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Calendar of college events 2008–09 9 January 2009 Reunion Dinner (1963, 1964, 1965) March 2008 Glanville Williams Society Reception 20 March 2009 M. A. Dinner (2002) 27 March 2009 Reunion Dinner (1973, 1974, 1975) 13 June 2009 Marquee at the paddock, Fen Ditton 27 June 2009 Annual Fund Donors’ Garden Party 27 June 2009 Anniversary Dinner (1979, 1989, 1999) 1 July 2009 Society of St Radegund Dinner

Invitations to all the above events will be posted or emailed to those concerned. If, however, you wish to attend any of these events but do not receive anticipated postal or email notification, please contact the Development Office (tel: 01223 339301) or visit the alumni events section of the college’s website (www.jesus.cam.ac.uk) where details are also posted.

M.A. dining Members of M.A. or similar status are invited to dine at high table free of charge twice a year and to bring a guest at their own expense. The Master and Fellows very much welcome the opportunity to maintain contact. Because of staffing arrangements there is no dining on Saturdays but it is usually possible to accommodate visitors on Sundays during term. The other available days are Tuesday, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. It is always advisable to book in good time by phoning the manciple’s office on 01223 339473.

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contents Message from the Master 5 Articles College History: Continuities and Discontinuities 7 Archbishop Cranmer at Jesus College: A questioning note 14 The Science and Human Dimension Project 19 The Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime 21 Jesus on the Silk Road 23 The Hudleston Organ 27 20,000 Lives – Telling the Story of Jesuans Past 30 Years Ago 32 College News People 36 Art 42 Bursary 43 Chapel 44 Chapel Music 47 Development Office 48 Old Library and College Archives 48 Society of St Radegund 52 Other News 52 Degree Day 2008 53 College Societies 61 College Sports Clubs 67 Jesus College Boat Club Trust 78 Jesus College Fellows and other Senior Members 80 Awards 85 Tripos Results 89 Approved for Ph.D.s 90 Members’ News People 92 Births 94 Marriages and Civil Partnerships 95 Books and Articles by Members and Old Members 96 Other Gifts to the College Libraries 99 Bequests and Other Gifts 100 College Events 103 Jesus College Cambridge Society 108 Obituaries Fellows and former Fellows 111 Old Members 118 Return Forms Records Update CDs from Jesus College Jesus College Cushions Jesus: The Life of a Cambridge College Annual Fund 107Jsstx.x:XX eu etpages17/4/0913:58Page4 text Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus 216057

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Message from the Master

In this last year there have been many exciting things happening in the college, some of which are described later in this Annual Report. Earlier in the academic year we were delighted to launch the publication of Jesus: The Life of a Cambridge College, edited by Peter Glazebrook. We were fortunate to find we had not simply a recently retired Fellow with time on his hands but a retired Fellow of deep learning with extensive knowledge about the college’s history. Peter had an additional quality – a profound devotion to the college. All those things shine through in this book and we congratulate him on his achievement. He of course chose the subjects (there are 45 essays by many different Fellows and Jesuans, young and old) and then recruited all the contributors, inspiring us, chivvying us, and in no small way helping us. I am sure I was not the only one to get my offering returned with little red pen amendments or comments – a bit like a supervision essay. The book reveals all the hidden worlds of the college, unravelling them for us rather like a set of Russian dolls. Reading the various essays is like being in the company of a whole series of immensely well-informed guides accompanying you around Jesus College. The combination gives a perspective not only over space and time, but also across both institutional life and the fascinating, and sometimes extraordinary, personalities that have played their part in it. Add to this the delightful and cleverly chosen photographs and we have a truly outstanding achievement. Rather like a mosaic, the richness of the individual pieces together with the pictures makes a complex but unified whole. In this Annual Report Peter Glazebrook provides a new and interesting perspective on the college, identifying what, in effect, were five different colleges that existed in various stages of our long history. This year we have been especially fortunate in having a wonderful new organ installed in the chapel. A new friend of the college, James Hudleston, has generously enabled us to commission an organ from the firm widely regarded as the finest in the world today, Orgelbau Kuhn of Zurich. They have built this, their first organ in the UK, to the highest standards and specifications. It was not an easy space in the chapel, either physically or with regard to the historic nature of the building, and they have by unanimous consent done a superb job. Full technical details of the organ are given in an article by Dan Hyde, our director of chapel music, in this Annual Report. When all the organ pieces arrived from Switzerland and were laid out on the chapel floor, it looked as though we needed to get onto the IKEA helpline, but we all marvelled at the complex building operation that progressed smoothly throughout the summer vacation. The college is grateful to Dan for his huge part in the project. The Hudleston organ is already meeting with great acclaim from the musical world and without doubt will attract organ scholars from across the country. In June a superb inaugural recital, attended by the Vice-Chancellor, Fellows, students and many guests, was given by James O’Donnell, a Jesuan and former organ scholar, now organist and master of the choristers at Westminster Abbey. The Hudleston organ has secured the future of our chapel music, which is going from strength to strength, and is providing wonderful encouragement and incentive to our choirs. In February we celebrated the centenary of one of our most distinguished Jesuans, Jacob Bronowski, a man of extraordinary versatility who made very important contributions both to literature and to science. He came up to Jesus in 1927 to read mathematics, 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:58 Page 6

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becoming a wrangler and going on to do a Ph.D. But he immersed himself in many other things, developing strong literary and artistic interests, which he pursued enthusiastically alongside his distinguished mathematical studies. He became literary editor of Granta, and founded and edited a new avant-garde literary magazine called Experiment. Bronowski went on to a career of exceptional distinction, publishing and broadcasting prolifically on a vast range of subjects: all of us above a certain age will remember the highly successful and compelling 13 part BBC TV series The Ascent of Man – a Personal View. The college awarded him an Honorary Fellowship in 1967. He once wrote: ‘I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.’ How we wish there were more of us in the world who are indifferent to the distinction between literature and science. The highly successful Science and Human Dimension Project, a Jesus College initiative under the direction of John Cornwell who writes about it in this Annual Report, encapsulates much of what Jacob Bronowski stood for. I have written previously about the increasingly international character of both the graduate student body and the fellowship, and of the college’s leading role in the University in strengthening collaborations with China. The University is now also engaging more with India; a new professorship has been created, financed by the Government of India and various Indian companies: the Jawaharlal Nehru Professorship of Indian Business and Enterprise at the Judge Business School. Building on our reputation for establishing new international collaborations, the college has played a leading role in the Cambridge Central Asia Forum through the leadership of Dr Montu Saxena, who writes about the involvement of Jesus College with the Silk Road in this Annual Report. This year we have hosted a number of distinguished academics and other visitors from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and several of our Fellows have visited Central Asia on new academic collaborative projects. The college has been thriving on many fronts. Not only have our students excelled academically (the college has risen to fifth place out of the 31 colleges in the Baxter intercollegiate league table) but three of our Fellows won Prizes; these prestigious prizes are awarded to a small number of academics in the University for outstanding teaching. It is extremely rare for three Pilkington Prize winners to come from one college; Dr Stuart Clarke, Dr Steve Hladky and Dr Tim Wilkinson are to be congratulated. We look forward to another successful year for our undergraduates, graduate students and Fellows, and we hope that Jesuans will visit the college to see for themselves how we are thriving. We always welcome visitors to the college, whether for reunion dinners, to dine at high table, or simply for a casual visit to see how things are. Your interest in and support for what we are trying to achieve at the college today is greatly appreciated. Robert Mair 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:58 Page 7

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Almost everyone who has spent time reading and thinking about the history of one of the older Cambridge (or Oxford) colleges – as planning and editing Jesus: The Life of a Cambridge College (2007)1, a collaborative and richly illustrated volume commissioned by the College Council, has led me to do – has been struck as much by the discontinuities as by the continuities that those histories reveal. The continuities, through five, six or even seven centuries, are obvious enough. There is the collegiate community’s occupation of the same site and the slow but steady accretion (and renewal) of the buildings on it: chapel, hall, kitchens, library, and the residential rooms arranged on staircases opening onto courts, with gardens beyond. There is its possession of endowments provided by founders and benefactors, on which it has always been utterly dependent, its corporate legal identity (‘The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College … commonly called Jesus College in the Town and ’), and its relationship to, but independence from, the university which is its raison d’être. And there is the common social life of its members, one generation overlapping with another, centred on eating together in its hall, the distinctive (and distinguishing) gowns they wear, the strange titles they bear, and the special language they use: the age-old talk of terms and vacations, of Fellows, Tutors, Deans, Fellow-Commoners, Scholars, and Exhibitioners, of Chapel and Hall (describing not places but occasions). Yet underneath these surface continuities, the discontinuities, though unsurprising, are if anything even more remarkable. Like other institutions that flourished in the Middle Ages – cathedrals, the two houses of parliament – these older colleges have, over the centuries, undergone profound changes, both of character and of function, and like them will, no doubt, go on changing as, in their extraordinarily resilient way, they

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respond to the pressures and needs of the world around them and, more immediately, to changes in the universities of which they are a part. But though we ought not to be surprised that there have been great and fundamental changes, we should, if we are not to misunderstand the past of these institutions, attend carefully to them. The traditional account of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer’s career as a Jesuan, which is examined at the end of this article, may perhaps be seen as an illustration of the dangers of failing to do so. The timing of the profound changes may vary a little – sometimes by several decades – from college to college, as well as from one university to the other, and their number is determined, of course, by when they were founded. Jesus was a product of the movement within the flourishing late mediaeval English church to redeploy some of its under-used resources for the better education of the secular clergy, particularly as preachers. (St John’s, Cambridge, and Christ Church, Oxford, are the movement’s two most spectacular monuments.) And in its case we can, if we look beneath the surface continuities, identify five very different colleges. For the first sixty or so years – from the late 1490s to the early 1560s – Jesus was (with a short interruption) a college of chantry priests charged with the duty of praying for its founders and benefactors, which also had a free for local boys. Then, until the 1670s, it was a seminary for the education of poor students to be godly protestant clergy and schoolmasters (or both), whose tutors also welcomed as their pupils for periods of a year or two the sons of the better off. The longest lasting college (so far) was the third, from the mid-1670s till the mid-1860s, which had far fewer students than the second, and those few mostly intending clergy and schoolmasters. Cambridge no longer attracted many students able to pay their own way, and most of those went to Trinity or St John’s. This college’s mainstay was Tobias Rustat’s Trust for clergy orphans and other similar benefactions. The fourth college can be dated to H.A. Morgan’s appointment as Tutor in 1863. He responded to the burgeoning mid-Victorian demand for a university education and the qualifications and contacts it brought, and from being one of the smallest and poorest colleges in Cambridge Jesus became one of its largest. Morgan’s college lasted until the 1950s when the 1944 Education Act’s great reforms in secondary schooling and the financing of university students began to be felt in Cambridge as elsewhere, and to shape the college we now have. A little more must be (a great deal more could be – and in Jesus: The Life of a Cambridge College has been) said about each of these five colleges. Perhaps the most important point to be made about the first – the college of chantry priests with its grammar school (which had its own staff ) – is that it catered for graduate, not undergraduate, students, though a few undergraduates may from time to time have found accommodation within it. Most undergraduates lived in hostels, of which there were more than thirty, run by M.A.s as more or less private enterprises: their memory kept alive now by Garret Hostel Lane and that part of Trinity College called Physick Hostel. The ‘Scholars’ of the College’s corporate name were, in all but title, Fellows, the distinction being merely that while the five Fellows, properly so called, were (along with four youths and four choristers to help with the Chapel and its services) maintained from the income of formerly belonging to the nunnery, the Scholars (in 1514 there were three, a decade later five, of them) were supported by the endowments other benefactors had given in return for the College’s contractual undertaking to see their families’ chantries in its chapel duly served. All the Fellows and Scholars had to be at least B.A.s and all, except one of the Scholars, priests. (This single exception was doubtless convenient in permitting the appointment of a new, but not yet ordained, graduate who could be transferred to another Fellowship or Scholarship when he was.) In return for performing their chapel duties, they received free board and lodging (though no 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:58 Page 9

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stipend), living in rooms on the newly constructed staircases in Cloister Court, and the all-important opportunity to continue their university studies for their M.A. or for higher degrees in theology or law (canon or civil) that would fit them for a successful career in church or state – often both. So there was (as in other colleges) a weekly seminar, on Fridays, which they were expected to attend, to give each other practice in the art of formal public disputation – which was how they would be examined for their degrees. These Fellows and Scholars were, in short, graduate students, and had to vacate their fellowship or scholarship when they obtained a benefice or some other job giving them an annual income of more than 5 marks. When, in 1547, an act of parliament abolished all chantries, the endowments of those established in parish churches (the large majority) were confiscated by the Crown – a fate that had already befallen those established in monasteries when the latter were dissolved . However, those of the chantries in colleges in the two universities remained their property, either because of a royal concession or because they were inextricably mixed with the colleges’ other endowments. And so the chantries could be, and at Jesus were, revived without difficulty when, six years later, the catholic Queen Mary I succeeded her protestant brother, Edward VI. The second of our colleges dates from the 1560s when it had become clear that the English church was henceforth to be a protestant one, and that chantries and the priest scholars who served them were irrevocably redundant. Some of their endowments were used to support additional Fellows (bringing their number to 16) and some, with other recent benefactions, to support poor undergraduates, who were now being required to belong to colleges where their behaviour and their studies could be more closely supervised than had been possible in hostels. And it was to these poor undergraduates that the title of ‘Scholar’ was transferred. The College’s grammar school, too, (which had been on the west side of the Gate Tower) was liquidated – the government considered that the money spent on it would be better used training the clergy and schoolmasters needed if the Elizabethan church settlement was to be maintained. And, as if to emphasise that it was a different college from the first, it changed its arms: from the Five Wounds of Jesus to Alcock’s cockerel heads. To this second college undergraduates supported not by its endowments but by patrons and parents – gentry, farmers, merchants and the higher clergy – also came, and came, as the years went by, in increasing numbers. They are first heard of in 1573 when one of the Fellows, Thomas Legge (elected in 1568), was persuaded by the crypto-catholic Dr Caius to move to the college he had recently re-endowed, with a view to succeeding him as its Master (as he did). Legge took his private, fee-paying, pupils with him. The future poet, playwright and courtier, Fulke Greville; the future diplomat and translator of Camoens, Richard Fanshawe; the future royal secretary, Sir Christopher Hatton; and the future Lord Chief Justice Bramston, were among those who later in the century and early in the next spent a year or two in the College: not long enough to take a degree, something which was only worth the time and trouble if a career as clergyman, schoolmaster or (exceptionally) physician was in view. The lovely rose-coloured brick north range of First Court built between 1638 and 1641 to provide accommodation for Fellows who took private pupils – and had them living with them literally under their eyes, in their rooms – was largely paid for by several of these wealthy and successful former students. It is the second college’s lasting monument, though it was to be used in the way originally envisaged for only about thirty years. In the 1670s the number of privately financed undergraduates in the College, as in Cambridge as a whole, fell sharply away, for reasons that historians still debate. Their numbers, which had peaked in the 1630s, when this building was being planned and erected, were 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:58 Page 10

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not to be matched again until the 1860s. The Fellows who remained in residence (often less than half the complement of 16) were able to spread out, gaining space, privacy and an altogether more dignified style of living. No further new building was to be erected until 1822, and then it was only a single staircase (L) added to Pump Court. This third college was content – it had to be – with embellishing what it had. The Hall was panelled, a wrought iron gate with elegant pillars erected at the entrance to the Chimney, the garrets of the old grammar school building on the south of First Court replaced by a second floor matching that on the north, and an elegant Combination Room created in the building behind the east end of the Hall. It is Tobias Rustat’s Trust that is this college’s true monument – his own, from ’ workshop, is on the Chapel’s west wall. Established in 1671, just as the second college was about to fade away, the Trust was for, initially 8, then 11, and later 14 scholarships for undergraduates who were orphaned sons of Anglican clergy. It and several related, but smaller, benefactions for other clergy children, attracted to Jesus (sometimes from other colleges) eligible undergraduates. Together they supported as many as eighteen students at a time – in some years more than half the total number. Without them, Jesus would have been an even smaller and more marginal institution in Cambridge, and without most of the famous names – Sterne, Hartley, Wakefield, Malthus, Coleridge and Clarke – in which its successors have taken so much pride, as well as two (not particularly distinguished) archbishops Monument to Tobias Rustat, probably by workshop of Grinling of Canterbury. This third college was, Gibbons, c1694. Photograph 1929 indeed, almost as exclusively a clerical community as the first, the presence of undergraduates – most of them aspirant clergy – compensating for the small number of resident Fellows. In its final decades – the 1840s and 1850s – there were frequently fewer than half a dozen Fellows and 40 undergraduates in residence; and the restoration of its Chapel to a mediaeval comeliness, under the influence, and with the warm approval, of the Cambridge Camden Society, the local wing of the Oxford Movement, was a major concern. The fourth college – Morgan’s college, which lasted from the 1860s to the 1950s – grew rapidly (within 20 years) from being one of the smallest into the fourth or fifth largest in Cambridge (expansion matched at the time only by Pembroke’s). Its fame centred, designedly, on the prowess of its Boat Club rather than on scholarly achievements – the First Eight’s winning of the at Henley in 1947 might be seen as its swansong. It was essentially the creation of one man: H.A. (‘Black’) Morgan, appointed Tutor (there were then only enough students for one) in 1863, fourteen years after he had entered the College as an undergraduate and three after his election as a Fellow. He saw, and seized, the opportunities presented by the new and increasing demand from the pupils of the recently reformed or newly established public schools for a university education and the qualifications (not all of them academic) which it could give. There were still many undergraduates – especially among the scholars and exhibitioners 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:58 Page 11

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– who planned to be clergymen or schoolmasters, but this fourth college did not take its tone from them. In its raison d’étre, its buildings and its ethos, as well as in its membership and size, it differed from the third quite as markedly as the second from the first. And in it arose many of the facilities, institutions and occasions that have since loomed large in the images of Cambridge colleges and the memories of Cambridge graduates: team sports (made practicable by the rise in numbers), sports fields and boathouses – and inter-collegiate competitions and college colours (red and black) – a J.C.R. (though a college bar had to wait for the fifth college), a library for undergraduates

(first no more than a reading room), Henry Arthur Morgan. Senior Tutor 1863–85. Master entrance scholarships and exhibitions for 1885–1912; Portrait by Hon. John Collier, 1893 which schoolboys could compete, college prizes, clubs and societies, academic and cultural as well as social, May balls, a magazine (‘Chanticlere’), an old members’ association (the J.C.C.S.), a boys’ club in , and the carefully (and sometimes imaginatively) cultivated loyalties to a centuries-old and revered institution that had ‘produced’ famous men in whom its present members could take pride. The empty niche on the Gate Tower was filled with a statue of Bishop Alcock – rather than one of the Virgin and Child which, given the College’s full name, was surely originally there. (Devout fifteenth-century were customarily depicted on their knees: as, in fact, Alcock is on the contemporary Master’s stall in Chapel and in the painting in Hall.) This fourth college’s physical monuments are the buildings (all known now by their architects’ names) which created both Second and Chapel Courts, quadrupling the number of undergraduate rooms. First were the three staircases (Waterhouse) built, almost as soon as Morgan became Tutor, with money borrowed from the Rustat Trust’s accumulated surpluses (earlier used to finance the development of the Jesus Lane houses). They were followed by the much larger Carpenter building paid for from the sale proceeds of land compulsorily purchased for railways, completed fifteen years later just as Morgan was being elected Master; and then, between the two wars, by the Morley Horder building, financed partly by a bequest and partly by the sale of the freehold of the University Arms Hotel. Morgan’s college also saw a complete change in what it meant to be a Fellow and in what a Fellow was meant to be. For the previous 350 years (and more), fellowships carried neither any obligation nor, indeed, any expectation that their holders would engage in teaching in either the College or the University. A few Fellows did and a very few devoted their lives to scholarly works, but they were exceptions. For the overwhelming majority their fellowships were, rather, aids to (as the modern jargon has it) ‘career development’: prizes usually bestowed on those most successful in recent Mathematical and Classical Tripos examinations (the only ones there were) giving them a modest income until they both secured a job (commonly as a parish clergyman) and married. Meanwhile they might improve their chances by study, travel and private tutoring – and, in the case of intending clergy, better fit themselves for their future responsibilities by studying some divinity (a subject not required for – or provided in – either the B.A. or the M.A.). The abolition in the 1850s of the rule that Fellows must be Anglicans, followed in 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:58 Page 12

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1882 by the abolition of the requirement that they should be unmarried, enabled fellowships to become posts that would support a career in university teaching and research. So as the twentieth century approached Fellows began to be elected with a view to their teaching some of the new subjects being introduced into the undergraduate curriculum (theology, natural sciences, history and law) and the supervision emerged as the typical vehicle of instruction. But even more striking changes lay ahead. Among the many respects in which the fifth in our line of colleges – the one dating from the later 1950s which we now have – differs markedly from its predecessor, six stand out: its secular ethos; the criteria for admission as an undergraduate; the ever-increasing body of postgraduate students; the nature and role (and scholarly distinction) of the fellowship; the virtual disappearance of the significance of being ‘on’ the College foundation; and its ceasing, in the late 1970s, to be a male preserve. Although Parliament had, in the 1850s, removed some of the legal barriers that had preserved the College as an institution of the English church, the process of secularisation was slow. Legislation had preserved and protected the Chapel and its services, and until 1912 the Master had invariably been a clergyman – until 1885 he had been appointed by the local bishop and had combined the Mastership with another church post, so that he often devoted less than half his year to the College. And the College itself continued to appoint the parsons of more than a dozen parishes. The first layman to be Master – he died in office in 1940 – was in his stall in Chapel everyday, morning and evening. Undergraduates were still expected to, and did, attend on Sundays, unless they declared that it offended their consciences to do so. There were Roman Catholic and Jewish undergraduates, but no Roman Catholic or Jewish Fellows: the Fellows who were Non-Conformists were also honorary Anglicans. But in the post- 1950s college the overwhelming majority of its members have rarely set foot in the Chapel, save perhaps for a concert or a funeral, and from being at the centre of the College’s corporate life it is now at its periphery. Scholarships and exhibitions – at least the ‘open’ ones (that is, those not ‘closed’ because only candidates from particular schools or localities, or with some particular attributes, were eligible for them) – had, over the centuries, more often than not been the subject of some competition, if only among those already in residence. But the same had not been true of places for those able to pay for themselves: the pensioners. They rarely had much difficulty in gaining admission: the tutors’ main concerns were their respectability and their connections – the families or schools they came from – and, all importantly, their ability to pay their bills .(It had, of course, also to be remembered that it would be unfortunate if they were unable to scrape through the University’s not too demanding initial – the ‘Previous’ – examination by the end of their fifth term.) And the number of those knocking at the College’s gates fluctuated considerably, reflecting fashion and the state of the national economy. At the end of the 1920s some doubted the wisdom of building the Morley Horder staircases: how could anyone be sure that there would be enough students to fill the additional rooms? The 1944 Education Act (and its successors) changed all that, and from the late 1950s admission to the College became increasingly competitive – and controversial, both among old members and nationally. All who gained a university place became entitled to financial support from the government, and so the number of those able to contemplate coming to Cambridge soared. College scholarships and exhibitions ceased to be key components of the financial support of poor students, and became (as fellowships had for long previously been) prizes, albeit more modest ones, for distinguished performance in University examinations. This comprehensive financial support from the national Exchequer was to be a short-lived phenomenon, but the resulting competitiveness for undergraduate places has remained and intensified. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:58 Page 13

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In 1934 there was one research student in Jesus; in 1950 only a handful; but since the early 1960s the number pursuing postgraduate qualifications of one sort or another has increased steadily to the point at which every third student (250 of them) in this fifth college is a graduate. In them, rather than the present-day Fellows, the Fellows and Scholars of the first college would have seen their modern counterparts. As for those present-day Fellows, there has been not only a huge increase in their number – there are now nearly five times as many (over 80) as there were at any time in the three-and-a-half centuries from 1570 to 1926, and nearly three times as many as in the 1950s – they have also undergone yet another radical transformation. For most (though not quite all) of the Fellows of the fourth (Morgan’s) college, members of that new profession of university teachers that had emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, the College was, though not always the whole, nevertheless the centre, of their working lives, and the principal source of their income. They taught its undergraduates, oversaw their conduct and themselves ran the College and managed its endowments (a little amateurishly, perhaps, but fairly effectively) with the help of a small group of clerks, and, after World War II, one or two secretaries. For most (though not quite all) of the Fellows of the fifth college on the other hand, the centre of their working lives, and the principal source of their incomes, lies elsewhere – in the University’s Faculties, Departments and Laboratories, in which they research and teach. The College (which professional staff run for them) is tangential – a haven, a human-sized community, offering the amenities and social life which makes Cambridge such a congenial university in which to work, usually in return for modest duties in teaching and advising the College’s undergraduates. No longer having, as their predecessors had, a financial stake in the College, the main concern of the Fellows is for its academic reputation. All these changes and transformations have had a further, and significant but largely unnoticed, consequence: the concept of the College’s ‘foundation’ and to being ‘on’ (or not ‘on’) it – a key to our understanding of the first four colleges, their role and their function – has ceased to have any practical significance. The older colleges of the older universities were conceived as the academic equivalent of almshouses. They were, as we have seen Jesus was, created and their endowments given so that poor students could, both before and (for many) after ordination, pursue university studies, providing them with free board and lodging and (as the years went by) smallish cash payments (‘dividends’). These colleges were, as the lawyers said, ‘eleemosynary corporations’: their object the support, in kind and cash, of their members as they studied in preparation for earning their own livings. The number of their members had, naturally, to be limited – and college statutes invariably did so – to that which it was believed their endowments could support, as either Fellows or Scholars. They alone were members of the College, of the ‘eleemosynary corporation’: they alone were entitled to benefit from its endowments. It was, however, from the beginning recognised that colleges (like monasteries and nunneries) might have room to spare for paying guests, who would help to off-set their running costs. The earliest Jesus statutes (1514–1515) refer to them as ‘Perendinants’, and from the beginning of our second college Fellows were, as has been seen, taking in private pupils, later to be known as ‘Pensioners’ (in the continental sense of the word) or, if they came from higher up the social and economic scale, as (Gentlemen or Noble) ‘Fellow Commoners’ – because they ate at the same table as the Fellows. (The Exhibitioners were the recipients of awards from special trust funds). But these students were not, as the Fellows and Scholars were, the object of the founders’ bounty – they were not ‘on the foundation’: quite the opposite. They were there to boost the College’s financial resources and the incomes of its Fellows, which they did most noticeably in the second and fourth colleges. Being, strictly speaking, not members of 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:58 Page 14

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the College, they had to pay their way: a principle that the 1922 Royal Commission on Oxford and Cambridge affirmed. In our present college, however, all is different. Its assets and endowments are now seen as there for the benefit of all who have been admitted to study in it; they are all seen as ‘members’ of it; and they do all now benefit from them. Every one of the College’s varied activities is to a greater or lesser extent, subsidised from, and so made possible, by its endowments – with a further consequence that no one can fail to notice. With the number of beneficiaries so vastly expanded, the College’s historic endowments (albeit augmented as they have been, particularly since the beginning of the twentieth century, by numerous bequests) are inevitably seriously inadequate. So now, not just intermittently and for the sake of new buildings – North Court (1960), the Quincentenary Library (1996) and Library Court (2000) – but continuously it has to seek the financial help of its ‘old members’. Some readers may be surprised that the admission of women in the late 1970s is not being portrayed here as the start of yet another college. A future historian, with the benefit of a longer perspective, may perhaps see it that way. But just thirty years on, impossible to overlook though this change is, to one observer it appears to be but part and parcel of the transformation that began in the late 1950s. The dissolution of the male preserve has certainly increased the competiveness surrounding the admission of undergraduates, helped to boost the number of graduate students, contributed to the increase in the number of Fellows, and added to the rich variety of the college community. But it has not itself changed what it means to be, and what (gender apart) it takes to be, either an undergraduate, a graduate student or a Fellow of Jesus in any way comparable to the changes that have marked off any one of our five colleges from each of the others. Several older readers of Jesus: The Life of a Cambridge College have remarked how very different is the college depicted in the Master’s introductory essay, ‘The College in the Twenty-First Century’, and in the contributions in the later part of the volume, from the college they knew as undergraduates. During the last five centuries it would quite often have been thus.

Archbishop Cranmer at Jesus College: A questioning note Little is known about the first forty years of Thomas Cranmer’s life – he was born in 1489 and was being head-hunted out of Cambridge by Cardinal Wolsey in the late 1520s. So as his most recent and finest biographer, Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, has observed, ‘it is not surprising that his biographers have done their best to fill the gap.’2 The university, college and church records that might have cast some light on those years are either fragmentary, lost to sight or have never existed (the University had no formal matriculation requirement until 1544 so neither it nor the colleges kept matriculation registers) while the earliest surviving biographical accounts were written, probably, in the late 1560s, more than sixty years after he first arrived in Cambridge and forty years after he had left it for good. By then Church, College and University were all ordered in ways that differed radically from those prevailing in the first three decades of the sixteenth century, about which these biographers were probably rather hazy. The story given in these early lives has passed into common currency and, for want of anything better, has been repeated continually and with little variation ever since. It runs as follows: on the death of his father in 1503, when Thomas was only 14, his mother sent

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him to Cambridge where he became an undergraduate at Jesus, though he took, for whatever reason, an inordinately long time to obtain his B.A. which eventually he did in 1511, proceeding to the M.A. without further hiccups in 1515. Meanwhile, sometime between 1511 and 1515, he became a Fellow of Jesus, but thereafter fell in love with, and married, a daughter or cousin (called Joan) of the inn-keeper of the Dolphin in Bridge Street, with the consequence, as inevitable in the 1510s as in the 1560s and ’70s, that he lost his fellowship. To make ends meet he accepted appointment as Reader (i.e., lecturer) at Buckingham College, the hostel for Benedictine monks from the East Anglian abbeys who were studying in Cambridge – a hostel whose buildings were later to form the core of Magdalene College. The marriage was, however, short-lived for wife and child died in child-bed. Soon afterwards the Master and Fellows of Jesus welcomed the new widower back to the College where he was re-elected a Fellow and remained, taking his due share in the work of the University and its Divinity School, becoming a D.D. in 1526, before being lured away. This traditional account is, however, not without its difficulties which, while not making it wholly impossible, do make it rather improbable. That Cranmer was, in some sense, a Jesuan is not in doubt. He is listed as one of three Bachelors of Divinity resident in Jesus in a Cambridge tax assessment of December 15223; and, perhaps more significantly, after his appointment as archbishop of Canterbury he sent the Fellows a buck from the archiepiscopal deer park with a cheery message and the promise to pay for the accompaniments.4 This is Cranmer’s only recorded gift to the College which, on the traditional account, had nurtured him and been, with a small interruption, his home for almost a quarter of a century. Professor MacCulloch’s memorable verdict that ‘Cranmer was not a good College man once he left

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his Fellowship for higher things’5 may, however, be a shade harsh, for it not only assumes that the traditional account is accurate, but also overlooks the possibility that he may just have left matters too late. For after backing the wrong horse – the Lady Jane Grey rather than the Princess Mary – when Edward VI died in 1553, he had been convicted of treason and all his worldly goods, including his splendid library, had been forfeited to the Crown. Thereafter he had nothing he could give his College – which brings us back to the question of in what way he was ‘a College man’. The difficulties with the traditional account are these. First, that there was no provision for undergraduates at Jesus (or at most other colleges) in the early 1500s. Most undergraduates lived, as noted above, in the thirty or so hostels for them that there then were. Cranmer could have been one of the four ‘youths’ with specific duties in the Chapel who were provided for in the earliest (draft) statutes for the College that survive6, or he may simply have lived in the place with and under the aegis of one of the Fellows. We do not know. But there is a story – one which troubled some of his later (and class- conscious) admirers – that offers an alternative account of how and where he spent the eight years between his father’s death and his becoming a B.A. Shortly after Cranmer’s appointment to Canterbury, papalist-minded disparagers of this scholarly, but uncharismatic, priest (who, because the King believed that he had the theological answer to the first of the monarch’s matrimonial problems, had been catapulted over the heads of the entire bench of bishops into the highest office in the English church) were reported to be calling him an “[h]ostler” and hanging bundles of hay on the gates of Lambeth Palace, alluding, it was supposed, to his first marriage, to his parents-in- law’s trade, and to his having given them a helping hand in the stable yard of their inn7. Later, however, an alternative explanation was proffered. Cranmer’s critics were not being quite so offensive: they were simply referring to his not having secured a (prestigious) undergraduate place in one of the few colleges that had them, never having done better than live and pay his own way, without patron or benefactor, in a hostel.8 It is not, of course, necessary to choose between the two interpretations: some who, whether in Cambridge or London, knew something of Cranmer’s background may have repeated the slur for one reason, some for the other, and some for both. For if, as MacCulloch is inclined to think9, the Dolphin was kept by relatives not of his wife, but of his mother, it is quite feasible that the fatherless lad was first sent by her to live with them, that he worked for them to earn money so that he could study in the University, and that when he had saved enough he joined one of the hostels and became a student. This hypothesis would also explain why it took him so long to become a B.A. The second difficulty with the traditional story relates to the first – pre-marital – fellowship at Jesus. He could not have married at all – or not, at any rate, without a papal dispensation – if he had already been in holy orders as either sub-deacon, deacon or priest, for the canon law of the western church imposed celibacy on all in major orders, and there has never been any suggestion that he needed, let alone sought, or had the financial wherewithal, or the time, to seek a dispensation to marry. Yet of the eight ‘fellowships’ at Jesus in the mid-1510s only one – that of ‘Stanley’s Scholar’ – was tenable by someone who was not already a priest.10 Cranmer might have been (albeit briefly) Stanley’s Scholar, or he might have had some sort of promise of nomination for

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a fellowship – it was the Bishop who appointed – if and when he was ordained a priest, a promise which necessarily lapsed when he married. We do not know. But if it was a promise that he had received note would have to be taken of the technical legal point that until the College was issued with its first set of statutes by Bishop West in 1516/17 all the fellowships at Jesus were, strictly speaking, only embryonic – though, no doubt, everyone who had been working to establish the College out of the nunnery’s ruins expected them to be brought to birth. The third difficulty in determining how and when to place Cranmer at Jesus and, in particular, about the story of his re-election to a fellowship after his first wife’s death, arises from the fact that we do not know when exactly he was ordained priest, and so became eligible to hold whichever one of the college’s fellowships/scholarships became vacant. The Ely ordination registers for the years 1520–1533 are missing. But since he was licensed in 1520 by the University (pursuant to a papal grant) to preach in all the dioceses of the British Isles it seems likely that he was ordained in 1520 or 1521 at about the time he became a Bachelor of Divinity11. We do, however, know from Bishop West’s register who the Fellows (supported from the nunnery ) were between 1516/17, when the College’s first statutes came into force, and 1528 when that bishop’s register stops – and Cranmer had left Cambridge. His name is not among them. He might, of course, have been appointed one of the Scholars, the priests of the family chantries in the Chapel – we do not know. Once he had become a D.D., as he did in 1526, he would have been altogether too grand to be a mere Scholar of Jesus – a job for someone at the beginning of his career. Fellows of colleges were not then the academic aristocracy of Cambridge that they were to become in the twentieth century. This is not, however, quite the end of either the traditional, or even this more sceptical, account. The traditional one, as we have seen, has it that during his first, brief, marriage, Cranmer supported himself and his wife by taking the job of Reader (Lecturer) at Buckingham College. No records of Buckingham College survive, nor is anyone else, either before or since, known to have been a Reader there12. It is, indeed, hard to see why the monks should have needed the services of a young married graduate to teach them when they had a good many older and more experienced graduates among their own monastic brethren. But there may have been some confusion in the memories of Cranmer’s earliest biographers about what he had said about his early life – confusion between where he lived during, or immediately after, his marriage, and the post he subsequently had as a university teacher of theology. The monks of Buckingham College are known at this period to have let out rooms along their frontage on what is now Magdalene Street, not far from the Dolphin13. While at Jesus, Sir John Rysley, one of the College’s founders, had not only paid for the rebuilding of the nave of the Chapel and the extension and re-roofing of the cloisters, he had also endowed a Readership in Theology, with a quarterly stipend of 8 marks, tenable by someone who was at least a B.D.14, a degree which Cranmer had (as we have seen) obtained by 1522. One of his early biographers, his secretary Ralph Morice, says that he held this post15. Like the Readership (lectureship) that Chief Justice Rede was, along with his family chantry in the Chapel, shortly to establish, the holder’s duties were envisaged as lying in the

11 B.D.s hoping to become D.D.s were required to preach in both London (at Paul’s Cross) and Cambridge: Damien Leader, A History of the University of Cambridge vol. I (Cambridge 1988) pp. 174-175. 12 Peter Cunich et al, A History of Magdalene College, Cambridge 1428–1988 (Cambridge 1994) p.26. 13 Ibid. 14 Earliest Statutes, caps. XXII and XVIII. 15 MacCulloch, p.23; J.G. Nicholas (ed.) Narratives of the Reformation Camden Soc., 1st series, vol. 77 (London 1859) p.240. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:58 Page 18

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University’s Schools – it was simply that it was both more practical and prudent to vest the endowment, and the appointment of the Reader, in a college rather than in the University: University and College could then keep an eye on each other16. But a job with a quarterly stipend of 8 marks would have disqualified its holder from a Fellowship/Scholarship at Jesus which had to be vacated when the Fellow/Scholar obtained a parish or had an income of more than 5 marks17. There would, however, have been no reason why Rysley’s Reader should not, and several reasons why he should, have lived for some years at Jesus with its Fellows and Scholars, as a ‘perindenant’, paying for his board and lodging, but nonetheless a Jesuan18 – a stay that was reflected in that Christmas present of an archiepiscopal buck. It was, it seems, just as well that the monument to Cranmer, which was placed in 1889 – the four hundredth anniversary of his birth – in the Chapel’s south transept, should say nothing about precisely what his connection with the College was. Peter Glazebrook, Emeritus Fellow

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The Science and Human Dimension Project

Many of the Fellows and Fellow Commoners are responsible for projects and initiatives based at the college, encompassing a wide variety of disciplines. This article and the succeeding two describe just three of these. The Science and Human Dimension Project began in 1990 as a Jesus College initiative in the field of public understanding of science. Our purpose is to bring scientists and science media people together to discuss issues of current interest, especially where science has an impact on human identity and society. Our hope, always, is to persuade the science media (including publishers, film makers, TV programme controllers, print and broadcast journalists), to report what science tells us about nature and human nature more thoughtfully and responsibly. Over the years a number of books have been published as a result of our conferences, on topics such as reductionism, consciousness, depression and styles of explanation. In this past academic year the project has been involved in two currently vibrant areas of science, philosophy, and ethics. Professor Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion provoked some lively responses from us, and the political and social furore over hybrid embryos drew us into a heated national debate on bioethics. John Cornwell (director of the project) published his book Darwin’s Angel: An Angelic Riposte to the God Delusion last autumn; it offers a light but occasionally barbed response to Dawkins’s aggressive atheism. He managed to debate one or two central points with Dawkins himself on the BBC’s Today programme (including the allegation that religion was a dangerous virus of the mind), and there followed a series of further broadcasts, reviews and rumbustious exchanges on various blog sites, not least Dawkins’ own. The publication of Darwin’s Angel elicited a spate of commissions on the question, resulting in some thirty articles by Cornwell in the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, the Tablet, and elsewhere. The book (published by Profile) has now appeared in five languages, and in the U.S.A.. Under the auspices of the Jesus College project, Cornwell has given a series of talks and lectures in schools and universities on science and religion, including at the Headmasters’ Conference 2008 Annual General Meeting in London. On the bio-ethics side, Cornwell was invited onto the BBC Moral Maze programme, and served on the public H.F.E.A. consultancy panel in London to debate the issue of hybrid embryos. He has taken a balanced approach, rejecting the scaremongering ‘monster’ allegations, but noting that many other countries – including Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and the US –have entertained reservations. The project also held the first of two symposia on human embryo research in the college. The first, last spring in Upper Hall, conducted by ten leading philosophers of religion and theologians, discussed the philosophical, scriptural and theological definitions of the ‘soul’. The group concluded that the Cartesian body-soul split (often invoked in the debate) was not endorsed by mainstream Judaic-Christian tradition: that the soul, in other words, was ‘embodied’ rather than separate or ‘infused’. We plan a further meeting, involving working stem-cell scientists and bioethicists, in the coming year. In September 2007., the annual project conference met to debate the relationship between philosophy and religious belief. Twenty philosophers participated, and their contributions are to be published next year by Continuum. One of the leading chapters has been written by 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:58 Page 20

