Wadham College 2018

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Contents

Fellows' List 4 Features The Editor 8 Making Connections The Warden 62 9 Thomas Hardy and Wadham The Domestic Bursar 66 12 Wadham Reminiscences Staff List 68 14 The Royal Arms The Finance Bursar 70 18 Kilvert's Diaries The Development Director 72 20 Reminiscences of T. C. Keeley The Senior Tutor 74 24 The Beit Trust The Tutor for Access 75 26 Travel Report The Chapel and Choir 76 28 The Goddards' Buildings The Sarah Lawrence 78 Programme Book Reviews 30 80 The Library 32 College Record In Memoriam Clubs, Societies 86 and Activities Obituaries 88 1610 Society Fellows' news 36 104 Wadham Alumni Society Emeritus Fellows' news 38 108 Law Society New Fellows 40 110 Medical Society Alumni news 42 114 Wadham Alumni Golf Society Degrees 43 116 Student Union Donations 44 118 MCR 46 Lennard Bequest Reading Party The Academic Record 48 Graduate completions 138 Sports Final Honour School results 141 Cricket First Public 50 Football Examination results 52 143 Hockey Prizes 53 145 Rowing Scholarships and Exhibitions 54 148 Rugby New Undergraduates 58 151 Women's Weightlifting New Graduates 59 155

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Frances J. Lloyd Lydia C. Gilday Oliver M. Butler Fellows’ list Domestic Bursar JRF in Chemistry Fellow by Special Election in Law Tarunabh Khaitan Fiona M. Powrie, FRS Hackney Fellow and Tutor Professor of Jack J. J. Miller WARDEN Oren Sussman Alexander C. Paseau in Law Musculo-Skeletal Sciences JRF in Medical Sciences Reader in Finance and Tutor Stuart Hampshire Fellow and in Management Studies Tutor in Philosophy Lord Macdonald of River Emma E. A. Cohen Sara E. Motta Andrew J. Princep Glaven Kt QC Tutor in Human Sciences JRF in Astrophysics Keeley Rutherford JRF in Paul J. Martin Mark S. Thompson Physics and Senior Treasurer Tutor in Politics Tutor in Engineering Jane Griffiths Olivia Vázquez Medina of Amalgamated Clubs FELLOWS Placito Fellow and Tutor Tutor in Spanish Matthew S. Kempshall Edmund M. Herzig in English and Tutor for Cliff Davies Fellow and Masoumeh and Fereydoon Monika Gullerova E. Jane Garnett Undergraduates Ursula H. M. Martin, FREng Associate Professor in Tutor in History Tutor in Modern History and Soudavar Professor of EPSRC Research Professor Experimental Pathology and Keeper of the Gardens Persian Studies in Computer Science and Tutor of Medicine Stephen J. Heyworth Francesco Zanetti Maurice Bowra Fellow and Tutor in Economics Senior Research Fellow Benjamin C. Berks Philip R. Bullock Tutor in Classics, Secretary Professor of Biochemistry Professor of Russian, Yeltsin Emilia B. Terracciano Alexander F. Ritter Karl B. J. Kügle Bowra JRF in the Humanities for the Wine Committee, and and Tutor in Biochemistry Fellow and Tutor in Russian, Roger Penrose Fellow and ERC Research Professor Steward of Common Room and Director of Music Tutor in Mathematics in Music, Senior Research Matthew J. Langton Caroline S. Mawson Fellow, and Keeper of the RJP Williams JRF in Senior Tutor and Tutor for Alan W. Beggs Peter J. Thonemann Julie C. Hage Silver Chemistry John Flemming Fellow and Admissions Forrest–Derow Fellow and Development Director Tutor in Economics Tutor in Ancient History Sakura Schafer-Nameki Fabrizio A. Caola Carolin Duttlinger Dominic P. Brookshaw Fellow and Tutor in Fellow and Tutor in Physics Ockenden Fellow and Tutor in Senior Research Fellow in Paul D. Beer Eric F. Clarke, FBA Mathematics Professor of Inorganic German Heather Professor of Music Persian and Fellow Librarian J. C. Séamus Davis Chemistry, Braithwaite Fellow and Welfare Dean Senior Research Fellow in and Tutor in Chemistry, and Samuel J. Williams Ankhi Mukherjee W. Thomas M. Sinclair Wadham College Law Physics Sub-Warden Professor of English and Tutor in Philosophy Paolo G. Radaelli Society Fellow by Special World Literatures and Tutor Dr Lee’s Professor of Election and Secretary of Rebecca R. Simson Richard Sharpe, FBA in English Experimental Philosophy Thomas W. Simpson Governing Body David Richards JRF in Professor of Diplomatic Senior Research Fellow in Economic History Philosophy and Public Policy Michael J. Bannon Christopher Summerfield Peter J. Alsop Colin P. Mayer, FBA Director of Postgraduate Professor of Cognitive Finance Bursar Peter Moores Professor of Juliane Zachhuber Medical Education and Neuroscience and Tutor in Susan M. Lea Fellow by Special Election in Management Studies Professorial Fellow Experimental Psychology Professor of Microbiology Emily M. L. McLaughlin Ancient History and Tutor for Women Fellow and Tutor in French Cláudia M. Pazos Alonso and Tutor for Equality and Senior Research Fellow in Andrew D. Farmery Darren J. Dixon Evan E. Easton-Calabria Sir Samuel Scott of Yews Professor of Organic Ekaterina A. Shamonina Diversity JRF in Social Sciences Portuguese and Brazilian Fellow and Tutor in Medicine Chemistry, Knowles-Williams Tutor in Engineering Science Studies and Dean Fellow and Tutor in Organic Stephan Rauschenbach Natalia Doan Chemistry Alfonso A. Castrejón-Pita Fellow and Tutor in Okinaga JRF in Japanese Colin Wood Fellow and Tutor Laura C. H. Hoyano Martin G. Bureau Physical Chemistry Studies Senior Research Fellow in Professor of Astrophysics, in Engineering Science and Nathalie Seddon Law Lindemann Fellow and Tutor Tutor in Biological Sciences Tutor for Race Christina S. M. Benninghaus Heeyeon Kim in Physics, and Tutor for A. F. Thompson DAAD Fellow JRF in Mathematics Philip Candelas, FRS Graduates Margaret Hillenbrand Alexander Steel in Modern History Rouse Ball Professor of Tutor in Chinese Lee Shau Kee’s Sir Man Kam Mathematics Lo Fellow and Tutor in Law

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Alice Roullière Kathleen M. Sullivan Keith G. H. Dyke VISITING FELLOWS Maziyar Ghiabi Ian McNab Fellow by Special Election Persian Clinical Medicine TT20 in Early Modern French Professor Sandra D. Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS Sorin Bangu Literature Fredman, FBA, QC Olivia Glaze Dimitris Papanikolaou John M. Brown, FRS Portuguese Modern Greek Robert Hannigan, CMG CHAPLAIN Francesco Licausi John D. Gurney Associate Professor and Stephen Goddard Rob Penfold Professor Sally L. Mapstone Revd Dr Jane Baun French Chemistry Tutor in Plant Sciences Richard E. Passingham, FRS Professor Robert J. C. Young Keeper of Jeffrey Hackney, Jeffrey Hackney Lucas Person the Archives SUB-DEANS Law French HONORARY FELLOWS Amelia S. Gentleman Gabrielle Beaudry Professor Stuart J. Russell David J. Mabberley, AM Otared Haidar Joe Pitt-Francis Lee Shau Kee Julien Du Vergier Arabic Computer Science Nicholas M. J. Woodhouse Kristina Kampfer Sir Michael Checkland FOUNDATION FELLOWS Keeper of Annabella Massey Stephen J. Goss, Adam Handel Joanna Raisbeck Sir Sydney Giffard, KCMG Pictures Neurophysiology German Alan Green Kate Sim Professor Peter Day, FRS Michael J. Peagram Christina M. Howells Max Hodgson Oliver Ready COLLEGE LECTURERS History Russian Wasim Sajjad Joyce Von Bothmer Graham G. Ross, FRS 2019-20 Rt Hon Sir Christopher Stephen W. C. Stow Simone Irmscher Autumn Rowan-Hull William F. McColl Michael Abecassis German Anatomy Rose, PC J. Kenneth Woods French Tao Tao Liu Sir Franklin D. Berman, Nicholas C. F. Barber, CBE Sarah Jenkinson George Southcombe Richard Ashdowne Chemistry History KCMG, QC Anthony C. Preston, CBE Jeremy P. S. Montagu Linguistics Matthew Benham Rt Hon The Lord Bragg CH, David J. Edwards Hiroe Kaji Richard Stacey FRS, FBA Alasdair J. D. Locke Hannah Bailey Japanese Clinical Medicine Robin W. Fiddian English John H. McCall MacBain, OC Peter J. Marshall, CBE, FBA Shio-Yun Kan David Staunton William W. H. Doo Capt Michel P. Sauvage, RN Guido Bonsaver Chinese Biochemistry Allan E. Gotlieb, CC, OM Italian Edwin W. S. Mok W. Michael G. Tunbridge Sir Roderick C. Floud, FBA Jenny Lemke C. V. Sukumar Carol A. Richards Rajendra Chitnis German Physics J. Bernard O’Donoghue Czech Rt Hon The Lord Dyson, PC The Hon N. P. V. Rothschild Reinhard Strohm, FBA Yiliang Li Cedric Tan The Rt Revd and the Rt John Dawes Economics Biological Sciences Neurophysiology Hon The Lord Williams of EMERITUS FELLOWS Nicholas A. Athanasou Oystermouth, PC, FBA Ian N. Thompson Tamer Malak Rachel Tanner Michael R. Ayers, FBA Daniel Eakins College Clinical Teaching Human Sciences Engineering Associate H. Allen O. Hill, FRS Colin J. Wood Andrew P. Hodges Reinier van Straten The Hon Peter A. S. Milliken, German Raymond C. Ockenden, C. V. Sukumar Mark Fricker Cathy Mason PC, FRSC Dean Of Degrees Biological Sciences Philosophy Ben Walker Sir David R. Winkley Editor Mathematics Geoffrey A. Brooker, KEELEY VISITING Alexei Gazca Orozco Jack McCarthy of the Mathematics Engineering Rt Hon Sir James Munby Wadham Gazette FELLOWS Simon Yarrow 2019-20 Clinical Medicine Professor Andrew C. J. Stephen M. Simpson Perry Blackshear Guadalupe Gerardi Colleen McGregor MT19 Spanish College Clinical Teaching Thomson, OBE, FRS Terence F. Eagleton, FBA Cinnamon Carlarne Associate Nahid Zokaei Sir Neil Chalmers Experimental Psychology

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there is a real dedication – the kind that only comes when the College is A successful seen, in an "of course" way, as meriting that attention. I need say no more on formula these and other activities, as they are The Editor fully dealt with in the contributions that Breaking Geoffrey Brooker follow. Last year's could not Gazette down contain an obituary for Professor Reza Sheikholeslami; John Gurney the barriers has written an appreciation that you The Warden will find here. I do not think that any of Ken Macdonald QC us guessed that Reza's life had had its tragedies; all we saw was a benign colleague and friend. Also happening too late for last year’s was the , our beautiful new Meanwhile, in the Back Quad, the Gazette AS I WRITE very untimely death of Botany tutor Ian Dorothy Wadham Building on Iffley new William Doo Undergraduate Centre Moore, a quite exceptional biologist. He Road is about to open. A finely and the Dr Lee Shau Kee Building, is likewise celebrated here. designed home for our second-year which contains Oxford’s first dedicated It may seem odd to focus here on undergraduates, it represents an access and outreach facilities, are other obituaries, but there is a sense important addition to the College rising remarkably from their footings. implemented to it. Attachment to Wadham, usually estate and a milestone in our efforts By the time you read these words, their LAST YEAR'S GAZETTE a small change of style, described starting as a student, is lifelong: to break down the barriers that It is one of form and shape will be real and visible. internally as "pithier", and that style skills, values, and friends acquired continue to discourage those from the great We are confident that these new seems to have been uncontroversial here continue into later careers and so-called non-traditional backgrounds qualities of additions to our surroundings will be As always within our readership. This year we achievements. Here we see, albeit from coming to Oxford. These Wadham planes and angles and textures of great comments, have continued with what seems to perhaps in a small statistical sample, new rooms, with their comfortable that our beauty, adding grace and accessibility positive be a successful formula; as always something of what that means in bedrooms and their expansive social physical to our much-loved foundation site. It is and comments, positive and negative, will enrichment of the lives of at least some and work spaces, will provide a haven spaces one of the great qualities of Wadham negative, be welcomed. of our alumni. from the vagaries of the frankly represent that our physical spaces represent will be A privilege of being Editor is that This year, we have "returned exploitative private rental market in architectural architectural beauty from so many welcomed I see the contributions as to normal" with Salome Parker Oxford, freeing students who lack beauty different periods. This fusion of time Gazette they are being assembled. So much keeping the Editor in order, much in the way of financial resources from so and style seems a happy metaphor for is happening: to have two building gathering information, checking that from strain and worry. So many people many a particular quality evident in Wadham’s sites at once would put stress on contributions have been received, and across Wadham have worked to different intellectual life over the centuries: our any institution's organisation, yet (new this year) assembling it all into the the limit to make this development periods optimism in humankind and in its arc of the bursars have cheerfully handled final typographical layout. The Editor is possible and I am profoundly grateful progress, borne of an abiding faith in the challenges, getting right the well aware that he is just the "front man" to each one of them. The Dorothy the constructive power of scholarship all-important details. On student for all the real activity, and takes the Wadham Building stands as their – past, present and future. This is a admissions, even more innovation opportunity to acknowledge that here. testament – and as a testament to all powerful blend and our new buildings shows that last year's successes have those who have given their support to will speak to it well. not been cause for any complacent Contributions for the 2020 should this creation. It is a new chapter in the It seems essential to point out that Gazette slowing-down. Here and elsewhere be submitted before 31 August 2020. life of our College. these Back Quad developments are

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thing: it signifies the great distinction Once again, this past year, it has of our academics and the increasingly been my great pleasure to travel international nature of academic life. abroad to meet alumni in many Naturally we miss those who go, but the different parts of the world. We extraordinary quality of our new recruits enjoyed wonderful hospitality in always fills me with confidence in the Canada, in the United States, in China College’s long-term future. and in Hong Kong. I want to thank This year we say goodbye to everyone who attended these events Professor David Conlon, Professor – you encourage us in more ways than Sallie Lamb and Professor Laure Zanna. you can imagine. Each has been an intrinsic part of And to all our alumni and friends, I Wadham’s intellectual and domestic life extend my customary invitations: do and we offer them our thanks and all keep in touch, do come to our events, best wishes for the future. do visit us here in College. There is so purely the product of benefactions such generosity seems particularly In turn, we are joined this year by much that is new to see here, among to the College, from the Doo Family important at present. We are deeply Professor Francesco Licausi, Dr Alice all those things that you remember and the family of Dr Lee, from our grateful for it. Roullière and Dr Juliane Zachhuber, and so well, and you are always most Foundation Fellows Alasdair Locke Times remain uncertain and there by Junior Research Fellows Dr Rebecca welcome. (Modern History and Economics, 1971) is much anxiety, in particular, about Simson, Ms Natalia Doan, Dr Heeyeon and Stephen Stow (Law, 1973), from the status of European Union citizens Kim, and Dr Evan Easton-Calabria. They Warren and Amanda East (Engineering, in Oxford after Brexit. Wadham is not are all most welcome and we wish them 1980 and 1981), from Heather Stevens immune from this. Yet the College every happiness at Wadham. Photos from the Topping Out ceremony, September (Experimental Psychology, 1976) and is explicit in acknowledging the 2019, marking the highest point in the construction of from so many more of you who have incalculable contributions made by Wadham’s new Undergraduate and Access Centres: Foundation Fellow and lead benefactor William W H Doo, been pleased to encourage us and academics, students and staff who and his son William Doo Jr (Law, 1993) (top left), Amanda to support us in our work here. The come to us from overseas and life and Warren East (top right), current students (below). truth is that we still need to raise more at Wadham is simply unimaginable and so we earnestly seek help from without them. I want to be clear that those of you who have not yet been we stand shoulder to shoulder with our able to become benefactors of these EU friends and colleagues, whatever new spaces. In their purest form, they their role in our community, and we will represent our vision of Wadham stand determined that Wadham shall as a first-class academic community remain their home. Anything less that is elite rather than elitist, open would diminish us. rather than closed. They will represent Change is a part of life here, and our confidence in the contributions not just in terms of the new buildings to human progress yet to be made springing up all around us. Our by future generations of Wadham fellowship is large and distinguished students and scholars. It is this project and each year some members of of centuries to which our benefactors, Governing Body leave, as others join. large and small, are contributing – and This process of renewal is a good

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accreditation. Amongst the long list of development opportunities this year, Head Chef Neil Mahon attended We are proud to report a prestigious two-day conference in the successful renewal Sheffield for professional chefs. of our Investors in Climate change is a hot-button People accreditation issue around the world. Wadham is fully committed to reducing its impact on the environment and agreed a new Sustainability Policy. We are investing in various initiatives, including the continuation of our rolling programme to replace our remaining fluorescent and incandescent lighting to LEDs using up to 80% less power. After the The Dorothy development). This epic project is the conversion of the Hall lighting to LEDs Wadham efficient process. Please read more Building Forging ahead result of extraordinary dedication from last year, we are pleased to report that Photo credit: about about sustainability initiatives in Domestic Bursar and Fellow Frances Lloyd all involved and the result is a splendid a similar project was carried out in the John Cairns the news section of our website. building providing a safe haven for our library this summer. Around 70% of In June, the Ball Committee, with students, as well as, we hope, birds and our total lighting is now LED. Low-flush support from College staff, organised bats in the nesting boxes incorporated toilets, traffic light shower heads and a spectacular event transforming our Safe haven, sustainability, success. into the façade. aerator fittings are also contributing to picturesque gardens with beautifully Maintaining and improving our a reduction of up to two thirds of the decorated marquees, colourful lighting, current buildings is still high on our normal water consumption in staircase live music, acrobatics, dancing and the majority agenda and we presented a five-year trials. The Dorothy Wadham Building rides. The triennial Ball was a glorious FOR MANY DECADES of the College’s second-year plan to Governing Body. This year, includes new technology which event to end the academic year and Guests undergraduates have rented private Staircase 20 has undergone a major integrates the production of usable attending one of the many College events where accommodation in Oxford, reportedly refurbishment; Staircases 13, 19, 31 heat and power in one single, highly the Ball we look forward to welcoming back our one of the least affordable UK cities and 32 have been given a partial ‘face- alumni. for housing (Centres for Cities 2018). lift’, including some exterior restoration We are forging ahead to complete From October 2019 the situation has and cleaning; some floors in the our second major building project dramatically improved following the McCall MacBain Graduate Centre have by autumn 2020: the William Doo end of a 4.5 year project. The Dorothy been refurbished; and we upgraded Undergraduate Centre and Dr Lee Shau Wadham Building, designed by Allies fire detection in five staircases. Future Kee Building. These inspirational and and Morrison and constructed by projects include the redecoration of fully accessible buildings will provide Gilbert-Ash Ltd, provides much needed the Holywell Street façade and partial new facilities of the highest quality. additional accommodation. We now upgrade works in the main kitchen. I am immensely proud of the have 137 en-suite bedrooms, including This year we are proud to report the achievements across all teams and eight accessible bedrooms, on the successful renewal of our Investors in would like to shine a light on everyone Iffley Road, bringing the total number of People accreditation, demonstrating and to thank them wholeheartedly College bed spaces to 570 (including our strong commitment to staff for making this past year particularly a further 20 en-suite bedrooms development. Wadham is one of successful. on the main site currently under only two Oxford colleges to hold this

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Non-academic staff list as at 1 July 2019 DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE AND HOUSEKEEPING KITCHEN OFFICE EVENTS OFFICE Head of Head Chef Neil Mahon Development Conference & Housekeeping A big thank you to all team members in the following list, and, Helen Wynn Director Events Manager Sous Chef of course, our many casual members, for contributing to the Julie Hage Jan Trinder Ravi Pothula Staircase Scouts College's achievements over the past year. Victoria Braich Deputy Conference & Events Third Chef Lisa Edwards Gary Bainbridge Development Administrative Nivea Franqueira Director Assistants Chefs de Partie Marco Zhang Rebecca Morris Liana Girskyte Poongaran Chandran Krista Karppinen Nedelina Ivanova Ruth Grant Domestic Bursar FINANCE OFFICE ACADEMIC OFFICE WARDEN’S OFFICE Executive Officer Frances Lloyd Rachel Saunders Anne-Marie Kelly Alex Jeffs Asma Khanom Elliott Peedle Chaplain Finance Bursar Senior Tutor Executive Assistant Individual Giving Reverend Peter Alsop Dr Caroline Mawson Tamara Fatima La O Sanchez Sam Walker Manager IT Jane Baun Parsons-Baker William Parry Moti Limbu Abderrazak Zouine PA to the Finance Academic Averil Plant College Doctors Bursar/Fellows’ Administrator Head of Website Research Officer Head of ICT Weekend Breakfast Dr Deborah Waller Dr Mike Froggatt Angela Jefferson Lee Wootton Namphueng Secretary & Communications Chef Dr Richard Silvester Katarina Bjurstedt Julia Banfield Phunphan Adrian Takacs Graduate Communication Senior Systems Sitarani Rai Jabegu Nurse College Accountant Administrator & Events Officer Administrator Kitchen Porters Carolyn Ruhle Vince Skeffington Heidi Young Salome Parker Gordon Berry Martin Simmons Luke Dawson Sashi Subba Gilman Soares Welfare Officer Senior Bursary Clerk Academic Support Database & IT & AV Technician Emma-Ben Lewis Jan Lees Crispin Raine Raj Surina Donato Belo Da Silva Administrator Planning Officer Dr Katherine Allen Graham Beake Teresa Szawan Vicente Payroll Officer Radha Tharmalingam Bishnu Thapa Tutorial Office Development Office Rupa Thapa DOMESTIC Bursary Clerk Administrator Administrator BURSAR’S OFFICE Joan Griffin Teo Rnjak Karen Farr Shanti Thapa Assistant Access & Outreach Warden’s Deputy Domestic Accountant Officer Housekeeper Debbie Taylor Dr Hugh Munro Justyna Bursar LIBRARY Neil Tindall Miklaszewska Finance Assistant Admissions Officer Anthia Cumming Libby Charlton Domestic Librarian General Assistants Tim Kirtley Bill Gerrow Bursar’s PA Access Assistant Sarah Mitchell-Butler Dr Catherine Seed Carl Parfett Assistant Librarian Francesca Heaney Gintas Venckevicius HR Manager Academic Records Joanne Perkins Shomik Mukherjee Manager Rare Books Catherine Boyle Sean Kelly Accommodation Cataloguer Sandra Bailey Officer/HR Assistant Persian Studies Jo-Ann Wheble Section Co-ordinator Mohammad Emami

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Leavers from July 2018 until June 2019 SCR & HALL LODGE WORKS GARDENS We thank the following former colleagues for their Head Butler Head Porter Building Services Head Gardener Darren Munt Mark Hogarth Andrew Little Manager valued contributions and wish them all the best in Chris Cox Deputy Head Deputy Head Porter Assistant their future endeavours. Terence Nowland Butlers Maintenance Gardeners Jacqueline Person Michael O’Day Porters Operations Jasen Bustin Robert Ayres Sophie Pitts Manager Alan Slater Joanne Yeomans Assistant Butlers Aliz Filus Maria Slater Elisa de Andrade Ann Shaw Fred Pledge Birtukan Markus Electrician & SPORTSGROUND Scout Assistant Gardener Carpenter/Joiner Catering Service Vilmos Kovacs Night Porters Supervisor Assistant Maria Diccon Harris Simon Peedle 11/06/2018 19/10/2018 21/12/2018 Groundsman 25/04/2019 Rodriguez Guillen Radoslav Korcok Martin Cofield Claudette Bishop Rachel Roberts Izabel Cromack Carpenter/Joiner Scout Database and Scout Tom Walter Stephen Coleman Alan Bennett Catering Services Boatman Planning Officer Assistant Butler Peter Wheeler George Hudson 12/06/2018 31/12/2018 Assistants Joiner 05/11/2018 06/05/2019 Samuel Batra Bruce Mortimer Florin Pateanu Virginia Rodriguez Assistant Butler Scout Abderrazak Zouine Mariola Serednicka Naomi Bryant Chef de Partie Deputy Housekeeper MERIFIELD Painter SARAH LAWRENCE Kevin Dawson 30/06/2018 31/12/2018 PROGRAMME 09/11/2018 15/05/2019 SCR/Hall Assistants Arpad Takats Sophie McIntyre Gito Lal Chef de Partie Website & Communi- Manager H&S and STAFF Diana Ciolcan Neringa Bernotaite Nedelina Ivanova Lindsay Kennedy Catering Service cations Officer Assistant Butler Maintenance 06/07/2018 Assistant Assistant 10/01/2019 20/05/2019 Cellarer Scout SLP Director Zahra Stark Chris Davies Ludovina De Araujo Shaun Johnson George Southcombe Individual Giving 09/11/2018 Marta Puckovicova Sheikh Bin Sh Said (Maternity Cover) Manager Housekeeping Scout Emma Dearman Maintenance Maintenance SLP Administrator Events & Comms Supervisor Agnieszka Susan Mattheus 13/08/2018 24/05/2019 Assistant Assistant Officer (maternity) Sabolova-Lebiedzka Kris Lambert Kieran Carton 18/01/2019 Kate Sim Pilar Mardones (Maternity Leave) Sub Dean (main site) 23/11/2018 Scout Dorota Wacinska Scout 17/08/2018 Alvaro Salas 12/06/2019 DOROTHY Assistant Butler 31/01/2019 WADHAM Wendy Wale (maternity cover) Karolina Chaplain BUILDING Joel Sawers 27/11/2018 H&S and Mainte- Kolodziejczyk 19/09/2018 Deputy Housekeeper nance Assistant Rachel Paniagua 13/06/2019 Diana Surrage Executive Assistant Residential Scout 01/02/2019 Operations to the Warden 30/09/2018 Srey Neung Lim Manager 14/12/2018 Merifield Scout Melissa Lyon Rebecca Moor Kyle Grant 15/02/2019 EA to the Warden IT Support Assistant (maternity cover) Marta Roszak 14/12/2018 Scout 12/10/2018 Joana Perrone 01/03/2019 Berni Boyce Sub Dean (main site) Scout (fixed term) - MT Luis Obispo Assistant Butler 19/10/2018 15/12/2018 09/04/2019

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term. Our land holdings are generally institution, obviously through high-quality arable farms on long education, research and debate. leases, investments which should As a consumer, by reducing energy We borrow to weather most storms – saying use, both through the design of our support our much for the foresightedness of new buildings and improvements students, not to Dorothy’s forebears! Though there to existing ones. (See news from speculate was a steady recovery through the Domestic Bursar on some of to the summer, it was a reminder these initiatives.) As a purchaser of how dependent we are on the of equipment, supplies and food, national and global economy. The through using lower-impact supply pound fell by nearly 10% over the chains, such as reducing waste, year which has divergent effects: at sourcing more local produce and home the costs of imported goods consuming less red meat. As an and services is rising, while our investor, we reviewed and updated the overseas investments look better ethical statement in our investment in pounds; and internationally our policy, with climate impact being Oxford degrees (again top-ranked the main consideration. Here we in the world) may offer even greater struggled with conflicting evidence support of these projects, and we are value, but our ability to attract the on what makes a difference, and the hugely grateful – more than £15m of best global talent in research and temptation to settle for dramatic but donations and legacies have been teaching is challenged. Last year, possibly ineffective gestures. Many Investing received or pledged to date. The universities across the UK saw strikes investments are branded as ethical, College has borrowed £35m for 30 in response to proposals further to or “ESG”, and our work will be cut out in the future years from two private placements at reduce pension terms for academics, to find financially robust options with very competitive rates, and we tighten and an uneasy compromise is now a credibly positive impact on climate The Finance Bursar our belts to cover the remaining in place with higher contributions by change. Peter Alsop funding gap. It was pointed out that employees and employers. Costs are Our work Within the Bursary, our small historically Oxford Colleges held land rising in many other areas, and will will be cut finance team has handled additional Financial volatility, climate change and bonds, but now equities feature step up next year with new staff and out to find work from our development projects, considerations and supporting the strongly and we issue rather than services for the Dorothy Wadham financially on top of all the normal invoices, future of education. buy bonds. It is quite a change, and Building. We do not know what to robust payments, and payroll activities, while I believe Wadham should remain expect on student fees and funding options our accountant implemented new another “full on” year. Most visibly, prudent on our exposure; we borrow to in the future, bringing another source accounting data structures. It seemed IT HAS BEEN with a on Iffley Road our Dorothy Wadham Building was support our students, not to speculate. of uncertainty to all. Happily our credibly a bit like operating on one’s own made ready for second-year students to move in, We are an educational institution in conference business has contributed positive appendix, while also continuing to run and in the Back Quad we saw the demolition of the form of a charity, and our finances excellently this year, due to the impact on on a treadmill. Yet again, the IT team the Goddard Building; the ground works and the should focus on supporting our sustained hard work of all involved, climate has quietly supported the computers steel frame of the Dr Lee Shau Kee Building and educational aims. but we shall become ever more reliant change in the College and at the same time the William Doo Undergraduate Centre rise up in its Financially it was a volatile year. on such non-fee income to support set up the new systems for the stead. Both projects have seen thrills and spills, but By Christmas, equity markets were our students. Dorothy Wadham Building. All deserve I am delighted to say that the first was completed down around 15%, while property We have also been increasingly my thanks for another year in which on budget, while the second is progressing continued to soften. But our asking ourselves how we respond to they have kept the show on the road well. Our alumni have responded wonderfully in investments are diverse and long- climate change. As an educational and risen to the latest challenges.

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on an annual basis. Thanks to your gracious alumni hosts in Hong Kong You have unrestricted gifts, we have one of (Charles Cheng, 1979), Toronto (Eileen enabled the most successful annual funds in Gillese, 1977) and New York (Fiona a seismic Oxford: the Wadham Fund supports Schaeffer, 1993) for opening the doors shift in the 20% of all students during their course to their beautiful homes and elegant College’s ability with some form of hardship grant. Your offices and creating news bonds of to support donations toward graduate provision friendship and collaboration. students have established more than 32 This year’s illustrates on every Donor Report scholarships so we can attract some in greater depth how the generosity step of their of the best international applicants, of alumni and friends enables the educational before they receive an offer from College to remain an inclusive and journey. a better endowed North American academically vibrant community. This university. With the munificent comes with our renewed Gazette leadership support for the Back Quad and warmest thanks for your appeal we are now £3 million short of encouragement and friendship, as well our £18 million target. We hope you will as for your outstanding generosity. all consider adding your name to the donor wall in Oxford’s first dedicated encouragement and your donations Access Centre and inspirational new of all sizes you have enabled a seismic Undergraduate Centre ahead of the Strengthening fair shift in the College’s ability to support opening in October 2020. students on every step of their The vibrancy of the global Wadham access to an Oxford educational journey. community never ceases to impress As I write, a humbling £39 million has and my outstanding colleagues in education been secured from 2012-2019 toward the Development Office have worked our £40 million target, and this past tirelessly to offer 1,600 alumni and Development Director Julie Hage financial year alone, 22% of our alumni guests a warm welcome to an intense gave £5.4 million to Wadham’s core programme of networking events, activities. The launch of our first giving reunions and talks over the past year. day in May 2019 was another inspiring The trips to visit our international the College’s £40 million manifestation of this generosity: 279 alumni hubs are increasingly important WHEN WE LAUNCHED “Access to Excellence” campaign in 2014 it alumni supported our #WadhamProud and we are deeply grateful to our was, admittedly, with some trepidation. We were campaign and donated over £100,000 proposing a step change in the way Wadham was – the most successful giving day at 1993 1985 identifying, supporting and nurturing talent from all any Oxbridge college. William Doo Jr Maurice Ostro Development 1969 1973 backgrounds and the aim was to secure the largest The impact of your support Colin Drummond OBE DL Tim Parkes Council Members 1981 2001 fundraising target in Wadham’s modern history to has been praised by successive Amanda East Sachin Patel 1980, Chair 1977 1974 support these efforts. Universities Ministers and highlighted Warren East CBE Flora Fraser Anthony Preston CBE 1984 1966 Richard Grigson Lindsay Sharp However, the commitment, munificence and in the Government’s report on fair 1959 1993 1976 Nicholas Barber CBE Victor Lee Heather Stevens CBE resourcefulness of our alumni and friends all over the access [note the 2018 OFFA Report]: 1961 1971 1973 Frank Berman Alasdair Locke Stephen Stow world in supporting this programme to strengthen your donations have enabled a 1973 1979 Rory Coonan John McCall Chris Taylor fair access to an Oxford education have been trebling in the number of pupils from 1984 1980 1950 Tom Daniel MacBain OC Kenneth Woods nothing less than awe-inspiring. With your time, your disadvantaged schools we support

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3 Eileen Gillese (Law, Benefactors' 1 6 and 7 1977) hosts an alumni 5 Garden Party, July 2019. garden party at her Amelia Gentleman 8 house in Toronto. 6 (History and Russian, Wadham Wednesday 1991) in conversation 2 in Hong Kong. with Fellow Jane Garnett, Alumni gathering in San about the Windrush 3 Francisco. scandal, at the Circles' Fiona Schaeffer (Law, event in February 2019. 4 1993) hosts an alumni 1986-89 Gaudy, March 9 drinks reception at her 2019. offices in New York. Wadham's first ever 10 1994-97 Gaudy, March Giving Day, May 2019. 5 2019.

