COLLEGE RECORD 2021

THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE

COLLEGE RECORD 2021

1341-2021: 680th Anniversary

THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE

VisitorThe Archbishop of York

ProvostCraig, Claire Harvey, CBE, MA PhD Camb

FellowsRobbins, Peter Alistair, BM BCh MA DPhil Oxf

Hyman, John, BPhil MA DPhil Oxf

Nickerson, Richard Bruce, BSc Edin, MA DPhil Oxf

Davis, John Harry, MA DPhil Oxf

Taylor, Robert Anthony, MA DPhil Oxf

Langdale, Jane Alison, CBE, BSc Bath, MA Oxf, PhD Lond, FRS

Mellor, Elizabeth Jane Claire, BSc Manc, MA Oxf, PhD R’dg

Owen, Nicholas James, MA DPhil Oxf

Rees, Owen Lewis, MA PhD Camb, MA Oxf, ARCO

Bamforth, Nicholas Charles, BCL MA Oxf

O’Reilly, Keyna Anne Quenby, MA DPhil Oxf

Louth, Charles Bede, BA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf

Kringelbach, Morten Lindtner, BSc MSc Copenhagen, DPhil Oxf

Norbury, Christopher John, MA Oxf, PhD Lond

Sarooshi, Dan, LLB NSW, LLM PhD Lond, MA Oxf

Doye, Jonathan Peter Kelway, BA PhD Camb

Buckley, Mark James, MA DPhil Oxf

Aldridge, Simon, MA DPhil Oxf

Timms, Andrew, MA Camb, MPhil PhD Brist

Meyer, Dirk, MA PhD Leiden

Papazoglou, Panagiotis, BS Crete, MA PhD Columbia, MA Oxf, habil Paris-Sud

Lonsdale, Laura Rosemary, MA Oxf, PhD Birm

Beasley, Rebecca Lucy, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf, MA Berkeley

Crowther, Charles Vollgraff, MA Camb, MA Cincinnati, MA Oxf, PhD Lond

O’Callaghan, Christopher Anthony, BM BCh MA DPhil DM Oxf, FRCP

Robertson, Ritchie Neil Ninian, MA Edin, MA DPhil Oxf, PhD Camb, FBA

Phalippou, Ludovic Laurent André, BA Toulouse School of Economics, MA Southern California, PhD INSEAD

Yassin, Ghassan, BSc MSc PhD Keele

Gardner, Anthony Marshall, BA LLB MA Melbourne, PhD NSW

Tammaro, Paolo, Laurea Genoa, PhD Bath

Guest, Jennifer Lindsay, BA Yale, MA MPhil PhD Columbia, MA Waseda

Turnbull, Lindsay Ann, BA Camb, PhD Lond

Parkinson, Richard Bruce, BA DPhil Oxf

Hunt, Katherine Emily, MA Oxf, MRes PhD Birkbeck

Hollings, Christopher David, MMath PhD York

Kelly, Steven, BSc Dub, DPhil Oxf, ARIAM

Gault, Joseph Frederick, MSc Imp, PhD Institut Pasteur & École Polytechnique

Metcalf, Christopher Michael Simon, MA Edin, MPhil DPhil Oxf

Whidden, Seth Adam, BA Union College, AM PhD Brown, MA Ohio State

Mȕller, Carolin Anne, Dip Ulm, PhD Nott

Stacey, Jessica Anne, BA MA PhD KCL

Prout, David, MA Oxf, PhD Lond

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Kasberger, Bernhard, BSc Vienna University of Economics and Business, PhD Vienna

Robertson, Alexander William, MPhys Durh, DPhil Oxf

Smith, Michael Ambrose Crawford, BA College of William and Mary, MA PhD Princeton

Turner, Jonathan, BA MSt BCL MPhil DPhil Oxf, LLB Birkbeck

Seigal, Anna, BA MMath Camb

Keating, Jonathan Peter, MPhys Oxf, PhD Bristol

Abell, Catharine Emma Jenvey, BA Adelaide, PhD Flinders

Mancall, Peter Cooper, BA Oberlin, PhD Harvard

Weatherup, Robert Stewart, MEng PhD Camb

Walden, Daniel Kitt Schelly, BA Oberlin, MPhil Camb, PhD Harvard

Kiener, Maximilian, BA Regensburg, BPhil DPhil Oxf

Ariga, Rina, MBBS Imperial, DPhil Oxf

Muhammed, Kinan, MBBS Imperial, DPhil Oxf

Marinkov, Viktor Vidinov, BSc Utrecht, MSc Barcelona

Carrillo de la Plata, José Antonio, BA PhD Grenada

O’Brien, Conor, BA Cork, MSt DPhil Oxf

Rota, Gabriele, BA Padua, MPhil PhD Camb

Leedham, Simon, BSc MBBS PhD QMUL

Edwards, Jennifer Jane, BA MA PhD RHUL

Honorary FellowsHoffmann, Leonard Hubert, the Rt Hon Lord Hoffmann of Chedworth, Kt, PC, BA Cape Town, BCL MA Oxf

Morgan, Kenneth Owen, Lord Morgan of Aberdyfi, MA DPhil DLitt Oxf, FBA, FRHistS

McColl, Sir Colin Hugh Verel, KCMG, MA Oxf

Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy John, OM, KBE, MA Oxf, FRS

Kelly, the Rt Hon Ruth Maria, PC, BA Oxf, MSc Lond

Atkinson, Rowan Sebastian, BSc Newc, MSc Oxf

Bowman, Alan Keir, MA Oxf, MA PhD Toronto, FBA

Gillen, the Hon Sir John de Winter, BA Oxf

Lever, Sir Paul, KCMG, MA Oxf, Hon LLD Birm

Phillips, Caryl, BA Oxf, FRSL

Stern, Nicholas Herbert, Lord Stern of Brentford, Kt, CH, MA Camb, DPhil Oxf, FBA, FRS

Hill, Hugh Allen Oliver, BSc PhD Belf, MA DSc Oxf, FRS

Reed, Terence James, MA Oxf, FBA

Low, Colin MacKenzie, Lord Low of Dalston, CBE, BA Oxf

Beecroft, Paul Adrian Barlow, MA Oxf, FInstP

Budd, Sir Alan Peter, GBE, BSc Lond, MA DPhil Oxf, PhD Camb

Bogdanor, Vernon Bernard, CBE, MA Oxf, FBA

Morris, Colin, MA Oxf, FBA, FRHistS

Eisenberg, David Samuel, AB Harvard, DPhil Oxf

Carwardine, Richard John, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA, FLSW, FRHistS

Hacker, Peter Michael Stephan, MA DPhil Oxf

Margalit, Avishai, BA MA PhD Hebrew

Laskey, Ronald Alfred, CBE, MA DPhil Oxf, FMedSci, FRS

Barrons, Sir Richard Lawson, KCB, CBE, MA Oxf

Abbott, Anthony John, MA Oxf

Griffith Williams, the Hon Sir John, MA Oxf

Turner, the Hon Sir Mark George, MA Oxf

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Donnelly, Sir Joseph Brian, CMG, KBE, MA Oxf

Watt, James Chi Yau, MA Oxf

Booker, Cory, BA Oxf, BA MA Stanford, JD Yale

Garcetti, Eric, BA MA Columbia, MA Oxf, PhD LSE

James, Ioan Mackenzie, MA DPhil Oxf, FRS

Sloboda, John Anthony, OBE, MA Oxf, PhD Lond, FBA, FBPsS

Wills, Clair, MA DPhil Oxf

Madden, Paul Anthony, MA Oxf, DPhil Sus, FRS, FRSE

Barber, Sir Michael, Kt, BA Oxf

Frood, Elizabeth, BA MA Auckland, DPhil Oxf

Gordon-Reed, Annette, BA Dartmouth, JD Harvard

Ramakrishnan, Sir Venkatraman, Kt, PhD Ohio, FRS

Sillem, Hayaatun, CBE, FIET, PhD UCL, MBiochem Oxf

Taylor, Clare, MBE, BA Oxf

Emeritus FellowsFoster, Michael Antony, MA DPhil Oxf

Kaye, John Marsh, BCL MA Oxf

Salmon, Graeme Laurence, BSc Tasmania, MA DPhil Oxf

Dimsdale, Nicholas Hampden, MA Camb, MA Oxf

Neumann, Peter Michael, OBE, MA DPhil DSc Oxf

Rutherford, John David, MA DPhil Oxf

McLeod, Peter Duncan, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf

Edwards, Christopher Martin, MA DPhil Oxf

Harries, Phillip Tudor, MA DPhil Oxf

Baines, John Robert, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA

Rowland, The Revd Christopher, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf

Pearson, Roger Anthony George, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA

Bowie, Angus Morton, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf

Ball, Sir John Macleod, MA Camb, MA Oxf, DPhil Sus, FRS, FRSE

Blair, William John, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA, FSA

Supernumerary FellowsMaclean, Ian Walter Fitzroy, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA, FRHistS

Constantine, David John, MA DPhil Oxf

Dobson, Peter James, OBE, BSc PhD S’ton, MA Oxf

Irving-Bell, Linda, MA DPhil Oxf

Jacobs, Justin Baine, BA Tulsa, MPhil PhD Camb

Browne Research FellowFayet, Annette, MSc ESPCI Paris, MSC DPhil Oxf

Beecroft Junior Research Fellow (in Astrophysics)Bellini, Emilio, BA MSc Trento, PhD Padova

Laming Junior FellowsBardazzi, Adele, BA RHUL, DPhil Oxf

Arnaldi, Marta, BA Turin, MA Pavia, MSt DPhil Oxf

Full-time LecturersSienkiewicz, Stefan, BA MSt DPhil Oxf

ChaplainPrice, The Revd Katherine Magdalene, MA MSt Oxf, BA Sheff


CONTENTS

From the Provost 6

Reports and College Activities 9Senior Tutor’s Report 9News from the Fellowship 14Academic Distinctions 26From the Bursar 35Outreach 37Admissions 39A year in the Library 40A year in the Chapel 43A year in the Choir 46The Queen’s Translation Exchange 48A year in the MCR 50A year in the JCR 52Student Clubs and Societies 54Athletic Distinctions 60

Old Members’ Activities 61Director of Development’s Report 61From the President of The Queen’s

College Association 63Gaudies 67Appointments and Distinctions 68Publications 74

Articles 78The challenges of academic

medicine during a pandemic 78Modelling a pandemic 81Papyri and performance: the

problems of ancient poetry 84

Obituaries 88Prof A D Barker 89Dr R E Blackburn FRSA 91Dr M J Cullen 92His Hon Judge Curran QC 94Prof K Davies 96Mr J R England 97Mr P J Firth 98Mr R L Hartnoll 100Mr M E Herman 102Prof H A O Hill FRS 104Mr A W S Mundy 105Dr P M Neumann OBE 107Mr J W A Okell OBE 108Dr Z A Pelczynski OBE 110Ms H Sowerby 113Mr E D Wetherell 114

Benefactions 116

Information 124


Queen’s has had a year to be proud of. Obviously, it has been tough on everyone: students, academics, College staff, and Old Members. We have all faced continual uncertainty, risk, and restrictions, each of us has had to deal with difficult personal circumstances and some with tragedy. Collectively, however, as a College we have been amazingly resilient and not only survived but, often, created opportunities out of disruption.

The College focused on what it has always been here for: to educate and to support research for the public good, in the best ways that it possibly can. From the start, we chose to stay true to our principles, including

thinking for ourselves as we picked our way through the law, guidance, and evidence. This meant that we did as much in-person as we possibly could, consistent with safety. Tutorials were face-to-face where they could be, even while University lectures, exams, and admissions were all online throughout the year.

Each term had its own flavour, reflecting the academic cycle and the various stages of the pandemic. Michaelmas Term saw most students in residence, but with many self-isolating at any one time and with all lectures online. Careful choreography meant that, where they could, students and tutors came together: Freshers’ Week sessions and mid-term tutorial dinners were repeated so they could be held in smaller groups; meetings throughout the term were often held in person, but with various combinations of mask-wearing, the placing of Perspex screens (that made conversations across the table at lunch or dinner impossible), outdoors in marquees and under heaters, and people sitting the required distance apart in the larger rooms. Even so, we all got very familiar with online meeting formats. Some Fellows were hardly able to get to their labs or archives at all, while others were able to conduct research from home. Many staff were also fitting work alongside home-schooling their children. Together with the high levels of uncertainty, of risk, of extra effort and care that even the most routine activity required, it was a difficult time for everyone.

At Christmas we sorely missed the Gaudies, and some international students had to stay throughout because they could not return home or, if they did, would not be able to come back for Hilary. One of them created midwinter cheer by magically “wrapping” the front door in brightly coloured gauze. However, the first part of Hilary Term was probably the darkest time of the year, actually and metaphorically. Only a small proportion of students were in residence, the UK’s national lockdown meant restrictions were very tight, and the daylight hours were short.

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By Trinity Term the days were brighter, restrictions were a little less, and most students had returned. For one-year Masters students and for Finalists, the desire to make the most of every possible day was particularly strong. Queen’s continued to support in-person events wherever it could and by July we had even managed to fulfil our commitment to the Finalists of 2020, to invite them back to carefully choreographed formal Halls for a belated celebration. It was particularly satisfying because the Norrington league table for 2020 had just been published, with Queen’s placed 3rd – the best outcome anyone could remember. (I must remind readers that the league table is a flawed measure, subject to massive fluctuations – but it would be churlish not to celebrate the very real underlying achievements of students and tutors.) In addition, the College had its best Torpids performance since 1840, and the Men’s first boat achieved Blades. As a newcomer to the way bumps work, the fact that the riverside was shut off resulted in a bonus: the organisers provided both an excellent live-feed and an incredibly helpful set of graphics, making it much easier to follow all the boats’ progress wherever in the world you were.

Seeking those opportunities created by disruption, we will all want to learn what we can about new ways of doing things. A lot of our activity this past year has brought our good works to a much wider audience, making the College, in some senses, more porous. For example, we introduced the Translation Exchange Book Club for Sixth-Formers; the live-streaming of Chapel services, organ recitals, and choir concerts; and the imaginative online events for the OM community around the world from Mayor Garcetti’s Lecture, to the “two Roberts’” tour of the wine cellar. We conducted the

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search that resulted in six new Honorary Fellows with a fascinating range of interests, and we finalised the partnership with The Access Project that will see Queen’s investing careful time and effort leading in-depth engagement with selected state schools in its areas of historic interest in the North West of England. At a time when the average attainment gap between children in rich and poor households appears to be widening, this is an important part of the College’s continuous determination to enable all the brightest young people to benefit from the best possible education. Far from locked-down housebound navel-gazing, the College has reached out more than ever.

I want to finish this article with a brief reflection on how the move of so much of life online also forced us to recognise afresh the value of Queen’s as a physical community-in-place. The practices of working, eating, and sometimes living together are integral to the College’s character and its success. They have their origins in the scholarly, social, and religious habits of the College’s first centuries. While the details of some of the practices are very different now and some of the reasons for them have changed, others remain strong or have evolved to take new forms.

That character and success still depend on people being together, on the liminal conversations: those over lunch, at a feast or seminar, or in the quads. College conversations happen with a mix of formality and serendipity and it is the essence of a College that people talk across boundaries in ways that they would not do anywhere else: across cohorts and generations, across subjects and disciplines, across teams and specialisms. This fluidity, absorbing the mood, paying attention to each other in ways that require all the skills of one human being noticing another, building bonds, is what enables challenge and support. It cannot be exactly replicated online and is an important part of what makes excellence possible. It is the associated freedom of expression, intellectual enquiry and reasoned arguments that will help to tackle the problems of today and create the opportunities for tomorrow. You could say that an ideal Queen’s conversation, whether about climate change or the menu, combines passion with respect: decorous passion, perhaps, or passionate decorum.


From the Provost

A year ago, the Senior Tutor ended his report with a wish that the 2020/21 academic year would mark a return to normality. Such has, unfortunately, not been the case. Teaching and meetings this year were a mix of online and in person, and admissions interviews were held completely online, as they will be this coming December. Students spent much of Michaelmas Term limited to their ‘household’ (often a staircase in College accommodation), and then away from College during the second lockdown, which pushed Hilary Term fully online. Trinity Term saw the return of most students to College, although nearly all examinations were sat online, as they had been a year earlier. Despite these

challenges, I’m pleased to report that the College pressed on with great resolve, in teaching and research alike. Against such strong headwinds, persistence alone would be admirable; that the College was able to be so successful despite such unfavourable conditions is noteworthy indeed.

As last year’s College Record was being sent to the printer, we elected four new Fellows who began in post at the start of this academic year. Conor O’Brien is a new Fellow in History, specialising in religion and identity in the early Middle Ages. After research fellowships in Cambridge and Durham, Dr O’Brien has returned to the College where he wrote a doctoral thesis on the Anglo-Saxon monk Bede. That thesis was the basis for his first book, Bede’s Temple: An Image and its Interpretation (OUP), which received the Best Book Prize from the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists. His next book is part of a wider project exploring the possibility of a religion/secular distinction in the early Middle Ages, and he is also working on issues of community and identity in the early medieval world.

Gabriele Rota was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in Classics. A product of the Italian state education system, Dr Rota read Classics at the University of Padua and completed postgraduate study in Cambridge, where he wrote a doctoral thesis on the textual history of Cicero’s letters to Atticus. His current projects include producing a critical edition of Cicero’s entire correspondence and studying attitudes towards the inclusion of non-authorial matter into Latin classical texts from Antiquity to the Enlightenment.

To cover much of my teaching while I serve as Senior Tutor, the College elected Macs Smith, who was our Hamilton Junior Research Fellow, to a Career Development Fellowship in French. Dr Smith’s first book Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City, announced last year (see 2020 College Record, p. 27), was

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published by MIT Press this May. After articles on street art and graffiti representations of the 1871 Paris Commune, and of Dante in contemporary Italian society, he is working on his second book project, which examines the impact of screen culture and new technologies on the conceptualisation of the body in contemporary French theatre.

Also interested in aspects of theatre is Jennifer Edwards, our new Career Development Fellow in early modern English. Previously Research Coordinator and Lecturer at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, Dr Edwards’ research focuses on the intersections of early modern literature (primarily Shakespearean), medicine, and philosophy, with a particular interest in emotion and embodiment. Her current projects include a monograph that considers how experiences of ecstasy captured the early modern imagination, and a study that aims to show how distraction at Shakespeare’s Globe creates theatrical meaning.

During the course of this academic year, the College elected ten new Fellows. Meleisa Ono-George was elected to be the first Brittenden Fellow in History. A social-cultural historian of race and gender with a focus on Black women’s histories in Britain and the Anglo-Caribbean, Dr Ono-George was most recently Associate Professor and Director of Student Experience at the University of Warwick. She is currently conducting research for a book that focuses on the lives of several Black women in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, as well as looking ahead to her next project, on the history of Black mothering in Britain and the politics of historical production. Readers of the College Record are well aware of one point which bears repeating: the Brittenden endowment enabled the College to secure the early release of this post, despite the University’s recruitment freeze that had been occasioned by COVID-19. The College will fund the post for the first five years, after which it will be jointly funded with the Faculty of History.

The pandemic left the Harmsworth Visiting Professorship of American History unfilled in Michaelmas and Hilary Terms. Last year’s postholder, Peter Mancall, was invited to return for Trinity Term, to make up for the summer term that he lost in 2020. The College’s connection to the Harmsworth Professorship remains a source of great strength; recent Harmsworth Professor Barbara Savage (University of Pennsylvania) was on the selection panel for the Brittenden Fellowship. Her scholarly expertise and her familiarity with, and fondness for, the College made her an invaluable contributor.

To round out the College’s coverage of history, we elected Sadie Jarrett to a Career Development Fellowship in early modern history. Her research examines the Welsh gentry within the power structures of the English state and disputes the existing narratives about the Welsh gentry. Her approach to viewing the Welsh people through lenses of colonialism is one of a number of examples of College members who are engaged with matters to do with race and diversity within their disciplines. Dr Jarrett has most recently been a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.



Simon Leedham FRCP was elected as our new Professorial Fellow in Molecular and Population Genetics. Professor Leedham’s research focuses on the signalling pathways that control intestinal stem cells and how they can be manipulated by drugs in diseases like inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer. He is also Director of the Oxford Centre for Personalised Medicine, which runs 15-20 engagement events throughout the year.

The College also elected a new Junior Research Fellow in Law: Jan Petrov comes to us from the Judicial Studies Institute of Masaryk University, in Brno, where he completed his doctorate. He also worked as a law clerk at the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic, and he holds an LLM from New York University. Dr Petrov’s primary scholarly interests are comparative constitutional law, human rights, EU law, and public international law, and during his Fellowship he plans to articulate a theory of judicial reactions to executive dominance with particular help from three case studies: Brexit, post-2015 judicial reforms in Poland, and the Israeli government’s response to COVID-19.

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Our new Browne Research Fellow is Finaritra Raoelijaona. Originally from Madagascar, she holds degrees from the Universities of Strasbourg and Bordeaux. For her research Fellowship, she will focus on G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR), which represent the largest family of cell surface receptors encoded by the human genome. Specifically, Dr Raoelijaona will be investigating a unique receptor known as the very large G protein-coupled receptor 1 (VLGR1). The largest protein known in the GPCR superfamily, VLGR1 is highly subjected to mutations which are directly related to genetic disorders, including Usher syndrome type 2 (commonly associated with deafness and blindness).

Rachel Achs was elected to be the next post-doctoral research Fellow in Philosophy as part of Senior Research Fellow John Hyman’s European Research Council project on ‘The Roots of Responsibility: Metaphysics, Humanity, and Society’. At Harvard, she wrote her doctoral thesis on self-righteous sentiment, and she is continuing to work on blame, its meaning, and its value. Dr Achs aims to consider the relationship between blame and voluntary control: specifically, what sort of freedom is required for the type of moral responsibility that we should care about having.

The Laming Junior Research Fellowship was recast — thanks to the strength of its endowment — and the first year of it being offered as a three-year Fellowship (instead of one year with possibility of renewal) led to the election of two new Laming Fellows: Coraline Jortay and Annalisa Nicholson. Dr Jortay’s primary research interest is the history of literary translation from English and French into Chinese at the turn of the twentieth century, with a special focus on the impact of literary translation on language reform. Dr Nicholson works on the rhetorical strategies (particularly aspects of distance and alienation) of Huguenot women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

We also elected two ‘extraordinary’, or non-stipendiary, Junior Research Fellows, in Physiology and in Physics. These ‘eJRFs’ enable association with the College to post-doctorate scholars whose research activity is already supported through grant funding. We look forward to welcoming them to our already vibrant group of Early Career Researchers: Rumaitha Al Hosni (Physiology) and Josu Aurrekoetxea (Physics).

These new Early Career Fellows will have big shoes to fill, as our track record of attracting the leading scholars of the future invariably leads to departures for greater pastures; of our Junior Research Fellows, Daniel Walden is leaving for a permanent position as Assistant Professor in Music Analysis at Durham University, and Bernhard Kasberger will join the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) at Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. Recent eJRFs Max Kiener and Adele Bardazzi will pursue new postdoctoral fellowships with support from the European Research Council and the Irish Research Council, respectively.

As I write this report, the selection panel completed its work for the new Schwarz-Taylor Professorship in German. As with the Brittenden Fellowship, this post (previously called the Taylor chair) is now fully endowed, and it continues to be associated with a Fellowship at the College. The new Schwarz-Taylor Professor,



Karen Leeder, is a specialist in and prize-winning translator of contemporary German literature, film, and culture. Among Professor Leeder’s numerous current projects is a study of contemporary German poetry. We look forward to welcoming her next year.

Turning to our existing Fellowship, it gives me great pleasure to note that Fellow in English Rebecca Beasley and Fellow in Fine Art Anthony Gardner were both given the title of Professor in the annual Recognition of Distinction exercise.

If I have devoted so much space to profiles of individual excellence, it’s because they can better convey the College’s activities over the past year than, say, numerical results such as the Norrington Table. While we are always a bit wary of league tables, since such a focus on exam scores is only one (crude) way to measure student success, that scepticism is no less important in a year in which students sat examinations during a pandemic, in far from optimal conditions. The College’s results are impressive when compared to previous years — we achieved a ‘Norrington score’ of 81.7%, whereas our previous high had been 76.43% and the mean over the last 15 years was 69.9%. And while many colleges enjoyed similar increases (aided by a general dearth of third-class degrees or lower), the College came third in this year’s table: the highest position on record, and a notable achievement in a uniquely difficult year. Most importantly, our standing in this league table shows that our finalists were not disadvantaged by the pandemic last year; their resilience is a testament to their focus and determination, impressive in light of such unfavourable conditions. In addition to their strong showing as a year group, students excelled in a number of individual accomplishments when compared to their cohort across the University, as the list of examination prizes in this Record attests.

What will we accomplish next year? If the last year has taught us anything, it’s that predicting the future is a fool’s errand; even the meteorologist gets caught in the rain sometimes. But with vaccines in our arms and a year’s worth of pandemic-related experience under our belts, we are eager and committed to return to as much in-person work as will be permitted. Having made it through this year’s storms in such good shape, the College’s academic future remains bright.



Links to full lists of Fellows’ publications can be found on their profile pages on the College’s website.

Catharine Abell (Philosophy)

Since the publication of my book, Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis (OUP) in July 2020, I have participated in an author meets critics session on the book at the American Society of Aesthetics meeting in November 2020 (held online). I have also written a précis of the book and response to critical commentaries (in addition to offering some critical commentaries of my own on other recently-published books on the topic)

for a special issue of the British Journal of Aesthetics on fiction, to be published in January 2022. I have also started working on a project about artistic media and how they affect our interpretation and evaluation of artworks. As an extension of that, I have been thinking about the role of various kinds of non-perceptible features of artworks in determining their aesthetic properties.

Rebecca Beasley (English)

This year I’ve enjoyed setting several new projects in train. With Alex Grafen (UCL) and Evi Heinz (Münster), I’m putting together an anthology of modernist art and literature by a group of East End Jewish writers and artists (the group is usually referred to as ‘The Whitechapel Boys’—but there were Whitechapel girls too); I’ve started editing Wyndham Lewis’ Men Without Art for the Oxford University Press edition of Lewis’s

writings; and I’ve made the very first forays into research for a new book project on ornithology in modern literature and culture. At the time of writing, I’m researching a chapter about the poetry debates of the 1920s for a volume commemorating the centenary of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, to be published next year.

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Angus Bowie (Classics – Emeritus)

All attempts to go abroad having been scuppered by the virus and its variants, I have been compelled to work from home, largely on my Homer commentary. One novelty was giving a series of graduate seminars on Greek dialect texts ‘in’ the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, which took me back 40 years to my earliest work on Lesbian poetry and showed me how well teaching online can go with good students. I also

gave a lecture there on ‘Epic Humour: How Funny Are Homer’s Gods?’ (answer: ‘it’s complicated’). I published an article ‘The Ritual Role of Honey in Ancient Egypt, Hatti and Greece’ in the Serbian journal Istraživanja.

