Pembroke College
cambridge society
issue 90
september 2016
annual gazette
Pembroke College
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annual gazette
issue 90 w september 2016
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© The Master & Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Portrait of Emma Johnson (1985) by Isabella Watling
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CONTENTS
Editor’s Note
From the Master
Jo Cox (1974–2016)
A. WRITINGS AND TALKS
The Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, Master – Jan Maciejowski
The Senior Tutor – a Tribute – Richard Dearlove
A Sermon on Gray’s Elegy – James Gardom
The Man who Changed Football – Kevin Moore
The Knox Connection – Brian Watchorn
After the War was over … – Jayne Ringrose
Creeping and Prowling around the Russian Court:
Joseph Turner’s Portraitist – Rosalind P Blakesley
City Livery Companies: their History and their Relevance Today –
Andrew Morris
The Pembroke Nef – Susan Stobbs
The Strange Case of Two Masters – Chris Birch
Responding to the Refugee Crisis – Philip Rushworth
St Lucy’s Day – Randal Johnson
The Dame Ivy Compton Burnett Prize for Creative Writing
B. COLLEGE NEWS
New Fellows
Fellows’ News
Gifts to the College
The Dean’s Report
Development Office Report
The Valence Mary (1997) Endowment Fund
College Clubs and Societies
C. THE COLLEGE RECORD
The Master and Fellows 2015–2016
College Officers 2016–2017
Matriculation 2015–2016
Annual Examinations, First Class Results 2016
College Awards
Graduate Scholarships and Awards
Higher Degrees Conferred
D. THE PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY
Members’ News
Annual General Meetings of the Society
Dinners and Receptions
Local Contacts
Rules of the Society
Presidents of the Society
E. DEATHS AND OBITUARIES
List of Deaths
Obituaries
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EDITOR’S NOTE
My grandmother always turned to the Death Notices first. On her frequent visits,
it was impossible to get hold of the Belfast Telegraph before her, or to escape the roll
call of those who had passed away. Former neighbours long since left behind
since the move to the suburbs, distant relatives of closer friends, and others still
merely speculated about on the basis of a familiar surname – they were each called
out and reflected upon, often only briefly, always with a sense of melancholic
resignation. In that now barely imaginable age before social media, it was the way
many generations had kept in touch with their community, but it could be
particularly irritating when you wanted to check what was on television, and it has
given me an aversion to obituaries and the like ever since.
My heart sank, therefore, on reading Nick McBride’s hand-over note, which
informed me that ‘Obituaries’ was perennially the trickiest section of the Gazette
and would need some attention – a fact soon firmly reinforced by Frances Kentish,
the magazine’s trusty editorial assistant. I needn’t have worried, however. Old
Members – as I now know happens every year – did the College, their friends and
their families proud. Piece after piece arrived, invariably written in a precise and
eloquent style and conceived with an assured sense of the demands of the genre.
They also captured lives full of quiet dignity, purpose and intent. They were a
pleasure to read, and time and again I was struck by the diversity of what
Pembroke’s alumni had gone on to achieve, but also by the common goodness
and willingness to contribute to the world, both around them and at large. To
generalize Michael Bullivant’s tribute to Jeffery Fenwick in last year’s edition,
these weren’t ‘famous men or great men. They were something more than that.
Great men change the world but they do it from a distance. These were much
more important, they were Good Men, they were one of us and they walked
among us.’
The gendered nature of the previous sentence has good historical reason. With
the admission of women to the College just over thirty years ago (fittingly
celebrated last year), it is to be hoped that a good few decades separate us yet from
the regular appearance of pieces in praise of Pembroke women. It was with the
utmost sadness, therefore, that just as the current issue was being finalized we set
about collecting tributes to Jo Cox (née Leadbeater). I am grateful to the Master,
Barbara Bodenhorn, and Steve Morris for sharing their memories of Jo, while
dealing with personal grief and processing and negotiating the nationwide and
international reaction to her death. Each has written – as requested – with a
Pembroke focus, but done so with striking honesty and in ways that transcend the
College. Their tributes certainly show Jo to have been a good woman who walked
among us and whose life, we hope, will be an example for generations of
Pembroke students to come.
My final thanks go to all those who have helped produce this year’s edition. As
editor of the Martlet for over ten years, I can say that the work that goes into the
Gazette is of a different magnitude altogether. It would not be possible without the
help of many: Frances Kentish, who has again been at the helm and this year
brought calm, patience, experience and above all good humour to the task of
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working with a stand-in editor; Sally Clowes, Becky Coombs, Pat Aske, Eileen
Green, and the members of the Development Office; as well as those who readily
offered articles, and others whom I commissioned, in particular Brian Watchorn,
Jayne Ringrose, and Dr Kevin Moore of the National Football Museum. Nick
McBride takes up the reins again next year on his return from sabbatical, and I am
sure he will welcome any ideas for reports, features or news items. These should
be sent to [email protected].
Chris Young
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FROM THE MASTER
This spring and summer, the College has never looked better. Whether it’s the
wild orchard area ablaze with poppies, daffodils and bluebells, or the
delphiniums climbing high beside the ancient wall beyond Ivy Court, or even the
banana tree by the entrance to the Junior Parlour producing its tiny bunches of
(inedible) bananas after an unusually warm winter, our gardens are a place of
exceptional beauty. And to see students sitting on the lawns revising for their
exams, or playing croquet on a sunny afternoon, or thronging with their parents
in preparation for graduation, or finding ever more creative ways of making the
June Event the best May Ball in Cambridge: these are the things that bring the
College alive, and help to foster that sense of community and engagement and
true fellowship that Pembroke is all about.
At the start of the year I told the new undergraduates that they were here to
work hard, and they have lived up to that commitment. Our academic results this
year – including a very strong performance by the first year students – have been
outstanding, and Pembroke continues to stand proudly tall, academically. But I
also told them that they were here to enjoy themselves. And with the Choir
singing recently in St Paul’s Cathedral, the Pembroke Players taking four shows
to Edinburgh, the men’s first boat third in the river, the women’s first boat
winning blades, and the men’s hockey team winning not only cuppers but supercuppers against Oxford, they’ve been living up to that promise fully too.
A large part of the academic success Pembroke has had over recent years has
been down to the leadership and inspiration of our Senior Tutor, Mark Wormald.
Mark is stepping down this summer after sixteen years as Senior Tutor, a time of
unprecedented progress and development in the College, and we will be truly
sorry to lose him from this role. Happily, we won’t be losing him from the
Fellowship, as – after a year’s break to write on Ted Hughes and perhaps even to
do some fishing – he will be fully back amongst us. And I’m delighted that Dr Dan
Tucker, currently a Fellow, Tutor, and Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Medicine in
the University, will be taking over from Mark. These will be big shoes to fill, but
Dan is the person to do it.
Sadly, we are also losing Dr David Jarvis as Director of International
Programmes, who steps down in September in order to leave for Princeton. Our
international student work in the summer, and for the semester students from
America in the spring, is becoming an increasingly important part of the
College’s life, its profile, its standing abroad, and its income. David has helped to
put this work into very strong shape, and Dr Daniela Passolt, who will succeed
him, has excellent foundations on which to build further success.
As I write, we are all reeling from the result of the referendum on Britain’s exit
from the European Union. There is of course a wide range of opinion amongst
our alumni on this issue, though I have to say that I was passionate about the need
to remain. From the point of view of both Pembroke and the University, the result
means that there are formidable challenges ahead. We have to ensure that
research funding and collaboration can continue, that loyal College staff can
remain here, that the brightest students applying from continental Europe won’t
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be in fear of their studies and finance being disrupted, that our investments are
safe, and that our fundraising success can continue. Pembroke will of course
come through all of this, as we’ve found our way through adversity for nearly
seven centuries, but I can’t pretend that I don’t wish it were otherwise.
We do however have a truly exciting challenge ahead, with the prospect of the
acquisition and development of the south side of Mill Lane, immediately opposite
the Porters’ Lodge, now very close. We have effectively agreed the heads of terms
for purchase from the University, and are now embarked on the process of
selecting architects to take the design work forward. There is a huge amount of
work still to do, to secure planning permissions, to make sense of a complex and
varied site, and to gain a successive programme of vacant possession from the
University, but the opportunity to do something really wonderful here, right
beside the existing medieval site of the College – extending Pembroke’s footprint
by more than a third – simply has to be seized. And especially so, as we have been
given the extraordinarily generous legacy of Ray Dolby, which provides us with
£35m towards the overall cost, around half of the entirety of what we need. Future
generations wouldn’t forgive us if we didn’t capture this unique moment.
During the course of the past year we’ve had some remarkable visitors with us
in College. Lord John Browne came to give a talk in the Master’s Seminar series,
on diversity and inclusion in the business environment. Shami Chakrabarti spoke
about liberty and human rights. The Speaker of the Kurdish Parliament came to
have a discussion with the students’ politics society. Sir Ian McKellen had tea and
discussion with some of the key members of Pembroke Players. We gave a buffet
lunch in the Old Library to celebrate Clive James and to launch his latest Collected
Poems. And just after May Week we celebrated Professor Malcolm Lyons’ sixty
years as a Fellow of Pembroke. Malcolm matriculated seventy years ago!
One of our most distinguished alumnae is Emma Johnson, the musician and
clarinettist, who was amongst our first cohort of women students. We waited too
long, of course, to open ourselves up to women students and Fellows, but they
have made an outstanding contribution to the life of the College now for thirtyone years. It was therefore with some pride that we commissioned a portrait of
Emma from a young woman artist, Isabella Watling, which now hangs in Hall.
And in adding further to the College’s collection of art, we have secured a
generous loan of a Henry Moore sculpture from the Henry Moore Foundation,
which will sit on the lawn in front of Foundress Court.
One of our other distinguished alumnae was Jo Cox MP, who was tragically
murdered outside her constituency surgery in June. Jo is fondly remembered by
her fellow students and by those who taught her; “a breath of fresh air” they have
said. We record our deep sorrow at her untimely loss on the following pages, but
Jo and her family remain very much in our thoughts. Pembroke’s community has
been sadly diminished.
C.R.S.
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Jo Cox MP (1974–2016)
The nation was deeply shocked and saddened at the murder of Jo Cox (née Leadbeater) on
16 June 2016. Described simply as ‘the very best of us’ during the special sitting of the
Commons held in her honour, Jo lit up the lives of all she came in contact with and her name
and example will stand for a selfless and indefatigable desire to overcome social injustice, both
at home and abroad. She matriculated at Pembroke in 1992, and three College voices add
personal tributes here to the many already paid to her from around the world.
From the Matriculation photograph of 1992, with Jo Cox (née Leadbeater) 5 from the right in row 4
The Master, Lord Chris Smith
Jo Leadbeater – who came up to Pembroke in 1992 – became Jo Cox when she
married her husband Brendan, and then the MP for Batley and Spen, the place
where she grew up. During her time in Pembroke she studied Social and Political
Sciences, threw herself actively into the work of the Junior Parlour, worked in a
factory during the holidays, and was widely admired by her fellow students as
being really bright, lively, and a bundle of energy. That energy continued after
she graduated, as she became first a political researcher and then a leading
campaigner for Oxfam for seven years. She went on to be the Director of the
Maternal Mortality Campaign, to work for Save the Children and the NSPCC, and
to be the founder and chief executive of UK Women. She was elected for Batley
and Spen in the 2015 General Election, and within a year she had already made a
huge impact on the House of Commons and beyond.
Jo was a campaigner. She saw injustice and poverty around the world and
wanted to do something about it. She saw inequality and hardship here at home,
and wanted to change it. She saw the distress of refugees fleeing conflict and the
savagery of war and wanted to respond with humanity and generosity. She was
the kind of politician who would throw herself into causes because it was quite
simply the right thing to do. And she worked indefatigably on behalf of her
constituents. For someone with her grace and genuine kindness of spirit to be so
tragically cut down is something almost too painful to contemplate.
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I knew Jo and Brendan. We first met at a friend’s birthday celebrations in the
Tuscan hills in Italy, when Jo was rather alarmingly throwing herself around the
dance floor despite being somewhat pregnant. I had been royally entertained to
dinner on their narrowboat on the Thames, food magically and miraculously
prepared in a tiny galley kitchen. I had swapped stories of walking on the
mountains of Scotland. (It was no accident that they named their son Cuillin, after
the hills on the Isle of Skye.) And I had developed an abiding admiration for the
determination, the courage and the burning sense of her values that Jo brought to
the business of politics. I like to think that perhaps some of that spirit derived
from her time here in Pembroke.
Above all, Jo stood for the politics of love and hope. She was cruelly taken from
us by actions born of fear and hate. And we’ve seen rather too much of fear and
hate being expressed in parts of our nation, these last few months. Jo stood for
something better, more decent, more honourable. The best way we can remember
her, surely, is by carrying on that work to make the public life of our nation just a
little bit better.
At the end of Roy Jenkins’ biography of Asquith, he writes: ‘What did he leave
behind him? A memory which is a standing contradiction to those who wish to
believe that only those with cold hearts and twisted tongues can succeed in
politics.’ The same was, formidably, true of Jo.
Director of Studies, Barbara Bodenhorn
Jo Leadbeater Cox was one of the first cohort of social science students I had the
pleasure to direct studies for shortly after beginning, myself, at Pembroke College
in 1990. Jo started in Archaeology and Anthropology (in fact saying she wanted to
be a forensic archaeologist in her UCAS application). By the end of her first year,
however, she was clear that she wanted to focus on socio-political life. With her
switch to what was then SPS (Social and Political Sciences), she never relinquished
her appreciation of the fact that we live in a complex world that is international
in scope and which invites comparative perspectives when trying to come to
grips with it. Her final year papers, for instance, included both Revolutions and
Latin America.
I would not have predicted a life in Parliament – my impression of her was
always as someone who was minded to get ‘stuck in’ with questions of fairness,
justice and decency. And she did with Amnesty International and Save the
Children. As of course she also did once elected MP.
Much has been made of Jo’s enhanced sense of class politics that emerged
from her Cambridge experience. And thank God for that! The last thing you (or
at least, I) want is someone who has been co-opted by the inducements that shape
so much of Cambridge social life – which scream ‘class distinction’ and which
have the capacity to turn perfectly normal people into another wannabe. It
happens. But not to her. Nor do you (I mean I) want to see anyone crushed by
disdain. The palpability of class politics was probably one of my greatest culture
shocks when I arrived in Cambridge in 1978, just in time for the Winter of
Discontent. It knocked me for a loop. When I accepted Pembroke’s invitation to
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join the membership as DoS for social sciences, it was with the understanding
that the College was determined to become both a serious academic institution
and one that reflects the complexity that is the UK. Jo was part of that ‘first wave’
– SPS in general reflected it. Her sensitization, so to speak, was as much a
function of her formal education, and of the close cohort of friends who
remained connected as it was of the ever presence of ‘class’ on the Cambridge
landscape. It’s there – but to reduce young people’s experiences in Cambridge to
‘it’ does everyone a disservice.
As a young woman, Jo was struggling to understand the world around her. She
never tried to reduce it to sound-bites, or to clever phrases that look good on exam
papers. She was intelligently thoughtful in the most profound sense of that term.
And she thought that it mattered.
At a commemoration shortly after Jo’s death, a colleague who had worked
closely with her to help refugees opened her remarks by talking about ‘that
smile!’. It brought tears to my eyes because THAT SMILE – which was ready,
heartfelt, and inclusive – is my strongest memory of her from twenty-five years
ago. May we all treasure it and the generosity of spirit which was embodied by it.
Steve Morris (1992), friend and Junior Parlour President 1994–95
There weren’t many girls like Jo Leadbeater at Pembroke. Things have changed
somewhat since, but in 1992 it was still very much the exception to be Northern,
from a state school, a working class background, and a woman. Jo was different
to most of our contemporaries, and sometimes she felt it.
Unlike those of us whose schools groomed pupils with special Oxbridge
coaching from an early age, I remember Jo recounting that one or two of her
teachers were far from impressed when she applied to Cambridge. Maybe they
thought it wasn’t for people like her. Maybe they worried she wouldn’t be happy.
Whatever it was, she sometimes had to swim against a tide which swept others
along with it. It was still possible in those days – as Jo found at her Matriculation
Dinner – that a Fellow could cheerfully announce that, if he’d had his way, you
wouldn’t be there, because he’d voted against admitting women. It was rude
enough, preposterous enough – and, in fairness, rare enough – that we laughed
about it. But it showed what women students could be up against.
Jo was an outsider in other ways, too. Yes, there were a few Northerners in our
year, but their accents stood out. There were other students from state schools, of
course. But not many from ‘normal’ schools. And the Southerners, the London
and Home Counties contingent, the privately-schooled, the posh … Well, they did
tend to be a bit louder, a bit more confident, a bit less troubled by self-doubt. And
though the overwhelming majority were friendly, and perhaps just better at
hiding their own insecurities, Jo felt a long way from home.
Even her name caused some discomfort. Southerners liked to daintify it, calling
her ‘Leadbetter’. She wasn’t slow to explain that the correct elocution was
‘Leadbeetah’, the proper Yorkshire way. I teased her that she should go by Helen
instead of Jo (her full name, H.J. Leadbeater, was painted at the bottom of R
staircase), to sound more refined. I still have the scars. It would be an exaggeration
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to paint hers as a hard luck story. She had a very happy upbringing in a wonderful
home, with a loving and inspiring family. She wasn’t disadvantaged in any way.
But Jo was always frank that she sometimes struggled with Cambridge. She had
mixed feelings about her time. And none of that should be denied.
But it would be a pity if Jo was remembered as somebody who had a
relentlessly miserable time at College. She didn’t. It would be a shame if the good
things Pembroke did for Jo – and the good things Jo did at Pembroke – were
overlooked. There were a lot of both. And it would be sad if we drew the wrong
lessons from her experience, and her openness about it.
I spent a huge amount of time with Jo in those days, that precious time before
jobs or kids when there seemed to be unlimited hours every day and night to sit,
talk and laugh. And overwhelmingly, laughter is what I remember. Yes, there were
some tears – I doubt many people get through university without a few – but most
of the time, we had industrial quantities of fun.
Jo started out doing Arch and Anth, then switched to Social and Political
Studies – which itself has since morphed into something new. People who have
only seen Jo on TV in recent months, making poised and passionate interventions
in Parliament, probably find it hard to imagine that she was quite shy at that stage.
Barbara Bodenhorn, our Director of Studies, deserves the credit for spotting Jo’s
talent and putting faith in her, when sometimes she lacked it in herself.
Jo wasn’t the only one of us who arrived at Cambridge wondering if our
admission had been due to some kind of administrative error. We were always
half-expecting somebody to expose us as impostors. Our SPS year – Jo, Sarah
Hamilton, Josh Blackburn, Kimiyo Shima and myself – was a pretty diverse group,
from the West Country to Wakayama. Jo wasn’t the only one who had to deal with
a bit of culture shock, and she relished the chance to provide an intensive
induction to Yorkshire for visitors. For those of us whose sheltered upbringings
had not previously brought them to Batley’s legendary Frontier nightclub, it was a
mind-broadening experience.
Jo was full of energy and enthusiasm, and she threw herself into College life –
as Welfare Rep on the JP, rowing in the bumps, as a College Mum. She buzzed
about town, jogging, going to lectures, occasionally troubling a librarian. In all
honesty, the academic side of things does not loom large in my recollections of Jo
at College, beyond the occasional shared essay crisis, 4 a.m. cups of coffee and
panic about deadlines. But she had an infectious laugh – some might say cackle
– a filthy sense of humour, and an acute sense of the ridiculous. She was quick to
slag you off if you offered her the slightest target, as I often did, but she was never
slow to laugh at herself.
She made lifelong friends at Pembroke, most of all Sarah and Liz Weston (now
McCandlish), who shared many adventures together at College and afterwards,
and remained as close as ever nearly a quarter-century later. The three of them
moved into 40 Panton Street for their second year (bottom of the ballot, straight
to the basement) and Jo quickly rechristened it ‘Pants Off ’ Street. She had a
strong commitment to having fun. She was good looking and great company. She
had more than her share of romantic adventures – and misadventures. Nobody
ever forgot her. She even got on with the posh Londoners, in the end. No softer
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Southern Shandy could you possibly find than our SPS classmate Josh Blackburn.
But, showing that Pembroke could bridge Hampstead and Heckmondwike, he
became one of Jo’s very closest lifelong friends.
There are far too many anecdotes of Jo’s student days to recount – and far too
few that are suitable for the Gazette. One which just about passes muster is our visit
to NATO and the Flanders battlefields as part of our War, Peace and Global
Security paper. We spent three days driving around Belgium in a shocking pink
bus. The only thing less appropriate than the colour of the vehicle, I’m afraid, was
the behaviour of its occupants. While the German and Dutch contingents were
serious and studious, our group – led by Jo – smuggled drink aboard and laughed
so much that, arriving at a war cemetery, we fell down the steps into the car park.
If you had asked people of our cohort which of us, when our time came, would
be the subject of tributes from the Queen, the US President and the German
Chancellor, from our home town to Syria and Africa, honoured by Parliament and
catalyst for an outpouring of grief around the world, would we have thought of
Jo? Frankly not, is the answer, and perhaps that shows we under-estimated her. It
would have been hard to predict how much she achieved in her action-packed life,
and nobody could have imagined the horrific nature of her death. But mostly, our
behaviour was far too silly in those days to take ourselves very seriously.
I was reminded of a story that sums this up when a group of Cambridge
friends gathered in Trafalgar Square a few weeks ago, at the event to mark Jo’s
birthday, just a few days after her shocking death. Somebody recalled an evening
towards the end of our university days when we all wondered aloud what we
would do with our lives. When it came to Jo, her reply was ‘I dunno … Boutros
Boutros Jo?!’ We all fell about laughing again – but as it turned out, it wasn’t so
very far from the reality.
During our university summers, Jo used to work in her dad’s toothpaste
factory. I worked in a pub, then we scraped together a few quid for a charter flight
to Greece. I vividly remember the first time we did this, spending long days
talking, bickering, laughing and dreaming. And Jo was a dreamer in the best
sense of the word, a real idealist who wanted everything to be better. Again, we
talked about what we would do with our lives. I didn’t have much of a clue, but Jo
was absolutely clear. She wanted to be an MP – but not just an MP. She wanted to
be the MP for her home town. She wanted to represent the place where she grew
up and the community she came from. I don’t think I know anybody else who
fulfilled their life’s ambition by the time they were 40. But as Jo Cox, MP for Batley
and Spen, Jo genuinely achieved her dream.
By the end of her three years at Pembroke, it was obvious – even to Jo – that she
was at least the equal of any of us. Not only did she carry off a comfortable 2:1
without unduly excessive study, she made a wide circle of friends from all over the
University, from every background. I think the experience served as a dress
rehearsal for later life, when she became an MP. Again, she found the Commons,
with its arcane traditions and odd rules frustrating at times. But she loved the job
and she made a huge impact in her all-too-short time there.
Jo is going to leave a lot of legacies behind her. Most of all, there are her lovely
kids, Cuillin and Lejla, who have their mum’s energy and sparkle, as well as her
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look. Led by people who knew her, along with thousands more who did not, but
have been inspired by her example, a host of initiatives have sprung up aimed at
keeping alive the causes she held dear. The Jo Cox Fund raised over a million
pounds in a matter of days, to be split between charities she was involved with.
The #MoreInCommon campaign brought people together from all over the
world, and will go on.
I know the College is giving thought to its own tributes for Jo. There is likely
to be a memorial service for those in the College community who have been
touched by her death, and by her remarkable life. There may be other projects.
One legacy I hope for is that more, not fewer, girls like Jo come to Cambridge in
future. She was the first Pembroke student from Heckmondwike Grammar. Two
more have already followed. Maybe they felt like outsiders from time to time too,
but they – and others to come – had their path made smoother by a small, funny,
naughty, feisty, idealistic and very special girl from Batley. We miss her. And we
need more like her.
A. WRITINGS AND TALKS
Pembroke Rugby First XV, 1906
This summer the Library is digitising its collection of photographs, for preservation
purposes, thanks to a donation from Deborah and John Deane to the Library Fund for
Special Projects. Some of these photographs are marking the divisions between different
sections of the Gazette. (If any member has College photographs they would like to donate
the Library would be happy to receive them.)
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The Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, Master
Jan Maciejowski
The new Master of Pembroke, as I am sure most readers of the Gazette know
already, is the Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury – or just ‘Chris’ to most of us by now.
To those of my generation, Chris is familiar as a minister in Tony Blair’s first
government – in particular as the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
who restored free admission to national museums and galleries, a popular move
which no government has overturned in the intervening fifteen years. Younger
generations may have first encountered him in rather less happy circumstances, as
Chairman of the Environment Agency during the floods of the winter of 2013–14.
The Agency was being pilloried daily in the press, with Chris being advised to stay
in the background, until he came out fighting to defend the Agency and its
personnel so forcefully and successfully that the stories quickly disappeared from
the front pages. He has been an Honorary Fellow of the College since 2004.
But to begin at the beginning: Chris was born in 1951 and attended schools in
Watford and Edinburgh (George Watson’s College). He then came to Pembroke,
where he got a double first in English despite throwing himself energetically into
politics, becoming Treasurer of the University Labour Club, Chairman of the
Cambridge Fabian Society and, as befits an aspiring politician, President of the
Union. Chris comments that the food at Pembroke was nowhere near as good as
it is now – except for Stan Chown’s meringue and cream desserts. After
graduating he had a spell at Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar, then completed a PhD
back at Pembroke, inspired by a discussion with Ian Jack, on the idea of solitude
in romantic poetry, with particular reference to Wordsworth and Coleridge. Chris
traces his passion for the two poets back to an exhilarating supervision with Roy
Park (Deputy Director of Studies in English at the time) at the beginning of his
second year. He says that Roy ‘bubbled with energy, enthusiasm, insight and
wisdom. And I can remember coming out of that supervision three hours later,
walking on air.’
Even before completing his PhD, Chris became involved in local politics in
London, being a Labour Councillor in Islington for five years (1978–83), with day
jobs at housing associations. He was elected as MP for Islington South and
Finsbury in 1983. (Jeremy Corbyn was elected for neighbouring Islington North
at the same time.) In 1984 Chris was the first MP to come out as being gay. Some
years later he would become the first openly gay government minister in the
world (probably – it is difficult to be sure of such things). In 1987 he was
appointed Shadow Treasury Minister, with responsibility for the Opposition’s
response to the Maastricht Treaty. He also authored a Private Member’s Bill,
which eventually became the Environment and Safety Act. From 1992 to 1997, he
was a member of the Shadow Cabinet, holding a number of portfolios:
Environment, Culture, Social Security and Health (one at a time).
In 1997 Labour won the General Election and Chris was appointed to the
Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. In addition to making
free museum and gallery admissions possible, he accomplished an astonishing
number of things during the four years he occupied this position, driving through
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significant changes in broadcasting, film, the lottery, tourism, sport and the arts.
Just as a sample: publishing the White Paper that led to the creation of Ofcom (the
UK’s communications regulator); creating the National Endowment for Science,
Technology and the Arts; establishing the Film Council, and the National
Foundation for Youth Music; ensuring that every public library has an internet
connection; chairing the Millennium Commission; guiding to completion
landmark lottery projects such as Tate Modern, the Eden Project, the Lowry
Centre, the British Museum Great Court; introducing free TV licences for those
aged over 75. The list goes on.
Chris returned to the ‘back benches’ in 2001, but far from keeping his head
down, he voted against the Iraq War in 2003. He also kept himself busy with a
plethora of activities, including being a member of the Committee on Standards
in Public Life, and being an adviser to the Walt Disney Company – he might have
preferred me to mention chairing the judges for the Man Booker Prize, or being
on the Board of the National Theatre. He was also one of the founders of the Clore
Leadership Programme, which aims to develop leaders of the UK’s cultural sector.
In 2005 Chris was appointed to the House of Lords, becoming Baron Smith of
Finsbury. He gave up the Labour Whip, sitting on the crossbenches as an
independent Peer, although he remains a member of the Labour Party. Again he
took on a large number of roles, most recently (2014–15) chairing the Task Force
on Shale Gas, which reported last year that ‘fracking’ could be done safely
provided that it is sufficiently tightly regulated, and concluding that shale gas
could have a useful role to play in the UK’s energy mix, but only as an interim step
towards a low carbon future.
Since becoming Master, Chris has given up most of these other responsibilities,
but he remains Chairman of the Advertising Standards Authority, a position he
has held since 2007, and which takes him to London once a week. He also remains
Chairman of the Wordsworth Trust, a rather less time-consuming activity, and of
the Arts Fund.
So what does he do to relax? Chris is a keen hill walker. He has bagged all 282
‘Munros’ (i.e. Scottish mountains over 3000 feet in height), and he has a house
in North-West Scotland. He is also something of a ‘culture vulture’ – as one
would hope of an ex-Secretary of State for Culture. He loves theatre (picking
out particularly Derek Jacobi in Lear, Eddie Redmayne in Red, Tom Hiddleston
in Coriolanus as favourites of recent years), galleries and museums (the Frick
Collection in New York, the Piero della Francesca frescoes in the Church of San
Francesco in Arezzo, the Rothko Chapel in Houston), music (Schubert, Mahler,
Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Scottish folk music). As for the Desert Island question,
his favourite piece of music is Schubert’s Quintet in C, and his favourite book
Wordsworth’s Prelude (1805 edition, mind), not to be confused with his favourite
novel, which is Middlemarch. But following rescue from the Desert Island he
would take a thriller by Sam Bourne for the flight home.
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The Senior Tutor – a Tribute
Richard Dearlove
Mark Wormald’s sixteen years as Senior Tutor have been a tour de force. His
contribution to the College’s overall success during this period has been
outstanding, especially to its academic success. He has also had a very influential
voice in crafting a vision of Pembroke’s future during a challenging period of
change in higher education and in the University. By any measure, sixteen years
is the equivalent of several marathons, and to have maintained an unflagging
performance without loss of critical edge is an achievement in itself. The age of
social media and the required transparencies that have eroded the separation of
the public arena from private space have, in recent years, significantly complicated
the dynamic between Senior Tutor and students. When I arrived at Pembroke in
2004, I was immediately struck by the weight of the load that Mark personally
carried, and by the commitment, stamina and sheer competence he showed in the
execution of this increasingly difficult role. Each of the three Masters with whom
Mark has worked, indeed the whole Fellowship, owe him a considerable debt. Sir
Roger Tomkys, those sixteen years ago, made what proved to be an inspired
appointment for Pembroke and its members, and the benefits will be lasting.
It was during Clive Trebilcock’s time as Tutor (the title was changed to Senior
Tutor when the Statutes were revised) that the Fellowship determined to raise
the College’s academic standing. Pembroke always included brilliant students,
but it had kept a somewhat hearty image, and the generality of its Tripos results
had seldom ranked among the highest. Mark became the principal day to
day executive to implement this initiative, and his success can be judged by
Pembroke’s consistently improved and excellent results in Tripos over succeeding
years. Of course, such achievement is also the result of a sustained team effort, but
the leadership, the drive, the example and the war on ‘Pembroke droop’ has been
in large part provided by the Senior Tutor. As Director of Studies in English,
Mark’s own teaching contribution has been vital, and he has been rigorous in
keeping the Fellowship up to the mark on the importance of college teaching, not
always an easy or popular message to deliver to fellow academics. Straight
speaking and firmness with the Fellowship, whilst retaining its respect and full
support, is a fine balance to strike, but is fundamental to the cohesion that a
successful and purposeful college requires.
In other constituencies Mark has played a forceful and influential role. I would
single out his compassion and empathy in dealing with the often complex
pastoral issues that brilliant but vulnerable minds can generate, and the family
problems that follow some unfortunate students into higher education. His
willingness to go the extra distance, whatever the time of day or night, to serve the
welfare of troubled individuals, some of whom remain oblivious of the resources
devoted to them, has been remarkable. At the same time, he always celebrates the
achievements and initiatives of a gifted student body with genuine enthusiasm
and a real sense of engagement.
Mark has played an influential role amongst the Senior Tutors. His advice is
widely sought and valued. His reputation for dispensing good sense to his peers
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stands high, and makes a natural progression of his appointment to the vital
intercollegiate role of Secretary to the Senior Tutors’ Committee, ensuring that
his influence in strategic areas of the University is not lost.
I must also mention the strong support that Mark has given to the Development
Office. He has been a passionate advocate of Pembroke’s development message,
and in a crowded diary always manages to find time for the ever important fundraising activities. Such participatory involvement by key college officers has
distinguished Pembroke’s fundraising and made it so successful. He played a
central role in crafting Pembroke’s response to the ever-growing pressure to
provide more financial support for needy students, and in developing a series of
ambitious bursary arrangements which other colleges are now trying to match.
It is clear that I have the highest professional regard for Mark. I also value his
friendship. We share a passion for fly fishing, and have fished together for
salmon and trout on the banks of two of England’s most beautiful rivers, the
Tamar and the Dart, and Mark tells me that it was on one of those expeditions that
he was inspired to embark on his research into the place of fly fishing in the
poetry and writings of Ted Hughes. I look forward to the resulting book because
I know it will be a work of special scholarship, will furnish new insights into the
work of one of Pembroke’s most renowned alumni, but will also be accessible to
anyone who enjoys country pursuits, particularly anyone who has cast his fly in
anticipation of that special moment of deception and artifice as the line tightens
at the strike of a ‘living jewel’. The scholar fisherman finds in Mark its ideal
expression. To further this personal note, I had in my study in the Master’s Lodge,
as a memento of previous years, a cherished photograph of Thomas Masaryk, the
heroic founder of Czechoslovakia, and his son, Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk
(tragically murdered by the Communists). Masaryk senior memorably wrote that
wherever trout are to be found, there is always beauty. Mark, a not inconsiderable
poet himself, might well write in a similar vein. His pursuit of that beauty has
been an occasional but necessary escape, a way to maintain balance and a sense
of proportion. The patient but purposeful character of the fly fisherman has been
much considered in literature, as has his or her philosophy of life. Mark’s
outstanding performance at Pembroke might suggest that a reflective pastime
dependent upon many subtleties is not a bad additional attribute to being a great
Senior Tutor! So thank you, Mark, on behalf of the many Pembroke members
who have benefitted so much from your contribution to the College’s success,
and may your sixteen years at the academic and pastoral helm be long
remembered and appropriately celebrated.
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A Sermon on Gray’s Elegy
James Gardom
On Monday 4 July, 2016, a Festive Choral Evensong was held to celebrate the 300th
anniversary of one of England’s best-loved poets, Thomas Gray, at the Church where he was
baptised, St Michael’s Cornhill. The service was attended by The Lord Mayor Jeffrey Evans
(1968) and representatives of many of the City of London Livery Companies (including
Andrew Morris (2000); see his article in this edition of the Gazette), as well as poets and
academics. The music was provided by the choirs of St Michael’s and Pembroke. A speciallycommissioned anthem by Philip Moore (containing the epitaph stanzas of Gray’s Elegy)
received its first performance. The following sermon was preached by the Dean of Pembroke,
Dr James Gardom.
It can be hard to locate Thomas Gray in the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Is
he the omniscient poet looking on in the first stanza?
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Is he the anxious friend of the missing poet, to whom the hoary headed swain says:
‘The next with dirges due in sad array
Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne.
Approach and read ( for thou can’st read) the lay,
Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.’
Is he the poet of the epitaph?
Here rests his head upon the lap of earth
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown.
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy marked him for her own.
Thomas Gray struggled all his life with a sense of personal insignificance, and a
deep reluctance to publish his own poetry. His total output in his life was thirteen
poems. One thousand lines. He also wondered all his life whether it was possible
to engage with integrity in the public sphere. Could you be famous and still
be yourself ?
Let us acknowledge two ironies here. Firstly, it is this poem which finishes
with an epitaph to an obscure poet in a rural retreat which is reason why there is
a grand memorial to Thomas Gray in Poets’ Corner: ‘A youth to fortune and to
fame unknown’. Secondly, it is this celebration of anonymous and uncelebrated
virtue which has brought ‘The Lord Mayor and representatives of many of the City
of London Livery Companies, as well as poets and academics’ to this ‘this joyful
thanksgiving for a productive creative life’.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Through the Christian centuries and generations since the death of Thomas Gray,
millions of English speakers have committed his Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard to memory. They have found the words good to live with, good in the
mind and on the tongue and in the heart. What have they found to think, and
taste, and feel in this great poem?
It is, first and foremost, an elegy, by title, by poetic form and by content.That
is to say it is a representative of the great Christian and philosophical tradition of
the Memento Mori. This is the conviction, widely shared through history, that the
perspective of death is the perspective from which we most clearly understand
life. It is often the conviction that this is also the perspective from which life is
most fruitfully led. When we have grasped this fact about the poem its content
falls more sharply into focus.
From the perspective of death the great achievements of the great, and the
small achievements of the small look very much the same. Gray does not
disparage or deny either, but he does encourage us not to be beguiled by fame, or
contemptuous of obscurity. From the perspective of death, or more specifically
from the perspective of the dying, however, being remembered, being mourned,
is important. The shed tears and simple obsequies of a country churchyard are
given full dignity in this poem. And finally, in the epitaph, two things of real value
seem to emerge. For this life, the blessing of friendship. In the face of death, the
love of God.
How can we fully and worthily celebrate the tercentenary of Thomas Gray? I
think there are three things we might consider.
Firstly, we should seriously consider learning the poem. It is 128 short lines,
made for learning, and it will provide us with a stock of thoughts and words to
enlighten us for life and fortify us for death. You too can think, and taste, and feel
this great poem.
Secondly, we should allow ourselves to be reminded by Thomas Gray of that
truth most obvious and inconvenient – the full and equal humanity, the full and
equal value of the famous and the obscure, the rich and the poor, the native and
the migrant. In God’s eyes and from the perspective of death these – our –
distinctions do not look so distinguished.
Finally, we should give far more thought in our busy and sometimes
dementing lives to the things that give them true value. What are we here for?
What are we made for? The blessings of friendship and the love of God are what
we were made for.
Do ‘hear, read, mark, learn and inwardly digest’ the Elegy. It is a thing of beauty
and wisdom, and there is never enough of that in the world. More importantly, it
is a witness and a pointer to some truths that we begin to forget, and that we
forget at our peril.
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The Man who Changed Football
Kevin Moore
Director, National Football Museum
Few people have changed an entire sport for the better. Peter Murray Taylor,
Baron Taylor of Gosforth Kt PC QC, did this – for football.
Peter Taylor was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1930. He came from a Jewish
family which had emigrated from Lithuania to the UK; the original family name
was Teiger or Teicher. His father Louis, a doctor, was born in Leeds, to where the
family had emigrated. Peter Taylor passed the 11-plus and attended the Royal
Grammar School in Newcastle. During the Second World War, the city was
subject to bombing raids and Taylor was evacuated to Penrith. In 1951 he won an
exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge, to study Law. He graduated in 1953
with an upper second class degree and then read for the Bar, being called in 1954.
He chose to practise on the north-eastern circuit around Newcastle. A highly
successful career followed. He became a High Court Judge in 1980 and in 1988
was promoted to the Court of Appeal, becoming Lord Chief Justice in 1992, at the
same time being created a life peer as Baron Taylor of Gosforth. He died in 1997
at the age of 66.
Taylor had a very distinguished career of public service. But perhaps his
greatest service was the way in which his work led to the complete transformation
of football for the better, in terms of crowd safety and stadia. In the 1980s football
was in decline, with falling gates and crumbling stadia. As a direct consequence
of the Taylor Report of 1990, the game has been rescued and transformed.
15 April 1989. Liverpool versus Nottingham Forest in the semi-final of the
FA Cup, being played at a neutral venue, Hillsborough Stadium, the ground
of Sheffield Wednesday FC. 3.06pm. The game is halted. Liverpool fans are being
crushed behind the fences at the Leppings Lane end of the Stadium. This is the
Hillsborough disaster, the worst ever disaster at a British football ground,
the worst in British sporting history. 96 Liverpool fans are killed in a crush, 766
are injured.
On 17 April 1989 Taylor was commissioned by the government to undertake
an inquiry into the catastrophe. The Taylor Inquiry sat for a total of 31 days and
published two reports: an interim report which laid out the events of the day
and immediate conclusions, and the final report which outlined general
recommendations on football ground safety. This became known as the
Taylor Report.
Taylor concluded that ‘policing on 15 April broke down’ and that ‘although
there were other causes, the main reason for the disaster was the failure of police
control’. Sheffield Wednesday was criticised for the inadequate number of
turnstiles at the Leppings Lane end and the poor quality of the crush barriers on
the terraces, ‘respects in which failure by the Club contributed to this disaster’.
Crucially, Taylor did not blame the Liverpool fans: ‘I do not consider choice of ends
was causative of the disaster. Had it been reversed, the disaster could well have
occurred in a similar manner but to Nottingham supporters’. Taylor concluded his
criticism of South Yorkshire Police by describing senior officers in command as
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‘defensive and evasive witnesses’ who refused to accept any responsibility for
their errors.
As we now know, however, there was a cover-up by South Yorkshire Police,
which meant that the Hillsborough families and their supporters had to
campaign for decades to get justice. In 2016, the second inquest into the deaths
of the fans came to conclusions which Taylor had anticipated in 1990. Taylor was
proven to have been right in his judgements, and football fans speak very
positively about him.
While the Hillsborough families did not get justice for over 25 years, this was
no fault of Taylor. The Taylor Report transformed the game for the better. It is
arguably the most important document in the history of English Association
football, after the handwritten first laws of the game from 1863. Taylor’s
recommendations improved the safety at stadia immeasurably and changed
the nature of the stadia, as modern, all-seater grounds became the norm, not
the exception.
At the National Football Museum in Manchester, which welcomes over
500,000 visitors each year, a section of the displays is devoted to stadia. At the
heart of this is a film about Hillsborough and previous crowd disasters in British
football and stadia safety. Along with the images and film, there is no voiceover,
only the words on screen of Taylor. We decided that no one could explain this
subject matter better than he. This is the complete text of the film:
‘It is a depressing and chastening fact that mine is the ninth official report
covering crowd safety and control at football grounds. Why were these other
recommendations not followed? I suggest two main reasons. First, insufficient
concern and vigilance for the safety and well-being of spectators. Secondly,
complacency, which led all parties to think that since disaster had not occurred on
previous occasions it would not happen this time. The safety and comfort of those
on the terraces has not been regarded as a priority. Club managements do not feel
obliged to put their grounds into a state considered by the Police to be necessary
for crowd control. The problem of crowd control and safety, as it was said,
suddenly arises. Does there have to be a disaster or near-disaster at each ground
to trigger radical action? The combination of numbers, excitement and
partisanship, even leaving aside misbehaviour, has a potential for danger. Football
requires higher standards both in bricks and mortar and in human relationships.
Police officers and stewards should be fully briefed and trained. Standardisation
in stadium design and construction is required. Prison-type fences with spikes
and overhanging sections should go. The aim should be to provide more modern
and comfortable accommodation. I am satisfied that seating does more to achieve
those objectives than any other single measure. Almost all the solutions I have
proposed have been previously considered in detail by many distinguished
inquiries over a period of sixty years. Complacency is the enemy of safety.’
This was Taylor’s blueprint for the transformation of the game. And such was
the power of his conclusions, this has been achieved. But as Taylor has warned us,
we must never become complacent.
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The Knox Connection
Brian Watchorn
When we celebrated recently the thirtieth anniversary of the admission of women
to Pembroke in 1984, it was noted that this was not quite the first time that
women students had been incorporated into Pembroke. In 1942 the town boys
who had made up the top line in many college chapel choirs, including
Pembroke, could no longer turn out safely in the wartime blackout. The young
Dean, Meredith Dewey, was away serving as chaplain in the navy and in his
absence Wilfred Knox, a distinguished New Testament scholar, was drafted in as
Chaplain. It was on his watch that the choir went mixed, recruiting women. As
Dewey later recorded in his mischievous style: ‘If Pembroke was last to adopt
voluntary chapel it was first to bring girls into the choir. That was the decision of
Wilfred Knox, of all people, in 1942. The news reached me at Durban the same
day that Rommel took Tobruk for the second time. One wondered what we were
fighting for’ (Pembroke College Gazette, 1979, p. 18).
Meredith in fact loved having a mixed choir and his surprise at Knox’s part in
this transition doubtless reflected the fact that Knox, as a member of an Anglican
quasi-monastic fellowship, the Oratory of the Good Shepherd, was known to be
a life-long bachelor and shy. Nor did he have an ear for music. But as a Pembroke
man once told me who had stood in for a while as organ scholar in these war
years, it was he, the student, who, without a top line of voices, seized on the happy
circumstance that the London School of Economics had been evacuated to
Cambridge in the Peterhouse hostel in Trumpington Street just beyond their
Master’s Lodge (note the inscribed plaque now on the hostel frontage). He had
taken the initiative of recruiting their ladies to the Pembroke choir and presented
this to Knox as a fait accompli.
Wilfred was the third of four remarkable brothers: Edmund 1881–1971; Dillwyn
1883–1943; Wilfred 1886–1950; Ronald 1888–1957. Their story is masterfully
woven together by Eddie’s daughter, the novelist and biographer, Penelope
Fitzgerald, in The Knox Brothers (1977; paperback 2013). Sons of a formidable
Bishop of Manchester, they each made their names as sharp thinkers and literati.
Eddie, as ‘Evoe’, became editor of the famous satirical weekly magazine Punch.
A contributor from his twenties, he broadened its humour and saw its circulation
rise throughout the 17 years of his tenure. Even when in the trenches of 1917,
where he was shot through the back at Passchendaele, Punch came up the line,
once a week, with the mail. A prolific writer of comic verse and essays, Fitzgerald
tells how Eddie feared in the thirties that humour had had its day because the
state of the world was such that nothing was too absurd or too unpleasant to
come true, but the magazine prospered, never missing an issue. He continued to
be in London during the WW2 blitz, displaying an eccentric form of courage in
wandering about where the bombs fell thickest with a bottle of whisky in his
pocket, looking for people who needed it (K. Mullin, ODNB). In 1951 he was
invited to give Cambridge’s Leslie Stephen Lecture. They wanted him to speak as
a memorial about Wilfred who had died in 1950. He chose the ‘Mechanism of
Satire’ in which all the brothers were practised.
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Eddie, the ‘Edwardian elegant’, had left his father’s college, Corpus Oxford,
without a degree. Dilly was sent instead to King’s, Cambridge, where in 1909 he
became a Classics Fellow. Never a member of the Apostles, he had at Eton formed
a deep friendship with Maynard Keynes, now also at King’s, as was Lytton
Strachey who was captivated by Knox. War dispersed these relationships and
Dilly’s skills in deciphering Greek papyrus fragments led to his joining NID 25,
the department of Naval Intelligence, or Room 40 as it was to become better
known. Success at breaking much of the German admirals’ flag code as well as
his love of puzzles (shared by all the brothers) encouraged him to stay on as a
cryptographer after the War rather than return to Cambridge, which enabled him
to marry his former secretary. By the time WW2 broke out Dilly was already
conversant with the challenge set by Enigma, the German enciphering system,
famously hidden away from 1939 at Bletchley Park. (Wilfred was later to win a bet
over the Pembroke port that Bletchley is in Buckinghamshire: Pembroke Parlour
Book 1945.) A brainwave of Dilly’s in 1941 is said to have cut the solution to
Enigma by six months. But by February 1943 he was dying of cancer. From his
school days, to the distress of his father, he had become a fierce agnostic. The
youngest brother Ronnie, in the other direction, had become a Roman Catholic
priest and arrived to see Dilly out of this world. As he faded, Dilly could not resist
a final wry riposte: ‘Is Ronnie still out there bothering God in the passage?’
Ronnie, known as the cleverest boy at Eton in living memory, went up to that
clever college, Balliol. Like Wilfred attracted to a more ritualistic faith, he was
ordained 1911–12 but the outbreak of WW1 and the loss of friends concentrated
his doubts about the catholicity of Anglicanism and in 1919, looking for authority,
he was ordained a Roman Catholic. This did not inhibit his growing reputation
not only as a Christian apologist but as a humorist and essayist, the Daily Mail
naming him in 1924 ‘the wittiest young man in England’, though whenever
Ronnie came to have dinner with Wilfred in Pembroke in later years, High Table
were disappointed at his silence. A visiting professor had leaned towards him one
evening with the remark: ‘Well, Monsignor, I haven’t heard you say anything very
witty yet.’ For twelve years he was the RC Chaplain at Oxford, writing six detective
stories to help make ends meet. But for many his greatest achievement was to
translate the whole Bible from the Latin Vulgate into a more contemporary
English than Roman Catholics were accustomed to, the Knox Version, the work
of nine years.
Wilfred and Ronnie were bosom chums, such that Ronnie’s conversion to
Rome was felt by Wilfred as a death. Cambridge became a lifeline for him. After
the war and Meredith’s return, Knox was kept on as Chaplain and made a Fellow
in 1946. This was a tribute both to his scholarship and to his ministry among the
undergraduates. Wilfred had obtained first class honours at Trinity College,
Oxford, and incorporated at Pembroke Cambridge in 1935. Ordained as the Great
War broke out – he was refused for chaplaincy as too high church – he wrote
about the nature of the church before turning to biblical studies, leading to the
higher degrees of B.D. in 1937, D.D. in 1943, and election to the distinction of a
Fellow of the British Academy in 1948. His focus was on the writings of St Paul,
publishing on the Hellenistic context to early Christianity. The scholarship in
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these volumes, notably St Paul and the Church of Jerusalem (1925) and St Paul and the
Church of the Gentiles (1939), is immensely detailed and learned, and is still an
important scholarly resource. Though New Testament fashion came to pass him
by, his biographer Edward Wynn considered that ‘in this at the time of his death
he had probably no superior in Europe or America’ (Memoir, p. ix, in Knox,
Penitence and Forgiveness, reprint 1953).