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OUTREACH AND ACCESS 2018-2019

New in collaboration inbound 49 events 53 with other colleges, day trips 6,000+students involved opportunities departments and to Wadham charities Senior Tutor and Tutor for Admissions 212access Dr Caroline Mawson events across 23 sessions 87 talks Working with the University sustained contact delivered programmes in link-area schools represented to further develop access schools 450+ schemes. across the UK

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rest based in the UK 10% 23% 67% EU of world Oxford’s and faced by some students. Wadham Foundation Oxford – two programmes is immensely proud to be involved in Opportunity Oxford 773applications from prospective undergraduates designed to support the intellectually the development of these schemes, able but educationally disadvantaged and, by virtue of generous donations, – were announced in early 2019, and has secured funding for their first five forge significant new connections years. We shall be one of the very first 91female applicants 63male applicants between Oxford’s access and Oxford colleges admitting for both. 401candidates interviewed offered places offered places admissions work. Opportunity Oxford will provide a cross-university series of summer school programmes for During the 2018-9 academic STUDENT NUMBERS – DECEMBER 2018 offer-holders from under-represented year Wadham students sat 1,849 backgrounds. will examinations and 116 undergraduate Foundation Oxford provide an entrance route to students students completed their Final exams. whose background or disrupted The College’s results, both graduate 704registered students education make the achievement of and undergraduate, represent a great Oxford’s standard grade requirements achievement for many of our students. postgraduate 21% unachievable, providing a year of Most notable within the undergraduate research courses Oxford-based study as preparation cohort this year are the Historians for the associated Oxford BA/Masters (an amazing eleven firsts), amongst postgraduate taught 9% course, or for further study elsewhere. whom we also saw the highest first in courses Both are visionary and bold moves the University, and the Chemists, the undergraduate 66% to broaden access to Oxford without majority of whom were awarded first- courses diluting the quality of degrees it class results. offers, or ignoring the difficulties visiting students 4%

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We have ambitious plans for further highest potential. growth in 2019/20. In her contribution We are, by Oxford standards, a highly to this year’s , the Senior socially diverse community, and we Gazette Tutor reports on two exciting new are academically the stronger for it 'The point is university-level initiatives to increase (Wadham consistently sits near the top the numbers of students from the of the Norrington Table). Students from to change it' most disadvantaged backgrounds the maintained sector today make up coming to Oxford. Summer 2020 will 66.8% of Wadham’s UK intake, one of Tutor for Access see our inaugural Modern Languages the highest proportions of any Oxford Peter Thonemann Summer School, fully funded through college (only Hertford and Mansfield Access and Outreach a generous donation from the McCall take more). 10.5% of our UK intake MacBain Foundation. Our flagship come from areas of high socio- at Wadham, 2018/2019 sustained engagement programme economic disadvantage, and 14.4% with talented pre-16 pupils in Luton from areas with limited progression to (highlighted by OFFA as a model for higher education. Wadham continues the HE sector more generally) will this to be the living proof that a diverse unashamedly elite Outreach programme is a no-brainer. autumn be rolled out to the whole of undergraduate body, shaped by an WADHAM IS AN institution. We are in the business Thanks to your support, Wadham Bedfordshire; six new ‘hub’ schools energetic Access and Outreach of recruiting young people with continues to have the best-resourced across the county will help us deliver a 2019 Classics programme, can only drive academic exceptional academic potential, those and most impactful Access and vastly expanded academic curriculum summer standards upwards. school on a most capable of benefiting from an Outreach programme in Oxford. In enrichment programme to small visit to the #WadhamProud? You bet. Oxford education. Extraordinarily 2018/19, the College ran approximately groups of Year 10s and 11s of the Ashmolean talented 17-year-olds can be found 200 separate access events with Museum everywhere: they come from all sorts school pupils, working with around of backgrounds, and attend every 6,000 young people; 67% of the kind of school, from Grange Hill to pupils we work with are classified Malory Towers. But self-evidently, as ‘disadvantaged’ on at least not all brilliant 17-year-olds have one indicator. We ran 89 ‘inbound’ the same educational and cultural events, 30 of them full-day events advantages. Some are held back by for Year 9 and 10 pupils from our academic under-achievement earlier designated link regions (East London, in their school career; others have Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire), all of the right grades, but still do not apply whom participated in academic taster to us, believing (quite wrongly) that sessions with Wadham’s tutors and Wadham is not for the likes of them. graduate students. Our residential A college that wants to recruit the summer schools in Classics, Biology, thought-leaders of the future has to Engineering and Maths continue to do everything it can to narrow both the go from strength to strength, with ‘attainment gap’ and the ‘aspiration gap’ increasing numbers of summer school between the brilliant but disadvantaged alumni (all from the most under- and the intellectually ordinary but represented backgrounds) going on educationally privileged. For a college to make successful applications to like Wadham, an active Access and Oxford.

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from Wadham’s Library. Chapel’s Organist, whose joy and expertise commitment to providing a spiritual in music-making delight and inspire Going from home for Wadhamites of all faiths (and all who attend Evensong. Thank you none) inspired an Evensong curated also to Chapel Wardens Rose Lyddon, strength by Sarah Lawrence Programme Kei Patrick, Juliane Borchert and students, which drew on the ancient Samson Dittrich, who worked hard to to strength Jewish roots of Evening Worship, and ensure that candles were lit, guests Chaplain an break-fast celebration hosted welcomed, lessons read, and the Revd Jane Baun Iftar in the Ante-Chapel during Ramadan, Chaplain kept calm! following the Chapel address by Evensong highlights and alumnus Dawood Gustave (Modern History, 1999). celebrations aplenty. Evensong takes place Dr Katie Pardee reports: The Chapel Choir enjoyed another in Wadham Chapel every Sunday in busy year, capped off in late June term at 6pm, and all are welcome! Spring/Summer 2019 saw the with a Yorkshire pilgrimage to sing at joyous occasions of the baptism Beverley Minster, where Wendy Wale is from Clarke spoke movingly of her work in of the infant son of Katharine and now associate priest. The College was WADHAM CHAPEL WENT strength to strength in 2018-19, palliative care, to a 100+ congregation, Adam Handel (Clinical Lecturer in thrilled by the generous gift from the building on the sure foundation laid by including Wadham alumni junior Neuroscience at Wadham); the family of former Warden Claus Moser the Revd Wendy Wale, Chaplain 2014- doctors. The Revd Dr Andrew Gosler marriage celebration of alumni Mary of an elegant harpsichord, built in 1972 Below left: 18. I am so grateful to Wendy for her reflected eloquently on creativity in Gallagher and Michael Bennet, and Zoe Reed by Clayson & Garrett after a historic kindness and forethought in ensuring a evolution, delighting students with the weddings of alumni Chris McGurk Sanderson 1776 instrument. The harpsichord (2016, smooth transition, and to the inimitable a dawn birdsong identification walk and Alice King, and Amelia Cook and Classics), was dedicated in a splendid concert Jonah for ceding his place presiding the next morning. Also in Hilary, the Gabriel Lambert. The latter couple met cello, and in May featuring Wadham singers and over student breakfasts, teas, and Chapel hosted an exhibition of the while rowing and coxing for Wadham, Director string players. With all the wonderful of Chapel meetings as Welfare ‘Cat’ with such photography of Ana Victoria Jiménez, and came out from the Chapel under Music instruments now in the Chapel and the graciousness to Maggie Mae. Sunday ‘Mexican Feminism in protest, 1964-90’. the traditional crossed blades. Katharine talents of our hard-working choir, we Choral Evensong has continued to term commenced with Grateful thanks are due to Dr Katie Pardee, are looking forward to a rich musical Trinity harpsichord draw appreciative congregations, what we hope will become an annual Pardee, Director of Chapel Music, year in 2019-20. Photos by with average weekly attendance of 60 celebration of the consecration of and Dr Julian Littlewood, Chapel Julia Banfield students, Fellows and friends. Wadham Chapel (29 April 1613). Our Highlights in included Chapel Birthday Party Evensong was Michaelmas Remembrance services for the Great sung in the presence of Wadham’s War centenary, and a student panel own 1611 King James Bible and discussion ‘gathering the graces’ of needlepoint kneelers attributed to Queer Week. Standing-room-only Dorothy Wadham herself. Wadham’s College and Alumni Carol Services kitchen outdid itself in preparing a concluded the term in style, in a birthday feast in Hall, finishing with festively-decorated and beautifully sumptuous cakes specially made candle-lit Chapel. for the occasion by Oxford librarian- Amongst term Chapel historian Marjory Szurko, after Hilary speakers on ‘Creativity’, Dr Rachel actual seventeenth-century books

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Luckily for me, the most challenging Left: even the smallest efforts can make a parts of my time at Wadham, SLP students difference. The Sarah Lawrence eventually, became my favourite at Wadstock, Frankly, every moment of SLP was Programme: May 2019 /sɛrə́ lɔrənś prógræ̀ m/ parts. It is nearly impossible, however, rewarding. It easier to choose the to choose between the array of most challenging part of the year. moments that changed me while This was the last week, and having noun 1 opportunity of a lifetime; abroad. Learning how to bike was fairly to say goodbye to everyone I had global paradigm shifter. rewarding. As was travelling in Europe come to love so much. But as a very 2 a close knit group of responsibly! Academically, it is even wise woman told me, it wasn’t really c. 30 passionate scholars, harder to isolate the “most rewarding goodbye because I will always take inquisitive young adults, world part”. Writing two succinct 2,000 word with me the person I became at adventurers, and the most essays a week must at least be on Wadham. supportive family a young adult my shortlist. In Michaelmas, I wouldn’t could hope to be a part of. have believed it possible to release my perfectionist tendencies and turn in papers punctually. But by Trinity, I , there seems proudly turned in an Undergraduate WHERE I COME FROM to be an unspoken agreement Thesis... a full day early! As the SU amongst those who graduated Representative, I never would have long ago that upon meeting a guessed the work I put into making our A rewarding 20-something-year-old, who has SLP group a family would be so greatly just returned from their time abroad, appreciated, yet all of the end of year experience the ensuing conversation must thank yous and hugs showed me that be structured in the following way. The first part involves only feigning Sarah Lawrence Programme SU Rep 2018-19 interest in your experiences, “AHH!

Sarah Blanche Klein How WONDERFUL! Study abroad was the BEST time of my life!” This rarely Sarah Lawrence programme requires a response beyond some students 2019-20 Sarah Lawrence Programme SU quick validation, delivered from your Jana Ababneh Jemma Fisher Shin Narita Representative 2018-19, Sarah very own youthful smile. SLC SLC SLC The second part is more taxing. Sofia Aguilar Jason Fresnedi Mina Omer Blanche Klein, takes a nostalgic look SLC Pitzer SLC After waxing on about their own Tamanna Arora Melanie Greenberg Brooke Pauley SLC SLC SLC at her time at Wadham and the SLP time studying abroad, the speaker Yi Fei Cheng Qing Huang Lucy Russell family of which she grew to be a part. will suddenly recall that you are part Swarthmore SLC UC Berkeley Sanjana Anushka Joshi Devi Sastry of the conversation. Engaging once SLC SLC Conroy-Tripathi SLC Lucy Jurina Anna Schechter again in the classic dialogue, the SLC SLC Clay Cortez adult will proceed down two lines of SLC Chelsea Liu Espen Swanson SLC Reed Matthew Cote questioning: SLC Madeline Moore Ceylan Swenson SLC SLC a) “So, what was your favourite part?” Clarence Dodge SLC William Moran Jamilyn Taylor SLC SLC b) “So, what was the most challenging Sophie Edwards SLC Margaux Morris Yixing Zhang and/or rewarding part for you?” SLC Reed

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our Persian Studies Section Co- ordinator Mohammad Emami, who Our rare books films has been progressing very well with have now been viewed various cataloguing projects. The on YouTube nearly following families donated books to seventeen thousand Rare books and the Ferdowsi Library in 2019: Alizadeh, times. Brookshaw, Djalili, Doostdar, Foadi, exhibitions and Rahmani. We are very grateful for their generous support of Wadham’s and Assistant Librarian Fran Heaney College Librarian Tim Kirtley Persian Library. has been doing a wonderful job Exhibitions held include an early looking after reader services. We science books display for the Physics were delighted to work with the Continuing with conservation work MaNGa Collaboration Conference SU People of Colour and Racial and taking pride in showcasing the in April, while back in October we Equalities representatives who set college's collections. collaborated with six other colleges to up a ‘Liberation books’ display in the transform ourselves into a stop on a library readers’ area. 27 titles were walking tour where participants could identified for purchase that focus on view selected items from each of the issues around gender, race, sexuality colleges' collections of incunabula, and class. The display ensures that our wonderful from different perspectives: the Civil being books printed before 1500. texts are readily available for anyone IN AUGUST 2019 colleague Sandra Bailey retired. War, the Restoration, the history of The reading room and book wishing to read more widely in these Sandra joined Wadham in 1986 as reading and of printing, and a global collections saw, as ever, heavy use areas. College Librarian, a post she held for comparison. Our rare books films have 23 years, before relocating in 2009 now been viewed on YouTube nearly to the library vaults to become our seventeen thousand times. enthusiastic and knowledgeable Early Fifty years after it was first reported Printed Books Cataloguer. Sandra’s missing, a herbarium dating from contribution to Wadham Library and c.1750 containing 300 dried plant the College has been immense and specimens was returned to us. An there are countless people, from antiquarian bookseller who identified freshers to professors, who have the book in an auction catalogue benefitted from her professionalism, alerted us and we were delighted to expertise, and warm-heartedness see its return (free of cost). over the years. We thank her most Continuing the theme, this year we sincerely for her fantastic contribution commissioned conservation work on to the College and wish her all the very three beautifully illustrated botanical best with her retirement plans. works: Leonhard Fuchs, De historia In January we took delivery of the (Basel, 1542), stirpium commentarii second batch of 17th & 18th century Gerarde’s (London, 1636) and The unique Herball th broadsides gifted to us by Wadham Elizabeth Blackwell, 18 Century A curious herbal Herbarium, alumnus Bruce Burke. We now have ( , 1737). sine loco returned to 38 broadsides and will be recording a In the Persian Section we were Wadham film that will consider the broadsides delighted to increase the hours of this year

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Classics, 1969 Earlier in the day we had our usual In any given year, legacies typically ColinPresident, Drummond 1610 Society The 1610 Society ‘academic’ event, in this case a account for around £1m or 20% of display of early scientific and other Wadham’s total philanthropic income. texts (including Newton’s ) (In this year the figure was in fact Principia Supporting the College with legacies. from the College’s library. This was a little higher, at £1.3m.) They are followed by an update on College hugely important to the College – the developments and particularly on the revenues the College receives for ground breaking work we are doing on teaching and research on current access. Then before dinner we had our government funding formulae are ‘YOU CANNOT STEP into the same Heraclitus, the weeping one. commemorative Evensong at which simply not enough to cover our river twice,’ said the pre-Socratic This year’s 1610 Dinner took we commemorated the following access work or our system of tutorial philosopher, Heraclitus. What, you place on 6 September and attracted friends who passed away during the teaching. may well ask, has this statement on as usual around 100 members and year: Our membership of 406 includes all identity by ‘the weeping philosopher’ guests. Tracy Hofman (English, 1978) known legators. You are automatically got to do with our Society? Well, spoke inspiringly about what the Music, 1950 invited to be a member if you let the Leo Black consider our membership. It continues College meant to her and why she College Development Office know Rebecca Davis to grow in numbers and now stands is supporting it; she paid particular Modern Languages, 1978 you are including the College in your at 406, a very healthy increase over tribute to her good friend and 1610 will (or are a significant lifetime donor). Geoffrey Fallows the total of 260 ten years ago. But it Committee member Rebecca Davis Literae Humaniores, 1960 This figure excludes legators about is not quite the same people – over (Modern Languages, 1978) who Below: PPE, 1949 whom we do not know – if you are one Guests at Walter Frank that period some 100 members passed away during the year; and PPE, 1949 please do let us know. the 1610 Michael Goldman have passed away to be replaced by her words resonated strongly with all Society Modern History, 1940 For the coming year your Pat Jolly approaching 250 new members. In present. I am delighted to report that Dinner, Physics, 1950 Committee’s plans are focussed on September Bryan Knight another ten years the identity of our Tracy has been unanimously elected 2019 Chemistry, 1958 targeted marketing towards alumni/ Photo Robert Mais members will inevitably have changed to serve on your Committee as of Modern History, 1951 ae (alumnos/alumnas?) aged 35 to 50, credit: Greg David Parry still further. However the essence of October 2019. Smolonski Natural Science, 1949 the age at which many people start John Webb our Society will not have changed – a to draft wills. We are also assisting group of like-minded people who the Development Office in its plans love our College and what it stands for a further London event, in St for (particularly perhaps in terms of Paul’s Cathedral with its Wadham 1610 Society access), who want to support it with Committee Members connection through Sir Christopher legacies or significant life time giving, Wren, in the second half of 2020. and who greatly enjoy the opportunity In short we believe the Society is of getting together for our annual in good heart; the individuals change 1979 1610 Dinner and associated events. Colin Drummond Ross Hutchison but the vision remains unchanged; we 1969, President 2001 It’s a thoroughly congenial institution. Sachin Patel would love to have more friends and 1987 1977 We welcome new members because Diana Blease Claudia Pendred colleagues join us; and we hope that 1974 2003 they add to present fellowship and Julie Curtis Leon Pickering the Society and more importantly the 1991 1963 enjoyment and mean future money Jeremy Evans Joe Romig College, root and branch, will continue 1969 1967 for the College. In terms of spirit we Tony Halmos Andrew Smith to grow and flourish. 1976 1964 are much more akin to Democritus, Victoria Harper Nigel Tricker 1978 the laughing philosopher, than to Tracy Hofman

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Physics, 2001 Sachin Patel Wadham Alumni Society President, Wadham Alumni Society

Alumni engagement and Wadham Wednesdays.

THE WADHAM ALUMNI SOCIETY was encourage everyone to join. If you would formed to encourage links between like to meet up with local Wadham Wadham alumni and all former students alumni, it is very easy to do. A public bar Right: at Wadham automatically become or venue being the only requirement, Guests at members when they leave College. and the Development Office would be the 2019 Wadham Over the past year, we have, once again, more than happy to help with contact Alumni helped bring Wadham alumni together in and logistics. During 2020, we hope to Society cities across the world. continue to experiment with different Dinner, September We celebrated at the main Society formats and events, to appeal to 2019 Photo Dinner in College on 7 September, where different generations of alumni. credit: Greg alumnus and Honorary Fellow Robert Our committee is growing and we Smolonski Hannigan (Classics, 1983) spoke on continue to seek out enthusiastic the topic of ‘China and Cybersecurity’, new members and also ideas and sharing his fascinating insights on policy suggestions for initiatives and events and partnership with China during his – please feel free to reach out to any tenure as Director of GCHQ. Next year’s of the committee members via the dinner will be on Saturday 12 September, Development Office. and I urge you to join us. Just a year ago, I reported on the The Society’s social and networking enormous success of the ‘final BOP’ in initiatives continue to grow. The informal the old JCR. As I write this, the shining Wadham Wednesday events, which new William Doo Undergraduate Centre started in London and spread across and the Dr Lee Shau Kee Access Centre the globe in recent years have been have taken the place of the old 1950s tremendously popular. These have buildings. These new facilities will be a 2007 Wadham Alumni Wadham Alumni Frederic Kalinke taken place, thanks to local volunteers, truly fantastic addition to Wadham, and 2003 Society AGM Society Committee Elizabeth Kim in Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester, I envy the students who will be moving 2001 Notice is given of the next Members Jason Leech San Francisco, New York, Hong Kong, in to use those spaces from academic 2006 Annual General Meeting of the Daniel Rolle Singapore and Sydney as well as year 2020. If you are interested in 2001, President 1999 Wadham Alumni Society, to Sachin Patel Rohit Sen London. In particular on 22 May, several learning more or contributing to this 1979, be held in association with a Ross Hutchison cities organised their own Wadham programme please contact Julie Hage Vice-President Fellows: briefing on the activities of the Martin Bureau, Wednesday to coincide with College’s or Marco Zhang in the Development 1957 College, currently planned for Julian Anderson Julie Hage, Ankhi Mukherjee first ever ‘Giving Day’ to celebrate Office, to whom we are deeply indebted 2007 Development Office Staff: before the Alumni Dinner Mike Edwards and give back to Wadham. We would for their tireless and wholehearted 1982 in College on Saturday Duncan Enright William Parry, Rachel like to thank the alumni who arranged support of the alumni community and 12 September 2020. 1986 Bruce Gibson Saunders, Marco Zhang these events in their locale and would our society.

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for the Tutors Oliver Butler Law Society Student Chair of WCLS 2018-19 Julia Brechtelsbauer also had great interaction with law firms, including Eversheds Sutherland, Clifford Chance and Davis Polk. Expanding student opportunities In Hilary, we had amazing direct and connecting with alumni. interaction with alumni at our annual WCLS London trip. We visited Reprieve, The London trip is the where Maya Foa spoke about current epitome of what makes projects and how to get involved in WCLS so special human rights law. We were kindly again TUTORS’ REPORT STUDENTS' REPORT accepted to visit the Law Commission OUR STUDENTS have excelled in THE COMMITTEE this year recognised to talk to current research assistants, examinations this year, with three the great potential of Wadham Law and engaged in a discussion about very well. I would particularly like to Distinctions in the BCL/MJur (including Society, and wished to expand and hate-crime legislation. Later in the day thank Samuel Williams for helping the Prize in International Law of the Sea demonstrate its utility as a tool and we visited the Royal Courts of Justice, with this event; both being the author for Sam Walpole), two Firsts in FHS and unique benefit which not all Oxford Law where we received a tour from Finnian of the problem and judge of the moot. three Distinctions in Mods alongside students enjoy. Through the society Clarke, Judicial Assistant of Lord I am really grateful for his enthusiasm very many high upper seconds. and the incredible alumni network Justice Singh. Finnian also organised to help students. WCLS also mooted Our thanks to this year’s WCLS we organised events which certainly for us to have a talk with Lord Justice against Christ Church Law Society student Committee, who organised a opened the eyes of the students to a Timothy Holroyde, which was excellent. in Trinity, kindly sponsored by Allen series of successful alumni networking great variety of opportunities. The day ended with drinks at Middle & Overy. The mooting was of high and mooting events, including the HSF This year allowed for great Temple, which was again a wonderful standard, and the day was highly Disability Mooting Competition and the interaction with Wadham alumni at the environment for students and alumni to enjoyable. Special thanks must be new Wadham/Christ Church moot. We bar. In Michaelmas, alumni from the mix. The London trip is the epitome of given to Sarah Lee QC and Geraint were also kindly helped by many alumni Northern Circuit came to visit, giving what makes WCLS so special, and I am Webb QC for judging, to Esi Armah- who offered their time to judge moots students insight to a path not many grateful to all those involved in the day. Tetteh for coming from A & O and and participate in the WCLS student are exposed to. I would like to thank all It made me extremely proud of WCLS. giving an excellent presentation, and London day. the barristers who came for that event, This year saw great expansion of to Oliver Butler for providing great The annual dinner was very well but especially our alumni Nik Yeo and college mooting. As previously, the tutor support. attended by both current students Anja Lansbergen-Mills. Later that term students were heavily involved with the I would like to further thank my and alumni. WCLS Alumni Chairman was also the annual bar panel. This HSF Disability Mooting Competition, fellow committee members for all Lord Justice Timothy Holroyde gave event was particularly successful and with most of the committee coming their work during this year, and the the after-dinner speech. We are very extremely useful to students. I would from Wadham and two undergraduates helping hand often given by other grateful for his support this year, like to thank Hollie Higgins, Brad Lawlor competing. The annual Wadham students. This year the committee including giving a talk at the Royal and Asma Nizami for sharing their Moot was also a great success. gives a further thanks to the tutors; Courts of Justice for current students experiences. This year the students Special thanks are given to HSF for without their help, guidance and as part of the WCLS student London sponsoring the event, Peter Carter support, the events would be day. QC, Dan Hudson and Tim Leaver for extremely difficult to organise. We look forward to welcoming judging. Two new mooting events were members back to Wadham for the next organised this year. Speed moots A great variety of annual dinner in Hilary term. allowed students to try out mooting opportunities in a less formal environment and went

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Emeritus Fellow Richard Chapman Medical Society Stephen Goss Wadham Alumni Golf Society Mathematics, 1968

Activities and grants in the year. Welcoming all alumni golfers of any ability.

I'M GLAD, as always, to have met a EACH YEAR golfing alumni play for nearest the pin on the 15th hole), Hywel number of Wadham medics in College the Whitby Cup which is presented Davies (34), Geoff Green (34), Nigel Cook during the year. We had a good look to the champion Wadham golfer at (32), John Ford (32). at the works in Back Quad to replace We have again been a dinner in College. The 2019 event Also playing were Wal Gray, Haydn Gott, the old JCR Building and Staircases able to give major was the 14th occasion that alumni Richard Chapman, Jon Rayman, Nick 16 and 17: quite our biggest building travel awards have gathered for golf, during which Smith, Martin Cofield, Rod Bayliss, Robin project on site since, from the balcony time we have visited four courses in French, Douglas French and Bob Fowler of my old rooms, I watched the Bowra easy reach of Oxford: Frilford Heath, (the latter two playing in their first Whitby Building going up some 30 years ago. service. Finally, Trinity Term brought Henley, Temple and Huntercombe. Cup). The latest work is due to be completed that special variety to our topics The format of the day is to meet in the After the golf 14 players returned to this coming summer, and I'm sure that that we so much enjoy: our speaker, late morning and play 18 holes in the College for a fine dinner in the Trapp we did well to postpone our triennial Professor Robert Arnott, was an afternoon before going to College for Room, beautifully catered and served by reunion until then; we'll be inviting you historian of medicine with expertise the prize-giving dinner. A visit to the Wadham staff. Robin French, who has by email, as usual, in the new year. in archaeology and paleopathology. King's Arms is often on the agenda, played in every Whitby Cup competition, This year's termly meetings have His talk, time permitting, and was obligatory presented the trophy and prizes to Peter Who needs a hole in the Below: again been popular and informative, in 2019 because the JCR was out of Lennon. head? Cranial Trepanation Ancient Robin and the opportunity for students , gave an overview of action due to the impressive building French The 2020 event will be played again at and Modern to meet right across the six year the development of trepanation and works in the back quad. with 2019 Huntercombe on Friday 18 September. Whitby groups has been much valued. The its intended purposes right up to The 2019 venue was Huntercombe Cup winner, Golfers of any gender and any ability are Michalemas Meeting and black the controversial practice of self- Golf Club near Nettlebed and the Peter welcomed for what is a very sociable Lennon tie dinner was brought forward to trepanation! Our thanks are due to weather was set fair for us. In the old- Wadham avoid a clash with rehearsals for Emma Flint, Student President for the fashioned clubhouse surroundings occasion. Tingewick, and we had an all-time year, for arranging these meetings. we were treated to bacon rolls before For those record attendance (43 students and This year, we have again been able the golf and tea and cakes afterwards. with handicaps teachers) to hear my successor, Dr to give major travel awards. One was In between these treats some of of 20 or Monika Gullerova, talking on her work given to an undergraduate to visit the 16 participants played some lower, there on Turkey, and another three to support excellent golf with Stableford scores is also the Transcription and DNA Damage which she does with her group at the three clinical students' electives in at the top of affairs quite bunched. Intercollegiate Pathology School. In Hilary, Dr Victoria the Far East – many thanks to all old The dry weather and the lethal greens tournament at Young, a consultant in interventional members who gave us extra donations contributed to difficult scoring but Frilford Heath radiology, spoke on to make that possible. despite this all enjoyed the test we on Friday 17 Thrombectomy: A . I am greatly looking forward to seeing were set and the top six players were: April 2020. game-changer for acute stroke care She is responsible for developing as many of you as can come to Oxford Peter Lennon (35 points) (winner on Oxford's mechanical thrombectomy next summer. countback), Jim Congleton (35) (also

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PPE, 2017 SulamaanSU President Rahim 2018-19 Sulamaan Student Union and Alasdair at Oxford Pride, holding the Wadham A busy and rewarding year. SU banner Photo credit: Phoebe Bachsleitner (PPE, 2017)

THIS YEAR has been another exciting for the brilliant new facilities and one for Wadham SU. We’ve been increased accessibility that it will bring. incredibly busy, putting on a huge In a similar vein, we were all excited to number of events – highlights include see how the Dorothy Wadham Building hosting Maria Munir for a talk on non- progressed over the year and worked Below: binary identities during Queer Week, closely with College to ensure that it Wadstock, May 2019 a brilliantly successful Queerfest was as affordable as possible and to celebrating the repeal of Section put measures in place for those who 28, and of course a great Wadstock might be struggling financially. showcasing lots of Wadham’s It would thus be remiss of me to musical and poetic talents. On top not mention the wonderful work done of this, as always, Wadham SU has by all of the College officers – those been incredibly supportive of the without whose help and advice we myriad extra-curricular interests of as an SU wouldn’t have been able to its students and we have been able achieve everything we have. We are to help fund countless societies, certain that this mutual co-operation magazines, student drama productions, will continue and push both the SU accessibility campaigns, alongside and College to be the best they can donating thousands of pounds to a be. number of charities! Next year will see the culmination of This year has proved to be a tough the building works inside College and but rewarding one, having to make I know everyone is excited to see the some accommodations due to the results of this wonderful project. It has unavoidable disruption of the building been my pleasure to work with such works. But, in true Wadham spirit, hardworking and talented committee we kept the Wadham community members and College officers to alive, happy, and together. With great ensure Wadham’s vibrancy and plans in place from my predecessor, community spirit continue to flourish Jack Wands, we were quickly able to and to help represent students’ acclimatise to our new bop and JCR interests and concerns. I have deeply spaces, and the JCR kitchen on Bar enjoyed my year as President and I Quad has proved exceedingly popular! have no doubt that my successor, I think I speak for everyone when I say Alasdair Leeding, and his committee Student Ball, July 2019 that we can’t wait to see the finished will make 2019-20 another great year Photo credit: Marie Wong project and are incredibly excited for Wadham SU!

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DPhil Organic Chemistry, 2018 writing) we still managed to squeeze MCRGalina President Badalova 2019-20 MCR in some ice-skating and pottery- painting evenings. After all the hard work was done, we enjoyed A thriving and supportive community. ourselves during chocolate tasting and various exchanges (for example between Exeter and Wadham), selflessly organised by Wine and Dine Officer Janette, highlight of which included a trip to Cambridge. THIS HAS BEEN a very successful and baking event held by wonderful Leonie We are also grateful to Sarah Beth eventful year for the MCR. I only joined Ne, during which we concluded that we for organising Whiskey and Wine Wadham as a first-year DPhil student would have definitely won the GBBO. tastings. The academic year came in Organic Chemistry in October 2018 Around Christmas time, we had of opening up a first-ever feminist to an end with a camping trip to and, while I am spending most of my an array of events, highlights of bookshop in Italy. Together with the Snowdonia, kindly organised by a days in the lab swirling chemicals which included a trip to the Botanical talk, the Graduate Centre’s library team led by Aaron Graham. around, I am proud to say that MCR Garden’s Christmas fair (Paula turned into an exhibition space with I feel very fortunate to be part of quickly became a true second home. Kaanders) and a trip to see the photographs and texts. A “public art such an incredible group of people, A warm welcome was given to all the Blenheim lights. The crowd favourite crawl” was led by Juliane Borchert, many of whom have so many Freshers to kick-start the academic – boardgame night – was kindly during which we explored Oxford’s talents that they are willing to share. year, carefully planned and executed organised by George Webster and finest art, and looked at the city I am always overwhelmed with by Eddy Yeo and Janette McKnight. Owen Smith to round off festivities, through tourist’s eyes. Adam Golinski the active response and endless A range of events catered for all – an and of course we had the spectacular organised and led an AI and machine- support of this community, whether evening out in Summertown, hiking College Christmas dinner in Hall. learning event, during which he (and it is in academic or social matters. through Port Meadow (towards the We have also been quite active some other Wadham graduates) I’m very proud to be representing Perch pub), quiz night (courtesy of in the art scene. Jasmine Anouna spoke about their research. this wonderful community in the Harry Mason), live music, cocktail night organised an In February, eight graduate next academic year, and I am Italian Feminist and a subject welcome dinner in Hall. conference, where speakers students from Wadham spent excited to see what adventures are Bookshop We spent a good proportion of from Italy came over to Wadham Reading Week at the Oast House, an in store for us! Michaelmas Term celebrating new and shone light on the challenges 18th century National Trust brick-built friendships and feeling festive. The house, complete with a fireplace in Graduate Centre was turned into a very the sitting room. During this reading spooky place around Halloween time, week, they used the time to challenge followed by some impressive pumpkin their minds during the days, complete carving during one of the themed with hiking to challenge their bodies. nights. Following that I took the liberty Meanwhile in Oxford, Sarah Lawrence to host a Roald Dahl themed evening, rep Sarah Klein put together an open- consisting of movie screening ( mic night – who knew that we have so Charlie , of course), many singers! and the Chocolate Factory mini-lecture beforehand and trivia During quieter down-times in afterwards – followed by copious the spring term, while preparing for quantities of chocolate. We also had a exams (and cracking on with thesis

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Peter Thonemann Lennard Bequest Reading Party 2019 Forrest–Derow Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History

A memorable and hard-working week on the south coast of Cornwall.

MARCH 2019 saw the 48th annual Applications for the reading party Wadham reading party to Cornwall, were invited from all current Wadham led by Peter Thonemann and Ray undergraduate students. (Much Ockenden, with the energetic of the cost of the reading party is assistance of Raphael Utz. As in met through the generous bequest previous years, we stayed at Lamledra, of a former Wadham history tutor, a beautiful Edwardian house on the Reggie Lennard, and subsequent south coast of Cornwall, which has contributions by reading party alumni.) this year acquired an exciting new The 13 successful applicants included armchair. This was the first reading students from several different year party to take place in the shadow of groups and subject areas, ranging its literary immortalisation by Fenella from Biology to Russian and Czech. Gentleman ( , 2018), Our sole repeat participant was the The Reading Party and participants rose admirably to the curiously-coiffed Conor Williets, whose identification of a new, if not especially challenge. cool hand with the compost-heap rats dynamic species of seal. was much appreciated, and to whom Evening entertainment included we owe a particular debt of gratitude the world’s first four-second Fine weather allowed for refraining from cooking this year. performance of Macbeth, Vita Bax’s for several trips out Seven hours each day were effortless dominance of the Hat along the beautiful reserved for quiet reading, with Game, and a memorable round of Cornish coast members of the reading party Murder in the Dark, enlivened by working on topics from cosmology Izzy Taylor’s surprising miscellany Bax’s lemon egg and Phoebe Hill’s to Ovid’s . Invigorating meal- of squeaks. Raphael Utz’s sheepish pecan brownies proving particular Fasti time conversation ranged from local dramatisation of the downfall of Seb highlights. The traditional Friday night variants on the Lord’s Prayer to French Rees’ wardenship matched Hedda fish and chips induced mild hysteria denture-related expostulations. Fine Gabler for tragic pathos, as did Ella in all concerned, culminating in the weather allowed for several trips out Sackville-Adjei’s solo rendition of placement of one over-excited student along the beautiful Cornish coast. A Yasmin Meyer playing puppet-master on Fortnightly Report. The proposed spirited Zumba session at Hemmick to the late Naomi Miall. introduction of daily breakfast caviar Beach was followed by an impressive The Reading Party’s relentless may have to await further financial mass swim, and an excursion to the march towards veganism reinforcement of the Lennard Bequest. Iron Age hill-fort on the Dodman notwithstanding, evening cuisine was A memorable and hard-working 2019 peninsula was marked by the of exceptionally high quality, with Vita week was had by all. Reading Party group

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(Economics and Management, 2017) for the First XI but the match was notable for its Owen Eddershaw (PPE, 2017) for the Second XI SECOND XI – FREEBOOTERS Cricket Daniel Gunn inclusion of two mates visiting Will A strong, although compact, Sealy (German, 2017), despite Will’s season for the Freebooters. being unable to play himself. If this is indicative of the nationwide spread of Booters cricket, I fully expect my AS IT HAS for time immemorial, the successor to have to fend off interest FIRST XI Freebooters side has fostered a sense from overseas players the world over, A season which took eight of cricketing unity in Wadhamites of all all desperate to earn a prestigious weeks to get started. When we did get the ages, experiences, and abilities. Similar Booters cap. chance to return to the to the First XI, we’ve been unfortunate All that remains to say is a massive pitch, we really made it with weather and other sides forfeiting congratulations to next year’s IT WAS a bittersweet season for the count in style against us. I can only presume this skipper Ralph Covill (History and First XI this season, with particular was due to their terror at the prospect Economics, 2018), who I’m sure will emphasis on the bitter, as the one of Wadham’s very own in Josh of losing to a team playing firmly in carry on the Booters legacy and reasonably appealing final league table Sambrook, as well as ringers sourced accordance with the ‘refreshing’ rules give us all a reason to follow Pat really doesn’t come close to reflecting from St Hilda’s and Bristol University of Booters cricket, and yet remaining Collins’ (Biochemistry, 2016) lead and the torrid season we endured. 3rds. surprisingly competent with both bat devise INgenious ways to show our We knew from the start that it would With the season brought to a close and ball. It has to be said that, at times, availability for fixtures well into the be a struggle to consistently get sides with Wadham somehow securing a there was a genuine threat of some 2020 season and beyond. together, however the season began mid-table finish in division 2 as well proper cricket breaking out. with high hopes as the boys suffered as a cup quarter final having actually The annual 1XI vs Freebooters XI First XI vs a narrow and promising defeat to played just one league and two cup game at Merifield at the start of Trinity Freebooters XI, 2019 division 1 side Trinity in the cup. games, the traditional President’s XI was a great success, with a strong Photo credit: Sofía Unbeknown to us at the time, this was game and dinner with the Old Boys contingent of around thirty players Sanabria to be the last time we fielded a side was, as ever, a particular highpoint of making their way up Banbury Road that de Felipe and played a game of cricket until 7th the term. afternoon to whet their appetites for (History, 2018) week due to a calamitous combination A big thank you to Martin the the season with a taste of God’s own of lots of rain and a lack of players for groundsman who managed to prepare sport. As would become thematic for both our own team and all the other the highest quality wicket in spite of the summer, the weather remained college sides. This meant the majority the shocking weather, and to Tony for a persistent threat, but thankfully of the season was sadly non-existent continuing to offer to Umpire even we got through our allotted overs in bar some highly enjoyable, alcohol though we never managed to get to spite of some quite torrential drizzle. infused net sessions. play a match which he could attend. Congratulations to whichever side won Despite this, when we did get the I am pleased to hand the captaincy (for some reason the latter stages of chance to return to the pitch, we baton on to Theo Harris who I know the game remain something of a blur really made it count in style recording will do his upmost to try and make next to me) but as Sam James (French and crushing victories in the cup and season more fruitful than the last and Linguistics, 2017) put it, “cricket was our one and only league game of get the Wadham 1st XI back to where the real winner”. the season. Both wins embodied we belong in the 1st Division. In our single competitive game Wadham’s diverse nature, with the of the season we unfortunately performers of the season featuring registered a loss against Pembroke,

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(Engineering Science, 2018) Hockey Women'sDaffodil team Dhayaa and Mixed team captain 2018-19

Hockey success for Wadham Girls’ and Mixed Teams.