Jose Carrillo (Mathematics)

Despite all the complications with the COVID-19 restrictions, my first year at Queen’s has been both fantastic and challenging. Adapting to new duties and a totally different environment has been eased due to the nice and friendly welcome from colleagues and students at the College. My research in the 2020-2021 academic year continues the development of theoretical and numerical tools and applications of Partial Differential

Equations (PDE) in the sciences. They constitute the basic language in which most of the laws in physics or engineering can be written and one of the most important mathematical tools for modelling in life and socio-economical sciences. I have been interested in long-time asymptotics, qualitative properties and numerical schemes for nonlinear diffusion, hydrodynamic, and kinetic equations. I have also worked in the modelling of collective behaviour of many-body systems with application in charged particles transport in a plasma, cell movement by chemotaxis or cell sorting by adhesion forces.

The first year of my ERC Advanced Grant has allowed me to further explore and to launch new aspects of my research in nonlocal PDEs for complex particle dynamics such as phase transitions, patterns, and synchronization. I have advanced in the analysis of concentrations and properties of local minimizers of interaction energies, phase transitions driven by noise/relative strength of repulsion versus attraction and synchronization of neural networks. David Gomez-Castro joined the College as Post-Doctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) associated with this project and three more PDRAs will be joining in the next academic year. I have been named as Highly Cited Researcher for six years in a row by Clarivate Analytics. I have given the QJMAM lecture at the joint British (Applied) Mathematical Colloquium meeting 2021.

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Claire Craig (Provost)

The last academic year has been a challenging time for those interested in the provision of science advice. I was therefore delighted to be elected Vice-President (Evidence) of the International Network for Government Science Advice and to start to work with INGSA as it attempts to ensure that the experience of the pandemic is used to strengthen the provision and use of evidence in national, city-based, and regional jurisdictions around

the world. I also contributed to work by the British Academy, commissioned by the UK Government Chief Scientific Advisor, using humanities evidence to develop plausible futures for the “Covid decade” ahead, in order to inform future policy priorities.

I have continued to work with Professor Sarah Dillon, of Cambridge University, on new ways to incorporate narrative evidence as part of a plural evidence base. Storylistening: narrative evidence and public reasoning is published in November 2021.

Peter Dobson OBE (Engineering – Emeritus)

I continue to work in all of the areas that I described last year, namely: Quantum Technology, aspects of COVID-19 detection, new concepts to reduce carbon emissions and a lot of work in helping small companies start up. I was an author on several papers during the year and in particular three papers in Nature and associated journals and have continued to file patents on new methods of rapid and sensitive virus detection, and new types of

coatings to improve heat exchangers, and ultimately, we hope, heat pumps. Methods of decarbonising the energy sector remain a passion and I am increasingly involved in hydrogen generation and applications. The COVID-19 restrictions have badly affected a lot of the experimental work I undertake, especially in universities. It is also making fund-raising for new companies extremely difficult and much of my time in the past six months has turned to keeping companies alive. My work with the UKRI and associated government agencies is associated with the road-mapping of some sectors that use Quantum Technology, and also the implications for Intellectual Property and export control arising from the National Security Investment Bill and legislation.

Annette Fayet (Biological Sciences)

After a year working from home, I was delighted to resume fieldwork for my research this year. I spent most of the spring/summer 2021 on Skomer Island off the coast of Wales, continuing my long-term study of the migration of Atlantic puffins (now

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in its 13th year!) and starting a new project on Manx shearwaters. This project, for which I secured funding from the British Ecological Society (BES) and the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB), aims to understand the long-term consequences on seabirds of breeding, or migrating, in unusually easy or hard conditions (which they may experience more and more, with climate change driving greater environmental variability).

I published several papers this year (see www.annettefayet.com for details and links to the papers) but I was particularly pleased to see an important paper about a key project of my Junior Research Fellowship, aiming to uncover the causes of puffin population declines in the northeast Atlantic, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology.

Despite working from home I continued to take part in outreach events online. This included a lecture to prospective Oxford students with The Queen’s College North-West Science Programme, as well as lectures to primary and secondary school classrooms with the Exploring By The Seat and National Geographic Learning programmes, which reached over a thousand students worldwide, and hopefully inspired a few to pursue studies in biology and wildlife conservation.

Last but not least, I was delighted to accept a tenured research position at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, starting in winter 2021, where I will continue to conduct independent ecological research and contribute to monitoring important seabird populations in Norway. While I hope to continue my long-term study of puffins on Skomer Island in Wales, I am also excited to develop new research projects on seabird colonies in the Lofoten Islands.

Christopher Hollings (History of Mathematics)

This year, I have continued to work with Richard Bruce Parkinson on our historiographical project concerning the reconstruction of ancient Egyptian mathematics during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Our paper on the 1920s correspondence between the Egyptologist Thomas Eric Peet and the historian of mathematics Otto Neugebauer appeared in print in mid-2020 (‘Two letters from Otto Neugebauer to

Thomas Eric Peet on ancient Egyptian mathematics’, Historia Mathematica 52 (2020), 66–98) and we have published accounts of the ongoing research for various readerships. The writing of a follow-up piece is well advanced. Our work considers the attitudes of mathematicians, historians of mathematics, and Egyptologists towards the mathematics of the ancient world, their motivations for studying it, and the uses

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to which they put it. We delivered a joint online talk on this work to the Invariants, the Oxford undergraduate mathematics society.

This year provided an opportunity for some very varied writing, and I produced two chapters for different edited collections: one on the financial and reputational capital earned by mathematical textbooks writers in Britain during the nineteenth century, and another on the eighteenth-century Savilian Professors of Geometry in Oxford, the first of whom was the College’s own Edmond Halley.

I have continued my involvement in various projects spanning several Oxford departments whose goal is to present a more diverse image of the subjects taught at undergraduate level. With a view to emphasising the mathematical traditions that exist beyond Europe, I produced a series of posters on ‘world mathematics’ that will eventually be displayed in the Andrew Wiles Building: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/37473.

Jon Keating (Mathematics)

In my research, I have been working mainly on developing the theory of random matrices, and on applications to machine learning and number theory. My group has focused, in particular, on the characteristic polynomials of random matrices, their extreme value statistics, and their connection to Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos. I have written a number of papers on these topics. With a visitor from the Sorbonne Université, Dr

Henrik Ueberschaer, I also made progress on a longstanding problem relating to the statistical properties of the wave functions in a family of singular quantum billiards.

I gave lectures at a number of conferences, and a Mathematical Institute Public Lecture on the extreme values of random landscapes, all without leaving the confines of my home. Unfortunately, a visit to the Republic of the Congo, to give a lecture at the four-yearly Pan African Congress of Mathematicians, had to be postponed because of the pandemic.

My teaching was focused on developing a new undergraduate course in the Mathematical Institute on Random Matrix Theory.

I continued to act as President of the London Mathematical Society, where one sad duty was to mark Dr Peter Neumann’s passing. Peter was a hugely popular figure in the Society, as well as in College.



Max Kiener (Philosophy)

My academic year 2020/2021 happened primarily online. It was an unusual and very challenging, yet also productive, year that led to four peer-reviewed publications, in which I focused on the ethics of nudging, the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, the predicaments that people face in the context of living organ donation, and questions about how exactly the law gives us reasons to comply with it. In addition,

I wrote two articles for The Conversation, asking whether it is okay to manipulate people into getting vaccinated against COVID-19 as well as how cyberthreats could change physicians’ duties of disclosure to their patients.

Based on my role in John Hyman’s ERC-project Roots of Responsibility, I then also organised a workshop on questions about moral and legal responsibility, which was scheduled to be held at Queen’s but then, unfortunately, had to proceed as an online event due to pandemic restrictions.

Finally, I am happy to say that I received the CEPE IACAP Best Paper Award 2021 for a paper on the ethics of artificial intelligence, that I was offered a book contract for a project on moral responsibility, and that I accepted a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (ECF) at Oxford, beginning in October 2021. My Leverhulme ECF will be based at Univ., but I hope to keep close ties with Queen’s as well, which has been an ideal home for me during my two-year fellowship on John Hyman’s ERC-project Roots of Responsibility.

Laura Lonsdale (Spanish)

Last year brought the publication of The Island (Penguin), my translation of a coming-of-age novel by the Spanish novelist Ana María Matute, originally published as Primera memoria in 1959. Set in Mallorca during the Spanish civil war, the novel is a lyrical account of a girl’s encounter with the violent realities of both the present and the past, and a thinly veiled attack on the moral hypocrisy of Franco’s regime. It’s a great novel for

young people, and I enjoyed presenting it at the inaugural sixth-form event held by the Queen’s Translation Exchange last summer. The year also brought the publication of a chapter on the Galician poet Manuel Rivas in Multilingualism and World Literature (Bloomsbury), edited by Jane Hiddleston and Wen-chin Ouyang, a volume that brings together many of the ideas developed in the World Literature strand of the AHRC-funded Creative Multilingualism project. My own chapter explores the notion of linguistic ecology and biodiversity in a collection of poetry that Rivas published simultaneously in four Iberian languages (Galician, Castilian, Catalan and Basque). Before the pandemic

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struck, I was lucky enough to give a lecture in Sweden on the way multilingual poetry leaves space for the incomprehensible, exploring, with reference to a poem by Charles Tomlinson, the metaphors of the bridge (translation) and vacancy (the untranslated).

Christopher Metcalf (Classics)

If asked to define the ‘Classics’, many would probably reply that the term refers to the Greco-Roman foundations of Western culture. The influence of Greek and Roman antiquity on the West, and beyond, is of course enduring, and controversial. But what about the reception of non-‘Classical’ cultures by the ancient Greeks and Romans: to what extent did they not only give, but also receive? One area in which this question

seems particularly important and intriguing is early Greek poetry and myth―a uniquely rich and important corpus of evidence that becomes accessible to us from about the 8th century BC onwards, but that clearly presupposes a very deep and complex history which we cannot recover from the Greek sources alone. It is on this topic that my colleague Adrian Kelly and I have this year published an edited volume entitled Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology (Cambridge). If you are wondering why any of this might matter, consider that the most influential Greek myth on the birth and rise to power of the chief god Zeus undoubtedly drew on earlier, non-Greek myths about the rise of the Near Eastern Storm-god. Much remains to be discovered, including instances where the evidence points in the other direction: surprising though it sounds, there is good reason to think that an enigmatic passage in the Biblical book of Genesis, which mentions ‘the heroes of old, the men with a name’ in early human history, reflects the kind of Greek heroic myths that are familiar to us from Homer’s epics. Our volume explores these and many other topics, including such well-known stories as the tale of Pandora and the myth of the Golden Age, in a comparative perspective – which is the only perspective in which they can be fully understood.

Conor O’Brien (History)

Amidst the miseries of COVID-19, I was very pleased to join the Fellowship of Queen’s in October 2020, almost exactly a decade after I started at the College as a doctoral student. My career since 2010 has taken me via Sheffield, Cambridge, Durham, and London, but I cannot think of anywhere better to have settled in the middle of the global pandemic than Oxford. While teaching was, of course, highly disrupted this year, we

were still extraordinarily lucky to be able to do much of our tutorial teaching in person – a privilege that colleagues and students at many other universities did not have. The

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opportunity to work closely with students in small groups remains one of the most enjoyable and uplifting aspects of academic life at Oxford.

A combination of COVID-19, fatherhood, and starting a new job has meant that the research for my second book ground to a halt for much of this year, but I was pleased that I could continue to publish. A major article, ‘Chosen Peoples and New Israels in the Early Medieval West’, appeared at the beginning of the academic year in Speculum (the journal of the Medieval Academy of America), while a special issue of Early Medieval Europe that I edited, on ‘The Early Medieval Secular’, was published in January. Hopefully, over the long vacation I will be able to make some long-delayed progress on my book: The Rise of Christian Kingship.

Richard Bruce Parkinson (Egyptology)

The pandemic hiring freeze initially prevented us from appointing a Departmental lecturer to cover a colleague’s sabbatical during this past academic year, but fortunately a trust fund left by the Egyptologist and Queensman A.H. Gardiner enabled us to secure a one-year appointment and to run all our usual courses in Egyptology. Research on Egyptian mathematics with Christopher D. Hollings has continued with several joint publications, including one in

Danish as a result of my recent sabbatical visit to Copenhagen. A paper on E. M. Forster and queer museum spaces, that was originally intended for the cancelled conference ‘Re-Orientating E. M. Forster’ in Cambridge, has now been submitted for publication. Research time has been taken up by helping prepare for the anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, as the co-director of the Griffith Institute which holds Carter’s archive. The Bodleian will stage an exhibition ‘Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive’ (April to December 2022) with around 200 key items from the Institute. I have edited and co-authored the accompanying publication which we hope will provide a fresh view of the controversial discovery. For me, this has been a nostalgic and enjoyable return to museum work, collaborating closely with the Bodleian exhibition team and designers; I’ve also written for catalogues for an international exhibition on Byblos and for another on the anniversary of the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script (also discussed on In Our Time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s2qd). My own main research project on The Life of Sinuhe is on hold again, and the full draft of the commentary that was completed during my sabbatical year, has been placed in the Egyptological archive of the Griffith Institute as an unfinished manuscript, to be resumed in retirement.

Owen Rees (Music)

My research has continued to be divided between work on Iberian and Tudor music. My recent book The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603) received the Robert M.

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Stevenson Award of the American Musicological Society at the November meeting of the Society. In that book I contribute to a fresh understanding of the relationships between Iberian and Italian sacred music in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, particularly in settings of the Mass, and this year I pursued such themes in a paper at the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Lisbon, and in an article to appear in the journal Die Tonkunst. Early in 2021 the latest CD recording of my ensemble Contrapunctus was released: The Sweetest

Songs (Signum Classics) focuses on – mainly little-known – motets with psalm texts from the mid to late sixteenth century, and is the last recording in a series exploring the music of the Baldwin Partbooks, preserved in Christ Church library.

Alexander Robertson (Materials)

My group has continued its research into the behaviour and failure modes of electrodes for future rechargeable battery technology. We have been exploring the so-called metal anode, a type of electrode which promises significant gains in battery performance and weight efficiency, yet are particularly volatile. Our recent publication looked at these anodes for lithium batteries, where we imaged the charge and discharge process of

the electrode at sub-micron scales and in real-time, giving us important insights into how to modify the battery electrochemistry to prevent electrode failure. Following on from this and our other previous work, we are now exploring conceptually similar processes for other rechargeable battery chemistries based on either zinc or sodium ions rather than lithium. We’re hoping that these studies will help inform future battery designs.

Ritchie Robertson (German)

My book The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 was published in London by Penguin Books in November 2020, in New York by HarperCollins in February 2021, and has attracted numerous reviews, most recently by Keith Thomas in the London Review of Books (20 May 2021). The paperback version will probably appear in 2022.

Since then I have completed a short book on Nietzsche in the series Critical Lives published by Reaktion Books (London). It should appear in 2022.



Before lockdown, I attended a conference in Freiburg on the reception of the Italian poet Ariosto in German-speaking countries. My contribution, dealing with his reception in nineteenth-century Switzerland, has now appeared as ‘Ariost aus Schweizer Sicht. Keller, Burckhardt, Meyer, Spitteler, Widmann’, in Achim Aurnhammer and Mario Zanucchi (eds.), Ariost in Deutschland: Seine Wirkung in Literatur, Kunst und Musik (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020), pp. 337-58.

During lockdown I gave remotely the annual Thomas Mann Lecture in Zurich. It will be published as ‘Aufklärung und Gegenaufklärung auf dem Zauberberg’ in Thomas Mann Jahrbuch for 2021.

Macs Smith (French)

2021 saw the publication of my first monograph, Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City (MIT Press). The book argues that Parisian urban planning and politics have been organised around eliminating various so-called “parasites” from the city, whether they take the form of noise, disease, or the people who live on the socio-political margins. I argue this approach to the city is both doomed to failure

and destructive, and I argue for the value – both aesthetic and ethical – of messy, unpredictable, open cities, where nothing and no one is treated as a parasite.

This year I also published an article on references to the Paris Commune in contemporary street art, part of a special issue of Nineteenth-Century French Studies co-edited by Fellow in French, Seth Whidden, marking the 150th anniversary of the Commune. I was very proud to contribute to such an extraordinary volume. I’m currently completing another article on street art, this time on its engagement with Dante Alighieri, for a book entitled Dante Alive (Routledge), marking 700 years since the poet’s death.

Robert Taylor (Physics)

This year I have continued to work on the optical properties of nanostructures, and I am Chair of the Physics Examiners for Finals. I was fortunate in April to hear that I was successful in a grant application to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the project entitled “Plasmon-enhanced light emission from hybrid nanowires: towards electrically driven nanowire lasers” commenced on 1 August 2021

for three years, where I will be working jointly with Dr Shengfu Yang at the University of Leicester. During this academic year I have published eight papers.

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Lindsay Turnbull (Biology)

Last year was a year like no other. I am deeply involved in the organisation of teaching and took on the Director of Undergraduate Teaching role, as my predecessor had semi-retired. We managed to keep the teaching going, including operating the Teaching Lab for most of the year, enabling our students to gain crucial practical experience. We are also bringing in a new four-year MBiol degree to replace the old three-year Biological

Sciences BA. With hindsight, this wasn’t the best timing, but of course hindsight is a wonderful thing! On the research side, it was crucial to support DPhil students, as they were often facing difficult constraints on both lab and field work. Two of my students successfully defended their DPhils in the last year – and I’m very proud of both of them. One student also managed to produce a high-profile paper in the journal PNAS, which was the culmination of several years’ work. This paper showed how legume plants (peas in this case) are able to regulate the symbiotic bacteria that they house in specialised root structures, called nodules. The bacteria ‘fix’ nitrogen from the air in return for the plant’s sugar, and the plant monitors their efficacy, cutting off those that don’t provide enough nitrogen, while continuing to support those that do. We have shown, for the first time, that the plant can make conditional decisions. It might choose to support a bacterial strain that isn’t great at fixing nitrogen, if it doesn’t have any other choice, but it will cut off that same strain when a better one is available. The lesson? Never underestimate our green friends. They are always smarter than you think.

Daniel Walden (Music)

This was my second year as a Junior Research Fellow in Music. Most of my attention was dedicated to my book manuscript examining the global history of pitch studies during the nineteenth century. The project is developed from my doctoral dissertation, “The Politics of Tuning and Temperament,” which last November received 1st Honourable Mention in the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the International Musicological Society.

My Fellowship has also afforded me the opportunity to pursue several related projects. I am currently assembling an edited volume with Dr David Trippett (Cambridge) focused on the history of pitch studies during the long nineteenth century, as well as a collection of translations of the German and Japanese musical writings of Tanaka Shōhei (1862-1945) with Dr Jonathan Service (SOAS) for Bloomsbury Press. My two book chapters on just-intonation theory in British India and Meiji Japan are forthcoming in edited volumes Sound and Sense in Britain (Cambridge University Press) and Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Scripta (Schwabe). I also received a



British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant to pursue a multi-year project involving the digital reconstruction of nineteenth-century enharmonic keyboards, and workshops discussing their pedagogical and practical applications.

In addition to my research I delivered tutorials on topics including Programme Music (FHS) and Study Skills (Prelims), and a graduate seminar at the Faculty of Music titled “Pitch, Timbre, Loudness” examining the relationship between musical perception and society, culture, and politics. I am also pleased to report that I will be starting as Assistant Professor in Music Analysis at University of Durham in September 2021. But my delight is tempered by the fact that it means leaving my Fellowship early. I have greatly enjoyed my time at Queen’s—despite the impositions of a global pandemic—and feel extremely fortunate to have met such wonderful colleagues and collaborators. I look forward to returning to College often.

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ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS (* denotes distinction)

D.PhilHamza A. Alawiye (Partial Differential Equations)Clare H. Carolin (Fine Art)Deborah L. Cross (Paediatrics)Daniel De Moraes Navarro (Experimental Psychology)Tristan P. Giron (Partial Differential Equations)Jonathan D. Goult (Structural Biology)Andrew W. Holland (History)Joseph Lawrence (Theory and Modelling in Chemical Sciences)Ta-Chun Liu (Oncology)Christine Lo (Clinical Neurosciences)Romina O. Mariano (Clinical Neurosciences)Guillaume Matthews (Materials)Avi Mayorcas (Partial Differential Equations)Simon Nadal (Chemical Biology)Kyung Chan Park (Cardiovascular Science)Natalia V. Reis (Inorganic Chemistry)Toni Scharle (Partial Differential Equations)Edward S. Scrivens (Oriental Studies)Archna R. Shah (Structural Biology)Alicia Smith (English)Beojan Stanislaus (Particle Physics)Florian Stocker (Medieval and Modern Languages)Paolo Strampelli (Environmental Research)Maarten Swart (Molecular and Cellular Medicine)Teodora P. Trendafilova (Ion Channels and Disease)Aleksandra B. Wenta (Oriental Studies)Timothy J. Westwood (Partial Differential Equations)Samuel J. Wheeler (Materials)Christopher R. Woodham (Plant Sciences)Yufei Zhang (Mathematics)Ili A.B. Zulkifly (Inorganic Chemistry)

BCLYoucef BoussabaineLuke Gibbons*

MJurAnna-Mira Brandau*



M.PhilJasmine Chia (International Relations)Venunye C.F. Gunu* (International Relations)Gilang A.G. Lukman* (Modern Middle Eastern Studies)Nadine S. Lützelschwab* (Modern Middle Eastern Studies)

M.StNatasha H. Arora (English)Emma C. Felin* (English and American Studies)Milo G. Nesbitt* (English and American Studies)Laurence F. John (Musicology)Anna S. Glieden* (Modern Languages)Arthur G. Wotton* (Modern Languages)

M.ScStella Adu-Donkor (Law and Finance)Yongsheng Jia (Mathematical Scienes)Linke Li (Japanese Studies)Po Kwan Li* (Law and Finance)Gregory D. Royston (Financial Economics)Axel Schmid* (Theoretical and Computational Chemistry)Pattarin Taechamahapun (Law and Finance)Zecheng Yi (Mathematical Sciences)Máté Zombai-Kovacs* (Financial Economics)

BMHeather A. BoageyCharlotte H. HarrisonLydia Parker*

P.G.C.EVictoria Lee-StevensKate Orlandi-FantiniAlice J. Tarbert

Diploma in Legal StudiesLaura León Maestre



FINAL PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS

Chemistry

First ClassHarry G. MarkImogen A. RamskillYi Xiao

Second Class, Division OneHenry GrayCalvin A. WilsonFujia Zhu

Classics and Modern Languages

Second Class, Division One Gurdip S. Ahluwalia (French)

Classics and Oriental Studies

First ClassJoost W.P.M. Botman

English and Modern Languages

First ClassRachel Kevern (French)

English Language and Literature

First ClassJames R. Murphy

European and Middle Eastern Languages

Second Class, Division OneAnna L. Griffin (Spanish and Arabic)

Experimental Psychology

First ClassXiaotong DingHannah E. GrayJemima F. Greenhalgh

Fine Art

First ClassZoe Harding

History

First Class Harriet BatesIsobel L. CoxWilliam D. Parry

Second Class, Division OneJulia DuddyIsabelle L. GibbonsEmily J.E. JonesAda F. TaggartFindlay G. Thompson

History and Modern Languages

First ClassIsabella H. Massam (Italian)

History and Politics

Second Class, Division OneHannah BrockAngharad KellettMatthew Suter



Jurisprudence

First ClassNoel Y.Z. Low

Second Class, Division OneZara EverittJoshua W. ForshawOliver K. ReiniusAlison Y.Z.C. TanXiaojian Zhou

Literae Humaniores

First ClassGareth J. Smith

Second Class, Division OneRory E.C. Booth

Materials Science

First ClassJessica J.Q. Wen

Mathematics

DistinctionSam I. Lachmann

MeritThomas JudgeXiaoyan Zhao

Second Class, Division OneKrit Patarapak

Mathematics and Statistics

Second Class, Division OneRuizhen Ma

Medical Sciences

First ClassZuzanna BorawskaRebecca S. HowittImogen G. Wilkinson

Second Class, Division OneElfreda BakerYedidiah Tilahun

Modern Languages

First ClassMarte F.E. van der Graaf (German)

Second Class, Division OneJake A. Duxbury (Spanish)

Modern Languages and Linguistics

First ClassEleanor R. MacLeod (Spanish)

Second Class, Division OneFrancesca Duke (French)

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Second Class, Division OneCameron J. Brooks

Second Class, Division TwoKeith I. Yardley

Music

First ClassRachel J.F. HoweTamsin E. Sandford Smith

Second Class, Division OneThomas DilleyBethan E. Rose



Oriental Studies

First ClassEleanor Collard (Chinese)Mary O. Oboh (Chinese)Sam A. Watkins (Chinese)

Second Class, Division OneLauren J. Burke (Chinese)

Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

First ClassHugo E. Till

Second Class, Division OneEthan M. AdamsJulia HussainWilliam T.K. McCathieMan Siu Pun

Physics

Second Class, Division OneAdarsh P. RaghuramRohan S. RaoMaurice Gedney

Psychology, Philosophy, and Linguistics

First ClassEmily B. Elstub

FIRST PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS

First BMIbrahem Al-ObaidiOliver W.A. MeekSophie A. PayneCiaran SandhuKarthik Saravanan

Honour Moderations

Literae HumanioresFrederick FoulstonAJ Jeffries-ShawCyrus Tehranchian

Moderations

Law Nadia KashooIrewamide I. SofelaZara P. Watson



Preliminary Examinations

Ancient and Modern HistoryBenjamin Grinyer*

BiologyDaniel Bowen*Elias S. FormaggiaGeorge A. MacKay*Henry A. Portwood*Martha Rigby*Emily M. Scott

Biomedical SciencesDaniel GunnEvie J. RosetteHannah C. Sutton

ChemistryJoshua O. Abioye*Tihomir I. GluharevEdwin L. Hughes*Shuiwaner Liu*Ben Naylor

English and Modern LanguagesHay Yin Chow (French)Kylah N. Jacobs (French)Etta Selim (Spanish)

English Language and LiteratureKatie H. BowenSarah Hutchence*Niamh Ward

Experimental PsychologyRosie A. Jephson*Jasmine Nieradzik-Burbeck*Maria Richards-Brown*

Fine ArtLoveday M.P. PrideAngus G. Wood*

HistoryRebecca BoettcherCaitlin E. GillElisabeth E.J. HarrisAlexia NorthHenry O’SullivanOmira PitigalaChanté D.M. PriceEvelyn S.TurnerKaterina Zagurova*

History and Modern LanguagesStella J. Horrell (Spanish)Rhiannon Petteford (Czech)

History and PoliticsDaniel F.G. Craig-McFeely*Phoebe Hornor*

Materials ScienceJacx K.Y. Chan*Milo Coombs*Ruijie GuThian D. IskandarAndrew Sturt

MathematicsDaniel N. BellHao De*Injune HwangJiahe QiuZiyang Zheng*



Modern LanguagesOlivia G. Coombs (Italian and Spanish)Joshua J.D. Dixon (French and German)Ella Holliday* (French and Spanish)Fenella Lamle (French and Spanish)Eleanor Maidstone* (Spanish)Katie St. Francis (French and German)Joseph J. Wald (German)Cara P. Williams (French)

Molecular and Cellular BiochemistryMolly R. BowerMagdalena K. Lechowska*

MusicIsaac J. AdniCormac DiamondAlaw G. Evans

Oriental StudiesCicely D.M. Hunt (Chinese)Philip J. Mercado (Japanese)Madeleine Ridout (Japanese)Beau J.J. Waycott (Japanese)

