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one hundred and fourth annual report 2008

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Calendar of college events 2008–09

9 January 2009 Reunion Dinner (1963, 1964, 1965)March 2008 Glanville Williams Society Reception20 March 2009 M. A. Dinner (2002)27 March 2009 Reunion Dinner (1973, 1974, 1975)13 June 2009 Marquee at the paddock, Fen Ditton27 June 2009 Annual Fund Donors’ Garden Party27 June 2009 Anniversary Dinner (1979, 1989, 1999)1 July 2009 Society of St Radegund Dinner

Invitations to all the above events will be posted or emailed to those concerned. If, however, you wishto attend any of these events but do not receive anticipated postal or email notification, please contactthe Development Office (tel: 01223 339301) or visit the alumni events section of the college’s website(www.jesus.cam.ac.uk) where details are also posted.

M.A. dining

Members of M.A. or similar status are invited to dine at high table free of charge twice a year and tobring a guest at their own expense. The Master and Fellows very much welcome the opportunity tomaintain contact.

Because of staffing arrangements there is no dining on Saturdays but it is usually possible toaccommodate visitors on Sundays during term. The other available days are Tuesday, Wednesdays,Thursdays and Fridays. It is always advisable to book in good time by phoning the manciple’s office on01223 339473.


contentsMessage from the Master 5Articles

College History: Continuities and Discontinuities 7Archbishop Cranmer at Jesus College: A questioning note 14The Science and Human Dimension Project 19The Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime 21Jesus on the Silk Road 23The Hudleston Organ 2720,000 Lives – Telling the Story of Jesuans Past 30Years Ago 32

College NewsPeople 36Art 42Bursary 43Chapel 44Chapel Music 47Development Office 48Old Library and College Archives 48Society of St Radegund 52Other News 52Degree Day 2008 53College Societies 61College Sports Clubs 67Jesus College Boat Club Trust 78Jesus College Fellows and other Senior Members 80Awards 85Tripos Results 89Approved for Ph.D.s 90

Members’ NewsPeople 92Births 94Marriages and Civil Partnerships 95Books and Articles by Members and Old Members 96Other Gifts to the College Libraries 99Bequests and Other Gifts 100College Events 103Jesus College Cambridge Society 108

ObituariesFellows and former Fellows 111Old Members 118

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Message from the Master

In this last year there have been many exciting things happening in the college, some ofwhich are described later in this Annual Report. Earlier in the academic year we weredelighted to launch the publication of Jesus: The Life of a Cambridge College, edited by PeterGlazebrook. We were fortunate to find we had not simply a recently retired Fellow withtime on his hands but a retired Fellow of deep learning with extensive knowledge aboutthe college’s history. Peter had an additional quality – a profound devotion to the college.All those things shine through in this book and we congratulate him on hisachievement. He of course chose the subjects (there are 45 essays by many differentFellows and Jesuans, young and old) and then recruited all the contributors, inspiringus, chivvying us, and in no small way helping us. I am sure I was not the only one to getmy offering returned with little red pen amendments or comments – a bit like asupervision essay. The book reveals all the hidden worlds of the college, unravellingthem for us rather like a set of Russian dolls. Reading the various essays is like being inthe company of a whole series of immensely well-informed guides accompanying youaround Jesus College. The combination gives a perspective not only over space and time,but also across both institutional life and the fascinating, and sometimes extraordinary,personalities that have played their part in it. Add to this the delightful and cleverlychosen photographs and we have a truly outstanding achievement. Rather like a mosaic,the richness of the individual pieces together with the pictures makes a complex butunified whole. In this Annual Report Peter Glazebrook provides a new and interestingperspective on the college, identifying what, in effect, were five different colleges thatexisted in various stages of our long history.

This year we have been especially fortunate in having a wonderful new organ installed inthe chapel. A new friend of the college, James Hudleston, has generously enabled us tocommission an organ from the firm widely regarded as the finest in the world today,Orgelbau Kuhn of Zurich. They have built this, their first organ in the UK, to the higheststandards and specifications. It was not an easy space in the chapel, either physically orwith regard to the historic nature of the building, and they have by unanimous consentdone a superb job. Full technical details of the organ are given in an article by Dan Hyde,our director of chapel music, in this Annual Report. When all the organ pieces arrivedfrom Switzerland and were laid out on the chapel floor, it looked as though we needed toget onto the IKEA helpline, but we all marvelled at the complex building operation thatprogressed smoothly throughout the summer vacation. The college is grateful to Dan forhis huge part in the project. The Hudleston organ is already meeting with great acclaimfrom the musical world and without doubt will attract organ scholars from across thecountry. In June a superb inaugural recital, attended by the Vice-Chancellor, Fellows,students and many guests, was given by James O’Donnell, a Jesuan and former organscholar, now organist and master of the choristers at Westminster Abbey. The Hudlestonorgan has secured the future of our chapel music, which is going from strength tostrength, and is providing wonderful encouragement and incentive to our choirs.

In February we celebrated the centenary of one of our most distinguished Jesuans, JacobBronowski, a man of extraordinary versatility who made very important contributionsboth to literature and to science. He came up to Jesus in 1927 to read mathematics,

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becoming a wrangler and going on to do a Ph.D. But he immersed himself inmany otherthings, developing strong literary and artistic interests, which he pursuedenthusiastically alongside his distinguished mathematical studies. He became literaryeditor of Granta, and founded and edited a new avant-garde literary magazine calledExperiment. Bronowski went on to a career of exceptional distinction, publishing andbroadcasting prolifically on a vast range of subjects: all of us above a certain age willremember the highly successful and compelling 13 part BBC TV series The Ascent of Man– a Personal View. The college awarded him an Honorary Fellowship in 1967. He oncewrote: ‘I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science,which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.’How we wish there were more of us in the world who are indifferent to the distinctionbetween literature and science. The highly successful Science and Human DimensionProject, a Jesus College initiative under the direction of John Cornwell who writes aboutit in this Annual Report, encapsulates much of what Jacob Bronowski stood for.

I have written previously about the increasingly international character of both thegraduate student body and the fellowship, and of the college’s leading role in theUniversity in strengthening collaborations with China. The University is now alsoengaging more with India; a new professorship has been created, financed by theGovernment of India and various Indian companies: the Jawaharlal Nehru Professorshipof Indian Business and Enterprise at the Judge Business School. Building on ourreputation for establishing new international collaborations, the college has played aleading role in the Cambridge Central Asia Forum through the leadership of Dr MontuSaxena, who writes about the involvement of Jesus College with the Silk Road in thisAnnual Report. This year we have hosted a number of distinguished academics andother visitors from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and several of our Fellows have visitedCentral Asia on new academic collaborative projects.

The college has been thriving on many fronts. Not only have our students excelledacademically (the college has risen to fifth place out of the 31 colleges in the Baxterintercollegiate league table) but three of our Fellows won Pilkington Prizes; theseprestigious prizes are awarded to a small number of academics in the University foroutstanding teaching. It is extremely rare for three Pilkington Prize winners to comefrom one college; Dr Stuart Clarke, Dr Steve Hladky and Dr Tim Wilkinson are to becongratulated.

We look forward to another successful year for our undergraduates, graduate studentsand Fellows, and we hope that Jesuans will visit the college to see for themselves howweare thriving. We always welcome visitors to the college, whether for reunion dinners, todine at high table, or simply for a casual visit to see how things are. Your interest in andsupport for what we are trying to achieve at the college today is greatly appreciated.

Robert Mair


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College History: Continuities and Discontinuities

Almost everyone who has spent time reading and thinking about the history of one ofthe older Cambridge (or Oxford) colleges – as planning and editing Jesus: The Life of aCambridge College (2007)1, a collaborative and richly illustrated volume commissioned bythe College Council, has led me to do – has been struck as much by the discontinuitiesas by the continuities that those histories reveal. The continuities, through five, six oreven seven centuries, are obvious enough. There is the collegiate community’soccupation of the same site and the slow but steady accretion (and renewal) of thebuildings on it: chapel, hall, kitchens, library, and the residential rooms arranged onstaircases opening onto courts, with gardens beyond. There is its possession ofendowments provided by founders and benefactors, on which it has always been utterlydependent, its corporate legal identity (‘The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College… commonly called Jesus College in the Town and University of Cambridge’), and itsrelationship to, but independence from, the university which is its raison d’être. And thereis the common social life of its members, one generation overlapping with another,centred on eating together in its hall, the distinctive (and distinguishing) gowns theywear, the strange titles they bear, and the special language they use: the age-old talk ofterms and vacations, of Fellows, Tutors, Deans, Fellow-Commoners, Scholars, andExhibitioners, of Chapel and Hall (describing not places but occasions).

Yet underneath these surface continuities, the discontinuities, though unsurprising, areif anything even more remarkable. Like other institutions that flourished in the MiddleAges – cathedrals, the two houses of parliament – these older colleges have, over thecenturies, undergone profound changes, both of character and of function, and likethem will, no doubt, go on changing as, in their extraordinarily resilient way, they

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respond to the pressures and needs of the world around them and, more immediately,to changes in the universities of which they are a part. But though we ought not to besurprised that there have been great and fundamental changes, we should, if we are nottomisunderstand the past of these institutions, attend carefully to them. The traditionalaccount of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer’s career as a Jesuan, which is examined atthe end of this article, may perhaps be seen as an illustration of the dangers of failing todo so.

The timing of the profound changes may vary a little – sometimes by several decades –from college to college, as well as from one university to the other, and their number isdetermined, of course, by when they were founded. Jesus was a product of themovement within the flourishing late mediaeval English church to redeploy some of itsunder-used resources for the better education of the secular clergy, particularly aspreachers. (St John’s, Cambridge, and Christ Church, Oxford, are the movement’s twomost spectacular monuments.) And in its case we can, if we look beneath the surfacecontinuities, identify five very different colleges.

For the first sixty or so years – from the late 1490s to the early 1560s – Jesus was (with ashort interruption) a college of chantry priests charged with the duty of praying for itsfounders and benefactors, which also had a free grammar school for local boys. Then,until the 1670s, it was a seminary for the education of poor students to be godlyprotestant clergy and schoolmasters (or both), whose tutors also welcomed as theirpupils for periods of a year or two the sons of the better off. The longest lasting college(so far) was the third, from the mid-1670s till the mid-1860s, which had far fewerstudents than the second, and those few mostly intending clergy and schoolmasters.Cambridge no longer attracted many students able to pay their own way, and most ofthose went to Trinity or St John’s. This college’s mainstay was Tobias Rustat’s Trust forclergy orphans and other similar benefactions. The fourth college can be dated to H.A.Morgan’s appointment as Tutor in 1863. He responded to the burgeoningmid-Victoriandemand for a university education and the qualifications and contacts it brought, andfrom being one of the smallest and poorest colleges in Cambridge Jesus became one ofits largest. Morgan’s college lasted until the 1950s when the 1944 Education Act’s greatreforms in secondary schooling and the financing of university students began to be feltin Cambridge as elsewhere, and to shape the college we now have.

A little more must be (a great deal more could be – and in Jesus: The Life of a CambridgeCollege has been) said about each of these five colleges. Perhaps the most importantpoint to be made about the first – the college of chantry priests with its grammar school(which had its own staff ) – is that it catered for graduate, not undergraduate, students,though a few undergraduates may from time to time have found accommodation withinit. Most undergraduates lived in hostels, of which there were more than thirty, run byM.A.s as more or less private enterprises: their memory kept alive now by Garret HostelLane and that part of Trinity College called Physick Hostel. The ‘Scholars’ of theCollege’s corporate namewere, in all but title, Fellows, the distinction beingmerely thatwhile the five Fellows, properly so called, were (along with four youths and fourchoristers to help with the Chapel and its services) maintained from the income ofproperty formerly belonging to the nunnery, the Scholars (in 1514 there were three, adecade later five, of them) were supported by the endowments other benefactors hadgiven in return for the College’s contractual undertaking to see their families’ chantriesin its chapel duly served. All the Fellows and Scholars had to be at least B.A.s and all,except one of the Scholars, priests. (This single exception was doubtless convenient inpermitting the appointment of a new, but not yet ordained, graduate who could betransferred to another Fellowship or Scholarship when he was.) In return forperforming their chapel duties, they received free board and lodging (though no


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stipend), living in rooms on the newly constructed staircases in Cloister Court, and theall-important opportunity to continue their university studies for their M.A. or for higherdegrees in theology or law (canon or civil) that would fit them for a successful career inchurch or state – often both. So there was (as in other colleges) a weekly seminar, onFridays, which they were expected to attend, to give each other practice in the art offormal public disputation – which was how they would be examined for their degrees.These Fellows and Scholars were, in short, graduate students, and had to vacate theirfellowship or scholarship when they obtained a benefice or some other job giving theman annual income of more than 5 marks.

When, in 1547, an act of parliament abolished all chantries, the endowments of thoseestablished in parish churches (the large majority) were confiscated by the Crown – afate that had already befallen those established in monasteries when the latter weredissolved . However, those of the chantries in colleges in the two universities remainedtheir property, either because of a royal concession or because they were inextricablymixed with the colleges’ other endowments. And so the chantries could be, and at Jesuswere, revived without difficulty when, six years later, the catholic Queen Mary Isucceeded her protestant brother, Edward VI.

The second of our colleges dates from the 1560s when it had become clear that theEnglish church was henceforth to be a protestant one, and that chantries and the priestscholars who served them were irrevocably redundant. Some of their endowments wereused to support additional Fellows (bringing their number to 16) and some, with otherrecent benefactions, to support poor undergraduates, who were now being required tobelong to colleges where their behaviour and their studies could be more closelysupervised than had been possible in hostels. And it was to these poor undergraduatesthat the title of ‘Scholar’ was transferred. The College’s grammar school, too, (whichhad been on the west side of the Gate Tower) was liquidated – the governmentconsidered that the money spent on it would be better used training the clergy andschoolmasters needed if the Elizabethan church settlement was to be maintained. And,as if to emphasise that it was a different college from the first, it changed its arms: fromthe Five Wounds of Jesus to Bishop Alcock’s cockerel heads.

To this second college undergraduates supported not by its endowments but by patronsand parents – gentry, farmers, merchants and the higher clergy – also came, and came,as the years went by, in increasing numbers. They are first heard of in 1573 when one ofthe Fellows, Thomas Legge (elected in 1568), was persuaded by the crypto-catholic DrCaius to move to the college he had recently re-endowed, with a view to succeeding himas its Master (as he did). Legge took his private, fee-paying, pupils with him. The futurepoet, playwright and courtier, Fulke Greville; the future diplomat and translator ofCamoens, Richard Fanshawe; the future royal secretary, Sir Christopher Hatton; and thefuture Lord Chief Justice Bramston, were among those who later in the century and earlyin the next spent a year or two in the College: not long enough to take a degree,something which was only worth the time and trouble if a career as clergyman,schoolmaster or (exceptionally) physician was in view.

The lovely rose-coloured brick north range of First Court built between 1638 and 1641 toprovide accommodation for Fellows who took private pupils – and had them living withthem literally under their eyes, in their rooms – was largely paid for by several of thesewealthy and successful former students. It is the second college’s lasting monument,though it was to be used in the way originally envisaged for only about thirty years. In the1670s the number of privately financed undergraduates in the College, as in Cambridgeas a whole, fell sharply away, for reasons that historians still debate. Their numbers,which had peaked in the 1630s, when this building was being planned and erected, were

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not to be matched again until the 1860s. The Fellows who remained in residence (oftenless than half the complement of 16) were able to spread out, gaining space, privacy andan altogether more dignified style of living. No further new building was to be erecteduntil 1822, and then it was only a single staircase (L) added to Pump Court. This thirdcollege was content – it had to be – with embellishing what it had. The Hall waspanelled, a wrought iron gate with elegant pillars erected at the entrance to the Chimney,the garrets of the old grammar school building on the south of First Court replaced by asecond floor matching that on the north, and an elegant Combination Room created inthe building behind the east end of the Hall. It is Tobias Rustat’s Trust that is thiscollege’s true monument – his own, from Grinling Gibbons’ workshop, is on theChapel’s west wall.

Established in 1671, just as the secondcollege was about to fade away, theTrust was for, initially 8, then 11, andlater 14 scholarships for undergraduateswho were orphaned sons of Anglicanclergy. It and several related, but smaller,benefactions for other clergy children,attracted to Jesus (sometimes from othercolleges) eligible undergraduates. Togetherthey supported as many as eighteenstudents at a time – in some years morethan half the total number. Withoutthem, Jesus would have been an evensmaller and more marginal institutionin Cambridge, and without most ofthe famous names – Sterne, Hartley,Wakefield,Malthus, Coleridge andClarke– in which its successors have taken somuch pride, as well as two (notparticularly distinguished) archbishopsof Canterbury. This third college was,indeed, almost as exclusively a clericalcommunity as the first, the presence of

undergraduates – most of them aspirant clergy – compensating for the small number ofresident Fellows. In its final decades – the 1840s and 1850s – there were frequently fewerthan half a dozen Fellows and 40 undergraduates in residence; and the restoration of itsChapel to amediaeval comeliness, under the influence, andwith thewarm approval, of theCambridge Camden Society, the local wing of the OxfordMovement, was amajor concern.

The fourth college – Morgan’s college, which lasted from the 1860s to the 1950s – grewrapidly (within 20 years) from being one of the smallest into the fourth or fifth largest inCambridge (expansion matched at the time only by Pembroke’s). Its fame centred,designedly, on the prowess of its Boat Club rather than on scholarly achievements – theFirst Eight’s winning of the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1947 might be seen as itsswansong. It was essentially the creation of one man: H.A. (‘Black’) Morgan, appointedTutor (there were then only enough students for one) in 1863, fourteen years after he hadentered the College as an undergraduate and three after his election as a Fellow. He saw,and seized, the opportunities presented by the new and increasing demand from thepupils of the recently reformed or newly established public schools for a universityeducation and the qualifications (not all of them academic) which it could give.There were still many undergraduates – especially among the scholars and exhibitioners


Monument to Tobias Rustat, probably by workshop of GrinlingGibbons, c1694. Photograph 1929


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– who planned to be clergymen orschoolmasters, but this fourth college didnot take its tone from them. In its raisond’étre, its buildings and its ethos, as well asin its membership and size, it differedfrom the third quite as markedly as thesecond from the first. And in it arosemany of the facilities, institutions andoccasions that have since loomed large inthe images of Cambridge colleges and thememories of Cambridge graduates: teamsports (made practicable by the rise innumbers), sports fields and boathouses –and inter-collegiate competitions andcollege colours (red and black) – a J.C.R.(though a college bar had to wait for thefifth college), a library for undergraduates(first no more than a reading room),entrance scholarships and exhibitions forwhich schoolboys could compete, collegeprizes, clubs and societies, academic and cultural as well as social, May balls, a magazine(‘Chanticlere’), an old members’ association (the J.C.C.S.), a boys’ club in London, and thecarefully (and sometimes imaginatively) cultivated loyalties to a centuries-old and reveredinstitution that had ‘produced’ famous men in whom its present members could takepride. The empty niche on theGate Towerwas filledwith a statue of BishopAlcock – ratherthan one of the Virgin andChildwhich, given the College’s full name, was surely originallythere. (Devout fifteenth-century bishops were customarily depicted on their knees: as, infact, Alcock is on the contemporary Master’s stall in Chapel and in the painting in Hall.)

This fourth college’s physical monuments are the buildings (all known now by theirarchitects’ names) which created both Second and Chapel Courts, quadrupling thenumber of undergraduate rooms. First were the three staircases (Waterhouse) built,almost as soon as Morgan became Tutor, with money borrowed from the Rustat Trust’saccumulated surpluses (earlier used to finance the development of the Jesus Lanehouses). They were followed by themuch larger Carpenter building paid for from the saleproceeds of land compulsorily purchased for railways, completed fifteen years later justas Morgan was being elected Master; and then, between the two wars, by the MorleyHorder building, financed partly by a bequest and partly by the sale of the freehold of theUniversity Arms Hotel.

Morgan’s college also saw a complete change in what it meant to be a Fellow and in whata Fellow was meant to be. For the previous 350 years (and more), fellowships carriedneither any obligation nor, indeed, any expectation that their holders would engage inteaching in either the College or the University. A few Fellows did and a very few devotedtheir lives to scholarly works, but they were exceptions. For the overwhelming majoritytheir fellowships were, rather, aids to (as the modern jargon has it) ‘careerdevelopment’: prizes usually bestowed on those most successful in recent Mathematicaland Classical Tripos examinations (the only ones there were) giving them a modestincome until they both secured a job (commonly as a parish clergyman) and married.Meanwhile they might improve their chances by study, travel and private tutoring – and,in the case of intending clergy, better fit themselves for their future responsibilities bystudying some divinity (a subject not required for – or provided in – either the B.A. or theM.A.). The abolition in the 1850s of the rule that Fellows must be Anglicans, followed in


Henry Arthur Morgan. Senior Tutor 1863–85. Master1885–1912; Portrait by Hon. John Collier, 1893


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1882 by the abolition of the requirement that they should be unmarried, enabledfellowships to become posts that would support a career in university teaching andresearch. So as the twentieth century approached Fellows began to be elected with a viewto their teaching some of the new subjects being introduced into the undergraduatecurriculum (theology, natural sciences, history and law) and the supervision emerged asthe typical vehicle of instruction. But even more striking changes lay ahead.

Among the many respects in which the fifth in our line of colleges – the one dating fromthe later 1950s which we now have – differsmarkedly from its predecessor, six stand out:its secular ethos; the criteria for admission as an undergraduate; the ever-increasingbody of postgraduate students; the nature and role (and scholarly distinction) of thefellowship; the virtual disappearance of the significance of being ‘on’ the Collegefoundation; and its ceasing, in the late 1970s, to be a male preserve.

Although Parliament had, in the 1850s, removed some of the legal barriers that hadpreserved the College as an institution of the English church, the process ofsecularisation was slow. Legislation had preserved and protected the Chapel and itsservices, and until 1912 the Master had invariably been a clergyman – until 1885 he hadbeen appointed by the local bishop and had combined the Mastership with anotherchurch post, so that he often devoted less than half his year to the College. And theCollege itself continued to appoint the parsons of more than a dozen parishes. The firstlayman to be Master – he died in office in 1940 – was in his stall in Chapel everyday,morning and evening. Undergraduates were still expected to, and did, attend onSundays, unless they declared that it offended their consciences to do so. There wereRoman Catholic and Jewish undergraduates, but no Roman Catholic or Jewish Fellows:the Fellows who were Non-Conformists were also honorary Anglicans. But in the post-1950s college the overwhelming majority of its members have rarely set foot in theChapel, save perhaps for a concert or a funeral, and from being at the centre of theCollege’s corporate life it is now at its periphery.

Scholarships and exhibitions – at least the ‘open’ ones (that is, those not ‘closed’because only candidates from particular schools or localities, or with some particularattributes, were eligible for them) – had, over the centuries, more often than not beenthe subject of some competition, if only among those already in residence. But the samehad not been true of places for those able to pay for themselves: the pensioners. Theyrarely had much difficulty in gaining admission: the tutors’ main concerns were theirrespectability and their connections – the families or schools they came from – and, allimportantly, their ability to pay their bills .(It had, of course, also to be remembered thatit would be unfortunate if they were unable to scrape through the University’s not toodemanding initial – the ‘Previous’ – examination by the end of their fifth term.) And thenumber of those knocking at the College’s gates fluctuated considerably, reflectingfashion and the state of the national economy. At the end of the 1920s some doubted thewisdom of building the Morley Horder staircases: how could anyone be sure that therewould be enough students to fill the additional rooms? The 1944 Education Act (and itssuccessors) changed all that, and from the late 1950s admission to the College becameincreasingly competitive – and controversial, both among old members and nationally.All who gained a university place became entitled to financial support from thegovernment, and so the number of those able to contemplate coming to Cambridgesoared. College scholarships and exhibitions ceased to be key components of thefinancial support of poor students, and became (as fellowships had for long previouslybeen) prizes, albeit more modest ones, for distinguished performance in Universityexaminations. This comprehensive financial support from the national Exchequer wasto be a short-lived phenomenon, but the resulting competitiveness for undergraduateplaces has remained and intensified.



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In 1934 there was one research student in Jesus; in 1950 only a handful; but since theearly 1960s the number pursuing postgraduate qualifications of one sort or another hasincreased steadily to the point at which every third student (250 of them) in this fifthcollege is a graduate. In them, rather than the present-day Fellows, the Fellows andScholars of the first college would have seen their modern counterparts. As for thosepresent-day Fellows, there has been not only a huge increase in their number – there arenow nearly five times as many (over 80) as there were at any time in the three-and-a-halfcenturies from 1570 to 1926, and nearly three times as many as in the 1950s – they havealso undergone yet another radical transformation.

For most (though not quite all) of the Fellows of the fourth (Morgan’s) college,members of that new profession of university teachers that had emerged in the secondhalf of the nineteenth century, the College was, though not always the whole,nevertheless the centre, of their working lives, and the principal source of their income.They taught its undergraduates, oversaw their conduct and themselves ran the Collegeand managed its endowments (a little amateurishly, perhaps, but fairly effectively) withthe help of a small group of clerks, and, after World War II, one or two secretaries. Formost (though not quite all) of the Fellows of the fifth college on the other hand, thecentre of their working lives, and the principal source of their incomes, lies elsewhere –in the University’s Faculties, Departments and Laboratories, in which they research andteach. The College (which professional staff run for them) is tangential – a haven, ahuman-sized community, offering the amenities and social life whichmakes Cambridgesuch a congenial university in which to work, usually in return for modest duties inteaching and advising the College’s undergraduates. No longer having, as theirpredecessors had, a financial stake in the College, the main concern of the Fellows is forits academic reputation.

All these changes and transformations have had a further, and significant but largelyunnoticed, consequence: the concept of the College’s ‘foundation’ and to being ‘on’ (ornot ‘on’) it – a key to our understanding of the first four colleges, their role and theirfunction – has ceased to have any practical significance. The older colleges of the olderuniversities were conceived as the academic equivalent of almshouses. They were, as wehave seen Jesus was, created and their endowments given so that poor students could,both before and (for many) after ordination, pursue university studies, providing themwith free board and lodging and (as the years went by) smallish cash payments(‘dividends’). These colleges were, as the lawyers said, ‘eleemosynary corporations’:their object the support, in kind and cash, of their members as they studied inpreparation for earning their own livings. The number of their members had, naturally,to be limited – and college statutes invariably did so – to that which it was believed theirendowments could support, as either Fellows or Scholars. They alone were members ofthe College, of the ‘eleemosynary corporation’: they alone were entitled to benefit fromits endowments. It was, however, from the beginning recognised that colleges (likemonasteries and nunneries) might have room to spare for paying guests, who wouldhelp to off-set their running costs. The earliest Jesus statutes (1514–1515) refer to themas ‘Perendinants’, and from the beginning of our second college Fellows were, as hasbeen seen, taking in private pupils, later to be known as ‘Pensioners’ (in the continentalsense of the word) or, if they came from higher up the social and economic scale, as(Gentlemen or Noble) ‘Fellow Commoners’ – because they ate at the same table as theFellows. (The Exhibitioners were the recipients of awards from special trust funds). Butthese students were not, as the Fellows and Scholars were, the object of the founders’bounty – they were not ‘on the foundation’: quite the opposite. They were there to boostthe College’s financial resources and the incomes of its Fellows, which they did mostnoticeably in the second and fourth colleges. Being, strictly speaking, not members of



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the College, they had to pay their way: a principle that the 1922 Royal Commission onOxford and Cambridge affirmed. In our present college, however, all is different. Itsassets and endowments are now seen as there for the benefit of all who have beenadmitted to study in it; they are all seen as ‘members’ of it; and they do all now benefitfrom them. Every one of the College’s varied activities is to a greater or lesser extent,subsidised from, and somade possible, by its endowments – with a further consequencethat no one can fail to notice. With the number of beneficiaries so vastly expanded, theCollege’s historic endowments (albeit augmented as they have been, particularly sincethe beginning of the twentieth century, by numerous bequests) are inevitably seriouslyinadequate. So now, not just intermittently and for the sake of new buildings – NorthCourt (1960), the Quincentenary Library (1996) and Library Court (2000) – butcontinuously it has to seek the financial help of its ‘old members’.

Some readers may be surprised that the admission of women in the late 1970s is notbeing portrayed here as the start of yet another college. A future historian, with thebenefit of a longer perspective, may perhaps see it that way. But just thirty years on,impossible to overlook though this change is, to one observer it appears to be but partand parcel of the transformation that began in the late 1950s. The dissolution of themale preserve has certainly increased the competiveness surrounding the admission ofundergraduates, helped to boost the number of graduate students, contributed to theincrease in the number of Fellows, and added to the rich variety of the collegecommunity. But it has not itself changed what it means to be, and what (gender apart) ittakes to be, either an undergraduate, a graduate student or a Fellow of Jesus in any waycomparable to the changes that have marked off any one of our five colleges from eachof the others.

Several older readers of Jesus: The Life of a Cambridge College have remarked how verydifferent is the college depicted in the Master’s introductory essay, ‘The College in theTwenty-First Century’, and in the contributions in the later part of the volume, from thecollege they knew as undergraduates. During the last five centuries it would quite oftenhave been thus.

Archbishop Cranmer at Jesus College: A questioning note

Little is known about the first forty years of Thomas Cranmer’s life – he was born in1489 and was being head-hunted out of Cambridge by Cardinal Wolsey in the late1520s. So as his most recent and finest biographer, Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch,has observed, ‘it is not surprising that his biographers have done their best to fill thegap.’2 The university, college and church records that might have cast some light onthose years are either fragmentary, lost to sight or have never existed (the Universityhad no formal matriculation requirement until 1544 so neither it nor the colleges keptmatriculation registers) while the earliest surviving biographical accounts werewritten, probably, in the late 1560s, more than sixty years after he first arrived inCambridge and forty years after he had left it for good. By then Church, College andUniversity were all ordered in ways that differed radically from those prevailing in thefirst three decades of the sixteenth century, about which these biographers wereprobably rather hazy.

The story given in these early lives has passed into common currency and, for want ofanything better, has been repeated continually and with little variation ever since. It runsas follows: on the death of his father in 1503, when Thomas was only 14, his mother sent


2 Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer – A Life (New Haven 1996) p.23


him to Cambridge where he became an undergraduate at Jesus, though he took, forwhatever reason, an inordinately long time to obtain his B.A. which eventually he did in1511, proceeding to the M.A. without further hiccups in 1515. Meanwhile, sometimebetween 1511 and 1515, he became a Fellow of Jesus, but thereafter fell in love with, andmarried, a daughter or cousin (called Joan) of the inn-keeper of the Dolphin in BridgeStreet, with the consequence, as inevitable in the 1510s as in the 1560s and ’70s, that helost his fellowship. To make ends meet he accepted appointment as Reader (i.e.,lecturer) at Buckingham College, the hostel for Benedictine monks from the EastAnglian abbeys who were studying in Cambridge – a hostel whose buildings were laterto form the core of Magdalene College. The marriage was, however, short-lived for wifeand child died in child-bed. Soon afterwards the Master and Fellows of Jesus welcomedthe new widower back to the College where he was re-elected a Fellow and remained,taking his due share in the work of the University and its Divinity School, becoming aD.D. in 1526, before being lured away.

This traditional account is, however, not without its difficulties which, while not makingit wholly impossible, do make it rather improbable.

That Cranmer was, in some sense, a Jesuan is not in doubt. He is listed as one of threeBachelors of Divinity resident in Jesus in a Cambridge tax assessment of December15223; and, perhaps more significantly, after his appointment as archbishop ofCanterbury he sent the Fellows a buck from the archiepiscopal deer park with a cheerymessage and the promise to pay for the accompaniments.4 This is Cranmer’s onlyrecorded gift to the College which, on the traditional account, had nurtured him andbeen, with a small interruption, his home for almost a quarter of a century. ProfessorMacCulloch’s memorable verdict that ‘Cranmer was not a good Collegeman once he left

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Thomas Cramner, Archbishop of Canterbury, English School, c1590

3 Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, Addendum, Pt. 1 (London 1929) pp. 108–109.4 Arthur Gray and Frederick Brittain, A History of Jesus College (London 1960) p.41.


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his Fellowship for higher things’5 may, however, be a shade harsh, for it not onlyassumes that the traditional account is accurate, but also overlooks the possibility thathe may just have left matters too late. For after backing the wrong horse – the Lady JaneGrey rather than the Princess Mary – when Edward VI died in 1553, he had beenconvicted of treason and all his worldly goods, including his splendid library, had beenforfeited to the Crown. Thereafter he had nothing he could give his College – whichbrings us back to the question of in what way he was ‘a College man’.

The difficulties with the traditional account are these. First, that there was no provisionfor undergraduates at Jesus (or at most other colleges) in the early 1500s. Mostundergraduates lived, as noted above, in the thirty or so hostels for them that there thenwere. Cranmer could have been one of the four ‘youths’ with specific duties in the Chapelwho were provided for in the earliest (draft) statutes for the College that survive6, or hemay simply have lived in the place with and under the aegis of one of the Fellows. We donot know. But there is a story – one which troubled some of his later (and class-conscious) admirers – that offers an alternative account of how and where he spent theeight years between his father’s death and his becoming a B.A. Shortly after Cranmer’sappointment to Canterbury, papalist-minded disparagers of this scholarly, butuncharismatic, priest (who, because the King believed that he had the theologicalanswer to the first of the monarch’s matrimonial problems, had been catapulted overthe heads of the entire bench of bishops into the highest office in the English church)were reported to be calling him an “[h]ostler” and hanging bundles of hay on the gatesof Lambeth Palace, alluding, it was supposed, to his first marriage, to his parents-in-law’s trade, and to his having given them a helping hand in the stable yard of their inn7.Later, however, an alternative explanation was proffered. Cranmer’s critics were notbeing quite so offensive: they were simply referring to his not having secured a(prestigious) undergraduate place in one of the few colleges that had them, never havingdone better than live and pay his own way, without patron or benefactor, in a hostel.8 Itis not, of course, necessary to choose between the two interpretations: some who,whether in Cambridge or London, knew something of Cranmer’s background may haverepeated the slur for one reason, some for the other, and some for both. For if, asMacCulloch is inclined to think9, the Dolphin was kept by relatives not of his wife, butof his mother, it is quite feasible that the fatherless lad was first sent by her to live withthem, that he worked for them to earn money so that he could study in the University,and that when he had saved enough he joined one of the hostels and became a student.This hypothesis would also explain why it took him so long to become a B.A.

The second difficulty with the traditional story relates to the first – pre-marital –fellowship at Jesus. He could not have married at all – or not, at any rate, without a papaldispensation – if he had already been in holy orders as either sub-deacon, deacon orpriest, for the canon law of the western church imposed celibacy on all in major orders,and there has never been any suggestion that he needed, let alone sought, or had thefinancial wherewithal, or the time, to seek a dispensation to marry. Yet of the eight‘fellowships’ at Jesus in the mid-1510s only one – that of ‘Stanley’s Scholar’ – wastenable by someone who was not already a priest.10 Cranmer might have been (albeitbriefly) Stanley’s Scholar, or he might have had some sort of promise of nomination for

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5 MacCulloch, p.99.6 [Arthur Gray (ed.)] The Earliest Statutes of Jesus College, Cambridge (Privately printed, Cambridge 1935), Cap. III7 MacCulloch, pp. 169–70.8 William Harrison, The Description of England (1587), edited by Georges Edelen (Ithaca 1968) p.79.9 MacCulloch, p.21, n.20.10 Earliest Statutes, caps. II and V.


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a fellowship – it was the Bishop who appointed – if and when he was ordained a priest,a promise which necessarily lapsed when he married. We do not know. But if it was apromise that he had received note would have to be taken of the technical legal point thatuntil the College was issued with its first set of statutes by BishopWest in 1516/17 all thefellowships at Jesus were, strictly speaking, only embryonic – though, no doubt,everyone who had been working to establish the College out of the nunnery’s ruinsexpected them to be brought to birth.

The third difficulty in determining how and when to place Cranmer at Jesus and, inparticular, about the story of his re-election to a fellowship after his first wife’s death,arises from the fact that we do not know when exactly he was ordained priest, and sobecame eligible to hold whichever one of the college’s fellowships/scholarships becamevacant. The Ely ordination registers for the years 1520–1533 are missing. But since hewas licensed in 1520 by the University (pursuant to a papal grant) to preach in all thedioceses of the British Isles it seems likely that he was ordained in 1520 or 1521 at aboutthe time he became a Bachelor of Divinity11. We do, however, know from Bishop West’sregister who the Fellows (supported from the nunnery properties) were between1516/17, when the College’s first statutes came into force, and 1528 when that bishop’sregister stops – and Cranmer had left Cambridge. His name is not among them. Hemight, of course, have been appointed one of the Scholars, the priests of the familychantries in the Chapel – we do not know. Once he had become a D.D., as he did in 1526,he would have been altogether too grand to be a mere Scholar of Jesus – a job forsomeone at the beginning of his career. Fellows of colleges were not then the academicaristocracy of Cambridge that they were to become in the twentieth century.

This is not, however, quite the end of either the traditional, or even this more sceptical,account. The traditional one, as we have seen, has it that during his first, brief, marriage,Cranmer supported himself and his wife by taking the job of Reader (Lecturer) atBuckingham College. No records of Buckingham College survive, nor is anyone else,either before or since, known to have been a Reader there12. It is, indeed, hard to see whythe monks should have needed the services of a young married graduate to teach themwhen they had a good many older and more experienced graduates among their ownmonastic brethren. But there may have been some confusion in the memories ofCranmer’s earliest biographers about what he had said about his early life – confusionbetween where he lived during, or immediately after, his marriage, and the post hesubsequently had as a university teacher of theology. Themonks of BuckinghamCollegeare known at this period to have let out rooms along their frontage on what is nowMagdalene Street, not far from the Dolphin13. While at Jesus, Sir John Rysley, one of theCollege’s founders, had not only paid for the rebuilding of the nave of the Chapel andthe extension and re-roofing of the cloisters, he had also endowed a Readership inTheology, with a quarterly stipend of 8 marks, tenable by someone who was at least aB.D.14, a degree which Cranmer had (as we have seen) obtained by 1522. One of his earlybiographers, his secretary Ralph Morice, says that he held this post15. Like theReadership (lectureship) that Chief Justice Rede was, along with his family chantry inthe Chapel, shortly to establish, the holder’s duties were envisaged as lying in the


11 B.D.s hoping to become D.D.s were required to preach in both London (at Paul’s Cross) and Cambridge:Damien Leader, A History of the University of Cambridge vol. I (Cambridge 1988) pp. 174-175.

12 Peter Cunich et al, A History of Magdalene College, Cambridge 1428–1988 (Cambridge 1994) p.26.13 Ibid.14 Earliest Statutes, caps. XXII and XVIII.15 MacCulloch, p.23; J.G. Nicholas (ed.) Narratives of the Reformation Camden Soc., 1st series, vol. 77 (London

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University’s Schools – it was simply that it was both more practical and prudent to vestthe endowment, and the appointment of the Reader, in a college rather than in theUniversity: University and College could then keep an eye on each other16. But a job witha quarterly stipend of 8 marks would have disqualified its holder from aFellowship/Scholarship at Jesus which had to be vacated when the Fellow/Scholarobtained a parish or had an income of more than 5marks17. There would, however, havebeen no reasonwhy Rysley’s Reader should not, and several reasons why he should, havelived for some years at Jesus with its Fellows and Scholars, as a ‘perindenant’, paying forhis board and lodging, but nonetheless a Jesuan18 – a stay that was reflected in thatChristmas present of an archiepiscopal buck.

It was, it seems, just as well that the monument to Cranmer, which was placed in 1889 –the four hundredth anniversary of his birth – in the Chapel’s south transept, should saynothing about precisely what his connection with the College was.

Peter Glazebrook, Emeritus Fellow


16 Similarly, endowments for the Jesus Grammar School were managed by Pembroke College.17 Earliest Statutes, cap. II.18 Ibid., cap. I.


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The Science and Human Dimension Project

Many of the Fellows and Fellow Commoners are responsible for projects and initiatives based at the college,encompassing a wide variety of disciplines. This article and the succeeding two describe just three of these.

The Science and Human Dimension Project began in 1990 as a Jesus College initiative in thefield of public understanding of science. Our purpose is to bring scientists and sciencemediapeople together to discuss issues of current interest, especially where science has an impacton human identity and society. Our hope, always, is to persuade the sciencemedia (includingpublishers, film makers, TV programme controllers, print and broadcast journalists), toreport what science tells us about nature and human nature more thoughtfully andresponsibly. Over the years a number of books have been published as a result of ourconferences, on topics such as reductionism, consciousness, depression and styles ofexplanation.

In this past academic year the project has been involved in two currently vibrant areas ofscience, philosophy, and ethics. Professor Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion provokedsome lively responses from us, and the political and social furore over hybrid embryos drewus into a heated national debate on bioethics. John Cornwell (director of the project)published his book Darwin’s Angel: An Angelic Riposte to the God Delusion last autumn; it offers alight but occasionally barbed response to Dawkins’s aggressive atheism. He managed todebate one or two central points with Dawkins himself on the BBC’s Today programme(including the allegation that religionwas a dangerous virus of themind), and there followeda series of further broadcasts, reviews and rumbustious exchanges on various blog sites, notleast Dawkins’ own.

The publication of Darwin’s Angel elicited a spate of commissions on the question, resultingin some thirty articles by Cornwell in the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, theTablet, and elsewhere. The book (published by Profile) has now appeared in five languages,and in theU.S.A.. Under the auspices of the Jesus College project, Cornwell has given a seriesof talks and lectures in schools and universities on science and religion, including at theHeadmasters’ Conference 2008 Annual General Meeting in London.

On the bio-ethics side, Cornwell was invited onto the BBCMoralMazeprogramme, and servedon the publicH.F.E.A. consultancy panel in London to debate the issue of hybrid embryos.Hehas taken a balanced approach, rejecting the scaremongering ‘monster’ allegations, butnoting thatmany other countries – includingGermany, France, Italy, Japan, and theUS –haveentertained reservations. The project also held the first of two symposia on human embryoresearch in the college. The first, last spring in Upper Hall, conducted by ten leadingphilosophers of religion and theologians, discussed the philosophical, scriptural andtheological definitions of the ‘soul’. The group concluded that the Cartesian body-soul split(often invoked in the debate)was not endorsed bymainstream Judaic-Christian tradition: thatthe soul, in other words, was ‘embodied’ rather than separate or ‘infused’. We plan a furthermeeting, involving working stem-cell scientists and bioethicists, in the coming year.

