REPORT 2019-20

The annual report of Trinity College, Oxford

CONTENTS

President’s Welcome 2 The Academic Year

Fellows’ & Lecturers’ 4 Fellows’ & Lecturers’ news 9 Senior Tutor’s report 16 New students 18 Degrees & prizes 22

18 The Student View On the cover Social distancing in JCR report 26 Garden Quad—graduate MCR report 27 student Ngoni Mugwisi Sports 28 and undergraduates Music 30 Alice Zhang and Conor Societies 31 Maher were among the few students resident in Around the College College in Trinity term Inside front cover College staff 32 Front Quad, September Estates Bursar 34 2020­—with a temporary 30 Domestic Bursar 36 gazebo, ready for social distancing, seen behind Director of Development 38 the low tree to the right Outreach & Access 40 The Library 42 Inside back cover The Archive 44 The MCR ceilidh in Hall, The Levine Building 46 Hilary term 2019

Benefactions 48

Obituaries 58

Notes & Information 88

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1 WELCOME FROM THE PRESIDENT An extraordinary academic year

he academic year 2019-20 will go down in history as one of Tthe most extraordinary, with University and college buildings closed from the beginning of March, and an entire term delivered remotely. I pay warm tribute to our students and staff for the flexibility and resilience they showed over several months, as learning, teaching, research and examination arrangements were adapted in a The President chatting to Martin Wizard, Deputy Head Porter, during the lockdown. matter of weeks to accommodate moving the whole operation online. operation possible. outstanding set of results. We had An overwhelmingly collaborative We are particularly proud of 42 Firsts (the highest number ever), spirit across the collegiate university Trinity colleagues and alumni who 45 2:1s and 2 awarded ‘Deemed to made it possible for radical changes to worked on COVID-19 research. Deserve Honours’. Within individual be implemented at speed. Professor Chris Butler was awarded subjects there were particularly Our staff gave their all, from funding for the first clinical trial of noteworthy results: all five MMath those working in the front line of potential treatments for use in GP finalists were awarded Firsts; supporting our students’ academic practices, enabling researchers rapidly Biochemistry, Chemistry, Materials, and wellbeing needs, to the many who to evaluate different treatments Medicine, Physics, PPE, History worked tirelessly behind the scenes. that might stem the progression of and Classics all had 50 per cent or Others helped to sustain our sense of COVID-19 symptoms in older people. more Firsts. And Trinity had several community: the Chaplain and Chapel Our final-year undergraduates students in the top 5 per cent of their Choir provided a weekly moment sat their Final Honours School cohort. for reflection with online services; examinations remotely, and missed Whilst the pandemic cast a shadow common room quiz nights went out on the opportunity to complete over Trinity term, there was much global; and Head Chef Julian Smith their time at Trinity with the usual to celebrate earlier in the academic provided weekly recipes, complete rituals of celebration. We plan a year. The start of Michaelmas term with step-by-step guidance and special early reunion so we can coincided with celebrations to mark photographs! IT Manager Alastair congratulate them in person on their the canonisation of Trinity alumnus Johnson deserves a special mention achievements. John Henry Newman. A group of for providing an outstanding service Notwithstanding the challenges Trinity members and alumni travelled to all, which made the whole online they faced, our finalists achieved an to Rome to attend the canonisation

2 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 Mass, which was a moving occasion. us as Wellbeing Coordinator and In July we bade farewell to our Amongst the many achievements Kerry Minton as College Nurse, librarian of many years, Sharon of our Fellows, Alexander Korsunsky following a restructure of our welfare Cure. During her final term Sharon (Fellow and Tutor in Engineering) support for students. addressed the challenges of lockdown was elected to a fellowship of the The college made steady progress in with an especial zeal, arranging for Institute of Physics; Junior Research its aim to ensure that Trinity reaches books to be delivered across the Fellow Alexandra Reza was named and welcomes talented applicants world or photocopying texts for a BBC ‘New Generation Thinker’ from all backgrounds. Undergraduate downloading, to make sure that no in a prestigious public engagement admissions to Trinity for 2019 saw a student went without. She leaves with scheme to bring the best of university 23.5 per cent increase in the number our gratitude and warmest wishes for research to a broad audience through of state school applications to the a fulfilling retirement. We welcomed BBC radio and television; Honorary college year on year. In the 2019-20 Emma Sillet as Sharon’s successor. Visiting Fellow, Judge Theodor It was with enormous sadness that Meron, was honoured by the Queen we learnt of the untimely death of for his service to criminal justice ’Work on the Levine our Head Gardener, Paul Lawrence. and international humanitarian Paul gave long service to the college law; and Tutorial Fellow Charlotte Building continues apace… and will be remembered with great Williams, recognised internationally By midsummer the sheer affection by current and former for her work on the development of scale of the development students and colleagues. We offer our sustainable polymers, chaired the was becoming apparent. ’ heartfelt condolences to Paul’s wife annual Chemical Sciences and Society Nikki and their family. Summit (CS3), a highly prestigious recruitment cycle, 68 per cent of It remains for me to thank all event which brings together Trinity’s final acceptances for UK my academic and staff colleagues delegations of five leading scientists offers (for admission in October 2020) at Trinity for their professionalism from each of China, Germany, Japan were for state school applicants. and commitment to the many and the UK to address a global Work on the Levine Building different aspects of life at Trinity; societal challenge—this year’s theme continued apace. In November to Conrad Kunadu and Eilidh was plastics. 2019 we signed the construction Macfarlane (respectively JCR and We welcomed new members to contract with Gilbert-Ash, a company MCR presidents) for their inspired the Fellowship. Dr Fanny Bessard, a whose previous high quality work leadership; to our Old Members historian of early and Classical Islam, commended it to us. By midsummer and Friends for their generosity and joined Trinity as Fellow and Tutor in the new building was beginning to encouragement; and to our student Eurasian History. Professorial Fellow rise above ground and the sheer scale community who in their myriad Geoffrey Batchen, whose work focuses of the development was becoming and diverse ways, make Trinity the on the history of photography, took apparent. Sue Broers and her team wonderful community it is today. up the role of Professor of the History have led our fundraising efforts of Art at Oxford. In early career roles worldwide and at the time of writing we welcomed Junior Research Fellows have exceeded £9.8 million of the Karol Mazur (Economics) and Xavier target of £15m—with just over £5m Bach (Linguistics). to raise, we feel we are on the ‘home Former GP Dr Claire Parker joined straight’. Dame Hilary Boulding, DBE

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Professor Alexander Korsunsky, Professor James McDougall, MA The Fellowship BSc MSc Moscow, MA DPhil Oxf, St And, MSt DPhil Oxf: Laithwaite CPhys, MInstP: Fellow and Tutor in Fellow and Tutor in History, Dean, 2019-20 Engineering Science, Vice-President Fellow Archivist The Governing Body comprises the Dr Keith Buckler, BSc Lond, MA Professor Valerie Worth, MA DPhil President, Fellows, and Junior Research Oxf, PhD Newc: Fellow and Tutor in PGCE Oxf: Senior Tutor, Professor of Fellows indicated by an asterisk. Medicine French Mr Nick Barber, BCL MA Oxf: Wyatt Professor Francis Barr, BSc Lond, President Rushton Fellow and Tutor in Law PhD EMBL Heidelberg: E P Abraham Professor of Mechanistic Cell Biology Dame Hilary Boulding, DBE, MA Oxf, Dr Kantik Ghosh, BA Calcutta, MPhil FLSW FRWCMD PhD Camb, MA Oxf: Stirling-Boyd Dr Paul Fairchild, BA Leic, DPhil Oxf: Fellow and Tutor in English Fellow and Tutor in Pathology Fellows Dr Stephen Fisher, MA DPhil Oxf, MSc Dr Anil Gomes, BA BPhil DPhil Oxf: Dr Steve Sheard, BSc PhD Lond, MA S’ton: Fellow and Tutor in Politics Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy Oxf, MIET, CEng: Hunt-Grubbe Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Professor Peter McCulloch, MB ChB Dr Gail Trimble, MA MSt DPhil Oxf: Science Aberd, MA Oxf, MD Edin, FRCS, Brown Fellow and Tutor in Classics FRCS Glas: Professor of Surgical Dr María del Pilar Blanco, BA William Professor Peter Read, BSc Birm, MA Science and Practice Oxf, PhD Camb: Fellow and Tutor in and Mary, MA PhD New York: Fellow Physics The Revd Canon Dr Emma Percy, BA and Tutor in Spanish, Equalities Fellow Durh, MA Camb, MA Oxf, PhD Nott: Dr Michael Moody, BSc Adelaide, PhD Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft, DBE, Chaplain; to April: Welfare Dean MA PhD ScD Camb, MA Oxf, FRS: South Australia: Fellow and Tutor in Royal Society SmithKline Beecham Professor Johannes Zachhuber, MA Materials Science MSt DPhil Oxf: Fellow and Tutor in Professor of Physiology Professor Susan Perkin, BA DPhil Oxf: Theology Professor Justin Wark, MA Oxf, PhD Fellow and Tutor in Physical Chemistry Professor Kim Nasmyth, BA York, MA Lond: Fellow and Tutor in Physics Dr Ian Hewitt, MMath DPhil Oxf, PhD Edin, FRS: Whitley Professor Oxf: Fellow and Tutor in Applied Professor Jan Czernuszka, BSc Lond, of Biochemistry MA Oxf, PhD Camb: Fellow and Tutor Mathematics Dr Stefano-Maria Evangelista, BA East in Materials Science Mrs Sue Broers, BA PGCE Leeds, MA Ang, MA Lond, MA MSt DPhil Oxf: Oxf: Director of Development Professor Martin Maiden, MA MPhil Fellow and Tutor in English, Fellow PhD Camb, MA Oxf, FBA: Professor of Librarian Professor Andrea Ferrero, BA Bocconi, Romance Languages MSc Barcelona, MA Oxf, PhD New Professor Marta Kwiatkowska, BSc York: Levine Fellow and Tutor in Professor Louis Mahadevan, BSc New MSc Cracow, MA Oxf, PhD Leic, FRS: Economics Delhi, MSc PhD Lond, MA Oxf: Fellow Professor of Computing Systems and Tutor in Biochemistry

4 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 Professor Christopher Butler, MB Research Fellows Career Development Fellow ChB Cape Town, BA Rhodes, MD Dr Sam Vinko, BSc MSc URTV, DPhil Dr Christopher Fowles, BPhil DPhil Wales, Hon FFPH, FRCGP, MRCGR: Oxf: Physics (to June) Oxf, BA York, MA KCL: Philosophy Professor of Primary Healthcare (from April) Dr Beatrice Groves, BA Camb, MSt Dr Melanie Rupflin, DrSc DiplMath DPhil Oxf: English Zurich: Fellow and Tutor in Pure Honorary Visiting Fellows Mathematics Professor Dame Sally Davies, GCB Junior Research Fellows DBE, MB ChB Manc, MSc Lond, FRS, Professor Charlotte Williams, BSc PhD Dr Carla Perez Martinez, BS MS PhD Master of Trinity College, Cambridge Lond: Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry MIT: Chemistry (to December) Dr Luke Rostill, BA BCL MPhil DPhil Dr Linford Briant, MSci PhD Brist: Mrs Mica Ertegun, CBE, Founder Oxf: Fellow and Tutor in Property Law Biomedical Sciences of the University of Oxford Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme Mr Chris Ferguson, BA Oxf, MSc Sur, Dr Andrea Dolcetti, MA PhD Genoa, ACMA: Estates Bursar MSt DPhil Oxf: Constitutional Law Professor Maxim Vengerov, Menuhin Professor of Music; Goodwill Professor Katherine Ibbett, BA Oxf, Dr Mathew Stracy, MSc Imp, MSci Ambassador, UNICEF; Artist in MA PhD Berkeley: Caroline de Jager Nott, DPhil Oxf: Biochemistry Residence, Oxford Philharmonic Fellow and Tutor in French, Chattels Orchestra Fellow Dr Tristan Franklinos†, MA St Andrew’s, MPhil DPhil Oxf: Classics, Judge Theodor Meron, CMG, LLM Mrs Lynne Adam, BA Westmin: Dean of Degrees PhD Harvard, United Nations War Domestic Bursar Dr Anna Lampadaridi, MA Athens, Crimes Tribunal Judge and Visiting Dr Fanny Bessard, BA MA Lyon, Maîtrise PhD Paris IV: History Professor of International Criminal PhD Sorbonne: Fellow and Tutor in (to February) Law, Oxford University Medieval Eurasian History Dr Máire Ní Leathlobhair*†, MASt Professor Geoffrey Batchen, BA PhD PhD Camb: Biomedical Sciences Sydney: Professor of the History of Art Dr Alexandra Reza*†, BA Camb, Dr Tam Vu, BS Hanoi, PhD Rutgers: MPhil DPhil Oxf: French Fellow and Tutor in Computer Science Dr Karol Mazur*, BA SGH Warsaw, (from June) MSc HIS Vienna, PhD EUI Economics Dr Sam Vinko, BSc MSc URTV, DPhil Dr Xavier Bach*, MA Toulouse, MSt Oxf: Fellow and Tutor Physics (from DPhil Oxf: Linguistics July) Dr Seda Altug, BA MA Boğaziçi, PhD Utrecht: History Senior Research Fellow Professor Janet Pierrehumbert, BA Dr Yasser Kureshi, BA Pennsylvania, Harvard, PhD MIT: Professor of MA PhD Brandeis, JD Boston Law: Language Modelling Law (from June) †Also a Lecturer in the same subject

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‡ Dr Cosima Gillhammer, Magister Dr Alexandra Lloyd, MA PGCE MSt Lecturers 2019-20 Staatsexamen Munich, DPhil Oxf: DPhil Oxf: German English Dr Charlotte Lynch, DPhil Oxf: Mr Matthew Golesworthy, MChem Materials¶ Dr Tom Ainsworth, BA BPhil DPhil Oxf: Chemistry¶ Oxf: Philosophy Dr Mark McAllister, MEng PhD Edin: Dr Nikolas Gunn, BA Leeds, MA PhD Engineering Science Dr Aurelia Annat, BA York, PGCE MA York: English Lond, DPhil Oxf: History Dr Mary McMenamin, BSc PhD Dr Peter Haarer, BA Brist, DPhil Oxf: Queen’s University Belfast, Dip Dr Richard Ashdowne, MA MPhil Ancient History DipLATHE Oxf: Medicine DPhil Oxf: Linguistics Dr Francesco Hautmann, PhD Florence: Professor Emeritus Peter Mirfield, BCL, Mlle Severine Badin, BA Grenoble: Physics MA Oxf: Law French Ms Rhiannon Heard, MEng Oxf: Professor Lynne Mugglestone, MA Dr Nikhil Balaji, PhD Chennai: Engineering Science DPhil Oxf: English Computer Science Dr Anna Hoerder-Suabedissen, BSc Ms Genevieve Nelson, MA Edin, MPhil Dr Raquel Barradas de Freitas, DPhil Lanc, MSc DPhil Oxf: Medicine Oxf: Economics Oxf: Law Dr Felix Hofmann, MEng DPhil Oxf: Dr Maciej Olejnik, MEng Imp, DPhil Dr Vanessa Berenguer-Rico, BS Engineering Oxf: Computer Science Barcelona, MS PhD Charles III Madrid: Economics Dr Sinead Hofmann, BSc NUI, PhD Dr Michael O’Neill, MEng PhD Edin: Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, Chemistry Dr Michael Chappell, MEng DPhil MSc Oxf: Mathematics Oxf: Engineering Dr Claudia Pazos-Alonso, MA Lond, Dr Chris Horton, BM BCh Oxf: MA DPhil Oxf: Portuguese Mr Hugh Collins Rice BA MLitt Oxf, , Medicine MA Sus: Music Dr Duncan Robertson, BSc Imp Lond, Dr Sarah Jenkinson, MChem DPhil MA DPhil Oxf: Management Dr Tamás Dávid-Barrett, MA Oxf: Chemistry Budapest, MPhil Camb, PhD Lond: Dr Sophie Rosenberg, BA Brandeis, Economics Dr Alexandros Kampakoglou, BA MSc Oxf, PhD Camb: Politics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Dr Julian Fells, BEng UCL, PhD Bath: Dr Helen Scott, BA LLB Cape Town, MSt DPhil Oxf: Classics Engineering BCL MPhil DPhil Oxf: Law Dr James Larkin, MBiochem Oxf, PhD Ms Melanie Florence, BA MPhil Oxf: Dr Elina Screen, BA MPhil PhD Camb: Warw: Biochemistry French History Dr Dorota Leczykiewicz, MSt DPhil Dr Jessica Frazier, BA PhD Camb, MSt Dr Andrew Seel, MChem DPhil Oxf: Oxf, MLaw Wrocław: Law Oxf: Theology Chemistry Mlle Marie Leger, BA, MA Grenoble: Dr Guadalupe Gerardi, Licenciatura Dr Dean Sheppard, MChem DPhil Oxf: French Complutense University Madrid, PhD Chemistry UCL: Spanish

6 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 Dr Hannah Smith, MA PhD Camb: Emeritus, Honorary Professor Bryan Ward-Perkins, MA History DPhil Oxf Dr Katherine Southwood, BA Durh, and Sir Thomas Pope The Revd Canon Trevor Williams, MA MSt DPhil Oxf: Theology Fellows 2019-20 Oxf (ob. November 2019) Dr Susannah Speller, MEng DPhil Oxf: Materials Emeritus Fellows Honorary Fellows Dr Michael Brown, BSc MA DM Oxf Professor Simon Armitage, CBE, BA Dr John Stanley, MA DPhil Oxf: Port, MA Manc, Hon DLitt Hudd, Dr Peter Carey, MBE, MA DPhil Oxf Biochemistry Hon DLitt Leeds, Hon DLitt Port, Hon DLitt Shef Hallam, DUniv Open, FRSL Dr Eileen Tipoe, BSc Berkeley, MPhil Mr Jack Collin, MB BS Newc, MD Oxf, FRCS DPhil Oxf: Economics The Rt Revd John Arnold, MA Oxf, Barrister at Law, JCD Ms Karina-Doris Vihta, MMath Oxf: Professor Russell Egdell, MA DPhil Oxf Mathematics Dr Clive Griffin, MA DPhil Oxf The Lord Ashburton, KG, KCVO, MA Oxf Dr Pierre Vila, BA BM BCh Oxf: Professor Gus Hancock, MA Dub, MA Medicine Oxf, PhD Camb The Hon Michael J Beloff, QC, MA Oxf, FRSA, FICPD Dr Benjamin Westwood, BA DPhil Oxf, Dr Dorothy Horgan, MA PhD Manc, MA York: English MA Oxf Mr Richard Bernays, MA Oxf Mrs Renée Williams, MA Oxf, L es L Mr Michael Inwood, MA Oxf Professor Dinah Birch, CBE, MA DPhil Paris: French Oxf, FEA Dr Michael Jenkins, BSc Brist, MA Professor James Worrell, BA MSc DPhil DPhil Oxf Mr Julian (Toby) Blackwell, DL, Hon Oxf: Computer Science DLitt Robt Gor, DUniv Sheff Hallam, Professor Jonathan Mallinson, MA Phd Hon DBA Oxf Brookes Dr Stephen Wright, BA PhD Sheff, MA Camb, MA Oxf KCL: Philosophy The Rt Revd Ronald Bowlby, MA Oxf Dr Alan Milner, LLB PhD Leeds, MA (ob. December 2019) ‡Names are listed of the Lecturers who Oxf, LLM Yale have taught for the whole academic year; Sir Hugo Brunner, KCVO, JP, Order of Mr Michael Poyntz, MA Oxf the college gratefully acknowledges the St Frideswide, MA Oxf contribution of all Lecturers during the year. Dr Chris Prior, MA PhD Camb, MA Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, Bt, MA DPhil Oxf ¶Also a lecturer in 2018-19, omitted in Oxf error from the 2018-19 Report. Professor Simon Salamon, MA DPhil Sir Anthony Cleaver, MA Oxf, FRCM, Oxf Hon FREng Professor George Smith, MA DPhil Professor Craig Clunas, BA Camb, MA Oxf, FRS Oxf, PhD Lond, FBA Mr Frank Thompson, BSc Lond, MA Professor Paul Collier, CBE, MA DPhil Oxf Oxf

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Mr Geoffrey de Jager, LLB Natal, Professor David Sedley, MA Oxf, PhD Dr Trudy Watt, BSc Open, MA DPhil BCom DLitt Rhodes Lond, FBA Oxf, MSc Shef HallamFCA, FRSA Sir Roger Gifford, MA Oxf Professor David Soskice, MA Oxf, FBA Professor Martin Goodman, MA DPhil Professor Sir Edwin Southern, BSc DLitt Oxf, FBA Manc, MA Oxf, PhD Glas, FRS Sir Charles Gray, QC, MA Oxf The Rt Revd David Stancliffe, MA Oxf, Hon DLitt Port, FRSCM Professor Sir Malcolm Green, BM BCh BSc MA DM Oxf, FRCP, FMed Sci Sir Peter Stothard, MA Oxf Sir Christopher Hogg, MA Oxf The Lord Tyrie, PC, MA Oxf Sir Brian Jenkins, GBE, MA Oxf, FCA, FRSA Sir Thomas Pope Fellows Mr Peter Andreae, DL, MA Oxf Professor Martin Kemp, MA Camb, MA Oxf, Hon DLitt Heriot- Watt, Mr Perry Crosthwaite, MA Oxf FRSA, HRSA, FBA, FRSE, Hon RIAS, Mr Simon Edelsten, MA Oxf, FRSSU and Mrs Alison Edelsten, MA Oxf Mr Peter Levine, MA Oxf Sir Roger Fry, CBE, BD Lond, Hon Professor Sir Andrew McMichael, MA DLitt Port, AKC, FRSA BChir MB Camb, PhD Lond, FRS Mr Wyatt Haskell, BA JD AB Amherst, The Hon Sir William Macpherson of LLB Yale Law School Cluny and Blairgowrie, TD, MA Oxf Mr Adrian Hohler, MA Oxf Ms Kate Mavor, MA Oxf, DUniv Mr Robert Hunt-Grubbe, MA Camb, The Revd Professor John Morrill, MA and Mrs Julia Hunt-Grubbe DPhil Oxf, FBA, FRHistS Mr Roger Michel, BA MA Williams, Mr John Pattisson, MA Oxf MA JD Harvard, MPhil Oxf Sir Michael Peat, KCVO, MA Oxf, Mr Robert Parker, CB, MA Oxf, MBA, FCA MCMI, FRSA Sir Ivor Roberts, KCMG, MA Oxf, Mr Stephen Pearson, MA Oxf FCIL Mr Richard Setchim, MA Oxf The Rt Revd Anthony John Russell, BA Mr John Singer, MA Oxf, MBA Durh, DPhil Oxf, FRAgS INSEAD Mr Wafic Saïd, Ordre de Mérite du Dato’ Robert Kim Kuan Tan Cedre, Ordre Chérifien and Dato’ Soo Min Yeoh

8 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 FELLOWS’ & LECTURERS’ NEWS AWARDS, PRIZES AND COVID RESEARCH

uring the course of the year, the talks to support students studying college bade farewell to four remotely during the pandemic. In Dof its Junior Research Fellows: Oxford, she was elected chair of Carla Perez Martinez (Chemistry), now the Conference of Colleges College a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Contribution Fund Committee. She London Centre for Nanotechnology; also chairs the User Group for the new Linford Briant (Biomedical Sciences), performance facilities that will form whose Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral part of the Schwarzman Centre for the Fellowship at the Radcliffe Department Humanities, to be built in the Radcliffe of Medicine continues until June 2021; Observatory Quarter. Matthew Stracy (Biochemistry), who is continuing his Sir Henry Wellcome Biochemistry Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Kim Nasmyth won the Centenary Department of Biochemistry; and Award in recognition of his work on Anna Lampadaridi (History), who has the segregation of chromosomes during taken a post-doctoral research post at cell division. This international prize the Sorbonne University (Paris IV), is is given annually to a biochemist of teaching at a number of institutions, distinction by the Biochemical Society. and remains a visiting researcher at Charlotte Williams the Maison Française. The college Chemistry thanks them all for their contributions Susan Perkin published an article on Charlotte Williams’s research highlights to the life of Trinity and wishes them the molecular processes that give rise include carbon dioxide polymerization well with their ongoing research. to friction in the Proceedings of the to make toughened plastics, elastomers We welcomed to the fellowship National Academy of Sciences, and and adhesives; assessment of scalable Junior Research Fellows Dr Karol another reporting the curious discovery carbon dioxide utilization and Mazur (Economics), Dr Xavier Bach of a surface coating which is sticky understanding of catalytic synergy. In (Linguistics), Dr Seda Altug (History) yet repulsive to water, and slippery total, she published 12 papers, filed and Dr Yasser Kureshi (Law), and, yet attractive for oils, in Chemical a patent application, gave 7 keynote as a Career Development Fellow, Dr Communications. A lecture given at lectures or webinars and led a team Christopher Fowles (Philosophy). an annual Max Planck Society retreat of scientists and engineers from the at their castle in the Bavarian Alps UK, Germany, Japan and China in a was titled ‘Puzzles with Concentrated symposium and white paper addressing The President Electrolytes’. The undergraduate lecture ‘Science to Enable Sustainable Plastics’. Hilary Boulding delivered a talk to course States of Matter was delivered She was awarded the MACRO Group students and faculty of the Shenandoah online this year. UK 2020 Medal, and recognises the Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia, remarkable fortitude and resilience of as part of an online programme of her team during the pandemic.