Philosophy and Modern LanguagesMadeleine M.A. Hamilton (German)

Philosophy, Politics and EconomicsJohannes R. HaekkerupAyesha Khan*Rani J. Martin*Max RonteKa L.J. So*

PhysicsJacob DaweSana KhalilErin MalinowskiGian-Galeazzo S. Salvatorelli-NaraghiSamuel T.W. Wood

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UNIVERSITY PRIZES

Armourers and Brasiers’ Company/TATA Steel Prize for Best Team Design Project: Chanisa Phutrakul

Best Overall Performance Prize Proxime Accessit in Clinical Studies Finals: Lydia Parker

Best Practical Portfolio Prize for Experimental Psychology/Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics: Emily B. Elstub, Jemima F. Greenhalgh (shared prize)

Braddick Prize Proxime Accessit for best overall performance in the Preliminary Examination in Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics: Jasmine Nieradzik-Burbeck

Claude Massart Prize for the best performance in French Literature: Ella Holliday

Commendation for practical work in Honour School of Physics Part A: Jonathan J. Thio

Comparative Philology Prize for the best performance in the Philology and Linguistics papers in the Honour Schools of Literae Humaniores, Classics & English, Classics & Modern Languages and Classics & Oriental Studies: Joost W.P.M. Botman

Cyril Jones Memorial Prize for the best performance in Spanish: Etta Selim

David Gibbs Prize for the best performance in Modern Languages in Preliminary Examinations: Ella Holliday

Dean Ireland Prize for the highest overall average in the FHS of Literae Humaniores, Classics & English, Classics & Modern Languages, Classics & Oriental Studies, Ancient & Modern History and Classical Archaeology & Ancient History: Joost W.P.M. Botman

Gibbs Prize for best overall performance in Part I: Louis Makower

Gibbs Prize Proxime Accessit for best overall performance in Experimental Psychology: Jemima F. Greenhalgh

Herbert Hart Prize in Jurisprudence and Political Theory: Daniel Gilligan

Iversen Prize Proxime Accessit for best overall performance in Psychology Papers – Part I: Bik Ying Wong

Law Faculty Prize in Constitutional Theory: Daniel Gilligan (shared prize)

LIDL Prize for the best performance by a non-German sole candidate, including Joint Schools (considering only German Papers): Eve P.G. Mason

Physics Prize for an MPhys Project in Condensed Matter Physics: Adarsh P. Raghuram



Physics Prize for practical work in Part B: Jinwoo Kim

Physics Prize for practical work in Part B: Kornel Ksiezak

Physics Prize for practical work in Part B: Krzysztof P. Stempinski

Society for Endocrinology Undergraduate Achievement Award: Jessica S. Zhang

Society for Endocrinology Undergraduate Achievement Award for the best performance in the Endocrinology option: Bryony Davies

Susan Mary Rouse Memorial Prize for best overall performance in the subject ‘Introduction to Psychology’ in the Preliminary Examination for Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics: Jasmine Nieradzik-Burbeck (joint winner)

TATA Steel Prize for best overall performance in Part I Practicals: Adam A. Suttle

Weiskrantz Prize in Psychological Studies for best performance at Part I for the Honour School of Experimental Psychology: Daniel E. Storey

Wronker Grant for excellent performance in the Honour School of Medical Sciences: Rebecca S. Howitt

Benefactors’ Prize (for non-academic service to the College): Seren K. Ford

Chowdhury-Johnson Prize in Medicine: Triya A. Chakravorty (Medicine), Imogen Wilkinson (Medicine) (joint first prize)

Ives Prize: Stephanie E. Budenberg (Materials Science)

J.A. Scott Prize: Eve P.G. Mason (English and German)

Many Prize: Ella Farmer (English Language and Literature)

Many Prize Proxime Accessit: Leonardo Hessian (English and Spanish)

Markheim Prize: Florence E. Darwen (History and French)

Markheim Prize Proxime Accesserunt: Rachel Kevern (English and French) & Anna Migone (French)

Palmer Prize: Olivia Winnifrith (History and French)

Palmer Prize Proxime Accessit: Lionel A.B. Whitby (French and Russian)

Temple Prize: Kexin Wang (Mathematics)

COLLEGE PRIZES



In last year’s Record I wrote that I hoped the forthcoming year would be thoroughly dull in comparison to 2020. My aspiration was not fulfilled: from a financial perspective the past year has been bumpy. Student tuition income proved resilient and came in well ahead of budget, but most of the other categories of income showed notable negative variances. In particular, student accommodation income was lower than normal (principally as a result of the national lockdown in Hilary Term), and income from our vacation conferences and other commercial activities—which, in a better year, amounts to over £1 million—was close to zero. In total, our budget planned for almost £5 million of operating income, and in the event we

earned £4.7 million, so our performance was not wholly surprising; however, if the pandemic had not happened, we would probably have budgeted for total operating income of c. £6 million. The impact of the crisis is thus tangible.

Expenditure grew modestly, but was generally well controlled, with almost all committees spending less than their budgets. In one sense it is reassuring that the partial curtailment of many activities of the College during the pandemic led to less expenditure; in another sense, of course, even the Bursar rues the fact that it was

FROM THE BURSAR

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not possible to spend a little more. The College was fortunate to be able to press ahead with its programme of improvements to the main site: a project to refurbish the bathrooms under the east range of Front Quad was tendered and work began just before the end of the financial year. Once this is complete, we will (hopefully) be in a position to press on with the plans for a new accessible Lodge, for which we are currently awaiting planning permission and listed building consents.

Investment performance in 2020–21 was mixed. The overall total return was just under 15%, but the performance of the component asset classes varied significantly. Our equity investments tracked the generally robust performance of global stock markets, generating a total return of over 22% (our performance reflects our strategic underweighting of the US and overweighting of the UK, Asia-Pacific, and emerging markets). Our agricultural property saw modest rises in capital values, reflecting the fact that land values have held up well. The situation was rather different with respect to commercial property, however, where the College’s retail investments suffered a very difficult year, with several tenants struggling to clear arrears or to put forward viable recovery plans.

The outlook is marked by uncertainty on almost all fronts. A key concern is the swift recovery of our conference and summer school activities, which supplement the educational income of the College. There are also persistent suggestions that tuition fees for UK students may fall, which would be financially unwelcome. Payroll costs are expected to rise (perhaps quite significantly), not least because of the well-publicised difficulties of the USS pension scheme. And of course the investment outlook is notably ‘interesting’, as we all wait to see whether current inflation (which has returned like an old, and not entirely beloved, friend) is transient or persistent—and what happens to asset prices if interest rates rise.

I wrote last year of my admiration for the College’s staff and their efforts in keeping the place going (thriving, indeed). The same applies this year, with the level of admiration now raised to a higher power. I am also grateful to many (but not all!) students for paying their batells in a period in which many have seen their expectations of student life substantially ruined by the pandemic. A final thank you must also be said to the Old Membership, which has continued its philanthropic support of the College at a time when this is especially welcome.



As an Oxford Outreach Officer, I would normally find myself travelling up and down the country between our link regions multiple times a month to visit schools and colleges, to deliver talks to pupils about life at Oxford University. However, as I sit writing this report in summer 2021, my suitcase has sat untouched for 18 months (and my railcard is currently missing in action). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns, and school closures, visits to schools – as well as inviting students to visit us here at Queen’s – have simply not been possible. But not being able to interact with students in person has not stopped us finding new ways to actively support our link region schools throughout this difficult year.

Throughout the 2020-2021 academic year, all of our outreach work has taken place virtually. Presentations on making a competitive application and demystifying the student experience at Oxford took place over Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet. This change in delivery format did come with some challenges, including frozen screens and sometimes questionable Wi-fi connections, but it allowed us to maintain contact with schools to whom we had previously provided outreach support, and to develop relationships with new schools too. It was really rewarding to be able to interact with students even when schools had to carry out the majority of their learning remotely. Many academically high-achieving students felt frustrated at being forced out of their classrooms and relegated to working at home with the distractions and disruptions that can bring, so it was great to be able to run sessions for them and remind them of the importance of keeping up with their studies in challenging circumstances so that a university like Oxford could be an option for them in the near future.

One of my favourite outreach projects from this year was our North-West Science Programme. Despite some initial reservations as to how this programme would translate into an online format, I was delighted with how well it was received and how fantastic the students selected to participate were. Over the course of three days, science-loving students from Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Cumbria, and Lancashire took part in a variety of different academic taster sessions, including workshops, talks, and tutorials. They found out about the cutting-edge scientific research that is taking place within the University – from the microscope technology that is being used to detect COVID-19, to research on seabird migration and what their flight patterns can teach us about global conservation. The academic sessions were met with overwhelmingly positive feedback from the participants who were

OUTREACH

Katharine Wiggell Schools Liaison, Outreach and Recruitment Officer



really interested in exploring new material and topics that they don’t cover within their A-Level subjects. They also had the chance to interact with our Student Ambassadors, who shared their own experiences of life at Oxford in Q&A sessions and offered advice on how to navigate the admissions process. Feedback from the event suggested that the majority of students would now be planning to make an Oxbridge application for 2022 – and I am, of course, looking forward to seeing how many of these Year 12 pupils apply to Queen’s!

As well as delivering our own outreach programmes, we supported outreach work taking place across the collegiate University, and had the opportunity to communicate with prospective applicants from all around the globe. We participated in virtual University Fairs – including ‘Meet the Russell Group’, ‘UCAS Discovery’, and ‘UK University Search’ days, where Outreach Officers and Student Ambassadors joined forces to answer 100s of questions from prospective applicants. The University’s Remote Interview Workshops – a new initiative to support Oxford applicants from UK state schools in the lead up to their admissions interviews – were also a huge success, with academic and administrative staff coming together from across the collegiate University to support applicants with their interview preparation. The outreach community at Oxford truly banded together during this year, supporting each other with delivering online sessions and sharing best practice as we all navigated how best to deliver virtual sessions that were as engaging and inspiring as in person sessions.

I am very excited to return to face-to-face (or mask-to-mask!) interactions with students, but we will certainly be making the most of the technology that we have been using throughout the course of the pandemic to reach an even wider audience of prospective applicants through our outreach work. There is always more work that we can do, and I am anticipating that this year may be more challenging than most as we see the knock-on effects that over a year of disrupted education has had on some of the country’s most disadvantaged young people. However, I am looking forward to supporting these students as they deliberate their future choices and helping them to find out more about why Oxford University may be the place for them.



This was my first year as Tutor for Admissions, and it turned out to be a year full of interesting challenges – most obviously, the need to rework the entire admissions process to take place online. It was all too easy to imagine the possible pitfalls of online interviews, but happily the process ran smoothly, thanks to the adaptability and combined effort of the interviewers, administrators, and IT advisors – and indeed the applicants.

One serious concern was whether the move online would pose disproportionate problems for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, who in many cases were already dealing with additional levels of

disruption to their studies due to the pandemic. But although data on a college scale must be handled with caution due to the small numbers involved, the proportion of students from state schools joining Queen’s in 2021 is slightly higher than ever before, continuing to roughly match the University’s overall rising average, and this goes for our proportion of students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds as well. We’re continuing to look for ways to expand our outreach activities and our efforts to demystify the admissions process, so as to make sure all academically driven and capable students can succeed.

One important step this academic year has been to divide the previous role of the Tutor for Admissions between two Fellows, creating an additional position of Tutor for Access and Outreach who can work closely with the Outreach Officer on our College-based outreach strategy and initiatives. At the same time, Queen’s continues to participate actively in University-wide initiatives, including the Opportunity Oxford programme; at an individual level, many tutors have also taken part in new events like online interview workshops, which have helped us make admissions advice accessible to a wider range of applicants than ever before.

With admissions interviews taking place online again in the coming cycle, we will have plenty of chances to think about the pros and cons of this format and how it intersects with our efforts to make sure admissions to Queen’s is as fair and accessible as possible. In the meantime, we’re very much enjoying welcoming the new 2021 cohort of students.

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Dr Jennifer Guest Tutor for Admissions

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The most important thing, perhaps, is that it has been a year in the library, since our doors have been open continuously since the relaxation of the first lockdown in the summer of 2020. More personally, it has been my first year as Librarian, after joining the College in September from the Institute of Historical Research and previously the British Library. During this time, the Library has been able to welcome College members and external scholars to socially-distanced reading rooms and to put collection items in their hands. After an initial pilot with seat booking, readers have been able to come and go as they wish, making use of a one-way system, which, in something of a silver-lining, provided a view of the Provost’s Garden when departing via the fire escape.

The College’s carpenter produced book return boxes that were the envy of other college libraries, and a new click and collect system meant that books could circulate with relative ease; the latter is an innovation that is set to remain even as we return to more normal operations. By Trinity Term, the reading rooms were full of concentrated study, with the spaces and collections continuing to support the College’s academic work, as they always have. By the end of June, 24-hour opening returned.

Not everyone, of course, could come into the Library, with many students necessarily remaining away from Oxford and others needing to isolate. How to get materials to them? When appropriate, we could post items as well as scanning chapters and articles, but more often digital alternatives were available, as publishers and online libraries temporarily expanded what was available and the Bodleian and the college libraries, including Queen’s, increased the amount spent on electronic resources. The full-time Library team – Sarah Arkle, Dominic Hewett, and Tessa Shaw – helped to provide the link between reader and digital book where they could, helping to hyperlink reading lists and offering a guide through the variety of digital experiences. For special collections materials, most of which are not constrained by copyright in the same way, camera phones provided an excellent way of supplying materials for research and for allowing Zoom consultations of books and manuscripts (one of which provided important information about the date of the volume being examined). The Library was also able to contribute details of its holdings to international bibliographical projects, such as the Census of Newton’s Principia and the Shakespeare Census.

Among this activity, there have been moments when it has been possible for me to slip among the shelves and start to become acquainted with the remarkable collections. Many connected to Old Members of the past seemed keen to make themselves known: Sir Joseph Williamson’s copy of the third Shakespeare folio (1664),

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Thomas Shaw’s Travels (second edition, 1799)



perhaps the rarest of the folios thanks to the Great Fire of London; a Boston edition of William James with Archbishop William Temple’s ownership mark; a first edition of Drummond Allison’s posthumous Second World War poetry, The Yellow Knight printed on paper conforming to war-regulations; Oliver Sacks’ inscribed gift to the College of his Awakenings in the Upper and New Libraries (now all upgraded to the Vault); and – the first book I pull in the Upper Library on my arrival in September – Thomas Shaw’s Travels (second edition, 1799), which has as its dedication an engraving of the College’s cupola and façade. A good sign, perhaps?

The collections have also contributed to teaching and research. At first, this was limited to a librarian’s contribution to Dr Jennifer Edward’s online seminar, talking through images taken of some of these texts, but by Trinity Term, a small group of junior members was able to examine the first folio for themselves, paying close attention to the printing for clues about the text’s composition. Another of the College’s great treasures, Myles Coverdale’s Goostly Psalmes and Spiritual Songes (c. 1535) – the first hymnbook printed in English – took centre stage in a well-attended Zoom virtual reunification ‘broadcast’ from the Upper Library in a seminar held in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian Libraries. Around 150 participants from Britain and the US were able to compare the text with the two other surviving fragments of the text, held at the Bodleian and at Yale. Building on these investigations, we contributed to a UNIQ+ Digital Humanities summer internship programme, helping to expand graduate access to Oxford. The entire volume is now digitised and is available to view online at Digital Bodleian, and an edited and transcribed version can be found on the Taylor’s Editions website. Other digital experiments included the beginning of a YouTube series ‘Parchment and Paper’ in collaboration with the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures, with College and other experts discussing collection items and their meaning. The series began with a discussion with Dr Edwards on the Shakespeare Folio. The Library team also curated two online exhibitions, ‘Contagion on the Page’, and ‘Queen’s War Poets’ (curated by Library Assistant Dominic Hewett) and a series of blog posts highlighting collection items for LGBTQ+ History Month.

Nor have the Library’s physical collections been neglected. Several items have returned from the Oxford Conservation Consortium, including a large folio-sized hand-coloured copy of Pennant’s British Zoology (1766), and the collections continue to grow judiciously. Notable donations include a range of titles from Old Members and Fellows, and Lord Salisbury’s gift of his William Simpson and the Crisis in Central Asia (2020), on which Old Member, Ollie Randall, worked as a research assistant. The collections are also making their imprint elsewhere in the College. Selections from the collections photographed by Technical Services Librarian Sarah Arkle, including plates from the Bridgewater Collection of Cumberland and Westmorland, now grace College notecards and some of the redecorated entertainment areas of the Provost’s Lodgings. The Library looks forward to another academic year, whatever it may bring.



Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted;but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles(Isaiah 40.30-31)

The academic year that started in Michaelmas 2020 has very much been a year of three terms. Each term, and sometimes each week, has seen a different configuration of the College community between resident and non-resident, along with a different set of laws and guidelines to navigate in the College and in the Chapel. It has also been an exhausting year. The energy and creativity which helped us all push through the first

lockdown has given way to a pragmatic need to conserve strength for the long haul.

For many people, the restrictions on singing have been among the most keenly felt deprivations of the past year. For a Chapel whose life centres on choral music, it has been an existential challenge. Early in the year, we invited professional film-makers to produce The Story of the Queen’s College Chapel which you can view now on the College YouTube channel. I’m embarrassed to admit how many takes were needed before yours truly walked through the Chapel door to the director’s satisfaction! It also features current and former choral scholars, and it was humbling to hear what this place has meant to them. In the intensity of the Oxford term, the Chapel has been a place of peace, a place to find a wider perspective, both historical and spiritual. The challenge this year has been to keep that true.

Live-streaming has been one of the main ways for the Chapel to remain present in the lives of College members, wherever they are in the world. Through the generosity of donors (who have chosen to remain anonymous) the Chapel has been able to install cameras to match the quality of the existing top-end sound recording system. This work was completed in Spring 2021 and we were able to premiere our first public broadcast evensong in June. However, our live-streaming experiments didn’t start there: much kudos is due to our organ scholars Tom Dilley and Isaac Adni for their ingenuity earlier in the year (initially with just a phone!) as well as David Olds for his support on the IT front.

The Chapel re-opened in Summer 2020 for what we then hoped would be an unbroken run of in-person worship for the rest of the academic year. The Chapel was in fact the first part of the College to ‘unlock’, with two weddings that summer, including our very own Dr Angus Bowie and Dr Almut Fries, respectively Emeritus

A YEAR IN THE CHAPEL

Revd Dr Katherine Price College Chaplain



Fellow and Lecturer in Classics. It was a delight to celebrate with them in the Chapel where they have often worshipped, and particularly touching to see Dr Peter Neumann, on what I believe was his last visit to the College before his death. His funeral took place in the Chapel in January 2021, watched online by over 500 mourners, and a memorial event is planned for 2022.

As the Chapel was the first part of College to resume operations, it was also the first to get to grips with COVID-19 risk assessments. This gave us some moments of comic relief: the Archbishop of York administering the sacrament of confirmation with a paintbrush, or the remarkable logistics entailed in getting a wedding ring from best man to groom without touching any shared surfaces – not to mention the debut of the choir’s high-tech singing masks, colour-coordinated with the cassocks in fetching purple! But the humour soon wore thin. There were tough decisions and difficult compromises, as distancing made it impossible to accommodate the whole choir with any space for congregation. The mini-lockdown in November 2020 hit particularly hard, as Chapel services were closed down when most other activities in educational settings were able to continue.

Fortunately, just a week before lockdown, we were honoured to welcome Archbishop Stephen Cottrell, the new Archbishop of York and thus the College’s latest Visitor. He baptised and confirmed members of the College, and was enormously gracious, even when we had to send him away with a pack of sandwiches – quite a step down from the College’s customary hospitality! I was thankful too that lockdown lifted in time for

Archbishop Stephen Cottrell with confirmation candidates



‘Oxmas’ and the carol service, which this time was held twice on two consecutive evenings, with a hugely oversubscribed draw to allocate seats. A highlight for me was our new History Fellow (and Old Member) Dr Conor O’Brien almost bringing the house down with words from Evelyn Waugh: a prayer to the Magi or wise men on behalf of “all who are confused with knowledge and speculation … the learned, the oblique, the delicate.” But the words which best captured the mood of the year were those read by the Provost from Isaiah, at the head of this article.

Hilary Term saw our Creation Justice 2021 season. Launched by Tearfund’s Ruth Valerio, it brought together Christian preachers with speakers from other faith and secular backgrounds to explore the ethical, spiritual, and psychological aspects of our response to ecological crisis. The initiative came from the Provost, who recognised that the College is uniquely placed to bring together different perspectives, being at one and the same time an academic institution, a place of worship, and a community needing to make practical decisions about its own values and way of life. The project was months in gestation, but had to be moved online in just days. Nevertheless, the online audience was able to hear some fascinating perspectives on topics from ethical investment to food labelling to the psychology of changing behaviour. A number of the talks are still available online. For me, the programme illustrated how environmental threat is not a purely scientific question, but first and foremost a question of how human beings can motivate themselves to change their lives for the greater good – surely a central concern of faith!

Our lives have already changed this year, to a formerly unimaginable extent. Yet, far from eclipsing other concerns, the pandemic seems to have given us a greater urgency about long-term challenges, be that climate change or structural racism. Perhaps living through this time has taught us that we are capable of enduring greater sacrifice than we thought. I have been humbled by the resilience I’ve encountered in the College community, in students and staff alike. It may be no coincidence that this year saw the first students in my four years here to make the Christian commitment of confirmation (with more due to take place in the coming year) as well as the first ‘Quiet Day’, held at a local convent. The monastic tradition, of course, has always found value in a radically constrained and simple life. At the same time, being unable to plan for the future has been draining, not least for the couples who are or were due to be getting married in the Chapel this year. For me too the future is unclear, as I embark on my final year as Chaplain. This year more than ever I am grateful for the Chapel’s witness to the faithfulness of past generations, that in the words of the monastic night prayer, “we who are wearied by the changes and chances of this fleeting world, may repose upon Thy eternal changelessness.”



Organist: Prof Owen Rees; Senior Organ Scholar: Tom Dilley; Junior Organ Scholar: Isaac Adni; Maurice Pearton Choral Scholar and recipient of the Hilde Pearton Vocal Training: Rory Booth; Hildburg Williams Lieder Scholar: Rachel Howe; Librarians: Jake Sternberg, Charlotte Jefferies

It was a year of innovations, challenges, and perseverance. After months of silence, it was a great joy to hear the Chapel filled with choral and organ music once again in Michaelmas Term. During that term, whilst I was on leave, the choir was under the inspiring direction of Eamonn Dougan, Associate Conductor of The Sixteen, and a professional baritone. The climax

of the term musically was the production of a video-recorded replacement for our traditional Carols from Queen’s concert, which reached an audience of about 25,000 online. In the new year we took a tremendous step forward in making the choir’s work more accessible to audiences worldwide by installing a live-streaming system in Chapel during Hilary Term, made possible by an extremely generous donation in support of the choir’s work. We began to use this system to stream some choral services and organ recitals during Trinity Term, and a regular pattern of streaming services and all of the choir’s concerts in Chapel begins in Michaelmas Term 2021.

A YEAR IN THE CHAPEL CHOIR

Professor O. L. Rees Organist

The new live-streaming system for the College Chapel



In Trinity Term the choir embarked on a project to perform and record music by the eighteenth-century composer Giovanni Bononcini, leading to a concert performance and a CD recording at the end of term. Bononcini, who worked in London from 1720 until 1732, was Handel’s principal London rival in the field of opera: the names Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee were coined by John Byrom in a contemporary satirical epigram about their competition for public esteem. Bononcini’s music continued to be performed in England in the decades following his departure, but it suffered almost complete neglect in modern times. Among those who prized and copied Bononcini’s music were the members of the original Academy of Ancient Music in London, to which Bononcini belonged, and – marking this association – our project to bring some of his music back to public attention was conceived in collaboration with the modern Academy of Ancient Music, which is one of the world’s principal original-instrument orchestras. The works selected for the recording included Bononcini’s imposing funeral anthem When Saul was King over us for the first Duke of Marlborough, and a spectacular setting of the Te Deum. Three of the four works were edited from copies of the original manuscript sources, which was one of my major tasks during Hilary Term. The project came to fruition in thrilling and rewarding fashion during three days of recording sessions in a North-Oxford church after the end of Trinity Term, and we are looking forward eagerly to the CD’s release early in 2022.

Warm thanks go to all those who completed their time in the choir at the end of this academic year, and particularly to our two organ scholars – Tom Dilley and Isaac Adni – for their tireless work.

Bononcini recording session at St Michael & All Angels, Summertown



For the Queen’s Translation Exchange (QTE), 2020-21 was a year of virtual activities. While we hope that we are never forced into this position again, it remained a huge pleasure to open up our activities to people of all ages across the world, with participants in our book clubs and translation workshops joining us from every continent and time zone.

Alongside this international breadth, our prime focus rested on young language-learners in the UK. We launched our most ambitious project to date, a national translation prize for learners aged 11-18. The Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators quickly developed into the perfect hybrid: virtual activity at Queen’s translating into real-life activity in hundreds of schools across

the country. The prize is named after the great translator Anthea Bell, acclaimed for her translations of Astérix, of Freud, and of a huge range of contemporary authors. By providing teachers with mini translation workshops that they can run in their classrooms, the prize brings the excitement and creative energy of literary translation to learners throughout their schooling. It introduces them to a range of texts, from comics to concrete poetry (an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance), classic novels to literary non-fiction. These interactive encounters with great literature show them what it can mean to be a linguist, and how that energy and pleasure can carry them through their lives.

Having originally set our sights on engaging 50 schools in this first year of the prize, we quickly adapted to accommodate hundreds of registrations, and ultimately involved over 500 schools. Teachers were generous in their feedback, helping us to hone the resources as the year went on, and sharing their enthusiasm. Teaching languages at secondary schools has become increasingly challenging in recent years, and immensely so during the pandemic, so we have welcomed this opportunity to support teachers as well as pupils:

“We have had a brilliant time delivering these resources. Year 7 all the way through to Year 13 have engaged brilliantly and students have responded really well to the challenge. We loved it. The resources were so well thought through, so easy to use, and an absolute joy to teach.”

Involving university students in our outreach work has always been central to QTE, and these collaborations continued to blossom while teaching remained virtual. In this

THE QUEEN’S TR ANSLATION EXCHANGE

Charlotte Ryland Director of The Queen’s Translation Exchange



third year of our Creative Translation Ambassadors programme, we trained over 70 students in Oxford, Norwich, Sheffield, London, and Durham to design and deliver translation workshops in schools. The training and the workshops themselves were delivered virtually, with students making videos, slides, and worksheets for primary and secondary pupils across the UK. Our ambassadors contributed to the Anthea Bell Prize too, making videos for pupils and developing teaching resources.

We launched a virtual International Book Club for 15-18-year-olds in summer 2020, which sits alongside our existing International Book Club. Held in partnership with Queen’s Outreach department, the club meets termly via Zoom. As well as the short talk or interview that the translator records for the participants, the strength of these clubs lies in undergraduate involvement. Each breakout room is moderated by a student, and they also contribute to the Q&A about studying languages at university, which follows discussion of the book. We’ve recently published a guide to running an International Book Club in school, for sixth-formers and teachers, as well as guides to a number of novels in translation. Translated fiction takes centre stage in our ‘Reviewing the World’ project, too. In partnership with Queen’s Outreach department, this gives pupils the opportunity to review books in translation, with the best reviews published on our website.