In September 2007., the annual project conference met to debate the relationship betweenphilosophy and religious belief. Twenty philosophers participated, and their contributionsare to be published next year by Continuum. One of the leading chapters has been written by

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the late Peter Lipton, former head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science inCambridge. Peter was a generous supporter of our project, taking part in six of our pastconferences and contributing to three of our published books. The symposium and theresulting book are dedicated to his memory.

In other publishing ventures, following the interest sparked by the Dawkins debate, theproject has commissioned a series of books in realms of science and religion (not our normalcentre of interest): covering the histories of cosmology, mathematics, physics, biology (ornatural history) and chemistry. Peter Bussey, of the Department of Physics at Glasgow and aformer Ph.D. student at Jesus, is working on the physics book. Other books commissionedunder the project include an autobiographical account of a working neuroscientist by thedistinguished MR.C. researcher Geoffrey Raisman, and a study of the consequences of theNagasaki bomb by Peter McGill.

The highlight of our year was the celebration of the centenary of the birth of JacobBronowski., whose career is touched on in the Master’s message earlier in this AnnualReport. The project commissioned Professor George Steiner to deliver a lecture in LadyMitchell Hall, introduced by Professor Stephen Heath. Professor Steiner, with hischaracteristic eloquence, gave us a wide-ranging vision of the connections between poetry,narrative, science, philosophy and theology down the ages, and thereby paid tribute to thehumane and all-embracing openness of the late Jacob Brownowski.

Current developments include the research into awebsite, provisionally entitledOpen-Oped,to function as a community of writers, institutions, periodicals and publishing, on topics ofinterest in history and philosophy of science. A former assistant director of the project,Tomás Carruthers, now amember of the Society of St Radegund, has been helping with thisinitiative, and the site is now at pilot stage. In the coming year we intend re-launching (yetagain) the Coleridge Society, as a focus for outside speakers and forming connectionsbetween different disciplines. The Coleridge Society will be aimed at students as well as thefellowship. The project also intends offering advice to students interested in careers in themedia, and especially the science media.

In addition to the conference onhuman embryo science, the project is planning a symposiumfor autumn 2009 on the history of mathematics from 1800 with special focus onmathematical ‘Platonism’.

John Cornwell, Fellow Commoner

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The Cambridge International Symposium onEconomic Crime

Over the last twenty six years the college has organised and hosted on an annual basisone of the most successful international meetings for those concerned with stability andthe integrity of the world’s financial system. Over this period well over ten thousandministers, senior diplomats, judges, academics and officials from a variety ofintergovernmental and national agencies have been prepared to spend a week in collegeat the annual International Symposium on Economic Crime. The symposium wasestablished with the backing of Commonwealth governments and the InternationalChamber of Commerce in 1981 to provide a vehicle for those with responsibility forprotecting their economies from criminal and subversive destabilisation, to explore theissues, facilitate understanding and promote mutual assistance. Meeting initially in theUpper Hall at Jesus College, the plenary sessions migrated to the Law Faculty’s EastRoom in the Old Schools, then to the Guildhall and for the last seven years to anencampment of very large marquees on our hockey field. Last year we had well over 900participants from 84 different countries, including thirty one Ambassadors and HighCommissioners.

The symposium usually commences on Sunday evening and runs through to thefollowing Sunday morning. Last year being our twenty fifth anniversary the concludingdinner was combined with a mini-May ball. The ball was a great success and wassupported by several ancient livery companies in the City of London. Over the years theCorporation of the City of London has supported our deliberations and usually the LordMayor or one of the Sheriffs closes the formal proceedings. There are, of course, manyin the City and its institutions that have a very real interest in the symposium’s role.While the symposium has traditionally been supported by governments and theirvarious agencies, a significant proportion of those participating are from the world’sleading financial institutions and the professional firms that service them.

The programme is intense, commencing with pre-breakfast meetings and ending in thecollege bar – usually well after midnight. Last year there were 325 speakers and this yearwe expect to exceed this number. Those invited to speak, none for more than tenminutes, range from UK cabinet ministers and governors of central banks to police andintelligence officers working at the ‘coalface’. Having regard to the significance which isnow accorded to the financial aspects of serious crime and in particular terrorism, thelevel of participation by financial and banking regulators together with bodies such asthe World Bank and IMF, has increased significantly. Given the multi-disciplinary issuesthat arise there are always a significant number of participants from the private sectorand the professions. Senior academics and researchers, primarily from business and lawschools from around the world, regularly participate and assist in the organisation. Inaddition to the plenary sessions, which are often run in parallel, there are numerousworkshops in which specific issues can be examined, perhaps withmore confidence andcandour than in the more open proceedings. While journalists are encouraged toparticipate in its deliberations the symposium has never courted publicity and does notallow reporting of its proceedings.

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The University of Cambridge has always been involved with the symposium, initiallythrough the Law Faculty and now on a rather broader basis. Today interest within theuniversity ranges from the Computer Security Labs to the Development StudiesCommittee. The organising institutions behind the symposium include, in addition toCambridge, many other leading research institutions from around the world, includingfor example, the University of Siena, University of Hong Kong and University of Tokyo.The symposium also receives the support of many governments and internationalbodies. Over the last couple of years the newly established International Association ofAnti-Corruption Agencies working closely with the UN, has taken a significant role inpromoting the programme. The proceedings of the symposium are published in severalinternational journals associated with the Centre for International Documentation onOrganised and Economic Crime (CIDOEC) which was established in 1989 to promotecomparative study and research in this area. One of the strengths of the symposium isthat it is run on a non-profit making basis and no one with the exception of an excellentand over-worked part-time administrator receives any remuneration. During theproceedings we place a great deal of reliance on volunteer members of the secretariat.When we started a quarter of a century ago, many of these were students at the universityand in particular members of the college. While today many are successful practitionersit is gratifying that many find the time to come back and roll up their sleeves. As thesymposium has grown so has the need for assistance. In addition to our aging regulars,we invite research students from universities around the world to assist us and weusually have a small additional contingent of volunteers from the police.

Over the years within the international community of those concerned with governanceand stability Jesus College has acquired a very real and well appreciated reputation inproviding a unique opportunity for governments and many other academic and businessinstitutions to share knowledge and experience in protecting the integrity of oureconomies. The goodwill and friendships that have developed over the years, not leastbetween delegates and members of the college’s staff, have played and continue to play arole that not many appreciate. The contribution that we make, in my view, is indicated bythe warmth of greeting that our lodge invariably offers, on a first name basis, to some ofthe world’s leading regulators and prosecutors. This is an enterprise that although ofrecognised international significance operates in the main below the radar of many.Indeed, the organisers well appreciate the demands the symposium places on the collegeand are always most grateful for the support and forbearance of the Master and Fellows.

Professor Barry Rider, Fellow Commoner

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Jesus on the Silk Road

Jesus College has a long and vibrant connection with the Silk Road. One could easily imagineIlya Gershevitch talking his way through all the way from Venice to Khotan in western Chinain all the myriad languages spoken across this vast span and it wouldn’t have mattered if itwas in the early BC era or yesterday! Or for thatmattermanywill have heard of Bruce Ponder’ssojourn through the legendary mountain passes into Afghanistan and on to Samarkand andBukhara while he worked as a young intern in Pakistan. So, not many as much as batted aneyelid, when soon after my election as a ‘physics Fellow’ I started to ramble on about myexploits in Tajik highlands, Bukharan Madrassas or the ever warm, six thousand squarekilometre large Issyk-Kul Lake in Kyrgyzstan at dinners and lunches in college.

While the world was falling apart with twin towers coming down and talk of revenge andwarraged, some of us in Cambridge launched a new initiative in the form of Cambridge CentralAsia Forum in 2001 (then under the nameCambridge Committee for Central and Inner Asia).Its efforts were, and remain, concentrated on promoting research within establisheddisciplines, as well as encouraging new multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research onCentral and Inner Asia. This found great resonance withmany Fellows and students in Jesus,promoted often by natural interdisciplinary realms like theHighTable andGraduateDinners.

2008 has seen seven years of the Forum’s existence with demonstration of a very high level ofinterest in the field, not only among Jesus and Cambridge based scholars and students, butalso internationally. Jesus has provided a home from where it has been possible to build onthe work of the initial period to develop a longer term mechanism to support existinginitiatives and to promote new work in the region.

Traditionally, the Silk Road has signified a route for trade, especially silk and spices as it is alsooften called the Spice Route. But it is as important in the memory and imagination of scholarsas a means of travel for scholars and people that enabled the exchange of ideas, increasedknowledge of ‘foreign places’ and proved to be the gateway for transmission of cultures acrossregions. In the past, the contact between the east and thewest was between empires. But, JesusFellows and scholars have rekindled an overwhelming interest in Central Asia and are moving

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along swiftly on the SilkRoad armedwithprojects on academic ideas, people topeople contact,a passion for learning and the desire to increase access to knowledge that the Central Asianregion has long represented, through collaboration with local scholars and communities.

Jesus College has provided a welcoming abode for the activities that have allowed theCambridge Central Asia Forum to engage with the Central Asian nations for the last sevenyears. Fellows of Jesus College have proved to be great promoters of not only academicexchanges of ideas but also social and cultural interactions. In March 2006 Jesus Chapel wasthe venue for the celebration of the Central Asian New Year, ‘Navruz’. The celebrationsincludedperformers fromKazakhstan,Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan aswell as Iran andXingjian province of Western China, food provided by the embassies of Uzbekistan andKazakhstan in theU.K. and an exhibitionof handicrafts and clothes from the SilkRoad. Itwasattended generously by Jesus Fellows and also academics from all over the University ofCambridge numbering more than two hundred. Traditional Classical, Folk and regionaladaptations of western classical music were made even more wonderful by the superbacoustics and ambiance of Jesus Chapel.

Jesus high table has welcomed ambassadors and ministers from Central Asia yearly since2002. Ambassadors from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan have enjoyed thehospitality of theMaster and Jesuans on a regular basis. College feasts have been attended byacademics and dignitaries of all Central Asian nations on more than one occasion. With theencouragement of the Master and many of the Fellows, the impetus has particularly gainedsince 2007, and in 2008 several official visits by Kazakh and Uzbek colleagues has led tocementing of research ties andmany new projects are in the offing. For example, we hope tolaunch the U.K.’s first ever dedicated lecture series named after the greats like Alberuni(author of the ‘canon’), Alkhowerzmi (after whom the algorithm is named) etc. to bringtogether eminent and emerging scholars from the U.K. and Central Asia region. One look atthe madrassas of Bukhara makes their similarity with Cambridge colleges apparent. Bothstarted as religious institutions, almost at the same time in the history, and evolved into seatsof plural learning. Such likeness almost invokes a sense of spiritual connectedness betweenthe two places and collaboration becomemost natural.

Central Asia Forum has relied on Jesus to host many scholars from the region in variousacademic disciplines. The college has proved to be among the fondest memories of thescholars’ visits to the UK and remains uppermost in the imaginations of scholars whobenefited greatly in their academic exchanges thanks to the warmwelcome accorded to themthroughout their stay here. Prof Alisher Faizullaev, who was a member of the high-tablerecently, this year, published a number of academic and popular articles with Jesus as areference point.

Fellows of Jesus College have also been intimately involved with the organisation ofinternational conferences in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Shanghai, Japan and London. Keyamong them were the international conference in Tsukuba, Japan, entitled ‘CASC, CentralAsian Studies: History and Politics’ in December 2007, and ‘MSM07, Magnetic andSuperconducting Materials Conference’ in Khiva, Uzbekistan in September 2007. Themeetings were co-sponsored by the Cambridge Central Asia Forum with the University ofTokyo, University of Tsukuba, Japan and Stockholm University in the case of the former andby the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences and Tehran University in the latter. The conferenceswere a booming success and encouraged interdisciplinary approaches. Dr. Shailaja Fennell,who is the director of research for the Forum, and I were both on the organising committeeof the Tsukuba conference and I co-chaired theKhivameeting. Prajakti Kalra, a Jesus student,delivered a talk on the relationship between Gulf Cooperation Council and Uzbekistan at theTsukuba meeting and Lezsek Spalek, another college student, presented his work onquantum criticality and spin and charge systems at the Khiva meeting.


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Collaboration between scholars from Jesus College and Central Asia has also resulted inDr Shailaja Fennell organising a panel on ‘Reconfiguring Central Asia’ in the conferenceentitled ‘International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS)’ in Shanghai. The individualpapers on the panel examined the implications of continuities and discontinuities within thespheres of literature, religion, education and economy to investigate themanner in which theready translations in academic disciplines map the perplexing movements such as thosebetween tradition and modernity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, and between themarket and the state. Dr. Fennell’s talk entitled, ‘Prices and Planning: Evaluating economictransitions in Central Asia’, focused on the investigation of the newly independent CentralAsian nations after the collapse of the Soviet Union and to locate these transition economiesin the global market. The paper concluded that the complete shift from the plan to marketprices advocated by neoclassical economists is faulty, firstly because the countries of thisregion did not experience a typical Soviet trajectory and secondly because the neoclassicalapproach to economic transitions disregards the role of economic ideologies in depicting thedevelopment pathways of these countries. I presented a paper on ‘Resilience of AcademicIdentity and Institutional Influence in Central Asia’ which showcased continuities anddiscontinuities in Central Asia from the perspective of respect for education and scholarsfrom the time that Central Asia on the Silk Road represented the forefront of knowledge anddiscovery to their Soviet experience and their entrance into the world as independentcountries after 1991.

In 2006–2007 Central Asia Forum and Jesus came together in earnest as a project, entitled‘Documenting Local Knowledge in Central Asia’, won a grant awarded by the ChristensonFund in California, and Jesus generously agreed to administer the grant for us through thegood offices of Richard Dennis and Stephen Barton. This project involves a core of JesusFellows with UK academics and academics from Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan andKyrgyzstan). The Cambridge team is largely composed of Jesus Fellows – myself as ananthropologist and physicist, Shailaja Fennel as an economist and development specialist,Helen Skaer as zoologist, Helen MacDonald as ornithologist and anthropologist and DavidHankey as the team’s botanist. The project signifies the approach that not only gives localcommunities the necessary position of guiding research according to the needs and demandsof the research communities in Central Asia but also focuses on an inherentlyinterdisciplinary approach of finding solutions and influencing local policy makers.

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Scientists and social scientists from Jesus College are involved in this project and havebenefited positively while encouraging rebuilding of ties and networks within the CentralAsian academic communities which had come apart after the break up of the Soviet Unionand the subsequent independence of these countries. Fellows of Jesus College showed adetermined approach of promoting cross-disciplinary interaction which is similar to thefunction of the college networks in theUniversity of Cambridge. In the grant period, local andinternational academics and practitioners came together through series of researchmeetingsin which the CCAF team travelled out to Central Asia. There were also two field trips, one inKyrgyzstan, conducted entirely by a local NGO with national academic researchers and thesecond one in Uzbekistan with local and national experts and Helen MacDonald of Jesus asthe team leader. The year’s work culminated in a regional workshop, the first such meetingsince the collapse of the Soviet Union, bringing colleagues from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan andKyrgyzstan and Cambridge Central Asia Forum together. In February 2007 this workshoptook place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, both Helen MacDonald and Shailaja Fennell’scontributions were key to the success of this meeting.

While we prepare for the next step and new projects, more and more support flows towardsus from within the college. Peter Nolan has shown keen interest in guiding us on manyimportant academic and organisational matters and in a variety of ways Nicholas Ray, JanaHowlett, Anthony Bowen,MichaelWaring, James Clackson, Colin Renfrew, James Crawford,Bill Saslaw, Roberto Cipolla and Geoff Harcourt have helped and promoted our activities.

TheMaster, and indeed,Margaret Mair have been the backbone of the Forum’s collaborationwith Jesus. And with the Master’s own experience at the China end of the Silk Road, he hasenthusiastically encouraged inclusion of Central Asia in Jesus’ international outlook.

Perhaps the most exciting outcome of this project has been the arrival of students from theregion in Cambridge. A Jesus student from Kyrgyz Republic, Asel Sartbaeva, completed aPh.D. under Simon Redfern to become the first ever Kyrgyz to do a Ph.D. in Cambridge.Temur Yunusov, fromUzbekistan, recently admitted to Jesus, will be doing his Ph.D. inHelenSkaer’s lab in the zoology department. He was described by a senior member of thatdepartment as perhaps the brightest student in twenty years to have been admitted. As, afterall, bright young students are what the college is all about, we are very happy to have startedthis process and look forward to bringing this new breed of purveyors of knowledge from theSilk Road to Jesus.

More information of Central Asia Forum can be found on: www.cambridge-centralasia.org

Montu Saxena, Fellow Commoner

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Khwarazmian girls welcome Jesus conference delegates in Khiva, Uzbekistan

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The Hudleston Organ

Following a most generous donation from Mr James Hudleston, the chapel now boastsa magnificent new organ of twomanuals and pedals, with 31 stops. Built by the Swiss firmof Orgelbau Kuhn, and installed in the chapel in the summer of 2007, this, theirfirst instrument in the U.K., has attracted great interest and superlative reviews in themusical press.

As a replacement for the Mander organ of 1971, the Hudleston organ sits in the sameposition, alongside the beautiful Sutton organ of 1849. Designed primarily for theaccompaniment of choral music and as a tool for the training of the organists of the future,the new organ boasts a large palette of colours which combine to fill the building withsound, both in the chancel and in the ante-chapel. Whilst it is difficult to describe thesesounds and combinations in words, the broad foundation of 8’ pitched stops, the bubblyflutes, the bright choruses and characterful reed colours all enable the organ to speak withan eclectic accent, easily adaptable to the wide range of styles and nationalities within theorgan repertoire.

For the technically minded, the specification of the organ is as follows:

GREAT SWELLBourdon 16 Geigen Diapason 8Open Diapason 8 Lieblich gedact 8Harmonic Flute 8 Salicional 8Stopped Diapason 8 Celeste 8Gamba 8 Dolce 8Principal 4 Principal 4Flute 4 Chimney Flute 4Quinte 2 2/3 Nazard 2 2/3Fifteenth 2 Octave 2Mixture IV Tierce 1 3/5Trumpet 8 Plein Jeu IVTremulant Oboe 8

Trumpet 8Tremulant

PEDAL COUPLERSLieblich Bourdon * 16 SW/GTSubbass 16 SW/GT subViolone 16 GT/PEDPrincipal 8 SW/PEDStopped Diapason * 8 SW/PED superGamba * 8Octave 4Posaune 16Trumpet * 8* on transmission

8 divisional pistons to SW, GT and PED on 200 levels8 general pistons on 200 levels

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Commissioning a new organ is a lengthy process, and the advice and assistance of manycolleagues was invaluable. We were delighted to welcome James O’Donnell to give theinaugural recital as part of the Society of St Radegund celebrations on 21 June 2008. Aformer organ scholar of the college and now organist and master of the choristers atWestminster Abbey, James’ programme provided a masterful tour of the instrument’scapabilities, and highlighted both the college’s reputation as a training ground fororganists and its subsequent need for such a world-class instrument in order to carry onthis important work.

Daniel Hyde, Director of Chapel Music

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20,000 Lives – Telling the Story of Jesuans Past

Many thousands of college members have lived and worked here since 1496 and theirdetails are all stored in the archives. From October 2007 until June 2008 a team of six ofus worked to draw these sources together and compile a database of old members.

This contains information about names, schools, college activities and subsequentcareers of old members dating from early in the sixteenth century until the present. Aswell as information about admissions, which runs from 1618 onwards, we have therecords made by some remarkable characters from more recent history to draw upon.

Arthur Gray spent his life at the college after entering as an undergraduate in 1870 andwas Master from 1912 until his death in 1940. He was fascinated by the history of thecollege and studied it extensively, making notes on every student to have passed throughthe doors between 1618 and 1820. The notes are so extensive that the project team havewondered how he ever found time to be Master! Arthur Gray’s notes really bringcharacters to life. Robert Griffin (1621) was expelled for ‘disobedience and striking thepresident and some of the Fellows’; obviously there was a bit of a personality clash goingon! The later careers of some old members also drew Gray’s attention, from highachievers to naughty clergymen. For example John Sharpington (1638) who was accusedby his parishioners of neglecting church offices and playing cards at night.

We also have books kept by Muriel Brittain, who died in 2006, which chronicle the livesof more recent college members. The twentieth century saw a population explosion ofundergraduates, particularly after the two world wars. While earlier generations oftenbecame clergymen, Muriel’s books chronicle a much wider range of occupations andlocations for Jesuans. There is an early Chilean connection in J.A.S. Jackson (1920), bornin Valparaiso who founded St George’s School in Santiago. This links into a more recent

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connection with Chile, as Macarena Ibarra, recent graduate student and archives staffmember, now sends her daughter to that same school.

In the twentieth century the lives of many Jesuans were changed or tragically cut short bywar. Perhaps the most colourful example is Captain Wilfred Nevill (1913), who was oneof the 19,000 killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Knowing what a test ofcourage was to come, he got hold of two footballs and led his men into no man’s landdribbling them. The incident was seized upon as propaganda by both sides. Here itinspired a patriotic painting and a poem. But the Germans used it to portray the Britishas a bunch of games-obsessed idiots!

On a happier note, few families have equalled the Le Gros family from Jersey, who sentfour generations of the family to Jesus between 1848 and 1941. We have found severalthree-generation Jesus families and indeed Katherine Cooper, one of the projectinputters, is the third generation of her family to attend the college, following her fatherand grandfather. As far as we know, Katherine’s family is one of only four three-generation families to include a woman.

We have over 20,000 names of Jesuans in the database. The names change very little overthe centuries and are mostly very conventional and from the Bible: Thomas and Johnhave probably been most popular across the years. Our best name so far has beenCookson Haddock of Scrooby (1783): a name that surely belongs in Black Addersomewhere!

The college archivists now have access to this very valuable resource in answeringenquiries about old members, which mainly originate from scholars, family historiansand family members. We were recently able to help a lady whose father was here in 1940and who was subsequently killed in the Second World War. Now in her 60s, she hadbeen told very little about him and hoped to find out more. Using the database we wereable to find some details of his college career, a short article about his death from thelocal paper and amatriculation photograph, all information that she hadn’t seen before.

Access is currently restricted to archives staff, but we hope to have a version showingdata about pre-twentieth-century old members available online next year As the DataProtection Act restricts access to personal data about living individuals, access toinformation about more recent old members will remain limited to archives staff for thetime being, but enquiries are always welcome. Please write to the college archives or e-mail [email protected]

The database was created by John Baker of the Jesus IT Department. Thanks are due toJohn and his IT colleagues for much valuable help and support. Our inputters have beenKatherine Cooper, Lucy Razzall and Christian Rodriguez (Jesus graduate students),Naomi Farrington (a graduate student from Corpus Christi) and Clare Barker and ClaireLea from outside the college.

Susan Sneddon, Records Manager

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Years Ago

Eighty years ago

From the Annual Report for 1928

‘For some years it has been realized that the College has too few rooms for the numberof men in residence. It does not seem likely that our numbers will again drop far belowtwo hundred and fifty, and the present buildings only accommodate about a hundredmen; scholars have rooms for three years, and of the rest a considerable number neverget into College at all. That is a deprivation which is keenly felt bymany, and it is difficultfor a man who never has a College room to enjoy the full privileges of College life. So atlast the bold decision has been reached to add a new block to the College. Mr MorleyHorder has designed a building which is in some sense a continuation of the Carpenterbuilding familiarly known as Chapel Court, with a return block at right angles extendinginto the Master’s garden. The result will be that the East end of the Chapel will stand outinto a new court, wherein nearly fifty new sets of rooms will be provided. The costthreatens to be heavy because only the best workmanship and materials can be used insuch a scheme, and a new road will have to be made to the East of the present approachto Chapel Court; also a great deal of work will be involved in laying out the new court.But the plans have been vary carefully considered, and it is confidently expected thatwhen the building is finished it will be a permanent adornment to our beautiful College.The foundations are now being digged, and our optimistic bursar hopes to have the newrooms ready for occupation in October 1929.’

From The Chanticlere for Lent term 1928

‘Proper fish-knives are to be introduced into College Hall – (what about introducingproper fish?)’

From The Chanticlere for Easter term 1928

‘We hear tales of the return of the duel to Oxford; suspicious sounds coming from theFellows’ Garden have led us to suspect that our promised fish-knives have beentemporarily diverted there for purposes of Gladiatorial training in anticipation of itsappearance in Cambridge.’

Seventy years ago

From The Chanticlere for May term 1938

‘This term has been saddened by the loss of Steve Fairbairn, who died in London recentlyafter a long illness….

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Mrs Steve Fairbairn writes:

I hope you can read the enclosed very badly written note – it was written in Steve’s room,almost in the dark – he liked the room kept very dark, as he thought it helped him tosleep and one day, just a few days before he died he said he would like to send you a note,and would I write it – and the enclosed is what he dictated to me…it was one of the lastwishes Steve expressed….

The Enclosure runs thus:

I claim no ‘Fairbairnism’, I always acted on the principle of teaching a man to learn torow his oar – the whole of working an oar is getting a spring and then the draw throughand then the turn on the feather – then holding the oar perfectly balanced all the wayforward. This requires a lot of hard concentrated work but is the only way to learn torow. Will you stick this in the College Magazine. Yours, S.’

Sixty years ago

From The Chanticlere for Michaelmas term 1948

‘The potatoes that had been grown on the big piece of land between Chapel Court andVictoria Avenue have been harvested. The land is to lie fallow till September, when it isto be sown with grass.’

‘C. B. R. Barton stroked the British crew in the Olympics at Henley which won all itsraces except the final against America’ [Christopher Barton (1945) was captain of JCBC1947–48, and president of the Rhadegunds 1948] [See also Members’ News: People: T.A. Stallard.]

‘A Cambridge Primer, for the use of freshmen, bedders, Oxonians, Stalin and the Editor of Granta.

1 Some statements and opinionsThe rent of a college room varies in inverse proportion to its size.A college breakfast has tradition but no magnitude…..A lecture is the period between breakfast and coffee.Coffee is the period between breakfast and lunch.All college rooms face north.

2 Conversation Pieces‘I understand rowing is actually forbidden at King’s.’‘She won’t take her B.A. because she can’t bear the New Look.’‘Of course the latest theory is that Fairbairn wrote the Ancient Mariner.’

3 Question and AnswerQ. What are you reading?A. Varsity.

4 Useful HintsAlways remember that every essay you write will probably become a chapter in yoursupervisor’s next book.

If you are stopped by a proctor, and cannot remember the name of your college, do notpanic. Describe its architecture to him carefully. If he cannot identify it, either he is animposter or you are at Selwyn.

Always salute porters. They probably had commissions.’


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Forty years ago


‘Laurence Sterne, one of the most celebrated of all Jesuans, died on 18March 1768….Theundergraduates contributed to the bicentenary celebration by reading Tristram Shandyaloud from beginning to end in relays – the reading took 22 hours – by the reading of ASentimental Journey (which, needless to say, took less time) and by the re-delivery of someof Stern’s printed sermons in chaple. As far as we know they had never been heard inchapel before.’

‘During the year a quartet of junior members of the College took part in the televisioncompetition, ‘University Challenge’. After defeating in turn the Universities ofManchester, Durham, Bristol, Kent and Birmingham, they were beaten in the final by theUniversity of Keele. The Jesus team was R. L. Hutt, G. P. W. Jenkins (Captain), J. M.Richards, and F. R. Thornley. The sad death of RichardHutt between the recording of thevarious contests and their broadcasting is noted elsewhere in this issue.’

Ten years ago


‘On the evening of the Rustat Feast, 15 May, the stained glass window in the GardenRoom of the Quincentenary Library was inaugurated by Professor Lord Renfrew. Thisexciting abstract window was designed by Graham Jones, an internationally recognisedartist, whose recent window for Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey has won greatacclaim. The window was executed by John Reyntiens, a glass artist noted for his skillsin both new and traditional techniques. At the same time the window showing the armsof Lord Renfrew impaled with those of the College in a window at the North end of thescreens passage was celebrated; this window, the gift of the Fellows to mark theretirement of Lord Renfrew as Master, was designed and made by John Reyntiens.’


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Master and Fellows:

The Master was elected senior vice president of the Royal Academy of Engineering on 7 July 2008.

The Pilkington Prizes are awarded by the University each year to academic or academic-related staff who have distinguished themselves in teaching. This year, three of theeleven winners were Fellows of the college:

• Dr Stephen Hladky is a reader in membrane pharmacology in the Department ofPharmacology. He was secretary of the department’s teaching committee for 17 years,during which time he organised teaching in the department almost single-handed.The University said of him: ‘He has brought a renewed sense of purpose to one of themost important, but at the same time difficult areas of pharmacology, namely theteaching of pharmacokinetics – the study of what the body does to a drug.

• Dr Tim Wilkinson is a university senior lecturer in the Department of Engineering,Division B. The University’s comment on him was: ‘He has a natural gift for teachingand delivers his courses with clarity and with humour. He can inspire first-yearstudents with fundamental electromagnetism and also explain complex specialistmaterial on optics and telecommunications to fourth year Masters’ students. Tim hasan impressive record in teaching innovation, including his contribution to‘Displaymasters’ – a unique multi-centre Masters’ programme focused entirely ondisplay technology.

• Dr Stuart Clarke is a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and the BPInstitute. The University said: ‘He conducts his teaching and research in the area ofcolloidal and interface science, where he has succeeded in communicating the field’sexcitement and relevance. Sometimes undergraduates are more comfortable goingone step at a time, but Stuart’s excellent teaching techniques have enabled hisundergraduate students to grasp the fundamental science and its wider implicationsmore quickly.’

With effect from 1 October 2008, University readerships are to be established for Dr PaulAlexander and Dr Natalia Berloff.

Professor Alastair Compston, head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, wasawarded the 2007 Charcot Award of the Multiple Sclerosis Research Federation, forlifetime achievement in research into the understanding and treatment of multiplesclerosis.


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Professor Bruce Ponder was knighted, for services to medicine and health care, in the NewYear Honours List for 2008. He was also awarded: (i) the Bertner Award for outstandingcontributions to cancer research: M. D. Anderson Hospital, 2007; (ii) the Alfred G.Knudson Lecture and Award, United States National Cancer Institute, 2008 ‘in recognitionof pioneering contributions that have revolutionised the field of cancer genetics’; and (iii)the Ambuj Nath Bose Prize of the Royal College of Physicians, 2008, which is awardedevery three years for medical research. He delivered the keynote lecture at the AmericanAssociation for Cancer Research Centennial Meeting, 2007, and the Marks/SacklerPresidential Invitation Lecture, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, 2008.

Professor Madeleine Arnot received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University on25 January 2008, for her work in relation to democracy and education.

Dr Véronique Mottier delivered a keynote address titled ‘L’invention de la sexualité’ tothe International Gender Conference of the Graduate Institute of International andDevelopment Studies, Geneva (October 2007).

Professor Julian Dowdeswell was awarded the Founder’s Medal of the Royal GeographicalSociety for 2008, ‘for the encouragement, development and promotion of glaciology’.

Professor Michael O’Brien was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in July 2008.

Dr Miranda Gill was jointly awarded the inaugural 2008 Malcolm Bowie prize from theSociety for French Studies. The Malcolm Bowie prize is awarded for the best article inFrench studies by an early career researcher published each year. Her article was entitledThe Myth of the Female Dandy.

Emeritus Fellows

Professor Michael Waring was invited to organise the Anti-Cancer section of the FirstInternational Conference on Drug Design and Discovery, Dubai, February 2008, and todeliver a plenary lecture. He also joined the editorial boards of The Open Cancer Journal andDrug Design, Development & Therapy.

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Dr Andrew Johnston, who became a class ii Fellow in October 2005, resigned his fellowshipwith effect from 30 September 2008, in order to take up an appointment at the University ofBrisbane, Australia.

Dr Neil Drummond’s tenure as a class iv (i.e. research) Fellow came to an end inSeptember 2008.

The tenure of the Fellow Commoners Dr Chunhang Liu and Professor Jonathan MillsThornton expired on 30 September 2008.

A number of college research associates left during the year:

• The associateships of two, Dr Harriet Hunt and Dr Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín,reached the end of their three-year tenure at the end of November 2007.

• Dr Oliver Hadeler (appointed in 2004) left in October 2007 to take up a fellowship atNew Hall.

• Dr Tijana Ignjatovic (appointed in 2005) resigned her college research associateshipsince she was no longer employed by the University.

• Mr Wenmiao Shu (appointed in 2006) left in October 2007 to take up a lectureship atHeriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

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NNeeww FFeelllloowwss

During 2007–8 the council elected a number of new Fellows.

Dr Brechtje Post, who was elected to a Fellow Commonership on 29 May 2007 (and asummary of whose career appeared in last year’s Annual Report in that connection), hasbeen appointed admissions tutor (arts) with effect from 1 September 2008, and hasbeen elected to a class ii Fellowship during the tenure of this office.

Two class ii Fellows have been elected with effect from 1 October 2008:

Dr Christopher Burlinson was an undergraduate and completed his M.Phil. and Ph.D. at Peterhouse and held a research fellowship at Emmanuel. He is currently asenior research associate in the Faculty of English and, was, until taking up hisFellowship at Jesus College, a fellow in English at Emmanuel College. He has anoutstanding research record – his particular field of expertise is medieval andrenaissance literature and he has considerable experience of teaching over a wide range of subjects. Christopher’s area of research is the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and he is interested in the connections between the English literature of that period and material culture, both the historical contexts inwhich literature was written and the physical and material conditions of reading and writing.

Mr Matthew Dyson read law and completed his Ph.D. at Downing College. He hasimpressed both Downing College and the Faculty of Law with his teaching capabilities.Matthew’s particular fields of interest are English tort law and criminal law,comparative law, modern European legal history and legal education. He hasconsiderable experience of teaching, particularly criminal law.

Ms Tara Alberts has been elected to a class iv (research) Fellowship, with effect from 1 October 2008. Tara is an historian who was a Ph.D. student at Newnham. Her thesis entitled Conflict and conversion on the Catholic missions in South East Asia in the sixteenthand seventeenth centuries takes a comparative approach to the history of catholicmissionaries in the region. It focuses on three areas which represent the main cultural and religious divisions in mainland South East Asia: Siam (Thailand),Cochinchina and Tonkin (modern-day Vietnam) and Malacca (in modern Malaysia),where missionaries encountered different circumstances and situations to which theyhad to adapt. Her thesis is the first study to compare the activities of missionaries fromall religious orders and national backgrounds to produce a connective history ofmissions in South East Asia. She has spent a year undertaking archival research inRome, Paris and Lisbon examining a wide range of documents written in a variety oflanguages.

Dr Francis Bursa has been elected to a class iv (research) Fellowship, with effect from 1 October 2008. Francis is focused on understanding the strong force, one of the fourfundamental interactions in nature, and probably the most complicated to understand.It binds together quarks and gluons to form protons and neutrons, which make up thenuclei of atoms. The strong force is described by the theory of quantumchromodynamics and feeds into one of the current major research areas inunderstanding the fundamental nature of matter. Francis came up to Jesus in 1999 toread natural sciences (physics) and went on to Oxford with a first. In 2006 he wasawarded a D.Phil. for his work in theoretical physics and became a postdoctoral fellowin the strong lattice field theory group in Regensburg before returning to Oxford in 2007 to continue his research.



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On 1 October 2007, two Honorary Fellows were elected:

The Rt. Hon. Sir Roger Toulson, P.C was born in 1946. He was educated at Mill HillSchool; before coming up to Jesus College in 1964 to read law. He was president of theJCR in 1966, and was in the first class in part II of the law tripos 1967, and in the LL.B.examination in 1968. He has had a distinguished career in the law since being called tothe bar (Inner Temple) in 1969. He became a QC in 1986; was a recorder, 1986–96; andbecame a bencher of the Inner Temple in 1995. Sir Roger was appointed a judge of theHigh Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, in 1996, and was presiding judge,Western Circuit, 1997–2002. He was chairman of the Law Commission from 2002 to2006. In 2007 he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was subsequently appointed to thePrivy Council. He was awarded an Hon. LL.D. by the University of the West of England,Bristol, in 2002.

Mr Murray Perahia, F.R.C.M., pianist and conductor, was born in New York in 1947. Mr.Perahia started playing piano at the age of four, and later attended Mannes College, NewYork, where he majored in conducting and composition. He studied piano with JeanetteHaien, M. Horszowski, and Arthur Balsam. He made his début at Carnegie Hall in 1966.In 1972 Mr. Perahia won the Leeds International Piano Competition. In 1973 he gave hisfirst concert at the Aldeburgh Festival, where he worked closely with Benjamin Brittenand Peter Pears, accompanying the latter in many lieder recitals. Mr. Perahia was co-artistic director of the Festival from 1981 to 1989. Murray Perahia performs in all of themajor international music centres and with every leading orchestra. He is the principalguest conductor of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, with whom he has toured asconductor and pianist throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and South East Asia.His numerous recordings include all Mozart’s Piano Concertos, the complete BeethovenPiano Concertos and Chopin’s Etudes, Op. 10 and Op. 25; the latter won both the 2003Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance and Gramophone’s 2003award for Best Instrumental Recording. In 2004, he was awarded an honorary K.B.E. inrecognition of his outstanding service to music. Mr. Perahia is an honorary fellow of theRoyal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, and he holds an honorarydoctorate from Leeds University.

Mr Barry Flanagan, O.B.E., R.A., was elected as an Honorary Fellow on 29 October 2007.Barry Flanagan is a sculptor of international renown. He was born in 1941, and attendedBirmingham College of Arts and Crafts and St Martin’s School of Art. He taught at St Martin’s School of Art and Central School of Art and Design, 1967–71. Works by Mr Flanagan are in numerous private collections and in many outdoor locations. He hasexhibited in many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including: The Museum ofModern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Arts (prints and drawings); BritishPavilion, XL Venice Biennale; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Gallery; Tate,Liverpool,; Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany; Musee d’Art Moderne et d’ArtContemporaine, Nice; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. He has had a longrelationship with Jesus College. He has participated in several Sculpture in the Closeexhibitions, and two of his works are sited in the college grounds: The Cricketer (whichBarry Flanagan has generously donated to the college), and Bronze Horse, the iconic piece in First Court. He has also loaned works by several artists to the student artcollection.



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In 2003 the council agreed that a donor of £1 million or more to the college should berecognised by admission as a ‘St Radegund Fellow’. Such an individual has a status akin tothat of an Honorary Fellow of the college, with the same privileges as an Honorary Fellow.The first such Fellow was elected on 26 November 2007. Mr James Hudleston was born in1952 in Bulawayo, (then) Rhodesia, and educated at Falcon College, near Bulawayo. Hisinitial career was in stockbroking and investment banking in the City before moving intoprivate equity and corporate finance. He is a director of Sunshine Oil & Gas, an Australianenergy company. He divides his time between Australia, Africa, and Europe. His interestsinclude wildlife, sailing, wine and the arts. He was the major benefactor who funded ournew organ in chapel (as to which see the separate article by Daniel Hyde).

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On 15 October 2007, Professor Martti Koskenniemi was elected to a FellowCommonership, during his tenure of the Arthur Goodhart Distinguished Chair in Lawat the Law Faculty, for the year commencing 1 October 2008. Professor Koskenniemi isFinnish and is a professor of international law at the University of Helsinki (since 1994)and director of The Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights (since1997). He has been visiting professor at New York University School (NYU) of Law fivetimes over the last several years and has been a member of the NYU Global Law SchoolFaculty since 2002. He was a UN International Law Commission member 2002–2006and a member of the Administrative Tribunal, Asian Development Bank 1997–2002. Hehas published widely and received many awards and honours.

On 10 March 2008, Professor Jim Kloppenberg was elected to a Fellow Commonership,for the year commencing 1 October 2008. Professor Kloppenberg has been appointedthe Pitt Professor of American History in the Faculty of History for the academic year2008–9. He was educated at Dartmouth College and Stanford University and is currentlyprofessor of history at Harvard; he has published widely and gathered many awards andhonours on the way.

On 16 June 2008, Dr Rosalind Crone was elected to a Fellow Commonership, for the yearcommencing 1 October 2008. Dr Crone graduated with a B.A. in history from the University


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of Queensland, Australia, before moving to Cambridge where she took her M.Phil. inhistorical studies as well as her Ph.D. (Violence and entertainment in nineteenth-century London) atSt John’s College. Since 2006 Rosalind has been a research fellow in literature at the OpenUniversity and has lectured in Cambridge. Her current research interests lie in eighteenthand nineteenth-century British social and cultural history, popular culture, gender, historyof violence, literacy and the history of reading and cultural theory.

On 16 June 2008, Dr Andrew Tucker was elected to a Fellow Commonership, for the yearcommencing 1 October 2008. Dr Tucker graduated from Robinson College with a B.A.in geography, before his admission to Jesus College to complete firstly an M.Phil.(geographical research) followed by a Ph.D. which addressed male homosexualidentities in Cape Town, South Africa: Visibility and the Appropriation of Space. Andrew wasawarded: the William Vaughan Lewis Prize for outstanding dissertation research and afoundation scholarship for an outstanding M.Phil. degree. He was awarded an ESRCpost-doctoral research fellowship based at the Department of Geography whichenabled him to conduct additional fieldwork in Cape Town. He has lectured andsupervised as well as undertaking undergraduate admissions interviews.

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Five new College Research Associates were appointed for three years with effect from 1January 2008. They are:

• Dr Mark Blumenthal is a researcher in the Semiconductor Physics Group based at theCavendish Laboratory,

• Dr Roselle Cripps is currently a research associate in the Department of ClinicalBiochemistry,

• Dr Thomas Corry is attached to the Centre for International Studies in Cambridge.

• Dr Sarah Meehan is a postdoctoral research associate based in the Department ofChemistry

• Mr Pádraic Moran is a research associate with the Early Irish Glossaries Project at theDepartment of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.

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Under the Cambridge colleges’ hospitality scheme, Professor Larysa Zasyekina of theVolyn National University, Ukraine visited the college in the long vacation of 2008.Professor Zasyekina worked with the Department of Experimental Psychology.

Visiting membership of high table was granted to:

• Dr Boyd, whilst he is a Fellow of the MacDonald Institute, commencing in March2008 for one year in the first instance.

• Professor McLachlan QC during October and November 2007, whilst he was visitingthe Faculty of Law as a Herbert Smith visitor.

• Professor Ramakrishnan of the Indian Institute for Science and Technology,Bangalore during October 2007, whilst he was the Jawaharlal Nehru Visiting Fellowof the Indian National Science Academy.

• Professor Watkinson of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver during April2008, whilst he was visiting the Chemical Engineering Department.


