CLARE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL 2013-14 ANNUAL CLARE ASSOCIATION CLARE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL 2013 - 14 THE CLARE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL 2013 - 2014 CONTENTS Page EDITORIAL 3 Sir FRED CATHERWOOD Obituary 6 Sir PHILIP DOWSON CBE Obituary 10 COLLEGE NEWS 11 MASTER & FELLOWS A formal listing 33 The MASTERSHIP of TONY BADGER by Patricia Fara (1998) 39 BENEFACTIONS & GIFTS 42 CLARE’S REMEMBRANCE OF THE GREAT WAR by Emma 49 Easterbrook (College Secretary) REACHING SKYWARDS a poem by Simon Currie (1956) 51 CLARE CHOIR IN VENICE by John Rutter (1964) 52 REMINISCENCES of NICHOLAS HAMMOND - Meredith Belbin (1945) 59 My ERIC LANE FELLOWSHIP by Tehmina Kazi 60 THE MASTER’S MESSAGE and picture 63 THE CLARE ASSOCIATION Report from the Alumni Council 68 The Lady Clare Fund 69 “OLD CLARE” NEWS 71 OBITUARIES 81 NOTICES and a DONATION FORM 123 Send contributions for the next Annual to [email protected] or to The Editor of the Annual, Clare College, Cambridge, CB2 1TL 1 ILLUSTRATIONS (mainly coloured) Page Illus 1a Tony and Ruth at the retirement dinner 1b Farewell event in the garden 4 Illus 2a Matured planting in Ashby Court 2b New planting at the colony (March 2014 ) 5 Illus 3 The late Sir Fred Catherwood 8 Illus 4 The late Sir Philip Dowson 9 Illus 5a Colin Forbes inspects the Collyweston slates 5b Remnants of the Tudor Court foundations revealed 13 Illus 6a San Marco; part of the choir in an antiphonal item 6b San Marco concert audience 57 Illus 7 Anthony, Lord Grabiner QC 66 Illus 8 The new Master is admitted 67 Acknowledgements: illus 2b Artur Illus 3 Carter Studio Illus 4 John Donat photography Illus 5a Sam Venn Illus 5b Roland Harris Illus 6a, 6b supplied by John Rutter (monochrome only) Other illustrations by the Editor, including the outside cover. 2 EDITORIAL The academic year 2013-14 will perhaps be most noted in memories for its farewells to one Master (Illus 1) and, at its end, the welcoming of a new Master (see Illus 7). In other aspects the year has evolved in a manner resembling other years, including the regrets of reporting two deaths among the Hon. Fellows. College News reports a further increase in the number of Fellows, with a background refrain of individual successes in various fields. There is also expression of thanks to donors, and a general thankfulness that the support of the College by its alumni/ae is so strong. The support by alumni is also clear in the items of interest, which are often regarded as the core of the Annual. Simon Currie offers a poem, and Meredith Belbin his recollections of days as a student. Most of all, I am grateful to John Rutter for his detailed account of Memories of Venice with the Chapel Choir. The advancement of the Alumni Council annual meeting to September instead of December is thought to be a helpful change. In the final part of the issue, a trend noted before continues, in that there are more death notices in “Old Clare” News, and there are certainly more full obituaries. You may not know any of the names, but there are some stirring stories there. Stephen Elstub notes that a further ten thousand bulbs have been planted in the avenue and we all look forward to an even finer display this spring. The new plantings in Ashby Court and the Colony are now well developed (Illus 2), although the latter has been disturbed by 2015 building work on Castlebrae. The thoroughness of the overhaul of Old Court is surely shown by Illus 5, on page 13. Traces of the Tudor Court, built ca.1523, have been found. 3 Illus 1a Tony and Ruth Badger at the retirement dinner 1b Farewell event in the garden : a portrait is on show 4 Illus 2a Matured planting in Ashby Court 2b New planting at the Colony (March 2014) 5 HENRY FREDERICK ROSS (Sir Fred) CATHERWOOD, a well-regarded holder of many public offices, has died at the age of 89. Born in Northern Ireland, he was sent to Shrewbury School and came to Clare in 1943. He read History for two years, and spent his final year in Law. He found his mother’s prediction fulfilled, that he would be making friends that he would keep for life. Fred Catherwood, John Marsh and David Leggett became such friends, three Clare contemporaries who remained in active touch. John Marsh married Catherwood's sister Elizabeth, so becoming brothers-in-law and their respective children were cousins. David Leggett's children decided they were thus honorary cousins, and so the friendship begun at Clare in 1943 has now spanned three generations, since Fred Catherwood's great-nephew David Weston (John Marsh's grandson) is also a Clare graduate. With Sir Fred Catherwood's death the last of the trio, who met through the Clare