Both virtually and in person, and across a range of languages, QTE has reached thousands of young people in every area of the UK this year. As of this new school year, we are bringing our programmes together under the umbrella of the Anthea Bell Prize. All registered schools will have access to all our programmes, from book clubs to workshops, resources to prizes. By working closely with languages teachers in this way, we hope to bring inspiring international culture to increasing numbers of pupils, at every stage of their learning.



President: Samuel Teague; Victualler: David Kaufman

At the beginning of this academic year, it was universally hoped that we might begin to return to some semblance of normality following such major disruption, the likes of which had not been seen since the Second World War. However, what has since transpired is a year of further lockdowns, concessions, and limitations unprecedented in scale and turbulence. All this being said, the entire MCR membership has overcome these considerable obstacles exceptionally admirably.

On behalf of the MCR, I wish to thank the College and its officers, notably the Provost and the Tutor for

Graduates, who have ensured that the graduate community was always considered when decisions were being made. Profound thanks should also be given to the library team, headed by Matt Shaw – who arrived in his new position as Librarian at possibly the most uncertain time possible – who have worked tirelessly to ensure that all College members have had access to the facilities and resources that they’ve required even during the depths of Hilary Term and the midst of the third lockdown. Finally, we are exceptionally grateful to the College Porters, Domestic Bursary, Steward, Scouts, and all those members of staff who made it possible for the College community to stay operational and, most importantly, safe across the year.

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Before proceeding any further, I wish to acknowledge the actions of Sean Telford during the first portion of this year. He was responsible for negotiating and securing an expansion of the physical MCR space from the Governing Body that will open for the beginning of Michaelmas Term 2021 – an exceptionally exciting prospect as we look to the return of in-person activity.

Freshers’ Week is invariably the largest and most intensive period for any common room, yet the burden was lightened by the cooperation and support of the entire executive committee. As part of our preparations for Freshers’ Week, we completely rewrote and redesigned the MCR Handbook to provide a comprehensive guide to both our new and current members. Particular thanks go to Gayatri, our Social Secretary, for managing to organise multiple in-person events despite myriad limitations and guidelines, and Andrew Orr, for creating an incredible Freshers’ Week micro-site on the MCR website.

The presence of the MCR at Queen’s has been supported by multiple ‘Queen’s College Symposia’ events, organised by our QCS & SCR Liaison Officer, Tristan Johnston-Wood. Events have seen multiple members of the MCR present talks on their academic work, as well as a series of panel discussions on a number of topics, including ‘which discipline best describes the human experience?’, which have stimulated thought within both the MCR and SCR communities. In addition, Tristan successfully set up a mock interview scheme with the SCR, allowing our members to benefit from the diverse skillset of the Senior Common Room and, hopefully, providing some excellent interview experience. My thanks go to Tristan and all the hard work he has done this year.

Trinity Term has seen the return of many activities that one might associate with normal times. These include the joint JCR-MCR Punt scheme which has allowed our members to explore the waterways of Oxford (my thanks to Mary O’Connor, our Treasurer, for setting this up), croquet on Front Quad, the return of beautiful sung services by the Chapel Choir, and fantastic graduate formals that took place in 5th and 6th week – as the words of the ‘Boar’s Head Carol’ tell us, no Queen’s experience is complete without a proper meal in Reginensi atrio!

As I sit writing this, I look back at what has been, all things considered, a largely successful year for the MCR. My sincere gratitude goes to all the members of the executive committee, and the wider MCR membership, whose continued support and enthusiasm has helped make, what would have otherwise been, an exceptionally difficult period an honour and a privilege to oversee. We have successful weathered two entirely unprecedented years of uncertainty, and as we hopefully sail clear of the stormy seas, I have no doubt that the MCR will continue to go from strength to strength.



President: Alfred Mowse; Vice President: Aqsa Lone

Defined above all by the pandemic, it will be no surprise to hear that this year has been an unusual and often tough one for the JCR, as it has been for many others in College and in all walks of life.

Things started well in October: it was a huge relief to be returning to university again after being unable to come up for Trinity 2020. There were restrictions, of course, but generally things appeared to be moving on a trajectory of slow return to normality. It was a pleasure to welcome a new cohort of Freshers, who, while facing a very difficult first year, have settled in relatively well to

the community. I’ve been impressed by the extent to which they’ve managed to get involved in College sport, social events, and the JCR Committee.

For the more optimistic among us, then, it was something of a painful surprise when the national situation in January led to a third lockdown and large numbers of students had to face another term wholly online. As well as the immediate difficulties of paused independence and studying from childhood bedrooms, many JCR members faced significant uncertainties with their upcoming finals exams and with travel plans.

Thankfully, things had improved by the start of Trinity term and most students were able to return to Oxford. Through the weeks of good weather, it was a pleasure to see many people working (sunbathing) together in the Fellows’ Garden, and we enjoyed several much-needed opportunities for social events which helped to bring together a fractured student body. There remained some JCR members, mostly international students or those who are particularly vulnerable, who decided that returning posed too many difficulties and we were deeply sorry to miss these members of our community.

Despite these difficulties, indeed often because of them, there has been much to celebrate in the JCR this year. With everything faced by students (and by so many others), just to do the bare minimum would be praiseworthy, and everyone should be proud of what they’ve managed to achieve this year. But beyond this, Queen’s JCR students have continued to show their creativity, skill and hard work, being involved in everything from plays and magazines to blues sport. Students have also been active participants in College committees and initiatives such as the Race, Diversity and Access project, engagement which I hope will continue into the next year. This year we’ve also initiated what will be a closer long-term relationship between the JCR and the Queen’s Women’s Network, which will serve to forefront the contributions and

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achievements of the College’s alumnae whilst providing junior members with further opportunities for valuable career support.

Throughout, the JCR Committee has worked really hard to help students in many ways, from welfare to trying to maintain a roster of social activities. We’ve also had to work closely with College, and I’d like to thank tutors, scouts, catering, and library staff for their continued support of students, despite personal risk in some cases. There’s no doubt, though, that the university experience this year has been wildly different to the one that any of us would have wished for, and I think a sense of loss will be something shared by this cohort of students. Like everyone, then, I’m hoping above all that the situation as we return for next year will be one that allows us to close this significant chapter in the College’s history, and to safely rebuild our JCR community, which has been so strained this year.

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THE 1341 SOCIETYPresident: James McGhee

Like many other societies within College, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly curtailed the activities of the society over the course of the last academic year. While we have been unable to hold our usual termly luncheons for current parents, I am pleased to say that the society has still been able to pursue some of its charitable endeavours, most notable its continued support of the College book grant scheme.

I am immensely indebted to the work of the many presidents and committee members of the society since its inception 20 years ago in 2001; without their sustained commitment to fundraising over the years, the society would not be in such a financially secure position to maintain its commitments throughout the pandemic.

Finally, I would like to thank our secretary, Klara Zhao, and our treasurer, Annabel Vago, for their work for the society over the last year, despite all the frustrations of being unable to run any of our usual events since Hilary Term 2020. I wish the society all the best as I hand over to Siobhàn Bridson for what should hopefully be a more normal years of events; I am sure she will work hard for what is likely be another challenging year for the society.

CROQUETCo-Captain: James McGhee

Trinity Term 2021 not only saw a return to a degree of normality as restrictions were lifted in part, but also the return of the highlight of the Queen’s sporting calendar – that of course being the ever-popular game of croquet – to Front Quad. It was a pleasure to see the game constantly in play and we have to commend the near-daily dedication of certain students to the game, despite the callings of collections, public examinations, and the other trappings of Trinity Term hedonism.

The croquet season started off on an unusually strong note, with the purchase of two new croquet sets for College use, and with it, straight hitting mallets – a novelty among play on College grounds. The main event of the year was of course the University-wide Croquet Cuppers; this year we were unfortunately limited to entering one team owing to the pandemic. The first round saw the team head off against Worcester 2nd’s – a team with an unexpected tendency to engage in long range, accurate and vicious roqueting – a challenge that was valiantly met by a selection of Queen’s best. Yet, while an early start was clinched in one of the two games played, Worcester equalised

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at the final hoop and narrowly secured a posting out. Special mentions go to Ben Norbury and Julian Whitaker for what was an excellent performance.

In a first for College croquet, and owing in part to the inability to enter our usual number of teams for Cuppers, an internal croquet tournament was set up with an unexpectedly high turnout of 16 teams! However, while Croquet may have finally returned to our great lawns in summer, so too did a typically wet British Summer and about five weeks of rain throughout the term, and so the tournament was unfortunately left unfinished. Many thanks to everyone who participated and we look forward to hopefully being able to host a full tournament come next Trinity.

THE EGLESFIELD MUSICAL SOCIETYPresident: Charlotte Jefferies

As was the case with almost every society during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Eglesfield Musical Society’s regular activities were somewhat hampered. However, both the Committee and the JCR proved resolute and resilient in the face of adversity. Throughout the year, members of the College and of the wider University successfully continued our virtual recital series. A special mention should go to Lizi Vineall and Maxim Fielder for finding willing recitalists and editing these weekly videos (and unfailingly uploading them in such a timely fashion!).

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In Michaelmas Term, we began the year on a high, with record numbers of people partaking in rehearsals with EMS A Capella. We were tantalisingly close to our regular 7th Week concert when disappointment struck, and rehearsals had to be called off to keep the College as safe and COVID-free as possible.

While the committee was initially stumped as to how to sustain music-making during the virtual Hilary Term, we prevailed, and came back stronger: over 30 members of the JCR, MCR and staff, including our Chaplain, Katherine Price, participated in a virtual performance of ‘One Day More’ from Les Misérables. We had singers, guitarists, violinists, and bassoonists galore; all worked together to create a joyous final product, expertly edited by Rhiannon Harris. The video can still be viewed on our Eglesfield Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram pages.

Our activities remained restricted in Trinity Term, despite the increased availability of College facilities. Our College musical, which typically takes place in 4th Week of Trinity Term, was unable to happen. As compensation, the Society will be organising two (!) musicals next year. Despite this disappointment, a particularly poignant moment for the Committee this year was a concert of Latin American Baroque music, organised by Prof John Sloboda OBE FBA, an Old Member, Honorary Fellow, and former EMS President. This was the first and only concert we were able to organise this year, but its success proved that live music is still alive and well at Queen’s.

A final mention should go to next year’s committee, and especially to our President-Elect, Jemima Kinley. On behalf of the whole College community, I wish them all the best for next year, and hope that we will once again be able to resume our regular, busy musical schedule.

HOCKEY CLUBCaptain: Henry Patteson

Mixed college hockey matches played throughout the 2021 Trinity term have given Queen’s an opportunity to re-establish a strong hockey culture throughout the undergraduate year groups. Despite COVID-19 difficulties, QCHC has flourished in its first year as a “Queen’s College Only” club. We won all our matches and hence took our place as champions of the Oxford College Hockey league.



Often coming from behind, in each match Queen’s fought hard and found a way to win – most notably in the final where passion and determination turned the tables in the favour of blue and white. In addition to good results, it has been wonderful to see a broad range of abilities and personalities take the field for The Eagles and hopefully new friendships have been formed as a result.

Next year, QCHC will look to soar higher and further with a bright, new committee. The loosening of restrictions offers an opportunity for the social aspect of the club to grow in a bid to match our success on the pitch. There are even rumours of a tour.

NETBALLCaptain: Pandora Mackenzie

Despite activities being significantly curtailed this year, QCNC has had a spectacular Trinity term. We found ourselves in the top division this year, playing against teams that regularly fielded multiple blues players. At the time of writing, the league results are yet to be announced but Queen’s can expect to be in a respectable top-half position and retain their place in Division 1. This year saw a Cuppers league lasting only one term of five matches but nevertheless the netball team played with enthusiasm and positivity every time. We managed to field a consistent team which consisted of a true mix of years – a great improvement on inter-year mixing. The year’s shooting was phenomenal thanks to Ying Wong, Ella Farmer, and Harri Kellett whose partnership brought in many goals for the team. At the other end of the

court, Ire Sofela and Evelyn Turner made an unbeatable and intimidating defence duo. In centre court, Flora Brown, Josie Kucera, and Katie Zagurova’s lightning attacks on the wings meant the whole team ran centres smoothly and with utmost skill. The skill and quality of playing has greatly increased this year and this shows in our scores. Despite a loss to Exeter in our first match, we brought it back with three wins in a row against St Catz (13-5), St John’s (8-5) and Pembroke (9-3.) Unfortunately, our last match was a disappointing

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loss against Wadham, although not all in vain for one player managed to secure themselves a date from it.

Outside cuppers, this year saw a flurry of friendlies against Magdalen, Oriel, and Brasenose, as well as new Sunday netball practices with Exeter. We also had a civilised black tie social with QCAFC at Wetherspoons, in which next year’s social secretary, Phoebe Horner, played an integral role in drumming up first-year attendance. The highlight of the year, though, has to be QCNC’s rather unorthodox sport photo which comprised of some very tactically-placed netballs to preserve modesty.

All in all, it has been a wonderful term and I am very honoured and excited to continue the captaincy for next year. The club would also like to pay homage to outgoing members Harri Kellett and Daisy Southern for their long-standing dedication and to the former’s brilliant past captaincy.

QUEEN’S COLLEGE MEDICAL SOCIETYPresident: Yedidiah Tilahun

Coming into this year plans and visions for QCMS were plentiful, yet as many societies and our College as whole faced the unpredictability of the COVID-19 pandemic, adaptability has been the keyword. A quality especially pertinent in the medical profession, it is hoped that as our students move to become junior doctors they would avail themselves of this attribute. Yet, the QCMS committee of 2020-2021 proved that maintaining an adaptable approach may not be solely the reserve of graduates but can be developed early on within the medical career. As exemplified in Michaelmas term; QCMS, for the first time since its inception, held its annual dinner virtually rather than physically.

In accordance with our Society’s raison d’etre, we saw a coming together of students, graduates, and tutors of Queen’s albeit in a social capacity. Further to the spirit of lockdown, our speakers for the evening were all “in-house”, Prof Chris Norbury and Dr Paolo Tammaro, who each gave splendid accounts of their experiences and journeys within medicine. As the event progressed many more tutors, inspired by the riveting discussions, similarly provided their own personal accounts – whereby, the many different perspectives highlighted the varying opportunities presented within medicine with ultimately the same objective of helping people. A thoroughly encouraging event, it left all members emboldened in their ambitions to affect the medical fields.

With the oncoming return to a sense of normalcy, QCMS envisions our Medical Innovation Conference to be included in this return, and to become part of the norm of our Society. Thus, with a view to the future we rest assured that the incoming committee of Bethan Storey, Emily Thompson, and Annie Roberts will do excellently.



QUEEN’S COLLEGE SYMPOSIAPresident: Tristan Johnston-Wood

The Queen’s College Symposia was set up to strengthen links between the MCR and SCR, provide a platform for students and Fellows to present their research, and to enable Queen’s members to listen to and discuss the ideas presented. This year has been no exception. We have seen newly appointed Fellows give talks on a range of topics and also introduced a new QCS format: The QCS Panel Discussion.

The year kicked off with mathematics (Prof José A. Carrillo) and classics (Dr Gabriele Rota), followed by a panel discussion on ‘The Uncertainty of Knowledge’. Hilary term saw a switch to medicine, with talks by Prof Simon Leedham and Hannah Willis, and with another panel discussion addressing the question of ‘Which discipline best describes the human experience?’.

Finally, we finished the academic year with Dr Conor O’Brien discussing religion and Elisa Cozzi presenting her research on Irish-Italian Connections, with a final panel discussion about Marine Science and Women in Science. We made the best of the available streaming technology to broadcast the events across the city, country, and world and we look forward to hosting many more talks and discussions in person in the 2021 academic year.

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Agamemnon Crumpton Lightweight rowing

Daniel Craig-McFeely Lightweight rowing

Daniel Stoller Rugby union

Fred Newbold Hockey

Henry Patterson Hockey

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Jack Wilson Rugby league

Tal Jeffrey American football

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Despite the challenges presented by an entirely remote 2020-21 academic year, the Old Members’ Office was perhaps more connected to the College’s Old Members than at any point in its history. Over 850 Old Members attended at least one of our nine online events and they joined us from over 20 countries. We were delighted to see this level of at-a-distance engagement with the College, and we are excited that many of these new events will continue in future Old Members’ and donors’ event programmes. Highlights from the past year’s Old Members’ events programme can be found in the report of the President of the Old Members’ Association.

In turning to the College’s fundraising over the same period we are thankful that the challenges posed by the pandemic did not dramatically affect our efforts to raise support for our students, researchers, and the wider Queen’s community. Fundraising at Queen’s during 2020-21 remained buoyant with 610 donors contributing to a new funds raised figure of £3,955,550.

Of note for the 2020-21 academic year were the following gifts received by Queen’s:

• A legacy gift from Old Member Anthony Gwilliam (Modern History, 1948) to support History teaching at Queen’s and the continued endowment of the John Prestwich Fund.*

• The Richard E Stewart (Jurisprudence, 1955) and Barbara Dickson Stewart Student Support Gift, set up by Barbara in honour of her late husband, which has enabled Queen’s to endow:

º The College’s contribution to funding a full Rhodes Scholarship for students from Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine to come and study at Queen’s.

º A Commonwealth shared scholarship (with the Blavatnik School of Government in the first instance) to attract and support students to Queen’s from the Global South.

º The creation of a tech support fund to help students at Queen’s with financial assistance for acquiring technology related to their courses.

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• An anonymous endowment gift from an Old Member to create the Centenary Visiting Professorship in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), a post shared with University College, Oxford that will bring the world’s best international academic talent into the colleges to work with students and Fellows and to provide global perspectives across the three subjects.

These are but a few of the ways in which our Old Members and Friends have supported Queen’s over the past year and in the College Record we are pleased to recognise the support and generosity of all of those who have contributed to ensuring that the College can continue to thrive as an institution and a community. The names of all those who donated to Queen’s in 2020-21 can be found in the Benefactions section.

In 2020-21 Governing Body was also able to recognise key milestones in the amount of lifetime support received from certain Old Members and friends. Over the past year Governing Body elected six new Eglesfield Benefactors (in recognition of lifetime giving of £100,000 and above) and five new Philippa Benefactors (in recognition of lifetime giving of £10,000 and above). The College always takes a special pride in being able to bestow these important Benefactorships on those whose lifetime giving to Queen’s has merited special recognition.**

This year was also significant as it marks the completion of the first phase (2016-2021) of Access All Areas, which covers three key priority areas for the College’s fundraising: student support (undergraduate and graduate), academic excellence, and access and outreach.

In this initial phase the College received gifts from 1,623 Old Members and Friends, who collectively contributed £23m to support our students, the Tutorial System and our efforts to make Queen’s a more accessible and open place for students regardless of their background or geography. We are excited with how far we have come and look forward to sharing the opportunities to support the second phase of Access All Areas shortly.

On behalf of Queen’s thank you again for your help in making this such a special place for everyone who has the privilege to study and work here. We look forward to seeing you back in College just as soon as we can.

* The Prestwich Fund was created by the College in 2003 in memory of John Prestwich (1914-2003), medieval historian, Librarian and Fellow at Queen’s from 1937-1981. The fund is currently at 2/3 of the £3 million total required for full endowment and when complete will sit alongside the recently created and permanently endowed Brittenden Fellowship in History – thus securing both History Tutorial Fellowships at Queen’s in perpetuity.

** Old Members and Friends interested in their lifetime giving totals can find this out by contacting [email protected] or by writing to the Old Members’ Office.


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It seems as if the whole of the past year has been spent observing lockdowns and social distancing. I feared having to write lamely about a dearth of Old Members’ events, but this is not the case. Instead, the College is to be congratulated on the enormous efforts made to produce a packed programme of virtual gatherings as well as sneaking in an Old Members’ Picnic in the College gardens in the summer and re-instating the Old Members’ Dinner for September.

The virtual gatherings provided agreeable alternatives to physical meetings. The Queen’s Women’s Network kicked-off the year hosting an online event in September 2020 on the theme: How volunteering can support career progression. Former Chair of the Surrey Bench

Jane Macaulay spoke about her life and experiences, and Alison Sanders (PPE, 1979) discussed volunteering during her varied career as well as reflecting on her experiences as a new magistrate. There were over 50 attendees using breakout rooms for further discussions and networking.

Some virtual gatherings have now established themselves as welcome and permanent fixtures on the Old Members’ calendar. The hugely successful Inaugural Provost’s Lecture held in November 2020 is a case in point. Our guest speaker Mayor Eric

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Garcetti (International Relations, 1993), Mayor of Los Angeles, Honorary Fellow and Old Member of Queen’s, gave an especially pertinent presentation on “Leadership in a time of crisis”. The second Provost’s Lecture is, at the time of writing, scheduled for November 2021 when Dr Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel prize-winning biologist, whose many scientific contributions include his work on the atomic structure of the ribosome, will speak. With the precedent of any university event occurring more than once naturally becoming an Oxford or College tradition, so will it be with the Provost’s Lecture. Distinguished guest speakers will now share their knowledge and experience of contemporary issues with the Queen’s community in an online lecture each year. The format will be a conversation between the Provost and the guest speaker with the facility to take questions from a live audience.

Several extremely enjoyable and informative presentations live-streamed from College were held to bring together the Old Member community virtually throughout the year. The Old Members’ College Conversation in October provided updates from the Provost and senior academics on key topics impacting the College, including: COVID-19, admissions, outreach, and the College finances. The online platform, developed by Hopin for the College, provided the opportunity for attendees to hold discussions on the key themes in virtual breakout rooms and to network one-to-one. There was unsurprisingly a more genial gathering courtesy of a Virtual Wine-Tasting in December with Prof Robert Taylor, SCR Wine Steward, and Mr Robert Saberton-Haynes, SCR Butler. Attendees were offered the opportunity to join in

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Head Chef Sean Ducie during the cookalong to make a beetroot Wellington

Wine Steward Prof Robert Taylor and SCR Butler Robert Saberton-Haynes

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with tasting wine from home by ordering the suggested bottles from a national wine merchant in advance. The event included a pre-recorded tour of the College’s Wine Cellar and discussion on some of the wines stored there. A Virtual Cookalong was held in January with Sean Ducie, Queen’s Head Chef and Thom Elliot (Experimental Psychology, 2003), Co-Founder of the restaurant business Pizza Pilgrims. Sean talked through a recipe for an intriguing dish of Beetroot Wellington and Thom discussed the impact that COVID-19 has had on the hospitality industry, including his company’s innovative idea of Pizza in the Post. The Virtual Potting Shed in March by Dr Lindsay Turnbull, Gardens Fellow, and Mr Alastair Mallick, Head Gardener, offered attendees a tour of the gardens, with top tips and advice.

As a final mention of online events, in April there was the celebration of the College’s 680th Anniversary run in two sessions to be GMT and Eastern Time friendly. One highlight was a presentation by the College’s Archivist, Michael Riordan, on ‘Queen’s and the North’ followed by a live Q&A chaired by the new Librarian, Matthew Shaw. There are huge advantages to such events. First, they are accessible to a much wider audience from anywhere in the world and second, they can be viewed on the College’s YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/c/QueensCollegeOx/videos) at any time.

All of this would have been completely unimaginable in 1341 and even today it would be unimaginable if it were not for the enormous efforts of the Old Members’ Office. So again, on behalf of all Old Members, I wish to thank Jen Stedman and her team, as well as Justin Jacobs for the oversight provided as the Director of Development. They have done some excellent and inventive work in another difficult year.

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GAUDIES – FUTURE INVITATIONS

Due to cancellations caused by COVID-19, invitations for the Boar’s Head Gaudy and the Needle and Thread Gaudy have been rescheduled as follows:

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Year Matriculation years

2022 1998/1999

2023 1988/1989

2024 2000/2001

2025 1990/1991

2026 2002/2003

Needle and Thread

Year Matriculation years

2023 2006/2007

2024 1978/1979

2025 2008/2009

2026 1980/1981

2027 2010/2011

Old Members’ Dinner

17 September 2022 All welcome

Due to the pandemic, no awards were made this year.

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NEWS FROM OLD MEMBERS, INCLUDING APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS

1960

Donald RatcliffeAwarded the Sally and Morris Lasky Prize for the Best Book on American Political History in 2016, and the Richard E. Neustadt prize for the Best Book on United States Government and Politics by a British-based scholar, for his The One-Party Presidential Election: Adams, Jackson, and 1824’s Five-Horse Race (University Press of Kansas, 2015), which was reprinted in paperback in February 2021.

1963

Tariq HyderRepresented Pakistan in the 9th EU Conference on Nonproliferation and Disarmament, wrote two papers in the Hilal military journal on ‘Pakistan’s External Challenges since 1947’, and on ‘Pak-Russia Relations: The Way Forward’. Has spoken and participated in several webinars; on the NPT & the NSG (Islamabad) and on ‘NFU of Nuclear Weapons: Asia-Pacific Perspectives’ (Wellington, New Zealand) and remains a Security Expert at the Centre for Peace, Reconciliation and Reconstruction Studies, established to counter violent extremism.

1965

Andrew ConnellRe-elected Chairman of Eden District Council, 2020-2021 and Elected Vice-Chairman of Cumbria County Council for 2021-22.

1968

Richard Carwardine Appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2019, for services to the study of American history in the UK and the US. He specializes in the era of the early Republic and Civil War, with a particular interest in the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Professor Carwardine is a Distinguished Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. He was formerly President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

1970

Andrew Myers Moved to Colorado, and now two-fifths retired.


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Samuel Nan Chang Lieu Elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy in recognition of his contribution to the humanities and social sciences. Professor Lieu is the current President of the International Union of Academies (Union Académique Internationale), an organisation founded after the First World War to promote peace through research collaboration among national academies. Professor Lieu’s field is the history of pre-Islamic Central Asia, especially the history of religions transmitted along the Silk Road (e.g., Christianity and Manichaeism).

1974

(Patrick) Kieran QuinlanRetired from the English Department of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, in June, 2020, and has since been appointed as a Professor Emeritus of the institution. His retirement coincided with his most recent book publication, Seamus Heaney and the End of Catholic Ireland.

1977

John Morewood Completed a PhD at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. The subject was ‘Henry Brougham and Anti-Slavery 1802-1843’. John was also appointed President of St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society.

(Peter) Mike Thompson Awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021, for services to medicine supply, resilience, and development. Mike was the Chief Executive of The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry from 2016-2019 and is currently Chairman of Brevia Health, a dedicated division at Brevia Consulting that focuses on Life Sciences and Healthcare issues. Mike was heavily involved in ensuring that the UK could continue to supply medicines through any Brexit scenario, and worked in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care, bringing forward policy proposals to ensure the system would cope.

1980

Cathryn Edwards Awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021, for services to medicine. Appointed Visiting Professor to the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Cape Town in July 2021.

Dr Edwards is currently Registrar of the Royal College of Physicians – the first woman to hold this position in the College’s 400-year history. She is also a consultant physician and gastroenterologist, working in South Devon. Cathryn was the first female Secretary of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) and its second female president.