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Art

Much of the business of the Works of Art Committee consists of moving paintings, drawingsand prints around, answering enquiries about the collection, building up a digital catalogue,attending to the physical maintenance of the objects in our care, and raising funds for ourexhibition programme. But some years are also chockfull of negotiations with artists,galleries and transport companies over the installation of gifted and loaned sculptures andpaintings, as well as the preparation of exhibition catalogues, and the year just finished hasbeen especially eventful in this way.

We are always being offered donations and loans of works of art, and this year we wereoffered much more than we could cope with. But we are delighted by those works we did feelable to accept. Keir Smith’s widow, Clare Rowe, donated the sculptural assemblage Landscapewith Carlo and Elena, first shown at Sculpture in the Close in 2003. This series of simulated stoneplaques with antique nails is a meditation on the tradition of representing the finding of theTrue Cross. It was installed in the Cloister for one week over Easter 2008. Eldred Evansdonated a superb collection of ten prints by her father Merlyn Evans, while Mr PaulCornwall-Jones gave us two softground etchings by Howard Hodgkin; these, together withtwo previous works sent by Mr Cornwall-Jones, mean that we now own a complete set ofHodgkin’s Museum of Modern Art 1979 group of etchings.

The college has also taken delivery this year of asculpture in wood by David Nash, loaned by theRoyal Academy. Sited in the Garden Room of theQuincentenary Library. Crack and Warp Column is adramatically hewn trunk of Welsh oak. We have alsorecently installed a steel sculpture loaned by the artistBryan Kneale. Lucifer is a light-catching and verydynamic abstract composition which now detainspassers-by in the small court between the chapel andthe library.

Behind the scenes, our conservation budget has beenincreased, and as a result it has been possible toinaugurate a five year plan for a number of works tobe cleaned and/or restored, starting with theportraits of Malthus, Cranmer and Henry VIII.

The coming year will be even busier, in fact itpromises to be perhaps the most spectacular we haveever had, in terms of the movement of major works

of art into and out of the college. We will start the Michaelmas term by installing the threegigantic steel sculptures of dinosaurs by Jake and Dinos Chapman that were first shown lastyear by the Royal Academy in the entrance court of Burlington House. Known collectively asThe Meek Shall Inherit the Earth (But Not The Mineral Rights), these works shall dominate the exitroad at the end of Library Court until the end of March 2009. During that time, we shallmount an exhibition of recent paintings by Stephen Chambers in the transepts of the chapel(22–31 October 2008). In the summer of 2009 the eleventh Sculpture in the Closewill take placeover a specially extended period from late June to the end of September. We have decided toinvite three extremely well-known and distinguished sculptors to take part in 2009, the yearof the university’s 800 celebrations. These are Anthony Caro, Antony Gormley and AnselmKiefer, and all three have accepted the invitation. This means that next year’s show isguaranteed to be remarkably varied and exciting.

Rod Mengham, Curator of Work of Art


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Bursary

This has been my first complete year as senior bursar. It has coincided with considerableturmoil in the financial markets. I am pleased to record that the diversified portfoliobequeathed by my predecessor has, at least at the time of writing, weathered this stormvery well. Assets as disparate as agricultural land and absolute return hedge funds havemade up for the losses suffered by our equities and commercial property. We have thusheld on to the sharp gains recorded over the preceding 3 years

Thankfully, life inside the college has been less turbulent. During the year, we have beenable to refine the income and expenditure calculations, and assess more clearly theoverall state of the college’s financial health. We have found that the costs of running thecollege exceed the income from students’ fees and other charges by approximately £4 mper year, and this gap is increasing. However, our conferencing incomes, our investmentreturns, and the generosity of our donors cover this shortfall and make our financesstable and sustainable.

The major building project in the year has been the replacement of the main hall floor.It had been deteriorating for many years and had reached a stage where it could nolonger be sanded and sealed. The floor boards had been jointed using steel tonguesbetween the oak boards and the oak had worn, resulting in the steel being exposed.During the work the remains of a former stone floor dating back to 1702 were found andthis was laid on an older timber floor both of which were in a remarkably goodcondition. These were cleaned, recorded on drawings and left undisturbed before layingthe new oak floor.

This year saw the retirement of Brenda Welch, the graduate tutors’ secretary, andMargaret Davey, the invoicing and payroll clerk, after 24 and 30 years servicerespectively. Other departures have included Hannah Freeman, after four years asfinance manager, and Adrian Asher after over nine years in the IT department.

The following staff have reached long service milestones in the past year:

• 30 years Neil Shaw, Gardens Department

• 20 years Chris Brown, Maintenance Department

• 15 years Brenda Starling, Housekeeping DepartmentRoz Blake, Housekeeping DepartmentTed Curtis, Maintenance DepartmentRhona Watson, Quincentenary Librarian

Peter Stretton, who retired as deputy head porter in 2004, died on 17 July 2008 at ArthurRank Hospice.

After the retirement last year of both senior and domestic bursars, and the departure thisyear of the finance manager, it has been a year of team building in East House. With over140 non-academic employees, council decided it was now time to recruit a professionalHR manager, and Cheryl Few joined us in April. Similarly, with the college providingresidential accommodation to 800 students, staff and Fellows, council decided toappoint a dedicated housing manager, and Dominic Humphrey joined us in June. Alsoin June, Rob Shephard joined us from the University, as the new financial controller. Thebursary team is now complete again.

Tony Crouch, Senior Bursar


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Chapel

The director of chapel music writes elsewhere about the newly installed Hudlestonorgan, whose qualities – both musical and visual – have greatly enhanced the life of thechapel this year. The college welcomed the Bishop of Ely as Visitor to bless theinstrument at the end of November. The new organ has meant that the usable area of thevestry has been much reduced, and storage space is now constrained. Elsewhere in thechapel there have been several alterations and additions to the fabric and fittings – newcurtains in a Morris pattern material now hang by the Master’s and president’s stalls andover the south door, the bars on the doors into the inner chapel have been gilded, andthe replicas of the Pugin candlesticks, stolen some years ago, are now safely in place.

Without worship being conducted there, the physical beauty of the chapel would beincomplete. The students who share in its ministry, as graduate chapel clerks (JamieBarron and Lucy Razzall) and undergraduate chapel secretaries (Guy Willis, JustinHutcherson, Ant Bagshaw, Kim Whittaker, Megan Newcombe, Helen Davies, HannahWilbourne, Max Shepherd, Jessica Small and Elizabeth Whyte), have been essential tothe conduct of the services, which have served both as an expression of the college’sengagement with the divine in worship and as a set of opportunities to learn, reflect andact on the Christian tradition. Together with those who sing, read and preach, they havebeen a great support and encouragement.

As should be the case, the lines both of continuity and development are strong as far asthe patterns of chapel life are concerned. Twice daily prayer happens every day in term,with the quieter rhythms of the office enlivened by the four weekly choral evensongs.Choral services also mark college occasions, at the beginning of the year, at Christmas,at the end of year, and at other key points, such as All Souls’ and Remembrance Sunday,providing the college with a focus and the opportunity to reflect; they do likewise forthose attending alumni dinners. Special services included Ascension Day morningprayer at the top of N staircase tower, several eucharists sung in collaboration withWestcott House over the road in All Saints’ church and, on top of regular late-night sungcompline, a men’s voices late-evening sung eucharist.

At Tuesday choral evensong the experiment has been maintained of having studentspreach ‘nanosermons’ (of no more than five minutes), and at every Tuesday evensongsave one there was a brave student to step up to the preacher’s stall. At the Sunday choralevensong there have been such preachers of note as the Jesuans Bishop Colin Bennetts(1960), lately Bishop of Coventry, Andrew Daynes (1966), chaplain of Bryanston School,Canon Ian Paton (1975), rector of Old St Paul’s, Edinburgh and the Very Rev’d JamesAtwell (1977), sometime chaplain of the college, now dean of Winchester. We welcomedtoo Angela Tilby, the vicar of St Bene’t’s, Cambridge and broadcaster, and also severalclerical parents of Rustat scholars.

Alexander Phillips, Jessica Small, Max Shepherd and Chenguang Sun from the collegewere among those confirmed at the University Confirmation this year, the last beingpreviously baptised in the college chapel. The chapel also saw the funeral and memorialservice for Alan Sharpe, Emeritus Fellow. There were, moreover, a number of weddingsand christenings of members of the college community.

Some ‘potentially morally improving films’ were again shown during Lent – Room with aView packed out D1, though The Sound of Music proved surprisingly unpopular, despite theadvertised opportunity to don appropriate costume. Sam Hanson, the organ scholar, putthe Hudleston organ through its paces when he accompanied two silent films in chapel– Phantom of the Opera and The Gold Rush, both tours de force.



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The chapel trip this year took the form of a visit to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. To have walked the famous camino would have discouraged some fromgoing, while simply to fly Ryanair both ways would have seemed less than adventurous.A compromise was reached for the eleven students who went, by taking the train acrossFrance and northern Spain and then walking from the railway station. Goethe remarkedthat the idea of Europe was formed on the way to Compostela – the varied nature of ourgroup, which included not only representatives of the English and Scots, but alsoJapanese, Dutch, Australian and Vietnamese-American, from a range of Christian andother backgrounds, points up the continued value of such opportunities for encounterthat pilgrimage affords and that a college chapel enables.

Jonathan Collis, Chaplain

Chapel Music

Throughout the past academic year, the musical life of the chapel has been greatlyenhanced by the new Hudleston organ. Whilst Daniel Hyde has written elsewhere aboutits technical and musical details, it is no exaggeration to say that this fabulous newinstrument has transformed the musical capabilities and potential of both college choirs.

In addition to the regular round of four choral services each week during term time, thechoirs have undertaken numerous special services and concerts. Following a verysuccessful collaboration with Westcott House for the feast of All Saints, the college choirgave a moving liturgical performance of Durufle’s Requiem for the feast of All Souls, andagain the following evening at a concert in Froyle Church, home to Mr James Hudleston.A week later, the service for Remembrance Sunday marked the beginning of a busy timeuntil the end of term. The Advent procession was the first time that many people heardthe new organ, and the instrument was dedicated two days later by the Bishop of Ely. Inwhat has become something of a tradition in recent years, both choirs combined in earlyDecember to give a rousing performance of Handel’s Messiah to a capacity audience inGreat St Mary’s. Alongside the various college carol services, this provided an upliftingend to a busy first term, in which both choirs developed quickly into a cohesive whole.

In early January, whilst the college was still closed, the Britten Sinfonia moved in for acouple of days recording with Daniel Hyde at the Hudleston organ. In addition to thethree Organ Sonatas of Hindemith, they also recorded the Concerto and Wind Quintetfor a disc now out on the Signum label. This project was made possible through thegenerosity of Mr Charles Rawlinson and preview copies were available to those peopleattending the inauguration of the Hudleston organ in June. With the Lent term wellunderway, both choirs were busy preparing for performances of Bach’s Passions in mid-March; the choristers joined King’s College Choir for two sellout performances of the StMatthew Passion during the Easter at King’s Festival, whilst the college choir gave aperformance of the St John Passion to rave reviews in the same week. At the same time,evensong on Sunday 2 March was given over to a devotional performance of WilliamLloyd-Webber’s The Saviour, a rarely heard work which the choir is due to record forNaxos later this year.

Whilst many choral scholars were eagerly writing up dissertations and beginningrevision for the summer exams, some members of the choir returned to Cambridge aweek before the start of the Easter term to provide music for the University Guild ofBenefactors ceremony in the Senate House and at New Hall. With exams out of the wayand an excellent crop of results for both choirs, the BBC visited the chapel to recordnumerous choir items to be broadcast on BBC Radios Two and Four later in the year. Aweek later, the college choir departed for a six day tour to Istanbul, organised and led by




Jonathan Collis and his wife Judith. Based at the church of the Anglican community inIstanbul, the choir provided music for a selection of services and concerts attended by adiverse and appreciative group of people. Meanwhile, the choristers enjoyed a busyweekend of joint services with St Edmundsbury and Norwich Cathedral Choirs,alongside a presentation as part of the Donors’ Garden Party.

Whilst we say goodbye to a number of choral and organ scholars, I’m sure they won’tmind if I single out one person in particular whose contribution to the musical life of thechapel and choirs has been enormous; Sam Hanson leaves us after three very successfulyears as organ scholar. Not only has he displayed the magnificent resources of theHudleston organ to great effect, he has also been an invaluable help training andteaching the choristers on a weekly basis. Sam leaves Jesus College to pursue a variety ofoptions within the musical world, and we wish him well in his future career.

Daniel Hyde, Director of Chapel Music

Development Office

Thanks to increasing overall levels of support and some very generous individualdonations I am delighted to report that we raised a record £2.4m for the college duringthe course of the academic year 2007–2008. The calendar year 2007 also saw 18% of ourold members support the Annual Fund, placing us second out of all the Cambridgecolleges in terms of level of alumni support.

Gifts to the Annual Fund (totalling £515,000 in 2007) are used immediately to meet thecollege’s most important priorities. These include providing financial assistance tostudents, helping to fund college-based teaching and research, and maintaining andenhancing our buildings and facilities for the benefit of our students and Fellows.Visitors to the College frequently remark that it has never looked better.

In parallel with the Annual Fund, and under the umbrella of the Cambridge 800thAnniversary Campaign, we are also seeking to raise £10m for a range of specific capitaland long-term endowment purposes. So far we have raised £5.2 million. Particularlypopular has been the endowment of undergraduate and graduate bursary funds forwhich purpose we are currently seeking to raise a total of at least £3 million. Eighteennew named funds have been created so far and we would welcome at least twelve more.

I must pay tribute to my small, hard-working team in the Development Office. We werevery sorry to lose Salima Virji this Easter back to her own undergraduate college, StJohn’s, which is expanding its development team. Sarah Ambrose has stepped into hershoes as development officer and newly recruited Alison White from South Carolina hastaken over events and alumni relations. Jen Hawton continues as development assistant,handing the management of our gifts. However she has reduced to working two days perweek as she steps up her rowing training in preparation for international competitionsnext year which leaves us slightly stretched at times!

Richard Dennis, Development Director

Old Library and College Archives

The primary task of the past year in the Old Library has been the preparation for aprogramme of rewiring and refurbishment taking place in summer 2008. The wholecontents of the Old Library and annexe have been packed, removed and transferred tostore, with the exception of a few items for which special provision has been madewithin college. The keeper, the assistant keeper, the records manager and a team of nine



students (most of them Jesuans) worked intensively on the removal in the last week ofJune. The reverse procedure will be carried out in late September. The specialist storagespace to which the books have been sent is situated 150 metres below ground in thedepths of an old Cheshire salt mine.

During the earlier part of the year the Old Library hosted a number of visitors, including,at various times, readers from Toronto, New York and Oxford. For the second yearrunning, we welcomed a group of Lisa Jardine’s renaissance studies students fromQueen Mary, University of London, and plans are going ahead for a joint seminar usingthe Old Library’s resources.

In the course of the year we have received two significant donations. First Brian Buckley(1962) gave us splendid modern facsimiles of The Luttrell Psalter, The Holkham Bible andCharles Darwin’s The Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle. These will be kept with ourcollection of Roxburghe Club facsimile publications, bequeathed by Philip Bradfer-Lawrence (1937) and received in early 2006. Then Michael Darling (1950) offered us thetwo-volume Flora Londiniensis compiled by William Curtis in the late 18th century; it isdescribed here in a separate piece below.

The college archives, too, have recentlybenefited from some significantdonations of material, most notably twounusual scrapbooks. One was given byMrs Valerie Watts of North Walsham,Norfolk, whose father-in-law hadacquired it in the course of his work as an auctioneer. In contrast to our otheralbums compiled by former students,which are mostly photographic, this one functioned like a diary, includingphotos but also a wide variety of printedpapers reflecting the various stages and activities of the owner’s collegecareer. The compiler was L. G. (Gwatkin)McAlpine, who came up in 1937 to readnatural sciences; after graduating, he volunteered for the army andeventually saw service in France, dying

of wounds in Normandy on 13 July 1944. This lends a special poignancy to the survival of this personal record.

In contrast, the owner of the second scrapbook lived to the age of 96. He was HarryWard, who studied here from 1878 to 1883, then became a lawyer and is recorded as aJ.P. in Gloucestershire in 1907. His brother Oscar was also a student here (1882–86). Thevolume, given to us by Brian McIntyre, is again more of an eclectic scrapbook than analbum, with contents collected under several headings: the first and largest is ‘TheSporting Times’ – Harry played rugby at county level and for the University. Furtherpages contain collections of anecdotes and (often dismally bad) jokes under suchheadings as ‘Clergy’, ‘MPs and elections’, ‘Education’ and ‘Lawyers’.

Dr Frances Willmoth, Archivist

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An outstanding gift recently received by the Old Library has been that of first editions ofthe two large folio volumes of William Curtis’s Flora Londinensis (1777 & 1798). Thevolumes came to us from Lt Col Michael Leslie Darling OBE JP (1950) and arrived fromhis Bermuda home in two large, well-packed boxes. Their fine condition was the moresurprising in that they had survived for many years, in Mr. Darling’s words, in a climateof ‘dampness, bugs and mildew’! The Darling family has a long connection with theCollege and Michael dedicated his gift to the memory of his grandfather, ArchdeaconJames George Reginald Darling (1880); his uncle, The Revd C Brian Auchinleck Darling,CMG (1924), and his cousin, Brian’s son, H Nigel Darling (1964).

William Curtis (1746–1799) was apprenticed to his grandfather, an apothecary, at the ageof fourteen and eventually had his own practice in the City of London. He developed apassionate interest in the natural world and gained a reputation as both an entomologistand a botanist, establishing a botanical garden for the study of native British plants inBermondsey (he later moved it to Brompton to escape smoke pollution). FloraLondinensis, his great work, was intended to include ‘plates and descriptions of suchplants as grow wild in the environs of London’. The descriptions, in English and Latin,give the learned and folk names for each plant, accounts of their morphology andhabitat (specifying where Curtis himself had seen them), as well as indicationsregarding their medicinal properties. The plates are magnificent and remain, as isrightly said in the entry for Curtis in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ‘the finestillustrations of British plants ever published’. The plates are hand-coloured, mostly life-sized, and were done with the help of the best botanical artists and engravers of the time.


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The work was published in fascicules beginning in 1775; each fascicule consisting oftwelve separate issues, with six plates per issue; the fascicules were then bound up tomake the 1777 and 1798 volumes, published in editions of around 300 copies. As apublishing venture, it was not a financial success, unlike the Botanical Magazine thatCurtis started in 1787 ‘in response to the repeated solicitations of several ladies andgentleman for a work in which Botany and Gardening… might happily be combined’,and which is still going strong today.

The volumes of Flora Londinensis have often been broken up and the plates soldindividually; ours are complete and, as said above, in fine condition. Their botanical,historical, and sheer aesthetic value can hardly be over-estimated and we are fortunateindeed to be able to add them to the Old Library’s treasures through the generosity ofMichael Darling.

Stephen Heath, Keeper of the Old Library



Society of St Radegund

The college marks its gratitude for acts of outstanding munificence with admission to theSociety of St Radegund. The Society’s annual dinner was held in Hall on 21st June 2008following the inaugural recital on the new chapel organ. Prior to the recital there was aceremony in theMaster’s Lodge to induct four newmembers to the Society;Mr PatrickWilson(1974), Mr Peter Day (1968), Mr Charles Hoare Nairne (1989) andMr Raymond Cole (1957).

Other News

2008 has been the centenary of the birth of Dr Jacob Bronowski (1927) who died in 1974. TheMaster’s message at the beginning of this Annual Report gives short details of DrBronowski’s career. As mentioned in John Cornwell’s article, The Science and HumanDimension Project celebrated the centenary by commissioning Professor George Steiner todeliver a lecture in Lady Mitchell Hall on 28 February 2008; this was followed by a smallprivate dinner in the college attended by Jacob Bronowski’s widow, Rita, and their daughter,Professor Lisa Jardine (1976). In addition, Professor StephenHeath andDr FrancesWillmothcompiled an exhibition, whichwas displayed in theQuincentenary Library, and subsequentlyin the Old Library Annexe. Dr Willmoth wrote the following to accompany a description ofthe exhibition in the college’s internal newsletter @jesus. ‘Bronowski was a student at JesusfromOctober 1927, coming up from the Central Foundation School, London. Later that termhe wrote to his sometime neighbour and old friend Bill Dorrell describing his firstimpressions of Cambridge in the following terms: And so I am acquiring cultural values. There arefive thousand undergraduates in Cambridge. Four thousand five hundred wear plus fours – not because theyare useful or decorative, God forbid; but because each sees four thousand four hundred and ninety nine otherpairs – eat three course breakfast and go to “flicks”. Four hundred and ninety nine say “tripos”. Leaving one,to acquire cultural values. Dullness here has found an infinity of disguises, from thought and learning toarid activity. You have the choice of being bored in one of a thousand ways. What a hole! Perhaps its mostdeadly feature is the sneaking appreciation and regard one develops for it after half a term. On its edge amI poised, delicately. But until the shock wears off, it is frightful’. Judging by Dr Bronowski’ssubsequent career, one must assume that the shock did wear off!

As was the case last year, a successful art exhibition, consisting of work by representatives ofall parts of the college community – Fellows, students and staff – was held in theQuincentenary Library in the Lent term.

This year the college had about 750 students (no two ways of counting them gives the samenumber). There were approximately 494 undergraduates in residence, 26 of whom camefrom the European Union and 31 from overseas. There were around 150 in each of the firstthree years and 49 in the fourth. 6 undergraduates were abroad for the year. There were 263graduate students.

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College SocietiesStudent Union

It is hard for me to sum up the collection of experiences and events that have punctuatedthis year’s calendar. With another year having passed by in a flurry of victories anddefeats, exams and celebrations, rainy days in the library and sunny days playing croqueton Chapel Court lawn, all I can hope to do is touch on a small number of highlights thathave made this year special.

Welcoming the freshers in the first week of October was a rewarding task. Thecommittee worked tirelessly to create a friendly environment for our new arrivals, and itwas wonderful to see the new students becoming more and more comfortable in theirnew surroundings. The freshers are an enthusiastic and energetic bunch, and the sheernumber of them standing for positions on the JCSU committee when elections cameround in November was testament to their passion for getting involved in the Jesuscommunity.

The JCSU’s main focus this year has been on providing better services for students; thelaunch of a dynamic new JCSU website in January has given students an interactive wayto keep up with activities around college, whilst the commissioning of an extensivehousekeeping survey has opened up clear lines of communication between the collegeand the student body. Great steps have also been taken to promote environmental andethical issues within college and Jesus is on the brink of gaining Fairtrade status, as onlythe third Cambridge college to do so. Having organised a Fairtrade Fortnight, and witha clear push on better recycling and electricity conservation, Jesus is looking more‘green-friendly’ than ever before.

College events have also featured highly in students’ calendars this year, with our usualarray of large bops and low-key relaxation evenings playing an active role. SpecialFormal Halls – celebrating Chinese New Year, International Women’s Day, FairtradeFortnight and Vegetarian Week – have all proved overwhelmingly popular, offeringstudents a break from the norm. As an antidote to the stressful nature of exam term, theJCSU welfare committee worked hard to arrange activities that could relax students andoffer them a welcome break from the library: yoga, meditation, doughnuts and lots ofcups of tea were all on hand to offer the perfect opportunity for a revision break.

But, as well as taking steps for the here and now, we have realised the need to look to thefuture. Once again, Jesus hosted groups of prospective students in our shadowingscheme, giving those from schools around the country an opportunity to see what life ata Cambridge college is really like. Access trips also took place over the Easter vacation,and this time the Access teamwent to Tyne &Wear and North East Lincolnshire, visitingaround 35 schools or colleges over a period of seven days. We look forward towelcoming some of these potential students in future years.

Finally, as president, I would like to thank an outstanding committee for their hard workand support, as well as the college authorities for their invaluable co-operation andassistance throughout the year. The community that Jesus prides itself on maintainingis going from strength to strength, and I look forward to welcoming the new year’sintake of freshers in October.

Lucie Fortune, President

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Graduate Society

From the first moment of contact with freshers as they arrive in college to the last gardenparty before graduation, GradSoc is a large part of what makes the Jesuan graduateexperience the best in Cambridge. The year 2007–8 saw the introduction of newacademic, sporting, and social events, while established favourites continued toflourish.

The GradSoc has made a concerted effort this year to promote the academic lives ofgraduates within college. On that front, we selected our first academic officer andhosted speakers including Fellow John Cornwell andHonorary Fellow AnthonyGormley(invited jointly with the Jesus College Art Society, founded by two graduate Jesuanartists) at the termly Graduates’ and Fellows’ Symposiums. In addition, GradSocinaugurated its first Jesus Graduates’ Conference, which provided a forum formore thanforty-five Jesuan graduates to present their scholarship to their peers.

Jesus grad sporting life has continued to flourish, with the success of established teamsand the founding of new sporting activities for all grads. The football team won theunprecedented League-Cup double after a 4–0 victory against Queens’ in the MCR Cupfinal. Grads cricket has begun with enthusiasm and promise. GradSoc also facilitatedseveral informal leagues and classes within college including: grads squash, tennis, andfoosball leagues (yes, foosball is a sport!), yoga in Easter term to relieve the stress ofrevision and preparation for Ph.D. talks, and salsa in Michaelmas (given by RhonaWatson, the Quincentenary Librarian).

The packed social calendar proved that Jesuan graduates continue to be amongst themost sociable in Cambridge. The chaos of Freshers’ Fortnight was surpassed only by theunbridled madness of Burns’ Night – the highlight of the social year and an event forwhich a ceilidh, if not a kilt, was essential. Grads were unable to confine this enthusiasmto college, however. The Jesus GradSoc was instrumental in organizing major events forgraduates across the University and, with fifteen exchanges arranged, Jesus has becomea dining destination of choice.

Our welfare team has helped to alleviate some of the stresses of arrival in Cambridge byallocating mentors to early-arriving students, and has hosted events for the LBGT andfamily/partner communities. Internationalism remains prominent on the agenda, withthe many cultures of the graduates celebrated through themed halls. This year wetravelled from America to Australia to China via Africa!

The graduate community, and the GradSoc in particular, are grateful for the support theyreceive from dedicated Fellows and staff. We would like to thank the graduate tutor,Madeleine Arnot, and the deputy graduate tutor, Tim Wilkinson, for their commitmentto the welfare and academic successes of graduates within college. We thank chaplainJonathan Collis for his guidance and support, and for hosting the first ever MCRpresidents’ dinner at Jesus. The successes of our events are due in no small part to thepatience and assistance of manciple Simon Hawkey, barman Steve Webb, and the entirecatering staff. We would also like to recognise the Master, the recently retired graduatetutor’s secretary Brenda Welch, maintenance supervisor Chris Brown, and Fellow GeoffHarcourt for their continued support. And finally, it is with great honour that I thank theentire GradSoc committee for its hard work, dedication, and enthusiasm which havebenefited all graduates immensely.

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Jesus College Art Society

Michaelmas 2007 saw the launch of Jesus College’s very first Art Society (JCAS).We existto promote both the college’s extraordinary art collections and the talented studentartists currently producing artworks here. In Michaelmas, to commence ourforthcoming series of talks by artists who have works at Jesus, British sculptor AntonyGormley came to speak about his powerful sculpture Learning to See. This proved anextremely popular event. Upper Hall was crammed with undergraduates, graduates andFellows, excited to hear this eminent artist speak about an important work, which we arelucky to have at Jesus.

Joining forces with the chaplain, Jesus College Art Exhibition was held in Lent 2008, inthe Quincentenary Library’s garden room, to show off Jesuan artistic talent. The varietyof students’ and Fellows’ work on show was notable, and viewers were particularlyimpressed by the paintings of undergraduate Naomi Grant. The exhibition also includedthe college’s latest acquisition for the permanent collection: David Nash’s new sculptureCrack & Warp Column. All in all, artistic matters at Jesus College are flourishing.

Easter 2008 provided an exciting end to the academicyear, with a guided tour of the college collections by ourresident curator of works of art, Dr Rod Mengham, anda garden party held jointly with the college artsmagazine, Eliot’s Face. We look forward to further eventsnext year: the continuation of our series of talks, futureexhibitions and trips to various exhibitions in andaround Cambridge.

For more information visit our website:http://jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/jcas

Lorna Collins, Katherine Cooper, Chris O’Rourke – JCAS Committee

Drama Society

The newly-dubbed Alcock Players have developed their standing this past year, both incollege and university-wide. On the back of last year’s achievements, we were able tofund multiple productions – all of which demonstrated the high quality performancesthat the Players strive to encourage.

Fresh from a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, the unstoppable Alcock Improv(ever-changing in membership, but dynamically led by Will Pearse) began Michaelmasterm with Alcock Improv – Reloaded. Hilarity abounded into Lent term with Alcock Allstars; aweek of well-received performances from some of Britain’s top improv comedy groupshosted by Alcock Improv at the ADC. Now a society in their own right, Alcock Improvare establishing a name for themselves with their unique brand of improvised comedy.

Lucie Fortune continued the comedy with I Scream…Scoop! Set in a local newspaper officewhere the concept of ‘news’ is taken to bizarre extremes, the production did not fail totickle ADC audiences. In Michaelmas, the Forum became a performance space for ourfreshers’ play, Mankind. A morality play translated from the original medieval text byDavid Lowry and directed by David and Rory Atwood, it was one of ourmost adventurousand original freshers’ plays yet.

The chapel saw two performances this year: the pantomime (chaplain, pantomimehorse and all) orchestrated by Tim Checkley, and Kristen Treen’s production of T.S.Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral in Lent term. With a talented cast, stunning lighting,medieval carols and the chapel itself, the portrayal of Thomas Becket’s brutal but


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philosophised murder, though small-scale, was a resounding success amongaudiences. Another extremely acclaimedshow was Tim Checkley’s production ofDinner by Moira Buffini. With live lobstersand a table of highly-strung relation-ships, the production certainly caughtpeople’s attention and we hope it will todo so again at the Edinburgh Fringe thisyear. Matt Jones’s production of Cruel andTender by Martin Crimp also revealeddisturbingly fraught relationships.Playing with underlying Sophocleanelements, the production was a clever,poignant and revealing insight intomarriage and violence.

Special thanks go toWill Pearse and the 2007–08 committee and our current committee.

Kristen Treen, President

Law Society

The Law Society has continued to help students experience a broad range of activities thisyear. Early in the year an exhibitionmoot against Magdalene was organised, with the teamrepresenting Jesus continuing the college’s tradition of winning this event in convincingstyle. A highly enjoyable drinks event at Lovells’ office in London was also organised,under the auspices of the Glanville Williams Society, of which both alumni and currentstudents are members. Careers help was offered in the form of barristers’ and solicitors’events throughout the year, and this was gratefully received by the students. Finally,following a successful exam period, the Law Society hosted its annual garden party.

David Hay, second year law student

May Ball

For just one long summer night, college became the hub of the flaunted beauty andgiddy extravagances of Bohemia. Shrieks of post-exam delight were heard as guests weregreeted with fire-breathers in First Court, chandeliers hanging from the trees of theorchard, and the ancient beauty of a ruinous ivy-clad temple. Fairy lights glinted in thebushes and English garden flowers adorned tables as the grandeur of the collegegrounds were transformed into the faded opulence of a Bohemian playground.

Expectations for the ball were high after last year’s resounding success. Tickets forThrough the Looking Glass had sold out in ten days, so it came as quite a surprise when thisyear’s tickets were gobbled up in under twelve hours. The committee did not disappoint,however, with the fun atmosphere and attention to detail for which Jesus has becomerenowned continuing into this year’s event.

Food and drink to cater for every taste could be found throughout the ball, fromchampagne to sushi, and from rare breed meats to hot gin punch. The guests’ appetitefor entertainment was also fulfilled, with a wide range of music and cabaret actsperforming in five different marquees across college. Headline newcomers Joe Lean andthe Jing Jang Jong graced the main stage with their catchy indie melodies and unbelievablyskinny jeans, whilst many of the acoustic acts played up to their Bohemiansurroundings: the quirky harmonies and dulcet tones of the kazoomaphone drifted


Nathan Brown, Tilda Stickley, Saskia Leach, Emily Coghill,Alma Smith and Thom Andrewes rehearse ‘Murder in theCathedral’

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serenely over Pump Court. Elsewhere guests were wowed by hypnosis, professionalregurgitation and living statues of pure gold. A new addition to the ball was the carouselwhich, along with the traditional dodgems, kept the more adventurous guestsentertained throughout the night. As dawn came, the tired but contented masses wereled out of college by a piper: a fine end to hugely enjoyable night.

The twenty-strong committee must be thanked for their continued hard work andinspiration throughout the year. Their efforts produced a ball of outstanding beauty andextraordinary accomplishment.

Peter Piercy and Charlotte Langley, Co-Presidents

Medical Society

As is customary, the academic year started with the welcoming of the freshers. Even beforethey had arrived, a leaflet comprising a low-down on Jesus medic life was distributed andsecond year mentors were chosen to help them throughout the year. Freshers’ week beganwith a meet-the-mentors session, and then a chance to meet the whole society at thetraditional (some might say infamous) Safari Supper. The week continued with thecivilised pre-matriculation drinks and, as an alternative for those not attending the feast,a meal in town that was not curry! Brief in its absence, curry soon featured, as anopportunity to ‘check-in’ after lectures had begun.

The Medsoc formal hall and talks were started with Ewan Cameron speaking on ‘BowelCancer Screening’, with Nicholas Pegge giving the second talk on ‘The Devices andDesires of our Hearts’. Everyone appreciated the opportunity to welcome back old Jesuanswho are able to provide an insight into life after graduation. Another service that Medsoctakes pleasure in providing (especially as it involves dessert) is advice on clinical schoolapplications in the form of a dessert and wine evening for returning fourth years and thethird years. With applications sorted, and the term pushing on, it was about time for theMedsoc pub-crawl. The theme of ‘two-by-two’ – a tribute to ‘Noah’s ark’ was embraced byall, yielding some interesting costumes. Michaelmas term was concluded with practiceinterviews and clinical demonstrations for the medics, held by Professor Compston –whom we have to thank for his continued support to the society.

The formal talks continued into Lent term with Clive Lewis speaking on ‘Who needscardiac surgeons?’, soon followed by the annual Medsoc dinner. Supervisors, Fellows andstudents both past and present attended, with Robert Howard to thank for the after dinnerspeech. To keep the curry quota up, and prove we are an inclusive society, bring-a-non-medic-curry concluded the term.

Easter term began with an opportunity to pass some wisdom down the years: the mentorsgiving the first years exam survival tips, and the Part IIs advising the second years on whatto specialise in. With exams completed, there was a chance to catch up and say farewellsat theMedsoc BBQ to finish off another great year forMedsoc. Many thanks to the Fellowsfor their continued support, to the other members of the committee – AliceWalker and Li-An Wong-Taylor – who have been crucial to the smooth running of the society, and, lastbut by no means least, thanks to all the members of Medsoc for another fantastic year.

Rosemarie Abbott, President

Jesus College Music Society

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this year directed by Chris Olsen, continues to flourish, performing memorable sets inthe interval of the May Week concert and at the Suicide Sunday garden party.

Weekly Wednesday-night recitals have remained a success, ably organised by MatthewNorris, attracting some of the best musical talent at Jesus and beyond. Once again thereis a healthy Jesus participation in university-wide musical groups such as the CUMSorchestras, the Zephyr Wind Band, the Gilbert and Sullivan Society and the UniversityOpera Society.

The non-auditioned college orchestra continues to meet weekly on Monday evenings,and has produced three outstanding concerts this year. The Michaelmas term concertfeatured both a memorable performance of Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre and Haydn’sSymphony No. 104, directed by Sam Hanson and Alex Boyd respectively.

Once again, the David Crighton concert in Lent term provided a fitting showcase of themusical talent present within the Jesus College student body. Nicola Hands gave anexcellent performance of Mozart’s Oboe Concerto in C,while Elgar’s Variations on an originaltheme and Dvorak’s Carnival Overture, both under the direction of Sam Hanson, wereperformed to great acclaim from a packed house. Rounding off the Lent term, to markthe Eve of Commemoration of Benefactors, Anna Harvey organised and directed a ‘comeand sing’ performance of Mozart’s masterful Requiem. It is fitting that Anna receives thisyear’s David Crighton Prize for an outstanding contribution to college music.

The May Week concert provides the chance to indulge in slightly more light-heartedrepertoire, and this year’s second-half performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Juryset themood perfectly. The first half of the concert comprised Telemann’s Concerto for tworecorders (soloists Matthew Norris and Anna Harvey), Mendelssohn’s sparkling ItalianSymphony and a Proms-style ending with Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March Number 4,directed by Alex Boyd.

Music making at Jesus is in an excellent state, and we should like to thank everyone onthe JCMS Committee for making all musical events such a success.

Alex Boyd and Sam Hanson, JCMS Junior Presidents 2007–2008

The Roosters

The Roost has had a relaxed year after its centenery celebrations in 2007, but under theleadership of TWB Guy ‘Squawks and a Rope Willis’ (197th and 173rd) a lively andstimulating series of Roosts was held. The year began with the traditional conkercompetition, in which the Old Cock was victorious and duly declared Rooster Conkerer.Other Roosts included a Lenten Dinner, attended by Roosters old and new, including thePoet Clawreate who was awarded the degree of M.Cy. Several debates were held and theRoost decided that it would take the high road (leaving the low road to lesser mortals)and that being the early bird was not all it’s cracked up to be. On a sadder note, the deathof the Lady Chambermaid, Moira Percival, was a sad loss of both a link to the past and acommitted and valued member of the Roost. Her funeral in Thriplow was attended byseveral Roosters, as a mark of respeckt. The year ended with the Breakfast at Lunchtime,which was dalmatian-themed in honour of the 101st year of the Roost, and both the solidand liquid aspeckts of the refreshments were considered gallinaceous.

TWB Mor-or-Less Arbabzadah was elevated to the Grainsack as the 198th President,with due pomp and circumstance.

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College Sports ClubsAthletics

Men

This year proved to be a re-building period for Jesus College Athletic Club, following theloss of inspirational captain and decathlete Bilen Ahmet to graduation and with theemergence of some promising freshers. In Michaelmas Cuppers there were strongperformances by club stalwarts Chris Morris, Jamie Brunning and Liam Richardson,who each competed in their quota of five scoring events. There were also encouragingperformances from freshers Nate Dern, who was placed third in the 1500m, and RobinBrown, who was second over 3000m.

The Easter term inter-college competition saw a strengthened Jesus team contest a closecompetition down to the wire. Andrew Lee performed impressively, winning the hammer,and being placed second and third in the shot and discus respectively. Robin Brown ranstrongly in the 800m and 5000m, whilst Liam Richardson, Chris Morris and Ben Langfordtackled several events each. Jesus was eventually beaten into second place by a strongDowning squad, but this performancewas a definite improvement onMichaelmas Cuppers.

In the 2008 Varsity Match, Jesus was represented in the Blues team by Jonathan Cook inthe 800m, James Kelly in the 5000m and Andrew Lee, who achieved a full Blue standardin the hammer. Robin Brown competed for the second team in the mile.

Jesus was also strongly represented in the combined Oxford-&-Cambridge team thattook on Harvard-&-Yale in the Transatlantic Series at Iffley Road Track, Oxford. In the5000m James Kelly finished second, beating several of his former American team-mates, whilst Jonathan Cook came second in a close 800m and third over one mile.Andrew Lee was the highest Cambridge scorer in the hammer.

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Next year’s captain will be Robin Brown. Jonathan Cook will be president of CambridgeUniversity Athletic Club, and captain of the combinedOxford-&-Cambridge team for the2009 Transatlantic Series in the United States.

Jonathan Cook, Captain

Women

This year saw some impressive efforts from the women’s side of the Jesus Collegeathletics team. In Michaelmas Cuppers Jesus put forward strong freshers JacquelineGilroy, Monika Hartmann and Angharad Porteous, with the latter coming second in the1500m steeplechase.

In the 2008 Varsity Match in Oxford, Eleanor Nalson performed impressively when shewon the pole vault at a match record of 2.40m.

Helen Maduka, Captain

Badminton

Men

We had high hopes for this year; with the addition of fresher Adam Woolnough to analready strong first team, we were confident that that we could claim victory in theleague. In the first league season we won all our matches comfortably, claiming the firstdivision title. Continuing our dominance in the second term, we easily won ourmatches;narrowly beating St Catharine’s 5–4 we finished the year undefeated, maintaining ourrecord of four seasons as the 1st division champions.

Unfortunately, we were unable to carry this success through toMen’s Cuppers, where wefell in the semi-final to a strong St Catharine’s team. Determined to come away withsome silverware, a Mixed Cuppers team – Kat Young and John Raw, Sam Lees and LeiWang, Chris Daniels and Jo Young – beat the favourites, Trinity, in the semi-final, beforeexacting revenge over St Catharine’s in a very tight final.

Next year’s captain will be Chris Allen.

Chris Daniels, Captain

Women

Jesus College ladies’ badminton had an unprecedented year, doing very well and comingrunners up in Ladies’ Cuppers. In Michaelmas term, separate practices for ladiesencouraged a good turn-out of both beginners and experienced players. Despite thepresence of a strong team, some very close matches and the absence of some of our bestplayers meant that Jesus was demoted to division IV at the end of Michaelmas term.However, the team soon put this right, winning every single match played in division IVin the Lent term. It is now back in Division III.

The best achievement this year was seen at Cuppers, where Jesus came an admirable secondbehind Trinity.We beat St Catharine’s, the reigning champions, in the quarter-final, and hada comfortable win against Queens’ in the semi-final. A very close match was played againstTrinity. Well done to Kat Young, Jess, Jo Young, Lei Wang, Mary Gregory and Min Kim.

Minjae Kim, Ladies Captain

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Boat Club

Under the guidance of our new boatman, Mark Beer, JCBC has gone from strength tostrength during the year. Themen’s squad has had strong finishes in the Fairbairns Cup,having a positive set of Lent Bumps and a good May Bumps in which the first VIIIcontinued their upward trend, finishing third on the river. The women’s squad hascontinued to show the great strength and depth which have become customary in recentyears. The first VIII finished second in the Fairbairns Cup, third on the river for Lentsand second on the river for Mays while the second VIII was the fastest second VIII in theFairbairns Cup, bumped up four in Lents gaining a permanent first division place, andfinished up one in Mays.

Michaelmas term: Once again nearly 100 novices signed up for rowing. Under the guidanceof the Lower Boats’ captains they developed as rowers and went on to record impressiveresults throughout the term, including victories in the Clare Novice Regatta and at theQueens’ Ergs competition. The senior squad began their campaign at University IVswhere the women’s first IV lost out in a closely fought race with Downing, and the secondIV won their division. A men’s IV was also sent to the Fours Head. Into the Fairbairnsraces the men entered two VIIIs and a IV, while the women entered two VIIIs.