His most well-known work however was a small book, Meditation and Mental
Prayer (1927), dealing practically with the methods of prayer and aiming to
introduce lay people to the spiritual life in the catholic sacramental tradition.
Wilfred believed firmly that the work of a theologian should sustain practice of
the Christian religion and, though not a great preacher, increased even the
wartime numbers in Chapel with his incisive but simple sermons. For despite his
reserve, the young were attracted to his otherworldliness. Possessions meant
nothing to him apart from his fishing rod and motorbike; the ration of wartime
clothing coupons was given away, his cassock getting greener. At heart his
catholic faith necessitated siding with the dispossessed. So Joseph Needham, a
lay Oratorian resident in the twenties, who was to become the great historian of
Chinese science, told how under Wilfred converse at the Oratory showed him ‘the
great need for a rethinking of Christian doctrine and practice in the light of
scientific knowledge, for example, in the attitude to sexual questions, race
relations and social justice … [He] was one of the people from whom I learned
most in my youth’ (Fitzgerald, pp. 162–3). Serving as a leading light of the AngloCatholic wing on the Commission on Christian Doctrine (Report 1938) Wilfred was far
from the expected conservative, speaking in favour of the tolerance of birth
control and civil divorce – radical for a Christian at the time, and a reflection of
his deep pastoral instinct which young and old came to appreciate.
But it was his membership of the Oratory (OGS) which first tied Wilfred to
Cambridge. OGS had sprung up among a group of young dons in Cambridge as
the First World War was looming, committing its members who continued in
their various professions, lay as well as clerical, to a daily pattern of study and
spiritual discipline in the sacramental tradition. When College chaplains returned
from the war they found in the fellowship of the Oratory something of the
communal support they had experienced in the Services, Edward Wynn among
them who, after chaplaincy at Jesus, went on to become Dean at Pembroke, then
(Senior) Tutor, until appointment as Bishop of Ely in 1941. Knox had spent a year
with OGS when preparing for ordination and lived as warden at the house they
eventually acquired in Lady Margaret Road, now Lucy Cavendish, from 1924
until it closed just before his appointment at Pembroke. This disciplined faith was
his core.
In College Knox occupied the set at the top of M staircase, surrounded
by boaties; then on Meredith’s return N7. A theology student who became a
Methodist minister recalled to me how, arriving for a supervision he was invited
by Dr Knox to toast the crumpet that lay before the gas fire and then to butter it
with the small allocation that wartime rationing allowed. Do help yourself, he
continued – only to cry out as the student tucked in: ‘But it’s for both of us!’ In
Meredith’s absence he took over the care of the gardens and, donnish though he
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was, endeared himself to the young over tea and Fitzbillies cake and as a faithful
supporter at the sports ground. When offered the distinction of a professorship
at Oxford, he declined the chair on the assurance that Pembroke wanted him as a
Fellow (S. C. Roberts, Adventures with authors, 1966, p. 211).
At his early death, aged 63, tickets had to be balloted for his funeral in Chapel
and there he continues to be recalled by name at the College Benefactors Service
when, alongside the Wren candlesticks, the silver altar cross is mentioned
as given in his memory. It bears the inscription: In memoriam Wilfred Knox/ socii
et capellani/ mdccclxxxvi-mcml/ gregis amantissimi/ amantissimi pastoris;
In memory of Wilfred Knox, Fellow and Chaplain, 1886–1950, devoted shepherd of a
devoted flock.
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After the War was over …
Jayne Ringrose
What did it feel like to go to a May Ball in 1919? We can catch a faint echo from
two May Ball Dance Cards which have been given to the College through the
thoughtful generosity of Canon George Farran, sometime Canon Chancellor of
Wells Cathedral, and Mrs Farran.
The two tiny folded pieces of card are souvenirs of two
Balls, the Pembroke College Ball of Wednesday
10 June 1919 and a Naval Ball two days later on
Thursday 12 June 1919.
Dance cards were designed to be retained by
both ladies and gentlemen, the latter writing his
name on the lady’s card against the dance for which
she was engaged to him, using the small pencil
originally suspended from the card by a silk ribbon,
which in these cases have now sadly disappeared. He
would then add the lady’s name to his own card.
‘Cambridge itself again,’ proclaimed The Times’ Special
Correspondent on 7 June 1919. ‘This year’s May week at Cambridge is very like the
May week of 1914 and the May weeks of many years before that. If possible, it is
just a little more so. Plays, concerts, dances, boat races, cricket matches, picnics
follow one another and clash with one another all this week and next.’ The
Pembroke College Ball in fact clashed with the Clare College Ball and the Girton
Ball as well, while the Navy Ball had to compete with Gonville and Caius.
The Royal Navy, as The Times went on to relate, in fact made a substantial
difference to the general festive proceedings. In addition to parties of American
Students in uniform due to return across the Atlantic in July, many, though not all,
of the Colleges, hosted large numbers of young naval officers, mostly sublieutenants, also in uniform, under special instruction, each College having its
own commanding officer. Pembroke had no fewer than 37 sub-lieutenants, and
this naval cohort is reflected on the dance card. The owner of the card was Miss
Mary (‘Molly’) Hulton, who was escorted by her brother, Sub-Lieutenant Edward
Hulton; his name appears as ‘Edward’ frequently against the dances. It was not
uncommon, until fairly recently, to take one’s sister to a May Ball, with, in earlier
times, a chaperone, with the expectation that she would meet your friends, and
you would meet your friends’ sisters. Edward was only 19, and had already served
briefly at the end of the War, having attended the Royal Naval College, Osborne.
The list of Stewards on the back of the Pembroke card points to a very
thorough organisation involving members of all years. The names are headed by
two Fellows, one of them Mr Jock Lawson, The Tutor (as the Senior Tutor was
then called), and Mr Trevor Spittle, Director of Studies in Mechanical Sciences
and afterwards Bursar. After them is Commander Coleridge, in charge of the
naval officers. Members from all years followed and last of all, two sublieutenants. Notable in the list of members of the College are Humfrey GroseHodge MA, afterwards Headmaster of Bedford School, and Patrick Arthur
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Sheldon (‘Paddy’) Hadley, son of the Master, William Sheldon Hadley, who was
afterwards to achieve fame as a composer and a Fellow of Caius. He had lost his
lower right leg in the War (which left him in constant pain) and is reputed to have
kept his sock attached to his wooden leg with a drawing pin. How this may have
affected his participation in the dancing is not known.
Additionally, numbers of undergraduates in College were considerably swollen
by the return of those who had either postponed or interrupted their College
careers because of the War. According to the Cambridge Daily News, no fewer than
309 persons attended the Ball, and while this would have included partners and
presumably chaperones, this total is strikingly similar to the 308 names
afterwards appearing on the College War Memorial. The equivalent attendance for
the Peterhouse Ball was about 100 persons, while more medium-sized Colleges
hosted 200 or 250 in all.
The Committee had gone ahead and (perhaps under the influence of Paddy
Hadley?) hired Archibald Joyce’s band, arguably the best-known band in London,
indeed sometimes described as the ‘first modern dance band in Britain’. Joyce
himself was known as the English Waltz King, and was already famous before the
War as a leading composer of light music, whose compositions were widely
circulated and performed in piano arrangements: recordings from piano rolls can
in some cases still be heard. His compositions were used by Charlie Chaplin and
it has even been suggested that the band on the Titanic played one of his melodies
as the ship went down in 1912. But the programme on the dance card makes it
clear that Pembroke (and the Navy) were expecting more than waltzes even from
the Waltz King. Ragtime had been popular since the beginning of the century and
was now giving way to Jazz (at first known as ‘Jass’). It was in 1919 that the
Original Dixieland Jazz Band first toured Britain (it had reached New York in 1917)
and accordingly the Pembroke Programme featured the one-step ‘Jazz band’
(could this have been the 1917 ‘Dixieland Jass Band One-Step’?) as number 2 on
the list; the one-step ‘Rag-time band’ was lower down the order at number 11.
There are twenty-four dances listed, plus five ‘extras’, one at the beginning (the
one-step ‘Over There’), and four unspecified dances after number 12: a one-step,
two fox-trots and a waltz. The dances are all one-steps (nine in all), fox-trots
(thirteen) or waltzes (four plus two ‘hesitations’). The one-step had the advantage
of being easy to learn, indeed requiring virtually no skill at all, which may have
been a boon to some would-be dancers, who, unlike their successors in later
years, may not have had much opportunity to practice to the gramophone in
advance. The older generation may have preferred the waltzes but the fox-trot set
the tone for the Ball, as it did for the interwar years to come. One of its virtues was
that of enabling larger numbers of people to dance on a crowded floor. Miss
Hulton had no name against her card for the first one-step (it was generally in
accordance with etiquette to dance the first dance with one’s escort, so she may
have danced with her brother), but she was soon led off for the first fox-trot ‘Pom
Pom’ by Sub-Lieutenant Wilfred E.Warner, one of the stewards; his initials appear
four times in all on the card. She does not seem to have been so fond of the onestep: several of them are left blank. There are a few mysteries. Her brother Edward
appears several times, but who was ‘Roger’? And who was the dashingly-named
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Sub-Lieut. Roland Hunter-Blair, (a very brave man as it turned out1), who engaged
to meet her at the ‘statue’ in order to dance the one-step ‘Rag-time Band’?
The Cambridge Daily News recorded that the Hall was simply but becomingly
decorated with flowers which hung from the electric lights and stood upon the
window sills. This however, was not the Hall as we know it today, after the
alterations of 1926, when the flat plaster ceiling was put in, and Waterhouse’s
Senior Parlour was opened out to form the present High Table area now with its
three tables. In 1919 the Hall was shorter in length, the window tracery was still
heavily gothic, and the ceiling was dark with wooden rafters. The statue remains
a mystery (Pitt was not to arrive until 1969), but may have been the bust of Gray or
Stokes on a pedestal.
The Cambridge Daily News informs us that refreshments were laid out in an
adjoining room. This would perhaps have been the Senior Parlour (although the
Old Library would have been a possibility; the room had to be large especially as
seats were provided for those who wished to sit out any of the dances). ‘In an
adjacent court,’ continues the Cambridge Daily News tantalisingly, ‘a large marquee
had been erected for further accommodation. The benches laid in the open were
continuously used, for the night remained warm and fine. Multi-coloured lanterns
added light to that given by a moon almost full, and many delighted to sit in the
soft glow of the court after dancing strenuously in the brightly lit ballroom.’ We
are not told that there was any cabaret, Scottish dancing or other entertainment,
in this, or any of the other balls reported. Guests nonetheless danced through to
the small hours, and Miss Hulton found herself with no fewer than fourteen
partners besides her brother. She danced twice with Sub-Lieut. Denis N. Venables,
who was also to appear at the Naval Ball two days later. One of the dances was the
Hesitation ‘Dreaming’, one of Archibald Joyce’s best known waltzes.
Some, though not all of the tunes can still be picked up and heard on the
internet. The atmosphere seems on the whole to have verged on the frenetic.
Tunes like ‘Father keeps a Bewery’, ‘On the level you’re a little devil’, suitable for
‘strenuous’ dancing, contrast with ‘Uncle Sam’ and ‘Sunday morning’ and ‘Come
into the garden’, all fox-trots. One or two items were overtly romantic, such as the
waltz ‘Mystery of Love’ which Mary danced with her brother, and the ‘Lilac
Domino’, danced with Wilfred Warner. Yet here and there is to be found poignant
evocation of the War of which so many of those present had had direct experience.
‘I don’t want to get well’, a one-step, is cheerful enough, but based on a song
about a wounded soldier who enjoys being fed with a spoon by a pretty nurse; or
‘K-K-K-Katy’ a wartime fox-trot tells of a romance between a ‘girl with hair of gold’
and a young soldier who can only stammer when they meet. Above all, in Nat. D.
Ayer’s 1917 ‘Widows are wonderful’ there was darkness under the humour.
‘Some boys go to College
And some to public school.
They cram themselves with knowledge
But still they’re mostly fools
Girls are prepossessing,
They may be sweet and fair.
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But a widow keeps you guessing
And she gets right there.’
The last dance was a medley ‘All the girls are wonderful [by the sea]’, a seaside
music hall song with an appropriate nautical theme.
The other card is from the Navy Ball held in the Guildhall and Corn Exchange on
12 June. The day beforehand, the Cambridge University Services Club Ball was held
in the same venues, and the Cambridge Daily News described the extravagant flowers
and other decorations. It may be wondered whether some at least of the same décor
was re-used the next day. We do not know the music, or the band, but there were
twenty-eight dances of which nine were ‘supper dances’. It would appear to have
been on a larger scale than the Pembroke Ball, and probably far grander. Many of
the Pembroke sub-lieutenants were present, as were many more from other
Colleges. Miss Hulton danced again not only with Denis Venables and Roland
Hunter-Blair, but with a host of others. Points of rendezvous had been set up at
various points in the ball-room for couples to meet up with their promised partners
before each dance. These renderzvous seem all to have been named after ships
including HMS Severn, Hercules, Iron Duke, Curacoa, Revenge and Maidstone.
It was a May Week to remember, and the fact that the cards were preserved for
ninety-five years or more shows what an important occasion it was, especially for
Mary Hulton. But the end was also the beginning. Canon Farran, the donor of the
cards, tells us that Commander Edward Hulbert, as he became, served in the Navy
in both World Wars. During the Second World War, his ship HMS Lapwing, of
which he was the Commanding Officer, was torpedoed in the Arctic waters off
Murmansk, on 21 March 1945. Commander Hulton survived, being badly injured,
but his second-in-command, Lieutenant-Commander Frederick William (‘Bill’)
Weller took command and being last off the ship did not. After the war, Edward
Hulton, described as ‘a bachelor and a recluse’, took an interest in his friend’s
orphaned daughter, Pamela Weller (afterwards Mrs Farran), and bequeathed
property to her. His sister, Mary Hulton,
remained unmarried like her brother; the latter
died in 1980 in Tenby, a part of the world
familiar to the Valence Earls of Pembroke.
Two dance cards then sum up the joy tinged
with sadness, and the optimism at the end of the
First World War, and point to valour and
fortitude together with kindness and generosity
in subsequent years. Like the courageous 308 of
Pembroke who died in the War, those who
continued to serve in the years to come deserve
also to be remembered.
1
He was to be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his part as second-in-command of
H.M.Coastal Motor Boat no.72 in the attack on Kronstadt Harbour against the Bolshevik Fleet
on 18 August 1919. There is an account of this extraordinary operation and its ‘cool, disciplined,
daredevil gallantry’ at http://www.worldnavalships.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5317
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Creeping and Prowling around the Russian Court: Joseph
Turner’s Portraitist
Rosalind P Blakesley
The portrait of Joseph Turner (1745–1828) hanging in the entrance hall to
Pembroke College library tends to prompt comment about the nature of its sitter,
if it attracts any attention at all (fig. 1). Painted in the year of Turner’s death at
the age of eighty-three, it depicts
Pembroke’s fortieth master at the
end of an association with the
College which had lasted almost
seven decades. Less well known,
however, is the mercurial career
of the artist who painted him:
George Dawe (1781–1829), a Royal
Academician largely overlooked in
Britain who encountered both fame
and hostility painting members of
Europe’s royal houses and cultural
elite, and landed one of the greatest
portrait commissions of his
generation when he was tasked by
Tsar Alexander I with depicting
some three hundred generals of
Russia’s Napoleonic campaign.
The son of a London engraver
Fig. 1: George Dawe, Portrait of Joseph Turner, oil on
and godson of the renowned animal
canvas, 142.2 ¥ 111.8 cm, Pembroke College,
and genre painter George Morland,
Cambridge.
Dawe was born in 1781 into a wellconnected and reputable artistic family. He was baptised at the Church of St
James’s, Piccadilly, which had been designed by Christopher Wren just over a
decade after Wren had launched his architectural career with Pembroke Chapel.
The church was a fashionable one, its congregation enlivened by longstanding
political and artistic links (William Pitt the Elder and the poet and painter William
Blake had both been baptised there). These colourful connections anticipated the
powerful and cultured society in which Dawe would make his mark.
Taught by his father and family acquaintances, Dawe entered the Royal
Academy of Arts in 1794 at the age of thirteen, and graduated with the top award,
the Royal Academy Schools Gold Medal, in 1803. As well as perfecting the art of
engraving, he studied under the successive professors of history painting James
Barry and Henry Fuseli, and produced paintings on a curious range of themes,
from Naomi and her Daughters of 1804 (Tate Britain, London) to Negro Overpowering
a Buffalo of 1810 (Menil collection, Houston). Equally agile was Dawe’s work in
portraiture, which led to his election as a Royal Academician in 1814.
A canny and aspirational artist, Dawe took pains to move in cultured circles,
fostering friendships and collaborations with the likes of Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
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whom he portrayed on several occasions, and John Constable, who assisted Dawe
with the backgrounds of some of his paintings. The artist also became adept at
advertising his skills and achievements in the popular press. Readers were
regularly reminded of the celebrated status of the sitters for his portraits, and how
and where they might view and subscribe to engravings of these.
Such self-advertisement did not pass unremarked. Following what they felt to
be importunate publicity for Dawe’s engravings of his portraits of Princess
Charlotte and the Irish actress Eliza O’Neill, Royal Academicians rounded on him
with accusations of ‘immodest’ and inflated self-promotion and expelled him
from their ranks. It seems to have been water off a duck’s back, though, for Dawe
continued to ingratiate himself in high society, and in 1818 travelled to the
Congress of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) as part of the Duke of Kent’s entourage. In
a snide assessment by the portraitist Sir Thomas Lawrence, who was himself in
Aachen painting a portrait of Alexander I, Dawe was soon ‘prowling’ and
‘creeping’ around members of the Russian court.1 Such manoeuvring paid off, for
the tsar declared himself to be struck by the ‘uncommon likeness’ of Dawe’s
work. Inspired by the Prince Regent’s commission of Lawrence to portray the
victors of the anti-Napoleonic alliance for the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor
Castle, Alexander employed Dawe to portray every Russian general and
commander who had played a role in defeating Napoleon. The two artists’ rivalry
was confirmed. Lawrence had the edge when it came to reigning and future
monarchs. As well as such obvious candidates for this visual victory parade as the
Duke of Wellington, his sitters included George III, George IV and King Frederick
William III of Prussia, as well as the Russian tsar. Yet Dawe’s was arguably the
more complex project, numbering hundreds of portraits that would keep him
busy for the next ten years.
Dawe’s reception on his arrival in Russia in the summer of 1819 gives some
sense of the prestige of the commission: allocated a palatial studio in the Winter
Palace, he was given the memorable address of ‘The Hermitage. Mr Dawe’.
There, he and two assistants were soon hanging the fruit of their labours in
serried ranks on the studio walls, as a later image of the tsar visiting Dawe at work
reveals (fig. 2).
Dawe had no compunction in using whatever means necessary to meet the
demands of the commission: so expeditious was his manner that his studio
became known as ‘the portrait factory’, and he was accused of treating his
assistants poorly and passing off their work as his own.2 Yet his underhand
methods produced the required results. On 25 December 1826, some two hundred
portraits were unveiled in the presence of Nicholas I in the new 1812 Gallery in the
Winter Palace, which had been commissioned from the Italian architect Carlo
Rossi especially to display Dawe’s work. In the presence of surviving sitters,
soldiers paraded beneath five tiers of bust-length portraits of the generals under
whom they had served. Just over a decade later, a devastating fire swept through
the Winter Palace and destroyed the 1812 Gallery but its portraits, by then
numbering over 330, were saved. The gallery was meticulously reconstructed, and
remains a highlight of the State Hermitage Museum today (fig. 3).
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Fig. 2: J. Benett and T. Wright, Alexander I visiting George Dawe’s Studio in the Hermitage, after a drawing by
A. Martynov, 1826, aquatint, watercolour, 25.3 ¥ 41 cm, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
By 1828, Dawe had acquired
notoriety in Russia. In March that
year he was appointed first painter
to the Russian court, and two
months later visited the Gulf of
Finland with none other than the
poet Alexander Pushkin. Dawe
sketched Pushkin, and the writer
copied one of Dawe’s portraits in
the margin of his poem Poltava later
the same year. At the other end of
the scale, the artist was so reviled
for his exploitation of Russian
assistants that the Society for the
Encouragement of Artists in St
Petersburg submitted a report to
Nicholas I entitled ‘On the
Reprehensible Acts of the English
Artist George Dawe’. Perhaps to
escape
the bitter arguments of his
Fig. 3: Grigory Chernetsov, Military Gallery, the Winter
supporters
and detractors, Dawe
Palace, 1829, oil on canvas, 122 ¥ 93.6 cm, State
returned temporarily to London in
Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
May that year, and lived for a few
months at 11 Howland Street, Fitzroy Square, from where he arranged a display
of copies of his most famous Russian portraits at Windsor Castle.3 It was at this
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point that he painted the Master of Pembroke College, in the year of Turner’s
death and the penultimate year of Dawe’s life.
We do not know the circumstances of this commission, or how Dawe came to
Turner’s attention. Nor is the result of their encounter a great painting, lacking the
finesse and panache of Dawe’s earlier portraits of the glitterati of London’s beau
monde and Europe’s royal courts. It is as if the artist’s energy and imagination had
been sapped by the Herculean task of depicting the legions of Russia’s military
elite, all in uniform and in a similar size and pose, but in such a way as to render
each distinct.
Turner’s light was dimming as well. He had begun his sixty-four year
association with Pembroke with élan, entering the College as a sizar at the age of
seventeen, graduating as Senior Wrangler and then being elected a Fellow in 1768
at the age of twenty-three. His forty-four year mastership from 1784 had initially
maintained the successes of his predecessor, with healthy numbers of
undergraduates, academic distinction among the Fellowship, and the College in
general in good heart.4 Such was Turner’s stature that he had twice served as vicechancellor of the University of Cambridge, in 1785–86 and 1805–6, in which
capacity he presented two addresses to George III.
After Turner’s election as Dean of Norwich in 1790, however, he spent
increasing periods of time in that city, attending to chapter business and
overseeing repairs to the fabric of the cathedral. Pembroke suffered from the
absence of a steady hand at the helm. By the 1820s, Turner’s effectiveness in
Norwich was also under question as his health declined.5 Dawe’s portrait
therefore marks an encounter between two men of different generations (Turner
in his eighties, while Dawe was forty-seven) whose influence and reputation were
under threat as they both limped, exhausted, towards the end of their careers.
There are nonetheless passages in the painting that point to earlier strengths
in both men’s work. The books standing upright on the table are The Works of
Thomas Gray and George Pretyman’s Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable
William Pitt, in reference to two of the most illustrious members of Pembroke to
coincide with Turner. It was to Turner that Lord Chatham had written to
introduce his fourteen-year-old son when Pitt came up to Pembroke in 1773, and
Turner and Pretyman had shared the honours of acting as tutor to the future
prime minister during his undergraduate career.
Dawe, for his part, reminds us of the versatility and compelling
characterisation of his earlier portraits by employing markedly different
techniques to tackle the minutiae of the still life on the one hand, and the pouchy
softness of Turner’s jowls and hooded eyes on the other. With his spectacles
removed and hands falling still, Turner still maintains his authority with an
unflinching, possibly sardonic gaze. Particularly skilful is the elegant rendition of
the quill pen protruding from the silver mounted inkpot, while the letter on the
table addressed to the Dean of Norwich provides an artful reminder that, for all
his advancing years, this sitter is still very much in post.
Dawe returned to Russia in the autumn of 1828, undertaking a stately progress
through Europe en route. He was received at the French court and exhibited
works at the Louvre, and went on to enjoy a similar welcome in Munich, Berlin
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and Stuttgart before arriving in St Petersburg in February 1829. That spring he
completed full-length portraits of Field Marshal Mikhail Barclay de Tolly, Prince
Mikhail Kutuzov and the Duke of Wellington, to complement his statuesque
painting of Alexander I and the bust-length portraits of generals in the 1812
Gallery. So established was his position in the Imperial court that in May he also
accompanied the retinue of Nicholas I to Warsaw for the tsar’s coronation as
King of Poland.
Dawe’s health was failing, however. He made a desperate trip to the sulphur
baths in Aachen, site of his remarkable professional break just over a decade
previously, but to no avail. Returning to London, he died on 15 October at
22 Fortress Terrace, Kentish Town, the home of his devoted assistant Thomas
Wright. Dawe was buried with full honours in St Paul’s Cathedral in the presence
of shining representatives of the artistic and diplomatic worlds, among them the
Russian ambassador to St James’s; Thomas Lawrence who, now President of the
Royal Academy of Arts, had shelved his earlier animosity; and the landscape
painter J.M.W. Turner. He also left an estate valued at nearly a million roubles. Not
all agreed with the fanfare that accompanied his death, both Coleridge and
Benjamin Robert Haydon puncturing the balloon of tributes with waspish
epigrams. But however much Dawe’s determined ascent up the slippery
professional pole had once antagonised Britain’s artistic establishment, the
indefatigable careerist died a respected and wealthy man.
Dawe’s reputation in Britain has largely faded, despite a healthy
representation of his paintings in the National Portrait Gallery in London as well
as other major collections across the globe. By contrast, he became and remains
one of the best-known British artists in Russia. His 1812 Gallery has often been
lauded in literature and painting (Pushkin dedicated a poem to Dawe’s portrait of
Barclay de Tolly) and ambitious artists long elected to copy his work. His portraits
or copies of these were also sent as diplomatic gifts to well-placed figures across
Europe including, by strange coincidence, William Pitt’s wife. Dawe’s painting of
Turner is thus to be feted not only as a record of a long-serving Pembroke Fellow
and Master, but also as a rare late work by an artist who created an unforgettable
memorial to Russia’s role in the defeat of Napoleon, and did so much to advance
the fortunes of British painting on Russian soil.
References
1
Thomas Lawrence quoted in Galina Andreeva, Geniuses of War, Weal and Beauty: George Dawe,
RA Pinx, Moscow, 2012, p. 90.
2
Rosalind P. Blakesley, The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia 1757–1881, New Haven
and London, 2016, p. 78; Andreeva, Geniuses of War, pp. 164, 176, 238–40.
3
Andreeva, Geniuses of War, p. 262.
4
A. V. Grimstone, Pembroke Portraits, Cambridge, 2013, p. 52.
5
Nigel Aston, ‘Turner, Joseph (1745–1828)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford,
2004: www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39588, accessed 27 June 2016.
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City Livery Companies: their History and their Relevance Today
Andrew Morris
This article was prompted by the happy chance of three Pembroke alumni coinciding in
election to office in the City of London: Alderman The Lord Mountevans of Chelsea (1968),
formerly The Hon. Jeffrey Evans, as Lord Mayor of London, Hugh Moss (1960) as Master of
the Worshipful Company of Horners, and Andrew Morris (2000) as Master of the Worshipful
Company of Musicians.
The guilds of the City of London, usually referred to as livery companies, have a
rich and interesting history. Some were founded in mediaeval times, others more
recently. There are currently 110 in total; 40 have halls, while others will have
some office space in the City.
Mediaeval guilds were not peculiar to London. Most of the principal cities of
Western Europe had guilds which regulated the various trades and crafts and, in
England and Scotland, these included cities such as Norwich, Chester,
Canterbury, Bristol, Preston, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Sadly, most of these, in
England and in Europe, have ceased to exist save for those in London, which has
seen an increase in number over the past hundred years. There are many reasons
for this, the principal being that these livery companies have cleverly re-invented
themselves in what they do and what they represent.
The role of the livery companies has greatly changed since their mediaeval
foundations but their charitable work, which was always a feature, has not only
continued but has grown out of all recognition. Although a few companies, such
as the Apothecaries, are still involved in the examination and diploma granting
system of their ‘trade’, most of the older companies are no longer directly
involved in the areas for which they were founded before the Reformation.
However, the Fishmongers are still active in the regulation of the sale of fish at
Billingsgate Market; the Gun Makers test gun barrels at their Commercial Road
headquarters, Proof House; the Stationers are still closely involved with both the
press and the publishing worlds; and the Master Mariners, the Solicitors, the
Vintners, the Butchers, the Brewers and the Poulters likewise with their respective
professions or trades.
It is well known that several of the older livery companies have maintained an
interest in and financial support for education, and some maintain their own
schools. The Merchant Taylors’ School was founded in the City in 1561, and both
Edmund Spenser (Pem. 1569) and Lancelot Andrewes (Pem. 1571) were pupils
there in its early days, as was Matthew Wren (Pem. 1601) a little later. Companies
such as the Haberdashers (Haberdashers’ Aske’s), the Fishmongers (Gresham’s,
Holt), Grocers (Oundle), Skinners (Tonbridge), Leathersellers (Colfe’s
Grammar) and the Mercers (St Paul’s) became involved with education at various
times during the next three centuries but it was the Merchant Taylors that led the
way. In 1894, by an act of remarkable generosity, the Goldsmiths’ Company
founded Goldsmiths’ College and presented it to the University of London in
1904. Lord (Richard) Adrian, a former Master of Pembroke, was Prime Warden of
the Goldsmiths’ Company for the year 1990–91.
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Pembroke College has had a long association with several livery companies.
Mention has already been made of the connection with Merchant Taylors’ School.
Connections with the Merchant Taylors’ Company itself includes William Pitt the
Younger (Pem. 1773), who was an Honorary Freeman of the Company, and the
funding of an annual Parkin and Stuart Scholarship in Mathematics or Natural
Sciences for a boy from Merchant Taylors’ School to the College and offered for
the first time in December 1948. The title referred to earlier bequests from
Charles Parkin (Pem. 1708) and William Stuart (of Oxford) for boys from the
School to Pembroke College, Cambridge, and St John’s College, Oxford, in the
late eighteenth century.
A yet more substantial College connection was established with the Drapers’
Company during the seventeenth century through an appeal from the College for
help in rebuilding the College Hall for which the Company gave £150. The Annual
Gazette records that in 1956 the Drapers’ Company gave the College £1,500 a year
for seven years ‘to cover the stipends of three Junior Research Fellows: thanks to
this benefaction, the College can continue to elect one Junior Research Fellow
annually without further strain on its resources’. This benefaction was overseen
by Sir Ernest Pooley (Pem. 1895), an Honorary Fellow of the College who had
been Master of the Drapers’ Company, having been Clerk of the Company for
over 30 years, and who was referred to as ‘a living symbol of the tie between the
two [institutions]’.
In the Annual Gazette of 1960, the Society welcomed ‘Mr R. Dolby, the Drapers’
Senior Research Student (sic)’ who in 1957 had ‘graduated from Stanford
University in Electrical Engineering, after which he came to Cambridge on a
Marshall Scholarship to carry out research on long-wave length X-rays. His
appointment to the Drapers’ Studentship he marked by climbing the Matterhorn’.
Other notable holders of Drapers’ Company Research Fellowships include Sir
John Kingman, John Mattock, Bill Grimstone, Hugh Macdonald, David Husain,
Michael Payne, Torsten Meissner, Martin Baxter and the current holder, Sanne
Cottaar. Recent Masters of Pembroke have been elected Honorary Liverymen of
the Company and the annual Pembroke College London Dinner is currently held
at Drapers’ Hall. It should be recorded here that the Drapers’ Company has also
been generous to the College Mission, Pembroke House, in recent times.
There are several connections to be mentioned with the Musicians’ Company.
Sir Arthur Bliss (Pem. 1910), Master of The Queen’s Music, was made an
Honorary Freeman of the Company, the highest honour that the Company can
bestow. Professor Robin Orr (Pem. 1929) was both a Liveryman and the recipient
of the Company’s Gold Medal for his outstanding achievements as a composer.
The current Master’s Chaplain is The Reverend Canon Mark Williams (Pem.
1991), a former organ scholar of the College and Vicar and Warden of the College
Mission in Walworth before his current appointment as Vicar of St John the
Divine, Kennington. The present writer (Pem. 2000) was President of the Livery
Club, the Company’s social arm, from 2004 to 2006, and Paul Gobey (Pem. 2010)
will become President in October 2016.
There are many other members of Pembroke past and present who are
connected to City livery companies, too many to mention here except for one:
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James Crowden (Pem. 1948), an Honorary Fellow of the College and a former
Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, who was Master of the Company of
Watermen and Lightermen, 1991–92.
The function of the ancient guilds was to ensure that the quality of
workmanship and (to use contemporary jargon) customer service were of a
certain standard. Guilds offered apprenticeships and held examinations.
Without these qualifications those in the various trades and crafts were
prevented from operating in the City, since the guilds were given their rights by
the City of London Corporation. Similar rights were granted by local authorities
in other cities. There are stories of tradesmen being dragged through the streets
of London on a hurdle with an inferior version of the item they sold hung
around their neck. A baker’s dozen, thirteen loaves instead of twelve, sprang
from the fear of being charged with providing bread of a lower weight than the
regulation demanded. The Goldsmiths’ Company is one example of a company
that continues to control standards today from Goldsmiths’ Hall, with the Hall
Mark as an official marking on gold items and the Trial of the Pyx, when the
metallic content, weight and size of UK coinage is tested annually in a
procedure begun in the 12th century at Westminster Abbey and transferred to
Goldsmiths’ Hall in 1870.
Many of the livery companies were created out of religious foundations and
guilds. The Merchant Taylors’ Company developed from the Guild of Merchant
Taylors of the Fraternity of John the Baptist in the City of London, and the
Clothworkers’ Company resulted in the amalgamation of the Fullers and the
Shearmen and was known as the Guild or Fraternity of the Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin Mary of Clothworkers. The Founders’ Company was created from
the Brotherhood of St Clement’s at St Lawrence Jewry. A livery company of
London is known as a Worshipful Company because they are worshipful to God.
Indeed, many of the livery companies have mottos which invoke or praise God,
such as ‘Unto God only be honour and glory’ (Drapers), ‘In God is all our trust’
(Brewers), ‘My trust is in God alone’ (Clothworkers), and even ‘Thou hast put all
things under man’s feet, all sheep and oxen’ (Butchers) from Psalm 8.
From mediaeval times, the lowest rank in a livery company is that of Freeman.
The freedom of a livery company is acquired by patrimony, where one of the
candidate’s parents is a liveryman – although in most cases the parent would
need to have been a liveryman before the birth of the candidate – or by
redemption, that is, by purchase. Those applying to be a Freeman through
redemption need the personal support of a number of members of the Court, the
Company’s governing body, to proceed. The rights of Freemen are limited but
generally these do not include the right to attend the principal banquets.
Furthermore, Freemen cannot attend or vote in City elections, known as
Common Hall. For the full rights of Livery membership, a Freeman needs to
proceed to the rank of Liveryman. When a Freeman proceeds to the Livery of the
Company, a uniform, or livery, is put on him or (in most livery companies these
days) her and this livery has, certainly since the eighteenth century, been a gown
(although there are two companies without a livery – the Worshipful Company of
Parish Clerks and the Company of Watermen and Lightermen). To achieve the
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rank of a Liveryman, it is necessary to obtain the Freedom of the City of London,
again either by patrimony or redemption and, in a few cases, residency.
The Freedom of the City of London has, for centuries, been eagerly sought by
those who wish to advance their career or interest in the City. A Freeman of the
City does not have to belong to a Livery Company and there is a Guild of Freemen
to which Freemen of the City can belong regardless of any link with a livery
company. Although most of the practical privileges of the Freedom of the City
disappeared in the 18th and 19th centuries, the right to drive a flock of sheep over
London Bridge has, somewhat famously, been preserved. This should not,
however, be confused with the Freedom conferred honoris causa on members of
the Royal Family and overseas dignitaries, which is an entirely different status.
The Freedom of the City of London is still a serious matter, however, and each
Freeman is presented with a book entitled Rules of the Conduct of Life containing
36 rules and a copy of the Declaration made by every person upon admission to
the Freedom of the City.
Once the Freedom of the City has been granted, the Freeman may apply to
proceed to become a Liveryman. Liverymen are the full members of the Livery
Company and have rights within both the company and the City. A Liveryman
(and the term is gender inclusive) may attend the principal Company banquets,
be eligible for election to the Court of the Company, attend Common Hall and
vote in City elections. Indeed, one of the greatest privileges of Liverymen is to
attend Common Hall at Guildhall on Midsummer Day to elect the Sheriffs and,
on Michaelmas Day, to elect the Lord Mayor. At these occasions there are
processions of masters of livery companies, aldermen of the City attended by
their beadles and the officers of the Corporation of London, the sheriffs and the
Lord Mayor. The Aldermanic Sheriff is elected from the Court of Aldermen and
another, the ‘Lay’ Sheriff who is not an alderman, is elected from the livery
companies. Only an Alderman who has also held the office of Sheriff can be
elected Lord Mayor. I was privileged to attend and vote in the election of
Alderman The Lord Mountevans of Chelsea (Pem. 1968) on Michaelmas Day 2015
as the 688th Lord Mayor of London.
Should a Liveryman be elected to the Court of his/her Livery Company, there is
a chance that he/she might progress to become a Warden. Wardens are the most
senior members of the Court below the Master and the Immediate Past Master.
There are usually two but sometimes more Wardens (senior, junior, renter and
other designations are used) and these positions are achieved by annual elections.
The Senior Warden would generally proceed to be Master of the Company
through election, again for a year. The term Master is common to most livery
companies but the term Prime Warden (and, in the case of the Weavers, Upper
Bailiff ) is also used.
Livery companies vary in size and there is a strict order of precedence. This
order of precedence excludes the two companies without a livery mentioned
earlier, which do not have a number. The order was first laid down by the Court
of Aldermen in 1515 and was based on a combination of longevity and wealth,
although more recent additions of companies to livery status have acquired their
number based purely on the order in which they were created. The Great Twelve
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Companies (with the dates of incorporation in brackets, although some dates are
questionable) are as follows, all of which have their own halls. Due to the
difficulty in agreeing the order at 6 and 7, the Skinners and the Merchant Taylors
alternate each year, and this is said to have given rise to the English expression of
‘being at sixes and sevens’.
1
2
3
4
5
6
8
9
10
11
12
Mercers (1393)
Grocers (1345)
Drapers (1364)
Fishmongers (1364)
Goldsmiths (1327)
and 7 Skinners (1327) and Merchant Taylors (1327) (alternate years)
Haberdashers (1371)
Salters (1394)
Ironmongers (1328)
Vinters (1363)
Clothworkers (1528) – an amalgamation of Fullers (1480) Shearmen (1508): the
Clothworkers have taken the former Shearmen position as 12th in the order.
The Musicians’ Company, of which I have the honour, currently, to be Master,
was fully incorporated by Charter on 4 June 1500, although there are entries in the
City Letter Books of 1334, 1337 and 1371 of musicians in the City and there was a
Charter obtained from the King’s Minstrels from Edward IV in 1469 which failed,
mostly due to the turbulent times. A new Royal Charter was granted by James I in
1604 and another by George VI in 1950. The Company is number 50 in the order
of precedence. The Master and the Wardens are elected annually on the Feast of
St Michael the Archangel or within twenty days thereafter. Today, the focus of the
Company’s work is supporting young and talented musicians at the start of their
careers through awards, prizes and performance opportunities. The Company
also presents silver medals to the top students of the music conservatoires and the
military schools of music. The Company is also involved in both the jazz and the
popular music worlds, again through awards and prizes, including an award for
a young musical director. There are also recognition awards to well-known
British musicians and each year an Honorary Fellow is elected who will be a figure
in the musical world and who will give a lecture or an equivalent event. The
Company has one of the most impressive livery company archives, full of items of
interest to researchers including the original manuscript of Elgar’s Dirge, later
called Elegy, which was written for the Company in memory of deceased
liverymen at the request of the then Master, and works by Sir Arthur Sullivan, Sir
Edward German and A Hymn for St Cecilia by Herbert Howells, sometime Master,
which the composer wrote for the Company.
The Horners’ Company, which is 54 in the order of precedence, oversaw the
craft of working with horn, a natural thermoplastic used in mediaeval times to
fabricate everyday items such as beakers, combs, utensils and lanterns. This
craft, practised in the City before the Norman Conquest, was first recorded in
1284, when its ordinances were ‘corrected’. In 1391 the Company was given new
ordinances, followed by a further Statute in 1465 which secured the craft and
commercial rights to the Horners. Its Royal Charter was given by Charles I in
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1638 and the Grant of Livery was made in 1846. As the working with horn
declined in the twentieth century, the Company has played a significant role in
the development of the plastics industry, including its production and design,
and in science education and teaching. The Master, currently Hugh Moss (Pem.
1960), is installed each year on the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the
Temple, or Candlemas.
The youngest City Livery Company is the Arts Scholars, incorporated in 2014
at number 110 in the order. The older livery companies have certain freedoms,
such as the number of liverymen allowed in the Company, unlike those created
after 1722 which have a limit to the number of Liverymen, imposed by the Court
of Aldermen following concerns about the increasing numbers entitled to vote in
Mayoral and Shrieval elections.
The City of London livery companies continue to take their part in the
governance of the City, through elections for the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and
supporting the Lord Mayor’s charities and activities. In terms of their role in the
various professions, they have become centres of charitable work and giving,
supporting education and creating opportunities, especially for those recipients
at the beginning of their careers. Long may they continue to do so.
References
City of London Directory and Livery Companies Guide, City Press, 1977 and 2015.
City of London Official Guide, Ed J. Burrow and Co. Ltd (fourth edition).
H. A. F. Crewdson, The Worshipful Company of Musicians – A Short History, Charles Knight,
1971 (2nd edition).
R. Crewdson, Apollo’s Swan and Lyre – Five Hundred Years of the Musicians’ Company, The Boydell
Press, 2000.
A. V. Grimstone, ed., Pembroke College Cambridge – A Celebration, Pembroke College, 1997.
W. Hague, William Pitt The Younger, HarperCollins, 2004.
J. K. Melling, London’s Guilds and Liveries, Shire Publications, 1973.
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Annual Gazette, Pembroke College, 1948, 1956, 1960, 1965, 1966 and 2014.
The Master, Wardens and the Court of the Worshipful Company of Musicians following the Installation Court
at Merchant Taylors’ Hall, November 2015, with a portrait of William Pitt the Younger in the background.
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The Pembroke Nef
Susan Stobbs
Silver Curator
Visitors to Pembroke Feasts always seem fascinated by the ornate silver ship,
called a Nef, which goes on display on such occasions and I am often asked about
its provenance.
The Nef was hallmarked in Chester in 1903 and was bequeathed to the College
in 1933 by Dr Francis Guillemard. Dr Guillemard, a Fellow of Caius, was a great
traveller, and the first University Lecturer (and subsequently Reader) in
Geography. He came up to Caius to read Medicine, and although he took his M.B.
degree in 1876 he seems to have had no intention of practising the subject. He
became obsessed by travel in his undergraduate years and immediately upon
graduating took off to South Africa, where he met Rhodes, and his extensive
journeys in this country gave him the material for his M.D. thesis. His most
famous subsequent journey was on the schooner yacht the Marchesa, to see the
volcanoes of Kamchatka and the birds of paradise on New Guinea. On returning
to Cambridge he settled in Mill Lane to write up his journals of the Marchesa
voyage, and his book, The Cruise of the Marchesa, became widely read at the time.
He was thus well placed to be appointed to the newly established Lectureship
in Geography in 1888, and he subsequently moved to live at the Old Mill House
in Trumpington.
According to extensive correspondence, Dr Guillemard donated the Nef to
Pembroke ‘to symbolise his admiration for Ferdinand Magellan’. Why he gave the
ship to Pembroke, rather than his own College Caius, is a mystery, although
Pembroke appeared to be his adopted second home in his undergraduate years.
Several members of his family had studied at Pembroke and his uncle and mentor
Henry Guillemard, Vicar of Little St Mary’s, was a Fellow. According to his
obituary ‘through his uncle he became familiar with the Master’s Lodge at
Pembroke in the days of John Power … and his honorary membership of
Pembroke gave him great pleasure in his later years.’
Dr Guillemard appears to have acquired the Nef in a somewhat sorry state:
there is a reference to electric wiring which seems to imply that it had been
converted to a table lamp. Once in his possession he proceeded to strip it down,
and with the help of the silversmiths S.J. Devereux of New Bond Street and several
knowledgeable friends, including Cecil King, he attempted to recreate a replica of
Magellan’s ship. Much of the archival material relates to an extensive discussion
of the specific flags that would have been flown on a ship of that period: there are
certainly sufficient details in the letters for a dissertation on this subject!
Most of the Nefs that survive in collections today date from the late nineteenth /
early twentieth century, when they were commissioned as elaborate table
decorations for the wealthy. However their origin can be found in medieval
France and Spain: the word Nef is the medieval French word for a carrack, an
ocean-going three- or four-masted ship. These medieval Nefs were not religious
objects, although many were subsequently converted into containers for
reliquaries, or given as offerings to churches before a particularly dangerous sea
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voyage. The secular models did not all serve the same purpose, but certainly were
in fairly general use as drinking vessels in the thirteenth century. As they became
more elaborate and difficult to use for drinking they were increasingly used to
mark the place of the host at dinner table, often containing a spoon and knife and
napkin, and perhaps a salt.
Only nine early Nefs (pre 1630) are known to survive, mostly in museums, and
only two retain their original form. However it is clear that they were widely used
in France, Germany, the Low Countries, Italy and Spain in the later Middle Ages.
Medieval manuscript illustrations from as early as the fourteenth century show
Nefs acting as lavish and public status symbols on the dining table, often
marking the place of the host or honoured guest. The January miniature from the
Tres Riches Heures manuscript (1413) of the Duc de Berry shows a large Nef placed
to the left of the principal diner. In the Grands Chroniques de France, dated 1373, there
is a particularly striking illustration of the dinner given by Charles V of France for
the Emperor Charles IV and his son Wenzel, King of Bohemia, showing three
Nefs of appropriate sizes on the table: let us hope that those who set the table did
not change the order of precedence of the three Nefs by mistake. In a culture
where gift giving played a major role in diplomacy, Nefs would have satisfied the
passion for giving ingenious and finely crafted goldsmiths’ work.
The reason why the Nef never came into general use in England was because
its function of marking the place of the host at the dinner table was performed in
this country by the great salt. However, two handsome examples were recorded as
amongst the plate taken by Henry IV from Richard II in 1399. These were far
excelled by the two which belonged to Henry VI in 1437: one was silver-gilt filled
with armed fighting men; the other gold, decorated with nineteen rubies, twelve
great pearls and other smaller pearls. Sadly all of these objects had disappeared
before the earliest Tudor inventory of the Royal Plate was compiled in 1521.
It is interesting to compare the Pembroke Nef with the Burghley Nef, the only
surviving early Nef in England, which can be seen at the V&A. This was discovered
in the basement of Burghley House in 1956 by the Head of Christies silver
department when compiling an inventory of the silver belonging to the late
5th Marquess of Exeter. (There is no record as to how this beautiful object was
acquired by the family.) It was made in Paris in 1527 in silver-gilt, and on its
battlemented poop there is a detachable salt-cellar. Amongst the sailors and
cannon there are, most unusually, two small figures of Tristran and Iseult,
playing chess.
During the sixteenth century there was a gradual decline in the use of
traditional Nefs in much of Europe with the simultaneous growth of intense
interest in the new design of ships, relating to the rapid advances in mechanics
and technology. Clockwork objects, hand worked with great craftsmanship,
became the toys of the rich and wealthy. Developments shifted to the Holy Roman
Empire, particularly the towns in present Germany, where superb silversmithing
techniques, combined with a fascination with developing technologies,
culminated in the production of the Mechanical Galleon now in the British Museum.
This magnificent ship was recently included as object 76 in Neil Macgregor’s
History of the World in 100 Objects.
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The Mechanical Galleon, often referred to as ‘the Great Nef ’ was made by
Hans Schlottheim in Augsburg in 1580–90, probably for Augustus, Elector of
Saxony. (It is highly likely that Hans Schlottheim had never seen a sea-going
vessel.) Made of gilded copper and silver it is more than twice the size of our
Pembroke Nef. The Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph sits in state on the deck,
while the seven Electors, who were responsible for appointing each new emperor,
revolve around him. But this is not all – and for further details I can do no better
than quote from Augustus’ inventory of 1580:
A gilded ship with a quarter and full hour striking clock. Above with three masts, in the
crow’s nests of which the sailors revolve and strike the quarters and hours with hammers
and bells. Inside the Holy Roman Emperor sits on the Imperial throne, and in front of
him pass the seven Electors paying homage. Furthermore, ten trumpeters and a kettledrummer alternatively announce the banquet. Also sixteen small cannons, eleven of
which may be loaded and fired automatically.
This would certainly liven up a quiet Pembroke High Table dinner: not perhaps
what Dr Guillemard had in mind when he donated Magellan’s ship! In his
obituary in the Cambridge Review S.C. Roberts, subsequently Master of Pembroke,
comments: ‘to dine with him on Sunday evening was to realise how exquisite
connoisseurship may be combined with homely comfort. Old wine and old silver
contributed to the mellowed harmony of the evening.’ Not, of course, if the old
silver included a ship with eleven cannon firing automatically. Perhaps it is as well
that the Pembroke Nef is of a simpler form, designed to hold a bottle of wine.
