The Brazen Nose Volume 53 2018-2019 The Brazen Nose 2018–2019 BRA-27025 Brazen Nose Vol 53 TEXT.indd 1 10/03/2020 08:19 Printed by: The Holywell Press Limited, www.holywellpress.com BRA-27025 Brazen Nose Vol 53 TEXT.indd 2 10/03/2020 08:19 CONTENTS Records The Ashmole Society .................. 102 Editor’s Notes .................................5 The Addington Society .............. 103 Senior Members .............................. 8 The Arts Society ......................... 104 Non-academic Staff ...................... 18 Articles Class Lists ...................................... 23 Sir William Golding: Brasenose Graduate Degrees.......................... 28 Man by John Bowers QC .............. 108 Matriculations ............................... 33 Joy in Numbers College Prizes ............................... 37 by Dr Llewelyn Morgan ..................113 Elections to Scholarships Two Alums Called William and Exhibitions ............................. 40 by Dr Simon Smith ........................116 Blues and Half Blues ..................... 45 An American in the SCR Reports by Dr Simon Shogry .......................118 JCR Report .................................. 47 The Runcie Sermon, HCR Report ................................ 49 3rd February, 2019 Careers Report ............................. 52 by Canon Dr Angela Tilby ............. 122 Ale Verses ..................................... 53 How the Navy Won the War Library and Archives Report ........ 54 by Jim Ring: Review Presentations to the Library .......... 59 by Dr Bernard Richards .................. 125 Chapel Report .............................. 65 Sixty Years On: Music Report ................................ 70 The Brasenose Peripatetics The King’s Hall Trust for the Arts ... 75 by Louis van den Berg .................... 127 Financial Review .......................... 76 A Quondam Alumnus and His Gift by David Bradbury .......... 129 Clubs Three BNC Alumni in the USA: BNCBC ........................................ 79 Three Real Tennis World Titles Football – Men’s Team .................. 82 and Two GB Team Victories Rugby Football ............................. 88 by John East ................................. 134 Hockey ......................................... 89 A Mosque in Woking, Cricket .......................................... 90 and Its Jewish Origins Tennis ........................................... 93 by Professor Abigail Green .............. 136 Netball .......................................... 93 Oxford Freemasons: A Social History Badminton .................................... 94 of Apollo University Lodge Lacrosse ........................................ 96 by Joe Mordaunt Crook and Pool .............................................. 97 Dr James Daniel: Review Squash ........................................... 98 by Roger Massie .............................141 Cross Country .............................. 98 Welcome to BNC: PPE Society .................................. 99 The Big Novels Compilation The Ellesmere Society ................ 101 by Dudley Harrop...........................143 BRA-27025 Brazen Nose Vol 53 TEXT.indd 3 10/03/2020 08:19 LGBTQ+ Alumni Network Speech, News and Notes ........................176 20th February, 2019 Brasenose Society .................... 181 by Gary Powell ..............................145 The Chapel Ceiling The Year Rep Scheme ........... 184 by Revd Julia Baldwin ................... 154 Upcoming Gaudies .................. 188 ‘The Journey is Everything’ (Montaigne) Alumni Relations by Dr Carole Bourne-Taylor ........... 155 and Development Report ....... 189 An Encounter with Kerensky Donors to Brasenose ............... 193 by Dennis Russell ...........................161 Obituaries ................................. 210 The Livery Halls of the City of London by Anya Lucas and Henry Russell: Review by Dr Bernard Richards .... 162 Jurist in Context: A Memoir by William Twining: Review by Professor Anne Davies ..............165 Travel Introduction ................................ 169 On the Forgotten Plateau by Maryam Binti Mohd Hafiz ........ 