Trinity College Oxford Report 2007

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CONTENTS

THE TRINITY COMMUNITY ...... 2 JUNIOR MEMBERS...... 62

President’s Report...... 2 JCR Report ...... 62

The Governing Body ...... 4 MCR Report...... 63

News of the Governing Body ...... 6 Clubs and Societies ...... 64

Members of Staff...... 9 Blues...... 69

Staff News...... 11

New Undergraduates...... 13 ARTICLES AND REVIEWS ...... 70

New Postgraduate Students ...... 16 ‘ABrief History of the Gryphon’ ...... 70 by Sinead Doyle Degrees, Schools Results and Awards 2007 ...... 18 ‘Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley...... 73 – Trinity’s Greatest Scientist?’ THE COLLEGE YEAR ...... 22 by Russell Egdell

Development Report...... 22 Book Reviews...... 81

Benefactors in 2007 ...... 25

Garden Report...... 34 Degree Days...... 84

Buildings Report ...... 35 Editor’s Note ...... 84

Library Report ...... 35

Archive Report...... 40

OBITUARIES ...... 44

Lord Hussey...... 44

Mrs Cecily Holladay ...... 45

Allan Dinsdale ...... 46 Cover illustration: Sir Thomas Pope by William Stretes.

Members of College...... 47 Inside cover: Trinity College, by George Pyne. Gift of Michael Staines (1949). 2 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

THE TRINITY COMMUNITY s y l l

PRESIDENT’S REPORT o n K m o T :

fter last year’s high dramas in the Sheldonian with the Vice- o t o h AChancellor’s proposal being voted down, the University P year has been quieter, less newsworthy, but still divisive. In retrospect it can be seen that the Government’s move to channel its funding in block to the University, rather than to the University and to the Colleges, has proved to be an apple of discord. Where last year the discussion was all about governance, this year it has been over money, more specifically how to divide up the money from the Government between the University Divisions and Colleges and more recently the College contribution scheme, which is effectively a form of tax on the richer Colleges to help the poorer ones strengthen their endowments. The latest proposals on dividing up the Government’s money failed to be endorsed by the Colleges, at The Chaplain, the President and Father Timothy Radcliffe the end leaving a confused situation for the next financial year. at the Founder’s 500th Birthday Celebration Certainly the Vice-Chancellor who is standing down in 2009 is facing an uncomfortable eighteen months, dealing with the One of the other main issues which we and the University will continuing fall-out from his governance proposals, which will have to grapple with is the level of tuition fees. There is a general have to be revisited in one shape or another in 2008, and the expectation that in the next Parliament the current cap on tuition financial problems mentioned above. fees will be removed or at least raised, which would go some way to redress the current situation where we lose £6,000 per annum Undergraduate admissions can still prove capable of grabbing on each undergraduate we educate from the UK or the rest of the the headlines. After the Laura Spence debacle in 2000, the Sutton EU. But if the tuition fees are raised, we will need to have a Trust published figures showing that over the past five years, a system of bursaries in place which allows us to make good our hundred elite schools accounted for a third of admissions to claim that admissions are on a needs-blind-basis. So raising Oxbridge. The University spent some time presenting its own tuition fees solves one financial problem while creating another. side of the story to help put the figures in context, but the damage Averitable Morton’s fork. was already done. The University needs to be far more pro-active in putting across its message that entrance to Oxford is by merit To come back to our own grassroots, indeed to our founding alone, not by social background or by type of school. We do our father, and you can’t get more grassroots than that, we celebrated best to encourage applications from a wide geographical and in 2007 the 500th anniversary of the birth of Sir Thomas Pope. social spread and hold three Open Days a year to allow potential We celebrated it twice in fact, once on the very day, 7 August, applicants to get a feel for Trinity. which fell deep in the long vacation and once again when the whole College was reassembled on 18 October. It seemed fitting Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 3

that we should doubly celebrate the man without whom Trinity impact felt even more. The Chapel Choir has, in a miracle of would not exist. In January 2009, we will be marking the 450th almost biblical proportions, doubled. Those who find anniversary of his death. themselves in Oxford on a Sunday evening during term time can hear them to beautiful effect. The Trinity Players defied the The Fellowship has been invigorated by several additions: a new elements to put on a really outstanding production of Wilde’s An Domestic Bursar, John Keeling, who bravely stepped into the Ideal Husband in Trinity Term. shoes that David Mills had so surely made his own; and two new professorial fellows in the shape of Professor Craig Clunas and Nor does our small size prevent us from competing vigorously on Professor Marta Kwiatkowska, respectively Professor of the the sporting front. The Second Eight completed a remarkable five History of Art and Professor of Computing Systems. The current bumps in Summer Eights, thus earning their oars richly. Most of Professor of the History of Art, Martin Kemp, has stayed on to them are still with us, so we now look forward with great see the Department through the Research Assessment Exercise confidence to next Trinity Term. Rugby is undergoing a particular and has meanwhile found time to curate the exhibition ‘Seduced: renaissance. Having for many years shared a rugby team with art and sex from antiquity to now’, which has attracted rave LMH, we now have in addition an all-Trinity rugby team, which reviews at the Barbican. I effortlessly cleared the age barrier for will be competing in cuppers next term in its own right and under admission. You have to be 18 to go and see it. We also welcomed its own exclusive label. In addition, Blues or Half-Blues have a new Junior Research Fellow, Dr Ioannis Vakonakis. been obtained by our students in sports as diverse as cricket to kayaking. The complete list can be found on page 69. Academically the College scaled new heights gaining twenty- seven Firsts in Finals in 2007 and an all-time high seventh No account of the last year would be complete without mention of position in the Norrington Table, created by my eponymous the filming for ‘Lewis’, the spin-off from the Inspector Morse predecessor 45 years ago. All credit to the students, but also to television series, which took place in Trinity over three days in their gifted tutors for choosing them in the first place and then October. Many parts of the College were used and ten Fellows, bringing out their full potential. This year’s impressive array of four members of staff and sixty-four students took part as extras. University Prizes is listed on page 21. You can see it on your television screens in February 2008. Despite being a former active thespian, I passed up the chance to Trinity continues to be favoured by the University at large when appear as an extra in order to host a dinner for the students who it comes to entertaining distinguished foreign visitors. In the had helped us so magnificently in our third Telethon. To those of last few months we have entertained the Emperor and Empress of you who were contacted and responded our deepest thanks, as Japan, perhaps an imperial first for Trinity, the Italian Foreign indeed to our other benefactors over the last year. I have Minister, and the President of the European Commission. The continued to visit Old Members nationally and internationally in combination of our beautiful buildings and gardens and the places as diverse as New York, Canada, Germany, Brussels and outstanding cuisine prepared by Chris Simms and his talented points north, south and east in the UK. In 2008 I shall be in team is proving irresistible. Not surprisingly this has now been South Africa and North America again, as well as some westerly recognized in Chris’ success as the Chef of the Year in the points in the UK. Diplomacy never involved so much travelling. University’s ‘Awards for College Excellence’, while his colleagues in the kitchen won Best Supporting Team.

Music and drama continued to flourish. The Music Society has performed strongly and with its new timpani, purchased with assistance from the College and the Trinity Society, will make its Sir Ivor Roberts KCMG 4 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

THE GOVERNING BODY Professor Justin S. Wark, MA(PhD Lond.): Tutor in Physics, Vice President (from 1.10.07)

President Professor Martin J. Kemp, MA (MA Camb.) FBA FRSA: Sir Ivor Roberts, KCMG MA FCIL Professor of the History of Art

Professor Jan T. Czernuszka, MA (BSc Lond, PhD Camb.): Tutor Fellows in Materials Science, Vice-President (until 30.09.07) Mr Michael J. Inwood, MA: Tutor in Philosophy, Dean of Professor Martin D. Maiden, MA (MA, PhD Camb.) FBA: Degrees Professor of the Romance Languages Mr Peter G. McC. Brown, MA: Tutor in Classics Professor Louis C. Mahadevan, MA (BSc New Delhi, MSc PhD Dr Clive H. Griffin, MA DPhil: Tutor in Spanish London): Tutor in Biochemistry

Professor Gus Hancock, MA (MA Dublin, PhD Camb.): Tutor in Dr Alexander M. Korsunsky, MADPhil (BSc MSc Moscow): Tutor Physical Chemistry in Engineering Science, Dean (until 30.09.07)

Dr Peter B. R. Carey, MA DPhil: Laithwaite Tutor in Modern Dr Chris Wallace, MA DPhil (BSc MSc Lond.): Tutor in History Economics, Fellow Librarian, Deputy Dean (until 30.09.07), Dean (from 1.10.07) Mr Jack Collin, MD (MB, BS Newc.) FRCS: NHS Consultant Surgeon Dr Keith J. Buckler, MA (BSc Lond., PhD Newc.): Tutor in Medicine, Deputy Dean (from 1.10.07) Mr Bryan R. Ward-Perkins, MA DPhil: Tutor in Modern History, Fellow Archivist Mr David Mills, MA (BA Exeter): Domestic Bursar (to 30.3.07)

Dr Chris R. Prior, MA DPhil (MA, PhD Camb.): Tutor in Applied Dr Trudy A. Watt, MA DPhil (BSc Open, MSc Shef. Hallam): Mathematics, Garden Master Senior Tutor

Dr Steve J. Sheard, MA (BSc, PhD Lond.): Hunt-Grubbe Tutor in Mr Nick W. Barber, MA BCL: Wyatt Rushton Tutor in Law Engineering Science, Computing Officer Dr Kantik Ghosh, MA (BA Calcutta, MPhil, PhD Camb.): Dr G. Jonathan Mallinson, MA(MA, PhD Camb): Tutor in French Stirling-Boyd Tutor in English

Professor Russell G. Egdell, MA DPhil: Tutor in Inorganic Dr Bernd Kirchheim, MA (RNDR, CSc Prague): Shaw Foundation Chemistry Tutor in Mathematics

Professor Peter L. Read, MA (BSc Birm., PhD Camb.): Tutor in Dr Stephen D. Fisher, MA DPhil (MSc Southampton): Tutor in Physics Politics

Professor George D. W. Smith, MA DPhil FRS: George Kelley Dr Victor F. P. Seidel, MA (BSc Cornell, MSc Rensselaer, MBA Reader in Materials Science Camb., PhD Stanford): Tutor in Management Studies

Professor Frances M. Ashcroft, MA (MA, PhD ScD Camb.) FRS: Mr Ben McFarlane, BCL, MA: Tutor in Law Royal Society Professor of Physiology Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 5

Mr Peter G. McCulloch, MA (MB, ChB Aberd., FRCS Glas., MD Edin): Reader in Clinical Surgery

The Reverend Emma M. Percy, MA (MA Camb., BA Dur.): Chaplain

Dr Johannes Zachhuber, MA MSt DPhil: Tutor in Theology

Mr Kevin J. S. Knott, CVO (BA Lond.) AKC: Estates Bursar

Professor Kim Nasmyth, MA (BAYork, PhD Edin.) FRS: Whitley Professor of Biochemistry

Dr Stefano-Maria Evangelista, MA MSt DPhil (BA E. Anglia, MA Lond.): Tutor in English

Mr John J. Keeling CBE, MA (MA London): Domestic Bursar (from 1.4.07)

Professor Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, MA (BSc MSc Krakow, PhD Leic.): Professor of Computing Systems (from 1.7.07)

Professor Craig Clunas,MA (BA Camb., PhD Lond.): Professor of the History of Art (from 1.10.07)

JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWS

Dr David Gill, MA MPhil, DPhil: Economics (to 30.9.07)

Ms Alexandra Olaya-Castro (BSc, MSc Bogota): Physics

Ms Laura A. Swift, MA MSt: Classics

Dr Ioannis (John) Vakonakis, MA (BSc Crete, PhD Texas A&M): Biochemistry (from 1.10.07) 6 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

NEWS OF THE GOVERNING BODY by over £1.5m research funding from research councils and industry. Her current work is addressing the automated verification of real software and aspects of ubiquitous computing he Governing body has bid farewell to one and welcomed such as context-awareness. Tthree new members this year. David Mills was finally allowed to retire from the Domestic Bursarship, at the second In October, Craig Clunas succeeded Martin Kemp as attempt, in March; his retirement dinner in May was so heavily Professor of the History of Art, although Martin remains in post oversubscribed that it had to be relocated from the Old Bursary to until the summer of 2008. Craig has published extensively on the Hall. David came to Trinity in 2001, bringing characteristic the art history and culture of China. Much of his work qualities of calm and humour that made even the most thankless concentrates on the Ming period (1368–1644), with additional aspects of his role seem easy. His successor as Domestic Bursar, teaching and research interests in the art of twentieth-century and John Keeling, took up the cudgels in April. Previously John contemporary China. He has worked as a curator at the Victoria was Director of Studies at the Royal Military and Albert Museum, and taught art history at the University of College of Science at Cranfield, and he Sussex and at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London.

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Marta Kwiatkowska took up the Chair of o based on the 2004 Slade Lectures, is Empire h Computing Systems, and with it a Trinity P of Great Brightness: Visual and Material fellowship, in July. Previously she was Cultures of Ming China, 1368–1644 (2007). Professor of Computer Science at the Among his current projects are a revision of University of Birmingham. Marta first Art in China with increased coverage of studied Computer Science at the modern and contemporary art, a history of the Jagiellonian University in Poland and she regional court cultures of Ming China, and a took her PhD from Leicester University. The study of Chinese painting and its audiences main focus of her research in recent years since 1600. has been on modelling and verification of David Mills bows out as Domestic Bursar probabilistic systems, which involves Every year Trinity loses one Junior Research foundational studies and practical Fellow and gains another. David Gill came applications. The idea is to develop software that can input a to the end of his three year tenure in the summer, and has moved system description and automatically check whether it satisfies on to become Assistant Professor of Economics at the University desirable properties, such as ‘what is the probability of of Southampton. In October the College welcomed John delivering a message within 2 milliseconds?’ or ‘what is the Vakonakis to a JRF in biochemistry. John took his PhD from expected time until message delivery?’ The PRISM software Texas A&M University in 2004. His doctoral study focused on system developed in her group has been used to model and bacterial circadian oscillators, an endogenous timekeeping analyse a broad range of real-world systems, for example mechanism. John became a postdoctoral scientist in Bluetooth device discovery, PIN cracking schemes and Biochemistry at Oxford in 2005, and a Marie Curie fellow in biological signalling pathways. Marta’s research is supported 2006. His current research interests are on cell adhesion, motility and signalling. In particular, he works on the structural Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 7

properties and assembly process of the extracellular matrix, and Jonathan Mallinson has continued to serve as Chairman of on the function of synaptic signalling receptors. the French Sub-Faculty. He submitted a successful bid for funding for a five-year Visiting Professorship scheme in association with Two members of the Governing Body received significant Paris III, and gave a paper on Voltaire at the annual meeting of the honours in 2007. On 28 April Fran Ashcroft, the Royal American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Atlanta. Society Professor of Physiology, was presented with the Clive Griffin has given lectures in Mexico and Pavia, Italy, on prestigious Walter B. Cannon Award at the American the origins of printing in Mexico, and on the history of the book Physiological Society’s 120th annual meeting in Washington, in sixteenth-century Seville. Martin Maiden has given where she delivered the Walter B. Cannon Physiology in conference papers in Montreal, Konstanz, and Innsbruck and Perspective lecture about her work on ion channels. Fran’s delivered a series of invited lectures in Timisoara, Romania, and discovery, with Andrew Hattersley of Exeter University, that ion Oviedo, Spain. He has also become director of the new Research channel malfunction causes one rare genetic form of diabetes that Centre for Romance Linguistics within the Faculty of Medieval strikes children and is known as permanent neonatal diabetes and Modern Languages. mellitus, means that children born with the disease have been able to switch from daily insulin injections to a simple pill, The Senior Tutor, Trudy Watt, has had another very active year transforming both their lives and those of their parents. On 25 in College. The third edition of her book, Introduction to October, Kim Nasmyth, Whitley Professor of Biochemistry, statistics for Biology, was published, and is used as the set text was one of five recipients of the Gairdner Foundation by one of the co-authors for the first year course for Biology International Award (often known as the ‘mini-Nobel Prize’), for undergraduates at Oxford. Trudy continues as one of four Senior his discovery of the mechanism of chromosome segregation Tutors forming the Management Committee of the OxCORT during cell division. This is a major breakthrough in the field of system for recording tuition. This web-based system allows medical science, with profound implications for the student reports to be submitted by tutors on-line and also makes understanding of chromosome non-disjunction in human cancer them available to undergraduates via the web. and other genetic diseases. Peter Care y has completed his 700-page biography of the An important discovery of a different kind was made by Peter Indonesian national hero, Prince Dipanagara, which was Brown in 2004 when he located two pieces of music by Sir published by the KITLV Press in Leiden in December under the Edward German that were thought to have vanished without trace. title The Power of Prophecy: Prince Dipanagara and the End of an These were a March and Chorus for Sophocles’ Antigone, Old Order in Java, 1785–1855. The work represents 35 years of composed for but never performed at Wimbledon School, Surrey, research and writing by Peter on early nineteenth-century Java in 1888. On 22 September they had their world premiere at the and the life and times of Dipanagara. annual meeting of the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society at the Royal Alexander Korsunsky has published Elasticity with Agricultural College, Cirencester, in a translation written by Mathematica: An Introduction to Continuum Mechanics and Peter to match the rhythms of German’s setting. Peter also acted Linear Elasticity (CUP, 2007), which he co-authored with Andrei as chairman of the examiners in Literae Humaniores, and Constantinescu. Alexander was awarded the CEGB prize for best continued to serve on the Humanities Divisional Board, on the paper in the Journal of Strain Analysis. In the course of the year AHRC Peer Review College and as a Director of the Archive of he co-chaired the World Congress on Engineering in London, Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. In May he gave a talk was invited to give the keynote address to the International on the classical background to Handel’s Imeneo for the Multi-Conference on Engineering in Hong Kong, gave a plenary Cambridge Handel Opera Group. 8 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

lecture on Aerospace opportunities and challenges at the UK- Singapore workshop, and had the pleasure of hosting a dinner for Trinity old members in Singapore.

In September Bryan Ward-Perkins launched the new ‘Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity’, of which he is the co-ordinator, bringing together the large number of scholars and graduate students in Oxford, across several disciplines, who study the period of transition from the Roman to the post-Roman world. The other high point of Bryan’s year was a trip to Japan to lecture in Tokyo and Kyoto, but with plenty of time to eat wonderful meals and visit many of these two cities’ justly-famous shops, shrines and gardens.

Russell Egdell initiated a new EU supported project on development of catalysts for photodestruction of organic pollutants. His group continues to work on the growth of transparent conducting oxides by molecular beam epitaxy and published seven papers this year. He gave the opening invited talk at the 5th International Workshop on Oxide Surfaces held by Lake Tahoe, California, in January and later in the year gave seminars in Catania, Darmstadt and Dublin.

Among papers published by Fellows of Trinity are Peter Brown’s ‘Movements of characters and pace of action in Terence’s plays’, in Terentius Poeta, ed. P. Kruschwitz and others (Munich), and ‘The comic Socrates’ in Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, ed. M. Trapp (Ashgate Publishing). Jonathan Mallinson has published articles on eighteenth- century translations of Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne, and Voltaire’s Paméla; and Steve Fisher on the ‘United Kingdom’, in the European Journal of Political Research, and on ‘turnout and (change in) the left share of the vote’, in Electoral Studies.

Afinal achievement to note is the award to David Maw, lecturer in music, of the Westrup Prize by the editors of Music and Letters for his article ‘Machaut and the “Critical” Phase of Medieval Polyphony’. Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 9

MEMBERS OF STAFF • DECEMBER 2007

College Offices Archives Annabel Ownsworth, Academic Administrator Clare Hopkins, Archivist Isabel Lough, Tutorial Administrator Jonathan Downing, Schools Liaison Officer Medical Glenn Archibald, Admissions Officer Alison Nicholls, Nurse

President Gardens Ulli Parkinson, PAto the President Paul Lawrence, Head Gardener Lana Ip, Housekeeper Luke Winter, Assistant Gardener Aaron Drewett, Apprentice Gardener Computing Alastair Johnson, Computer Manager Housekeeping Mandy Giles, Accommodation Services Manager Alumni and Development Office Sadia Saad, Housekeeping Supervisor Tom Knollys, Alumni Relations Officer Brenda Bassett, Scout, Staircase 6 Sue Broers, Development Officer Valentino Biondi, Scout, Staircase 1 Linora Lawrence, Database and Development Office Assistant Damian Blachnio, Scout, Staircase 18 Simon Toner, Data Assistant Renata Blachnio, Scout, Staircases 10 & 12 Kathy Davies, Scout, Staircase 3 Bursary Elsa Davidora, Scout, Staircase 4 Robyn Searle, College Accountant Yeti Dos Santos, Staircase 5 Jenny Cable, Executive Assistant to the Bursars Alan East, Scout, Staircase 16 and Chapel Nasera Cummings, Fees and Battels Administrator Caroline East, Scout, Various Laraine Mather, Assistant Accountant Palm Harding, Scout, Staircase 15 Paul Rose, Assistant Accountant Leila Haddouche, Scout, Staircase 17 Philip Ling, Scout, Staircase 4 Conference / Functions Administrator Malcolm Nolan, Scout, Staircases 2 & 11 Rosemary Strawson Sue Peach, Scout, Staircase 2 and Porters Lodge Annexe Erwin Szymaniec, Scout, Staircases 7 & 13 Library Alison Felstead, Librarian 10 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

Kitchen Lodge Chris Simms, Executive Chef Graham Rance, Head Porter Julian Smith, Head Chef Nigel Bray, Porter Verity Anton, Third Chef Ian Gray, Night Porter Jonathan Clarke, Second Chef Dominic Lantain, Night Porter Pat Conway, Kitchen Assistant Mark Norman, Porter Justino Geogino, p/t kitchen porter part-time porters: John George, Kitchen Porter Christopher Fenwick Peter Greeney, Chef de Partie Adrian Faulkner Philip Hicks, Apprentice Chef Nigel Timms Unliditto Quadros, Kitchen Porter Doug Simms, Pastry Chef Outside Properties Jacob Simms, p/t kitchen porter Ken Ip Simon Wallworth, Chef de Partie Daniel Wright, Senior Chef de Partie Custodians Maurice Hicks, Custodian SCR and Dining Hall Malcolm Watson, Custodian Milanka Briggs, SCR and Hall Steward Rogrigo Scotti, Assistant SCR/Hall Steward Workshop Hassam Bakar, Dining Hall Supervisor Steve Griffiths, Buildings and Maintenance Manager Lisa Linzey, Assistant SCR and Hall Steward Nigel Morgan, Workshop Foreman Khalil Alhaji, SCR/Hall Catering Assistant Maged Alyas, Workshop Assistant Paul Hunt, Plumber Beer Cellar Henry Jeskowiak, Electrician David Smith, Bar Steward Gary Kinch, Painter/Decorator Sue Smith, Beer Cellar Steward John Smith, Carpenter Gun Gunawan, Beer Cellar Assistant Dave Thomas, General Labourer

Grounds Paul Madden, Groundsman David Burrows, Assistant Groundsman Linda Peach, Cleaner, Sportsground

Boathouse Mark Seal, Boatman Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 11 s y l l

STAFF NEWS o n K m o T :

commenced my appointment as Trinity’s Domestic Bursar on o t o h IApril Fool’s Day—highly appropriate some may say! Hence I P can only personally report on half of the year and I am also conscious that my observations may seem shallow vis-à-vis the more detailed knowledge of my predecessor, David Mills. I am similarly aware that his expertly crafted synopses of each year not only encapsulated all the events and their conduct very precisely but were also written in his inimitable prose. I can’t emulate them so I will have to do it my way.

First let me record my thanks, formally, for the welcome and help that I have received so far. I am indebted to the Heads of Department in particular as they have borne the brunt of my questioning and invariably provided honest and helpful answers. Kevin Whatley gets the chance to meet David Goddard After completing just one full academic term, and one complete summer conference season, I am already aware that the word Yvonne Cavanagh, PA to the President, left in June after seven ‘vacation’ is something of a misnomer for the staff; it often just years of wonderfully efficient and wide-ranging service, working means doing many of the same things for a wide variety of folk predominantly for President Michael Beloff but staying to who are not Trinity students. oversee Trinity’s transition to the new President, Sir Ivor Roberts. She also provided typically quiet but helpful advice to The College Report customarily reviews departures and arrivals; several others trying to settle into Trinity’s way. Yvonne has and sadly the former list contains too many college stalwarts this departed to fulfil a long cherished ambition, and is now working year. In particular, Trinity’s Buildings and Maintenance Manager, for a missionary society in Oxford. She was part of a trio of David Goddard, left in November to return to his first college, The summer departures as Ed Reid took a promotion to be an Assistant Queen’s. He provided absolutely sterling service throughout eight Gardener at Magdalen and then Ian Pyniger went to Lady Margaret and a half years at Trinity. Nothing was too much trouble and we Hall as Second Chef after eight years in Chris Simms’ kitchen all felt that David was always doing his best for us despite brigade. Wei Man Ng had departed earlier in the year for Hong conflicting demands elsewhere. Somehow everyone’s request was Kong after five years as a Scout and latterly Jacqui Moraes, who always his top priority and he had that uncanny knack of has served us all in Hall with great efficiency and charm for three prioritising his tasking list so that folk rarely realised that they years, also left for more lucrative employment. had been gazumped by a more pressing or bigger task. The old adage of not knowing anyone’s true value until they are gone was The departures of so many loyal and highly regarded college not true in his case: we all knew it before he went. David’s employees are balanced by the arrival of a well-qualified and farewell was notably well attended and he well deserved the enthusiastic group of replacements. Steve Griffiths joined in President’s fulsome praise. Suffice to say he remained a Trinity December as the new Buildings and Maintenance Manager, man to the end and will be sorely missed by all. We wish him the having done a similar job in St Anne’s. Ian Pyniger’s departure very best of good fortune at The Queen’s College. meant a new arrival in the kitchen, in the form of Daniel Wright 12 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

from the Mole Inn, and promotions for Jonathan Clarke to grateful to the members of the staff who deputise so capably Second Chef and Verity Anton to Third. Luke Winter is the new when posts are gapped or who provide equally unheralded but Assistant Gardener having made the great trek from Oxford vital work in the conference/events office, library, archives, Brookes, while Philip Hicks and Aaron Drewett completed, or are surgery, grounds, boathouse or chapel. completing, their apprenticeships in the kitchen and gardens As I attempt to master the Oxford vernacular, the arcane, archaic respectively. or anarchic customs of fellows, staff and students, and the range Mercifully, Housekeeping, the Bursary, and the Development and diversity of Trinity life, I also am conscious that the concept Office are largely unchanged; all continue to provide excellent, of the ‘College household’ remains as true today as when Sir largely unsung, service. The Lodge recently welcomed two new— Thomas Pope first described it. The household staff may be a almost full-time—porters. Nigel Timms and Adrian Faulkner more eclectic mix than in his day but therein lies half the together bring over sixty years of experience in the police, challenge and fun. probation and IT areas; hopefully we will need less of the former Finally, I record, for completeness and posterity’s sake, the and more of the latter, at least internally! The Bursars were also departure of my predecessor, David Mills, after over six years as greatly relieved that Jenny Cable joined in April as their Domestic Bursar. A real gentleman, bon viveur, raconteur and Executive Assistant and the President similarly welcomed Ulli wit, he had almost as many farewells as Frank Sinatra. At each Parkinson as his new Personal Assistant in July. The College one, impressively eloquent speakers eulogised about David’s Office also experienced two changes. Schools Liaison Officer outstanding performance. Any more and I’d have wondered Joy Shorten moved on, having boosted the number of excellent whether there was any point in taking his job! applicants, and has been replaced by Jonathan Downing. He is a recent Oxford graduate from the area in Durham in which the John Keeling College focuses much of its outreach activity. Glenn Archibald Domestic Bursar joined as Admissions Officer to bolster the admirable efforts of the Academic and Tutorial Administrators. All newcomers appear to be well settled and coping with the vagaries of Trinity life.

