, between Seckers and Deutsch, he had a most impressive list, rich in novelists such as Gore Vidal, Penelope Lively, Jean Rhys, John Updike, Günther Grass, Saul Bellow, David Lodge, J. M. Coetzee, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Heinrich Böll and Carlos Fuentes, as well as notable non-fiction by Germaine Greer and David Thomson. Some he inherited, many he brought in himself, and some he took with him from Seckers to Deutsch. A telling example at Seckers was that of David Thomson who had contracted, before Tom joined the firm, to write a book about cinema. But Thomson had gone off at a tangent, and the book that Tom first saw, the nascent Biographical Dictionary of Cinema, was very different from the one Thomson had contracted to write. It was clearly a risky prospect, for there was nothing like it, and it was growing and growing; Tom decided to publish it in spite of its novelty, and it has proved to be one of the most popular books on cinema. Tom had an extraordinary sense of what was well written, important and would sell. That good judgement was sharply brought into focus for me when he came round in 1984 to look at the photographs Mary had taken of him for a book of family photographs to give to Erwin and Elisabeth for their 50th wedding anniversary. Several photographs of Tom were laid out on the table. He surveyed them quickly, pointed to Mary’s favourite, the one that illustrates this obituary, and said, ‘I hate it; but it’s very good. It’s the one you should use.’ But publishing was changing, and Tom eventually found the limitations of a small publishing house frustrating. He sold Deutsch in 1997 and turned to an active life as author, critic and broadcaster, as well as co-founding a private press. He wrote many articles on opera and art in The Listener, The New Statesman, The Spectator and the Independent on Sunday. He wrote several impressive books on artists – Ivon Hitchens, Arthur Boyd, Jack Yeats, Sidney Nolan, L. S. Lowry, Josef Albers, and two on Paula Rego. For these works he was awarded a Cambridge PhD in 2005. In addition to all this Tom managed to be a committee member or Trustee of a number of organisations with which he was in sympathy – in Cambridge, The Appointments Board, the ADC and the Fitzwilliam Museum; in London, The National Book League, The Royal College of Art and the ICA, which he chaired for several years. Gregarious and good company, he usually found himself at the top table at Pembroke feasts when Erwin brought him in as his guest, successive Masters realising that the College’s guests might well find Tom’s conversation entertaining. It was – full of his life, but of wide-ranging good judgement too. He married Ann Warnford-Davis (née Shire) in 1967; they had two sons, Adam, a surgeon, and Daniel (Pembroke 1990), a freelance lecturer and writer most recently of a history of the National Theatre. 170 | pembroke college

Tom and Miriam jointly endowed a travel grant at Pembroke in Erwin’s memory; and in December 2013 he gave the college his large and most impressive collection of more than 2000 art books. They are now housed in the Rosenthal Art Library, the room on the ground floor at the west end of the library, thus making Pembroke extraordinarily well equipped for the study of Art History. The presentation was a fitting and moving occasion. Visibly failing, but rallying to the occasion, Tom made an excellent speech and, with Ann, Adam and Daniel, joined us for dinner at high table. He died four weeks later.

John Christian Schmeidel 6 February 1957 – 25 June 2013 Obituary by Dean Karalekas After graduating from Dulaney Senior High School in in what he affectionately termed ‘the People’s Soviet Socialist Republic of Maryland,’ John matriculated in 1974 at Bowdoin, a liberal arts college in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick, to pursue his Bachelor of Arts majoring in History. In his junior year at Bowdoin, John was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and following his junior year he undertook summer study on British history at Trinity College, Oxford. He received a Surdna Foundation Undergraduate Research grant, which allowed him to undertake a study of Oliver Cromwell as an undergraduate research fellow in his senior year. While studying in what he once termed a ‘painfully male’ undergrad environment at Bowdoin, John served in various capacities – including as Editor- in-Chief in the first semester of his senior year – for The Bowdoin Orient, a student- run weekly paper that boasts of being the oldest continuously-published college weekly in the United States. He earned varsity squash numerals, was on the editorial board of the Bowdoin literary magazine ‘The Quill,’ and was selected as an alternate student speaker at the Commencement Exercises. He was nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship. John graduated magna cum laude, following which he completed a commercial banking training program at Bankers Trust Company in New York and worked for Bankers Trust in Manhattan from 1978. In 1980 and 1981 he worked as an analyst for the investment bank of Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York, where he qualified as a registered representative to sell bonds and equities on the New York stock exchange. In the early 1980s, John was once again a student, this time living in New York. He entered Columbia University Law School in 1981, and received a Juris Doctor degree in 1985, specializing in corporate and securities law. During that time, he was a student assistant in the US Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, in the Narcotics Division. After law school, John headed overseas for what he called ‘ill-paid government work.’ He was for eight years a banker in Europe, and studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1987 he received a annual gazette | 171