169 A Scintillating Summer in Synthesis by Timothy Jenkins .........................171 Underwater Archaeology in Croatia by Elizabeth Briggs .........................173 BRA-27025 Brazen Nose Vol 53 TEXT.indd 4 10/03/2020 08:19 EDITOR’S NOTES 5 EDITOR’S NOTES by Dr Llewelyn Morgan, Vice-Principal & Fellow I think I’ve kept my particular academic affiliation under wraps pretty effectively in my time as editor of The Brazen Nose. But if there has been any unconscious bias toward the Greeks and Romans, I take this opportunity to apologise. In this issue, indeed in these welcoming paragraphs, some Latin will indeed be featuring, but only so far as is strictly necessary. Horace, to start with, who allowed himself to hope that his lyric poems, the Odes, would live for what amounted to eternity: longer than the pyramids, as long as the Pontifex Maximus and the Vestal Virgins continued to perform their religious duties. The pyramids are still going, I think, but Horace has outlasted pagan Roman ritual quite comfortably. It’s a pleasing paradox that poetry written in ink on paper can be so resilient, but if I contemplate everything I’ve written over the years, it’s true that it’s a toss-up between the Latin engraved on stone that I wrote for Barry Nicholas’ memorial in the Chapel and my contributions to The Brazen Nose as to which will survive the longer. I’d like to believe that my contributions to classical scholarship are seminal enough that they’ll be essential reading two hundred years hence, but I’ve a sneaking suspicion they won’t. Such sombre considerations of our ephemeral footprint in the world help me to attach appropriate importance to my role as editor, you can be assured of that. They haven’t this year, despite my best efforts, elicited a report on women’s football, the achievements of which in 2018 – 19 are consequently lost to oblivion. The loss of Aristotle’s second book on comedy is not so grave. The men’s football report, in contrast, will be read for at least as long as the in-jokes are comprehensible, possibly as many as three whole years. Something arguably more worthy of record, but in danger of slipping between the society reports later in the issue, is the remarkable litany of interesting people who visited Brasenose this year, in particular while addressing the PPE Society or enjoying one of the Principal’s now celebrated Conversations (generously supported by Robert and Lynne Krainer). The College hosted, among many others, Mark Williams (English, 1978), Sir Michael Palin (History, 1962) and Patricia BRA-27025 Brazen Nose Vol 53 TEXT.indd 5 10/03/2020 08:19 6 THE BRAZEN NOSE Hewitt. The former Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Malcolm Turnbull (Jurisprudence, 1978), was another visitor (my time as editor has now extended for long enough that I have seen Brasenose rise to two prime ministers simultaneously, and then drop back down again to zero), as did the President of Bulgaria and the President of Sierra Leone, His Excellency Julius Maada Bio, the latter offering us a compelling vision of his country’s future. In the Oxford Union the Bulgarian head of state, a former pilot, had, shortly before I showed him round Brasenose Library and a display in the Archive specially chosen to reflect his interests by Deputy Archivist Helen Sumping, compared Brexit to ejecting from a jet, but personally my favourite visitor of all was BNC’s first Frankland Visitor (Artist in Residence) Kenneth Lonergan, the director best known for Manchester by the Sea, who turned out to be a huge fan of ancient history. It’s only a matter of time before the movie industry recognises the cinematic possibilities of Horace’s Regulus ode. Michael Crick, Camilla Cavendish (PPE, 1986), Gill Hornby (History, 1978): we were frankly spoiled. It was consolation for losing Professor Rob Fender to a full-time role in charge of astrophysics, and for the vicious battles over room bookings that broke out across College while Lecture Room XI was being transformed into the very fine, and technologically cutting-edge, Amersi Foundation Lecture Room. (More on that at its proper time, in The Brazen Nose 54 next year.) I jest, of course: the reputation of Brasenose for friendliness remains well justified. May it remain so for another 500 years. I return to the issue of resilience. As I mention later on in this publication, a major upcoming project is a new accommodation building at the south end of the Frewin Annexe, a building that will be beautiful in its own right and will also restore to centrality within Frewin its existing architectural jewel, Frewin Hall, a remarkable agglomeration of elements from the 12th century to the 18th, rendered coherent by Thomas Jackson in 1888, while the architect was also working on New Quad. There’s a school of thought regarding new construction in Oxford that we should put up strictly practical buildings that will last 70 years and not look too ghastly. I am under no illusion that the creators of the beautiful Oxford we occupy could not be extremely pragmatic in their architecture: studying the intersection of Brasenose Hall with the Medieval Kitchen BRA-27025 Brazen Nose Vol 53 TEXT.indd 6 10/03/2020 08:19 EDITOR’S NOTES 7 (really a pre-existing academic hall, St Mary’s Entry) offers a good insight into dodgy building practices in the early 16th century. But I am convinced that this isn’t what we should be doing now. We are, in addition to everything else,