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Classics and Ancient History gap between theory and practice on Gail Trimble received a second award AI by supporting cutting-edge research from the University’s Returning Carers’ and applied activities on AI-related Fund, enabling her to return to the final priorities. stages of her work on Catullus 64. Her co-edited volume Metalepsis: Ancient Janet Pierrehumbert was selected by the Texts, New Perspectives was published International Speech Communication by OUP in August. She participated Association (ISCA) as the recipient of in an episode of the BBC Radio 4 its 2020 Scientific Achievement Medal. programme In Our Time dedicated The medal honours an individual who to Catullus, and made various online has made extraordinary contributions appearances during lockdown, to the field of speech communication reading ancient poetry on Twitter science and technology. On receiving and discussing Titian’s ‘Bacchus and the medal at the ISCA conference, Janet Ariadne’ in a National Gallery video. will deliver a plenary address on ‘The Teaching for Trinity’s OxLat Extension cognitive status of simple and complex Programme in Classics and the Ancient models’. Janet started a new research World, now in its second cohort, also project investigating exaggeration moved online with considerable success. in social media, a project funded by the EPSRC under its programme While continuing to work on a on Responsible Natural Language Andrea Ferrero commentary on parts of the pseudo- he curated and introduced an exhibition Processing for Intelligent Interfaces. Vergilian corpus, Tristan Franklinos of treasures from the college library on oversaw the completion of two the theme of omission and expurgation Economics edited volumes which appeared in of classical texts as part of LGBT+ In September, Andrea Ferrero published print during the year: Revisiting the History Month. the paper ‘Fiscal and Monetary Policy Codex Buranus: Contents, Contexts, in Open Economy’, in the Oxford Composition (Boydell & Brewer) and Research Encyclopedia of Economics Constructing Authors and Readers in Computing Science and Finance. During the academic the Appendices Vergiliana, Tibulliana, Marta Kwiatkowska was invited to year, he was the Houblon-Norman and Ouidiana (OUP). He convened join the Responsible AI Working Group Fellow at the Bank of England, where a graduate seminar on the letters of of the Global Partnership on Artificial he pursued research in collaboration Héloise and Abelard in Michaelmas Intelligence (GPAI) initiative, nominated with the bank’s economists on a variety term, delivered a paper at the Institute by the European Commission. This of topics, ranging from the interaction of Classical Studies (London) on international initiative was formed between monetary and macro- Genette’s Palimpsests and modes of to promote responsible AI grounded prudential policy, to the international reading in Hilary term, and had articles in human rights, inclusion, diversity, transmission of credit supply shocks. published in Classical Quarterly (on innovation, and economic growth. He continued to serve as a panellist pseudo-Vergil and on Seneca) and The GPAI brings together experts from for the bi-annual Economic Policy in Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch (on a industry, government, civil society and conference. commentator on Dante). In February, academia, and will look to bridge the

10 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2018-19 Karol Mazur joined Trinity as a JRF in recognition of the role he plays in for examining than has usually been the economics in October. He defended his the advancement of the discipline, in case. Before the pandemic put a stop PhD thesis at the European University particular in the application of physical to travel, he attended the Middle East Institute in November. Throughout methods to the study of the structure Studies Association annual meeting the year, he has continued his work and properties of engineered and in New Orleans and a workshop on on government policy impact on natural materials. ‘1919 in Global Perspective’ in Dublin. education and agricultural sectors. He continued to work on his book on English France and Africa, and began talking Engineering Science Kantik Ghosh finished work on a to publishers about his next project, a This was Steve Sheard’s second volume of articles entitled Wycliffism global history of Islam. academic year working part-time, and Hussitism: Methods, Impact dividing time between teaching and Responses, which he co-edited with After joining Trinity in September responsibilities as a carer at home. He Pavel Soukup from the Institute 2019, Fanny Bessard completed has contributed to designing a new of Philosophy, Czech Academy of her first year as associate professor undergraduate laboratory for teaching Sciences. The volume is to be published in Medieval Eurasian History and electronic circuit design and enjoyed by Brepols. her probationary year as a Fellow. another year of tutorial teaching for Fanny specialises in the History and the college. Stefano Evangelista was on research Archaeology of the early Islamic Middle leave for 2019-20. He completed his East. This year saw the publication Alexander Korsunsky was elected a monograph Citizens of Nowhere: of her first monograph, Caliphs and fellow of the Institute of Physics, in Literary Cosmopolitanism in the Merchants: Cities and Economies English Fin de Siècle, which will be of Power in the early Islamic Near published by OUP in 2021. Before East (700-950) (Oxford Studies in the onset of the COVID pandemic, he Byzantium, OUP). She has begun a new held the final meeting of his AHRC- research project on poverty, wealth, funded research network on Decadence and social inequalities in early medieval and Translation, which took place in Eurasia. Glasgow in December 2019. He has now started a five-year collaboration Law on an ERC-funded project on colour in Luke Rostill finalised and submitted nineteenth-century European literature the manuscript of his book, Possession, and art, led by former Junior Research Relative Title, and Ownership in Fellow Charlotte Ribeyrol. English Law, for publication by OUP in the spring of 2021. Luke also finalised History two articles. One concerns the remedies James McDougall served the final year available to possessors of chattels. of his term as Dean, succeeded Bryan This will be published in the Oxford Ward-Perkins as Fellow Archivist, Journal of Legal Studies. The other, and also succeeded Bryan as chair of which concerns ‘mesne profits’, will the Final Honour School of Modern be published in the Cambridge Law History in a more eventful Trinity term Journal. Alexander Korsunsky

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In Michaelmas term, Andrea Dolcetti Mathematics normally, and in July, in a new was invited to join the scientific Ian Hewitt gave a keynote lecture at the collaboration with Andrea Malchiodi committee of the editorial board of 2019 UK Fluid Mechanics Conference and Ben Sharp, she published online a Revus, an international, multi-language, in Cambridge. He presented work on paper that provides a new method to open-access, peer-reviewed academic how Greenland glaciers are responding analyse the energy spectrum of critical journal for constitutional theory and to climate warming at the American points in the presence of singularities, philosophy of law. In the spring, Geophysical Union in San Francisco in which promises to have further Andrea was offered a selective, funded December, and in January organised a applications in geometric analysis. visiting fellowship in Law at Roma Tre workshop on Mathematical Modelling University, which unfortunately had in Glaciology, in suitably frigid Medicine and Physiology to be postponed due to the COVID-19 conditions at the Banff International Frances Ashcroft was awarded pandemic. He wrote, with Professor Research Station, Alberta. the Dale Medal by the Society Giovanni Battista Ratti (University of for Endocrinology, their highest Genoa), ‘Derogation and Defeasibility accolade. She also received an in International Law’, which was Honorary doctorate (in absentia due published in June as a chapter in L to COVID-19) from the University of Bartels and F Paddeu (eds), Exceptions Macau Science and Technology. She in International Law (OUP). published a number of scientific papers, gave several invited lectures (online) Materials Science and sat on the Royal Society’s public Michael Moody was in awe of the engagement and sectional committees. poise, determination and resilience shown by all of Trinity’s Materials Peter McCulloch was awarded a £2.5m students as they navigated their way Programme Grant by NIHR, the main through a uniquely challenging year. funding body in the UK for clinical In other news, he led the establishment research. This will support a research of the £3.8m Nuclear Materials Atom programme called RESPOND, which Probe (NuMAP) Facility, which will is trying to improve response systems serve as a resource for UK researchers to intervene when patients develop developing new materials to underpin serious complications after surgery, by Melanie Rupflin the next generation of fission and analysing current systems of care and fusion reactors. He was also elected an For Melanie Rupflin, as for many identifying factors that slow down or honorary fellow of the International others, it was a busy and unusual prevent appropriate urgent treatment, Field Emission Society. year as she adapted to the current then trialling an improved response ‘new normal’ of recording lectures system. In March, Peter shot a video Charlotte Lynch was awarded a in the living room, meeting students at Trinity in preparation for a policy Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in virtual tutorials and coffee breaks conference to be held in October, and Learning in Higher Education, rather than in college, and discussing relating to his work on IDEAL, an passing with distinction. research in online talks rather than at improved system for evaluating conferences. By contrast, research in surgical operations and other complex mathematics continued surprisingly invasive treatments. Most recently,

12 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 he has been working on a project in writing a number of manuscripts. on the history and structure of a on PPE for healthcare workers in He published various papers in high- wide range of languages of Italy and Intensive Care Units during the COVID impact journals (one of which was south-eastern Europe (several of them emergency, using a fluorescent powder downloaded more than 1,300 times in extinct or nearly so). He was busy to test how well new systems prevent the first few months after publication) co-editing the Cambridge Handbook contamination of staff skin and transfer and received a number of invitations of Romance Linguistics, and continued of bacteria from one patient to another. to give plenary lectures at international to direct a research project on the conferences of organisations such as severely endangered language ‘Istro- the British Pharmacological Society Romanian’. The COVID crisis forced and the European Federation of him to experiment with completely new Immunogenetics. methods of doing linguistic fieldwork— trying to work online with informants Chris Butler was awarded £1.7 million who are elderly and not themselves in funding for the first clinical trial computer-literate! of potential COVID-19 treatments to take place in GP practices. The Valerie Worth is very grateful to the Platform Randomised Trial of Governing Body for giving her research Interventions against COVID-19 leave in Hilary term. This coincided in Older People (PRINCIPLE) trial with the publication of her translation received the funding from the UK into English and critical edition of Research and Innovation (UKRI), and Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Tragiques, so the Department of Health and Social she was able to discuss this research Care through the National Institute with colleagues in the UK, France and for Health Research (NIHR); over the USA, albeit that plans to present 2,600 people have participated. Chris the work at the annual Renaissance was also named Welsh GP of the Studies of America conference were Paul Fairchild Year by the Royal College of General postponed due to COVID. She also Although the year was significantly Practitioners Wales (RCGPW). completed a chapter on Molière and affected by the coronavirus pandemic, The award commends GPs for the Medicine, for the forthcoming volume there have, nevertheless, been numerous difference they make to their patients’ Molière in Context, and a chapter highlights for Paul Fairchild. Indeed, lives, and is awarded on the basis of comparing the earliest published works respite from the daily challenges nominations by members of the public. by practising midwives in France of running a laboratory, owing to (early 17th century), Germany (late the lockdown, provided welcome Modern Languages and Linguistics 17th century) and England (early opportunities to work with potential Martin Maiden was made a 18th century) for the volume Portraits investors in a biotechnology spin corresponding member of the Italian and Poses: representations of female out company based on technology Accademia della Crusca (Italy’s authority in early modern Europe. Last developed in his lab, to continue venerable academy of the Italian but not least, the research she has been establishing the Journal of Immunology language). He gave invited lectures privileged to share with healthcare and Regenerative Medicine as a leading in Prague and Zurich and (virtually) practitioners, especially midwives, since journal in the field, and to invest time in Padua, and published nine articles 2013 is provisionally selected as an

13 FELLOWS’ & LECTURERS’ NEWS impact case study in the return to the Miles for Refugees, hosted by the received a grant from the Humanities REF 2021 by the Modern Languages British Red Cross. Cultural Programme Fund to support Faculty. a collaboration with the award- Katherine Ibbett spent the autumn winning ensemble SANSARA. Her first on sabbatical in Montreal and Paris, single-authored book was published researching her book Liquid Empire; in July, Childhood, Memory, and the she was the keynote speaker for the Nation: Young Lives under Nazism in Society of the History of the Emotions Contemporary German Culture. She conference in Ottawa, trying out also contributed the chapter ‘Emotional some new work on the early modern History and Legacies of War in Recent emotion word ‘transport’; and she German Comics and Graphic Novels’ published an improbable article on to Documenting Trauma in Comics, travelling sheep: ‘Sheepships: Robin edited by Dominic Davies and Candida Mouton Goes to Sea (Rabelais, Choisy, Rifkind. Voltaire)’, French Studies, 74.2 (2020). Music Alexandra Reza has been working Hugh Collins Rice was a prize on a monograph about literary winner at the Kazimierz Serocki 16th journals and African decolonisation. International Composers’ Competition She was also chosen as one of ten 2019. His trio for clarinet, violin and early-career academics in the UK to piano, Canto Celato was performed at be part of the AHRC/BBC’s annual a concert in Warsaw by the Hashtag ‘New Generation Thinker’ scheme, Ensemble and recorded by Polish and appeared on BBC Radio 3 Radio. talking about francophone literature. María del Pilar Blanco Philosophy Richard Ashdowne continued his Anil Gomes came to the end of his María del Pilar Blanco was appointed work on the Latin of medieval Britain, British Academy mid-career fellowship Academic Champion, Networks & publishing a chapter that examines in September. He taught a graduate Partnerships at The Oxford Research some examples of English words ending seminar on material from the project in Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) in -man that are known of either Trinity term and it will form the basis from October 2020 until September earlier or only from texts in medieval for a book under contract with OUP. 2023. She published, as co-editor with Latin. In October 2019 he became a He published papers in Philosophical Joanna Page, Geopolitics, Culture, supernumerary fellow at University Quarterly and Oxford Studies in and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin College, taking on the role of assistant the Philosophy of Mind and wrote America, and a number of essays on senior tutor. something for the Times Literary the topics of Decadence and Spanish Supplement on doing philosophy under American modernism. In September Alexandra Lloyd held a Knowledge lockdown. María concluded her time as Equalities Exchange Fellowship at TORCH as Fellow by running (then, due to injury, part of her research and outreach walking and cycling) 108 miles for initiative, the White Rose Project. She

14 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 Politics Physics Sam Vinko was elected to a Tutorial Despite the pandemic, Peter Read Fellowship in June, a post he holds managed to attend a Royal Society together with an associate professorship discussion meeting in January on in the Physics Department. This follows exploring the Ice Giant planets, Uranus on from his stints as both Junior and Neptune, for which his group has Research Fellow and Research Fellow been developing numerical climate at Trinity over the past six years. His models. He published two major recent work on combining functional scientific review articles, one on the optimization aspects of machine principal fluid dynamical instabilities in learning with experiments in plasma atmospheres and oceans, and another physics was published as an Editors’ on recent advances in understanding Suggestion in Physical Review Letters. the atmospheric circulations of Jupiter and Saturn (the latter prompted by his Planetary Sciences Distinguished Lecture to the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society in Singapore in July 2019).

Justin Wark spent the earlier part of his sabbatical leave visiting various groups around the world with whom he collaborates. He particularly enjoyed visiting the Indian Institute of Science Stephen Fisher in Bangalore (where he also gave Stephen Fisher was on sabbatical for science lectures to school children), the academic year, which fortuitously and the Tata Institute for Fundamental allowed him much more time to work Research in Mumbai. He continues on the early general election. As well to be the UK lead on an international as post-election analysis, Stephen’s consortium helping construct one research in 2020 was mainly on the of the end stations at the European effects of internal migration and X-Ray Laser in Hamburg. Amongst regional inequality on social and several publications, the highlight was political attitudes in Britain. He also a combination of experimental and wrote variously on public opinion theoretical work published in Physical towards climate change, poverty and Review Letters that showed that the COVID-19 crisis. At the time of when matter subjected to pressures in writing, he was not particularly looking the order of a million atmospheres is Justin Wark forward to becoming Dean as the crisis suddenly allowed to expand, it does so continues. in a way which contradicts standard textbook behaviour.

15 SENIOR TUTOR’S REPORT Adapting to new challenges

Valerie Worth Senior Tutor

his report, like most people’s memories of 2019-20, falls Tinto two very distinct parts: bc (before COVID) and ac (after COVID). The academic year started on a high point, with the arrival of our first undergraduates for two new courses at Trinity: Computer Science and Biomedical Sciences. We also welcomed two new stipendiary JRFs, Xavier Bach (Linguistics) and Karol Mazur (Economics). As our new undergraduates, graduates and postdoctoral associates settled into Trinity over Michaelmas and also to the tutorial fellowship Teams system, which the IT Manager term, the year followed its regular, in Physics—the latter seeing the set up, the transition was almost steady rhythm. In choosing Hilary appointment of Sam Vinko, who seamless. Tutorials continued apace, term for my leave, I had explained has previously been an outstanding supported by on-line access to major to Governing Body that this was lecturer and research fellow at Trinity. library holdings and recorded lectures. the term of ‘academic business as From the last weeks of Hilary The biggest problem was usual’; how wrong could I be. We term it was apparent that normality undoubtedly for postgraduates and were most fortunate to appoint a was giving way to uncharted and academic colleagues in the sciences very experienced acting senior tutor, urgent changes; Lizzie and Aurelia whose access to labs was, in almost Lizzie Emerson, who had served eight saw it through heroically, pending all cases, abruptly curtailed. It is a years as senior tutor at St Hugh’s, my return. All our students who huge tribute to the resilience and with Aurelia Annat (our Lecturer in could return home did so, like those determination of our students and our History) as acting tutor for graduates. at all other colleges, so that Trinity academics that almost all Trinity’s Together with the excellent Academic term found us all swiftly adapting students completed their summer Office team, they made a brisk start to teaching, learning and working term. to the term, supporting our students, remotely. On my return to the fray in appointing to several lecturerships, Thanks to the excellent Microsoft mid-April, as chair of the college’s

16 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 Academic Grants Committee, I Congratulatory First (Classics) and a admission of our freshers, we could consulted academics and the Estates Gladstone Thesis Prize (History). reflect on having come through the Bursar and President to determine I also want to pay a very warm first phase of a very tough challenge, what we could do rapidly to support tribute to the many students who thanks in large part to our collegial students studying from home. While achieved strong 2.1s, with a consistent will to work together to succeed. the University had a hardship fund mark profile indicating their academic There have been some changes for large expenses (flights home, commitment and determined efforts which may be of lasting value: broken laptops), we recognised in the face of the adversities of recorded lectures were popular; the need at a college level to offer Trinity term 2020. In some cases (in examiners appreciated the legibility of flexible support for smaller IT all classes), tutors and those of us typed exam scripts in the humanities; items (new screen, webcam, noise- who have supported welfare over the and we are all now more confident cancelling headphones—the latter year will be aware just how much users of Teams video calls. But were astonishingly popular!) and also individuals had to contend with to Oxford prides itself on the human additional book purchases. Students dimension of its teaching and were most appreciative of these learning, and the return to face- grants, and the speed with which the ‘Oxford prides itself on to-face interactions (albeit initially college processed them. the human dimension of socially distanced, with masks worn University exams were cancelled its teaching…the return to in classroom settings) will be very for Prelims (replaced by less formal welcome. Stay well, and wish us well assessments by tutors or departments), face-to-face interactions for this next stage. but maintained for all finalists, so that will be very welcome.’ they could graduate without a delay. The University organised online, achieve their Oxford degree. We are open-book exams, sometimes with a very happy for these finalists that they modified examination schedule, but did not need to suspend studies; the ensuring that the finalists of 2020 work of our dedicated tutors, over were assessed with the normal rigour the years and especially over this last of Final Honours Schools. Despite the term, were essential in maintaining very challenging circumstances, our their confidence to complete their finalists achieved an outstanding set course. of results, with 42 Firsts (the highest As we reached the end of the number ever!) out of 89 candidates. academic year, and prepared for a Some subjects had particularly return to ‘new normality’, already golden years: Maths saw all five our science postgraduates were MMath finalists getting Firsts; and in starting to return to labs, at least Biochemistry, Chemistry, Materials, on rotas. Libraries were moving to Medicine, Physics, PPE, History and ‘click and collect’ systems, to the Classics, at least half the finalists relief of humanities’ academics and achieved Firsts. We also had several postgraduates in Oxford over the students in the top 5 per cent of their summer. As we prepared for the safe cohort (Biochemistry, PPE) and a return of our undergraduates, and the

17 NEW STUDENTS New Undergraduates

Economics and Law Modern Languages Michaelmas Term Management Aerin Blood Alice Awdry 2019 Sai Mirthipati Jamie Emerick Rebecca Denny-Holmes James Waterman Danny Holroyde Nadia Hassan Ancient and Todd Horton Debora Krut Modern History Engineering Science Arista Lai Nathan Cornish Jacques Cloete Shannon Smith McRoberts Philosophy, Politics Henry Cowell and Economics Biochemistry Codrutza-Maria Dragu Materials Science Yifei Chen Ieuan Corcoran Kian Hocking Oliver Clement Carlotta Hartmann Emily Ng William Nakhoul Carys Davies Tom Lewis Zachary Rawlinson Putuchon Vongvorakul Kyung Kim Emma Tolhurst Zoe Webb Yuqi Liu Frankie Wright Kazuki Yamakage English Wajahat Tariq Georgina Dettmer Zhiyun Xu Philosophy and Theology Biomedical Sciences Holly Gardner William Poole Kyriacos Foti Elizabeth Reynard Mathematics Isis Stevens Jia Jhing Sia William Saunders Ella Boot Tariq Sinnetamby Laura Bradby Physics Chemistry Osian Williams Mason Dowsett Daniel Beer Matthew Dobson Sam Flower Anna Beever Aadithya Ganeshram English and Io Ross Stephen Hughes Anna Jones Modern Languages Anyi Wang Katie Maddock Selen Sucu Gracie Bolt Eoin Neale Medicine Andrew-Hiroaki Okukura Classics History Sarah Coffey Jamie Spiller Alannah Burdess Lauren Aurelius Charlotte Gould Isabella Calder Otis Branklin-Frisby Ore Jacobi Theology Michael Freeman Warwick Chipman Karina Odedra Benjamin Goodrick Andrew Birchall Miko Konii-Govier Ipsita Sarkar Sabire Krasniqi Finn Peacocke Natasha White Thang Tu History and Politics Computer Science Paulina Maziarska Tianqi Liu Abhishek Mandikandan

18 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 New Postgraduates

Gabrielle French Emanuele La Malfa Prama Putra Michaelmas Term University of Calgary, Polytechnic University of Bandung Institute of 2019 Canada Milan, Italy Technology, Indonesia Cameron Gray Gabriela Leon Nkahiseng Ralepeli Mats-Phillip Ahrenshop Cardiff University University of Toronto, University of the Free State, Wadham College, Oxford James Green Canada South Africa Majida Al-Maktoum University of Aberdeen Wouter Lindeboom Nadia Randazzo New York University, Abu St Hilda’s College, Oxford Cardiff University Dhabi, UAE Matthew Hankins New College, Oxford Elizabeth Marie Loyal Thomas Scrivener Rowan Anderson United States Naval Academy Trinity College University of St Andrews Tim Hempel University of Hamburg, Sheila Lumley Xin You Tai Chevano Baker Germany Royal College of Pathologists, University College London University of West Indies Ryan Herold London Aude Tanghe Louis Cheng University of Nottingham Tom McQuillen Sorbonne University, Paris, University of Cambridge Elena Hess-Rheingans Monash University, Australia France Olena Chervonik London School of Economics Martin Meier Elliot Taylor Victoria University of and Political Science University of Erlangen- University of St Andrews Wellington, New Zealand Joseph Hickie Nürnberg, Germany Sarah Tress Akshayaa Chittibabu University of Lancaster Callan Meynell Massachusetts Institute of University of Connecticut, Trinity College Technology, USA USA Hannah Jones University of Cambridge Thomas Mills Michael Tufft Sophie Clarke University of Cambridge Trinity College University of Bristol Conor Keogh Trinity College, Dublin, Roy Ng Jamie Wilmore Debbie Clutton Ireland National University of Trinity College Harris Manchester College, Singapore Oxford Laura Ketteringham Huinan Zheng University of Durham Rachel O’Nunain Trinity College Fungai Dengu Trinity College University of Edinburgh Ann-Kristin Knoll Carolina Zucchi Ludwig-Maximilians- Sebastian Orbell University of St Andrews Katrina Estok Universität München, St John’s College, Oxford Ambrose University, Calgary, Germany Canada Konstantine Panegyres Fanmiao Kong University of Melbourne, Nauzer Forbes Shanghai Jiao Tong Australia University of Calgary, University, China Canada Phoebe Peberdy Queen Mary University of London

19 MATRICULANDS 2019

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21 DEGREES & PRIZES Degree Schools’ Results & Awards 2020

In 2019-20 there were 305 students reading for undergraduate degrees and 147 graduates reading for higher degrees. In Final Honour Schools, 42 out of 89 Trinity students gained Firsts. Their names are in bold.

Luca Ameri Catriona Ellis Angus Macvicar Gideon Rudolph Elvis Anoma-Amoabeng Geil Emdi Laetitia Makower Peter Sacks Isobel Baker Aled Evans Veselin Manjlovic Jonas Sandbrink Katharina Beck Kathryn Farrell-Roberts Svetoslava Manoleva Monica Schroeder Luke Bellamy Frederick Follows Elena Margetts Zala Sekne Max Bennett Lucy Fowler Jessica Mason Sabrina Siu Tom Bentley Tom Gardner Harry Mingay Ellan Slade James Blenkinsop Toby Gay Hayley Myhan Marina Smith Lydia Bockmuehl Isaac Hadfield Ebere Nweze Penelope Streatfeild Catherine Boxall Hugo Harting Claire Otasowie Michelle Sun Esme Bright Hope Hopkinson Zuzanna Pasternak Soma Szentivanszki Oliver Brophy David Hubbard Kirsty Peacock Mia Testa Anna Broughton Iman Jamil Marcus Pegg Luis Torquato Megan Buckley Adrian Kwong Serena Pennant Alex Tucker Alex Campbell Jun Yan Lau James Peters-Gill Ellie Vickery Eric Canavan Lucrezia Lawrence Julia Pieza Beatrice Webber Dominic Chambers Chin Wee Lee Beatrice Ralston Joe Weeks Jonathan Christie Weihang Li Bryan Ng Henry Wendorf Charlotte Cossins Katy Lillie Sam Renshaw James Winship Lorraine Dindi Tom Lloyd Chris Rexworthy Jeff Zhao Ruben Drayton Bradley Logan Billy Richards Elizabeth Dunn Hongchang Lyu Matthew Riding Imogen Edwards-Lawrence Geordie Macdonald Harold Roseberg

22 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 Advanced degrees & certificates

Thanti Octavianti Doctor of Philosophy Master of Science Master of Public Policy Lewis Anderson Geography and the Majida Al-Maktoum James Green Sociology Environment Global Governance and Andrew Currie Manon Simard Diplomacy Oncology Diploma in Legal Studies Philosophy Chevano Baker Ann-Kristin Knoll Erica De Zan Jaqueline Si Jia Tan Economics for Development Clinical Medicine Organic Chemistry Elizabeth Loyal Michael Eyres Anupama Unnikrishnan Economics for Development Oncology Atomic and Laser Physics Gabriela Leon Hazel Gardner Hanna Walters Clinical Embryology Materials Biochemistry Thomas Mills Cosima Gillhammer Qinrui Wang Sociology English Systems Approaches in Omair Shariq Biomedical Science Conrad Holc Surgical Science and Practice Materials Bethany White History Oliver Humphries Master of Studies Atomic and Laser Physics Nattawut Yuntawattana Lia Den Daas Inorganic Chemistry Philosophy of Physics Bogdan Knezevic Clinical Medicine Roy Yu Quan Ng History of Art and Visual Emily Knight Master of Philosophy Culture History of Art Nurul Wakhidah Economics Michael Tufft Sean Ming-Jun Lau Modern Languages Theology (Portuguese) Christopher Lindsay Bachelor of Philosophy Katrina Estok Cardiovascular Medicinal Paul De Font-Reaulx Music (Musicology) Chemistry Philosophy Rachel O’Nunain Deborah Malden Eleanor Smyth English (1830-1914) Population Health Philosophy Lucy Martin Particle Physics Bachelor of Civil Law Master of Business Fiona Moultrie Lok Yin Cheng Administration Sergio Navarro Biomedical and Clinical Nkahiseng Ralepeli Sciences Thomas McQuillen

23 DEGREE & PRIZES Awards & Prizes

Ernest Lee Undergraduate Farid Manzoor Scholarships Luca Ameri Patrick McCubbin Katharina Beck Alicia Middleton Lydia Bockmuehl Rachael Moule Oliver Brophy Flora Murray Claire Otasowie Anna Broughton Zuzanna Pasternak Rachel Dauncey Amy Patel Frederick Follows Kirsty Peacock Tom Gardner Anthony Piwowarski Victoria Gettins Marina Popp Adrian Kwong Joshua Rosen Hongchang Lyu David Salge Julia Pieza Marnie Shutter Billy Richards Ayano Sugiyama-Finnis Matthew Riding Mia Testa Melissa Rose Milo Thomspon Jonas Sandbrink Monica Schroeder Graduate Scholarships Zala Sekne Helena Bates Eleanor Vickery Jason Brickhill Jeff Zhao Madeline Chalmers Andrew Currie Erica De Zan Undergraduate Exhibitions Michael Garstka Victor Almeida Ivo Pascale Gourdeau Jacob Barker Owain James Megan Bell Mu-Huan Lee Esme Bright Annina Loets Eric Canavan Lucy Martin Jack Cross Kirk Smith Patrick Dauncey Catherine Truman Annabel Hunt Julius Yam James Fletcher The War Memorial Library

