Emmanuel Emmanuel College College MAGAZINE 2019–2020 VOL CII MAGAZINE 2019–2020 VOLUME CII Emmanuel College St Andrew’s Street Cambridge CB2 3AP Telephone +44 (0)1223 334200 THE YEAR IN REVIEW I Emmanuel College MAGAZINE 2019–2020 VOLUME CII II EMMANUEL COLLEGE MAGAZINE 2019–2020 The Magazine is published annually, each issue recording college activities during the preceding academical year. It is circulated to all members of the college, past and present. Copy for the next issue should be sent to the Editors before 30 June 2021. Enquiries, news about members of Emmanuel or changes of address should be emailed to [email protected], or submitted via the ‘Keeping in Touch’ form: https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/keepintouch/. General correspondence about the Magazine should be addressed to the General Editor, College Magazine, Dr Lawrence Klein, Emmanuel College, Cambridge CB2 3AP. The Obituaries Editor (The Dean, The Revd Jeremy Caddick), Emmanuel College, Cambridge CB2 3AP is the person to contact about obituaries. The college telephone number is 01223 334200, and the email address is [email protected]. If possible, photographs to accompany obituaries and other contributions should be high-resolution scans or original photos in jpeg format. The Editors would like to express their thanks to the many people who have contributed to this issue, and especially to Carey Pleasance for assistance with obituaries and to Amanda Goode, the college archivist, whose knowledge and energy make an outstanding contribution. Back issues The college holds an extensive stock of back numbers of the Magazine. Requests for copies of these should be addressed to the Development Office, Emmanuel College, Cambridge CB2 3AP. Historical index Over the years the Magazine has included many articles concerning the history of the college. A list of these, with a card index of their contents, is maintained in the college archives; to use it, please contact the archivist, Amanda Goode. © Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 2020 Project Management: H2 Associates, Cambridge Cover image: Lafayette Photography Portrait images: Stephen Bond THE YEAR IN REVIEW III Contents 1 THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2 From the Master by Fiona Reynolds 9 From the Acting Senior Tutor by Philip Howell 13 From the Bursar by Mike Gross 15 The College Library by Helen Carron 19 The College Archive by Amanda Goode 24 From the Development Director by Sarah Bendall 28 The Emmanuel Society by Nicholas Allen 31 VIEWS 32 The Gomes Lecture 2020 32 The Research University in Contentious Times by Lawrence Bacow 41 Emmanuel Histories 41 Portrait of a Godly Young Man by Amanda Goode 50 Ralph Cudworth: An Emmanuel Platonist by Matthew Leisinger 57 The Chapel Organ: Some Uncomfortable Questions and Answers by David Hughes 61 Emmanuel and Epidemics 61 Pestis! Emmanuel College ‘in Time of Sicknesse’ by Amanda Goode 72 A Report from the COVID-19 Testing Front Line by Tobias Wauer 76 Recent Changes in Air Pollution in Cambridge and the COVID-19 Lockdowns by Alexander Archibald 82 Emmanuel Experiences 82 Emmanuel College: My Good Fortune by James Oscroft Wilkes 92 My Time at Emma by John Harding IV EMMANUEL COLLEGE MAGAZINE 2019–2020 96 Reflectionsby John Newman 99 Coming Out to Emmanuel by Kevin Cook 102 Emmanuel Thoughts by Alison Cawley 107 NEWS 108 Fellowship Elections 111 Fellowship News 111 News of the Fellows 115 News of Honorary Fellows 117 News of Bye-Fellows 117 News of Former Fellows 118 News of Members 125 News of Staff 129 CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 131 Association Football Club 133 Badminton Club 136 Boat Club 141 Chapel Choir 147 Christian Union 149 ECSU 151 Hockey 153 June Event: The May Week That Never Was! 155 Lacrosse 156 MCR 158 Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Society 159 Music Society (ECMS) 161 Netball Club 164 Rugby Club 167 Sports Day: Emmanuel and Exeter 172 Swimming and Water Polo Club 173 Tennis Club 174 Ultimate Frisbee THE YEAR IN REVIEW V 175 OBITUARIES 176 Benefactor Fellow 176 Colin Douglas Tyler 178 Members 225 Allen, David Lewis 211 Meldrum, Brian Stuart 243 Betton, David John William 221 Nicholson, Roger 234 Bumstead, David Lawrence 199 Pease-Watkin, Edward Thomas 222 Byram-Wingfield, David Handley 205 Calvert, Richard Keith 202 Percival, Willoughby Hugh 191 Caulcott, Thomas Holt 201 Pizer, Henry Ian 220 Cocking, John Brian 195 Playle, Basil Talbot 243 Cox, Michael John 224 Prag, Michael Joseph 245 Currie, Peter Mark 260 Price, Nicola 235 Dodd, Guy Alexander Godson 206 Prime, Derek James 236 Elfer, David Francis 237 Ray, William Frederick 178 Gore, John Harrington 202 Sharp, Graham 248 Gunnell, Bernard Paul Christopher 209 Spencer, Michael Staines 181 Hanscomb, John Collins 230 Stear, Michael James Douglas 226 Harrison, Peter John 240 Spicer, William Michael Hardy 228 Hope-Lang, Patrick Keith 214 Twallin, John Randall Charles 254 Ignarski, Jonathan Sam 204 Underhill, Graham Collingwood 244 Jones, Huw Martin 238 Wainwright, Thomas Dodsworth 200 Kellett, Geoffrey Roy 211 Ward, Nigel Bewick 259 