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Peter Vicary-SmithHas stepped down after 14 years as Chief Executive of the consumer organisation Which? to pursue a non-executive career. He is currently Chair of the Board of Governors of Oxford Brookes University.

1983

Valerie Gibson Awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours 2021, for services to science, women in science, and to public engagement. Professor Gibson is a professor of high energy physics at the University of Cambridge. She was a Fellow in the Experimental Physics Division at CERN (1987-89) and came to Cambridge in 1989 as an SERC Advanced Fellow, held concurrently with the Stokes Senior Research Fellowship at Pembroke College (1989-1994). She was appointed as University Lecturer and Fellow of Trinity College in 1994, Reader in 2006, held a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Fellowship (2007-08) and became a Professor in 2009.

Robert HughesAppointed Member of the Executive Editorial Board (Consell de Redacció) of the Arxiu de Textos Catalans Antics (The Archive of Ancient Catalan Texts), an annual publication of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia, intended for the edition, study and information of Catalan texts prior to the 19th century.

1984

Nigel Poole Appointed a High Court Judge in October 2020 and assigned to the Family Division. Nigel was Called to the Bar in 1989 and took Silk in 2012. He was appointed as a Recorder in 2009 and as a Deputy High Court Judge in 2017.

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1987

Colin Cook Elected Oxford City Councillor (Labour Party) for Osney and St Thomas ward in May 2021 and appointed Chair of the Council’s Licensing and Gambling Acts Committee.

1988

Iain Osborne Installed as Rector of the United Benefice of Ramseys and Upwood, in north Cambridgeshire.

1989

Matthew Owens Released a music album in July 2021: Johann Pachebel: Organ Works vol.1. Matthew played the Queen’s College Organ for the recording. https://www.resonusclassics.com/johann-pachelbel-organ-works-volume-1-matthew-owens-res10285

1991

Teresa Bridgeman Awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021, for services to flood preparations in West Somerset. Teresa founded the West Somerset Flood Group in 2014.

1993

Eric GarcettiNominated by US President Joe Biden as US Ambassador to India, in July 2021. Eric is currently Mayor of Los Angeles.

Laura Tunbridge Awarded the Dent Medal by the Royal Musical Association in June 2021. The Dent Medal, created in memory of the distinguished scholar and musician Edward J. Dent (1876-1957), has been awarded by the Royal Musical Association annually since 1961 to recipients selected for their outstanding contribution to musicology. Professor Tunbridge has been commended for both her dedication to the historical specificity and contingency of musical meaning, and her productive intertwining of performing and cultural histories.

1997

Adam WattAppointed Associate Dean for Research and Impact for the College of Humanities, University of Exeter. Prior to this he was the Head of Modern Languages and Cultures (2018-2021) and Director of Research for the department (2014-18).


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2000

Holger Kockelmann Appointed full Professor in Egyptology at Leipzig University, Germany. His main research interests are the cultural history of ancient Egypt, the Egyptian religion, hieratic, hieroglyphic and demotic texts and the Ptolemaic and Roman temples of Egypt.

Simon Dobnik Appointed Professor of Computational Linguistics at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in September 2020. His research interests include computational models of language and perception, human-robot interaction, situated spoken dialogue systems, and computational representations of meaning (semantics).

2002

Ava LauAppointed to the judging panel for the UK Pensions Awards 2021. Ava is Group Director, Head of Reward Analytics, at the London Stock Exchange Group and won the Pensions Manager of the Year award at Professional Pensions’ inaugural Rising Star Awards in 2019.

2005

Esther Daponte Brazil Appointed by The Bishop of Oxford as Assistant Curate at St Mary Magdalen Church, Oxford, following her diaconal ordination in July 2020. This is a four-year post.

2011

Merryn Davies-DeaconAppointed Lecturer in French Linguistics at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Ashley Francis-RoyDirected two award-winning documentary films in 2020. The Real Eastenders (July 2020); for which he has been nominated for a 2021 BAFTA Television Craft Award in the ‘Emerging Talent: Factual’ category, and won the Edinburgh TV Festival Debut Director New Voice 2021 award.

Damilola: The Boy Next Door (October 2020, Channel 4) won the RTS Programme History 2021 Award.

2013

Charlie Hicks Elected Oxfordshire County Councillor (Labour Party and Co-operative) for Cowley Division in May 2021.


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2015

Guillaume MatthewsGranted a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford, in the field of Li-ion batteries manufacturing. Awarded a Lectureship in Materials at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.

2016

Will SmithAwarded the ZSL (Zoological Society of London) Charles Darwin Award and Marsh Prize, in October 2020, for an outstanding zoological research project by a (then) undergraduate at a UK university.

His project was entitled, ‘Are wild rock doves in the British Isles distinct from feral domestic pigeons? A phenotypic and genetic analysis’.

2017

Myron Phua Awarded Second Prize by the Judging Panel of the 2020 Society of Construction Law Hudson Prize for his essay, ‘The proper case for the inapplicability of Fiona Trust to statutory adjudication after Bresco’.

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Carey Jones, Paul (1992) Giving It Away: Classical Music in Lockdown and other fairytales (CJAC Publishing, 2020)

Cecil, Desmond (1960) The Wandering Civil Servant of Stradivarius (Quartet Books, 2020)

Concollato, Luke (2016) ‘Optical observation of needles in upward lightning flashes’, Scientific Reports 10, 17460 (2020), with co-authors https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74597-6

Connell, Andrew (1965) ‘The Woman, the Politician and the Will: Charlotte Smith’s Literary Assaults on John Robinson, ‘The Lowest Rank of Human Degradation’, 1650-1850 Ideas, Aesthetics and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era vol. 26, (Bucknell University Press, 2021)

Diab, Susan (1982) ‘Spinning in Higher Education: an autoethnography of finding space to be human in academic life’, in International Perspectives on Innovative Approaches towards Teaching and Learning: Humanizing Higher Education, eds. Kapur, E. & Blessinger, P. (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2021), with J Moriarty

Elliot, Thom (2003) Pizza: History, recipes, stories, people, places, love (A book by Pizza Pilgrims) (Quadrille Publishing Ltd, 2020), with J Elliot

Fleming, Michael (1971) and Christopher Page (eds.), Music and Instruments of the Elizabethan Age: the Eglantine Table (Boydell: Woodbridge, 2021).

Gibson, Anthony (1967) Westcountryman – a life in farming, countryside, cricket and cider (Charlcombe Books, 2021)

Gill, Dipender (2005) Numerous journal articles, including: ‘Genetic evidence for repurposing of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists to prevent heart failure’, Journal of the American Heart Association, Vol: 10 (2021) and ‘Testing for antibodies to SARS-CoV-2’, British Medical Journal, Vol: 371 (2020) with M J Ponsford

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Gordon, Jean Francois (1971) Will Purdom, Agitator, Plant-hunter, Forester. (Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 2021)

Gotelee, Simon (1984) ‘Brand Bordeaux vs Appellation Burgundy’ in On Bordeaux, ed. Keevil, S (Académie du Vin Library, 2020)

Hall, Nadia (1992) The Devil (Book 5 in the Leone Scamarcio series, published under the name Nadia Dalbuono) (Scribe, 2020)

Hoegfeldt, Cecilia (2016) ‘From attachment to mental health and back’, The Lancet Psychiatry vol 7, Issue 10, Octo 2020, pp 832-834 (2020), with co-authors

Hoffbrand, Victor (1953) Memoirs of Victor Hoffbrand (Lavenham Press, 2020)

Hollands, Gina-Marie (1999) Yours, Trudy (Ruby Fiction, 2021)

Howard, Anna (1995) EU Cross-Border Commercial Mediation (Wolters Kluwer, 2021)

Hughes, Robert (1983) ‘Ramon Llull and the Rhetoric of Prayer: A Brief Commentary’, in Qui fruit ne sap collir: Homenatge a Lola Badia, eds. Alberni, A; Cifuentes, L; Santanachm, J; Soler, A; (Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2021)

‘Refrain Songs in Fourteenth-Century Catalan Poetry: A Reassessment’, in, Polyphonic Voices: Poetic and Musical Dialogue in the European Ars Nova, eds. Alberni, A; Calvia, A; Lannutti, M (SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2021)

Co-translator. ‘Ramon Llull: Cent noms de Déu / Hundred Names of God’, in Manícula: Taller d’edició i anotació de textos, Online. First ever translation from Old Catalan into English.

‘Oratio, Verbum, Sermo and “Les paraules de sa pensa”: Internal Discourse in Ramon Llull (1271/1272-1290), its Sources, Implications and Applications’, Studia Lulliana, Vol. 57 (online, 2017)

Translator from Spanish into English and revision of English. Extractiones de Talmud per ordinem sequentialem, Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis CCCM 291, eds. Cecini, U; de la Cruz, O (Brepols, 2018)

Kojima, Andrew (1997) No Sushi (Away With Media, 2020)


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Page, Sebastian (2010) Black Resettlement and the American Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

Pickford, Eleanor (1993) Translator of R Muchembled, Smells: A Cultural History of Odours in Early Modern Times (Polity, 2020)

Price, John Roy (1960) The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider’s Perspective on Nixon’s Surprising Social Policy (University Press of Kansas, 2021)

Quinlan, Kieran (Patrick) (1974) Seamus Heaney and the End of Catholic Ireland (Catholic University of America Press, 2020)

Randall, Oliver (2012) Editor William Simpson and the Crisis in Central Asia, 1884-5, self published in conjunction with Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salibsury (2021)

Rundell, David (1975) Vision of Mirage: Saudi Arabia at a Crossroad (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Sagar, David (1965) Reflections On an Empty Grave: Songs of the Heart and Soul (Lodge Books, 2020)

Sancton, Andrew (1968) Canadian Local Government: An Urban Perspective, 3rd edition. (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2021)

Scholar, Richard W (2001) Émigrés: French Words That Turned English (Princeton University Press, 2020)

Strachey, Nino (1986) Rooms of their Own (National Trust, 2018)

Teague, Anthony (1960) English translations from Korean, under the name Brother Anthony of Taizé. Hope is Lonely, Sung-Hui Kim (Arc Publications, 2021)

Lonesome Jar : poetic fables, Jeong Ho-Seung (Seoul Selection, 2020)

Loving, Jeong (Seoul Selection, 2020)

Theng, Brian Hong Seng (2015) ‘Finding the Social Life of Rural Non-Elites in Roman Italy’, Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal 4(1): 2, pp. 1–32. (2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/traj.4345)


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Timmis, Ivor (1977) ‘Talking a good game: football language explained’ Late Tackle 73 (online, 2021)

‘Mass Observation in Bolton, 1937-1940: a case of accidental dialectology?’ in Honeybone, P. and Maguire, W. (eds.) Dialect writing and the North of England. (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)

van Bolhuis, Frederik (1969) Arcs of the Arts? A New Reading of Western Art History (Self Published; available via www.politics-prose.com, 2020)

Watt, Adam (1997) Editor The Cambridge History of the Novel in French (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

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The challenges of academic medicine during a pandemic

Prof Chris O’Callaghan, Fellow in Medicine

From my perspective, the past two academic years blended into one long disrupted period from which I hope we are emerging—although I reflect warily that I expressed a similar aspiration a year ago.

In addition to my College duties, I lead a research group, including a laboratory in the Nuffield Department of Medicine and am clinically active as a consultant in both acute general medicine and nephrology (kidney medicine and transplantation).

Normally, most of my time is spent on research and teaching and having completed a 5-year term as Dean of the College just before the pandemic, I was eagerly looking forward to having more time to devote to my research. However, as the pandemic unfolded the University closed laboratories that were not working on COVID-19 projects, such as vaccines and virus testing technology. In parallel, the University

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encouraged clinical academics, such as me, to support the NHS and for me that meant playing my part in the acute general medicine service at the John Radcliffe Hospital. The acute general medicine service assesses people who come to hospital with medical emergencies and cares for these patients if they are admitted to the hospital. These medical teams in Oxford and elsewhere are usually under great pressure during the annual winter influenza outbreaks and there was concern that they would be swamped during the pandemic.

The graph shows that in the first peak in 2020 the number of people coming to our hospital fell. However, as many of these people had COVID-19, this made the hospital very busy and sadly many patients and some staff died. Within the University, intense effort went into developing the vaccine, establishing the Recovery trial of possible treatments and research on testing and tracking COVID-19 infection. We were able to recruit many of the patients we saw into the Recovery trial and started to see the real survival benefit of the trial results as the pandemic continued.

Then cases dwindled and hopes were high, but the second wave with new viral variants hit hard. During the first wave many people with non-COVID-19 conditions stayed away from hospital, but in the second wave this did not happen to the same extent and the hospital was overwhelmed. This was exacerbated by major

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staff shortages caused by illness or the need to self-isolate because of COVID-19 exposure. The situation was very much worse than the previous year and the pressure on staff was immense, but fortunately with vaccination, personal protective equipment and infection control measures there were no staff fatalities in our hospital over this time. It was, for a second year, both a privilege and inspiring to work with such dedicated and positive colleagues.

It has not been an easy year for research and we are still not allowed to have all members of our laboratory team on site at the same time, which slows our experimental work. However, for some time I have been trying to develop academic activity in acute general medicine and we were fortunate to obtain funding to move these plans forward through our AcuteCare academic initiative. Acute general medicine services bore much of the hospital burden of the pandemic, but although almost all of us will need acute general medical attention, particularly when we are older, there is surprisingly little academic activity in this area. I am keen that we rectify this and develop this as an academic strength in Oxford.

Many of the ongoing challenges facing healthcare arise from remarkable improvements in life expectancy and disease survival, such that on average we can live much longer than our ancestors. However, as we do so, many of us will accumulate multiple long-term conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes or raised cholesterol levels and these can lead to problems such as strokes, heart and kidney disease. These multiple long-term conditions often trigger visits to multiple disconnected specialty services and we have obtained further pilot funding to bring multiple teams together to integrate this care in one place and to develop the latest science and technology for this healthcare.

In the laboratory, we work on understanding the role of the immune system in disease and how the DNA we are born with influences our immune responses, especially to changes in our metabolism. We are particularly interested in how this affects our risk of atherosclerosis, which underlies many other conditions including heart attacks, strokes and much kidney disease. We seek to identify new ways of altering these disease processes to improve health.

Of course, one of our enduring strengths in Oxford is our students (especially those from Queen’s!). As the chief examiner in medicine, a further pandemic challenge was to organise the final qualifying BM BCh 6th year examinations—postponing the examinations was not an option as the NHS needed newly qualified doctors more than ever. The examinations usually include written papers and observed interactions with real patients, but the latter was not possible with COVID-19 precautions, so we substituted remote video assessment and direct interactions with healthy actors.

Our students are the future and we need to keep our research and our teaching relevant and up to date, so that they can hit the ground running when they graduate. This remains true even during a pandemic!


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Modelling a pandemic

Dr Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, Lecturer in Probability and Statistics

I recently re-joined Queen’s as a Lecturer in Probability and Statistics. I am also a Senior Research Fellow at The Big Data Institute within the Department of Medicine and I am affiliated with the Wolfson Centre of Mathematical Biology within the Mathematical Institute at Oxford.

I was at Queen’s during my undergraduate and graduate studies in Mathematics at Oxford University between 1996 and 2005 supported by an academic Scholarship from Queen’s. I loved my time at Queen’s – studying in the Upper Library, playing Tennis for the College (and University) team, acting in a couple of drama productions and being part of the Committee in the MCR. Queen’s has always been my “home away from home”. I have always loved mathematics and my College Tutors, Peter Neumann and Martin Edwards, managed to make learning complex aspects of pure and applied maths even more fun and enjoyable. Alongside helping me extend my mathematics’ skills, they also gave me habits which I still keep to this day – marking students’ scripts with a green pen, always responding politely to invitations and always doing rough calculations on the “back of the envelope”. I stayed at Queen’s during my doctoral studies and completed my DPhil in Mathematical Biology under the supervision of Prof Philip Maini and Prof Helen Byrne in 2005. Following academic posts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and at UCL, in June 2021 I joined Christophe Fraser’s Pathogen Dynamics Group at the BDI and took up a Lecturer post at Queen’s. I love teaching at Queen’s and I hope that I can transfer my love for mathematics and modelling to my students.

My research is in applied mathematics and statistics with a focus on using mathematical modelling and statistical analysis to deliver innovative research in infectious diseases modelling. Over the last 20 months I have been undertaking responsive and timely modelling to inform and advice decision making in the UK.

An important contribution from me in modelling the pandemic has been in the development and application of agent-based models (ABMs) as an alternative to the classic compartmental models for infectious disease transmission. ABMs allow transmission between individuals, rather than populations, to be tracked and represent a natural framework in which testing and tracing of infected people can be modelled. I was part of the team that developed the agent-based model Covasim, the methodology for which was published at PLoS Comp Biol in July 2021. I have impactfully applied Covasim on the epidemic in the UK since the onset. My work, widely reported in the media, and published in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health in August 2020, highlighted the importance of adequate Test-Trace-Isolate (TTI) strategy in controlling the spread of the virus when schools reopened fully in September 2020.


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Follow up work, published in Nature Scientific Reports in April 2021, highlighted the importance of mask wearing in schools and workplaces for transmission mitigation as part of the reopening strategy (Figure 1). Additional work currently in submission at the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications explored different strategies of reopening schools in March 2021 (Figure 2). Application of Covasim to the USA epidemic, published in Nature Communications in May 2021, added to the growing evidence of the importance of TTI and mask wearing as part of a safe reopening. As well as developing ABMs, in late 2020 I also led work on extended compartmental models for infectious disease spread to include contact-tracing, using probabilistic theory, highlighting the linking of compartmental with agent-based models; this work was published in PLoS Comp Biol in March 2021.

Figure 1: Heatmaps of cumulative infections for different trace (x-axis) and test (y-axis) levels across the scenario of mask wearing in parts of community with and without schools masks’ wear. Higher cumulative infections are shown in darker shades of red, while lower values are lighter colours. The region of a light orange colour where cumulative infections remain below 500,000, represents a region where the second wave of COVID-19 after September 2020 is avoided with combinations of adequate test-trace and mask usage.

Figure 2: Model predicted estimated daily (a) and total (b) infections in the period from February 22 to April 20, 2021 from the calibrated model across the five different scenarios: Full National Lockdown (FNL), Staggered Partial National Lockdown, Full-return of schools PNL, Primary schools-only PNL and Part-Rota schools PNL under the assumption that susceptibility in 0-10 years old is 50% less than across other ages and that community transmission remains the same as in November lockdown between March 8, 2021 and April 19, 2021. In (a) we show the point estimates as well as the uncertainty range around this for each scenario.


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Complementary to mathematical modelling, I have also used statistical analysis during the pandemic. My work published in Influenza and Other Respiratory Diseases in September 2021, identified a number of factors associated with increased risk of hospitalisation, intensive care unit admissions and mortality in North East London during the first UK COVID-19 wave. Additionally, together with public health colleagues in Austria I modelled the COVID-19 epidemic in Austria. Across two papers, in the Lancet EClin Med in July 2021 and in the BMJ Open in August 2021 we used statistical analysis to evaluate the accuracy of RT-PCR tests and compare it to Lateral Flow Diagnostics (LFDs) in diagnosing COVID-19 infection. The findings in the BMJ Open paper suggest that RT-PCR testing in primary care can rapidly and accurately detect SARS-CoV-2 among people with flu-like illness in a heterogeneous viral outbreak. The Lancet EClinMed findings suggest that LFDs have high sensitivity and specificity, and hence high accuracy, in capturing early infection when administered properly in primary care settings.

As different variants of SARS-CoV-2 started to appear in the autumn of 2020, genomic surveillance became an important aspect of pandemic preparedness and response. To explore this, over the last 10 months I have been involved in modelling and genomic surveillance studies of different variants, collaborating with the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium. Collaborative work published in Nature in October 2021, reconstructed the dynamics of different SARS-CoV-2 variants in England between September 2020 and June 2021. The findings showed that while a number of different variants were circulating in England in 2020 and 2021, the Alpha and the Delta variants became dominating in early 2021 and over the summer 2021 respectively, due to their infectiousness advantage over other variants (Figure 3).

I am also a guest Editor of a special issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A and I look forward to sharing that with you in early 2022. My modelling work is ongoing with current work focusing on exploring the impact of different vaccination strategies, exploring waning profiles of different vaccines and developing the next generation of more capable and adaptive models for better pandemic preparedness taking onboard everything we have learned during this pandemic.

Figure 3: SARS-CoV-2 surveillance sequencing in England between September 2020 and June 2021. a. Positive Pillar 2 SARS-CoV-2 tests in England. b. Relative frequency of 328 different PANGO lineages, representing approximately 7.2% of tests shown in a. c. Positive tests (top row) and frequency of 4 major lineages across 315 English lower tier local authorities.


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Papyri and performance: the problems of ancient poetry

Prof Richard Bruce Parkinson, Professor of Egyptology

The discovery of the Rosetta Stone during the Napoleonic wars is a useful reminder for Egyptologists of how translation is often embedded in colonialism. Modern translations of Ancient Egyptian poetic texts

have often trivialized and exoticized them, or valued them only as sources of historical or linguistic data. The Life of Sinuhe is the most famous work to survive, written in the Middle Kingdom around 1875 BCE (contemporaneous with the final stages of Stonehenge). By 1600 BCE it had become a classic text used in training officials and was read for at least another six centuries, and it still remains a set text for students today. Around 575 lines of verse describe an Egyptian courtier’s life in self-imposed exile in the Levant, as a vivid narrative of adventure but also of psychological trauma and self-realization. Although extensively studied, the last integrated commentary was in 1916 by the Queensman, Sir Alan Gardiner (1879–1963), and only now is a new one being prepared.

Despite Sinuhe’s acknowledged artistry and its ability (in Ben Okri’s words) to speak about ‘the mystery that makes us human’, translations have often been executed for a narrowly academic audience: the phrase ‘I was depilated’ in one recent rendering is technically correct in terms of ancient practices but is a stumbling block for general non-specialist readers. Given our incomplete knowledge of Early Egyptian, Egyptologists have often prioritized producing a single ideal text and a single definitive translation, rather than exploring poetic ambiguities and emotional impact, or the ways in which the poetry has changed through time. Much has been lost from this extraordinary poem.

The 12th Dynasty manuscript of Sinuhe, copied by an unknown man around 1800 BCE at Thebes, rapidly and with many self-corrections (P. Berlin 3022, Frame H). © Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; photographer: Lisa Baylis, the British Museum.

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Poetry cannot easily be abstracted from its material or cultural contexts, and it often uses these to create meaning beyond the literal sense of the words. In terms of literary form, Sinuhe is modeled on a culturally central Egyptian genre, the official funerary autobiography that was inscribed on tomb walls. The unknown poet plays with this in order to test the cultural norms of this official discourse against Sinuhe’s imagined experiences. The poem’s complex meaning is created with subtle changes in register, style and genre, all of which are unfamiliar to modern audiences. This is a familiar problem for translators dealing with texts from radically different cultures, but it is one that Sinuhe poses in an extreme form, because it focuses on culturally specific aspects of being Egyptian. Embedding the poem in its material contexts assists understanding. One minor and concrete example is a place-name mentioned by the poet: Sinuhe travels past the ‘Red Mountain’ but this is opaque and meaningless until one has experienced the physical location, now named Gebel Ahmar on the outskirts of modern Cairo. When one knows something of this hillside with the remains of desolate desert quarries, one can start to feel the meaning of the verse. Without a fully contextualizing approach even the most central aspects of the plot remain unintelligible: the poet narrates how Sinuhe hurriedly left Egypt at the death of Amenemhat I in a deliberately oblique manner, and this has caused immense speculation about his motivation since the poem was re-discovered in the nineteenth century. A commentary can list all the surviving parallel passages with the same words from contemporaneous texts and compare them with visual evidence for relevant social practices, and in such a way reconstruct (albeit rather laboriously) a sense of the resonances that the words had for the original audience. When the passage is read with an ear for these, instead of only

The view from the heights of the Gebel Ahmar in 2019, now built over by Nasser City.


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the literal linguistic meaning, it becomes clear that the ancient poet is narrating Sinuhe’s reaction in such a way as to evoke an unspoken sense of grief at the old king’s death, rather than a sense of guilt at a political assassination that has often been imagined by modern critics. A commentary, however, inevitably betrays the force of the poem: parallels and footnotes can reconstruct the context for a specialist reader but they destroy the immediacy of the original.

Sinuhe provides the modern world with a wonderfully intimate and subjective sense of an ancient culture seen from the inside. But for an unannotated translation to communicate these culturally specific aspects to modern audiences it must somehow re-imagine them in modern terms, becoming in effect a new adaptation rather than a ‘free’ translation. Recently at the Young Vic, Ben Okri’s Changing Destiny developed the storyline of Sinuhe’s life into an action-filled drama in order to explore universal themes about identity and immigration, avoiding any culturally alien forms of expression. This reworking inevitably shifted the focus away from the original poem’s presentation of its own specific culture, and lessened the sense of autobiographical interiority. As with a commentary, something is lost from the original in any free translation or adaptation.

The original text itself was arguably written for performance in the Middle Kingdom. While starting to write a new commentary, I worked with actress and author Barbara Ewing on a recital. These experiments confirmed the philological awareness of how open it is to different readings, and how dramatically it is conceived: in the central soliloquy, the grammatically ambiguous syntax of a phrase articulates Sinuhe’s shifting self-realization even as he speaks the words. During rehearsals, Barbara and I discussed what meanings could be re-imagined from the surviving textual world of the Middle Kingdom and the degree to which these might be communicated to modern audiences. We kept close to the original phrases as possible in order to preserve the original distinctive texture of feeling. Even if the translated words remain remote, an actor’s voice can convey their emotional tone and intensity, and translate the visceral meaning with immediacy. Performance offers one way of minimizing what is often lost in a translation or a commentary.

On a purely textual level, these experiments had an incidental revelation for me as editor. The manuscripts of the poem from a few centuries after its composition show quite extensive textual variations from the earliest manuscripts. During rehearsals, Barbara insisted on certain changes to the translation in order to clarify the meaning for modern audiences, and I was struck that the majority of her alterations exactly mirrored the manuscript variations, suggesting that these ancient variations were also interpretative interventions, probably made when the original poem was becoming remote from its ancient readers. Performance is, after all, another embodiment of the text as much as any surviving manuscript or modern edition. Working with a skilled performer can enable a more holistic sense of textuality than is provided by editorial procedures or academic theory.


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Copyists, performers, editors and audiences all interact to create a poem’s meaning, and meaning is always diverse and contingent, continually shifting in a work’s different embodiments. Experiences with both the physical manuscripts and with performances argue against the traditionally privileged stance of the academic commentator, who has usually been a Euro-American male intent on rescuing a text from its messy transmission history at the hand of supposedly incompetent ancient copyists. The scribe who copied the main early papyrus of Sinuhe in ancient Luxor certainly wrote messily and made many corrections, but an examination of these physical features shows that he was not incompetent, but deeply engaged with the creation and transmission of the poem’s meaning as he wrote. Such considerations can be a step towards decolonizing textual studies and re-valuing the ancient copyists. As a commentator, I am not so different from that ancient copyist or Barbara as a performer, all of us having a shared aim of mediation, helping the poem to interact with new audiences and create new meanings. From this perspective, a commentary should not try to determine a poem’s meaning, but simply to supply the information that modern readers (whoever they might be) might need for their experience of the poem to be as coherent and as open-ended as possible. This role is an inherently humble one which fits uncomfortably with the authoritative stance demanded by the modern academic ethos, but in the end the commentator should simply tell the reader, in the words of the poet Stevie Smith: ‘well, here is the poem; work it out for yourself’.

