King’s College, Cambridge Annual Report 2014 Annual Report 2014 Contents The Provost 2 The Fellowship 5 Major Promotions, Appointments or Awards 18 Undergraduates at King’s 21 Graduates at King’s 26 Tutorial 36 Research 47 Library and Archives 51 Chapel 54 Choir 57 Bursary 62 Staff 65 Development 67 Appointments & Honours 72 Obituaries 77 Information for Non Resident Members 251 While this incremental work can be accomplished within the College’s The Provost maintenance budget, more major but highly desirable projects, like the refurbishment of the Gibbs staircases and the roof and services in Bodley’s will have to rely on support apart from that provided by the endowment. 2 I write this at the end of my first year at The new Tutorial team under Perveez Mody and Rosanna Omitowoju has 3 THE PROVOST King’s. I have now done everything once begun its work. There are now five personal Tutors as well as specialist and am about to attend Alumni Weekend Tutors, essentially reviving a system that was in place until a few years ago. reunion dinners for the second time. It has It is hoped that the new system will reduce the pastoral pressure on the been a most exciting learning experience THE PROVOST Directors of Studies, and provide more effective support for students. getting to know the College. While I have not had much time for my own research I In the Chapel we have said farewell to our Dean, Jeremy Morris. Jeremy have had the opportunity to learn about came to the College from Trinity Hall in 2010, and after only too short a others’ interests, and have been impressed time returns to his former College as its Master. Though we shall miss him with the passion shown by my colleagues for he will at least not be too far away. We wish all the best to him and his wife Professor Mike Proctor acquiring and communicating knowledge, Alex in his new role. To replace him we are fortunate to have Stephen both to other each other and the students. Cherry, a former Chaplain of King’s whose most recent post has been as a King’s is indeed a special place to live and work, and I am learning to Canon of Durham Cathedral. During the year we shall also say farewell to appreciate its informal and rumbustious way of doing business. I have our long serving Chaplain, Richard Lloyd Morgan, who is retiring to discovered that I have a voice loud enough to fill the Chapel without pursue other interests ‘while he still can’. He has been a source of support amplification – a fact already known to my children – and it has been a to many students and Fellows, and we shall much miss his operatic moving experience to listen to the extraordinary music there. A particular rendering of the Chapel Responses. high point, apart of course from the Choir’s own music, was a performance of the Monteverdi Vespers conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, exactly Many old members have told me that they yearn for the days when King’s 50 years after his ground-breaking production while still a student at headed the Tripos performance tables. The College prides itself on attracting King’s. Away from the Chapel it has also been a great pleasure to make use and nurturing talented students from the widest variety of backgrounds, and of the Lodge for a large number of concerts, lectures and other events, I think we succeed in that aim. But in contrast to the past other Colleges are ranging from a stunning recital by Andreas Scholl, now one of our Fellow reaching out in a similar manner in pursuit of access targets, and so Commoners, to a beer-tasting event for graduates organised by Ken inevitably there is more competition. Nonetheless our overall performance Moody, in professional life a Fellow in Computer Science. in the Baxter Tables has shown steady progress over the last five year period and this year is just at the University average, with some excellent high Though there have been no large building projects in the last year, a regular points: Mathematics (gratifyingly!) and Modern Languages stand out. The programme of improvements continues with the start of cleaning the outside tables are of course sensitive to individual performances but they show that of the Gibbs Building, refurbishment in Webb’s Court including P3, Keynes’ we are consistently improving the relative examination performance of our old rooms, and major improvements to Cranmer and Grasshopper Lodges. students during their time here, which is highly satisfactory. Next year, 2015, is a special year as it commemorates the 500th anniversary of the completion of the Chapel. We shall be marking this anniversary with The Fellowship the publication of a book of essays on the Chapel, a series of six concerts featuring music of each century from 1515, public lectures, and other events. I look forward to seeing many NRMs in Cambridge for these celebrations. 