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the late Peter Lipton, former head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in Cambridge. Peter was a generous supporter of our project, taking part in six of our past conferences and contributing to three of our published books. The symposium and the resulting book are dedicated to his memory. In other publishing ventures, following the interest sparked by the Dawkins debate, the project has commissioned a series of books in realms of science and religion (not our normal centre of interest): covering the histories of cosmology, mathematics, physics, biology (or natural history) and chemistry. Peter Bussey, of the Department of Physics at Glasgow and a former Ph.D. student at Jesus, is working on the physics book. Other books commissioned under the project include an autobiographical account of a working neuroscientist by the distinguished MR.C. researcher Geoffrey Raisman, and a study of the consequences of the Nagasaki bomb by Peter McGill. The highlight of our year was the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Jacob Bronowski., whose career is touched on in the Master’s message earlier in this Annual Report. The project commissioned Professor George Steiner to deliver a lecture in Lady Mitchell Hall, introduced by Professor Stephen Heath. Professor Steiner, with his characteristic eloquence, gave us a wide-ranging vision of the connections between poetry, narrative, science, philosophy and theology down the ages, and thereby paid tribute to the humane and all-embracing openness of the late Jacob Brownowski. Current developments include the research into a website, provisionally entitled Open-Oped, to function as a community of writers, institutions, periodicals and publishing, on topics of interest in history and philosophy of science. A former assistant director of the project, Tomás Carruthers, now a member of the Society of St Radegund, has been helping with this initiative, and the site is now at pilot stage. In the coming year we intend re-launching (yet again) the Coleridge Society, as a focus for outside speakers and forming connections between different disciplines. The Coleridge Society will be aimed at students as well as the fellowship. The project also intends offering advice to students interested in careers in the media, and especially the science media. In addition to the conference on human embryo science, the project is planning a symposium for autumn 2009 on the history of mathematics from 1800 with special focus on mathematical ‘Platonism’. John Cornwell, Fellow Commoner

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The Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime

Over the last twenty six years the college has organised and hosted on an annual basis one of the most successful international meetings for those concerned with stability and the integrity of the world’s financial system. Over this period well over ten thousand ministers, senior diplomats, judges, academics and officials from a variety of intergovernmental and national agencies have been prepared to spend a week in college at the annual International Symposium on Economic Crime. The symposium was established with the backing of Commonwealth governments and the International Chamber of Commerce in 1981 to provide a vehicle for those with responsibility for protecting their economies from criminal and subversive destabilisation, to explore the issues, facilitate understanding and promote mutual assistance. Meeting initially in the Upper Hall at Jesus College, the plenary sessions migrated to the Law Faculty’s East Room in the Old Schools, then to the Guildhall and for the last seven years to an encampment of very large marquees on our hockey field. Last year we had well over 900 participants from 84 different countries, including thirty one Ambassadors and High Commissioners. The symposium usually commences on Sunday evening and runs through to the following Sunday morning. Last year being our twenty fifth anniversary the concluding dinner was combined with a mini-May ball. The ball was a great success and was supported by several ancient livery companies in the City of London. Over the years the Corporation of the City of London has supported our deliberations and usually the Lord Mayor or one of the Sheriffs closes the formal proceedings. There are, of course, many in the City and its institutions that have a very real interest in the symposium’s role. While the symposium has traditionally been supported by governments and their various agencies, a significant proportion of those participating are from the world’s leading financial institutions and the professional firms that service them. The programme is intense, commencing with pre-breakfast meetings and ending in the college bar – usually well after midnight. Last year there were 325 speakers and this year we expect to exceed this number. Those invited to speak, none for more than ten minutes, range from UK cabinet ministers and governors of central banks to police and intelligence officers working at the ‘coalface’. Having regard to the significance which is now accorded to the financial aspects of serious crime and in particular terrorism, the level of participation by financial and banking regulators together with bodies such as the World Bank and IMF, has increased significantly. Given the multi-disciplinary issues that arise there are always a significant number of participants from the private sector and the professions. Senior academics and researchers, primarily from business and law schools from around the world, regularly participate and assist in the organisation. In addition to the plenary sessions, which are often run in parallel, there are numerous workshops in which specific issues can be examined, perhaps with more confidence and candour than in the more open proceedings. While journalists are encouraged to participate in its deliberations the symposium has never courted publicity and does not allow reporting of its proceedings. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 22

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The University of Cambridge has always been involved with the symposium, initially through the Law Faculty and now on a rather broader basis. Today interest within the university ranges from the Computer Security Labs to the Development Studies Committee. The organising institutions behind the symposium include, in addition to Cambridge, many other leading research institutions from around the world, including for example, the University of Siena, University of Hong Kong and University of Tokyo. The symposium also receives the support of many governments and international bodies. Over the last couple of years the newly established International Association of Anti-Corruption Agencies working closely with the UN, has taken a significant role in promoting the programme. The proceedings of the symposium are published in several international journals associated with the Centre for International Documentation on Organised and Economic Crime (CIDOEC) which was established in 1989 to promote comparative study and research in this area. One of the strengths of the symposium is that it is run on a non-profit making basis and no one with the exception of an excellent and over-worked part-time administrator receives any remuneration. During the proceedings we place a great deal of reliance on volunteer members of the secretariat. When we started a quarter of a century ago, many of these were students at the university and in particular members of the college. While today many are successful practitioners it is gratifying that many find the time to come back and roll up their sleeves. As the symposium has grown so has the need for assistance. In addition to our aging regulars, we invite research students from universities around the world to assist us and we usually have a small additional contingent of volunteers from the police. Over the years within the international community of those concerned with governance and stability Jesus College has acquired a very real and well appreciated reputation in providing a unique opportunity for governments and many other academic and business institutions to share knowledge and experience in protecting the integrity of our economies. The goodwill and friendships that have developed over the years, not least between delegates and members of the college’s staff, have played and continue to play a role that not many appreciate. The contribution that we make, in my view, is indicated by the warmth of greeting that our lodge invariably offers, on a first name basis, to some of the world’s leading regulators and prosecutors. This is an enterprise that although of recognised international significance operates in the main below the radar of many. Indeed, the organisers well appreciate the demands the symposium places on the college and are always most grateful for the support and forbearance of the Master and Fellows. Professor Barry Rider, Fellow Commoner

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Jesus on the Silk Road

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Jesus College has a long and vibrant connection with the Silk Road. One could easily imagine Ilya Gershevitch talking his way through all the way from Venice to Khotan in western China in all the myriad languages spoken across this vast span and it wouldn’t have mattered if it was in the early BC era or yesterday! Or for that matter many will have heard of Bruce Ponder’s sojourn through the legendary mountain passes into Afghanistan and on to Samarkand and Bukhara while he worked as a young intern in Pakistan. So, not many as much as batted an eyelid, when soon after my election as a ‘physics Fellow’ I started to ramble on about my exploits in Tajik highlands, Bukharan Madrassas or the ever warm, six thousand square kilometre large Issyk-Kul Lake in Kyrgyzstan at dinners and lunches in college. While the world was falling apart with twin towers coming down and talk of revenge and war raged, some of us in Cambridge launched a new initiative in the form of Cambridge Central Asia Forum in 2001 (then under the name Cambridge Committee for Central and Inner Asia). Its efforts were, and remain, concentrated on promoting research within established disciplines, as well as encouraging new multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on Central and Inner Asia. This found great resonance with many Fellows and students in Jesus, promoted often by natural interdisciplinary realms like the High Table and Graduate Dinners. 2008 has seen seven years of the Forum’s existence with demonstration of a very high level of interest in the field, not only among Jesus and Cambridge based scholars and students, but also internationally. Jesus has provided a home from where it has been possible to build on the work of the initial period to develop a longer term mechanism to support existing initiatives and to promote new work in the region. Traditionally, the Silk Road has signified a route for trade, especially silk and spices as it is also often called the Spice Route. But it is as important in the memory and imagination of scholars as a means of travel for scholars and people that enabled the exchange of ideas, increased knowledge of ‘foreign places’ and proved to be the gateway for transmission of cultures across regions. In the past, the contact between the east and the west was between empires. But, Jesus Fellows and scholars have rekindled an overwhelming interest in Central Asia and are moving 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 24

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along swiftly on the Silk Road armed with projects on academic ideas, people to people contact, a passion for learning and the desire to increase access to knowledge that the Central Asian region has long represented, through collaboration with local scholars and communities. Jesus College has provided a welcoming abode for the activities that have allowed the Cambridge Central Asia Forum to engage with the Central Asian nations for the last seven years. Fellows of Jesus College have proved to be great promoters of not only academic exchanges of ideas but also social and cultural interactions. In March 2006 Jesus Chapel was the venue for the celebration of the Central Asian New Year, ‘Navruz’. The celebrations included performers from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan as well as Iran and Xingjian province of Western China, food provided by the embassies of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in the U.K. and an exhibition of handicrafts and clothes from the Silk Road. It was attended generously by Jesus Fellows and also academics from all over the University of Cambridge numbering more than two hundred. Traditional Classical, Folk and regional adaptations of western classical music were made even more wonderful by the superb acoustics and ambiance of Jesus Chapel. Jesus high table has welcomed ambassadors and ministers from Central Asia yearly since 2002. Ambassadors from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan have enjoyed the hospitality of the Master and Jesuans on a regular basis. College feasts have been attended by academics and dignitaries of all Central Asian nations on more than one occasion. With the encouragement of the Master and many of the Fellows, the impetus has particularly gained since 2007, and in 2008 several official visits by Kazakh and Uzbek colleagues has led to cementing of research ties and many new projects are in the offing. For example, we hope to launch the U.K.’s first ever dedicated lecture series named after the greats like Alberuni (author of the ‘canon’), Alkhowerzmi (after whom the algorithm is named) etc. to bring together eminent and emerging scholars from the U.K. and Central Asia region. One look at the madrassas of Bukhara makes their similarity with Cambridge colleges apparent. Both started as religious institutions, almost at the same time in the history, and evolved into seats of plural learning. Such likeness almost invokes a sense of spiritual connectedness between the two places and collaboration become most natural. Central Asia Forum has relied on Jesus to host many scholars from the region in various academic disciplines. The college has proved to be among the fondest memories of the scholars’ visits to the UK and remains uppermost in the imaginations of scholars who benefited greatly in their academic exchanges thanks to the warm welcome accorded to them throughout their stay here. Prof Alisher Faizullaev, who was a member of the high-table recently, this year, published a number of academic and popular articles with Jesus as a reference point. Fellows of Jesus College have also been intimately involved with the organisation of international conferences in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Shanghai, Japan and London. Key among them were the international conference in Tsukuba, Japan, entitled ‘CASC, Central Asian Studies: History and Politics’ in December 2007, and ‘MSM07, Magnetic and Superconducting Materials Conference’ in Khiva, Uzbekistan in September 2007. The meetings were co-sponsored by the Cambridge Central Asia Forum with the University of Tokyo, University of Tsukuba, Japan and Stockholm University in the case of the former and by the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences and Tehran University in the latter. The conferences were a booming success and encouraged interdisciplinary approaches. Dr. Shailaja Fennell, who is the director of research for the Forum, and I were both on the organising committee of the Tsukuba conference and I co-chaired the Khiva meeting. Prajakti Kalra, a Jesus student, delivered a talk on the relationship between Gulf Cooperation Council and Uzbekistan at the Tsukuba meeting and Lezsek Spalek, another college student, presented his work on quantum criticality and spin and charge systems at the Khiva meeting. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 25

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prajaki kalra Magnetic and Superconducting Materials Conference takes place inside 17th century madrassa in Khiva, Uzbekistan

Collaboration between scholars from Jesus College and Central Asia has also resulted in Dr Shailaja Fennell organising a panel on ‘Reconfiguring Central Asia’ in the conference entitled ‘International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS)’ in Shanghai. The individual papers on the panel examined the implications of continuities and discontinuities within the spheres of literature, religion, education and economy to investigate the manner in which the ready translations in academic disciplines map the perplexing movements such as those between tradition and modernity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, and between the market and the state. Dr. Fennell’s talk entitled, ‘Prices and Planning: Evaluating economic transitions in Central Asia’, focused on the investigation of the newly independent Central Asian nations after the collapse of the Soviet Union and to locate these transition economies in the global market. The paper concluded that the complete shift from the plan to market prices advocated by neoclassical economists is faulty, firstly because the countries of this region did not experience a typical Soviet trajectory and secondly because the neoclassical approach to economic transitions disregards the role of economic ideologies in depicting the development pathways of these countries. I presented a paper on ‘Resilience of Academic Identity and Institutional Influence in Central Asia’ which showcased continuities and discontinuities in Central Asia from the perspective of respect for education and scholars from the time that Central Asia on the Silk Road represented the forefront of knowledge and discovery to their Soviet experience and their entrance into the world as independent countries after 1991. In 2006–2007 Central Asia Forum and Jesus came together in earnest as a project, entitled ‘Documenting Local Knowledge in Central Asia’, won a grant awarded by the Christenson Fund in California, and Jesus generously agreed to administer the grant for us through the good offices of Richard Dennis and Stephen Barton. This project involves a core of Jesus Fellows with UK academics and academics from Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan). The Cambridge team is largely composed of Jesus Fellows – myself as an anthropologist and physicist, Shailaja Fennel as an economist and development specialist, Helen Skaer as zoologist, Helen MacDonald as ornithologist and anthropologist and David Hankey as the team’s botanist. The project signifies the approach that not only gives local communities the necessary position of guiding research according to the needs and demands of the research communities in Central Asia but also focuses on an inherently interdisciplinary approach of finding solutions and influencing local policy makers. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 26

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Scientists and social scientists from Jesus College are involved in this project and have benefited positively while encouraging rebuilding of ties and networks within the Central Asian academic communities which had come apart after the break up of the Soviet Union and the subsequent independence of these countries. Fellows of Jesus College showed a determined approach of promoting cross-disciplinary interaction which is similar to the function of the college networks in the University of Cambridge. In the grant period, local and international academics and practitioners came together through series of research meetings in which the CCAF team travelled out to Central Asia. There were also two field trips, one in Kyrgyzstan, conducted entirely by a local NGO with national academic researchers and the second one in Uzbekistan with local and national experts and Helen MacDonald of Jesus as the team leader. The year’s work culminated in a regional workshop, the first such meeting since the collapse of the Soviet Union, bringing colleagues from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and Cambridge Central Asia Forum together. In February 2007 this workshop took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, both Helen MacDonald and Shailaja Fennell’s contributions were key to the success of this meeting. While we prepare for the next step and new projects, more and more support flows towards us from within the college. Peter Nolan has shown keen interest in guiding us on many important academic and organisational matters and in a variety of ways Nicholas Ray, Jana Howlett, Anthony Bowen, Michael Waring, James Clackson, Colin Renfrew, James Crawford, Bill Saslaw, Roberto Cipolla and Geoff Harcourt have helped and promoted our activities. The Master, and indeed, Margaret Mair have been the backbone of the Forum’s collaboration with Jesus. And with the Master’s own experience at the China end of the Silk Road, he has enthusiastically encouraged inclusion of Central Asia in Jesus’ international outlook. Perhaps the most exciting outcome of this project has been the arrival of students from the region in Cambridge. A Jesus student from Kyrgyz Republic, Asel Sartbaeva, completed a Ph.D. under Simon Redfern to become the first ever Kyrgyz to do a Ph.D. in Cambridge. Temur Yunusov, from Uzbekistan, recently admitted to Jesus, will be doing his Ph.D. in Helen Skaer’s lab in the zoology department. He was described by a senior member of that department as perhaps the brightest student in twenty years to have been admitted. As, after all, bright young students are what the college is all about, we are very happy to have started this process and look forward to bringing this new breed of purveyors of knowledge from the Silk Road to Jesus. More information of Central Asia Forum can be found on: www.cambridge-centralasia.org Montu Saxena, Fellow Commoner

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The Hudleston Organ

Following a most generous donation from Mr James Hudleston, the chapel now boasts a magnificent new organ of two manuals and pedals, with 31 stops. Built by the Swiss firm of Orgelbau Kuhn, and installed in the chapel in the summer of 2007, this, their first instrument in the U.K., has attracted great interest and superlative reviews in the musical press. As a replacement for the Mander organ of 1971, the Hudleston organ sits in the same position, alongside the beautiful Sutton organ of 1849. Designed primarily for the accompaniment of choral music and as a tool for the training of the organists of the future, the new organ boasts a large palette of colours which combine to fill the building with sound, both in the chancel and in the ante-chapel. Whilst it is difficult to describe these sounds and combinations in words, the broad foundation of 8’ pitched stops, the bubbly flutes, the bright choruses and characterful reed colours all enable the organ to speak with an eclectic accent, easily adaptable to the wide range of styles and nationalities within the organ repertoire. For the technically minded, the specification of the organ is as follows: GREAT SWELL Bourdon 16 Geigen Diapason 8 Open Diapason 8 Lieblich gedact 8 Harmonic Flute 8 Salicional 8 Stopped Diapason 8 Celeste 8 Gamba 8 Dolce 8 Principal 4 Principal 4 Flute 4 Chimney Flute 4 Quinte 2 2/3 Nazard 2 2/3 Fifteenth 2 Octave 2 Mixture IV Tierce 1 3/5 Trumpet 8 Plein Jeu IV Tremulant Oboe 8 Trumpet 8 Tremulant PEDAL COUPLERS Lieblich Bourdon * 16 SW/GT Subbass 16 SW/GT sub Violone 16 GT/PED Principal 8 SW/PED Stopped Diapason * 8 SW/PED super Gamba * 8 Octave 4 Posaune 16 Trumpet * 8 * on transmission 8 divisional pistons to SW, GT and PED on 200 levels 8 general pistons on 200 levels 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 28

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Commissioning a new organ is a lengthy process, and the advice and assistance of many colleagues was invaluable. We were delighted to welcome James O’Donnell to give the inaugural recital as part of the Society of St Radegund celebrations on 21 June 2008. A former organ scholar of the college and now organist and master of the choristers at Westminster Abbey, James’ programme provided a masterful tour of the instrument’s capabilities, and highlighted both the college’s reputation as a training ground for organists and its subsequent need for such a world-class instrument in order to carry on this important work. Daniel Hyde, Director of Chapel Music nigel luckhurst 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 30

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20,000 Lives – Telling the Story of Jesuans Past

Many thousands of college members have lived and worked here since 1496 and their details are all stored in the archives. From October 2007 until June 2008 a team of six of us worked to draw these sources together and compile a database of old members. This contains information about names, schools, college activities and subsequent careers of old members dating from early in the sixteenth century until the present. As well as information about admissions, which runs from 1618 onwards, we have the records made by some remarkable characters from more recent history to draw upon. Arthur Gray spent his life at the college after entering as an undergraduate in 1870 and was Master from 1912 until his death in 1940. He was fascinated by the history of the college and studied it extensively, making notes on every student to have passed through the doors between 1618 and 1820. The notes are so extensive that the project team have wondered how he ever found time to be Master! Arthur Gray’s notes really bring characters to life. Robert Griffin (1621) was expelled for ‘disobedience and striking the president and some of the Fellows’; obviously there was a bit of a personality clash going on! The later careers of some old members also drew Gray’s attention, from high achievers to naughty clergymen. For example John Sharpington (1638) who was accused by his parishioners of neglecting church offices and playing cards at night. We also have books kept by Muriel Brittain, who died in 2006, which chronicle the lives of more recent college members. The twentieth century saw a population explosion of undergraduates, particularly after the two world wars. While earlier generations often became clergymen, Muriel’s books chronicle a much wider range of occupations and locations for Jesuans. There is an early Chilean connection in J.A.S. Jackson (1920), born in Valparaiso who founded St George’s School in Santiago. This links into a more recent

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connection with Chile, as Macarena Ibarra, recent graduate student and archives staff member, now sends her daughter to that same school. In the twentieth century the lives of many Jesuans were changed or tragically cut short by war. Perhaps the most colourful example is Captain Wilfred Nevill (1913), who was one of the 19,000 killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Knowing what a test of courage was to come, he got hold of two footballs and led his men into no man’s land dribbling them. The incident was seized upon as propaganda by both sides. Here it inspired a patriotic painting and a poem. But the Germans used it to portray the British as a bunch of games-obsessed idiots! On a happier note, few families have equalled the Le Gros family from Jersey, who sent four generations of the family to Jesus between 1848 and 1941. We have found several three-generation Jesus families and indeed Katherine Cooper, one of the project inputters, is the third generation of her family to attend the college, following her father and grandfather. As far as we know, Katherine’s family is one of only four three- generation families to include a woman. We have over 20,000 names of Jesuans in the database. The names change very little over the centuries and are mostly very conventional and from the Bible: Thomas and John have probably been most popular across the years. Our best name so far has been Cookson Haddock of Scrooby (1783): a name that surely belongs in Black Adder somewhere! The college archivists now have access to this very valuable resource in answering enquiries about old members, which mainly originate from scholars, family historians and family members. We were recently able to help a lady whose father was here in 1940 and who was subsequently killed in the Second World War. Now in her 60s, she had been told very little about him and hoped to find out more. Using the database we were able to find some details of his college career, a short article about his death from the local paper and a matriculation photograph, all information that she hadn’t seen before. Access is currently restricted to archives staff, but we hope to have a version showing data about pre-twentieth-century old members available online next year As the Data Protection Act restricts access to personal data about living individuals, access to information about more recent old members will remain limited to archives staff for the time being, but enquiries are always welcome. Please write to the college archives or e- mail [email protected] The database was created by John Baker of the Jesus IT Department. Thanks are due to John and his IT colleagues for much valuable help and support. Our inputters have been Katherine Cooper, Lucy Razzall and Christian Rodriguez (Jesus graduate students), Naomi Farrington (a graduate student from Corpus Christi) and Clare Barker and Claire Lea from outside the college. Susan Sneddon, Records Manager 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 32

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Years Ago

Eighty years ago

From the Annual Report for 1928 ‘For some years it has been realized that the College has too few rooms for the number of men in residence. It does not seem likely that our numbers will again drop far below two hundred and fifty, and the present buildings only accommodate about a hundred men; scholars have rooms for three years, and of the rest a considerable number never get into College at all. That is a deprivation which is keenly felt by many, and it is difficult for a man who never has a College room to enjoy the full privileges of College life. So at last the bold decision has been reached to add a new block to the College. Mr Morley Horder has designed a building which is in some sense a continuation of the Carpenter building familiarly known as Chapel Court, with a return block at right angles extending into the Master’s garden. The result will be that the East end of the Chapel will stand out into a new court, wherein nearly fifty new sets of rooms will be provided. The cost threatens to be heavy because only the best workmanship and materials can be used in such a scheme, and a new road will have to be made to the East of the present approach to Chapel Court; also a great deal of work will be involved in laying out the new court. But the plans have been vary carefully considered, and it is confidently expected that when the building is finished it will be a permanent adornment to our beautiful College. The foundations are now being digged, and our optimistic bursar hopes to have the new rooms ready for occupation in October 1929.’

From The Chanticlere for Lent term 1928 ‘Proper fish-knives are to be introduced into College Hall – (what about introducing proper fish?)’

From The Chanticlere for Easter term 1928 ‘We hear tales of the return of the duel to Oxford; suspicious sounds coming from the Fellows’ Garden have led us to suspect that our promised fish-knives have been temporarily diverted there for purposes of Gladiatorial training in anticipation of its appearance in Cambridge.’

Seventy years ago

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Mrs Steve Fairbairn writes: I hope you can read the enclosed very badly written note – it was written in Steve’s room, almost in the dark – he liked the room kept very dark, as he thought it helped him to sleep and one day, just a few days before he died he said he would like to send you a note, and would I write it – and the enclosed is what he dictated to me…it was one of the last wishes Steve expressed…. The Enclosure runs thus: I claim no ‘Fairbairnism’, I always acted on the principle of teaching a man to learn to row his oar – the whole of working an oar is getting a spring and then the draw through and then the turn on the feather – then holding the oar perfectly balanced all the way forward. This requires a lot of hard concentrated work but is the only way to learn to row. Will you stick this in the College Magazine. Yours, S.’

Sixty years ago

From The Chanticlere for Michaelmas term 1948 ‘The potatoes that had been grown on the big piece of land between Chapel Court and Avenue have been harvested. The land is to lie fallow till September, when it is to be sown with grass.’ ‘C. B. R. Barton stroked the British crew in the Olympics at Henley which won all its races except the final against America’ [Christopher Barton (1945) was captain of JCBC 1947–48, and president of the Rhadegunds 1948] [See also Members’ News: People: T. A. Stallard.] ‘A Cambridge Primer, for the use of freshmen, bedders, Oxonians, Stalin and the Editor of Granta. 1 Some statements and opinions The rent of a college room varies in inverse proportion to its size. A college breakfast has tradition but no magnitude….. A lecture is the period between breakfast and coffee. Coffee is the period between breakfast and lunch. All college rooms face north. 2 Conversation Pieces ‘I understand is actually forbidden at King’s.’ ‘She won’t take her B.A. because she can’t bear the New Look.’ ‘Of course the latest theory is that Fairbairn wrote the Ancient Mariner.’ 3 Question and Answer Q. What are you reading? A. Varsity. 4 Useful Hints Always remember that every essay you write will probably become a chapter in your supervisor’s next book. If you are stopped by a proctor, and cannot remember the name of your college, do not panic. Describe its architecture to him carefully. If he cannot identify it, either he is an imposter or you are at Selwyn. Always salute porters. They probably had commissions.’ 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 34

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Forty years ago

From the Annual Report for 1968 ‘Laurence Sterne, one of the most celebrated of all Jesuans, died on 18 March 1768….The undergraduates contributed to the bicentenary celebration by reading Tristram Shandy aloud from beginning to end in relays – the reading took 22 hours – by the reading of A Sentimental Journey (which, needless to say, took less time) and by the re- of some of Stern’s printed sermons in chaple. As far as we know they had never been heard in chapel before.’ ‘During the year a quartet of junior members of the College took part in the television competition, ‘University Challenge’. After defeating in turn the Universities of Manchester, Durham, Bristol, Kent and Birmingham, they were beaten in the final by the University of Keele. The Jesus team was R. L. Hutt, G. P. W. Jenkins (Captain), J. M. Richards, and F. R. Thornley. The sad death of Richard Hutt between the recording of the various contests and their broadcasting is noted elsewhere in this issue.’

Ten years ago

From the Annual Report for 1998 ‘On the evening of the Rustat Feast, 15 May, the stained window in the Garden Room of the Quincentenary Library was inaugurated by Professor Lord Renfrew. This exciting abstract window was designed by Graham Jones, an internationally recognised artist, whose recent window for Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey has won great acclaim. The window was executed by John Reyntiens, a glass artist noted for his skills in both new and traditional techniques. At the same time the window showing the arms of Lord Renfrew impaled with those of the College in a window at the North end of the screens passage was celebrated; this window, the gift of the Fellows to mark the retirement of Lord Renfrew as Master, was designed and made by John Reyntiens.’ 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 35

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College News

People Awards, honours and significant lectures Master and Fellows: The Master was elected senior vice president of the Royal Academy of Engineering on 7 July 2008. The Pilkington Prizes are awarded by the University each year to academic or academic- related staff who have distinguished themselves in teaching. This year, three of the eleven winners were Fellows of the college: • Dr Stephen Hladky is a reader in membrane pharmacology in the Department of Pharmacology. He was secretary of the department’s teaching committee for 17 years, during which time he organised teaching in the department almost single-handed. The University said of him: ‘He has brought a renewed sense of purpose to one of the most important, but at the same time difficult areas of pharmacology, namely the teaching of pharmacokinetics – the study of what the body does to a drug. • Dr Tim Wilkinson is a university senior lecturer in the Department of Engineering, Division B. The University’s comment on him was: ‘He has a natural gift for teaching and delivers his courses with clarity and with humour. He can inspire first-year students with fundamental electromagnetism and also explain complex specialist material on optics and telecommunications to fourth year Masters’ students. Tim has an impressive record in teaching innovation, including his contribution to ‘Displaymasters’ – a unique multi-centre Masters’ programme focused entirely on display technology. • Dr Stuart Clarke is a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and the BP Institute. The University said: ‘He conducts his teaching and research in the area of colloidal and interface science, where he has succeeded in communicating the field’s excitement and relevance. Sometimes undergraduates are more comfortable going one step at a time, but Stuart’s excellent teaching techniques have enabled his undergraduate students to grasp the fundamental science and its wider implications more quickly.’

With effect from 1 October 2008, University readerships are to be established for Dr Paul Alexander and Dr Natalia Berloff. Professor Alastair Compston, head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, was awarded the 2007 Charcot Award of the Multiple Sclerosis Research Federation, for lifetime achievement in research into the understanding and treatment of multiple sclerosis. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 37

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Professor Bruce Ponder was knighted, for services to medicine and health care, in the New Year Honours List for 2008. He was also awarded: (i) the Bertner Award for outstanding contributions to cancer research: M. D. Anderson Hospital, 2007; (ii) the Alfred G. Knudson Lecture and Award, National Cancer Institute, 2008 ‘in recognition of pioneering contributions that have revolutionised the field of cancer genetics’; and (iii) the Ambuj Nath Bose Prize of the Royal College of Physicians, 2008, which is awarded every three years for medical research. He delivered the keynote lecture at the American Association for Cancer Research Centennial Meeting, 2007, and the Marks/Sackler Presidential Invitation Lecture, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, 2008. Professor Madeleine Arnot received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University on 25 January 2008, for her work in relation to democracy and education. Dr Véronique Mottier delivered a keynote address titled ‘L’invention de la sexualité’ to the International Gender Conference of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (October 2007). Professor Julian Dowdeswell was awarded the Founder’s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for 2008, ‘for the encouragement, development and promotion of glaciology’. Professor Michael O’Brien was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in July 2008. Dr Miranda Gill was jointly awarded the inaugural 2008 Malcolm Bowie prize from the Society for French Studies. The Malcolm Bowie prize is awarded for the best article in French studies by an early career researcher published each year. Her article was entitled The Myth of the Female Dandy.

Emeritus Fellows Professor Michael Waring was invited to organise the Anti-Cancer section of the First International Conference on Drug Design and Discovery, Dubai, February 2008, and to deliver a plenary lecture. He also joined the editorial boards of The Open Cancer Journal and Drug Design, Development & Therapy.

Departures Dr Andrew Johnston, who became a class ii Fellow in October 2005, resigned his fellowship with effect from 30 September 2008, in order to take up an appointment at the University of Brisbane, . Dr Neil Drummond’s tenure as a class iv (i.e. research) Fellow came to an end in September 2008. The tenure of the Fellow Commoners Dr Chunhang Liu and Professor Jonathan Mills Thornton expired on 30 September 2008.

A number of college research associates left during the year: • The associateships of two, Dr Harriet Hunt and Dr Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín, reached the end of their three-year tenure at the end of November 2007. • Dr Oliver Hadeler (appointed in 2004) left in October 2007 to take up a fellowship at New Hall. • Dr Tijana Ignjatovic (appointed in 2005) resigned her college research associateship since she was no longer employed by the University. • Mr Wenmiao Shu (appointed in 2006) left in October 2007 to take up a lectureship at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 38

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New Fellows During 2007–8 the council elected a number of new Fellows. Dr Brechtje Post, who was elected to a Fellow Commonership on 29 May 2007 (and a summary of whose career appeared in last year’s Annual Report in that connection), has been appointed admissions tutor (arts) with effect from 1 September 2008, and has been elected to a class ii Fellowship during the tenure of this office.

Two class ii Fellows have been elected with effect from 1 October 2008: Dr Christopher Burlinson was an undergraduate and completed his M.Phil. and Ph.D. at Peterhouse and held a research fellowship at Emmanuel. He is currently a senior research associate in the Faculty of English and, was, until taking up his Fellowship at Jesus College, a fellow in English at Emmanuel College. He has an outstanding research record – his particular field of expertise is medieval and literature and he has considerable experience of teaching over a wide range of subjects. Christopher’s area of research is the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and he is interested in the connections between the English literature of that period and material culture, both the historical contexts in which literature was written and the physical and material conditions of reading and writing. Mr Matthew Dyson read law and completed his Ph.D. at Downing College. He has impressed both Downing College and the Faculty of Law with his teaching capabilities. Matthew’s particular fields of interest are English law and criminal law, comparative law, modern European legal history and legal education. He has considerable experience of teaching, particularly criminal law. Ms Tara Alberts has been elected to a class iv (research) Fellowship, with effect from 1 October 2008. Tara is an historian who was a Ph.D. student at Newnham. Her thesis entitled Conflict and conversion on the Catholic missions in South East Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries takes a comparative approach to the history of catholic missionaries in the region. It focuses on three areas which represent the main cultural and religious divisions in mainland South East Asia: Siam (Thailand), Cochinchina and Tonkin (modern-day Vietnam) and Malacca (in modern Malaysia), where missionaries encountered different circumstances and situations to which they had to adapt. Her thesis is the first study to compare the activities of missionaries from all religious orders and national backgrounds to produce a connective history of missions in South East Asia. She has spent a year undertaking archival research in Rome, Paris and Lisbon examining a wide range of documents written in a variety of languages. Dr Francis Bursa has been elected to a class iv (research) Fellowship, with effect from 1 October 2008. Francis is focused on understanding the strong force, one of the four fundamental interactions in nature, and probably the most complicated to understand. It binds together quarks and gluons to form protons and neutrons, which make up the nuclei of atoms. The strong force is described by the theory of quantum chromodynamics and feeds into one of the current major research areas in understanding the fundamental nature of matter. Francis came up to Jesus in 1999 to read natural sciences (physics) and went on to Oxford with a first. In 2006 he was awarded a D.Phil. for his work in theoretical physics and became a postdoctoral fellow in the strong lattice field theory group in Regensburg before returning to Oxford in 2007 to continue his research. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 39

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New Honorary Fellows On 1 October 2007, two Honorary Fellows were elected: The Rt. Hon. Sir Roger Toulson, P.C was born in 1946. He was educated at Mill Hill School; before coming up to Jesus College in 1964 to read law. He was president of the JCR in 1966, and was in the first class in part II of the law tripos 1967, and in the LL.B. examination in 1968. He has had a distinguished career in the law since being called to the bar (Inner Temple) in 1969. He became a QC in 1986; was a recorder, 1986–96; and became a bencher of the Inner Temple in 1995. Sir Roger was appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, in 1996, and was presiding judge, Western Circuit, 1997–2002. He was chairman of the Law Commission from 2002 to 2006. In 2007 he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was subsequently appointed to the Privy Council. He was awarded an Hon. LL.D. by the University of the West of England, Bristol, in 2002. Mr Murray Perahia, F.R.C.M., pianist and conductor, was born in New York in 1947. Mr. Perahia started playing piano at the age of four, and later attended Mannes College, New York, where he majored in conducting and composition. He studied piano with Jeanette Haien, M. Horszowski, and Arthur Balsam. He made his début at Carnegie Hall in 1966. In 1972 Mr. Perahia won the Leeds International Piano Competition. In 1973 he gave his first concert at the Aldeburgh Festival, where he worked closely with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, accompanying the latter in many lieder recitals. Mr. Perahia was co- artistic director of the Festival from 1981 to 1989. Murray Perahia performs in all of the major international music centres and with every leading orchestra. He is the principal guest conductor of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, with whom he has toured as conductor and pianist throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and South East Asia. His numerous recordings include all Mozart’s Piano Concertos, the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos and Chopin’s Etudes, Op. 10 and Op. 25; the latter won both the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance and Gramophone’s 2003 award for Best Instrumental Recording. In 2004, he was awarded an honorary K.B.E. in recognition of his outstanding service to music. Mr. Perahia is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, and he holds an honorary doctorate from Leeds University. Mr Barry Flanagan, O.B.E., R.A., was elected as an Honorary Fellow on 29 October 2007. Barry Flanagan is a sculptor of international renown. He was born in 1941, and attended Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts and St Martin’s School of Art. He taught at St Martin’s School of Art and Central School of Art and Design, 1967–71. Works by Mr Flanagan are in numerous private collections and in many outdoor locations. He has exhibited in many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Arts (prints and drawings); British Pavilion, XL Venice Biennale; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Gallery; Tate, Liverpool,; Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany; Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporaine, Nice; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. He has had a long relationship with Jesus College. He has participated in several Sculpture in the Close exhibitions, and two of his works are sited in the college grounds: The Cricketer (which Barry Flanagan has generously donated to the college), and Bronze Horse, the iconic piece in First Court. He has also loaned works by several artists to the student art collection. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 40

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The Master, The Vice-Chancellor, Mr James Hudleston

In 2003 the council agreed that a donor of £1 million or more to the college should be recognised by admission as a ‘St Radegund Fellow’. Such an individual has a status akin to that of an Honorary Fellow of the college, with the same privileges as an Honorary Fellow. The first such Fellow was elected on 26 November 2007. Mr James Hudleston was born in 1952 in Bulawayo, (then) Rhodesia, and educated at Falcon College, near Bulawayo. His initial career was in stockbroking and investment banking in the City before moving into private equity and corporate finance. He is a director of Sunshine Oil & Gas, an Australian energy company. He divides his time between Australia, Africa, and Europe. His interests include wildlife, sailing, wine and the arts. He was the major benefactor who funded our new organ in chapel (as to which see the separate article by Daniel Hyde).

New Fellow Commoners On 15 October 2007, Professor Martti Koskenniemi was elected to a Fellow Commonership, during his tenure of the Arthur Goodhart Distinguished Chair in Law at the Law Faculty, for the year commencing 1 October 2008. Professor Koskenniemi is Finnish and is a professor of international law at the University of Helsinki (since 1994) and director of The Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights (since 1997). He has been visiting professor at New York University School (NYU) of Law five times over the last several years and has been a member of the NYU Global Law School Faculty since 2002. He was a UN International Law Commission member 2002–2006 and a member of the Administrative Tribunal, Asian Development Bank 1997–2002. He has published widely and received many awards and honours. On 10 March 2008, Professor Jim Kloppenberg was elected to a Fellow Commonership, for the year commencing 1 October 2008. Professor Kloppenberg has been appointed the Pitt Professor of American History in the Faculty of History for the academic year 2008–9. He was educated at Dartmouth College and Stanford University and is currently professor of history at Harvard; he has published widely and gathered many awards and honours on the way. On 16 June 2008, Dr Rosalind Crone was elected to a Fellow Commonership, for the year commencing 1 October 2008. Dr Crone graduated with a B.A. in history from the University 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 41

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of Queensland, Australia, before moving to Cambridge where she took her M.Phil. in historical studies as well as her Ph.D. (Violence and entertainment in nineteenth-century London) at St John’s College. Since 2006 Rosalind has been a research fellow in literature at the Open University and has lectured in Cambridge. Her current research interests lie in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British social and cultural history, popular culture, gender, history of violence, literacy and the history of reading and cultural theory. On 16 June 2008, Dr Andrew Tucker was elected to a Fellow Commonership, for the year commencing 1 October 2008. Dr Tucker graduated from Robinson College with a B.A. in geography, before his admission to Jesus College to complete firstly an M.Phil. (geographical research) followed by a Ph.D. which addressed male homosexual identities in Cape Town, South Africa: Visibility and the Appropriation of Space. Andrew was awarded: the William Vaughan Lewis Prize for outstanding dissertation research and a foundation scholarship for an outstanding M.Phil. degree. He was awarded an ESRC post-doctoral research fellowship based at the Department of Geography which enabled him to conduct additional fieldwork in Cape Town. He has lectured and supervised as well as undertaking undergraduate admissions interviews.

College Research Associates Five new College Research Associates were appointed for three years with effect from 1 January 2008. They are: • Dr Mark Blumenthal is a researcher in the Semiconductor Physics Group based at the Cavendish Laboratory, • Dr Roselle Cripps is currently a research associate in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, • Dr Thomas Corry is attached to the Centre for International Studies in Cambridge. • Dr Sarah Meehan is a postdoctoral research associate based in the Department of Chemistry • Mr Pádraic Moran is a research associate with the Early Irish Glossaries Project at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.

Other academic visitors Under the Cambridge colleges’ hospitality scheme, Professor Larysa Zasyekina of the Volyn National University, Ukraine visited the college in the long vacation of 2008. Professor Zasyekina worked with the Department of Experimental Psychology.