WOMEN'S HOCKEY MIXED HOCKEY OVER THE PAST three terms, Wadham OUR MIXED TEAM consists of an has put out two very strong sides in even split between boys and girls, (Biological Sciences, 2016) both a Ladies’ and a Mixed league, captained by both Theo Harris (History Molly Weiland Football Women's team captain 2018-19 combining with Trinity College. and Economics, 2018) and myself. Coming in as a fresher and taking on Our Mixed team narrowly missed out Top of the league and a promotion to the role of captain was a challenge I advancing through Cuppers, after a competition – the Hassan’s Cup, in was happy to take on, and I was keen loss to New College. However, they Division 1 for Wadham/GTC Women! which we made it to the semi-finals, but to get as many new faces involved held their own and managed to beat sadly the team was floored by a nasty with hockey as I could. This year we’ve Lady Margaret Hall in the League and cold in 6th week, resulting in a forfeit had a record-breaking number of give some great performances against THE WADHAM/GREEN-TEMPLETON and an end to our cup journey. beginners take part, as well as some St Anne’s and Queen’s, despite being a College Women’s football club has Fortunately, in the league we were Blues and University players making goalie short! had yet another successful year! After much more successful, again with up the core of the team. Our Ladies’ Special mentions must go to bringing home the Cupper’s trophy excellent turnouts for almost every Team has proved to be a force to be our captains at Trinity, Marina and last season there was some concern match. Results such as 5-3, 4-1, 5-0 reckoned with, after beating St Peter’s James, as well as some outstanding for this year, due to the loss of several and 8-1 left us comfortably at the top and University, and putting up a strong performances from our very own key players to graduation. However, of the table, and we suffered only a fight against St Edmund Hall. Many Wadham players, including Will Sealy, despite being unfortunately knocked single defeat in the last match. new players joined the Ladies’ Team Alasdair Leeding, Hannah Harringdon, out of Cuppers, we managed to come Special mentions go to Josie this year, and it was great to see them Hannah Szczepanski, Kitty Low and top of the league table which means a Pierce, who won top goal scorer in the learn from those more experienced, Josh Silverbeck. promotion to Division 1 for next year! Women’s leagues with 10 goals in just increasing the strength of our team. All in all, the hockey at Wadham this After numerous enthusiastic sign- 4 games, Laura Jennings, who scored year has grown into a social society ups from the Freshers' fair, our first the winning goal in her footballing for players of all abilities to join and match had a whopping turnout of 16 debut, and Isla Chaplin, who not only get involved with. We’re hoping to players! Unfortunately, this was the first suffered a mild concussion from her continue this trend into next season round of Cuppers, in which we drew commitments on the pitch, but will also and get promoted in both the Ladies’ our rivals from the final last season: Above and be captaining the team for the 2019/20 A social society for and Mixed leagues. We’re keen to help the notorious ‘Foxes’, made up of pages 34-5: season. integrate new players into the society, Final match players of all abilities to an amalgamation of post-graduate of the Of course, thank you to Martin join and get involved and start improving the team with season colleges. Safe to say, they got their Photo credit: Cofield the groundsman for all his hard training and, of course, new kit! Watch revenge, with a hefty 9-0 defeat. This Rachel Kiki work, and best of luck to the girls next out for Wadham! meant a relegation into the plate Tabizel year!

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2018-19 Men's Captain there was just one more competition to fill the eight for all four days, the M3 Jackson Cooper-Driver Rowing (Engineering Science, 2017) for the M1 to face: the Henley Boat was supported by some coxes! They 2018-19 Women's Co-Captain Races qualifier. There was stiff fought valiantly and put the knowledge (EnglishZara Shepherd-Brierley and Modern Languages, 2017) competition for the chance to race, they had accrued coxing to good use. and the M1 really had to work hard to In the event, the M3 dropped only two Remenham, Henley, Torpids and Summer Eights. come out on top. They were victorious, places, maintaining their position as however, and won the opportunity to one of the highest third-eights on the represent Oxford at the Henley Boat river. races. We were to face Caius College, The M2 had another successful the Lent bumps headship crew in bumps campaign and managed to managed to get out at least once a Cambridge. Despite all our efforts, we move up one place, though technically MEN’S ROWING week. were defeated but still went onto enjoy they benefitted from St Anne’s being EVERYONE ARRIVED in Oxford for In the run-up to Torpids, the top two a night out in Henley meeting with our awarded a penalty bump. Many of this the start of Michaelmas 2018 ready crews entered Henley Fours and Eights Cambridge counterparts. It was here crew will form the backbone of the M1 and raring to go for a new year – this Head. This is a fantastic event which we discovered the make-up of their next year. included the new freshers, many of WCBC traditionally enters as part of our squad, with many a Blues rower in their The M1 itself had a mixed Eights. whom were interested in trying rowing. bumps build up. Both crews had a good ranks, and felt slightly better about our Starting off with solid rows in the first Throughout Michaelmas, there was row with the M1 coming second in their defeat. three days, we unfortunately then a core group of eight or so seniors who division. With Summer Eights coming caught a bad ‘crab’; Teddy Hall were trained together in preparation for the For many, Torpids was their first taste two weeks earlier in the term than on us and we were bumped. It was a Remenham Challenge in December. of bumps racing, and the format always Torpids, there wasn’t enough time for tough way to end what was a great The Remenham Challenge was the first provides thrills and spills! M1 had a a warmup event as in Hilary. Despite term of rowing and for some of us our indicator of how the squad was shaping tough week trying to bump Pembroke this, the top two crews trained hard last ever race in Wadham colours. up for Torpids. The men’s side entered (by now Wadham’s arch rival). We gave and made sure that they didn’t suffer It is sad at the end of this year to two boats in the competition – the M1 it absolutely everything over the course from the shorter build-up. The M1 were have to say goodbye to James Evry from Michaelmas, and an alumni eight of the four days getting to within a bolstered by Patrick and Adam Roberts, who have been organised by James Evry. Taking place canvas on the last day! Sullivan returning from the staple of Wadham rowing for so on the Tideway on a freezing Saturday The M2 also had a highly successful the Oxford Blue Boat, long. Both stroked the M1 for periods morning, the Remenham Challenge Torpids, rowing over on all four days. and he offered valuable The format always this year and they will be sorely didn’t disappoint; despite the cold Given their position of seventh in experience to the newly provides thrills and missed – it’s going to be difficult to both crews enjoyed the race and the division three (making them the second formed crew. The M2 spills! find someone who sets quite as good celebrations that followed. highest second eight!), this is a great also benefitted from a rhythm! They and others who are Hilary approached with the crews achievement. On the last day, they the return of Cam leaving have enjoyed their time rowing shaping up nicely. The M1 was looking managed to hold off Green Templeton, Higgins, who brought for Wadham and will be sad to go. strong with the return of James Evry, preventing them from getting their 30th his expertise to a largely inexperienced It has been a great honour to as well as Jacob Scorey and Ben bump in a row. crew, many of whom had only started captain the men’s side of the boat club Crane returning from their term off. The M3 had a challenging Torpids, rowing at the beginning of this year. this year. Aidan Gallagher will be taking The M2 was made up primarily of the dropping six places. Despite everything, The top two crews had prepared well the reins starting in Michaelmas and M1 from Michaelmas although it was the M3 thoroughly enjoyed what was for Eights Week, and the M3 benefitted I’m sure he can continue the upwards also strengthened by a few returning for many their first taste of bumps, and from many alumni returning to Oxford trajectory of the last few years. members. 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WOMEN’S ROWING the women’s squad became two boats deep. Despite our determination, there IT HAS BEEN quite a year on the were setbacks, and we were forced to women’s side of the boat club, with lots take the bad with the good. Co-captain of successes, lots of laughs, and lots of Kate Aston sustained a back injury for frosty, rainy and sunny mornings. the whole term, and it therefore only Michaelmas was a very exciting term seemed fair that the other co-captain with the intake of two novice boats of Zara Shepherd-Brierley should catch women who hit the ground running with the flu in time to remove both captains various tank, water, and gym sessions, from the crew for a while. A thus coached by the incredible Rod Andrews. modified W1 headed off to Henley on The novice first boat reaped the rewards yet another grey and miserable day, of their hard work and came away with a and it sadly wasn’t our best row. When Christ Church win for the second year in the week of Torpids came around, we a row! The second novice crew raced as were fired up, with the captains back in a crew-date with a Brasenose crew; they the boat and ready to earn our place at went on to win one of their races and the head of the river. And that we did! then unfortunately were knocked out in Bumping Oriel W1 on the Wednesday, bumps campaign suffered. However, goodbye to some highly valued the second round. we rowed over until Saturday, victorious our W2 came back with a vengeance Torpids W2 members of the squad. Megan (left) and The hours of training put in so early in as the top women’s boat. The for Summer Eights and their Torpids W1 Edwards who coxed and rowed alike, the year paid off for the senior women headship came at a special time, as we reinvigorated competitive spirit led to a Headship Timothy Davies our fabulous W1 cox, when we took an Autumn Fours win celebrated the naming of our women’s highly successful Eights. Crew (right) Dan Johnson who stepped up and against a competitive Wolfson crew and second eight, The Spirit of ’74, joined by The standard for Summer Eights learned to cox this year and Eliza Dickie it was a pleasure to race the brand new various women and their cox who had is notoriously higher than Torpids, as who returned and rowed in our W2 four. pioneered women’s rowing at Wadham. many of the top crews welcome their after a year off. Emi Staniaszek who As has become a yearly tradition, As a result of our Torpids success, and returning blues back with open arms. generously subbed in to cox W2 in we then took our women’s 1st VIII and following our qualification at the time Wadham happens to be largely home- Torpids, and rowed in Eights is off on a an alumnae crew to the Remenham trial, W1 were invited to race at the grown talent and it is owing to Rod that year abroad, and it is with heavy hearts Challenge, and for many racing it was Henley Boat Race with the Cambridge our W1 is able to hold its position so that both of the captains, Kate and Zara, their first time on the Tideway in London. Lent Bumps headship crew. Newnham high up on the river. Going into race head off to the continent too. A typical December day, it was cold, College Cambridge turned out to be a week we knew the competition would Our wonderful coach Rod Andrews windy and rainy, but both crews showed force to be reckoned with, and although be tough, and that Wolfson would be gives his time so selflessly to our boat remarkable morale, and all involved we were able to hold them over the coming for us hard. We experienced the club and its successes are predicated enjoyed the privilege of rowing on the first kilometre, their experience over a bitter disappointment of being bumped on his generosity. His inspirational and Thames. It was particularly amazing to two-kilometre course got the better on the first day of Eights. Wolfson witty words get us through hours of see generations of Wadham women’s of us. It was nonetheless an honour to went on to secure Headship on the time on the water, and the joy that he captains competing together and race alongside the Lightweight blues second day, for which they must be brings makes it (almost) even painless! against each other. The alumnae crew and to be part of a day of celebration of commended. Although we had a good To him and to Diana Mountain, who unfortunately beat our current W1 by a sporting excellence. shot at Pembroke, they proved too fast gives up so much of her time for the single second, but we are still blaming a Our W2 had a more difficult for us to catch over the week, and we club, we offer our sincerest thanks. loose rigger for that one! Torpids, with various members of the therefore rowed comfortably over at Jovana Pepic will be captaining the The novices made the transition to crew unable to race for academic third on the river. women next year, with Emma Richards seniors at the beginning of Hilary and commitments, and as a result, their At the end of Trinity 2019, we said and Anna Baring.

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Isobel Townend Rugby (Biochemistry,Alex Pentecost 2017) Women's Weighlifting (Economics and Management, 2017)

A year that proved improvement shown was astronomical A highly accessible and Evie narrowly missed out with a total why I love rugby. compared to the beginning of the empowering sport. of 205kg but subsequently qualified season. Over Hilary term we were at the Nottingham regional. This was regularly playing with a full 15 players a huge achievement, particularly which was great achievement for the with three of the lifters having been WHEN I TOOK OVER the captaincy side. WADHAM WOMEN*’S WEIGHTLIFTING powerlifting for less than a year. Thank of the Wadham-Trinity Rugby team, I This dedication shown by the has had a highly successful year. you to Catherine Walter and the rest was concerned regarding the lack of players was rewarded in Trinity term Despite the building work taking place of the Linacre Ladies Lift club for their players. Yet, my worries were proven as we won both Bowl finals in the at Wadham, meaning that we have guidance and support during the unjustified as we had an influx of new 15-a-side and 7-a-side Cuppers relocated to the temporary gym, in competition. players including freshers along with competitions. Winning the Bowl Final Michaelmas we welcomed our largest WWW is proud to encourage all older students from Wadham and was one of my happiest days so ever group of freshers to the club and women* to participate in powerlifting. Trinity. It is core to the team’s values far this year as the team had been also expanded our membership to The first session for new members is that we are a joint side, and I cannot rewarded for all the hard work they had include staff members from Wadham free and they are held each Sunday fail to praise the players who returned shown. I would like to finish this article and the rest of the university. at Wadham College gym. For more from the previous season. by thanking all the players for what We have continued to enjoy expert Wadham information please contact lifters Overall, the team would admit they have contributed this year without personalised coaching courtesy of attend [email protected]. themselves that they are not the which the side would not to be in our coach Shehzad Naqvi, allowing us West- most skilled, the most athletic nor such a strong position going into next to continue to welcome women* of all Midlands regional (“women*” means all who self-identify as the most experienced rugby players. season. A new committee has been ages, abilities and experience levels to competition women or as non-binary.) However, the side has qualities that no set up to lead the side and I wish luck participate in the highly accessible and amount of coaching can instil: a unity to the incoming captains: Louis Wright empowering sport that is powerlifting in victory or defeat that has brought (Trinity) and Louis Egerton Legum at our weekly Sunday sessions. the side together; a group of players (Wadham). A highlight of the year was 4th that are willing to put themselves in week of Trinity term which saw four the line of fire for their fellow player. members of the club (Evie Fleck, Cat Primarily, we are a group of friends Robinson, Ruth Harris and Isobel where college rivalry does not Townend) attend the West-Midlands matter and are welcoming to anyone BDFPA regional competition. Isobel interested in joining the team. If the competed in the junior category season was stripped down to the whilst the other members competed league results it would show demotion in the T3 category making them the in both Michaelmas and Hilary term youngest members from Wadham (as a league is played each term). Women*’s Weightlifting ever to However, this is not how I judged the compete. Ruth lifted 217.5kg, Cat success of the season. I determined 220kg and Isobel 250kg totals – success based on commitment and qualifying them for a place at the attendance, and on this basis, the nationals in Edinburgh this summer.

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dead should be commemorated by name on their grave – or memorial, if there was no known grave. In order to recognise the totality of engagement MAKING CONNECTIONS in the war, and the level of voluntary commitment, headstones in battlefield cemeteries were to be uniform and permanent. It was proclaimed that no An address given in Chapel as part of the 2019 Memorial Service. distinction of military rank or position in civil life was to be made, and there was to be cultural sensitivity to different faith groups. The principle of individual naming had profound implications – ethically and psychologically. Reference was made to Isaiah chapter 43: ‘Fear not, for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name...’. Whilst the suffering and sacrifice were collective, the collectivity was made up of a web of individuals and interpersonal relationships. Commitment to a common cause was built on particulars, not abstractions. Yet the putting into practice of such a principle proved less straightforward. Only one in twenty local war memorials in the UK included more names than the list of those who had died – in part because of the very real difficulties of agreeing on other categories. The principle In Australia, which had an entirely voluntary army, the practice of naming of individual all combatants on memorials had the effect of putting the spotlight on the naming had missing names – of those who could all too easily through their exclusion be profound outed as disloyal shirkers. Despite awareness of the effects of shellshock, implications – 306 men serving in the British army during the First World War were court- ethically and martialed and shot at dawn for cowardice or desertion. Such were the psychologically concerns to maintain a public memory of heroic dedication that they were only officially pardoned in 2006, when their names were belatedly added to memorials. The fact that people openly identifying as LGBT were only formally permitted to serve in the British armed forces in 2000 created an additional his year marks the centenary of the Armistice Day commemoration, level of unacknowledged and unacknowledgeable fear and stress. Only very devised for the first anniversary of the armistice of 11 November recently recognised is the failure of the War Graves Commission to follow 1918. In 1919 too, debates were going on in communities around through consistently their vaunted principle of equality of treatment of the Tthe United Kingdom about the form which local war memorials should take. First World War dead. That turned out not to apply everywhere. The rationale Should they be free-standing monuments? Or be related to the construction given for not treating as individuals the Africans who had been killed in British or enhancement of worthwhile institutions like hospitals? Should they military service during the First World War incorporated a double process of commemorate just those who had been killed in the war, or all those who differentiation from western European values and assumptions. The first was had served, in whatever capacity? The scale of the fatalities in the so- Should they the notion of the affinity of native Africans to animals that led the Governor called Great War was enormous; so too was the impact of war on those commemorate of Nyasaland to suggest that ‘the black man soon forgets his dead nor is who survived – combatants who suffered from either immediate or delayed just those who he long in licking his own wounds’. This sort of argument was used to justify shellshock, those who were left physically disabled, having lost limbs or had been killed letting African burial grounds simply revert to nature. The second – related having their lungs permanently damaged by gas attacks. Women had served in the war, or – argument was that the natives had not reached the ‘stage of civilisation’ as nurses – at the front and at home, as well as taking up other forms of war all those who where they would appreciate individual commemoration. A key member of labour: was this service to be acknowledged, or was their role in the culture had served, the War Graves Commission did wonder whether ‘in two or three hundred 1. See M. Barrett, of memory to stand as grieving mothers, sisters, wives? The Imperial (later in whatever years’ time, when the native population had reached a higher stage of ‘Dehumanization and the War in East Africa’, the Commonwealth) War Graves Commission – formally set up in 1917 – was capacity? civilisation, they might then be glad to see that headstones had been erected Journal of War and contemporaneously developing its own criteria of operation. It had been on the native graves and that the native soldiers had received precisely the 10:3 Culture Studies decided that there should be no repatriation of bodies, but that each of the same treatment as their white comrades’.1 But that was pure speculation, (2017), 238-52.

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and didn’t affect immediate policy, which denied that affinity and scope for strain were not written out; neither were the very real tensions in attitudes making connections. This was a policy which dehumanised African soldiers by to war, although the emphasis was on arriving at an example which was denying them a name, and in so doing de-historicised them, denying them a positive yet credible. Conscientious objectors were named with honour, sense of history and a context for memory. and did not necessarily escape being killed: Harold Thorpe’s bravery as a So how should we respond? In our revulsion from these positions, and our Quaker ambulance driver led to his death in 1917. JH Butlin, who joined up in alienation from the imperialist assumptions underpinning them, it would be 1914 at the end of his first term at Wadham, was welcomed back to resume easy to react against the whole framework of commemoration. What are we his studies in 1918, having been invalided out of the army with traumatic doing in listening every year to the reading out of a list of names of relatively neurasthenia. Marking the death in action in July 1916 of Ian Crombie, aged The complexity privileged white men who lost their lives in two increasingly distant world wars 21, and describing him in what might seem conventionally laudatory terms and richness whose preoccupations seem remote from ours? In fact, however, in so doing – ‘a ready and effective speaker, a first-rate rugby player, a thoroughly all- of our we are embracing the responsibility, challenge, discomfort and reward of our round man, ...marked out as a leader’ – Wells noted that he was one of the relationships own privilege. Membership of this College gives us a place in a particular first members of the College to join up. At Wadham in 1913-14, however, with others historical trajectory – one rendered tangible and emotionally resonant by the he had held and vigorously expressed strong views against militarism. Erwin is practised continuity of place. Those men whose names we remember sat in the seats Wentworth Webster, Fellow of the College from 1903, was killed on the first through in which we sit in this Chapel. Their names – that inexorable list – the ‘grief of day of the battle of Arras in 1917. Wells remarked on his advanced political making a names’ – give them a compelling humanity. This does not imply a views and on the fact that he was ‘in many ways most unmilitary in mind’: necessary series of sense of affinity, of course – in many respects it underlines real difference of ‘it was yet “true” of him or at any rate as true as it could be of any fighting individual cultural outlook – but it gives us the opportunity to grow through imaginative man, that he did in some way enjoy his service in France’. Motivations and connections engagement with difference, to confront the variegations of difference, and understandings of responsibility were complicated. Elaborating on individual to challenge complacencies which we may be too ready to feel about the experiences within an interconnecting culture both validated and offered superiority of our own vantage-point. It is easier to homogenise otherness in paths through the complexity. the abstract; the complexity and richness of our relationships with others is The challenges facing us are very different ones, and our community is practised through making a series of individual connections – with people in much more diverse, but the exercise of engagement with every individual on We do well to the past as much as in the present. their own terms is no less crucial, and no less demanding. And maybe the be reminded This is what was recognised immediately by Joseph Wells – Warden of First World War is not so long ago after all. We do well to be reminded that that history Wadham during the First World War. In the MT 1914 issue of the College history is neither a passive nor a progressive process. It requires the active is neither a , he put out a request for information about who was serving where in making of connections no less historical than present. passive nor a Gazette the war, and started the process of compiling a list of names. In doing so, he progressive signalled the importance of the ’s network of distribution in reinforcing process Gazette connections, enhancing commitment to a collective endeavour, and – in its Fellow in History Jane Garnett own material form – constituting and enacting a living tradition with a past and the promise of a future. Wells corresponded with everyone on active service, enabling former students to reflect on the values they saw embodied in Wadham, and on how they might help to regenerate a post-war world, and highlighting in his editorials both news and what he saw to be comments which could inspire others. Some of the language might seem distinctly quaint:

The Wadham is delightful. It breathes the old-world air of Colleges Gazette and cathedral squares. If I could, I would tie it on to a shell, and send it to the Boche, to show how little their efforts can ruffle Oxford.

The sentiment incorporated here, though, resonated widely: a faith in Oxford as a still point in a terrifyingly changing world. At the same time, anxiety and

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These are tenuous connections, I admit. Wadham does not actually feature in , even under a soubriquet, though since some important Jude the Obscure THOMAS scenes in the novel take place in and around the Sheldonian Theatre, its characters are close to the College at moments. Nor did Wadham, as far as I am aware, feature in the tours of Oxford that Hardy and his wife made in 1920, HARDY AND when they came up to see the student production of his at the The Dynasts New Theatre and to receive Hardy’s honorary degree, and in 1923, when they WADHAM spent some days at Queen’s College, where Hardy had been made Honorary Fellow. However, Wadham in a sense had its eye on them even if they didn’t have Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an their eyes on it. In 1924 Henry Theodore Wade-Gery, then in his mid-thirties English novelist and poet with some and a Fellow of Wadham teaching ancient history, was among the rather younger Balliol Players who acted a version of Aeschylus’s to Hardy, Oresteia intriguing connections to Wadham. wife and friends on the lawn at Max Gate, his house just outside Dorchester. Wade-Gery, as Hardy jotted down in his notebook, played Agamemnon on that occasion, though he did not seem to register that this actor was significantly older than the rest of the undergraduate troupe. Moreover, the young Maurice Bowra, then an undergraduate at New College, had been in the Sheldonian to see Hardy get his degree in February 1920, and wrote of him in his that ‘he was just what he should have Memoirs been – small and frail and old, with a fine head and large, innocent eyes. He carried himself very well for his eighty years and looked like a very good, owards the end of the two-volume autobiography that poet and shrunken English apple’. Hardy’s poetry had been emotionally important novelist Thomas Hardy published under the name of his second wife to Bowra during his war years – ‘Hardy did a lot to heal my wounds’ – and Florence, we read that in late summer 1927 they ‘motored to Ilminster, It’s not very decades later, as Warden of Wadham, he devoted an important essay to it in a little country town that Hardy had long desired to visit. He was interested in (1955). T clear why Inspiration and Poetry the church, and also in the tomb of the founder of Wadham College therein’. Hardy should In the most striking gesture of homage of all, the 1930s leftwing Wadham It’s not very clear why Hardy should suddenly have shown an interest in suddenly undergraduate and later Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis in 1971 actually the tomb of Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham in this manner, though he had a have shown had himself buried near to Hardy’s grave at St Michael's Church in Stinsford. Hardy’s couple of rather tangential biographical links to the College. In his boyhood, an interest Wadham thus seems to have been pursuing Hardy’s tomb, as well as Hardy poetry the local lady of the manor, Julia Augusta Martin, had been somewhat in the tomb Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham’s. had been infatuated with him, as he with her, and her husband, Francis Pitney Brouncker of Nicholas emotionally Martin, was a Wadham man. Martin was something of an amateur scientist, and Dorothy important to and it has been argued by critic and biographer Robert Gittings that some English, 1979 Wadham Tony Pinkney Bowra during of Hardy’s descriptions of unusual meteorological phenomena in his novels his war years draw upon Martin’s scientific work. If Wadham might thus have impinged in a slightly frustrating way on Thomas Hardy’s early emotional life, it also expressed a decidedly adverse opinion of his later fiction. For the Bishop of Wakefield, William Walsham How, who famously declared in a letter to the papers in 1896 that he had thrown Hardy’s Oxford novel into the fire, was himself a Wadham Jude the Obscure product. More damagingly, he also instigated the novel’s withdrawal from W. H. Smith’s circulating library.

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sometimes real, maturity. Mostly this difference could be ignored, though it could be put to good account if one wished to learn from one’s elders. I WADHAM REMINISCENCES encountered the difference in the rugby scrimmage and quickly decided that my seventeen year old body was not meant to be subjected to this kind of brutality. After a fruitless day on the river dealing with an oar on a captive craft An insight into 1940s Wadham and beyond. I decided that rowing was not my métier either, though Tyson, who had joined me for the afternoon, decided otherwise. Someone suggested squash, and in company with Hughes and Roberts the College court soon resounded at all hours to our inexpert slashing at the squishy rubber ball. We were pressed soon enough to engage in various social activities, though I found entry to be often daunting. Everyone seemed to know so much more than me, whether it was the intricacies of madrigal singing or the personalities within political parties. Eventually I found my place, and spent ’ve always been grateful that my college years were spent at Wadham, several happy years in the Opera Club chorus. So, with one thing or another, though I have never before troubled myself to examine why it should be not forgetting weekly tutorials with Dr Thompson, three years passed so. I suspect the key was that my years there offered me the risk-free smoothly enough. Life always opportunity to try new things, new ways of being, and hence the insight that Then followed two years of fruitless and somewhat self-destructive I has more to life always has more to offer than the present routine provides, if only you graduate work. That ended with an interview at the Guidance Office, though offer than have the courage to take a step off-course into the future. Since I took a nothing on offer seemed to fit my temperament or my negligible skills. the present degree in mathematics with a specialisation in topology, it’s not too hard to The best advice came at the end: “Why don’t you do your army service? routine believe that my life might otherwise have been, without a belief in that insight, Something may turn up.” provides, if a repetitive series of routines. After two rewarding years in which I reached the exalted (and desirable) only you have As I look back in memory, I recall the “big men on campus,” both figuratively rank of bombardier in a survey troop, something had turned up – computers. the courage and literally – Giffard and Mara for instance and, in my year, “Tiny” Palmer. I experienced, first hand, the life cycle of the computer industry, from its to take a step Closer at hand were 1947’s Rodway and Sykes, announcing from the Hall commercial birth in the mid 50s to its metamorphosis in 1990. Since then, off-course steps that today’s crossword had been mastered in something less I have enjoyed two other contrasting careers, first in ordained ministry, and Times into the future than ten minutes and, in the year following mine, Naylor and Ralling, who were then as a study leader in adult education, with subjects ranging from Christian telling the world the real essence of today’s hot topic. Not that the 1948 crop Heresy to 20th Century English Poets, from Alternative Pasts and Imagined was devoid of talent – far from it; we just didn’t have the “front men” of other Futures to Monty Python. I am grateful to Wadham for giving me the supple, With one years, though Richardson was, from the beginning, strutting a wider stage. yet firm, foundation on which this satisfying life has developed. thing or In fact, my own Staircase 2 compatriots were a modest crew, offering me another, not the solace of being comfortable among those who were not too different forgetting from me. Many of us were from grammar schools, and many were scientists. Mathematics, 1948 Les Norman weekly In fact, if you count mathematics as a science, we were in the majority. It tutorials with was encouraging to meet the stray public school neighbour and discover Dr Thompson, that he was just as wary of us as we were of him. Such barriers were quickly three years eliminated. With the two Americans on the staircase it took a little longer, passed perhaps because they had their own differences to settle. I mustn’t forget the smoothly “Grey eminence” of the staircase. One room was labelled T. C. Keeley, though enough he was an invisible man. The major difference among us, though, was between those of us coming straight from school and those who had served for eighteen months or two years of National Service. This resulted in a wide difference in supposed, and

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But the stone shield we have now (Figure 2) has the emblems shifted round to make room for Hanoverian symbols at bottom right. These are the Arms as THE ROYAL ARMS they were used and displayed from 1714 to 1800. As evidence of the identification of the shield as Hanoverian, Figure 3 shows the "official" Hanoverian layout on a golden guinea coin of 1768. An error set in stone. (Incidentally, the same shield, printed rather indistinctly, appears in the masthead of , founded 1785.) The Times Patrick Martineau told me he thought some of the stonework was renewed in the 1700s. But there is an absence of documentation for that period, and Not just my guess is that Patrick's evidence was the same as mine: the Hanoverian wrong emblems on the shield. in detail: hen you enter Wadham, straight in front of you, across the quad, The obvious question: why were the Hanoverian Arms installed in the belonging to are the Hall steps. Above the steps are the statues of Nicholas 1700s? the wrong and Dorothy Wadham, with Nicholas correctly placed on the Our colleague of infinite-resource-and-sagacity, Jeffrey Hackney, has century W"heraldic right" (dexter), which we call left. Above them is the king at the time come up with an interesting suggestion. The 1700s were the century of the of the College's foundation, James (I of England, VI of Scotland). Above the rebellions of the '15 and the '45, so a display of Stuart arms, shiny and new, king is the shield bearing the Royal Arms. might have been interpreted as traitorous sympathy for the Stuart cause. Did The Royal Arms do not represent the country in which Wadham is located this mean that it was prudent to display the Arms of the current regime in (then England); they are Royal, so they list the countries over which the It didn't spite of creating a historical inaccuracy? We can only speculate. king has, or claims, sovereignty. In the case of James, these are England, look right When next the stone shield has to be re-carved (2200+?), our successors Scotland, France (!) and Ireland. may wish to return the Arms to their historically correct Jacobean origin. The claim to France is a left-over from the Hundred Years' War, there being no actual French territory under English control since Calais was lost in the time of Bloody Mary. Nevertheless, the absurd claim to France continued Emeritus Fellow Geoff Brooker until it was finally withdrawn in 1801, at a time when a claim to kingship over France could endanger the claimant's continued enjoyment of his head. The Royal Arms are not easily seen in detail from across the Front Quad without the use of binoculars or a long-focus camera. So the first time I paid any particular attention was when a photo of them appeared in the 2008 Wadham . It didn't look right. Gazette Not just wrong in detail: belonging to the Figure 2 (left): wrong century. Hanoverian stone shield in the Front When Wadham was built, the Arms Quad Photo credit: surely displayed the 1610 royal emblems Julia Banfield of England and France, Scotland, and Ireland. Figure 1 shows a small part of the east window of the Old Library. At top left Figure 3 (right): and bottom right (our way round) are the Gold guinea coin 1768 (reverse lions of England quartered with the Fleurs face). The coin's de Lys of France. At top right is the lion of Figure 1: diameter is 24mm. Jacobean shield Photo credit: Scotland, and at bottom left is the harp of in the Old Library Geoff Brooker window Ireland. All laid out as it should be, and was, Photo credit: for 1610. Julia Banfield

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I’ve never kept a diary and read few, mostly political. Most were written for money and to put a favourable gloss on their own role in events. Neither motive applied to Kilvert. He never achieved greatness and, but for his diary, would today be completely unknown. He was an undistinguished curate in Wales and Wiltshire for 11 years before becoming a vicar just three years before his untimely death from peritonitis aged 39, just a month after his wedding. Sadly, almost all his voluminous diaries didn’t survive. A few were destroyed by his wife (possibly details of their courtship), many more by an elderly niece – by accident or design. The remainder are highly readable. His prose is clear and concise (a lesson for academics?). Keen on nude bathing, some of his comments about children 1986 edition seem “iffy” nowadays, but were probably entirely innocent. He was frequently entranced by beautiful women (hardly unusual in a man!) who were too often unattainable because of his relatively low income and poor prospects. He KILVERT'S DIARIES was nevertheless much better off than many of his parishioners whose lives were spent in hardship and squalor. “The Doctors could not get the dead baby from her for two days and were Francis Kilvert was a Wadham alumnus and a obliged to cut the poor girl almost to pieces. They said she would die in two Victorian country clergyman. He began writing in hours but still lives.” 1870 and continued until his untimely death in 1879. I like Kilvert. No radical, but a dedicated churchman with genuine empathy for the poor and suffering. W Plomer was right in his foreword to the 1986 edition: “Kilvert reveals himself as an essentially modest, innocent, truthful “32 degrees of Frost” (Fahrenheit of course!). That was the and unworldly young man, sociable… with a sense of drama and a good vein Oxford Mail headline in early 1962 during possibly the worst winter in the last 100 years. of humour.” It was the night temperature in rural Oxfordshire, but Oxford itself was hardly An accurate, “EH married a young woman when he was 83 and had a son within the year. balmy. My ears used to ache walking in from my Cowley Road digs past open entertaining ‘Leastways his wife had’ said Mrs Hall.” parkland until I reached the relative warmth of the town. social As a historian (very loosely) myself, I believe his greatest legacy – although historian It is common for the old (I am guilty) to say “It was worse in my day,” but I possibly not his intention – is as an accurate, entertaining social historian. His Sadly, have to concede to Wadham’s finest diarist, Robert Francis Kilvert (1840– status, even as a lowly churchman, gave him access to most classes from almost all his 1879). His Christmas Day 1870 entry reads: “It was an intense frost. I sat the destitute to the landowners. His literary style is rarely flowery. He “tells it voluminous down in my bath upon a sheet of thick ice which broke in the middle into as it is”, good times and bad, without hyperbole or gloss. diaries didn’t large pieces whilst sharp points and jagged edges stuck all round the sides He was unimpressed by a politician who said in an election speech: survive of the tub – not particularly comforting to the naked thighs and loins, for the “Gentlemen, go home and be as good husbands to your wives as I am to keen ice cut like broken glass. The ice water stung like fire. I had to collect the mine.” “The impudent scoundrel” was Kilvert’s comment. floating pieces of ice and pile them on a chair before I could use the sponge The surviving diaries don’t start until 1871 when he was 30 – long after (which) was a mass of ice.” he’d left Wadham. They contain relatively few references to Oxford other than Kilvert was clearly hardier than most of us. I for one would have been during a visit in May 1876 when he noted “In the Parks we met Griffiths, the tempted to wait for Spring! present Warden of Wadham, a kind pleasant courteous old gentleman.” He was clearly no stranger to the cold. In February 1870 he wrote: “When A fascinating read. He is deservedly in Wikipedia’s list of 141 English I got to the Chapel my beard, moustaches and whiskers were so stiff with Diarists. ice that I could hardly open my mouth and my beard was frozen to my mackintosh.” Modern History, 1960 David Stanbury