4 New Life Fellows 5 THE FELLOWSHIP Mike Proctor Dr Mike Sonenscher Fellows moving on: The following left their Fellowships in King’s in the last year: THE PROVOST • Lori Allen • Camille Bonvin • Adam Higazi • Jeremy Morris • Anastasia Piliavsky • Suchitra Sebastian • Stefan Uhlig New Fellow commoner Stuart LyoNS Stuart was the first Chair of the King’s College Development Board and is Chairman of Airsprung Group Plc, the furniture and bed manufacturer. He entered King’s as a Major Scholar in Classics in 1962 and was awarded a senior scholarship in 1964. After graduation, he went into industry and rose to be managing director of UDS Group Plc, a conglomerate that owned John Collier, Richard Shops, Timpson, and Allders Department Stores. Later he joined the Pearson group, serving as chief executive and later Chairman of its Royal Doulton subsidiary, which included Royal Crown Derby, Minton and Royal Albert. He was responsible for expanding Doulton’s business interests in the Far East and the USA, and was Chairman of the British Ceramic Confederation for six years, being appointed CBE in 1993 for services to the china industry. Stuart is a former member of the Ordnance Survey Review Committee and recreations include slow hill-walking, sedentary gardening and, the Monopolies & Mergers Commission. He was Chairman of the West overwhelmingly, watching television. Midlands Development Agency, a governor of Staffordshire University and a member of Council at Keele, where he was awarded an Hon DLitt. He is a GeorGe BeNJaMiN member of the SCR at Grey College, Durham. Born in 1960, George Benjamin began composing at the age of seven. In 6 1976, he entered the Paris Conservatoire to study with Messiaen, after 7 THE FELLOWSHIP Between 2001 and 2003, Stuart wrote three influential papers published by which he moved to King’s College, Cambridge, where he worked with the Centre for Policy Studies, ‘Can Consignia Deliver?’, ‘A Department for Alexander Goehr and Robin Holloway. Business’ and ‘Harnessing our Genius’. These led to his serving as a chief policy advisor to the Shadow Secretary of State between 2003 and 2005, The last couple of decades have seen numerous retrospectives of his work THE FELLOWSHIP where his work covered Trade & Industry, Health & Education, and across Europe and the USA. His first operatic work “Into the Little Hill”, Transport and the Environment. Stuart has also written three books on the written with playwright Martin Crimp, was commissioned by the 2006 Roman lyric poet Horace. ‘The Fleeting Years’, a new English verse Festival d’Automne in Paris. Their second collaboration, “Written on Skin”, translation of the Odes, was a Financial Times book choice of the year 1996. has been scheduled by opera houses worldwide since its premiere at the This was followed by ‘Horace’s Odes and the Mystery of Do-Re-Mi’ in 2007 2012 Aix-en-Provence festival; the UK premiere was at the Royal Opera and ‘Music in the Odes of Horace’ in 2010. House in March 2013. New Honorary Fellows As a conductor, George regularly appears with leading orchestras, amongst JoHN BarreLL them the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, Mahler Chamber John Barrell was born in London in 1943 and graduated with a BA in Orchestra, Philharmonia and the Berlin Philharmonic. He has a English from Trinity College Cambridge in 1964. He was awarded a PhD at particularly close relationship with the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the University of Essex in 1971, and was a lecturer there in the Department often crosses the Atlantic to perform and teach at Tanglewood. of Literature before being appointed, in 1972, a lecturer in English at Cambridge, a fellow of King’s and a college lecturer in English at An Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall, the Royal College and the Royal Academy Newnham. In 1986, he became Professor of English at the University of of Music, George was awarded a C.B.E. in 2010 and was made an Honorary Sussex, moving to the University of York in 1993. Since last year, he has Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2011. Since 2001, he has been been Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. He has the Henry Purcell Professor of Composition at King’s College London. held visiting professorships at the universities of Chicago, Warsaw, and elsewhere. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2002. aNtHoNy cLark Anthony Clarke was born on 13 May 1943. He was educated at Oakham John’s work is multi-disciplinary, combining literary criticism, history of School before coming up to Cambridge in 1961 to read Economics Part I art, and cultural and political history, almost always with reference to and Law Part II at King’s College.