Visiting membership of high table was granted to: • Dr Boyd, whilst he is a Fellow of the MacDonald Institute, commencing in March 2008 for one year in the first instance. • Professor McLachlan QC during October and November 2007, whilst he was visiting the Faculty of Law as a Herbert Smith visitor. • Professor Ramakrishnan of the Indian Institute for Science and Technology, Bangalore during October 2007, whilst he was the Jawaharlal Nehru Visiting Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. • Professor Watkinson of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver during April 2008, whilst he was visiting the Chemical Engineering Department. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 42

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Art Much of the business of the Works of Art Committee consists of moving paintings, drawings and prints around, answering enquiries about the collection, building up a digital catalogue, attending to the physical maintenance of the objects in our care, and raising funds for our exhibition programme. But some years are also chockfull of negotiations with artists, galleries and transport companies over the installation of gifted and loaned sculptures and paintings, as well as the preparation of exhibition catalogues, and the year just finished has been especially eventful in this way. We are always being offered donations and loans of works of art, and this year we were offered much more than we could cope with. But we are delighted by those works we did feel able to accept. Keir Smith’s widow, Clare Rowe, donated the sculptural assemblage Landscape with Carlo and Elena, first shown at Sculpture in the Close in 2003. This series of simulated stone plaques with antique nails is a meditation on the tradition of representing the finding of the True Cross. It was installed in the Cloister for one week over Easter 2008. Eldred Evans donated a superb collection of ten prints by her father Merlyn Evans, while Mr Paul Cornwall-Jones gave us two softground etchings by Howard Hodgkin; these, together with two previous works sent by Mr Cornwall-Jones, mean that we now own a complete set of Hodgkin’s Museum of Modern Art 1979 group of etchings. The college has also taken delivery this year of a sculpture in wood by David Nash, loaned by the Royal Academy. Sited in the Garden Room of the Quincentenary Library. Crack and Warp Column is a dramatically hewn trunk of Welsh oak. We have also recently installed a steel sculpture loaned by the artist Bryan Kneale. Lucifer is a light-catching and very dynamic abstract composition which now detains passers-by in the small court between the chapel and the library. Behind the scenes, our conservation budget has been increased, and as a result it has been possible to inaugurate a five year plan for a number of works to be cleaned and/or restored, starting with the portraits of Malthus, Cranmer and Henry VIII. The coming year will be even busier, in fact it stephen barton ‘Lucifer’ by Bryan Kneale promises to be perhaps the most spectacular we have ever had, in terms of the movement of major works of art into and out of the college. We will start the Michaelmas term by installing the three gigantic steel sculptures of dinosaurs by Jake and Dinos Chapman that were first shown last year by the Royal Academy in the entrance court of Burlington House. Known collectively as The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth (But Not The Mineral Rights), these works shall dominate the exit road at the end of Library Court until the end of March 2009. During that time, we shall mount an exhibition of recent paintings by Stephen Chambers in the transepts of the chapel (22–31 October 2008). In the summer of 2009 the eleventh Sculpture in the Close will take place over a specially extended period from late June to the end of September. We have decided to invite three extremely well-known and distinguished sculptors to take part in 2009, the year of the university’s 800 celebrations. These are Anthony Caro, Antony Gormley and Anselm Kiefer, and all three have accepted the invitation. This means that next year’s show is guaranteed to be remarkably varied and exciting. Rod Mengham, Curator of Work of Art 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 43

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Bursary This has been my first complete year as senior bursar. It has coincided with considerable turmoil in the financial markets. I am pleased to record that the diversified portfolio bequeathed by my predecessor has, at least at the time of writing, weathered this storm very well. Assets as disparate as agricultural land and absolute return hedge funds have made up for the losses suffered by our equities and commercial property. We have thus held on to the sharp gains recorded over the preceding 3 years Thankfully, life inside the college has been less turbulent. During the year, we have been able to refine the income and expenditure calculations, and assess more clearly the overall state of the college’s financial health. We have found that the costs of running the college exceed the income from students’ fees and other charges by approximately £4 m per year, and this gap is increasing. However, our conferencing incomes, our investment returns, and the generosity of our donors cover this shortfall and make our finances stable and sustainable. The major building project in the year has been the replacement of the main hall floor. It had been deteriorating for many years and had reached a stage where it could no longer be sanded and sealed. The floor boards had been jointed using steel tongues between the oak boards and the oak had worn, resulting in the steel being exposed. During the work the remains of a former stone floor dating back to 1702 were found and this was laid on an older timber floor both of which were in a remarkably good condition. These were cleaned, recorded on drawings and left undisturbed before laying the new oak floor. This year saw the retirement of Brenda Welch, the graduate tutors’ secretary, and Margaret Davey, the invoicing and payroll clerk, after 24 and 30 years service respectively. Other departures have included Hannah Freeman, after four years as finance manager, and Adrian Asher after over nine years in the IT department. The following staff have reached long service milestones in the past year: • 30 years Neil Shaw, Gardens Department • 20 years Chris Brown, Maintenance Department • 15 years Brenda Starling, Housekeeping Department Roz Blake, Housekeeping Department Ted Curtis, Maintenance Department Rhona Watson, Quincentenary Librarian Peter Stretton, who retired as deputy head porter in 2004, died on 17 July 2008 at Arthur Rank Hospice. After the retirement last year of both senior and domestic bursars, and the departure this year of the finance manager, it has been a year of team building in East House. With over 140 non-academic employees, council decided it was now time to recruit a professional HR manager, and Cheryl Few joined us in April. Similarly, with the college providing residential accommodation to 800 students, staff and Fellows, council decided to appoint a dedicated housing manager, and Dominic Humphrey joined us in June. Also in June, Rob Shephard joined us from the University, as the new financial controller. The bursary team is now complete again. Tony Crouch, Senior Bursar 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 44

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Chapel The director of chapel music writes elsewhere about the newly installed Hudleston organ, whose qualities – both musical and visual – have greatly enhanced the life of the chapel this year. The college welcomed the Bishop of Ely as Visitor to bless the instrument at the end of November. The new organ has meant that the usable area of the vestry has been much reduced, and storage space is now constrained. Elsewhere in the chapel there have been several alterations and additions to the fabric and fittings – new curtains in a Morris pattern material now hang by the Master’s and president’s stalls and over the south door, the bars on the doors into the inner chapel have been gilded, and the replicas of the Pugin candlesticks, stolen some years ago, are now safely in place. Without worship being conducted there, the physical beauty of the chapel would be incomplete. The students who share in its ministry, as graduate chapel clerks (Jamie Barron and Lucy Razzall) and undergraduate chapel secretaries (Guy Willis, Justin Hutcherson, Ant Bagshaw, Kim Whittaker, Megan Newcombe, Helen Davies, Hannah Wilbourne, Max Shepherd, Jessica Small and Elizabeth Whyte), have been essential to the conduct of the services, which have served both as an expression of the college’s engagement with the divine in worship and as a set of opportunities to learn, reflect and act on the Christian tradition. Together with those who sing, read and preach, they have been a great support and encouragement. As should be the case, the lines both of continuity and development are strong as far as the patterns of chapel life are concerned. Twice daily prayer happens every day in term, with the quieter rhythms of the office enlivened by the four weekly choral evensongs. Choral services also mark college occasions, at the beginning of the year, at Christmas, at the end of year, and at other key points, such as All Souls’ and Remembrance Sunday, providing the college with a focus and the opportunity to reflect; they do likewise for those attending alumni dinners. Special services included Ascension Day morning prayer at the top of N staircase tower, several eucharists sung in collaboration with Westcott House over the road in All Saints’ church and, on top of regular late-night sung compline, a men’s voices late-evening sung eucharist. At Tuesday choral evensong the experiment has been maintained of having students preach ‘nanosermons’ (of no more than five minutes), and at every Tuesday evensong save one there was a brave student to step up to the preacher’s stall. At the Sunday choral evensong there have been such preachers of note as the Jesuans Bishop Colin Bennetts (1960), lately , Andrew Daynes (1966), chaplain of Bryanston School, Canon Ian Paton (1975), rector of Old St Paul’s, Edinburgh and the Very Rev’d James Atwell (1977), sometime chaplain of the college, now dean of Winchester. We welcomed too Angela Tilby, the vicar of St Bene’t’s, Cambridge and broadcaster, and also several clerical parents of Rustat scholars. Alexander Phillips, Jessica Small, Max Shepherd and Chenguang Sun from the college were among those confirmed at the University Confirmation this year, the last being previously baptised in the college chapel. The chapel also saw the funeral and memorial service for Alan Sharpe, Emeritus Fellow. There were, moreover, a number of weddings and christenings of members of the college community. Some ‘potentially morally improving films’ were again shown during Lent – Room with a View packed out D1, though The Sound of Music proved surprisingly unpopular, despite the advertised opportunity to don appropriate costume. Sam Hanson, the organ scholar, put the Hudleston organ through its paces when he accompanied two silent films in chapel – Phantom of the Opera and The Gold Rush, both tours de force. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 45

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The chapel trip this year took the form of a visit to Santiago de Compostela in north western Spain. To have walked the famous camino would have discouraged some from going, while simply to fly Ryanair both ways would have seemed less than adventurous. A compromise was reached for the eleven students who went, by taking the train across France and northern Spain and then walking from the railway station. Goethe remarked that the idea of Europe was formed on the way to Compostela – the varied nature of our group, which included not only representatives of the English and Scots, but also Japanese, Dutch, Australian and Vietnamese-American, from a range of Christian and other backgrounds, points up the continued value of such opportunities for encounter that pilgrimage affords and that a college chapel enables. Jonathan Collis, Chaplain

Chapel Music Throughout the past academic year, the musical life of the chapel has been greatly enhanced by the new Hudleston organ. Whilst Daniel Hyde has written elsewhere about its technical and musical details, it is no exaggeration to say that this fabulous new instrument has transformed the musical capabilities and potential of both college choirs. In addition to the regular round of four choral services each week during term time, the choirs have undertaken numerous special services and concerts. Following a very successful collaboration with Westcott House for the feast of All Saints, the college choir gave a moving liturgical performance of Durufle’s Requiem for the feast of All Souls, and again the following evening at a concert in Froyle Church, home to Mr James Hudleston. A week later, the service for Remembrance Sunday marked the beginning of a busy time until the end of term. The Advent procession was the first time that many people heard the new organ, and the instrument was dedicated two days later by the Bishop of Ely. In what has become something of a tradition in recent years, both choirs combined in early December to give a rousing performance of Handel’s Messiah to a capacity audience in Great St Mary’s. Alongside the various college carol services, this provided an uplifting end to a busy first term, in which both choirs developed quickly into a cohesive whole. In early January, whilst the college was still closed, the Britten Sinfonia moved in for a couple of days recording with Daniel Hyde at the Hudleston organ. In addition to the three Organ Sonatas of Hindemith, they also recorded the Concerto and Wind Quintet for a disc now out on the Signum label. This project was made possible through the generosity of Mr Charles Rawlinson and preview copies were available to those people attending the inauguration of the Hudleston organ in June. With the Lent term well underway, both choirs were busy preparing for performances of Bach’s Passions in mid- March; the choristers joined King’s College Choir for two sellout performances of the St Matthew Passion during the Easter at King’s Festival, whilst the college choir gave a performance of the St John Passion to rave reviews in the same week. At the same time, evensong on Sunday 2 March was given over to a devotional performance of William Lloyd-Webber’s The Saviour, a rarely heard work which the choir is due to record for Naxos later this year. Whilst many choral scholars were eagerly writing up dissertations and beginning revision for the summer exams, some members of the choir returned to Cambridge a week before the start of the Easter term to provide music for the University Guild of Benefactors ceremony in the Senate House and at New Hall. With exams out of the way and an excellent crop of results for both choirs, the BBC visited the chapel to record numerous choir items to be broadcast on BBC Radios Two and Four later in the year. A week later, the college choir departed for a six day tour to Istanbul, organised and led by 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 48

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Jonathan Collis and his wife Judith. Based at the church of the Anglican community in Istanbul, the choir provided music for a selection of services and concerts attended by a diverse and appreciative group of people. Meanwhile, the choristers enjoyed a busy weekend of joint services with St Edmundsbury and Norwich Cathedral Choirs, alongside a presentation as part of the Donors’ Garden Party. Whilst we say goodbye to a number of choral and organ scholars, I’m sure they won’t mind if I single out one person in particular whose contribution to the musical life of the chapel and choirs has been enormous; Sam Hanson leaves us after three very successful years as organ scholar. Not only has he displayed the magnificent resources of the Hudleston organ to great effect, he has also been an invaluable help training and teaching the choristers on a weekly basis. Sam leaves Jesus College to pursue a variety of options within the musical world, and we wish him well in his future career. Daniel Hyde, Director of Chapel Music

Development Office Thanks to increasing overall levels of support and some very generous individual donations I am delighted to report that we raised a record £2.4m for the college during the course of the academic year 2007–2008. The calendar year 2007 also saw 18% of our old members support the Annual Fund, placing us second out of all the Cambridge colleges in terms of level of alumni support. Gifts to the Annual Fund (totalling £515,000 in 2007) are used immediately to meet the college’s most important priorities. These include providing financial assistance to students, helping to fund college-based teaching and research, and maintaining and enhancing our buildings and facilities for the benefit of our students and Fellows. Visitors to the College frequently remark that it has never looked better. In parallel with the Annual Fund, and under the umbrella of the Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign, we are also seeking to raise £10m for a range of specific capital and long-term endowment purposes. So far we have raised £5.2 million. Particularly popular has been the endowment of undergraduate and graduate bursary funds for which purpose we are currently seeking to raise a total of at least £3 million. Eighteen new named funds have been created so far and we would welcome at least twelve more. I must pay tribute to my small, hard-working team in the Development Office. We were very sorry to lose Salima Virji this Easter back to her own undergraduate college, St John’s, which is expanding its development team. Sarah Ambrose has stepped into her shoes as development officer and newly recruited Alison White from South Carolina has taken over events and alumni relations. Jen Hawton continues as development assistant, handing the management of our gifts. However she has reduced to working two days per week as she steps up her rowing training in preparation for international competitions next year which leaves us slightly stretched at times! Richard Dennis, Development Director

Old Library and College Archives The primary task of the past year in the Old Library has been the preparation for a programme of rewiring and refurbishment taking place in summer 2008. The whole contents of the Old Library and annexe have been packed, removed and transferred to store, with the exception of a few items for which special provision has been made within college. The keeper, the assistant keeper, the records manager and a team of nine 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 49

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students (most of them Jesuans) worked intensively on the removal in the last week of June. The reverse procedure will be carried out in late September. The specialist storage space to which the books have been sent is situated 150 metres below ground in the depths of an old Cheshire salt mine. During the earlier part of the year the Old Library hosted a number of visitors, including, at various times, readers from Toronto, New York and Oxford. For the second year running, we welcomed a group of Lisa Jardine’s renaissance studies students from Queen Mary, University of London, and plans are going ahead for a joint seminar using the Old Library’s resources. In the course of the year we have received two significant donations. First Brian Buckley (1962) gave us splendid modern facsimiles of The Luttrell Psalter, The Holkham Bible and Charles Darwin’s The Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle. These will be kept with our collection of Roxburghe Club facsimile publications, bequeathed by Philip Bradfer- Lawrence (1937) and received in early 2006. Then Michael Darling (1950) offered us the two-volume Flora Londiniensis compiled by William Curtis in the late 18th century; it is described here in a separate piece below. The college archives, too, have recently benefited from some significant donations of material, most notably two unusual scrapbooks. One was given by Mrs Valerie Watts of North Walsham, Norfolk, whose father-in-law had acquired it in the course of his work as an auctioneer. In contrast to our other albums compiled by former students, which are mostly photographic, this one functioned like a diary, including photos but also a wide variety of printed papers reflecting the various stages and activities of the owner’s college career. The compiler was L. G. (Gwatkin) McAlpine, who came up in 1937 to read natural sciences; after graduating,

Title page of Gwatkin McAlpine’s scrapbook he volunteered for the army and eventually saw service in France, dying of wounds in Normandy on 13 July 1944. This lends a special poignancy to the survival of this personal record. In contrast, the owner of the second scrapbook lived to the age of 96. He was Harry Ward, who studied here from 1878 to 1883, then became a lawyer and is recorded as a J.P. in Gloucestershire in 1907. His brother Oscar was also a student here (1882–86). The volume, given to us by Brian McIntyre, is again more of an eclectic scrapbook than an album, with contents collected under several headings: the first and largest is ‘The Sporting Times’ – Harry played rugby at county level and for the University. Further pages contain collections of anecdotes and (often dismally bad) jokes under such headings as ‘Clergy’, ‘MPs and elections’, ‘Education’ and ‘Lawyers’. Dr Frances Willmoth, Archivist 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 13:59 Page 50

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sam dean William Curtis, title page for Flora Londinensis vol.1 (1777)

An outstanding gift recently received by the Old Library has been that of first editions of the two large folio volumes of William Curtis’s Flora Londinensis (1777 & 1798). The volumes came to us from Lt Col Michael Leslie Darling OBE JP (1950) and arrived from his Bermuda home in two large, well-packed boxes. Their fine condition was the more surprising in that they had survived for many years, in Mr. Darling’s words, in a climate of ‘dampness, bugs and mildew’! The Darling family has a long connection with the College and Michael dedicated his gift to the memory of his grandfather, Archdeacon James George Reginald Darling (1880); his uncle, The Revd C Brian Auchinleck Darling, CMG (1924), and his cousin, Brian’s son, H Nigel Darling (1964). William Curtis (1746–1799) was apprenticed to his grandfather, an apothecary, at the age of fourteen and eventually had his own practice in the City of London. He developed a passionate interest in the natural world and gained a reputation as both an entomologist and a botanist, establishing a botanical garden for the study of native British plants in Bermondsey (he later moved it to Brompton to escape smoke pollution). Flora Londinensis, his great work, was intended to include ‘plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London’. The descriptions, in English and Latin, give the learned and folk names for each plant, accounts of their morphology and habitat (specifying where Curtis himself had seen them), as well as indications regarding their medicinal properties. The plates are magnificent and remain, as is rightly said in the entry for Curtis in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ‘the finest illustrations of British plants ever published’. The plates are hand-coloured, mostly life- sized, and were done with the help of the best botanical artists and engravers of the time. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:02 Page 51

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The work was published in fascicules beginning in 1775; each fascicule consisting of twelve separate issues, with six plates per issue; the fascicules were then bound up to make the 1777 and 1798 volumes, published in editions of around 300 copies. As a publishing venture, it was not a financial success, unlike the Botanical Magazine that Curtis started in 1787 ‘in response to the repeated solicitations of several ladies and gentleman for a work in which Botany and Gardening… might happily be combined’, and which is still going strong today. The volumes of Flora Londinensis have often been broken up and the plates sold individually; ours are complete and, as said above, in fine condition. Their botanical, historical, and sheer aesthetic value can hardly be over-estimated and we are fortunate indeed to be able to add them to the Old Library’s treasures through the generosity of Michael Darling. Stephen Heath, Keeper of the Old Library 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:02 Page 52

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Society of St Radegund The college marks its gratitude for acts of outstanding munificence with admission to the Society of St Radegund. The Society’s annual dinner was held in Hall on 21st June 2008 following the inaugural recital on the new chapel organ. Prior to the recital there was a ceremony in the Master’s Lodge to induct four new members to the Society; Mr Patrick Wilson (1974), Mr Peter Day (1968), Mr Charles Hoare Nairne (1989) and Mr Raymond Cole (1957).

Ray Cole, Charles Hoare-Nairne, the Master, Patrick Wilson, Peter Day

Other News 2008 has been the centenary of the birth of Dr Jacob Bronowski (1927) who died in 1974. The Master’s message at the beginning of this Annual Report gives short details of Dr Bronowski’s career. As mentioned in John Cornwell’s article, The Science and Human Dimension Project celebrated the centenary by commissioning Professor George Steiner to deliver a lecture in Lady Mitchell Hall on 28 February 2008; this was followed by a small private dinner in the college attended by Jacob Bronowski’s widow, Rita, and their daughter, Professor Lisa Jardine (1976). In addition, Professor Stephen Heath and Dr Frances Willmoth compiled an exhibition, which was displayed in the Quincentenary Library, and subsequently in the Old Library Annexe. Dr Willmoth wrote the following to accompany a description of the exhibition in the college’s internal newsletter @jesus. ‘Bronowski was a student at Jesus from October 1927, coming up from the Central Foundation School, London. Later that term he wrote to his sometime neighbour and old friend Bill Dorrell describing his first impressions of Cambridge in the following terms: And so I am acquiring cultural values. There are five thousand undergraduates in Cambridge. Four thousand five hundred wear plus fours – not because they are useful or decorative, God forbid; but because each sees four thousand four hundred and ninety nine other pairs – eat three course breakfast and go to “flicks”. Four hundred and ninety nine say “tripos”. Leaving one, to acquire cultural values. Dullness here has found an infinity of disguises, from thought and learning to arid activity. You have the choice of being bored in one of a thousand ways. What a hole! Perhaps its most deadly feature is the sneaking appreciation and regard one develops for it after half a term. On its edge am I poised, delicately. But until the shock wears off, it is frightful’. Judging by Dr Bronowski’s subsequent career, one must assume that the shock did wear off! As was the case last year, a successful art exhibition, consisting of work by representatives of all parts of the college community – Fellows, students and staff – was held in the Quincentenary Library in the Lent term. This year the college had about 750 students (no two ways of counting them gives the same number). There were approximately 494 undergraduates in residence, 26 of whom came from the European Union and 31 from overseas. There were around 150 in each of the first three years and 49 in the fourth. 6 undergraduates were abroad for the year. There were 263 graduate students. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:02 Page 53

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College Societies Student Union It is hard for me to sum up the collection of experiences and events that have punctuated this year’s calendar. With another year having passed by in a flurry of victories and defeats, exams and celebrations, rainy days in the library and sunny days playing croquet on Chapel Court lawn, all I can hope to do is touch on a small number of highlights that have made this year special. Welcoming the freshers in the first week of October was a rewarding task. The committee worked tirelessly to create a friendly environment for our new arrivals, and it was wonderful to see the new students becoming more and more comfortable in their new surroundings. The freshers are an enthusiastic and energetic bunch, and the sheer number of them standing for positions on the JCSU committee when elections came round in November was testament to their passion for getting involved in the Jesus community. The JCSU’s main focus this year has been on providing better services for students; the launch of a dynamic new JCSU website in January has given students an interactive way to keep up with activities around college, whilst the commissioning of an extensive housekeeping survey has opened up clear lines of communication between the college and the student body. Great steps have also been taken to promote environmental and ethical issues within college and Jesus is on the brink of gaining Fairtrade status, as only the third Cambridge college to do so. Having organised a Fairtrade Fortnight, and with a clear push on better recycling and electricity conservation, Jesus is looking more ‘green-friendly’ than ever before. College events have also featured highly in students’ calendars this year, with our usual array of large bops and low-key relaxation evenings playing an active role. Special Formal Halls – celebrating Chinese New Year, International Women’s Day, Fairtrade Fortnight and Vegetarian Week – have all proved overwhelmingly popular, offering students a break from the norm. As an antidote to the stressful nature of exam term, the JCSU welfare committee worked hard to arrange activities that could relax students and offer them a welcome break from the library: yoga, meditation, doughnuts and lots of cups of tea were all on hand to offer the perfect opportunity for a revision break. But, as well as taking steps for the here and now, we have realised the need to look to the future. Once again, Jesus hosted groups of prospective students in our shadowing scheme, giving those from schools around the country an opportunity to see what life at a Cambridge college is really like. Access trips also took place over the Easter vacation, and this time the Access team went to Tyne & Wear and North East Lincolnshire, visiting around 35 schools or colleges over a period of seven days. We look forward to welcoming some of these potential students in future years. Finally, as president, I would like to thank an outstanding committee for their hard work and support, as well as the college authorities for their invaluable co-operation and assistance throughout the year. The community that Jesus prides itself on maintaining is going from strength to strength, and I look forward to welcoming the new year’s intake of freshers in October. Lucie Fortune, President 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 62

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Graduate Society From the first moment of contact with freshers as they arrive in college to the last garden party before graduation, GradSoc is a large part of what makes the Jesuan graduate experience the best in Cambridge. The year 2007–8 saw the introduction of new academic, sporting, and social events, while established favourites continued to flourish. The GradSoc has made a concerted effort this year to promote the academic lives of graduates within college. On that front, we selected our first academic officer and hosted speakers including Fellow John Cornwell and Honorary Fellow Anthony Gormley (invited jointly with the Jesus College Art Society, founded by two graduate Jesuan artists) at the termly Graduates’ and Fellows’ Symposiums. In addition, GradSoc inaugurated its first Jesus Graduates’ Conference, which provided a forum for more than forty-five Jesuan graduates to present their scholarship to their peers. Jesus grad sporting life has continued to flourish, with the success of established teams and the founding of new sporting activities for all grads. The football team won the unprecedented League-Cup double after a 4–0 victory against Queens’ in the MCR Cup final. Grads has begun with enthusiasm and promise. GradSoc also facilitated several informal leagues and classes within college including: grads squash, tennis, and foosball leagues (yes, foosball is a sport!), yoga in Easter term to relieve the stress of revision and preparation for Ph.D. talks, and salsa in Michaelmas (given by Rhona Watson, the Quincentenary Librarian). The packed social calendar proved that Jesuan graduates continue to be amongst the most sociable in Cambridge. The chaos of Freshers’ Fortnight was surpassed only by the unbridled madness of Burns’ Night – the highlight of the social year and an event for which a ceilidh, if not a kilt, was essential. Grads were unable to confine this enthusiasm to college, however. The Jesus GradSoc was instrumental in organizing major events for graduates across the University and, with fifteen exchanges arranged, Jesus has become a dining destination of choice. Our welfare team has helped to alleviate some of the stresses of arrival in Cambridge by allocating mentors to early-arriving students, and has hosted events for the LBGT and family/partner communities. Internationalism remains prominent on the agenda, with the many cultures of the graduates celebrated through themed halls. This year we travelled from America to Australia to China via Africa! The graduate community, and the GradSoc in particular, are grateful for the support they receive from dedicated Fellows and staff. We would like to thank the graduate tutor, Madeleine Arnot, and the deputy graduate tutor, Tim Wilkinson, for their commitment to the welfare and academic successes of graduates within college. We thank chaplain Jonathan Collis for his guidance and support, and for hosting the first ever MCR presidents’ dinner at Jesus. The successes of our events are due in no small part to the patience and assistance of manciple Simon Hawkey, barman Steve Webb, and the entire catering staff. We would also like to recognise the Master, the recently retired graduate tutor’s secretary Brenda Welch, maintenance supervisor Chris Brown, and Fellow Geoff Harcourt for their continued support. And finally, it is with great honour that I thank the entire GradSoc committee for its hard work, dedication, and enthusiasm which have benefited all graduates immensely. Claire Clelland, President 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 63

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Jesus College Art Society Michaelmas 2007 saw the launch of Jesus College’s very first Art Society (JCAS). We exist to promote both the college’s extraordinary art collections and the talented student artists currently producing artworks here. In Michaelmas, to commence our forthcoming series of talks by artists who have works at Jesus, British sculptor Antony Gormley came to speak about his powerful sculpture Learning to See. This proved an extremely popular event. Upper Hall was crammed with undergraduates, graduates and Fellows, excited to hear this eminent artist speak about an important work, which we are lucky to have at Jesus. Joining forces with the chaplain, Jesus College Art Exhibition was held in Lent 2008, in the Quincentenary Library’s garden room, to show off Jesuan artistic talent. The variety of students’ and Fellows’ work on show was notable, and viewers were particularly impressed by the paintings of undergraduate Naomi Grant. The exhibition also included the college’s latest acquisition for the permanent collection: David Nash’s new sculpture Crack & Warp Column. All in all, artistic matters at Jesus College are flourishing. Easter 2008 provided an exciting end to the academic year, with a guided tour of the college collections by our resident curator of works of art, Dr Rod Mengham, and a garden party held jointly with the college arts magazine, Eliot’s Face. We look forward to further events next year: the continuation of our series of talks, future exhibitions and trips to various exhibitions in and around Cambridge. For more information visit our website: http://jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/jcas

Sculpture tour with Dr Rod Mengham Lorna Collins, Katherine Cooper, Chris O’Rourke – JCAS Committee

Drama Society The newly-dubbed Alcock Players have developed their standing this past year, both in college and university-wide. On the back of last year’s achievements, we were able to fund multiple productions – all of which demonstrated the high quality performances that the Players strive to encourage. Fresh from a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, the unstoppable Alcock Improv (ever-changing in membership, but dynamically led by Will Pearse) began Michaelmas term with Alcock Improv – Reloaded. Hilarity abounded into Lent term with Alcock Allstars; a week of well-received performances from some of Britain’s top improv comedy groups hosted by Alcock Improv at the ADC. Now a society in their own right, Alcock Improv are establishing a name for themselves with their unique brand of improvised comedy. Lucie Fortune continued the comedy with I Scream…Scoop! Set in a local newspaper office where the concept of ‘news’ is taken to bizarre extremes, the production did not fail to tickle ADC audiences. In Michaelmas, the Forum became a performance space for our freshers’ play, Mankind. A morality play translated from the original medieval text by David Lowry and directed by David and Rory Atwood, it was one of our most adventurous and original freshers’ plays yet. The chapel saw two performances this year: the pantomime (chaplain, pantomime horse and all) orchestrated by Tim Checkley, and Kristen Treen’s production of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral in Lent term. With a talented cast, stunning lighting, medieval carols and the chapel itself, the portrayal of Thomas Becket’s brutal but 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 64

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philosophised murder, though small- scale, was a resounding success among audiences. Another extremely acclaimed show was Tim Checkley’s production of Dinner by Moira Buffini. With live lobsters and a table of highly-strung relation- ships, the production certainly caught people’s attention and we hope it will to do so again at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Matt Jones’s production of Cruel and Tender by Martin Crimp also revealed disturbingly fraught relationships.

will knock Playing with underlying Sophoclean Nathan Brown, Tilda Stickley, Saskia Leach, Emily Coghill, elements, the production was a clever, Alma Smith and Thom Andrewes rehearse ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ poignant and revealing insight into marriage and violence. Special thanks go to Will Pearse and the 2007–08 committee and our current committee. Kristen Treen, President

Law Society The Law Society has continued to help students experience a broad range of activities this year. Early in the year an exhibition moot against Magdalene was organised, with the team representing Jesus continuing the college’s tradition of winning this event in convincing style. A highly enjoyable drinks event at Lovells’ office in London was also organised, under the auspices of the Glanville Williams Society, of which both alumni and current students are members. Careers help was offered in the form of barristers’ and solicitors’ events throughout the year, and this was gratefully received by the students. Finally, following a successful exam period, the Law Society hosted its annual garden party. David Hay, second year law student

May Ball For just one long summer night, college became the hub of the flaunted beauty and giddy extravagances of Bohemia. Shrieks of post-exam delight were heard as guests were greeted with fire-breathers in First Court, chandeliers hanging from the trees of the orchard, and the ancient beauty of a ruinous ivy-clad temple. Fairy lights glinted in the bushes and English garden flowers adorned tables as the grandeur of the college grounds were transformed into the faded opulence of a Bohemian playground. Expectations for the ball were high after last year’s resounding success. Tickets for Through the Looking Glass had sold out in ten days, so it came as quite a surprise when this year’s tickets were gobbled up in under twelve hours. The committee did not disappoint, however, with the fun atmosphere and attention to detail for which Jesus has become renowned continuing into this year’s event. Food and drink to cater for every taste could be found throughout the ball, from champagne to sushi, and from rare breed meats to hot gin punch. The guests’ appetite for entertainment was also fulfilled, with a wide range of music and cabaret acts performing in five different marquees across college. Headline newcomers Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong graced the main stage with their catchy indie melodies and unbelievably skinny jeans, whilst many of the acoustic acts played up to their Bohemian surroundings: the quirky harmonies and dulcet tones of the kazoomaphone drifted 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 65

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serenely over Pump Court. Elsewhere guests were wowed by hypnosis, professional regurgitation and living statues of pure gold. A new addition to the ball was the carousel which, along with the traditional dodgems, kept the more adventurous guests entertained throughout the night. As dawn came, the tired but contented masses were led out of college by a piper: a fine end to hugely enjoyable night. The twenty-strong committee must be thanked for their continued hard work and inspiration throughout the year. Their efforts produced a ball of outstanding beauty and extraordinary accomplishment. Peter Piercy and Charlotte Langley, Co-Presidents

Medical Society As is customary, the academic year started with the welcoming of the freshers. Even before they had arrived, a leaflet comprising a low-down on Jesus medic life was distributed and second year mentors were chosen to help them throughout the year. Freshers’ week began with a meet-the-mentors session, and then a chance to meet the whole society at the traditional (some might say infamous) Safari Supper. The week continued with the civilised pre-matriculation drinks and, as an alternative for those not attending the feast, a meal in town that was not curry! Brief in its absence, curry soon featured, as an opportunity to ‘check-in’ after lectures had begun. The Medsoc formal hall and talks were started with Ewan Cameron speaking on ‘Bowel Cancer Screening’, with Nicholas Pegge giving the second talk on ‘The Devices and Desires of our Hearts’. Everyone appreciated the opportunity to welcome back old Jesuans who are able to provide an insight into life after graduation. Another service that Medsoc takes pleasure in providing (especially as it involves dessert) is advice on clinical school applications in the form of a dessert and wine evening for returning fourth years and the third years. With applications sorted, and the term pushing on, it was about time for the Medsoc pub-crawl. The theme of ‘two-by-two’ – a tribute to ‘Noah’s ark’ was embraced by all, yielding some interesting costumes. Michaelmas term was concluded with practice interviews and clinical demonstrations for the medics, held by Professor Compston – whom we have to thank for his continued support to the society. The formal talks continued into Lent term with Clive Lewis speaking on ‘Who needs cardiac surgeons?’, soon followed by the annual Medsoc dinner. Supervisors, Fellows and students both past and present attended, with Robert Howard to thank for the after dinner speech. To keep the curry quota up, and prove we are an inclusive society, bring-a-non- medic-curry concluded the term. Easter term began with an opportunity to pass some wisdom down the years: the mentors giving the first years exam survival tips, and the Part IIs advising the second years on what to specialise in. With exams completed, there was a chance to catch up and say farewells at the Medsoc BBQ to finish off another great year for Medsoc. Many thanks to the Fellows for their continued support, to the other members of the committee – Alice Walker and Li- An Wong-Taylor – who have been crucial to the smooth running of the society, and, last but by no means least, thanks to all the members of Medsoc for another fantastic year. Rosemarie Abbott, President

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this year directed by Chris Olsen, continues to flourish, performing memorable sets in the interval of the May Week concert and at the Suicide Sunday garden party. Weekly Wednesday-night recitals have remained a success, ably organised by Matthew Norris, attracting some of the best musical talent at Jesus and beyond. Once again there is a healthy Jesus participation in university-wide musical groups such as the CUMS orchestras, the Zephyr Wind Band, the Gilbert and Sullivan Society and the University Opera Society. The non-auditioned college orchestra continues to meet weekly on Monday evenings, and has produced three outstanding concerts this year. The Michaelmas term concert featured both a memorable performance of Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre and Haydn’s Symphony No. 104, directed by Sam Hanson and Alex Boyd respectively. Once again, the David Crighton concert in Lent term provided a fitting showcase of the musical talent present within the Jesus College student body. Nicola Hands gave an excellent performance of Mozart’s Oboe Concerto in C, while Elgar’s Variations on an original theme and Dvorak’s Carnival Overture, both under the direction of Sam Hanson, were performed to great acclaim from a packed house. Rounding off the Lent term, to mark the Eve of Commemoration of Benefactors, Anna Harvey organised and directed a ‘come and sing’ performance of Mozart’s masterful Requiem. It is fitting that Anna receives this year’s David Crighton Prize for an outstanding contribution to college music. The May Week concert provides the chance to indulge in slightly more light-hearted repertoire, and this year’s second-half performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury set the mood perfectly. The first half of the concert comprised Telemann’s Concerto for two recorders (soloists Matthew Norris and Anna Harvey), Mendelssohn’s sparkling Italian Symphony and a Proms-style ending with Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March Number 4, directed by Alex Boyd. Music making at Jesus is in an excellent state, and we should like to thank everyone on the JCMS Committee for making all musical events such a success. Alex Boyd and Sam Hanson, JCMS Junior Presidents 2007–2008

The Roosters The Roost has had a relaxed year after its centenery celebrations in 2007, but under the leadership of TWB Guy ‘Squawks and a Rope Willis’ (197th and 173rd) a lively and stimulating series of Roosts was held. The year began with the traditional conker competition, in which the Old Cock was victorious and duly declared Rooster Conkerer. Other Roosts included a Lenten Dinner, attended by Roosters old and new, including the Poet Clawreate who was awarded the degree of M.Cy. Several debates were held and the Roost decided that it would take the high road (leaving the low road to lesser mortals) and that being the early bird was not all it’s cracked up to be. On a sadder note, the death of the Lady Chambermaid, Moira Percival, was a sad loss of both a link to the past and a committed and valued member of the Roost. Her funeral in Thriplow was attended by several Roosters, as a mark of respeckt. The year ended with the Breakfast at Lunchtime, which was dalmatian-themed in honour of the 101st year of the Roost, and both the solid and liquid aspeckts of the refreshments were considered gallinaceous. TWB Mor-or-Less Arbabzadah was elevated to the Grainsack as the 198th President, with due pomp and circumstance. The Diligent Vice-Secretary 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 67

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College Sports Clubs Athletics Men This year proved to be a re-building period for Jesus College Athletic Club, following the loss of inspirational captain and decathlete Bilen Ahmet to graduation and with the emergence of some promising freshers. In Michaelmas Cuppers there were strong performances by club stalwarts Chris Morris, Jamie Brunning and Liam Richardson, who each competed in their quota of five scoring events. There were also encouraging performances from freshers Nate Dern, who was placed third in the 1500m, and Robin Brown, who was second over 3000m. The Easter term inter-college competition saw a strengthened Jesus team contest a close competition down to the wire. Andrew Lee performed impressively, winning the hammer, and being placed second and third in the shot and discus respectively. Robin Brown ran strongly in the 800m and 5000m, whilst Liam Richardson, Chris Morris and Ben Langford tackled several events each. Jesus was eventually beaten into second place by a strong Downing squad, but this performance was a definite improvement on Michaelmas Cuppers. In the 2008 Varsity Match, Jesus was represented in the Blues team by Jonathan Cook in the 800m, James Kelly in the 5000m and Andrew Lee, who achieved a full standard in the hammer. Robin Brown competed for the second team in the mile. Jesus was also strongly represented in the combined Oxford-&-Cambridge team that took on Harvard-&-Yale in the Transatlantic Series at Iffley Road Track, Oxford. In the 5000m James Kelly finished second, beating several of his former American team- mates, whilst Jonathan Cook came second in a close 800m and third over one mile. Andrew Lee was the highest Cambridge scorer in the hammer.

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Next year’s captain will be Robin Brown. Jonathan Cook will be president of Cambridge University Athletic Club, and captain of the combined Oxford-&-Cambridge team for the 2009 Transatlantic Series in the United States. Jonathan Cook, Captain

Women This year saw some impressive efforts from the women’s side of the Jesus College athletics team. In Michaelmas Cuppers Jesus put forward strong freshers Jacqueline Gilroy, Monika Hartmann and Angharad Porteous, with the latter coming second in the 1500m steeplechase. In the 2008 Varsity Match in Oxford, Eleanor Nalson performed impressively when she won the pole vault at a match record of 2.40m. Helen Maduka, Captain

Badminton Men We had high hopes for this year; with the addition of fresher Adam Woolnough to an already strong first team, we were confident that that we could claim victory in the league. In the first league season we won all our matches comfortably, claiming the first division title. Continuing our dominance in the second term, we easily won our matches; narrowly beating St Catharine’s 5–4 we finished the year undefeated, maintaining our record of four seasons as the 1st division champions. Unfortunately, we were unable to carry this success through to Men’s Cuppers, where we fell in the semi-final to a strong St Catharine’s team. Determined to come away with some silverware, a Mixed Cuppers team – Kat Young and John Raw, Sam Lees and Lei Wang, Chris Daniels and Jo Young – beat the favourites, Trinity, in the semi-final, before exacting revenge over St Catharine’s in a very tight final. Next year’s captain will be Chris Allen. Chris Daniels, Captain

Women Jesus College ladies’ badminton had an unprecedented year, doing very well and coming runners up in Ladies’ Cuppers. In Michaelmas term, separate practices for ladies encouraged a good turn-out of both beginners and experienced players. Despite the presence of a strong team, some very close matches and the absence of some of our best players meant that Jesus was demoted to division IV at the end of Michaelmas term. However, the team soon put this right, winning every single match played in division IV in the Lent term. It is now back in Division III. The best achievement this year was seen at Cuppers, where Jesus came an admirable second behind Trinity. We beat St Catharine’s, the reigning champions, in the quarter-final, and had a comfortable win against Queens’ in the semi-final. A very close match was played against Trinity. Well done to Kat Young, Jess, Jo Young, Lei Wang, Mary Gregory and Min Kim. Minjae Kim, Ladies Captain 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 69

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Boat Club Under the guidance of our new boatman, Mark Beer, JCBC has gone from strength to strength during the year. The men’s squad has had strong finishes in the Fairbairns Cup, having a positive set of Lent Bumps and a good May Bumps in which the first VIII continued their upward trend, finishing third on the river. The women’s squad has continued to show the great strength and depth which have become customary in recent years. The first VIII finished second in the Fairbairns Cup, third on the river for Lents and second on the river for Mays while the second VIII was the fastest second VIII in the Fairbairns Cup, bumped up four in Lents gaining a permanent first division place, and finished up one in Mays.