The Pembroke Nef, photograph by David Franks
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The Strange Case of Two Masters of a Cambridge College
Chris Birch
Chris Birch has had a special interest in Pembroke College, Cambridge, for some time. His
uncle, Bryan King, spent 50 years of his life at the College, first as an undergraduate and then
as a Fellow, and after he died Chris put up a memorial in 1992 in Westminster Abbey to the
Foundress. Research into his family history revealed a connection with the College of which he
and his uncle had been unaware. This article first appeared in the March 2016 issue of the
Genealogists’ Magazine.
John Power was elected
Master of Pembroke in 1870
and died, in the Master’s
Lodge, in 1880. He was
succeeded by Charles Edward
Searle. According to Aubrey
Attwater’s Pembroke College,
Cambridge: A Short History
(1936), ‘Power with shrewd
judgment brought back
Searle from the care of a
Suffolk living to be Tutor and
it is from 1870 that the
modern history of Pembroke
may well be dated’. Attwater
also says that to Searle ‘more
than to any other single man
the growth of the College,
both in numbers and in
distinction, during the latter
part of the ninteenth century,
John Power (1819–1880) by W Vizard. Master of Pembroke
was due’. What Attwater does
1870–1880
not say, and probably did not
know, is that Searle’s mother-in-law was Power’s younger sister. This I
discovered after a long journey starting with a handwritten document written by
a cousin of mine, which stated that ‘Uncle James went up to Cambridge – he
married plain Jane Chapman, his cousin – said to have proposed first to her pretty
sister, who passed him on to Jane, while she married the Master of Pembroke, Dr
Searle’. ‘Uncle James’ was my great-great-grandfather’s elder brother, James
Samuel Berridge, who was at Trinity Hall in the 19th century and who eventually
became President of the Legislative Assembly of St Kitts and a member of the
Executive Council of the Leeward Islands.
Dr Searle’s marriage
I was intrigued to discover that the Honourable James’s wife’s pretty sister had
apparently married the Master of the College where my uncle, Bryan King, a
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century or so later had spent 50 years of his life. And I was anxious to add her to
my family tree. But the document mentioned above did not give the pretty sister’s
name, so the next step was to find some record of Dr Searle’s marriage.
Unfortunately there is no mention of the marriage in the College archives, but the
College’s honorary archivist, Miss Jayne Ringrose, found an important clue in the
Pembroke parlour wine book. On 4 January 1881, the Master gave a bottle of his
own old Madeira ‘quod bonum felix faustumque sit’ (that it may be good, happy
and favourable), which is apparently the standard formula for marking an
approaching marriage in the wine book. And against 7 February 1881 is written
‘The prayer of January 4th having been fulfilled, the Master gave a bottle of wine
on return from his Honey-moon (sic)’. Armed with those dates, it was going to be
a simple matter to find Dr Searle’s marriage certificate. But I should have smelt a
rat at that stage. James Samuel Berridge had married Jane Chapman on 20 April
1833. Was it likely that Jane’s pretty sister would have rejected James in order to
marry Dr Searle, then aged four, nearly 48 years later? Sure enough, the marriage
certificate showed that Dr Searle’s bride was a 30-year-old spinster named Mary
Fowler, not Chapman. They were married on 25 January 1881. The 52-year-old
Searle is described on the certificate as a clerk in Holy Orders residing at St
Botolph’s, Cambridge, and his father’s name is given as Samuel Brown Searle, a
Gentleman. Mary’s father is William Barratt Fowler, also a Gentleman. But, more
interestingly, the marriage was solemnised at the Church of St Edith in the Parish
of Polesworth in the County of Warwick, which falls in the Registration District
of Atherstone, where Jane Chapman lived. I will return to the Atherstone
connection but, when I discovered that Mrs Searle was a Fowler and not a
Chapman, I wondered if Dr Searle had perhaps married twice.
Dr Searle’s descendants
Sir Roger Tomkys, who was then Master of Pembroke, put me in contact with a
Pembroke member who, Sir Roger thought, was Dr Searle’s great-grandson.
Warham Searle lives in South Africa, and he put me in touch with Dr Searle’s
grandson, the late Dr C W A Searle, who lived in Putney, just across the Thames
from my home in Fulham. But he told me: ‘My grandfather did NOT (twice
underlined) marry twice’. I should explain that the document that claimed that
Jane Chapman’s pretty sister had married the Master of Pembroke, Dr Searle,
turned out to be notes for a much longer document entitled Three Generations. And
the story given in Three Generations was somewhat different. There is no mention
of Dr Searle, Jane’s surname is not given, and her hitherto nameless pretty sister
has become Mary. Instead we read: ‘Uncle James had been educated at the
Charterhouse and at Trinity College [actually it was Trinity Hall], Cambridge. He
proposed to his pretty cousin, Mary, at Atherstone, but she refused him, saying
“Take Jane instead”. So he obediently married “plain Jane”, while she became the
wife of Mr Scargill.’ So who was Mr Scargill? And how had Dr Searle got into my
family story in the first place? Polesworth, where Mary Fowler lived, is only four
miles from Atherstone, where Jane Chapman lived. But their marriages were
48 years apart. How had the confusion arisen? And how had Dr Searle who lived
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in Cambridge and whose family came from Middlesex, met a young woman from
far away Warwickshire? Further research would reveal not all but a good deal.
Robert Power
In the library of the Society of Genealogists I chanced upon a little document
headed Berridge Family Record. St Kitts, W.I. October 29, 1890. A note at the end says:
‘Written by Mr. Probyn Berridge, brother of James Samuel Berridge who married
Jane, daur. of John Hood Chapman. This is copied from the original paper lent to
me by Mr. Robt. Power, April 1907. J.P.R.’ JPR was almost certainly John Paul
Rylands, the famous genealogist; and Robert Power was very probably a younger
brother of Dr John Power, Master of Pembroke. But that I did not discover until
much later. The family record written by Probyn Berridge starts with his greatgreat-grandfather John and John’s two sons Matthew and Thomas, and
continues: ‘Matthew had a son named William (my grandfather) who married
Elizabeth Hood, of Ashby de la Zouch, one of seven sisters; with her the name
Hood came into the family. Another of the seven sisters married Mr Chapman,
father of John Hood Chapman, of Atherstone, Warwickshire; consequently she
was the grandmother of my brother’s wife – & my father & John Hood Chapman
first cousins.’ After listing William Berridge’s five sons, Probyn says that the sixth
child, Elizabeth, ‘married Mr. Redford in Burton Crescent, her daughter Mary
married John Scargill, a solicitor’. So both Jane Chapman and Mary Redford were
second cousins to James Samuel Berridge. And the version of his rejected suit in
Three Generations, where neither Jane’s nor Mary’s surname is mentioned and there
is no suggestion that they are sisters, fully accords with his brother Probyn’s notes
headed Berridge Family Record. There the mystery of Dr Searle’s connection with my
family rested until my book Ten Generations was published in September 2003.
A double wedding
I was determined to solve the mystery. Visits to the public library in Atherstone
and to the county record office in Warwick yielded details of James Samuel
Berridge’s marriage to Jane Chapman in the Parish of Mancetter in the County of
Warwick on 20 April 1833. And, to my great surprise, the immediately preceding
entry in the parish register recorded the marriage on the same day of John Scargill
of the Parish of Saint Pancras in the county of Middlesex and Jane’s sister Mary. It
had been a double wedding of John Hood Chapman’s daughters Mary and Jane,
conducted by his only son, the Revd John Mitchel Chapman. But, according to
Probyn Berridge, John Scargill had married Mary Redford.
So had some careless ancestor of mine confused Mary Chapman with Mary
Redford and also with Mary Fowler? The International Genealogical Index had no
record of John Scargill having married a Mary Redford but I thought I would look
under Redford instead of Scargill and found a Mary Catherine Redford who had
married a John Seargill, not Scargill, in St Pancras Old Church on 10 December
1825. A lower case c could easily be mistaken for an e, and I thought I was onto
something. The London Metropolitan Archives held the St Pancras parish records
on microfiche. But the IGI was wrong on two counts. The marriage took place in
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St Pancras New Church, not St Pancras Old Church, and it was Scargill, as I had
guessed, not Seargill. And it was undoubtedly the right Mary Redford, as one of the
witnesses was Ann Berridge. Re-examination of the faint copies of the Mancetter
parish register that I had obtained in Atherstone showed that John Scargill had
indeed been described as a widower. So, unlike Dr Searle, John Scargill had
married twice and, in that respect at least, my ancestor had not nodded. But how
had Dr Searle got into the story? I decided to dig a little further into John Hood
Chapman’s family. His father William had married in 1755 Mary Hood, one of
John Hood’s seven daughters in Ashby de la Zouch; and, as we know, Mary’s sister
Elizabeth had married William Berridge, the grandfather of James Samuel
Berridge and of my great-great-grandfather Probyn Berridge. So the Chapmans
and the Berridges were connected long before the Mancetter wedding of 1833.
The Searle-Power connection
John Hood Chapman married Sarah Mitchel in 1794, also in Mancetter. They had
nine children, and their daughter Sarah married William Power in 1817 in
Polesworth. William Power, born in 1792, was a farmer and grazier and District
Poor Law Auditor in Freasley in the Parish of Polesworth. He and Sarah had eight
children, and one of them, Fanny, married William Barratt Fowler, a Gentleman
of Freasley, who had been at Clare College. The marriage took place in St Edith’s
Church, Poleworth, on 31 July 1849, the same church where, thirty one and a half
years later, their daughter Mary was to marry Dr Charles Edward Searle. So Dr
Searle’s wife was my fourth cousin, twice removed, as we were both descended
from John Hood of Ashby de la Zouch. Not that it greatly matters. Of much
greater interest is Dr Searle’s connection with Dr John Power. As we have seen, Dr
Searle’s mother-in-law, Fanny, was John Power’s sister. Power and Searle were
colleagues at Pembroke, and it seems likely that it was through the Power family
in Freasley that Searle met Fanny’s daughter, Mary. So further genealogical
digging has solved one of the problems uncovered in my book.
Dr Power’s ancestors
It may be useful to add a few further facts unearthed about John Power. One of his
ancestors, Francis Power, was granted arms in 1601. He lived at Bletchington in
Oxfordshire, but most of John’s more immediate forbears seem to have been
born or to have died or both in Polesworth or Atherstone or Mancetter,
Warwickshire. John himself was born on 31 July 1818 at Freasley in Polesworth,
and died in the Master’s Lodge at Pembroke on 18 November 1880 in the presence
of his younger brother, William. The cause of death was given as albuminuria and
‘general dropsy’. He was buried at Cherry Hinton. John’s father, another William,
was born in 1792 in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, but died in Freasley in 1859
where, as already mentioned, he was a farmer and grazier as well as District Poor
Law Auditor. William’s father, John (1758–1847), was born in Polesworth, and
spent 30 years in Market Bosworth as a doctor, but returned to Atherstone before
he died aged 89. And John’s father, yet another John (1730–1791), was a surgeon
in Polesworth. And his father, Robert, the great-great-grandfather of the Master
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of Pembroke, lived at Arley Hall, Warwickshire, but I have not so far been able to
discover his dates, although his wife Elizabeth died in April 1734.
Dr Searle’s parents
Dr Charles Edward Searle, who became Master in 1880, was born on 18 June 1828
in Hackney, Middlesex, the seventh son of Samuel Browne (sometimes spelt
without the final e) Searle and his wife Charlotte, who had been married on
27 October 1813 at St Mary, Newington, Surrey. I have not discovered anything
about Dr Searle’s grandparents or earlier ancestors. There I must leave him, at
least for the time being. The mystery of how he got into my family story is no
longer a mystery. And I find it interesting, and a little sad, that my uncle, Bryan
King, spent half a century at the college without knowing that he was related to
one of its most distinguished Masters and to the wife of another.
Charles Edward Searle (1828–1902) by Walter William Ouless.
Master of Pembroke 1880–1902
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Responding to the Refugee Crisis
Philip Rushworth
This year saw students and Fellows at Pembroke come together and take action
in response to the moral and material challenges of the contemporary refugee
crisis in Europe. The question of what it might be possible to do for migrants and
refugees was first raised by Dr James Gardom to a small group of
undergraduates, graduates and Fellows in November 2015. The issue was
captured in a simple refrain: what will we be able to say we did, as individuals and
as a College, when we look back at the refugee crisis in the future? From this
initial meeting, the crisis has galvanised members at Pembroke, becoming an
important focus of discussion, reflection and action. Lent and Easter Terms have
seen a series of thought-provoking panel discussions, a successful fundraising
campaign, and the organisation of a two-year fellowship for a displaced scholar
at Pembroke. The campaign continues to gather momentum with a busy
programme of events for the year ahead.
The first priority in thinking about a response was to promote reflection on the
crisis at Pembroke. This led to the ‘Pembroke Refugee Crisis Seminar Series’,
which consisted of three open panel discussions during Lent and Easter Terms
aimed specifically at members of the college. The organisers took advantage of
the considerable knowledge and expertise at Pembroke to invite speakers, for the
most part, from among Pembroke’s students and fellows. The first seminar on 2
February involved two Fellows, Dr Maria Abreu and Dr Geoffrey Edwards,
alongside Dr Russel Hargrave from NPC think tank in London, and introduced
the political and economic questions raised by the refugee crisis in Europe and
the UK. The second seminar on 19 February brought together Master Lord Chris
Smith, former Master Roger Tomkys and John Jungclaussen, the London
correspondent for the German newspaper, Die Zeit. The speakers drew on their
wealth of experience from Westminster, the foreign service and the media to
explore the origins of displacement, public and political responses in the UK and
Germany and the moral imperatives and questions the crisis raises. The final
panel on 6 May looked at the question of ‘integration’: what happens next? The
audience heard from Pembroke student Shad Hoshyar and Pembroke alumnus
Ismail Einashe, who both came to the UK as child refugees, alongside Alina
Müller, policy officer at the Migrants’ Rights Network.
An important objective of the response to the refugee crisis has been to raise
funds to contribute towards the pressing needs of migrants and refugees in
Europe. In December there was a successful collection of winter clothing for
migrants in Calais, distributed by the Cambridge Calais Refugee Action Group. A
collection at the Christmas BA Dinner and a successful open-mic night at the
Graduate Parlour in February raised funds for the British Red Cross Syria Crisis
Appeal. The open-mic night saw the full display of the diverse creative talents of
Pembroke graduates, with comedy routines, acoustic performances, poetry and
even a flawless and interactive rendition of the ‘Court of King Caractacus’, raising
a fantastic £150. However, the main focus of fundraising in College has been to
contribute towards the cost of the fees for an MPhil at Cambridge for a refugee in
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the UK as part of the university-wide Cambridge Refugee Scholarship campaign.
This prompted 24 Valencians to take on a sponsored cycle ride from Oxford to
Cambridge on 29 April. Battling not only the 85 miles between the two cities, but
also the unpredictable weather and looming thesis deadlines, the students and
Fellows managed to raise an astonishing £7500 – exceeding the university-wide
target in one go! The ride received coverage in the Cambridge News.
Alongside fundraising efforts, a number of Fellows have liaised with the
Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA) and College to organise funding for a
two-year visiting scholar position at Pembroke for a refugee. CARA works with
scholars who are in immediate danger and are no longer able to research or teach
freely. The organisation offers a safe space for the scholar and her or his family as
well as a chance to continue research and to develop personally and
professionally. In doing so, these individuals are well placed to help rebuild their
societies at the end of conflict. Alongside the obvious academic contribution to
College and the university, it is hoped the visiting scholar will also help produce
greater understanding and immediacy of the context and consequences of
displacement. The scholar is expected to join Pembroke by the end of 2016.
Initiatives at Pembroke to assist refugees and migrants continue to expand and
develop. Plans are being made for further fundraising efforts, including concerts,
a ‘sleep-out’ on College lawns and a collection of donations from visitors over the
summer. Students who are leaving at the end of the academic year have been
invited to give any items they don’t need to a collection for migrants in Calais. The
Pembroke Refugee Crisis Seminar Series will resume in Michaelmas Term with
further panel discussions alongside plans to screen two award-winning films and
documentaries on the refugee crisis, including introductions and Q&A with the
directors. There are also ongoing reflections on new ways the College might be
able to contribute to the needs of migrants and refugees. One priority is to think
about contributions to refugees who have been settled locally in Cambridge and
surrounding areas, such as a student buddy scheme.
To receive information about upcoming events and initiatives at Pembroke
from the refugee response mailing list, or to donate to the campaign, please
contact Dr James Gardom ([email protected]).
Philip Rushworth (2015) is writing a PhD in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.
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St Lucy’s Day
Randall Johnson
Randall Johnson, Pembroke Fellow and Professor of Molecular Physiology and Pathology
and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the Department of Physiology, Development
and Neuroscience, was the 2016 winner of the Seatonian Prize, which is awarded by the
University for the best English poem on a sacred subject. It went in each of its first three years
to Christopher Smart; more recent Pembroke winners include Colin Wilcockson. The Prize
committee stipulates the subject each year, and this year’s theme was John Donne’s poem, ‘A
nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day’. Randall notes: ‘I left the poem to one side, and instead focused
on St. Lucy’s Day as the midpoint of winter, and on her martyrdom legend of having plucked
out her own eyes rather than be married against her will.’
I.
The two points of darkness mark her closed eyes
from which night is excluded and enclosed.
Within, the closed heart is resolved, and lies
ready: renounces all that’s been proposed.
When the night ends small assurance begins,
and the curious greed of other souls
pull night away: revealing daily sins,
and arranging the ask, as that sound tolls.
Still: the day holds other promises made
and eyes closed contain far more than darkness…
they know the frozen truth, that all is stayed
by the assurance that the night holds less.
And then, the dark whiteness of snow and cold
brightens: to see St. Lucy’s day soon told.
II.
Entering, light expands, exhalation:
the ice in turn snatches the sky’s own light
with the pride of mindless reflection.
A speech interrupted by Lucy’s brief sight.
Eyes open, the reflection of ice becomes light
and the day is fast between snow and sky.
Imprisoned between the great and the slight
it is reflected once more in dark eyes.
Refusal echoes in affirmation
as the darkness follows the icy light;
ignoring the day in proud prostration
leaving wholly the short day to the night.
The smallest day is torn away twice
eyes are removed and delivered to ice.
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III.
As day fades the bloodied ice joins the night
in a shocked blackness, while faith joins regret
in the gray frost. She looks without sight
towards the promised end. An arrow is met.
And the shortest days’ martyrdom is found
as light and the life are quickly ended.
As light is in and of the darkness bound
a faith without loss will not be tended.
The candles lit for Lucy’s day now burn
and the waiting chill is patient death;
the night will take its long, heaven-found turn
as the cold is measured by each seen breath.
A candle leaves only a sooty trace:
unmarked by your eyes in our darkling race.
The Dame Ivy Compton Burnett Prize for Creative Writing 2016
Of the twelve entries received for the Dame Ivy-Compton Burnett Prize for
Creative Writing, six were selected for the shortlist judged by the distinguished
Irish poet and critic Gerald Dawe, founding Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre
for Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin. Professor Dawe will be spending
six months at Pembroke from September 2016.
The winner of the prize, worth £400, is Harry Cochrane, who read English at
Pembroke from 2012–2015 before taking an MPhil in Dante studies in 2016. Of his
sequence of poems ‘Virtute et Labora’, Gerald Dawe writes: ‘An impressive, selfpropelling sequence, this is work of a high order indeed and suggests a poet
hitting his/her stride with a confidence that is earthed in each individual poem’s
version of an imagined moment in the western classical tradition. Freshly-minted
though, there’s nothing dusty, laboured or pedantic in this sample of verse; far
from it, the poems are sprightly and engaging as “the prides of Greece and Rome”
are in conversation “over a sign or a baby’s gurgle”. First rate, no mistake.’
Inferno IV
We stepped down into the first complete O,
he first, me second. Third, we found a triad
of Ovid, Horace, Lucan, looking sad;
Aeneas, back in the realms of Pluto,
flanked Saladin; and there, avoiding Plato,
I saw the man who wrote the Iliad.
My master slotted in as if he had
never been away from that green plateau
and introduced me to his inner circle.
We formed a sextet out of the brigades
of Euclid, Anaxagoras, Lucrece,
Cicero etc: the prides of Greece
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and Rome and I spoke with each one of those shades
over a sigh or a baby’s gurgle.
Inferno XXVI
To give watchful Penelope her due,
I realised then, and just retell the tales
of wandering rocks and howling gales
had proven too much for me. All I knew
was that fear of the unknown had my crew
and I had to put the wind back in their sails.
You were not made to live like animals,
but to go in search of honour and true
knowledge. And that was that. No restraining order
I could have issued could have held them back
until in sight of land, unvisited,
indescribable. The heavens roared their
disapproval, our ship bowed, blue went black
and someone shut the waters overhead.
The Panopticon
I found them, bolted upright as a spoke
or a stalagmite in the dead centre
of that unfenestrated, concrete cell.
The halogen dawn had reprised their eyes
open; the bell had not yet ceased to ring
around the lofts of the inspection-house
and through the flues of the inspection-house
when, mouth adrought, voice moistureless, they spoke.
‘Not a drop more information to wring
from me. But I thought they would have sent a
miked-up, shade-sporting favourite of the Eye,
who must have scanned and found fault with this cell.
But if you come to document and sell
the open secrets of my prison house,
I’ll tell you, as you don’t displease the Eye.
His line of sight can turn down any spoke
radiating from the control centre
to browse the shelves of selves set in a ring,
so there’s no need for ‘Guard!’ or hammering
on the polycarbonate door of your cell.
In a rehabilitation centre
the aim is not simply to hold or house
the most histrionic and outspoken,
but to reform them, refine them, as I
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am being refined, a posteriori.
However, however loud that bell rings,
however clever Mr Bentham’s bespoke
gaol is, my thoughts, my feelings, my brain cells
remain mine: no cigarette or roundhouse
kick could extract them from me, the centre
of attention. But when am I centre
of attention? How can I catch His Eye?
How to convince the master of this house
that I am worth keeping on the key ring;
how to continue on this carousel,
half-remembering words that people spoke
of a crime, a sentence, a concrete ring,
a now-full house, an outrage, a spoke in
the wheel, a cell, a subject of the Eye?’
Actaeon
He went too far and came to see
a woman – a goddess, even –
beyond all worth but still not free
from eager eyes of men.
And these two eyes which chance upon
Diana’s ignorance and bliss
are what remain of Actaeon
post-metamorphosis
in which fingers and toes retreat,
bones lengthen, antlers manifest
themselves around his head, his feet
as cloven as her chest
he’d zoomed in on. The stupid laughter
of his companions as the hounds
tear after him and tear him after
bringing him to heel resounds.
B. COLLEGE NEWS
Pembroke Cricket First XI 1908
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NEW FELLOWS
Five new Fellows of the College introduce themselves to the Pembroke College
Cambridge Society in their own words:
GUILLAUME HENNEQUIN was admitted to an Official
Fellowship in October 2015. He is also a University
Lecturer in Computational Neuroscience. He writes: I
was born in Nancy, France, about three Pembroke
Masters ago; nothing academically relevant (save for a
steadily growing interest in maths and physics) really
happened until about twenty years later, when I took a
course on ‘artificial intelligence and neural networks’ at
Supélec, a French grande école where I was reading
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Much like
many people before me in the early 1990s, I soon found it fascinating that
artificial neural networks could learn from data by adjusting their connectivity
according to simple rules. Even more satisfying, their behaviour could be
mathematically analysed! I wanted to learn more, and signed up for an MSc
course in Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh. I reasoned
that, were I to eventually be disillusioned about neural networks, I would at least
have learnt some English. A year later, I had met both my future research field,
and my future wife – I married them both in late 2007.
In 2008, I embarked on a PhD in computational neuroscience at the Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) in Wulfram Gerstner’s group.
Wulfram is a world leader in the study of synaptic plasticity (the process by which
a synapse, the structure that connects two neurons, is altered to reflect statistical
regularities in the patterns of their joint activity). The focus had shifted from
artificial connectionism (where neural networks are used as learning machines to
solve problems) to theoretical neuroscience ‘proper’ (where model neuronal
networks, though still artificial in nature, are used to build theories of how real
brains function). I worked on theories of cortical circuit dynamics: what
dynamical repertoire can networks of neurons express that might serve as the
basis for computation? I pioneered the use of control-theoretic methods to
describe and analyse the high-dimensional collective behaviour of neural circuits;
and identified a novel class of model networks that could account for several,
previously unexplained aspects of neuronal recordings.
I arrived in Cambridge as a postdoctoral researcher in 2012, in the
Computational and Biological Learning (CBL) laboratory of the Engineering
Department. I worked with Máté Lengyel for three years, on a theory of
probabilistic computation in the brain: how do neuronal networks perform
statistical inference, very nearly the core basis for every problem our brains solve,
from perception to motor control? I have benefitted immensely from the mix of
machine learning and neuroscience expertise that so uniquely characterises CBL.
By some twist of fate, I was then offered a University Lectureship within CBL,
where I am now building my own research group. We use engineering
approaches to build and analyse model brain circuits that perform complex tasks,
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and collaborate with experimental neuroscientists to try and answer the many
open questions that bring this relatively young field of research together.
The start of my lectureship also marked that of my engagement with
Pembroke, where I currently teach control theory and signal processing to 2ndyear engineers through supervisions. I look forward to many, many years of
research and teaching in such a stimulating and rewarding environment.
EMILY JONES was admitted to Pembroke in October 2015
as the Mark Kaplanoff Research Fellow in History. She
writes: I was born in Chester, and spent my childhood
breathing in the heady fumes of various West Cheshire
industrial plants. After finishing Sixth Form, I escaped for
a year to the other side of the world (Australia), where I
supported myself selling spray-on, wipe-off car wash in a
can. I returned home to start a degree in Politics and
Modern History at the University of Manchester
(2007–10), where I developed a keen interest in intellectual
history and the history of political thought, eventually deciding to apply for a MA
further afield. I joined Exeter College, Oxford, in the autumn of 2010 to read for a
Master of Studies in Modern British and European History, and continued on to
the DPhil the following year. I was thrilled to be offered the Research Fellowship
at Pembroke in March 2015, and submitted my DPhil soon afterwards.
My principal research interests are in the intellectual, political, and cultural
history of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. More specifically,
my work focuses on the development of ideas about ‘C/conservatism’ as both
an intellectual and political tradition. My doctoral thesis examined the
transformation of Edmund Burke (1730–97) from Irish Whig politician to
‘founder of modern conservatism’ in Britain from the early nineteenth century to
the First World War. In doing so, it bridged a significant gap between the history
of political thought as conventionally understood and the making of political
traditions: this was not simply the story of the formative period in which Burke
became a canonical political thinker, but the process by which a distinctive
intellectual and political tradition – ‘Burkean conservatism’ – was constructed,
established, and widely circulated.
Since arriving at Pembroke in October 2015, I have been exploring the
development of further aspects of Conservative thought – beyond Burke – in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this period, for the
first time, significant numbers of people were contemplating what it now meant
to be a Conservative. As well as analysing how Burke became a C/conservative,
my work demonstrates that the late Victorian and Edwardian period became
a particularly fertile time for the construction of new political identities
of C/conservatism.
ANIL MADHAVAPEDDY was admitted to an Official Fellowship in October 2015.
He is also a University Lecturer in Computer Science. He writes: I have been a
University Lecturer in the Computer Laboratory since 2014 and spent a merry
decade before that doing my PhD at Robinson College followed by a Research
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Fellowship at Wolfson College. I joined Pembroke as the
Director of Studies in Computer Science in 2015, and am
greatly enjoying guiding the growing numbers of
enthusiastic and capable CST students in College.
I worked in NASA and various Silicon Valley companies
before starting my Cambridge career, and my research
focus grew out of a frustration with the unreliability and
complexity of modern computer systems. The operating
systems that we use in our devices are based on decadesold designs whose aging underbelly exposes all manner of
insecurities and inefficiencies.
Unfortunately, modern software stacks build on this foundation with
hundreds of millions of lines of code, and so it remains incredibly difficult
to reason about computer systems and understand their behaviour rigorously.
In a few decades, we may be employing software archaeologists who dig through
these layers of code to understand what previous generations were trying
to construct.
My research centres on finding a solution to this problem of building simpler
and more robust systems. We developed the concept of ‘unikernels’ in the
Systems Research Group in the Computer Lab, which is a way of specialising
deployed code to strip away any unused features at the point that the system is
constructed. Using unikernels has let us build dramatically smaller, more secure
and formally specified systems for many interesting use cases such as the Internet
of Things.
An interesting aspect of the unikernel research has been technology transfer
that gets it adopted more widely. We use open source code as the vehicle for this
transfer, and my research group OCaml Labs (https://ocaml.io) today publishes all
of its outputs online and freely available for anyone to use for any purpose that they
see fit. We also develop and distribute one of the earliest unikernel systems known
as MirageOS (https://mirage.io) that today has many hundreds of contributors
from all over the world. A commercial spinout, Unikernel Systems, was acquired
by the San Francisco-based company Docker Inc. (http://docker.com) in early
2016. Docker is an extremely popular software stack that makes it easy to build,
ship and run software in the cloud; it provides the perfect adoption path for
developers to get started with using unikernels.
All of this activity is of huge benefit to the undergraduate and postgraduate
Computer Science students, since they get to experience both the industrial and
academic aspects of turning a research prototype into systems that are deployed
on millions or even billions of networked nodes on the internet worldwide.
HANNAH MUMBY was admitted to Pembroke in October 2015 as the Drapers’
Research Fellow. She writes: I remember coming to Cambridge for the first time
when I was fifteen; I went to the fudge shop on King’s Parade and walked around
the town and some colleges. I don’t think it was just the fudge, but something
about the feeling of Cambridge made me want to apply to study there, even
though beyond my teachers, I didn’t really know many people who had been to
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university. My parents were surprised, but very
supportive and they’ve watched me go from an
undergraduate degree at King’s, through an MPhil
and lots of fieldwork stints, to a PhD at the
University of Sheffield on the lives of timber
elephants in Myanmar. I am now incredibly
fortunate to have fallen on my feet and become a
JRF at Pembroke. It’s a fantastically welcoming
and friendly community and I haven’t felt like an outsider for one second.
My current work focuses on what it is to be a male elephant; what
characteristics make them successful or at risk; how they form associations; and
how understanding this can be channeled into conservation. Males occupy a
position of being the less well-understood sex because the females live with their
relatives in matriarchal herds and the males disperse in adolescence. We have
perhaps historically dismissed them as solitary and aggressive, but the picture is
much more nuanced than that. In males, the reproduction side of things is
obscured, so I am going to be collecting dung samples to extract DNA and test
relatedness between males in associative ‘bachelor’ groups. I have a fantastic
study site in South Africa, where the team knows each adult elephant on the
landscape individually, and an assistant in Cambridge who is going to help me
delve into how males use low frequency rumbles to identify one another. The
urgency of my research is really that although we know less about them, males are
more at risk of conflict with humans than females – through poaching, their
encroachment on human-occupied areas and their role as ecosystem engineers,
which can be perceived as destructive. I want to use biological explanations of
elephant behavior to improve our mitigation and prediction of conflict and the
identification of at-risk individuals.
I have managed to carve out a research niche for myself at the intersection of
behavioural ecology and conservation; so I get to look beyond how elephants
interact with each other, to how they interact with humans. This is a real joy for
me because despite being very distantly related, there are so many similarities
between us and them. We share long lives, complicated social interactions, a
complex suite of vocal communication, long periods of offspring dependence,
and we are great habitat modifiers. I think we can only really resolve the issues
we have with maintaining elephant populations if we accept these similarities
and acknowledge that a lot of the conflict between us is rooted in behaviour on
both sides.
For me, it is not enough to publish my results in academic journals; people
living closest to elephants and experiencing the costs of having them around need
to access information about why they behave the way they do and what their value
is to the world. It is important that the results of my work are available to
management and conservation decision makers, local people in elephant range
countries and ivory market countries, and people who want to donate to
conservation projects.
I have been very lucky to travel across Asia and Africa in the name of elephant
research, picking up some curry making skills, my prized papier mâché elephant
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head, and far too many dresses on the way. A part of me is always in Hong Kong,
because it is both a major ivory port and the home of my sister. Together, we
fundraise with local students to inform people in Hong Kong about the origins of
ivory and get them excited about and invested in conservation of African elephants.
I am tremendously grateful to Pembroke for giving me the academic freedom
to pursue this challenging and unorthodox line of research. It is really a vocation
for me and it is rewarding in a plethora of ways. I look forward to contributing all
I can to the College in return.
GIOVANNI ROSSO was admitted to Pembroke as a
Supernumerary Fellow in October 2015. He holds a
Herchel Smith Research Fellowship. He writes: I was
born in the North of Italy, in Vercelli, a small town
surrounded by rice fields. I have loved most of the hard
sciences since I was a child and at the end of high school
I decided to read Mathematics in the University of Turin. I
really enjoyed my years in Turin and what I was learning.
I was thinking of specialising in one of the more abstract
parts of mathematics, like algebra or geometry, but the
choice of Masters courses in Turin was very limited in these topics; moreover, I
realised that I wanted to travel and see the world.
Exactly at that time I found out about the Erasmus Mundus Master program
ALGANT, which offers the possibility of specialising in ‘ALgebra, Geometry And
Number Theory’ studying at two different European universities. Since my first
encounter with mathematics, I have always been deeply fascinated by number
theory, a branch of the subject which specialises in studying the integers and their
properties. Number theory has the peculiarity that most of its questions – such as
‘has this given simple equation any rational solution?’ or ‘how are the prime
numbers distributed among the integers?’ – are very easy to ask but often
extremely difficult to answer. To solve some of these, mathematicians have
introduced many new notions, such as motives or automorphic forms, which
turn out not only to be useful for solving these kinds of problem but are also
extremely interesting and fascinating objects in their own right, building bridges
between many different areas of mathematics – bridges that fifty years ago people
could not imagine.
The ALGANT program was a chance I could not miss and I enrolled. For my
first year, I moved to Padua, but this was just the first of many moves. For my
second year I went to Paris to study at the University of Paris XI. Here I was
exposed to the state of the art of number theory and I began working on what is
now my speciality, p-adic modular forms and their L-functions.
I liked these so much that I decided to continue my studies, starting a joint
PhD between University of Paris XIII and KU Leuven in Belgium. During the four
years of my PhD I lived alternately in Paris and Leuven, very often travelling the
world to attend conferences and give seminars. These were most often in Europe,
but I never missed the opportunity to go to an interesting conference in North
America, India or Korea.
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After defending my thesis, I spent a semester at Columbia University, mainly
to finish some projects with a professor there, but also to experience life in
America (albeit in one of the least American cities in the US).
After this experience, I decided to move further north in Europe for a postdoc
in Cambridge. In order to fully appreciate the town and its history, I looked for
college affiliation. Luckily for me, Pembroke was in need of a mathematician and
I decided to join – a choice that, as with most of my previous ones, I am very happy
to have made.
MARK WYATT was admitted to an Official
Fellowship in October 2015. He is also a
University Reader in Astrophysics. He writes: I
grew up mostly in Bath where, as I found out the
day I was admitted to the Fellowship at Pembroke,
I attended the same school as the then Master (but
not at the same time, and with no connection to
the Fellowship I hasten to add!). I came up to
Cambridge in 1991 to study Engineering at Peterhouse. The course seemed to
encapsulate the combination of physics and mathematics that interested me, but
by the end of it I realised that my academic interests were somewhat less practical.
The romantic notion of spending nights at a telescope on the top of a mountain
in Hawaii, and the possibility of tackling fundamental questions about our place
in the Universe, led me to change field to Astronomy. I did a Masters in
Astrophysics at Queen Mary Westfield College in London, followed by a PhD at
the University of Florida.
My PhD thesis was supposed to be about the structure of the zodiacal cloud,
which is the disk of dust that permeates the inner Solar System. This disk, for
which the generic term is a debris disk, is made up of dust released from the
break-up of comets and asteroids. However, just a few years previously the first
planet orbiting a star other than the Sun had been discovered, and our
understanding of the debris disks of nearby stars was also undergoing a
revolution. Shortly after I started, one of the faculty in Florida had built an
infrared camera and had taken the second ever image of a debris disk around
another star. I realised that I could apply my knowledge of how the planets in the
Solar System shape the structure of the zodiacal cloud to these extrasolar disks.
Usually we have no other information about the planetary system in which a disk
resides, but vital clues about the planets are imprinted in the dust distribution.
This is the field to which I continue to devote a large fraction of my research; that
is, making astronomical observations of dust around nearby stars to determine
the structure of their asteroid and comets belts, and using that information to
help understand their underlying planetary systems. As well as identifying new
planets in this way, we are learning about how such planetary systems formed and
evolved, and about issues such as the habitability of those planets.
After my PhD, I returned in 2000 to the UK to a postdoc position at the Royal
Observatory in Edinburgh. I moved to the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge
in 2005 with a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, and took up a
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University Lectureship in 2006, which come October (see Fellows’ News) will be
a Professorship. In that time, thousands of extrasolar planets have been
discovered, and we have surveyed the nearest stars to the Sun, discovering
hundreds of debris disks, many of which have been imaged. Most stars have
planets and/or debris, it turns out. There was not a big community of exoplanet
researchers in the UK at the time I finished my PhD, but as is the case around the
world, this field has expanded enormously to become the fastest growing area of
Astronomy. My own group has also expanded, thanks most recently to an ERC
Consolidator grant. There is also significant momentum in this area more
broadly at Cambridge, with several recent faculty hires making this one of the
biggest concentrations of exoplanet researchers worldwide, and an exciting place
to work.
Nature has provided us with a wide diversity of exoplanetary systems, each
with its own unique history, each world with its own specificity. We are just
beginning to explore that diversity, and in doing so place our own Solar System
into the broader context. I feel fortunate to be working in the field at such an
exciting time of rapid progress. This is an observationally driven field with daily
discoveries that throw up new theoretical challenges. This means that I get to
achieve a balance between spending time on mountains, developing theoretical
models, and pondering what it all means. So I guess I have ended up just where I
wanted to be. And while I delayed joining a College after my return to Cambridge,
partly because of family commitments (small children), I am very happy now to
be part of the Pembroke family.
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FELLOWS’ NEWS
Trevor Allan has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.
Rosalind Polly Blakesley curated and wrote the catalogue for the exhibition Russia
and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky at the National Portrait Gallery,
London. She was also involved in a reciprocal exhibition from the National
Portrait Gallery that opened at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Her book,
The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia 1757–1881 was published by Yale
University Press.
Gabor Csanyi was promoted to Professor, with effect from October 2016.
Geoffrey Edwards has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by
UACES, the academic association for contemporary European Studies, for his
contribution to the development of European Studies as a discipline.
Andrea Ferrari received the 2016 ACS Nano Lectureship award, given to ‘honour
the contributions of scientists whose work has significantly impacted the fields of
nanoscience and nanotechnology’; and the Charles E. Pettinos Award from The
American Carbon Society at the World Conference on Carbon in Penn State for
‘recent outstanding research accomplishments in the science and technology of
carbon materials’. He was one of fourteen worldwide, and the only European, to
be elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society; became Honorary Professor
of the Beijing Information Science & Technology University (BISTU); and
received one of the PrimiDieci 2016 awards at the BAFTA in May. He was listed for
the second year running in the Thomson Reuters Most Influential Scientific
Minds in 2015 in Materials Science and Physics, as well as being listed as a Highly
Cited Researcher.
Robin Franklin has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Renaud Gagné was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Loraine Gelsthorpe has been appointed to the Advisory Committee of the Chief
Inspector of Probation for England and Wales.
Iza Hussin’s book, The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the
Making of the Muslim State was published by the University of Chicago Press.
Stephen John was promoted to University Senior Lecturer, with effect from
October 2016.
Dr Anil Madhavapeddy was awarded several prizes at the annual Cambridge
Computer Laboratory Ring event. He (jointly with his team at the OCaml Labs
research group) won the most Notable Publication of 2016 from the Computer
Lab, and his spinout company Unikernel Systems (since acquired by Docker Inc)
won the Company of the Year award.
Chloe Nahum-Claudel has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career
Fellowship to be held at the LSE from March 2017.
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Ned Lebow, Bye-Fellow, published two books this year: National Identifications and
International Relations (Cambridge University Press) and Return of the Theorists:
Dialogues with Dead Thinkers, co-edited with Peer Schouten and Hidemi Suganami
(Palgrave, January). His Constructing Cause in International Relations was runner-up –
‘honourable mention’ – for the 2016 Charles Taylor Award of the American
Political Science Association in qualitative methodology. He was a finalist for the
university-wide Mentor of the Year Award at King’s College London. And the
Federal Republic of Germany honoured him with citizenship for contributions to
the country.
Alexei Shadrin was promoted to University Senior Lecturer, with effect from
October 2016.
Mark Wyatt was promoted to Professor, with effect from October 2016.
Christopher Young, who has been Deputy Head of the School of Arts and
Humanities since 2014, has also been appointed Acting University Librarian from
October 2016. He is Co-Director, together with Professor Sir Christopher Clark
(1987), of the Cambridge DAAD Research Hub for German Studies
(www.cam.ac.uk/daad), which opened this year with a grant of €1 million from
the German Foreign Office.
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GIFTS TO THE COLLEGE
From –
Bernard Adams (1958) donated his translation of Behind God’s back. Budapest:
Corvina, 2015.
Anthony Barton (2010) donated his book on Criminal negligence, 5th ed. West
Sussex: Bloomsbury Professional, 2015.
Nicholas Barton (1953) sent a copy of the revised edition of his book, The lost
rivers of London. Whitstable: Historical Publications, 2016.
Richard Beard (1985) donated his book, Acts of the Assassins. London: Harvill
Secker, 2015.
John Bell (2001) gave 20 law books, including Public Law adjudication in Common
Law systems. Oxford: Hart, 2016 and Rights-based Constitutional Review edited by
John Bell and Marie-Luce Paris. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2016.
Joanna Bellis (2004) donated her book, The hundred years war in literature
1337–1600. Cambridge: D S Brewer, 2016.
Paul Bew (1968) donated two books, Churchill and Ireland by Paul Bew, Oxford
University Press, 2016 and Realpolitik by John Bew, Oxford University Press, 2016.
Polly Blakesley (2002) donated her catalogue to accompany the exhibition at
the National Portrait Gallery, Russia and the arts: the age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky,
London: National Portrait Gallery, 2016 and The Russian canvas: painting in
Imperial Russia 1757–1881. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
John E Bowlt (Slade Professor of Art) donated his books, Masterpieces of Russian
Stage Design 1880–1930. London: Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 2012
and Encyclopedia of Russian Stage Design 1880–1930. Woodbridge: Antique
Collectors’ Club, 2013.
Faya Causey donated a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds of William Plumer (1752).
Paul Cavill (2013) donated Managing Tudor and Stuart Parliaments: essays in
memory of Michael Graves Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2015 which contains a
chapter by him.
Michael Clugston (Teacher Study Visitor 2015) donated his revised edition of
the Dictionary of Science. Penguin Books: London, 2014.
Michael Counsell (1956) donated his book The Canterbury Preacher’s Companion
2016, Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2015.
Deborah and John Deane donated £2,500 to the Library Fund for Special
Projects to enable the College to digitise its collection of photographs for
preservation purposes.
Hildegard Diemberger (2013) gave the Library a copy of her exhibition
catalogue, Buddha’s word: the life of books in Tibet and beyond. Cambridge:
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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2014 and her earlier book, When a
woman becomes a religious dynasty: the Samding Dorje Phaguo of Tibet. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2007.
Michael Faraday (1955) donated two of his books, Radnorshire Taxes in the reign
of Henry VIII, M.A. Faraday, 2013 and Shropshire taxes in the reign of Henry VIII, M.A.
Faraday, 2015.
The Fitzwilliam Museum gave us a copy of Illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge
Part Three Volume I: France c.1000 – c.1250. London: Harvey Miller, 2015.
Iain Goldrein, QC (1971) donated supplements to Butterworths Personal
Injury Litigation Service.
A V Grimstone (1958) donated a limited 2-volume edition of Inigo Jones: the
theatre of the Stuart court published by the University of California press, 1973, a
1965 facsimile edition of Christopher Wren’s Parentalia, or memoirs of the family
of Wrens (1701) + 4 other books on architecture.
Robin Gwynn (1961) donated The Huguenots in later Stuart Britain, Volume I- crisis,
renewal, and the Ministers’ dilemma. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2015.
R D Jacobs, QC (1975) and Ms C Jung, provided legal advice.
Jeremy Lawrence (1958) donated his book, Past Imperfect published by Gryphon
Press, Rondebosch, 2014.
Alexander McNeil (1988) donated his book Quantative risk management: concepts,
techniques, tools. Princeton University Press, 2015.
Charles Melville (1985) donated a two-volume work, A Chronicle of the Reign of
Shah ‘Abbas which he wrote the introduction for and The Mongols’ Middle East
which he co-edited. Leiden: Brill, 2016.
Nick McBride (1997) donated his book, Tort Law, 5th ed. Harlow: Pearson,
2015 and a philosophy book, Virtue and vice, edited by Ellen Frankel Paul et al.
Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Andy Mydellton (1997) donated his book, Reflections on the Edmund Niles Huyck
Preserve, published by Wildlife Zone, 2015.
Guy Ottewell (1957) donated his Astronomical Calendar, 2016. Raynham,
Mass.: Universal Workshop, 2015.
Yvonne Perret compiled ‘The Journal of a Prominent Australian the Hon. C.E.
Isaac OBE MLC’ which she donated to the Library.
Anthony Raspa (1962) donated his book Shakespeare the Renaissance humanist:
moral philosophy and his plays. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Brian Rendell donated his book on Frank and George Mann: brewing, batting and
captaincy. [Lives in Cricket; 42].Cardiff: ACS, 2015.
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Paul Sharpling (1957), donated his book, Fragile images: post-medieval stained
glass in Northamptonshire and the Soke of Peterborough. Northamptonshire Record
Society, 2016.
Liam Sims donated a book he edited and dedicated to the memory of Peter
Meadows, Lyra Catenata: verses by A.N.L. Munby.
Ann Skea donated various items of Ted Hughes memorabilia, including two
cassettes, a video, two files and three posters on Ted Hughes and the occult.
Richard Slater (1966) donated his book, People in London: one photographer, five
years, the life of a city. London: Elliot & Thomson Ltd., 2014.
Helen Stagg (2003) donated a copy of the book she edited with three others,
Infectious disease epidemiology. Oxford, OUP, 2016.
Janet Stevenson donated her book, The Register of Edward Story, Bishop of
Chichester 1478–1503 (Canterbury and York Society; CVI) published by Boydell
& Brewer, 2016.
Bill Tampion (1961) donated a book by Neil McIntyre, How British women
became doctors: the story of the Royal Free Hospital and its medical school. Wenroware
Press, 2014.
Roger Tomkys (1973) gave 9 books on Middle Eastern Studies.
Richard Trahair donated his book, Behavior, technology, and organizational
development: Eric Trist and the Tavistock Institute. New Brunswick: Transaction
Publishers, 2015.
Paul Warde (2014) donated three of his books: Power to the people: energy in
Europe over the last five centuries, Princeton University Press, 2013 and The future of
nature, Yale University Press, 2013, and Local places, global processes, Oxford,
Oxbow Books, 2016.
Cedric Watts (1958) donated Richard III, the latest book edited by him in the
Wordsworth Classics edition. Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 2015 and
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: a critical introduction, London: PublishNation, 2015.
Cliff Webb (1967) donated a number of items of Pembroke memorabilia,
including matriculation photographs of 1878 and 1953, a Hay cartoon from
Vanity Fair of the Rev. Ernest John Heriz Smith, MA.
Michael Whinney (1952) donated his books, Rainbows through the rain (2014)
and Green shoots through the concrete (2011) published in Birmingham by Michael
Whinney.
Anthony Wilkinson (2007) gave a painting, “The Hovering Owl” by Jonathan
Poole.
James W Wood (1988) donated his book of poetry, The Emigrant’s Farewell.
Grimsby: The High Window, 2016.
Satoshi Yano donated a copy of his book, The history of Japanese public pension
policy 1875–2009. Japan: Minerva Press, 2012.
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THE DEAN’S REPORT
Pembroke Chapel
Over the summer of 2016 I found myself travelling to a number of
Cambridgeshire parishes to preach on Sunday mornings when their local vicars
were on holiday. The news bulletins were full of accounts of refugee drownings
in the Mediterranean, refugees travelling through Europe and refugee camps
close to the borders. Without any sense of what might be the correct answers to
the questions posed by the refugee crisis, I felt that these questions must at least
be posed in church with these Christian communities who had invited me to
celebrate and preach for them.
In Michaelmas 2016 I chose for the Chapel Card an image of Christ as a young
man behind barbed wire, created by the renowned icon painter Br. Robert Lentz,
OFM, an image known as The Christ of Maryknoll. A significant feature of this year
has been finding ways for the Chapel community and the wider community of
Pembroke to reflect on and respond to the refugee crisis in ways appropriate to
the nature of the community. The Fellowship agreed to accept a Visiting Scholar
under the auspices of CARA 1933. With the Christian Union we held a service of
prayer and reflection under the title I Was a Stranger. With the Graduate Parlour
and others we raised £8000 to pay for an MPhil studentship to be held by a
refugee. Concerts and collections added to this total, and at the end of the
academic year we encouraged leavers to donate clothing, bedding, bicycles, food
and electrical equipment to be sold to raise funds for refugees. The response from
students, Fellows and staff to all these initiatives has been heartening
and humbling.