Master of Science in Economics degree from LSE, with a concentration in corporate and international finance, and began working at Dean Witter Capital Markets International in London, focusing on Eurobond sales to German- speaking investors. From 1988–90 he was a vice president at Templeton Investments Management in Edinburgh, where he was responsible for marketing investment management services to institutions in continental Europe and selecting equities and bonds for Templeton’s European funds. John joined Price Waterhouse in Paris and Berlin in 1990–91 as a manager working on cross-border merger and acquisition advice. By 1992, John had entered Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he received his MPhil in International Relations, awarded with departmental honors, writing on the topic of Germany’s Red Army Faction: The Theory and Practice of Urban Guerrilla Warfare and the Problem of State-Sponsored Terrorism. In 1992, he was the deputy editor of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. He remained a keen squash player during his time here. John went on to do a PhD in Modern History at Pembroke, completing the PhD (which would eventually become the book STASI: Sword and Shield of the Party (Routledge, 2007)) in 2006. John used the opportunities afforded to him as a PhD student to travel and conduct research, largely on the issues that he found important: conflict studies and terrorism. Between 1992 and 1994, John spent 20 months conducting archival research in Berlin on files that had been unlocked after the fall of the Berlin Wall and that had been accessible to very few German and Western readers in those years. He was particularly interested in the political upheavals and student revolutionary movements of the 1960s. John’s explorations of the STASI focused on the question of STASI support for both West German and Middle Eastern terrorist groups. He looked at left-wing terrorism in the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as the links between West Germany’s Red Army Faction and the GDR Ministry for State Security. He would go on to write several articles covering the foreign affairs beat as a freelance reporter for such journals as Intelligence and National Security, and as a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. In 1993, John worked as a consultant to the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California as an expert on Middle Eastern terrorism, where he had to learn on-the-job alongside wonks armed with PhDs in statistics. Here he contributed to studies on, among other things, the Marine Barracks Bombing of 1983. He would find himself living in that very region very shortly thereafter, as a US government-sponsored Fulbright Scholar in Tunisia in 1995–1996, where he earned a certificate in modern standard Arabic from the University of Tunis, as well as a Certificate of Proficiency in Russian, from the Russian Cultural Institute in Tunis. In addition to this voracious language learning, his main purpose in Africa was research, working in tropical heat from crates of German source material he had procured in Berlin, and sending chapter drafts by e-mail long distance to his doctoral supervisor back at Cambridge. While the life of a student can be liberating, it is rarely remunerative, so after earning the title of Doctor, and spending time as a freelance reporter, John decided to put his law degree and his expertise in terrorism to use, and he moved 172 | pembroke college

back to the United States where he worked for several law firms, including Lieberman, Dodge, Gerding & Anderson, and Koglmeier, Dobbins & Smith, as well as UBS Financial Services. He focused on such areas as threat assessment, executive protection, local political risk, and Homeland Security advice. In 2007, John became a Deputy County Attorney in Yavapai County, Arizona, where he tried over 20 cases successfully, both misdemeanours and felonies. Here he directed law enforcement officers on organizing undercover operations in narcotics investigations and was an expert in methamphetamine distribution and interdiction of international imports. In his down time, he enjoyed training at the north Phoenix Krav Maga school with Phoenix PD gang squad cops, going on ride-alongs with the deputies, and bushwhacking on Saturdays with his AR rifle. John was disliked as a prosecutor by some of his higher-ups, as he refused to go hardline on cases of isolated hermits, living in the back country, burgling the occasional backyard shack. He preferred instead to give them a talking to and a sandwich (prosciutto and Brie, with lettuce and tomato), and his technique apparently worked – very few of them re-offended. Some of them continued to send him mail and photos of their families. John saw it as his mission to redirect these people, not to imprison the entire world. This put him at odds with management for being too soft and not enough concerned with conviction numbers. In 2009, John once again got itchy feet, and he came to the Far East, first studying Mandarin Chinese at ShiDa University in Taipei, Taiwan. The following year, he enrolled as a student (seeking his second PhD) in the International Doctoral Program of Asia Pacific Studies (IDAS), at National Chengchi University, where his research focused once again on issues related to law enforcement and justice: international crime, triads and narcotics. This is where I met him. John passed away in Taiwan, a faraway land—far from the friends and family he had made back home; but in a new land, at least to him, where he was unfamiliar and often endearingly confused about the baffling local customs. But in his last days, he was not alone. He was an integral part of a circle of friends— my circle of friends—and we all miss him dearly.