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REMINISCENCES OF THE BEIT TRUST T. C. KEELEY Thomas Clews Keeley (1894–1988) is still remembered by Each year, the Beit Trust funds two Scholars at Wadham the elderly among Fellows and Alumni. He was always who come from the southern African countries of Zambia, known to us as “Keeley”; not even his sister called him "Tom”. Zimbabwe and Malawi.

eeley was elected Fellow and Tutor in Physics on 6 December 1924, he Beit Trust was created by the Will of Alfred Beit (1853-1906), a and retired in 1961. He had been brought to Oxford in 1919 from RAE financier (and philanthropist) who made his fortune in late 19th century Farnborough to be Director of the Clarendon Laboratory, by Frederick South Africa. Among many other bequests, including to Oxford KLindemann, the then Dr Lee’s Professor of Experimental Philosophy, who TUniversity, he left a substantial sum at his death to create a communications wanted to be able to delegate his more routine responsibilities. system in what were then the colonies of Southern and Northern Rhodesia, for Keeley was a man of few gruff words, typified by his reply, in 1986, to an the benefit of all their inhabitants, recognising that the territories themselves enquiry as to whether he had seen Halley's Comet: a lugubrious "Nooo, it Keeley was would be unable to fund their own development. wasn't much to see in 1910." You do the maths. a man of few The Beit Railway Fund was the outcome, which by the Second World War There are many stories of Keeley’s dog Nicholas, an ugly Dutch Barge gruff words had built many of the railways and bridges in the territories, including Beit Hound of uncertain (some would say all too certain) temper. I’ll give a personal Bridge across the Limpopo to South Africa, and the Otto Beit Bridge across memory, from when I was a new undergraduate in Physics (1957, if anyone’s the Zambezi at Chirundu. Still used today, at its completion in 1939 it was the longest suspension bridge in the world outside the United States. counting). Nicholas followed his master to the Clarendon Lab in the mornings, After the War, the Trustees changed their focus. The Railway Fund was but in a fairly independent way. I arrived at the front doors of the lab to find incorporated as the Beit Trust by an Act of Parliament in 1954, and has since Nicholas in front of me, barking. Surely this animal didn’t belong in a laboratory, focused on health, education, welfare and, more recently, conservation, in the but then how was I to get in without letting the dog in as well? The problem independent states of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi. The Trust was solved when Keeley’s secretary, Clare Wagstaff, flung the double swing The Trust has now built hospitals in Zambia and Malawi. It also supports many welcomes doors open wide using both arms. In reply to a fatuous question from me, she other hospitals, hospices, health clinics and medical electives, and provides its recent said “it’s Mister dog”; no employee at Balmoral could have put more 20 postgraduate scholarships a year to British and South African universities. partnership Keeley’s awed respect into saying “it’s the dog”. The Trust welcomes its recent partnership with Wadham, which now with Wadham Queen’s On 6 December 1974, Wadham held its St Nicholas’ Day dinner, following provides a supportive environment and academic home in Oxford for two a College Meeting earlier in the day at which annual items of business were Beit Scholars a year. It has similar academic partnerships with Cambridge, Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities, and with Wits, UCT, (then) conducted. Keeley came to the dinner and afterwards to the Common Rhodes and Stellenbosch Universities in South Africa. It also welcomes its Room, sitting mostly in his usual amiable silence. At about 9.30, he got up association with James Currey's generous bursary. to leave as usual, but I saw him speak briefly to Ian Crombie who was in the James Currey (Modern History, 1955) was inspired by the support of the chair. After Keeley had left, Ian asked us to remember that it was 50 years, to Beit Trust, and the College plans to set up the James Currey Bursary for an the day, since Keeley was elected a Fellow. We all stood and drank Keeley’s annual sum to be donated to the two Beit Scholars to use for the purchase health. On being asked to tell Keeley that we had done this, Ian replied, “that in support of their course of books, scientific or engineering equipment, and won’t be necessary; he told me that we should.” travel to conferences or internships. James Currey ran the African Writers Series which led to the launch of African literature and he hopes that Scholars, whatever their discipline, will also buy some novels, plays, poetry by authors Emeritus Fellow with an African connection. Geoff Brooker Secretary to the Beit Trustees Sir Andrew Pocock

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welcomed former associates of the foundation as well as those new to work with the foundation. They then introduced a special project funded by the TRAVEL REPORT project that had been particularly successful in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The project, titled ‘Wenn aus Fremden Freunde werden’ (when strangers become friends), aimed to break down barriers between immigrant and The College awards up to 35 travel grants to undergraduates refugee communities in the local area and native Germans. The project and graduates each year. The grants, made possible by the achieved this by holding a photo shoot of close to 80 people in Güstrow, both native Germans and members of the refugee community. Then, images generosity of Wadham alumni and benefactors, are intended of similar-looking people were sliced in half and placed side by side, with for travel – and are not primarily related to the applicants’ one side from the refugee community and the other from the local native academic work. population (see example below). The result of this is a striking representation of cross-cultural similarities and an attempt to knock down barriers between I am very both groups, showing that the perceived ‘other’ is grateful to more alike to us than one may think. The photos were have had this then displayed across the town and, according to the opportunity project leaders, had been very effective in starting to learn aving been awarded the Nick Jackson travel grant, I was able to The Nick conversations in the area about race, German identity more about attend the 25 year anniversary conference of Stiftung Nord-Süd- Jackson and xenophobia. I felt very lucky to get this insight into the German Brücken in Berlin. The conference took place at the the innovative ways in which charities are trying to Werkstatt der travel grant political scene on 14 June 2019 and welcomed experts and professionals from tackle issues of race in Germany, particularly in light of HKulturen has been set across Germany who were involved in German developmental politics. As up this year the recent rise in far right populism across the eastern a former intern of the foundation, I was also able to attend, which gave me in memory federal states in Germany. the opportunity to listen to some fascinating speakers and network with of alumnus As entertainment for the event, the Stiftung Nord- individuals from a variety of charity backgrounds. Nicholas Süd-Brücken organised a performance by H2Plastic. H2Plastic is a project The Stiftung Nord-Süd-Brücken is an apolitical German foundation Jackson funded by the foundation whereby school children are educated about global which has its roots at the fall of the Berlin wall. As the German Democratic (Modern environmental politics and led to choreograph an interpretive dance piece Republic came to an end, humanitarian groups from across East Germany, History, which expresses the story of contemporary water pollution. The school from both religious and scientific background, came together with a clear 1998), who involved in this performance were the Volkshochschule in Görlitz. Though goal, to alleviate suffering in the Global South and to promote solidarity in was a keen the students had initially only a week to prepare and choreograph the piece, East Germany. With funds provided by the newly reunified government, the traveller. it was surprisingly effective and is certainly a project that the foundation Stiftung Nord-Süd-Brücken was established as a body that could allocate plans to support in the future. funding to developmental projects. Today, the foundation allocates its Personally, the Nick Jackson travel grant gave me the opportunity to learn funding to two main areas: first, it provides funding to projects in the Global more about the German political scene and connect with professionals from South which promote the achieving of the UN Sustainable Development across Germany doing fascinating and exciting work to support development Goals, and second, it provides funding to non-governmental organisations in the Global South, but also support minority BAME communities in Europe. in East Germany that are promoting dialogue between communities from the I am very grateful to have had this opportunity and intend to follow the work Global North and the Global South. of Stiftung Nord-Süd-Brücken in the future. The event was opened by a representative of the BMZ, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, who spoke about the history of charity foundations in the German Federal Republic, and the role Philosophy and Modern Languages, 2016 Joseff Reed that those foundations played in promoting growth in countries affected by German colonialism. After this, the event was officially opened by the Chief Executives of the foundation, Ingrid Rosenburg and Andreas Rosen, who

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H. L. Goddard's masterpiece is the church of St James the Greater in Leicester. The current west front is in a loose Renaissance style and it is a pity THE GODDARDS' that a spectacular campanile (shown in the 1895 plan) was omitted. However inside the church is dramatic and well worth a visit. Further up from the church BUILDINGS at numbers 290 and 292 London Road are two Jacobean style houses, going back to Jackson's vision. Goddard could, however, be equally versatile So the Goddard Building has gone. in the Edwardian baroque. The three storey shop premises built in 1896 on Having received a lukewarm press a triangular site between Silver Street and High Street, Leicester even has over the years, there may in fact be caryatids supporting the cornice and Queen Anne features on the roof. More exclusively baroque is the General News Room (1898) on the corner more to the building, its architect of Granby Street and Belvoir Street, Leicester. Further Goddard versatility and his family than may be apparent is shown in a range of Leicestershire country houses paying homage to and any reader visiting Leicester the seventeenth century tradition – “Orchard House”, Horninghold; "The Spinneys" Kirby Muxloe and Great Glen Manor. may find a Wadham connection in The First World War broke Goddard in a number of ways. Physically They can be incapacitated, Goddard had to rely more and more on comparatively some of that city's best buildings. considered pedestrian work at Stanmore. His last major work was the reredos at St as worthy James the Greater in 1937. It is a fitting memorial. provincial he Goddard family provided six generations of architects working Henry Gordon Goddard (1908-1972) followed his father to Wadham and architects mainly in the Leicester area and two of them were Wadham alumni. then trained at UCL's Bartlett School. He began by designing properties in A preliminary account of the Goddards has been provided by Geoff Stanmore on commission from his mother but was then caught up in the Brandwood and Martin Cherry in Second World War. He served in the RAF and fought in the Battle of Britain, the T Men of Property – the Goddards and six . It provides a careful account, through one family, Middle East and Burma, rising to the rank of Group Captain. After the war he Generations of Architecture of the development of the architectural profession in the provinces but there set up an office in Newton Harcourt just outside of Leicester. He developed is still a wealth of material, not all catalogued, to be investigated. an expertise in building services and was the author of Economical Domestic The first in the dynasty, Joseph Goddard (1751-1839) was a jack ofall . He provided many major schemes for heating various buildings Heating trades but by 1827, in partnership with his son Henry, he was styling himself including Westminster Abbey and lectured at the Architectural Association as an architect. Joseph's grandson, also called Joseph (1840-1900), was and Leicester College of Art. Architecturally, his practice developed offices one of Leicester's foremost Victorian architects and anyone who visits the in London and Wellingborough and designed several new churches for the Richard III Centre will find him or herself in a Joseph Goddard building, an Diocese of Leicester. St David's, Broom Leys, Coalville is one of the best impressive exercise in Tudor Gothic originally for Alderman Newton's School. and Goddard personally designed the new vicarage. He also designed the His son, Henry Langton Goddard (1866-1944), was educated at Haileybury Science building at Uppingham. His block at Wadham is now history but it and then at Wadham. There he met the future Sir Thomas Jackson and has fulfilled a useful purpose for over half a century and might be regarded spent a year in Jackson's office when he was working on major projects as a careful attempt to fit a modest Modernism into seventeenth century at Brasenose, Hertford and Trinity. Jackson's move from the Gothic and Above: The General surroundings. Some of us have fond memories of the Goddard Building. Classical to an eclectic mix of styles influenced the Goddard practice. News Room (1898) No one would compare the Goddards with Sir Thomas Jackson but on the corner of H. L. Goddard married in 1902 Gertrude, a daughter of Frederick Gordon, Granby Street and they can be considered as worthy provincial architects who served their "the pioneer of the modern hotel". Gordon developed what was to become Belvoir Street, profession and the public. A visit to Leicester and its county could be the Stanmore Park Estate in Middlesex. H. L. Goddard (and his partner W. A. Leicester worthwhile for those interested in architecture and these two Wadham Catlow) designed many of the properties there. A fine example is 2 Gordon Photo credit: ”General alumni, H. L. Goddard and H. G. Goddard. News Room, Granby Avenue. The partnership was also responsible for what is now the oldest Street / Bel" (CC working crematorium – Gilroes cemetery and crematorium, Groby Road, BY-NC-SA 2.0) by Ned Trifle Leicester (1898-1901). Modern History, 1965 Peter Kilty

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Book Reviews COMETS, COSMOLOGY AND THE BIG THE GOOD MESSENGER BANG: A HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY English, 1966 FROM EDMUND HALLEY TO EDWIN John Simmons HUBBLE, 1700-2000 Urbane Publications, September 2018 History of Science, Allan Chapman pursuit of a great good. The answer to this 1972 is a The Good Messenger THE KENNEDY MOMENT is given, though, within a peculiarly narrowly beautifully written novel of English, 1965 defined set of parameters. Only one of the Lion Books, November 2018 love, war and identity, set in Peter Adamson five – an intellectually vacuous, vulgar Marxist three parts. We first meet Myriad Editions, February 2018 who somehow became a College Fellow – Allan Chapman is a highly Tom Shepherd as a young threatens to disrupt the group’s consensus entertaining historian of boy in 1912. For reasons I had intended to start this on the limits of what they may use the threat science. This is his twelfth unknown to him, he has been review by saying that I had to achieve. The book is given its depth, and book. sent to live at Hardinge Hall never knowingly read a thriller is in places wrenched away from its genre, In this book, he covers for two weeks. All the while, Mr and Mrs before, though I have watched by the actual historical background of five astronomy from 1700 to the Hardinge are trying to arrange a marriage for plenty. My wife reminds me million children a year dying needless deaths present ("Halley to Hubble"), their son Teddy to Iris, who has also been that in fact I have read from measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, following on from his previous brought there to stay as a guest. Part Two The Da (it was Christmas; I neonatal tetanus and poliomyelitis. Adamson, book covering 1500-1700. introduces Iris as the author, as she walks the Vinci Code Stargazers read it quickly; it was abysmal). who was for sixteen years Senior Adviser to The account is detailed and scholarly and streets of London on Armistice Day 1918. In that company Peter Adamson’s book is the Executive Director of UNICEF, tells the real the same time highly entertaining – a rare Then we are reintroduced to Tom in Part excellent, but it is possible to be more positive story of mass immunisation in the 1980s – talent. Moreover, Allan has an intimacy with Three, jumping forward to 1927, where he is than that. It all begins in Oxford in 1980 when and the key role played by James P. Grant – in his subject. Many illustrations are "author's now working as a journalist and investigating five old College friends agree to meet up. As the affecting postscript to the book. collection", and there are records of close the discovery of a baby’s bones in the woods happens on such occasions, long-standing I note that as I was reading this book the contact with researchers who were obtaining around Hardinge Hall. This takes him on a tensions are barely kept beneath the surface, UK lost its measles-free status. As one of the and interpreting the new data. journey of discovery, as he revisits this place questions about what might have been are characters says, ‘far be it from me to take a A historian must do due justice to his which has only existed in his memory for so raised, and discussions about what some view, but that can’t be right, can it?’. subjects but does have to be impartial. Allan's long, reconciling the past with the present. have achieved highlight the inadequacies dismissal of the Drake equation "if you have Evocative and skilfully written, John REVIEW BY GEORGE SOUTHCOMBE of others. The two who have worked in no solid, evidence-based data to feed into Simmons captures each sense of place and Director of the Sarah Lawrence Programme, health have witnessed both the eradication the equation to start with, all you have left is time with captivating detail. An enjoyable read and College Lecturer in History of smallpox, and the continued deaths of numerological juggling, which tells us nothing" and thoroughly recommended. children around the world as the result of has a forthrightness after my own heart. REVIEW BY SALOME PARKER vaccinable disease. Upon being told that Allan makes no secret of his own Communications & Events Officer stocks of smallpox still exist, another one committed Christianity, but is too good a of the friends jokingly suggests threatening historian to let it flavour his account of what its release ‘unless the world gets off its butt happened and what it means. and immunizes every last kiddie’. This line You do not need to be an astronomer, or gradually transforms for the friends, first into a indeed a scientist, to find this book a very serious statement and then a plot. good read. This is at its heart a serious book. Central REVIEW BY GEOFF BROOKER to it is the classic ethical conundrum of Emeritus Fellow what might be considered legitimate in

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The journey is narrated in considerable detail, remain. In due course, the existing Law Lords being an active legislator in the House of A JUDGE'S JOURNEY though there is some self-censorship. He would have retired and all members of the Lords (average age 70). Prime Minister May does not reveal, for example, that after Finals court would have retained their pre-existing (Geography, St Hugh’s 1974) took a different John Dyson Literae Humaniores, 1961, in gross violation of all norms of law and titles: separation would have been achieved. point. She apparently did not like the idea and Honorary Fellow morality, he took off his shoes and socks and But John was ‘uncomfortable’ with this. ‘It of peerages being given automatically to paddled in one of the pools at Hampton was as if I was a second tier Justice’ (p. 129). any group of people, so it did not happen. Hart Publishing, September 2019 Court. I bet he never mentioned that on any of Very puzzling. Certainly none of the lawyers Whether that is her real (perfectly reasonable) the occasions on which he met H.M. appearing before the Supreme Court can motivation only time may tell. She was first It is good, in the philosophical The chapters on his career in the law have thought for half a moment that he was elected as MP in 1997 just months before sense, to be reminded from will fascinate lawyer and non-lawyer alike. ‘second tier’ and nor for sure, did the other proposals for reform of the legal system, time to time that people They are refreshingly free of the vainglory Justices. But his pals on the Court picked proposed in 1989 by the Tory government whom we meet on a regular which so often taints lawyers’ stories of this up and (led by the otherwise impeccable, headed by her female predecessor and put basis have had their close themselves and are a valuable (and very late and very much lamented Lord Rodger?) to the Lords by Lord Chancellor MacKay relatives slaughtered (not ‘frank’) commentary on the legal profession, forced a compromise whereby the newly (whom God preserve), were immoderately even ‘murdered’) solely its relationship with government ministers appointed members would be given the savaged in the Chamber by judicial lords: because of their faith or and the ‘democratic’ nature of juries (he was courtesy title of peer, but not ‘proper’ ‘Oppression does not stand on the doorstep ethnic origin; that they are prone to being the first judge to sit as a juror) in the last peerages, so they could not debate in the with a toothbrush moustache and a swastika asked why they killed Jesus; that they formed generation. Lots of stimulating detail about Lords or have tea on the Terrace. John was armband. It creeps up insidiously...’. This their own golf clubs and law firms not because life behind the curtain. We get his inside view ‘disappointed’ by this (p.219). The thread is may have left a scar. John is not obsessed they wanted to be aloof, but because on some important litigation in which he took difficult to follow. We are told that during the with the issue, he says (p. 220), whatever Christians would not play with them or employ part, though infuriatingly there is no half- negotiations (tussles?) between the Lord impression you may already have gleaned them; that posh selective schools (and the decent index which lets you find the names Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor Falconer from the press: ‘In fact, most of the time, I Bar) had quotas for Jews (and women (if they of the cases or those of the other national leading to the new structure, the latter had do not even think about it’. My own very real were white)), if they admitted them at all, and figures whom he encountered as Head of Civil made it clear (clear to the Chief, anyway) that disappointment is that he is not still a serving that they had to change at least their Justice. I never saw him in action ‘for real’ but on retirement, Supreme Court justices would judge. surnames so that their fellow citizens would vividly remember him coming to do a moot for get peerages (though in the meantime, it This is the life story of yet another clever, have dealings with them. This is the world into Wadham, a matter of days, if not hours, after seems, they would have to put up with being thoughtful and humane Wadham judge, and which the Rt. Hon. The Lord Dyson (truly major dental surgery, and being knocked out ‘second tier’ justices – ‘12 lords and ladies well worth a Chanukah read (or Christmas, Dytch) P.C., Supreme Court judge by the elegant and composed way in which a-waiting’?). Mr Cameron (PPE, Brasenose if you don’t do Chanukah). And if you teach quondam and Master of the Rolls, was born and grew up he handled the far too complicated moot 1985) had apparently duly taken steps to law or social history or politics, and there is a in Leeds and on which he reflects in a problem he had been given to judge. His ‘real’ make sure John would become a life peer on second edition with a list of cases and proper thoughtful final chapter. It is a great tribute to judgments reflect all that is best in modern his retirement. index, you could even recommend it to your him that the story is related without rancour British judicial life. But the contributions of ex-officio judicial students. but with a tolerant and almost bewildered But he raises one issue which the national lords in the Chamber is not uncontroversial REVIEW BY JEFFREY HACKNEY detachment. It has left a marked impression press has picked up and where, with the and certainly it has not been limited to Emeritus Fellow on his character and we are lucky to be able greatest respect, he seems to be on the ‘scrutinising legislation’, though Conservative to share it with him (except perhaps for his wrong side of history. When the Supreme politicians have less cause to complain love of judicial fancy dress, which he may have Court was created, it was decided, at least than others. And no weight appears to have inherited from his mother who ran a ladies’ 300 years too late in the view of some, to been given to the fact that the House is outfitters). His time at Wadham, apart from an separate the judges from the legislature, so seen by many as already way too large by unfortunate illness which made him take a unlike their predecessors, its top judges were any standard, nor to why, if you are deemed year out (and his typically, for that time, no longer to be lords. He was Sir John before to be too old to serve as a Supreme Court pathetic sex life) was successful and happy. appointment and that is what he was to judge, you are thought to be capable of

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Asterisked names indicate that an obituary can be found on the following pages. 1960 (Literae Humaniores) died 11 June 2019, aged 77* Fallows, Geoffrey M. 1960 (Geography) died 20 October 2018, aged 80 Wilson, Trevor R. 1938 (Zoology) died October 2018, aged 98 1961 (PPE) died 8 July 2019, aged 77 Broadhead, Edward King, Derek R. 1940 . (Modern History) died 17 September 2017, aged 96 1961 (Modern History) died 1 February 2019, aged 75 Jolly, “Pat” Stuart A Littlejones, Andrew C. 1941 (Jurisprudence) died 6 February 2019, aged 96* 1961 (Modern Languages) died 29 April 2019, aged 76 Burn, Edward H. Pullman-Trevett, John C. 1941 (Modern History) died 15 January 2019, aged 96 1963 (PPE) died 1 August 2019, aged 74* Stocks, J. Anthony Brown, William A. 1942 (Physics) died 26 July 2019, aged 95 1963 (Modern Languages) died 22 January 2019, aged 74* Cutting, Nigel D. Jones, Ralph H. C. 1942 (Politics & History) died 30 December 2018, aged 93* 1965 (Physics) died 22 December 2018, aged 72* Holroyde, Frank Dopita, Michael A. 1942 (PPE) died 28 October 2018, aged 93* 1966 (PPP) died 5 April 2019, aged 71 Solloway, Ian R. W. Stark, R. Anthony 1943 (English) died 6 May 2019, aged 93* 1967 (Mathematics) died 6 August 2019, aged 71 Gammond, Peter Pritchard, G. Martin 1943 (PPE) died June 2019, aged 93* 1968 (Social Anthropology) died 20 December 2017, aged 71 White, Geoffrey C. Ross, Eric B. 1945 (Physics) died 8 April 2019, aged 91* 1971 (English) died 22 May 2019, aged 66* Holmes, Derek R. Vicary, Joseph D. 1946 (Engineering Science) died 16 February 2018, aged 89* 1978 (Modern Languages) died 14 February 2019, aged 59 Hutcheon, Keith F. Davis, Rebecca S. 1947 died 13 September 2018, aged 92 1981 (MPhil Greek Literature) died 10 July 2018, aged 73 Johnson, Kenneth J. Hardy, Eirene 1948 (Politics & History) died 2 October 2016, aged 89 1984 (Clinical Medicine) died 8 October 2019 Rafferty, Kiaran A. Sargent, Jenefer C. 1949 (PPE) died 24 April 2019, aged 95 1987 (Modern History & Russian) died 2018, aged 49* Frank, Walter S. Cox, Laura R. 1949 (PPE) died 30 July 2019, aged 89* 1998 (Modern History) died March 2019, aged 39 Goldman, Michael G. Jackson, Nicholas D. A. 1949 (Natural Science) died 11 March 2019, aged 89* Webb, John H. 1949 (Modern History) died 25 March 2019, aged 88* Wray, Anthony S. 1950 (Physics) died 8 February 2019, aged 86 Knight, R. Bryan D. FRIENDS 1951 (Chemistry) died 17 May 2018, aged 87* died 14 February 2019 Barfoot, Ian M. C. Black, Michael 1951 (Mathematics) died 9 March 2019, aged 86 Michael was a distinguished sculptor, best known in Oxford for his carving of the current Carne, Alan 1951 (Modern History) died 3 April 2019, aged 87 generation of “emperors’ heads” outside the Sheldonian Theatre and the Museum of History Parry, David J. of Science. In the Fellows’ Garden there is seventeenth century emperor’s head, donated by 1953 (Jurisprudence) died 16 September 2019, aged 84 Lahore, James C. Michael. 1953 (Modern Languages) died 6 December 2018, aged 86* Lewis, Christopher J. S. died 27 April 2019, aged 88 1953 (Jurisprudence) died November 2018, aged 82 Edwards, Gwen Rose, Michael J. Gwen was a longstanding Friend of Wadham and was the widow of former College Bursar and 1955 (Modern History) died 6 January 2019, aged 82 Stevenson, Warren H. Emeritus Fellow Rear Admiral Philip Edwards. 1956 (English) died 22 September 2019, aged 82* Davison, John A. died 27 March 2019, aged 78 1956 (PPP) died 2 June 2001, aged 67 Gwyn, Peter J. Williams, Gregory C. Peter was Bowra JRF in History in 1981-82. 1957 (DPhil Mathematics) died 7 October 2019, aged 84 Sutherland, Wilson A. died summer 2019 1959 (Literae Humaniores) died 17 October 2018, aged 81 Roach, Michael Greene, Edward P. C. Michael was formerly Hall Supervisor at Wadham. 1959 (Jurisprudence) died 12 December 2018, aged 80 Humphries, J. Clive 1959 (DPhil Biology) died 1 October 2018, aged 81 Rowell, David L.

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Outside his science, Ian was a keen sailor, and was on his boat with friends until shortly before the cancer took him. Another enthusiasm, almost as great, Obituaries was music, in particular “The Border Morris”, a variety of morris dancing, with the dancing group Armaleggan. In short, Ian lived his all-too-short life to the full, and will be greatly missed by friends and colleagues within a variety of milieux. Ian Moore | Fellow and Tutor in Biology 2010-2018 Emeritus Fellow 1964-2018 By Geoff Brooker, Based heavily on notes provided by Hugh Dickinson and other contributors to an was a Fellow of Wadham Ian’s memorial service. Ifrom September 2010 until his untimely death at age only 54. He was primarily a botanist, and taught biology to all three years. At age 46, he was a late-comer to college life, having had a research career at Edinburgh, the Max Planck Ali Reza Sheikholeslami | Emeritus Fellow Institute in Cologne, and Boulder 1941-2018 University Colorado, before moving to Oxford in 1994. eza Sheikholeslami was Ian’s research concerned the Rappointed to the Soudavar molecular mechanisms involved in professorship in Persian Studies plant development, and in particular the cell secretion system which ships things in the summer of 1990. It was into, and out of, and around, the cell. Ian’s colleague Hugh Dickinson says that Ian the first Persian chair at Oxford, single-handedly dragged the topic into the twenty-first century through a series though the subject had been of classic research papers, papers that are still being added to by members of his taught since the seventeenth laboratory: the best type of world-class science. century, and the first named chair Ian tackled the most difficult questions through careful and very thorough for Persian in any British university. experimentation, and endlesss discussions in the pub, gradually chipping away at After completing his the problem until the answer became clear. secondary-school diploma in In meetings with colleagues, Ian’s was often a quiet voice asking “why would we Tehran, he studied for a BA in want to do that?”, thereby helping people to focus on Government at Columbia and what would be the most productive way forward. then an MA in Political Science at Northwestern University, Evanston, followed Ian spent a vast amount of time on experimental by a PhD and a dissertation on nineteenth century Iranian history at UCLA, design. The resulting perfection, and the approach He was our mentor, our later published as . He was soon The Structure of Central Authority in Qajar Iran taken, were then owned by all who had been involved. teacher, our guide and appointed to an assistant professorship in Political Science at the University Hugh Dickinson sums up Ian as “the scientist so our friend and most of Washington, Seattle, where he spent ten years from 1975 to 1985, amongst many of us would like to be – but wouldn’t dare”. importantly a gentle, kind, other achievements winning the award for the most distinguished teacher. All of Ian’s collaborators and students say much the generous, gracious human These were the years of the Iranian Revolution and its aftermath, when he same: he could put together a complex subject such being whom we all sorely was much in demand as a highly articulate, sometimes controversial, public as membrane trafficking and polarity, addressing miss. commentator on events in Iran and the Middle East. It was with this reputation mechanisms in different kingdoms, something not even the standard text books that he came to Oxford, where he found himself in an Oriental Studies Faculty had done. where the main emphasis was on language and literature rather than politics

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and modern history to which he had been used. But he soon adjusted and Ian Montague Cleugh Barfoot cover for when it rained. This left the cyclist over the years attracted a number of able doctoral students, often drawn from 1931-2018 now free to go ahead to buy provisions. And America and Iran. For these he was an inspirational, unconventional supervisor; why the name? This was the time of the more often than not they became close personal friends, whom he treated with After leaving Wadham in 1958, Ian took a Russian SPUTNIK! The Barfootnik helped extraordinary generosity and kindness as one of his family. job in Orpington as a research scientist with our family take outings and walking holidays, At Wadham he felt at home from the first. He loved the rhythms and rituals of Burmah Oil. He had to persuade the oil to flow camping without a tent. Oxford academic life, High Table in Hall, and lunch in the Old Library where he through the pipes! Marrying a scientist meant I was never enjoyed the conversation of colleagues in different fields and eagerly looked When the company moved to Ellesmere bored in all of our 62 years of marriage, thank forward to discussing with whoever sat next to him their current research, in Port, Ian decided to teach instead, and went you Ian. return giving them his own perceptive, sometimes wilfully contrary views on the to Garnett College for a year to learn teaching. Ian joined the U3A maths group, his politics of the Middle East, America, and Britain. He frequently brought a guest His reply to people who asked why he didn’t understanding of abstract concepts often from his exceptionally wide and varied circle of friends. Nothing delighted him walk straight into teaching was “I like to do left the others behind (even with his extensive more than to show off the College buildings and the gardens and introduce them things thoroughly!”. teaching skills). After his death they paid to colleagues in Wadham. His was a large, expansive personality, with a matching At Bromley Technical College Ian taught tribute to his work. resonant voice (once enlisted to read a lesson at the Christmas carol service), a chemistry and IT amongst other subjects; Shortly before his unexpected death, Ian huge guffaw of a laugh, an all-embracing bear hug on greeting, and a mischievous he almost single-handedly set up their volunteered to take part in clinical trials of sense of humour, not above planting a copy of the in computing department. He helped to make kidney medication, which he attended despite New York Review of Books someone’s pigeonhole to suggest the miscreant who had serially ‘borrowed’ it the courses available to blind or disabled increasing pain. So right to the end he was a from the SCR. students, and he rose to be their Senior scientist – and a guinea pig! As longer stays in Tehran became less frequent, increasing deafness and Lecturer. By Heather Barfoot advancing glaucoma kept him more at home in Iffley Village, where with his When he retired he took an unpaid job at beloved wife Shahrzad, he had created another circle of devoted friends. But High Elms Country Park as a Ranger. With he maintained his links with Wadham, was often to be seen in the SCR reading other volunteers who had learnt there, he set William (“Willy”) Arthur Brown the political and literary journals, walking in the College gardens, and every year up the Green Hill Wood Workers who take 1945-2019 stripping the large black mulberry tree of its berries – a reminder of those that care of a small woodland. When a tree has to used to grow at his father’s summer retreat in the mountains above Tehran. be cut down the group make chairs and tables Willy came to Wadham as an undergraduate Appropriately the bench dedicated to his memory rests beneath that tree, in etc which follow the natural shape of the in 1963 from Leeds Grammar School. His a place and amongst a community that had given him a sense of home and a wood, so no two have ever been the same. father was a professor of economics at Leeds degree of tranquillity for almost three decades of an often turbulent life, which At home Ian was a good chef, producing University, and a former Fellow of All Souls. had seen a foreign invasion, a military coup, the loss of extensive family estates nutritious and flavoursome meals. When Willy learned Industrial Relations under in a land reform, the Islamic Revolution and execution of an uncle, as well as asked where he got the recipe, he said “I just Hugh Clegg, and the subject proved timely prolonged absences from a homeland that was never far from his innermost invented it”. Ian loved to work in his shed for Willy’s character and talents. At Wadham thoughts and anxieties. making unusual artefacts which usually he was personally very gregarious, a great worked better than shop-bought ones. listener, well connected across the College, Emeritus Fellow The best of these was the BARFOOTNIK. mild, kind and quietly energetic. At the same By John Gurney, This started as a pram fixed onto a pedal- time he was a very serious student and cycle to carry a baby. When the baby became learned his trade well. Later he had a genius a toddler it expanded into a detachable for winning the trust of leaders and others side-car with a roll-back roof (so the child from both sides in industrial disputes because could stand up and tell us about the traffic), of his genuine objectivity and sincere cupboards for nappies etc and a wash basin, determination to be impartial. the back pulled down into a high-chair. A On graduation he was recruited to Harold tarpaulin for a playpen also served as a night Wilson’s new Prices and Incomes Board,