We have also taken a number of steps to ensure that the chapel as a building is
available to and used by as many people as possible as a place of holiness, prayer
and peace. It is open 24 hours a day. Thousands of candles are lit in the course of
the year by visitors, who leave small donations to Pembroke House. Thousands of
copies of a prayer by Lancelot Andrewes (Master 1589–1605) are taken away by
visitors. Hundreds of people leave prayers, and take copies of a brief guide to the
chapel which explains its history and significance.
This year, for the first time, in the examination period we set out a range of 10
Spiritual Exercises, some Christian, and some more general, for use by members of
the college. The 11th spiritual exercise (lying on a beanbag and looking at the
beautiful ceiling) was perhaps the most popular of all.
Last year I inadvertently left the chapel open during the May Ball, and noted
that there were some visitors, and no damage. In consultation with the June Event
committee this year we opened the chapel for the night, with a labyrinth to walk,
and a place to record thoughts and memories, and to leave prayers. It was used as
a venue for some quieter music, and was treated with respect (as always)
throughout the Event.
Very soon after the Event we heard the shocking news of the death of Jo Cox
MP. It was particularly poignant to lose a College member in this way just before
a dinner in celebration of the admission of women to Pembroke College. A Book
of Condolences and Memories in the Chapel offered an opportunity for members
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of the community to express their sadness, which they did in great numbers and
with great thoughtfulness.
As the Chapel finds itself at the centre of times of rejoicing and times of
sadness, we are especially grateful for the music which helps us to express what
is on our minds. Greg Drott has been an excellent Director of Music, ably assisted
by the Organ Scholars, Richard Parkinson & Anthony Gray. With Jago Thornton,
they have all written music for the choir to sing over the course of this year,
emphasising the extent to which we participate in a living musical tradition. We
are sad to say goodbye to Greg, Richard and Anthony as their musical lives move
on in various directions. They have presided over an excellent choir with which it
is been a pleasure to work.
We had many outstanding applications for the role of Director of Music, to
replace Greg Drott. It was fascinating to hear how those who came for interview
directed the choir through Jesu the Very Thought of Thee, by Edward Bairstow, and to
listen to their presentations on the future of music in Pembroke. We are delighted
to have appointed Anna Lapwood, and we look forward to her arrival in the new
academic year.
Helping the college to know God’s presence, and to symbolise to itself its
common life through worship, prayer and music remains the core purpose of the
Chapel. From the admission of the new Master, to the farewell at the Leavers
Evensong, it has been a privilege to share with so many, this year, their joys, and
thoughts and prayers.
Pembroke House
Links with Pembroke House remain strong. The visit from St Christopher’s
church to Pembroke College Chapel for a Sunday morning in Michaelmas term
is now an established custom, and the summer visit from the wider Pembroke
House community is a highlight of the long vacation. The focus of student
involvement is now very much in the vacations with students volunteering for
longer periods and therefore learning and contributing more. A number of
these volunteer placements have arisen from the choir visit for the Christmas
Carol Service.
This year, for the first time, we held an AGM at Pembroke House itself, which
enabled us to hear about and celebrate the work of the House in the place where
it is actually happening. After the formal business of the AGM we moved upstairs
where more members of the community joined us, and there was an
extraordinary display of photographs by Jonathan Knowles entitled Walworth
Heroes. If you would like to be included in the invitation list for the next such event
please contact the college or Pembroke House.
It is hard to convey on paper the energy and significance of the work of
Pembroke House. It has long been important in the local area, but the
transformation since the refurbishment of the building is extraordinary. The
following list, drawn from the 2015 annual report gives a small taste of its
phenomenal work.
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New projects in 2015:
Advising London’s International Café: Spanish-language advice surgery for the
Latin American community: housing, immigration, employment.
Espacio Mama: Social space and English language tuition for Spanish-speaking
women who are pregnant or have babies.
dt17 (revived): Performing arts and social skills programme for young people
aged 9–13.
African Drumming and Dance: Drumming and dance workshops.
Music and Singing for Babies and Toddlers (Baby PAM): An hour of singing
games, nursery rhymes and lullabies from around the world for the under-fours,
and tea and a chat for their parents and carers.
Music and Singing for Juniors: Fun musical games, singing and percussion for
4–6 year olds and their parents or carers.
ESOL: Participatory English classes for adults; Spanish classes for children.
Alcoholics Anonymous for under 30s: Big Book study session.
Fun Club: Community-led activities initiated by local people with the support of
our Community Organiser; incorporating a Sewing Club.
Ongoing projects:
The Pembroke Academy of Music (PAM): open access music programme for
52 local children aged 6–16, with a Community Choir that parents and carers
can join.
Older People’s Lunch Club: humorous and supportive two course lunch for older
people and volunteers, preceded by “dancersize” and followed by bingo.
St Christopher’s Church: Joyful Church of England parish with a West African lilt.
Inclusive Dance: Learning-disabled young people aged 16–25 growing in
confidence and independence by learning movement and social skills through
performing arts.
Community Garden: Sessions for locals to grow food and community.
The Choir with No Name: Singing, performances and shared meals for people
who have experienced homelessness.
The Royal Drawing School’s South Club: Tuition for children aged 10+ who have
a passion or aptitude for drawing.
IntoUniversity: Supporting young people in Year 5 and above to attain a university
place or another chosen aspiration. Four full-time staff members based at
Pembroke House.
Narcotics Anonymous: Recovery from the effects of addiction.
Victory Children’s Centre’s Exercise Class and crèche: Exercise for women with
children under the age of 5.
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DEVELOPMENT OFFICE REPORT
From the Development Director
I have a great job. At this time of year, I write this piece for the Gazette and my first
instinct is to look out of the window for inspiration. Most readers of this article
rely on their memory to picture what I see pretty much every day. It is a privilege to
work at Pembroke and my colleagues and I are acutely and proudly aware of that.
Depending on the quality of that most elusive of British seasons, summer, the
magnolia tree outside my window can blossom up to three times, maybe even
four, in a year. At the moment, as a testament to the wet weather, there are but a
few sorry-looking buds. The pathetic fallacy perhaps? It feels like it: I often write
about the challenges Pembroke and Cambridge face; the difference this time is
that the challenge is uncertain and ill-defined and carries essential concerns for
Higher Education in the UK.
For surely Brexit, whether you were for it or against it, is casting an enormous
shadow over research in this country. Perhaps Cambridge is global enough to ride
all this out, but UK-based academics who can leave are now seriously talking
about leaving, thereby strengthening rival overseas institutions, while those
British researchers who would have been front and centre of bids for EU funding
are already now being pushed to ‘the back of the queue’, to quote President
Obama, or, as many are finding, excluded entirely.
We do not yet know if this is simply an immediate, knee-jerk reaction and
things may improve, or whether these numerous great British universities, real,
visible jewels in the UK’s crown, as I believe they are, really will have to rely on the
whim of the government of the time to invest non-politically in the kind of
research that people like our Fellows and students here in Cambridge are
undertaking, with all the intellectual and economic benefit they bring. It does
seem too much to hope for, so we have to pore over what we can actually do.
The magnolia tree, whether in flower or not, marks for Pembroke a
remarkable biological moment in the College’s history. For it was given to the
College by Ray Dolby, in honour of Meredith Dewey and it has a metaphorical as
well as an aesthetic significance. Almost no reader who has made it this far
through this article will be unaware of the extraordinary gift that Ray’s family have
made to Pembroke from his estate. The £35 million they have pledged will be
used to lay the foundations and much more on a site purchase and redevelopment
project the like of which Pembroke, indeed almost no Cambridge college, can
have witnessed before. A court of accommodation on the south side of Mill Lane
will be named the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Court and this will form the central part
of an ambitious programme of rebuilding and refurbishment. It will transform
not just the living environment of Pembroke students, graduate and
undergraduate, but the research that can happen here, the teaching facilities, the
ability to hold large-scale and small-scale concerts, performances, seminars,
lectures, all the while providing Pembroke with a long-forgotten, but longcherished and precious commodity: space. The ambition is to take the ragbag of
buildings there and turn them into something that not only Pembroke, but the
University and indeed the city of Cambridge regard as a new jewel in the crown,
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to re-use, unashamedly, that phrase. It will bring new opportunities for
Pembroke’s students, Fellows, corporate partners and alumni to find in the
College a home for their ideas, their friendships and their inspiration.
Ray Dolby and his family’s gift takes us a huge way towards achieving this
ambition, and like us, they see their donation as a challenge too: a further circa £20
million in less than six years will be needed to complete the building part of the
plan. Over ten years at least another £15 million will be required to enable the
College to offer the kinds of scholarship and bursary support to enable Pembroke
to continue to attract the best UK and overseas undergraduates and graduates.
The foreseeable future, Brexit or no Brexit, will demand of Cambridge an even
sharper competitive edge if its quality and reputation are to be maintained and its
heritage not lost.
So the College will, in the spring of 2017, be launching a bold fundraising
campaign to complete these goals. The Mill Lane site presents a once-in-aCollege-lifetime opportunity and we are the generation, as stewards of and
donors to Pembroke, who can make it happen. I do hope you will join actively in
this effort.
This article annually records some of the main events of the College’s year,
particularly in relation to Pembroke Members. There is one that, sickeningly,
stands out, and that is the murder of Jo Cox (1992, née Leadbeater) whose funeral
is taking place as I write. Her friends have contributed their reflections and
reminiscences elsewhere in this publication and so I will just say one thing from
my own experience of that awful time. The day after she was killed, I wrote to all
Pembroke members for whom the College holds an email address. I wanted
Pembroke people to know that Jo was one of ours, and I wanted them to know
what the College was thinking and planning. I also pointed people away from the
College to the charities that her grieving family – and how terribly sorry we are for
their loss – had recommended people give to in her name and memory. I was
overwhelmed by the response from Pembroke members, whose warmth,
sympathy and empathy I never doubted, but which came to the fore and joined
seamlessly with that which our currently resident members, students, Fellows,
staff, were feeling. This at a time which would normally have been one of
unbridled post-Tripos celebration.
The College is still finalising the details of ways in which Jo’s memory will be
honoured and respected here in Pembroke, but as I write, the feeling is that there
should be a studentship in an area of study about which Jo was known to care
deeply, a plaque and a memorial service as appropriate to her beliefs and to her
time at the College. I will doubtless write in more detail when I have it.
A brief, cursory even, summary of the year overall would doubtless describe it
as one of progressive transition, in many ways. The key change, of course, is in
the person of our Master and I know that my colleagues in the Development
Office and Lord Smith have enjoyed our interaction with each other and he has
been thrilled to meet Pembroke members at the many events in the UK and the
rest of the world where he has been able to introduce himself. That programme
of visits will continue in the coming years, especially as we press forward with
the campaign.
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While Pembroke members and numerous others continue to be generous, it is
a unique badge of honour that Pembroke, through my office, runs a corporate
partnership programme with no peer in Cambridge. It is worth knowing about
(http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/corporate-partnership-programme/) and the fifteen
current partners benefit in a wide range of ways, as does Pembroke, of course.
Perhaps I should mention the regrettable (for us) departure of Dr Emma
Adlard who rapidly became a familiar name and face to so many Pembroke
people – I owe her great thanks for the excellent job she did and wish her luck at
Wolfson. I trust that her not quite like-for-like replacement Julia Champion will
take up her reins with due alacrity.
The Pembroke Development team is pleasingly well populated (too numerous
to mention everyone by name!) and, as I said at the outset, I am privileged to work
with them. They care about this College every bit as much as I do and we work
hard to play our part in its success.
M.R.M.
The speech given by the Master in San Francisco, on 4 December 2015, at the
public announcement of the gift given by Ray Dolby and his family.
I am pleased to be here. One of the unique strengths of Cambridge is the
collegiate nature of the University – the way the College and University nurture,
support and enhance each other.
I’m here this evening to celebrate a particularly outstanding example of that.
One of the most distinguished alumni at Pembroke was Ray Dolby. He came to
Pembroke in 1957 for a PhD in x-ray microscopy. He went on to become a
Research Fellow. And his research at Cambridge, coupled with his interest in
music recording, led him eventually to develop a revolutionary audio noise
reduction system that has transformed listening quality across the world, ever
since. So I am thrilled this evening to be able to announce a new gift from the
Dolby family to Pembroke College – a gift of £35million sterling. It is the largest
gift ever made to an Oxford or Cambridge College, and it will help not only to
transform Pembroke, but also the lives of generations of students to come. The
gift is also the largest single gift so far in the £2billion fundraising campaign for
the University and Colleges of Cambridge that was launched in October. I was
myself a student – undergraduate and, like Ray, postgraduate – at Pembroke. I
know intimately how important this gift will be in enhancing the opportunities
for our students. And our hope is to use this extraordinary gift to help us to
achieve our vision of an enlarged and enhanced College.
We are delighted that Pembroke and the University are working closely
together to draw up an agreement for the development of the historic Mill Lane
site, immediately beside the College. This gift gives us the chance to fulfil this
dream: to create new teaching, research and seminar spaces; to build a new Ray
and Dagmar Dolby Court of graduate and undergraduate accommodation; to
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make the biggest change to our College in 650 years; and to enhance the
contribution we can make to the life of the University and Cambridge as a whole.
Most important, though, will be the impact on our future students both graduates
and undergraduates: enlarging and enhancing the chance to learn, to discuss, to
discover, to create, to explore ideas, to find inspiration, and to go out to change
the world. Just like Ray Dolby himself did.
So to Ray, to his family, and most especially to Dagmar, a heartfelt ‘thank you’.
C.R.S.
The Matthew Wren Society
The eighteenth meeting of the Society was held in College on Saturday 17 October
2015. 86 members of the society, and their guests, were entertained to lunch in
Hall, following a reception hosted by the Master in the Senior Parlour and the
Inner Parlour.
Membership of the Society is open to anyone who has notified the College of
an intention to benefit the College by a bequest. Matthew Wren (1585–1667),
undergraduate, Fellow and President of the College (1616–24), and Bishop of Ely
(1638–67), had been a notable benefactor (his body is interred in the crypt of the
Chapel, which he had built as a gift to the College, in 1665.) The Society has a
membership of 499. The names of those who have consented to be identified –
together with a number of recent bequests received – are listed below. To all, the
College is extremely grateful.
Mr I N Turner MBE (1938)
Mr C A Price (1944)
Mr P B Mackenzie Ross
(1945)
Mr D R Smith OBE (1945)
Professor K N Palmer
(1946)
Sir Robert Sanders KBE
CMG (1946)
Dr M W Thompson (1946)
Mr P R Langham MC
(1947)
Mr R M L Humphreys
(1948)
Mr J M D Knight DL
(1948)
Mr J G Parker (1948)
Mr R N Quartano CBE
(1948)
Mr R Bonnett (1949)
Mr H J L Fitch (1949)
Mr J F K Hinde (1949)
Mr R H King (1949)
Mr E D Peacock (1949)
Mr R L Stewart (1949)
Mr P L Tennant (1949)
Mr M J C Annand (1950)
Mr P C Flory (1950)
Mr A N Savage ISO (1950)
Mr E B O Sherlock CBE
(1950)
Mr J J M Barron (1951)
Dr A B Carles OBE (1951)
Mr J L Dixon (1951)
Dr A M Hall-Smith (1951)
Mr R T Lawman (1951)
Mr K A C Patteson (1951)
Mr G B Smethurst (1951)
Mr M B Whittaker (1951)
Mr J C R Downing DL
(1952)
Mr J J Fenwick CBE DL
(1952)
Mr R N Field (1952)
Dr G R Hext (1952)
Mr T J Milling (1952)
Mr M J Munz-Jones (1952)
Mr P J Pugh (1952)
Mr D F Beckley (1953)
Mr I D Crane (1953)
Mr I D McPhail (1953)
Mr J D P Phillips (1953)
Mr N A Robeson (1953)
Mr N F Robinson (1953)
Mr J M Whitehead (1953)
Mr C Beadle (1954)
Mr N I Cameron (1954)
Dr G F Fooks (1954)
Mr A H Isaacs MBE (1954)
Mr I Meshoulam (1954)
Mr R J M Thompson
(1954)
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Mr R L Allison RD (1955)
Sir Michael Bett CBE
(1955)
Mr J E Bowen (1955)
Mr D W Eddison (1955)
Mr C Gilbraith (1955)
Mr J D Hind (1955)
Mr T R Hopgood (1955)
Mr N La Mar (1955)
Dr H J F McLean CBE
(1955)
Mr G S Pink (1955)
Mr N M Pullan (1955)
Mr J M P Soper (1955)
Mr R J Warburton (1955)
Mr P W Boorman FRSA
(1956)
Mr J M Chick (1956)
Professor B M Fagan
(1956)
Professor D H Mellor
(1956)
Mr K E Piper (1956)
Mr M A Roberts (1956)
Mr M A A Garrett MBE
(1957)
Dr C B Hall (1957)
Mr T R Harman (1957)
Mr T J Harrold (1957)
Professor J M H Hunter
(1957)
Mr J B Macdonald (1957)
Mr D W H McCowen
(1957)
Mr R B Wall (1957)
Mr P J Yorke (1957)
Sir Michael Atiyah OM
FRS (1958)
Mr R A C Berkeley OBE
(1958)
Mr O C Brun (1958)
Mr R J M Gardner (1958)
Mr J D Harling (1958)
Mr J Lawrence (1958)
Mr J G G Moss (1958)
Mr A E Palmer CMG CVO
(1958)
Professor G Parry (1958)
The Rt Hon Sir Konrad
Schiemann (1958)
Mr J Sutherland-Smith
(1958)
Mr A H Wakeford (1958)
Mr W R Williams JP (1958)
Dr J N Woulds JP DL (1958)
Mr H A Crichton-Miller
(1959)
Mr P N Jarvis (1959)
Mr M G Kuczynski (1959)
Mr J A McMyn (1959)
Mr D P Robinson (1959)
Mr B G Tunnah (1959)
Professor Y A Wilks (1959)
The Hon W I C Binnie CC
(1960)
Mr R J Gladman (1960)
Mr R E Palmer (1960)
Dr J P Warren (1960)
Mr J B Wilkin (1960)
Mr P G Bird (1961)
Mr J A H Chadwick (1961)
Mr N C Grose-Hodge OBE
(1961)
Dr S Halliday (1961)
Professor H R Kirby (1961)
Dr R S Maurice-Williams
(1961)
Mr J C Robinson (1961)
Mr M C Stallard FRCS
(1961)
Mr R M Wingfield (1961)
Mr B A Howseman (1962)
Mr R W Jewson (1962)
Dr M J Llewellyn-Smith
AM KStJ (1962)
Professor K M McNeil
(1962)
Mr R C Sommers (1962)
Professor J C R Turner
(1962)
Dr R N Cuff (1963)
Mr A W Gunther (1963)
Mr I G A Hunter QC (1963)
Mr S C Palmer (1963)
Mr P D Skinner CBE
(1963)
Mr J A Stott (1963)
Mr E R Tibbs (1963)
Dr J C D Hickson (1964)
Mr S F Kelham (1964)
Mr D J Shaw (1964)
Mr H J Shields (1964)
Mr P Bann (1965)
Mr N I C Brocklehurst
(1965)
Mr R P Edwards (1965)
Mr M L Greenwood (1965)
Mr C R M Kemball MBE
(1965)
Mr J J Turner (1965)
Dr J G Vulliamy (1965)
Mr C J B White (1965)
Dr R G H Bethel (1966)
Mr J V P Drury (1966)
Mr B R Goodfellow (1966)
Dr E M Himsworth (1966)
Mr R I Jamieson (1966)
Mr R C Wilson (1966)
Dr D J Atherton (1967)
Mr C R B Goldson OBE
(1967)
Mr M Goodwin (1967)
Mr C R Webb (1967)
Mr I C Brownlie (1968)
Mr I P Collins (1968)
Mr G N Horlick (1968)
Mr P d’A Keith-Roach
(1968)
Mr D E Love (1968)
Mr P D Milroy (1968)
Mr A J Murdoch (1968)
Mr T J H Townshend
(1968)
Mr J P Wilson (1968)
Mr R Braund (1969)
Mr P G Cleary (1969)
Mr B C Heald (1969)
Mr J H Kellas CBE (1969)
Dr C J D Maile (1969)
Mr M G Pillar (1969)
Mr W R Siberry QC (1969)
Mr R B Swanston (1969)
Professor J R Wiesenfeld
(1969)
Mr N S Wild (1969)
Dr J R Deane (1970)
Dr W S Gould (1970)
Mr A J C Graham (1970)
Mr N A MacKinnon (1970)
Mr A McDonald (1970)
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Dr H J Perkins (1970)
Mr I R Purser (1970)
Mr D A Walter (1970)
Mr P Bowman (1971)
Mr W C M Dastur (1971)
Mr R H Johnson (1971)
Dr R Kinns (1971)
Mr M H Thomas (1971)
Mr S C Lord (1972)
Mr C D Newell (1972)
Mr M S Oakes OBE (1972)
Mr A G Singleton (1972)
Dr P R D H Greenhouse
(1973)
Mr K J Russell (1973)
Mr M A Smyth (1973)
Dr K A Foster FSB (1974)
Sir Charles Haddon-Cave
(1974)
Mr A S Ivison (1974)
Dr A J Makai (1974)
Dr C V Nowikow JP (1974)
Mr S G Trembath (1974)
Mr P W Blackmore (1975)
Dr R A Hood QVRM TD
DL (1975)
Mr R D Jacobs QC (1975)
Mr A J V McCallum (1975)
Mr R B Sloan (1975)
Dr K P Van Anglen (1975)
Mr M N Armstrong (1976)
Dr M J Burrows (1976)
Mr N P McNelly (1976)
Mr P C Nicholls (1976)
Mr C P Robb (1976)
Mr N J Brooks (1977)
Mr J E Symes-Thompson
(1977)
Major General S M
Andrews CBE (1978)
Revd Father J C Finnemore
(1978)
Mr M K Jackson (1978)
Mr M Russell-Jones (1978)
Mr D S Walden (1978)
Mr P S J Derham (1979)
Dr L J Reeve (1979)
Brigadier W J F Kingdon
(1980)
Mr J P Snoad (1980)
Mr M E Bartlett (1981)
Dr I M McClure (1981)
Mr S D Morgan (1981)
Mr A Rahman (1981)
Mr J S Davison (1982)
Mr D J Hitchcock (1982)
Mr D M Benton (1983)
Mr D N Pether (1983)
Dr S J Rosenberg (1983)
Mr L R Somerville (1983)
Dr P Wilson (1983)
Mr J R Baker (1984)
Ms V J Bowman (1984)
Mrs C F Holmes (1984)
Mr A D Marcus (1984)
Ms J M L Prior (1984)
Mr C M F Viner (1985)
Mr J P Johnstone (1986)
Mr R D R Stark (1986)
Mr J M Wolfson (1986)
Miss C M Thomé (1987)
Mr A E K Vanderlip (1987)
Mr N K C Chan (1988)
Dr B J J Dent (1988)
Mr D L Gilinsky (1988)
Mr A T McIntyre (1988)
Mr A R Read (1988)
Mr R W Bayly (1989)
Dr J W Laughton (1989)
Miss L Rice (1989)
Dr C L Hansen (1990)
Ms L J Walker (1990)
Mr B J S Bell (1991)
Dr G P Shields (1991)
Professor J P Parry (1992)
Mrs C E Stanwell (1992)
Professor A M R Taylor
(1992)
Mr M A Bagnall-Oakeley
(1994)
Dr A Guha (1994)
Mr H P Raingold (1994)
Ms H E M Walton (1994)
Mr J P Jackson (1995)
Mr A R B A Mydellton
(1997)
Ms J A Davies (1998)
Mr H R Perren (1998)
Mr A W Morris (2000)
Miss V A Skinner (2001)
Mr G R I Llewellyn-Smith
(2003)
Mrs H J Williamson (2003)
Mrs J A Gore-Randall
(2004)
Mr J Mayne (2004)
Mr M R Mellor (2006)
Mr G O Ulmann (2009)
Mr O P Hilsdon (2010)
Miss C L Sutherell (2011)
Mr W F Charnley
The College apologises for any inadvertent omissions, and invites members
willing to see their names listed in future to write accordingly to Sally March at the
College.
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Bequests
The College acknowledges with gratitude the following bequests which were
received between 1 July 2015 and 30 June 2016:
Professor H H Erskine-Hill FBA (1980)
£348,000
Mr P F H Green (1949) £1,000
Mr G R Evans (1946) £5,000
Dr J P Dougherty (1961) £5,000
Professor C J H Hogwood CBE (1960) a
further £700,000
Dr B Gluss (1949) £10,365
Dr G B Houston (1963) a further £720
Professor T O’Donnell (1945) £13,646
Mr P H Vince (1953) £18,446
Professor J P Barber (1952) £5,000
Mr H L Allan (1970) £61,992
A Gift to Pembroke in Perpetuity, helpful information on making a legacy, can be
obtained by telephoning Sally March on (01223) 339079, writing to her at the
College, or on e-mail ([email protected]).
J.C.D.H.
The 1347 Committee Parents Luncheon – Sunday 17 April 2016
The 22nd 1347 Committee Parents Luncheon was held at the beginning of the
Lent Term, on Sunday 17 April 2016. 189 parents and other family members
joined current members of the College for the occasion in Hall after drinks in the
Old Library.
Tim Brooke-Taylor (1960), most well-known as a member of The Goodies, and
a panellist on Radio 4 I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue for over 40 years, was this year’s
guest speaker.
The Committee would like to thank all those who attended this year’s Lunch
and those who made donations. The £3,000 raised has been given to a College
fund that directly supports Pembroke students in need of financial assistance.
The next Parents Luncheon will be held in 2017 and details will be circulated
to the parents of Junior Members.
1347 Committee 2015–2016
President: A J Barker (2012)
1347 Committee 2016–2017
President: N Shah (2014)
Master’s Society
The fourteenth meeting of the Master’s Society was held in College on Saturday 5
March 2016. Sixty guests were entertained to an enjoyable lunch in the Hall
following a drinks reception in the Senior Parlour. The Master thanked all those
present for their generous support.
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Membership of the Society is open to anyone who has made gifts totalling £2,000
or more to the College in the financial year prior to the event; invitations are also
sent to donors for the two years following a gift of £5,000 or more, and for five
years following a gift of £10,000 or more. Donors of £50,000 or more will be
granted indefinite membership of the Society. To all, the College is very grateful.
Among those attending this year’s lunch were:
Mr I C S Barby (1964)
Dr M W Baxter (1986)
Sir Michael Bett CBE
(1955) & Lady Bett
Mr M P Dunfoy (1984) &
Mr J Dunfoy
Mr R N Field (1952) &
Mrs K Meek
Dr C B Hall (1957) &
Dr E Hall
Mr A G K Hamilton (1964)
& Mrs F C Hamilton
Mr N M Heilpern (1980) &
Dr J Macanovic
Mr A R Hewitt (1967) &
Mrs S I Hewitt
Mr R D Jacobs QC (1975)
Mr D P Joseph QC (1979)
& Mrs D N Joseph
Mr R H King (1949) &
Mrs A King
Mr R D Marshall (1981) &
Mrs S Kissane-Marshall
Mr D G Milne (1978) &
Dr N D Dahan
Mr A W R Murray Brown
(2014)
Mr J K Overstall (1955) &
Mrs A D Overstall
Mr R J Parmee (1970) &
Mrs B White
Sir Mark Richmond ScD
FRS (1996) &
Lady Richmond
Miss J S Ringrose (1997) &
Mr A W Morris (2000)
Dr P S Ringrose (1997)
Mr H M Skipp (1965) &
Mrs B I Skipp
Mr K G Sykes (1965)
Mr B G Taylorson (1975) &
Mrs D Taylorson
Mr R J Warburton (1955)
& Mrs B R Warburton
Dr J Y Whiston (1993) &
Mrs M Whiston
The College was represented by:
The Master
Dr J C D Hickson
Mr M R Mellor
Dr W R J D Galloway
Mr M G Kuczynski
Sir Roger Tomkys KCMG
DL & Lady Tomkys
Mr H P Raingold
Miss S A March
Ms N Morris
Mr W R Myer (2012)
Miss R R Pourkarimi
(2012)
Miss H Roy (2013)
Invitations for the next meeting of the Master’s Society, to be held on Saturday
24 June 2017, will be sent out in the spring.
THE VALENCE MARY (1997) ENDOWMENT FUND
The Trustees of the Valence Mary (1997) Endowment Fund were informed that the
total value of the Fund, comprising equities, cash and fixed interest investments,
now stood at £2,475,137 and that, since inception, £1.148M had been received in
contributions. It is also worth noting that grants of £873,000 have been made to
the College over the life of the Fund. A copy of the annual accounts is available on
request to Andrew Cates (Treasurer and Bursar of the College).
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COLLEGE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES
BADMINTON
Committee 2015–2016:
Men’s Captain: Rishi Jobanputra
Women’s Captain: Jess Padley
Men’s 2nd team Captain: Ben Laird
Men’s 3rd team Captain: Ben Edwards
Treasurer: Alex Darke
Committee 2016–17:
Men’s Captain: Jonathan Lewis-Brown
Women’s Captain: Carine Valarche
Men’s 2nd team Captain: Ben Smith
Men’s 3rd team Captain: Henry Kerrison
Treasurer: Robert March
What a year it’s been for Pembroke Badminton. This year in particular, we have
seen a huge sign up of new players, and with £600 of equipment being ordered,
Pembroke Badminton remains one of the largest sporting societies in
the College.
Throughout the year, Pembroke has seen great commitment from all four of
its teams. This year the Men’s side saw a slight change in its structure, with each
team being made up of squads of about 10, as opposed to 6 in previous years.
I am delighted to report that the Men’s I remain as strong as ever, and were
promoted to division 1 at the beginning of Lent term. There was a huge level of
commitment from all players both at matches and at the weekly training sessions.
Ben Wright, Jonathan Lewis-Brown and Roy Zhang for made a great addition to
Pembroke Badminton and to the first team in particular.
The Men’s II has seen a great sign up of new players, and we welcomed Mike
Hong, Karan Singha, Callum Ward, Robert March, Mrinank Sharma and Ben
Smith to the squad. Unfortunately, owing to this largely new team, the Men’s II
faced relegation after Michaelmas term. Despite this, their level of commitment
and desire to improve was outstanding, and we have very high hopes for them
next year.
By quite a margin, the Men’s III players have shown the most improvement.
Some of the players were almost complete beginners when they started, but are
now regularly representing Pembroke in the league. The Committee would like to
welcome Duy Le, Elliot Fosong, Jamie Bamber and Tim Lee to the team, and hope
that the rapid rate of improvement demonstrated by the entire team will continue
next year!
The Women’s I have had another really impressive year, boasting a
considerably greater squad size than in recent years. Everyone has worked
incredibly hard, and despite a large amount of chatting on the court, all the girls
have improved massively both in confidence and technique. A massive thank you
to the newbies – Carine, Jess, Sapphire, Jennifer, Lizzie and Gina – for showing
such great enthusiasm and commitment.
In Easter term, Pembroke Badminton was keen to capitalise on the resounding
success of the Women’s I last year (who beat Trinity in the final to claim the title).
Pembroke entered an impressive five teams into Cuppers (and even loaned a few
players to Newnham so they could form a mixed team). The Men’s I were one of
the favourites to win the tournament. However, after two players were unable to
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make the Finals Day, the they were unfortunately knocked out in the semi-finals.
Pembroke Mixed I also reached the semi-finals but were also knocked out. We
hope to reclaim some silverware in the year to come.
Come rain or shine, Michaelmas term or Easter term, Pembroke Social
Badminton has always had an impressive turnout of players with a huge range of
ability. Not only has this facilitated players who wish to play more casually, but
many of our team players also attend in order to improve. A huge amount of fun
for all Valencians!
The alumni match was held in early February. Despite trying our very best, the
match proved that badminton players only get better with age (the final score
being 26–2 to the alumni). A big thank you to the alumni captain, Nicholas
Gaudern, for helping to organise everything. The match was followed by the
highlight event of the Pembroke Badminton calendar, the Annual Badminton
Dinner. Here the victorious alumni were presented with the Tom Karkinsky
Memorial Trophy and the new committee positions were announced.
Pembroke is also very proud to have five players representing the University.
Many congratulations to John Whitbv, Terrence Kwan, Tom Ogier, Roy Zhang
and Emma Cai for this amazing achievement.
Finally, I want to say a huge thank you to Jess Padley, Ben Laird, Ben Edwards
and Alex Darke. Without them, most of the above would not have been
achievable. I wish next year’s committee the best of luck. I am sure they will all do
an incredible job.
Rishi Jobanputra
BOAT CLUB
Captains 2015–2016:
Captain of Boats: Thayne Forbes
Men’s Captain: Stijn de Graaf
Women’s Captain: James Roberts
Captains 2016–17:
Captain of Boats: Thomas Wileman
Men’s Captain: Seoirse Murray
Women’s Captain: Tom Whittaker
Pembroke boats this year heard the ‘one-minute cannon’ forty-nine times, and
bumped the boat in front twenty-three times.
The boat club enjoys strength in depth, with four women’s boats and five
men’s boats taking to the river this Easter Term, with seven of them participating
in the May Bumps. Special thanks for these successes must go to our former
Master and (current) President, Sir Richard Dearlove, for his tireless support and
encouragement, and to boatman Kevin Bowles for his expertise, experience,
talent and patience.
In the Michaelmas term the new committee worked enthusiastically and
tirelessly to engage new recruits to the novice boats and, from the more
promising, straight to the senior crews. Training through the wind, rain and cold,
the senior crews performed impressively at the Fairbairn Cup races, with the first
men placing eighth and the first women fifth.
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We are grateful for the continued sponsorship of King & Spalding that allowed
us to travel to Spain for the third annual Lent Training Camp in sunny Seville. From
4–11 January, forty students (two men’s and two women’s crews) enjoyed the
fantastic high-performance rowing facilities situated on the river Guadelquivir.
Overseen by coaches Kevin Bowles, Andrew Watson, Matthew Castle and Clare
Hall, two to three heavy water-based training sessions per day built on the
fundamental skills novices had gained during the Michaelmas Term. A final
rowing-machine race, with the senior men and novice women competing against
the senior men and novice women saw 3200m completed in record time and
cemented the inter- and intra-crew bonding the training week had nurtured.
Bolstered by the uninterrupted training in Seville and followed by another
term of hard training, the senior crews enjoyed highly successful Lent Bumps
campaigns. The first women earned their ‘blades’, bumping every single race for
four consecutive days to reach seventh on the river. The first men bumped twice
– Queens’ I and Jesus I – to reach third on the river, a result made possible by the
exceptional coaching of Andrew Watson, who leaves the club this year to start as
boatman at Clare.
Pembroke Regatta took place in February, and despite poor weather was run
smoothly, with nearly one hundred boats participating, by Audrey Lejeune. For
the first time in recent history, the first men’s and women’s boats raced and were
joined by four – yes, four – alumni crews organised by Chloe Ramambason. The
boat club Association Dinner took place on the evening of the Regatta, and it was
fantastic to see so many alumni attend. Keep reading if you want to find out how
to come next year!
The first women’s and men’s crews, after Lent term, went on to race in their
respective Head of the River Race’s on the Tideway (London), which are two of
the largest rowing races globally. M1 were the second-fastest Cambridge crew
(1.4 seconds behind LMBC over a 19 minute race), and W1 were also strong
contenders among their ‘Oxbridge’ counterparts.
Easter term saw the return of Pembroke’s trialists to the first boats. Sam
Ringer (who trialled for CUBC), Theo Clark (CULRC) and Charlie Cummins
(CULRC) bolstered an already strong and eager men’s crew as they prepared the
campaign to bump Caius for the headship. Special mention must go to W1 for
winning their division at Bedford Regatta to earn their first pewter pots. During
the May Bumps the first boats retained high positions on the river, both ending
down one position.
Nine Pembroke boats trained for May Bumps, as over one hundred Pembroke
students involved in either rowing, coxing or coaching took to the river. M3
earned their blades, bumping five times (once as ‘sandwich’ boat) into Division
4. W3 also bumped up three times, catching Anglia Ruskin W1. The club was
heartened by the strong support of Pembroke alumni at the tent on the Meadows
– do come along to watch, eat and drink with us next year. For the first time, both
the current and former Masters attended the May boat club dinner.
M1 have entered Marlow and Henley Royal Regatta. More information and
updates on their progress will be posted on the boat club website:
www.pembrokecollegeboatclub.com.
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Please do get in touch with us at sponsorshipalumni@pembrokecollegeboat
club.com.
to be kept up to date with the boat club’s progress and alumni events,
including the Annual Association (alumni) Dinner expected to be held next
February.
Row on PCBC!
Thayne Forbes
CRICKET
Captain & Secretary 2015–16:
Alexander Thomas and Neil Shah
Captain & Secretary 2016–17:
Philip Gull and Daniel Sanderson
PCCC began the 2016 looking to build upon the strong Cuppers run of 2015, since
only a handful of players had graduated and the freshers impressed during the
winter nets.
The season started with a T20 friendly against Jesus, with six players making
their PCCC debut. Despite this, the bowling was tight and Jesus were restricted to
just 126–6 off their 20 overs. Harry Hudson was the pick off the bowl with 2–21
with his wrist spin. In what became a common theme, the batting could not quite
match the standard of bowling. After a promising opening stand between
Thomas Surrall (25) and Alex Thomas (32), the batting collapsed to 83 all out.
The Cuppers campaign began with a match away at Queens’. The toss was won
and Queens’ asked to bat. Pembroke applied good early pressure, which lead to
Peter Fletcher and George Sydenham combining well for a run out and Dan
Sanderson taking his first wicket for the College. Phil Gull was then introduced
and bowled beautifully on his debut to finish with figures of 4–20. Some late
Queens’ hitting took them to 92–8, a modest total. However, only three Pembroke
batsmen made double figures as Queens’ bowled tightly. James Norton-Brown’s
32* was in vain and Pembroke ended on 88–9, an agonising four runs short.
The defeat meant that the subsequent group stage match against St.
Catharine’s was a must-win affair. Bizarrely, other results meant a win for
Pembroke would also take them into the quarter-finals. Pembroke elected to field
first again, but Catz’s Blues opener made 50 as the away side got off to a strong
start. Pembroke’s own Blues, Alex Waghorn and Izhan Khan, replied with some
tight bowling as Catz were reigned back to 126–6. Unfortunately, the batting
came up short again. Khan hit 39 but no other batsmen surpassed single figures
as we were bowled out for just 99.
The disappointment of Cuppers was soon forgotten as Pembroke won a
brilliant match against our groundsman’s XI. Trevor Munns, the eponymous
groundsman, scored 43 as his team reached 180 all out. However, the show was
stolen by fresher James Burdett who took six wickets and made a blinder of a
catch. Not content with this, he scored 51 off 38 balls and together with Gull
(54*) took us to victory.
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The term finished with the annual friendlies against WPP and the Old Boys.
WPP provided a fantastic tea and a good game but lost to a strong Pembroke
team. 198 was chased down with relative ease inside 45 overs. The Old Boys were
also beaten, with Jonny Oldfield and Norton-Brown top-scoring in a chase off
130 in 25 overs. The traditional friendly against the Idlers was lost to the weather.
Four members of PCCC have represented Cambridge University this season.
Waghorn and Khan have become the opening bowling partnership for the men’s
one-day side while Katie Gibson and Maya Hanspal have excelled in the women’s
side. All four are set to start against Oxford in their respective Varsity matches
in July.
Ultimately, the season promised more than it delivered. However, the matches
were enjoyable for all 28 players who represented PCCC this year. We say goodbye
to several senior cricketers this year but in the hands of Captain Phil Gull and
Secretary Dan Sanderson, PCCC has grounds for optimism.
Alexander Thomas
FOOTBALL (MEN’S)
First XI
Captain & Secretary 2015–16:
Tom Ogier and Jonny Oldfield
Captain & Secretary 2016–17:
Jonny Oldfield and James Burdett
It has been a mixed season for PCAFC this year. We have managed to combine
reaching a third straight Cuppers final (which is an achievement in itself ) with
the heartbreak of a third straight loss in the final, relegation from the Premier
Division, solid seasons for the second and third teams, and a brilliant club tour to
Malta at the end of the season. Whilst it is disappointing that we lost the final in
the manner that we did, and that we have been relegated despite having a squad
that should be finishing comfortably in the top half of the table, we should also
reflect on some of the outstanding positives that have resulted in another
thoroughly enjoyable season of football for the whole club.
In the Premier Division, our first match set the tone for many of our league
games this season – we lost by one goal against Fitzwilliam in a match that could
have gone either way. Similar results came against Jesus and St John’s, alongside
solid victories against Selwyn and Trinity Hall. However, in hindsight, the real
turning points of our season came in particularly bad performances against
Churchill, Queens’, and Caius. Churchill and Caius are teams that we simply
should have beaten but we lost and drew these matches respectively. In a league
of ten teams, every result makes a significant difference and these particular
outcomes would come back to haunt us, with results elsewhere going against us.
This was coupled with an awful defensive display against deserved champions
Queens’, meaning that in the last game of the season against Downing we had
to win by seven goals or face relegation. Despite an excellent performance, our
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7–2 victory was not enough and we will return to Division 2 next season – where
we will aim to repeat our stunning ‘Invincibles’ campaign from two seasons ago.
Our route to the Cuppers final this season was fairly straightforward,
especially compared to last season’s rollercoaster journey. We started by
demolishing Division 4 Magdalene, scoring seven goals to showcase our strong
attack that features University forwards Marcus Nielsen and David Ifere. A solid
2–0 victory in the quarterfinals against Girton, followed by a 3–1 win in our best
performance of the season in the semi-final against St Catharine’s, led to our final
showdown against Robinson, who have enjoyed an unprecedented season in
Division 2. We started by far the better team and dominated the game, building a
2–0 lead with around 80 minutes gone, with goals coming from our two
University forwards. However, two late goals from Robinson salvaged the match
for them and took us into extra time. By this stage, we were both physically tired
and psychologically damaged; Robinson were on a high after their late equaliser
and went on to score two more. The final score of 4–2 was not a good reflection
of the quality of the two teams – we were the better team for 80 minutes but then
fell away and conceded poor goals. Another year, another Cuppers final defeat –
there is always next year.
A real highlight of the year was our (now annual) tour. At the end of Lent term
PCAFC combined forces with PCWFC to travel to Malta and take on a selection of
Maltese football teams. Both our men’s first team, which featured several club
alumni and former club captains, as well as our women’s team and our “Harries
Invitational XI’ played two matches each under the sun, against high quality
opposition who all had very similar styles of play, which featured lots of
possession and patient build-up play. This was particularly suited to the artificial
surface on which we played our matches at the home of Santa Lucia FC. All the
teams we played were strong and unfortunately all our matches ended in defeat,
some narrower than others. The opportunity to play against and socialise with
European opposition was fantastic, and between games the club enjoyed
sampling the rich historic sites dotted around Malta, as well as the lively nightlife
on offer in St Julian’s. After four days, we headed back to Cambridge, suitably
tired and with many great memories of what was an excellent end to the season.
Many thanks go to Peter Harries for organising the tour and to Matthew Mellor
and Mark Wormald for assistance with funding.
Despite mixed results this season, it has been overall another thoroughly
enjoyable year with the club. Our success, particularly in Cuppers, is made possible
by Trev’s continued coaching, support and presence, and we’ll always be indebted
for the countless training sessions, team talks, and phone calls discussing lineups. Given how well our freshers, in particular James Burdett and Stanley Allan,
have fitted into our starting team, and the fact that we will be losing very few
starting players to graduation this year – the first team can expect to perform
excellently next season, and will hope to gain straight promotion back into the
Premier Division. In Jonny we have a captain that will lead us excellently, both on
and off the pitch, and I wish him, James and Stanley the best of luck next season.
Tom Ogier
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Second XI
Captain 2015–16:
Kieran Daly
Captain 2016–17:
John MacLeod
At the beginning of the season we found ourselves in a league filled with talented
1st teams, and wondered how we were going to manage to stay in Division 3.
However, Michaelmas term thankfully proved us wrong. After a loss on the first
day of the season to a talented and well organised Christ’s 1st XI, we remained
unbeaten for the rest of term, and found ourselves comfortably progressing
through the rounds of the Shield. By the end of term we lay in third, and had
progressed into the quarterfinals of the Shield – an extremely impressive feat by a
Seconds team in Division 3.
After such a successful term, Lent took a turn for the worse. Losses to the top
two teams in the first two games made us hungry for success in the Cup, where
we faced Division 2 side Queens’ 2nds – the only Seconds team above us in the
College League system. After an incredibly hard-fought match and an extremely
determined effort by every member of the squad, we managed to take the game to
extra-time and penalties, but were unfortunately denied a spot in the semis due to
some fine saves from the Queens’ keeper. A difficult term finished on a high, and
an away win against Downing 2nds left us in a very impressive fifth position,
placing us as the top Seconds team in the league, and the second highest in the
whole league system.
A valiant effort by the whole squad made us very difficult to beat, and our
consistency throughout left us in a place that I thought would be impossible to
achieve at the start of the season. Next year, the aim is to push for promotion and
progress to the final of the Cup!
Kieran Daly
Third XI
Captain 2015–16:
Vikash Patel
Captain 2016–17:
Sajeed Ali
It has been a season of transition for the Thirds, with many old faces leaving. In
our first game, only four of us had played any football for Pembroke at all before.
But, like a phoenix from the ashes of last year’s triumphs, there rose a new beast,
filled with fresh faces, enthusiasm and spirit. Although we have seen our fair
share of stunning results (the game against Robinson IIIs and the alleged
appearance of the infamous Proctor comes to mind), we have definitely grown as
a squad throughout the season.
We had a good run in the Vase this year, making it to the quarterfinals and
facing a hotly contested match against Jesus IIIs, following a strong win against
St John’s IIIs. Although we were unlucky in some of the refereeing decisions, it
was genuinely a joy to watch, as it was the best we had played all season.
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The open nature of Thirds football means we are welcoming to all players,
and this year we have seen a great intake of dedicated players, who come along
every game, and this season I feel that it has truly become a close-knit team,
something that bodes well for the future. This club has given an opportunity for
people to enjoy the beautiful game regardless of their background or ability.
Playing for the Thirds is genuinely fun, and something I hope people look
forward to every weekend.
Vikash Patel
FOOTBALL (WOMEN’S)
Captain 2015–16:
Cassie Cope
Captain 2016–17:
Katie Pringle
Having finished third in the first division last year, we had a lot to prove this
season. Luckily, the year began with more sign-ups than ever before. While it is
possible that some of them were lured by the promise of the first ever tour for the
women’s team, some of them joined for love of the sport and we had a couple of
great players who had actually played football before Cambridge.
Michaelmas was tough. We had some early league losses, and were struggling
to get our very best team out due to injuries and other sporting commitments.
However, we came back very strong in Lent. Our coach, Chris Cope, now in his
third year with PCWAFC, worked with us tirelessly to improve our play, and this
was reflected in our phenomenal winning streak that lasted a whole two matches.
Some of the more disorganised freshers and American exchange students finally
got their act together and started turning up to matches. This newly discovered
luxury of subs helped us continue to rise in the division and we are incredibly
pleased to have finished third once again.
We also played against Queen’s College, Oxford, our sister college, and are
pleased to report that we drew. Next year, we hope to go to Oxford to play them
and secure the win of which we are well capable.
The Pembroke College tour to Malta was an extremely exciting opportunity for
the Women’s squad. We took 15 girls and played very well. Although we did not
win either of our matches, we formed some strong team spirit that we look
forward to building on next year.
Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to some amazing players this year.
Firstly, Cassie Cope, our Captain for the last two years, worked exceptionally
hard to make this club as good as it is now, and we can’t thank her enough. We
will also miss Jess Farmery and her dedication to the team, and Rachel Kay, the
team’s best ever striker. Lastly, our international student superstars Ellie
Parker, Anna Cassell and Liza Goodspeed are leaving us and their talent will
be missed.
Special mentions this year go to Molly Moss, Hannah Short, Amy O’Shea and
Hannah Marcarian. Next year, Katie Pringle will be Captain and PCWAFC is
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confident that under her leadership it will win the league, Cuppers and also the
matches on tour.
Gaia Laidler
HOCKEY (MEN’S)
Captain 2015–16:
Alex Kirkpatrick
Captain 2016–17:
Jonathan Lewis-Brown
PCHC has had one of its most successful seasons to date. After narrowly avoiding
relegation from the premier division last year, we started off with a scrappy 3–1 win
against reigning Cupper champions St Catherine’s and continued our form from
there. We won all eight games in Michaelmas and were crowned college hockey
league champions for the first time in living memory. This result saw us invited to
the Blue’s hockey Varsity Match at Southgate HC, to play in the ‘Supercuppers’
final, where we were pitted against our Oxford counterparts, Worcester College, in
front of hundreds of spectators. We started off like lightning, clearly pumped, with
Thomas Schute deflecting in from Captain Alex Kirkpatrick’s long ball into the D.
Soon after, Jack Tavener sprinted onto a loose ball at the back and coolly slotted
past the onrushing keeper to double the lead. A lengthy period of defence
followed, with James Perry, Peter Fletcher and Bob Cliffe protecting keeper Elliott
Lindsay’s goal with their sticks and bodies, before a moment of ill-discipline left
us with 10 men for five minutes. Worcester were able to capitalise, bringing the
score back to 2–1 to ensure a tense finale. However, the pressure didn’t get to
Pembroke, and in the dying seconds, James Hutt crossed to Jonny Lewis-Brown
who couldn’t miss, to ensure PCHC ran out champions of Oxbridge. Thanks to
Stefan Ulrich for once again giving us his spare time and coaching skills.
Played 15: Won 12; Lost 2; Goals For 50; Goals Against 15.