Richard James Stibbs 2 January 1946 – 1 September 2013 Before he died, Richard supplied the College with this memoire of his time at Pembroke: I came up in 1964 as an Entrance Scholar to read Natural Sciences from Bristol Grammar School, then a highly academic direct grant school. In 1964 BGS sent 34 boys to Oxbridge. This entry from the similar schools across the country gave Cambridge in the 60s and early 70s the widest social mix in its history. Sadly the decline of academic schooling in the maintained sector has made it extremely difficult to emulate those times. Meredith Dewey was rooms tutor at the time and he had a policy of allocating grotty rooms to Entrance Scholars as he knew they would be able to choose the annual gazette | 173 best rooms in their 2nd and 3rd rooms. So I was allocated the set F1 in Red Buildings. Red Buildings certainly need renovation. My bedroom had a wash stand with the traditional bowl and jug. Hot water came from an Ascot boiler in the shared gyp-room, which also provided a pair of gas rings. Excellent baths were provided in the bath house at the other end of the library which meant a trek in a dressing gown through the wind and rain. However, F1 was on the top floor of F with a splendid view of Little St Mary’s Lane from my bedroom window, and of the chapel, the library and the cherry tree from the sitting room window. I consequentially chose to stay in F1 for all three years. This did have an unexpected consequence. Red Buildings are rather close to Fitzbillies, especially as the Chapel Gate was left open during the day. I came to Pembroke as a slim and fit young man, but my colleagues from Pembroke and other Colleges got into the habit of spending the breaks between lectures on the New Museum Site in my room with coffee, Chelsea buns and Sacher Torte. I expanded. Just as well. Pembroke had compulsory Hall (compulsory in the sense that you paid for it even if you did not eat it). This had the advantage that during the year you met everyone in your year group and discovered that it was possible to communicate with historians. However the drawback was that you were exposed to the dire food; so dire that a colleague was diagnosed with scurvy in his first Lent Term. Pembroke had not discovered fruit and salad, and cooked vegetables until you could not guess their identity. But the principal purpose of the College is teaching and research and Pembroke in the Natural Sciences was on a roll. In particular the College had appointed John Waldram in Physics and Ian Fleming in Chemistry, both inspiring teachers, so the subjects flourished. I read Theoretical Physics in my third year and fell out with it in a big way due to both a lack of ability but also as supervisions were arranged by the Cavendish and not by College. It should have been inspiring being supervised by Nobel Prize winner Brian Josephson, but it was not when the supervisor cannot understand why the pupil cannot understand the concepts that are trivial to a Nobel Prize winner. I was still enjoying Cambridge so, what to do? There was a new-fangled subject called Computer Science so I signed up for the Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science and have been in Cambridge computing ever since. I was subsequently a graduate student and research assistant and was elected President of the Middle Parlour. Those were the revolutionary days, but I stood on the simpler platform of better food for the graduates. We instituted graduate dinners every Thursday in the Old Library. A memorable May Week dinner in 1971 was a classic of salmon, baron of beef (with edible vegetables) and strawberries. But the really memorable part was the quartet led by David Stanley playing after the meal. A magical evening. Music was particularly important during that time. Encouraged by Sidney Kenderdine and Meredith Dewey and heavily influenced by the memory of David Munrow, classical and other music flourished. Clive James had joined the College as a graduate student and brought the Footlights into College by staging the Footlights Smokers in the Old Reader. These splendid evenings were try-outs for the main Footlights show held for two weeks in May Week at the Arts Theatre 174 | pembroke college

before heading north for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The smokers introduced some notable people to the Pembroke including Germaine Greer as a brilliant comedian, Julie Covington (Evita) and Peter Atkin who subsequently collaborated with Clive setting his lyrics. Pete and Clive’s excellent songs are the nearest English equivalent to those of Jacques Brel. But back to the mundane. In my first year I was introduced to croquet, played – as now – on New Court and Red Buildings lawn and have continued playing ever since; indeed each summer playing against a colleague whom I taught to play on New Court lawn in 1968. New Court is a splendid venue for croquet as it attracts spectators. In the 70s we particularly enjoyed the arrival of the Californian Summer School who were fascinated by the game and who had not quite realised that the standard Californian female summer dress was probably not appropriate for a chilly Cambridge summer. So we enjoyed their presence as much as they were fascinated by ours. My University career developed as Head of User Services in the Computing Service, Proctor and Chairman of the Board of Scrutiny. I was very involved with technology transfer from the beginning of the Cambridge Phenomenon as a founder of the splendidly named Applied Research of Cambridge and as Chairman of the equally aptly named Cambridge Research and Innovation. I got involved in teaching for other Colleges in the 70s and moved across the road as a Fellow of Downing retiring as Fellow and President in September 2013. However I certainly have not lost touch with Pembroke. John Waldram asked me to supervise Natural Sciences Part IB Maths in 1968 and I have continued supervising without a break since, finishing in June 2013. I was also external Director of Studies in Computer Science for Pembroke for 20 years. Sadly University publications have stopped listing all College affiliations after names and only use the current one. I miss being ‘Richard James Stibbs PEM and DOW’ as I look back with great affection for my 50 year association with Pembroke.

Martin Lawrence Stote 3 November 1948 – 7 June 2014 Obituary by Clive Toomer (1966) Martin Stote was a reporter, working for the Daily Star and then the Daily Express, on a number of high-profile stories, including the Fred and Rose West murders, the massacres at Hungerford and Dunblane, the Soham murders, and Madeleine McCann’s disappearance. Martin was born in Portsmouth and came to Pembroke in 1967 to study English. On graduating, he returned to his hometown and started working for the local paper, The News. After working for several news agencies and newspapers around the country, he joined the Birmingham Evening Mail as a senior reporter. He moved from there to the Daily Star in 1982, and married his wife Sue three years later. For 16 years, he worked at the Daily Star covering Midlands-based stories, including the trials of Soviet spy and GHCQ employee, Geoffrey Prime, and the annual gazette | 175 serial killer nurse, Beverley Allitt. From 1999–2009 he did the same job for the Daily Express, despite being diagnosed with throat cancer in 2004 and having surgery in 2007 which left him with a speech impediment. In 2009, Martin left the Daily Express and in 2011 took up the post of deputy editor of The Ionian, a travel magazine for the Ionian Islands. In 2012, Martin became ill again with cancer and had to undergo major surgery for a second time. Martin is survived by his wife, Sue, and their son John.