I am conscious that, by naming only those departing or arriving, the majority of staff may miss seeing their name in print but in the interests of preserving the rain forest I won’t name them all. That said, Chris Simms has continued to enhance his, and his team’s, deserved—and now publicly recognized— reputation for the best cuisine in Oxford. The coincidence of the Chancellor hosting Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan to lunch in Trinity in May was surely no coincidence at all. And the litany of compliments which follow every event bear witness not only to the chefs’ prowess but also to the splendid service and support from all the Accommodation, SCR, Beer Cellar, Lodge, Gardens, IT and Workshop personnel. Some of Trinity’s quality service may even feature in ITV’s ‘Lewis’—watch out for Lisa and Jacqui! Overall, it is a grand team effort and I am particularly Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 13

Carter, Laura Elizabeth NEW UNDERGRADUATES Berkhamsted School, Berkhamsted

Michaelmas Term 2007 Chen, Yiming Ivan Baggott, Paul James St Edward’s School, Oxford Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Amersham Clarke, Robert Barwood, Philip Rupert Rossall School, Fleetwood Radley College, Abingdon Dalglish, Rowan Diana Batty, Rosie Clifton College, Clifton St Leonards-Mayfield School, Mayfield Dasgupta, Ushashi Bauccio, Charlotte Victoria King George V School, Hong Kong Lady Margaret School, London Davis, Guy Hugo Hobson Beal, Robert St Paul’s School, Barnes, London Adam’s Grammar School, Newport Du, Stephen Sijia Bentley, Eleanor Sophie Elizabeth Gosforth High School, Gosforth Sheffield High School, Sheffield Dunning, Greg Thomas Blackburn, Thomas George Crickhowell High School, Crickhowell Trinity School, Croydon Evans, Henry Llewellyn Borup, Michael Howard Newcombe Tonbridge School, Tonbridge Repton School, Repton Fang, Weikang Brown, Megan Mentone Grammar School, Mentone, Australia Sacred Heart Grammar School, Newry Furman, Craig Stephen Burgess, Fred St Paul’s School, Barnes, London Eton College, Windsor Greenfield, Graeme Cairns, Andrew Brian Martin Wallace High School, Co Antrim Banbridge Academy, Banbridge Hadman, Cicely Jane Carmichael, Claire Primrose Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe Fettes College, Edinburgh Haji, Abbasali Carrington Brook, Emma Mary King Edward VI Camp Hill Boys School James Allen’s Girls School, London Halliday, Samuel Thomas Kings College School, Wimbledon 14 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

Halstead-Smith, Caroline McGlone, Zara Rugby School, Rugby Fettes College, Edinburgh

Hawley, Alexandra Elyssia Beaconsfield Mistry, Vitesh High School, Beaconsfield Leeds Grammar School, Leeds

Hoyemsvoll, Steffen Tom Moore, Tom City of London School, London Loughborough Grammar School, Loughborough

Hyland, Robert John Morgan, Leonora Jessie Joan Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital School, Bristol Central Newcastle High School, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Kamata, Teddy Morrison, Emer Frederick High School, USA Lumen Christi College, Derry

Knowles, Jack Morton, Robert Chase High School, Malvern St Joseph’s School, Swindon

Leigh, Christopher Allen Newman, Timothy Charles Hales Royal Grammar School, Newcastle Upon Tyne Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury

Leonard, Joanne Caroline Newsome, Richard Anthony John Hymers College, Kingston Upon Hull Sherborne School, Sherborne

Lewis, Kirsten Louise Newsome, Rebecca Jane Birkenhead High School, Birkenhead Yale Sixth Form College, Wrexham

Lloyd, David Newton, Christopher Robert George Abbott School, Guildford City of London School, London

Lobley, Rosemary Nye, Abigail Kendrick School, Reading Wycombe High School, High Wycombe

Losey, Samantha Oliver, Phoebe Julia Royal High School, Bath Wath Comprehensive School, Rotherham

Macaulay, Clare Elizabeth Pant, Monic Kings of Wessex Upper School, Cheddar Magdalen College School, Oxford

Mair, Matthew Joachim Townsend Priddin, Emma Joanne Magdalen College School, Oxford Biddenham Upper School, Bedford Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 15

Rackstraw, David Simon Templeman, Leah Audrey William Parker School, Hastings School of St Helen & St Katharine, Abingdon

Rautonen, Henri Mikael Thetford, James Helsingin Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu, Helsinki Westminster School, London

Reeve, Daniel James Thomas, Francesca Jane Repton School, Repton Truro College, Truro

Richardson, Evelyn Wallace, Annie Camden School for Girls, London St Brendan’s College, Bristol

Sayed, Faraz Ward, Victoria Lucinda Copland Community School, Wembley St Martin’s College, Solihull

Sharpley, Daniel Peter Watson, Matthew David St Boniface’s College, Plymouth Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe

Sheppard, Daniel Kin-Chi Weyman, Frederick Cranleigh School, Cranleigh Westminster School, London

Short, Lauren Wiggins, Emily Clare Brockenhurst College, Brockenhurst Sherborne School for Girls, Sherborne

Sides, Catherine Isobel Yu, Vanessa King’s School, Worcester Tiffin Girls’ School, Kingston Upon Thames

Smallwood, Christo Eastbourne College, Eastbourne UNDERGRADUATE VISITING STUDENTS Smith, Andrew Nicholas Perse School, Cambridge Forgues, Celine Southwick, Oliver Robert Paris I - Sorbonne, Paris, France (Erasmus Scholar) Peter Symonds College, Winchester Litton, Samuel Benjamin Tang, Wanzhen University of Massachusetts, USA (UMass Scholar) National Junior College, Singapore Pasquier, Celine Taylor, David Robert Paris II, Paris, France (Erasmus Scholar) Royal Grammar School, Guildford Schuhmacher, Jacques Humbolt Universitat, Berlin, Germany 16 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

NEW POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS Chin, Chuanfei Harvard University, USA

Michaelmas 2006 D’Netto, Matthew Jon Hall, Rebecca Elizabeth University of Birmingham University of Nottingham De Haas, Sarah Elizabeth Hilary Term 2007 University of California, Berkeley, USA Kilani, Feras King’s College, London Dyszynski, Jillian Blair (Saïd Graduate Scholar in Business Studies) Georgetown University, USA (Birkett Scholar in Environmental Studies) Trinity Term 2007 Lee, Joanna Long See Fruth, Matthias Trinity College, Oxford University of Birmingham

Gan, Shiying Michaelmas Term 2007 University College, London Agarwal, Dhruva College of Business Studies, India Geen, Samuel Thomas Trinity College, Oxford Aneja, Urvashi University College, Utrecht Gordon, Samuel Peter University of Auckland, NZ Baldwin, James Edward (Birkett Scholar in Environmental Studies) University of Bristol Goulbourne, Christopher Nicholas Barrow, Francesca Clare University of Durham Trinity College, Oxford (Austin Farrer Scholar) Hansen, Tina Alice Blomfield, Thomas Benjamin University of Copenhagen, Denmark Trinity College, Oxford (Michael & Judith Beloff Scholar) Hofmann, Felix Bristow, Caroline Elizabeth Trinity College, Oxford Trinity College, Oxford Jarratt, Andrew Bundvad, Mette University of York University of Aarhus, Denmark Jayaraman, Apoorva Cawston, Thomas Walter St Stephen’s College, Delhi, India Exeter University Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 17

Kaestle, David Julius Sheppard, Ruth Laura Universitat Tubingen, Germany St Hilda’s College, Oxford

Kattenbelt, Mark Alex Shevlin, Henry Francis Anthony Charles University of Birmingham St Anne’s College, Oxford (Cecil Lubbock Scholar)

Keegan, Sinead Shvarova, Olga Yurievna Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland Moscow State University, Moscow

King, Amy Sarah Skandalis, Ioannis University of South Australia, Adelaide (Rhodes Scholar) University of Athens, Greece

Kok, Sim Min Swart, Hanneke University of Malaya Neyenrode University, Netherlands (Saïd Graduate Scholar in Business Studies) Li, Haobai Imperial College, London Szilagyi, Anna Tunde Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Budapest Liu, Yu-Jen School of Oriental & African Studies, London Tahir, Abdul Qader Brasenose College, Oxford Mathias, Manon Hefin Trinity College, Oxford Thomas, Matthew Rhys Trinity College, Oxford Meadows, Andrew Robert Trinity College, Oxford Wali, Gorav Neel Trinity College, Oxford Pasquier, Celine Paris II, France Wong, Sze Wan Stanford University, USA Plostinar, Ciprian Dan (Saïd Graduate Scholar in Business Studies) Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Zhou, Xiaolong Purdy, Kristin Michelle Duke University School of Medicine, USA The Queen’s College, Oxford Zhu, Jiwen Quist, Roxanne Genevieve Tsinghua University, Beijing, P R China California State University, USA (Rhodes Scholar)

Schoettl, Julia Theresa Hughes Hall, Cambridge 18 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

DEGREES, SCHOOLS RESULTS AND AWARDS 2007

n the academic year 2006/2007 there were 300 undergraduates reading for Final Honour Schools and 106 graduates reading for higher Idegrees and two Visiting Students. Twenty-seven members gained first class degrees in Final Honour Schools in 2007. Their names are in shown in bold.

Geraldine A M Arben Christopher LCopplestone Evan M Hughes Anjlee Sangani

Anthony E Archer Louise S Corfield Daniel Immanbocus Matthew E Scott

Peter F Armitage Katie R Cornthwaite Sophia Killingbeck Dervla C Simm

Kirsten L Armstrong Nicholas Davey Valery Latyshev Victoria R E Simon

Lydia J Asker Alison Davis Benjamin M Lee Daniel J Smith

Melanie R P Bacchi Anna De Pulford Dominic Leslie Laura J Summerton

James R Ball Emily G Dennis Iain C Mackay Greta C H Tam

Kushal Banerjee Matthew D J Dicks Edward S Mason Rosie L Tate

Sarah Beal Stephanie P Erickson Nicholas J Maud Laura M Taylor

Charlotte L Bendon Sam Evans Nicolle C McCartney Babette Tegldal

Jemima K A Bland Eleanor Fellowes Katie J Micklethwaite Matthew R Thomas

Thomas B Blomfield James Ferguson Jessie C Munton Teresa Tsakok

Thomas J Braiden Julian P Fitzgibbon Seshadri Nadathur Jennifer K Tyldesley

Fred Brown Edward J Fresson Graham D O’Connor Sangeetha Venugopal

Rosanna M Brown Matthew J Gater Rachael L Pape Gorav Wali

William T Bryant Samuel T Geen Victoria L Patterson Qingye Wei

Holly A Burrows Rory M Geoghegan Michael A Pearson Robert B Westbrook

Richard S Cappin Helen J Gilbey James H Perkins Christopher Wickenden

Julie M C Chan Katherine E Grailey Oliver A Rix

Louis J D Clarisse Jason C Griffiths Gregory J C Ross

Damian F Clements Felix Hofmann Andrew P Rudhall Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 19

THE FOLLOWING ADVANCED Masters of Science DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES Rebecca E Cook (Global Health Science) Rebecca E Hall (Environmental Change and Management) WERE AWARDED: Kuei-Chang Hsu (Evidence Based Health) Harriet Hunt-Grubbe (Medical Anthropology) Doctors of Philosophy William Kelly (Global Governance & Diplomacy) Stephen R Clark (Physics) Andrew J Luke (Environmental Change and Management) John W Edmunds (Biochemistry) Tobias Riedl (Economics for Development) Enrico Flossman (Clinical Medicine) Farnaz Sabet (Global Health Science) (Distinction) Matthew F Giles (Clinical Medicine) Michael Henrich (Clinical Medicine) Masters of Studies Claire Hinchliffe (Materials) Thomas Fellows (European Literature) (Distinction) Dennis Kruchinin (Chemistry) Tommy Kristoffersen (History of Art & Visual Culture) Michael D Lankshear (Chemistry) Manon Mathias (European Literature) (Distinction) Ryan Olson (Classics) Alexander Teddy (Slavonic Studies) Kate L Rumbold (English) Graham E Sinden (Environmental Change) Masters of Philosophy Naoko Takahatake (History of Art) Maria Brooks (Economics) Constantine C C Tsang (Physics) Melissa Dell (Economics) (Distinction) Alison V Turner (Clinical Medicine) Patrick Hovakimian (Politics) Thomas J Kelly (Economic and Social History) Bachelor of Medicine Elizabeth Lucas (Classical Languages & Literature) (Distinction) Kate Shipman Daniel Pastor (Politics)

Bachelor of Philosophy Master of Business Administration Chuanfeu Chin (Philosophy) Diptendu Mitra

Bachelor of Civil Law Postgraduate Certificate in Education Anushree Bagrodia Lauriane Duboc Rachel Nicholson Magister Juris Julie M Francastel Undergraduate Scholarships Martin C Mekat Suzie C Abbs (Physics) Peter A Ballett (Physics) Masters of Letters Kai B Bruekerhoff (Economics & Management) Barbara AStafford (Philosophy) 20 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

Laura J Bury (Physics & Philosophy) Benjamin Judah (History & Politics) Rebecca J Chapman (Philosophy & Theology) Ellen C Kempston (Biochemistry) Diana M Cross (Physics) Matthew Knowles (PPE) Julian W Few (Chemistry) Kevin S Y Kong (Engineering, Economics & Management) Elizabeth H D Grimwood-Taylor (Law with LSE) Mary-Jannet Leith (Ancient History) Catherine Hartley (English & Modern Languages) Kenneth T M Mackenzie (Classics) Frances E Hedges (English & Modern Languages) Arjun D Malhotra (Materials, Economics & Management) Alexandra Hehir (Law) Matthew Nour (Medicine) Ruth C Hudson (Law) Sophia K Pilkington-Miksa (Ancient & Modern History) Frederic W Jayatilaka (Chemistry) Roland Powell (English) Nicolle McCartney (Mathematics) Christopher J Sellers (Classics) Edward D C Meuli (Classics) Yi Fan G Tan (Mathematics) Katie Micklethwaite (Modern Languages) Benjamin D E Wallace (English) Benjamin J Pope (History & Modern Languages) Hayley Wood (English & Modern Languages) Kathryn E Shierson (Law with LSE) Xuejan Xu (Engineering, Economics & Management) James L G Stevens (Physics) Jennifer H Stockill (English) Graduate Scholarships Jennifer M R Tilley (Materials Science) Chuanfei Chin (Philosophy) James P AWright (English) Nichole J Fazio-Veigel (History) Alexander Kurze (Biochemistry) Exhibitions Andrew M L Ng (Mathematics) Edward B Arnold (English) Andrew M Sayer (Physics) Lucy E Baker (Medicine) Rhian M Barrance (English) Graduate Prizes Graeme V Brooks (History & Politics) Melissa Dell (Economics) Raphael A Cadenhead (Theology) Christopher J Eyles (Physical & Theoretical Chemistry) Prateek Choudhary (Biochemistry) Ian J Hewitt (Mathematics) Samuel W Counsell (Modern History) Michael B Hoppa (Clinical Medicine) Edward Cripps (Modern Languages) Elizabeth H Lucas (Greek/Latin Literature) Alissa F Davies (PPE) Manon H Mathias (European Literature) Nicholas J W Featherstone (Mathematics) Qingguo Xu (Materials Science) Alexander Goldsmith (Classics with Oriental Studies) Fiona M Halliday (Materials Science) College Prizes and Awards Daniel Harding (Chemistry) Thomas J Blomfield (R A Knox Memorial Prize) Piers B D Jess (Materials, Economics & Management) Thomas J Blomfield (Sally Ball Prize in European Community Law) Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 21

Kimberley H R Bryon (Sarah and Nadine Pole Scholarship shared) Felix Hofmann: Institution of Mechanical Engineers Frederic Benjamin J Cartlidge (Warburton Book Prize) Barnes Waldron prize Helen J Gilbey (R AKnox Memorial Prize) Caroline Humphrey: Corus Annual Prize in Materials Helen J Gilbey (Bellot Prize in International Law) Caroline Humphrey: Gibbs Prize in Materials Alexandra Hehir (Lovells Prize shared) Caroline Humphrey: Qineti Q Prize (shared) Bo Hu (Kandiah Thirunavukkarasu Graduate Scholarship) Benjamin M Lee: Gibbs Prize in Biochemistry proxime accessit Ruth C Hudson (Lovells Prize shared) Katie J Micklethwaite: Ramon Silva Prize for Spanish Matthew D Johnston (Sarah and Nadine Pole Scholarship shared) Katie J Micklethwaite: Arteaga Prize for Spanish Benjamin M Lee (R AKnox Memorial Prize) Mircea AMicu: Ralph Feltham Prize in Diplomatic Studies Matthew J Lee (Lovells Prize shared) Graham D O’Connor: IMA Prize in Mathematics Edward D C Meuli (James Holladay Prize in Ancient History Graham D O’Connor: Gibbs Prize in Mathematics proxime shared) accesit Katie J Micklethwaite (R AKnox Memorial Prize) Jennifer M R Tilley: Qineti Q Prize (shared) Katie J Micklethwaite (Stirling Boyd Prize shared) Teresa Tsakok: Wronker Grant proxime accessit Jessie C Munton (Stirling Boyd Prize shared) Jessie C Munton (Sutro Prize in Literae Humaniores) Seshadri Nadathur (Peter Fisher Prize in Physics) Graham D O’Connor (R A Knox Memorial Prize) Benjamin D Raynor (James Holladay Prize in Ancient History shared) Ciara S Stratford (Colin Nicholls QC Prize) Ciara S Stratford (Lady Astbury Memorial Prize)

David Evers Prize Thomas R Mayo Sam Roots

University Prizes and other Awards Helena M Curtis: Qinetig Team Design Project Prize for Materials Anna de Pulford: Kirk-Greene Prize for Modern History Helen J Gilbey: Martin Wronker Law Prize (shared) Helen J Gilbey: All Souls Law Prize Helen J Gilbey: Falcon Chambers Prize for Land Law Helen J Gilbey: McGrigors Prize for Taxation Law Helen J Gilbey: Gibbs Prize in Law proxime accessit 22 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

THE COLLEGE YEAR

ALUMNI AND DEVELOPMENT Society USA. Following this visit, the President contacted all old members living in the USA for whom we have an e-mail OFFICE REPORT address to introduce himself and as a precursor to his visit to North America around the biennial North American Reunion in New York in early April. (Currently, it is planned that he will be ne of the wonderful features about being a member of Trinity visiting Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Toronto and College is the strong sense that, when you arrive here, in O Washington.) The response was—again—wonderful and we are whatever capacity, you become part of a large family; and—as particularly grateful for the details of those old members with has been abundantly evident from discussions with old whom we had lost contact. We do hope that if you cannot attend members over the course of the year—you remain so after you the New York Reunion, you might be able to meet the President have left. The numbers who return for gaudies and other events, in one of the other cities that he will be visiting. the responses to the Annual Report and the Newsletter, the offers of support and the on-going contact that we have with One of the other ways in which the President has been able to many old members, all speak volumes for the affection and meet the wider Trinity community has been through a series of gratitude that so many feel towards the College. Having said small lunches where old members with whom we are in regular this, we are very conscious that some old members, whether contact have invited others to meet us, to discuss their time at because of work, personal or other commitments, do find it Trinity and, as helpfully, their observations about the College difficult to come back. Given this and the President’s wish and Oxford University today. These have been both pleasurable personally to meet as many old members as possible during his and informative in helping us to develop our plans for the tenure, one of the main activities in the Alumni and future, particularly with regard to our relationship with old Development Office during 2007 has been organising a series members. On a very practical level, we have been particularly of receptions in Oxford (two), London, Birmingham, grateful for the various offers of advice and support, such as Manchester and Edinburgh (after the last of which over twenty from one old member with substantial experience in the old members and their guests had a very enjoyable dinner). property sector who has offered to help the College with a These receptions have provided the opportunity for the property-related matter. President to meet a large number of old members who The first Oxford Alumni Weekend organised by the Oxford matriculated across the decades and, in a small number of cases, University Society took place in September. Over the course of for the College to re-establish contact. Each reception was a the weekend, various lectures, exhibitions and events across pleasure (and completely impossible to define as work!) and the the collegiate university were attended by over 700 Oxford responses from the old members suggest that they felt graduates. (As Trinity’s contribution to this successful event, likewise. We plan to continue to travel across the country Alison Felstead, the Librarian, gave packed tours of the Old during 2008, holding events in regions that we have not yet Library and Paul Lawrence, the Head Gardener, of the garden.) visited and, in due course, returning to others. The feedback from those attending the event was It is obviously not as easy to keep in touch with and meet those overwhelmingly positive and the second Weekend is scheduled who live overseas. In April 2007 the President visited New for 19–21 September 2008. We have planned the Trinity York and took the opportunity to meet the board of the Trinity Society Weekend to coincide with this and hope that many old Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 23

members will take this opportunity to visit and explore parts of During the year, three lunches took place for over 220 old the University that they did not see when they were originally members and guests to thank those who had made large here, and also to renew relationships with old friends from donations, either singly or over a period of time. As with the two other colleges. societies above, we will be holding similar lunches in future years. Over 230 attended the gaudies for those who matriculated between 1969 and 1973 and 1995 and 1997 inclusive. The During the course of the last financial year, total donations to the London Reception, which—with thanks to Nigel Armstrong- College exceeded an invaluable £610,000. Of these, gifts Flemming—took place at Armoury House in the City of totalling £450,000 were additions to the College’s endowment, London, was also well-attended. Other events that brought old whilst the remainder was taken to the income and expenditure members back to College included the Boat Club Dinner in account for the year. The major additions to the endowment January; the Intercollegiate Golf Tournament (in which the included the on-going fulfilment of pledges made as part of the Trinity team came an impressive second); the Richard Hillary 2005 Anniversary Campaign; donations towards the permanent Lecture, which was given this year by Philip Pullman to a endowment of a Classics Fellowship (which is now over half way packed auditorium; the Margaret Howard Lecture, sponsored by to its £1m target); the final of three donations from Wafic Saïd Mrs. Gillian Howard and given by Joshua Rozenberg, legal towards the graduate scholarship fund for MBA and EMBA editor of the Daily Telegraph; and the Michael Beloff Law students at the Saïd Business School; and a further donation from Society Dinner at which the distinguished speaker was Sir Caryll Birkett towards the fund for graduate scholarships in Anthony Clarke, Master of the Rolls. Environmental Studies. In addition, Wyatt Haskell, a Sir Thomas Pope Fellow, made a further substantial donation towards the The Ralph Bathurst Society Dinner for major benefactors to the permanent endowment of the Wyatt Rushton Law Fellowship, College took place in March. About thirty members of the currently held by Nick Barber. Caryll Birkett has now given over Society and their guests were present and were again joined by £250,000 to the College and, in recognition of his substantial a small number of current students who very much enjoyed benefactions, the Governing Body was delighted when he meeting their predecessors and swapping stories. The College accepted the offer to become a Sir Thomas Pope Fellow towards has always been dependent on the philanthropy of its old the end of the year. members and friends and it is a pleasure to welcome members of the Society back every year, and to thank them for their The first Annual Fund Campaign that ran until 31 July was an generous support. In a similar vein, 2007 saw the first lunch undoubted success. It aimed to raise funds for student support, for members of the recently instituted William Pitt Society. All improved facilities, increased IT provision, the Library and old members who notify us that they have included us in their student clubs and societies. The September telephone campaign wills are invited to become members of this new society, and other donations resulted in donations and pledges of over whether or not they tell us the size or nature of the legacy. Over £250,000, of which £130,000 was received in the 2006/07 sixty old members are now members of the Society and we do financial year. This wonderful response enabled the College to hope that we will enjoy their company for many years to come double the bursaries available for undergraduates (to a maximum (!). In due course their generosity will make an enormous of £1,280); to make ten awards to graduates whose external difference to the long-term financial security of the College. funding had run out before they had been able to complete writing up their theses; to spend an additional £20,000 on improvements Old members are increasingly financially supportive of the to student accommodation and IT facilities; and to support the College, most notably as a result of the Annual Fund Campaign. Boat Club and the Trinity Players. Funds are now also available 24 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

for the installation of a temperature control system in the Lower Library. The value of being able to provide additional support to students in financial need, to bring forward infrastructure improvements and to support the vitally important extracurricular activities that form an integral part of the Trinity is incalculable.

It would be wrong of me to conclude this report without expressing the College’s indebtedness to Sue Broers, Tom Knollys, Linora Lawrence and Simon Toner. They have done all the hard work to make 2007 as successful and progressive as it has been.

Finally, the College wishes again to acknowledge and thank all those who have supported the College in whatever way during 2007. We could not be more grateful to you for enabling us to continue to provide the best possible education for the most able students in such a supportive environment. I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate my invitation of last year to all old members and friends of the College to visit us at any time. The Alumni & Development Office is easily accessible on the ground floor of Staircase 15 and we would be delighted to see you and bring you up-to-date about all the activity here.

Kevin Knott Estates Bursar Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 25

BENEFACTORS IN 2007

Fellows, Honorary Fellows, 1934 1943 Former Fellows and Staff Mr C P Diver Mr R C Bond Mr R M S Allan (1956) Mr S J D Corsan Mr C W Birkett (1944) 1937 Mr I R H Curtis The Rt Revd R O Bowlby (1948) Mr G PAllsebrook Mr D G Gordon-Smith CMG Mrs F S Broers The Revd C W Pakenham His Hon Judge Lewisohn Mr P G M Brown The late Lord Peyton Mr R G Maclean Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey Bt (1958) Professor B S Smith Sir Anthony Cleaver FBCS (1958) 1938 Mr H H Travers Dr J Duffy Major M G Cardew Mr ALWallers Sir David Goodall GCMG (1950) Mr P M Luttman-Johnson Mr J AW Whitehead Professor G Hancock The Rt Hon Lord Windlesham Bt CVO PC 1939 1944 FBA (1951) His Hon the late Reginald Barr Mr D G S Akers Mr M J Inwood Mr C W O Parker JP DL Mr J M Barrowclough Sir Brian Jenkins GBE (1957) Major S D Bolton Mr K J S Knott 1940 Professor G I Bonner Lord Kingsdown KG PC FRSA (1948) Major J Harper-Nelson Mr P C Bowles The Maclagan Family Mr R G Smith Mr M E S Evans Dr P J Moody Mr AR Taylor MBE Mr P E Hutson Mr J H Pattisson (1952) Mr W M Taylor Mr W R Saïd 1941 Sir Peter Stothard (1969) Anonymous 1945 Professor J S Wark Professor C F Cullis Mr C E N Arkell Dr T A Watt Sir Leonard Figg KCMG Mr R E D Arnold Dr A N Frankland CB CBE DFC Mr D C Attlee 1929 Mr D C Humphreys Mr F J Barrett Dr J H Lewis Mr D le B Jones CB Mr J W Bateson Mr P Sleightholm Mr J H K Brunner 1931 Mr W S Cave The late Mr C F Huntley 1942 The Revd Canon H Collard Mr M R Caroe Dr I A Hill 1933 The Right Hon Lord Digby Mr B D I McKenzie Sir Humphrey Prideaux Kt OBE DL Mr A D Fricker Mr R M T Raikes Maj Gen I ARobertson CB MBE DL Mr M D K Paterson The Revd E N Staines The late Mr J C AWhitworth Maj Gen H G Woods CB MBE MC DL 26 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

1946 1949 His Hon Judge Hordern QC Mr M G Balme Anonymous Mr H WJoynt Mr J B Goudge Mr G R Barkes Mr J R Lang Brown The Rt Revd T R Hare Professor J Black Mr R E Mavor Canon R L Incledon Mr B L P Blacker Mr J C Page Professor D B Lindsay Mr J C Browne Mr M L Sanderson Sir John McFarland Bt Mr D N Callender Mr I F Shaw Mr T R M Sewell Mr S G Errington CBE DL Dr C H Smith Mr AM Stuart-Smith Dr AD Ferguson FRCP Dr J M Wilson Dr J P AWeaver Mr A J Greenacre Mr H E P Woodcock Mr H J M Hambrook 1952 Dr D T D Hughes Anonymous 1947 The Right Hon Lord Kindersley DL Mr J S Abbott Mr D H S Biggs Major J G McGowan Mr M J L Attfield Mr N D Cox DFC and Bar Mr T B Owen CBE The Revd M D Drury Mr C P Currey Mr J G Richardson Mr D P Hodgson His Hon Martin Graham QC Dr C M Staveley Mr S D Lawrence Mr R M Griffiths The Revd AW Morrison Mr M M L Hudson 1950 Mr R R Salter Sir John Lowther KCVO CBE JP Anonymous Mr C M Smith Mr G D B Pearse Anonymous Mr G C Smith Mr R W L B le Bas Rickman Professor R L Baldwin Mr AR Stephenson OBE Dr A M Smith MA BCh Mr R W Barklam Mr A D Stewart Mr J R Tillard Dr D N Croft FRCP Mr P WWatson Mr R J Dix 1948 Mr J F Duke 1953 Mr I P Campbell Mr AG Fathers Mr F C G Bradley Mr C G V Davidge OBE Sir John Hall Bt Mr D F C Evans Mr P D C Greenway Mr P L Hughes Mr T F Godfrey-Faussett Mr A G S Grellier Mr N F McCarthy Mr R B Hadlee Mr D F Hodson CBE Mr R N Mackay Dr C R T Hughes FRACP Mr J Lingford-Hughes Mr R G Moore Mr W N M Lawrence The Hon I T M Lucas CMG Mr K M ARyves-Hopkins Mr M R Ludlow Sir Patrick Moberly KCMG Mr D G M Sanders OBE The Revd Prebendary D M Morris Mr B A F Read Mr R M Young Mr D W C Morrison Mr P P J Sterwin Dr B I Parsons Dr I G Thomson 1951 The Revd M G Peppiatt Mr P J Barrow Mr J E M Thirkell Mr T B H Brunner Mr P S Trevis Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 27

