The Record 2017/18 The Record 2017/18 contents 5 Letter from the Warden 6 Fellows and Academic Staff 9 Fellowship Elections and Appointments 9 JCR and MCR 10 Non-academic Staff 12 Matriculation 16 Undergraduate Scholarships 18 College Awards and Prizes 20 Academic Distinctions 22 Higher Degrees 23 Fellows’ Publications 29 Sports and Games 33 Clubs and Societies 34 The Chapel 34 Parishes Update 35 Bursar’s Update 36 Gifts to the Library and Archive 37 Fellow Obituary 38 Alumni Obituaries 56 News of Alumni letter from the warden As I write this letter in Noughth Week of Michaelmas Term, one hundred and twenty graduate students are occupying their rooms in the new H B Allen Centre. As many of you reading it will know, we encountered a last minute hiccup. There was a wholly unexpected five-day delay in the handing over of the first section of the building which meant that those arriving on 1st October had to spend a few nights in rooms which would otherwise have been occupied by returning second and third year undergraduates. Many of those undergraduates were very gracious in postponing their return to College in order to assist us in overcoming this otherwise insurmountable logistical difficulty. While undoubtedly inconvenient for many, it needs to be acknowledged, nevertheless, that, in the context of a twenty-seven month project of the scale of The H B Allen Centre, delivering the first stage just five days behind programme was quite an achievement. We are looking forward to the phased completion of the whole Centre over the next few months. The principal purpose of this note is to record changes in the Fellowship. In this connection there are three individuals who have moved to posts elsewhere. After three years at Keble, Professor Nathan Eubank, Laing Fellow in Theology and Religion, returned with his family to the United States to take up a post at the University of Notre Dame. Dr Liesbeth Corens, whom I only welcomed as the incoming CMRS Career Development Fellow in last year’s Record, resigned, having won a British Academy post- doctoral fellowship, to take up a lectureship at Queen Mary University of London. Dr Sophie Archer, Robin Geffen Research Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, departed to become a lecturer in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at the University of Cardiff. In terms of arrivals, I should begin by noting that after last year’s print deadline Governing Body confirmed the appointment of Professor Helen Byrne as an Official Fellow and Tutor in Applied Mathematics from the beginning of the 2017–18 academic year. Three others joined her on Governing Body from the beginning of the 2018–19 academic year. They are Professor Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science (Information Systems), Professor Alex Lvovsky, Tutorial Fellow in Physics (Quantum Information), and, as a Fixed-term Fellow in Philosophy during the secondment of Dr Edward Harcourt to the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Dr Jeremy Fix. In addition to them, we also welcome Dr Richard Bell as the new Middlebury-CMRS Career Development Fellow in Renaissance History and, returning to Keble, Dr Wahbi El-Bouri as Research Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science. There are five Fellowships by Special Election to report. Professor Tom Higham, having stepped down as Director of the Advanced Studies Centre (now Keble Research), has been re-elected in connection with his appointment as the Director of Oxford’s Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit. The Principal and the Senior Tutor of Middlebury-CMRS, Dr Guy Perry and Dr Bernard Gowers, have also been elected in this category. Finally, at the first Governing Body of Michaelmas Term 2018, Mr D M Thomas (Keble 1965) and Mr D Craigen (Keble 1991) were elected 1870 Fellows in recognition of their philanthropic support of the College. There are also additions to the College’s Emeritus and Honorary Fellows. In the first category Professors Terry Irwin and Paul Taylor were elected. In connection with their roles as Trustees of The H B Allen Trust, Mr Peter Shone (Keble 1969) and Ms Helen Ratcliffe were elected Honorary Fellows. Finally, I should like to take this opportunity to extend my thanks to Professor Sarah Whatmore who has just stood down as Sub-Warden after three years. During the year, she became Head of the University’s Social Sciences Division. Her position as Sub-Warden is being taken by Professor Stephen Payne, Official Fellow and Tutor in Engineering.