Thomas Bowater Vernon 23 April 1939 – 11 September 2013 Tom Vernon was an award-winning broadcaster, most famous for his series of Fat Man… travelogues. Tom’s father was a former Bengal Lancer who had seen service on the Khyber Pass and became head of prison services in Nigeria. It was there that Tom’s father met Tom’s mother, a hospital matron. Tom was born in a less exotic locale – the East End of London – and attended grammar schools in Shropshire, Sussex, Dorset, and Kent. He was the first boy from his school to go to Cambridge, where he read English at Pembroke College in 1958, while devoting most of his time to drama and music. After graduating in 1961, Tom oscillated over the next nine years between working as a public relations officer (for the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1961–63, and for the British Humanist Association from 1965–69) and as an English teacher (from 1963–65, and from 1969–70), while continuing (in the words of his entry in Pembroke’s Who’s Who) to work as a ‘minstrel and folk singer’, meeting his wife Sally at the Elizabethan Rooms in Kensington Gore (where he was playing a minstrel, and she a wench), and enjoying a regular slot on the ‘Today’ programme on Radio 4, making up songs on the spot about current events. In 1970, Tom got his big break, becoming the first presenter on BBC Radio London when it went on air. He took the chance to present a wide variety of programmes, including reading entire novels on air, playing all the characters himself. He subsequently moved to Radio 4 as a producer of documentaries and talks as well as a presenter on various shows including the arts programme Kaleidoscope. Tom’s innovative work brought him many awards, including Radio Personality of the Year, Radio Presenter of the Year, and Best Radio Documentary. 1979 saw the first Fat Man on a Bicycle series – broadcast on Radio 4 – where Tom cycled from his home in Muswell Hill, London, through France and Italy, interviewing people he met along the way. Channel 4 snapped up the format and produced three series with Tom in the saddle: Fat Man Goes Norse (1987), Fat Man in Argentina (1990) (for which Tom was awarded a medal by a grateful Argentine government for improving relations with the UK), and Fat Man Goes Cajun (1991). This was followed by Fat Man Goes West, made for Meridian in 1993. Tom then returned to the BBC, making Fat Man in France in 1994, and then – abandoning the 176 | pembroke college

bicyle – Fat Man in the Kitchen, provoking horror from the Daily Mail at scenes of Tom’s cat walking over the kitchen table and Tom picking up meat that he had dropped on the floor and placing it straight in the frying pan. During this period, Tom and Sally – who had married in 1967 – divorced in 1986, only to re-marry in 1992. They settled in rural France, in the Cévennes, and Tom spent his time growing vegetables and fruit, singing with local choirs, playing in local chamber groups, and entertaining friends. Tom is survived by Sally and their two sons.

Edward Blake White-Atkins 5 April 1935 – 18 January 2014 Obituary by Margaret White-Atkins and Fiona Davies Blake was born in Falmouth, Cornwall, 1935, originally as Edward but soon re-named in the wake of King Edward VIII’s abdication. His mother died when he was five so he was sent to boarding school while his father served as a Commander in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Blake’s own leadership skills, intelligence and personality shone through early when he was made head boy. Then, later, he won an exhibition to Blundells School in Devon. After leaving Blundells at 16, Blake followed in his father’s footsteps to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, where he won the Queen’s Gold Medal – awarded to the cadet who obtains the highest marks in the Passing Out Examination. He also had the honour of marching through London in the Queen’s coronation procession in 1953. The Navy sponsored Blake to go to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he gained his degree in Mechanical Sciences and made some life-long friends, including local girl, Margaret, whom he married in 1958. Blake’s career in the Navy brought many interesting adventures all over the world, from Iceland to the West Indies to the Far East, including rescuing passengers from a troop ship, the Empire Windrush, which had caught fire in the Mediterranean. Over the years, Blake was promoted to the rank of Commander and had all sorts of different postings, including the command of HMS Forest Moor in Yorkshire, several lovely years at the shore wireless station in Mauritius, international experiences at SHAPE in Belgium, and two years teaching at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. After retiring from the Navy at 53, Blake became a civil servant in Cheltenham until he retired finally at 60, when he and Margaret moved to Wokingham to be near daughter Fiona and his granddaughter, Rachel. Blake was a kind, gentle and much-loved man. He lived life to the full, enjoying his photography, sailing and gardening and, although he is greatly missed, his legacy lives on in many, many small ways through his family and friends. F. BOOK REVIEWS

