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The Hertford College Magazine 2013-14 No. 94

Cover image ©Robert Taylor (www.taylor-photo.co.uk) 2013-14 The Hertford College MagazineNo. 94 Poster by Paul Cox, commissioned by Maria Hughes. Copies can be purchased from the Development Office and all funds will go towards student support. HERTFORD COLLEGE MAGAZINE No 94 – 2013-14 Editor’s note

Contents Editor’s note

Editor’s note...... 3 The Editor would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the magazine and helped with its publication. Principal and Fellows...... 4 The Principal’s letter...... 9 To give us your news for the next edition, please contact

Hertford report Development Office Biking to Venice – Anna Baskerville...... 16 Hertford College Catte Street Reflections on the Royal Institution Lectures – Alison Woollard...... 20 Ethiopian Elective – Marcus Stevens...... 25 OX1 3BW The Language of – Luke Blaxill...... 30 Hertford and – Alan Bogg...... 33 Email: [email protected] Transformational Portraits in the Hall – Robert Taylor and Emma ...... 34 Tel: 01865 279428

Hertford’s Lecture Charlotte Brewer Living with – Tony Hall...... 39

Hertford year The Chapel...... 44 The Library...... 46 The Bursar’s letter...... 47 Development Office...... 49 The Junior Common Room...... 54 JCR Sport...... 56 The Middle Common Room...... 58 ...... 60 Subjects and research...... 61

Hertford record Candidates for matriculation...... 76 Undergraduate examination results, scholarships and prizes...... 78 Graduate examinations and prizes...... 84 DPhils successfully completed...... 86 Degrees conferred...... 87 News from old members...... 90 Births and ...... 90 Obituaries...... 93 The Hertford Society...... 117

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A. Bogg, MA, BCL, DPhil, Professor of Labour Law, Tutor in Hertford College A. Lauder, MA (BSc Glas, PhD Lond), Tutor in Mathematics, Dean of Degrees Visitor M. C. J. Maiden (BA, BSc R’dg, PhD Camb), FRCPath, Professor of Molecular Epidemiology, The Rt Hon. Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, PC, MA, DCL, Chancellor of the University Tutor in Biology D. S. Thomas, MA, DPhil, Professor of Geography Principal D. M. Hopkin (MA, PhD Camb), FRHistS, Armstrong-Macintyre-Markham Fellow, Tutor W. N. Hutton, MA (BSocSc Brist, MBA INSEAD) in History K. S. Lunn-Rockliffe, MA, DPhil, Tutor in Modern Languages Fellows P. Millican, BPhil, MA (MSc, PhD Leeds), Gilbert Ryle Fellow, Professor of , Tutor T. Wilson, MA, DPhil, FREng, Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering in Philosophy P. A. Bull, MA (BSc, MSc, PhD ), Tutor in Geography C. J. Tyerman, MA, DPhil, FRHistS, Senior Research Fellow, Tutor in History, Tutor for Graduates, Archivist C. D. Brewer, MA, DPhil (MA ), Professor of and Literature, Tutor in English, Senior Tutor S. Henry, DPhil (MSc Durh), Tutor in Physics C. J. Schofield, MA, DPhil (BSc Manc), FRS, Professor of Organic , Tutor in J. J. Kiaer (BA, MA Seoul National University, PhD Lond), Tutor in Organic Chemistry R. Zubek (MSc PhD Lond, MA Poznań), Tutor in Politics R. F. Foster, MA (MA, PhD, Hon LittD Dub, Hon DLitt Aberdeen, , DLaws Hon O. J. Noble Wood, BA, MSt, DPhil, Tutor in Modern Languages, Librarian Queen’s, Ontario), FBA, FRSL, FRHistS, Carroll Professor of Irish History L. F. Alday (Lic Bariloche, PhD ), Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tutor in P. F. Roche, MA (BSc, PhD Lond), Professor of Physics, Tutor in Physics Mathematics S. J. New, MA (BSc S’ton, PhD Manc), Tutor in Management Studies, Investment Bursar D. Gill, MA, MPhil, DPhil, Tutor in Economics K. E. Davies, MA, DPhil, FRS, FMedSci, DBE, CBE, Dr Lee’s Professor of Anatomy J. Lorimer, MA (BSc, PhD Brist), Tutor in Geography E. Smith, MA, DPhil, Tutor in English G. Sternberg, DPhil (BSc, MA Tel Aviv), Tutor in History, Secretary to the Governing Body B. M. Frellesvig, MA (MA, PhD Copenhagen), Professor of Japanese, Tutor in Japanese J. Castell (MA, MPhil, PhD Camb), Career Development Fellow and Outreach Officer A. Woollard, MA, DPhil (BSc Lond), Tutor in Biochemistry, Drapers’ Company Fellow, Dean J. P. Lazarus (BA Bristol), Bursar Z. F. Cui, MA, DSc (BSc Inner Mongolia Institute of , MSc, PhD M. Chatzis (MPhil PhD Columbia, MSc Dipl National TU, Athens), Tutor in Engineering University of Technology), Donald Pollock Professor of Chemical Engineering R. Sitsapesan (BSc Aberd, MSc Leeds, PhD Strath), Professor of Pharmacology and Tutor A. L. Young, MA, BCL, DPhil (LLB Birm), Tutor in Jurisprudence, Drapers’ Company Fellow, in Pharmacology Tutor for Women D. Ashournia (MSc PhD Copenhagen, MSc Warw), Career Development Fellow in T. Suzuki, MA, DPhil (BSc, MSc Lond), Professor of Accounting and Sustainability Economics Management, Tutor in Management Studies J. Thaxton (MA Camb), Director of Development C. Vallance (BSc, PhD Canterbury), Tutor in Chemistry A. Doucet (Grandes Écoles Diploma Télécom Sud-Paris, PhD Paris XI), Professor in D. R. Greaves (BSc Brist, PhD ), Professor of Inflammation Biology, Tutor in Statistics Medicine and Physiology D. Dwan, BA (MA, PhD Lond), Tutor in English H. Bayley, MA (PhD Harvard), Professor of Chemical Biology R. N. E. Barton, MA, DPhil (BA Birm, DEA Bordeaux), FSA, Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology, Tutor in Archaeology

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Non-Governing Body Junior and Senior Research Fellows T. N. Paulin, MA, BLitt (BA Hull, Hon DLitt Hull, Saskatchewan, Staffordshire) D. I. Stuart, MA (BSc Lond, PhD Brist), FRS, Professor and Senior Research Fellow in T. C. Cunnane, MA (BSc Bath, PhD Glas) Molecular Biophysics T. C. Barnard, MA, DPhil, FBA, FRHistS, MRIA (Hon) S. F. Brewster (BSc, MB, BS Lond, MD Brist), FRCS, Senior Research Fellow and Co- ordinator for Clinical Medicine F. P. E. Dunne, MA (BSc Brist, MEngScNUI, PhD Sheff), FREng Z. Rao (BSc, MSc, CAS, PhD Melbourne), Senior Research Fellow Honorary Fellows J. M. Landers, MA, DLitt (PhD Camb), FRHistS, Senior Research Fellow The Rt Hon Lord Ashburton, KG, KCVO, MA M. J. Wooldridge (BSc CNAA, PhD Manc), FAAAI, FECCAI, FSSAISB, FBCS, Professor and Senior Research Fellow in Science Mary Robinson, DCL (Hon) (BA, LLB Dub, LLM Harvard) L. Blaxill (BA RHUL, MPhil Camb, PhD KCL), Drapers’ Company Junior Research Fellow Sir Nicholas Jackson, Bt, MA Sir , MA, DPhil (PhD Camb), FRS Emeritus Fellows Sir Bruce Pattullo, CBE E. M. Vaughan Williams, MA, DM, DSc, FRCP Baroness Warnock, DBE, MA, FBA (Hon) J. S. Anderson, BCL, MA (LLB Lond) General Sir Wheeler, GCB, CBE, ADC A. O. J. Cockshut, MA David Daniell, MA (PhD Lond) M. J. Dallman, MA, DPhil (BSc Brist) The Rt Hon Lord Waddington, GCVO, PC, DL, QC J. R. Torrance, MA Drue Heinz, DBE (Hon) R .W. Guillery (BSc, PhD Lond), FRS , MA, DPhil, FRHistS, FBA E. A. Holmes (MA, PhD Camb) Tobias Wolff (MA Stanford), of Humane Letters honoris causa L. Solymar, MA (PhD Hungary), FRS Helen Alexander, DBE, CBE, MA (MBA INSEAD, CDipAF) G. C. Stone, MA (BA, PhD Lond), FBA Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, MA, KCMG, LVO G. K. Yarrow, MA (MA Camb) Richard Fisher, MA (BA Harvard, MBA Stanford) B. F. Steer, MA, DPhil Sir David Goldberg, MA, DM, FRCP, FRCPsych K. A. McLauchlan, MA (BSc, PhD Brist), FRS Andrew Goudie, MA (MA, PhD Camb), Master of St Cross 2003-2011 K. Day (BSc, PhD Melbourne) Paul Muldoon, MA (BA Belf) M. Biddle, MA (MA Camb), FBA, FSA, OBE Lord Pannick, QC, BCL, MA R. M. Pensom, MA (BA, MA Manc, PhD Exe) Rt Revd Thomas McMahon, Bishop of Brentwood G. J. Ellis, MA, DPhil Sir , MA, Hon DSc (PhD Camb), FRCPath, FRS S. R. West, MA, DPhil, FBA The Rt Hon Jacqui Smith, PC, MA W. D. Macmillan, MA (BSc, PhD Brist) Sir Jeremy Heywood, BA (MSc Lond), CB, CVO P. R. Baker, MA (BA, MA R’dg) John Dewar, MA, BCL (PhD Griffith University) W. A. Day, MA (MA Camb, PhD Carnegie Mellon) R. C. E. Devenish, MA (MA, PhD Camb)

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Editor’s note: This list records the Fellowship as it stood on 31 August 2014. student support we had set ourselves. Principal’s letter Perhaps more importantly we showed Chaplain how much we care about student support Revd G. F. Hughes, MSt (BSc Durh, BD Wales) and access, two great Hertford traditions. We cyclists felt and feel really proud of our college (do read www.theguardian.com/ Lecturers lifeandstyle/2014/aug/03/cycle-oxford- venice-will-hutton-praise-the-peloton E. Bielecki, BA (PhD KCL), French if you want a fuller account). One of my P. R. Boddington, BPhil, DPhil (BA Keele, LLM Card), Philosophy hopes was that we would bring to life the claim that Hertford is about educational S. Dimelow (LLB Glam, LLM Camb), Law excellence, fairness and opportunity – and S. P. Fletcher (BSc Mt Allison, PhD Alberta), Chemistry I think we pulled it off. This completed something of a M. J. Gravato-Nobre (Lic Lisboa, MSc Faro, PhD Nott), Biochemistry milestone year, appropriately for the E. T. Grefenstette, MSc, DPhil (BSc Shef, MLitt St. Andrew’s), Computer Science Hertford Bridge’s centenary. Academically our undergraduates in 2014 have done C. Hambler, MA, Sciences brilliantly: 42 firsts (and a good handful of university prizes, all documented later in K. F. Hilliard, MA, DPhil, Fellow of St Peter’s College, German this issue) have brought us up to number S. W. Horn (BA Santa Cruz, MA Osaka, PhD Ohio), Japanese 7 in the Norrington Table: certainly a record this century if not last! We also A. L. Irving, BCL, MPhil (BA LLB Otago), Law managed to complete the fundraising T. Jellis, BA, MSc, DPhil, Geography for the £2 million Ellis-Barnard history fellowship endowment (£1.2 million M. Laidlaw, DPhil (MA Camb) CChem MRSC, FHEA, Chemistry from our own donations matched by start writing this year’s Principal’s N. Linke, DPhil (BA Dipl Ulm), Physics £800K from the university). For the first letter in Venice having just completed in our history we have an endowed R. Marsland, MA, DPhil, English Ithe 700- Bridge to Bridge cycle fellowship: many thanks to so many of ride. It was one of the most extraordinary you whose willingness to give made it A. Merivale, BA, BPhil, Computer Science – Janeway Stipendiary /Outreach Officer and improbable events in my life, and possible. In particular I want to pay public J. McAuley, MA, MSt (MPhil Camb, PhD Durh), English certainly the most physically challenging. acknowledgement to Nick Harbinson Looking back I realise I had no notion (1975) – also an excellent bike rider as I R. C. Ockenden, MA, DPhil, German what I was committing to when I backed have learned – Michael Watson (1973), the idea. But a mixed collection of fellows, R. Povey, MA, MPhil, DPhil, Economics and Nick Carn (1976) whose sizeable alumni, staff and students came together, contributions helped to cornerstone the D. M. O’Rourke (BSc, PhD Lond), Biochemistry cycled all or part of the way (our fellow entire enterprise. in Spanish Dr. Oliver Noble Wood who D. Seifert, BA, MMath, DPhil, Mathematics In another first we also have endowed planned only to reach Paris came all the the college’s contribution to the Roger N. M. Simborowski, MA, Italian way to Venice!), and in so doing created Van Noorden economics fellowship – and a tremendous sense of camaraderie, again thanks to all of you who donated. I B. Skipp, MA, MSt, DPhil (Lic RSM), Music achievement and team spirit – not to would like to find better words than the D. Thomas, BA, MSt, DPhil, English mention delighting in some wonderful slightly formulaic “without you this could countryside. All of us on the ride learned not happen” – but that is the truth of it. C. Williams, MA (BA Durh, MPhil, PhD Camb), Fellow of St Peter’s College, Portuguese more about ourselves, each other and Hertford College’s ability to be what it is what Hertford means for us. Cresting the – to carry on offering and even to improve finishing line on the Venice lagoon was tutorial teaching by world class academics “mission accomplished” in many ways. undertaking research in their We raised over £300K, more than the respective fields – depends crucially upon quarter-of-a-million pound target for

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The Principal crosses the finishing line in Venice the generosity of our alumni. One way or another the Bridge centenary was a running theme She is the fifth throughout the year. We consecrated a whole day to its celebration on the last woman ever to deliver Saturday in September 2013, with a large marquee on the lawn in OB quad and a the lectures, but the smaller one in NB quad – apparently the third Hertfordian to first time two marquees have been erected within the college for decades. Dr William do so Whyte of St John’s College gave a riveting lecture on the history of the Bridge, drawing attention to how Principal Boyd, rounded off by some vigorous rock-and- who commissioned it from Thomas roll from my brother’s rock band who Jackson (whose grandson Nicholas flew in from Italy, but fortunately the attended the day), wanted a design that improbable gyrations of the Principal and declared the college’s association with some other fellows were not captured by a more secular, progressive, twentieth- social media – or if they were, those in century Oxford than the fashionable possession of the pictures have shown faux-medieval architecture of some other their loyalty to the college by not posting colleges interested in rooting themselves them. Hope my luck continues to hold! in the university’s more churchy Christmas saw the traditional Royal traditions. Hence the copying of some of Institution Christmas lectures given the features of Republican architecture by our dean, Dr Alison Woollard – from Venice, although the idea of a bridge televised on BBC 4. “Life fantastic” was linking two quads came from St John’s a magisterial over-view of every life- College Cambridge rather than bridges form imaginable, including a very large over Venetian canals. The Hertford Bridge lobster that apparently can live up to is also much closer to the Rialto than the 500 years. I was at the Royal Institution Bridge of Sighs. His lecture was followed when Alison delivered a piece to camera by a lively discussion between Peter – there were half a dozen retakes – Lampl, Chairman of the Sutton Trust, holding such a lobster; its claws wildly and Mary Curnock Cook, CEO of UCAS, sought out whoever dared to touch it. on how to improve the trends in student She conducted herself with the aplomb of admissions to Oxford and the “high tariff” a natural performer, and then – typically universities more generally. Peter thought for television – the team decided that that until admissions were centralised perhaps the whole thing could be redone and anonymized like Harvard’s, in effect with the lobster firmly back in a fish tank. ending college-based interviews, there Unphased, Alison obliged. She is the would be little progress in removing fifth woman ever to deliver the lectures, the biases favouring privately educated but the third Hertfordian to do so, For the students. His many challengers thought Principals Zeeman and Bodmer having the problems were much more deep been similarly honoured. A number of our first time in our rooted in features of our society beyond fellows garnered distinctions during the the universities, and that whatever the year. Professor Fernando Alday was voted history we have solution, the role of individual tutors the most acclaimed lecturer in 2014 in his an endowed in admissions to Oxford underpinned division in the students’ teaching awards the college system and any reform must scheme. Professor stepped up fellowship respect that reality. The evening was to become deputy chair of the Wellcome Trust and is judging the Longitude prize.

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a distinguished Hertfordian diplomat, a passionate advocacy of creativity – and former ambassador to and the BBC’s continuing role in promoting Honorary Fellow, died on 8 November it. This was a notable evening which aged 81. Terry Hughes, former Treasurer everyone enjoyed, and included a reply of the JCR, distinguished investment by Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of banker, member of our Development , who publicly declared his Committee, and originator of the Oxford support for the . to Venice bike ride, died unexpectedly of It is also a pleasure to report public a heart attack on 24 October. He was only recognition of our alumni. David Elleray 49. His widow Maria undertook the entire (1973) received a MBE for services to route in his stead – a brilliant cyclist. We football, notably his refereeing career. commemorated the life of our young law Sarah Montgomery (2000) received an alumnus Ben Ogden, killed in an air crash OBE for services to stabilisation and in in 2012, and established the development in Helmand, , Ben Ogden Memorial Fund to celebrate where she is the FCO senior representative his can-do attitude to law and life. Most for international development. Martin recently, our much loved porter Scott Biddle (Emeritus fellow) received a CBE The rugby team practising in Mongolia Kennedy died in August. The chapel was for his services to Archaeology. filled to overflowing at his funeral, which There are always the good-byes united members of college with his family and welcomes. We are both sad and and colleagues to honour his mischievous pleased that Dr Jamie Castell, our career Professor Zhanfeng Cui has been elected Wetherald (2012). Congratulations too wit, distinctive character, and devotion to as a Fellow of the American Institute to another of our students, Miller Hertford. of Medical and Biological Engineering (2012), who received the 2014 Jools Award We continued with the Hertford (AIMBE). Professor ’s team for Excellence in Student Journalism for Conversations, the roll call of guests Antony Geffen spun out a company – OxSy Bio – that a remarkable article on how some male including Ian McEwan, who pondered aims to print synthetic live tissue through drinking societies around Oxford make out loud about the importance of factual offered his biography 3D droplet printers, an extraordinary sport of spiking the drinks of women accuracy in , Ben Summerskill, the as a television scientific and commercial advance. freshers, with predictable ambitions. outgoing Director of the campaigning I am constantly amazed by the number On a more sombre note there were a group Stonewall, who told the story of producer and and variety of activities that occupy and number of deaths that it is my sad duty how he had navigated civil partnership engage our students. This year one of the to report. Dr Norman Gerard McCrum, and gay past the Conservative his extraordinary more out-of-the-way events was a rugby Emeritus Fellow of the college and former Party (because there are votes in the gay relationship with David tour of Mongolia, the team an amalgam of Fellow and Tutor in Engineering, died on community), and Sir Charlie Mayfield, Hertford rugby players past and present. 20 October aged 86. Sir John Whitehead, who gave a masterly account of the Attenborough There were two hard fought games advantages of employee partnership against the national side which we lost from his vantage point as Chair of John by a mere try each time, on one occasion Lewis. Sir Roger Carr spoke with great development fellow who spent half his the try scorer running outside the touch insight about British defence and energy time on outreach work, has won a tenured line to score. Without the hard work and policy from his position as former chair lectureship at Cardiff – the much-coveted generosity of John Collis (1989) the tour of Centrica and current Chair of BAE step forward for an academic early in his or could not have taken place: so thanks Systems and Antony Geffen offered his her career. Lucky Cardiff and unlucky us. to him and also Dr Peter Bull, a great biography as a television producer and We are delighted to welcome Julia Thaxton supporter of Hertford rugby. We are also his extraordinary relationship with David as our new Director of Development. She proud of the four Hertfordians who were Attenborough. They were a remarkable has already drawn up a well-considered selected to play in the more conventional series of talks (if interested do come – we strategy for the future which will, we hope, Varsity at in announce them on the website), only extend the educational and academic capped by the Director General of the purposes of the college and bring together December – Alex (2011), Will Dace India Miller receiving the 2014 Jools Award for (2011), Harry Jackson (2010) and Harry Excellence in Student Journalism from the Principal BBC devoting the John Donne lecture to all our members, past and present, both

12 Hertford College Magazine Hertford College Magazine 13 Principal’s letter productively and enjoyably (here we must to state school students. By the time also thank Mayer Brown for their ongoing this issue appears, the Hall will have sponsorship of cruelly expensive law been transformed by a boldly innovative books). We were also pleased to welcome exhibition of portraits of Hertford women Professor Arnaud Doucet, a leading – alumnae and fellows – replacing the statistician, to our governing body, and we all-male pictures (at least for the coming look forward to Dr David Dwan joining academic year) which have hung in our the fellowship in October as our university communal dining room for so many lecturer in nineteenth- and twentieth- years. Commissioned from photographer century Irish literature. Political historian Robert Taylor, these striking new images Dr Luke Blaxill joined the college as our form the first example of an all-in-one Drapers’ junior research fellow, continuing “hang” in any Oxford or Cambridge hall: our long association with the Drapers the collection has been conceived as a Company that began with Principal Boyd united whole, replacing the gradually back in the 1870s. The Drapers celebrated accreted, heterogeneous assemblage of their 650th anniversary this year, and it likenesses, all painted at different was uplifting at their celebration weekend and for different ends, which in common in June to see the range of schools and with other colleges we’ve had up to now. colleges throughout the country that they Like the Bike ride, our new exhibition support – with very much the same ethos is a symbolic as well as a literal way of as Hertford. expressing our identity and purpose and For myself I was delighted to use a drawing the Hertford community together. month’s sabbatical in term to begin As I tell our departing undergraduates writing an update for the anniversary every year, college membership is lifelong celebration of my book The State We’re In – and doubtless in fifty years’ time the twenty years on – watch out for invitations college Principal and her development to a lecture next year when you can cheer director will be urging them to give to the or boo my reflections as you think fit, and college too! Let’s do everything we can to thanks to the college for an invaluable keep up the momentum: marking these four weeks. Hope everyone thinks it’s anniversaries as adventurously as we can worth it when the book is published! helps to do just that. Until next year, my So on to 2014/15 when we mark more very best. anniversaries – the 40th anniversary of admitting women undergraduates to the Will Hutton college, and the 50th anniversary of Neil Summer 2014 Tanner’s crusade to open up Hertford HERTFORD REPORT Like the Bike ride, our new exhibition is a symbolic as well as a literal way of expressing our identity and purpose

14 Hertford College Magazine HERTFORD REPORT HERTFORD REPORT Bridge to Bridge, Oxford to Venice Bridge to Bridge, Oxford to Venice Fellows at the finishing line: Dr Claire Vallance, Professor David Thomas, the Principal, Dr Jamie Castell, Dr Oliver Noble Wood

Start line Castel Noarna, Italy Maria Hughes

co-educational Oxford colleges, with one and tan-lines created an immense varied composition of the cyclist groups Bridge to Bridge, of the highest percentages of state school feeling of camaraderie amongst the throughout the journey. To quote our blog- entrants and a thriving international teams regardless of speed, group or master, cyclist Matthew Abbott (1996), Oxford to Venice programme. We believe that an Oxford thigh circumference. This was aptly the competitive sprinters in the first and education should be open to all. highlighted by a third-stage cyclist who second groups were complemented by Anna Baskerville, On the first day of the event, Saturday 19 mentioned that he “struggled to identify the “try-hard-but-get-distracted-by- Deputy Development July, sixty cyclists passed under Hertford’s who were life-long friends, and who had anything” third and fourth groups who famous landmark as part of the 100- just met”, and by the fact that Oliver joined together in Stage 2, remaining a Director mile journey to Portsmouth. Thirty-two Noble Wood (fellow and tutor in Modern closely bonded unit. alumni, fellows, staff, students and friends Languages) decided to carry on past his We’d like to say a big thank you to our efore embarking on this event, of Hertford (including Maria Hughes, wife original destination of Paris and continue cyclists for their fundraising (in addition peloton, cadence and derailleur could of Terry Hughes) then continued through to Venice. to their training in the saddle) and to all Beach have been a species of exotic some truly beautiful areas in France and The successful organization of this of you who sponsored them. It means so for all I knew. Thankfully the Bridge Italy including Paris, Dijon, Lake Garda event was due to many different people, much to see people supporting the cause to Bridge event attracted a full spectrum and Bassano Del Grappa, with the departments and organisations. In and participating in college life on this of cyclists from novices to pro-elites and majority taking on the Semnoz climb in particular, I would like to thank Helen scale. Sam Tomlinson and Matthew Abbott the mysteries of this two-wheeled hobby/ Annecy, Eastern France as featured in the Spooner (2011), Paul Rayfield (co-project vied for the enviable position of cyclist sport/lifestyle became clear. 2013 Tour de France. On Tuesday 29 July manager), and the cycling company with the highest number of individual In April 2013 Terry Hughes (1982), 33 cyclists triumphantly finished in Fusina Passion in Events (PIE). Eleven members donations with over 75 donations each. one of the external members of the on the mainland. Waiting for us was not of the PIE team helped throughout the Our initial target was £250,000, but college’s development committee, came only a group of Hertfordians at the finish journey – notably Pete Hughes, Martin thanks to the fundraising efforts of our up with this bold and brilliant plan to line but a boat to transport us to Venice. A Beck, Luke Mayhew and medic Sue cyclists and our commercial sponsors, commemorate the hundredth anniversary fleet of gondolas then took us to the sight Szymanski – together with our own Byron and Hunter, we have raised a of Hertford’s Bridge of Sighs. Sadly we had long been waiting for – the Bridge Hertford participants Claire Vallance total of £345,000 at the time of writing. Terry died before he could witness (and of Sighs. (fellow and tutor in Chemistry) and All funds will go to support Hertford indeed take part in) what turned into Our 704-mile thigh-burning journey Jonathan Beckett (2007). Pete Hughes students with bursaries, hardship grants, an epic journey from Oxford to Venice was typically concluded each day with soon earned the title “Hand of ”, and graduate scholarships or to further to raise money for student support – a group dinner full of stories of the enabling novices to feel like pro-elites as our outreach efforts. scholarships and bursaries that will allow day’s events, as the cyclists awaited they ascended the numerous “cheeky”, We cyclists made it in every sense – gifted students the opportunity for an the presentation of the King/Queen of “interesting” and “monstrous” climbs we exceeded our fundraising target, we education they might otherwise not be the Road award, combined with pithy, with a push whilst continuing to cycle each achieved personal goals, and we able to afford. Hertford is a champion of humorous and eagerly anticipated himself. each of us participated in a wonderful student access in Oxford – among the first speeches from Will Hutton. The tales of The informing spirit of the event, event marking an auspicious milestone in adversity, personal challenges, triumphs inclusivity, was exemplified in the Hertford’s history.