Barbara Ewing’s recital of Sinuhe: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/life-sinuhe Barbara Ewing


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1932 Dr T Sutton-Coulson

1941 The Venerable A H Woodhouse

1942 Mr J C P Boyes-Watson Mr K V Jones FRCM Dr F J Long CVO

1943 Mr T S Acton Mr K M Leslie Mr W R Lomas

1944 Mr N G Brodrick

1945 Wing Commander D B D Hamley Mr E D Wetherell

1948 Mr A B Gwilliam Capt J H Macdonald

1949 Prof K Davies Mr M E Herman Mr R A Higginson Dr Z A Pelczynski OBE Dr C J S M Simpson

1950 Mr H T Searle

1951 Mr P M Brannan Mr A I Obiyan

1953 Mr K J R Capper-Johnson Mr J R England Mr J G Glasspool Mr R S Kent Mr J W A Okell OBE Dr A Richmond Mr J M White

1955 Mr L Harrison Mr J W Maslen

1956 Mr J S Morris Mr A W S Mundy Dr J Place

1957 Mr M H Elliott Mr G B Jubb Mr P Swain

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We record with regret the deaths of the following Old Members:

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1958 Mr J E Bellamy Dr R E Blackburn FRSA

1959 Ambassador H Ahmadu Mr G M A Barker Mr H E Fleming Dr B E Lowe Dr P M Neumann OBE

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1960 Mr M S Harrington

1961 Prof A P Cracknell The Revd M P Wadsworth

1962 Professor A D Barker His Hon Simon Hawkesworth QC

1963 Dr M J Cullen

1964 Mr N C P Winstanley

1965 Mr D P Ansell Dr R A Leeper Mr L N Marcelin-Rice

1966 Mr R L Hartnoll

1967 His Hon Judge Curran QC

1969 Mr D N Wilson FRSA Mr R Winters

1970 Mr P J Firth

1972 Mr S G O’Mahony

1973 Mr I Drummond Mr J G Odom

1974 Mr D W F von Bodelschwingh

1977 Mr P S C Gray

1991 Mr D Hilton

Honorary Fellow Prof H A O Hill FRS

ANDREW DENNISON BARKER

My father, Andrew Dennison Barker, was born in Derby on 24 April 1943. He spent his early years exploring the wildlife of Hampshire and Sussex with his older brother George (who also went on to undergraduate studies at Queen’s, reading Zoology), acquiring a lifelong interest in the natural world. He gained a scholarship to Christ’s Hospital, from where he went on to read Literae Humaniores at Queen’s in the early 1960s. On graduating, he went to the ANU in Canberra to write his PhD thesis, on forms of explanation in evolutionary

biology. Before setting sail for Australia, his mother Nancy (a powerful woman) told him that whatever else he did, he was not to get married out there.

Andrew returned to these shores with his first wife Susan in 1970. She was heavily pregnant with their first child, Jonathan. Though tempted to try out a self-sufficient life on a Welsh mountain, that summer he joined the Philosophy department at the University of Warwick.

The news of the deaths of Old Members comes to the notice of the College through a variety of channels. The College is unable to verify all these reports and there may be some omissions and occasional inaccuracies.


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He and Susan settled in Leamington Spa, where their second son, Nicholas, was born in 1972. Always a keen amateur musician with an excellent tenor voice, Andrew began researching ancient Greek music and musical theory during the mid-1970s. Working in this somewhat neglected and frequently misunderstood area, he became the foremost student of ancient Greek music of his generation, a field of study which engaged and fascinated him for the rest of his life. Along with various articles and edited volumes on Greek music, philosophy, literature and science, his seven books and annotated translations on Greek musical theory and its historiography have transformed the field. Starting with his two volumes of Greek Musical Writings in 1984 and 1989, and including his landmark The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece (2007) and his Ancient Greek Writers on their Musical Past (2014), his work cast new light on our understanding of Greek culture, and had consequences for our perceptions of medieval and subsequent musical theory. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005 in recognition of the importance of this work.

Andrew was a family man. He married his second wife, Jill, in 1978. They had 3 children together: Michael (that’s me), Kate and William. Growing up, our house was filled with music, as well as prototype and model Greek musical instruments our father had built, and on which he would test his various hypotheses. I’ve been told from countless sources what a brilliant teacher and supervisor my father was, and that these home-made instruments often made their way into lecture theatres for demonstration purposes. The collection travelled with us when the family moved to New Zealand (my father took a Readership at the University of Otago in 1992, stepping down from his role as chair of the philosophy department at Warwick), and then re-turned with some further additions when he returned to the UK to become Professor at the University of Birmingham in 1995. In his years at Birmingham, he combined teaching and PhD supervision with his research (while doing his best to avoid university politics, of which he was less fond). He held a British Academy Research Professorship from 2000 to 2003. He retired in 2008.

In 2007, Andrew co-founded MOISA (International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music & its Cultural Heritage), with which he was heavily involved for 10 years until his health began to deteriorate. In 2012 he became founding editor of the journal Greek and Roman Musical Studies (published by Brill).

He is survived by his wife, his children and 14 grandchildren of whom he was very fond. We will miss him very much.

Michael Barker


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ROBERT BLACKBURN

Robert Blackburn, who has died aged 80, attended Bolton School from 1948 to 1958. He came from Chorley (as did many Bolton school boys and girls) where his father was Borough Librarian, and his mother a well-known local Infants’ Headmistress. Robert became well-known at the school as a classical pianist, playing every year on Speech Days and later in school concerts. In the sixth form he ran the Poetry Society and the Philharmonic Society, and was a keen Literary and Debating Society member. He attended Stratford

Camp from 1955 to 1958, regarded as one of the school’s most inspired outdoor / educational ideas, instilling a lifelong love of live theatre in Robert.

Robert went up to Queen’s College, Oxford in 1958 on a Modern History Open Scholarship. After Oxford, Robert took the Bachelor of Music degree at Manchester University, which was where he met his first wife Barbara. His first post in 1964 was on the Music Staff at Repton School in south Derbyshire, and in 1968 he and Barbara moved to Durham, where he became Senior Lecturer in Music at the College of St Hild and St Bede. They lived in the village of Witton Gilbert outside the City of Durham, and had two daughters, Melissa and Donna.

While in Durham, Robert completed a PhD in early 20th Century German and Austrian opera. In 1980-81, in a sabbatical year, he took a Master’s degree, again at Manchester University in Comparative Literature Studies – a year he always said was perhaps his most purely enjoyable academic experience. Robert taught part-time for the Open University from 1970-80 in the North East, and again in the Bristol region in 1986 – 1991. Happily, in the spring of 1981 he was appointed Head of Department in Music at Bath College of Higher Education, which later became Bath Spa University. Robert became Assistant Dean (Research) of the new Faculty of Arts and Music from 1984, and retired in 2003. He was a passionate and knowledgeable teacher, particularly around 18th, 19th and 20th century music history and interrelated arts and literature. A generation of Bath music students knew him affectionately as Dr. Bob.

Robert’s first marriage came to an amicable end, and in 2003 he met Isabel Love and they married the following year, just after his retirement. Retirement did not slow him down; he became a voluntary Convenor for Literature & Humanities at the Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution in 2008 and between 2010 and 2019 he organised five symposia on the historical arts. Robert and Isabel travelled widely, and on moving to Chippenham in 2008 became deeply involved in the Chippenham Civic Society and the Wiltshire Victoria County History Trust. They became grandparents to Cassian in 2007, Cora in 2010, and Jonah in 2011, and the children were delighted to have not two but three grannies as they grew up.


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Robert was lucky to have the loving support of Isabel through his final years and last illness – theirs was a deep and lasting love. He was an incredibly knowledgeable, thoughtful, and kind man all his life, and his devotion to music, literature and the arts has been passed down the generations through his students and children.

Melissa Blackburn

MICHAEL CULLEN

Dr. Michael J. Cullen, a pioneer in the use of electron microscopy to dissect the minutiae of skeletal muscle structure and pathology, died on September 8th 2020 from kidney cancer, leaving Anne (his wife of 54 years) and sons James and Malcolm, as well as a large devoted group of fellow academics who long admired his intellect, collegiality and scientific generosity. I am honoured to be a member of a very select group who Mike fostered and nurtured as Ph.D students in the late 1970’s-1980’s, and feel fortunate to be asked to memorialize him as best I can.

Mike was born at the end of the second World War to James Leslie and Constance Cullen and grew up in Merseyside with his brother and sister. His childhood curiosity about the local flora and fauna likely fostered his lifelong fascination with nature. Following amateur experiments in rearing caterpillars and tropical fish, both he and his brother, John, went on to study Zoology, John at Cambridge and Mike at The Queens’ College, Oxford. Mike was certain Entomology would form the core of his future scientific life, and following his marriage to Anne in 1966, he relocated to Trinidad to study the biology and life cycle of giant water bugs under the tutelage of the late, great, J.W.S. Pringle.

Pringle was known for being thoughtful, focused and meticulous in all his scientific endeavors, and I have always thought that Mike’s essential care and attention to detail must have sprung from his training during this period. On his return from Trinidad to Oxford Mike started his formal D.Phil. studies and became immersed in the basic biology of insect flight and more specifically in the use of electron microscopy as a tool to dissect the structure/function relationships within the skeletal muscle that allowed insect flight.

Fortunately for biomedical science and more particularly neuromuscular disease research, Mike was pulled away from the world of academic entomology by the practical need to feed a growing family. In 1972, he received a job offer from Lord Walton of Detchant (then simply Dr. John Walton) to lead the electron microscopy research group at the Muscular Dystrophy Research Laboratories in Newcastle upon Tyne. His first seminal contribution to the field was to dissect the various stages of muscle fiber breakdown in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at the ultrastructural level.


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This paper cemented Mike’s position as one of the leading proponents of electron microscopy as both a diagnostic and “discovery” tool in neuromuscular pathology, and was continually augmented by serial, thoughtful ultrastructural articles and book chapters throughout his professional career.

Mike was first and foremost an observer. As a child, and throughout his entire life he took great joy from exploring and studying nature, whether it was the pond creatures of Merseyside, the Giant Water Bugs of Trinidad, or the complexities of the human muscle cell. For him, the electron microscope was simply part of the tool set he used to examine the world around him. Perhaps his greatest professional asset was his keen ability to detect minute differences and/or changes in what he was observing. In his early career he certainly did not adhere to quantitation as an essential tool. In fact, in the article cited above there were 20 figures with only a single table of measurements.

Mike was generous both professionally and personally. His career spanned one of the most exciting periods in the study of Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy, from the days when description of pathology predominated, through the identification of the fundamental molecular cause of the disease and the continuing efforts to develop useful effective therapeutics. Immediately after the cause of the disease was identified as mutations in a previously unidentified protein (dystrophin) by Lou Kunkel’s group at Children’s hospital in Boston (3-5), one of Lou’s fellows (Eric Hoffman) approached Mike to collaborate on the localization of the protein as an obvious step in defining its function. Rather than taking on the task himself, he told Eric to “go next door to the Farber and look up one of my former students” (your biographer). Using the same immuno-gold approaches that Mike would have used, I worked with Eric, and others on Lou’s team culminating in a series of publications in Nature, the Journal of Cell Biology and elsewhere which essentially kickstarted my academic career. This collaboration, and the opportunities afforded by its success, would not have happened without this completely selfless gesture from Mike.

Mike retired in 2001 and moved to one of his and Anne’s favourite places, Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye where the stark beauty of the island continued to engage Mike’s love of the natural world. My last, and among my fondest, memories of Mike in retirement are of exploring the gardens he cultivated against the stormy, rocky landscape of the island; and his success in charming the locals into doing crosswords with him over a pint.

Mike Cullen’s career spanned a period in biomedical science when the fundamental toolsets underwent seismic shifts from observation to quantitation, and from reductionism to discovery. His contributions to the field of muscle biology and pathology were timely, consequential, seminal and critical. His approach was methodical, creative and above all rigorous and sound. Mike was a gentleman, a dedicated and thoughtful scientist, a caring and supportive mentor and a kind and deeply valued friend. He is, and will be, missed.

Professor Simon C. Watkins – first published in Science Direct


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PATRICK CURRAN

Patrick was a larger-than-life character in so many ways. With a loud, infectious laugh and the broadest of smiles, his sheer joie de vivre was immensely attractive to all who met him. His smile occasionally got him into trouble and, on one memorable occasion, he was told by a High Court Judge to “take that f…..g gwin off your face”.

Generous to a fault and highly sociable, the camaraderie of the Bar was Patrick’s natural habitat. He had an endless fund of amusing anecdotes for every occasion

and could recite swathes of Shakespeare and poetry faultlessly. Patrick was an avid reader with an encyclopaedic knowledge of a wide range of subjects. With an endearing sense of old-fashioned courtesy and chivalry, Patrick was scrupulously polite and rarely spoke ill of anyone. He lived by a very clear moral code and could not abide any form of injustice; always speaking up for anyone he considered to have been treated unfairly.

Patrick David Curran was born on the 2nd March 1948, the fourth of five children of David Alban Curran and Noreen Curran (neé Cliffe). David Curran was a director of Edward Curran Engineering, a large engineering company which, during the war, employed thousands of people including a young Shirley Bassey.

In 1975 Patrick met Anne (neé Pathy) at court when she was an articled clerk. They married eight months later in the heat of the summer of 1976 and would have celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary this year. Anne became a solicitor and, with Patrick’s encouragement, a tribunal judge. She became the Regional Tribunal Judge (SSCS) for Wales & SW England until her retirement in 2019.

Patrick was educated by the Rosminian Order at De La Salle School, Cardiff and then at Grace Dieu Manor and Ratcliffe College in Leicestershire, where he was Captain of Boats and Head Prefect in his final year in 1966. Patrick has maintained his connection with the school via the Old Ratcliffian Association and by visiting his second cousin, Father William Curran, who taught him history and is currently living in Surrey with other members of the Order well known to and admired by Patrick.

Patrick became a member of the National Youth Theatre under the directorship of Michael Croft from 1965 to 1969, and appeared in several productions with notable alumni such as Helen Mirren, Timothy Dalton, John Nightingale, John Shrapnel, Richard Hampton and many others. Patrick took the lead role in Coriolanus in 1969 and toured with the play to Germany, preceded by Julius Caesar in 1968. Recently Patrick re-established contact with Richard Hampton and they enjoyed convivial lunches whilst reminiscing about their experiences with the NYT. It was at the NYT that Patrick met Bruce Houlder who was best man at his wedding to Anne. Bruce has remained a lifelong close friend together with his wonderful wife, Stella, and their two daughters.


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Patrick went up to The Queen’s College, Oxford in 1967 to read Law. He remembers meeting a bearded Bill Clinton as they had a mutual friend in common, the late Frank Aller. Patrick pursued a wide range of interests whilst at Queen’s including directing the production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night for the Queen’s College Eglesfield Players. Gyles Brandreth expressed a keen interest in a role and played the Sea Captain, friend to Viola, played by Michele Brown who subsequently became his wife. Patrick’s extracurricular interests may have had some bearing on the fact that one of his friends at Queen’s recalled how Patrick discovered with indignation, the day before his Finals, that the Library closed at lunchtime! Patrick was strongly influenced by two of his tutors, a young John Mummery and also John Kaye. He maintained a lifelong and close friendship with John Mummery and was instrumental in organising a “Conversazione” at Queen’s to commemorate John’s retirement as a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2014. During his time at Oxford Patrick made many friends with whom he has maintained regular contact, in particular meeting up for the annual “Fiends” lunch usually held at the RAC Club in Pall Mall. Whilst at Queen’s Patrick continued his interest in rowing and was captain of the Queen’s College Men’s 1st VIII.

Patrick maintained a close association with Queen’s via the alumni association and attended numerous events with Anne including trips to Madrid and Rome. He loved to visit Oxford with his family and friends, celebrating key milestones at Queen’s including his 60th birthday and 40th wedding anniversary. He remained a passionate supporter of the dark blues and took great delight in any notable performances and victories against their light blue rivals in the boat race and on the rugby field.

Patrick was called to the Bar in 1972 and joined Gray’s Inn, becoming a Bencher in 2005. He completed his pupillage at Farrar’s Building, Temple, where he was fortunate to be a pupil first to John Leighton Williams and then to John Mummery. After pupillage, Patrick returned to Cardiff and joined the chambers of David Glyn Morgan QC at 55 Park Place (now at No. 30) where he established a busy practice in civil and criminal law.

Patrick was admitted to the Bar of Ireland in 1993. He was appointed an Assistant Recorder from 1988 – 1992; Assistant Commissioner Parliamentary Boundary from 1994 – 2007; Legal Member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales from 1995 – 2008; Legal Assessor GMC from 2002 – 2007; Recorder from 1992 – 2007; a Circuit Judge from 2007 and also sat as a Deputy High Court Judge mainly in the Administrative Court until his retirement. Following his retirement, Patrick continued to sit as a Deputy Circuit Judge and became a member of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators. Patrick finished where he had started when he accepted a door tenancy at Farrar’s Building at the invitation of the Head of Chambers, his close friend Patrick Harrington QC.

Having taken Silk in 1995, Patrick left Cardiff and joined the chambers of the late Edmund Lawson QC at 9-12 Bell Yard, London. He prosecuted and defended many high-profile murder and corruption cases but, more importantly, he embraced life at


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chambers and made a new set of friends whose company he enjoyed particularly when cases settled early.

In 1993/4 Patrick began work on a book for personal injury practitioners entitled Personal Injury Pleadings, the first edition of which was published by Sweet & Maxwell in 1995. It proved to be successful and the publication of the 6th edition in 2019 was celebrated by a party at Gray’s Inn generously hosted by Patrick Harrington QC and Farrar’s. Patrick had a deep commitment to his Roman Catholic faith. A week before his death he was deeply honoured to receive the Last Sacrament from George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff, whom Patrick had known from his time as Administrator of Westminster Cathedral and whom he regarded as a friend. Patrick always preferred the Latin Mass (he was a member of the Latin Mass Society) and despaired at some of the changes wrought by the Second Vatican Council, which he regarded as diminishing the beauty of the liturgy. He and Anne regularly attended the Latin Masses at the Oratory of St. Philip Neri at St Alban-on-the- Moors, Cardiff. Patrick was due to be admitted to the Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem but was unable to attend the investiture in December because of his health.

Patrick is survived by his four children and four grandchildren Xavier (Xavi), Lucia (Lulu), Elowyn (Wynny) and Hugo. We have lost a wonderful, dear man and although a bright light has been extinguished in our lives, his influence runs deeply through each of us. May he rest in peace.

Anne Curran and family

KEITH DAVIES

Professor Keith Davies was immensely proud of his time at The Queen’s College, where he read Modern History from 1949 to 1952. Indeed, the College’s coat of arms was kept on permanent display in the family home.

His love of history remained with him throughout his life, yet it was in law that he found his calling. After gaining his LLB from King’s College, London (he was later awarded an LLM), he was admitted to the bar at Gray’s Inn in 1959. A friend persuaded him to dedicate his skills

and knowledge to the education of others and he became a lecturer in Law, first at Southampton University and then, for the remainder of his long and impressive career, at Reading University.

Highly respected and popular with staff and students alike, he became Professor, then Head of Department and ultimately Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences. His speciality was Land Law and he wrote or co-wrote a number of academic books


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which became essential reading for aspiring lawyers across the country. In 1986, he was granted honorary associate membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Throughout much of his time at Reading University, he also immensely enjoyed applying his expertise and wisdom as a magistrate, first on the Winchester Bench and later at Basingstoke.

Keith’s sharp intellect was balanced with a genuine humility and a strong sense of fairness. A true gentleman, he was also blessed with a quick yet gentle wit and a kind heart.

Sadly, Keith passed away in May, aged 91. He is survived by Liz, his wife of over 60 years, four of his five sons, eight grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. His was a life well led and he is sorely missed.

Michael Davies

ROBIN ENGLAND

Robin England was born on 24 October 1933 in Bangkok, where his father worked in shipping. He and his elder brother spent their earliest years in the care of an ayah. Shortly before the outbreak of war his mother brought them to England, installing them in a prep school at Felixstowe before she returned to Thailand. Confined to the school for both term-time and holidays, Robin did not see his parents again until after the war, when his father was released from a Japanese internment camp. The reunited family then moved from

Suffolk to Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks.

At 13 Robin won a scholarship to Bradfield College. He made much of his time there, taking part in the open-air theatre Greek play, the Debating Society, the Shakespeare Society, the Bradfield Chronicle, boxing and hockey, and was appointed a school prefect.

After two years’ National Service in the Royal Artillery, and promotion to Lieutenant, Robin came up to Queen’s in Michaelmas Term, 1953, with an Open Scholarship.

He was one of a group of nine reading Modern History. More mature than some of the others, he was friendly, easy-going and affable, yet noticeably reticent and self-contained. He took his academic work seriously, planned carefully, and read in depth – which soon won the favour of the exigent History Tutor, John Prestwich.


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His other interests lay within College rather than the wider University. He played hockey enthusiastically and regularly for the 2nd XI. In his second year he took on organising duties: College NUS Secretary, Secretary of the Eglesfield Players, Secretary of the Food Committee, Secretary of Taberdars’ Room. His efficiency and drive were rewarded when he was elected President of Taberdars’ Room (the Junior Common Room) in Trinity Term 1955. He received a Benefactors’ Prize for contribution to the life of the College.

Robin was well cast as Sir Toby Belch in the summer 1955 production of Twelfth Night in the Fellows’ Garden.

It came as no surprise when, the following year, he was awarded a First.

Determined on a career in commerce or industry, he assiduously attended Appointments’ Board interviews, concluding that BP offered him the best prospects. He remained with BP all his working life, an oil company executive “downstream” in marketing and planning, until he retired in 1990 at the age of 57. In earlier years much of his time was spent in postings abroad – Nigeria, Malta, Gibraltar, Sicily, Sardinia; latterly, he was at London Head Office. His colleagues recognised him as a canny operator, financially astute.

He met Gillian Fisher, an HR officer, at an airport on the way to a skiing holiday. She was booked at a different resort, so Robin, resourceful as ever, changed his destination to hers. They married in 1972.

In retirement Robin enjoyed the many facilities of the Hurlingham Club, played chess regularly, and maintained his lifelong close interest in current affairs. He died on 24 April 2021, leaving his wife Gillian, daughter Katie, son Charlie, and four grandchildren.

Edward Mirzoeff CVO, CBE

PAUL FIRTH

I write with the sad news of the death of my great friend Paul Firth (Queen’s 1970-73), at the age of 69. Paul was diagnosed last October with a brain tumour and underwent surgery, but passed away peacefully on 8 April at his home in Liverpool, with his family by his side. I will always be grateful that my wife Sue and I were able to spend some time with him and his wife Ann the previous week and say goodbye to the friend who had been the Best Man at our wedding 38 years ago. Paul was my ‘go-to’ man who could be relied on for sound

counsel on an array of subjects, and as comments from many people on social media


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since his passing have testified, he was terrific company. He leaves Ann, his son David, daughter-in-law Mel, and his young granddaughter Ellie, of all of whom he was very proud.

I got to know Paul initially in my last year at Bradford Grammar School, and our friendship developed after he arrived in Oxford to join me at Queen’s where I had already spent a year. Paul had a quiet confidence and showed an ability to lead and inspire others, such that when in my last term at BGS as Head Prefect the then Headmaster asked me who in the Prefects’ Room I thought should succeed me I had no hesitation in saying ‘Paul Firth’s the lad you want, Sir. He’s outstanding’. And so it turned out, Paul taking over from me for his last year at school.

Paul went to Oxford to read Classics, but had a rethink at an early stage, wanting to move from studying the ancient world and focus more on ‘real life’, choosing to switch to PPE, in particular Politics and Philosophy. A football fan from an early age, he became a regular member of a Queen’s team which valued his robust contributions at centre-half (unlike some of his opponents who felt the strength of his tackling!). Paul’s leadership qualities led to him being chosen to represent the JCR as its Food Member in any necessary dealings with the Domestic Bursar; little did he think when appointed that the major issue would be a College-wide outbreak of food poisoning which was blamed on a rogue meal of Chicken a la King in the College Dining Hall

Not many jobs have more to do with ‘real life’ than the Magistrates’ Courts Service. Paul carved out a successful career beginning at his local court in Bingley before moving on to Leeds, Manchester, Rotherham and Liverpool and rising to fulfil the roles of Clerk to the Justices, Stipendiary Magistrate and District Judge, developing a facility for rapid analysis and summing up of case evidence, for insightful writing and for speaking without notes. He had an extraordinary ability to retain facts and statistics and to quote them at will and on demand. Moving back from the professional to the personal, this ability was clear to us as young students when he was regularly able to give us chapter and verse on particular football or cricket matches and players of the past or present. This went on throughout his life and I recall afternoons at Headingley being entertained by his memories of previous Yorkshire cricketing ups and downs.

Paul’s major legacy to the football world is his 2005 book Four Minutes To Hell: The Story of the Bradford City Fire, sales of which have raised thousands of pounds for the Burns Research Unit set up at the University of Bradford in the wake of the tragedy which claimed 56 lives as well as causing hundreds of injuries. The match against Lincoln City, on 11 May 1985, came at the end of a season when City had become Champions and the crowd were in celebratory mood. I was sitting at the back of the old wooden stand at City’s ground, Valley Parade, with Paul and his father-in-law Arnold Whitehead when, just before half-time, small flames started to flicker under the seats in the next block to us. Within a mere four minutes the whole stand was ablaze. The three of us were lucky to escape. The book led to a stage production, The 56, since adapted for radio, and to a TV film, One Day in May. Paul’s book had


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the great merit of enabling those who had been involved on the day in whatever capacity to process their thoughts and feelings about what had happened, perhaps for the first time. This year’s commemoration of the disaster on 11 May, in addition to the important annual agenda, will offer an opportunity for people to remember Paul and his assistance with the grieving processes of many. In an article Paul wrote in 2013 shortly before City were due, somewhat incredibly, to make an appearance at Wembley in a major final for the second time that season, he said this: ‘Some of those who can remember that day 28 years ago wish they could forget. They need no reminding. Its aftermath is with them every day of their lives – mentally, emotionally, physically. For those who can just about bear the pain of thinking back, there is the enormous comfort that young fans keep us in their hearts, that they offer their silent thoughts to the injured, the bereaved and, most of all, those 56 supporters of two football clubs who never returned home.’

Robert I. Hamilton, Modern Languages (1969)

RICHARD LIONEL HARTNOLL

Richard was an international authority in the field of drug addiction epidemiology, noted also for his work in many related areas and for his success in influencing policy and practice at national and European levels. He was also a talented professional photographer, a loving husband and father, and a good friend and colleague. He was one of those rare, charismatic, people who are fun to be with, yet really touch the lives of others and make a difference.