Alex Kirkpatrick
HOCKEY (WOMEN’S)
Captain 2015–16:
Jessica Padley
Captain 2016–17:
Penny Jones
Social Secretary
Hattie Allison
2015 squad:
Pembroke College
Jessica Padley, Penny Jones, Hattie Allison, Jessica Farmery, Emma Carter, Liz
Adams, Hannah Matheson, Grace Hadley, Hannah Bishopp.
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Peterhouse
Anna Bockmuehl (outgoing Captain), Imi Mulliner, Nicole Zhou, Katherine
Williams, Vinciane Jones, Emily Simmons, Vanessa Upton, Naomi Pygott,
Eleanor Sheekey, Leyla Gumusdis, Gemma Sheehan.
This year, Pembroke women’s hockey club decided officially to combine with the
Peterhouse Women’s team. This was a great decision which boosted our pool of
players, allowed a greater standard of hockey and created many strong
friendships with those across the road. It has been a mixed season for PPWHC,
with many ups and downs. However, over time, our team became stronger,
worked better together and began to play some amazing hockey. We started off at
a loss, having been moved down into the second division and with many of our
players having graduated. However, with boosted numbers from Peterhouse and
a number of keen new freshers our squad was stronger than ever.
In Michaelmas, we had an intimidating start against a 16 player strong team
from Queens’ (needless to say that wasn’t our greatest performance). However,
our numbers and standard of play gradually improved leading to close matches
and a number of draws. We finished strongly, beating Girton/Homerton 4–1 and
Emmanuel 6–0. With a forfeit from Trinity under our belt we ended the first term
in joint second place. Lent was a mixed bag of results, with a number of poor
turnouts due to injury and other commitments. This led to a number of forfeits
on our part but we still had good wins against Emmanuel and Girton/Homerton
and we ended the season in fourth place.
One of the best things about being Captain for this year was that it gave me the
opportunity to watch specific players grow in both confidence and skills. We have
chosen Hannah Bishopp as player of the year, because she showed an incredible
commitment to the sport and didn’t miss a single match or training session.
Furthermore, she improved rapidly and in our final mixed match was winning
tackles against boys that play on the University team.
With few players leaving next year, the future for PPWHC looks bright. I am
also proud to announce that Penny Jones will be next year’s Captain. She is an
exceptionally good player and an all-round great girl who will do an amazing job.
Jessica Padley
RUGBY
Captain 2015–16:
Richard Phillips
Captain & Secretary 2016–17:
Alex Westin-Hardy and Ben Wright
It has been another difficult year for Pembroke rugby, though there is some
promise of a better season next year. People’s willingness to play meant we could
field a team for each match, but perhaps not as strong a one as an uninjured, fully
available squad would have produced. A few close matches were not reflected in
the scorelines, due to the team conceding late tries, and the league finished with
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Pembroke having played 8 and won 3, through other colleges’ inability to field
a team.
The season started in Michaelmas, with Pembroke playing in the third division
of the college leagues. The first match was against Trinity Hall, and a dominant
scrum meant that we were still in the game with 20 minutes to play. A number
of unfortunate injuries, however, changed the balance of the team, and the
opposition ran in a couple of late tries, leading to a 27–15 loss.
The following weeks saw Hughes Hall/St Edmund’s concede, giving us our
first points of the season, then a loss to a strong Christ’s team. The end of
October brought Queens’, and a narrow loss of 24–14, again with a late try to
make the final score not reflect the competitiveness of the game. At the end of
Michaelmas, a relatively inexperienced team lost to Trinity, and matches against
Magdalene and Sidney Sussex were both cancelled. At the end of term, Tim Bond
and Choi Seonghoon represented the LX Club in their Varsity Match, and John
Suzuki, Alex Westin-Hardy and Jon Whitby played for the Colleges XV.
Lent term meant the end of the league (we lost to Churchill) and the start of
Cuppers. Narrowly losing to a strong Jesus 2nd XV placed us in the shield
competition, where we played Queens’ in the semi-final. Again, this was a hard
fought match, each team wanting to make the final, but the result went in
Queens’ favour.
Due to only a small number of players leaving, there is the foundation of a
good squad for next year. With a good intake of freshers, the team can hope to
aim for promotion back to the second division. Next year’s Captain will be Alex
Westin-Hardy; the Secretary will be Ben Wright.
Richard Phillips
PEMBROKE PLAYERS
Committee 2015–16:
President: Robert Eyers
Artistic Director: Ed Limb
Treasurer: Alex Stride
Sales Director: Lizzie Hibbert
Technical Director: Jacob Baldwin
Comedy Director: Tom Fairbairn
Marketing Director: Ellie Gould
Membership Secretary: Claire Burchett
Development Officer: Joseph Spencer
Committee 2016–17:
President: Eleanor Mitchell
Artistic Director: Dan Sanderson
Treasurer:– Amy O’Shea
Sales Director: Carine Valarché
Technical Director: Charlie Jonas
Comedy Director: Elliott Wright
Marketing Director: Isa Bonachera
Membership Secretary: Laura Moulton
Since Michaelmas 2015, the Pembroke Players have unrelentingly asserted their
title as Cambridge’s biggest and best college society for drama and comedy. We
have channeled unprecedented numbers of audience members through the doors
of New Cellars, as well as into the Corpus Playroom, the ADC and venues across
both the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Japan. Never before have we produced so
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many shows: mounting more than 30 productions between Michaelmas 2015 and
Michaelmas 2016, totaling over 200 performances. Never before, either, have we
received such consistently high reviews across our entire output.
Michaelmas Term in particular was a showcase of home-grown talent. In what
has been a grand tradition since Peter Cook’s time, we hosted two different sketch
troupes originating from Pembroke’s student body: ‘Bafflesmash’, performing
the home run of their ‘sharply written and honed’ (The List) Edinburgh show; and
And Then There Were Nuns, an ‘enormously enjoyable romp’ (The Tab) through a
murderous cocktail party. New Cellars’ reputation as Cambridge’s premier venue
for comedy is being rapidly cemented, helped in no small part by our consistently
brilliant bi-termly Smokers. Other highlights included a home run of our
Shakespearean Japan Tour, and a highly successful retelling of the last days of
Cicero, written and directed by two Valencian classicists. Finally, and definitely
worthy of mention, the Pembroke freshers managed – within less than a
fortnight – to direct and perform a cracking production of Party, a never-morerelevant political comedy from Tom Basden (2000).
In Lent Term we hit our peak, hosting nine shows in New Cellars, plus two
unique smokers (Cambridge’s only all-female comedy night, and Cambridge’s
only black-tie comedy night), and a further two sell-out shows in Corpus
Playroom. The latter were exceptionally popular: a brilliant run of classic comedy
Arsenic and Old Lace, and a five-star surrealist spoof of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five
books. These were complimented by two further New Cellars sell-outs: The
History Boys (intriguingly featuring a largely female cast), and the recent RSC
adaptation of Great Expectations. We also invited back two sketch troupes who had
previously worked with us: Revelations and Quinoa, the latter becoming
responsible for the most profitable show in Pembroke Players’ history. At the
more experimental end of the spectrum, we produced Ionesco’s The Lesson, and an
utterly bizarre sequel to the ADC’s student-penned hit Tristram Shandy. It is
testament to the reputation of the Pembroke Players that we could produce such
work in the highly saturated Cambridge theatre scene and still be guaranteed a
substantial audience.
Easter Term is, inevitably, quieter. We have persisted with smokers, providing
a much needed revision break for exam-harried students. Our May Week show
will be a playful musical version of The Wind in the Willows and, building on the
success of last year’s sumptuous sixtieth Anniversary celebration, we will be
holding a deliciously decadent Garden Party. In the meantime, we are looking
forward to a record-breaking slate of shows at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe
Festival, with Pembroke students being supported in a handful of new sketch
shows: Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece Arcadia, the afore-mentioned Tristram
Shandy, a standup show from Yaseen Kader (semi-finalist in the Chortle Student
Comedy Award), and finally the Pembroke Players’ first ever circus production.
In addition to producing such an impressive array of shows, we have rebooted
our long-sleeping Membership Scheme. As an innovative shot in the arm, we
have combined it with a custom-designed online ticketing system, coded by our
Technical Director, Jacob Baldwin. We have a very healthy list of members now,
who are showing great dedication to the Society by taking advantage of a popular
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loyalty discount (weighted according to how many Pembroke shows each
member has seen). The new committee, who have been in place alongside the
outgoing committee for Easter Term, are no doubt going to expand this scheme
across the next year. I wish them luck, as they steer undoubtedly the healthiest
drama society in Cambridge through an era proving to be its Golden Age.
Robert Eyers
MUSIC SOCIETY
The Sir Arthur Bliss Song Series continues to sell out the Old Library twice a term.
Our College Musician, Joseph Middleton, has turned Pembroke into a revolving
door for the music profession’s starriest vocal talents. Matthew Rose was first up,
in October, followed by superstar soprano Kate Royal in November. Her ‘silksmooth voice’ (The Telegraph) was a delight for the capacity audience, treated as
they were to songs by Schumann, Mahler and Barber. On 29 February, John Mark
Ainsley, ‘the prince of English tenors’ (The Telegraph), stood in at the last minute
for an indisposed Angel Blue. The audience had no cause for disappointment,
especially given Mr Ainsley’s exquisitely atmospheric performance of a series
of Fauré songs (the Cinque mélodies de Venise). Benjamin Appl gave a handsome
performance of Die schöne Müllerin on 21 April. Joseph Middleton accompanied
all of these concerts, with his characteristic imagination, control and authority.
Indeed, members of College were able to appreciate his playing when, on
15 December, he gave a solo concert of music by Schubert, Chopin, Ravel and
Britten. This concert was in memory of Dr John Dougherty, Fellow: the fine
pianist and mathematician who played the inaugural concert in the Old Library to
celebrate the purchase of the Steinway.
The Pembroke Lieder Scheme, also run by Joseph Middleton, continued with
its third year’s intake of students from around the University. The four duos,
which received coaching from Joseph and visiting artists throughout the year,
gave an effervescent end-of-year gala concert on Monday 2 May, having had the
benefit of participating in a public masterclass given by Amanda Roocroft on
11 March.
Across Old Court in the Chapel, the Kenderdine Consort was given a new
incarnation in the shape of a small vocal ensemble directed by Dr Sam Barrett,
Pembroke’s Fellow in Music. A late-night time slot seemed a perfect fit for the
highly atmospheric repertoire that was performed in a series of concerts
throughout the year. Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien on 30 April was particularly
haunting and reflective. This followed on the heels of a highly emotive Jephte
(Carissimi) on 20 February, and the ‘Songs of Lamentation’ programme on
21 November where works by Tallis, Byrd, Kirbye and Purcell were performed by
this small, dedicated group of graduate students, University staff and their friends.
Sarah Baldock gave a spectacular Kenderdine Organ Recital on 7 May.
Sarah was Organ Scholar at Pembroke College from 1993–1996 and, following
stints as a cathedral organist, she currently teaches academic music and works as
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College Organist at the Cheltenham Ladies’ College. She is much in demand
internationally as a recitalist, teacher and tutor. We were exceedingly pleased to
welcome her back to her alma mater, and were entertained royally over fifty
minutes of music ranging from Byrd to Bach with Böhm, Stanley and Anton
Heiller in between. Sarah’s knack for registration meant that every stop on the
Pembroke organ had its moment in sun, and this felt completely natural, never
contrived. Perhaps this was owing to the fact that her attention to detail even led
her to do some emergency tuning of one or two pipes that were (like the back
desk of the violas) not quite prepared for such exposure! In any case, sparkling
articulation and thoroughly persuasive musicality combined to make a very
special and memorable organ recital.
Jago Thornton, Chair of PCMS, led the College Music Society in an innovative
programme of concerts including a series of the complete Bach Cello Suites,
spread over several weeks in the Lent Term. The contributions of Rachel Kay
(continuing her studies next year at the Royal Academy of Music in London) and
Wallis Power (second-year Music undergraduate) must be highlighted for their
professionalism and dedication.
Occasional recitals, for instance of new choral music by a choir assembled
from around the University, testified to Jago’s interest in alternative formats and
genres, while the Sunday-night recital slot continued to be used as an outlet for
students’ music making. There was Neil Grant’s folk recital in Chapel, which was
entirely absorbing, and Thayne Forbes’s uniquely delightful set on the bagpipes.
Meanwhile, ‘AcaPembroke’ and the ‘Lovely Choir’ continued to delight and
divert the student body with their enthusiastic and charming a capella
performances of popular songs and ballads, often in arrangements by Richard
Parkinson in the final year of his Kenderdine Organ Scholarship. Richard’s
contribution to the College’s life as expressed in its music over the past three years
has been quite extraordinary in its breadth and effects. He has singlehandedly
galvanised a whole segment of the student body who look to informal musical
groups, and singing especially, for self-expression and for fun. The warmth and
good feeling evident at AcaPembroke’s set in the Chapel at the June Event – at an
hour when tired spirits needed a boost – were testament to the special place
Richard and his merry troupe hold in Pembroke hearts.
The Chapel Choir conducted its usual busy schedule of events. In Michaelmas,
some sombre liturgical events, such as the First World War commemoration in
words and music, or the Remembrance Day service with Fauré’s Requiem, were
treated with touching sincerity. This gave way to a more jubilant mood at the
Advent Carol Service on 30 November, which was performed with marked
panache: many excellent individual solos and the whole choir performing some
of the items from memory. A jolly visit to St Christopher’s House, Walworth,
rounded out an excellent term. Three days’ residency at Lincoln Cathedral were
enough to show off the excellent organisational and leadership talents of the
Organ Scholars, and in this connection the contribution of Anthony Gray
(Pembroke Organ Scholar 2015–16) must be acknowledged gratefully.
On 8 May the Chapel resounded to the sound of a full brass ensemble and a
choir of fifty or so singers (members from the past decade of the choir’s
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existence) who combined to give Vaughan Williams’s ceremonial Old Hundredth
and Parry’s I was glad highly spirited performances, alongside a Te Deum
composed by Gregory Drott. Throughout the year, other collaborations were
worthwhile exercises in musical community, whether this was the joint Evensong
for Christian Unity with the Choir of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, or the
joint Evensong with the boys’ choir from the Church of St Giles, Oxford, or the
several joint Evensongs with Robinson College Choir.
The May Week Concert on Friday 10 June was a festive occasion when Jenny
Whitby gave us the full benefit of her expert flute playing: Mouquet’s La flûte de Pan
was the perfect complement to the sparkle of champagne and the sweetness of
strawberries in the interval, just as the cream for those strawberries was recalled
by the smooth tones of Rachel Kay’s cello. The Chapel Choir provided the first
half of the concert under the direction of Richard Parkinson.
The Chapel Choir finished its year together with the May Week Evensong and
a confident and stylish performance at St Paul’s Cathedral on Tuesday 14 June.
Staples of the Anglican repertoire such as Kenneth Leighton’s Responses and
Stanford in C were offset by a new setting of the hymn for Compline composed
for the occasion: Te Lucis ante terminum (Drott).
New compositions were also the order of the day at the Evensong for the
Commemoration of Thomas Gray, which was held at St Michael’s, Cornhill, in
the City of London on Monday 4 July. This service was sung jointly with the
professional choir of St Michael’s and involved the first performance of Phillip
Moore’s specially commissioned anthem, Here Rests his Head, a setting of a text by
Thomas Gray who had been baptised in St Michael’s, Cornhill, before becoming
a Pembroke member. The Choir’s annual tour to Croatia 9–16 July will involve
stops at Split (as special guests of the Archbishop), Hvar and Dubrovnik. At this
last juncture a joint concert with the Dubrovnik Chamber Choir, in the presence
of the Mayor of Dubrovnik, will finish off the week of cultural exchange and
exploration fittingly.
Gregory Drott
Director of Music
STOKES SOCIETY
Committee 2015–16:
President: Alexander Westin-Hardy
Secretary: Chloe Tubman
Treasurer: Alexander Thomas
Events Officer: Joseph Curran
Speakers Officer: Neil Grant
Publicity Officer: Jacob Ashton
Membership Officer: Diana Alexander
IT Officer: Jamie Fox
Graduate Representative: Kathy Darragh
Committee 2016–17:
President: Oliver Hulme
Secretary: Benedict McConnell
Treasurer: Javan Heales
Events Officer: Callum Ward
Speakers Officer: Sophie Young
Publicity Officer: Štefan Stanko
Membership Officer: Christian Scheulen
IT Officer: Andrew Deniszczyc
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This year’s committee were set a difficult act to follow, their predecessors having
produced a series of excellent social events and speaker evenings. However, they
rose to the challenge and made 2015–16 another great year for the Stokes Society.
The first event of the year, the annual Garden Party, was a resounding success,
with Pimm’s, cocktails and strawberries drawing in a large crowd. The traditional
giant Jenga and spaghetti-tower building competitions were accompanied by a
face painter, which proved to be very popular.
The Long Vacation was successfully spent contacting speakers from
universities up and down the country, and by the start of Michaelmas Term an
interesting and varied term card had been created. Contacting companies in the
Cambridge area also proved fruitful, allowing the society to secure sponsorship
from an online tutoring service. Promotion at the CUSU and Pembroke Freshers’
Fairs saw the number of mailing list subscribers climb to over 1300, showing
how popular the Stokes Society is both in Pembroke and across the University.
The annual book sale was again held at the start of Michaelmas Term, providing
an opportunity for Natural Sciences students to buy second-hand textbooks
at discounted prices and for new students to discuss their options for the
year ahead.
Following the trend of previous years, our first talk of the year, by Professor
Alfons Weber on neutrino oscillations, proved hugely popular, with the Nihon
Room filled to capacity and a few people unfortunately having to be turned away.
The popularity of the first talk set the theme for the rest of term, with the Nihon
Room being regularly filled. Dr Kate Plaisted-Grant talked about her research into
autism, and the underlying psychological and neural mechanisms affecting social
interaction, perception and technical problem solving. The biological theme
continued with talks from Professor John Pickett and Dr Matt Higgins, who
discussed the prospects of semiochemical-based pest management and the
problems of parasite surface protein evolution respectively. Talks by Dr GemmaLouise Davies on the use of nanoparticles in medicine and Professor Dame Julia
Higgins on evidence in experimental science followed, and the term was rounded
off by presentations by Professor Samson Abramsky and Professor Chris Ford on
quantum computation. A very successful Christmas Dinner and Cocktails
Evening held in the Old Library allowed members to relax and celebrate a term of
hard work before heading home for the break.
The start of Lent Term represented the highlight of the Stokes calendar, with a
talk from Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon on his pioneering research
into nuclear transplantation and the practical applications of cell replacement in
restoring vision. The event was wisely moved to the Plant Sciences lecture theatre
as over 100 guests packed in to listen to Professor Gurdon, who was awarded the
2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells
can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent. The following week proved equally
popular, as eminent popular science author Dr Nick Lane delivered a talk on
energy and matter at the origin of life in the transition from geochemistry to
biochemistry. The end of the event saw Dr Lane signing multiple copies of his
book Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life, a staple of the
undergraduate biochemist and a text found on many a UCAS personal statement.
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After two weeks away from the Nihon Room, we returned to Pembroke.
Professor Johnjoe McFadden delivered a thought-provoking talk on the secrets of
life and its reliance on the quantum world, using examples from photosynthesis,
enzyme action, bird navigation, olfaction and genetics to shift the focus from cells
and biomolecules to the fundamental particles driving the dynamics of life. We then
heard from Dr Suzanna Forwood about the psychology of food choice before
Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft, author of Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival
and The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body, discussed the role of ion channel
function in diabetes. Lent Term was wrapped up by talks from Professor Joanna
Haigh on the causes of climate change, Pembroke’s own Professor Randall
Johnson on responses to hypoxia, and Professor Thomas Mullin on chaos and
Stokes flows. Lent Term also saw a number of social events, including formal swaps
with the Christ’s College Darwin Society and the Clare College Whiston Society.
Easter Term saw the election of next year’s committee, the annual general
meeting, and a talk by Dr Ruth Bancewicz on the compatibility of science and
religion. Our final event was the Annual Dinner held in the Old Library, where we
celebrated another successful year of the Stokes Society. We wish the new
committee the best of luck for next year at the helm of what continues to be one
of Pembroke’s largest and most popular societies.
Alexander Westin-Hardy
PEMBROKE PAPERS
Pembroke Papers was previously known as the Ivory Tower Society, an
interdisciplinary forum for talks organised by graduate students and supported
by alumnus Norman Bachop (1965). I changed the name of the Society because I
felt that Pembroke, and Cambridge, did not deserve to use the phrase ‘ivory
tower’ ironically. Pembroke Papers was launched in Lent Term of this year, with
the aim of encouraging graduates to share their research, along with regularly
inviting academics and other speakers to Pembroke. I enormously appreciate my
great committee this year: Tessa Peres (Publicity), Craig Burns and Patrick
Williamson (Treasurers), and Megan Sharp (Secretary).
The first talk of Lent was given by Craig Burns, now incoming GPC President,
who spoke about his work on neuroscience relating to addiction, and experiments
with memory; we had a great audience, and the new society was launched. Our
second talk was given by Faith Williams, an MPhil student in Biological
Anthropology, on ‘The Geography of Power’ and the differing burden of disease in
tropical and temperate climates. Following Faith, our next speaker was Dr Anne
Alexander, co-ordinator of the Digital Humanities Network at Cambridge, who
talked about media and revolution in the Middle East.
Our next talk was given by PhD student, Myfanwy Hill, on her work as a vet.
Myfanwy spoke about the diverse roles played by veterinary surgeons in
contemporary society. The author Wendy Jones visited us at Pembroke the
following week, to talk about her forthcoming book, Women Talk Sex: Intimate
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Interviews and Unexpected Answers. Wendy read from a chapter of her book, which
provoked lots of interesting discussion about gender and sexuality. Our final talk
of Lent was given by the Master, Lord Chris Smith, on public policy in the Arts. N7
was entirely full and the talk was an engaging insight into cultural policy under
Blair’s government.
Easter Term began with a talk by MPhil student, Paul Marett, on science fiction
and ‘futurology’, which resulted in debates about the philosophy of futurology,
and gender and science fiction. PhD student Emma Brownlee gave the next
Pembroke Papers talk, on perceptions of disability in Early Medieval England;
Brownlee talked about examining graves and signifiers of disability. The following
week, Jonathan Nathan gave a talk about perceptions of atheism in the past, which
provoked an interesting discussion about academic methodology. We then invited
Lukas Engelmann from CRASSH, who talked about AIDS activism and video
activism, interrogating medical and technological phenomena. Peter Shyba
presented our next talk, on the Black Panthers and the FBI’s cartoonists. Cartoons
were surreptitiously produced by the FBI to discredit the Black Panthers in African
American communities, which Peter examined and analysed. The last talk of the
term was given by Mark Nelson, previous President of the society and an alumnus
of Pembroke College. Mark talked about the German energy transition and its
successes and failures, presenting Pembroke Papers with new data and discussing
European energy strategies.
Pembroke Papers has had a great year, welcoming a range of graduate
students, academics and other speakers. Furthermore, discussions and questions
following the talks have always been stimulating from an interdisciplinary
perspective. We have had lots of interest from graduates who would like to speak
next term, and we look forward to more exciting talks and debates. Next year, we
would like to further integrate Fellows and undergraduate students into the
society, to broaden our discussions.
Sofia Ropek Hewson
JUNIOR PARLOUR
President: Clo Ryan
Vice-President: Zach Berenson Barros
Treasurer: Stefan Ulrich
Entertainments: Jack Heywood
Welfare Officer: Amy Karet
Women’s Officer: Katy Duff
Hostels Officer: Holly Chetwood
Publications Officer: Lia Johansen
Access Officer: Charlotte Ellis
Access Officer: Kieran Daly
Food and Bar Officer: Oliver Hulme
Green Officer: Katie Pringle
Charities Officer: Louis Slater
Sports Officer: Leila Cazaly
The JPC has had another busy and productive year. We continue to work closely
with the College through Consultative Committee meetings, bridging the gap
between students and College, and monitoring the progress of our projects,
alongside the Senior Tutor, Bursar, and Dean, among other staff members.
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Elections in Lent Term welcomed many new committee members. Voting
turnout was high and attendance at hustings was impressive. The JPC has also
been expanding its social media presence in order to encourage and maintain
student engagement.
Since the elections, the welfare team has done some fantastic work on College
welfare, including the introduction of yoga, Zumba, and touch rugby, as well as
running frequent ‘alternative study sessions’ in the Old Library where students
provide relaxed live music to accompany studying; for many students this is a
great alternative to studying in the Library. Recently we also had a puppy petting
session in the New Common Room, which students really enjoyed, and this
raised money for the training of guide dogs for the visually impaired.
The access team have been working hard on finalising the ‘alternative
prospectus’ which aims to provide current students’ perspective on college life,
for prospective students. We hope that this will be completed in time for the
summer open days. Easter term also saw the introduction of the first ‘access
forums’ in Pembroke, in which access officers discuss widening participation
issues with students, such as university access for ethnic minorities, and the
impact of recent changes to the structure of A-level qualifications.
Since the last Gazette report, the JP has been re-painted following feedback
from students. Stefan, our treasurer compiled a list of college bar price
comparisons which resulted in the lowering of bar prices in April this year, after
consultation with the food and bar committee. The JPC aims to improve on the
use of the JP by making it a focal point of Freshers’ Week activities. A great new
bike shelter and smoking area has also been built between the library and Red
Buildings lawn.
Zach, Vice-President, and I have attended fortnightly meetings at the
Cambridge University Students Union (CUSU); recent discussions of note have
included a university-wide referendum on disaffiliation with the National Union
of Students, which resulted in a win for remaining affiliated, as well as discussing
and passing the proposed CUSU budged for 2016–17. JPC officers have also
attended consent workshop training, women’s officer training, and meetings
with the university counselling service.
The JPC continues to run hugely popular twice monthly BOPs, as well as live
music nights, and our internationals officer Hannah runs regular screenings of
foreign films in the NCR.
Now that exams are over, the JPC is focussing on planning the May Week
garden party, as well as Freshers’ Week, which we hope will provide the most
enjoyable introduction to Pembroke life yet.
Clo Ryan
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GRADUATE PARLOUR
President:Alice Ievins
Vice-President: Tam Blaxter
Secretary: Jennifer Chalmers
Treasurer: Craig Burns
Welfare Officer: Stephanie Azzarello
Events Officer A: Paul Marett
Events Officer B: Léonie de Jonge
Housing Officer: Maya Petek
Women’s Officer:
Cinthia Willaman-Baltaxe
LGBT Officer: Steve Gage
International Officer: Florent Dyé
Externals Officer: Haydn King
GP Steward: Deborah Kant
IT Officer: Annie Thwaite
Charities Officer: Kamila Kociałkowska
Environmental Awareness Officer:
Jonathan Woolley
4th Year Representative:
Katharine Griffiths
2015–16 has been another busy and fulfilling year for Pembroke’s graduate
students: not only have they reached their largest numbers, but the Committee
has also increased in size to match both the size of the graduate population
and College’s increasing recognition of the important role that graduates play
in Pembroke.
The newly refurbished Graduate Parlour remains central to the social lives of
graduate students, and has been the location of many different events this year,
ranging from weekly Tea and Cakes, at which a competitive Bake Off has been
held throughout the year, to open mic nights, cheese and chocolate tasting, pot
luck dinners and many different cocktail and drinks events. In addition, we have
organised a number of large scale events, most notably a college-wide ceilidh, a
Polish-Lithuanian BA dinner with vodka tasting and traditional Polish dancing,
and the annual garden party. Venturing further afield, students have been on
nineteen swaps with graduates to other colleges, welcoming them all back to BA
dinner in Pembroke as well. Our Events Officers have done an astounding job,
and our events are always well attended, bringing all kinds of different people
into the Graduate Parlour.
In addition to providing a welcoming and inclusive community for graduate
students, the Graduate Parlour has sought to look outwards throughout the year,
in particular through its ongoing and outstanding charitable efforts. Supporting
the college-wide effort to explore and respond to the refugee crisis, the Graduate
Parlour has collected donations for the British Red Cross Syria Crisis Appeal at
open mic nights and BA dinners, raising around £1000 in total. Most strikingly,
twenty-four students cycled the 85 miles from Oxford to Cambridge, raising
more than £7500 for a studentship for a refugee, administrated by the Cambridge
Trusts. We also followed the good work started by last year’s Charity Officer,
holding another black tie charity auction, which this year raised £2815 for
Jimmy’s Night Shelter, a Cambridge-based homeless charity. Finally, fifteen
graduates took part in the Wings For Life World Run, and were chased by a car to
raise money for research for spinal cord injury.
At the same time, we have sought to augment our links with the Cambridge
University Students’ Union and the Graduate Union, recognising that a great
many decisions relevant to graduate students are made at the university level, and
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that therefore students require intercollegiate representation. In addition to
attending CUSU and GU meetings regularly, the GP President was one of six
JCR and MCR Presidents to be represented on a panel giving views on the search
for a new Vice Chancellor; we have also held focus groups on students’ response
to the Government’s green paper on higher education. We have sought to build
stronger links with the JPC, holding joint events such as women’s only open
mic nights and the ceilidh, and opening our doors ever more widely to fourth-year
undergraduates. We have also hosted several discussion groups throughout
the year, with a particular focus on issues of sexuality, sexual identity and
mental health.
Finally, members of the Graduate Parlour have also spent a lot of the year
looking forward into our individual and collective futures. Together with
members of the Fellowship, we have run careers events for Arts and Humanities
students, advising students interested in academic careers on opportunities
within and beyond Cambridge. A subcommittee of the GPC has been established
to ensure that the voices of graduate students are heard in the development of the
new Mill Lane site. This subcommittee includes members of the committee and
other graduates, and hopes to visit sites of best practice, promote accessibility
and inclusivity, and ensure that the social implications of architectural decisions
are taken seriously. We hope to write a report for the College on our findings. We
are very aware that a community is about more than just a building, and we hope
that we have demonstrated this throughout the year.
Alice Ievins
C. THE COLLEGE RECORD
Pembroke Hockey First XI, 1919
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THE MASTER AND FELLOWS 2015–2016
THE MASTER
The Rt Hon Christopher Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, PC, MA (1977), PhD (1979)
FELLOWS
1956
Malcolm Cameron Lyons, LittD (1997)
1958
Albert Victor Grimstone, PhD (1958), MA (1959)
1961
Leslie Peter Johnson, BA Newcastle, DPhil Kiel, MA (1959)
1964
James Christopher Durham Hickson, MA (1964), PhD (1966)
1979
Nicholas Barry Davies, MA (1977), DPhil Oxon, FRS, Professor of
Behavioural Ecology
1982
(1977) Jan Marian Maciejowski, MA (1976), PhD (1978), Professor of Control
Engineering President of Pembroke College
Norman Andrew Fleck, MA (1983), PhD (1984), FREng, FRS, Professor of the
Mechanics of Materials, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics
1984
Michael Christopher Payne, MA (1985), PhD (1985), FRS, Professor of
Computational Physics
1985
Charles Peter Melville, MA (1976), PhD (1978), Professor of Persian History
Trevor Robert Seaward Allan, BCL Oxon, MA (1983), Professor of
Jurisprudence and Public Law
1992
Jonathan Philip Parry, MA (1982), PhD (1985), Professor of Modern British History
Mark Roderick Wormald, MA, DPhil Oxon, PhD (2008), College Lecturer
in English
1993
Donald Robertson, MA (1987), MSc, PhD LSE, University Senior Lecturer
in Economics
1994
Loraine Ruth Renate Gelsthorpe, BA Sussex, MPhil (1979), PhD (1985),
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Torsten Meißner, MA Bonn, DPhil Oxon, PhD (1997), University Senior
Lecturer in Classics
1995
Robin James Milroy Franklin, PhD (1992), Professor of Stem Cell Medicine
Christopher John Young, MA (1994), PhD (1995), Professor of Modern and
Medieval German Studies
Silvana Silva Santos Cardoso, BA, MEng Porto, PhD (1994), Reader in Fluid
Mechanics and the Environment
1996
Sylvia Huot, MA (2004) BA California, PhD Princeton, FBA, Professor of
Medieval French Literature
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1997
Nicholas John McBride, BA, BCL Oxon, College Lecturer and James Campbell
Fellow in Law
(2000) Nigel Robert Cooper, MA (1995), DPhil Oxon, Professor of
Theoretical Physics
1998
Kenneth George Campbell Smith, BMedSc, MB, BS, PhD Melbourne, MA
(2000), FMedSci, Professor of Medicine and Head of Department of Medicine,
Honorary Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Lauren Tamar Kassell, BA Haverford, MSc, DPhil Oxon, Reader in History of
Science and Medicine
1999
Vikram Sudhir Deshpande, BTech Bombay, MPhil (1996), PhD (1998),
Professor of Materials Engineering
2001
Demosthenes Nicholas Tambakis, MA (1993), PhD Princeton, College Lecturer
and Pyewacket Fellow in Economics
Nilanjana Datta, MA (2008), BSc, MSc Jadavpur, PhD ETH Zurich, College
Lecturer and Overstall Fellow in Mathematics
John Stephen Bell, BPhil Gregorian University Rome, MA (1978), DPhil Oxon,
FBA, Professor of Comparative Law
Timothy John Bussey, BSc Victoria BC, BSc Vancouver BC, PhD (1995),
Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience
Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Laurea, Politechnico di Milano, PhD (2001), ScD (2013)
Professor of Nanotechnology
2002
Rosalind Polly Blakesley, MA (1996), DPhil Oxon, Reader in Russian and
European Art
2003
Alexander William Tucker, MA (1989), VetMB (1992), PhD (1997), University
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Public Health
2005
Simon Learmount, BA, MA University of East Anglia, MBA (1996), PhD (2000),
University Lecturer in Corporate Governance
Samuel James Barrett, BA Oxon, MPhil (1996), PhD (2000), Reader in Early
Medieval Music
2006
Alexei Shadrin, MSc, PhD Moscow, University Lecturer in Numerical Analysis
James Theodore Douglas Gardom, BA Oxon, PhD King’s College London, Dean
and Chaplain
Katrin Christina Ettenhuber, BA (2000), MPhil (2001), PhD (2005), College
Lecturer in English
2007
Matthew Robert Mellor, BA Oxon, MA (2010), Development Director
Stephen O’Rahilly, KCMG, MD, MB, BCh, BAO Ireland, FMedSci, FRS,
Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine
Gábor Csányi, MA (1994), PhD MIT, Reader in Engineering
Menna Ruth Clatworthy, BSc, MBBCh Wales, PhD (2006), University Lecturer
in Transplantation Medicine
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Ashok Ramakrishnan Venkitaraman, MA (1993), PhD London, MB, BS Vellore,
India, FMedSci, The Ursula Zoellner Professor of Cancer Research, Director of
the Medical Research Council Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge
2008
David John Huggins, MChem, DPhil Oxon, MRC New Investigator and
Supernumerary Fellow
2009
Colin Martyn Lizieri, BA Oxon, PhD LSE, Grosvenor Professor of Real
Estate Finance
Alexander Houen, BA, MPhil Sydney, PhD (1999), University Senior Lecturer
in English
Renaud Gagné, BA, MA, Montreal, PhD (2007), Harvard, Reader in Ancient
Greek Literature and Religion
Mina Gorji, BA (1996), MPhil, PhD Oxon, University Lecturer in English
Caroline Burt, BA (1999), MPhil (2000), PhD (2004), College Lecturer in
History, Admissions Tutor
Sarah Maria Heiltjen Nouwen, LLB, LLM Utrecht, MPhil (2005), PhD (2010),
University Lecturer in Law
2011
Krzysztof Kazimierz Koziol, MSc Silesian University of Technology, PhD
(2005), Royal Society Research Fellow
Randall Scott Johnson, BA/BS Washington, PhD Harvard, Professor of
Molecular Physiology and Pathology
Christoph Loch, Diploma-Wirtschafts-Ingenieur Darmstadt, MBA Tennessee,
PhD Stanford, Director and Professor of Management Studies at the
Cambridge Judge Business School
Clare Philomena Grey, BA, DPhil Oxon, FRS, Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson
Professor of Chemistry
Maria Abreu, BSc LSE, MPhil Amsterdam, PhD Amsterdam, University Lecturer
in Land Economy
2012
Chloe Nahum-Claudel, BA (2005), PhD (2012), Trebilcock-Newton Trust
Research Fellow
Stephen David John, BA (2000), MPhil (2002), PhD (2007), University Lecturer
in Philosophy of Public Health
Warren Robert Joseph Daniel Galloway, BA (2004), MA (2007), PhD (2008),
Post-doctoral Research Associate in Organic Chemistry
Ernst Henning Edmund Grunwald, BA (1997), PhD (2003), University Lector in
Modern German History
2013
Andrew Thomas Cates, BA (1986), PhD (1989), Treasurer and Bursar
Paul Ross Cavill, MA, MSt, DPhil Oxon, University Lecturer in Early Modern
British History
John Hay Durrell, MSci (Imperial), PhD (2001), University Lecturer in the
Department of Engineering
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Maximilian Jan Sternberg, BA (King’s College London), MPhil (2002), PhD
(2007) University Lecturer in Department of Architecture
Hildegard Gemma Maria Diemberger, PhD (Vienna), College Lecturer in
Human, Social and Political Sciences
Sanne Cottaar, BSc, MSc (Utrecht), PhD (California), Drapers’ Company
Research Fellow
Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, BA (Milan), PhD (2013), Keith Sykes Research
Fellow in Italian Studies
Timothy Thomas Weil, BSc (St Louis), PhD (Princeton), University Lecturer
in Zoology
2014
David Anthony Jarvis, BA (1986), MA, PhD (Lancaster), Director of
International Programmes
Thomas Gospatric Micklem, BSc (Imperial), PhD (1989), Director of the
Cambridge Computational Biology Institute
Iza Riana Binte Mohamed Hussin, BA, MA (Harvard), PhD (Washington),
University Lecturer in Asian Politics and Mohamed Noah Fellow in Politics
Waseem Yaqoob, BA (2006), PhD (2013), Randall Dillard Research Fellow
Paul Simon Warde, BA (1995), PhD (2000), University Lecturer in
Environmental History
2015
Mark Charles Wyatt, BA (1994), PhD (Florida), Reader in Astrophysics
Anil Venkata Sesha Madhavapeddy, BEng (Imperial), PhD (2007), University
Lecturer in Computer Science
Guillaume Jean Emmanuel Hennequin, BSc (SUPELEC) MSc (Edinburgh), PhD
(EPFL, Lausanne), Post-doctoral Fellowship
Hannah Sue Mumby, BA (2007), MPhil (2009), PhD (Sheffield), Drapers’
Company Research Fellow
Emily Jones, BA (Manchester), DPhil Oxon, Mark Kaplanoff Research Fellow
in History
Giovanni Rosso, MA (University of Paris-Sud), PhD (KU Leuven and
Université Paris), Herchel Smith Fellow in Pure Mathematics in the
Department of Mathematics
EMERITUS FELLOWS
Anthony William Nutbourne, MA (1954)
Richard Hawley Grey Parry, ScD (1983)
Colin Gilbraith, MA (1975), MVO
Amyand David Buckingham, CBE, ScD (1985), FRS
Colin George Wilcockson, MA (1958)
Antony Gerald Hopkins, FBA
Ian Fleming, ScD (1982), FRS
John Ryder Waldram, MA (1963), PhD (1964)
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Sir Roger Tomkys, KCMG, MA (1973)
William Bernard Raymond Lickorish, ScD (1991)
Robert Joseph Mears
Leo Brough Jeffcott, MA (1994)
Sathiamalar Thirunavukkarasu, MA (1971)
Nicholas Stanislaus Baskey, MA (1998)
Brian Watchorn, MA (1965)
Howard Peter Raingold, MA (1982)
Richard James Jackson, MA (1968), PhD (1968), FRS
Michael David Reeve, MA (1966), FBA
Michael George Kuczynski, MA (1972)
Susan Helen Stobbs, MA (1970)
Rex Edward Britter, MA (1979)
Geoffrey Richard Edwards, MA (2008)
Barbara Ann Bodenhorn, MPhil (1979), PhD (1990)
Christopher John Blencowe, MA (2006)
Alan Michael Dawson,MA (1978), PhD (1994)
Alan Garth Tunnacliffe, MA (1994), PhD London
Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, MA (2003), KCMG, OBE
HONORARY FELLOWS
1983
1988
1992
1993
1998
1999
2000
2002
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2010
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, MA (1956), PhD (1955), Hon ScD, FRS
Sir John Frank Charles Kingman, ScD (1969), FRS
The Rt Hon James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior of Brampton, PC, MA (1970)
Sir Constant Hendrick (Henry) de Waal, KCB, MA (1955), LLB (1952)
Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson, MA (1985), FRS
James Gee Pascoe Crowden, CVO, MA (1955)
The Rt Hon Sir John Anthony Chilcot, GCB, PC, MA (1973)
The Rt Hon Sir Konrad Hermann Theodor Schiemann, PC, MA (1965), LLB (1962)
The Rt Hon Sir Alan Hylton Ward, Lord Justice Ward, PC, MA (1968), LLB (1963)
Emma Louise Johnson, MBE, MA (1992)
Sir John Edward Sulston, PhD (1982), Hon ScD, FRS
William Hall Janeway, PhD (1971)
Sir Michael Bett, CBE, MA (1977)
Roger Walton Ferguson Jr, MA (1976), PhD Harvard
Sir Christopher Owen Hum, KCMG, MA (1971)
His Excellency George Maxwell Richards, TC, PhD (1963)
Sir Marcus Henry (Mark )Richmond, ScD (1971), FRS
Amyand David Buckingham, CBE, ScD (1985), FRS
Stephen John Nickell, CBE, BA (1965), FBA
Martin Biddle, OBE, MA (1965), FBA
Peter Stuart Ringrose, MA (1971), PhD (1971)
Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew of Donegore, MA (1971), PhD (1974)
Stephen Jay Greenblatt, MA (1968)
David Anthony Brading, BA (1960), LittD (1991), FBA
Jeremy Bloxham, BA (1982), PhD (1986), FRS
The Rt Hon Sir Patrick Elias, Lord Justice Elias, PC, PhD (1974)
Clive Vivian Leopold James, BA (1964) MA
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2014
2015
William Frank Vinen, BA (1952), PhD (1956), FRS
Victoria Jane Bowman, BA (1987), MA
WILLIAM PITT FELLOWS
1996
1997
2001
2008
2009
2010
2012
2013
2015
Sir Mark Henry Richmond, ScD (1971), FRS
Richard Chiu, BA (1971)
Peter Stuart Ringrose, PhD (1971)
Jeremy Henry Moore Newsum, BA, Reading
Ismail Kola, PhD, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Richard John Parmee, BA (1973)
Sir Michael Derek Vaughn Rake, FCA
Kai Dai, MD, BSc, Shenyang University, EMBA (2012)
Robert Carlton Booker, BSc, University of East Anglia; MFin,
London Business School
Peter Douglas Hancock, BA, Oxford
Barry John Varcoe, BA, University of the South Bank, PhD Glasgow Caledonian
Wang Shi, BA, University of Lanzhou
Karel Janeček, Master’s, Charles University, Prague, Master’s, Pittsburgh, MBA,
Bradley University, Illinois
BYE-FELLOWS
2001
2008
2009
2013
2015
Jayne Sinclair Ringrose, MA (1970)
Daniela Passolt, BA Hamburg, MSc SOAS, PhD LSE
Rebecca Lucy Coombs, BA Bristol, PhD Paris
Andrew Enticknap, MBA UEA
Richard Ned Lebow, MA Yale, PhD New York
Ünver Rüstem, BA (London), MA (SOAS), PhD (Harvard)
Patricia Anne Aske, MA, UCL
FELLOW-COMMONERS
2004
2005
2006
2007
2009
2013
2015
George Simon Cecil Gibson
John Andrew Hulme Chadwick, MA (1968)
Keith Gordon Sykes, MA (1973)
Randall Wayne Dillard, LLM (1983)
Norman Mcleod Bachop, BA (1968)
Anthony Harwick Wilkinson
Christopher Bertlin Turner Adams, MA (1957)
John Charles Grayson Stancliffe, MA (1952)
John Kevin Overstall, BA (1962)
Paul David Skinner, BA (1963)
Bita Daryabari, BSc (California State), MSc (Golden Gate University)
Graham David Blyth, (1972)
Mubarak Al Mubarak Al Sabah, BA (Buckingham) MPhil (2000)
Farida Abdullah, BA (Adelaide), PhD (King’s College, London)
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Master: Lord Chris Smith
COLLEGE OFFICERS 2016–2017
President: J Maciejowski
Senior Tutor: A W Tucker
Dean and Chaplain: J Gardom
Treasurer and Bursar: A Cates
Acting Praelector: B Watchorn
Librarian: N McBride
Tutorial Bursar: L Kassell, M Sternberg
College Proctor: D Tambakis
Steward: M Mellor
College Curator: S Learmount, C Melville
Tutor for Graduate Affairs: L Gelsthorpe
Admissions Tutor: C Burt
Tutor for Graduate Admissions: N McBride, T Weil
Development Director: M Mellor
Assistant tutors: M Abreu, S Barrett, A Cates, H Diemberger, K Ettenhuber, J Gardom,
M Gorji, H Grunwald, S John, N McBride, T Meißner, M Mellor, S Nouwen,
A W Tucker
Graduate tutors: C Burt, J Durrell, J Gardom, D Huggins
College lecturers: C Burt (History), N Datta (Mathematics), H Diemberger (Human, Social
and Political Sciences), K Ettenhuber (English), G Kolios (Economics), N McBride
(Law), D Tambakis (Economics), M Wormald (English)
Directors of Studies:
Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic: E Ashman Rowe, A Bonner
Architecture: F Penz, M Sternberg
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies: C Melville, F Melville, M Shores
Chemical Engineering: S Cardoso
Classics: T Meißner
Computer Science: A Donnelly, A Madhavapeddy
Economics: D Tambakis, D Robertson
Education: E Taylor
Engineering: G Csanyi, V Deshpande, J Durrell, A Ferrari, G Hennequin
English: K Ettenhuber, M Newbould
History: C Burt, P Cavill
History of Art: R Blakesley
Human, Social and Political Sciences: H Diemberger
Land Economy: M Abreu
Law: N McBride, S Nouwen
Linguistics: D Willis
Management Studies: S Learmount
Mathematics: N Datta