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working with Hugh Clegg, and after two years by George Bain, 16 September 2019, from Laura Rachel Cox (née Parkinson) others then Laura was the mirror that one he followed Clegg to the new university of which some of this is taken. 1968-2018 would always have hoped for. She is deeply Warwick, which was becoming a major centre with help from missed by her many friends and family. By Roger Keely, Peter for Industrial Relations studies. The aim was (both Modern History, 1963) Laura was born on 29 November 1968 in (Physiological Sciences, 1983) Needham , By Ian Cox to test rigorously and objectively the effects (Mathematics, 1963) Peterborough and was schooled in the Laurence Wolsey , Colin on industry of government regulation and (Hertford, 1963) and state sector, ultimately at Solihull Sixth Form Day Jackie Scott intervention on the wages and conditions College. She gained a scholarship to read John Anthony Davison of workers and the costs to employers. This Russian and History at Wadham, matriculating 1937-2019 combination of scholarly investigation and Edward Hector Burn in 1987. She was attracted to the Russian the wish for the results to inform subsequent 1922-2019 language through its literature, particularly John was born in August 1937 in sight of government policy was the basis for the the works of Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Gogol. the South Downs near Burgess Hill in East rest of Willy’s career. He was a pioneer of After school education at St Edward's School However, her year out in in a provincial town Sussex. His love of the Downs stayed with him successful new research methods and Oxford, Edward joined Wadham in 1941 and hundreds of miles from Moscow shortly all his life, and he retired to Rackham in West techniques. took Classical Mods. As with so many of his before the collapse of the Soviet Union sadly Sussex in sight of those same Downs. He In 1985 he was appointed Montague generation, he then left to join the military, in lacked the tsarist romance and glamour that passed away at the age of 82. Burton Professor of Industrial Relations his case the 1st Buckinghamshire Batallion, had originally appealed to her. She recalled John attended Brighton College. His alma at Cambridge, where he was based first and in due course landed in Normandy on one highlight as a trip to a local nuclear power mater was Wadham from where he graduated at Wolfson College from 1985, until he D-Day. He returned to Wadham and changed station where they were greeted by a man in 1959 with a degree in English Literature. was appointed Master of Darwin College subject to read Law in 1946. with a large growth on his neck. Nevertheless, Wadham made a deep impression on him and in 2000. Retiring in 2012 he became Subsequently he became a Student at Laura bore the various communist privations he was a regular contributor to the College emeritus professor and continued extensive Christ Church. with her usual cheerful stoicism which she for years afterwards. Whilst there he ran research, particularly into the decline of Burn specialised in Roman Law and land attributed to her formative experiences as the cross country for the College, a sport he long industrial relations as a concern of industrial law. Much of his time was spent on refining oldest of four siblings who was required to set enjoyed. management. his legal scholarship which illuminated a “good example”. John joined Berkhamsted School in 1960 His expertise was meanwhile also required his teaching. This was augmented by the Laura met her husband Ian at Wadham, and as an English teacher. He had the happy from 1998 in setting up the Low Pay accumulation of a fine college law library. In they married in the College chapel in 1992. knack of making friends easily and many boys Commission and the National Minimum Wage particular, he contributed to later editions of She subsequently graduated with honours became immensely fond of him; the turnout of by the Blair Labour government, as well as G. C. Cheshire's , from Guildford College of Law before taking ex-pupils at his funeral was testament to this. Modern Law of Real Property at the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration and he co-authored Maudsley and Burn's up articles in the City with Allen and Overy in John retired from Berkhamsted in 1997. Service (ACAS) from the same year. and Maudsley 1993. She was a gifted lawyer and gravitated He loved reading and could communicate Land Law: cases and materials He also loved teaching, mentoring students and Burn's to corporate work, but later stepped back his enthusiasms: Shakespeare, the poets, the Trusts and Trustees: cases and across the world. He was thrilled by the . He was a property consultant at from the partnership track after the birth of novelists, and the moderns too. The great materials company of young people eager to learn. He Linklaters and Paines, and he taught variously Isabel and Agatha. She was totally devoted endeavour of his retirement years was a had four step-daughters, who were won over at the Inns of Court School of Law, the City to her children, and also instilled in them her history of Berkhamsted School taking it up to by his enthusiasms for all kinds of knowledge, University, and St Hugh's College Oxford. extraordinary emotional intelligence. Her modern times. John was also something of listening to classical music, walking the hills He is survived by his second wife Marilyn sophisticated appreciation of the arts also a poet. of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, and Kennedy-McGregor. never diminished, and she later studied Fine John was profoundly a Christian and his probably by his outrageous sense of humour. Arts at Harvard University during a period in wonderful tenor could often be heard, from Willy is survived by his second wife, the United States. the bathroom as he shaved in the morning, Jackie Scott, and her two daughters; two Laura endured her final illness with inspiring from the garden of his house on a sunny step daughters, from his first marriage; six strength, and maintained her lively humour afternoon, or in the choirs of which he grandchildren; and his older brother Henry. and compassion to the very end. If we find was a part. At school he was a stalwart of For more detail see the obituary ourselves in the way we are reflected by Chapel, and after his retirement, he became Guardian

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churchwarden of the little church in the Emeritus of the Australian National University, was influenced by the ferocious fire at Mt school. Geoffrey was very much in sympathy grounds of the local “great house”, Parham. Visiting Professor of the University of Hawaii, Stromlo in 2003, which destroyed most of the with Camden’s progressive, child-centred John was an Englishman, a man of Sussex, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of King Mt Stromlo Observatory, though it was rebuilt ethos and shared his colleagues’ ready an Oxford man, a Berkhamstedian, but above Abdul-Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. in modernised form five years later. willingness to accept change while seeking all a Christian, a gentleman, and ‘old school’ in He was an expert on galaxy formation Mike was diagnosed with bladder and to maintain the school’s traditional academic the very best sense. and evolution, the physics of the interstellar prostate cancers in 2016, which were excellence. He played a key role in helping (cousin) medium, plasma diagnostics and spectral followed by metastatic cancer from which he integrate history, religious education, By Nick Blackwood synthesis, star formation and the feeding died on 22 December 2018 in Canberra. In geography and classics into a new combined and the galactic environment of black holes. his last days he recalled the good life he had humanities course for the first comprehensive Michael Andrew Dopita, AM, FAA He was the author of over 600 publications, enjoyed including being well paid to follow his cohort. Although a deputy head, he still taught 1946-2018 including more than 320 in refereed journals, hobby. a 50% timetable, most of it with examination and was an invited speaker at over 50 He leaves Patricia his wife, Eileen his classes where his obvious love of the subject, Michael was born in the conferences. His research work has been mother, Igor his son and Rosanne his sister. encouraging manner and gentle humour Czech Republic and cited by others over 21,000 times. In 2002, (Physics, 1965) quickly earned the girls’ respect and affection. By Graham Jenkin educated at Wadham, where with his long-time colleague Ralph Sutherland, Geoffrey threw himself into every aspect of he read Physics1965-68. he published a major text book in the field: school life with the same boyish enthusiasm, He went on to become one Geoffrey Michael Fallows whether teaching Ovid, organising Founder’s Diffuse Matter in the Universe. of the foremost authorities in His research contributions to astrophysics 1941-2019 Day, planned with military precision, playing atomic and interstellar astrophysics. were recognised by several awards. rounders against the girls or performing in After a fulfilling period of VSO in Tanzania, He won over $11.4M in research Born in 1941 at Chipping Norton, Oxon, the staff panto. All and teaching at Dame Alice Owen School in funding, including a $5.6M Systemic Geoffrey Fallows won a scholarship from his this was while he NW London, where he met Patricia his wife, he Infrastructure Initiative grant which enabled prep school The Craig to Shrewsbury, and contributed to the went to Manchester University where he did his technologically advanced Wide Field progressed from being a member of the First teaching of classics An outstanding head a PhD (1968-73). He continued there with a Spectrograph instrument to be built, and XI and head boy there to a classics scholar at at a national level. teacher and a truly Post Doc in Astronomy (1973-75). was involved in several other instrumental Wadham where he became JCR President. The pinnacle perfect gentle knight He moved to Australia in 1975 to take projects. He was a very enthusiastic teacher After Oxford Geoffrey taught for a year of his career was up a Research Fellowship in Astronomy at and an inspiration to students and fellow at Marlboro College, a liberal-arts college his appointment in 1989 to the headship of the Australian National University (ANU) in research workers. He supervised 26 graduate in Vermont. Enjoying teaching, he went on Camden. This position he held for 11 years Canberra, where he was based for most of his students, 14 of whom remain in the field. to study for the PGCE at the Institute of with great distinction in really challenging working life. He provided policy advice to NASA through Education where he was taught by John times dominated by many educational He became a Professor of Astronomy at service on the Science Oversight Committee Sharwood Smith, a leading advocate of the reforms, amongst them being the introduction the Mount Stromlo Observatory, now the for the successful and productive Hubble reform of classics teaching. This provided of the national curriculum. It was remarkable Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics Space Telescope . Geoffrey with a radically different vision of the to be the male head of a school so strongly Wide Field Camera 3 at the ANU, in 1994. He was elected a Fellow He was also keenly interested in classical education that he had experienced associated with the promotion of women’s of the Australian Academy of Science in 1996, ecologically sustainable housing, renewable and inspired in him a deep and enduring education and more than one noted that and held many positions in that organisation, energy and in improving scientific literacy in commitment to classics in the state sector. Geoffrey was a feminist long before it was including Treasurer (2007-13), Council Australia through the Australian Academy Geoffrey taught for three years at recognised that men could be. Member (2001-13) and Executive Committee of Science education programmes. He and Latymer Upper School and then five years He lived and breathed Camden and is Member (2007-13). He was also a very active his wife Patricia lived in an award winning at Crown Woods, at that time the largest remembered as the loveliest and gentlest Member of the International Astronomical eco designed house that they had designed comprehensive in London. In 1975 he was of heads. This was particularly evident in his Union throughout his career, including being themselves. Unbeknown to the writer who appointed deputy head of the Camden ongoing acquaintanceship with former pupils President of its Interstellar Matter Division visited them there in November 2017, he was School for Girls a year before it changed whom he would greet by name many years (1997-2000). He was most recently Professor also an excellent painter. Much of his work status from grammar to comprehensive after they had left.

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Geoffrey enjoyed a very happy marriage Peter Gammond of , and then to his full-time career creator of the campaign for a brand of bacon Hi-Fi­ News with Carolyn Littler whom he married in 1968. 1925-2019 as an author. that had “Danish written all over it”. He retained Geoffrey and Carolyn enjoyed regular family Peter is survived by his wife Anna, and his a great love for Wadham, and is reputed to holidays in the Lakes, opera and ballet at Peter was an author, broadcaster, filmmaker, sons, Julian and Stephen. have attended more gaudies than anyone Covent Garden, and theatre and Shakespeare musician, poet and artist. It was definitely a full else in history. He was a generous benefactor By Stephen Gammond at the Globe. The Lakes was possibly where and creative life, as recent obituaries in to the College, as evidenced by the plaque The Geoffrey was at his happiest. A friend and have testified. in the cloisters. Michael had a genius for Times The Telegraph describes his abiding memory as being of “a Peter is best known for his 40 or so books Michael Geoffrey Goldman friendship. I remember vividly the parties he man wearing a very patched-up pair of faded on music, ranging from studies of Schubert 1929-2019 gave on his 70th and 80th birthdays. He lived britches, and displaying a calm sense of and Mozart, to Duke Ellington and Scott in Blackheath, where he had a loyal circle of contentment of being where he loved to be, Joplin. His magnum opus was probably the Michael died peacefully at Lewisham Hospital friends and became something of a doyen, on a mountain in the Lakes”. huge , on 30 July. Michael was my best friend, and leading the campaign (unsuccessful) against Oxford Companion to Popular Music They had two daughters: Joanna who but arguably more people have read his the oldest – in both senses. He was a year the use of the heath for equestrian events in inherited her father’s love of Lakeland walking, contributions to the series. ahead of me at Manchester Grammar School, the 2012 Olympics. Bluffer's Guides and Kate who followed briefly in his classical Indeed Peter wrote the first of the series, where he always seemed to me so wise and Michael remained a bachelor for most of Bluff footsteps. , as well as others on Jazz, worldly, talking with enviable confidence his life although he did not lack for agreeable Your Way in Music Very sadly, Carolyn was hit by cancer; Golf and Class. about a whole range of topics about which female company. Then he pulled off perhaps Geoffrey took early retirement in the summer But, arguably, the watershed period of I knew little or nothing. On leaving school, his most notable feat by marrying for the of 2000 and cared for her with great devotion Peter’s life was the time he spent at Oxford we both did National Service (Michael in the first time when he was 86. His wife, Susan, until her untimely death on 19 November University, both during and after the Second Royal Artillery) and then went up to Wadham, restored his zest for life, and, miraculously, 2000. He was extremely fortunate that Jo World War. As Peter said: ‘Oxford was sent Michael in 1949, one year ahead of me. In made him look at least ten years younger. He Koolhaus-Rever, one of Carolyn’s best friends, from heaven’. And Wadham was the ideal my first summer vacation, we hitch-hiked also enjoyed the new experience of having was able to help him through this sad time. Jo setting for him – headed as it was by C. M. together through France and ended up three lovely step-daughters. Sadly, this happy in turn became a wonderful wife to Geoffrey, Bowra, a friend to many of the literary figures in Tossa del Mar on the Costa Brava. This turn was not to last long. At the age of 89, he providing renewed energy and affection. of the day. Peter could see the likes of T. S. eventful trip included a ride in a rickety lorry received a disagreeable prognosis from an Together they gardened, walked and went to Eliot and Auden and Betjeman walking past through Clermont Ferrand and the Auvergne oncologist. It was characteristic of Michael concerts and she helped Geoffrey maintain his his window. He even had Dylan Thomas mountains in a ferocious thunder storm, all that he published in the Sunday Telegraph part as a leading Byng Road community host crashing on his bedroom floor for a few nights. too reminiscent of Le Salaire de la Peur. on 5 January 2019 an article that Magazine where unfailing hospitality was the order of the Peter actually wasn’t a natural student, On returning from six years spent in various started “Yippee, I know when I am going to day. Tragically Geoffrey himself was afflicted and spent most of his time either writing or parts of Africa, I switched on the television die. Well, not exactly...”. My wife and I had lunch by young-onset Parkinson’s disease and later discussing poetry, appearing in three editions just in time to see Michael ascend the with Michael and Susan shortly after that. He Lewy Body dementia which hampered his final of , and as a cartoonist and forbidding chair in Mastermind and respond was distressingly frail, but still full of spirit. He Oxford Poetry years to a devastating degree. Jo cared for writer with . He also composed and bravely to esoteric questions from Magnus had an inspiring courage and zest both for Cherwell him with enormous dedication before he died produced an operetta, , and Magnusson on his chosen subject – European life and for the arts. I shall miss him terribly. Love and Learning at home on 11 June 2019. played trombone in a university jazz band. architecture. This remained one of Michael’s And I thank Susan for bringing him so much The many tributes, including a book created But another watershed moment: on leaving many interests over the years and was his happiness in his final years. by the school and former pupils, agree that Oxford, Peter was offered two jobs – almost specialty as a guide for trips organised by (Classics, 1950) By Kenneth Woods Geoffrey was an outstanding head teacher simultaneously. One, working as songwriter The Third Age. He had a particular fondness and, in Chaucer's words "a truly perfect gentle for Chappell music, and another working for for the novels of Henry James and later knight". Decca Records. Peter – rightly or wrongly – researched and wrote on an Anglo-Irish poet chose Decca records, and was instrumental in called – by coincidence? – James Henry. By Nick Kuenssberg OBE FRSE DUniv (PPE, 1961) creating the first LPs in England. That work for Michael’s working life was spent in Also incorporating other funeral Decca led on to Peter later becoming editor marketing, where he achieved fame as the tributes.

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Derek Roy Holmes Frank Holroyde Keith Finer Hutcheon with a gently mischievous sense of humour. 1927-2019 1925-2018 1928-2018 He looked after Margaret in the years before her death in 2009 and is much missed by his Derek was born in Bedford and – upon receipt My father Frank came up to Wadham in 1942. Keith died in February 2018 aged 89. children. of an exhibition – read Physics at Wadham An early example of access to the College Keith followed his older brother Ian to By Joy Hutcheon College (1945-51), having previously attended from a very modest background, he was the Wadham in 1946, graduating in Physics and Bedford School (1937-45) on a scholarship. first in his family to attend a university. He was Engineering Science. As a very practical After leaving Oxford, Derek joined ICI an outstanding sportsman, and although no engineer, he had fond memories of working Ralph Howard Comber Jones Plastics Division, where he completed the Blues were awarded during the war he had the on technical effects for OUDS productions 1944-2019 structure analysis of Nylon 6, polycaproamide, proud achievement in his first year of playing while at Oxford, including the staging of the (German and Russian nylon) and made both soccer and cricket for the University visit of Princess Elizabeth in 1948 and Nevill Ralph grew up in Birmingham and came considerable progress with the structure of against Cambridge. Coghill’s famous in Worcester up to Wadham in 1963 to read French and Tempest polyisobutene and with several of the new At the end of his first year he did his war College Gardens in 1949. German. He was lucky enough to spend a year isotactic polymers. In 1960 he was recruited to service. For those of my generation, fortunate After his national service, where he teaching in Grenoble during his degree and the Central Electricity Research Laboratories, enough to have lived our lives without ever maintained Gloster Meteors in the RAF, was strongly francophile – the country, the where he eventually headed the Structural facing war, it is extraordinary to think that Keith channelled his love of making things cuisine and, above all, the wine – all his life. Studies Section in the Materials Division. Later when he joined the Navy he had only ever work better into a successful and absorbing While at Oxford, Ralph spent as much joining the National Corrosion Laboratory seen the sea once (on a day trip from his engineering career, joining CAV in Ealing then time as anyone else in the King’s Arms, but at National Physics Laboratory (NPL), he village in Yorkshire to Blackpool), and had moving in mid-career to Raleigh bicycles also found time to represent the College at set up and managed co-operative research never seen a ship. He was commissioned where he became Technical Director. He was rugby and cricket, two sports he took very projects to minimise the cost of corrosion as a Sub-Lieutenant and, having expressed fascinated by the challenge of improving the seriously. In his first year Ralph lived at the top to UK industry. He also set up and led a a preference for studying at the School design and manufacture of something so of staircase seven – from which it was a quick Publications Committee, editing and nurturing of Marine Cartography at Greenwich, was useful in so many parts of the world. After trip via the battlements to the author’s rooms the publication of a number of valuable books, promptly assigned to the Royal Indian Navy Raleigh contracted in the 1980s, as with at the top of staircase six. including the in 1999. Volunteer Reserve and spent the remaining many other manufacturers, he set up his own His first long vacation included a trip with Corrosion Handbook Derek always felt himself to be wonderfully period of the war in Bombay. He then returned bicycle rim business, Mistral Rims, which he Wadham friends to the then Yugoslavia, on fortunate in his research career. Yet he was to Wadham to complete what had become, for sold a few years later, briefly moving to the two motor scooters. The trip was marred a man of many parts. Although dedicated to him and many others, a two-year degree. US to help establish it there. Then he joined by two of his friends (including the author) his work in science and technology, he loved For the rest of his life he remained very the engineering department at Nottingham spending a night in Karlsruhe prison after rugby, windsurfing, swimming and gardening. He proud of his connection to Wadham, and took University where he combined research for some over-indulgence failed to impress the always maintained a strong interest in education, great pleasure in returning when he could. In an MPhil with teaching and discovered that locals. serving as a school governor, and occasional his eighties – an unconventional age for such he enjoyed passing on his understanding At Oxford Ralph met Elaine – then an PhD Examiner for Newcastle University and an occasion – he was baptised in the College of engineering as much as he had enjoyed occupational therapy student at Dorset Imperial College. He was a first degree examiner chapel. He loved to attend the summer applying it. House (like the wives-to-be of so many of his for the then Sunderland Polytechnic and garden parties, and enjoyed the status of Keith married Margaret Swindells (LMH Wadham contemporaries) – they celebrated served on the standards inspection group for being one of the oldest alumni present. He 1950) in 1959. They had three children, Helen, their golden wedding in 2018. the Council of National Academic Awards. Even would have been pleased to know that he is Paul and Joy, whose toys and later bicycles After a PGCE in Oxford, he started his in retirement he maintained a wide range of now commemorated by a bookplate in one and other things with moving parts were teaching career in Bury, subsequently moving interests and was active in local conservation. of the books in the College library; and if he always in top working order. to Chiseldon, a village outside Swindon. He is survived by his loving wife, Cynthia, had been able to observe his own funeral, he Keith was proud to be a member of the For the next 45 years Ralph and Elaine lived whom he married in 1953, his three children would have been pleased to see that he was IMechE right up to his death and embodied there – raising two children, Sally and Michael. and his three grandchildren. wearing his College tie. the institution’s motto of “improving the world Subsequently Ralph became one of the first (Law, 1973) through engineering”. He was a kind man language faculty members at New College (an By the family of Derek Holmes By Sir Tim Holroyde QC

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FE college in Swindon) when it was set up in for four years. He then served Christian Aid Lieutenant Colonel I. R. W. Solloway Ian’s interests included travels to Spain and the 1980s, and became involved in marketing as Area Secretary for South Hampshire. T.D. Portugal, and membership and holding office and schools liaison. He moved to Birmingham in 1978 where 1924-2018 in city organisations for some years. He was Ralph was a keen cricketer for most of his he worked to bring local black people into a sidesman of Chester Cathedral, and was life – spending many weekends playing for leadership of their local church. Ian was born 1 December 1924 in Christleton, also, with my mother, very proud of their nine Swindon and qualifying as a cricket coach, He retired early, but then worked in the near Chester, where he attended the local grandchildren. coaching both Swindon and Wiltshire. Overseas Division as a World Church in Britain C.E. Boys’ School where his father, Thomas (daughter) Veronica Ierston In later years, he took up pétanque with officer, bringing ministers from overseas Solloway, was Headmaster, gaining a the local club and organised numerous trips to serve in this country. Having been very scholarship to the King’s School, Chester at to France to play (and always lose!) against disappointed when Anglican-Methodist the age of 10. Ian proved an able scholar and Joseph D. Vicary French teams. Unity had not occurred in 1972, he made St a keen sportsman. Some years later he played 1953-2019 Ralph was very much involved in village life John's Locks Heath his local church where he both football and cricket for Wadham College. as evidenced by the large congregation at his became a part of the team of retired clergy He went up to Wadham in 1942 reading Jo Vicary was an undergraduate at Wadham funeral. (with the Bishop of Portsmouth's permission Classics, and was lucky enough to have from 1971 to 1974 and took a First in English, He died, unexpectedly, in early 2019, just a to officiate at all services). For six years he Maurice Bowra as his tutor. having studied under Professor Terry Eagleton day after fixing one of his regular lunch dates visited Haslar prison, a detention centre for Ian enlisted in the Senior Training Corps and Dr Alan Ward. He then did a MLitt at with his obituarist. asylum seekers deemed illegal. as a private soldier in the Queen’s Royal Oxford studying the prophetic works of (Chemistry, 1963) He was a keen gardener, growing mostly Regt., and was then called up. He landed in William Blake (and was awarded his higher By John Rayman vegetables. The family had many French Normandy on “Gold” Beach on D-Day+2 in degree in 1980). In addition to his work on friends and went often to France and enjoyed June 1944. Despite being wounded, after a Blake, he published articles on the Welsh poet, Rev. Christopher J .S. Lewis, MA BD time in France. His interest in things French short period of recuperation back in the UK, R. S. Thomas and the poet of Northumberland, 1932-2018 remained a very positive influence until Ian returned to France early that September. Basil Bunting. He spent most of his career as his death; he regularly played pétanque in Later, he joined the Cheshire Regiment, with a lecturer at a teacher training college in Ripon Christopher was born in Swindon on 3 his local club. He had an interest in wine which he was to serve for the rest of his and then at the University College of Ripon September 1932 and attended Commonweal especially Bordeaux wines. military career, becoming the last Colonel of and York St John where he was much loved Grammar School. He gained a County Chemotherapy for his long-standing the 4th Battalion. Returning to England in July and respected. He died on 22 May at the age Scholarship to Wadham which was deferred and long treated leukaemia led to serious 1947, my father took up his place at Oxford of 66. until after National Service, where he served problems of balance in his later years so again, changing course to PPE. I think his last visit to Wadham would have as an officer in the Royal Air Force Regiment, that he had to give up skiing and sailing. He During this time, he was introduced to been for the memorial service for Alan Ward mostly in Germany. He read French and suffered his disability with courage and good my mother June (née Collins), at a ball at who taught us both (we shared tutorials). German at Oxford where he met his future wife humour for many years. He died in hospital Somerville College. She had herself played He was a person of many gifts (a good Ann; he belonged to the John Wesley society on 6 December 2018 in the 86th year of his a significant part in the war effort – serving linguist, musician and artist), kind, gregarious and was influenced by the Revd Donald Lee age and the 60th year of his ministry. He is with the ATS in France and Germany, and and humorous despite a life dogged by ill who was the minister of Wesley Memorial survived by his wife Ann and his son Peter and also for a time at Bletchley Park, on the Italian health, and with a strong sense of social church, which led to him being called to the daughter Suzanne. section. They married in 1950 and apart justice. ministry. from eight years in Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent, (English, 1971) By Ann Lewis and family By Richard Hopgood Based at Hartley Victoria College, he gained they settled in Chester, raising three sons With thanks also to Simon Vicary a BD at Manchester University. After two years and a daughter. Ian went into business, first in Maryport in Cumbria he used his French, working for Royal Insurance, and then starting serving the church in the Dahomey-Togo his own business with my mother, which ran District, West Africa for eight years, where successfully for many years with branches in his children became bilingual. On his return Birmingham, Grimsby and Palma de Mallorca to England he worked in Southampton circuit as well as Chester.

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John Henry Webb in numerous building projects, including Saffron Waldon. An Old Tauntonian Newsletter having gone to Oxford, but typically of him 1929-2019 hospitals, schools and factories, and he gained cutting from 1948 states drily: “White was never in a boastful way. In my childhood I two major awards from the Concrete Society; rarely to be seen in Oxford at the weekends”, remember making just one visit to Wadham. As with most Wadham men of one in 1973 for the Institute of Hydrology at with “!!!??” annotated later in Hilary’s hand. In He was born in June 1930 in Muswell Hill, the period, John Webb came Wallingford, and the other for the first phase of 1950, he graduated and married Hilary. London. His north London Jewish upbringing up in 1949 after National Bournemouth General Hospital in 1990. Geoff completed a post-graduate Diploma was not a privileged one: he attended Silver Service, in his case as an When business pressures finally eased he in Vocational Guidance and Occupational Street Infants School, Oakthorpe Junior officer in the Royal Artillery. I was at first able to enjoy fully his hobbies of Psychology at Birkbeck College and joined School, then Edmonton County School believe the Headmaster of his sailing and worldwide travel. Sadly, however, the Ministry of Labour. Following a period between 1941 and 1948, and also Friars local school, Southfield in Oxford, there followed a long period of ill health, of advisory work in Malaysia, in 1979 Geoff School, Bangor in the war years. By his own knew our Warden and drew him to Bowra’s including deafness in his later years, but he joined the United Nations Development account he was an unremarkable school attention. was meticulously and lovingly cared for by his Programme, establishing vocational student, who got to Oxford because one of Despite his rather haphazard selection wife, Rona. rehabilitation for the disabled and prison his teachers saw potential in him. After school methods, Bowra made some shrewd choices But John maintained contact with Wadham. populations of Malawi. Returning to England in he did his national service in the RAF between and John was certainly one. From the first he He often said that his Wadham years were the 1981, Hilary and Geoff settled in East Sussex. 1948 and 1949. was a loyal member of the College, interested most important of his life, and I am sure they Geoff published and contributed to numerous Tony worked for the Inland Revenue in every facet of its life. He read Physics and were also some of the happiest. works on the management and optimisation between 1952 and 1979, rising to become an he was extremely focused and hard-working. (Modern History, 1949) of organisational change, the quality of Assistant Director. Among his achievements By Edward Jones In his spare time, he enjoyed sports and working life and work design. He advised was a key role in the introduction of the Pay participated actively in the social round of various organisations, including the Greater as You Earn system. Subsequently between both College and University. Geoffrey Charles White London Council, the Post Office and the Open 1979 until retirement in 1991 he was a tax As a native of Oxford with devoted parents 1925-2019 University. He was elected Fellow of the British partner in the firm of Touche Ross. at hand, John enjoyed advantages not given Psychological Society in 1979. He and his future wife Brenda were at to the rest of us, particularly given the current In 1985, when the Work Geoff was a knowledgeable naturalist and the same school when they were both five. food shortages. The windows of the ground Research Unit of the gardener. He conducted wildlife surveys, Later on, she would visit him during his floor rooms of Staircase 11, which he and I Department of Employment opened his garden to the public for charitable time at Wadham and they were married in occupied, open on to the street. One night was disbanded, Geoff fund raising, and organised the local walking 1954. During their long marriage they had I was for some reason alone in John’s room stepped down as Director. A club’s itineraries. He was a master of five children and 13 grandchildren, to all when there was a tap on the window. On colleague wrote: “It is not often observation and reasoning, and a careful user of whom they were a source of constant opening it I was astonished to have a delicious that one person can make a of words. encouragement and support. Other than a looking pie thrust into my hands by a lady national and international contribution to such Geoffwas pre-deceased by Hilary (1927- few years in Burton upon Trent, they lived their outside. I had to assure an embarrassed Mrs a worthy cause; the quality of working life in 2014) and by their son Andrew (1957-2002), whole lives in north London. Brenda passed Webb that she had the right room and that I the UK will always be linked with the name of and survived by their son Simon, and four away in June 2019, three months after Tony. would accept delivery on John’s behalf. Geoff White.” grandchildren, Andrea, Nicholas, Tristan and Tony and Brenda had a love of the theatre, After Wadham John embarked on a He was born in Taunton to Irene Giddings Hugo. of classical music, and opera. After retirement successful career in structural engineering and Arthur White, a post office clerk. He was they had the opportunity to travel, with By Simon and Andrea White which was to last over forty years. His drive awarded scholarships to Taunton School and extended visits to Australia, New Zealand and determination were soon apparent. Before later to Wadham to read PPE. Before he could and the US and to many other places. Tony long he set up his own business in Oxford and start his studies, military service intervened Anthony Stewart Wray kept up to date with technology all his life. He went on to found the firm of John Webb and and he joined the RAF, spending, he recalled 1930-2019 maintained an interest in progressive politics Associates, consulting structural engineers, recently, more time travelling than doing all his life, signing the petition to revoke Article which flourished in Oxford and Bournemouth. anything martial. As a student he met Hilary Tony read Modern History at Wadham 50 four days before his death. Over the course of his career, he was involved Truman, who was training as a teacher in between 1949 and 1952. He was proud of By Justin Wray (son)

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Philip Bullock Stephen Heyworth Professor of Russian Literature and Professor of Latin | Bowra Fellow and Fellows' news Music | Fellow and Tutor in Russian | Tutor in Classics Director, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities My Cambridge ‘green-and-yellow’ Dominic Parviz Brookshaw his poems alongside those produced by commentary on 3 eventually appeared Fasti Associate Professor of Persian Literature contemporary professional poets in other Whilst most of my time this last year has been in May 2019, and about 60 came to the | Senior Research Fellow in Persian major centres of Persian literary activity who devoted to directing TORCH (The Oxford publication event on 1 June, just after enjoyed comparable fame. Recognising Research Centre in the Humanities), I’ve conference trips to Manchester and Beijing. Despite his towering the aesthetic achievements of these nonetheless managed to fit in a number of In Manchester I attended a meeting of the presence in medieval contemporaries does not diminish the conference papers in interesting destinations Augustan Poetry ‘Réseau’, on 8 (I Aeneid Persian letters, Hafiz of splendour of Hafiz’s, rather it forces us to (Macau, Cologne, and Berlin), as well as questioned the generally accepted view that Shiraz (d. 1390) remains an accept that Hafiz was but one member of a co-organising conferences in Oxford and Aeneas’ arrival at Pallanteum is meant to be elusive character for many. band of poets who jostled for the limelight in the Italian Alps. Along the way, a smattering dated to 12 August: in fact we do not know In order to look behind the competing, often intersecting, patronage and of journal articles and book chapters has the calendrical date of the sacrifice at the Ara hyperbole that surrounds reception networks that facilitated intense appeared in print, including a first foray into Maxima); in Beijing a gathering of those who Hafiz’s poetry and cultural exchange between the cities of post- economic history, a study of Britten’s are translating all of Ovid into Chinese, with Peter penetrate the quasi- Mongol Iran and Iraq. and the politics of pacifism, and a co- notes – an eye-opening event and a chance Grimes hagiographical film that obscures the poet Hafiz’s , characterised as they are by edited volume on the legacy of the October to meet some brilliant and enthusiastic ghazals himself, my new book, conscious and deliberate hybridity, ambiguity, Revolution in Russian music. Perhaps the Latinists. Articles to appear in the course of Hafiz and His and polysemy, are products of a creative mind most enjoyable development in my academic the year included ‘Sappho in Propertius?’, Contemporaries: poetry, performance, and bent on experimenting with genre. While in no work has been the chance to work with some ‘Further notes on the text of Catullus’ (with patronage in fourteenth-century Iran (Bloomsbury, 2019), achieves a way seeking to deny the mystical stratum of wonderful arts organisations. I have written Gail Trimble), and ‘Clearing the ground in contextualisation of Hafiz that is at once the Persian in its fourteenth-century essays, produced translations and given 1’; and a paper on ‘the Megalensia ghazal Georgics socio-political, historical, and literary. I read manifestation, this study emphasises the public talks for, variously, the Oxford Lieder in Latin Literature’ was my contribution to Hafiz’s (short, monorhyme, amorous courtly and profane dimensions of the form, Festival, Wigmore Hall, Garsington Opera, a conference on Roman Festivals at the ghazals lyric poems) comparatively against similar and regards Hafiz through a sober lens with Opera Holland Park, Welsh National Opera, University of Virginia in August. texts composed by his less-studied rivals in keen attention to his dynamic role at the the Royal Opera House, Decca Records, the hyper-competitive and profoundly heart of a vibrant poetic community that the BBC Proms, the Zaubersee Festival, the intertextual environment of fourteenth- was at once both fiercely local and boldly Salzburg Festival, and the Chicago Symphony Tarunabh Khaitan century Shiraz. By bringing Hafiz’s lyric poetry cosmopolitan. Orchestra. In the middle of all this, I’ve still Professor of Public Law & Legal Theory into productive, detailed dialogue with that of just about managed to keep touch with my | Hackney Fellow in Law | Future Fellow, the counterhegemonic satirist ‘Ubayd Zakani undergraduates, and am extremely grateful University of Melbourne (d. 1371) and the marginalised Jahan-Malik Oliver Butler to Dr Oliver Ready for providing excellent Khatun (d. after 1391; the most prolific female Fellow by Special Election in Law teaching, administrative support and pastoral Tarun was made Professor of Public Law poet of premodern Iran), our received care during my many absences, whether and Legal Theory in the University’s 2019 understanding of this most iconic of stages in I enjoyed a short research visit to the Institute abroad or on the other side of Oxford. Recognition of Distinction Awards. He the development of the Persian is of Judicial and Legal Studies in Mauritius was also awarded the Woodward Medal by ghazal disrupted, and new avenues for literary to lead seminars on the Mauritian Data Melbourne University for 'making a significant exploration open up. Protection Act 2017 in Michaelmas 2018, and contribution to knowledge in a field of Looking beyond the particular milieu of was awarded my PhD in Cambridge in July. humanities and social sciences' for his 2015 Shiraz, this study re-assesses Hafiz’s place monograph, A Theory of Discrimination Law. in the Persian poetic canon through reading

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Alexander Paseau Mark Thompson we hope to have more to report next year. Associate Professor Associate Professor in Engineering The Oxford Mechanobiology Group is of Philosophy | Science | Fellow and Tutor in Engineering thriving: our focus on in situ micromechanics Stuart Hampshire Science of tissue continues to bear much fruit. Fabio Fellow and Tutor in Bianchi completed his DPhil this year with a Philosophy Wadham Engineering has had a successful highly productive DPhil project on peripheral academic year 2018-19 and together with my nerve mechanics resulting so far in eight My co-author Owen colleagues Alfonso Castrejón-Pita, Ekaterina publications. The group’s work has previously Griffiths and I recently Shamonina, Daniel Eakins and Anca Popescu used “quasi-static” loading but we are just Photo by Rebecca Reid completed we are proud to report two Firsts, two 2:1s and beginning projects with high rate loading and One True , a monograph on the philosophy of logic one 2:2 from our Finalists. organ-on-a-chip approaches to study tissue Logic to be published by Oxford University Press. The main focus of our outreach work mechanobiology during trauma. I am stepping The book defends a sort of monotheism continues to be the UNIQ Engineering down from my roles as Tutor for Graduates about logic by arguing, as its title suggests, summer school, supported generously by our at Wadham and Director of Graduate Studies that there is only one correct logic and alumni, and we are again delighted to report in the Department and looking forward to also that its nature is highly infinitary. The that a UNIQ attendee will be arriving as a devoting my upcoming sabbatical year to this Leverhulme Trust generously awarded me a Fresher at Wadham in October 2019. Work on new direction. research fellowship in 2020 to complete my a new pre-16 access initiative is underway and big book on the philosophy of mathematics, Other What Is Mathematics About? publications in recent years, besides articles Francesco Zanetti During the past academic year, he gave in philosophy and logic journals, include a five- Associate Professor more than twenty research seminars around volume anthology I edited and which came out in Economics | the globe, including at the NBER Summer in 2017 with Routledge. Entitled Tutorial Fellow in Institute in Boston, CEPR workshops in Philosophy , the collection comprises the Richard Sharpe Macroeconomics Europe, European Central Bank, Federal of Mathematics most significant contributions in the subject’s Professor of Diplomatic and Quantitative Reserve Bank of Boston, Banque de history, ranging from Plato to the modern day. Economics France, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, De Richard has been awarded Ireland’s highest Nederlandsche Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, academic honour. In a ceremony held at the Francesco had a University of Tokyo, University of Keio, Warwick Sandy Steel Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, on 24 May busy and productive University, Shanghai University, and several Associate Fellow of Law | Lee Shau Kee's 2019, Professor Richard Sharpe was one of year. He continued to tutor students in first others. His research was also presented at top Sir Man Kam Lo Fellow in Law three international scholars admitted to the and second year of the PPE, E&M and H&E conferences including Econometric Society Academy as Honorary Members. programmes on macroeconomics topics, and Meetings in North America, Europe and Asia, Sandy was appointed to a Cheng Yu Tung Richard is also Oxford University's Lyell was part of the Investment Committee of the the Society of Economic Dynamics, and Royal Fellowship at Hong Kong University, a Visiting Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, and gave College. He organised the first Wadham State Economic Society Meetings, among others. Associate Professorship at the National lectures on of the Nation Conference where academics, He was awarded a two-year research grant Libraries and books in medieval University of Singapore, and delivered the policymakers and students came together to from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust England: the role of libraries in a changing C Edwin Baker Lecture at the University of , which can be found at discuss the key issues facing policymakers to study the changes in the effectiveness of book economy West Virginia. podcasts.ox.ac.uk and financial markets in Britain today. He fiscal policy. Francesco spent Trinity Term on . He has also had downloadable all year in enjoyed meeting several Wadham alumni at sabbatical leave and started an exciting new Dublin a big book, nearly finished, on printing the University Alumni’s weekend in Tokyo in line of research on an alternative approach to in the Irish language down to 1871: March 2019 while he was a visiting scholar at explain economic fluctuations and the role of www.dias.ie/celt/celt-publications-2/cloliosta/ the Bank of Japan. economic policy.