Richard was born and grew up in Bristol, the third of four children. He was a bright child and won a scholarship to Clifton College, where he flourished academically and captained the rugby team while also being competent with a gun and a fishing rod. He came to Queen’s in 1966 as an Exhibitioner to read Engineering, but quickly changed to PPP (Psychology and Philosophy). His sharp intelligence helped him to hone his academic skills, and his lust for life ensured that he took full advantage of all the social and sporting opportunities available. He was an adept practitioner of the essay crisis, often staying up all night to prepare for the next morning’s tutorial. Richard was a prominent and popular member of the College and, like many of his generation, he was also politically committed, though not in mainstream party politics, and was often to be found at demonstrations.

Further studies at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology and at the London School of Economics showed him a possible career path as a research psychologist, which was well-suited to his determination to do socially relevant and rigorous work. He then followed this path for many years at prestigious London research centres including


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Birkbeck, UCH, UCL and the Institute of Psychiatry. His work at Birkbeck on the Drug Indicators project was particularly important and opened the door to many fruitful contacts with counterparts in Europe. His work on drug addiction and drug dependence attracted widespread interest, partly because even at an early stage of his career he had ensured that his research, and the work of the groups he led, had very practical applications.

As a young researcher Richard attended his first major international conference on Drugs Policy at the United Nations in Geneva in 1972. The conclusions of the conference clearly reflected his influence, calling for better education and services for marginalised groups, and promoting a thinking that later became widely known as the Harm Reduction approach. This was quite a change of direction from the then prevailing strict and punitive attitude to drug dependency, and it fitted in well with his voluntary work at music festivals supporting people with drug problems.

Richard’s increasing renown – greater in Europe than at home – and his co-operative style led first to a sabbatical year as a research scientist in Barcelona and then to an invitation from the European Commission to lead the scientific preparations for establishing the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) in Portugal. He moved to Lisbon as Head of the Department of Epidemiology, and spent seven very productive years there, during which time he managed to continue with his own research and writing in such areas as drug prevalence in Madrid and Barcelona.

As the operation of the Centre became more routine Richard was able to give more time to consultancy, which he thoroughly enjoyed. It enabled him to have a clear impact on policy while also leaving time for getting to know (and, of course, to photograph) interesting places in Europe and America. Richard left EMCDDA in 2002 to focus on his consultancy activities. Among many other contributions he kept alive his links with EMCDDA, assisted the Swiss Government’s evaluation of new narcotics legislation, worked on a mid-term review of the Irish National Drugs Strategy, and continued working as a consultant to the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe, having previously coordinated their epidemiological and training programmes. He wrote and published prodigiously, with seven books to his name as well as over 90 chapters and journal articles.

All the while Richard had been enthusiastically pursuing his interest in photography, often wandering round Lisbon looking for that special angle or shaft of light. He came to realise that keeping one foot in the world of academia was not going to give him the satisfaction he sought, nor the opportunity to really use his artistic talents, so he made the break and became a full-time photographer (Please refer to richardhartnoll.com for some examples of his commercial and artistic work.) This gave him more time with his family, and enabled him to pursue his, and their, interest in travel, always with a camera in hand. His work was quickly recognised, and he was encouraged to mount exhibitions in France, Germany and Portugal.


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Richard had long suffered from breathing difficulties and chest problems, which he bore with fortitude, but he finally succumbed to a cancer of his lung. During the final months he read voraciously, with a fine view over Lisbon from his balcony and surrounded by a rich concert of birdsong. His last weeks were spent peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving family.

Richard’s vast knowledge of drug epidemiology and policy, his inspiring artistic production, and his sense of humour will be missed by all who knew him, He is survived by his wife Dagmar and daughter Noa, and from his first marriage his children Kate and Sean, and grandsons Arthur and Ivan.

Tony Kerr, PPP (1966) and Paul Willner, PPP (1966)

MICHAEL HERMAN

Michael Herman’s career in British intelligence began just after the start of the Cold War and ended just before the thaw. Liberated by retirement to study and lecture on the thrust and counterthrust of spying, Herman came to the conclusion that western intelligence agencies had largely done their job.

At the end of his 35-year career, mainly spent in signals intelligence at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, Herman

attempted to put right the severe lack of literature for young people entering the service. He had risen to the top of GCHQ by learning from his mistakes and wanted to pass on a rulebook of sorts.

“We didn’t read books. For most of the time there was little serious intelligence literature,” he remarked in 2016 of his career at GCHQ, which was punctuated by a spell as secretary of the Joint Intelligence Committee in the early Seventies. “The prevailing attitude was that intelligence books were dangerous and discouraged.”

As a trailblazer in the academic study of intelligence, Herman cracked open his world, producing a number of trusted works as a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and the founder of the Oxford Intelligence Group (OIG).

Michael Herman was born an only child in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, in 1929 to Kitty and Carl Herman, who worked for the family bacon-processing business and was also an artist. Michael attended Scarborough High School. National Service from 1947 took him to Egypt as a junior officer in the Intelligence Corps and his first exposure to signals intelligence. In 1949 he went to The Queen’s College, Oxford, to read modern history, graduating with first-class honours.


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His tutor was the medieval historian John Prestwich, who had spent the war in Hut 3 of Bletchley Park, decrypting signals and releasing them to commanders in the field.

Herman joined GCHQ in 1952 on Prestwich’s recommendation to Eric Jones, another veteran of Hut 3 who had recently taken over from Edward Travis as the head of GCHQ. Unhappy, Herman was poised to return to academia after a year and was persuaded to stay only after joining GCHQ’s rugby team.

Over the years he was put in charge of V Division, responsible for radar signals and other technical intelligence, and Z Division, responsible for intelligence policy and external relationships. The highlight of his time at GCHQ was running J Division in the late Seventies and early Eighties, which focused on the Soviet target. “I was running nearly 1,000 people in Cheltenham and half our collection resources worldwide, and with all the American and other foreign contacts this entailed: the sort of job you dream about.”

Between 1972 and 1975 Herman had been seconded to the Cabinet Office as secretary of the Joint Intelligence Committee. Much of his time there was spent on Northern Ireland; such was the threat to the British mainland that it was seen as an equal priority.

In the last year of service Herman worked in the Cabinet Office as adviser to the Chief of Defence Intelligence. All the while he collected material for his first book, overcoming fierce resistance in Whitehall with a mixture of doggedness and charm.

On retiring from GCHQ in 1987 he went to Nuffield College, Oxford, on a Gwilym Gibbon Research Fellowship. Nine years later Intelligence Power in Peace and War was published.

He conceived the work as a “thoughtful textbook”. Anyone expecting the excitement of a spy thriller would be disappointed by the sober overview of his craft. What it did do was unpack a subject still considered out of bounds, arcane, increasingly technical and littered with acronyms, even in the days of more open government. It became a standard text and Herman began to lecture widely and wrote several more books. ‘11 September: Legitimizing Intelligence’, produced after the 9-11 attacks in 2001, analysed the acceleration of a new intelligence paradigm: targeting “non-state”, “partial state” or “rogue state” entities and supporting multinational action.

Herman gave evidence to Lord Butler’s Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction in 2004. His recommendation to bolster the woefully inadequate technical expertise in the civil service (with many seconded from other departments to deal with intelligence matters) was taken seriously.

His lectures would tell the story of early postwar western surveillance techniques in the days before satellites with US and UK surveillance aircraft, manned and unmanned, being shot down by the Soviets, and how embassies, converted into something resembling medieval castles, became important listening posts around the world.


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Herman’s latest book, Intelligence Power in Practice, will be published this year. A collection of essays, it also contains recollections on the development of the Teufelsberg SIGINT station in Berlin, which had been built on a hill made from the rubble of bombed buildings and was a highly successful surveillance facility, logging, among other things, the mass exodus of Soviet soldiers at the end of each summer to help with the harvest in the motherland.

Another gripping tale in the book is the Soviet reaction to NATO’s Able Archer exercise in 1983, a large-scale wargaming operation. Acting on intelligence from the KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky, the West was alerted to the fact that the Soviets had taken the exercise so seriously that they had readied their nuclear warheads.

Herman married Ann Wedel in 1977. They had met at a sailing club near Cheltenham. In his eighties he would sail a single-handed catamaran. He was also a regular patron of the real tennis court in Oxford.

Before his death, Herman called for intelligence to be studied in a worldwide context, so that different approaches could be compared. “The modern challenge is for intelligence to support international co-operation,” he said, “while at the same time developing international ‘rules of the game’.” Michael Herman, intelligence expert, was born on June 1, 1929. He died of frailty of old age on February 12, 2021, aged 91.

Originally printed in The Times and reproduced here with kind permission

ALLEN HILL

Allen Hill dedicated his life to scientific discovery in Chemistry. His crowning achievement was the discovery of a method to measure blood glucose, revolutionising diabetes measurement via the blood sugar pen tests used by millions today

Allen was born and raised in Belfast. His father was a shop-owner and choir-master and his mother a full-time mother. As a child Allen sang in the church choir and was keen on rugby and cricket. He studied chemistry

in Belfast at Queen’s University. After graduating he came to Oxford’s Department of Chemistry in 1962 and became a Fellow of Queen’s College in 1965.

On a lecture tour visit to Hungary in the 1960s he met his wife-to-be Boglarka Hill, a PhD student of pharmacy at the time. They fell in love, and Allen returned to Hungary a year later to marry her (her family required him to first learn at least 100 words in Hungarian!). In 2017 they celebrated 50 years of marriage.

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His work at Oxford University in the early 1980s paved the way for the development of electronic blood glucose sensors which came to market in 1989 and which have revolutionised the management of diabetes globally. He was fond of pointing out how the idea for the breakthrough in this work came over knocking around ideas with his students over a post-work pint in a local pub.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990 and he received the prestigious Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 2010. His work in bringing the glucose sensor to market in the 1980s also paved the way for many subsequent spin-outs from the University.

In addition to his work as a research chemist Allen Hill was an inspiring tutor and he will be remembered for his warmth and good humour by former students. Both his family and former students and colleagues will remember him for his charm, quick wit, and mischievous sense of humour.

Outside of work Allen was a talented gardener and would like to spend weekends applying his scientific rigour to his love of growing flowers. Allen delighted in introducing his family and others to new experiences, be it food or travel, and was a generous and loving father.

He is survived by his wife, three children and two grandchildren.

Roderick and Natalie Hill

ADRIAN MUNDY

Adrian William Stenhouse Mundy was born on 20 November 1935 at Famagusta in Cyprus. The Mundy name came from his English father but his mother was Armenian and from a family numbering at least one illustrious legal practitioner in Sir Vahe Bairamian, Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, Judge of Appeal in Nigeria and the first Armenian to be knighted. So, opting to study law came with something for my uncle, Adrian, to live up to.

He certainly rose well to the challenge, leaving school, St Paul’s in Hammersmith, to take up a National Service commission in the Royal Signals of Corps before his Oxford matriculation in 1956. The Signals had given him the opportunity to travel, to improve his language skills and to explore the potential in the technology of the day. This last experience (manipulating anything mechanical) remained a source of satisfaction to him for the rest of his life and was an expression of his practical and enquiring nature. His interest in making things work was coupled with dexterity: in his younger days he


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was very able with both boxing gloves and the violin (not at the same time – although I wouldn’t have put it past him to try).

Once at Queen’s, Adrian studied jurisprudence under John Kaye (as did I some 25 years later), relishing the Latin parts of the syllabus and the opportunity to test his logical and rational mind against the facts and judgments in the long case lists. His dedication to academic study was rewarded with a First.

He qualified as a Solicitor and, after a couple of early roles, took a job in the office of the Solicitor of Inland Revenue in Somerset House. From this point until his retirement, he worked for large organizations specialising in tax including Esso (where he was posted to the US) and the merchant bank Samuel Montagu & Co. He returned to the Treasury Solicitor’s department at the Inland Revenue for his final role; here at Somerset House, he was able to enjoy both the historic building and its proximity to the cultural life of the city.

Law was a lifelong passion and he collected several thousand law books. After officially retiring from employed practice, he continued his legal career privately, although this may have been an excuse to retain access to the Law Society library for his researches. In a wine bar late at night after a few glasses of red wine he would lower his voice, check if anyone was listening and mention the law book he was writing on a subject that no one had yet properly covered. Sadly, this was never completed.

Live performance and creativity was something that he fed on to the end of his days, together with other avenues for enjoyment more numerous than is sensible to mention here. A smattering would include books and more books, strong coffee, tobacco in a pipe, observation and keeping a note of things observed, pubs and other gatherings where conversation thrived, anything made of cast iron (when I arrived at Queen’s he gave me a substantial, cast iron mantel clock because he thought it appropriate to my newly acquired student status!), hoarding through viewing disposal as betrayal, ink and mixing ink, the pursuit of the perfect pen, reducing anything to its essence, finding value always, keeping things going, not making a fuss.

He displayed many of the best qualities of his generation, being frugal but generous, patient and durable, independent but not selfish, self-reliant but involved, dignified but not clinging to the formal, not materialistic but loving materials, balancing a serious turn of mind with the understanding that to play is essential. Sane, sound and sanguine.

Adrian spent his retirement years happily in Sussex, not least in the Clown pub in Hastings, where regulars remember him for his enthusiasm for dancing and practical advice. He died of pancreatic cancer in London on 11th August 2020 after a short illness. He is much missed by son, Christopher, and by his wider family.

Edwina Towson, Jurisprudence (1981), with help from Chris Mundy


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PETER NEUMANN

For my father, Peter Neumann, who has died aged 79, two things were the overriding loves of his life: family and mathematics.

Peter continued the mathematical tradition of his parents, Bernhard Neumann and Hanna (née von Caemmerer), both professors of mathematics. Born in Oxford and raised in Hull, where he attended Hymers College, Peter returned to Oxford, to Queen’s College, as an undergraduate in 1959. He remained there ever after.

At Oxford he met Sylvia Bull, a fellow mathematics undergraduate. They married in 1962, before he graduated. Peter became a Fellow of Queen’s, and he and Sylvia established a family life in Oxford, where I and my sister and brother were born. Peter was a familiar sight cycling from home to Queen’s and the Mathematical Institute, and would sometimes disappear for a long cycle ride, claiming that that was when his best mathematical thinking was done.

Peter’s research covered areas of algebra, in particular group theory, and the history of algebra. His own research led to his DPhil and later DSc and he supervised almost 40 DPhil students. Many students remained great friends. Peter enjoyed conferences abroad, lecturing in German – picked up from his parents and other mathematicians – as well as English. He took great pleasure in hosting gatherings at home, and in college, sometimes musical, playing his violin or viola – learned at home and at school, and continued throughout his life.

Peter retired in 2008 after over 40 years of college and university teaching. He had held numerous voluntary posts in mathematics and its education for the London Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association and the British Society for the History of Mathematics. He was the first chair of the UK Mathematics Trust. For services to mathematics education he was made an OBE in 2008.

In retirement he continued teaching, lecturing and training new lecturers, but he was also able to improve his French and to spend time researching another lifelong interest, which led to the publication of The Mathematical Writings of Evariste Galois, published for the bicentenary of Galois’ birth, in 2011.

A stroke in 2018 limited him physically. He moved to a care home, but remained devoted to Sylvia, with whom he collaborated daily in person or over Facetime on the Guardian cryptic crossword. He is survived by Sylvia, their children, Jenny, James and me, by 10 grandchildren and a great-grandson, and by his siblings, Irene, Walter, Barbara and Daniel.

David Neumann, originally published in The Guardian (Copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd 2021)

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JOHN OKELL

A gentle giant of Myanmar studies has left us. John Okell died painlessly at home. At the time of his death, John was perhaps the English-language world’s pre-eminent teacher of the Burmese language. He stood on the shoulders of other giants, but his many textbooks, dictionaries and early adoptions of new technology, such as publishing learning materials on personal cassette tapes, CDs and MP3s and pioneering the Avalaser Burmese computer font, uniquely enabled and opened the study of Burmese to thousands of

new learners. John also created the most widely used romanisation scheme for transliterating the Burmese language into the Roman alphabet.

John’s name graces dozens of acknowledgements sections in theses, articles, books, and other publications on Myanmar. He was a true denizen of the scholarly community as well as a much-loved linguist, teacher, friend, father, and husband. Simply put, everyone studying Myanmar knew John or wanted to know John. He showed enviable generosity in helping his friends, colleagues, and students and was deft in assisting all learners of Burmese in achieving their particular goals.

John was also Chairman of the Britain-Burma Society, where he was widely respected as a fair and generous host. I remember at one of the Society’s sessions in 2017 which premiered a documentary stridently critical of the military regime, John patiently listened to the many complaints from elderly British members of the Society who had had their family’s assets expropriated or nationalised. He was always tactful and understood deeply the humanity and sadness of the people living in Burma, who were the real victims of the slide into poverty that the country underwent during the first 40 years of his teaching career. John was committed to teaching Burmese to help Myanmar reconnect with the outside world, whenever it should become politically feasible once more, which it did eventually.

John first began studying Burmese in 1959 at SOAS, University of London under Saya Hla Pe and others. He was sent to Burma in September 1960, where he quickly moved out from his assigned university dormitory to a homestay arrangement in Amarapura. John also lived in a monastery for a time, in a rural village out past Shwebo and he even accompanied a theatre troupe for a month, performing in Bhamo, Indawgyi, and Mogaung. He roamed to Dawei, Sittwe, and Inle Lake, and came back to SOAS a year later speaking fluent Burmese. Being made first Lecturer and Senior Lecturer there, he was eventually hired as Professor of Burmese. John taught or was connected to SOAS in some capacity until his death.

While he did “officially retire” at age 65, John continued publishing on Burmese and teaching for the British government and elsewhere.


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John also taught classes in Chiang Mai, Thailand for several years, and beginning in 2009, he started teaching intensive courses in Yangon, Myanmar, which he continued for eleven more years. John would make an annual remark about the absurdity that he, a British person, was still being invited to teach Burmese in Myanmar, but there was an insatiable and growing demand by foreigners living in Myanmar for John’s inimitable in-person pedagogy.

In 2018, the British Embassy in Myanmar held an event celebrating the tenth anniversary of the in-country Bamazaga Burmese intensive language course. John and his co-teacher Justin Watkins described the early years of running the course, when Myanmar was starting to “open up” but it was by no means clear that the radical notion of British linguists teaching Burmese in Myanmar would be tolerated. The surreptitious small class first sat in an improvised environment above an art studio in downtown Yangon, before moving to the French Institute when the course became official.

The impacts of COVID-19 meant the 2020 course had to move online. John still participated as a teacher from his London home but unfortunately fell ill during the first week in June, only two months before he passed away. John was a committed teacher. He taught Burmese right up until he was literally physically no longer able to.

In 2016 John was awarded an honorary doctorate from SOAS. In 2014 he was deservedly honoured as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to UK/Burma relations. An incredibly humble person, John was never comfortable with these designations. I asked him several times over the last five years if I could officially interview him for the ANU Myanmar Research Centre’s podcast Myanmar Musings. He always politely refused. “I’m really not that interesting,” he would say.

Well, John, the hundreds and hundreds of people that have had the pleasure of being touched by your example and conduct, in Myanmar and all over the world, must disagree with you there.

You not only led a phenomenally interesting life, but you have had an incredible, indispensable impact on Myanmar studies since you first set foot in Amarapura in 1960. Your humility, friendliness, openness and patience, your lessons, articles, textbooks and – simply put – your example, will remain with all of us who loved you, for as long as we shall continue to live.

Luke Corbin – originally printed in Frontier


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ZBIGNIEW PELCZYNSKI

As a politics don at Pembroke College, Oxford, in the early 1960s, Zbigniew Pelczynski had the opportunity to meet many distinguished visitors. One was Harold Macmillan, the prime minister and chancellor of the university, who visited the college to open a new quad.

Pelczynski found himself alone with him and asked about the recent “night of long knives”, when Macmillan had sacked a third of his cabinet. He was a politics don, after all. A bored prime minister ignored the question and

asked his questioner to mind his glass of wine while he went for a lavatory break. He did not return. A crushed Pelczynski was later told that Macmillan would almost certainly have stuck around for the conversation if only he had known about Pelczynski’s experience of fighting as a partisan in the Polish uprising in Warsaw in September 1944.

His first-year students, too, might have been on the edge of their seats if they had known that at their age Pelczynski had not been talking about politics but living it, with a machinegun in hand.

When the teenage Pelczynski’s regiment of the Polish home army fell into Nazi hands he could hardly have anticipated he would survive the ordeal; still less that he would spend his long life in Britain, including more than 30 years as a don at Pembroke; or that as a social entrepreneur he would help in Poland’s transition to democracy in the 1980s.

Zbigniew Pelczynski, who was born in 1925 in Grodzisk Mazowiecki some 20 miles from Warsaw, had joined the Polish underground aged 18 and within a few months was fighting to drive out the occupying troops. The uprising was a disaster and most of Warsaw was razed by the Germans.

His group was trapped in a sewer and as they emerged through a manhole they were seized by German soldiers. They were lucky. Others got out through a different exit and were immediately shot.

He spent a few months as a German PoW and after the liberation served under British command in Germany in the first armoured division of the Polish army. He landed in Britain in January 1946, shortly after his 20th birthday, and it was soon clear that the Soviet Union’s grip on his native country made a return to Poland an unattractive prospect. Aware of a strong Polish presence in Scotland, he learnt English, enrolled as a student at St Andrews University and emerged with a First in Politics and Economics.

He opted to study for a DPhil at The Queen’s College, Oxford, complementing his student grant with short-term lectureships at Trinity, Merton and Balliol. Despite his insecure tenure and inadequate supervision of his thesis topic (few dons were


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interested in Hegel then) Pelczynski was enchanted by Oxford. The personal freedom of the dons and the students and minimal regulation embodied his idea of civil society. Many years later he was to promote these ideas in Poland.

Having completed his doctorate in 1956, he gained in the following year a lectureship and fellowship at Pembroke. Known by a bewildering number of nicknames – Zbyshek, Zbig, ZAP, or Pelch – the new fellow was handsome and charming, and his accent brought a touch of the exotic.

In 1960 a friend tried to find partners for Pelczynski and his colleague, the politics don David Butler, both in their thirties, and arranged for them to join a theatre visit with two Oxford-educated women who worked at the BBC. The thinking was that Pelczynski might be best suited to Marilyn Evans and Butler to Denise Cremona. It did not work out like that as Pelczynski ended up courting the Italian-born Denise and Butler went off with Marilyn. Yet the evening was a success and both men made enduring marriages lasting, in aggregate, more than 100 years.

Pelczynski married Denise in 1961. They had a son, Jan, a graphic designer and photographer, and two daughters, Wanda, a medical researcher, and Tonton (born Antonia) a product designer.

He was a dedicated teacher and generous in making time for students, but if the one-to-one tutorial system at Oxford suited his style, lecturing to large groups did not, as he found out when he took visiting professorships in Canada and the United States. He tutored students with boundless enthusiasm, sometimes while walking them around the quads. In turn they retained loyalty to him when, as many did, they went on to senior positions in public life.

One of his students was the future prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, who studied at Oxford for several months. President Clinton recalled, when interviewed in 1992 about his period as a Rhodes scholar 23 years earlier: “One term I had a tutor at Pembroke, named Zbigniew Pelczynski. Extraordinary fellow; I loved him; I thought he was terrific.”

His writings on Hegel, often misunderstood in the early years, did much to revive interest in the German philosopher among Anglo-American theorists. His book of essays, Hegel’s Political Philosophy, was published in 1970 to mark the bicentenary of Hegel’s birth. There followed an edited book (with John Gray), Conceptions of Liberty in Political Philosophy. His work led from the 1970s to many visiting professorships.

Outside the classroom he increasingly became a man of affairs. He was a driving force behind the Oxford colleges’ hospitality scheme for Polish scholars, which made facilities and helpful contacts available to academics. He persuaded the communist authorities (Poland was still under martial law) to allow scholars, including some of the leading dissidents, to travel to Oxford.


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For many, it was their first visit to the West, and in its first ten years the scheme brought some 450 Polish academics to Oxford. The impact of the scheme was recognised by the government and by the American-Hungarian philanthropist George Soros, who asked Pelczynski to organise an equally successful scheme for one-year graduate scholarships from all eastern European countries.

With the victory of Solidarity in the elections of 1989, Pelczynski’s services were in demand in London as a member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s advisory board for the Know-How Fund for eastern Europe, and in Poland as an adviser to the government. The years following his retirement in 1993, spent in Barton-on-the-Heath, Warwickshire, remained productive as he reinforced his ties with Poland. His networking skills came to the fore in setting up a school for social and political leaders. It helped young Poles to develop organising skills in workshops and practical activities.

In his late years he received a succession of awards and honorary degrees in Polish universities, and a visit to Pembroke by the Polish prime minister. He was also appointed OBE.

After Denise died in 2013 he was cared for by his son Jan. Although blind and less mobile because of spinal stenosis, he remained intellectually alert.

Friends and colleagues often wondered where his primary attachments lay, to Oxford or to Poland. He became a British citizen in 1952 when it was clear that he could not revisit Poland, and was intensely committed to his adopted country. Yet despite refusing high diplomatic positions offered by the post-communist regime in Warsaw, he never lost his identification with Poland. Perhaps the best summary of his outlook came in a speech by a British ambassador to Warsaw who once introduced him as the “200 per cent man” – 100 per cent British and 100 per cent Polish.

Zbigniew Pelczynski, OBE, academic, was born on December 29, 1925. He died of prostate cancer on June 22, 2021, aged 95

Originally printed in The Times and reproduced here with kind permission


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HELEN SOWERBY

Helen Sowerby grew up in Cumbria, the oldest of five children of John and Anne Sowerby. She was academically gifted and excelled at St Patrick’s RC Primary School, Workington and St Anne’s School, Windermere.

To the great pride of her parents, she became the first person in her family to attend university, gaining her place at Queen’s to study history on her second attempt, the only woman of twelve historians in the

1984 matriculation year. Helen loved her time at Queen’s and was a larger-than-life character, principled, outspoken and forthright, with a formidable intellect. She threw herself into college life and was a member of the Ball Committee and the Women’s 1st VIII that won ‘blades’ in Torpids 1986. She was ideally cast as Lady Bracknell in the college production of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’. She met her future husband Steve Thomas in the first term and formed many lifelong friendships.

Both Francophiles, Helen and Steve passed through Paris on the last leg of their honeymoon and decided to move there for a year before Helen took up legal studies. One happy, bohemian year became two, with the arrival of their first child. Back in the UK, Helen qualified as a barrister with one of the top marks in the country in bar finals. After pupillage she worked as a solicitor for leading divorce lawyers Mishcon de Reya, but she was drawn back to live in the Lake District, near her parents, and the family moved to Windermere where Steve ran a bed and breakfast business and Helen found her passion working in childcare law for Cumbria Children’s Services. Leisurely visits from old college friends – with a little walking and much drinking and laughter – were highlights of their life there. Helen was greatly respected for her legal acumen and for her tendency to ask and pursue the difficult questions, a characteristic that earned her the nickname ‘the Rottweiler’. When her marriage ended after 21 years, she moved her job – and later herself – to Manchester.