Medicine: A W Tucker, M Clatworthy
Modern Languages: S Huot, C Young, A Corr
Music: S Barrett
Natural Sciences: T Bussey, N Cooper, S Cottaar, W Galloway, S John, L Kassell,
K Koziol, G Micklem, M Payne, T Weil
Philosophy: S John
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Psychological and Behavioural Sciences: T Bussey
Theology: J Gardom
Veterinary Medicine: A W Tucker
Director for International Programmes: D Passolt
Lectrice in French: P Hot
Lektor in German: R Stöpper
Academic Associates:
Anatomy: A May
Biochemistry: E Andrews
Classics: M Arbabzadah
Chemistry: M Troll
Economics: T Greve
Engineering: I Goykham, J Taylor
English: M Newbould
French: S Qadri
German: M Kant
Human, Social and Political Sciences: M Rice
Music: K Ashton
Physics: F Lee
Writing Skills: R Berengarten
Zoology: J Gerlach
MATRICULATION 2015–2016
MICHAELMAS TERM 2015
Alamenciak, Marie-Antoinette (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris IV, Sorbonne)
Allan, Stanley (Simon Langton School for Boys)
Allison, Harriet Catherine (Cranleigh School, Cranleigh)
Ambrey, Mora (North Western University, Chicago)
Anand, Tanmay (The Queen Elizabeth’s High School, Gainsborough)
Andersson, Tom Robin (Budmouth College)
Apsley, Elizabeth Joy (Marple Sixth Form College)
Archer, Robert Charles (University of Nottingham)
Armstrong, Sylvie (Gosforth Academy)
Aspinall, Evie Bethan (Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School, Aylesbury)
Azzi, Lucia (St Edward’s School, Oxford)
Bagger, Katherine Rhiannon (City of London School for Girls)
Bamber, James Alexander Rhys (The Perse School)
Bartninkas, Vilius (Jesus College, Cambridge)
Bauer, Matthias Stephan (Girton College, Cambridge)
Bernocchi, Ilaria (Warburg Institute)
Bishopp, Hannah Katy (Sandy Upper School and Community Sports College,
Bedfordshire)
Bolton, Jack (Winchester College)
Boorman, Lola (University of Dublin, Trinity College)
Borisova, Polina (King’s College, London)
Borriello, Ciro (Politecnico di Torino)
Braden-Golay, Jane (University of Zurich)
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Brown, Hannah (The Queen Elizabeth’s High School, Gainsborough)
Bruun, Mikkel Kenni (University College, London)
Burdett, James Edward (Strathallan School)
Buss, Elliot (Parrs Wood High School, Manchester)
Carneiro Palmeira, Camila (Ibmec University of Economics & Finance, Brazil)
Cassell, Anna (Northwestern University, USA)
Cazaly, Leila (Bullers Wood School)
Chalaby, Corinne Teresa (Roedean School)
Chan, Hei Yeung (St Pauls Co-Educational College)
Chisholm, Elizabeth Bernadette (Cork Institute of Technology)
Clarke, Michael A (The Marlborough Church of England School)
Cliffe, Alexander James (Oakham School)
Clifford, Eleanor Ruth (The Sixth Form College Colchester)
Coates, Matthew (Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College)
Cohen, Michael Robinson (Yale University)
Cole, Demi (Colfes School)
Cotton, Rebecca (Birkbeck, University of London)
Crisp, Charlie (The Skinners’ School)
Crouch, Paul (University of Bath)
Curson, Matilda Arianwen (Wymondham College)
Cyriac, Cyriac Chazhikat Pius (Maru A Pula School, Botswana)
Danowska, Magdalena (LXIV LO im Witkiewicza w Warszawie, Poland)
Deniszczyc, Andrew (Thomas Rotherham College)
Dickinson, Eliza (Parmiter’s School)
Dimond, Scott Michael (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario)
Dixon, Nicholas Andrew (Robinson College, Cambridge)
Dolfen, Clara Magdalena (Imperial College, London)
Du, Yan-Ni Laura (The Stephen Perse Foundation)
D’Urso, Lucy Islay (King Edward VI Five Ways School)
Eder, Andreas (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany)
Edwards, Miles (Christ’s Hospital)
Elgood Hunt, Eleanor (Northgate High School)
Elliott, Nicola Jane (City of London Freemen’s School)
Fabryczny, Felix Czeslaw Norbert (Lycée Louis le Grand, Paris)
Falo Sanjuan, Julia (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Feord, Rachael Claire (University of Manchester)
Forrest, Margaret Jean (University of Queensland)
Fosong, Elliot Ian Nkeng (Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School)
Fox, Imogen (Loreto College, Manchester)
Gibbons, Emma Christine (The King’s School (the Cathedral School), Peterborough)
Gibson, Katherine Joanna (Beaconsfield High School)
Grace, William John (Maidstone Grammar School)
Green, Ciaran (Nottingham High School)
Groes, Alexander Arne (Eton College)
Guan, Jennifer (Shanghai American School – East Campus)
Gull, Philip Richard Tang (Sevenoaks School)
Hallajian, Armaghan (St Pauls Girls School)
Harte, Molly Claire (Friends’ School Lisburn)
He, Anna (Dulwich College, Shanghai)
Heales, Javan Robert Tarran (Westcliff High School for Boys)
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Hill, Myfanwy Frances Elizabeth (University of Bristol)
Homonnay, Balint Zoltan (Fazekas Mihaly Primary and Secondary School, Hungary)
Hubble, Talia Rose (St. Helen’s School)
Hughes, Eleanor (Minster School, Southwell)
Hughes, John Paul Llewelyn (Thurston Community College)
Hulme, Oliver (Beverley Grammar and Beverley High Joint Sixth)
Hutton, James Stanley (St Edmund’s College, Cambridge)
Huxley, Alice Madeleine (University of Durham)
Ilko, Krisztina (Central European University, Hungary)
Iwamoto-Stohl, Lisa Karin (St Pauls Girls School)
James, Daniel (Sharnbrook Upper School)
Jasik, Franciszek (Lycée Francais de Varsovie Rene Goscinny, Poland)
Jenkins, Satoko (East Texas Baptist University, USA)
Jiang, Andrew (Brown University, USA)
Johansen Villanueva, Lia (International School of Geneva, La Chataigneraie)
Jones, Penelope (Withington Girls’ School)
Kanavalau, Andrei (Abbey College, Cambridge)
Khe, Charles (University of California)
Kocialkowska, Kamila (Courtauld Institute of Art)
Kreager, Adele Elisabeth (Oxford High School GDST)
Krishnan, Arun (Imperial College, London)
Kurle, Jonas (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Kuschnitzki, Judit (University of Oxford)
Kusunoki, Masaaki (Said Business School, University of Oxford)
Kwok, Philip (St Paul’s School, London)
Lao, Ning-Hang Ryan (King George V School, Hong Kong)
Le, Huynh Khuong Duy (Anglo-Chinese Junior College, Singapore)
Lee, Ling Yok (The University of Nottingham, Malaysia)
Lee, Nicholas Keone (Harvard University, USA)
Lee, Tin Yui (Brighton College)
Lewis-Brown, Jonathan Samuel (The Holy Trinity School)
Lindsay, Eliott Mael (The Skinners’ School)
Liu, Minghua (University of Nottingham, China)
Liu, Zheng (Downing College, Cambridge)
Lo, Shirley (Cheltenham Ladies’ College)
MacLeod, John (City of London Freemen’s School)
Manley, George Nathan (Colchester Royal Grammar School)
Mante, Jeanet Victoria (North London Collegiate School)
March, Robert Francis (Gordano School)
Marett, Paul Joseph (University of Pennsylvania)
McConnell, Benedict Mark Thomas (Ardingly College)
McLeish, Michael (The Grammar School at Leeds)
McSharry, Liam James Patrick (Wolfson College, Cambridge)
Merckel, Loic (Kyoto University, Japan)
Miller, Eleanor (University of Exeter)
Milway, Fiona Jane Louise (The Open University)
Mortazavi, Ashkan (Occidental College, USA)
Mortishire-Smith, Benjamin (The Fallibroome Academy)
Moss, Grace Beatrice (Norwich School)
Moss, Molly (Ulverston Victoria High School)
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Munteanu, Antonia Ioana (Park High School, Stanmore)
Nathan, Jonathan Simon (University of Chicago)
Naylor-Perrott, Luke Christopher George (Tonbridge School)
Needham, Joseph John Patrick (Simon Langton School for Boys)
Nelson, Kathleen (Oklahoma State University)
Ni, Shuying (Brown University, USA)
Nicholson, Thomas Frederick William (University of St Andrews)
Nikkhah, Naciem (School of Oriental & African Studies, London)
Noonan, Charles Peter (Monash University, Australia)
O’Brien, Elizabeth Maritsa Aisling (King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford)
Ockenden, Helen (Lancaster Girls Grammar School)
Okundaye, Jason (Whitgift School, South Croydon)
Ornelas, Joao Pedro Casadei Lima (Fundacao Anglo Brasileira de Educacao e Cultura de
Sao Paulo – St. Paul’s School, Brazil)
O’Shea, Amy (Watford Grammar School for Girls)
Owen, Thomas (Howell’s School, LLandaff, GDST)
Parker, Eleanor Hillyer (Harvard University, USA)
Pearson, Charlotte Emily (The Judd School, Tonbridge)
Petek, Maya (Downing College, Cambridge)
Phillips, Rachel Emma (The Tiffin Girls School)
Poddar, Pratyay (Jacobs University, Germany)
Polatch, Frank Gillespie (King’s College, London)
Poljanc, Matevz (Skofijska klasicna gimnazija, Slovenia)
Popa Cristobal, Daniel (King’s College, Madrid)
Powell Davies, Thomas Robert (University of Sydney)
Richardson, Jay (Hills Road Sixth Form College)
Roberts, Ewan (University College School)
Robertson, Katherine (University of Bristol)
Robson, James Peter (Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
Romans, Andrew (Oklahoma State University)
Ropek-Hewson, Sofia Alice (University of Durham)
Rushworth, Philip (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge)
Sahota, Aman (King Edward VI School, Warwickshire)
Sanderson, Daniel James (Bradford Grammar School)
Sarson, Harry David (Twyford Church of England High School)
Sazonovs, Aleksejs (University of St Andrews)
Scheulen, Christian Johann Heinrich Peter (Goetheschule Essen, Germany)
Schlick, Steffen (University of Cologne)
Schmetterling, Raphael Joseph Ze’ev (City of London School)
Senegri, Leila (Twyford Church of England High School)
Sercombe, Bethany (Kendrick School)
Serra, Eleonora (University of Oxford)
Sharma, Mrinank (Calday Grange Grammar School)
Sharma, Shruti (MIT)
Sharp, Megan (University of Leeds)
Sheerin, Hannah (Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
Shopova, Radoslava Leonidova (The Stephen Perse Foundation)
Short, Hannah (Scotch College, Adelaide)
Shuttleworth, Fiona Lauren (Olchfa School, Swansea)
Shyba, Peter William (McGill University)
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Simon, Peter Zoltan (Berzsenyi Daniel Gimnazium, Hungary)
Slater, Louis Max Cley (Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College)
Smith, Benjamin Toby (Tonbridge School)
Smith, Eleanor Frances (The Sixth Form College Farnborough)
Spence, Edward (Manchester Grammar School)
Stanko, Stefan (Gymnazium Andreja Vrabla in Levice, Slovakia)
Stokholm, Isabel (Courtauld Institute of Art)
Strubenhoff, Marius (London School of Economics)
Suresh, Hamsini (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras)
Szlezinger, Alexander Daniel (Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School)
Tan, Christiane Heng Luan (Raffles Junior College, Singapore)
Tan, Rou Xi Sapphire (Cardiff Sixth Form College)
Taylor, Ewan James (Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College)
Taylor, Joanna (Loreto Grammar School, Altrincham)
Thomson, Megan (Wyggeston & Queen Elizabeth I College)
Thorpe, Charlotte (St John Fisher Catholic College, Newcastle)
Thwaite, Ann-Sophie (Royal College of Art)
Tilbrook, William James (King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford)
Trotter, Patrick (University of Aberdeen)
Upstone, Laura Frances (Reigate Grammar School)
Valarche, Carine (Henrietta Barnett School)
Van Kan, Adrian (University of Heildberg)
Vickers, Christopher Russell (Westcliff High School for Boys)
Walter, Martin (The Open University)
Ward, Callum James (Brooke Weston)
Watle, Per Espen (Norwegian School of Management)
Whittaker, Thomas James (The Grammar School at Leeds)
Whorrall-Campbell, Evelyn Mary (The Queen’s School, Chester)
Wieprzowski, Piotr (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
Williams, Faith Stuart (Columbia University)
Williamson, Patrick (University of St Andrews)
Wilson, Emma (Murdoch University, Australia)
Wolanicka, Lidia (West Pomeranian University of Technology)
Wong, Limy (Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland)
Wren, Theresa Alix (University of Bristol)
Wright, Benjamin Thomas (Sponne School)
Wright, Georgia Charlotte (Abbey School, Reading)
Xing, Yi (International School of Geneva, LGB)
Young, Sophie Natasha Rachel (Dame Alice Owen’s School)
Zeisner, Theresa Ursula (Oxford Tutorial College)
Zhang, Roy Yinian (Reading School)
LENT TERM 2016
Bernstein, Liza (University of Pennsylvania)
Bhatia, Shreeya (Barnard College)
Chen, Amanda Coco (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Chinoy, Sahil Bilal (University of California, Berkeley)
Cohen, Emma Rachel (Haverford College)
Desronvil, Allex Ravenscar (Yale University)
Ecker, Jordan Paul (Oberlin College)
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Fanelli, Daniel Albert (George Washington University)
Gailus, Marianna Cydni (Yale University)
Galanti, Rebecca Rachel (George Washington University)
Goodspeed, Elizabeth Abbott (University of Pennsylvania)
Hopkins,, Victoria Anne (Vanderbilt University)
Jiang, Shangjun (University of California, Berkeley)
Lai, Fernanda (Williams College)
Lim, Yixuan (Yale – NUS College Singapore)
Lupion, Miranda Grace (University of Pennsylvania)
McNamara, Emma Ann (University of Pennsylvania)
Morse, Ian James (Lafayette College)
Murtha, Grace Maureen (George Washington University)
Pioch, Abigail Young (George Washington University)
Pura, Mary Austin (Mount Holyoke College)
Re, Molly Martha Lo (Barnard College)
Shan, Shan (Haverford College)
Shirey, William Edward (University of Pennsylvania)
Smith, Riley Elizabeth (Rice University)
Tymins, Austin Strand (Harvard College)
Wu, Katherine Frances (Harvard College)
Ying, Ng Sai (Yale – NUS College Singapore)
Zhang, Wei (University of Pennsylvania)
EASTER TERM 2016
Silva Cayetano, Alyssa (Australian National University)
ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS, FIRST CLASS RESULTS 2016
Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Preliminary Kirby, Hugo
Exam to Part I
McLean, Poppy
Kreager, Adele Elisabeth
Computer Science, Part IB
Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Part II
Fox, James
Dolben, Amy
Computer Science, Part II
Architecture, Part IA
Aebischer, Sebastian Francis
Lo, Shirley
Economics, Part IIA
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Part IB Glennerster, William John
Baxter, Thomas
Kurle, Jonas
Chemical Engineering Tripos, Part I
Ringer, Sam
Classical Tripos, Part IA
Kwok, Philip
Roberts, Ewan
Classical Tripos, Part IB
Hudson, Henry William
Economics, Part IIB
Cutler, Sebastian James
Roy, Helena
Tham, Yan Ping
Engineering, Part IA
Fosong, Elliot Ian Nkeng
Kanavalau, Andrei
March, Robert Francis
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Popa Cristobal, Daniel
Sarson, Harry David
Sharma, Mrinank
Taylor, Ewan James
Human, Social, and Political Sciences
Tripos, Part IIA
Spence, William
Aylward, Neria
Engineering, Part IB
Bilovolschi, Bianca Andreea
Cochrane, Orpheas Laurence
de Gromoboy Dabrowicki, Joshua
Aleksander
Dhoru, Davendra Dinesh
Dunkley, Oliver Jack
Gupta, Siddharth
Murray, Seoirse James
Ting, Cheuk Hei Julian
Human, Social, and Political Sciences
Tripos, Part IIB
Kay, Rachel
Lim, Lucy Gabrielle
Petersen, Katrine Tilgaard
Popplewell, William
Roelofs, Aurora
Sautter, Caroline Grace
Tompkins, Daniel Justin Keith
Engineering, Part IIA
Davies, Louis Nigel
Medek, Akos Vince
Perry, James Edward George
Phillips, Richard James
Szmucer, Patrick Jaroslaw
Engineering, Part IIB
Downing, Tristan Alexander Lee
Godfrey, Luke James
Prior, Daisy Cordelia Charlotte
White, Charles Rory
Wong, Hok Hei Nicholas
English, Part I
Elsner, Maia
Limb, Edward
Mitchell, Eleanor
Petkovic, Timothy John
English, Part II
Hibbert, Elizabeth Mary
Howden, Sarah
Oldham, Robert
Historical Tripos, Part I
Leech, Joseph George
Oldfield, Jonathon Brook
Historical Tripos, Part II
Cope, Cassie
Parker, Anna
Human, Social, and Political Sciences
Tripos, Part I
Allan, Stanley
Le, Huynh Khuong Duy
Land Economy, Part IA
Tan, Christiane Heng Luan
Law, Part IA
Armstrong, Sylvie
Law, Part IB
Waghorn, Alexander
Manufacturing Engineering, Part IIB
Lodge, Archie John Ralph
Mathematical Tripos, Part IA
Cliffe, Alexander James
Grace, William John
Lewis-Brown, Jonathan Samuel
Simon, Peter Zoltan
Mathematical Tripos, Part II
Mayes, Darion
Nielsen, Marcus
Singha, Karan
Mathematical Tripos, Part III
Barker, Antony William
Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Part IA
Elliott, Nicola Jane
Iwamoto-Stohl, Lisa Karin
Tan, Rou Xi Sapphire
Wright, Georgia Charlotte
Zhang, Roy Yinian
Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Part IB
Riley, Samuel Conor
Welbourn-Green, Claudia Lucy
Final M.B. Examination Part I, Pathology
Brayne, Adam Bamlett
Williams, Thomas George Samuel
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Final Veterinary Examination, Part II
Mellor, Naomi Sarah
Modern and Medieval Languages, Part IA
Curson, Matilda Arianwen
Modern and Medieval Languages, Part II
Fitch-Bunce, Jessica Betty
Myer, Walter Rupert Hordern
Music, Part IB
Thornton, Jago Adam
Music, Part II
Mayaud, Yannick Jacques
Natural Sciences, Part IA
Apsley, Elizabeth Joy
Burdett, James Edward
Danowska, Magdalena
Elgood Hunt, Eleanor
Harte, Molly Claire
Hughes, Eleanor
Hulme, Oliver
Jones, Penelope
Lee, Tin Yui
Ockenden, Helen
Scheulen, Christian Johann Heinrich Peter
Spence, Edward
Stanko, Stefan
Wright, Benjamin Thomas
Zeisner, Theresa Ursula
Natural Sciences, Part IB
Ashton, Jacob
Curran, Joseph Francis William
Edwards, Benjamin David
Francis, Haydn
Grant, Neil Scott
van Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh, Iris
Katherine
Westin-Hardy, Alexander
Natural Sciences, Part II: Astrophysics
Piette, Anjali Aurelie Alison
Natural Sciences, Part II: Chemistry
Choi, Seonghoon
Day, Jessica Coco
English, Max Atticus O’Rourke
Natural Sciences, Part II: History and
Philosophy of Science
Ivers, Charlotte
Natural Sciences, Part II: Physiology,
Development and Neuroscience
Terry, Isabelle Louise
Natural Sciences, Part II: Physics
Dashwood, Cameron Darling
Gayne, William Joseph
Natural Sciences, Part II: Psychology
Griffiths, Jessica Louise
Natural Sciences, Part II: Zoology
Evans, Emma Isabel
Titley, Mark
Natural Sciences, Part III: Astrophysics
Bamford, Joshua Thomas
Byfield, Peter John
Natural Sciences, Part III: Chemistry
Anketell, Matthew James
Weber, James Michael
Natural Sciences, Part III: History and
Philosophy of Science
Clothier, Holly Louise
Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III: Physics
Barker, Adam James
Laird, Benjamin David
Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III: Systems
Biology
Beech, Jake Mark
Philosophy Tripos, Part IA
Buss, Elliot
Cole, Demi
Psychological and Behavioural Sciences
Tripos, Part IIA
Neville, Emma Frances
Theological and Religious Studies, Part IIB
Moulton, Laura Pascale
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COLLEGE AWARDS 2015–2016
Kilby Prize
best undergraduate performance
Oldham, R
Cadell Prize
for Architecture or History of Art
Lo, S
Blackburne-Daniell Prize
best second-year performance
Cochrane, O L
Grant, N S
Leech, J G
Ringer, S
Spence, W
Collins Prize
for English
Oldham, R
Peter de Somogyi Memorial Prize
special merit in an Arts subject
Dolben, A
Kwok, P
Lo, S
Mayaud, Y J
McLean, P
Tompkins, D J K
Tan, C H L
Hansen Prize
for outstanding first or second-year
performance in the Arts
Thornton, J A
Mary Coates Prize
for Medical and Veterinary Sciences or Biological
Natural Sciences
Evans, E I
Ginsberg Prize
for Classics
McLean, P
Ginsberg Award
for Classics
Hudson, H W
Kirby, H
Kwok, P
Roberts, E
Hadley History Prize
usually for Part II of the Tripos
Parker, A
Satish Kumar Aggarwal Prize
for outstanding first-year performance
in Mathematics or Natural Sciences
Elgood Hunt, E
Sir William Hodge Prize
for Mathematics or Natural Sciences
Byfield, P J
Grant, N S
Crowden Award
for a distinguished contribution to College life
Popplewell, W
Hodgson Memorial Prize
for Part IIB Engineering Project
Prior, D C C
Adrian Prize
for Medical and Veterinary Sciences
Welbourn-Green, C L
Howard Raingold Prize
normally for Part I of the History Tripos
Leech, J G
Atiyah Prize
for Part III Mathematics
Barker, A W
Lancaster Prize
for Engineering
Kanavalau, A
Bethune Baker Prize
for Divinity
Moulton, L P
Legg Prize
for Mathematics
Mayes, D
EG Browne Prize
for Oriental Studies
Baxter, T
Ann Ellen Prince Prize
for Modern Languages
Myer, W R H
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BM Roberts Prize
for Part III Chemistry
Anketell, M J
Trebilcock Prize
for Economics
Tham, Y P
Robin Shepherd Memorial Prize
for Chemistry
English, M A O’R
Turner Prize
for Music
Mayaud, Y J
Shilling Prize
for Land Economy
Tan, C H L
Ubaydli Prize
for Computer Science
Aebischer, S F
Dr Stevens Prize
for Natural Sciences
Jones, P
Piette, A A A
S M Jamil Wasti Prize
for Part I English
Elsner, M
Henry Sumner Maine Prize
for Archaeology and Anthropology
Kay, R
Tomkys Prize
for Social and Political Sciences
Spence, W
Ronald Wynn Prize
for Engineering
Lodge, A J R
Ziegler Prize
for Law
Waghorn, A
Foundress Prizes
Apsley, E J (Natural Sciences)
Lim, L G (Human, Social & Political Sciences)
Aylward, N (Human, Social & Political Sciences) March, R F (Engineering)
Beech, J M (Natural Sciences)
Mitchell, E (English)
Bilovolschi, B A (Engineering)
Neville, E F (Psychology & Behavioural Sciences)
Buss, E (Philosophy)
Perry, J E G (Engineering)
Choi, S (Natural Sciences)
Ringer, S (Chemical Engineering)
Clothier, H L (Natural Sciences)
Roy, H (Economics)
Cochrane, O L (Engineering)
Sarson, H D (Engineering)
Curran, J F W (Natural Sciences)
Sautter, C G (Human, Social & Political Sciences)
Day, J C (Natural Sciences)
Sharma, M (Engineering)
de Gromoboy Dabrowicki, J A (Engineering) Stanko, S (Natural Sciences)
Dolben, A (Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic)
Szmucer, P J (Engineering)
Dunkley, O J (Engineering)
Ting, C H J (Engineering)
Elgood Hunt, E (Natural Sciences)
Tompkins, D J K (Human, Social & Political
Fitch-Bunce, J B (Modern & Medieval Languages) Sciences)
Fosong, E I N (Engineering)
van Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh, I K
Griffiths, J L (Natural Sciences)
(Natural Sciences)
Kurle, J (Economics Tripos)
Weber, J M (Natural Sciences)
Laird, B D (Natural Sciences)
College Prizes
First year
Allan, S (Human, Social & Political Sciences)
Armstrong, S (Law)
Burdett, J E (Natural Sciences)
Cliffe, A J (Maths)
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Cole, D (Philosophy)
Curson, M A (Modern & Medieval Languages)
Danowska, M (Natural Sciences)
Elliott, N J (Medical & Veterinary Sciences)
Grace, W J (Maths)
Harte, M C (Natural Sciences)
Hughes, E (Natural Sciences)
Hulme, O (Natural Sciences)
Iwamoto-Stohl, L K (Medical & Veterinary
Sciences)
Kreager, A E (Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic)
Le, H K D (Human, Social & Political Sciences)
Lee, T Y (Natural Sciences)
Lewis-Brown, J S (Maths)
Ockenden, H (Natural Sciences)
Popa Cristobal, D (Engineering)
Scheulen, C J H P (Natural Sciences)
Simon, P Z (Maths)
Spence, E (Natural Sciences)
Tan, R X S (Medical & Veterinary Sciences)
Taylor, E J (Engineering)
Wright, B T (Natural Sciences)
Wright, G C (Medical & Veterinary Sciences)
Zeisner, T U (Natural Sciences)
Zhang, R Y (Medical & Veterinary Sciences)
Second year
Ashton, J (Natural Sciences)
Dhoru, D D (Engineering)
Edwards, B D (Natural Sciences)
Fox, J (Computer Science)
Francis, H (Natural Sciences)
Glennerster, W J (Economics)
Gupta, S (Engineering)
Limb, E (English)
Murray, S J (Engineering)
Oldfield, J B (History)
Petkovic, T J (English)
Riley, S C (Medical & Veterinary Sciences)
Thornton, J A (Music)
Westin-Hardy, A (Natural Sciences)
Third year
Cope, C (History)
Cutler, S J (Economics)
Dashwood, C D (Natural Sciences)
Davies, L N (Engineering)
Gayne, W J (Natural Sciences)
Hibbert, E M (English)
Howden, S (English)
Ivers, C (Natural Sciences)
Medek, A V (Engineering)
Nielsen, M (Maths)
Petersen, K T (Human, Social & Political Sciences)
Phillips, R J (Engineering)
Popplewell, W (Human, Social & Political
Sciences)
Roelofs, A (Human, Social & Political Sciences)
Singha, K (Maths)
Terry, I L (Natural Sciences)
Titley, M (Natural Sciences)
Fourth year
Bamford, J T (Natural Sciences)
Barker, A J (Natural Sciences)
Downing, T A L (Engineering)
Godfrey, L J (Engineering)
White, C R (Engineering)
Wong, H H N (Engineering)
Fifth year
Brayne, A B (Clinical Medicine)
Mellor, N S (Clinical Veterinary Medicine)
Williams, T G S (Clinical Medicine)
Elected to a Foundation Scholarship
Ashton, J (Natural Sciences)
Aylward, N (Human, Social & Political Sciences)
Baxter, T (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies)
Bilovolschi, B A (Engineering)
Cochrane, O L (Engineering)
Curran, J F W (Natural Sciences)
de Gromoboy Dabrowicki, J A (Engineering)
Dhoru, D D (Engineering)
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Dunkley, O J (Engineering)
Edwards, B D (Natural Sciences)
Elsner, M (English)
Fox, J (Computer Science)
Francis, H (Natural Sciences)
Gayne, W J (Natural Sciences)
Glennerster, W J (Economics)
Grant, N S (Natural Sciences)
Gupta, S (Engineering)
Hudson, H W (Classics)
Kirby, H (Classics)
Leech, J G (History)
Limb, E (English)
McLean, P (Classics)
Mitchell, E (English)
Murray, S J (Engineering)
Neville, E F (Psychology & Behavioural Sciences)
Oldfield, J B (History)
Petkovic, T J (English)
Riley, S C (Medical & Veterinary Sciences)
Ringer, S (Chemical Engineering)
Spence, W (Human, Social & Political Sciences)
Thornton, J A (Music)
Ting, C H J (Engineering)
van Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh, I K
(Natural Sciences)
Waghorn, A (Law)
Welbourn-Green, C L (Medical & Veterinary
Sciences)
Westin-Hardy, A (Natural Sciences)
Foundation Scholarships Continued
Cheung, C H B (Chemical Engineering)
Choi, S (Natural Sciences)
Dashwood, C D (Natural Sciences)
Davies, L N (Engineering)
Day, J C (Natural Sciences)
English, M A O (Natural Sciences)
Jenkinson, F (Natural Sciences)
Jones, B (Music)
Marshall, R B (Chemical Engineering)
Mayes, D (Maths)
McGee, T (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies)
Medek, A V (Engineering)
Nielsen, M (Maths)
Parkinson, R (Engineering)
Perry, J E G (Engineering)
Phillips, R J (Engineering)
Piette, A A A (Natural Sciences)
Singha, K (Maths)
Szmucer, P J (Engineering)
Retrospective Foundation Scholarships to Commoners
Aebischer, S F (Computer Science)
Bamford, J T (Natural Sciences)
Beech, J M (Natural Sciences)
Clothier, H L (Natural Sciences)
Cope, C (History)
Dolben, A (Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic)
Evans, E I (Natural Sciences)
Godfrey, L J (Engineering)
Griffiths, J L (Natural Sciences)
Hibbert, E M (English)
Ivers, C (Natural Sciences)
Foundation Award Holders
Padley, J (Medical & Veterinary Sciences)
Kurle, J (Economics Tripos)
Parker, A (History)
Popplewell, W (Human, Social & Political
Sciences)
Roelofs, A (Human, Social & Political Sciences)
Sautter, C G (Human, Social & Political Sciences)
Terry, I L (Natural Sciences)
Titley, M (Natural Sciences)
Tompkins, D J K (Human, Social & Political
Sciences)
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Foundation Award Holders Continued
Adams, Z L (Law)
Mellor, N S (Veterinary Medicine)
Bardsley, O P (Engineering)
Penney, C E (Earth Sciences)
Brayne, A B (Clinical Medicine)
Pepin, R R (English)
Brownlee, E C (Archaeology and Anthropology) Rouzé, C (Mathematics)
Carpenter, W J W (Economics)
Schroeder, F A Y N (Natural Sciences)
Darragh, K (Natural Sciences)
Seah, T (Medical and Veterinary Sciences)
Foster, V C (Clinical Veterinary Medicine)
Stewart, H L (Natural Sciences)
Little, C E (Clinical Medicine)
Wild, P H (Medical and Veterinary Sciences)
Matheson, H M (Medical and Veterinary Sciences) Williams, T G S (Clinical Medicine)
College Scholarships
Allan, S (Human, Social & Political Sciences)
Apsley, E J (Natural Sciences)
Armstrong, S (Law)
Burdett, J E (Natural Sciences)
Buss, E (Philosophy)
Cliffe, A J (Maths)
Cole, D (Philosophy)
Danowska, M (Natural Sciences)
Elgood Hunt, E (Natural Sciences)
Elliott, N J (Medical & Veterinary Sciences)
Fosong, E I N (Engineering)
Grace, W J (Maths)
Harte, M C (Natural Sciences)
Hughes, E (Natural Sciences)
Hulme, O (Natural Sciences)
Iwamoto-Stohl, L K (Medical & Veterinary
Sciences)
Jones, P (Natural Sciences)
Kanavalau, A (Engineering)
Kreager, A E (Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic)
Kwok, P (Classics)
Le, H K D (Human, Social & Political Sciences)
Lee, T Y (Natural Sciences)
Lewis-Brown, J S (Maths)
Lo, S (Architecture)
March, R F (Engineering)
Ockenden, H (Natural Sciences)
Popa Cristobal, D (Engineering)
Roberts, E (Classics)
Sarson, H D (Engineering)
Scheulen, C J H P (Natural Sciences)
Sharma, M (Engineering)
Simon, P Z (Maths)
Spence, E (Natural Sciences)
Stanko, S (Natural Sciences)
Tan, C H L (Land Economy)
Tan, R X S (Medical & Veterinary Sciences)
Taylor, E J (Engineering)
Wright, B T (Natural Sciences)
Wright, G C (Medical & Veterinary Sciences)
Zeisner, T U (Natural Sciences)
Zhang, R Y (Medical & Veterinary Sciences)
College Exhibitions
Curson, M A (Modern & Medieval Languages)
Brian Riley Declamation Prize
Myer, W R H
Searle Reading Prize
Oldham, R
Idle Scholarship
Roy, H
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett Prize
for creative writing
Cochrane, H J C
1966 Mill Lane Award
Adams, E K
Andersson, T R
Ashton, J
Downing, T A L
Duff, K
Gibson, K J
Holiday, G A
Peter Clarke Science Writing Prize
Archer, E J
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Monica Partridge Award
Balkan Studies
Nikkhah, N
Keith Sykes Award
Nelson, K
Szlezinger, A D
Derek Rose Memorial Studentship
McGee, T
Christine Hansen Music Travel Scholarship
Power, W V
Jack Lander Travel Scholarships
Walsh, S F O
Peter Ringrose Africa Travel Award
Arshad, S
Gayne, W J
Khan, I S
White,C R
Rosenthal Memorial Travelling Scholarship
Rushworth, P
Peter May Award
for Tripos and University Sports
Nicholas Powell Travel Bursary
Barker, A J
Grant, N S
Barker, A W
Nielsen, M
Blues Awards
Ginsberg Awards For a Blue
Apsley, E J (Cross Country)
Barker, A J (Golf )
Barker, A W (Eton fives)
Hanspal, M A (Cricket)
Hughes, E (Cross Country)
Kondratowicz, M (Lawn tennis)
Nielsen, M (Football)
Ollington, R (Athletics)
Ormond, B J (Sailing)
Scott, C (Rugby Union)
Totz, K J (Basketball)
For a Half Blue
Adams, E K (Ski Racing)
Burford, R J (Orienteering)
Clark, T (Lightweight Rowing)
Cummins, C (Lightweight Rowing)
Flaherty, S (Alpine skiing 14/15)
Gibson, K J (Volleyball)
Ockenden, H (Orienteering)
Pruzina, H (Orienteering)
Wileman, T M (Lightweight Rowing)
Dan Rookwood Award
for contribution to College sport
Bond, T (2013)
Runners up Cassell, A (2015) and Harries, P (2010)
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS 2015–2016
The following named scholarships and awards were made for the academic year
2015–2016.
The College part funded seven University PhD studentships:
Zoe Adams (PhD in Law) already a member of Pembroke College was awarded an
AHRC/Ziegler Studentship.
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Vilius Bartninkas (PhD in Classics) from Jesus College, University of Cambridge was
awarded an AHRC/Pembroke Studentship.
Ilaria Bernocchi (PhD in History of Art) from the Warburg Institute, University of London
was awarded an AHRC/Lander Studentship.
Mikkel Bruun (PhD in Social Anthropology) from University College London was
awarded an ESRC/Valence Mary Studentship.
Nicholas Dixon (PhD in History) from Robinson College, University of Cambridge was
awarded an AHRC/Pembroke Studentship.
Krisztina Ilko (PhD in History of Art) from the Central European University, Hungary was
awarded an AHRC/Lander Studentship.
Katherine Robertson (PhD in Philosophy) from the University of Bristol was awarded an
AHRC/Hogwood Studentship.
The College part funded four University awards for MPhil or equivalent study:
Margaret Forrest (MPhil in Criminology) from the University of Queensland was awarded
the Davis McCaughey Australian Scholarship.
Alice Huxley (MPhil in History of Art and Architecture) from the University of Durham
was awarded a CHESS/Newton/Valence Mary Studentship.
Fiona Milway (MPhil in History Philosophy & Sociology of Science, Technology &
Medicine) from The Open University was awarded a CHESS/Newton/Valence Mary
Studentship.
Megan Sharp (MPhil in Criminological Research) from the University of Leeds was
awarded a CHESS/Newton/Valence Mary Studentship.
The College also made significant ad hominem awards from various funds:
Pembroke College Fund:
Judit Kuschnitzki (PhD in Geography) from the University of Oxford.
Marius Strubenhoff (PhD in History) from the London School of Economics.
and from the Bristol-Myers Squibb fund:
Zheng Liu (PhD in Chemistry) from Downing College, University of Cambridge.
and from the Keith Sykes fund:
Eleonora Serra (PhD in Italian) from the University of Oxford.
Pembroke College fund for MPhil or equivalent study:
Matt Innes (MPhil in Political Thought & Intellectual History) already a member of
Pembroke College.
Dominic Kelly (MPhil in Social & Developmental Psychology) already a member of
Pembroke College.
Alex Kemp (MPhil in Screen Media & Cultures) already a member of Pembroke College.
Tessa Peres (MPhil in Medieval & Renaissance Literature) already a member of
Pembroke College.
Katrina West (MPhil in Music Studies) already a member of Pembroke College.
and from the Keith Sykes fund:
Harry Cochrane (MPhil in European & Comparative Literature & Cultures) already a
member of Pembroke College.
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and from the Thornton History fund:
Joe Spencer (MPhil in Modern British History) already a member of Pembroke College.
HIGHER DEGREES CONFERRED
Doctor of Science
Taylor, A M R, Faculty of Economics
PhD
Börjesson, J P E, The Reception of Augustine in Byzantine Theology: 430 – c.900
Bronitsky, J B, The Anglo-American Origins of Neoconservatism
Crewe, T J, Political Leaders, Communication and Celebrity in Britain, c1880–c1900
Dale, P R, Interactions between cAMP and Ca2+ in cultured human bronchial airway smooth
muscle cells
Duembgen, M, Extremal Martingales with Applications & a Bayesian Approach to Model Selection
Howell, K J, Using the pan-genome of Haemophilus parasuis to design new molecular diagnostics for
serotyping and pathotyping
Iliescu, F M, Unravelling the genetics of human pigmentation in India
Kennedy, J J, The Political Economy of Conflict between Dominant Societies and Indigenous
Communities: Adivasis, Maoist Insurgents and the State in the Central Indian Tribal Belt
Kim, C-H, Development and validation of memory and attentional tasks for mouse models of
Alzheimer’s disease
Kozicharow, N L E, Dmitrii Stelletskii and Filipp Maliavin in Emigration: Dreaming of Russia and
Resisting Change
McNair, F A, The Development of Territorial Principalities between the Loire and the Scheldt, 893–996
Nichols, T L, The Iraq War and the Politicization of the US Military
Novcic, N B, Insights into Beta-catenin-mediated molecular switches in the Wnt signalling pathway
Nuti, A, Historical Structural Injustice: on the Normative Significance of the Unjust Past
Railton, A D, The Structure and Stability of Vortices in Astrophysical Discs
Ramos, I, ‘Give me, give me my Sati!’ The formation of Hindu identity through the myth of the Shakti
Pithas in colonial Bengal
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Richards, P, Identification and Characterisation of Enteroendocrine Cells and GLP-1 Receptor
Expressing Cells
Richards, S W, A Socio-Theoretical Account of State, Law and Globalization
Ritter, A T, Employing quantitative light microscopy to dissect mechanisms of activation and secretion
in cytotoxic T lymphocytes
Surmann, E-M, Connections between Tumour Suppression and Cellular Metabolism
Sutherell, C L, Development and Testing of Inhibitors Targeting Bromodomains within the SWI/
SNF Complex
Terrones Portas, J, Electro-Structural Phenomena in Immersed Carbon Nanotube Fibres
Torok, A, Halting attack: startle displays and flash coloration as anti-predator defences
Veselovska, L, Defining the oocyte transcriptome and its relationship to de novo DNA methylation
Wirz, M, The practices of leadership selection
Yu, J, Thin Film Based Wireless Power Transfer Using Strongly Coupled Magnetic Resonance
Zhang, Q, Passive UHF RFID Tags in Close Proximity
Master of Law
Noonan, C P
MRes
Chalmers, J, Medical Science Richards, P, Medical Science
Nestorowa, S, Medical Science
Tomlinson, P, Medical Science
MPhil
Andrade-Cabrera, C H, Engineering
Andre, R, Environmental Policy
Bagnall, R, American Literature
Barry, J, Historical Studies
Cullen, T, European Literature
de Jonge, L, International Relations
Dedonato, A, Architecture
Fitzpatrick, N, American Literature
Händel, T, Archaeology
Hu, S, Technology Policy
Hulme, C J, International Relations
Jiang, X, Economics
Kirkham, P M, History, Philosophy & Sociology
of Science, Technology & Medicine
Kurin, G, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Kurtukova, I, International Relations
McCrudden, K, Political Thought & Intellectual
History
Mills, A D, English Studies
Mitchell, F, Medieval & Renaissance Literature
Moore, S J, Development Studies
Morgan, H, Classics
Nichols, T L, Politics & International Studies
Noll, S E, Chemistry
Nowicka, J M, Medieval History
Penn, J, History & Philosophy of Science &
Medicine
Prater, K, Architecture & Urban Studies
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Regan, A, Medical Science
Reising, K K, Criminological Research
Rtishcheva, E, Economics
Schulz, K A, Classics
Scott-Barrett, J V, Education
Song, Y, Finance & Economics
Stockwell, R, Theoretical & Applied Linguistics
Szuchnik, K, History of Art & Architecture
Walton, B A, International Relations & Politics
Wikeley, J, Historical Studies
Yuan, Z, Finance
MMath
Barker, A W
Jackson, B M
Willis, C R
MMast
Ritter, D, Pure Mathematics
Rohde, V U, Mathematical Statistics
Sharp, J M, Astrophysics
MEng
Downing, T A L
Arshad, S
Forbes, T J
Godfrey, L J
Khan, I S
Lam,P H
Lodge, A J R
Mills, F W O
Ollington, R P
Ormond, B J
Prior, D C C
White, C R
Wong, H H N
Wojtecki, A L
Wright, A J
Mlodik, E
Zhang, G
Kamyar, A
Ma, X
Paris Smith, T E Rohailla, R
Schmidt, T
Byfield, P J
Cai, E Y-C
Clothier, H L
de Andres, M
Griffiths, K J
Hammond, M D
Laird, B D
Weber, J M
MBA
Doig, R J
Huang, R
Executive MBA
Ahmad Perez, F
Cruickshank, D
MFin
Jennings, D J
MEd
Lupton, F C
MSci
Anketell, M J
Bamford, J T
Barker, A J
Beech, J M
Billington, J A
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MB
Cymes, T
Hausien, O
Morgan, E C
Ramsden, C M
Robinshaw, E
Tham, J V S
Harries, P A
Luney, C R
Wicks, E G
BChir
Qureshi, A F
Whitby, J A
VetMB
Gardiner, P F
BTh
Batts, S L
Gill, B
D. THE PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY
Pembroke 1st May Boat, 1931
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Melvyn Jones’ book, That Contentious Doctrine, was published on 1 July
2015 by Salvation Books.
David Trump was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Malta.
Nicholas Barton wrote a book on The Lost Rivers of London, which was first
published in 1962 and has remained in print almost ever since. It has
now come out in a new revised and extended version with colour maps,
written in collaboration with Stephen Myers, who is a water engineer. It
is published by Historical Publications.
David Corfe’s book, The Road Taken, Selected Poems 1990–2013, was
published in 2014.
Christopher Fenwick was awarded a CBE.
Colin Wright’s novel, Veronica’s Papers, was published in October 2015.
Also launched were two short stories, The Last of The Time Machines and
“It’s Paradise, by God!”.
Jeremy Lawrence’s new book Foibles: Ruthless Rhymes for the Modern Age was
published by The Gryphon Press, Cape Town.
Richard Ryder’s book, Inside their Heads: Psychological Profiles of Famous
People, was published in October 2015 by Halsgrove.
David Lane was awarded a CBE for services to childcare and social work.
Ed Victor was awarded a CBE for services to the publishing industry.
John Andrews’s The World in Conflict: understanding the world’s trouble spots
was published by The Economist in association with Profile Books Ltd.
A book, Biblical Greek in Context, Essays in honour of John A.L. Lee (edited by
J.K. Aitken & T.V. Evans), dedicated to John Lee was published in 2015 by
Peeters (Leuven, Belgium).
Clive Betts was re-elected MP (Labour) for Sheffield South East in
May 2015.
Jeffrey Evans was elected Lord Mayor of London for 2015–2016.
David Melville was appointed Circuit Judge (Western Circuit), based in
Plymouth, in February 2015.
David Neville† received a Papal Knighthood of the Order of St Gregory
in December 2015 (see obituary in this edition of the Gazette).
Gerald Corbett was appointed Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket
Club, October 2015.
Sir Oliver Heald was re-elected MP (Conservative) for North East
Hertfordshire in May 2015.
David Prior was created a Life Peer as Baron Prior of Brampton in
May 2015.
(David) George Goodwin wrote Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life
of America’s Founding Father. Published on 11 February 2016 by Weidenfeld
& Nicolson (UK) and on 29 February 2016 by Yale University Press (US &
Canada), it was chosen as a Radio 4 Book of the Week in February 2016.
Kevin van Anglen’s co-edited book with Kristen Case, Thoreau at 200:
Essays and Reassessments, will be published by Cambridge University Press
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in September. It is sponsored by the Thoreau Society and celebrates the
200th anniversary of Thoreau’s birth in 1817.
John Armitage was awarded a CBE for philanthropic services through
the JA Charitable Trust.
David Blackmore was the editor of the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s
Wolf Hall, for which he was awarded a BAFTA (Television Craft – Editing).
Patrick Derham, Headmaster of Westminster School, edited Loyal Dissent
(Brief Lives from Westminster School) which was published by the University
of Buckingham Press in June 2016.
Sir Simon McDonald was appointed Permanent Under Secretary and
Head of the Diplomatic Service at the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office and took up the role in September 2015.
Rupert Myer was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2015.
The Venerable Andrew Tremlett, formerly Canon of Westminster and
Rector of St Margaret’s Westminster, was installed Dean of Durham
Cathedral in July 2016.
Richard Beard’s book, Acts of the Assassins, which was shortlisted for the
Goldsmiths Prize 2015, came out in paperback in March 2016 published
by Vintage.
Clara Calvo’s book, Celebrating Shakespeare, Commemoration and Cultural
Memory (co-edited with C Kahn), was published by the Cambridge
University Press in March 2016.
A revised edition of Alexander McNeil’s book, Quantitative Risk
Management: Concepts, Techniques and Tools (co-authored with R. Frey and P.
Embrechts), was published by Princeton University Press in 2015.
Henrietta Moore was made DBE for services to Social Sciences.
Jo Cox† (née Leadbeater) was elected Member of Parliament (Labour) for
Batley and Spen in May 2015 (see tributes in this edition of the Gazette).
Christopher Allan was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the
Republic of Uzbekistan.
Alan Donovan’s book, The Go Programming Language, was published by
Addison-Wesley, 2015.
Seema Kennedy (née Ghiassi) was elected Member of Parliament
(Conservative) for South Ribble in May 2015.
Nile (Neil) Green’s book, The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students
Learned in Jane Austen’s London, was published by Princeton University Press
in 2015.
Robert MacFarlane’s book, Landmarks, was published by Hamish
Hamilton in 2015.
Madsen Pirie’s book, How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic
(2nd edition), was published by Bloomsbury in 2015.
Andy Mydellton wrote a limited edition hardback book and e-book
entitled Reflections – On the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve. It was published by
the Wildlife Zone and is available at the Foundation for Endangered
Species’ registered office, and at www.Blurb.com.
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1998 Rodolphe Blavy’s novel, Le Pardon, was published by Éditions Arléa on
27 August 2015. It tells of the travails and travel of a man through Africa,
a continent that powerfully exposes his own frailty and choices.
Jack Thorne was awarded a BAFTA for best TV mini-series for This is
England ’90.
1999 Aleksandra Koutny-Jones’ Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe:
Contemplation and Commemoration in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania was
published by Brill in 2015
Alexander Marshall’s Republic or Death!: Travels in National Anthems was
published by Random House Books in 2015.
Peter Matthews was awarded a CBE for services to Environmental
Management, 2016.
2000 Andrew Morris was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of
Musicians and installed on 11 November 2015 at Merchant Taylors’ Hall.
Cressida Pollock was made CEO of the Royal National Opera.
2001 Anna Midgley was appointed as a Recorder to the Crown Court (Western
Circuit).
2003 Helen Stagg co-edited an Oxford Specialist Handbook entitled Infectious
Disease Epidemiology, which was published by Oxford University Press.
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY
AGENDA FOR THE 2016 AGM
Thursday 17 November; The Drapers’ Hall, London; drinks at 7.00 pm, dinner
at 7.30 pm
Nominations for 2016–2017:
President: To be appointed
Vice-Presidents: J G P Crowden, Lord Prior, Sir Roger Tomkys, H P Raingold
Chairman of Committee: Mrs J E Morley
Secretary: M R Mellor
Treasurer: A Cates
Editor of Gazette: N J McBride (Professor C J Young)
Secretary of London Dinner: A S Ivison
Secretary of Scottish Dinner: R M B Brown
Secretary of South Western Dinner: A B Elgood
Secretary of Northern Dinner: D R Sneath
Committee to 2017: F C Simeons, N P H Meier, C A Haddon-Cave, M P Dunfoy,
J M Ginsberg, C E Macallan
Committee to 2018: G J Curtis, P W G Evans, R J Ord, 4, C A Frith, C J R
Goodfellow
Committee to 2019: To be appointed
MINUTES OF THE 2015 AGM
Thursday 19 November; The Drapers’ Hall, London; drinks at 7.00 pm, dinner
at 7.30 pm
Nominations for 2015–2016:
President: Dr S A Learmount
Vice-Presidents: J G P Crowden, Lord Prior, Sir Roger Tomkys, H P Raingold
Chairman of Committee: Mrs J E Morley
Secretary: M R Mellor
Treasurer: A Cates
Editor of Gazette: N J McBride
Secretary of London Dinner: A S Ivison
Secretary of Scottish Dinner: R M B Brown
Secretary of South Western Dinner: A B Elgood
Secretary of Northern Dinner: D R Sneath
Committee to 2016: J W S Macdonald, R K Perkin, A G Singleton, E C S Price,
T C Young, J A Bashford
Committee to 2017: F C Simeons, N P H Meier, C A Haddon-Cave, M P Dunfoy,
J M Ginsberg, C E Macallan
Committee to 2018: G J Curtis, P W G Evans, R J Ord, 4, C A Frith, C J R Goodfellow
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DINNERS AND RECEPTIONS
Pembroke College Cambridge Society London Dinner
The 89th annual dinner of the Society was held at the Drapers’ Hall on the evening
of Thursday 19 November 2015. The Toast to the College was proposed by Mrs
Caroline Holmes (1984), President of PCCS, and the response was given by the
Master, Lord Smith of Finsbury
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1964
1966
1967
1968
1969
The Master
Mr C Beadle
Mr G J Curtis
Mr D N Howard
Mr C D Massiah
Mr D J Riddington
OBE DL
Mr C M Fenwick
MBE
Mr J W S Macdonald
Mr F C Simeons
Lord Dykes
Mr M G Kuczynski
Mr R J Gladman
Mr R E Palmer
Mr J F Storrs
Mr A R K Watkinson
Mr C D D Woon
Mr S C Palmer
Mr R A Bourne
Mr D J Shaw
Mr T R Budgett
Mr A D Jackson
Mr R B Mead
Mr R K Perkin
Mr C L Reilly
Dr W Sedriks
Mr D R Sneath TD
DL
Mr R J A van den
Bergh
Dr P W G Evans
FRCP
Mr C Hollick JP
Mr N P H Meier
Mr J B Gateshill
Mr I C Melia
Mr D J Paul FCA
1970
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1980
1981
1982
Mr T J Barwood
1983
Mr D A Walter
1984
Mr R D Finlayson
Mr T J Thorn
Professor A N
1985
Cormack
1991
Mr D E Dickson
1992
Mr D M Edwards
Sir Oliver Heald QC
MP
1994
Mr S P Schwitzer
1995
Mr M A Smyth
1999
Dr J D Budd
Sir Charles HaddonCave
2000
Mr A S Ivison
Mr C Comninos
2001
Mr S J Shotton
Mr N H Denning
2005
Mr N P McNelly
Mr A Bocock
2006
Mr D Brigden TD
Mr R J Edwards
Mr R J Ord
Mr R G N Spencer
Mr D J C Thompson
Mr J A Wilson QC
Mr B J Hogarth-Jones
Mr G F N Martin
2007
Mr N M Heilpern
Mr J D R Howard
Mr C R Kingdon
Mr M A Williams
2008
Dr P Campbell
Mr S E Lugg
Mr A J Sheach
Revd Canon B
2009
Watchorn
Dr A G Miller
Mr S J Hilton
Mrs C F Holmes
Dr J E Morley
Mr R O H Morley
Mr R H Mingay
Mr T F Pick
Mrs J G Coleman
Mrs A C E Stimpson
Dr M R Wormald
Mr H P Raingold
Miss C A Frith
Mr J A Buckley
Mr A N Knobel
Dr P M McCormack
Mr A W Morris
ARAM
Mr C J R Goodfellow
Miss V A Skinner
Mrs C C Wightman
Mr J Wightman
Mr P D Dewhurst
Dr J T D Gardom
Mr C M Gauld
Mr M R Mellor
Mr R H C Morgan
Mrs F J Potts
Mr E Ward
Dr C A Young
Dr C Guyader
Mr H C G Lamarque
Dr E J M Monk
Mr C J Thorn
Mr A M Bell
Mr P R Daniell
Miss J L Hawkin
Mr M C W Peacock
Mr J W Boreham
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2010
Mr O M T Budd
Mr J S Cain
Mr J G Gateshill
Miss S J Henderson
Miss J E C
2011
Hodkinson
Mr M H Jaffer
2012
Mr P G Keenan
Ms J G McGowan
Mr A R McWilliams
Dr E C Morgan
Miss K E Nicholson
Dr M Duembgen
Mr T G Fletcher
Mr O P Hilsdon
2013
Mr M J McBride
Mr W I A Snowden
Mr M H Y Yoon
Mr R J H Scanes
Ms N Yee
Mr A J Barker
Mr T J Forbes
Miss E L Gould
Mr R Khubchandani
Mr W R Myer
Mr R Ollington
Miss S G
Spreadborough
Mr S Ali
Dr J H Durrell
Mr R J Phillips
Mr W Popplewell
Mr J D Roberts
Miss H Roy
Miss M S P Waters
Dr E J L Adlard
Mr W F Charnley
Miss E Hinks
Miss S A March
Ms N Morris
The 90th annual dinner of the Society will be held at the Drapers’ Hall on the
evening of Thursday 17 November 2016. The response to the Toast will be given
by Dr Simon Learmount, Director of Studies in Management Studies at
Pembroke, Lecturer in Corporate Governance at the Judge Business School, and
President of PCCS.
Scottish Dinner
The 65th Annual Dinner in Scotland was held at the New Club on Friday
6 November 2015. The College Representative was Dr Henning Grunwald.
PRESENT
1945
1957
1959
1961
1963
1966
Mr P B Mackenzie
Ross
Professor J A A
Hunter OBE
Dr S Crampin
Mr H A CrichtonMiller
Dr D B Taylor
Mr P L Dix
Dr I M Cassells
Mr P A C Campbell
1970
1979
1981
1984
1986
1987
1988
1989
Professor R H
Roberts
Mr D A Walter
Mr J W S Macfie
Dr I M McClure
Mr A J Clarkson
Dr B A Cuthbert
Dr A E Bayly
Dr A R Mackay
Professor A J McNeil
Mr R M B Brown
1990
1991
1995
2010
Dr J A K Bayly
Mr D S Dix
Miss E M Dawson
Mrs C F MacColl
Mr G L MacColl
Mr A L B Neame
Miss K M C McIvor
Ms N Morris
Robbie Brown (1989) has arranged to hold the 66th Annual Dinner in Scotland at
the New Club on Friday 4 November 2016.
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Northern Dinner
The PCCS Northern Dinner was held at the Leeds Club, 3 Albion Place, Leeds, on
Friday 28 March 2016. The College representative was the Master, Lord Smith
of Finsbury.
PRESENT
1953
1955
1958
1964
1966
Mr H Howard and
Ms Helen Whittaker
Mr D J Figures
Professor G Parry
FRS
Mr P D Ogden
Mr J V P Drury &
Mrs C E C Drury
Mr D A Salter &
1980
Mrs A R Salter
Mr D R Sneath
TD DL &
1985
Mrs C Sneath
Mr R B Tregoning &
Mrs G M C
1987
Tregoning
Professor D P
Newton &
Mrs X Liu
Professor H M
Thompson &
Dr H A Pattison
Miss A C
Zdravkovich
Miss E Hinks
South Western Dinner
The 15th Annual South Western Dinner was held at the Clifton Club on the evening
of Friday 6 November 2015. The College representative was Professor Tim Bussey.
PRESENT
1957
1961
1962
1963
Sir John Kingman &
Lady Kingman
Mr R H Jarratt &
Mrs S E Jarratt
Mr J S Nicholas
Mr R C Sommers
Dr T R Jones &
Mrs L M Jones
Professor V P Snaith
& Mrs C J Snaith
1964
1965
1966
1970
Dr M A Turpin &
1971
Dr C L Turpin
1972
Mr J D Midgley &
Mrs J A Midgley
1978
Mr P W Urquhart
Mr C G Toomer & 2001
2001
Mrs H Toomer
Professor A D
Buckingham &
Mrs J Buckingham
Mr F G D Montagu &
Mrs O Montagu
Mr A B Elgood
Dr J W Lumley
Dr S N Kukureka
Professor T J Bussey
Miss A V J Midgley
& Mr I Hughes QC
Ms S A March
Tony Elgood (1972) has arranged to hold the 16th Annual South Western Dinner
at the Clifton Club on the evening of Friday 11 November 2016. The Master will
represent the College.
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Tokyo Dinner
The PCCS Tokyo Dinner was hosted by the Cambridge and Oxford Society of
Japan, at The Tokyo Club, Tokyo, on Monday 4 April 2016. The College
representative was the Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury PC.
PRESENT
1960
1966
1977
1982
1983
1994
1995
Mr T Kazuhara
1996
Mr T P Itoh &
Mrs E Itoh
2000
Mr S Rosati &
2002
2003
Mrs S Rosati
2006
Mr K Nishizaki
2009
Mr S K Lenihan
Professor A Mabuchi
Mrs Y E Yagi &
Mr T Yagi
Mr O Kawanishi &
Mrs N Kawanishi
Dr S Nakatani
Mr J P S Sharp
Mr D R Maggs
Dr K Yano
Mr M Takano
Professor M Kimura
Mr T Minton
Professor A Morita
Ms N Morris
Professor A
Takahashi
Professor M Wada
Professor S Yano
Professor S Ikemoto
Professor N Itoh
Singapore Drinks
The PCCS Singapore Drinks was held at the Aura Sky Lounge, National Gallery
Singapore, Singapore, on Sunday 10 April 2016. The College representative was
the Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury PC.
PRESENT
1958
1969
1977
1980
1981
1983
1985
Professor A C Palmer
FRS &
Mrs J Palmer
Mr J G C Gee
Professor J M
1986
Maciejowski
1988
Mr J P Snoad &
Mrs J Snoad
1989
Mr T H Tan,
1991
Mrs S H Tan &
2001
Mr S Tan
2004
Mr B D Clarke,
2005
Mrs Y T Clarke & 2006
Miss C Clarke
Mr P J Illingworth &
Mrs T Illingworth
Mr J Marvi
Mr P A C Went,
Mrs S Went,
Mr M Went &
Miss N Went
2010
Mr N Hunt
Dr M Malik-Kudaisya
& Mr G Kudaisya 2011
2014
Mr A N D Smith
Mr J Mladenic
Mr G C T Lim
Miss H G A Bill
Mr Y Y Xie
Miss H Y J Ho &
Dr R Walsh
Mr N J Johnson &
Mrs A M Salleh
Miss N L L Tay &
Miss T Wu
Miss M S Y Yeo &
Mr P Henry
Miss T S C Helke
Mr S Q D Sim
Mr M Soni
Miss X Jiang &
Miss Wu
Miss J Feng
Professor K V Ling &
Mrs Y L Ling
Miss T Soh &
Miss S Soh
Ms N Morris
Mr N Teo
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Hong Kong Drinks
The PCCS Hong Kong Drinks were held in the Bloom Salon and Lounge at the
Azure Restaurant Slash Bar, Hotel LKF, Hong Kong on Tuesday 12 April 2016.
The College representative was the Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury PC.
PRESENT
1955
1962
1969
1970
Mr P S Jackson
The Hon H Y Wong
GBS OBE &
Mrs W Wong
Mr I M White
Mr C H Hall
Mr J R James
1985
1987
1994
1996
1998
Mr P Tao
Mr J M Copeman
Mr M K-T Mok
Dr S W Gale
Ms H Y B Law
Ms M G Poon &
Mr C W Pang
1999
2004
2007
Mr U K Riaz &
Mrs Riaz
Mr H A T-T Kam
Mr Y Qiu
Ms N Morris
Pembroke Circle Members
Ms W C Chak
Miss G Chan
Mr H W Chan
Mr K Chan
Ms W S Chan
Miss K Y Cheung
Mr S H Chou
Ms S Ho
Ms C Y Huang
Ms N Hui
Mr Y T Ka
Ms S Ko
Mr J Kwok
Miss C Lam
Miss J Lam
Ms W K Lam
Mr S Lau
Miss C Lee
Miss Y Y C Lee
Miss Z Li
Miss A Ng
Miss C Ng
Ms K W K Ng
Miss J Ngo
Ms N Pang
Mr R Tong
Mr C Y Wong
Ms E Wong
Miss S K Wong
Miss X Yao
Miss A Yeung
Ms R Yeung
Miss Y H Yeung
Mr H Zhao
Toronto Dinner
The PCCS Toronto Dinner was held at The Toronto Club, Toronto, on Tuesday 24
May 2016. The College representative was the Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury PC.
PRESENT
1959
1960
1962
Dr L G Bonar &
Mrs S Bonar
Mr J A McMyn &
Mrs J McMyn
The Hon W I C
Binnie CC &
Mrs S Binnie
Dr G M Bragg &
Mrs M Norris
1969
1972
1982
1998
Mr P R Jepson,
Mrs N St Amant
& Miss L Jepson
Mr G D Blyth &
Ms K ParkerBrooks
Mr C S Teng
Mr H R Perren
2006
2007
2008
2012
2013
Mr M R Mellor
Mr M J Coe
Mr S P X Lynch &
Ms J Kent
Mr A J Fleming
Mr K Kavoosi &
Miss C Souto
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New York Drinks
The PCCS New York Drinks were held at The University Club of New York, New
York, on Wednesday 25 May 2016. The College representative was the Rt Hon
Lord Smith of Finsbury PC.
PRESENT
1954
1966
1970
1972
1974
1976
1981
1990
1994
Mr R J M Thompson 1995
Mr N N Wilson &
Mrs L Wilson
2001
Mr R C Shields &
2002
Dr L Kostakoglu 2005
Mr O N R L Frankel
Mr A Nimalasuriya & 2006
2007
Ms L Morison
Mr P R M Truell
2008
Dr A Sibanda
Dr I P Sealy &
Mrs S Sealy
Mr D H Singer
2009
Dr C L Hansen
2012
Dr A Guha
Miss N Surur &
Mr D South
Miss C A Chiu
2013
Mr D G Van der Staay
Mr X Liang &
Ms J Xue
Mr M R Mellor
Ms C E LlewellynSmith
Mr A Hoffman &
Ms B Weiss
Mrs M G McCarthy
& Mr J McCarthy
Mr A B Fabry
Miss H E Bowen
Miss M E Coons
Ms L Parodi-Huml
Mr J Bruch
Mr B Q Hoang
Ms C C McRee
Ms E Owens
Miss S
Prathanrasnikorn
Miss A Suseendran
& Ms C Bondira
Ms O Jacopetti &
Mr A Reda
Mr S Karuri
Ms K Kushnir &
Mr M Ressler
Mr Z Li, Ms J Wang
& Ms M Xiang
Ms Y Mao
Ms E Oleske &
Mr G Rosenblum
Ms L C Oxley &
Ms S Waihuni
Ms C Panama &
Mr Panama
Mr S Schneider &
Ms E Wells
Mr J Siler
Mr C Turney
Miss S B Xuan
Ms T Zhu
Miss M Zolfaghari
& Ms D Nisperos
Mrs M F GerardSharp &
Mr A Wambold
Pembroke Circle Members
Ms A Abazova &
Ms A Rosencrans
Mr J Aquino
Ms L Bieker
Mr E Crockett
Mr K Doughan &
Ms K Rose
Mr I Gebremariam
& Ms S Myung
Mr M Ghosh
Mr S Hussain
Miss J Jacolbe
Los Angeles Reception
The PCCS Los Angeles Wine Reception was kindly hosted by Mr Ed Shearmur at
his house in Los Angeles on Tuesday 31 May 2016. The College representative was
the Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury PC.
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PRESENT
1978
1983
1985
1988
1993
Dr E H Hainoff &
Ms B Sharp
Mr R D Lewis
Mr E R Shearmur
Ms D C CardilliKromnick &
Mr M Kromnick
Miss F E Page
1995
1997
2003
2006
Dr J Theiss &
2010
Mr P Theiss
Ms H G Minghella 2012
& Mr M Larson
Mrs L Tate
Dr V Rubino & Ms P
Policroniades
2014
Mr M R Mellor
Mr R Stockwell &
Ms D Wong
Mr J N Penn
Miss B J Mata
Matthews &
Mr D Moore
Mr R J C Bagnall
San Francisco Dinner
The PCCS San Francisco Dinner was held at The University Club, San Francisco,
on Friday 3 June 2016. The College representative was the Rt Hon Lord Smith of
Finsbury PC.
PRESENT
1959
1962
1969
1976
1983
Mr D P Robinson
Dr M J Llewellyn1984
Smith AM KStJ
Mr P G Cleary &
1997
Mrs P Cleary
2001
Mr P C M
2002
Thornycroft &
2004
Mrs A Thornycroft
Mr M P Bridges &
Ms J Thirasilpa
2006
Mr J van S Maeck II 2007
Mr R G Nasr &
Ms S Hartman
Mr J A Wall
Mr M F Tomlinson 2010
Dr A Gupta
Ms C L Chou
2013
Mr P A Helm &
Mrs R Helm
Dr D E Gordon
Mr A Y Han &
Ms McCrea
Ms C E LlewellynSmith
Mr K R Coelho
Mr T W Hogan
Miss T L Kisch
Mr E Kristman
Miss L Kwok &
Ms D Lee
Mr E Lai
Ms C Leaf &
Mr M Caplan
Ms J Lin
Ms M Ly
Mr R Moein Taghavi
Ms G MuellerTesterman
Ms Meredith Pitkoff
& Ms C Buehl
Ms C Puetz &
Mr B Patel
Miss D Rama
Ms A Sun
Ms E Sunga
Mr C Stanton
Ms S Swee-Singh &
Mr J Natalizio
Mr A J Torres Rezzio
& Mr F Castillo
Ms J Vuong
Ms G Woo
Mr S Xu
Professor I
Llewellyn-Smith
Pembroke Circle Members
Miss N Barlera
Mr R Blank &
Miss L Blank
Mr W Borja &
Mr R Jegillios
Ms W Chan
Mr J Cohenzadeh
Ms Y Dong
Ms K Du &
Mr D Pisciotta
Ms T Kandralyan &
Ms M Mesropian
Miss H Keiler
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LOCAL CONTACTS
Australia
China
Adelaide
Mr T D P Kirkwood (1987)
Dr M J Llewellyn-Smith AM KStJ (1962) Kirkwood & Sons LLC
27 Kate Court
3610 Capital Mansion
Adelaide SA 5000
No 6 Xin Yuan Road South
Australia
Chaoyang District
Email:
Beijing 100004
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Email:
[email protected]
Melbourne
Mob: +86 1380 1358 781
Mr A J R Barker (1994)
China office: +86 10 8486 8099
35 Harcourt Street
US office: +1 570 506 9850
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Australia
Hong Kong
Email:
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The Hon Peter Wong GBS OBE (1962)
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Mr A G Shelton (1976)
54 Kennedy Road
Andrew Shelton & Co
Hong Kong
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Email:
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[email protected]
Australia
Email:
Japan
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Mr T P Itoh (1966)
Sydney
Aozora Securities Co Ltd
Miss L J Sproston (1994)
1-3-1 Kudanminami
Email:
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Tokyo 102-0074
Mr R E Shadforth (1996)
Japan tel: +81 3 4540 0100
Email:
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Canada
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Qatar, Abu Dhabi and UAE
UK
Mr P W Blackmore (1975)
Email: peter.blackmore.1975@
pem.cam.ac.uk
London
Mr A S Ivison (1974)CMS Cameron
McKenna
Mitre House
160 Aldersgate Street
London EC1A 4DD
Singapore
Mr B D Clarke (1981)
Raffles City, PO Box 1456
Singapore 911749
Republic of Singapore
Email:
[email protected]
Tel: +65 6775 0542
Mob: +65 9277 0028
USA
New York
Ms C E Llewellyn-Smith (2007)
Email: cassie.llewellyn.smith.2007@
pem.cam.ac.uk
Mr C P Robb (1976)
161 East 79th Street Apt 12B
New York NY 10021-0433
USA
San Francisco
Mr P G Cleary (1969)
531 Diamond Street
San Francisco CA 94114
USA
Email: [email protected]
Bristol
Mr A B Elgood (1972)
Upper Hounsley Farm
Hounsley Batch
Winford
Bristol
Somerset BS40 8BS
Email:
[email protected]
Leeds
Mr D R Sneath TD DL (1966)
7 Kirkby Road
Ravenshead
Nottingham
NG15 9HD
Email:
[email protected]
Scotland
Mr R M B Brown (1989)
79 Hamilton Place
Aberdeen
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RULES OF THE SOCIETY
1.
The Society shall be composed of past and present Members of
Pembroke College, Cambridge, and shall be called the ‘PEMBROKE
COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY’.
2.
The objects of the Society shall be:
(a) To promote closer relationship among Pembroke Graduates, and
between them and the College.
(b) To compile an Address Book of past and present Members of the
College, to publish an Annual Gazette, and to issue these free to all
Members of the Society.
(c) To make grants to the College.
3.
The subscription for Life Membership of the Society shall be decided
from time to time by the Committee.*
4.
The Officers of the Society shall be a President, one or more VicePresidents, a Chairman of Committee, a Treasurer, a Secretary (who
shall be a resident Fellow of the College), a Dinner Secretary, an Editor
of the Gazette, and such local Secretaries as may be desirable.
The Officers shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting and shall
hold office for one year. Nominations, with the names of the Proposer
and Seconder, shall be sent to the Secretary six weeks before the
Annual General Meeting. The retiring President shall not be eligible
for re-election for a period of three years after his retirement.
5.
The Management of the Society shall be entrusted to a Committee
consisting of the following Officers, namely the Chairman of
Committee, the Treasurer, the Secretary, the Secretary for London, the
Dinner Secretary, the Editor of the Gazette and not less than twelve other
Members of the Society to be elected annually. Nominations for the
Committee, with the names of Proposer and Seconder, shall be sent to
the Secretary six weeks before the Annual General Meeting. Of the
elected members of the Committee, six shall retire annually by rotation
according to priority of election, and their places shall be filled at the
Annual General Meeting; a retiring member shall be eligible for reelection after a period of one year from his retirement. The Committee
shall have power to co-opt additional members for a period of one year.
6.
The Capital Fund of the Society shall be vested in the Master, Fellows
and Scholars of the College, who may administer this Fund both as to
capital and income as they in their discretion may think fit, provided
always that it be primarily applied to making contributions to the
funds of the Society.
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7.
The income and expenditure of the Society shall be administered by the
Committee through its Secretary.
The Committee may at their discretion add to the Capital Fund vested
in the College, but shall have no power to require withdrawal from
this Fund.
8.
The Committee shall meet at least twice in every year. At all meetings
of the Committee seven shall form a quorum.
9.
The Committee shall arrange an Annual Dinner or other Social
Meetings of the Society in London.
10.
The Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held on the day
fixed for the Annual Dinner or other Social Meeting. The Secretary
shall send out notices of the Meeting at least one month before it
takes place.
11.
The Committee in their discretion may, and upon a written request
signed by twenty-four Members of the Society shall, call a Special
General Meeting. Fourteen days’ notice of such a Meeting shall be
given and the object for which it is called stated in the notice.
12.
No alteration shall be made in the Rules of the Society except at a
General Meeting and by a majority of two-thirds of those present and
voting, and any proposed alteration shall be stated on the notice
calling the Meeting.
*The Committee decided (10 December 1982) that, for the time being, the Life
Membership subscription shall be nil. This decision was made possible by an offer from
the College of an annual subvention from the Bethune-Baker Fund which, it was hoped,
would provide a sufficient supplement to the Society’s income to enable expenses to be
met, particularly the expenses of printing and postage of the Annual Gazette.
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PRESIDENTS OF THE SOCIETY
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
J F P Rawlinson
E G Browne
G R Eden
L Whibley
F Shewell Cooper
A Hutchinson
F S Preston
E H Minns
J B Atkins
H G Comber
E H Pooley
J C Lawson
J E Singleton
J K Mozley
M S D Butler
J C C Davidson
S C Roberts
R A Butler
M S D Butler
J W F Beaumont
J T Spittle
P J Dixon
H E Wynn
Sir Wavell Wakefield
V C Pennell
E H Pooley
B E King
H Grose-Hodge
S C Roberts
H F Guggenheim
Sir William Hodge
The Rt Hon Lord Salmon
A J Arberry
A G Grantham
B Willey
G W Pickering
M B Dewey
J M Key
W A Camps
D G A Lowe
W S Hutton
R G Edwardes Jones
T G S Combe
H F G Jones
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
G C Smith
Sir Eric Drake
J Campbell
J G Ward
D R Denman
W L Gorell Barnes
M C Lyons
D A S Cairns
M V Posner
Sir Patrick Browne
Lord Adrian
J G P Crowden
L P Johnson
The Rt Hon Lord Prior
J Baddiley
T J Brooke-Taylor
J C D Hickson
P J D Langrishe
J R Waldram
G D S MacLellan
S Kenderdine
Sir Peter Scott
A V Grimstone
The Rt Hon Lord Taylor
Sir Roger Tomkys
Sir John Chilcot
C Gilbraith
J K Shepherd
B Watchorn
R H Malthouse
M G Kuczynski
Sir Patrick Elias
Sir John Kingman
Ms V J Bowman
M G Kuczynski
R H King
J S Bell
R G Macfarlane
M R Wormald
N G H Manns
Sir Richard Dearlove
Mrs C F Holmes
S A Learmount
E. DEATHS AND OBITUARIES
Pembroke Football First XI, 1956
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LIST OF DEATHS
The College notes with regret the deaths of the following members
1937 Robert Aelwyn Edwards (10 October 2015; BA Natural Sciences)
Gordon Hamilton Peters (1 November 2015; BA History)
1938 Robert George Frecheville (25 June 2015; BA Mechanical Sciences)
Noel Bambury Hobbs (23 October 2015; BA Mechanical Sciences)
1939 Peter Fitzhugh (17 March 2014; BA Natural Sciences)
1940 Nazim Kasamaly Rahim (6 May 2015; BA Economics/Law)
1943 David George Grainger (2014; BA Mechanical Sciences)
Raymond Thomas Smith (1 October 2015; BA Archaeology &
Anthropology)
1945 John Addison Smith (17 July 2013; BA Economics)
Graham Morley Clarke (28 January 2016; see obituary p. 159)
1946 Edwin Burrow Abram (15 June 2016; BA Economics)
1947 Raymond John Lawrence (30 December 2015; BA Classics/Economics)
Laurence David Lerner (19 January 2016; see obituary p. 166)
Hugh Gerard Penman (10 September 2015; see obituary p. 173)
David Somerville Withers (26 January 2015; BA Natural Sciences/History)
1948 John Aloysius Bremer (30 November 2015; BA History)
Hugh David Doherty (2015; BA Economics/Law)
Archibald Ranulph Dunbar (30 November 2015; see obituary p.161)
Nigel Fawcus Legge (28 July 2015; BA Geography)
Dennis Alban Tarrant (12 December 2015; see obituary p.178)
1949 Brian Malcolm Eddy (2015; BA Classics/Geography)
Javid Iqbal (3 October 2015; see obituary p.164)
1951 David Bradley (7 July 2016; BA English)
Harry Davis (6 December 2015; BA Modern & Medieval Languages)
Richard Malim Hickman (7 September 2015; BA History)
Terence Patrick McCaughey (9 February 2016; see obituary p.169)
John Francis Onley (20September 2014; BA English/Theology)
David Ashley Pears (3 December 2015; see obituary p.172)
Geoffrey Ernest Francis Rawlins (14 March 2014; BA History)
Michael Gordon Smith (4 May 2015; BA Modern & Medieval
Languages/Law)
Anthony Frederick Upton (July 2015; see obituary p.179)
Edward Malise Wynter Wagstaff (13 November 2015; BA Mechanical
Sciences)
1952 Paul Joseph Folca (13 February 2016; BA Natural Sciences, BChir, MB)
Bruce Oswald Bernard Williams (2015; BA Natural Sciences)
1953 Brian Michael Holmes (1 August 2015; BA Economics)
1954 Maheshkumar Nilkanthrai Buch (6 June 2015; see obituary p.157)
Michael George Frederick Shears (21 May 2016; see obituary p.175)
1955 Simon Martin Andrew (17 August 2015; BA Natural Sciences)
Timothy Dee (2016; BA History)
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Philip Leslie Parsons (30 January 2016; BA English/History)
1956 Richard Bradfield Catlow (12 March 2016; BA Law)
John Reginald Parry (25 January 2016; BA Modern & Medieval Languages)
Michael John Radford Counsell (22 July 2015; see obituary p. 160)
Jeremy Longmore Russell (15 February 2016; see obituary p. 175)
Edwin Stein (1 September 2011; BA English)
1957 Donald Keith Ross (20 February 2016; BA Natural Sciences)
James Henry Tilden (5 August 2015; BA History)
1958 John Michael Cappin (21 June 2016; BA Natural Sciences)
Timothy Leetham Taylor (2 July 2015; BA Natural Sciences)
Pierre Fouad Tamer (25 January 2016; BA Economics)
Richard Stephen Alban Thomas (8 July 2016; BA Natural Sciences,
BChir, MB)
Antony John Wadge (5 June 2016; BA Natural Sciences)
1959 Graham Agar Broadbent (May 2015; BA Natural Sciences/Economics)
David Alexander Hobbs (11 May 2016; see obituary p. 163)
David John Phillips (8 June 2016; BA Natural Sciences)
Timothy Steuart Hallam Piper (24 November 2015; see obituary p. 174)
1961 (Okakwu) Emeka Geoffrey Olisa (April 2015; MSc Pathology)
David James Streeter (18 October 2015; see obituary p. 177)
Roger Gaythorne Tanner (12 March 2015; BA History/Law)
1962 Marcello de Cecco (3 March 2016; see obituary p. 158)
Graham Spurgeon (BA Modern & Medieval Languages)
David Mark Wilcox (June 2015; BA Natural Sciences)
John Allan Wilson (28 August 2015; BA Law)
1963 Paul Anthony Hawksworth (15 September 2015; BA Modern & Medieval
Languages)
Charles Frederick Gray Murdock (26 November 2008; see obituary
p. 170)
1964 Jonathan Noel Martin (22 November 2015; see obituary p. 168)
1966 Brian Martin Lomax (2 November 2015; see obituary p. 167)
1968 Gordon David Maurice Goldberg (13 June 2015; LLB)
Allen Robert Waugh (23 March 2016; see obituary p. 181)
1970 Paul Baxter (24 October 2015; BA Natural Sciences)
1971 David James Neville (14 April 2016; see obituary p. 170)
1973 Adrian Robin Aylward (11 April 2016; see obituary p. 155)
1975 Richard Eustace Murray Affleck (5 April 2010; BA Archaeology &
Anthropology/Land Economy)
1976 Carlos Marquez Padilla (7 October 2004; BA Economics)
Nigel Gordon Walker (2 May 2016; see obituary p. 180)
1986 Robert Jack Murray (20 February 2016; BA Mathematics)
1992 Jo Cox (née Leadbeater) (16 June 2016; see p. 8)
2003 James Howard Haddrell (May 2015; Mathematics)
This Gazette also carries obituaries for Professor J P Barber (at p. 155) and for
Professor B J A Furr (p. 162), whose deaths were announced in the previous Gazette.
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OBITUARIES
Adrian Robin Aylward
3 December 1954 – 11 April 2016
Obituary by Christopher Barder (1974)
Adrian Aylward was an engaging and interesting man from the moment I first
met him at Pembroke in the mid 1970s. No one could have guessed he came from
a background involved in the very highest tiers of Whitehall, because he remained
so much an individualist, his own man, both to look at and to talk to. Slightly
stooped with a loping gait, Adrian was on top of his academic brief and engaged
thoroughly in his work, whilst all his life maintaining a singular and informed
view of the outside world, quite literally.
Adrian used to go mountain rambling regularly, right up to the end of his life,
producing remarkable photographs for their evocative quality, capturing
weather, depth of field and sense of adventure. Somehow the loneliness of the
long distance walker fitted in with Adrian’s singularity and yet he enjoyed
company and friendship and exhibited a remarkable generosity at times, giving
me my first computer, laser printer and a lot of time thereafter, all needed and
donated with humour and amusement. He perceived email and the web would
‘get’ me, I think before I realised either their usefulness or my own future delight
at the world they brought.
In his field, Adrian was known as something of a pioneer. His PhD thesis, well
removed from my understanding, I have simply recorded as the shortest I have
ever seen! But he made his fortune from working for Micro Focus in Newbury,
Berkshire, by clever share purchasing within the company in its early days and
then buying a palatial house, complete with indoor swimming pool, sauna and
granny flat and gardens. However, having a moral awareness of how unusual this
was for one man, he made much of it available to his church friends and enjoyed
their pleasure using the facilities, which he rather self-effacing downplayed.
Adrian’s Christian faith, fascination with eschatology and ‘end times’
theology and international events, like his hiking, was a hallmark of the man and
he was sustained by his Biblical scholarship and beliefs, which helped carry him
through to the very end, when he and very few others knew how limited, short of
a miracle, were the days the doctors had allotted to him. It is reported that he was
found next to his bed, with a smile on his face. Plainly, after his tragic battle with
cancer, he went home to rest, at peace, on 11 April 2016.
James Peden Barber
6 November 1931 – 24 July 2015
Obituary by Andrew (1978), Mark (1989) and Sarah (2010) Barber
James Barber was born in the Everton district of Liverpool. His father worked
at the Tate & Lyle sugar refinery, though was periodically unemployed and
circumstances were modest. The family terrace house was demolished in the
1970s during ‘slum clearance’, though James was adamant that, while humble,
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the house was not a slum and that he grew up in a
supportive and loving family in which church (the nonconformist creed – though never tightly described),
music, sport and education were all given prominence.
From these roots he also developed a lifetime passion
for Everton Football Club, which he passed on to his
children and grandchildren, with the admonition that
supporting the Toffees was a lesson in life – success
rarely came but when it did, it was hard fought for and
was all the sweeter for that.
James’s break from inner-city Liverpool came with a scholarship from his local
primary school to one of the city’s great grammar schools, the Liverpool Institute.
During his time there James steadily excelled academically and in sport,
becoming Head Boy and captain of both cricket and football. From the Institute,
via National Service with the RAF (which he disliked), James was accepted under
a state scholarship to read History at Pembroke. In a family history, he described
entering Pembroke in the early 1950s: “My first day in College was full of autumn
sunshine, and as I looked out from my small room, over the Pembroke gardens, I decided I had
reached paradise.”
In James’s last year at Cambridge he met June, who was then working as a
librarian at Liverpool City Library, and in 1953 they married. Theirs was a long and
loving marriage and they were to have four children and ten grandchildren. James
embarked on a career in the Colonial Service, which was to take them to Uganda.
As his first tour he chose the remote region of Karamoja, peopled by pastoralist
tribesmen. The years spent amongst these cattle herders – and raiders – were
amongst the happiest of his life. He and June started their family there and James
also made his first, tentative, foray into academia through the publication of a
history of colonial northern Uganda.
With independence in 1962, James spent an initial year supporting the new
government as secretary to the Cabinet but then seized on an opportunity to move
into university teaching through a position at the Politics Department of the
University of New South Wales. This was later followed by two years in the
University of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and then back to the UK and Exeter
University. James’s time in Rhodesia coincided with Ian Smith’s declaration of
UDI, and from this period more writing and scholarship flowed and a lifelong
interest in international affairs and the politics of southern Africa. In the early
1970s, James was one of the first recruits to the nascent Open University, where
he was eventually to become Pro-Vice Chancellor. Finally, the draw of a
conventional university drew him to Durham and a very happy and successful
tenure as the Master of Hatfield College. Amongst many achievements, and
initially in the face of considerable resistance, he introduced women to the
College. Throughout he wrote and published extensively, but is also remembered
by former students as being generous in his time and support for their studies
and interests.
James was an energetic man with a great love of life; he had the ability and zest
to pursue a range of interests and activities. It was therefore a particular tragedy
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that in his last year at Hatfield College he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s
disease. The retirement that he and June had planned, alas, was not to be and in
his last years this terrible illness was to dominate his life. He fought it doggedly,
and to the end still found pleasure in visits from his many grandchildren, who
were a source of great pride and pleasure. June supported him and his illness with
great resolve, though her life was also hugely impacted by the consequences
of Parkinson’s.
James made a set of lifetime friends when he entered Pembroke in 1952, a
number of whom were to attend his funeral, and the College was to remain a
lasting pillar in his life. The close connection was reinforced when two sons and
a granddaughter also attended College. On retirement, James and June moved
from Durham to their house overlooking Midsummer Common and before his
illness took its final hold James actively supported the Pembroke endowment
programme, as well dining periodically in College and attending chapel. In joy
and sadness, Pembroke Chapel was the setting for a family christening and for
James’s funeral. He was much loved and is hugely missed.
Maheshkumar Nilkanthrai Buch
5 October 1934 – 4 June 2015
Mahesh Buch was regarded as the architect of New
Bhopal. He introduced the concept of flowing
designs in the city and was widely praised for his
determination to improve the environment of both
Bhopal and the region of Madhya Pradesh.
He was born in the city in 1934 but went to
school in Lahore, Pakistan, and later Rajkumar College in Rajkot in the Indian
state of Gujarat. He studied Economics at St Stephen’s College at Delhi
University, graduating in 1954 and arrived in Cambridge that autumn to do a
Masters in Economics. He joined the Indian government service in 1957 but
simultaneously continued his academic progress, taking an MPhil at the Indian
Institute of Public Administration at the University of Punjab and later a
postgraduate diploma from University College, London. In 1967, he was the
Parvin Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton.
He held numerous posts in the Indian Administration including Collector and
District Magistrate, Director of Tribal Welfare, and Secretary and Commissioner
of the Environmental Group of Departments which included town and country
planning. He was also Vice Chairman of Delhi Development Authority, Director
General of the National Institute of Urban Development, Secretary of Housing
and Forests and Vice Chairman of the National Commission on Urbanisation.
M N Buch was passionate about creating a clean, green city and oversaw the
creation of the New Market and many of the city’s gardens. He understood not
only the needs of the city at the time but those of its future too. He did not always
see eye to eye with conservationists during his time in the Indian Administration
but his knowledge on urban planning and environmental protection was second
to none.
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After taking early retirement in 1984, he continued to work for the city, helping
to saving many significant heritage sites. He maintained his public service after
retirement, however, setting up the National Centre for Human Settlements and
Environment, a Bhopal-based NGO which undertakes settlement planning,
forestation, watershed management, consumer protection and skills
development. He was also chaired the board of governors of the Indian Institute
of Information Technology and Management.
M N Buch Buch received many awards for his planning and environmental
work: he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan award for his contributions to
civil service from the Indian Government in 2011. He was also presented with the
UNEP award for the implementation of the desertification control programme in
1994 and the Aga Khan award for Architecture in 1998 for the New Vidham Sabha
building in Madhya Pradesh. In 2003 he received the Man of Vision award from
the Hindustan Times.
He is survived by his wife Nimala and son Vineet
Marcello de Cecco
1 September 1930 – 3 March 2016
Obituary by Michael Kuczysnki
Marcello de Cecco, distinguished monetary
economist, was born into the bourgeoisie de robe, at
Lanciano in the Abruzzi hills, at the start of World
War II. An early operation to clear his breathing
left him with a boxer’s nose, and his widowed mother, something of a iettatrice,
rounded on the Milanese surgeon so effectively that he promptly passed away.
Lanciano was a centre of the Resistance to Mussolini and the de Cecco’s were
close to Raffaelle Mattioli, another abruzzese – friend of Croce, Sraffa, and Gramsci
– founder of Mediobanca and godfather to serious modern economics in Italy as
well as to the country’s economic miracle of the 1950s. de Cecco, no kin of the
pasta manufacturer, retained the scholarly, mildly amused, tout-comprendre-esttout-pardonner, non-doctrinaire liberalism of the family friend and mentor. He
graduated in Law (Jurisprudence really) from Parma, and came to Pembroke as an
affiliated student in Economics in 1962, staying on after the B.A. to begin a
doctoral thesis with R.F. Kahn – the study of the latter days of the gold standard
eventually published by Blackwells as Money and Empire. The same work was to
take him to Chicago to sit at the feet of Milton Friedman. It was characteristic of
de Cecco to be as tickled by the postcards Kahn would send his pupils before each
meeting to remind them how to find his staircase in King’s as by the name and
barricaded entrance of the (Plaisance) apartment hotel where Friedman lived in
Hyde Park, Chicago. de Cecco was excellently well read in the history of monetary
thought and he had at his fingertips a wealth of parallels and counter-examples
from all sorts of episodes and settings. These insights did not endear him to the
abundance of conventional thinking on the subject. His reading of the birth of the
Euro-dollar market in the Bank of Italy’s critical tergiversation of policy in 1963
(the governor was a more senior Mattioli protégé) was an early example of de
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Cecco’s bright and imaginative interpretation of monetary experience; his recent
Ma che cos’è questa crisi (2013, Donzelli) likewise just as irritating to ordinary
thought and as pessimistic. He concluded a recent colloquium with ‘I regret not
perceiving a bright future for Europe’. de Cecco, fiercely proud of his liberal
intellectual origins, wrote and spoke with the classical accuracy of one educated
at a good liceo scientifico. In his early days at Pembroke, on a bumpy back-seat ride
to a pub in Whittlesford, he remarked to the driver ‘how well your motor-carriage
amortizes the asperities of the road’. While in England he had married Julia (now
Giulia), and after Cambridge they were, with their two bright sons, restless
academic pilgrims on either side of the Atlantic eventually, however, settling on
the Scuola Normale in Pisa and the Sapienza in Rome. de Cecco was born at
Lanciano (Abruzzi) on 1 September 1939 and died at Rome on 3 March 2016.
Graham Morley Clarke
30 May 1927 – 28 January 2016
Obituary by Julia Campbell
Graham Clarke was born in London and grew up during the blitz when
apparently he would pick up hot shrapnel from the streets as a boy. School years
were spent at the local comprehensive in Hounslow where he was an exemplary
scholar. He won the entrance exam to the Cambridge science faculty, but a
hiccough with a lack of Latin (which his school did not offer) prevented
immediate acceptance. As became typical of Graham, he got the school to
provide the books and taught himself in a few months and in time for the
required exam to be passed. Throughout his undergraduate course, Graham was
a major scholar and gained a double first in Physics and Mathematics. He went on
to a PhD in microwave valves, in the then new subject of Electronics.
An illustrious career in the electronics industry followed, with Graham
working for GEC for a while and then moving to Edinburgh where he had a long
career with Ferranti. He was a prolific inventor with many patents for Ferranti
which were exported worldwide laser scanners for detecting flaws in paper being
one of the main ones.
As well as Graham’s highly successful working career, he also developed and
produced more inventions at home. He had a passion for aeroplanes, which
became a real focus of his inventive talent over the years. He was a founder
member of the Ferranti Flying Club where he gained his private pilot’s license. In
1969 Graham built a coin operated flight simulator, and for 2s 6d the members of
Turnhouse Flying club could practice their skills.
Other home sprung inventions included a level crossing which he invented to
combine Triang train sets with Minic roads, Navstrips, air navigational maps (a
really useful aid to pilots of light aircraft) and laterally a computer programme
which added scenery to the very popular Microsoft Flight Simulator game.
His love of flying took him and his family many places in small planes and two
years running he ran the Scottish International Air Rally. When Graham retired,
he built a two-seater aeroplane (a Europa) which he flew all over the UK and as far
as Prague.
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He is survived by his wife of 61 years Jean, children Julia and Jonathan and
grandsons Ewan, Keith, Ross and Paul.
Michael John Radford Counsell
20 April 1935 – 22 July 2015
Obituary by Michael Paternoster (1956)
Michael and I came up to Pembroke in 1956 after
National Service. He had been at King Edward’s School,
Birmingham, and was reading Natural Sciences; I had
been at Kingston Grammar School and came up to read
Classics. We had apparently little in common, but we
were both ordinands and were soon immersed in the
Student Christian Movement, of which in due course we became the College
Representatives. In our third year we both switched to Theology and were
supervised by Geoffrey Styler of Corpus, who remarked that he had had perhaps
more promising pupils but never a pair so appropriately named.
After Cambridge Michael trained for the ministry at Ripon Hall, Oxford, and
in 1961 he was ordained in his home diocese of Birmingham. In late December
1963 he acted as best man at my wedding, leaving immediately afterwards to
spend Christmas with his brother (then serving with the army in Germany) and
his family, before going on to Singapore where he was for four years Vicar of
Serangoon. During his first furlough he married Elaine Roberts; in due course
they had a daughter and two sons. After Singapore he went to Vietnam as priest
in charge of St Christopher’s, Saigon, also acting as chaplain to the British and
American embassies and making occasional visit to Cambodia. In 1971 he was
appointed Dean of the Seychelles.
Finally returning to Britain in 1976, he became Vicar of St Peter’s, Harborne. It
was while there that he and Elaine suffered the tragic loss of their younger son,
aged six, knocked down in the road outside the Vicarage on Sunday afternoon.
Unsurprisingly, they left Birmingham soon after. Michael spent a year with
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Inter-Church Travel, which involved taking parties to Oberammergau. He was
then instituted to his final living, St Augustine’s, Forest Hill. He retired in 2000;
by then, sadly, his marriage had broken up. He bought a camper van and toured
Europe, undertaking locums and holiday chaplaincies. Eventually he bought a
flat in Birmingham, though he still continued to travel extensively. His last major
expedition was to visit his son and family in New Zealand, and, on the way back,
sightseeing in India.
As he approached eighty, he surrendered his Permission to Officiate in the
Diocese of Europe because he said travel insurance for the over-eighties was
prohibitively expensive. He continued to write, to sing in several choirs and to
help out in local churches, but anticipated no further travel. Soon, however, he
was to embark on the longest journey of all. Not long after his eightieth birthday
he began to suffer severe and distressing symptoms, and saw a consultant. As he
wrote to his friends, ‘the good news is that I shall go to heaven a bit earlier than I
expected … the bad news is that I shall have to put up with these wretched
symptoms until I get there.’ He faced death with confidence but meanwhile
carried on as normally as possible.
Michael was a prolific writer. He translated the Vietnamese national epic into
English and St Mark’s Gospel into Creole, and in recent years produced annually
for the Canterbury Press a complete set of sermon outlines.
Archibald Ranulph Dunbar
8 August 1927 – 30 November 2015
Obituary by Michael Kuczynski
Archibald Ranulph Dunbar, a notable East
Africanist, came up in 1948 after three years’
service with the Cameron Highlanders (attached
to the Gordons). He and his brother (A A D, 1949)
had followed their father (A E D, 1906) to Wellington and to Pembroke, and in due
course each of the brothers got a 1st class. This Dunbar read Agriculture and was
a spirited cross-country runner. Taking his BA in 1951 he went on to Trinidad for
a Diploma in Tropical Agriculture from the Imperial College at St Augustine, and
thence into the Colonial Service in East Africa. From 1956 to 1969 he served in
various capacities in Uganda, ultimately as principal of Makerere College just
before the Amin years. A gifted linguist and keen factual historian, he wrote up in
two monographs the intricate chequered history of the lands and peoples at the
headwaters of the White Nile, between Lake Albert and Lake Victoria, at the time
of the European incursion. One is a concise history of Bunyoro-Kitara, the other
a short life of Kabarega (or Kabalega), the omukama or king of Bunyoro who led
an heroic resistance to colonial rule. Both are learned yet eminently readable
works, with carefully hand-drawn maps and documented with matter-of-fact
sympathy for their subject-matter in the best administrative tradition. Dunbar’s
East African work was rounded off with the still authoritative survey The Annual
Crops of Uganda (1969). At his father’s death that year Dunbar succeeded to the
baronetcy (Dunbar of Northfield) and to the estate of Duffus. He married Amelia
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Davidson; they had two daughters and a son; and he threw himself into civic and
family life in Moray where, although relatively short in stature, he was till lately a
special constable as well as an expert railway historian and keen gauge 1 operator
– with rolling-stock hauled along by burning-hot meth-fuelled steam
locomotives best handled with asbestos gloves. Quiet, unassuming, and
cheerfully courageous, Dunbar helped at Lourdes and was a knight of Malta. He
was born in London on 8 August 1927 and died at Elgin on 30 November 2015.
Barrington John Albert Furr
17 November 1943 – 27 February 2015
Obituary by Jane Moorman
During Barrington (Barry) Furr’s career he was a key
scientist involved in the launch of three life-saving
medicines, and influenced the development of many
others. Barry and his colleagues made a huge contribution
to the success of AstraZeneca and established the
company as world leader in cancer medicines.
Barry came to ICI at Alderley Park in 1972 to work on fertility and took over
responsibility for development of the drug that became known as Nolvadex for
treatment of breast cancer. This was the first of the so-called anti-hormone
treatments for cancer and more than forty years later Nolvadex, in its generic
form tamoxifen, is still widely prescribed for women with breast cancer.
Barry was inspired to look for new anti-hormone opportunities, one of which
led to Zoladex, a drug used to treat prostate and breast cancers. This was, and still
is, a truly innovative medicine. Barry’s successes led to scientific recognition
within the company and he also moved into senior research management
positions where he exerted a profound influence on the scientific direction of the
company, being closely involved with the company’s disease strategy for cancer.
Following the merger that created AstraZeneca, Barry was appointed Chief
Scientist, in recognition of his international scientific standing. He was also
given the remit, by the Head of R&D, to provide him with regular, independent
evaluation of the company’s entire portfolio of drug hunting projects.
Reviewing other people’s science was a role that he relished and for which he
was ideally suited.
Unusually for a scientist from industry, Barry established a strong academic
reputation, which included publishing over 200 papers. He was active for a long
period in the Endocrinology Society and was awarded that Society’s jubilee medal
in 1997. He had previously received the Drug Discovery Award from the Society
for Drug Research. In the Millennium Honours list he was awarded the OBE for
his services to cancer drug discovery. Barry was appointed as a fellow of both the
Institute of Biology and the Academy of Medical Sciences and he was an honorary
professor at Manchester University.
After retiring from AstraZeneca in 2006, Barry showed no signs of slowing
down. He was much sought after as a scientific advisor for organisations ranging
from small start-ups to major pharmaceutical companies. At various times he
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acted as a trustee for Cancer Research UK and the Breast Cancer campaign and
served on scientific committees of the major UK Medical Research funders. He
also served as a non-executive director for a biotechnology company, the MHRA,
which is the agency that regulates all new medicines in the UK.
He was a William Pitt Fellow at Pembroke, and in that role was active in
supporting the Corporate Partnership Programme and the wider College.
He is survived by his wife, Marnie and his children Alex, Abigail and Rhiannon.
David Alexander Hobbs
18 October 1938 – 11 May 2016
Obituary by Robin Hobbs
David Hobbs died at his home in Crediton, Devon on
11 May 2016 aged 77, following a long and hardfought illness.
Cambridgeshire born and bred, David attended
Soham Grammar School and in 1959 won a place to
study mathematics at Pembroke College. During his
three years at Pembroke, David was very involved with extra-curricular activities,
joining the Pentacle Club and regularly performing a magic act (which was to
become a lifelong hobby, to the amusement and amazement of countless children
and adults). Following graduation, David became involved in the Schools
Mathematics Project and began teaching at Exeter School (one of the private
schools which was interested in this new approach to the teaching of
mathematics) in 1963, where he remained for four years. He subsequently worked
for four further years at Henbury Comprehensive School in Bristol. Whilst at
Henbury, David soon realised that a different approach was needed for pupils who
were taught in un-streamed classes and he began putting maths in work card
form rather than using textbooks so that they could work at their own pace.
In 1971 David took a job at St Luke’s Teacher Training College, Exeter (later to
be incorporated into the University of Exeter). Whilst at St Luke’s, he continued
to contribute to the School Mathematics Project and in collaboration with Brian
Bolt co-authored several books including A Mathematical Dictionary for Schools and
101 Mathematical Projects. The move to St Luke’s also enabled David to spend more
time on and around his beloved Dartmoor, where he participated in and led
countless walks.
Retiring in 1998, David took an active role in numerous local clubs and
societies, and latterly organised several fund-raising events for the Exeter
Leukaemia Fund. Diagnosed with a rare blood disorder in 2010, which would
later develop into leukaemia, David far outlived doctors’ expectations, and to the
delight of all was able to meet his youngest grandson, born in December 2015.