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Cyclists Modern Languages) Matthew Abbott (1996) Nic Patni (2013) Farzana Aslam (1991) Geraldine Quinn (2003) Mark Atkins (Friend of Hertford) Holly Redford-Jones (2013) James Baillie (2008) Thomas Roberts (2005) Anna Baskerville (Senior Development Pat Roche (Fellow and Tutor in Physics) Officer) Christopher Smith (Friend of Hertford) Jonathan Beckett (2007) Helen Spooner (2011) David Brindley (Friend of Hertford) Richard Spooner (Friend of Hertford) Bundala (2010) Miodrag Stamboldzhiev (2013) Rebecca Carr (2013) Alex Stronell (2012) Rachel Cary (2008) Jack Templeman (2013) Jamie Castell (Outreach Officer and David Thomas (1977) Careeer Development Fellow) Sam Tomlinson (1994) Phill Davies (2004) Claire Vallance (Fellow and Tutor in Miranda Essex (2010) Chemistry) Henry Fisher (2006) Roland Walters (2011) Tom Fletcher (1994) Steven Wheeler (2014) Richard Foord (2011) Alex Whitehead (2008) Steve Frost (1995) Joe Whittle (2009) Luke Gbedemah (2012) Sabina Wu (Friend of Hertford) Rita Gilles (2013) Basil Zotiades (1980) Joshana Guliani (2010) Nick Harbinson (1975) Special thanks to all those who Daniel Harvey (1994) helped and supported us Sofia Hauck (Friend of Hertford) Allez Sportive David Heathcote (2012) Jonathan Beckett (2007) Gideon Henderson (1986) Hertford Catering, Housekeeping, Lodge Hugo Hensley (2012) & Maintenance David Hopkin (Fellow and Tutor in Passion in Events History) Ollie Foord (Pembroke alumnus) Justin Hubbard (2012¬) Rita Gilles (Visiting Student) Michael Paul Hughes (2013) Maria Hughes (Friend of Hertford) Maria Hughes (Friend of Hertford) Finn Keane (2011) Will Hutton (Principal) Rhys Owens (2011) Nick Jefferson (1994) Nic Patni (2013) Junnan Jiang (2013) Leoma Williams (2013) Sam Johns (2008) Paul Rayfield (co-Project Manager) Archie Jones (2013) Helen Spooner (2011) Phil Kelly (Friend of Hertford) Carol Sennett (1982) Florence Kettle (2013) Claire Vallance (Fellow & Tutor in Niels Linnemann (2013) Chemistry) Rob Lusardi (1975) Roland Walters (2011) Charlotte Malins (Friend of Hertford) Paul Mattick (1999) Ben McDermott (1999) Adam Millgate (Friend of Hertford) Lisa Navarro (1997) Nic Patni (2013) and Dr Jamie Castell on top of Semnoz Oliver Noble Wood (Fellow and Tutor in

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and engagement, from Of Worms and introducing the public to electricity in 1829 to Carl Sagan’s brilliant exploration (Wo)men: of space in 1977 to Chris Bishop’s “Hi- Tech Trek” into the world of Computer Reflections on the Science in 2008. And, , only four women have done this since 1825. What Royal Institution a weight of expectation! Could I really do Christmas Lectures it well? Could I make enough time to do it the it would deserve? Would I want 2 013 to? A follow up email prodded me into Alison Woollard action. I needed to put together a short proposal for the delivery of the lectures – a n receiving an email back in narrative arc – and this I did over a couple March 2013 inviting me to submit of snatched afternoons at the British Oa proposal for the delivery of the Society for Developmental Biology Spring Royal Institution (Ri) Christmas Lectures, symposium at the University of Warwick – my first reaction was to delete it. My rough an auspicious setting for my deliberations. mental calculations, taking into account My idea was to start the lectures off talking my usual day jobs of principal investigator about development – how we all start off for research projects, university lecturer, as a single cell, the fertilized egg, and to college tutor, college dean, and mother describe the remarkable process by which of two young children, didn’t seem to this single cell is transformed into trillions leave much wriggle room for anything of cells, all doing the right thing in the – let alone the vision, working-up and right place at the right time; being liver, execution of three lectures for teenagers for example, or brain. The second lecture on a broad biological topic (“what is life” or would extend the mechanisms I described “where do I come from” were suggestions in the first lecture (what makes cells from the Ri) that would be televised on different from one another) by discussing BBC Four over Christmas! what makes organisms different from one Over the next few days I found another during . The third and thoughts of the Lectures creeping in, final lecture would have the emphasis though. It was an honour to have been on the future – our future – and consider nominated – someone must think I could how our detailed knowledge of genetics do a good job. What an opportunity to and developmental biology provides share my own passion for Developmental opportunities for great medical advances Biology, my own flavour of what as well as intellectual nourishment. in biology. What a venerable institution I envisaged two important themes is the Royal Institution, with its iconic running through all the lectures: firstly, lecture theatre and rich an emphasis on molecular mechanisms,

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20 Hertford College Magazine Hertford College Magazine 21 HERTFORD REPORT HERTFORD REPORT Of Worms and (Wo)men Of Worms and (Wo)men and secondly some insights into how we had engineered to contain GFP (green we know all this – both of which I think fluorescent protein) fused to one of our are absolutely crucial to the engagement genes of interest – a brilliant way of finding Rehearsal is a process. The sorts of questions posed by out where particular proteins are produced developmental biology involve an awful in multicellular animals. After that was a very odd experience lot of “how” – how do cells know where period of waiting while the selection panel they are in the body? How do they know deliberated, and it wasn’t until early June for a seasoned what they should be? How do cells that I got the official go-ahead. Rather seminar-giver acquire new functions over evolution? fittingly, I was at Darwin’s home, Down One question always to another. It House, that day, on our annual outing for is impossible to answer all these questions biologists and biochemists from Hertford, from the latter half of October onwards in three lectures aimed at teenagers, but to celebrate the end of their finals. The as we whipped the content into what it is important to start – to get people phone call came through on the sand felt like the right shape and order, with thinking, to whet the appetite, and most walk – the promenade Darwin took each entertaining and informative demos importantly to give people the confidence evening to reflect on his days work and thrown in. The demos, of course, are the to know that understanding the answers think through ideas. That certainly seemed very essence of the Christmas Lectures, is within their reach. So I very deliberately to augur well for the lectures! and took up the most development time, chose to spend some time on the concept Over the summer the full gravity of what from sourcing exotic animals (and cells!) of gene expression, as an important I had let myself in for became apparent. to perfecting DNA extraction, to building molecular explanation in developmental Firstly, there was the press release, my models, to formulating fool-proof games biology and evolution. First of all to show first exposure to a new breed – journalists. to demonstrate key ideas in evolution, the audience that genes can be switched Then came a professional photo shoot and genetics and cancer biology, not to on and off, to give them some insights PR meetings. The concept of the whole mention engineering a meeting with into how the switching is controlled, and “package” associated with the Christmas Charles Darwin! finally to let them know what can happen Lectures – commissioned press articles, I moved to London, abandoning the when the switches change… The other interviews, Radio 4 appearances, previews, family, at the beginning of December important theme, how do we know all social media, had never crossed my . when the theatre rehearsals started – this? is an important way of getting people Just as well folks at the Ri (most notably long exhausting days with no realistic to engage and identify with the scientific the ever-resourceful and cheerful Olympia possibility of commuting. Rehearsal is process, and I wanted to go about this Brown) had the good sense not to apprise a very odd experience for a seasoned with something very close to my scientific me of the whole deal before I said yes…. seminar-giver; I had never really rehearsed heart – model organisms. The lessons that Meetings with the production company, anything before, and also had never a huge variety of model organisms, from Windfall, started in late September, and worked with a script – scientists usually yeast to zebrafish, can teach us about were fun, creative and productive. The prefer to ad lib around a powerpoint biological mechanisms are immense. This series title “Life Fantastic” was the inspired presentation, but this can’t work when would also allow the introduction of a suggestion of Windfall chairman, David you are dealing with a large crew, split whole menagerie of entertaining animals Dugan, and put an immediate end to a second timing for demos and the general throughout the lectures, and in addition lot of to-ing and fro-ing between myself, “TV thing”. I adapted quickly, though, allow me to show off my favourite model the Ri, BBC and Windfall – it was the and it became great fun as the crew grew organism, the nematode C. elegans, as a star obvious and perfect choice. So with title with the addition of the Director, David of the show, my “hero organism”. and outlines in place the task of fully Coleman – an enthusiastic cracker of I sent off my proposal and thought that working up the lecture content began terrible jokes. We worked from early in the would be that, then was surprised and in earnest, as the outstanding series morning until late into the evening, either delighted to hear that the Ri liked my producer Johanna Gibbon came onboard, in theatre or up in the Ri “penthouse”, ideas and wanted to come to Oxford and along with my brilliant assistant at the which doubled as the production office. film an audition in my lab. An audition!! Ri, Andrew Beale, a recent PhD graduate We were quite hysterical at times, very This boiled down to one lovely friendly in circadian biology from UCL. Content intense at others, ate a lot of pizza and chap and a camera, and me just sitting by a development took up most of my waking drank a lot of . The memories of microscope describing some worms which hours (and some of my sleeping ones) working with such a dedicated team

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I knew the the Ethiopian HIV/AIDS epidemic: By the time the first “record date” came lectures went down well in the theatre The Vaughan Williams fund – the generous along, I felt well prepared, confident with the wonderful audience, but how brainwave of our emeritus fellow The population of Ethiopia in 2007 and pretty calm (mostly). The crew grew would they translate to TV? I needn’t have Vaughan Williams – provides financial was estimated at 74 million. Currently, massively the day before each record, with worried, and was totally overwhelmed by support to Hertford medicine students to based on projections from the national the addition of several cameramen, sound, the positive response on email, Twitter and attend conferences and clinical placements census of 2007, it is estimated at 83 lighting, script supervisor, floor supervisors even good old-fashioned letters. Although abroad, as well as bursaries for the medical million, making the nation the second (unbelievably essential for choreographing life is now more or less back to normal elective that is completed in sixth year and most populous country in Africa. The all the demos on and off), and various (although it doesn’t seem much less busy can take place anywhere in the world. Marcus majority (83.9%) reside in rural areas. other technicians. I was really lucky to be as I catch up on everything I neglected), Stevens, a recent beneficiary, has sent us this The average household size is 4.7. able to share the whole experience with my involvement with the Ri, and Science report. The average life expectancy is 51 years my research group, who all appeared in Communication in general, continues. for males and 53 years for females. one or other of the lectures as “assistants” I’ve just done a “gig” at the Ri Family Fun Introduction Population distribution by age group – the “Oxford Glams” – as they were Day and have quite a few public lectures In choosing where to go for my sixth- shows a pyramidal age structure, with known in the production office. It was also coming up – a new experience I have year “elective” I was sure of what I didn’t 44% under 15 years old. Ethiopia is fantastic to be able to share the experience found to be extremely enjoyable and want. I didn’t want to go to the developed one of the countries with the lowest with some other scientists, not least Paul rewarding. I’ve just given a lecture at the world and spend time in a hospital similar per capita income, estimated at 390 Nurse, my old PhD supervisor, who joined Cheltenham Science Festival and am now to the ones I’ve been training in for the USD per annum. It is estimated that me in lecture one to talk about his Nobel looking forward to the end of July, when last three years, and I didn’t want to pay 32.7% of the population live below the Prize-winning work on cell division. the Ri Lectures go “on tour” to Singapore for that pleasure either. I was struggling absolute line. Nevertheless, By the end of lecture three (19 December) (and luckily the family will be able to come for ideas until I chatted to a Canadian in recent years, the country has seen I was beyond exhausted, although it took a with me this time…!). On my return from friend working for a DPhil at Merton. rapid progress in economic growth, Singapore it’s straight off to the Green He was doing his fieldwork in the expansion of social infrastructure, and Man Festival in the Brecon Beacons for highlands of Ethiopia and mentioned in improving healthcare. Ethiopia has an interactive talk in their “Einstein’s how beautiful the area was. A quick one of the fastest growing economies Garden” science installation. I can really Google search revealed that the Simien among non-oil producing countries in I’ve just given feel the vital importance of effective public Mountains National Park contained sub-Saharan Africa…. engagement – particularly in the biological the highest mountains in Ethiopia, and Ethiopia is among the countries most a lecture at the sciences – at a time when government further searching turned up the Simien affected by the HIV epidemic. With an Cheltenham Science demands “impact” and some have issues Mountains Mobile Medical Service estimated adult prevalence of 1.5%, with the potential implications of research (simienmountainsmobilemedicalservice. it has a large number of people living Festival and am now in genetics and molecular biology. And org), a small Belgian-run operating with HIV (approximately 800,000) and if six-year olds are inspired to send me within the National Park. After a series of about one million AIDS orphans. looking forward to the beautiful pictures of green-fluorescent emails with Wendy Lovatt, the President worms then, job done – the next generation of the charity, my placement was My experience end of July, when the Ri of scientists might just be inspired to study organized. I was to be the first medical I spent two days in Debark, the last Lectures go “on tour” to developmental biology…. student to spend time at their clinic and sizeable town before reaching the she was happy for me to decide when I National Park, buying a month’s supply of Singapore (and luckily “Life Fantastic” can be seen at www.rigb. got out there how I wanted to divide my food, some medical supplies for the clinic org/christmas-lectures time. and organizing transport to the clinic. It the family will be able Lectures profiled in the Independent The Simien Mountains Mobile Medical was while I was in this town that I realized to come with me this www.independent.co.uk/news/people/ Service currently employs five nurses, one just how poor the country is, especially in profiles/dr-alison-woollard-ive-got-the- who works at the clinic (in a place called the rural areas such as this. The poverty time…!) performing-bug-9020180.html Keyit) and four mobile nurses who tend to was pervasive and widespread, with A shorter version of this article appeared the needs of the remote local communities. most people living in shacks made of in Issue 25 of Hertford College News. A coordinator is based in Debark (the

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corrugated iron or mud. There are more mules and donkeys in Ethiopia than any other country on , except , and There are more they are the workhorses of the economy, moving products to market and carrying mules and donkeys from the wells and rivers, amongst in Ethiopia than any many other jobs. However, the poverty was to get worse. After preparations were other country on earth, complete I got a 4x4 into the mountains with the project coordinator who had except China been helping me in Debark. It was a four- hour trip on awful roads and then an hour’s walk before we reached the clinic. with the sound of dogs, donkeys and This was a well constructed four-room chickens all around. building overlooking a picturesque valley, I put my tent up next to the clinic: it would be my home for the entirety of the placement. There was no running water or electricity at the clinic and the toilet is the small corrugated iron construction that can be seen in the above picture. On my first day I was shown around the town closest to the village. It was typical of many of the villages in the mountains: people live in mud huts or shacks of corrugated iron and plough with wooden ploughs to feed their families. The following is a collection of photographs I took while in the village. I prefer them in black and white and am reminded of this quotation:

Black and white are the colours of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. — Robert Frank

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One of the hard aspects of being in Africa While in Addis Ababa, the capital of is the attention you invite as a white Ethiopia, I spent a couple of days at the foreigner, even more so when you’re tall Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital (www. and . When people got to know hamlinfistula.org/our-hospital.html) me better they would often stroke my with a retired British gynaecologist. It hair and comment, “Oh, it is so soft, I was fascinating to see a condition almost wish my hair was like this”. In the never found in the , one and towns people would approach me of the most debilitating and isolating to ask for money, pens or even the shirt I conditions a patient can suffer. The charity was wearing. In the mountains, however, are currently funding the education of people just came up to shake my hand, three midwives who are training at the say hello and ask what I was doing in fistula hospital; once qualified they will their town. The children were especially visit the clinic once weekly to provide social and I would often attract a large obstetric care to the population. group who would hang on to my hands My own clinic was very basic but did as I walked through the town. The older have a range of medications and could ones would ask to practise their English treat a variety of complaints. Many of the and we’d sit and talk about what they patients had traumatic injuries including were learning at school and where I was burns and lacerations, unsurprising from. Once I’d told them I was from considering that many of the houses have they would all start discussing cooking fires in them and some are made football, though I’ve no idea how they of corrugated iron with very sharp edges. kept up to date as I didn’t see a television The smoke-filled houses also result in my whole time in the mountains. When respiratory complaints. One memorable I had my camera with me they would all patient was a young boy brought to the run alongside asking to have their picture clinic by his father, who had carried his taken. Below are just two of the hundreds son for four days to the clinic and arrived of pictures I took of these children. late one Sunday evening. He had been badly burnt when a pot of boiling water had spilt on him and he had burns down his left arm and torso. We did our best to clean the wound and bandage it as well as giving him some antibiotics. Below is a portrait I took after we’d treated him. For me this picture is unique: it is the only photo I have of a child not smiling and represents the real suffering possible in the mountains. It is this that the clinic is trying to alleviate and I left my elective with a strong desire to stay involved. I now work as the charity’s medical adviser and will be returning to Ethiopia later this year.

Readers interested in donating to this charity or learning more about it should visit www. simienmountainsmobilemedicalservice. org/home

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photocalls, and anodyne platitudes in fashioned way. that audiences in the 1880-1910 period The Language of order to be as inoffensive as possible – but I quickly dismissed the first as were recorded as “cheering” or “laughing” attract barely 60% of us to the polls. inadequate, and the third as impossible. I one third more often at Conservative Politics Despite this seemingly stark difference, thus begun to read up on computational meetings than at Liberal ones. I also we’d still call our politics of today – linguistics, political science, and the discovered that the word “radical” Luke Blaxill where women and the poorest can digital humanities, trying to understand exploded in popularity from the 1890s – vote, and where hereditary political power how I could use electronic means to although primarily as a pejorative term of has all but been abolished – the more analyse political vocabulary in these huge abuse used by Conservatives – and that democratic era. Jephson would almost texts. Fortunately for me, large portions the emerging Labour party was vastly certainly disagree, seeing the intense of the nineteenth and twentieth century more likely to talk about female suffrage popular excitement and participation of British press have been digitized, and are than either of their opponents. Two quick his time as a much truer embodiment of available online, making it easy for me to graphs (taken from Google Ngram) show the original Grecian of democracy extract the speeches I wanted. For material how interesting this kind of “big data” can as “people power”. This difference in which was not online, I had to trot off to be, allowing us (figure 1) to see the rise outlook is one of the many why I individual archives, emerging with reams and relative frequency of two significant can’t help but be fascinated by the popular of A3 newspaper printouts under my arm, terms belonging to the vocabulary of class politics of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. which I then scanned into my computer. in the twentieth century, and (figure 2) Having completed my PhD thesis With a large multi-million word the shifting rhetorical visibility of William on “The Language of British Electoral corpus assembled, I could start to use Gladstone and Winston Churchill over Politics, 1880-1910” at King’s College the computer to try to tell me some 120 years. London, I’ve been elected to the Drapers’ interesting things. I found, for example, Company junior research fellowship at Hertford, where I have the opportunity to continue my work on the history of election campaigning (especially platform Over a thousand candidates for speeches) by moving it forwards into Parliamentary honours, all speaking the 1920s. I’m investigating the electoral “at the same time, asserting and consequences of the enfranchisement of denying, arguing or entreating, speaking women in 1918, the emergence of Labour not merely for days, but weeks, to as a national party, and the political legacy audiences of hundreds of thousands” 1 of the Great War. This was how the late Victorian One of the challenges that confronts political commentator Henry Jephson me is that the textual sources I am dealing romantically saw the democracy of with are simply too big to read – even his day. Perhaps he had good : over a lifetime! In just one campaign, FIGURE 1: Comparative frequency of use of the terms “middle class” and “working class” elections over 1867-1914 featured for example, an estimated billion words (data from Google Ngram) constituency candidates delivering well of speech was delivered from soap boxes over one hundred hour-long public up and down the country. There seemed orations each, with comprehensive (often to me to be three ways of overcoming verbatim) newspaper coverage. The this problem. First: to be highly selective Times alone devoted over 60,000 words about what speeches I read, relying on a day to political speeches, comparable cherry-picked case studies from particular to a short . At the culmination places. Second: to find some way of of this nationwide “political oratorical using computer-assisted reading (“text pandemonium,” turnout averaged close to mining”) to gain a holistic understanding 85%. A world apart from public attitudes of the whole text, just like the exciting to the spin-doctored electioneering of Google Ngram. Third: to seek to be today, where politicians use soundbites, bitten by a , become undead, and use eternity to read all the texts the old- FIGURE 2: Comparative frequency of use of the terms “Mr Churchill” and “Winston Churchill” 1 H. Jephson, The Platform, its Rise and Progress (New York and London, 1892), vol. 2, pp. 522-3. (data from Google Ngram)

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Of course, these text-mining techniques this demonstrate how an empirical large- of Oxford Labour Law in the post-war aren’t just about simple counting. scale approach can turn up promising Hertford and period, given that Oxford has been an One interesting approach is to ask the research leads that would be hard to unrivalled centre for the study of labour computer software to compare one corpus detect by manual readings alone. Labour Law law in the post-war period until the against another (for example, speeches Text mining techniques are thus a present day. The theoretical concerns of by Liberals in the West Country with valuable tool for historians, especially Alan Bogg the volume addressed the “‘autonomy’ of those from other regions). One can then the many of us who are confronted by labour law”: from other legal disciplines identify keywords and phrases which huge sources which – thanks to the such as contract law, company law and are significantly more or less likely to be internet – are becoming more accessible human rights law; from other disciplines used by West Country Liberals than by all the time. Although much of my such as , politics and economics; any other group. This empirical approach work so far has argued for the utility of and from the ordinary and can to unexpected discoveries, such quantitative computerised readings in its judges. It showcases cutting edge as the relatively high occurrence of the political history, I also find it essential work by sixteen scholars who have had word “herring” in East Anglian speeches – to read as many speeches manually as I connections to the intellectual milieu of presumably because of the importance of can. I hope I can strike a happy balance Oxford Labour law whether as academics, herrings in the local fishing industry. More between a traditional historian’s close practitioners or students. research (e.g. thorough investigation of reading of selected sources, and a Finally, work has now commenced the successive contexts in which the word modern computational linguist’s large- on a major treatise to be published by turns up) is required to work out whether scale analysis of the whole corpus. I’ve Oxford , The Contract of this is a plausible hypothesis (or perhaps a currently three separate articles on the Employment, which is being developed herring). Another unexpected finding go, and next year I’ll begin writing a book by a group of labour lawyers based is that, in the corpus of political speeches provisionally titled The War of Words: predominantly in Oxford. This is the as a whole, the word “gentleman” Political Communication in Britain, 1880- first major scholarly work on a pivotal gradually loses its lead over “man” 1924. institution of labour law to be published throughout the 1880-1910 period – a My time at Hertford so far has been in the last four decades, and it is hoped subtle reverse that contemporaries might extremely rewarding, and it’s a great ollowing three years as senior tutor, that it will be regarded as the principal have been unaware of as they spoke, but environment in which to conduct I have spent much of this academic reference point for scholars, practitioners which looks as if it points to a gradual unusual or interdisciplinary research. Fyear on sabbatical leave for which and judges across the common law reduction in terms denoting high social For example, Professor I am very grateful to the college. I am world. The first workshop was held class and status, perhaps accompanying has done similar work in the field of happy to report that the period has in St John’s College in March 2014, Britain’s move to universal suffrage. Can stylometrics, where he uses been productive. In March 2014, an with a further workshop to follow in this be true? Again, more reading and to investigate the authorship of texts edited volume was published by Oxford September 2014. These workshops were more analysis are required to explore and where they are unknown or disputed. University Press entitled Voices at Work. generously supported by Hertford’s modify this hypothesis. Discoveries like Professor Roy Foster, on the other hand, is This was the culmination of a three-year Harding Research Fund, which enabled deeply knowledgeable about the political international research network supported leading scholars from , Australia language of my era, having written a by the Leverhulme Trust, coordinated with and Israel to attend the workshop. The biography of Randolph Churchill, one of Professor Tonia Novitz of the University of discussion ranged far and wide across a the star platform orators of his day. And Bristol. This encompassed a comparative variety of topics: the effects of the erosion our principal is certainly no stranger study of mechanisms of worker voice of trade unionism on the structure and I also find it to the world of politics and political in the common law world (Australia, content of the contract of employment; communication in the modern era. Canada, UK, US and ), the growth of “zero hours”contracts and essential to read Finally, I can also confidently say examining the normative bases of worker the appropriate regulatory response as many speeches that I have never felt hungry during voice and the patterns of development in to casualization of employment; the my research, thanks to the skill of our these different countries. effects of illegality on the enforcement of manually as I can kitchen team, and the generosity of the Another edited collection, The Autonomy contractual claims in situations involving portion sizes. I have also observed a direct of Labour Law, is due to be published by trafficked employees; and the regulation correlation between consuming a glass of Hart Publishing in November 2014. The of dismissal and termination of contracts Hertford port and giving birth to my next concerns of this volume are, superficially of employment. (hopefully) good idea! at least, more parochial. 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There have also Transformational been many happy Portraits hours debating with Robert Taylor and Principal Hutton Emma Smith – usually by text As part of the celebrations for forty years of co-education at Hertford, the college message – about the has commissioned, from the photographer Robert Taylor (taylor-photo.co.uk), a new ethics and economics exhibition of twenty-one photographic of labour market portraits of Hertford women. Over the academic year 2014-2015 these are replacing regulation the pictures currently in Hall. Hertfordians past and present were invited to nominate sitters, the aim being to represent a rounded picture of the different areas of achievement those interested in the law relating to by Hertford women since 1974. Our fellow employment. Hertford College continues in English, Emma Smith, who originated and to provide a most congenial and organized the exhibition, interviewed the supportive environment to enable me to photographer about the experience. participate in that scholarly community. There are also a growing number of ES: You have done a lot of things employment lawyers out there in the from RAF air traffic controller to royal world with Hertford connections, either photographer: can you give us a sketch of undergraduates who studied labour law how you come to be doing the work you as a final year option or BCL students are doing now? who studied international and European RT: It’s been an odd path to becoming a employment law. This is a particular portrait photographer. After serving in the source of pleasure to me. There have also British Royal Air Force for a few years the been many happy hours debating with urge for more intellectual challenge led to Principal Hutton – usually by text message a law degree and qualifying as a barrister. I – about the ethics and economics of was immediately offered an irresistible job labour market regulation. I also continue in publishing and decided to put a life in the to benefit from the collegial support and law on hold. intellectual advice of my colleague, Alison For the first three years of publishing I Young, with her expertise in public law, was dashing back and forth to Nigeria on human rights and EU law. Next year I cartographic, geographic and automotive return to the backbenches as a tutorial engineering projects. In the final two years I fellow without the manifold privileges was permanently back in England working that come from holding a college office, on a sex education project in partnership with and I am very much looking forward to the Royal Society of Medicine, and co-editing more labour law, tutorials with Hertford a of automotive terms. During the undergraduates, and an altogether quieter publishing years, photography grew from life. a sometime hobby to an obsession, and in 1989 I succumbed and went full time.

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Charlotte Hogg (1988) Shahnaz Ahsan (2006) Stephanie West, Emeritus Fellow in ES: Had you done any similar commissions to the Hertford Women Portraits project? RT: I’ve completed a number of themed portrait collections, commissioned and self generated, each accompanied by short interviews/texts. The largest took place over seven years, photographing a succession of award-winning women at the highest levels in STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine), including several Fellows of the Royal Society, very many of whom were “damed” or honoured in some other way. The interviews explored, amongst other things, what inspired and sustained them, as well as their thoughts on encouraging young women to follow them into STEMM. Some of these portraits now hang in places like the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Aston, UCL, as well as other institutions. I’ve also used the portrait-with-interview format on a number of other projects including: sustainable development in , body image, the experience of being photographed, and comparing and contrasting the experience of being photographed with having one’s portrait painted.