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Michaelmas term: Once again nearly 100 novices signed up for rowing. Under the guidance of the Lower Boats’ captains they developed as rowers and went on to record impressive results throughout the term, including victories in the Clare Novice Regatta and at the Queens’ Ergs competition. The senior squad began their campaign at University IVs where the women’s first IV lost out in a closely fought race with Downing, and the second IV won their division. A men’s IV was also sent to the Fours Head. Into the Fairbairns races the men entered two VIIIs and a IV, while the women entered two VIIIs. Lent term: The term started with a joint training camp in Seville with the Cambridge University Lightweights (CULRC). On returning to Cambridge both sides of the club were boosted by returning novices. The club entered (and was victorious in) a number of races during the term including the Head to Head, Newnham Short Course and Pembroke Regatta. We also raced off Cam at the Peterborough Head of the Nene, Bedford Head and at the . Before Lent Bumps the men’s first VIII sparred with the CULRC in Ely. The club performed well in Lent Bumps, finishing up fourth overall. University Boat races: Tim Perkins was the only club member to win a seat in the University boat races this year. He competed in the 2 seat of the Blue Boat which had a difficult race against a stronger Oxford crew. Easter term: Term began with a training camp on Cam which provided an opportunity for the club to begin preparations for the May races. Several members also focused on small boats in the University Small Boats Regatta. Here the club recorded a number of victories with 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 70

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wins coming for Chris Morris (Lowe Double Sculls (Men)), Ro Bradbury (Delafield Sculls) and Dave Hollinshead and Guen Bradbury (Lowe Double Sculls (Mixed)). During the term the club entered a number of races on Cam including the Rhadegund Mile, Spring Head to Head, Head of the Cam and Champs VIIIs Head. In these the club had a variety of victories with the second women’s VIII continuing to be the fastest second boat on the river. The May bumps brought a mixed set of results. In the men’s squad the first VIII finished up two places to third on the river, the highest position on the river since day two of Mays 2001 and continues the upward momentum which has seen the boat climb nine places over four years. The second and third VIII produced solid rowing throughout the week but fell to several stronger crews. The seconds finished the week down two and the thirds finished level having bumped up on day 1. The fourth men were the only boat in the club to win their oars this year, finishing up fourth for the week. In the process they also won ‘Fourth Boat Headship’ when they caught First and Third M4 on day three. The fifth men had a difficult bumps and ended the week down three. On the women’s side, the first women finished the week second on the river, having been unlucky not to catch Pembroke, on whom they got to half a length on several occasions. The second women continued their upward movement, finishing the week up one which leaves them 15th in division one, a solid first division place. The third and fourth women had a mixed set of bumps with the thirds finishing the week down three and the fourths ending up two.

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Following the bumps the women’s squad took an VIII to Women’s Henley. The crew qualified through the time trial race on Friday morning but lost out in the first round of a difficult draw to Furnivall, the eventual finalists. The men entered a composite crew with Caius into the Temple Challenge Cup at Henley. They were unsuccessful in the qualifiers and ended as the third quickest non qualifying crew. The year 2007–8 has been a successful one for the JCBC, and a fantastic first year for Mark Beer in his role of boatman. He has guided the club to having a realistic chance of challenging for both men’s and women’s headship in the Lents and Mays in 2009. We wish him, and the incoming captains Helen Bolden and Alexis Tran-Viet, the best of luck next year. Alastair Hegarty – President and Men’s Captain Annabel Ritchie – Women’s Captain 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 71

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Cricket This year has been rather disappointing due to a mixture of rain and a small squad of players, and defeat in the semi-finals of Cuppers to a competent Caius side which halted a strong run of games. We again entertained Brasenose, Oxford, for the Steve Stuart memorial match. After starting the match with some great by J. Waters (116) and M. Mills (40), we posted a formidable total of 278 off 40 overs. But with some good batting and a lot of big sixes the game was snatched from us and Brasenose levelled the history of this fixture at one win each. Cuppers started well with comfortable victories over Girton, Clare, Robinson and Emma. Jesus batted first in all, posting totals of 150+ in each and then restricting the opposition to less than one hundred. We then travelled to Caius with a weakened line- up and we paid the price. Defending our total of only 88 was too much for our bowlers used to defending more, and Caius made easy work of batting on a poor pitch to overcome us. This year we only managed a disappointing four friendly matches, suffering defeat in all. With many games called off due to rain and a general lack of players, there were few opportunities to shine; but good knocks from C. Jones (74) and F. Newby (63) against The Woozlers and of 2 for 20 off 10 overs from M. Robinson against The Jesters were some of the highlights. The following awards were made to players of the club: batting – C. Jones (329 runs at 41.1); bowling – M. Robinson (35 overs 9 for 95 runs). Next year we hope to receive a good set of freshers to inject some much-needed new blood into the club. Chris Nixon, Captain

Football Women JCWFC had a hard act to follow this year after their immaculate ’06/07 season, during which ex-captain and Blues player Claudia Comberti led the team to win the almighty double: both the league and Cuppers. An influx of talented and eager freshers (Clare Longden and Victoria Watson) and grads (Sarah Creber, Cilia Roell and Mary Gregory) helped to replenish the squad, and it promised to be another successful season. Our superb keeper Amy Golding returned from injury, and the timeless Lisa Grimes and Sarah Ambrose stuck around for yet another season, bringing experience and composure to the Jesus team. We also managed to field a second team, captained by Selma Telalagic, who played some exciting matches this year. We got off to a good start, beating Emma 3–0 in our first match of the season on home turf. However, the dream of repeating last year’s victories started to slip away after a 2–1 loss to St John’s in the second league game of the season. Players were frequently picking up injuries, which left captain Davey and ex-captain Comberti out of action for most of the season, and often we bravely fielded the bare 10 or 11 players. Despite these disadvantages we rose to the challenge in future games, and had a very successful run in Cuppers. We rose through the ranks, thrashing Clare and Churchill 7–0 and 6–0 respectively. The team sweated blood and tears in the Cuppers final against Emma, but victory and the cup were snatched from our grasp owing to a single Emma goal in the first half. Even though we could not repeat last year’s performance, we have had a great deal of fun this season as a squad and achieved some fantastic results. Highlights include the medley of hatricks from Watson and Longden, the splintering speed of 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 72

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Nalson down the right wing, Creber’s numerous headers from corners which met the back of the net, and the battling determination of Needham in the challenge. Special mentions go to Lisa Grimes, for her successful season as Blues captain and their Varsity victory over Oxford, and to Clare Longden (next year’s Jesus captain), for turning out week in week out for the Blues and making an appearance in . A huge thanks goes to Jon Kearns for his unrelenting commitment as coach and manager – we will miss you next year Jon. Claire Davey, Captain

Men This season will be remembered above all else for the sense of disappointment at our having failed to secure either league or Cuppers titles, despite being favourites to win both going into the last three games of the season. Nevertheless, as we had lost a number of key players during the close season it is a testament to the quality of the incoming freshers that we were able to challenge for these titles at all. Ruadhri Farrell, James Williamson, Chris Ellis and ‘fresher of the season’ Micael Canavan soon cemented their places as regulars in the first team, joining a solid core of returning players. Yet due to the competition for places this season we were to use no fewer than twenty players in league and Cuppers. Thanks must go out to everyone for their contribution to the season. With such a promising influx of new players, prospects for the season were looking good at Christmas. James Wyatt, returning for his final season, was crucial to forging a resolute defence for the second season running, and in midfield next year’s Falcons captain, James Taylor, provided presence and quality in abundance. Being top of the league, still in Cuppers and with a successful Oxford tour under our belt (we thrashed Jesus Oxford 5–2 at their place), we could look forward to the second half of the season with anticipation. Going into the final month of the season, all seemed well. Despite finding goals hard to come by, we managed to keep our league rivals at bay with a narrow victory over Caius; we progressed in Cuppers, defeating a strong Downing side on penalties, and completing a 2–1 league and Cuppers double over eventual league winners Trinity in the quarter-finals. Yet in the space of two weeks our fortunes reversed. A 3–1 shock defeat by relegation- threatened Christ’s put the league out of our hands, and just a week later in Cuppers a frustrating performance against second division Girton led to a penalty-shootout heartbreak. Thus in our final game of the season, away to Churchill, the result was to be purely academic. This was a disappointing way to round off an excellent if dramatic season. Next year’s Captain will be Chris Ellis. Will Rees, Captain

Hockey Men The first team began the year as defending league and Cuppers champions and end the year with both titles intact. The opening match of the league season saw Jesus beat Catz 2–1; Catz, with a very strong fresher intake, would prove to be our strongest challengers. A comfortable victory over Emma followed. Next came the crunch game against traditional rivals, John’s. Jesus began the game very poorly and it was only late goals from Chris Kurwie that allowed a 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 73

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draw to be salvaged. The remaining Michaelmas games included an excellent win against a strong Cambridge City side, an 8–1 destruction of Caius and a very disappointing loss to Corpus. This gave Jesus the league title for the Michaelmas term. The Lent term league table was also topped by Jesus, meaning the overall league title was secured with two matches still remaining. Jesus won five games out of six with only a draw against Catz blemishing an otherwise perfect term. Even this result, however, was a triumph in many ways, achieved as it was with only eight players on the pitch in the first half and ten in the second. Being unable to field a full team was in fact, very unusually for Jesus, a recurring theme in the second half of the season; newly promoted Downing, eventual runners up, were also beaten despite our numeric inferiority. Alongside the league campaign ran a successful defence of Cuppers. Queens’ were easily defeated 4–1 in the opening round setting up a very difficult tie against a Caius side containing three Blues, including both the University captain and vice captain. This match went to the wire, with Kurwie’s brace, supplementing one by Andy Muir-Wood, giving Jesus a 3–2 win that was in doubt until the end. A 7–0 destruction of Fitz and an even more one sided 14–1 dismantling of Homerton followed to take the side into a final against Catz. The game began with Jesus slight favourites and was very tight in the opening half. The first goal arrived from a Jesus break down the right which freed Ryan Thomas to slide the ball past the onrushing goalkeeper and into the far corner of the net. Catz equalised soon after before Dave Madden restored Jesus’ advantage with a low flick from a corner. The second half was much more one sided, with Jesus adding a third with a volleyed rebound from James Waters, before Ed Bush and Kurwie completed the scoring in a 5–1 win. Congratulations should go to the entire side for completing a second successive double. Individual congratulations should also go to: player-of-the-season and next year’s captain James Mumford; most improved player Nick Petty who also, along with Alan Douglass, received colours; and finally to both Dave Madden and Chris Kurwie, who gained their Blues in a 3–1 win over Oxford. After securing promotion twice in 2006–7, the second team faced the daunting task of maintaining position in the second division of the college leagues. The team centred around the experience of Moores, Mumford and Thomas, with several players picking up a stick for the first time. Hard fought battles against teams that just a year before had pushed the first team were not enough, as the team narrowly lost out to Sidney Sussex and drew with Clare, meaning relegation to the third division at Christmas. As the new year began the team went from strength to strength, comfortably winning all but one of their matches to finish a close third in the division. Special mentions are deserved for player-of-the-season Charlie Williamson, Ben Langford and next year’s captain Rob Davies, who were consistently outstanding. James Waters and James Mumford, Captains of first and second team

Women Due to a lack of players in the first team, an otherwise strong squad was depleted. But sterling efforts by everyone who played meant that each game was a well-fought battle; the score lines did not reflect the effort and skill they displayed. Special mention goes to Rebecca Rhodes, who was player of the season, and also to everybody who played in goal, as frequently it was someone who had never played there before. We made it to the semi-final of the Cuppers plate. Next year’s captain will be Clare Sibley. The philosophy of the Jesus women’s second team is to get a bit of exercise and have a 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 74

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lot of fun, and we definitely achieved that this season. We easily fielded a team for every league match and scored a point from a draw in our match against Christ’s College. We’ve improved enormously over the season, both as individual players and as a team. Thanks to everyone who has played this season; it’s been great to captain a team of such happy, committed and enthusiastic players. Harriet Gay and Rosalind Wallduck, Captains of first team, and Alison Bowden, Captain of second team

Lawn Tennis Jesus first VI promised so much at the beginning of the season. With stunning weather and the team showing good form in practice, there were high hopes of bettering last year’s performance of coming runner-up. The early shock exit of pre-tournament favourites Robinson only served to enhance Jesus’ claims; in kind, the team responded with a 9–0 demolition of a weak St Catharine’s team. Only three days later, this was backed up with a 7–2 win over Queens, the highlight involving a doubles match between Thomas Laskey and Christopher Daniels and a university-standard pair, which Jesus lost in two tight sets. With Daniels’ knee proving a hindrance, it was a sign of things to come. The typically inclement weather in May followed, however, and somewhat disrupted the team’s momentum. A quarter-final against St John’s loomed; Jesus had soundly beaten them last year in a fraught affair. This year, however, they had been noticeably strengthened by the addition of another Blue and further strength in depth. Unfortunately, the top pairing of captain Minh Luu and James Wyatt were unable to breach the defences of the John’s first pair, who were a regular fixture for the Blues, and went down in straight sets 6–3, 6–3. This was to be the story of the match, played on a slow, low-bouncing astroturf court that heavily favoured the opposition. Only a heroic performance by John Raw prevented embarrassment – he will certainly be challenging for the top singles spots next year – and Jesus bowed out of the competition, 7–2. St John’s then proceeded to annihilate every other team, winning the final against Christ’s with ease. There are high hopes for 2009; in reality, another university-standard player is going to be needed if John’s are to be successfully deposed next year. The unfortunate loss of James Wyatt and Sam Lees means that our strength in depth will not be so profound, and it is hoped that the second years as well as this year’s new intake of freshers will step up to the plate. The arrival of Victoria Watson, a national standard player and the number one girl Blue, will certainly prove useful. Meanwhile, the second team had a number of friendly fixtures, and everyone involved massively enjoyed themselves. Here’s to a great 2009. Minh Luu, Captain

Netball The ladies’ and mixed netball teams faced more challenging matches this year, with a huge increase in the standard of competition in the first division. However, with some fresh skill from the first years combined with continued commitment from their elders, and with some new bibs, balls and kit thrown in, both teams rose to the challenge. The mixed team was very successful and the ladies’ team came third overall. The enthusiasm and commitment shown by all has ensured that both teams will remain in the first division next year. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 75

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There was also some time for a ‘friendly’ ladies versus men fancy dress netball match at the end of Michaelmas term, which was great fun, even if the final score was a little unexpected with the men winning (just). A particular mention and special thanks go to James Thomas, whose commitment and umpiring skills have helped make Jesus College netball run smoothly and very fairly this year. Josie Brant, Captain

Rugby Men The year started promisingly with a close match against league favourites St John’s ending in a 6–6 draw, demonstrating the team’s potential as challengers for the title. The JCRUFC went on to achieve a string of decisive victories (25–0 against Downing, 72–5 against Homerton and 39–3 against both Magdalene and Girton), exhibiting throughout their ability to play open, expansive rugby, scoring tries from a wide variety of positions. Another close game against St John’s followed, with neither team managing to break through the other side’s defences. The match ended in a 3–3 draw, leaving our title hopes pinned on St John’s losing their next match, which unfortunately they went on to win. During the Christmas vacation much of the squad turned out at the Varsity rugby match at Twickenham to see two members of the college, Richard Bartholomew and Juliano Fiori, play. Although the second half of the season began with a disappointing defeat to Downing, this was closely followed by a victory against Magdalene 81–5, showing that Jesus were still a force to be reckoned with as Cuppers approached. This was reinforced by four members ranking in the top ten scorers of the league, with James Charlick and Koujiro Tambara placed first and second respectively. The team reached the semi-finals in Cuppers but, having been hit hard by injuries both before and during the game, the team then failed to beat St John’s, with a final score of 27–10. Yet despite this the season ended on a high with Jesus winning the sevens tournament, overcoming CCK in the final, playing fast, open and attractive rugby. Special thanks must be given to Ed White for his determination and passion in leading the team through this season, as well as to Ssegawa Kiwanuka for his administrative work, particularly for getting the team’s brand new away kit. Tim Greenfield, Captain ’08–’09

Women It has been a fantastic year for women’s rugby at Jesus College. The combination of old hands and new talent gelled almost instantaneously, and weekly training sessions soon translated into hard-earned victories on the pitch. Indeed, we won all our league matches (many extremely convincingly) and conceded only five points to end the year well-deserved and undisputed league champions. We also succeeded in reaching the semi-finals of Cuppers for the third year in a row (surely we’ll make the final next time!) and continued to rack up the silverware in the annual end-of-term sevens tournament, winning the plate competition in very warm conditions and with depleted numbers. In addition to success in Jesus shirts, some among us also triumphed at this year’s Varsity matches. Cambridge University captain Laura Britton gained her second Half- Blue, with freshers Emily Matthews and Katie Wooller winning a Half-Blue and 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 76

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university colours respectively. It has been a pleasure to train and play with every member of this year’s team, and I have no doubt that next year holds even bigger and better things for the best college rugby team in Cambridge! Next year’s captain will be Katie Wooller, with Kate Bayford as vice-captain. Ann Murray, Captain ’07–’08

Table Tennis The club had another good year, finishing third in the top division of the league and making it to the semi-finals of Cuppers for the sixth consecutive year. The season began well with convincing 8–1 and 9–0 wins over Peterhouse and St Catharine’s respectively. The ability and experience of last year’s captain, Harris Lorrie, and returning top seed Minh Luu proved invaluable in dealing with these notable opponents. Unfortunately two strong Trinity teams clinched first and second places at the final reckoning. In the Cuppers tournament, a crucial win over St John’s in the group stage secured our place in the quarter finals. Here it was the turn of Rohan Singhal and the ever-keen James Zou to step up with well deserved victories to steer us through. A semi-final loss against St Catharine’s, fielding a Blue for this encounter, left us hoping to make it seventh time lucky for that elusive place in the final next year. Mathew Robin, Captain

Ultimate Frisbee Club This year saw a slightly lower intake of freshers than the last two years but still enough to turn out two strong teams (a feat only two other colleges can manage). The winter league was hotly contested, with the B team finding their feet under the guidance of captains Sonja Abhyankar and Spencer Bullent and last year’s A team looking to take first place. In the end, a tightly-fought semi-final forced Jesus A into third place for winter league and Jesus B took the thirteenth, ranking higher than three other colleges. This was an excellent performance for a team made up largely of beginners. Winter Cuppers was a fantastic achievement for Jesus, with both teams putting in stellar performances. The A team reached the final, only to be pipped at the post by arch-rivals Trinity, whilst the B team came from behind to beat Trinity B and take home the plate trophy. With the summer league came the renaming of the teams to the ‘Jesus Disciples’ and ‘Jesus Superstars’ and the mixing of skill levels to enter two evenly-matched teams. Both teams played exceptionally well, although they unfortunately met each other at the crossover stage. In a tight match, the Superstars went on looking for first place and the Disciples entered the fight for the ninth. In the end the Disciples achieved this and the Superstars came second to an impressive Churchill squad. Arguably the highlight of the college league calendar is summer Cuppers and hopes were high after an epic win last year over Trinity for double Cuppers victory. Unfortunately it was not to be on the day, with the A team dropping from second seeds to eleventh place, after a series of increasingly tiring and frustrating matches without a break. The B team however shone through and retained the plate trophy for another year. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 77

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Special mentions go to Rob Schumacher, Hammad Parwaiz, Sandy Scott and Jonathan Pemberthy, who came second in the national Ultimate Frisbee league as part of the university team, Strange Blue. Also to Sonja Abhyankar, Alex Carnegie-Brown, Megan Davis-Wykes, Mel Whittiker and Nicola Hands, who formed a substantial part of the women’s squad at nationals. In addition four Jesus women and two men joined the university teams that comprehensively beat Oxford in the Varsity matches. Jon Pemberthy, Captain

Volleyball Given the strong performances of Jesus College over the last four years, it was no surprise that the college was once again tipped to win some silverware this year. However, the loss of a couple of key players from last year’s squad made it a lot tougher. The return of Claire Clelland (half Blue) from injury provided a much-needed boost to the Jesus first team. The season started a little slowly for Jesus 1, with an unfortunate loss to Fitzwilliam on the first day of the summer league. After we had comfortably taken the lead, a slight lapse of concentration towards the end of the second set swung the momentum Fitz’s way. The team reacted well to the loss, with a series of wins including an epic 2–1 sets victory over an experienced Trinity side. Big hitting from Sam Lees and huge blocking from George Marshall contributed greatly to this win, and to a successful campaign overall. It should be noted that the enormous improvement of these two as the season progressed was one of the main reasons Jesus was able to compete on an equal level with teams consisting mainly of university players. Jesus 1 finished the summer league in a very respectable third place in the top division. The second team also had a good summer league, posting wins over Catz and Magdalene first teams and ending up fifth in division two. Jesus College has traditionally performed well during May Week and this year was no different. On the Tuesday of May Week, Sam Lees and Andrew Papanastasiou paired up in Beach Cuppers and put in a very mature effort to finish runners up, losing only to a pair of Blues players. Summer Cuppers took place on the Wednesday of May Week and the day brought another third place finish for Jesus 1. Solid serving from Clelland and Weber helped propel the team into the semi-finals. Unfortunately though, an inability to deal with the windy weather conditions then led to a narrow loss to Churchill College. It has been a pleasure to run Jesus volleyball over the last three years. In particular this year it has been brilliant to see many new participants picking up the game quickly and settling into playing three-touch volleyball. George Marshall will be next year’s captain. Andrew Papanastasiou, Captain 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 78

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Jesus College Boat Club Trust The most significant event in the Boat Club’s year was the arrival of Mark Beer as head coach and boatman. As foreshadowed in my report last year, Mark joined the JCBC in September, 2007. He is a twenty-five year old Australian graduate in sports science from the University of Canberra and winner of a prize for excellence in sports science studies at the Australian Institute of Sport. He is a qualified rowing coach in Australia and has much experience of coaching within the national and state systems there, having been the New South Wales state team manager at the inter-state regatta in the Australian National Rowing Championships for the last two years before coming to Jesus and having for the last three years been assistant senior coach and junior development coach at Mosman Rowing Club in Sydney. Mark is joined by his partner Kelly, a qualified nurse now working at Addenbrooke’s but also with a strong rowing background. The trustees are most grateful to the college for allowing us to be closely involved in the recruitment process and for working hard to facilitate Mark’s arrival. The trustees are particularly conscious of the college’s recognition that the job of what is now termed head coach and boatman is one which requires a high level of qualification and that the right candidates are hard to find but, once found, are to be welcomed. Mark’s arrival brought to an end a difficult period for the club, belied by last year’s extremely successful results, of having to function without a boatman, particularly one as well qualified as Mark’s predecessor, Don McLachlan. Mark has approached the task with great enthusiasm, continuing Don’s emphasis on technique and fitness, but also investing huge efforts in developing the JCBC as the club in college everyone wishes to join. I said last year that we looked forward to Mark and Kelly joining the Jesus family, and that is precisely what they have done. Kelly and he spotted that the ‘old-style’ bumps charts in the boathouse – which members will remember as showing each boat progressing horizontally from left to right down the years by a line in college colours – did not extend to recent years: on their own initiative they produced by hand and presented to the club at the Mays Dinner a chart bringing the series up-to-date. Mark has also created a ‘new tradition’ of college caps being awarded to those who row in the men’s and women’s first May boats: a magnificent sight. There are cultural differences too: the long-standing trustees’ drinks party for the crews, hitherto held in the Fellows’ Garden, became this year a sun-drenched BBQ at the boathouse! Spurred on by Mark’s technical and physiological coaching, the JCBC can be pretty satisfied with the results on the river this year, described in greater detail elsewhere in this report. The men’s first VIII rose two in the Mays, where they are now third, and fourth in the Lents – entirely coincidentally, the positions the men’s first boat occupied when the author arrived at Jesus. The women’s first VIII lost the headship to an exceptional crew, but only succumbed once, a great achievement, and are now second in Mays and third in the Lents. The women’s second VIII bumped into the first division in the Lents and further in the first division in the Mays: not only do they continue to be in the highest position any college’s women’s second boat has ever reached, but this is the first time the women’s second crew of any college has been in the first division in both Lents and Mays. Tim Perkins, also an Australian, rowed in the Cambridge crew which exceeded expectations in by giving Oxford a rather harder challenge than they were expecting: everyone was pleased to see that Tim rowed in the May Boat for the second year running. There have been no major single items of expenditure this year. This is entirely right as the trustees need to give Mark time to develop his views on the equipment and training needs of the club. The trust funded a training camp for the men’s and women’s first 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 79

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boats in Seville in December and a number of smaller equipment purchases. We look forward to significant expenditure in the near term. It is also becoming apparent that the boathouse is becoming in need of some substantial investment not only to maintain the fabric but also to bring its facilities up-to-date to match other colleges. The boathouse, of course, is not a matter for the trust, but rather the college. Our support for the club takes a wide variety of forms. The trustees have observed that current members of the club could benefit from some experience borrowed from the ‘world of work’ in what is known as ‘personal time management’ and in the coming year we will be working with them to assist them in this. The trust’s investments have continued to perform well, under the prudent management of our investment sub-committee and with the benefit of external advice. We are most grateful for one significant donation and for one bequest from Jesuans, both of which have been credited to the capital fund. There has been no change to our investment policy – a judicious mix of investing for capital growth and income, with all donations going to the capital fund – or to our policy of, in general, only spending income. It is apparent, however, that the resources of the trust, while sufficient to fund normal maintenance and replenishment at the club’s present level of equipment, are insufficient to give it competitive advantage, and the competition is undoubtedly moving on, whether in terms of boats or facilities on land or training methods. At the same time the number of people actively subscribing to the fund continues to decline. We must address both, and we will be doing so. We would encourage anyone to make a donation either in the form of regular giving or single gift or by way of legacy: please contact our treasurer, Chris McDouall, on [email protected] or me on [email protected]. We will continue our efforts to raise the profile of the trust, amongst present as well as past members, and of the JCBC itself externally, encouraging those within school boat clubs who meet the criteria to apply to Cambridge on merit to consider Jesus at the best college in which to study and to live and to fulfil their potential in rowing, whatever their level. We have continued our termly newsletters to alumni, edited by Richard Tett, and to encourage contact with and involvement of past members. Anyone who wishes to receive the newsletter should contact [email protected]. There is a JCBC alumni web page at http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/boatclub.html and an up to date JCBC website at jcbc.jesus.cam.ac.uk with news and photographs. We are reviving the past practice – omitted last year – of a ‘captains’ meeting’ in London in September to enable supporters to meet the new captains and the head coach: all are welcome. There is a constant need for coaches and I would strongly encourage those who are themselves encouraged by the results the club has been achieving and would like to help it do even better, which it is very keen to do, to contact the captains (email addresses below). I would like to thank last year’s captains, Alistair Hegarty and Annabel Ritchie, for everything they did during the year and to wish their successors Alexis Tran-viet – [email protected] – and Helen Boldon – [email protected] – all success in a year full of challenges but at the same time full of opportunities. Both of them will know that they have the full support not only of the trustees but also of all past members of the JCBC. David Wootton, Chairman 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 80

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Master Professor R.J. Mair, F.R.Eng., F.R.S. Fellows Dr J.R. Howlett, (president) M.M.L. (Russian) Dr W.C. Saslaw Astronomy Professor S.C. Heath, Ph.D., Litt.D. English (keeper of the old library) Dr S.B. Hladky Medicine Dr D. E. Hanke Botany Dr M.R. Minden M.M.L. (German) Mr N.J. Ray, M.A., A.R.I.B.A. Architecture Professor J.B. Thompson Social & Political Sciences Professor P.H. Nolan Chinese Management Professor I. Paterson, F.R.S. Chemistry Dr M.L.S. Sørensen Archaeology Dr G.T. Parks (admissions tutor) Engineering Dr J.M. Soskice (fellows’ steward) Theology Dr M.P.C. Oldham Law Dr P. Alexander (fellows’ wine steward) Physics Dr R. Mengham (curator of works of art) English Professor D.A.S. Compston, F.R.C.P. Neurology Professor M.M. Arnot, F.R.S.A., Ac.S.S. (graduate tutor) Education The Rev’d Dr T.D. Jenkins (dean of chapel) Theology Professor J.R. Crawford, S.C., F.B.A. International Law Professor R. Cipolla Engineering Professor Sir Bruce Ponder, F.R.C.P., F.R.S. Clinical Oncology Dr S. Fennell Land Economy Dr D.I. Wilson, C.Eng. Chemical Engineering Dr G. Kearns (financial tutor) Geography Dr J.A. Tooze (Gurnee F. Hart Fellow History in History, dean of college) Professor J.C.W. Mitchell Social & Political Sciences Dr J.W. Ajioka Medicine Professor S.A.T. Redfern Earth Sciences Professor J.M. Bacon Computer Science Dr J.P.T. Clackson (tutorial adviser) Classics Dr M.R. Laven History Dr T.S. Aidt Economics Dr S.T.C. Siklos (senior tutor) Mathematics Dr T.D. Wilkinson (deputy graduate tutor, Engineering keeper of the plate) Dr V. Mottier Social & Political Sciences Dr P. Krishnan Economics Dr F. Green English Professor I.H. White, F.R.Eng. Engineering Professor J.A. Dowdeswell Physical Geography Professor M. O’Brien History 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 81

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Dr N.G. Berloff Mathematics Dr H. le B. Skaer (tutorial adviser) Zoology Dr S.M. Clarke Chemistry Dr M.F. Gill M.M.L. (French) Dr A. Johnston Law Dr N.D. Drummond Physics Dr W. Federle Biology Dr D.M. Ingram (admissions tutor) Computer Science Mr J. Copeman Anthropology Professor A. De Meyer Business Management Dr B. Walton Music Dr O.A. Scherman Chemistry Dr R. Flemming (tutorial adviser) Classics Dr C.E. Chambers Philosophy Mr A.T. Crouch, M.A., F.C.M.A. (senior bursar) Mr R.J. P. Dennis, B.Sc. (development director and keeper of the records) Dr M.A. Moram Materials Science Mr Z. Douglas Law Professor J.J. Baumberg Physics Dr G.N. Wells Engineering Dr D.J. Kelly Social & Political Sciences Dr R.B. Gramacy Mathematics Emeritus Fellows Professor K.L. Johnson, Ph.D., F.R.Eng., F.R.S. Dr C.J. Adkins C.Phys., F.Inst.P. Dr D.S. Whitehead Dr J.A. Hudson Professor G.A. Gresham, M.D., Sc.D. Dr J.E. Roseblade Professor M.J. Waring, F.R.S.C., Sc.D. Dr J. Cameron Wilson Mr P.R. Glazebrook, M.A. Professor J.T. Killen, Ph.D., FB.A. Professor P.D.A. Garnsey, PhD, F.B.A. Sir Alan Cottrell, Sc.D., Hon. LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.Eng. (honorary fellow) Dr S. Evans Dr G.C. Harcourt, A.O., Litt.D., F.A.S.S.A., Ac.S.S. Professor D. K. Fieldhouse, Litt.D., F.B.A. Professor W.J. Stronge Dr R.D. Bowers Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, M.A., Sc.D., F.B.A. (honorary fellow) Professor R. Freeman, Sc.D., F.R.S. Mr R.A. Watchman, R.D., M.A. Mr A.J. Bowen, M.A. (praelector) Mr S.J. Barton, M.A. (editor of Annual Report) Honorary Fellows Professor Sir Denys Wilkinson, M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., Hon.Fil.Dr., Hon.LL.D Professor P.W. Anderson, M.A., F.R.S. Professor Dr Herbert Franke Sir Alan Cottrell, Sc.D., Hon LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.Eng. (emeritus fellow) 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 82

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Professor P. Mathias, C.B.E., M.A., D.Litt., F.BA. Sir Samuel Brittan, M.A., Hon.D.Litt. Lord Laing of Dunphail, F.R.S.E. Mr C. Hogwood, C.B.E., M.A., Hon.Mus.D. Miss Jessye Norman, M.Mus., Hon.Mus.D., Hon.D.H.L., Hon.R.A.M. Professor A.W. Cuthbert, Sc.D., F.R.S. The Hon. A.R. Gubbay, M.A., LL.M., S.C., Hon.LL.D Lord Renwick of Clifton, M.A., F.R.S.A., Hon.LL.D., Hon.D.Litt The Rt Hon Lord Stewartby of Portmoak, M.A., Litt.D., F.B.A., F.R.S.E. The Rt Hon Lord Rees of Ludlow, M.A., Ph.D, O.M., P.R.S. Professor S.S. Prawer, M.A., Ph.D., Litt.D., Hon.D.Litt., Dr.phil.h.c., F.B.A. Professor D.J. Furley, M.A., F.B.A. Sir Alistair Horne, C.B.E., M.A., Litt.D. Professor R.F. Tuck, M.A., F.B.A. Professor Dame Sandra Dawson, D.B.E., M.A., F.I.P.H., F.C.G.I., Hon.D.Sc., C.I.M. Sir David Hare, M.A., Hon.Litt.D., F.R.S.L. Mr A.M.D. Gormley, O.B.E., M.A., Hon.Litt.D. Reverend Professor B.W. Silverman, M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D., F.R.S. Lord Watson of Richmond, C.B.E., M.A., F.R.T.S. Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, M.A., Sc.D., F.B.A. (emeritus fellow) Professor L.A. Jardine, C.B.E., M.A., Ph.D. Dr P.J. Hurford, O.B.E., M.A., Mus.B., F.R.C.O. Mr S. Chatterjee, M.A. The Rt Hon Sir Roger Toulson, P.C., M.A., LL.B. Mr M. Perahia, F.R.C.M. Mr B. Flanagan, O.B.E., R.A. St Radegund Fellow Mr J Hudleston Fellow Commoners Mr J. Cornwell, M.A. Mr D. Hyde (director of chapel music), M.A., F.R.C.O Mrs A. Künzl-Snodgrass Dr C. Liu Dr B.M.B. Post Professor B.A.K. Rider, Ph.D., Hon. LL.D Dr S.S. Saxena Professor J. Mills Thornton Dr P.J. Williamson Dr F.H. Willmoth (archivist and assistant editor of Annual Report) College Research Associates Dr Y.M.J. Chew Dr J.F. Evers Dr L.R. Johnson Ms Y. Lei Dr S.R. Sewitz Dr M.D. Blumenthal Dr T.O. Corry Dr R.L. Cripps Dr S. Meehan Mr P. Moran 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 83

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Society of St Radegund Charles Rawlinson (1952) Raymond Kwok (1972) Geoffrey Granter (1957) Vivian Cox (1934) Eric Robinson (1942) Brian Buckley (1962) David Bennett Richard Bawden (1947) Firdaus Ruttonshaw (1968) Gurnee Hart (1994) James Meadows (1956) Andrew Sutton (1965) Christopher Rodrigues (1968) Christine Jennings Alasdair Morrison (1968) Tomás Carruthers (1986) Richard Briance (1971) Michael Marshall (1952) David Wootton (1969) Jessica Sainsbury (1989) Peter Doimi de Frankopan Subic (1990) Patrick Wilson (1974) Peter Day (1968) Charles Hoare Nairne (1989) Ray Cole (1957) 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 84

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Awards University Prizes, Grants and Scholarships, and External Awards Johnson-Matthey Bursary Kimberley E. Whittaker David Richards Travel Scholarships 2008 Claire L. Davey Eleanor K. Knott

University Tripos Prizes The Edward S. Prior Prize for Technical Work Christopher J. Kennedy The John Stewart of Rannoch Prize Sophie R. Mansell The Institution of Civil Engineers Prize for Thomas J. Heritage Management Studies The B P Prize for Outstanding Performance David C. Millican in NST Part IB Chemistry A in 2008 The Corporate Associates Prize for the best Francisco N. Newby Biological Project

College Awards, Elections and Prizes The Raymond and Helen Kwok Research Scholarship: Mr Yu Chen to study for a Ph.D. in the Department of Engineering, supervised by Prof Roberto Cipolla (from October 2008)

The David M. Livingstone (Australia) Scholarship Mr Tamerlane Camden-Dunne to study for an M.Phil. in the Faculty of Classics supervised by Professor Malcolm Schofield (from October 2008) Mr Benjamin Goodman to study for Master of Law (LL.M.) in the Faculty of Law (from October 2008) – supervisor to be appointed

The Kenneth Sutherland Memorial Scholarship Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon to study for a Ph.D. in the Department of Engineering, supervised by Dr Abir al-Tabaa

Choral Scholarships: Thomas Andrewes, William E. Gardner, Olympia C.I. Hetherington, Simon J. Jackson (Rawlinson Graduate Choral Scholarship), Victoria S. Mattinson, Lucy S. Williams.

Instrumental Exhibitions: Matthew P. Bartram, Robin B. Brown, Ewen H. Christie, William E. Gardner.

Thomas Cook Travel Scholarships: Lucie G.M. Fortune

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James Baddeley Poole Bursaries: Francesca M. de Meillac, Sophie R. Mansell, Megan E. Newcombe, Oliver Stevens.

Hugh Owen Memorial Award: Brendan Baker

Sir Moses and Lady Finley Travel Bursaries: Alice Burt, Katherine Cooper, Jong H. Lim, Samir Mahmoud

Jesus College Cambridge Society Travel Bursaries: H.Y. Bona Chow, Lucie G.M. Fortune, Helen I. Maduka, Matthew J.N. Owens, Amy A. Purser

Sir James Knott Bursary: Christopher Nixon

Sir Robbie Jennings Fund: Neil Amin-Smith, Moreed R. Arbabzadah, Robin B. Brown, Grace E. Chatto, Rebecca A. Crawshaw, Nikki Goldup, James Hindson, Jasmine J. Jagger, Timothy J. Johanson, Kate Parlett, Alice Walker

Scholarships for Graduate Students (awarded in Michaelmas 2007 for 2006–2007 results): Iona H. Robinson, Moreed R. Arbabzadah, James Cai, Stephen Benjamin, Laura Brody, Jocelyn P. Betts, Lucy Kaufman, Jorge Armanet, Alick Varma, Louise Woods, Christopher Geissler, James R. Marson, Christopher P. O’Rourke, Christopher Rimmer, Nicholas Jackson, Christopher Peters.