24 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 College Prizes and Awards Bellot International Law Odette de Mourgues Prize Richard Hillary Writing Warburton Book Prize Prize (French) Competition (musical life of Trinity) Joe Weeks Lydia Bockmuehl Marnie Shutter Tristan Weymes Honorable mentions: Christopher Prior Prize Peter Fisher Physics Prize Rowan Curtis Whitehead Travelling for Mathematics Jun Yan Lau Florine Lips Scholarship David Hubbard Anna Broughton James Peters-Gill R A Knox Prize Sally Ball EC Law prize Harry Mingay Biochemistry Peter Sacks Douglas Sladen Prize Zala Sekne Ernest Lee The JCR Engineering Sarah and Nadine Pole David Evers Prize Second prize: Jeff Zhao Scholarship Anthony Piwowarski Junaid Hameed Harry Mingay Katharina Beck Hinshelwood Chemistry Prize English Stirling Boyd Prize Penny Streatfeild Esme Bright Tirion Hughes French Commendations from James and Cecily Holladay Lydia Bockmuehl Prize the President: History Ben de Jager Tom Griffiths Tom Gardner Conrad Kunadu Law Adrian Kwong John and Irene Sloan Prize Peter Sacks for PPE (FHS) Eilidh Macfarlane Materials Science Chin Wee Lee Billy Richards Matthew Riding Lady Astbury Law Prize Medicine Sutro Prize Literae (Mods) Katharina Beck Humaniores Katy Lillie Arista Lai Luke Bellamy Aerin Blood Philosophy Isaac Hadfield Margaret Howard Prize Ernest Lee

25 JCR REPORT

also thrived in the form of Trinity’s Two steps forward, Orchestra and Choir. Sport maintained a strong presence. no steps back Rowing, football, and rugby, basketball, netball, powerlifting and various other sports saw successes he 2019-20 year was marked and/or a loyal following. The by a sense of progress, change, Gryphon Society hosted debates Tand innovation across the and oratory competitions. From the JCR. From the introduction of a new Trinity’s Christian Union ‘dial-a- on-site gym, to the new JCR website, doughnut’ to the First-Gen Students the year started with a bang. Freshers’ Group socials, successful events meant Week alone saw historic turnouts at Michaelmas and Hilary were as active consent workshops, the introduction as ever. of diversity workshops, and new However, the COVID-19 pandemic non-drinking activities, thanks to resulted in a Trinity term that the support of the Trinity Society. occurred entirely from home. The This momentum did not stop at the JCR started with a Trinity JCR end of noughth week. Michaelmas social-distancing Facebook page. term saw an energetic drive to put In addition, we saw a JCR Netflix, Alpacas on their visit to Trinity on old and new equalities events for Disney+, and Minecraft Server. Diwali, Black History Month, and Virtual Welfare Teas ran successfully, Towards the end of term, the killing more. With an ever-larger Access including one delightful Welfare of George Floyd in the US mobilised Ambassador programme, Trinity’s Tea x Club Penguin. From a chess calls for anti-racism measures. The celebration of and enthusiasm for tournament and the provision of yoga, JCR met virtually to throw its support its diversity started off very strongly. to students being highly proactive behind an anti-racism stance and This would pave the way for a Hilary in sharing their own resources, JCR raised funds for charity. Even in the term that continued in the same light. members were definitely keen to face of the pandemic, student activism Careers events; the introduction keep Trinity’s community active. hadn’t died down. of a college welfare counsellor; Without a doubt some of the most Trinity was quieter than usual, improvements to BOPs; Trinity successful events were the two Virtual yet still saw plenty of engagement. taking place in the All-Innovate Idea Quiz Nights put on by the Entz COVID’s challenges were certainly competition; and welfare alpacas! Representatives, which saw excellent surmounted, and that is a testament to These two terms certainly saw turnout. the keenness across the student body student business operate as usual with From the Virtual Open Days, the to make Trinity as inclusive, exciting, plenty of new improvements to JCR Access Recommendations Bank and inspiring as it could possibly be. functioning and events. and online pages for community It was definitely a year marked by two Societies across Trinity continued engagement, to ‘Trinterviews’ of steps forward, and little in the way of their strong showing. TCMS’s students during term, students made a step back. Karaoke Nights and President’s an impressive effort not to let the Concerts became a staple. Music lockdown interfere with work or play. Conrad Kunadu JCR President

26 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 MCR REPORT

bop. Many MCR members Thriving, in strange moved home to family, while those who stayed circumstances faced a very strange Oxford experience. All of our events (including our annual gala) he past year has seen our were cancelled, and the new MCR community thrive, even standard of the MCR calendar Tin strange circumstances. The became a weekly online pub MCR year really starts when the new quiz, hosted by different committee takes over at the start of members each week. This the long vacation. To make the most helped to maintain a sense of of a beautiful Oxford summer, we had community over lockdown introduced a long vacation term-card, and allowed different members featuring informal pub trips, punting to showcase their academic Aurelia Annat, acting tutor for graduates, and Eilidh exchanges with other colleges, and a and (mostly very specific!) Macfarlane, MCR president, at the MCR/SCR buffet lunch garden party (which got rained into personal interests, with rounds the MCR!). This helped to keep our participated in a three-way wine and on Harry Potter, the situational vibrant community connected over cheese exchange with Pembroke and judgment test taken by prospective the summer, which can otherwise feel Worcester. I am pleased to report medical doctors, and ‘things I found unending for continuing graduate that Trinity’s reputation for being a in my parents’ house’. students stuck in labs and libraries. particularly sociable college put us It has been a challenging year for When Freshers’ Week arrived, we much in demand for such events. the MCR, and many thanks go to the were delighted to welcome a new Amongst our own members we hosted fantastic committee for their hard- cohort of graduate students to the a very popular ceilidh (see inside work and dedication: vice president MCR, and to establish the long-term back cover), a creative Tube themed and welfare officer Neale Marlow, future of the associate membership bop (jam-packed thanks to the Seven treasurer Neil Lewis, secretary Juliana for post-docs associated to Trinity, Sisters) and a Christmas party with Lee, equalities officer Jean Balchin, thanks to the generous support of the Secret Santa in the MCR. social secretaries Laura Cox, Bethany college. Freshers’ week was filled with We continued to build links with White and Rowan Curtis, and general the standard selection of scavenger the JCR, bolstered by a particularly member Hannah Jones. hunts, cocktail evenings and the ‘T’ involved and enthusiastic group of Handing over to Joe Hickie and bop (notably featuring social secretary fourth-year undergraduates. We held the new committee online at the end Rowan as an 8-foot inflatable T-rex), our first joint JCR-MCR equalities of Trinity term felt very strange, but as well as new events like crazy golf. event, an incredibly popular cupcake I’m glad to report that already they Michaelmas and Hilary terms decorating session. We also reached have made a success of keeping the flew by in a blaze of welfare pizza out to the SCR, hosting a mince MCR community thriving, if socially evenings, catching up over lunch and pies and mulled wine evening, and distanced. social events. Exchange dinners took enjoying a buffet lunch together. us to Christ Church, St John’s, Keble, At the end of Hilary term the first Eilidh Macfarlane Teddy Hall and St Hugh’s, and we sign of change came in our cancelled MCR President

27 SPORTS SOME IMMENSE CHALLENGES

Boat Club to be challenging for TCFC. The firsts, was now looking for survival, but  TCBC had an unusual year with however, started the season brightly, a punishing fixture list saw defeats much of the season spent on land, picking up a massive 11-3 win against against Keble and Brasenose condemn owing to high water levels that made Somerville and beating a strong Balliol them to relegation. it impossible to row on the Isis. team 3-2 in the Broad Street derby. All being well, the 2020-21 season This combined with the COVID-19 With the ever-consistent Fred Sturgis offers Trinity the chance to rebuild and pandemic meant that no racing took and Bradley Logan, and new additions reclaim their former glory, under the place in Oxford in 2019-20. The TCBC Jonas Paul Schöne and Ryan Herold capable leadership of Andrew Birchall crews were not discouraged though, putting in some stunning performances, and Liam Gesoff. with plenty of returnees from last year Trinity looked set to mount a surprise Jack Cross and a keen crop of novices, the club promotion attempt in Hilary term. arranged our own ‘Cergatta’ (an erg, In what must be one of the most Women’s Football run, and circuits), used the opportunity emotional games of college football  With the departure of veteran LMHT to have more whole-club training ever, an agonising 5-5 draw against captain Penny Streatfeild, LMH’s sessions with both the men and the St Hugh’s saw this hope fade. TCFC Niamh Fitzgerald and Trinity’s Flora women, and took part in zoom circuits. Murray had a big role to fill. We faced For the 2020-21 season, TCBC will the immense challenge of being drawn look to translate the hard work put Foxes (eventual cup winners) first. in at land training into an excellent Their coach was shouting their names performance on the water. We look from the sideline before we’d properly forward to racing once again, taking learned each other’s, but plucky part in more access initiatives, and LMHT came back fighting. Though we continuing to make our way up the sometimes struggled to recruit a full 11, river. morale remained strong and we had We are extremely grateful to all some great performances. Against all our sponsors and donors for their odds, 7 LMHT girls managed to bag an continued generous support in 8-0 win against a full Corpus/Pembroke maintaining the club and hope to side! A later 1-0 against Lincoln saw us see as many of you as possible next through to the quarter finals, where a season. very tough, well-matched game against Worcester saw us lose out on penalties. Charlotte Green With a shiny new kit and a lovely Men’s Football new captain, LMH’s Joan Kanyago,  Promotion in 2018-19, and the LMHT were raring to go for the 2020- departure of the old guard, meant that 21 season. the 2019-20 season was always going Women’s football cuppers team Flora Murray

28 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2018-19 contest, bringing us up against St Hilda’s. Daniel Lister tried and failed to contain the searing pace of the WadTrin midfield, taking us to the quarter-finals of the bowl against a powerful St Peter’s side. One should not mince one’s words here, St Peter’s were utterly ruined in our best performance of the season. They lost 48-5. Sadly, WadTrin’s hopes of cuppers glory were dashed when the competition was cancelled by the pandemic. Here ended the 2019-20 season.

Finn Peacocke

Blues

Full Blue Catriona Ellis, Netball India Fox, Fencing Phoebe Haste, Rugby Deborah Malden, Volleyball Elliott Taylor, Football Men’s football cuppers team Amanda Thomas, Lightweight Rugby rowdy team crewdates gelled the team Rowing  With a strong influx of freshers, both better than Louis Wright’s industrial- Beatrice Webber, Lacrosse undergraduate and postgraduate, the strength hair products. Louis Wright, Rugby mighty WadTrin were set to build on Now we come onto the season’s the 2018-19 season’s success from the highlight: the barn-storming cuppers Half Blue get-go. campaign of 2019-20. Lincoln college Minakshi Ashok, Ice Hockey The first game of the season, against lived by the sword and they most Jason Brickhill, Table Tennis LMH, showcased exactly what would certainly died by the sword; the Turl Said Said, Fencing come to be expected from the team of street team was swept aside by the 2019-20: crunching tackles, scything tidal wave that was the star-studded 2018-19 Full Blue lines of running and brutal ball-carrying WadTrin line-up. Next, we came Katherine Ferris, Rowing shone through the drizzle of the cold against the might of New. After a October morning, before the match was well-fought game, the better side won called off with WadTrin firmly in the and New progressed to the next round lead. The social side of the season was of the cup competition. WadTrin then equally impressive; a number of rather moved into the second stream bowl

29 MUSIC AND ARTS

Chapel Choir Lauren Weaver, and social secretary,  Trinity College Chapel Choir Ben Crowther, as well as Safier had a very productive year, releasing Lewis for her enormous help in the two albums (available on Spotify audio editing of the virtual orchestra and Soundcloud—search for Trinity performance.

College Chapel Choir), and having a Thomas Griffiths radio broadcast alongside professional choirs. The Trinity Players Our 2019 Christmas services were  The Trinity Players began the a great success; we sang a diverse year with a renewed effort to get repertoire, having instigated a more college involvement within the policy of having at least one woman drama scene, creating a mailing list composer per service. At the end of and raising the profile of the Players our second term, we held a recording throughout each year group. session with The Ammp Studio, which By Hilary term we had begun produced our first albumTCCC: BC. preparations for the 2020 lawns play, We also held a service to celebrate which we decided should be Wilde’s International Women’s Day in March. The Importance of Being Earnest. The choir on the Hall balcony for the Our summer term was disrupted We held auditions at the end of term Christmas dinner by COVID-19, but we released and had a wonderfully enthusiastic weekly evensongs on the Virtual concerts were very well attended, response, both inside and outside Chapel page on the college website. as we performed Schubert’s college, and secured the use of the The musical results of these were Symphony No. 4 and movements President’s garden for the performance released as our second album, called from Sibelius’ Pelleas et Melisande venue. The show was going to have Lockdown Loaded, released in July. suite in Michaelmas term, under an afternoon tea feel, with members The choir had a fantastic year, and the baton of Bryan Ng, followed by of the Beer Cellar team on board to are very much looking forward to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 and provide food and drinks and create what’s coming up next academic VaughanWilliams’ English Folk Song an overall ‘Garden Party’ theme for year, including another album, and Suite in Hilary term, under Thomas the scheduled four performances. hopefully a choir tour. Griffiths. In Trinity term, a few of Sadly, due to COVID the play could our members submitted recordings of not go ahead, but we plan to renew Tristan Weymes the Allegro con brio from Beethoven’s our efforts in the new academic year Orchestra Symphony No. 5 in order to create with a new production based around  The year was a great success for a virtual performance. Despite the women’s voices throughout history, the Trinity College Orchestra. Its technical challenges faced in recording entitled And the walls spoke, and we growing size has earned it a strong their individual performances on are eager to get to know (virtually) reputation in the Oxford music scene their phones while playing in time a new and enthusiastic batch of and with a majority of its members to a set tempo, the final result is theatrically minded freshers! now coming from outside Trinity, very impressive and can be viewed Reya Muller and Marianne James it has been established as one of on the orchestra’s YouTube channel. the premier college orchestras. Our Thanks especially go to our treasurer,

30 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2018-19 SOCIETIES

Christian Union opposing team was equally well- of presentations about the firm and  It was a very fruitful year for the furnished with Alannah Burdess were able to meet Old Members now Christian Union, especially with and Bea Webber, whose controlled working there. Students also enjoyed a many freshers adding to our number. arguments set out the benefits of trip to Junkyard Golf, accompanied by For the first two terms we looked at maintaining the status quo. Alannah alumni at Allen & Overy, that provided various statements made by Jesus in St was awarded ‘best speaker’ and a more relaxed environment in which John’s Gospel—what they meant and unsurprisingly has taken up position students could network and get to how these are still significant to us as master of the Gryphon Society for know the firm. today, with thanks to Rachael Moule 2020-21—it is a pleasure to see such Students were also given the and Abbie Parry for leading these. We a passionate apostle for lively and opportunity to have dinner with were also able to hold several ‘dial- respectful debate take over. members of Freshfields Bruckhaus a-doughnut’ events, delivering food The annual Michael Beloff After- Deringer, which was an extremely to people in college whilst discussing Dinner Speaking Competition was a enjoyable and informative evening. The questions they’d asked about faith highlight as always, and the college is year also saw Trinity involved in the and Christianity. indebted to Mr Beloff’s contribution inaugural ‘Trial Run’ intercollegiate In Hilary term the University- as a judge and mentor to participants. mooting competition, which was aimed wide Christian Union (OICCU) held In the end it was Imogen Edwards- at inexperienced students—giving an events week, with a range of Lawrence who triumphed. Her speech them the opportunity to try mooting lunchtime and evening talks, which compared the tribulations of the in a more informal and relaxed several members of college went ancient world to those that play out environment. to, sparking many in-depth and on the TV programme Love Island Overall, the Law Society was once interesting conversations. with a dry wit that engrossed and again successful in giving Trinity In Trinity term we successfully entertained our audience, and the students a greater insight into the legal managed to move to meeting via judges. profession. I thoroughly enjoyed my Zoom (without too many connection The Gryphon Society demonstrates time as president, and I would like issues), going through a series of that Trinity’s students are not afraid to extend my thanks to all who were encouraging studies in St Mark’s of asserting their opinion with valour, involved. but that no topic is so divisive that it Gospel. We look forward to another James Fletcher exciting year, filled with food, cannot be settled over a glass of wine discussions and encouragement! afterwards.

Zoe Webb, Charlotte Gould and Sarah Coffey Oscar Robins The Gryphon Society The Law Society  The Gryphon Society started the  The past year was a successful one year with an excellently attended for the Law Society, having seen both debate on the (now-reneged) Labour Law and non-Law students offered Party policy of abolishing private excellent opportunities to learn more schools. Laila Pourdad advocated about the legal sector. with alacrity for their immediate The years’ events began with a trip abolition with a trademark caustic to Slaughter and May’s London offices, tone, alongside Oscar Robins. The where students were given a series

31 COLLEGE STAFF Members of Staff 2019-20

Wayne Shorter, Multi-Skilled Academic Office Bursary Nasera Cummings, Accountant Maintenance Operative Isabel Lough, Undergraduate and David Thomas-Comiskey, Tutorial Administrator Jenny Cable, Executive Assistant to the Bursars Maintenance Operative Ashley Maguire, Graduate and Dene Warman, Multi-Skilled Plumber Academic Administrator Dora Asenova, Assistant Accountant Katharine Head, Assistant Kate Cummins, Assistant Accountant Robin Rutterford, Fees and Battels Housekeeping Team Administrator Damian Blachnio, Housekeeping Administrator Supervisor Carla Andrade, Scout: Staircases 14 Alumni & Development Computing and 16 Office Alastair Johnson, Computer Manager Brenda Bassett, Scout: Staircases 8, 9, Miriam Hallatt, Development Officer 10 and 12 Sarah Jenkinson, Alumni & Events Bianca Ciubotaru, Scout: Staircase 17 Officer Conference & Events Ken Ip, Scout: Outside properties Thomas Knollys, Alumni Relations Louise Turner, Conference & Events Lana Ip, Scout: President’s Lodgings Officer Administrator Joanna Jachtoma, Scout: Staircase 6 Andrew Clinch, Administrative (to February) Assistant/Acting Development Officer Miroslawa Krezel, Scout: Staircases 7 Ana Fabian, Alumni & Events Officer Gardens Paul Lawrence, Head Gardener (ob. and 11 (Maternity cover from February) April 2020) Tracy Madden, Scout: Staircases 2 Alex Pound, Administrative Assistant Aaron Drewett, Assistant Gardener and 5 (Maternity cover to March) Bob Dunn, Assistant Gardener Barbara Mazur, Scout: Staircase 6 and Fellows’ Guest Rooms, Pig & Archive Whistle Clare Hopkins, Archivist Housekeeping and Sue Peach, Scout: Staircase 1 and Maintenance Porters Lodge Annexe Mandy Giles, Domestic Manager Yeti Santos, Scout: Staircases 13, 15 Beer Cellar and Lodge Albie Freitas, Bar Manager Maintenance Team Darron Smith, Scout: Staircase 18 Ian Stacey, Assistant Bar Manager Maged Alyas, Maintenance Fiona Smith, Scout: Staircase 3 and Arthur Colle, Bar & Wine Cellar Supervisor Trinity View Assistant (from February) Russell Dominian, Part-Time Antique Weronika Trzaskowska, Scout: Off- Furniture Repairer/Joiner site properties Henry Jeskowiak, Electrician Boathouse Gary Kinch, Painter and Decorator Mark Seal, Boatman

32 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 Kitchen Julian Smith, Head Chef Jonathan Clarke, Second Chef Lodge SCR & Dining Hall Martin Reeve, Head Porter Jonathan Flint, SCR/Hall Steward Matthew Bradford, Third Chef Martin Wizard, Deputy Head Porter Anna Hybel, Dining Hall Supervisor Kalaivanan Kalyanasundram, Third Clarindo Almeida, Night Porter (from Zorica Leskovac, Dining Hall Chef April) Supervisor Mark Banks, Chef de Partie Nigel Bray, Night Porter (to March) Lisa Linzey, Dining Hall Supervisor Rachel Barnes, Chef de Partie Kirk Ellingham, Porter Simon Reeves, Dining Hall Supervisor Leonardo Kurti, Chef de Partie Dominic Lantain, Night Porter Andrei Stefanescu, SCR Butler Agata Kutereba, Chef de Partie Phoebe Oliver, Sunday Porter Semira Ali Yemamu, Dining Hall Boguslaw Malarski, Chef de Partie Maria Sommaggio, Porter Assistant (to February) Arfan Bakar, Dining Hall Assistant Tom Rush, Chef de Partie Omer Buazljko, Dining Hall Assistant Simon Wallworth, Chef de Partie Medical Leah McLennon, Dining Hall Charlotte Smith, Apprentice; from Alison Nicholls, Nurse (to April) Assistant December: Junior Chef de Partie Kerry Minton, Nurse (from April) Simon Wild, Dining Hall Assistant Denise Matzen, Kitchen Assistant Claire Parker, Wellbeing Advisor Olderico Da Costa Nunes, Kitchen (from April) Porter Sports Ground John George, Kitchen Porter Paul Madden, Groundsman Sejismundo Valentim Ray, Kitchen HannahOutreach Rolley & Access, Head of Access Michelle Brown, Grounds Scout Porter (to March) Emma Johnson, Access Officer Domingos Rodrigues Vitor, Kitchen Richard Petty, Access & Engagement Porter (from March) Officer Surveyor Justin Folliard, College Surveyor

Library President’s Office Sharon Cure, Librarian (to July) Alexandra Evans, PA to the President Emma Sillett, Librarian (from August) Julia Paolitto, Head of Sarah Cox, Library Assistant Communications Jennifer Long, Clerk to the Governing Body (from April)

33 ESTATES BURSAR Some positive developments

Chris Ferguson Estates Bursar

cross the world there would be general agreement that 2020 Awas a difficult year! COVID-19 reared its ugly head in China in January, then rolled inexorably towards the UK to arrive with a vengeance in March. For the college, as Hilary term progressed, so did the scale and urgency of our planning for what, increasingly, appeared to be the inevitable onslaught. By good fortune we just finished the term, and the undergraduates returned to their The Drayton Lodge housing development at Banbury family homes, before the storm hit. severe but not (so far) catastrophic. muddy hole; by the end of the long The strangest of Trinity terms then Student rents were waived in Trinity vacation, the concrete frame was ensued, with the college closed, all term and the summer’s commercial taking shape. A separate article (page teaching on-line and only a handful of revenue was entirely lost. Although 46) covers this project in more detail. students in residence. Examinations the government’s furlough scheme has We are deeply indebted to all our were conducted entirely remotely. The helped significantly, the overall net Old Members and Friends who have majority of the college’s staff were effect is already well in excess of £1m, given so generously to this and other furloughed. Even the College Ball, and will continue to rise. projects over the course of the year. It planned for June, was postponed. However, despite the gloom, it has is their kindness which has made this Inevitably, the summer followed a not all been bad news. It is pleasing to project possible. We sincerely hope that similar pattern. For the first time in be able to report on some very positive everyone will be delighted on seeing the 50 years there were no US summer developments. outcome! schools in residence in July and August; Meanwhile, a scheme has been then the normal hectic programme of College Developments developed to refurbish the west range September conferences was cancelled. Over the course of 2019-20 the Levine of Durham Quad, comprising the Hall, Trinity was a sad and lonely place! Building rapidly emerged from the Kitchen, Bar and SCR. The entire range Financially, the impact has been ground. In October there was just a is Grade I listed and any proposed

34 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 changes must be approached with great financial year. sensitivity. Among the many benefits of Similarly, during the year we have this scheme, we aim to provide long- enjoyed some success with our property overdue access for wheelchair users to investments. In 2019 the college the majority of the building, including obtained outline planning consent for the Beer Cellar bar. A planning 320 houses on a site to the west of application has been submitted and we Banbury. In 2020 this site was sold to hope to start work immediately after the Vistry Group. Trinity is working the completion of the Levine Building with Vistry to ensure that the many (Christmas 2021). The temporary attractive features of our design and Lawns Pavilion building will be repurposed as a kitchen and dining hall for a year while the work takes place. ‘Over the course of With such a major programme the year, the college’s of new building and refurbishment endowment portfolio underway, and following the recent magnificent refurbishment of the fared better than we could chapel, we are well aware that the have hoped to expect… War Memorial Library could be left the reorganisation of our Housing at Drayton Lodge development behind as a poor relation. To avoid this situation, a refurbishment of the library portfolio in 2018-19 stood continue to challenge us and we must is being planned for the summer of us in very good stead.’ respond accordingly. Brexit may well 2021. also pose some difficult questions for the significant environmental benefits the whole Higher Education sector. Meanwhile, the activity on our building College Investments that it included remain central to the Over the course of the year, the development. I am pleased to say that projects will step up to another level, college’s endowment portfolio fared Vistry share our vision and are working leading to short-term disruption, but better than we could have hoped to well with the college to deliver it. a huge long-term gain. The whole expect. As stock markets collapsed in However, the hot, dry spring made it operations team was magnificent March, we feared the worst. However, a difficult year for our farming tenants. through many difficult months and the reorganisation of our portfolio in The college will need to work closely excitement is already mounting as we 2018-19 stood us in very good stead. with these important partners as the look towards the opening of the Levine Our Socially Responsible Investment landscape of British farming (literally) Building at the end of 2021. Policy and diversification away from changes following the introduction the UK ensured that our fund managers of the recent Environment Act, which avoided the stocks that experienced will lead to a shake-up of the farming the worst falls, whilst including stocks subsidy regime. (technology, healthcare, etc) which performed well. Overall this resulted Looking ahead in a +6.7 per cent total return from What will 2020-21 academic year our equity portfolio in the 2019-20 bring? COVID-19 will certainly

35 DOMESTIC BURSAR

and Library teams who remained in obviously spent considerable time Working through College throughout the lockdown cancelling and re-scheduling our period; we are enormously grateful commercial business. This included new challenges for their commitment and unwavering nine weddings, our entire American support to Trinity. summer school programme, along Alastair Johnson, IT Manager, with all other commercial events has provided technical support through to December 2020. Lynne Adam throughout, often driving round the As many other teams of colleagues Domestic Bursar county in the college van, delivering and friends have done, we embarked IT equipment to remote-working on a remote mileage challenge; the had predicted a number of staff. We are very grateful for his hard objective being to encourage staff challenges during my first work and unfailing sense of humour at home to keep fit and healthy, Iyear in post, but a global throughout. maintain contact and reduce social pandemic was not one of them! Louise Turner, Conference and isolation. We started to track mileage As a team we worked hard to Events Manager had carefully manage the evolving situation and planned another busy Easter and to carry out detailed preparation summer conference season, and so ‘Our initial target was to for the new academic year. ‘travel’ from John o’ Groats As with other organisations, entire to Lands End; I’m delighted teams of dedicated and committed staff were furloughed in March. This to report that by the end situation was uncertain and worrying of the long vacation we for many, and so Julian Smith, logged sufficient mileage Head Chef, Jon Flint, SCR Steward, Mandy Giles, Domestic Manager to reach Indonesia.’ and Albie Freitas, Bar Manager are to be thanked for maintaining strong with participants choosing to cycle, communication throughout with all walk, run or row. Our initial target members of furloughed staff. was to ‘travel’ from John o’ Groats All other staff members quickly to Lands End; I’m delighted to report adapted to a new routine, working that by the end of the long vacation from home and making full use of we logged sufficient mileage to reach Microsoft Teams. It has been very Indonesia, mainly thanks to some pleasing to see how productive and serious cyclists in the Lodge, Kitchen positive everyone has remained, and SCR teams. I’m very grateful to with staff finding new ways to work Jon Flint, SCR Steward for his work effectively as a team. in coordinating this activity with great Three notable exceptions—who enthusiasm. were neither furloughed nor had We were shocked and deeply the option to work from home—are saddened to hear that Paul Lawrence, Martin Reeve, Head Porter, with COVID our wonderful Lodge, Maintenance Head Gardener, died on 8 April. The signage

