QUEENS’ COLLEGE RECORD • 2010 Queens’ College Record 2010 The Queens’ College Record 2010 Table of Contents 2 The Fellowship (March 2010) The Sporting Record 40 Captains of the Clubs 4 From the President 40 Sports Reports The Society The Student Record 5 The Fellows in 2009 46 The Business of Teaching at Queens’ 7 Thomae Smithi Academia 47 Admissions 8 The Seviri 48 Dancer in Residence 8 Professor Sir Derek BowettPresident 1970–82, 48 Engineers Without Borders Fellow 1960–70, 1982–2009 50 The National Student Forum 14 Mrs Gillian Hart 1929–2009 50 Three Lessons in (Organic) Italian 51 Edinburgh to London 15 The Staff 52 Distinctions and Awards 54 The Clubs and Societies The Buildings 16 The Fabric 2009 The Development Record 62 The Case for Queens’ 17 The Libraries 63 The Queens’ Understanding 63 Donors to Queens’ 2009 19 The Gardens The Academic Record 20 The Chapel 66 Petal Cell Shape and Pollination 21 Angers 2009 67 The British General Election 2010 The Historical Record The Alumni Record 24 Shakespeare and Queens’ IV – De Vere at Queens’: 70 Alumni Association AGM What if? 70 Deaths 25 Queens’ Members of Parliament 71 Obituaries 33 Romance in the President’s Lodge? 76 News of Members 36 Dr James Niven 86 The 2003 Matriculation Year 37 Professor Geoffrey Wilson reminisces Front cover: A poster in Angers advertising the celebrations for the 600th anniversary of the birth of King René, father of our foundress, Margaret of Anjou. Back cover, clockwise from top right: A statue of King René by the Château; A panel of the great 14th-century tapestry of the Apocalypse; Ancient cloisters at the Préfecture; An old stone in the grounds of the Château; The Carolingian vaults of St Martin; The Choirs rehearsing in the Cathedral; The tombstone of Margaret of Anjou. Pictures: Jonathan Holmes. The Queens’ College Record • © The President and Fellows of Queens’ College 2010 Editor: Jonathan Holmes • Design: Hamish Symington (www.hamishsymington.com) Printed in the United Kingdom on elemental-chlorine-free paper from sustainable forests. 1 The Fellowship (March 2010) Visitor: The Rt Hon. Lord Falconer of Thoroton, P.C., Q.C., M.A. Patroness: Her Majesty The Queen. President The Rt Hon. Professor Lord Eatwell, of Stratton St Margaret, M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard). Professor of Financial Policy and Director of The Cambridge Endowment for Research and Finance. Honorary Fellows A. Charles Tomlinson, C.B.E., M.A., M.A.(London), D.Litt.h.c. Ewen Cameron Stewart Macpherson, M.A., M.Sc. (London Business (Keele, Colgate, New Mexico, Bristol and Gloucester), Hon.F.A.A.A.S., School). F.R.S.L. Emeritus Professor of English, University of Bristol. The Revd Canon John Charlton Polkinghorne, K.B.E., M.A., Sc.D., Robert Neville Haszeldine, M.A., Sc.D., D.Sc.(Birmingham), F.R.S., D.Sc.h.c.(Exeter, Leicester and Marquette), D.D.h.c.(Kent and Durham), F.R.S.C., C.Chem. D.Hum.h.c.(Hong Kong Baptist Univ.), F.R.S. The Rt Hon. Sir Stephen Brown, G.B.E., P.C., M.A., LL.D.h.c. Colin Michael Foale, C.B.E., M.A., Ph.D., D.Univ.h.c.(Kent, Lincolnshire (Birmingham, Leicester and West of England), Hon.F.R.C.Psych.. and Humberside), Hon.F.R.Ae.S. Chief of Expedition Corps, Sir Ronald Halstead, C.B.E., M.A., D.Sc.h.c.(Reading and Lancaster), Astronaut Office, NASA. Hon.F.I.F.S.T., F.C.M.I., F.Inst.M., F.R.S.A., F.R.S.C. Manohar Singh Gill, M.P., M.A., Ph.D. (Punjab), Dip.Devt. Stud., Peter Mathias, C.B.E., M.A., Litt.D, D.Litt. (Oxon), D.Litt. h.c.(Madras, Guru Nanak Dev, Amritsar, and Guwahati, Assam), D.Litt.h.c.(Buckingham, Birmingham, Hull, Warwick, De Montfort D.Sc. h.c.(Punjab Agriculture, Haryana Agriculture), Padma Vibhushan. and East Anglia), Dr. Russ. Acad. Sci. h.c.., F.B.A., F.R.Hist.S. Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, K.C.M.G., O.B.E., M.A., LL.D.h.c. (Exeter), Sir John Michael Middlecott Banham, D.L., M.A., LL.D.h.c.(Bath), Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge. D.Sc.h.c.(Loughborough, Exeter and Strathclyde). Chairman of Yoshiyasu Shirai, Ph.D. President of Osaka Gakuin University, Japan. Johnson Mathey Plc. Graham Colin Swift, M.A., Litt D.h.c. (East Anglia and London), Sir David Alan Walker, M.A., LL.D. h.c. (Exeter), F.R.S.A. D.Univ.h.c. (York), F.R.S.L. Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor, Hon.G.C.M.G., LL.B., LL.D.h.c.(San Diego Stephen John Fry, M.A., D.Litt. h.c. (East Anglia), D.Univ.h.c. (Anglia and Leningrad). Judge of the International Court. Ruskin Univ.). Nicholas Kenneth Spencer Wills, M.A., F.C.A., F.C.I.M., F.C.T., F.R.S.A. Lord Thomas of Swynnerton, M.A., F.R.S.L., F.R.Hist.S., Order of the Aztec The Rt Revd Mark Santer, M.A., D.D.h.c.