Emmanuel Emmanuel College College MAGAZINE 2018–2019 Front Court, engraved by R B Harraden, 1824 VOL CI MAGAZINE 2018–2019 VOLUME CI Emmanuel College St Andrew’s Street Cambridge CB2 3AP Telephone +44 (0)1223 334200 The Master, Dame Fiona Reynolds, in the new portrait by Alastair Adams May Ball poster 1980 THE YEAR IN REVIEW I Emmanuel College MAGAZINE 2018–2019 VOLUME CI II EMMANUEL COLLEGE MAGAZINE 2018–2019 The Magazine is published annually, each issue recording college activities during the preceding academical year. It is circulated to all members of the college, past and present. Copy for the next issue should be sent to the Editors before 30 June 2020. News about members of Emmanuel or changes of address should be emailed to [email protected], or via the ‘Keeping in Touch’ form: https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/members/keepintouch. College enquiries should be sent to [email protected] or addressed to the Development Office, Emmanuel College, Cambridge CB2 3AP. General correspondence concerning the Magazine should be addressed to the General Editor, College Magazine, Dr Lawrence Klein, Emmanuel College, Cambridge CB2 3AP. Correspondence relating to obituaries should be addressed to the Obituaries Editor (The Dean, The Revd Jeremy Caddick), Emmanuel College, Cambridge CB2 3AP. The college telephone number is 01223 334200, and the email address is [email protected]. If possible, photographs to accompany obituaries and other contributions should be high-resolution scans or original photos in jpeg format. The Editors would like to express their thanks to the many people who have contributed to this issue, with a special nod to the unstinting assistance of the College Archivist. Back issues The College holds an extensive stock of back numbers of the Magazine. Requests for copies of these should be addressed to the College Archivist, Emmanuel College, Cambridge CB2 3AP. Historical index Over the years the Magazine has included many articles concerning the history of the college. A list of these, with a card index of their contents, is maintained in the college archives, and may be consulted on application to the archivist, Amanda Goode. © Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 2019 THE YEAR IN REVIEW III Contents 1 THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2 From the Master by Fiona Reynolds 6 From the Senior Tutor by Robert Henderson 10 From the Bursar by Mike Gross 12 The College Library by Helen Carron 15 The College Archive by Amanda Goode 21 From the Development Director by Sarah Bendall 23 The Emmanuel Society by Nicholas Allen 27 VIEWS 28 The Gomes Lecture 2019 28 In Touch: Objects, Families, Stories by Edmund de Waal 37 Women and Emmanuel 37 Women at Emmanuel: 40 Years ... or 400? by Amanda Goode 53 The First Generation of Emmanuel Women Remember 53 Jean Brodie 54 Marguerite Dupree 56 Louise Tunbridge 60 Margaret Sampson 62 Michelle Still 65 Emmanuel 1969–75: A Fellow’s Impressions by Roderick Floud 70 Emmanuel Past and Present 70 Emmanuel and Harvard: A Very Special Relationship by Amanda Goode 78 Ne Vile Fano: The Origin and Meaning of the Westmorland Motto by Robert Jones 80 A Revolutionary Cleric in Scientific Experimental Agriculture by Christopher Leffler 85 Hugh Burnaby and the Burnaby Recitals by Christopher Whitton IV EMMANUEL COLLEGE MAGAZINE 2018–2019 88 The Great Air Race of 1969 by Alan Hickling 91 In Praise of Expatriation by Peter Burke 95 Remembering from the Inside by Charles Fernyhough 98 Building Trust: Emmanuel Forges Partnerships in Access and Outreach by Corinna Russell 102 Eclectic Emmanuel: Extracts from Evocations of Experience 102 Odd Recollections of Education in the Thirties and Forties (or How Times Change) by Donald Maxwell 109 I Was a Stranger and Ye Took Me In by Nigel Gates 113 NEWS 114 Fellowship Elections 121 Fellowship News 121 News of the Fellows 123 News of Former Fellows 123 News of Honorary Fellows 124 News of Bye-Fellows 125 News of Former Visiting Fellows 126 News of Members 130 News of Staff 131 CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 132 Association Football Club 134 Athletics Club 135 Badminton Club 137 Basketball Club 138 Boat Club 141 Chapel Choir 143 Christian Union 144 Cricket Club 146 ECSU 149 Lacrosse 151 May Ball 153 MCR 155 Music Society (ECMS) 157 Netball Club 160 Rugby Club 162 Sports Day: Emmanuel and Exeter THE YEAR IN REVIEW V 165 Swimming and Water Polo 166 Tennis Club 168 Ultimate Frisbee 171 OBITUARIES 172 Fellows 172 John Lewis Reddaway 174 David Vernon Bugg 174 Robert Presley 176 Staff 176 Paul Collins 179 Members 185 Gray, Vincent Richard 210 Adams, Keith 242 Hodgson, Peter Robinson 206 Bartle, David Colin 231 Kitson, Philip Francis 213 Bewes, Richard Thomas 243 Lightowlers, Richard John 204 Bird, George Edward Lear 222 Mackay, Donald Barrett 225 Cabot, Richard