36 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 along with the potential for a range of student, college, University and commercial events. The project to restore the Hall and upgrade the kitchens is progressing well, with the majority of the team involved in the consultation. We are delighted that Julian Smith and his outstanding team will have a kitchen that is fit for purpose. It has been inspiring to see the care and attention to detail of those working on the project as they research our historic Hall, ensuring the creation of a beautiful space for all Trinity members over the coming years and decades. We were very sad to say goodbye to Nigel Bray, Night Porter, who has left Trinity to enjoy a well-deserved retirement. We also said a fond The staff remote mileage challenge map, from John o’ Groats to Indonesia farewell to Alison Nicholls, College Nurse for many years. entire team will remember Paul for his strategy. During lockdown, Albie During the year, we welcomed strong commitment to Trinity, his vast Freitas (Bar Manager and member Dr Claire Parker into the new role knowledge of plants, and his dry sense of the Sustainability Committee) of wellbeing advisor, and Kerry of humour. An obituary appears on progressed the Green Impact Award Minton as college nurse. Both Claire page 63. for the college, which involved and Kerry settled in beautifully Paul’s team, Aaron and Bob, had collating evidence from a number despite rarely visiting College due been briefly furloughed, but were keen of departments to achieve various to the necessity of working from to return to work to maintain the ‘green’ milestones. We had expected home. We’re really looking forward to gardens, and have done an excellent to achieve Bronze status, but I’m developing wellbeing further—albeit job. Along with maintenance of delighted to say that we achieved remotely for some students—at such the Trinity gardens and outside Silver. This is a very positive an important time. properties, they were also busy re- position from which to expand planting the President’s garden, to a our commitment to environmental design by Paul, and the beds around sustainability. the Lawns Pavilion. We started the detailed planning During the year, we formed a work as we prepare for the use of Sustainability Committee to develop the Levine Building, focusing on and implement our environmental staffing to run the building effectively,

37 DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR New ways of keeping in touch

Sue Broers Director of Development

he upheaval of the pandemic in 2019-20 meant that the year Tdid not follow its accustomed pattern and, from March onwards, much of the time was spent in adapting to the new situation, with a particular focus on keeping in touch with Old Members and Friends. A number of Old Members attended the events in November 2019 commemorating the centenary In normal circumstances, this of the birth of Richard Hillary (1937), author of The Last Enemy—one of the speakers was Professor means that Old Members and Friends Dinah Birch, Honorary Fellow, pictured here being introduced by the President are invited to events in College and elsewhere; they receive two important in the summer, when we did we realise that we would not be newsletters each year, an e-newsletter learnt that our software provider had able to meet again in person for many each term, the college’s annual suffered a data breach and although months. Report and a number of general advised that the risk to individuals Until March, fundraising followed emails. Eighty-five per cent of the was minimal, we felt we should send its usual rhythm and as the Levine 5,383 contactable Old Members are out notifications as a precaution. (The Building remains the funding priority, in touch by email and in a year that Information Commissioner’s Office copies of the brochure were sent out has highlighted the importance of has since then stated that it is satisfied and the President, Estates Bursar and electronic communication, we hope that Trinity took appropriate due I continued to give presentations in that some of the 822 Old Members diligence in sourcing a reputable data College and in London. The response who have not shared an email address processor.) has been very positive and as detailed with the college, or who have opted Autumn 2019 saw the usual packed in the Benefactors Report, over out of receiving general emails, will programme of events, including £1.4 million was received for the consider this essential means of the Trinity Weekend, a Gaudy, building. In fact, 2019-20 was the communication. Benefactors Lunches, the Varsity most successful year in fundraising Having an email address helps us Match and two carol services. As for some time, with cash receipts of to contact Old Members and Friends we enjoyed catching up with Old £2,442,523. We could not be more more swiftly than we can do by letter, Members and Friends at the William grateful to everyone who made a gift especially during lockdown. This was Pitt Society lunch in February, little to the college during the year; thank

38 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 you again. current members of Trinity, and we many people volunteering for the In the spring, the Alumni & were pleased when several Fellows, first time to provide careers advice to Development team moved to working students and Old Members agreed current students and Old Members; from home, although every two to take part in online discussions. thank you to everyone who has or three weeks, someone has been There was also an awareness of the agreed to help. This in turn gave us going into College to check the post. problems facing those looking for the impetus to plan a series of online Telephone conversations with Old careers events for the autumn. Members and Friends quickly made it In terms of staffing, Alumni & clear that people wanted to maintain ‘If this year has taught Events Officer Sarah Jenkinson went contact with Trinity and with each us anything, it is that the on maternity leave in March and we other through online events, and we Trinity community remains were delighted to hear of the safe spent some time trying out various arrival of baby Samuel on 7 April. In platforms before settling on Zoom. strong, supportive and Sarah’s absence, events have been ably An initial ‘toe in the water’ online engaged.’ managed by Ana Fabian, who joined discussion with Honorary Fellows, us from St Hilda’s; she has been and subsequent events with members employment and people’s concern, responsible for devising and managing of the Ralph Bathurst Society, showed especially for students and recent an ambitious programme of online that people have an appetite for leavers, encouraged us to re-evaluate events. Andrew Clinch continued as occasions at which they can engage our careers network. It was gratifying Development Officer until Miriam with the research undertaken by that an email approach resulted in Hallatt returned in September and Alex Pound, who was temporarily covering Andrew’s job, took up a permanent appointment within the University in March. Our thoughts have been with Old Members and Friends who have been most seriously affected by the pandemic, but at such a bleak time, we have seen some tiny chinks of light. If this year has taught us anything, it is that the Trinity community remains strong, supportive and engaged. We may be impatient to see people again in person, but we will not ignore the advantages of an online programme that allows Old Members and Friends around the world to join us for events; this would not have been possible in the past.

The choir singing in the ante chapel to begin one of the carol services

39 OUTREACH & ACCESS

was to develop the pupils’ oracy ‘Virtually’ extending skills and their understanding of university. our outreach This project is part of our aim to support target pupils early in their school careers t was an exceptionally busy year to develop skills relevant to for the Access team. We delivered university learning. By the Iour programme in college, end of the pilot, 93 per cent in schools and online, including of the pupils demonstrated aspirations-realising workshops, improved oracy skills and Oxford application support, and two thirds demonstrated these Oxplore and subject enrichment comprehensively. We are in the sessions for school Years 6 to 13, process of embedding oracy while working collaboratively as a skill development in sessions core member of Oxford for North for Years 7-10. The teachers Hannah Rolley during an online outreach session for East on a number of projects. who took part in the Voice21 teachers COVID-19 necessitated an training have been embedding immediate change in how we work, very successful year-long Oxfordshire strategies for the teaching and and schools, teachers and pupils have PGCE Teacher Development learning of oracy skills in teaching responded positively to the support Programme. Learning from feedback, practice in their schools and we look offered with online workshops. Our we launched our Qualified Teacher forward to seeing the results. ambitious aim was to be able to work Development Programme in July, with as many pupils as under normal which aims to support teachers in For Pupils circumstances, and the outcome in the state sector in both link regions, Despite the sudden change of this respect was encouraging. We enabling a greater understanding delivery method, work has continued have learned much about working of the University, the application with secondary school pupils, virtually, and many evaluation process, the importance of pupil concentrating particularly on Years comments point to the conclusion that enrichment and high expectations, 10, 12 and 13, providing a mix younger people view the online world and to give support in accessing the of Higher Education workshops as a natural habitat, which offers many outreach programmes on offer. and those focusing on improving many opportunities for engagement. During the year, we invited a small thinking and speaking skills, through group of Oxfordshire teachers with the University’s Oxplore platform. For Teachers leadership responsibilities in their We managed to host, in-person or Across our two regions, Oxfordshire schools to join the Access team in remotely, a total of 250 workshops and the North East, we supported training as Oracy Pioneers with and sessions to 4,627 pupils in both 129 teachers in 23 sessions, and in education charity Voice21. We then primary and secondary school. In collaboration with teachers, have now developed a small oracy (speaking the North East we hosted a total of started to develop a programme for skills) pilot with 30 Year 6 pupils at 121 sessions and, in Oxfordshire, parents. St Francis Primary School, a relatively a total of 129. Our work included In June we concluded our second deprived school in Cowley. The aim 48 interview workshops for 388

40 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2018-19 Oxbridge applicants followed up by made recordings of our standard to engage in this way showed an our second Offer Holder event in sessions to send to schools to reach impressive level of commitment to College in March, and in the North larger audiences. We followed these learning about the language (even East in April. up with live Q&As and we reached conquering Greek accentuation!), In the North East, we worked with approximately 3,635 students and literature, history and culture of twelve new schools, with a mix of 53 67 teachers remotely, including ancient Greece and Rome. schools and sixth-form colleges taking engagement with high priority schools Our annual residential Women part in sessions, drawing from a pool that rarely, if ever, engage with us. in STEM event (with Jesus and of around 100 in an area stretching Following positive feedback, we plan Wadham) was postponed and held from Chester-le-Street in the north to incorporate this remote offering online in September to complement to Darlington in the south. This into our normal programme. the Open Day. It involved 90 target coverage includes the social mobility In July, we took part in Oxford’s pupils from Oxfordshire, the North ‘coldspots’ of Middlesborough and first Virtual Open Days. We brought East, London and Wales. The Hartlepool. together lots of virtual resources programme included a Teams Live In Oxfordshire, our work with including our suite of YouTube videos Event with a panel of women in schools included groups from primary science and an opportunity to ask and secondary schools supported by questions of them and current female the IntoUniversity Centre in Blackbird ‘In July, we took part in science students. Leys and from Study Higher, Oxford’s first Virtual Open alongside those from University Days … Between us we Looking ahead projects such as Oxford for Oxford Our virtual programme has brought and the Bodleian’s OxLibris project. answered approximately many benefits to the level of school Finally, our third cohort for the 840 questions.’ engagement. Teachers have expressed OxLat Extension Programme in a preference in particular for a virtual Classics and the Ancient World and a virtual Trinity experience alternative to the challenge of trying embarked on their studies in page, which introduces prospective to get to a venue for face-to-face Michaelmas 2019. This programme applicants to life at college. The sessions. Many hard-to-reach schools builds on OxLat, an initiative run Access team, Admissions Officer have been able to engage with this by the Classics Faculty for teaching and our team of 26 fantastic student new format, enabling us to work with Latin ab initio up to GCSE. Twenty ambassadors were on hand to answer pupils we may never have hoped to attendees continued their language questions, while tutors answered reach before. We were able quickly to acquisition in Latin, while being subject-specific queries. Between us, develop more agile ways of working introduced to other aspects of Classics we answered approximately 840 with teachers, pupils and their and beginning to learn ancient Greek. questions and were one of the top 10 parents and we aim to continue to most-visited colleges during the day. offer a comprehensive online/virtual Supporting pupils and teachers The Classics team held their OxLat programme alongside face-to-face In March we transferred our whole study days online for the spring and delivery, even once we are able to outreach programme online and were summer sessions. Live teaching on resume this aspect of our work. delivering virtual sessions within Microsoft Teams was supported by a couple of weeks of the school interaction in a Google Classroom, Hannah Rolley closures. Alongside live sessions, we and those students who were able Head of Access

41 THE LIBRARY Changes planned and unexpected

he past year was to have been one of planning for anticipated Tchanges to the main library, with the acceleration of work on the Levine Building and the new library reception /mezzanine, alongside a project to freshen up the existing reading rooms. However, like the rest of Trinity, much of the year has been spent planning for changes which were wholly unanticipated. Pre-pandemic, the Old and Danson libraries had been to the fore with the ‘Treasures’ talks. In Michaelmas term we broadened our library remit for an informative talk by Russell next Treasures talk, it became obvious providing a virtual service, navigating Dominian, formerly college carpenter that something unprecedented was the constantly changing array of and now cataloguer of Trinity’s happening as libraries started to subscription and free e-resources. chattels, on the Cumberbatch bequest close their doors. On 23 March, Along with other colleges, we bought of furniture, which includes the Old as the Prime Minister announced ebooks to be hosted on the SOLO Library ‘caquetoire’ chair. Russell lockdown, we reluctantly followed catalogue for the whole University to was followed in Hilary by Tristan suit. Trinity term in the library use. Traditional books were still in Franklinos’s enlightening session on usually sees all desks occupied, some demand and Library Assistant Sarah omissions in classical translation. of them throughout the night, and a Cox worked from home ordering This talk, part of the LGBT+ History palpable increase in tension as exams titles to be delivered direct to students’ Month celebrations, looked at how approach. This Trinity term there own homes, even as far as Malaysia. I changing sensibilities censored were no desks piled high with books, was also able to send out postal loans some of the more explicit classical nor discarded carnations. All was of existing stock from the library. We authors—from Sappho to Catullus. eerily tidy and quiet. We were acutely offered reading list ‘health checks’ An accompanying exhibition of our aware of the importance of a library to the Fellows and lecturers, buying antiquarian books was captioned service to students cut off both from electronic versions of cited books with Tristan’s own eyebrow-raising their books and the companionship of when possible and scanning chapters translations! their fellow library ‘sufferers’. when not. We, and our students, As term ended and we pondered the Accordingly, our focus turned to were often frustrated by the paucity

42 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2018-19 of popular titles available in digital early 2019, with her efficiency and may have (very occasionally) driven format, and by the initially slow willingness to get ‘stuck in’ saw the me to distraction but you have never postal service. However, it has been service transformed. Sarah has been failed to be amusing and interesting heartening to see the college libraries, an invaluable colleague and has and I look forward to seeing your whose staff were often able to access become a friend, something to be lives progress as ‘Old Members’. And their collections when the Bodleian hoped for in a small team but not Old Members are so important to libraries were inaccessible, collaborate taken for granted. I could use the the college—no one ever really leaves so closely, maintaining services for the whole of my allotted number of words Trinity! My interaction with you has whole University, not just their own to sing the praises of the Trinity staff, been a very special part of my job and members. who have been unfailingly welcoming I have made some lasting friends in As the new academic year and helpful. I thank them all, as I do the process. approached, we planned for a range the Trinity academics whose support Although changes in the format of scenarios, and hope to adapt of the Report mean that this library nimbly to changing circumstances, report does not end with a list of providing as full a service for ‘I could use the whole of my donors, I want to assure you that our readers as possible. It will be allotted number of words donations to the library are very much challenging, but 2021 will also be valued. I want to single out Jonathan the year when the library finally to sing the praises of the Glasspool (1964) who, as Managing becomes fully accessible for students Trinity staff, who have been Director of Bloomsbury, has very with disabilities and where the new unfailingly welcoming and generously financed the acquisition of reception area will provide better many of that publisher’s titles for the working space for staff and a more helpful.’ library. visible and welcoming entrance for Having handed over the reins to students. There is much to look has shown that the library is a central Emma I am confident that she, along forward to. part of College life. with Sarah, is a perfect fit for Trini- During this period of change the Even closer to home I want to ty’s libraries moving forward. Emma college’s libraries will be under new especially thank the extended comes to us from Christ Church and management as I left Trinity at the library and archive team: Stefano has a wealth of college experience end of July, and handed over to Evangelista and Valerie Worth as both ‘reader facing’ and with anti- the new librarian, Emma Sillett. Fellow Librarians; Alan Coates and quarian collections. The library team My departure was not a ‘COVID Alison Felstead for their invaluable faces a challenging, but exciting, few conversion’ but the completion of a expertise regarding the Old and years and I look forward to cheering long-planned early retirement. I will Danson Libraries; Clare Hopkins from the sidelines, as the service goes greatly miss Trinity. My twelve years (along with Jan Martin and Russell) from strength to strength. as librarian were, without doubt, the in the Archive. Excellent colleagues most enjoyable in my career. and lifelong friends! For most of my time at Trinity Most of our work is centered, Sharon Cure the libraries were single-staffed, and rightly, on our students and I want to Librarian time constraints made the service send my best wishes to the hundreds more reactive than proactive. Sarah’s who have passed through the library arrival as Library Assistant, in over the past decade. Some of you

43 THE ARCHIVE

plans are already afoot for Adapting the everyone to sign in safely with archives, once their own pens in Trinity term 2021. again The impact of the pandemic on the usual work of our small college department has been considerable. After ew historical events have had a busy winter with several quite such an impact on the exhibitions, Clare was on Fcollege archives as the COVID furlough leave for five months. pandemic is likely to. The sudden She returned in August to find enforcement of Protestantism in the neatly assembled pictures 1560 perhaps, or the Civil Wars of and documents for three other the 1640s—both wiped out sizeable exhibitions that were either tranches of Trinity’s written records cancelled or postponed—‘My and cultural heritage. The University Favourite Things’, for the reforms of the 19th century, and retirement dinner of Bryan the social upheavals of two World Ward-Perkins (Fellow and Wars—these introduced new patterns Tutor in History 1981–2019); of behaviour and record-keeping. ‘The Life and Trinity Times Other developments, however seismic of Henry Pelham’, intended they may have seemed at the time— for the re-dedication of the such as Oxford’s men’s colleges gravestone of the distinguished going co-ed in the 1970s—caused Roman historian and President barely a ripple in the daily rounds (1897–1907); and a display of academic work and community of memorabilia for the Easter The opening paragraph of President Norrington’s living that form the bedrock of vacation Gaudy. The first task, defence of the graduands of 1963, given to the Archive Trinity’s administrative records. sadly, was just to put everything by Ian Senior (1958) Like the disruption of a meteor away. And then it was time strike in the geological strata of the disruption caused by COVID-19 will to get to grips with the new ways of earth, the abrupt dispersal of almost forever be evident in the Admission doing things. One result was ‘Trinity all Trinity personnel in March 2020 Registers. Since March, the customary in Crisis’, the Archive’s first ever and the immediate adoption of signing in of newly arrived Fellows virtual exhibition, which went online technologies that some members of and students has not happened for for the Trinity Weekend in September. college had barely heard of, let alone the first time since President Bathurst An exploration of past pandemics— tried before, seem certain to leave a procured his original leather-bound plague, smallpox, flu and TB—and permanent scar and to mark the start volume in 1664. Fortunately for various other crises, including of whole new classes of records in the future biographers of the those collapsing buildings and bad PR, it is Trinity’s archives. arriving in the later part of the year, viewable via the college website, and Just one small example of the as well as the incoming class of 2020, we invite you to take a look.

44 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2018-19 We are glad to report that new material has continued to come into the Archive, lockdowns notwithstanding, and we are very grateful to all members and friends for their contributions. The new format Report no longer allows us to describe everything as fully as we have in the past, and we plan instead to showcase donations on our page of the website. But here are two tasters, the first from Ian Senior (1958), who has donated a seminally

‘President Norrington defended Trinity’s beleaguered tutors robustly, but not before he had expounded his method for comparing the results of different colleges.’ important letter that he received from Possibly the Wombats… From the collection of George Huntley (1965) Sir Arthur ‘Thomas’ Norrington (President 1954–69) in June 1963. Ian had only dared to write to the More light-hearted but equally of football kit, pullovers, jackets, President to criticise that year’s Finals welcome, we were very glad to and evening wear. We would be very results! Norrington defended Trinity’s receive from Gabriel, the son of interested to know the stories behind beleaguered tutors robustly, but not the late George Huntley (1965), the accessories: lawn rake, pipe—and before he had expounded his method two digital images of his father’s is that a pot plant? If you are in this for comparing the results of different undergraduate sporting career. One photograph or can identify any of colleges. Three months earlier than is a very nice Schools Eight, and these men, please do get in touch. the famous letter to The Times that the other we reproduce. Could this is generally considered to be the be the earliest-known photograph Clare Hopkins origin of the eponymous Norrington of Trinity’s second soccer team, the Archivist Table, this letter reveals that in fact college legend that is the Wombats? James McDougall the President had been busy doing his We love the atmosphere of suppressed Fellow Archivist calculations for years. hilarity, and the natty sartorial mix

45 THE LEVINE BUILDING Dramatic and exciting progress

he 2019-20 year saw dramatic progress on the Levine TBuilding project. The pictures on these pages tell the story. The first, taken in October 2019, shows the demolition of the Cumberbatch Building in full swing. Amazingly, around 95 per cent of the material was recycled—including the tangled mass of steel reinforcement bars which made this a stubborn building to remove! The next picture shows the site in December 2019. We didn’t dig Demolition of the Cumberbatch Building (above), the archaeolgocal survey in progress (below left), the foundations by hand though! and the gable end of the library revealed, with the ring beam in the foreground (below right) Before construction could begin a full archaeological survey was required and the picture shows the archaeologists in action. Their report will be published in due course. By the time of the next picture in April, huge progress had been made, but it is all underground. Visible in the picture is the ring beam which caps and connects the concrete piles which will support the building. The completion of piling was a significant landmark for the project. Progress from this point was fast. The final two pictures show the excavation of the basement— revealing the concrete piles—in June and then, three months later in September, the same location with the shell of the basement completed.

46 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2018-19 completed with beautiful but durable finishing touches. As the shells of the rooms emerge we can almost hear the voices of the students and academics of the future! This project would have been impossible without the generous support of our Old Members and Friends. The college offers its sincere thanks to all who have given their support. We look forward to a time when we can all once again be together so that we can show you around the building in person.

Chris Ferguson Estates Bursar

The basement in June (left) and in September (below) Inevitably COVID-19 has affected the building programme. We lost six weeks in March/April when the site temporarily closed and our excellent contractors Gilbert Ash replanned their working methods to keep site workers safe. Meanwhile, one of the five sections of our huge tower crane was trapped in Italy due to the lockdown there. However, the predicted shortages of concrete and other items have so far not materialised, so the disruption to our programme has been contained. The revised completion target date is December 2021. The closer we come to completion, the more excited we become. Our entire project team is working hard to deliver outstanding quality. This will be an elegant, practical building,

47 BENEFACTIONS

Mr J H F Bown 1956 Mr P M H Andreae DL Thank you Mr H D Cochran Mr D J F Fecci Mr R J M Butler Mr M D Lambert Professor J M B Hughes FRCP Dr M J Elliott for giving Mr K M A Ryves-Hopkins Mr J A Paine Mr M W D Evans Mr D J Walker † Mr B R Rea Mr A C Hutton CB This list records those who Mr A Richardson Mr P F J Macrory Dr T W Roberts † Dr B T Meadows II 1951 have given a gift or bequest Professor D E Minnikin Mr T B H Brunner in our financial year, Mr F N P Salaman Dr H E R Preston Mr H W Joynt 1 August 2019 to 31 July Mr S L Tanner † Dr G M Shepherd Mr R E Mavor 2020. Every effort is made to Mr J B Walker Mr I G Thorburn FCA CBE Mr G S P Peacocke ensure the list is complete— Mr J C E Webster OBE Mr P W Tilley please contact the Alumni 1952 1957 1960 Dr J D Bell & Development Office to Mr D J Culley Mr T A Bird Mr C A K Cullimore CMG inform us of any omissions. Dr I Flintoff Mr W H Bittel The Revd A W Morrison † Now deceased. Mr A V Fontes Mr J D Blake 1953 Mr G N Guinness Professor T R Brown 1941 Mr F C G Bradley Mr L D Jenkins Mr J C Finch Mr D le B Jones CB Mr R B Hadlee Mr R M McNaught Professor Sir Malcolm Green 1944 Dr C R T Hughes FRACP Dr R D Thirkell White DM FRCP Mr D G S Akers † Mr W N M Lawrence Mr M G L Thomas Professor M C E Jones DLitt Professor G I Bonner † Mr M R Ludlow Mr W J Uzielli FSA Professor Sir J S Rowlinson FRS The Revd Prebendary The Revd G F Warner Mr D F G Lewis FREng Kt † D M Morris Mr D J Weight Mr M S Rainbow Mr P S Trevis Mr M St J Wright Mr F A Smith 1945 Mr J F E Upton 1958 1961 Mr J W Bateson Dr B Warburton † The Revd E N Staines Mr J B Adams Mr R P F Barber OBE Mr J C Woodcock OBE Mr M F Attenborough Mr R O Bernays 1954 Mr J H Bottomley Mr P S Bradford 1947 Mr F G Cochran Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey Bt Mr C J S Brearley CB Mr G V Holliday Dr A J Edwards Mr R A Daniell Mr J G Hill 1948 The Revd Canon A C Hall Mr P B Farmer Mr J M W Hogan Mr T W E Fortescue Hitchins Mr C D M McL Melville Mr C A Fry Mr C H Johnson OBE Hon Mr A G S Grellier † Mr F M Merifield† Mr A F Hohler, in memory of FBAAS Professor M P O Morford † Mr D M Wilson Justin Cartwright Mr R B Lockett Mr P P J Sterwin † Mr A G P Lang Dr J G Loken 1955 Mr I S T Senior Mr M E Pellew CVO 1949 Mr J S Allan Mr J A B Thompson The Lord Petre Dr A D Ferguson FRCP Dr M C Brown Mr R D Welham Professor D W Soskice Mr H J M Hambrook Mr G P Germany † Mr N H G Armstrong-Flemming Mr A D Stewart Dr D T D Hughes Mr R B F Ingham † FCA (hon 1958) Mr C E Sundt Mr A D Jenkins Mr R H Sykes 1950 Mr M J V Wilkes 1959 Mr A W Warren Anonymous Anonymous

48 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2018-19 1962 Vice Admiral M P Gretton CB 1968 Mr P J Lough Anonymous CVO Mr P J Bretherton Dr N E Reynolds Mr A M Bark Mr A D W Jackson Mr A J Z Czerniawski 1972 Mr J L Cavilla Mr D P Jones Mr O N F Fairclough The Rt Revd John Arnold Mr F D Garaway Mr P C Keevil Mr A A D Grant Mr J McN Boyd Mr M J Hatch Mr M A Lavelle Mr J A H Greenfield Mr H D Burnett Mr W J M Huntley Mr H L Mallalieu Dr S H Large Dr J D H Chadwick Dr C P Jackson Dr S A Mitton Mr A J G Moore Mr E A Doran Mr C J Marsay Mr D L Parris The Revd R R D Spears Mr P J Howes Mr C P C Metcalf The Revd Dr F J Selman Mr M J Thwaites Mr S J Mitson Mr C P Robinson Mr K A Stevenson 1969 Mr C H Parker Professor Emeritus J D Sheridan Mr R C Turcan Mr A G Donald Mr A D W Partridge Mr C J Simpson Mr D C Unwin QC Dr N C Elliott Mr R W N Perrin Mr A G Thorning CEng FRAeS Mr W I Wolsey The Rt Revd C W Fletcher OBE Mr C J Salter Sir Stephen Young Bt QC 1963 Mr R S Goodall Mr H Shohet Anonymous 1966 Mr P A Hill Mr R D Spurling Mr P J Barlow MBE TD Anonymous (2) Dr C S Keeling-Roberts Dr C D G Stuart-Buttle Mr R E B Browne Mr G A Barton The Revd D M Lindsay 1973 Mr R M Englehart QC Mr I P K Enters Dr S J S Martin Anonymous (2) Dr R D Hinge Professor D Fairer Mr O P Nicholson Mr B W Bano Dr S V Hunt FHEA Mr I M Fyfe Mr G F O’Shea Mr A N Buckley Mr A J S Jennings Mr M S E Grime QC Professor H J R Roberts Mr A J Hewitt Colonel R L Klass Mr P I Luson Mr C M D Setterington Mr A J Hindle Mr R B Landolt Mr B A McAndrew Mr J B H C Singer Dr K A Manley Sir Andrew Laurie Bt The Revd Dr R A Roberts Professor R G E Wymer Mr A A Murphy Dr B D Ross Dr A Shah 1970 Mr A S Newman Mr P J Sturrock MBE 1964 Anonymous Professor R C Peveler Mr I D P Thorne Anonymous Mr J C Boothman Mr R J B Rhodes Dr M C K Wiltshire Mr J A F Alexander Mr N P F Brind Mr R J R Seligman Dr J B H Black 1967 Mr A J Cary CMG Mr N F Taylor Mr J Chiswell Jones Mr C J Cook Mr J H T Chatfield Mr A J F Tucker The Revd D H Hamer Mr P K O Crosthwaite Dr N A Dunn Mr R A Wood Mr A C Johnson Professor H M M Griffiths Dr D R Grey 1974 The Revd Professor W K Kay Mr C F Hatton Mr S J Hurwitz Mr C N Boothman Mr N E Melville Professor N F Jones FRCS FACS Mr H B Inman Mr S F T Cox Mr G A R Sawday, in memory Mr T B Manson Mr J P Kennedy-Sloane Mr D J Eastgate of Justin Cartwright Mr D W Parker Mr M L L Lapper Mr J M Foster Professor L C L Skerratt Mr R S Parker CB FRSA FSA Mr G A Mackenzie Mr P J Horsburgh Mr J H Stroud Mr S A Renton Mr T R Marshall Mr R M Hunter Dr C H Vaillant Mr G M Strawbridge Mr M A Milner Mr P M Levine Mr W H Waddon-Martyn Professor G L Thomas The Revd C Padgitt Mr P W Lodge Colonel D C Thornycroft OBE 1971 Mr A Mangeot 1965 Dr E F X Tivnan Dr L H Bailey Anonymous Mr J S W Partridge Mr J R Haigh Mr R L Richards