group of the Cambridge InterCollegiate Christian Union (CICCU), has passed away. Fred was already a Christian before coming up to Clare, but it was there, and in the CICCU (of which he was Vice-President) that he discovered the vigorous, thoughtful and socially compassionate Evangelicalism that was to be his life-long hallmark. His view of history and society, about which he would write much in subsequent years, were also shaped by his study at Cambridge. And he remained justly proud of his membership of the Clare rowing team that achieved Head of the River in the Mays, (actually for the fourth of four years 1941-44), a memory of which even illness did not rob him. After graduation, Fred qualified as an accountant in 1951 and joined the construction company Costain. His success is shown by the fact that ‘within a year he was made its Chief Executive’. He worked very hard and achieved similar success in other business posts. 6 In the mid 1960s he became director-general of the National Economic Development Council (NEDC). This gave him the job of bringing together the government, trade unions and management. Much has been written about the interactions in this triangle, both then and subsequently. After five years of this, Fred left and returned to the building trade, and he was knighted. He was one of the first Conservative MEPs in 1979, representing an area including Cambridge, and retired from the European Parliament in 1994. In general in his political career, his opinion was respected but he was not a leader. He sought consensus rather than offer political leadership. There was often more of a moral position in his thinking than some wished to adopt. He was a teetotal Ulsterman who took a Bible class every Sunday. Fred sought to apply Christian principles to the world of business, warning against excessive remuneration and use of industrial muscle. In his first book The Christian in Industrial Society (1964) he wrote ‘Luxurious expenditure is both depraving and a social evil’. He told the Church of Scotland that businessmen travelling the globe faced a culture of bribery, fiddling taxes and expenses and ‘other temptations’. He warned ‘The danger to democracy today does not come from communism, but from humanism’. Sir Fred's return to Cambridge in 1979, as the MEP, enabled him to re-establish direct contact with his old college, and his election as an Honorary Fellow gave him enormous joy. The care given him in his later years by the then Master, Professor Badger, was especially appreciated by the family. His Golden Wedding celebration took place in Clare in 2004, just before his long final illness became pronounced, and it was so fitting that Clare provided the venue for what turned out to be his swansong. Fred married Elizabeth Lloyd Jones in 1954, and they had two sons and a daughter, by whom he will be greatly mourned. 7 Illus 3 The late Sir Fred Catherwood 8 Illus 4 The late Sir Philip Dowson, CBE PRA RIBA 9 Sir PHILIP MANNING DOWSON Sir Philip Dowson CBE PRA RIBA was one of Britain’s most important architects. Educated at Gresham's School, Norfolk, he spent a year reading mathematics at University College, Oxford, before joining the Royal Navy during the Second World War and serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific theatres. He returned to study History of Art at Clare College, Cambridge, from 1947 to 1950, and then trained at the Architectural Association. He joined the engineering firm Ove Arup and Partners in 1953 as an architect and in 1963, with Ove Arup, Ronald Hobbs and Derek Sugden, became a founding partner and later chief architect of Arup Associates. Composed of an innovative and collaborative team of influential architects, engineers and quantity surveyors, Arup Associates' approach to design was rational, scientific, and based on a belief that the function of a building, the nature of the materials used and the necessary methods of construction should form the basis of design. For Clare College members he has special cause for recognition and honour in his design and guidance of the building of the Forbes- Mellon Library and its associated facilities. Philip Dowson’s plans for the building were drawn up and approved by the Governing Body by May 1983. An appeal to alumni for financial support ran from 1983-85, and was well supported. The completed building was opened by the University Chancellor, the Duke of Edinburgh, on the 11th of June 1986. Among numerous other awards and honours, Sir Philip Dowson was made a CBE in 1969, and received a Knighthood in 1980. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1979 and two years later was awarded the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture.