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The Letter (formerly Letter of the Corpus Association) Michae lmas 2010 No. 89 Corpus Christi College Cambridge Corpus Christi College The Letter michaelmas 2010 The College is most grateful to Christopher Hill (m 1960) for generously supporting this issue of The Letter. Editors The Master Oliver Rackham Peter Carolin Simon Heffer Contact The Editors The Letter Corpus Christi College Cambridge cb2 1rh [email protected] Production Designed by Dale Tomlinson Typeset in Arno Pro and Cronos Pro Printed by Cambridge University Press on G-Print Matt paper (Forest Stewardship Council certified) The Letter on the web www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/old-members/alumni-news News and Contributions Members of the College are asked to send to the Editors any news of themselves, or of each other, which should be included in The Letter, and to send prompt notification of any change in their permanent address. Erratum The artist of the portrait of Oliver Rackham on the back cover of the 2009 Letter of the Corpus Association is Andrew Festing of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. 2 michaelmas 2010 The Letter Corpus Christi College Contents The Society Page 5 Domus 8 Addresses and reflections Commemoration Address 14 The Pope and the Gospel Book of St Augustine 24 Mere’s Sermon 28 A genius and a scornful frog 32 Leckhampton’s prairie garden 38 Then and Now 44 The Fellowship Visiting and Schoolteacher Fellowships 48 A Visiting Fellow’s Year 49 A Schoolteacher Fellow’s view 50 Fellows’ publications 51 The College Year Senior Tutor’s report 57 Leckhampton life 58 The Libraries 60 The Chapel 63 College Music and the Choir 67 Bursary matters 68 Development Office 69 College staff 71 Post-graduates Postgraduate numbers and research 72 Genetic diversity in chimpanzees 72 Science, photography and late nineteenth-century periodicals 75 Approved for Ph.Ds. 77 continued on page 4 3 Corpus Christi College The Letter · Contents michaelmas 2010 Prizes and awards 78 Societies Amnesty International group 84 Bene’t Club 85 Ethical Corpus 86 Lewis Society of Medicine 87 Nicholas Bacon Law Society 87 Pelican Poets and Writers 88 Sports clubs Badminton 90 Basketball 91 Cricket 91 Football 92 Hockey 93 Lacrosse 94 Netball 95 Rowing 95 Rugby 97 Tennis 98 Old Members Jugged hare and no bail: Corpus in the early 1950s 99 News of Old Members 101 Old Members’ publications 104 Corpus Christi College Association 105 Privileges 108 Obituaries Professor Richard Gregory 110 Sir Geoffrey Littler 111 Norman Macrae 113 Geoffrey Foster Daniels 114 Sir John Gorst 114 Maurice Richardson 115 Neil Hart 116 John Antcliffe 116 Steve Douglas 117 Deaths 118 End piece 120 Return forms Personal Details Form 121 Donation Form 123 4 michaelmas 2010 The Society · The Letter Corpus Christi College The Society(as on 1 October 2010) Master Mr Stuart Laing, M.A. Fellows Professor Christopher M. Andrew (President) Modern and Contemporary History Professor Craig D. Mackay Astronomy Professor Andrew Hopper, F.R.Eng., F.R.S., C.B.E. Computer Technology Dr Christopher J. B. Brookes (Tutor for Advanced Students) Pure Mathematics Dr Richard A. McMahon Engineering Professor Christopher J. Howe Plant and Microbial Biochemistry Dr Ruth Davis Ethnomusicology Professor Alison G. Smith Plant Biochemistry Professor Paul C. Hewett( Food and Wine Steward) Cosmology and Astrophysics Dr Nigel E. Simmonds (Dean of College) Jurisprudence Professor Mark Warner Theoretical Physics Dr Patrick N.R. Zutshi Keeper of the University Archives Dr Mara I. Kalnins Modern English Literature Professor Jonathan G. Haslam, F.B.A. History of International Relations Dr Christopher M. Kelly (Keeper of the College Pictures, Fine Furniture and the Lewis Collection) Classics Dr David Greaves Computer Science Professor Simon Godsill Statistical Signal Processing Professor Emma F. Wilson French Literature and the Visual Arts Dr Hugh P. C. Robinson Neuroscience Professor Andrew C. Harvey, F.B.A. Econometrics Dr Paul A. Kattuman Economics Dr David A. Sneath (Graduate Tutor) Social Anthropology Dr Anna N. Williams Patristic and Medieval Theology Professor David J. Ibbetson (Warden of Leckhampton) Civil Law Dr Christopher F.R. de Hamel, F.S.A. (Donnelley Fellow Librarian) Dr Keith A. Seffen( Tutor) Engineering Dr James Warren (Tutor) Philosophy and Classics Dr Juliet L.H. Foster (Tutor and Schools Liaison Officer) Social and Developmental Psychology Ms Elizabeth Winter, M.A. (Development & Communications Director) Dr Melanie A. Taylor (Tutor and Tutor for Admissions) English Ms Sarah Cain, M.Phil. English Professor Christopher Colclough Development Economics and Education Dr Michael Sutherland