0000_cover.qxp:S4493_cover 20/12/2011 11:23 Page 1 Trinity College Oxford Report 2010–11 0000_cover.qxp:S4493_cover 20/12/2011 11:23 Page 2 ©2010 Gillman & Soame 10017_text.qxp:Layout 1 20/12/2011 14:14 Page 1 Trinity College Oxford | Report 2010-11 | 1 CONTENTS THE TRINITY COMMUNITY.....................2 Margaret Malpas...........................................................................56 President’s Report...........................................................................2 Nigel Timms .................................................................................57 The Governing Body, Fellowship and Lecturers............................4 Members of College ....................................................................57 News of the Governing Body .........................................................7 JUNIOR MEMBERS ................................78 Members of Staff ..........................................................................12 JCR Report ...................................................................................78 Staff News ....................................................................................14 MCR Report .................................................................................79 New Undergraduates ....................................................................16 Clubs and Societies.......................................................................80 New Postgraduate Students ..........................................................18 Blues .............................................................................................88 Degrees, Schools Results and Awards .........................................20 ARTICLES AND REVIEWS .......................89 THE COLLEGE YEAR ..............................23 ‘Anthony Crosland: the forgotten man in Labour politics?’ Alumni & Development Office Report .......................................23 by Gareth Williams.......................................................................89 Benefactors ..................................................................................24 Book Reviews...............................................................................91 Archive Report .............................................................................37 NOTES AND INFORMATION...................95 Buildings Report...........................................................................43 Degree Days .................................................................................95 Garden Report ..............................................................................45 Gaudy Dates and Information for Members.................................96 Library Report ..............................................................................47 Editor’s note..................................................................................96 OBITUARIES ..........................................52 Cover illustration: Terence Rattigan (1930), born 10 June 1911: detail of a portrait by Andy Briggs, Bede Rundle .................................................................................52 commissioned for The Terence Rattigan Collection (a BBC DVD compendium of televised productions of Susan Kingsman ...........................................................................54 Rattigan’s plays) © The Terence Rattigan Charitable Trust. Lord Windlesham .........................................................................54 Inside cover: Matriculation photograph 2010 With thanks to Gillman & Soame © 2010 10017_text.qxp:Layout 1 20/12/2011 14:14 Page 2 2 | Trinity College Oxford | Report 2010-11 THE TRINITY COMMUNITY PRESIDENT’S REPORT Trinity’s academic record was a significant step up from last year. Twenty-five Firsts (last year seventeen), fifty-one 2:1s and no Thirds xford has never had any difficulty in attracting headlines, not was an excellent score which put us in the middle of the Norrington Oalways for the right reasons. Table, one ahead of our Broad Street neighbour. We can do better still but the performance was eloquent testimony to the hard work As the national debate about tuition fees and access became fully and talent of both students and their tutors. engaged, the University’s every move was carefully chronicled, and on occasions our policies and practice were misinterpreted and Our tutorial fellowship will be refreshed on a major scale this distorted by some who should know better. The government’s autumn. Two of our great stalwarts, Mike Inwood and Peter Brown, announcement that it was lifting the cap on tuition fees (as philosophy and classics, are retiring, after respectively forty-four recommended in Lord Browne’s report) but replacing it with a new and forty-three years. They have become so much part of the fabric ceiling created more problems than it solved. Moreover in an of the college that it is hard to imagine Trinity without them. In their example of taking with one hand and giving with another, the stead we welcome Anil Gomes from London and Gail Trimble from amount of money Oxford receives for teaching was docked by many Trinity Cambridge, though in Gail’s case she may be better millions to the extent that it is likely substantially to wipe out any remembered from her days as captain of Corpus Christi’s stellar benefit to Oxford that might otherwise come from the increased fees. University Challenge team. Chris Wallace, our Economics Tutor, is We have already at University and college level diverted funds that a mere stripling compared to our other departing Fellows but he has would otherwise be spent on research, infrastructure, endowing made a big impact in his eleven years at Trinity. We wish him well Fellowships and postgraduate support into support for the jewel in in his professorial chair at Leicester. Two other arrivals are Francis our crown, the undergraduate tutorial system. We are determined to Barr as a new Professorial Fellow in Mechanistic Cell Biology who protect the tutorial system but we do not believe this cross-subsidy joins us from Liverpool and Paul Fairchild as a Fellow in Pathology. is sustainable in the long-term. And Katie Moore joins us as a Junior Research Fellow in Materials Science. Here I think it is appropriate to add that it is thanks to Old Our generous system of fee waivers and bursaries makes Oxford the Members, notably Peter Levine (see below), that Trinity has been cheapest university in the UK for students from financially able to appoint a new philosopher and to secure the future of other disadvantaged households. As a college, thanks to the generosity of Fellowships. our Old Members and Friends, we are able to complement the University’s support arrangements to an unprecedented degree. The non-academic staff continues to perform heroically as the Suggestions that Oxford is only for the rich are so wide of the mark college hardly seems to have a closed season. Our chef Julian Smith, as to be laughable. And on access the Minister for Higher Education, refreshed by a ‘sabbatical’ at a three-Michelin-star restaurant in the David Willetts, told me that Oxford’s access agreement, acceptance Basque country, has produced innovative and remarkable menus, of which determined our ability to charge a maximum of £9,000 pa which are a feast for the eye as much as the palate. The Hall staff was a model, ‘even better (sic) than Cambridge’s’. But the provides a similarly high standard of service to complement the University could do better in putting over a good story and in excellent work in the kitchens. Sue Broers has assumed the mantle challenging the negative headlines, produced by the ill-informed or of Development Director, while Kevin Knott retains the role of mischievous. Development Fellow. The academic office, beside its other onerous tasks, has organised some of the most successful Open Days in 10017_text.qxp:Layout 1 20/12/2011 14:14 Page 3 Trinity College Oxford | Report 2010-11 | 3 Oxford. Trinity has something of the air of a seaside town on a Bank acknowledged to be the best ball in Oxford, it sold out (1800 tickets) Holiday Monday during these days, with thousands milling about within ten days of tickets going on sale. The Miltonian theme and balloons everywhere. Having come and seen Trinity it is little introduced an extraordinary night of light and sound. surprise that so many prospective students are moved to conquer the In my many encounters with Old Members I am regularly struck by admissions system. the warmth and affection they hold for the college and the very real This has been a very rich year for Trinity sport. At the beginning of pleasure they get from returning. We constantly look for new ways the academic year we had three Freshers all training with and to involve our alumni in events like the Hillary lecture but welcome competing for places in the Blue Boat. Two eventually got Blues, any fresh ideas. Our Old Members have not only been generous with Constantine Louloudis, who has gone on to row with the British ideas: they have given us our best year yet in terms of fundraising. Olympic squad, and Nat Upton, who coxed the Women’s Blue Boat. In recognition of their benefactions, we welcome to the ranks of our Both boats won their races overcoming their underdog status. But Honorary Fellowship Peter Levine (1974), whose outstanding Trinity students have excelled in a variety of sports. Seventeen are generosity in creating bursaries for new undergraduates as well as currently Blues or Half Blues