ES: Tell us a bit about the way you approached this commission. RT: The Hertford Women project has a lot in common with the work I have created for women in STEMM over the years. Both projects have featured highly intelligent, able women who I wanted to celebrate as characters, without being too caught up in superficial and largely irrelevant aspects of their physical appearance or sartorial choices. Even in the 21st century women are still much more prone than men to being judged and assessed on these things about them that are irrelevant to their talents and vocations. To this end I was particularly keen that the women had a say in choosing which image of themselves

36 Hertford College Magazine Hertford College Magazine 37 HERTFORD REPORT HERTFORD REPORT Transformational portraits John Donne Lecture appeared in the installation, as well giving modern dance, sculpture, film and fashion. They put them on walls and shared them: them an opportunity to contribute some My heroes include Francis Bacon, Breugel, John Donne Lecture they had an audience. Audiences are as text to accompany their image that helped Turner, Caravaggio, Maxfield Parrish, much a part of creativity as artists. The to put them in a context of their choosing. Platt Lynes, Jane Bown, Irving Penn, This year’s lecture was delivered on 4 desire to reach out to as many people as Lindsay Kemp and Alexander McQueen. April 2014 by the Director-General of the possible with your idea, your programme, ES: Do you approach photographing BBC, Tony Hall, formerly Director of the your drama is at the heart of the creative women differently from the way you ES: How would you sum up the Hertford Royal Opera House. The version below is impulse, whether or not you are successful approach photographing men? Women Portraits project? summarized with thanks from his script. in achieving this. And the relationship RT: Not consciously. Every sitter is RT: It is a bold initiative on the part of between artist and audience is what unique, and the method, strategy and the college. It has been an extraordinary Was there ever a man whose life captured unites my job at Covent Garden with my style will depend on a number of things and highly enjoyable experience meeting the contradictions of our country better role at the BBC. Both organizations have including what we’ve agreed we are the sparkling array of women nominated than this great poet? The quotation by to ensure broad appeal while pursuing trying to achieve, how we relate during to take part. I’ve related to it as a respectful which he is best known creates its own excellence. the session, the amount of time we have. celebration of women’s character, talent paradox: though an individual person of At the Royal Opera House I was There’s also the interesting process of and contribution at the college. singular ability, he understood that he was determined to mount an assault on the determining who will make the final deeply entwined with all other persons: notion that opera and ballet were only for decisions about which images from the List of sitters: toffs because mere mortals wouldn’t get session get used. While I do not treat Shahnaz Ahsan (2006), Thouron scholar No man is an island, entire of itself; it. On the contrary: everybody deserves women differently from men, I know that Helen Alexander (1975), business leader; every man is a piece of the , a the best and everybody can appreciate many of my viewers will tend to be more Honorary Fellow part of the main… And therefore never the best. I’m proud of what we achieved concerned with the superficial elements of Marian Bell (1977), send to know for whom the bell tolls; it there. We ran a campaign aimed at readers a woman’s physical appearance than they Xanthe Brooke (1978), curator tolls for thee. of the newspaper which earned us a will be with a man’s. The only way I’ve Sarah Crompton (1976), journalist brand new audience: over 90% of those directly addressed this double standard is Stephanie Cullen (1999), rower Creativity does not spring from the who attended these performances had to make my sessions as relaxed as possible Kay Davies, fellow and Dr Lee’s Professor individual alone, and no man is an island. never been to Covent Garden before. in an attempt to put the accent on the of Anatomy Instead, I want to show that individual In a global age with the technology sitter’s character and presence rather Julie Dearden (1979), educationalist creativity can best be served by a great to reach millions, that simple human to than how “well turned out”, glamorous or Louise Gullifer (1979), professor of institution, whether that is an Oxford human connection is possible on a scale important they are. Commercial Law, Harris college or – my own areas of expertise never before seen – and it is a reciprocal Even if I’d been asked to photograph College – the BBC or the Royal Opera House. connection: the audience participates in a collection of Hertford men they’d have (1988), banker Great acts of creativity depend upon the the creative process. Through technology, been in a very different style to most of the Natasha Kaplinsky (1992), broadcaster institutions that manage and support we can now all experience the same one very traditional painted portraits hanging Sukhvinder Kaur (1981), charity executive them. In his 2013 Reith lectures, Grayson to one creative pleasure as when the at Hertford immediately prior to the Theresa Moran (1983), teacher Perry observed that caveman drew his horse on in Hertford Women installation. Serine Najarian (1998), banker France and his neighbour came to view it. Carol Sennett (1982), television editor …art is not some sort of fun add-on… And we can add to that, the creativity that ES: If you had to pick one favourite Jacqui Smith (1981), hospital trust chair; if you go back to the ice age, the artists comes from interaction between the artist from the Hertford portraits, which Honorary Fellow then, they still made art and yet they and the audience. From my experience would it be? Mary Warnock, philosopher; Honorary were constantly under threat from cold in two great cultural institutions, I know RT: I don’t have a favourite, though the Fellow and starvation, and from predators. And that successful creativity is about work harder it was for a sitter to initially feel Stephanie West, Fellow in Classics, 1990- yet they still set aside hours and hours which gives expression to the creative relaxed and involved, the more rewarding 2005; Emerita Fellow and hours to make art. It’s very, very impulse of the artist while touching I tended to find the session and the results. Joanne Wicks (1995), barrister deep – this need to express. something unconscious in the audience: Alison Woollard, Fellow and Tutor in the audience’s own need for expression. ES: Which photographers – or other Biochemistry Grayson Perry is right: there is a deep The audience, of course, is not the artists – have most influenced your need to express in all of us. But something artist’s only company in his or her creative work? + Julia Briggs (1943-2007), Fellow and Tutor is missing in this account of artistic endeavour. Without a supporting team, RT: I much prefer looking at other crafts in English 1978-1995; Emerita Fellow endeavour. Cave men and women didn’t it is often impossible to realize creativity. and artforms. I particularly like painting, 1995-2007 do their paintings in secret or hide them. Great creatives need great teams and vice

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John Donne lecture 2014 Discussion versa, and this is true for opera singers Office didn’t start life as a success. It was and TV or radio presenters. I suppose an odd and awkward series which took you might call individuality requiring more than a little time to take off with the teamwork a paradox. There are many audience. But the BBC stuck with it into other paradoxes in the creative process. a second series and the rest, as they say, Some of the greatest ideas feel simple – is history. For me personally I learnt this maybe obvious and indeed spontaneous. lesson at the birth of BBC News 24 – it In fact they are based on phenomenal took a couple of years to get right. That is hard work and skills: the very opposite of a great tribute to the team involved who spontaneity. At the Royal Opera House stuck with it in the face of people saying the dancers would glide across the stage there was no need for continuous news but their performances were based on and some who said it was a waste of the long days of hard work, practice and licence fee. Nowadays the idea seems so pain. In the ground-breaking Life on Earth natural its existence seems obvious. series, there was the famous moment The task, then, of the creative institution Tony Hall when was in a hug is a delicate one. Ensuring the individual with a gorilla. He later said it was “one of is supported by a team, not crushed the most exciting encounters of my life”. by it; bringing together creative talent It only came about after weeks of waiting and ensuring stability for these but not so that the animals learned to trust him. being rigid about the people we work I also strongly believe there’s a place with; getting the balance right between for serendipity in the creative process. in our creative judgment and the It’s about creative happenstance – the moment you’ve just got to recognize it’s unexpected things which happen when not working. And, of course, learning people spark off each other and discover from audiences, feeding off them, reacting a shared passion, a new idea, and a to them, but never being trapped by the different approach which wouldn’t have critical response of the first audience we happened on their own. In this, the great encounter. To be at its creative best, the role of institutions like the BBC is twofold. BBC must understand the group nature It is to make it possible – in terms of of creativity as well as giving people finance, personnel and institutional self- the freedom to do some of the greatest, confidence – for people to persist until boldest, most imaginative work of their they get it right. And it is to bring people together to make creative encounters more likely. My final paradox of creativity is this – is intrinsic to success. As Samuel successful Becket once famously wrote: “Ever tried. creativity is about work Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” And he was right. From which gives expression failure something is always learned and often a stronger idea emerges. This is the to the creative impulse paradox within the paradox – we must of the artist while also know when the lesson of failure is “stick to your guns”; when the lesson is touching something that failure presages success. What makes a great programme is unconscious in the as hard to define as creativity itself. But audience Hertford Bridge centenary speaker Donne dinner reception under the fan you know one when you see one. The Mary Curnock Cook OBE vaulted roof of the Divinity School

40 Hertford College Magazine Hertford College Magazine 41 HERTFORD REPORT John Donne Lecture lives. We must reward courage and truth- telling rather than back-covering and caution. I want colleagues Finally, let me give you three simple examples of practical steps we are taking to say “yes” as much to change the way that we work to enable as they can – and creativity. First, we are opening up the BBC to find new talent. In 2011, a 16 year- make exciting things old singer songwriter from Nottingham was invited to a BBC Masterclass to learn happen from the Kaiser Chiefs. That summer, he played at the BBC Introducing stage at . This year, Jake Bugg was one economy and employs around 2.5 million of Glastonbury’s headline acts, as one of people. In other words, it employs more this country’s top singers. people than the financial services industry Secondly, we are using the public’s own or the construction industry. And in recent stories to make our programmes. Life years, this creative workforce has grown Through Your Lens, when it’s shown on four times faster than the workforce as a BBC Three, will paint a unique picture of whole. Britain, reflecting back to our audiences We are one of only three countries the stories they themselves have chosen that are net exporters of music. We to document. are the second largest exporter of TV Thirdly, we are using individuals to programmes, with BBC Worldwide – our work with local communities and tell global, commercial arm – in the vanguard us what they find. A hundred years of British television’s international growth. after the poet Dylan Thomas’s birth, The fact that creativity clusters in this way BBC Wales has set itself the challenge is, I suppose, the final piece of proof that it to inspire individuals and communities is a group endeavour. across Wales to discover the beauty and The creation of the BBC was an power of poetry for themselves. To help extraordinarily imaginative act of state them, we’ve recruited the poet Benjamin intervention. It has given this country Zephaniah and sent him to the Town Hill something very precious, a national estate in Swansea – where Thomas lived – broadcaster that can help turn the in search of a twenty-first-century Under great imagination of into Milk Wood. fantastic works of art, in its broadest sense. HERTFORD As well as making organizational All of which brings me back to my basic changes at the BBC I have tried to adjust assertion about living with creativity: that attitudes. Big organizations have to be it is always about a relationship between tough, disciplined, and ready to turn the need “to express” of the artist – and the things down. I want colleagues to say need for the audience to see something YEAR “yes” as much as they can – and make about themselves expressed. exciting things happen. The licence fee In a world that seems to be changing gives us a particular responsibility to around us – and changing us – at act as an engine room to stimulate this sometimes bewildering speed, that role country’s creative industries, British talent has never been more important. We tell and entrepreneurs and help them reach stories to the wider world and we tell their audience globally, nationally and stories through sound and vision about locally. Our creative economy accounts ourselves and to ourselves. Just like the for around one-tenth of the whole UK caveman.

42 Hertford College Magazine HERTFORD YEAR HERTFORD YEAR The Chapel The Chapel

Cathedral; Dr David Lincicum, Caird improve the music) and for raising the The sign above the door The Chapel Fellow in at Mansfield College, international profile of the choir and the to the chapel this year’s Macbride Preacher, bringing college. Rev. Gareth Hughes his valuable insights from the frontiers of Every year at the beginning of research; Richard Mutter, November we gather the college’s fine (Chaplain) our placement ordinand from Ripon musicians to perform a requiem. Placed in College Cuddesdon, who will be ordained the context of a service to remember all t’s difficult to have an Oxford college deacon in the Diocese of Hereford this those we love who have died, the requiem chapel without the odd Petertide; the Right Reverend Jonathan provides for an important pastoral need Iinscription here or there; it seems to be Clark, the Bishop of Croydon, speaking for members of the college community. a cultural requirement. Above the chapel about the issues facing today’s church, After the success of the fully orchestrated door, two angels carry a shield reading on the way back from a tense meeting of Mozart Requiem last year, Ed Whitehead bishops; Sister Margaret Anne, speaking (2011), the senior , chose Domus mea, domus orationis about the many years of profound the less well known requiem by the My house [shall be] a house of charitable work that the All Saints’ Sisters French composer André Campra of the Poor have led in East Oxford; (1660–1744). Ed put a lot of work into the That verse from the Hebrew , and the Reverend Rachel Mann, poet in score and rehearsals, and also submitted repeated in the Christian , residence at Manchester Cathedral and an academic dissertation based on his continues “…for all people”. The sign author of Dazzling Darkness, speaking study of the score. Campra’s Requiem tells us what the chapel is for. We strive about her experiences as a trans-woman is unusually set in a major key, and was to live the label “for all people”, without and finding welcome and purpose influenced by his interest in the opéra- sinking to become a blandly secular in today’s . ballet style of his day. The introit (Requiem lowest common denominator. To that Taking the chapel out of Oxford, our in æternam) begins in a stately manner, end we continue to wrestle with big, and choir toured in Barcelona last September, and then the orchestra picks up the pace, often unexpected, ideas, as can be seen singing at the 34è Festival Internacional de moving into a joyous dance rhythm as from the visiting preachers (mentioned Cant Coral Catalunya Centre held in Puig- the choir repeats and embellishes the below) who have shared with us through reig, the packed mountain-top church in word luceat (“let it shine”). Campra’s the year. We have been thinking about the Abbey of Santa Maria de Montserrat, Requiem continues to move effortlessly what a domus orationis is, considering that and even including a “guerilla” anthem back and forth between slow, thoughtful our oratio is not just narrowly defined performed atop the Sagrada Família. measures and the exuberant dances. Of all “prayer”, but the heartfelt cry of human Our winter tour took us to Paris in requiems, this hidden gem focuses most life. As always, music has played a key December, where we sang a concert on bringing comfort and hope to those role in the chapel’s ministry of expressing for the Collège Franco-Britannique in who mourn. Our live recording of the the otherwise inexpressible, in joy and in the Cité internationale universitaire de Requiem can be listened to online at bit.ly/ sorrow. Yet in the in-between times, the Paris, and at the Sunday evening service camprarequiem. chapel has played the timeless part of at the American Cathedral just off the Once again on 20 November, the The final of Trinity sacred space and place apart, where many Champs-Élysées. We shall be off to Rome chapel hosted Oxford’s term 2014 members of our college community have in July. These twice-a-year tours have Day of Remembrance. Led by the trans come to find the restful in a restless world. proved valuable for bringing the choir reps of the University LGBTQ Society, Our visiting preachers this year have closer together (which never fails but to this secular service, to remember trans Ed Whitehead conducts included Professor Werner Jeanrond, the people around the world who have died Campra’s Requiem incoming Master of St Benet’s Hall, and as a result of , was attended author of A Theology of Love; Rabbi Michael by many of Oxford’s trans community and Rosenfeld-Schueler, the new Jewish Our live recording their friends. Chaplain in Oxford, preaching at our This year’s Shrove Tuesday Pancake increasingly popular Interfaith Sunday; of the Requiem can be Race Cup was claimed in a photo- Mother Nicola Stanley, my colleague at All listened to online finish by the college’s newest, and most Hallows’ Twickenham before my arrival at eponymous, junior dean, Andrew Dean, Hertford, who had just been announced with a good number of spectators lining appointed as Canon Precentor of Bristol

44 Hertford College Magazine Hertford College Magazine 45 HERTFORD YEAR HERTFORD YEAR The Library Bursar’s letter the Old Quad, including a happily amused congratulated for their work in setting up visiting school group. The Library what was a very successful event. In college, Bursar’s letter At the end of Trinity term, the choir efforts continue to make appropriate use performed the première of Magnum Dr Oliver Noble of our own antiquarian collection. Some James Lazarus mysterium, composed by Dan Lewis (2012). of Hertford’s bibliographic treasures This was the text given as a commission Wood (Fellow have been exhibited at recent gaudies, he Bursar’s role requires a certain by Hertford alumnus Robert Miller (2011), Librarian) freshers’ parents’ lunches, and gatherings degree of dexterity. I need to be in memory of his daughter, Elizabeth, who of the society. The Tcomfortable discussing property issues, HR, business development, drains was killed in a car accident. The text, the his year has seen two important new heritage volunteers from the National incipit of which is O magnum mysterium Association of Decorative & Fine and guttering, leaks, car parking, not arrivals. In Michaelmas, Alice Nelson to mention dozens of student related et admirabile sacramentum (“O great (now Alice Roques) joined Hertford Arts Societies (NADFAS) continue to mystery and wonderful sacrament!”), is T make an invaluable contribution to the enquiries. A typical day usually has all of from the Bodleian History Faculty Library from the ancient matins responsory for conservation of the books. This year, they these merging together. It is never dull, to take up the post of college librarian, but it can be quite a challenge to master Christmas. In the darkness of an early hot on the heels of Rob Petre, the new have introduced a number of new skills Christmas morning, the song goes up: and practices (notably, bespoke boxing so many concurrent challenges. assistant archivist. Despite starting in The college has had another year of “It’s a mystery, something wonderful”. freshers’ week, Alice hit the ground and book shoes), and we remain indebted Although not Christmas, there remains to the whole team for their generosity strong financial performance with a running, quickly establishing herself as healthy surplus and our endowment something a little mysterious and dare I a superb successor to both Susan Griffin in terms of both time and expertise. say it miraculous about the end of term For donations to the collection, we are continues to gain from rising markets. and Alice’s immediate predecessor Kirsty We plan on using this strength to make a too. The compression of so much life and Taylor, now head of library & information grateful to Dr John Trevor Hughes for a work, joy and sorrow, into three eight- nineteenth-century set of Anthony Wood’s measured investment in improving our IT services at Green Templeton College. capability and also investing in our estate, week terms has something of Doctor Ably assisted by both this year’s junior Athenae Oxonienses, and to an anonymous Who’s Tardis about it! librarians (Alex Brooks (2010), Aoife donor for a contribution towards the The end of this academic year is marked Dudley (2012), and Claire Wilkinson costs of specialist conservation (now by two important people in the life of (2009)) and the graduate library assistant underway) in honour of the late Philip the chapel moving on from Oxford. Ed (Kateryna Pylypenko (2013)), Alice has Chadwick. Finally, thanks also go to Whitehead leaves us to take up an MMus worked closely with both students and Kateryna Pylypenko, who has recently and repetiteur scholarship in the Opera subject tutors to ensure that the teaching begun the unenviable task of digitising Department of the Guildhall School of collection remains up to date and that the antiquarian catalogue. Music and Drama. We wish him the best library users are in a position to make the For welcome donations to the main in his flourishing musical career. Nick most of the various resources, physical teaching collection, the library is also Graham (2012) takes over the mantle and electronic, currently on offer. For grateful to Daniel Domberger, India of chapel music, so we are in the best his part, Rob has been single-handedly Dowler, Paul Dryden, Dr Hilliard, Haran of hands. The other departure is that of responsible for the transformation of the Jackson, Julu Katticaran, Nicole Kreutter, Dr Vicky Arnold (2002), long-serving college archives. Once little more than a Philippa Masters, Professor Macmillan, member of the alto section of the choir glorified dumping ground, the basement Nick Mayhew Smith, Dr Noble Wood, and chapel warden. We wish her all the of OB5 is now an ordered and easily Remington Norman, Dr Smith, Professor best as she continues her research work in navigable home to the college’s historic Solymar, Alexander Stronell, Vera Wriedt, Russia; Vicky will be deeply missed in the documents. Hubert Zawadzki, and Dr Zubek. Last, but life of the chapel. In April the college worked in by no means least, we would like to thank The chapel continues to make its collaboration with the Mayer Brown LLP for their Law textbook online presence felt with its popular to put on a free one-day exhibition of sponsorship—this year’s students are page (www.facebook.com/ manuscript and print works by John the first to benefit from the firm’s very hertfordchapel), its twitter feed (www. Donne (to coincide with the lecture now generous support, both financial and twitter.com/hertfordchapel) and the held annually in the poet’s ). Entitled academic. repository of recordings of music John Donne: Creative Life and Legacy, the and sermons on soundcloud (www. display was co-curated by the Librarian soundcloud.com/hertford-college- and Alice Rhodes, a final year English Jane Preedy at her retirement chapel). student at Hertford. They are both to be party with Professor Pat Roche

46 Hertford College Magazine Hertford College Magazine 47 HERTFORD YEAR HERTFORD YEAR Bursar’s letter Development Office news where we must undertake much needed requirements of their role) to make the repairs and refurbishment. lives of academics and students smooth I would like to pay tribute to a number and enjoyable. I am also very proud of the of new members of the team who have way that our team look after each other: made a fantastic start. In particular, there is a huge sense of loyalty both to the Karen Smith has made a huge impact college and to each other. as Domestic Manager working with The college has many long-serving the wonderful army of scouts who keep employees. This year we celebrated with the place tidy and clean and who are the incomparable Kenny Lewis, who well used to performing when arrived at Hertford 35 years ago to work circumstances demand. under our similarly long-serving butler Andrew Hemingway and Caroline Rice Richard Houlder. We also saluted 20 years’ have long been part of our International service from Jane Preedy, a mainstay of the Programmes team, but this year took bursary for many years, who has managed over its leadership after Julie Dearden our accommodations immaculately left to work elsewhere in the university. and more recently made an invaluable Whilst we all miss Julie, Andrew and contribution to admissions. Sadly, as I Caroline have led the team with great write Jane is on the brink of retirement. skill and commitment. All their colleagues We shall miss her very much indeed for have also made major contributions her faultless commitment to the college and as I write there is every chance that but wish her a life of blissful leisure in her this will be a record year for IP. We are retirement. also delighted with our new head chef I very much enjoy spending time with Frankie Perry, who arrived in Hertford students and not just those with financial only a few years ago as sous-chef. Frankie problems. I have also valued getting to won an intense competition against know the JCR and MCR Executives who many external competitors following the do an outstanding job on behalf of their departure of Eamonn Bennett. We all members. We are all looking forward with enjoy the fruits of her considerable talents great anticipation (and a little trepidation) together with those of Felicity Lavis, her to the first Student Ball on the Catte Street newly appointed deputy. Finally, our site for many years. It is also a particular new librarian Alice Roques has made a joy to see so many students emerging remarkably assured start and has already from their revision to laze about on the introduced a number of improvements. lawn over the last few sunny weeks. Much of the success of our Bridge There is always a buzz about Hertford. Centenary celebration in September was Anyone watching our resident advisors down to our hardworking staff, and the (Hertford undergraduates whom we whole college had its own party later on employ during the vacations to help out in the New Year – a memorable event with IP) teaching a group of international where 200 staff and partners, together students to do a backward somersault can with many fellows, danced the night away. only enjoy the moment, as the challenge There were even rumours that the bursar comfortably crosses all language barriers was dragged onto the dance floor. I am and leaves all participants and bystanders Development Office hugely indebted to many members of staff with huge smiles. Having now completed who make the college such an admirable a full academic year in post I think I have news community. Our kitchens and catering, a better sense of the challenge ahead. It Julia Thaxton, Director our maintenance, scouts, IT, librarian is considerable, but the college is in good and others include exceptional people, heart and I believe we can face the future of Development who work hard (often beyond the formal with great confidence.

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s this magazine lands on your fellow in Biochemistry, gave us an insight doormat, it will be approaching into developmental genetics, and Dr Aa year since I first arrived at Jamie Lorimer, fellow in Geography, Hertford in January 2014. In preparation looked at the human impact on western for Day One, I asked sources in Oxford environmentalism. Over 300 guests their opinion of the college. “Friendly” attended the day of celebrations, which was usually the first word to come up; also included a lecture on the Bridge “unpretentious” was another frequently itself, a discussion between Mary Curnock heard. As I settled in to the Development Cook OBE (chief executive of UCAS) and Office I continued my survey, canvassing Sir Peter Lampl (chairman of the Sutton the opinion of alumni, Fellows and Trust), and the Principal’s presentation current students. What I found was a of Hertford’s strategy for the future. We great sense of pride in Hertford’s role in were also treated to two exclusive film pushing the access agenda when such a premieres: Atlantic Production’s film thing did not yet exist. A pride in having about Hertford (you can see it at vimeo. been one of the first colleges to admit com/84691113), generously made possible women – although contemporaries were by Anthony Geffen who was taught at the first to say that not all of those early Hertford by Professor Andrew Goudie, women had enjoyed a positive experience. as well as a promotional film for the bike (The main concession seems to have been ride by third year undergraduate Roland the provision of full-length mirrors for Walters (vimeo.com/75776798). the ladies in question…). But throughout There were other opportunities to these stories, the overwhelming majority invite alumni back to Oxford over the felt that Hertford was still a place that course of the year: as well as gaudies for truly cared about its’ students and that put matriculation years 1994-1995 and 1974- their interests first. 1976, the Gilbert Club hosted geography And it’s true that our students are alumni for a lively dinner in September, the best ambassadors the college could and biologists were invited back to the hope for. At Development events, alumni Darwin dinner in April to meet current have consistently commented on the fire students. William Charnley, partner of and enthusiasm of the undergraduates King & Spalding law firm, held a dinner they’ve met, and the bike ride this for students to meet law alumni and non- summer was a welcome opportunity for law alumni now working in that field. students and alumni to strike up a deeper Away from the academic focus, we held a acquaintance as they endured hundreds buffet lunch and Pimms by the boathouse of miles of challenging terrain across three for Eights Week, and celebrated the countries. women’s boat finishing 11th in Division I We kicked off the 2013-14 academic and the men’s 1st place in Division II. The year with an international event: the Warnock Society lunch, our celebration Principal’s visit to San Francisco, where to thank those who have left a legacy we held a discussion for alumni and to the college, was our largest yet and guests on the economic outlook for attendees also had the opportunity to see and its impact on the US at the an exhibition of antiquarian books in the Presidio Golf Club. This economic focus Old Library. was echoed in the academic programme Much as we would like to think of the Bridge centenary celebrations later otherwise, we know that Oxford is not the that month: Dr Radoslaw Zubek, Politics world’s epicentre, and so the Development fellow at Hertford, spoke about Europe Office set out beyond the dreaming spires, and the EU, while Dr Alison Woollard, with the help of an international network Fellows and alumni enjoying an event in college

50 Hertford College Magazine Hertford College Magazine 51 HERTFORD REPORT HERTFORD REPORT Development Office news Development Office news of alumni. In London we were hosted grand unveiling of the new portraiture had the highest number of donations that resonate with them, or to choose a by Graham Neale (1994) at Killick & Co exhibition in Hall: see our interview with at 131, raising over £5,300. We are broad area to support, knowing that all for Herts of Gold, Rodney Baker-Bates the photographer, Robert Parker, above. enormously grateful to all of our cyclists donations will be used for this purpose. (1963) at Willis for Women in the Arts Gaudy attendees had an exclusive preview, and support team for their tireless More information will follow in the and Sean Nesbitt (1984) at Taylor Wessing before the exhibition was opened up to efforts, and to all those who donated in months to come, and we hope that the for London Drinks. Internationally too, alumni and their guests the following day, support. The funds raised will make a wider Hertford community will feel Rob Lusardi (1975) and Sabina Wu and the celebration will continue with a huge difference to our ability to provide more closely connected to the college generously welcomed alumni in New Women’s Gaudy in January 2015. financial support for all who need it. as our development activities gather York to a fabulous reception overlooking The landmark event of 2013-14 was the 2014 was a milestone year for momentum. Central Park, and we are equally grateful Bridge to Bridge Oxford to Venice bike fundraising. As well as the bike ride, In total we raised £739,000 in 2013-14, to Dennis Bonney (1951) for hosting us at ride. The idea for this came from Hertford Hertford finished the funding of the and received gifts from over 400 donors. the Presidio reception in San Francisco. alumnus Terry Hughes (1982), who sadly Ellis Barnard History Fellowship, and A significant contribution came from On the other side of the world, we must died in October. Terry had long supported endowed the college’s share of teaching Otsuma University in Japan: Otsuma have extend thanks to Bill Jamieson (1976) for Hertford bursaries and the boat club, and for the Roger Van Noorden Economics been sending students to Hertford since hosting us in Singapore and to Anthony dreamt up the plan as an innovative way Fellowship. This brings us to a natural 2004, and strengthened their relationship Vasey (1996) in . We could not to fundraise for the college and a means point of reflection as we consider the with the college with the naming of a hold these events without the support of bringing together students with alumni path ahead for college fundraising. Our room in the Graduate Centre. The room of our alumni, and we are enormously for a shared adventure. Terry’s widow, future campaigns will be grouped within has been called the Kotaka Room, after grateful to all involved. (If others reading Maria, who cycled the full distance in his the key areas of college activity, namely Kotaka Otsuma who was the founder of this are willing to host an event at their place, oversaw the creation of a unique student support, teaching and research, the university and a pioneer of women’s home or place of work, do get in touch poster for the bike ride: designed by the and college life (encompassing buildings education in Japan. We were delighted to with the Development Office). artist Paul Cox, known for his illustrations and facilities as well as non-academic see familiar faces at events and make new 2014 marks 40 years since women of PG Wodehouse and cartoons in the activities). Within each of these areas, acquaintances over the course of the year were first admitted to co-educational Telegraph, it is available for purchase our friends and alumni will have the (over 1,200 alumni and friends attended Colleges, including Hertford. The through the Development Office, and all opportunity to support specific projects our 19 Hertford events) and we continue University co-ordinated a series of events funds will go towards student support. in collaboration with those first five There were a wide range of fundraising Colleges, with Hertford hosting a panel events in support of the bike ride: at the debate with five women working in the Herts of Gold event in London, we were Representatives from Hertford arts sector: Observer columnist Catherine joined by an exceptional line-up of guest College and Otsuma University Bennett (1975), Kerensa Jennings (1989) speakers including actor Hugh Grant, who is Head of Strategic Delivery for the Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, COO BBC, theatre director Robin Norton-Hale of the Charlotte Hogg (1999), Liz Forgan, who is former Chair of (1988), and former Home Secretary Jacqui the Arts Council England and St Hugh’s Smith (1981). Hugh Grant donated tickets alumna, and our own Fellow in English, to the premiere of his latest film,The Man Emma Smith. The panel discussed a range From U.N.C.L.E, sparking an impromptu of issues both specific to the arts and auction, and the evening raised over more general to women’s experiences £6,000 towards the bike ride. The students in the workplace, and all four panellists held their own bike ride fundraising agreed that women and men must work events too, including a cake sale and together to change the prevailing culture raffle. Most ambitiously, a bike-powered and that women should be self-assured in smoothie maker was installed outside the promoting themselves and their abilities. main gate, selling banana and ice cream The full celebration of co-education smoothies to all who passed by. officially begins in the 2014-15 academic Overall the bike ride raised an year, and we welcomed back the first overwhelming £339,000. Our star three co-educated years to their gaudy fundraisers were Maria Hughes, who in September. This coincided with the raised £39,000, and Sam Tomlinson who