David leaves his widow (Rosalind), three children (Catherine, Jonathan and
Robin) and five grandchildren (Alexander, Elizabeth, Edward, James and Henry).
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Javid Iqbal
5 October 1924 – 3 October 2015
Obituary by Walid Iqbal (1989)
Javid Iqbal was a distinguished lawyer, jurist and
legislator, who held some of the highest offices
in Pakistan in each of the fields he occupied, and an
outstanding man of letters who made trailblazing
contributions to Pakistan’s literary landscape as a
political philosopher, biographer, historian and
dramatist.
Javid was born in Sialkot, then a small town in undivided British India that had
already gained fame as the birthplace of his illustrious father, Dr Sir Muhammad
Iqbal (Trinity College, 1905), who is revered locally and recognized
internationally as poet-laureate and spiritual father of Pakistan. Having lost his
mother in 1935 and his father in 1938, Javid admirably strived to create his own
space and to earn a name in his own right, in the face of the double challenge of
being the son of a renowned father and of being orphaned in childhood.
He grew up in Lahore (now Pakistan’s second largest city and cultural capital)
where he attended the Government Central Model High School and then
Government College Lahore, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in
literature and philosophy. Javid thereafter came up to Pembroke in 1949 to do his
doctorate under the supervision of respected orientalist A. J. Arberry and had
Tony Camps as his tutor. He worked on his doctoral dissertation The Development
of Muslim Political Philosophy in the Indo-Pak Subcontinent and obtained his PhD in
1954. Decades later, in a pioneering autobiography Apna Grebaan Chaak (A Life
Revealed; Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2003), which introduced a new genre of
literary writing in Urdu language and quickly became one of the largest selling
non-fiction works in Pakistan, Javid fondly recalled how he took to the rich
offerings at Cambridge outside of academia – painting, sculpture, ballroom
dancing, and hosting exotic soirees at his digs – that veritably earned him the
sobriquet of ‘Prince David’. During this time, Javid also conducted a ten-minute
weekly radio program on BBC’s Eastern Service called ‘Cambridge Letter’ in
which he gave a humorous account of the activities of Indian and Pakistani
students at Cambridge. After leaving Pembroke, Javid was called to the Bar at
Lincolns Inn in 1956.
Javid then returned to Pakistan and set up his law practice in Lahore. He also
became a visiting lecturer of Equity at the Punjab University Law College. In 1968,
Javid was elected as the President of the Lahore High Court Bar Association, and
in 1971 was elevated as a Judge of the Lahore High Court, serving as its Chief
Justice between 1982 and 1986. It was during his first decade in the judiciary that,
in vacation time and on weekends, Javid arduously researched and wrote on his
father’s life, delivering his magnum opus Zinda Rood (The Living Stream; Sheikh
Ghulam Ali & Sons, 1979), a three-volume account of poet-philosopher Iqbal’s
life and works, which won Javid a Literary Award of Excellence from the Pakistan
Academy of Letters in 1981 and is widely recognized as the most authoritative
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biography of Iqbal. At the tail end of his judicial career, Javid served as Judge of
the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1986 to 1989.
After retiring from the judiciary, Javid continued his research, writing and
other academic work, and in 1994 was elected as a member of the Senate,
Pakistan’s upper house of Parliament, where he served as Chair of the Standing
Committee on Culture from 1997 until 1999 when a military takeover led by Army
Chief Gen. Pervez Musharraf resulted in a suspension of the Constitution and
packing up of the Parliament. Javid deemed this an appropriate time to retire
from public office, heralding the final era of his life in which his writing became
the most prolific: nine of the thirteen publications to his credit came forth in this
concluding act, including his immensely popular aforementioned
autobiography, his politico-philosophic work Islam and Pakistan’s Identity
(Vanguard Books, 2003), his explanatory translation in Urdu of his father’s dense
but forward-looking English lectures on the Reconstruction of Religious
Thought in Islam – Khutbaat-e-Iqbal: Tas-heel o Tafheem (Sang-e-Meel Publications,
2008), and collections of his letters, papers, speeches and dramatic works.
Javid’s multifaceted life enjoyed a vast international dimension as well. For
nearly six decades, he travelled across the globe to participate in conferences,
seminars, assemblies and colloquia, making far-reaching contributions in the
fields of Islamic culture, modernist jurisprudence, the ideology of Pakistan,
democracy and human rights, and interfaith harmony. He received honorary
doctorates from Villanova University in USA and Seljuk University in Turkey, and
an honorific from Yarmouk University in Jordan. Javid was also a member of the
Pakistan delegation to the United Nations from 1960 to 1962, and in 1977 and
1999. It was in the Delegates’ Lounge at the United Nations in New York in 1962
that Javid first met Nasira Waheed, who was visiting with her father from Lahore
for a UN conference. This, two years later, resulted in a joyful marital union of a
pair that complemented each other well, lasting a span of more than fifty years,
and yielding two sons and three grandchildren.
In recognition of Javid’s outstanding professional and intellectual
achievements, the President of Pakistan conferred on him in 2005 one of the
country’s highest civilian awards, the Hilal-e-Imtiaz (the Crescent of Distinction).
In 2013, the Royal Jordanian Court of King Abdullah II presented Javid with the
Highest Award of Recognition for his services to Moasasa Aal al-Bayt (the Royal
Aal al-Bayt Institute of Islamic Thought).
Sadly, Javid’s long run of good health ended in mid-2015 when he had to
undergo complex surgery for the removal of an intestinal tumor, followed by
reconnection surgery after the prescribed twelve weeks. Some unexpected postsurgical complications in the second round caused him back-to-back cardiac
arrests, and intensive care staff eventually had to be give up the rescue. He was
then two days shy of his 91st birthday and just a couple of weeks short of his 51st
wedding anniversary. The zealotry-mired society that had ended up surrounding
him thus lost a unique voice that preached tolerance and liberalism in the face of
narrowness driven by self-righteousness.
Javid passed his life with simplicity, humility, dignity, and an immense capacity
for honest and courageous self-reflection. His struggle, his personal success, and
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his magnificent love for the nation his father had dreamed of, represent the legacy
he has left behind.
Laurence David Lerner
12 December 1925 – 19 January 2016
Obituary by David Lerner (1969)
Laurence, Larry, Lerner was born in Seapoint, South Africa on 12 December 1925,
the only child of Israel and May (née Harrison) Lerner. His father, who was from
Ukraine, came to England at the age of three, and moved to South Africa aged
about ten. May was born in Surrey. Although his father was Jewish, Larry attended
Anglican schools in Cape Town. He took his BA and MA at the University of
Cape Town.
A two-week University camping trip introduced him to Natalie Winch to
whom he was instantly attracted and they were engaged by the end of a second
trip in 1945. They both won scholarships to Cambridge, where Larry took a
second BA (History/Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic) and Natalie a PhD, and they
married in June 1948.
They both secured jobs at the new University of the Gold Coast (now Ghana)
in 1949 where they stayed until 1953, bringing up their children David and Edwin.
Larry’s main work interest was acting and directing plays. Not wishing to spend
a lifetime in ex-colonies, however, they resigned from their posts and came to
England where Larry a job found at Queen’s University, Belfast. The family grew
with the addition of Martin and Richard.
It was in Belfast that he published his first collection of poetry, Domestic
Interiors, his first novel, The Englishman, and first book of literary criticism, The
Truest Poetry; he credits the latter with getting him a post at the new University
of Sussex in 1962. He progressed from lecturer to Reader to Professor, and
did his best to focus on teaching and scholarship rather than administration
and management.
After many enjoyable years at Sussex, the increasingly antagonistic politics of
the era and a looming retirement age took Larry and Natalie to the University of
Vanderbilt, in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was the Kenan and then Mims
Professor of English from 1985 to 1995; he was amused to have given two
inaugural lectures at the same university.
His academic and literary career flourished in this period, with a further eight
poetry collections, two novels and six books of literary criticism as well as many
lectures, edited volumes, essays, radio appearances and reviews. In the 1960s, he
edited anthologies of modern criticism of Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Comedies
for Penguin which were widely used by A level students. Four more books
appeared after his formal retirement.
Larry taught in many universities around the world in addition to those where
he had jobs: Munich, Dijon, various in the USA and Canada, Kashmir, Wurzburg,
Vienna, with British Council lecture tours in France, Germany, Spain, South
America, Turkey and India. These experiences led to his most personal book,
Wandering Professor.
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They moved to Lewes in 1992 where they made many friends and were very
happy. Larry taught literature classes for the WEA (Workers Educational
Association) and the U3A (University of the Third Age) only finally stopping in
2012 when he was no longer sure of remembering the quotations he needed.
Although he described himself as a follower who was surprised to be accepted,
Larry was an active member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), attending meetings
in Brighton, Nashville and then Lewes. For many years, he taught a Shakespeare
summer school at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre with trips to Stratford to
see plays. He gave the Swarthmore Lecture in 1984 (The Two Cinnas – Quakerism,
Revolution and Poetry). He was Clerk to the Lewes meeting for several years.
Larry appreciated his family, particularly once they had left home! He was
always interested in the evolving life of his four sons (David, Edwin, Martin and
Richard), their partners (Fiona, Pippa, Rachel and Leena), and eight grandchildren
(Rose, Robin, Roubaix, Henry, Julia, Deborah, Anouska and Hannah), who will
miss him greatly. The death of Natalie, an equal half of their seventy-year
partnership, in November 2014 was a blow. Larry retained his smile and interests
in people and ideas until the end, which came quickly and comfortably on
19 January 2016.
Brian Martin Lomax
26 March 1948 – 2 November 2015
Brian Lomax could rightly be called the father of the
football supporters’ trusts movement. His revolutionary
scheme, which allowed part ownership of football clubs
by their fans, has been taken up by 170 clubs across
Britain. He was not an obvious activist, but persuaded
others of the benefits of his ideas through his quiet
good humour.
Although the first trust he formed was at
Northampton Town, he had made his impact in football
felt much earlier. In spite of being taken to see Manchester United in their glory
days of the 1950s, he was a loyal supporter of his local team, Altrincham FC.
When the club ran into financial difficulties, Brian was so determined to save it
that he wrote to the local paper asking for someone to step in. His letter was read
by two businessmen who were so moved by his passion that they did just that. In
this way, Brian first experienced the power of activism.
Brian arrived at Pembroke in 1966 to read Theology, and married in 1972. His
social conscience was evident in all the roles he took on after graduating, which
included a probation officer and prison welfare officer. He stood as a Liberal Party
candidate in the 1970s.
In 1983 he moved to Rugby where he took on a housing charity called Mayday,
which found accommodation for recently released prisoners. Brian transformed
it into a scheme which organised housing for low income families and those with
disabilities as well as ex-offenders. The scheme did far more than provide homes,
however; residents were encouraged to become gradually more independent.
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In the same way that Brian had loyally followed Altrincham, his daughter
Emily formed her own allegiance to Northampton Town from the age of eight.
But in 1992 the club went into administration with debts of £1.6 million. Once
again, Brian came to the rescue. After a public meeting to discuss a way out of the
crisis, Brian established the first ever supporters’ trust in January 1992. The
Northampton Town trust collectively bought 8% of the shares and elected Brian
as one of two directors to sit on the club’s board. This meant he was there on the
basis of the fan’s shareholding.
In 1997, with concerns growing about the way the game was going, the
government formed the Football Task Force with Andy Burnham as
administrator. Brian was asked to talk to them about what he had achieved at
Northampton Town. Andy Burnham was deeply impressed and persuaded the
Premier League to encourage supporters’ trusts. Working for Chris (now Lord)
Smith had given Burnham access to influential spheres of government and he
approached Smith, who was very supportive of the idea. In 2000, Supporters
Direct was formed to promote and help fans form trusts, and Brian became the
organisation’s first managing director. He was much in demand, helping
supporters who wanted to save their clubs from going into liquidation. Many of
the trusts he helped to form were able to save their clubs, including York City,
Chesterfield, Bury and Brentford.
Brian died in November 2015, aged 67. Andy Burnham, now Shadow Home
Secretary, commented that Brian had created a huge legacy. He is survived by his
wife, Catherine, his daughter Emily, and his grandson Harvey, the child of his son
Edmund who died tragically at the age of 32. He will also be sadly missed by tens
of thousands more whose football clubs he helped to save.
Jonathan Noel Martin
14 May 1945 – 22 November 2015
Obituary by Timothy Martin and Guy Martin (1978)
Jonathan went up to Pembroke College in 1964 to study
Classics, graduating in 1967. He was gifted in a number
of ways, with an original and enquiring mind. He was a
talented linguist, speaking good French and German. A
music lover, he played the piano with great sensitivity,
and was an intuitive accompanist when his family were
singing round the piano at home. Prior to Cambridge, he was at school for some
years at Beaumont College, a Jesuit boarding school which closed in the late
1960s. During most of his last term there, the music teacher who regularly played
the organ in the chapel was off sick, and Jonathan took over his duties at the
organ with great competence and enjoyment. At Cambridge Jonathan developed
a wider interest in philosophy which remained with him all his life.
After Cambridge, in London, he became increasingly drawn in to the radical
left-wing world of the late 1960s. He was active for some years in the squatting
movement and helped to found the Advisory Service for Squatters, he was involved
with the Anti-University, and he was interested in the theories of RD Laing.
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In the early 1980s Jonathan settled down to a more regular life, getting married
to Helen, and training to be an accountant. When their daughter Clare was fifteen,
Jonathan and Helen split up, and Jonathan went to live abroad: first in Lille, where
he made a living by teaching English to business people, and eventually to Berlin,
where he did the same. Jonathan was fiercely proud of Clare, who went on to get a
First in Maths at University College London and now works as a mathematician.
Jonathan’s earlier life had been dogged by illness, firstly meningitis when he was
very young, and then epilepsy from the age of thirteen, which remained a challenge
throughout his life. In 2015, living in Berlin, acute leukaemia was diagnosed and he
was given a couple of months to live. Jonathan typically took the brave decision
not to have any of the painful and invasive treatments he was offered, and to let
nature take its course. The decision enabled him to die with dignity and relatively
painlessly, with his daughter by his side, in an excellent hospice in Berlin. He is
survived by his daughter Clare and his two brothers, Timothy and Guy.
Terence Patrick McCaughey
17 April 1932 – 9 February 2016
Terence McCaughey was an effective and respected
champion of the rights of victims of discrimination,
whether in his native Ireland, or in the apartheidera South Africa. He was born in Belfast in 1932,
the youngest of six children of John McCaughey
and his wife, Lizzie Finnegan.
He attended Campbell College in Belfast before arriving at Pembroke to read
English in 1951. While there, he became firm friends with the future poet laureate
Ted Hughes. They both felt like outsiders coming from Ireland and Yorkshire,
rather than from Eton and Harrow. Terence gave the address at Hughes’s funeral
in 1998.
Although his first degree was in English, Terence was a talented linguist,
teaching himself both Irish and Scots Gaelic. In 1955 he was appointed junior
lecturer at the Department of Celtic studies at Edinburgh University, where he
spent two years as a field researcher for the Linguistic Survey of Scotland,
producing a map of the country’s dialects. But he felt called to the ministry and
returned to University as a student, graduating in divinity from New College,
Edinburgh in 1962. He then spent two years as a minister’s assistant in the city. In
Edinburgh he met fellow academic Ohna McDonald from Skye, and they married
in 1965, going on to have four children.
Around that time he spent a summer in Donegal learning Irish. In 1964,
Terence joined the school of Irish at Trinity College Dublin as a lecturer, and was
appointed Presbyterian chaplain to the university. He also became chaplain to
Mountjoy prison. It was there that he began a lifetime of social concern and
international activism.
Terence’s most prominent role was as President of the Irish Anti-Apartheid
Movement, a cross-party group which was outraged by the lack of democratic
rights of people on the basis of skin colour. A self-effacing man, he let others be
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the face and voice of the movement, but his role was nevertheless crucial. He was
renowned for his wise counsel and broad vision.
Terence also fought for the rights of others closer to home. While working as
a chaplain to both the University and prison, and as a lecturer at Trinity College,
he was a member of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, the Dublin
Housing Action Committee, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and the
Prisoners Aid through Community Effort (PACE) group. He also helped to found
the Irish School of Ecumenics.
His abhorrence of discrimination was formed as a young man in his native
Belfast, based on the Christian principles of social justice. He protested against
sectarianism, and although a Presbyterian by upbringing, he campaigned against
injustice on both sides of the religious divide. He organised relief for Catholics
who had been burned out of their homes by loyalist gangs in 1969. He also
denounced the activities of some members of the Orange Order and was booed at
the general assembly in 1969 for resisting a motion in support of the Stormont
government and the RUC.
In spite of his tireless battle against injustice, he had a keen sense of fun,
which will be sorely missed friends and family alike. He is survived by his wife
Ohna and four children, Mary (Marcoux), Kevin, Sorley and Patsy.
Charles Frederick Gray Murdock
23 January 1945 – 26 November 2008
Obituary by Martin Ricketts (1963)
Charles Murdock died on 26 November 2008 at his home in Romorantin in
France. He matriculated at Pembroke in 1963. After graduating with a BA in
Natural Sciences, Charles spent two years on overseas service in the Congo (now
Democratic Republic of the Congo). On his return to Europe he settled for several
years in London, where he worked with companies in what is now known as the
IT sector. In 1973, as an Irish citizen, he joined the European Council in Brussels,
where he spent the remainder of his career. Initially he was responsible for taking
and processing the minutes of all the inter-ministerial meetings at the Council.
Latterly, he was responsible for the relationships between the European Union
and the countries included in the Lomé Convention. Prior to the inclusion of the
10 new EU members in 2004, Charles was offered early retirement, which he
gladly accepted. He moved to the house which he had purchased several years
earlier in Romorantin.
David James Neville
3 September 1949 – 14 April 2016
Dr David Neville tragically passed away on Thursday 14 April 2016, aged 66,
following a short illness. David was a gifted musician and composer, and touched
many lives in his career as founding Principal of St John’s College, Cardiff, and
through his 35 years of service as Organist and Director of Music at Cardiff
Metropolitan Cathedral.
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David was born in Cardiff in 1949 and was educated
at the boys’ Catholic grammar school, St Illtyd’s College.
His love of music began at an early age with his discovery
of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti. He was a boy chorister
at Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral and sang at its
reopening in 1959.
David studied Chemistry and formed the Wills
Chapel Choir at the University of Bristol, where he met
his wife, Diana. David undertook further study at
Cambridge and relished his time at Pembroke. He was
greatly involved in its musical life and was a choral scholar at Jesus. During the
Willcocks and Guest era, David and Diana would often hurry straight from
evensong at King’s to hear John’s in the same evening.
On returning to Wales, David was Assistant Conductor of the BBC National
Chorus of Wales and served as Head of Chemistry, Head of Science and Deputy
Head in four large secondary schools. In 1980 he was appointed Director of Music
and Organist at Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral. The Cathedral’s voluntary choir
of boys and men flourished and in 1982 he directed the music for the visit of Pope
John Paul II.
It was his vision to create a choir school for the Cathedral that would lead him
to take on the great challenge of regenerating the closed De la Salle prep school.
From humble beginnings, and with only 85 pupils and a modest seven room
single-storey building, David created St John’s College in 1987.
Under his leadership, St John’s College has become recognised as one of the
UK’s leading independent schools. It comprises 515 pupils aged 3–18 and
maintains the best A Level record in Wales over 16 years. It has been rated
‘Excellent’ by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate, and is frequently top school in Wales in
The Sunday Times ‘Parent Power’.
With the daily rehearsals afforded by the new choir school, the Cathedral Choir
quickly gained a reputation for the finest standards of performance, touring
continental Europe and making several recordings under the Herald label.
David’s three sons all sang in the Cathedral Choir and were educated at St
John’s College before taking up choral scholarships at Magdalen College,
Oxford, and King’s College, Cambridge. The Cathedral Choir flourishes under
his sons, Dominic and James.
For his services to cathedral music, David received the Papal Cross Pro Ecclesia
et Pontifice in 1991 and in 1997 he was a first recipient of the Archbishop of Wales
Award for Church Music, chaired by George Guest CBE. In December 2015,
David received a Papal Knighthood of the Order of St Gregory in recognition of
his lifetime of service. David’s last service at the Cathedral was a live broadcast on
BBC Radio 4 this January before an audience of 1.6 million.
As a composer, David wrote works on a vast scale for chorus and orchestra,
including The Wreck of the Deutschland directed by the internationally renowned
conductor Vernon Handley at Hereford Cathedral. He was commissioned by the
Welsh Arts Council, the Elgar Festival and the BBC, and his compositions have
been performed in Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral. In 2000, David
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was commissioned to compose a royal fanfare for the Millennium Service
attended by Princes Charles, William and Harry. David possessed a supreme
harmonic understanding that found its most expressive voice in his inspired
organ improvisations.
David’s sudden death was deeply mourned, with hundreds attending his
Requiem Mass. Beyond his many achievements, David is remembered most
fondly for his humble acts of kindness, his wise counsel and his inspiring
leadership, and as a loving husband, father and friend.
He is survived by his wife Diana, his brother, Bernard (Pembroke, 1976), his
three sons, Ambrose, Dominic and James, and his dear grandchildren, Elodie and
William. He was a great man of deep faith, whose worship found its fullest
expression in a life of service and in the sacred music of William Byrd and J.S. Bach.
David Ashley Pears
3 June 1931 – 3 December 2015
Obituary by Nick Pears
My father, David Pears, who died in December 2015,
came down from Pembroke in 1957. He was 25 by then,
tuberculosis having blighted his early life and seriously
disrupted his Natural Sciences studies. He came from a
humble background in Chadwell Heath in east London.
He passed the 11 plus and went to Royal Liberty in
Romford. University, never mind Cambridge, was not on the family radar but a
schoolmaster spotted his abilities and he won a State Scholarship to Pembroke;
the grammar school system served him well.
Although socially slightly overwhelmed by 1950s Cambridge, he enjoyed his
studies benefitting from lectures from such luminaries as Lawrence Bragg and
Paul Dirac. Away from his studies he took in art appreciation lectures from F R
Leavis and Nikolaus Pevsner. He worked to help build EDSAC 2, one of the
University’s early computing projects. The lecturer J A Ratcliff, who advised David
as he came to the end of his time at Cambridge, had worked in the 1940s at
Farnborough, vetting the ideas which came in for helping to win the War. So had
Stewart Grose of Reddie & Grose, a firm of Patent Agents, and he had told Ratcliff
that they were seeking a new trainee. David visited R&G in their dingy offices,
liked the sound of the work and liked the people. He took the job and never
regretted so doing; he joined as a trainee and retired as senior partner 33 years
later. The work completely suited him; he won the Gill Prize in 1961 for his
performance in his professional exams and in some years he billed more than
twice as much as the next partner. His biggest client at R&G was one Ray Dolby
who was doing research at Pembroke while David was an undergraduate. David
wrote and managed all Dolby Laboratories’ UK patents for many years. David
was predeceased by his wife of 51 years, Mary, and is survived by his sons Nicholas
and Andrew.
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Hugh Gerard Penman
23 May 1929 – 10 September 2014
Obituary by James Penman
Hugh was born in Marylebone, London, the eldest of
three sons. He went to The Hall prep school in
Hampstead, Sherborne School in Dorset, and then to
Pembroke, completing his medical studies at St
Thomas’ Hospital in London. His father, Gerard Giles,
an eminent ophthalmologist and his brothers Graham
and Richard also studied at Pembroke. He was a passionate consultant
pathologist, who fought in the interest of patients in the constant reorganisation
of the NHS in Surrey and Sussex.
He met Audrey Day in Nigeria in 1956 while on National Service working as a
doctor for the British Army in the Royal West African Frontier Force. Audrey was
a nurse. They married a year later and when back in Britain named their house
Kaduna in memory of West Africa. Hugh’s work took him and his family to the
University of Otago Medical School, New Zealand, and Saudi Arabia, where he
met the Queen when she opened the pathology unit he had helped to set up at the
Military Hospital in Riyadh. They settled in Slinfold in West Sussex in 1972 and he
spent 20 of those years at Crawley Hospital until his retirement.
Hugh often brought his passion for pathology home with him, with the family
often finding specimens in the kitchen fridge. He claimed to have failed only one
exam during his time at St Thomas’, due to his incorrect identification of a
specimen only to respond that he had a better example at home – which he
offered to donate for the benefit of future students.
Whilst at Cambridge he kept a detailed diary clearly writing of his passion for
the University and city. His first Saturday was spent shopping for ‘a very good 2nd
hand gown, for £1 … the cheapest in Cambridge.’ He represented Pembroke in
hockey matches, amongst others against St John’s. Whilst not spending time
studying or attending lectures he would be found either on a golf course,
pedalling around on his beloved ‘gridiron’ (at least once to Colchester and back
on a Sunday) or, still in an age of rationing, trying to buy cake in Market Square,
occasionally missing lectures pursuing such endeavours: ‘missed cake at
Fitzbillies by 3 places in the queue and a Swiss roll at Lyons by 2 places’.
After retiring, Hugh spent much time in his garden growing vegetables,
proudly selling them at the garden gate and supplying small amounts to local
establishments, always measured in pounds. But he never forgot his passion
for pathology, he continued to write and was published widely in numerous
medical and pathology journals throughout his life, most proudly co-editing
Infectious Mononucleosis with Richard Carter, a copy of which at times he
presented to his appropriately ailing teenage children. Amongst his many
learned articles and letters, his eye for detail and pedantry was never lost, as
seen in a letter to the Journal of Clinical Pathology which typified his wry humour,
‘alas, I had on two occasions to write … that a biopsy after death is, by definition
an impossibility.’
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Apart from the news, he watched little television, but made an exception for
Yes, Minister – reflecting his disdain for all things pointlessly bureaucratic. In the
last few years of his life he suffered with dementia, but his face would light up on
seeing his family and he would reminisce in his eccentric way about life ‘down
under’ and Cambridge.
He leaves his wife Audrey, four sons, David, Andrew, Edward and James, and
ten grandchildren.
For those fond of acronyms his qualifications are: MB BChir Camb 1953;
MRCP Lond. 1955; DTM & H Eng. 1960; FRCPath 1975, M 1963; MA Camb. 1954,
MD 1966.
Timothy Steuart Hallam Piper
29 May 1938 – 24 November 2015
Obituary by Michael Kuczysnki
Timothy Steuart Hallam Piper came up to read Classics in October 1959. He
followed his father Donald Steuart (1926) and was in due course himself followed
by his younger brother Geoffrey Steuart Fairfax (1962). All three had roots in the
Peak District and had been to school at St Anselm’s in Bakewell – a preparatory
school run and partly owned by Piper père – and then at Repton nearby.
Tall and affable, Piper was a considerable all-round sportsman whose
predilection was golf and who in 1962 captained the Stymies and the College
cricket XI. Upon graduation (B.A., 1962) he went to Sheffield for a Certificate in
Education, quite a modern move at the time; and thence back to St Anselm’s for
his working life. From 1965 he was joint head for a couple of years till his father’s
retirement, and then headmaster for close on thirty taxing but rewarding years.
The dispersed ownership of the place had to bought-out and consolidated into a
trust, the plant modernized, the sloping playing fields levelled. But it was worth
the effort: St Anselm’s became a distinguished school of some 200 pupils, with
high standards of teaching in small classes, and extra-curricular excellence; and
at his own relatively early retirement twenty years ago, Piper could look back on a
job well done. It had been a happily cooperative job, for he had married Patricia
Blunt just before becoming sole head, and in time they had three sons (all with
the patronymic Steuart) and a daughter (with the matronymic Brailsford); and
eventually six grandchildren – including competent golfers. In retirement the
Pipers settled to an active village life at Copmanthorpe on the outskirts of York,
and it is there that he played his last round of golf the day before he died.
In 1963 Piper had been picked (by his father) to play for the old Reptonians in
that great amateur contest, the Halford Hewitt Cup. Against the odds they got
into the final against Fettes and the event was decided (in the words of the
Telegraph’s Leonard Crawley) as ‘Piper, rising to the occasion, hit a glorious
brassie shot bang into the middle of the green which meant a four for the asking,’
which was enough for the hole, the game, the match, and the trophy. Piper was
born at Bakewell on 29 May 1938, and he died suddenly at Copmanthorpe on 24
November 2015.
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Jeremy Longmore Russell
6 June 1935 – 15 February 2016
Obituary by Elizabeth Russell
Jeremy was born in London where his father Harold
Bedford Russell was a distinguished Harley Street
surgeon. He was brought up in the home counties where
he spent a lot of his childhood roaming the countryside,
which gave him a passion for the natural world that
lasted all his life. He was educated at Eton and then did
his National Service in the Coldstream Guards, which involved public duties in
London and being painted sand coloured for the Suez emergency. He came up to
Pembroke in 1956 and spent three happy years reading Natural Sciences. He sang
in the choir under Peter Cobb and met his future wife (an undergraduate at
Newnham) singing Brahms’ Requiem. There he enjoyed Meredith Dewey’s
splendid musical evenings and played a lot of cricket and bridge.
After graduation Jeremy joined Shell and became their Russian expert, making
numerous journeys to all parts of the former Soviet Union. He spent a year at
Harvard writing a book about Soviet energy policy and was later seconded to the
Nature Conservancy Council. There he worked tirelessly to improve the
relationship between nature conservation and multi-national companies when
industry was much less environmentally conscious than it is now.
He retired to Herefordshire where he created a spectacular garden which has
raised thousands of pounds for the National Gardens Society. Jeremy sang in the
Three Choirs Festival chorus for many years and took a full part in local activities.
He died from an unknown rapid onset dementia which took him in six weeks,
leaving a widow, two children and two grandchildren.
Michael George Frederick Shears
24 August 1933 – 21 May 2016
Obituary by Canon Ivan Bailey
Canon Michael Shears was a parish priest for forty years
but served in only three parishes. The key to
understanding what characterised his ministry was his
deliberate decision to remain nine years in his first
curacy. After Pembroke College, Cambridge, he
completed his training at St Stephen’s House, Oxford in
1959, and then joined the staff of St Wulfram’s Grantham. The system was that
after a spell at the main church a man was sent to a daughter church for a year or
two before moving on. Michael was given the Church of the Epiphany,
Earlesfield. Faced with an old converted army hut he felt that the people there
deserved attention in their own right. They needed someone to lay a foundation,
remain to develop it, build up the congregation, establish the church in the
community and enhance the building to make for worship worthy of its
dedication. All this he achieved.
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In 1968 he moved north in the Lincoln Diocese to spend twelve very happy
years as Rector of All Saints Waltham. Here, as elsewhere, he showed himself as
a quiet strategic visionary with a precise capability of organisation to bring his
purposes to effect. This was revealed in the early organisation of a Mission,
careful recruitment of a strong team of missioners, a comprehensive preparatory
programme and efficient logistics. There was a clear series of attractive literature
delivered to every house in the parish leading up to the opening night. This
Mission, which benefited from his gift for simple and effective theatre, had an
impact still evident today.
In 1980 Pembroke appointed Michael to one of its notable College Livings,
St Andrew’s Soham in the Ely Diocese. The church features in the east window of
the College Chapel as background to Henry VI who gave the advowson in 1440.
Michael was immensely proud of the connection and, with Cambridge nearby,
kept in personal touch. In particular he was a long-standing supporter of the
College Mission, Pembroke House, in Walworth South London, and looked to
forge contacts between the country town and the inner city.
Michael brought to parish life his capacity for tireless visiting, keeping
meticulous records. Appearances like that as the Mayor in the Pied Piper of Hamelin
at the Soham Carnival revealed a comic extrovert beneath a generally quiet
demeanour. It also evidenced a readiness to engage fully in community life. He
had retired by the time the murder of two little girls darkened Soham and shocked
the nation. He had baptised them, and knew their families and those about them.
In a wise and gracious act, his successor Canon Tim Alban Jones invited him to
return to minister pastorally in that distressing aftermath to all in the town that
he still carried in his heart.
He was a Rural Dean for fourteen years and was made a Canon of Ely in 1994.
He spent time in Argentina researching the life of a William Case Morris, buried
with his wife in Soham cemetery in 1932. Little known in this country, he can be
described as the Dr Barnardo of Argentina, saving some 200,000 children from
the streets. ‘That man is sacred to me’, said its President. Michael was lately
seeking to get Morris commemorated in the Lectionary.
He and his beloved wife, Sylvia, a stalwart support to his ministry, moved to
Wicklewood in Norfolk. Michael was commissioned and served in the Royal
Norfolk Regiment during National Service. He valued his continued association
there and with the Dunkirk Veterans Association. He pursued other interests old
and new and added to the well-stocked mind that made him a fluent preacher. He
was grateful to be asked to contribute to the worshipping life and outreach of
Wymondham Abbey, which he loved, and to serve wherever there was need.
Ultimately, his attraction was that he was a quietly holy man, humble in his
awareness of his need of God’s grace and mercy. He was resolute in the
discipline of the Daily Offices and the attendant spirituality which were the
staple of his life to his dying day. The packed congregation from far and wide at
his funeral service in Wymondham Abbey testified to the many who recognised
his worth and were glad.
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David Streeter
21 August 1942 – 20 October 2015
Obituary by Patrick Streeter
David Streeter died in October 2015. He was at
Pembroke from 1961 to 1964 and these years were the
happiest of his life. David was born during the darkest
days of the war, the son of Tom Streeter, an Essex farmer
and his energetic wife Nesta. The fourth of five brothers
he grew up in a happy and secure environment, albeit an
unusual one in that the boys, with no girls around, were let to roam freely around
the Essex fields and forests with little parental supervision. At seven he was sent
to Heath Mount, a prep school in an old stately home set in a fine park near
Hertford. Here he excelled at work and struggled at games. When he was twelve,
when on holiday at Frinton-on-Sea, he was struck down with polio, fortunately
mildly, but the disease was to come back and frustrate him in later life. At thirteen
he followed the family tradition and entered Harrow. Perhaps a less robust school
would have been better, but how could he not have followed three elder brothers?
He was an entrance scholar and became a well-known character in the Classics
division and shone in the bit parts of the Shakespeare plays alongside the sons of
Stanley Holloway and Rex Harrison. His parents rewarded him for saving them a
lot of money by winning a scholarship by paying for a round-the-world trip. Here
he showed his religious bent by lodging in monasteries as he went along.
While out east he picked up Malaria and on return he entered Pembroke. The
mixture of freedom and academe were just right for him and he made many good
friends, including Derek Rose*, who sadly was later assassinated when serving as
a diplomat in Aden, and Adrian Mathias, now a distinguished astronomer. David
entered the Church and his first curacy was Saffron Walden. An example of his
courage was that he had to overcome a difficult stutter before he could start his
vocation. Highams Park, in North London, followed, where Denis Healy’s mother
was a parishioner. Then, after Rayne, also in Essex, he was appointed to
Stradbroke in Suffolk where he served for thirty years. Here he became a celebrity
priest, appearing on television, abseiling down the church spire to raise money,
bravely championing unpopular causes and winning the hearts of the whole
village, although one or two parishioners were bewildered by his eccentricities.
One incident hit the national press. He had arranged a sponsored swim for church
funds. Over a hundred pre-pubescent schoolgirls were arraigned in a poolside
gallery. The local press, cameras poised, were waiting. David was just going from
the changing room to another part of the complex with a large while towel, togalike, draped around his midriff. This inadvertently slipped revealing to the goggleeyed schoolgirls, and the assembled Press, things that are better covered up.
Newspapers across the spectrum enthusiastically reported the spectacle.
Sponsorship income doubled. Fortunately the Bishop was most understanding.
David retired at seventy and, with Margaret his wife, stayed on in the parish
with his son, Daniel, living nearby. Margaret was an amazing vicar’s wife and
then, as now, virtually ran the village. Sadly he was only to enjoy a few years of
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retirement as the cocktail of illnesses that he had picked up in his life caught up
with him and he died last November. Interestingly, English Heritage had decided
to make Stradbroke Church a special landmark. In order to qualify, the building
needs three exceptional priests that were connected with it, and David’s name has
been added to those of Cannon Rowland Upcher and J.C. Ryle a Bishop of
Liverpool. For very many years he will be remembered with affection both in the
neighbourhood and wider afield.
*In memory of Derek, David Streeter funded The Derek Rose Memorial Studentship which each
year helps a student reading Oriental Studies to travel in the Middle East.
Dennis Tarrant
7 August 1922 – 12 December 2015
Obituary by Michael Wenham (1968)
A humble man from humble beginnings, Dennis
Tarrant’s road to Pembroke was unusual. His father,
Edward, was a manager in the London Post Office. He
was in his sixties when Dennis was born. He had lost his
first wife and remarried the much younger May. Dennis
was the youngest of the elderly father’s three sons of this
marriage, and later he would sometimes joke that his grandfather was alive at the
time of the Battle of Waterloo.
His father had retired to Ventnor in the Isle of Wight. His oldest son, Jack, won
a scholarship to Christ’s Hospital and went on to academic success at Trinity
Hall, before entering the army where he died in battle. The middle brother was
tragically killed as a boy by a passing car in Ventnor. Dennis’s father himself died
in the 1930s, and Dennis left his studies at Sandown School aged sixteen in order
to support his mother. They both moved back to Upper Norwood in London,
where he found employment with the education department of the London
County Council, and where she worked as a housekeeper in clergy households.
When the Admiralty Y Scheme was launched, Dennis was the first to sign up as
‘Y Scheme No 1’. The Y Scheme was for 18-year olds who had some sort of
secondary education. It offered accelerated entry into the Navy and the prospect,
but no guarantee, of becoming officers. He went through the special medical and
on his birthday he joined up and was posted as a rating to the new destroyer, HMS
Paladin, in the Clyde. He recalled that the ship lost various bits on its maiden
voyage to Scapa Flow, and the seamen were all dreadfully sick.
He served throughout the war in various arenas, including the Indian Ocean,
where he had a fortunate meeting with Cecil Horsley, his former vicar in Upper
Norwood, now Bishop of Colombo. He did officer training in Durban and
became sub-lieutenant. From there he served on mine sweepers in the
Mediterranean, performing the skilful role of shooting and detonating the
released mines with a rifle. His skill in this was proved by his being mentioned in
despatches near the time of the Yalta Conference. After his war service he
returned to his work at the LCC, where he could have remained, had his mind not
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turned to the possibility of teaching. He applied to take a teaching diploma when,
again, Bishop Horsley, now of Gibraltar, met him and intervened. He was
acquainted with Tony Camps, who was responsible for admissions as well as
Senior Fellow in Classics. And so, to his surprise, Dennis Tarrant was admitted as
an ex-service applicant to study Geography in 1948. Barely a month earlier, in
Upper Norwood, he had married the young artist Audrey Charles, a member of
the church’s young adults’ group of which he was the popular secretary.
Although somewhat older than the majority of other students, he entered fully
into college life, both grafting at his studies and captaining the football team as
well as participating in cricket and swimming. He was asked to mentor the young
Peter May and kept a signed MCC Coaching Guide till his death. However, life
was not easy for a young married couple living out of College during post-war
rationing. Audrey secured some work producing illustrations for Heyworth’s
Department Store in Sidney Street, but sadness hit them when they lost their first
child, Jennifer, to a cot death. At that time Meredith Dewey, the Dean, who had
particular empathy having served as a naval chaplain, gave them support which
they never forgot. Later, he baptised their two younger children, Jane and
Christopher, in the college chapel. After gaining a good degree, Dennis stayed on
for an extra year in order to take his teaching diploma.
His first teaching appointment was at King’s School in Rochester, where he
taught from 1952 to 1957. He always felt that this was an excellent apprenticeship
under the formidable headmaster, E.W. Davis. At this time he formed a lifelong
friendship with David Halsey, later Bishop of Carlisle. He was then appointed as
head of Geography at Brentwood School, and later as Director of Studies. He is
remembered for his combination of exacting standards and approachability. He
led field trips to four corners of England and Wales, which ignited many a young
enthusiasm for the landscape. In 1984 he retired with his wife to Sidmouth. There
too he became involved in community life, driving the local ambulance for about
twenty years, and serving as a school governor and as warden in his parish church.
He maintained his links with the College, through Christopher (1970) and
through Jane who married Michael Wenham (1968). He is survived by his wife,
Audrey, seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. They will remember
him for his kind honesty, his loving generosity and gentle humour.
Anthony Frederick Upton
13 October 1929 – 4 July 2015
Obituary by Jeremy Upton
Anthony Upton, Emeritus Professor of Nordic History at the University of St
Andrews, died on 4 July 2015 at home in St Andrews. Anthony, or Tony as he was
known to his friends, was best known for his work on Finnish and Nordic history.
He has even been described as the ‘A J P Taylor of Finnish history’.
He was born in Stockton Heath, in Cheshire on 13 October 1929. After his
father died when Tony was seven years old, the family moved around before
settling in Slough where Tony attended the Windsor County School for boys. He
gained a scholarship to study history at the Queen’s College, Oxford, where he
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was awarded a first class degree. From 1951–52, he studied at Pembroke College,
Cambridge, completing his postgraduate qualification in teacher training. He
was then encouraged to pursue an academic career and won a Fulbright
Scholarship to study at Duke University in North Carolina. His first university
teaching post was in the History Department at the University of Leeds where he
was appointed in 1953. He moved to the University of St Andrews in 1956 and
remained there as a fondly-remembered teacher and researcher until 2003.
Tony’s interest in Finland can be traced back to the summer of 1951 when he
met his future wife, Sirkka Pöllänen, at a ball in Oxford. They were married in
Jäppilä in south-east Finland on 12 August 1951. His first book on Finland, Finland
in Crisis, 1940–41, published in English in 1964, caused a media storm in Finland
when it appeared in Finnish translation in 1965. His later books on Finland
include Finland 1939–40 and the Finnish Revolution, 1917–18. Tony’s work is marked
by a meticulous attention to detail. His research was supported by extensive visits
to archives in Finland, Moscow and elsewhere. In order to have the best possible
access to material, Tony taught himself Finnish, Russian, German and Swedish.
In later years, his interest switched to Sweden, and his final major book was Charles
XI and Swedish Absolutism, published in 1998. Tony’s contribution to Finland was
recognized in 1990 when he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the
White Rose. He was also awarded an honorary degree from the University of
Helsinki in 2000. In total, he published seven books.
He is survived by his wife Sirkka, his three sons and five grandchildren.
Nigel Walker
19 September 1956 – 2 May 2016
Obituary by Catherine and Maggie Walker
Nigel Gordon Walker died peacefully but unexpectedly
at his new home in Cambridge on 2 May 2016. Educated
at University College School, he read Classics and
History of Art at Pembroke, graduating in 1979. After
graduation, he indulged his love of Germany, travelling
the country and becoming fluent in the language.
Nigel worked in shipping journalism and editing, and also in PR for the
Department of Trade and Industry promoting British exports. His most recent
business venture was as Company director of a small fashion label in Central
London.
He is survived by two daughters, Catherine and Maggie, of whom he was very
proud. The elder is pursuing a career in PR (like her father), and the younger has
recently qualified as a chef. They miss him greatly and are extremely saddened by
the sudden loss.
Nigel will be remembered as a kind, generous and caring man who will be
greatly missed by all who knew him. He will also be remembered for his love of
music, good food, travel and antiques, and not least for his generously
proportioned gin and tonics!
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Allen Robert Waugh
28 January 1950 – 23 March 2016
Obituary by Sally Waugh
Allen Robert Waugh, usually known as Robert, and
sometimes as ‘Bob’ to colleagues, was one of the
world’s top electron optical engineers.
Robert was born at Walton-on-the-Hill in Surrey and
educated at Epsom College. Epsom offered him a
Crawfurd Scholarship to Cambridge and he arrived at
Pembroke, following in the footsteps of his father Hamish (an aeronautical
engineer and member of the design team for the Harrier jump jet). Robert took a
first degree in Natural Sciences, specialising in Physics, during which it became
very clear that he had inherited his father’s innovative tendencies. In his College
room he built a large pair of speakers that could shake the walls, and a cousin
who visited Robert remembers finding a fuming flask of liquid nitrogen on the
floor. While students were encouraged to demonstrate their flair for their subject,
the College did finally intervene when Robert started to build a large highpowered laser, suggesting that maybe it would be more appropriate for the laser
to be developed in the scientific laboratories!
After graduating, Robert stayed on at Pembroke to study for a PhD in the
Metallurgy and Materials Science Department as a member of the Field Ion
Microscopy Group under Dr Mike Southon. Field Ion Microscopy was a very new
technique at that time, and Robert’s inventive skills with rapid pulse-gating
electronics, among other things, led to very significant developments of the
instrumentation, producing atom probes which could both image planes of
atoms and strip them from the specimen to discover their identity. In recognition
of this work he was awarded the first Erwin Mueller Young Scientist of the Year
medal at the 1978 Field Emission Symposium.
Following such a successful PhD he became a Junior Fellow at Pembroke, and
he had many fond memories of such joys as sampling well-aged port presented
in an antique silver galleon at College dinners. He was also extremely fond of the
Pembroke baked apple served at High Table luncheons in the winter: not simply
a baked apple, but a splendid offering served by the chef in a pastry case. Unable
to resist such a temptation, Robert then found it necessary to ‘contemplate the
morning’s results’ quietly for an hour behind a closed office door with a notice
‘Do Not Disturb’.
The expertise Robert developed at Cambridge proved to be a spring-board for
many successful innovations in the industrial career which followed, especially in
the field of ion optics. In 1981 Robert joined VG Scientific, a leading UK company
in the field of surface analysis. He recognised that a liquid gallium metal ion
source invented for other uses at Culham Laboratories was ideally suited for
focusing into a small spot, and modified the source to create a series of surface
analysis and volume analysis instruments, including secondary ion mass
spectrometers (SIMS) and ion beam lithography machines. The world’s first
imaging Time of Flight (TOF) SIMS was developed by Robert and came to test in
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1985–86. This has since become a standard technique with wide-ranging
materials science applications. The technique eventually resulted in
instrumentation called MALDI-TOF, which is used for organic, pharmaceutical
and medical analysis.
After leaving VG Robert went on to develop specialist sputtering machines for
optical coatings and depositing anti-reflection coatings on spectacle lenses. This
equipment was used by retail optician stores offering a ‘one hour’ service, and the
company for which Robert worked, Applied Vision, won the Queen’s Award for
Technological Achievement in 1987.
Robert’s interests in ‘tinkering with things’ also led to various improvements
in his local church, where he was a very active church warden, and he was also
able to make amusing contributions to the educational projects of his off-spring.
During one particular vacation there was a project to build a miniature ramjet
engine in the family living room. A sparkplug had been acquired to light the fuel,
but there was no power source to light the plug. Robert’s solution was an
inductor from a Model-T Ford that his father Hamish had acquired forty years
previously at a car boot sale!
Robert is survived by his wife and two sons (unsurprisingly a physicist and an
engineer) and one grandson.
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MA Degree
The following information concerning the MA degree may be useful to members of the
Society:
Standing: a Bachelor of Arts may be admitted Master of Arts six* calendar years after the
end of his or her first term of residence, provided that (which is usually the case) at least
two years have elapsed since taking the B.A. degree.
Fees: a fee of £5 is payable by those who took their BA degree in 1962 or earlier.
Please give at least four weeks’ notice before the Congregation at which you wish to take
your degree. Correspondence should be addressed to the Praelector.
* For affiliated students, five years.
Dining Rights and Guest Rooms
Members who hold an MA or other Master’s degree or a higher degree from the University,
or are qualified for an MA, are welcome to dine in College during Full Term or the period
of residence in the Long Vacation. For the academic year 2016–2017, ‘Full Term’ means
4 October to 2 December, 17 January to 17 March, and 25 April to 16 June; residence in the
Long Vacation runs for five weeks from early July.
Dining for Members is available on any evening of the week during term or Long Vacation
Residence except Tuesday or Saturday and on occasions when large College events take
place. A Member may dine as a guest of the College at High Table up to four times each
academic year (once a term and once in the Long Vacation residence), provided a Fellow is
present to preside. On one of those occasions, overnight accommodation is free of charge
for the Member if it is available.
It is regrettably not normally possible for spouses/partners to dine at the High Table.
However, for the academic year 2016–2017, the College will hold six “Members’
Evenings”, when up to ten Members and their guests (ten people in all) may dine at the
College’s expense. It is recommended that large parties of Members, or Members and their
spouses/partners, should seek to use these evenings as particularly good opportunities to
dine in the College. The dates of these occasions in 2016–17 are: (in 2016) Monday
17 October and Sunday 13 November, and (in 2017) Monday 23 January and Sunday
26 February, Wednesday 10 May and Sunday 11 June. Attendance by a Member and their
spouse at these Evenings is now restricted to two per annum, to allow as many Pembroke
Members as possible to avail themselves of this opportunity.
Overnight accommodation may also be available in College, at a reasonable charge (one
person £52, two people £78 per night, for the current academic year), for a visit of a
maximum of two nights. The College has four en suite guest rooms (one twin-bedded room
and three double-bedded rooms). Given these limited facilities, early notice is strongly
advised when making inquiries. The College would be grateful to be informed at the
earliest opportunity if a Member’s plans to visit have to be amended. The College also
regrets that it will be necessary to charge a Member for the full cost of the room in the event
that that Member should cancel his or her visit without notice.
Arrangements for dining, or for staying in a guest room, should be made through
the Development Office either by telephone (01223 339079), letter, or email
([email protected]). Full details on the College website http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/
?p=230 including a webform for booking a room at the foot of the page.