Lent term: The term started with a joint training camp in Seville with the CambridgeUniversity Lightweights (CULRC). On returning to Cambridge both sides of the club wereboosted by returning novices. The club entered (and was victorious in) a number of racesduring the term including the Head to Head, Newnham Short Course and PembrokeRegatta. We also raced off Cam at the Peterborough Head of the Nene, Bedford Head andat the Head of the River Race. Before Lent Bumps the men’s first VIII sparred with theCULRC in Ely. The club performed well in Lent Bumps, finishing up fourth overall.

University Boat races: Tim Perkins was the only clubmember to win a seat in the Universityboat races this year. He competed in the 2 seat of the Blue Boat which had a difficult raceagainst a stronger Oxford crew.

Easter term: Term beganwith a training camp on Camwhich provided an opportunity for theclub to begin preparations for the May races. Several members also focused on small boatsin the University Small Boats Regatta. Here the club recorded a number of victories with


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wins coming for Chris Morris (Lowe Double Sculls (Men)), Ro Bradbury (Delafield Sculls)and Dave Hollinshead and Guen Bradbury (Lowe Double Sculls (Mixed)). During the termthe club entered a number of races on Cam including the RhadegundMile, Spring Head toHead, Head of the Cam and Champs VIIIs Head. In these the club had a variety of victorieswith the second women’s VIII continuing to be the fastest second boat on the river.

The May bumps brought a mixed set of results. In the men’s squad the first VIII finishedup two places to third on the river, the highest position on the river since day two ofMays2001 and continues the upward momentum which has seen the boat climb nine placesover four years. The second and third VIII produced solid rowing throughout the weekbut fell to several stronger crews. The seconds finished the week down two and thethirds finished level having bumped up on day 1. The fourth men were the only boat inthe club to win their oars this year, finishing up fourth for the week. In the process theyalso won ‘Fourth Boat Headship’ when they caught First and Third M4 on day three. Thefifth men had a difficult bumps and ended the week down three.

On the women’s side, the first women finished the week second on the river, havingbeen unlucky not to catch Pembroke, on whom they got to half a length on severaloccasions. The second women continued their upward movement, finishing the weekup one which leaves them 15th in division one, a solid first division place. The third andfourth women had a mixed set of bumps with the thirds finishing the week down threeand the fourths ending up two.

Following the bumps the women’s squad took an VIII to Women’s Henley. The crewqualified through the time trial race on Friday morning but lost out in the first round ofa difficult draw to Furnivall, the eventual finalists. The men entered a composite crewwith Caius into the Temple Challenge Cup at Henley. They were unsuccessful in thequalifiers and ended as the third quickest non qualifying crew.

The year 2007–8 has been a successful one for the JCBC, and a fantastic first year for MarkBeer in his role of boatman.He has guided the club to having a realistic chance of challengingfor both men’s and women’s headship in the Lents and Mays in 2009. We wish him, and theincoming captains Helen Bolden and Alexis Tran-Viet, the best of luck next year.

Alastair Hegarty – President and Men’s CaptainAnnabel Ritchie – Women’s Captain


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Cricket

This year has been rather disappointing due to a mixture of rain and a small squad ofplayers, and defeat in the semi-finals of Cuppers to a competent Caius side which halteda strong run of games.

We again entertained Brasenose, Oxford, for the Steve Stuartmemorialmatch. After startingthe match with some great batting by J. Waters (116) and M. Mills (40), we posted aformidable total of 278 off 40 overs. But with some good batting and a lot of big sixes thegamewas snatched fromus andBrasenose levelled the history of this fixture at onewin each.

Cuppers started well with comfortable victories over Girton, Clare, Robinson and Emma.Jesus batted first in all, posting totals of 150+ in each and then restricting the oppositionto less than one hundred.We then travelled to Caius with aweakened line- up andwe paidthe price. Defending our total of only 88 was toomuch for our bowlers used to defendingmore, and Caius made easy work of batting on a poor pitch to overcome us.

This year we only managed a disappointing four friendly matches, suffering defeat in all.With many games called off due to rain and a general lack of players, there were fewopportunities to shine; but good knocks fromC. Jones (74) and F.Newby (63) against TheWoozlers and bowling of 2 for 20 off 10 overs fromM. Robinson against The Jesters weresome of the highlights.

The following awards were made to players of the club: batting – C. Jones (329 runs at41.1); bowling – M. Robinson (35 overs 9 wickets for 95 runs).

Next year we hope to receive a good set of freshers to inject somemuch-needed new bloodinto the club.

Chris Nixon, Captain

Football

Women

JCWFC had a hard act to follow this year after their immaculate ’06/07 season, duringwhich ex-captain and Blues player Claudia Comberti led the team to win the almightydouble: both the league and Cuppers. An influx of talented and eager freshers (ClareLongden and Victoria Watson) and grads (Sarah Creber, Cilia Roell and Mary Gregory)helped to replenish the squad, and it promised to be another successful season. Oursuperb keeper Amy Golding returned from injury, and the timeless Lisa Grimes andSarah Ambrose stuck around for yet another season, bringing experience andcomposure to the Jesus team. We also managed to field a second team, captained bySelma Telalagic, who played some exciting matches this year.

We got off to a good start, beating Emma 3–0 in our first match of the season on hometurf. However, the dream of repeating last year’s victories started to slip away after a 2–1loss to St John’s in the second league game of the season. Players were frequentlypicking up injuries, which left captain Davey and ex-captain Comberti out of action formost of the season, and often we bravely fielded the bare 10 or 11 players. Despite thesedisadvantages we rose to the challenge in future games, and had a very successful run inCuppers. We rose through the ranks, thrashing Clare and Churchill 7–0 and 6–0respectively. The team sweated blood and tears in the Cuppers final against Emma, butvictory and the cup were snatched from our grasp owing to a single Emma goal in thefirst half. Even though we could not repeat last year’s performance, we have had a greatdeal of fun this season as a squad and achieved some fantastic results. Highlightsinclude the medley of hatricks from Watson and Longden, the splintering speed of



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Nalson down the right wing, Creber’s numerous headers from corners which met theback of the net, and the battling determination of Needham in the challenge.

Special mentions go to Lisa Grimes, for her successful season as Blues captain and theirVarsity victory over Oxford, and to Clare Longden (next year’s Jesus captain), for turningout week in week out for the Blues and making an appearance in the Varsity match. Ahuge thanks goes to Jon Kearns for his unrelenting commitment as coach and manager– we will miss you next year Jon.

Claire Davey, Captain

Men

This season will be remembered above all else for the sense of disappointment at ourhaving failed to secure either league or Cuppers titles, despite being favourites to winboth going into the last three games of the season. Nevertheless, as we had lost a numberof key players during the close season it is a testament to the quality of the incomingfreshers that we were able to challenge for these titles at all.

Ruadhri Farrell, JamesWilliamson, Chris Ellis and ‘fresher of the season’Micael Canavansoon cemented their places as regulars in the first team, joining a solid core of returningplayers. Yet due to the competition for places this season we were to use no fewer thantwenty players in league and Cuppers. Thanks must go out to everyone for theircontribution to the season.

With such a promising influx of new players, prospects for the season were looking goodat Christmas. JamesWyatt, returning for his final season, was crucial to forging a resolutedefence for the second season running, and inmidfield next year’s Falcons captain, JamesTaylor, provided presence and quality in abundance. Being top of the league, still inCuppers and with a successful Oxford tour under our belt (we thrashed Jesus Oxford 5–2at their place), we could look forward to the second half of the season with anticipation.

Going into the final month of the season, all seemed well. Despite finding goals hard tocome by, wemanaged to keep our league rivals at bay with a narrow victory over Caius; weprogressed in Cuppers, defeating a strong Downing side on penalties, and completing a2–1 league and Cuppers double over eventual league winners Trinity in the quarter-finals.

Yet in the space of two weeks our fortunes reversed. A 3–1 shock defeat by relegation-threatened Christ’s put the league out of our hands, and just a week later in Cuppers afrustrating performance against second division Girton led to a penalty-shootoutheartbreak. Thus in our final game of the season, away to Churchill, the result was to bepurely academic. This was a disappointing way to round off an excellent if dramaticseason. Next year’s Captain will be Chris Ellis.

Will Rees, Captain

Hockey

Men

The first team began the year as defending league and Cuppers champions and end theyear with both titles intact.

The openingmatch of the league season saw Jesus beat Catz 2–1; Catz, with a very strongfresher intake, would prove to be our strongest challengers. A comfortable victory overEmma followed. Next came the crunch game against traditional rivals, John’s. Jesusbegan the game very poorly and it was only late goals from Chris Kurwie that allowed a



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draw to be salvaged. The remaining Michaelmas games included an excellent winagainst a strong Cambridge City side, an 8–1 destruction of Caius and a verydisappointing loss to Corpus. This gave Jesus the league title for the Michaelmas term.

The Lent term league table was also topped by Jesus, meaning the overall league title wassecured with two matches still remaining. Jesus won five games out of six with only adraw against Catz blemishing an otherwise perfect term. Even this result, however, wasa triumph in many ways, achieved as it was with only eight players on the pitch in thefirst half and ten in the second. Being unable to field a full team was in fact, veryunusually for Jesus, a recurring theme in the second half of the season; newly promotedDowning, eventual runners up, were also beaten despite our numeric inferiority.

Alongside the league campaign ran a successful defence of Cuppers. Queens’ were easilydefeated 4–1 in the opening round setting up a very difficult tie against a Caius sidecontaining three Blues, including both the University captain and vice captain. Thismatch went to the wire, with Kurwie’s brace, supplementing one by Andy Muir-Wood,giving Jesus a 3–2 win that was in doubt until the end. A 7–0 destruction of Fitz and aneven more one sided 14–1 dismantling of Homerton followed to take the side into a finalagainst Catz.

The game began with Jesus slight favourites and was very tight in the opening half. Thefirst goal arrived from a Jesus break down the right which freed Ryan Thomas to slide theball past the onrushing goalkeeper and into the far corner of the net. Catz equalised soonafter before Dave Madden restored Jesus’ advantage with a low flick from a corner. Thesecond half was much more one sided, with Jesus adding a third with a volleyed reboundfrom James Waters, before Ed Bush and Kurwie completed the scoring in a 5–1 win.

Congratulations should go to the entire side for completing a second successive double.Individual congratulations should also go to: player-of-the-season and next year’scaptain James Mumford; most improved player Nick Petty who also, along with AlanDouglass, received colours; and finally to both Dave Madden and Chris Kurwie, whogained their Blues in a 3–1 win over Oxford.

After securing promotion twice in 2006–7, the second team faced the daunting task ofmaintaining position in the second division of the college leagues. The team centredaround the experience of Moores, Mumford and Thomas, with several players pickingup a stick for the first time. Hard fought battles against teams that just a year before hadpushed the first team were not enough, as the team narrowly lost out to Sidney Sussexand drew with Clare, meaning relegation to the third division at Christmas.

As the new year began the teamwent from strength to strength, comfortably winning allbut one of their matches to finish a close third in the division. Special mentions aredeserved for player-of-the-season Charlie Williamson, Ben Langford and next year’scaptain Rob Davies, who were consistently outstanding.

James Waters and James Mumford, Captains of first and second team

Women

Due to a lack of players in the first team, an otherwise strong squad was depleted. Butsterling efforts by everyone who played meant that each game was a well-fought battle;the score lines did not reflect the effort and skill they displayed. Special mention goes toRebecca Rhodes, who was player of the season, and also to everybody who played ingoal, as frequently it was someone who had never played there before. We made it to thesemi-final of the Cuppers plate. Next year’s captain will be Clare Sibley.

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lot of fun, and we definitely achieved that this season. We easily fielded a team for everyleague match and scored a point from a draw in our match against Christ’s College.We’ve improved enormously over the season, both as individual players and as a team.Thanks to everyone who has played this season; it’s been great to captain a team of suchhappy, committed and enthusiastic players.

Harriet Gay and Rosalind Wallduck, Captains of first team, and Alison Bowden, Captain of secondteam

Lawn Tennis

Jesus first VI promised so much at the beginning of the season. With stunning weatherand the team showing good form in practice, there were high hopes of bettering lastyear’s performance of coming runner-up. The early shock exit of pre-tournamentfavourites Robinson only served to enhance Jesus’ claims; in kind, the team respondedwith a 9–0 demolition of a weak St Catharine’s team. Only three days later, this wasbacked up with a 7–2 win over Queens, the highlight involving a doubles match betweenThomas Laskey and Christopher Daniels and a university-standard pair, which Jesus lostin two tight sets. With Daniels’ knee proving a hindrance, it was a sign of things tocome.

The typically inclement weather in May followed, however, and somewhat disrupted theteam’s momentum. A quarter-final against St John’s loomed; Jesus had soundly beatenthem last year in a fraught affair. This year, however, they had been noticeablystrengthened by the addition of another Blue and further strength in depth.Unfortunately, the top pairing of captain Minh Luu and James Wyatt were unable tobreach the defences of the John’s first pair, who were a regular fixture for the Blues, andwent down in straight sets 6–3, 6–3. This was to be the story of the match, played on aslow, low-bouncing astroturf court that heavily favoured the opposition. Only a heroicperformance by John Raw prevented embarrassment – he will certainly be challengingfor the top singles spots next year – and Jesus bowed out of the competition, 7–2. StJohn’s then proceeded to annihilate every other team, winning the final against Christ’swith ease.

There are high hopes for 2009; in reality, another university-standard player is going tobe needed if John’s are to be successfully deposed next year. The unfortunate loss ofJamesWyatt and Sam Leesmeans that our strength in depth will not be so profound, andit is hoped that the second years as well as this year’s new intake of freshers will step upto the plate. The arrival of Victoria Watson, a national standard player and the numberone girl Blue, will certainly prove useful.

Meanwhile, the second team had a number of friendly fixtures, and everyone involvedmassively enjoyed themselves. Here’s to a great 2009.

Minh Luu, Captain

Netball

The ladies’ and mixed netball teams faced more challenging matches this year, with a hugeincrease in the standard of competition in the first division. However, with some fresh skillfrom the first years combinedwith continued commitment from their elders, andwith somenewbibs, balls and kit thrown in, both teams rose to the challenge. Themixed teamwas verysuccessful and the ladies’ team came third overall. The enthusiasm and commitment shownby all has ensured that both teams will remain in the first division next year.



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There was also some time for a ‘friendly’ ladies versus men fancy dress netball match at theend of Michaelmas term, which was great fun, even if the final score was a little unexpectedwith the men winning (just). A particular mention and special thanks go to James Thomas,whose commitment and umpiring skills have helped make Jesus College netball runsmoothly and very fairly this year.

Josie Brant, Captain

Rugby

Men

The year started promisingly with a closematch against league favourites St John’s endingin a 6–6 draw, demonstrating the team’s potential as challengers for the title.

The JCRUFCwent on to achieve a string of decisive victories (25–0 against Downing, 72–5against Homerton and 39–3 against both Magdalene and Girton), exhibiting throughouttheir ability to play open, expansive rugby, scoring tries from a wide variety of positions.Another close game against St John’s followed, with neither team managing to breakthrough the other side’s defences. The match ended in a 3–3 draw, leaving our title hopespinned on St John’s losing their next match, which unfortunately they went on to win.

During the Christmas vacation much of the squad turned out at the Varsity rugby matchat Twickenham to see two members of the college, Richard Bartholomew and JulianoFiori, play.

Although the secondhalf of the season beganwith a disappointing defeat toDowning, thiswas closely followed by a victory against Magdalene 81–5, showing that Jesus were still aforce to be reckoned with as Cuppers approached. This was reinforced by four membersranking in the top ten scorers of the league, with James Charlick and Koujiro Tambaraplaced first and second respectively.

The team reached the semi-finals in Cuppers but, having been hit hard by injuries bothbefore and during the game, the team then failed to beat St John’s, with a final score of27–10. Yet despite this the season ended on a high with Jesus winning the sevenstournament, overcoming CCK in the final, playing fast, open and attractive rugby.

Special thanksmust be given to EdWhite for his determination and passion in leading theteam through this season, as well as to Ssegawa Kiwanuka for his administrative work,particularly for getting the team’s brand new away kit.

Tim Greenfield, Captain ’08–’09

Women

It has been a fantastic year for women’s rugby at Jesus College. The combination of oldhands and new talent gelled almost instantaneously, and weekly training sessions soontranslated into hard-earned victories on the pitch. Indeed, we won all our leaguematches (many extremely convincingly) and conceded only five points to end the yearwell-deserved and undisputed league champions. We also succeeded in reaching thesemi-finals of Cuppers for the third year in a row (surely we’ll make the final next time!)and continued to rack up the silverware in the annual end-of-term sevens tournament,winning the plate competition in very warm conditions and with depleted numbers.

In addition to success in Jesus shirts, some among us also triumphed at this year’sVarsity matches. Cambridge University captain Laura Britton gained her second Half-Blue, with freshers Emily Matthews and Katie Wooller winning a Half-Blue and



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university colours respectively. It has been a pleasure to train and play with everymember of this year’s team, and I have no doubt that next year holds even bigger andbetter things for the best college rugby team in Cambridge!

Next year’s captain will be Katie Wooller, with Kate Bayford as vice-captain.

Ann Murray, Captain ’07–’08

Table Tennis

The club had another good year, finishing third in the top division of the league andmaking it to the semi-finals of Cuppers for the sixth consecutive year.

The season began well with convincing 8–1 and 9–0 wins over Peterhouse and StCatharine’s respectively. The ability and experience of last year’s captain, Harris Lorrie,and returning top seed Minh Luu proved invaluable in dealing with these notableopponents. Unfortunately two strong Trinity teams clinched first and second places atthe final reckoning.

In the Cuppers tournament, a crucial win over St John’s in the group stage secured ourplace in the quarter finals. Here it was the turn of Rohan Singhal and the ever-keenJames Zou to step up with well deserved victories to steer us through. A semi-final lossagainst St Catharine’s, fielding a Blue for this encounter, left us hoping to make itseventh time lucky for that elusive place in the final next year.

Mathew Robin, Captain

Ultimate Frisbee Club

This year saw a slightly lower intake of freshers than the last two years but still enoughto turn out two strong teams (a feat only two other colleges can manage).

The winter league was hotly contested, with the B team finding their feet under theguidance of captains Sonja Abhyankar and Spencer Bullent and last year’s A teamlooking to take first place. In the end, a tightly-fought semi-final forced Jesus A intothird place for winter league and Jesus B took the thirteenth, ranking higher than threeother colleges. This was an excellent performance for a team made up largely ofbeginners.

Winter Cuppers was a fantastic achievement for Jesus, with both teams putting in stellarperformances. The A team reached the final, only to be pipped at the post by arch-rivalsTrinity, whilst the B team came from behind to beat Trinity B and take home the platetrophy.

With the summer league came the renaming of the teams to the ‘Jesus Disciples’ and‘Jesus Superstars’ and the mixing of skill levels to enter two evenly-matched teams. Bothteams played exceptionally well, although they unfortunately met each other at thecrossover stage. In a tight match, the Superstars went on looking for first place and theDisciples entered the fight for the ninth. In the end the Disciples achieved this and theSuperstars came second to an impressive Churchill squad.

Arguably the highlight of the college league calendar is summer Cuppers and hopes werehigh after an epic win last year over Trinity for double Cuppers victory. Unfortunately itwas not to be on the day, with the A team dropping from second seeds to eleventh place,after a series of increasingly tiring and frustrating matches without a break. The B teamhowever shone through and retained the plate trophy for another year.



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Special mentions go to Rob Schumacher, Hammad Parwaiz, Sandy Scott and JonathanPemberthy, who came second in the national Ultimate Frisbee league as part of theuniversity team, Strange Blue. Also to Sonja Abhyankar, Alex Carnegie-Brown, MeganDavis-Wykes, Mel Whittiker and Nicola Hands, who formed a substantial part of thewomen’s squad at nationals. In addition four Jesus women and two men joined theuniversity teams that comprehensively beat Oxford in the Varsity matches.

Jon Pemberthy, Captain

Volleyball

Given the strong performances of Jesus College over the last four years, it was nosurprise that the college was once again tipped to win some silverware this year.However, the loss of a couple of key players from last year’s squad made it a lot tougher.The return of Claire Clelland (half Blue) from injury provided a much-needed boost tothe Jesus first team.

The season started a little slowly for Jesus 1, with an unfortunate loss to Fitzwilliam onthe first day of the summer league. After we had comfortably taken the lead, a slightlapse of concentration towards the end of the second set swung the momentum Fitz’sway. The team reacted well to the loss, with a series of wins including an epic 2–1 setsvictory over an experienced Trinity side. Big hitting from Sam Lees and huge blockingfrom George Marshall contributed greatly to this win, and to a successful campaignoverall. It should be noted that the enormous improvement of these two as the seasonprogressed was one of themain reasons Jesus was able to compete on an equal level withteams consisting mainly of university players. Jesus 1 finished the summer league in avery respectable third place in the top division. The second team also had a goodsummer league, posting wins over Catz and Magdalene first teams and ending up fifthin division two.

Jesus College has traditionally performed well during May Week and this year was nodifferent. On the Tuesday of May Week, Sam Lees and Andrew Papanastasiou paired upin Beach Cuppers and put in a very mature effort to finish runners up, losing only to apair of Blues players. Summer Cuppers took place on the Wednesday of May Week andthe day brought another third place finish for Jesus 1. Solid serving from Clelland andWeber helped propel the team into the semi-finals. Unfortunately though, an inability todeal with the windy weather conditions then led to a narrow loss to Churchill College.

It has been a pleasure to run Jesus volleyball over the last three years. In particular thisyear it has been brilliant to see many new participants picking up the game quickly andsettling into playing three-touch volleyball.

George Marshall will be next year’s captain.

Andrew Papanastasiou, Captain



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Jesus College Boat Club Trust

The most significant event in the Boat Club’s year was the arrival of Mark Beer as headcoach and boatman. As foreshadowed in my report last year, Mark joined the JCBC inSeptember, 2007. He is a twenty-five year old Australian graduate in sports science fromthe University of Canberra and winner of a prize for excellence in sports science studiesat the Australian Institute of Sport. He is a qualified rowing coach in Australia and hasmuch experience of coaching within the national and state systems there, having beenthe New South Wales state team manager at the inter-state regatta in the AustralianNational Rowing Championships for the last two years before coming to Jesus andhaving for the last three years been assistant senior coach and junior development coachat Mosman Rowing Club in Sydney. Mark is joined by his partner Kelly, a qualified nursenowworking at Addenbrooke’s but also with a strong rowing background. The trusteesare most grateful to the college for allowing us to be closely involved in the recruitmentprocess and for working hard to facilitate Mark’s arrival. The trustees are particularlyconscious of the college’s recognition that the job of what is now termed head coachand boatman is one which requires a high level of qualification and that the rightcandidates are hard to find but, once found, are to be welcomed.

Mark’s arrival brought to an end a difficult period for the club, belied by last year’sextremely successful results, of having to function without a boatman, particularly oneas well qualified as Mark’s predecessor, DonMcLachlan. Mark has approached the taskwith great enthusiasm, continuing Don’s emphasis on technique and fitness, but alsoinvesting huge efforts in developing the JCBC as the club in college everyone wishes tojoin. I said last year that we looked forward to Mark and Kelly joining the Jesus family,and that is precisely what they have done. Kelly and he spotted that the ‘old-style’ bumpscharts in the boathouse – which members will remember as showing each boatprogressing horizontally from left to right down the years by a line in college colours –did not extend to recent years: on their own initiative they produced by hand andpresented to the club at the Mays Dinner a chart bringing the series up-to-date. Markhas also created a ‘new tradition’ of college caps being awarded to those who row in themen’s and women’s first May boats: a magnificent sight. There are cultural differencestoo: the long-standing trustees’ drinks party for the crews, hitherto held in the Fellows’Garden, became this year a sun-drenched BBQ at the boathouse!

Spurred on by Mark’s technical and physiological coaching, the JCBC can be prettysatisfied with the results on the river this year, described in greater detail elsewhere inthis report. The men’s first VIII rose two in the Mays, where they are now third, andfourth in the Lents – entirely coincidentally, the positions the men’s first boat occupiedwhen the author arrived at Jesus. The women’s first VIII lost the headship to anexceptional crew, but only succumbed once, a great achievement, and are now secondin Mays and third in the Lents. The women’s second VIII bumped into the first divisionin the Lents and further in the first division in the Mays: not only do they continue to bein the highest position any college’s women’s second boat has ever reached, but this isthe first time the women’s second crew of any college has been in the first division inboth Lents and Mays. Tim Perkins, also an Australian, rowed in the Cambridge crewwhich exceeded expectations in the Boat Race by giving Oxford a rather harderchallenge than they were expecting: everyone was pleased to see that Tim rowed in theMay Boat for the second year running.

There have been no major single items of expenditure this year. This is entirely right asthe trustees need to give Mark time to develop his views on the equipment and trainingneeds of the club. The trust funded a training camp for the men’s and women’s first


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boats in Seville in December and a number of smaller equipment purchases. We lookforward to significant expenditure in the near term. It is also becoming apparent that theboathouse is becoming in need of some substantial investment not only to maintain thefabric but also to bring its facilities up-to-date to match other colleges. The boathouse,of course, is not a matter for the trust, but rather the college.

Our support for the club takes a wide variety of forms. The trustees have observed thatcurrent members of the club could benefit from some experience borrowed from the‘world of work’ in what is known as ‘personal timemanagement’ and in the coming yearwe will be working with them to assist them in this.

The trust’s investments have continued to performwell, under the prudent managementof our investment sub-committee and with the benefit of external advice. We are mostgrateful for one significant donation and for one bequest from Jesuans, both of whichhave been credited to the capital fund. There has been no change to our investmentpolicy – a judicious mix of investing for capital growth and income, with all donationsgoing to the capital fund – or to our policy of, in general, only spending income.

It is apparent, however, that the resources of the trust, while sufficient to fund normalmaintenance and replenishment at the club’s present level of equipment, are insufficientto give it competitive advantage, and the competition is undoubtedly moving on,whether in terms of boats or facilities on land or training methods. At the same time thenumber of people actively subscribing to the fund continues to decline.Wemust addressboth, and we will be doing so. We would encourage anyone to make a donation either inthe form of regular giving or single gift or by way of legacy: please contact our treasurer,ChrisMcDouall, on [email protected] orme on [email protected].

We will continue our efforts to raise the profile of the trust, amongst present as well aspast members, and of the JCBC itself externally, encouraging those within school boatclubs who meet the criteria to apply to Cambridge on merit to consider Jesus at the bestcollege in which to study and to live and to fulfil their potential in rowing, whatever theirlevel. We have continued our termly newsletters to alumni, edited by Richard Tett, and toencourage contact with and involvement of past members. Anyone who wishes toreceive the newsletter should contact [email protected]. There is a JCBCalumni web page at http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/boatclub.html and an up todate JCBC website at jcbc.jesus.cam.ac.uk with news and photographs. We are revivingthe past practice – omitted last year – of a ‘captains’ meeting’ in London in September toenable supporters to meet the new captains and the head coach: all are welcome.

There is a constant need for coaches and I would strongly encourage those whoare themselves encouraged by the results the club has been achieving and would like tohelp it do even better, which it is very keen to do, to contact the captains (email addressesbelow).

I would like to thank last year’s captains, Alistair Hegarty and Annabel Ritchie, foreverything they did during the year and to wish their successors Alexis Tran-viet –[email protected] – and Helen Boldon – [email protected] – all success in a year full ofchallenges but at the same time full of opportunities. Both of them will know that theyhave the full support not only of the trustees but also of all past members of the JCBC.

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Jesus College Fellows and other Senior Members

(as at 30 June 2008)

MasterProfessor R.J. Mair, F.R.Eng., F.R.S.

FellowsDr J.R. Howlett, (president) M.M.L. (Russian)Dr W.C. Saslaw AstronomyProfessor S.C. Heath, Ph.D., Litt.D. English(keeper of the old library)

Dr S.B. Hladky MedicineDr D. E. Hanke BotanyDr M.R. Minden M.M.L. (German)Mr N.J. Ray, M.A., A.R.I.B.A. ArchitectureProfessor J.B. Thompson Social & Political SciencesProfessor P.H. Nolan Chinese ManagementProfessor I. Paterson, F.R.S. ChemistryDr M.L.S. Sørensen ArchaeologyDr G.T. Parks (admissions tutor) EngineeringDr J.M. Soskice (fellows’ steward) TheologyDr M.P.C. Oldham LawDr P. Alexander (fellows’ wine steward) PhysicsDr R. Mengham (curator of works of art) EnglishProfessor D.A.S. Compston, F.R.C.P. NeurologyProfessor M.M. Arnot, F.R.S.A., Ac.S.S. (graduate tutor) EducationThe Rev’d Dr T.D. Jenkins (dean of chapel) TheologyProfessor J.R. Crawford, S.C., F.B.A. International LawProfessor R. Cipolla EngineeringProfessor Sir Bruce Ponder, F.R.C.P., F.R.S. Clinical OncologyDr S. Fennell Land EconomyDr D.I. Wilson, C.Eng. Chemical EngineeringDr G. Kearns (financial tutor) GeographyDr J.A. Tooze (Gurnee F. Hart Fellow Historyin History, dean of college)

Professor J.C.W. Mitchell Social & Political SciencesDr J.W. Ajioka MedicineProfessor S.A.T. Redfern Earth SciencesProfessor J.M. Bacon Computer ScienceDr J.P.T. Clackson (tutorial adviser) ClassicsDr M.R. Laven HistoryDr T.S. Aidt EconomicsDr S.T.C. Siklos (senior tutor) MathematicsDr T.D. Wilkinson (deputy graduate tutor, Engineeringkeeper of the plate)

Dr V. Mottier Social & Political SciencesDr P. Krishnan EconomicsDr F. Green EnglishProfessor I.H. White, F.R.Eng. EngineeringProfessor J.A. Dowdeswell Physical GeographyProfessor M. O’Brien History

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Dr N.G. Berloff MathematicsDr H. le B. Skaer (tutorial adviser) ZoologyDr S.M. Clarke ChemistryDr M.F. Gill M.M.L. (French)Dr A. Johnston LawDr N.D. Drummond PhysicsDr W. Federle BiologyDr D.M. Ingram (admissions tutor) Computer ScienceMr J. Copeman AnthropologyProfessor A. De Meyer Business ManagementDr B. Walton MusicDr O.A. Scherman ChemistryDr R. Flemming (tutorial adviser) ClassicsDr C.E. Chambers PhilosophyMr A.T. Crouch, M.A., F.C.M.A. (senior bursar)Mr R.J. P. Dennis, B.Sc. (development directorand keeper of the records)

Dr M.A. Moram Materials ScienceMr Z. Douglas LawProfessor J.J. Baumberg PhysicsDr G.N. Wells EngineeringDr D.J. Kelly Social & Political SciencesDr R.B. Gramacy Mathematics

Emeritus FellowsProfessor K.L. Johnson, Ph.D., F.R.Eng., F.R.S.Dr C.J. Adkins C.Phys., F.Inst.P.Dr D.S. WhiteheadDr J.A. HudsonProfessor G.A. Gresham, M.D., Sc.D.Dr J.E. RosebladeProfessor M.J. Waring, F.R.S.C., Sc.D.Dr J. Cameron WilsonMr P.R. Glazebrook, M.A.Professor J.T. Killen, Ph.D., FB.A.Professor P.D.A. Garnsey, PhD, F.B.A.Sir Alan Cottrell, Sc.D., Hon. LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.Eng. (honorary fellow)Dr S. EvansDr G.C. Harcourt, A.O., Litt.D., F.A.S.S.A., Ac.S.S.Professor D. K. Fieldhouse, Litt.D., F.B.A.Professor W.J. StrongeDr R.D. BowersProfessor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, M.A., Sc.D., F.B.A. (honorary fellow)Professor R. Freeman, Sc.D., F.R.S.Mr R.A. Watchman, R.D., M.A.Mr A.J. Bowen, M.A. (praelector)Mr S.J. Barton, M.A. (editor of Annual Report)

Honorary FellowsProfessor Sir Denys Wilkinson, M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., Hon.Fil.Dr., Hon.LL.DProfessor P.W. Anderson, M.A., F.R.S.Professor Dr Herbert FrankeSir Alan Cottrell, Sc.D., Hon LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.Eng. (emeritus fellow)



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Professor P. Mathias, C.B.E., M.A., D.Litt., F.BA.Sir Samuel Brittan, M.A., Hon.D.Litt.Lord Laing of Dunphail, F.R.S.E.Mr C. Hogwood, C.B.E., M.A., Hon.Mus.D.Miss Jessye Norman, M.Mus., Hon.Mus.D., Hon.D.H.L., Hon.R.A.M.Professor A.W. Cuthbert, Sc.D., F.R.S.The Hon. A.R. Gubbay, M.A., LL.M., S.C., Hon.LL.DLord Renwick of Clifton, M.A., F.R.S.A., Hon.LL.D., Hon.D.LittThe Rt Hon Lord Stewartby of Portmoak, M.A., Litt.D., F.B.A., F.R.S.E.The Rt Hon Lord Rees of Ludlow, M.A., Ph.D, O.M., P.R.S.Professor S.S. Prawer, M.A., Ph.D., Litt.D., Hon.D.Litt., Dr.phil.h.c., F.B.A.Professor D.J. Furley, M.A., F.B.A.Sir Alistair Horne, C.B.E., M.A., Litt.D.Professor R.F. Tuck, M.A., F.B.A.Professor Dame Sandra Dawson, D.B.E., M.A., F.I.P.H., F.C.G.I., Hon.D.Sc., C.I.M.Sir David Hare, M.A., Hon.Litt.D., F.R.S.L.Mr A.M.D. Gormley, O.B.E., M.A., Hon.Litt.D.Reverend Professor B.W. Silverman, M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D., F.R.S.Lord Watson of Richmond, C.B.E., M.A., F.R.T.S.Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, M.A., Sc.D., F.B.A. (emeritus fellow)Professor L.A. Jardine, C.B.E., M.A., Ph.D.Dr P.J. Hurford, O.B.E., M.A., Mus.B., F.R.C.O.Mr S. Chatterjee, M.A.The Rt Hon Sir Roger Toulson, P.C., M.A., LL.B.Mr M. Perahia, F.R.C.M.Mr B. Flanagan, O.B.E., R.A.

St Radegund FellowMr J Hudleston

Fellow CommonersMr J. Cornwell, M.A.Mr D. Hyde (director of chapel music), M.A., F.R.C.OMrs A. Künzl-SnodgrassDr C. LiuDr B.M.B. PostProfessor B.A.K. Rider, Ph.D., Hon. LL.DDr S.S. SaxenaProfessor J. Mills ThorntonDr P.J. WilliamsonDr F.H. Willmoth (archivist and assistant editor of Annual Report)

College Research AssociatesDr Y.M.J. ChewDr J.F. EversDr L.R. JohnsonMs Y. LeiDr S.R. SewitzDr M.D. BlumenthalDr T.O. CorryDr R.L. CrippsDr S. MeehanMr P. Moran



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Society of St RadegundCharles Rawlinson (1952)Raymond Kwok (1972)Geoffrey Granter (1957)Vivian Cox (1934)Eric Robinson (1942)Brian Buckley (1962)David BennettRichard Bawden (1947)Firdaus Ruttonshaw (1968)Gurnee Hart (1994)James Meadows (1956)Andrew Sutton (1965)Christopher Rodrigues (1968)Christine JenningsAlasdair Morrison (1968)Tomás Carruthers (1986)Richard Briance (1971)Michael Marshall (1952)David Wootton (1969)Jessica Sainsbury (1989)Peter Doimi de Frankopan Subic (1990)Patrick Wilson (1974)Peter Day (1968)Charles Hoare Nairne (1989)Ray Cole (1957)


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AwardsUniversity Prizes, Grants and Scholarships, and External Awards

Johnson-Matthey Bursary Kimberley E. Whittaker

David Richards Travel Scholarships 2008 Claire L. DaveyEleanor K. Knott

University Tripos Prizes

The Edward S. Prior Prize for Technical Work Christopher J. Kennedy

The John Stewart of Rannoch Prize Sophie R. Mansell

The Institution of Civil Engineers Prize for Thomas J. HeritageManagement Studies

The B P Prize for Outstanding Performance David C. Millicanin NST Part IB Chemistry A in 2008

The Corporate Associates Prize for the best Francisco N. NewbyBiological Project

College Awards, Elections and Prizes

The Raymond and Helen Kwok Research Scholarship:

Mr Yu Chen to study for a Ph.D. in the Department of Engineering, supervised by ProfRoberto Cipolla (from October 2008)

The David M. Livingstone (Australia) Scholarship

Mr Tamerlane Camden-Dunne to study for an M.Phil. in the Faculty of Classicssupervised by Professor Malcolm Schofield (from October 2008)

Mr Benjamin Goodman to study for Master of Law (LL.M.) in the Faculty of Law (fromOctober 2008) – supervisor to be appointed

The Kenneth Sutherland Memorial Scholarship

Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon to study for a Ph.D. in the Department of Engineering,supervised by Dr Abir al-Tabaa

Choral Scholarships:

Thomas Andrewes, William E. Gardner, Olympia C.I. Hetherington, Simon J. Jackson(Rawlinson Graduate Choral Scholarship), Victoria S. Mattinson, Lucy S. Williams.

Instrumental Exhibitions:

Matthew P. Bartram, Robin B. Brown, Ewen H. Christie, William E. Gardner.

Thomas Cook Travel Scholarships:

Lucie G.M. Fortune

Edward Daniel Clarke Travel Bursary:

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James Baddeley Poole Bursaries:

Francesca M. de Meillac, Sophie R. Mansell, Megan E. Newcombe, Oliver Stevens.

Hugh Owen Memorial Award:

Brendan Baker

Sir Moses and Lady Finley Travel Bursaries:

Alice Burt, Katherine Cooper, Jong H. Lim, Samir Mahmoud

Jesus College Cambridge Society Travel Bursaries:

H.Y. Bona Chow, Lucie G.M. Fortune, Helen I. Maduka, Matthew J.N. Owens, Amy A.Purser

Sir James Knott Bursary:

Christopher Nixon

Sir Robbie Jennings Fund:

Neil Amin-Smith, Moreed R. Arbabzadah, Robin B. Brown, Grace E. Chatto, Rebecca A.Crawshaw, Nikki Goldup, James Hindson, Jasmine J. Jagger, Timothy J. Johanson, KateParlett, Alice Walker

Scholarships for Graduate Students (awarded in Michaelmas 2007 for 2006–2007 results):

Iona H. Robinson, Moreed R. Arbabzadah, James Cai, Stephen Benjamin, Laura Brody,Jocelyn P. Betts, Lucy Kaufman, Jorge Armanet, Alick Varma, LouiseWoods, ChristopherGeissler, James R. Marson, Christopher P. O’Rourke, Christopher Rimmer, NicholasJackson, Christopher Peters.

Scholarships:

Andrew P. Acred, Ravindran J. Amaratunga, Miriam A. Arkush, Ruth Atkinson, NicholasA.W. Bell, Udayan Bhattacharya, Christopher M. Blaum, Luke D. Bowers, Nicholas J.S.Brierley, Simon F. Brereton (2007), Spencer H. Bullent, Will D. Carroll (2007), Sally T.Clemo, Tobias R. Constantine-Cort, Jonathan H. Cook, Matthew R. Cottingham,Michael A. Coxhead, Anya J. Crocker, Nicholas D. Cross, William D. Crouch, Rhian E.Dare-Edwards, Francesca M. de Meillac, Henry C.R. Donati, Lucy C.D. Fielding, ElliottE. Furminger (2007), Patrick W. Gordon, Naomi G. Grant, Georgina E.C. Hamilton,Shiv R. Haria-Shah, James E. Head, Thomas J. Heritage, Rebeccah A. Homer, FrederickW. Hutchins, Josephine L. Illingworth, Richard J. Ingham, Christopher S.M. Jackson,Jeffrey W. James, Michael P. Johnson, Christopher J. Kennedy, Mark J. King, Eleanor K.Knott, Teresa M. Kyrke-Smith, Voon K. Lai, Heather Lalupu, Jonathan L.D. Lawson,Christopher S.Q. Limond, Kai Lin, Harris M. Lorie, David H.H. Mack, ThabodhanMahendiran, Sophie R. Mansell, George E. Marshall, David C. Millican, ElizabethMitchell, Fiona Mitchell, Benjamin G. Moores, Sudharshan Murugesu, Eleanor C.Nalson, Vilius Naudziunas, Francisco N. Newby, Matthew P. Norris, Thomas D.O’Beirne, Andrew S. Papanastasiou, Gregory M. Patton, Tessa R. Peach, Mathew P.Robin, Michael S. Sagmeister, Camilla C. Shotton, Rohan Singhal, MatthewW.L. Smith,Clare L. Southworth, Phillida C. Strachan, Selma Telalagic, Philip Tooke, Kristen E.Treen, Thomas J. Walton, James R. Waters, Eva-Marie Wates (2007), Daniel C. White,Kimberley E. Whittaker, Daniel R. Wilkins, Zachary J. Williams, Robert J. Wills, HannahR. Wilbourne, Li-An K. Wong-Taylor, Nicholas L. Wright, Jian C. Wu, James A.G. Wyatt,Anna M. Young, James Y. Zou.

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Exhibitions:

Rory W. Attwood, Simon Banner, Joshua G Blanchard Lewis, Venetia Brown, Clair I. W.Brunner, Samuel A. Davey, Philipp Dumitrescu, Tom D.W. Forrester, Grace S.S. Goon,Tim Greenfield, Fenner T.P. Harper, Emily F. Hewlett, Benjamin J. Hosford, AnnaKalorkoti, Katie Kearsley-Wooller, Maria Kennedy, Qian X. Li, Zhewang Lin, Clare A.Longden, Matthew J.A. Lowe, Christopher P. Matthews, Ruth D. Meyer, Faisal S.M.Nasim, Eng S. Oh, George B. Owers, Evan R. Pan, Maximillian J.M. Shepherd, Joy U.L.Staniforth, Victoria L. Stevens, Alexander D. Walker, Christopher M. Wallace, Emma V.Walley, Victoria A. Watson, Richard S. Whittle, Jennifer L. Wilson, Adam S.Woolnough,Joanne E. Young, Ruize Zhao.