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Josh Platt, JCR officer, Evie Howorth (2012), we have put Club are going on their first tour in many Already we are looking forward to 2014- President together a new “Alternative Prospectus”. years, and the team will travel to Budapest 15: the continuation of our co-education This booklet answers all the questions that to play three against Hungarian celebrations, and the anniversary of Neil prospective students so often don’t get the opposition in June and July. Tanner’s first efforts to open up the college chance to ask, amidst all the information It is not just trips to Europe that the to students from comprehensives and about entry requirements and course JCR still has to look forward to. The event schools all over the UK. We will structure: like, how good is Hertford’s that everyone has been waiting for, the be celebrating Neil’s contribution with bar? What opportunities are there for Bridge of Sighs Commemoration Ball, a special day on 5 September 2015 – we newcomers at Hertford to play sport? And takes place in October. With tickets selling hope to see you then, if not before. And what does the JCR committee actually out in hours, a theme chosen (Venetian as I write this letter, I can confirm that do? We hope the answers to all these masquerade ball), a headline act in place not only have I found Hertford to be as questions will be enough to convince the and the promise of many more surprises friendly and unpretentious as promised, next generation of Hertfordians that this on the night, the JCR is extremely excited but also an energetic and dynamic is a wonderful place to live and work. about what will certainly be an event that community that is committed to providing In sport, Hertford has had another great will be remembered for a very long time. the best opportunities and support for year. We have excelled in college sport: the As well as that, improvements to the JCR students across the social spectrum and men’s football team have been promoted are also on the agenda. With a brand to driving the advancement of education to Division 2, while the rugby team new Playstation 4 already giving many and knowledge. We are looking forward reached the quarter final of cuppers. The students a lot of pleasure, our Food and to an exciting era ahead. Housing Officer, Joy Aston (2012), has As well as those mentioned above, he past year has been another plans afoot for a renovation project for the thank you to all those who have helped successful and productive one for start of the 2014-15 academic year. the Development Office throughout the the JCR. The new exec, chosen in There is one particular thing the JCR year: T has done in the last year which I am Michaelmas, faced the mammoth task of the JCR has Alumni members of Development following in the footsteps of the previous especially proud of. In Hilary term, the Committee: Julie Bradshaw (1979), committee, but we have done our best to pushed for academic JCR agreed to double its charity budget, Sherard Cowper-Coles (1973), Stephen further the work they did, and introduce vacation rent to to £1,600 a term. This makes us one of Massey (1976), Carol Sennett (1982), a number of our own projects and ideas the most generous JCRs (perhaps the Robert Seymour (1985), Sam Tomlinson as well. be extended to most) in Oxford, and it has allowed us to (1994), Roger Wheeler (1961). Our academic affairs rep, Alice Grout- support a number of wonderful causes. Student development assistants: Rhys Smith (2012) has been working extremely international students, These include fundraising for our very Owens, Nic Patni, Leoma Williams hard to get feedback from students so now every one own Henry Chan (2013), who is climbing Student telethon callers: Solenn studying all range of subjects, from history Kilimanjaro for RAG later this year, and Gueganton, Ryan Nabil, Rebecca Stevens, and politics, to maths and physics. For the of our members, no Sarah Bevan (2011), who is taking on Ayla Ansari, Elizabeth English, Luke first time, she also held a feedback session Tough Mudder to raise money for Oxford Gbedemah, Florence Kettle, Rebecca with visiting students, and the JCR is matter where they based charity, Student Minds. Grant, Marianne O’Connor, Laura Neild, extremely keen that students who come The past year shows just what an Harriet Rose-Noons, Johanne Fernandes, to Oxford for their year abroad feel part of come from, can inspiring community the Hertford JCR is. Megan Park, James Manwaring, Archie the Hertford community. Additionally, the benefit from Hertford’s I’m extremely proud to have been elected Jones, Hettie Davies, Francis Martin, JCR has pushed for academic vacation rent as President for such a fantastic group of Rebecca Grant, Marianne O’Connor, to be extended to international students, extremely generous people, and I am sure that next year, my Helen Carswell. so now every one of our members, no successor will be saying exactly the same matter where they come from, can benefit provision thing, as the JCR continues to go from from Hertford’s extremely generous strength to strength.

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will be continuing next year), allowing Clockwise from top left (2010), Jamie Tong (assistant SCR butler), Jack us to supply kit for the men’s rugby and Shirley (bar supervisor), (bottom) Alex Wilson (2012), JCR Sport Naomi Vides Tom Adams (2011), Hugh Baker (2011; captain), football teams as well as generic Hertford George Cochrane (2011) Naomi Vides, JCR sports tops available for the whole JCR, to Hertford (join with Oriel and Worcester’s) ultimate frisbee team identify all of us representing Hertford. The university swim team, last year captained to sports officer The men’s rugby team embarked on an The women’s first crew retained their place in top varsity victory by James Jurkiewicz (2nd from right bottom row), and this year captained to varsity adventure to Mongolia last summer for a division in summer eights ertford College sport has gone victory by Naomi Vides (3rd from right bottom row), rugby tour (with matches broadcast live The mixed netball team at cuppers (L-R) (top) with Jack Marriott (far right) being named swimmer from strength to strength this on Mongolian national television), and Sophia Lowes, Joe Prince, Julian Ashwin, ??, of the meet with a 100m butterfly Varsity record year, from mass participation Aoife Dudley, (bottom) Helen Strain, Rebecca Carr, H back in Britain men and women have Adrianna Kawecka-Billam in cuppers and college-level sport, to been getting involved in our touch rugby involvement in varsity wins and higher- team, competing in a university-wide This year’s Hertford College cricket team level competition. The college gym is Jack Marriott league every Saturday. Hertford’s touch rugby team: (L-R) (top) George being made the most of as always, with Summerton, , Harry Sturgess, Simran (2008), in his final new flooring, an in-progress aerobics The netball, hockey, and football Dhillon, Toby Chelton, Freddy Bouttell (bottom) Joe room, and the constant addition of Prince (all 2013), Lewis McCormack (2012; captain), , teams have all had good seasons with Rachel Turner (2011; captain), Lizzie Nuttall (2013) new equipment. Zumba classes have lots of new members joining, and strong was triumphantly continued and yoga classes have been performances in both cuppers and the The men’s first rowing crew added, meaning there are opportunities league. The cricket team have managed named swimmer of for everyone to keep fit right on their Araminta Naylor (3rd from left, back row), after to win every game they have played and winning the Blues varsity lacrosse match doorstep. We were very lucky to receive should be promoted if they win their last the meet sponsorship from Deutsche Bank (which Hertford’s darts team on the way to the cuppers final (L-R) (top) Chris Hughes (2011), Andy Turner 56 Hertford College Magazine Hertford College Magazine 57 HERTFORD REPORT HERTFORD REPORT The Middle Common Room The Middle Common Room game! Many smaller teams are also on Harry Jackson (2010) and Alex Monk to resolve a number of issues jointly, the up: Hertford ultimate frisbee (joint (2011) play in the U21’s varsity Match, and an improvement on previous years. I with Oriel and Worcester) came sixth in Hannah Winfield (2011) in the Women’s hope this cooperation will continue and cuppers, climbing six places from last year. varsity Match. With the university become more institutionalised as the The darts team have also had astounding swimming team captained last year to years go by in order to create a more success this year: they topped division varsity victory by James Jurkiewicz (2010), coherent community in college. 2 (having been promoted from division and this year by Naomi Vides (2012), When looking forward, one of the 3, with the team being formed only last Hertford also shone in the water. Jack more important issues facing the college year) and are now strong favourites to win Marriott (2008), in his final varsity match, and directly impacting the MCR is the the cuppers final. was triumphantly named swimmer of the foundational work being done in college The boat club have suffered a somewhat meet with a 100m butterfly varsity record. planning the Hertford Graduate School. frustrating year, with an entire term Many thanks go to the groundskeepers A project that could potentially redefine of rowing thrown out due to adverse at Hertford Sports Ground, and everyone what graduate studies at Hertford entails, weather. Nevertheless, crews were sent who has given up their time to contribute it has gone from being a mere idea, a out for both the men’s and women’s to Hertford sport on whatever level. A concept if you will, to having a more eights head races on the Tideway in special thanks to those leaving this year, formalised structure in place. The MCR March, the Chiswick regatta (which saw as well as the captains and those on student body has had a pivotal role in M1 race in the final of the 8+ IM3 event), committees, and finally to Dawn Drean, achieving this due to the high level of Worcester regatta, and South England last year’s JCR sports officer, whose act has participation in the graduate student Indoor Rowing Championships. Training been a tough one to follow. I have been survey, which mapped out the real needs culminated in a very eventful summer massively impressed at the participation include activities such as themed dinners, and thoughts of Hertford graduates. Our VIIIs: W1 remained in the thick of division and standard of sport at Hertford, and bops, college exchanges, poetry evenings, student focus groups have also enabled 1, and despite M1 suffering a late crew I look forward to seeing our further academic soirées, foraging trips, and music the college to hear the specific views of shake-up due to injury, both men’s boats successes in the year to come. events. In general, the Hertford MCR has the MCR members. toughed it out, M2 claiming a spectacular gained a reputation, amongst other college I would like to thank all the MCR bump in front of the boathouse. MCRs, as being exceptionally vibrant. I members who have made this year so With varsity matches being held in would particularly like to note that the special and memorable. I also wish all the Oxford this year, Hertford contributed The Middle Port and Cheese Exchanges initiative has best for the incoming President, Mustak to many a home victory. A motion was Common Room become institutionalised in several MCRs Ibn Ayub (2012). Finally, it is with a sad passed through the JCR to double the and due to this we have forged closer ties heart that the MCR parts from those of money available to reimburse university- Robert Carlsson, MCR with a number of colleges which hopefully you leaving us. We all wish you the best of level sports players for their expenses, to will become a long lasting tradition. luck in your future endeavours and hope help facilitate even more involvement in President Furthermore, the Academic Soirées have that you come back to visit us soon: you the future. maintained and surpassed the standard will be greatly missed. Hertford freshers have been very active t has been a year of transformation and set last year, and one of the soirées was in university sports. Amongst others: transition for the MCR. Our physical combined with the college-wide “Bridges Emily Stone (2013; athletics), Bramwell Ispace in college has undergone Photo Competition” to great success. The Blower (2013; yachting), Rebecca May significant change in the course of an winning photographs will be permanently In general, the (2013; women’s football), Jack Templeman ambitious refurbishment programme displayed in the newly refurbished Boyd (2013; lacrosse) and Holly Redford-Jones which has encompassed the MCR Room. Hertford MCR has (2013; water polo) all competed in their staircase, the Octagon, and the Waugh, This year’s MCR community has been varsity matches. Lacrosse in particular Computer, and Old Post rooms. This enriched by the active participation of gained a reputation, saw a strong Hertford presence, with has been a massive undertaking – both fourth year undergraduates, visiting amongst other Araminta Naylor (2012), Christopher financially and timewise – and hopefully students, associate members, and Needham (2010), Dawn Drean (2011) the outcome will benefit many student partners of current students (who are college MCRs, as and Amber Westerholm-Smyth (2012) all generations to come. now automatic associate members). featuring. Owing to the hard work by committee Additionally, our communication and being exceptionally Another strong year for rugby saw Will members, our programme of events cooperation with the JCR and SCR have vibrant Dace (2011), Harry Wetherald (2012), expanded and diversified this term to improved and we have worked together

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Mood. The band is now well established Music thanks to the direction of Tim Hosgood Subjects and (2012). In addition to a well-received Marianne Clemence, evening of jazz down the bar, the band research provided the music for our annual jazz and HCMS President cocktails event, which took place in the Archaeology and Anthropology Octagon in Hilary. Students danced the Professor Nick Barton writes: night away, whilst indulging in delicious Fieldwork forms an important component cocktails devised by social secretary Dan of the Archaeology and Anthropology Lewis (2012). degree. All students on the course take The Hilary term concert was another part in a two-week training excavation run great success, starting with three suites of The orchestra in Holywell Music Room by members of the School of Archaeology, late romantic dances from the orchestra, and this is followed by at least three for which we were excited to be joined through a variety of pieces, including a further weeks of fieldwork, which by Hannah Parker (2013) on the . beautiful arrangement of Amazing Grace gives them the chance to participate in The jazz band also put on another top and an energetic medley of tunes from other archaeological or anthropological performance, including Strayhorn’s Take the popular musical Hairspray. The jazz projects. Over last summer our Hertford the “A” Train. The wind band’s programme band, now under the direction of George first year students pursued archaeological featured pieces from around the world, Beechener of Brasenose College played excavations in locations ranging from with an arrangement of Lecuona’s another great set including Their Man Israel, Malta and France, as well as the Magaluena and Yagisawa’s Singapore Flier, From Havana, penned by our very own Scottish borders. Meanwhile several of and finishing with a heartfelt performance Tim Hosgood. The orchestra closed the our second year students engaged in of selections from Les Miserables to end evening with a rousing performance of interesting study trips linked with their Tom Fleming’s (2011) reign as conductor. MacCunn’s Land of the Mountain and dissertation topics which took them to Also in Hilary, the Hertford Bruckner the Flood, conjuring lyrical images of the locations as diverse as the of orchestra, conducted by Dr Paul Coones, Scottish landscape. National Antiquities in St Germain-en- he music society has had another put on an impressive concert featuring Music in chapel continues to thrive Laye, Paris and Salisbury Museum in fantastic year and continues to Bruckner’s overture in G Minor, Wagner’s as well. Led by senior organ scholar Ed Wiltshire. Tuphold its reputation as one of Good Friday Music and an energetic Whitehead (2011), the chapel choir has In terms of my own research, this year I Oxford’s largest and most active college performance of Beethoven’s seventh grown to its biggest size in recent times, completed a major stage in the Cemeteries music societies. Our first public event . regularly numbering 25 at its weekly and Sedentism in North Africa Project that of the year was the ever popular Carols Despite it being exam term, our evensong services, even during Trinity. It I have been directing over the last three in the Quad. Now in its third year, the musicians were no less enthusiastic in has performed some very exciting works years. One of the major objectives of this wind band and choir event once again preparing for our concert in the fifth this year, such as Campra’s little-known Leverhulme funded project has been to delighted Hertford students and passers- week of Trinity. The new wind band requiem. Choristers had a fantastic time consider the social and economic patterns by alike. Sales of mince pies and mulled conductor Aoife Dudley (2012) guided it touring in Paris during the Christmas of Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers wine raised over £250 for the Stroke vacation, and Rome over the summer. which seem to have shifted quite radically Association. Soon after, the Michaelmas Weekly lunchtime recitals in chapel also term concert opened with the wind band’s remain popular, with talented students uplifting performance of Hazo’s In Flight, from across the university, including followed by a suitably festive set. The ten Hertfordians, giving relaxing concert also saw exciting repertoire from performances throughout term-time. This surprising the orchestra under the now seasoned As always, everyone has put a lot of discovery contradicts baton of Nick Graham (2012). A particular time and dedication into rehearsals, and highlight was a rendition of Ginastera’s the continued success of the society is conventional ideas Dances from Estancia. Though rhythmically testament to all their hard work. Whilst demanding, Nick kept control and the we will be sorry to see some members about the teeth of orchestra sounded brilliant. leaving, notably former president Ellie The jazz band returned in Michaelmas Sims (2011), we look forward to an equally hunter-gatherers to perform classics such as Miller’s In the Jazz band terrific year of music in 2014-15!

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Photo: Isabelle for the Principal’s Dinner (for freshers), (Alison, talking about her experiences immediate consequences of this change De Groote the Schools Dinner at the end or the of the Christmas lectures) and we shall in lifestyle seems to have been a rapid course, and the Darwin Dinner, now do the same for the 2015 Darwin dinner deterioration in dental indicated firmly established as an annual event in which, since it will be held in 40th year by a spectacular rise in dental caries. At Hilary term, around the time of Darwin’s since women were admitted to Hertford, one of our key sites, a cave cemetery at birthday on 12 February. will emphasize women’s careers in the Taforalt in Morocco, over 51% of the adult Appropriately, the Darwin dinner Life Sciences. We look forward to seeing teeth display severe signs of dental decay. underwent a major evolutionary transition many of you there (and promise more This surprising discovery contradicts this year. Inaugurated in Darwin’s bi- seamless organization!) conventional ideas about the teeth of centenary year of 2009, as an event for It was anything but a quiet year for hunter-gatherers; the dental evidence current students and faculty, it has since Biochemistry. Undergraduates were suggests levels of decay comparable to expanded, with an increasing number abandoned for most of Michaelmas some modern industrialized populations of recent graduates still living in Oxford term while Alison went off to the Royal in which refined sugars and processed attending. This year we decided to expand Institution to make the Christmas cereals play important roles in the diet. the event further by moving into the Hall Lectures, televised between Christmas What were the contributory factors in and inviting all recent “Life Sciences” and New Year on BBC Four. Of course, the the decline in dental health? Although spring and autumn, both pine nuts and graduates to attend, wherever they are students thrived in Alison’s absence, but not all of the studies are yet complete, acorns could have been stored, enabling now based, enabling them to meet current now seem to think that all her teaching we are fairly certain that there is a close occupation through the winter. Other undergraduates and post-graduates. We should be pepped up with some big link between changes in the diet and the indicators, including the presence of the feel that our recent alumni offer current demonstrations, live animals, interactive condition of the teeth. We can show for cemetery, suggest that people seldom students unique insights: sharing post- games and the like…. Keeping things example that in addition to hunting wild moved very far from the cave. All the Hertford stories and inspiring them with in the “family”, Martin took over Alison’s Barbary sheep there was a sharp increase evidence seems to point toward an their exciting career choices, activities and duties as Dean for Michaelmas term, in the human consumption of certain plant intensification of activity involving more experiences. Our larger dinner this year which proved to be an informative foods, including those rich in fermentable prolonged occupation periods involving was also an opportunity for them to catch experience! Hilary term saw life getting carbohydrates. Macrobotanical remains large groups of people. This is especially up with each other. Many former students back to “normal” (for Hertford). from the occupation deposits dated interesting given that the development came from around the country and TV appearances and dinners aside, between 15,000 and 13,700 cal BP provide of more sedentary behaviour is normally there were a number of “college family” academic business has proceeded on its evidence for systematic harvesting and associated with food producing societies reunions involving college parents, grand- usual path: tutors continue to publish processing of edible wild plants, including in the Neolithic, which in Morocco did parents and even great-grand parents their work, attend numerous international acorns and pine nuts. The sweet acorns not take place until many thousands of (was there one great-great-grand parent?) conferences and workshops and generally come from the Holm oak and can be years later. The evening was an enormous success – fly the flag for their particular field. Our eaten as a raw food or turned into flour the Hall was buzzing with conversation student biochemists have completed as is known ethnographically. It is also and laughter long after our own “late original and exciting research projects, known that processing and cooking of Biochemistry and Biological passes” had expired. The event even (just) ranging from structural studies of starchy foods to improve digestibility Sciences survived us taking responsibility for the host-pathogen interactions, through increases their stickiness and reduces Dr Alison Woollard and Professor Martin food clearance in the oral cavity, providing Maiden write: an ideal environment for acid tolerant Each of us is sole fellow in her/his bacteria. Equally, other plants such as subject, and ever since Martin joined the the destinations of this year’s finalists wild pulses and wild oats seem to have college in 2004 we have worked together contributed to the high prevalence of with Clive Hambler (Tutor for Human range from University to study caries in the Taforalt populations. Sciences) in a “Life Sciences Family” One other factor worth considering subject grouping. One of the interesting veterinary medicine, through the UK public is that although most of the plant foods elements of this arrangement is that it heath service, to the Kalahari Desert from the archaeological levels must includes students studying in three of have been collected between the late the University’s four divisions. While we

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Arizona to visit one of Martin’s colleagues to gain laboratory work experience. As we write (in June) we are looking The current forward to Schools Dinner, which always puts us in reflective mode: time crop of chemists has to say goodbye to yet another cohort also proven to be a of wonderful, individual and inspiring young people as they embark on the next musical bunch chapter of their lives. But of course, we know it won’t be goodbye for long as the thread of our Hertford experience, uniting tourism on the side. Alex Brooks (2010) us in friendship and scholarship, links us has explored even further afield, working all together and weaves throughout our as an analyst for the Oxford Microfinance lives. We look forward to seeing you all Initiative, which helps to provide loans to again at the next Darwin Dinner. enable those with no collateral to open small businesses. Her work has focused on Malawi, and she will be visiting CHEMISTRY this coming summer on a staff training Dr Claire Vallance writes: exercise. Over the past year, Hertford’s chemists Within term time, Hertford’s chemists have been busy with a broad range of have supplemented their studies with academic and extracurricular activities. In a variety of both chemistry-related and addition to their degree studies, some of non-chemistry-related extra-curricular the more senior students have embarked activities. Ayla Ansari (2013) is Hertford’s on a variety of summer research projects representative for OUSU Environment in labs around the world. Eleanor Hall and Ethics and a member of Freshers’ (2010) has spent the past two summers in Committee, and Jakub Sowa has recently the Max Planck Institute in Mulheim an been president of the Oxford University Life Sciences Schools Dinner, June 2014: (L to R) diverse group, and the recent expansion der Ruhr, and is about to have her results Scientific Society. On the sporting front, Stephanie Jaczniakowska-McGirr; Aoife Duff; Andrea of numbers keeps Martin’s biological published in the Journal of the American Hertford’s chemists past and present are Kastner; Clive Hambler; Delia O’Rourke; Joanna education up-to-date with students in Chemical Society. Jakub Sowa (2011) putting in an excellent showing for the Leveson; Eleanor Sims; Maria Gravato-Nobre; Katie spent last summer working in the Physics Oxford to Venice Bridge to Bridge bike Lee; Martin Maiden; Henrietta Davies; Madison recent years presenting work to him Pearce; Anna Ringblom; Rachel Turner; Adam Wise; on everything from butterflies to giant Department of Humboldt University in ride, with Henry Fisher (2006), Jonathan Rebecca Stevens; Alison Woollard; Cook; clams, hydrothermal vents to hospitals, Berlin, in a project aimed at using optical Beckett (2007), David Heathcote (2012), Rhiannon Britt; Caroline Harold; Hannah Walters and horseshoe crabs to genomics. While properties to understand molecular and yours truly all taking part. David (photo: Stephanie Jaczniakowska-McGirr) most of last year’s graduates headed into switching behaviour in polymer thin and I even joined the Hertford Town and research of one type or another, at least films. Not content with limiting her Gown 10k team in an attempt to generate as a first port of call, the destinations of summer pursuits to state-of-the-art some early-season fitness for the event. computational modelling of protein this year’s finalists range from Liverpool research in chemistry or physics, Olivia Michael Kennedy (2011) has spent much dynamics to investigation of the biology University to study veterinary medicine, McDermott (2010) spent twelve weeks of his spare time as a football referee, and of centrosome assembly. What a bonus through the UK public heath service, to working in one of Australia’s top schools was one of the cup final officials for the to spend almost an entire academic year the Kalahari Desert. Projects undertaken as a participant in the Oxford University JCR cuppers final. doing real research! First years have by the second year biology students are International Internship Program, and The current crop of chemists has also survived the intensity and sheer hard also diverse, ranging geographically from was challenged with tasks ranging from proven to be a musical bunch. David work of their prelims year, second years Oxford to Panama to Singapore, with science communication and outreach Heathcote is leader of the Hertford have made the most of an exam-free year the occasional trip to Switzerland. The activities (including the ever-popular College orchestra, while a certain physical in Oxford (yay!) and third years – well, first year students have got in on the act liquid nitrogen ice cream) to writing chemistry tutor and senior member of third years have survived Part I finals. this year, with various summer activities a funding proposal for a $12 million the Hertford College music society, who Hertford biologists continue to be a planned and one venturing as far as building project, with some Sydney has not reached such lofty heights, is to be found scraping away in the viola

64 Hertford College Magazine Hertford College Magazine 65 HERTFORD REPORT HERTFORD REPORT Subjects and research Subjects and research section, having been demoted even Vienna Summer of (http://vsl2014. AI, informing governments and public from the second violins. Mike Laidlaw at), a major initiative by the Technical opinion about this new technology. The A number of (tutor in inorganic chemistry) is very University of Vienna to bring together summit resolved to build an international much enjoying getting to know his sleek logic researchers from across the academic AI society to achieve this, and I am on the our students played and shiny new Yamaha grand piano, spectrum, for an intense few weeks of team drafting proposals for public release and putting it through its paces with conferences, workshops, and other events. soon. Watch this space. a prominent role everything from Chaminade to Chopin. In February 2014, I was invited to New Within the college, in summer 2013 I in setting up the Eleanor Hall (2010) is now deputy editor York to attend a summit meeting on the joined Hertford’s Dean of Degrees team, of the music section of , “The Future of ”, who are responsible for presenting our highly successful and Jaymee Coonjobeeharry (2011) is organised by a collection of the main students in the to musical director of Oxford University scientific societies related to artificial receive their degrees. I confess I found Hertford Business and Jazz Orchestra and president of Oxford intelligence (AI). The meeting occurred the prospect rather daunting: apart from University Sinfonietta, and is taking his because there was a sense that these are anything else, it involves speaking Latin Economics Society, flute playing increasingly seriously with a boom times for AI: after nearly half a in front of a large audience, including which aims to forge view to a future professional career. century of research, AI techniques are now the Vice Chancellor (i.e., my employer). being routinely used in an astonishing Fortunately, superb training was provided relationships between array of applications. Obvious examples by Stephanie West, emeritus fellow in COMPUTER SCIENCE are automated translation systems such as classics at Hertford, and highly experienced Hertford and prominent Professor Michael Wooldridge writes: Google Translate, and the face recognition Dean of Degrees, and my five degree days businesses While my first year here was spent software that comes on many cameras over 2013-14 ultimately proved to be very essentially finding my way around and and phones. However, the dark side of enjoyable. (A word of advice, if you are trying to make sense of Oxford, my this success is that the same AI techniques ever called upon to do something similar: played a prominent role in setting up second year has really been research can be used to read and understand our use either medieval Latin pronunciation the highly successful Hertford Business focussed, and it has been a tremendously email, to track us on CCTV cameras, and or ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation, but and Economics Society, which aims to productive time for my group. In August for many other sinister purposes. There never, ever mix the two.) forge relationships between Hertford 2013, we travelled to to present was a consensus at the summit that AI and prominent businesses, while (as some key results at the International Joint researchers need to come together to take ECONOMICS the Principal notes in his letter at the Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the control of the international AI agenda, and Dr David Gill writes: start of this issue) our PPE student India main international venue for research in to act as a responsible and authoritative Once again, it was a busy year for Miller was awarded the Jools Award for my area. Scientifically the event was a public voice on matters relating to Economics at Hertford. I welcomed three Excellence in Student Journalism. tremendous success, although I am not new members to the teaching team: As well as teaching our fantastic sure I want to travel to Beijing in summer Damoun Ashournia joined Hertford from students, the team pursued a number of again: the combination of oppressive the University of Copenhagen as a four- interesting research projects. The focus is heat and frankly astonishing air pollution However, the year career development fellow; Richard very much on “behavioural” economics. made for a very tiring visit. dark side of this Povey, who holds a doctorate in Economics I collected and analysed experimental September through to April is the main from Oxford and has taught at a number data on how personality traits, such as period in which my group get our actual success is that the of other colleges, joined as a stipendiary agreeableness and emotional stability, research done. Sometimes, research college lecturer; and Rustu Duran joined affect how people behave and learn in feels like wading through treacle: when same AI techniques us as a departmental teaching associate. strategic settings. Richard Povey continued you get to the end of the month you are All three put in much hard work and will his important work on the evolutionary exhausted but feel you got nowhere. can be used to read be continuing with us next year. foundations of economic behaviour. In Other times, research feels like surfing a and understand our Our economics students continued order to understand better systematic wave, and results seem to come to you to perform to high standards and are biases in economic choices, Rustu Duran with almost no effort at all. I am pleased email, to track us on a joy to teach. We currently have more modelled how people focus on the to report that the past year has been very than forty students actively studying for attributes of products when they attempt much of the latter kind, and as we move CCTV cameras, and in Economics at Hertford, across to learn about their own preferences. into conference season (May-October), for many other sinister three schools: Philosophy, Politics and Finally, Damoun Ashournia continued to we have many results to present. One Economics; Economics and Management; study labour market phenomena using big event we will be attending is the purposes and Engineering, Economics and cutting-edge econometric techniques. Management. A number of our students