49 THE TRINITY COMMUNITY

50 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 Mr N F St Aubyn Mr A J Morgan The Revd Professor Mrs S D Hardcastle The Revd D M Morris M D Chapman Ms A Henderson-Begg 1975 Dr C G Oakley Mr S Edelsten Miss K D Lassila Anonymous Mr R M Parlour Mr D J W Fleming Mr R A Lindsay Mr J P Brown Mr M J Hudson Ms S M Lloyd Mr J Clipper 1978 Miss L H Mason Dr R C Ratnavel Mr A J Cooper Anonymous Mr R B Mills Ms C J Reay Dr D B Darby Mr A P H Browne Mrs S M O’Brien Mr H D A Stuart Mr A J De Mont Dr G N F Chapman Mr J S Saunders Ms E L Thody Mr P M C Forbes Irving Mr P J Fosh Mr N A Sloan Ms P Vijaykrishnan Mr C J Foy Mr A Goddard Mrs A E E Tregenza The Revd Dr H A Warren, in Mr J S Huggett Mr K J Hambling Mr A J Williams memory of Trevor Williams Mr A J Milner Mr C H Hanson Mr C A Pember Mr J N D Hibler 1981 1983 Mr A B Weisweiller Mr J B Hunter Mr S C Briggs Mr J A Abbott Mr D G Williams Mr D W Jones Lady Butcher Mr R J Baron Mr A R Wilson Mr S P Lomas Ms L L A Clay Dr I A Castellano Mr S M Lord The Revd T M Codling Mrs C F S Clackson 1976 Mr S P Vivian Mr J G H Dickinson Mrs S Lewisohn Mr M J Bowe Dr P D Warren Mr C Dixon Mr A W MacGillivray Mr S M Coombes † Dr I Dunham Mr R P Paretzky Mr P C Dean 1979 Mrs A C Edelsten Ms K M Sand Mr E S Dismorr Anonymous Mr S D Fraser Mrs A C Sheepshanks Mr H J Emmens Mr I N Abrey Dr C Grogan Mrs F M Tchen Professor M G Everett Mr N R M Cranston Mrs F J Harris Mrs C L M Wilkes Mr M J Haddrell Dr M C Davies Mrs C J Jackson Mr M J Harrison Mrs V J S Dobie FRCS 1984 Mrs J M Lashly Mr P J Lamphee Mrs L M Hebbourn Dr F M Gameson Mrs L MacKinnon Mr R J Milburn Miss O M E Hetreed Mr J M R Glasspool Mr J D B McGrigor Mr J O D Orders Mr T B LeBon Mrs A L Goodison Mrs F P Munn Mr D I Reynolds Mr C J J Manson Mr J M Hughes Mr G C Murray Dr M J Rhodes Mr D Moffat Ms J G Lewis Mrs J C Nolan Mr J M Roberts Mr H E J Montgomery MBE Ms P J Locke Mr C W Parshall Mr A R Roper DL Miss P M K Mayfield Mr C J Reilly Mr F C Satow Mr R L Michel Mr J R Pascall, in memory of Mr A S C Rix Major General J D Shaw CB Mr A H Pearson Trevor Williams Mr J D Rose CBE Professor J A Simpson Lady Sants Mr M M Shelton Mr P D Strawbridge Dr John Vlahoplus Mr C H H Whitehouse Mr M C Taylor Mr R Weaver Mr J R L Waggett Mrs M Williamson Mr D T W Young FRSA Mrs B A Wittwer 1977 1985 The Revd K I Wittwer 1982 Dr P R Abbott Anonymous (2) Mr L C Wolff Anonymous Mr D J Cattermole Mrs G L Blair Mr R C Wright Sir Michael Bibby Bt Mr S J Charles Mr P L Cunningham Mrs D J Chalmers Mr M H S De Pulford Mr P A Davies 1980 Mr M V Filipiak Dr M Fowles Mr C M Decker Anonymous Professor R G Gameson Mr T K Holman Dr R M Harington

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Ms R Jordano Shore Mr J M Gallagher Mr A Nahum 1991 Mr B E Masojada Dr A R Gande Mr S J Northfield Anonymous (3) Ms A Nicholls Mrs K I Gray Mr M J Phillips QC Mr A J Ainley Mrs H T Reeve Miss E S K Habershon Ms A Rayner Mr C W Barlow FRCS Mr A W Short Mr C W Hammon Ms R L Sestini Mrs K E Cooper Dr I L Skolnik MD PhD Mrs R A Hampstead Mr A Simmonds Miss J Evans Mrs A H L Smith Mrs A F Hutchinson Mr J M Solomons Mr N W Gummerson Mr I D G Whittaker Professor M Islam Jonkheer H J van Steenis Mr B Hall Mr K E J Jordan The Revd Dr S M Wood Mr T E W Hawkins 1986 Mr A J Last Dr P M Hayton Anonymous (6) 1989 Professor N P Ludlow Mr M A Henderson Mr C G Aubrey Anonymous (6) Dr M B Marcy Ms L R Howard Mr A Bocresion Mr G M Brandman Mr A R Michaels Mrs Z King Mr J F Bruce The Reverend Canon G A Byrne Ms L C Omar Miss S E Oakley Mr L Chester Mr S J B Clarke Mrs J Pierce Dr N K Sinclair Mr J M Chivers Mr T Drew CMG Mrs S L Rollo Mrs M S Townsend Dr W J H Davies Dr S L Garland Mr J W E Scott Dr B K Woodcock Mr A J De Groose Mrs T P Garland Mr D M Simmonds Mr M J Hartigan Mrs G C James 1992 Ms A L Thompson Ms N R Holt Mr J A S Létourneau Mr R E Bonner Mr M R Tillett Ms L J Jowitt Mr D C Magliocco Mr P C Collins Mr M G Tubbs Dr L A L Khoo Mr D Meredith Jones Dr R Forster Mrs A C Turner Mr S J Maguire Ms S O’Looney Mr F L Howard Dr S A Weaver Mrs S M Mewawalla Mr J A Pasquill Dr A R Lyon Mr J Webber Ms D A Meyler Mr M A J Pitt Dr J R Mosedale Mr D N Yates Mr E J C Morley Mr M D Rothwell Ms A S Parr Dr H R Mott 1988 Ms R H Sharp Mrs S M Rayment Dr B J Murray Anonymous (3) Professor T Stewart Mr M P Rendell Mr M T Oakeley Mr W J Bayer Mr G P C Strafford Mrs S M Riley Mr P N Osborne Mrs C V Bostock Wood Professor J R Stretch Mr P A S Rozario-Falcone Ms T E Osborough Dr E C Boswell Mr R C H Wood Dr H Shahid Mr T Riordan CBE Mr S R G Chaplin Mr N M Steele 1990 Mr D P Somogyi Mr S K Devani Mr G von Graevenitz Anonymous (2) Mr P Springett Mr R S Dinning Mr G C R Watson Mr E A Chadwyck-Healey Mr N J Thompson † Dr G M Donnelly-Cox Mr M L Wilson Mr P A Coffey Professor S J Tucker Mr J W Flint Mr N D Hallows 1993 The Revd M R Wood Mr A H Forsyth Ms H S Lowe Mr R W Dawkins Mr A B Woodfield Dr A R Graydon Mrs H R Murray Mr P M Gilbert Mr R J P Youngman Mrs E A Heycock Ms S Ng Mr A J Gross The Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP 1987 Mr I D Oliver Mr T H R Hill Ms K J Kapur Anonymous (4) Dr J C Pinot de Moira Mr A S Lam Mrs J L Lawrance Mrs A L Barnard Mr T O A Scharf Dr M Li The Revd Professor M A Ludlow Mr L B Braham Mr I K Shawyer Miss D K G Petersen Mrs L Luffman Mr W J Fernandez Miss N V N Wilson Professor Dr A Quadt Mrs K L Mahony Mrs J K Gallagher Dr R M Worthington Ms S C C Sotheran

52 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 Dr C A Suthrell Ms A F Branczik Mr T E Leonard Mr J J S Kueh Mr A R Walton Dr E C J Carr Mr J L Meeke Mr S C Longair Mrs R E A Coleman Miss L E Orr Mr G D O’Connor 1994 Mrs H R Gauterin Dr A S Powlesland Mrs L M Otway Mr R M H Baird Mr C J Good Ms C J Renton Mr S K Pulimood Mr W E Bennett Mr P McCloghrie Mrs J C Reynolds Mr D A Simon Mrs D S Bisby Mrs D E Miller ACA Mr E Rugman Dr M C Swan FRCS Mr T R Blundell Mr S W Miller Ms A Skotko Mr C G Walker-Buckton Dr R O Bowyer Mr G J Samuel-Gibbon Mr R Truffer Mr S J Chiavarini 2004 Mrs S A Samuel-Gibbon Mrs S J Hawkins 2001 Dr L Allan Mr W G Shield Mr D T Lewis Anonymous Dr E C Border Mrs M A Massmann 1998 Mr B J Allott-Fletcher Ms C E Bristow Mr D J Nicholson Dr P D S Burnett Mr J A Chesculescu Mr D F Clements Mr A J North Mr W A Charles Mr G R Chesney Mrs L J Douglas Professor N A L Tamblyn Mr T P Davies Ms H Cho Mr S Evans Mr M Weekes Ms S A Ellis-Jones Mrs A C Doyle Bonsall Mr G M S Macpherson Mrs J J Wilson Dr S M W Jackson The Hon A R Fellowes Mr J Mik Mr S D Wilson Mr J G Jansen Mr C M Fitzsimons Mr H L G Morgan Mrs S E Lad Dr M J Flowerdew Dr B J Pope 1995 Mr T M Nelson Dr S E Flowerdew Mrs R C Sherlock Mrs C de Jongh Dr E R Waring Mr A R Johnson Mr D J Smith Mrs J C Dennis Dr M Waring Dr A S Randle-Conde Mr K L Townsend Dr J A Efstathiou Mr S J Wrigley Miss M E Sawmy Mr R B Westbrook Mr D R Fontes Mrs V L Wood Mr J D Wright Ms L C Forster 1999 Mr S I Goldberg Anonymous 2002 2005 Mrs S J Lewis Mrs M Bakir Anonymous Anonymous (3) Mrs H M North Miss H Cartwright Mr S A Dhanani Dr C S Abbs Mr T C Ong Mr J V G Harvey Ms H S Eastwood Ms E J Atkin Mrs L C Shand Mrs C M Laing Dr I J Hewitt Miss A Banszky Von Ambroz Mr G W Laing Dr M H Mathias Dr K H R Bryon-Dodd 1996 Dr O D H Large Mr T Pickthorn Mrs C L Chamberlain Mr A H Anderson Dr M W McCutcheon Miss V Rees Miss R J Chapman Mrs J A Barley Mrs J M Powlesland Mr S Surendra Dr C L Chow Mr P A G Dillon Mr T J Service Mr B M Vonwiller Dr J W Few Mr J M Ellacott Mr H R Wiggins Dr D A Whittingham Mr D H Hannon Dr E R Hayton Dr D E Harding Dr C E Hinchliffe 2000 2003 Mr A G G Laing Mrs H A Hudson Dr L C Barnes Anonymous Dr H T Luckhoo Dr J R Major Mr T C Bell Mr H H Bühmann Dr K T M Mackenzie Mr J R Maltby Miss A Caldwell-Nichols Miss J M C Chan Dr I McKay Mr B P Smith Mr C E H Cook Dr E Flossmann Mr D E Park Dr D P Vosper Singleton Mr R B Francis Mrs H J Gunson Miss A R Partridge Miss K E L Garbutt Mrs S L Jenkinson 1997 Dr B D Raynor Dr A R Kendal Lt Col S A Johnston Miss H R Bacon-Shone Ms L J Reardon

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Mr C J Sellers Mr R J Hyland Miss H R A Kinney Mrs V Hill Mrs J M Thomas Mr D Lloyd Miss D Piper-Vegh Mr F Hobbs, in memory of Mr H M Rautonen Miss R Seth Justin Cartwright 2006 Ms C I Sides Miss M D Winter Dr J Leheny Anonymous Miss L A Templeman Dr E Liebson Mrs R M Alhassan 2013 Mr R G Lottridge Mr A Ben-Yousef 2008 Anonymous Mr J Matthews Mrs C E A Bowden Anonymous Miss C S Burton Mr J R Murray, in memory of Mr G V Brooks Mr E P Case Mrs A M Cyrson Justin Cartwright Miss L Campbell-Colquhoun Dr L Feng Mr Z M Domach Mrs J Oliver Mr H H H Cary Miss R C Hargrave Miss C Fleischer Dr T J Palmer Mrs S D J Cherry Dr M H Tranter Miss R Hayhow Mr A L Pound Dr M G Choudhary Ms C S Trigle Ms F C H Mather Mr & Mrs P Primavera Mr P Choudhary Dr J N Walker Miss T Murray-Jones Mr E Cripps Miss E E Roberts Mr N Rich, in memory of 2009 Mrs H E Curwell-Parry Miss H Sheriff Justin Cartwright Mr A Badino Dr O Curwell-Parry Ms N Sargent, in memory of Mr T Deeks 2014 Miss A F Davies Justin Cartwright Mr J W Fitzpatrick Miss A S Carroll Mrs S G Few Ms P Shaw Mr C E T McMillan Miss B Gurung Dr E Forestan-Barnes Mr J Smalley, in memory of Miss C A Meara Mr A Nagdy Professor M B Hoppa Justin Cartwright Mr J P Middleton Ms H L C Record Mrs P Z James Mrs E Sparkes Mr J O Ross Miss E M Reynolds Mr W Lough Mrs C M Staveley Mr A M Valeanu Mr A Mankoo 2015 Mr P Tonkin Dr F Rao 2010 Miss F A L Higgs Dr K Trivedi Ms J A Rule Mr F J Crellin Mr O Ramsay Gray Mr C Tuckley Mr W R van Dijk DDS Dr H J Smith Mrs A Ejsmond Müller Mr S B B Smith Dr C Trainer Miss O Grimshaw Ms C C Watter 2017 Mrs S J Walker-Buckton Mr C Phillipps Fellows (including Emeritus, Ms H Wood Mr H G Harting Mr H E G Whorwood Honorary and Sir Thomas Friends 2007 2011 Pope Fellows who are not Old Anonymous (4) Anonymous (2) Mr S A Fletcher Members), Former Fellows Ms E S E Baggott Mr B M Lake MP Mr A Beecroft, in memory of Justin Cartwright and Staff Mr P J Baggott Mr A Long Anonymous (2) Miss R Batty Mr J G Musson Ms R Horwood-Smart QC Mrs P Cartwright, in memory of Dame Hilary Boulding DBE Mr T G Blackburn Mr N Pontt FRWCMD Justin Cartwright Miss C P Carmichael Miss C K Sydoriak Mrs F S Broers Mr D Cherry Miss E M Carrington Brook Professor K Buckler 2012 Ms C Cormack Ms L E Carter Ms S Cure Miss I T Ahmedani Mr H Cormack Miss R D Dalglish Dr S Fisher Mr BA Crompton Mrs V Cullimore Miss C J Hadman Professor K Ibbett Mr M Cyrson Mr W Darbon Mr A Haji Professor M Z Kwiatkowska Miss M C Doran Mr T S Dowd JD Mr S T Halliday Ms L V Lawrence † Miss A R Girling Miss A Hall Ms C Halstead-Smith Dr K Mazur Miss R Harker Mrs J Hill Mr S T Hoyemsvoll Dr P J Moody

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Dr J Pellew Mr J L A Cary OBE Mr A H & Mrs K Woodman Professor P L Read Members of the Mr P K O Crosthwaite Mr R C Wright Sir Ivor & Lady Roberts Mr S Forster Ralph Bathurst 1980-89 Ms R Strawson Sir Charles Gray Anonymous Dr G Trimble Society Mr D I S Green Mr & Mrs L Chester Dr T A Watt Mr C J Hemsley Mr S J Cordell 1947-49 Mr W Hood Mr R Drolet & Mrs M Cameron The Lord Ashburton KG KCVO Professor & Mrs N F Jones Companies and Trusts Mr & Mrs S Edelsten DL† Mr P C Keevil Artemis Charitable Foundation Mr D S Ewart Sir Patrick Moberly KCMG Mr R B Landolt Barclays Bank Plc Mr & Mrs A H Forsyth Mr C J Marsay Brainlabs Digital Mr & Mrs A S Gillespie 1950-59 Mr R S Parker CB FRSA FSA J & M Britton Charitable Trust Mr J M R Glasspool Mr J B Adams Mr & Mrs J B H C Singer California Lutheran University Mr V H Grinstead Mr J S Allan Mr G M Strawbridge Giveall Mr K E J Jordan Mr P M H Andreae DL Mr P J Sturrock MBE Goldman Sachs & Co Mrs S & Mr M Lewisohn Mr D F Beauchamp Professor G L Thomas Google Benevity Mr J Blackwell DL Mr R L Michel Linklaters Mr T B H Brunner 1970-79 Mr S B Pearson Moynitrust, in memory of Justin Sir Hugo & Lady Brunner Mr S J Bruce Mr J Spence Cartwright Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey Bt Dr J D H Chadwick 1990-2010 Netflix Benevity Sir Anthony Cleaver FRCM Mr K R Craig Anonymous Oxford University FREng Mr F G Doelger Mr A Badino Peter Kirk Trust Mr D B Farrar Mr C A S Fawcett Mr S J Chiavarini Pfizer Sir Christopher Hogg Mr & Mrs P J Horsburgh Mr P C Collins Syncona Foundation Mr A F Hohler Mr J S Huggett Mrs Z King Wolfson Foundation Mr N J T Jaques† Mr P M Levine Mr A W W Slee Sir Brian Jenkins GBE Mr T R Marshall Professor J W Last CBE Mr A W Morgan Fellows (including Emeritus, Mr D A Newton Mr A S Newman Honorary and Sir Thomas Mr J A Paine Mr R D Old Pope Fellows who are not Old Mr J H Pattisson Mr C H Parker Members), Former Fellows Mr F N P Salaman Mr N V Radford Mr I S T Senior Mr C D Randell CBE and Friends Mr J W R Shakespeare CMG Dr N E Reynolds Anonymous LVO Mr R L Richards Mr N H G Armstrong-Flemming Mr R S Simpson MBE Mr & Ms M H Ridley FCA Dr & Mrs C H Smith Mr D M Salisbury Mr R Bernays Mr S L Tanner† Lady Sants Mrs J Beloff Mr H W Turcan Mr R V Y Setchim The Hon M J Beloff QC FRSA Mr J C E Webster OBE Mr & Mrs A Shivdasani Mr & Mrs G de Jager Dr C J & Dr C B Williams Mr A J F Tucker Sir Roger & Lady Fry The Lord Tyrie PC Mr W R Haskell 1960-69 Mr S P Vivian Mr & Mrs B and G Howard Anonymous Mr & Mrs S C Willes Mr & Mrs R Hunt-Grubbe Mr R O Bernays & Professor P W Willman Mr & Mrs K J S Knott Ms R Horwood-Smart QC

56 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 Mr G Koutentakis & Mr A F Hohler Mr R N Jarman 1980-89 Mrs I Konstantinidou- Professor J M B Hughes FRCP Mr D P Jones Mr D R Amstad Koutentakis Mr J F D S Lewis-Barned The Revd Professor W K Kay Mrs A Ardron Mr A G McClellan Mr P F J Macrory Mr G J C Lavelle Professor R K Bhala & Dr J & Mr M E Pellew Mr R E Mavor Mr J S Lowings Dr K W Y Tan Bhala Sir Ivor & Lady Roberts The Revd Prebendary Dr N P Madigan Dr E C Boswell Mr W R Saïd D M Morris Dr J T Marlin Mr M A Brafield Mr H Shaw The Revd D R Palmer Mr C J Marsay Mr S J Cordell Ms P Shaw Mr J H Pattisson Mr K J Merron Mr P M Kerr Professor Sir Edwin Southern Professor E R Pfefferkorn Mr J Metcalf Mrs S A Lewisohn Mrs J Steel Mr S D Rangeley-Wilson Dr S A Mitton Mrs S C A Maynard Dr T A Watt Mr A P Runge The Revd Professor J S Morrill Mr C W Parshall Dato’ Robert Tan & Mr K M A Ryves-Hopkins FBA Mr M M Shelton Dato’ Soo Min Yeoh Mr D Smith & Ms J Jerrard Mr E B Nurse Mr N A Sloan Mr A J Taylor Mr C M O’Halloran Mrs J A Smithers Excell Mr M G L Thomas Mr R S Parker CB FRSA FSA Mr D T W Young FRSA Dr G A Tindale OBE Mr M E Pellew CVO 1990 onwards Dr B R Tolley Professor M H Prozesky Mr B Cooper Mr P S Trevis Mr M S Rainbow Members of Mr D R Fontes Mr H W Turcan The Revd R R D Spears Mrs S L Jenkinson the William Pitt Mr J C E Webster OBE Mr T N A Telford Dr C R Reddaway Mr A J Williams Mr A G Thorning CEng FRAeS Society Dr C A Suthrell Mr M St J Wright Dr C H Vaillant Professor N A L Tamblyn Dr S J Wood 1944-49 1960-69 The Revd A J Wellbelove Mr G L Ackers Anonymous 1970-79 Fellows (including Emeritus, Mr S J D Corsan† Mr M B Baldwin Mr I N Abrey Professor M P O Morford† Mr R P F Barber OBE Mr C D Baxter Honorary and Sir Thomas Mr R A Rees† Mr R M J Baresel Mr A P H Browne Pope Fellows who are not Old The Revd E N Staines Mr R O Bernays Mr J H T Chatfield Members), Former Fellows Mr P P J Sterwin† Mr T A Bird Mr T Fraser and Friends Mr P S Bradford Mr A Goddard 1950-59 Mr N H G Armstrong-Flemming Mr J F M Clough FRCS (C) Mr J R Haigh Anonymous FCA Dr J H W Cramp Mr C M Henderson-Fairey Mr J S Allan Professor F M Ashcroft FMedSci Mr R M Englehart QC Mr T K Holman Mr M F Attenborough FRS Mr H B L Evans Mr J S Huggett Dr G E J Beckmann FRAS The Hon M J Beloff QC FRSA Professor D Fairer Mr S M Lord Dr J D Bell Dr A Bramwell Mr T J B Farmer Mr A J Morgan Dr M C Brown Mrs V Cullimore Dr G Georghallides Mr R D Old Mr R J M Butler Mr J Griffiths Mr A A D Grant Mr R J R Seligman Mr W P Colquhoun MBE Miss A Hall Professor C Hall FRSE FREng Mr R Weaver Mr & Mrs C A K Cullimore Mr R G Lottridge Mr C J Hemsley Professor P W Willman Mr P B Farmer Professor J Pierrehumbert Mr J M W Hogan Mr D J F Fecci Sir Ivor Roberts KCMG Dr S V Hunt FHEA Mr C W M Grose Mr J L Hunter Mr D L Harland

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Bristol University. IN MEMORIAM In 1970 he moved back to Oxford to take up the post of Chaplain and Fellow in Theology at Trinity. He and Canon Trevor Williams his wife Sue set up home on (1938-2019) Southmoor Road with their Fellow and Chaplain1970, young daughters, Rebecca Emeritus Fellow 2005 and Catherine. Trevor’s academic strengths as a theologian were combined he Revd Canon Trevor Stanley with his pastoral heart, and Morlais Williams, ‘Rev Trev’, he was dedicated to both Tas he was affectionately aspects of the role. It was known by generations of students at a demanding post, with Trinity College, served for 35 years teaching responsibilities as Chaplain and Tutor in Theology. in the Theology Faculty As a tutor and as a pastor he shaped and college, alongside the the life of many individuals and regular services in chapel. is remembered with gratitude and A colleague from the affection. faculty wrote in his tribute, He was born in 1938 in Kampala, He was always willing Uganda, the son of CMS (Church to offer tutorials widely, Mission Society) missionaries, his to engage in examining father serving as archdeacon. As with at every level and to most missionary children, he was take almost unlimited sent to boarding school in England, responsibilities on studying at Marlborough College. On faculty committees. completion of his schooling he did His manner was two years of National Service in the quietly charming, courteous and he organised a busy programme of RAF, before coming up to Oxford to unassuming, but his capabilities commemorations of the tercentenary study Theology at Jesus College. were extraordinary. His subject of the Chapel, including services and After Oxford, Trevor returned was Modern Theology, and he concerts. He brought out a reprint to Uganda and completed an MA developed a specialism in the of the sermon preached at the service in African Studies at Makerere theology of Paul Tillich, offering of consecration in April 1694, the University. He then trained for faculty seminars in Tillich for proceeds going to boost the newly ordination at Westcott House in over 20 years, and attracting loyal launched Austin Farrer Fund. Cambridge and served his curacy at participants, from whom he in Beyond his ministry as chaplain to St Paul’s Clifton in Bristol Diocese, turn drew out their best. Trinity, Trevor served as the Bowles where, alongside his work in the Trevor always found time to be Lecturer, taking services a number of parish, he assisted in the chaplaincy at involved in college events. In 1994 times a year at St Nicolas’s, Abingdon.