Prizes:

Senior Keller Selma Telalagic

Keller Thomas J. HeritageElizabeth MitchellFrancisco N. NewbyJian C. WuAnna M. Young

Benefactor’s (2004) Ravindran J. AmaratungaMiriam A. ArkushWilliam D. CrouchFenner T.P. HarperGeorge B. OwersCamilla C. ShottonVictoria A. Watson

Sir Leslie Martin (Architecture) Christopher J. Kennedy

Farrell (Greek Studies) Elizabeth Mitchell

Brereton (Classics Part IB) Sophie R. Mansell

Carruthers (Computer Studies) Part IB: David H.H. MackPart II: Vilius Naudziunas

Malthus Economics: Selma TelalagicSPS: George B. Owers

Evans (Engineering Part IA) Grace S.S. Lai

Engineers’ (Part IB) Voon K. Lai

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English) Naomi G. Grant

Schiff (History Part II) Mark J. King

Glanville Williams (LL.M.) Felicity J. Nagorcka

Bronowski (Mathematics Part IA) Samuel A. Davey

Ware (Mathematics Part IB) James E. Head

Sir Harold Spencer Jones (Mathematics Part II) Jian C. Wu

R.A. Watchman (Mathematics Part III) Andrew S. Papanastasiou

Eliot (Modern & Medieval Languages Part II) Clare L. Southworth

James Perrett (Medical Sciences Part IA) Joy U.L. Staniforth andClair I.W. Brunner (shared)

Duckworth (Meidcal Sciences Parts IA and IB) Li-An K. Wong-Taylor

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Wellings (Natural Sciences Part IA) Fenner T.P. HarperJohnGulland (Natural Sciences (Biological) Hannah R. WilbourneParts IA & IB)

John Gulland (Natural Sciences Part II) Josephine L. Illingworth

Sir Alan Cottrell (Natural Sciences (Physical) Kimberley E. Whittaker,Part II or Part III) Philip Tooke

Duncan McKie (Natural Sciences Part II or III) Eleanor C. Nalson,Francisco N. Newby

Frank Allhusen (study and research in Chemistry) Kimberley E. Whittaker

Corrie and Otter (Theology and Religious Studies) Miriam A. Arkush

Valérie Tyssens Simon Banner(MML Part I: French Language)

G F Hart (History Prelims to Part I) Faisal S.M. Nasim

Glanville Williams (Law Part IA) Adam S. Woolnough

Lovell (Law Part IB) Shiv R. Haria-Shah

Russell Vick (Law) Luke D. Bowers

Reid-Henry (Geography Supervision Essay) Clare A. Longden

Sir Peter Gadsden (for the best result Christopher J. Petersby an Australian doing one-year taughtMaster’s course in 2006–2007)

Crighton (Music) Anna C. Harvey

Gray Reading Prizes Chapel: Helen T.M. DaviesHall: Olympia C.I.Hetherington

Morgan (English essay) Lucy M.F. Razzall

Prawer (dramatic criticism) Charlotte Langley

Edwin Stanley Roe (for outstanding marks in Rebeccah A. HomerTripos examinations for a dissertation) Matthew A. Kay

Matthew R. Cottingham

Sir Denys Page Award (for Classics Emma P. Lowthstudents to travel to Greece) Lucy N. Rhodes

Renfrew (for the most significant contribution Samuel B.S. Hansonto the musical life of the College)

Waring Award (for sporting achievement) James A.G. Wyatt

Thian Prize Ailsa G. Bradbury

College Prizes:

Archaeology & Anthropology Part IIB Georgina E.C. Hamilton

Chemical Engineering Part I Michael P. Johnson

Chemical Engineering Part IIA Michael A. Coxhead

Chemical Engineering Part IIB Patrick W. Gordon

Economics Part I Matthew J.A. Lowe

Education Studies Part I Frederick W. Hutchins

Education Studies Part II Rebeccah A. Homer

Engineering Part IIA Benjamin G. Moores



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Engineering Part IIB Anna M. Young

English Preliminary Examination to Part I Rory W. Attwood

English Part I Kristen E. Treen

Geography Part IA Clare A. Longden

Geography Part IB Eleanor K. Knott

Law Part IA Katie Kearsley-Wooller

Management Studies Nicholas J.S. Brierley

Manufacturing Engineering Part I Sally T. Clemo

Modern & Medieval Languages Part IA Maria Kennedy

Modern & Medieval Languages Part IB Fiona Mitchell

Music Part II Camilla C. Shotton

Natural Sciences (Biological) Part IA Zhewang Lin

Natural Sciences Part IB (Chemistry) David C. Millican

Natural Sciences Part II (History and Matthew R. CottinghamPhilosophy of Science)

Natural Sciences Part II (Physics) Daniel R. Wilkins

Natural Sciences Part II (Physiology, Nicholas L. WrightDevelopment and Neuroscience)

Natural Sciences Part III (Biochemistry) Thabodan Mahendiran

Natural Sciences Part III (Geological) Anya J. Crocker

Philosophy Part II William D. Crouch

Social & Political Sciences Part I Victoria A. Watson

Social & Political Sciences Part IIA Francesca M. de Meillac

Social & Political Sciences Part IIA Gregory M. Patton

Tripos Results

2008 2007 2006

Number of Examinations taken 507 477 486

Number obtaining First Class (or stars) 120 108 104

Number obtaining Second Class (Upper) 238 229 228

Number obtaining Second Class (Lower) 71 62 68

Number obtaining Second Class (Undivided) 31 26 36

Number obtaining Third Class 7 11 11


Approved for Ph.D.s

The following were approved for Ph.D.s. The title of each dissertation is shown after thename of the person by whom it was submitted.

M. D. BENEDICT Advances in anisotropic particulate simulation

V. BIGO Underlabouring for modern economics with a focus on care

C. S. BOLTON Prosocial decision-making in men with learning disabilities

S. M. BUNT Renal tubule morphogenesis in Drosophila

E. K. CHOI Technological choices in the rise of the Meiji cotton-spinning industry c1870–1900

Y. CHU Quantum dot lasers and modulators for optical telecommunications

K. H. CHUNG Effects of piles on tunnels

F. M. COOKE The role of localisation in regulating proteolysis in mitosis

A. D. CORBETT A holographic modal wave front sensor for ocular adaptive optics

M. CUTRESS Structural basis for the nuclear import of the human androgen receptor

V. K. DE SOUZA Glassy dynamics and the potential energy landscape

K. R. DOMIKE A study of large-scale aggregation mechanisms and kinetics of ß-lactoglobulinprotein

D. K. EDGE Tangible user interfaces for peripheral interaction: episodic engagement with objects ofphysical, digital and social significance

D. S. ETEROVIC Essays in political economics: effects of institutions on policy outcomes

M. G. FRAMPTON The political strategy of Sinn Féin, 1981–2005

T. W. GREGGS Restoring particularity: the economic dynamics of Spirit and Son, with specialreference to the theologies of Origen and Karl Barth

J. Y. HAWDM/SCM PON incorporating a novel CWDM uplink combiner

H. IQTIDAR The changing role of ‘Muslim fundamentalists’ in Pakistan

P. JAMES Retention and retreat: complementary participles and infinitives with verbs of perceptionand declaration in the Roman and Byzantine documentary papyri

J. L. JONES Long-lived immunomodulation following Campath-1H

T-K. KIM Discriminant analysis of patterns in images, image ensembles and videos

R. T. KÖNIG de Finetti theorems for quantum states

S.-C. LEE Power and resistance: the study of gender education policy in Taiwan

H. M. MARKLANDMaternal investment in the European Blackbird Turdus merula

R. I. MUGFORD Numerical modelling of sediment delivery from tidewater glaciers to the marineenvironment

E. I. OKSANEN The relations between England and Flanders, 1066–c. 1200, with special referenceto the Anglo-Flemish treaties

M. H. PATTERSON Private military actors in United Nations peacekeeping and humanitarianoperations

T. J. RICHARDS Internal potentiometry of polymer field effect transistors

J. A. L. STAFFORD The stereochemical determination and total synthesis of reidispongiolide A

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D. M. TRAMBAIOLO Crystallographic studies of bacterial cell division proteins

J. M. K. S. U-KING-IM Evaluation of carotid atherosclerotic disease by Magnetic ResonanceImaging

J. L. WINWOOD Cytokinins and oxidative stress in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)

M. WOOD Synthesis and evaluation of selective thiamin diphosphate antagonists

R. ZHANG Manufacturing integration processes in international horizontal mergers andacquisitions

J. T. L. ZWART Preparing for blind surveys with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager

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Members’ News

People

J. D. N BARDOLPH (1961) has spent 49 years teaching English, French and Spanish,concluding as a housemaster at Shebbear College (Devon), and is still engaged in supplyteaching (at the age of 71). He has travelled widely, guiding tourists throughout Europe,Scandinavia, Finland and theUK.As a keen rider of bicycles andmotorbikes, he ‘is at presenton his 148th vehicle’.

D. L. A. BARKER (1986) has been appointed a foundation fellow of the Australian Academyof Law.

C. J. BENNETTS (1960) retired as Bishop of Coventry on 31 January 2008.

R. W. BENTLEY (1969) retired from NHS management early in 2007, after 34 years andnearly as many reorganisations. Since 1986 he has served as personnel/human resourcesdirector for NHS Trusts in Worthing and Crawley/Horsham (Sussex), and latterly for SurreyAmbulance Service. He is now working as an occasional freelance HR consultant.

F. A. C. S. BOWN (1968) has resigned the benefice of St Stephen Sculcoates, in the Dioceseof York, and taken up a new career as a writer. He describes hotels and restaurants forBown’s Best and gentlemen’s clothes for Bown’s Bespoke (www.bownsbest.com andwww.bownsbespoke.com).

S. E. BROCKLEBANK-FOWLER (1979) has accepted a pro bono appointment as an honoraryvisiting fellow at the Finance Faculty of the Cass Business School. He has also joined theadvisory board of the Institute of Continuing Education, Cambridge University. He iscompleting his tenth year as executive chairman of Cubitt Consulting, the internationalcorporate and investor communications consultancy with headquarters in London andNewYork (www.cubitt.com).

J. M. S. BROWN (1988) is currently living in Sydney with her husband David BROWN (1987)and their three daughters aged 7, 6 and 2.

T. S. COUZENS (1978) has been appointed co-principal bassoon of the English NationalOpera Orchestra.

C. P. DAVIES (1980) is currently director of ‘radio and convergent media’ for the UKcommunications regulator, Ofcom.

J. A. DAVIES (1989) has been working/settled in Nottingham for the past twelve years on atemporary basis, but now has a consultant anaesthetist post (with a special interest in‘plastics and burns’) at the City Hospital in Nottingham so can plan to stay there long-term.He sees Dr Iain Moppett (1988) and Dr JonathanMole (1987) regularly, as they are also bothconsultant anaesthetists in Nottingham, and they all attend St Giles’ Church in WestBridgford. If he ever gets any spare time, he enjoys listening to a wide variety of music andtrying to regain some of his former fitness (by running and cycling).

Y.DENG (2003), regarded as one of the greatest table tennis players in the history of thesport (she won six world championships and four Olympic championships between 1989and 1997), was amember of the BeijingOrganizingCommittee for the 2008OlympicGames

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and vice director of Beijing’s Olympic Village. She is currently studying for a Ph.D. in landeconomy at the college.

N. A. FLECK (1976) professor of engineering, director of Cambridge Centre forMicromechanics; head of mechanics, materials & design, Department of Engineering,Cambridge University, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

A. K. FYFE (1993) continues to be a university lecturer in the History Department at theNational University of Ireland, Galway, whilst her husband Paul SMITH (1997) is a MarieCurie research fellow in theMathematics Department there. See the Births section below fornews of the arrival of their first child.

J. GUPTA (1982) is a senior advocate practising in India, mostly in areas of commercial andadministrative law.

M. T. HANNEY (2003) is working for Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, aspolitical adviser in the ‘Internal Party Liaison’ section of his office.

The Honourable Mr Justice R. M. JACKSON (1967) has been appointed a Lord Justice ofAppeal with effect from 1 October 2008.

A. R. C. KERSHAW (1971) has recently been appointed the first chairman of ILEXProfessional Standards Ltd, the regulatory arm of the Institute of Legal Executives.

M. F. MARIX EVANS (1960) has been appointed honorary visiting fellow in the Centre forEnglish Local History, Leicester, for five years (from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2013), inrecognition of his work on the history of the Battle of Naseby and on the impact of thecontemporary terrain and land-use on the conduct and outcome of the battle. After sevenyears as chairman of the Naseby Battlefield Project, he has become its deputy chairman. Theproject has acquired land and is starting work on the construction of a visitor centre – seewww.naseby.com.

E SMASKIN (Research Fellow 1976–77), was the co-winner, alongwith LeonidHurwicz andRogerMyerson, of the 2007NobelMemorial Prize in Economic Sciences ‘for having laid thefoundations of mechanism design theory.’

S. R. MIDDLETON (1989) joined nabCapital, part of National Australia Bank (owner of theClydesdale and Yorkshire Banks) as managing director and head of project finance Europein August 2006. His growing team is responsible for the structuring and financing of majorprojects (power stations, roads, schools, hospitals, dams, wind plants, bridges, airports andtunnels) across Europe.

Silvina MILSTEIN (1986) was commissioned by the Association for Cultural Exchange tocompose a piece ofmusic in celebration of the organisation’s fiftieth anniversary. The piece,Surrounded By Distance, was premiered by the London Sinfonietta under Oliver Knussen atQueen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 8 June 2008. Silvina is a senior lecturer inmusic at King’sCollege, London.

K. M. MORRELL (1991) has been appointed a senior lecturer in the Business School at theUniversity of Birmingham.

R.W.H. PURDY (1977) was awarded aQueen’s Commendation for Valuable Service in 2007,following operational service in Afghanistan.

J. E. REES (1996) has joined Apex Chambers (criminal specialist set) in Cardiff and is still amember of chambers at 5 Paper Buildings in London –practising in both London andWales.

R. H. RICHARDS (1966), director of the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling,received a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2008, in recognition of his services toveterinary science. From 1989 he has advised key industry associations, including theScottish Salmon Growers’ Association, Scottish Quality Salmon and the Scottish Salmon



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Producers’ Organisation. He has been a member of a number of joint government-industryworking groups and has contributed to the development of industry codes of practice, theScottish Framework for Sustainable Aquaculture and the Scottish Aquaculture Bill; he is alsoa member of the UK Research Assessment Exercise panel for 2008 and, since 2001, of theinternational panel of Norway’s Research Council Centres of Excellence Scheme.

D. L. SETCHELL (1957) was awarded an honorary doctorate of philosophy by the Universityof Gloucestershire after serving eleven years on its council and six years as chairman.

T. A. STALLARD (1998) won a silver medal at the Beijing Olympics as amember of the TeamGBmen’s VIII.

R. J. TAUNT (1967) retired from Smiths Group early in 2008. He and Gill then moved toLymington, Hampshire, where they spend a great deal of time campaigning a J109 offshoreracing boat punningly called ‘JIBE’.

P. J. TWISS (2001) since graduating in 2005 has joined the Royal Navy as an engineeringofficer.

L. E. TWISS (née CAMPBELL, 2001) since graduating in 2005 has spent time working inengineering, but is now pursuing a career as a teacher.

S. C. WICKS (1943) retired from teaching English in 2007. He worked in direct grant andlocal authority schools, and for the Workers’ Educational Association. He comments on hisindebtedness to E.M.W. Tillyard, A. P. Rossiter ‘and Cambridge altogether, especially for itschoral and other music’.

T. D.WILSON (1983) has completedmedical school at theUniversity of Auckland and is nowworking as a junior doctor at Dunedin Public Hospital, New Zealand.

J. WILTON-ELY (1958) was guest curator of the exhibition Piranesi as Designer, at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; he was wholly responsible for planning thedisplays and selecting the material. The exhibition was shown from September 2007 toJanuary 2008, and was then transferred to Holland, where it was shown at the TeylersMuseum, Haarlem, from February to May 2008. See the publications list below for theaccompanying book.

Births

Rodolphe d’ARJUZON (1995) and his wife Helen d’ARJUZON (1996) have a son, FélixBenjamin Gabriel, born on 29 January 2008.

Joanna BROWN (1988, née Wallace) and her husband David BROWN (1987) have threedaughters aged 7, 6 and 2.

Pablo CEPPI (2001) and Macarena IBARRA (2001) have a third daughter, Antonia, born on12 July, a sister for Isidora and Josefina.

T. Simon COUZENS (1978) and his wife Helena have twins: Lucy, born 1 October 2007, andSamuel, born 2 October 2007.

Jonathan DAVIES (1989) and his wife Karin Elisabeth Gmuer have two sons: Luc Henry wasborn in 2004, and Alec Walter was born at the beginning of February 2008.

Amanda DEMPSTER (née Piachaud) (1993) and Robert DEMPSTER (1992) have a seconddaughter, Florence Rose, born 17 March 2007, a sister for Alice.

Aileen FYFE (1993) and Paul SMITH (1997) are delighted to announce the birth of their firstchild, Lucy Katherine Fyfe Smith, born on 24 March 2008.

Nick GOWERS (1998) and his wife Laura Kindner have a daughter, JemimahGrace, born on12 September 2007.



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Matthew LAWSON (1990) and Nicola LAWSON (née Hatch) (1990) have four children:Esther, born inDecember 2006, Gabriel, born in January 2005, Jonty, born in February 2003,and Naomi, born in July 2001.

Aimee MIDDLEMISS (1993) and her husband Matt Frost have a second daughter, MirandaHope, born on 12 September 2007, a sister for Ida.

Sarah MORRELL (née Shepherd) (1994) and her husband Dr Kevin MORRELL (1991) have adaughter, Emily Jessica, born on 12 June 2007, their first child.

Justin PARKINSON (1994) and his wife Caroline have a daughter, Iris Marian Gwendoline,born on 7 June 2007.

JonathanREES (1996) andhiswife Claire have a son, Joseph Llywelyn, born September 2007.

Emma SEDDON (née Jackson) (1994) and her husband Mike (Magdalene 1993) have a twingirl and boy, Rosie and Ben, born on 12 April 2007.

Victor SEIDEL (1997) and wife Sandra Shefelbine (Churchill 1997) have a son, CorbinFranklin, born on 1 June 2007.

Ray TARLING (1989) and his wife Tracey have a son, Adam Ethan, born on 26 June 2007,their first child.

Neil THWAITES (1995) and his wife Annette (née ROSE, 1995) have a daughter, Heidi Rose,born on 13 December 2007, their first child.

Fay TINNION (1992) and her husband Stephen Bloomer have a son, Tom, born on 30November 2007.

Anne WHITEHOUSE (1987) and her husband Henri Winand have a daughter, Rebecca Lily,born on 14 December 2006. Her brother Alexander is delighted; ‘we would all like moresleep though!’

TimWILSON (1983) has a first son, Samuel, born on 19 April 2007.

Marriages and civil partnerships

Dr Toke S. AIDT (Fellow, 1998) was married to Dr Vania Sena on 20 July 2008 in the SeniorCombination Room, Jesus College.

Sarah CANTWELL (1993) married Michael Lea (Pembroke 1992) on 30 June 2007.

Jonathan DAVIES (1989)married Karin Elisabeth Gmuer in October 1999 (a Swiss girl – theymet skiing in Austria) and they now have two sons (see above).

Nia DAVIES (1995)married AlistairWilley on 29 September 2007 at Chirk Castle,Wrexham.

Peter DAVIES (1980) registered his civil partnership with James Jolly in London on19 May 2006.

Anita DELAFIELD (1993) married Jamie Grainger Horner on 22 July 2006.

Aileen FYFE (1993)married Dr Paul SMITH (King’s 1992, Jesus 1997, Robinson Fw 2000) on7 April 2007 in Upper Hall, Jesus College.

Nick GOWERS (1998) married Laura Kidner on 14 January 2006 at St Thomas’ Oakwood.

Jonathan REES (1996) married Claire Louise Jacklin in July 2006 at Llanstephan Church,Powys, Wales.

Ray TARLING (1989) married Tracey on 29 October 2005 at St Mary’s in Blackheath, London.

Neil THWAITES (1995) married Annette ROSE (1995) on 27 October 2007 at MaryleboneRegistry Office.

Paul TWISS (2001) married Laura CAMPBELL (2001) in December 2006 in Belfast.



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Books and articles by members and old members

(* Denotes a gift to the college libraries)

Please note that the donations acknowledged here are those received before the end of July 2008. Anyitems received after that date will be listed in next year’s Report.

Many Fellows contributed articles to Jesus: the Life of a Cambridge College (2007); for spacereasons these have not been separately listed in the following entries.

BACON, J (Fw,[]) (i) with Alastair Beresford, David Evans, David Ingram, Niki Trigoni,Alexandre Guitton, and Antonios Skordylis ‘TIME: An open platform for capturing,processing and delivering transport-related data’ in Fifth IEEE Consumer Communicationsand Networking Conference, CCNC 2008, Session on Sensor Networks in Intelligent TransportationSystems, pages 687–691 (Las Vegas, Nevada, US, January 2008); (ii) with David Eyers,Jatinder Singh, and Peter Pietzuch ‘Access control in publish/subscribe systems’ inDEBS ‘08: Proceedings of the second international conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems,pages 23–34 (ACM, 2008); (iii) with Jatinder Singh, Luis Vargas, and Ken Moody inPolicy 2008, IEEE 9th International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks,pages 137–144 (Palisades,NY, USA, IEEE Computer Society, June 2008).

* BARBER, L. (1992), selected and ed. Penguin’s Poems for Life (London, 2007).

* BERTONOLI MELI, D. (1989), Thinking with Objects: the Transformation of Mechanics inthe Seveteenth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2006).

* CASSIMATIS, A. E. (1989), Human Rights Related Trade Measures under InternationalLaw (Leiden and Boston, Matinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007).

* CLACKSON, J. P. T. (1998) (i) Indo-European linguistics; an introduction (paperback,CUP 2007); (ii) with G. Horrocks, The Blackwell History of the Latin Language(Blackwell 2007).

* CLISSOLD, L. F. (1979),Why the Chinese Don’t Count Calories (2008).

* COOKE, G. O. J. (1955), member of working group which produced The Forensic Useof Bioinformation: ethical issues (Nuffield Council on Bioethics, London, 2007).

COPEMAN, J. (Fw 2006), (i) ‘Veinglory: Exploring Processes of Blood TransferBetween Persons’, reprinted from 2005 in special issue of The Journal of the RoyalAnthropological Institute, March (2008); (ii) ‘Violence, Non-violence, and BloodDonation in India’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 14:2 (2008), pp. 277–295.

* DE LACEY, G. J. (1957), with S. Morley and L. Berman, The Chest X-ray: a SurvivalGuide (Saunders Elsevier: Philadelphia, 2008).

* ELLIOTT, W. J. (1959), The New Testament in Greek, IV – The Gospel According to St John:vol. 2, The Majuscules, ed. by U B. Schmid with W. J. Elliott and D. C. Parker (Brill:Leiden and Boston, 2007.

* EVANS, R. J. W. (1962), Rudolph II and his World (paperback edn, Thames andHudson, 1997).

FEDERLE, W. (Fw 2005), (i) with C. Clemente, ‘Pushing versus pulling: division oflabour between tarsal attachment pads in cockroaches’, Proceedings of the RoyalSociety B: Biological Sciences Vol. 275 (2008), pp. 1329–1336; (ii) with U. Bauer and H.F. Bohn ‘Harmless nectar source or deadly trap: Nepenthes pitchers are activated byrain, condensation and nectar’, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesVol. 275 (2008), pp. 259–265; (iii) with I. Scholz and W. Baumgartner


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‘Micromechanics of smooth adhesive organs in stick insects: pads aremechanically anisotropic and softer towards the adhesive surface’, Journal ofComparative Physiology A 194 (2008), pp. 373–384; (iv) with T. Endlein ‘Walking onsmooth or rough ground: passive control of pretarsal attachment in ants’, Journalof Comparative Physiology A Vol. 194, pp. 49–60.

* GILLIS, R. J. (1976), Navigational Servitudes: Sources, Applications, Paradigms (MartinusNijhoff Publishers, Leiden and Boston, US, 2007).

GIMLETTE, J. E. (1982) Panther Soup: A European Journey in War and Peace(Hutchinson, 2008).

* HAPPÉ, P. (1978), (i) The Towneley Cycle:Unity and Diversity (University of WalesPress, Cardiff, 2007); (ii) ed., with W. Hüsken, Interludes and Early Modern Society:studies in gender, power and theatricality (Amsterdam, 2007); (iii) ‘Staging God in LastJudgement Plays in England, France and Italy’, in J.P. Bordier and A. Lascombes,eds., Diue et les dieux dans le théâtre de las Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp.151–70; (iv) ‘Printing the Third Volume of Jonson’s Works’, Ben Jonson Journal 14(2007), pp. 20–42; (v) ‘Expositor Figures in some Cycle Plays in French andGerman’, in P. Butterworth , ed., The Narrator, the Expositor and the Prompter inEuropean Medieval Theatre (Brepols: Turnhout 2007), pp. 45–68.

HARCOURT, G. C. (Fw 1982), (i) ‘The relevance of the Cambridge-Cambridgecontroversies in capital theory for econometric practice’ in P. Arestis, M. Baddeleyand J. S. L. McCombie, eds., Economic Growth: New Directions in Theory and Policy(Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, USA), 2007, pp.117–35;(ii) ‘What is the Cambridge approach to economics?’ in E. Hein and A. Truger,eds., Money, Distribution and Economic Policy: Alternatives to Orthodox Macroeconomics(Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, USA, 2007), pp.11–30;(iii) ‘Markets, madness and a Middle Way revisited’, The Economic and LabourRelations Review, vol. 17, April 2007, pp.1–10, with corrected version in vol. 18,November 2007; (iv) ‘The Structure of Post-Keynesian Economics: The CoreContributions of the Pioneers’,History of Economics Review, No. 45,Winter 2007, pp.95–105.

HUNTER, M.C.W (1968), ed. with P. Anstey, The Text of Robert Boyle’s ‘Designe aboutNatural History’ (Occasional Papers of the Robert Boyle Project, London, 2007).

* HORNSBY, D. C. (1986), Redefining Regional French: Koinéization and dialect levelling inNorthern France (Legenda – Studies in Linguistics 3, MHRA/Maney Publishing, 2006).

* KAY, A. (1991), contributor to The Companies Act 2006 – a commentary, eds B.Hannigan and D. Prentice (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2007).

KEMP, I. C. (1978), ‘Process-Systems Simulation Tools’, ch. 7 in Modern DryingTechnology vol. 1, eds. A. S. Mujumdar and E. Tsotas (Wiley-VCH, 2007); co-author ofch. 12, ‘Drying’, in Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook, 8th edn (McGraw-Hill, 2007).

* LUDLOW, C. P. (1973) Shadows in Wonderland: a Hospital Odyssey (HammersmithPress, London, 2008).

MAIR, R. J. (Master 2001), (i) with C. K.Choy and J. R. Standing ‘Stability of aloaded pile adjacent to a slurry-supported trench’, Géotechnique 57/10 (2007), pp.807–819; (ii) with A. S. Merritt, ‘Mechanics of tunnelling machine screwconveyors: a theoretical model’, Géotechnique 58/2 (2008), pp.79–94; (iii) with A.Klar, A. M.Marshall and K. Soga, ‘Tunnelling effects on jointed pipelines’ CanadianGeotechnical Journal 45/1(2008), pp. 131–139; (iv) with P. S. Dimmock, ‘Effect of

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building stiffness on tunnelling-induced ground movement’, Tunnelling andUnderground Space Technology, Vol. 23/4 (2008), pp. 438–450.

MARTIN, D. H. (1987), Managing Risk in Extreme Environments: Front-line BusinessLessons for Corporates and Financial Institutions (Kogan Page Ltd, 2007).

MARTYN, J. G. R. (1962), ed. with Nicholas Caddick, Williams, Mortimerand Sunnucks on Executors, Administrators and Probate (London, Sweet & Maxwell,2008).

MENGHAM, R. (Fw 1973), (i) with S. Gilmartin, Thomas Hardy’s Shorter Fiction(Edinburgh University Press, 2007); (ii) ‘Doris Salcedo’s Un-forms’, in Doris Salcedo(London: White Cube, 2007), pp. 25–27; (iii) ‘Frostworks’ in Ilya and EmiliaKabakov, ‘Under the Snow’ (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2007,associated with an exhibition in Dortmund and Tampere, Finland) p.52–88; (iv)‘The Real Avant-Garde’, in Room to Live in: a Kettle’s Yard Anthology, ed. T. Yoseloff(Salt Publishing, 2007) pp. 70–73.

* MOTTIER, V. (Fw 1999), (i) Sexuality (in the Very Short Introduction series, OxfordUniversity Press, 2008), copies given to the Jesuan Collection and theQuincentenary Library; (ii) ed. with L. Von Mandach, Pflege, Stigmatisierung undEugenik: Integration und Ausschluss in Medizin, Psychiatrie und Sozialhilfe, (Zürich:Seismo, 2007), including ‘introductions’ in German and French versions,pp.7–25; (iii) ‘Eugenics, Politics and the State: Social-Democracy and the SwissGardening State’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences39(2) (2007), pp. 263–269; (iv) ‘Metaphors, Mini-Narratives and FoucauldianDiscourse Theory’, in T. Carver and J. Pikalo, eds, Political Language and Metaphor(London: Routledge, 2008); (v) ‘Meaning, Identity, Power: Metaphors andDiscourse Analysis’, Travaux de sciences politiques, Université de Lausanne: Institutd’études politiques et internationales 30 (2007).

MURRAY, A. L. (1949), (i) ‘The exchequer cat, 1715–1842’, Scottish Archives 12(2006), pp. 53–56 (ii) ‘The parish clerk and song school of Inverness, 1538–9’, TheInnes Review, 58 no. 1 (Edinburgh, 2007) pp. 107–115.

O’BRIEN, M. (1993, Fw 2002), (i) ‘Amoralities Not For Turning: Response toCotkin’, Journal of the History of Ideas 69 (2008), pp. 323–326; (ii) ‘Victorian PietyPracticed’,Modern Intellectual History 5 (2008), pp. 153–163.

PASEAU, A. C. (2002) with M.Leng and M. Potter, eds., Mathematical Knowledge,[papers from the ‘Mathematical Knowledge’ conference, Cambridge June-July2004] (Oxford University Press, 2007).

* PENZEL, J. (1996), Variation und Imitation: ein literarischer Kommentar zu denEpigrammen des Antipater von Sidon und des Archias von Antiocheia (BochumerAltertumwissenschaftliches Colloquium, vol. 71; Trier, 2006).

PONDER, B. A. J. (Fw 1962), (i) with D. F. Easton and 102 others ‘Genome-wideassociation study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci’, Nature 447(2007), pp. 1087–1093; (ii) with P. D. P. Pharoah, A. Antoniou and D. F. Easton,‘Polygenes and breast cancer susceptibility: Implications for risk prediction andtargeted prevention’, New England Journal of Medicine (in press).

* PRADELLA, G. M. (2001), contributor to A. Wright and N. Hastie Genes and commondiseases (CUP, 2007).



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* ROBINSON, E. H. (1942), ‘A thousand years of western technology in one volume...’, essay review of Robert Friedel, A Culture of Improvement (2007), in Technology andCulture 49 (Jan. 2008), pp. 215–29.

* RUMBOLD, V. (1980), ed., The poems of Alexander Pope, vol. III: The Dunciad (1728) andThe Dunciad Variorum (1729) (Pearson Longman, Harlow, 2007).

SOSKICE, J. M. (Fw 1988) The Kindness of God; Metaphor, Gender, and Religious Language(Oxford University Press, 2007).

STACE, W. H. (1984), By George (Jonathan Cape, London, and Little, Brown, NewYork, 2007).

* STEWART, R. P. D. (1981), ed. with J. L Powell, Jackson & Powell on ProfessionalLiability; first supplement to the sixth edition (The Common Law Library:Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell, 2007).

STONE, N. (1986), (i)Mr Clarinet (Penguin, 2006), winner of the Ian Fleming SteelDagger, 2006; (ii) King of Swords (Michael Joseph, 2007).

* TAYLOR, J. J. (1999), (i) ‘Leveraging the global to empower local struggles: ...’, inHuman Security vol. 1 no. 2, St Anthony’s International Review (November 2005),pp. 102–117; (ii) with C. Murphy and others, ‘Land and natural resource mappingby San communities andNGOs: experiences fromNamibia’ in Participatory Learningand Action 54 – Mapping for change ... (IIED, April 2006), pp. 79–84.

* TAYLOR, M. (1977) Java and SQL: a programmer’s guide (self-published, 2007).

WALTON, B. T. (2006), Rossini in Restoration Paris (Cambridge University Press,2007).

WARING, M. J. (Fw 1965) (i), with G. Wells, C. R. H. Martin et al., ‘Design, synthesisand biophysical and biological evaluation of a series of pyrrolobenzodiazepine (PBD)-poly(N-methylpyrrole) conjugates’, Journal of Medical Chemistry 49 (2006), pp.5442–5461; (ii) with L. D. Van Vliet, T. Ellis et al., ‘Molecular recognition of DNA byrigid [n]-polynorbornane-derived bifunctional intercalators: Synthesis and evaluationof their binding properties’, Journal of Medical Chemistry 50 (2007), pp. 2326–2340.

* WILTON-ELY, J. (1958), with S. Lawrence, Piranesi as designer (Smithsonian,Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum/Editions Assouline, New York, 2007) –see also members’ news.

Other gifts to the college libraries

Brian BUCKLEY (1962) has presented fine facsimile editions of The Luttrell Psalter(Cambridge University Press for the Folio Society, 2006; limited edition no. 155), TheHolkham Bible (Cambridge University Press for the Folio Society, 2007; limited editionno.75) and The Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, ed. by Charles Darwin (produced inassociation with the Royal Geographical Society, 1994).

Michael DARLING (1950) has presented a copy of Flora Londinensis (1777 and 1798),described elsewhere in this Report.

Peter GARNSEY (Fw, 1974) has given a collection of his publications: Social Status andLegal Privilege in the Roman Empire (Oxford University Press, 1970); ed with C. R.Whittaker, Trade and Famine in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge Philological Society, 1983);ed. with C. Humfries, The Evolution of the Late Antique World (Orchard Academic,



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Cambridge, 2001); and, to the Quincentenary Library, volumes 11–13 of The CambridgeAncient History, ed. by him with A. K. Bowman, A. Cameron et al.

Emily DOURISH (née MITCHELL, 1995), has presented a copy of her librarianshipdissertation: ‘Rare books, retroconversion and recataloguing: recommendations for theOld Library of Jesus College, Cambridge’ (London, 2007)

SusanMacDougall, daughter of the late F. G.W. JONES (1933), has donated a copy of hisposthumously published papers ‘A contribution to the epidemiology of the cystnematodes Heterodera schactii Schm., Globodera rostochiensis Woll. and G. pallida Stone innorth-west Europe’ and ‘Modelling the within-field spread of the potato cyst-nematode,Globodera rostochiensis Woll.’ (Bulletins no. 3 and 4 of the F.G.W. Jones Family HistoricalSeries, Canberra, Australia, Dec. 2007)

Mike PERCIVAL (1983) has presented a copy of Steve Fairbairn’s Rowing in a nutshell, Theendless chain movement (ed. T. B. Langton) and several books written by Quiller-Couch,from his parents’ collection.

A. YOULE (1965) has given two volumes by Sir Alan Cottrell: The Mechanical Properties ofMatter (1964) and An Introduction to Metallurgy (1967)

Dr Christine McKie has presented a copy of Carl Hoffmann, Pflanzen-Atlas nach demLinné’schen System (Stuttgart, 1883), from the library of Duncan McKie

Bequests and other gifts

The college wishes to record its great gratitude for the following bequests receivedduring the academic year 2007–8:

Sir Peter Gadsden (1949) £10,000; A H McKinnon (1951) £5,000; Mrs M Brittain£209,184*; Mr F Barnsdale (1936) £1,000; N H Perrin (1943) £2,094; Mrs J A Hutchinsonin memory of G A Hutchinson (1943) £460,000; Sir Arthur Marshall (1922) £50,000; GHoldsworth (1943) £500.

*During her lifetime, Mrs Brittain had also gifted her house in South Mimms to the college; after her death, thisrealised £600,000,.

A new piece of silver for the college

It is not often that we acquire new pieces of silver,so were particularly pleased when earlier this yearMichael Marshall (1952) presented the collegewith a silver model of de Havilland 60 Gipsy MothG – AAEH in memory of his father Sir ArthurMarshall (1922). Sir Arthur learnt to fly in a DH 60in 1928 and purchased this particular aircraft on16 February 1929.



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College events‘50 Years On’ Anniversary Lunch 11 December 2007

TheMaster and Fellows invited those whomatriculated in 1957 and their guests to lunchin college on 11 December 2007 as their guests. The following old members acceptedthis invitation:

A. J. Almond, I. C. Balfour, A. Best, J. Beveridge, M. G. Brown, A. S. Chilvers, R. Cole, H.D. Craig, C. M. Cripps, W. R. Edwards, M. A. Finlay, T. P. Francis, A. J. Gordon, G. E. T.Granter, C. M. Hood, A. G. Jackson, B. K. Johnson, M. D. C. Johnson, D. J. Lawrence, J.M. Lowe, C. J. Nicholson, N. P. O’Farrell, R. A. Peters, D. A. Rutter, D. L. Setchell, N. C.Spurway, M. F. Tremberth, C. J. Tully, P. J. van Berckel, S. C. Woodley.

‘60 Years On’ Anniversary Lunch 20 December 2007

TheMaster and Fellows invited those whomatriculated in 1947 and their guests to lunchin college on 20 December 2007 as their guests. The following old members acceptedthis invitation:

R. A. Bawden, R. L. S. Blackadder, R. G. Blackmore, P. O. Bourne, P. M. Freeman, N. R.Power, A. N. Smart, J. V. Sutcliffe, T. Tyndall, C. Tyson, R. G. Woods.

Reunion Dinner 11 January 2008

The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1993 and 1994 to dine andspend the night in college on 11 January 2008 as their guests. The following accepted thisinvitation:

1993 R. D. Abel, R. M. R. Ackland, R. A. Atkin, S. F. Atkins, R. A. Atkins, M. J. Birks,J. W. Buchanan, E. J. Cawte, V. Z. Chorniy, J. A. Clarke, A. E. Colquhoun, L. K.Constable-Maxwell, A. J. E. Cox, A. Datta, S. L. Dixon, O. J. D. Doward, D.Drake, A. D. E. Drury, D. Forbes, O. K. Gavin, A. I. Glencross, C. M. Guthrie, K.S. Hall, M. T. G. Hazell, D. Hemp, M. A. Hendy, A. Hindocha, A. F. Horner, S.J. Howard, M. J. Johnstone, L. G. Kennedy, R. J. Less, N. M. Luscombe, F. J.Marritt, R. C. McCormick, B. J. McCullagh, N. McInnes, A. L. Middle, P. T.Morgan, P. T.Morris, A.Moussakou, J. C. Pearce, J. R. K. Pierce, H. A. Rebbeck,P. M. Rolfe, M. G. Rushton, J. S. Sharp, A. L. Sheehan, J. E. Shenton, R. A.Stocks, L. Tan, L. R. J. Tan, E. K. Thorp, C. H. K. Tse, S. E. Unwin, A. M. Usher,D. S. White, M. D. White, K. A. Williamson, S. L. Withington, J. L. Wright

1994 N. Austin, G. N. Barrand, D. B. Bateman, N. G. Bavidge, V. L. Bavidge, N. V. K.Baylis, M. R. Beckford, C. C. M. Bennett, N. W. H. Blaker, N. J. Bliss,H. V. Boome, R. J. Brass, K. E. L. Burrell, S. G. Casson, R. J. D. L. Cazenove,D. D. Chandler, D. K. Collyer, M. J. Day, S. J. Dix, A. C. Dunn, T. M.El-Shanawany, K. T. Ferguson, S. Ferguson, B. Flynn, H. J. Fraser, D. R.French, V. S. Georgiadis, P. Giannopoulos, G. J. C. Hammond, A. J. Hickman,H. E. Hine, R. Hood, E-J. Horton, T. J. Horton, P. Irons, S. J. King, S. M.Lawrence, C. C. Lewis, N. P. F. Lindgreen, M. W. Loose, J. S. Macnaughtan, P.E. Mann, H. M. M. Markham, C. G. C. McKinnon, A. P. Nash, S. L. Oswald, J.Parkinson, M. E. Parry, S. J. Pearse, C. C. Perks, V. J. Richards, L. Rivolta, E. K.Seddon, P. R. Segal, C. Shepherd, H. H. Sloman, A. R. Stephenson, R. P.Stuber, T. H. B. Stuttard, R. D. C. Thompson, E. Todd, D. A. Vivian, E. J.Warwick, J. H. Watson

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1496 Lunch 24 February 2008

On 24 February 2008 a lunch for parents was organised by the 1496 Committee ofsecond year undergraduates co-chaired by Daniel Howell and Sudharshan Murugesu.154 parents and students and 9 Fellows attended the event, which raised just over £1,400to fund the annual 1496 student bursary.