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ENGLISH described in terms which horrify us was the Alice Griffin Visiting Professor HUMAN SCIENCES Professor Charlotte Brewer writes: today). I’m developing this project over in Auckland, New Zealand, over the Clive Hambler writes: As senior tutor this year I’ve been delving the next few years, I hope, alongside my vacation where I worked on Happily, it’s been business as usual for deep into college administrative matters existing investigation of OED’s changing the significance of a fascinating Human Sciences. We’ve had another crop and done far less teaching, so we have record of linguistic creativity in literary donated to the library by the country’s of interesting finals dissertations (research been fortunate in securing two notably writers (Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen controversial colonial governor George projects). Our 2013 Finalists, Fiona able lecturers at the start of their careers: and others). I’ve lectured in Sarajevo Grey. A memorable weekend off involved Johnston and Louise Bartelt, worked on Rebecca Marsland (Dr Marsland since and Aix-en-Provence and most recently a visit to Jo Mills’ (neé Montagu, 1999) creativity and spirituality, and on attitudes February) who has taught our second delivered a research at a gathering wonderful vineyard at Rippon Valley: do to disability in . They learned years Middle English, and Dr Dan of language specialists in Gran Canaria, try their Tinker’s Field Pinot Noir. I’ve also a lot about the challenges of working with Thomas who has introduced our first where I met colleagues working on published an article on the development human participants, not least Oxford’s years to . We say a grateful historical and contemporary of playbooks as literature in the stringent ethical review process (CUREC) goodbye to Dr Jenny McAuley, who has of many different languages around the Shakespearean period, and another on and ways to entice about 100 volunteers taught nineteenth and twentieth century world. Easily the highlight of the year was parallels between industrial competition to sit a test! One of our 2014 Finalists, literature over the last two years and we organizing the Day at and rivalry in early Hollywood and the Aoife Duff worked on the factors driving look forward to welcoming Dr David the in July, in collaboration theatres of late sixteenth-century London. the HIV epidemic in India, including Dwan as our new fellow in English, at long with my colleague Bas Aarts at UCL. This With my colleague Laurie Maguire I the anthropology of regional attitudes last replacing the university lectureship event, open to the public, sold out weeks gave the inaugural Marlowe lecture at to women, and health care. Meanwhile, previously held by Tom Paulin. Tom in advance – to our surprise but not to Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, Hettie Davies researched the sensitive has just brought out his New Selected the BL’s, who know from experience to celebrate the 450th anniversary of his issues that surround and create the Poems (Faber, 2014), celebrated with a how perennially fascinated everyone birth. I’ve also given presentations at the so-called “Thin Body Ideal” common launch party in the Principal’s lodgings, is by grammar, linguistic correctness Globe theatre, at London’s Guildhall, at in , including medical and two of our alumni (both 2008) (“correctness”?), and the question of how the University of and at a range evidence for and against being thin, and have also produced widely and warmly language should be taught in schools. of conferences. I’ve continued to work the evolutionary psychology of “handicap reviewed books: Hermione Eyre (Viper with teachers and with schools, including signals”. I hope they will go on to publish Wine, Jonathan Cape) and Alex Preston Dr Emma Smith writes: I’m currently addressing a teachers’ conference, and and use their results. (In Love and War, Faber). Emma Smith working on a biography of the first an enjoyable trip to St ’s in Peterlee, Our four first years are mid way and I co-judged the new Draycott prize, collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, Co. Durham, at the invitation of Amy through Prelims as I write – a record generously endowed by Nick Carn (1976), the of 1623, so this year I have Savage (neé Jordan, 2002), now Assistant number (four) are in this cohort due to open to all undergraduates and masters enjoyed visiting copies of the book in Head there. I have just finished a two- an early transfer from a related subject. students in the college and awarded to the a range of libraries, from Eton to year term as Director of Undergraduate This round of Admissions saw Human best essay to combine literary studies and and from to New York. I Studies for the English Faculty where I Sciences as amongst the most popular of economics; we are delighted to report that have been tasked with implementing our undergraduate courses in Oxford, with six the winner was our own Jess Bird (2011), new syllabus, and am looking forward to applicants per place across the university who wrote a brilliant piece on money in a term’s sabbatical in the next academic and about the same ratio for Hertford’s the plays of , and the runner year to finish my Folio book. three places. up our own Richard Foord (2011). A memorable My research has continued the My research on the history and current weekend off involved experimental grazing and sampling revision of the OED continues and this HISTORY at Wytham, investigating grassland year I’ve published two pieces in academic a visit to Jo Mills’ Dr Giora Sternberg writes: and the problems of journals, the first an introduction to a My first book, Status Interaction during “biodiversity offsetting”. I’m also collection of historical material charting (neé Montagu, 1999) the Reign of Louis XIV (Oxford, 2014), expanding work on the threats to British the nineteenth- and early twentieth- wonderful vineyard is coming out this summer. I have been species, covering a wider range of century creation of this dictionary, and fortunate to receive a generous research organisms than are typically considered the second an inquiry into the cultural at Rippon Valley: do fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust in nature conservation. The over- biases which have informed definitions and will thus be able to devote the management and over-exploitation of of contentious words (relating to sex and try their Tinker’s Field 2014–5 academic year to my next project, our landscape is driving species towards the body, race etc; certain sexual practices, Pinot Noir provisionally titled Writing Acts: The Power at an accelerating pace, with or non-European races, were originally of Writing in the Ancien Regime. over-use of woodland and a shortage of

68 Hertford College Magazine Hertford College Magazine 69 HERTFORD REPORT HERTFORD REPORT Subjects and research Subjects and research dead wood re-affirmed as a cause of many my children were at the dentist (in Japan able to ask important questions about species being threatened in this habitat. children go to the dentist on Christmas macrophage recruitment, proliferation This research has high policy relevance day). and differentiation in atherosclerotic to biomass fuel expansion, and to Mathematics continues to thrive at lesions, which are the cause of heart Hertford College rewilding the landscape, as I outlined in Hertford. I am continually amazed by attacks and strokes. a debate on British conservation methods how many different interesting things In February 2014 I organised a meeting provides probably at the Linnean Society of London. There our students get up to during the summer that brought four world leaders in are signs that a paradigm shift I have break, and go on to do when they finish. In the area of macrophage biology and the widest range long advocated is occurring in the way this respect I might single out Dave Cheek atherosclerosis to Oxford for a one-day of research-led the public and conservationists see the (2010), who has just finished the M.Math. conference attended by over 100 young denuded British landscape. Decades of Having spent a summer in Brazil applying scientists from Oxford and London. This teaching of any of the research by my colleagues, students and statistics to understand deforestation in “macrophage master class” sponsored myself, on less charismatic wildlife, helps the Amazon, Dave has now turned his by the British Heart Foundation was twenty-four Oxford underpin this shift. This is very rewarding, sights to the East: he hopes to spend a very successful event that facilitated but it’s far from my top priority: I hope a year in Beijing learning Mandarin interactions between research groups colleges teaching to get back to my work on charismatic Chinese. This sense of adventure amongst across many different departments the undergraduate species in the even more charismatic our students is a real joy to behold. within Oxford. I also organised a Indian Ocean islands if ever there are a follow-up meeting on inflammation in medicine course few quiet months! cardiovascular disease in March attended MEDICINE by forty Oxford scientists and clinicians. My laboratory has hosted three MATHEMATICS undergraduate students for research recently appointed colleague Professor Dr Alan Lauder writes: internships and final year experimental Rebecca Sitsapeasan, Hertford medical It was a pleasure to welcome back one of dissertation projects in the past year. students have benefited greatly from our former students David Seifert (2003) Alice Buchan (Balliol) won a national specialist tuition from a radiology to a teaching role at Hertford this past award for her poster presentation on registrar (Louise Wing), an obstetrician academic year. More recent graduates the work she performed on macrophage (Juliet Stevens), a cardiologist (Manish will remember David as a star of both chemotaxis as a summer internship Kalla), a consultant neuropathologist the Mathematics and Economics and student. Max Brodermann (Hertford, (Alexander Jeans), a dermatologist Management BAs. Needless to say our 2012) is currently working in my lab for (Antonia Lloyd-Lavery), a neurologist second years immensely enjoyed his his FHS research project looking at factors (Martyn Bracewell), two neurosurgeons teaching, and we wish him well with his Max Brodermann (2012, left) and Kai that regulate macrophage chemotaxis (Dr Holly Roy & Dr Andrew MacDonald), teaching fellowship at St John’s next year Braunbeck (2012, right) investigating bacterial and James Common (Magdalen) is an ITU consultant (Henry Bettinson), an and with his academic career beyond this. antibiotic resistance looking at endothelial cell responses to orthopaedic surgeon (Patrick Garfjeld- I have also been away and come inflammation. Roberts), a general medicine physician back, having spent an academic year on In the past academic year I have given (Naomi Stubbens) and a local GP (Dr sabbatical in Kyushu, Japan. Whilst it was Professor David Greaves writes: My research seminars at Addenbrookes Chris Hornby). This college teaching is a tremendous experience to dedicate one laboratory in the Sir William Dunn School Hospital Cambridge, the Amsterdam supplemented by additional tutorials year solely to research in such a beautiful of Pathology studies the role of white Medical Centre and Imperial College provided by postdoctoral scientists and location, being away made me appreciate blood cells called macrophages in chronic London. Peer-reviewed work from my graduate students doing fundamental what a privilege it is to teach mathematics inflammatory diseases including coronary laboratory has been published in a number basic science research in cell biology and at Hertford to so many keen and talented heart disease and rheumatoid arthritis. of international journals including Nature virology (Dr Gemma White, Dr Asif Iqbal, students. I should mention that, although Over the past two years postdoctoral Immunology, Virology and Circulation. Mr Lewis Taylor and Ms Alba Llibre). my Japanese did not improve as much as I scientists working in my laboratory have Hertford College provides probably the I am very grateful to all my colleagues had hoped, mathematically my sabbatical developed new techniques to visualise widest range of research-led teaching of who have made important teaching year was a great success. I even discovered macrophages and their precursors being any of the twenty-four Oxford colleges contributions over the past year and I am a “Christmas day formula”, cracking a recruited into sites of inflammation. Using teaching the undergraduate medicine very fortunate to be assisted by our clinical problem on Christmas day, after many macrophages that express high levels of course. In addition to excellent teaching teaching coordinator, Mr Simon Brewster months work with two colleagues, while a green fluorescent protein we will be in Pharmacology provided by my (a consultant urologist).

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MODERN LANGUAGES an Inter-Faculty Seminar on Romanticism Frankfurt. Reading was supplemented Dr Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe writes: convened by the European Humanities by visits to the theatre, for some Goethe I have not appeared in these pages since Research Centre in Oxford. This poem has (an of Urfaust), Schiller 2011, which is not to say that I have not never been translated into English and (Die Jungfrau von Orleans), and Brecht been busy in the meantime or that French so I enlisted the help of my second-year and Weill’s Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt is not still thriving in the college. I was on students in translating some of the most Mahagonny. maternity leave for a year following the challenging passages for our fortnightly The photograph shows this year’s birth of my son Matthew in April 2013 and unseen class, which they did with great participants on the steps of the Goethe I’m extremely grateful to Emma Bielecki for enthusiasm and imagination. Both of house in Frankfurt, where he was born having returned as a lecturer to look after these occasions helped my thinking in and spent the first sixteen years of his the students once again in my absence. different ways, and this is just one of life. The initials above the door are those Old Japanese in Action at Oxford Spires Academy I’m delighted to be back this summer many ways in which my teaching and of Goethe’s father, Johann Caspar. The term and to have made the acquaintance research inform each other. It is a pleasure material is the red sandstone from which (http://vsarpj.orinst.ox.ac.uk/corpus/) of our nine first years studying French. to have undergraduates participate in this much of Frankfurt is built. which is a recognized British Academy They are the last cohort to have studied ongoing dialogue and I am always glad to In November, the first- and second- research project. The AHRC project is the Prelims texts which have been set for receive news from former students about year groups had an outing to the National coming to an end this summer, having more than a decade – next year freshers their adventures since graduation. Theatre in London for the (English- lasted five and a half years. It has been will face George Sand instead of Balzac language) production of Georg Kaiser’s successful and has attracted a great deal and Diderot instead of Graffigny. Former Dr Kevin Hilliard writes: play From Morning to Midnight, a Prelims of attention in Japan. One major output students will be reassured to hear that I have given invited papers to conferences set text. Excellent staging and committed is the online Oxford Corpus of Old Laclos and Baudelaire remain firm fixtures at the University of Paderborn and performances made this a memorable Japanese (OCOJ), a digital annotated and indeed firm favourites with current Wolfson College, Oxford, and published occasion. corpus of all extant texts in Japanese from undergraduates. three articles: on Klopstock and the the 8th century AD. Work on this corpus Progress on my book on Victor Hugo’s Enlightenment, on Lessing’s comedies, will continue for years to come and will poetry of progress has resumed after and on Gay’s Beggar’s Opera and Brecht’s ORIENTAL STUDIES involve participation from colleagues in this interruption to my working life. Dreigroschenoper. Professor Bjarke Frellesvig writes: Japan and elsewhere. Since last writing here, I have become This year’s German reading week in the 2013-14 is the middle year of my three- Bridging these two projects, and more involved with the Groupe Hugo, Easter vacation again took the combined year term as chair of the faculty of Oriental marking the end of the AHRC project, my a research group based at Paris VII Hertford/St Peter’s group of finalists to Studies. Together with two interrelated research team and I organized an event in University consisting mainly of French research projects, this has taken up much collaboration with the Creation Theatre specialists on the author. In 2011 I gave of my time and has meant that I have spent Company at Oxford Spires Academy, a a paper at their monthly seminar, which less time teaching and in college than I secondary school in East Oxford. The is published on their website, and the would have liked. I have, however, made event, Old Japanese in Action, introduced exchange with this community of experts sure to have a few tutorials each term ancient Japan to the students through has proved extremely valuable for my with the Hertford Japanologists so that I an overview lecture followed by short work. I have also published an article am able follow them and their progress. dramatized performances, in which the on Hugo’s of progress in the Most of my teaching has been covered students themselves participated, of two Modern Language Review. by our departmental and college lecturer texts from 8th century Japan: the folktale I am currently working on a little- Dr Stephen Horn, who has contributed of the fisherman Urashima and Shinto known epic poem by Hugo called Le greatly to maintaining the high level and ritual about How to drive away a vengeful Verso de la page, which wrestles with quality of Hertford’s activities, community . 30-odd Spires students from years the problem of whether the Terror was and academic and pastoral provision 8-10 threw themselves into this material necessary for progress, using ambivalent within Oriental Studies. We are very and produced impressive and rewarding metaphors to celebrate the Revolution fortunate to have him. performances, giving us a new and fresh whilst simultaneously expressing horror I am directing two large, related research perspective on the texts. Also with us was at the violence. As so often, Hugo projects, Verb Semantics and Argument a former Hertford student, Dan Millichip condenses some of the great questions realization in Pre-Modern Japanese (http:// (2007), who graduated from Hertford of his age into memorable poetic images. vsarpj.orinst.ox.ac.uk/) funded by the Arts From left to right: Hannah Willmore (St Peter’s), and Humanities Research Council, and with a first in Japanese in 2012. Dan spent This term I presented some of this work to Eleanoir Carthy (2010) and Sara James (2010) the Oxford Corpus of Old Japanese some of his second-year summer at my

72 Hertford College Magazine Hertford College Magazine 73 HERTFORD REPORT Subjects and research research centre on Japanese Language now returned to teaching, allowing Pat and Linguistics, funded by a Hertford Roche to take his turn of research leave summer studentship. During this period for this year. This has been an exciting he became involved with several of the time getting new research projects off centre’s activities and translated a set of the ground. My research now covers difficult 8th century Japanese imperial both fundamental particle physics – edicts into English for his undergraduate measuring precision properties of particles, dissertation. He has stayed in touch since and applied physics – developing new and we were very pleased that he was able instruments for geophysics and industry. to join us at Oxford Spires for this event. My group has completed our work developing magnetometers for a Dr Jieun Kiaer writes: electric dipole moment experiment This year I published Pragmatic Syntax from (shortly to appear in the journal Nuclear Bloomsbury, which argues that behind- Instruments and Methods), and we have the-scene motivation for seemingly pure now joined the g−2 project at Fermilab structural variations is pragmatic in nature. in the USA. The wonderfully nerdy name Over 2013-14 I worked with Professor (“gee minus two”) refers to the anomalous Jiyoung Shin from Korea University and magnetic dipole moment of the muon – a gave a number of invited lectures and quantity which can be both calculated and talks in Korea and Vienna. Right now, I am measured to sub parts per million precision, devising a new grammar formalism called making it a powerful probe to look for new Sensible Grammar and am in the middle of physics. In addition, I have been working in finishing off the manuscript to hand over a former nuclear missile command centre to Cambridge University Press. The gist of (now a low noise underground laboratory) the book is as follows: in the south of France, tracking magnetic Wouldn’t it be sensible to have a fields, with the aim of developing new grammar that can explain why we say ways to study groundwater, and potentially what we say – in our day-to-day life forecast earthquakes. through our language with each other – in much simpler terms that make sense to us all without imposing overly abstract and theoretical assumptions? Wouldn’t it be sensible to have a grammar that is built The wonderfully on the shared platform of description and observation that is empirically reliable nerdy name (“gee HERTFORD and agreeable, across the disciplines in linguistics? Wouldn’t it be also sensible minus two”) refers to look beyond English-like languages to the anomalous to crystallize our understanding of what language universals are, from a cross- magnetic dipole RECORD linguistic, historical perspective? The book Sensible Grammar is the fruit moment of the muon of such questions, challenging us to un- – a quantity which can think the basic attributes and dynamics of the human language – in a sensible way. be both calculated and measured to sub parts PHYSICS Dr Sam Henry writes: per million precision After spending 2013 on sabbatical, I have

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Candidates for matriculation: Feng, Jianfei McCaffary, David Selkirk, Ewan Academic Year 2013-14 Fernandes, Johanne McCluskey, Camin Seraphim, Samia Ackerman, Reuben Finan, Dorothy McMurtry, Lucie Sheridan, Katherine Aggarwal, Anuj Foster, Alexander Meer, Marcus Shillabeer, Olivia Ainsworth, Sian-Elise Francis, Marie-Louise Melito, Lucio Smith, Harriet Akerboom, Walter Franklin, Amy Milliken-Smith, Samuel Solomkina, Anna Altria, Lauren Gabriel, Maria Mistry, Nikisha Solveen, Christoph Ansari, Ayla Gardner, Eleanor Monaghan, Eimear Sparkes, Evelyn Aragon, Jose Goodyer Sait, Lily Mostyn, Gregory Spencer, Huw Aron, Jonathan Goyal, Rahul Neild, Laura Stamboldziev, Miodrag Barry, Philip Graham, Iain Nicholls, Thomas Staunton, Karen Benn, Alexander Grant, Rebecca Nortier, Alexis Steinert, Janina Biondi, James Guo, Jing Nuttall, Elizabeth Stone, Emily Bishop, Amy Hack, Philippa O’Brien, Fiona Stout, Esme Blower, Bramwell Hadjitheodorou, Amalia O’Connor, Marianne Strain, Helen Bolarin, Oluwaseyi Hadman, O’Neill, Ellen Sturgess, Henry Bouttell, Frederick Hernandez Fernandez, Moises Osieyo, Marion Su, Tong Bridgland, Alexander Hewett, Dominic O’Sullivan, Conor Suemanothom, Ratanon Buddhdev, Paavan Hoyle, Anna Padki, Nandita Summerton, George Butler, Jonathan Hyde, Clare Parameswarappa, Vinay Sun, Zhengyuan Cai, Yuanyuan Jamie, Nayyar Park, Megan Tabrez, Miraan Camargo Gomes, Adriano Jenkinson, Laura Parker, Hannah Taflan, Patricia Carr, Rebecca Jiang, Junnan Parkin-O’Brien, Robert Tanburn, Richard Chamberlain, Rosemary Jochum, Matthias Patni, Nicholas Templeman, Jack Chan, Tsun Heng Jones, Archie Pelden, Sonam Thong, Daniel Chapman, Miriam Jones, Rebekah Penkova, Tsvetelina Tu, Ian Chelton, Toby Jordon, James Penoyer-Kulin, Trevor Turner, Freya Chen, Deyu Kennedy, Tabitha Penrose, Henry Ugorji, Fitzroy Chen, Yiding Kettle, Florence Pfeifer, Nadine Valaris, Sophia Cheung, Nok Sze Cecilia Khanna, Neha Phan, Thu Thuy Vella Muskat, Rebecca Chung, Dawoon Kimmons, Alexandra Pike, Henry Vellam, Sophie Costello, Kate Knox, Hannie Pooni, Aaron Voelker, Florian Croucher, Billie Koren, Vedrana Prince, Joseph von SkepsgardhLohr, Makena Dafnis, Amy Leao, Madalena Pylypenko, Kateryna Walker, Andrew de Pechpeyrou Comminges de Guitaut, Lee, Hye Sun Quinn, Jessica Wallace, James Louis Leissing, Thomas Rajwani, Devendra Wheeler, Steven Deegan, Kathryn Linnemann, Niels Redford-Jones, Holly Whitcombe, Katie Dhillon, Simran Longshaw, Emily Rehfisch, Anna Williams, Jack Ding, Emily Loo, Karl Richards, Stephanie Williams, Leoma Donlan, Joseph Lusardi, Robert Rigsbee, Cody Williams, Morgan Duchesne, Julia Lydon, Elliot Roiter, Paul Wilson, James Dudhia, Alaina Madia Lourenco, Luiza Helena Rowland, Freya Wilson, Matthew Dyster, Josie Maldoom, Alice Rush, Jessica Wise, Edward East, Charlotte Manglavite, Federico Sadighian, Michael Worster, Rose Eberhardt, David Manwaring, James Saffarini, Salam Xia, Mingwei Emmett, Bonnie Marin Amat, Eloi Saleem, Joel Xu, Yingtao Engel, Kim Martin, Sarah Saokhamkhet, Thanwit Zelniker, David Evans, Jennifer May, Rebecca Schrecker, Rowan Zhang, Ruiyang Everton, Heulwen McAleavy, Alexander Schwarz, Anneli

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Undergraduate examination 3 Parry, Stephen 2.1 3 Levinkind, Emma 1st 3 Chawner, James 2.1 results: Final Honours School 3 Patel, Bhavin 1st 3 McGurk, Sophie 2.1 3 Hunter, Sarah 2.1 2014 3 Schuck, Stella 1st 3 Monk, Alexander 1st 3 Phelan, Thomas 2.2 3 Unur, Murat 1st 3 Morris, Toby 1st 3 Sheikh Mohamed, Omer 2.1 Archaeology & Anthropology 3 Zhang, Joy 1st 3 Spooner, Helen 1st 4 Cheek, David 2.1 Year 3 Williams, Jennifer 2.1 4 Clayton, Adrian 2.2 3 Aggleton, Jessye 1st Engineering 3 Wood, Emma 1st 4 Jackson, Haran 1st 3 Izzard, Georgina 2.1 Year 3 Reeks, Charlotte 2.1 3 Cochrane, George 2.2 History Mathematics & Statistics 3 Shaw, Rebecca 2.1 3 Hildersley, Catherine 2.1 Year Year 3 Hughes, Christopher 2.1 3 Bley Griffiths, Eleanor 1st 4 Turner, Andrew 2.1 Biochemistry 3 Noons, Harriet-Rose 2.2 3 Bornholt, Matthew 2.1 Year 3 Pybus, Matthew 2.1 3 Cherrih, Lila 1st Medicine 3 Britt, Rhiannon Hons Pass 3 Smith, Ruth 2.1 3 French, Margot 2.1 Year 3 Cook, Georgia Hons Pass 4 Jurkiewicz, James 1st 3 McLoughlin, Finbar 2.1 3 Chauhan, Aneesha 2.1 3 Walters, Hannah Hons Pass 4 Leach, Emily 1st 3 Murgatroyd, Louise 2.1 3 , Natalia 2.1 4 Lee, Katie 1st 4 Marriott, Jack 1st 3 Tabram, Bethan 2.1 3 Dace, William 1st 4 Leveson, Joanna 2.1 4 Needham, Christopher 1st 3 Winfield, Hannah 1st 3 Li, Rebecca 2.1 4 Ringblom, Anna 2.1 4 Oakley, Thomas 2.2 3 Watanabe, Masanori 2.1 4 Stevens, Rebecca 2.1 4 Pullin, Mark 1st History & Modern Languages 4 Wise, Adam 2.1 4 Ravenscroft, Jessica 2.1 Year Modern Languages 4 James, Sara 1st Year Biology EEM 4 Nichols, Rachel 1st 4 Brown, Heather 1st Year Year 4 Carthy, Eleanoir 2.1 3 Harrold, Caroline 2.1 3 Ng, Nicholas Hons Pass History & Politics 4 Ellis, Jane 2.1 3 Jaczniakowska-McGirr, 4 Rai, Aaron 2.1 Year 4 Wyatt, Lucy 2.1 Stephanie 2.1 3 Fleming, Thomas 1st 3 Pearce, Madison 2.1 English 3 Jones, Rio 2.1 Music 3 Sims, Eleanor 2.1 Year Year 3 Turner, Rachel 2.1 3 Bird, Jessica 2.1 Human Sciences 3 Keane, Finn 2.1 3 Dunlop, Siobhan 2.1 Year 3 Whitehead, Edmund 1st Chemistry 3 Foord, Richard 1st 3 Davies, Henrietta 2.1 Year 3 Hingley, Eleanor 2.1 3 Duff, Aoife 1st Oriental Studies 3 Coonjobeeharry, 3 Hughes, Pascale 2.1 Year Jaymee Hons Pass 3 Rhodes, Alice 2.1 Law 4 Powell, Rebecca 2.1 3 Fielden, Stephen Hons Pass 3 Walters, Roland 2.1 Year 5 , Claire 2.1 3 Kennedy, Michael Hons Pass 3 Barhey, Rajkiran 1st 5 Parker-Luscombe, Bethan 1st 3 Lee, Alexander Hons Pass English & Modern Languages 3 Gatt, Lucy 2.1 5 Wilkinson, Claire 2.1 3 Sowa, Jakub Hons Pass Year 3 McIntyre, Anna 2.1 4 Brooks, Alexandra 2.1 4 Robson, Florence 2.1 PPE 4 Girling, Ben 1st Law with Law Studies in Europe Year 4 Hall, Eleanor 2.1 Geography Year 3 Brown, Charlotte 2.1 4 McDermott, Olivia 2.2 Year 4 Masters, Philippa 2.1 3 Clark, Matthew 1st 3 Agius, Katie 1st 4 Roberts, Carol 2.1 3 Dickson, Andrew 2.1 Economics & Management 3 Drean, Dawn 2.1 3 Fleming, Joshua 2.1 Year 3 Fenner, Claire 1st Mathematics 3 Freeman, Stefan 2.1 3 Barker, Nicholas 2.1 3 Haylor, Eloise 1st Year 3 Gueganton, Solenn 2.1 3 Jovicic, Andrej 2.1 3 Jackson, Harry 2.2 3 Adams, Thomas 1st 3 Hartas, Daniel 2.1 3 Latinwo, Oluwadara 1st 3 Law, Eleanor 2.1 3 Beacom, Jamie 1st 3 Lee, Seung Yoon 2.2