Mr J F E Upton The Revd B A Hopkinson Mr S D Rangeley-Wilson Mr J C Warden Professor J M B Hughes FRCP Mr P M Reid Mr S H Wood Dr P J Marcer Mr I S T Senior Mr W C Parker Mr R S Simpson 1954 Mr B R Rea Mr W F C Swann Mr F G Cochran Mr ARichardson Mr R D Welham The Revd A C Hall Mr TW Roberts Mr B R William-Powlett Mr C L Hicks Mr R P Skidmore Dr A H M Hoare Dr M U Slee 1959 Mr N J T Jaques Anonymous The Revd J E Pawsey 1957 Mr G Akerman Mr R C Pegler Mr D J F Barwell Mr D F Beauchamp Dr R APlumbridge The Revd N J Charrington Mr J L Brinkley Major General T D G Quayle CB Mr D J Culley Mr R J M Butler Mr R N B Thomas Mr L D Jenkins Mr R L Cordell Mr D M Wilson Mr C N Laine Dr M J Elliott Mr AJ Pull Mr M W D Evans 1955 Mr E J Smalman-Smith Dr D S Fleming Mr J S Allan Mr M G L Thomas Mr G W Hines Mr J M St F Dare The Revd G F Warner Mr A R W Lean Dr M G Ebison OBE FInstP FRAS Mr D J Weight Mr P H Parsons Mr R B F Ingham Mr C M J Whittington Dr H E R Preston Mr AD Jenkins Dr C B Williams FRCP Mr J L Roberts Mr C A H Kemp Dr G M Shepherd Mr G C N Livsey 1958 Mr D C Moor Mr J B Adams 1960 Mr J ANelson-Jones Mr M F Attenborough Mr TA Bird Mr W G O’Brien Mr J H Bottomley Mr W H Bittel Mr E P Sharp Mr R H Brown Professor T R Brown Mr M A Smith Mr W P Colquhoun Dr P J Burrows Mr WK Topley Mr R A Daniell Mr D F G Lewis Mr M J V Wilkes Mr AC J Donaldson Mr R J M Neal Mr P B Farmer Mr J C Nowell-Smith 1956 Mr C A Fry Mr F ASmith Anonymous Dr D J Girling Mr S T Corcoran Mr AG P Lang 1961 Mr D J F Fecci Professor J W Last CBE Mr R P F Barber OBE Mr M Gainsborough Mr AT Lowry Dr G Georghallides Mr S J Hanscombe Mr D J G Mackintosh Mr C J Hemsley The Venerable C Hewetson Dr D G Parks-Smith The Revd K Leech 28 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

Mr R B Lockett Mr P J Fletcher Mr H Koike Dr J Loken Mr R F Foster Mr P I Luson The Lord Petre Mr A M Fowler Mr M L Page Mr AW Warren Mr R T O’Neal OBE Mr N O Ramage Mr R N S Williams The Revd Professor John Richardson Mr I D P Thorne Mr P C Robertson Mr R A West 1962 Mr G A R Sawday Dr M C K Wiltshire Mr R G ABaxter Professor L C L Skerratt Mr J H H Davey 1967 Mr G P E Gelber 1965 Mr M Bevan Dr D M Gillam Anonymous Professor AM Grant Mr G C Gordon Mr L H Bailey Mr N WJackson Mr M J Hatch Mr AC Caithness Mr R B Morse Mr C J Marsay Mr S AFrieze Mr D W Parker Mr R Mingay Mr AD WJackson Mr R S Parker CB Professor J D Sheridan Mr P C Keevil Mr G M Strawbridge Mr C J Simpson Mr M ALavelle Colonel D C Thornycroft OBE Mr A G Thorning CEng FRAeS Dr S AMitton Mr D L Parris 1968 1963 The Revd Dr F J Selman Mr S C D Bankes Mr M B Baldwin Mr O M Smyth Mr P J Bretherton Mr P J Barlow Dr R H Stone Mr O N F Fairclough Mr J A Broom Mr D C Unwin QC Dr J H Flint Mr R E B Browne Mr WI Wolsey Mr J A H Greenfield Mr P J Burden Sir Stephen Young Bt QC Mr C Harvey Dr J AEvers Mr C D James Mr N M Fraser 1966 Dr S H Large Mr P N M Glass Mr R G Asthalter Mr AJ G Moore Mr T W Gooddy Mr J L A Cary OBE Mr C T Richardson Professor C Hall Mr P B C Collins The Revd R R D Spears Dr R D Hinge Mr H A Elphick Mr R D Ward Mr AJ S Jennings Mr I P K Enters Mr C P Watts Mr A E G Rudebeck Professor D Fairer Mr R L Rusby Mr S Forster 1969 Mr J D H Weatherby Mr P G Hollings Professor J F Biebuyck Mr W Hood Mr M F Doswell 1964 Dr A S B Hughes Dr N C Elliott Anonymous Mr D J G Hunt The Rt Revd C W Fletcher OBE Mr R C Daniels Mr B R Kirkpatrick Dr C S Keeling-Roberts Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 29

Dr R S G Knight Mr T Fraser 1976 Mr M T Lewin Mr T J P Murphy Mr S M Coombes Mr B W MacNay Mr C H Parker Mr G G U Davis Mr C G Stuart-Menteth Mr R D Spurling Mr E S Dismorr The Revd Canon Dr M F West Mr D G Wrighton Mr H J Emmens Mr R A E Hunt 1970 1973 Mr G J Nash Anonymous Mr AG K Bicknell Mr G J Nash Anonymous Mr A N Buckley Mr N P Noakes Mr M Austerberry Mr C A S Fawcett Mr C D Randell HE Mr A J Cary CMG Mr M R Gifford Mr R C Sagrott Mr D A Hudson Mr P N Gysin Mr R D M Sears QC Mr J P Kennedy-Sloane Mr AJ Hewitt Mr P D Strawbridge Mr M L L Lapper Mr AJ Hindle Mr N Swettenham Mr J D Loake Dr K AManley Mr N P Todd Mr T R Marshall Mr AA Murphy The Revd C Padgitt Professor M B Ndulo 1977 Mr R G Pedley Mr R J B Rhodes Dr J C Alexopoulos Mr S Quartermaine Mr R V Setchim Mr T J Anfilogoff Mr J H Stanley Mr AShivdasani Mr R Barron Mr N F Taylor Mr P S Beck 1971 Dr S J Charles Anonymous 1974 Mr R J Farmer Mr S J Browning Mr J S Blakeley Mr T K Holman Professor M D Goodman FBA Dr E R P Edgcumbe Mr A J Morgan Mr J R Haigh Mr J M Foster The Revd D M Morris Mr J K Holroyde Mr P J Horsburgh Dr C G Oakley Mr N J Hunter Mr P W Lodge Mr K M Stephan Mr P J Lough Mr J S W Partridge Mr C R Whittaker Mr R L Nathan Mr H Shulman Mr E J Wood Mr N C Ollivant Mr G G Sinclair The Revd S J Pimlott 1978 Mr J M J Tonks 1975 Anonymous Anonymous Dr I WArcher 1972 Mr J C B Chancellor Mr J N Atkins The Rt Revd Bishop Arnold Mr J Clipper Dr G N F Chapman Mr S D Boddy Dr W R Lucas Mr R J Clarke Dr J D H Chadwick Mr G L Riddiford Mr J N D Hibler Mr E A Doran Dr J L Speller Mr J B Hunter 30 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

Professor J C Hurtubise Mr AE Dinn 1982 Mr D WJones Ms J M Duffy Ms C R Ballinger Dr AKnapton Mr S Edelsten Dr R G Barton Mr M ALewington Miss N E Edwards Mrs D J Chalmers Mr S M Lord Mr AFullerton Mr D S Ewart Mr R C Parry Mrs J L Goulding Professor R G Gameson Mr S Porfyratos Mrs W L Harvey Mrs S D Hardcastle Mr N V Radford Miss L H Mason Mrs AHenderson-Begg Mr R C F Rea Ms K L Mavor Mr R ALindsay Dr P D Warren Ms S M Tyne Miss S M Lloyd Mr P J Williamson Dr R C Ratnavel 1979 Dr C R Sharpe Mr I N Abrey 1981 Mr P J Stevens Mr T S Banks Mrs K F Bailey Mr C D A Tchen Mrs C M Beck Ms V R Blades Professor V Brendel Mrs F M Butcher 1983 Mrs G Chapman The Revd T M Codling Anonymous Mr K R Craig Mrs H V Cullura Dr P H Balkwill The Revd I C Czerniawska Edgcumbe Mr J G H Dickinson Mr R J Baron Dr M C Davies Mr AP Dyte Mrs C F S Clackson Mrs VAElson Mr AS Gillespie Mr M C Fewell Mr J P Folkes Dr R N Gray Dr J Fletcher Mr M St J Gibbon Mr C J C Hollis Ms M E Jenks Mr T M Gioia Mr G A Hudson Mrs S Lewisohn Mr A R Henry Mrs C J Jackson Mr J D McNeile Miss O M E Hetreed Mr F S Jackson Mr T N R Marshall Mr D Moffat Ms J M Lashly Ms N Massen Mr H E J Montgomery Mr G C Murray Mr R P Paretzky Mr J R Pascall Mr C J Reilly Mrs AC Sheepshanks Mrs C J Sants Mr AS C Rix Mr I ATaylor Mrs B AWittwer Mr J D Rose Mrs F M Tchen The Revd K I Wittwer Mrs S E Symmonds-Sharkey Mrs C L M Wilkes Mr M C Taylor 1980 Mr J F Tilbury 1984 Anonymous Ms AC Window Mr AJ Bailey Anonymous Mr D T W Young Mr P C P Bourdillon Dr D J Birch Mr M M Brooks Mr M G Butterworth Dr F M Gameson Dr M D Chapman Mr J M R Glasspool Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 31

Miss P M K Mayfield Mr J M Gallagher Mr I K Shawyer Mr Y Rahman Mr C W Hammon Mr ALWilkins Mrs K WYTan Bhala Mr AJ Last Mr AD Wilson Mr D J Tombs Mrs S L Rollo Mrs H C Williams Ms A C Turner 1991 Mr PAWoolf Anonymous 1988 Dr R Daniels 1985 Anonymous Dr E F Drysdale Professor R K Bhala Mrs AArdron Dr N W Gummerson Mr R I C Denman Dr E C Boswell Mr T E W Hawkins Mr A P S J St J Gee Mr D H Crocker Ms L R Howard Mr J N P Gilliland Mr H Forsyth Mr C R Howlett Mr M S Harwood Dr A R Graydon Mrs S E Oakley Mr P McN Kerr Dr M R Heal Mr C S Pitcher Mr R G McCarthy Mr D P G Hinds Mr W J S Raffin Mr AW Short Mr J A Jameson Mr R J See Dr Ira L Skolnik Mr M P Rees Mr AP Woodhead Mrs AH L Smith Mr D PTomlinson Mr AC H Smith The Revd Dr S M Wood 1992 Mr J Spence Mr P C Collins Mr J AThompson 1989 Mr B Giaretta Mr J S Argles Mr F L Howard 1986 Mr G M Brandman Miss C M L Jepson Mr S J Bentley Mr S J B Clarke Mr J M Parkin Mr Lewis Chester Mr T Drew Miss S M Pettigrew Mr D N Evans Dr S L Garland Miss K H Preston Mr M P Nelson-Jones Mrs T P Garland Mr M P Rendell Mr M T Oakeley Mr AD Gething Mrs S M Riley Mrs S Risebrow Mr P M Gillam Mr N M Steele Mr N J Thompson Mr E AO’Reilly Mrs M S Wickham Dr S J Tucker Mr M A J Pitt Mr G Wu Mr M R Wood Mrs R H Sharp Mr AB Woodfield Miss C L Wood 1993 Miss T R Curristine 1987 1990 Mr R W Dawkins Anonymous Dr R M Fisher Dr T Liao Professor S K Berger Mr A R Lawson Mr J M Lyle Mr W J Fernandez Dr J C Pinot de Moira Dr S J Payne Mrs J K Gallagher Mr A M Putt Mr J M Rigg 32 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

Miss E J K Ross Mr L G Large 1997 Mr C J Smart Miss R L M Lawrence Miss R E ABackhouse Mr J P Snaith Mrs S J Lewis Miss H R Banyard Smith Dr C ASuthrell Mrs H M North Miss D E Cresswell ACA Mr O S Todorov Ms C Owen Dr M Ehret Mr AR Walton Dr G Petrochilos Mr C R Fremantle Mr P J Yates Ms E N Price Mr C J Good Mrs J E Rosser Ms E C J Good 1994 Mrs S E Smart Miss VAHorsfield Mrs C C Alexander Dr AJ Thompson Mr A M Hull Dr V C Appel Mr J J Westhead Miss C J Hunt-Grubbe Dr S Basavappa Mr P McCloghrie Dr R O Bowyer 1996 Mr S W Miller Mr S J Chiavarini Mrs H Adams Miss C C ANewbury Miss AJ Doenhoff Mr AH Anderson Mr S M Ng Mr S P Donnan Mrs J A Barley Mr V C Rizescu Miss S J Gray Mr N Ben Khedher Miss H R Santer Mrs S J Hawkins Mr H M T Bokenham Mrs K L Vyvyan Dr C Ho Mr AJ Comrie-Picard Mr G R James Mr C Corradetti 1998 Mr D T Lewis Mrs K J Craig Miss I Black Mr D J Nicholson Dr T J Craig Mr WACharles Mr A J North Miss H A Fletcher Dr L Chua Dr S Pierse Mr R E Francis Miss A D Croker Miss E Segal Miss A R Hall Miss R F Elliot Mr N A L Tamblyn Mr J D Harrold Ms S A Ellis-Jones Mrs C E Taylor Mrs P Harrold Mr E M Godfrey Mr C P O Taylor Dr C E Hinchliffe Miss A E Harland Dr L S Keiler Mr P T Hill 1995 Mr S Kong Mr J G Jansen Mrs E C R Bosley Dr J R Major Miss C R Leigh Miss PA Cave Mr S P Morris Mrs J M A Smith Mr N C Edouard Mr B Nemeth Dr W C Van Niekerk Mrs S P Francis Mr N B Seddon Mrs R H G Warham-Smith Mrs T C C Fressdorf-Schelzius Dr P LTyley Mr N J Gray Miss G S Voss 1999 Mr AJ S Hutchinson Mrs R AWhitfield Miss H Cartwright Mrs K E James Mr T P B Whitfield Mr J B M Fisher Mr D R Kellett Mr M E Harris Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 33

Miss M Hasan 2003 Others Miss I P James Dr J Whitaker Barclays Bank Plc Mr M W Mccutcheon The BOC Group plc Mr B Morris 2005 Brockley Fine Art Mr C S Murray Mr C AM Mackenzie Contemporary Watercolours Mr APeacock The Mercers Company Mr S C Sanham Parents and Friends Nike Mr S E Scanlan Anonymous The Pilkington Trust Mr AW W Slee Anonymous Rajiv Gandhi (UK) Foundation Mr U Steinle Anonymous Tolkien Trust Mrs S Tollemache Anonymous UBS Miss L VWinslow Mr and Mrs Armitage Mrs S N M Binks 2000 Mrs M E Bristow Miss J F Antcliff The Revd H Broadbent Miss F E Arricale Dr S Brock Mr C E H Cook Mr M T Dennis Mr M R Franklin Professor P Easterling FBA Ms K E L Garbutt Dr J P Ender Mr J D Hutchins Lord and Lady Fellowes Dr A R Kendal Miss AHall Miss R D Osborne Mrs J Hill Mr A S Powlesland Mr W L Hillsman Ms AThorne Mrs G Howard Mr R Truffer Mrs J L Mackenzie Mrs J McCourt 2001 Mrs B M Mitchell Miss F Caleri Ms L Nixon Mr AR Johnson Professor R C T Parker Mr D Johnston Mr D Pimm Mr C Kafasis Mrs A Richardson Ms S E Symes Dr N J Richardson Sir Michael Scholar KCB 2002 Mrs Simon Anonymous Mrs D L Smith Mr WYCheong Dr G Wali Mr AR Cunliffe Dr AWallace Mr A Mercer The late Mrs M Wind Miss R H Salama 34 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

GARDEN REPORT Just to add to the pressure of work, my loyal colleague Ed Reid handed in his notice to take up a new post at Magdalen College. I would like to record how sincerely grateful I am for limate change and how we manage our gardens are still all of the time, effort, support and friendship that Ed has Cvery high on my agenda. In 2006 we experienced severe shown me over the years. On behalf of everyone in Trinity I summer drought with prolonged hosepipe bans, but, with a wish him well in his future career. Ed’s departure meant that change of fortunes, to say this year was wet would be stating only our apprentice Aaron Drewett and myself were left to the obvious! In true Trinity style we did not let a bit of rain carry on the planned work; I could not have done it without dampen our spirits nor indeed let the local flooding prevent the serious effort that he made. Aaron, you’re a star! Aaron us from coming in to work. It was business as usual. Events has now almost completed his first year at college and is very were arranged thick and fast, many of them small, but I was much looking forward to obtaining higher qualifications. beginning to sense that a lot of garden work that we are used to doing was put on hold or even cancelled to allow us to meet Luke Winter started work in early August, and has already the needs of the various planned functions throughout the proved that he has what it takes to cope with Trinity and its year. I made a note, a gentle reminder that although demands. He certainly has a great sense of humour which generating income is essential we must still plan time to really helps. One of the highlights this year was when carry out essential work to maintain the healthy future of our Zachary Ward-Perkins asked whether he could undergo a garden. week’s work experience with us. He was a really great guy who managed to bring lots of enthusiasm and fun to the Key events this year included: the Saïd Business School’s department. A lot of this time was spent doing very manual fundraiser on the rear lawns in aid of the Skoll Foundation; work, making way for what will be a very professional and the highly prestigious visit of the Emperor and Empress of environmentally friendly compost area. Japan; numerous weddings; two lawns plays, one of which was the Oxford Theatre Guild’s summer performance of The Following a severe infestation of Yorkshire Fog found within Rivals and the other the Trinity’s Players’ performance of An the lawn of the Fellows’ garden we decided that it would be Ideal Husband; and a garden party hosted by the Lord easier and more aesthetic to lift the troubled lawn completely Lieutenant and his wife to celebrate the Millennium of and re-turf it with new. I should point out that Yorkshire Fog Oxfordshire. This came by way of a very large marquee and is a very coarse broad-leaved grass species, which does not nearly a thousand guests who attended the event. look good within a lawn. In the process of this I learnt that our senior tutor Dr Trudy Watt is a bit of an expert when it The President’s garden has been taking shape by way of a comes to Yorkshire Fog, and it was great to have her input. very user-friendly path and, for the first time in many years, access to the stone carving of St Michael is now possible. Plans to scarify the lawns had to be cancelled, as Trinity Early in 2008 it is planned to lift the old terrace from the College was the prime location for the filming of ‘Lewis’ for corner of the garden and lay a new one using traditional York which the lawns were required to be as green as possible. stone. Permanent planting will then take place soon after Unfortunately this meant leaving the scarifying until next with the aim that all work is complete ready for the National August, as the grass needs all of September and October to Gardens Scheme opening in the summer. recover. The work will now be carried out following on from Summer Ball, after which it will most certainly be required. Cutting back all the herbaceous borders happened very Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 35 quickly this year so in December—for the first time in almost LIBRARY REPORT five years—we are putting a mulch of mushroom compost onto the herbaceous borders which will act as a weed suppressant and a good plant food for next spring when the he past year has witnessed an increasing interest in the Old plants start to bud. TLibrary and its collections. I am delighted to report that the interest of one generous old member has been translated into Paul Lawrence funding for the Old Library Cataloguing Project, which began in Head Gardener May 2007 and is expected to run for three years. Paul W. Nash, an experienced freelance antiquarian cataloguer and bibliographer, has been contracted by the college to catalogue the nineteenth-century books in the Old Library, and is currently BUILDINGS REPORT working in college one day per week. At the time of writing he has catalogued over 250 books, and this excellent progress is n a busy year for the Trinity Workshop, the following projects expected to continue for the duration of the project. Ihave been carried out: The Old Library was opened to alumni from all Oxford University Staircase 3:South elevation re-slated, lead gutters replaced and colleges over the weekend of 14–16 September, as part of the windows decorated externally. ‘Meeting Minds’ University of Oxford Alumni Weekend. The tours were a great success, and are likely to be repeated in 2008, Staircase 5: fully redecorated. when the Oxford University Alumni Weekend will coincide with the Trinity Society Weekend. The fitting of new conservation- Staircase 14: full refurbishment in progress. New en suites to standard blinds and clear screens to protect the books from UV all rooms plus proposed new window overlooking Garden Quad, light, and the ongoing environmental monitoring of the full re-wiring and new heating system. temperature and relative humidity in the Old Library should help Library : new door entry system installed. to ensure that the collection is preserved for posterity.

Chapel: refurbishment report commissioned. I am pleased to report that three items from Trinity’s collection of rare books have been selected for inclusion in the Bodleian Kitchen: roof resurfaced. Library’s summer exhibition next year, entitled ‘Beyond the Dining Hall: new lighting system. work of one’: Oxford College libraries and their benefactors. The exhibition will present a variety of rare books and relics from Beer Cellar: new goods lift installed. many of the colleges and from the Bodleian itself, with special 16 Rawlinson Road: decorated externally. emphasis on the role of benefactors in enriching college libraries over some eight centuries. In addition to the three books, a letter from the college Archive will also be exhibited. This should prove to be a very interesting exhibition.

The library budget continues to be augmented by useful donations of money and books from old members. A generous donation from ANTHONY C. H. SMITH (1985) and Dorothy Louie Smith enabled the purchase of extra copies of philosophy 36 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

books and some new philosophy titles this year. In addition, the NICHOLAS DAVEY (2003) donated over fifty books on Classics following books were presented to the college library during and French literature from his own library, some of which had 2007. The names of college members are in upper case, and the previously belonged to his brother Edward (Brasenose, 2000). date given is that of matriculation. We are always very pleased to Joseph R. Flicek and Melinda Camber Porter, parents of receive such gifts. ROBERT CAMBER FLICEK (2006), presented a selection of literary and artistic books by Melinda Camber Porter including Through Parisian eyes: reflections on contemporary French arts and NICK BARBER, Fellow and Tutor in Law, presented The morality culture (New York, 1993); Badlands (New York, 1996); Boat of conflict: reasonable disagreement and the law by Samantha child: a comedy (New York, 1993); The art of love: love poems Besson (Oxford: Hart, 2005); and European Union law by Damian and paintings (New York, 1993); and the exhibition catalogue Chalmers et al. (Cambridge University Press, 2006). William Blake illuminates the works of Melinda Camber Porter THE HONOURABLE MICHAEL J. BELOFF, Q.C., President which includes a lecture by Robin Hamlyn (Oxford, 2006). 1996–2006, presented a copy of Blair’s Britain, 1997–2007, JOHN FRASER (1952) presented London: the biography by Peter edited by Anthony Seldon (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Ackroyd (Chatto & Windus, 2000); Madmen: a social history of He also continued to donate to the library various legal madhouses, mad doctors & lunatics by Roy Porter (Stroud: periodicals and papers, including a copy of his contribution to Tempus, 2004); and Authentic decor: the domestic interior, the forthcoming volume Halsbury’s Laws centenary essay 1620–1920 by Peter Thornton (Seven Dials, 2000); plus ten collection entitled ‘The field of play’ and co-written with his son offprints of his articles from the Journal of the Society for Army Rupert Beloff (Christ Church, 1991). Historical Research. PETER BROWN, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, presented a copy of RICHARD GAMESON (1982), a good friend to Trinity College his new book Terence: the comedies (Oxford: OUP, 2006). He Library, presented a copy of Treasures of Durham University also gave the library a copy of Apuleius and drama: the ass on Library (Durham University with Third Millennium, 2007) which stage by Regine May (OUP, 2006), and the volume on Lucretius he edited. edited by Monica R. Gale in the series Oxford Readings in classical studies (OUP, 2007). Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, presented the new and expanded edition of his Brian Buckley presented Fragments: pieces of autobiography work Free and fair elections (Geneva: Inter-Parliamentary Union, by Margaret Buckley (Kenilworth: Chrysalis Press, 2006). 2006). ALAN COATES (1980) presented Italy’s three crowns: reading PAUL A. GREEN (1964) presented a copy of his first novel, The Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, edited by Zygmunt G. Baranski Qliphoth, published in Canada by Libros Libertad, 2007. and Martin McLaughlin, published in Oxford by the Bodleian Library in 2007. CLIVE GRIFFIN, Fellow and Tutor in Spanish, presented Mediaeval and Renaissance studies on Spain and Portugal in CLAUDIO CORRADETTI (1996) presented Human rights in Europe: honour of P. E. Russell, edited by F. W. Hodcroft et al. This theory and practice (Roma: XL, 2006), which is the first in the important collection includes a contribution by DR NIGEL series Cosmopolis: studies in human rights and human GRIFFIN, occasional tutor in Spanish at the College. He also development co-directed by Mr. Corradetti with Andrea presented Women and literature in the Goethe era, 1770–1820: Spreafico. determined dilettantes by Helen Fronius (Clarendon Press, 2007) Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 37

and Simone Weil’s apologetic use of literature: her Christological maps of the same area, dating from 1813 to the present day, interpretations of ancient Greek texts by Marie Cabaud Meaney allowing interesting comparisons to be made. (Oxford University Press, 2007), both published in the series GALLIA MCDERMOTT (1999) donated a collection of over 100 Oxford modern languages and literature monographs, on whose modern language texts and critical studies belonging to herself editorial committee he sits. and her brother Sebastian (St. Hughs, 2000), covering the NEIL HALLOWS (1990) donated four good-quality history books French, German, Italian and Spanish languages. from his own library, three of which were titles not already held DONALD JOHN MARKWELL (1981) presented his latest by the college library. publication, a collection of papers and speeches entitled ‘A large JOHN HICKS (1961) donated several early printed books from his and liberal education’: higher education for the 21st century own library, including a scarce edition of Bede’s Historia (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing & Trinity College, ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. The University of Melbourne, 2007).

ANDY HULL (1997) presented Counter-terrorism: the London JOHN TEPPER MARLIN (1962) presented the 2007 debate (London: MPA, [2007]), which he co-wrote for the commemorative edition of A day on skates: the story of a Dutch Metropolitan Police Authority. picnic (Bathgate, N.D.: Bethlehem Books, 2007). This charming book for children was written and illustrated by his MIKE INWOOD, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, presented the mother, Hilda Van Stockum (1908–2006), and was originally following books: An engagement with Plato’s Republic: a published in 1934. companion to the Republic by Basil Mitchell and J.R. Lucas (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003); Hegel: a biography by Terry Pinkard TIM MARSHALL (1970), a staunch supporter of the library, (Cambridge University Press, 2000); and Socrates: 2400 years continued his generous tradition of buying medieval history since his death (399 B.C.–2001 A.D.) edited by Vassilis books for the college library when he is in Oxford, and presented Karasmanis (Athens: Europaiko Politistiko Kentro Delphon, the following works: The conversion of Britain: religion, 2004). He also presented the first published work of fiction by politics and society in Britain c.600–800 by Barbara Yorke his wife, the classical scholar Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood (Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2006); and A social history of (1945–2007), entitled Murder Most Classical (Vanguard, 2007). England, 1200–1500 edited by Rosemary Horrox and W. Mark This book was published under her nom de plume Christiana Ormrod (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Elfwood and presented by Mike in memory of Christiane. ALAN MILNER, Emeritus Fellow, continued to present the New MARTIN KEMP, Fellow and Professor of the History of Art, Law Journal and bound volumes of foreign law reports edited by presented Leonardo Da Vinci: experience, experiment and design, himself and published by his company Law Reports published by the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2006. This International. This year’s gifts included The Gibraltar law stunning book includes some full-size reproductions of Da reports 2003–04 and 2005–06; The Cayman Island law reports Vinci’s drawings. 2006; The Jersey law reports 2006; and The Manx law reports 2005–06. PENELOPE LOCKE (née KIRN) (1984) presented two historical maps, Oxford and Brighton & Hove, published by the company DAVID MITCHELL (1942) presented copies of several of his she runs with her husband, Cassini Publishing Ltd. The Oxford books, filling in most of the gaps in the library’s holdings of his map shows the city and surrounding towns as they were between publications. These included the author’s proof copy of 1919: 1830 and 1833, and the Brighton & Hove map is actually four Red Mirage (London: Cape, 1970); the American editions of The 38 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

fighting Pankhursts: a study in tenacity (New York: Macmillan, David Rodin (Ashgate, 2006); The Churchlands and their critics 1967) and The Spanish civil war (New York: Franklin Watts, edited by Robert N. McCauley (Blackwell, 1996); Paradoxes by 1983); Travellers in Spain: Spain seen through the eyes of Justin Leiber (Duckworth, 1993); Redistribution or recognition?: famous travellers, from Borrow to Hemingway (Fuengirola: a political-philosophical debate by Nancy Fraser and Axel Santana, 2004); Women on the warpath: the story of the women Honneth (Verso, 2003); The problems of philosophy by Bertrand of the First World War (London: Cape, 1966). He also presented Russell (OUP, 1967); Reference and essence by Nathan U. Salmon a copy of The Spanish attraction: the British presence in Spain (Blackwell, 1982); Speech acts: an essay in the philosophy of from 1830 to 1965 by Simon Grayson (Fuengirola: Santana, language by John R. Searle (Cambridge University Press, 1969); 2001), which he edited and for which he wrote the foreword. and Wittgenstein: sources and perspectives edited by C. G. Luckhardt (Harvester, 1979). GARRY MULLENDER (1989), currently resident in Lisbon, presented three Portuguese books when he visited Oxford: Poesia CLEMENT SALAMAN (1953) presented a copy of his translation of de Fernando Pessoa introduced and selected by Adolfo Casais Asclepius: the Perfect Discourse of Hermes Trismegistus, Monteiro (Lisbon: Presença, 2007); A revoluçao de 1820: published in London by Duckworth, 2007. This complements his memorias by José Maria Xavier de Araújo (Casal de Cambra: earlier gift of The Way of Hermes: the Corpus Hermeticum (2001). Caleidoscopio, 2006); and Os Maias: episódios da vida romantica THOMAS R. SEWELL (1946) presented a copy of his by Eça de Queirós, in the series Obras de Eça de Queiro z (Lisbon: autobiographical history of the Cold War, What did you do in the Edição “Livros do Brasil”, 2006). Cold War, Daddy?; or, Close encounters of the KGB kind, Richard Nicholls (Wadham, 1982) presented Interactions published in Surrey by Starline Publishing, 2006. between service customers: managing on-site customer-to- MATTHEW STEGGLE (1989) presented a copy of his latest book, customer interactions for service advantage (Poznan, Poland: Laughing and weeping in early modern theatres (Aldershot: Poznan University of Economics, 2005). Ashgate, 2007). ANDREW NORTH (1994) and HELEN NORTH (née LANE) (1995) RALPH TANNER (1954) presented copies of his latest books, donated a number of engineering and materials textbooks from Violence and religion: cross-cultural opinions and consequences their own library, to make space for their son Joel’s burgeoning and Social behaviour of children: a cross cultural assessment, both belongings. published in 2007 by Concept, New Delhi. Peter Raina (Christ Church) presented a copy of his book Gregory Taylor presented a copy of his Second World War George Macaulay Trevelyan: a portrait in letters (Bishop novel, Rock breaking still waters, published in Canada by Auckland: Pentland Books, 2001). Trafford, 2006. LADY (ELIZABETH) ROBERTS, wife of SIR IVOR ROBERTS, J. ROBERT TILLARD (1947) presented a copy of his paper entitled President, presented a copy of her book Realm of the Black Suez: the inside story. Mountain: a history of Montenegro (London: Hurst, 2007). Professor Graham J. Towl, Chief Psychologist, Health and BEDE RUNDLE, Emeritus Fellow, donated a number of Philosophy Offender Partnerships Directorate (NOMS), presented books to the library including Insight and illusion: Wittgenstein Psychological research in prisons which he edited (Malden, MA: on philosophy and the metaphysics of experience by P.M.S. BPS Blackwell, 2006). Hacker (Clarendon Press, 1972); The ethics of war: shared problems in different traditions edited by Richard Sorabji and Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 39

GEORGE WATSON (1948) presented a copy of his work on twentieth-century English literary theory Never ones for theory?: England and the war of ideas (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2000).