Glanville Williams Society Reception 27 February 2008

The seventh Glanville Williams Society Reception was held at Lovells LLP, AtlanticHouse, Holborn Viaduct on 27 February 2008, and was generously hosted andsponsored by David Moss (1975), Henry Wheare (1971) and Andy Briggs (1987). TheMaster and Mrs Msrgaret Mair and the following Jesuans connected with law attendedthe event:

G. J. Tayar (1951), M. F. Harcourt Williams (1955), D. G. A. Lumsden , P. O. Prior , B. A.Fireman (1963), G. C. Goldkorn , M. G. Emmison (1965), C. L. James (1966), P. R.Glazebrook (1967), R. M. Jackson , R. A. McKee, J. C. Rees, D. Turner, W. Allan (1968),P. Crook (1971), G. R. F. Hudson (1972), J. P. Wotton, A. R. Kennon (1974), D. J. Moss(1975), S. M. Gordon (1976), S. J. Paget-Brown (1977), P. H. Hawkins (1979), S. S.Bhakar (1984), C. C. Lundie (1986), R. A. Given (1988), M. P. C. Oldham, D. S. R. Bould(1989), P. W. D. Stafford, A. R. Johnston (1990), J. R. Crawford (1992), T. E. Samuel, N.McInnes (1993), L. Davies (1995), A. J. Evans , M. J. Lampert , S. J. Friel (1996), J. J.McNae, M. J. Bullen (1997), O. K. De Groot, J. E. Doak, I. J. Hudson, N. J. Mackay, A. E.Coultas (1998), C. M. Hawes, K. C. Wilford, E. C. Woollcott, L. M. Drew (1999), Z. Hu(2000), O. J. Elgie (2001), V. E. Eyre-Brook, R. Forrest, J. M. Levy, R. W. Turney, S. Vardy,R. P. Hartley (2002), J. M. Hull, J. G. MacPherson, C. T. Singleton, E. J. Amos (2003), A.K. Atkinson, K. E. Hillier, C. M. Leach, N. D. J. Robinson, E. M. Davies (2004), K. P.Mawdsley, K. Parlett, B. A. Pykett, J. P. Santos, H. Warwick, C. P. Williamson, P. W. M.Benson (2005), J. A. Graetsch, M. D. Gregoire, E. Hayashi, D. M. Jarrett, J. P. Kearns, J.P. S. Newman, A. Ponnampalampillai, D. J. G. Hay (2006), I. A. R. Maitland, L. A.McAlister, C. McCarthy, W. R. Rees, I. Saloojee, D. J. Sharples, A. Taali, M. A. Thorne, Y.Zhu, S. H. Bouwers (2007), E. Brook, C. D. C. A. Catoir, K. M. Cooper, I. Doukas, V. T.L. Ho, K. Kearsley-Wooller, D. C. M. Lafferty, T. M. Lennon, E. E. McCrea-Theaker, M. J.Mills, S. Pauker, B. Playle, A. E. Sarvarian, B. R. H. Shanks-St. John, M. B. Trafford, A. J.Verco, A. S. Woolnough

M.A. Dinner 28 March 2008

A dinner was held in college on 28 March 2008 prior to the M.A. ceremony the next day.Matriculands from 2001 who dined are listed below:

J. D. Airey, N. Awais-Dea, F. C. S. Barrigan, S. Bartlett, B. Benfold, A. Bercusson, E. R.Berger, H. J. Briscoe, D. P. Burgess, P. M. Burton, L. B. Busbridge, T. J. Carr, R. S. M.Chrystie, S. J. Day, J. P. Day, S. E. Dutton, G. M. Eastwood, O. J. Elgie, V. E. Eyre-Brook,J. E. Farrant, H. C. Fenton, V. A. Finan, F. B. R. Fitzherbert, R. Forrest, A. M. Foster, J. M.Franklin, J. Fukuta, S. L. Gick, H. Gorst-Williams, J. M. Gyles, A. J. Hart, R. C. Hegarty,P. A. Hewinson, K. E. Hill, G. S. J. Hitchcock, F. Hobson, R. N. O. Hulbert, P. A. Hunt,B. J. Hyman, D. L. Ingall, M. I. Jones, B. A. Kahloon, E. F. Keeling, B. Kember, S. E.Lamb, N. C. Lambert, J. M. Levy, L. S. C. Lok, J. R. Loxam, K. Maddison, J. R. Marson,J. E. Mills, L. M. A. Milsted, P. D. Morgan, N. D. Morris, A. L. Mullen, R. S. R. Myers,E. M. Myring, A. R. I. Newman, J. L. T. Nichols, J. E. Osborn, L. Pagarani, F. S. Parry,G. M. Pradella, S. E. Price, G. C. Price, V. E. Raby, G. Ramos Tomas, S. A. Richardson,P. W. B. Richardson, S. Rothe, R. A. Scott, J. Scragg, N. R. Shelmerdine, P. D. Spencer,



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Z. R. J. Strimpel, T. Surendranathan, S. J. Taylor, W. R. Tennant, V. K. Threlfell,H. Thronicker, M. F. J. Tolhurst-Cleaver, R. W. Turney, P. J. Twiss, L. E. Twiss, A. Valerio,S. Vardy, M. S. Varughese, A. Velamati, A. M. Wade, S. J. Walker, S. R. Wallis, G. A.Walton, R. E. Wilkinson, S. L. Williams, F. J. Wingfield Digby, A. Worn, B. K. Yeap,J. A. Young.

Reunion Dinner 11 April 2008

The Master and Fellows invited those who matriculated in 1970, 1971 and 1972 to dineand spend the night in college on 11 April 2008 as their guests. The following acceptedthis invitation:

1970 T. H. W. Barker, D. A. D. Blake-Knox, C. C. Born, E. J. R. Boston, C. Dobbin,C. H. S. Evans, S. G. H. Freeth, T. M. G. Gabriel, A. D. C. Greenwood, J. E.Gumbel, A. Haine, J. E. A. Hoare Nairne, C. P. Hodges, J. R. James, K. M.Jeffery, A. J. Kinahan, A. I. Macfarlane, T. S. A. Macquiban, C. O. Mason, D. L.Maxwell, P. A. G. Morrison, R. Peel, R. S. Reeve, M. J. Rimmer, D. R.Simmons, R. C. Stein, P. J. Sumner, C. G. Timmis, M. D. S. Walters, K. L.Weavers, S. J. Young

1971 A. J. Booth, I. D. Boothroyd, R. H. Briance, C. S. Bull, A. Canale-Parola, J. C.G. Cavendish, P. Crook, P. J. Damesick, J. C. Emmett, M. Ewart, N. Gilmore,S. C. Harris, D. Hilton-Jones, A. K. Kapur, A. R. C. Kershaw, P. M. Lane, H. A.G. Lee, D. W. Moat, A. J. Moore, J. G. Morgan, N. Paterson, J. K. Preston, R. D.Pugh, N. P. Ready, T. Slator, G. V. B. Thompson, P. D. Thompson, R. S.Treadwell, J. A. Voelcker

1972 J. P. Ashford, J. E. Bardwell, K. L. Black, R. S. Boyd, C. J. Brock, M. R. Buck, M.T. Carson, B. J. Clancy, B. C. Couzens, C. E. S. Dickenson, P. J. Dobell, D. R.W. Edwards, R. J. Fort, P. A. Hodgson, N. S. Hoult, G. R. F. Hudson, P. F.Jakeman, H. R. Jenkins, D. I. Lake, G. Lodder, J. E. Macey, D. R. Martin, D. W.Maxwell, A. B. Mehta, N. J. Mills, J. D. Moore, E. P. Morris, P. Pickering, V. R.M. Rao, M. A. Seeley, J. R. Sharp, P. A. Smith, M. J. Venn, J. P. Wotton, A. L.Young

Bumps Saturday at the Paddock 14 June 2008

On the last day of the May Bumps, crowds of Jesuans, their families and guests gatheredat the Paddock in Fen Ditton to watch the Jesus boats in action. They saw some goodperformances by our crews, culminating in the women’s First VIII finishing second onthe river, and the men’s First VIII moving up to third.

Donors’ Garden Party 28 June 2008

Our fourth annual donors’ garden party was held at the end of June to thank all thosewho donated to the Annual Fund during 2007. Around 250 Jesuans and their guests,plus parents and friends of the college attended. A programme of activities was availablethroughout the afternoon. In All Saints Church on Jesus Lane, Duncan Robinson,master of Magdalene College and recent director of the Fitzwilliam Museum gave a talkon Victorian stained glass. This was followed by Mr Nick Ray, director of studies inarchitecture at Jesus College, presenting ‘Five ways to look at Cambridge architecture’.Meanwhile back in college, others enjoyed the talk ‘A place of history: archaeologicalexcavation in the old slave town of Cidade Velha, Cape Verde’ by Dr Marie LouiseSørensen, director of studies in archaeology and anthropology at Jesus College; Dr Jim



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Roseblade conducted a tour of the college sculpture collection; and in the chapel, MrDaniel Hyde presented a ‘behind the scenes’ demonstration of the newHudleston organand the college choir. Afternoon tea followed in the marquee overlooking the cricketpitch and concluded with a speech given by the Master. The evening ended in the chapelwith evensong. The Master and Margaret Mair and the following Jesuans and parentsattended:

M. J. Way (1941), M. I. M. Pines (1943), K. M. L. Benson (1946), R. A. Bawden (1947), P.O. Bourne, C. Tyson , P. J. Hurford, (1949), M. Spiro, K. O. Boardman (1950), M. W.Dodd, A. J. Grindley, P. A. Johnson (1951), M. H. S. Muller, S. J. Robinson, I. S. Ball(1952), A. J. Black, M. W. Clegg, H. J. Killick, M. Marshall, A. D. Moss, R. H. Stone, D.G. Winter, J. M. Davies (1953), G. V. Baguley (1954), M. G. Delahooke, G. F. Dimond, P.A. Littleton, C. M. Turner, A. W. Gethin (1955), D. M. Parr, C. H. Green (1956), M. J.Massy-Beresford, C. D. Sims, M. D. C. Johnson (1957), J. M. Lowe, C. J. Nicholson, R. A.Peters, J. G. Farnhill (1958), J. E. Gillett, D. P. V.McLaughlin, J. S. Ransom, C. H. Reeson,R. F. B. Smith, C. F. L. Austin (1959), L. V. Barber, R. E. Beale, J. C. Pillans, J. Winney, G.F. G. Appleby (1960),R. J. Bevan, P. W. H. Brown, J. C. Viner, J. P. Dugdale Bradley (1961),D. R. Tant, J. E. Beeson (1962), J. G. Ross-Martyn, C. P. Yates, C. R. Baily (1963), C. G. G.Born, M. E. Bramley (1964),P. Burnham (1967), S. I. Fitzgerald, R. A. McKee, D. E.Perchard, M. J. Allchin (1968), C. C. Bradbury, A. W. Cuthbert, H. H. Davis, P. I. Day, S.M. Evans, S. J. Kern, J. F. Wickens, R. Hall (1969), I. F. Perry, S. R. Lockett (1970), C. G.Timmis, N. Gilmore (1971), R. L. Pearce (1973), P. R. Fletcher (1974), P. N. G. Wilson, T.A. J. Lister (1975), D. C. C. Dodd (1976), M. P. Hayes, M. J. Hall (1977), M. C. Taylor, J.R. D. Corrie (1978), P. Gibbons, I. C. Kemp, M. F. Rusk, J. A. Hayes (1980), J. E. Evison(1981), S. E. Knowles (1982), E. S. Morriss, A. K. M. Scott, C. M. James (1985),M. E.Oxland (1986),C. J. Lewis (1987),A. C. Stiles, J. P. Bailey (1988), M. P. Berry, T. J. Clarke,J. D. Verrinder, S. M. Wintersgill, K. L. Slowgrove (1992), D. M. Yates, L. M. Handley(1995), T. D. Lee, M. W. Whitbread (1996), J. J. Bickerstaffe (1997), J. Hudson, C. A. E.Aikens (1998), A. I. Howcroft, P. G. Venables, L. Y. Pickering (1999), N. G. Aspinall(2000), K. L. de Wit , C. N. Brower (2001), O. D. Campbell (2007)

ParentsMr &Mrs P. Acred, Mr D.M. &Mrs J. A. Cross, Mrs L. V. Goff, Mr &Mrs M. S. Knock, MrR. A. Oettle, Mr G. & Mrs R. Raw, Mr & Mrs R. J. Stone

Anniversary Dinner 28 June 2008

An anniversary dinner was held in college on 28 June 2008 to commemorate the 10th,20th, 30th and 40th anniversary of those whomatriculated in 1998, 1988, 1978 and 1968.The dinner was a hugely popular event as usual and all places were quickly filled. Thefollowing attended:

1967 W. Allan, M. J. Allchin, S. Boyes, C. C. Bradbury, C. J. Cocker, J. H. Connolly,H. H. Davis, P. I. Day, S. M. Evans, M. W. Finnis, R. D. Hull, M. C. W. Hunter,S. J. Kern, G. C. Killingworth, G. I. Kirkbride, S. J. Merchant, R. T. Nokes, R.T. Norris, K. Penfold, R. D. Penn, C. J. Rodrigues, F. S. Ruttonshaw, J. P. F.Walston, J. F. Wickens, K. D. B. Williams, J. R. Willman

1977 J. C. Baron, A. J. Chmaj, M. J. Clark, J. R. D. Corrie, J. A. F. Cowderoy, P. R.Durrant, A. J. Forryan, S. J. Henbrey, A. M. Hollins, N. G. E. Hudson, I. C.Kemp, A. S. McClay, S. A. T. McGill, M. J. Pavier, A. R. Phillips, M. R. H.Pickup, H. P. Roditi, R. W. Rogers, M. F. Rusk, D. B. Russell, G. K. Sankaran,C. P. Sowden, R. G. Turnbull, C. J. Wigglesworth, P. J. S. Yates



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1988 R. A. Atkins, J. P. Bailey, M. R. Baillie, P. E. S. Barber, M. W. Barnett Howland,M. C. Bienfait, M. J. Boden, J. Bowen, J. M. S. Brown, S. J. Browse, G. J. A.Busuttil, C. J. Carpenter, T. J. Clarke, L. Edie, H. S. Faber, S. C. Farrar, C. P.Gee, C. T. Giles, R. A. Given, S. V. Godbehere, J. P. Grundy, D. A. Hargreaves,E. E. Heseltine, S. Hollis, D. O. Irfan, L. E. Keown, R. J. Lewis, J. A. MacRae, I.J. Mactavish, A. N. Mamujee, G. H.Mansfield, G. J. McLaughlin, P. K. Murphy,T. Norman, M. E. C. Perrott, N. D. Poyntz, S. C. Rattray, N. T. Rhode, A.Richdale, A. S. J. Sewell, J. Spencer, D. W. Street, S. C. Street, R. P. Tett, S. V. L.Thong, J. D. Verrinder, P. S. Westbury, S. M. Wintersgill,

1998 P. Adib-Samii, C. A. E. Aikens, C. H. Atkin, V. C. M. Barr, L. B. Bevan, J. C.Booth, J. R. Bowen, E. A. Brough, J. P. Carr, R. J. Cline, N. J. Collins, N. J.Cooper-Harvey, A. D. Corbett, A. E. Coultas, A. Cuthbert, J. J. Dahlstrom, J. E.Deacon, D. M. Donaldson, C. A. Fries, S. V. Getov, L. M. Gilbert, S. J. Glover,J. C. Hibbs, A. I. Howcroft, D. Jash, J. M. J. Keeling, P. J. Leek, R. P. I. Lewis, A.E. Maguire, C. N. Martin, T. M. McCann, F. J. McGlade, T. L. McGlynn, L. C.McMahon, S. R. McNamara, C. J. Morgan, P. Ninkovic, G. C. Parr, H.Plumridge, J. W. Richards, R. P. Rigby, D. A. Rivers, S. M. Rivers, S. P. Sellars,L. Sheena, I. P. S. Sood, T. Soomro, S. R. L. Stacpoole, M. J. Sutton, R. E. Tait,J. V. Taylor Tavares, P. G. Venables, C. M.Watkin, M. B. Wesker, K. C. Wilford,E. F. Williams, R. J. Williamson



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Jesus College Cambridge SocietyExecutive Committee as at 1 May 2008

2001 PROFESSOR R. MAIR (Robert)(President and Chairman)

Officers First Elected1953 M. J. FAIREY (Trustee) (Michael) 20031960 M. R. HADFIELD (Trustee) (Max) 20061963 J. MARSHALL (Hon. Dinner Secretary) (Jim) 20051969 D.H WOOTTON (Trustee) (David) 20081970 A. D. C. GREENWOOD (Hon. Secretary) (Adrian) 19981971 T. SLATOR (Hon. Treasurer) (Tom) 20021998 DR J. P. T. CLACKSON (James) 2004

(College Council Rep.)1999 DR V. MOTTIER (Véronique) 2006

(College Council Rep.)

Members Period of Office1963 G. H. HADLEY (Graham) 2004–081983 M. A. SAWARD (Anastasia) 2004–081983 M. E. SHIACH (Morag) 2004–081995 I. O. STEED (Ian) 2004–081989 C. V. S. HOARE NAIRNE (Charles) 2005–091971 J. G. MORGAN (Guy) 2005–091992 K. L. SLOWGROVE (Katie) 2005–091988 P. E. S. BARBER (Paul) 2006–101969 C. I. KIRKER (Chris) 2006–101982 S. C. MOCATTA (Stephanie) 2006–101997 E. J. TUNNICLIFFE (Eleanor) 2006–101967 P. BURNHAM (Paul) 2007–111972 G. R. F.HUDSON (Geoffrey) 2007–111988 T. J. CLARKE (Tim) 2007–112002 V. A. MOORE (Verity) 2007–112000 R. J. P. DENNIS (Richard) Co-opted

Honorary TreasurerT. SLATOR,Walnut Tree Farm, South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 5US

Honorary Dinner SecretaryJ. MARSHALL, 56 Melody Road, London, SW18 2QF

Honorary SecretaryA. D. C. GREENWOOD, 91 Lynton Road, London, SE1 5QT

Minutes of Annual General Meeting 22 September 2007

The Annual General Meeting of the Jesus College Cambridge Society took place on Saturday22 September 2007 in the Prioress’s Room at Jesus College. The Master, Professor RobertMair, was in the chair. Some twenty-fivemembers of the Societywere present. Eightmembersof the Executive Committee plus Paul Burnham, Tim Clarke and Ivo Smith had sent theirapologies for absence.

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Minutes

The minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 23 September 2006 were approvedand signed as a correct record.

Secretary’s Report

The Honorary Secretary reported that the Annual Report was now being edited byStephen Barton and already gone to print. It would be published in November. It wouldnot contain the 2007 AGMminutes but would contain the Notice of the 2008 AGM. TheSecretary encouraged members to attend the JCCS London Reception on 6 November2007 at the Oxford and Cambridge Club. The Secretary informedmembers that the JCCSTravel Bursaries for 2007 had been awarded to three undergraduates, as follows: onewhite-water kayaking in the Altai Mountains of Siberia andMongolia ( Ben Bedingham);one working in a paediatric ward of KhartoumHospital ( Anne Ramsay Bowden) and thethird studying the people and language of a Tibetan village in Sichuan (Jessica Wear).

Treasurer’s Report

The Honorary Treasurer presented the annual audited accounts for the year to 31December 2006. These showed a good surplus of £1,918. The accumulated fund stood at£60,569, which was very healthy. He explained that the income included all the receiptsfrom the reception at Hoare’s bank in November 2006, thanks to the generosity of thehost, Charles Hoare Nairne. This meant that the Society had been able to refund theDevelopment Office for part of their contribution to the House of Lords reception in2005. Additionally, the Committee had been able to increase the Travel Bursaries to£1,500 per annum and to introduce a scheme for book grants of £1,000 per annum, aswell donate £2,000 per annum to the J.C.S.U. The Master said that the college wasextremely grateful for these donations. The meeting agreed to receive the accounts.

Appointment of Auditor

The meeting agreed to appoint N.J. Mitchell F.C.A. as auditor for 2007.

Dinner Arrangements for 2008

The Secretary announced that the 2008 Dinner would take place in college on Saturday27 September 2008. Partners and guests would be welcome. The guest of honour will beDr Jim Roseblade (1965).

Election of Officers

The meeting agreed to elect for one year Adrian Greenwood as Honorary Secretary, TomSlator as Honorary Treasurer and Jim Marshall as Dinner Secretary.

Executive Committee

The meeting agreed to elect the following as Members of the Executive Committee toserve for 4 years in succession to those retiring by rotation: Paul Burnham (1967), GeoffHudson (1972), Tim Clarke (1989) and Verity Moore (2001).

Any Other Business

none

Date of next year’s AGM

Saturday 27 September 2008 in college. The date is fixed to coincide with the UniversityAlumni weekend.



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Annual General Meeting and Annual Dinner 2009

Next year’s AGM will take place at 6.30pm on Saturday 26 September 2009 in thePrioress’s Room in college. This will be followed by the annual dinner.

The guest of honour will be Professor Lisa Jardine (1976). Spouses and partners arewarmly invited and the dress code will be black tie. Tickets will be on sale fromMay 2009.

Reports of JCCS Events 2007–08

Western Regional Party 8 September 2007

A Western Regional party, organised by Clive Reynard (1967) was held at the CotswoldWildlife Park on Saturday 8 September 2007 and a good time was had by all. The 31 Jesuansattending enjoyed coffee in the Orangery on arrival, a conducted tour of the gardens with thePark’s deputy head gardener, wine and delicious canapés in the bar, a big communal tailgatepicnic in the sylvan car park, and individual tours of the Park. The day was rounded off witha fabulous cream tea in the drawing room. Ages of those attending ranged from six monthsto eighty plus.

London Reception 6 November 2007

The London reception took place at the Oxford and Cambridge Club on Tuesday 6November 2007 and was attended by 126 Jesuans and their guests. We are very gratefulto our host, Chris Kirker (1969), for providing us with the venue.

Buffet Lunch 14 June 2008

A number of Jesuans and their guests, 106 in all, enjoyed lunch in college, before manymade their way down to the Paddock to cheer on the Jesus crews on the last day of Bumps.

Forthcoming JCCS Events

4 November 2008 London Reception at the Oxford & Cambridge Club13 June 2009 Buffet Lunch in college26 September 2009 AGM and Annual Dinner in college

Further information about these events will be posted on the web in due course (seewww.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/events). Alternatively, please call the Development Officeon 01223 339301 for further details.

JCCS Travel Bursaries

The JCCS travel bursaries this year were awarded to Hiu Yan Bona Chow, an internationalstudent in her second year of natural sciences, as she wishes to explore the U.K. furtherand go on a walking tour in Scotland; Lucie Fortune, a second year philosophy student,to assist her in her trip along the Ganges, visiting Hindu pilgrimage sites; HelenMaduka,a second year historian, to enable her to attend a training course in Fuerteventura;Matthew Owens, a second year natural scientist, who hopes to extend a trip to Vietnam,where he will be teaching English to underprivileged children in Hanoi, in order to visitLaos; and Amy Purser, a third year biologist, who is applying for the PGCE next year andplans to teach in a school for eight weeks in Uganda over the summer.



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Obituaries

Fellows and former Fellows

SHARPE, Alan George (1940, Emeritus Fellow)died on 29 January 2008 aged 86.

Alan Sharpe was born on 3 December 1921. Heattended the City School, Lincoln, where theheadmaster, a Cambridge graduate, encouraged himto apply to Trinity. Though unsuccessful there, hewas offered and accepted an exhibition at Jesus toread natural sciences; he also received a statestudentship. Arriving here in wartime, he wasallowed two years’ residence, under the supervisionof W. H. Mills, before being sent by the JointRecruiting Board to work on explosives in theChemical Inspection Department. (Alan seems tohave believed that this was an arbitrary choice bythe JRB, but a document survives in his file toshow that W. H. Thorpe, on behalf of the college,

recommended that he should be employed as a chemist.) At the end of the war, he turneddown a permanent job in the scientific civil service; an unscheduled visit to the Ministry ofLabour secured his release in time for him to return to Cambridge in the middle of theMichaelmas Term of 1945. Completing his degree in the following June, he was taken onby Professor Harry Julius Emeléus as a research student, working on the extraction ofuranium from ores. The initiative he showed in this led, in 1948, to his appointment asJesus College’s first ever Research Fellow. He also taught for the college and was soonappointed a university demonstrator, with effect from October 1949; at that point heceased to be a Research Fellow and was given instead a fellowship of class IV, transmutedinto a fellowship of class V from June 1950 and class II from 1955. He was awarded hisPh.D. in 1949 and appointed assistant lecturer in chemistry in June 1951, university lecturerin 1954. He was to hold this lectureship for nearly thirty years, retiring from it in 1982.

His lectures were marked by his determination to set descriptive chemistry in aframework of quantitative experimental measurements and rational explanations;colleagues (Drs Martin Mays and David Johnson) have paid tribute to them and to histeaching as a supervisor as ‘a model of clarity’, displaying ‘a critical, analyticalintelligence’ and ‘a bewitching combination of realism with wit’. In research, he beganto build up a reputation as a fluorine chemist, mainly through work on the dangeroussubstance bromine trifluoride (used as an ionizing solvent in the preparation of complexfluorides); in 1951 he published his first book: Fluorine and its Compounds. He also pursuedinterests in halogen chemistry, thermodynamic aspects of inorganic systems and theenergetics of inorganic processes. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute ofChemistry in 1955, and in the same year gave one of five plenary lectures at the third Co-ordination Chemistry Conference in Amsterdam – the first such conference to attracttruly international participation.


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While he wrote relatively few research papers, for half a century he was closely involvedin the composition of essential textbooks, which played a major role in the renaissanceof inorganic chemistry from the 1950s onwards. He was co-editor, with Emeléus, of latereditions of Modern Aspects of Inorganic Chemistry (from the fourth edition of 1973) andeventually produced his own textbook, Inorganic Chemistry (1981). The latter appeared inthree initial editions; an updated version, co-written with professor CatherineHousecroft, reached its third edition in late 2007. Alan also served for many years as co-editor of two influential series of chemical reviews: Advances in Inorganic andRadiochemistry (1959–) and Advances in Fluorine Chemistry (1960–). He became a respectedadvisor of research students, acted as an external examiner for several unversities,helped produce a dramatically modernised A-level chemistry curriculum, and waschairman of the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry from 1970 to ’75. He also chaired acommittee that reformed the natural science tripos. Cambridge University awarded himan honorary doctorate of science in 1968.

At the same time, Alan held a series of college offices: in the early 1950s he wasjunior bursar, director of studies in natural sciences, and briefly librarian (of the WarMemorial Library). He began his tutorial career as an assistant tutor, from 1953,and tutor from 1957 to 1963; there followed a year’s leave of absence, in which heenjoyed a National Science Foundation Visiting Professorship in the USA. After hisreturn, he was senior tutor and admissions tutor from 1964 to 1970; later he becamesenior tutor again, for the year 1984–85. His notable achievements in those posts andother contributions to college life are detailed in Peter Glazebrook’s address so do notneed rehearsing here.

From 1975, Alan was involved with plannning for the projected Robinson College; fromits launch in 1977 he was its first senior tutor. He held that post for five years, playing avital role in the institution’s launch and early progress. He retained his fellowship atJesus (of class III under the new statutes of 1976) for two further years, resigning in1979. He was an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus for the years 1982–84 and from 1985 until hisdeath. He continued to keep in close touch with Robinson and to attend events for its oldmembers; he was made an honorary fellow of the college in 1985. Some of hisreminiscences of his earliest years at Jesus are recorded in the recently published collegebook, Jesus: The Life of a Cambridge College (2007).

In 1950 he married Christine Hall; they were divorced in 1974. They had three sons anda daughter, and numerous grandchildren.

A memorial service was held in Jesus College Chapel on Saturday, 31 May 2008, withaddresses given by Lord Lewis (the first Master of Robinson College) and PeterGlazebrook (speaking for Jesus College).

The following address was given by Peter Glazebrook at the memorial service for Alan Sharpe held inthe College Chapel on 31 May 2008

‘For many of us here this afternoon – sixty years to the very day on which Alan Sharpewas first elected a Fellow of the College – for many of us, our earliest memories of Jesusare inextricably linked with our earliest memories of Alan: of his kindly and supportivewelcome, of the bright but gentle smile, whether that first encounter with him was withthe Director of Studies, or the Admissions Tutor, or if (as I was) we were beingconsidered for a fellowship, the Senior Tutor – or, during these last 20 odd years, with acollege elder at High Table, in the Parlour or Combination Room, or as a neighbour inNew Square – then, as earlier, keeping, as we would later realise, an observant andsharply perceptive, andmildly amused, eye on us all.

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Alan’s own earliest memory of the College was of coming here in December 1939 tointroduce himself to the then Senior Tutor, BernardManning, who, like him, came fromLincolnshire: a meeting that was to be both decisive and, I believe, defining. Alan – theseare his own words – the child of “supportive working class parents”, who had beensuccessful in the 11+, and had, as a result received “some good teaching, and the interestof the ambitious headmaster” of Lincoln City School, had, in the intercollegiate entrancescholarship examination earlier that month won a £40 Exhibition tenable here. But Jesushad not been Alan’s (perhaps I should say, his headmaster’s) first – or even second –preference college, and a £40 Exhibition would not ensure his entry. There was a large“funding gap” – he needed not less than £250 a year – rather more than the LNER paidHerbert Sharpe, a lengthman responsible for the maintenance of a stretch of thecompany’s line.

Alan did, however, want to be a schoolmaster, and the £150 a year grant the governmentpaid to intending schoolteachers nominated by the University’s Department ofEducation would quite markedly narrow, though not close, the gap. It was theDepartment’s interviewer who, on finding he had not yet met the Senior Tutor of Jesus,suggested he should, and ’phoned the College. “So” as Alan recalled, “I went andManning – in the middle of the afternoon – was kindness itself, and made me sit downand offered me a drink and a cigarette. I was treated like a young adult. That was the wayhe treated everybody. I was very impressed by him”.

That impression – a deep impression – lasted a life-time, and as Alan came to follow inManning’s footsteps in the College – footsteps both bursarial and tutorial – theManningstyle became – it came naturally – the Sharpe style, and, one would like to think, theJesus style. Had Manning lived to see the Lincoln school-boy’s devoted service to, andhis undying affection for, the College, and the encouragement and friendship he was togive so many Jesuans, fully matching his own, he would, I think, have been well-pleasedthat he, and that “ambitious headmaster” had together taken some trouble to ensurethat there would be enough money for Alan to begin on the Natural Sciences Tripos inOctober 1940 – a matter finally settled when his performance in the HSC secured him aState Scholarship.

In October 1940 the College’s buildings were occupied by the RAF, and suchundergraduates as it had (mostly scientists and medics) lived in lodgings, and lunchedin the Pitt Club. But the Roosters continued to crow, and Alan soon became theirPresident. He narrowly missed a First in Part I – his Physics letting him down, as it hadin the Entrance Scholarships – and the Ministry of Labour pounced, directing him to theMinistry of Supply’s Chemical Inspectorate’s (Explosives and Pyrotechnics)establishment, near Newcastle under Lyme, where, for the remaining three years of thewar, he tested munitions.

Keen to return, as soon as it was ended, to finish his degree, Alan was at first thwartedby what we’d now call a lack of “joined-up government”. The Ministry of Supply wasready to release him, but the Ministry of Labour refused, claiming that there was “ashortage of chemists in industry” – so acute, apparently, that those with only half adegree could not be spared. In a letter to the Senior Tutor of the middle of September1945, regretting that he would not be back at the start of the Michaelmas Term one canalready hear the voice we all came to know, wryly amused by bureaucrats’ muddles. “Thesituation is” he wrote, “not without an ironical aspect, as my Ministry of Supplyresignation has been accepted, and unless it can be withdrawn, I look like beingunemployed by the end of next week.”

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allowed to return to Cambridge at once, he would complete his degree the coming June,and there would then be one more place the following October for a servicemanreturning from the Far East. But the Michaelmas Term was nearly over when Alanreturned to the College which, so differently from the one he’d left, was now “fizzingwith life”. He fizzed too – obtaining a clear First in Part II Chemistry, seven months later– a very considerable achievement marked by the College with its most prestigiousaward, the Keller Prize – and in the Chemical Laboratory with an invitation to theintending schoolmaster to stay on for research.

Of what followed from Alan’s acceptance of that invitation, Lord Lewis will speak, buteven a non-scientist can see that the new, 24 year old graduate, was continuing to fizz,working with great speed and effectiveness. Within 21 months, and despite hissupervisor having first sent him down a blind alley, the College was – 60 years ago today– electing him to a Research Fellowship. His Ph.D. dissertation, on a topic he had thenchosen for himself, was ready to be reported on by external assessors who were muchimpressed by the experimental skills it revealed: honed, one suspects, at Newcastleunder Lyme.

He had always wanted to teach, and his appointment as a University Demonstrator thenext year meant, as he said, that he could henceforth do so “at the highest level”. By 1951he was also a College teaching Fellow (stint 12 hours per week) – relaxed, able to makethe complicated appear simple, but no ‘push-over’, is how he is remembered – and untilhe became a Tutor, he was Junior Bursar, responsible for College buildings. As Manninghad overseen the construction of the Morley Horder Building in Chapel Court, so Alanoversaw a substantial renovation programme: the conversion of the spacious sets in theCarpenter Building into double the number of bed-sitters, the construction of the WarMemorial Library in the burnt-out staircases in First Court, and the replacementthroughout the College of the old coal grates by gas fires: though his principal function,so he claimed, was to be a peace – a green – zone between a Bursar and a Steward, proneto feuding.

He knew he was good at administration and he found satisfaction in getting thingsdone, and done without wasting money, and – by anticipating and circumventing thecaptious objections of difficult colleagues – all with a minimum of fuss, and a minimumof paper. A bundle of post-cards, secured by a rubber band, was kept in his jacket pocket,ready for use whenever and wherever it occurred to him that a short note would sufficeto deal with some matter.

The opportunity to mingle teaching, college administration and laboratory research(research as the spirit, rather than the demands of a research team, moved him) suitedhim well. Alan enjoyed, he said, being a Tutor – a more important office then, when notall Directors of Studies were closely engaged with their pupils, and several weren’t evenFellows of the College: one which offered a wider scope for the natural gifts of the bornteacher. He liked getting to know the undergraduates on his side, and was astute inidentifying those not fully captured by their subject, who would be happier and moresuccessful studying another. His grasp of the Ordinances and Regulations governing thevarious Triposes was total: it matched his grasp of railway time-tables and connections,British and continental: the more complicated the cross-country journey, the happier hewas to advise on how best to make it. Blessed with a marvellous memory, 40 years laterhe would astonish old pupils by remembering their family details, their schools, the jobsthey had gone into, and where they now lived.

If Alan blossomed as a Tutor, it was surely as Senior Tutor – he was Admissions Tutorand Financial Tutor too – that he came into full flower. There was no aspect of theCollege and its business with which he was not familiar, and his administrative ability,

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his skill in committee; his knack in identifying the essence of a problem, and pithilyformulating it; his determination to ensure that disagreements did not descend intopersonal acrimony (as, in the 50s, they had too often done), and his own selflessness,were all effectively deployed. Enjoying the Master’s – Denys Page’s – full support, hisfirst aim was to see that the College had a strong and comprehensive team of teachingFellows, and, coming a close second, to hold fast to academic standards. The Tutor forAdmissions was also, he observed, the Tutor for Rejections.

The College’s future historian will, I believe, see Alan as the first of the modern typeSenior Tutor. For his immediate predecessors, prowess on the sports field or the rivermight compensate for some, not negligible, academic shortcomings. In the post-Robbins world that was, he knew, no longer defensible. There was more than one causecélèbre: even a test cricketer would have to go.

No one could have known when the Council’s choice of a Senior Tutor again fell on aFellow coming from Lincolnshire, how extremely fortunate that choice was to be. Theturbulence and storms that would, during Alan’s period of office, sweep overuniversities from Paris to Warwick and indeed, to California, and do some damage evenin Cambridge courts, could not have been foreseen. Here, thanks most of all to hisextreme good sense – to the easy relations he had always had with undergraduates –most disciplinary matters were, he believed, best handled without imposing penalties –all this carried over into his dealings with Presidents of the JCR, which, previously littlemore than an extension of the Boat Club, was now beginning to emerge as a more-or-less representative student body.

Newly-elected Presidents, as well as other students, graduate and undergraduate, wereintroduced to the opera at Covent Garden, and there was always sherry and time to listento what they had to say. He himself felt that nearly all the demands being made of theCollege were fair and reasonable, and, with the reduction of the legal age ofmajority from21 to 18, irresistible. He had read the signs of the times accurately, and skilfully steeredthe College down a narrow, rocky channel between a formidable Master – whose earlieryears of office Alan always considered a “golden age” – but who egged on by some olderFellows was now becoming ever more provocatively resistant to any sort of change, and,on the other side, some younger dons who wanted more changes than the students did.

If it was a tough time for anyone to be a Senior Tutor, for Alan it was also a very hard timepersonally. Hismarriage to Christine Hall, sometime Senior Student of NewnhamCollege– they had met first when she came for chemistry supervisions – a marriage blessed withfour children,was, in thewake of the two severe bouts of serious illness Christine suffered,sadly, but inescapably, coming to an end. Both parents continued to have the love andsupport of their children – and in due course grandchildren – butwhenAlan said that, aftersix years as Senior Tutor, he was “tired”, there was, in his own, characteristicallyunderstated, rather private, stoic way, a hint of this personal calamity. Widerresponsibilities in his Faculty, and on University bodies, were then undertaken, and whenSirDenys Page retired asMaster, a substantial, a large, thoughultimately insufficient, bodyof Fellows wanted Alan to succeed him, albeit that he would have been alone in the Lodge.Had this happened, the first of the College’s modern style Senior Tutors, would have beenone of the last of Cambridge’s old style Masters – those emerging from within afellowship, whose election acknowledged the extent of their services to their college, andthe trust and respect they had earned among their colleagues.

No one could doubt what Alan stood for, and no one should be surprised that when fora while he ventured across the Cam, the Fellows of Jesus would want him back. He hadsupported the lengthy campaigns to abolish Life Fellowships, and to recast the CollegeCouncil so that most of its members would be elected by the whole body of Fellows,


rather than be office-holders chosen by the council itself. And, of course, he wanted tosee women admitted to the College without further delay. One of the earlier skirmishes– a lengthy discussion of the apparently innocuous social question of the conditionsunder which women might, just possibly, be invited as guests to High Table – endedwhen he intervened to ask: “So, Master, is what we’re saying: clever women, yes; prettywomen, no?”

We all have our ownmemories of Alan – of howmuchmusic meant to him; of the groupof Fellows and their wives who have met every term for, now, close on 50 years, to listento records, where he was known as “a stern critic of performances”; of the delight andsolace he found in opera, that, as he said, “exotic, emotional and irrational form ofentertainment” – at Covent Garden, at Glyndebourne, and of his beloved Mozart at theSalzburg Festival (only in the last couple of years did he feel daunted by the journeythere); of the “devout agnostic’s” (his own description) love, nurtured in this Chapel, ofthe liturgy andmusic of the Church of England: though he felt unable to share its beliefs;of his knowledge of contemporary novelists – especially women novelists – (he was aromantic at heart, though he tried hard to conceal it) – upon which members of ourbook club came to rely: “I nearly got the bus and went to Oxford” was his response toone of Iris Murdoch’s earlier books.We remember – and admire – his independence andself-sufficiency in old age, that stood with his own feeling for elderly, for house-boundor nursing-home-bound, Fellows and their widows, bringing them news and ready toread to them or play chess: his readiness – even when well and truly retired – to help inan emergency in College; his readiness, too, to share with new arrivals at High Table histales of the doings, the quirks, the foibles, and the follies, of earlier generations –interlaced, of course, with his self-deprecatory comments: “now, therewas someone whowas really clever” – his fanciful speculations on what might have happened if somethingelse had – or hadn’t. But above all, of his unfailing, but not uncritical, interest in thisCollege – “all the little events and the personal relationships within a heterogeneoussociety” as he once put it – and not always approving: “really scandalous” was his verdicton one-not too-distant Council decision.

For himself, he marvelled constantly at what he saw as his own good fortune – “sheerluck” he would say – at being able to spend nearly all his long life here. Whether or nothewas right about that, he certainly repaid that good fortunemany times over, andwe canassuredly congratulate the College Council that made that election on 31st May 1948.’

FRANKEL, Jonathan (1954) died on 7 May 2008 aged 73.

Jonathan Frankel was born in London on 15 July 1935.He attended Christ’s College, Finchley, before coming upto Jesus College in 1954 with a scholarship to read history.He graduated B.A. in 1957 (M.A. 1961) and was elected bythe college into a research studentship. After a period ofintensively learning Russian, he took up Ph.D. work underthe supervision of E. H. Carr, studying the relationshipbetween Russian political thought and the development of

Jewish nationalism in Russia, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thisresearch took him to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the academic year 1958–59,and to the United States. He was awarded a Ph.D. in November 1961 and took the degreea year later.

He was elected to a three-year college research fellowship in June 1960. He then spent aperiod in New York, associated with the Russian Institute at Columbia University. In1964 he moved to Jerusalem to take up a lectureship in the Hebrew University, as a

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member of the Russian Studies Department and the Institute of Contemporary Jewry. Hewas professor of modern Jewish and Russian history there from 1985 until hisretirement in 2004. Meanwhile he held visiting appointments and fellowships at threemore American universities (Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth),and during the 1980s was visiting Goldsmid Professor in the Department of Hebrew andJewish Studies at University College, London.

Obituaries in the national press have judged him ‘a towering figure. A brilliant historianof Russian and Jewish history’ (David Cesarini writing in The Guardian, Friday 11 July2008) , and ‘the most highly regarded historian of modern Jewry of his generation’(Steven J. Zipperstein writing in The Independent, Saturday 2 August 2008; a similar tributeappears in The Times’ obituary, Wednesday 16 July 2008). The best known of his manypublications are Prophecy and Politics: socialism, nationalism and the Russian Jews, 1862–1917(1981), widely regarded as a classic, and The Damascus Affair: ‘Ritual Murder’, Politics and theJews in 1840 (1997). He co-edited and contributed to the influential annual series Studiesin Contemporary Jewry, which appeared from 1984 onwards. Zipperstein comments: ‘Hewrote, on an epic scale, dense yet lucid examinations of international politics and itsintersection with Jews, profoundly original work that never broadcast its innovations ...in prose that was subtle and unobtrusively learned.’

Inmatters of religion and politics he was consistently amoderate – a prominentmemberof the Jewish left (but without a party allegiance), devotedly committed to Israel,liberalism and the Israeli peacemovement. He was especially closely involved with PeaceNow in the 1980s, and remained an active supporter. Tributes to him lay emphasis notonly upon his scholarly integrity, professionalism and open-mindedness, but uponpersonal qualities of fairness, humanity, kindness and courtesy.

In 1963 he married Edith Rogovin, with whom he had two daughters.

His friend, Robin Fairlie (1954) has kindly provided the following reminiscence:‘I had the privilege, as it turned out to be, of meeting Jonny Frankel for the first time onwhat was for both of us our first day in Jesus at the start of theMichaelmas Term in 1954.We adjourned for coffee to Jonny’s rather grand rooms (compared with mine) in ChapelCourt, where Jonny proceeded to grind the beans ... Looking for a conversationalgambit, I asked him what clubs he fancied joining; in his usual quiet tones, somewhatmuffled by the noise of grinding coffee beans, he replied ‘I’m going to join the JewishSociety’. ‘You’re what?!’ I exclaimed in loud incredulity. The grinding ceased; I was fixedwith a calm but appraising gaze ‘I said, I’m going to join the Jewish Society’. ‘Oh’, I saidin relief, ‘I thought you said you were going to join the Druid Society!’ Grinding resumedto mutual amusement.