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3 Nurani, Abrar 2.1 Chemistry 1 East, Charlotte Pass 1 Peak, Cameron Pass 3 Webb, Simone 1st Year 1 Foster, Alexander Pass 1 Schrecker, Rowan Distinction 3 Wriedt, Vera 2.1 1 Ansari, Ayla Pass 1 Kennedy, Tabitha Pass 1 Stone, Emily Pass 1 Chan, Tsun Heng Pass 1 Solomkina, Anna Pass 1 Su, Tong Pass Physics 1 Chen, Chester Dist 1 Tanburn, Richard Distinction Year 1 O’Connor, Marianne Pass History 3 Baker, Hugh 1st 1 Polywka, Alex Pass Year Medicine 3 Bolton, Thomas 1st 1 Ugorji, Fitzroy Pass 1 Ackerman, Reuben Pass Year 3 Clarke, Stephanie 2.1 1 Ding, Emily Pass 1 Jamie, Nayyar Pass 3 Gandhi, Oktoviano 1st Computer Science & Philososphy 1 Fernandes, Johanne Pass 1 McCaffary, David Dist 3 Ingham, Joshua 2.1 Year 1 Jenkinson, Laura Pass 1 Patni, Nicholas Pass 3 Jones, Malachi 2.2 1 Bridgland, Alexander Dist 1 Lydon, Elliot Pass 3 Little, Thomas 2.2 1 Buddhdev, Paavan Pass 1 Pooni, Aaron Pass Modern Languages 3 Taylor, Joseph 1st 1 Tabrez, Miraan Pass 1 Sheridan, Katherine Pass Year 4 Clayton, Matthew 1st 1 Smith, Harriet Pass 1 Dyster, Josie Pass 4 Mistry, Devesh 1st Economics & Management 1 Stout, Esme Dist 1 Franklin, Amy Pass 4 Setford, Jack 1st Year 1 Turner, Freya Dist 1 Longshaw, Emily Pass 1 Butler, Jonathan Pass 1 Wilson, James Pass 1 May, Rebecca Dist Physics & Philosophy 1 Chelton, Toby Pass 1 Mostyn, Gregory Pass Year 1 Deegan, Kathryn Pass History & Modern Languages 1 Rowland, Freya Pass 4 Kennedy, Oscar 1st 1 Lee, Hye Sun Dist Year 1 Sparkes, Evelyn Pass 1 McAleavy, Alexander Dist 1 Jones, Rebekah Pass 1 Spencer, Huw Dist 1 Mistry, Nikisha Pass 1 Koren, Vedrana Pass Undergraduate examination 1 Prince, Joseph Dist 1 Quinn, Jessica Pass Music results: First Public Examination Year 2014 Engineering History & Politics 1 Parker, Hannah Pass Year Year Archaeology & Anthropology 1 Dhillon, Simran Dist 1 Wise, Edward Pass Oriental Studies Year 1 Nuttall, Elizabeth Pass Year 1 Benn, Alexander 2nd 1 Sturgess, Henry David Dist Human Sciences 1 Altria, Lauren Pass 1 Croucher, Billie 1st 1 Suemanothom, Ratanon Dist Year 1 Dafnis, Amy Emily Pass 1 Rehfisch, Anna 2nd 1 Templeman, Jack Owen Dist 1 Chapman, Miriam Dist 1 Finan, Dorothy Dist 1 Hyde, Clare Dist 1 Kimmons, Alexandra Dist Biochemistry English 1 Milliken-Smith, Samuel Pass 1 Knox, Hannie Pass Year Year 1 von SkepsgardhLohr, MakenaPass 1 Chamberlain, Rosemary Pass 1 Carr, Rebecca Pass PPE 1 Hoyle, Anne Pass 1 Grant, Rebecca Pass Law Year 1 Monaghan Eimear Pass 1 Hewett, Dominic Pass Year 1 Aron, Jonathan Dist 1 Selkirk, Ewan Pass 1 Jones, Archie Dist 1 Everton, Heulwen Pass 1 Dudhia, Alaina Pass 1 Kettle, Florence Pass 1 Maldoom, Alice Pass 1 Engel, Kim Dist Biology 1 O’Neill, Ellen Pass 1 Park, Megan Pass 1 Jochum, Matthias Pass Year 1 Vellam, Sophie Pass 1 Rush, Jessica Pass 1 Leao, Madalena Dist 1 Goodyer Sait, Lily Dist 1 Williams, Morgan Pass 1 Staunton, Karen Distinction 1 Padki, Nandita Pass 1 Hadman, Esther Pass 1 Worster, Rose Pass 1 Redford-Jones, Holly Pass 1 McMurtry, Lucie Pass Geography 1 Shillabeer, Olivia Pass 1 Strain, Helen Pass Year Mathematics 1 Summerton, George Pass 1 Bishop, Amy Dist Year Physics 1 Tatum, Rebecca Pass 1 Bolarin, Oluwaseyi Pass 1 Aggarwal, Anuj Pass Year 1 Williams, Leoma Pass 1 Bouttell, Frederick Pass 1 Jordon, James Distinction 1 Hack, Philippa Pass

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1 Melito, Lucio Pass McCaffary, David Leach, Emily 1 Brown, Heather 4 1 Nicholls, Thomas Pass Medicine Engineering Modern Languages (Spanish & Linguistics) 1 Parkin-O’Brien, Robert Pass Prince, Joseph Edgell Sheppee Prize for Excellent Hertford Prize 1 Penrose, Henry Pass Economics & Management Performance Chamberlain, Rosemary 1 1 Saleem, Joel Pass Schrecker, Rowan Levinkind, Emma 3 Biochemistry 1 Wilson, Matthew Pass Mathematics Geography Garth Robinson Prize Spencer, Huw Gibbs Book Prize: outstanding performance Chauhan, Aneesha 3 Modern Languages (Spanish) in Finals Medicine Scholarships and prizes: 2013- Staunton, Karen McCaffary, David 1 Hertford Prize 2014 Law Medicine Duff, Aoife 3 The following were elected to Scholarships Stout, Esme Gibbs Prize for First BM Part I Human Sciences in recognition of achieving Distinction or History Monk, Alexander 3 Hertford Prize First Class in the First Public Examination: Sturgess, Henry Geography Foord, Richard 3 Engineering Meldrum Prize for best Physical Geography English Aron, Jonathan Suemanothom, Ratanon fieldwork report Draycott Essay Prize (2nd prize) PPE Engineering Needham, Christopher 4 Foord, Richard 3 Bishop, Amy Tanburn, Richard Engineering English Geography Mathematics Inst of Civil Engineers Student Prize: best Hertford Prize Bridgland, Alexander Templeman, Jack performance in project Gandhi, Oktoviano 3 Computer Science & Philosophy Engineering Pulin, Mark 4 Physics Chapman, Miriam Turner, Freya Engineering Tanner Prize Human Sciences History Maurice Lubbock Prize for best performance Girling, Ben 4 Chen, Chester in Honour School Chemistry Chemistry Schuck, Stella 3 Hertford Prize Croucher, Billie The following were awarded Economics & Management Hack, Philippa 1 Archaeology & Anthropology university prizes: Gibbs Prize best performance in Physics Dhillon, Simran Year Management Tanner Prize Engineering Beacom, Jamie 3 Unur, Murat 3 Heathcote, David 2 Engel, Kim Mathematics Economics & Management Chemistry PPE Junior Mathematical Prize: excellent Gibbs Prize (proxime accessit) best John Stubley Memorial Prize Finan, Dorothy performance in exam performance in Economics Hoyle, Anna 1 Oriental Studies (Japanese) Clark, Matthew 3 Biochemistry Goodyer Sait, Lily PPE Garth Robinson Prize Biology Elizabeth Anscombe Prize: best The following were awarded Jackson, Haran 4 Hyde, Clare undergraduate thesis college prizes: Mathematics Human Sciences Croucher, Billie 1 Year Hertford Prize Jones, Archie Archaeology & Anthropology Aggleton, Jessye 3 Keane, Finn 3 English Gibbs Prize for Performance (Prelims) Archaeology & Anthropology Music Jordan, James Finan, Dorothy 1 Hertford Prize Hertford Prize Mathematics Oriental Studies Barhey, Rajkiran 3 Li, Rebecca 3 Kimmons, Alexandra Gibbs Prize (Prelims) Law Medicine Oriental Studies (Chinese) Holmes, Zoe 3 Charnley Law Prize Steve Trout Dissertation Prize Leao, Madalena Physics & Philosophy Bird, Jessica 3 Marriott, Jack 4 PPE Gibbs Prize best performance in Philosophy English Engineering Lee, Hye Sun Kimmons, Alexandra 1 Draycott Essay Prize (1st prize) Hertford Prize Economics & Management Oriental Studies Bley-Griffiths, Eleanor 3 Monaghan, Eimear 1 May, Rebecca Gibbs Prize (Prelims) History Biochemistry Modern Languages (Spanish) Boase-Dangerfield Prize Garth Robinson Prize McAleavy, Alexander Economics & Management

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Parker-Luscombe, Bethan 5 Chung, Dawoon Martin, Sarah Saokhamkhet, Thanwit Oriental Studies MSc Financial Economics MSt General Linguistics & Comparative MSt General Linguistics & Comparative Hertford Prize Pass Philology Philology Pearce, Madison 3 De Pechpeyrou Comminges De Guitatut, Distinction Pass Biological Sciences Louis Meer, Marcus Seraphim, Samia Hertford Prize Diploma in Legal Studies MSt Medieval History MSc Pharmacology Ramsoy, Marius 2 Pass Pass Pass Physics Duchesne, Julia Mueller, Sebastian Sliwoski, Kevin Tanner Prize MSc Environmental Change & MSc Mathematical Finance MSt in US History Ringblom, Anna 4 Management Osieyo, Marion Pass Biochemistry Pass MSc Global Governance & Diplomacy Stamboldziev, Miodrag Hertford Prize Evans, Jennifer Pass MSt Oriental Studies Selkirk, Ewan 1 MSc Latin American Studies O’Sullivan, Conor Fail Biochemistry Pass MBA Steinert, Janina Garth Robinson Prize Genot, Pit Parameswarappa, Vinay MSc Evidence Based Social Unur, Murat 3 BPhil Philosophy MBA Intervention Economics & Management Pass Pelden, Sonam Distinction Hertford Prize Goyal, Rahul MBA Stevens, Marcus Webb, Simone 3 MSc Financial Economics Penkova, Tsvetelina Clinical Medicine PPE Pass MSc Financial Economics Pass Hertford Prize Graham, Iain Pass Sun, Zhengyuan MSc Refugee & Forced Migration Penoyer-Kulin, Trevor MSc Mathematical & Computational Studies MSt Musicology Finance Graduate examinations and Pass Pass Distinction prizes Guo, Jing Pfeifer, Nadine Taflan, Patricia Ainsworth, Zeprina-Jaz Certificate in Diplomatic Studies MSc Evidence Based Social MSc Criminology & Criminal Justice MSt General Linguistics & Comparative Pass Intervention Tan, Nicholas Philology Hadjitheodrou, Amalia Pass Clinical Medicine Distinction MSc Biomedical Engineering Phan, Thu Thuy Pass Akerboom, Walter MSc James, Christopher MSc Medical Anthropology Thierfelder, Christian Financial Economics PGCE (Mathematics) Pike, Henry MSc Mathematical Finance Distinction Pass MSt Japanese Studies Thong, Daniel Alekna, John Khanna, Neha Pass MSc Economic & Social History MPhil Modern Chinese Studies MBA Pylypenko, Kateryna Vella Muskat, Rebecca Distinction Lin, Stephanie MSc Applied Linguistics & Second MSt English Aragon, Jose MPhil Evidence-Based Social Language Acquisition Pass MSc Latin American Studies Intervention Rajwani, Devendra Voelker, Florian Pass Distinction MSc Radiation Biology MBA Barry, Philip Linnemann, Niels Pass Wells, Georgia MBA MSt Philosophy of Physics Rigsbee, Cody MSc Social Anthropology Biondi, James Pass MSc Pharmacology Williams, Jack MSt English & American Studies Loo, Karl Pass Bachelor of Civil Law Pass MBA Roiter, Paul Distinction Cai, Yuanyuan Manwaring, James MBA Vinerian Scholarship Proxime Accessit, MSc Financial Economics Bachelor of Civil Law Sadighian, Michael Law Faculty Prize in Comparative Public Pass Distinction MSc Medical Anthropology Law Camargo Gomes, Adriano Law Faculty Prize in Advanced Saffarini, Salam Xia, Mingwei MJuris Property & Trusts, Law Faculty Prize in MBA MSc Financial Economics Pass Constitutional Theory Pass

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Xu, Yingtao Undergraduate degrees Jones, Malachi Wan Shamsiruddin, Wan MSc Biomedical Engineering conferred: October 2013-August Jones, Rio Washington, Belinda Young, Alice 2014 Jovicic, Andrej Webb, Simone MPhil Visual, Material and Museum Keane, Finn Whitehead, Edmund Anthropology BA Lamb, Alexandra Wilkinson, Claire Zelniker, David Aggleton, Jessye Law, Eleanor Williams, Jennifer MBA Agius, Katie Levinkind, Emma Williams, Rachel Zhang, Ruiyang Arciszewska, Bryony Li, Rebecca Winfield, Hannah MSc Computer Science Avory, Hannah Masters, Philippa Winwood, Laura Barhey, Rajkiran McGurk, Sophie Wood, Emma Barker, Nicholas McIntyre, Anna Wriedt, Vera DPhils successfully completed Bley Griffiths, Eleanor McLoughlin, Finbar Wright, Oliver Ali Abbas, Syed Bornholt, Matthew Meins, Emily Wyatt, Lucy DPhil Economics Boyle, Simon Middleweek, Fiona Zhang, Joy Yue Copley, Charles Brooks, Victoria Moir, Alexander DPhil Astrophysics Brown, Charlotte Monk, Alexander Cowan, Kimberly Brown, Heather Moore, Kirstie Graduate degrees conferred: DPhil History Butcher, Natasha Morris, Alexander October 2013-August 2014 Harriman, Oliver Campbell, Sarah Mullins, Alex DPhil Condensed Matter Physics Carthy, Eleanoir Murgatroyd, Louise MA Kostuch, Philipp Castles, Claire Nichols, Rachel Allen, Christopher DPhil Economics Chauhan, Aneesha Nurani, Abrar Awoyinka, Tosin Lewis, Kevin (Senior Scholar) Cherrih, Lila Owens, Kendal Bailey, Sarah-Jane DPhil History Cotton, Natalia Owens, Rhys Batra, Ashwin Maclean, Ewen Coysh, Daniel Parker-Luscombe, Bethan Bowdren, Helen DPhil Particle Physics Croukamp, Carmel Pearce, Brittany Cates, Kathleen Patel, Ruchi Dace, William Pearce, Madison Coghlan, Mark DPhil Surgery Davies, Henrietta Powell, Rebecca Doe, Andrew Pearson, Jem Dickson, Andrew Rajkumar, Suhan Economides, Margarita DPhil Life Sciences Drean, Dawn Reeks, Charlotte Edwards, Melanie Rodrigues, Antonio Duff, Aoife Rhodes, Alice Garside, Paul DPhil Zoology Dunlop, Siobhan Roberts, Carol Heath, Jennifer Rzepala, Wojciech Economides, Margarita Robson, Florence Howe, Alexandra DPhil Condensed Matter Physics Ellis, Jane Rowan, Ben Jarrett, Gary Salter, Victoria Eyland, Lauren Schuck, Stella Jellis, Thomas DPhil Clinical Medicine Fenner, Claire Seaton, Susanne Lamb, Alexandra Ward, Courtney Fleming, Thomas Shaw, Rebecca Leci, Adam DPhil Achaeology Foord, Richard Shepherd, Jack Middleweek, Fiona Wlodarski, Rafael Fox, Charlotte Simmons, James Moir, Alexander DPhil Experimental Psychology Freeman, Stefan Slater, Ben Morris, Katherine Zhang, Jinnan French, Margot Spiro, David Neiman, Katie DPhil Engineering Science Gatt, Lucy Spooner, Helen Owens, Kendal Gueganton, Solenn Stevens, Marcus Phillips, Matthew Harrold, Caroline Tabram, Bethan Phillipson, Bridget Hartas, Daniel Tarpey, Juliana Rogers, Sarah Haylor, Eloise Turner, Rachel Rowan, Ben Jackson, Theo Unur, Murat Sharples, Rachel Jaczniakowska-McGirr, Stephanie Verbon, Marja Simmons, James James, Sara Walters, Roland Vizard, Stuart Vu, Mai

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Wan Shamsiruddin, Wan BMBCh Peng, Feng Linnemann, Niels Waugh, Olivia Stevens, Marcus Rorich, Pieter Lippiatt, Gregory Winwood, Laura Tan, Nicholas Sethu, Padma Martin, Sarah Washington, Belinda Thornton, Michael Penoyer-Kulin, Trevor BPhil Weng, Zaishan Pike, Henry MBiochem Clark, William Zarras, Stylianos Saokhamkhet, Thanwit Kertesz, Natasha Genot, Pit Sliwoski, Kevin Lee, Katie MJur Ujeed, Sangseraima Leveson, Joanna DPhil Camargo Gomes, Adriano Ringblom, Anna Ali Abbas, Syed Stevens, Rebecca Barker, Simon MPhil Wise, Adam Brodie, Thomas Bibby, William Bubb, Alexander Edelman, Ross MChem Chen, Shi Gorski, Ann Brooks, Alexandra Croukamp, Carmel Klausen, Kristian Hall, Eleanor Ferguson, David Lin, Stephanie Keller, Thomas Golden, James Park, Mijung McDermott, Olivia Gomez Castellanos, Jose Ruben Ho, Chia-Hua MSc MChem by incorporation James, Rachel Aragon, Jose Donlan, Joseph Kalani, Gautam Balchin, Brian Kyberd, Paul Barnard, Samuel MEng Lewis, Kevin Cai, Yifan Karn, Madeleine Mirzaei, Mahsanam Campbell, Sarah Leach, Emily Oliver, Katie Cao, Fangyuan Oakley, Thomas Rands, Christopher Crabb, Steven Pullin, Mark Rodrigues, Antonio Evans, Jennifer Rai, Aaron Royrvik, Ellen Gauduel, Antoine Ravenscroft, Jessica Rzepala, Wojciech Graham, Iain Simpson, Edwin Hofmeyr, Michael MMath Smith, Sara Jo, Annie Cheek, David Viriyasitavat, Wattana Kim, Ki Chul Clayton, Adrian Wang, Chao Middleweek, Fiona Jackson, Haran Ward, Courtney Osieyo, Marion Weinhardt, Clara Rittgers, Kaitlin MPhys Wlodarski, Rafael Shigemoto, Yuuki Clayton, Matthew Zhang, Jinnan Smith, Sara Mistry, Devesh Sridhar, Neelamraju Setford, Jack MLitt Strong, Imani Longia, Ravinder Tang, Kong Ho Verbon, Marja Graduate degres conferred: MBA Wheeler, Kevin September 2013 to August 2014 Coussa, Gregory Xiang, Nan Duncan, Brittany BCL Filbey, Jonathan MSt Jayasuriya, Shanaka Kim, Colin Woojin Ainsworth, Zeprina-Jaz Manwaring, James Lee, Ronald Biondi, James Williams, Jack McKnight, Brian Brown, Nina Neri, Andrew Graham, Rory

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Hertfordshire. fiction and (mainly) non-fiction, the most time, I guide cultural tours in Istanbul and News from Old recent being Oxford, A Very Peculiar History. the rest of Turkey.” 2003/2004 Members Andrew Voysey (2004) and Devin Gray 1973 1978 (2003) married in August 2013. Sherard Cowper-Coles has written two Andrew Blundell’s son Tom (19) has If you have news you would like printed books: Cables from Kabul (2011) and Ever just started at , and in the next edition, please contact the 2007 the Diplomat (2012). his daughter Lydia (15) is studying for her Development Office. Christian Nordholtz and Sarah GCSEs at Denstone College. Ossenberg had their church wedding in 1974 Development Office Göttingen on 3 August 2013. Mark Alexander has been appointed Jane Dowson (née Widdows) is a reader Hertford College treasurer to the Royal College of in twentieth-century literature at De Oxford OX1 3BW 2010 Radiologists from September 2014. As well Montfort University, Leicester. Her recent Oleg Kitov married Yulia Kitova (née as responsibility for the finances of one of publications include The Cambridge Email: development.office@hertford. Kuzmina) on 24 August 2012 in , the royal colleges, he will be working to set Companion to Twentieth Century British ox.ac.uk Russia. national strategy and support the fellows and Irish Women’s Poetry, ed. (Cambridge of the college to promote the science and University Press, 2011), A History of Online: www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/alumni Other news practice of clinical radiology and oncology, Twentieth-Century British Women’s 1943 which they deliver and which forms the Poetry, co-authored with Alice Entwistle The Editor reserves the right to edit Colin Exley is a lifetime member of the essential core to all healthcare and cancer (Cambridge University Press, 2005), contributions. Mediterranean Landing Craft Association, care in the UK. He continues in his other Women’s Writing 1945-60: After The a senior member of the Geological Society current roles as associate medical director Deluge, ed. (Palgrave, 2003), Learning to Births of London, and former treasurer and for training education and workforce, Teach English in the Secondary School, 2001 chairman of Ussher Society. director of medical education, clinical tutor co-ed Jon Davison (Routledge, 2003), David Hooson and his wife Gemma and consultant radiologist at Luton & Women, and British Poetry have had two children: George, born 1946 Dunstable University Hospital; associate 1910-39: Resisting Femininity (Ashgate, in December 2011, and Sophie, born in Richard Powell writes: “the President of postgraduate dean and head of school, 2002), Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: a November 2013. the Law Society has informed me that my clinical radiology, Health Education East critical anthology, ed. (Routledge, 1996), name has been on the Roll of Solicitors for of England Postgraduate Deanery based in Selected Poems of Frances Cornford, ed. 2011 60 years.” Cambridge; senior visiting clinical fellow, (Enitharmon Press, 1996), Postmodern Yanbing Sun and her husband Geng Lin University of Hertfordshire. In his spare Subjects/Postmodern Texts, co-ed have a son, born on 2 December 2013. 1948 time he is chair of Trustees of Photography with Steven Earnshaw (Rodopi Press, Oxford, a brand new festival celebrating 1995). She is planning a symposium on Marriages 1961 the whole range of photography as art and in conjunction with the 1990 Rodney Wilson’s twentieth book, Factory science. He continues to pursue interests Department for Continuing Education. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski Original Triumph Twins 1937-61, was in literature (having co-founded the Oxford Anyone interested should contact her on (formerly Butterwick) married Wioletta published by Charles Herridge and Sons Literary Society), history and [email protected] Pawlikowska-Butterwick (formerly in October 2013. history of medicine, and music, though Pawlikowska) at Koszuty, Poland on 13 is not allowed to play his violin when the Adam Johnson writes: “In February July 2012. He is currently Professor of 1964 family are at home. 2014 my wife, Carol, and I adopted Lulu Polish-Lithuanian History at the UCL Anthony Champion has been elected (Lucinda) from in China. She School of Slavonic and East European president of the British Society for Philip Chalkley was awarded a diploma is now aged 2 years and 3 months and is a Studies. In 2014-17 he will be holder of Population Studies from September (distinction) in Garden Design from KLC long-awaited joy in our lives.” the -Geremek Chair 2013 for two years, and was awarded School of Design in 2012. in European Civilisation at the College of a lifetime achievement award by the 1979 Europe at its campus at Natolin, Warsaw. Royal Geographical Society Population Riza Ergener writes: “I have retired from Meryl James undertakes partnership Geography Research Group in June 2013. full time teaching at the Bogazici University, work with Initial Teacher Education at 2001 where I now teach part time a course on Strathclyde University, as well as training Alison Benson (née Kennedy) married 1971 religion and economics. I am also working teachers of mandarin in both primary and Oliver Benson on 23 August 2013 at David Arscott has written some 60 books, on a book on the same subject. In my free secondary schools. Tewin Bury Farm near Welwyn ,

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1989 University, Netherlands. He practises in postdoctoral fellowship from October 2014 through. Tina Anderson is a chartered IT law, human rights, public that will be held at both UCL Institute of In the 1980s, for example, Gerry professional, ITIL expert, chartered and employment law from Monckton Neurology and Oxford. I have also been decided that Oxford needed something engineer (recognizing a career that has Chambers, Gray’s Inn, London. elected to a junior research fellowship at which would introduce the visiting tourist evolved from biochemical engineering to Somerville College, Oxford (2013-2015)”. quickly and enjoyably to the history of the software engineering), and mother of one. 1993 university. His “Oxford Story” opened in Martyn Bracewell is an academic Broad Street in February 1998. Following Khalid Jawed: Member of the neurologist based in Bangor University the model successfully developed by the Privatization Commission of Pakistan and the Walton Centre for Neurology and Obituaries Jorvik Viking centre in York, visitors were 1994; Consultant, Attorney General of Neurosurgery in Liverpool. He continues transported around the building on a Pakistan 1995-6; legal assistant to Prime to do some Neuroscience teaching at Norman Gerard McCrum, Tutor ride mimicking a medieval scholar’s desk, Minister Benazir Bhutto; member of the Hertford. He was recently appointed and Fellow in Engineering 1964- past various tableaux depicting different official delegation to the 49th, 50th and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Royal 1994; Emeritus Fellow 1994-2013 phases of the university’s history. It wasn’t 51st session of the General Assembly of College of Physicians of Edinburgh, an 13 March 1927-20 October 2013 until almost twenty years and two million the UN; member of the official delegation open-access, Medline-listed journal visitors later that it closed. Without Gerry, of Pakistan to the UN Human Rights with a world-wide readership. He would it would never have opened. Gerry in retirement with his dogs Commission ; accompanied be happy to receive submissions to the Gerry and his twin brother were born in Benazir Bhutto in delegation to USA, journal in all branches of medicine, and Sunderland where his father was a marine China and ; drafted the Sindh medical history and the humanities, from engineer, but spent much of his childhood Local Government Act 2013. Khalid is current and old members of college. in the village of Cropston near Leicester, married to Iram Khalid (a member of Lucie Burgess (née Whitford) is living where his father had taken a position Provincial Assembly) and together they in Buckinghamshire, married with three as superintendent of the water works. have three children. children age 2, 5 and 7. Working for Gerry attended Loughborough Grammar the British Library. Completed my first School where he excelled academically, Maureen McLane’s latest publication is triathlon and a half marathon last year, but it was his prowess at cricket that This Blue: poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and visited Australia. A hectic life! made his father most proud. It was also at 2014). Her previous publications include this time that Gerry started bell ringing, a My Poets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), 1994 hobby he continued as an undergraduate. World Enough: poems (Farrar, Straus and Nadarajah Manivannan achieved the After national service in the Royal Giroux, 2010), Same Life: poems (Farrar, status of senior member of IEEE in May Artillery, Gerry went up to Oxford Straus and Giroux, 2008), Balladeering, 2013. His research on “Liveness detection to read physics, and stayed on for a Minstrelsy, and the Making of British of fingerprint recognition” was featured in doctorate in low temperature physics Romanticism (Cambridge University IET magazine in September 2010 and as with Kurt Mendelssohn in the Clarendon Press, 2008), Romanticism and the a news item in Planet Biometrics: “Dead Laboratory. It was here that Gerry’s human sciences: poetry, population, and or alive? Sweat pores provides clues”, sense of humour came to the fore. It the discourse of the species (Cambridge http://www.planetbiometrics.com/article- seems he had been to an exhibition of University Press, 2000), The Cambridge details/i/392, 26 September 2010, and contemporary art nearby but had not Companion to British Romantic Poetry, International New Biometric Modalities, “Hello, how are you?” been impressed by what he saw. He later co-ed., (Cambridge University Press, issue 142, p. 36, October 2010 “I’m fine, Gerry, how are you?” returned on the sly with his own quickly 2008). “Great” was always the cheery reply. It constructed contribution of twisted bits of 2003 was usually followed by a question about wire and such which he placed amongst 1991 Adam Guy won two scholarships during his current interest. Since these were the other works – where it remained, Ian Rogers was appointed Queen’s his Wine Trade diploma (2011-2013), widespread, and in some cases short- much admired, for the remainder of the Counsel in 2014, having returned from a including the Vintners scholarship for the lived, such questions were not always exhibition. sabbatical year researching in the field of highest performer from the UK trade. easy to answer. Nevertheless, however Following his doctorate, Gerry left commercial privacy and the protection of inadequate the reply, it was always Oxford for a teaching position at business data at the European University 2009 greeted with “thanks, that’s most helpful.” Pennsylvania State University before Institute, Florence, the Central European James Sleigh writes: “I have been Gerry was always enthusiastic and, when taking up a research post with DuPont in University, Budapest and Tilburg awarded a four-year Sir Henry Wellcome he got his teeth into something, had Wilmington, Delaware. It was here that the determination and ability to see it