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Reinhard Strohm , ed. Rudolf Rasch, Turnhout: the Baroque Era Emeritus Fellows' news In the aftermath of the Balzan Brepols, 2018, 3-18. Musicology Project ‘Rituals in Metastasio’s Towards Didone ’, in a global history of music abbandonata Didone come soggetto nel (2013-17), I published the first , ed. Milada Jonášová dramma per musica two books of a planned three, and Tomislav Volek, Prague: Academia, 2018, Michael Ayers from the proceedings of a conference containing essays from the 15-25. The book on epistemology organised by Oliver in the Palazzo Pesaro conferences on this theme. ‚Trient 93*: Eine zentrale Sammlung that I have been somewhat Papafava in Venice for Christina's retirement The first volume is europäischer Messenmusik‘ (January 2019), in Studies on a Global History spasmodically working on in Spring 2017. She is enormously grateful for , of Music: A Balzan Musicology Project Musikleben des Spätmittelalters in der Region over the last decade was the conference and the beautiful volume. published by Routledge, 2018. , 1340-1520‘. See musical-life.net/ Österreich finally published by Oxford The volume contains several papers essays/i-trcap-93-eine-zentrale-sammlung- University Press in March presented at the Faculty of Music, Oxford, europaeischer-messenmusik-0. under the title David Mabberley and Wadham College in the International ‘Türken, Inder, Indianer: Abstufungen des Knowing and . A to David from Balzan Musicology workshop “Alterity and Zivilisationsmythos im Musiktheater der Seeing: groundwork for a new empiricism Festschrift former pupils, undergraduate Universalism in Eighteenth-Century Musical Händelzeit’, (2019), Händel-Jahrbuch 65 and graduate, besides Thought”, 30-31 May 2014. 35-48. Jeffrey Hackney postdocs as well as ‚Rodelinda and Cleopatra at the Royal Jeffrey has been re-appointed as Clerk of the colleagues worldwide, The second volume has just Opera, Berlin, 1741-42’, paper, Conference Market for a further year. appeared as a Supplement been published by Oxford of the Handel Institute, London, 25 October to University Press: 2018. The Gardens’ Bulletin, The Music , volume 71, pages 1-538, 2019, ‘Modernisation as concept and practice: Singapore Road: Coherence and Christina Howells with more to come later. The first part of Contributions of the Balzan Musicology Diversity in Music from the In July this year Dr Oliver Davis (Warwick) the book was presented at a ceremony in . Project ‘Towards a global history of music’', in: Mediterranean to India and Professor Colin Davis (RHUL) published Singapore on 27 September 2019. , Inaugural conference of the Modernisation a jointly-edited volume, A third volume, entitled Freedom and the Transcultural Music International Network for a Global History of www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research/publications/ , is scheduled for publication in 2020. , Lisbon, 20 March 2019. Subject of Theory: Essays in Honour of gardens-bulletin-singapore/listing-of- History Music (Legenda, MHRA, 2019) This is now being edited. The volume will Keynote address Christina Howells publications ‘Frederick II of Prussia and marking Christina’s retirement from teaching. contain several more papers presented at the at the International Conference Italian Opera’ Colin (French and German, 1979) and Oliver A book Faculty of Music, Oxford, in the International ' The Extraordinary The culture–forming role of music patronage. (French and Philosophy, 1996) were both by David Balzan Musicology workshop “Topical Story of the Apple Contexts – Meanings – Perspectives', originally pupils of Christina's at Wadham, as Mabberley and Barrie Juniper Encounters and Rhetorics in Latin American Oratorium Marianum Hall of Wrocław were over half the contributors to the volume, has been published by the Art Music”, 13-15 February 2015. University, Poland, 21-24 May 2019. including Jeremy Ahearne, Sean Hand, Marc Royal Botanic Gardens Kew I have also been teaching a one-semester Lafrance, Henry Dicks, Marieke Muller, Sinan in conjunction with Chicago Papers and invited keynote addresses have seminar on Musik, Lärm und Zeremonie in der Richards, Paul Earlie and Patrick Chambers. University Press. been given as follows: at the Institute for Historical Stadt: 1300-1600 Others are, or were, colleagues of Christina at ‘”Medieval Music” or “Early European Musicology, University of Hamburg (April-June Wadham or Oxford, including Robert Young, shop.kew.org/the-extraordinary-story-of-the- Music”?’ in: 2019) apple The Cambridge History of Martin Crowley, Gerald Moore, Ian Maclachlan , ed. Mark Everist and Thomas … and have continued as main editor and Medieval Music and Jane Hiddleston. All are friends of Forrest Kelly, Cambridge University Press, researcher for the online project Musical Christina, including Gary Aylesworth, Serge 2018, 1177-1200. Life of the Late Middle Ages in the Austrian Trottein and Ian James. The volume arose ‘Emblems and Problems of Rulership in at the University of Region, 1340-1520 Early Modern Opera’, in Vienna: see musical-life.net. Music and Power in

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romance and fantasy between samurai and Geographic Early Career Grant project American women. She is the author of ‘Innovation and the Art of Self-Reliance: Artistic New Fellows How (2014). Livelihoods of Kampalan Refugees’ and in to Work, Travel, and Study in Japan Her latest publication, “The 1860 Japanese 2015-16 for the research project ‘Researching Séamus Davis as Director of the Center for Emergent Embassy and the Antebellum African American Refugee-Run Micro-Finance’ funded by the Superconductivity, an Energy Frontier Research Press”, published in the March 2019 Humanitarian Innovation Fund. While living Historical Professor J. C. Séamus Center of the US Department of Energy (2009- by Cambridge University Press, reveals in Uganda, she co-founded a grassroots Journal Davis is a Senior 14). In 2019 he was appointed J. G. White the influence of samurai on African American organisation with refugees in Kampala that Research Fellow at Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Cornell intellectual history. provides livelihoods training and support to Wadham. His research University, Professor of Quantum Physical urban refugees. Through academic research is focused upon at University College Cork, and Professor of and piloting grassroots self-reliance projects the macroscopic Physics at the University of Oxford. Evan with refugee communities in Kampala, she quantum physics of emergent quantum Easton-Calabria aims for her work to contribute to Refugee matter including studies of superconductors, Studies and inform contemporary refugee superfluids, supersolids, heavy fermions, Natalia Doan Evan Easton-Calabria is policy on livelihoods and self-reliance. She topological condensates, and of spin & a researcher at the holds a Master's and Doctorate in International monopole liquids. Natalia joins Wadham Refugee Studies Centre, Development from the University of Oxford. His work has been recognised by the as the Okinaga University of Oxford, Outstanding Performance Award of the Junior Research focusing on refugee Berkeley National Lab (2001), the Science and Fellow in Japanese livelihoods, self-reliance, and local governance, Heeyeon Kim Technology Award of Brookhaven National Lab Studies. Her research and a Junior Research Fellow in Social (2013), the Fritz London Memorial Prize (2005), interests include Sciences at Wadham. Heeyeon is a Titchmarsh the Kamerlingh Onnes Prize (2009), G&B Moore nineteenth-century Japanese history, and She is Principal Investigator of a RSC Research Fellow at the Foundation Investigator Award (2014), and the the transnational production of resistance, research project, ‘Responses to Crisis Mathematical Institute Science Foundation Ireland Medal of Science culture, and solidarity. Before joining Wadham, Migration in Uganda and Ethiopia: Researching and joins Wadham as a (2016). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, her doctoral research at Oxford examined the role of local actors in secondary cities’, Junior Research Fellow. the American Physical Society, and a Member encounters between samurai and transnational funded through the Cities Alliance/UNOPS, Her research focuses on of the US National Academy of Sciences. actors across the globe. Her current project and a John Fell Fund grant, ‘Digital Livelihoods studying Quantum Field Theory (QFT), which He earned a BSc in physics from University examines the radical re-envisioning of for Refugees? Exploring pathways to the is the most powerful framework in modern College Cork in 1983 and his physics PhD Japanese social order enacted by northern new world of work in Nairobi and Tel Aviv’. physics that describes elementary interactions from the University of California, Berkeley samurai on the losing side of Japan’s civil war. She is also lead editor of the RSC’s research of particles and forces. In particular, she in 1989. Davis was appointed Professor of She is interested in how Tokugawa thinkers dissemination platform Rethinking Refuge. is interested in mathematical aspects of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, reworked Western and Japanese philosophies Previously she worked on the Refugee supersymmetric QFTs and string theory. and a Faculty Physicist at Berkeley National of benevolence, hierarchical order, and Economies Programme’s research project on She has been studying interplays between Laboratory between 1993 and 2003. He humanity to envision the future and the making refugee-led social protection. mathematical and physical ideas, which then became Professor of Physics at Cornell of a strong and sovereign Japan. In 2015, Her work with refugees began in Kampala, provide novel insights to both of the fields. University, New York, in 2003 and a Senior she was awarded the Ivan Morris Memorial Uganda, in 2011 and has led her to research During the fellowship, she plans to focus Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory Prize by the British Association for Japanese historical and contemporary refugee self- on uncovering rich geometrical structure of in New York in 2006. In 2007 he was appointed Studies. She has received an Andrew W. reliance assistance. Recent work traces the supersymmetric theories in various space-time SUPA Distinguished Professor of Physics at Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Library changes and continuities of refugee self- dimensions, by developing novel tools that St Andrews University, and in 2008 the J. G. Company of Philadelphia and the Historical reliance assistance and refugees’ involvement allow a systematic study of strongly interacting White Distinguished Professor of Physics Society of Pennsylvania for her research on with development since the 1920s. In 2015 regions of QFTs. In particular, she is interested at Cornell University. He has also served the transnational encounters of imagined she was Principal Investigator for the National in studying various dualities in string theory,

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which predict extremely non-trivial equivalence of Pisa as associate professor, where he re- Rebecca Simson Juliane Zachhuber relations among two different mathematical directed his research towards the crosstalk objects. Her research will have many between oxygen availability and developmental Rebecca joins Wadham Juliane joins Wadham interesting applications ranging from modern programmes in plant tissues. From January as the David Richards as Fellow by Special algebraic geometry to black hole micro-state 2020, Francesco will join Wadham as tutorial Junior Research Fellow Election in Ancient counting problem in quantum gravity. fellow and the Department of Plant Sciences in Economic History. History. She previously Heeyeon completed her PhD in Theoretical as associate professor. Currently, his research Her research project, held lectureships at Physics at Seoul National University, South interest deals with further exploration of the ‘African hereditary other Oxford colleges Korea. After her PhD, she moved to Canada areas of evolution, developmental biology and meritocracies?: Education and elite formation and at the University of Reading. Her DPhil, to continue her research as a postdoctoral synthetic biology, to study the similarities and in postcolonial East Africa’, examines inequality MPhil, and BA were all completed at the research fellow at the Perimeter Institute differences between organisms belonging to dynamics and social mobility in East Africa, University of Oxford (DPhil: Lincoln; MPhil and for Theoretical Physics. In 2017, she joined different kingdoms of life in terms of oxygen with a focus on how the education system BA: Somerville). the Mathematical Institute at Oxford as a requirements. came to stratify African societies after Juliane’s research focuses on Ancient postdoctoral research associate. When not busy in the lab or drowning independence. It also seeks to shed light on Greek religion and epigraphy, particularly in In her free time, she enjoys walking and in expired deadlines, Francesco enjoys how the economic crises of the 1980s and the Hellenistic period. She is interested in exploring the Oxfordshire countryside. She swimming, reading comics, hiking, cooking 1990s influenced social mobility. the relationship between epigraphic culture also enjoys playing the cello and listening to anything but meat and playing videogames. Her past research has focused on the role and sacred space, and the manner in which classical music. of public sector employment in postcolonial regional varieties in religious practices or Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. In these papers beliefs are represented in the epigraphic Alice Roullière she utilised underexploited statistical sources discourse. Her doctorate was on the religious Francesco Licausi to challenge theories about the importance life of the island of Rhodes, and explored Alice Roullière is Fellow of patronage and ethnic favouritism in public the unique and idiosyncratic organisation, After studying green by Special Election in sector hiring and educational access. She has character, and diachronic development biotechnology in Parma Early Modern French also done past work on public finance systems of religion (cults, priesthoods, religious and Pisa (2001-06), Literature. She teaches and expenditure policy in Africa. associations) in this island-state. She is Francesco spent four early modern French She has a PhD in economic history from currently working on publishing this work in years in Germany: three literature from the 16th the London School of Economics and a the form of a monograph, with a particular for his doctoral studies to the 18th century (Paper X and VIII) and first- bachelor’s degree in history from Princeton. focus on what this case-study tells us about shared between Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna year literature papers. She previously held an ESRC postdoctoral Hellenistic religion and how to approach (Pisa) and the University of Potsdam and one Her research focuses on sixteenth-century fellowship at LSE and the Economic History the large body of epigraphic evidence that as a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute of French and Neo-Latin poetry (Pierre de Society Anniversary Fellowship at the Institute survives from Rhodes. Molecular Plant Physiology. In this period, he Ronsard, Joachim Du Bellay, Geoffroy Tory) of Historical Research. She teaches all aspects of Greek and contributed to the discovery of an oxygen with a special interest in epic, national identity, Prior to her PhD studies she spent several Hellenistic history, as well as Religions of the sensing mechanism based on selective religious conflicts and representations of death years working with development organisations Roman Empire. She has been interested in proteolysis adopted by plants to control their and violence. in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uganda and South ‘Sexuality and Gender in the Ancient World’ for metabolic adaptation to hypoxia. In 2011, he Her PhD dissertation on Ronsard and epic Sudan, chiefly working on public sector reform several years, both in teaching and research; returned to Pisa as an assistant professor ghosts was completed at Trinity Hall, University programmes. She continues to engage with she published an article on the strange at the Institute of Life Sciences of Scuola of Cambridge. She is a normalienne from and conduct research for think tanks and absence of priestesses from Rhodian religion, Sant’Anna, where he refined the hypoxia the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and an international organisations that engage in and the implications for women’s social status signalling pathway with the identification of ‘Agrégée de Lettres Classiques’. Her new policy dialogue in Africa. Rebecca is originally in this polis (Kernos 2018). the plant enzyme responsible for oxygen research project focuses on uncertain children from Stockholm, Sweden. perception. Four years later, he was hired by in the epic imaginary from Ronsard to Racine. the Department of Biology at the University

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Manville, P. Brook Lake, Lucy A. 1972 1991 Alumni news has a new book, the was awarded an OBE for Services to Young Harvard Business Review , co-authored with Ron People in Africa in the 2019 New Year Honours. Leader’s Handbook Ashkenas and published by Harvard Business Riess, Frank T. Nash, John C. Review Press, November 2018. Sethi, Mohinderpal S. 1962 1968 1992 has a new book, retired from teaching in the University of The Journey of has been appointed as Queen’s Counsel with Ottawa in 2008, but has maintained an Darke, Diana Deacon Bodo from the Rhine to 1974 effect from 11 March 2019. active role with the R Project for Statistical the Guadalquivir: Apostasy and has a new book, Computing, including a book on The Last Sanctuary in Conversion to Judaism in Early Nonlinear , published by Headline in March Auerbach, Annie C. , published by . A return Aleppo 1996 Medieval Europe Parameter Optimization with R Tools 2019. Giving voice to the remarkable Cat Routledge, March 2019. to creative writing has led to a biography Man of Aleppo, Diana shares a shocking but has a new book, This study of Bodo/Eleazar, a and four historical novels of the late 19th to Flex: The Modern Woman’s inspirational story from war torn Syria. , published by HQ, April 2019. ninth-century Christian convert to Judaism, mid-20th centuries. The novels can be found Handbook will be of great interest to scholars of medieval on obooko.com, from which they may be Ashley, Phillipa J. Johnson, Lauren religious history and Jewish-Christian relations. downloaded and read at no charge. 1981 2003 has a new book, has a new book, , Shadow King: The Life and Kolb, Hugh H. Chapman, Allan A Perfect Cornish Summer , published by Head of Zeus, 1963 1972 published by Avon, August 2018. Death of Henry VI March 2019. has a new book, has produced a number of publications in Seven Stars: Ancient Enright, Duncan S. T. , recent years: 1982 Astronomy and the English Public House Hernández, Gleider published by Unicorn, March 2019. 2004 Slaying the Dragons; Destroying Myth in the was elected as the Mayor of Witney in (Lion Hudson, and Patrick Knaap are delighted to announce History of Science and Faith Oxfordshire, June 2019. Lindop, Grevel C. G. Oxford, 2013) the adoption of Luca Riley Knaap Hernández, 1966 born on 30 April 2018. He joins his elder Stargazers: Copernicus, Galileo, the Telescope, Du Sautoy, Marcus was appointed Mary Amelia Cummins Harvey (Lion Hudson, 2014) 1983 brother Abel Léon, born 5 March 2016. and the Church Visiting Fellow Commoner (MT18-LT19) at has a new book, The Astronomical Renaissance, 1500-1700 The Creativity Code: How AI Girton College, Cambridge, where he has been (Lion Hudson, 2014) , published Salam Khalidi, Anbara is learning to write, paint and think 2009 researching for a book on W. B. Yeats. by Fourth Estate, March 2019. Physicians, Plagues, and Progress: The has a new book, , History of Western Medicine from Antiquity to Things Bright and Beautiful Swinson, Chris (Lion Hudson, 2016) Kingsley, Christopher R. published by Fig Tree, April 2018. 1967 Antibiotics 1985 has a new book, The Victorian Amateur Astronomer: Share Trading, Fraud and the was awarded an OBE for services to the Rodrigues Fowler, Yara L. , Independent Astronomical Research in Britain, 2011 Crash of 1929: A Biography of Clarence Hatry ( Wiley, 1998; 2nd, revised edition, Economy in the 2019 New Year Honours. published by Routledge, April 2019. 1820-1920 has a new book, published Gracewing, Leominster, 2017) Stubborn Archivist, Blackwell, Theodore W. by Fleet, February 2019. Comets, Cosmology, and the Big Bang: A 1991 History of Astronomy from Edmond Halley (Lion Hudson, was awarded an MBE for services to Local Ivanova, Mirela to Edwin Hubble, 1700-2000 2012 2018) Government Digital Transformation in the 2019 New Year Honours. has been appointed to a Junior Research Fellowship at University College, starting October 2019. She is also completing a DPhil in Medieval History at Balliol.

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1948 Sandy Common W ALUMNI Alan Forey W Donations Thomas Badgery W 1938 David Hodgson W Brian Brooke-Smith W Michael Joyce W Edward Broadhead † Tony Cotton W Alastair Macgeorge W Philip Woodward † Ian Grant W David Mountain W With grateful thanks for all those below who D Alan Green D Member of the Dorothy Circle 1940 Philip Parker W have supported the College so generously In addition to the benefits associated with John Hewson W W David Parry † over the last year, as well as those who have membership in the Wilkins and Nicholas Sidney James Albert Hibbert W Keith Saunders W given anonymously. All these donations have Circles, donors who give at least £5,000 per 1941 John Roberts W Anthony Warner W been received between the dates of 1 August year receive a complimentary invitation to all Eddie Tyson N Martin Aitken † 2018 and 31 July 2019. of our events throughout the year. Gifts at this Paul Williams W 1952 level can be transformational for our students Edward Burn † 1949 Bernard Bligh W W and members of the Dorothy Circle join an 1943 Member of the Wilkins Circle Alistair Boyd W All donors who give regularly, whether monthly exclusive list of alumni and friends who are Keith Anderson W John Bamforth N Antony Branfoot W or annually, regardless of amount, receive Wadham’s most important change-makers. Richard Blackmore W Kenneth Cook W Laurie Brown W a special listing in the , as well as Mort Chambers N Gazette Frederick Smith W Eric Foster † invitations to the annual Circles’ event and John de Nordwall † Deceased Arthur Wain W Ken Green W Benefactors’ Garden Party. Their ongoing Michael Goldman † Ivan Holliday W commitment helps us to plan for the future 1944 Hilary Gosling W Foundation Fellows Roy Hotchkiss W and regular giving reduces administration Alan Green (1948) W E O Jones W Peter McLean W Eric Johnston W costs, which enables us to raise our sights Michael Peagram (1962) Alan Madgwick † Christopher Pitcher W Richard Lowndes W and do even more for Wadham students. Joyce von Bothmer Tony Smith W Nigel Roberts W Evelyn Morgan W Stephen Stow (1973) Alec Stephen W Graham Morris W N Kenneth Woods (1950) 1945 John Thwaites W Member of the Nicholas Circle John Norman W Donors who give at least £1,000 per year Nicholas Barber CBE (1959) Sir Sydney Giffard W Tony Wray † Clive Sheppey W receive all the benefits of membership in the Anthony Preston CBE (1974) Derek Holmes † 1950 Bryan Short Wilkins Circle, as well as an invitation to join Matthew Benham (1986) Roger Orcutt W the Warden for a special event at the Circles’ Alasdair Locke (1971) Richard Allen W 1953 event. We are proud that membership of the John McCall MacBain OC (1980) 1946 Charles Barnard † Roger Almond W Nicholas Circle is growing, as more and more William W. H. Doo Ralph Blumenau W Alan Jarvis W John Andrews CBE W alumni take the lead in making substantial Edwin Mok (1979) David Cashdan N Edmund Keeley W Brian Dimmock W gifts for the benefit of those who follow in Carol Richards Julius Lunzer W Bryan Knight † Martin Dodsworth W their footsteps. The Hon Nat Rothschild (1990) Willis Marker W Gerard Molloy W Colin Gamage W Paul Mercier W John Mountford W Allan Gotlieb CC OM D Gordon Mungeam W 1947 Nicholas Hassall W John Peers W Anthony Higgs OBE W Jim Cocke John Rhodes W Jim Lahore † Fred Cornish W Peter Stanley W David Lamb W Roy Garthwaite N Michael Tomlinson † Christopher Lewis † Peter Kearns 1951 David Malia W Gordon Wyatt † Ian Barfoot † John Manners W Colin Campbell W Paul Mapplebeck W

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Martin Mauthner W Derek Calam † Roland Miller W Jeffrey Hackney D Sir Frank Berman D Wal Gray W Peter Ockleston W Michael Checkland N Michael Putin Richard Hobbs W Lloyd Bircher W Peter Griffin W David Onley Bernard Colyer W Clive Robertson W Richard Hollinshead W Francis Carpenter D John Griffiths W Peter Phillips W Richard Davies Sir Christopher Rose W Derek Lea W David Cast W Paul Harris N Geoff Power W John Davison † Roger Simpson W John Lee W Bob Coursey W David Jay W John Sharp W James Douglas N David Tatham W Tom Lyon W Martin Cropp W Barry Kidson N David Taylor † John Ducker N David Taylor W Michael Montgomery W David Dare W David May W Alan Farquharson W Peter Tillotson The Right Hon The Peter McClintock W 1954 Christian Puritz W Terence Greany W Martin Warner W Peter Rhodes W Lord Dyson W Bob Miller W W Bob Carnell Jeremy Hamand W Richard Watts W Townsend Swayze Sir Roderick Floud W Alan Murphy W W Neil Cheshire Gerald Hare W Andrew Thomson W Robin French W Simon Nicholson W 1958 Tom Clayton John Hawes W Richard Turner W Humphrey Graham W Michael Peagram D W David Edsall Peter Hole W Anonymous David Williams N Roger Heath W John Preston W David Foster W Tony Lydon W Alan Blaikley W David Ingles W Ian Ramsay W Derek Hateley W Peter Meanley W Robert Bomford W 1960 Dai Jenkins W John Rich W Gordon Mabb W Robin Miller W John Bonnycastle N Anwar Akbar W David Kingston D Frank Riess Peter Marshall CBE W David Mills W Howard Burchell W Michael Allen W Nick Kuenssberg OBE N Michael Roebuck W Allan Mears W Jon Rayman N Judge Quentin Campbell D David Barnard W Jeffrey Lee W Rodney Sharp W Colin Oakley W Martin Read N David Cronin W Sir David Blatherwick OBE W Richard Maber W Ronnie Stewart D John Phalp W Alan Robinson W Edward Hudson N Lindsay Brook † Ted Marmor W Christopher Sugg W Peter Pickering W Peter Sanders CBE W Barrie Jacobs W Anthony Burton W Peter McNeill W Eric Walsh D Peter Pullar-Strecker W Edward Tribe W Owen Johnson D Brian Cove W David Parkin W Mike Weston W Ridley Rhind W Tony Twigger W Brian Jones W Mike Davenhill N Alan Petty W 1963 Michael Rich N Christopher Tyack W Ron Ledgard W Stuart England W Tony Rawsthorne W Peter Whitfield W Ian Vellins W David Mannion W Paul Fox N David Robbins W Roger Allen W Roger Pickles W Peter Anderson W 1955 Patrick Woodrow W Neil Gerrard W Brian Rosen W John Rhind W Dermot MacDermott W Neil Sanders N William Brown CBE † W 1957 David Barnett David Walker W David Manners W Ian Standen W Bill Butler W W David Brewer Anonymous Tito Williams W Jon McLin Christopher Wilcox W Derek Cannon W W James Currey Anonymous W Colin Wilsdon W Paul Murdin W Vernon Wong W Tony Denny N W John Davies Julian Anderson W Thomas Wiseman W Jonathan Persse Michael Eastwood W W 1962 Martin Hening John Collins W Gordon Phillips W Alec Fisher W W 1959 Ken Hooper James Cornish W Nicholas Rau N Anonymous Haydn Gott W W W Noel Kershaw Peter Craven W Anonymous Joseph Riley W Jonathan Atkinson W Robin Harris W W D John Margetts Ian Crawford W Nicholas Barber CBE David Stanbury W Julian Booth W John Hicks W W W Keith Medford Jim Ducker W Philip Barnard David Tall W Paul Bowen N Robin Hiscock W W W Hugh Richmond Arthur Dyball W Peter Bird Richard Thwaites W James Bretherton W Roger Hopson W W W Martin Squire Thomas Gelehrter N John Blease Jim Tomlinson W Louis Cohen W Stephen Houghton W W W Terry Wheeler Richard Hinchliffe W Duncan Bythell Mark Weston N Stuart Cohn W Ralph Jones † Mike Clapham W N 1956 Roger Keys W Ed Durbin W Hugh Kolb Marcus Lofting W David Culpin 1961 George Dyson W Roy Lockett W David Arrandale Arthur Lowthian W George Emeleus Rod Bayliss W Christopher Gear W Peter Maybury W W David Brandwood Tony Macro W Michael Guy W Adrian Benjamin W Paddy Grafton-Green W Anthony Mellor-Stapelberg W

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Ian Miller W Danby Bloch W Robert Tack W Richard Chapman N Donald Mastronarde N Patrick Hamlin W Patrick Mitchell N Michael Chapman W Bill Tromans W Richard Cranage W Tom Maycock Michael Harper W Clive Newton W Terence Cole W Roger Tyler W Simon Duff W Roger McCormick W Tom Heinersdorff W John Rayman N Stephen Constantine W David Evans W Peter McLardy-Smith W Richard Hopgood W 1967 Allan Salem W Stephen Dell Keith Evans W Timothy Millett W Grahame Isard W Christopher Saunders OBE W Guy Goodwin-Gill W Tom Allen W John Gutteridge W Randel Phillips Mick Johnson W Neil Sullivan W Tony Haws W Neil Athey John Hall W John Robertson W Alasdair Locke D Paul Wilkinson W Walter Hooper W Jonathan Connor Robert Ham D Graham Rowbotham W Peter Lowndes W Peter Williams W Raymond Howard W Tony Drake N Clive Jones W Peter Styles The Rt Hon Lord Menzies W Graham Wilson N Graham Jenkin W Peter Duncan W John Justice W Jonathan Trouncer W William Mutch W John Luetchford N Robert Evans W John Kendall W Roger Undy W Sir Richard Pelly Bt W 1964 Charles Lynch W William Facey Charles Kernthaler W David Usherwood W Peter Rundell CBE W Anonymous Tony Morgan W Nick Finn W Andrew Lorenc Malcolm Shaw W 1970 Anonymous W Andrew Napier W David Gilliver N Benedict McHugo N Richard Tapper W Ian Boag W Andrew Rembert David Gough W Peter Milliken OC W Anonymous (2) W Ioan Thomas W Andrew Boyd W Michael Rosen W Robert Hazell CBE W Ian Mitchell W Nick Benbow D Protase Tinkatumire W David Burns W Peter Tanfield W Russell Jackson W Fred Ris N Joost Blom W Russell Wallman W Anthony Cullis W Malcolm Taylor Andrew Kemble W Peter Saunders W David Brett N Alan Willmott W Richard Dening W Anthony Turner Richard Lee W Randal Scott N Ian Cooper N 1972 Martin Gardham W Paul White W Dave Livingstone W Martin Slater W David Essex W Peter Godber Daryl Williams AM QC N Peter Lofthouse W Graham Smith W John Gilbert W Anonymous W John Harley W Christopher Major W Roger Stead W Richard Golding D Richard Bain W 1966 John Hewitt W Sir James Munby W Neil Straker W Robert Good W Robert Bowles Alan Jackson W Neil Ashley W Bill Pascoe Norman Vance N Derek Green W Martin Davies David Jordan W Andrew Bisset W Charles Pope W Carmichael Wallace N Judge Michael Hopmeier W Clive Dickinson W Michael Lake W John Blanchard W John Rhodes W Tim Wixted William Hurley N Bruce Eddy N Mike Levin Tim Brydges Geoffrey Riggs W Brian Kemble W Jon Erichsen W 1969 Robert Littman Piers Burton-Page W Christopher Robson Tony Laird W Richard Hobson W Roger Morgan W Robert Easting W Alan Stanton W Stephen Brier W Michael Lyons W Nick Jackson W Neville Pressley W John Eyles W John Stephenson W Charlie Buxton Bill Muir W Paul Judge W Peter Quint W Bob Fryer CBE W Charles Stuart W John Carr W Kevin Nash Nick Kotch Chris Riley W David Halle W Chris Swinson OBE N Stephen Chance W Ian Porter W William Lavely John Simms N Brian Jewitt W Clive Syddall W Mike Clugston Nigel Roberts W Philip Lindsell Roger Smith W John Kernthaler W Paul Tofts W Meredith Coombs W Bryan Tyson Brook Manville W Warren Snowdon W Bill Manville W Robert Wagstaff W Bob Dinnage W Graham White W David Middleton Dick Tappin W John May W Michael Wills W Colin Drummond OBE DL D Stephen White W Andrew Murray W Nigel Tricker N John Milman W Michael Wood W Hugh Dyson W Richard Whiting W Boyd Roberts W Noel Vautier N Stephen Monsell Danny Evans W Sir David Winkley W Alan Rodger 1968 Christopher Wathen W Jamie Mortimer N John Gayler W Mick Shearer 1971 Bryan Riddleston N Anonymous W Tony Halmos N Mark Sheldon W 1965 Vaughan Schofield W Anthony Barton W John Harding W Neil Beatham W Brian Sutton W Austin Allison N Nick Sharp W Michael Bishopp N Anthony Howe Francis Blake W Rodney Taylor W Anthony Birch W Andrew Smith W Roderick Boucher W Marc Lackritz Geoff Green W Raymond Twohig W