‘The reason for our meeting was that we were both to read history – Jonny as that year’sholder of a major scholarship ... Our tutor was Dr Taunt, and we were both supervisedthroughout our first year by Vivien Fisher – a formidable (as he seemed then to us)wounded veteran of the not-so-long finished World War II. We attended the samelectures and both joined the Cambridge Union – mostly for the purpose of being able toeat a hearty lunch there for 2/6 each which we did regularly in each other’s company. Igot to know Jonny’s parents in Hampstead Garden Surburb on visits between home anduniversity. ... Family occasions chez Frankel were a riot of talk … History was the basisof most of our discussions in that first year; for me it was an exciting newwindow on theworld … Jonny, of course, took up research and a Jesus Fellowship. He spent time in theUnited States, where he met his lovely wife Edith, with whom he eventually emigrated toIsrael, where they both obtained posts in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. ... Jonnyand Edith were strong members of the Peace Now movement … we continued to seeJonny and Edith regularly – never, in retrospect, for long enough, but at least we never


lost touch … I can only say that I would at all times have trusted them both – ashistorians, as citizens, as friends – with anything and everything I had to entrust. Wouldthere were more like them.’

Old Members

ADDISON, John Norreys (1938) died 16 August 2007 aged 87.

John Addison was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, on 22 November 1919. He was educated atEton College and came up to Jesus in 1938 following in the footsteps of two of his greatuncles: Edward Stacy Norris (1870) and John Buckley Norris (1879). His time at Jesusreading engineering was interrupted by the war; he served as a major in the RoyalArtillery from 1940 to 1946. He graduated with a war B.A. in 1947 (M.A. 1950). Whilst atJesus he showed considerable aptitude for electrical methods. He also continued hisinterest in stage lighting, which had started at school with the lighting of Hamlet, andbecame the senior lighting engineer at the A.D.C.. He went on to work for Philips until1975. After leaving Philips he worked for the National Health Service. He married LoisMary Horn in 1948. His wife predeceased him. They had one son and one daughter.

ALEXANDER, Richard Miles (1959) died on 1 January 2008 aged 67.

Richard Alexander’s daughter Alice has kindly supplied the following information:‘Richard Alexander was born in Singapore on 24 July 1940. He attended PrebendalSchool, Chichester followed by Hurstpierpoint College. He came up to Jesus as anexhibitioner to read history and then law. Richard regularly attended chapel and was alively member of the Roosters and the Red Herrings. He also enjoyed coxing for thecollege boat club in 1961 and 1962. Richard began his legal career with articles at Trower,Still & Keeling in 1963 until 1968, when he moved to Winchester to work for Godwin,Bremridge & Clifton. Richard became a partner in 1971 and contributed a great deal tothe firm’s work over many years until his retirement in 1994. In 1971 he moved to theHampshire village of Old Alresford where he supported the local community in variousways. Richard was appointed clerk to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester Cathedral in1981. In addition to his legal work, Richard held a range of voluntary appointments,including governor of St Swithuns’ School, Winchester; chairman of WinchesterCitizens Advice Bureau; director of Brendoncare Nursing Foundation; and trustee of theEating Disorders Association. Richard was always an avid reader and a keen travellerwith a life-long passion for wine. He married in 1970. Richard was a supportive andloving father, and is survived by four daughters, Deborah, Jane, Caroline and Alice.’

BADEN-POWELL, Hubert Edward Philip Peter (1934) died on 29 November 1993 aged 78.

Peter Baden-Powell (known at college as Peter Powell) was born in London on 1 May1915. He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, before coming up to Jesus in1934. He graduated B.A. in October 1937 having taken part I of the history triposfollowed by general studies (M.A. 1952). During the second world was he was in theRoyal Navy and served as a lieutenant on HMS Raleigh. He later practised law in Jersey.He was survived by his wife, Dorothy and four children.

BAIN, Walter Edward Spencer (1936) died on 28 October 2007 aged 89.

Walter Bain was born in Birkenhead on 16 April 1918. He was educated at Loretto School,Musselburgh. He came up to Jesus in 1936 to read natural sciences with a view to goingon to be a doctor. He graduated B.A. in 1939 (M.A.1943). Whilst at Jesus he was cox of




the boat which was head of the river in 1939 and had a trial for the Blue boat. He was alsoan accomplished boxer and won colours for the sport. He trained to be a doctor at Guysand obtained an M.B., B.Chir. During the war he was a surgeon-lieutenant in the RoyalNaval Volunteer Reserve serving in the Mediterranean and the East Indies. His practiceas a doctor included working as a consultant at the Prince Charles Eye Department,Windsor, from 1954 to 1983. His publications include The Fellow Eye in Acute Glaucoma(1952). Following his retirement he enjoyed fishing and golf. He was married to BarbaraElizabeth Margaret Gibbon, who survives him.

BALL, David Garth (1949, non-matric.) died on 1 March 2008 aged 78.

David Ball was born inWeymouth, Dorset, on 25 July 1929.He came up to college inOctober1949 but at the end of the month, before matriculating, was diagnosed with tuberculosis,contracted during his two years national service with the Royal Artillery in Germany. He wasimmediately admitted to Papworth Sanatorium, where for two years he underwenttreatment. On his discharge, he set up home in Cambridge and, rather than returning to thecollege, took up articles with a firm of accountants and qualified as an accountant and taxspecialist. He married Faith Medhurst in Cambridge in 1965; shortly afterwards they movedto Bridport, Dorset, where heworkedwith a local accountancy firm for twelve years and thenset up in practice on his own. He was company secretary of two local companies andtreasurer of a number of local societies and organisations, becoming a respectedmember ofthe community and well known for his wise counsels in matters financial. For the last twoyears of his life he battled bravely against the legacy of tuberculosis; he died peacefullyfollowing a fall. His wife survived him but died on 15 April 2008.

BENTON, Peter John (1972) died in 2005.

Peter Benton was born in Leicester on 8 June 1954. He was educated at Gateway School,Leicester where he showed an interest in sport, particularly fencing and tennis. He cameup to Jesus in 1972 to read English. He graduated B.A. in 1975. After graduation heworked in the civil service. We have no further information about his later career or life.

BIFFEN, William John (1950) died on 14 August 2007 aged 76.

John Biffen was born on 3 November 1930 in Combwich, near Bridgwater, Somerset. Heattended Dr Morgan’s Grammar School for Boys, Bridgwater, before coming up to Jesusin 1950 with a scholarship to read history. At Cambridge he pursued his interest inpolitics and became president of the Conservative Association. He graduated B.A. in1953 and joined Tube Investments as a management trainee. In 1960 he moved to theEconomist Intelligence Unit. He stood as a Conservative Party candidate, unsuccessfully,against Richard Crossman, at Coventry East in 1959. He was more successful next timewhen he won the by-election at Oswestry in 1961. He held the seat, redrawn in 1983 asShropshire North, until his retirement from the House with a life peerage in 1997. UnderMrs Thatcher’s leadership he joined the shadow cabinet and when she came to powershe appointed him Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Two years later he moved to be TradeSecretary. His most successful appointment came a year later when he became Leader ofthe House. As leader he famously told Dennis Skinner ‘We grammar school boys muststick together’. He became increasingly uncomfortable with the zeal of Thatcherismsaying: ‘I did not come into politics to be a kamikaze pilot’. Eventually his ‘semi-detached’ attitude to Mrs Thatcher cost him a place in the cabinet. From thebackbenches he mocked the government as ‘a tigress surrounded by hamsters’ and MrsThatcher’s press secretary as ‘the sewer, not the sewage’. He criticized the poll tax andNigel Lawson’s 1988 ‘give-away’ budget. He continued to be a thorn in the government’s


side under the new Prime Minister, John Major, voting against the Maastricht Treaty. Hewas the author of Inside the House of Commons (1989) and Inside Westminster (1996). Outsideparliament he was a director of Glynwed International, J Bibby & Sons, the RockwareGroup and Barlow International. He was also a trustee of the London Clinic from 1994to 2002 and was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire in 1993. He married, in1979, Sarah Wood (née Drew). She survives him with a stepson and a stepdaughter.

BRAITHWAITE Arthur Bevan Midgley (1958) died on 25 April 2008 aged 68.

Bevan Braithwaite was born in Broxbourne on 27 July 1939. He attended Leighton ParkSchool, Reading. He came up to Jesus in 1958 following in the footsteps of his father,Frederick Arthur Bevan Braithwaite (1929). At Cambridge, as well as pursuing his love ofengineering he also pursued his passion for jazz. He graduated B.A. in 1961 (M.A. 1965).His degree in mechanical sciences combined with being a qualified class 1 welder meantjoining the British Welding Association was a natural choice. He remained with theAssociation and its successor The Welding Institute (TWI) for 42 years, sixteen of themas the chief executive. Under his stewardship TWI grew in size and influence. He wasinstrumental in the development of the new science park in Cambridge, Granta Park. Themain TWI building at the park bears his name. He was considered to be the worldwideleading expert on structural fatigue. During his career he achieved much recognition: hewas appointed O.B.E. in 1991; made president of the International Institute of Welding(IIW) in 1999; and was elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1999. Healso served as chairman of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council andvice president of the Transport Trust; he was awarded the IIW’s EdstromMedal. At schoolhe had begun his life long love of railways. He was able to develop this interest at GrantaPark where he built a narrow gauge railway to carry staff to and from the restaurant.Following his retirement he joined the board of trustees of Bressingham SteamMuseumTrust and then became its chairman. He devotedmuch energy to restoring the Royal Scot,which is expected to be completed this year. He married Kerry Cooke in 1961. They had ason and two daughters. The marriage ended in divorce. He married his second wife,Vanda, on Christmas Eve 2007. He is survived by Vanda and his children.

COHEN, Richard John (1955) died on 9 July 2005 aged 69.

Richard Cohen was born on 15 July 1935 in London. He attended Oundle School andcame up to Jesus in 1955 to studymodern andmedieval languages (French and Spanish),switching to law for part II. In 1958 he graduated B.A. (M.A. 1992). He then took up abusiness career in the firm owned and run by his family: Courts, the furniture retailer.They had built up the business after the second world war from a single shop inCambridge. In retirement his main hobby was racing horses. Amongst the horses heowned were Running Stag and Spanish Don. He had a number of relatives at Jesusincluding his brother Paul C. Cohen (1953) and cousins Bruce J. R. Cohen (1959) andHoward S. R. Cohen (1963). He married Veronica Samuel in 1966. He had one son and astepson, David Cohen (1985). Richard and David took their M.A. degrees together in1992; Veronica reports this was ‘a lovely family occasion and a very happy memory’.

COOPER, Brian Newman (1938) died on 28 December 2007 aged 88.

Brian Cooper was born on 15 September 1919 in Stockport. He attended StockportGrammar School and came up to read history in 1938 with an exhibition. He was captainof the Jesus soccer XI in 1940. He graduated B.A. in 1941 (M.A. 1945). During the war heserved in India as a sergeant in the Intelligence Corps. After the war he trained to be ateacher and went on to work at Bromley Grammar School (1947–1948) and Shirebrook




Central School (1948–1955) before becoming head of the history department at BolsoverSchool (1955–1979). Throughout his time as a teacher and into retirement he wrotecrime fiction. His published works include: Where the Fresh Grass Grows (1955); Genesis 38(1965); The Norfolk Triangle (2000); The Murder Column (2003); and Out with the Tide (2006)as well as many others. He married Ellen Martin in 1942 and had a son and daughter.

COOPER, Richard Moxon (1934) died on 13 August 2007 aged 92.

Dick Cooper was born in Maidenhead on 6 May 1915. He attended Felsted School andcame up to Jesus in 1934. He read history and English and graduated B.A. in 1937. Forentertainment he was involved in student productions at the A.D.C. He was a lieutenantcolonel in the Royal Artillery from 1939 to 1945. After the war he worked as a farmer until1956. He then moved to work for Fisons Limited, holding a succession of technical andsales posts, eventually becoming manpower resources manager. He continued thereuntil his retirement in 1980. His interests in later life included golf, watercolourpainting, wine and the Aldeburgh Festival. He married Leticia Joyce Linton in 1939; shedied in 1997. He married Rosemary Thornhill in 2001. He has two sons.

CREWDSON, Peter Eric Fyers (1939) died on 29 April 2007 aged 86.

Peter Crewdson was born in Low Slack, Kendal, on 27 December 1920. He attendedShrewsbury School and came up to Jesus in 1939 to read mechanical sciences. His timeat Jesus was interrupted by the war; he served as a captain in the Royal Marines. At theend of the war he did not return to the college to finish his degree. He was chairman ofGilbert, Gilkes & Gordon Ltd an engineering company based in the Lake District. Hewas appointed the High Sheriff of Cumbria in 1983.

DESHMUKH, Ramakant Pandharinath (1947) died on 29 April 2005 aged 80.

Ramakant Deshmukh was born in Chandur, India, on 19 July 1924. He attended KhuraiMunicipal High School and then Morris College, Nagpur University, both in India. For hisfirst degree he read economics. When, in 1947, he came up to Jesus, he followed in thefootsteps of his uncle Sir Chintaman Deshmukh (1915, Hon Fellow 1962). He read part IIeconomics and graduated B.A. in 1949.Whilst at college he pursued his passion for cricket.His daughter, Archana Dhanwatay reports that ‘Jesus College and Cambridge Universityheld a special place in his heart, and his face always lit up whenever he spoke of them.’

DYKES, John Bryan (1957) died in October 2007 aged 71.

BryanDykeswas born in Londonon 15 September 1936.Hewas educated at Rugby School.Following school he completed his national service as an officer in the Gurkhas. Most ofhis military service was spent in Singapore. On return to England he spent a short timewith Unilever. He came up to Jesus in 1957 following in the footsteps of his grandfather, E.H. Dykes (1871). He read part I economics and part II law. He graduated B.A. in 1961. Aftergraduation he qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse in London andthen pursued a successful career in industry. He became the finance director of the PrestigeGroup and subsequently worked for bothGallaher and BI Group plc. Hewas working parttime right up until his death. At college he was a keen sportsman andwas amember of thecollege 1st XV. Throughout his life sport remained one of his greatest passions. He was alifelongmember of Richmond Rugby Club (aminute’s silence was observed in his honourat one of the home games shortly after his death), a long time member of the MaryleboneCricket Club, a member of the Flyfishers Club and a regular supporter at Stamford Bridgeof Chelsea Football Club (being a lifelong resident of Chelsea in London). He was a very


keen fly fishermanwho embarked on several trips with his cousin to Alaska and Iceland aswell as making numerous trips to fish the Findhorn and other rivers in Scotland. He was,though, at his happiestwhen fishing on theRiver Leven inHaverthwaite, in hismuch lovedLake District, where he spentmany happy years as a child and hadmany happy holidays inthe family cottage, Rosemount, with his own family. In 1970 he married Mary Renshaw,who with his two sons survives him.

EDDISON, John Martin Ryalls (1939) died on 9 April 2005 aged 84.

Martin Eddison was born in Bedale, Yorkshire, on 21 December 1920. He was educatedat Shrewsbury School and came up to Jesus in 1939 to read natural sciences. AtShrewsbury he had been rowing captain of his house. He continued his interest inrowing during his brief time at Jesus before he was called up. During the war he was asub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. At the end of the war he chose notto return to the college and pursued his academic interests elsewhere. His widow,Sydney Eddison, reports that he had a long, distinguished career as an engineer inConnecticut and that he became a U. S. citizen in the 1950s.

EL SHEIKH, Fath el Rahman Abdalla (1976) died on 30 January 2008 aged 62.

Fath El Sheikhwas born on 1 January 1946 in Sudan. He attended AtbaraHigher SecondarySchool and then the University of Khartoum. Following graduation from the University ofKhartoum, he worked for two years as a legal adviser at the Attorney General’s chambers.From 1972 to 1974 he was a second and first class magistrate on secondment to the legaldepartment of the Bank of Sudan. Hemoved from this post to become a teaching assistantat his old university. He came up to Jesus in 1976 to study for a Ph.D. and soon settled in touniversity life, especially after hewas joined by his wife. He attained his Ph.D. in 1979, witha dissertation entitled: Legal aspects of foreign private investment in the Democratic Republic of theSudan. He returned to Sudan and the University of Khartoum, where he continued hisacademic research, returning occasionally to Cambridge to work. He subsequently joinedthe Kuwait Investment Authority in Kuwait as a legal adviser.

ELLIS, Francis Charles (1936) died on 28 January 2008 aged 90.

Frank Ellis was born in Sawston, Cambridgeshire, on 14 December 1917. He attendedCambridge County High School before coming up to Jesus to read natural sciences. AtCambridge he became a member of ‘The Club’ and on the university stage played thepiano for Footlights. He graduated B.A. in 1939 (M.A. 1943). During the war he was aninstructor in fire control, holding the rank of captain in the Royal Artillery. After the warhe taught physics at Spalding Grammar School and then went on to become head ofscience at Birkenhead School, remaining there until 1982. Martin Brown (1957) reports:‘Frank Ellis was an outstanding club tennis player and boys from the school could findamusement at the local tennis club in watching his opponents dashing round the courtwhilst he remained relatively unmoving on his side of the net. He brought his keeninterest in electronics into school life, and in 1949 invited former associates from hismilitary days to demonstrate home-made television equipment to the physics society.The components were mounted on a tea trolley and illuminated an army-surplus 6-inchgreen fluorescent radar screen. A keen photographer, he founded and equipped amodern photographic society, encouraging generations of budding snappers to developand print their own work. He was an accomplished pianist and keen musician ... In the1960s he developed his keen artistic eye and painted with some skill an eclectic range ofsubjects ... He was an outstanding teacher whose influence will long survive him.’ Inretirement he returned to Cambridgeshire and pursued his many and varied interests.




FIRTH, John Bathurst (1932) died on 12 August 2007 aged 93.

John Firth was born in Christ Church, New Zealand, on 30 August 1913. He waseducated at Wanganui College, New Zealand, and Chesterford College, Essex. He cameup to Jesus in 1932, originally reading economics and then switching to engineering. Hegraduated B.A. in 1936 (M.A. 1939). During the war he served with the Royal Engineers,rising to the rank of captain. Following the end of the war he worked as a mechanicalengineer for Nyasaland Railways in what is now Malawi. The college does not have anyfurther information about his later life.

FOSS, Martin Vincent Lush (1956) died on 2 February 2008 aged 69.

Martin Foss was born in Bristol on 12 February 1938. Like his father George Foss (1927),he was educated at Marlborough College; he came up to Jesus in 1956. Later his cousinGeorge Struthers (1968) followed in their footsteps. Whilst at Jesus he read naturalsciences and was a keen rower; he rowed in the boat that came head of the river in 1957and 1958 and in the 1958 winning boat in Henley Royal Regatta Ladies’ Plate. He also ranthe college’s Medical Society. He graduated B.A. in 1959 (M.A. 1963) and then obtainedan M.B. B.Chir. in 1962 at University College Hospital. His practice as a doctor includedworking as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Luton and Dunstable Hospital from1973 to 1996 and as director of medicine. He was a freeman of the City of London, amember of the Guild of Freemen of the City of London and provincial grand master ofthe Masonic Province of Bedfordshire. His interests included ornithology, music andfamily history. Hemarried Anthea Noelle Johnson in 1963, with the newly ordained PeterAllen (1957) assisting in the service and Peter Coulton (1956) as best man. He andAnthea had two daughters. Anthea died in 1993 but his daughters survive him.

GILLIES, Walter John (1939) died on 12 February 2008 aged 86.

WattieGillies was born on 25April 1921 atNewAbbey, nearDumfries. He came up to Jesusin 1939, from Loretto School, Musselburgh, to read natural sciences and graduated B.A. in1942. Whilst at college he was a keen member of the football team. He undertook hisclinical studies in medicine at Edinburgh University and graduated M.B., Ch.B. in 1945.Following qualification as a doctor, he worked at the Edinburgh Sick Children’s Hospitalbefore joining the Royal ArmyMedical Corps and undertaking national service inwhatwasthen the Gold Coast and is now Ghana. In 1950 he entered general practice in Moffat,where hewas to remain until his official retirement in 1991 (latterly in partnershipwith oneof his sons) but continued to locum until 1995. As a G.P. he became a highly respectedmember of the community. He was the chairman of ENABLE, a charity for handicappedchildren, amember of a Red Cross branch, a fellow of the Zoological Society of Edinburghand a member of the Sundial Society. He married Elise Robertson Drummond in 1950.They had two boys and three girls (including a pair of twins). Four of their children andone of his grandchildren followed the family tradition and became doctors. Fivegenerations of his family have contributed to 149 years of continuous medical service inScotland from 1859 to the present day. He is survived by his wife and five children.

GUY, Peter Vernon (1937) died on 19 June 2007 aged 88.

Peter Guy was born in Lytton, British Columbia, Canada, on 9 April 1919. He attendedChrist’s Hospital, Horsham, Sussex. After school, he spent a year abroad before comingup to Jesus in 1937 to read modern languages. At college he was full of energy,participating in rugby (running the college Juggernauts), tennis and skiing. At thebeginning and end of each term he would cycle to his home near Nottingham. His time


at Jesus was interrupted by the war; he graduated with a war B.A. in 1941 (M.A. 1945).During the war he served with the Royal Corps of Signals rising to the rank of captain.Following the war his brother, Anthony Guy (1949), came up to Jesus. Afterdemobilisation he joined Laporte Chemicals at Luton. He transferred from Laporte inthe early 1970s to Barium Chemicals at Widnes. A short while later he moved toBeckmann Instruments before finally retiring in the early 1980s. In retirement heenjoyed bird-watching and architecture. He married Marie-Rose Howarth in 1941 withwhom he had two sons.

HAMES, Stephen Martyn (1960) died on 26 October 2007 aged 67.

Martyn Hames was born in Manchester on 5 February 1940. He was educated atShrewsbury School and came up to Jesus to read natural sciences (geology) in 1960. Hehad a keen interest in sport, particularly football, tennis and skiing. He graduated B.A.in 1963 (M.A. 1967). Following graduation he went to the United States and trained witha wire company, National Standard Company Limited, returning later to work for themin England. He remained with the firm for almost his entire career, progressing tobecome production director, and at the time of taking on this role was the youngestmember of the board. He took early retirement in 1995 and started his own business.When he finally completely retired he rekindled his passion for geology and establisheda geotrail on Wenlock Edge. He is survived by his widow, Carol and their three children.

HARCOMBE, Michael John (1966) died on 28 November 2007 aged 60.

Mike Harcombe was born on 26 January 1947 in Mumbles, Swansea. He attended KingEdward’s School, Birmingham, before coming up to Jesus in 1966. He began by readinggeography but quickly switched to economics, which he read for part I of the tripos. Hethen changed to read law for part II. At Cambridge his focus was on extra-curricularactivities. He was a member of the University Air Squadron and the CambridgeManagement Group as well as being an all-round sportsman. He graduated B.A. in 1969(M.A. 1973). Following graduation he worked for S. G. Warburg & Co. Ltd. from 1969 to1972 beforemoving to Adela Investment Co., Peru, where he remained until 1977. He thenbecame an economic adviser to the United Nations Economic Commission for LatinAmerica. He progressed from the U.N. to become chairman of Lyon Holdings S.A. and inaddition was vice-chairman of the British/Chilean Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to1999. His business interests were extensive; they included a hotel supply company, a fruitfarm and the breeding and export of llamas.Whilst not working, he enjoyedmany outdoorpursuits including tennis, hot-air ballooning, fly-fishing and skiing. He also served, from1987 to 1993, as a governor of a school founded by John Jackson (1920): the GrangeSchool, Santiago. He married Anabella Taverne in 1970 and they had three daughters.Fraser Alexander (1958) is his brother-in-law and Henry Alexander (1985) is his nephew.

HIGHAM, John Bernard (1935) died on 28 June 2007 aged 92.

John Highamwas born in Karachi, India, on 20 January 1915. He was educated at EpsomCollege and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He came up to Jesus to readengineering in 1935 and graduated B.A. in 1937 (M.A. 1942). He was assistant directorof movements at General Headquarters, New Delhi, from 1944 to 1946, embarkationcommandant at Karachi from May to December 1946 and director of transportation atthe Army Headquarters, Melbourne, from 1949 to 1951. By the end of his army career hehad attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. From 1969 to 1972 he was a lecturer in A-level mathematics at Braintree College of Further Education. In 1975, his work TheoreticalMechanics was published. He was a liveryman of the Coachmakers’ Company, London,




and was interested in offshore sailing. He married Elisabeth Campbell in 1938. Hemarried Sheila Grace Wood in 1950 and she survives him. He had one son and twodaughters. Alex Higham (1998) is his grandson.

HIGNELL, Stephen David (1952) died on 1 April 2007 aged 75.

Steve Hignell was born on 14 March 1932 in what was then known as TanganyikaTerritory and is now part of Tanzania. He was educated at Denstone College, Uttoxeter,Staffordshire. In 1952 he followed his father (Harold Hignell, 1903) and came up toJesus. He read mechanical sciences and enjoyed numerous college sports. He wascaptain of the college rugby XV. He continued to have a keen interest in sport throughouthis life, an interest shared with other members of the family including his nephew, theformer England rugby full-back and commentator Alastair Hignell. He graduated B.A.in 1955 (M.A. 1959). Following graduation and until 1965 he worked for Texaco,including a period in the Caribbean. He moved to Rowntree Mackintosh in November1965 and stayed with the company until early retirement in 1990. His main focus was hisfamily. He married Jennifer Hardy in 1959 and they had two sons and a daughter. Heenjoyed spending time with them and researching genealogy. He is survived by hiswidow and his three children.

HOLDSWORTH, Geoffrey (1943) died on 3 November 2007 aged 83.

Geoffrey Holdsworth was born in Bradford on 20 August 1924. He attended BradfordGrammar School and then joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a seamanlieutenant, serving from 1943 to 1946. He came up to Jesus to readmodern andmedievallanguages in January 1943. He graduated B.A in 1948 (M.A. 1951). After university heworked as a manager in the Siamese Tin Syndicate Limited until 1964. He thenmoved toCamborne Mines Limited to work as mine secretary. In 1965, he became secretary of theCornish Chamber of Mines, in addition to his work at Camborne. In 1974, he leftCamborne Mines to become secretary of Tehidy Minerals Limited, where he remaineduntil 1980. In the early 1980s he changed careers and became a teacher, having firsttaken his Post Graduate Certificate in Education at the College of St Mark and St John,Plymouth. He taught for four years in Cornwall. He also served as amember of industrialrelations and employment tribunals from 1970 to 1991. He married Irene Fraser in 1950and they had three daughters. Irene died in 1985.

HOWD, George Taylor (1944) died on 24 October 2007 aged 80.

George Howd was born in Middlesbrough on 7 January 1927. He attendedMiddlesbrough High School and came up to Jesus to read natural sciences in 1944.Whilst at Jesus he was president of the Roosters and grandmarshall of the RedHerrings.He was also captain of the rugby XV. From 1945 to 1948 he served with the Royal Artilleryin India and Singapore as a second lieutenant. He graduated B.A. in 1950 (M.A. 1952).Although he graduated in 1950, based on three years’ residence and having taken part Iof the tripos, he remained in residence to take part II in 1951. Following part II, heworked as a metallurgist in Rhokana Corp, in what was Northern Rhodesia. He leftRhokana to become a personal assistant to the executive chairman of the Association ofBritish Engineering Limited and studied for a diploma in business management fromthe London School of Economics. He then spent seventeen years with the Royal DutchShell Group including four years as director of petrochemicals and polymers, Shell U.K.Limited. During his time with Shell he obtained a degree in law from the University ofLondon and was elected president of the British Plastics Federation. After the ShellGroup he became chairman of the Riverside District Health Authority (1985–1990) and


then chairman of the Royal Surrey County Hospital N.H.S. Trust (1990–1995). From1990 to 1994 he was vice chairman of the National Association of Health Authorities andTrusts. He was a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Horners. He married SheilaMary Dent in 1952. They had two sons, one of whom is Steven Howd (1989).

HOYTE, David St John Wilson (1947) died on 17 September 2007 aged 82.

David Hoyte was born in Twickenham on 3 July 1925. He was educated at CranbrookSchool and the Edinburgh Academy. After leaving school he served in the Royal Air Force(1943–1947). He came up to Jesus, his father’s old college (W. Norman Hoyte, 1913), in1947. Hewas followed by his brother (HaroldHoyte, 1953, now deceased). He read naturalsciences and graduated B.A. in 1950 (M.A. 1969). After college he worked at the AngloIranian Oil Company, B.P. Kirklington (1950–1952), I.C.I. Billingham (1955–1965) andI.B.M. in the United Kingdom, U.S. and France (1965–1990). He worked inmany differentindustries with various production methods: from glass furnaces to chocolate factoriesand from cement kilns to ammonia plants. He thoroughly enjoyed being able to apply thetheory he had learned at Jesus in such different areas. His publications includeOptimizationof Empirical Processes (1966) and How to search the web for information (1999). He and his familysettled in the United States in 1976. After retiring in 1990, he used his time helping OldSaybrook High School in the U.S. and sailing on the Connecticut River. Just before hiseightieth birthday he had cochlear implants and reported ‘it is unbelievable to be able tohear birdsong once again!’ He married Jean Madeline Ritchie in 1955 and they had twosons and two daughters. He is survived by his wife and his children.

HUTCHINSON, Gordon Alastair (1940) died on 22 December 2004 aged 82.

GordonHutchinson was born in Colchester on 24 July 1922. He was educated at LatymerUpper School and came up to Jesus on a scholarship in March 1940. He read history andmodern languages, graduating with a war B.A. in 1943 (M.A. 1946). Whilst at Jesus herowed in the first boat which, in 1941, won the headship of the March and DecemberEights. He was also secretary of the college boat club. He was released from war servicein 1943 to join the colonial service. His service overseas spanned from 1944 to 1970. Alarge part of it was in the United Republic of Tanzania, both before and afterindependence. He worked in the audit department and rose to be Controller and AuditorGeneral. He left Tanzania in 1970 and became secretary and bursar to Grenville CollegeLimited. In retirement his hobbies included medieval and classical literature and modelengineering. He was married to Joyce Agnes Hutchinson who survived him but hassubsequently died. They remained good friends to the college and by bequest supportedboth college libraries and the boat club.

HUTCHINSON, Robert John (1946) died on 26 December 2007 aged 79.

Robert Hutchinson was born on 16 June 1928 in Bradford, Yorkshire. He was educatedat Loretto, Musselburgh. He read natural sciences and graduated B.A. in 1949 (M.A.1953). He went on to achieve a M.B. B. Chir. (1953). Part of his career was spent workingin community medicine in Yorkshire.

IVY, Robert Douglas Martin (1946) died in February 2008 aged 88.

Robin Ivy was born on 21 October 1919 in Bedford. He attended Bedford School and thenjoined Barclays Bank. During the war he served in the army as a lance corporal. He cameup to Jesus in 1946 to read English, following his great uncle Frederick Gilbertson (1880).He graduated B.A. in 1949 (M.A. 1953). Following graduation he taught at various schools




until returning to Cambridge with his family in 1962 to teach at St John’s Choir School.Whilst at Jesus he demonstrated considerable skill at creative writing. He continuedwriting throughout his life and donated copies of some of his poems to the college library.He ran a poetry writing class for the U3A. In retirement he also enjoyed bird-watching inNorfolk and Suffolk aswell as inmid-Wales and painting seascapes and landscapes in EastAnglia. He married Mary Janet Gilbertson in 1948 and had one son and two daughters.

JOHNSTONE, Alan Charles Macpherson (1961) died on 14 June 2008 aged 66.

Alan Johnstone was born in Stirling on 13 January 1942. He attended Edinburgh Academyand Loretto School, Musselburgh. He came up to Jesus in 1961 to read law. Aftergraduation he studied Scottish law at EdinburghUniversity (graduating LL.M.). The son ofan eminent judge, Lord Dunpark (1934), he was called to the Scottish bar in 1967 and wasappointed QC in 1980. He was chairman of industrial tribunals from 1982 to 1985 and ofthe medical appeal tribunals from 1985 to 1989. In 1989 he became dean of the Faculty ofAdvocates and five years later he became a senator of the College of Justice. He served aschairman of the Scottish division of the Employment Appeal Tribunal from 1996 to 2005.Hewas sworn of the Privy Council in 2005.His close friend LordAbernethy described how,as a fiercely independent lawyer, he ‘had the knack of telling people what he thought wasright and not what they wanted to hear … but Alan was held in high esteem by theprofession and blessed with a great sense of humour.’ He worked tirelessly to promote theScottish legal system, recognising that ‘Scotland is one of the stateless nations of Europe… It is unique in having a legal system without a legislature. As such it has to rely on thegood offices of a political establishment which knows little about it. Most Europeans, andthe English, see us as the northern circuit of the English legal system.’He didmuch to alterthis perception, including allowing an appeal to be filmed. He held several appointments,including chairman of the Court of Heriot Watt University, chairman and governor ofLoretto School and founder and trustee of the Clark Foundation for legal education.Outside the law he was a keen golfer and enjoyed country pursuits. He was a popular andentertaining man, affectionately referred to as ‘Big Al’. In 1966 he married AntheaClackburn; they had three sons. His brother is Colin Johnstone (1971).

JONES, Arthur David Nicholas (1937) died on 4 December 2007 aged 89.

Arthur Jones was born in Nassington, near Peterborough, on 6 April 1918. He attendedHaileybury College, Hertford, before coming up to Jesus in 1937 as a scholar. He readpart I classics and part II law, graduating B.A. in 1940. Whilst at college he continued hislove of sport and photography as well as courting his soon to be wife, Margaret (Peggy)Lake, whom he married in 1942. During the war he served in the Royal Artillery and wasstationed in India and Burma. He rose to the rank of captain. Following demobilisationhe was called to the bar. He practised as a barrister for a short while before moving tothe Charity Commission. He left the Charity Commission to become company secretaryof Turner & Newell where he remained until his retirement in 1980. In retirement hepursued his passion for sailing. He is survived by his wife and daughter.

JONES, Terence Leavesley (1943) died on 6 May 2007 aged 80.

Terry Jones was born inNottinghamon 24May 1926. Hewent toNottinghamHigh Schooland came up to Jesus in 1943with a scholarship to read history. His time at Cambridgewasinterrupted by being called up to the Royal Navy. Whilst at Jesus he sang in the collegechoir and in other musical events and also played the French horn. He graduated B.A. in1947 (M.A. 1950). Following graduation he undertook research on the campaigns of theBlack Prince in Gascony and Spain. He spent his career working in the civil service. From


1949 to 1957 heworked as an assistant inspector of ancientmonuments for theMinistry ofPublic Buildings &Works. He continued with the Ministry as a principal (1957–1976) andas secretary of theHistoric Buildings Council for England (1959–1967). He served as undersecretary for the Department of the Environment from 1976 to 1985. He listed his interestsas archaeology and music; he was chairman of the Hampstead Choral Society. His friendBernard Marchant (1945) reports that following retirement he ‘moved to the village ofMildenhall in Wiltshire and was sometimes called upon to chair inquiries into planningapplications’ also that he ‘became a well-known figure in the community, not least asassistant organist’. In 1966 he married Barbara Hall, with whom he shared a passion formusic and singing. They had one son. Barbara died in 2001. He is survived by his son.

KLEINMAN, Philip Julian (1951) died 10 February 2007 aged 74.

Philip Kleinman was born on 6 December 1932 in London. During the war he wasevacuated to Northampton where he attended the local grammar school. He came up toJesus with an exhibition in 1951. He read history and English and graduated B.A. in 1954(M.A. 1958). He left Cambridge and became an Israeli kibbutznik. While in the MiddleEast he met his future wife, Gisele Rachel Azoulay. On his return to Europe he became ajournalist. He worked mainly in newspapers and for publications including the AgenceFrance-Presse, The Daily Telegraph, Adweek, Market Research News and MR Week. He alsowrote a column for The Jewish Chronicle from 1974 to 1990 and another for The Guardianfrom 1982 to 1983. Amongst his publications was The Saatchi & Saatchi Story (1987). He issurvived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.

LAIRD, Andrew Filz (1928) died on 23 October 2007 aged 97.

Andrew Laird was born in Cambridge on 25 October 1909. He was educated at FelstedSchool and came up to Jesus in 1928. He read law and graduated B.A. in 1931. Followinggraduation he qualified as a solicitor. He spent most of his career working forNottingham Council. He was awarded an M.B.E. in the 1970 New Year Honours List forservices to the council in social care.

LAKE, John Robert Arnold (1947) died in October 2006 aged 82.

John Lake was born in Beaminster, Dorset, on 7 June 1924. He was educated at MillfieldStreet, Somerset. He served as a lieutenant in the 55th Anti-tank Regiment of the RoyalArtillery. Following demobilisation he came up to Jesus in 1947. He read agriculture andgraduated B.A. in 1950 (M.A. 1954). After graduation he worked in France for anagricultural engineering company. Finding the French not to his taste he returned, in thelate 1950s, to the place of his birth and took over the family farm. He turned a run-downbusiness into a highly successful arable farm. He enjoyed music and held a number ofclassical concerts in his hall as well as other great parties. He had an extensive collectionof old farm implements which he maintained himself until their sale shortly before hisdeath. A prominent member of the local community, he had a remarkable zest for lifeand enjoyed controversy. His funeral was conducted by Canon Tim Biles who describedit as ‘straight out of a Hardy novel’. His coffin was transported to a beautiful plot on thehillside of his farm by a horse drawn trailer: a trailer he had made himself.

LINDSAY, David Ludovic (1948) died on 12 January 2007 aged 79.

David Lindsay was born in Gillingham, Kent, on 10 April 1927. He was educated atMarlborough College before serving as a corporal in the Royal Air Force. He came up toJesus in 1948. He readmodern andmedieval languages and graduated with a war B.A. in




1950 (M.A. 1955). Following graduation he worked in the insurance industry beforemoving to Slumberland Beds, where he worked as advertising director until hisretirement. His daughter recalls having to try out a new bed every six months. Hisinterests included the Warwickshire Boys Club, for whom he worked tirelessly. He wasa gifted model-maker and produced wooden toys as well as a set of Alice in Wonderlandclay figures. Hemarried Jenifer Seccombe in 1955 and had one boy and one girl. His wifedied in 2003 but his children survive him.

MOORE, John Spurge (1934) died on 27 October 2007 aged 91.

John Moore was born in Long Melford, Suffolk, on 26 April 1916. He attended the LeysSchool, Cambridge, and came up to Jesus in 1934 to read natural sciences. A talentedsportsman, he played rugby for the university. He graduated B.A. in 1937 (M.A. 1941).During the war he served as a captain in the Suffolk Regiment and West YorkshireRegiment before transferring to be a major in the 1st Battalion of the West YorkshireRegiment. Apart from interruption for war service, he spent his career as a biologyteacher. He worked briefly at Kings College, Taunton, before spending 38 years at DeanClose School, Cheltenham, where he became head of biology and a housemaster. Hewas also the commanding officer of the combined cadet force at the school and masterfor rugby and athletics. He introduced rugby to the school (the previous winter gamehaving been soccer) and brought ‘enthusiasm, efficiency and an outlook whichdisdained the petty bureaucracy of modern life.’ His house had a warm and relaxed feel.In retirement he and his wife moved to near Canterbury and were keen gardeners,competing and winning in flower and vegetable competitions. In 1939, he marriedMuriel Kathleen Lumley (‘Binnie’); they had four daughters and one son, JonathanMoore (1980). Binnie died in 1982, 25 years to the day before John’s death. Following hiswife’s death he often travelled to the United States and Australia to visit his children.

MORRIS, David Richard (1960) died on 25 March 2008 aged 65.

DavidMorris was born on 6May 1942 inHendon. He attended the City of London Schoolbefore coming up to Jesus in 1960 as a Rustat Exhibitioner. One of his supervisors found‘he has an independent mind and the kind of curiosity that gets results’. Whilst atcollege he participated in charitable work and was a lively member of the Railway Societyand of the Roosters. He read history, graduating B.A. in 1963. Following graduation hejoined the ‘fast stream’ of the Civil Service, then called ‘the administrative class’. He wasposted to the War Office, which was merged six months later with the other servicedepartments to form the Ministry of Defence. It was here that he was to spend the largerpart of his career. After a spell as private secretary to a junior minister, he was promotedand sent to the General Staff Secretariat. His work there gave him a familiarity with theproblems brought up by the emergency in Northern Ireland. It was thereforeunsurprising when he was sent to Belfast to serve as the link between the Ministry andthe authorities in Belfast. Further promotion came in the late 1970s. The mostchallenging appointment of the later part of his career was to be private secretary to theLeader of the House of Commons, John Biffen (1950), whose obituary is above. This puthim at the centre of the legislative process. On his return to the Ministry of Defence hetook up other responsibilities, but it was not long before the first signs of Parkinson’sdisease became evident. This ruled out further advancement and led in due course to hispremature retirement in 1999. Throughout retirement he maintained his lifelonginterest in railways, astronomy andmilitary history. In 1967 hemarried Rosemary Hogg,who with their two sons and one daughter survives him.


NEALE, John Clifford Charles (1984) died on 29 October 2006 aged 41.

John Neale was born in Bristol on 2 November 1965. He attended Clifton College,Bristol, before coming up to Jesus with a choral and a mathematics exhibition. He readmathematics and graduated with a B.A. in 1987 (M.A. 1994).His widow, Julia Thorntonhas kindly provided us with the following: ‘[John] … took an active part in Cambridgemusical life, singing in the college chapel choirs, Cambridge University chamber choirand the G & S Society, as well as conducting the college orchestra. During his debutperformance of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony he accidently dropped the conductor’sbaton. Scurrying offstage to retrieve it, he noticed that the quality of the music was in noway impaired; the players were far too busy sight-reading their parts to watch himanyway. After graduating he studied singing at the Royal Northern College of Music andpursued a career as an opera singer in the Bayreuth Festival Chorus, British Youth Opera,Wexford Opera and Frankfurt Opera, among others. For many years he was active in thefield of diabetes information on the internet. If asked, he would have probably have saidthat the proudest moment of his life was the day his letter to the editor was published inthe Economist … on the subject of goats’ milk. A memorial service held in Bristol wasattended by several contemporaries from Cambridge.’ He is survived by his wife, Julia,and two sons.

NEWTON, Harold Maurice (1937) died on 11 August 2007 aged 88.