Edward Granville Browne (1862–1926), Orientalist by Charles Shannon

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A.V. Grimstone, Pembroke Portraits (Pembroke College, Cambridge, 2013) Alone of all her kind, the Foundress, Marie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke, hangs prominently in hall by the high table. There is no early likeness of her, so what we have here is a colourful but bland image by a studio assistant of Joshua Reynolds, Giuseppe Marchi, more notable for heraldry and piety than for personality. It derives from a print of 1715, copied from a 1629 manuscript illumination showing the Countess at a prayer desk with her breviary before her. Her portrait was one of three commissioned by the College in the late 1780s to commemorate significant benefactors, the others being Henry VI, whose generosity was probably over- estimated, and Robert Hitcham, the Jacobean lawyer who left to the College Framlingham Castle along with a bequest large enough to build the south range of Ivy Court. Another anachronistic portrait is that of ‘the prince of poets’ Edmund Spenser, which was painted by Benjamin Wilson circa 1771. (I remember seeing a bread roll bounce off this portrait in my first year at Pembroke during an energetic exchange of opinions one evening over dinner.) The Fellows evidently felt the need of improving their stock of portraits in the early 1770s, for Wilson was also commissioned to provide the likeness of Thomas Gray (d. 1771) and of the ancient and eccentric Master, Roger Long, who had matriculated in 1697 and died, still in office, in 1770. It’s a pity that the artist did not include in the background of his portrait Long’s bizarre Great Sphere – the tin planetarium eighteen feet in diameter, described by Grimstone, that survived in the grounds until late Victorian times. The College’s oldest portraits are those of Richard Fox, who was Master early in Henry VIII’s reign, and then the Protestant divines who gave Pembroke such a powerful reputation for Reformation theology: Nicholas Ridley, John Bradford and Edmund Grindal. All these paintings came to the College long after the subjects had died, in some cases centuries afterwards, so one forms the impression that the College possessed very few portraits before the eighteenth century. Pembroke seems not even to have possessed a portrait of its most celebrated scholar, Lancelot Andrewes (who was Master for sixteen years, and the most outstanding churchman of his time), until fifty years after his death, when the College was given a small undistinguished likeness, which is now only occasionally displayed in College. One of our greatest benefactors, Matthew Wren (who was a protégé of Andrewes), is remembered by a shrewd portrait of him as a young Jacobean at the outset of a turbulent career which led to nineteen years in the Tower of London. As a thanksgiving for his deliverance from imprisonment, he commissioned a new chapel for the college, designed by his nephew. The chapel is effectively his memorial, but it would be good to see his portrait displayed in hall from time to time, especially as the College has created a society in his name for modern benefactors. 180 | pembroke college

William Pitt stands out as the pre-eminent alumnus of Pembroke over its long history. The College is well furnished with images in various media of this incomparable man, prime minister at twenty four and for seventeen years thereafter, presiding over the nation during the heroic confrontations with revolutionary France. Ever reluctant to commission a portrait, the College conceded the case for Pitt six years after his death, though it stopped short of engaging a major artist. Instead, the College chose George Henry Harlow, a pupil of Thomas Lawrence, who produced a competent portrait based on one painted in 1805 by John Hoppner. Pitt’s features, with his long slender nose, were a gift for caricaturists, as Gillray well understood, so artists had to emphasise his intelligence and natural authority in order to counteract the innumerable political cartoons by partisan satirists. Nollekens’ marble bust at the back of the hall presents a far-sighted statesman in classical dress. Richard Westmacott’s splendid bronze statue of 1819, retrieved from a government store in 1969 and now well situated by the side of the Library, images him as a Roman senator, in full toga, alert yet relaxed, possessed of a natural nobility. It is somewhat disconcerting to read that besides Pitt, the only other outstanding political figure produced by the College has been Rab Butler, so prominent in Conservative Party politics in the ’50s and ’60s, and three times passed over as Prime Minister in those decades. How surprising that the College should have contributed so little to the political life of the nation. Butler’s portrait by Allan Gwynne-Jones shows him impassive and uncommunicative, subdued by the dark-brown featureless background and by his sombre, crumpled clothes. If Pembroke produced few politicians, its ethos has been favourable to poets. We have already mentioned Spenser’s portrait, commissioned at a time when college scholarship was low but its poetic reputation high. Thomas Gray was in residence until 1771, when he died in his rooms above the Senior Parlour. Author of some of the most admired poems of the eighteenth century, he was a modest and somewhat reclusive man. As Dr Grimstone notes a propos of his appointment to the chair of Modern History (for which he had no qualifications) ‘like other professors at that time, he refrained from lecturing’. He is remembered by a wooden portrait, verging on caricature, painted ‘from memory’ by Benjamin Wilson a year after his death. Like so many of the College portraits, it was bequeathed, not commissioned. A more distinguished, though not necessarily more accurate, image was offered by the Victorian sculptor Hamo Thornycroft, in a bust that may be seen in the bay window of the hall. Interestingly, Gray’s contemporary and friend, William Mason, whose reputation as a poet was much higher in the eighteenth century than it is now, was the subject of the only picture in the College collection by an artist of the first rank: Joshua Reynolds. Opposite Mason in Hall hangs the colourful portrait of Christopher Smart, attributed to Thomas Hudson. Smart was an idiosyncratic poet whose rhapsodic religious verse has come to be much appreciated in recent decades. Here we see him in complacent mood, justly proud of his fine silk waistcoat rich with gold embroidery, and prouder still of the letter from Alexander Pope praising his early verses which he prominently displays on his desk. The artist catches him at the annual gazette | 181 height of his prosperity, before he declined into the madhouse and the debtors’ prison. This is the most enjoyable of Pembroke’s portraits, and Smart has the additional distinction in this gallery of scholars of being the only man who chose to be shown with his books. The nineteenth century was an undistinguished age for Pembroke. Two masters held sway for eighty-four years, reducing the college to near inertia. ‘In 1858, the sole freshman made off to Caius after five days.’ Two scientists, however, redeemed the general mediocrity of the era. One was the astronomer and mathematician John Couch Adams, the other was the physicist George Stokes. The College rightly possesses a number of images, all satisfying, none outstanding, of Stokes, the man who most notably restored Pembroke’s reputation. Dr Grimstone remarks that the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Stokes’ tenure of the Lucasian Chair in 1899 brought together delegates from universities all over the world, ‘collectively forming what must have been the most distinguished body of people ever to have assembled at Pembroke’. Thereafter, through the twentieth century, the paintings commissioned by the College form a fairly conventional record of Masters and Fellows. The College that was once so productive of churchmen now honours its scientists and mathematicians: Stokes, William Hodge, Richard Adrian and most recently, John Sulston. The informality of Sulston’s portrait by Tom Phillips marks a decided break from centuries of artistic protocol. Of the recent additions to the College collection, the graphite portrait of James Campbell by Gilly Rayner catches him with the wonderful immediacy this medium allows, and James Dearlove’s striking image of Michael Kuczynski painted on a sheet of the Financial Times brings us thoroughly up to date. Using his unusually broad knowledge of the college archives, Dr Grimstone has given us a most valuable account of Pembroke’s pictorial inheritance. Scholarly and highly readable, his brief biographies complement the portraits with informative detail and engaging anecdote. The presentation is enhanced by excellent design and printing. Both text and colour illustrations make the book a college history of a new kind, one that should be on the shelves of all alumni. Graham Parry (1958)