Physics 5 Corpus Christi College The Letter · The Society michaelmas 2010 Dr Pietro Cicuta Physics Dr Barak Kushner Modern Japanese History Revd James Buxton (Chaplain) Dr Marina Frasca-Spada (Senior Tutor) History and Philosophy of Science Dr Shruti Kapila History Dr Berthold J.G.A. Kress (Praelector Rhetoricus) History of Art Dr Paul Beattie Earth Sciences Professor William C. McGrew, F.R.S.E., F.A.A.A.S. Evolutionary Primatology Mrs Susan Ainger-Brown, F.C.M.A. (Second Bursar and College Treasurer) Professor Nigel Morgan History of Art Mr Paul Warren, M.A. (Bursar) Dr Andreea Weisl-Shaw (Graduate Tutor) Modern and Medieval Languages Dr Sarah Fine Politics and Sociology Dr Pernille Røge History Dr Philip Bearcroft, F.R.C.P., F.R.C.R. Clinical Medicine Dr Joe Townsend Natural Sciences Dr Sarah Bohndiek Cancer research Dr John Carr Natural Sciences Dr Jonathan Heffer Engineering Dr Helena Mentis (Microsoft Research Fellow) Human-Computer Interaction Dr Emma Spary History Dr Andrew Spencer History Dr Alex Taylor Natural Sciences Life Fellows Professor John P. C. Roach Dr Michael K. Tanner Professor Ray I. Page Dr David W. Dewhirst The Revd Roger W. Morgan Dr Peter Eggleton Dr John T. Dingle Professor Nigel E. Wilkins Professor H.F.A .Strachan, F.R.S.E Dr Fred W. Ratcliffe, C.B.E. Professor Peter B. Carolin, C.B.E. Professor Haroon Ahmed, F.R.Eng. Professor Sergio Pellegrino, F.R.Eng. Professor Jean-Pierre Hansen, F.R.S. Professor William Horbury, F.B.A. Miss Diane Dawson, M.A. Dr Brian Hazleman, F.R.C.P. (Graduate Adviser) Professor Paul Davies Professor Sir Paul Mellars, F.B.A., F.S.A. Professor John Hatcher Professor Oliver Rackham, O.B.E., F.B.A., F.S.A. (Keeper of the College Plate and the College Records) 6 michaelmas 2010 The Society · The Letter Corpus Christi College Honorary Fellows Professor Sir Tony Wrigley, F.B.A. Professor Haroon Ahmed, F.R.Eng. The Rt Revd Peter K. Walker Lord (Henry) Chilver of Cranfield, F.R.S. Rt Hon Sir Martin Nourse Dr G. S. Corea Sir Peter Marshall, K.C.M.G. Lord (Stewart) Sutherland of Houndwood, Kt., F.B.A., F.R.S.E. Rt Hon Sir Murray Stuart-Smith, P.C., Q.C., M.A. Sir Richard Armstrong, C.B.E., F.R.S.E. Professor Colin B. Blakemore, F.R.S. Sir Ronald Hampel Dr Joe Farman, C.B.E. General Lord (David) Ramsbotham, G.C.B., C.B.E. Dr John C. Taylor, F.I.P.A Dr Richard Henderson, F.R.S. Sir Alan Wilson, F.B.A., F.R.S. Mr Natwar Singh, M.A. Mr Shaharyar Khan, M.A. Sir James Burnell-Nugent, K.C.B, C.B.E. The Rt Hon Sir Terence Etherton, P.C., Q.C., M.A. Sir David Omand, G.C.B. Professor Karol Sikora Sir Mark Elder Guild Fellows Mr Neil Westreich, M.A. Mr Michael Gwinnell, M.A. Ms Shawn Donnelley Mr Richard Wright 7 8 michaelmas 2010 Domus · The Letter Corpus Christi College Domus This year’sLetter has a new format – we hope you like it. We thought that it would be easier to read in a slightly larger size and clearer layout. There are also many changes in the content which will, we hope, give readers an even better picture of life in the College. The Letter remains the College’s journal of record, performing a rather different function to its more frequently published companion,The Pelican. We should like to take forward this process of modernisation, and would welcome hearing from Association Members. So please let us have your reactions – and your news. Production of this issue has been very much a trial run. In future we hope to have The Letter dropping onto your doormats in December. Building works Last year I wrote with the sound of building in the New Court; and in the course of the year we completed the reading room (named the Butler Reading Room, being in the space formerly occupied by the Butler Library) and controlled- environment vault to house the Parker manuscripts and other valuable books (pp. 60–61). This was a real good-news story: with the help of some of our engineering Fellows we slimmed down the specifications (without negative effects on the outcomes), and completed the project on time and within its reduced budget – unusual in Cambridge, or indeed anywhere! And this year again we have builders in the Court, this time engaged on the more mundane task of repairing the roof at the top of G, H and I staircases. Here we have unfortunately been compelled to spend more than we should have liked, since the planning and heritage authorities insisted on our using expensive Welsh slates of ordained size – frustrating to those of us who argued that no-one except the birds would have noticed if we had used much cheaper, smaller, slates. But this is the world we live in. The College Visitor... We were delighted in the course of the year to welcome our Visitor, H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, on two occasions.