TRUDY WATT, Senior Tutor, presented Introduction to statistics for biology, 3rd edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2007), which she co-authored with Robin H. McCleery and Tom Hart.

M. SARAH WICKHAM (née RAWLING) (1992) continued to pay for the library’s subscription to the Church of England Record Society. As a result of her generosity, this year we received Volume 14 of the Society’s publications, The beginning of women’s ministry: the revival of the deaconess in the nineteenth-century Church of England, edited by Henrietta Blackmore, and Volume 15, The Letters of Theophilus Lindsey (1723–1808). Vol. 1, 1747–1788 edited by G. M. Ditchfield, both published by the Boydell Press.

The following recent graduates and undergraduates gave us books from their own libraries:

ANUSHREE BAGRODIA (Law, 2006); RICHARD CAPPIN (Law, 2004); BEN CARTLIDGE (Lit. Hum., 2004); LAWRENCE CLARK (Chemistry, 2004); STEPHANIE ERICKSON (Chemistry, 2003); MATTHEW GATER (Modern Languages, 2003); KATE LEWIS (Medicine, 2005); JOE MALONE (English, 2005); MIRCEA MICU (Diplomatic Studies, 2006); FRANCIS MURPHY (Theology, 2002); and ROBERT WESTBROOK (PPE, 2004).

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ARCHIVE REPORT rowing pots. Resonant among the names of his fellow oarsmen are those of the novelist A.E.W. Mason (1884), the poet George Calderon (exhibitioner 1886), the missionary and poet A.S. he highlight of the Archive’s year, if not decade, was Cripps (1887), and one ‘hero’of the College History, Hugh ‘Joe’ Tundoubtedly the formal opening of the Douglas Flemming Legge (1889). Archive Reading Room on 1 March 2007. Created out of the most Another Victorian member of college to have come to our unprepossessing space in College (a disused 1920s bathroom attention this year is Septimus Rivington (1864), who went on and box room), the spacious and comfortable tables are the to a distinguished career in publishing. We are very grateful to delight of our readers, the display shelves are an inspiration for Septimus’s grandson Lawrence for his compilation of records of other college archivists, and the beautiful oak floor is the envy the family for our collection. And another descendant of a Trinity of the SCR downstairs. Pride of place goes to the Great War forebear, albeit one who came up in ignorance of the fact, is medals and citation of Douglas Flemming (1902), who died of Sarah Broadbent (2006). Three generations of the Broadbent wounds received in action at Salonika in 1917, while a brass family came to visit the Archive this year, and loaned for plaque commemorates the generosity of Douglas’ nephew, Nigel copying a curiously and charmingly inscribed proclamation of Armstrong-Flemming, in endowing such a fine facility. 1888, which begins, entirely mystifyingly, ‘To our trusty and It is pleasing to note that gifts and loans to the archive span the well-beloved Fathere, Cod-Liver-Culte’. centuries, and include an impressive variety of media. The We do not for a moment suppose that Arthur Lowry and his friends earliest in content is ‘“The Kindly Light”, the life in sound of were ever in trouble with the then dean, Charles Cannan (fellow John Henry Newman’, a double CD written and presented by 1884–98). Charles’ great-granddaughter, Dr Crescy Cannan, has Richard Gill, which includes several ‘scenes’recorded in College. been researching the lives of Charles’ parents within the papers Newman came up in 1817, and occupied rooms in the Garden deposited in the Trinity Archive. Among some additional Quadrangle. So he would have been familiar with the splendid material she has deposited is a fascinating press cutting from the view of Trinity from Parks Road by George Pyne, which has been Kircudbrightshire Advertiser, reporting on Charles’ marriage to most generously given to the College by Michael Staines Miss Mary Wedderburn at Corsock Parish Church on Friday 17 (1949). The painting is reproduced inside the front cover of this December 1891. President Henry Woods made the journey to Report. Another watercolour to have augmented Trinity’s Scotland to conduct the ceremony, and listed among the collections was the gift of John Pattisson (1952, and Honorary glittering array of gifts were a silver salver, a silver tea and coffee Fellow). It is by Albert Goodwin (1945–1932) and, although service, and silver candlesticks, provided by the President, the entitled ‘Oxford from Trinity Gardens’, is, in fact, a view looking fellows and members, and the servants of Trinity College down the Front Quad. As always the artist’s eye brings out a respectively. wealth of historical detail, and conjures up a wonderfully evocative scene of Trinity’s trees and buildings. Moving into the Twentieth Century, we thank Don Crocker (School teacher fellow 1988) for a copy of an article about Noel The earliest photograph to arrive in the Archive this year is a Chavasse (1904) in This England (Spring 2007). Some beautifully framed group of the 1888 First Torpid, from the especially fine material relating to the First World War has come collection of the Lowry family. It was delivered in person by to the Archive from the collection of Basil Sanderson (1912), for Thomas Lowry (1958), father of John (1984), son of Richard which we are deeply indebted to his son Murray (1951), and his (1925), and grandson of Arthur (1887), whose proud possession daughter Mrs Pauline Matarasso. Within a series of well- it was. We were equally glad to receive four of Arthur’s pewter Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 41

preserved photograph albums are pictures of Basil’s childhood (much of it spent in Italy), of his family, and of the officers and men with whom he served between 1914 and 1919. One particularly moving item is an army notebook, which contains a pencil- written essay on ‘Fear’. How vividly the author conjures up the turmoil in the mind of a young officer, preparing to go over the top in the trenches in his fourth year of virtually continual front-line service:

Why does the sense of responsibility make him expose himself and do things which no man would think of doing, without being ordered to? How heavily his responsibilities affect him and weigh upon him … It is only afterwards, when he thinks things over and realises that what he did or did not do has resulted Allan Ruxton finishes Schools in the loss of numerous lives … that his better feelings and instincts rise up in him and he realises the full weight of his responsibilities. At the Bar on 16 September 1918, besides the Belgian Croix de Guerre, time his thoughts are these: ‘I am an officer. I have certain duties and was twice mentioned in dispatches. He never talked about the which I am supposed to carry out, and to fulfil these duties War to his children. properly I must expose myself more than anyone else. If I fail in Avery different scene, and one difficult to describe in words, was this I shall be thought a coward and people will look at me with that at the end of Schools in 1949. We won’t attempt it—but loathing. I couldn’t stand that... reproduce one of the photographs kindly donated by Bill Taylor It isn’t fair that I should be in such a place. It isn’t fair. It isn’t fair. (1944). The man fêted is Allan Ruxton (1943), who had been Curse God, curse everyone. The men have a much easier and safer under suspicion of taking his Finals too seriously; the female time than I do. Oh! Why can’t I be a private soldier?! attire, we are told, was loaned by Bill’s landlady, clearly a fine woman, about whom we wish we knew more. We also thank Bill Why does this officer behave in a brilliant manner, and get for a photograph, programme and press cuttings relating to the decorated for it? Why? Because he is a moral coward. Trinity Players’ production of Susannah and the Elders, also in Basil Sanderson served with notable distinction and great 1949. courage in France as a Captain in the Duke of Lancaster’s Own Another insight into post-war Trinity comes from Mark Morford Yeomanry in France. He won the MC on 14 November 1915, and (1948) who has written a short memoir inspired by Rom Harré’s 42 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

obituary of Patrick Nowell-Smith (fellow 1945–57), in the 2006 Fellow), from whom we have been delighted to receive a series of Report. Mark has filled out our knowledge of the shy Philosophy excellent black and white studies of the cast during rehearsals and tutor’s character with a touching anecdote. Patrick invited Mark performances. The quality of these photographs is remarkable, to dine at his home on the night they returned from a reading and it came as no surprise to learn that their author practiced as a party in Borrowdale: professional photographer for some years after leaving Trinity.

Patrick went to bring in to dinner a bottle of excellent claret that We are always particularly glad to receive photographs from the he had previously opened. The bottle was empty, and his son, 1970s, for they are usually few and far between. Our thanks then about three years old, was nearby. ‘Do you know why this therefore to Giles Harrison-Hall (1971) for an image of the bottle is empty?’‘Yes, Daddy: I watered the flowers with it.’There 1972/3 Rugby team. What clothes! What hair-styles! Words fail was a long and very painful silence, and finally Patrick said, us once again. ‘Daddy thinks you shouldn’t have done that.’ And that was all. I Future generations of historians will be grateful for Trinity’s have never forgotten such a lesson in restraint and true love for collection of obscure plastic objects that pertained to college life his child. in the Age of Gadgets, as the late Twentieth Century will surely The young Mark was disappointed by the philosophical scene come to be known. We thank Arkady Hodge (1996) for a small but that he found at Oxford, although Trinity’s chaplain Austin Farrer wondrous item, a ‘U-Key’no less, which for reasons unexplained ‘engaged in challenging discussion’. Within the College Tommy he was still carrying on his key ring when he arrived at the 2007 Higham ‘had the most auctoritas’, and Philip Landon ‘the most gaudy. For just a few years in the late 1990s these chunks of power’. yellow plastic were the only means of paying for food or drink in

Higham was an elegant tutor and fine Public Orator, but he could y e l a

(and did) overlook certain important details, like giving notice e H - k

of collections after the long vacation. If one had spent the c y w

summer touring Italy and reading only Plato, this omission d a h

spelled disaster. C s e l r a h

We ourselves were far from disappointed by the response to last C : o t

year’s request for information about beehives in Trinity in the o h 1950s. Richard Incledon (1946) points out that the source of this P information, Katherine Farrer’s The Missing Link was first published during the Presidency of Reggie Weaver—actually in 1952—and he confirms that ‘Reggie and Stella certainly did keep bees in the corner by the gate through which the fleeing criminal made his escape [in the novel].’

High drama of a different kind was in the air in the summer of 1959 when the Trinity Players’famous production of Hamlet was disrupted by the unfortunate sending down of the star, one Ian Flintoff (1957). Watching from the wings with his camera at the A Hamlet Rehearsal ready was Charles Chadwyck-Healey (1958, and Honorary Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 43

the kitchen servery or beer cellar. And we have no doubt that this Our final thanks are reserved for a good friend of the Trinity precious and nearly unique survivor will arouse feelings of Archive, John Fraser (1952). One most interesting accession of nostalgia and happiness when we display it at gaudies in future 2007 has been an excellently arranged collection of files, years. containing John’s research notes into a number of fascinating topics. The majority, which are of particular Trinity resonance, The present century has been well represented in accessions to relate to the life and career of the notorious London magistrate the Archive. Alan Coates (1980) continues his tradition of Allan Stewart Laing (Trinity 1805), and labels such as ‘Arbitrary amassing the college literature that he receives, and this year has and Unpleasant Cases and Associated Complaints’ offer produced a splendid array of fund-raising mailings. His efforts tantalising clues as to the often juicy content within. Regular have been rewarded with a distinction given to but a small readers of the Archive Report will know of John’s sterling work minority of our archive donors: the Coates Collection now has with his scissors. Our cuttings collection is now conveniently its very own acid-free box on a shelf on the mezzanine floor. situated—in its own filing cabinet—within the Douglas Richard Cappin (2004) and Gregory Stevens (2005), the two most Flemming Reading Room, where it has already proved an recent JCR Secretaries, have most efficiently produced complete invaluable biographical resource. It is always a pleasure to show sets of their JCR minutes, another wonderful resource for students off the Archive to members and friends of the College; whether as of Trinity life. For who knows what great books are yet to be donor, reader, or simply interested visitor, do come and see us in written about the Sky TV debate, or the policy of subsidizing 2008! guest nights? John Baxter (1963) has made for the Archive a CD Clare Hopkins, Archivist of all the images he took as photographer of the JCR Dinner, from which we are glad to reproduce an unusually glamorous image of Bryan Ward-Perkins, Fellow Archivist the committee on p.62. Chris Fenwick (2004) has placed in the Archive his production file for the Trinity Players’ highly successful staging of The School for Scandal in the summer of 2006, while Alison Davis (2004) has donated a copy of her undergraduate history thesis, ‘Changing perceptions of success: Trinity undergraduates between 1939 and 1978’.

It is often said that we are now living in the Age of the Celebrity. We regret that as yet nothing has arrived in the Trinity Archive relating to the occasion of the filming of ‘Lewis’. But we did manage to secure, thanks to the quick work of the Librarian Alison Felstead, a photocopy of the Very Good Luck message to finalists that Elijah (Frodo) Woods was persuaded to leave in the Library when filming in the vicinity of the back door of the White Horse. Philip Pullman has donated the text of his 2007 Hillary lecture, ‘Poco a poco: the Fundamental Particles of Narrative’, and the President the text of his lecture at the Trinity Society Weekend, entitled ‘Conversations with Milosevic and other war criminals’. 44 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 n o i t a i

OBITUARIES c o s s A s s e capacity for friendship and his r P

MARMADUKE JAMES HUSSEY, : o ability to enrage, seemed to t o h LORD HUSSEY OF NORTH come directly from those P BRADLEY (1923–2006) Oxford days of reflection on Scholar 1941; Honorary Fellow 1989 what was truly important. Luck, he thought, was the key Duke Hussey came up to Trinity for the first time as a sportsman to comprehending events. No and for the second time as a war victim. In 1941 he was an 18- one would ever accuse Duke of year-old History Scholar from Rugby whose big ambition, which keeping up with the latest almost everyone expected him to achieve, was to win a Rugby theories of historiography: he Blue. In 1946 he was a 23-year-old Guards officer massively won his 1941 scholarship by wounded in Italy whose ambition, which almost no one expected discussing the good fortune of him to achieve, was to go down from Trinity alive. Frederick the Great in ‘the miracle of Brandenburg’ and he Marmaduke James Hussey, born in 1923 into a family of colonial stuck fast to that theme. He followed his own sense of his own civil servants and royal courtiers, was afterwards a newspaper good fortune till he died, believing in that gift above all his manager, a newspaper director, Chairman of Times Newspapers others. and the longest serving Chairman of the BBC. He was married to one of the Queen’s closest counsellors and friends. Anyone On 7 February 1944, leading three guardsmen through the sceptical of whether there is any more a British Establishment German lines at Anzio, he came within three yards of an enemy had only to be at the Guards’ Chapel on 6 March 2007 for his machine gunner who was unable to kill him even at that range, Memorial Service. ‘the worst shot’ in Hitler’s army. Back in Oxford, at Vincent’s Club, he met a doctor who told him: ‘there are very few people in He was a moderniser who looked like a traditionalist. He had read this country who could save your life and you are very fortunate more books than he liked you to know. His ‘obey me’ eyes were that one of them is me.’ Luck was his chosen narrative for offset by a softer chuckling voice. He lived many lives. Over all everything. of them there hung the moments on Trinity lawn in 1948 when Tony Crosland and Michael Maclagan shared with him a bottle of Two battles dominated his career in the British ‘media’, that Taylors 1920 port in the clear anticipation that it would be his neologism for newspapers and broadcasting which Duke never last. used with much pleasure. The first began in 1971 when he took on the task of introducing modern print technology to The Times Duke liked to talk about his Trinity days: he and I talked about and Sunday Times, a project powerfully opposed by the printing them when we ought more usefully to have spoken of other unions and little supported by either journalists or other things. He never got his Blue: but I had to read his managements. He lost. Few men were at their best in those days autobiography, much later, to discover that he had given it up and Duke was famously frustrated and frequently irate. After a lest injury damage his chance of joining his regiment. His closure lasting an extraordinary fifty weeks almost nothing was success and his struggles, his intuition and inflexibility, his Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 45

changed apart from the commitment of the Thomson family, the at least within The Times—on the strength of Gin-and-Dubonnet papers’ Canadians owners, to go on funding the fiasco. Yet in required at different times by the Queen Mother. I once saw a 1986, when the great iron machines filled with molten lead were small file of papers—enough to manage a minor invasion or finally replaced by computers, Duke’s efforts were recognised at industrial dispute—of his notes on that alone. The Times as a kind of industrial Dunkirk, a defeat necessary for Sir Peter Stothard (1969) victory, an analogy that he deserved and liked to hear. Honorary Fellow The second battle began in 1986 just as those in Fleet Street were coming to an end. His job was to make the BBC accept that it had a political problem, that the abuse of its freedom to spend licence payers’ money as though it were some perpetual stipend had to stop. If the Corporation was to survive and prosper in the age of CECILY HOLLADAY (1922–2007) free-market politicians and ever more freely competitive broadcasting, it needed to change its ways.

Duke’s military decisiveness was more successful here. He dismissed his first Director General, failed immediately to get the man he wanted to replace him but eventually, in ten years of office, oversaw both necessary change and reasonable stability. His high point was the licence fee settlement and 1995 review of the BBC charter which guaranteed that independence for a decade. His low point—at least personally—was his failure to be informed of and to prevent the broadcast attack on the Royal Family by the Princess of Wales in that same year. He made enemies in and out of the BBC—but has never fully been replaced.

By the time that he left Trinity in 1949 his bullet-shattered back, James and Cecily Holladay legs and hand had been healed by a mixture of measures, orthodox and unorthodox, alcohol and other anaesthetics. The College’s With the death of Cecily Holladay the College has lost a link career recommendation, he recalled in his book Chance Governs with one of its most inspirational tutors. She was the widow of All, was that he become a teacher: his father had left the Colonial James Holladay (Tutorial Fellow in Ancient History from 1949 to Service to become head of the Anglican church schools. This 1982, then Emeritus Fellow until his death in 1989), whom she advice was probably not our greatest contribution to his had married in 1950; she died in hospital in Colchester on 17 thinking. July 2007, two days short of her 85th birthday. Until 1973 the Holladays lived on the College site in Kettell Hall; Cecily was Duke Hussey was a man of risk and action more than patient thus well known to generations of students, and she and James tuition. He used his place in the Establishment to reform did much in particular to help graduate students while James was excesses that others of his kind preferred not to see. He Tutor for Graduates. Similarly, Cecily was an active member of controlled his own constant pain with well-judged applications the Newcomers’Club, providing hospitality and a warm welcome of whisky and mental exercise. He was an undisputed authority— to the partners of people who had come to the University from 46 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

abroad and thus helping them to settle into their new over the Lodge with a distinctive style of his own. He was always environment. She was devoted to James, and they were always to ready to chat, and enjoyed a good rapport with the majority of be found together in the evening in the King’s Arms, where they students. Junior Deans found him a stalwart and determined had a close-knit but by no means exclusive group of friends: colleague with a firm no-nonsense attitude to all aspects of his acquaintances seen drinking at another table would be encouraged work. He was never afraid to speak his mind or raise his voice to join them, and the circle expanded naturally to fit everyone in. when the situation demanded, as many an incompetent van driver or refractory tourist discovered to their cost. After James’s death Cecily collaborated with the editor in the publication of his collected papers. She was fiercely proud of his Allan was proud of his northern roots. His first trade was as a memory, and she maintained friendships with a number of his bricklayer, and he spent some years in the merchant navy before former pupils. She combined with one of them, John Brinkley, moving to Oxford to live with his Aunt Glad. He worked at the to endow the James Holladay Prize for Ancient History, which is Cowley car factory as a tool-setter and joined the porters at awarded every year to the best undergraduate in the subject in the Trinity in the summer of 1981, during the Domestic Bursarship College; at John Brinkley’s suggestion, it has now been decided of the late Richard Popplewell. Allan was a great family man. He to rename it the James and Cecily Holladay Prize. Cecily and and his wife Joyce, for many years the Staircase 4 and Library James were great travellers, and she had a fund of travel stories Scout, enjoyed a close and happy relationship, and he was a from her days as a diplomat’s daughter onwards; she was a devoted father to Joyce’s three daughters. In later life Allan and daughter of Sir Alec Randall, whose final posting was as Joyce took on the parenting of two of their grandsons, of whose Ambassador to Denmark from 1947 to 1952. She had a lively achievements they were rightly proud. His hobbies included sense of humour, and it was characteristic that the memorial bowls and Aunt Sally, and he was passionate about horseracing concert she planned for James in 1989 ended with Haydn’s ‘Joke’ and painting. The inconvenience of living in the flat above the Quartet. In later years her health was not good, but her Lodge, with its noise and cramped staircase and rooms, were to indomitable spirit enabled her to live on in Oxford for over ten him at least partly out-weighed by the magnificent view across years after James’s death; she moved to Colchester to be closer to the Front Quadrangle to the Chapel, which he took great pleasure members of her family when it became clear that she was no in painting in acrylics in different seasons of the year. longer able to look after herself. She will be much missed. Allan Dinsdale left Trinity in the summer of 1999, and worked for Peter Brown some time on the security staff of Sainsbury’s. He died at the age Tutor in Classics of 70, and the College’s sympathy goes to Joyce and the family at their loss.

Clare Hopkins with thanks to Tony Parslow (Clerk of the Works ALLAN DINSDALE (1937–2007) 1975–99) Porter and Head Porter 1981–99

With the death of Allan Dinsdale in the summer of 2007, the Trinity community has lost a formidable character from the late twentieth century, and the very last porter—in direct succession from the Foundation—to reside on the College site. Allan ruled Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 47

OBITUARIES OF MEMBERS OF years, and as chair of the Education committee and of the Council itself for terms of four years apiece, throwing himself into all COLLEGE aspects of the role with his characteristic energy. In retirement he took up a new passion, as founding chairman of ARK (Action for

JOHN (JACK) BERNARD AINSLIE OBE (1947), Wiltshire farmer the River Kennet), campaigning against excessive water and local government leader, was born in Stanmore, Middlesex, abstraction. With thanks to Shelagh Ainslie. on 2 August 1921 and died at home in Mildenhall, Wiltshire, on HIS HONOUR REGINALD ALFRED BARR (1939), circuit judge, was 5 January 2007, aged 85. He was educated at Harrow School born on 21 November 1920, and came up from Christ’s Hospital between 1935 and 1940, and it was during his schooldays that he School, to read English. His studies were interrupted by war first became interested in farming. Jack had been offered a place service, between 1941 and 1946, in the Middle East and Burma. at Trinity at the beginning of the War, but came up after service On leaving the army he married Elaine O’Bala, with whom he with the Royal Berkshire and Lincolnshire Regiment, with celebrated his Golden Wedding in 2006. Reginald Barr was called whom he saw action in Germany, Belgium and Palestine as part of to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1954. He was the Standing a peace-keeping role. He read Agriculture, and enjoyed Oxford life Counsel to the Registrar of Restrictive Trading Agreements, to the full. Jack remained very attached to Trinity and Oxford, and 1962–70, and a member of the Review Board for Government always kept in touch with the College with affection and Contracts in 1969–70. In 1970 he was appointed as a circuit gratitude. He regularly attended the Oxford Farming Conference judge, from which position he retired in 1992. He died on 13 until prevented by immobility towards the end of his life. September 2007. In 1949 Jack was offered a partnership with Alec Gale, at Minal ROBERT GREER BOWRING (1937), who died at Lymington in near Marlborough, and they worked together for many years, April 2007, came up to Trinity College in October 1937 to read expanding the farm from 600 to 1,600 acres. Jack was a history; and went down from Oxford at the beginning of the war. perfectionist by nature, and a man of great foresight and He was later awarded a War Degree. Robert Bowring spent his enthusiasm. He was one of the first in the area to set up a grain early life with his sister and two brothers at Pirbright, their marketing cooperative, North Wilts Cereals, and a central grain family home in Chipstead, Surrey. He achieved academic and store, Ridgeway Grain. In 1951 he married Shelagh Forbes, with sporting success at Rugby School and at Trinity, where he won whom he was to share 55 very happy years. The couple had four half blues at fives and squash. Sport always played a part in his children, Sarah, Andrew, Serena and Teresa, and eleven grand- life and for many years sailing was a favourite pastime. children, in whose company he delighted. Jack relished visits to Twickenham, and had a passion for acting. He helped set up and Following the outbreak of World War Two, Robert was run Theatre in the Downs, a Wiltshire community theatre commissioned into the Royal Dragoon Guards and posted to company, and took on roles in their productions. Ferozpur in India, joining the distinguished Hodson’s Horse regiment of the British Indian Army. He led his troop from the Jack was heavily involved in politics, a staunch supporter of Jo Punjab to northeast India where his tanks fought in the Battle of Grimmond’s radical liberalism. He masterminded the reform of Kohima, a critical battle of the Burma Campaign. On the way the Devizes Liberal Association in 1962, and established one of home from the Far East he enjoyed a reprieve running the British Britain’s first charity shops, The Thrifty Orange, to raise funds. Army’s Elephant Ski Club in the Cedars of Lebanon. He twice stood for parliament, and, although not successful, increased his party’s share of the vote. He served as a County Robert commenced his successful business career in 1946 with Councillor for the Aldborune and Ramsbury division for 29 the family firm, C T Bowring & Co. He was appointed a director 48 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

of their trading arm, Bowring, Jones and Tidy, but always MARTIN FERGUSON CHANCE (1949), farmer, was born on 26 maintained his well known dignified and attentive nature. He September 1930 in Salisbury, Rhodesia. He was educated at stayed with the firm until his retirement. His older son Charles Michaelhouse School, Natal, and came up to read Agriculture. said that people still search him out in the City with stories of LEONARD JAMES HIRST ‘JIM’DARLINGTON (1940), solicitor, ‘the perfect English gentleman’ that was his father. was born on 26 December 1921, and died suddenly on 3 August In February 1954 Robert married Cynthia Songhurst. Just a short 2007 in Hereford County Hospital following a stroke earlier the time before he died he wrote, ‘I have been most lucky in having a same day. He was always proud to have been at Oxford and he very loving and caring wife to whom I owe a great deal, and two followed events there keenly—recent Trinity and Oxford sons, the like of whom could not be bettered.’To this writer, from magazines were in the sitting room when he died. When at school distant Tasmania, Robert was a favourite uncle. Paths often he was James Hirst Darlington—he changed his name to crossed when travelling, cementing family ties with a mutual Leonard in 1968 or thereabouts. His family always knew him as love of sailing, sport and life. Robert Bowring leaves his wife, Jim. On leaving Shrewsbury he came up to Trinity to read law, Cynthia, and two sons, Charles and Stephen. Colin Denny, leaving after a year because of the War. He served in the King’s nephew. Shropshire Light Infantry and went over to Normandy on D-Day with his cousin Michael Hirst. After the war he became a PETER JOHN GRAHAM CARSON-PARKER (1948), business solicitor and settled in the West Country, having a practice in consultant, was born in Sri Lanka on 29 April 1928. He moved to Sherborne. Leaving law he worked for many years in other England very young and after studying History at Trinity, went business activities, mainly associated with the international on to travel in Europe and continue his studies abroad at the spiritual association Subud, of which he was a founder member in Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Madrid. John’s career the UK. Jim continued working part time until he was 84. He and spanned the globe with positions at Shell in London and South his wife Miriam settled near Ludlow in the 1980s, and Jim America before being brought to the US by David Ogilvy as an researched the history of Hope Bagot and its Church. He in-house writer for the agency. JCP—as he liked to be called— established the Friends of Hope Bagot Church, where his funeral left Ogilvy to become the Communications Director of Morgan was held on 14 August. Hugh Darlington, son. Stanley and subsequently a Senior Editor of Business Week. He joined Greenwich Associates as a consultant to stand in for ANTHONY GASGOIGNE EYRE (1940), colonial administrator, was Research Partners, where his writing transformed the Greenwich born on 16 November 1921. His parents emigrated to Canada, Reports from what had previously been afterthoughts, into but Tony remained in England, boarding, from the age of four, valuable thought pieces. under the care of his aunt, the proprieter of St Christopher’s School in Great Missenden, Bucks. He progressed to Fernden in JCP was personally engaging, warm, energetic—and athletic: Sussex, where he flourished in the school’s friendly and during the 20 years he spent in New York City, before moving to international atmosphere. At the age of twelve he stopped Connecticut, he rode his bicycle to work everyday to his office growing, and his school cricket boots remained in service in and was an avid skier well into his later years. He died on 31 Nigeria after the War, as part of his Colonial Service uniform. October 2007 in New Haven, Connecticut after 3 long months in Tony won a scholarship to King’s School Canterbury, and Yale hospital. He is survived by his two daughters and six another to Trinity, where he spent a single year before the Army grandchildren. Ghislaine Desbois, daughter. claimed him. Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 49