Pembroke Portraits can be ordered from the Finance Office, Pembroke College, Cambridge CB2 1RF, or via email ([email protected]). Please send your name and address and method of payment. The cost is £15.00 plus £2.00 p&p in the UK; £5.00 p&p for the rest of Europe; elsewhere p&p £5.00 (surface mail) or £10 (airmail). Payment may be made by cheque in £ sterling payable to ‘Pembroke College’; or by bank transfer to ‘Pembroke College’, Barclays Bank, Sort Code: 20-17-19, Account Number 30712620 (please include a reference to ‘Portraits’). For payment by credit card contact the College by ‘phone on 01223 338126.

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Sir John Sulston (1942–), Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine by Tom Phillips

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THE FROZEN NORTH – BAFFIN ISLAND EXPEDITION 2014 Rhian Jones In March 2014, Rhian Jones (2004) went on expedition to cross Baffin Island on foot in order to raise funds for the Youth Adventure Trust. Below is her account of her time on the expedition. As I gazed up at the polar bear skin, stretched on a frame to dry in the bright sun, I had the thought that I was probably suffering from sensory overload and no longer processing what I was seeing. The Inuit hunter who had shot the bear a few days ago cheerfully informed my group that it wasn’t even that big a bear – ‘It’s seven feet tall but they can reach up to eleven.’ Seven feet was certainly impressive enough from my point of view, which at that point was about level with its back legs. I swallowed and ran my hand through its translucent fur, entertaining the thought that perhaps touching the bear may make it seem less frightening. I certainly didn’t feel any braver as we said goodbye to the hunter and carried on our way. We were in Qikiqtarjuaq, an Inuit village on the Northern coast of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Lying just west of Greenland, Baffin is the world’s fifth largest island yet is incredibly remote and unpopulated (with a population hovering at just under 500 people, Qikiqtarjuaq is one of the more notable population centres yet, in winter, it can only be reached from the outside world by a tiny prop plane that bounces down the icy runway when the weather allows). I was part of a five-strong expedition aiming to cross the Island from coast to coast through the famed Akshayuk Pass and this village was the final stop on our 60 hour journey from the UK. The Pass itself is an ancient Inuit travel route: a snaking river and lake system which has cut a corridor through towering granite peaks and tumbling glaciers, crossing the Arctic Circle en route. A whole year in the planning, ours was to be a self-supported journey at the end of winter in March, completed on foot and by ski when the landscape would be utterly frozen. We had allowed ourselves up to nine days to complete our 140km north-to-south journey, including provision for bad weather days should we be unable to travel. Having hoovered up stories of Scott, Shackleton, Franklin and company since my early teens, I had signed up to the expedition eager to see some of the polar 186 | pembroke college

landscapes I had read so much about. Being an enthusiastic but admittedly generally fairweather camper and hiker meant I was also keen to attempt a physical challenge the likes of which I had not experienced before. My enthusiasm prior to the trip was tempered only by fear of the polar bears that populate the region. A Zoology student in my Pembroke days, I would have been delighted to see one, but strictly once we had safely completed our journey. My desire to avoid them as we made our way on foot was made all the more acute by the fact that, since we would be in a National Park, we would not be permitted to carry any firearms to deter them.

Our transport from Qikiqtarjuaq to the head of the Akshayuk Pass From Qikiqtarjuaq, we skidooed for several hours across the sea ice to reach our start point at the head of the Pass. This was in order to avoid the coastal areas where bears were known to be most active. It was a magical afternoon; as the hours and miles went by the coastline became wilder and more impressive. We stopped just after lunch to explore an iceberg – massive to us yet really just a tiny fragment of an ice sheet. It was a beautiful thing, starkly framed against the intense blue of the sky. Once we had arrived at our start point, we disentangled ourselves from the sleeping bags and blankets in which we had been buried in the boxes towed by the skidoos, and took a deep breath. The skidoo drivers finished their cigarettes and started their long cold journey home in the last of the daylight and, oddly enough, I felt quite calm. We were kept occupied with unpacking the sleds we would be hauling (known as ‘pulks’), putting up the tent and cutting blocks of polystyrene-like snow to melt for cooking; it felt good to be busy until it was time to crawl into our sleeping bags for the first night. However, when we annual gazette | 187 woke in the morning I gazed at the layer of ice crystals coating the inside of tent, felt the unfamiliar crackle of a frozen sleeping bag, and realised that, despite all my preparations, I had probably underestimated the realities of the trip.