58 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 He also took services at his own as well as the cover of the college attending Gaudies and other events parish church, St Margaret’s. He was Newsletter. With characteristic when he could reconnect with them. made an honorary Canon of Christ modesty, however, he did not report A gracious, kind and thoughtful man Church Cathedral and he served the considerable sum that he raised. with a dry sense of humour, Trevor as a governor of Ripon College, Trevor became a trustee of AICM was always an interesting person Cuddesdon. and continued to support the projects to talk to. One story that he told to He retained a lifelong interest during his retirement. In 2013 it gave great effect against himself involved in the work of CMS, completing him great pleasure when a Trinity signing on for High Table in order to a sponsored walk on the Great team returned to Uganda to refurbish demonstrate his support for a student Wall of China in retirement. His the clinic, treating the front to a coat campaign against world poverty. The roots in Uganda were maintained of paint in ‘Trinity blue’. undergraduate participants were each through many years of involvement In 1985 Trevor published Form served a simple bowl of brown rice; and support for AICM (African and Vitality in the World and but—unfortunately for Trevor—the International Christian Ministry), God (OUP). Once relieved of all of SCR butler, Albert Greenwood, was a self-help organisation which had the commitments of his university on duty that night. Albert clearly been founded by Enoch Kayeeye, felt that the only way to show proper a Ugandan priest who had studied respect for the Chaplain’s status was in Oxford. A sabbatical in Trinity ‘Generations of students by procuring him a double helping, term 1992 gave Trevor and Sue the have benefitted from which Trevor then felt obliged to opportunity to make an extended struggle through heroically rather stay in Uganda and to visit some of his role as Chaplain and than waste food in public. the charity’s many projects, including Tutor in Theology. Fellows Generations of Trinity students have water protection schemes, adult and staff have valued his benefitted from his role as Chaplain literacy programmes, primary health and Tutor in Theology. Fellows and care services and vocational training. friendship, collegiality and staff have valued his friendship, Although naturally diffident in kindness.’ collegiality and kindness. On the asking for money, Trevor willingly day he finally left Oxford, he visited agreed to become Chairman of the and college roles, he had the time to College and we gathered briefly in the Friends of AICM in Britain. He collect together some of his writings chapel, giving thanks for all he meant devoted himself to the work, perhaps in The Ultimacy of Jesus (Aureus to Trinity and all Trinity meant to him finding in it a welcome distraction Publishing, 2009). and we asked God’s blessing for him. in the difficult time that followed In retirement he remained involved He was well cared for in Edinburgh his separation from Sue. Twice in the life of Trinity and wider Oxford and was pleased to have time with Trevor took parties of students from interests, until his failing health made his daughters and granddaughter. Trinity out to Uganda, in 1998 to it sensible for him to move to a home He delighted in the cards, letters and build a rural clinic—The Trinity in Edinburgh nearer to Catherine and visits from Oxford friends. He died on Health Centre at Kyobugombe—and Rebecca, and their families, Roger, 5 November 2019. Jenny and Anna. three years later, an orphanage for Emma Percy, Chaplain children of AIDS victims. In 1998 he His memory for the people he undertook a charity parachute jump had taught or got to know through which made the Oxford newspapers chapel, was amazing and he loved

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consultant for the Criminal Law Professor Patrick Project for the Law Reform Fitzgerald Commission of Canada, produced (1928-2020) many valuable texts for assessing Fellow and Tutor in Law, 1956-60 and critiquing the law, and in 1982 he was admitted to the bar, Upper Canada Law Society, and in the year rofessor Patrick Fitzgerald was he retired, completed a Legislative elected to the fellowship at Drafting Certificate at University of PTrinity in 1956, during what Ottawa. His other books include was a period of great change in the Salmond on Jurisprudence, 12th college. His predecessor as Fellow edition (1966), This Law of Ours and Tutor in Law, the legendary Philip (1977), and Looking at Law (1979). Landon, had been in post for more A keen amateur pianist and than three decades, while the even violinist, in 1982 Patrick, together more long-serving President Reggie with his wife Brigid, founded the Weaver (Fellow in History 1914-38 Divertimento Orchestra, for amateur and President 1938-54) had been musicians in Ottawa. He was also succeeded by the dynamic Arthur a member of CAMMAC (Canadian ‘Thomas’ Norrington. Patrick’s time Amateur Musicians), playing in at Trinity was short-lived, and in 1960 musical and theatrical productions. he was appointed to a professorship remain for the next 20 years. Randal After his retirement, he devoted in Law at Leeds (with time as a Marlin (1961)—who was fascinated, himself to writing short stories, Fulbright Scholar and visiting while at Trinity, with Patrick’s book memoirs and light verse, for which professor at Louisville, Kentucky). Criminal Law and Punishment (1962) he won several awards. He became Patrick was the eldest son of Dr and, to his regret, had just missed an enthusiastic bridge player and was Thomas Fitzgerald and Dr Nora being taught by him—was by then involved in work to help Vietnamese Fitzgerald, née Twomey, and was teaching at Carleton University and refugees become settled in Ottawa. educated at Queen Mary’s Grammar was delighted at the news of Patrick’s Predeceased by Brigid, he is survived School, Walsall, and then at appointment. He recalls Patrick’s by his children Katherine, Liam, University College, Oxford. In 1951, generosity of time in giving a helpful and Michael. He was the brother he was called to the bar at Lincoln’s critique of his thesis, as well as of Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald of Inn. He was a fighter pilot in the Patrick’s and his family’s hospitality, Liverpool. Royal Air Force for two years, and and describes his approach to law then he practised law in the Inner as believing ‘in the importance of Temple, before his fellowship at squaring law with sound philosophy, Trinity. and of the need for legal professionals From Leeds he went to a post at the to reach out to the public, to explain University of Kent at Canterbury, and the law and suggest reforms to then in 1971, he moved to Carleton lawmakers when appropriate.’ University, Ottawa, where he would Patrick served as principal

60 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 working-class industrial communities, Bishop Ronald Bowlby and it is no surprise that, after (1926-2019) training for the ordained ministry at Minor scholar 1948, Honorary Fellow 1993 Westcott House in Cambridge, he sought a curacy to the shipbuilding community of Sunderland with he Rt Revd Ronald ‘Ronnie’ the legendary but chaotic Gordon Oliver Bowlby, bishop of Hopkinson in St Luke’s, Pallion, TNewcastle from 1973 to where Ronnie’s diplomatic skills were 1980 and then of Southwark, till he honed. retired to Shrewsbury in 1991, died In 1956 Ronnie became vicar of St on 21 December 2019, aged 93. Aidan’s in Billingham on Teesside, Ronnie came up to Trinity in a newer community dominated 1948, having been awarded a minor by a huge ICI chemical works. An scholarship in 1943, to read a expanded church was being built and shortened History degree following hundreds of children attended Sunday military service in Germany from school. He relished too the broader 1944 to 1947. At Trinity, he was sense of optimism about social a distinguished oarsman, not only progress, with rising employment rowing in the victorious eights of Southwark of Diocese crdit: Photo and good-quality homes being built. 1948 and 1949, but also winning the Housing became a personal passion, University Pair’s cup and the Fours— His vocation to ordained ministry and he later served on a national in the same four he also won the and his lifelong interest in housing inquiry into housing chaired by the Stewards Cup at Henley, in a ‘record were born of this vision. While his Duke of Edinburgh. It was here that breaking time’. He was elected an background—his father taught at he started married life with Elizabeth Honorary Fellow in 1993. Harrow, and he was sent to Eton— Monro, a social worker he had met In 1945, as a 19-year-old was redolent of a pre-war world, his when they were students at Oxford; Household Cavalry officer in the wartime experience awakened a sense they went on to have five children. army of occupation in Germany, of a wider, more inclusive world. In 1966 the family moved south Ronnie found himself overlooking Serving with the army in Germany when Ronnie was made vicar of the great spires of Cologne cathedral had given him a glimpse of a new Croydon, in south London, another rising intact out of the rubble and age, and conscious of his sheltered community undergoing rapid change. devastation caused by years of Nazi upbringing, he went to work for He found himself trying to bridge rule and Allied bombing. ‘While several months as a fitter for engines a gap between council estates and gazing at this scene,’ he later recalled, at a factory in Coventry. Among the prosperous leafy suburbs, whose ‘I suddenly had a strong awareness of friends he made there was Jack Jones, inhabitants often had very different the appalling waste of all this conflict later to become a household name as ideas of what the church should be . . . I knew then that I wanted to do a union leader. doing. something with my life that might This reinforced his interest in the Denounced as a ‘communist’ by lessen the violence and hatred in the church’s coming to understand better a local councillor for criticising world in some small way.’ the spiritual and material needs of cuts to social services, Ronnie

61 OBITUARIES always retained friendships across the opposition aroused by the issue even from those most suspicious of party politics, including that of the with diplomacy and respect, while bishops’ political utterances. However Croydon MP and later Speaker of the on the other hand encouraging the passionate he might be about an Commons, Bernard Weatherill. He formation of NOW (Newcastle for issue, he would not dodge the work was a bridge-builder, speaking against the Ordination of Women), which of understanding or of engaging stigmatizing immigrants, and after predated MOW—the Movement for with those who disagreed; one of the murder of Martin Luther King the Ordination of Women. The fact his colleagues once suggested the he invited a young black clergyman, that the diocese was one of the first to publication of a book of his model Wilf Wood, to preach. Later, when have a woman appointed as its bishop gentle-but-firm responses to letters of he returned as Bishop of Southwark, brought him great delight. complaint. Ronnie welcomed him as his suffragan In 1980 he was an inspired choice Retirement in Shrewsbury from bishop and the first black bishop in as Bishop of Southwark, where his 1991, into which he carried his the Church of England. understated manner was in marked presidency of the National Federation He was appointed Bishop of contrast to that of his predecessor, of Housing Associations as well as Newcastle in 1973, where again he Mervyn Stockwood. It gave him the the Churches’ National Housing found himself working to build a opportunity to build on the radical Coalition, allowed more time for common vision in the very different traditions of the diocese, while gardening, fell walking, watching worlds of Tyneside and rural promoting a climate of attentive Dad’s Army and the occasional Northumberland. He loved being listening and pastoral care. Urban playing of games during which back in the North East and that issues were pressing themselves on the this normally mild-mannered affection remained deep within him Church, not least in south London individual became suddenly wickedly long after he had moved on. and there was much patient work competitive. Elizabeth’s stimulating At the same time, he found that trying to knit together different parts companionship brought him great clergy and lay training needed of the same diocese. He was part of delight until she died in 2015, though attention. Wisely, he did not tackle the group that produced the report his family—children, grandchildren this head-on, but commissioned Faith in the City in 1985, at a time and great-grandchildren—continued an in-depth investigation into the when the Church of England under to provide stimulus and enjoyment. development needs of the diocese. Archbishop Robert Runcie was very His spirituality was nurtured by his On the basis of that research, he much the unofficial ‘loyal opposition’. membership of the Franciscan Third began the process of recruiting a But he was always careful to engage Order, and this wise, understated but team of advisers in mission, social with others: his strategy was always clear-headed bishop was a model for responsibility and education to enable about creating the groups, appointing sensitive pastoral leadership that all and encourage the diocese’s greater the people, and giving the support too few have followed. engagement with the challenges needed for those priorities to be David Stancliffe (1961), Honorary Fellow faced by Tyneside as the winds of pursued. Thatcherism began to blow. His membership of the House of Recruiting people for specific Lords presented many opportunities purposes was an aspect of his to research issues with care and to wisdom. He believed strongly that present his arguments in a way that, women should be admitted to because of the careful study that ordination: on the one hand facing lay behind them, gained a hearing

62 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 He was always ready to lead tours Paul Lawrence of the garden and offer his advice to (1966-2020) members of the community creating Head Gardener 1994-2020 their own gardens. Paul was a great raconteur and a good listener; he he carefully mowed stripes trained as a harassment adviser. He of Trinity’s lawns, the spring cared about the people he worked Tflowers in the wilderness, with and is missed as a friend and glorious displays of colour in the colleague by so many at Trinity. He tubs and hanging baskets in the also cared for Trinity’s tortoises Toby quads, neat hedges of lavender, and and Plum. imaginatively planted herbaceous Beyond his working life, Paul was borders—all of these, which have a keen angler from his youth. He been so central to what is loved about volunteered with the charity South Trinity College, were planned and West Fishing For Life, which provides planted by Paul Lawrence, Head fly fishing sessions for people with Gardener at the college for 25 years. breast cancer. He loved being out Paul was born in Newcastle, but and about in nature. He set up a grew up in Cornwall, where his unicycle club in Wallingford. He had adoptive parents moved when he was a beautiful baritone singing voice—he a young child. On leaving school he who live and work in the college, sang with the Cornwall Police Choir worked in a nursery, before studying and by the many who simply look in with his dad while in Cornwall, and Horticulture at Cannington College through the gates or come as visitors. appeared in two Gilbert and Sullivan in Somerset. As part of his studies His hard work and skill have brought productions, as well as Treasure there he spent some time working pleasure to so many. He created Island, at the Old Fire Station in under Mike Nelhams at Tresco Abbey gardens with many different spaces Oxford. He played classical guitar Gardens. and loved to introduce innovative and dabbled at the piano. Music In 1988 he took up a place at ideas, most recently the vertical was always a great love and he had the Royal Botanic Gardens in planting outside the chapel arch. eclectic taste, from Paloma Faith to Edinburgh to study towards its Each year Paul loved decorating Mozart! Diploma in Horticulture (DHE). It the Christmas trees and filling Paul married Nicki in 1990 and was a prestigious place to study and the Hall with holly. He helped they have two children, Bethany and as the RGBE worked closely with create wonderful scenes for the Dylan. His sudden death from a heart the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, commemoration balls; who can forget attack in April 2020 is a tragic loss to Paul’s studies included spending some the Durham Quad blue lawn. He his family, his many friends and the time at Kew. He qualified in 1991 worked with students, visiting theatre community of Trinity. and became head gardener at Glamis groups and the summer schools Emma Percy, Chaplain Castle. to enable plays and receptions on In December 1994 he took up the the lawns. He created gardens that post of head gardener at Trinity. have been the setting for so many Trinity’s gardens are loved by those memorable events.

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dogs after his death. Having survived Linora Lawrence breast cancer not long before her (1947-2020) retirement, Linora was diagnosed Alumni & Development Office with an entirely unconnected cancer in Administration Assistant 2006-11 2018, and underwent chemotherapy followed by major surgery. Despite inora Lawrence, who many good initial progress it spread, and college members will have she underwent a tracheotomy which Lknown from her work in hampered her ability to speak, a cruel the Alumni and Development blow for someone whose life was Office, died on 2 January from so centred round communication. cancer of the oesophagus. She was able to remain at home Linora was born in to the end, with the assistance of Northumberland to an English a live-in nurse, one of whose jobs mother and Polish father. Although was to marshal the constant stream she valued her roots in the North of visitors. Linora was fully aware East, she spent most of her adult life that she was dying and faced this in the South, taking a wide range with frankness and bravery, joking of jobs, including dental nurse and based stories. Linora drew on her that at least she would not have assistant at the Williams F1 team. In work experience in several of her to live through the consequences 1982, she started work with OUP short stories, using the subterranean of Brexit! She took comfort in and moved to the pink cottage in passageways in the Bodleian for the distributing cherished possessions to Summertown which had belonged to title story in the Bodleian Murder her friends, including donating some her mother and where she lived for and other stories. She was fascinated of her silverware to Trinity. She also the rest of her life. Gregarious and by Oxford colleges’ tradition of gave several beautifully illustrated a great conversationalist, taking a tortoise-keeping, drawing on this children’s books to be kept in the real interest in others’ lives, Linora for ‘The tortoises of Turl Street’, an Danson Library. excelled in ‘people-facing’ roles. In unconventional testudinal love story. With typical clear-sightedness she 1994, she moved to the personnel Linora was also a regular contributor had approached an ex-Bodleian department of the Bodleian, where she to Limited Edition, the Oxford Times colleague, turned priest, to officiate stayed for ten years until her final job magazine, with articles including the at her funeral, which was attended by move to Trinity. She retired in 2011 ‘A-Z of the Bodleian’ series. Linora friends from all parts of her life. She is but maintained strong links with the greatly enjoyed communicating survived by her niece, Amy. college, attending events and meeting her love of writing and was an A friend of both Linora and up for regular lunches with Trinity entertaining public speaker—taking Trinity, Willem Van Dijk, summed friends. part in local literary festivals and the up Linora’s character, writing, ‘I will Linora led a second life as a occasional local TV show. cherish Linora as a kind and warm successful author and journalist. Linora’s long-time partner Ronald person, with great authenticity and She was chairman of the Oxford died in 2013. They had shared a love averse to decorum—I liked her very Writers Group, which has published of Keeshonds, Dutch barge dogs, and much.’ five collections of Oxfordshire- Linora continued to take in rescued Sharon Cure, Librarian 2008-20

64 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 Graham Norman Pointer (1943), on Trinity, before being commissioned Old Members 5 May 2020 into the 15th/19th The Kings Royal Dr Michael ‘Mike’ Urquhart Slee, Hussars, stood him in good stead and (1956), on 29 January 2020 gave him the confidence for service The college has learned recently of Peter Philip Jarrett Sterwin (1948), on in the Second World War, when he the deaths of the following members, 29 November 2020 commanded troops in Cromwell and obituaries of whom it is hoped will Challenger tanks in Germany and in appear in the 2020-21 Report: (John) Robert ‘Rob’ Tillard (1947), Holland, during Operation Market on 16 December 2019 Garden. He returned to Trinity, on The Rt Hon the Lord Ashburton James Mathie Ure OBE (1950), on sick leave, in Michaelmas term 1945, (John Francis Harcourt) KG KCVO 27 September 2020 reading Russian and French. DL (1947), on 6 October 2020 Professor David Wykes, Junior The following year, he became secretary to the British Ambassador Patrick Thomas Gordon-Duff- Research Fellow 1969-72, on to Russia. He then emigrated to Pennington OBE DL (1948), on 1 November 2020 USA, where he became a much-loved 9 January 2021 teacher, working in a number of (William) Patrick ‘Paddy’ Rolleston schools. His career spanned many Dockar-Drysdale (1949), on 9 1940s decades and included positions at December 2020 schools in Massachusetts, New York (Charles) Richard Cubitt Bevis (1952), City, New Jersey and Connecticut. Dr Peter Sydenham Moore on 10 March 2020 (Commoner 1941), who was born After he retired, Michael was able Richard ‘Dick’ Cecil Bond (1943), on in Glasgow in 1923, the son of to return to the UK fairly often. He 28 November 2020 Sydenham Moore OBE and his sometimes attended alumni dinners wife Isobel, came up to Trinity and kept up with a number of old Thomas ‘Tom’ Fermor Godfrey- from Wellington College, to read Oxford friends. He had a wicked Faussett (1953), on 12 July 2020 Physiological Sciences. Married to sense of humour, a wonderful twinkle Andrew John Greenacre, (1949), on Sheila Thoroughgood, he lived latterly in his eye and an infectious laugh. 30 September 2020 in Vancouver and died in 2011. Michael never stopped learning, in John Hicks (1961), on 17 August his 80s he attended ‘Clowning school’ 2020 and travelled with a friend around Michael Rawstone Caroe Peter William Hornby (1972), on (Commoner 1942) was born in Eastern Europe, staying in youth 16 October 2020 Manchester in 1924, the son of Sir hostels and monasteries. He always Olaf and Lady Caroe, and brother wanted to keep abreast of what the Nigel John Trefusis Jaques (1954), on of Richard Caroe (1940). He came younger generation were thinking 5 December 2020 to Trinity from Eton College, and and doing. As well as writing a Dr Joan Loomis Kennedy (1991), in followed his brother in reading family history of his mother’s family, 2014 History. He enjoyed Trinity from Michael dedicated much time and Sir John Talbot McFarland Bt (1946), the outset, knowing several of his energy to researching and writing on 11 September 2020 brother’s friends and also President about his father, who had been the Dr Basil Ian Parsons (1953), in 2020 Weaver, a friend of his mother’s. last British Governor of the North He later said the time he spent at West Frontier Province, just prior to

65 OBITUARIES the partition of India in 1947. Michael died in September 2019. His wife, Mildred, predeceased him. He is survived by his children, Shelley, Timothy and Mimi and six grandchildren. Michael donated his body to science, which enabled him to continue teaching even after his death.

From the obituary in the Aiken Standard and North Augusta Star and notes by Celia Page, niece.

(RAF Harry Mitford Liddell Probationer 1942) was born in September 1924, the eldest son of Edward Liddell (1914, Fellow and Tutor in Physiology 1921–40, Waynflete Professor of Physiology 1940–60). Harry was educated at Rugby. Thoughts of a career having been halted by the war, Harry volunteered for the RAF. He left for Canada in August 1943 for pilot training, sailing on the Queen Elizabeth—Winston Churchill was Harry Liddell, left, with Bryan Ward-Perkins. then Fellow Archivst, in 2010, when Harry presented a also on board, en route for the Trinity match case to the college archives (Harry is attempting to light a match from it) Quebec Conference. He returned in February 1944 and started bomber minister, Harold Wilson, to the USA foreign secretary, Tony Crosland, who training, before providence decreed to meet the new president, Gerald had been Harry’s tutor at Trinity. that he fly transport aircraft instead, Ford. Approaching Washington DC, Harry was awarded the Air Force qualifying to fly the legendary C-47. the plane hit violent wind shear, Cross in 1982 and was mentioned He eventually served in the Far East whereupon, in the words of the in dispatches four times during his before demob and returned to Trinity co-pilot, ‘The aircraft was hurled career. to finish a PPE degree. vertically into a 90-degree right bank After retirement, Harry spent many Having caught the flying bug, he and thrown downwards, and only happy hours as a volunteer at Didcot then re-joined the RAF, for another thanks to Harry’s full left bank and Railway Centre, his last visit being 35 years, retiring in 1982. The major rudder inputs and a handful of full at Christmas 2019, a month before part of Harry’s post-war career was power, did he right the situation.’ death. He is survived by his wife Liz, spent piloting the Vickers VC10. The Harry was pilot for many other a son, Charles, a daughter, Sophie, most momentous flight occurred in VIPs, including members of the and five grandchildren. January 1975, when he flew the prime Royal Family. One, in 1976, was the Charles Liddell, son

66 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 earth that had been worked on and by Simon Tolkien (1978), the son Christopher Reuel Tolkien (Commoner 1942), the son and since 1917, of which there were of his first marriage. literary executor of J R R Tolkien, successive and disordered drafts. From the obituary in the Guardian edited and published a huge body of Christopher abandoned plans for a writings left by his father. scholarly edition to publish a single Major General Henry Gabriel Christopher, the third son of Edith narrative without commentary. It Woods CB MVO MBE MC DL (née Bratt) and John Ronald Reuel was published in 1977, and, despite (Scholar 1942) won a DLitt FRSA Tolkien, was born in Leeds, where generally negative reviews, sold in scholarship from Highgate School his father was professor of English millions. Among many other works to read History at Trinity, being the Language. Even at four or five, being was the 12-volume The History of third generation of the Woods family read The Hobbit in draft, he would Middle-earth (1983-96), for which to be a member of College. He was point out continuity errors, a sign of Christopher’s personal insight the grandson of the Revd Dr Henry a kinship of spirit, not shared by his was vital in working from mostly George Woods, Fellow, Bursar, and, brothers or sister. The Lord of the undated manuscripts, ranging from from 1887, President of Trinity Rings, was written partly to entertain calligraphic to catastrophic. The Fall (and benefactor of the stained glass Christopher during time away from of Gondolin (2018) was the 24th and windows in the chapel). The second school. final volume on his father’s work. generation was represented by his From the Oratory School, He did not neglect his father’s work uncle Maurice (exhibitioner 1901)— Caversham, he came to Trinity on medieval language and literature, his father, Gabriel, went to Exeter. (following his brother Michael, 1939) editing and publishing translations Henry’s studies were interrupted for an abbreviated undergraduate and lectures, and, with Humphrey by war service. After basic training, course, before training with the RAF, Carpenter, The Letters of JRR Tolkien then Sandhurst, he was commissioned including time in South Africa, where (1981). For outstanding contribution into the 5th Royal Inniskilling he received chapters from The Lord of to literature, in 2016 he received the Dragoon Guards. He saw action in the Ring, and sent back constructive Bodley Medal. Normandy, was awarded a Military critiques. He returned to Trinity After the war he had joined the Cross in 1945, and subsequently in 1946 and completed an English Lewis–Tolkien circle, the Inklings, had a distinguished military career degree, followed by a BLitt on the taking over readings of The Lord of serving in Korea, the Middle East and Old Norse The Saga of Hervör and the Rings in his crisp, sonorous tones. Germany, ultimately attaining the Heidrek, which he later published. He read copiously, wrote long and rank of major general, commanding Christopher then lectured at beautifully crafted letters, and enjoyed North East District from 1976 to Worcester College on Old and Middle local wine, good food and convivial 1980. He and his mother Imogen English and Old Norse, and produced conversation. He was a gifted mimic remained in Yorkshire after Henry left editions of three Canterbury Tales of others’ eccentricities. the army. He set up and ran with Nevill Coghill. He was elected to Christopher married Faith St William’s Foundation, based on a fellowship at New College in 1963, Faulconbridge in 1951. In 1967 St George’s House in Windsor. With but he resigned in 1975 to focus on they divorced and he married Baillie the support of the Archbishop of York his father’s literary legacy. Knapheis, née Klass, who had worked and York Minster, the foundation A major project was the publication some time before as his father’s brought together experts to discuss of The Silmarillion, a collection secretary. He is survived by Baillie key issues such as the problems of the of the primary legends of Middle- and their children, Adam and Rachel, NHS, issues of higher education and

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Trans-Pennine transport and industry Norman married Dorothy Johnston, links, the precursors to the ideas of an architect, in 1952; she died in the ‘Northern Powerhouse’. 1997. Latterly he formed a close He was a founder and trustee of friendship with Glenda Stuart, the Second World War Experience who accompanied him to many Centre, originally part of the history Trinity events. He died in December department at the University of 2019, survived by three daughters, Leeds and set up to preserve first nine grandchildren and six great hand memories of the Second World grandchildren. War before they were lost forever. In 1987 he took on the role of Vice (Sidney John) David Corsan Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, (Commoner as Navel Probationer serving Queen and country in a new 1943) was born in 1925, the son guise. of a territorial Royal Field Artillery His passion for learning and brigadier who died in the Second education was lifelong, with a natural World War. Educated at Wellington charm he always looked for the best College, David registered for the Navy in people. His intellectual curiosity in 1943 and then spent two terms Norman Burtt and encyclopaedic knowledge across studying Law at Trinity. He won a a vast range of subjects meant he Norman pursued a career in public Half Blue for athletics. was the family’s Wikipedia before relations with Unilever, becoming After training at the US Navy base it was invented. Even into old age head of Information Services. He at Corpus Christi, Texas, he was he was a more reliable navigator on sat on the BSI (British Standards awarded his wings as a Fleet Air Arm road trips than any app. Deep and Institution) panel and worked as pilot on VJ-Day 1945. After National lasting friendships, his long and very member of the Home Laundry Service he joined accountants Cooper happy marriage, his devotion to his Consultative Committee (in which Brothers & Co in 1947 and over the daughters and grandsons and an he was instrumental in decisions next thirty years played a significant enduring faith were all hallmarks of about sewing washing instructions part in transforming the firm into a the man. into clothing). Norman featured in global entity and one of the UK’s ‘Big Stafford Whiteaker’s bookA career Four’. In his time he served as the Arabella Tullo, daughter in advertising and public relations liaison partner for South-East Asia, (RAF Cadet (1986). He later worked as a freelance Australasia and the West Indies and Norman Clifford Burtt 1943) was born in Hornsea, on the consultant with Zanussi and became as the lead partner on a major World Yorkshire coast, in 1924, and was a radio broadcaster, working with Bank project in Thailand. educated at St Edwards School, County Sound Radio in Guildford, After his retirement from the firm Oxford, before coming to Trinity delivering consumer advice in over in 1986, he took up a succession on an RAF pilot training course. He 1,000 broadcasts. of appointments, directorships served in Texas as trainee pilot and Norman chaired the Kingston and chairmanships, including with was then commissioned, serving in the Citizens Advice Bureau and the insurance firm John Poland & Co, Middle East with the Rifle Brigade. London Federation of Boys’ Clubs, the City regulatory body IMRO, He was demobbed in 1947. and was a member of the MCC. the Institute of Neurology and the