Scholarships: Andrew P. Acred, Ravindran J. Amaratunga, Miriam A. Arkush, Ruth Atkinson, Nicholas A.W. Bell, Udayan Bhattacharya, Christopher M. Blaum, Luke D. Bowers, Nicholas J.S. Brierley, Simon F. Brereton (2007), Spencer H. Bullent, Will D. Carroll (2007), Sally T. Clemo, Tobias R. Constantine-Cort, Jonathan H. Cook, Matthew R. Cottingham, Michael A. Coxhead, Anya J. Crocker, Nicholas D. Cross, William D. Crouch, Rhian E. Dare-Edwards, Francesca M. de Meillac, Henry C.R. Donati, Lucy C.D. Fielding, Elliott E. Furminger (2007), Patrick W. Gordon, Naomi G. Grant, Georgina E.C. Hamilton, Shiv R. Haria-Shah, James E. Head, Thomas J. Heritage, Rebeccah A. Homer, Frederick W. Hutchins, Josephine L. Illingworth, Richard J. Ingham, Christopher S.M. Jackson, Jeffrey W. James, Michael P. Johnson, Christopher J. Kennedy, Mark J. King, Eleanor K. Knott, Teresa M. Kyrke-Smith, Voon K. Lai, Heather Lalupu, Jonathan L.D. Lawson, Christopher S.Q. Limond, Kai Lin, Harris M. Lorie, David H.H. Mack, Thabodhan Mahendiran, Sophie R. Mansell, George E. Marshall, David C. Millican, Elizabeth Mitchell, Fiona Mitchell, Benjamin G. Moores, Sudharshan Murugesu, Eleanor C. Nalson, Vilius Naudziunas, Francisco N. Newby, Matthew P. Norris, Thomas D. O’Beirne, Andrew S. Papanastasiou, Gregory M. Patton, Tessa R. Peach, Mathew P. Robin, Michael S. Sagmeister, Camilla C. Shotton, Rohan Singhal, Matthew W.L. Smith, Clare L. Southworth, Phillida C. Strachan, Selma Telalagiˆc, Philip Tooke, Kristen E. Treen, Thomas J. Walton, James R. Waters, Eva-Marie Wates (2007), Daniel C. White, Kimberley E. Whittaker, Daniel R. Wilkins, Zachary J. Williams, Robert J. Wills, Hannah R. Wilbourne, Li-An K. Wong-Taylor, Nicholas L. Wright, Jian C. Wu, James A.G. Wyatt, Anna M. Young, James Y. Zou. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 87

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Exhibitions: Rory W. Attwood, Simon Banner, Joshua G Blanchard Lewis, Venetia Brown, Clair I. W. Brunner, Samuel A. Davey, Philipp Dumitrescu, Tom D.W. Forrester, Grace S.S. Goon, Tim Greenfield, Fenner T.P. Harper, Emily F. Hewlett, Benjamin J. Hosford, Anna Kalorkoti, Katie Kearsley-Wooller, Maria Kennedy, Qian X. Li, Zhewang Lin, Clare A. Longden, Matthew J.A. Lowe, Christopher P. Matthews, Ruth D. Meyer, Faisal S.M. Nasim, Eng S. Oh, George B. Owers, Evan R. Pan, Maximillian J.M. Shepherd, Joy U.L. Staniforth, Victoria L. Stevens, Alexander D. Walker, Christopher M. Wallace, Emma V. Walley, Victoria A. Watson, Richard S. Whittle, Jennifer L. Wilson, Adam S. Woolnough, Joanne E. Young, Ruize Zhao.

Prizes: Senior Keller Selma Telalagi˘c Keller Thomas J. Heritage Elizabeth Mitchell Francisco N. Newby Jian C. Wu Anna M. Young Benefactor’s (2004) Ravindran J. Amaratunga Miriam A. Arkush William D. Crouch Fenner T.P. Harper George B. Owers Camilla C. Shotton Victoria A. Watson Sir Leslie Martin (Architecture) Christopher J. Kennedy Farrell (Greek Studies) Elizabeth Mitchell Brereton (Classics Part IB) Sophie R. Mansell Carruthers (Computer Studies) Part IB: David H.H. Mack Part II: Vilius Naudziunas Malthus Economics: Selma Telalagi˘c SPS: George B. Owers Evans (Engineering Part IA) Grace S.S. Lai Engineers’ (Part IB) Voon K. Lai Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English) Naomi G. Grant Schiff (History Part II) Mark J. King Glanville Williams (LL.M.) Felicity J. Nagorcka Bronowski (Mathematics Part IA) Samuel A. Davey Ware (Mathematics Part IB) James E. Head Sir Harold Spencer Jones (Mathematics Part II) Jian C. Wu R.A. Watchman (Mathematics Part III) Andrew S. Papanastasiou Eliot (Modern & Medieval Languages Part II) Clare L. Southworth James Perrett (Medical Sciences Part IA) Joy U.L. Staniforth and Clair I.W. Brunner (shared) Duckworth (Meidcal Sciences Parts IA and IB) Li-An K. Wong-Taylor Roberts (Pathology) Li-An K. Wong-Taylor 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 88

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Wellings (Natural Sciences Part IA) Fenner T.P. HarperJohn Gulland (Natural Sciences (Biological) Hannah R. Wilbourne Parts IA & IB) John Gulland (Natural Sciences Part II) Josephine L. Illingworth Sir Alan Cottrell (Natural Sciences (Physical) Kimberley E. Whittaker, Part II or Part III) Philip Tooke Duncan McKie (Natural Sciences Part II or III) Eleanor C. Nalson, Francisco N. Newby Frank Allhusen (study and research in Chemistry) Kimberley E. Whittaker Corrie and Otter (Theology and Religious Studies) Miriam A. Arkush Valérie Tyssens Simon Banner (MML Part I: French Language) G F Hart (History Prelims to Part I) Faisal S.M. Nasim Glanville Williams (Law Part IA) Adam S. Woolnough Lovell (Law Part IB) Shiv R. Haria-Shah Russell Vick (Law) Luke D. Bowers Reid-Henry (Geography Supervision Essay) Clare A. Longden Sir Peter Gadsden (for the best result Christopher J. Peters by an Australian doing one-year taught Master’s course in 2006–2007) Crighton (Music) Anna C. Harvey Gray Reading Prizes Chapel: Helen T.M. Davies Hall: Olympia C.I. Hetherington Morgan (English essay) Lucy M.F. Razzall Prawer (dramatic criticism) Charlotte Langley Edwin Stanley Roe (for outstanding marks in Rebeccah A. Homer Tripos examinations for a dissertation) Matthew A. Kay Matthew R. Cottingham Sir Denys Page Award (for Classics Emma P. Lowth students to travel to Greece) Lucy N. Rhodes Renfrew (for the most significant contribution Samuel B.S. Hanson to the musical life of the College) Waring Award (for sporting achievement) James A.G. Wyatt Thian Prize Ailsa G. Bradbury

College Prizes: Archaeology & Anthropology Part IIB Georgina E.C. Hamilton Chemical Engineering Part I Michael P. Johnson Chemical Engineering Part IIA Michael A. Coxhead Chemical Engineering Part IIB Patrick W. Gordon Economics Part I Matthew J.A. Lowe Education Studies Part I Frederick W. Hutchins Education Studies Part II Rebeccah A. Homer Engineering Part IIA Benjamin G. Moores 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 89

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Engineering Part IIB Anna M. Young English Preliminary Examination to Part I Rory W. Attwood English Part I Kristen E. Treen Geography Part IA Clare A. Longden Geography Part IB Eleanor K. Knott Law Part IA Katie Kearsley-Wooller Management Studies Nicholas J.S. Brierley Manufacturing Engineering Part I Sally T. Clemo Modern & Medieval Languages Part IA Maria Kennedy Modern & Medieval Languages Part IB Fiona Mitchell Music Part II Camilla C. Shotton Natural Sciences (Biological) Part IA Zhewang Lin Natural Sciences Part IB (Chemistry) David C. Millican Natural Sciences Part II (History and Matthew R. Cottingham Philosophy of Science) Natural Sciences Part II (Physics) Daniel R. Wilkins Natural Sciences Part II (Physiology, Nicholas L. Wright Development and Neuroscience) Natural Sciences Part III (Biochemistry) Thabodan Mahendiran Natural Sciences Part III (Geological) Anya J. Crocker Philosophy Part II William D. Crouch Social & Political Sciences Part I Victoria A. Watson Social & Political Sciences Part IIA Francesca M. de Meillac Social & Political Sciences Part IIA Gregory M. Patton

Tripos Results

2008 2007 2006 Number of Examinations taken 507 477 486 Number obtaining First Class (or stars) 120 108 104 Number obtaining Second Class (Upper) 238 229 228 Number obtaining Second Class (Lower) 71 62 68 Number obtaining Second Class (Undivided) 31 26 36 Number obtaining Third Class 7 11 11 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 90

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Approved for Ph.D.s The following were approved for Ph.D.s. The title of each dissertation is shown after the name of the person by whom it was submitted. M. D. BENEDICT Advances in anisotropic particulate simulation V. BIGO Underlabouring for modern economics with a focus on care C. S. BOLTON Prosocial decision-making in men with learning disabilities S. M. BUNT Renal tubule morphogenesis in Drosophila E. K. CHOI Technological choices in the rise of the Meiji cotton-spinning industry c1870–1900 Y. CHU Quantum dot lasers and modulators for optical telecommunications K. H. CHUNG Effects of piles on tunnels F. M. COOKE The role of localisation in regulating proteolysis in mitosis A. D. CORBETT A holographic modal wave front sensor for ocular adaptive optics M. CUTRESS Structural basis for the nuclear import of the human androgen receptor V. K. DE SOUZA Glassy dynamics and the potential energy landscape K. R. DOMIKE A study of large-scale aggregation mechanisms and kinetics of ß-lactoglobulin protein D. K. EDGE Tangible user interfaces for peripheral interaction: episodic engagement with objects of physical, digital and social significance D. S. ETEROVIC Essays in political economics: effects of institutions on policy outcomes M. G. FRAMPTON The political strategy of Sinn Féin, 1981–2005 T. W. GREGGS Restoring particularity: the economic dynamics of Spirit and Son, with special reference to the theologies of Origen and Karl Barth J. Y. HA WDM/SCM PON incorporating a novel CWDM uplink combiner H. IQTIDAR The changing role of ‘Muslim fundamentalists’ in Pakistan P. JAMES Retention and retreat: complementary participles and infinitives with verbs of perception and declaration in the Roman and Byzantine documentary papyri J. L. JONES Long-lived immunomodulation following Campath-1H T-K. KIM Discriminant analysis of patterns in images, image ensembles and videos R. T. KÖNIG de Finetti theorems for quantum states S.-C. LEE Power and resistance: the study of gender education policy in Taiwan H. M. MARKLAND Maternal investment in the European Blackbird Turdus merula R. I. MUGFORD Numerical modelling of sediment delivery from tidewater glaciers to the marine environment E. I. OKSANEN The relations between England and Flanders, 1066–c. 1200, with special reference to the Anglo-Flemish treaties M. H. PATTERSON Private military actors in United Nations peacekeeping and humanitarian operations T. J. RICHARDS Internal potentiometry of polymer field effect transistors J. A. L. STAFFORD The stereochemical determination and total synthesis of reidispongiolide A 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 91

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D. M. TRAMBAIOLO Crystallographic studies of bacterial cell division proteins J. M. K. S. U-KING-IM Evaluation of carotid atherosclerotic disease by Magnetic Resonance Imaging J. L. WINWOOD Cytokinins and oxidative stress in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) M. WOOD Synthesis and evaluation of selective thiamin diphosphate antagonists R.ZHANG Manufacturing integration processes in international horizontal mergers and acquisitions J. T. L. ZWART Preparing for blind surveys with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 92

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People J. D. N BARDOLPH (1961) has spent 49 years teaching English, French and Spanish, concluding as a housemaster at (), and is still engaged in supply teaching (at the age of 71). He has travelled widely, guiding tourists throughout Europe, Scandinavia, Finland and the UK. As a keen rider of bicycles and motorbikes, he ‘is at present on his 148th vehicle’. D. L. A. BARKER (1986) has been appointed a foundation fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. C. J. BENNETTS (1960) retired as Bishop of Coventry on 31 January 2008. R. W. BENTLEY (1969) retired from NHS management early in 2007, after 34 years and nearly as many reorganisations. Since 1986 he has served as personnel/human resources director for NHS Trusts in Worthing and Crawley/Horsham (Sussex), and latterly for Surrey Ambulance Service. He is now working as an occasional freelance HR consultant. F. A. C. S. BOWN (1968) has resigned the benefice of St Stephen Sculcoates, in the Diocese of York, and taken up a new career as a writer. He describes hotels and restaurants for Bown’s Best and gentlemen’s clothes for Bown’s Bespoke (www.bownsbest.com and www.bownsbespoke.com). S. E. BROCKLEBANK-FOWLER (1979) has accepted a pro bono appointment as an honorary visiting fellow at the Finance Faculty of the Cass Business School. He has also joined the advisory board of the Institute of Continuing Education, Cambridge University. He is completing his tenth year as executive chairman of Cubitt Consulting, the international corporate and investor communications consultancy with headquarters in London and New York (www.cubitt.com). J. M. S. BROWN (1988) is currently living in Sydney with her husband David BROWN (1987) and their three daughters aged 7, 6 and 2. T. S. COUZENS (1978) has been appointed co-principal bassoon of the English National Opera Orchestra. C. P. DAVIES (1980) is currently director of ‘radio and convergent media’ for the UK communications regulator, . J. A. DAVIES (1989) has been working/settled in Nottingham for the past twelve years on a temporary basis, but now has a consultant anaesthetist post (with a special interest in ‘plastics and burns’) at the City Hospital in Nottingham so can plan to stay there long-term. He sees Dr Iain Moppett (1988) and Dr Jonathan Mole (1987) regularly, as they are also both consultant anaesthetists in Nottingham, and they all attend St Giles’ Church in West Bridgford. If he ever gets any spare time, he enjoys listening to a wide variety of music and trying to regain some of his former fitness (by running and cycling). Y.DENG (2003), regarded as one of the greatest table tennis players in the history of the sport (she won six world championships and four Olympic championships between 1989 and 1997), was a member of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 93

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and vice director of Beijing’s Olympic Village. She is currently studying for a Ph.D. in land economy at the college. N. A. FLECK (1976) professor of engineering, director of Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics; head of mechanics, materials & design, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. A. K. FYFE (1993) continues to be a university lecturer in the History Department at the National University of Ireland, Galway, whilst her husband Paul SMITH (1997) is a Marie Curie research fellow in the Mathematics Department there. See the Births section below for news of the arrival of their first child. J. GUPTA (1982) is a senior advocate practising in India, mostly in areas of commercial and administrative law. M. T. HANNEY (2003) is working for Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, as political adviser in the ‘Internal Party Liaison’ section of his office. The Honourable Mr Justice R. M. JACKSON (1967) has been appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal with effect from 1 October 2008. A. R. C. KERSHAW (1971) has recently been appointed the first chairman of ILEX Professional Standards Ltd, the regulatory arm of the Institute of Legal Executives. M. F. MARIX EVANS (1960) has been appointed honorary visiting fellow in the Centre for English Local History, Leicester, for five years (from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2013), in recognition of his work on the history of the Battle of Naseby and on the impact of the contemporary terrain and land-use on the conduct and outcome of the battle. After seven years as chairman of the Naseby Battlefield Project, he has become its deputy chairman. The project has acquired land and is starting work on the construction of a visitor centre – see www.naseby.com. E S MASKIN (Research Fellow 1976–77), was the co-winner, along with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson, of the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ‘for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.’ S. R. MIDDLETON (1989) joined nabCapital, part of National Australia Bank (owner of the Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks) as managing director and head of project finance Europe in August 2006. His growing team is responsible for the structuring and financing of major projects (power stations, roads, schools, hospitals, dams, wind plants, bridges, airports and tunnels) across Europe. Silvina MILSTEIN (1986) was commissioned by the Association for Cultural Exchange to compose a piece of music in celebration of the organisation’s fiftieth anniversary. The piece, Surrounded By Distance, was premiered by the London Sinfonietta under Oliver Knussen at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 8 June 2008. Silvina is a senior lecturer in music at King’s College, London. K. M. MORRELL (1991) has been appointed a senior lecturer in the Business School at the University of Birmingham. R. W.H. PURDY (1977) was awarded a Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service in 2007, following operational service in Afghanistan. J. E. REES (1996) has joined Apex Chambers (criminal specialist set) in Cardiff and is still a member of chambers at 5 Paper Buildings in London – practising in both London and Wales. R. H. RICHARDS (1966), director of the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling, received a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2008, in recognition of his services to veterinary science. From 1989 he has advised key industry associations, including the Scottish Salmon Growers’ Association, Scottish Quality Salmon and the Scottish Salmon 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 94

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Producers’ Organisation. He has been a member of a number of joint government-industry working groups and has contributed to the development of industry codes of practice, the Scottish Framework for Sustainable Aquaculture and the Scottish Aquaculture Bill; he is also a member of the UK Research Assessment Exercise panel for 2008 and, since 2001, of the international panel of Norway’s Research Council Centres of Excellence Scheme. D. L. SETCHELL (1957) was awarded an honorary doctorate of philosophy by the University of Gloucestershire after serving eleven years on its council and six years as chairman. T. A. STALLARD (1998) won a silver medal at the Beijing Olympics as a member of the Team GB men’s VIII. R. J. TAUNT (1967) retired from Smiths Group early in 2008. He and Gill then moved to Lymington, Hampshire, where they spend a great deal of time campaigning a J109 offshore racing boat punningly called ‘JIBE’. P. J. TWISS (2001) since graduating in 2005 has joined the Royal Navy as an engineering officer. L. E. TWISS (née CAMPBELL, 2001) since graduating in 2005 has spent time working in engineering, but is now pursuing a career as a teacher. S. C. WICKS (1943) retired from teaching English in 2007. He worked in direct grant and local authority schools, and for the Workers’ Educational Association. He comments on his indebtedness to E. M. W.Tillyard, A. P. Rossiter ‘and Cambridge altogether, especially for its choral and other music’. T. D. WILSON (1983) has completed medical school at the University of Auckland and is now working as a junior doctor at Dunedin Public Hospital, New Zealand. J. WILTON-ELY (1958) was guest curator of the exhibition Piranesi as Designer, at the Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; he was wholly responsible for planning the displays and selecting the material. The exhibition was shown from September 2007 to January 2008, and was then transferred to Holland, where it was shown at the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, from February to May 2008. See the publications list below for the accompanying book.

Births Rodolphe d’ARJUZON (1995) and his wife Helen d’ARJUZON (1996) have a son, Félix Benjamin Gabriel, born on 29 January 2008. Joanna BROWN (1988, née Wallace) and her husband David BROWN (1987) have three daughters aged 7, 6 and 2. Pablo CEPPI (2001) and Macarena IBARRA (2001) have a third daughter, Antonia, born on 12 July, a sister for Isidora and Josefina. T. Simon COUZENS (1978) and his wife Helena have twins: Lucy, born 1 October 2007, and Samuel, born 2 October 2007. Jonathan DAVIES (1989) and his wife Karin Elisabeth Gmuer have two sons: Luc Henry was born in 2004, and Alec Walter was born at the beginning of February 2008. Amanda DEMPSTER (née Piachaud) (1993) and Robert DEMPSTER (1992) have a second daughter, Florence Rose, born 17 March 2007, a sister for Alice. Aileen FYFE (1993) and Paul SMITH (1997) are delighted to announce the birth of their first child, Lucy Katherine Fyfe Smith, born on 24 March 2008. Nick GOWERS (1998) and his wife Laura Kindner have a daughter, Jemimah Grace, born on 12 September 2007. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 95

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Matthew LAWSON (1990) and Nicola LAWSON (née Hatch) (1990) have four children: Esther, born in December 2006, Gabriel, born in January 2005, Jonty, born in February 2003, and Naomi, born in July 2001. Aimee MIDDLEMISS (1993) and her husband Matt Frost have a second daughter, Miranda Hope, born on 12 September 2007, a sister for Ida. Sarah MORRELL (née Shepherd) (1994) and her husband Dr Kevin MORRELL (1991) have a daughter, Emily Jessica, born on 12 June 2007, their first child. Justin PARKINSON (1994) and his wife Caroline have a daughter, Iris Marian Gwendoline, born on 7 June 2007. Jonathan REES (1996) and his wife Claire have a son, Joseph Llywelyn, born September 2007. Emma SEDDON (née Jackson) (1994) and her husband Mike (Magdalene 1993) have a twin girl and boy, Rosie and Ben, born on 12 April 2007. Victor SEIDEL (1997) and wife Sandra Shefelbine (Churchill 1997) have a son, Corbin Franklin, born on 1 June 2007. Ray TARLING (1989) and his wife Tracey have a son, Adam Ethan, born on 26 June 2007, their first child. Neil THWAITES (1995) and his wife Annette (née ROSE, 1995) have a daughter, Heidi Rose, born on 13 December 2007, their first child. Fay TINNION (1992) and her husband Stephen Bloomer have a son, Tom, born on 30 November 2007. Anne WHITEHOUSE (1987) and her husband Henri Winand have a daughter, Rebecca Lily, born on 14 December 2006. Her brother Alexander is delighted; ‘we would all like more sleep though!’ Tim WILSON (1983) has a first son, Samuel, born on 19 April 2007.

Marriages and civil partnerships Dr Toke S. AIDT (Fellow, 1998) was married to Dr Vania Sena on 20 July 2008 in the Senior Combination Room, Jesus College. Sarah CANTWELL (1993) married Michael Lea (Pembroke 1992) on 30 June 2007. Jonathan DAVIES (1989) married Karin Elisabeth Gmuer in October 1999 (a Swiss girl – they met skiing in Austria) and they now have two sons (see above). Nia DAVIES (1995) married Alistair Willey on 29 September 2007 at Chirk Castle, Wrexham. Peter DAVIES (1980) registered his civil partnership with James Jolly in London on 19 May 2006. Anita DELAFIELD (1993) married Jamie Grainger Horner on 22 July 2006. Aileen FYFE (1993) married Dr Paul SMITH (King’s 1992, Jesus 1997, Robinson Fw 2000) on 7 April 2007 in Upper Hall, Jesus College. Nick GOWERS (1998) married Laura Kidner on 14 January 2006 at St Thomas’ Oakwood. Jonathan REES (1996) married Claire Louise Jacklin in July 2006 at Llanstephan Church, Powys, Wales. Ray TARLING (1989) married Tracey on 29 October 2005 at St Mary’s in Blackheath, London. Neil THWAITES (1995) married Annette ROSE (1995) on 27 October 2007 at Marylebone Registry Office. Paul TWISS (2001) married Laura CAMPBELL (2001) in December 2006 in Belfast. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 96

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Books and articles by members and old members (* Denotes a gift to the college libraries) Please note that the donations acknowledged here are those received before the end of July 2008. Any items received after that date will be listed in next year’s Report. Many Fellows contributed articles to Jesus: the Life of a Cambridge College (2007); for space reasons these have not been separately listed in the following entries. BACON, J (Fw,[]) (i) with Alastair Beresford, David Evans, David Ingram, Niki Trigoni, Alexandre Guitton, and Antonios Skordylis ‘TIME: An open platform for capturing, processing and delivering transport-related data’ in Fifth IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2008, Session on Sensor Networks in Intelligent Transportation Systems, pages 687–691 (Las Vegas, Nevada, US, January 2008); (ii) with David Eyers, Jatinder Singh, and Peter Pietzuch ‘Access control in publish/subscribe systems’ in DEBS ‘08: Proceedings of the second international conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems, pages 23–34 (ACM, 2008); (iii) with Jatinder Singh, Luis Vargas, and Ken Moody in Policy 2008, IEEE 9th International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, pages 137–144 (Palisades, NY, USA, IEEE Computer Society, June 2008). * BARBER, L. (1992), selected and ed. Penguin’s Poems for Life (London, 2007). * BERTONOLI MELI, D. (1989), Thinking with Objects: the Transformation of Mechanics in the Seveteenth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2006). * CASSIMATIS, A. E. (1989), Human Rights Related Trade Measures under International Law (Leiden and Boston, Matinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007). * CLACKSON, J. P. T. (1998) (i) Indo-European linguistics; an introduction (paperback, CUP 2007); (ii) with G. Horrocks, The Blackwell History of the Latin Language (Blackwell 2007). * CLISSOLD, L. F. (1979), Why the Chinese Don’t Count Calories (2008). * COOKE, G. O. J. (1955), member of working group which produced The Forensic Use of Bioinformation: ethical issues (Nuffield Council on Bioethics, London, 2007). COPEMAN, J. (Fw 2006), (i) ‘Veinglory: Exploring Processes of Blood Transfer Between Persons’, reprinted from 2005 in special issue of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, March (2008); (ii) ‘Violence, Non-violence, and Blood Donation in India’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 14:2 (2008), pp. 277–295. * DE LACEY, G. J. (1957), with S. Morley and L. Berman, The Chest X-ray: a Survival Guide (Saunders Elsevier: Philadelphia, 2008). * ELLIOTT, W. J. (1959), The New Testament in Greek, IV – The Gospel According to St John: vol. 2, The Majuscules, ed. by U B. Schmid with W. J. Elliott and D. C. Parker (Brill: Leiden and Boston, 2007. * EVANS, R. J. W. (1962), Rudolph II and his World (paperback edn, Thames and Hudson, 1997). FEDERLE, W. (Fw 2005), (i) with C. Clemente, ‘Pushing versus pulling: division of labour between tarsal attachment pads in cockroaches’, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Vol. 275 (2008), pp. 1329–1336; (ii) with U. Bauer and H. F. Bohn ‘Harmless nectar source or deadly trap: Nepenthes pitchers are activated by rain, condensation and nectar’, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Vol. 275 (2008), pp. 259–265; (iii) with I. Scholz and W. Baumgartner 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 97

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‘Micromechanics of smooth adhesive organs in stick insects: pads are mechanically anisotropic and softer towards the adhesive surface’, Journal of Comparative Physiology A 194 (2008), pp. 373–384; (iv) with T. Endlein ‘Walking on smooth or rough ground: passive control of pretarsal attachment in ants’, Journal of Comparative Physiology A Vol. 194, pp. 49–60. * GILLIS, R. J. (1976), Navigational Servitudes: Sources, Applications, Paradigms (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden and Boston, US, 2007). GIMLETTE, J. E. (1982) Panther Soup: A European Journey in War and Peace (Hutchinson, 2008). * HAPPÉ, P. (1978), (i) The Towneley Cycle:Unity and Diversity (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2007); (ii) ed., with W. Hüsken, Interludes and Early Modern Society: studies in gender, power and theatricality (Amsterdam, 2007); (iii) ‘Staging God in Last Judgement Plays in England, France and Italy’, in J.P. Bordier and A. Lascombes, eds., Diue et les dieux dans le théâtre de las Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 151–70; (iv) ‘Printing the Third Volume of Jonson’s Works’, Ben Jonson Journal 14 (2007), pp. 20–42; (v) ‘Expositor Figures in some Cycle Plays in French and German’, in P. Butterworth , ed., The Narrator, the Expositor and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre (Brepols: Turnhout 2007), pp. 45–68. HARCOURT, G. C. (Fw 1982), (i) ‘The relevance of the Cambridge-Cambridge controversies in capital theory for econometric practice’ in P. Arestis, M. Baddeley and J. S. L. McCombie, eds., Economic Growth: New Directions in Theory and Policy (Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, USA), 2007, pp.117–35; (ii) ‘What is the Cambridge approach to economics?’ in E. Hein and A. Truger, eds., Money, Distribution and Economic Policy: Alternatives to Orthodox Macroeconomics (Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, USA, 2007), pp.11–30; (iii) ‘Markets, madness and a Middle Way revisited’, The Economic and Labour Relations Review, vol. 17, April 2007, pp.1–10, with corrected version in vol. 18, November 2007; (iv) ‘The Structure of Post-Keynesian Economics: The Core Contributions of the Pioneers’, History of Economics Review, No. 45, Winter 2007, pp. 95–105. HUNTER, M.C.W (1968), ed. with P. Anstey, The Text of Robert Boyle’s ‘Designe about Natural History’ (Occasional Papers of the Robert Boyle Project, London, 2007). * HORNSBY, D. C. (1986), Redefining Regional French: Koinéization and dialect levelling in Northern France (Legenda – Studies in Linguistics 3, MHRA/Maney Publishing, 2006). * KAY, A. (1991), contributor to The Companies Act 2006 – a commentary, eds B. Hannigan and D. Prentice (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2007). KEMP, I. C. (1978), ‘Process-Systems Simulation Tools’, ch. 7 in Modern Drying Technology vol. 1, eds. A. S. Mujumdar and E. Tsotas (Wiley-VCH, 2007); co-author of ch. 12, ‘Drying’, in Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook, 8th edn (McGraw-Hill, 2007). * LUDLOW, C. P. (1973) Shadows in Wonderland: a Hospital Odyssey (Hammersmith Press, London, 2008). MAIR, R. J. (Master 2001), (i) with C. K.Choy and J. R. Standing ‘Stability of a loaded pile adjacent to a slurry-supported trench’, Géotechnique 57/10 (2007), pp. 807–819; (ii) with A. S. Merritt, ‘Mechanics of tunnelling machine screw conveyors: a theoretical model’, Géotechnique 58/2 (2008), pp.79–94; (iii) with A. Klar, A. M. Marshall and K. Soga, ‘Tunnelling effects on jointed pipelines’ Canadian Geotechnical Journal 45/1(2008), pp. 131–139; (iv) with P. S. Dimmock, ‘Effect of 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 98

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building stiffness on tunnelling-induced ground movement’, Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, Vol. 23/4 (2008), pp. 438–450. MARTIN, D. H. (1987), Managing Risk in Extreme Environments: Front-line Business Lessons for Corporates and Financial Institutions (Kogan Page Ltd, 2007). MARTYN, J. G. R. (1962), ed. with Nicholas Caddick, Williams, Mortimer and Sunnucks on Executors, Administrators and Probate (London, Sweet & Maxwell, 2008). MENGHAM, R. (Fw 1973), (i) with S. Gilmartin, Thomas Hardy’s Shorter Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2007); (ii) ‘Doris Salcedo’s Un-forms’, in Doris Salcedo (London: White Cube, 2007), pp. 25–27; (iii) ‘Frostworks’ in Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, ‘Under the Snow’ (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2007, associated with an exhibition in Dortmund and Tampere, Finland) p.52–88; (iv) ‘The Real Avant-Garde’, in Room to Live in: a Kettle’s Yard Anthology, ed. T. Yoseloff (Salt Publishing, 2007) pp. 70–73. * MOTTIER, V. (Fw 1999), (i) Sexuality (in the Very Short Introduction series, Oxford University Press, 2008), copies given to the Jesuan Collection and the Quincentenary Library; (ii) ed. with L. Von Mandach, Pflege, Stigmatisierung und Eugenik: Integration und Ausschluss in Medizin, Psychiatrie und Sozialhilfe, (Zürich: Seismo, 2007), including ‘introductions’ in German and French versions, pp.7–25; (iii) ‘Eugenics, Politics and the State: Social-Democracy and the Swiss Gardening State’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 39(2) (2007), pp. 263–269; (iv) ‘Metaphors, Mini-Narratives and Foucauldian Discourse Theory’, in T. Carver and J. Pikalo, eds, Political Language and Metaphor (London: Routledge, 2008); (v) ‘Meaning, Identity, Power: Metaphors and Discourse Analysis’, Travaux de sciences politiques, Université de Lausanne: Institut d’études politiques et internationales 30 (2007). MURRAY, A. L. (1949), (i) ‘The exchequer cat, 1715–1842’, Scottish Archives 12 (2006), pp. 53–56 (ii) ‘The parish clerk and song school of Inverness, 1538–9’, The Innes Review, 58 no. 1 (Edinburgh, 2007) pp. 107–115. O’BRIEN, M. (1993, Fw 2002), (i) ‘Amoralities Not For Turning: Response to Cotkin’, Journal of the History of Ideas 69 (2008), pp. 323–326; (ii) ‘Victorian Piety Practiced’, Modern Intellectual History 5 (2008), pp. 153–163. PASEAU, A. C. (2002) with M.Leng and M. Potter, eds., Mathematical Knowledge, [papers from the ‘Mathematical Knowledge’ conference, Cambridge June-July 2004] (Oxford University Press, 2007). * PENZEL, J. (1996), Variation und Imitation: ein literarischer Kommentar zu den Epigrammen des Antipater von Sidon und des Archias von Antiocheia (Bochumer Altertumwissenschaftliches Colloquium, vol. 71; Trier, 2006). PONDER, B. A. J. (Fw 1962), (i) with D. F. Easton and 102 others ‘Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci’, Nature 447 (2007), pp. 1087–1093; (ii) with P. D. P. Pharoah, A. Antoniou and D. F. Easton, ‘Polygenes and breast cancer susceptibility: Implications for risk prediction and targeted prevention’, New England Journal of Medicine (in press). * PRADELLA, G. M. (2001), contributor to A. Wright and N. Hastie Genes and common diseases (CUP, 2007). 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 99

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* ROBINSON, E. H. (1942), ‘A thousand years of western technology in one volume ...’, essay review of Robert Friedel, A Culture of Improvement (2007), in Technology and Culture 49 (Jan. 2008), pp. 215–29. * RUMBOLD, V. (1980), ed., The poems of Alexander Pope, vol. III: The Dunciad (1728) and The Dunciad Variorum (1729) (Pearson Longman, Harlow, 2007). SOSKICE, J. M. (Fw 1988) The Kindness of God; Metaphor, Gender, and Religious Language (Oxford University Press, 2007). STACE, W. H. (1984), By George (Jonathan Cape, London, and Little, Brown, New York, 2007). * STEWART, R. P. D. (1981), ed. with J. L Powell, Jackson & Powell on Professional Liability; first supplement to the sixth edition (The Common Law Library: Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell, 2007). STONE, N. (1986), (i) Mr Clarinet (Penguin, 2006), winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, 2006; (ii) King of Swords (Michael Joseph, 2007). * TAYLOR, J. J. (1999), (i) ‘Leveraging the global to empower local struggles: ...’, in Human Security vol. 1 no. 2, St Anthony’s International Review (November 2005), pp. 102–117; (ii) with C. Murphy and others, ‘Land and natural resource mapping by San communities and NGOs: experiences from Namibia’ in Participatory Learning and Action 54 – Mapping for change ... (IIED, April 2006), pp. 79–84. * TAYLOR, M. (1977) Java and SQL: a programmer’s guide (self-published, 2007). WALTON, B. T. (2006), Rossini in Restoration Paris (Cambridge University Press, 2007). WARING, M. J. (Fw 1965) (i), with G. Wells, C. R. H. Martin et al., ‘Design, synthesis and biophysical and biological evaluation of a series of pyrrolobenzodiazepine (PBD)- poly(N-methylpyrrole) conjugates’, Journal of Medical Chemistry 49 (2006), pp. 5442–5461; (ii) with L. D. Van Vliet, T. Ellis et al., ‘Molecular recognition of DNA by rigid [n]-polynorbornane-derived bifunctional intercalators: Synthesis and evaluation of their binding properties’, Journal of Medical Chemistry 50 (2007), pp. 2326–2340. * WILTON-ELY, J. (1958), with S. Lawrence, Piranesi as designer (Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum/Editions Assouline, New York, 2007) – see also members’ news.

Other gifts to the college libraries Brian BUCKLEY (1962) has presented fine facsimile editions of The Luttrell Psalter (Cambridge University Press for the Folio Society, 2006; limited edition no. 155), The Holkham Bible (Cambridge University Press for the Folio Society, 2007; limited edition no.75) and The Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, ed. by Charles Darwin (produced in association with the Royal Geographical Society, 1994). Michael DARLING (1950) has presented a copy of Flora Londinensis (1777 and 1798), described elsewhere in this Report. Peter GARNSEY (Fw, 1974) has given a collection of his publications: Social Status and Legal Privilege in the Roman Empire (Oxford University Press, 1970); ed with C. R. Whittaker, Trade and Famine in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge Philological Society, 1983); ed. with C. Humfries, The Evolution of the Late Antique World (Orchard Academic, 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 100

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Cambridge, 2001); and, to the Quincentenary Library, volumes 11–13 of The Cambridge Ancient History, ed. by him with A. K. Bowman, A. Cameron et al. Emily DOURISH (née MITCHELL, 1995), has presented a copy of her librarianship dissertation: ‘Rare books, retroconversion and recataloguing: recommendations for the Old Library of Jesus College, Cambridge’ (London, 2007) Susan MacDougall, daughter of the late F. G. W. JONES (1933), has donated a copy of his posthumously published papers ‘A contribution to the epidemiology of the cyst nematodes Heterodera schactii Schm., Globodera rostochiensis Woll. and G. pallida Stone in north-west Europe’ and ‘Modelling the within-field spread of the potato cyst-nematode, Globodera rostochiensis Woll.’ (Bulletins no. 3 and 4 of the F.G.W. Jones Family Historical Series, Canberra, Australia, Dec. 2007) Mike PERCIVAL (1983) has presented a copy of Steve Fairbairn’s Rowing in a nutshell, The endless chain movement (ed. T. B. Langton) and several books written by Quiller-Couch, from his parents’ collection. A. YOULE (1965) has given two volumes by Sir Alan Cottrell: The Mechanical Properties of Matter (1964) and An Introduction to Metallurgy (1967) Dr Christine McKie has presented a copy of Carl Hoffmann, Pflanzen-Atlas nach dem Linné’schen System (Stuttgart, 1883), from the library of Duncan McKie

Bequests and other gifts The college wishes to record its great gratitude for the following bequests received during the academic year 2007–8: Sir Peter Gadsden (1949) £10,000; A H McKinnon (1951) £5,000; Mrs M Brittain £209,184*; Mr F Barnsdale (1936) £1,000; N H Perrin (1943) £2,094; Mrs J A Hutchinson in memory of G A Hutchinson (1943) £460,000; Sir Arthur Marshall (1922) £50,000; G Holdsworth (1943) £500.

*During her lifetime, Mrs Brittain had also gifted her house in South Mimms to the college; after her death, this realised £600,000,.

A new piece of silver for the college It is not often that we acquire new pieces of silver, so were particularly pleased when earlier this year Michael Marshall (1952) presented the college with a silver model of de Havilland 60 Gipsy Moth G – AAEH in memory of his father Sir Arthur Marshall (1922). Sir Arthur learnt to fly in a DH 60 in 1928 and purchased this particular aircraft on 16 February 1929. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 101

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College events ‘50 Years On’ Anniversary Lunch 11 December 2007 The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1957 and their guests to lunch in college on 11 December 2007 as their guests. The following old members accepted this invitation:

A. J. Almond, I. C. Balfour, A. Best, J. Beveridge, M. G. Brown, A. S. Chilvers, R. Cole, H. D. Craig, C. M. Cripps, W. R. Edwards, M. A. Finlay, T. P. Francis, A. J. Gordon, G. E. T. Granter, C. M. Hood, A. G. Jackson, B. K. Johnson, M. D. C. Johnson, D. J. Lawrence, J. M. Lowe, C. J. Nicholson, N. P. O’Farrell, R. A. Peters, D. A. Rutter, D. L. Setchell, N. C. Spurway, M. F. Tremberth, C. J. Tully, P. J. van Berckel, S. C. Woodley.

‘60 Years On’ Anniversary Lunch 20 December 2007 The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1947 and their guests to lunch in college on 20 December 2007 as their guests. The following old members accepted this invitation: R. A. Bawden, R. L. S. Blackadder, R. G. Blackmore, P. O. Bourne, P. M. Freeman, N. R. Power, A. N. Smart, J. V. Sutcliffe, T. Tyndall, C. Tyson, R. G. Woods.

Reunion Dinner 11 January 2008 The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1993 and 1994 to dine and spend the night in college on 11 January 2008 as their guests. The following accepted this invitation: 1993 R. D. Abel, R. M. R. Ackland, R. A. Atkin, S. F. Atkins, R. A. Atkins, M. J. Birks, J. W. Buchanan, E. J. Cawte, V. Z. Chorniy, J. A. Clarke, A. E. Colquhoun, L. K. Constable-Maxwell, A. J. E. Cox, A. Datta, S. L. Dixon, O. J. D. Doward, D. Drake, A. D. E. Drury, D. Forbes, O. K. Gavin, A. I. Glencross, C. M. Guthrie, K. S. Hall, M. T. G. Hazell, D. Hemp, M. A. Hendy, A. Hindocha, A. F. Horner, S. J. Howard, M. J. Johnstone, L. G. Kennedy, R. J. Less, N. M. Luscombe, F. J. Marritt, R. C. McCormick, B. J. McCullagh, N. McInnes, A. L. Middle, P. T. Morgan, P. T. Morris, A. Moussakou, J. C. Pearce, J. R. K. Pierce, H. A. Rebbeck, P. M. Rolfe, M. G. Rushton, J. S. Sharp, A. L. Sheehan, J. E. Shenton, R. A. Stocks, L. Tan, L. R. J. Tan, E. K. Thorp, C. H. K. Tse, S. E. Unwin, A. M. Usher, D. S. White, M. D. White, K. A. Williamson, S. L. Withington, J. L. Wright 1994 N. Austin, G. N. Barrand, D. B. Bateman, N. G. Bavidge, V. L. Bavidge, N. V. K. Baylis, M. R. Beckford, C. C. M. Bennett, N. W. H. Blaker, N. J. Bliss, H. V. Boome, R. J. Brass, K. E. L. Burrell, S. G. Casson, R. J. D. L. Cazenove, D. D. Chandler, D. K. Collyer, M. J. Day, S. J. Dix, A. C. Dunn, T. M. El-Shanawany, K. T. Ferguson, S. Ferguson, B. Flynn, H. J. Fraser, D. R. French, V. S. Georgiadis, P. Giannopoulos, G. J. C. Hammond, A. J. Hickman, H. E. Hine, R. Hood, E-J. Horton, T. J. Horton, P. Irons, S. J. King, S. M. Lawrence, C. C. Lewis, N. P. F. Lindgreen, M. W. Loose, J. S. Macnaughtan, P. E. Mann, H. M. M. Markham, C. G. C. McKinnon, A. P. Nash, S. L. Oswald, J. Parkinson, M. E. Parry, S. J. Pearse, C. C. Perks, V. J. Richards, L. Rivolta, E. K. Seddon, P. R. Segal, C. Shepherd, H. H. Sloman, A. R. Stephenson, R. P. Stuber, T. H. B. Stuttard, R. D. C. Thompson, E. Todd, D. A. Vivian, E. J. Warwick, J. H. Watson 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 104

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1496 Lunch 24 February 2008 On 24 February 2008 a lunch for parents was organised by the 1496 Committee of second year undergraduates co-chaired by Daniel Howell and Sudharshan Murugesu. 154 parents and students and 9 Fellows attended the event, which raised just over £1,400 to fund the annual 1496 student bursary.