Luxmoore, Nicholas Coryndon 233 Willcox, Christopher Philip William 228 Mayhew, Derek George Lawrence 182 Williams, John Pritchard 263 LISTS 264 The Fellowship 264 The Honorary Fellows 266 The Master and Fellows, 2020–21 271 Emeritus Fellows 271 Bye-Fellows 272 Benefactor Fellows 273 Benefactor Bye-Fellows 273 Derek Brewer Visiting Fellows, 2021 274 College Research Associates VI EMMANUEL COLLEGE MAGAZINE 2019–2020 274 The College Staff 276 Academic Record 276 Matriculations 284 A Special 2020 Award 285 University Awards 285 Degrees 288 Members’ Gatherings 288 Gatherings of Members 290 Future Gatherings of Members 291 Deaths THE YEAR IN REVIEW VII Note on the Issue and the Illustrations On Friday 13 March 2020, Lent full term ended without many divergences from routine. Within the next week, the college council had met and, in coordination with the university, taken steps to close the college for the first time in modern times. Students were instructed to go home unless this was impossible; normal teaching was abandoned; the May Ball was cancelled; High Table was suspended. On Monday 23 March, the prime minister announced the strict rules to slow the spread of COVID-19 that came to be known as ‘lockdown’. This issue of the Magazine covers the 2019–20 academic year both before and after lockdown. Reports by the Master, Acting Senior Tutor, Bursar and others in The Year in Review all summarise the impact and experience of the pandemic, while not forgetting the normal challenges and accomplishments of an academic year. The reports by current members in Clubs and Societies move from the energetic activities of Michaelmas and Lent terms to the suspended animation of Easter term. Several articles address the pandemic experience itself: the college archivist Amanda Goode gives an account of Emmanuel’s experiences of plague in the seventeenth century; Tobias Wauer, a former Research Fellow and current Bye-Fellow, describes his work at the national testing centre in Milton Keynes; and Alex Archibald, Fellow and university lecturer in atmospheric chemistry, discusses his research on air quality in Cambridge during and after the lockdown. Several featured photographs illustrate the college in lockdown. On the Magazine cover, the 2020 undergraduate matriculation photo arrays students in their socially-distanced households on Front Court. The inside front cover shows the marquee erected on the Paddock in September 2020 to facilitate social interaction in the semi-outdoors: the flaps are usually open. On the back cover is the swimming pool, never opened and never cleaned in 2020. By contrast and in a nod to the future, the inside back cover shows the land adjacent to South Court and ready for development, as discussed by the Master and the Development Director in their reviews of the year. VIII EMMANUEL COLLEGE MAGAZINE 2019–2020 However, the pandemic was not the only distinctive feature of the year. As the Acting Senior Tutor points out in his report, the college’s continuing ambition to enhance its diversity and to provide ‘a supportive and inclusive environment for students from every background’ was punctuated by the vibrant Black Lives Matter movement after the death of George Floyd in Minnesota in May. At Cambridge, the goal of shaping a diverse future has been matched by an initiative to face relevant aspects of the past. Early in 2019 the Vice-Chancellor instituted an advisory group on legacies of enslavement, which is exploring the university’s historical links with the slave trade and advising him on future actions in light of those links. Initial surveys of the Emmanuel archives suggest that the college depended little on slave-owning benefactors. However, David Hughes (1967), on investigating the history of the chapel organ, discloses a notable donation from a slave-owning fortune. Future numbers of the Magazine will continue the account of the history of exclusion and inclusion at the college. A different aspect of diversity is represented by gender. Last year’s Magazine brought to attention in several ways the fortieth anniversary of the arrival of women at Emmanuel in the late 1970s. 2019–20 was the fortieth anniversary of the year in which women first matriculated as undergraduates. We are taking advantage of the rehang of portraits in the Hall, discussed by the Master and the archivist in their reports and illustrated on pages 294 and 295, to use some of the portraits of women benefactors to illustrate the section divisions in this year’s issue. As noted elsewhere, several of the portraits were loaned by a college member and descendant of the founder, to whom much gratitude is owed. These portraits are indicated by ‘*’ below. The section division images are as follows: The Year in Review Mary, countess of Westmorland (1608–69), wife of Mildmay Fane, the founder’s great-grandson Views Mary Mildmay*, countess of Westmorland (1581/2–1640), the founder’s granddaughter, 1627 News Rachel Fane*, countess of Bath (1613–80), the founder’s great-granddaughter, benefactor Clubs and Societies Mary Mildmay*, dowager countess of Westmorland (1581/2–1640), the founder’s granddaughter, c.