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Robert Wallace W Tony Grundy D Stephen MacFarlane Anna Barnett W Jennie Kiesling W Paul Mountain W Philippa Whittaker W Paul Harding W Peter McQuibban W Madeleine Birch W Nick Kirkbride W Tim Nichol W Alexy Holden W Richard Millington Fiona Bottomley W Alison Kukla W Neil Nightingale W 1973 Adrian Hughes W Claire Morrisson W David Cooper W Martin Kukla W Heather Noel-Smith W Anonymous N Mark Keville W Jacqueline O’Rourke W Sara Dumont W Peter Law W Tony Pinkney W Praveen Anand D Tim Keyes W Linda Rand W Alison Ernoult W Steve Ledsham W Nigel Pond D Iain Bruce W Father Koroway W Robert Searby W Robert Fowler W Hugh Pope W Louis Rogers Trevor Burgess N Damian O’Malley W Hazel Summerfield W Flora Fraser N Jane Powell W Geoffrey Rousell W Alan Evans W Nicky Pinkney W Carole Thomas W Neil Griffiths N Margaret Styles W Lia Royle Michael Foster W Colin Reed W Simon Williams W Ray Harris W David Thomas QC N Mary Ann Sieghart W William Gatens W Jonathan Roe W Nick Hodgson W Derek Todd W Antony Steiner 1976 John Holden W Paul Smee N Andrew Joy Ann Tonks W Chris Taylor Brian Holland W Bill Sooby W Anonymous W Simon Kershaw W Philip Tranter W Richard Warner W Sir Tim Holroyde N Richard Tibbetts W Madelyn Dakeyne W Lucy Maxwell Scott W Rosemary Walker Rebecca West W David Howe W David Velleman W Hannah Ginsborg Phil Murray W Julian Watson W Wendy Wu D Michael Kerin W Mike Warne W Kate Glennerster Lissa Muscatine D Lorna Watson W 1980 Mike Lazar Stephen White Ann Hackney D Charles Nockold W 1979 John Mitchell W Roger Whittaker W Nigel Howes W Julian Pallett N David Alterman W John Moore W Roy Wikramaratna W Sam Howison W Nigel Perkins W Bill Andrew W Trevor Billard W Andrew Nairne W Rodney Hughes W Kevin Rutledge W Barbara Armstrong W Karen Brown W 1975 Graeme Proudler W Christopher Janus W Kevin Ryall W Nicholas Armstrong W Martin Conway W Stuart Smith W Anonymous W Tim Jones D Richard Senior W Wendy Baskett W Julian Coulter W Nigel Stenning W Ian Alexander W Carol Lee N Tim Softley W Rose Bentley W Warren East CBE D Stephen Stow W Jan Blustein W Judge John Lodge W Jill Staite W Matthew Bond W Andrew Fabian N Fred Wiener W Jo Catling W Ian McDowell W Alison Talbert W Julia Buchanan Chris Farey W David Wills W Lindsey Charles W Tim McInnerny Maggie Watson W Tom Buchanan Robin Gable W Charles Winnington-Ingram Nicolette Collins W Louise Meltzer W Deborah Williams W Charles Cheng Nick Garner W Graham Colls Roger Mosey W N Celia Collins W Robert Gibber N 1974 Russell Willmer Simon Cornwell W Jim Murray N Scheherazade Daneshkhu W Kathy Hamilton W 1978 Jim Adams W Roger Devlin D Phil Parker Anne Deering W Peter Hamilton W John Allemang Fenella Gentleman W Hayden Pelliccia W Paul Baker N Ann Dowker W Ben Harris W Peter Bolwell W Ann Glaves-Smith N Simon Smith W Chris Banks N Matthew Frost W Camilla Hillier-Fry W Justin Crawford W Richard Ham W Heather Stevens CBE N Perry Bayliss W Frank Gent W Nigel Holmes W Julie Curtis W Sally Harlow W Sian Stickings W John Branford W Jim Gibson D Andrew Jarman W Sue Cutler N Lady Holroyde N Kathleen Sullivan D Bob Claridge Nick Hay W David Jockel W Paul Daniels W Timothy Jennings W Sarah Taylor N Gillian Clarke W Alison Hodge Richard Kendall Diana Darke W Philip Kay W Alistair Wilson N Maddy Coelho W Ross Hutchison N John McCall MacBain OC D Hilary Davies W Mary Kennedy W Jane Wonnacott W Alastair Gilroy W Richard Lake Mary Molyneux W David Delahunty W Mary Anne Keyes W Jeremy Hodge Angela Lord W Charles Money-Kyrle W 1977 Daphne Dumont QC Brian Langille Tracy Hofman D Adrian Manley W David Moulton W James Empson Peter Lennon W Anonymous (2) W Michael Howarth W Julia Manley W Colin Ready W Christine Galitzine W Diana Lewis W Judith Alfrey W Frances Kerry Dame Juliet May W Christopher Robinson W Eric Gertner W Jonathan Lewis W Stephen Ashley W Stephen Kershaw CBE W Simon Minta W Peter Shave W

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Malcolm Smith W Jill Barnett W Fiona Erleigh W Fiona Jefferson Caroline Lanskey W Phil Smyth W Chris Sutton W John Board W Richard Grime N Patricia Jennings W Sarah Lee W Paul Snape W Michael Swarbrick W Helen Bridger W Mike Hollands D Nigel Jones W Mohan Manuel N Mark Taylor W David Williams N Marnie Buchanan Nicki Humble W Rosalie Jukier Frances McLeod W Ella Wong D Jane Wilson W Michael Butlin W Jane Leech D Rob Lane W Ben Meisner W Lara Wood Iain Carruthers W Patrick Marber W Alan Layng D Simon Milner D Yasmeen Zafar W 1981 Catherine Comiskey W Melanie Mauthner W Robin Lowe N Liz Morony 1987 Anonymous W Annie Devoy N Simon McGrath W Joan Ma N Catherine Moss N Stephanie Boyd James Dickson W Sue McKenzie W Anne McElvoy W Judith Murray N Camilla Barry N Gerard Clarke W Mike Duffy N Francis McLoughlin W Nick McNulty W Erol Mustafa D Diana Blease W Caroline Collett W Andrew Eady N Neil Mirchandani N Caroline Milner W Richard Neill Tonya Bliss Ian Dawson N Duncan Enright W Jonathan Neal N Feargus Mitchell N Swee Kee Ng D Luke Browne W Amanda East D Alex Fabian N Adrian Parsons W Diana Mountain W Maurice Ostro OBE KFO D Johnny Cheung D Yasmin Fitzpatrick W Lucy Gable W Richard Phillips W Sally Partridge W Sharon Persaud Philip Crispin W Annie Gammon W Alan Graham W Geoff Pownall W Vipul Patel Stephen Reade D Lynne Davies W John Haynes W Charalee Graydon Jeremy Seligman W Ted Paterson W Richard Roberts W Allen Fung D Phillipa Houldcroft W Tom Leech D Thomas Sherry W Robert Plant W Gill Shepherd W Helen Gower W David Howell † Frances Macintosh W Ashley Tatham W Sara Rumberg W Adam Steinhouse W Catherine Grout W Sian Jarman W Diana McMahon W James Tayler N Jo Sidhu W Jonathan Teasdale N Laura Hammond W Iain McKendrick W Tony Metzer W Robert Welding W Tom Solomon W Prashant Vaze W Jim Hanson W Robert Morstein-Marx Conor O’Neill Paul Whittaker OBE Mark Steele W Thomas Harrison W 1986 Christian Perring W Nerys Owen W Pornchai Wiwatpattarakul N Anka Taylor W Roger Higton W Nick Rees D Rhian Pritchard W Robin Tucker Anonymous W Martin Hogg N 1984 Michael Robinson W Mark Purvis W David Turnbull W Malcolm Beattie W Sarah Huline-Dickens W Helen Shorey W Jenny Putin W Tim Armitage W Simon Wain W John Benson W Simon Jackson W David Slaney W Neil Sherwood Saira Bloomfield W Giles Whitefield W Andrea Connell W Alexandra Jensen Lesley Stanley W Pete Stanton W Martin Booth Robert Yalden N Sassan Danesh W James Johnson W Gavin Stewart W Hatty Sumption W Tom Breslin N Steve Gandy W Brian McKenna W 1985 Jim Taylor W Frances Vere Hodge W Tim Budden Stephen Grey W Helen Mungeam W Ian Tompkins W Mike Watts W Katrina Chapman W Steve Bellamy W Nick Haining W John Osborn N Richard Tossell W George Wood W Andrew Clark N Tony Brennan † Nathalie Hobbs D Stephanie Pearl W Francesca Vanke W Jim Congleton N Michael Coleman W Sean Jensen W Juliet Pickering W 1983 Neville Varnham W Penelope Cream W Mark Conway W Wendy Light W Richard Plaskett N Michael Venables OBE W Anonymous W Christine Dale W Pearl Eliadis N David Loukidelis D Jonathan Pownall W Nicola Wadham W Refaat Ahmed W Emily Daniel Sarah Gibbs W Lindsay Middleton-Scarr W Martin Reid W Tom Warner W David Alcock W Tom Daniel Lisa Hall Penelope Moffatt David Rymill W Sue Willman W Jacqueline Alderton W Madeleine Dobie W Sophie Hambleton W Dave Mulligan W Heidi Slater W Rob Young W Ronnie Barnes N Eiry Edmunds W Bethan Harris W Andrew Palfreyman W Patrick Smith Wendy Yung Liz Boulton W Richard Grigson D Martin Harris N John Patterson W Steve Smith W James Brown W Stephen Hamilton W Margaret Haynes W Ken Richman Daniel Thornton 1982 Kevin Burrell W Simon Hayley Katharine Henson N Phillipp Schofield W 1988 Anonymous W David Collett W Almut Hintze W Alex Ip N Misha Shukov W Mark Aitman W Patrick Costello W Ian Hyde W Christopher Kimpton W Evan Siemann W Kimberly Bolin W

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Gareth Boyd W Shu Hung Choy Paul Griffiths W Jeremiah Telzrow W 1993 Ben Blanchard W Jon Bradshaw W Gervase Clifton-Bligh W Emily Hamilton W Richard Van Velp Fernand W Dan Butt W Sam Akbar W Nick Bullock W Chris Dettmar W Jason Homewood W Edward Warrington W James Chan W James Atkinson W Jack Callaway D Manoj Duraisingh W John Howie W Andrew Watson Maria Coyle W Guy Barton W James Clark W Lucy Floyd W Manar Hussain W Dan Emmerson 1992 Kath Barton W Chrissie Charvill W Neil Forrester W Ursula Johnson W Francesca Galligan W Tihana Bicanic W Paul Dare W Lindsay Griffiths W Simon Kan N Anonymous Paul Gravett W Charlotte Bigland W Sian de Koster W Alan Gutteridge W Eric Koelbel N Nick Adams Robin Houston W Mike Blake D Paul Delve W Nasser Khasawneh W Cookie Liu Stefan Bainbridge Reza Jafari W Emanuela Carbonara Elizabeth Denton W Mo Kingston W Thomas Livesey W Johanna Bruce W Andrew Jeffs W Joshua Carritt-Baker W Daniel Elger W Christine Lo N Warwick Mansell W Yvonne Cheang N Mike Jewell N Lisa Chung D Hywel Evans N Brian Mackenzie W Chris Norris W Michael Collins W Jonas Jølle N Tessa Cranfield W Jim Fowler W Jonathan Martin W Sara Perring Susan Currie W Anna Labrom W Mark Cundy W David Garvie W Sharon Mascall-Dare W Rob Smith W Simon Davies D Cecilia Lai W Bronwyn Donne W Justin Gerlach W Martin McManus W Rosemary Staniforth W Neil Downey W Tim Leaver W William Doo Jr D Chris Greenshields W Bernadette Newton W Emma Taylor W Erika Dunmire Pamela Marin W Jane Griffiths Jenny Greenshields W Julia Powles W Rosalind Wynne-Jones W Phillip Edwards W Pete Mason D Fiona Harford-Cross W Andrew Hui Mike Rogers W Phillip Escott W Jodhi May 1991 Sally Hepburn W Katherine Ibbotson W Karen Sanders Lisa Fairbank Peter May W Jon Hermon Carole-Ann Jones Miriam Shea W Anonymous Ramona Fotiade W Tim Nash W Anthony Keizner Jeff Kemp W Alison Smith N Anonymous W Chris Hardingham W James Rennard W Andrew Law N Tony Leung W Oliver Smith N Elizabeth Akwa W Kieran Hendrick W Adam Russell W Victor Lee D Rupert Lewis N Jonathan Snary W Sarah Balaam W Stephen Henighan W Alexandra Skevington W Christine Lewis Tapas Maiti W Anthony Steed W Theo Blackwell MBE W Mark Henley W Richard Skevington W Ben Longman W Ashley Mitchell Robert Tomkinson Patrick Boylan W Gideon Holland W Ronald Sujithan W Martin Perrie W Anna Myat W Victoria Tomkinson Alex Campbell N Wilson Kwok N Rory Vaughan W Rachel Plumridge Nicole Neal Martin Turnidge W John Derrick N Matthew Lacey W Andy Weaver W Shyam Prasad W Phoebe Okowa Mike Williams N Ben Dulieu D Toby Lawton W Emma Whitehead W Dan Roberts Jeff Papps Nik Yeo N Jeremy Evans W Ben Levitas W William Wong D Dan Rolfe W James Peggie N Charlotte Giller W Claire McCann W 1990 Helen Salter W 1995 Simon Perkins W Catherine Heath Fenella McVey W David Scarr W Lucy Pitman W Rory Barnett W Douglas Hird W Sarah Phillips W Anonymous Fiona Schaeffer W Nick South W Kevin Benson W Edna Holywell David Porter W Anonymous W Comfort Shields Jonathan Spottiswoode W Bruce Blythe W Cedric Hui N Nailesh Rambhai W Anonymous N Colin Smith Richard Standen W Tim Bruce W Matt Jameson-Evans W Steve Rayner W Helen Armitage W Eric Strauss Erica Whyman OBE John Buckley W David Lea W Sheila Reeve Sajid Ashak Andrew Thomas W Jennifer Wright W Lisa Carden W Robert Lees W Julian Smith W Gabrielle Barnby Emma Wahlen W Jonathan Wright W Tasja Dorkofikis Mark Lindridge W Lara Symons W Nick Clarke W Susannah Walmsley Dave Dudding D Samantha Lund W Paul Tunnah W Shelley Cook W 1989 Jeremy Webb Liz Duraisingh W Liza Marshall W Ian Turner Justin Faiz W Michael Badman Tony Evans W Nick Oakeshott W Elizabeth Walsh W 1994 Gareth Forbes W Helen Beetham W David Fox W Joyce Pang Sean Walsh W Kathryn Green W Anonymous (2) W Georgia Birri W Roger Gillott W Nick Rosenblatt W Matt Westby W Simon Green W Raju Adhikari W Graham Zebedee W Mathew Gullick W

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Hossein Jana Hermon W Caitlin Russell W 1999 Andrzej Dethloff D Abby Green W Heirani-Moghaddam W Clare McGovern W Joe Suddaby N Hugh Drummond W Matthew Haworth W Anonymous W Katherine Holt W Neil Murphy W Paul Summers W Catherine Dunford W Kate Jones W Sarah Armstrong W Karl Horvath N Sergey Naraevsky W Beth Truesdale W Hannah Fletcher W Rachel Kapila W Daniela Cammack Alexandra Hudson Jane Osborne W Joanne Williams Christopher Hadley W Thomas Lakenberg Stephen Chan W Chris Hui N Vicky Panayi W Stephen Wright W Sylvia Hui W Jason Leech W Alex Clifton W Liz Jaggs W Anna Ross W Hannah Jackson W Roger Milburn W 1998 Andy Cotter W Helen Jewell N Paul Salter W Pavel Lerner W Emily Morgan W Simon Elliott W Janan Kanagaratnam W Louise Scarr W Anonymous W Katie Lightstone W Sachin Patel W Adrian Ellis W Thomas Karshan W Henry Scowcroft W Abby Ajayi W Danica Lo Lauren Peacock W Sian Fogden W Samir Maha W Susanna Seymour W Anna Austin W Alexander Mahoney W Nat Salter W Sarah Gatehouse W Mark McGaw W Matthew Smalley W Joanne Barnes W Emily Mitchell W William Singleton W Steve Hamm W Suzy McKeever W Helen Stewart W Matthew Bladen Nick Nelson W Jonathan Sozek W Alex Hammacher W Darrell Miller W Martin Tisné D Daniel Chan Rachel Nelson W Tina Tran Charles Holding Caroline Moore W Lisa Tortell Mai Daniel W Vincent Ng W Bethan Jones W 2002 Stephen Moses W Claire Williams W Tom Daniel W Bridgette O’Connor Julie Kaplan Paul Newbon W Deji Davies W Conor O’Neill W Anonymous W 1997 Chris Lynch W Jon Perry W Rosalyn Eales Helen Peach W Shabnam Ahsan Laurence MacPhie Weyinmi Popo W Alana Baily W Rebecca Gray W Camilla Pierrepont W Glenn Anderson Morgan Mirvis W Andrew Ramsay W Paul Banham W James Hargreaves W Aaron Pond W Paul Butcher Katherine Neale W James Ross W Michael Brockhurst W Caitlin Hughes W Nathan Sansom W Becky Carlyle W Martin Oehmke W Richard Short W Nancy Carmichael W Emilie Isaacs W Geoff Shullenberger Stephen Cho Tom Price W Alastair Stark N Nick Chapman D Siri Kusuwan D Lee Simmonds W Paddy Clerkin N Lucy Robinson W Georgina Taylor W Lara Cooper Simon Lang W Robert Stafford W Alex Cooper W Jojo Sanders W Darren Treadwell W Alex Davey Daniel Laqua W Adam Temple W Sian Cox W Leif Skymoen Ian Van Every W Ciara Fairley W Matt Lenczner W Thomas Turner W Darron Cullen W John Snelson W Sophie Guthrie Kummer W Julie Levison Fiona Willis-Núñez W Robert Davies W 1996 Sarah Sowden W Daniel Harrison W Vivek Mahtani N Charlotte Whittle Leigh Fogelman Steven Sowden W Anonymous W Claire Holland W Karolina Mikulicz-Church Zelia Gallo W Eunice Tai W 2001 Tolan Abbott W Debbie Huddleston W Henry Miller W Kathryn Gilbert W Cate Taylor W Toby Allen Jonathan Huddleston W Andy Mitchell W Anonymous W Aurelia Gorman W Myfanwy Taylor W Annie Auerbach Vicky Lau Cat Muge Helen Allen W Rebecca Harries-Williams W Victoria Wilcher W Helen Boyd W Soo-Lin Lui W Brendan O’Grady W Ed Bateman W Roger Hewer-Candee W Helen Wood W Annie Crombie Dimitri Mavrelos W Yinka Oyinloye W Deb Biswas W John Jenkins W Charlotte Ellis Guilherme Milhano Holly Pattenden W 2000 Tamara Cohen W Sarah Keighley W Macha Farrant W Nicola Muir Helen Pegg Rebecca Crocker Dave King W Anonymous (2) W Catherine Flood W Eric Nakano W Anna Rissen W Peter Damerell William Lindsay W Karishmah Bhuwanee W Nathalie Fraser W Claire Osborne W Ilona Roberts W Jennie Dickson W Dave Lowe N Nick Britton W Alexandros Gavrielides Matt Pound W Salman Rogers W Mark Diffenthal W Skylar Paulich W Ben Brown W Simon Greaves W Peter Pound Raj Shekhat Shadi Doostdar Gerald Pfeifer Shun Chen Lala Gregorek W Katie Riley W Andrew Shore W Jan Dusik Olivia Potter W Katharine Danks W Nish Guha W Gareth Roberts W Emily Smith W Matt Easton W Tristram Price Hazel Davies Jonathan Hargreaves W Deborah Rogan W Vicky Squibb Simon Fok W Sam Rowe N Suzie Denton

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Gary Smith N Christopher Howitt Lucy Ventress W Andreas Burkard Theo Merz 2010 Jenny Soderlind W Samuel Kestner W Robbie Watt W Nick Chatrath N Joy Molyneaux W Anonymous W Michelle Stoddart W Keith Li Michael Wood W Aleksander Chmielewski W Robert Murtagh W Louise Andrew W Gemma Varley W Helene Lund Engebø W Lan Wu W Mike Edwards W Richard Pickering W Leah Cooper W Christopher Wilson W Francesca Nannetti W Nigel Yong W Rand Fakhoury W Tim Poole W Hayley Cowan W James Packer W Helena Zaba W Lewis Hart W Amanda Rottermund 2003 Edward Fauchon-Jones W Mary Packer W Tom Hickish W Frederic Serpoul 2006 James Fotherby W Anonymous N Simon Pugh W Frederic Kalinke W Edward Taylor W Sarah Glatte W Anonymous W Jenny Reeves W Anonymous W Matthew Kasoar Alice Thomas W Adam Harper W Mark Abrahamson W Philip Rosenberg W Dominic Barker Edmund King Benjamin Waterhouse W Chethan Jayadev W Claire Bentley W Steve Swinbank W Kate Barush Chris McGurk W Myriam Yagoubi W Rachel Myers W Cassie Browne W Lucy Tanner W Philippa Byrne W James Neale W 2009 Chris Nicholls W Jennifer Burke Anna Tobias W Sally Caswell W Charlotte Nicholls W Marian Pavlus W Jenny Crooke Olivia Vázquez-Medina W Ken Cheung Andrew Oliver W Anonymous (3) W Laura Pond W Michael Donkor Alan Ward W James Coe Madeleine Pullen W Helen Alderton W James Rothwell W Olek Gajowniczek D Bilyana Ward W Rob Dixon W Ché Ramsden W Hugh Brooks W Barbara Speed W Anna Groves-Kirkby W Johanna Whippen W Rose Drury W Nachiketa Rao W Lauren Chamberlain W Richard Stewart W Katharine Handel W Paul Wikramaratna W Jack Flaherty W Andrew Scott-Taggart W Rachel Clement Tolley Patrick Thomson W Joanna James W Charlotte Houldcroft Neal Shasore W Natalya Din-Kariuki 2005 Russ Tucker W Jill Kavanagh W Laurence Hunt W Jo Skapinker W Tristan Dodson W William Warner Elizabeth Kim W Andy Astritis Victoria Lupton W Helen Smith W Alexander Fox W Grace Le W Ann Bergin W Patrick Macfarlane W Josh Gorman W 2011 2008 Carrie Miszkowska Hester Bowden Kristin Maffei W Rebecca Grady Anonymous W Lucy Moore W Simon Chambers W Chris McKee Anonymous Michael Haggar W Aswin Abraham Tim Partridge W Joanna Crown W Alastair Mitchell W Anonymous W Rachel Holdsworth W Matthew Austin Leon Pickering W Simon Davenport W Charlie Nicholls W Becky Adamson W Xueyuan Jiang W Nicholas Buchan W Samantha Randall W Lauren Dingsdale W Luke Peake W Amy Allen James Kuht W Sean Bullock Tom Rayner W Laura Holloway W Jack Ridley W Charlie Atkinson W Meijia Ling W Amanda Buyan W Katherine Robinson W Ben Jasper W Daniel Rolle W Elizabeth Borrowdale-Cox W Felix Macpherson W Thomas Clarke W Pax Sinsangkeo W Ben Maling W Kenneth She Ben Bridgland W Katrina Miller W Kim Foott W David Stoddart W Patrick Netherton Sarah Smith W Sam Brown W Hannah Nugent W Diana Greenwald James Talbot N Chris North W Christopher Stylianou W Shantona Chaudhury W Catherine Rae W Vincent He W Sarah Taylor Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum W Andrew Taylor W Michael Foote Omar Salih W Richard Howell W Georgina Thomson W Andrew Prendergast W David Urry Phillippa Graham-Hibbs W Alex Sheppard W Niels Hulgaard Fiona Quinn Matt Williams W Aidan Grounds W Judith Smyth 2004 Katia Mandaltsi Thomas Rackham W Matthew Wise W Georgiana Haig W Rosie Swaine Antoni Mere W Anonymous W John Reicher W Jason Yu N Alexandra Hamburger W Hannah Tickle W Sean Mills W Kara Cox W Paul Rode W Graham Healy-Day W Zachary Tomlinson W 2007 Adriana Morawska Lasso Timothy du Sautoy W Mario Serna Meriel Hodgson-Teall W Jordan Watts W Angie Normandale Graham Fairbairn Murray Stokely N Anonymous (2) W Gabriel Lambert W Christopher Wright W Janet Oshiro W Louis Goldney Sidley W Simon Stoneham W Robert Bakewell Alicia Lawson W Chenting Zou W William Pimlott W Richard Hammond W Edwin Thomas W Zoe Bellevue De Sylva W Thomas Low Helen Sanders W Bryn Harris W Mathura Umachandran Andrew Birchall W Agnes Meath Baker W Jeremy Stothart W

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Edward Taroghion W Jack Hayes W Liam Hyde W 2017 Christopher Gowar Zahra Stark Jonny Tovey W Andreas Iskra Eliza Mauhs-Pugh W Claire Grainger Antonia Stefan Daniel Gunn Daniel Zajarias-Fainsod W Mariko Kamiya Charlie Rae W Deborah Guy W Sarah Stiffel N Pelin Morgan W Phoebe Zheng W Joseph Knight W Shayaan Rehman Julie Hage W Catherine Sun D Alice Scharmeli W Mili Malde W Anna Robotham W Christopher Handy D Peter Thonemann 2012 Jack McCabe W Naomi Thapar 2018 Jonathan Hart W Michael Tunbridge N Edward Addison W Edoardo Pirovano Jan Henrik Wiik Ann Ang John Hirsh W Sushil Wadhwani N Esi Armah-Tetteh W Jamie Russell W Rilda Hone Wendy Wale 2016 Charles Bishop W Nicholas Shekerdemian Alistair Howatson W Nicholas Woodhouse Anna Burn W Lauren Sjol W Jules Brown W Christina Howells Lynn Wornes Ruth Cameron W Rose Stevens W Carys Dally FELLOWS, EMERITI Kia Jackson W Robert Young W Theo Chevallier W Poppy Stokes Jennifer Ellinas W AND FRIENDS Angela Jefferson Marco Zhang W Katie Graham Bethany Elliott W W Zoe Thomas Anonymous Gillian Johnson Stephanie Hall Benjamin Goodyear W W Ralph Weir Anonymous † Randall Kirschman Lucy Halton W Thomas Graus W Hannah Yu-Pearson Anonymous (2) D Mark Leach Cameron Henderson-Begg W W Amy Howlett D TRUSTS AND Ben Zaranko Anonymous N Shau Kee Lee Rowan Howell W Yash Kumar DB Lenck W FOUNDATIONS 2014 Anonymous (4) W Mollie Legg W Honore Lengane Peter Alsop Ken Macdonald QC Batchworth Trust D Scarlett Maguire W Sabrina Al-Khafaji W Mirte Liebregts Victor Atkins Jr D Kirsty MacDonald Beit Trust D Hector Manly W Jacob Armstrong Bahar Saba W Michael Ayers W James Makepeace BlackRock W Susanna Meader W Clare Batterton W Ravital Solomon W D Andrew Balmford Ursula Martin BP Foundation Joe Miles W David Beer Laura Standley Naomi Beer W Caroline Mawson Colden Common Hannah Murdoch W Harry Brindle W Jack Wands W W David Bethea W Jill McCleery Gardening Club Lia Orlando Simon Choules W 2017 Anne Bishop Sarah Merrell Kathleen and Michael James Reid W Charlotte De Val W W Martin Bureau W Jeremy Montagu Connolly Foundation D John Rolfe W Moose Hale W Rhea Colaco Sharon Burles Ian Moore † Deutsche Bank AG Lyndsey Starr W Sam Irving W Eva Haude D Duncan Calam D Stan Moore Donner Canadian Bjornar Sverdrup-Thygeson Camille Jackson Singleton Kenan Wang W Kat Carter Bruce Mortimer Foundation D Ben Szreter W Anna Jurek N Lorna Carter D Oliver Mulherin FirstRand Foundation D Thomas Wallace W Artur Kotlicki W W Rita Chan N Aleksandar Muncan Gabelli Fund D Zhuoning Wen W Oliver Mills N Nicola Cooper-Harvey W Gillian Nicholls GE Foundation Jesper Wiedenkeller W Ruby O’Grady CURRENT STUDENTS J Corcoran † Edna Nicholson † Goldman Sachs & Co Alex Wood W Zera Ong Robert Crawford † Shona Nicholson Google Via Benevity Keshvi Radia W 2013 2013 Mark Curtis William Parry Kuenssberg Charitable Rebecca Rose W Annabella Massey Aron D’Souza N Rachel Roberts Foundation N Holly Anderson W Ollie Sale Aidan Robertson W 2016 Keith Dyke W Lee Shau Kee Foundation D Richard Appleby Matthew Shore W Linda Eshag W Rachel Saunders Novartis Foundation Jack Clarke Isabella Darby W 2015 Andrew Farmery W Mike Sauvage Peter Carter Trust (PBC) D Benjamin Coney Critchley W Eilidh Guthrie N Jean Flemming N Leslie Sebba Relithan Charitable Trust D Mateusz Dombrowski Lucas Bertholdi-Saad W Katie Medd W Pat France W Rachel Shepherd Salesforce.com Foundation Will Forrester W Neil Carroll Dhanya Nair W Kezia Gaitskell W Frances Short Merlin Gable W Freddy Gelati-Meinert W Son Olszewski W W Jane Garnett Mary Smerdon Jessica Gillard Alex Heavens Taiwo Oyebola W Stephen Goss N Dick Stacey

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DPHIL Helena Coker Felipe Ossa Melodie Richardson Alexander Murray Christabel Stirling Physical & Theoretical Structural Biology CDT Synthesis for Biology CDT Gas Turbine Music Juan del Ojo Balaguer Chemistry Regulating Proteostasis: and Medicine Aerodynamics Orbital Transmissions: Affect Experimental Psychology Anomalous Diffusion in A study of interactions Towards the Total Synthesis Advanced Gas Turbine and Musical Public-Making in

Decision-making with Artificial Lipid Bilayers between HSP70 proteins, of Pectenotoxin-4: Synthesis Cooling: Double-Wall Turbine London Granted leave to supplicate Granted leave to supplicate hierarchical representations HSP40 proteins, and the of the CDE and F rings Cooling Technologies in 13/11/2018 Granted leave to supplicate 17/09/2019 in humans Sigma-1 Receptor Turbine NGV/Blade Granted leave to supplicate Granted leave to supplicate 26/04/2019 Applications 13/08/2018 Thanthapatra Bunchuay 18/01/2019 Granted leave to supplicate Yicong Guo Inorganic Chemistry Holt Wong 16/07/2019 Law Lucy Taylor Sigma-Hole Donor Host Olivia Tolley Engineering Science Constitutional Hybridity, the Interdisciplinary Bioscience Systems for Anion and Medieval & Modern Novel Cooling Design for Stefan Webb Party-State and Executive-

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MLITT MPHIL William Matlock , Final Honour School Results 2018-19 Mathematical Sciences Merit Jim Bruce Mats Ahrenshop Politics: Comparative History , Pass Anuoluwapo Oladapo Government James Fintan Lalor’s plan ‘to Criminology & Criminal , Distinction rebuild Ireland from her ruins’ David Grosjean Justice The following students have CLASSICS AND EXPERIMENTAL as outlined in his public and Modern Middle Eastern , Pass Sunidhi Pasan agreed to publication of MODERN LANGUAGES PSYCHOLOGY private writings of 1847 and Studies , their results Law and Finance (FRE) 1 1 1848 Distinction Marcus Davies Linette Chan Granted leave to supplicate Kiera Hill 2.1 Carys Dally 06/08/2019 Modern Middle Eastern 2.1 , Distinction Patrick Sullivan BIOCHEMISTRY ECONOMICS AND Sara Edwards Studies 1 Water Science, Policy & MANAGEMENT Erin English , Distinction 2.1 1 Emily Hoyle Management Katie Plummer Sophie Longstaff , 1 Islamic Studies & History Abinaya Mahatma 2.1 Pass 2.1 Yasmin Meyer MST BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Kathryn Rankin Taught courses Allan Meiriño De Oliveira 2.1 , 2.1 Jacob Scorey HISTORY Classical Archaeology Jasmine Anouna Simon Allen The following students Distinction , Merit 2.1 1 Women’s Studies Cat Byrne ENGLISH Haleigh Bellamy have agreed to publication 2.1 1 Levi Hord Oliver Cheung Rachel Collett of their results Nik Nicheperovich , 2.1 2.1 1 , Women’s Studies Rosie Clear Hill Alex Coonar Lizzy Diggins Greek &/or Latin Lang & Lit Distinction 2.1 2.1 1 Distinction Nicholas Corbett Maya Eadie-Catling Sofia Elger BCL 1 2.1 Ben Crane Tom Graus Rhian Friedeberg-Steward , Distinction Haakon Sagbakken Cassandra Joore-Short 2.1 1 2.1 William Bartlett , Thomas Sullivan Harry Langham , Merit Russian & East European Women’s Studies 2.1 2.1 1 Dhruva Gandhi , Pass Distinction Daniel Villar John Livesey Jack Hunter , Merit Studies 1 2.1 Marie-Andrée Plante Molly Weiland Oli Nelson , Pass Alex Mao 1 Spencer Robinson Olivia Stevens , Michael Sackur HISTORY AND ENGLISH , Pass Women’s Studies 2.1 , Distinction Economics Distinction CAAH Alice Taylor Samuel Walpole 1 2.1 Rozen Whitworth H MSC Charlie Powell Rosa Gamble ENGINEERING SCIENCE BMBC , Merit 2.1 Medieval Studies Rianna Nayee HISTORY AND , Pass Samuel Adamson 2.2 Jessica Gillard Desanka Markovic MODERN LANGUAGES , Pass Felix Taube 1 Adithya Kale Cognitive Evolutionary , Pass CHEMISTRY Avishek Mondal , Pass Philosophy 2.1 (GER) 2.1 Anthropology Louise Nolan Joshua Sambrook Hamish Ungless 1 2.1 (SPA) 2.1 DIP. LEGAL STUDIES Juan Pablo Amaya Prieto , Megan Edwards Conor Williets Isabel Taylor , Merit Greek &/or Latin Lang & Lit 2.1 Law and Finance Yixuan Hu , Pass Merit 1 Benita Schwung Olivia Knapp EMEL HISTORY AND POLITICS Sophie Berdugo 1 Edward Voet James Martin Robinson Cognitive Evolutionary , Distinction 2.1 (FRE & PER) 2.1 1 MFA , Distinction Korean Studies Louis Skinner Alex Rostron Keir Mather Anthropology 1 1 Sebastian Rees , Distinction Sophie Trott 2.1 Mike Harvey Omar Bongo Ondimba Patrick Storey , Distinction , Distinction Soohyun Kim African Studies Marwan El-Sayegh , Distinction MJUR Law & Finance , Ana Lucia Diaz Azcunaga Kelly Kapianga Distinction Criminology & Criminal , Merit , Merit Franziska Kurz Justice , Merit Eva Neumann

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HISTORY OF ART MEDICINE First Public Examination Results 2018-19 2.1 (PRE-CLINICAL) Verity Babbs 1 2.1 Final Michael Kurtz Giancarlo Canetti 1 Mostafa Chizari 2.2 LAW Emily Fawcett Honour 2.1 MODS AND PRELIMS CLASSICS AND ENGLISH ENGLISH AND Odhran O’Donoghue 1 MODERN LANGUAGES Jakub Bieganski School The following students have , Distinction 2.1 Kitty Low Hannah Bowden-Rooke MODERN LANGUAGES agreed to publication of , Distinction (ENG), 2.1 Alison Hall Morag Campbell their results Pass (ITA) 2.1 (SPA & POR) 2.1 Results CLASSICS AND Lynn Chua Amira Fateh (POR) 2.1 (FRE) 2.1 MODERN LANGUAGES Munye Munye Abrar , Nelson Elias Jones Sebastian Grogan Pass 1 (FRE) 2.1 2017-18 Tarafa Holford Phoebe Hill ANCIENT AND (SPA), Pass 2.1 (FRE) 2.1 Flora Nicholson Amy Howlett Esther Ivens MODERN HISTORY 2.1 EXPERIMENTAL Simon Jagoe ECONOMICS AND PSYCHOLOGY 2.2 ORIENTAL STUDIES , Distinction Anishvarya Ni Mhorain HUMAN SCIENCES Theodore Lewis MANAGEMENT , Distinction Bill Berners-Lee Barnaby Bartlett 2.1 BIOCHEMISTRY , Distinction , Pass LITERAE HUMANIORES (PER; Islamic Art & Arch.) 2.1 Chloe Holgate Sten Agnefjall Poppy Holmes , Pass , Pass , Pass Ruth Harris Sapphira McBride 2.1 (PER) 1 Karolina Gallagher , Pass Lachlan Ayles Ella Cohen-Haddon Alessandra Leach 1 (TUR) 2.1 , Pass Andrea Doda Siriol Dafis Alasdair Leeding 2.1 ORIENTAL STUDIES , Distinction HISTORY Raffaella Sero (CHN) 1 Sophie MacKay William Gardner , Pass EMEL , Pass (PER) 2.1 Madeline Oshodi Martha Cruz Cian McAlone Marc , Pass , Pass (FRE), , Distinction MATHEMATICS (JPN) 2.1 (PER) 1 Cat Robinson Laila March Alfie Fell Maria Minchenko Czarnuszewicz Distinction (ARA) , Distinction Henna Khanom (MMath) 2.1 , Pass William Harris BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Zehra Munir (MMath) 2.1 PHYSICS Apologies to Chloe Holgate, , Liam Peaker ENGINEERING SCIENCE Sofia Sanabria De Felipe (MMath) 1 whose results were omitted , Distinction Ryan Singh Elizabeth Biggs Pass Eduardo Beattie from last year’s publication, , Pass , Pass (MPhys) 1 Louis Egerton Legum Daffodil Dhayaa , Pass Eizaguirre and to Marc Czarnuszewicz, , Distinction , Pass Emily Urquhart MATHEMATICS AND (MPhys)1 Joseph Gent Jacob Golub who was incorrectly listed , Pass , Distinction COMPUTER SCIENCE George Braid Ethan Sung Luke Johnston (MPhys) 2.1 as obtaining a 2.1 rather , Distinction , Distinction HISTORY AND Eliza Dickie Alice Travis Jacob Kerr (MPhys) 2.1 than 1. , Distinction , Pass ECONOMICS Kaashif Hymabaccus Roy Kimachia Vanessa Wynter Callum Long (MMathCompSci) 1 (MPhys) 1 , Pass , Pass Ross McIntyre Enrik Maci Ralph Covill (BA) 2.1 (MPhys) 2.1 , , Pass Qian Wang Kishan Makwana CAAH Adhi Senthil Kumar Theo Harris Distinction Lucy Symes , Pass MATHEMATICS AND (BA) 2.2 Avnika Patel , Pass Thompson Matthew Widojo HISTORY AND STATISTICS MODERN LANGUAGES CHEMISTRY (BA) 2.1 PPE ENGLISH Rachel Cao (FRE), Pass , Pass , Pass Thomas Albertini 2.1 Hannah Bruce Evie Fleck (GER), Distinction Vita Bax , Pass , Distinction Isla Chaplin 2.1 Daniel Farley Joseph Geldman Helena Carthew , Pass , Pass 2.2 Jack McGeehan Madeleine Rose Zakariya Rajabally , Pass , Pass Jovana Pepic Rose Shohet 2.1 , Pass , Pass Milo Thursfield Adam Pinto Lowri Spear 1 , Pass , Distinction Jack Wands Thea Toutoungy Clare St George , Pass Ed Wilkinson