Glanville Williams Society Reception 27 February 2008 The seventh Glanville Williams Society Reception was held at Lovells LLP, Atlantic House, Holborn Viaduct on 27 February 2008, and was generously hosted and sponsored by David Moss (1975), Henry Wheare (1971) and Andy Briggs (1987). The Master and Mrs Msrgaret Mair and the following Jesuans connected with law attended the event: G. J. Tayar (1951), M. F. Harcourt Williams (1955), D. G. A. Lumsden , P. O. Prior , B. A. Fireman (1963), G. C. Goldkorn , M. G. Emmison (1965), C. L. James (1966), P. R. Glazebrook (1967), R. M. Jackson , R. A. McKee, J. C. Rees, D. Turner, W. Allan (1968), P. Crook (1971), G. R. F. Hudson (1972), J. P. Wotton, A. R. Kennon (1974), D. J. Moss (1975), S. M. Gordon (1976), S. J. Paget-Brown (1977), P. H. Hawkins (1979), S. S. Bhakar (1984), C. C. Lundie (1986), R. A. Given (1988), M. P. C. Oldham, D. S. R. Bould (1989), P. W. D. Stafford, A. R. Johnston (1990), J. R. Crawford (1992), T. E. Samuel, N. McInnes (1993), L. Davies (1995), A. J. Evans , M. J. Lampert , S. J. Friel (1996), J. J. McNae, M. J. Bullen (1997), O. K. De Groot, J. E. Doak, I. J. Hudson, N. J. Mackay, A. E. Coultas (1998), C. M. Hawes, K. C. Wilford, E. C. Woollcott, L. M. Drew (1999), Z. Hu (2000), O. J. Elgie (2001), V. E. Eyre-Brook, R. Forrest, J. M. Levy, R. W. Turney, S. Vardy, R. P. Hartley (2002), J. M. Hull, J. G. MacPherson, C. T. Singleton, E. J. Amos (2003), A. K. Atkinson, K. E. Hillier, C. M. Leach, N. D. J. Robinson, E. M. Davies (2004), K. P. Mawdsley, K. Parlett, B. A. Pykett, J. P. Santos, H. Warwick, C. P. Williamson, P. W. M. Benson (2005), J. A. Graetsch, M. D. Gregoire, E. Hayashi, D. M. Jarrett, J. P. Kearns, J. P. S. Newman, A. Ponnampalampillai, D. J. G. Hay (2006), I. A. R. Maitland, L. A. McAlister, C. McCarthy, W. R. Rees, I. Saloojee, D. J. Sharples, A. Taali, M. A. Thorne, Y. Zhu, S. H. Bouwers (2007), E. Brook, C. D. C. A. Catoir, K. M. Cooper, I. Doukas, V. T. L. Ho, K. Kearsley-Wooller, D. C. M. Lafferty, T. M. Lennon, E. E. McCrea-Theaker, M. J. Mills, S. Pauker, B. Playle, A. E. Sarvarian, B. R. H. Shanks-St. John, M. B. Trafford, A. J. Verco, A. S. Woolnough

M.A. Dinner 28 March 2008 A dinner was held in college on 28 March 2008 prior to the M.A. ceremony the next day. Matriculands from 2001 who dined are listed below: J. D. Airey, N. Awais-Dea, F. C. S. Barrigan, S. Bartlett, B. Benfold, A. Bercusson, E. R. Berger, H. J. Briscoe, D. P. Burgess, P. M. Burton, L. B. Busbridge, T. J. Carr, R. S. M. Chrystie, S. J. Day, J. P. Day, S. E. Dutton, G. M. Eastwood, O. J. Elgie, V. E. Eyre-Brook, J. E. Farrant, H. C. Fenton, V. A. Finan, F. B. R. Fitzherbert, R. Forrest, A. M. Foster, J. M. Franklin, J. Fukuta, S. L. Gick, H. Gorst-Williams, J. M. Gyles, A. J. Hart, R. C. Hegarty, P. A. Hewinson, K. E. Hill, G. S. J. Hitchcock, F. Hobson, R. N. O. Hulbert, P. A. Hunt, B. J. Hyman, D. L. Ingall, M. I. Jones, B. A. Kahloon, E. F. Keeling, B. Kember, S. E. Lamb, N. C. Lambert, J. M. Levy, L. S. C. Lok, J. R. Loxam, K. Maddison, J. R. Marson, J. E. Mills, L. M. A. Milsted, P. D. Morgan, N. D. Morris, A. L. Mullen, R. S. R. Myers, E. M. Myring, A. R. I. Newman, J. L. T. Nichols, J. E. Osborn, L. Pagarani, F. S. Parry, G. M. Pradella, S. E. Price, G. C. Price, V. E. Raby, G. Ramos Tomas, S. A. Richardson, P. W. B. Richardson, S. Rothe, R. A. Scott, J. Scragg, N. R. Shelmerdine, P. D. Spencer, 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 105

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Z. R. J. Strimpel, T. Surendranathan, S. J. Taylor, W. R. Tennant, V. K. Threlfell, H. Thronicker, M. F. J. Tolhurst-Cleaver, R. W. Turney, P. J. Twiss, L. E. Twiss, A. Valerio, S. Vardy, M. S. Varughese, A. Velamati, A. M. Wade, S. J. Walker, S. R. Wallis, G. A. Walton, R. E. Wilkinson, S. L. Williams, F. J. Wingfield Digby, A. Worn, B. K. Yeap, J. A. Young.

Reunion Dinner 11 April 2008 The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1970, 1971 and 1972 to dine and spend the night in college on 11 April 2008 as their guests. The following accepted this invitation: 1970 T. H. W. Barker, D. A. D. Blake-Knox, C. C. Born, E. J. R. Boston, C. Dobbin, C. H. S. Evans, S. G. H. Freeth, T. M. G. Gabriel, A. D. C. Greenwood, J. E. Gumbel, A. Haine, J. E. A. Hoare Nairne, C. P. Hodges, J. R. James, K. M. Jeffery, A. J. Kinahan, A. I. Macfarlane, T. S. A. Macquiban, C. O. Mason, D. L. Maxwell, P. A. G. Morrison, R. Peel, R. S. Reeve, M. J. Rimmer, D. R. Simmons, R. C. Stein, P. J. Sumner, C. G. Timmis, M. D. S. Walters, K. L. Weavers, S. J. Young 1971 A. J. Booth, I. D. Boothroyd, R. H. Briance, C. S. Bull, A. Canale-Parola, J. C. G. Cavendish, P. Crook, P. J. Damesick, J. C. Emmett, M. Ewart, N. Gilmore, S. C. Harris, D. Hilton-Jones, A. K. Kapur, A. R. C. Kershaw, P. M. Lane, H. A. G. Lee, D. W. Moat, A. J. Moore, J. G. Morgan, N. Paterson, J. K. Preston, R. D. Pugh, N. P. Ready, T. Slator, G. V. B. Thompson, P. D. Thompson, R. S. Treadwell, J. A. Voelcker 1972 J. P. Ashford, J. E. Bardwell, K. L. Black, R. S. Boyd, C. J. Brock, M. R. Buck, M. T. Carson, B. J. Clancy, B. C. Couzens, C. E. S. Dickenson, P. J. Dobell, D. R. W. Edwards, R. J. Fort, P. A. Hodgson, N. S. Hoult, G. R. F. Hudson, P. F. Jakeman, H. R. Jenkins, D. I. Lake, G. Lodder, J. E. Macey, D. R. Martin, D. W. Maxwell, A. B. Mehta, N. J. Mills, J. D. Moore, E. P. Morris, P. Pickering, V. R. M. Rao, M. A. Seeley, J. R. Sharp, P. A. Smith, M. J. Venn, J. P. Wotton, A. L. Young

Bumps Saturday at the Paddock 14 June 2008 On the last day of the May Bumps, crowds of Jesuans, their families and guests gathered at the Paddock in Fen Ditton to watch the Jesus boats in action. They saw some good performances by our crews, culminating in the women’s First VIII finishing second on the river, and the men’s First VIII moving up to third.

Donors’ Garden Party 28 June 2008 Our fourth annual donors’ garden party was held at the end of June to thank all those who donated to the Annual Fund during 2007. Around 250 Jesuans and their guests, plus parents and friends of the college attended. A programme of activities was available throughout the afternoon. In All Saints Church on Jesus Lane, Duncan Robinson, master of Magdalene College and recent director of the Fitzwilliam Museum gave a talk on Victorian . This was followed by Mr Nick Ray, director of studies in architecture at Jesus College, presenting ‘Five ways to look at Cambridge architecture’. Meanwhile back in college, others enjoyed the talk ‘A place of history: archaeological excavation in the old slave town of Cidade Velha, Cape Verde’ by Dr Marie Louise Sørensen, director of studies in archaeology and anthropology at Jesus College; Dr Jim 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 106

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Roseblade conducted a tour of the college sculpture collection; and in the chapel, Mr Daniel Hyde presented a ‘behind the scenes’ demonstration of the new Hudleston organ and the college choir. Afternoon tea followed in the marquee overlooking the cricket pitch and concluded with a speech given by the Master. The evening ended in the chapel with evensong. The Master and Margaret Mair and the following Jesuans and parents attended: M. J. Way (1941), M. I. M. Pines (1943), K. M. L. Benson (1946), R. A. Bawden (1947), P. O. Bourne, C. Tyson , P. J. Hurford, (1949), M. Spiro, K. O. Boardman (1950), M. W. Dodd, A. J. Grindley, P. A. Johnson (1951), M. H. S. Muller, S. J. Robinson, I. S. Ball (1952), A. J. Black, M. W. Clegg, H. J. Killick, M. Marshall, A. D. Moss, R. H. Stone, D. G. Winter, J. M. Davies (1953), G. V. Baguley (1954), M. G. Delahooke, G. F. Dimond, P. A. Littleton, C. M. Turner, A. W. Gethin (1955), D. M. Parr, C. H. Green (1956), M. J. Massy-Beresford, C. D. Sims, M. D. C. Johnson (1957), J. M. Lowe, C. J. Nicholson, R. A. Peters, J. G. Farnhill (1958), J. E. Gillett, D. P. V. McLaughlin, J. S. Ransom, C. H. Reeson, R. F. B. Smith, C. F. L. Austin (1959), L. V. Barber, R. E. Beale, J. C. Pillans, J. Winney, G. F. G. Appleby (1960),R. J. Bevan, P. W. H. Brown, J. C. Viner, J. P. Dugdale Bradley (1961), D. R. Tant, J. E. Beeson (1962), J. G. Ross-Martyn, C. P. Yates, C. R. Baily (1963), C. G. G. Born, M. E. Bramley (1964),P. Burnham (1967), S. I. Fitzgerald, R. A. McKee, D. E. Perchard, M. J. Allchin (1968), C. C. Bradbury, A. W. Cuthbert, H. H. Davis, P. I. Day, S. M. Evans, S. J. Kern, J. F. Wickens, R. Hall (1969), I. F. Perry, S. R. Lockett (1970), C. G. Timmis, N. Gilmore (1971), R. L. Pearce (1973), P. R. Fletcher (1974), P. N. G. Wilson, T. A. J. Lister (1975), D. C. C. Dodd (1976), M. P. Hayes, M. J. Hall (1977), M. C. Taylor, J. R. D. Corrie (1978), P. Gibbons, I. C. Kemp, M. F. Rusk, J. A. Hayes (1980), J. E. Evison (1981), S. E. Knowles (1982), E. S. Morriss, A. K. M. Scott, C. M. James (1985),M. E. Oxland (1986),C. J. Lewis (1987),A. C. Stiles, J. P. Bailey (1988), M. P. Berry, T. J. Clarke, J. D. Verrinder, S. M. Wintersgill, K. L. Slowgrove (1992), D. M. Yates, L. M. Handley (1995), T. D. Lee, M. W. Whitbread (1996), J. J. Bickerstaffe (1997), J. Hudson, C. A. E. Aikens (1998), A. I. Howcroft, P. G. Venables, L. Y. Pickering (1999), N. G. Aspinall (2000), K. L. de Wit , C. N. Brower (2001), O. D. Campbell (2007)

Parents Mr & Mrs P. Acred, Mr D.M. & Mrs J. A. Cross, Mrs L. V. Goff, Mr & Mrs M. S. Knock, Mr R. A. Oettle, Mr G. & Mrs R. Raw, Mr & Mrs R. J. Stone

Anniversary Dinner 28 June 2008 An anniversary dinner was held in college on 28 June 2008 to commemorate the 10th, 20th, 30th and 40th anniversary of those who matriculated in 1998, 1988, 1978 and 1968. The dinner was a hugely popular event as usual and all places were quickly filled. The following attended: 1967 W. Allan, M. J. Allchin, S. Boyes, C. C. Bradbury, C. J. Cocker, J. H. Connolly, H. H. Davis, P. I. Day, S. M. Evans, M. W. Finnis, R. D. Hull, M. C. W. Hunter, S. J. Kern, G. C. Killingworth, G. I. Kirkbride, S. J. Merchant, R. T. Nokes, R. T. Norris, K. Penfold, R. D. Penn, C. J. Rodrigues, F. S. Ruttonshaw, J. P. F. Walston, J. F. Wickens, K. D. B. Williams, J. R. Willman 1977 J. C. Baron, A. J. Chmaj, M. J. Clark, J. R. D. Corrie, J. A. F. Cowderoy, P. R. Durrant, A. J. Forryan, S. J. Henbrey, A. M. Hollins, N. G. E. Hudson, I. C. Kemp, A. S. McClay, S. A. T. McGill, M. J. Pavier, A. R. Phillips, M. R. H. Pickup, H. P. Roditi, R. W. Rogers, M. F. Rusk, D. B. Russell, G. K. Sankaran, C. P. Sowden, R. G. Turnbull, C. J. Wigglesworth, P. J. S. Yates 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 107

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1988 R. A. Atkins, J. P. Bailey, M. R. Baillie, P. E. S. Barber, M. W. Barnett Howland, M. C. Bienfait, M. J. Boden, J. Bowen, J. M. S. Brown, S. J. Browse, G. J. A. Busuttil, C. J. Carpenter, T. J. Clarke, L. Edie, H. S. Faber, S. C. Farrar, C. P. Gee, C. T. Giles, R. A. Given, S. V. Godbehere, J. P. Grundy, D. A. Hargreaves, E. E. Heseltine, S. Hollis, D. O. Irfan, L. E. Keown, R. J. Lewis, J. A. MacRae, I. J. Mactavish, A. N. Mamujee, G. H. Mansfield, G. J. McLaughlin, P. K. Murphy, T. Norman, M. E. C. Perrott, N. D. Poyntz, S. C. Rattray, N. T. Rhode, A. Richdale, A. S. J. Sewell, J. Spencer, D. W. Street, S. C. Street, R. P. Tett, S. V. L. Thong, J. D. Verrinder, P. S. Westbury, S. M. Wintersgill, 1998 P. Adib-Samii, C. A. E. Aikens, C. H. Atkin, V. C. M. Barr, L. B. Bevan, J. C. Booth, J. R. Bowen, E. A. Brough, J. P. Carr, R. J. Cline, N. J. Collins, N. J. Cooper-Harvey, A. D. Corbett, A. E. Coultas, A. Cuthbert, J. J. Dahlstrom, J. E. Deacon, D. M. Donaldson, C. A. Fries, S. V. Getov, L. M. Gilbert, S. J. Glover, J. C. Hibbs, A. I. Howcroft, D. Jash, J. M. J. Keeling, P. J. Leek, R. P. I. Lewis, A. E. Maguire, C. N. Martin, T. M. McCann, F. J. McGlade, T. L. McGlynn, L. C. McMahon, S. R. McNamara, C. J. Morgan, P. Ninkovic, G. C. Parr, H. Plumridge, J. W. Richards, R. P. Rigby, D. A. Rivers, S. M. Rivers, S. P. Sellars, L. Sheena, I. P. S. Sood, T. Soomro, S. R. L. Stacpoole, M. J. Sutton, R. E. Tait, J. V. Taylor Tavares, P. G. Venables, C. M. Watkin, M. B. Wesker, K. C. Wilford, E. F. Williams, R. J. Williamson 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 108

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Jesus College Cambridge Society Executive Committee as at 1 May 2008 2001 PROFESSOR R. MAIR (Robert) (President and Chairman)

Officers First Elected 1953 M. J. FAIREY (Trustee) (Michael) 2003 1960 M. R. HADFIELD (Trustee) (Max) 2006 1963 J. MARSHALL (Hon. Dinner Secretary) (Jim) 2005 1969 D.H WOOTTON (Trustee) (David) 2008 1970 A. D. C. GREENWOOD (Hon. Secretary) (Adrian) 1998 1971 T. SLATOR (Hon. Treasurer) (Tom) 2002 1998 DR J. P. T. CLACKSON (James) 2004 (College Council Rep.) 1999 DR V. MOTTIER (Véronique) 2006 (College Council Rep.)

Members Period of Office 1963 G. H. HADLEY (Graham) 2004–08 1983 M. A. SAWARD (Anastasia) 2004–08 1983 M. E. SHIACH (Morag) 2004–08 1995 I. O. STEED (Ian) 2004–08 1989 C. V. S. HOARE NAIRNE (Charles) 2005–09 1971 J. G. MORGAN (Guy) 2005–09 1992 K. L. SLOWGROVE (Katie) 2005–09 1988 P. E. S. BARBER (Paul) 2006–10 1969 C. I. KIRKER (Chris) 2006–10 1982 S. C. MOCATTA (Stephanie) 2006–10 1997 E. J. TUNNICLIFFE (Eleanor) 2006–10 1967 P. BURNHAM (Paul) 2007–11 1972 G. R. F.HUDSON (Geoffrey) 2007–11 1988 T. J. CLARKE (Tim) 2007–11 2002 V. A. MOORE (Verity) 2007–11 2000 R. J. P. DENNIS (Richard) Co-opted

Honorary Treasurer T. SLATOR, Walnut Tree Farm, South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 5US

Honorary Dinner Secretary J. MARSHALL, 56 Melody Road, London, SW18 2QF

Honorary Secretary A. D. C. GREENWOOD, 91 Lynton Road, London, SE1 5QT

Minutes of Annual General Meeting 22 September 2007 The Annual General Meeting of the Jesus College Cambridge Society took place on Saturday 22 September 2007 in the Prioress’s Room at Jesus College. The Master, Professor Robert Mair, was in the chair. Some twenty-five members of the Society were present. Eight members of the Executive Committee plus Paul Burnham, Tim Clarke and Ivo Smith had sent their apologies for absence. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 109

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Minutes The minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 23 September 2006 were approved and signed as a correct record.

Secretary’s Report The Honorary Secretary reported that the Annual Report was now being edited by Stephen Barton and already gone to print. It would be published in November. It would not contain the 2007 AGM minutes but would contain the Notice of the 2008 AGM. The Secretary encouraged members to attend the JCCS London Reception on 6 November 2007 at the Oxford and Cambridge Club. The Secretary informed members that the JCCS Travel Bursaries for 2007 had been awarded to three undergraduates, as follows: one white-water kayaking in the Altai Mountains of Siberia and Mongolia ( Ben Bedingham); one working in a paediatric ward of Khartoum Hospital ( Anne Ramsay Bowden) and the third studying the people and language of a Tibetan village in Sichuan (Jessica Wear).

Treasurer’s Report The Honorary Treasurer presented the annual audited accounts for the year to 31 December 2006. These showed a good surplus of £1,918. The accumulated fund stood at £60,569, which was very healthy. He explained that the income included all the receipts from the reception at Hoare’s bank in November 2006, thanks to the generosity of the host, Charles Hoare Nairne. This meant that the Society had been able to refund the Development Office for part of their contribution to the House of Lords reception in 2005. Additionally, the Committee had been able to increase the Travel Bursaries to £1,500 per annum and to introduce a scheme for book grants of £1,000 per annum, as well donate £2,000 per annum to the J.C.S.U. The Master said that the college was extremely grateful for these donations. The meeting agreed to receive the accounts.

Appointment of Auditor The meeting agreed to appoint N.J. Mitchell F.C.A. as auditor for 2007.

Dinner Arrangements for 2008 The Secretary announced that the 2008 Dinner would take place in college on Saturday 27 September 2008. Partners and guests would be welcome. The guest of honour will be Dr Jim Roseblade (1965).

Election of Officers The meeting agreed to elect for one year Adrian Greenwood as Honorary Secretary, Tom Slator as Honorary Treasurer and Jim Marshall as Dinner Secretary.

Executive Committee The meeting agreed to elect the following as Members of the Executive Committee to serve for 4 years in succession to those retiring by rotation: Paul Burnham (1967), Geoff Hudson (1972), Tim Clarke (1989) and Verity Moore (2001).

Any Other Business none

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Annual General Meeting and Annual Dinner 2009 Next year’s AGM will take place at 6.30pm on Saturday 26 September 2009 in the Prioress’s Room in college. This will be followed by the annual dinner. The guest of honour will be Professor Lisa Jardine (1976). Spouses and partners are warmly invited and the dress code will be black tie. Tickets will be on sale from May 2009.

Reports of JCCS Events 2007–08 Western Regional Party 8 September 2007 A Western Regional party, organised by Clive Reynard (1967) was held at the Cotswold Wildlife Park on Saturday 8 September 2007 and a good time was had by all. The 31 Jesuans attending enjoyed coffee in the Orangery on arrival, a conducted tour of the gardens with the Park’s deputy head gardener, wine and delicious canapés in the bar, a big communal tailgate picnic in the sylvan car park, and individual tours of the Park. The day was rounded off with a fabulous cream tea in the drawing room. Ages of those attending ranged from six months to eighty plus.

London Reception 6 November 2007 The London reception took place at the Oxford and Cambridge Club on Tuesday 6 November 2007 and was attended by 126 Jesuans and their guests. We are very grateful to our host, Chris Kirker (1969), for providing us with the venue.

Buffet Lunch 14 June 2008 A number of Jesuans and their guests, 106 in all, enjoyed lunch in college, before many made their way down to the Paddock to cheer on the Jesus crews on the last day of Bumps.

Forthcoming JCCS Events 4 November 2008 London Reception at the Oxford & Cambridge Club 13 June 2009 Buffet Lunch in college 26 September 2009 AGM and Annual Dinner in college Further information about these events will be posted on the web in due course (see www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/events). Alternatively, please call the Development Office on 01223 339301 for further details.

JCCS Travel Bursaries The JCCS travel bursaries this year were awarded to Hiu Yan Bona Chow, an international student in her second year of natural sciences, as she wishes to explore the U.K. further and go on a walking tour in Scotland; Lucie Fortune, a second year philosophy student, to assist her in her trip along the Ganges, visiting Hindu pilgrimage sites; Helen Maduka, a second year historian, to enable her to attend a training course in Fuerteventura; Matthew Owens, a second year natural scientist, who hopes to extend a trip to Vietnam, where he will be teaching English to underprivileged children in Hanoi, in order to visit Laos; and Amy Purser, a third year biologist, who is applying for the PGCE next year and plans to teach in a school for eight weeks in Uganda over the summer. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 111

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Fellows and former Fellows SHARPE, Alan George (1940, Emeritus Fellow) died on 29 January 2008 aged 86. Alan Sharpe was born on 3 December 1921. He attended the City School, Lincoln, where the headmaster, a Cambridge graduate, encouraged him to apply to Trinity. Though unsuccessful there, he was offered and accepted an exhibition at Jesus to read natural sciences; he also received a state studentship. Arriving here in wartime, he was allowed two years’ residence, under the supervision of W. H. Mills, before being sent by the Joint Recruiting Board to work on explosives in the Chemical Inspection Department. (Alan seems to have believed that this was an arbitrary choice by the JRB, but a document survives in his file to show that W. H. Thorpe, on behalf of the college, recommended that he should be employed as a chemist.) At the end of the war, he turned down a permanent job in the scientific civil service; an unscheduled visit to the Ministry of Labour secured his release in time for him to return to Cambridge in the middle of the Michaelmas Term of 1945. Completing his degree in the following June, he was taken on by Professor Harry Julius Emeléus as a research student, working on the extraction of uranium from ores. The initiative he showed in this led, in 1948, to his appointment as Jesus College’s first ever Research Fellow. He also taught for the college and was soon appointed a university demonstrator, with effect from October 1949; at that point he ceased to be a Research Fellow and was given instead a fellowship of class IV, transmuted into a fellowship of class V from June 1950 and class II from 1955. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1949 and appointed assistant lecturer in chemistry in June 1951, university lecturer in 1954. He was to hold this lectureship for nearly thirty years, retiring from it in 1982. His lectures were marked by his determination to set descriptive chemistry in a framework of quantitative experimental measurements and rational explanations; colleagues (Drs Martin Mays and David Johnson) have paid tribute to them and to his teaching as a supervisor as ‘a model of clarity’, displaying ‘a critical, analytical intelligence’ and ‘a bewitching combination of realism with wit’. In research, he began to build up a reputation as a fluorine chemist, mainly through work on the dangerous substance bromine trifluoride (used as an ionizing solvent in the preparation of complex fluorides); in 1951 he published his first book: Fluorine and its Compounds. He also pursued interests in halogen chemistry, thermodynamic aspects of inorganic systems and the energetics of inorganic processes. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry in 1955, and in the same year gave one of five plenary lectures at the third Co- ordination Chemistry Conference in Amsterdam – the first such conference to attract truly international participation. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 112

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While he wrote relatively few research papers, for half a century he was closely involved in the composition of essential textbooks, which played a major role in the renaissance of inorganic chemistry from the 1950s onwards. He was co-editor, with Emeléus, of later editions of Modern Aspects of Inorganic Chemistry (from the fourth edition of 1973) and eventually produced his own textbook, Inorganic Chemistry (1981). The latter appeared in three initial editions; an updated version, co-written with professor Catherine Housecroft, reached its third edition in late 2007. Alan also served for many years as co- editor of two influential series of chemical reviews: Advances in Inorganic and Radiochemistry (1959–) and Advances in Fluorine Chemistry (1960–). He became a respected advisor of research students, acted as an external examiner for several unversities, helped produce a dramatically modernised A-level chemistry curriculum, and was chairman of the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry from 1970 to ’75. He also chaired a committee that reformed the natural science tripos. Cambridge University awarded him an honorary doctorate of science in 1968. At the same time, Alan held a series of college offices: in the early 1950s he was junior bursar, director of studies in natural sciences, and briefly librarian (of the War Memorial Library). He began his tutorial career as an assistant tutor, from 1953, and tutor from 1957 to 1963; there followed a year’s leave of absence, in which he enjoyed a National Science Foundation Visiting Professorship in the USA. After his return, he was senior tutor and admissions tutor from 1964 to 1970; later he became senior tutor again, for the year 1984–85. His notable achievements in those posts and other contributions to college life are detailed in Peter Glazebrook’s address so do not need rehearsing here. From 1975, Alan was involved with plannning for the projected Robinson College; from its launch in 1977 he was its first senior tutor. He held that post for five years, playing a vital role in the institution’s launch and early progress. He retained his fellowship at Jesus (of class III under the new statutes of 1976) for two further years, resigning in 1979. He was an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus for the years 1982–84 and from 1985 until his death. He continued to keep in close touch with Robinson and to attend events for its old members; he was made an honorary fellow of the college in 1985. Some of his reminiscences of his earliest years at Jesus are recorded in the recently published college book, Jesus: The Life of a Cambridge College (2007). In 1950 he married Christine Hall; they were divorced in 1974. They had three sons and a daughter, and numerous grandchildren. A memorial service was held in Jesus College Chapel on Saturday, 31 May 2008, with addresses given by Lord Lewis (the first Master of Robinson College) and Peter Glazebrook (speaking for Jesus College).

The following address was given by Peter Glazebrook at the memorial service for Alan Sharpe held in the College Chapel on 31 May 2008 ‘For many of us here this afternoon – sixty years to the very day on which Alan Sharpe was first elected a Fellow of the College – for many of us, our earliest memories of Jesus are inextricably linked with our earliest memories of Alan: of his kindly and supportive welcome, of the bright but gentle smile, whether that first encounter with him was with the Director of Studies, or the Admissions Tutor, or if (as I was) we were being considered for a fellowship, the Senior Tutor – or, during these last 20 odd years, with a college elder at High Table, in the Parlour or Combination Room, or as a neighbour in New Square – then, as earlier, keeping, as we would later realise, an observant and sharply perceptive, and mildly amused, eye on us all. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 113

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Alan’s own earliest memory of the College was of coming here in December 1939 to introduce himself to the then Senior Tutor, Bernard Manning, who, like him, came from Lincolnshire: a meeting that was to be both decisive and, I believe, defining. Alan – these are his own words – the child of “supportive working class parents”, who had been successful in the 11+, and had, as a result received “some good teaching, and the interest of the ambitious headmaster” of Lincoln City School, had, in the intercollegiate entrance scholarship examination earlier that month won a £40 Exhibition tenable here. But Jesus had not been Alan’s (perhaps I should say, his headmaster’s) first – or even second – preference college, and a £40 Exhibition would not ensure his entry. There was a large “funding gap” – he needed not less than £250 a year – rather more than the LNER paid Herbert Sharpe, a lengthman responsible for the maintenance of a stretch of the company’s line. Alan did, however, want to be a schoolmaster, and the £150 a year grant the government paid to intending schoolteachers nominated by the University’s Department of Education would quite markedly narrow, though not close, the gap. It was the Department’s interviewer who, on finding he had not yet met the Senior Tutor of Jesus, suggested he should, and ’phoned the College. “So” as Alan recalled, “I went and Manning – in the middle of the afternoon – was kindness itself, and made me sit down and offered me a drink and a cigarette. I was treated like a young adult. That was the way he treated everybody. I was very impressed by him”. That impression – a deep impression – lasted a life-time, and as Alan came to follow in Manning’s footsteps in the College – footsteps both bursarial and tutorial – the Manning style became – it came naturally – the Sharpe style, and, one would like to think, the Jesus style. Had Manning lived to see the Lincoln school-boy’s devoted service to, and his undying affection for, the College, and the encouragement and friendship he was to give so many Jesuans, fully matching his own, he would, I think, have been well-pleased that he, and that “ambitious headmaster” had together taken some trouble to ensure that there would be enough money for Alan to begin on the Natural Sciences Tripos in October 1940 – a matter finally settled when his performance in the HSC secured him a State Scholarship. In October 1940 the College’s buildings were occupied by the RAF, and such undergraduates as it had (mostly scientists and medics) lived in lodgings, and lunched in the Pitt Club. But the Roosters continued to crow, and Alan soon became their President. He narrowly missed a First in Part I – his Physics letting him down, as it had in the Entrance Scholarships – and the Ministry of Labour pounced, directing him to the Ministry of Supply’s Chemical Inspectorate’s (Explosives and Pyrotechnics) establishment, near Newcastle under Lyme, where, for the remaining three years of the war, he tested munitions. Keen to return, as soon as it was ended, to finish his degree, Alan was at first thwarted by what we’d now call a lack of “joined-up government”. The Ministry of Supply was ready to release him, but the Ministry of Labour refused, claiming that there was “a shortage of chemists in industry” – so acute, apparently, that those with only half a degree could not be spared. In a letter to the Senior Tutor of the middle of September 1945, regretting that he would not be back at the start of the Michaelmas Term one can already hear the voice we all came to know, wryly amused by bureaucrats’ muddles. “The situation is” he wrote, “not without an ironical aspect, as my Ministry of Supply resignation has been accepted, and unless it can be withdrawn, I look like being unemployed by the end of next week.” He did not, of course, let matters rest there. He went to London, located the right desk at the Ministry of Labour, and persuaded the civil servant behind it that if he were 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 114

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allowed to return to Cambridge at once, he would complete his degree the coming June, and there would then be one more place the following October for a serviceman returning from the Far East. But the Michaelmas Term was nearly over when Alan returned to the College which, so differently from the one he’d left, was now “fizzing with life”. He fizzed too – obtaining a clear First in Part II Chemistry, seven months later – a very considerable achievement marked by the College with its most prestigious award, the Keller Prize – and in the Chemical Laboratory with an invitation to the intending schoolmaster to stay on for research. Of what followed from Alan’s acceptance of that invitation, Lord Lewis will speak, but even a non-scientist can see that the new, 24 year old graduate, was continuing to fizz, working with great speed and effectiveness. Within 21 months, and despite his supervisor having first sent him down a blind alley, the College was – 60 years ago today – electing him to a Research Fellowship. His Ph.D. dissertation, on a topic he had then chosen for himself, was ready to be reported on by external assessors who were much impressed by the experimental skills it revealed: honed, one suspects, at Newcastle under Lyme. He had always wanted to teach, and his appointment as a University Demonstrator the next year meant, as he said, that he could henceforth do so “at the highest level”. By 1951 he was also a College teaching Fellow (stint 12 hours per week) – relaxed, able to make the complicated appear simple, but no ‘push-over’, is how he is remembered – and until he became a Tutor, he was Junior Bursar, responsible for College buildings. As Manning had overseen the construction of the Morley Horder Building in Chapel Court, so Alan oversaw a substantial renovation programme: the conversion of the spacious sets in the Carpenter Building into double the number of bed-sitters, the construction of the War Memorial Library in the burnt-out staircases in First Court, and the replacement throughout the College of the old coal grates by gas fires: though his principal function, so he claimed, was to be a peace – a green – zone between a Bursar and a Steward, prone to feuding. He knew he was good at administration and he found satisfaction in getting things done, and done without wasting money, and – by anticipating and circumventing the captious objections of difficult colleagues – all with a minimum of fuss, and a minimum of paper. A bundle of post-cards, secured by a rubber band, was kept in his jacket pocket, ready for use whenever and wherever it occurred to him that a short note would suffice to deal with some matter. The opportunity to mingle teaching, college administration and laboratory research (research as the spirit, rather than the demands of a research team, moved him) suited him well. Alan enjoyed, he said, being a Tutor – a more important office then, when not all Directors of Studies were closely engaged with their pupils, and several weren’t even Fellows of the College: one which offered a wider scope for the natural gifts of the born teacher. He liked getting to know the undergraduates on his side, and was astute in identifying those not fully captured by their subject, who would be happier and more successful studying another. His grasp of the Ordinances and Regulations governing the various Triposes was total: it matched his grasp of railway time-tables and connections, British and continental: the more complicated the cross-country journey, the happier he was to advise on how best to make it. Blessed with a marvellous memory, 40 years later he would astonish old pupils by remembering their family details, their schools, the jobs they had gone into, and where they now lived. If Alan blossomed as a Tutor, it was surely as Senior Tutor – he was Admissions Tutor and Financial Tutor too – that he came into full flower. There was no aspect of the College and its business with which he was not familiar, and his administrative ability, 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 115

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his skill in committee; his knack in identifying the essence of a problem, and pithily formulating it; his determination to ensure that disagreements did not descend into personal acrimony (as, in the 50s, they had too often done), and his own selflessness, were all effectively deployed. Enjoying the Master’s – Denys Page’s – full support, his first aim was to see that the College had a strong and comprehensive team of teaching Fellows, and, coming a close second, to hold fast to academic standards. The Tutor for Admissions was also, he observed, the Tutor for Rejections. The College’s future historian will, I believe, see Alan as the first of the modern type Senior Tutor. For his immediate predecessors, prowess on the sports field or the river might compensate for some, not negligible, academic shortcomings. In the post- Robbins world that was, he knew, no longer defensible. There was more than one cause célèbre: even a test cricketer would have to go. No one could have known when the Council’s choice of a Senior Tutor again fell on a Fellow coming from Lincolnshire, how extremely fortunate that choice was to be. The turbulence and storms that would, during Alan’s period of office, sweep over universities from Paris to Warwick and indeed, to California, and do some damage even in Cambridge courts, could not have been foreseen. Here, thanks most of all to his extreme good sense – to the easy relations he had always had with undergraduates – most disciplinary matters were, he believed, best handled without imposing penalties – all this carried over into his dealings with Presidents of the JCR, which, previously little more than an extension of the Boat Club, was now beginning to emerge as a more-or- less representative student body. Newly-elected Presidents, as well as other students, graduate and undergraduate, were introduced to the opera at Covent Garden, and there was always sherry and time to listen to what they had to say. He himself felt that nearly all the demands being made of the College were fair and reasonable, and, with the reduction of the legal age of majority from 21 to 18, irresistible. He had read the signs of the times accurately, and skilfully steered the College down a narrow, rocky channel between a formidable Master – whose earlier years of office Alan always considered a “golden age” – but who egged on by some older Fellows was now becoming ever more provocatively resistant to any sort of change, and, on the other side, some younger dons who wanted more changes than the students did. If it was a tough time for anyone to be a Senior Tutor, for Alan it was also a very hard time personally. His marriage to Christine Hall, sometime Senior Student of Newnham College – they had met first when she came for chemistry supervisions – a marriage blessed with four children, was, in the wake of the two severe bouts of serious illness Christine suffered, sadly, but inescapably, coming to an end. Both parents continued to have the love and support of their children – and in due course grandchildren – but when Alan said that, after six years as Senior Tutor, he was “tired”, there was, in his own, characteristically understated, rather private, stoic way, a hint of this personal calamity. Wider responsibilities in his Faculty, and on University bodies, were then undertaken, and when Sir Denys Page retired as Master, a substantial, a large, though ultimately insufficient, body of Fellows wanted Alan to succeed him, albeit that he would have been alone in the Lodge. Had this happened, the first of the College’s modern style Senior Tutors, would have been one of the last of Cambridge’s old style Masters – those emerging from within a fellowship, whose election acknowledged the extent of their services to their college, and the trust and respect they had earned among their colleagues. No one could doubt what Alan stood for, and no one should be surprised that when for a while he ventured across the Cam, the Fellows of Jesus would want him back. He had supported the lengthy campaigns to abolish Life Fellowships, and to recast the College Council so that most of its members would be elected by the whole body of Fellows, 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 116

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rather than be office-holders chosen by the council itself. And, of course, he wanted to see women admitted to the College without further delay. One of the earlier skirmishes – a lengthy discussion of the apparently innocuous social question of the conditions under which women might, just possibly, be invited as guests to High Table – ended when he intervened to ask: “So, Master, is what we’re saying: clever women, yes; pretty women, no?” We all have our own memories of Alan – of how much music meant to him; of the group of Fellows and their wives who have met every term for, now, close on 50 years, to listen to records, where he was known as “a stern critic of performances”; of the delight and solace he found in opera, that, as he said, “exotic, emotional and irrational form of entertainment” – at Covent Garden, at Glyndebourne, and of his beloved Mozart at the Salzburg Festival (only in the last couple of years did he feel daunted by the journey there); of the “devout agnostic’s” (his own description) love, nurtured in this Chapel, of the liturgy and music of the : though he felt unable to share its beliefs; of his knowledge of contemporary novelists – especially women novelists – (he was a romantic at heart, though he tried hard to conceal it) – upon which members of our book club came to rely: “I nearly got the bus and went to Oxford” was his response to one of Iris Murdoch’s earlier books. We remember – and admire – his independence and self-sufficiency in old age, that stood with his own feeling for elderly, for house-bound or nursing-home-bound, Fellows and their widows, bringing them news and ready to read to them or play chess: his readiness – even when well and truly retired – to help in an emergency in College; his readiness, too, to share with new arrivals at High Table his tales of the doings, the quirks, the foibles, and the follies, of earlier generations – interlaced, of course, with his self-deprecatory comments: “now, there was someone who was really clever” – his fanciful speculations on what might have happened if something else had – or hadn’t. But above all, of his unfailing, but not uncritical, interest in this College – “all the little events and the personal relationships within a heterogeneous society” as he once put it – and not always approving: “really scandalous” was his verdict on one-not too-distant Council decision. For himself, he marvelled constantly at what he saw as his own good fortune – “sheer luck” he would say – at being able to spend nearly all his long life here. Whether or not he was right about that, he certainly repaid that good fortune many times over, and we can assuredly congratulate the College Council that made that election on 31st May 1948.’