Thanks to his Cadet Corps experience, Tony went straight to At the 1956 General Election he stood unsuccessfully against artillery officer training at Catterick, and, having already applied Clement Attlee, then Leader of the Opposition, but was elected to join the Colonial Service, was posted to the Nigeria Regiment. the following year in a by-election for the safe conservative seat When he arrived in Lagos he discovered the greatest need was for of Tonbridge. Richard Hornby’s parliamentary career included administrators, and after a brief month and aged only 20, he found four years as PPS to Duncan Sandys, one of the most influential himself in charge of Numan division, on the junction of the Benue ministers in Macmillan’s government, and as Parliamentary and Gongola rivers with his own steel barge for getting around in Under-Secretary of State, in the Commonwealth Relations Office the wet season. In 1943 Tony was transferred to the much larger from 1963–4. Here he had crucial responsibilities in Africa, and Muri division, and subsequent promotions took him to the Bauchi proved himself both a compassionate decision maker and a province and the Kano provisional office, where he made many skilled debater in the house. Opposition did not suit him, life-long friends. One significant meeting was with Lord however; he was not inspired by the leadership of Ted Heath, nor Rowallan, the Chief Scout of the Commonwealth, who extracted a did his leftwards tendencies find favour with some of his promise from Tony that he would do his best to help Scouting in constituents, and he made the decision to stand down at the 1974 Nigeria. General Election and concentrate instead on his business career. Between 1974 and 1981 Dick was a Director of J. Walter A number of interesting postings followed, not least in the House Thompson. In 1976 he became a Director of the Halifax Building of Chiefs in Kaduna, and as number two in the Security and Defence Society, serving as vice-chairman 1981–83, and chairman Office. But in 1960 came Independence, and Tony took the option 1983–90. It was a position he enjoyed, relishing the atmosphere of early retirement. Back in England he settled in Corfe Mullen, of change to the modern world’s highly competitive mortgage where he continued to keep his promise to Lord Rowallan. market, while he played an important part in the planning of the Although never a uniformed member of Scouting, he was for many 1988 Financial Services Act, which allowed the building years a member of the District Scout Executive and helped to raise societies to compete with the clearing banks on matters such as two scout troups and two cub packs. With thanks to Vincent E.F. personal loan and availability of current account. Richard Eyre CBE, brother. Hornby retired in 1990. He died at Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, on 22 RICHARD PHIPPS HORNBY (1945) Conservative MP and September 2007. businessman, was born on 20 June 1922, at St Michael’s on Wyre, PATRICK IRVINE KING (1941), County Archivist of Lancashire, where his father (subsequently the Suffragan Bishop of Northamptonshire, was born on 12 August 1922 at Peckham Hulme) was then Vicar. Dick won a Scholarship to Winchester, and House, London, where his father was the Medical Superintendant. came up to Trinity twice, his History degree interrupted by five He gained a scholarship to Harrow in 1936, and came up to years’service with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. He was a lifelong Trinity to read History. It was as an undergraduate that he met his supporter of Bury FC, and in the age of rugger and rowing he won a future wife (Edith) Anne Sessions, who was reading History at St Soccer Blue, playing for the University for three consecutive Hilda’s College. Patrick’s studies were interrupted by the war, and seasons. After graduating he embarked on a career in teaching, and after two terms he was sent for military training at Winchester, spent two successful years as a History Master at Eton, before Kent, and Strensall, Yorkshire. He was posted to the Intelligence changing direction both to further his political aims, and also to Corps and made the dangerous voyage to India, where he worked please his fiancée, the Glyndebourne singer Stella Hichens. Stella with the WED at Rawalpindi and New Delhi. Patrick left the army and Richard were married in 1951, and had two sons and one with the rank of Captain and returned to Trinity to complete his daughter. Dick worked for Unilever between 1951 and 1952, and degree. then joined the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson. 50 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

Patrick was appointed Assistant Secretary and Archivist to the Stewart Lawson was one of the great servants of the Royal and Northamptonshire Record Society in September 1948, working Ancient Golf Club, working on various committees and spending closely with Miss Joan Wake, who had founded the society in an extraordinary fifteen years on the Rules of Golf committee, 1921, at a time when the care of historical records was under the last four as chairman. Captain of the Club in 1979, he had threat following the war years. Patrick worked as an archivist for acted as Chairman of its General Committee, and is credited with thirty years in Northamptonshire, becoming head Archivist of formulating the basis for the rules of golf as they are today and the County Record Office which had moved to new premises at unifiying the code between the Royal and Ancient and the US Delapre Abbey in 1958. He retired in 1987 having lived through, Golf Association, the two world governing bodies of the game. as some say, ‘the golden age’ of the profession, developing and Stewart Lawson was one of a remarkable quartet of Trinity men to building up a considerable collection of records, and providing a serve as Captain of the R & A since the Second World War; the growing range of public services. The chairman of the others being Alan Cave (1923), Henry Turcan (1926), and Northamptonshire Record Society (Trinity’s Christopher Michael Attenborough (1958). Davidge, 1948) wrote, ‘with his scholarly mind and in his Alife member and trustee of the R & A, Stewart was also a member modest and unassuming way he shouldered much responsibility at Muirfield, Augusta National, and, his special favourite, Royal with a fine sense of service. Numerous publications acknowledge County Down. A lifelong bachelor, he was a man of infininte their gratitude to Patrick for the help that he gave them.’ Patrick graciousness, interested always in the affairs of others, with an retired to Bachau, near Llechrydd in Cardiganshire, where he and impish sense of humour and a total command of the English Anne spent twenty years enjoying the countryside and their language. A devotee of Scottish History and Burns, he liked interests. He continued his historical research and work, nothing more than to compose and commit to memory his own contributing to and editing several books, and carrying out a verse to be recited, usually after dinner, for the benefit and detailed and lively correspondence with people in countries amusement of fellow guests. With thanks to the Rugbeian around the world. He is greatly mourned and missed by Anne and Society. by their four children and seven grandchildren. John King, son. SIR FRANCIS ALFRED LOYD (1935), H.M. Commissioner of JAMES STEWART LAWSON, golf administrator, was born on 19 Swaziland, died on 13 December 2006, at the age of 90. Frank September 1920, and died on 28 November 2006, at the age of was born on 5 Sepbember 1916 and came to Trinity from Eton. 86. He came up from Rugby School, where he was Head of House, He and I overlapped by three years at Trinity, 1936–9. I to read Greats, although his studies were interrupted by war remember him as a talented all-rounder and most agreeable service as a signals officer with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and companion. His interests were reflected in the Boat Club, the with the armoured division in France. Stewart spent ten years in tennis VI, the Trinity Triflers cricket team, the Claret Club and the colonial service, as a district commissioner in the Gold Coast membership of Vincents. He was the opposite of flamboyant, but (Ghana) and Clerk of the country’s Cabinet. He returned to his someone you would turn to as utterly reliable. There were already native Scotland in 1957 to become Assistant Managing Director signs of the steely determination which would later mark his of the family business, Lawsons Ltd of Dundee, and became the successful career. Assistant Secretary of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, but when Lawsons was taken over in 1964 he decided to Frank began his career in the colonial service as the Private retire and devote his energies to his enduring passions, golf, and Secretary to the Governor of Kenya in 1942. He was appointed St Andrews. Consul of Ethiopia in 1957, and returned to Kenya two years later. Our paths crossed again in 1953 when I was posted to Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 51

Kenya as Secreatary of the Colony Emergency Committee. There Africa was formed. From 1991 to 2000 he was Chairman of the I found a number of Trinity contemporaries—the names of Dick Kenya Administration Club, sustaining a network of old Luyt, David Christie-Miller, Frank Waldron and Peter Marrian friendships and always ready with wise advice. The College’s come to mind. At the time Frank was District Commissioner, Fort sympathy and good wishes go to Frank’s daughters Janet and Hall—the worst affected Mau Mau area—and had already Diana. Sir John Moreton (1936). established a reputation as an outstandingly firm but fair GORDON COLIN MACFARQUHAR (1949), personnel consultant, administrator who understood the Kikuyu better than most. He was born on 29 June 1931. After achieving excellent Higher and his wife Kath invited us to stay for the weekend, my family School Certificate results from Brentwood School, Essex, where then consisting of my wife and three daughters aged seven and he was Head Boy, Gordon won an open scholarship to Trinity, under. I must admit to some trepidation when I found that we were where he had a happy and fulfilling time studying medieval to sleep in tents in the garden, but Frank assured us that he knew history under Michael Maclagan. He gained a good degree and his Kikuyu and that he could trust the Tribal Police who were looked back at his time with affection, valuing the life-long guarding us. And so it was. friendships that he made. For his National Service Gordon joined In 1956 Frank became a Provincial Commissioner, and the Royal Artillery with the 45th Field Regiment. He was based Permanent Secretary in 1962. Between 1964 and 1968 he was the in Hong Kong and was discharged in 1953 with the rank of last Commissioner in Swaziland, retiring when the country Assistant Adjutant. He was very proud of his time in the army and gained its independence. He was awarded the MBE in 1951, OBE after retirement was an active member of the Royal British in 1954, CMG in 1961 and KCMG in 1965. Fast forward to Legion in Walford, Shropshire. 1980, when Frank and I were both members of the British Gordon’s career began as a graduate trainee with the Mobil Oil Government’s Observer Team for the Rhodesia-Zimbabwe Co. where he spent ten years, the last five in personnel. He first elections. Frank had been heavily involved in selecting the team met his wife, Anne, at the Badminton Club at Tunbridge Wells in of election supervisors and in ensuring its successful 1956, but, sporting a moustache, he made no impression. When deployment, drawing on personal contacts and his own they next met he had shaved it off, and the result was a wedding extensive administrative experience. In the intervening years on 4 December 1957, and five children: Mary, Andrew, Robert, Frank was for ten years Director of London House for Overseas Rowena and James. Gordon moved on to work for PA Graduates (later Goodenough College). Through my own Consultants, but the job required considerable travelling and overlapping interests at the time I was able to see at first hand the with a growing family he left to spend more time at home. After high regard in which he was held and the constructive role he briefly working for Trust House Hotels, in 1971 he moved to played in the evolution of the original trust. A colleague at that British Leyland Cars, subsequently Austin Rover. With his time has paid tribute to his ‘calm and unassuming manner coupled strong belief in the need for training and education and his with a happy personality and marvellous sense of humour’. concern for young people, Gordon’s proudest achievement was In retirement at Aldeburgh Frank was Captain and later President that he was able to take care of the apprentices through the bad of the Golf Club and devoted much time to his garden. After the years of worker redundancies. death of his first wife, Kath, in 1981, he was fortunate to have an After retiring Gordon and Anne created a gallery for exceptionally happy second marriage to Monica, until her death Contemporary British Crafts in Leamington Hastings, in 2006. Frank will be remembered with great affection by a host Warwickshire, which they ran for three years alongside farming of admirers, especially former colleagues from Kenya days where around 100 sheep. They embraced every opportunity to be his reputation was outstanding and where his abiding interest in 52 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

involved in the community both there and when they moved to poet P. J. Kavanagh, Michie co-edited the Oxford Book of Short the Welsh borders in 1991. Gordon was involved in church Poems, which cunningly took poems of 13 lines as its boundary, affairs and in many local groups, and served as Chair of and in 1989 he returned to the fabulous with a handsome edition Governors of Leintwardine Primary School, using his business of Aesop’s fables, retold in verse and finely illustrated by John skills, knowledge and wisdom to help manage the school in Vernon Lord. some very challenging times. Michie’s own poems appeared at longer intervals: twenty-four When Gordon was asked what he would like to be remembered for, years on from his first book came New & Selected Poems. a huge grin spread across his face and he said ‘my family’. He Collected Poems appeared eleven years later, with a further adored his ten grandchildren, and in retirement discovered the joy twenty-one poems. Love and death are again predominant of choosing and giving presents to everyone. Gordon themes, though considered with Michie’s characteristic light MacFarquhar died on 5 March 2007. He will be greatly missed by touch. his family and his many friends, for his kindness, generosity and Michie was twice married and divorced: in 1954, to Daphne wisdom, and his readiness always to listen with a sympathetic Segré, and to Sarah Courtauld in 1964. He is survived by the three ear. Rowena Nunan, daughter. children of that marriage; by the son he had with a much-loved JAMES MICHIE (1945), translator and poet, was born on 24 June companion, Clare Asquith; and by his daughter with Tatiana 1927 in Weybridge, Surrey, and came up from Marlborough to Orlov. James Michie died on 30 October 2007. read English. As a conscientious objector he worked in lieu of JOHN NOEL MINNIS (1948), lecturer in education, came up to national service as a hospital porter at Guy’s, and then with the Trinity as a naval probationer, following service in the Royal International Voluntary Service for Peace. In the mid 1950s, he Navy as a junior officer in HMS Espiegel, a fleet minesweeper. joined Heinemann, where his successes included Sylvia Plath’s He read modern languages and taught English for a year in Dijon first collection, The Colossus (1960) and the first English before taking a post at Colchester Royal Grammar School in edition of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. He moved to the 1952. In the same year he announced his engagement to Alison Bodley Head, where he became a director, despite, at one point, Ewing and they were married in July 1953. Noel’s career then expressing a preference for longer holidays rather than turned to teacher training, first in Watford, then Wantage and promotion. Michie found time for his own work, with poems finally until retirement in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, where he and included in Penguin New Writing (1950), and his first collection, Alison lived with their adopted children, two pairs of twins (two Possible Laughter, published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1959. His boys, two girls), in a classic Victorian house just below the Cow themes encompassed love, human foibles, dreams and death, and Calf rock on the moor. The family were keen members of the with wit and a distanced poise very much the presiding spirits. Caravan Club boating section, the boys both becoming In 1964, Hart-Davis brought out Michie’s translations of successful helmsmen in Cadet Class in their younger days. In Horace’s Odes. A considerable number of other translations retirement Noel and Alison moved to a smaller house in followed, among them the poems of Catullus, Martial’s Addington, where Noel carried on his educational work as an Epigrams, Ovid’s The Art of Love, and Virgil’s Eclogues. In 1973 examiner. He died at his home in June 2005 after a short illness. came a high point of Michie’s work as a translator, a selection of NORMAN ALEXANDER MISCAMPBELL QC MP (1947), La Fontaine’s fables. The liveliness and sheer fun of the originals Conservative MP and Crown Court Recorder, was born in mesh wonderfully with Michie’s gifts, not least his love of Carrickfergus, where he attended St Edward’s School. After war rhyme and of startlingly varied line lengths. In 1985, with the service with the 4th Hussars, he came up to Trinity to read for the Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 53

shortened course in PPE. Graduating in 1949, he embarked on his experiences left him with a deep and lasting affection for Oxford. dual career with determination, called to the Bar at the Inner He took up squash and cycling, and used his Long Vacations to Temple in 1952 and practising as a criminal lawyer from travel in France and Germany and to climb in the Alps. A gifted chambers in Liverpool, while fighting the safe Labour seat of linguist, he became fluent in French and German; later in life he Newton, Lancs, in the 1955 and 1959 General Elections. was to acquire Italian, Russian and Japanese. Through university clubs and lectures he became aware that his interests lay more Norman Miscampbell was elected MP for Blackpool at a by- with physics than chemistry; but the dilemma of his future career election in 1962. He served his constituency tirelessly, and with was fortunately solved by a meeting with a Governor of Repton great diplomacy played host to his party during annual School at a college gaudy, and the offer of a job teaching physics conferences. In 1961 he married Margaret Kendall, with whom he to would-be university applicants. had two sons and two daughters. He took Silk in 1974, and served as a Recorder from 1977 to 1995. In 1983 he became a bencher of In two years at Repton, John consolidated his own knowledge of the Inner Temple. Perhaps it was his legal background that gave physics, before taking a position as Scientific Officer with the him the confidence never to fear the Tory Whips. He regularly Armament Research Division of the Ministry of Supply, based, followed his conscience, opposing several of Margaret throughout the Battle of Britain, at the Woolwich Arsenal. Thatcher’s key policies—the reason perhaps that despite his Between 1945 and 1959 he was a lecturer in experimental long service in the Commons he never received a Knighthood— physics at the University of Bristol, where he divided his time and voting against the creation of the Assisted Places Scheme, between research—mainly on photographic sensitivity—and the abolition of the Greater London Council, and the introduction teaching, for which, as a strong believer in direct personal of student loans. He was one of the first MPs to call for the observation, he spent many hours designing experiments. John concept of illegitimacy to be abolished, and in 1980 famously lectured in Europe, the US, Australia and New Zealand, but each started a campaign for the sowing of wild flowers on motorway winter he suffered from bronchitis exacerbated by the Bristol verges, sadly abandoning the plan when he discovered it could smog. In 1959 he became Professor of Physics at the University only be done with seeds imported from the Continent. of Virginia, where he soon became known as an outstanding tutor and demonstrator, and began his important research into the Norman Miscampbell retired from parliament in 1992, and from plastic deformation of single crystals of alloys. 1993 until 2000 he was a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. He died on 16 February 2007. John was a strong believer in the importance of working alongside industrial laboratories. He came back to England in PROFESSOR JOHN WESLEY MITCHELL (1935), physicist, was 1963 for a year as Director of the National Chemical Laboratory, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, descended on both sides from but resigned in frustration at the bureaucratic complexities of the pioneering emigrants. From a young age he studied flora and Civil Service. His Jubilee Memorial Lectures for the Society of geology with his father, and he became an active member of the Chemical Industry were given in February 1965, and his Canterbury Mountaineering Club. In 1931 he won a scholarship penetrating observations that basic research is essential for to Canterbury University, where he took a First in Chemistry in long-term economic growth were to prove all too correct in 1934, and gained numerous prizes and awards. subsequent decades. John remained at the University of Virginia In 1935 John Mitchell sailed for England. He lived in Trinity for until his retirement in 1979. He was twice married: in 1968 to Jo two years while he worked under Cyril Hinshelwood in the Overstreet Long, from whom he was subsequently divorced, and Trinity/Balliol laboratory. Hinshelwood’s warm encouragement in 1976 to Virginia Jacobs Hill, who was a devoted assistant and eased the difficult transition from New Zealand, and his companion. John was an active researcher and lecturer in 54 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

retirement, and he enjoyed a contented home life with many report on Iran in Ayatollah Khomeini’s early days and another on friends and books. John Mitchell died on 12 July 2007, at the Mikhail Gorbachev’s Soviet Union that was republished in age of 93. Russian and distributed on the black market at a handsome mark- up. Advertisers were inundated with joint venture proposals from In his will, he has generously left the College a substantial Russians who had seen nothing like it. ‘He could sell almost legacy to provide financial support for undergraduates, which is, anything to anyone, but he loved and understood the FT and as tuition fees and associated costs continue to rise, increasingly earned millions of pounds for the newspaper,’said Sir David Bell, needed to continue to attract the most academically able students. the FT chairman. ‘He was always alert to a good story and RAYMOND PATRICK O’DONNELL (minor scholar 1958), endlessly good to journalists in the field.’ He used the telephone international salesman for the Financial Times, was born in like no one else, cajoling switchboards across the world to 1938, the son of a prosperous Irish doctor in Sutton, south-west connect him to colleagues in an era when getting any London. He was educated at Wimbledon College, and took a Third international line was a challenge. A call from Raymond in History at Trinity. Raymond O’Donnell’s greatest gift was O’Donnell, however, was seldom to discuss business. It would be friendship. His many friends spanned colour and creed, region to check rugby scores and bark his latest anecdotes down the and class, and he was a great raconteur. Beneath the bonhomie lay line—anecdotes that were frequently fantastical and impossible a perceptive mind, without a trace of malice. Raymond to verify. O’Donnell’s bond with the FT lasted nearly forty years, though Raymond O’Donnell died on 2 November 2006. He is survived by he always remained a freelance. The paper was only one of many his wife, Beachy, a son and a daughter. With thanks to the business interests that made—and lost—him small fortunes over Financial Times. the years but it was the closest to his heart. It was in 1960s Tehran that the effervescent young Irishman introduced himself RUPERT ALDWORTH POWELL (1935), international athlete and to the FT’s then foreign editor, J. D. F. Jones, explaining that he railway company executive, was born on 18 September 1916, the had a thriving business selling Christmas cards in the Gulf. son of a preparatory school headmaster, and was educated at Anyone making a success of this unlikely market, the foreign Cheltenham, before following his elder brother Michael (1928) editor decided, could surely sell advertising space in the country to Trinity. He was a conscientious student; but it was in sports surveys that were a feature of the FT’s growing foreign coverage. that he excelled. In 1937 he joined the Authentics Cricket Club and also Vincents Club and in Trinity was Secretary of both the So began a relationship that endured until days before his death. Cricket Xl and Athletics Club. The following year he was captain His travels embraced the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the of both, and led Trinity’s athletes to a notable victory in former Soviet Union, but Africa dominated his career. He criss- Cuppers, himself winning the high jump, the high hurdles and crossed the continent selling advertising space, extolling what the 220 yards hurdles. Perhaps his greatest triumph was that he described as ‘the ethic and the elegance’ of the paper, and year’s match against the A.A.A. at Iffley Road, when in the long sharing with generations of FT correspondents the insights jump he cleared 23’ 91/2” to break C. B. Fry’s 44 year old acquired over years of engagement with some of the most University record. demanding countries in the world. In Nigeria, he was instrumental in forging a special relationship for the FT. During In 1938 Rupert joined Metro-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Co.Ltd the oil-boom years Raymond sold so many advertisments for the at Saltley, Birmingham, as a trainee, but the war was looming. FT’s annual Nigerian supplements that they had to be split up and March 1939 saw him in a Territorial Regiment formed in published on consecutive days. He also made possible a bumper Birmingham from where he was commissioned into the 120th Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 55

Field Regiment, Royal Artillery TA as a Second Lieutenant. He thesis made an early contribution to the debate between served in Northern Ireland for two years then in July 1942 liberalism and communitarianism, which came to dominate volunteered for a Draft of ‘Potential Battery Commanders’. This political theory in the 1980s and 90s. Seemingly set on an took him to Durban then to the Middle East School of Artillery at academic career, he moved to Paris, where he met his first wife, Almaza where he was an instructor in gunnery, and lastly to Brigitte de Sterk, whom he married in 1963. Palestine, instructing the 1st Infantry Division. Had it not been The couple moved to Ottowa, and John switched to politics. He for the War he would have surely enjoyed great success as an ran for the Liberals in rural Ontario in 1968 and was appointed athlete. As it was, he represented Great Britain against Belgium the parliamentary secretary to the minister of regional and and France in 1946 and 1947, and competed in the Final Trials for economic expansion. He and Brigitte were divorced, and John the 1948 Olympics. married Beverly Rockett, a Toronto model and photographer. He After the war Rupert married Rosemary Wynne-Edwards and lost his seat in 1972 but was re-elected two years later, now returned to Metro-Cammell in Birmingham, subsequently representing the urban Toronto riding of St. Paul’s. In 1976 Mr transferring to the London Office as Assistant to the London Trudeau appointed him secretary of state for Canada, a job for Manager, where he stayed until 1970. He became Sales Manager which his long-standing interest in the arts ideally suited him. It which involved much overseas travel in Africa, the Middle East was at this time that his second marriage failed; he began a and the Far East, particularly between 1950 and 1965. In 1970 relationship with Michelle Chicoine with whom he remained for the London Office of which he was Manager had to close and he the rest of his life. was made redundant. Fortunately his last ten years of work were John Roberts lost his seat again in 1979, and was elected a third very exciting and quite unconnected with export. He became time the following year. He was to play a vital part seeing British Rail Engineering Limited’s Public Relations Manager through the Patriation Act of 1982, which finally severed working in Derby. Canada’s constitutional link to the UK. Inspired partly by his In retirement in Derbyshire and Herefordshire he continued his Oxford studies he tried to provide the Canadian Liberal Party with interests in following sport, gardening, painting with water a deeper and broader ideology of liberty than was current and colours, music and the countryside. In 2001 he and Rosemary traditional, but his voice was rather inaudible in the rough and moved to Cambridgeshire to be near their daughter. They tumble of Canadian party politics. He also served as minister of celebrated their Diamond Wedding Anniversary in June 2006. science and technology and environment minister from 1980 to Rupert Powell died on 30 March 2007, at the age of 90. With 1983, and he continued to champion the cause of the thanks to Mike Powell, son. environment for the rest of his life.