(Birmingham and Lambeth), Eagle (Mexico), Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabel the Catholic D.Univ.h.c.(UCE). (Spain), Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters (France). The Rt Hon. Professor Lord Oxburgh, of Liverpool, K.B.E., M.A., Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, M.A., LL.M., Istiqlal Order (First Class), Ph.D.(Princeton), D.Sc.h.c.(Paris, Leicester, Loughborough, Edinburgh, Kawkab Order (First Class), Nahda Order (First Class), Jordan; Birmingham, Liverpool John Moores, Newcastle, Southampton and Grand Officier, Legion d’Honneur, France. Vice-President of the Leeds), F.G.S., Hon.F.I.Mech.E., Hon.F.R.Eng., F.R.S. International Court. Sir Martin Best Harris, C.B.E., D.L., M.A., Ph.D.(London), Paul Greengrass, M.A. Film Director and Screenwriter. LL.D.h.c.(Queen’s, Belfast), D.U.h.c.(Essex), D.Litt.h.c.(Salford, Edward Horder Cullinan, C.B.E., B.A., A.A.Dip., Hon F.R.I.A.S., F.R.S.A., Manchester Metropolitan, Leicester, Lincoln, Ulster, Manchester and R.A., R.I.B.A.. UMIST), Hon.F.R.C.P. Director of the Office for Fair Access. President Sir Andrew Duncan Crockett, M.A., M.A. (Yale). of Clare Hall. Fellow Benefactors Catherine Thomas, M.A. Emeritus Professor Alan Charles Lynn Day, B.A. Lester John Rowley, M.A., M.B., B.Chir. Shirley Day, Ph.D. Fellows Anthony Colin Spearing, M.A. Life Fellow; William R. Kenan Professor of The Revd Brian Leslie Hebblethwaite, M.A., B.D., D.D. Life Fellow; English, University of Virginia. formerly Tutor and Dean of Chapel. Ajit Singh, M.A., B.A.(Punjab, Chandigarh), M.A.(Howard, Washington), John Timothy Green, M.A., Ph.D. Life Fellow; formerly Senior Tutor. Ph.D.(Berkeley, California). Life Fellow. Emeritus Professor of Economics. Chief Co-ordinating Officer, Imperial College, London. Brian Albert Callingham, M.A., B.Pharm., Ph.D.(London), F.R.Pharm.S., Thomas Henry Coaker, B.Sc.(London), M.A., Ph.D. Life Fellow; F.I.Biol., C.Biol., F.Br.Pharmacol.S h.c. Life Fellow; Safety Officer, formerly Steward. formerly Tutor. William Andrew Phillips, M.A., Ph.D. Life Fellow; formerly Tutor. James Diggle, M.A., Litt.D., F.B.A. Praelector and Director of Studies in Robin Douglas Howard Walker, M.A., Ph.D. Junior Bursar, Director of Classics; Professor of Greek and Latin. Studies in Computer Science and Assistant Director of Studies in John Tiley, C.B.E., Q.C . h.c., M.A., B.C.L.(Oxon), LL.D., Hon F.C.I.T., Natural Sciences (Mathematics). F.B.A. Life Fellow, formerly Praelector, Tutor and Vice-President. Andrew Duncan Cosh, B.A., Ph.D. College Lecturer in Economics. Emeritus Professor of the Law of Taxation. The Revd Brendan Ignatius Bradshaw, M.A., Ph.D. Life Fellow. John Edward Carroll, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.Eng. Life Fellow. Emeritus Professor of Richard Robert Weber, M.A., Ph.D. Churchill Professor of Mathematics Engineering. for Operational Research; Assistant Director of Studies in Mathematics. Peter Gonville Stein, Q.C. h.c., M.A., LL.B., Ph.D. (Aberdeen), Dr.iuris h.c Allan Nuttall Hayhurst, M.A., Sc.D. Life Fellow; Garden Steward. (Gottingen, Ferrara and Perugia), LL.D.h.c.(Aberdeen), Doct. de l’Univ. Emeritus Professor of Combustion Science. h.c.(Panthéon-Assas, Paris II), F.B.A. Life Fellow; formerly Vice-President. Peter Spufford, M.A., Litt.D., F.B.A. Life Fellow. Emeritus Professor of Emeritus Regius Professor of Civil Law. European History. 2 Queens’ College Record 2010 James Anthony Jackson, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. Professor of Active Tectonics. Martin John Dixon, B.A. (Oxon), M.A., Ph.D. Dean of College; Christopher John Pountain, M.A., Ph.D. Life Fellow. Professor of Spanish Director of Studies in Land Economy and College Lecturer in Law. Linguistics, Queen Mary College, University of London. David Krishna Menon, M.D., B.S. (Madras), Ph.D. (London), F.R.C.A., Richard Griffith Fentiman, M.A., B.C.L.(Oxon). Director of Studies in Law. F.Med.Sci., F.R.C.P. Professor of Anaesthesia. The Rt Hon. Lord Oxburgh, of Liverpool, K.B.E, M.A., Ph.D.(Princeton), Andrew Clague Thompson, M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D. Admissions Tutor and D.Sc.h.c.(Paris, Leicester, Loughborough, Edinburgh, Birmingham, College Lecturer in History. Liverpool and Southampton), F.G.S., Hon.F.I.Mech.E., Hon.F.R.Eng., Julia Rose Gog, M.A., Ph.D.