FRANKEL, Jonathan (1954) died on 7 May 2008 aged 73. Jonathan Frankel was born in London on 15 July 1935. He attended Christ’s College, Finchley, before coming up to Jesus College in 1954 with a scholarship to read history. He graduated B.A. in 1957 (M.A. 1961) and was elected by the college into a research studentship. After a period of intensively learning Russian, he took up Ph.D. work under the supervision of E. H. Carr, studying the relationship between Russian political thought and the development of Jewish nationalism in Russia, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This research took him to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the academic year 1958–59, and to the United States. He was awarded a Ph.D. in November 1961 and took the degree a year later. He was elected to a three-year college research fellowship in June 1960. He then spent a period in New York, associated with the Russian Institute at Columbia University. In 1964 he moved to Jerusalem to take up a lectureship in the Hebrew University, as a 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 117

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member of the Russian Studies Department and the Institute of Contemporary Jewry. He was professor of modern Jewish and Russian history there from 1985 until his retirement in 2004. Meanwhile he held visiting appointments and fellowships at three more American universities (Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth), and during the 1980s was visiting Goldsmid Professor in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College, London. Obituaries in the national press have judged him ‘a towering figure. A brilliant historian of Russian and Jewish history’ (David Cesarini writing in The Guardian, Friday 11 July 2008) , and ‘the most highly regarded historian of modern Jewry of his generation’ (Steven J. Zipperstein writing in The Independent, Saturday 2 August 2008; a similar tribute appears in The Times’ obituary, Wednesday 16 July 2008). The best known of his many publications are Prophecy and Politics: socialism, nationalism and the Russian Jews, 1862–1917 (1981), widely regarded as a classic, and The Damascus Affair: ‘Ritual Murder’, Politics and the Jews in 1840 (1997). He co-edited and contributed to the influential annual series Studies in Contemporary Jewry, which appeared from 1984 onwards. Zipperstein comments: ‘He wrote, on an epic scale, dense yet lucid examinations of international politics and its intersection with Jews, profoundly original work that never broadcast its innovations ... in prose that was subtle and unobtrusively learned.’ In matters of religion and politics he was consistently a moderate – a prominent member of the Jewish left (but without a party allegiance), devotedly committed to Israel, liberalism and the Israeli peace movement. He was especially closely involved with Peace Now in the 1980s, and remained an active supporter. Tributes to him lay emphasis not only upon his scholarly integrity, professionalism and open-mindedness, but upon personal qualities of fairness, humanity, kindness and courtesy. In 1963 he married Edith Rogovin, with whom he had two daughters. His friend, Robin Fairlie (1954) has kindly provided the following reminiscence: ‘I had the privilege, as it turned out to be, of meeting Jonny Frankel for the first time on what was for both of us our first day in Jesus at the start of the Michaelmas Term in 1954. We adjourned for coffee to Jonny’s rather grand rooms (compared with mine) in Chapel Court, where Jonny proceeded to grind the beans ... Looking for a conversational gambit, I asked him what clubs he fancied joining; in his usual quiet tones, somewhat muffled by the noise of grinding coffee beans, he replied ‘I’m going to join the Jewish Society’. ‘You’re what?!’ I exclaimed in loud incredulity. The grinding ceased; I was fixed with a calm but appraising gaze ‘I said, I’m going to join the Jewish Society’. ‘Oh’, I said in relief, ‘I thought you said you were going to join the Druid Society!’ Grinding resumed to mutual amusement. ‘The reason for our meeting was that we were both to read history – Jonny as that year’s holder of a major scholarship ... Our tutor was Dr Taunt, and we were both supervised throughout our first year by Vivien Fisher – a formidable (as he seemed then to us) wounded veteran of the not-so-long finished World War II. We attended the same lectures and both joined the Cambridge Union – mostly for the purpose of being able to eat a hearty lunch there for 2/6 each which we did regularly in each other’s company. I got to know Jonny’s parents in Hampstead Garden Surburb on visits between home and university. ... Family occasions chez Frankel were a riot of talk … History was the basis of most of our discussions in that first year; for me it was an exciting new window on the world … Jonny, of course, took up research and a Jesus Fellowship. He spent time in the United States, where he met his lovely wife Edith, with whom he eventually emigrated to Israel, where they both obtained posts in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. ... Jonny and Edith were strong members of the Peace Now movement … we continued to see Jonny and Edith regularly – never, in retrospect, for long enough, but at least we never 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 118

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lost touch … I can only say that I would at all times have trusted them both – as historians, as citizens, as friends – with anything and everything I had to entrust. Would there were more like them.’

Old Members ADDISON, John Norreys (1938) died 16 August 2007 aged 87. John Addison was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, on 22 November 1919. He was educated at Eton College and came up to Jesus in 1938 following in the footsteps of two of his great uncles: Edward Stacy Norris (1870) and John Buckley Norris (1879). His time at Jesus reading engineering was interrupted by the war; he served as a major in the Royal Artillery from 1940 to 1946. He graduated with a war B.A. in 1947 (M.A. 1950). Whilst at Jesus he showed considerable aptitude for electrical methods. He also continued his interest in stage lighting, which had started at school with the lighting of Hamlet, and became the senior lighting engineer at the A.D.C.. He went on to work for Philips until 1975. After leaving Philips he worked for the National Health Service. He married Lois Mary Horn in 1948. His wife predeceased him. They had one son and one daughter.

ALEXANDER, Richard Miles (1959) died on 1 January 2008 aged 67. Richard Alexander’s daughter Alice has kindly supplied the following information: ‘Richard Alexander was born in Singapore on 24 July 1940. He attended Prebendal School, Chichester followed by . He came up to Jesus as an exhibitioner to read history and then law. Richard regularly attended chapel and was a lively member of the Roosters and the Red Herrings. He also enjoyed coxing for the college boat club in 1961 and 1962. Richard began his legal career with articles at Trower, Still & Keeling in 1963 until 1968, when he moved to Winchester to work for Godwin, Bremridge & Clifton. Richard became a partner in 1971 and contributed a great deal to the firm’s work over many years until his retirement in 1994. In 1971 he moved to the Hampshire village of Old Alresford where he supported the local community in various ways. Richard was appointed clerk to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester Cathedral in 1981. In addition to his legal work, Richard held a range of voluntary appointments, including governor of St Swithuns’ School, Winchester; chairman of Winchester Citizens Advice Bureau; director of Brendoncare Nursing Foundation; and trustee of the Eating Disorders Association. Richard was always an avid reader and a keen traveller with a life-long passion for wine. He married in 1970. Richard was a supportive and loving father, and is survived by four daughters, Deborah, Jane, Caroline and Alice.’

BADEN-POWELL, Hubert Edward Philip Peter (1934) died on 29 November 1993 aged 78. Peter Baden-Powell (known at college as Peter Powell) was born in London on 1 May 1915. He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, before coming up to Jesus in 1934. He graduated B.A. in October 1937 having taken part I of the history tripos followed by general studies (M.A. 1952). During the second world was he was in the Royal Navy and served as a lieutenant on HMS Raleigh. He later practised law in Jersey. He was survived by his wife, Dorothy and four children.

BAIN, Walter Edward Spencer (1936) died on 28 October 2007 aged 89. Walter Bain was born in Birkenhead on 16 April 1918. He was educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh. He came up to Jesus in 1936 to read natural sciences with a view to going on to be a doctor. He graduated B.A. in 1939 (M.A.1943). Whilst at Jesus he was cox of 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 119

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the boat which was head of the river in 1939 and had a trial for the Blue boat. He was also an accomplished boxer and won colours for the sport. He trained to be a doctor at Guys and obtained an M.B., B.Chir. During the war he was a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve serving in the Mediterranean and the East Indies. His practice as a doctor included working as a consultant at the Prince Charles Eye Department, Windsor, from 1954 to 1983. His publications include The Fellow Eye in Acute Glaucoma (1952). Following his retirement he enjoyed fishing and golf. He was married to Barbara Elizabeth Margaret Gibbon, who survives him.

BALL, David Garth (1949, non-matric.) died on 1 March 2008 aged 78. David Ball was born in Weymouth, Dorset, on 25 July 1929. He came up to college in October 1949 but at the end of the month, before matriculating, was diagnosed with tuberculosis, contracted during his two years national service with the Royal Artillery in Germany. He was immediately admitted to Papworth Sanatorium, where for two years he underwent treatment. On his discharge, he set up home in Cambridge and, rather than returning to the college, took up articles with a firm of accountants and qualified as an accountant and tax specialist. He married Faith Medhurst in Cambridge in 1965; shortly afterwards they moved to Bridport, Dorset, where he worked with a local accountancy firm for twelve years and then set up in practice on his own. He was company secretary of two local companies and treasurer of a number of local societies and organisations, becoming a respected member of the community and well known for his wise counsels in matters financial. For the last two years of his life he battled bravely against the legacy of tuberculosis; he died peacefully following a fall. His wife survived him but died on 15 April 2008.

BENTON, Peter John (1972) died in 2005. Peter Benton was born in Leicester on 8 June 1954. He was educated at Gateway School, Leicester where he showed an interest in sport, particularly fencing and tennis. He came up to Jesus in 1972 to read English. He graduated B.A. in 1975. After graduation he worked in the civil service. We have no further information about his later career or life.

BIFFEN, William John (1950) died on 14 August 2007 aged 76. John Biffen was born on 3 November 1930 in Combwich, near Bridgwater, Somerset. He attended Dr Morgan’s Grammar School for Boys, Bridgwater, before coming up to Jesus in 1950 with a scholarship to read history. At Cambridge he pursued his interest in politics and became president of the Conservative Association. He graduated B.A. in 1953 and joined Tube Investments as a management trainee. In 1960 he moved to the Economist Intelligence Unit. He stood as a Conservative Party candidate, unsuccessfully, against Richard Crossman, at Coventry East in 1959. He was more successful next time when he won the by-election at Oswestry in 1961. He held the seat, redrawn in 1983 as Shropshire North, until his retirement from the House with a life peerage in 1997. Under Mrs Thatcher’s leadership he joined the shadow cabinet and when she came to power she appointed him Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Two years later he moved to be Trade Secretary. His most successful appointment came a year later when he became Leader of the House. As leader he famously told Dennis Skinner ‘We grammar school boys must stick together’. He became increasingly uncomfortable with the zeal of Thatcherism saying: ‘I did not come into politics to be a kamikaze pilot’. Eventually his ‘semi- detached’ attitude to Mrs Thatcher cost him a place in the cabinet. From the backbenches he mocked the government as ‘a tigress surrounded by hamsters’ and Mrs Thatcher’s press secretary as ‘the sewer, not the sewage’. He criticized the poll tax and Nigel Lawson’s 1988 ‘give-away’ budget. He continued to be a thorn in the government’s 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 120

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side under the new Prime Minister, John Major, voting against the Maastricht Treaty. He was the author of Inside the House of Commons (1989) and Inside Westminster (1996). Outside parliament he was a director of Glynwed International, J Bibby & Sons, the Rockware Group and Barlow International. He was also a trustee of the London Clinic from 1994 to 2002 and was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire in 1993. He married, in 1979, Sarah Wood (née Drew). She survives him with a stepson and a stepdaughter.

BRAITHWAITE Arthur Bevan Midgley (1958) died on 25 April 2008 aged 68. Bevan Braithwaite was born in Broxbourne on 27 July 1939. He attended Leighton Park School, Reading. He came up to Jesus in 1958 following in the footsteps of his father, Frederick Arthur Bevan Braithwaite (1929). At Cambridge, as well as pursuing his love of engineering he also pursued his passion for jazz. He graduated B.A. in 1961 (M.A. 1965). His degree in mechanical sciences combined with being a qualified class 1 welder meant joining the British Welding Association was a natural choice. He remained with the Association and its successor The Welding Institute (TWI) for 42 years, sixteen of them as the chief executive. Under his stewardship TWI grew in size and influence. He was instrumental in the development of the new science park in Cambridge, Granta Park. The main TWI building at the park bears his name. He was considered to be the worldwide leading expert on structural fatigue. During his career he achieved much recognition: he was appointed O.B.E. in 1991; made president of the International Institute of Welding (IIW) in 1999; and was elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1999. He also served as chairman of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and vice president of the Transport Trust; he was awarded the IIW’s Edstrom Medal. At school he had begun his life long love of railways. He was able to develop this interest at Granta Park where he built a narrow gauge railway to carry staff to and from the restaurant. Following his retirement he joined the board of trustees of Bressingham Steam Museum Trust and then became its chairman. He devoted much energy to restoring the Royal Scot, which is expected to be completed this year. He married Kerry Cooke in 1961. They had a son and two daughters. The marriage ended in divorce. He married his second wife, Vanda, on Christmas Eve 2007. He is survived by Vanda and his children.

COHEN, Richard John (1955) died on 9 July 2005 aged 69. Richard Cohen was born on 15 July 1935 in London. He attended Oundle School and came up to Jesus in 1955 to study modern and medieval languages (French and Spanish), switching to law for part II. In 1958 he graduated B.A. (M.A. 1992). He then took up a business career in the firm owned and run by his family: Courts, the furniture retailer. They had built up the business after the second world war from a single shop in Cambridge. In retirement his main hobby was racing horses. Amongst the horses he owned were Running Stag and Spanish Don. He had a number of relatives at Jesus including his brother Paul C. Cohen (1953) and cousins Bruce J. R. Cohen (1959) and Howard S. R. Cohen (1963). He married Veronica Samuel in 1966. He had one son and a stepson, David Cohen (1985). Richard and David took their M.A. degrees together in 1992; Veronica reports this was ‘a lovely family occasion and a very happy memory’.

COOPER, Brian Newman (1938) died on 28 December 2007 aged 88. Brian Cooper was born on 15 September 1919 in Stockport. He attended Stockport Grammar School and came up to read history in 1938 with an exhibition. He was captain of the Jesus soccer XI in 1940. He graduated B.A. in 1941 (M.A. 1945). During the war he served in India as a sergeant in the Intelligence Corps. After the war he trained to be a teacher and went on to work at Bromley Grammar School (1947–1948) and Shirebrook 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 121

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Central School (1948–1955) before becoming head of the history department at Bolsover School (1955–1979). Throughout his time as a teacher and into retirement he wrote crime fiction. His published works include: Where the Fresh Grass Grows (1955); Genesis 38 (1965); The Norfolk Triangle (2000); The Murder Column (2003); and Out with the Tide (2006) as well as many others. He married Ellen Martin in 1942 and had a son and daughter.

COOPER, Richard Moxon (1934) died on 13 August 2007 aged 92. Dick Cooper was born in Maidenhead on 6 May 1915. He attended Felsted School and came up to Jesus in 1934. He read history and English and graduated B.A. in 1937. For entertainment he was involved in student productions at the A.D.C. He was a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Artillery from 1939 to 1945. After the war he worked as a farmer until 1956. He then moved to work for Fisons Limited, holding a succession of technical and sales posts, eventually becoming manpower resources manager. He continued there until his retirement in 1980. His interests in later life included golf, watercolour painting, wine and the Aldeburgh Festival. He married Leticia Joyce Linton in 1939; she died in 1997. He married Rosemary Thornhill in 2001. He has two sons.

CREWDSON, Peter Eric Fyers (1939) died on 29 April 2007 aged 86. Peter Crewdson was born in Low Slack, Kendal, on 27 December 1920. He attended Shrewsbury School and came up to Jesus in 1939 to read mechanical sciences. His time at Jesus was interrupted by the war; he served as a captain in the Royal Marines. At the end of the war he did not return to the college to finish his degree. He was chairman of Gilbert, Gilkes & Gordon Ltd an engineering company based in the Lake District. He was appointed the High Sheriff of Cumbria in 1983.

DESHMUKH, Ramakant Pandharinath (1947) died on 29 April 2005 aged 80. Ramakant Deshmukh was born in Chandur, India, on 19 July 1924. He attended Khurai Municipal High School and then Morris College, Nagpur University, both in India. For his first degree he read economics. When, in 1947, he came up to Jesus, he followed in the footsteps of his uncle Sir Chintaman Deshmukh (1915, Hon Fellow 1962). He read part II economics and graduated B.A. in 1949. Whilst at college he pursued his passion for cricket. His daughter, Archana Dhanwatay reports that ‘Jesus College and Cambridge University held a special place in his heart, and his face always lit up whenever he spoke of them.’

DYKES, John Bryan (1957) died in October 2007 aged 71. Bryan Dykes was born in London on 15 September 1936. He was educated at Rugby School. Following school he completed his national service as an officer in the Gurkhas. Most of his military service was spent in Singapore. On return to England he spent a short time with Unilever. He came up to Jesus in 1957 following in the footsteps of his grandfather, E. H. Dykes (1871). He read part I economics and part II law. He graduated B.A. in 1961. After graduation he qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse in London and then pursued a successful career in industry. He became the finance director of the Prestige Group and subsequently worked for both Gallaher and BI Group plc. He was working part time right up until his death. At college he was a keen sportsman and was a member of the college 1st XV. Throughout his life sport remained one of his greatest passions. He was a lifelong member of Richmond Rugby Club (a minute’s silence was observed in his honour at one of the home games shortly after his death), a long time member of the Marylebone Cricket Club, a member of the Flyfishers Club and a regular supporter at Stamford Bridge of Chelsea Football Club (being a lifelong resident of Chelsea in London). He was a very 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 122

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keen fly fisherman who embarked on several trips with his cousin to Alaska and Iceland as well as making numerous trips to fish the Findhorn and other rivers in Scotland. He was, though, at his happiest when fishing on the River Leven in Haverthwaite, in his much loved Lake District, where he spent many happy years as a child and had many happy holidays in the family cottage, Rosemount, with his own family. In 1970 he married Mary Renshaw, who with his two sons survives him.

EDDISON, John Martin Ryalls (1939) died on 9 April 2005 aged 84. Martin Eddison was born in Bedale, Yorkshire, on 21 December 1920. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and came up to Jesus in 1939 to read natural sciences. At Shrewsbury he had been rowing captain of his house. He continued his interest in rowing during his brief time at Jesus before he was called up. During the war he was a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. At the end of the war he chose not to return to the college and pursued his academic interests elsewhere. His widow, Sydney Eddison, reports that he had a long, distinguished career as an engineer in Connecticut and that he became a U. S. citizen in the 1950s.

EL SHEIKH, Fath el Rahman Abdalla (1976) died on 30 January 2008 aged 62. Fath El Sheikh was born on 1 January 1946 in Sudan. He attended Atbara Higher Secondary School and then the University of Khartoum. Following graduation from the University of Khartoum, he worked for two years as a legal adviser at the Attorney General’s chambers. From 1972 to 1974 he was a second and first class magistrate on secondment to the legal department of the Bank of Sudan. He moved from this post to become a teaching assistant at his old university. He came up to Jesus in 1976 to study for a Ph.D. and soon settled in to university life, especially after he was joined by his wife. He attained his Ph.D. in 1979, with a dissertation entitled: Legal aspects of foreign private investment in the Democratic Republic of the Sudan. He returned to Sudan and the University of Khartoum, where he continued his academic research, returning occasionally to Cambridge to work. He subsequently joined the Kuwait Investment Authority in Kuwait as a legal adviser.

ELLIS, Francis Charles (1936) died on 28 January 2008 aged 90. Frank Ellis was born in Sawston, Cambridgeshire, on 14 December 1917. He attended Cambridge County High School before coming up to Jesus to read natural sciences. At Cambridge he became a member of ‘The Club’ and on the university stage played the piano for Footlights. He graduated B.A. in 1939 (M.A. 1943). During the war he was an instructor in fire control, holding the rank of captain in the Royal Artillery. After the war he taught physics at Spalding Grammar School and then went on to become head of science at Birkenhead School, remaining there until 1982. Martin Brown (1957) reports: ‘Frank Ellis was an outstanding club tennis player and boys from the school could find amusement at the local tennis club in watching his opponents dashing round the court whilst he remained relatively unmoving on his side of the net. He brought his keen interest in electronics into school life, and in 1949 invited former associates from his military days to demonstrate home-made television equipment to the physics society. The components were mounted on a tea trolley and illuminated an army-surplus 6-inch green fluorescent radar screen. A keen photographer, he founded and equipped a modern photographic society, encouraging generations of budding snappers to develop and print their own work. He was an accomplished pianist and keen musician ... In the 1960s he developed his keen artistic eye and painted with some skill an eclectic range of subjects ... He was an outstanding teacher whose influence will long survive him.’ In retirement he returned to Cambridgeshire and pursued his many and varied interests. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 123

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FIRTH, John Bathurst (1932) died on 12 August 2007 aged 93. John Firth was born in Christ Church, New Zealand, on 30 August 1913. He was educated at Wanganui College, New Zealand, and Chesterford College, Essex. He came up to Jesus in 1932, originally reading economics and then switching to engineering. He graduated B.A. in 1936 (M.A. 1939). During the war he served with the Royal Engineers, rising to the rank of captain. Following the end of the war he worked as a mechanical engineer for Nyasaland Railways in what is now Malawi. The college does not have any further information about his later life.

FOSS, Martin Vincent Lush (1956) died on 2 February 2008 aged 69. Martin Foss was born in Bristol on 12 February 1938. Like his father George Foss (1927), he was educated at Marlborough College; he came up to Jesus in 1956. Later his cousin George Struthers (1968) followed in their footsteps. Whilst at Jesus he read natural sciences and was a keen rower; he rowed in the boat that came head of the river in 1957 and 1958 and in the 1958 winning boat in Ladies’ Plate. He also ran the college’s Medical Society. He graduated B.A. in 1959 (M.A. 1963) and then obtained an M.B. B.Chir. in 1962 at University College Hospital. His practice as a doctor included working as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Luton and Dunstable Hospital from 1973 to 1996 and as director of medicine. He was a freeman of the City of London, a member of the Guild of Freemen of the City of London and provincial grand master of the Masonic Province of Bedfordshire. His interests included ornithology, music and family history. He married Anthea Noelle Johnson in 1963, with the newly ordained Peter Allen (1957) assisting in the service and Peter Coulton (1956) as best man. He and Anthea had two daughters. Anthea died in 1993 but his daughters survive him.

GILLIES, Walter John (1939) died on 12 February 2008 aged 86. Wattie Gillies was born on 25 April 1921 at New Abbey, near Dumfries. He came up to Jesus in 1939, from Loretto School, Musselburgh, to read natural sciences and graduated B.A. in 1942. Whilst at college he was a keen member of the football team. He undertook his clinical studies in medicine at Edinburgh University and graduated M.B., Ch.B. in 1945. Following qualification as a doctor, he worked at the Edinburgh Sick Children’s Hospital before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps and undertaking national service in what was then the Gold Coast and is now Ghana. In 1950 he entered general practice in Moffat, where he was to remain until his official retirement in 1991 (latterly in partnership with one of his sons) but continued to locum until 1995. As a G.P. he became a highly respected member of the community. He was the chairman of ENABLE, a charity for handicapped children, a member of a Red Cross branch, a fellow of the Zoological Society of Edinburgh and a member of the Sundial Society. He married Elise Robertson Drummond in 1950. They had two boys and three girls (including a pair of twins). Four of their children and one of his grandchildren followed the family tradition and became doctors. Five generations of his family have contributed to 149 years of continuous medical service in Scotland from 1859 to the present day. He is survived by his wife and five children.

GUY, Peter Vernon (1937) died on 19 June 2007 aged 88. Peter Guy was born in Lytton, British Columbia, Canada, on 9 April 1919. He attended Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, Sussex. After school, he spent a year abroad before coming up to Jesus in 1937 to read modern languages. At college he was full of energy, participating in rugby (running the college Juggernauts), tennis and skiing. At the beginning and end of each term he would cycle to his home near Nottingham. His time 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 124

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at Jesus was interrupted by the war; he graduated with a war B.A. in 1941 (M.A. 1945). During the war he served with the Royal Corps of Signals rising to the rank of captain. Following the war his brother, Anthony Guy (1949), came up to Jesus. After demobilisation he joined Laporte Chemicals at Luton. He transferred from Laporte in the early 1970s to Barium Chemicals at Widnes. A short while later he moved to Beckmann Instruments before finally retiring in the early 1980s. In retirement he enjoyed bird-watching and architecture. He married Marie-Rose Howarth in 1941 with whom he had two sons.

HAMES, Stephen Martyn (1960) died on 26 October 2007 aged 67. Martyn Hames was born in Manchester on 5 February 1940. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and came up to Jesus to read natural sciences (geology) in 1960. He had a keen interest in sport, particularly football, tennis and skiing. He graduated B.A. in 1963 (M.A. 1967). Following graduation he went to the United States and trained with a wire company, National Standard Company Limited, returning later to work for them in England. He remained with the firm for almost his entire career, progressing to become production director, and at the time of taking on this role was the youngest member of the board. He took early retirement in 1995 and started his own business. When he finally completely retired he rekindled his passion for geology and established a geotrail on Wenlock Edge. He is survived by his widow, Carol and their three children.

HARCOMBE, Michael John (1966) died on 28 November 2007 aged 60. Mike Harcombe was born on 26 January 1947 in Mumbles, Swansea. He attended King Edward’s School, Birmingham, before coming up to Jesus in 1966. He began by reading geography but quickly switched to economics, which he read for part I of the tripos. He then changed to read law for part II. At Cambridge his focus was on extra-curricular activities. He was a member of the University Air Squadron and the Cambridge Management Group as well as being an all-round sportsman. He graduated B.A. in 1969 (M.A. 1973). Following graduation he worked for S. G. Warburg & Co. Ltd. from 1969 to 1972 before moving to Adela Investment Co., Peru, where he remained until 1977. He then became an economic adviser to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America. He progressed from the U.N. to become chairman of Lyon Holdings S.A. and in addition was vice-chairman of the British/Chilean Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 1999. His business interests were extensive; they included a hotel supply company, a fruit farm and the breeding and export of llamas. Whilst not working, he enjoyed many outdoor pursuits including tennis, hot-air ballooning, fly-fishing and skiing. He also served, from 1987 to 1993, as a governor of a school founded by John Jackson (1920): the Grange School, Santiago. He married Anabella Taverne in 1970 and they had three daughters. Fraser Alexander (1958) is his brother-in-law and Henry Alexander (1985) is his nephew.

HIGHAM, John Bernard (1935) died on 28 June 2007 aged 92. John Higham was born in Karachi, India, on 20 January 1915. He was educated at Epsom College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He came up to Jesus to read engineering in 1935 and graduated B.A. in 1937 (M.A. 1942). He was assistant director of movements at General Headquarters, New Delhi, from 1944 to 1946, embarkation commandant at Karachi from May to December 1946 and director of transportation at the Army Headquarters, , from 1949 to 1951. By the end of his army career he had attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. From 1969 to 1972 he was a lecturer in A- level mathematics at Braintree College of Further Education. In 1975, his work Theoretical Mechanics was published. He was a liveryman of the Coachmakers’ Company, London, 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 125

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and was interested in offshore sailing. He married Elisabeth Campbell in 1938. He married Sheila Grace Wood in 1950 and she survives him. He had one son and two daughters. Alex Higham (1998) is his grandson.

HIGNELL, Stephen David (1952) died on 1 April 2007 aged 75. Steve Hignell was born on 14 March 1932 in what was then known as Tanganyika Territory and is now part of Tanzania. He was educated at , Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. In 1952 he followed his father (Harold Hignell, 1903) and came up to Jesus. He read mechanical sciences and enjoyed numerous college sports. He was captain of the college rugby XV. He continued to have a keen interest in sport throughout his life, an interest shared with other members of the family including his nephew, the former England rugby full-back and commentator Alastair Hignell. He graduated B.A. in 1955 (M.A. 1959). Following graduation and until 1965 he worked for Texaco, including a period in the Caribbean. He moved to Rowntree Mackintosh in November 1965 and stayed with the company until early retirement in 1990. His main focus was his family. He married Jennifer Hardy in 1959 and they had two sons and a daughter. He enjoyed spending time with them and researching genealogy. He is survived by his widow and his three children.

HOLDSWORTH, Geoffrey (1943) died on 3 November 2007 aged 83. Geoffrey Holdsworth was born in Bradford on 20 August 1924. He attended Bradford Grammar School and then joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a seaman lieutenant, serving from 1943 to 1946. He came up to Jesus to read modern and medieval languages in January 1943. He graduated B.A in 1948 (M.A. 1951). After university he worked as a manager in the Siamese Tin Syndicate Limited until 1964. He then moved to Camborne Mines Limited to work as mine secretary. In 1965, he became secretary of the Cornish Chamber of Mines, in addition to his work at Camborne. In 1974, he left Camborne Mines to become secretary of Tehidy Minerals Limited, where he remained until 1980. In the early 1980s he changed careers and became a teacher, having first taken his Post Graduate Certificate in Education at the College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth. He taught for four years in Cornwall. He also served as a member of industrial relations and employment tribunals from 1970 to 1991. He married Irene Fraser in 1950 and they had three daughters. Irene died in 1985.

HOWD, George Taylor (1944) died on 24 October 2007 aged 80. George Howd was born in Middlesbrough on 7 January 1927. He attended Middlesbrough High School and came up to Jesus to read natural sciences in 1944. Whilst at Jesus he was president of the Roosters and grand marshall of the Red Herrings. He was also captain of the rugby XV. From 1945 to 1948 he served with the Royal Artillery in India and Singapore as a second lieutenant. He graduated B.A. in 1950 (M.A. 1952). Although he graduated in 1950, based on three years’ residence and having taken part I of the tripos, he remained in residence to take part II in 1951. Following part II, he worked as a metallurgist in Rhokana Corp, in what was Northern Rhodesia. He left Rhokana to become a personal assistant to the executive chairman of the Association of British Engineering Limited and studied for a diploma in business management from the London School of Economics. He then spent seventeen years with the Royal Dutch Shell Group including four years as director of petrochemicals and polymers, Shell U.K. Limited. During his time with Shell he obtained a degree in law from the University of London and was elected president of the British Plastics Federation. After the Shell Group he became chairman of the Riverside District Health Authority (1985–1990) and 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 126

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then chairman of the Royal Surrey County Hospital N.H.S. Trust (1990–1995). From 1990 to 1994 he was vice chairman of the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts. He was a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Horners. He married Sheila Mary Dent in 1952. They had two sons, one of whom is Steven Howd (1989).

HOYTE, David St John Wilson (1947) died on 17 September 2007 aged 82. David Hoyte was born in Twickenham on 3 July 1925. He was educated at Cranbrook School and the Edinburgh Academy. After leaving school he served in the Royal Air Force (1943–1947). He came up to Jesus, his father’s old college (W. Norman Hoyte, 1913), in 1947. He was followed by his brother (Harold Hoyte, 1953, now deceased). He read natural sciences and graduated B.A. in 1950 (M.A. 1969). After college he worked at the Anglo Iranian Oil Company, B.P. Kirklington (1950–1952), I.C.I. Billingham (1955–1965) and I.B.M. in the United Kingdom, U.S. and France (1965–1990). He worked in many different industries with various production methods: from glass furnaces to chocolate factories and from cement kilns to ammonia plants. He thoroughly enjoyed being able to apply the theory he had learned at Jesus in such different areas. His publications include Optimization of Empirical Processes (1966) and How to search the web for information (1999). He and his family settled in the United States in 1976. After retiring in 1990, he used his time helping Old Saybrook High School in the U.S. and sailing on the Connecticut River. Just before his eightieth birthday he had cochlear implants and reported ‘it is unbelievable to be able to hear birdsong once again!’ He married Jean Madeline Ritchie in 1955 and they had two sons and two daughters. He is survived by his wife and his children.

HUTCHINSON, Gordon Alastair (1940) died on 22 December 2004 aged 82. Gordon Hutchinson was born in Colchester on 24 July 1922. He was educated at Latymer Upper School and came up to Jesus on a scholarship in March 1940. He read history and modern languages, graduating with a war B.A. in 1943 (M.A. 1946). Whilst at Jesus he rowed in the first boat which, in 1941, won the headship of the March and December Eights. He was also secretary of the college boat club. He was released from war service in 1943 to join the colonial service. His service overseas spanned from 1944 to 1970. A large part of it was in the United Republic of Tanzania, both before and after independence. He worked in the audit department and rose to be Controller and Auditor General. He left Tanzania in 1970 and became secretary and bursar to Grenville College Limited. In retirement his hobbies included medieval and classical literature and model engineering. He was married to Joyce Agnes Hutchinson who survived him but has subsequently died. They remained good friends to the college and by bequest supported both college libraries and the boat club.

HUTCHINSON, Robert John (1946) died on 26 December 2007 aged 79. Robert Hutchinson was born on 16 June 1928 in Bradford, Yorkshire. He was educated at Loretto, Musselburgh. He read natural sciences and graduated B.A. in 1949 (M.A. 1953). He went on to achieve a M.B. B. Chir. (1953). Part of his career was spent working in community medicine in Yorkshire.

IVY, Robert Douglas Martin (1946) died in February 2008 aged 88. Robin Ivy was born on 21 October 1919 in Bedford. He attended Bedford School and then joined Barclays Bank. During the war he served in the army as a lance corporal. He came up to Jesus in 1946 to read English, following his great uncle Frederick Gilbertson (1880). He graduated B.A. in 1949 (M.A. 1953). Following graduation he taught at various schools 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 127

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until returning to Cambridge with his family in 1962 to teach at St John’s Choir School. Whilst at Jesus he demonstrated considerable skill at creative writing. He continued writing throughout his life and donated copies of some of his poems to the college library. He ran a poetry writing class for the U3A. In retirement he also enjoyed bird-watching in Norfolk and Suffolk as well as in mid-Wales and painting seascapes and landscapes in East Anglia. He married Mary Janet Gilbertson in 1948 and had one son and two daughters.

JOHNSTONE, Alan Charles Macpherson (1961) died on 14 June 2008 aged 66. Alan Johnstone was born in Stirling on 13 January 1942. He attended Edinburgh Academy and Loretto School, Musselburgh. He came up to Jesus in 1961 to read law. After graduation he studied Scottish law at Edinburgh University (graduating LL.M.). The son of an eminent judge, Lord Dunpark (1934), he was called to the Scottish bar in 1967 and was appointed QC in 1980. He was chairman of industrial tribunals from 1982 to 1985 and of the medical appeal tribunals from 1985 to 1989. In 1989 he became dean of the Faculty of Advocates and five years later he became a senator of the College of Justice. He served as chairman of the Scottish division of the Employment Appeal Tribunal from 1996 to 2005. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 2005. His close friend Lord Abernethy described how, as a fiercely independent lawyer, he ‘had the knack of telling people what he thought was right and not what they wanted to hear … but Alan was held in high esteem by the profession and blessed with a great sense of humour.’ He worked tirelessly to promote the Scottish legal system, recognising that ‘Scotland is one of the stateless nations of Europe … It is unique in having a legal system without a legislature. As such it has to rely on the good offices of a political establishment which knows little about it. Most Europeans, and the English, see us as the northern circuit of the English legal system.’ He did much to alter this perception, including allowing an appeal to be filmed. He held several appointments, including chairman of the Court of Heriot Watt University, chairman and governor of Loretto School and founder and trustee of the Clark Foundation for legal education. Outside the law he was a keen golfer and enjoyed country pursuits. He was a popular and entertaining man, affectionately referred to as ‘Big Al’. In 1966 he married Anthea Clackburn; they had three sons. His brother is Colin Johnstone (1971).

JONES, Arthur David Nicholas (1937) died on 4 December 2007 aged 89. Arthur Jones was born in Nassington, near Peterborough, on 6 April 1918. He attended Haileybury College, Hertford, before coming up to Jesus in 1937 as a scholar. He read part I classics and part II law, graduating B.A. in 1940. Whilst at college he continued his love of sport and photography as well as courting his soon to be wife, Margaret (Peggy) Lake, whom he married in 1942. During the war he served in the Royal Artillery and was stationed in India and Burma. He rose to the rank of captain. Following demobilisation he was called to the bar. He practised as a barrister for a short while before moving to the Charity Commission. He left the Charity Commission to become company secretary of Turner & Newell where he remained until his retirement in 1980. In retirement he pursued his passion for sailing. He is survived by his wife and daughter.

JONES, Terence Leavesley (1943) died on 6 May 2007 aged 80. Terry Jones was born in Nottingham on 24 May 1926. He went to Nottingham High School and came up to Jesus in 1943 with a scholarship to read history. His time at Cambridge was interrupted by being called up to the Royal Navy. Whilst at Jesus he sang in the college choir and in other musical events and also played the French horn. He graduated B.A. in 1947 (M.A. 1950). Following graduation he undertook research on the campaigns of the Black Prince in Gascony and Spain. He spent his career working in the civil service. From 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 128

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1949 to 1957 he worked as an assistant inspector of ancient monuments for the Ministry of Public Buildings & Works. He continued with the Ministry as a principal (1957–1976) and as secretary of the Historic Buildings Council for England (1959–1967). He served as under secretary for the Department of the Environment from 1976 to 1985. He listed his interests as archaeology and music; he was chairman of the Hampstead Choral Society. His friend Bernard Marchant (1945) reports that following retirement he ‘moved to the village of Mildenhall in Wiltshire and was sometimes called upon to chair inquiries into planning applications’ also that he ‘became a well-known figure in the community, not least as assistant organist’. In 1966 he married Barbara Hall, with whom he shared a passion for music and singing. They had one son. Barbara died in 2001. He is survived by his son.

KLEINMAN, Philip Julian (1951) died 10 February 2007 aged 74. Philip Kleinman was born on 6 December 1932 in London. During the war he was evacuated to Northampton where he attended the local grammar school. He came up to Jesus with an exhibition in 1951. He read history and English and graduated B.A. in 1954 (M.A. 1958). He left Cambridge and became an Israeli kibbutznik. While in the Middle East he met his future wife, Gisele Rachel Azoulay. On his return to Europe he became a journalist. He worked mainly in newspapers and for publications including the Agence France-Presse, The Daily Telegraph, Adweek, Market Research News and MR Week. He also wrote a column for The Jewish Chronicle from 1974 to 1990 and another for The Guardian from 1982 to 1983. Amongst his publications was The Saatchi & Saatchi Story (1987). He is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.

LAIRD, Andrew Filz (1928) died on 23 October 2007 aged 97. Andrew Laird was born in Cambridge on 25 October 1909. He was educated at Felsted School and came up to Jesus in 1928. He read law and graduated B.A. in 1931. Following graduation he qualified as a solicitor. He spent most of his career working for Nottingham Council. He was awarded an M.B.E. in the 1970 New Year Honours List for services to the council in social care.

LAKE, John Robert Arnold (1947) died in October 2006 aged 82. John Lake was born in Beaminster, Dorset, on 7 June 1924. He was educated at Millfield Street, Somerset. He served as a lieutenant in the 55th Anti-tank Regiment of the Royal Artillery. Following demobilisation he came up to Jesus in 1947. He read agriculture and graduated B.A. in 1950 (M.A. 1954). After graduation he worked in France for an agricultural engineering company. Finding the French not to his taste he returned, in the late 1950s, to the place of his birth and took over the family farm. He turned a run-down business into a highly successful arable farm. He enjoyed music and held a number of classical concerts in his hall as well as other great parties. He had an extensive collection of old farm implements which he maintained himself until their sale shortly before his death. A prominent member of the local community, he had a remarkable zest for life and enjoyed controversy. His funeral was conducted by Canon Tim Biles who described it as ‘straight out of a Hardy novel’. His coffin was transported to a beautiful plot on the hillside of his farm by a horse drawn trailer: a trailer he had made himself.