THE HONOURABLE JOHN MOODY ROBERTS (1955), Canadian His final cabinet position was as minister of employment and politician, was born into a working class family in Hamilton on immigration from 1983 to 1984. He stood unsuccessfully, and 28 November 1933; at the age of 4 he suffered the tragic loss of expensively, for the party leadership after Trudeau’s departure in his father by suicide. John excelled at school, and graduated from 1984, and lost his seat, for the final time, later that year. He the University of Toronto with the Breuls Gold Medal in Political turned to research and the philosophical nature of liberalism, and Science. He applied to read for a BPhil at Trinity in the hope, published Agenda for Canada: Towards a New Liberalism, (Lester unfulfilled, of studying under politics lecturer Zbigniew & Orpen Dennys, 1985). By the mid-1990s he was suffering from Pelczynski. Subsequently John migrated to St Antony’s to poor health, but maintained his interest in the arts, cultural complete his DPhil under the supervision of Isaiah Berlin. His policy, and political and philosophical ideas. At the time of his 56 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

death John Roberts was working on a book on Humboldt, the There followed almost forty years in which he worked mainly in subject of his doctoral thesis half a century earlier. John Roberts heavy industry. John married his wife Nancy in 1958, and they died in Toronto of a massive coronary on March 31, 2007. With had three children, Judith, Nick and Roger. He was at the thanks to Zbigniew Pelczynski and Sandra Martin. National Economic Development Office from 1966–76, becoming Engineering Director, and then ran the British Iron and RODNEY STUART ROYSTON (1954), pharmacologist and county Steel Consumers’ Council from 1977 until retirement in 1990, councillor, was born in Manchester on 6 March 1936, the son of helping steer Britain away from damaging protectionism during a company director. He came up from Ampleforth to read the 1980s steel crisis. This he did largely from home, taking medicine, but changed direction before completing his studies. mischievous pleasure at speaking to industrial correspondents For most of his working life he was employed by Glaxo, and and executives on the phone in swimming trunks or gumboots. spent many years living and working in Central and South He enjoyed the freedom to spend time with his family and America. On his retirement he settled in Buckinghamshire, where working in the garden he loved. he became involved in local government, serving on the South Bucks District Council from 1995, and elected as County John had never given up his intention of finishing the work on Councillor for Stoke Poges and Farnham Common in May 1997. Waller and retirement let him pick it up again. Reviewing the He was appointed as a cabinet member with responsibility for secondary materials to see how the field had changed, he strategic planning, took a leading role in the South East England reported, with relish and amusement, that the answer was ‘not at Regional Assembly and was a major figure in the strategic all!’ There followed several years of energetic primary research growth agenda for Buckinghamshire. Rodney Royston died on and the writing of a substantial biography. He struck up a lively 27 December 2006, having suffered for some time with collaboration—and lasting friendship— with American scholars emphysema. He is survived by his wife Maureen, and his two preparing a new edition of Waller’s poems for OUP. Their open sons Philip and Jonathan. acceptance of an outsider re-joining the field was a great encouragement to him. Before failing health stopped his work in MR JOHN FRANCIS SAFFORD (1945), industrialist and historian, 2006, he had completed much of the book and was delighted that was born in Richmond, Surrey, on 2 January 1927, educated at his collaborators were committed to completing it from the Winchester College and studied Modern History at Trinity from extensive notes he left on the remaining chapters. The work 1945–8. Starting his National Service in 1948, he chose to go continues in parallel with the preparation of the new edition of into the ranks, so he could join Intelligence in Hamburg, where the poems. John Safford died on 20 February 2007. Nick Safford, he was appalled by the destruction and breakdown of society that son. he saw. The experience strengthened a sense of social justice that guided him in later life. He returned to research at Oxford, under FRANCIS JOHN STEWART (1936), lawyer, was born on 11 May Christopher Hill, his subject the seventeenth-century poet and 1917 in Edinburgh, where his father was a Writer to His politician Edmund Waller, a man who lived three centuries before, Majesty’s Signet. His family had deep roots in New Abbey, but also in times of upheaval. The parallel with 1940s Kirkcudbrightshire, which he always saw as his true home. His Germany—of the challenges facing what has been described as ‘a grandfather was the owner of Shambellie, now the National reasonable man in unreasonable times’—added to his fascination Museum of Costume. Four years at Cargilfield were followed by with Waller. However after eighteen months he broke off his six at Loretto, where he was captain of cricket and of rugby fives. research. Britain was changing fast and he wanted to be part of At Trinity he read Law and twice won a Blue in Rugby Fives. the changes in the society and economy he lived in. Immediately after graduating he joined the Territorial Army with the Lothians and Border Yeomanry, who were sent to France. Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 57

Frank was captured with the 51st Highland Division at St Valery her he must come and ask her himself. This led eventually to a in June 1940. sparky, well-balanced and happy marriage, which lasted for sixty years. Demobilised in 1947, David went up to Trinity to read Then came almost five years as a prisoner of war in Germany. Modern Languages and spent a further year studying for a Thanks to the delivery of books by the Red Cross and the Diploma in Education, alongside being Secretary of College humanity of his German captors, Frank studied—and passed—his cricket. He went back to Lancashire. There he first met our Scottish law exams, while at the same time learning not only to President, for the Sumner and the Roberts families were knit but even to turn a heel. One exam paper was lost on its way neighbours; and David, recognising talent in young Ivor, back to Scotland, so release from prison camp in 1945 was encouraged him to aim for a top university. Having taught followed by a one-year course at the University of Edinburgh, briefly in Merchant Taylors’, Crosby, and then for two years at resulting in an LLB. His marriage to Olga Mounsey was Liverpool College, David went to Harrow in 1953, where he celebrated in St John’s, Princes Street, in 1946. It was in a POW spent the rest of his career, teaching mainly German and as a camp that Frank met the Reverend Stuart Louden, who in 1951 housemaster. became the Minister of Greyfriars Kirk, where Frank was to serve as an elder for fifty years and as Session clerk for fifteen. David was an outstanding teacher of sixth formers and younger boys, with an infectious enthusiasm for language and literature From 1947 until 1982 Frank was a partner, latterly senior alike. He was a fine games player, a bowler who generated partner, in Murray, Beith and Murray WS, the firm in which his considerable pace from a relaxed run-up and who preached the father had served before him. Here he specialised in taxation, importance of a high, side-on action. As a golfer he went on wills and trusts, and conveyancing, and was proud of never being improving, winning his last trophy in the last year of his life, involved in a single criminal case. During this time Frank was and he was responsible for many improvements in the school’s closely involved with Loretto School: first as secretary to the old golf course. But it was as a housemaster that he especially boy’s society, then clerk to the Governors, vice-chairman for ten excelled, and he saw those fifteen years as the climax of his years, Chairman for another ten. For a remarkable 45 years he career. He was comfortable in authority, and seldom needed to served on the council of the Fettesian-Lorettonian Boys Club. In raise his voice, and this, together with the close interest which what remained of his ‘spare time’ he was a Director of an he and his wife took in their activities, commanded the respect of investment trust, a member of the Royal Company of Archers, a wide range of lively Harrovians. David Sumner died on 7 and Consul for Scotland for the Principality of Monaco. Near the October 2007. Four Harrovians, including his son, spoke with end of his life Frank wrote, ‘my life has been a long, happy and admiration and affection at his crowded Memorial Service. Roger contented one.’ With thanks to John Stewart, son. Ellis CBE (1949).

CHARLES DAVID SUMNER (1948), teacher and housemaster, was LESLIE WALTER TAYLOR (Honorary MA), has died at the age of born (on 26 February 1925) and bred in Lancashire. He was 100. He was granted his Honorary MA in 1969, in recognition of called up in 1943, straight from Malvern, and commissioned in his service and achievements with the Oxford University Press the Grenadier Guards a year later, on the strength, so he said, of mostly in the Education department. The College’s sympathy the recommendation of a Grenadier officer who had watched him goes to his son, Colin P. Taylor (1966). bowling in an army cricket match. After a further cricket season in England, he served in Germany. There he saw an WALTER PATRICK THORNE (1958), education administrator, who attractive Polish girl across a dance floor and sent his Sergeant died suddenly in on 15 July 2007, aged 68, was born and educated to ask her for a dance. She replied that if he wanted to dance with in Worcester where he attended King’s School. He was a King’s 58 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

scholar and one of the privileges of this award was the right to Chairman and Managing Director of RTZ Borax Ltd, and marry in Worcester Cathedral. In 1958 he came up to Trinity to Chairman of the United States Borax and Chemical Corporation. read Greats. While at Trinity he coxed the 2nd eight and was He was a director of the RTZ Corporation Ltd until his retirement delighted to be awarded the rudder in 1960 when his boat bumped in 1979. He was also a member of the American Mining St Edmund Hall, University, Balliol and Wadham. During his time Congress. One of his many interests was the history of at Trinity he met Gaynor who was a nurse at the Radcliffe chemistry, mining and metallurgy. Over the years he built up a Infirmary. They married in 1967 and had a long and happy fine collection of antiquarian books in this field and was a marriage for 40 years. member of the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie. He and his late wife Betty loved travelling to Death Valley many After Oxford Patrick taught in California for a year and would times in the course of his long association with the Borax Group. have stayed longer if he had not been called up into the American In 1984 he co-authored a book on the history of borax entitled army. This was deferred for six months and he was able to return The Tincal Trail which traced the progress of man’s knowledge to England. He taught Classics for five years at Worcester about borax and the development of the mining and processing Grammar School for Girls, before beginning his career in of borax since the earliest days. education administration, which lasted for 23 years, mainly in Nottingham. He had many interests and hobbies, but the one that He always had a keen interest in education and for many years gave him the most pleasure was collecting books. Every room in served as a member of the Council of his old school Clifton his house was filled with bookshelves. His thirst for knowledge College and was Chairman from 1971–78. He was devoted to his never abated and his zest for life was remarkable. He had friends wife Betty who sadly died in 1997. He was always active and was in all walks of life and could converse on any topic. He was still playing golf and bridge and driving until his early 90s. He always interested in what people had to say and saw humour in much enjoyed spending time with his family, which included four most situations. Patrick’s life was cut short abruptly, but not a sons, eight grand children and three great-grand children. minute of it was wasted. He will be sadly missed by all who knew Norman Travis died peacefully at home on 1 May 2007 just short him. Patrick is survived by his wife Gaynor, his sons Nicholas of his 94th birthday. He will be much missed by his family and and Stephen and by his baby grandson Noah. Stephen Thorne, friends. Mike Travis, son. son. THE REVEREND CANON DOUGLAS REGINALD VICARY (Millard NORMAN JOHN (PICKLES) TRAVIS (1932), businessman, was Scholar 1935), canon residentary and headmaster of King’s born in 1913 and was brought up in the West Country. He was School, Rochester, was born on 24 September 1916. He came up educated at Clifton College where he excelled both in his studies to read Natural Sciences, completing his BA in 1938 with first and at many sports including cricket and rugby. He won a Millard class honours, and going on to do research under Professor Sir Scholarship to Trinity, where he read Chemistry. After graduating Cyril Hinshelwood, an important influence. He received his BSc he served with the RAF in Europe and South East Asia in the in 1939. With Hinshelwood he published a paper in The Journal Second World War. of Oxford Chemical Society of September 1939 entitled ‘The kinetics of sulphonation of nitro-benzine by sulphur trioxide’. A After the war he spent his whole career in the mining and career in the Sciences seemed to beckon. However, his Christian chemical industry. He started with ICI Ltd. becoming Managing faith led him in a different direction, to ordination. He studied at Director of one of its subsidiaries, British Visqueen. In 1957 he joined Borax (Holdings) Ltd. in London. For the next twenty Wycliffe Hall, gaining a distinction in the Diploma in Theology years he devoted his life to the Borax business becoming in 1940. He became a deacon in that year and was ordained priest in Peterborough Cathedral in 1941. His plan had been to become Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 59

a curate in London, in West Ham. However, the wartime will be remembered for his huge enthusiasm, for his pastoral population of the parish he was going to was greatly reduced as a qualities and for his love for family and friends. Joseph Vicary, result of bombing and evacuation, and a change of plan took him son. into a very different environment, at St Lawrence College, DR PHILIP ROBERT WARHURST (1957), South African historian, Ramsgate, then evacuated to Courtenhall, Northamptonshire. was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, on 10 September 1933. His There he combined the roles of chaplain and science master. At family emigrated to Cape Town in 1947, later relocating to the end of the war he returned to Oxford, working as chaplain of Johannesburg. He read History at Wits, graduating with Honours Hertford College and as tutor and chaplain at Wycliffe. He left from the University of South Africa, and entered the teaching Oxford in 1948 to take up the post of Diocesan Director of profession. Philip came to Trinity to read for a BLitt, his thesis Education in the Rochester diocese. He retained a great affection entitled ‘Anglo-Portuguese Relations in South-Central Africa’, for Oxford and for Trinity, revisiting the city on many occasions then taught for a while in Zambia before settling at Mount and keeping up with the College till late in his life. While at Pleasant High in Harare in 1963. Here he attended the Anglican Oxford he showed characteristic enthusiasm for a range of Cathedral where he met Barbara in 1965. The couple married in interests and activities, from cross-country running to madrigal December 1966 and enjoyed forty years of devoted and singing. harmonious marriage, founded on their strong Christian After Oxford, Douglas Vicary’s career combined the ecclesiastical principles, and their mutual love and respect. and the educational. Alongside the work as Director of Education In 1970 Philip was awarded a DPhil from Trinity, and he was also minor canon of Rochester Cathedral till 1952, and, subsequently joined the History Department at the University of from 1952 to 1957, Residentiary Canon and Precentor. In 1957 Rhodesia. Disillusioned with the Smith regime, which he had he was appointed Headmaster of King’s School, Rochester, where long and vocally opposed, and appalled by the resultant he continued to teach Science and planned the building of science bloodshed afflicting his adopted country, in 1979 he accepted a labs (amazingly, there had been none before his arrival). He Senior Lectureship in History at the University of Natal where he remained at Rochester till 1975, in his sixtieth year, when he remained until his retirement in 1995. He was a caring and moved to his last job, as Canon and Precentor at Wells Cathedral. enthusiastic teacher, a man of great humility but with notable Over time he became very attached to Wells and found much gifts of leadership and determination. Philip’s intellectual satisfaction in the life of the Cathedral and his involvement, as curiosity took him deep into the hinterland of Africa to work Precentor, with its music. He retired in 1988. among people of very different cultures to his own, whose languages he learned, and whom he came to understand and While in Oxford Douglas Vicary entered, in 1947, a lifelong and accept. His belief in the fundamental goodness of humanity and loving marriage with Ruth Hickinbotham. Family life was of in the ultimate triumph of a just cause remained unwavering, and great importance to him. He died, on 27 February 2007, shortly he was not afraid to speak out at election times. before their sixtieth anniversary, and is survived by Ruth and their four children. Douglas was fortunate to enjoy a long Philip was committed to many community activities relating to retirement pursuing a rich variety of interests including music, those less fortunate than himself, reading Tape Aids for the travel, holidays among the mountains of North Wales, and a Blind, and working alongside Barbara for the aged and infirm. voracious appetite for a range of reading (he once said that you Somehow he found time to be involved in Scouting, for fouteen could learn more of importance from novels than from modern years a Group Scout Leader in Durban, and serving as Scout theology!). Apart from the bald statement of his public career, he Commissioner of South-East Harare where he worked primarily 60 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

in the townships. His academic interest in south-central and developed Parkinson’s Disease and with increasing immobility eastern Africa never flagged and he pursued his researches into he took to writing poetry, three small volumes of which have the Kingdom of Maputo through his career and into his been published. His Olla Podrida (2004) is to be found in the retirement. His latest manuscript, and crowning scholarly Trinity Library. Tony died on the Ides of March 2007, and is achievement, entitled Britian and the Kingdom of Maputo, is survived by his wife, Liz, their three children and three soon to be published. Philip Warhurst died in May 2006, and is grandchildren. Acommemorative oak tree, appropriately chosen survived by Barbara and their two children Mark and Gillian. by his forester brother Peter (1951), has been planted with his With thanks to Barbara Warhurst and Michael Spencer. ashes in the school grounds. Canon Christopher Hall (1954).

ANTHONY DAVID (TONY) WOOD (1954), headmaster, was born on MR JOHN IAIN MUNRO WOTHERSPOON (1946), lawyer and writer 14 July 1935, and came up to Trinity from St Bartholomew’s to the signet, studied Law at Trinity. Whilst at Oxford he was a Grammar School, Newbury, to read Mods and Greats. He became a keen rower and rugby player. The team photographs on the wall, leading light in the Trinity Players and the Boat Club, and and Trinity rowing blazer in the wardrobe, bear testament to this. President of JCR, as well as getting a Second in Greats. He is Iain was at school at Inverness Royal Academy, and Loretto fondly remembered for conviviality, his pre-war Morris Minor School, Musselburgh. In 1942 he joined the Royal Signals, and and a meerschaum pipe. National Service took him to Hong Kong served with the 51st (H) Division in Belgium and Germany before as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Gunners. He taught Classics at being posted to Burma until 1946. Following Trinity, Iain Wellesley House, Broadstairs, which was where he met Liz, his studied Scottish Law at Edinburgh University, qualifying as a lifelong partner, on a stage. After being Head of Classics and a Writer to the Signet in 1950. All three of Iain’s younger brothers Housemaster at Dean Close Junior School, in 1974 he became followed him through Loretto School, Trinity College, and for the next twenty years head of what was soon to be named Edinburgh University, and they all studied Law. Whilst the Taunton Junior School. Shortly after his appointment he brothers were at Trinity, in the austere post-war conditions, persuaded the governors to purchase a forty-seat coach, which he college fare was augmented by regular food parcels from the drove himself. A visiting friend quipped that even the bus driver North. A Claret Club dinner menu from the time records ‘Glen at Taunton had to have an Oxford MA! He was a strong supporter Affric Venison’for one course, sent to Oxford by Iain’s father. In of the school’s sports teams and he continued to play an active 1951 Iain joined his father in the family firm, Macandrew and role in amateur dramatics. Jenkins, in Inverness.

Tony had intended to retire in the year before his sixtieth Iain married a fellow Oxford graduate (Avril Edwards, Somerville birthday to make way for a younger person. However, after the 1946) in 1952. Although they had not met at Oxford, they had unexpected resignation of his successor, he was persuaded to stay many mutual friends. They had two sons, two daughters and 17 on for a further year to amalgamate the school with Taunton grandchildren. One daughter read Medicine at Oxford, also at Junior Girls School. The result today is a much extended, co- Trinity, which enabled Iain to rekindle many memories. He educational Taunton Preparatory School with 470 pupils. The celebrated by donating a tortoise, decorated with the Trinity Arms seed of Tony’s faith, growing secretly at Trinity, came to fruition painted on its shell, to the Trinity Gardens. during his years as a schoolmaster. He became a Church of For the following fifty-six years Iain maintained his interest in England Reader; his sermons were models of clarity and rugby, as a player, then as supporter of his sons and grandsons. persuasion, and his services conducted with dignity in local He enjoyed all the country sports available in the Highlands of parishes. He was a Rotarian and Freemason and played leading Scotland, and was a keen sailor, owning and maintaining his own and formative roles in both fraternities. After retirement he Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 61

boat for summer cruises on the West Coast of Scotland. Iain also served in the Territorial Army for many years, and in 1972 was appointed Honorary Colonel to the 32nd (Scottish) Signal Regiment. In 1971 he was appointed Aide de Camp to The Queen, and continued to be involved with Royal visits to the Highlands as a Deputy Lieutenant of Inverness-shire, then Clerk to the Lieutenancy.

Up to the end of his life, Iain remained active, and prepared to take on new challenges. He was, when he died, working as an active Partner in the family firm in Inverness where his two sons continue to practice, and at the age of 82 he was seeking to purchase a new boat to sail around the West Coast of Scotland with his grandchildren. He always had time to talk, he was interested in everyone he met, and was renowned for his good humour. He will be sorely missed by his wife, children and grandchildren, as well as by the many people who enjoyed his company. Victoria Dobie (1979), daughter. 62 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

JUNIOR MEMBERS r e t x

JCR REPORT a B n h o J : o t

he year has been an eventful one for the JCR. I hope that a o h Tlook at the societies’ reports that follow will give a flavour P of some of the extra-curricular activities which Trinity students have undertaken this year and convey some impression of the myriad of possibilities available to individuals in Oxford outside the faculty and college libraries.

This was the first year in which the JCR elected two presidents to serve for defined terms within a single calendar year. Richard Appleton served during Hilary term before passing the baton on to me for the following two terms. This was a notable innovation which attracted interest from outside the college. It widens the The JCR Committee field of candidates to include those who would otherwise be prevented by academic commitments from offering themselves to them for dealing with the day-to-day business of the JCR in for election as president for all three terms. such a professional manner. In this, I believe that they led the Notable events included the vote not to re-affiliate to the central way in Oxford. Indeed, the dossier of student rent prices which student union, OUSU. In the view of members of the JCR, the was compiled by members of the Trinity JCR committee for the cost of the termly subscription payments was too high compared purposes of our own discussions with the college this year has to the level of service which we were receiving in return. Though been much in demand by other JCRs across Oxford. Whilst it was we were the first college in some years to vote to disaffiliate, we perhaps unlikely to find its way onto our own student union were soon followed by another major JCR, suggesting that there website, in December 2007 it could still be found on that of the is a more generalised concern over the way in which the central Cambridge Student Union. student union has been run in the past. I hope that next year’s Whilst it is impossible in the course of a single brief report to committee will be able to continue to maintain a dialogue with thank everyone who has contributed to college life this year, it is the student union officials and contribute actively to the process worth acknowledging the hard work of Richard Williams and Kate of reform that is already underway. Parsons in editing the Broadsheet, Trinity’s ‘in-house’ The decision to disaffiliate has involved an increase in work for undergraduate newspaper, produced twice every term. There are JCR committee members. Both Richard and I have been fortunate few other colleges which can boast such a professional enough to be working alongside an enormously talented and publication, and we are immensely grateful to the Trinity Society dedicated committee. No job was too challenging for them, and for agreeing to contribute to the cost of printing in the future. though their work is not always obvious to the other members of Though often planned but never before executed, this year also the JCR, I can only pass on my heartfelt thanks and appreciation saw the production of an alternative prospectus for prospective Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 63 applicants. This is a really excellent piece of work which we FRESHERS’ WEEK AND SOCIAL EVENTS hope will be a model for future years. Once again Freshers’Week came and went in a blur of activity, fun Our relative poverty compared to other JCRs means that we lag and, rather strangely, belly dancing and the Macarena. The MCR considerably behind some colleges in the number and quality of had two parties in the Rawlinson Road Common Room at the services we are able to provide to our members and the amount of beginning of Michaelmas Term. The first was a welcome party direct support we are able to give to student societies within and the second a TBop, which encouraged MCR members to come college. As an example of our financial vulnerability, an dressed as something beginning with the letter T in honour of unforeseen increase in the institutional price of the Sky TV Trinity College. Special mention should go out to Thomas subscription this year led to a decision by the JCR that we could Cawston who made a wonderful effort to turn up as the tooth fairy, not continue to fund this service for members. Nevertheless, the complete with full-length wedding dress and fairy wings! The economy measures we have undertaken this year will hopefully MCR also embarked on an exotic restaurant trip, which featured serve to consolidate our financial position, providing a firm belly dancing and brought new and old MCR members together to foundation for the future and affording the opportunity for dance the Macarena. targeted investment in future to improve the quality of life for Thanksgiving dinner at Rawlinson Road was one of the main undergraduates in Trinity. While there is something of a shortage highlights of the social calendar this year, with over half the of communal spaces in college for undergraduates to get together, MCR attending and joining in the festivities. I would especially there is an underlying spirit of community which more than like to thank Kathryn Ross and Mathijs Zandbergen for their hard compensates. I sincerely hope that next year’s committee will be work hosting the Thanksgiving dinner for the third year running able to implement further changes and bring about a greater level and ensuring that it was, once again, a massive success. I would of participation in the business of the JCR. also like to thank Dido Roberts for attending and her good Christopher Sellers behaviour during the dinner. Another social highlight of the year was Halloween, or, more accurately, ‘Hallow-queen.’ When St Antony’s College announced they were hosting a cross-dressing themed bop for MCR REPORT Halloween, a contingent from the MCR decided to take up the challenge. Strutting up to the gates dressed in a wide variety of MCR COMMITTEE suits, dresses, skirts and high heels, we were quite a sight to behold as proved by the selection of truly interesting As always, times change, people come and go, and a new photographs. committee takes office. This year saw Tom Whitcher take over as social secretary, Christopher Fenwick as treasurer, Mette Bundvad as secretary, Seth Wilson as welfare rep, and Nina SPORTS AND SOCIETIES Kruglikova as committee member. I would like to thank all the The year saw the continuation of a fine tradition by the Trinity members of the committee for the amount of time, effort and MCR. In Hilary and Trinity terms three members of the MCR dedication they have put into ensuring that things have gone received blades in rowing: Andrew Luke and Martin Mekat in the smoothly and been enjoyable throughout the year. This year we men’s Second VIII and Rebecca Hall from the women’s First VIII. have maintained a strong relationship between the JCR and Michaelmas Term saw an impressive showing of freshers in the MCR, with many joint members attending MCR social events. 64 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

boats. Eager, willing, and prepared to demonstrate their prowess Under the captaincy of Frances Perrin the Ladies’ First VIII in the Christ Church Regatta, our freshers stood ready. bumped both LMH and Corpus Christi and will be hoping for Unfortunately the British weather proved a worthy opponent, similar success in 2008. The Second VIII qualified for the first resulting in the regatta being cancelled. The MCR has been time for three years, though they did win their spoons by rowing involved in numerous other sports as well. Special mention over at the foot of the river! should be made to Mathew Johnston who has continued to Six crews were entered for the Christ Church Regatta before the organise badminton for the last four years and ensured that a good rain came. Big things were expected of both our A crews, not time has been had by all. The MCR has been equally active in least the men who marginally lost out in Nepthys regatta to the college societies with several members of the MCR joining the eventual winners. 2008 will see training camps in both Oxford ranks of the chapel choir this year. and Northern Ireland, as well as—hopefully—rain-free bumps! Our thanks go out to all of the college academics, officers, and Mike Churchman support staff who have worked tirelessly to ensure that the Boat Club President 2007–8 college and MCR remain a warm and welcoming environment. I would also like to thank the previous MCR committee for their good work and encouragement. CHRISTIAN UNION It has been a great year for the Trinity Christian Union, beginning Sam Hobbs with ‘Unique’—an opportunity for non-Christians in Oxford to explore the claims of Christ. This was highly successful with CLUBS AND SOCIETIES lunchtime talks throughout fourth week in the Town Hall and various evening events. Trinity term saw the handover to the new BOAT CLUB CU reps, and planning for freshers’ week was almost immediate. Freshers’ Week turned out to be an immense success, with various 2007 has been a year plagued by flooding for the Boat Club, with events being held in college primarily for the new Trinitarians. both Torpids and the Christ Church regatta being cancelled due to Particularly successful was the Freshers’ Lunch held in the Beer the weather. Despite this, the Boat Club enjoyed a very popular Cellar, with a short talk by Rich Boothroyd. Over forty freshers year with well-attended training camps in Eton and Amsterdam. were at this event, giving us a fantastic opportunity for us to get to The number of crews entered for both Torpids and Eights was know a cross-section of the first-years. greater than in recent memory. During the Easter break Henry Sheldon represented Oxford in the Lightweight rowing boat Throughout Michaelmas term, we have been running a weekly against Cambridge for which he was awarded a half blue. The race meeting called ‘Open House’, based on Rico Tice’s DVD was won by over a length and Henry will be hoping for more of ‘Christianity Explored’ course. This provided a forum for the same in his capacity as OULRC president in the 2008 boat discussion and, of course, lots of cake! The CU has have been very race. much encouraged by the great interest in Jesus’claims. The OICCU Carol Service in the Sheldonian was a great encouragement— Summer Eights sadly saw the Men’s First VIII fall two places, but having catered for 300 people, seeing 1,100 was a very welcome they are still within bumping distance of the first division. There surprise! Members are now looking forward to the OICCU House- is plenty of hope for the future however as both the Second and party in January in Wales, and are feeling excited about ‘Amazing School’s VIIIs rose five places. The Second VIII won their blades Grace’—the title of the 2008 Mission. in the process and will be particularly grateful to their coaches: men’s captain Will Randall and Boat Club President Will Sweet. Sarah Broadbent Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 65

CRICKET for the next round, the team certainly showed that they had great potential. In the 2007/08 season, it seems that this potential This year Trinity Cricket was resurrected from the dead, ever has been achieved. The LMHT team won all of their games in hopeful of silverware and glory. As new-comers we were placed in Michaelmas Term and ended the term at the top of both their the third division, and came a respectable fourth, just missing out League and Cuppers groups. This means that LMHT have on promotion. Rather than opposing teams proving our ensured their place in the Cuppers quarter-finals, to be played in nemesis, it was the weather, and a lack of covers for the square. January, which is a fantastic achievement, particularly Brimming with an abundance of talent, it was frustrating that the considering that they have beaten teams two divisions above structures for cricketing success were not in place, but this is being them, in order to get there. In previous years Trinity has been worked on. With big plans in the pipeline, Trinity Cricket has the unable to provide many players for the team, which has largely potential to be one of the most successful sporting teams this been dominated by LMH, but this season has done itself proud, college has ever produced. with several enthusiastic new players progressing extremely Sam Ashton well. The side also has around half a dozen players who have represented the university in women’s football. The past year FOOTBALL has certainly been a good one for LMHT and with such a Last season Trinity endured a terrible time in the second division promising squad the rest of the season can only get better. picking up only 10 points from 18 games, which resulted in Laura Marjason relegation to the bottom division. This season results and performances improved with three wins in the first three games. THE GRYPHON There have been some great performances from freshers Henry Evans and Fred Burgess, and Charlie Hill has once again been in Joining the Gryphon Society last year it was encouraging to see brilliant form. But the eagerly anticipated cuppers game with a society enjoying such a continuous pleasing turn out on a Balliol was a huge disappointment: Trinity lost 5–1, after Sunday evening, despite the competition posed by ‘Top Gear’. starting the second half with just eight players on the pitch. The Under the mastership of Jonathan Best debate topics ranged from lack of available substitutes has been a perennial problem for the ‘This House Would Like More’ (I certainly would) to ‘This House Trinity football team, and we regularly field less than eleven Would Ban the Boatclub’; a motion unfathomable to a boatie such players. But while this is frustrating it is always a pleasure to as myself but one which provoked some very engaging and step out onto the football pitch and represent Trinity and at the passionate arguments. Trinity term saw the first winner of the halfway point in the present season we have left ourselves a Michael Beloff QC After Dinner Speaking Prize in Ciara Stratford reasonable chance of being promoted. and the beginning of Michaelmas has brought with it a new Master, or in the present case ‘Mistress’, as for only the second Horatio Cary time since the society was established has the society been headed by a female. Debates have included ‘the female of the WOMEN’S FOOTBALL species is more deadly than the male’ and even whether The last year can definitely be seen as a successful one for the Remembrance Day is now more for guilt than function. I hope my LMH/Trinity women’s football team. In Hilary term the players final term as mistress in Hilary will see a new insurgence of secured promotion to the fourth division, a great achievement for numbers once more, if only to help me drink the port. the team. Although they were unlucky to be drawn in a Ciara Stratford particularly difficult Cuppers group and therefore did not qualify 66 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

MUSIC SOCIETY Musical talent at Trinity is of course not just confined to the Musical life at Trinity has, as ever, been very active this year. A classical genre, as the open mic nights held each term highlight of the musical calendar was the Arts Week in Hilary demonstrate. These have been enthusiastically run by Holly Term. In this week, devoted to showcasing all arts-related Gathercole and Nick Wallace who have continued to expand the activities in college, the music society ran a series of lunchtime event and get a wide range of performers involved. Special recitals and chamber concerts. As in previous years, there was mention for this Michaelmas term’s concert also has to go to also a joint choir and orchestra concert which brought together Eugene Johnson, son of Trinity’s Computer Manager Alastair the two largest ensembles in college for a rousing concert in Johnson, for his star turn and to Kamau Lyon’s performance when hall. Arts Week also provided an opportunity to bring music into the entire audience in beer cellar migrated to Chapel so that he daily life at college: the jazz band performed at lunch in hall and could play ‘Three times a Lady’ on the grand piano! the Trinity singers sang from the balcony at guest night. Open mic nights this year have been particularly helped by the Indeed, music plays a role in all aspects of life at Trinity: a upgrades we have been able to make to the facilities in the beer clarinet trio and a string quartet provided background music at the cellar; new speakers and guitar amps have really improved sound MCR gala dinner and the jazz band performed at several college quality. These purchases have been part of the music society’s events. The chapel choir has also been out and about in college, efforts to improve the facilities available to all musicians in singing madrigals from the top of chapel tower on May morning college. This has also included funding part of the purchase of a and giving their usual performance from the balcony of hall at pair of timpani for the orchestra and buying smart new music Christmas dinner, including a version of the college grace to the folders for the choir. Mary-Jannet Leith will be taking over as tune of ‘All I want for Christmas is you’! president of the music society next year and I am sure she will continue in this work and lead an even more successful year of The chapel choir has continued to go from strength to strength music-making at Trinity. during this year. Numbers are ever expanding and the choir now boasts forty members. They undertook a successful tour to Ripon Jennifer Stockill cathedral in January where they sang evensong. They are now looking forward to a visit to Dublin in the summer. Catherine OPEN MIC NIGHT AND VARIOUS Wallace has continued to direct the choir superbly and was joined POPULAR MUSIC MOVEMENTS by the new junior organ scholar Daniel Sharpley in Michaelmas Music at Trinity is flourishing, bringing together students from Term. across year and subject groups. With the loss of The Secret The president’s concerts have been of an equally high standard Fridge, a cornerstone of the rock community, to the city, younger this year. These concerts give any soloist in college the chance Trinitarians have taken up the reins. The enigmatic Mister to perform and the range of musical talent on display is always Ginger have had successful gigs in local clubs and are currently astounding. This year has also seen a number of small ensembles writing with an eye on recording, the Trinity Jazz Band have performing, such as the flute choir which has recently been turned their talents onto Led Zeppelin covers, the ever-changing invigorated by a new batch of flautists among the freshers. We Midnight Cowboys are breaking hearts all over town and the hope that the music society’s endeavours to build up a collection newly born Montana Red Dog have left a trail of destruction of chamber music will help even more musicians play together in from London to Oxford in their wake. 2008 may be Trinity’s the future. noisiest year to date.