68 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2018-192019-20 Brain Research Trust, and became an He was apprenticed as a coachwork Vesey’s Grammar School, Sutton honorary vice president of the White draughtsman at Humber Ltd in July Coldfield. He is survived by his Ensign Association. 1942. Although this was a reserved wife Jane, daughter Sally-Ann, son He was renowned for his team occupation, he volunteered for flying Charles, and two grandchildren. leadership, commitment, energy and service in the RAF during 1944 and dynamism, which he applied both commenced a six-month University The Rt Hon James Edward at work and in his private life. His short course at Trinity. He could (Scholar 1945) was Ramsden PC other great passion was sailing. He only afford the ‘extras’ such a course the MP for Harrogate from 1954 to skippered his X One Design racing entailed because apprentices were 1974, and, among several roles at yacht Skua for over fifty years at paid piece rates for the six months Westminster, was the last secretary of Itchenor on Chichester Harbour, they spent in the carpenters’ shop. state for war, a post he held following and served in many capacities at This may explain why there are no the resignation of John Profumo. the sailing club and in local civic charges for wine on his final battels, The obituaries in The Times and activities. To celebrate his 80th though he did pay four shillings and the Daily Telegraph captured much of birthday he bought a brand new eight pence in gate fines! James Ramsden’s life, without being Aston Martin DB9 and flew a two- He was unable to afford to return able to get to the essence of it. He was cockpit Spitfire at a festival day at to Oxford after the war to complete born with an unusual brilliance of RAF Droxford. He took great pride in a degree and he later studied for both mind and body, which combined his association with Trinity and to the Higher National qualifications at with a keen awareness of spirit made end returned regularly for events. night school. His career in the car for a life given to family and friends, He died in January 2020. In 1950 industry mirrored the highs and lows Yorkshire and his country. he had married Jean, who died of British car manufacturing, but he Eton and Trinity were the anvil on in 2007; he is survived by their was involved in the design of iconic which he forged the gifts of his mind. sons, Jamie, Rob and Jon, eight models such as the Triumph Herald, His photographic memory and love grandchildren and a great grandson. Spitfire, Dolomite and TR7. for Classics not only won him the In 1954, he married Margaret Newcastle scholarship at Eton but Jamie Corsan, son Scott, a primary school teacher, later the ability to write a programme (Commoner whom he met through a shared love for the farm accounts on his Amstrad. (Richard) Norman Rose as RAF Cadet 1944) was born of badminton and tennis. She died in He could turn his mind to anything in October 1926 in the village of 2011. Norman died aged 91 in June and being bipolar needed occupation Cubbington, Warwickshire, the son 2018, never dreaming that his beloved to still its activity. He taught himself of a wood machinist. In November only daughter would be elected saddlery, woodturning and furniture 1941, whilst studying at Coventry’s principal of Newnham College, repair, fly tying, beekeeping and Junior Technical School, he joined 91 Cambridge, six months later. skep making. He was able to think Squadron Air Training Cadet Corps, intuitively and to balance intellect Alison Rose, daughter which was attached to the grammar with common sense. school. Once the night air raids He was a good games player, John Cameron Hill TD FRICS started in September 1940, he would (Commoner as RAF Probationer winning a rugby Blue. He was a fine cycle to the Tech not knowing when 1945) was born in Manchester in horseman and his love of hunting he left home which roads would be 1927, the son of a grocery manager. lived alongside his political ambitions. passable. He came to Trinity from Bishop There was a defining moment when

69 OBITUARIES the Conservatives lost the 1964 Botany. At Trinity he played cricket In 1952 Tony married Anne election and he was preoccupied with and hockey. He worked in forestry Beveridge and they moved south, first life in Yorkshire. There was a clash of in Uganda from 1950 to 1973 and to London, then the home counties, culture between the professionalism later for the Central Lancashire New and finally Oxfordshire, enjoying demanded by Ted Heath and James’s Town Development Corporation. He a quiet retirement at their home in perception of an MP in opposition. married and had two daughters. He Yarnton, where Tony enjoyed walking This led to his exclusion from the died in October 2018. in the surrounding countryside. Tony 1971 government and the subsequent was also an avid reader, and had a decline in his political life. large collection of books. He enjoyed (David) Anthony ‘Tony’ Hearn He loved leading from the back, (Scholar 1947) was born in March putting his sharp mind and astute like a good huntsman with his pack of 1929 and was brought up, with judgement to good use in dealing in hounds always in front. As chairman his older brother Wilfred, by his stocks and shares. of the London Clinic, the West of mother, Clara, in a two-up, two- Tony did not suffer fools gladly, Yore hunt, the Hackfall (landscape down terrace house in Carlin How, but was always willing to help those gardens) and Getty trusts, his joy North Yorkshire, during the 1930s in less fortunate circumstances. He was seeing others benefit from the depression. His father, James, a could be difficult and volatile, but gifts of his leadership. He was at his journalist, had died when Tony was was always fair-minded, with a rare happiest and best when wrestling with six weeks old and his sister Molly was intellect. He died in December 2019; the mysteries of life; with his belief brought up by an aunt. Tony went to Anne having predeceased him, he is and the writings of Austin Farrer, Guisborough Grammar School and survived by his sons Robin and Tim. with hunting foxes and the vagaries won an open scholarship to Trinity to Robin Hearn, son of scent, with salmon fishing and the read History. hope of catching one, with his politics After his National Service in the John Harvey James Greenish and the art of getting things done. RAF and a few less-than-significant (Commoner 1948) was born on New His was a balanced intelligence which jobs, Tony joined The Association of Year’s Day 1927. As a young child he valued wisdom over success and a Broadcasting Staff (ABS), as assistant attended Maidwell Hall school before life which has left legacies like the to the general secretary, and it was going on to St Edward’s Oxford. restoration of the historic landscape to the trade union movement that He enjoyed a successful career at St at Hackfall that will be enjoyed by he dedicated the rest of his working Edward’s particularly on the games future generations. life. He became ABS general secretary field. He set a school record for James married, in 1949, Juliet in 1972 and after amalgamation of the 100 yards which has never been Ponsonby, with whom he had five ABS with other broadcasting unions, beaten. Following school, he attended children; she, a daughter and a son eventually become general secretary Cambridge briefly before signing predeceased him. He died in March of the Broadcasting Entertainment up to the Royal Navy where he was 2020, aged 96. Cinematograph Theatre Union involved in minesweeping. (BECTU). He served on and led a Having completed his service, Tom Ramsden, son number of national and international he came up to Trinity to read arts and media organisations, and was Modern Languages. This enabled Anthony ‘Tony’ Molesworth (Commoner 1946) was a senior research fellow at Nuffield him to represent both Cambridge Stuart-Smith born in Cobham, Surrey, and came up College in 1970-71. He retired in and Oxford as a sprinter, though to Trinity from Charterhouse to read 1993. never competing for one against

70 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 Aleyn Grellier rowing at 4 in the Trinity 1st VIII in the 1950 bumps­—the crew members were: A J C Davys (Bow), G F Symondson, J C Browne, A G S Grellier, R M Sears, W M J Milligan, D N Callender, C G V Davidge (Stroke) and J F C Hinchliffe (cox) the other. Whilst at Oxford he met his grandchildren. The garden of his visitors to the house and he continued Elisabeth and they were married in home in Manorbier, near Tenby, was to be engaging in conversation up 1952. John followed his father into transformed as he replaced and added until his death. He died on Boxing a career in teaching, starting at the drystone walls and new flower beds. Day 2019, survived by Elisabeth and Dragon School, Oxford, before being John and Elisabeth enjoyed travelling daughters Jane and Gill, son Stephen appointed head master of West Hill and were never happier than when and ten grandchildren. Park School, Hampshire, and then of in their campervan touring abroad. Eagle House School near Sandhurst. John spoke French fluently and in Aleyn George Stanley Grellier He retired in 1988. retirement taught himself Italian, (Commoner as Navel Probationer In his spare time John enjoyed prior to a camping holiday in Italy. 1945), who had come up to Trinity gardening, music and sport. During They were still travelling in Europe in for six months in 1945 on a Naval his retirement he was choirmaster their eighties. short course, returned in 1948, met at his local church, playing the In his final years with declining Florence Helen Brindle (Somerville organ for Sunday services, as well health, John found walking any 1949) and rowed for the college 1st as happily playing duets with any of distance rather hard but he enjoyed VIII in 1950. To quote him, ‘the

71 OBITUARIES freedom of debate and the stimulus and generous man who loved to daughters Anne and Helen and three of University life was a special encourage success in others. He died grandchildren. experience that I shall never forget.’ in April 2020, and Helen died three It all very nearly never came to pass weeks later. They are survived by Professor Mark Percy Owen but for a chance exchange. Having a daughter Frances, son, Jonathan, (Minor Scholar 1948) was Morford left school in 1944, he had joined three grandchildren, and three great born to Kenneth Morford CBE and the Fleet Air Arm for a three-year grandchildren. Eileen, née Weeks, on a tea plantation stint and, rather than returning to in what was then Ceylon, in Jonathan Grellier, son Trinity for a shortened course after September 1929. After an idyllic early the war, applied for a full three years, childhood, he was sent to England at to read PPE. His recollection of the the age of six for his education. From entry interview was an oft told family Winchester College he came to Trinity tale—it went badly, the outcome was to read Classics. He was the organ looking bleak, and as the interview scholar, and a member of the Bach drew to a close my father held out Choir and the Bach Cantata Choir. little hope of realising his dreams. In He went on to gain a PhD from the a throw-away final question the don University of London. happened to ask what sports Aleyn He was teaching at Tonbridge had done at St Edward’s School, my School when, in 1958, he was father replied that he had rowed, been awarded a trip to the United States in the winning house coxed four in from the English Speaking Union. his final year. The don’s demeanour He toured the East Coast, then immediately changed; rowing, it met Martha Woodbury Dunn, an seemed, was very close to his heart. American, on the return voyage. She Trinity was very special to him and was travelling to escape the recent he became a lifelong supporter of death of her only brother (Mark’s the Boat Club, sporting the emblem unfortunate opening line was ‘Tell or colours in some way, attending me about your brothers and sisters’). annual dinners, contributing to TCBC They were married in Princeton fundraising—he was the classic and chapel in 1959, when Mark taught generous old boy supporter, who for a year at the Gilman School thoroughly enjoyed following and in Baltimore, before returning to Mark Morford played his beloved Steinway for mixing with the past and current England for Mark to become head an hour or two every day crews. His career after Trinity was a of classics at Lancing College. In mixed bag—a rookie journalist, life (Commoner 1964 they returned to the USA, Mark John Lingford-Hughes insurance broker, sales director for 1948) was born in 1927, in Leeds, having accepted a job at Ohio State Austin Motors, he finally found his where his father was a professor University. true calling as a graduate training of Law. He came to Trinity from Mark embraced the Columbus manager for the Road Transport Shrewsbury School to read English. culture, football and all, with Industrial Training Board. He died in Shrewsbury in June enthusiasm and curiosity. He was Aleyn will be sadly missed, a kind 2020, survived by his wife, Sylvia, recruited to the University of Virginia

72 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 in 1983, where he and Martha with the Scots Guards, he came the Independent and enjoyed walking enjoyed ten happy years before to Trinity to read English, serving in the Lake District and collecting she died in 1993. He finished his as organ scholar. He performed in watercolours. teaching career at Smith College in the University Operatic Society’s Celia, eleven years his junior, Massachusetts, as Kennedy Professor production of Les Troyens in remembers him as a witty contributor of Classics, after which he served as 1950, and sang Masetto in its Don to games at Christmas, but also recalls Salloch Fellow in the Mortimer Rare Giovanni, conducted by Colin Davis. his strictures on her childhood table Book Room. While there he met and From Trinity, Robert went to manners. He often didn’t suffer fools married Joan Steidler, who brought be the assistant to the director at gladly. In his book Musical Heroes him much happiness, until she died in Glyndebourne, before becoming he recalls venting his exasperation at 2013. artistic director of the Edinburgh a chatty, 22-year old Jacqueline du A distinguished author, Mark wrote Festival, where he worked to improve Pré, while they were on a long coach and published several books. Like his the Festival’s theatrical content, journey, calling her ‘an impossible parents, he was also a gifted musician, alongside its musical offerings. He teenager’. (The next day she gave him linguist, gardener, and raconteur. He introduced late-night shows, to a book, inscribed ‘with love from the was fascinated by people and places, compete with the Fringe, which gave impossible teenager, Jackie.’) and never stopped reading to learn rise to Beyond the Fringe, the revue Robert was married twice, to Una more. Curious, generous, and witty, performed by Jonathan Miller, Peter Kenny in 1957, and to Lesley Black Mark brought humanity to everything Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan in 1977, both marriages ending in he did. He died in October 2019 and Bennett. He demonstrated stoical divorce. He died in November 2019, is survived by his daughter Charlotte, calm when there was uproar at the survived by Nigel and Celia. sons Peter and Timothy, and three non-appearance of Maria Callas for a From the obituary in the Daily Telegraph and grandchildren. scheduled performance. notes from Celia Charrington After a stint with the Independent Charlotte Morford, daughter Television Authority, Robert returned Robert Anthony ‘Tony’ Rees to Scotland in 1964 to manage the (Commoner 1948) died peacefully Robert Noel Ponsonby CBE (Commoner 1948) was director Scottish National Orchestra, building in January 2020, aged 92. He was of the Edinburgh Festival and as its reputation and broadening its born in Hampstead in 1927, the son controller of music at the BBC, was repertoire. In 1972 he left to join of the Revd Ronald Rees (1907), responsible for the Proms. His father, the BBC as controller of music, and educated at Kingswood School, Noel Ponsonby (1914), had been the his principal role being to run the Bath, spending some of the war years college organist, who went on to serve Proms. He aimed to reflect the evacuated to Uppingham School. as organist at Ely Cathedral, and then increasing breadth of the classical A little too young to serve in the Christ Church. Noel died in 1928, repertoire in the Proms concerts and Second World War, Tony completed when Robert was barely two years his programming was, according to his National Service as a wireless old. His mother remarried and he had the Guardian obituary, ‘frequently operator in the RAF at Compton a half-brother, Nigel Jaques (1954), inspired [and] underpinned by wide Bassett, Wiltshire. and a half-sister, Celia, who would experience and total integrity.’ He came to Trinity to read History later marry Nicholas Charrington Retiring from the BBC in 1986, he and won the Commoners’ History (1957). devoted himself to several musical prize in the same year. He enjoyed After Eton and National Service organisations, wrote obituaries for playing for the rugby XV and the

73 OBITUARIES hockey XI. He stayed to complete his from plays and concerts, to part- Diploma in Education in 1952 and time courses in such as computing would return to Trinity for college and art, was especially appreciated, gaudies over the years, enjoying particularly when he retired. Poetry the chance these great occasions became Richard’s most enduring afforded to catch up with college passion. contemporaries. Richard had a very active and Tony took up successive teaching enquiring mind—he loved lively posts in South Africa and Rhodesia, debate and explored in great depth also teaching hockey. He returned to things that interested him. He was England in the early 1960s to teach never slow to make his views known briefly at St Edwards School, Oxford. to others, being quick to point out Following his marriage to Priscilla, anything that was unjust or wrong, they settled in Cheshire to raise three and championing the cause of those sons. At Cheadle Hulme School, Tony being treated unjustly. enjoyed a distinguished 26-year career Richard suffered a stroke in 2009, teaching history and heading the and though that curtailed some of General Studies department. his activities, he continued in good Testimonials of him written over humour and adapted to what he could Michael Kelly’s graduation portrait his career indicate that Tony was do. He died in June 2016, survived by considered a very capable teacher who National Service was completed as Mary, a daughter and three sons. contributed significantly to all aspects a signalman in the Navy, which he Adapted from a tribute by the family, following a of school life. One tribute from a didn’t particularly enjoy, before he brief obituary in the 2016-17 Report. former headmaster at Cheadle Hulme came to Trinity to read PPE. He was said that he was one of the pleasantest secretary of the squash club. Michael John Anderson Kelly schoolmasters it would be possible Having taught part time in a (Commoner 1949) was born in to meet and a gentleman in all the primary school after college, he joined Sutton Coldfield to John and Edith real senses of that word, describing a Chile-based company, Duncan Fox, Kelly. He attended Highgate School him accurately as a ‘master of apt as a junior executive. In the port city and read Physiological Sciences at comment and succinct remark’. of Valparaiso he enjoyed both the Trinity, before going on to train at the Tony enjoyed his retirement in work and the social life. There he met Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Walberswick, Suffolk, returning to Mary, whom he married in 1954. He emigrated to Canada in Oxford to spend his final years. Richard returned to England to join 1956, first as an intern in St John’s, BP as a marketing manager before Newfoundland, and then completing Matthew, Nick and Tom Rees, sons taking his young family to Ireland. residencies in Chattanooga, (Commoner 1948) There, after employment with several Tennessee, and at the Royal Victoria Richard Ellis Reid was born in Bombay in 1927 to Molly companies, he began a marketing Hospital in Montreal. He joined the and Ellis Reid. The family returned to consultant business in Dunlaoghaire, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps England and during the Blitz Richard and then, in the 1980s, set up a new in 1960 as a consultant obstetrician was evacuated to Wales and then business in Dublin. Living in Dublin, and gynaecologist. Following a Scotland. After Radley College, his with the varied cultural possibilities, wperiod of teaching and research at

74 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 the University of Alberta, he settled in time teaching RAF apprentices their Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, practising ‘O’ Levels. He then went on to join medicine for more than fifty years. the Baltic Exchange and followed in He was a Fellow of the Royal College his father’s footsteps becoming Chief of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Executive in 1968. It was also around the Royal College of Physicians that time he became Honorary Clerk and Surgeons of Canada and the of the Shipwrights Livery Company. American College of Obstetricians Derek loved his work at the Baltic and Gynaecologists. Exchange and was devastated by the Michael maintained a deep damage done to the Baltic by the IRA connection to his roots in England bombing in 1992. He retired in 1994. and he had a love of classical music, a He married Lynette Heyworth profound interest in world events and in 1963 and went on to have four history and enjoyed a good debate. daughters. His last years were spent His wife, Barbara, predeceased him in Streat, East Sussex, where he and he is survived by their children, became heavily involved in the local David, Carolyn and Kim, and four community and was church warden grandchildren. for many years. He died in February 2020, survived by Lynette, their Derek Walker, during his time at the Baltic daughters, Judith, Sarah, Helen and Exchange 1950s Isabel, and nine grandchildren. reservist in the City and acted as an Isabel Gander, daughter air raid warden during the war. Philip Charles Tattershall Dodd (Commoner 1950) was born in Derek was educated at Buckhurst Patrick ‘Pat’ Taylor Davies CMG Hendon, Middlesex, the son of a Hill Grammar School in Essex, from (Colonial Service Probationer OBE dental surgeon. He came to Trinity 1944 to 1950. He excelled at school 1951) was born in August 1927 in from St Edward’s School, Oxford, and won a scholarship to study Sylhet, India, the younger son of an to read Chemistry, but left without History at Trinity, aged 17. He was English tea planter. He was educated taking his degree. He worked for a the first of his immediate family to go at Shrewsbury School and St John’s time for Cable & Wireless. He died to Oxford, which he chose as both his College, Cambridge, before coming in July 2019, survived by his wife, headmaster and history teacher were up to Trinity, where he completed the Valerie, and three sons. Oxford graduates. He was conscious Devonshire Course (a cadet training of being young at the time at Trinity, for colonial service). He played (Scholar 1950) many of his contemporaries having football and cricket. Derek Jack Walker was born in June 1932, the son just returned from the Korean War. Pat had spent his National Service of Jack and Daisy Walker. At the He joined many of the University’s in Kaduna, Northern Nigeria, as a beginning of the Second World War, political debating societies. gunner with the West African Frontier Derek and his brother, Stuart, were After graduating, Derek spent his Force, and knew that he wanted evacuated from London to Frome National Service years in the Royal to return and work in Nigeria; he in Somerset, returning to London Air Force, posted to Locking in worked as an overseas civil servant in 1944. His father was a volunteer Somerset, where he spent much of his there for 27 years. During his early

75 OBITUARIES career, he was a district officer and in November 1932, the eldest of conferences widely, and became a was posted to places such as Zonkwa, five children. He attended Eton consultant on the needs and support Kabba, Gussau and Idah. Later he College, where he discovered a talent of international students. held various permanent secretary for rowing. He also had a natural He wrote two books, The Third posts in Zaria, Kaduna and Kano, talent for languages, and so came to Hunger, for which Birmingham covering areas such as finance, health Trinity to read Modern Languages University awarded him an MLitt, and agriculture, but his favourite job (French and German), but he was and The Red Dean, (Churchman, was inspector for the local Sharia so impressed with the then chaplain, 1987). courts. Austin Farrer, that, following Prelims, Bob and Sheila retired to North At the start of the Biafran war, Pat he transferred to study Theology. Wales where Bob indulged his love of was deployed into the midst of the He worked in a car factory in sailing and climbing mountains. Bob unrest and worked tirelessly to calm Coventry to gain life experience and, enjoyed entertaining guests with great the anxieties of the Igbo people. For following ordination, worked at a stories, but was also ready to listen. this difficult task he was awarded parish in Coventry, where he met and He successfully applied for the vacant an OBE in 1967. He was appointed married Sheila Basketts. They moved living at Llanfihangel, learning Welsh CMG in 1979. to London where Bob worked in the to conduct services in both languages. Pat was well travelled even as a radical team ministry led by the Revd He continued to love and care for the young man, when he had toured Nick Stacey at Woolwich. While there parish right up until his death, his last Europe on a motorbike with a tent. he crashed his motorcycle and sidecar service was Christmas day 2018. He went skiing in the days when into the cannon outside Woolwich Bob died soon after his beloved skis were still made of wood. He Arsenal, and nearly severed his right Sheila, in December 2019; he is crossed the Sahara Desert in an old foot. Treated with a pioneering survived by his daughters Claire and Peugeot 404 estate car and always operation, a year later was able to Rachel, five grandchildren and a great enjoyed holidays abroad, often fulfill a pledge to send his surgeon grandson. to unconventional places such as a postcard from the top of Mount Uzbekistan and Libya. In retirement, Snowdon! (Commoner David Newlyn Gale he enjoyed tending his garden In 1964 Bob become chaplain 1953) was born in Limpsfield, Surrey, (particularly his fruit and vegetables) of the ecumenical St Francis in 1932 and educated at Rugby and played golf up until his 90th Hall at Birmingham University. School. He came to Trinity to read birthday. Predeceased by his wife, He later became the university’s English—away from his studies, and Marjorie, he lived his later years with accommodation and welfare officer— besides membership of the Gryphon Elizabeth, and leaves two daughters his house would be overflowing Society, drama was his main interest. and two grandsons. with homeless students at the He was a member of the Trinity beginning of the year. Bob offered Players and the Experimental Theatre Jennifer Emmerson and Susan Hundleby, daughters support and counselling to students Club, producing Everyman and the from all backgrounds. He was Insect Play. an internationalist, passionately His National Service was spent in The Revd Robert ‘Bob’ Elistan- (Scholar 1951) concerned about vulnerable overseas the Intelligence Corp, he said because Glodrydd Hughes was born to novelist Richard Hughes, students. After retiring he became he was too disorganised to be a author of the world’s first radio play, more involved in the UK Council regular soldier. He managed to lose a and artist Frances Bazley Hughes, for Overseas Students, attended whole regiment on manoeuvres in a

76 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 North African desert—his navigation chef of her day, Elizabeth David. His skills were non-existent and he had partners were a heterogeneous bunch, hoped stones placed in the sand and under the leadership of senior would guide him back to base. partner ‘Cocky’ Trower, it was a He trained as an actor at LAMDA happy and interesting place to work. and later took a postgraduate He married Heather Kerr in 1970 diploma in drama at Manchester and they had two boys, David and University. For several years he acted Richard—when they left home, a pet in weekly rep, and also with the Gay Scottish terrier, Andy, was cherished. Sweatshop theatre company, and On retirement Donald and Heather directed Shakespeare at the Edinburgh moved to Etchingham, Sussex, Festival. For a more settled life, and created a new life around the he went into teaching, becoming a church, where Donald became a lecturer at Manchester University churchwarden. They travelled a and at Dartington College of Arts little, enjoying cruises in Greece and in Devon, then teaching English the Baltic, but Donald was not a and Drama at Exeter School and keen flyer—a trip to California was at Coopers Company and Coborn an experience not to be repeated. School, Upminster. His last job was Donald never really recovered from as lecturer in drama at Goldsmiths’ losing Heather to a stroke in 2013. College, London. Ill health followed and a stroke in David had many interests, and 2015 necessitated his move to a Donald Morrison, as an undergraduate enjoyed the company of family and nursing home, where he received friends, good food and wine. He was excellent care. Donald died in August Donald William Charles Morrison an avid collector of books and his (Commoner 1953) was born in Kent 2019, and his funeral was attended London home contained thousands, in 1935 and came to Trinity to read by family and friends from school stacked from floor to ceiling. He Classical Greats, having studied at days, Oxford, work and Etchingham. insisted on not installing central Westminster under the inspirational He is survived by his sons and two heating but used several electric fires, schoolmaster, Theo Zinn. He quickly grandchildren. one of which ignited some of the established what were to become He was a keen reader throughout books; the resulting fire destroying the lifelong friendships. Alongside his life. His values were based on contents of his home. He subsequently study, he was a cox and directed a honesty, a sense of right and wrong, moved to Denville Hall, the actors’ production of Hilaire Belloc’s The the importance of education and an care home in Middlesex, where he Four Men, which the Trinity Players underlying Christian faith. lived very happily until his death in performed to audiences in villages in David and Richard Morrison, sons January 2020. Sussex. After Oxford, Donald qualified as Information from the Exeter School website. Andrew Walter Loraine Paterson a solicitor, becoming, while relatively (Commoner 1953) was the son of young, a partner in the firm of Trower Harry Paterson (1913) and brother Still & Keeling. One of his cases was of Mark Paterson (1942). From to wind up the estate of the celebrity Winchester College, he came to

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Trinity to read PPE. He married pieces, he composed a full-length became president—they celebrated Victoria Williams in 1965, with ballet for which he won several their diamond wedding anniversary whom he had four children. He died awards (the score and scenario are in March 2019, with the whole in February 2019. lodged at Trinity). Brian took part in family present: three children and five the Trinity Cavalcade in 2005, which grandsons. (Scholar 1953) included his orchestral composition Robin’s working life was Dr Brian Warburton was born in Fulham, the only son of ‘Dr Anna’. He was a strong supporter in advertising. He joined the Stanley, a civil engineer, and Lilian of Trinity activities and students, and international agency J Walter (née Long), and spent some of his established and funded a college book Thompson as a marketing executive, childhood in Porthcawl, Glamorgan. prize, awarded for contribution to the and rose rapidly before joining At King’s College School, Wimbledon, musical life of Trinity. Haddons as media director in the he won a scholarship to read Earlier in life he built a working early 1970s. He continued to play Chemistry at Trinity. After leaving grandmother clock and he made golf to a high standard and cemented school he began military training with radios, some of which were very friendships amongst clients on the RAF, but was given an honourable tiny and fitted into matchbox sized company golf days. His final role was discharge after spending several weeks containers. He and Muriel, whom he a break from London and commuting, in hospital with a serious kidney married in 1964, enjoyed travelling when he joined Alexander James & infection. At Trinity, life proceeded on around Britain and further afield, and Dexter, based near Swindon, as media ‘oiled wheels’. Brian’s spare time was their final holiday was a nostalgic director. This prompted a move to spent rowing, in the second eight, and return to Porthcawl. Oxfordshire. One of the advantages of with friends. Brian died in July 2020, and the move was renewing his ties with From Trinity, Brian took a post as is survived by Muriel, a son and Trinity. For several years he played a material scientist, testing various daughter, and a granddaughter. golf for Trinity in the inter-collegiate polymers, at the research and competitions and he attended re- From Brian’s Memoirs and a eulogy by Nick th development centre of the Distillers Warburton, son, and Muriel Warburton. unions, notably the 50 anniversary Company in Epsom. Whilst there he of matriculation, which proved to be took part in the Granada Television a gathering of old friends. (David) Robin Lowson Erskine school series Discovery (broadcast (Minor Scholar 1954) came up to In Robin’s last few years he ‘retired’ in 1963). Wanting to return to pure Trinity on a scholarship from Malvern from golf as his mobility declined, but research, in 1964 he was appointed College, to read History. He enjoyed he still remained active in the garden, a lecturer at the School of Pharmacy his time at Oxford, studying in successfully growing all manner at London University, which also depth a subject he felt was important of fruit and vegetables. He died in allowed him time to study for a for its impact on subsequent and August 2019. doctorate in the faculty of Medicine. current events. Trinity also gave him Susan Erskine Brian belonged to many scientific the opportunity to participate in a societies. In 1976 he took an MSc in variety of sports, playing cricket, David Robert Buchanan Russell Cybernetics at Chelsea College. soccer, and golf—the last was his (Commoner 1954) was born in He retired in 1997, allowing more lifelong recreation (he retained a Bowdon, near Manchester, in 1935, time to enjoy his hobbies, including single figure handicap into his 70s). the youngest son of John Russell amateur dramatics, painting, and Robin met his wife, Susan, at the and Margaret (née Bellingham)— playing the piano—as well as piano Oxford Scottish Society, of which he David was a lifelong resident of