Helen was diagnosed with multiple myeloma late in 2017. Sadly, it turned out to be unexpectedly aggressive and resistant to treatments and she faced a worsening prognosis with remarkable stoicism. Despite gruelling treatment schedules and increasing physical limitations, she was determined to make the most of her remaining time, creating memorable experiences with family and friends. This included revisiting old haunts in Paris with her children, meeting up with old friends at the Queen’s Summer Garden Party, having been disappointed not to be able to attend the 2018 Boar’s Head Gaudy, and travelling by sleeper train, with wheelchair, to Tuscany for the annual family holiday that she would never miss. She attended Old Trafford for England and Lancashire cricket matches when she could and continued to work in the job that she loved until late in her illness. She became increasingly active in campaigning for causes that she believed in. As a passionate Remainer, she took


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part in marches and was a vociferous campaigner against Brexit. She also used her regular enforced inactivity to become active on Twitter where she went by the name of ManchesterPedant, a reference to her intolerance of poor grammar and nomenclature.

Helen was in London for a planned trip to the Royal Opera House with her niece when she became acutely unwell. She died the same day in University College Hospital, surrounded by her family.

Old Members from Helen’s time at Queen’s gathered in August 2021 for a memorial lunch, sharing memories and paying tribute to our dear friend who was a unique character, a force of nature and an intellectual warrior who will not be forgotten.

Helen is buried in Salterbeck Cemetery, Workington, next to her beloved father and her brother Johnny, who was tragically killed in a road accident in 1981. She leaves her mother Anne, sisters Jane, Victoria and Alex and children Frank, Joe, Stan and Angel.

Katherine Irving and Steve Thomas

ERIC WETHERELL

My father Eric Wetherell died in the early hours of 31 January 2021, one month after his 95th birthday. He was a remarkable all-round musician, a fine composer, writer and biographer, well-respected conductor, jazz musician, French horn player, sometime filmmaker, as well as a dearly loved husband, father, and grandfather. He died peacefully and with great courage.

In the days following his death, I spent time looking at old photos, letters, and recordings. Leafing through

the 178 pages of memoirs he left behind has been enormously comforting. His impressions of the musical world live on after he is gone, and we can hear his voice distinctly through these memoirs, via his classic economy of language and effortlessly entertaining storytelling.

He came up to Queen’s in 1945 from Carlisle Grammar School, via a post he had held in his late teens as assistant organist at Carlisle Cathedral. Originally arriving with a history scholarship, he changed to the music course after a year, and the College kindly enabled him nevertheless to retain his scholarship.

Dad went on to train further at the Royal College of Music. During the course of a career spanning well over half a century, he held various positions which included BBC Radio 3 producer, principal conductor of the BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra, and a staff conductor at Welsh National Opera. His profound enthusiasm for jazz also


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led to a close involvement with the Welsh Jazz Orchestra and the BBC Big Band, for whom he both arranged and produced. He was a regular conductor and arranger for the popular Friday Night is Music Night on BBC Radio 2 in the early 1970s. In the late 1950s he was a repetiteur at ROH Covent Garden, where he came in close contact with such figures as Britten, Walton, Solti, Giulini, Sargeant, and Kempe. He had begun his career as a French horn player in the LPO, under Thomas Beecham. One of my abiding memories of him as a musician will be that he was always interested in really ‘anything excellent’. This might be a Haydn symphony, a Gesualdo madrigal, Stravinsky’s neoclassicism, Beatles song, Ella Fitzgerald, the indigenous musicians he heard whilst on holiday in Botswana or a brand-new song by current digital jazz wunderkind Jacob Collier.

He had an enormous passion also for cinema and an encyclopaedic knowledge of films he had seen, and read about, often decades earlier. His huge library of books about music and film also contained a typically wide range of topics that interested him – history, psychology, philosophy, criminology, languages, etymology. Words fascinated him greatly and he and my mother Elizabeth connected over their common love of words and a shared passion for the ridiculous. Dad’s passion for language and his unending capacity for silliness led to such family in-jokes as his renaming the 1930s Cole Porter song ‘When They Begin the Beguine’ as ‘When They Commence the Commence’.

He officially retired from the BBC in 1985, and so began a new period of productivity in his career, including frequent composing work, commissions to write the biographies of various British musical figures, regular performances with his jazz group, and making his own documentary films. He continued composing until the end of his life, writing two operas in his eighties and even still writing just three months before he died.

One of Dad’s happiest pastimes, other than music and cinema, was to tell the wealth of tales of his time in the music business, many of which became the backbone of his memoirs. Even though church music by no means formed a part of his longer-term career, vocal music and writing for voices was greatly important to him. After all, back in Carlisle Cathedral was where he had started his professional musical life. He had this to say about his first impressions of Oxford, when coming up for interview in 1944: ‘I crossed the road from my hotel and found myself in Magdalen College. It was a cold winter’s evening, at 6 pm, already dark, and the chapel was lit only by the candles on the choir desks. I realised I was listening to choral singing of a standard I had never experienced. In a trice I had discovered what Oxford was about; and the magic of that evening and the sense of a thousand years of history have never left me.’

Anna Wetherell, Merton College (1999)


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Mr Philip Thompson (1955) QSDr Adrian Weston (1955) QSMr Bob Cristin (1956) Mr Tom Frears (1956) QSDr John Frost (1956) Dr Ian Hall (1956) Dr Bill Roberts (1956) QSMr Brian Sproat (1956) QSMr Christopher Stephenson (1956) QSMr Graham Sutton (1956) QSRevd Canon Michael Arundel (1957) QSProf David Catchpole (1957) QSMr Ian Chisholm (1957) QSMr Keith Dawson (1957) QSDr Barrie Dore (1957) Mr Colin Hughes (1957) QSProf Laurence King (1957) QSMr Roger Owen (1957) QSDr Brian Salter-Duke (1957) QSMr Martin Sayer (1957) QSMr Russell Sunderland (1957) QSMr Peter Thomson (1957) QSMr Malcolm Dougal (1958) QSMr Gerald Evans (1958) QSDr Michael Gagan (1958) QSMr Nigel Hughes (1958) QSDr John Reid (1958) QSMr Graham Thornton (1958) QSMr Frank Venables (1958) QSMr Barrie Wiggham (1958) QSMr Robert Adams (1959) Mr Michael Allen (1959) QSMr David Beaton (1959) QSMr Michael Brunson (1959) QSMr Philip Burton (1959) QSMr John Foley (1959) QS


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Prof John Gillingham (1959) QSProf David Goodall (1959) QSDr Roger Lowman (1959) QSProf John Matthews (1959) QSMr John Rix (1959) QSMr John Seely (1959) QSProf Peter Williams (1959) QSMr Robin Bell (1960) QSMr George Comer (1960) Right Revd Graham Dow (1960) QSMr David Foster (1960) QSMr Jim Gilpin (1960) QSMr John Price (1960) Mr Paul Roberts (1960) Mr James Robertson (1960) QSMr Robert Wilson (1960) QSMr Chris Bearne (1961) QSMr Philip Bowers (1961) QSMr Desmond Cecil (1961) Dr Norman Diffey (1961) Prof David Eisenberg (1961) Lord Colin Low (1961) QSProf Andrew McPherson (1961) QSMr Richard Nosowski (1961) QSProf Dr Ralph Raymond (1961) Mr Godfrey Talford (1961) QSRevd Graham Wilcox (1961) QSProf Nicholas Young (1961) QSMr Dave Brownlee (1962) Prof John Coggins (1962) QSMr Martin Colman (1962) QSDr Steve Higgins (1962) QSSir Paul Lever (1962) QSMr Adrian Milner (1962) QSMr Richard Mole (1962) QSMr Donald Rutherford (1962) QSProf Peter Tasker (1962) QSMr George Trevelyan (1962) QSProf Brad Amos (1963) Mr Richard Batstone (1963) QSSir Brian Donnelly (1963) QSMr Rod Hague (1963) QSMr Patrick Hastings (1963) QSMr Charles Lamond (1963) QSProf Ron Laskey (1963) QS

Prof Alan Lloyd (1963) QSDr Dennis Luck (1963) Mr Alan Wilson (1963) QSMr Philip Beaven (1964) QSDr Stephen Cockle (1964) Mr John Gregory (1964) QSMr David Jeffery (1964) QSMr Robin Leggate (1964) QSMr Paul Legon (1964) QSDr John Lewis (1964) QSMr Ian Sallis (1964) QSMr Tony Turton (1964) QSMr Philip Wood (1964) QSMr John Wordsworth (1964) QSMr Andy Connell (1965) QSMr Peter Cramb (1965) QSMr Rodger Digilio (1965) Prof John Feather (1965) QSProf Christopher Green (1965) QSMr Peter Hickson (1965) QSLord Roger Liddle (1965) QSMr David Matthews (1965) QSMr Ian Swanson (1965) QSMr David Syrus (1965) QSSir Stephen Wright (1965) QSMr Alan Beatson (1966) QSDr George Biddlecombe (1966) QSMr Roger Blanshard (1966) QSMr Richard Coleman (1966) QSProf Peter Coleman (1966) QSDr Michael Collop (1966) QSMr Peter de Moncey-Conegliano (1966) Mr Andrew Horsler (1966) QSMr John Kitteridge (1966) QSDr Paul Schur (1966) QSMr Gregory Stone (1966) Professor Peter Sugden (1966) QSMr Derek Swift (1966) QSRt Revd Peter Wheatley (1966) Mr Richard Atkinson (1967) QSDr Tony Battilana (1967) Mr David Hardesty (1967) Mr John Ormerod (1967) Mr David Roberts (1967) QSProf Philip Schlesinger (1967) QS


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Mr Mike Thompson (1967) QSMr Rob Bollington (1968) QSMr Peter Burroughs (1968) QSProf Tim Connell (1968) QSMr John Crowther (1968) QSMr David Hudson (1968) QSMr Steve Robinson (1968) QSProf Andrew Sancton (1968) Mr Richard Shaw (1968) QSMr Jon Watts (1968) QSDr John Windass (1968) QSMr Neil Boulton (1969) QSMr Jim Gibson (1969) Prof Mark Janis (1969) Mr Anthony Prosser (1969) QSHis Honour Judge Erik Salomonsen

(1969) QSMr Chris Shepperd (1969) QSRevd Dr Brian Sheret (1969) Mr Alan Sherwell (1969) QSMr Nigel Tranah (1969) QSMr Frederik van Bolhuis (1969) Dr Martin Cooper (1970) QSMr Jamie Macdonald (1970) QSMr David Stubbins (1970) QSMr Andy Sutton (1970) QSMr Eric Thompson (1970) QSCanon Peter Wadsworth (1970) QSMr Christopher West (1970) QSMr John Clare (1971) QSMr Anthony Denny (1971) QSMr Winston Gooden (1971) QSMr François Gordon (1971) QSDr Ulrich Grevsmühl (1971) QSMr Philip Hanwell (1971) Dr Christopher Huang (1971) QSDr Michael Hurst (1971) QSMr John Peat (1971) QSMr Robert Pike (1971) Mr Anthony Rowlands (1971) QSDr Ralph Stehly (1971) QSMr Gary Stubley (1971) Mr Derek Townsend (1971) QSDr Stephen Wilson (1971) QSMr Alaric Wyatt (1971) QS

Mr Nigel Allsop (1972) QSMr Lou Fantin (1972) Mr Peter Farrar (1972) QSMr Stephen Gilbey (1972) QSMr Peter Haigh (1972) QSMr Will Jackson-Houlston (1972) QSMr John McLeod (1972) QSMr David Palfreyman (1972) QSMr Andrew Seager (1972) QSDr John Wellings (1972) QSMr Andrew Barlow (1973) Mr Phil Beveridge (1973) QSMr Albert Brenner (1973) Dr Mark Eddowes (1973) QSMr Tony Middleton (1973) QSMr Robert Perry (1973) QSMr Peter Richardson (1973) QSMr Dick Richmond (1973) QSMr Martin Riley (1973) QSDr Alan Turner (1973) QSMr Simon English (1974) QSMr Havilland Hart (1974) QSMr Philip Middleton (1974) Mr David Pitt-Watson (1974) Mr Tim Shaw (1974) QSRevd Thomas Stadnik (1974) Dr Jeffrey Theaker (1974) QSMr Oliver Burns (1975) QSDr Rhodri Davies (1975) QSMr Ian Dougherty (1975) QSMr Simon Fraser (1975) QSDr Chris Hutchinson (1975) QSMr Martin Moore (1975) QSMr Nevill Rogers (1975) QSProf Peter Clarkson (1976) QSDr Nick Hazel (1976) QSMr Raymond Holdsworth (1976) Mr Paul Marsh (1976) QSMr George Newhouse (1976) Dr Martin Osborne (1976) QSMr Brian Stubley (1976) QSDr Christopher Tibbs (1976) QSGeneral Sir Richard Barrons (1977) QSMr Paul Bennett (1977) QSDr Michael Cadier (1977) QS


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Mr Mark Evans (1977) QSMr Paul Godsland (1977) QSMr Francis Grew (1977) QSMr Martin Kelly (1977) QSMr John Morewood (1977) QSMr Michael Penrice (1977) QSMr Mike Thompson (1977) QSMr Steve Anderson (1978) QSMr Charlie Anderson (1978) QSMr Paul Dawson (1978) QSDr Mike Fenn (1978) QSMr John Gibbons (1978) QSMr Peter Hamilton (1978) QSMr Jeremy Jackson (1978) QSMr John Keeble (1978) QSDr Simon Loughe (1978) QSDr Howard Simmons (1978) QSMr Jervis Smith (1978) QSMr Heinz Schulte (1978) QSDr Trevor Barker (1979) QSMr Chris Bertram (1979) QSDr Nicholas Edwards (1979) QSMr Philip Epstein (1979) Dr Ron Kelly (1979) QSDr Cath Rees (1979) QSDr Chris Ringrose (1979) QSMrs Alison Sanders (1979) QSMr Gary Simmons (1979) QSMr Simon Whitaker (1979) QSMr Phillip Bennett (1980) QSMr James Clarke (1980) Dr Louise Goward (1980) QSMrs Carrie Kelly (1980) QSMrs Caroline Nuyts-Speck (1980) Dr Tim Shaw (1980) QSMr Tim Stephenson (1980) QSDr Peter Wyatt (1980) Dr Mark Byfield (1981) QSDr Paul Driscoll (1981) QSMs Janet Hayes (1981) QSMrs Linda Holland (1981) QSMrs Cathy Langdale (1981) Ms Catherine Palmer (1981) Mr Donald Pepper (1981) QSProf Marcela Votruba (1981) QS

Mrs Cathy Driscoll (1982) QSMr Ian English (1982) QSMr Graham Jackson (1982) Mr Richard Lewis (1982) QSMrs Janet Lewis (1982) QSMr Mark Pearce (1982) QSMr David Price (1982) QSMr Tom Webber (1982) QSMr Andy Bird (1983) QSMr Andrew Campbell (1983) QSMr Edmund Craston (1983) QSMrs Rose Craston (1983) QSDr Robert Hughes (1983) QSMr Fergus McDonald (1983) Mr Adrian Robinson (1983) QSDr Neil Tunnicliffe (1983) QSMrs Antonia Adams (1984) QSMr Miles Benson (1984) QSMr Mike Cronshaw (1984) QSMr Cameron Doley (1984) Mrs Kathryn Doley (1984) Prof Phil Evans (1984) QSDr Nigel Greer (1984) QSMr Richard Hopkins (1984) QSDr Katherine Irving (1984) QSMrs Rachel Lawson (1984) QSMr Robert Lawson (1984) QSMrs Liz Patel (1984) QSMr Tiku Patel (1984) QSDr Jan Pullen (1984) QSMr Steve Thomas (1984) QSMr John Turner (1984) QSDr Udayan Chakrabarti (1985) QSMr Steve Evans (1985) QSMr Ed Kemp-Luck (1985) QSDr Philippa Moore (1985) QSRevd Matthew Pollard (1985) QSDr Ioanna Psalti (1985) Mr Adrian Ratcliffe (1985) QSMr Martin Riley (1985) QSMr Juan Sepulveda (1985) Mrs Julie Smyth (1985) QSMajor (Retd) Matthew Christmas (1986) QSMs Jude Dobbyn (1986) QSMr Steve Jones (1986) QS


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Mr Simon Miller (1986) QSMr Andrew Mitchell (1986) QSMr Gerald Rix (1986) QSMrs Cathy Sanderson (1986) QSDr Susan Schamp (1986) QSMr Rob Tims (1986) QSMr Charles Adams (1987) Mr Robert Burgess (1987) QSDr Richard Fynes (1987) QSMrs Vikki Hall (1987) QSMr Mark Highman (1987) QSMrs Sarah Kucera (1987) QSMr John Morgan (1987) QSMs Susan Sack (1987) Mr Philip Sanderson (1987) QSMrs Rachel Thorn (1987) QSMr John Bigham (1988) QSDr Andrew Carpenter (1988) Mrs Hilary Corroon (1988) QSMiss Celestine Eaton (1988) QSMr Tim Grayson (1988) QSDr Jules Hargreaves (1988) QSMr Alastair Kennis (1988) QSDr Adrian Tang (1988) QSDr Susan Ferraro (1989) QSMr Ben Green (1989) QSProf Blair Hoxby (1989) Mr Jim Kaye (1989) QSMs Hetty Meyric Hughes (1989) QSMr Marc Paul (1989) Mr Matthew Perret (1989) QSMr Ian Tollett (1989) QSMrs Penny Crouzet (1990) QSMr Jason Hargreaves (1990) QSMr Keith Hatton (1990) QSMrs Morag Mylne (1990) Mr Fabio Quaradeghini (1990) QSMiss Angela Winnett (1990) QSMr Nik Everatt (1991) QSMr Paul Gannon (1991) QSMrs Kay Goddard (1991) QSMs Jess Matthew (1991) Dr Christopher Meaden (1991) QSDr Kausikh Nandi (1991) QSMr Adam Potter (1991) QS

Mr Stephen Robinson (1991) QSDr Christoph Rojahn (1991) Dr Vicki Saward (1991) QSDr John Sorabji (1991) QSMr Dev Tanna (1991) QSMiss Sarah Witt (1991) QSMr Jonathan Woolf (1991) QSDr Jason Zimba (1991) QSMr Jonathan Buckley (1992) QSDr Rebecca Emerson (1992) QSProf Mike Hayward (1992) QSMr James Holdsworth (1992) QSMrs Claire O’Shaughnessy (1992) QSDr Nia Taylor (1992) QSMr Ian Brown (1993) QSMr Matt Keen (1993) QSMrs Jenny Kelly (1993) QSMr Matt Lawrence (1993) QSMr Said Mohamed (1993) QSMr Neil Pabari (1993) QSMr Peter Sidwell (1993) QSMrs Helen von der Osten (1993) QSMs Christine Cairns (1994) QSDr Jo Nettleship (1994) Prof Tim Riley (1994) QSMrs Clare Stebbing (1994) QSMr Nick Stebbing (1994) QSDr Francis Tang (1994) Ms Claire Taylor (1994) QSMr Alistair Willey (1994) QSMr Tim Claremont (1995) QSMr Tim Horrocks (1995) QSMr Torsten Reil (1995) QSMr Adam Silver (1995) QSMrs Georgina Simmons (1995) QSMr Jeremy Steele (1995) QSMr Llyr Williams (1995) Dr Gavin Beard (1996) QSMrs Helen Geary (1996) QSMr Alex Grant (1996) QSDr Helen Munn (1996) QSMr David Smallbone (1996) QSDr Jonathan Smith (1996) QSMrs Rachel Taylor (1996) QSMr James Bowling (1997) QS


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Dr William Goundry (1997) QSMr Endaf Kerfoot (1997) QSMr Gareth Powell (1997) QSMr James Taylor (1997) QSMr Gonçalo Abecasis (1998) Ms Jennifer Armson (1998) Dr Martin Birch (1998) QSMiss Marie Farrow (1998) QSMrs Nishi Grose (1998) QSMr Matt Henderson (1998) QSProf. Owen Hodkinson (1998) Mr James Marsden (1998) QSMiss Jacqueline Perez (1998) QSMr Charlie Sutters (1998) QSDr Premila Webster (1998) QSMrs Kate Cooper (1999) QSMiss Kelly Furber (1999) QSMr Douglas Gordon (1999) QSMr Jim Hancock (1999) QSMr James Levett (1999) QSMr Jim Luke (1999) QSMr Dan Lynn (1999) QSMr Gareth Marsh (1999) QSMr Michael McClelland (1999) QSMr Mark Bowman (2000) QSDr Cecily Burrill (2000) Mr Rory Clarke (2000) QSDr Katherine Dammerman (2000) Dr Brandon Dammerman (2000) Miss Cécile Défossé (2000) QSDr Claire Hodgskiss (2000) QSMrs Holly Pirnie (2000) QSMr Richard Roberts (2000) Mr David Ainsworth (2001) QSMrs Laura Ainsworth (2001) QSMrs Chrissy Findlay (2001) QSMr Mark Hawkins (2001) QSMr James Klempster (2001) QSMr Nick Kroepfl (2001) QSMr Oliver Leyland (2001) QSMs Alex Mayson (2001) QSDr Matthew Osborne (2001) QSMrs Cassie Smith (2001) QSMiss Elinor Taylor (2001) QSMrs Zoe Wright (2001) QS

Mr Nikhil Aggarwal (2002) QSMrs Kathryn Aggarwal (2002) QSMr Matt Allen (2002) QSMrs Fran Baker (2002) QSMiss Sarah Berman (2002) QSMr Iain Drennan (2002) Ms Hannah Drennan (2002) Mrs Anushka Herath (2002) QSDr Fumiaki Ito (2002) Miss Ava Lau (2002) Mr Tom Pearson (2002) QSMrs Karishma Redman (2002) QSMr David Richardson (2002) QSMr James Screen (2002) QSMrs Rhian Screen (2002) QSDr Abigail Stevenson (2002) QSDr Ian Warren (2002) QSMr Christopher Wright (2002) QSMs Ling Zhao (2002) QSDr Jessica Blair (2003) QSMs Sarah Buckley (2003) Mr Ahmet Feridun (2003) QSMrs Olivia Haslam (2003) QSDr Jon Hazlehurst (2003) QSMs Rebecca Patton (2003) QSDr Enrique Sacau (2003) QSMr Dane Satterthwaite (2003) QSDr Guy Williams (2003) QSMs Claire Harrop (2004) QSDr Philippa Roberts (2004) QSDr Tony Thompson-Starkey (2004) QSMr Daniel Shepherd (2005) QSMr Ho Yi Wong (2005) QSDr Matthew Hart (2006) QSMr George Kanelos (2006) QSCorporal Tom Whyte (2006) QSMiss Lauriane Anderson Mair (2007) QSDr Caitlin Hartigan (2007) Mr Tony Hu (2007) QSMr Matthew Watson (2007) QSDr Emma Adlard (2008) QSMr Nicholas Burns (2008) QSMiss Katherine Steiner (2008) QSDr Monica Merlin (2009) Mrs Maude Tham (2009) QS


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Mr Vincent Boucher (2010) QSMr James Dinsdale (2010) QSMr Chris Lippard (2010) Mr Tom Mead (2010) QSMiss Emily Shercliff (2010)

Miss Amy Down (2011) QSMr Tom Nichols (2011) QSMr William Kroeger (2016) Mr Kenichi Oka (2017) QSMrs Caroline Howard (2019)

The following trusts, foundations, and companies have supported the College directly, or through matched giving schemes with Old Members:

Amazon UKAustrian Cultural ForumEmbassy of the Federal Republic of

Germany in LondonG F Hamilton Trust & Donal Morphy

Charitable TrustInstitut français du Royaume-UniLate Habibur Rahman, Late Rokeya

Khanum and Professor A H M Shamsur Rahman Welfare Trust

Piper JaffraySannox TrustSwiss EmbassyThe Elba FoundationThe Waverley FundWard Family Fund

The College is grateful to the following Old Members and Friends who gave legacy gifts to Queen’s:

Mr John Whitehead (1931) Cmdr Martin Richards (1940) Dr Francis John Long (1942)Mr Thomas Acton (1943) Mr Anthony Gwilliam (1948) Mr John Pearson (1948) Mr Anthony Petty (1948)

Mr Charles Peter Lynam (1949) Mr John Douglas Peters (1950) Dr Barry Hoffbrand (1952) Mr Robert Kent (1953)Dr David Littlewood (1968) Syed Jonathan Zeshaun Ali (1987)Mrs Ann Henn

We are grateful to receive support from the following people within the College:

Prof John Baines QSProf Sir John Ball QSDr Claire Craig QSDr Charles Crowther QS

Mr Chris Diacopoulos QSDr Justin Jacobs QSDr Ludovic Phalippou QSQueen’s College Senior College Fellows

The College thanks the following Friends for their support:

Mrs Helena Cuthbert QS Mr David French QSMrs Moira HarrisonMr Henry HeadMrs Christine Mason QS

Ms Susan PoadMost Revd Peter RiolaProf Dana ScottMr Eric Wooding QS


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College Record 2022

Please submit your news and details of any awards or publications for inclusion in the 2022 College Record here: https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/college-record-2022. Alternatively, you can send this information by post to the Old Members’ Office in College. The deadline for entries is 1 August 2022.

You are also invited to submit obituaries of Old Members. Please send these to the Old Members’ Office.

Visiting the College

Old Members are welcome to visit at any time, except during the Christmas closure period. Please present yourself at the Lodge with an item of ID (preferably your University alumni card) so that the Porter on duty can check your name against the list of Old Members. Advance notice, particularly if you’d like to visit the Library, is preferable although not essential, but if you are planning to bring a group (other than your immediate family) you will need to arrange this in advance. The Old Members’ Office can assist you with your visit: call 01865 279217 or email [email protected]. If you require level access, please telephone the Lodge on 01865 279120.

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Degree ceremonies

MAs can only be taken by BA graduates 21 terms after their matriculation date. Old Members can either attend a University degree ceremony or receive an MA in absentia. To take your MA in person or in absentia, please email [email protected].

Transcripts and certificates

If you require proof of your exam results, or a transcript of your qualifications for a job application or continuing education purposes, please contact the College Office on 01865 279166 or [email protected].

If you need a copy of your certificate, then all the information can be found at the University’s Student Records and Degree Conferrals Office: www.ox.ac.uk/students/graduation/certificates.

For those who matriculated after 2007, transcripts/proof of degree documents can be ordered online: www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/product-catalogue/degree-conferrals.

Updating your details

If you have moved or changed your contact details, please complete the online update form: www.queens.ox.ac.uk/update-my-details or email [email protected].

Bed and breakfast

The College is pleased to be able to offer bed and breakfast accommodation to Old Members at a reduced rate. You can take advantage of the reduced rate when you use the promotional code, which is available from the Old Members’ Office: call 01865 279214 or email [email protected].

A number of en suite student bedrooms will be available over the Easter and summer vacations. Rooms are clean, comfortable, and serviced daily. While not equipped to a four-star hotel standard, they are provided with towels, toiletries, tea and coffee making facilities, and free internet access.

To book your room(s), please visit www.queens.ox.ac.uk/bed-breakfast.


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The Queen’s College Governing Body in July 2021

The Queen’s CollegeHigh StreetOxfordOX1 [email protected]

Edited by Emily Downing and Michael RiordanDesigned by CiconiCover image by Jamie Unwin

COLLEGE RECORD 2021

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