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THE TRINITY ORCHESTRA Sacha Von Wulffen, captain and general psycho, was particularly hard hit. But all was not lost. Balliol were left quivering and The Trinity College Orchestra has had a very promising start to curled up in the corner of their own bar, such was the ruthlessness the year, with some exciting developments in our search for of the Trinity performance. Up stepped St. Anne’s, unbeaten in funding to purchase some much-needed timpani. Due to the all of their games so far. It was time for one man to show his true generosity and hard work of the President, the College, the colours, and that man was Ken. In a memorable 7 ball clear-up, Trinity Society, and our own Music Society, we have now which was described by one player as ‘flawless pool’, and by purchased three brand new timpani, which will ensure that we will another as ‘quite good’, Ken inspired the rest of the team to a 9–0 be able to practise with our percussionists throughout the term, victory. Well actually, we lost 5–4, but it felt like a 9–0 win. So, rather than having to rely on hired timpani and adding percussion at the end of it all, Trinity were left in mid-table mediocrity, the week before the concert! We are extremely grateful to those rueing the missed chances and dreaming of what could have been. who have made this acquisition possible, with a special thanks to Diana Cross, who has worked relentlessly for the past few Mark Warren terms on this project. Having now formed the base of our percussion section, we will be hoping to extend it in the future, RAG so that both we and future generations of the College Orchestra In what has been an active year for Trinity RAG, a series of will be able to increase the scope of the orchestra’s repertoire popular events ranging from Speed Dating (in which a small even further. We are also very pleased to welcome for Hilary group of Trinity boys went speed dating with girls from New Term our new conductor, Daniel Reeve, who will pick up the College at Merton’s Bar) to the sale of RAG Christmas Cards and baton of our present conductor, Theo Grzegorczyk. We thank Trinity College pants have, through the dedication of the JCR Theo for all his hard work and enthusiasm over the past two RAG Reps, raised an impressive amount of money for charity. terms, and wish Daniel well in his new post. The Mr and Miss Trinity contest was the main college event this Our concert in Michaelmas Term was held at the University year, held in the Beer Cellar in Trinity Term. Five contestants Church of St Mary the Virgin on 18th November. The competed for the title of Mr Trinity, who was to go on to the programme was a challenging and exciting one: Tchaikovsky’s University-wide competition of Mr and Miss Oxford. There were Romeo and Juliet, and Brahms: Symphony No. 1, and the concert a series of fun challenges and everyone had a good time. Over was a great success. £55 was raised from the evening, and an encouraging number of people came to support the cause. Mary-Jannet Leith Jenny Galloway POOL After a couple of weeks of gruelling training early in Michaelmas RUGBY term, the Trinity First Pool team, the best and only team in The Trinity/LMH team was promoted at the end of the 2006/7 Trinity, put on their game faces and took to the baize. Brushed season after defeating Worcester, Corpus Christi, Somerville, aside without a care were LMH in a crushing 7–2 victory, then and others, and we are now in the top division again. The new weariness and fatigue from the long season cut in and resulted in season got off to a difficult start, with losses against the two best some narrow defeats that left Trinity staring at relegation. teams in the league, but the squad are looking to improve in Depression cut in, resulting in players doubting their own Hilary Term and to put in a good performance in cuppers. games, one player even going so far as to switch to Netball. 68 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 g

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SQUASH On the back of promotion to the second out of ten college squash leagues in 2006, Trinity squash is at an all time high. Such is the quality of the players available that only two of last year’s team have made it back into the squad—the experienced Charlie Hill and new captain Oli Plant. New talent for the team includes Sam Halliday, Fred Burgess and Steffen Hoyemsvoll all of whom have proved invaluable in keeping Trinity at the top of its game in the The Victorious Trinity Tennis Squad new season. A special mention must go to Sam and Charlie who remained unbeaten as the first half of the squash year came to a The league form proved even more impressive and, after opening close. With a few more good wins under our belts we should be with an 11–1 win against Merton, the team whitewashed both challenging for the top spot of the second division and are Osler-Green and Somerville 12–0. By then confidence was hoping to carry on this good form into 2008. soaring, and in the best result of the season the wild Catz were Oli Plant tamed with a thrilling 7–5 victory, notable for hero Oli Plant battling illness as well as the opposition. The season ended on a TENNIS high note with a 12–0 demolition of Pembroke, meaning that Trinity finished top of the table with victories in all five league Trinity will compete in the top division of the College Tennis matches, for the loss of just six sets from a possible sixty. Leagues in 2008 for the first time in recent memory following a Promotion to the top division, and the prize of Premier League second successive promotion, achieved by winning every match. tennis, are fitting rewards for a truly memorable season. The squad was the strongest for many years, with an influx of talented freshers including University second-team player Andy Matt Johnston Luke, Oli Plant, Russ Jackson, Horatio Cary and Sian Roberts, to add to the established players Sam Ashton, Helen Gilbey and the THE TRINITY PLAYERS veteran Matt Johnston. Drama at Trinity has continued to flourish this year, with more Despite a dismal recent record in Cuppers, with only two ties won and more ambitious projects being attempted and an intention in the last seven years, Trinity dispatched Oriel 12–0 and Teddy to raise the profile of drama even further within college in the Hall 7–2 to set up a quarter-final against two-time defending coming year. Despite the lack of a Trinity cuppers entry at the champions St Catz. The match was played in driving rain and, start of the year, several individuals have been making their despite a valiant effort, Catz went through 10–4. ‘Trinity mark on Oxford drama by working on university productions in overpowered by wild Catz’ was the Cherwell’s verdict, but Catz a wide variety of roles, most notably Charlie Reston’s went on to lift the trophy once more, and defeat was no disgrace. appearance as the eponymous Danish prince in a production of Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 69

Hamlet at the Playhouse in Trinity term; Richard Williams’ production the play looks hugely promising, with both cast various roles in a number of plays, most recently at the Burton and crew eager to begin rehearsing early next term—certainly Taylor Theatre; Paul Barrett’s role in The Merchant of Venice in an evening not to be missed, and we hope to see many old Michaelmas; and the directing work of Amanda Partridge members and friends there. (President of the Trinity Players 2006/7). Amanda also directed Liana Gregorians the ever-popular Trinity Lawns Play in the summer, along with first year Liana Gregorians, which was a modern adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, a witheringly satirical look at BLUES the discrepancies between public and private life and the relationships between men and women. A tale of politics, Horatio Cary blackmail and love, combining farce, hypocrisy and morality, Rackets Half-Blue the play is one of Wilde’s most entertaining, and as a so-called ‘social comedy’ brings together farcical humour and serious Susan Jishan Chai social issues. Wilde’s frivolous banter, dandified characters and Table Tennis Half-Blue (Women’s Captain) comic interludes retain the prevailing tone of mockery and satire in An Ideal Husband, rendering it a scintillating drawing room comedy. The production revealed the mine of dramatic Chiau Ling Chow talent to be found within the walls of Trinity—Sophia Badminton Half-Blue Pilkington-Miksa played a deliciously evil Mrs Chevely, while Richard Williams’ desperate Robert Chiltern showed great Charlie Hill sensitivity and depth, and the comic pairing of George Cricket Blue Macpherson and Paul Barrett as father and son proved hugely popular. The idyllic surroundings of Trinity’s lawns provided, Laura Kyte of course, a picturesque backdrop for the performances, and Athletics Half-Blue (800m, 1500m and Mile) despite daily threats of rain we were blessed with five nights of (almost) perfectly balmy summer’s evenings. With a cast of Henry Sheldon thirteen and crew of seven, ranging from first years to finalists, Light-Weight Rowing Half-Blue the play was a great success, and audience numbers progressively increased each night: by Saturday, glowing Nick Smith word-of-mouth reviews meant that despite being sold out hours Kayaking Half-Blue in advance, queues formed down Parks Road for last minute tickets and extra seats had to be added for the final performance. Claire Strauss In the coming year, in addition to the Lawns Play, the Trinity Lacrosse Blue Players will also be performing Lorca’s Blood Wedding during Arts Week. The play is an incredibly challenging one, not least Wanzhen Tang due to Lorca’s remarkable marriage of prose and poetry and the Dancesport Half-Blue experimental nature of his theatricality: it tells the story of deep-seated family feuds, revenge, love and the fragile nature of Katharine Wilkinson human relationships, and even in the preliminary stages of Equestrian Half-Blue 70 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE to rightly predict that the minutiae of their business might one day be of interest to some idle investigator more than a century GRYPHON later! Sinead Doyle (2003) As an ex-Master of the society myself, I found it comforting to see that my predecessors encountered the same perennial f you have had the pleasure of perusing Clare Hopkins’ problems. Always a small society, usually numbering around Iadmirable college history, you may know that the Gryphon is twenty regular and occasional members, non-attendance can be the longest-lived society Trinity has known. Established in an issue. The minutes of the 640th meeting contain a wistful 1881, it has, admittedly, existed in numerous different apology from the then-master, D. L. J. Perkins (scholar 1920), incarnations, but always with a commitment to the same themes for the ‘paucity’ of the meeting, ‘due, (it is to be hoped) to of discussion and lively debate, and always attracting some rather disease of the body rather than to a failing in the Gryphon of one remarkable characters. of the healthiest interests of all British youth.’ Fortunately the next week showed a rather healthier turnout. It is also amusing The Gryphon Club began life as a paper-reading society, taking that, arguing about everything, the Gryphon’s members, after its name from Trinity’s traditional heraldic mascot. It enjoyed the forty years of discussion, still had not come to a firm conclusion regular patronage of a number of Fellows, in an age when such as to how the society’s name should be pronounced: cross-generational fraternisation was not as uncommon as it is today. One of the founding members at its inception was H. E. D. It was suggested that it was time the Club decided how to Blakiston, later to become President of the college in 1907. It pronounce its name, and in face of conflicting decisions from was an extra-curricular group, intended to provide entertainment members of equal standing, any member who should happen to and diversion, as well as providing an arena for the development light on the President of the College was requested to put the of well-formed opinions on a broad range of subjects. Naturally, difficulty before him. the presence of SCR members did tend to produce a rather formal Despite this eminently sensible suggestion, it seems the matter and academic atmosphere at times, but perhaps no more so than was never wholly resolved, and the issue was dropped ‘in an was appropriate for the era. atmosphere of amiable confliction’. Concomitant with the stiff formality of the late Victorian period, Accounts are often a challenge for small societies and the the officers of the society kept a rigorous record of their Gryphon has certainly had its share of financial trials: there are activities. There exist three, very solid, leather-bound minute numerous pages listing the assets and liabilities of the Club, books detailing every aspect of the Gryphon’s day-to-day usually struggling to stay in the black. Minutes from the pre- running: date, location and subject of the meeting, titles of the discussion ‘private business’ of the 642nd meeting announce the papers read, members present, members absent, guests introduction of a ‘terminal subscription’ being raised in addition attending, the deportment of said guests, subscriptions paid, to the entrance fee, ‘in order to save the Club from further expenses accrued, and so on. The minute books contain such a financial embarrassment.’ I must confess, the situation was not wealth of information that one might wonder what confidence much better in my time: the Club’s bank account contained, when these men must have had in the importance of their endeavours, I left office, the princely sum of seventy four pence. Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 71 e v annual dinners: by all accounts he enjoyed the occasion, but had i h c r some reservations about the diners’attire. ‘Members present will A y t i be long in forgetting his telling speech on the subject of n i r T

: dressing for dinner.’ o t o h P For real mischief, we must turn to one of the Gryphon’s most infamous members: Ronald Knox. Though educated at Eton and Balliol, his real allegiance was to Trinity. As fellow and chaplain, Knox was a regular participant at the Gryphon. His most renowned contribution, ‘Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes’—later published in Essays in Satire (1928)— was presented to a meeting in 1911. This brief, satirical paper launched a whole genre of mock-historical Holmes studies, the legacy of which continues today. Tellingly, the first line reads: ‘If there is anything pleasant in life, it is doing what we aren’t meant to do.’ Knox was dedicated to fiction: besides his Ronald Knox (in dog collar) with the Gryphon Club in 1912 theological works and biblical translations, he was a prolific author of detective novels. He seemed to appreciate equally the values of truth and untruth, proclaiming both with equal Alack of funds has never inhibited the society’s ability to enjoy conviction. His very presence may be said to have had a itself, however, and it would seem that certain members have seditious influence, as illustrated by the minutes of another been known to enjoy themselves rather too much, incurring the Gryphon meeting: wrath of their superiors. One unlucky speaker was rebuked for having produced a paper that was ‘little more than a post-prandial Rev R. A. Knox read a highly amusing paper on ‘Ella Wheeler collection of absurdities’ taken from Blake’s prophetic books. Wilcox’, which defied analysis. The subsequent discussion was The President ‘was not prepared to consider [Blake] as a opened by the President and carried on by members and guests. humorous writer’, and consequently reproached the author of the The behaviour of the guests was regrettable. The meeting broke offending paper: ‘It is to be feared that he had viewed his position up at 9.30pm. with unbecoming lightness of heart.’ The use of disciplinary What kind of man can rouse a crowd to riot merely by lecturing on measures has been recorded from time to time in the Club’s an American poet? annals, usually by means of ex-communication. Persistent absentees were in danger of having their membership revoked, Knox was in many ways a rebellious figure, losing his and occasional personal disagreements would lead to the loss of inheritance by converting from Anglicanism to the Roman a member. For example: ‘The secretary read a facetious letter Catholic Church in 1917. On one occasion in particular, he from Mr Guinness. The club did not hesitate to accept his excelled himself: in 1926, Knox interrupted a BBC radio resignation.’ More occasionally, the Club would face mild broadcast with a report that Big Ben had been toppled by trench chastisement from college authorities, but never to the extent of mortars, the Savoy Hotel torched, and a Government minister the Claret Club (the only other contender for the title of Trinity’s lynched. The hoax was particularly successful because heavy oldest society), whose debauchery regularly led to its being snowfall prevented the delivery of the next day’s newspapers. In banned. The Dean was in fact present at one of the Gryphon’s the absence of any reports to the contrary, there was general 72 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

panic and nationwide chaos. Subsequent headlines read: publication, but the archives contain only one copy, and we have ‘revolution hoax by wireless—terror caused in villages and no way of knowing how long the magazine survived. It had towns.’ This was perhaps one of the earliest examples of radio certainly become extinct by the time the next Gryphon rose, being used for malicious misinformation, and set a precedent for phoenix like, from the flames. Orson Welles’ 1938 ‘War of the Worlds’ broadcast. Knox The Gryphon sprang back into action some time in the early appreciated the perverse pleasure of wrongdoing, and understood, nineties, this time re-branded as the Gryphon Society, rather like many of his descendants at the Gryphon, that while truth than Club. Its focus is now debating, rather than paper-reading, may have its uses, lies are immeasurably more fun. but while the format may have changed, the ethos is very much Another colourful character from the Gryphon’s past is John the same. The society was blessed with the support of President Sutro (1924), now commemorated in Trinity’s recently Beloff, whose continued interest and regular attendance was a refurbished Sutro Room. Records of the annual Gryphon dinner, source of constant gratitude. In the summer of 2005, he not only held on Saturday 14 June 1925, show how Sutro’s love of the graced the Society with the pleasure of his company at the annual dramatic made him the life and soul of the party: ‘The dinner, but kindly financed the engraving of a brass gavel base impersonations of Mr Sutro, ranging from Lord Carnarvon in with a gryphon silhouette. The gavel and base can now be passed Tut’s tomb via an arab Sheikh in a slave market, to Mr Prichard on to subsequent generations of debaters, along with a recently in a tutorial are worthy of record in the Club’s annals.’ The acquired minute book. Gryphon was only one outlet for Sutro’s theatrical flair: as a The re-founders’ names are enshrined in a new constitution, contemporary and friend of Evelyn Waugh, the two directed, which is passed from master to master (and seldom adhered to), produced and starred in an amateur film while still at Oxford. but there are few surviving records of its early years. Despite the Titled ‘The Scarlet Woman’, the film tells the story of an abundant means of recording information now available to us, attempted Catholic revolution in England, the subject matter the archives contains little in the way of documentation being perhaps inspired by conversation with Ronald Knox. concerning the last ten years of Gryphon’s existence. Perhaps Sutro went on to found his own production company (the we are less concerned with posterity than we once were, but I, for ingeniously named ‘Ortus’), and produced ‘The 49th Parallel’, to one, consider it a shame that we don’t have the patience to great acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. preserve pieces of the college’s history, however trivial they While the Gryphon survived the First World War, continuing to may seem at the time. flourish throughout the twenties and thirties, the society However, even if much goes unrecorded, I can assure you that the noticeably declined after the Second World War. This must have Gryphon continues to attract people of the same calibre as Knox been partly due to a break in the continuity of the college body, and Sutro. I speak, of course, of the legendary Christos Karaolis but perhaps it was also a matter of changing social patterns. (2002). Fresh from the intrigues of Union politics, his President Norrington, himself a member in the 1920s, tried to emergence into the wider political world happened to occur at just revive the society in the 1950s, but to no avail. the same time as John Prescott’s private activities became front The Gryphon lay dormant for two or three decades, and while it page news. No lesser publication than Private Eye (No. 1160, if was lying low, another group appropriated the name. A poetry you’d like to order your own back-issue), pictured Christos at the collection published in the 1960s or 70s proudly bears the heart of government, standing on Prescott’s croquet lawn, with Gryphon name, featuring poems and short stories from a number an amusing caption hovering over his head. of old Trinity members. It appears to have been a monthly Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 73

I would like to take this opportunity personally to thank the development of physics and chemistry in the twentieth Christos for providing me with a modern-day example of a century. His work has had a much broader impact than any of the Gryphon member stepping forwards, so boldly, into the Nobel Laureates and there is therefore a compelling case to regard limelight. He is an example to us all. I can only urge him, and Moseley as Trinity’s greatest scientist. future members, to continue to provide fodder for the nation’s Moseley’s scientific pedigree was impeccable. His paternal gossip pages. For, after all, what better purpose can a college grandfather Canon Henry Moseley FRS (1801–1872) was a debating society serve, than to generate scandal, when scandal clergyman turned hydrodynamicist, who later became Professor inevitably provokes discussion, thus stimulating nationwide of Mathematics and Astronomy at University College London debate? Great Gryphon members past have displayed a flair for and wrote a definitive textbook on naval architecture, whilst his rhetoric, have been, shall we say, playful with verity, and have a father Henry Nottidge Moseley FRS (1844–1891) became habit of attracting media attention. Long may the members of Linacre Professor of Anatomy in Oxford. His maternal the future continue to promulgate Gryphon’s most easily grandfather John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809–1885) was a solicitor but recognizable trait: a healthy disrespect for the truth, twinned was also a distinguished oceanographer and expert on molluscs with a love of dramatic exaggeration. who was elected FRS in 1840. Both his mother Amabel and his sister Margery were highly respected amateur zoologists and made several gifts of specimens to the Oxford Museum of Natural HENRY GWYN JEFFREYS History. MOSELEY—TRINITY’S GREATEST Moseley’s education between 1896 and 1901 was at Summer SCIENTIST? Fields, then the leading preparatory school in Oxford and one of Russell Egdell, Fellow in Inorganic Chemistry the most successful nationally in gaining scholarships to leading public schools. In 1901 he was one of the cohort from Trinity College has been home to three Nobel Laureates, but Summer Fields which won over half the King’s Scholarships to none was homegrown. Hans A. Krebs won the Nobel Prize in Eton available in that year. Amongst his contemporaries at Eton Medicine in 1953, one year before arriving as Whitley Professor between 1901 and 1906 was Julian Huxley, with whom Moseley of Biochemistry in 1954, for ‘his discovery of the citric acid pursued his passion for collecting birds’ eggs. Correspondence cycle’. Cyril N. Hinshelwood served as tutor in Chemistry from with his mother and sister Margery during his Eton years reveals 1921 until 1937 and became Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in an increasing interest in mathematics and chemistry. He was 1956 almost 20 years after leaving Trinity, for ‘his work on the probably the most able scientist in the school and in a mechanisms of chemical reactions’. Finally Krebs’ successor to throwaway remark to his mother in a letter dated 6 June 1906 he the Whitley chair in 1967, Rodney R. Porter, won the Nobel announced that he would defer from entering for the chemistry Prize in Medicine in 1972 for ‘his discoveries concerning the prize (which he had won in earlier years) ‘as it would be rather chemical structures of antibodies’, but most of his ground grabbing to take it, while if I am not in there will be quite a good breaking work had been completed before he arrived in Oxford. competition for it.’ Several of Moseley’s Eton prizes were Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1888–1915) was an donated to the Trinity library in 1921 and are now preserved in undergraduate at Trinity between 1906 and 1910. In a brief but the college archive. mercurial research career between 1910 and 1914 he devised and In 1905 he applied for the single scholarship in the sciences completed experimental work on X-rays that established the available at Balliol College: across Oxford there were only concept of atomic number, one of the major foundation stones in 74 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

fourteen scholarships in the sciences as compared with 126 in that he rowed for exercise and to keep his weight down rather classics. However the Balliol scholarship had already been than for glory. Interestingly, the boat club photographs earmarked for Julian Huxley who had taken the scholarship preserved in the College archive allow us to trace the variation in examination a year earlier but whose entry was deferred on his weight from 10st 9lbs in 1907 through 10st 7lb in 1908 to grounds of immaturity. Moseley rejected the offer of an 11st 7lbs in 1910. The weight gain was later to prove Exhibition at Balliol and instead took up the Millard Science significant. Scholarship at Trinity. In a letter to his mother dated 15 By his own standards, Moseley’s performance in Finals was a December he says ‘I was of course delighted with the news and disaster. The syllabus was very conservative and did not cover the very content to go to Trinity.’ However his comment that ‘any developing areas of contemporary physics in which he was most scholarship was better than none’ in a letter to Harold Hartley interested. Moreover he suffered from hay fever and was not explaining his rejection of the Balliol offer does hint at a certain helped by the wildlife in Trinity’s gardens: ‘My dear Mother, Two level of ambivalence. Moseley gained a First in Mathematics elementary papers today, not a great success. I was fighting Moderations in his second year and then decided to pursue the inefficiently against time. The heat is overpowering, and an owl study of physics rather than chemistry, which had been his squawked all night in the garden and kept me awake…’ (Letter to original intention. His notional tutor was physical chemist Amabel 17 June 1910). Perhaps we should be more tolerant of the David H. Nagel (Chemistry fellow 1890–1920) although most of current invasion of Trinity’s gardens by grey squirrels. The his later teaching was farmed out to Idwal Griffith, a physics outcome was that he was awarded a second class degree and not fellow of St John’s. Moseley worked assiduously in the Trinity- the First he had expected. However to put things into context it Balliol laboratory and built one of the first Wilson cloud should be noted that in 1910 there were eight second class chambers in Oxford. He was also a leading figure in the Alembic honours degrees in physics in the University but no Firsts, and Club and the Junior Scientific, of which he became president. that only one other honours degree in physics had ever been Throughout his time at Trinity, Moseley rowed for the College. awarded to a Trinity student and that was in 1887. However the progression (or lack of it) from bow of First Torpid After graduation Moseley considered two options. One was to in 1907 thorough stroke of the Second Eight in 1908 and 1909 stay in Oxford and to aim for a college fellowship after to stroke of Second Torpid in 1910 confirms his own assertion completion of some research. However at the time Oxford was a backwater in his subject. The other option was to move to e v i

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Dear Professor Rutherford, Thank you for your letter informing me of my appointment. It will be a great pleasure to work in your laboratory and after my failure in ‘schools’ I consider myself very lucky to have got the opening which I covet…” (Letter to Ernest Rutherford, 17 July 1910) Henry Moseley (centre) in the 1910 Second Torpid Crew Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 75

Between September 1910 and July 1912 much of his time was visitor to Manchester, was seeking to extend Rutherford’s model occupied with teaching and laboratory demonstrating, and to explain the appearance of lines in the visible and ultraviolet research had to be fitted into evenings and weekends. The spectra of atoms in terms of confinement of the orbiting projects assigned to him were mainly concerned with radioactive electrons to a discrete series of ‘rings’. There was however no decay of radium, then Rutherford’s major obsession. inkling at this stage of a possible connection between X-rays Correspondence with his mother and sister indicates that he and Bohr’s orbits. At the end of the nineteenth century, Röntgen found this work fairly mundane and many of his frustrations have had discovered that a penetrating form of radiation he dubbed the a distinctly contemporary resonance. X-ray was emitted when a fast beam of electrons in a cathode ray tube hit a metal anode. The nature of these rays was still unclear Remaking the apparatus took a long time as the Laboratory at the time of Röntgen’s award of the first Nobel Prize in Physics Assistant spent his time mending Rutherford’s motorcar… (Letter in 1901. However in 1906 Barkla, working in Edinburgh, to Amabel, December 1910). Then there is a miserable lecture to showed that a given element emitted two different sorts of X-rays Gas Engineers that I have been bullied into giving next term… with different penetrating powers through thin metal foils. He (Letter to Margery, December 1911). christened these K- and L-type rays, letters cautiously taken from Nonetheless he was a dogged experimentalist and published five the middle of the alphabet to allow for the possibility of papers in this period, none of which had Rutherford as a co- subsequent discovery of even more penetrating J rays and less author. In the last of these he had set himself the challenge of penetrating M rays. Barkla also established that X-rays emitted achieving a potential of 300,000 V by holding a sample of from different elements had differing characteristic penetrating radium emanation, which undergoes b-decay and becomes powers. The next major breakthrough came in April 1912 when positively charged, insulated electrically from its surroundings. Max von Laue and colleagues working in Munich showed that a In the end he had to settle for 150,000 V, but this was symmetrical pattern of spots developed on photographic plates nonetheless the highest voltage that had been achieved at the mounted behind single crystals irradiated with soft X-rays. This time. Despite being somewhat aloof within the department and appeared to provide compelling evidence for the theory favoured openly critical of Rutherford’s understanding of the theory of by Barkla that X-rays were wave-like and therefore capable of relativity, in July 1912 Moseley was offered a half-share of the John Harling Fellowship which allowed him to plan work for the following academic year largely free of teaching duties.