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research. Gerry published in journals that may well have been the challenge. John Stainton Whitehead was born on and wrote two important research Indeed, as they became more important 20 September 1932. He was educated He later returned monographs, Anelastic and Dielectric and accepted, his interest in them began at ’s Hospital where he was an Effects in Polymeric Solids, co-authored to wane. Other challenges came along. At almoner. After national service in the on the sly with his own with B. E. Reed and G. Williams and first it was the “Oxford Story”, and later army from 1950-1952 he went to Hertford quickly constructed published in 1967, which is still in print his research into how the performance College, Oxford where he studied modern almost fifty years later, and A review of the of undergraduates differed according to languages graduating with honours in contribution of twisted Science of Fibre Reinforced Plastics in 1971. their subjects, backgrounds, and gender. 1955. He then joined the Foreign Service. Along with research, Gerry was keen His work ruffled feathers but, as with his After a brief introductory period in the bits of wire and such to develop new courses and to look for science, his comments were based on Foreign Office he was posted to Tokyo as a which he placed the most effective ways of teaching. He hard data and so there was no alternative language student. After his initial training had strong views on the latter but was but to take these issues seriously. he worked in the chancery and acted as amongst the other always prepared to listen to alternative Gerry’s son, Chris, describes his father private secretary to Sir Oscar Morland approaches and to change his mind as “a complex character, combining then ambassador to Japan. After a stint at works if convinced. He was co-ordinator many contrasting elements: an introvert the Foreign Office from 1961-64 he served of the Engineering, Economics and with a lively personality and engaging in Washington until 1967. He returned to Management course from its inception wit; a scientist with a deep knowledge Tokyo in 1968 as first secretary dealing he began working on new materials – until just before his retirement and was of literature; a creature of habit and with trade and commercial policy. After polymers – that were to form the basis of one of the first in the engineering science convention yet with a great zest for a further spell in London from 1971-1976 the rest of his scientific career. It was also department to produce voluminous notes challenging the status quo; self-absorbed where he worked in the administration, here that he met his first wife, Carolyn to accompany his lectures. He wrote a text but yet unfailingly generous to those in he was transferred to Bonn as counsellor Palmer Henry. In 1962 the family – by book, Principles of Polymer Engineering, trouble or need.” That’s the man I knew – and head of chancery. He was responsible then including two sons, Oliver and Chris, with C. P. Buckley and C. B. Bucknall, the and, yes Gerry, it was great. for supervising the arrangements for the and later a daughter, Anna – moved back third edition of which is soon to appear. Queen’s state visit to the Federal Republic to England. After a year in Cambridge His in the importance of data led Tony Wilson of Germany in 1978 and for these services he moved to Oxford and a fellowship at him to place greater reliance on the hard Senior Fellow and Tutor in Engineering he was appointed CVO. In 1980 he again Hertford, where he remained until he information available from the (then) returned to Tokyo, this time as minister retired. He divorced in 1979 and in 1981 UCCA form when assessing admissions and number two in the embassy. met his second wife, Carolyn MacKinnon. candidates than on an impression gained Sir John Whitehead GCMG, CVO; In 1984 John Whitehead was appointed For many, their abiding memory of from a high-pressure interview. His Honorary Fellow 1991-2013 Chief Clerk in the FCO (the traditional Gerry is his absolute passion for whatever methods were successful, and Hertford 20 September 1932 – 8 November 2013 title of the head of administration). There he was doing at the time, and the way he engineers consistently performed well he had to deal not only with routine revelled in challenging convention. This in university examinations. A former The Foreign Office recognized from 1858 administration and personnel matters was certainly the case in his research. undergraduate recalls that Gerry was when Japan was reopened to the West but also with crises such as that following He was an experimentalist at heart who “always keenly interested in our general that Britain needed officers qualified in the murder of police constable Yvonne was always pushing the limits to get the and academic welfare and, although the Japanese language and over the last Fletcher in St James’s Square. He did his highest quality data – sometimes to the he didn’t do a huge amount of tutorial 150 years the tradition of sending out best to protect, modernize and improve exasperation of his research students. teaching himself, he worked hard to young officers as language students has One of these recalls an experiment make sure that we had a good team of been maintained. John Whitehead, who required a series of all-night temperature tutors.” Gerry was never stuffy and always died on 8 November aged 81, was one of scans to be performed. At 9 a.m., Gerry, insisted on casual, or even fancy, dress for the most distinguished members of this eager to see the new data, would burst the Schools’ Dinner. He always appeared corps. He served for an unprecedented Ministers could in. His first words would always be “what in his Hawaiian shirt – one way in which six years as British ambassador in Tokyo temperature are you at?” always look to him generations of engineers will remember from 1987-1992 and made a significant These two traits – his passion for the him. contribution to the furtherance of Anglo- for a considered and research questions to be answered, and Gerry loved the drama of challenging Japanese relations not least by his efforts holding the data in the highest esteem – orthodox opinion. When he first began to promote Japanese investment in Britain penetrating analysis of cannot be bettered in a research scientist research into polymers, they were hardly and British exports, visible and invisible to and were a perfect example to a student the issues mainstream engineering materials – and Japan. learning the ropes in experimental

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conditions in the diplomatic service in the an important part of the European single face of relentless pressure for economies. market. The decision taken by Nissan to He would have quite liked to return to invest in a car making plant in Sunderland Germany as ambassador to the Federal was a catalyst and was key to the revival Republic, having studied German at of the British motorcar industry. John university and served his diplomatic Whitehead played a significant part in apprenticeship in the department this work. responsible for Germany, but with his Japan’s growing power in the world knowledge of the language and his wide meant that political relations could not experience of Japan he was the obvious be overlooked. John Whitehead was and right choice for Japan in 1987. He equally active in leading the political remained there as British ambassador work of the embassy. Ministers could until his retirement from the diplomatic always look to him for a considered and service at age 60 in 1992. These years penetrating analysis of the issues and proved to be a very busy and productive his advice was valued by the numerous time. ministerial, official and business visitors John Whitehead threw himself with who descended on Tokyo during his time enthusiasm into the pressing tasks of as ambassador. He had to look after a galvanizing British exporters to seize the number of royal visitors and attend the increasing opportunities in the Japanese ceremonies surrounding the death of market and was the driving force in setting the Showa Emperor () and the up the “Opportunity Japan Campaign”. accession of the present Emperor Akihito. But the Japanese market was still hedged John Whitehead also realized the value by trade impediments and a major task of cultural relations. He backed the work of was to persuade the Japanese authorities the in Japan and welcomed to take further measures to lower barriers the many British artists and musicians e.g. against and fully open who came to Japan during his time. He their markets for British manufactures. was himself an accomplished pianist and There were also significant problems a keen golfer. His distinguished service in facing British services where a “closed Japan was recognized by his appointment shop” for instance on the Tokyo Stock as a GCMG in 1992. Exchange prevented British financial At age 60 John Whitehead retained institutions from taking competitive his vigour and his interest in trade and positions at a time when Japanese growth industry. He became a senior adviser to was rising towards its bubble. Morgan Grenfell, the merchant bank, However hard British firms tried it and a non-executive director of various was clear to John Whitehead and his companies including Schweppes, colleagues in Tokyo and London that the Serco and BPB. He also acted as senior imbalance in trade between Britain and adviser to a number of other British and Japan could not be bridged. Japanese Japanese companies. He was adviser to investment in Britain was seen as vital the President of the Board of Trade from to dampen smouldering trade friction. 1992-95 and continued to work on the Mrs Thatcher who paid official visits to promotion of exports to Japan. Japan in 1982 and 1989 recognized the John Whitehead kept up his importance of Japanese manufacturing commitment to improving relations with investment to the British economy and Japan and devoted much time and effort gave her personal backing to efforts to to Anglo-Japanese organizations with persuade Japanese companies of the which he was associated. These included value to them of investing in Britain as the UK-Japan 21st Century Group and the

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GB-Sasakawa Foundation. He served as prime contacts, but the authorities were of treatment and surgery, Scott insisted We record with regret the following chairman of the Japan Society from 2000- adamant that there was to be no fun near strenuously upon remaining in post for deaths of alumni, listed in order of the 2006 and of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese the summit. so long as he was able, a testament to date of matriculation. Use of an asterisk Foundation from 2004-2012. For his He served the statutory two terms of his unfailing sense of duty and love for (*) indicates that an obituary follows; services to Anglo-Japanese relations he three years before leaving the Presidency Hertford and its people. we are most grateful to those who have was awarded in 2006 the Grand Cordon in 1997, and he was much missed; but Scott’s funeral was held in Hertford supplied this material. of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan. his interest in the Hertford Society led chapel on 28 August. It was attended Notwithstanding all these him to continue to be a regular and to overflowing by his family, friends, 1932 commitments, which he carried out most welcome attender at social events, and colleagues, along with Hertford James Briggs, 10 June 2013, aged 98.* conscientiously, he maintained his in particular at the annual committee students and fellows, giving the college devotion to music. He became a trustee of dinners at the Oxford and Cambridge the opportunity to pay its final respects 1933 the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra and Club. He was genial and friendly to all, to a much loved character and a valued David Whinfield Barclay Baron, 9 March a member of the Royal Opera House Trust. being equally at ease with old committee member of our community. He will be 2010, aged 94.* In addition he made the time to complete lags, with younger members and with most terribly missed by all who had the in 2004 a degree in music at the Open the MCR and JCR Presidents who were honour and pleasure of working with 1937 University and taught himself to play the regularly invited. We shall all miss him. him. Robert Murray Niven Band, 20 December organ. Through all these activities John 2013, aged 94. Whitehead ensured that time was kept for Charles Gibson (1959), former President of Andrew Beaumont Mervyn Evans, 9 February 2014, aged 95. his family to whom he was devoted. He the Hertford Society Home Bursar is survived by his wife Carolyn whom he 1938 married in 1964 and by his two sons and (Noel) Stephen Pratt, 30 March 2014, two daughters. Scott Kennedy, Lodge Porter aged 94.* 2008-2014 © 4 November 1961 – 22 August 2014. 1939 John Howard Phillips, 20 April 2014, aged College addendum Scott Kennedy died peacefully on 22 94. John Whitehead’s service to the nation has August 2014 after a valiant battle with been well described in the Times obituary; cancer. He was 52. Scott was a loving 1941 but his service to the Hertford Society also husband to Jacky, and a proud father and Neville Barker Cryer, 2 July 2013, aged deserves to be recorded. grandfather. He was passionate in his 89.* He was still HM Ambassador to Japan love for Oxford United Football Club, the when we elected him President in 1991, “Mod Scene” and for the 1943 and his stature led to a busy portfolio armed forces. A deeply private man, Donald John Woodthorpe Browne, 7 June of appointments on his retirement. Scott was nonetheless an outgoing and 2013, aged 88. He would have been excused if these effervescent colleague, a wonderful Lodge Michael James Burns, 23 November 2013, had led him to a distinctly intermittent porter, and in general a great asset to the aged 88. involvement in the Society’s affairs: college. Scott’s presence, his quirky sense presiding at the AGM when possible, of humour, and his 60s retro-chic style 1948 and little more. The contrary turned out made him an immediately visible and John Michael Best-Shaw, 22 April 2014, to be the case. The records show that recognized feature of Hertford. Students, aged 89. he attended nearly every meeting of the fellows and staff alike will recall his wry Anthony Charles Ryder, 15 September Committee, as well as AGMs and social smile and vast repository of college 2013, aged 85.* occasions. He had a charm and lightness anecdotes (former students may rest of touch; he would contribute helpfully to assured that their anonymity was always 1949 a discussion without ever attempting to preserved), and the assistance which he Peter John Wrensted Alchin, June 2013, pull rank. His one failure, if it can properly provided to countless members of our aged 84. be so called, was his attempt in 1993-4 community during his time with us. John Robinson Hammond, 1 June 2013, to achieve a social event at the top of the Despite the debilitating symptoms of aged 85. new Canary Wharf in Docklands. He had his illness and the subsequent impact

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1950 2013, aged 59. He was subsequently posted to HQ, RAF Malcolm Beckwith Parkes, 10 May 2013, Bomber Command and then in 1942 aged 82. 1973 to HQ, Home Forces Whitehall. From Brian Freeman Simpson, 12 November Harry St John Holcroft, 3 November 2013, October 1942, James became the Senior 2013, aged 82.* aged 62.* Met Officer in the Mediterranean region Walter James Swan, 21 April 2014, aged and was involved in the Allied Bomber 1951 59.* Campaigns in North Africa and Italy. Philip William Bagley, 16 February 2014, In 1946, James joined the Met Office aged 82. 1974 HQ in Dunstable, Bedfordshire and spent John Eady. seven years there, mainly advising on 1952 high level winds. He was then posted to John Stainton Whitehead, 8 November 1975 RAF Watnall, near Nottingham, where he 2013, aged 81 (obituary above). Peter John Fenn, 15 March 2013, aged 56. was in charge of meteorological aspects David Baron (left) with Rupert Bruce Mitford at home of air traffic control and for seventeen in Shropshire 1953 1982 outstations. He returned to the Met Office Keith Jackson, 31 May 2014, aged 80. Terrence Peter Mark Hughes, 24 October HQ, Bracknell in 1961 to do research on courteous and considerate of others, he Ian Thomas Shield, 4 June 2013, aged 80. 2013, aged 49.* clear air turbulence, including special was a lifelong supporter of humanitarian work on Gibraltar. causes, and a true liberal in thought and 1956 2005 In 1964 James was appointed an RAF action. Born in London in 1915, he went Donald Edward Olleson, 20 September Ellen Garland Lygate (née Bettaney), 20 Group Captain and served as Chief Met to Copthorne School, won scholarships to 2013, aged 76. October 2013, aged 26.* Officer to SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Winchester (1928 – 1933), and Hertford Allied Powers Europe) in Paris. He College (1933 – 1937), where he read 1957 returned to the Met Office HQ in 1967 Classics and PPE, and met lifelong friends John Anderson Turner, 10 October 2013, James Briggs to take charge of Special Investigations. including the distinguished archaeologist aged 77. 17 November 1914 – 10 June 2013 These included giving weather advice and art-historian Rupert Bruce Mitford James Briggs was born in Dewsbury, for London’s 3rd Airport as well as about (later honorary fellow of the college). 1959 , in 1914. He attended the specifications for the Concorde aircraft David’s father, Barclay Baron, and his (Ian) Philip Chadwick, 1 February 2014, Wheelwright Grammar School, and on air pollution problems. James was godfather Alec Paterson worked with aged 75.* Dewsbury and in 1932 he won a a member of numerous BSI, Royal Society, John Stansfeld at the Oxford Bermondsey John Martin Grundy, 27 March 2012, aged scholarship to Hertford College to read National Air Pollution, Royal Aeronautical Mission (OBM) when students at Oxford. 71. mathematics. In 1934, he was awarded and World Meteorological Committees. After serving in Flanders with the YMCA, the Oxford University Junior Mathematics James was promoted to a Director of the his father became a founding member 1965 Scholarship. James gained a first class Met Office in 1972 and finally retired in of Toc H, to which he dedicated his life. Christopher Kevin Garnet Phippen. mathematics degree and then went on to 1975 to Devon where he and his wife Elsie This background of liberal idealism complete a physics honours degree in one spent a long and enjoyable retirement. strongly influenced the direction of 1966 year. His wife predeceased him in 2011 but David’s life. Soon after graduation, he William George Fraser, September 2012, James joined the Met Office as a his three children, Peter, Jennifer and sailed for Ceylon () to begin his aged 65. meteorologist in 1937. He spent two Penelope, survive. James died peacefully public service career with H.M. Overseas years as Met advisor to the Army School on 10th June 2013 aged 98. Civil Service. He was required to stay in 1968 of Artillery and then volunteered for the Ceylon throughout the war; however he Jeffrey Raymond Adcock, 15 October RAF. He was called up in September 1939 Peter Briggs loved the country and had great respect 2013, aged 63.* and became the first Met Officer in France for the people of Ceylon. In 1948 he was where he was active for eight months on sent to Nairobi to set up the first East 1970 the border with Germany. He was lucky to David Baron African Central Assembly, as first Clerk, Andrew Vincent Bishop, 3 April 2014, escape in front of the Maginot Line when 11 April 1915 – 9 March 2010 then Secretary to the Principal Officers. aged 61.* the German army invaded Belgium and David Whinfield Barclay Baron, who In 1951 he was posted to Hong Kong. France in May 1940. James was rescued died aged 94 in March 2010, was a man Always conscious of the privilege of his 1972 after three days on Dunkirk beach with of high principle and dynamic energy, own education, he fostered educational (Christopher) Roger Rowberry, 7 August all twenty men of his operations unit. intensely modest about himself. Always opportunities for others wherever he

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Soon, too, he was became first director of the Social Welfare of the highlights of a rich and active life, noted for his theatrical performances, since Noilly Prat was Department (1958), and served on the and he was honoured and touched when a again delineating an element that would a much advertised Executive and Legislative Councils of party of five distinguished Chinese friends remain important in his life. Among his the Hong Kong government. Beginning and former colleagues, including Dame college tutors, he seems to have gravitated brand of vermouth at with a small handful of people, his Anson Chan, visited him in Shropshire in towards Felix Markham, acquiring and department staff grew to 700, with his late eighties. developing the latter’s enthusiasm for the the time almost 200 university trained Chinese After leaving Hong Kong, David French Revolution and indeed for most personnel by the time he left. With typical worked with the social work branch of the things French. In 1970, Stephen published and Sussex Grammar, conveniently near energy and determination, in 1960 he Gulbenkian Foundation in London (from a text-book on that very revolution. his family home. To teaching he brought took the initiative to invite Dame Eileen 1966); and the National Extension College However, as with his contemporaries, a sustained interest in the past, awareness Younghusband as consultant to Hong in Cambridge (from 1967); in 1975 he undergraduate studies were interrupted of the latest writing, and a measure of Kong, whose groundbreaking work “The retired near Ludlow in Shropshire. In his by the war. Seldom did he refer to those showmanship to gain and keep the Younghusband Report” (1959) led to the nineties he was quietly overjoyed when a experiences. First he served in North attention of wayward school-boys. An establishment in Britain of the National volume of his father’s memoirs of YMCA Africa, then participated in the allied impressive presence and sculptural head Institute for Social Work Training (1961) work during WWI was published in 2009, landings and campaign in Italy from assisted, though he complained once and professional education and regulation by Dr Michael Snape of Birmingham 1943. Once he remarked that, having when travelling in Europe that he had of social workers. David’s sense of purpose University. To his colleagues David was been raised close to the modest glories of been taken for a German (principally and determination to implement this “a formidable figure” and “an exemplary Worthing Bay, he saw little to admire in because of his high colouring). His skilful approach helped place Hong Kong at the leader who will be missed”; to his friends Salerno. Otherwise, though, he became guidance, expert tuition and the Oxford forefront of welfare development by the he was “a gentleman of the old school” and remained a lover of Italy, its paintings, contacts that he kept in good repair time he left, at which time he had served and “an intensely civilised man”. He is buildings and music. Then followed a spell quickly ensured a steady stream of boys on both the executive and legislative survived by his daughter. as commandant of a camp for displaced awarded places. Thanks to the calendar of councils of the Hong Kong government. people in Austria. the entrance examinations – three groups Dame Eileen later wrote: “Nothing would Jo Tennent Resuming his degree and highly with separate examinations in the colleges’ have happened subsequently if it had not regarded by tutors, Stephen had hopes dining halls – it was possible to spread been for you. There are many shoals and that he might have a future in research at the applicants. Merton and Queen’s were some deep water ahead, but the great the university. The examiners in Finals in favoured destinations, but it was to his old point is that everything is on the move, 1947 put paid to that dream. Firsts were David’s sense college that most of the successful went whereas before it was static.” sparingly awarded then and subventions during the 1950s and 1960s. David’s wife, the artist Julia Morley of purpose and few. He was viva-ed on the border-line The atmosphere of excited competition (1915–2008), was a perfect counterpoint between a second and a first on the same and expectation conjured by Alan Bennett to his powerful sense of duty and determination to morning as Karl Leyser. Leyser went in The History Boys, although not the responsibility. After a long day in the office up, opening a future as a professional implement this characteristics and foibles of the masters, he was often in her studio, stretching historian, which culminated in his tenure could be found at , Hove and canvases, cutting mosaics, helping to approach helped of the Chichele chair between 1984 and Sussex Grammar. Yet, Stephen Pratt, prepare for commissions and exhibitions. 1988. Stephen stayed in the second-class. discreet and loyal, was far more than an They shared an intense passion for travel, place Hong Kong Stoically he accepted the disappointment, accomplished crammer of the callow music and the arts. The uncertain situation and, mindful of family obligations, at the forefront of for examinations. Philistinism was not in China meant that Hong Kong was at this immediately set about earning his living. a failing of the establishment, but its time particularly lively and cosmopolitan, Scholarship’s loss was schooling’s gain. welfare development prevalent ethos was summed up by the and they made friends among writers, He went first to Merchant Taylors’ at Crosby disproportionate energy directed into sinologists and “China watchers” of the by the time he left outside Liverpool, then to Brighton, Hove the annual staging of one or other of the

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He was born Anthony played performance of the War Requiem broadcast was added deep immersion in the musical an only child in Accrington, where his from Cathedral or in sharing and cultural life of the town. parents owned a draper’s shop, and was an important role in enthusiasm for the revelatory Picasso What clouded an otherwise happy brought up exposed equally by his family the foundation and exhibition at the Tate in 1960, Stephen time was the growing uncertainty over to both and emboldened those who did not subscribe the future of grammar schools. Stephen while a pupil at Manchester Grammar development of the to all the institutional orthodoxies. He was believed in a system from which he had School. He won a place at Hertford in never heard to speak of sport. Presiding benefited and in which he thrived as 1941 to read History, leaving after a year Hertford Society over the lively literary and debating the instructor of the able and ambitious. to serve in the army in India and Nepal. society, he introduced sixth-formers to In common with others who had On his return to the UK he studied at the poets of the Second (Lewis, sympathized with the Butler Education Hertford from 1946-8, and then went as Hertford in 1948 to read Modern History. Keyes, Laurie Lee and Henry Treece). Boys Act and the new dawn of 1945, Stephen an ordinand to Ridley College Cambridge, After graduating in 1951, he joined the with an unusual inventiveness nicknamed was disillusioned and ultimately wearied serving as a curate in Derby and Ilkeston staff of Woodcote House, a preparatory him “Nolly”, since Noilly Prat was a much by the protracted ideological controversies. before going to Blackley in Manchester school in Windlesham, . Apart advertised brand of vermouth at the time. The destruction of the grammar schools and (in 1960) to Addiscombe in Surrey. By from his teaching duties, a major part of At first living and assisting in the elicits reactions akin to those that greeted then he had met and married his first wife Anthony’s interests, indeed a passion, was small boarding house of the school, in the dissolution of the monasteries in Anne, with whom he had four children coaching and playing cricket. 1961 marriage to Amy Howells, herself a the 1530s: seen either a necessary and and a happy family life. In 1967 Neville After three years at Woodcote House, teacher, meant setting up a home. There, enlightened reform or a spiteful act of became the Home Secretary of the British Anthony was approached to become one they surrounded themselves with the cultural vandalism. With some relief, but Society, from which he was of the foundation staff of Springvale, the bold colours, simple designs and vivid considerable regret, he retired, moving appointed in 1970 as General Secretary newly formed junior school of Peterhouse patterns that were only slowly lapping to Chipping Campden. There, although of the Bible Society. The last years of in what was then Southern . from into provincial Britain, illness curtailed travels, it was possible Neville’s time at the Bible Society were He travelled out in a Union vessel even modish Brighton and Hove. to keep abreast of the theatre and with a difficult time for the family owing to to , and then went north. He It was inevitable that success as a the many old friends and former pupils. the illness and early death of Anne. He was joined shortly afterwards by Peter teacher, together with Amy’s support, Proud of the varied achievements of those retired in October 1986 with his second Blencowe, a friend and colleague from would take him further. In 1963 he moved pupils (two at least – John Gillingham wife, Marjorie, to Haxby near York, a Woodcote House. Anthony had bought to Stratford-on-Avon as headmaster of and Nigel Saul – became prominent compromise between Marjorie’s beloved an elderly car and together they explored the King Edward VI Grammar School. It medievalists, while Tim Pigott-Smith has North East and Neville’s desire to be many unforgettable sights in Central was a singularly apt translation. The school won renown as an actor) and happy in close to London. Haxby offered good and Eastern Africa, including climbing had been Shakespeare’s and its head Amy’s companionship, he retained those rail links with London, so Neville was Kilimanjaro. At one point they planned was ex officio a governor of the memorial attributes of enthusiasm, cultivation and able to continue his various charitable to return to England by driving from the theatre. Moreover, with the job went a occasional astringency which had made and scholarly activities unimpeded, Cape to Cairo. It seems that navigation in fine late seventeenth- and eighteenth- him such a notable – indeed unsurpassed including small Bible study groups in the car was not one of Anthony’s strong century house, adjacent to the medieval – mentor. I must speak for many when which he participated vigorously up to points, so perhaps mercifully for both of Chapel. Stephen and Amy relished I aver that without his (and Amy’s) his death. He was author of many books them, they travelled back by sea via Aden the life which brought them regularly kindness and direction I would not have on religious and masonic matters and and then round the Cape. This was 1956, to the theatre and into the company of had the career that I have enjoyed. was a much loved member of his various the year of Suez, and the canal was closed. actors and directors. The circle of their communities. Back in England, Anthony went into friends encompassed , then Toby Barnard accountancy. He had a spell with Ford at the Shakespeare Institute in the town, Emeritus fellow Rose Williams and then Sagit, with the J.B. Priestley and his archaeologist wife, Anthony Charles Ryder latter’s connection with the Hulton Press. Jacquetta Hawkes, the Donald Sindens, 21 September 1927 – While there, he interviewed Rosemary Anne Barton, another Shakespeare Neville Cryer 15 September 2013 Wickham for the job of secretary to Sir scholar, and Constance Thompson, 23 May 1924 – 2 July 2013 Anthony Ryder was educated at Edward Hulton, later marrying her in who had earlier removed her Ruskin The Revd Neville Barker Cryer was Charterhouse, and did his National Service 1968 at Chawton in Hampshire; their Gallery selling English watercolours from General Secretary of the Bible Society in the Navy as a “writer”. He came up to children Charles and Rosalind were

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But In November 1974 Brian and family time to be Treasurer of Moreton Cricket we had both read history and so we had moved to Sevenoaks. We followed in 1979. Club, a position he held for twenty-six much in common. We knew the same We soon caught up with Brian. When we years. Anthony played an important role tutors – Johnny Armstrong and Felix arrived he was the chairman of our local in the foundation and development of Markham – and had many reminiscences ward branch and for many years organised the Hertford Society. He was elected as to share. We often talked about Hertford leaflet deliveries. I have one other memory its first treasurer in June 1962, and then and how it was progressing. Once, back of Brian to mention. In the days when the secretary in 1964. In 1965 he resumed the in 1983, we travelled together to Oxford Council of Churches organised a Vigil on office of treasurer, exchanging jobs with by train for a college reunion. After dinner the Vine on Good Friday afternoon, Brian all was the diversity of his interests. He Derek Conran, another vital person in the in hall we talked with some of the friends would usually be there. When the Vigil had read all of Ian Fleming’s Bond novels early history of the Society. Rather more we had known 30 years before and it was ended we would have a chat before going and could recall precisely such details as than ten years later, Anthony handed quite late before we decided to respond our separate ways. how the special agent liked his Martinis over as treasurer to John Birkle, but in to the Principal’s open invitation to Over the years we had many – this being well before the Connery 1977 came back as a committee member. call at his lodgings in the old Quad. We conversations. He would always greet me film . Mrs , whose novel His final service to the Society was as its arrived just in time to be met by his wife, with a smile and our talk was enlivened East Lynne was then regarded as one of auditor from 1989 to 2001. His total of 49 the redoubtable Baroness Warnock, who by his penetrating and witty comments. the worst ever published, had also been years as officer or committee member is as had decided it was time to evict the ex- He was always interested in where we relished along with accepted canonical yet unsurpassed. students and close the door for the night. had been and what we had been doing, authors, notably Trollope, a lifelong Anthony was a strong and committed Brian’s career was in the National while making light of his own activities. favourite with Philip. churchman. He regularly attended the Coal Board until it was abolished and He was such a friendly, talented but self- From time to time Philip would take me services at his local church, served on he was obliged to take early retirement. effacing man. I feel very privileged to have off to look at something that excited him. the South Moreton Parochial Church As a civil servant, I was interested to known him. His tastes were wide; on one occasion it Council for twenty-six years, and was for learn that he did some interviewing for was to see the spectacular baroque library a time a church warden. It was thus most the Civil Service Commission. At our Bob Coupe (1953) at Queen’s, on another the Morris Burne- appropriate that his memorial service first meeting in Orpington Brian and I Jones tapestries in Exeter College chapel. was held in his final parish church, St discovered something else we had in Coming from the north-west Philip had a Michael’s, Aston Tirrold, Oxfordshire. The common: support for the Liberal Party. Philip Chadwick deep admiration for the vigorous Victorian address in the packed church was given by Orpington, the scene a few years before 28 October 1938 – 1 February 2014 builders of the northern industrial towns Peter Blencowe, his lifelong friend, in the of Eric Lubbock’s dramatic by-election The son of a police inspector, Philip and for the painting and sculpture of that presence of Rosemary, Charles, Rosalind, was born in Ashton-under-Lyne and period. He pronounced Keble College his two brothers, other relatives, and educated at Stockport Grammar School, Chapel to be Oxford’s finest building and friends representing every facet of his life, an outstanding direct grant school. had, quite rightly, little time for Jackson. including of course Hertford College. Arriving after national service at Hertford It is difficult now to recapture how He would always as a scholar in Michaelmas 1959 to read unfashionable Victorian and Edwardian Graham Jones (1964) greet me with a Modern History, the characteristic Philip architecture had become and how was already well formed. Oxford did not ignorant even “educated” people were smile and our talk shape him but rather allowed him to hone about this great period. Predictably Philip Brian Simpson his wonderful and at times rather wicked bought John Betjeman’s autobiography 31 August 1931 – 12 November 2013 was enlivened by his and to polish his dry sense Summoned by Bells as soon as it was I first met Brian in the early 1970s when penetrating and witty of humour. Philip’s major preoccupation published in 1960 and, well before the we were both living in Orpington. He was the university Liberal Club which was foundation of the Victorian Society, was a knocked on our door to solicit support comments regarded then by most of us as a perceptive admirer of the Victorian railway for a college financial appeal to one- destined for extinction. What amazed us station, particularly of Scott’s St Pancras.