Maurice (‘Mike’) Newton was born on in Overstone, near Northampton, on 5 September1918. He attended Gresham’s School, Holt, and came up to Jesus in 1937. Originallyintending to read for the medical tripos, he chose instead to read English. His realinterests, however, lay outside the academic world, in particular in flying and cricket. Hewas a keen member of the University Air Squadron. He joined the Royal Air ForceVolunteer Reserve and was one of the first members of the college to join the forces in1939. He served with the R.A.F. until 1946, attaining the rank of squadron leader andreceiving the Air Efficiency Award in 1944. After the R.A.F., he chose not to return toCambridge and instead ran airfields all over the world for Shell International PetroleumCompany Limited. From 1961 to 1983 he was managing director of Sywell AerodromeLimited. (Sywell Aerodrome had been started by his father, Charles Newton.) Mike’sinterest in cricket was a life-long passion: he played for Northamptonshire CountyCricket Club and was a member of the M.C.C. and the Barbados and Trinidad CricketAssociations. In 1940, he married Inga Greta Barro, with whom he had one son andthree daughters. He later married Elizabeth, and thus gained a step-daughter.

NICHOLSON, Keith (1968) died on 22 August 2006 aged 63.

Keith Nicholson was born in London on 4 November 1942. His friend Mr Ashley Joneshas kindly supplied the college with much of the information set out below, and thequotations.

Keith did not follow the traditional route to college. He left school with fewqualifications and began work on a Barking newspaper as a journalist. ‘With immensedistaste he covered local football matches and wrote up accounts of boxing tournamentsin local pubs and East End clubs. During this period began the two great obsessions thatwere to remain with him for the rest of his life, book and record collecting.’ Hedeveloped left-wing leanings and became ‘an activist in CND and in 1963 he launchedProject 67, an internationalist organisation, allied with the Peace Movement’. In 1966 hewent up to Ruskin College, Oxford. From Ruskin he came to Jesus to read English andwas greatly influenced by Raymond Williams. He graduated B.A. in 1972 (M.A. 1975).




‘On leaving Cambridge … he started trading in the commodity that he knew so well –books. … With some considerable success this tiny enterprise blossomed into ‘TheGreen Knight Bookshop’ which he opened in St Martin’s Court just off St Martin’s Lane[London]. This bookshop soon established an excellent reputation with a stock of finebindings, art history, literature, philosophy and biography. … In the mid 70s he wroteintroductions to the works of Kay Nielsen and E. J. Detmold.’ In the 1990s, after he hadclosed the bookshop, he moved to Woodbridge in Suffolk, continuing life with hisfriend and partner Peter Freeman.

ODHAMS, David Valentine Lynch (1946) died on 6 August 2007 aged 86.

David Odhams was born in Reigate on 4 March 1921. He was educated at WestminsterSchool. He came up to Jesus after serving as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy from 1939 to1945. At Jesus, he studied mechanical sciences/engineering studies, attaining a war B.A.in 1949 (M.A. 1953). He was one of the exceptional intake of rowers in the later 1940s –part of the crew which won the Grand at Henley and captain of J.C.B.C. in 1949. Herowed in the successful 1949 boat race and in the same year became president of theRhadegunds. After graduation he worked for the industrial department of Bird & Co,Calcutta. From 1959 to 1993 he was employed by VancouverWharves Limited, eventuallybecoming its chairman. He also served as chairman of British Columbia WharvesLimited. He maintained his interest in rowing after leaving Cambridge and was amember of the Leander Club and Calcutta Rowing Club. His other sporting interestsincluded golf. He married Fay Jordan in 1952 and had two sons and one daughter.

OGDEN, William Stewart (1948) died in October 2007 aged 77.

Bill Ogden was born on 17March 1930 in Sutton, Surrey, and attended Abingdon School,Oxfordshire. He came up to Jesus in 1948 to read natural sciences with the intention ofgoing on to qualify as a doctor. He graduated B.A. (1951), M.B. B.Chir. (1955) and M.A.(also 1955). He completed his medical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where hespecialised in disorders of the ear, nose and throat. Following national service he was onthe fast track to consultancy, when he decided he preferred the community work of ageneral practitioner. He spent most of the rest of his career as a partner in generalpractice at Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire. When he retired from the practice in1993 the occasion was marked by a ring of bells at the parish church. Although officiallyretired, he agreed to provide short-term help to a colleague in Hammersmith, andremained there for 12 years. In 1957 he married Barbara Every and they had one son andtwo daughters. He is survived by his wife and children.

OLIVER, David John (1949) died on 10 November 2007 aged 78.

David Oliver was born on 17 December 1928 in Falmouth, Cornwall. He attendedFalmouth Grammar School and then served as a sergeant in the Royal Air Force EducationBranch. He came up to Jesus in 1949 and took part I history and part II law. At Jesus he wasa member of the college choir and assistant to the organ scholar, Peter John Hurford(1949). He attained his B.A. in 1952 (M.A. 1956). He subsequently became a solicitor andpractised at his father-in-law’s firm, H. J. Hurford & Co, from 1955 to 1965. He went on tobecome a partner at Pinniger Finch & Co where he worked from 1966 to 1988. Afterretirement he retained the post of clerk to the General Commissioners of Income Tax,Westbury Division, until 1999. He remained interested in music throughout his life andserved on the Salisbury Diocesan Advisory Committee as an organ adviser for twenty-fiveyears. He married Maureen Elisabeth Hurford, the sister of Peter Hurford, in 1956. He issurvived by his wife and two sons, Peter and James Oliver (respectively 1978 and 1981).


OMAR-TANAHDATAR, Adlan Benan Bin (1993) died on 24 January 2008 aged 35.

Ben Omar-Tanahdatar was born in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, on 17 January 1973. Hewas educated in Malaysia at Bukit Bintang Boys Secondary School, Petaling Jaya, at theMalay College at Kuala Kangsar and at the Mara Insititute of Technology, Subang Jaya,before attending Abingdon School, Oxfordshire. He came up to Jesus in 1993 to readhistory, with the aid of a Sime Darby scholarship (from a firm where he had worked as alegal trainee) and funds from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. In 1995, after takingpart I of the history tripos and being awarded the Hugh Owen Memorial Prize for SouthAsian History, he changed subject to law. He graduated B.A. in 1997. Whilst at Jesus hewas president of the Cambridge Malaysian Students Association and of the U.K.Malaysian Students Association; this led to his being named Malaysian Student of theYear (an award made by the King of Malaysia) in 1997. Following graduation he workedas a personal assistant for the then Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia. After his boss’sfall from favour in 1998, Ben left Malaysia; he returned to Cambridge for a short whileand subsequently worked in England, Germany and Singapore.

ORR EWING, John Anthony (1936) died on 19 January 2001 aged 86.

Anthony Orr Ewing was born in Kensington, London, on 12 March 1914. He waseducated at Eton College before coming up to Jesus in 1936. He read estate managementand graduated with a B.A. in 1939. During the war he served as a captain in the Army. Hespent his career as a land agent, a role which particularly suited him as he loved countrylife. His hobbies included hunting and shooting and in his youth he enjoyed driving hisgold open-top Bentley. In 1949 he married Audrey Doreen Tyson; they had one son. Heis survived by his wife and son.

PARBURY, John Richard (1935) died on 3 July 2007 aged 92.

John Parbury was born in Tasmania on 12 March 1915. He was educated at GeelongGrammar School and King’s School, Parramatta, both in Australia. He followed hisbrother G. M. Parbury (1927) up to Jesus in January 1935, reading part I of the historytripos. He changed subject to archaeology and anthropology and completed his degreeby taking a general studies paper. He graduated B.A in 1938. Throughout his life hespoke of his great fondness for his old college. He lived in Penang, Malaysia, and was amember of the Oxford and Cambridge Society there.

PODRO, Michael Isaac (1951) died on 28 March 2008 aged 77.

Michael Podro was born on 13 March 1931 in London. He attended Berkhamsted School,Hertfordshire, and then did his national service in the Royal Air Force. He came up toJesus to read English in 1951 and was influenced by the work of F. R. Leavis. He graduatedB.A. in 1954 (M.A. 1958). After graduation he spent a year at the Slade School of Art,where he met his future wife, Charlotte Booth. He spent the next year four years studyingphilosophy at University College, London. After completing his Ph.D., he became thefounding head of the art history department at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts(1961–1967). In 1967 hemoved to become lecturer in the philosophy of art at theWarburgInstitute. He was appointed reader in the newly established Department of Art Historyand Theory at the University of Essex in 1969, and gained a chair in 1973. In 1987 hebecame a trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and in 1992 a fellow of the BritishAcademy. He was appointed CBE in the Millennium Honours List. His publicationsinclude: The Manifold in Perception (1972); The Critical Historians of Art (1982); and Depiction(1998). He retired in 1998, becoming professor emeritus. In addition to receiving an




honorary degree from the University of Essex (1999), he had been a visiting professor atthe University of Tel Aviv (1981) and at the University of California at Berkeley (1991). Hemarried Charlotte in 1961; his wife and their two daughters survive him.

POWELL MACKENZIE, Kenneth Gerald (1942) died on 30 March 2008 aged 83.

Kenneth Gerald Powell Mackenzie (known at college as Kenneth (or ‘Jock’) Mackenzie)was born on 8 July 1924 in Cardiff, but grew up in Stornoway, Lewis. He was proud of hisScottish roots and was the hereditary laird and chieftain of the cadet branch of theMackenzie clan. He attended the Nicholson Institute, Stornoway, and then ShrewsburySchool. He came up to Jesus in 1942 to read natural sciences. Whilst at Jesus he captainedthe boat club for two successive years andwas amember of the 1946 Ladies’ Plate winningcrew. He graduated B.A. in 1945 (M.A. 1949) and progressed to Guy’s Hospital, where hequalified as a doctor. He worked in a number of different hospitals before becoming ageneral practitioner and then senior partner. Later in life he studied theology at theUniversity of Exeter. He was a devoted Christian, a member of the Prayer Book Society, aKnight of Justice of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem and aKnight of the Most Holy Order of St Gregory. He was honorary physician to thePortuguese royal family and was awarded the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of DonCarlos Primiero of Portugal. His numerous positions of responsibility included: chairmanof KennethMacKenzie Ltd, the principal distributors (at the time) of Harris Tweed; seniortrustee of St Michael’s School Trust; ordinand and lay reader at Chittlehampton, Devon,and Governor of Chittlehampton C. of E. Primary School. He was a life-long fisherman,his family report, ‘from the rivers of Iceland, the lochs of the Isle of Lewis to the Nile andLake Victoria’. He was also passionate about quizzes, set many questions and was acontestant on Mastermind, where his specialist subject was Beethoven. He becamepresident of the Mastermind Club and in this role arranged a club function at Jesus. Hemarried Doreen May Inch in 1958. They had one son and two daughters.

RANDLES, Brian McKenzie (1937) died on 29 August 2007 aged 88.

Brian Randles was born in Durban, South Africa, on 10 June 1919. He was educated atMichaelhouse School, Natal, before coming up to Jesus in 1937. He was the middle sonof three boys, all of whom came up to the college. His eldest brother was KennethRandles (1927) and his step brother is Graham Randles (1947). He read law andgraduated with a B.A in 1940 (M.A. 1944). During the war he rose to the rank of captain.After the war he served as assistant native commissioner in the Southern RhodesianNative Affairs Department. He left the civil service to run his own farm for ten yearsbefore moving on to work as a farming manager. From 1971 to 1984 he worked as ahistorian at the Kaffrarian Museum (subsequently renamed the AmaThole Museum),King Williams Town, South Africa. He wrote A History of the Kaffrarian Museum and anumber of articles for historical publications.

REED, Thomas Walton (1929) died on 12 November 2006 aged 95.

Tom Reed was born on 6 December 1910 in Wellington, New Zealand. He was educatedat Wanganui Collegiate School and came up to read history in 1929. Under his captaincythe boat club won the Fairbairn Cup for the first time, regained the headship of theLents, maintained second place in the Mays, and at Henley won the Visitors’ Cup. Hewas an active member of the University Conservatives and in college a member of theWheatsheaf Club and secretary of the Natives. He hadmany happy memories of his timeat Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1932 (M.A. 1947). During the second world war heserved as a lieutenant in the Royal New Zealand Navy. He returned to New Zealand, and


when heard of by the college in the 1970s was reported to be a farmer. He and his wife,Nora, had two daughters and a son.

REUSS, Benjamin Lindsay Lawson (1934) died on 8 June 2006 aged 90.

Benjamin Reuss was born in Woking, Surrey, on 16 March 1916. He was educated atRepton School and came up to Jesus in 1934. He began by reading medicine, then tooka chemistry special paper and general studies. He graduated B.A in 1937 (M.A. 1969). Heplayed for the college first XI hockey team throughout his time here. During the war heserved in the Royal Horse Artillery, rising to the rank of captain. He was wounded inaction twice, once when hewas in Greece and once in theMiddle East. Following the warhe pursued a career as a wine-shipper. He was also a keen gardener.

RIMMER, Allan John (1956) died on 20 October 2007 aged 69.

Allan Rimmer was born in Hinckley on 19 March 1938. After being educated at HinckleyGrammar School, he came up to Jesus College on a scholarship in 1956. He read Englishfor two years and studied moral sciences in his final year. He moved to LeicesterUniversity to take the Diploma in Education, and after a short spell at Lingfield HospitalSchool moved to Red Hill School at East Sutton near Maidstone in 1961. Below is anobituary kindly provided by his friend and colleague, David Wilson (1960):

‘Red Hill was founded by Otto Shaw as a boarding school for maladjusted boys, thosewith problems too severe for ordinary schools to contain. Integral to its success was asystem of self-regulation operated by the boys themselves, combined with intensivecounselling. Allan made the school his life’s work, becoming headmaster in 1977 andcontinuing Otto Shaw’s traditions. Allan had a remarkable touch with the boys, beingable to engender self-respect and self-control in even the most unruly characters.Perhaps the most effective tribute to him from the school was the number of old boyswho came to the funeral – boys who had been written off by the education system, butare now senior executives, university researchers and entrepreneurs. When the schoolhad to close, Allan remained in contact with the world of special education. He advisedat the Pupil Referral Unit, as the building became under Kent County Council; he gavehis experience working as clerk to the trust which replaced the school itself; and he actedas secretary to the Association of Workers with Maladjusted Children. He took uptutoring post-graduate students on special education courses at the University ofBirmingham, with notably high success rates amongst his tutees. Amongst all this hefound time to chair the East Sutton Parish Council. Later he became secretary to theStaplehurst Society, becoming an expert in local history and giving talks to localorganisations. He married Sue, a childhood friend from Hinckley, in 1960, and they hadtwo sons and a daughter, and now six grandchildren. He died after the recurrence of abrain tumour which, sadly, returned after an operation earlier in 2007.’

RODDICK, Ian Sydney (1947) died on 28 July 2007 aged 82.

Ian Roddick was born on 4 June 1925 in Glasgow. He attended High Pavement GrammarSchool, Nottingham, before becoming a bombardier in the Royal Artillery. He served inIndia and afterwards in the British Army of Occupation in Japan. Seeing the ruins ofHiroshima as a young soldier was an experience he never forgot. He came up to Jesus in1947 as a scholar and read modern languages. During his time at Cambridge he met andmarried Barbara Olive Hartnup. He attained his B.A. in 1950 (M.A. 1954). Followinggraduation he attended Westminster Teacher Training College. He went on to teach atLydney Secondary School, Gloucestershire, from 1951 to 1953. Hemoved to become head




of languages at Mfantsipim School, in what was then the Gold Coast and is now Ghana,teaching amongst others Kofi Anan. Whilst in Ghana he and his family made manylifelong friends including the future Secretary General of the United Nations. He leftGhana in 1962 and returned to England to run the language department at WoodhouseGrove School, Yorkshire. He remained at the Grove for 23 years and presided over thebeginning of changes in modern language teaching, introducing slide projectors andrecord players. Outside the classroom he made a full contribution to life at the school.Following his retirement he was elected to the council of the local civic trust and was aconvener of Alford Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. He married Barbara in1949 and they had a son and a daughter. Throughout his life he regularly visited collegeand maintained some strong friendships with people he met during his time at Jesus.

ROGERS, Nevil Sherwood (1945) has recently died.

Nevil Rogers was born in Brentwood, Essex on 1 April 1920. He attended Queen MaryCollege, London, graduating with a B.Sc. in Engineering. He served in the Royal AirForce as a flight lieutenant during the war. He married a girl from Cambridge and afterthe war came up to Jesus to take the engineering studies course. He rowed in the Jesus 1boat which won the Fairbairn Cup in 1945, started and finished head at the Lent 1946races, won its oars and finished second on the river in June 1946, and came head of theriver and won the Grand in the summer of 1947. He won a rowing Blue in the 1947 boatrace, when Cambridge finished ten lengths ahead of Oxford. He graduated with a warB.A. in 1947 (M.A. 1952). Following graduation he trained to be a manager at LawleysChina Works in Stoke-on-Trent. He remained at Lawleys until 1952, when he moved tothe English Electric Company Research Labs in Stafford. Three years later he moved toNottingham, where he and his family settled. From 1955 to 1962 he served as secretaryto Nottingham University’s Careers and Appointments Board. In 1962 he joined BecketSchool, Nottingham, as head of the careers department. At the school he also taughtmathematics and shared his love of rowing with his pupils. Following his retirementfrom teaching in 1984, he became Nottingham schools’ rowing instructor at theNational Water Sports Centre.

ROLLASON, Robert (1950) died on 28 August 2007 aged 76.

Robert Rollason was born in Coventry on 27 October 1930. In 1941 he won a Governors’Scholarship to Bablake School. The previous year the school had been evacuated toLincoln following the devastating air raid on Coventry. Robert accordingly spent the nexttwo years in Lincoln before returning to Coventry with the school in 1943. After nationalservice in the army he came up to Jesus in 1950 to read English. He graduated B.A. in1953 (M.A. 1992). Following graduation hemarried JeanWoodford and began his careerin advertising. He worked first as a copywriter and later as a creative director. In 1980, heset up his own company in business communications. He retired in 1996. In theseventies he was a leading protagonist in the successful fight to save grammar schoolsin Buckinghamshire. He was also formany years an important figure in the BeaconsfieldConservative Association, editing the newsletter and organising large public meetings.At the time of his death he was president of the local branch. Writing was always hismain hobby and he contributed numerous articles to the newsletters of literary societiesas well as some travel pieces to the national press. He also spent many happy hourswatching cricket at Lords. There were three addresses at his funeral: one by the thenShadow Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, one by the Penn parish clerk, Miles Green,and one by the chairman of the Betjeman Society, John Heald. He is survived by hiswidow, two sons and a daughter.


RYECART, Noel Richard (1935) died on 3 October 2007 aged 90.

Noel Ryecart was born in Ewell, Surrey, on 25 July 1917. He attended Epsom College andcame up to Jesus in 1935 to read for an ordinary degree. Whilst at the college he was amember of the tennis team. He graduated B.A. in 1938. He was conscripted a year laterand served in the Burmese jungle with the West African Gunner Regiment. He rose tothe rank of major in the Royal Artillery. Following the war, he worked as a seniorexecutive for the Services Sound and Vision Corporation, a registered charity set up toentertain and inform Britain’s armed forces around the world. For most of his time withS.S.V.C. he lived and worked in Germany, although he also spent four years in Singapore.He married Jane Hillcort in 1947 and they had a son and a daughter.

SEAMER, John Heckford (1954) died on 22 July 2007 aged 80.

John Seamerwas born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, on 27May 1927. He attendedKing EdwardVII School, King’s Lynn, before going to Edinburgh University to study to become aveterinary surgeon. After obtaining his DVSM and working in general practice for someyears, he became a demonstrator in the new School of Veterinary Medicine at Cambridge(1953–55) and Crookes research fellow in the Department of Animal Pathology. In 1959,he was awarded a Ph.D. for a dissertation on the causes of anaemia in pigs. In the courseof his research he identified two new blood parasites and developed a method to cultivatea third. He undertook postdoctoral research in the United States and U.K. and published anumber of papers on laboratory mice and cats. In 1964, he moved to the Ministry ofDefenceMicrobiological Research Establishment, Porton. Heworked at different facilitiesthere until his early retirement in 1984. Following retirement he became the honorarysecretary of the British Veterinary Association and took an active part in the revision of thelaw on animal experiments. He was chair of Laboratory Animals Ltd and its editorialboard. He also served on the boards of other laboratory animal organisations, includingthe International Council for Laboratory Animal Science, and co-edited both editions ofthe handbook Safety in the Animal House. Outside the veterinary world, he was a member ofthe Guild of Stewards of Salisbury Cathedral and enjoyed foreign travel and gardening. Heleaves a widow, Lydia, and three children from a previous marriage.

SHARWOOD SMITH, John Edward (1939) died on 28 August 2007 aged 87.

John Sharwood Smith was born on 29 December 1919 in Newbury, Berkshire. Both hisfather, E. Sharwood Smith (1883), and uncle, B. S. Evers (1911), were Jesuans. He cameinto residence at Jesus in October 1939 from Aldenham School, Hertfordshire, with aclassical scholarship. His studies were interrupted by the war at the end of 1940. Heserved in the Far East with the Royal Air Force, rising to the rank of flight lieutenant, andwas awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He returned to Cambridge in January 1946and took part I classics in June 1946 (despite only being in residence for six months hewas placed in the first class) and part II of the history tripos in 1947. The Senior Tutor,D. J. V. Fisher, regarded him as ‘not only one of my best pupils, but one of my favouritesas well’. He graduated B.A. in 1947 (M.A. 1950). Following graduation he obtained adiploma from the Institute of Education, London. In 1948, he became a classics masterat Bradford Grammar School; in 1952, he moved to become senior classics master atSouthgate County Grammar School. Moving on from Southgate, he was appointed alecturer in education at the Institute of Education, London, in 1959. He remained therefor 26 years, eventually becoming a reader in education and emeritus reader. He was agovernor of Hamilton Lodge School for Deaf Children, Brighton (1960–76). Hispublications included On teaching classics (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and Boston,1977) and a three-volume autobiography, Of Genes and Circumstances (2001–2003). He was




appointed O.B.E. in the New Years Honours List 1980 for services to education. Hemarried Kathleen Felicity Ellen Mahoney in 1949. They had two sons and a daughter.One of his sons, Nicholas John Sharwood Smith, came up to Jesus in 1974.

SHEPLEY-CUTHBERT, Charles (1932) died on 8 April 2007 aged 93.

Charles Shepley-Cuthbert was born in Glossop on 10 January 1914. His father was killedin the first world war. He attended Repton School and came up to Jesus in 1932 to readengineering. Finding that did not suit him he swiftly changed subject, taking thegeographical tripos at the end of his second year and the archaeology and anthropologytripos at the end of his third year. He played football for the college and was a popularand enterprising person with plenty of friends. He graduated B.A. in 1935. Aftergraduation he became a stockbroker, a career he continued in until the outbreak of thesecond world war. During the war he served in the Welsh Guards, rising to the rank ofmajor. After the end of hostilities he joined Lloyd’s of London, where he worked until hisretirement. In retirement he pursued his interest in trees, landscaping and architecture.In 1939 he married Mary Marsh, with whom he had four children (including a pair oftwins). He is survived by his wife, three daughters and one son.

SMITH, Kenneth (1945) died on 18 October 2007 aged 79.

Kenneth Smithwas born inWestHartlepool on 13March 1928.He attendedWestHartlepoolGrammar School before coming up to Jesus in 1945 to read natural sciences. He graduatedB.A. in 1948 (M.A. 1952). After leaving Cambridge, he became a technical officer at ICILimited, where he remained until 1957. He went on to work for two years as the chiefmetallurgist at Plessey Co., before becoming the principal officer at the Central ElectricityGenerating Board. He left the C.E.G.B. to become a head of department at Westinghouse,Brussels, and from there he became a technical consultant at Framatome, Paris. HemarriedAnn Patricia Scott in 1952 and had two sons. Both his sons followed him to Jesus: first MikeSmith (1973), who died in a helicopter accident in 1979, and then Roger Smith (1981).

SMITH, Martyn George (1964) died on 8 October 2007 aged 61.

Martyn Smith was born on 16 February 1946. He attended Wyggeston Boys’ GrammarSchool, Leicester, and came up to Jesus in 1964 to readmathematics. He graduated B.A in1967 (M.A. 1971). At Cambridge, he was a member of the university Liberal Club, theuniversity chess team and Jesus college chess team. Both chess and the Liberal Partyremained lifelong passions. After graduating he held various positions at ICL and itssubsidiaries. Hewent on to become chief officer ofWest BirminghamCommunity HealthCouncil. In 1974, he married Sadie Laureina Ashton, who shared his commitment to theLiberal Party. He was elected to Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council in 1976 and in1980 began his 27-year service to the West Midlands, as the first Liberal elected toSandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. For many of those years he was leader of thecouncil’s Liberal Democrat group. He fought as a parliamentary candidate seven timesand came closest to winning in 1983. Sadie and his stepson, Mark, survive him.

SPENCER, Anthony Kenneth Guy (1940) died in August 2007 aged 85.

Guy Spencer was born on 15 December 1921 in India. He attended Bradfield College,Berkshire, before coming up to Jesus in January 1940 to study modern and medievallanguages. His time at Jesus was interrupted by the second world war. He served from1941 to 1943 with the 2nd Royal Lancers and from 1943 to 1945 with 6th DCO Lancers,both in the Indian Army. He graduated with a war B.A. in 1948. After graduation he


became a graduate trainee at Kemsley Newspapers. He remained there until 1953, whenhe moved to be an advertisement sales representative for Express Newspapers. In 1955he moved again to become advertisement sales manager of Associated TelevisionLimited, where he remained for 26 years. His final position before retirement in 1986was as manager at the Joint Industry Committee for Television Advertising Research(later the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board). In 1947 he married Eunice Evans,with whom he had two sons including Nicholas K. D. Spencer (1966).

THOMAS, Robert Lorne (1963) died on 25 December 2007 aged 62.

Robert Thomas was born on 11 June 1945 in Loughton, Essex. He attended MalvernCollege before coming up to Jesus in 1963 to read economics. He graduated with a B.A.in 1966 (M.A. 1971). Following graduation he planned to work in the City for a yearbefore returning to Cambridge for postgraduate study. He joined the stockbrokers W.Greenwell & Co., and when his year was completed he decided to stay. He remained atthe firm through its various incarnations for 25 years. He became a fellow of the Instituteof Actuaries in 1970, a partner of his firm in 1976 and its chief economist in 1980. WhenGreenwell becameGreenwell Montagu, he was its first director and head of research. Heleft Greenwell Montagu to join NatWest Capital Markets and then became investmentdirector at HendersonGlobal Investors. In 1973 he co-authored the Institute of Actuariesprize-winning paper, Cyclical Changes in Capital Markets, which was to form part of theInstitute’s exam syllabus for many years. He was also co-editor of Greenwell MonetaryBulletins. He was master of the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers and of theWorshipful Company of Actuaries. His appointment as Master Actuary made history asit coincided with his wife’s becoming Master Glass Seller and was the first time ahusband and wife had simultaneously been masters of two Livery Companies. He heldoffices in a large number of charitable organisations. He married Joanna Elizabeth Idewith whom he had two sons, including Gregory (‘Greg’) Patrick Lorne Thomas (1992).

TOWERS, Eric Priestley (1943) has recently died.

Eric Towers was born inWigston, Leicestershire, on 23 June 1925. After attending AldermanNewton’s Boys’ Grammar School, Leicestershire, he came up to Jesus College in January1943,with an exhibition, to readEnglish.He tookpreliminary examinations in English beforejoining the Royal Corps of Signals as a signalman. He returned to Cambridge and took part IEnglish only, graduating with a war B.A. in 1947 (M.A. 1950). Chanticlere of Michaelmas term1946, under the heading ‘WeDoff Our Squares to –’, paid tribute to ‘Mr Eric Towers for beingconventional so unconventionally’. After leaving Jesus College he pursued a business career,which included working as a general manager of Voice & Vision Limited (1955–60) and acorporate relations executive for Rank Hovis McDougall plc (1961–87). In 1986 he publisheda book Dashwood – The Man and the Myth. In 1976 he married Helen Christodoulou.

TROTT, Frank Runcorn ‘Felix’ (1929) died on 13 December 2002 aged 91.

Felix Trott was born on 27March 1911 in Paddington, London. He attended Latymer UpperSchool and came up to Jesus in 1929 with an exhibition. He read part I mathematics andpart II natural sciences (physics), graduating B.A. in 1932 (M.A. 1956). Along with otherJesuans, he was an early member of the Mummers. Following graduation he became ajunior research engineer at Electric and Musical Industries Ltd (EMI). He remained at thecompany until 1976, being involved with stereo reproduction, television transmission andmilitary radar; later he worked on the development of colour television and CAT scanningmachines. HemarriedOonaghMaryO’Byrne Cunningham and they had one daughter andtwo sons.




USHER, John Dennis (1932) died on 23 June 2007 aged 93.

Dennis Usher was born in Four Oaks, Birmingham, on 24 March 1914. He was educatedat Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, before coming up to Jesus in 1932.He readmechanical sciences and was elected to a scholarship. He rowed in the first boatin the 1935 Lent and May races, when Jesus was head of the river. He played a full part inother aspects of college life and was an excellent pianist. He graduated B.A. in 1935(M.A. 1939). Following graduation he took up a career as a research and developmentmanager at APV Co Ltd and worked there until his retirement in 1979. He co-authoredHeat Exchanger Technology (1980) and Heat Exchanger Design Handbook (1982). He marriedJoan Jackson in 1943 and had a son and a daughter.

VAUGHAN, Roger John (1947) died on 28 July 2007 aged 78.

Roger Vaughan was born in March 1929 in Broadway, Worcestershire. He attendedBedford School before coming up to read natural sciences and medicine at Jesus. Heachieved a B.A. in 1950 and an M.B., B.Chir. in 1953 (M.A. in 1956). Whilst at college hewas a member of the college rugby and tennis teams and enjoyed gliding. Hesubsequently practisedmedicine, including periods as surgeon commander in the RoyalNavy (1974–1980), as G.P. principal (1980–1996) and as a medical examiner for the CivilAviation Authority. His hobbies included flying and he was a light aircraft instructor. Hewas married to Audrey and had two daughters.

VEALE, Arthur (1944) died on 26 May 2004 aged 78.

Arthur Veale was born on 2 April 1926 in Bolsover, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Heattended Bemrose School, Derby before coming up to Jesus in 1944 to take the Royal AirForce short course.Whilst at Cambridge he rowed in the Jesus 2 boat in the CUBC race forcadet eights. He served in the Royal Air Force from 1944 to 1976, rising to the rank of wingcommander. He was awarded a Queen’s Commendation in 1961. He had a keen interest inrugby and was a member of CURUFC, Derby RFC, Bury St Edmunds RFC, Suffolk RU andEastern Counties RU. He married Diana Fortune Sayce in 1957 and had two daughters.

WILSON, Anthony Howard (1968) died on 10 August 2007 aged 57.

Anthony H. Wilson was born in Salford on 20 February 1950. He attended De La SalleGrammar School, Salford, and came up to Jesus in 1968 to read English. He graduatedB.A. in 1971. Whilst at Cambridge, he was editor of Varsity and was described by a tutoras ‘a likeable rogue’ and talking ‘like a steam train’. Following graduation he secured ajob as a news reporter for Granada Television. In 1976 he had his own pop music show:So It Goes. He also fronted World in Action and was a long-time host of the early eveningregional news programme Granada Reports. In 1978 he opened the Factory Club in Hulme,Manchester, and then jointly started a record label: Factory Records. Factory’s bestknown groups were Joy Division (later reformed as New Order, following Ian Curtis’sdeath) and The Happy Mondays. Next he opened the Hacienda Club, probably the mostfamous club in the world in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It hosted many of the bandswhich together with the club itself created the ‘Madchester’ scene. Factory collapsed in1991 and the Hacienda was shut down in 1997. In 2002, Wilson was played by SteveCoogan in the film 24 Hour Party People. Throughout the eighties and nineties Anthony H.Wilson continued his interest in journalism and politics. He was a strong and vocalsupporter of a regional assembly for the North West and in 2004 set up an unofficialcoalition calling for regional devolution: ‘The Necessary Group’. He is survived by hisfirst two wives, his children (Oliver and Isabel) and his partner Yvette Livesey.


WILSON, Michael Seton Angus (1948) died in November 2007 aged 79.

Michael Wilson was born on 8 January 1928 in London. He was educated at WinchesterCollege. After Winchester, from 1946 to 1948, he did his national service with the RoyalEngineers. Following his father, George Noel Wilson (1907) and his brother DavidStewart Wilson (1936) he came up to Jesus in 1948. He read mechanical sciences andgraduated in 1951 B.A. (M.A. 1960). Whilst at Jesus he was an enthusiastic member ofthe boat club and took a leading part in the revival of the University PhotographicSociety. Following graduation he joined Sir Alexander Gibbs & Partners, a firm ofconsulting engineers. His job involvedmuch travel all over the world and at short notice.On one of his projects he met his future wife, and in order to be available for anotherproject they moved the date of their wedding and married by special licence. Followingthe birth of their son, they decided they wanted to settle in one place and Michael took ajob with ICI. He subsequently worked with another firm of engineers and later with theGreater London Council. He took early retirement from the G.L.C. to look after hisaunt’s estate and to sail. In 1957 he married Jane Tupling; his wife and their son,Michael, survive him.

YATES, Eric (1941) died in April 2007 aged 84.

Eric Yates was born on 25 June 1922 in Putney, South London. He was educated atBattersea Grammar School before coming up to read history in 1941 with a scholarship.He was followed up to Jesus, two years later, by his brother John Yates (whose obituaryappears below). He remained in residence until June 1942, when he was called up to theQueen’s Royal Regiment. He rose to the rank of lieutenant and returned to college inOctober 1945.Whilst at Jesus he was president of the Roosters and grandmarshall of theRed Herrings as well as he being a member of JCBC and JC Historical Society. Hegraduated B.A. in 1946 (M.A. 1948). After graduation he remained in Cambridge andtook the Post Graduate Certificate in Education. He went on to teach at King’s SchoolChester (1948–1954) and Cheltenham Grammar School (1955–1961) before becominghead teacher of Thornes House School, Wakefield (1961–1979). After leaving ThornesHouse School he became a research fellow at the University of Leeds (1979–1982). Inretirement his interests included genealogy and local history. He married Margaret AdaBilleau in 1949 and had three sons and two daughters.

YATES, John (1943) died on 26 February 2008 aged 82.

John Yates was born in Putney, South London, on 17 April 1925. He attended firstBattersea Grammar School, then, after the outbreak of war, Blackpool Grammar School.He came up to Jesus in 1943 with an exhibition, two years after his brother (see above).He read history for two terms before joining the R.A.F.V.R., serving as a flight lieutenant.He returned to Jesus in 1947 and read part I history. He took the theology two-year partI in one year and was awarded a first. He graduated B.A. in 1949 (M.A. 1952). Aftergraduation he prepared for holy orders at Lincoln Theological College and, in 1951,became a curate at Christ Church, Southgate, in North London. He stayed at ChristChurch for three years before returning to Lincoln as tutor and chaplain, and in 1959 hewas appointed vicar of Bottesford-with-Ashby, Lincolnshire. In 1966 he becameprincipal of Lichfield Theological College. Following reorganisation in the Church ofEngland, hemoved from Lichfield to become Bishop ofWhitby in 1972. Three years laterhe became Bishop of Gloucester remaining in this post until 1991, when he moved tobecome the head of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s staff, with the title of Bishop atLambeth. He was chairman of the Church of England Board for Social Responsibilityfrom 1987 to 1991 and was well known for his charitable work. On the liberal wing of the




Church of England, he supported the ordination of women and chaired The GloucesterReport. He warned against excessive rigidity in doctrine and commended the saying ‘weshould believe more and more about less and less’. He married Jean Kathleen Dover in1954; she died in 1995. His second wife was the Reverend Beryl KathleenWensley whomhe married in 1998; she died in 2006. He is survived by a son and two daughters of thefirst marriage.

ZINKIN, Maurice Zinkin (1932) died on 11 May 2002 aged 87.

Maurice Zinkin was born 4 May 1915 in Leeds. He attended Haberdashers’ Aske beforewinning a scholarship to read history at Jesus. After taking part I history he switched tolaw. He graduated B.A. in 1935, LL.B. (1936) and M.A. (1941). He taught in Cambridgeuntil 1938 when he entered the Indian Civil Service with one of the highest marks everrecorded in the I.C.S. exam. He began in the Indian Civil Service as a supernumeraryassistant collector and he rose to deputy secretary at the Ministry of Finance in Delhi.Life in the I.C.S. was not without risk: during his time he suffered numerous bouts ofmalaria, broke his back and saw colleagues shot. Following Indian independence hejoined Unilever, eventually becoming head of its secretariat. For almost a decade he wasthe employers’ representative of the C.B.I. in Brussels, for which he was appointedO.B.E. From 1969 until 1972 he was visiting professor of management studies atBradford University. Whilst at Bradford he endowed a scholarship for overseas students.He wrote two of the first books on development economics: Asia and the West (1950) andDevelopment for Free Asia (1956) andwith his wife wrote Requiem for Empire (1964). HemarriedTaya Ettinger in 1945. He is survived by his wife and their son.

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*Please add £1 per CD for UK postage and packing, £2 for Europe, £2.50 forZone 1 (the Americas, Middle East, Africa, Indian Sub-continent, SE Asia incHong Kong), £3 for Zone 2 (rest of the world).

Cheques should be made payable to ‘Jesus College Cambridge’.


A hand made needlepoint cushion, fully finished, complete with inner pad*, trimmedwith black and red cord and backed in velvet. 18” x 18” (46cm x 46cm). £74 plus p&p.

Available to collect from The Development Office, or by post, using the form below, orfrom Heraldic Needlepoint’s web site (www.heraldicneedlepoint.com) where you canalso see their full range of designs displaying the arms, crests and badges of schools,universities, British Army regiments and Scottish clans.

If ordering from the Heraldic Needlepoint web site, please quote ‘Ref JCC 01’to ensure that the College benefits from your purchase.

ORDER FORM Post to: Heraldic Needlepoint, 1 Butts Close,Wimborne St. Giles, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 5NBor Fax to: +44 (0) 1725 517835

Please send me ___ Jesus College cushions @ £74.00 £

Post & packing (see below) £

Total: £

Name:

Address:

Post Code:

Tel:** Email:**

I enclose a cheque payable to: ‘Heraldic Needlepoint’

Please charge my credit/debit card (not Amex or Diners)

Card Number:

Valid From: Expiry Date:

Issue No: Security code (3 digits):

Post and packing: UK £6.00 per cushion(Airmail, signed for) Europe £11.33 per cushion

Rest of World £18.50 per cushion

*UK orders are shipped with a feather pad, overseas with a foam pad.**In case we need to contact you about your order.

Jesus CollegeHand Made Needlepoint Cushion18” x 18” (46cm x 46cm)


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Jesus: The Life of a Cambridge CollegeEdited by Peter Glazebrook

With close on forty essays by almost as many authors and over 230 illustrations– featuring both new and archival photography – this book, commissioned bythe College, describes what its members know is one of Cambridge’s mostbeautiful, interesting and distinctive places, with a history that pre-dates eventhe University’s.

For further information please visit:http://www.bpccam.co.uk/book-details-jesus-college.htm

Price: £45.00 per copy

UK p&p £6.00Europe p&p £11.50ROW p&p £23.75

To order, please contact the publisher directly:

Granta Editions25–27 High Street

ChestertonCambridgeCB4 1ND

Tel: +44 (0)1223 352790Fax: +44 (0)1223 460718

Email: [email protected]


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Annual Fund

Personal detailsFull name Matriculation year

Address

Postcode

How your donation will be usedIf you would like to direct your support to a particular area please indicate this below:

Undergraduate support (Bursaries/hardship funds) Graduate student support (Studentships/hardship funds)

Academic support (Teaching and research) Facilities: computing/IT

Facilities: Library Facilities: buildings/accommodation

Other (please specify):

The names of all donors are acknowledged from time to time in College publications. If you do not wish yourname to appear, please tick this box

Gift optionsI wish to make regular donations – please complete bank or CAF account standing order mandate (see over).

I wish to give on-line by credit/CAF card. Please go to www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/supporting.

I enclose a cheque/CAF voucher payable to “Jesus College Cambridge” for £

I wish to give via my company’s Give as You Earn scheme. Please send me details.

Please send me details of how to make a gift of shares.

Please send me details of how to leave a legacy in my Will to the College.

Gift Aid Declaration (UK Taxpayers only)I am a UK taxpayer and I would like Jesus College Cambridge to treat all donations I make from the date of thisdonation until I notify you otherwise as Gift Aid donations.

Signed Date

From 6th April 2000 we can reclaim the basic rate of tax on all gifts. This means that every £10 donated iscurrently worth £12.80 and the difference is paid to us by the Inland Revenue at no cost to you. In order for usto reclaim tax you must pay an amount of income and/or capital gains tax at least equal to the tax we reclaim onyour donation in the tax year. If you are a higher rate taxpayer you can reclaim £2.30 on every £10 you donateon your annual self assessment tax return (assuming a basic rate of tax of 22% and a higher rate of tax of 40%).

Jesus College is an Exempt Charity No X8511

Donation Form

Jesus College Cambridge


Name and address of your bank:

Your account details:

Bank sort code Account number Account name

Please make the payments detailed below, debiting my/our account shown, until the last payment has beenmade, or until earlier notice.

Please pay to Barclays Bank plc (20-17-19), 35 Sidney Street, Cambridge for the credit of Jesus College, Cambridge(Development Campaign account no 40055069)

on the day of 20 the sum of £ (in words: )

For annual payments:and the same sum on the same day annually until * payments in all have been made

*For annual payments the number of years

For quarterly payments:and the same sum on the day of every three months for years making * payments in all

*For quarterly payments the number of years x 4

For monthly payments:and the same sum on the day of each month for years making * payments in all

*For monthly payments the number of years x 12

Signed Date

Full name

Address

Postcode

Regular Donations: Bank Standing Order Mandate

When completed please return this form to:

The Development OfficeJesus CollegeCambridgeCB5 8BL

Tel: 01223 339301E-mail: [email protected]

Please do not send the form directly to your bank.

The Cambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign

In 2009 the University will celebrate its 800th anniversary. A major fundraising campaign has beenlaunched that will help secure Cambridge’s excellence in teaching and research for future generations.

Gifts to Jesus College count towards the total funds raised for the Cambridge 800thAnniversary Campaign.

However if you also wish to make a gift to the University itself please tick this boxand we will pass your name to the University Development Office.


Jesus College’s Catering and Conference Department regularly hostsboth residential and non-residential functions of all sizes, from private

celebrations to club meetings to major corporate events.

Old Members are warmly encouraged to discuss their requirementsfor any such events by calling the Catering and Conference Department

on telephone 01223 339485 or by submitting an onlineenquiry form through the department’s website at

http://conference.jesus.cam.ac.uk

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