A melting pot of discovery and speculation formed the backdrop to Moseley’s seminal work on X-rays in the years between 1912 and 1914. Within his own department the classical experiments conducted by Geiger and Marsden on the backscattering of alpha particles (helium ions) from thin gold foil were underway and about to provide definitive confirmation of Rutherford’s recent nuclear model for the atom. This proposed that most of the mass of the atom is concentrated in a small dense nucleus bearing a positive charge and that the balancing negative charge is associated with electrons that orbit in the void space around the nucleus. Meanwhile the Dane Niels Bohr, who was a frequent One of Henry Moseley’s X-ray tubes 76 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

experiencing interference phenomena associated with monochromator, they showed that the X-rays emitted from a interaction with the regularly spaced positions of atoms within platinum target comprised lines at five distinct wavelengths or the crystal. The wave model initially met with scepticism from frequencies superimposed on a background of ‘white’ X-rays. The the other leading British authority on X-rays, W. H. Bragg, Manchester group also saw the link between their results and the Professor of Physics at Leeds University. However working with ‘characteristic’ X-rays described by Barkla. This work was his son W. L. Bragg, he later developed a convincing published in the Philosophical Magazine just a year after von explanation of Laue spots in terms of a wave model and went on Laue’s first report of X-ray diffraction. to show that diffraction phenomena would be more simply It was at this stage that Moseley conceived the idea of making a observed in a reflection geometry where constructive systematic study of the frequencies of X-rays emitted from interference should occur at angles θ conforming to the condition different elemental targets. Considerable ingenuity was needed to nλ = 2d sinθ, where n is an integer, λ is the wavelength of the X- make an investigation of this sort practicable, including the rays and d is the spacing between atomic planes of the crystal. development of new photographic techniques for detecting the The Bragg equation showed that single crystals could be used to reflected X-rays and the construction of a ‘railway line’within the monochromate beams of X-rays. vacuum of the X-ray tube to allow the study of several elements in In the summer of 1912 Moseley began to work in this field in succession. In a remarkable fortnight starting around 19 October collaboration with C. G. Darwin, Schuster Reader in 1913 Moseley measured K type X-ray emission spectra of the Mathematical Physics at Manchester and grandson of Charles elements calcium through to zinc, excluding scandium for which Darwin. Independently of the Braggs, Darwin and Moseley no sample was available to him. The K radiation was found to developed a model for Laue diffraction and set about building an contain two different frequencies, the most intense Kα radiation apparatus for investigation of the reflection of X-rays by conforming to the relationship νKα/ν0 = 3/4(Z-1)2, where ν0 crystals. Rutherford was not particularly encouraging of this was the Rydberg constant familiar from atomic spectra and Z was enterprise initially, not least because of the major demand on a simple integer which numbered the position of the element in laboratory resources such as precious vacuum pumps. Moreover the periodic table and defined the charge on its nucleus. there was no expertise in the study of X-rays in Manchester and ‘Moseley’s Law’ put the concept of atomic number on a firm and Rutherford was worried that Moseley and Darwin would always be measurable basis and provided the first clear evidence of an one step behind the Braggs. However Moseley began to build up intimate connection between the electronic structure of an atom his apparatus. Darwin rated Moseley as and its position in the periodic table. Mendeleev’s periodic table had been constructed empirically on the basis of arranging without exception the hardest worker I have ever met. There were elements according to their atomic weights. There were however of course no regular meals, and work often went on for most of several anomalies, most notably with cobalt and nickel whose the night. Indeed one of Moseley’s expertises was the knowledge chemical properties clearly suggested that cobalt should come of where one could get a meal in Manchester at 3 o’clock in the before nickel even though cobalt had the greater atomic weight. morning. At a stroke Moseley’s experiments resolved this ambiguity. His The Braggs were remarkably generous in providing experimental work also established exactly how many elements could tips and in keeping the Manchester group up to date with their possibly exist and ended speculation that had been ongoing for latest results. By May 1913, Moseley and Darwin were beating many years that there was an undiscovered element between H and the Braggs at their own game. Using a large single crystal of He. On 16 November Moseley communicated his results to Bohr potassium ferrocyanide (a suggestion from Nagel) as their and two weeks later they were published in the Philosophical Magazine under Moseley’s sole authorship. Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 77

At the end of November 1913 Moseley moved back to Oxford, to be the four remaining rare earth elements. Characterisation of despite by then holding the John Harling Fellowship full-time. these elements by conventional chemical techniques had required He was aiming for a chair in physics at Oxford and was aware one many years of painstaking recrystallisations and Urbain was of the current incumbents, Robert Clifton, would retire the astounded to find that Moseley’s spectroscopic methods following year. Moseley arrived in Oxford without a paid provided definitive analysis of his samples in a matter of hours. position or a College attachment. He was however offered space By this stage Moseley was sufficiently confident in his own in Townsend’s ‘Electrical Laboratory’ (now the Clarendon) and ability and growing reputation to initiate concrete action toward set about building up a new X-ray apparatus. Some contacts with applying for a chair in Physics. In June 1914 he secured what Trinity had obviously been maintained during his years in would today be called rave references from Rutherford and the Manchester and he found no problems in borrowing a Gaede elder Bragg. His only formal application was made to vacuum pump from the Trinity-Balliol Laboratory. By the end of Birmingham University for the vacant Poynting Chair in January 1914 his experiments were again in full flow and he October 1914, although by this stage he was already enlisted in measured L emission spectra of eight elements between Kitchener’s New Army. Meanwhile in August 1914 Moseley ruthenium and antimony. The monochromator crystal and the X- attended a meeting of the British Association for the ray plate were mounted in a vacuum for these experiments because Advancement of Science held in Sydney and presented a paper on the relatively soft L rays were absorbed strongly even by air. the ‘High Frequency Spectra of the Elements’, which included Moseley then went on to measure L emission spectra of the third discussion of all his unpublished work on the lanthanides. He transition series elements. Throughout this period he remained later participated in a session on the nuclear atom held in in correspondence with Darwin, Bohr and Rutherford and Melbourne in which Rutherford emphasised the strong support formulae that should be familiar to undergraduates today studying for his model of the atom provided by Moseley’s work. the quantum theory of atoms began to emerge. Thus in a letter to Darwin dated 1 February 1914 he enthuses World War I broke out during Moseley’s return journey from Australia. Against the advice of his mother and colleagues, on my formula for the L-rays v = (1/22 – 1/32)ν0(N-s)2 turns out to arriving back in England he secured a commission as 2nd be triumphant: a great piece of luck as I published it [in his earlier Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. He was not welcomed with Phil.Mag. paper] on the slenderest evidence… I am going to open arms as the Engineers doubted that physicists had much to look for an M series (1/32 -1/42 ). offer and it took a considerable amount of ‘badgering everyone in Finally he turned his attention to the rare earth elements, turn with a view to finding the weak points in the War Office samples of which were provided by a number of collaborators armour’. His sister Margery had recently married Arthur Ludlow- from France and Germany, and measured L-type spectra of the Hewitt and after three months in the army Moseley made a flight nine elements available to him. The culmination of this work over Salisbury Plane with his brother-in-law Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt was his second publication on ‘High Frequency Spectra’ in the —later to become chief of Bomber Command—and decided that Philosophical Magazine. This paper of April 1914 included a his most valuable contribution to the war effort would be as an hand drawn plot of X-ray data for almost all of the elements observer in the Royal Flying Corp. However his application to between aluminium (Z=13) and gold (Z=79). Most of the gaps transfer into the RFC was refused on the grounds that his weight corresponded to known elements such as bromine and mercury was over the 10st 7lb limit. Attempts to reduce his weight to the where it was not possible to prepare a suitable X-ray target. ‘proper figure’ were overtaken by an edict from Kitchener in Shortly after publication of this paper the French chemist January 1915 prohibiting transfers out of the New Army. So in Georges Urbain visited Oxford with samples of what he claimed February 1915 Moseley was attached to the 13th Infantry Division 78 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

of the Third Army and became Communications Officer of 38th feints down at Helles and on Lone Pine Ridge at the south end of the Brigade, in command of 26 men. Anazac enclave. Three divisions from the New Army, including the 13th Infantry Division, were earmarked for this action. At around the same time plans were being finalised for what became the notorious Gallipoli Expedition. The original idea was Moseley set sail for Alexandria on 15 June and after a week there to send a Royal Naval force through the Dardanelles, secure landed at Helles on 9 July. He was very protective of his men and capitulation of Constantinople by threatening the city with prevented most of them from contracting the dysentery that was bombardment from gunships and then reopen the Black Sea rife in the trenches by providing large doses of chlorodyne supply lines to the Russian port of Sebastopol. If successful the procured through his sister. His company stayed in Helles for Dardanelles venture would have achieved the twin objectives of three weeks and briefly occupied front line positions, but then neutralising the Turkish war effort and of increasing Russian withdrew to the staging post island of Lemnos in the build up for effectiveness on the Eastern Front. The Dardanelles are bounded the August offensive. Moseley’s letters home in this period were on the left by the Gallipoli Peninsula which at ‘the Narrows’, stoical and concentrated more on the wildlife than the appalling thirteen miles inland from the mouth, reaches within a few conditions on the Turkish mainland. hundred yard of the Plain of Troy in Asia Minor. Eleven lines of On 6 August 1915 Moseley’s section of the 13th Division landed mines and several heavy gun emplacements thwarted any at Anzac Cove under the command of Brigadier-General Anthony possibility of an unchallenged naval passage. A contingent of Baldwin and shortly afterward moved inland, becoming lost around 15,000 men from the Australian and New Zealand Army several times in a confusing maze of dry and crumbling ravines. Corp was therefore landed on the Aegean side of the Gallipoli By 9 August 1915 Baldwin’s brigade had made its way to ‘the peninsula on 25 April, but they found themselves about one mile Farm’, a flat area 300 yards away from their objective of the front north of the intended landing point in what came to be known as line trenches occupied by a Gurkha Brigade on Hill Q. These were Anzac Cove. Their brief was to push inland and capture the ridges the most forward positions to be occupied by the allies in the overlooking the gun batteries down on the Narrows. At the same whole Gallipoli campaign and if they had been consolidated there time a similar sized force drawn from British and French regiments was a real chance of securing the breakout. However early on the established itself around five beaches at Helles on the tip of the morning of 10 August 1915 the Turkish forces mounted a huge Gallipoli peninsula with the intention of capturing the gun counteroffensive under the command of Mustafa Kemal (later batteries toward the mouth of the Dardanelles. Allied casualties on Kemal Ataturk). Led from the front by Kemal, around 6,000 the day of the landings were probably in excess of 5,000. Ottoman infantry broke over the top of Chunuk Bair and overran By June 1915 stalemate had been firmly established in the the forward trenches, now occupied by the North Lancashire Gallipoli peninsula. The Anzac forces were pinned down in an area Regiment. Kemal’s forces then annihilated Baldwin’s brigade on of less than 400 acres, with forward trenches at most 1000 yards the Farm. This was one of the few successful frontal infantry inland from the coast and the British forces remained with only a charges in the Gallipoli campaign not supported by heavy small foothold around the Helles beaches. At this point a strategy artillery fire. Moseley was fatally shot in the head whilst was devised for an ‘Anzac breakout’, to be staged in August 1915. attempting to relay information about the Turkish actions on a The primary objective was to push inland from the central front field telephone. lines around Anazac Cove and to capture ‘Hill Q’ and Chunuk Bair Following the counteroffensive the allied forces were driven on the Sari Bair ridge, which dominates the Gallipoli peninsula back to their earlier positions and stalemate was re-established. and overlooks the Narrows. The ‘breakout’involved a diversionary Eventually the Anzac enclave was evacuated in December 1915 landing at Suvla Bay north of Anzac cove, together with further Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 79

and Helles in January 1916, fortunately without further major Professor at Leeds. On the other hand the style of Moseley’s casualties. The final statistics are bleak. Between April 1915 and work—novel and incisive experiments leading to the January 1916 around 1,000,000 Allied and Ottoman troops were development of new concepts and insights—was of the sort involved in the Gallipoli campaign. Total casualties were favoured by the Physics Committee at the time. Thus prizes to estimated at over 500,000, including those who died or were von Laue in 1914 and the Braggs in 1915 followed hot on the evacuated due to illness (usually dysentery). Overall the heels of their experimental papers on X-ray diffraction of 1912 campaign cost 87,000 Ottoman dead and 43,000 Allied dead. Of and 1913. By contrast Einstein, whose five seminal papers in the the 153 Trinity men killed in World War I, fifteen died at ‘miraculous year’ of 1905 had no new experimental content, had Gallipoli. The disproportionately high figure perhaps reflects to wait sixteen years until 1921 for his award. The archive of the the fact that Gallipoli was the first engagement where New Army Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences reveals that Svante volunteers were deployed extensively in the front line. Moseley Arrhenius—Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1903 and one of the is mentioned in few recent accounts of the Gallipoli campaign, most influential members of the Committee for Nobel Prizes in which invariably focus on Rupert Brooke as Gallipoli’s Physics in the early years of the twentieth century—nominated archetypal representative of the ‘lost generation’—an irony Moseley for the 1915 Physics Prize. However Moseley was since Brooke died two days before the first April landings of a killed before the Academy decided on that year’s prize. Nobel septic mosquito bite on board ship off Lemnos. Prizes have been awarded posthumously in a few cases, although, since 1974, only if the recipient has died between the Moseley’s death was however widely reported at the time and led announcement (in October) and the ceremony on 10 December. Rutherford to raise awareness through letters to Nature and Perhaps the clearest indication that Moseley was the front runner Proceedings of the Royal Society of the failure of the military in 1915 comes from the presentation speech for the 1924 authorities to make sensible use of scientists in the war effort Physics Prize by Professor A. Gullstrand, Chairman of the Nobel ‘the loss of this young man on the battlefield is a striking Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of example of the misuse of scientific talent’. Perhaps the most Sciences. The prize in that year was awarded to Manne Siegbahn poignant epitaph came from Nobel Laureate in Physics (1923) ‘for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray Robert Millikan: spectroscopy’. As a preamble to discussing Siegbahn’s work, In a research which is destined to rank as one of the dozen most Gullstrand highlighted the role of Moseley in establishing the brilliant in conception, skilful in execution and illuminating in concept of atomic number and went on to comment: results in the history of science a young man of twenty-six years As the atomic number has proved to distinguish the elements old threw open the windows through which we could glimpse the better than the atomic weight, it has now attained the very sub-atomic world with a definiteness and certainty never dreamed greatest importance for atomic physics of the present day. of before. Had the European War had no other result than the Moseley fell at the Dardanelles before he could be snuffing out of this young life, that alone would make it one of awarded the prize, but his researches had directed attention to the most hideous and irreparable crimes in history. the merits of Barkla, who consequently in 1917 was proposed for It must remain a matter of speculation as to whether Moseley the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to him without delay. would have won a Nobel Prize. His reputation rested mainly on It is also significant that no Physics Prize was awarded in 1916— only two papers and the invasion of their field by the only year when a Physics Prize was not awarded during the ‘mathematicians, radioactivists and speculative philosophers’ 1914–1918 war. irked many traditional chemists such as Arthur Smithells, 80 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

Almost 100 years on three strands to Moseley’s scientific legacy of the Bohr-Rutherford model of the atom and in the subsequent remain paramount. Firstly and most widely recognised is that his development of currently accepted quantum mechanical work established the concept of atomic number, leading to the descriptions of atomic structure. This in turn underpins almost all modern form of the periodic table. Of particular note is that there areas of contemporary chemistry and physics. Reminiscing were four gaps in his famous X-ray plot of 1914 corresponding to shortly before his death in 1962 about the early days of quantum unknown elements. Element 72 aroused the most controversy. mechanics Niels Bohr, widely accepted as the father of atomic Back in 1910 Georges Urbain claimed to have isolated this theory, said element and named it celtium. However in 1914 Moseley used You see actually the Rutherford work [the nuclear atom] was not Urbain’s own sample to show that celtium was a mixture of taken seriously. We cannot understand today, but it was not taken lutetium and ytterbium. In any case Bohr’s rapidly developing seriously at all. There was no mention of it any place. The great theories of atomic structure had by 1920 shown that element 72 change came from Moseley. could not be a rare earth but must belong to the same group as zirconium. Working in Copenhagen in 1922 the German George Moseley did not figure as strongly in the consciousness of von Hevesy and Dutchman Dirk Coster, showed that the L Trinity in the twentieth century as he deserved, although he has emission signature of element 72 was indeed to be found in always been recognised within the Clarendon as one of the virtually all samples of zircon from Nordic museums and named major early figures in Oxford Physics. Some of his original the new element Hafnium after the Latin name for the city where apparatus and the famous plot of X-ray frequencies were they and Bohr—recipient of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics— preserved for many years in a seminar room in the Clarendon were based. The French and the British however thought this was Laboratory named after him and now feature in an exhibition an act of Teutonic skulduggery and it took a number of years for outside the Martin Wood lecture theatre. More of his apparatus is the new name to be universally accepted. The final missing to be found in the Oxford Museum of History of Science, along elements technetium (Z=43), promethium (Z=61) and rhenium with most of his surviving original letters and notebooks. He is (Z=75) were duly discovered is in 1937, 1945 and 1927 also commemorated with an English Heritage plaque attached to respectively. In 1925 both Nature and Science supported the his original family home at 48 Woodstock Road, now part of St. suggestion that when element Z=43 was discovered it should be Anne’s college. A school House at Summer Fields is named after named after Moseley, but the prevailing convention was that new him and at Eton he is commemorated with a tablet in the Science elements should be named after places rather than individuals. School and an annual Moseley Physics Prize. Most recently the Secondly Moseley’s technique of X-ray emission spectroscopy Clarendon Laboratory was nominated for a Royal Society of is now firmly established as an important analytical tool, Chemistry Historic Landmark plaque in recognition of the work particularly using the electron beam in an electron microscope to he completed there in 1913 and 1914. The address at the excite the emission spectra. For example the disputed forensic unveiling ceremony held on 24 September 2007 was given by evidence in the Jill Dando murder trial is an X-ray emission Professor Joseph Nordgren from Uppsala University, Member of spectrum of a speck of material claimed to be gun propellant the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and present chairman of residue. The more recent technique of X-ray photoelectron the Committee for Nobel Prizes in Physics. Nordgren completed spectroscopy also grew directly out of Moseley’s X-ray emission his doctoral research on X-ray emission spectroscopy with experiments and cemented the supremacy of the Swedish dynasty Nobel Laureate Kai Siegbahn and can therefore be regarded as in this area with the award of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics to Moseley’academic great-grandson. It was also fitting that at the Kai Siegbahn, son of Manne Siegbahn. Thirdly and perhaps most unveiling ceremony Atilay Ersan, Minister Counsellor of important is that Moseley’s work was critical in establishment Turkey to the UK, read out the words of conciliation of Kemal Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 81

Ataturk that now feature in the annual Anzac day remembrance BOOK REVIEWS service held in Gallipoli:

Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... you are ROBIN FLETCHER, A FAVOURING WIND: now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in A PASSAGE WITHIN AND WITHOUT peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the ACADEMIA Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours... You, the mothers who sent their sons from far away The Memoir Club 2007, £17.50 (ISBN: 978 1 84104 countries wipe away your tears. Your sons are now lying in our 177 3). bosom and are in peace. Having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well. Robin Fletcher, Trinity’s Domestic Bursar for 24 years, from 1951–74, and then Warden of Rhodes House until 1989, has wisely decided to spend part of his retirement on Orkney writing REFERENCES a chronicle of his life—and it is quite a life. Robin’s career took him all over the world, and a very long way from the Godalming Biographies of his birth, whether serving in the war-time Royal Navy, C.G. Darwin, Moseley’s Determination of Atomic Numbers, in Fifty Years of X-Ray Diffraction, Edited by P.P. Ewald, Utrecht, playing and managing hockey for England and Great Britain, or 1962 pp. 550-563. visiting the scattered Rhodes community. Somehow, in between, he also managed to have a family life, lecture on modern Greek J. L. Heilbron, H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an for the University, serve as Proctor, drag Trinity’s domestic English Physicist, 1887-1915, University of California Press arrangements into an approximation of modernity, oversee the Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, 1974. construction of the Cumberbatch Building and Norrington B. Jaffe, Moseley and the Numbering of the Elements, Room, play a lot of cricket, and publish a learned monograph on Heinemann, London, 1972. a modern Greek poet.

Gallipoli It is an enviably full life, and Robin, as his title suggests, is well L.A. Carlyon, Gallipoli, Doubleday, London, 2002. aware that the wind was often benign, with a happy marriage and T. Travers, Gallipoli 1915, NPI Media Group, Exeter, 2004. a career that seemed to move seamlessly from one success to another. There are some darker clouds, in particular the very Moseley’s Key Papers serious illness of one of his sons (to whom the book is H.G.J. Moseley, ‘The Attainment of High Potentials by the Use dedicated), and the inevitable deaths along the years of many of Radium’, Proceedings of the Royal Society 1913 87A471-476 family members and friends; but these events are not dwelt on in H.G.J. Moseley and C.G. Darwin, ‘The Reflection of X-Rays’, detail. This memoir, as all who know Robin would expect, is a straight-up-and-down factual account of events rather than an Philosophical Magazine, 1913 26 210-232. exercise in introspection. H.G.J. Moseley, ‘The High-Frequency X-Ray Spectra of the Elements’, Philosophical Magazine, 1914 27 1024-1034. The chapter I enjoyed most is the one that covers ‘Special service H.G.J. Moseley, ‘The High-Frequency X-Ray Spectra of the in the Middle East’—the period during the war which saw Robin Elements’. Part II.Philosophical Magazine, 1914 27 703-713. in command of a caique and its Greek crew in the eastern Mediterranean and Aegean, evacuating British servicemen when things were going badly, and helping to land raiders on German- 82 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

held islands when the tide finally turned. These were undeniably TOM SEWELL, WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE stirring times, and also very important ones for Robin COLD WAR, DADDY?: A SHORT HISTORY personally, for it was during this period that he met his future OF THE COLD WAR wife Jinny in Alexandria. (Starline Publishing, Shamley Green, 2006) Readers of the Report will be particularly interested to know what (ISBN: 0-9554816-0-0/978-0-9554816-0-4) Robin says about Trinity, where he studied in the immediate post- war period, and which he then served for so many years as Bursar. There are many interesting snippets: lodging with Mrs Bickmore Setting aside the initial entry barrier raised by its unfortunate in Ship Street; cricket with the Frogs (a name that is not title, Tom Sewell’s account of his dealings with the Russians, explained) and later with the Emeriti (a distinguished team of spread lightly across almost four of the seven decades of dons, which also counted Michael Maclagan as a member); and existence of the USSR, turns out to be both entertaining and the momentous introduction of electric fires into College wise. There is no pretence here of painstaking research or deep (replacing the Scout’s ‘boy’ and his coal-scuttle). Robin is, analysis—indeed, the author expressly denies any such intent however, too discreet to tell us very often what he was thinking, in a note to his preface—but the reader is left in no doubt that as he wielded the bat and hockey-stick, taught the young to the person writing these brief and pleasingly unpretentious appreciate Greek poetry, or struggled to make the fellowship and memoirs knows what he’s talking about: that Sewell was there staff see sense. The passage where he tells us what he thought of as an intelligent, engaged and entirely credible western witness Ronald Syme, for instance, is highly exceptional: ‘I have never to post-War, Cold War Moscow, that he kept his balance in known what activities brought Ronald Syme a knighthood and unsettling times, and has delivered the sort of perceptive gem later the OM but he would certainly have achieved a starred first that provides the indispensable authenticity and insight often for garrulity...’(p.90); and we can only guess at the identity of lacking in more comprehensive historical accounts. the Trinity fellow whose inadequacies as a proctorial candidate As Andrew Wood sympathetically uncovers in his foreword to led Robin to stand successfully against him (p.139). the book, Sewell’s understanding of what he witnessed and The book is a handsome hardback, some 200 pages in length and experienced during his second, unsought diplomatic posting to with some fine picturess—my favourite is on p.3, where a very Moscow (in some respects a useful corrective to the younger, small (but unmistakable) Robin is seen taking tea in the nursery, more innocent quality of his first) was enhanced by the with his sister Audrey and his much loved nanny, Nellie Taylor. I presence of his intrepid and talented wife Jennifer and their two read A Favouring Wind with great interest, and also with more young daughters. As many former diplomats can attest, family than a touch of envy for a world before things like ‘Health and support and mutual responsibilities add a further dimension to Safety’, all-year conferences and summer-schools, and ‘Research both the dangers and rewards of challenging assignments, and Assessment Exercises’ruled our lives in Trinity and Oxford, when a broader appreciation of the society into which they have been it was still possible for a College Bursar (and University Lecturer sent to live and work. in Greek) to smoke a pipe and take time off to tour India as the Sewell remarks on his return to Moscow in 1963, that, manager of Britain’s hockey squad. No fellow of today will have notwithstanding such momentous developments in the interim had anything like such an interesting life. as the death of Stalin, Khrushchev’s 20th Party Congress Bryan Ward-Perkins speech, the brutal intervention in Hungary and the Cuba Fellow in History missiles crisis, little appeared to have changed in the way the place operated since his first departure over a decade previously. Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007 | 83

As another western diplomat myself, a further two decades on, I of news-photos remained a skill in high demand; buildings, can confirm that this essentially remained the case until the ice streets and names were missing from the occasional rare began to crack with the death of Brezhnev in 1982. The stasis documents masquerading as maps or plans; embassies relied on in Soviet life was unnerving—which only served to make the meticulous street directories of Moscow and Leningrad rapid acceleration thereafter, through glasnost, perestroika and thoughtfully provided by the Americans from satellite Soviet dissolution, the more remarkable once it began. And photography. yet, as Vladimir Putin daily reminds us even now, old habits die The same general pattern of infuriating travel restrictions hard. applied; reserved accommodation turned out not to be available I endorse wholeheartedly the sentiment expressed by Tom after all; flights were cancelled without notice; militia posts Sewell from the first page of his first chapter, where he refers to turned back drivers on pre-approved routes; militiamen ‘a comradeship among the small western community unequalled assiduously protected foreigners’ apartment blocks from the elsewhere in my experience’and recounts that, forty years later, surrounding Soviet citizenry; fire-escape ladders ended several he was still in touch with foreign friends made in Moscow. stories above ground to deter intruders. There was a special sense of rare privilege in sharing with an On the brighter side, Maya Plisetskaya, though by now at the extraordinarily well qualified and select group of people— very end of her extraordinary career, was still dancing on typically accredited as diplomats, foreign correspondents or occasion at the Bolshoi; the milk supply arrangements appear registered businesspersons—sights and experiences simply to have improved—we could now import it by rail from not accessible to the outside world, at a time when so much Stockmann in Helsinki on a regular monthly basis; individual appeared to turn on their interpretation. lettuce heads could also be imported overnight for dinner Much of Sewell’s account not merely rings true, but continues parties, though customs clearance at the railway station was a precisely to describe that life in the early 1980s. The bugging chore; the parsley garnish always disappeared before the caviar system still applied, now enhanced by sophisticated (itself obtained from the back door of the American residence); directional microphones; a serious fire in the Australian and the annual auctions were still being held at the Arabian Embassy, well after Sewell’s Moscow years, was almost horse stud outside Pyatigorsk. certainly caused by a short circuit in the associated hidden If any further corroboration were needed by the early 1980s of wiring; upgraded versions of the safe-speech rooms he the persistence of the mulch in the undergrowth of Soviet life, describes were an integral part of working life in western and its equally persistent failure to nurture fruit, it could be chanceries; an entire shipment of tempest-rated electric found in the pathetic sight of the nonagenarian Vyacheslav typewriters for the American Embassy was successfully Molotov, tottering unattended and unmolested through the replaced with unprotected replicas by the responsible streets in the neighbourhood of the building, by then the authorities at Sheremetyevo airport; and, as Sewell mentions, Austrian residence, in which he struck his infamous deal with the fabulously expensive replacement project for that embassy Ribbentrop more than forty years previously. was aborted in the 1980s when the prefabricated concrete beams were found already to contain embedded listening Afeature of Tom Sewell’s writing, which some I suppose might devices. consider undisciplined, but which in my view both enriches and authenticates his account, is his tendency to pursue informative The proof-reading of Pravda remained, one supposes, among digressions, often without much warning, on subjects which the world’s most stressful jobs, and the judicious air-brushing particularly interest him, like ballet or horses. It seems 84 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2007

unlikely, for example, that even Sewell could add much at first Guest Nights (again, advance booking is essential: hand to the story of the French delegation to the 1883 www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/alumni). Those who took a course leading coronation of Alexander and Marie. But that does not deter to a Masters degree (e.g. MEng, MBioc, etc.) and former graduate him, and on balance its inclusion in his book adds to the members who have other Oxford degrees may also apply for persuasiveness of his own story. membership of Convocation in or after their 21st term from matriculation on payment of a £20 fee. They then have the same There should be more books like this. Without them much of right to dine on High Table as holders of the MA. the freshness and individuality of human experience and opinion is lost, and too much acceptance accorded to the equally subjective but more standardised views of established publicists. Trinity Term and Long Vacation 2008 The book ends with the assertion that thirty-nine years of ‘direct 17 May contact with Russia and Russians’ constitutes ‘one-third of a 12 July lifetime’. In Tom Sewell’s case, let’s hope so, and that there are 19 July many more years of opportunity to record his often delightful observations. 27 September

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