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HISTORY AND POLITICS MATHEMATICS ORIENTAL STUDIES University and Faculty Prizes 2018-19 , Pass , Pass (ARA & Islamic Joe Davies Aidan Gallagher Conrad Chan , Pass , Pass Studies), Distinction Connie Kovats Niall Kelly , Pass Bruno Robinson (JPN), Distinction , Pass Matt Chow HUMAN SCIENCES (PER & Subsid. Sorin Ruga Eliska Harris Piero Alberti Jacob Dodd Kitty Low Lang.), Distinction , Pass Medicine (Pre-clinical) Modern Languages Classics & English Mary Brown MATHEMATICS AND (JPN), Pass Gibbs Prize (Proxime Stephen Parkinson Prize Craven Scholarship – Best , Pass Jo Jones Hannah Crofts COMPUTER SCIENCE (PER), Pass Accessit) – Second best – Best performance in performance in the Classics , Pass Matilda Moffitt Despina Lazarou (CHN), Pass performance in the First BM Portuguese Prelims content paper in either Classics & , Pass , Pass Ange Vaucher Hannah Wade Andrei Maria (JPN), Pass Part I exams papers in the Preliminary English or Modern Natt Wojas Examination in Modern Languages Prelims LAW MATHEMATICS AND Conrad Chan Languages Gibbs Prize – Prelims for PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY & MODERN , Pass Oriental Studies English Kemi Agunbiade LANGUAGES Joseph Schacht Memorial , Distinction , Pass Megan Edwards Lizzie Barbeary Emma Baldassari Junior Prize – Outstanding , Pass (FRE), Pass Chemistry Mark Bumbac , Distinction Edmund Morrell performance in Islamic Inorganic Part II Prize Rose Lyddon , Pass Joe Deakin Kaja Dieset religion, law, or history – joint (Runner-Up) – Second best History , Pass Book Prize Hana Fletcher PHYSICS prize performance in the Part II , Pass MEDICINE Joely Hopwood (PRE-CLINICAL) , Pass Examination in Chemistry , Pass Amelia Adcroft Cecilia Marchant Leela Jadhav , Pass Rachel Collett , Distinction , Clement Choo Modern Languages Dan Leyva Piero Alberti History William Gardner LIDL Prize – Best , Pass Distinction (M3) , Pass Gladstone Prize – Best thesis Freya Mason Ellie Corby Oriental Studies performance in German sole , Pass , Pass (M1) , Pass in recent British History Davis Prize – Best Chinese Mia McDermott Iman Awan Shane Martin in the Preliminary , Pass , Pass , Pass dissertation Max Oliver Ian Ho Adam Wiktor Examination in Modern , , Pass Marcus Davies Daniel Maloney Olivier Witteveen Dudbridge Senior Prize – Languages LAW WITH LAW STUDIES Distinction (M3) Classics & Modern Best performance in the

IN EUROPE , Pass (M1) PPE Languages Classical Chinese paper Louise Mayer-Jacquelin Rebecca Smith David Gibbs Prize (Proxime , , Pass Accessit) – Second best Modern Languages Jasmine Knapman Elizabeth Bircham Alex Gutteridge David Gibbs Prize – Best Distinction MODERN LANGUAGES , Pass performance in FHS in Joint performance in FHS in Louisa Broeg Chemistry (FRE), Pass , Pass Schools with Modern GlaxoSmithKline Prize – Modern Languages Anna Baring Emilio Campa LITERAE HUMANIORES , Pass Languages Practical excellence in the , Esther Grunbaum Thomas Blomefield Prize in Jacob Dodd , Distinction Hertford Prize – Performance 3rd year Organic Chemistry 2.1 Distinction (POR), Pass (SPA) Giovanni Raiteri French Studies – Best FHS Ed Coidan , Pass in the Latin papers in the FHS course performance in French 2.1 (FRE SPA), Pass Lauren Coleman Lucas Watts Literae Humaniores, Classics 2.1 Sophie Hogg LIDL Prize – Best Alice Cutbill , & English, Classics & Modern Jack Hunter 2.1 Emily Kindermann performance by a non- Annabel Holt Pass (FRE), Distinction (GER) Languages and Classics & History 2.2 Gibbs Prize – Highest German sole candidate, Bryony McIvor (GER), Pass Oriental Studies Gerda Krivaite average mark in History FHS including Joint Schools , Pass Gibbs Prize – Trinity Term Sioned Marie Lyons Andrea Doda (Distinction in FRE sole topics) Michael Kurtz Honour School Literae Humaniores , Pass Gibbs Prize – For Greek Cecilia Marchant History of Art (Distinction in GER main papers) Literature papers Gibbs Prize – History of Art (ITA POR), Matthew Webb Distinction

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Sebastian Rees Wadham College Named History & Politics Gibbs Prize (Proxime The Rex Accessit) – Second highest Prizes 2018-19 average mark in history joint Warner Prize schools The Rex Warner Prize has been awarded to Ann CAROLINE KELLETT COLLINGTON PRIZE KEITH DYKE PRIZE IN REX WARNER PRIZE IN (DPhil English, 2018) Mia Saunders Ang FHS PRIZE IN HISTORY For performance in BIOCHEMISTRY CLASSICS MODERATIONS for her poems Chemistry Awarded to Becoming Turbutt Prize – Practical For outstanding Science FPE Awarded to excellence in the 2nd year the Bodleian, Homesick historical work Awarded to Kitty Low and organic chemistry course Patrick Collins Gardener, To Have a Awarded to Piero Alberti Cup of Coffee, (proxime SUKUMAR PRIZE and proxime accessit to Haleigh Bellamy Adhi Senthil Kumar OCKENDEN PRIZE Alice Travis accessit) IN PHYSICS (Oriental Rachel Collett IN GERMAN Cian McAlone Biological Sciences For best performance in Studies, 2015) for his cycle Orielton Fieldcourse Prize – Lizzy Diggins For performance in FPE their final year by a Wadham of poems, , written Outstanding work on Insects Sofia Elger DEROW PRIZE German Clay undergraduate student taking in the dialect of rural Day Jack Hunter IN CLASSICS Awarded to Physics or a related joint Fermanagh and Donegal. Michael Kurtz For performance in Classical Isla Chaplin school Samuel Walpole Rose Lyddon options by a Wadham (proxime BCL Keir Mather student taking Literae Emily Kindermann Awarded to Law Faculty Prize in accessit) Sebastian Rees Humaniores or a related joint Eduardo Beattie Eizaguirre The Cheney Prize International Law of the Sea Greg Ritchie school (FHS) in the Arts and – Best performance in the PENROSE PRIZE Rozen Whitworth Awarded to WOODHOUSE PRIZE Social Sciences International Law of the Sea For performance in FHS For best performance in The Cheney Prize in the Paper Marcus Davies Mathematics and Joint CAROLINE KELLETT FPE Mathematics options by a 3rd Arts and Social Sciences Andrea Doda Schools (2nd year) PRIZE IN HISTORY year Wadham student taking has been awarded jointly to Matthew Webb Awarded to Awarded to Mathematics or a related (Classics ESHAG PRIZE Andrew Hodgson Modern Languages joint school and French, 2016) for T. F. Earle Prize – Best Henna Khanom For performance in FHS PPE Oscar Heath-Stephens performance in Portuguese Awarded to his essay, Awarded to Mastering the Prelims content papers in the CHRISTINA HOWELLS PETER CARTER PRIZE Kaashif Hymabaccus Mistress: Imitation, parody Preliminary Examination in PRIZE IN FRENCH Jack Wands For best performance Dan Lyness and feminine revision of the Modern Languages For best performance by in FHS Law Petrarchan model in the FIDDIAN TRAVEL a Wadham finalist taking Awarded to Sonnets of Louise Labé, French in Modern Languages PRIZE IN SPANISH and to Gaby Schwarzmann or Joint Schools For performance in FPE Tarafa Holford (History and Politics, 2017)

Awarded to Spanish for her essay, PRIZE IN PHILOSOPHY What Raptus Awarded to Louise Mayer-Jacquelin For performance in FHS Laws Can Tell Us About Jacob Dodd Philosophy Female Consent in the Middle Ages. Awarded to Jack Wands

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Undergraduate Scholarships and Exhibitions 2018-19

ANCIENT AND CLASSICS AND MODERN ENGLISH HISTORY AND MODERN MATHEMATICAL AND ORIENTAL STUDIES MODERN HISTORY LANGUAGES LANGUAGES THEORETICAL PHYSICS Alex Coonar Michael Gourin Hugo Raine Marcus Davies Maya Eadie-Catling Johanna McNulty Renat Karimov Rose Johnson Tom Graus Rachel McVeigh Joshua Sambrook Harry Langham Millie Morrissey BIOCHEMISTRY ECONOMICS AND Isabel Taylor MATHEMATICS MANAGEMENT Pelin Morgan Ruby Osman Connor Hughes Michael Sackur Will Bayliff Totti Tapper HISTORY AND POLITICS Abinaya Mahatma Clement Wohrer Hazem Hassan Alfred Thompson BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Kathryn Rankin Sebastian Rees Oscar Heath-Stephens Jacob Scorey Aaron Jones Ben Crane ENGLISH AND PHILOSOPHY AND Isobel Townend Dan Lyness Callum Hudson MODERN LANGUAGES HISTORY OF ART MODERN LANGUAGES Andreea Rotaru Naomi Miall EMEL Reuben Woolley Michael Kurtz Joshua Silverbeck Kei Patrick Alice Robijns Daniel Villar Camila Vergara Zara Baker EXPERIMENTAL HUMAN SCIENCES MATHEMATICS AND Molly Weiland PSYCHOLOGY Nadia Ghauri COMPUTER SCIENCE PHYSICS Katie Medd Helen Doran CHEMISTRY Eduardo Beattie Eizaguirre ENGINEERING SCIENCE Yasmin Meyer Kaashif Hymabaccus LAW George Braid Alex Butler Ioana Iaru Jackson Cooper-Driver HISTORY Ella Black Runbei Cheng Will Chappell Piotr Mitosek Georgiana Dima Morag Campbell Eliza Dickie Megan Edwards Rachel Collett Sebastian Elmes Tarafa Holford MATHEMATICS AND Elizabeth Fox Alex Gutteridge Sofia Elger Aaron Hartnell-Booth Soroush Faghihi Kashani Celine Ng STATISTICS James Martin Robinson Joseph Hettrick Thomas Jones Adam Lewis-Douglas Hannah Szczepanski Cian Ridley Jack Hunter Justin Tan Milena Vuletic Zoe Lewis Avishek Mondal Rose Lyddon Rachel Sage Brian Wrobel Ross McIntyre Louise Nolan Sophia Oleksiyenko-Stech Hank Wu Charlie Shaw LAW WITH LAW STUDIES Alex Proudman Yujia Zhang Louis Skinner IN EUROPE MEDICINE (PRE-CLINICAL) Nazmus Saadat HISTORY AND ENGLISH Sybil Song Alberico Santiano Julia Brechtelsbauer Afrose Dor PPE Sophie Trott Sam Miller Max Sarch Thomas Rozen Whitworth Alec Bandy LITERAE HUMANIORES MODERN LANGUAGES CLASSICS AND ENGLISH Lorenzo Sintini Fran Best Luke Stalder Alice Cutbill Phoebe Hill Cara Exall Kitty Low Conor Williets Andrea Doda Louise Mayer-Jacquelin Harry Lau Ella Sackville Adjei Arabella McMenamin Milo Thursfield Walshe Fabien Ruthven

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Named Graduate Scholarships 2018-19 CDT FEE WAIVERS Wadham College Senior Jonathan Andrews David Ascough Scholarships 2018-19 Rushab Badiani BEIT SCHOLARSHIPS DONNER CANADIAN PETER CARTER GRADUATE Adam Golinski SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP IN LAW Chanda Chungu Lucy Harwood The following Wadham EPRIME ESHAG Kelly Kapianga Anna Ventouratou Oskar Hoff graduate students have Marie-Andrée Plante SCHOLARSHIP Ndidi Iwumeme been elected to: Prannay Kaul BROOKMAN FIRSTRAND OXFORD PETER CARTER TAUGHT Eva Neumann SCHOLARSHIP GRADUATE Ivan Kiskin AFRICAN STUDIES SENIOR SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP IN LAW Hala Lamdouar KEELEY Charlie Powell SCHOLARSHIP FOR 2018-19 Zachariah Lockhart SCHOLARSHIP Shaeera Kalla Dhruva Gandhi Gareth Molyneux Juliane Borchert CLARENDON-MONCKTON Oana Pelea Shaeera Kalla SCHOLARSHIP KALISHER TRUST – WADHAM GRADUATE Owen Smith Sarah Briggs Andrew Mummery Ana Lucía Díaz Azcúnaga Leonie Neuhäuser Shwanda Corbett WADHAM SCHOLARSHIP LAW SCHOLARSHIP Pearse Solon Tai-Ying Lee Benjamin Walker Reginald Aziza DALITZ SCHOLARSHIP Anuoluwapo Oladapo Nhlakanipho Mkhize WADHAM MIREMADI Matthew Myers Filippo Revello MURRAY-CLASSICS SCHOLARSHIPS STUDENTSHIP IN ENGLISH DAVID RICHARDS SCHOLARSHIP IN James Oakley Archie Cornish New Undergraduates 2019 CHEMISTRY Matthew Hewitt WADHAM-MR MICHELL’S Giorgio Morello NORWEGIAN RCUK SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP ANCIENT AND BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY DAVID RICHARDS Thomas Robinson MODERN HISTORY SCHOLARSHIPS Taras Bains Charlotte Bogle Haakon Sagbakken Leicester Grammar School Prendergast School IN ECONOMICS WADHAM COLLEGE- Freddie Seddon PHILOSOPHY FACULTY New College Durham Samuel Altmann OXFORD-DOWDING HERBERT SPENCER Alice Bradbury Arjun Cheema Mishel Ghassibe SCHOLARSHIP Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form John Lyon School, Harrow SCHOLARSHIP BIOCHEMISTRY College, Darlington Gautham Shiralagi DAVID RICHARDS George Webster Oskar Ford Merchant Taylors’ School, SCHOLARSHIPS OXFORD-HACKNEY BCL Francesca Cavadino Aleisha Durmaz Davenant Foundation School York House School, Canada Northwood IN HISTORY SCHOLARSHIP WADHAM-WOODWARD RCUK HUMANITIES Callum Kelly Sam Walpole Isabel Dowling Thomas Keen Jason Guan SCHOLARSHIP Hills Road Sixth Form College Kenilworth School Harris Westminster Sixth Matthew Myers OXFORD-MOK GRADUATE Clara Voyvodic Casabo Form Imogen Dyne Ellie Sandiford DAVID RICHARDS SCHOLARSHIP Portsmouth High School, Xaverian College WATER CONSERVATORS’ Adam Kavanagh SCHOLARSHIPS GDST Bilborough College IN PHYSICS Andrew Kwok SCHOLARSHIP Jemima Swain King Edward VI School, Patrick Sullivan Owen Somhorst Karan Lalwani Cherry Qian St Olave’s and St Saviour’s Warwickshire St Paul’s School, London Jorge Garcia-Franco Grammar School

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Izzy Legge ENGINEERING SCIENCE Ruth Thrush Mia Sorenti LAW Leah Mitchell Waldegrave School King Edward VI Camp Hill The West Bridgford School The Judd School, Tonbridge School for Girls Rosa Arthur Iqra Ahmed Aleksandra Zawadzka The Folkestone School for Chloe Williams Brampton Manor Academy Alexander Orlov-Holmes III Liceum im Adama Walter Payton College Sir Joseph Williamson’s Girls Fox White Mickiewicza St Paul’s Girls’ School Preparatory, Chicago Mathematical School Charlie Balshaw Bishop Wordsworth’s Edward Campbell Hampton School Helen Woods Grammar School Eli Rubies CLASSICS & MODERN Oxford Spires Academy HISTORY & ECONOMICS Parkside Sixth, Cambridge LANGUAGES Xiaoqi Chen Victoria Goldstraw Shanghai Guanghua College Fin Kneen The Judd School, Tonbridge Churston Ferrers Grammar Gabriella Emery ENGLISH & MODERN MATHEMATICS Bishop Thomas Grant LANGUAGES School Sulekha Harrish Liberty Haddrell School, London Upton Court Grammar Sir William Borlase’s Rohan Chakraborty Frankfurt International School Kiri Ley Grammar School Exeter College, Hele Road HISTORY & ENGLISH School ECONOMICS & Centre Isla Henderson Justin Lim MANAGEMENT Altrincham Grammar School Uma Gurav Raffles Junior College, Marcelina Jagielka St Helen’s School Gdańskie Liceum for Girls Lily Rachel Singapore Alex Liu East Barnet School, Barnet Autonomiczne Peter Symonds College Morten Pahus HISTORY & POLITICS Andrew Morris Roedkilde Gymnasium, Dunfermline High School George Jones Anisha Mace EXPERIMENTAL Stanwell School James Allen’s Girls’ School Denmark Orla Parr PSYCHOLOGY Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar, Meher Pahuja Alford UWC South East Asia, East Jackie Rao Rin Watanabe Toby Price Ellie Lewis Kendrick School Kingswood School Glyn School Barton Peveril College Campus HISTORY OF ART Karan Ruparell Annabel Staines Lucy Taylor Robert Clack School, Watford Grammar School Josh McCracken Kenilworth School EMEL Crompton House CofE Dagenham Alfred Carter for Girls School Reigate Sixth Form College Nadia Gokcemen Carfax College LAW WITH LAW STUDIES Shangzhi Wu MATHEMATICS & Pennon Education Group Junior Okoroafor Michela Giachino IN EUROPE Maidstone Grammar School Europa School UK COMPUTER SCIENCE Matt Gooder Bristol Grammar School Lisa Muttonen Silvia Sicheri The Grey Coat Hospital Pawel Narkiewicz ENGLISH King’s College School HONG KONG VISITING III Liceum Ogólnokształcące, Naomi Richter STUDENT Poland Colston’s Girls’ School Isobel Falk Advay Saxena The Tiffin Girls’ School Royal Grammar School Academy HISTORY Kristy Lam Guildford Matthew Roberts Hong Kong University Winstanley College Dot Foster Ellie Fullwood ENGINEERING EXCHANGE Hills Road Sixth Form College Bodmin College LITERAE HUMANIORES Kevin Xin (NUS) HUMAN SCIENCES Discovery College Maisie Honey Prior Park College Ami Lavan Joshua Ng Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form River Deng National University of Jemima Chase Wycombe Abbey School College, Darlington Camden School for Girls MATHEMATICS & Singapore Grace Spencer STATISTICS Stroud High School Rebeca Guillen-Puro Stephanie Potts Becca Funnell High Storrs School St Thomas More RC Sevenoaks School Boris Barbov Calum Taylor Academy, North Shields Sofia High School of Trinity School, Carlisle Rebecca Perez Nathaniel Jones Mathematics Brookline High School Xaverian College

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MEDICINE (PRE-CLINICAL) MODERN LANGUAGES & Uri Sharell Oskar-von-Miller Gymnasium New Graduates 2019 LINGUISTICS München Matt Clarke The Perse School Wiktor Niemczura II Liceum Ogólnokształcące Ella Thomas Newquay Tretherras School Kiera Adams Patrick Brennan Marcos Diaz Tarrago Aaron Johnston w Tarnowie Queen Ethelburga’s MSc, Psychological DPhil, CDT Synthetic Diploma in Legal Studies University of Pompeu Fabra, Collegiate Research Biology Tommy Williams University of Cambridge University of Salford Barcelona ORIENTAL STUDIES Aylesbury Grammar School Jacinta Kynaston Wilmslow High School Lucie Briscoe Thomas Wyndham Read Alice Ahearn Jaz Brisack Andrea Doda Lycée Français Charles De Sproule DPhil, Classical Languages MSc, History (Intellectual MSt, Greek &/or Latin Gaulle The Sixth Form College Lauren Scullion & Literature History) Lang & Lit Ecclesbourne School Farnborough University of Durham University of Mississippi Wadham (BA 2015-19) Eliza Chapple King’s College Taunton Lloyd Shail Yaseen Almehmadi William Bunce Julien du Vergier St Mary Redcliffe and Temple PPE DPhil, Organic Chemistry MSt, Late Antique & DPhil, Law School Lucie Olivier University of Alberta Oxford (St Antony’s) St James Senior Girls’ School Rhea Arora Byzantine Studies International School of Oxford (Brasenose) Leah Alpern Mohamed El-Nemr MODERN LANGUAGES Louis Poyser London, Qatar Manchester Grammar School MSt, Greek &/or Latin Mostafa Chizari BMBCH, Clinical Medicine Wadham (BA 2016-19) Camilla Butters Lang & Lit BMBCH, Clinical Medicine The Godolphin and Latymer Hannah Ashford Dartmouth College Wadham (BA 2016-19) Leonie Sonderegger South Dartmoor Community School Gymnasium am Münsterplatz College Emily Fawcett Martin Babicka Carina Conradie BMBCH, Clinical Medicine Wadham (BA 2016-19) Sarah Fielding Dahlia Twigger Emmanuel Campion-Dye DPhil, History MSc, African Studies Dalriada School Sir John Colfox School Ralph Allen School Oxford (St Peter’s) University of the Western Cape, South Africa Abi Fiske Conor Hartley Aleksandra Dagil Madeleine Banatvala DPhil, Experimental Reigate Sixth Form College PHILOSOPHY & Stanislaw Staszic XIV High PGCE, Modern Languages Isabella Conte Psychology MODERN LANGUAGES School in Warsaw University of London Institute University of Nottingham MSc, Criminology & Ellie Hills in Paris The Billericay School Criminal Justice Jenny He Charlotte Grayson University of Melbourne Alice Flett Concord College Watford Grammar School Gabrielle Beaudry MSc, Criminology & Emily Hobson for Girls Carre’s Grammar School DPhil, Psychiatry Alex Coonar Criminal Justice PHYSICS Oxford (Green Templeton) University of Lincoln MSt, World Literatures in Rachel Hart Lily Samarine Balcarras School English Bedales School Sam Burles Haleigh Bellamy Zoe Fowler South Craven School Wadham (BA 2016-19) MSt, History MSt, Creative Writing Keir May Wadham (BA 2016-19) Institute of Education, Aaron Shankar Anglo-European School Jenny Coppinger Emmanuel College, Andrew Franklin London New College Pontefract PGCE, History Gateshead Alistair Boyd University of Exeter Nathanael McKibbin Antrim Grammar School Elodie Freymann Sam Leadley DPhil, CDT Synthesis for Isabelle Tod King Edward VI School, Biology and Medicine Oli Craven-Todd MSc, Cognitive Evolutionary City of London Freemen’s University of York Warwickshire PGCE, Biology Anthropology School University of Manchester Brown University Justin Brassett Benedict Pery Ed Williams Hills Road Sixth Form College MSc, Water Science, Policy Tonbridge School Sebastian Gatica Avila & Management MBA University of Durham Universidad Diego Portales

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Wissam Ghantous Charitha Kaverira Shashiraj Ahmad Malikzada Claire Paoli Nadia Saffoon Michael Trimpl DPhil, Mathematics DPhil, Law Diploma in Legal Studies MPhil, Economics DPhil, Organic Chemistry DPhil, Engineering Science McGill University Harvard University University of Leiden McGill University King’s College London Technische Universität München Alex Glenn Caroline Koktvedgaard William Matlock Vanilla Parthiban Veronika Samborska DPhil, Engineering Science MSt, English and American DPhil, Clinical Medicine MSt, History of Art & DPhil, Clinical Ewelina Turek Loughborough University Wadham (MSc 2018-19) Studies Visual Culture Neurosciences MSc, Japanese Studies University of California, Sarah Lawrence College Oxford (Christ Church) University of East Anglia Jose Enrique Berkeley Emi Matsuoka Gonzalez-Prada Felices Erasmus Exchange Lia Petrose Dominic Simpson Victoria Udom SciencesPo (IEP-Paris) MSc, Pharmacology Michael Kramer MSc, Statistical Science DPhil, Biochemistry MBA University of Cambridge University of Pittsburgh The University of Leeds Wellesley College MA MSc, Education (Comparative Kate Maurer & International) Tallulah Griffith University of South Africa DPhil, Atmospheric, Ali Porteous Mosimiloluwa Somuyiwa Maria Jose Villalba Giubi MSt, English and American Oceanic & Planetary MPhil, Islamic Studies & MSc, Law & Finance MSc, Law & Finance Nigerian Law School Universidad Complutense de Studies Luci Krnic Physics History King’s College London University of Edinburgh Wadham (BA 2014-18) Madrid MSc, Mathematical Sciences University of Surrey Kay Song Shadi Hadj-Youssef Lizzie Merrill Taco Prins DPhil, Engineering Science Adriana Vitagliano Australian National University MSc, Neuroscience Harry Langham MSt, Women’s Studies DPhil, Economics MSc, Latin American Studies McGill University University of the Arts, London Oxford (Merton) Princeton University MSt, English (1550-1700) Wadham (BA 2016-19) Simen Sopp Ross Hextall Kc Neoh Laura Puentes Gantiva DPhil, Materials Jennifer Watson Oxford (St Cross) MSc, Criminology & Jeremiah Lau MBA MSc, Law & Finance MSc, Criminology & Imperial College London Pontificia Universidad Criminal Justice BCL, Civil Law Criminal Justice Oxford (Christ Church) National University of Javeriana Colombia Eva Maria Spiekermann University of Edinburgh Singapore Maisie Newman DPhil, Criminology Heinrich Heine University, Laura Hindmarsh MFA, Fine Art Ally Pugh Philip Wheeler Liverpool Hope University MSt, Women’s Studies Dusseldorf MFA, Fine Art Zhong Hui Lim MPP, Public Policy College Oxford (St Hilda’s) University of Leeds University of Tasmania, DPhil, CDT Synthesis for Hobart Laura Stockdale Biology and Medicine Oxford (Merton) Chloe Ng Natalia Quiros Edmunds BCL, Civil Law Imogen Whiteley College of Law, Sydney Levi Hord DPhil, Oriental Studies MSt, English (1550-1700) MSt, Greek &/or Roman School of Oriental and University of Durham MSc, History of Sci, Zoe Lin History African Studies Atchutananda Surampudi University of Glasgow Med & Tech MPP, Public Policy Wadham (MSt 2018-19) Lanzhou University, China Sebastian Rees DPhil, Engineering Science Indian Institute of Technology Nik Nicheperovich MSt, Global and Imperial Frances Whorrall-Campbell Cameron Hubbard Anya Lindstrom Battle DPhil, Classical Languages History MSt, History of Art & Wadham (BA 2015-19) Jana Terenova BPhil, Philosophy DPhil, Interdisciplinary & Literature Visual Culture Stanford University Wadham (MPhil 2017-19) DPhil, Molecular Cell Biology Oxford (Christ Church) Bioscience Imperial College London William Ripley in Health and Disease Comenius University of Giuseppe Jafari Jack Oakley MPhil, Modern Languages Tucker Wiedenkeller Wadham (BA 2014-18) Bratislava BCL, Civil Law Nora Ling BCL, Civil Law MSt, Music (Musicology) University of Cambridge College of Law, Sydney University of Arizona BCL, Civil Law BPP University Spencer Robinson Richard Tong Kristina Kämpfer Eduard Oravkin DPhil, Law MSc, Contemporary Chinese Bastian Wiederhold Wadham (BCL 2017-19) DPhil, Geography & the Douglas Loynes MSc, Mathematical Sciences Studies MSc, Mathematical Sciences Imperial College London Harvard University Universität Stuttgart Environment MSc, African Studies Oxford (St Antony’s) University of Manchester

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Saturday 20 June Friday 11 September Saturday 19 September 2020 Events Cricket and 1610 Society Dinner Boat Club Society Annual Freebooters’ Dinner Wadham College 4pm onwards Regatta and President’s Members of the 1610 Society Wadham Sports Ground Dinner are warmly encouraged to 10:30am onwards The River Isis 2pm join us for an afternoon of Wadham College 7pm Wadham College 7:30pm Wadham Cricketers and informative academic talks, WCBCS is the Society of all Freebooters, past and followed by Evensong, prior those who support rowing at present, along with guests, to a drinks reception and Wadham. This is our annual are invited to take part in this black tie dinner in Hall. The get-together, scratch regatta annual match at Wadham dinner itself is free but any and celebration. Old and Sports Ground, followed by a contributions to help cover new members are warmly celebratory dinner in College. costs would be gratefully welcomed. For further details received. and to book, email The dinner is priced at £55 Accommodation is for alumni and guests and available at £57 per person. [email protected] £25 for current students. Saturday 12 September Monday 9 November ALL ALUMNI and friends are Saturday 1 February Saturday 21 March Saturday 4 July Wadham Alumni 1610 Society Legacy warmly welcome to attend Law Society Dinner Gaudy (1975-1979) Benefactors’ Society Dinner Event our programme of 2020 Wadham College 6:30pm Wadham College 6:15pm Garden Party Wadham College 5pm onwards St Paul’s Cathedral 5pm events and we encourage Alumni who studied Law, or Alumni who matriculated All alumni are automatically 1610 Society members are Wadham College 2-5pm you to book your place as who have worked or currently between the years 1975 Recent donors and those members of the Wadham invited to bring a guest to this soon as possible. For the work in Law, are invited to and 1979 are invited back intending to leave a bequest Alumni Society and are warmly exclusive event at St Paul’s most up-to-date details join current students for this to College for a celebratory to Wadham are invited with invited to join us, with a guest, Cathedral, including Evensong and links to online booking, reunion dinner. reunion dinner in Hall. their families to enjoy a for a drinks reception and sung by the Wadham Chapel please visit www.wadham. relaxing afternoon party in dinner in Hall. This is preceded Choir, and an opportunity to The dinner is priced at £65 The dinner is priced at ox.ac.uk/events. our beautiful gardens. by a College Welcome and the hear about the 1610 Society for alumni who matriculated £55 per person, with We would also be pleased Wadham Society AGM. from Committee members, before 2012, and £40 for accommodation available at This is a free event, as a thank to address any event followed by a drinks and alumni who matriculated in £57 per person. you to our donors. Limited The dinner is priced at £55 per booking enquiries via email canapé reception in the 2012 and after. accommodation is available person, with accommodation at development.team@ Cathedral. Saturday 4 April at £57 per person. available at £57 per person. wadham.ox.ac.uk Monday 2 March Gaudy (2010-2013) or on +44 (0)1865 277 595. Circles’ Event Wadham College 6:15pm Saturday 5 September Friday 18 September Sunday 6 December With further international Alumni who matriculated The Conduit, London Medical Society Whitby Cup Golf Alumni Carol Service events in the planning, and between the years 2010 6:30pm Reunion Tournament and Dinner Wadham College 4:30pm ad hoc events throughout Wadham alumni who are and 2013 are invited back All alumni are invited to enjoy Wadham College Huntercombe Golf Club and the year, please do keep an members of the Dorothy, to College for a celebratory carols in the candlelit Chapel, Timings and ticket price TBC Wadham College All day eye on our website for the Nicholas and Wilkins Circles reunion dinner in Hall. All alumni who studied Wadham Golfers past and followed by mulled wine and latest news and information. are invited to this year’s Medicine, or a related subject, present are invited to this mince pies in Hall. The dinner is priced at We very much look forward Circles’ event, featuring are invited to attend an annual competition, this year £55 per person, with £14 adult / £7 child (under 16) to welcoming you to one of Fellow Natalie Seddon, about afternoon of academic talks, at Huntercombe, followed by accommodation available at our events in 2020. nature-based solutions to the followed by drinks reception dinner in College. £57 per person. climate crisis. and dinner in Hall. Ticket price TBC

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UNIVERSITY EVENTS INTERNATIONAL Wadham EVENTS Wednesdays: Sunday 29 March Alumni Social Drinks The Oxford Cambridge 19-21 March Boat Race Meeting Minds: Alumni Various London pubs Witness the 166th Boat Race All alumni are warmly Weekend in Europe and the 75th Women’s Boat Including events in Barcelona invited to join these free, Race on the Championship and Stockholm on the 19th, informal networking Course, starting at Putney with the main event in Berlin evenings. Pier, London. on the 20th and 21st. Wednesday 26 February www.theboatrace.org www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/ meeting-minds Wednesday 20 May Friday 17 April Wednesday 8 July Wednesday 11 November Intercollegiate Golf Thursday 16 April Held four times a year Tournament Wadham Reception in in London, in addition Frilford Heath Golf Club New York to ad hoc regional and (tournament) and Merton The Union Club College (dinner) Planned to coincide with international gatherings, All day the University’s Alumni Wadham Wednesdays Wadham golfers are invited Weekend in New York, are attracting increasing to take part in this annual Martin Brand (Mathematics numbers of alumni of tournament at Frilford, and Computer Science, varying matriculation followed by dinner and prize- 1995) will kindly be hosting years, subject areas, and giving hosted by Merton this Wadham Reception careers, providing excellent College. at the Union Club, where networking opportunities in Wadham accomodation Warden Ken Macdonald a casual setting. is available to book via the QC will be in conversation If you would be Conference Office with NewsGuard’s Co-CEO interested in helping [email protected] Gordon Crovitz (Law, 1980). organise an event near you, please get in touch 11-13 September 17-18 April with the Development Meeting Minds: Oxford Meeting Minds: Alumni Office. Alumni Weekend Weekend in New York Full details and booking will be Full details and booking will be available closer to the time at available closer to the time at Upcoming Gaudies www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/ www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/ We look forward to meeting-minds meeting-minds welcoming the following Thursday 10 December matriculation year groups: The Varsity Matches In 2021 In 2022 Twickenham Stadium, 1960 and earlier 1998-2001 London 1990-93 2002-05 www.thevarsitymatch.com

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