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congenial as paperwork increasingly Jeffrey Adcock state sector (in Andy’s case, Luton Sixth Philip’s major tied him to his desk. 14 January 1950 – 15 October 2013 Form College). The son of a Polish father, After our retirements we started and spurred on by his hard-working and preoccupation making occasional day visits to northern ambitious parents, Andy made rapid towns such as Hull. Our trip to Derby progress through his schooling. Having was the university serves as a typical example. We first taken his exams a year early, he arrived at enjoyed the Wrights of Derby in the Art Hertford whilst still only 17 – a fact which Liberal Club which Gallery, then borrowed the key to the didn’t inhibit him from drinking in the was regarded then redundant St Werburgh’s church where college bar! we had our sandwiches in some style This was a nervous but exciting time and by most of us as a in the vestry with its lavish Victorian Andy’s presence in our group provided furnishing – it was tipping with rain. the steady and sensible approach we dinosaur destined for Then it was on to a late eighteenth- sometimes needed. His contemporaries extinction century town house, Pickford’s House, Jeff Adcock universally recall and acknowledge where he quickly charmed the staff. Next these qualities: a wise, gentle, modest, came St Mary’s by Pugin and finally the Recruitment consultant Jeff Adcock died patient, loyal and trusted friend, with cathedral, an almost complete rebuild of on 15 October 2013 aged 63. The funeral boundless optimism and cheerfulness. Able to rattle off the of all the the medieval church by James Gibbs who took place at St James the Great Church Andy was awarded a scholarship to read LNER locomotives, it was not just the preserved the spectacular perpendicular Paulerspury, Northamptonshire. At Biochemistry but soon switched to PPP architecture that interested him but how tower which pertinently was compared Brentwood School, Jeff’s sporting pursuits and, after leaving Oxford, went on to the whole infrastructure of the railways by Philip with that of Magdalen College, included table tennis, cricket, fencing and further study in Psychology at – the grand hotel station, engine sheds with the fair judgement that Derby’s Bridge. His late younger brother Derek University, leading to a PhD in 1979. He and the like – came together. I once was more distinguished. On the way was at also at Brentwood around five was one of those rare individuals who are remarked on how much more ambitious back to the station we took in a bank years later. equally able and comfortable studying the and smart the northern London stations or two and also an office block that He came up to Hertford in 1968 and arts or sciences. were than those that served the south- Philip felt was worth looking at – not gained a degree in Jurisprudence. After The same versatility was evident in his east and the continent and was given an only did he know the architect but also graduation, he worked in recruitment career: he joined the Home Office as a immediate reasoned reply on why this the commercial history of the building and became self employed as a human fast-stream statistician in 1977 (as part of was so. On my last trip to Sheffield he which explained the choice of architect. relations consultant in the early his training he spent a year at the LSE) but, took me to see the elegant but neglected He made one’s grey cells come alive and 1990s. Jeff and his wife Jill moved to after transferring to the Scottish Office, neoclassical remains of Sheffield’s first also kept one fit, as, although already Northamptonshire from Woodford in moved into policy-making, including railway station. frail with Parkinson’s disease, he moved 2012 after she retired as a dental surgeon influential roles in the development of After Oxford, undecided on a career, at something of a lick. A day out with “with a view to taking things easier.” ’s industrial and science policies. Philip went to work for the Liberal party Philip with his unique blend of crisp However, Jeff continued working until His initial career was in London, where in the West of England. He then settled humour, deep knowledge and sharp his death. He loved Manchester United, he met and married Susie in 1980. He on the law and became articled to the perception was hugely pleasurable. gardening and his three grandchildren. Jill was extremely proud of his children, Tom Town Clerk of Oldham where he met Philip looked back on his Hertford Adcock, their children Helen and Mark, born in 1982 and Rosie in 1985, both and married Diane. After qualifying as days with great affection and was a and the grandchildren survive him. academically successful in achieving a solicitor he joined Wallasey Borough regular attendee at college gaudies. In PhDs. After a few years Andy and Susie Council in 1970 but it was only after his recognition of this he left the college a Reproduced by kind permission from the were getting restless to escape London move to Sheffield two years later that bequest. All who encountered Philip will Old Brentwoods Chronicle and so in 1990 the family moved to he discovered his forté as a prosecuting sympathise with Diane, his wife of 44 Scotland. Living outside within solicitor. The sharp wit and humour that years, and their son Andrew over their easy reach of the glorious Trossachs and he employed to the full in presenting deep loss of this lively man. Andrew Vincent Bishop Loch Lomond, they put down roots and the prosecution’s case will long be 14 December 1952 – 3 April 2014 made many friends. remembered by habitués of Sheffield Timothy Stevens (1959) Andy arrived at Hertford in 1970 as part The countryside offered plenty of and Rotherham’s Magistrates Courts. of its pioneering scheme to widen entry to opportunities for walking, including His transfer to the newly formed Oxford. 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He brought the cocoon in which he slept. a breadth of knowledge and quiet During his travels in the rainforest he determination to succeed in all he did, often snacked on local delicacies such even in those few areas where his skillset as red ants. In one Brazilian tribe the was weakest – like DIY! children fill the hollow centres of palm Over the years Andy had attended stalks with palm oil and leave them out the occasional gaudy. For the 1961-1970 overnight to attract ants. Next morning gaudy in January 2012 he led the charge to when the stalks have turned pink with the reunite his closest contemporaries, many ants, they pick them off and enjoy them of whom had not seen each other since like popcorn. Holcroft joined them and leaving Oxford. We could not have known found the ants peppery. then that he would cruelly succumb to He served for 23 years with the pancreatic cancer two years later and so Household Cavalry, including tours of soon after taking early retirement. We will Cyprus, Northern and Germany, always remember Andy with affection before he was invalided out and chose to Kapok Trees, Upper Amazon, Peru, painted by Harry Holcroft and gratitude. paint full-time. Holcroft was a thoughtful, kind and Dick Parsons (1970) courteous man and made friends easily. administrators. He had spent the past two other published works include: The Spice Good-looking and stylishly scruffy, he winters as artist-in-residence of Ahilya Route (2000), The Slave Route (2003) and charmed everyone he met. He painted Fort, Maheshwar, central India, the family Rainforest: Light and Spirit, a collaboration Harry Holcroft the rainforest because he was haunted by seat of his friend Prince Richard Holkar. with the botanist and ecologist Professor 2 May 1951 – 3 November 2013 its devastation and attracted to its subtle Holcroft had spent much time drawing Sir Ghillean Prance (2009). The Prince of A widely travelled artist, Major Harry changing light, vivid colour, feeling of and painting the Narmada river and Wales, who wrote the foreword, referred Holcroft was as much at home in the space and primeval chaos. As an artist, he helped in teaching art to children at the to it as a “call to arms”. insect-infested jungle as he was in the felt challenged by the impenetrable jungle local school. Carrying little more than his briefcase, rolling countryside of Provence where landscape which offered no perspective or He was also an accomplished writer. He Holcroft travelled across desert, mountain, he lived. He painted the botanical and horizon. Over the course of his travels, he was particularly inspired by the example oceans and jungle, while researching his animal life of the world’s great tropical witnessed the dwindling of the of of Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby, a books. He was writing a book on the rainforests of Central and South America, Central and South America and Borneo nineteenth-century military man, whose South Seas and the Pacific when he died Africa, India and Southern Asia. His owing to deforestation. He made five portrait hung in his regimental mess. suddenly in India after falling down a pictures sold well. During the 1970s he trips to the Amazon. His paintings drew Burnaby had explored Asia Minor and flight of steps. received commercial commissions for attention to the plight of the world’s beyond and Holcroft, following in his Harry St John Holcroft was born companies as diverse as Drambuie, Bear forests and his work was shown in the hero’s footsteps, travelled across Europe in Birmingham in 1951 and educated Stearns, BP Oil and , and in West End, New York, Los Angeles and to China to trace the fifteenth-century at Downside where the art teacher, the 1980s he painted many watercolours Provence. Silk Route, keeping an illustrated diary a one-armed monk, encouraged his of the Middle East. He was also comfortable in the searing along the way. This journey, in three trips, artistic talent. He read development Above all, it was for his intrepid jungle heat of India. His parents had married took him three years. His illustrations economics at Hertford College, Oxford, expeditions and paintings of desolate in , where his mother’s family accompanied by his lively text were and studied art at Ruskin School of rainforests that he is best known. His had been tea planters and colonial published in The Silk Route in 1999. His Drawing. He married Sarah Jane Brooks,

110 Hertford College Magazine Hertford College Magazine 111 HERTFORD RECORD HERTFORD RECORD Obituaries Obituaries the daughter of Christopher Brooks and night in Trinity term of our first year. It it was a privilege for us all that you were equity firms in Europe hungry to acquire Patricia Matthews, the late Viscountess was after the had shut and some part of our lives. European companies, and understood the Rothermere, in 1988. She survives him misguided theatre troupe had decided sophisticated debt financing techniques with their two sons, Christopher and to perform the world stage premiere Mark White (1973) available in the US market but which Harry, and his two daughters, Olivia and of “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They”? were absent in Europe. After a spell as Samantha, from an earlier marriage. in Trinity College gardens, which Head of Leveraged Finance at UBS where were en route to college. We suddenly Terry Hughes he organized some of the most eye- © The Times remembered that we knew some of the 15 May 1964 – 24 October 2013 catching deals of the period, he joined people involved in the production. Full Terry Hughes was one of the leading and as its first European Head of bravado we managed to gain free most innovative corporate financiers of of Leveraged Finance, the most coveted Walter Swan admittance by coming up with some his generation. job in the fledgling buyout financing 16 December 1954 – bogus explanation. Part-way during He was one of a small group who industry. At Goldman Sachs he set about 21 April 2014 the play one of our crowd shouted out helped create the sophisticated market providing the European private equity The sudden and a one word critique of the performance in debt finance which proved catalytic in market with the type of financing up until unexpected death of by the leading actress, who obviously the growth of management buyout and then only available in the US, recruiting Walter (Wally) Swan took the “compliment” the wrong way. private equity-backed businesses. a legendary team to support him and was profoundly sad This resulted in the director asking us to Although driven and among the laying the foundations of the European and shocked all his leave. To be fair to him, he gave us our City’s most influential executives, he market. Terry’s brilliance was that he was Hertford friends. Here was someone who money back, which was generous as we was self-deprecating with great natural able to bridge innovative US financing deserved to walk the earth and tread hadn’t paid in the first place. By this time, persuasiveness and charm. His generous techniques with the often complex legal, the boards for many more years. In our Wally and I were getting rather famished philanthropy, ranging from supporting commercial and fiscal particularities matriculation year Wally was probably and we ended up in the tent where the the National Portrait Gallery to his of European markets, and so became the most recognisable and talked about post-performance refreshments had Oxford college, Hertford, was delivered involved in many of Europe’s largest and character – and there were quite a few been lovingly laid out. We got stuck into without fuss or fanfare. most high-profile transactions. An early candidates for that honour. He was widely these with gusto. However, we were Born in , son of Peter and Freda deal was the creation of the rail freight known by the students of other years and soon caught out and, for a second time, Hughes, Terry remained an Irish citizen. business EWS which he felt rejuvenated was frequently the talk of the college. The asked to leave, but we still had time to He was educated at St. Mary’s School, an otherwise declining business; banking, fame which he acquired so quickly in his complain about the lack of mustard in Crosby, Liverpool, before going on to as he argued, for a social purpose. first term lasted throughout his stay at the ham sandwiches. study physics at Oxford. When Terry Rapid promotion within Goldman Hertford. Wally touched the lives of many people joined Continental Bank as a trainee in Sachs followed, rubbing shoulders with In his first principal’s collection Wally at Hertford. He did the same for many 1987 debt finance was a poor relation executives like the young Mark Carney, proudly boasted that his tutor had others. This was evident from the huge to the more glamorous disciplines of Hank Paulson and Sir Simon Robertson, described him as the epitome of the throng who attended the celebration merger and acquisition or advising quoted later to become chairman of Rolls Royce gentleman commoner. In fairness to him of his life, held in Ilkley. There were companies. The management buyout and deputy chair of HSBC. Terry became he continued to live up to that billing, splendid tributes to him from the many, industry was in its infancy and large-scale the Co-Head of Goldman Sachs’s no more so than when performing his various groups of friends as well as his buyout transactions and household-name European Mezzanine Loan Fund (one cabaret act in the bar after rugby matches. family, including one from Hertford private equity firms did not exist. He cut of the earliest examples of investment He will long be remembered for those days, which was wonderfully delivered his professional teeth providing loans banks raising and managing third party jokes involving flamboyant, physical by Russell Burton (1973). The day was for the small management buyouts that loan capital for deployment in the buyout actions, especially the one relating to pre- a fitting and moving valedictory event, were the staple of the market at the time, industry) and went on to head the decimal coinage. His most glorious hour replete with a multitude of examples of a training ground that laid the foundation European team at the firm, charged was the post-prandial entertainment at the talented Mr Swan. for the bigger and more sophisticated with developing the wider relationship the college rugby dinner in the Star Room Wally will be greatly missed, most financings from which he later made his with its private equity clients across the of the Randolph Hotel. It is a great relief notably by his wife, Niccola, and his sons, name. gamut of financial options. to his companions on that occasion that Laurie and Finlay. Although his passing Terry was quick to grasp the significance Terry brought to all of these roles an social media had not been born and the was tragically premature, it is impossible of the rapid developments in this market ability to see the big picture, to create a selfie was four decades away. not think of him without smiling. Such in the 1990s. He saw the emergence of rapport with senior clients, persuading Perhaps the most memorable story I was the measure of the man. Thanks, the large European private equity funds, them to adopt often new and challenging can recall involving Wally was one Friday Wally, you were a wonderful friend and watched the arrival of big name US private financing techniques. He was the true

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pioneer, challenging the rulebook Terry’s cumulative gifts qualified him for established from previous generations Oxford University’s Court of Benefactors, and striking out anew. The new rule book, along the way supporting successive to the extent there is one, is very much his generations of rowers including a World invention. Champion and Beijing Olympic Finalist. A He became uneasy, however, at the diligent art collector in his own right with direction in which innovative debt finance a keen interest in Etruscan pottery and at huge scale was leading. He did not antique maps, he gave generously to the believe in leverage for the sake of leverage, National Portrait Gallery of which he was and was alarmed at the unsustainable a life patron, most recently contributing size and appetite of the new market. He to the acquisition of the portrait “Lady believed that finance should create value, Ann Clifford”. He offered indispensable and that the future would lie with support as a trustee to another love, the independently owned and managed Cartoon Museum. He was an enthusiast funds who aimed to achieve that. In sportsman with a love of skiing, and 2005 Terry moved to Silver Point Capital cycling and ran over twenty marathons. where he was head of the firm’s principal All who knew him remember him as investment business in Europe until 2010, a dispassionate and always inquiring steering its loan portfolio through the analyst who put his insights to work for exceptionally turbulent market general betterment, and never failed to conditions of the time without accident. illuminate any conversation. His life was In 2010 he returned to his roots as one of like a brilliant meteor that, sadly, burned three managing partners at Hutton Collins, too bright and certainly for all too short a the London‐based fund specialising in time. Committed to his family whom he mezzanine and preferred capital. In what cherished, he is survived by his wife Maria turned out to be a tragically short period and three children Elena (18) Marco (16) he made a great contribution to the and Nico (14). firm leading its investments in Caffe , Hunter Boots and the Vincent Hotel Will Hutton (adapted from his obituary © Group on whose boards he represented The Times) the Fund. As his fortune grew, Terry became an ever more generous philanthropist. He Ellen Garland Lygate (née felt obliged to repay the debt to his much Bettaney) loved college, Hertford, which he felt had 5 May 1987 – 20 October 2013 given him the break he needed in life. Nobody who met Elle Lygate, née Bettaney For many years he supported Hertford’s (PPE, 2005), could forget her quickly. boat club and sporting activities, as well Nor, one suspects, would she want you as giving generously of his time as a to. Charismatic and confident beyond wise, benevolent and creative member of her years, Elle, who died suddenly in our Development Committee. It was of October 2013, brought laughter to friends course Terry who dreamt up the brilliant and tutors at Hertford and beyond. She idea of cycling from Bridge to Bridge, from had a sardonic and sharp humour which Oxford to Venice, an heroically was perhaps wasted in accountancy but undertaken by his wife Maria in his stead. certainly not socially. She even made it The room he occupied as JCR treasurer onto The Times Letters page in the coveted has recently been distinguished with a bottom-right-hand-corner slot, reserved plaque recording his generosity to the only for the wittiest readers, albeit with a college. comment she had pinched from her wife.

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Elle was born in 1987, the third child of on a blind date which had been facilitated David and Delia Bettaney, and grew up by mutual meddling friends. A talented The Hertford Society in Flintshire, through she preferred to tell athlete, Elle could also be found throwing friends that she came from Chester. All javelin and playing women’s pool for the President: who knew her will remember a fiercely university and was awarded a half-blue. Roger Westbrook, C.M.G. ambitious woman who had aspired to Amongst many memorable moments for attend Oxford since childhood. After her fellow Hertfordians was her time on Past Presidents: graduating Elle worked for Deloitte and the college trip to Japan in 2007. Photos The Rt. Revd. and Rt. Hon. Dr. Robert Stopford, K.C.V.O., C.B. † Sir John Brown, C.B.E. † the Westmont Hospitality Group. Having provided evidence of just how much of a Sir Nicholas Henderson, G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O. † worked in her teenage years for a hotel thrill she got from exploring the world and Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede † near her home in North Wales, Elle’s entertaining the locals, in this case, letting Sir John Whitehead, G.C.M.G., C.V.O. † passion was for luxury hotels and she was them kit her out in a kimono even though The Rt. Hon. the Lord Waddington, G.C.V.O., P.C., Q.C., D.L. General Sir Roger determined to return to the industry. she was rarely seen wearing a dress. In her Wheeler, G.C.B., C.B.E. Elle was strong in her opinions and, short life, Elle certainly packed a lot in. It Vice Presidents: some might suggest, stubborn; she was goes without saying that she is missed by D.H. Conran, T.D., F.R.S.A. also a caring and positive woman who so many and her passing has left a hole in J.R. Torrance made a point of maintaining a good their hearts. J.W. Preston, C.B. balance between her social life and She will be remembered for her many, His Honour Charles Gibson academic work. It can now be admitted uncountable virtues. But what will be A.V. Swing that Elle leaned towards the former; she missed most is the deep loyalty, care and Rt. Hon. Jacqui Smith PC hid a lot underneath her notoriously big, gorgeous company she gave those close Lord Pannick QC well quaffed hair! A practical, multi- to her. Sir Sherard Cowper Coles KCMG LVO Professor tasking woman, Elle loved a glass of wine Sir Walter Bodmer MA PhD FRCPath FRS during revision sessions with her favourite Fiona Wilson (2005) and Grace Ang-Lygate tutor and friend with equally fabulous Committee: hair, Dimitra Petropoulou. This helped her Ex Officio ideas flow, quite literally, more fluidly and President: R Westbrook, C.M.G. (1960) got her through finals. Principal: W. Hutton (Principal) Elle was an adventurer. There was rarely Chairman: R.J. Seymour (1985) a time when Elle wasn’t planning a trip Secretary: G.F. Jones (1964) away. She visited South America with her Treasurer: P. Emery (1997) best friend Matt and walked the Inca trail. Membership Secretary: Cicely J. Brown (1985) She travelled to the Galápagos Islands Elected and watched whales breaching in the Professor J. Billowes (1973) ocean. An animal lover, she wanted to see Angela E. Fane (1978) as many endangered species as possible. His Honour Charles Gibson (1959) With her wife, Grace Ang-Lygate (Merton, Professor Fiona Robertson (1978) 2004), she went camping in Malaysian Haidee J. Tattersall (née Schofield) (1977) Borneo where they saw orangutans. On R.T. Smith (1978) safari in Rwanda, they spent an hour with Shirley L. Stacey (1991) gorillas in the mist. She also swam with P.B. Watts (1965) dolphins. At home, in London, she was T. Wipperman (2002) “other mother” to her beloved dachshund, C.G. Mockler (1963) Lady Sapphire of Bombay. Very important to Elle was being out and Hon. Auditor: proud. She forged and cemented many S. Tomlinson, A.C.A. friendships which lasted beyond her time Bankers: at Oxford through the LGBT society and National Westminster Bank plc, P.O. Box 2, 27-29 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AZ met Grace, her wife, outside the NB gate Elle in Merton chapel

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by college but was an opportunity for large but sometimes overlooked part of both of whom passed away. Committee Letter from the very many society members to attend a college’s population, and we also propose members attended memorial services for very successful and sociable gathering to contribute toward the renovation of a both, on behalf of the society and college. Chairman of the combining relaxation and recognition, number of the slightly careworn paintings My colleagues on the committee do seriousness and sybaritism, a recognizably in hall. much to ease the running of the society: Hertford Society Hertfordian mixture of purpose and The society congratulates Martin particular thanks must be given to pleasure. West, the husband of Stephanie West, Graham Jones, secretary, without whom Robert Seymour The society committee met in October the college’s eminent classics fellow little of note would be accomplished, In my letter last year I commented 2013 at the offices of Coutts & Co. on the and library fellow, who was elected to Paul Emery, treasurer, Paul Watts, Angela that the society must consider new ways Strand, with the assistance of Paul Emery, the Order of Merit in 2014 New Year’s Fane and Fiona Robertson, who as the of contributing to the life of college and the recently elected treasurer. High tea Honours List and also David Elleray committee’s standing sub-committee for social functions for members in order was superb and the society’s thanks were (Geography, 1971) who was awarded an consideration of insignia alternative to to maintain its relevance for newer old given to Paul for arranging this meeting at MBE in the 2014 Birthday Honours List neckwear have made sterling efforts to members. short notice and for negligible cost to the for services to football, perhaps the most come up with a better alternative to the My last letter was submitted to the society. In February 2014, the committee notable honour for English football this nightmare in white polyester that is the magazine shortly before the society’s met as usual at the Oxford and Cambridge summer. society’s headsquare for lady members. formal dinner in college in June 2013. Club in Pall Mall, and we welcomed I am delighted to report that David, the Thanks also to Stephen Kinsey, who This was the first such occasion for five for the first time Julia Thaxton, recently Lord Pannick, QC, Sir Sherard Cowper- retired from the committee at the annual years. The frequency of the dinner has appointed development director. Our Coles, Sir Walter Bodmer and the Rt. general meeting after long service. I am declined gradually over time from a meeting was followed by a very agreeable Hon. Jacqui Smith PC were all elected delighted that Chris Mockler (1963) was biannual event, firstly to a triennial and, dinner attended by our Vice Presidents Vice Presidents of the Society at the elected to the committee in Stephen’s for the present, quinquennial. This reflects Jeffrey Preston and Anthony Swing. In annual general meeting in June, and we place and is leading the initiative to perhaps the increasingly busy lives of June 2014, the society gathered in college look forward to welcoming them at many investigate the renovation of the paintings members and the difficulty in finding for drinks in the quad after the annual society functions in future. Sadly the year in hall when they are taken down from time for a significant evening or overnight general meeting and a buffet luncheon in saw the loss of two society stalwarts: the walls later this year. I look forward commitment for a dinner in college. The hall. Anthony Ryder, one of its founders, and with optimism for the wellbeing of the dinner’s infrequency was compensated by The committee, both within and without Sir John Whitehead, a former President, society in the coming year. its excellence, and the number attending its meetings, has worked continually was higher than on the previous occasion, to further the aims of the society. A an encouraging sign. The catering was number of significant gifts were made first rate and the organization of the by the society in the last year, including evening faultless, largely down to the the Bill Atkinson trophy, choral awards efforts of Angela Fane, Graham Jones and in support of the choir (one of the few Paul Watts, who all worked assiduously non-auditioning choirs in the university), with college to ensure everything passed the Ambassadors’ Scheme, encouraging off without a hitch. The dinner was applications to Hertford (and Oxford A number of preceded by a rendition of the anthem more widely) from schools which have not composed in memory of Brian Galpin had large numbers of Oxford applicants in significant gifts were and, all agreed, was beautifully performed the past, JCR Freshers’ Week, Simpkin the by the choral group, accompanied by Dr and the magazine in which this letter made by the society in Benjamin Skipp. The President’s address appears. Total financial awards exceeded the last year, including was followed by a congenial dinner and £6,000. Looking to the forthcoming year, closed with rousing words in support the committee intends to continue the the Bill Atkinson of the society’s contribution to many society’s financial support of the choral aspects of college life given on behalf of awards, the Ambassadors’ Scheme, JCR trophy Governing Body by both Professor Peter Freshers’ Week, the magazine and of Millican and Dr Jamie Castell. course Simpkin. In addition, we propose to The centenary celebration of the Bridge, make an equivalent financial contribution held in September 2013, was organised to welcome newcomers to the MCR, a

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