78 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 Cheshire, until a recent move to be camaraderie. He and Anne joined and which he found congenial to nearer family in Surrey. He attended the ‘Winos’, a group of close friends his progressive political outlook. Sedbergh School, where he was head travelling the world with wine as Beloved by his friends in the Bay boy, before coming to Trinity to read the loose link, exploring regions and Area and beyond, he leaves many Modern Languages enjoying time together. happy memories of his gourmet After a year of service in the army David died in March, 2020 and cooking and fun-filled dinners, of and seeing action in Malaysia, David is survived by Anne, five daughters, his connoisseurship of the arts— joined Imperial Chemical Industries Alison, Katherine, Sarah, Susannah both Western and Eastern—and, (ICI) in Alderley Edge. Starting out and Helen, a son, John, and eleven needless to say, of his encyclopaedic in sales, David showed talent and, grandchildren. knowledge of history. His intriguing being a multi-linguist, progressed to stories, his wit, and his charming managing director of ICI France in company have left vivid impressions George Patrick Germany 1985 and then CEO of ICI Spain. (Commoner with senior status 1955) of a life well lived. In 1964 David had married Anne was a raconteur, bon vivant, natty George died in September 2019. He Ramage—they had met at Wilmslow dresser, unparalleled story teller, is survived by his brother, James. Rugby Club, after she admired his skilled chef, professor of history, Adapted from the obituary in the San Francisco legs from the touchline, whilst he was and a dear friend to many. Born in Chronicle captaining the team in a match. He Brownwood, Texas, in 1931 and and Anne relished the opportunity to growing up in Dallas, George first (Commoner Stephen Lesley Tanner live in Paris and Madrid, indulging studied Philosophy, Theology, and 1956) died in December 2019 after a their love of travel. David enjoyed History at the University of Texas at long illness, at home with his family. nurturing talent, delegating with Austin, before attending Southern Born 83 years earlier on 11 March, fairness, instilling confidence and Methodist University in Dallas. From in Glasgow, Stephen spent much of conducted himself with integrity at all postgraduate studies at St Andrews his early childhood with his mother’s times University, he came to Trinity for a family in the USA, to escape the With a passion for supporting two-year MLitt in Theology. bombing raids, while his father Tom those less able and less fortunate, After receiving a PhD from the (1928) was supporting communities after retiring, David kept active by University of California, George being bombed in the East End of serving with the Prince’s Trust and taught history at the University of San London, working for the Friends worked on tribunals all over the Francisco for over thirty years, and Ambulance Unit (FAU). North West. He joined the board at San Francisco State University for When Tom died at sea while of a Manchester-based charity, The over forty-five years, and he continued travelling to China with the FAU Boys and Girls Welfare Society (Now to hold his teaching positions until in 1942, Stephen, his mother and The Together Trust). Over 10 years, the time of his death. A compelling sister Ginny, returned to England. he helped transform the charity and and entertaining lecturer, always He attended the Downs Prep School, spearheaded the development of a beautifully attired, and the epitome of Malvern, and Marlborough College, school for autistic children, later professional rectitude, his presence in before National Service took him to carrying his name. the departments in which he worked Hong Kong. David was an active member of will be remembered fondly. Stephen followed his father to Wilmslow Golf Club serving on He lived in Berkeley, a city he Trinity, where his studies played committees and enjoying the club called home for more than fifty years second, if not third, fiddle to a wide

79 OBITUARIES circle of friends and, most importantly his education at Uppingham School, was his duty to read the names of the his wife to be, Caroline. Tony came up to Trinity after two fallen on Remembrance Sunday on The couple married in 1959, moved years National Service with the Royal behalf of the Royal British Legion. He to London and had three children, Norfolk Regiment (with which he died in December 2019, survived by Sarah, Emily and Tom. Stephen saw active service in Cyprus). He read Toni, their daughters, Lizzie, Josie and enjoyed a long and successful career in Modern Languages. Vicky, and eight grandchildren. the City of London, for the most part Tony was always quite clear that Toni Pull with stockbrokers Grieveson Grant, at least part of his success in gaining and then Kleinwort Benson after they a place at Trinity was his discussion, (Commoner Paul Bourne Dowson bought GG following the Big Bang. during interview, of the merits of 1958) was born in 1938. From Colleagues regard Stephen’s final role various Scottish salmon fishing rivers Loretto School, Edinburgh, and there as compliance officer as the one on which he had cast a fly! Tony National Service in the Navy he to which he was best suited, given his played cricket and hockey for the came up to Trinity to read PPE. He ability to read spreadsheets upside college, was a member of the Claret immersed himself in sports, playing down from 20 paces. The final few Club and very much a Trinity man. for the Greyhounds and Authentics years of his working life were spent He had his college rooms in the and captaining the Trinity rugby team, as director general of the Institutional Cottages, a popular meeting place for gaining a Half Blue in rugby fives and Fund Managers Association. those returning to their rooms after election to Vincent’s. He frequented Away from work, Stephen served a night out, always in the knowledge the White Horse and his pride and as a councillor in Kensington that they would receive a warm joy was a custom-made red sports car and Chelsea, on the board of the welcome. It was towards the end of (which, too often, pumped out smoke Veterinary School at Bristol University his first year that Tony met Antoinette and refused to start). and as chairman of both Notting Hill (Toni) Besley, whom he married in Paul joined Pete Marwick Mitchell, Housing Trust and Inkerman House. 1961. qualifying as an accountant in 1965. In retirement, Stephen was, more After Trinity, Tony taught Modern Shortly after he met and married Gill often than not, to be found with Languages at St Edmund’s Prep (their married ended in 1997, but Caroline enjoying either London’s School in Hindhead and in 1979 he they maintained a strong friendship finest cultural and dining experiences, took over the headmastership of the and mutual interest in their two or spending time with his beloved school, which he managed and ran children.) In 1975, he began working family, including eight grandchildren, with great success until he retired in for Wheatsheaf in Winchester. Paul at their cottage in the Mendips. On 1991. spent the majority of his career in the rare occasions he spent time away Away from his professional life publishing, working as Finance from home, it would be on the golf Tony was a countryman, a very keen Director for IPC Magazines and then course with old friends or at the top field sportsman and an enthusiastic Reed Publishing. Paul continued to of the pavilion at Lord’s. golfer and member of Liphook Golf play rugby for Richmond & London Club for over 50 years. He was Scottish and—along with other Tom Tanner, son also, in his retirement, very much Trinity men—played cricket for a an integral part of his village in Sunday touring team, the Hornets. Anthony ‘Tony’ James Pull (Commoner 1957) was born in Hampshire, where he ran the essential Paul retired in 1999 and moved 1936, into a long-standing Norfolk Community Care Charity and even to Midhurst. Having walked the farming family. Having completed at a time very close to his death felt it South Downs Way with his daughter,

80 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2019-20 Paul embarked on a challenge to attended King’s School, Canterbury— complete the Camino Way, a 500- by then fluent in English and French, mile pilgrimage across Spain. He he focused on languages. Too young also planned 12 European train for University, he spent a year in Port adventures, accompanied by Patrick Moody, Canada, with Cyril and his Farmer (1958), that took them to 27 family, before coming to Trinity to countries and 85 cities. Paul retained read Modern Languages. strong ties to Trinity, playing in the In 1961, he became an intern at Inter-Collegiate Golf Tournament the audit firm Thomson McLintock, (winning one year) and meeting up a forerunner of KPMG. In 1972, he with Trinity friends for lunches at the was sent to Fiduciaire Continentale Turf Club. de Paris, to take care of French Paul kept an active social life until subsidiaries of British or US firms. his final days, based around Liphook His professional experience served Golf Club, weekly bridge sessions and him well as he delivered audit his famous annual Christmas drinks and consulting services to listed party. He died aged 82 after a short companies, as well as smaller entities, illness, retaining his determination ranging from luxury hotel groups, to and warmth to the end. A loyal the mechanical industry. friend, a wonderful father and Freddy was respected for his devoted grandfather, Paul will be extensive knowledge of English and remembered for his humility, sound French accounting rules, which were advice and his appreciation of simple significantly different at that time, and pleasures. was an expert in complex tax matters. He spoke Oxford English, was able Oliver Dowson, son, and Nikki de Kretser, to correct the French auditors who daughter Richard Wainwright debased the French language, and impressed the German partners with Frederick ‘Freddy’ David Antony Richard Barry Wainwright (Commoner 1958) was his command of German. (Scholar 1958) came to Trinity from Maplethorp born in St Raphael, France on in He retired in 1999 and moved to St Rugby School to read Classics. He December 1937 to Cyril Maplethorp Raphael, caring for his mother until spent much of his time pursuing and Jeanne ‘Nettou’ Appolone her death in 2000. He enjoyed annual other activities; he played hockey Bonifay. His brother Cyril was trips walking in the mountains, with for the college and the University already 11 years old, so Freddy was his parents and then latterly with his Occasionals, was active in drama, raised much as if he were an only niece, Amanda, and her family. In the choir, sailing, and enjoyed poker, child. In June 1940, as Germany 2015 he moved to Switzerland and rummy and chess. He shared a flat occupied France, the family left St enjoyed five years there making many above a dentist in Beaumont Street, Raphael on the last boat and had a new friends. He died from cancer on where student living was often difficult two-week trip to England 16 March 2020. interrupted by the sound of drilling. via Gibraltar. They spent the War On going down in 1962, he was Amanda Maplethorp, niece in Sleaford and from 1946 Freddy still unsure what to do, so he went

81 OBITUARIES to Nigeria for a year, teaching in a intelligence, thirst for life. Robert He became one of the new secondary school everything from Collingwood (1958) noted, ‘He had a generation of scientists, researching Latin to chemistry, as well as coaching remarkable ability for friendship, that the nature of small particles. This led the football and athletic teams and rare ability…of at once engaging with to a post-doctoral research post at the producing Macbeth. new people, then enrolling them as European Organisation for Nuclear Returning to England, he studied acquaintances, and then taking them Research in Geneva. From there, he for the Bar and was called by the on as friends.’ went to the Small Particle Research Middle Temple in 1965. After Richard is survived by his children, Center at Stanford University. He practising as a barrister for a few Jessica, Matthew, Barny and Tom, shared in ground-breaking discoveries years, he worked for the Government Eleanore, whom he helped raise and of previously unknown particles, Legal Service and afterwards as a legal regarded as one of his own, and the smallest and most basic units of adviser with the British Petroleum eight grandchildren. He also left energy and matter. Company. He joined the legal service 2000 books (having already edited Before long, he was not content of the European Commission, the collection when he left Brussels), to be a physicist, feeling that he arguing cases in Strasbourg in several some of which have been donated to had other, perhaps more personally languages. He ended up as director of Trinity’s library. satisfying talents. He was offered competition policy. Being a classicist a place to do nuclear medicine at Jessica Wainwright, daughter also afforded him a set of skills Oxford, but decided in 1971 to go to well-suited to the task of problem- Sheffield University and take its full solving. After his retirement in 2005, medical degree. This was a return to he worked for Allen and Overy 1960s his childhood city, and to living near in London and Brussels. He then his parents; and he was thus able to became a special adviser to FIPRA share his new intellectual journey with Dr Anthony ‘Tony’ David Brody International, public policy and (Commoner 1960) died in Peoria, his physician father. regulatory advisers, and was a visiting Illinois, in September 2019, eleven In 1976, he moved to Denver, professor in EU law at the University days before his eightieth birthday. Colorado, to complete an internal of Pittsburgh. He spent six years at Trinity first medicine residency and a fellowship in His passion was sailing and, with as an undergraduate, taking a first cardiology. He then moved to Peoria, his brother and friends, he owned in Physics; then as a postgraduate, and became a founding member Tai-Luk, a 41’ vintage sloop, which completing his DPhil in 1966. Tony of what became the Illinois Heart has sailed all over the Mediterranean. loved his time at Trinity, becoming Institute, serving as president from It was while sailing in 2018 that a leading figure in the JCR. I was 1991-93. Richard was diagnosed with cancer. always in awe of his talents: he was a Tony was a fellow of the American As much as he could, he kept active gifted child, excelling in all academic College of Cardiology, president of and continued to travel and sail. He subjects and being an accomplished the Proctor Hospital Medical Staff, died in Greece in October 2019 while pianist. He was a skilful spin bowler, a and president of the Proctor Health taking Tai-Luk back to her winter prominent member of a skiffle group, Care Foundation. He served as berth in Turkey. and an enthusiastic skier. Between clinical assistant professor of medicine His legacy in many ways was school and university, he worked in at the University of Illinois College of a spirit nurtured and encouraged Germany and Italy, and learned to Medicine in Peoria. He was a board at Oxford, of curiosity, fierce speak both languages fluently. member at the Institute of Physical

82 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2018-19 Medicine and Rehabilitation. He supervision of Isaiah Berlin. and language, with frequent reference spent part of one summer as a medical From Oxford, he went to Princeton to France and America. volunteer in Haiti. for his PhD and won a post-doctoral Ray was both an idealist and Tony lived a life of humility fellowship. In 1965, he became one an ironist. He was a committed and love for others. He had an of the founding members of the new secular humanist and democrat who extraordinary capacity for work, yet University of California campus at believed passionately in education, he maintained many other interests. Santa Cruz. Ray found Santa Cruz participation, and intellectual He managed to keep abreast of permanently liberating. He played leadership—and that the parlous developments in both small particle major roles in its attempt to build nature of organised intellectual physics and astronomy, about which an academic utopia among the life made its defence all the more he gave occasional talks, sharing redwoods, emulating the best of essential. Ray is survived by his wife his unusual grasp of new theories Oxbridge, creating a college system of three decades, Francisca (Sisca) about the origins of the universe and which sought out talent and held it Verwoert. the complexities of formation and to high standards. However, after From the obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald dissolution of stars. And he never lost Ronald Reagan became governor by Paul Verwoert his passion for cardiology. of California, suppressing academic He is survived by his wife, Carol, meetings and civil liberties, and Andrew George Aitken Gray three children, Paul, Steven and Richard Nixon president of the US, (Scholar 1962) was an astute Rachel, two step-children, David and America lost its charm, and Ray businessman, linguist, chef, wine Sarah, and six grandchildren. undertook a new adventure in the connoisseur, horticulturist and department of politics of the young bibliophile. His love of languages Hugh Brody (1962), brother Monash University, in Australia, the started with his Modern Languages country of his homesick then wife. degree—in French and Russian—at Professor Raymond ‘Ray’ Lindley (Rhodes Scholar 1960) The move failed to save his Trinity, which he complemented in Nichols was an only child. His father was marriage, but Ray ‘fell in love with retirement with a first class degree in the chancellor of the University of Oz’ and became an Australian citizen. Italian from Exeter University. Kansas and Ray was inspired by the Experiencing Monash’s enormous He had come to Trinity from the politicians who frequented the family expansion, he defended the pre- City of London School. At college home. He overcame early illnesses to eminence of undergraduate education, he won a Whitehead Travelling develop lifelong loves for tennis and faced down efforts to dilute standards, Scholarship in 1966. debating—in debating he came second and championed new academic After Trinity, he joined British in the nation when at university, enterprises. He ran the university’s Airways, which sponsored him to take and after graduation formed half first general strike, broadcast an MBA at Cranfield. He had postings of the US national team on a three- frequently on the ABC and Radio in Finland and Canada, before month tour of British universities. Singapore, served as a consultant running BA in France, his command He took his BA at the University of to various government operations, of French having become legendary. Kansas, from where he came as a and became increasingly involved in With privatisation on the agenda, Rhodes Scholar to Trinity, relishing ‘green’ causes. Andrew was asked to manage BA’s England in the ‘swinging 60s’, being He was a celebrated lecturer and European operations. He negotiated deeply influenced by Wittgenstein, was distinguished by his scholarly lower air fares on major routes, and earning his BLitt under the works on political action, ideology, sensing the competitive developments

83 OBITUARIES that the early 1980s were to see. Not enjoying the changes in culture that privatisation brought, he left BA to become managing director of Air UK, after which he took on a number of executive and consultancy roles until retirement. In retirement he and his wife, Diana, moved to Devon, where he could develop his passion for plants and trees on a larger scale, while battling against plant-eating deer, lawn-destroying moles and vegetation- eating rabbits. He also took on the running of the Devon Branch of the Oxford University Society, which he proclaimed to be the most demanding of the all the roles he had experienced. He died in October 2019, survived by Diana and their daughters Claire and Katherine.

From the eulogies by Claire Wrout, daughter, and Mike McDonald, colleague Office and Commonwealth . Foreign credit: Photo Ralph O’Neal at the Overseas Territories Consultative Council meeting in London in 2010. The Hon Ralph Telford O’Neal (Commoner as Overseas Service at St Mary’s Anglican Elementary and labour, and from 1988 as deputy OBE Student 1964) was the first premier School in Virgin Gorda, St Kitts-Nevis chief minister. He led the Virgin of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Grammar School, and the University Islands Party from 1999 to 2011 following the territory’s adoption of a of the West Indies. He came to Trinity (though like many politicians he had new constitution, which introduced a for a year to take the diploma in ‘crossed the floor’, having been at cabinet style of government. He was Government and Development, and times a member of two other parties). credited as being one of the longest- returned in 1967 to complete the He was chief minister and minister of serving members of parliament in the diploma in Economic Development, finance and economic development English-speaking Caribbean, and the specializing in the study of the from 1995 to 2003. He then served longest-serving elected official in the development of small countries. as the territory’s first premier and history of the BVI. In 2015 he was Having spent 20 years as a teacher minister of finance from 2007 to honoured by the House of Assembly and civil servant, he won his first 2011. with the title of Member Emeritus. election to the House of Assembly The prime minister of St Kitts and Ralph was born in 1933 on Virgin in 1975, and from 1979 served as Nevis, Timothy Harris, described Gorda, the third largest of the British minister for social services and then Ralph O’Neal as ‘an inimitable Virgin Islands, and was educated later as minister for natural resources fixture in Caribbean politics and a

84 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2018-19 flag bearer for the economic resiliency with African friends and colleagues George’s bedside’. George played and prosperity of small islands’ increasingly drew Peter into their football and spoke fondly of having and credited him for a significant self-questioning about the challenges scored a vital goal in a game for the number of infrastructure and services African nations have faced while second eleven. He lived a bohemian improvements, ‘just about every modernising and integrating into the lifestyle during his time at Oxford. fabric of modern-day BVI society global order. Having been unsuccessful in his bears his thumbprint.’ One policy of In 2000 Peter took early retirement, PPE prelims, George left the college his government was to grant freehold and moved with his family to the after one year. Following Oxford, land titles to allow residents, and Auvergne region of France. He he worked in publishing and wrote especially the young, to build their devoted the next twenty years to study poetry throughout his life, with own homes—he said he wanted and to writing a general history of an enduring love of music and the everyone to ‘get a fair share of the sub-Saharan Africa, acquiring a large outdoors. pie.’ library in the process. His book spans George died on 3 November 2019 He died in November 2019, and prehistoric times to independence, after a short illness and is enormously was given a state funeral. Only a and a central theme is how Africa’s missed as an active member of the month before the House of Assembly historic trajectory relates to that of community in Clapham, south had voted to rename the parliament’s the rest of the world. The sudden London, where he lived for the last central administration building after onset of illness prevented Peter from 35 years of his life. He leaves his wife, him. He is survived by his wife, Edris, continuing to publication, but his wife Penny Brooke, children Margherita daughters Esther, Cheryl and Abigail, Carolyn intends to carry that forward. and Gabriel, and one grandson. and son Ralph. She survives him with their children, Gabriel Huntley, son Harry, Deborah, Charity and Alexia and three grandchildren Peter Crispian Halse Robertson Simon Charles Mainwaring Little (Commoner 1964) was born in (Commoner 1969) Carolyn Robertson CEng FIMechE Edinburgh in 1946 and came was born in 1951, in Devonport, his to Trinity from King’s School, (Minor father serving in the Royal Navy. He (Anthony) George Huntley Canterbury, to read Oriental Scholar 1965) was born in October came to Trinity from St Edward’s Languages—Arabic and Persian. His 1946, grew up in Bramley, Surrey, School, Oxford, to read Engineering. special subject was Arab history, a and Boxwell, Gloucestershire, and He was a member of the Music wonderful experience which inspired was a King’s Scholar at Eton College. Society. a lifelong interest in history. He followed his father John (1926), During the course of his career After Oxford he worked for a and brother Graham (1961) to Simon was a director of a commercial few years in the Middle East for the Trinity. subsidiary of Wessex Water and ran a Iraq Petroleum group. Thereafter Arriving with a scholarship in management consultancy. He died in his working career was entirely with Classics, he decided instead to study September 2019, and is survived by Shell, and in 1985 it took him to PPE as a more modern alternative. his wife, Sally, and two sons. Africa, where he spent the next fifteen He lived on the staircase of the scout years, including two challenging but Cadman, who was described by enjoyable assignments as director friends as being ‘part of the college of human resources, first in Gabon, furniture [and] not surprised by the later in Nigeria. His interactions bottle of whisky and cigarettes by

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offer, whether as part of the first eight, in which he rowed at bow, the croquet team (competing in Croquet Cuppers, not at all successfully, possibly due to the many bottles of Trinity sherry consumed whilst ‘practising’), or patronising the Penultimate Picture Palace. Despite, or perhaps because of, a diagnosis of ankylosing spondulitis in the first year, he signed up for a parachute jump—a group of friends waiting apprehensively in The Roebuck for him to walk safely through the door. He made friends quickly—among them Louise Hebbourn and Clive Whitehouse (both 1979), with whom Tony later shared a flat in London whilst studying for the Bar. He moved to Birmingham in 1983. There he joined an international pensions consultancy, where in 1988 he met Joyce, whom he went on to Tony Corbett, far right, with the 1981 croquet team, in a photo by Mark Hughes (1979) marry. They lived in Bristol, before Economics, with a thesis on ‘The settling in west Berkshire when Tony 1970s dynamics of relative prices and was headhunted, in 2014, for the income distribution in an input- role of group pensions manager at output model’. Unipart in Oxford, which he enjoyed

(Commoner Returning to Italy, and following enormously. Stephen William Taylor 1975) was born in Reading in 1956, a period of research and teaching, he One of Tony’s great passions was the son of a warehouseman. He came worked in banking and then in public football. He was a lifelong supporter to Trinity from Reading School, to administration. of Sheffield Wednesday (for their read History. He died in December first Christmas together he bought 2019. Joyce a season ticket). He enjoyed Anthony ‘Tony’ William Corbett (Exhibitioner 1979) was born in visiting other football grounds, getting (Commoner as Swinton, South Yorkshire, one of to 166 in total. He also amassed a Michele Morciano BPhil students 1976) was born in three children, and came up to Trinity large postcard collection, mainly of Lucca, Tuscany, in 1948, and after from Mexborough School to read Penrose and Palmer cards depicting obtaining a degree in Economics at PPE. Oxford colleges. Tony and Joyce the Sapienza University of Rome, Tony was funny, good company and loved travelling and went on several came to Trinity for an MLitt in ready to enjoy what Oxford had to holidays a year—Jordan remaining

86 TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD | REPORT 2018-19 a favourite destination. When not fondly remember other creative Peter lived in London, Florence and travelling they were frequent visitors demonstrations from his time at Cornwall. to the theatre and cinema. Trinity, such as his generous hot dog Peter had an encyclopaedic Louise and Clive wrote, ‘We lost party, which imparted the ambiance knowledge of the European banking touch with Tony in the late ’80s. of an American baseball park to system, producing analysis and Earlier in 2020 we found a pile of his Trinity’s usually more sedate garden. research that was valued by financial old notes in our garage, layered in a On another occasion he impersonated institutions and central banks. His box with some of our own. We had Lord Quinton, the then president, in a working life combined this with his resolved to make a renewed effort to hilarious (and perhaps irreverent) skit passion for helping the disadvantaged, make contact, when we received our that involved large amounts of food working with many charities, Newsletter with the news that he had consumption and the spirited delivery including debt counselling charities died the previous September, far too of the song ‘I can’t get started’. and the Big Issue Foundation, of soon.’ That incident found its way into which he was a trustee for many Gill’s novel The Boozer Challenge, years. Information from Louise Hebbourn and Clive Whitehouse (both 1979), and Joyce Corbett published by Dutton in 1987, which Lost to illness tragically young, in demonstrated his prowess as a comic January 2011, Peter was survived by (Commoner writer. In a wide-ranging life, Gill also his parents, brothers and sister and Charles ‘Charlie’ Gill as advanced student 1979), who worked as an auto executive in Los a multitude of adoring nieces and has died aged 61, was a writer from Angeles, played tennis with avidity, nephews. a family of celebrated writers. He and inevitably charmed friends and Andrew Welch, brother arrived at Oxford after a childhood acquaintances with his erudition and in Bronxville, New York and having wit. (1986) came Jeremy Marc Josse earned a degree from Tufts University. He is survived by his sisters, brother, to Trinity from the City of London He immediately stood out from the and a daughter, Isabel Gill, who is a School. He read PPE and was a crowd with his amiable humour and senior in high school in Los Angeles. member of the Boat Club. He went passion for literature, and especially on to take a Master’s degree in Ted Gioia (1979) his beloved James Joyce. London, then qualified as a lawyer, One of the highlights of his time at before moving to New York, where Trinity was a Bloomsday celebration he worked in the financial sector. He (a commemoration of Joyce), at which 1980s died in 2018, survived by his wife and guests included Richard Ellmann, the three children. illustrious James Joyce biographer, (Scholar 1982) Peter John Welch and Charles’s father Brendan Gill, was born in Birmingham in June esteemed writer for the New Yorker. 1963. From Sir William Borlase’s But the addition to the festivities that Grammar School in Marlow, he came left most people talking was Charles’s to Trinity to read PPE. Irish potato salad, made in honour of After graduating from Trinity, Peter his favourite Dublin writer according got a further scholarship to complete to a recipe whose secret ingredients he his Master’s in Philosophy at John zealously guarded. Hopkins University in Baltimore. A His fellow students also lover of culture and fluent in Italian,

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Correction In the 2018-19 edition of the Report, the obituary of Christopher Lainé incorrectly gave his matriculation year as 1960; he matriculated in 1957.

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