After our first night on the ice As it turned out, simply knowing that the temperature would be minus 25°C on a good day was very, very different to living in such conditions 24/7. The effort needed to cope with the temperature was never-ending and quite draining. Even simple tasks like undoing zips or tightening crampon straps in gloved hands required practice over the first couple of days. Hands chilled dangerously within just a few moments of exposure, whilst standing still for even a minute or two required a subsequent session of energetic activity to get the blood moving again. Action was needed the moment that a creeping chill was felt in a finger, toe or exposed part of the face: frequent and highly energetic whirling of the arms to encourage blood to warm the extremities left me with the sensation that each fingertip had been repeatedly banged in a door. The cold consistently occupied much of one’s mind yet the jaw-dropping nature of the scenery still managed to drag our attention away from basic corporeal matters like numb hands. Unlike a North Pole attempt, where the whole journey is made on the generally featureless ice cap, the valley we traversed contained remarkable sights every moment of the day. At the beginning of our journey on the coast of the Davis Strait, spectacular icebergs trapped as the sea had frozen the previous autumn were silently waiting out the winter like boats in a harbour, until the spring thaw would allow them to drift back out to sea. The bright and open vista we saw as we looked north over the 188 | pembroke college

sea ice was countered by the dark and brooding edges of the steeply-sided valley we were walking into. We left the coast and began our journey following the winding river and lake system up the valley. As we did, the pulks we were pulling made their presence felt. On the flat ice of rivers and lakes they felt weightless and the gentlest pull on the harness set them moving behind you. When wind-packed snow creaked beneath us, it gave a lovely cushioned surface for them to glide along. In the windiest parts of the valley, where the snow had been blown away and the ground beneath exposed, we fought our way over gravel that bit into the bottom of our pulks, grating away the surface and sapping our strength until we reached more forgiving ground. Due to the scale of the landscape we were in distances on our journey were stretched out to seemingly impossible proportions, sometimes giving us the uncomfortable feeling of making little progress, even after several hours (there was one iceberg in particular it seemed we simply could not leave behind even after a morning’s hard slog). But when the mind-blowing nature of the wider landscape became too much to take in, there was always the option of looking at the sights closer to hand. Looking down at, and through, the lake ice was a mesmerising activity. Perhaps it was the purity of the water or the pressure the ice was under but, in parts, the deep lakes were absolutely flawless and glass-like. It was like walking over the roof of a cathedral and, with the light disappearing down into the deep blue depths, it gave quite the sense of vertigo. In other places, layers and layers of bubbles were stacked into dense columns, adding chandeliers to the strange indoor rooms that the frozen lake had created. These bubble arrangements were truly beautiful – the degree of variety in colour, shape and size kept one’s eyes occupied for hours and hours. A number of times we even saw fairly sizeable rocks, fully suspended in the ice. Where the lakes got shallower, the ice butted up against hidden underwater boulders and burst upwards into large fractured hummocks. We discussed what these shapes reminded us of: surfacing whales coming up for air and enormous hatching dinosaur eggs were two of what I felt were the more accurate descriptions. Regardless of whether we agreed on their appearance, the whole group enjoyed unhitching our pulks to clamber up and slide down their steep sides on our fronts and backs. These moments of enjoying such a harsh landscape in quite a child-like way were, frankly, completely surreal. One day we climbed high above the valley floor to circumnavigate glacial moraine that effectively blocked our paths and led us to the high point of the whole valley. This significant upward effort through heavy snow afforded us the incredible treat of an afternoon spent descending a frozen waterfall that flowed down from so-called Summit Lake towards the sheer face of Mount Thor, the world’s greatest vertical drop of 1,250 m. It was here on this steeply sloping ice that our faithful pulks transformed into wildly untameable weights, hell-bent on sweeping or knocking us off our feet. This demanded a careful descent: lowering our pulks in front of us and bracing with our crampons in the ice to prevent what could be a potentially disastrous twisted knee, ankle or worse. After some slightly tense moments, the angle of the slope shallowed and we were able to clamber annual gazette | 189 astride our pulks, lift our legs from the ice and sledge the final couple of hundred metres down towards the valley floor using our ski poles to try and steer. Having swung around backwards, forwards and then sideways, I came to a stop and collapsed into a fit of giggles. I think it may have been my favourite moment of the whole trip. That afternoon, we edged further into the shadow of Thor and were afforded an incredible camping spot at the foot of the towering peak that evening.