LINDSAY, David Ludovic (1948) died on 12 January 2007 aged 79. David Lindsay was born in Gillingham, Kent, on 10 April 1927. He was educated at Marlborough College before serving as a corporal in the Royal Air Force. He came up to Jesus in 1948. He read modern and medieval languages and graduated with a war B.A. in 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 129

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1950 (M.A. 1955). Following graduation he worked in the insurance industry before moving to Slumberland Beds, where he worked as advertising director until his retirement. His daughter recalls having to try out a new bed every six months. His interests included the Warwickshire Boys Club, for whom he worked tirelessly. He was a gifted model-maker and produced wooden toys as well as a set of Alice in Wonderland clay figures. He married Jenifer Seccombe in 1955 and had one boy and one girl. His wife died in 2003 but his children survive him.

MOORE, John Spurge (1934) died on 27 October 2007 aged 91. John Moore was born in Long Melford, Suffolk, on 26 April 1916. He attended the Leys School, Cambridge, and came up to Jesus in 1934 to read natural sciences. A talented sportsman, he played rugby for the university. He graduated B.A. in 1937 (M.A. 1941). During the war he served as a captain in the Suffolk Regiment and West Yorkshire Regiment before transferring to be a major in the 1st Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment. Apart from interruption for war service, he spent his career as a biology teacher. He worked briefly at Kings College, Taunton, before spending 38 years at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, where he became head of biology and a housemaster. He was also the commanding officer of the combined cadet force at the school and master for rugby and athletics. He introduced rugby to the school (the previous winter game having been soccer) and brought ‘enthusiasm, efficiency and an outlook which disdained the petty bureaucracy of modern life.’ His house had a warm and relaxed feel. In retirement he and his wife moved to near Canterbury and were keen gardeners, competing and winning in flower and vegetable competitions. In 1939, he married Muriel Kathleen Lumley (‘Binnie’); they had four daughters and one son, Jonathan Moore (1980). Binnie died in 1982, 25 years to the day before John’s death. Following his wife’s death he often travelled to the United States and Australia to visit his children.

MORRIS, David Richard (1960) died on 25 March 2008 aged 65. David Morris was born on 6 May 1942 in Hendon. He attended the City of London School before coming up to Jesus in 1960 as a Rustat Exhibitioner. One of his supervisors found ‘he has an independent mind and the kind of curiosity that gets results’. Whilst at college he participated in charitable work and was a lively member of the Railway Society and of the Roosters. He read history, graduating B.A. in 1963. Following graduation he joined the ‘fast stream’ of the Civil Service, then called ‘the administrative class’. He was posted to the War Office, which was merged six months later with the other service departments to form the Ministry of Defence. It was here that he was to spend the larger part of his career. After a spell as private secretary to a junior minister, he was promoted and sent to the General Staff Secretariat. His work there gave him a familiarity with the problems brought up by the emergency in Northern Ireland. It was therefore unsurprising when he was sent to Belfast to serve as the link between the Ministry and the authorities in Belfast. Further promotion came in the late 1970s. The most challenging appointment of the later part of his career was to be private secretary to the Leader of the House of Commons, John Biffen (1950), whose obituary is above. This put him at the centre of the legislative process. On his return to the Ministry of Defence he took up other responsibilities, but it was not long before the first signs of Parkinson’s disease became evident. This ruled out further advancement and led in due course to his premature retirement in 1999. Throughout retirement he maintained his lifelong interest in railways, astronomy and military history. In 1967 he married Rosemary Hogg, who with their two sons and one daughter survives him. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 130

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NEALE, John Clifford Charles (1984) died on 29 October 2006 aged 41. John Neale was born in Bristol on 2 November 1965. He attended Clifton College, Bristol, before coming up to Jesus with a choral and a mathematics exhibition. He read mathematics and graduated with a B.A. in 1987 (M.A. 1994).His widow, Julia Thornton has kindly provided us with the following: ‘[John] … took an active part in Cambridge musical life, singing in the college chapel choirs, Cambridge University chamber choir and the G & S Society, as well as conducting the college orchestra. During his debut performance of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony he accidently dropped the conductor’s baton. Scurrying offstage to retrieve it, he noticed that the quality of the music was in no way impaired; the players were far too busy sight-reading their parts to watch him anyway. After graduating he studied singing at the Royal Northern College of Music and pursued a career as an opera singer in the Bayreuth Festival Chorus, British Youth Opera, Wexford Opera and Frankfurt Opera, among others. For many years he was active in the field of diabetes information on the internet. If asked, he would have probably have said that the proudest moment of his life was the day his letter to the editor was published in the Economist … on the subject of goats’ milk. A memorial service held in Bristol was attended by several contemporaries from Cambridge.’ He is survived by his wife, Julia, and two sons.

NEWTON, Harold Maurice (1937) died on 11 August 2007 aged 88. Maurice (‘Mike’) Newton was born on in Overstone, near Northampton, on 5 September 1918. He attended Gresham’s School, Holt, and came up to Jesus in 1937. Originally intending to read for the medical tripos, he chose instead to read English. His real interests, however, lay outside the academic world, in particular in flying and cricket. He was a keen member of the University Air Squadron. He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was one of the first members of the college to join the forces in 1939. He served with the R.A.F. until 1946, attaining the rank of squadron leader and receiving the Air Efficiency Award in 1944. After the R.A.F., he chose not to return to Cambridge and instead ran airfields all over the world for Shell International Petroleum Company Limited. From 1961 to 1983 he was managing director of Sywell Aerodrome Limited. (Sywell Aerodrome had been started by his father, Charles Newton.) Mike’s interest in cricket was a life-long passion: he played for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club and was a member of the M.C.C. and the Barbados and Trinidad Cricket Associations. In 1940, he married Inga Greta Barro, with whom he had one son and three daughters. He later married Elizabeth, and thus gained a step-daughter.

NICHOLSON, Keith (1968) died on 22 August 2006 aged 63. Keith Nicholson was born in London on 4 November 1942. His friend Mr Ashley Jones has kindly supplied the college with much of the information set out below, and the quotations. Keith did not follow the traditional route to college. He left school with few qualifications and began work on a Barking newspaper as a journalist. ‘With immense distaste he covered local football matches and wrote up accounts of boxing tournaments in local pubs and East End clubs. During this period began the two great obsessions that were to remain with him for the rest of his life, book and record collecting.’ He developed left-wing leanings and became ‘an activist in CND and in 1963 he launched Project 67, an internationalist organisation, allied with the Peace Movement’. In 1966 he went up to Ruskin College, Oxford. From Ruskin he came to Jesus to read English and was greatly influenced by Raymond Williams. He graduated B.A. in 1972 (M.A. 1975). 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 131

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‘On leaving Cambridge … he started trading in the commodity that he knew so well – books. … With some considerable success this tiny enterprise blossomed into ‘The Green Knight Bookshop’ which he opened in St Martin’s Court just off St Martin’s Lane [London]. This bookshop soon established an excellent reputation with a stock of fine bindings, art history, literature, philosophy and biography. … In the mid 70s he wrote introductions to the works of Kay Nielsen and E. J. Detmold.’ In the 1990s, after he had closed the bookshop, he moved to Woodbridge in Suffolk, continuing life with his friend and partner Peter Freeman.

ODHAMS, David Valentine Lynch (1946) died on 6 August 2007 aged 86. David Odhams was born in Reigate on 4 March 1921. He was educated at Westminster School. He came up to Jesus after serving as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy from 1939 to 1945. At Jesus, he studied mechanical sciences/engineering studies, attaining a war B.A. in 1949 (M.A. 1953). He was one of the exceptional intake of rowers in the later 1940s – part of the crew which won the Grand at Henley and captain of J.C.B.C. in 1949. He rowed in the successful 1949 boat race and in the same year became president of the Rhadegunds. After graduation he worked for the industrial department of Bird & Co, Calcutta. From 1959 to 1993 he was employed by Vancouver Wharves Limited, eventually becoming its chairman. He also served as chairman of British Columbia Wharves Limited. He maintained his interest in rowing after leaving Cambridge and was a member of the Leander Club and Calcutta Rowing Club. His other sporting interests included golf. He married Fay Jordan in 1952 and had two sons and one daughter.

OGDEN, William Stewart (1948) died in October 2007 aged 77. Bill Ogden was born on 17 March 1930 in Sutton, Surrey, and attended Abingdon School, Oxfordshire. He came up to Jesus in 1948 to read natural sciences with the intention of going on to qualify as a doctor. He graduated B.A. (1951), M.B. B.Chir. (1955) and M.A. (also 1955). He completed his medical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he specialised in disorders of the ear, nose and throat. Following national service he was on the fast track to consultancy, when he decided he preferred the community work of a general practitioner. He spent most of the rest of his career as a partner in general practice at Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire. When he retired from the practice in 1993 the occasion was marked by a ring of bells at the parish church. Although officially retired, he agreed to provide short-term help to a colleague in Hammersmith, and remained there for 12 years. In 1957 he married Barbara Every and they had one son and two daughters. He is survived by his wife and children.

OLIVER, David John (1949) died on 10 November 2007 aged 78. David Oliver was born on 17 December 1928 in Falmouth, Cornwall. He attended Falmouth Grammar School and then served as a sergeant in the Royal Air Force Education Branch. He came up to Jesus in 1949 and took part I history and part II law. At Jesus he was a member of the college choir and assistant to the organ scholar, Peter John Hurford (1949). He attained his B.A. in 1952 (M.A. 1956). He subsequently became a solicitor and practised at his father-in-law’s firm, H. J. Hurford & Co, from 1955 to 1965. He went on to become a partner at Pinniger Finch & Co where he worked from 1966 to 1988. After retirement he retained the post of clerk to the General Commissioners of Income Tax, Westbury Division, until 1999. He remained interested in music throughout his life and served on the Salisbury Diocesan Advisory Committee as an organ adviser for twenty-five years. He married Maureen Elisabeth Hurford, the sister of Peter Hurford, in 1956. He is survived by his wife and two sons, Peter and James Oliver (respectively 1978 and 1981). 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 132

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OMAR-TANAHDATAR, Adlan Benan Bin (1993) died on 24 January 2008 aged 35. Ben Omar-Tanahdatar was born in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, on 17 January 1973. He was educated in Malaysia at Bukit Bintang Boys Secondary School, Petaling Jaya, at the Malay College at Kuala Kangsar and at the Mara Insititute of Technology, Subang Jaya, before attending Abingdon School, Oxfordshire. He came up to Jesus in 1993 to read history, with the aid of a Sime Darby scholarship (from a firm where he had worked as a legal trainee) and funds from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. In 1995, after taking part I of the history tripos and being awarded the Hugh Owen Memorial Prize for South Asian History, he changed subject to law. He graduated B.A. in 1997. Whilst at Jesus he was president of the Cambridge Malaysian Students Association and of the U.K. Malaysian Students Association; this led to his being named Malaysian Student of the Year (an award made by the King of Malaysia) in 1997. Following graduation he worked as a personal assistant for the then Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia. After his boss’s fall from favour in 1998, Ben left Malaysia; he returned to Cambridge for a short while and subsequently worked in England, Germany and Singapore.

ORR EWING, John Anthony (1936) died on 19 January 2001 aged 86. Anthony Orr Ewing was born in Kensington, London, on 12 March 1914. He was educated at Eton College before coming up to Jesus in 1936. He read estate management and graduated with a B.A. in 1939. During the war he served as a captain in the Army. He spent his career as a land agent, a role which particularly suited him as he loved country life. His hobbies included hunting and shooting and in his youth he enjoyed driving his gold open-top Bentley. In 1949 he married Audrey Doreen Tyson; they had one son. He is survived by his wife and son.

PARBURY, John Richard (1935) died on 3 July 2007 aged 92. John Parbury was born in Tasmania on 12 March 1915. He was educated at Grammar School and King’s School, Parramatta, both in Australia. He followed his brother G. M. Parbury (1927) up to Jesus in January 1935, reading part I of the history tripos. He changed subject to archaeology and anthropology and completed his degree by taking a general studies paper. He graduated B.A in 1938. Throughout his life he spoke of his great fondness for his old college. He lived in Penang, Malaysia, and was a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Society there.

PODRO, Michael Isaac (1951) died on 28 March 2008 aged 77. Michael Podro was born on 13 March 1931 in London. He attended Berkhamsted School, Hertfordshire, and then did his national service in the Royal Air Force. He came up to Jesus to read English in 1951 and was influenced by the work of F. R. Leavis. He graduated B.A. in 1954 (M.A. 1958). After graduation he spent a year at the Slade School of Art, where he met his future wife, Charlotte Booth. He spent the next year four years studying philosophy at University College, London. After completing his Ph.D., he became the founding head of the art history department at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (1961–1967). In 1967 he moved to become lecturer in the philosophy of art at the Warburg Institute. He was appointed reader in the newly established Department of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex in 1969, and gained a chair in 1973. In 1987 he became a trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and in 1992 a fellow of the British Academy. He was appointed CBE in the Millennium Honours List. His publications include: The Manifold in Perception (1972); The Critical Historians of Art (1982); and Depiction (1998). He retired in 1998, becoming professor emeritus. In addition to receiving an 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 133

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honorary degree from the University of Essex (1999), he had been a visiting professor at the University of Tel Aviv (1981) and at the University of California at Berkeley (1991). He married Charlotte in 1961; his wife and their two daughters survive him.

POWELL MACKENZIE, Kenneth Gerald (1942) died on 30 March 2008 aged 83. Kenneth Gerald Powell Mackenzie (known at college as Kenneth (or ‘Jock’) Mackenzie) was born on 8 July 1924 in Cardiff, but grew up in Stornoway, Lewis. He was proud of his Scottish roots and was the hereditary laird and chieftain of the cadet branch of the Mackenzie clan. He attended the Nicholson Institute, Stornoway, and then Shrewsbury School. He came up to Jesus in 1942 to read natural sciences. Whilst at Jesus he captained the boat club for two successive years and was a member of the 1946 Ladies’ Plate winning crew. He graduated B.A. in 1945 (M.A. 1949) and progressed to Guy’s Hospital, where he qualified as a doctor. He worked in a number of different hospitals before becoming a general practitioner and then senior partner. Later in life he studied theology at the University of Exeter. He was a devoted Christian, a member of the Prayer Book Society, a Knight of Justice of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem and a Knight of the Most Holy Order of St Gregory. He was honorary physician to the Portuguese royal family and was awarded the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Don Carlos Primiero of Portugal. His numerous positions of responsibility included: chairman of Kenneth MacKenzie Ltd, the principal distributors (at the time) of Harris Tweed; senior trustee of St Michael’s School Trust; ordinand and lay reader at Chittlehampton, Devon, and Governor of Chittlehampton C. of E. Primary School. He was a life-long fisherman, his family report, ‘from the rivers of Iceland, the lochs of the Isle of Lewis to the Nile and Lake Victoria’. He was also passionate about quizzes, set many questions and was a contestant on Mastermind, where his specialist subject was Beethoven. He became president of the Mastermind Club and in this role arranged a club function at Jesus. He married Doreen May Inch in 1958. They had one son and two daughters.

RANDLES, Brian McKenzie (1937) died on 29 August 2007 aged 88. Brian Randles was born in Durban, South Africa, on 10 June 1919. He was educated at Michaelhouse School, Natal, before coming up to Jesus in 1937. He was the middle son of three boys, all of whom came up to the college. His eldest brother was Kenneth Randles (1927) and his step brother is Graham Randles (1947). He read law and graduated with a B.A in 1940 (M.A. 1944). During the war he rose to the rank of captain. After the war he served as assistant native commissioner in the Southern Rhodesian Native Affairs Department. He left the civil service to run his own farm for ten years before moving on to work as a farming manager. From 1971 to 1984 he worked as a historian at the Kaffrarian Museum (subsequently renamed the AmaThole Museum), King Williams Town, South Africa. He wrote A History of the Kaffrarian Museum and a number of articles for historical publications.

REED, Thomas Walton (1929) died on 12 November 2006 aged 95. Tom Reed was born on 6 December 1910 in Wellington, New Zealand. He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and came up to read history in 1929. Under his captaincy the boat club won the Fairbairn Cup for the first time, regained the headship of the Lents, maintained second place in the Mays, and at Henley won the Visitors’ Cup. He was an active member of the University Conservatives and in college a member of the Wheatsheaf Club and secretary of the Natives. He had many happy memories of his time at Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1932 (M.A. 1947). During the second world war he served as a lieutenant in the Royal New Zealand Navy. He returned to New Zealand, and 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 134

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when heard of by the college in the 1970s was reported to be a farmer. He and his wife, Nora, had two daughters and a son.

REUSS, Benjamin Lindsay Lawson (1934) died on 8 June 2006 aged 90. Benjamin Reuss was born in Woking, Surrey, on 16 March 1916. He was educated at Repton School and came up to Jesus in 1934. He began by reading medicine, then took a chemistry special paper and general studies. He graduated B.A in 1937 (M.A. 1969). He played for the college first XI hockey team throughout his time here. During the war he served in the Royal Horse Artillery, rising to the rank of captain. He was wounded in action twice, once when he was in Greece and once in the Middle East. Following the war he pursued a career as a wine-shipper. He was also a keen gardener.

RIMMER, Allan John (1956) died on 20 October 2007 aged 69. Allan Rimmer was born in Hinckley on 19 March 1938. After being educated at Hinckley Grammar School, he came up to Jesus College on a scholarship in 1956. He read English for two years and studied moral sciences in his final year. He moved to Leicester University to take the Diploma in Education, and after a short spell at Lingfield Hospital School moved to Red Hill School at East Sutton near Maidstone in 1961. Below is an obituary kindly provided by his friend and colleague, David Wilson (1960): ‘Red Hill was founded by Otto Shaw as a boarding school for maladjusted boys, those with problems too severe for ordinary schools to contain. Integral to its success was a system of self-regulation operated by the boys themselves, combined with intensive counselling. Allan made the school his life’s work, becoming headmaster in 1977 and continuing Otto Shaw’s traditions. Allan had a remarkable touch with the boys, being able to engender self-respect and self-control in even the most unruly characters. Perhaps the most effective tribute to him from the school was the number of old boys who came to the funeral – boys who had been written off by the education system, but are now senior executives, university researchers and entrepreneurs. When the school had to close, Allan remained in contact with the world of special education. He advised at the Pupil Referral Unit, as the building became under Kent County Council; he gave his experience working as clerk to the trust which replaced the school itself; and he acted as secretary to the Association of Workers with Maladjusted Children. He took up tutoring post-graduate students on special education courses at the University of Birmingham, with notably high success rates amongst his tutees. Amongst all this he found time to chair the East Sutton Parish Council. Later he became secretary to the Staplehurst Society, becoming an expert in local history and giving talks to local organisations. He married Sue, a childhood friend from Hinckley, in 1960, and they had two sons and a daughter, and now six grandchildren. He died after the recurrence of a brain tumour which, sadly, returned after an operation earlier in 2007.’

RODDICK, Ian Sydney (1947) died on 28 July 2007 aged 82. Ian Roddick was born on 4 June 1925 in Glasgow. He attended High Pavement Grammar School, Nottingham, before becoming a bombardier in the Royal Artillery. He served in India and afterwards in the British Army of Occupation in Japan. Seeing the ruins of Hiroshima as a young soldier was an experience he never forgot. He came up to Jesus in 1947 as a scholar and read modern languages. During his time at Cambridge he met and married Barbara Olive Hartnup. He attained his B.A. in 1950 (M.A. 1954). Following graduation he attended Westminster Teacher Training College. He went on to teach at Lydney Secondary School, Gloucestershire, from 1951 to 1953. He moved to become head 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 135

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of languages at Mfantsipim School, in what was then the Gold Coast and is now Ghana, teaching amongst others Kofi Anan. Whilst in Ghana he and his family made many lifelong friends including the future Secretary General of the United Nations. He left Ghana in 1962 and returned to England to run the language department at Woodhouse Grove School, Yorkshire. He remained at the Grove for 23 years and presided over the beginning of changes in modern language teaching, introducing slide projectors and record players. Outside the classroom he made a full contribution to life at the school. Following his retirement he was elected to the council of the local civic trust and was a convener of Alford Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. He married Barbara in 1949 and they had a son and a daughter. Throughout his life he regularly visited college and maintained some strong friendships with people he met during his time at Jesus.

ROGERS, Nevil Sherwood (1945) has recently died. Nevil Rogers was born in Brentwood, Essex on 1 April 1920. He attended Queen Mary College, London, graduating with a B.Sc. in Engineering. He served in the Royal Air Force as a flight lieutenant during the war. He married a girl from Cambridge and after the war came up to Jesus to take the engineering studies course. He rowed in the Jesus 1 boat which won the Fairbairn Cup in 1945, started and finished head at the Lent 1946 races, won its oars and finished second on the river in June 1946, and came head of the river and won the Grand in the summer of 1947. He won a rowing Blue in the 1947 boat race, when Cambridge finished ten lengths ahead of Oxford. He graduated with a war B.A. in 1947 (M.A. 1952). Following graduation he trained to be a manager at Lawleys China Works in Stoke-on-Trent. He remained at Lawleys until 1952, when he moved to the English Electric Company Research Labs in Stafford. Three years later he moved to Nottingham, where he and his family settled. From 1955 to 1962 he served as secretary to Nottingham University’s Careers and Appointments Board. In 1962 he joined Becket School, Nottingham, as head of the careers department. At the school he also taught mathematics and shared his love of rowing with his pupils. Following his retirement from teaching in 1984, he became Nottingham schools’ rowing instructor at the National Water Sports Centre.

ROLLASON, Robert (1950) died on 28 August 2007 aged 76. Robert Rollason was born in Coventry on 27 October 1930. In 1941 he won a Governors’ Scholarship to Bablake School. The previous year the school had been evacuated to Lincoln following the devastating air raid on Coventry. Robert accordingly spent the next two years in Lincoln before returning to Coventry with the school in 1943. After national service in the army he came up to Jesus in 1950 to read English. He graduated B.A. in 1953 (M.A. 1992). Following graduation he married Jean Woodford and began his career in advertising. He worked first as a copywriter and later as a creative director. In 1980, he set up his own company in business communications. He retired in 1996. In the seventies he was a leading protagonist in the successful fight to save grammar schools in Buckinghamshire. He was also for many years an important figure in the Beaconsfield Conservative Association, editing the newsletter and organising large public meetings. At the time of his death he was president of the local branch. Writing was always his main hobby and he contributed numerous articles to the newsletters of literary societies as well as some travel pieces to the national press. He also spent many happy hours watching cricket at Lords. There were three addresses at his funeral: one by the then Shadow Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, one by the Penn parish clerk, Miles Green, and one by the chairman of the Betjeman Society, John Heald. He is survived by his widow, two sons and a daughter. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 136

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RYECART, Noel Richard (1935) died on 3 October 2007 aged 90. Noel Ryecart was born in Ewell, Surrey, on 25 July 1917. He attended Epsom College and came up to Jesus in 1935 to read for an ordinary degree. Whilst at the college he was a member of the tennis team. He graduated B.A. in 1938. He was conscripted a year later and served in the Burmese jungle with the West African Gunner Regiment. He rose to the rank of major in the Royal Artillery. Following the war, he worked as a senior executive for the Services Sound and Vision Corporation, a registered charity set up to entertain and inform Britain’s armed forces around the world. For most of his time with S.S.V.C. he lived and worked in Germany, although he also spent four years in Singapore. He married Jane Hillcort in 1947 and they had a son and a daughter.

SEAMER, John Heckford (1954) died on 22 July 2007 aged 80. John Seamer was born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, on 27 May 1927. He attended King Edward VII School, King’s Lynn, before going to Edinburgh University to study to become a veterinary surgeon. After obtaining his DVSM and working in general practice for some years, he became a demonstrator in the new School of Veterinary Medicine at Cambridge (1953–55) and Crookes research fellow in the Department of Animal Pathology. In 1959, he was awarded a Ph.D. for a dissertation on the causes of anaemia in pigs. In the course of his research he identified two new blood parasites and developed a method to cultivate a third. He undertook postdoctoral research in the United States and U.K. and published a number of papers on laboratory mice and cats. In 1964, he moved to the Ministry of Defence Microbiological Research Establishment, Porton. He worked at different facilities there until his early retirement in 1984. Following retirement he became the honorary secretary of the British Veterinary Association and took an active part in the revision of the law on animal experiments. He was chair of Laboratory Animals Ltd and its editorial board. He also served on the boards of other laboratory animal organisations, including the International Council for Laboratory Animal Science, and co-edited both editions of the handbook Safety in the Animal House. Outside the veterinary world, he was a member of the Guild of Stewards of Salisbury Cathedral and enjoyed foreign travel and gardening. He leaves a widow, Lydia, and three children from a previous marriage.

SHARWOOD SMITH, John Edward (1939) died on 28 August 2007 aged 87. John Sharwood Smith was born on 29 December 1919 in Newbury, Berkshire. Both his father, E. Sharwood Smith (1883), and uncle, B. S. Evers (1911), were Jesuans. He came into residence at Jesus in October 1939 from Aldenham School, Hertfordshire, with a classical scholarship. His studies were interrupted by the war at the end of 1940. He served in the Far East with the Royal Air Force, rising to the rank of flight lieutenant, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He returned to Cambridge in January 1946 and took part I classics in June 1946 (despite only being in residence for six months he was placed in the first class) and part II of the history tripos in 1947. The Senior Tutor, D. J. V. Fisher, regarded him as ‘not only one of my best pupils, but one of my favourites as well’. He graduated B.A. in 1947 (M.A. 1950). Following graduation he obtained a diploma from the Institute of Education, London. In 1948, he became a classics master at Bradford Grammar School; in 1952, he moved to become senior classics master at Southgate County Grammar School. Moving on from Southgate, he was appointed a lecturer in education at the Institute of Education, London, in 1959. He remained there for 26 years, eventually becoming a reader in education and emeritus reader. He was a governor of Hamilton Lodge School for Deaf Children, Brighton (1960–76). His publications included On teaching classics (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and Boston, 1977) and a three-volume autobiography, Of Genes and Circumstances (2001–2003). He was 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 137

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appointed O.B.E. in the New Years Honours List 1980 for services to education. He married Kathleen Felicity Ellen Mahoney in 1949. They had two sons and a daughter. One of his sons, Nicholas John Sharwood Smith, came up to Jesus in 1974.

SHEPLEY-CUTHBERT, Charles (1932) died on 8 April 2007 aged 93. Charles Shepley-Cuthbert was born in Glossop on 10 January 1914. His father was killed in the first world war. He attended Repton School and came up to Jesus in 1932 to read engineering. Finding that did not suit him he swiftly changed subject, taking the geographical tripos at the end of his second year and the archaeology and anthropology tripos at the end of his third year. He played football for the college and was a popular and enterprising person with plenty of friends. He graduated B.A. in 1935. After graduation he became a stockbroker, a career he continued in until the outbreak of the second world war. During the war he served in the Welsh Guards, rising to the rank of major. After the end of hostilities he joined Lloyd’s of London, where he worked until his retirement. In retirement he pursued his interest in trees, landscaping and architecture. In 1939 he married Mary Marsh, with whom he had four children (including a pair of twins). He is survived by his wife, three daughters and one son.

SMITH, Kenneth (1945) died on 18 October 2007 aged 79. Kenneth Smith was born in West Hartlepool on 13 March 1928. He attended West Hartlepool Grammar School before coming up to Jesus in 1945 to read natural sciences. He graduated B.A. in 1948 (M.A. 1952). After leaving Cambridge, he became a technical officer at ICI Limited, where he remained until 1957. He went on to work for two years as the chief metallurgist at Plessey Co., before becoming the principal officer at the Central Electricity Generating Board. He left the C.E.G.B. to become a head of department at Westinghouse, Brussels, and from there he became a technical consultant at Framatome, Paris. He married Ann Patricia Scott in 1952 and had two sons. Both his sons followed him to Jesus: first Mike Smith (1973), who died in a helicopter accident in 1979, and then Roger Smith (1981).

SMITH, Martyn George (1964) died on 8 October 2007 aged 61. Martyn Smith was born on 16 February 1946. He attended Wyggeston Boys’ Grammar School, Leicester, and came up to Jesus in 1964 to read mathematics. He graduated B.A in 1967 (M.A. 1971). At Cambridge, he was a member of the university Liberal Club, the university chess team and Jesus college chess team. Both chess and the Liberal Party remained lifelong passions. After graduating he held various positions at ICL and its subsidiaries. He went on to become chief officer of West Birmingham Community Health Council. In 1974, he married Sadie Laureina Ashton, who shared his commitment to the Liberal Party. He was elected to Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council in 1976 and in 1980 began his 27-year service to the West Midlands, as the first Liberal elected to Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. For many of those years he was leader of the council’s Liberal Democrat group. He fought as a parliamentary candidate seven times and came closest to winning in 1983. Sadie and his stepson, Mark, survive him.

SPENCER, Anthony Kenneth Guy (1940) died in August 2007 aged 85. Guy Spencer was born on 15 December 1921 in India. He attended Bradfield College, Berkshire, before coming up to Jesus in January 1940 to study modern and medieval languages. His time at Jesus was interrupted by the second world war. He served from 1941 to 1943 with the 2nd Royal Lancers and from 1943 to 1945 with 6th DCO Lancers, both in the Indian Army. He graduated with a war B.A. in 1948. After graduation he 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 138

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became a graduate trainee at Kemsley Newspapers. He remained there until 1953, when he moved to be an advertisement sales representative for Express Newspapers. In 1955 he moved again to become advertisement sales manager of Associated Television Limited, where he remained for 26 years. His final position before retirement in 1986 was as manager at the Joint Industry Committee for Television Advertising Research (later the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board). In 1947 he married Eunice Evans, with whom he had two sons including Nicholas K. D. Spencer (1966).

THOMAS, Robert Lorne (1963) died on 25 December 2007 aged 62. Robert Thomas was born on 11 June 1945 in Loughton, Essex. He attended Malvern College before coming up to Jesus in 1963 to read economics. He graduated with a B.A. in 1966 (M.A. 1971). Following graduation he planned to work in the City for a year before returning to Cambridge for postgraduate study. He joined the stockbrokers W. Greenwell & Co., and when his year was completed he decided to stay. He remained at the firm through its various incarnations for 25 years. He became a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1970, a partner of his firm in 1976 and its chief economist in 1980. When Greenwell became Greenwell Montagu, he was its first director and head of research. He left Greenwell Montagu to join NatWest Capital Markets and then became investment director at Henderson Global Investors. In 1973 he co-authored the Institute of Actuaries prize-winning paper, Cyclical Changes in Capital Markets, which was to form part of the Institute’s exam syllabus for many years. He was also co-editor of Greenwell Monetary Bulletins. He was master of the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers and of the Worshipful Company of Actuaries. His appointment as Master Actuary made history as it coincided with his wife’s becoming Master Glass Seller and was the first time a husband and wife had simultaneously been masters of two Livery Companies. He held offices in a large number of charitable organisations. He married Joanna Elizabeth Ide with whom he had two sons, including Gregory (‘Greg’) Patrick Lorne Thomas (1992).

TOWERS, Eric Priestley (1943) has recently died. Eric Towers was born in Wigston, Leicestershire, on 23 June 1925. After attending Alderman Newton’s Boys’ Grammar School, Leicestershire, he came up to Jesus College in January 1943, with an exhibition, to read English. He took preliminary examinations in English before joining the Royal Corps of Signals as a signalman. He returned to Cambridge and took part I English only, graduating with a war B.A. in 1947 (M.A. 1950). Chanticlere of Michaelmas term 1946, under the heading ‘We Doff Our Squares to –’, paid tribute to ‘Mr Eric Towers for being conventional so unconventionally’. After leaving Jesus College he pursued a business career, which included working as a general manager of Voice & Vision Limited (1955–60) and a corporate relations executive for Rank Hovis McDougall plc (1961–87). In 1986 he published a book Dashwood – The Man and the Myth. In 1976 he married Helen Christodoulou.

TROTT, Frank Runcorn ‘Felix’ (1929) died on 13 December 2002 aged 91. Felix Trott was born on 27 March 1911 in Paddington, London. He attended Latymer Upper School and came up to Jesus in 1929 with an exhibition. He read part I mathematics and part II natural sciences (physics), graduating B.A. in 1932 (M.A. 1956). Along with other Jesuans, he was an early member of the Mummers. Following graduation he became a junior research engineer at Electric and Musical Industries Ltd (EMI). He remained at the company until 1976, being involved with stereo reproduction, television transmission and military radar; later he worked on the development of colour television and CAT scanning machines. He married Oonagh Mary O’Byrne Cunningham and they had one daughter and two sons. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 139

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USHER, John Dennis (1932) died on 23 June 2007 aged 93. Dennis Usher was born in Four Oaks, Birmingham, on 24 March 1914. He was educated at Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, before coming up to Jesus in 1932. He read mechanical sciences and was elected to a scholarship. He rowed in the first boat in the 1935 Lent and May races, when Jesus was head of the river. He played a full part in other aspects of college life and was an excellent pianist. He graduated B.A. in 1935 (M.A. 1939). Following graduation he took up a career as a research and development manager at APV Co Ltd and worked there until his retirement in 1979. He co-authored Heat Exchanger Technology (1980) and Heat Exchanger Design Handbook (1982). He married Joan Jackson in 1943 and had a son and a daughter.

VAUGHAN, Roger John (1947) died on 28 July 2007 aged 78. Roger Vaughan was born in March 1929 in Broadway, Worcestershire. He attended Bedford School before coming up to read natural sciences and medicine at Jesus. He achieved a B.A. in 1950 and an M.B., B.Chir. in 1953 (M.A. in 1956). Whilst at college he was a member of the college rugby and tennis teams and enjoyed gliding. He subsequently practised medicine, including periods as surgeon commander in the Royal Navy (1974–1980), as G.P. principal (1980–1996) and as a medical examiner for the Civil Aviation Authority. His hobbies included flying and he was a light aircraft instructor. He was married to Audrey and had two daughters.

VEALE, Arthur (1944) died on 26 May 2004 aged 78. Arthur Veale was born on 2 April 1926 in Bolsover, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He attended Bemrose School, Derby before coming up to Jesus in 1944 to take the Royal Air Force short course. Whilst at Cambridge he rowed in the Jesus 2 boat in the CUBC race for cadet eights. He served in the Royal Air Force from 1944 to 1976, rising to the rank of wing commander. He was awarded a Queen’s Commendation in 1961. He had a keen interest in rugby and was a member of CURUFC, Derby RFC, Bury St Edmunds RFC, Suffolk RU and Eastern Counties RU. He married Diana Fortune Sayce in 1957 and had two daughters.

WILSON, Anthony Howard (1968) died on 10 August 2007 aged 57. Anthony H. Wilson was born in Salford on 20 February 1950. He attended De La Salle Grammar School, Salford, and came up to Jesus in 1968 to read English. He graduated B.A. in 1971. Whilst at Cambridge, he was editor of Varsity and was described by a tutor as ‘a likeable rogue’ and talking ‘like a steam train’. Following graduation he secured a job as a news reporter for Granada Television. In 1976 he had his own pop music show: So It Goes. He also fronted World in Action and was a long-time host of the early evening regional news programme Granada Reports. In 1978 he opened the Factory Club in Hulme, Manchester, and then jointly started a record label: Factory Records. Factory’s best known groups were Joy Division (later reformed as New Order, following Ian Curtis’s death) and The Happy Mondays. Next he opened the Hacienda Club, probably the most famous club in the world in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It hosted many of the bands which together with the club itself created the ‘Madchester’ scene. Factory collapsed in 1991 and the Hacienda was shut down in 1997. In 2002, Wilson was played by Steve Coogan in the film 24 Hour Party People. Throughout the eighties and nineties Anthony H. Wilson continued his interest in journalism and politics. He was a strong and vocal supporter of a regional assembly for the North West and in 2004 set up an unofficial coalition calling for regional devolution: ‘The Necessary Group’. He is survived by his first two wives, his children (Oliver and Isabel) and his partner Yvette Livesey. 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 140

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WILSON, Michael Seton Angus (1948) died in November 2007 aged 79. Michael Wilson was born on 8 January 1928 in London. He was educated at Winchester College. After Winchester, from 1946 to 1948, he did his national service with the Royal Engineers. Following his father, George Noel Wilson (1907) and his brother David Stewart Wilson (1936) he came up to Jesus in 1948. He read mechanical sciences and graduated in 1951 B.A. (M.A. 1960). Whilst at Jesus he was an enthusiastic member of the boat club and took a leading part in the revival of the University Photographic Society. Following graduation he joined Sir Alexander Gibbs & Partners, a firm of consulting engineers. His job involved much travel all over the world and at short notice. On one of his projects he met his future wife, and in order to be available for another project they moved the date of their wedding and married by special licence. Following the birth of their son, they decided they wanted to settle in one place and Michael took a job with ICI. He subsequently worked with another firm of engineers and later with the Greater London Council. He took early retirement from the G.L.C. to look after his aunt’s estate and to sail. In 1957 he married Jane Tupling; his wife and their son, Michael, survive him.

YATES, Eric (1941) died in April 2007 aged 84. Eric Yates was born on 25 June 1922 in , South London. He was educated at Grammar School before coming up to read history in 1941 with a scholarship. He was followed up to Jesus, two years later, by his brother John Yates (whose obituary appears below). He remained in residence until June 1942, when he was called up to the Queen’s Royal Regiment. He rose to the rank of lieutenant and returned to college in October 1945. Whilst at Jesus he was president of the Roosters and grand marshall of the Red Herrings as well as he being a member of JCBC and JC Historical Society. He graduated B.A. in 1946 (M.A. 1948). After graduation he remained in Cambridge and took the Post Graduate Certificate in Education. He went on to teach at King’s School Chester (1948–1954) and Cheltenham Grammar School (1955–1961) before becoming head teacher of Thornes House School, Wakefield (1961–1979). After leaving Thornes House School he became a research fellow at the University of Leeds (1979–1982). In retirement his interests included genealogy and local history. He married Margaret Ada Billeau in 1949 and had three sons and two daughters.

YATES, John (1943) died on 26 February 2008 aged 82. John Yates was born in Putney, South London, on 17 April 1925. He attended first Battersea Grammar School, then, after the outbreak of war, Blackpool Grammar School. He came up to Jesus in 1943 with an exhibition, two years after his brother (see above). He read history for two terms before joining the R.A.F.V.R., serving as a flight lieutenant. He returned to Jesus in 1947 and read part I history. He took the theology two-year part I in one year and was awarded a first. He graduated B.A. in 1949 (M.A. 1952). After graduation he prepared for holy orders at Lincoln Theological College and, in 1951, became a curate at Christ Church, Southgate, in North London. He stayed at Christ Church for three years before returning to Lincoln as tutor and chaplain, and in 1959 he was appointed vicar of Bottesford-with-Ashby, Lincolnshire. In 1966 he became principal of Lichfield Theological College. Following reorganisation in the Church of England, he moved from Lichfield to become Bishop of Whitby in 1972. Three years later he became Bishop of Gloucester remaining in this post until 1991, when he moved to become the head of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s staff, with the title of Bishop at Lambeth. He was chairman of the Church of England Board for Social Responsibility from 1987 to 1991 and was well known for his charitable work. On the liberal wing of the 216057 Jesus text.qxd:XXXXX Jesus text pages 17/4/09 14:23 Page 141

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Church of England, he supported the ordination of women and chaired The Gloucester Report. He warned against excessive rigidity in doctrine and commended the saying ‘we should believe more and more about less and less’. He married Jean Kathleen Dover in 1954; she died in 1995. His second wife was the Reverend Beryl Kathleen Wensley whom he married in 1998; she died in 2006. He is survived by a son and two daughters of the first marriage.

ZINKIN, Maurice Zinkin (1932) died on 11 May 2002 aged 87. Maurice Zinkin was born 4 May 1915 in Leeds. He attended Haberdashers’ Aske before winning a scholarship to read history at Jesus. After taking part I history he switched to law. He graduated B.A. in 1935, LL.B. (1936) and M.A. (1941). He taught in Cambridge until 1938 when he entered the Indian Civil Service with one of the highest marks ever recorded in the I.C.S. exam. He began in the Indian Civil Service as a supernumerary assistant collector and he rose to deputy secretary at the Ministry of Finance in Delhi. Life in the I.C.S. was not without risk: during his time he suffered numerous bouts of malaria, broke his back and saw colleagues shot. Following Indian independence he joined Unilever, eventually becoming head of its secretariat. For almost a decade he was the employers’ representative of the C.B.I. in Brussels, for which he was appointed O.B.E. From 1969 until 1972 he was visiting professor of management studies at Bradford University. Whilst at Bradford he endowed a scholarship for overseas students. He wrote two of the first books on development economics: Asia and the West (1950) and Development for Free Asia (1956) and with his wife wrote Requiem for Empire (1964). He married Taya Ettinger in 1945. He is survived by his wife and their son.

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Jesus: The Life of a Cambridge College

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