Murray de Quettville 233 Marchand, Peter George William 195 Cooper, Walter Alan 224 Martyn, John Robert Charles 240 Creber, Geoffrey Tremain 207 Neal, Terence Arthur 216 Culver, John Chester 227 Norton, John Lindsey 228 Davies, John Christopher Hughes 247 Oram, Huw James 226 Davies, John Michael Cecil 248 Richards, Matthew William 245 Edwards, Glyn Tudor 220 Riley, Peter Alan 211 Eltis, Walter Alfred 183 Walton, Dennis 199 Enfield, Peter Bryan 197 Watson, John Richard 192 Eyre, Reginald Edwin 179 Wickramasinghe, Reginald Hugh 243 Forbat, Anthony John 210 Willis, Christopher John 191 Gimingham, Charles Henry 251 LISTS 252 The Fellowship 252 The Honorary Fellows 254 The Master and Fellows, 2019-20 259 Emeritus Fellows 259 Bye-Fellows 260 Benefactor Fellows VI EMMANUEL COLLEGE MAGAZINE 2018–2019 260 Benefactor Bye-Fellows 261 Derek Brewer Visiting Fellows, 2019–20 261 College Research Associates, 2019–20 262 The College Staff 263 Academic Record 263 Matriculations 272 Scholarships, Exhibitions and Prizes 2019 275 University Awards 276 Degrees 280 Members’ Gatherings 280 Gatherings of Members 284 Future Gatherings of Members 285 Deaths THE YEAR IN REVIEW VII Note on the Issue and the Illustrations Last year’s bumper one-hundredth anniversary issue of the Emmanuel College Magazine was the final one edited by Life Fellow David Livesey. For many years he generously and capably oversaw the production of the annual and is owed a large debt of thanks. The new editor is Lawrence Klein, historian and Emeritus Fellow. Coincident with Dr Livesey’s retirement from this role, the designer David Cutting retired. The Magazine is now designed and produced by the Cambridge firm H2 Associates, which has a long creative relationship with the college. We decided to take advantage of the change to refresh the Magazine’s look: the evidence is in your hand, or on your screen. This number is primarily devoted to the academic year 2018–19. However, the autumn of 2019 is the fortieth anniversary of the admission of women undergraduates to the college, one of the most significant moments in our 435- year history. Undergraduates were not the first women to join the college: the first women graduate students arrived in 1976, and the first woman Research Fellow in 1977. We have invited several of these pioneering students and scholars to reflect on their experiences when Emmanuel was first becoming a ‘mixed’ college. A related contribution is the set of reflections by Honorary Fellow Roderick Floud on his time as an Official Fellow, from 1969 to 1975, when the debate about the admission of women was at its most intense. Of course, women had a much longer history in relation to the college, as Amanda Goode, the College Archivist, points out in her article: they were benefactors, wives, children or friends of Masters and Fellows, tradespeople, employees and sometimes male students’ female guests. In his review of the year, Senior Tutor Robert Henderson also refers to the slow process by which the admission of women students went from longshot to inevitability. He makes the point that access, in a rather different sense than it had in the mid-seventies, is still very much on the agenda of the college and the university. In that connection, Corinna Russell, Fellow in English and Tutor for Admissions in the Arts, discusses, in Views, one important and imaginative access initiative in which the college has been involved. VIII EMMANUEL COLLEGE MAGAZINE 2018–2019 In 1979, when women first matriculated, the Bursar was John Reddaway who produced that year a ‘Short Guide to the College Accounts’. The current Bursar, Mike Gross, builds his review of this year on John’s insightful analysis. John became a Fellow of the College in 1960 and remained a friend of the college and a strong presence. He died in January 2019, and an obituary appears in this issue. Two weeks after John’s death, Paul Collins died. An appreciation of this legendary boatman appears among the obituaries in connection with the naming of a new four in his honour and memory. Paul is also mentioned in the account by Louise Tunbridge (née Norie) of her experience in that first ‘mixed’ undergraduate cohort, matriculating in 1979. She was among the first women to row for the college and discusses the challenge and reward of gaining Paul’s acceptance. Many of the illustrations in this issue emphasize the role of women in the College before and after 1979. The cover shows Queen Elizabeth I, one of the founding benefactors of the college, as she appears on our foundation charter. She appears again at the beginning of The Year in Review. The Views section is set off with a detail from an 1824 engraving of Front Court by R B Harraden: there is good reason to believe that the couple with a child represent the then Master Robert Towerson Cory with his wife Anne and one of their many children.