A halo surrounding the sun, formed by ice crystals in the air Despite my fears, we didn’t see a polar bear, though sightings of several sets of tracks were enough to set pulses racing at one point. Aside from the never-ending cold, the most significant danger thrown at us was the extreme weather we experienced on a couple of occasions. Headwinds found tiny chinks in our head- to-toe layers, sapping any residual warmth trapped in clothing, making frostbite even more of a threat. Our breath froze the moment it left our nose or mouth, freezing our balaclava masks into rock solid muzzles which, combined with the noise of wind, made communicating difficult. The strength of the headwind and the weight of the pulks we pulled resulted in us being blown backwards on our skis as forward progress on occasion became impossible. We had to admit defeat on one day, sitting out the wind for the rest of the day and night. When we woke the next morning, our pulks had been buried by spindrift in the night but the glorious blue skies and still weather of previous days had thankfully returned. When the wind didn’t blow I was aware that we were in a truly noiseless landscape; frozen and still, it was unnervingly quiet. However, these contemplative periods were few and far between as we kept up our steady pace throughout the day. This meant that we were always accompanied by the strange 190 | pembroke college

squeaks, hisses and creaks that came with moving across heavily compacted snow and ice. We stopped for only a few minutes mid-morning, lunchtime and mid- afternoon for the sole purpose of cramming as many pieces of chocolate, dried fruit, nuts and (most prized of all) frozen pork scratchings into our mouth as we could, until we couldn’t physically bear the cold of being stationary any longer.

A view of Mt Thor during our waterfall descent I am tremendously proud that our intrepid team of amateurs completed the whole journey over eight days without injury or major incident. A number of teams attempt the route during a short period at the end of winter each year and three groups who were in the valley at the same time as us were rescued, due to injury, frostbite or bad weather. Once we had safely arrived at our destination of the village of Pangnirtung, we learned that we were in fact the first team to successfully cross the Pass this year. Ironically, we were then unable to leave Pangnirtung for several days as we waited for a clearing in the bad weather to allow our small plane from the south to land. This delay to our plans actually afforded us an unexpected addition to our trip by allowing us to experience everyday life in such an isolated and unique community. We became (very) minor celebrities about town, with our exploits even being mentioned on the local radio! Aside from traversing the Pass, our expedition’s aim was to raise awareness and funds for the work of the Youth Adventure Trust, a Wiltshire-based charity working with vulnerable teenagers with whom I volunteer. The Trust does fantastic work in providing a structured programme to allow disadvantaged young people to challenge themselves in new and unfamiliar situations and push their expectations of their own capability. The Trust achieves great success on a annual gazette | 191 comparatively tiny budget which means that, as a result of our team’s efforts in raising almost £32,000 so far, many more young people will be given the opportunity to develop themselves and learn about their own strengths. I have found writing about the experience and trying to accurately document what I saw and felt extremely hard. I have never been anywhere so beautiful, wild or frightening as Baffin Island; the landscape and weather left me in no doubt of just how vulnerable we were, yet everyday was a fantastic experience that challenged us, educated us and generally made us feel extremely lucky to be there, even on the days where we battled -45°C headwinds. I was genuinely humbled by the whole experience. I’m looking forward to drawing on the experience I gained as part of this trip to help me work with the young people on the Youth Adventure Trust programme in achieving more than they might otherwise consider possible. www.youthadventuretrust.org.uk www.justgiving.com/RhianEllie-YAT

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MA Degree The following information concerning the MA degree may be useful to members of the Society: Standing: a Bachelor of Arts may be admitted Master of Arts six* calendar years after the end of his or her first term of residence, provided that (which is usually the case) at least two years have elapsed since taking the B.A. degree. Fees: a fee of £5 is payable by those who took their BA degree in 1962 or earlier. Please give at least four weeks’ notice before the Congregation at which you wish to take your degree. Correspondence should be addressed to the Praelector. * For affiliated students, five years.

Dining Rights and Guest Rooms Members who hold an MA or other Master’s degree or a higher degree from the University, or are qualified for an MA, are welcome to dine in College during Full Term or the period of residence in the Long Vacation. For the academic year 2014–2015, ‘Full Term’ means 7 October to 5 December, 13 January to 13 March, and 21 April to 12 June; residence in the Long Vacation runs for five weeks from early July. Dining for Members is available on any evening of the week during term or Long Vacation Residence except Tuesday or Saturday and on occasions when large College events take place. A Member may dine as a guest of the College at High Table up to four times each academic year (once a term and once in the Long Vacation residence), provided a Fellow is present to preside. On one of those occasions, overnight accommodation is free of charge for the Member if it is available. It is regrettably not normally possible for spouses/partners to dine at the High Table. However, for the academic year 2014-2015, the College will hold six ‘Members’ Evenings’, when up to ten Members and their guests (ten people in all) may dine at the College’s expense. It is recommended that large parties of Members, or Members and their spouses/partners, should seek to use these evenings as particularly good opportunities to dine in the College. The dates of these occasions in 2014-15 are: Monday 20 October and Sunday 9 November (Remembrance Sunday), Monday 19 January 2015 and Sunday 22 February, Wednesday 6 May and Sunday 7 June (also a Scarlet Day – Whitsunday). Overnight accommodation may also be available in College, at a reasonable charge (£42.50 per person, per night, for the current academic year), for a visit of a maximum of two nights. The College has four en suite guest rooms (one twin-bedded room and three double- bedded rooms). Given these limited facilities, early notice is strongly advised when making inquiries. The College would be grateful to be informed at the earliest opportunity if a Member’s plans to visit have to be amended. The College also regrets that it will be necessary to charge a Member for the full cost of the room in the event that that Member should cancel his or her visit without notice. Arrangements for dining, or for staying in a guest room, should be made through the Development Office either by telephone (01223 339079), letter, fax (01223 339081), or email ([email protected]). Should Members simply wish to book a guest room, this can be done directly with the Porters’ Lodge by telephone (01223 338100).